cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Revealing the Structure of an Accretion Disk Through Energy Dependent X-ray Microlensing
Creators: name: Chartas, G.
name: Kochanek, C. S.
name: Dai, X.
name: Moore, D.
name: Mosquera, A. M.
name: Blackburne, J. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results from monitoring observations of the gravitationally lensed quasar RX J1131-1231 performed with the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The X-ray observations were planned with relatively long exposures that allowed a search for energy-dependent microlensing in the soft (0.2-2 keV) and hard (2-10 keV) light curves of the images of RX J1131-1231. We detect significant microlensing in the X-ray light-curves of images A and D, and energy-dependent microlensing of image D. The magnification of the soft band appears to be larger than that in the hard band by a factor of ~ 1.3 when image D becomes more magnified. This can be explained by the difference between a compact, softer-spectrum corona that is producing a more extended, harder spectrum reflection component off the disk. This is supported by the evolution of the fluorescent iron line in image D over three consecutive time-averaged phases of the light curve. In the first period, a Fe line at E = 6.36(-0.16,+0.13) keV is detected (at > 99% confidence). In the second period, two Fe lines are detected, one at E = 5.47(-0.08,+0.06) keV (detected at > 99% confidence) and another at E = 6.02(-0.07,+0.09) keV (marginally detected at > 90% confidence), and in the third period, a broadened Fe line at 6.42(-0.15,+0.19) keV is detected (at > 99% confidence). This evolution of the Fe line profile during the microlensing event is consistent with the line distortion expected when a caustic passes over the inner disk where the shape of the fluorescent Fe line is distorted by General Relativistic and Doppler effects.
description: 20 pages, includes 10 figures, submitted to ApJ
Zenodo, a free and open platform for preserving and sharing research output.
Creators: name: Nowak, Krzysztof
name: Nielsen, Lars Holm
name: Ioannidis Pantopikos, Alexandros Themistoklis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: archiving
data repository
open access
open science

description: ZENODO is a CERN Data Centre-backed research data repository for the long-tail of science, enabling researchers to preserve and share their research output from any science, regardless of the size and format. ZENODO is an innovative and easy to use web-platform, which allows for upload, curation and sharing of the research data through an easy to use web interface and integration with other collaboration and data sharing services. ZENODO ensures the discovery and citability of the research output by assigning a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) to every upload, as well as promotes software citation and preservation through one-click integration with GitHub.
Tumor-specific targeting using oncolytic herpes simplex virus type 1 for prostate cancer treatment
Creators: name: Lee, Cleo Yi-Fang
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Prostate cancer is the most common non-skin cancer, and the second leading cause of cancer-death in men. Current treatments, including androgen withdrawal therapy, are not curative for advanced metastatic disease and new treatment strategies are urgently required. In this regard, oncolytic virotherapy offers a promising new approach. This project aims to provide a proof-of-principle that an oncolytic herpes simplex virus type-1 (HSV-1) virus can be engineered to replicate in a tissue- and tumor-specific fashion through both transcriptional and translational regulation of an essential viral gene. Using the amplicon/helper system, we first generated a prostate-specific amplicon virus by inserting the ARR2PB promoter in front of the ICP4 gene, and two tumor-specific amplicon viruses by incorporating multiple copies of miR-143 or miR-145 complementary target sequences in the 3’ untranslated region (3’UTR) of ICP4. Finally, we generated two prostate tumor-specific recombinant viruses using the bacterial artificial chromosome and the recombineering method. Our results showed that an amplicon system containing a prostate-specific promoter upstream of an essential viral gene can complement a helper virus for lytic replication specifically within prostate tumor cells. We also showed both in vitro and in vivo that viral replication and cell killing occurred only in tumor cells with abundant eIF4E protein or low levels of miR-143/miR-145 when viral gene expression was controlled by a modified 5’UTR or 3’UTR, respectively. Nude mice bearing LNCaP tumors treated with local or systemic injections of these tumor-specific viruses had a >85% reduction in tumor size at day 28 post-viral injection and without extensive toxicity to normal tissues. Quantitative real-time PCR analysis also showed that the majority of the virus was detected in the tumor mass and not within normal tissues. In conclusion, the incorporation of a tissue-specific promoter or a tumor-specific element in an oncolytic HSV-1 virus is a viable strategy to restrict viral replication and oncolysis selectively to tumor cells while sparing normal tissues. This work provides a basis for the development of novel oncolytic HSV-1 viruses for local and systemic treatment of locally advanced and metastatic prostate cancer.
Extracting short-ranged interactions from structure factors
Creators: name: Louis, Ard A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Inverting scattering experiments to obtain effective interparticle interactions is generally a poorly conditioned problem. L. Reatto (Phil. Mag. A 58, 37 (1986)) showed that for atomic liquids close to the triple point, inversions are hard because the structure closely resembles that of an equivalent hard-sphere fluid. Here I demonstrate that at low concentrations and for particles with short-ranged attractive potentials, S(k) also exhibits a very weak dependence on potential shape. Instead, different potentials can generate an S(k) that closely resembles that of the Baxter model with a similar second-virial coefficient. By contrast, in this energetic fluid regime, the inversion of an attractive interaction from real-space correlations such as the radial distribution function g(r) is well conditioned. Nevertheless, one may extract further information from S(k) by measuring isosbestic points, values of k where the scattering intensity I(k) or the structure factor S(k) is invariant to changes in interaction-potential well-depth. These points suggest a new extended corresponding states principle for particles in solution based on the packing fraction, the second osmotic virial coefficient, and a new measure of effective potential range.
description: to appear in Molecular Physics, special issue in honour of Prof. Luciano Reatto. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:cond-mat/0212073
A History of Doukhobor schooling in Saskatchewan and British Columbia, 1899-1939
Creators: name: Lyons, John Edward
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1973
Subjects: subject: LC 3747 C3 L84 1973 Microfilm
subject: Children of immigrants - Education - Canada
subject: Dukhobors

description: Biblography: p. 196-206.
Induction of resistance against powdery mildew by Beta aminobutyric acid in squash
Creators: name: Zeighaminejad, Roya
name: Sharifi-Sirchi, Gholam-Reza
name: Mohammadi, Hamid
name: Aminai, Mohammad Mehdi
Publisher: name: Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality
Year: 2016
Subjects: Beta amino butyric acid; PR-1; Defense; Squash; Powdery mildew

description: The non-protein amino acid beta-aminobutyric acid (BABA) enhances squash resistance to microbial pathogens through potentiation of the squash defense responses. In the present study, we investigated the effects of BABA pretreatment on cucurbit powdery mildew disease. Three concentrations of BABA (0.5, 2 and 4mM) as priming media and distilled water as control plants were used. The results showed that the 4mM BABA was the most effective concentration to control the disease symptom. The expression of PR-1 genes in relation with this pathogen was investigated and confirmed. The Guaiacol peroxidase and Phenylalanine amonia-lyase enzyme activities increased in pretreated-inoculated squash plants. Bases on our results and regarding the adverse effects of fungicide on environment, use of BABA as environmentally safe agent a valuable contribution to disease management is recommended.
description: Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality, Vol 89 (2016), pp. 176-182
Net energy analysis : solar heating systems
Creators: name: Wright, Elizabeth Anne
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1979
Subjects: subject: TH 7413 W73 1979 Microfiche
subject: Solar houses - Economic aspects
subject: Solar heating

description: Bibliography: p. 112-115.
description: Ms Wright changed her name to Muckle and has had her degree parchment reissued in that name. The thesis author name must remain as Wright since that was her name when the thesis was completed and is the name of record on the thesis, its signature page and in the convocation booklet (June 1979).
How does an interacting many-body system tunnel through a potential barrier to open space?
Creators: name: Lode, Axel U. J.
name: Streltsov, Alexej I.
name: Sakmann, Kaspar
name: Alon, Ofir E.
name: Cederbaum, Lorenz S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The tunneling process in a many-body system is a phenomenon which lies at the very heart of quantum mechanics. It appears in nature in the form of alpha-decay, fusion and fission in nuclear physics, photoassociation and photodissociation in biology and chemistry. A detailed theoretical description of the decay process in these systems is a very cumbersome problem, either because of very complicated or even unknown interparticle interactions or due to a large number of constitutent particles. In this work, we theoretically study the phenomenon of quantum many-body tunneling in a more transparent and controllable physical system, in an ultracold atomic gas. We analyze a full, numerically exact many-body solution of the Schrödinger equation of a one-dimensional system with repulsive interactions tunneling to open space. We show how the emitted particles dissociate or fragment from the trapped and coherent source of bosons: the overall many-particle decay process is a quantum interference of single-particle tunneling processes emerging from sources with different particle numbers taking place simultaneously. The close relation to atom lasers and ionization processes allows us to unveil the great relevance of many-body correlations between the emitted and trapped fractions of the wavefunction in the respective processes.
description: 18 pages, 4 figures (7 pages, 2 figures supplementary information)
PCB dose-response benthic injury models using equilibrium partitioning.
Creators: name: Finkelstein, Kenneth
name: Dillon, T. M. (Tom M.)
name: Beckvar, Nancy
Publisher: name: U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Ocean Service, Office of Response and Restoration.
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Polychlorinated biphenyls--Toxicology--Estimates--Mathematical models.

description: The goal of this project was to develop a sediment PCB dose-response model based on benthic invertebrate effects to PCBs. We used an equilibrium partitioning (EqP) approach to generate predicted PCB sediment effect concentrations (largely Aroclor 1254) associated with a gradient of toxic effects in benthic organisms from effects observed in the aquatic toxicity studies. This report differs from all other EqP sediment investigations in that we examined a gradient of effects for multiple sites rather than a single, protective value. We reviewed the chronic aquatic toxicity literature to identify measured aqueous PCB concentrations and the associated benthic invertebrate effects. We control- normalized the aquatic toxic effect data and expressed results from various studies as a common metric, % injury. Then we calculated organic carbon (oc) -normalized sediment PCB concentrations (mg/kg-oc) from the aqueous PCB toxicity dataset using EqP theory based on EPA’s (EPIWEB 4.1) derivation of Koc. Lastly, we constructed a non-linear dose-response numerical model for these synoptic sediment PCB concentrations and biological effects (Y = 100/1 + 10(logEC50-logX) • (Hill slope)). These models were used to generate easy to use 'look-up' tables reporting % injury in benthic biota for a range of Aroclor-specific sediment concentrations. For example, the model using the EPIWEB 4.1 Koc estimate predicts the mean benthic injury of 23.3%, 46.0%, 70.6%, 87.1% and 95% for hypothetical sediment concentrations of 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 mg/kg dry wt. of Aroclor 1254, respectively (assuming 1% organic carbon). Models for some Aroclors (1016, 1221, 1232, and 1268) could not be developed due to data gaps in the aquatic toxicity literature. Specific step-wise procedures are provided for predicting % benthic injury when sediment PCBs are reported as Aroclor, congeners, homolog groups or total PCBs. The report identifies and discusses the uncertainties associated with the numerical PCB dose-response models and the EqP approach and provides considerations for how other Koc values result in more or less conservative models. This paper provides recommendations for addressing outstanding issues, including the Koc calculation, the two-carbon model, and congener data. We recommend using the model presented for screening but suggest, when possible, to determine a site specific Koc; that along with the tables and equations herein allows users to create their own protective dose-response sediment concentration for a specific location.
Characteristics of international immigrants to Alberta: and implications for provincial development
Creators: name: Dwarkin, Judith Leah
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1978
Subjects: subject: JV 7290 A3 D82 1978 Microfiche
subject: Alberta - Emigration and immigration
subject: Alberta - Foreign population
subject: Emigration and immigration law - Canada

description: Bibliography: p.120-125.
Mass and pressure constraints on galaxy clusters from interferometric SZ observations
Creators: name: Olamaie, M.
name: Hobson, M. P.
name: Grainge, K. J. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Following on our previous study of an analytic parametric model to describe the baryonic and dark matter distributions in clusters of galaxies with spherical symmetry, we perform an SZ analysis of a set of simulated clusters and present their mass and pressure profiles. The simulated clusters span a wide range in mass, 2.0 x 10^14 Msun < M200 < 1.0 x 10^15Msun, and observations with the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager (AMI) are simulated through their Sunyaev- Zel'dovich (SZ) effect. We assume that the dark matter density follows a Navarro, Frenk and White (NFW) profile and that the gas pressure is described by a generalised NFW (GNFW) profile. By numerically exploring the probability distributions of the cluster parameters given simulated interferometric SZ data in the context of Bayesian methods, we investigate the capability of this model and analysis technique to return the simulated clusters input quantities. We show that considering the mass and redshift dependency of the cluster halo concentration parameter is crucial in obtaining an unbiased cluster mass estimate and hence deriving the radial profiles of the enclosed total mass and the gas pressure out to r200.
description: 5 pages, 2 tables, 3 figures
Masses of Black Holes in Active Galactic Nuclei: Implications for NLS1s
Creators: name: Peterson, Bradley M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I review how AGN black hole masses are calculated from emission-line reverberation-mapping data, with particular attention to both assumptions and caveats. I discuss the empirical relationship between AGN luminosity and broad-line region radius that underpins the indirect methods by which most AGN masses are estimated. I also discuss how line widths are characterized in this method and illustrate how different ways of measuring the line-widths can lead to systematic errors in the mass scale. I discuss specific implications for NLS1 galaxies and consider whether the NLS1 phenomenon is better explained by source inclination or by Eddington rate, and conclude that there is evidence that both of these effects are contributing factors and that at least the high-Eddington rate NLS1s are physically similar to some high-luminosity quasars.
description: 19 pages, 5 figures. Based on an invited talk at the workshop "Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies and Their Place in the Universe", Milan, 4-6 April 2011
Characterization of the shark bottom longline fishery, 2015.
Creators: name: Enzenauer, Michael P.
name: Deacy, Bethany M.
name: Carlson, John K. (John Keith), 1966-
Publisher: name: U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service, Southeast Fisheries Science Center, Panama City Laboratory
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Shark fisheries--Government policy--Mexico, Gulf of.

description: Observations of the shark-directed bottom longline fishery in the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico have been conducted since 1994 (Morgan et al. 2009, Enzenauer et al. 2015 and references therein). Currently about 210 U.S. fishers are permitted to target sharks (excluding dogfish) in the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico, and an additional 254 fishers are permitted to land sharks incidentally. Amendments to the Consolidated Atlantic Highly Migratory Species Fishery Management Plan implemented a shark research fishery, which allows NMFS to select a limited number of commercial shark vessels on an annual basis to collect life history data and catch data for future stock assessments (NMFS, 2007). Specifically, only commercial shark fishers participating in the research fishery are allowed to land sandbar sharks, Carcharhinus Plumbeus, and must carry an observer on 100% of all trips (compared to a target coverage level of 5-10% outside the research fishery). Outside the research fishery, fishers are permitted to land other large coastal sharks (e.g. blacktip shark, Carcharhinus limbatus, and bull shark, Carcharhinus leucas,). Herein, we report on observed fishing activities in the shark bottom longline fishery for the 2015 fishing season, including coverage of the 2015 Shark Research Fishery.
Additional file 5 of Increased Association of Deamidated αA-N101D with Lens membrane of transgenic αAN101D vs. wild type αA mice: potential effects on intracellular ionic imbalance and membrane disorganization
Creators: name: Srivastava, Om
name: Srivastava, Kiran
name: Joseph, Roy
name: Wilson, Landon
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 5.
Another subexponential-time quantum algorithm for the dihedral hidden subgroup problem
Creators: name: Kuperberg, Greg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We give an algorithm for the hidden subgroup problem for the dihedral group $D_N$, or equivalently the cyclic hidden shift problem, that supersedes our first algorithm and is suggested by Regev's algorithm. It runs in $\exp(O(\sqrt{\log N}))$ quantum time and uses $\exp(O(\sqrt{\log N}))$ classical space, but only $O(\log N)$ quantum space. The algorithm also runs faster with quantumly addressable classical space than with fully classical space. In the hidden shift form, which is more natural for this algorithm regardless, it can also make use of multiple hidden shifts. It can also be extended with two parameters that trade classical space and classical time for quantum time. At the extreme space-saving end, the algorithm becomes Regev's algorithm. At the other end, if the algorithm is allowed classical memory with quantum random access, then many trade-offs between classical and quantum time are possible.
description: 10 pages
The politics of loss imposition : health care reform in Ontario and Alberta
Creators: name: Lesch, Matthew Simon
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Why are some provincial governments more successful at imposing loss than others? This thesis deals with interprovincial differences in loss imposition strategies by examining health care reform in the 1990s. To explain this variance, this thesis argues that loss imposition capacity is affected by the strength of opponents and how skilful a government is in neutralizing opponents. To test this hypothesis, it analyzes the health care reform experiences of the Ontario Progressive Conservative and the Alberta Progressive Conservative governments. It emphasises how the two provincial governments used different political strategies to deter opposition to its health care reform policies. Further, it describes why the opposition each government faced was so inherently different. A comparison of the two cases reveals that the Alberta government was much more successful at imposing loss. The empirical findings presented here have several implications for future study of provincial public policy and ‘the politics of loss imposition’.
HII Regions, Embedded Protostars, and Starless Cores in Sharpless 2-157
Creators: name: Chen, Chian-Chou
name: Williams, Jonathan P.
name: Pandian, Jagadheep D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present arcsecond resolution 1.4mm observations of the high mass star forming region, Sharpless 2-157, that reveal the cool dust associated with the first stages of star formation. These data are compared with archival images at optical, infrared, and radio wavelengths, and complemented with new arcsecond resolution mid-infrared data. We identify a dusty young HII region, numerous infrared sources within the cluster envelope, and four starless condensations. Three of the cores lie in a line to the south of the cluster peak, but the most massive one is right at the center and associated with a jumble of bright radio and infrared sources. This presents an interesting juxtaposition of high and low mass star formation within the same cluster which we compare with similar observations of other high mass star forming regions and discuss in the context of cluster formation theory.
description: accepted to ApJ; 6 pages, 3 figures
Statistical consistency of quantum-classical hybrids
Creators: name: Salcedo, L. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: After formulating a no-go theorem for perfect quantum-classical hybrid systems, a new consistency requirement based on standard statistical considerations is noted. It is shown that such requirement is not fulfilled by the mean-field approach, nor by the statistical ensemble approach. Further unusual features of the latter scheme are pointed out.
description: 15 pages, no figures
Report of the US Caribbean Fishery-Independent Survey Workshop.
Creators: name: Cass-Calay, Shannon
name: Arnold, William S. (William Smith), 1955-
name: Bryan, Meaghan D.
name: Schull, Jennifer Clifford
Publisher: name: U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service, Southeast Fisheries Science Center
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Fish surveys--Caribbean Area--Congresses.
subject: Fish surveys--United States Virgin Islands--Congresses.

description: Currently, US Caribbean stock assessments use data-limited approaches to determine stock status and sustainability benchmarks, and are reliant on fisheries-dependent data sources. Data obtained from fishery-independent surveys are preferable because they provide an unbiased estimate of abundance with which to calibrate stock assessments. Therefore, it is advantageous to develop statistically rigorous fishery-independent surveys to complement, and ultimately reduce dependence on fisheries-dependent data. An initial step in developing fishery-independent surveys is to better understand the extent of existing programs in the US Caribbean, and their utility for stock assessment. To that end, the group endeavored to: identify existing fishery-independent data sources, fully document each data source and evaluate its utility for stock assessment. The group also made recommendations for improvement. Following a comprehensive review of the existing fishery-independent survey programs in the US Caribbean and adjacent waters (Sections 2 and 4), the group acknowledged the diversity of sampling programs, statistical designs and objectives. The majority of the research presented at this workshop encompassed smaller scale biological/ecological research, which was conducted for a variety of objectives not directly related to stock assessment. Although many studies provided important information about abundance, density, and size structure for particular species in localized areas, they were not generally scalable to the larger population. This limited their utility for stock assessment.
THE FIRST RECORD OF THE BIRCH MOUSE SICISTA IN THE UPPER PLEISTOCENE SEDIMENTS OF CAVERNA GENEROSA (COMO, NW ITALY), WITH  MORPHOMETRICAL, MORPHOLOGICAL AND ECOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS
Creators: name: BONA, FABIO
name: SAVOLDI, MARCO
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2016
Subjects: Sicista; Paleoenvironment; Upper Pleistocene; northern Italy

description: In this study the only one specimen collected and attributed to Sicista cf. subtilis from the Caverna Generosa has been described: a right mandible with first molar and m/2-m/3 alveoli. The Sicista specimen shows a morphological and morphometrical similarity to Sicista subtilis and it may represent the first record in Italy and the third in the whole Europe of the latter species. The discovery defines advancement in the Sicista paleogeography in the North of Italy and it certainly demonstrates that an important faunal migration during the Last Maximum Glacial involved the Western part of the Po valley, too.
description: Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia (Research In Paleontology and Stratigraphy), Vol 122, No 2 (2016)
Four questions for quantum-classical hybrid theory
Creators: name: Elze, Hans-Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Four questions are discussed which may be addressed to any proposal of a quantum-classical hybrid theory which concerns the direct coupling of classical and quantum mechanical degrees of freedom. In particular, we consider the formulation of hybrid dynamics presented recently in Ref.[1]. This linear theory differs from the nonlinear ensemble theory of Hall and Reginatto, but shares with it to fulfil all consistency requirements discussed in the literature, while earlier attempts failed. - Here, we additionally ask: Does the theory allow for superposition, separable, and entangled states originating in the quantum mechanical sector? Does it allow for "Free Will", as introduced, in this context, by Diosi [2]. Is it local? Does it provide hints for the emergence of quantum mechanics from dynamics beneath?
description: 16 pages - based on talk at the Conference on Emergent Quantum Mechanics / Heinz von Foerster Congress (Vienna University, Nov. 11-13, 2011)
Very high energy gamma rays from the direction of Sagittarius A*
Creators: name: Collaboration, H. E. S. S.
name: :
name: Aharonian, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the detection of a point-like source of very high energy (VHE) gamma-rays coincident within 1' of Sgr A*, obtained with the H.E.S.S. array of Cherenkov telescopes. The gamma-rays exhibit a power-law energy spectrum with a spectral index of -2.2 +/- 0.09 +/- 0.15 and a flux above the 165 GeV threshold of (1.82 +/- 0.22) * 10^-7 m^-2 s^-1. The measured flux and spectrum differ substantially from recent results reported in particular by the CANGAROO collaboration.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, replacement with corrected EGRET points in Fig.4
Additional file 1 of Hospital service quality based on HEALTHQUAL model and trusting nurses at Iranian university and non-university hospitals: a comparative study
Creators: name: Nemati, Reza
name: Bahreini, Masoud
name: Pouladi, Shahnaz
name: Mirzaei, Kamran
name: Mehboodi, Farkhondeh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Hospital Service Quality Scale.
Smtn-005 V1.0 Cloud Statistics Via All-Sky Camera
Creators: name: Yoachim, Peter
name: Sick, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: lsst
lsst-smtn

description: Summary of ~1 year of data taken at the LSST site with an optical all-sky camera. We look at the number of detected stars and how often the sky is clear, partly cloudy, and totally cloudy.
description: View this document online at https://smtn-005.lsst.io/
FOSSO DELLA FITTAIA: THE OLDEST TUSCO-SARDINIAN LATE MIOCENE ENDEMIC VERTEBRATE ASSEMBLAGES (BACCINELLO-CINIGIANO BASIN, TUSCANY, ITALY)
Creators: name: CIRILLI, OMAR
name: BENVENUTI, MARCO G.
name: CARNEVALE, GIORGIO
name: CASANOVAS VILAR, ISAAC
name: DELFINO, MASSIMO
name: FURIÓ, MARC
name: PAPINI, MAURO
name: VILLA, ANDREA
name: ROOK, LORENZO
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2016

description: The late Miocene continental successions of the Baccinello-Cinigiano basin (Grosseto), one of the longest and most continuous vertebrate-bearing continental successions in the Neogene Italian record, yielded at least four superimposed vertebrate assemblages bracketed in the time span 8.3 - 6.4 Ma. The Baccinello-Cinigiano basin is famous for recording endemic vertebrate assemblages that include the youngest European Miocene hominoid, Oreopithecus bambolii. The late Miocene endemic vertebrate fauna known as the Baccinello V0 assemblage is the oldest vertebrate fauna within the Baccinello-Cinigiano basin succession, being correlated to the European mammal Neogene unit MN11. Recent field surveys along the Trasubbie river allowed studying in detail the basal Baccinello-Cinigiano sedimentary succession, and sampling fossiliferous level bearing microvertebrates along the small creek Fosso della Fittaia. The sample “Fosso della Fittaia 2013” yielded about 170 fossil remains improving our documentation of the oldest vertebrate assemblages from the Baccinello-Cinigian basin. As far as rodents are concerned, in addition to the already recognized murid Huerzelerimys and glirid Anthracoglis, a few dental remains are assigned to a new genus and species of giant dormouse. It is further worth noting the occurrence in the sample of shrew remains (the first described from the Baccinello-Cinigiano basin) identified as cf. Lartetium. The latter attests the presence of a crocidosoricine in the Fosso della Fittaia 2013 assemblage, postdating the youngest known occurrences of the subfamily by at least 1 my. The vertebrate assemblage is completed by a diverse herpetofauna and the first fish remains reported from the basin.
description: Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia (Research In Paleontology and Stratigraphy), Vol 122, No 2 (2016)
Additional file 2 of Hospital service quality based on HEALTHQUAL model and trusting nurses at Iranian university and non-university hospitals: a comparative study
Creators: name: Nemati, Reza
name: Bahreini, Masoud
name: Pouladi, Shahnaz
name: Mirzaei, Kamran
name: Mehboodi, Farkhondeh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Trust in Nurses Scale.
Evolution equations for quark-gluon distributions in multi-color QCD and open spin chains
Creators: name: Derkachov, S. E.
name: Korchemsky, G. P.
name: Manashov, A. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the scale dependence of the twist-3 quark-gluon parton distributions using the observation that in the multi-color limit the corresponding QCD evolution equations possess an additional integral of motion and turn out to be effectively equivalent to the Schrodinger equation for integrable open Heisenberg spin chain model. We identify the integral of motion of the spin chain as a new quantum number that separates different components of the twist-3 parton distributions. Each component evolves independently and its scale dependence is governed by anomalous dimension given by the energy of the spin magnet. To find the spectrum of the QCD induced open Heisenberg spin magnet we develop the Bethe Ansatz technique based on the Baxter equation. The solutions to the Baxter equation are constructed using different asymptotic methods and their properties are studied in detail. We demonstrate that the obtained solutions provide a good qualitative description of the spectrum of the anomalous dimensions and reveal a number of interesting properties. We show that the few lowest anomalous dimensions are separated from the rest of the spectrum by a finite mass gap and estimate its value.
description: 52 pages, LaTeX style, 6 figures embedded with epsf.sty; v2: latex problem fixed
A Model of Spatial Thinking for Computational Intelligence
Creators: name: Sorudeykin, Kirill A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Trying to be effective (no matter who exactly and in what field) a person face the problem which inevitably destroys all our attempts to easily get to a desired goal. The problem is the existence of some insuperable barriers for our mind, anotherwords barriers for principles of thinking. They are our clue and main reason for research. Here we investigate these barriers and their features exposing the nature of mental process. We start from special structures which reflect the ways to define relations between objects. Then we came to realizing about what is the material our mind uses to build thoughts, to make conclusions, to understand, to form reasoning, etc. This can be called a mental dynamics. After this the nature of mental barriers on the required level of abstraction as well as the ways to pass through them became clear. We begin to understand why thinking flows in such a way, with such specifics and with such limitations we can observe in reality. This can help us to be more optimal. At the final step we start to understand, what ma-thematical models can be applied to such a picture. We start to express our thoughts in a language of mathematics, developing an apparatus for our Spatial Theory of Mind, suitable to represent processes and infrastructure of thinking. We use abstract algebra and stay invariant in relation to the nature of objects.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures; IEEE East-West Design & Test Symposium, 2011
Almost Non-Magnetic Ground State of the V4+ Ion: The case of BaVS3
Creators: name: Ropka, Z.
name: Radwanski, R. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have shown that the V4+ ion with 1 d electron can have almost non-magnetic ground state under the action of the octahedral crystal field in the presence of the spin-orbit coupling and off-cubic distortions. Such the situation occurs in the hexagonal BaVS3. The fine discrete electronic structure with the weakly-magnetic Kramers-doublet ground state is the reason for anomalous properties of BaVS3. Keywords: crystal-field, spin-orbit, orbital moment. PACS: 71.70.E, 75.10.D
description: 5 pages in RevTex, no figure
Knowledge mobilization, multilingual students and democratic accountability
Creators: name: Potts, Diane Jean
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Information societies, characterized by mobile populations, cross-border collaborations, and an emphasis on knowledge creation, increasingly value individuals’ ability to move knowledge across contexts. Yet, despite the privilege conferred on such practices, knowledge mobilization as semiotic practices remains relatively unexamined, its theorization lagging behind scholarly and public interest. This inquiry takes up the challenges of theorizing knowledge mobilization, testing the explanatory potential of Bernstein’s sociology of pedagogy and the pedagogic device as it relates to knowledge movement in and about classrooms (Bernstein 1977a, 1990, 2000, 2001). Its specific interest lies in: a) the potential contribution of students’ quotidian (particularly multilingual) knowledge to students’ apprenticeship in knowledge mobilization skills, and b) the circulation of knowledge regarding such practices among educational stakeholders. Theorizing knowledge mobilization as a practice of recontextualization, and capitalizing on well-established exotropic relations between Bernstein’s work and social semiotics, particularly systemic functional linguistics (SFL) and development of a visual grammar (Halliday, 1978, 2004; Hasan, 1999a; Kress, 2000c; Kress & van Leeuwen, 1996/2006), three propositions focused on multimodality, student voice and register are used to test Bernstein’s theories against students’ and teachers’ hypermodal texts (see http://multiliteracies.ca). The analysis reveals the complexity of the recontextualization tasks and the pertinence of Bernstein’s theories. Affordance of a range of semiotic resources facilitates recontextualization of quotidian knowledge within an academic register; enables drawing on multilingual capabilities to support a position as knower among parents and peers; and allows a student’s substantial design skills to be employed in the interpretation of a Shakespearean sonnet. But multimodality confounds as well as supports recontextualization of pedagogic texts and practices for purposes of public accountability: the dissolution of the textual boundaries integral to hypermodal texts simultaneously dissipates the teacher’s presence as author and knower. Here, Bernstein’s theories explain how stakeholders’ position as co-author of hypermodal texts combines with the texts’ predominant register to impede mobilization of teachers’ knowledge. The relevance of Bernstein’s theories to explanations of reversals of dominant knowledge flows and to pedagogic practices of knowledge mobilization are highlighted. The inquiry was supported by a SSHRC Standard Research Grant.
Nonlinear modal coupling in a high-stress doubly-clamped nanomechanical resonator
Creators: name: Lulla, K. J.
name: Cousins, R. B.
name: Venkatesan, A.
name: Patton, M. J.
name: Armour, A. D.
name: Mellor, C. J.
name: Owers-Bradley, J. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results from a study of the nonlinear intermodal coupling between different flexural vibrational modes of a single high-stress, doubly-clamped silicon nitride nanomechanical beam. The measurements were carried out at 100 mK and the beam was actuated using the magnetomotive technique. We observed the nonlinear behavior of the modes individually and also measured the coupling between them by driving the beam at multiple frequencies. We demonstrate that the different modes of the resonator are coupled to each other by the displacement induced tension in the beam, which also leads to the well known Duffing nonlinearity in doubly-clamped beams.
description: 15 pages, 7 figures
Observing the first galaxies
Creators: name: Dunlop, James S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I endeavour to provide a thorough overview of our current knowledge of high-redshift galaxies and their evolution during the first billion years of cosmic time, corresponding to redshifts z > 5. After first summarizing progress with the seven different techniques which have been used to date in the discovery of objects at z > 5, I focus thereafter on the two selection methods which have yielded substantial samples of galaxies at early times, namely Lyman-break and Lyman-alpha selection. I discuss a decade of progress in galaxy sample selection at z ~ 5 - 8, including issues of completeness and contamination, and address some of the confusion which has been created by erroneous reports of extreme-redshift objects. Next I provide an overview of our current knowledge of the evolving ultraviolet continuum and Lyman-alpha galaxy luminosity functions at z ~ 5 - 8, and discuss what can be learned from exploring the relationship between the Lyman-break and Lyman-alpha selected populations. I then summarize what is known about the physical properties of these galaxies in the young universe, before considering the wider implications of this work for the cosmic history of star formation, and for the reionization of the universe. I conclude with a brief summary of the exciting prospects for further progress in this field in the next 5-10 years. Throughout, key concepts such as selection techniques and luminosity functions are explained assuming essentially no prior knowledge. The intention is that this chapter can be used as an introduction to the observational study of high-redshift galaxies, as well as providing a review of the latest results in this fast-moving research field up to the end of 2011.
description: Book Chapter, providing a thorough review of current knowledge of galaxies at redshifts z > 5. 71 pages, 28 figures, 314 references. To appear in "The First Galaxies - Theoretical Predictions and Observational Clues", 2012 by Springer, eds. V. Bromm, B. Mobasher, T. Wiklind (minor typos fixed)
The Immigen settlement, Baffin Island: an example of post-contact Eskimo habitation structures
Creators: name: MacDonnell, Barry
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 1977
Subjects: subject: E 99 E7 M145 1977 Microfiche
subject: Eskimos - Northwest Territories - Baffin Island
subject: Eskimos - Dwellings

description: Bibliography: p. 132-138.
АНАЛИЗ АЛЛИТЕРАЦИИ В ЛИТЕРАТУРЕ АНГЛИЙСКОГО ЯЗЫКА
Creators: name: Usmonova, Dona
name: Jo'raboyeva, Gulhayoxon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Аллитерация – литературный прием, предполагающий повторение начальных согласных звуков в последовательности слов. Целью данной статьи является анализ использования аллитерации в английском языке, ее функций и влияния на общий смысл и эстетику текста. Посредством обзора соответствующей литературы и примеров из различных литературных произведений в этой статье будут рассмотрены различные способы использования аллитерации в английском языке, ее влияние на читателя и ее культурное значение..
Effective tension and fluctuations in active membranes
Creators: name: Loubet, Bastien
name: Seifert, Udo
name: Lomholt, Michael Andersen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the fluctuation spectrum of the shape of a lipid vesicle or cell exposed to a nonthermal source of noise. In particular we take into account constraints on the membrane area and the volume of fluid that it encapsulates when obtaining expressions for the dependency of the membrane tension on the noise. We then investigate three possible origins of the non-thermal noise taken from the literature: A direct force, which models an external medium pushing on the membrane. A curvature force, which models a fluctuating spontaneous curvature, and a permeation force coming from an active transport of fluid through the membrane. For the direct force and curvature force cases, we compare our results to existing experiments on active membranes.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, 1 supplementary material
The virtuous circle of discourse : why Habermasian critical theory is blind to social traps
Creators: name: Goenaga Orrego, Agustín Alonso
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This paper raises a critique concerning the limitations that Habermas’s Theory of Communicative Action (TCA) faces to engage with topics such as social traps. The main argument is that the developmentalist explanation of ego ontogenesis that supports the possibility of the “discourse principle” reduces the TCA’s effectiveness to explain social transformation in less-than-ideal situations. The paper introduces the concept of social traps through Rothstein’s account of the recursive dynamics between individual agents and social structures in non-cooperative scenarios, and follows his criticisms of rationalist and culturalist approaches. The same problems that these strands of the literature suffer are present, although for different reasons, in the TCA: wrong assumptions about human action, deterministic views of social reality, and a narrow understanding of social transformation. Along these lines, the paper explores the implications that the Habermasian notion of praxis as discursive competences and autonomy has for a wider conception of agency in cases where discourse is inhibited or disrupted. Moreover, this becomes a real problem due to the circular relationship between, on the one hand, the development of the cognitive and moral competences necessary to participate in discursive practices and, on the other, how these practices foster the very same competences that they require to prevail (“the virtuous circle of discourse”). The combination of these elements raises a number of challenges for the TCA to provide convincing explanations about the way in which social traps operate and, especially, how social transformation can be generated in those situations from the micro-level. Finally, the author concludes with some suggestions to be considered in the development of a critical methodology to observe social traps.