cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Real-Vector-Space Quantum Theory with a Universal Quantum Bit
Creators: name: Aleksandrova, Antoniya
name: Borish, Victoria
name: Wootters, William K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore a model of the world based on real-vector-space quantum theory. In our model the familiar complex phase appearing in quantum states is replaced by a single binary object that we call the ubit, which is not localized and which can interact with any object in the world. Ordinary complex-vector-space quantum theory can be recovered from this model if we simply impose a certain restriction on the sets of allowed measurements and transformations (Stueckelberg's rule), but in this paper we try to obtain the standard theory, or a close approximation to it, without invoking such a restriction. We look particularly at the effective theory that applies to a subsystem when the ubit is interacting with a much larger environment. In a certain limit it turns out that the ubit-environment interaction has the effect of enforcing Stueckelberg's rule automatically, and we obtain a one-parameter family of effective theories--modifications of standard quantum theory--that all satisfy this rule. The one parameter is the ratio s/omega, where s quantifies the strength of the ubit's interaction with the rest of the world and omega is the ubit's rotation rate. We find that when this parameter is small but not zero, the effective theory is similar to standard quantum theory but is characterized by spontaneous decoherence of isolated systems.
description: 58 pages; sections rewritten and figure added in v2
Equivalence relations on separated nets arising from linear toral flows
Creators: name: Haynes, Alan
name: Kelly, Michael
name: Weiss, Barak
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In 1998, Burago-Kleiner and McMullen independently proved the existence of separated nets in $\mathbb{R}^d$ which are not bi-Lipschitz equivalent (BL) to a lattice. A finer equivalence relation than BL is bounded displacement (BD). Separated nets arise naturally as return times to a section for minimal $\mathbb{R}^d$-actions. We analyze the separated nets which arise via these constructions, focusing particularly on nets arising from linear $\mathbb{R}^d$-actions on tori. We show that generically these nets are BL to a lattice, and for some choices of dimensions and sections, they are generically BD to a lattice. We also show the existence of such nets which are not BD to a lattice.
description: 33 pages, a gap in the proof of Corollary 3.5 was corrected and a few other minor modifications were made
Illuminating the 130 GeV Gamma Line with Continuum Photons
Creators: name: Cohen, Timothy
name: Lisanti, Mariangela
name: Slatyer, Tracy R.
name: Wacker, Jay G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There is evidence for a 130 GeV gamma-ray line at the Galactic Center in the Fermi Large Area Telescope data. Dark matter candidates that explain this feature should also annihilate to Standard Model particles, resulting in a continuous spectrum of photons. To study this continuum, we analyze the Fermi data down to 5 GeV, restricted to the inner 3 degrees of the Galaxy. We place a strong bound on the ratio of continuum photons to monochromatic line photons that is independent of uncertainties in the dark matter density profile. The derived constraints exclude neutralino dark matter as an explanation for the line.
description: 14+10 pages, 11 figures, 3 appendices; v2 refs added, additional final states included; v3 minor difference in data selection criteria, conclusions unchanged; v4 journal version
Ester Oras, Practices of Wealth Depositing in the 1st–9th Century AD Eastern Baltic
Creators: name: Dworschak, Nina
Publisher: name: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts
Year: 2019

description: Rezension zu: Ester Oras, Practices of Wealth Depositing in the 1st–9th Century AD Eastern Baltic. Sidestone, Leiden 2015. ISBN 978-90-8890-307-6. 354 Seiten, 35 s/w- und 160 Farbabbildungen
description: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Bd. 96 2018(2019)
Enabling Pharmaceutical Traceability in The Nigerian Supply Chain using GS1 Global Standards: Lean Traceability Including In-Country Serialization of COVID-19 Vaccines
Creators: name: Adeyeye, Mojisola Christianah
name: Kayode, John Olusola
name: Adeniran, Adekunle Adebola
name: Osho, Folasade Monisola
name: Udokwelu, Walter
Publisher: name: Journal of Regulatory Science
Year: 2023
Subjects: Traceability
Masterdata
Event data
Serialization
Supply chain
substandard and falsified medicines
COVID-19 vaccines
Regulatory System Strengthening

description: Traceability of the pharmaceutical products across a supply chain creates an environment that provides visibility of the product status from plant to patient. The supply chain is the trade journey products make to consumers or retail stores (e.g. pharmacy store, patented drug store, medical store etc.,) via a network of producers, manufacturers, distributors, transporters and vendors taking that product from creation to delivery. Some of the key benefits of introducing traceability in the Nigerian pharmaceutical sector besides securing the supply chain includes an increment in the quality of data to support pharmacovigilance, decrease in the presence of substandard and falsified (SF) medications and ultimately ensuring patient safety. The drug distribution system in Nigeria is largely undefined and there have been in-country efforts to sanitize it. One such effort has produced a national policy document referred to as the Nigeria Pharmaceutical Traceability Strategy which stipulates the plan to achieve supply chain visibility, prevent infiltration of the SFs and strengthen existing regulatory and legal frameworks in Nigeria using GS1 global standards. The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) and other drug regulatory agencies in Africa jointly signed a Call to Action during the 2nd GS1 African Healthcare Conference held in Lagos, Nigeria on September 16-20, 2019 to demonstrate commitment to pursue pharmaceutical traceability by adopting global supply chain standards. This article focuses on how NAFDAC in collaboration with GS1 Nigeria, National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) and other partners have implemented traceability as a public sector pilot for the COVID-19 vaccines received in Nigeria from March 2021 to December 2021. This included the serialization of COVID-19 vaccines that were received without serial numbers that uniquely identify the secondary packing of the COVID-19 vaccines. The lessons learned from the pilot would be used to support development and dissemination of tracebility regulation, publish guidelines for traceability implementation, and engage stakeholders meaningfully as Nigeria implements full track and trace of pharmaceutical products.
description: Journal of Regulatory Science, Vol. 11 No. 1 (2023)
Biomass degradation after harvest of genetically modified products compared to conventional counterparts
Creators: name: Vertuan, Hallison
name: Jose, Marcia
name: Crivellari, Augusto
name: G. Belchior, Gustavo
name: Verardino, Luciana
name: J. Soares, Daniel
name: Bellini, Luiz F.
name: Bacalhau, Fabiana
name: Barancelli, Marcos
name: Sordi, Daniel
name: Berger, Geraldo
Publisher: name: Journal of Regulatory Science
Year: 2023
Subjects: biomass degradation
genetically modified products
environmental risk assessment
soybean
maize
cotton
Agriculture
Research and Development

description: Conventional breeding and modern biotechnology tools have been successfully combined over the years to generate GM crops. Single events have been crossed to generate stacked products and these combinations have proven to be an effective way to combine different gene products and associated characteristics which are agronomically relevant and result in yield increase. Regulatory agencies around the world still require risk assessment data for these products while no evidence-based additional biosafety concerns have emerged in over 20 years of global use. As part of the environmental risk assessment to evaluate the biosafety of GMOs, the Brazilian regulatory agency requests biomass degradation analyses of GM plants compared to their conventional counterparts. Here we present results on the evaluation of biomass degradation of GM and non-GM crops for soybean, maize and cotton, including single events and stacked products. Field trials were performed in representative cultivated areas in Brazil to generate biomass samples after harvest. Stalks, senescent leaves and stems after harvest were considered the biomass assessed. Collected samples were used in degradation studies conducted in a greenhouse setting from 2012 to 2019. For each product, data was subjected to analysis of variance and pairwise differences between GM and conventional counterparts were assessed with a 5% significance level. Our results show that single events and stacked products of soybean, maize and cotton presented no significant differences from their conventional counterparts for biomass degradation. This adds to the existing weight of evidence that indicates that single and stacked GM crops follow the same pattern of biomass degradation compared to conventional counterparts.
description: Journal of Regulatory Science, Vol. 11 No. 1 (2023)
Bounds on the Average Sensitivity of Nested Canalizing Functions
Creators: name: Klotz, Johannes Georg
name: Heckel, Reinhard
name: Schober, Steffen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Molecular Networks (q-bio.MN)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Nested canalizing Boolean (NCF) functions play an important role in biological motivated regulative networks and in signal processing, in particular describing stack filters. It has been conjectured that NCFs have a stabilizing effect on the network dynamics. It is well known that the average sensitivity plays a central role for the stability of (random) Boolean networks. Here we provide a tight upper bound on the average sensitivity for NCFs as a function of the number of relevant input variables. As conjectured in literature this bound is smaller than 4/3 This shows that a large number of functions appearing in biological networks belong to a class that has very low average sensitivity, which is even close to a tight lower bound.
description: revised submission to PLOS ONE
Empfangene Bücher / Books received / Livres reçus
Creators: name: Redaktion, Die
Publisher: name: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts
Year: 2019

description: -
description: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Bd. 96 2018(2019)
Modules de cycles et classes non ramifiées sur un espace classifiant
Creators: name: Kahn, Bruno
name: Nguyen, Ngan Thi Kim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let G be a finite group of exponent m and let k be a field of characteristic prime to m, containing the m-th roots of unity. For any Rost cycle module M over k, we construct exact sequences detecting the unramified elements in Serre's group of invariants of G with values in M in terms of "residue" morphisms associated to pairs (D,g), where D runs through the subgroups of G and g runs through the homomorphisms μ_m \to G whose image centralises D. This allows us to recover results of Bogomolov and Peyre on the unramified cohomology of fields of invariants of G, and to generalise them.
description: In French. Slight revision of the second part of the first version. The first part appeared as: "Sur l'espace classifiant d'un groupe alg\'ebrique lin\'eaire", I, J. Math. Pures Appl. 102 (2014), 972-1013
Regulatory Science: The Maturation of an Evolving Scientific Discipline
Creators: name: Moghissi, A. Alan
name: Steen, Tomoko
name: Calderone, Richard
name: Auffret, Jean Pierre
name: Jaeger, Lisa
name: Xu, Liwei Sarah
name: Wixson McBride, Carolyn
name: McBride, Dennis
Publisher: name: Journal of Regulatory Science
Year: 2023
Subjects: history and status of regulatory science
Maturation of Regulatory Science

description: Regulatory science encompasses the participation of a large array of scientific disciplines involved in the regulatory process. Although each discipline addresses different phenomenology and exploits different methodologies, the common scientific core is the same: objective pursuit of verifiable and useful knowledge. This paper updates the definition and scope of the practice of regulatory science, starting with a concise historical overview. It then examines the different phases of regulatory science applications: initial, exploratory, and standard operating. The paper also reviews the definitions of regulatory science used by various agencies and provides abbreviated scientific definitions. The paper summarizes Best Available Regulatory Science (BARS) and Metrics for Evaluation of Scientific Claims (MERSC), along with key elements and tools of regulatory science: peer review; regulatory science ethics, including the so-called Jeffersonian principle; mathematical models; cost benefit analysis; and stakeholder participation. The paper concludes with a brief description of these key tools and elements, highlighting their importance in the field of regulatory science.
description: Journal of Regulatory Science, Vol. 11 No. 1 (2023)
Emergence Of Perceptual Gestalts In The Human Visual Cortex: The Case Of The Configural Superiority Effect
Creators: name: Kubilius, Jonas
name: Wagemans, Johan
name: Op de Beeck, Hans P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011

description: Many Gestalt phenomena have been described in terms of perception of a whole being not equal to the mere sum of its parts. It is unclear how these phenomena emerge in the brain. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study the neural basis of the behavioral configural superiority effect, where a visual search task for the odd element in a display of four line segments (parts) is facilitated by adding an irrelevant corner to each of the line segments (whole shapes). To assess part-whole encoding in early and higher visual areas, we compared multi-voxel pattern analysis performance on detection of the odd element. Our analysis revealed a neural configural superiority effect in shape-selective regions but not in low-level retinotopic areas, where decoding of parts was more pronounced. Moreover, training pattern classifiers to the whole shape and attempting to decode parts failed in the most anterior region of these shape-selective regions, suggesting a complete absence of part information in the pattern of response. These results show how at least some Gestalt phenomena in vision emerge only at the higher stages of the visual information processing and suggest that feedforward processing might be sufficient to produce them.
The impact domestic violence on family and friends: A phenomenological investigation into observer responses
Creators: name: Chambers, Louise
Publisher: name: CQUniversity
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 420303
subject: Family care

description: Globally domestic violence (DV) has had significant exposure within the media. However, there has been little research on the observers, that is, family and friends who are also affected by DV. The aim of this study was to understand what it is like for observers of DV, who are family or friends, as these experiences are not well understood. The approach to inquiry adopted for this study was that of hermeneutic phenomenology using van Manen’s approach to research. Data was gathered through the use of the internet accessing publicly available stories as provided by those who observed domestic violence. Findings of the research shows that friends/family who are observers of DV can be impacted resulting depression, Post-Traumatic Stress and having to make the ultimate decision to withdraw support and contact in order for their personal well-being when a victim continues to sustain abuse over a long period of time. This finding is significant as there is a need to extend services to include those who are in the supportive role, particularly if the DV continues for many years. Resilience theory aided advanced analysis leading to further new knowledge, including the need for professionals to stimulate resilience protective factors such as hope, hardiness and self-efficacy in the observer. High levels of resilience is more likely to sustain the support that a friend or family provides for their loved one who lives with DV.
Feedforward Emergence Of Perceptual Gestalts In The Human Visual Cortex
Creators: name: Kubilius, Jonas
name: Wagemans, Johan
name: Op de Beeck, Hans P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010

description: How does our visual system combine the features or parts in a complex display to provide a percept of a whole? Intense behavioral work in Gestalt psychology has described a number of phenomena where this whole is not equal to a mere sum of its parts. However, precise unifying principles of such Gestalt effects have remained elusive. Current neuroscientific models suggest that these phenomena are the consequence of the interplay between bottom-up, feedback, and lateral connections in the hierarchical visual system. Here we approach this question from a different perspective by investigating the neural basis of Gestalt formation. In our functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) paradigm, we utilized a configural superiority effect, where a visual search task for the odd element in a display of three lines oriented at 45 degrees and one at 135 degrees (parts) is facilitated by adding an irrelevant corner to each of the lines, forming three arrows and a triangle (whole shapes). To assess the extent of grouping in early and higher visual areas, we compared multivariate pattern analysis performance on the same task, detection of the odd element, using the fMRI activity pattern in the primary visual cortex (V1) and shape-selective lateral occipital complex (LOC). The behavioral advantage for searching among shapes rather than lines was reflected in a better classification performance in LOC but not in V1, where decoding of parts was more pronounced. This suggests that the configural superiority effect may arise by predominantly feedforward processes. Moreover, even when we trained the classifier on whole shapes in LOC, its decoding performance on parts remained as poor as when we trained on those parts, indicating that the representation of a whole shape bears no similarity to the representation of its parts at these higher stages of visual processing. Simulations confirm that these findings are consistent with a feedforward model of vision, HMAX. Taken together, these results show how at least some Gestalt phenomena in vision are consistent with and caused by the feedforward processing of visual shape.
Visualizing Spacetime Curvature via Gradient Flows I: Introduction
Creators: name: Lake, Kayll
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Traditional approaches to the study of the dynamics of spacetime curvature in a very real sense hide the intricacies of the nonlinear regime. Whether it be huge formulae, or mountains of numerical data, standard methods of presentation make little use of our remarkable skill, as humans, at pattern recognition. Here we introduce a new approach to the visualization of spacetime curvature. We examine the flows associated with the gradient fields of invariants derived from the spacetime. These flows reveal a remarkably rich structure, and offer fresh insights even for well known analytical solutions to Einstein's equations. This paper serves as an overview and as an introduction to this approach.
description: 10 pages twocolumn revtex 4-1 two figures. Final form to appear in Phys Rev D
Ein neuntes Körpergrab auf dem Friedhof der Merowingerzeit Beuchter Schierk, Krs. Goslar
Creators: name: Niquet, Franz
Publisher: name: Nachrichten aus Niedersachsens Urgeschichte
Year: 2019

description: Nachrichten aus Niedersachsens Urgeschichte, Bd. 30 (1961): Nachrichten aus Niedersachsens Urgeschichte
Representation equivalent Bieberbach groups and strongly isospectral flat manifolds
Creators: name: Lauret, Emilio A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 58J53 (Primary), 22D10 (Secondary)

description: Let $Γ_1$ and $Γ_2$ be Bieberbach groups contained in the full isometry group $G$ of $\mathbb{R}^n$. We prove that if the compact flat manifolds $Γ_1\backslash\mathbb{R}^n$ and $Γ_2\backslash\mathbb{R}^n$ are strongly isospectral then the Bieberbach groups $Γ_1$ and $Γ_2$ are representation equivalent, that is, the right regular representations $L^2(Γ_1\backslash G)$ and $L^2(Γ_2\backslash G)$ are unitarily equivalent.
description: To appear in Canadian Mathematical Bulletin
Probegrabung in einer Gehöftwarf von Grimmens, Gern. Hohenkirchen, Krs. Friesland
Creators: name: Marschalleck, Karl-Heinz
Publisher: name: Nachrichten aus Niedersachsens Urgeschichte
Year: 2019

description: Nachrichten aus Niedersachsens Urgeschichte, Bd. 30 (1961): Nachrichten aus Niedersachsens Urgeschichte
Erhaltung der Altstadt
Creators: name: Redaktion, Die
Publisher: name: Burgen und Schlösser - Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege
Year: 2017

description: -
description: Burgen und Schlösser - Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege, Bd. 11 Nr. 1 (1970): Burgen und Schlösser - Zeitschrift für Burgenforschung und Denkmalpflege
Constraints on the primordial gravitational waves with variable sound speed from current CMB data
Creators: name: Cheng, Cheng
name: Huang, Qing-Guo
name: Li, Xiao-Dong
name: Ma, Yin-Zhe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We make a comprehensive investigation of the observational effect of the inflation consistency relation. We focus on the general single-field inflation model with the consistency relation $r=-8c_s n_t$, and investigate the observational constraints of sound speed $c_s$ by using the Seven-Year WMAP data, the BICEP tensor power spectrum data, and the constraints on $f_{\rm NL}^{\rm equil.}$ and $f_{\rm NL}^{\rm orth.}$ from the Five-Year WMAP observations. We find that the constraints on the tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$ is much tighter if $c_s$ is small, since a large tilt $n_t$ is strongly constrained by the observations. We obtain $r<0.37, 0.27$ and 0.09 ($dn_s/d\ln k=0$) for $c_s$=1, 0.1 and 0.01 models at 95.4% confidence level. When taking smaller values of $c_s$, the positive correlation between $r$ and $n_s$ also leads to slightly tighter constraint on the upper bound of $n_s$, while the running of scalar spectral index $dn_s/d\ln k$ is generally unaffected. For the sound speed $c_s$, it is not well constrained if only the CMB power spectrum data is used, while the constraints are obtainable by taking $f_{\rm NL}^{\rm equil.}$ and $f_{\rm NL}^{\rm orth.}$ priors into account. With the constraining data of $f_{\rm NL}^{\rm equil.}$ and $f_{\rm NL}^{\rm orth.}$, we find that, $c_s\lesssim 0.01$ region is excluded at 99.7% CL, and the $c_s=1$ case (the single-field slow-roll inflation) is slightly disfavored at 68.3% CL. In addition, the inclusion of $f_{\rm NL}^{\rm equil.}$ and $f_{\rm NL}^{\rm orth.}$ into the analysis can improve the constraints on $r$ and $n_s$. We further discuss the implications of our constraints on the test of inflation models.
description: 15 pages, 7 figures, updated version
Development and validation of an activity-based system to monitor individual drinking behaviour and water intake of grazing cattle: A field solution
Creators: name: O'Connor, Lauren
Publisher: name: CQUniversity
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 300202
subject: Agricultural land management

description: Drinking is a critical behaviour for cattle health, welfare, production and survival. Water is an essential nutrient and is involved in most bodily functions including metabolism and thermoregulation. Cattle productivity, health and welfare can be compromised if physiological water requirements are not fulfilled. The distances that cattle must travel to access drinking water in a grazing environment affects the frequency that cattle drink and may affect an animal’s ability to meet its water needs. Ambiguity regarding sufficient water provision for grazing cattle, in terms of the number and distribution of water points (e.g. dams or bores), and optimum drinking behaviour under field conditions represent serious knowledge gaps that are required to maximise cattle health, welfare and performance. The aim of this thesis was to review, develop and validate an automated system to monitor the individual drinking behaviour of grazing cattle under field conditions. The first part of the thesis examines the literature on cattle water requirements and drinking behaviour. Chapter 2 provides an overview of the northern Australian beef industry, upon which the research is focused, and highlights the importance of drinking water for cattle in grazing environments. The need to record cattle drinking behaviour under field conditions is demonstrated and existing automated monitoring systems are explored. Chapter 3 uses a systematic review methodology to quantify relationships between drinking frequency and cattle performance. The detailed analysis provides evidence that suboptimal drinking frequency can negatively affect water and feed intake and in turn cattle performance (live weight, milk yield, milk fat). The next part of the thesis examines the potential of automated technologies to record grazing cattle drinking behaviour. Chapter 4 investigates the use of Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) panel readers to monitor cattle water point use. The chapter shows that information on the time of day and frequency that cattle visit water points can be obtained from automated technologies. Behavioural variation according to climate and water availability can also be detected. Chapter 5 tests an approach to detect cattle drinking from a trough using neck mounted accelerometers. The chapter shows that acceleration measures of cattle head-neck position and activity can identify drinking from some behaviours (standing with the head up and walking) but not from behaviours with similar head-neck characteristics (standing with the head down).
Extraordinary optical transmission of multimode quantum correlations via localized surface plasmons
Creators: name: Lawrie, B. J.
name: Evans, P. G.
name: Pooser, R. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate the coherent transduction of quantum noise reduction, or squeezed light, by Ag localized surface plasmons (LSPs). Squeezed light, generated through four-wave-mixing in Rb vapor, is coupled to a Ag nanohole array designed to exhibit LSP-mediated extraordinary-optical transmission (EOT) spectrally coincident with the squeezed light source at 795 nm. We demonstrate that quantum noise reduction as a function of transmission is found to match closely with linear attenuation models, thus demonstrating that the photon-LSP-photon transduction process is coherent near the LSP resonance.
An assessment of a sub-tropical seagrass, Zostera muelleri, as a potential bioindicator of trace elements
Creators: name: Skillington, Anna
Publisher: name: CQUniversity
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 410404
subject: Environmental management
classificationCode: 410402
subject: Environmental assessment and monitoring

description: The aim of the research was to ascertain whether the locally predominant seagrass species, Zostera muelleri, could be a potential TE bioindicator. This is was achieved by conducting two multi-factor laboratory Cu and environmental experiments and spatial and temporal field assessments. Results has shown that the seagrasses life cycle and the part of the seagrass analysed can influence the metal concentrations, which is important for interpretation of results.
Heavy Quarkonium Production at Low Pt in NRQCD with Soft Gluon Resummation
Creators: name: Sun, Peng
name: Yuan, C. -P.
name: Yuan, Feng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend the non-relativistic QCD (NRQCD) prediction for the production of heavy quarkonium with low transverse momentum in hadronic collisions by taking into account effects from all order soft gluon resummation. Following the Collins-Soper-Sterman formalism, we resum the most singular terms in the partonic subprocesses. The theoretical predictions of $J/ψ$ and $Υ$ productions are compared to the experimental data from the fixed target experiments (E866) and the collider experiments (RHIC, Tevatron, LHC). The associated non-perturbative Sudakov form factor for the gluon distributions is found to be different from the previous assumption of rescaling the quark form factor by the ratio of color factors. This conclusion should be further checked by future experiments on Higgs boson and/or di-photon production in $pp$ collisions. We also comment on the implication of our results on determining the color-octet matrix elements associated with the $J/ψ$ and $Υ$ productions in the NRQCD factorization formalism.
description: 18 pages, 4 figures
Consequências da Fake News quanto ao coronavírus SARS-CoV-2 relacionadas à adesão à vacinação entre os adultos e idosos
Creators: name: Scandiuzzi, Liliana Amorim Alves
name: Terra, Fábio de Souza
name: Silva, Luiz Almeida da
name: Dalri, Rita de Cassia de Marchi Barcellos
name: Veiga, Eugenia Veludo
name: Suazo, Sandra Verônica Valenzuela
name: Sainz, Jose Luis Higuera
name: Cruz, Patrícia Regina Morais
name: Sousa, Wendy Chrystyan Medeiros de
name: Santos, Leonézio Donizeti dos
name: Ferreira, Fabbio de Souza
name: Silva, Cassandra Alves de Oliveira
name: Robazzi, Maria Lucia do Carmo Cruz
name: Silva, Antonia Leda Oliveira
name: Jaimes, Jose Alfredo Pimentel
name: Álvarez, Fernando Enrique Rodríguez
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 111002 Clinical Nursing: Primary (Preventative)
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Health Care
subject: 111709 Health Care Administration
subject: 111710 Health Counselling
subject: 111711 Health Information Systems (incl. Surveillance)
subject: 111712 Health Promotion

description: Notícias conhecidas Falsas São Como notícias falsas ea seriedade fazer ASSUNTO Levou o Ministério da Saúde (2018), a contribuir com uma sociedade Criando hum sítio Eletrônico para combater como notícias falsas COM o proposito de esclarecer um População Frente A Verdade dos Fatos COM NAS bases Evidências científicas e suas fontes. Partindo do pressuposto que Neto, et.al (2020), descreveam que as Fake News são informações, notícias, postagens produzidas de formas falsas, sem averiguação e sem informações, principalmente em relação à pandemia da COVID-19, se faz necessário discutir, como consequências de Fake News quanto ao  coronavírusrelacionada à adesão à vacinação entre os adultos e idosos. É importante comentar, que no Brasil, a COVID-19, o primeiro relato foi notificado em 22 de janeiro de 2020. Passado quatro dias foi confirmada a doença no país e em toda a América Latina (Ministério da Saúde, 2020). Justifica-se, a contribuição deste estudo no intuito de sintetizar a literatura científica sobre as notícias falsas quanto ao Coronavírus relacionado à adesão à vacinação entre os adultos e idosos, bem como o potencial de identificar como lacunas de conhecimento, com vistas às futuras investigações no andamento da produção intelectual, a fim de levar a discussão a população e a ciência, sobre a temática estudada, pois a literatura ainda é escassa.
How to prepare a successful proposal for an ERC grant – personal hints and tips
Creators: name: Sandak, Anna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Predstavitev v okviru usposabljanja Pot do uspešne prijave na razpise ERC (The path to a successful ERC call application), ki ga je 20. 11. 2023 organizirala Univerza na Primorskem.
Rational Calogero-Moser Model: Explicit Form and r-Matrix of the Second Poisson Structure
Creators: name: Avan, Jean
name: Ragoucy, Eric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We compute the full expression of the second Poisson bracket structure for N=2 and N=3 site rational classical Calogero-Moser model. We propose an r-matrix formulation for N=2. It is identified with the classical limit of the second dynamical boundary algebra previously built by the authors.
Messungen Zur Schmidtzahlabhängigkeit Des Gasaustausches
Creators: name: Bösinger, Rainer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1986
Subjects: Schmidt number
gas exchange
gas chromatography

description: Measurements of the dependency of air-water gas transfer on the Schmidt number in an annular wind/wave facility using He, methane, Xe, and carbon dioxide.
Soil microbial communities and disease suppression as affected by soil compaction resulting from different management strategies
Creators: name: Ishak, Lily
Publisher: name: CQUniversity
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 300804
subject: Horticultural crop protection (incl. pests, diseases and weeds)
classificationCode: 300202
subject: Agricultural land management

description: This research has examined the effects of soil compaction, and common agricultural management strategies used to overcome soil compaction, on soil bacterial and fungal activity and diversity. Soil microbial communities, bacteria and fungi in particular, play essential roles in the maintenance of soil health, where high soil microbial diversity might strongly contribute to the natural disease suppression. The activity and diversity of soil microbial communities is, however, strongly dependent on other soil characteristics, especially soil physical parameters. Soil compaction indicated by increased bulk density is the most soil physical parameter that directly modifies soil environment where crops and diseases exist in, but it might also indirectly cause more disease by affecting the composition of soil microbial communities in the soil. Many strategies have been used to attempt to overcome compaction in temperate environments, but they have been poorly studied/less successful in tropical and subtropical environments. This thesis, therefore, looks at the impact of compaction, and methods used to reduce compaction, on the soil microbial profile, and its capacity to resist introduced diseases.
Weak and Strong coupling regimes in plasmonic-QED
Creators: name: Hümmer, T.
name: García-Vidal, F. J.
name: Martín-Moreno, L.
name: Zueco, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a quantum theory for the interaction of a two level emitter with surface plasmon polaritons confined in single-mode waveguide resonators. Based on the Green's function approach, we develop the conditions for the weak and strong coupling regimes by taking into account the sources of dissipation and decoherence: radiative and non-radiative decays, internal loss processes in the emitter, as well as propagation and leakage losses of the plasmons in the resonator. The theory is supported by numerical calculations for several quantum emitters, GaAs and CdSe quantum dots and NV centers together with different types of resonators constructed of hybrid, cylindrical or wedge waveguides. We further study the role of temperature and resonator length. Assuming realistic leakage rates, we find the existence of an optimal length at which strong coupling is possible. Our calculations show that the strong coupling regime in plasmonic resonators is accessible within current technology when working at very low temperatures (<4K). In the weak coupling regime our theory accounts for recent experimental results. By further optimization we find highly enhanced spontaneous emission with Purcell factors over 1000 at room temperature for NV-centers. We finally discuss more applications for quantum nonlinear optics and plasmon-plasmon interactions.
description: published as Phys. Rev. B 87, 115419 (2013)
Early 21st century snow cover state over the western river basins of the Indus River system
Creators: name: Hasson, Shabeh ul
name: Lucarini, Valerio
name: Khan, Mobushir Riaz
name: Petitta, Marcello
name: Bolch, Tobias
name: Gioli, Giovanna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we assess the snow cover and its dynamics for the western river basins of the Indus River system and their subbasins located in Afghanistan, China, India and Pakistan for the period 2001-2012. First, we validate the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) daily snow products from Terra and Aqua against the Landsat Thematic Mapper/Enhanced Thematic Mapper plus data set, and then improve them for clouds by applying a validated non spectral cloud removal technique. The improved snow product has been analysed on a seasonal and annual basis against different topographic parameters (aspect, elevation and slope). Our results show a decreasing tendency for the annual average snow cover for the westerlies influenced basins (upper Indus basin, Astore, Hunza, Shigar and Shyok) and an increasing tendency for the monsoon influenced basins (Jhelum, Kabul, Swat and Gilgit). Seasonal average snow cover decreases during winter and autumn, and increases during spring and summer, which is consistent with the observed cooling and warming trends during the respective seasons. Subbasins at relatively higher latitudes/altitudes show higher variability than basins at lower latitudes/middle altitudes. Northeastern and northwestern aspects feature greater snow cover. The mean end of summer regional snow line altitude (SLA) zones range from 3000 to 5000 m asl for all basins. Our analysis provides an indication of a descending end of summer regional SLA zone for most of the studied basins, which is significant for the Shyok and Kabul basins, thus indicating a change in their water resources. Such results are consistent with the observed hydroclimatic data, recently collected local perceptions and glacier mass balances for the investigated period within the UIB. Moreover, our analysis shows a significant correlation
Analysis and optimisation of network parameters in deep learning based neural networks
Creators: name: Sinha, Toshi
Publisher: name: CQUniversity
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 460203
subject: Evolutionary computation
classificationCode: 460204
subject: Fuzzy computation

description: Deep learning neural networks, or, more precisely, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), have demonstrated great potential in terms of their treatment of complex image classification problems over the past few years. CNNs have a large number of parameters and the system accuracy depends directly on the selection of these parameters. Despite CNNs’ recent successes, the diverse numbers of parameters and the impact and values of those parameters in deep learning are still unknown. Due to the unknown impacts and values of these deep learning parameters, many trial-and-error or ad hoc methods are used to configure deep learning systems, which increase training time, reduce performance and result in lower classification accuracies, especially when applied to complex real-world applications. In practice, optimal parameter selection remains the biggest obstacle when designing a real-world application using CNNs. This research has investigated the impact of deep learning parameters on classification accuracy and their applicability in real-world applications, such as scene parsing. In particular, this research has focused on the impact of changing the input window size, the filter size, the number of layers and the number of filters. A methodology based on repeated measures and an evolutionary algorithm to obtain the optimal values for the network parameters has been developed; additionally, a large number of experiments using the developed methodology and benchmark datasets were conducted. Finally, a comparative analysis of the results was presented and discussed. The original contributions of this thesis are Grid and Particle Swarm Optimisation (PSO) based methods for optimising and determining the impact of network parameters in deep learning-based real-world applications. The experimental analysis has shown that the PSO-based method has achieved 81.47% and 88.3% accuracies for CIFAR-10 and RSVD datasets respectively, which are better than the accuracies obtained using grid based parameter optimisation and other existing approaches.
An experimental study of 2nd generation biodiesel as an alternative fuel for diesel engine
Creators: name: Bhuiya, Muhammad
Publisher: name: CQUniversity
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 401799
subject: Mechanical engineering not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 401703
subject: Energy generation, conversion and storage (excl. chemical and electrical)

description: This study investigated the prospects of using 2nd generation biodiesel as an alternative fuel particularly the biodiesel produced from the Australian Beauty Leaf (BL) (Calophyllum inophyllum L.). Firstly, the study developed an optimised oil extraction method from BL kernel based on the kernel size and treatment conditions (for example, seed preparation and cracking, drying, whole kernel, grated kernel and moisture content). Mechanical method of using a screw press expeller and chemical method of using n-hexane were used for oil extraction. The results indicated that the grated kernels that were dried to 14.4% moisture content produced the highest oil yield from both methods. The highest oil recovery of 54% was obtained in n-hexane method from the grated kernel followed by 45% in screw press method. A comparison of fossil energy ratio (FER) (the ratio of energy produced from the biodiesel to the energy required for processing of the feedstocks) was made between n-hexane and screw press methods and the results revealed that the FER in-hexane method was 4.1 compared to 3.7 in screw press method, indicating that the n-hexane method is more efficient than the screw press technique. It should also be noted that the oil content of BL kernel was about 60% on dry weight basis.
High-fidelity entanglement purification using chains of atoms and optical cavities
Creators: name: Gonta, Denis
name: van Loock, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In our previous paper [Phys. Rev. A 84, 042303 (2011)], we proposed an efficient scheme to purify dynamically a bipartite entangled state using short chains of atoms coupled to high-finesse optical cavities. In contrast to conventional entanglement purification protocols, we avoid controlled-NOT gates and thus reduce complicated pulse sequences and superfluous qubit operations. In this paper, we significantly improve the output fidelity of remotely entangled atoms by introducing one additional entanglement protocol in each of the repeater nodes and by optimizing the laser beams required to control the entire scheme. Our improved distillation scheme yields an almost unit output fidelity that, together with the entanglement distribution and swapping, opens an attractive route towards an efficient and experimentally feasible quantum repeater for long-distance quantum communication.
description: 13 pages, 4 figures, revised version accepted in PRA. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1106.3537
LLR Compression for BICM Systems Using Large Constellations
Creators: name: Rosati, Stefano
name: Tomasin, Stefano
name: Butussi, Matteo
name: Rimoldi, Bixio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Digital video broadcasting (DVB-C2) and other modern communication standards increase diversity by means of a symbol-level interleaver that spans over several codewords. De-interleaving at the receiver requires a large memory, which has a significant impact on the implementation cost. In this paper, we propose a technique that reduces the de-interleaver memory size. By quantizing log-likelihood ratios with bit-specific quantizers and compressing the quantized output, we can significantly reduce the memory size with a negligible increase in computational complexity. Both the quantizer and compressor are designed via a GMI-based maximization procedure. For a typical DVB-C2 scenario, numerical results show that the proposed solution enables a memory saving up to 30%.
description: 12 pages, 11 figures, submitted to IEEE Trans. on Communications
Social group optimization algorithm for civil engineering structural health monitoring
Creators: name: Das, Swagato
name: Saha, Purnachandra
name: Satapathy, Suresh Chandra
name: Jena, Junali Jasmine
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Social group optimization (SGO) is a human-based metaheuristic optimization technique which shows accurate results for different benchmark functions but has not been studied for civil engineering structural health monitoring problems. This article deals with the use of SGO for damage analysis of different modelled civil engineering structures and a real-life American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) benchmark structure using a stiffness-based objective function. It is observed that SGO is not able to identify the damage in the structures owing to the algorithm becoming trapped in local optima. To improve the performance of SGO, a modified social group optimization (MSGO) is proposed, which deals with the drawbacks of SGO in dealing with the complicated objective functions of civil structures. It is observed that MSGO shows accurate damage detection capability, with errors of less than 1%, in the civil structures considered, even in the presence of noise.
Teaching ‘in our remoteness’: A constructivist grounded theory of primary school teaching in a remote area of Nepal
Creators: name: Mitchell, Derek
Publisher: name: CQUniversity
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 390102
subject: Curriculum and pedagogy theory and development
classificationCode: 390201
subject: Education policy
classificationCode: 390203
subject: Sociology of education

description: Drawing on the experiences of a cohort of public primary school teacher from a remote area in northern Nepal, this study provides deep explanatory theory of remote teaching and its challenges, offering insights into the dynamics of policy and practice and the power of context over such processes.