cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Early Insights into Location-Allocation Decision-Making using Ensemble Learning
Creators: name: De Sloover, Lars
name: Gevaers, Roel
name: Dewulf, Wouter
name: Beckers, Joris
name: Van Gelder, Frank
name: Huang, Haosheng
name: Van de Weghe, Nico
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2023
Subjects: Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis
Gradient Boosting
COVID-19 Vaccination Strategy

description: The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the significance of geography in health emergencies, spotlighting the need for optimized spatial decision-making. This paper introduces a novel, data-driven approach to spatial decision-making, leveraging gradient boosting to derive datainformed weights for a Weighted Linear Combination (WLC). The goal is to pinpoint optimal locations for vaccination centres in Flanders, Belgium. Drawing from prior work, we present a foundation for the required number of centres, and then focus on determining the most suitable locations within Flanders. Utilizing a dataset of 91 centres, our ensemble learning technique dynamically determines criteria weights. Criteria that are sociodemographic or mobility oriented are considered. Our methodology, termed Ensemble Analysis for Criteria Trade-offs (ENACT), offers a comprehensive framework, targeting dynamic location-allocation scenarios. Using derived weights, we identify regions with the highest suitability scores for vaccination center placement. The high model performance metrics underline its reliability, with caution on potential overfitting. The study comes with a roadmap for enhancing the methodology's comprehensiveness in future research, suggesting the integration of more criteria and GIS optimization techniques for actionable health infrastructure planning.
SI20181125.pdf from Mathematical modelling and application of frog choruses as an autonomous distributed communication system
Creators: name: Ikkyu Aihara
name: Kominami, Daichi
name: Hirano, Yasuharu
name: Murata, Masayuki
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 90301 Biomaterials
subject: FOS: Medical engineering
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 30402 Biomolecular Modelling and Design
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Supplementary figures
Dynamic Routing on Deep Neural Network for Thoracic Disease Classification and Sensitive Area Localization
Creators: name: Shen, Yan
name: Gao, Mingchen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present and evaluate a new deep neural network architecture for automatic thoracic disease detection on chest X-rays. Deep neural networks have shown great success in a plethora of visual recognition tasks such as image classification and object detection by stacking multiple layers of convolutional neural networks (CNN) in a feed-forward manner. However, the performance gain by going deeper has reached bottlenecks as a result of the trade-off between model complexity and discrimination power. We address this problem by utilizing the recently developed routing-by agreement mechanism in our architecture. A novel characteristic of our network structure is that it extends routing to two types of layer connections (1) connection between feature maps in dense layers, (2) connection between primary capsules and prediction capsules in final classification layer. We show that our networks achieve comparable results with much fewer layers in the measurement of AUC score. We further show the combined benefits of model interpretability by generating Gradient-weighted Class Activation Mapping (Grad-CAM) for localization. We demonstrate our results on the NIH chestX-ray14 dataset that consists of 112,120 images on 30,805 unique patients including 14 kinds of lung diseases.
Large-magnitude miocene extension in the central Mojave Desert: Implications for Paleozoic to Tertiary paleogeography and tectonics
Creators: name: Glazner, A. F.
name: Bartley, J. M.
name: Walker, J. D.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1990

description: The main Cenozoic extensional structure in the central Mojave Desert is the Waterman Hills detachment fault, which places brittely deformed synorogenic Miocene rocks on ductilely and cataclastically deformed footwall rocks. The mylonitic fabric in the lower plate was formed at 23 Ma, based on a zircon U/Pb age from a synmylonitic intrusion. Upper plate strata consist of rhyolite flows overlain by sedimentary rocks that were apparently deposited during extensional faulting. These strata were tilted, folded, and intruded by synkinematic rhyolite plugs that are cut off at the detachment fault. Potassium metasomatism of the rhyolitic rocks is pervasive. Upper plate detrital sediment was derived from the rhyolitic rocks and from metamorphic and plutonic basement rocks not present in the area. The probable source of the exotic basement clasts is the Alvord Mountain area, presently located 35 km east-northeast of the Waterman Hills area. This source was probably much nearer to the Waterman Hills during deposition of the synorogenic deposits and has been subsequently shifted by extensional deformation. Distinctive Mesozoic plutonic rocks provide a possible tie between upper and lower plate rocks. Similar poikilitic gabbro bodies in the Goldstone area and the Iron Mountains suggest slip on the Waterman Hills detachment faultmore » to be about 40-50 km. This is also consistent with other offset markers, such as the western edge of a Mesozoic dike swarm. When 15-20 km( ) of Tertiary extension is restored, Paleozoic eugeoclinal rocks are placed structurally above their miogeoclinal counterparts. Combined with the distribution of Triassic and Jurassic rocks, this implies post-Early Triassic and pre-Late Jurassic stacking of these lithologies.« less
The influence of domain size on the response characteristics of a hurricane storm surge model
Creators: name: Blain, CA
name: Luettich, RA
name: Westerink, JJ
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1994

description: The influence of domain size on boundary condition specification and on computed storm surge response is investigated. Storm surge response along the Florida shelf in the Gulf of Mexico dur to Hurricane Kate is examined over three domains using two different open ocean boundary forcing functions, a still water (or zero elevation) condition and an inverted barometer condition which accounts for the atmospheric pressure component of the meteorological forcing. The first domain is relatively small and is situated primarily on the continental shelf in the region of intense storm surge generation.
Canoparmelia caroliniana Elix & Hale
Creators: name: R, Jeanne dos
name: Silva, eis
name: Aptroot, André
name: E, Marcela
name: S, ugenia da
name: Cáceres, ilva
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Ascomycota
Lecanoromycetes
Lecanorales
Parmeliaceae
Canoparmelia
Canoparmelia caroliniana

description: Canoparmelia caroliniana (Nyl.) Elix & Hale
PREVIOUS REPORT. — Mistry (1998).
description: Published as part of R, Jeanne dos, Silva, eis, Aptroot, André, E, Marcela, S, ugenia da & Cáceres, ilva, 2023, Lichens from dry central Brazil: a checklist of lichenized fungi from Distríto Federal and Goiás, pp. 117-133 in Cryptogamie, Mycologie 20 (9) on page 119, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-mycologie2023v44a9, http://zenodo.org/record/8434271
A comparison of the nonlinear frictional characteristics of two-dimensional and three-dimensional models of a shallow tidal embayment
Creators: name: Luettich Jr, R. A.
name: Grenier Jr, R. R.
name: Westerink, J. J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1995

description: The nonlinear frictional behavior of two-dimensional (2-D) and three-dimensional (3-D) models are compared in this study of tides in the Bight of Abaco. The shallow depths and the existence of an extensive set of tidal elevation data (five astronomical and two overtide constituents at 25 stations) from Filloux and Snyder (1979) offer an excellent opportunity to compare the effects of different frictional formulations. In addition, previous modeling efforts in the bight have consistently overpredicted the M6and generally overdamped the O1, K1, and S2tides. The results indicate that although the 2-D and 3-D models may be calibrated to produce nearly identical responses for the dominant M2tide, there are systematic differences in the responses of the primary overtides. These differences are explained using analytical expansions of the friction terms and are shown to be due to differences in the terms that are nonlinear in velocity and in water level. The investigation concludes that the overgeneration of M6and the overdamping of secondary astronomical tides will occur in 3-D models as well as 2-D models. Although several causes for these problems were considered, improvement in these constituents could be achieved only by modifying the standard quadratic friction or flow-dependent eddy viscosity relations to reduce the nonlinear frictional effect relative to the linear frictional effect. The required modifications suggest the presence of a constant background velocity, residual turbulence field, or possibly the need for a more advanced frictional closure.
Connection between igneous activity and extension in the central Mojave metamorphic core complex, California
Creators: name: Fletcher, John M.
name: Glazner, Allen F.
name: Walker, J. Douglas
name: Bartley, John M.
name: Taylor, Wanda J.
name: Martin, Mark W.
name: Fillmore, Robert P.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1995

description: The development of metamorphic core complexes and associated low-angle detachment faults commonly is intimately associated with synextensional igneous activity. In most areas studied to date, the relation of magmatism to extension is obscured by imprecise dating and by the overprint of later tectonic events. We present data from the early Miocene central Mojave metamorphic core complex (CMMCC) which indicate that extension was accompanied by igneous activity, as reflected by prekinematic, synkinematic, and postkinematic plutons and coeval volcanic rocks deposited in the associated extensional basins. The principal intrusion is an early Miocene granite pluton exposed in outcrops across an area greater than 400 km2. Dikes adjacent to the pluton are common in the Mitchel Range, at The Buttes, and at Fremont Peak. The overall orientation of the pluton and associated dikes is west-northwest, roughly perpendicular to the extension direction. Results of U-Pb analyses on zircon from two pluton and two dike samples yield ages of 20 to 23 Ma. Two other dike samples yield inconclusive results. Synextensional basins formed by detachment faulting during the core complex development. Rocks in these basins compose the Jackhammer and Pickhandle formations and filled an elongate, NW trending trough more than 50 km long. The 40Ar/39Ar ages for tuff beds are as old as 23.8±0.3 Ma near the base of the lower Pickhandle Formation and as young as 21.3±0.5 Ma in the uppermost lower Pickhandle. Hence volcanism and plutonism are coeval. The diversity of intrusive relations relative to the timing and development of the mylonitic fabric in the CMMCC precludes any simple cause-and-effect relationship between magmatism and extensional deformation. Rather, magmatism and extension may have been localized at a releasing bend in a transfer-fault system which links extension in the CMMCC with extension in the Colorado River area to the east.
Canoparmelia texana Elix & Hale
Creators: name: R, Jeanne dos
name: Silva, eis
name: Aptroot, André
name: E, Marcela
name: S, ugenia da
name: Cáceres, ilva
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Ascomycota
Lecanoromycetes
Lecanorales
Parmeliaceae
Canoparmelia
Canoparmelia texana

description: Canoparmelia texana (Tuck.) Elix & Hale
PREVIOUS REPORT. — Mistry (1998).
description: Published as part of R, Jeanne dos, Silva, eis, Aptroot, André, E, Marcela, S, ugenia da & Cáceres, ilva, 2023, Lichens from dry central Brazil: a checklist of lichenized fungi from Distríto Federal and Goiás, pp. 117-133 in Cryptogamie, Mycologie 20 (9) on page 119, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-mycologie2023v44a9, http://zenodo.org/record/8434271
title: AN, Registre des écrous du Châtelet, Y5266, f. p1000741
Creators: name: Claustre, Julie
name: Nationales, Archives
name: Archives Nationales
name: Claustre, Julie
name: ArchivesNationales/J.CLAUSTRE/H.REGAZZI/2020
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Châtelet
subject: registre
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: Registre des écrous du Châtelet, Archives Nationales, Y5266. Numérisation en mode image.
description: Bibliographic citation: Archives Nationales, Registre des écrous du Châtelet, Y5266, f. p1000741
Anharmonic vibrational spectroscopy of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs)
Creators: name: Mulas, Giacomo
name: Falvo, Cyril
name: Cassam-Chenaï, Patrick
name: Joblin, Christine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: While powerful techniques exist to accurately account for anharmonicity in vibrational molecular spectroscopy, they are computationally very expensive and cannot be routinely employed for large species and/or at non- zero vibrational temperatures. Motivated by the study of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) emission in space, we developed a new code, which takes into account all modes and can describe all IR transitions including bands becoming active due to resonances as well as overtones, combination and difference bands. In this article, we describe the methodology that was implemented and discuss how the main difficulties were overcome, so as to keep the problem tractable. Benchmarking with high-level calculations was performed on a small molecule. We carried out specific convergence tests on two prototypical PAHs, pyrene (C$_{16}$H$_{10}$) and coronene (C$_{24}$H$_{12}$), aiming at optimising tunable parameters to achieve both acceptable accuracy and computational costs for this class of molecules. We then report the results obtained at 0 K for pyrene and coronene, comparing the calculated spectra with available experimental data. The theoretical band positions were found to be significantly improved compared to harmonic Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations. The band intensities are in reasonable agreement with experiments, the main limitation being the accuracy of the underlying calculations of the quartic force field. This is a first step towards calculating moderately high-temperature spectra of PAHs and other similarly rigid molecules using Monte Carlo sampling.
description: accepted for publication on Journal of Chemical Physics
Monte Carlo Simulation Calculation of Critical Coupling Constant for Continuum ϕ^4_2
Creators: name: Loinaz, Will
name: Willey, R. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform a Monte Carlo simulation calculation of the critical coupling constant for the continuum {λ\over 4} ϕ^4_2 theory. The critical coupling constant we obtain is [{λ\over μ^2}]_crit=10.24(3).
description: 11 pages, 4 figures, LaTeX
Chapsa discoides Lucking
Creators: name: R, Jeanne dos
name: Silva, eis
name: Aptroot, André
name: E, Marcela
name: S, ugenia da
name: Cáceres, ilva
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Ascomycota
Lecanoromycetes
Ostropales
Graphidaceae
Chapsa
Chapsa discoides

description: Chapsa discoides (Fr.) Lücking
 NEW REPORT. — Parque Nacional de Brasília, on bark, leg. J.A.R. Silva s.n. New to Distríto Federal.
description: Published as part of R, Jeanne dos, Silva, eis, Aptroot, André, E, Marcela, S, ugenia da & Cáceres, ilva, 2023, Lichens from dry central Brazil: a checklist of lichenized fungi from Distríto Federal and Goiás, pp. 117-133 in Cryptogamie, Mycologie 20 (9) on page 119, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-mycologie2023v44a9, http://zenodo.org/record/8434271
global_tree_S
Creators: name: Keil, Petr
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 60299 Ecology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The complete data and R codes used for all analyses in Keil & Chase (2019) Global patterns and drivers of tree diversity integrated across a continuum of spatial grains. Nature Ecology & Evolution.
Gauss's Law Satisfying Energy-Conserving Semi-Implicit Particle-in-Cell Method
Creators: name: Chen, Yuxi
name: Toth, Gabor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Energy Conserving Semi-Implicit Method (ECSIM) introduced by Lapenta (2017) has many advantageous properties compared to the classical semi-implicit and explicit PIC methods. Most importantly, energy conservation eliminates the growth of the finite grid instability. We have implemented ECSIM in a different and more efficient manner than the original approach. More importantly, we have addressed two major shortcomings of the original ECSIM algorithm: there is no mechanism to enforce Gauss's law and there is no mechanism to reduce the numerical oscillations of the electric field. A classical approach to satisfy Gauss's law is to modify the electric field and its divergence using either an elliptic or a parabolic/hyperbolic correction based on the Generalized Lagrange Multiplier method. This correction, however, violates the energy conservation property, and the oscillations related to the finite grid instability reappear in the modified ECSIM scheme. We invented a new alternative approach: the particle positions are modified instead of the electric field in the correction step. Displacing the particles slightly does not change the energy conservation property, while it can satisfy Gauss's law by changing the charge density. We found that the new Gauss's Law satisfying Energy Conserving Semi-Implicit Method (GL-ECSIM) produces superior results compared to the original ECSIM algorithm. In some simulations, however, there are still some numerical oscillations present in the electric field. We attribute this to the simple finite difference discretization of the energy conserving implicit electric field solver. We modified the spatial discretization of the field solver to reduce these oscillations while only slightly violating the energy conservation properties. We demonstrate the improved quality of the GL-ECSIM method with several tests.
Extending the DAMA annual-modulation region by inclusion of the uncertainties in the astrophysical velocities
Creators: name: Belli, P.
name: Bernabei, R.
name: Bottino, A.
name: Donato, F.
name: Fornengo, N.
name: Prosperi, D.
name: Scopel, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The original annual-modulation region, singled out by the DAMA/NaI experiment for direct detection of WIMPs, is extended by taking into account the uncertainties in the galactic astrophysical velocities. Also the effect due to a possible bulk rotation for the dark matter halo is considered. We find that the range for the WIMP mass becomes 30 GeV < m_chi < 130 GeV at 1-sigma C.L. with a further extension in the upper bound, when a possible bulk rotation of the dark matter halo is taken into account. We show that the DAMA results, when interpreted in the framework of the Minimal Supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model, are consistent with a relic neutralino as a dominant component of cold dark matter (on the average in our universe and in our galactic halo). It is also discussed the discovery potential for the relevant supersymmetric configurations at accelerators of present generation.
description: ReVTeX, 12 pages, 1 table, 7 figures
Spectral Correlation and Response functions in Quantum Dots
Creators: name: Taniguchi, N.
name: Simons, B. D.
name: Altshuler, B. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive a general relation between correlators of density of states fluctuations and density response functions. It applies equally to quantum chaotic systems of pure symmetry (unitary, orthogonal, and symplectic) as well as to the crossover region between the universality classes. This relation is much more robust than Wigner-Dyson statistics; its validity extends to disordered metals with finite conductance and even to the Anderson insulators with large localization length.
description: 4 pages, REVTeX3 + epsf, one EPS figure
Inversion angle of phase-polarization curve of near-Earth asteroid (3200) Phaethon
Creators: name: Shinnaka, Yoshiharu
name: Kasuga, Toshihiro
name: Furusho, Reiko
name: Boice, Daniel C.
name: Terai, Tsuyoshi
name: Noda, Hirotomo
name: Namiki, Noriyuki
name: Watanabe, Jun-ichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The linear polarization degree (referred to the scattering plane, P_r) as a function of the solar phase angle, α, of solar system objects is a good diagnostic to understand the scattering properties of their surface materials. We report Pr of Phaethon over a wide range of α from 19.1 deg to 114.3 deg in order to better understanding properties of its surface materials. The derived phase-polarization curve shows that the maximum of P_r, P_max, is >42.4% at α >114.3 deg, a value significantly larger than those of the moderate albedo asteroids (P_max ~9%). The phase-polarization curve classifies Phaethon as B-type in the polarimetric taxonomy, being compatible with the spectral property. We compute the geometric albedo, p_v, of 0.14 +/- 0.04 independently by using an empirical slope-albedo relation, and the derived p_v is consistent with previous results determined from mid-infrared spectra and thermophysical modeling. We could not find a fit to the period in our polarimetric data in the range from 0 up to 7.208 hr (e.g., less than twice the rotational period) and found significant differences between our P_r during the 2017 approach to the Earth and that of the 2016. These results imply that Phaethon has a region with different properties for light scattering near its orbital pole.
description: 30 pages, 3 figures, 3 tables (includes long data table)
Single massless Majorana fermion in the domain-wall formalism
Creators: name: Hotta, T.
name: Izubuchi, T.
name: Nishimura, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the domain-wall formalism with additional Majorana mass term for the unwanted zero mode, which has recently been proposed for lattice construction of 4D N=1 super Yang-Mills theory without fine-tuning. Switching off the gauge field, we study the dispersion relation of the energy eigenstates numerically, and find that the method works for reasonable values of Majorana mass. We point out, however, that a problem arises for too large Majorana mass, which can be understood in terms of the seesaw mechanism.
description: 9 pages, LaTeX, 3 figures, elsart.sty, epsf.sty
Chrysothrix candelaris J. R. Laundon
Creators: name: R, Jeanne dos
name: Silva, eis
name: Aptroot, André
name: E, Marcela
name: S, ugenia da
name: Cáceres, ilva
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Ascomycota
Lecanoromycetes
Lecanorales
Stereocaulaceae
Chrysothrix
Chrysothrix candelaris

description: Chrysothrix candelaris (L.) J.R.Laundon
PREVIOUS REPORT. — Mistry (1998).
description: Published as part of R, Jeanne dos, Silva, eis, Aptroot, André, E, Marcela, S, ugenia da & Cáceres, ilva, 2023, Lichens from dry central Brazil: a checklist of lichenized fungi from Distríto Federal and Goiás, pp. 117-133 in Cryptogamie, Mycologie 20 (9) on page 119, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-mycologie2023v44a9, http://zenodo.org/record/8434271
Likelihood maps for transmission of pathogens from domestic livestock to the Betpak Dala saiga population. from Rapidly assessing the risks of infectious diseases to wildlife species
Creators: name: Beauvais, Wendy
name: Zuther, Steffen
name: Villeneuve, Chantal
name: Kock, Richard
name: Guitian, Javier
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Health Care
subject: Diseases
subject: 111706 Epidemiology
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Likelihood maps for transmission of pathogens from domestic livestock to the Betpak Dala saiga population by season and pathogen.
The Genetic and Quantum Entanglement of Humanity: A Deep Exploration of A-PR2921, L0, and Time on a Quantum Scale
Creators: name: Ramon Moses
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: A-PR2921
L0
Ramon Moses
quantum entanglement
quantum consciousness
Human Genetics
time
evolution
genetic healing
interconnectedness
quantum field theory

description: Carriers of ancient haplogroups A-PR2921 and L0 represent living connections to humanity's deepest genetic origins. This paper delves into the genetic implications of these haplogroups and explores how quantum theories—including quantum entanglement, quantum field theory, and quantum consciousness—reveal profound connections between carriers of these haplogroups and all of humanity. Additionally, the paper examines time on a quantum scale, proposing that these carriers act as ancestral figures not only across human history but in a non-linear, quantum sense of time. By merging genetics with quantum theory, this paper offers a groundbreaking perspective on the interconnectedness of humanity—past, present, and future.
Horizon Strings and Interior States of a Black Hole
Creators: name: Yogendran, K. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide an explicit construction of classical strings that have endpoints on the horizons of the 2D Lorentzian black hole. We argue that this is a dual description of geodesics that are localized around the horizon which are the Lorentzian counterparts of the winding strings of the Euclidean black hole (the cigar geometry). Identifying these with the states of the black hole, we can expect that issues of black hole information loss can be posed sharply in terms of a fully quantizable string theory.
description: Affiliation modified slightly from published version
A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Typhoid Fever Immunization Programmes in an Indian Urban Slum Community
Creators: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2004

description: Many economic analyses of immunization programmes focus on the benefits in terms of public-sector cost savings, but do not incorporate estimates of the private cost savings that individuals receive from vaccination. This paper considers the implications of Bahl et al.'s cost-of-illness estimates for typhoid immunization policy by examining how community-level incidence estimates and information on distribution of costs of illness among patients and the public-health sector can be used in the economic analysis of vaccination-programme options. The findings illustrate why typhoid vaccination programmes may often appear to be unattractive to public-health officials who adopt a public budgetary perspective. Under many plausible sets of assumptions, public-sector expenditure on typhoid vaccination does not yield comparable public-sector cost savings. If public-health officials adopt a societal perspective on the economic benefits of vaccination, there are many situations in which different vaccination programmes will make economic sense. The findings show that this is especially true when public decision-makers recognize that (a) the incidence of typhoid fever is underestimated by blood culture-positive cases and (b) avoided costs of illness represent a significant underestimate of the actual economic benefits to individuals of vaccination.
Cladonia curta Ahti & Marcelli
Creators: name: R, Jeanne dos
name: Silva, eis
name: Aptroot, André
name: E, Marcela
name: S, ugenia da
name: Cáceres, ilva
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Ascomycota
Lecanoromycetes
Lecanorales
Cladoniaceae
Cladonia
Cladonia curta

description: Cladonia curta Ahti & Marcelli
PREVIOUS REPORT. — Ahti (2000).
description: Published as part of R, Jeanne dos, Silva, eis, Aptroot, André, E, Marcela, S, ugenia da & Cáceres, ilva, 2023, Lichens from dry central Brazil: a checklist of lichenized fungi from Distríto Federal and Goiás, pp. 117-133 in Cryptogamie, Mycologie 20 (9) on page 119, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-mycologie2023v44a9, http://zenodo.org/record/8434271
Corticosteroid-responsive Enteropathy of Infancy
Creators: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2005

description: Nineteen American infants aged less than three months developed persistent diarrhoea, acidosis, hypoalbuminaemia, and malnutrition, without evidence of enteric pathogens. Symptoms began 11-59 days before admission to the University of North Carolina Children's Hospital, and infants were fed semi-elemental formula. Despite further treatment with amino acid-based formula by continuous nasogastric infusion, diarrhoea persisted. Endoscopic biopsies showed inflammation in the stomach, duodenum, and/or colon. A trial of intravenous corticosteroids was initiated in 14 infants. Corticosteroids were associated with rapid resolution of diarrhoea (duration after corticosteroids=3.8±1.7 days [mean+SD]). In contrast, five infants with identical history were not treated with corticosteroids. In three infants, diarrhoea lasted for 92-147 days versus 31±3 total days in the treated group. In the other two infants, diarrhoea worsened after discharge, but were treated later with corticosteroids, with rapid resolution. Corticosteroids were uneventfully weaned over a four-month period. The results suggest that a trial of corticosteroids in infants with unresponsive persistent diarrhoea of unknown origin is beneficial and deserves prospective evaluation.
Pathogens that satisfied the inclusion criteria. from Rapidly assessing the risks of infectious diseases to wildlife species
Creators: name: Beauvais, Wendy
name: Zuther, Steffen
name: Villeneuve, Chantal
name: Kock, Richard
name: Guitian, Javier
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Health Care
subject: Diseases
subject: 111706 Epidemiology
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: List of pathogens that satisfied the inclusion criteria for the risk assessment.
Unlocking Color and Flavor in Superconducting Strange Quark Matter
Creators: name: Alford, M.
name: Berges, J.
name: Rajagopal, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter with massless u and d quarks as a function of the strange quark mass m_s and the chemical potential mu for baryon number. Neglecting electromagnetism, we describe the different baryonic and quark matter phases at zero temperature. For quark matter, we support our model-independent arguments with a quantitative analysis of a model which uses a four-fermion interaction abstracted from single-gluon exchange. For any finite m_s, at sufficiently large mu we find quark matter in a color-flavor locked state which leaves a global vector-like SU(2)_{color+L+R} symmetry unbroken. As a consequence, chiral symmetry is always broken in sufficiently dense quark matter. As the density is reduced, for sufficiently large m_s we observe a first order transition from the color-flavor locked phase to a color superconducting phase analogous to that in two flavor QCD. At this unlocking transition chiral symmetry is restored. For realistic values of m_s our analysis indicates that chiral symmetry breaking may be present for all densities down to those characteristic of baryonic matter. This supports the idea that quark matter and baryonic matter may be continuously connected in nature. We map the gaps at the quark Fermi surfaces in the high density color-flavor locked phase onto gaps at the baryon Fermi surfaces at low densities.
description: Latex with eps figures, 28 pages, minor corrections, references updated
Quality Improvement in Hospitals: Identifying and Understanding Behaviors
Creators: name: Chen, Shi Jie Gary
name: Mazur, Lukasz M.
name: McCreery, John K.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Improving operational performance in hospitals is complicated, particularly if process improvement requires complex behavioral changes. Using single-loop and double-loop learning theory as a foundation, the purpose of this research is to empirically uncover key improvement behaviors and the factors that may be associated with such behaviors in hospitals. A two-phased approach was taken to collect data regarding improvement behaviors and associated factors, and data analysis was conducted using methods proposed by grounded theorists. The contributions of this research are twofold. First, five key behaviors related to process improvement are identified, namely Quick Fixing, Initiating, Conforming, Expediting, and Enhancing. Second, based on these observed behaviors, a set of force field diagrams is developed to structure and organize possible factors that are important to consider when attempting to change improvement behaviors. This begins to fill the gap in the knowledge about what factors drive effective improvement efforts in hospital settings.
Gamma-Ray Bursts, Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays, and Cosmic Gamma-Ray Background
Creators: name: Totani, Tomonori
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We argue that gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) may be the origin of the cosmic gamma-ray background radiation observed in GeV range. It has theoretically been discussed that protons may carry a much larger amount of energy than electrons in GRBs, and this large energy can be radiated in TeV range by synchrotron radiation of ultra-high-energy protons (\sim 10^{20} eV). The possible detection of GRBs above 10 TeV suggested by the Tibet and HEGRA groups also supports this idea. If this is the case, most of TeV gamma-rays from GRBs are absorbed in intergalactic fields and eventually form GeV gamma-ray background, whose flux is in good agreement with the recent observation.
description: Accepted version by Astroparticle Physics, after some revisions
"Super-deblended" Dust Emission in Galaxies: II. Far-IR to (sub)millimeter photometry and high redshift galaxy candidates in the full COSMOS field
Creators: name: Jin, Shuowen
name: Daddi, Emanuele
name: Liu, Daizhong
name: Smolcic, Vernesa
name: Schinnerer, Eva
name: Calabrò, Antonello
name: Gu, Qiusheng
name: Delhaize, J.
name: Delvecchio, Ivan
name: Gao, Yu
name: Salvato, Mara
name: Puglisi, Annagrazia
name: Dickinson, Mark
name: Bertoldi, Frank
name: Sargent, Mark
name: Novak, M.
name: Magdis, G. E.
name: Aretxaga, Itziar
name: Wilson, Grant W.
name: Capak, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a "super-deblended" far-infrared to (sub)millimeter photometric catalog in the Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS), prepared with the method recently developed by Liu et al. 2018, with key adaptations. We obtain point spread function (PSF) fitting photometry at fixed prior positions including 88,008 galaxies detected in either VLA 1.4~GHz, 3~GHz and/or MIPS 24~$μ$m images. By adding a specifically carved mass-selected sample (with an evolving stellar mass limit), a highly complete prior sample of 194,428 galaxies is achieved for deblending FIR/(sub)mm images. We performed ``active' removal of non relevant priors at FIR/(sub)mm bands using spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting and redshift information. In order to cope with the shallower COSMOS data we subtract from the maps the flux of faint non-fitted priors and explicitly account for the uncertainty of this step. The resulting photometry (including data from Spitzer, Herschel, SCUBA2, AzTEC, MAMBO and NSF's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array at 3~GHz and 1.4~GHz) displays well behaved quasi-Gaussian uncertainties, calibrated from Monte Carlo simulations and tailored to observables (crowding, residual maps). Comparison to ALMA photometry for hundreds of sources provide a remarkable validation of the technique. We detect 11,220 galaxies over the 100--1200~$μ$m range, extending to $z_{\rm phot}\sim7$. We conservatively selected a sample of 85 $z>4$ high redshift candidates, significantly detected in the FIR/(sub)mm, often with secure radio and/or Spitzer/IRAC counterparts. This provides a chance to investigate the first generation of vigorous starburst galaxies (SFRs$\sim1000\mathrm{M}_\odot$~yr$^{-1}$). The photometric and value added catalogs are publicly released.
description: 49 pages (+appendix), 48 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in ApJ
Cladonia didyma Vain.
Creators: name: R, Jeanne dos
name: Silva, eis
name: Aptroot, André
name: E, Marcela
name: S, ugenia da
name: Cáceres, ilva
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Ascomycota
Lecanoromycetes
Lecanorales
Cladoniaceae
Cladonia
Cladonia didyma

description: Cladonia didyma (Fée) Vain.
PREVIOUS REPORT. — Ahti (2000).
description: Published as part of R, Jeanne dos, Silva, eis, Aptroot, André, E, Marcela, S, ugenia da & Cáceres, ilva, 2023, Lichens from dry central Brazil: a checklist of lichenized fungi from Distríto Federal and Goiás, pp. 117-133 in Cryptogamie, Mycologie 20 (9) on page 119, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-mycologie2023v44a9, http://zenodo.org/record/8434271
Social Networks and Construction of Culture: A Socio-Semantic Analysis of Art Groups
Creators: name: Basov, Nikita
name: Lee, Ju-Sung
name: Antonyuk, Artem
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper explores the relations between social ties and cultural constructs in small groups. The analysis uses cross-sectional data comprising both social networks within three art groups and semantic networks based on verbal expressions of their members. We examine how positions of actors in the intragroup social networks associate with the properties of cultural constructs they create jointly with other group members accounting for different roles actors play in collective culture constructing. We find that social popularity rather hinders sharing of cultural concepts, while those individuals who socially bridge their groups come to share many concepts with others. Moreover, focusing and, especially, integration of cultural constructs, rather than mere thickness of those, accompany intense interactions between the leaders and the followers.
Quark Description of Hadronic Phases
Creators: name: Schaefer, Thomas
name: Wilczek, Frank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend our proposal that major universality classes of hadronic matter can be understood, and in favorable cases calculated, directly in the microscopic quark variables, to allow for splitting between strange and light quark masses. A surprisingly simple but apparently viable picture emerges, featuring essentially three phases, distinguished by whether strangeness is conserved (standard nuclear matter), conserved modulo two (hypernuclear matter), or locked to color (color flavor locking). These are separated by sharp phase transitions. There is also, potentially, a quark phase matching hadronic K-condensation. The smallness of the secondary gap in two-flavor color superconductivity corresponds to the disparity between the primary dynamical energy scales of QCD and the much smaller energy scales of nuclear physics.
description: 21 pages, 2 figures
Three-Dimensional Effects on the Electronic Structure of Quasiperiodic Systems
Creators: name: Macia, E.
name: Dominguez-Adame, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on a theoreticl study of the electronic structure of quasiperiodic, quasi-one-dimensional systems where fully three dimensional interaction potentials are taken into account. In our approach, the actual physical potential acting upon the electrons is replaced by a set of nonlocal separable potentials, leading to an exactly solvable Schrodinger equation. By choosing an appropriate trial potential, we obtain a discrete set of algebraic equations that can be mapped onto a general tight-binding-like equation. We introduce a Fibonacci sequence either in the strength of the on-site potentials or in the nearest-neighbor distances, and we find numerically that these systems present a highly fragmented, self-similar electronic spectrum, which becomes singular continuous in the thermodynamical limit. In this way we extend the results obtained so far in one-dimensional models to the three-dimensional case. As an example of the application of the model we consider the chain polymer case.
description: REVTeX 3.0, 19 pages, 6 figures (available upon request). To appear in Physica B
Experimental data and data analysis from Role of the growth step on the structural, optical and surface features of TiO2/SnO2 composites
Creators: name: Rimoldi, Luca
name: Meroni, Daniela
name: Pargoletti, Eleonora
name: Biraghi, Iolanda
name: Cappelletti, Giuseppe
name: Ardizzone, Silvia
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 30399 Macromolecular and Materials Chemistry not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 100799 Nanotechnology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Nanotechnology

description: TiO2/SnO2 composites have attracted considerable attention for their application in photocatalysis, fuel cells and sensors. Structural, morphological, optical and surface features play a pivotal role in photoelectrochemical applications and are critically related to the synthetic route. Most of the reported synthetic procedures require high temperature treatments in order to tailor the sample crystallinity, usually at the expense of surface hydroxylation and morphology. In this work, we investigate the role of a treatment in an autoclave at a low temperature (100°C) on the sample properties and photocatalytic performance. With respect to samples calcined at 400°C, the milder crystallization treatment promotes anatase phase, mesoporosity and water chemi/physisorption, while reducing the incorporation of heteroatoms within the TiO2 lattice. The role of Sn content was also investigated, showing a marked influence, especially on the structural properties. Notably, at a high content, Sn favours the formation of rutile TiO2 at very low reaction temperatures (100°C), thanks to the structural compatibility with cassiterite SnO2. Selected samples were tested towards the photocatalytic degradation of tetracycline in water under UV light. Overall, the low temperature treatment enables to tune the TiO2 phase composition while maintaining its surface hydrophilicity and gives rise to well dispersed SnO2 at the TiO2 surface.
Quenched hadron spectroscopy with improved staggered quark action
Creators: name: MILC Collaboration
name: Bernard, Claude
name: Blum, Tom
name: DeGrand, Thomas A.
name: DeTar, Carleton
name: Gottlieb, Steven
name: Heller, Urs M.
name: Hetrick, James
name: McNeile, Craig
name: Rummukainen, K.
name: Sugar, Bob
name: Toussaint, Doug
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate light hadron spectroscopy with an improved quenched staggered quark action. We compare the results obtained with an improved gauge plus an improved quark action, an improved gauge plus standard quark action, and the standard gauge plus standard quark action. Most of the improvement in the spectroscopy results is due to the improved gauge sector. However, the improved quark action substantially reduces violations of Lorentz invariance, as evidenced by the meson dispersion relations.
description: New references added
Supplementary text, figures and tables from Static landscape features predict uplift locations for soaring birds across Europe
Creators: name: Scacco, Martina
name: Flack, Andrea
name: Duriez, Olivier
name: Wikelski, Martin
name: Safi, Kamran
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: This document contains further description of some of the methods used in this study, supporting figures and tables containing the results of all models.
Cladonia furcata Schrad.
Creators: name: R, Jeanne dos
name: Silva, eis
name: Aptroot, André
name: E, Marcela
name: S, ugenia da
name: Cáceres, ilva
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Ascomycota
Lecanoromycetes
Lecanorales
Cladoniaceae
Cladonia
Cladonia furcata

description: Cladonia furcata (Huds.) Schrad.
PREVIOUS REPORT. — Ahti (2000).
description: Published as part of R, Jeanne dos, Silva, eis, Aptroot, André, E, Marcela, S, ugenia da & Cáceres, ilva, 2023, Lichens from dry central Brazil: a checklist of lichenized fungi from Distríto Federal and Goiás, pp. 117-133 in Cryptogamie, Mycologie 20 (9) on page 119, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-mycologie2023v44a9, http://zenodo.org/record/8434271
Symbolic Verification of Cache Side-channel Freedom
Creators: name: Chattopadhyay, Sudipta
name: Roychoudhury, Abhik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Cache timing attacks allow third-party observers to retrieve sensitive information from program executions. But, is it possible to automatically check the vulnerability of a program against cache timing attacks and then, automatically shield program executions against these attacks? For a given program, a cache configuration and an attack model, our CACHEFIX framework either verifies the cache side-channel freedom of the program or synthesizes a series of patches to ensure cache side-channel freedom during program execution. At the core of our framework is a novel symbolic verification technique based on automated abstraction refinement of cache semantics. The power of such a framework is to allow symbolic reasoning over counterexample traces and to combine it with runtime monitoring for eliminating cache side channels during program execution. Our evaluation with routines from OpenSSL, libfixedtimefixedpoint, GDK and FourQlib libraries reveals that our CACHEFIX approach (dis)proves cache sidechannel freedom within an average of 75 seconds. Besides, in all except one case, CACHEFIX synthesizes all patches within 20 minutes to ensure cache side-channel freedom of the respective routines during execution.