cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Expert judgment based multicriteria decision models to assess the risk of pesticides on reproduction failures of grey partridge
Creators: name: J. Devillers
name: H. Devillers
name: E. Bro
name: F. Millot
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A suite of models is proposed for estimating the risk of pesticides against the grey partridge (Perdix perdix) and their clutches. Radio-tracked data of females, description and location of the clutches, and data on the pesticide treatments during the laying periods of the partridges were used as basic information. Quantitative structure–activity relationship (QSAR) and quantitative structure–property relationship (QSPR) modelling allowed us to characterize the pesticides by their 1-octanol/water partition coefficient (log P), vapour pressure, primary and ultimate biodegradation potential, acute toxicity (LD50) on P. perdix, and endocrine disruption potential. From these physicochemical and toxicological data, the system of integration of risk with interaction of scores (SIRIS) method was used to design scores of risk for pesticides, alone or in mixture. A program, written in R (version 3.1.1), called Simulation of Toxicity in Perdix perdix (SimToxPP), was designed for estimating the risk of substances, considered alone or in mixture, against the grey partridge during breeding. The software tool is flexible enough to simulate realistic in situ scenarios. Different examples of applications are shown. The advantages and limitations of the approach are briefly discussed.
Recent Progress on Ricci Solitons
Creators: name: Cao, Huai-Dong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Ricci solitons are natural generalizations of Einstein metrics. They are also special solutions to Hamilton's Ricci flow and play important roles in the singularity study of the Ricci flow. In this paper, we survey some of the recent progress on Ricci solitons.
description: 32 pages; to appear in Proceedings of International Conference on Geometric Analysis (Taipei, July 2007)
The influence of polarity in binary solvent mixtures on the conformation of bis-triazinyl-pyridine in solution
Creators: name: Trumm, Michael
name: Adam, Christian
name: Koke, Carsten
name: Maiwald, Martin
name: Höfener, Sebastian
name: Skerencak-Frech, Andrej
name: Panak, Petra J.
name: Schimmelpfennig, Bernd
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We report a combined computational and experimental study to investigate the influence of the solvent on the electronic and molecular structure of the bis-triazinyl-pyridine (BTP) ligand. Experimental measurements and quantum-chemical calculations using geometries from molecular dynamics simulations in different solvent methanol/water mixtures reveal a change in the UV/vis absorption spectra for the investigated BTP compound. This change is investigated further using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) techniques, both experimental and computational, to gain insight to ligand conformation. Comparison of experimental and computational results enables the analysis of relevant BTP conformers, which cannot be accessed using experimental measurements alone. Based on this approach, we conclude that the BTP ligands change conformation with decreasing solvent polarity to maximise the lipophilic accessible surface – a concept which is transferrable to various classes of compounds.
Multi-spacecraft Observations of the Coronal and Interplanetary Evolution of a Solar Eruption Associated with Two Active Regions
Creators: name: Hu, Huidong
name: Liu, Ying D.
name: Wang, Rui
name: Zhao, Xiaowei
name: Zhu, Bei
name: Yang, Zhongwei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the coronal and interplanetary evolution of a coronal mass ejection (CME) launched on 2010 September 4 from a source region linking two active regions (ARs) 11101 and 11103, using extreme ultraviolet imaging, magnetogram, white-light and in situ observations from SDO, STEREO, SOHO, VEX and Wind. A potential-field source-surface model is employed to examine the configuration of the coronal magnetic field surrounding the source region. The graduated cylindrical shell model and a triangulation method are applied to determine the kinematics of the CME in the corona and interplanetary space. From the remote sensing and in situ observations we obtain some key results: (1) the CME was deflected in both the eastward and southward directions in the low corona by the magnetic pressure from the two ARs and possibly interacted with another ejection, which caused that the CME arrived at VEX that was longitudinally distant from the source region; (2) although VEX was closer to the Sun, the observed and derived CME arrival times at VEX are not earlier than those at Wind, which suggests the importance of determining both the frontal shape and propagation direction of the CME in interplanetary space; (3) the ICME was compressed in the radial direction while the longitudinal transverse size was extended.
description: 20 pages, 9 figures, 1 table; accepted by ApJ
On hyperbolic systems with entropy velocity covariant under the action of a group
Creators: name: Dubois, François
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: For hyperbolic systems of conservation laws in one space dimension with a mathematical entropy, we define the notion of entropy velocity. Then we give sufficient conditions for such a system to be covariant under the action of a group of space-time transformations. These conditions naturally introduce a representation of the group in the space of states. We construct such hyperbolic system from the knowledge of data on the manifold of null velocity. We apply these ideas for Galileo, Lorentz and circular groups. We focus on particular non trivial examples for two by two systems of conservation laws.
description: 22 pages
The right to love in spite of the tribe: the interaction between culture, religion and social pressure, on interfaith and cross-cultural dating and marriage
Creators: name: Yahya, Siham
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: With increasing globalization, the possibility of interacting with people from different cultural backgrounds and faiths is greater than ever. Additionally, the possibility of these interactions developing into more serious relationships (e.g., dating and marriage) is also increasing. Nevertheless, interfaith and cross-cultural dating and marriages have and remain taboo in certain societies and religions (e.g., antimiscegenation laws). Individuals engaging in interfaith and cross-cultural relationships sometimes also face ostracism (by family and friends) and even death penalties in more extreme cases. Despite this, the numbers of interfaith and cross-cultural couples are increasing gradually, despite the obstacles that some of them face. Questions arise then concerning both the inhibiting as well as facilitating factors of interfaith and cross-cultural relationships.The current thesis investigated the relation between religious affiliation and social/cultural pressure towards interfaith and cross-cultural dating and marriages. Four studies were carried out to explore the subject addressed. The first study explored the relationship between the three monotheistic religions Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and individuals' attitudes towards interfaith dating and marriages. The second study examined the perceived influence of parental and social pressure on individuals' perceptions regarding cross-cultural and interfaith dating and marriage. Further, the third study examined attitudes towards interfaith and cross-cultural relationships between Jewish, Christian and Muslim individuals living in Israel, a conflict-ridden area. Finally, the fourth study looked at factors associated with short and long-term interfaith and cross-cultural married couples.The general findings suggest that interfaith and cross-cultural relationships are both difficult to initiate and maintain if the social network surrounding the couple is not approving of the relationship. Moreover, the more religiously affiliated an individual is, the less likely it is that they will engage in an interfaith or cross-cultural relationship. Additionally, for an interfaith and cross-cultural relationship to work, it requires one of the individuals in the relationship to compromise more than the other for the relationship to work. Lastly, there appears to be a generational attitude shift towards interfaith and cross-cultural relationships, with individuals generally more open to the possibility of interfaith and cross-cultural relationships compared to earlier generations.
Radical polymerization approach for ring opened oxanorbornene anhydride based macromonomers
Creators: name: Kollarigowda, Ravichandran H.
name: Thakur, Pankaj
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: In this work, we synthesized end group functionalization of the cis-Norbornene-5-6-endo-dicarboxylic anhydride species via the ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) of oxanorbornene derivatives generated a chiseled poly(cis-Norbornene-5-6-endo-Dicarboxylic anhydride) acrylate macromonomer. Further, acrylate oxanorbornene based macromonomer further polymerized via reversible addition fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization technique. Chain transfer is exhibited in the structure during the radical polymerizations so that free radical polymerization could also be used to comb structure copolymers with a PDI value below 1.2 with the help of acrylate oxanorbornene. Atomic force microscopy reveals the comb shape of branched polymer brushes structure. This method involves polymerizable end-group attachment to a macromonomer, and the backbone of the comb polymer is created in a second step of the polymerization. We believe that this kind of comb structured polymers can be considered for different biological applications.
Pairing and deformation effects in nuclear excitation spectra
Creators: name: Repko, A.
name: Kvasil, J.
name: Nesterenko, V. O.
name: Reinhard, P. -G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate effects of pairing and of quadrupole deformation on two sorts of nuclear excitations,$γ$-vibrational $K^π=2^+$ states and dipole resonances (isovector dipole, pygmy, compression, toroidal). The analysis is performed within the quasiparticle random-phase approximation (QRPA) based on the Skyrme energy functional using the Skyrme parametrization SLy6. Particular attention is paid to i) the role of the particle-particle (pp) channel in the residual interaction of QRPA, ii) comparison of volume pairing (VP) and surface pairing (SP), iii) peculiarities of deformation splitting in the various resonances. We find that the impact of the pp-channel on the considered excitations is negligible. This conclusion applies also to any other excitation except for the $K^π=0^+$ states. Furthermore, the difference between VP and SP is found small (with exception of peak height in the toroidal mode). In the low-energy isovector dipole (pygmy) and isoscalar toroidal modes, the branch $K^π=1^-$ is shown to dominate over $K^π=0^-$ one in the range of excitation energy $E
description: 12 pages, 12 figures
Admissibility and rectification of colored symmetric operads
Creators: name: Pavlov, Dmitri
name: Scholbach, Jakob
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 55P48, 18D50, 55U35, 18G55 (Primary), 55P43, 18D20 (Secondary)

description: We establish a highly flexible condition that guarantees that all colored symmetric operads in a symmetric monoidal model category are admissible, i.e., the category of algebras over any operad admits a model structure transferred from the original model category. We also give a necessary and sufficient criterion that ensures that a given weak equivalence of admissible operads admits rectification, i.e., the corresponding Quillen adjunction between the categories of algebras is a Quillen equivalence. In addition, we show that Quillen equivalences of underlying symmetric monoidal model categories yield Quillen equivalences of model categories of algebras over operads. Applications of these results include enriched categories, colored operads, prefactorization algebras, and commutative symmetric ring spectra.
description: 34 pages. Comments and questions are very welcome. v2: The first 7 sections were split off to arXiv:1510.04969. Added a rectification result for algebras over quasicategorical operads. v3: Identical to the journal version except for formatting, style, and additional details in the proof of Proposition 7.9. v4: Corrected the proof of Theorem 7.5
The Evolution and Physical Parameters of WN3/O3s: a New Type of Wolf-Rayet Star
Creators: name: Neugent, Kathryn F.
name: Massey, Philip
name: Hillier, D. John
name: Morrell, Nidia I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As part of a search for Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars in the Magellanic Clouds, we have discovered a new type of WR star in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). These stars have both strong emission lines, as well as He ii and Balmer absorption lines and spectroscopically resemble a WN3 and O3V binary pair. However, they are visually too faint to be WN3+O3V binary systems. We have found nine of these WN3/O3s, making up ~6% of the population of LMC WRs. Using CMFGEN, we have successfully modeled their spectra as single stars and have compared the physical parameters with those of more typical LMC WNs. Their temperatures are around 100,000 K, a bit hotter than the majority of WN stars (by around 10,000 K) although a few hotter WNs are known. The abundances are what you would expect for CNO equilibrium. However, most anomalous are their mass-loss rates which are more like that of an O-type star than a WN star. While their evolutionary status is uncertain, their low mass-loss rates and wind velocities suggest that they are not products of homogeneous evolution. It is possible instead that these stars represent an intermediate stage between O stars and WNs. Since WN3/O3 stars are unknown in the Milky Way, we suspect that their formation depends upon metallicity, and we are investigating this further by a deep survey in M33, which posses a metallicity gradient.
description: ApJ, accepted
Combining probability distributions: Extending the logarithmic pooling approach
Creators: name: de Carvalho, Luiz Max
name: Villela, Daniel A. M.
name: Coelho, Flavio Codeco
name: Bastos, Leonardo Soares
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Combining distributions is an important issue in decision theory and Bayesian inference. Logarithmic pooling is a popular method to aggregate expert opinions by using a set of weights that reflect the reliability of each information source. However, the resulting pooled distribution depends heavily on set of weights given to each opinion/prior and thus careful consideration must be given to the choice of weights. In this paper we review and extend the statistical theory of logarithmic pooling, focusing on the assignment of the weights using a hierarchical prior distribution. We explore several statistical applications, such as the estimation of survival probabilities, meta-analysis and Bayesian melding of deterministic models of population growth and epidemics. We show that it is possible learn the weights from data, although identifiability issues may arise for some configurations of priors and data. Furthermore, we show how the hierarchical approach leads to posterior distributions that are able to accommodate prior-data conflict in complex models.
description: Massively updated manuscript; submitted for publication
Hierarchical geometries and adhesion: Bio-inspired designs for stiff interfaces
Creators: name: Rayneau-Kirkhope, D.
name: Mao, Y.
name: Rauch, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Throughout biology, hierarchy is a recurrent theme in the geometry of structures where strength is achieved with minimal use of material. Acting over vast timescales, evolution has brought about beautiful solutions to problems of optimisation that are only now being understood and incorporated into engineering design. One particular example of this hierarchy is found in the junction between stiff keratinised material and the soft biological matter within the hooves of ungulates. Using this biological interface as a design motif, we investigate the role of hierarchy in the creation of a stiff, robust interface between two materials. We show that through hierarchical design one can manipulate the scaling laws relating constituent material stiffness and overall interface stiffness under both shear and tension loading. Furthermore, we uncover a cascade of scaling laws for the higher order structure and link their origin with competing deformation modes within the structure. We demonstrate that when joining two materials of different stiffness, under shear or tension, hierarchical geometries are linked with beneficial mechanical properties.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures
Polyhedral aspects of score equivalence in Bayesian network structure learning
Creators: name: Cussens, James
name: Haws, David
name: Studeny, Milan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: G.1.6
subject: 90-02

description: This paper deals with faces and facets of the family-variable polytope and the characteristic-imset polytope, which are special polytopes used in integer linear programming approaches to statistically learn Bayesian network structure. A common form of linear objectives to be maximized in this area leads to the concept of score equivalence (SE), both for linear objectives and for faces of the family-variable polytope. We characterize the linear space of SE objectives and establish a one-to-one correspondence between SE faces of the family-variable polytope, the faces of the characteristic-imset polytope, and standardized supermodular functions. The characterization of SE facets in terms of extremality of the corresponding supermodular function gives an elegant method to verify whether an inequality is SE-facet-defining for the family-variable polytope. We also show that when maximizing an SE objective one can eliminate linear constraints of the family-variable polytope that correspond to non-SE facets. However, we show that solely considering SE facets is not enough as a counter-example shows; one has to consider the linear inequality constraints that correspond to facets of the characteristic-imset polytope despite the fact that they may not define facets in the family-variable mode.
description: 37 pages
Latent structure of the autism phenotype
Creators: name: Grove, Rachel
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: The Empathising-Systemising (E-S) theory of autism argues that the persistent deficits in communication and social interaction in autism spectrum conditions (ASC)1 can be accounted for by an impairment in empathy, whilst the repetitive behaviours and narrow interests can be explained by a strong drive to understand and derive rules about a system; namely systemising. Autistic traits are thought to follow a continuous distribution, with individuals with autism represented at the more severe end of this spectrum. Furthermore, subthreshold traits have also been identified in first-degree relatives of individuals with ASC, termed the broader autism phenotype (BAP). While there has been some research assessing the cognitive and behavioural symptoms associated with the autism spectrum using clinical samples, no studies to date have simultaneously evaluated the autism phenotype amongst individuals with a clinical diagnosis of ASC, first-degree relatives and community samples. This thesis uses structural equation modelling to evaluate the E-S theory of autism in order to understand the latent structure of the autism phenotype. Furthermore, it seeks to determine whether the latent structure of the autism phenotype is consistent amongst three groups stratified by genetic vulnerability: individuals with an autism diagnosis, parents of a child with ASC, and general population controls.
Mysteries of Visual Experience
Creators: name: Feldman, Jerome
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Science is a crowning glory of the human spirit and its applications remain our best hope for social progress. But there are limitations to current science and perhaps to any science. The general mind-body problem is known to be intractable and currently mysterious. This is one of many deep problems that are universally agreed to be beyond the current purview of Science, including quantum phenomena, etc. But all of these famous unsolved problems are either remote from everyday experience (entanglement, dark matter) or are hard to even define sharply (phenomenology, consciousness, etc.). An updated summary of this work has been published as: Feldman, J. (2022). Computation, perception, and mind. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45, E48. doi:10.1017/S0140525X21001886 A more readable, open access, version is: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6cs78450
description: This 3/27/2022 revision retains all the original text but adds new comments (in italics) There are several new references, connecting with current research
Polarized SERS of individual suspended carbon nanotubes by Pt-Re nanoantennas
Creators: name: Bäuml, Christian
name: Korn, Tobias
name: Lange, Christoph
name: Schüller, Christian
name: Strunk, Christoph
name: Paradiso, Nicola
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present optical nanoantennas designed for applications that require processing temperatures larger than 800°C. The antennas consist of arrays of Re/Pt bilayer strips fabricated with a lift-off-free technique on top of etched trenches. Reflectance measurements show a clear plasmonic resonance at approximately 670 nm for light polarized orthogonal to the strip axis. The functionality of the antennas is demonstrated by growing single-walled carbon nanotubes (CNTs) on top of the antenna arrays and measuring the corresponding Raman signal enhancement of individual CNTs. The results of the measurements are quantitatively discussed in light of numerical simulations which highlight the impact of the substrate.
Fairleigh Dickinson University's PublicMind: New Jersey September 2014 Poll
Creators: name: Fairleigh Dickinson University's PublicMind
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2020

description: Registered to vote (1); President Barack Obama job approval (1); country moving in right direction/wrong track (1); Governor Chris Christie (1); New Jersey right direction/wrong track (1); Democratic vs. Republican candidates for Congress (2); country benefits more when president and majorities in Congress are from same party (1); amendment to New Jersey state constitution to allow judges to deny bail based on public safety (1); Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton vs. republican candidates for president (3); payment for student athletes (2); nominees for governor (2); fan of college sports (1); public employee pension system membership (1).
Correlation of Troponin T Levels in the Cardiac Sudden Death Cases at Hospital Kuala Lumpur
Creators: name: PS, Lai
name: M, Nur Shafina
name: Mohd Hilmi S
name: R, Nur Shazuwani
name: Normaizuwana MM
name: Kunasilan S
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 170104 Forensic Psychology
subject: FOS: Other medical sciences

description: Cardiac deaths accounted for 50% of all deaths in the developed and one fourth in the developing world. Sudden cardiac death due to an acute myocardial infarction (AMI) comprises a significant proportion of autopsy cases. Troponin levels act as a specific and sensitive indicator of myocardial infarction. However, histological evaluation for the diagnosis of AMI remains the gold standard. This retrospective study was based on the total of 154 post-mortem cases and total of 85 emergency cases with Trop T samples sent for laboratory investigation in year 2016 at Hospital Kuala Lumpur. From the post-mortem cases, Trop T values for non-cardiac related death cases (5.322 ng/ml) were higher than cardiac-related death (4.916 ng/ml) with no significant difference between them although Trop T values were highly sensitive to myocardial infarction but the limitation was on the specificity. There was also no correlation between post-mortem Trop T levels to the cardiac-related cause of death using post-mortem cases. The minimum Trop T value amongst the MI post-mortem cases was assumed to be the cut-off value i.e. ≥ 0.390 ng/ml. Although the elevated Trop T values might concur with the diagnosis of acute coronary syndrome causing subsequent death, there were multiple factors that can attribute to an elevated Trop T results after death including post-mortem performing interval and depending on the severity of myocardial damage at the time of death. Eventually 38 emergency cases certified with MI were compared with 8 post-mortem cases certified with MI. The mean for post-mortem (PM) cases (5.065 ± 4.498 ng/ml) was much higher than those ante-mortem (AM) case (1.327 ± 1.918 ng/ml). Hence, there was statistically significant difference between ante-mortem and post-mortem cases presented with myocardial infarction. As such, post-mortem Trop T level could probably not be used to reflect the ante-mortem Trop T level to diagnose myocardial infarction. In addition, the effect of post-mortem performing interval was also statistically significant between interval of < 12 hours and 12 - 48 hours. A prospective study should be conducted by using the same patient diagnosed with myocardial infarction to analyse the ante-mortem and post-mortem Trop T value.
The Probability to Prove the Distinguishing Handwriting Between Natural and Disguise of Egyptian Arab Writing
Creators: name: Mwaheb MA
name: Rashed KE
name: AS, Salim
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 170104 Forensic Psychology
subject: FOS: Other medical sciences

description: Background: In the forensic field examination, "a standard" is simply known item to which an unknown item can be compared. In the disguise Arab writing, we can attribute the disguised writing to its owner by looking to the dots, also by looking at the end of words and by looking at the end of sentences. Method: The research design and methods of this study were approved by the Ministry of Justice and Fayoum University. Together handwritten samples for our study, 40 student volunteers, and 40 Forensic Handwriting expert’s volunteers. Results: The current study showed a degree of disguise with high mean among (Forensic handwriting examination) FHE group. On the other hand showed moderate and low disguise among students group, which indicated increasing in age, will associate with increase ability and degree of disguise. Also, showed a degree of disguise with high mean among females in students group while with high mean among male in FHE group. Conclusion: The solutions of disguised handwriting problems are often very difficult specific when there is a limited amount of writing such as a ratification on an investigation, or if only integrate standards are available.
Critical parameters of consistent relativistic mean-field models
Creators: name: Lourenço, O.
name: Dutra, M.
name: Menezes, D. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the present work, the critical temperature, critical pressure and critical density, known as the critical parameters related to the liquid-gas phase transition are calculated for 34 relativistic mean-field models, which were shown to satisfy nuclear matter constraints in a comprehensive study involving 263 models. The compressibility factor was calculated and all 34 models present values lower than the one obtained with the van der Waals equation of state. The critical temperatures were compared with experimental data and just two classes of models can reach values close to them. A correlation between the critical parameters and the incompressibility was obtained.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures
Investigating the influence of diffractive interactions on ultra - high energy extensive air showers
Creators: name: Arbeletche, L. B.
name: Goncalves, V. P.
name: Muller, M. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The understanding of the basic properties of the ultra - high energy extensive air showers is strongly dependent on the description of the hadronic interactions in a energy range beyond that probed by the LHC. One of the uncertainties present in the modeling of the air showers is the treatment of diffractive interactions, which are dominated by non - perturbative physics and usually described by phenomenological models. These interactions are expect to affect the development of the air showers, since they provide a way of transporting substantial amounts of energy deep in the atmosphere, modifying the global characteristics of the shower profile. In this paper we investigate the impact of the diffractive interactions in the observables that can be measured in hadronic collisions at high energies and ultra - high energy cosmic ray interactions. We consider three distinct phenomenological models for the treatment of diffractive physics and estimate the influence of these interactions on the elasticity, number of secondaries, longitudinal air shower profiles and muon densities for proton - air and iron - air collisions at different primary energies. Our results demonstrate that the diffractive events has a non - negligible effect on the observables and that the distinct approaches for these interactions, present in the phenomenological models, are an important source of theoretical uncertainty for the description of the extensive air showers.
description: 19 pages, 11 figures
The classification of purely non-symplectic automorphisms of high order on K3 surfaces
Creators: name: Brandhorst, Simon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14J28 (Primary), 14J50 (Secondary)

description: An automorphism of order $n$ of a K3 surface is called purely non-symplectic if it multiplies the holomorphic symplectic form by a primitive $n$-th root of unity. We give the classification of purely non-symplectic automorphisms with $φ(n)\geq 12$ where $φ$ denotes the Euler totient function.
description: v5: Added a missing case of order 26 to Table 3. Removed Corollary 1.3 because it is false
Determination of Sex and Stature from Latent Palm Prints Present on Documents in Egyptian Population Sample
Creators: name: Abd-Elaleem SA
name: EI, Hassan
name: Asem Mohammed MM
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 170104 Forensic Psychology
subject: FOS: Other medical sciences

description: Palm and finger prints are considered one of the best methods of absolute identification of an individual. So the aim of this study was to determine sex and stature from the latent palm prints present on documents. This study was done on 129 persons (60 males and 69 females) and they were asked to put their signatures on a blank paper. After that, ninhydrin solution was sprayed over the paper. After appearance of the latent print; the paper is scanned with its original size, then the scanned picture was opened with Geometer’s sketchpad software. Stature and fourteen parameters were measured. As regards sex determination; there was a significant increase in LA, LB, LC, perimeter and area in males than females (P <0.001). By stepwise discriminant functional analysis, the most accurate predictors of sax were LA and area. As regards stature estimation, the most predictors of stature by stepwise regression analysis in males were Angle C and LB, while in females the most predictors were area, angle B, RA and Angle C. Finally, it was confirmed that latent palm prints on documents are helpful in sex and stature determination in Egyptian population sample through measurement of different distances and angles.
$\ell^2$ bounded variation and absolutely continuous spectrum of Jacobi matrices
Creators: name: Last, Yoram
name: Lukic, Milivoje
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 47B36 (Primary), 42C05, 39A70 (Secondary)

description: We disprove a conjecture of Breuer-Last-Simon concerning the absolutely continuous spectrum of Jacobi matrices with coefficients that obey an $\ell^2$ bounded variation condition with step $q$. We prove existence of a.c. spectrum on a smaller set than that specified by the conjecture and prove that our result is optimal.
description: 21 pages
Rokhlin Property for Group Actions on Hilbert $C^*$-modules
Creators: name: Dey, Santanu
name: Osaka, Hiroyuki
name: Trivedi, Harsh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46L08, 46L35, 46L40, 46L55

description: We introduce Rokhlin properties for certain discrete group actions on $C^*$-correspondences as well as on Hilbert bimodules and analyze them. It turns out that the group actions on any $C^*$-correspondence $E$ with Rokhlin property induces group actions on the associated $C^*$-algebra $\mathcal O_E$ with Rokhlin property and the group actions on any Hilbert bimodule with Rokhlin property induces group actions on the linking algebra with Rokhlin property. Permanence properties of several notions such as nuclear dimension and $\mathcal D$-absorbing property with respect to crossed product of Hilbert $C^*$-modules with groups, where group actions have Rokhlin property, are studied. We also investigate a notion of outerness for Hilbert bimodules.
description: 25pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1401.6852 by other authors
Capture the growth kinetics of CVD growth of two-dimensional MoS2
Creators: name: Zhu, Dancheng
name: Shu, Haibo
name: Jiang, Feng
name: Lv, Danhui
name: Asokan, Vijay
name: Omar, Omar
name: Yuan, Jun
name: Zhang, Ze
name: Jin, Chuanhong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Understanding the microscopic mechanism of chemical vapor deposition (CVD) growth of two-dimensional molybdenum disulfide (2D MoS2) is a fundamental issue towards the function-oriented controlled growth. In this work, we report results on revealing the growth kinetics of 2D MoS2 via capturing the nucleation seed, evolution morphology, edge structure and terminations at the atomic scale during CVD growth using the transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) studies. The direct growth of few- and mono-layer MoS2 onto graphene based TEM grids allow us to perform the subsequent TEM characterization without any solution-based transfer. Two forms of seeding centers are observed during characterizations: (i) Mo-oxysulfide (MoOxS2-y) nanoparticles either in multi-shelled fullerene-like structures or in compact nanocrystals for the growth of fewer-layer MoS2; (ii) Mo-S atomic clusters in case of monolayer MoS2. In particular, for the monolayer case, at the early stage growth, the morphology appears in irregular polygon shape comprised with two primary edge terminations: S-Mo Klein edge and Mo zigzag edge, approximately in equal numbers, while as the growth proceeds, the morphology further evolves into near-triangle shape in which Mo zigzag edge predominates. Results from density-functional theory calculations are also consistent with the inferred growth kinetics, and thus supportive to the growth mechanism we proposed. In general, the growth mechanisms found here should also be applicable in other 2D materials, such as MoSe2, WS2 and WSe2 etc.
description: 20 pages, 5 figures
An investigation of the biosocial model of borderline personality disorder
Creators: name: Gill, Duncan James
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Linehan's biosocial model of borderline personality disorder posits that the disorder is due to emotional dysregulation, which is in turn caused primarily by the interaction between an emotionally vulnerable child being raised in an invalidating environment. Despite the popularity of the therapy derived from this model, dialectical behaviour therapy, this model has not been empirically validated. In the first study self-report measures of borderline traits, emotional dysregulation, childhood emotional vulnerability and invalidating parenting were administered to a community sample. Emotion dysregulation was found to strongly predict borderline traits; however the interaction between childhood emotional vulnerability and invalidating parenting was not found to be an important part of the model. Further, the effects of validating parenting upon borderline traits were not mediated by emotion dysregulation. The second study extended the findings of the first, attempting to improve the measure of emotional dysregulation by including aspects of emotional dysregulation not currently assessed. Further, the applicability of the biosocial model to a comparison psychopathology, chronic worry, was assessed. It was found that childhood emotional vulnerability had a similar relationship to both forms of pathology, suggesting that this represents a general risk factor (akin to childhood neuroticism). Further, differing patterns of emotion regulation deficits were noted for each of the pathologies. Overall these studies failed to support the biosocial model, raising questions as to the posited relationships between key constructs in the model and their specificity to borderline personality disorder. A potentially more accurate model is posited, that highlights the role of a number of factors in the disorder and its evolving nature.
Options as Silver Bullets: Valuation of Term Loans, Inventory Management, Emissions Trading and Insurance Risk Mitigation using Option Theory
Creators: name: Kashyap, Ravi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Pricing of Securities (q-fin.PR)
subject: General Economics (econ.GN)
subject: Portfolio Management (q-fin.PM)
subject: Trading and Market Microstructure (q-fin.TR)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 91G20 Derivative securities, 90B05 Inventory, 60G25 Prediction theory, 91B76 Environmental economics, 68U35 Computing methodologies for information systems

description: Models to price long term loans in the securities lending business are developed. These longer horizon deals can be viewed as contracts with optionality embedded in them. This insight leads to the usage of established methods from derivatives theory to price such contracts. Numerical simulations are used to demonstrate the practical applicability of these models. The techniques advanced here can lead to greater synergies between the management of derivative and delta-one trading desks, perhaps even being able to combine certain aspects of the day to day operations of these seemingly disparate entities. These models are part of one of the least explored, yet profit laden, areas of modern investment management. A heuristic is developed to mitigate any loss of information, which might set in when parameters are estimated first and then the valuations are performed, by directly calculating valuations using the historical time series. This approach to valuations can lead to reduced models errors, robust estimation systems, greater financial stability and economic strength. An illustration is provided regarding how the methodologies developed here could be useful for inventory management, emissions trading and insurance risk mitigation. All these techniques could have applications for dealing with other financial instruments, non-financial commodities and many forms of uncertainty.
Additional file 1 of Role of DNA methylation in the association of lung function with body mass index: a two-step epigenetic Mendelian randomisation study
Creators: name: Amaral, André F. S.
name: Imboden, Medea
name: Wielscher, Matthias
name: Rezwan, Faisal I.
name: Minelli, Cosetta
name: Garcia-Aymerich, Judith
name: Peralta, Gabriela P.
name: Auvinen, Juha
name: Jeong, Ayoung
name: Schaffner, Emmanuel
name: Beckmeyer-Borowko, Anna
name: Holloway, John W.
name: Jarvelin, Marjo-Riitta
name: Probst-Hensch, Nicole M.
name: Jarvis, Deborah L.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary File 1.
Quantifying instabilities in Financial Markets
Creators: name: Gonçalves, Bruna Amin
name: Carpi, Laura
name: Rosso, Osvaldo A.
name: Ravetti, Martin G.
name: Atman, A. P. F
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Statistical Finance (q-fin.ST)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Financial global crisis has devastating impacts to economies since early XX century and continues to impose increasing collateral damages for governments, enterprises, and society in general. Up to now, all efforts to obtain efficient methods to predict these events have been disappointing. However, the quest for a robust estimator of the degree of the market efficiency, or even, a crisis predictor, is still one of the most studied subjects in the field. We present here an original contribution that combines Information Theory with graph concepts, to study the return rate series of 32 global trade markets. Specifically, we propose a very simple quantifier that shows to be highly correlated with global financial instability periods, being also a good estimator of the market crisis risk and market resilience. We show that this estimator displays striking results when applied to countries that played central roles during the last major global market crisis. The simplicity and effectiveness of our quantifier allow us to anticipate its use in a wide range of disciplines.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Unintentional Celebratory Gunshot to a 3-year-old Child with Injury to Deep Circumflex Iliac Artery - A Rare Case Report
Creators: name: Mandal SP
name: Senthil KR
name: Vaishnav D
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 170104 Forensic Psychology
subject: FOS: Other medical sciences

description: Celebratory firing is one of the causes of Unintentional firearm injuries. This paper reports a case of a 3-year-old female child who died following gunshot injury sustained in a marriage function she attended with her parents. The bullet entered from the right upper abdomen and injured deep circumflex iliac artery on the left side before perforating the left iliac blade and leaving the body. The rarity of the vessel injury caused the clinician to miss the hemoperitoneum initially which lead to hemorrhagic shock and finally death. This article discusses the mechanism of gunshot injury sustained by the girl, and also urges the government to implement strict laws to prevent such kind of accidents in the future.
Cotangent Bundle to the Flag Variety - I
Creators: name: Lakshmibai, V.
name: Seshadri, C. S.
name: Singh, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20G20 (primary), 20G44 (secondary)

description: We show that there is a ${SL_n}$-stable closed subset of an affine Schubert variety in the infinite dimensional Flag variety (associated to the Kac-Moody group ${\widehat{SL_n}}$) which is a natural compactification of the cotangent bundle to the finite-dimensional Flag variety ${SL_n/B}$.
description: 18 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1505.00038
A framework for simulation and inversion in electromagnetics
Creators: name: Heagy, Lindsey J.
name: Cockett, Rowan
name: Kang, Seogi
name: Rosenkjaer, Gudni K.
name: Oldenburg, Douglas W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Simulations and inversions of electromagnetic geophysical data are paramount for discerning meaningful information about the subsurface from these data. Depending on the nature of the source electromagnetic experiments may be classified as time-domain or frequency-domain. Multiple heterogeneous and sometimes anisotropic physical properties, including electrical conductivity and magnetic permeability, may need be considered in a simulation. Depending on what one wants to accomplish in an inversion, the parameters which one inverts for may be a voxel-based description of the earth or some parametric representation that must be mapped onto a simulation mesh. Each of these permutations of the electromagnetic problem has implications in a numerical implementation of the forward simulation as well as in the computation of the sensitivities, which are required when considering gradient-based inversions. This paper proposes a framework for organizing and implementing electromagnetic simulations and gradient-based inversions in a modular, extensible fashion. We take an object-oriented approach for defining and organizing each of the necessary elements in an electromagnetic simulation, including: the physical properties, sources, formulation of the discrete problem to be solved, the resulting fields and fluxes, and receivers used to sample to the electromagnetic responses. A corresponding implementation is provided as part of the open source simulation and parameter estimation project SimPEG (http://simpeg.xyz). The application of the framework is demonstrated through two synthetic examples and one field example.