cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Inbound waves in the solar corona: a direct indicator of Alfvén Surface location
Creators: name: DeForest, C. E.
name: Howard, T. A.
name: McComas, D. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The tenuous supersonic solar wind that streams from the top of the corona passes through a natural boundary -- the Alfvén surface -- that marks the causal disconnection of individual packets of plasma and magnetic flux from the Sun itself. The Alfvén surface is the locus where the radial motion of the accelerating solar wind passes the radial Alfvén speed, and therefore any displacement of material cannot carry information back down into the corona. It is thus the natural outer boundary of the solar corona, and the inner boundary of interplanetary space. Using a new and unique motion analysis to separate inbound and outbound motions in synoptic visible-light image sequences from the COR2 coronagraph on board the STEREO-A spacecraft, we have identified inbound wave motion in the outer corona beyond 6 solar radii for the first time, and used it to determine that the Alfvén surface is at least 12.5 solar radii from the Sun over the polar coronal holes and 17 solar radii in the streamer belt, well beyond the distance planned for NASA's upcoming Solar Probe Plus mission. To our knowledge this is the first measurement of inbound waves in the outer solar corona, and the first direct measurement of lower bounds for the Alfvén surface.
description: Accepted by Astrophysical Journal, 11-April-2014 v2: corrected typos; formatted with emulateapj
Attractors, black objects, and holographic RG flows in 5d maximal gauged supergravities
Creators: name: Hristov, Kiril
name: Rota, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform a systematic search for static solutions in different sectors of 5d $N=8$ supergravities with compact and non-compact gauged R-symmetry groups, finding new and listing already known backgrounds. Due to the variety of possible gauge groups and resulting scalar potentials, the maximally symmetric vacua we encounter in these theories can be Minkowski, de Sitter, or anti-de Sitter. There exist BPS and non-BPS near-horizon geometries and full solutions with all these three types of asymptotics, corresponding to black holes, branes, strings, rings, and other black objects with more exotic horizon topologies, supported by $U(1)$ and $SU(2)$ charges. The asymptotically AdS$_5$ solutions also have a clear holographic interpretation as RG flows of field theories on D3 branes, wrapped on compact 2- and 3-manifolds.
description: 38 pages, 3 figures, 7 tables
Supporting Mathematical Literacy Development: A Case Study of the Syntax of Introductory Algebra
Creators: name: Leibowitz, Danielle
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Existing research on how to develop students’ mathematical literacy skills is limited and offers few explicit recommen- dations regarding verbal and visual cues that can be used by mathematics educators to assist their students in making the connections necessary to develop their fluency in mathematical language, particularly in regard to mathematical syntax. This study examined the methods used by one introductory algebra teacher to support her ninth grade stu- dents’ mathematical literacy skills, specifically examining how she supported their understanding of the mathematical syntax of the distributive property as applied in algebra. Video footage of one class of ninth grade students from an urban high school was analyzed for the teachers’ use of discourse and gestures to support her students’ understanding. Results indicated a consistent pattern in the teachers’ use of dialog, gesture and references to the algebraic expressions.
Additional file 4 of Correlation scan: identifying genomic regions that affect genetic correlations applied to fertility traits
Creators: name: Olasege, Babatunde S.
name: Porto-Neto, Laercio R.
name: Tahir, Muhammad S.
name: Gouveia, Gabriela C.
name: Cánovas, Angela
name: Hayes, Ben J.
name: Fortes, Marina R. S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 4. The number of significant driver and antagonizing windows for each trait pair in Brahman and Tropical Composite population (Table S11).
Tire-road friction estimation and uncertainty assessment to improve electric aircraft braking system
Creators: name: Crocetti, Francesco
name: Costante, G.
name: Fravolini, M. L.
name: Valigi, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The accurate online estimation of the road-friction coefficient is an essential feature for any advanced brake control system. In this study, a data-driven scheme based on a MLP Neural Net is proposed to estimate the optimum friction coefficient as a function of windowed slip-friction measurements. A stochastic NN weights drop-out mechanism is used to online estimate the confidence interval of the estimated best friction coefficient thus providing a characterization of the epistemic uncertainty associated to the NN block. Open loop and closed loop simulations of the landing phase of an aircraft on an unknown surface are used to show the potentiality and efficacy of the proposed robust friction estimation approach.
A potential biomarker of androgen exposure in European bullhead (Cottus sp.) kidney
Creators: name: Villeret, Mélanie
name: Jolly, Sabrina
name: Wiest, Laure
name: Vulliet, Emmanuelle
name: Bado-Nilles, Anne
name: Porcher, Jean-Marc
name: Betoulle, Stéphane
name: Minier, Christophe
name: Sanchez, Wilfried
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Tissues and Organs (q-bio.TO)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The aim of this study was to identify a signal that could be used as an androgen exposure indicator in the European bullhead (Cottus sp.). For this purpose, the ultra-structure of the kidney was characterized to identify normal structure of this organ, and histological changes previously described in the kidney of breeding male bullheads were quantified using the kidney epithelium height (KEH) assay previously developed and validated for the stickleback. In the next step, the effect of trenbolone acetate (TbA), a model androgen, was assessed to identify potential androgenic regulation of bullhead kidney hypertrophy. Measurement of KEH performed on adult non-breeding male and female bullheads exposed for 14 and 21 days to 0, 1.26 and 6.50 mu g/L showed that kidney hypertrophy is induced in a dose-dependent manner, confirming the hypothesis that the European bullhead possesses a potential biomarker of androgen exposure. Combined with the wide distribution of the European bullhead in European countries and the potential of this fish species for environmental toxicology studies in field and laboratory conditions, the hypothesis of a potential biomarker of androgen exposure offers interesting perspectives for the use of the bullhead as a relevant sentinel fish species in monitoring studies. Inducibility was observed with high exposure concentrations of TbA. Further studies are needed to identify molecular signals that could be more sensitive than KEH
Is Cosmological Constant Needed in Higgs Inflation?
Creators: name: Feng, Chao-Jun
name: Li, Xin-Zhou
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The detection of B-mode shows a very powerful constraint to theoretical inflation models through the measurement of the tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$. Higgs boson is the most likely candidate of the inflaton field. But usually, Higgs inflation models predict a small value of $r$, which is not quite consistent with the recent results from BICEP2. In this paper, we explored whether a cosmological constant energy component is needed to improve the situation. And we found the answer is yes. For the so-called Higgs chaotic inflation model with a quadratic potential, it predicts $r\approx 0.2$, $n_s\approx0.96$ with e-folds number $N\approx 56$, which is large enough to overcome the problems such as the horizon problem in the Big Bang cosmology. The required energy scale of the cosmological constant is roughly $Λ\sim (10^{14} \text{GeV})^2 $, which means a mechanism is still needed to solve the fine-tuning problem in the later time evolution of the universe, e.g. by introducing some dark energy component.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures
Protocol_ Intersectionally Conscious Collaboration-Teacher Educators Version1.pdf
Creators: name: Boveda, Mildred
name: Weinberg, Andrea
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: 130313 Teacher Education and Professional Development of Educators
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: The Intersectionally Conscious Collaboration (ICC) protocol expands on existing models of collaboration by using intersectional competence and socio-cultural frameworks for diverse stakeholders to establish and maintain ethical, student-centered relationships. We draw from intersectionality as conceptualized by Black feminists to envisage ways to support educators in collegial relationships that leverage each collaborator’s knowledge, experiences, and skills to improve student outcomes. This protocol is the teacher education version of the protocol (ICC-TE; Boveda & Weinberg, 2020).
Thurii-Copia. Quattuorvir i.d. quinq. Pontifex. Senatus. Maecia tribus. 31 BC - 14 AD
Creators: name: Cappelletti, Loredana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Turi
Greek Colony
Latin Colony
Western Greeks
Latin Epigraphy
Ancient Italy

description: Publication concerning the Latin inscription AE 2006, 352 = EDR170776, with English and Italian translation and bibliography
Parity nonconservation effect in the dielectronic recombination of polarized electrons with heavy He-like ions
Creators: name: Zaytsev, V. A.
name: Maiorova, A. V.
name: Shabaev, V. M.
name: Volotka, A. V.
name: Tashenov, S.
name: Plunien, G.
name: Stoehlker, Th.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the parity nonconservation (PNC) effect in the dielectronic recombination (DR) of a polarized electron with a heavy He-like ion into doubly-excited $((1s 2p_{1/2})_{0} nκ)_{1/2}$ and $\left(\left(1s 2s\right)_{0} nκ\right)_{1/2}$ states of Li-like ion. We determine the nuclear charge number $Z$ for which these opposite-parity levels are near to cross and, therefore, the PNC effect will be significantly enhanced. Calculations are performed for quantum numbers $n \geq 4$ and $κ= \pm 1$.
description: 12 pages, 1 figure
title: Phytophthora på el (Alnus spp.)
Creators: name: Marçais, Benoit
name: Husson, Claude
Publisher: name: Julius Kühn-Institut, Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants
Year: 2013

description: JKI Data Sheets Plant Pests and Diagnosis; 2013/86
description: Slægten Alnus (Betulaceae) omfatter 35 arter fordelt over den nordlige halvkugle (http://www.discoverlife.org). Fire arter er hjemmehørende i Europa: A. incana (gråel), A. cordata (hjertebladet el), A. glutinosa (rødel) og A. viridis (grønel). Desuden er arten A. rubra (oregonel) hjemmehørende i Nordamerika blevet plantet i mindre udstrækning i nogle europæiske lande (Claessens, 2003). Elletræer (Alnus sp.) spiller en vigtig økologisk rolle. El er en pionerslægt, tolerant over for et højt grundvandsniveau/spejl og perioder med oversvømmelse. Rødel (A. glutinosa) er den mest almindelige art og findes overalt i Europa op til en højde af 1800 m. Rødel er godt tilpasset til våde lokaliteter og spiller en meget vigtig rolle i de økosystemer, der findes langs bredderne af vandløb, da rodsystemerne hjælper med til at stabilisere bredderne og herved nedsætter effekten (Webber et al., 2004). Rødel har en fremragende effekt på jord (porøsitet, symbiose med bakterien Frankia), på vandkvaliteten (filtrering og rensning) og også på dyrelivet. Den medvirker til at øge biodiversiteten af fugle og insekter, og dets rodsystem giver skjulesteder for fisk. Gråel (Alnus incana) er vidt udbredt i Central- og Østeuropa. I Sydeuropa vokser den mest i bjergområder. Da den er en pionerplante, som tåler både tørre forhold og oversvømmelse, er gråel meget vigtig for stabiliteten af skråninger og for vandløbenes bredder (Jung & Blaschke, 2004). Hjertebladet el (A. cordata) og grønel (A. viridis) er mindre almindelige arter og er hjemmehørende på Korsika, i Italien og i bjergene i Centraleuropa (Claessens, 2003).
Autonomy and Competence Drive High School Seniors’ Academic Intentions
Creators: name: Reed, Nicole
name: Bailey, Ashley
name: Laws, Shakari
name: Driver, Persis
name: Xing, Kuan
name: Thorkildsen, Theresa
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Debunking the myth that all seniors experience extreme levels of disengagement in their last year of high school, seniors (n=138) from two urban schools completed three activities designed to measure their sense of responsibility for their own education. The resulting beliefs, desires, and reported actions, elicited using surveys, focus-group discussions, and open-ended writing, were subject to third-person analyses to reveal individual differences in seniors’ intentions. Students offered many more positive statements about constructive educational aspirations, goals, and responsibilities than is reflected in the senioritis myth. Learning more about how to help seniors celebrate their achievements and welcome them into new levels of independence may also reduce disaffection that sometimes dominate seniors’ school behavior.
Additional file 6 of Correlation scan: identifying genomic regions that affect genetic correlations applied to fertility traits
Creators: name: Olasege, Babatunde S.
name: Porto-Neto, Laercio R.
name: Tahir, Muhammad S.
name: Gouveia, Gabriela C.
name: Cánovas, Angela
name: Hayes, Ben J.
name: Fortes, Marina R. S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 6. The global genomic correlation estimates, heritabilities (standard error in parenthesis), number of animals and number of SNP from previous study in Brahman and Tropical Composite population (Table S20).
Silk damping at a redshift of a billion: a new limit on small-scale adiabatic perturbations
Creators: name: Jeong, Donghui
name: Pradler, Josef
name: Chluba, Jens
name: Kamionkowski, Marc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the dissipation of small-scale adiabatic perturbations at early times when the Universe is hotter than T ~ 0.5 keV. When the wavelength falls below the damping scale 1/kD, the acoustic modes diffuse and thermalize, causing entropy production. Before neutrino decoupling, kD is primarily set by the neutrino shear viscosity, and we study the effect of acoustic damping on the relic neutrino number, primordial nucleosynthesis, dark-matter freeze-out, and baryogenesis. This sets a new limit on the amplitude of primordial fluctuations of DeltaR^2 < 0.007 at 10^4/Mpc< k < 10^5/Mpc and a model dependent limit of DeltaR^2 < 0.3 at k < 10^{20-25}/Mpc.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Continuous and discrete Painleve equations arising from the gap probability distribution of the finite $n$ Gaussian Unitary Ensembles
Creators: name: Cao, Man
name: Chen, Yang
name: Griffin, James
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we study the gap probability problem in the Gaussian Unitary Ensembles of $n$ by $n$ matrices : The probability that the interval $J := (-a,a)$ is free of eigenvalues. In the works of Tracy and Widom, Adler and Van Moerbeke and Forrester and Witte on this subject, it has been shown that two Painleve type differential equations arise in this context. The first is the Jimbo-Miwa-Okomoto $σ-$form and the second is a particular Painleve IV. Using the ladder operator technique of orthogonal polynomials we derive three quantities associated with the gap probability, denoted by $σ_n(a)$, $R_n(a)$ and $r_n(a)$, and show that each one satisfying a second order, non-linear, differential equation as well as a second order, non-linear difference equation. In particular, in addition to providing an elementary derivation of the aforementioned $σ-$form and Painleve IV we show that the quantity $r_n(a)$ satisfies a particular case of Chazy's second degree second order differential equation. For the discrete equations we show that the quantity $r_n(a)$ satisfies a particular form of the modified discrete Painleve II equation obtained by Grammaticos and Ramani in the context of Backlund transformations. We also derive second order second degree difference equations for the quantities $R_n(a)$ and $σ_n(a)$.
Production of Free Sulfur Dioxide by Wine Yeasts
Creators: name: Pezley, Matthew Eugene
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Sulfites (SO2) are well known in the winemaking industry for their anti-oxidative and anti-microbial properties. By maintaining proper free SO2 levels, wines are protected from spoilage bacteria and yeast as well as oxidation which are capable of producing negative sensory effects. The levels of necessary free SO2 vary depending on the winemaking stage (e.g. malolactic fermentation vs. aging). This project investigated the endogenous free SO2 produced during primary fermentation by a variety of yeast strains within both red and white wines. A total of 10 commonly used yeast strains were tested; five from Red Star and five from Lalvin. Each strain was tested individually in both a red wine (Noiret) and a white wine (Catawba), for a total of 20 wines produced. The following variables were controlled: initial SO2 levels, sugar levels, yeast nutrient levels, and environmental conditions. Of the 20 wines produced, each was analyzed for free SO2, pH and residual sugar levels. The experimental findings showed that one yeast strain, Red Star Côte des Blancs, produced 6.4 ppm free SO2 by aeration oxidation (AO) and 4 ppm by the Accuvin Quick SO2 Test Kit (AQT) in the red wine. The same yeast produced 3.6 ppm free SO2 by AO and 4 ppm by AQT in the white wine. The average end pH’s of the red and white wines were 3.63 and 2.82 respectively. The residual sugar levels measured 0% residual for all yeasts except the Côte des Blancs, producing 0.1% residual sugars in both red and white wines. Based on the findings of this project, endogenous free SO2 contributions made by yeast are inadequate to protect wines from premature oxidation throughout fermentation and aging, thus less focus should be placed within this area. In order to maintain appropriate SO2 levels, exogenous SO2 should be utilized.
Physical and chemical structure of planet-forming disks probed by millimeter observations and modeling
Creators: name: Dutrey, Anne
name: Semenov, Dmitry
name: Chapillon, Edwige
name: Gorti, Uma
name: Guilloteau, Stéphane
name: Hersant, Franck
name: Hogerheijde, Michiel
name: Hughes, Meredith
name: Meeus, Gwendolyn
name: Nomura, Hideko
name: Piétu, Vincent
name: Qi, Chunhua
name: Wakelam, Valentine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Protoplanetary disks composed of dust and gas are ubiquitous around young stars and are commonly recognized as nurseries of planetary systems. Their lifetime, appearance, and structure are determined by an interplay between stellar radiation, gravity, thermal pressure, magnetic field, gas viscosity, turbulence, and rotation. Molecules and dust serve as major heating and cooling agents in disks. Dust grains dominate the disk opacities, reprocess most of the stellar radiation, and shield molecules from ionizing UV/X-ray photons. Disks also dynamically evolve by building up planetary systems which drastically change their gas and dust density structures. Over the past decade significant progress has been achieved in our understanding of disk chemical composition thanks to the upgrade or advent of new millimeter/Infrared facilities (SMA, PdBI, CARMA, Herschel, e-VLA, ALMA). Some major breakthroughs in our comprehension of the disk physics and chemistry have been done since PPV. This review will present and discuss the impact of such improvements on our understanding of the disk physical structure and chemical composition.
description: 24 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication as a chapter in Protostars and Planets VI, University of Arizona Press (2014), eds. H. Beuther, R. Klessen, C. Dullemond, Th. Henning
Additional file 7 of Correlation scan: identifying genomic regions that affect genetic correlations applied to fertility traits
Creators: name: Olasege, Babatunde S.
name: Porto-Neto, Laercio R.
name: Tahir, Muhammad S.
name: Gouveia, Gabriela C.
name: Cánovas, Angela
name: Hayes, Ben J.
name: Fortes, Marina R. S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 7. The percentage of QTL type and trait related to reproduction QTLs for the QTL annotation results obtained for the drivers and anatgonizing regions of the two trait pairs in Brahman (BB) and Tropical Composite (TC) population (Fig. S2-S3).
Informative Sample-Aware Proxy for Deep Metric Learning
Creators: name: Li, Aoyu
name: Sato, Ikuro
name: Ishikawa, Kohta
name: Kawakami, Rei
name: Yokota, Rio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Among various supervised deep metric learning methods proxy-based approaches have achieved high retrieval accuracies. Proxies, which are class-representative points in an embedding space, receive updates based on proxy-sample similarities in a similar manner to sample representations. In existing methods, a relatively small number of samples can produce large gradient magnitudes (ie, hard samples), and a relatively large number of samples can produce small gradient magnitudes (ie, easy samples); these can play a major part in updates. Assuming that acquiring too much sensitivity to such extreme sets of samples would deteriorate the generalizability of a method, we propose a novel proxy-based method called Informative Sample-Aware Proxy (Proxy-ISA), which directly modifies a gradient weighting factor for each sample using a scheduled threshold function, so that the model is more sensitive to the informative samples. Extensive experiments on the CUB-200-2011, Cars-196, Stanford Online Products and In-shop Clothes Retrieval datasets demonstrate the superiority of Proxy-ISA compared with the state-of-the-art methods.
description: Accepted at ACM Multimedia Asia (MMAsia) 2022
The Effect of Being a Student-Athlete on Academic Performance
Creators: name: Kohs, Thomas
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The purpose of this experiment was to examine academic performance differences among student-athletes and other students at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). The construct of confidence was examined to provide a mechanism for any academic performance differences that were to occur. The data was obtained by having 92 UIC students, 46 of whom were student-athletes and 46 of who were other students, complete a survey. The survey consisted of questions pertaining to gender, type of student, GPA, and confidence questions scored on a Likert scale. The survey produced significant results, F (3, 92) = 2.887; p =.040, in terms of confidence differences. There was specifically significant confidence differences between student-athletes and the other students, F (1, 92) = 5.180; p = .025 as well as between male student-athletes (M= 33.69, SD= 4.47) and the other male students (M= 30.13, SD= 4.98); t (30) = -2.13, p =.041. However, there were no significant results regarding differences in academic performance among student-athletes and other students at UIC. Therefore, one could conclude that confidence does not significantly influence academic performance among the UIC students surveyed.
The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey. XIII: On the nature of O Vz stars in 30 Doradus
Creators: name: Sabín-Sanjulián, C.
name: Simón-Díaz, S.
name: Herrero, A.
name: Walborn, N. R.
name: Puls, J.
name: Apellániz, J. Maíz
name: Evans, C. J.
name: Brott, I.
name: de Koter, A.
name: Garcia, M.
name: Markova, N.
name: Najarro, F.
name: Ramírez-Agudelo, O. H.
name: Sana, H.
name: Taylor, W. D.
name: Vink, J. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: AIMS. We test the hypothesis of O Vz stars (characterized by having HeII4686 stronger in absorption than other He lines in their blue-violet spectra) being at a younger evolutionary stage than are normal O-type dwarfs. METHODS. We have performed a quantitative spectroscopic analysis of a sample of 38 O Vz and 46 O V stars, identified by the VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey in the 30 Doradus region of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). We obtained the stellar and wind parameters of both samples using the FASTWIND stellar atmosphere code and the IACOB-GBAT grid-based automatic tool. In the framework of a differential study, we compared the physical and evolutionary properties of both samples, regarding Teff, logg, logQ and logL. We also investigated the predictions of the FASTWIND code about the O Vz phenomenon. RESULTS. We find a differential distribution of objects in terms of effective temperature, with O Vz stars dominant at intermediate values. The O Vz stars in 30 Doradus tend to be younger and less luminous, and they have weaker winds than the O V stars, but we also find examples with ages of 2-4 Myr and with luminosities and winds that are similar to those of normal O dwarfs. Moreover, the O Vz stars do not appear to have higher gravities than the O V stars. In addition to effective temperature and wind strength, our FASTWIND predictions indicate how important it is to take other stellar parameters (gravity and projected rotational velocity) into account for correctly interpreting the O Vz phenomenon. CONCLUSIONS. In general, the O Vz stars appear to be on or very close to the ZAMS, but there are some examples where the Vz classification does not necessarily imply extreme youth. In particular, the presence of O Vz stars in our sample at more evolved phases than expected is likely a consequence of modest O-star winds owing to the low-metallicity environment of the LMC.
G-Systems and Deformation of G-Actions On Rd
Creators: name: Dherin, Benoit
name: Mencattini, Igor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Given a (smooth) action of a Lie group G on Rd we construct a DGA whose Maurer-Cartan elements are in one to one correspondence with some class of defomations of the (induced) G-action on the ring of formal power series with coefficients in the ring of smooth functions on Rd. In the final part of this note we discuss the cohomological obstructions to the existence and to the uniqueness (in a sense to be clarified) of such deformations.
description: 11 pages, accepted for publication in the Journal of Mathematical Physics. This submission supersedes arXiv:1202.0886
Additional file 9 of Correlation scan: identifying genomic regions that affect genetic correlations applied to fertility traits
Creators: name: Olasege, Babatunde S.
name: Porto-Neto, Laercio R.
name: Tahir, Muhammad S.
name: Gouveia, Gabriela C.
name: Cánovas, Angela
name: Hayes, Ben J.
name: Fortes, Marina R. S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 9. The chord plot showing the relationship between the top 10 enriched reproductive QTLs between Brahman (BB) and Tropical Composite (TC) for the driver (top) and the antagonizing (bottom) regions of the studied traits (Fig. S4).
Well-Balanced Central Schemes on Overlapping Cells with Constant Subtraction Techniques for the Saint-Venant Shallow Water System
Creators: name: Yang, Suo
name: Kurganov, Alexander
name: Liu, Yingjie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We develop well-balanced central schemes on overlapping cells for the Saint-Venant shallow water system and its variants. The main challenge in deriving the schemes is related to the fact that the Saint-Venant system contains a geometric source term due to nonflat bottom topography and therefore a delicate balance between the flux gradients and source terms has to be preserved. We propose a constant subtraction technique, which helps one to ensure a well-balanced property of the schemes, while maintaining arbitrary high-order of accuracy. Hierarchical reconstruction limiting procedure is applied to eliminate spurious oscillations without using characteristic decomposition. Extensive one- and two-dimensional numerical simulations are conducted to verify the well-balanced property, high-order of accuracy, and non-oscillatory high-resolution for both smooth and nonsmooth solutions.
Preserving Autonomy and Interest Mediates Adolescents’ Academic Performance
Creators: name: Ata, Danya
name: Nguyen, Huong
name: Driver, Persis
name: Thorkildsen, Theresa
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Many students believe that academic performance is influenced by either contextual or personal factors. We asked whether knowledge of these beliefs and desires explained academic performance in early (14-15 years), middle (16-18 years), and late (19-21 years) adolescence. Participants evaluated motivationally stimulating teaching practices, their own readiness to work hard, and their academic performance. For each age group, beliefs about teaching practices and personal effort, in combination, predicted students’ academic performance. Yet, a mediation model explained individual differences better. Students’ readiness to take control and sustain interest explained more of the variance in their academic performance than other facets of their intentions. This and detectable gender and age-group differences suggests that educators should move away from using general practices to stimulate motivation.
New Entropy Formula with Fluctuating Reservoir
Creators: name: Biro, T. S.
name: Barnafoldi, G. G.
name: Van, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Finite heat reservoir capacity and temperature fluctuations lead to modification of the well known canonical exponential weight factor. Requiring that the corrections least depend on the one-particle energy, we derive a deformed entropy, K(S). The resulting formula contains the Boltzmann-Gibbs, the Renyi and the Tsallis formulas as particular cases. For extreme large fluctuations (compared to the Gaussian case) a new, parameter-free entropy - probability relation emerges. This formula and the corresponding canonical equilibrium distribution are nearly Boltzmannian for high probability, but deviate from the classical result for low probability. In the extreme large fluctuation limit the canonical distribution resembles for low probability the cumulative Gompertz distribution.
Comparison of Telephone and In-Person Interviews for Data Collection in Qualitative Human Research
Creators: name: RAHMAN, RAFIDAH BINTI AB
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In qualitative research, interviews are utilized in data collection, especially in the Medical field. This literature review analyzes the advantages and disadvantages for in-person and telephone methods. The PubMed and PubMedCentral® databases were searched and yielded five relevant articles in the locale of medicine for review. Telephone interviews are found to be shorter, cost less, are reported to display less interviewer bias, and are seen to report less information while in-person interviews require more training, are conducive to physical tests, and are harder to schedule. In-person and telephone interviews are both accurate within acceptable error for qualitative research studies. In cases where a majority of the sample may not have access to telephones, the extra cost of the in-person interview is justified to develop rapport and increased accuracy to add validity to the study. Telephone interviews may be the preferred method unless the in-person interview provides benefits to the research that outweigh the additional costs. This study was a sub-study for a larger project with an overall goal of understanding the dynamics of health communication in grandfamilies and how these dynamics may differ by race.
Super-Planckian far-zone thermal emission from asymmetric hyperbolic metamaterials
Creators: name: Nefedov, Igor
name: Melnikov, Leonid
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we demonstrate that asymmetric hyperbolic metamaterials (AHM) can produce strongly directive thermal emission in far-field zone, which exceeds Planck's limit. Asymmetry is inherent in an uniaxial medium, whose optical axes are tilted with respect to medium interfaces and appears as a difference in properties of waves, propagating upward and downward with respect to the interface. It's known that a high density of states (DOS) for certain photons takes place in usual hyperbolic metamaterials, but emission of them into a smaller number in vacuum is preserved by the total internal reflection. However, the use of AHM enhance the efficiency of coupling of the waves in AHM with the waves in free space that results in Super-Planckian far-field thermal emission in certain directions. Different plasmonic metamaterials can be used for realization of AHM. As example, thermal emission from AHM, based on graphene multilayer, is discussed.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures
Auditory Lateralization of Concrete and Abstract Gujarati Words
Creators: name: Shah, Sugar
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Previous research has shown that speech comprehension is a left hemisphere (LH) dominant task for right-handed individuals. Associating hemispheres of the brain with specific tasks helps us relate cognitive function to brain structures. The majority of past research has been conducted using English. The purpose of the present research was to determine if language is lateralized in Gujarati, an Indian language, to the same extent as English. In this experiment, participants were asked to determine if an auditorily presented stimulus was a word or nonword in Gujarati. Each word/nonword was presented randomly to the participant’s right or left ear. Because the auditory cortex is arranged contralaterally, words presented to the right ear are initially processed in the left hemisphere and words presented to the left ear are initially processed in the right hemisphere. Half of the real words were concrete words (e.g., carrot) and half were abstract (e.g., truth). According to Paivio’s dual coding theory, concrete words strongly activate both hemispheres, while abstract words strongly activate only the LH. As a result, I hypothesized that concrete words will be processed the fastest and there should be no difference when they are presented to the right ear (LH) or left ear (RH). In contrast, decision times for abstract words should be faster when presented to the right ear (LH) than the left ear (RH). Both abstract and concrete words should be processed faster than nonwords. While further research must be conducted, the results of this experiment provided much needed information about the processing/lateralization of both English and Gujarati words in the brain.
On the splitting method for some complex-valued quasilinear equations
Creators: name: Brzezniak, Zdzislaw
name: Millet, Annie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Using the approach of the splitting method developed by I. Gyöngy and N. Krylov for parabolic quasi linear equations, we study the speed of convergence for general complex-valued stochastic evolution equations. The approximation is given in general Sobolev spaces and the model considered here contains both the parabolic quasi-linear equations under some (non strict) stochastic parabolicity condition as well as linear Schrödinger equations
Artin's Conjecture and systems of diagonal equations
Creators: name: Wooley, Trevor D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11D88, 11D72, 11E76

description: We show that Artin's conjecture concerning p-adic solubility of Diophantine equations fails for infinitely many systems of r homogeneous diagonal equations whenever r>1.
Particle Identification with the ALICE Transition Radiation Detector
Creators: name: Pachmayer, Yvonne
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Transition Radiation Detector (TRD) provides particle identification in the ALICE central barrel. In particular, it allows electron identification via the measurement of transition radiation for $\rm p >$ 1 GeV/$c$, where pions can no longer be rejected sufficiently via specific energy loss in the ALICE Time Projection Chamber. The ALICE TRD is uniquely designed to record the time evolution of the signal, which allows even better electron/pion separation. In addition, the electron identification capability of the TRD can be used on-line to trigger at level 1. The particle identification and its performance in pp, p-Pb and Pb-Pb collisions employing various methods, such as truncated mean signal, one- and two-dimensional likelihood on integrated charge and neural network, will be presented. The measurement of J/$ψ$ mesons in Pb-Pb collisions is given as a case study to show how well the TRD contributes to physics analyses due to its excellent pion suppression.
description: 4 pages; 7 figures, Proceedings of RICH2013 Conference, 2-6 Dec 2013
The asymptotic formula in Waring's problem: higher order expansions
Creators: name: Vaughan, Robert C.
name: Wooley, Trevor D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11P05, 11P55

description: When k > 1 and s is sufficiently large in terms of k, we derive an explicit multi-term asymptotic expansion for the number of representations of a large natural number as the sum of s positive integral k-th powers.
The Ultraviolet Sky: An Overview from the GALEX Surveys
Creators: name: Bianchi, Luciana
name: Conti, Alberto
name: Shiao, Bernie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) has performed the first surveys of the sky in the Ultraviolet (UV). Its legacy is an unprecedented database with more than 200 million source measurements in far-UV (FUV) and near-UV (NUV), as well as wide-field imaging of extended objects, filling an important gap in our view of the sky across the electromagnetic spectrum. The UV surveys offer unique sensitivity for identifying and studying selected classes of astrophysical objects, both stellar and extra-galactic. We examine the overall content and distribution of UV sources over the sky, and with magnitude and color. For this purpose, we have constructed final catalogs of UV sources with homogeneous quality, eliminating duplicate measurements of the same source. Such catalogs can facilitate a variety of investigations on UV-selected samples, as well as planning of observations with future missions. We describe the criteria used to build the catalogs, their coverage and completeness. We included observations in which both the far-UV and near-UV detectors were exposed; 28,707 fields from the All-Sky Imaging survey (AIS) cover a unique area of 22,080 square degrees (after we restrict the catalogs to the central 1-degree diameter of the field), with a typical depth of about 20/21 mag (FUV/NUV, in the AB mag system), and 3,008 fields from the Medium-depth Imaging Survey (MIS) cover a total of 2,251 square degrees at a depth of about 22.7mag. The catalogs contain about 71 and 16.6 million sources respectively. The density of hot stars reflects the Galactic structure, and the number counts of both Galactic and extra-galactic sources are modulated by the Milky Way dust extinction, to which the UV data are very sensitive.
description: J. Adv. Space Res. (2013), Full resolution figures can be found in the original published article (open access) at : http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0273117713004742 or from http://dolomiti.pha.jhu.edu/publgoto.html ; catalogs are posted on MAST
Multi-frequency observations of a superbubble in the LMC: The case of LHA 120-N 70
Creators: name: De Horta, A. Y.
name: Sommer, E. R.
name: Filipović, M. D.
name: O'Brien, A.
name: Bozzetto, L. M.
name: Collier, J. D.
name: Wong, G. F.
name: Crawford, E. J.
name: Tothill, N. F. H.
name: Maggi, P.
name: Haberl, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a detailed study of new Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) and XMM-Newton observations of LHA 120-N 70 (hereafter N 70), a spherically shaped object in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) classified as a superbubble (SB). Both archival and new observations were used to produce high quality radio-continuum, X-ray and optical images. The radio spectral index of N 70 is estimated to be $α=-0.12\pm 0.06$ indicating that while a supernova or supernovae have occurred in the region at some time in the distant past, N70 is not the remnant of a single specific supernova. N70 exhibits limited polarisation with a maximum fractional polarisation of 9% in a small area of the north west limb. We estimate the size of N 70 to have a diameter of 104 pc ($\pm 1$ pc). The morphology of N 70 in X-rays closely follows that in radio and optical, with most X-ray emission confined within the bright shell seen at longer wavelengths. Purely thermal models adequately fit the soft X-ray spectrum which lacks harder emission (above 1 keV). We also examine the pressure output of N 70 where the values for the hot (PX) and warm (PHii) phase are consistent with other studied Hii regions. However, the dust-processed radiation pressure (PIR) is significantly smaller than in any other object studied in Lopez et al. (2013). N70 is a very complex region that is likely to have had multiple factors contributing to both the origin and evolution of the entire region.
description: 21 pages 8 figures accepted for publication in AJ
Duality for local fields and sheaves on the category of fields
Creators: name: Suzuki, Takashi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary: 11G45, Secondary: 14F20, 13D03

description: Duality for complete discrete valuation fields with perfect residue field with coefficients in (possibly p-torsion) finite flat group schemes was obtained by Begueri, Bester and Kato. In this paper, we give another formulation and proof of this result. We use the category of fields and a Grothendieck topology on it. This simplifies the formulation and proof and reduces the duality to classical results on Galois cohomology. A key point is that the resulting site correctly captures extension groups between algebraic groups.
description: Accepted for publication in the Kyoto Journal of Mathematics. 63 pages
Treating Coulomb exchange contributions in relativistic mean field calculations: why and how
Creators: name: Van Giai, Nguyen
name: Liang, Haozhao
name: Gu, Huai-Qiang
name: Long, Wenhui
name: Meng, Jie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The energy density functional (EDF) method is very widely used in nuclear physics, and among the various existing functionals those based on the relativistic Hartree (RH) approximation are very popular because the exchange contributions (Fock terms) are numerically rather onerous to calculate. Although it is possible to somehow 'mock up' the effects of meson-induced exchange terms by adjusting the meson-nucleon couplings, the lack of Coulomb exchange contributions hampers the accuracy of predictions. In this note, we show that the Coulomb exchange effects can be easily included with a good accuracy in a perturbative approach. Therefore, it would be desirable for future relativistic EDF models to incorporate Coulomb exchange effects, at least to some order of perturbation.
description: 3 pages, 1 figure, Proceedings of the 20th Nuclear Physics Workshop "Marie & Pierre Curie", Kazimierz, Poland, 25-29 September, 2013
Multigrade efficient congruencing and Vinogradov's mean value theorem
Creators: name: Wooley, Trevor D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11L15, 11L07, 11P05, 11P55

description: We develop a multigrade enhancement of the efficient congruencing method to estimate Vinogradov's integral of degree $k$ for moments of order $2s$, thereby obtaining near-optimal estimates for $\tfrac{5}{8}k^21.543k^2$. The asymptotic formula is also established for sums of $28$ fifth powers.
description: 48pp; modest revisions in light of referee comments
Additional file 1 of Silver-Silica nanoparticles induced dose-dependent modulation of histopathological, immunohistochemical, ultrastructural, proinflammatory, and immune status of broiler chickens
Creators: name: Khafaga, Asmaa F.
name: Fouda, Moustafa M. G.
name: Alwan, Ali B.
name: Abdelsalam, Nader R.
name: Taha, Ayman E.
name: Atta, Mustafa S.
name: Dosoky, Waleed M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Additional file 1.