cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Star-formation efficiency and metal enrichment of the intracluster medium in local massive clusters of galaxies
Creators: name: Zhang, Yu-Ying
name: Laganá, Tatiana F.
name: Pierini, Daniele
name: Puchwein, Ewald
name: Schneider, Peter
name: Reiprich, Thomas H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have investigated the baryon-mass content in a subsample of 19 clusters of galaxies extracted from the X-ray flux-limited sample HIFLUGCS according to their positions in the sky. For these clusters, we measured total masses and characteristic radii on the basis of a rich optical spectroscopic data set, the physical properties of the intracluster medium (ICM) using XMM-Newton and ROSAT X-ray data, and total (galaxy) stellar masses utilizing the SDSS DR7 multi-band imaging. The observed (hot) gas-mass fractions are almost constant in this mass range. We confirm that the stellar mass fraction decreases as the total mass increases and shows (20+/-4)% scatter; in addition, we show that it decreases as the central entropy increases. The latter behavior supports a twofold interpretation where heating from merging quenches the star-formation activity of galaxies in massive systems, and feedback from supernovae and/or radio galaxies drives a significant amount of gas to the regions beyond r_{500} or, alternatively, a substantially large amount of intracluster light (ICL) is associated with galaxies in nonrelaxed systems. Furthermore, less massive clusters are confirmed to host less gas per unit total mass; however, they exhibit higher mass fractions in metals, so that their ICM is more metal-rich. This again supports the interpretation that in the potential wells of low-mass systems the star-formation efficiency of galaxies was high or, alternatively, some gas is missing from the hot phase of the ICM. The former hypothesis is preferred as the main driver of the mass-dependent metal enrichment since the total mass-to-optical luminosity ratio increases as the total mass increases.
description: 17 pages, 7 figures, 3 tables, A&A accepted-version
A New Framework for Unsupervised Semantic Discovery
Creators: name: Schiffman, Barry
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2007
Subjects: Computer science

description: This paper presents a new framework for the unsupervised discovery of semantic information, using a divide-and-conquer approach to take advantage of contextual regularities and to avoid problems of polysemy and sublanguages. Multiple sets of documents are formed and analyzed to create multiple sets of frames. The overall procedure is wholly unsupervised and domain independent. The end result will be a collection of sets of semantic frames that will be useful in a wide range of applications, including question-answering, information extraction, summarization and text generation.
Supplementary document for Broadband Sb2Se3/CdS/ZnO photodetectors based on physical vapor deposition for color imaging applications - 6370152.pdf
Creators: name: Li, Yaping
name: Huang, Bo
name: Liu, Yujin
name: Lan, LINfeng
name: Ji, Zhong
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Fig. S1-S6 mentioned in the maintext, and Material and Methods section.
Colorado water, February 2000
Creators: name: Hall, Emile
name: Oswalt, Chris
name: Shrier, Cat
name: Miller, Shirley
name: Colorado Water Resources Research Institute, Publisher
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Water resources development -- Colorado
subject: Water use -- Colorado
subject: Water-supply -- Colorado
subject: Water-supply -- Management -- Colorado

description: The scope of the newsletter is devoted to enhancing communication between Colorado water users and managers and faculty at the research universities in the state.
description: Newsletter of the Water Center at Colorado State University.
Parameterizing Random Test Data According to Equivalence Classes
Creators: name: Murphy, Christian
name: Kaiser, Gail E.
name: Arias, Marta
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2007
Subjects: Computer science

description: We are concerned with the problem of detecting bugs in machine learning applications. In the absence of sufficient real-world data, creating suitably large data sets for testing can be a difficult task. Random testing is one solution, but may have limited effectiveness in cases in which a reliable test oracle does not exist, as is the case of the machine learning applications of interest. To address this problem, we have developed an approach to creating data sets called "parameterized random data generation"Â . Our data generation framework allows us to isolate or combine different equivalence classes as desired, and then randomly generate large data sets using the properties of those equivalence classes as parameters. This allows us to take advantage of randomness but still have control over test case selection at the system testing level. We present our findings from using the approach to test two different machine learning ranking applications.
Cold atoms in the presence of disorder
Creators: name: Shapiro, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The review deals with the physics of cold atomic gases in the presence of disorder. The emphasis is on the theoretical developments, although several experiments are also briefly discussed. The review is intended to be pedagogical, explaining the basics and, for some of the topics, presenting rather detailed calculations.
description: Invited review, J. Phys. A. Comments from the community are welcome
Control in Skwxwu7mesh
Creators: name: Jacobs, Peter William
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: This dissertation is an examination of the phenomenon of control in Sḵwx̱wu7mesh (a.k.a the Squamish language). The notion of control has been part of the Salishan linguistic tradition for more than 30 years and it has been described as the ‘degree of control an agent has over an event’ (Thompson 1979). It has been described as having one of two values: in control or limited control. An agent who is in control, is understood to initiate an event on purpose, to have control over the process of the event and to bring the event to culmination. An agent who has limited control may unintentionally initiate an event, or have difficulty in the process of the event and thus only managed to bring the event to completion. In this dissertation I argue that control is properly understood as a construct. That is, it is not a part of the basic meaning of any one morpheme. Rather it is constructed from both real world knowledge about events and from the morphosyntax of the constructions that are used to encode these events. I argue that control constructions have an aspectual core meaning. A control predicate (or c-predicate) has event initiation as its core meaning. A limited control predicate (or lc-predicate) has event culmination as its core meaning (Ritter and Rosen 2000). They are telic. I argue that it is from these two meanings - event initiation and event culmination - that the other notions commonly associated with control are inferred (e.g. on purpose, accidentally, etc.). I propose a morpho-syntactic analysis for the core aspectual difference between the two types of predicates. In particular, I argue that they differ in the position of object agreement: object agreement of c-predicates is VP-internal, while object agreement of lc-predicates is associated with an aspectual node within the extended verbal projection. I explore the consequences of this proposal for the reconstruction of Proto-Salish in general, and for the historical development of Sḵwx̱wu7mesh in particular.
Comment on "Fock-Darwin States of Dirac Electrons in Graphene-Based Artificial Atoms"
Creators: name: Park, P. S.
name: Kim, S. C.
name: Yang, S. -R. Eric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Chen, Apalkov, and Chakraborty (Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 186803 (2007)) have computed Fock-Darwin levels of a graphene dot by including only basis states with energies larger than or equal to zero. We show that their results violate the Hellman-Feynman theorem. A correct treatment must include both positive and negative energy basis states. Additional basis states lead to new energy levels in the optical spectrum and anticrossings between optical transition lines.
description: 1 page, 1 figure, accepted for publication in PRL
Additional file 1 of Knockdown of LAP2α inhibits osteogenic differentiation of human adipose-derived stem cells by activating NF-κB
Creators: name: Tang, Yiman
name: Zhang, Xiao
name: Ge, Wenshu
name: Zhou, Yongsheng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. The evaluation of transduction efficiency and LAP2α knockdown effect. a The proportion of GFP-positive cells in the shNC, shLAP2α-1, and shLAP2α-2 groups. b Protein levels of LAP2α measured by quantitative analysis of western blotting. c Validation of LAP2α knockdown effect by immunofluorescence with the indicated antibodies. Scale bars: 50 μm. * P < 0.05 compared with the control group; **P < 0.01 compared with the control group; NS: not significant.
Partial Evaluation for Code Generation from Domain-Specific Languages
Creators: name: Zeng, Jia
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2007
Subjects: Computer science

description: Partial evaluation has been applied to compiler optimization and generation for decades. Most of the successful partial evaluators have been designed for general-purpose languages. Our observation is that domain-specific languages are also suitable targets for partial evaluation. The unusual computational models in many DSLs bring challenges as well as optimization opportunities to the compiler. To enable aggressive optimization, partial evaluation has to be specialized to fit the specific paradigm of a DSL. In this dissertation, we present three such specialized partial evaluation techniques designed for specific languages that address a variety of compilation concerns. The first algorithm provides a low-cost solution for simulating concurrency on a single-threaded processor. The second enables a compiler to compile modest-sized synchronous programs in pieces that involve communication cycles. The third statically elaborates recursive function calls that enable programmers to dynamically create a system's concurrent components in a convenient and algorithmic way. Our goal is to demonstrate the potential of partial evaluation to solve challenging issues in code generation for domain-specific languages. Naturally, we do not cover all DSL compilation issues. We hope our work will enlighten and encourage future research on the application of partial evaluation to this area.
L. Horváth, M. Kelemen, A. Uzsoki, E. Vadász, Transdanubia I. Corpus of Celtic Finds in Hungary, Vol.I
Creators: name: Müller, Felix
Publisher: name: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts
Year: 2021

description: Rezension zu: L. Horváth, M. Kelemen, A. Uzsoki, E. Vadász, Transdanubia I. Corpus of Celtic Finds in Hungary, Vol.I. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest 1987. ISBN 9-6305-3806-7 (Series); 9-6305-3807-5 (Vol.I ). 248 Seiten mit zahlreichen Tafeln und Abbildungen
description: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Bd. 66 Nr. 2 (1988)
Colorado water, February 1998
Creators: name: Miller, Shirley
name: Colorado Water Resources Research Institute, Publisher
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Water resources development -- Colorado
subject: Water-supply -- Colorado
subject: Water use -- Colorado
subject: Water-supply -- Management -- Colorado

description: The scope of the newsletter is devoted to enhancing communication between Colorado water users and managers and faculty at the research universities in the state.
description: Newsletter of the Colorado Water Resources Research Institute.
« Viñedo de arena y turismo en el litoral landés (Aquitaine, Francia). », in F. X. Medina, D. Serrano & J. Tresserras (ed.), Turismo del vino. Análisis de casos internacionales, Barcelone, Editorial UOC, 2011, pp. 81-97.
Creators: name: Duhart, Frédéric
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Anthropology of tourism
History of Wine Production
Vine and Wine
Coastal development

description: El viñedo de arena del litoral landés y el "vin de sable" tienen una historia muy interesante para quien quiere pensar la relacion entre turismo y produccion agricola en una zona litoral.
Über die Funktionstüchtigkeit der mit den Mithrassymbolen zusammen gefundenen kleinen Waagen
Creators: name: Rottländer, Rolf C. A.
Publisher: name: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts
Year: 2021

description: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Bd. 66 Nr. 2 (1988)
LinkWidth: A Method to Measure Link Capacity and Available Bandwidth using Single-End Probes
Creators: name: Chakravarty, Sambuddho
name: Stavrou, Angelos
name: Keromytis, Angelos D.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Computer science

description: We introduce LinkWidth, a method for estimating capacity and available bandwidth using single-end controlled TCP packet probes. To estimate capacity, we generate a train of TCP RST packets "sandwiched" between trains of TCP SYN packets. Capacity is computed from the end-to-end packet dispersion of the received TCP RST/ACK packets corresponding to the TCP SYN packets going to closed ports. Our technique is significantly different from the rest of the packet-pair based measurement techniques, such as CapProbe, pathchar and pathrate, because the long packet trains minimize errors due to bursty cross-traffic. Additionally, TCP RST packets do not generate additional ICMP replies, thus avoiding cross-traffic due to such packets from interfering with our probes. In addition, we use TCP packets for all our probes to prevent QoS-related traffic shaping (based on packet types) from affecting our measurements (eg. CISCO routers by default are known have to very high latency while generating to ICMP TTL expired replies). We extend the {\it Train of Packet Pairs technique to approximate the available link capacity. We use a train of TCP packet pairs with variable intra-pair delays and sizes. This is the first attempt to implement this technique using single-end TCP probes, tested on a range of networks with different bottleneck capacities and cross traffic rates. The method we use for measuring from a single point of control uses TCP RST packets between a train of TCP SYN packets. The idea is quite similar to the technique for measuring the bottleneck capacity. We compare our prototype with pathchirp, pathload, IPERF, which require control of both ends as well as another single end controlled technique abget, and demonstrate that in most cases our method gives approximately the same results if not better.
Distributed In Vivo Testing of Software Applications
Creators: name: Chu, Matt
name: Murphy, Christian
name: Kaiser, Gail E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2007
Subjects: Computer science

description: The in vivo software testing approach focuses on testing live applications by executing unit tests throughout the lifecycle, including after deployment. The motivation is that the "known state" approach of traditional unit testing is unrealistic; deployed applications rarely operate under such conditions, and it may be more informative to perform the testing in live environments. One of the limitations of this approach is the high performance cost it incurs, as the unit tests are executed in parallel with the application. Here we present distributed in vivo testing, which focuses on easing the burden by sharing the load across multiple instances of the application of interest. That is, we elevate the scope of in vivo testing from a single instance to a community of instances, all participating in the testing process. Our approach is different from prior work in that we are actively testing during execution, as opposed to passively monitoring the application or conducting tests in the user environment prior to execution. We discuss new extensions to the existing in vivo testing framework (called Invite) and present empirical results that show the performance overhead improves linearly with the number of clients.
Electrodeposited carbon@Fe2O3 composites as binder-free anodes for lithium ion batteries
Creators: name: Li, Hao
name: Yao, Chuan
name: Zhang, Sheng-Guo
name: Chao, Chun-Ying
name: Wei, Ji-Yu
name: Li, Dan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology

description: Nanoscale metal oxides based binder-free electrodes have application prospects in the energy storage field. In this work, Fe2O3 nanosheets composited with carbon matrix were prepared via the electrochemical deposition on the dopamine treated stainless steel substrate, followed by annealing treatment. The electrode delivers discharge capacity of 1242 mAh·g−1 at 600 mA·g−1 current density after 100 cycles. Furthermore, the electrode exhibited outstanding rate capability and its reversible capacity reaches to 960 mAh·g−1 at 1800 mA·g−1 current density. The properties of full-cells comprising LiFePO4 cathode were also studied. The improved cycle performance could be attributed to high electronic, ionic conductivity and strong tolerance to volume change benefited from the unique nanostructure and amorphous carbon structure. This work may provide a facile and efficient method for the synthesis of high performance Fe2O3 anode materials.
Collaborating on homelessness in New Westminster BC: enhancing community cohesiveness and streamlining social services to address chronic homelessness in New Westminster, British Columbia
Creators: name: Eguchi, Leya
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: This research is a community-based research study of a multiagency collaboration pilot project designed to improve outcomes for clients with high and complex needs who are currently unhoused or at risk of losing their housing. A group of community-based social agencies developed and piloted the collaborative outreach and support model for one year. The objective was to find out if working collaboratively would help streamline services and improve outcomes for these clients. Six out of ten clients completed the pilot program and have remained in long term housing with significant psychosocial improvements. Interviews with front-line staff and managers reveal that the collaborative project helped improve their sense of community and interagency communication, resulting in better outcomes for service recipients. The initiative demonstrates the effectiveness of consensus-based, community-driven collaboration in cultivating a better sense of community among social service workers.
Whitepaper: The Value of Improving the Separation of Concerns
Creators: name: Eaddy, Marc
name: Cyment, Alan
name: Laar, Pierre Van De
name: Schmied, Fabian
name: Schult, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2007
Subjects: Computer science

description: Microsoft's enterprise customers are demanding better ways to modularize their software systems. They look to the Java community, where these needs are being met with language enhancements, improved developer tools and middleware, and better runtime support. We present a business case for why Microsoft should give priority to supporting better modularization techniques, also known as advanced separation of concerns (ASOC), for the .NET platform, and we provide a roadmap for how to do so.
Pressure study of the noncentrosymmetric 5d-electron superconductors CaMSi3 (M= Ir, Pt)
Creators: name: Eguchi, Gaku
name: Kneidinger, Friedrich
name: Salamakha, Leonid
name: Yonezawa, Singo
name: Maeno, Yoshiteru
name: Bauer, Ernst
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report hydrostatic pressure study on the Rashba-type noncentrosymmetric superconduc- tors CaMSi3 (M= Ir, Pt). The temperature dependence of the resistivity for both compounds is well described by the conventional Bloch-Grüneisen formalism at each pressure. This fact suggests that electron-phonon scattering is dominant in these compounds. The superconducting critical temperature Tc decreases by pressure as \sim 0.2 K/GPa above 0.41 GPa to 2 GPa for both compounds. This behavior of Tc can be explained with a modest decrease of the density of states based on the conventional BCS theory.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Effect of thermal noise on vesicles and capsules in shear flow
Creators: name: Abreu, David
name: Seifert, Udo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We add thermal noise consistently to reduced models of undeformable vesicles and capsules in shear flow and derive analytically the corresponding stochastic equations of motion. We calculate the steady-state probability distribution function and construct the corresponding phase diagrams for the different dynamical regimes. For fluid vesicles, we predict that at small shear rates thermal fluctuations induce a tumbling motion for any viscosity contrast. For elastic capsules, due to thermal mixing, an intermittent regime appears in regions where deterministic models predict only pure tank treading or tumbling.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures
Planar and spherical stick indices of knots
Creators: name: Adams, Colin
name: Collins, Dan
name: Hawkins, Katherine
name: Sia, Charmaine
name: Silversmith, Rob
name: Tshishiku, Bena
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M25

description: The stick index of a knot is the least number of line segments required to build the knot in space. We define two analogous 2-dimensional invariants, the planar stick index, which is the least number of line segments in the plane to build a projection, and the spherical stick index, which is the least number of great circle arcs to build a projection on the sphere. We find bounds on these quantities in terms of other knot invariants, and give planar stick and spherical stick constructions for torus knots and for compositions of trefoils. In particular, unlike most knot invariants,we show that the spherical stick index distinguishes between the granny and square knots, and that composing a nontrivial knot with a second nontrivial knot need not increase its spherical stick index.
Open Access Mystery - Character Overview
Creators: name: Sundsbø, Katrine
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 130103 Higher Education
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: This is an overview of the eight characters in this Open Access Mystery. This overview can be used by the host when asking players to choose their characters, or to use when advertising the Open Access Mystery.
The illustrations in this overview were created by Scott Willetts (http://www.screwloosestudios.com).
Reversible-deactivation radical polymerizations of acrylamide mediated by cobalt complexes supported by amino-bis(phenolate) ligands
Creators: name: Chen, Xiaomei
name: Wang, Liying
name: Li, Qingpan
name: Zhang, Jianing
name: Wang, Jin
name: Sun, Junmin
name: Zhang, Yongfeng
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Reversible-deactivation radical polymerizations (RDRP) of acrylamide (AM) was carried out via dispersion polymerization mediated by cobalt complexes in alcohol/water and initiated by azobisisobutyronitrile (AIBN) at 65 °C. Well-defined polyacrylamide (PAM) uniform spherical particles with predetermined molecular weight and relatively narrow dispersity (Đ = 1.24–1.53) were obtained under mild thermal conditions based on one polymer chain per cobalt complex demonstrate the living characters of the polymerization process. The living character was demonstrated by the linear fit with different feeding ratios of AM and cobalt complex, as well as a linear increase in the number- average molecular weight observed with the monomer conversion. It is worth pointing out that the high conversion of AM (>90%) was obtained with formation of well-controlled PAM, relative to the cobalt porphyrin (The conversion of AM reached 40%) in dispersion polymerization condition. The effects of the volume ratio of alcohol and water on the morphology of the spherical particles were investigated. There were increasing trends in the particle size with the increasing volume ratio of alcohol and water. Solution polymerization of acrylamide was also studied in the same condition. Linear fit with different feeding ratios of AM and cobalt complex were obtained.
Dark Matter distribution in the Milky Way: microlensing and dynamical constraints
Creators: name: Iocco, Fabio
name: Pato, Miguel
name: Bertone, Gianfranco
name: Jetzer, Philippe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that current microlensing and dynamical observations of the Galaxy permit to set interesting constraints on the Dark Matter local density and profile slope towards the galactic centre. Assuming state-of-the-art models for the distribution of baryons in the Galaxy, we find that the most commonly discussed Dark Matter profiles (viz. Navarro-Frenk-White and Einasto) are consistent with microlensing and dynamical observations, while extreme adiabatically compressed profiles are robustly ruled out. When a baryonic model that also includes a description of the gas is adopted, our analysis provides a determination of the local Dark Matter density, ρ_0=0.20-0.56 GeV/cm^3 at 1σ, that is found to be compatible with estimates in the literature based on different techniques.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures, matches published version
Using Functional Independence Conditions to Optimize the Performance of Latency-Insensitive Systems
Creators: name: Li, Cheng-Hong
name: Carloni, Luca
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2007
Subjects: Computer science

description: In latency-insensitive design shell modules are used to encapsulate system components (pearls) in order to interface them with the given latency-insensitive protocol and dynamically control their operations. In particular, a shell stalls a pearl whenever new valid data are not available on its input channels. We study how functional independence conditions (FIC) can be applied to the performance optimization of a latency-insensitive system by avoiding unnecessary stalling of their pearls. We present a novel circuit design of a generic shell template that can exploit FICs. We also provide an automatic procedure for the logic synthesis of a shell instance that is only based on the particular local characteristics of its corresponding pearl and does not require any input from the designers. We conclude reporting on a set of experimental results that illustrate the beneits and overhead of the proposed technique.
Topology-Based Optimization of Maximal Sustainable Throughput in a Latency-Insensitive System
Creators: name: Collins, Rebecca L.
name: Carloni, Luca
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2007
Subjects: Computer science

description: We consider the problem of optimizing the performance of a latency-insensitive system (LIS) where the addition of backpressure has caused throughput degradation. Previous works have addressed the problem of LIS performance in different ways. In particular, the insertion of relay stations and the sizing of the input queues in the shells are the two main optimization techniques that have been proposed. We provide a unifying framework for this problem by outlining which approaches work for different system topologies, and highlighting counterexamples where some solutions do not work. We also observe that in the most difficult class of topologies, instances with the greatest throughput degradation are typically very amenable to simplifications. The contributions of this paper include a characterization of topologies that maintain optimal throughput with fixed-size queues and a heuristic for sizing queues that produces solutions close to optimal in a fraction of the time.
Utilizing Astroinformatics to Maximize the Science Return of the Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey
Creators: name: Ball, Nicholas M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey is a 104 square degree survey of the Virgo Cluster, carried out using the MegaPrime camera of the Canada-France-Hawaii telescope, from semesters 2009A-2012A. The survey will provide coverage of this nearby dense environment in the universe to unprecedented depth, providing profound insights into galaxy formation and evolution, including definitive measurements of the properties of galaxies in a dense environment in the local universe, such as the luminosity function. The limiting magnitude of the survey is g_AB = 25.7 (10 sigma point source), and the 2 sigma surface brightness limit is g_AB ~ 29 mag arcsec^-2. The data volume of the survey (approximately 50 terabytes of images), while large by contemporary astronomical standards, is not intractable. This renders the survey amenable to the methods of astroinformatics. The enormous dynamic range of objects, from the giant elliptical galaxy M87 at M(B) = -21.6, to the faintest dwarf ellipticals at M(B) ~ -6, combined with photometry in 5 broad bands (u* g' r' i' z'), and unprecedented depth revealing many previously unseen structures, creates new challenges in object detection and classification. We present results from ongoing work on the survey, including photometric redshifts, Virgo cluster membership, and the implementation of fast data mining algorithms on the infrastructure of the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre, as part of the Canadian Advanced Network for Astronomical Research (CANFAR).
description: 8 pages, 2 figures. Accepted for the Joint Workshop and Summer School: Astrostatistics and Data Mining in Large Astronomical Databases, La Palma, May 30th - June 3rd 2011. A higher resolution version is available at http://sites.google.com/site/nickballastronomer/publications
Colorado water, March/April 2016
Creators: name: Middleton, Lindsey
name: Colorado Water Institute, Publisher
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Water resources development -- Colorado
subject: Water use -- Colorado
subject: Water-supply -- Colorado
subject: Water-supply -- Management -- Colorado

description: The newsletter is devoted to highlighting water research and activities at CSU and throughout Colorado.
description: Newsletter of the Colorado Water Center. Theme: Climate Smart agriculture.
Prompt J/psi production in the Regge limit of QCD: From Tevatron to LHC
Creators: name: Saleev, V. A.
name: Nefedov, M. A.
name: Shipilova, A. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study prompt J/psi-meson hadroproduction invoking the hypothesis of gluon Reggeization in t-channel exchanges at high energy and the factorization formalism of nonrelativistic quantum chromodynamics at the leading order in the strong-coupling constant alpha_s and the relative velocity of quarks v. The transverse-momentum distribution of direct and prompt J/psi-meson production measured at the Fermilab Tevatron fitted to obtain the nonperturbative long-distance matrix elements, which are used to predict prompt J/psi production spectra at the CERN LHC. At the numerical calculation, we adopt the Kimber-Martin-Ryskin and Blumlein prescriptions to derive unintegrated gluon distribution function of the proton from their collinear counterpart, for which we use the Martin-Roberts-Stirling-Thorne set. Without adjusting any free parameters, we find good agreement with measurements by the ATLAS, CMS and LHCb Collaborations at the LHC at the hadronic c.m. energy sqrt S=7 TeV.
description: 13 pages, 10 figures, 1 table
Higher spin fermions in the BTZ black hole
Creators: name: Datta, Shouvik
name: David, Justin R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently it has been shown that the wave equations of bosonic higher spin fields in the BTZ background can be solved exactly. In this work we extend this analysis to fermionic higher spin fields. We solve the wave equations for arbitrary half-integer spin fields in the BTZ black hole background and obtain exact expressions for their quasinormal modes. These quasinormal modes are shown to agree precisely with the poles of the corresponding two point function in the dual conformal field theory as predicted by the AdS/CFT correspondence. We also obtain an expression for the 1-loop determinant in terms of the quasinormal modes and show it agrees with that obtained by integrating the heat kernel found by group theoretic methods.
description: 29 pages
The Great Intervention and Massive Money Injection: The Japanese Experience 2003-2004
Creators: name: Watanabe, Tsutomu
name: Yabu, Tomoyoshi
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Economics
Finance

description: From the beginning of 2003 to the spring of 2004, Japan's monetary authorities conducted large-scale yen-selling/dollar-buying operations in what John Taylor has labeled the "Great Intervention." This paper examines the relationship between this "Great Intervention" and the quantitative easing policy the Bank of Japan was pursuing at that time. First, we find that about 40 percent of the yen funds supplied to the market by yen-selling interventions were not offset by the BOJ's monetary operations, and remained in the market for a while; this is in contrast with the preceding period, when almost 100 percent were immediately offset. Second, comparing interventions and other government payments, the extent to which the funds were offset were much smaller in the case of interventions, suggesting that the BOJ differentiated between and responded differently to interventions and other government payments. These two findings indicate that it is likely that the BOJ intentionally did not sterilize yen-selling interventions to achieve its policy target of maintaining current account balances of commercial banks at the BOJ at a high level. Finally, we find that an unsterilized intervention had a greater impact on the yen-dollar rate than a sterilized one did, indicating that it matters whether an intervention is sterilized or not even when the economy is in a liquidity trap.
On the Evolution of the House Price Distribution
Creators: name: Ohnishi, Takaaki
name: Mizuno, Takayuki
name: Shimizu, Chihiro
name: Watanabe, Tsutomu
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Economics

description: Is the cross-sectional distribution of house prices close to a (log) normal distribution, as is often assumed in empirical studies on house price indexes? How does the distribution evolve over time? To address these questions, we investigate the cross-sectional distribution of house prices in the Greater Tokyo Area for the period 1986 to 2009. We find that size-adjusted house prices follow a lognormal distribution except for the period of the housing bubble and its collapse in Tokyo, for which the price distribution has a substantially heavier right tail than that of a lognormal distribution. In addition, we find that, during the bubble era, the sharp price movements were concentrated in particular areas, and this spatial heterogeneity is the source of the fat upper tail. These findings suggest that the shape of the size-adjusted price distribution, especially the shape of the tail part, may contain information useful for the detection of housing bubbles. Specifically, the presence of a bubble can be safely ruled out if recent price observations are found to follow a lognormal distribution. On the other hand, if there are many outliers, especially near the upper tail, this may indicate the presence of a bubble, since such price observations are unlikely to occur if they follow a lognormal distribution. This method of identifying bubbles is quite different from conventional ones based on aggregate measures of housing prices, and therefore should be a useful tool to supplement existing methods.
Analysis of a diffuse-interface model for the binary viscous incompressible fluids with thermo-induced Marangoni effects
Creators: name: Wu, Hao
name: Xu, Xiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35Q35, 35K55, 76D05

description: In this paper we study the well-posedness and long-time dynamics of a diffuse-interface model for the mixture of two viscous incompressible Newtonian fluids with thermo-induced Marangoni effects. The governing system consists of modified Navier--Stokes equations coupled with phase-field and energy transport equations. We first derive an energy inequality that illustrates the dissipative nature of the system under the assumption that the initial temperature variation is properly small. Then we establish the existence of weak/strong solutions via the energy method and discuss the long-time dynamics as well as stability of the system.
Colorado water, April 1994
Creators: name: Miller, Shirley
name: Colorado Water Resources Research Institute, Publisher
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Water resources development -- Colorado
subject: Water-supply -- Colorado
subject: Water use -- Colorado
subject: Water-supply -- Management -- Colorado

description: The scope of the newsletter is devoted to enhancing communication between Colorado water users and managers and faculty at the research universities in the state.
description: Newsletter of the Colorado Water Resources Research Institute.
Open Access Mystery - Character Packs
Creators: name: Sundsbø, Katrine
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 130103 Higher Education
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: These eight character packs gives players an overview of the character they have chosen or been assigned to for this Open Access Mystery. Each pack will give information about the character, the game play and help the players prepare for the role-playing game. Character packs should be sent to players a few days ahead of the scheduled Open Access Mystery by the person hosting.
The illustrations in these character packs were created by Scott Willetts (http://www.screwloosestudios.com).
Frank Miller: Inventor of the One-Time Pad
Creators: name: Bellovin, Steven Michael
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Computer science

description: The invention of the one-time pad is generally credited to Gilbert S. Vernam and Joseph O. Mauborgne. We show that it was invented about 35 years earlier by a Sacramento banker named Frank Miller. We provide a tentative identification of which Frank Miller it was, and speculate on whether or not Mauborgne might have known of Miller's work, especially via his colleague Parker Hitt.
Telescope Bibliographies: an Essential Component of Archival Data Management and Operations
Creators: name: Accomazzi, Alberto
name: Henneken, Edwin
name: Erdmann, Christopher
name: Rots, Arnold
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Assessing the impact of astronomical facilities rests upon an evaluation of the scientific discoveries which their data have enabled. Telescope bibliographies, which link data products with the literature, provide a way to use bibliometrics as an impact measure for the underlying data. In this paper we argue that the creation and maintenance of telescope bibliographies should be considered an integral part of an observatory's operations. We review the existing tools, services, and workflows which support these curation activities, giving an estimate of the effort and expertise required to maintain an archive-based telescope bibliography.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures, to appear in SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, SPIE Conference Series 8448
Additional file 6 of First Nations Australians’ self-determination in health and alcohol policy development: a Delphi study
Creators: name: E. Stearne, Annalee
name: Lee, K. S. Kylie
name: Allsop, Steve
name: Shakeshaft, Anthony
name: Wright, Michael
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Additional file 6: Figure S5. Factors necessary for self-determination in the implementation (Q6). Presents the rankings by proportion for all responses in Q6 for rounds 2 and 3.
A New Randomized Algorithm to Approximate the Star Discrepancy Based on Threshold Accepting
Creators: name: Gnewuch, Michael
name: Wahlstrom, Magnus
name: Winzen, Carola
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Computer science

description: We present a new algorithm for estimating the star discrepancy of arbitrary point sets. Similar to the algorithm for discrepancy approximation of Winker and Fang [SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 34 (1997), 2028{2042] it is based on the optimization algorithm threshold accepting. Our improvements include, amongst others, a non-uniform sampling strategy which is more suited for higher-dimensional inputs and additionally takes into account the topological characteristics of given point sets, and rounding steps which transform axis-parallel boxes, on which the discrepancy is to be tested, into critical test boxes. These critical test boxes provably yield higher discrepancy values, and contain the box that exhibits the maximum value of the local discrepancy. We provide comprehensive experiments to test the new algorithm. Our randomized algorithm computes the exact discrepancy frequently in all cases where this can be checked (i.e., where the exact discrepancy of the point set can be computed in feasible time). Most importantly, in higher dimension the new method behaves clearly better than all previously known methods.
Finite-size version of the excitonic instability in graphene quantum dots
Creators: name: Paananen, Tomi
name: Egger, Reinhold
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By a combination of Hartree-Fock simulations, exact diagonalization, and perturbative calculations, we investigate the ground-state properties of disorder-free circular quantum dots formed in a graphene monolayer. Taking the reference chemical potential at the Dirac point, we study N \leq 15 interacting particles, where the fine structure constant α parametrizes the Coulomb interaction. We explore three different theoretical concepts: (i) Sucher's positive projection ("no-pair") approach, (ii) a more general Hamiltonian conserving both N and the number of additional electron-hole pairs, and (iii) the full quantum electrodynamics (QED) problem, where only N is conserved. We find that electron-hole pair production is important for α 1. This corresponds to a reconstruction of the filled Dirac sea and is a finite-size version of the bulk excitonic instability. We also address the effects of an orbital magnetic field.
description: 9 pages, 10 figures, to appear in PRB
Colorado water, April 2002
Creators: name: Flanagan, Marian
name: Blackledge, Michael
name: Miller, Shirley
name: Colorado Water Resources Research Institute, Publisher
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Water resources development -- Colorado
subject: Water use -- Colorado
subject: Water-supply -- Colorado
subject: Water-supply -- Management -- Colorado

description: The scope of the newsletter is devoted to enhancing communication between Colorado water users and managers and faculty at the research universities in the state.
description: Newsletter of the Water Center at Colorado State University.
The therapeutic alliance as experienced by children and its effect on neurological functioning
Creators: name: Baylis, Peter John
Publisher: name: Social Work
Year: 2009

description: Bibliography: p. 126-150
description: Clinicians and researchers recognize the central role the therapeutic alliance plays in treatment outcome with adults and research with children is beginning to support similar correlations between the strength of an alliance and treatment outcome. However, unlike adult research, child process research has yet to coalesce around a definition of a child centered construct of the therapeutic alliance. The dominant exploratory qualitative section of this combined methodology thesis, seeks to develop a guiding theory of clinical interactions that enhance the development of an al1iane, as informed by children's experiences, and to better understand what children value in a therapeutic alliance. The Child Centered Alliance Development framework emerged highlighting a progressive approach to the development of an alliance moving back and forth between initiating and responsive behaviours. Also, children valued an active approach to counseling with a nice person who respected their confidentiality and helped them develop skills to solve their difficulties. Furthermore, research from the field of neuroscience has begun to demonstrate that supportive and patterned therapeutic relationships in psychotherapy produces changes in neurological functioning and morphology associated with positive outcomes in therapy. A second section of the thesis intended to explore the relationship between treatment outcome, neurological functioning, and the therapeutic alliance with children using a pre-test post-test exploratory design. Due to the resulting small sample size no inferential analysis was conducted with the data collected.