cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Multi-objective Optimisation Framework for Blue-Green Infrastructure Placement Using Detailed Flood Model
Creators: name: Rehman, Asid Ur
name: Glenis, Vassilis
name: Lewis, Elizabeth
name: Kilsby, Chris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This study aims to find a cost-effective Blue-Green Infrastructure placement scheme by developing an improved approach called the Cost Optimization Framework for Implementing blue-Green infrastructure (CONFIGURE). The optimisation framework integrates a detailed hydrodynamic flood simulation model with a multi-objective optimisation algorithm (Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm II). The use of a high-resolution flood simulation model ensures the explicit representation of BGI and other land use features to simulate flow pathways and surface flood risk accurately, while the optimisation algorithm guarantees achieving the best cost-benefit trade-offs for given BGI options. The current study uses the advanced CityCAT hydrodynamic flood model to evaluate the efficiency of the optimisation framework and the impact of location and size of permeable interventions on the optimisation process and subsequent cost-benefit trade-offs. This is achieved by dividing permeable surface areas into intervention zones of varying size and quantity. Furthermore, rainstorm events with 100-year and 30-year return periods are analysed to identify any common optimal solutions for different rainfall intensities. Depending on the number of intervention locations, the automated framework reliably achieves optimal BGI implementation solutions in a fraction of the time required to find the best solutions by trialling all possible options. Designing and optimising interventions with smaller sizes but many permeable zones saves a good fraction of investment. However, such a design scheme requires more computational time to find optimal options. Furthermore, the optimal spatial configuration of BGI varies with different rainstorm severities, suggesting a need for careful selection of the rainstorm return period.
description: The paper has been published in the Journal of Hydrology
International Scholarship Graduates Influencing Social and Economic Development at Home: The Role of Alumni Networks in Georgia
Creators: name: Campbell, Anne
Publisher: name: Middlebury
Year: 2022
Subjects: Education policy
Sociology of education
Higher education
International relations

description: Many students from low- and middle-income countries seek scholarship support to pursue higher education overseas. Often scholarship programs mandate that recipients "give back" to their home countries following their studies so scholars "apply" their experiences to aid their countries of origin. In this comparative qualitative study, 40 Georgian and Moldovan scholarship alumni who studied in the United States were asked how alumni networks assist their ability to influence social and economic change in their home countries. The comparative findings point to the value of alumni networks in terms of graduates backing each other's activism projects and feeling part of a community of like-minded individuals who seek change. Where these networks were not present, alumni desired a supportive association to assist in their attempts to influence reform. Findings suggest the development of alumni networks facilitate individual scholarship participants' efforts to "give back" to their countries of origin.
Raman study of CFC tiles extracted from the toroidal pump limiter of Tore Supra
Creators: name: Pardanaud, Cedric
name: Giacometti, G.
name: Martin, C.
name: Ruffe, R.
name: Angot, T.
name: Aréou, E.
name: Pégourié, B.
name: Tsitrone, E.
name: Dittmar, T.
name: Hopf, C.
name: Jacob, W.
name: Schwarz-Selinger, T.
name: Roubin, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The structure of six tiles extracted from the erosion and deposition zones (thin and thick deposition) of the Tore Supra toroidal pump limiter (TPL) have been analysed in the framework of the DITS campaign using micro-Raman spectroscopy. This post-mortem analysis gives information on both carbon structure and D content. We have found that the carbon structure is most often similar to that of plasma-deposited hard amorphous carbon layers. The role of the surface temperature during the discharge in the D content is investigated: in all locations where the temperature does not reach more than 500{\degree}C the D content seems to be roughly uniform with D/D+C \approx 20%.
HetGPT: Harnessing the Power of Prompt Tuning in Pre-Trained Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks
Creators: name: Ma, Yihong
name: Yan, Ning
name: Li, Jiayu
name: Mortazavi, Masood
name: Chawla, Nitesh V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Graphs have emerged as a natural choice to represent and analyze the intricate patterns and rich information of the Web, enabling applications such as online page classification and social recommendation. The prevailing "pre-train, fine-tune" paradigm has been widely adopted in graph machine learning tasks, particularly in scenarios with limited labeled nodes. However, this approach often exhibits a misalignment between the training objectives of pretext tasks and those of downstream tasks. This gap can result in the "negative transfer" problem, wherein the knowledge gained from pre-training adversely affects performance in the downstream tasks. The surge in prompt-based learning within Natural Language Processing (NLP) suggests the potential of adapting a "pre-train, prompt" paradigm to graphs as an alternative. However, existing graph prompting techniques are tailored to homogeneous graphs, neglecting the inherent heterogeneity of Web graphs. To bridge this gap, we propose HetGPT, a general post-training prompting framework to improve the predictive performance of pre-trained heterogeneous graph neural networks (HGNNs). The key is the design of a novel prompting function that integrates a virtual class prompt and a heterogeneous feature prompt, with the aim to reformulate downstream tasks to mirror pretext tasks. Moreover, HetGPT introduces a multi-view neighborhood aggregation mechanism, capturing the complex neighborhood structure in heterogeneous graphs. Extensive experiments on three benchmark datasets demonstrate HetGPT's capability to enhance the performance of state-of-the-art HGNNs on semi-supervised node classification.
description: Published in The ACM Web Conference 2024 (WWW '24)
Additional file 1 of An empirical approach toward the SLCP reduction targets in Asia for the mid-term climate change mitigation
Creators: name: Akimoto, Hajime
name: Nagashima, Tatsuya
name: Tanimoto, Hiroshi
name: Klimont, Zbigniew
name: Amann, Markus
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Historical global emissions of CH4, NOx and NMVC in 1960-2010, and emission ratio to 2010 by the CEDS inventory. Averaged emission of CH4 for the previous ten years, and the emission ratio to 2001-2010 are given in parenthesis. na: not available. Table S2. Historical emissions of CH4, NOx and NMVC in 1960-2010 in Asia, and emission ratio to 2010 by the CEDS inventory. Averaged emission of CH4 for the previous ten years, and the emission ratio to 2001-2010 are given in parenthesis. na: not available.
A Global Fit of Non-Relativistic Effective Dark Matter Operators Including Solar Neutrinos
Creators: name: Kozar, Neal P. Avis
name: Scott, Pat
name: Vincent, Aaron C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform a global fit of dark matter interactions with nucleons using a non-relativistic effective operator description, considering both direct detection and neutrino data. We examine the impact of combining the direct detection experiments CDMSlite, CRESST-II, CRESST-III, DarkSide-50, LUX, LZ, PandaX-II, PandaX-4T, PICO-60, SIMPLE, SuperCDMS, XENON100, and XENON1T along with neutrino data from IceCube and ANTARES. While current neutrino telescope data lead to increased sensitivity compared to underground nuclear scattering experiments for dark matter masses above 100 GeV, our future projections show that the next generation of underground experiments will significantly outpace solar searches for most dark matter-nucleon elastic scattering interactions.
description: 12+9 pages, 26 figures, Likelihoods available at https://zenodo.org/records/14641149. v2: matches the published version
p38γ and p38δ modulate innate immune response by regulating MEF2D activation.
Creators: name: Escós, Alejandra
name: Diaz-Mora, Ester
name: Pattison, Michael
name: Fajardo, Pilar
name: González-Romero, Diego
name: Risco, Ana
name: Martín-Gómez, José
name: Bonneil, Éric
name: Sonenberg, Nahum
name: Jafarnejad, Seyed Mehdi
name: Sanz-Ezquerro, Juan José
name: Ley, Steven C
name: Cuenda, Ana
Publisher: name: The Francis Crick Institute
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry & Proteomics
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Gene Expression

description: Evidence implicating p38γ and p38δ (p38γ/p38δ) in inflammation are mainly based on experiments using Mapk12/Mapk13 deficient (p38γ/δKO) mice, which show low levels of TPL2, the kinase upstream of MKK1-ERK1/2 in myeloid cells. This could obscure p38γ/p38δ roles, since TPL2 is essential for regulating inflammation. Here we generated a Mapk12D171A/D171A/Mapk13-/- (p38γ/δKIKO) mouse, expressing kinase-inactive p38γ and lacking p38δ. This mouse exhibited normal TPL2 levels, making it an excellent tool to elucidate specific p38γ/p38δ functions. p38γ/δKIKO mice showed a reduced inflammatory response and less susceptibility to LPS-induced septic shock and Candida albicans infection than wild-type mice. Gene expression analyses in LPS-activated WT and p38γ/δKIKO macrophages revealed that p38γ/p38δ regulated numerous genes implicated in innate immune response. Additionally, phospho-proteomic analyses and in vitro kinase assays showed that the transcription factor myocyte enhancer factor-2D (MEF2D) was phosphorylated at Ser444 via p38γ/p38δ. Mutation of MEF2D Ser444 to the non-phosphorylatable residue Ala increased its transcriptional activity and the expression of Nos2 and Il1b mRNA. These results suggest that p38γ/p38δ govern innate immune responses by regulating MEF2D phosphorylation and transcriptional activity.
Psalm 113 In Exitu Israhel. In expedicione Electoris contra pharaonem de Wolfenbüttel et domus Hessiacae contra ducem Barbarum. Facta est Saxoniae Electoris […]; 1542
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2010

description: Entstehungsort: Unbekannt. - Entstehungszeit: 1542
On the dark matter profile in Sculptor: Breaking the $β$ degeneracy with Virial shape parameters
Creators: name: Richardson, Thomas
name: Fairbairn, Malcolm
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new method for studying tracers in gravitational systems where higher moments of the line-of-sight velocity distribution are introduced via Virial equations rather than the Jeans equations. Unlike the fourth order Jeans equations, the fourth order Virial equations can simply be added to the standard second order Jeans equation without introducing a new anisotropy parameter $β^{\prime}$. We introduce two new global shape parameters $ζ_A$ and $ζ_B$ which replace the kurtosis as a more statistically robust measure of the shape of the line of sight velocity distribution. We show that in the case of stars in dwarf spheroidal galaxies these new parameters can significantly reduce the range of density profiles that are otherwise consistent with the observed stellar kinematics (a problem sometimes known as the $β$ degeneracy). Specifically, we find that $ζ_A$ focuses tightly on a subset of solutions where cusped density profiles are degenerate with more concentrated cored dark matter halos. If the number density of stars $ν(r)$ is fixed, then introducing $ζ_B$ can further reduce the space of solutions by constraining the outer slope of the dark matter density profile. Assuming a Plummer profile for $ν(r)$ we recover the surprising result that the dark matter in Sculptor may be cuspy after all, in contrast to the conclusions of other approaches.
description: 19 pages, 15 figures. Matches version accepted in MNRAS. Minor additions to text. Conclusions unchanged
Applications of emulation and Bayesian methods in heavy-ion physics
Creators: name: Paquet, Jean-François
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Heavy-ion collisions provide a window into the properties of many-body systems of deconfined quarks and gluons. Understanding the collective properties of quarks and gluons is possible by comparing models of heavy-ion collisions to measurements of the distribution of particles produced at the end of the collisions. These model-to-data comparisons are extremely challenging, however, because of the complexity of the models, the large amount of experimental data, and their uncertainties. Bayesian inference provides a rigorous statistical framework to constrain the properties of nuclear matter by systematically comparing models and measurements.
 This review covers model emulation and Bayesian methods as applied to model-to-data comparisons in heavy-ion collisions. Replacing the model outputs (observables) with Gaussian process emulators is key to the Bayesian approach currently used in the field, and both current uses of emulators and related recent developments are reviewed. The general principles of Bayesian inference are then discussed along with other Bayesian methods, followed by a systematic comparison of seven recent Bayesian analyses that studied quark-gluon plasma properties, such as the shear and bulk viscosities. The latter comparison is used to illustrate sources of differences in analyses, and what it can teach us for future studies.
description: 54 pages; fixes and added discussions; matches published version
Exploring the relationship of home country government reforms and the choices of international higher education scholarship program participants
Creators: name: Campbell, Anne
Publisher: name: Middlebury
Year: 2022
Subjects: Education policy
Sociology of education
Higher education
International relations

description: Many international scholarship programs expect that graduates will return home to apply their education for socioeconomic development, yet national contextual factors shape these anticipated outcomes. Through comparing Georgia and Moldova, this research examines how one contextual factor,the home government's reforms,"influenced U.S. higher education graduates' pathways. Notably, the decade-old, pro-democratic revolutions in each country were identified as "critical moments" that shaped how international scholarship alumni estimated their role and responsibility in their country's progress. Findings contribute to nuanced understanding of how student mobility influences change in post-Soviet countries, leading to improved international education programs.
Additional file 1 of Reconstructing the early global dynamics of under-ascertained COVID-19 cases and infections
Creators: name: Russell, Timothy W.
name: Golding, Nick
name: Hellewell, Joel
name: Abbott, Sam
name: Wright, Lawrence
name: Pearson, Carl A. B.
name: Zandvoort, Kevin Van
name: Jarvis, Christopher I.
name: Gibbs, Hamish
name: Liu, Yang
name: Eggo, Rosalind M.
name: W. John Edmunds
name: Kucharski, Adam J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1 : Supplementary Appendix 1–4. Figure S1: Figure S1. Temporal variation in under-reporting for all countries with greater than 10 deaths for more than 50 days. Figure S2: Temporal variation in testing effort for all countries there was data for in the Our World In Data database [18]. Figure S3. the relationship between case ascertainment and testing effort. We define testing effort as the 7-day moving average of the number of new tests per new case each day. We plot the under-ascertainment estimates along with the testing effort estimates for all countries we have both data for. We then fit, using a loess curve to highlight the positive but weak relationship (, where is Kendall’s rank coefficient). Figure S4. Temporal variation in under-ascertainment and testing effort for the nine countries with the maximum total cases that we have reliable testing effort estimates for. This figure differs from Fig. 1 as the results are computed using the indirectly age-adjusted baseline CFR for each country. Figure S5. Confirmed case curves adjusted for temporal under-ascertainment adjusted indirectly for age. The results are similar to those in Fig. 2 but have been computed using an indirectly age-adjusted baseline CFR for each country. Figure S6. Estimated infection prevalence curves compared with observed seroprevalence data. The results are similar to those in Fig. 3 but have been computed using an indirectly age-adjusted baseline CFR for each country. Figure S7. Temporal variation in under-reporting for all countries with greater than 10 deaths for more than 50 days. The results are similar to those in Figure S1 but have been computed using an indirectly age-adjusted baseline CFR for each country. Table S1. A summary of the country-level serological studies we used for comparison against our model estimates. Table S2. A summary of the city-level or regional-level serological studies we used for comparison against our model estimates. Table S3. A summary of the parameters, distributions and output quantities either as inputs or outputs of our under-ascertainment model.
Excited Sessile Drops Dance Harmonically
Creators: name: Chang, Chun-Ti
name: Daniel, Susan
name: Steen, Paul H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In our fluid dynamics video, we demonstrate our method of visualizing and identifying various mode shapes of mechanically oscillated sessile drops. By placing metal mesh under an oscillating drop and projecting light from below, the drop's shape is visualized by the visually deformed mesh pattern seen in the top view. The observed modes are subsequently identified by their number of layers and sectors. An alternative identification associates them with spherical harmonics, as demonstrated in the tutorial. Clips of various observed modes are presented, followed by a 10-second quiz of mode identification.
description: (1) Latex file of 2-page introduction article for (2) two same videos of different resolutions: DanceDropHiResol.mp4, the higher-resolution version and DanceDropLoiResol.mp4, the lower-resolution version the videos are slightly revised (and hence the replacement of videos)
"Giving back" to one's country following an international higher education scholarship: Comparing in-country and expatriate alumni perceptions of engagement in social and economic change in Moldova
Creators: name: Campbell, Anne
Publisher: name: Middlebury
Year: 2022
Subjects: Education policy
Sociology of education
Higher education
International relations

description: This qualitative study explores how graduates of western higher education view their contributions to their home country’s social and economic development, by comparing groups of international scholarship alumni who have returned to live in Moldova and expatriate alumni. Results indicate that country of residency influences one’s perceived contributions to the home country: Alumni regard those living in Moldova as being more effective in creating change and that living abroad diminishes one’s influence. Notably, some graduates equate daily life contending with Moldova’s difficult conditions with contributing to national development. Moreover, ‘cyclical mobility’—short term engagements in Moldova—is proposed as a promising approach to affect change from abroad. Finally, respondents report that mobility decisions are strenuous, as they consider multiple factors other than desire to ‘give back’. Findings provide insight and nuance to the long-term efficacy of international higher education, and scholarship programs specifically, to spur development in low- and middle-income countries.
Acoustic superradiance from an optical-superradiance-induced vortex in a Bose-Einstein condensate
Creators: name: Ghazanfari, Nader
name: Mustecaplioglu, Ozgur E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the simultaneous scattering of an angular momentum carrying Laguerre-Gaussian light beam and an acoustic wave from an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate, under condition of optical superradiance induced vortex state. We derive the mean field dynamical equations of the light-superfluid system, and obtain the equations governing the elementary excitation of the system which result in a massless Klein-Gordon equation with source terms. This equation describes the propagation of the sound wave in an effective spacetime. Employing a simplifying draining bathtub model for the vortex, we investigate the scattering of the acoustic wave in the vortex phase and obtain a condition for the acoustic superradiance. We conclude that Laguerre-Gaussian beam induced sudden transition from homogeneous to vortex state in the superfluid simultaneously leads to the optical and acoustic superradiance.
description: 7 pages, 1 figure
Regenerations and applications
Creators: name: Mongardi, Giovanni
name: Pacienza, Gianluca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14H45, 14J42

description: Chen-Gounelas-Liedtke recently introduced a powerful regeneration technique, a process opposite to specialization, to prove existence results for rational curves on projective $K3$ surfaces. We show that, for projective irreducible holomorphic symplectic manifolds, an analogous regeneration principle holds and provides a very flexible tool to prove existence of uniruled divisors, significantly improving known results.
A New Multi-wavelength Solar Telescope: Optical and Near-infrared Solar Eruption Tracer (ONSET)
Creators: name: Fang, C.
name: Chen, P. F.
name: Li, Z.
name: Ding, M. D.
name: Dai, Y.
name: Zhang, X. Y.
name: Mao, W. J.
name: Zhang, J. P.
name: Li, T.
name: Liang, Y. J.
name: Lu, H. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new multi-wavelength solar telescope, Optical and Near-infrared Solar Eruption Tracer (ONSET) of Nanjing University, was constructed, being fabricated by Nanjing Institute of Astronomical Optics & Technology and run in cooperation with Yunnan Astronomical Observatory. ONSET is able to observe the Sun in three wavelength windows: He {\small I} 10830 Å, H$α$, and white-light at 3600 Åand 4250 Å, which are selected in order to obtain the dynamics in the corona, chromosphere, and the photosphere simultaneously. Full-disk or partial-disk solar images with a field of 10 arcmin at three wavelengths can be obtained nearly simultaneously. It is designed to trace solar eruptions with high spatial and temporal resolutions. This telescope was installed at a new solar observing site near Fuxian Lake in Yunnan Province, southwest China. The site is located at E102N24, with an altitude of 1722 m. The seeing is stable and of high quality. We give a brief description of the scientific objectives and the basic structure of the ONSET. Some preliminary results are also presented.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures, to be published in Res. Astron. Astrophys. (RAA)
Additional file 1 of Cost-effectiveness evidence for strategies to promote or support breastfeeding: a systematic search and narrative literature review
Creators: name: Camacho, Elizabeth M.
name: Hussain, Hannah
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Search strategy, reasons for exclusion of full texts, data extraction and quality assessment, and currency conversion and inflation rates.
A systematic review of international higher education scholarships for students from the Global South
Creators: name: Campbell, Anne
name: Neff, Emelye
Publisher: name: Middlebury
Year: 2022
Subjects: Education policy
Sociology of education
Higher education
International relations

description: This systematic literature review maps an emerging subfield in educational research: international scholarships for students from the Global South. To untangle the multiple and sometimes competing rationales for scholarship programs, this study identified and reviewed 105 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters published in years 2010 to 2019. From the findings six primary and distinguishable program rationales emerge: scholarships to develop skills and human capital, to enhance diplomatic relations, to promote social change, to spur sustainable development, to internationalize universities, and to increase studentsâ€™ access to higher education. In the analysis, complements and contradictions among the rationales are explored, thereby emphasizing the importance of clarifying programs' goals and designs. The goal of this review is to highlight variances, opportunities, and omissions within the literature to inform scholars, administrators, and policymakers in the field of international higher education.
[Empfehlungsbrief für Christoph Pannonius (Preuss) an Johannes von Coscielcz, Palatinus Siradiensis]; 1. Juni 1555
Creators: name: Melanchthon, Philipp
name: Preuss von Springenberg, Christoph
name: Coscielcz, Johannes von
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2010

description: Entstehungsort: Unbekannt. - Entstehungszeit: 1. Juni 1555
Raman micro-spectroscopy as a tool to measure the absorption coefficient and the erosion rate of hydrogenated amorphous carbon films heat-treated under hydrogen bombardment
Creators: name: Pardanaud, Cedric
name: Aréou, E.
name: Martin, C.
name: Ruffe, R.
name: Angot, T.
name: Roubin, P.
name: Hopf, C.
name: Schwarz-Selinger, T.
name: Jacob, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a fast and simple way to determine the erosion rate and absorption coefficient of hydrogenated amorphous carbon films exposed to a hydrogen atomic source based on ex-situ Raman micro-spectroscopy. Results are compared to ellipsometry measurement. The method is applied to films eroded at different temperatures. A maximum of the erosion rate is found at ~ 450 {\degree}C in agreement with previous results. This technique is suitable for future quantitative studies on the erosion of thin carbonaceous films, especially of interest for plasma wall interactions occurring in thermonuclear fusion devices.
Additional file 1 of Survey on neutralizing antibodies against Zika virus eighteen months post-outbreak in two southern Thailand communities
Creators: name: Theerut Densathaporn
name: Rassamee Sangthong
name: Monvaris Sakolnapa
name: Smonrapat Surasombatpattana
name: Kemapunmanus, Marisa
name: Promsin Masrinoul
name: Sutee Yoksan
name: McNeil, Edward B.
name: Chongsuvivatwong, Virasakdi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table 1. Seroprevalence of ZIKV neutralizing antibodies among subgroups of participants in District A and B
Thermodynamic Limit in the Two-qubit Quantum Rabi Model with Spin-Spin Coupling
Creators: name: Grimaudo, R.
name: Falci, G.
name: Messina, A.
name: Paladino, E.
name: Sergi, A.
name: Solano, E.
name: Valenti, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The occurrence of a second-order superradiant quantum phase transition is brought to light in a quantum system consisting of two interacting qubits coupled to the same quantized field mode. We introduce an appropriate thermodynamic-like limit for the integrable two-qubit quantum Rabi model with spin-spin interaction. Namely, it is determined by the infinite ratios of the spin-spin and the spin-mode couplings to the mode frequency, regardless of the spin-to-mode frequency ratios.
International Scholarships and Sustainability
Creators: name: Campbell, Anne
Publisher: name: Middlebury
Year: 2022
Subjects: Sociology of education
Higher education
Multicultural, intercultural and cross-cultural studies

description: Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Target 4.b calls to "substantially expand globally the number of scholarships" for enrollment in overseas higher education between 2015 and 2020. To advance knowledge on international scholarships and sustainability, this chapter examines notions of sustainability in literature related to international scholarships for students in the Global South. Based on an exploratory review of literature, ways that sponsored international student mobility - programs, students, graduates, and networks - maintain and sustain systems and outcomes are explored. Findings are presented through four frames: (a) programmatic sustainability, (b) organizational development, (c) national sustainable development, and (d) international and global actions. Challenges to sustainability, such as poor coordination between degrees earned and local market conditions, are also discussed. In addition, the findings point to several prominent ways that scholarships could contribute to sustainability that are mostly absent from the literature: transformative education for sustainable development, and international education for environmental sustainability. The chapter closes with a vision of alumni networks - both within and among programs- to work together to transform societies and tackle the most pernicious international challenges of our time.
Investigating Horticultural Applications of Liquid Digestate
Creators: name: Escott, Tommy
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2023

description: Background. Sixty percent of global crop production depends on inorganic fertiliser, supporting nearly half of the world’s population. However, this pro- duction accounts for 1.6% of global CO2 emissions and is based on increasingly unreliable, finite resources. Thus, there is an urgent need to find sustainable alternatives. Digestate, a by-product of anaerobic digestion, can be used whole as a fertiliser, or separated into solid and liquid fractions. Liquid digestate is far more voluminous than solid digestate, making it difficult to store. While digestate has been used in broadacre agriculture for decades, its use as in horticulture is not widely studied. 1Up Natural, a British biogas company, produce separated digestate fertilisers from a plant-based feedstock, for retail in domestic horticulture. On account of liquid digestate’s high volume, it is pertinent to evaluate it as a replacement to synthetic fertilisers in horticulture. Methods & Results. To assess liquid digestate’s application as a fertiliser, a series of progressive pot-based trials were designed. Firstly, liquid digestate was compared to industry-leading synthetic fertilisers at half and full manufacturer’s recommended concentration. Synthetic fertiliser outperformed liquid digestate at the recommended concentration, which was attributed to differing nutrient levels. Secondly, liquid digestate was matched for nitrogen against a synthetic fertiliser. Again, synthetic fertiliser increased plant growth relative to liquid digestate, likely due to limiting influence of non-matched nutrients. Finally, liquid digestate was applied at different concentrations in a sand-culture experiment, to establish its suitability as a sole nutrient source. Liquid digestate induced NH4+ toxicity and deficiency in other nutrients. Conclusions. Based on these experiments, it is apparent that liquid di- gestate must be altered to be suitable as a sole nutrient source or alternative to synthetic fertilisers in low-nutrient mediums. However, liquid digestate may be suitable for application in high-phosphorus soils to prevent excess phosphorus application.
Additional file 1 of Validation of the Persian version of family health climate scale (FHC-Scale) in Iranian families
Creators: name: Kharazmi, Akram
name: Brant, Jeannine M.
name: Sajjadi, Moosa
name: Moshki, Mahdi
name: Moghadam, Leila Sadegh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Inter-items correlation matrix. This file included two tables that shows inter-items correlation matrix for both FHC-PA and FHC-NU scales.
Additional file 2 of Survey on neutralizing antibodies against Zika virus eighteen months post-outbreak in two southern Thailand communities
Creators: name: Theerut Densathaporn
name: Rassamee Sangthong
name: Monvaris Sakolnapa
name: Smonrapat Surasombatpattana
name: Kemapunmanus, Marisa
name: Promsin Masrinoul
name: Sutee Yoksan
name: McNeil, Edward B.
name: Chongsuvivatwong, Virasakdi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Table 2. Univariable analysis exploring factors associated with ZIKV seropositivity in non-pregnant participants in the two sites combined. (a multi-page table)
On classical orthogonal polynomials on bi-lattices
Creators: name: Castillo, K.
name: Filipuk, G.
name: Mbouna, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 42C05, 33C45

description: In [J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 45 (2012)], while looking for spin chains that admit perfect state transfer, Vinet and Zhedanov found an apparently new sequence of orthogonal polynomials, that they called para-Krawtchouk polynomials, defined on a bilinear lattice. In this note we present necessary and sufficient conditions for the regularity of solutions of the corresponding functional equation. Moreover, the functional Rodrigues formula and a closed formula for the recurrence coefficients are presented. As a consequence, we characterize all solutions of the functional equation, including as very particular cases the Meixner, Charlier, Krawtchouk, Hahn, and para-Krawtchouk polynomials.
title: Conservation and creation of multi-functional margins to maintain and increase the pollinator biodiversity in agricultural environments (d)
Creators: name: Peris-Felipo, Francisco Javier
name: Aguado-Martín, Oscar
name: Miranda-Barroso, Luis
Publisher: name: Julius Kühn-Institut
Year: 2020

description: Julius-Kühn-Archiv, Nr. 465 (2020): Hazards of pesticides to bees - 14th International Symposium of the ICP-PR Bee Protection Group, October 23 - 25, 2019 Bern, Switzerland - Proceedings -
Additional file 1 of REFINE (Rapid Feedback for quality Improvement in Neonatal rEsuscitation): an observational study of neonatal resuscitation training and practice in a tertiary hospital in Nepal
Creators: name: Gurung, Rejina
name: Gurung, Abhishek
name: Omkar Basnet
name: Joar Eilevstjønn
name: Myklebust, Helge
name: Girnary, Sakina
name: Shree Krishna Shrestha
name: Singh, Dela
name: Laxman Bastola
name: Prajwal Paudel
name: Baral, Sandhya
name: KC, Ashish
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. SPIRINT checklist filled.
Additional file 3 of REFINE (Rapid Feedback for quality Improvement in Neonatal rEsuscitation): an observational study of neonatal resuscitation training and practice in a tertiary hospital in Nepal
Creators: name: Gurung, Rejina
name: Gurung, Abhishek
name: Omkar Basnet
name: Joar Eilevstjønn
name: Myklebust, Helge
name: Girnary, Sakina
name: Shree Krishna Shrestha
name: Singh, Dela
name: Laxman Bastola
name: Prajwal Paudel
name: Baral, Sandhya
name: KC, Ashish
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3. Indepth interview questionnaires.
The Form of The Friendly Number of 10
Creators: name: Mandal, Sourav
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 490499
subject: Pure mathematics not elsewhere classified

description: Any positive integer 𝑛 other than 10 with abundancy index 9/5 must be a square with at least 6 distinct prime factors, the smallest being 5, and my new argument about the form of the friendly number of 10 is25(5 ^2𝑐+1−1)(8𝑛+1−2𝑐) /4 , if exist. Further at least one of the prime factors must be congruent to 1 modulo 3 and appear with an exponent congruent to 2 modulo 6 in the prime factorization of n.
[24 Briefe an Wolfgang Heribert von Dalberg u.a.]; [1781-1785]
Creators: name: Schiller, Friedrich
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2009

description: Entstehungsort: Stuttgart, Mannheim u. a. - Entstehungszeit: 1781-1785
"I felt like I was not just a student": examining graduate student learning at academic and professional conferences
Creators: name: Campbell, Anne
name: Wick, David
name: Marcus, Amy
name: Doll, JoAnn
name: Yunuba Hammack, Aleena
Publisher: name: Middlebury
Year: 2022
Subjects: Sociology of education
Higher education

description: The purpose of this study is to explore what new knowledge is gained at academic and professional conferences by describing how this knowledge complements or contradicts campus-based learning and previous experiences of graduate students. Through gaining insights into conference-based learning, researchers and policymakers can create more complex and dynamic graduate student learning experiences and design conferences that welcome and encourage graduate student perspectives and voices. Findings point to four categories of learning through conferences: students acquired empirical knowledge, gained insights into professional and scholarly trends and values, explored diversity of the conference body and their own belonging and benchmarked their knowledge in relationship to scholars and professionals. Interviewees gained this knowledge by linking conference-based learning to their graduate school curriculum and previous knowledge and experiences. The authors would like to acknowledge the contributions of Grace O'Dell and Caitlin Shepherd who were part of the project team. Thanks also go to the Middlebury Institute graduate students who participated in this research and to Erin Southworth for ongoing administrative support of the project.
Raman spectroscopy investigation of the H content of heated hard amorphous carbon layers
Creators: name: Pardanaud, Cedric
name: Martin, C.
name: Roubin, P.
name: Giacometti, G.
name: Hopf, C.
name: Schwarz-Selinger, T.
name: Jacob, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We revisit here how Raman spectroscopy can be used to estimate the H content in hard hydrogenated amorphous carbon layers. The H content was varied from 2 at.% to 30 at.%, using heat treatments of a a-C:H, from room temperature to 1300 K and was determined independently using ion beam analysis. We examine the correlation of various Raman parameters and the consistency of their thermal evolution with thermo-desorption results. We identify a weak band at 860 cm-1 attributed to H bonded to C(sp2). We show that the HD/HG parameter (Height ratio between the D and G bands) is quasi-linear in the full range of H content and can thus be used to estimate the H content. Conversely, we show that the m/HG parameter (ratio between the photoluminescence background, m, and the height of the G band), often used to estimate the H content, should be used with care, first because it is sensitive to various photoluminescence quenching processes and second because it is not sensitive to H bonded to C(sp2).
OptScaler: A Collaborative Framework for Robust Autoscaling in the Cloud
Creators: name: Zou, Ding
name: Lu, Wei
name: Zhu, Zhibo
name: Lu, Xingyu
name: Zhou, Jun
name: Wang, Xiaojin
name: Liu, Kangyu
name: Wang, Haiqing
name: Wang, Kefan
name: Sun, Renen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Autoscaling is a critical mechanism in cloud computing, enabling the autonomous adjustment of computing resources in response to dynamic workloads. This is particularly valuable for co-located, long-running applications with diverse workload patterns. The primary objective of autoscaling is to regulate resource utilization at a desired level, effectively balancing the need for resource optimization with the fulfillment of Service Level Objectives (SLOs). Many existing proactive autoscaling frameworks may encounter prediction deviations arising from the frequent fluctuations of cloud workloads. Reactive frameworks, on the other hand, rely on realtime system feedback, but their hysteretic nature could lead to violations of stringent SLOs. Hybrid frameworks, while prevalent, often feature independently functioning proactive and reactive modules, potentially leading to incompatibility and undermining the overall decision-making efficacy. In addressing these challenges, we propose OptScaler, a collaborative autoscaling framework that integrates proactive and reactive modules through an optimization module. The proactive module delivers reliable future workload predictions to the optimization module, while the reactive module offers a self-tuning estimator for real-time updates. By embedding a Model Predictive Control (MPC) mechanism and chance constraints into the optimization module, we further enhance its robustness. Numerical results have demonstrated the superiority of our workload prediction model and the collaborative framework, leading to over a 36% reduction in SLO violations compared to prevalent reactive, proactive, or hybrid autoscalers. Notably, OptScaler has been successfully deployed at Alipay, providing autoscaling support for the world-leading payment platform.
description: Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, Volume 17, Issue 12 Pages 4090 - 4103
Spin polarization oscillations without spin precession: spin-orbit entangled resonances in quasi-one-dimensional spin transport
Creators: name: Berman, D. H.
name: Khodas, M.
name: Flatté, M. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Resonant behavior involving spin-orbit entangled states occurs for spin transport along a narrow channel defined in a two-dimensional electron gas, including an apparent rapid relaxation of the spin polarization for special values of the channel width and applied magnetic field (so-called ballistic spin resonance). A fully quantum mechanical theory for transport through multiple subbands of the one-dimensional system provides the dependence of the spin transport on the applied magnetic field and channel width, including a resonant depolarization of spins when the Zeeman energy matches the subband energy splittings and a spin texture transverse to the magnetic field. The resonance phenomenon is robust to disorder.
description: 13 pages, 8 figures
Determination of the Planck constant using a watt balance with a superconducting magnet system at the National Institute of Standards and Technology
Creators: name: Schlamminger, Stephan
name: Haddad, Darine
name: Seifert, Frank
name: Chao, Leon S
name: Newell, David B
name: Liu, Ruimin
name: Steiner, Richard L
name: Pratt, Jon R
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For the past two years, measurements have been performed with a watt balance at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to determine the Planck constant. A detailed analysis of these measurements and their uncertainties has led to the value $h=6.626\,069\,79(30)\times 10^{-34}\,$J$\,$s. The relative standard uncertainty is $ 45\times 10^{-9}$. This result is $141\times 10^{-9}$ fractionally higher than $h_{90}$. Here $h_{90}$ is the conventional value of the Planck constant given by $h_{90}\equiv 4 /( K_{\mathrm{J-90}}^2R_{\mathrm{K-90}})$, where $K_{\mathrm{J-90}}$ and $R_{\mathrm{K-90}}$ denote the conventional values of the Josephson and von Klitzing constants, respectively.
description: 22 pages, 8 figures, published in metrologia
Additional file 3 of The effectiveness of battlefield acupuncture in addition to standard physical therapy treatment after shoulder surgery: a protocol for a randomized clinical trial
Creators: name: Crowell, Michael S.
name: Brindle, Richard A.
name: Mason, John S.
name: Pitt, Will
name: Miller, Erin M.
name: Posner, Matthew A.
name: Cameron, Kenneth L.
name: Goss, Donald L.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3. Battlefield Acupuncture Intervention