cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Acoustic Bubbles in Microfluidics for Biological and Biomedical Applications
Creators: name: Gao, Yuan
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2022

description: With the development of microfluidics in recent years, micro/nano-scale bubbles have been considered an emerging tool and become a field of growing interest for addressing many challenges in various Lab on a Chip (LOC) applications. Researchers found that when acoustic fields interact with bubbles in microfluidics, it will cause various interesting physical phenomena, which offers promising abilities in the manipulation of cells, fluids and particles and provides effective ways for biological and biomedical applications.
The overall research objective of this dissertation is to study the acoustic bubbles in microfluidics for biological and biomedical applications. In this dissertation, we present research findings on trapping and controlling the acoustic bubble in microfluidics for various biological and biomedical applications, such as fluid transportation, ultrasound thrombolysis, cancer cell trapping, patterning, and culture. Using the numerical and experimental method, we study acoustic microstreaming for fluid flow control and acoustic radiation force for particle manipulation. With the soft lithography and 3D microfabrication techniques, we design and fabricate several acoustic bubble-based microfluidic devices for the thrombolysis study and circulating tumor cells (CTCs) manipulation. Specifically, we developed a method via creating cavity structures inside a recirculated microchannel to trap air-liquid interfaces for generating bi-directional acoustic microstreaming flow for pumping blood mimicking fluids and biological samples, demonstrating potential real-world applications in bi-directional fluid flow control. In addition, we developed an acoustic bubble-based microfluidic platform for quantitative study of the performance of bubble-assisted ultrasound thrombolysis with different acoustic parameters. We also created an “all in one” platform that is used for trapping, rotating and culturing circulating tumor cells in blood flow by controlling the acoustic bubble in microfluidics. Besides simplifying conventional complex CTC processing procedures, this ABSTRACT platform also shows great potential for downstream analysis of tumor cells, such as monitoring the progression of metastasis and personalized drug testing. Finally, we used a micropillar array in a microfluidic device to trap bubbles with the predesigned geometry and then pattern the cells with the acoustic actuation, providing an effective approach to co-culture cells for future tissue engineering applications.
The work presented in this dissertation provides an inexpensive, rapid, biocompatible and simple approach for multifunctional sample processing related to human health. With more advanced theoretical and experimental development, we believe that acoustic bubble-based microfluidics will play more important roles in biomedical and biological applications and solve challenging problems in many scientific and engineering fields.
Investigation of gas turbine efficiency Enhancement via HRSG using: lab view software
Creators: name: FADIEL, Ali F Ali
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Energy generation, conversion and storage (excl. chemical and electrical)

description: Heat recovery equipment several technologies are available for power generation such as gas turbine-based combined cycles, nuclear power, wind energy, tidal waves, and fuel cells About 40%of the world’s power. Complex multi-pressure, multimodule HRSGs are being engineered and built to maximize energy recovery. Heat sources in industrial processes can be at a very high-temperature range, or very low, on the order of, and applications have been developed to recover as much energy as possible in order to improve overall energy utilization. Heat recovery steam generators form an important part of these systems.
Implications of a high mass light MSSM Higgs scalar for SUSY searches at the LHC
Creators: name: Baer, Howard
name: Barger, Vernon
name: Huang, Peisi
name: Mustafayev, Azar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Atlas and CMS collaborations have both reported an excess of events in the WW\star \rightarrow \ell+\ell- + ETmiss search channel, which could be the first evidence for the Higgs boson. In the context of the MSSM, the lightest SUSY Higgs scalar h is expected to occur with mass mh = 135 GeV, depending on the range of SUSY parameters scanned over. Since the h \rightarrow WW\star branching fraction falls swiftly with decreasing mh, a signal in the WW\star channel would favor an h at the high end of its predicted mass range. We scan over general GUT scale SUSY model parameters to find those which give rise to mh > 130 GeV. A value of m0 \sim 10 - 20 TeV is favored, with A0 \sim \pm2m0, while the lower range of m1/2 < 1 TeV is also slightly favored. This gives rise to an "effective SUSY" type of sparticle mass spectrum. For low m1/2, gluino pair production followed by three-body gluino decay to top quarks may ultimately be accesible to LHC searches, while for higher m1/2 values, the SUSY spectra would likely be out of range of any conceivable LHC reach. Since the thermal neutralino relic abundance tends to be very high, late-time entropy dilution or neutralino decay to light axinos would be required to gain accord with the measured dark matter abundance
description: 12 pages, 3 figures, some references added, accepted in PRD
International Public Opinion on the Environment
Creators: name: Bloom, David E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: This article analyzes public opinion data on environmental issues collected in two major surveys. The data reveal substantial concern about the environment in both developing and industrial countries along with perceptions that the quality of the environment has declined and will continue to decline. Developing country respondents rate local and national environmental quality lower than industrial country respondents, while both groups rate global environmental quality about the same. The data also reveal considerable willingness among the developing and industrial countries to accept responsibility for the world's environmental problems and recognition of the importance of governments in addressing local and national environmental issues and of strong international agencies in addressing transnational issues.
Additional file 2 of Gauge your phage: benchmarking of bacteriophage identification tools in metagenomic sequencing data
Creators: name: Ho, Siu Fung Stanley
name: Wheeler, Nicole E.
name: Millard, Andrew D.
name: van Schaik, Willem
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 2: Supplementary Fig. 2. F1-score plots of tools that provide categorical thresholds.
Probing Massive Star Formation with the ALMA Archive
Creators: name: Telkamp, Zoie
name: Plunkett, Adele
name: Tan, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Massive stars are key contributors to the regulation and evolution of galaxy environments, but the mechanisms behind their formation are still disputed. Some theoretical models predict that they form via disk-mediated accretion (e.g., Krumholz et al. 2009). However, while many disks around low mass protostars have been observed, limited information exists on the properties of their high mass counterparts (e.g., Beltrán & de Wit 2016; Ahmadi et al. 2019, Johnston et al. 2020). We carried out a systematic archival analysis of the highest resolution (≲50mas) Band 6 ALMA data available for tens of massive protostars to test radiative transfer model predictions of their disks. We performed a joint analysis of global MIR to FIR spectral energy distribution fitting along with analysis of the ALMA 1.3 mm fluxes, disk properties obtained through 2D Gaussian fitting, and disk axis vs. outflow axis orientations to test predictions of these models. Together, these methods will provide detailed constraints on the properties of massive protostars and their disks.
Using the organisational actor concept in information system analysis
Creators: name: Monu, Kafui Andre
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The correct and complete identification of requirements for information systems is important to the development and implementation of systems into organisations. These requirements are gathered using conceptual models, which are important tools used by system analysts to understand organisations. However, as more users participate in system analysis, researchers have found that traditional conceptual modeling techniques do not completely represent the contextual information in a user's scenario. In this work we design and develop a structured conceptual modeling method, called the organisational actor method. We define a conceptual modeling method as a set of concepts, rules, and method for representing phenomena in the world. The organisational actor method represents the context of an environment which can be represented by understanding how an actor thinks about the environment and how the environment affects, and is affected by, the actor. A design-science approach was used to develop the organisational actor method. The approach used the theory of affordances, the systems approach, ontology, and software agent literature as theoretical foundations for the development of the organisational actor method. This study's purpose was to develop a method that could represent the internal view of an actor, the external view of the actor, and connect the two views. We also conducted four studies determining the usefulness and usability of the organisational actor concepts and the organisational actor method. We found that our concepts: perceptions/inputs, beliefs, learning, goals, reasoning, intentions, capabilities, actions, output are usable because non-technical people implicitly use the organisational actor concepts when describing domains. Also, our concepts are useful because domain experts judge them to be better representations of the domain than another commonly used conceptual modeling language called i*, and our method is usable because domain experts better represent the domain when using a method than when they don't. Finally, our method is useful because it can be used to gather information from employees about how they perform, and make decisions about, their work. In future research we will use our method to design cooperative information systems and to gain an understanding of processes that involve interdependent but autonomous individuals.
PBS: Signaling Architecture for Network Traffic Authorization
Creators: name: Hong, Se Gi
name: Schulzrinne, Henning G.
name: Weiland, Swen
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Computer science

description: We present a signaling architecture for network traffic authorization, Permission-Based Sending (PBS). This architecture aims to prevent Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks and other forms of unauthorized traffic. Towards this goal, PBS takes a hybrid approach: a proactive approach of explicit permissions and a reactive approach of monitoring and countering attacks. On-path signaling is used to configure the permission state stored in routers for a data flow. The signaling approach enables easy installation and management of the permission state, and its use of soft-state improves robustness of the system. For secure permission state setup, PBS provides security for signaling in two ways: signaling messages are encrypted end-to-end using public key encryption and TLS provides hop-by-hop encryption of signaling paths. In addition, PBS uses IPsec for data packet authentication. Our analysis and performance evaluation show that PBS is an effective and scalable solution for preventing various kinds of attack scenarios, including Byzantine attacks.
Multi-perspective Evaluation of Self-Healing Systems Using Simple Probabilistic Models
Creators: name: Griffith, Rean
name: Kaiser, Gail E.
name: LoÌ Pez, Javier Alonso
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Computer science

description: Quantifying the efficacy of self-healing systems is a challenging but important task, which has implications for increasing designer, operator and end-user confidence in these systems. During design system architects benefit from tools and techniques that enhance their understanding of the system, allowing them to reason about the tradeoffs of proposed or existing self-healing mechanisms and the overall effectiveness of the system as a result of different mechanism-compositions. At deployment time, system integrators and operators need to understand how the selfhealing mechanisms work and how their operation impacts the system's reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) in order to cope with any limitations of these mechanisms when the system is placed into production. In this paper we construct an evaluation framework for selfhealing systems around simple, yet powerful, probabilistic models that capture the behavior of the system's selfhealing mechanisms from multiple perspectives (designer, operator, and end-user). We combine these analytical models with runtime fault-injection to study the operation of VM-Rejuv — a virtual machine based rejuvenation scheme for web-application servers. We use the results from the fault-injection experiments and model-analysis to reason about the efficacy of VM-Rejuv, its limitations and strategies for managing/mitigating these limitations in system deployments. Whereas we use VM-Rejuv as the subject of our evaluation in this paper, our main contribution is a practical evaluation approach that can be generalized to other self-healing systems.
Magnetic Susceptibility in Strongly Coupled Systems
Creators: name: Luo, M. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the magnetic susceptibility at large 't Hooft coupling by computing the correlation function of the magnetizations in the strongly coupled Maxwell theory in large-N limit with finite temperature and chemical potential, within the framework of the AdS/CFT correspondence. We show that in strong coupling limit the magnetic susceptibility is independent to the temperature and be universal, measured in the unit of magnetic permeability of the bulk space. A comparison with the weak coupling system, the Pauli paramagnetic susceptibility, is also discussed.
description: RevTeX 7 pages; v2: typos corrected, updated to version published in JHEP
Hadrian's stylus
Creators: name: Arikha, Noga
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2002
Subjects: Knowledge, Theory of

description: Let us start off with two claims: a) despite the indubitable dependence of the mind on the brain, attempts to account for higher consciousness in physical terms seem to be locked within a hall of mirrors; b) even if this state of affairs is indeed illusory, the fact that the illusion holds indicates that its cause cannot go away. Some philosophers have found good reason to disagree with these claims. Nevertheless, this is not the place to unpack their conceptual content, nor to explain how they fit together, and for the sake of what follows I ask you to take them as given.
Doryctophasmus ferrugineus
Creators: name: Madl, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Doryctophasmus
Doryctophasmus ferrugineus

description: Doryctophasmus ferrugineus (GRANGER, 1949)
Doryctophasmus ferrugineus (GRANGER, 1949): BELOKOBYLSKIJ 2015: 551 (tax., descr. ♂ ♀, Ambouli), 553 (figs 35-42), 554 (figs 43-48), 555 (figs 49-54), 563 (key).
D i s t r i b u t i o n:Ambouli.
Doryctophasmus ferrugineus is known from the Afrotropical (Djibouti, Senegal, Madagascar) and Palaearctic (United Arab Emirates, Yemen) regions.
description: Published as part of Madl, Michael, 2018, A preliminary catalogue of the Hymenoptera (Insecta) of the Republic of Djibouti, pp. 907-967 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (2) on page 911, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3776452
Vortex Lines Distribution in Inhomogeneous Lattices
Creators: name: Iazzi, Mauro
name: Bassan, Nicola
name: Trombettoni, Andrea
name: Schmidt, Kevin E.
name: Fantoni, Stefano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the distribution of vortex lines in a three-dimensional lattice with inhomogeneous couplings. We investigate the spatial distribution of the number of vortex lines, showing how the vortex lines are expelled from the region with higher couplings. Results for the correlation functions are presented, together with a discussion of the implications of the obtained results for the vortex distribution in ultracold trapped gases and in neutron stars.
description: 15 pages, 10 figures, In publication in Molecular Physics, special volume dedicated to Luciano Reatto for his 70th birthday
Men’s social networks, social norms, & family planning in Benin
Creators: name: Speizer, Ilene S.
name: LeMasters, Katherine
name: Martinez, Andres
name: Costenbader, Elizabeth
name: Igras, Susan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021

description:
To address low family planning (FP) use and high unmet need in West Africa, attention has been paid to addressing FP-related social networks and norms. Most work focuses on women. This analysis assesses men's FP-related social networks and norms and their relation to FP use in Benin using data from baseline surveys from the Tékponon Jikuagou intervention. We descriptively analysed men's egocentric FP-related social networks and norms at the village level. Multivariable logistic regression analyses (N = 885) examined the relationship between FP-related social networks, norms, and men's current and future FP use. Twenty-three percent of men reported current modern contraception use and 47% reported intended future use. Most had few network members. While most believed it was acceptable to discuss FP, few talked with peers about FP and most did not discuss FP with their partner(s). In multivariable analyses, neither networks nor norms were significantly related to men's FP use. Men's networks being small and men rarely discussing FP indicate an opportunity for village-based approaches to engage men in FP discussions and spark FP dialogue within couples, between men, and within villages. Future work should further explore the relationship between men's social networks, norms, and FP use.
Efficient graphene-based photodetector with two cavities
Creators: name: Ferreira, A.
name: Peres, N. M. R.
name: Ribeiro, R. M.
name: Stauber, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an efficient graphene-based photodetector with two Fabri-Pérot cavities. It is shown that the absorption can reach almost 100% around a given frequency, which is determined by the two-cavity lengths. It is also shown that hysteresis in the absorbance is possible, with the transmittance amplitude of the mirrors working as an external driving field. The role of non-linear contributions to the optical susceptibility of graphene is discussed.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures. published version: minor revision
Additional file 4 of Gauge your phage: benchmarking of bacteriophage identification tools in metagenomic sequencing data
Creators: name: Ho, Siu Fung Stanley
name: Wheeler, Nicole E.
name: Millard, Andrew D.
name: van Schaik, Willem
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 4: Supplementary Fig. 4. Upset plot of RefSeq phage artificial contigs predicted as viral by each tool.
Epipleoneura lamina Williamson 1915
Creators: name: Pessacq, Pablo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Odonata
Protoneuridae
Epipleoneura
Epipleoneura lamina

description: Epipleoneura lamina Williamson, 1915
(Figs. 11, 28, 66)
 Epipleoneura lamina Williamson 1915: 625 –627, figs. 25–26 (new species, description of male and female, illustration of S 10 in dorsal and lateral view, type material at NMNH). Kennedy 1917: 293, plate xxiii fig. 29 (illustration of genital ligula in lateral view). Rácenis 1960: 25–26 (included in list of species, recorded for British Guyana). De Marmels 1992: 61, 72, figs. 20–22 (new record for Venezuela, illustrations of genital ligula in ectal and lateral view, female prothorax in dorsal view).  Garrison et al. 2010 : 352, 355, figs. 2318, 2319, 2345 (included in list of species, illustrations of head in anterior view, male pronotum and epiproct in posterior view).  Pessacq et al. 2012 : 4 (included in list of Brazilian Protoneuridae, new record for Brazil).
 Specimens examined. 2♂, 1♀. 1♂, Brazil, Amazonas State, Borba, Jutaí, route BR 319, km 378 (04º23’16”S, 59º35’38”W), leg. J. Becker, 3 xi 1977. 1 ♂ 1 ♀, Brazil, Rondônia State, Pardo river and tributaries, 13 km NW of Fazenda Rancho Grande, 62 km SW of Ariquemes (10º50’S, 63º07’W), RWG.
 Diagnosis. Male cercus resembles that of E. capilliformis. The cercus posses a well-developed inner-basal branch, with its apex directed posteriorly, reaching midline of S10. The epiproct (Fig. 11 b–c) resembles that of E. tariana Machado, 1985, but is short and its apex has two small rounded lobes joined at base that may represent two almost completely fused branches. See under E. tariana for further comments. The two lateral elongated L-shaped lobes on the genital ligula apex (Fig. 28) differentiate E. lamina from all other species. The female posterior margin of pronotum (Fig. 66) is unique in having a medial depression, thus resulting in two lateral lobes each with its inner apex rounded and divided by a small distance from each other.
 Distribution. Northwestern Brazil in the States of Amazonas and Rondônia and Guyana (type locality Wismar, Guyana).
 Notes. The present record for Rondônia represents a new record for that State.
description: Published as part of Pessacq, Pablo, 2014, Synopsis of Epipleoneura (Zygoptera, Coenagrionidae, " Protoneuridae "), with emphasis on its Brazilian species, pp. 201-234 in Zootaxa 3872 (3) on pages 221-222, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3872.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/230974
Quality Assurance and Efficiency Enhancement for Stereolithography-based 3D and 4D Printing
Creators: name: Zhao, Jing
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2022

description: The emergence of additive manufacturing (AM), also referred to as 3D printing, has provided the potential to revolutionize the manufacturing sectors with shorter product development cycles, fewer materials wastes, and more product design and fabrication freedom. Recently, an increasing interest has been closely associated with AM and made it a mainstream manufacturing process leading to rapid growth in the global AM market. Consequently, extensive research efforts have been dedicated to advancing the development of AM and supporting its deployment. Particularly, recent advancement in AM has broadened its applications from rapid prototyping and tooling to rapid manufacturing of functional parts used in a wide range of industries such as aerospace, automobile, and consumer products. The current AM applications are mainly limited to small-sized, low-volume production. To further increase the utilization of AM technologies, it is critical to investigate and improve the fabrication quality and process efficiency. To facilitate the wide adoption of AM techniques for various potential applications and provide valuable insights to AM users and manufacturers, this dissertation is conducted to promote quality assurance of AM products and efficiency improvement for AM systems. More specifically, mathematical models are established to quantify the impacts of printing and post-curing parameters on the resulting mechanical behavior. The established models can be applied to aid the selection of process parameters in 3D printing and associated post-curing processes. In addition, the emerging shape memory property is theoretically modeled and characterized under cyclic thermo-mechanical conditions, when the thermo-responsive material is adopted for printing. Adopting the established models can improve the shape memory quality and aid enhance the cyclic durability of the 4D printed parts. Moreover, an efficiency-aware curing approach is proposed to predict and reduce the total build time considering several quality aspects. The proposed method is experimentally examined for its effectiveness in enhancing printing efficiency while ensuring product quality in terms of geometric dimensions, mechanical property, and surface finish. The outcomes of this dissertation will positively contribute to AM process planning and strengthen the understanding of quality assurance and efficiency enhancement in AM.
The best of both worlds? An exploratory study of human resource management practices in U.S.-based Japanese affiliates
Creators: name: Beechler, Schon
name: Bird, Allan
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1992
Subjects: Economics
Commerce

description: Japanese management practices have received considerable attention and notoriety over the past fifteen years as Westerners have searched for an understanding of Japan's meteoric economic success. As Japan's foreign direct investments have skyrocketed in the last few years attention has shifted from what the Japanese are doing at home to what they are doing overseas. In spite of this, however, relatively little empirical research has actually been conducted on the management of foreign affiliates of Japanese firms. This chapter reports the results of an exploratory study examining the characteristics of human resource management practices and policies in 49 Japanese manufacturing and service affiliates located in the United States. It describes the policies and practices of personnel selection, compensation, appraisal, and development in terms of three archetypal strategies for managing human resources. This chapter also examines the extent to which policies and practices conform to predications for the three HRM strategy types, as well as the degree of consistency found between stated organizational policies and actual practice.
Controlling trapping potentials and stray electric fields in a microfabricated ion trap through design and compensation
Creators: name: Doret, S. Charles
name: Amini, Jason M.
name: Wright, Kenneth
name: Volin, Curtis
name: Killian, Tyler
name: Ozakin, Arkadas
name: Denison, Douglas
name: Hayden, Harley
name: Pai, C. -S.
name: Slusher, Richart E.
name: Harter, Alexa W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent advances in quantum information processing with trapped ions have demonstrated the need for new ion trap architectures capable of holding and manipulating chains of many (>10) ions. Here we present the design and detailed characterization of a new linear trap, microfabricated with scalable complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) techniques, that is well-suited to this challenge. Forty-four individually controlled DC electrodes provide the many degrees of freedom required to construct anharmonic potential wells, shuttle ions, merge and split ion chains, precisely tune secular mode frequencies, and adjust the orientation of trap axes. Microfabricated capacitors on DC electrodes suppress radio-frequency pickup and excess micromotion, while a top-level ground layer simplifies modeling of electric fields and protects trap structures underneath. A localized aperture in the substrate provides access to the trapping region from an oven below, permitting deterministic loading of particular isotopic/elemental sequences via species-selective photoionization. The shapes of the aperture and radio-frequency electrodes are optimized to minimize perturbation of the trapping pseudopotential. Laboratory experiments verify simulated potentials and characterize trapping lifetimes, stray electric fields, and ion heating rates, while measurement and cancellation of spatially-varying stray electric fields permits the formation of nearly-equally spaced ion chains.
description: 17 pages (including references), 7 figures
Touching art : intimacy, embodiment, and the somatosensory system
Creators: name: Esrock, Ellen J.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2003
Subjects: Aesthetics

description: "Imagine you are standing in an art museum, mesmerized by an enormous canvas of turbulent paint. Though you find no recognizable images, you are fascinated by the swirling movements of rich azures and cobalt blues. Your eyes follow the artist’s long, energetic brush strokes across the work, and you feel a sense of motion inside your body. Suddenly, your attention is caught by a small area of densely applied paint—a deep crimson. You linger. The thick color glows. As your awareness of the surroundings dim, the bright spot on the canvas expands, and the sensuous color seems to flow into you. You are immersed. Instants later, the bond breaks, as your attention shifts to a nearby conversation. What a viewer is experiencing in such moments of immersion is a shift in the ordinary sense of one’s bodily boundaries. For an instant, viewer and art work seem to merge."
Additional file 5 of Gauge your phage: benchmarking of bacteriophage identification tools in metagenomic sequencing data
Creators: name: Ho, Siu Fung Stanley
name: Wheeler, Nicole E.
name: Millard, Andrew D.
name: van Schaik, Willem
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 5: Supplementary Fig. 5. Taxonomic analysis of each tool’s viral prediction on RefSeq phage fragments.
Additional file 6 of Gauge your phage: benchmarking of bacteriophage identification tools in metagenomic sequencing data
Creators: name: Ho, Siu Fung Stanley
name: Wheeler, Nicole E.
name: Millard, Andrew D.
name: van Schaik, Willem
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 6: Supplementary Fig. 6. Taxonomy of false positive viral predictions on RefSeq chromosomal and plasmid fragments.
Report : second volume from Gold and Silversmithing Workshop
Creators: name: Zellmer, Johanna
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Aluminum Exhibitions
subject: Aluminum construction Exhibitions

description: "Research into the presentation of water on the table in the form of etched, formed and raised objects, which originate from fish shapes, fish skin and pandanus fibre. The work explores this concern through a series of vessels in anodised aluminium and a video. A study taking the form of an exhibition of hollow ware exhibited at the Canberra School of Art gallery from February 26-March 4, 1999, which comprises the outcome of the Studio Practice and other Units, together with the Report which documents the nature of the course of study undertaken."
Additional file 7 of Gauge your phage: benchmarking of bacteriophage identification tools in metagenomic sequencing data
Creators: name: Ho, Siu Fung Stanley
name: Wheeler, Nicole E.
name: Millard, Andrew D.
name: van Schaik, Willem
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 7: Supplementary Table 1. Bacteriophage strain composition of uneven mock community from Kleiner et al. [56].
Deregulation and privatization of the fiscal investment and loan program
Creators: name: Tsuji, Masatsugu
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1996
Subjects: Economics
Commerce

description: After the oil crises when the Japanese economy underwent structural change from a high to a low growth rate, the flow of money and funds was also affected, and the Fiscal Investment and Loan Program also underwent a great change. But nowadays a real change might be necessary for the FILP; that is, as deregulation of the financial market proceeds and the market mechanism increasingly moves into motion, the role of the government is expected to decrease. This paper will analyze the role of financial activities of the government, and examine why the FILP faces reform, and how it should be deregulated by considering the economic foundation of the FILP as well as its relation with the transformation of the Japanese economy.
A Translational Polarization Rotator
Creators: name: Chuss, David T.
name: Wollack, Edward J.
name: Pisano, Giampaolo
name: Ackiss, Sheridan
name: U-Yen, Kongpop
name: Ng, Ming wah
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore a free-space polarization modulator in which a variable phase introduction between right- and left-handed circular polarization components is used to rotate the linear polarization of the outgoing beam relative to that of the incoming beam. In this device, the polarization states are separated by a circular polarizer that consists of a quarter-wave plate in combination with a wire grid. A movable mirror is positioned behind and parallel to the circular polarizer. As the polarizer-mirror distance is separated, an incident linear polarization will be rotated through an angle that is proportional to the introduced phase delay. We demonstrate a prototype device that modulates Stokes Q and U over a 20% bandwidth, from 77 to 94 GHz.
description: 13 pages, 6 figures, submitted to Applied Optics
Implicit measures of early-life family conditions : relationships to psychosocial characteristics and cardiovascular disease risk in adulthood
Creators: name: Chan, Meanne
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: An implicit measure of early-life family conditions was created to help address potential biases in responses to self-reported questionnaires of early-life family environments. We investigated whether a computerized affect attribution paradigm designed to capture implicit, affective responses (anger, fear, warmth) regarding early-life family environments was a) stable over time, b) associated with self-reports of childhood family environments, c) able to predict adult psychosocial profiles (perceived social support, heightened vigilance), and d) able to predict adult cardiovascular risk (blood pressure) either alone or in conjunction with a measure of early-life socioeconomic status. Two studies were conducted to examine reliability and validity of the affect attribution paradigm (Study 1, N = 94) and associated adult psychosocial outcomes and cardiovascular risk (Study 2, N = 122). Responses on the affect attribution paradigm showed significant correlations over a 6-month period, and were moderately associated with self-reports of childhood family environments. Greater attributed negative affect about early-life family conditions predicted lower levels of current perceived social support and heightened vigilance in adulthood. Attributed negative affect also interacted with early-life socioeconomic status to marginally predict resting systolic blood pressure, such that those individuals high in early-life SES but who had implicit negative affect attributed to early-life family conditions had SBP levels that were as high as individuals low in early-life SES. Implicit measures of early-life family conditions are a useful approach for assessing the psychosocial nature of early-life environments and linking them to adult psychosocial and physiological health profiles.
The Shocking Truth: The small contribution to hydrogen reionization from gravitational infall
Creators: name: Wyithe, Stuart
name: Mould, Jeremy
name: Loeb, Abraham
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is commonly thought that stars are responsible for reionizing the Universe. However, deep searches for star-forming galaxies during the epoch of reionization have not yet found sufficient galaxies to provide the necessary ionising flux. Fast accretion shocks associated with gravitational infall of baryons during the formation of galaxies have recently been proposed as an alternative method of generating the required ionising photons. In this Letter we assess the contribution to hydrogen reionization from shocked gas associated with gravitational infall. We find that shocks can ionize no more than a few percent of the cosmic hydrogen by z~6. However, the small fraction of ionizing radiation produced by fast accretion shocks would be significantly more biased than that associated with stars, leading to a modification of the luminosity weighted source clustering by ~10%. This modification of the bias may be measurable with future precision experiments utilising the redshifted 21cm line to study the distribution of hydrogen during the reionization era.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures. Submitted to ApJ Letters
Periodic Sequences of Arbitrage: A Tale of Four Currencies
Creators: name: Cross, Rod
name: Kozyakin, Victor
name: O'Callaghan, Brian
name: Pokrovskii, Alexei
name: Pokrovskiy, Alexey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Finance (q-fin.GN)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Trading and Market Microstructure (q-fin.TR)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 91B26, 91B60

description: This paper investigates arbitrage chains involving four currencies and four foreign exchange trader-arbitrageurs. In contrast with the three-currency case, we find that arbitrage operations when four currencies are present may appear periodic in nature, and not involve smooth convergence to a "balanced" ensemble of exchange rates in which the law of one price holds. The goal of this article is to understand some interesting features of sequences of arbitrage operations, features which might well be relevant in other contexts in finance and economics.
description: 35 pages, 48 bibliography references, submitted to Metroeconomica
Policy approaches to economic deregulation and regulatory reform
Creators: name: Janow, Merit E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1996
Subjects: Economics
Commerce

description: This paper is divided into three parts. Part I contains a brief discussion of traditional theories for, and the actual methods of, economic regulation. It also examines factors that have influenced global trends toward deregulation -- e.g., regulatory failure, poor performance, labor market problems and budgetary concerns. Part II examines some of the U.S. academic literature that has analyzed the political economy of economic deregulation in the United States and the factors that drove deregulation. Chief among these factors includes: the convergence of elite opinion in support of reform and the important contribution of economic analysis in the reform process; the proactive exercise of leadership by policymakers; the role of independent regulatory agencies and courts which allowed for considerable deregulation to occur without Congressional action; and the role of Congress. Drawing on the structural features identified in part II, Part III of the paper examines the political economy of economic deregulation in Japan, both historically and at the current time. This paper argues that over the postwar period Japan has experienced a considerable degree of regulatory reform and economic deregulation. This has been driven by the interplay of four factors: the pluralization of interests within Japanese society; the emergence of domestic and international market-based pressures for change; external political pressures for change; and the perceived fiscal necessity to reduce public expenditures. Each of these factors is discussed in some detail. The paper also examines the current deregulation debate in Japan and identifies groups supportive and opposed to deregulation and regulatory reform. The paper argues that domestic and international market and technological factors have converged to necessitate on-going reforms. The costs to the Japanese economy of failing to continue the process seem to be sufficiently great that further reforms are expected. However, the paper discusses the role played by Japanese regulatory agencies, courts, policy makers and interest groups and argues that the institutional mechanisms that exist elsewhere to drive reform, or tolerate it, are less than robust in the Japanese setting.
Japan's banking: The darkest hour before dawn: The future is in the hands of MoF
Creators: name: Ohara, Yukiko
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1995
Subjects: Economics
Commerce

description: The current crisis in the financial system can only be solved quickly, and relatively easily, if the Ministry of Finance (MoF) acknowledged the need for injecting public funds into the system. MoF, however, also needs a political consensus on the issue. Any alternative, which relies heavily or exclusively on the strong banks, will be vehemently opposed by the healthy faction of the financial system. Any delay in solving the crisis through public funds will lead to a more expensive solution, with more casualties. A crisis feeling, therefore, seems to have developed recognizing that the status quo is untenable. As such, change, good or bad, is inevitable, and the next year will present the system with a very critical challenge, that may well prove to be the last opportunity for positive action. Again, positive action can only mean the use of public funds alongside private funds. The deflationary pressure on the economy continues to cause complications in resolving the banking crisis. Therefore, reversing deflation quickly is essential to helping the financial system deal with its problems. There are signs that the authorities are starting to act in the right direction, although the scope, size and timeliness of intervention remains to be seen.
Additional file 8 of Gauge your phage: benchmarking of bacteriophage identification tools in metagenomic sequencing data
Creators: name: Ho, Siu Fung Stanley
name: Wheeler, Nicole E.
name: Millard, Andrew D.
name: van Schaik, Willem
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 8: Supplementary Table 2. Analysis of Similarity (ANOSIM) between non-metric multidimensional scaling of tools.
Numerical analysis of the ultrarelativistic and magnetized Bondi--Hoyle problem
Creators: name: Penner, Andrew Jason
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: In this thesis, we present numerical studies of models for the accretion of fluids and magnetofluids onto rotating black holes. Specifically, we study three main scenarios, two of which treat accretion of an unmagnetized perfect fluid characterized by an internal energy sufficiently large that the rest-mass energy of the fluid can be ignored. We call this the ultrarelativistic limit, and use it to investigate accretion flows which are either axisymmetric or restricted to a thin disk. For the third scenario, we adopt the equations of ideal magnetohydrodyamics and consider axisymmetric solutions. In all cases, the black hole is assumed to be moving with fixed velocity through a fluid which has constant pressure and density at large distances. Because all of the simulated flows are highly nonlinear and supersonic, we use modern computational techniques capable of accurately dealing with extreme solution features such as shocks. In the axisymmetric ultrarelativistic case, we show that the accretion is described by steady-state solutions characterized by well-defined accretion rates which we compute, and are in reasonable agreement with previously reported results by Font and collaborators [1,2,3]. However, in contrast to this earlier work with moderate energy densities, where the computed solutions always had tail shocks, we find parameter settings for which the time-independent solutions contain bow shocks. For the ultrarelativistic thin-disk models, we find steady-state configurations with specific accretion rates and observe that the flows simultaneously develop both a tail shock and a bow shock. For the case of axisymmetric accretion using a magnetohydrodynamic perfect fluid, we align the magnetic field with the axis of symmetry. Preliminary results suggest that the resulting flows remain time-dependent at late times, although we cannot conclusively rule out the existence of steady-state solutions. Moreover, the flow morphology is different in the magnetic case: additional features are apparent that include an evacuated region near the symmetry axis and close to the black hole.
Ground-Based Submillimagnitude CCD Photometry of Bright Stars Using Snapshot Observations
Creators: name: Mann, Andrew W.
name: Gaidos, Eric
name: Aldering, Greg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate ground-based submillimagnitude (<10^-3) photometry of widely separated bright stars using snapshot CCD imaging. We routinely achieved this photometric precision by (1) choosing nearby comparison stars of a similar magnitude and spectral type, (2) defocusing the telescope to allow high signal (>10^7 electrons) to be acquired in a single integration, (3) pointing the telescope so that all stellar images fall on the same detector pixels, and (4) using a region of the CCD detector that is free of nonlinear or aberrant pixels. We describe semiautomated observations with the Supernova Integrated Field Spectrograph (SNIFS) on the University of Hawaii 2.2m telescope on Mauna Kea, with which we achieved photometric precision as good as 5.2x10^-4 (0.56mmag) with a 5 minute cadence over a 2hr interval. In one experiment, we monitored eight stars, each separated by several degrees, and achieved submillimagnitude precision with a cadence (per star) of ~17 minutes. Our snapshot technique is suitable for automated searches for planetary transits among multiple bright stars.
description: Accepted to PASP