cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Step Heat Profile in Localized Chains
Creators: name: De Roeck, Wojciech
name: Dhar, Abhishek
name: Huveneers, Francois
name: Schuetz, Marius
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider two types of strongly disordered one-dimensional Hamiltonian systems coupled to baths (energy or particle reservoirs) at the boundaries: strongly disordered quantum spin chains and disordered classical harmonic oscillators. These systems are believed to exhibit localization, implying in particular that the conductivity decays exponentially in the chain length $L$. We ask however for the profile of the (very slowly) transported quantity in the steady state. We find that this profile is a step-function, jumping in the middle of the chain from the value set by the left bath to the value set by the right bath. The width of the step grows not faster than $\sqrt{L}$. This is confirmed by numerics on a disordered quantum spin chain of 9 spins and on much longer chains of harmonic oscillators. In the case of harmonic oscillators, we also observe a drastic breakdown of local equilibrium at the step, resulting in a chaotic temperature profile.
description: 18 pages, 8 figures
Rhinolophus simulator K. Andersen 1904
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Rhinolophidae
Rhinolophus
Rhinolophus simulator

description: Rhinolophus simulator K. Andersen, 1904. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 14: 384. TYPE LOCALITY: Zimbabwe, Mazoe. DISTRIBUTION: South Africa to S. Sudan and Ethiopia; Cameroun; N. Nigeria. COMMENT: Includes alticolus and bembanicus; see Koopman, 1975, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 154:387; Hayman and Hill, 1971, Part 2:25. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405007003058001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 147, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
description: {"references": ["Koopman, K. F. 1975. Bats of the Sudan. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 154: 353 - 444.", "Hayman, R. W., and J. E. Hill. 1971. Order Chiroptera. Part 2. Pp. 1 - 73, in The mammals of Africa: An identification manual (J. Meester and H. W. Setzer, eds.) [issued 15 Jul 1971]. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., not continuously paginated."]}
Naming the Pain in Requirements Engineering: Design of a Global Family of Surveys and First Results from Germany
Creators: name: Fernández, Daniel Méndez
name: Wagner, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: D.2.1

description: Context: For many years, we have observed industry struggling in defining a high quality requirements engineering (RE) and researchers trying to understand industrial expectations and problems. Although we are investigating the discipline with a plethora of empirical studies, those studies either concentrate on validating specific methods or on single companies or countries. Therefore, they allow only for limited empirical generalisations. Objective: To lay an empirical and generalisable foundation about the state of the practice in RE, we aim at a series of open and reproducible surveys that allow us to steer future research in a problem-driven manner. Method: We designed a globally distributed family of surveys in joint collaborations with different researchers from different countries. The instrument is based on an initial theory inferred from available studies. As a long-term goal, the survey will be regularly replicated to manifest a clear understanding on the status quo and practical needs in RE. In this paper, we present the design of the family of surveys and first results of its start in Germany. Results: Our first results contain responses from 30 German companies. The results are not yet generalisable, but already indicate several trends and problems. For instance, a commonly stated problem respondents see in their company standards are artefacts being underrepresented, and important problems they experience in their projects are incomplete and inconsistent requirements. Conclusion: The results suggest that the survey design and instrument are well-suited to be replicated and, thereby, to create a generalisable empirical basis of RE in practice.
description: 11 pages, 1 figure
They dreamt of a school : a centenary history of Methodist Ladies' College Kew, 1882-1982
Creators: name: Zainu'ddin., Ailsa G. Thomson
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Peculiarity of the oscillation stratification in sunspot penumbrae
Creators: name: Kolobov, D. Y.
name: Chelpanov, A. A.
name: Kobanov, N. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spatial distributions of the dominant oscillation frequency obtained for four sunspots show a feature shared by all the analysed levels of the solar atmosphere in these sunspots. This feature located in the inner penumbrae indicates that this region has favourable conditions for 2.5-4 mHz oscillation propagation. This agrees with the fact that the spectral composition of the oscillations at three atmospheric heights (FeI 6173Å, 1700Å, and He II 304Å) in this region are similar. There have been previous evidence of particular similarities along height of photospheric magnetic field strength, line-of-sight velocity, and temperature profile in the inner penumbra, where the internal boundary of the Evershed flow is located. The finding of the same dominant oscillation frequency at a range of altitudes from the chromosphere up to the transition region extends the height range, suggesting similarities in physical conditions.
Rhinolophus stheno K. Andersen 1905
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Rhinolophidae
Rhinolophus
Rhinolophus stheno

description: Rhinolophus stheno K. Andersen, 1905. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1905:91. TYPE LOCALITY: Malaysia, Selangor. DISTRIBUTION: Malaya; Thailand; Sumatra; Java. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405007003059001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 147, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
Rhinolophus subbadius Blyth 1844
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Rhinolophidae
Rhinolophus
Rhinolophus subbadius

description: Rhinolophus subbadius Blyth, 1844. J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 13:486. TYPE LOCALITY: Nepal. DISTRIBUTION: Assam (India); Nepal; N. Vietnam; Burma. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405007003060001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 147, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
title: Respiratory syncytial virus–approved mAb Palivizumab as ligand for anti-idiotype nanobody-based synthetic cytokine receptors
Creators: name: Ettich, Julia
name: Wittich, Christoph
name: Moll, Jens M.
name: Behnke, Kristina
name: Floss, Doreen M.
name: Reiners, Jens
name: Christmann, Andreas
name: Lang, Philipp A.
name: Smits, Sander H.J.
name: Kolmar, Harald
name: Scheller, Jürgen
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2025

description: Synthetic cytokine receptors can modulate cellular functions based on an artificial ligand to avoid off-target and/or unspecific effects. However, ligands that can modulate receptor activity so far have not been used clinically because of unknown toxicity and immunity against the ligands. Here, we developed a fully synthetic cytokine/cytokine receptor pair based on the antigen-binding domain of the respiratory syncytial virus–approved mAb Palivizumab as a synthetic cytokine and a set of anti-idiotype nanobodies (AIPVHH) as synthetic receptors. Importantly, Palivizumab is neither cross-reactive with human proteins nor immunogenic. For the synthetic receptors, AIPVHH were fused to the activating interleukin-6 cytokine receptor gp130 and the apoptosis-inducing receptor Fas. We found that the synthetic cytokine receptor AIPVHHgp130 was efficiently activated by dimeric Palivizumab single-chain variable fragments. In summary, we created an in vitro nonimmunogenic full-synthetic cytokine/cytokine receptor pair as a proof of concept for future in vivo therapeutic strategies utilizing nonphysiological targets during immunotherapy.
Liberale Demokratie als Herrschaftsform
Creators: name: ZEILNER FRANZ
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Demokratie liberale Demokratie Herrschaftsformen Politik Europäische Union Weltgesellschaft Demokratiepolitische Bildung

description: Die gegenständliche Publikation behandelt das Thema liberale Demokratie als Herrschaftsform. Es werden der Begriff Demokratie, erste analytische Betrachtungen zum Thema Demokratie sowie die Wurzeln der Demokratie untersucht und aufgezeigt. Ein wesentlicher Bereich der Untersuchung umfasst das Thema liberale Demokratie im Kontext von Herrschaftsformen, von Staats- und Regierungsformen inklusive Formen der Demokratie und der Bedeutung von Rechtsstaatlichkeit und Gewaltentrennung. Es werden Deutungskontroversen zum Thema von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart , sowie die ältesten durchgehenden demokratischen Staaten weltweit dargestellt .Der Schwerpunkt liegt in der Untersuchung der liberalen Demokratie als Herrschaftsform. Im Ausblick wird die Situation der liberalen Demokratie der Gegenwart aufgezeigt, auch von wem bzw. wodurch diese gefährdet werden kann und wie wichtig deshalb Politische Bildung bzw. Demokratiepolitische Bildung im Kontext der Bildungssysteme ist. Im Abschnitt Zusammenfassung/Bemerkungen wird die gesamte Untersuchung dieser Arbeit reflektiert.
Reflection and Transmission Coefficients of the symmetric barrier-type shifted Deng-Fan potential
Creators: name: Oluwadare, O J
name: Oyewumi, K J
name: Thylwe, K-E
name: Hassanabadi, S
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By applying continuity and boundary conditions, the reflection and transmission coefficients of one-dimensional time-independent Schrödinger equation with a symmetric barrier-type shifted Deng-Fan potential are obtained and discussed. The numerical and graphical results are very accurate and consistent with the quantum transmission-reflection principle.
description: 12 pages,4figures, 1 table
A study of Chinese and Western perceptions about preferred designs for MBA programs offered by Western universities in the People's Republic of China
Creators: name: Wrathall., Jeffrey Phillip
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Lorentz factor distribution of blazars from the optical Fundamental plane of black hole activity
Creators: name: Saikia, Payaswini
name: Körding, Elmar
name: Falcke, Heino
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Blazar radiation is dominated by a relativistic jet which can be modeled at first approximation using just two intrinsic parameters - the Lorentz factor $Γ$ and the viewing angle $θ$. Blazar jet observations are often beamed due to relativistic effects, complicating the understanding of these intrinsic properties. The most common way to estimate blazar Lorentz factors needs the estimation of apparent jet speeds and Doppler beaming factors. We present a new and independent method of constructing the blazar Lorentz factor distribution, using the optical fundamental plane of black hole activity. The optical fundamental plane is a plane stretched out by both the supermassive black holes and the X-ray binaries, in the 3D space provided by their [OIII] line luminosity, radio luminosity and black hole mass. We use the intrinsic radio luminosity obtained from the optical fundamental plane to constrain the boosting parameters of the VLBA Imaging and Polarimetry Survey (VIPS) blazar sample. We find a blazar bulk Lorentz factor distribution in the form of a power law as $N(Γ) \propto Γ^{-2.1 \pm 0.4}$ for the $Γ$ range of 1 to 40. We also discuss the viewing angle distribution of the blazars and the dependence of our results on the input parameters.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS, comments are welcome
Rhinolophus subrufus K. Andersen 1905
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Rhinolophidae
Rhinolophus
Rhinolophus subrufus

description: Rhinolophus subrufus K. Andersen, 1905. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 16:283. TYPE LOCALITY: Philippines, Luzon, Manila. DISTRIBUTION: Mindanao, Luzon, Mindoro, and Negros Isl. (Philippines). COMMENT: Includes bunkeri; see Lawrence, 1939, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 86:52,53. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405007003061001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 147, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
description: {"references": ["Lawrence, B. 1939. Mammals. Pp. 28 - 73, in Collections from the Phillippine Islands (T. Barbour, B. Lawrence, and J. L. Peters). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 86 (2): 25 - 128."]}
Boundary Causality vs Hyperbolicity for Spherical Black Holes in Gauss-Bonnet
Creators: name: Andrade, Tomas
name: Caceres, Elena
name: Keeler, Cynthia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the constraints boundary causality places on the allowable Gauss-Bonnet gravitational couplings in asymptotically AdS spaces, specifically considering spherical black hole solutions. We additionally consider the hyperbolicity properties of these solutions, positing that hyperbolicity-violating solutions are sick solutions whose causality properties provide no information about the theory they reside in. For both signs of the Gauss-Bonnet coupling, spherical black holes violate boundary causality at smaller absolute values of the coupling than planar black holes do. For negative coupling, as we tune the Gauss-Bonnet coupling away from zero, both spherical and planar black holes violate hyperbolicity before they violate boundary causality. For positive coupling, the only hyperbolicity-respecting spherical black holes which violate boundary causality do not do so appreciably far from the planar bound. Consequently, eliminating hyperbolicity-violating solutions means the bound on Gauss-Bonnet couplings from the boundary causality of spherical black holes is no tighter than that from planar black holes.
description: 17 pages, 6 figures
Investigating Informal STEM Teaching and Learning in a Planetarium's Urban Youth Leadership Program
Creators: name: Vogt, Kristen
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Science museums have become more inclusive and engaging to audiences, including the development of programming intended to reach wider audiences and provide more equitable access to science learning. However, how do educators and designers of these programs conceptualize equity? To explore this question, interviews with educators (n=6), student artifacts, and program documents were analyzed to identify the ways educators talked about equity in one out-of-school youth program created and implemented by a large, urban science museum. These discourses of equity fit into five categories: bridging in-school and out-of-school, community acceptance, infrastructure access, motivation/enjoyment and positive affective responses, and increase access for a select few.
title: Die Berichterstattung zu islamistischen und rechtsextremistischen Terroranschlägen in Deutschland im Vergleich - Eine Diskursanalyse
Creators: name: Önal, Özben
Year: 2023

description: Das erkenntnisleitende Interesse dieser Forschungsarbeit gilt der Berichterstattung über Terrorismus und wie sich diese verändert, wenn es um die Berichterstattung zu islamistischen Anschlägen oder rechtsextremistischen Anschlägen handelt. Dabei soll ein Hauptaugenmerk auf wiederkehrende Stereotypen und Frames gelegt werden, sowie die Unterscheidung in den Themen und Unterthemen die in der Berichterstattung behandelt werden. Mittels kritischer Diskursanalyse nach Siegfried Jäger (2016) und Jürgen Link sollen Erkenntnisse in Bezug auf sprachliche und ikonographische Wirkungsmittel gewonnen werden, die zu Wirklichkeitskonstruktionen führen. Um diese Erkenntnisse zu erlangen, wurde zunächst auf Basis der kritischen Diskursanalyse der Untersuchungsraum Deutschland festgelegt und das Medium der Spiegel Online als Diskursebene gewählt, in dem jeweils die Berichterstattung zu dem Terroranschlag in Berlin 2016 und zu dem Terroranschlag in Hanau 2020 als diskursive Ereignisse untersucht wurden. Ein theoretischer Überblick zu der Diskurstheorie, sowie zu dem Begriff des Terrorismus und der Stereotypen dienen als nötige Grundlage zum Verständnis der bisherigen Forschung zu der Berichterstattung von Terrorismus. Dem Forschungsstand zu islamistischem und rechtsextremistischem Terrorismus und den Medien wurde sich sehr intensiv gewidmet und auch während der Analyse auf bisherige Ergebnisse gestützt. Entsprechend dem Anspruch, den die kritische Diskursanalyse stellt, wurden zunächst synoptische Struktur- und Feinanalysen ausgewählter Onlineartikel in dem Untersuchungszeitraum vom 19.12.2016 bis 27.12.2016 und dem 19.02.2020 bis 23.02.2020 durchgeführt und in einen theoretischen Kontext gesetzt um im Anschluss die Ergebnisse der gesamten synoptischen Analyse kritisch zu betrachten und einen Ausblick auf die zukünftige Berichterstattung gegeben. Da die kritische Diskursanalyse vor allem für gesellschaftlich brisante Themen entwickelt wurde, wie der vorliegende Untersuchungsgegenstand auch einer ist, liefert die Forschungsarbeit dementsprechend brisante Ergebnisse – die Berichterstattung weist auf Grundlage ihrer sprachlichen Darstellung sowie auch in Bezug auf die Diskursstränge erhebliche Unterschiede auf.
Constructing new professional identities : career change students in teacher education
Creators: name: Williams., Judith
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Rhinolophus swinnyi Gough 1908
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Rhinolophidae
Rhinolophus
Rhinolophus swinnyi

description: Rhinolophus swinnyi Gough, 1908. Ann. Transvaal Mus., 1:72. TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, Cape Province, Pondoland, Ngqeleni Dist. DISTRIBUTION: South Africa to S. Zaire and Zanzibar. COMMENT: Probably a subspecies of denti (KFK). ISIS NUMBER: 5301405007003062001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 147, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
Glasgow WAVE Volunteer Map
Creators: name: Dumbarton Road Corridor Environment Trust (Organization)
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Volunteers
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1169120
subject: Volunteer workers in community development
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1169047
subject: Voluntarism
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1168976

description: A map showing the locations of community, youth, and environmental organizations with volunteer opportunities in Glasgow, Scotland. The printed map also includes a QR code to connect users to the digital green map online.
LHCb pentaquarks in constituent quark models
Creators: name: Ortega, P. G.
name: Entem, D. R.
name: Fernández, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recently discovered $P_c(4380)^+$ and $P_c(4450)^+$ states at LHCb have masses close to the $\bar DΣ_c^*$ and $\bar D^*Σ_c$ thresholds, respectively, which suggest that they may have significant meson-baryon molecular components. We analyze these states in the framework of a constituent quark model which has been applied to a wide range of hadronic observables, being the model parameters, therefore, completely constrained. The $P_c(4380)^+$ and $P_c(4450)^+$ are studied as molecular states composed by charmed baryons and open charm mesons. Several bound states with the proper binding energy are found in the $\bar DΣ_c^*$ and $\bar D^*Σ_c$ channels. We discuss the possible assignments of these states from their decay widths. Moreover, two more states are predicted, associated with the $\bar DΣ_c$ and $\bar D^* Σ_c^*$ thresholds.
description: 5 pages, 2 tables
Audience-Oriented Art: The Novel in the Age of Theory
Creators: name: Brecheisen, David A
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This dissertation argues that shifting attitudes about the reader among novelists and literary theorists in the late-sixties and seventies played a crucial role in reconfiguring our understanding of the novel as art. It is well established that many important novelists of the period were interested in what Frank Kermode called “the reader’s share” of meaning and it is perhaps even better known that literary theorists — from Roland Barthes to Stanley Fish — intensified that interest, turning the reader into not just a consumer, but a producer of meaning. Beginning with this shared concern, I demonstrate that while many novelists — for example, Thomas Pynchon and Italo Calvino — were enthusiastically embracing readers, some others — Joan Didion, John Hawkes, James Baldwin, William Gass, and Christine Brooke-Rose — were pursuing new strategies for asserting the text’s independence from them. As Gass, following Gertrude Stein, puts it: thinking about the reader, or “ways of reading,” is an obstacle to “advancing an art — the art.” In reexamining the reader’s status in both literary theory and the novel, I show how a very old question — “What is the novel’s relation to the world?” — was turned into a distinctively new one: “What sort of object is the novel?” Competing answers to this question, I argue, ultimately ascribe different roles to the to the reader. We can see this difference in critics (between, say, Paul de Man’s account of the work in “Form and Intent” and Michael Fried’s in “Art and Objecthood”) and perhaps even more vividly in novelists (for example, those I discuss here). One of the advantages of focusing on this two-step procedure rather than on, say, intertextuality or the postmodern waning of affect, is the revelation that the demands of theory and the demands of literature are not as neatly aligned as many accounts — like those by Brian McHale or Fredric Jameson — have claimed. Thus resituating the work of a heterogeneous group of novelists and theorists, my research draws a comparative line between art and the novel of the period, insisting on a shared concern over the character of the work of art — concerns that have only deepened (aesthetically and politically) since the late-sixties.
Close stellar conjunctions of alpha Centauri A and B until 2050 - An mK = 7.8 star may enter the Einstein ring of alpha Cen A in 2028
Creators: name: Kervella, P.
name: Mignard, F.
name: Mérand, A.
name: Thévenin, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The rapid proper motion of the alpha Cen pair (3.7 arcsec/yr) and its location close to the galactic plane on a rich stellar background combine to make them excellent candidates for stellar conjunctions with distant stars. Adding new astrometry to archival data, we have refined the orbital parameters, barycentric proper motion and parallax of alpha Cen and compute its apparent trajectory on sky over the coming decades. We present a catalog of the expected close conjunctions until 2050. An exceptional event will take place in early May 2028, when alpha Cen A will come within 0.015 +/- 0.135 arcseconds of the mK = 7.8 star 2MASS 14392160-6049528 (hereafter S5). In terms of impact parameter and contrast, this is the most favorable stellar conjunction of alpha Cen within at least the next three decades. With an angular diameter of LD = 0.47 +/- 0.05 mas, it is likely that S5 is a red giant or supergiant located at several kiloparsecs. The approached stars will act as moving light probes in transmission through the environment of alpha Cen. The observation of these close conjunctions holds great promises to search for planets and other low mass objects in the alpha Cen system using photometry and astrometry. The relativistic deflection of the approached star images will be in the milliarcsecond range. The small impact parameter of the conjunction with S5 means that this star has a probability of 45% of entering the Einstein ring of alpha Cen A. The gravitational amplification of the flux of S5 could reach a factor five for the combination of the two lensed images. The proper motion, orbital parameters and parallax of alpha Cen will be measurable with an extreme accuracy from differential astrometry with the S stars. This will be valuable, for example to prepare the Breakthrough Starshot initiative to send interstellar nanocrafts to alpha Centauri.
description: 15 pages, 10 figures
The Role of Diet on Sulfidogenic Bacteria Composition among African Americans and non-Hispanic Whites
Creators: name: Yazici, Cemal
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Background: African Americans (AAs) are diagnosed with (CRC) at earlier ages and have higher mortality. Diet high in red meat and animal fat is associated with increased CRC risk and this might be modulated through diet’s effect on gut microbiota. Hypothesis: There are significant differences in dietary intake specifically in consumption of animal protein and fat between AAs and NHWs, and abundance of sulfidogenic bacteria is higher in AAs due to consumption of diet high in animal fat and protein. Methodology: Sociodemographic, clinical and dietary data were collected. Mucosal biospecimens were obtained from the right and left colon for determination of sulfidogenic bacteria [Bilophila wadsworthia-specific dissimulatory reductase gene (dsrA-Bw) and pan-dsrA that detects all sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB)] composition by qPCR. Regression analyses were completed to identify predictors of dsrA-Bw and pan-dsrA gene copy numbers (gcn) in AAs and NHWs while adjusting for key covariates. Results: Study included 146 subjects; 78 AAs and 68 NHWs. Mean age was 58.05 and mean BMI was 30.64. NHWs had higher education (0.008), income (0.025) and alcohol consumption (0.016) levels while AAs had higher BMI (0.033) and predominance of female subjects (0.041). AAs had higher % energy from fat (0.045) and meat (0.035) consumption while NHWs had increased dairy (0.020) and alcohol intake (0.030). There were no significant differences in gcn of dsrA-Bw and pan-dsrA between right and left colons. NHWs had significantly higher dsrA-Bw gcn in the right (p=0.009) and left colon (p=0.002) and numerically higher pan-dsrA-Bw gcn in the right (p=0.076) and left colon (p=0.055). In regression analyses in AAs, BMI was the only predictor of dsrA-Bw gcn (p=0.003) while BMI (p=0.049) and alcohol (p=0.024) were independent predictors of pan-dsrA gcn. In NHWs, alcohol use (p=0.007) was the only independent predictor of pan-dsrA gcn. Conclusion: Results underline existing disparities and significant differences in dietary intakes among AAs and NHWs. Alcohol use in AAs and NHWs and BMI in AAs are independent predictors of sulfidogenic bacteria gcn. If these results are confirmed in larger datasets, preventive strategies that address dietary differences and modify sulfidogenic bacteria composition can be developed especially for high risk populations.
MPEC 2023-N34 : DAILY ORBIT UPDATE (2023 July 9)
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Collisional stability of localized Yb(${}^3\mathrm{P}_2$) atoms immersed in a Fermi sea of Li
Creators: name: Konishi, Hideki
name: Schäfer, Florian
name: Ueda, Shinya
name: Takahashi, Yoshiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We establish an experimental method for a detailed investigation of inelastic collisional properties between ytterbium (Yb) in the metastable ${}^3\mathrm{P}_2$ state and ground state lithium (Li). By combining an optical lattice and a direct excitation to the ${}^3\mathrm{P}_2$ state we achieve high selectivity on the collisional partners. Using this method we determine inelastic loss coefficients in collisions between $^{174}$Yb(${}^3\mathrm{P}_2$) with magnetic sublevels of $m_J=0$ and $-2$ and ground state $^6$Li to be $(4.4\pm0.3)\times10^{-11}~\mathrm{cm}^3/\mathrm{s}$ and $(4.7\pm0.8)\times10^{-11}~\mathrm{cm}^3/\mathrm{s}$, respectively. Absence of spin changing processes in Yb(${}^3\mathrm{P}_2$)-Li inelastic collisions at low magnetic fields is confirmed by inelastic loss measurements on the $m_J=0$ state. We also demonstrate that our method allows us to look into loss processes in few-body systems separately.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures
Noise and Function
Creators: name: Weinstein, Steven
name: Pavlic, Theodore P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Noise is widely understood to be something that interferes with a signal or process. Thus, it is generally thought to be destructive, obscuring signals and interfering with function. However, early in the 20th century, mechanical engineers found that mechanisms inducing additional vibration in mechanical systems could prevent sticking and hysteresis. This so-called "dither" noise was later introduced in an entirely different context at the advent of digital information transmission and recording in the early 1960s. Ironically, the addition of noise allows one to preserve information that would otherwise be lost when the signal or image is digitized. As we shall see, the benefits of added noise in these contexts are closely related to the phenomenon which has come to be known as stochastic resonance, the original version of which appealed to noise to explain how small periodic fluctuations in the eccentricity of the earth's orbit might be amplified in such a way as to bring about the observed periodic transitions in climate from ice age to temperate age and back. These noise-induced transitions have since been invoked to explain a wide array of biological phenomena, including the foraging and tracking behavior of ants. Many biological phenomena, from foraging to gene expression, are noisy, involving an element of randomness. In this paper, we illustrate the general principles behind dithering and stochastic resonance using examples from image processing, and then show how the constructive use of noise can carry over to systems found in nature.
description: 21 pages, 9 figures, chapter to appear in_From Matter to Life: Informationa nd Causality_ by Walker, Davies, and Ellis (Cambridge University Press)
Rhinolophus thomasi K. Andersen 1905
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Rhinolophidae
Rhinolophus
Rhinolophus thomasi

description: Rhinolophus thomasi K. Andersen, 1905. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1905:100. TYPE LOCALITY: Burma, Karin Hills. DISTRIBUTION: S. E. Burma; N. Vietnam; Thailand; Yunnan (China). ISIS NUMBER: 5301405007003063001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 147, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
Chinese international schoolgirls in an Australian independent school : gender, ethnicity and international education
Creators: name: Westhorpe., Margot
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
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Comparison of the electromagnetic responses of $^{12}$C obtained from the Green's function Monte Carlo and spectral function approaches
Creators: name: Rocco, Noemi
name: Lovato, Alessandro
name: Benhar, Omar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The electromagnetic responses of carbon obtained from the Green's function Monte Carlo and spectral function approaches using the same dynamical input are compared in the kinematical region corresponding to momentum transfer in the range 300-570 MeV. The results of our analysis, aimed at pinning down the limits of applicability of the approximations involved in the two schemes, indicate that the factorization ansatz underlying the spectral function formalism provides remarkably accurate results down to momentum transfer as low as 300 MeV. On the other hand, it appears that at 570 MeV relativistic corrections to the electromagnetic current not included in the Monte Carlo calculations may play a significant role in the transverse channel.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures
Logic Gates with Ion Transistors
Creators: name: Grebel, Haim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Electronic logic gates are the basic building blocks of every computing and micro controlling system. Logic gates are made of switches, such as diodes and transistors. Ion-selective, ionic switches may emulate electronic switches [1-8]. If we ever want to create artificial bio-chemical circuitry, then we need to move a step further towards ion-logic circuitry. Here we demonstrate ion XOR and OR gates with electrochemical cells, and specifically, with two wet-cell batteries. In parallel to vacuum tubes, the batteries were modified to include a third, permeable and conductive mid electrode (the gate), which was placed between the anode and cathode in order to affect the ion flow through it. The key is to control the cell output with a much smaller biasing power, as demonstrated here. A successful demonstration points to self-powered ion logic gates.
description: 13 pages; 6 figures
Rhinolophus toxopeusi Hinton 1925
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Rhinolophidae
Rhinolophus
Rhinolophus toxopeusi

description: Rhinolophus toxopeusi Hinton, 1925. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, 16: 256. TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia, Molucca Isis., Buru, 1400 m. DISTRIBUTION: Buru. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405007003064001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 148, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
Internet of Computing Things: Design, Optimization, and Implementation
Creators: name: Yuxuan Xing
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The Internet of Things (IoT) is emerging as a new paradigm that connects an exponentially increasing number of devices, including smartphones, wireless sensors, smart meters, health monitoring devices, etc. The number of these devices keeps increasing and is estimated to reach billions in the next five years. As a result, the data collected by these devices will grow at exponential rates. In many applications, unlocking the full power of these devices requires (i) communicating high volumes of data, and (ii) analyzing and processing this data through computationally intensive algorithms at unprecedentedly high rates. This thesis focuses on the design, optimization, and implementation of communication and computation algorithms by particularly focusing on computing devices; i.e., the Internet of Computing Things.
Sustainable walking tour of the East Village
Creators: name: Green Map System (Firm)
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Recycling (Waste, etc.)
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1092000
subject: Local transit
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1001523
subject: Sustainable buildings
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1139729
subject: Natural foods
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1034032
subject: Thrift shops
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1150377
subject: Neighborhoods
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1715963
subject: Public art
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1082064
subject: Libraries
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/997341
subject: Farmers' markets
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/921395

description: A map of the East Village area of New York City showing sites of interest for sustainability and social innovations. An inset map locates the East Village within Manhattan.
Propagation in Polymer Parameterised Field Theory
Creators: name: Varadarajan, Madhavan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Hamiltonian constraint operator in Loop Quantum Gravity acts ultralocally. Smolin has argued that this ultralocality seems incompatible with the existence of a quantum dynamics which propagates perturbations between macroscopically seperated regions of quantum geometry. We present evidence to the contrary within an LQG type `polymer' quantization of two dimensional Parameterised Field Theory (PFT). PFT is a generally covariant reformulation of free field propagation on flat spacetime. We show explicitly that while, as in LQG, the Hamiltonian constraint operator in PFT acts ultralocally, states in the joint kernel of the Hamiltonian and diffeomorphism constraints of PFT necessarily describe propagation effects. The particular structure of the finite triangulation Hamiltonian constraint operator plays a crucial role, as does the necessity of imposing (the continuum limit of) its kinematic adjoint as a constraint. Propagation is seen as a property encoded by physical states in the kernel of the constraints rather than that of repeated actions of the finite triangulation Hamiltonian constraint on kinematic states. The analysis yields robust structural lessons for putative constructions of the Hamiltonian constraint in LQG for which ultralocal action co-exists with a description of propagation effects by physical states.
description: 26 pages, no figures
MPEC 2023-N35 : 2021 XU2
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Methods and Applications of Structural Health Monitoring on Bridges
Creators: name: Oskoui, Elias Abdoli
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2019
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Infrastructures such as bridges are subjected to cracks and damages in their service life due to oversized loading, fatigue and excessive usage. Structural health monitoring (SHM) has provided the tools for condition assessment of these infrastructures and investigate their behavior under various loads. In this research, application of fiber optic sensors (FOS) in damage assessment of bridges in addition to live load determination on bridges are investigated. A method for distributed crack detection along the entire length of bridges with various types is introduced. This approach is based on monitoring the distributed strains measured by the Brillouin scattering based optical fiber sensing technology. A damage index for identification of microcracks is introduced based on the normalization of measured and theoretical strains differentials. Validation of the proposed method is achieved by static load testing of a five span prestressed and post tensioned box girder concrete bridge. The method is further developed for the experiments subjected to dynamic loading. Live load determination of the bridge is achieved by development of a new bridge weigh in motion system for assessment of dynamic loads applied to the bridge. The proposed system is based on measurement of bridge abutment rotations and its correlation to the passing truck loads by means of rotational influence lines. Measurements of changes of girder rotations at the abutments are achieved by introducing a new rotation sensor. This sensor is an FBG based fiber optic sensor that correlates the changes of wavelength in the Bragg grating of the sensor to the rotational displacements of the sensor ends. The rotation sensors are then utilized in the BWIM system for individual axle weight detection in addition to GVW and truck speeds. Applicability and verification of the proposed system were put into test by a series of experiments on a four-span steel girder bridge and the accuracy of the system was evaluated by comparison of individual axle weights and gross vehicle weights of multiple calibrated trucks weighed at a nearby weighing station.
Quantum crystallography of Rydberg-dressed Bose gases on a square lattice
Creators: name: Hsueh, Che-hsiu
name: Wu, Wen-Chin
name: Tsubota, Makoto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We numerically investigate the quantum crystallographic phases of a Rydberg-dressed Bose gas loaded on a square lattice by using the mean-field Gross--Pitaevskii model. For a relatively weak lattice confinement, the phases of ground state undergo amorphism, polycrystal, and polymorphism following the increase of the blockade radius, and if the confinement is stronger, a single crystal with a specific filling factor will be formed. In order to distinctively characterize these phases, the structure function is also studied. In such an anisotropic system, we report that the first diagonal element of the superfluid-fraction tensor should be a measurable quantity, and an anisotropy parameter can be defined. In addition, for such crystallographic phases, the interaction potential can manifest where the grain boundaries appear.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
Rhinolophus trifoliatus Temminck 1834
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Rhinolophidae
Rhinolophus
Rhinolophus trifoliatus

description: Rhinolophus trifoliatus Temminck, 1834. Tijdschr. Nat. Gesch. Physiol., 1:24. TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia, Java. DISTRIBUTION: Malay Peninsula; Sumatra; Rhio Archipelago; Banguey Isl.; Borneo; Java; S.W. Thailand; Burma; N.E. India; Banka Isl.; Nias Isl. (W. Sumatra). ISIS NUMBER: 5301405007003065001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 148, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990