cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Modelling X-ray RMS spectra II: the ultra-fast outflow of PDS 456
Creators: name: Härer, L.
name: Parker, M. L.
name: Joyce, A.
name: Igo, Z.
name: Alston, W. N.
name: Fürst, F.
name: Lobban, A. P.
name: Matzeu, G. A.
name: Reeves, J. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an improved model for excess variance spectra describing ultra-fast outflows and successfully apply it to the luminous (L ~ 10^47 erg/s) low-redshift (z = 0.184) quasar PDS 456. The model is able to account well for the broadening of the spike-like features of these outflows in the excess variance spectrum of PDS 456, by considering two effects: a correlation between the outflow velocity and the logarithmic X-ray flux and intrinsic Doppler broadening with v_int = 10^4 km/s. The models were generated by calculating the fractional excess variance of count spectra from a Monte Carlo simulation. We find evidence that the outflow in PDS 456 is structured, i.e., that there exist two or more layers with outflow velocities 0.27-0.30 c, 0.41-0.49 c, and 0.15-0.20 c for a possible third layer, which agrees well with the literature. We discuss the prospects of generally applicable models for excess variance spectra for detecting ultra-fast outflows and investigating their structure. We provide an estimate for the strength of the correlation between the outflow velocity and the logarithmic X-ray flux and investigate its validity.
Short-term variability and mass loss in Be stars VI. Frequency groups in $γ$ Cas detected by TESS
Creators: name: Labadie-Bartz, Jonathan
name: Baade, Dietrich
name: Carciofi, Alex C.
name: Rubio, Amanda
name: Rivinius, Thomas
name: Borre, Camilla C.
name: Martayan, Christophe
name: Siverd, Robert J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In photometry of $γ$ Cas (B0.5 IVe) from the SMEI and BRITE-Constellation satellites, indications of low-order non-radial pulsation have recently been found, which would establish an important commonality with the class of classical Be stars at large. New photometry with the TESS satellite has detected three frequency groups near 1.0 ($g1$), 2.4 ($g2$), and 5.1 ($g3$) d$^{-1}$, respectively. Some individual frequencies are nearly harmonics or combination frequencies but not exactly so. Frequency groups are known from roughly three quarters of all classical Be stars and also from pulsations of $β$ Cep, SPB, and $γ$ Dor stars and, therefore, firmly establish $γ$ Cas as a non-radial pulsator. The total power in each frequency group is variable. An isolated feature exists at 7.57 d$^{-1}$ and, together with the strongest peaks in the second and third groups ordered by increasing frequency ($g2$ and $g3$), is the only one detected in all three TESS sectors. The former long-term 0.82 d$^{-1}$ variability would fall into $g1$ and has not returned at a significant level, questioning its attribution to rotational modulation. Low-frequency stochastic variability is a dominant feature of the TESS light curve, possibly caused by internal gravity waves excited at the core-envelope interface. These are known to be efficient at transporting angular momentum outward, and may also drive the oscillations that constitute $g1$ and $g2$. The hard X-ray flux of $γ$ Cas is the only remaining major property that distinguishes this star from the class of classical Be stars.
description: 19 pages, 11 figures. To be published in MNRAS
Separating Physical Components from Galaxy Spectra by Subspace Methods
Creators: name: Yip, Ching-Wa
name: Szalay, Alex S.
name: Connolly, Andrew
name: Budavari, Tamas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using subspace methods, we study the distribution of physical components of galaxies in wavelength space. We find that it is valid to assume that the stellar and the gaseous components of galaxies span complementary subspaces. To first order, stellar and gaseous spectral features can be extracted from galaxy spectra through a simple matrix multiplication. By comparing the stellar continua obtained respectively using the model-based and the empirical approach through a commonality measure, we conclude that the latter may lose higher-order spectral features.
description: To appear in the proceedings for IAU symposium 241, "Stellar Populations as Building Blocks of Galaxies"
Additional file 1 of Determination of the source parameters of the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake from three-component pre-P gravity signals recorded by dense arrays in Japan
Creators: name: Kimura, Masaya
name: Kame, Nobuki
name: Watada, Shingo
name: Araya, Akito
name: Kunugi, Takashi
name: Wang, Rongjiang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Geophysics
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1. Average noise spectrum of the Hi-net tiltmeter records. Fig. S2. Magnitude maps of the three-component pre-P gravity signal. Fig. S3. Stacked waveforms of the horizontal NS component data and synthetics.
Polarization and phase textures in lattice plasmon condensates
Creators: name: Taskinen, Jani M.
name: Kliuiev, Pavel
name: Moilanen, Antti J.
name: Törmä, Päivi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Polarization textures of light may reflect fundamental phenomena such as topological defects, and can be utilized in engineering light beams. Three main routes are applied during their creation: spontaneous appearance in phase transitions, steering by an excitation beam, or structural engineering of the medium. We present an approach that uses all three in a platform offering advantages that are not simultaneously provided in any previous system: advanced structural engineering, strong-coupling condensate with effective photonic interactions, as well as room temperature and sub-picosecond operation. We demonstrate domain wall polarization textures in a plasmonic lattice Bose-Einstein condensate, by combining the dipole structure of the lattice with a non-trivial condensate phase revealed by phase retrieval. These results open new prospects for fundamental studies of non-equilibrium condensation and sources of polarization-structured beams.
description: 29 pages, 7 figures
Additional file 1 of OTC intron 4 variations mediate pathogenic splicing patterns caused by the c.386G>A mutation in humans and spfash mice, and govern susceptibility to RNA-based therapies
Creators: name: Sacchetto, Claudia
name: Peretto, Laura
name: Baralle, Francisco
name: Maestri, Iva
name: Tassi, Francesca
name: Bernardi, Francesco
name: van de Graaf, Stan F. J.
name: Pagani, Franco
name: Pinotti, Mirko
name: Balestra, Dario
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Oligonucleotides for creation of minigenes and analysis of splicing. Table S2. Oligonucleotides for creation of engineered U1snRNA.
Tierreste aus einer neolithischen Siedlungsgrube bei Gröna, Kreis Bernburg
Creators: name: Teichert, Manfred
Publisher: name: Jahresschrift für mitteldeutsche Vorgeschichte
Year: 2022

description: Jahresschrift für mitteldeutsche Vorgeschichte, Bd. 59 (1976): Jahresschrift für Mitteldeutsche Vorgeschichte
On the nature of the variability power decay towards soft spectral states in X-ray binaries. Case study in Cyg X-1
Creators: name: Titarchuk, Lev
name: Shaposhnikov, Nikolai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A characteristic feature of the Fourier Power Density Spectrum (PDS) observed from black hole X-ray binaries in low/hard and intermediate spectral states is a broad band-limited noise, characterized by a constant below some frequency (a ``break'' frequency) and a power law above this frequency. It has been shown that the variability of this type can be produced by the inward diffusion of the local driving perturbations in a bounded configuration (accretion disk or corona). In the framework of this model, the perturbation diffusion time t_0 is related to the phenomenological break frequency, while the PDS power-law slope above the ``break'' is determined by the viscosity distribution over the configuration. he perturbation diffusion scenario explains the decay of the power of X-ray variability observed in a number of compact sources (containing black hole and neutron star) during an evolution of theses sources from low/hard to high/soft states. We compare the model predictions with the subset of data from Cyg X-1 collected by the Rossi X-ray Time Explorer (RXTE). Our extensive analysis of the Cyg X-1 PDSs demonstrates that the observed integrated power P_x decreases approximately as a square root of the characteristic frequency of the driving oscillations ν_{dr}. The RXTE observations of Cyg X-1 allow us to infer P_{dr} and t_0 as a function of ν_{dr}. Using the inferred dependences of the integrated power of the driving oscillations P_{dr} and t_0 on ν_{dr} we demonstrate that the power predicted by the model also decays as P_{x,diff} proportional to ν_{dr}^{-0.5} that is similar to the observed P_{x} behavior.
description: 15 page, 5 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
CrypTFlow2: Practical 2-Party Secure Inference
Creators: name: Rathee, Deevashwer
name: Rathee, Mayank
name: Kumar, Nishant
name: Chandran, Nishanth
name: Gupta, Divya
name: Rastogi, Aseem
name: Sharma, Rahul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present CrypTFlow2, a cryptographic framework for secure inference over realistic Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) using secure 2-party computation. CrypTFlow2 protocols are both correct -- i.e., their outputs are bitwise equivalent to the cleartext execution -- and efficient -- they outperform the state-of-the-art protocols in both latency and scale. At the core of CrypTFlow2, we have new 2PC protocols for secure comparison and division, designed carefully to balance round and communication complexity for secure inference tasks. Using CrypTFlow2, we present the first secure inference over ImageNet-scale DNNs like ResNet50 and DenseNet121. These DNNs are at least an order of magnitude larger than those considered in the prior work of 2-party DNN inference. Even on the benchmarks considered by prior work, CrypTFlow2 requires an order of magnitude less communication and 20x-30x less time than the state-of-the-art.
description: To appear at ACM CCS 2020. Code available at: https://github.com/mpc-msri/EzPC
Cosmological constraints on Neutrino - Dark Matter interactions
Creators: name: Mangano, Gianpiero
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I summarize the results of a recent analysis where the cosmological effects of interactions of neutrinos with cold Dark Matter (DM) is investigated. This interaction produces diffusion-damped oscillations in the matter power spectrum, analogous to the acoustic oscillations in the baryon-photon fluid. I discuss the bounds from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey on the corresponding opacity defined as the ratio of neutrino-DM scattering cross section over DM mass, and compare with the constraint from observation of neutrinos from supernova 1987A.
description: Talk given at the Neutrino Oscillation Workshop NOW2006, Otranto, Italy, September 9-16 2006
Automated Diagnosis of Intestinal Parasites: A new hybrid approach and its benefits
Creators: name: Osaku, D.
name: Cuba, C. F.
name: Suzuki, Celso T. N.
name: Gomes, J. F.
name: Falcão, A. X.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Intestinal parasites are responsible for several diseases in human beings. In order to eliminate the error-prone visual analysis of optical microscopy slides, we have investigated automated, fast, and low-cost systems for the diagnosis of human intestinal parasites. In this work, we present a hybrid approach that combines the opinion of two decision-making systems with complementary properties: ($DS_1$) a simpler system based on very fast handcrafted image feature extraction and support vector machine classification and ($DS_2$) a more complex system based on a deep neural network, Vgg-16, for image feature extraction and classification. $DS_1$ is much faster than $DS_2$, but it is less accurate than $DS_2$. Fortunately, the errors of $DS_1$ are not the same of $DS_2$. During training, we use a validation set to learn the probabilities of misclassification by $DS_1$ on each class based on its confidence values. When $DS_1$ quickly classifies all images from a microscopy slide, the method selects a number of images with higher chances of misclassification for characterization and reclassification by $DS_2$. Our hybrid system can improve the overall effectiveness without compromising efficiency, being suitable for the clinical routine -- a strategy that might be suitable for other real applications. As demonstrated on large datasets, the proposed system can achieve, on average, 94.9%, 87.8%, and 92.5% of Cohen's Kappa on helminth eggs, helminth larvae, and protozoa cysts, respectively.
description: 18 pages, 11 figures
The MSSM on the Interval
Creators: name: von Gersdorff, Gero
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review electroweak symmetry breaking in supersymmetric models with a compact fifth dimension, the interval. We show how boundary conditions for hypermultiplets can be obtained dynamically by brane mass terms and present formulae for the spectrum in the presence of general bulk mass matrices. After giving a brief overview on the literature of models, we describe in detail a recently proposed model that at energies below the compactification scale reduces to the MSSM with a very peculiar superpartner spectrum.
description: 14 pages, invited brief review for Mod. Phys. Lett. A
Axicon Lens for Coherent Matter Waves
Creators: name: Muniz, S. R.
name: Jenkins, S. D.
name: Kennedy, T. A. B.
name: Naik, D. S.
name: Raman, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have realized a conical matter wave lens. The repulsive potential of a focused laser beam was used to launch a Bose-Einstein condensate into a radially expanding wavepacket whose perfect ring shape was ensured by energy conservation. In spite of significant interactions between atoms, the spatial and velocity widths of the ring along its radial dimension remained extremely narrow, as also confirmed by numerical simulations. Our results open the possibility for cylindrical atom optics without the perturbing effect of mean-field interactions.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures, Multimedia files (movies) available in our website: http://www.physics.gatech.edu/chandra/index.htm
Multi-objective design of district metered areas in water distribution networks
Creators: name: Galdiero, Enzo
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Year: 2015

description: The present thesis addresses the sectorization of Water Distribution Networks (WDNs), a technique based on the use of shut-off valves for the establishment of controlled sub-zones, usually called District Metered Areas (DMAs).
The DMA approach is widely recognized as one of the most successful and cost-effective methods for the optimization of the WDNs. Among the many benefits achievable through the sectorization, the most interesting effects are the increased system control and the contribution offered to the mitigation of the water losses.
The establishment of DMAs can be carried out under several perspectives and with different goals. Moreover, in real cases the achievement of the optimal design of DMAs may be very challenging because of the intrinsic complexity of the WDNs. Therefore, the development of a methodology able to provide support to decision-making is required.
In recent years, an increasing number of researches have addressed this problem, and different optimization approaches can be found in literature. However, the techniques developed so far still suffer from some limitations and drawbacks, which mainly consist in the lack of engineering principles among the design criteria and the dependence on the size of the problem.
In this thesis, a comprehensive methodology for the optimal sectorization of WDNs is presented and discussed. The proposed approach consists of a two-objectives optimization problem subjected to a number of constraints related to the topology of the WDN, financial issues and the network hydraulics.
One of the most innovative feature of this method is the particular emphasis placed on the minimization of the water leakages, that is explicitly included in the objectives. As highlighted in some studies, the establishment of DMAs is crucial for the development of optimization approaches based on pressure control (e.g. use of Pressure Reducing Valves, PRVs). However, sectorization itself can be considered as a pressure management technique. In fact, the closure of a number of network pipes may cause a significant increase of the head-losses throughout the WDN, with the consequent decrease of the pressures and of the water leakages.
A Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithm (MOEA) is combined with tools from graph theory for the solution of the problem. The procedure is completely implemented in Matlab environment, and it allows the automatic generation of feasible and optimal designs of DMAs just basing on the network model.
The validation of the methodology and the calibration of the parameters are performed through the application to a well-known example from literature. Then, a real test case is analyzed, namely the WDN of Pianura, a neighbourhood in the city of Naples, Italy. Low cost as compared to the budget and a good saving in leakage are obtained.
Production experiment, subject 75
Creators: name: Lau-Preechathammarach, Raksit Tyler
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: kdt

description: Target and distractor stimuli embedded in carrier sentences. Subject is a 33-year-old male. Carried out in a quiet room in the temple of Wat Nakharin in Ban Khi Nak.
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Real-Time Optimization of Pumps in Water Distribution Systems
Creators: name: Hajgató, Gergely
name: Paál, György
name: Gyires-Tóth, Bálint
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Real-time control of pumps can be an infeasible task in water distribution systems (WDSs) because the calculation to find the optimal pump speeds is resource-intensive. The computational need cannot be lowered even with the capabilities of smart water networks when conventional optimization techniques are used. Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is presented here as a controller of pumps in two WDSs. An agent based on a dueling deep q-network is trained to maintain the pump speeds based on instantaneous nodal pressure data. General optimization techniques (e.g., Nelder-Mead method, differential evolution) serve as baselines. The total efficiency achieved by the DRL agent compared to the best performing baseline is above 0.98, whereas the speedup is around 2x compared to that. The main contribution of the presented approach is that the agent can run the pumps in real-time because it depends only on measurement data. If the WDS is replaced with a hydraulic simulation, the agent still outperforms conventional techniques in search speed.
Siedlungsgrube des Spätlengyel-Horizontes von Gröna, Kreis Bernburg
Creators: name: Kaufmann, Dieter
name: Nitzschke, Waldemar
Publisher: name: Jahresschrift für mitteldeutsche Vorgeschichte
Year: 2022

description: Jahresschrift für mitteldeutsche Vorgeschichte, Bd. 59 (1976): Jahresschrift für Mitteldeutsche Vorgeschichte
Radial Dependency of Stellar Population Properties in Disk Galaxies from SDSS Photometry
Creators: name: Yip, Ching-Wa
name: Wyse, Rosemary F. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The evolution of stellar disks is of great importance for understanding many aspects of galaxy formation. In this work we perform stellar population synthesis on radially resolved photometry of 564 disk galaxies from the SDSS DR5, selected to have both spectra of the central regions and photometry. To explore fully the multi-dimensional likelihood space defined by the output parameters of the spectral synthesis, we use Markov Chain Monte Carlo to quantify the expectation values, the uncertainties and the degeneracies of the parameters. We find good agreement between the parameter values obtained using the SDSS broad-band colors and the spectra respectively. In general the derived mean stellar age and the best-fit stellar metallicity decline in value from the galaxy center to the outer regions (around 1.5 half-light radii), based on sub-samples defined by concentration index. We also find that the radial dependency of the stellar population parameters exhibits a significant variation, and this diversity is likely related to morphology and the physics of star formation.
description: To appear in the proceedings for IAU symposium 241, "Stellar Populations as Building Blocks of Galaxies" (Same as the v1 but with the redundant tex removed)
Lipidomic and poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase automodification analyses as laboratory tools to detect the physio-pathological state of the cell.
Creators: name: Bianchi, Anna Rita
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Year: 2015

description: Membrane lipid peroxidation and DNA damage are the main and most studied consequences of free radicals. The mechanisms underlying these deleterious processes are mostly known and there are increasing evidence that they might be modulated by a correct quality of food intake and post-translational modification reactions (namely poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation), respectively.
Poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation, catalysed by poly(ADP-ribose) polymerases, affects many cellular events and has a recognized epigenetic role. Nuclear poly(ADP-ribose) polymerases 1 and 2 are hyperactivated by DNA strand breaks. They auto-modify with large polymers of ADP-ribose and recruit DNA repair proteins. The more the DNA strand breaks, the more poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase modifies itself.
On the other hand, dietary lipids can be signaling molecules, lead to pro-(ω6)/anti-(ω3) inflammatory compounds, and be included in biomembranes, good biomarkers of their unbalance.
Here, we report the results obtained from a study to establish whether the combination of two different analyses, i.e. detecting auto-modified poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase levels and analyzing erythrocyte membrane fatty acid composition, might help to monitor the physio-pathological state of the cell, and to correlate with lifestyle, diet or diseases. The two analyses were carried blindly on 95 subjects undergoing endoscopy. They were first interviewed, to collect anamnesis and clinical data, if present. Lymphocytes and erythrocytes were prepared from venous blood to assay poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase automodification and membrane fatty acid content, respectively. The results were statistically evaluated. The measure of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase automodification confirmed that its levels correlate with DNA damage extent, within the same pathology, and allowed to monitor the clinical activity of the disease, depending on ongoing surgical/therapeutic treatment. Membrane fat profile was able to evidence unbalance of lipids linked to both diet/lifestyle and inflammatory states leading to diseases. In most analysed cases, each test demonstrated to evidence, separately, specific features of the physio-pathological state of the subject, i.e. membrane lipid unbalance, altered function(s) of specific pathways of DNA and/or lipid metabolism. In other cases, a correlation between both analyses and specific pathologies emerged. This finding suggested that in the laboratory routine, combining the two tests might be a preliminary step to investigate the occurrence of a given disease, before confirming the diagnosis with other specific clinical analyses.
Both PARP automodification and membrane lipidomic profile provide possible biomarkers for sensible, non-invasive and routine monitoring.
Additional file 1 of Associations between indicators of socioeconomic position and DNA methylation: a scoping review
Creators: name: Cerutti, Janine
name: Lussier, Alexandre A.
name: Zhu, Yiwen
name: Liu, Jiaxuan
name: Dunn, Erin C.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Supplemental methods, results, and figures.
Data fusion strategies for energy efficiency in buildings: Overview, challenges and novel orientations
Creators: name: Himeur, Yassine
name: Alsalemi, Abdullah
name: Al-Kababji, Ayman
name: Bensaali, Faycal
name: Amira, Abbes
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recently, tremendous interest has been devoted to develop data fusion strategies for energy efficiency in buildings, where various kinds of information can be processed. However, applying the appropriate data fusion strategy to design an efficient energy efficiency system is not straightforward; it requires a priori knowledge of existing fusion strategies, their applications and their properties. To this regard, seeking to provide the energy research community with a better understanding of data fusion strategies in building energy saving systems, their principles, advantages, and potential applications, this paper proposes an extensive survey of existing data fusion mechanisms deployed to reduce excessive consumption and promote sustainability. We investigate their conceptualizations, advantages, challenges and drawbacks, as well as performing a taxonomy of existing data fusion strategies and other contributing factors. Following, a comprehensive comparison of the state-of-the-art data fusion based energy efficiency frameworks is conducted using various parameters, including data fusion level, data fusion techniques, behavioral change influencer, behavioral change incentive, recorded data, platform architecture, IoT technology and application scenario. Moreover, a novel method for electrical appliance identification is proposed based on the fusion of 2D local texture descriptors, where 1D power signals are transformed into 2D space and treated as images. The empirical evaluation, conducted on three real datasets, shows promising performance, in which up to 99.68% accuracy and 99.52% F1 score have been attained. In addition, various open research challenges and future orientations to improve data fusion based energy efficiency ecosystems are explored.
ASPETTI PRODUTTIVI ED EFFETTI SUL TERRENO, CON PARTICOLARE RIFERIMENTO AL BILANCIO DELL'AZOTO, DI UN AMMENDAMENTO PLURIENNALE CON COMPOST DA F.O.R.S.U. IN UNA SUCCESSIONE ORTICOLA DI PIENO CAMPO
Creators: name: Pizzolongo, Gaetano
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Year: 2015

description: ASPETTI PRODUTTIVI ED EFFETTI SUL TERRENO, CON PARTICOLARE RIFERIMENTO AL BILANCIO DELL'AZOTO, DI UN AMMENDAMENTO PLURIENNALE CON COMPOST DA F.O.R.S.U. IN UNA SUCCESSIONE ORTICOLA DI PIENO CAMPO

Si intende presentare i risultati acquisiti in sei anni circa la possibilità di gestire la fertilizzazione organica di un agro-sistema orticolo di pieno campo sul bilancio del carbonio organico del suolo, sul monitoraggio dell'entità dei rilasci di nitrati nel tempo e in relazione all'accumulo di azoto organico apportato con il compost. Infine, le risposte agronomiche delle colture praticate saranno discusse quali indicatori della capacità del terreno di sostenere un'adeguata produzione di biomassa commerciabile.
I trattamenti applicati sono stati: 1. Compost alla dose di 30 t ha-1 di s.s. distribuito una volta l'anno e non integrato da concimazione minerale per i primi tre anni; dal quarto anno in poi la dose è stata ridotta a 15 t ha-1 di s.s.;  2. Compost alla dose di 15 t ha-1 di s.s. distribuito una volta l'anno e integrato con concimi azotati di sintesi in dosi pari a ½  di quanto distribuito nella tesi a concimazione minerale; 3.Concimazione minerale N-P-K definita sulla base della coltura praticata e della Guida alla concimazione della Regione Campania; 4. Controllo non fertilizzato.
Il compost impiegato è stato prodotto con la frazione organica dei residui solidi urbani da raccolta differenziata e gli scarti verdi di potature. Al fine di determinare la dinamica del C organico nel profilo di suolo da 0 a 30 cm, sono stati effettuati campionamenti del terreno all'inizio della prova e alla fine di ogni annualità di coltivazione. La concentrazione di N-nitrico nell'estratto acquoso dei profili di suolo 0-30 cm e 30-60 cm è stata monitorata in alcuni mesi del primo e secondo anno di ammendamento e da giugno a dicembre 2010. Nel primo triennio è stata coltivata la successione melanzana-scarola mentre nel quarto anno sono stati coltivati pomodoro e cavolfiore.
Le crescenti quantità di compost impiegate, hanno determinato un proporzionale trend di accumulo del carbonio organico nel suolo mentre i trattamenti controllo e minerale hanno fatto registrare modeste variazioni in senso negativo. La produzione degli ortaggi coltivati è progressivamente diminuita sul controllo non fertilizzato mentre i due trattamenti di ammendamento hanno raggiunto, dopo il primo biennio, livelli produttivi simili o superiori a quelli ottenuti con la concimazione minerale.   L'entità dei rilasci è più influenzata dalla stagione e, comunque, non ha mai raggiunto livelli indicativi di un forte rischio lisciviazione.
UV bright red-sequence galaxies: a comparative study between UV upturn and UV weak systems
Creators: name: Dantas, M. L. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ultraviolet (UV) emission from galaxies is associated with hot components, whether from stellar sources or not. By making use of colour-colour diagrams, early-type galaxies (ETGs) can be classified in terms of their UV emission in mainly three categories: residual star-formation, UV weak, and UV upturn. This thesis aims at investigating galaxies presenting UV upturn by comparing them to UV weak systems. This investigation has three fronts: (i) the assessment of the evolution in redshift (z) and stellar mass (logM*) of the fraction of UV upturn systems in terms of the total of UV bright ETGs; (ii) the stratification of the first study in terms of emission lines; (iii) the comparison between UV weak and upturn for passive RSGs in terms of their stellar populations. To tackle the first front, a Bayesian logistic model was applied. The second front expands on the first, dividing the sample into emission line classes. The final front is focused on the study of stellar population properties of UV weak and upturn systems, by making use of catalogues from GAMA-DR3. The results show that the fraction of UV upturn systems rises up to z~0.25, followed by a decline which remains to be confirmed. By stratifying the sample into emission line classes, the galaxies classified as retired/passive -- the ones associated with evolved stellar phases -- dominate the behaviour with z and logM*. By analysing the stellar populations of both types of systems, different characteristics emerge such as median ages, metallicities, and time since last burst of star formation. These results seem to indicate that UV upturn systems have narrower star-formation histories, higher metallicities, and slightly older populations.
description: PhD thesis -- typos and small errors may exist -- abrigded abstract to fit arxiv requirements (full abstract in English and in Portuguese can be found in the thesis) -- comments welcome
Perry Collins’s electronic rim around the Pacific : the Russian-American telegraph, 1865 to 1867
Creators: name: Wilcockson, Stephen
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: In my thesis, I explain the historical and geographical significance of the failed Russian- American Telegraph Expedition of 1865 to 1867. I explain how American Manifest Destiny facilitated the confident proposal of this stupendous scheme to connect America to Europe telegraphically by Bering Strait The telegraph men sent to British Columbia, Russian America and eastern Siberia struggled in horrendous conditions. In British Columbia the work improved communications, brought new work practices and stimulated discovery of northern corridors of power. In Russian America, the disastrous work resulted in masculinised, ethnocentric and boostered images of the landscape, and facilitated America's 1867 purchase of Alaska. In Siberia the American men suffered greatly, but, by contextualising the 'primitve barbarism' of Siberian environments and people, portrayed themeselves as heroes. Furthermore, surveyor George Kennan wrote and lectured in America on his Siberian travels, using them to frame his influential opinions on Russian expansion and Siberian exile. I conclude that the scheme facilitated the northward encroachment of modernity, dislocating Native lifeworlds.
La mancata comparizione e la mancata difesa delle parti nel processo civile romano
Creators: name: Volpicelli, Claudia
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Year: 2015

description: L'elaborato è suddiviso in due parti principali e una terza parte- appendice. La prima parte è dedicata: al fenomeno della mancata comparizione delle parti nel processo per legis actiones e in quello formulare; alla disciplina della contumacia nella cognitio extra ordinem. Nella seconda parte viene analizzata la problematica della mancata collaborazione delle parti nelle legis actiones e la cd. indefensio formulare. La terza parte- appendice si occupa brevemente dell'absentia e della latitatio.
Boosting performance for software defined networks from traffic engineering perspective
Creators: name: Salman, Mohammed I.
name: Wang, Bin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Paths selection algorithms and rate adaptation objective functions are usually studied separately. In contrast, this paper evaluates some traffic engineering (TE) systems for software defined networking obtained by combining path selection techniques with average delay and load balancing, the two most popular TE objective functions. Based on TE simulation results, the best TE system suitable for software defined networks is a system where the paths are calculated using an oblivious routing model and its adaptation rate calculated using an average delay objective function. Thus, we propose the RACKE+AD system combining path sets computed using Racke's oblivious routing and traffic splitting objective function using average delay. This model outperforms current state-of-the-art models, maximizes throughput, achieves better network resource utilization, and minimizes delay. The proposed system outperformed SMORE and SWAN by 4.2% and 9.6% respectively, achieving 27% better utilization and delivering 34% more traffic with 50% less latency compared with both systems on a GEANT network.
Production experiment, subject 74
Creators: name: Lau-Preechathammarach, Raksit Tyler
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: kdt

description: Target and distractor stimuli embedded in carrier sentences. Subject is a 64-year-old male. Carried out in a quiet room in the temple of Wat Nakharin in Ban Khi Nak.
Cultural components of body dissatisfaction in ethnically diverse women : moving beyond weight focused body image
Creators: name: Sotiriou, Elysia Georges
name: 0000-0002-9043-5889
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2021
Subjects: Body image
Body dissatisfaction
Eating disorders
Cosmetic surgery attitudes
Body dysmorphia
Women of color
Ethnicity
Culture

description: Cultural body dissatisfaction concerns salient to ethnic minority women are often unrecognized or overlooked by researchers and healthcare providers conditioned to view body dissatisfaction as synonymous with weight dissatisfaction. A culturally-inclusive understanding of body dissatisfaction has broad implications for better identifying individuals at risk for developing eating disorders and comorbid conditions, reforming etiological frameworks of eating pathology and body image disturbance, increasing efficacy of preventative approaches and treatment interventions, and decreasing ethnic health disparities. The purposes of the current investigation are twofold; to illustrate the salience of cultural body dissatisfaction concerns and weight-focused body dissatisfaction concerns among a sample of Black, Latina, Asian, and White female undergraduate students, and to explore the extent to which ethnic group membership, BMI, sociocultural appearance-related pressure (i.e., family, peers, and media), weight-focused body dissatisfaction concerns, and cultural body dissatisfaction concerns predict eating disorder symptomology, body dysmorphia, and cosmetic surgery attitudes among ethnic minority participants. MANCOVA analyses and hierarchical linear regressions were used to analyze data obtained from online survey responses of 313 diverse undergraduate women. Results illustrated the presence of statistically significant differences in levels of endorsement on both cultural and weight-focused body dissatisfaction concerns between ethnic groups, specifically for cultural size and shape concerns, skin tone and facial features, the hourglass ideal, eye concerns, and thin ideal internalization. Both cultural and weight-focused body dissatisfaction concerns emerged as significant predictors for eating disorder symptomology, however, weight-focused concerns played no significant role in relation to body dysmorphia or cosmetic surgery attitudes among ethnic minority participants. The cultural concerns shown to be statistically significant predictors among participants of color for body dysmorphia and attitudes towards cosmetic surgery were cultural size and shape concerns and the hourglass ideal. The absence of cultural components from body image investigations and screening measures hinders the ability to reliably and holistically comprehend how body dissatisfaction presents and influences the actions, attitudes, and development of body and eating comorbidities affecting ethnically diverse women. Recognition of cultural body dissatisfaction concerns could help reduce ethnic health disparities in identification and treatment of body image disturbance and eating pathology impacting the American healthcare system.
Collective behavior of interacting self-propelled particles
Creators: name: Czirok, Andras
name: Vicsek, Tamas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss biologically inspired, inherently non-equilibrium self-propelled particle models, in which the particles interact with their neighbours by choosing at each time step the local average direction of motion. We summarize some of the results of large scale simulations and theoretical approaches to the problem.
On the X-ray Properties of the Putative Central Compact Object in 1E 0102.2-7219
Creators: name: Long, Xi
name: Gaetz, Terrance J.
name: Plucinsky, Paul P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have analyzed the archival Chandra X-ray Observatory observations of the compact feature in the Small Magellanic Cloud supernova remnant (SNR) 1E 0102.2-7219 which has recently been suggested to be the Central Compact Object remaining after the supernova explosion. In our analysis, we have used appropriate, time-dependent responses for each of the archival observations, modeled the background instead of subtracting it, and have fit unbinned spectra to preserve the maximal spectral information. The spectrum of this feature is similar to the spectrum of the surrounding regions which have significantly enhanced abundances of O, Ne, \& Mg. We find that the previously suggested blackbody model is inconsistent with the data as Monte Carlo simulations indicate that more than 99\% of the simulated data sets have a test statistic value lower than that of the data. The spectrum is described adequately by a non-equilibrium ionization thermal model with two classes of models that fit the data equally well. One class of models has a temperature of $kT\sim0.79$ keV, an ionization timescale of $\sim3\times10^{11}\,\mathrm{cm}^{-3}\mathrm{s}$, and marginal evidence for enhanced abundances of O and Ne and the other has a temperature of $kT\sim0.91$ keV, an ionization timescale of $\sim7\times10^{10}\,\mathrm{cm}^{-3}\mathrm{s}$, and abundances consistent with local interstellar medium values. We also performed an image analysis and find that the spatial distribution of the counts is not consistent with that of a point source. The hypothesis of a point source distribution can be rejected at the 99.9\% confidence level. Therefore this compact feature is most likely a knot of O and Ne rich ejecta associated with the reverse shock.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ
Mach Cones in Quark Gluon Plasma
Creators: name: Casalderrey-Solana, Jorge
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The experimental azimuthal dihadron distributions at RHIC show a double peak structure in the away side ($Δϕ= π\pm 1.2$ rad.) for intermediate $p_t$ particles. A variety of models have appeared trying to describe this modification. We will review most of them, with special emphasis in the Conical Flow scenario in which the observed shape is a consequence of the emission of sound by a supersonic high momentum particle propagating in the Quark Gluon Plasma.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures, Invited plenary talk given at the 19th International Conference on Ultrarelativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions: Quark Matter 2006 (QM 2006), Shanghai, China, 14-20 Nov 2006
ЕКОЛОГІЧНО-ТЕХНОГЕННІ НАСЛІДКИ ТА ШЛЯХИ ЇХ ПОДОЛАННЯ НА ЗВІЛЬНЕНИХ ТЕРИТОРІЯХ УКРАЇНИ
Creators: name: Полукаров, Ю. О.
name: Качинська, Н. Ф.
name: Полукаров, О. І.
name: Землянська, О. В.
name: Мітюк, Л. О.
name: Демчук, Г. В.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: У статті розглядаються екологічно-техногенні наслідки, що виникають на звільнених територіях України внаслідок військових дій. Зокрема, проаналізовано вплив бойових дій на екосистеми, забруднення довкілля важкими металами, радіоактивними та хімічними речовинами, а також руйнування інфраструктури, що може призвести до погіршення стану природного середовища. Основну увагу приділено пошуку шляхів подолання цих негативних наслідків. Пропонуються ефективні методи відновлення екологічного балансу, такі як рекультивація земель, очищення водойм, відновлення інфраструктури, а також впровадження програм сталого розвитку та екологічного моніторингу. Руйнування Каховської гідроелектростанції (ГЕС) 6 червня 2023 року спричинило серйозні екологічні наслідки, які стали одним із найбільш критичних моментів в екологічній історії України. Це лихо завдало значної шкоди навколишньому середовищу, особливо на тлі триваючих військових дій, що розпочалися в лютому 2022 року. У статті аналізуються екологічні ризики, зокрема забруднення водойм, деградація земель та зміна біорізноманіття, які виникли внаслідок катастрофи. Також обговорюються можливі шляхи подолання наслідків та заходи, які необхідно вжити для відновлення екосистеми та забезпечення екологічної безпеки у майбутньому. Стаття присвячена аналізу техногенних наслідків, що виникають на звільнених територіях України внаслідок військових дій. Розглядаються основні фактори техногенної загрози, такі як руйнування промислових об'єктів, інфраструктури та енергетичних систем, забруднення ґрунтів, води та повітря небезпечними речовинами. Особлива увага приділяється наслідкам для здоров'я населення та навколишнього середовища. У статті пропонуються конкретні шляхи подолання техногенних наслідків, включаючи відновлення інфраструктури, рекультивацію земель, очищення забруднених територій та створення систем екологічного моніторингу для запобігання подальшим катастрофам.