cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Γεωστατιστική ανάλυση δεδομένων στάθμης υπόγειων υδάτων στο υδατικό διαμέρισμα της Ανατολικής Στερεάς Ελλάδας
Creators: name: Πετρου Νικολαος-Σταυρος
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2024

description: Στην παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία πραγματοποιείται γεωστατιστική ανάλυση σε δεδομένα στάθμης υπογείων υδάτων στην περιοχή της Ανατολικής Στέρεας Ελλάδας. Η τελική μελέτη γίνεται σε περιοχές μεταλλευτικών δραστηριοτήτων. Οι εκτιμήσεις της χωρικής ανάλυσης είναι ιδιαιτέρως σημαντικές για την πλήρη εικόνα της μεταβλητότητας της στάθμης υπογείων υδάτων στην περιοχή και για την λήψη ενδεχόμενων μέτρων.
Σκοπός της διπλωματικής εργασίας είναι η χωρική ανάλυση και αξιολόγηση της συμπεριφοράς των υπογείων υδάτων στις μεταλλευτικές περιοχές. Για να επιτευχθεί ο σκοπός κατασκευάζονται χάρτες εκτίμησης της χωρικής μεταβλητότητας της στάθμης των υπογείων υδάτων. Η ανάλυση υλοποιήθηκε σε περιβάλλον MATLAB χρησιμοποιώντας ενενήντα τρείς γεωτρήσεις παρακολούθησης στάθμης υπογείων υδάτων. Η εκτίμηση της στάθμης στην περιοχή μελέτης έγινε με τον γραμμικό εκτιμητή Ordinary kriging ακολουθώντας και υλοποιώντας τα ενδεδειγμένα στάδια γεωστατιστικής ανάλυση: προκαταρκτική ανάλυση δεδομένων, έλεγχος ύπαρξης τάσεων, χωρική συσχέτιση δεδομένων και χωρική εκτίμηση.
Αρχικά για την ποιοτική ανάλυση των δεδομένων εφαρμόστηκε προκαταρκτική ανάλυση των στατιστικών μέτρων και έλεγχος κανονικότητας. Από τον έλεγχο διαπιστώθηκε ότι χρειάζεται μετασχηματισμός των δεδομένων. Για την επίτευξη της κανονικής κατανομής χρησιμοποιείται λογαριθμικός μετασχηματισμός. Στη συνέχεια σχεδιάστηκε το διάγραμμα Voronoi. Επίσης εφαρμόστηκε έλεγχος ύπαρξης τάσεων. Βρέθηκε τάση 1ου βαθμού και κρίθηκε ότι πρέπει να αφαιρεθεί από τα δεδομένα. Έπειτα υπολογίστηκε το εμπειρικό βαριόγραμμα και έγινε προσαρμογή του κατάλληλου θεωρητικού μοντέλου βαριογράμματος. Στο επόμενο βήμα πραγματοποιήθηκαν εκτιμήσεις της στάθμης υπογείων υδάτων στην περιοχή και της αβεβαιότητας των εκτιμήσεων. Τέλος, έγινε η αντιστροφή του λογαριθμικού μετασχηματισμού στην προυπάρχουσα κλίμακα δεδομένων. Οι χάρτες εκτίμησης που προέκυψαν είχαν ικανοποιητική ακρίβεια ώστε συνδυασμένοι με τον χάρτη χρήσεων γης να εξαχθούν χρήσιμα συμπεράσματα. Η επισήμανση των περιοχών μεταλλευτικών δραστηριοτήτων ως ένα από τα κύρια ενδιαφέροντα ενισχύει τη σημασία της μελέτης, καθώς οι εκμεταλλεύσεις μεταλλείων μπορεί να επηρεάσουν σοβαρά την υδρογεωλογική ισορροπία μιας περιοχής. Είναι πιθανό να παρατηρηθούν αλλαγές στη στάθμη υπογείων υδάτων λόγω της εξόρυξης, αποθετικών διαδικασιών, ή ακόμη και ρύπανσης που σχετίζεται με τη μεταλλευτική δραστηριότητα.
Η δομή της διπλωματικής αποτελείται από το 1ο κεφαλαίο στο οποίο αναφέρονται τα χαρακτηριστικά της περιοχής μελέτης, ο σκοπός της διπλωματικής και στοιχεία για τα υπόγεια ύδατα. Το 2ο κεφαλαίο πραγματεύεται το θεωρητικό υπόβαθρο της γεωστατιστικής ανάλυσης. Το 3ο κεφαλαίο παρουσιάζει την επεξεργασία των δεδομένων και περιγράφονται εν συντομία τα αποτελέσματα που προκύπτουν. Στο 4ο κεφαλαίο αναλύονται τα κύρια συμπεράσματα και περιγράφονται προτάσεις για περαιτέρω ερευνά που εστιάζουν στην εξέλιξη της παραπάνω διαδικασίας.
Entanglement distillation for atomic states via cavity QED
Creators: name: Cao, Zhuo-Liang
name: Yang, Ming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we proposed a physical scheme to concentrate the non-maximally entangled atomic pure states via cavity QED by using atomic collision in a far-off-resonant cavity. The most distinctive advantage of our scheme is that there is no excitation of cavity mode during the distillation procedure. Therefore the requirement on the quality of cavity is greatly loosened.
description: 15 pages, 1 figure
Nomada pallidelutea Swenk 1915
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Nomada pallidelutea Swenk, 1915
[Holotype: UNSM ♀ Bill Williams Fork, 305 mts elev., between Mojave and Yuma counties, western Arizona, USA; Aug]
This species has been recorded in the southwestern USA and northwest Mexico. We examined 15 males and two females collected in the Central Desert in 1979 (1 ♂), La Giganta Ranges in July 1938 (1 ♂), Gulf Coast in May– June 1921 (12 ♂, 2 ♀), and Sarcocaulescent Shrubland in September 1977 (1 ♂). Additionally, we reviewed the holotype of Nomada peninsularis Cockerell 1925 (synonymy) collected in La Paz on June 29, 1921. The BBPT collected this species in the Central Desert in March 2017 (1 ♀), and in the Gulf Coast in Mulegé City in March (1 ♀) and May (2 ♀, 2 ♂) 2021 (MABC). See fig. 146.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on pages 220-221, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Farm Operating and Financial Characteristics, 1987
Creators: name: Morehart, Mitchell J.
name: Morehart, Mitchell J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Farm Management
subject: Farm Costs and Returns Survey
subject: farmland
subject: farm labor
subject: agricultural capital investments
subject: farm operating expenses
subject: farm income
subject: assets
subject: liabilities

description: One-third of the farms and ranches with gross sales of at least $40,000 accounted for 75 percent of total land operated. An estimated 218.7 million acres were planted by farm operators. Corn, soybeans, and wheat together accounted for over 70 percent of total acreage planted. The Lake States and Northern Plains were the only regions where farm operators spent, on average, over 40 hours per week working on the farm. Farm operators age 45 to 64 accounted for 45 percent of U.S. capital investments and half of all expenditures for maintenance and repair of existing capital. Average operating expenses of farms with more than 2,000 acres were 10 times greater than for farms operating 100 acres or less. Cotton, poultry, and dairy were the only production specialties with less than 90 percent of farms reporting nonfarm income. Athough full-time farm operators represented 60 percent of all farms, they accounted for over 70 percent of total assets, debt, and equity. The data come from the 1987 Farm Costs and Returns Survey.
Supplemental Methods
Creators: name: Xiaoyan Wan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110107 Metabolic Medicine
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental Methods Serum Lipids AssayThe serum was extracted from male offspring mice at 9 weeks old, and serum lipid level was measured according to the manufacture's protocol (Jiancheng, Nanjing Jiancheng Bioengineering Research Institute, China). After fasting for 12 h, mice were anaesthetized and 20 mL serum was obtained from their tail vein. The serum, water, and a reference standard was then mixed with an examination reagent separately in a 96-well plate, and incubated for 5–10 min. The absorbance value of each well under the recommended wavelength was then measured by a microplate reader (Thermo, USA). According to the relative formula in the reference measurements, the concentration of serum triglycerides (TG), total cholesterol (Tcho), low density lipoprotein (LDL), and high-density lipoprotein (HDL) was calculated according to its absorbance value.
Distance measurements between carbon and bromine using a split-pulse PM-RESPDOR solid-state NMR experiment
Creators: name: Makrinich, Maria
name: Sambol, Mordechai
name: Goldbourt, Amir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Solid-state NMR have been long used to probe atomic distances between nearby nuclear spins by virtue of the dipolar interaction. New technological advances have enabled simultaneous tuning of the radio-frequency resonance circuits to nuclei with close Larmor frequencies, bringing a great promise also to distance measurements between such nuclei, in particular for nuclei with a spin larger than one-half. However, this new possibility has also required modifications of those experiments since the two nuclei cannot be irradiated simultaneously. When measuring distances between a spin S=1/2 and a quadrupolar spin (S > 1/2), this drawback can be overcome by splitting the continuous-wave recoupling pulse applied to the quadrupolar nucleus. We show here that a similar adjustment to a highly-efficient phase-modulated (PM) recoupling pulse enables distance measurements between nuclei with close Larmor frequencies, where the coupled spin experiences a very large coupling. Such an experiment, split phase-modulated RESPDOR, is demonstrated on a 13C-81Br system, where the difference in Larmor frequencies is only 7%, or 11.2 MHz on a 14.1T magnet. The inter-nuclear distances are extracted using an unscaled analytical formula. Since bromine usually experiences particularly high quadrupolar couplings, as in the current case, we suggest that the split-PM-RESPDOR experiment can be highly beneficial for the research of bromo-compounds, including many pharmaceuticals, where carbon-bromine bonds are prevalent, and organo-catalysts utilizing the high reactivity of bromides. We show that for butyl triphenylphosphonium bromide, distances are in agreement with a low-hydration compound rather than a semi-clathrate form. The split-PM-RESPDOR experiment is suitable for distance measurement between any quadrupolar/spin-1/2 pairs, in particular when the quadrupolar spin experiences a significantly large coupling.
description: 19 pages, 11 figures
Price Transmission Elasticities in the Trade Liberalization (TLIB) Database
Creators: name: Sullivan, John
name: Sullivan, John
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Price transmission elasticity
subject: trade liberalization
subject: simulation model

description: This report documents the price transmission elasticities available in the Trade Liberalization (TLIB) database. The database was constructed using the static world policy simulation (SWOPSIM) framework. Within that framework, linkages across countries and regions take place through domestic-international price equations and world trade. The price transmission elasticities can be used to affect those linkages, and a small model is constructed to illustrate their potential effect on world prices and trade.
Uniaxial-Pressure induced Ferromagnetism of Enhanced Paramagnetic Sr3Ru2O7
Creators: name: Ikeda, Shin-Ichi
name: Shirakawa, Naoki
name: Yanagisawa, Takashi
name: Yoshida, Yoshiyuki
name: Koikegami, Shigeru
name: Koike, Soh
name: Kosaka, Masashi
name: Uwatoko, Yoshiya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a uniaxial pressure-dependence of magnetism in layered perovskite strontium ruthenate Sr3Ru2O7. By applying a relatively small uniaxial pressure, greater than 0.1 GPa normal to the RuO2 layer, ferromagnetic ordering manifests below 80 K from the enhanced-paramagnet. Magnetization at 1 kOe and 2 K becomes 100 times larger than that under ambient condition. Uniaxial pressure dependence of Curie temperature T_C suggests the first order magnetic transition. Origin of this uniaxial-pressure induced ferromagnetism is discussed in terms of the rotation of RuO6 octahedra within the RuO2 plane.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures. to be published in Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, vol.73, No.5 (2004)
Privacy-Cost Management in Smart Meters Using Deep Reinforcement Learning
Creators: name: Shateri, Mohammadhadi
name: Messina, Francisco
name: Piantanida, Pablo
name: Labeau, Fabrice
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Smart meters (SMs) play a pivotal rule in the smart grid by being able to report the electricity usage of consumers to the utility provider (UP) almost in real-time. However, this could leak sensitive information about the consumers to the UP or a third-party. Recent works have leveraged the availability of energy storage devices, e.g., a rechargeable battery (RB), in order to provide privacy to the consumers with minimal additional energy cost. In this paper, a privacy-cost management unit (PCMU) is proposed based on a model-free deep reinforcement learning algorithm, called deep double Q-learning (DDQL). Empirical results evaluated on actual SMs data are presented to compare DDQL with the state-of-the-art, i.e., classical Q-learning (CQL). Additionally, the performance of the method is investigated for two concrete cases where attackers aim to infer the actual demand load and the occupancy status of dwellings. Finally, an abstract information-theoretic characterization is provided.
Representative bureaucracy: Are African -American local government policy -makers making a difference?
Creators: name: Lampkin, Cheryl Lyvette
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Using an original survey instrument to a random sample of 1,000 high-level non-elected and non-appointed local government administrators across the United States, this dissertation examines the differences in responsibilities and attitudes of the upper echelon of local government managers. I demonstrate that all local government managers have sufficient discretion to influence policy-making in their organizations and are clearly involved in every aspect of policy initiation, formulation and implementation. For example, the vast majority of local government managers in the sample recommends changes or improvements to policies, interpret and apply policies and explain the merits of policies to a wide range of individuals. This dissertation also investigates whether African-American local government managers provide representation for blacks in American cities. Overall the evidence suggests that black local government managers are more likely than their white counterparts to influence policy that reflects the needs and interests of the black community. Black managers show more support for minority issues such as affirmative action and housing discrimination and are more likely to indicate that they should assume an advocate role in their work-related activities. For example, on average, African-American managers are more likely to agree that they should provide information to policy-makers regarding the needs of the minority community and actively advocate for institutional changes to increase responsiveness to minorities. Finally, this dissertation explores new possible influences on the attitudes of local government managers. The findings suggests that as the proportion of minorities on the local government elected body increases, the likelihood that a manager will take on an advocate role increases. This is especially true for white managers. The findings also suggest that there is a relationship between the level of community involvement outside of work and a manager's propensity to take on an advocate role. By examining attitudinal data, this dissertation strongly suggests that minority presences, especially African-Americans, in management positions increases the likelihood that local government polices will better reflect the needs of the American citizenry. Additional research should investigate whether these attitudinal differences actually translate into meaningful policy.
Thermal transport in the Falicov-Kimball model on a Bethe lattice
Creators: name: Joura, A. V.
name: Demchenko, D. O.
name: Freericks, J. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate thermal transport in the Falicov-Kimball model on an infinite-coordination-number Bethe lattice. We perform numerical calculations of the thermoelectric characteristics and concentrate on finding materials parameters for which the electronic thermoelectric figure-of-merit ZT is large, suggesting potential cooling and power generation applications. Surprisingly, the Bethe lattice has significant qualitative and quantitative differences with the previously studied hypercubic lattice. At low temperature it is unlikely that these systems can be employed in thermoelectric devices due to the low conductivities and due to a larger lattice contribution to the thermal conductivity $κ_L$, but at high temperature, the thermoelectric parameters appear more promising for devices due to a significant enhancement of ZT and a smaller relative contribution by the lattice thermal conductivity.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Barn razing: Change and continuity in identity during conflict
Creators: name: Neufeldt, Reina C.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation seeks to understand how the identity of a particular people, Mennonites, changes and remains constant during periods of conflict, over time. Identity is approached from a symbolic interactionist and sociological (social) constructivist stance. Using an adapted historical, grounded theory methodology, it explores how a group defines itself during three, decade-long periods of conflict in the twentieth century. The three temporally and geographically bounded periods of conflict in focus are: 1914-1924 Russia/Ukraine, 1934-1944 western Canada, 1977-1987 western Canada (Saskatchewan). The sites of conflict raise competing affiliation demands around identification with the state, religious beliefs, land and belonging. The grounded theory constant comparative method is used to uncover the structure of the concepts and categories comprising Mennonite identity that are utilized by Mennonite leaders during the three periods of conflict. Each conflict site is described in detail followed by an analysis of the categories of identification; the categories and properties that emerge provide a substantive theory of Mennonite identity over time. The dissertation also investigates the dynamics of continuity and change in the content of the categories. Three levels of change are evident: (1) subtle shifts and minor adaptations to context; (2) major fluctuations and temporary suspensions in the use of properties or categories; (3) properties and categories that are discontinued from use. The first two levels of change promote and enable continuity in Mennonite identification. The third level, discontinuity, is then explored in greater depth focusing on detachment from place (the Russian Steppe) and language (German). Taken together these examples highlight the interplay between external factors that promote change and the internal factors that are necessary for change but which also contribute to continuity over time. The dissertation utilizes and contributes to Rogers Smith's notion of "political peoplehood," demonstrating that an entire political people may seek to inspire a sense of "worth" and "trust," and may further integrate these concepts into their group identification. Finally, the research contributes a methodology that identifies a relatively stable core set of categories of identification, as well as probing the dynamics of change over time.
Additional file 1 of (Swiss) GraphoLearn: an app-based tool to support beginning readers
Creators: name: Mehringer, Hannah
name: Fraga-González, Gorka
name: Pleisch, Georgette
name: Röthlisberger, Martina
name: Aepli, Franziska
name: Keller, Vera
name: Karipidis, Iliana I.
name: Brem, Silvia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary table and figures.
Barn razing: Change and continuity in identity during conflict
Creators: name: Neufeldt, Reina C.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: This dissertation seeks to understand how the identity of a particular people, Mennonites, changes and remains constant during periods of conflict, over time. Identity is approached from a symbolic interactionist and sociological (social) constructivist stance. Using an adapted historical, grounded theory methodology, it explores how a group defines itself during three, decade-long periods of conflict in the twentieth century. The three temporally and geographically bounded periods of conflict in focus are: 1914-1924 Russia/Ukraine, 1934-1944 western Canada, 1977-1987 western Canada (Saskatchewan). The sites of conflict raise competing affiliation demands around identification with the state, religious beliefs, land and belonging. The grounded theory constant comparative method is used to uncover the structure of the concepts and categories comprising Mennonite identity that are utilized by Mennonite leaders during the three periods of conflict. Each conflict site is described in detail followed by an analysis of the categories of identification; the categories and properties that emerge provide a substantive theory of Mennonite identity over time. The dissertation also investigates the dynamics of continuity and change in the content of the categories. Three levels of change are evident: (1) subtle shifts and minor adaptations to context; (2) major fluctuations and temporary suspensions in the use of properties or categories; (3) properties and categories that are discontinued from use. The first two levels of change promote and enable continuity in Mennonite identification. The third level, discontinuity, is then explored in greater depth focusing on detachment from place (the Russian Steppe) and language (German). Taken together these examples highlight the interplay between external factors that promote change and the internal factors that are necessary for change but which also contribute to continuity over time. The dissertation utilizes and contributes to Rogers Smith's notion of "political peoplehood," demonstrating that an entire political people may seek to inspire a sense of "worth" and "trust," and may further integrate these concepts into their group identification. Finally, the research contributes a methodology that identifies a relatively stable core set of categories of identification, as well as probing the dynamics of change over time.
Time to get up : the hidden benefits of standing desks
Creators: name: Cournoyer, Annabelle
name: Tan, Anne
name: Li, Crystal
name: Zhang, Jessica
name: Lai, Zachary
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: To improve work experience for UBC staff, we are interested in the benefits the usage of sit-standing desks can bring in terms of productivity, comfort and health level. The study uses a survey to measure self-reported comfort, productivity, and health of participants. The result of the survey suggested that people who have used sit-standing desks in the last three months have a higher level of comfort level compared to those who have not, but no difference was found for health and productivity. For participants in the sitting desk group, we would like to address the question of whether they will use sit-standing desks if made available. The results suggest that participants are more willing to use sit-standing desks if they are available in their office instead of shared areas. The study suggests that sit-standing desks benefit the comfort of UBC employees, that the main reason for not using one concerns convenience factors associated with shared access, and that an overwhelming majority of those who do not have access to one would like to. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Bound the difference of two singular moduli
Creators: name: Cai, Yulin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: For a fixed singular modulus $α$, we give an effective lower bound of norm of $x-α$ for another singular modulus $x$ with large discriminant. We then generalize this result for $Φ_m(x,α)$, where $Φ_m(X,Y) \in \Z[X,Y]$ is the $m$-th modular polynomial.
Additional file 1 of (Swiss) GraphoLearn: an app-based tool to support beginning readers
Creators: name: Mehringer, Hannah
name: Fraga-González, Gorka
name: Pleisch, Georgette
name: Röthlisberger, Martina
name: Aepli, Franziska
name: Keller, Vera
name: Karipidis, Iliana
name: Brem, Silvia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary table and figures.
Texture Zeros and CP-violating Phases in the Neutrino Mass Matrix
Creators: name: Xing, Zhi-zhong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We stress that specific texture zeros of lepton mass matrices, which might dynamically arise from a new kind of flavor symmetry, can help us to establish simple and testable relations between the lepton flavor mixing parameters and lepton mass ratios. We present a brief review of one-zero, two-zero and three-zero textures of the neutrino mass matrix. Their phenomenological consequences on neutrino mixing and CP violation are also discussed.
description: 8 pages. Talk given at NOON2004 conference, February 2004, Tokyo
The Kinematics and Physical Conditions of the Ionized Gas in NGC 4593 from Chandra High-Energy Grating Spectroscopy
Creators: name: McKernan, B.
name: Yaqoob, T.
name: George, I. M.
name: Turner, T. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We observed the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 4593 with the Chandra high energy transmission gratings and present a detailed analysis of the soft X-ray spectrum. We measure strong absorption lines from He-like O, Ne, Mg, Si, H-like N, O, Ne, Mg, Si and highly ionized Fe XIX-XXV. Only the NLya, OLya and MgLya lines appear to be marginally resolved. We identify a spectral feature at $\sim 0.707$ keV with a neutral Fe L edge, which might suggest that there is dust along the line-of-sight to \ngc. Neutral Si absorption, which might also be expected from absorption due to dust is present (though not significantly) in the form of a weak neutral Si edge. We also detect, at marginal signficance, NLya and O VII (r) 1s-2p ($λ21.602 $) absorption at $z \sim 0$, due to a hot medium in our Local Group. The soft X-ray spectrum of NGC 4593 is adequately described by a simple, single-zone photoionized absorber with an equivalent Hydrogen column density of $5.37^{+1.45}_{-0.79} \times 10^{21} \ \rm{cm}^{-2}$ and an ionization parameter of $\log ξ= 2.52^{+0.06}_{-0.04}$ ergs cm $\rm{s}^{-1}$ although there remain some features which are not identified. Although the photoionized gas almost certainly is comprised of matter in more than one ionization state and may consist of several kinematic components, data with better signal-to-noise ratio and better spectral resolution are required to justify a more complex model.
description: ApJ accepted. 44 pages, 13 figs (5 colour). Abstract abridged
The Sample Complexity of Meta Sparse Regression
Creators: name: Wang, Zhanyu
name: Honorio, Jean
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper addresses the meta-learning problem in sparse linear regression with infinite tasks. We assume that the learner can access several similar tasks. The goal of the learner is to transfer knowledge from the prior tasks to a similar but novel task. For p parameters, size of the support set k , and l samples per task, we show that T \in O (( k log(p) ) /l ) tasks are sufficient in order to recover the common support of all tasks. With the recovered support, we can greatly reduce the sample complexity for estimating the parameter of the novel task, i.e., l \in O (1) with respect to T and p . We also prove that our rates are minimax optimal. A key difference between meta-learning and the classical multi-task learning, is that meta-learning focuses only on the recovery of the parameters of the novel task, while multi-task learning estimates the parameter of all tasks, which requires l to grow with T . Instead, our efficient meta-learning estimator allows for l to be constant with respect to T (i.e., few-shot learning).
Gender and Title IX: A study of the knowledge, perceptions, and experiences of middle and junior high school teachers and students
Creators: name: Zittleman, Karen R.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3902
subject: Education policy, sociology and philosophy
classificationCode: 3903
subject: Education systems

description: The purpose of this study was to investigate teacher and student knowledge, perceptions, and experiences with gender and Title IX in public schools. To this end, 440 students and 84 teachers in five diverse middle and junior high schools from Maryland, Virginia, Wisconsin, and the District of Columbia were recruited for participation. The schools varied in geographical location as well as in racial/ethnic and class diversity and included grades 6 though 9. All schools were coeducational, public institutions receiving federal assistance, and one was a charter school. Teachers and students completed their respective versions of the questionnaire Tuning into Title IX and Gender: Looking Behind the Schoolhouse Door. Quantitative data obtained through analysis of Likert-scale and closed-response questions provided information on teacher and student knowledge and attitudes related to Title IX and gender issues in education. Open-ended responses allowed participants to expand with detailed description to closed-response items, and made visible teacher and student thoughts and teaching/learning practices along with capturing their gender-related experiences in schools. Students also described their perceptions of gender roles through open-ended items. The first-person accounts of these students and teachers suggest that three decades of gender equity efforts have fallen far short of their goals. Contrary to the backlash argument that girls are now the advantaged sex, or the perceptions of many adults that both girls and boys are treated fairly in school today, these findings indicate that in terms of gender stereotypes, schools today are more similar than different from those that existed a generation ago. Findings reveal that gender plays a significant role in the lives of students, expanding some options, but more often limiting the academic and social development of females and males. While most teachers believed that gender is not an issue in their schools, students identified a myriad of persistent gender issues, including homophobia, academic difficulties, fighting, relational aggression, and sexual harassment and rape. Neither teachers nor students understood Title IX. Detailed findings as well as strategies to promote democratic, gender-fair instruction as well as school policies and practices are also explored.
Darboux transformations for 5-point and 7-point self-adjoint schemes and an integrable discretization of the 2D Schrodinger operator
Creators: name: Nieszporski, M.
name: Santini, P. M.
name: Doliwa, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: With this paper we begin an investigation of difference schemes that possess Darboux transformations and can be regarded as natural discretizations of elliptic partial differential equations. We construct, in particular, the Darboux transformations for the general self adjoint schemes with five and seven neighbouring points. We also introduce a distinguished discretization of the two-dimensional stationary Schrodinger equation, described by a 5-point difference scheme involving two potentials, which admits a Darboux transformation.
description: 15 pages, 1 figure
Nomada hesperia Cockerell 1903
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Nomada hesperia Cockerell, 1903
[Holotype: ANSP; ♂ Southern California, California, USA]
We examined two females, one collected in Succulent Coastal Matorral in May 1963 (CASC), and one in Chaparral in May 1980 (SDNHM). Additionally, the BBPT collected one female in Coastal Sage Matorral at the foothills of Sierra San Pedro Mártir in April 2023 (MABC). See fig. 145.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 219, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
How to lasso a plane gravitational wave
Creators: name: Bollada, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Beginning with the stress-energy tensor of an elastic string this paper derives a relativistic string and its form in a parallel transported Fermi frame including its reduction in the Newtonian limit to a Cosserat string. In a Fermi frame gravitational curvature is seen to induce three dominant relative acceleration terms dependent on: position, velocity and position, strain and position, respectively. An example of a string arranged in an axially flowing ring (a lasso) is shown to have a set of natural frequencies that can be parametrically excited by a monochromatic plane gravitational wave. The lasso also exhibits, in common with spinning particles, oscillation about geodesic motion in proportion to spin magnitude and wave amplitude when the spin axis lies in the gravitational wave front. Coordinate free notation is used throughout including the development of the properties of the Fermi frame.
Gender and Title IX: A study of the knowledge, perceptions, and experiences of middle and junior high school teachers and students
Creators: name: Zittleman, Karen R.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The purpose of this study was to investigate teacher and student knowledge, perceptions, and experiences with gender and Title IX in public schools. To this end, 440 students and 84 teachers in five diverse middle and junior high schools from Maryland, Virginia, Wisconsin, and the District of Columbia were recruited for participation. The schools varied in geographical location as well as in racial/ethnic and class diversity and included grades 6 though 9. All schools were coeducational, public institutions receiving federal assistance, and one was a charter school. Teachers and students completed their respective versions of the questionnaire Tuning into Title IX and Gender: Looking Behind the Schoolhouse Door. Quantitative data obtained through analysis of Likert-scale and closed-response questions provided information on teacher and student knowledge and attitudes related to Title IX and gender issues in education. Open-ended responses allowed participants to expand with detailed description to closed-response items, and made visible teacher and student thoughts and teaching/learning practices along with capturing their gender-related experiences in schools. Students also described their perceptions of gender roles through open-ended items. The first-person accounts of these students and teachers suggest that three decades of gender equity efforts have fallen far short of their goals. Contrary to the backlash argument that girls are now the advantaged sex, or the perceptions of many adults that both girls and boys are treated fairly in school today, these findings indicate that in terms of gender stereotypes, schools today are more similar than different from those that existed a generation ago. Findings reveal that gender plays a significant role in the lives of students, expanding some options, but more often limiting the academic and social development of females and males. While most teachers believed that gender is not an issue in their schools, students identified a myriad of persistent gender issues, including homophobia, academic difficulties, fighting, relational aggression, and sexual harassment and rape. Neither teachers nor students understood Title IX. Detailed findings as well as strategies to promote democratic, gender-fair instruction as well as school policies and practices are also explored.
Quantum Refrigeration with Indefinite Causal Order
Creators: name: Felce, David
name: Vedral, Vlatko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a thermodynamic refrigeration cycle which uses Indefinite Causal Orders to achieve non-classical cooling. The cycle cools a cold reservoir while consuming purity in a control qubit. We first show that the application to an input state of two identical thermalizing channels of temperature $T$ in an indefinite causal order can result in an output state with a temperature not equal to $T$. We investigate the properties of the refrigeration cycle and show that thermodynamically, the result is compatible with unitary quantum mechanics in the circuit model but could not be achieved classically. We believe that this cycle could be implemented experimentally using tabletop photonics. Our result suggests the development of a new class of thermodynamic resource theories in which operations are allowed to be performed in an Indefinite Causal Order.
description: 5 pages + 2 appendices, 3 figures, comments welcome
Predictions for top quark spin correlations at the Tevatron and the LHC at next-to-leading order in alpha_s
Creators: name: Brandenburg, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Predictions for angular distributions of top quark decay products that are sensitive to t tbar spin correlations are presented at next-to-leading order in alpha_s for the Tevatron and the LHC.
description: 3 pages, 1 figure. Contribution to the HEP2003 Europhysics Conference in Aachen, Germany
Report on the establishment of the Living Lab
Creators: name: Christensen, David
name: Preston, Rebbie
name: Lee, In Kyong
name: Jacobsen, Lea Janna
name: Beye, Andrea
name: Macció, Enrico
name: Bustamente, Margot
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Living Lab
Circular Economy
Innovation
Co-Creation
Sustainability

description: This deliverable documents the establishment of the HEPHAESTUS Green Living Lab (HGLL) on Bornholm, Denmark. It outlines the conceptual foundations, co-creation processes, stakeholder engagement, implementation activities, and evaluation framework used to develop the Living Lab. Guided by New European Bauhaus values and Living Lab principles, the HGLL connects craft heritage with circular economy experimentation, positioning Bornholm as a “test island” for sustainable innovation in the craft sector.
PEAChY-O Statistical Analysis Plan
Creators: name: Selman, Christopher
name: Lee, Katherine
name: Bourke, Elyssia
name: Klein, Kate
name: Babl, Franz
Publisher: name: Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
Year: 2024
Subjects: Health Sciences

description:  
Statistical Analysis Plan for Pharmacological Emergency Management of Agitation in Children and Young People (PEAChY-O)  

Signed version only available upon reasonable request
Nomada rubrica Provancher 1896
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Nomada rubrica Provancher, 1896 **
[♀ Los Angeles, California, USA]
This species represents a new record for Mexico and the BCP. We examined one female specimen collected in Chaparral at Zapopita Valle de la Trinidad in September 1961 (LACM). See fig. 146.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 222, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Vacuum Calorimetry in Exploding Wire Studies
Creators: name: Rabinowitz, Mario
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A method of using vacuum calorimetry as a means of determining directly the energy deposited in an electrically exploded wire is presented. This energy determination is compared with that given by the time integral of the product of voltage and current. A definite reproducible pattern of the explosion products is deposited on the walls of the calorimeter, which may be used as a means of understanding the behavior of the wire during the explosion.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures, 1 photograph
Nomada pascoensis Cockerell 1903
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Nomada pascoensis Cockerell, 1903
[USNM: ♂ Pasco, Franklin Co., Washington State, USA; May 25, 1896]
Nomada pascoensis is found primarily in western North America, through there are several records reported from the eastern side of the continent. There are three records from 1961 and one from 1962 collected in BC (nonspecified locality) determined by Byron Alexander at SEMC (GBIF 2023). Additionally, we examined four males collected in March 1961 in Chaparral at Zapopita Valle de la Trinidad (LACM). See fig. 146.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 221, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Enhanced $Γ(p\to K^0μ^+)/Γ(p\to K^+\barν_μ)$ as a Signature of Minimal Renormalizable SUSY $SO(10)$ GUT
Creators: name: Haba, Naoyuki
name: Mimura, Yukihiro
name: Yamada, Toshifumi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ratio of the partial widths of some dimension-5 proton decay modes can be predicted without detailed knowledge of SUSY particle masses, and thus allows us to experimentally test various SUSY GUT models without discovering SUSY particles. In this paper, we study the ratio of the partial widths of the $p\to K^0μ^+$ and $p\to K^+\barν_μ$ decays in the minimal renormalizable SUSY $SO(10)$ GUT, under only a plausible assumption that the 1st and 2nd generation left-handed squarks are mass-degenerate. In the model, we expect that the Wilson coefficients of dimension-5 operators responsible for these modes are on the same order and that the ratio of $p\to K^0μ^+$ and $p\to K^+\barν_μ$ partial widths is $O(0.1)$. Hence, we may be able to detect both $p\to K^0μ^+$ and $p\to K^+\barν_μ$ decays at Hyper-Kamiokande, thereby gaining a hint for the minimal renormalizable SUSY $SO(10)$ GUT. Moreover, since this partial width ratio is quite suppressed in the minimal $SU(5)$ GUT, it allows us to distinguish the minimal renormalizable SUSY $SO(10)$ GUT from the minimal $SU(5)$ GUT. In the main body of the paper, we perform a fitting of the quark and lepton masses and flavor mixings with the Yukawa couplings of the minimal renormalizable $SO(10)$ GUT, and derive a concrete prediction for the partial width ratio based on the fitting results. We find that the partial width ratio generally varies in the range 0.05-0.6, confirming the above expectation.
description: 27 pages, 3 figures. Version accepted for publication in PTEP