cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Far-infrared soft mode behavior in PST thin films
Creators: name: Kamba, S.
name: Berta, M.
name: Kempa, M.
name: Petzelt, J.
name: Brinkman, K.
name: Setter, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Temperature dependences of the optic phonons in $\rm PbSc_{1/2}Ta_{1/2}O_3$ sol-gel films deposited on sapphire substrates were studied by means of Fourier transform far-infrared transmission spectroscopy in the temperature range 20-900\K. Four films displaying different B-site order with both ferroelectric and relaxor behavior were studied. In all cases the TO mode near 80\icm{} at 10\K{} softens on heating to $\approx$45\icm{} following the Cochran law with extrapolated critical temperature near 700\K{} (400\K{} above the temperature of dielectric maximum, $T_{\rm m}$), but above 600\K{} its frequency remains stabilized. It can be assigned to the A$_{1}$ component of the ferroelectric soft mode inside polar clusters which form below the Burns temperature near 700\K. In the ordered PST film another mode activates below T$_{m}$ in infrared spectra near 60\icm exhibiting also anomalous temperature dependence due to its coupling with the former mode. It is assigned to the A$_{1}$ component of the F$_{2g}$ Raman active mode. Central mode, which appears below the Burns temperature in the THz range, is assigned to the dynamics of polar clusters. It slows down on cooling and vanishes from our spectral range below $T_{\rm m}$. Another overdamped excitation assigned to the E component of the soft mode appears near 30\icm{} at low temperatures.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
A-site Ordering versus Electronic Inhomogeneity in CMR-Manganite Films
Creators: name: Moshnyaga, V.
name: Sudheendra, L.
name: Lebedev, O. I.
name: Gehrke, K.
name: Shapoval, O.
name: Belenchuk, A.
name: Koester, S. A.
name: Damaschke, B.
name: van Tendeloo, G.
name: Samwer, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Epitaxial La3/4Ca1/4MnO3/MgO(100) (LCMO) thin films show unusual rhombohedral (R-3c) structure with a new perovskite superstructure due to unique ordering of La and Ca at the A-site positions. Very sharp insulator-metal and para-ferromagnetic phase transitions at temperatures up to TMI ~ TC=295 K were observed. The ordered films were electronically homogeneous down to 1 nm scale as revealed by scanning tunnelling microscopy/spectroscopy. In contrast, orthorhombic and A-site disordered LCMO demonstrate broadened phase transitions as well as mesoscopic phase separation for T<
description: We have added two references and additional sentences
Hochleistung versus Hochbegabung im Mathematikunterricht der Sekundarstufe II
Creators: name: Brandl, Matthias
Publisher: name: PAradigma: Beiträge aus Forschung und Lehre aus dem Zentrum für Lehrerbildung und Fachdidaktik
Year: 2017

description: Hinsichtlich integrierender oder inkludierender Unterrichtsverfahren stehen Lehrkräfte vor der Herausforderung, die Anforderungen von Minderheiten im Klassenverband zu berücksichtigen. Am gegenüberliegenden Ende des durch etwaige Behinderungen eingeschränkten Leistungsspektrums steht die Gruppe der hochleistenden Schülerinnen und Schüler Hochleistung resultiert dabei aus dem synergetischen Zusammenwirken unterschiedlicher Faktoren zur Realisierung eines zugrunde liegenden Begabungspotentials, das als viables Konstrukt angesehen wird. Im Rahmen der hier dargestellten Studie wurden hochleistende Schülerinnen und Schüler der Sekundarstufe II in Bezug auf ihr Persönlichkeitsprofil, ihre Interessen, beliefs und Leistungen im Fach Mathematik hin untersucht. Zum Abgleich wurden zusätzlich Lehrer/innen-Interviews durchgeführt sowie historische empirische Daten verwendet. In der Gegenüberstellung zeigt sich ein spezifisches Auseinanderklaffen der Persönlichkeits- und Leistungsprofile mathematisch Hochleistender und potenziell mathematisch Begabter; u.a. erzielen die nach klassischen Merkmalen ("Interesse", "Ästhetik", "Spielen" und "Selbständig") ausgewählten potenziell mathematisch begabten Schülerinnen und Schüler innerhalb der Hochleistungs-Stichprobe tatsächlich die höchsten Leistungswerte
description: PAradigma: Beiträge aus Forschung und Lehre aus dem Zentrum für Lehrerbildung und Fachdidaktik, Bd. 7 (2014)
Methods for Learning with Few Data Slides
Creators: Marcus Liwicki
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2024

IEEE WCCI 2024
Deep Neural Networks are data hungry, they require millions of labelled data in order to work! — Really? — The last decade has shown useful approaches to work with less labelled data, either by having a lot of data from a similar domain or by letting the network learn meaningful representations without explicit supervision. This tutorial first brings self-supervised learning to a general perspective of learning with few data, covering typical transfer learning and auto-encoder approaches or perceptual loss. Furthermore, the tutorial will investigate some typical (mis-) conceptions of these methods and suggest some practical tips on how to learn with few data. By participating in this tutorial, you will get deep insights in representation learning and learning with few data, as well as practical tools to start working on data in your own domain.
Coccotrypes advena Blandford 1894
Creators: name: Rabaglia, Robert J.
name: Beaver, Roger A.
name: Johnson, Andrew J.
name: Schmaedick, Mark A.
name: Smith, Sarah M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Coccotrypes
Coccotrypes advena

description: Coccotrypes advena Blandford
 Coccotrypes advena Blandford, 1894b: 100.
 Thamnurgides setosus Beeson, 1929: 228. Synonymy: Browne 1970: 566.
 Beeson (1929) described this species as Thamnurgides setosus from Tutuila (Fagasa). The species is widespread throughout much of the tropics.
Current survey records: American Samoa: Tutuila Isl.: Aoloau, Tafuna.
description: Published as part of Rabaglia, Robert J., Beaver, Roger A., Johnson, Andrew J., Schmaedick, Mark A. & Smith, Sarah M., 2020, The bark and ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae and Platypodinae) of American Samoa, pp. 171-195 in Zootaxa 4808 (1) on page 176, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4808.1.11, http://zenodo.org/record/3927891
title: The role of formyl peptide receptors in the regulation of platelet function
Creators: name: Salamah, Maryam
Publisher: name: University of Reading
Year: 2019

description: Formyl peptide receptors (FPRs) belong to the family of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) and play crucial roles in the regulation of innate immunity and host defence. FPRs include three family members; FPR1, FPR2/ALX and FPR3. They bind a wide variety of structurally and chemically diverse ligands that can exert various functions. Despite a plethora of research focusing on the role of FPRs in the regulation of immunity, there is a paucity of studies on their roles on the regulation of platelet haemostatic function. Here, we demonstrate the impact of both FPR1 and FPR2/ALX on the modulation of platelet reactivity, haemostasis and thrombosis. By using selective pharmacological inhibitors for FPR1 and FPR2/ALX, and Fpr1- and Fpr2/3-deficient mice, we were able to establish instrumental roles for these receptors in the regulation of the normal platelet haemostatic function. Additionally, we report a crucial role for fMLF in the regulation of platelet function through FPR1 signalling. fMLF exerted a priming effect on platelet activation through inducing distinct functions and enhances thrombus formation under arterial flow conditions. These effects were diminished in the presence of FPR1-selective pharmacological inhibitors and in platelets obtained from Fpr1- deficient mice. In addition, we investigated the role of LL37 in the regulation of platelet function and its modulation on platelet reactivity under pathological conditions, such as psoriasis, via acting through FPR2/ALX. We demonstrate that LL37 activates a range of platelet functions, enhances thrombus formation, and shortens the tail-bleeding time in mice. Moreover, we report the overexpression of mCRAMP (an LL37 murine orthologue) in affected skin and plasma of a murine [imiquimod (IMQ)-induced] model of human psoriasis and its ability to enhance platelet responses via Fpr2/3. We also report a role for Annexin A1 and its N-terminal peptide, Ac2-26, in the regulation of platelet function through FPR2/ALX. Ac2-26 induced the activation of various platelet functions. Moreover, AnxA1-deficient mice demonstrate enhanced functional responses towards Ac2-26, which may be attributable to the overexpression of Fpr2/3 in these mice. Since both FPR1 and FPR2/ALX and their ligands play critical roles in various pathological conditions, their influence on the modulation of platelet activation and thrombus formation will provide novel insights into the mechanisms that control platelet-mediated complications under various disease settings.
Inverse scattering reconstruction of a three dimensional sound-soft axis-symmetric impenetrable object
Creators: name: Borges, Carlos
name: Lai, Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 65N21 (Primary) 65R32 (Secondary)

description: In this work, we consider the problem of reconstructing the shape of a three dimensional impenetrable sound-soft axis-symmetric obstacle from measurements of the scattered field at multiple frequencies. This problem has important applications in locating and identifying obstacles with axial symmetry in general, such as, land mines. We present a two-part framework for recovering the shape of the obstacle. In part 1, we introduce an algorithm to find the axis of symmetry of the obstacle by making use of the far field pattern. In part 2, we recover the shape of the obstacle by applying the recursive linearization algorithm (RLA) with multifrequency measurements of the scattered field. In the RLA, a sequence of inverse scattering problems using increasing single frequency measurements are solved. Each of those problems is ill-posed and nonlinear. The ill-posedness is treated by using a band-limited representation for the shape of the obstacle, while the nonlinearity is dealt with by applying the damped Gauss-Newton method. When using the RLA, a large number of forward scattering problems must be solved. Hence, it is paramount to have an efficient and accurate forward problem solver. For the forward problem, we apply separation of variables in the azimuthal coordinate and Fourier decompose the resulting problem, leaving us with a sequence of decoupled simpler forward scattering problems to solve. Numerical examples for the inverse problem are presented to show the feasibility of our two-part framework in different scenarios, particularly for objects with non-smooth boundaries.
description: 23 pages, 10 figures
Phase-field modeling of fracture in heterogeneous materials -- jump conditions, convergence and crack propagation
Creators: name: Hansen-Dörr, Arne Claus
name: Brummund, Jörg
name: Kästner, Markus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this contribution, a variational diffuse modeling framework for cracks in heterogeneous media is presented. A static order parameter smoothly bridges the discontinuity at material interfaces, while an evolving phase-field captures the regularized crack. The key novelty is the combination of a strain energy split with a partial rank-I relaxation in the vicinity of the diffuse interface. The former is necessary to account for physically meaningful crack kinematics like crack closure, the latter ensures the mechanical jump conditions throughout the diffuse region. The model is verified by a convergence study, where a circular bi-material disc with and without a crack is subjected to radial loads. For the uncracked case, analytical solutions are taken as reference. In a second step, the model is applied to crack propagation, where a meaningful influence on crack branching is observed, that underlines the necessity of a reasonable homogenization scheme. The presented model is particularly relevant for the combination of any variational strain energy split in the fracture phase-field model with a diffuse modeling approach for material heterogeneities.
description: 21 pages, 7 figures
Kronos Philosophical Journal, vol.VIII/2019
Creators: name: Szlezák, Thomas Alexander
name: Kerényi, Karl
name: Brasi, Diego De
name: Wilson, Peter Lamborn
name: Corbin, Henry
name: Corrigan, Kevin
name: Zaidi, Syed A. H.
name: Nowak, Piotr
name: Sallis, John
name: Brann, Eva
name: Hopkins, Burt C.
name: Kalkavage, Peter
name: Bodéüs, Richard
name: Shiffman, Mark
name: Kerr, Joshua
name: Dastur, Françoise
name: Spaak, Claude Vishnu
name: Love, Jeff
name: Meng, Michael
name: Serafin, Andrzej
name: Agamben, Giorgio
name: Szwed, Antoni
name: Yee, Cordell D. K.
name: Sławiński, Marek
name: Wolak, Jakub
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Plato
Aristotle
Platonism
Theology
Martin Heidegger
Edmund Husserl
Phenomenology

description: The annual Kronos Philosophical Journal was established in Warsaw in 2012. The papers presented in the annual might be of interest to the readers from outside Poland, allowing them to familiarize themselves with the dynamic thought of contemporary Polish authors, as well as entirely new topics, rarely discussed by English speaking authors.

 Volume VIII/2019 comprises papers on Platonic and Aristotelian tradition and it's reception, particularly in phenomenology and hermeneutics of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger.
Some Problems in Estimating Willingness to Pay with Contingent Valuation Surveys: Case for Consumer Acceptance of Genetically Modified Food
Creators: name: Chern, Wen S.
name: Kaneko, Naoya
name: Chern, Wen S.
name: Kaneko, Naoya
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Genetically modified foods
subject: contingent valuation
subject: willingness to pay

description: This paper reports results from a U.S. national telephone survey on genetically modified foods. The objectives of this paper are to determine the effect of "indifference" response on the estimate of willingness to pay and to test the assumption of common marginal utility of income among respondents.
Yield and Production Costs for Three Potential Dedicated Energy Crops in Mississippi and Oklahoma Environments
Creators: name: Busby, David P.
name: Little, Randall D.
name: Shaik, Saleem
name: Martins, Angelina
name: Epplin, Francis M.
name: Hwang, Seonghuyk
name: Baldwin, Brian S.
name: Taliaferro, Charles M.
name: Busby, David P.
name: Little, Randall D.
name: Shaik, Saleem
name: Martins, Angelina
name: Epplin, Francis M.
name: Hwang, Seonghuyk
name: Baldwin, Brian S.
name: Taliaferro, Charles M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Yield and Cost
subject: biomass species

description: The objective of this paper is to determine production costs of switchgrass, eastern gammagrass, and giant miscanthus using Mississippi and Oklahoma data. Production costs were computed using a standard enterprise budgeting approach by species and method of harvest. Results indicate cost difference across species and method of harvest.
Melting and evaporation transitions in small Al clusters: canonical Monte-Carlo simulations
Creators: name: Werner, Ralph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A dimer of bound atoms cannot melt, only dissociate. Bulk metals show a well defined first order transition between their solid and liquid phases. The appearance of the melting transition is explored for increasing clusters sizes via the signatures in the specific heat and the root mean square of the bond lengths $δ_{\rm B}$ (Berry parameter) by means of Monte-Carlo simulations of Al clusters modelled by Gupta potentials. Clear signatures of a melting transition appear for $N\sim 6$ atoms. Closed-shell effects are shown for clusters with up to 56 atoms. The melting transition is compared in detail with the dissociation transition, which induces a second and possibly much larger local maximum in the specific heat at higher temperatures. Larger clusters are shown to fragment into dimers and trimers, which in turn dissociate at higher temperatures.
description: 6 pages, 7 figures
Kamil, Murad: Das Land des Negus
Creators: name: Engberding, Hieronymus
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 39 (1955): Oriens christianus, Band 39
Profit sharing in audit partnerships
Creators: name: Liu, Xiaohong
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Academics call the problem that arises when individuals in a partnership take actions inconsistent with the partnership's collective interest the "moral hazard problem". This thesis examines how an audit partnership (i.e., partners as a whole) uses profit sharing rules to induce optimal partner behavior in performing various tasks, and thereby maximize the welfare of the partnership. The analysis is undertaken in different market structures: a competitive market and an oligopolistic market, which are intended to capture the different markets for the non-Big Five audit firms and the Big Five audit firms. Non-cooperative game theory is used to analyze the strategic interaction of partners within a partnership, as well as the strategic interaction of firms when the market is an oligopoly. In the oligopolistic market setting, it is assumed that clients are different in that the efficient audits of different types of clients require different effort profiles (i.e., different mix of auditors' effort-inputs); however, it is too costly, if not impossible, for an independent party like a court to verify each client's type, and thus client type cannot be used for partner compensation purposes. Under this assumption, I derive conditions under which there exists an equilibrium where audit firms strategically choose different profit sharing rules to specialize in different types of clients, and thereby earn positive economic profits. As a result of specialization, firms have different clienteles, and may provide audits of different quality and charge different audit fees for the same type of client. The analytical results help explain the observed differences in compensation plans among the Big Five audit firms, and provide insights into the differences in the audit services provided by the Big Five firms. This thesis also provides some empirical evidence consistent with the theory developed in this study.
The Impacts of GM Seed Technology on Cotton: Cost of Production in Mississippi, 1996 - 2005
Creators: name: Ibendahl, Gregory A.
name: Anderson, John D.
name: Thompson, W. Michael
name: Hudson, Darren
name: Ibendahl, Gregory A.
name: Anderson, John D.
name: Thompson, W. Michael
name: Hudson, Darren
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Mississippi cotton production
subject: Genetically Modified cotton varieties
subject: structural change
subject: production function.

description: Genetically modified (GM) cotton varieties have changed many aspects of cotton production in the United States. The rapid adoption of GM cotton varieties in Mississippi has allowed producers to alter certain production practices because of added benefits gained from GM varieties. This study analyses some of the effects of certain changes in some of the most relevant components of cotton production on yield that stem from the adoption of GM varieties in Mississippi by comparing production functions from 1996 and 2005.
An alternative analysis on the scientific output of Spanish Sociology What can altmetrics tell us?
Creators: name: Torres-Salinas, Daniel
name: Arroyo-Machado, Wenceslao
name: Robinson-García, Nicolás
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In recent years, new indicators known as altmetrics have been introduced to measure the impact of scientific activity. These indicators are obtained through the mentions realised from different social media, existing several aggregators of these data that collect several of them in the same database, being Altmetric.com the most popular. However, in spite of the popularization of these metrics, several limitations in their use have been manifested. For this reason, rhe objective of this work is twofold: (1) to show the possibilities of altimetric techniques applied to the Spanish social sciences in general and sociology in particular; (2) to critically analyse the results to observe the limitations of these indicators; (3) to check whether they can really add useful information that can be used to describe a scientific field and (4) to see the reasons why altmetrics cannot be applied in these fields.
description: in Spanish, Cap\'itulo aceptado para su publicaci\'on en una monograf\'ia de la editorial CIS-Centro de Investigaci\'on Sociol\'ogicas
Phi-Phi Back-to-Back Correlations in Finite Expanding Systems
Creators: name: Padula, Sandra S.
name: Hama, Y.
name: Krein, G.
name: Panda, P. K.
name: Csorgo, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Back-to-Back Correlations (BBC) of particle-antiparticle pairs are predicted to appear if hot and dense hadronic matter is formed in high energy nucleus-nucleus collisions. The BBC are related to in-medium mass-modification and squeezing of the quanta involved. Although the suppression of finite emission times were already known, the effects of finite system sizes and of collective phenomena had not been studied yet. Thus, for testing the survival and magnitude of the effect in more realistic situations, we study the BBC when mass-modification occurs in a finite sized, thermalized medium, considering a non-relativistically expanding fireball with finite emission time, and evaluating the width of the back-to-back correlation function. We show that the BBC signal indeed survives the expansion and flow effects, with sufficient magnitude to be observed at RHIC.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures, to appear in the Proceedings of the Workshop on Particle Correlations and Femtoscopy (WPCF 2005)
Prospects and Limits for Generative Artificial Intelligence for Medical Systems: Intelligent Healthcare Slides
Creators: Eros Pasero
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2024

IEEE WCCI 2024
The elderly population's increasing numbers, dwindling healthcare resources, and the perilous doctor-patient contact due to pathologies like COVID-19 signal a need for a shift in the current medical model. Yet, the question remains: what new model to adopt? Artificial Intelligence (AI), the foundation of contemporary life changes, pledges a transformative impact on patient care and the healthcare system. However, the genuine challenge lies in devising a practical model to curb the escalating demand for elderly operations amidst a larger populace with fewer health issues. The potential frontier emerges in Generative Artificial Intelligence, offering fresh data and models for future healthcare systems. These systems facilitate the interpretation of outcomes and the generation of personalized medicine. Leveraging digital twins, models can discern the treatment effects on patients through their digital counterparts. Additionally, AI wearable technology in virtual hospitals enables the remote monitoring of multiple patients within their homes. An overarching query persists: can these systems earn trust in medicine? Questions revolve around the accuracy, precision, sensitivity, ROC curve, and F-score of data produced by generative AI. Addressing these concerns, the latter part of this tutorial will contribute insights, utilizing metrics common in the world of Metrology
A Survey of COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps
Creators: name: Ahmed, Nadeem
name: Michelin, Regio A.
name: Xue, Wanli
name: Ruj, Sushmita
name: Malaney, Robert
name: Kanhere, Salil S.
name: Seneviratne, Aruna
name: Hu, Wen
name: Janicke, Helge
name: Jha, Sanjay
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The recent outbreak of COVID-19 has taken the world by surprise, forcing lockdowns and straining public health care systems. COVID-19 is known to be a highly infectious virus, and infected individuals do not initially exhibit symptoms, while some remain asymptomatic. Thus, a non-negligible fraction of the population can, at any given time, be a hidden source of transmissions. In response, many governments have shown great interest in smartphone contact tracing apps that help automate the difficult task of tracing all recent contacts of newly identified infected individuals. However, tracing apps have generated much discussion around their key attributes, including system architecture, data management, privacy, security, proximity estimation, and attack vulnerability. In this article, we provide the first comprehensive review of these much-discussed tracing app attributes. We also present an overview of many proposed tracing app examples, some of which have been deployed countrywide, and discuss the concerns users have reported regarding their usage. We close by outlining potential research directions for next-generation app design, which would facilitate improved tracing and security performance, as well as wide adoption by the population at large.
description: Paper has been accepted for publication in IEEE Access. Currently available on IEEE ACCESS early access (see DOI)
First Observations of Separated Atmospheric Muon Neutrino and Muon Anti-Neutrino Events in the MINOS Detector
Creators: name: MINOS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The complete 5.4 kton MINOS far detector has been taking data since the beginning of August 2003 at a depth of 2070 meters water-equivalent in the Soudan mine, Minnesota. This paper presents the first MINOS observations of muon neutrino and muon anti-neutrino charged-current atmospheric neutrino interactions based on an exposure of 418 days. The ratio of upward to downward-going events in the data is compared to the Monte Carlo expectation in the absence of neutrino oscillations giving: R_data(up/down)/R_MC(up/down) = 0.62^{+0.19}_{-0.14} (stat.) +- 0.02 (sys.). An extended maximum likelihood analysis of the observed L/E distributions excludes the null hypothesis of no neutrino oscillations at the 98 % confidence level. Using the curvature of the observed muons in the 1.3 T MINOS magnetic field muon neutrino and muon anti-neutrino interactions are separated. The ratio of muon neutrino to muon anti-neutrino events in the data is compared to the Monte Carlo expectation assuming neutrinos and anti-neutrinos oscillate in same manner giving: R_data(numubar/numu)/R_MC(numubar/numu) = 0.96^{+0.38}_{-0.27} (stat.) +- 0.15 (sys.), where the errors are the statistical and systematic uncertainties. Although the statistics are limited, this is the first direct observation of atmospheric neutrino interactions separately for muon neutrinos and muon anti-neutrinos.
description: 17 pages, 16 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. D
The Multimode Conductance Formula for a Closed Ring
Creators: name: Cohen, Doron
name: Etzioni, Yoav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The multimode conductance of a {\em closed} ring is found within the framework of a scattering approach. The expression can be regarded as a generalization of the Landauer formula. The treatment is essentially {\em classical} because we assume short coherence time. Our starting point is the Kubo formalism, but we also use a master equation approach for the derivation. As an example we calculate the conductance of a multimode waveguide with an attached cavity.
description: 18 pages, 2 figures, Sections 1 and 6 extended, to be published in Journal of physics A
Non-Parametric Analysis of ENSO Impacts on Yield Distributions: Implications for GRP Contract Design
Creators: name: Nadolnyak, Denis A.
name: Novak, James L.
name: Vedenov, Dmitry V.
name: Paz, Joel O.
name: Fraisse, Clyde W.
name: Hoogenboom, Gerrit
name: Nadolnyak, Denis A.
name: Novak, James L.
name: Vedenov, Dmitry V.
name: Paz, Joel O.
name: Fraisse, Clyde W.
name: Hoogenboom, Gerrit
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: The paper reports preliminary results of non-parametric analysis of historical and crop model generated peanut yield series in the Southwest Georgia. The results suggest ENSO phase dependent differences in yield distributions that are similar for both the simulated and actual series. The differences are magnified in GRP insurance premiums.
Are models of local hidden variables for the singlet polarization state necessarily constrained by the Bell inequality?
Creators: name: Oaknin, David H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Bell inequality is thought to be a common constraint shared by all models of local hidden variables that aim to describe the entangled states of two qubits. Since the inequality is violated by the quantum mechanical description of these states, it purportedly allows distinguishing in an experimentally testable way the predictions of quantum mechanics from those of models of local hidden variables and, ultimately, ruling the latter out. In this paper, we show, however, that the models of local hidden variables constrained by the Bell inequality all share a subtle, though crucial, feature that is not required by fundamental physical principles and, hence, it might not be fulfilled in the actual experimental setup that tests the inequality. Indeed, the disputed feature neither can be properly implemented within the standard framework of quantum mechanics and it is even at odds with the fundamental principle of relativity. Namely, the proof of the inequality requires the existence of a preferred absolute frame of reference (supposedly provided by the lab) with respect to which the hidden properties of the entangled particles and the orientations of each one of the measurement devices that test them can be independently defined through a long sequence of realizations of the experiment. We notice, however, that while the relative orientation between the two measurement devices is a properly defined physical magnitude in every single realization of the experiment, their global rigid orientation with respect to a lab frame is a spurious gauge degree of freedom. Following this observation, we were able to explicitly build a model of local hidden variables that does not share the disputed feature and, hence, it is able to reproduce the predictions of quantum mechanics for the entangled states of two qubits.
description: Based on a talk presented at the International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics, August 2019, Crete (Greece). arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1912.06349
Warped Reheating in Brane-Antibrane Inflation
Creators: name: Barnaby, N.
name: Burgess, C. P.
name: Cline, J. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine how reheating occurs after brane-antibrane inflation in warped geometries, such as those which have recently been considered for Type IIB string vacua. We adopt the standard picture that the energy released by brane annihilation is dominantly dumped into massive bulk (closed-string) modes which eventually cascade down into massless particles, but argue that the this need not mean that the result is mostly gravitons with negligible visible radiation on the Standard Model brane. We show that if the inflationary throat is not too strongly warped, and if the string coupling is sufficiently weak, then a significant fraction of the energy density from annihilation will be deposited on the Standard Model brane, even if it is separated from the inflationary throat by being in some more deeply warped throat. This is due to the exponential growth of the massive Kaluza-Klein wave functions toward the infrared ends of the throats. We argue that the possibility of this process removes a conceptual obstacle to the construction of multi-throat models, wherein inflation occurs in a different throat than the one in which the Standard Model brane resides. Such multi-throat models are desirable because they can help to reconcile the scale of inflation with the supersymmetry breaking scale on the Standard Model brane, and because they can allow cosmic strings to be sufficiently long-lived to be observable during the present epoch.
description: 23 pages, 5 figures; new section on tunneling added; fixed typo
things to do_Music at City: Interview with James Saunders
Creators: name: Saunders, James
Publisher: name: BathSPAdata
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 190406 Music Composition
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: The material referenced in this item is located externally at the above linked website, and can be viewed in full by accessing via the provided link.

things to do is a series of pieces which use a set of instructions in different categories (including noises, pitches, devices and processes) spoken by players and other participants during the performance and which govern the actions made by the players. Players respond to instructions they can hear by realizing the defined actions as soon as possible after they are spoken. The differences in each piece, and the relationships between the players and other participants, are determined by constraints which govern who each player responds to and who gives instructions. It creates modes of interaction between individuals, allows group behaviours to emerge, and reveals the personal characteristics of each performer in an immediate way. Players may use any instruments, sound-producing objects, devices or sound processing equipment (digital, analogue, or acoustic), and performances are characterised by the wide range of personal choices brought together as a group.
This item contains an interview with James Saunders about things to do published on the City University website: https://blogs.city.ac.uk/music/2014/04/05/five-minutes-with-james-saunders/
Coccotrypes carpophagus
Creators: name: Rabaglia, Robert J.
name: Beaver, Roger A.
name: Johnson, Andrew J.
name: Schmaedick, Mark A.
name: Smith, Sarah M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Coccotrypes
Coccotrypes carpophagus

description: * Coccotrypes carpophagus (Hornung)
 Bostrichus carpophagus Hornung, 1842: 116.
 Coccotrypes carpophagus (Hornung): Eggers 1929: 52.
This widely distributed species occurs in tropical areas of Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North and South America and the Pacific islands. It was first reported in Upolu, Samoa by Beaver (1976), but has not been reported previously from American Samoa.
Current survey records: American Samoa: Tutuila Isl.: Malaeimi, 14 iii–11 iv 2010, Pitfall trap in mowed vegetation near forest edge, M. Schmaedick coll. (1, NMNH, 1, RABC). Other locations: Tutuila Isl.: Leone, Mapusagafou, Masausi.
description: Published as part of Rabaglia, Robert J., Beaver, Roger A., Johnson, Andrew J., Schmaedick, Mark A. & Smith, Sarah M., 2020, The bark and ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae and Platypodinae) of American Samoa, pp. 171-195 in Zootaxa 4808 (1) on page 176, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4808.1.11, http://zenodo.org/record/3927891
Complex trait analysis with a multi-species approach to disentangle genetic modulators of cellular growth phenotypes under disease-relevant treatments
Creators: name: Danae Georghiou
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Complex traits are phenotypes that are described quantitatively and typically have intricate polygenic inheritance. Herein, the cellular growth under genotoxic and mitochondrial-induced oxidative stress, which underlie tumorigenesis and Parkinson’s Disease, were studied as complex traits. It was hypothesized that advanced yeast complex trait mapping could be developed and employed to study these traits.The yeast population was based on four wild budding yeast isolates, which parented the F12 advanced intercrossed line (AIL). 111 AIL haploids were used in the QTL (Quantitative Trait Locus) -mapping study for growth phenotypes under DNA-damaging, rapamycin and paraquat treatments. Linkage analysis revealed fine-mapped QTLs for each treatment. The growth responses and emerging QTL outputs were mostly unique to each agent. Analysis of AIL growth per allele validated QTL-genes and evidenced mechanisms of phenotype modulation through synonymous SNPs, cis- and trans-regulatory element variation and QTL-QTL interactions. Gene deletion phenotyping in the founders validated 12 genes mapped in 12 QTLs. In-depth exploration was performed on MNN14, PMT2 and GUD1 gene-hits.(a) MNN14/FKTN - PMT2/POMT2 and (b) MNN14/flyFukutin and GUD1/DhpD were investigated through single-gene knock-down in neuronal models of (a) SH-SY5Y cells and (b) Drosophila, respectively. For example, FKTN and POMT2 was shown to promote neuronal differentiation and protect against DNA damage, respectively. In flies, the knock-down of either gene decreased longevity in a wild-type background. flyFKTN knock-down improved α-synuclein longevity defects and significantly suppress the post-paraquat exposure climbing phenotype.Overall, our cross-species study evidenced that QTL yeast analysis could identify conserved genes with modifying effects in human cell and Drosophila disease models. However, for the same gene homologue, the yeast-study did not directly predict the other eukaryote’s phenotypes. To provide clinically applicable findings, yeast-based QTL discovery studies may be followed by validation in models closer to human diseases.
Coccotrypes cinnamomi
Creators: name: Rabaglia, Robert J.
name: Beaver, Roger A.
name: Johnson, Andrew J.
name: Schmaedick, Mark A.
name: Smith, Sarah M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Coccotrypes
Coccotrypes cinnamomi

description: * Coccotrypes cinnamomi (Eggers)
 Thamnurgides cinnamomi Eggers, 1936: 630.
 Coccotrypes cinnamomi (Eggers): Beaver 1987b: 14.
Eggers (1936) described this species from Sri Lanka, but it is also known from India, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Seychelles.
 Current survey records: American Samoa: Tutuila Isl.: Vatia, 18 iii. 2014, reared from fallen Planchonella garberi fruit, Fr. coll, no. 3648, N. Leifi coll. (1, ASCC, 2, RABC). Other locations: Tutuila Isl.: Aoloau, Fagaalu.
description: Published as part of Rabaglia, Robert J., Beaver, Roger A., Johnson, Andrew J., Schmaedick, Mark A. & Smith, Sarah M., 2020, The bark and ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae and Platypodinae) of American Samoa, pp. 171-195 in Zootaxa 4808 (1) on page 176, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4808.1.11, http://zenodo.org/record/3927891
things to do_Alphonsine Houëves and Mélanie Kays_ Sound Properties Of Group Materials And Behaviors, Things To Do
Creators: name: Saunders, James
Publisher: name: BathSPAdata
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 190406 Music Composition
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: things to do is a series of pieces which use a set of instructions in different categories (including noises, pitches, devices and processes) spoken by players and other participants during the performance and which govern the actions made by the players. Players respond to instructions they can hear by realizing the defined actions as soon as possible after they are spoken. The differences in each piece, and the relationships between the players and other participants, are determined by constraints which govern who each player responds to and who gives instructions. It creates modes of interaction between individuals, allows group behaviours to emerge, and reveals the personal characteristics of each performer in an immediate way. Players may use any instruments, sound-producing objects, devices or sound processing equipment (digital, analogue, or acoustic), and performances are characterised by the wide range of personal choices brought together as a group.
This item contains an interview with James Saunders by Alphonsine Houëves and Mélanie Kays in French new music magazine Revue et Corrigee:
Houëves, A. (2018). James Saunders: Sound Properties Of Group Materials And Behaviors, Things To Do. Revue et Corrigée 118: 30–36.
Skew Scattering and Side Jump Drive Exciton Valley Hall Effect in Two-Dimensional Crystals
Creators: name: Glazov, M. M.
name: Golub, L. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Exciton Valley Hall effect is the spatial separation of the valley-tagged excitons in the presence of a drag force. Usually, the effect is associated with the anomalous velocity acquired by the particles due to the Berry curvature of the Bloch bands. Here we show that the anomalous velocity plays no role in the exciton valley Hall effect, which is governed by the side-jump and skew scattering mechanisms. We develop microscopic theory of the exciton valley Hall effect in the presence of synthetic electric field and phonon drag and calculate all relevant contributions to the valley Hall current also demonstrating the cancellation of the anomalous velocity. The sensitivity of the effect to the origin of the drag force and to the scattering processes is shown. We extend the drift-diffusion model to account for the valley Hall effect and calculate the exciton density and valley polarization profiles.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures (main text) + 15 pages, 2 figures (supplement)
Determinants of Demand for Participation in Wildlife Hunting: A County level Analysis
Creators: name: Poudyal, Neelam C.
name: Cho, Seong-Hoon
name: Bowker, James Michael
name: Poudyal, Neelam C.
name: Cho, Seong-Hoon
name: Bowker, James Michael
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Wildlife hunting
subject: License sales
subject: Demand model

description: We developed an economic demand model of wildlife hunting and found that sociodemograpahic and ecological characteristics of county are its strong predictors. Result shows that the hunting is not popular among younger generation; and promoting hunting clubs and lease-hunting, recruiting young hunters could be effective policy considerations for retaining/promoting hunting.
DYNAMICS OF LAND-USE CHANGE IN NORTH ALABAMA: IMPLICATIONS OF NEW RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT
Creators: name: Bukenya, James O.
name: Bukenya, James O.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Land Economics/Use

description: The paper presents an analytical tool that could help in understanding the consequences of individual decisions associated with land use change by identifying their potential impacts to a community, county or region. The tool outlines the potential costs and benefits of land conversion activities to decision makers in Madison County, Alabama. The results show that the loss of agricultural lands erodes the county's ability to maintain revenue/cost equilibrium across the selected land use types, thus reducing the county's ability to provide current levels of service to residents.
Vorstellungen zum Verbrennungsprozess - Entwicklung wissenschaftlicher Konzepte bei Schülerinnen und Schülern
Creators: name: Hank, Barbara
Publisher: name: PAradigma: Beiträge aus Forschung und Lehre aus dem Zentrum für Lehrerbildung und Fachdidaktik
Year: 2017

description: Mit Hilfe eines quasiexperimentellen Designs wurde die Entwicklung von wissenschaftlichen Vorstellungen im Anfangsunterricht des Faches Chemie an Realschulen untersucht. Die kontextorientierte Unterrichtsform "Chemie im Kontext" (ChiK) wurde traditionellem Unterricht gegenübergestellt. Über 900 Lernende wurden im Zeitraum von etwa sechs Monaten dreimal befragt. Neben den Vorstellungen zum Verbrennungsvorgang wurden weitere Variablen wie z. B. das Interesse für das Fach Chemie erhoben. Die Ergebnisse deuten darauf hin, dass Unterricht nach ChiK dazu geeignet sein kann, Konzeptwandelprozesse zu unterstützen. Insbesondere Mädchen konnten von dem Treatment profitieren. Im Hinblick auf die Entwicklung des Fachinteresses konnten hingegen keine Vorteile festgestellt werden. Gerade die Mädchen, die nach ChiK unterrichtet wurden, verloren während der Laufzeit des Treatments an Interesse.
description: PAradigma: Beiträge aus Forschung und Lehre aus dem Zentrum für Lehrerbildung und Fachdidaktik, Bd. 7 (2014)
Overdamping by weakly coupled environments
Creators: name: Esposito, Massimiliano
name: Haake, Fritz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A quantum system weakly interacting with a fast environment usually undergoes a relaxation with complex frequencies whose imaginary parts are damping rates quadratic in the coupling to the environment, in accord with Fermi's ``Golden Rule''. We show for various models (spin damped by harmonic-oscillator or random-matrix baths, quantum diffusion, quantum Brownian motion) that upon increasing the coupling up to a critical value still small enough to allow for weak-coupling Markovian master equations, a new relaxation regime can occur. In that regime, complex frequencies lose their real parts such that the process becomes overdamped. Our results call into question the standard belief that overdamping is exclusively a strong coupling feature.
description: 4 figures; Paper submitted to Phys. Rev. A
Vortices in gauge models at finite density with vector condensates
Creators: name: Gorbar, E. V.
name: Jia, Junji
name: Miransky, V. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There exists a class of gauge models incorporating a finite density of matter in which the Higgs mechanism is provided by condensates of gauge (or gauge and scalar) fields, i.e., there are vector condensates in this case. We describe vortex solutions in the simplest model in this class, the gauged $SU(2)\times U(1)_Y$ $σ$-model with the chemical potential for hypercharge $Y$, in which the gauge symmetry is completely broken. It is shown that there are three types of topologically stable vortices in the model, connected either with photon field or hypercharge gauge field, or with both of them. Explicit vortex solutions are numerically found and their energy per unit length are calculated. The relevance of these solutions for the gluonic phase in the dense two-flavor QCD is discussed.
description: Revtex, 13 pages, 4 figures, v2: to match PRD version