cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Improving predictive performance and calibration by weight fusion in semantic segmentation
Creators: name: Sämann, Timo
name: Hammam, Ahmed
name: Bursuc, Andrei
name: Stiller, Christoph
name: Groß, Horst-Michael
Publisher: name: Neural Information Processing Systems
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 004

description: Averaging predictions of a deep ensemble of networks is apopular and effective method to improve predictive performance andcalibration in various benchmarks and Kaggle competitions. However, theruntime and training cost of deep ensembles grow linearly with the size ofthe ensemble, making them unsuitable for many applications. Averagingensemble weights instead of predictions circumvents this disadvantageduring inference and is typically applied to intermediate checkpoints ofa model to reduce training cost. Albeit effective, only few works haveimproved the understanding and the performance of weight averaging.Here, we revisit this approach and show that a simple weight fusion (WF)strategy can lead to a significantly improved predictive performance andcalibration. We describe what prerequisites the weights must meet interms of weight space, functional space and loss. Furthermore, we presenta new test method (called oracle test) to measure the functional spacebetween weights. We demonstrate the versatility of our WF strategy acrossstate of the art segmentation CNNs and Transformers as well as real worlddatasets such as BDD100K and Cityscapes. We compare WF with similarapproaches and show our superiority for in- and out-of-distribution datain terms of predictive performance and calibration.
Non-Hermitian quantum gases: a platform for imaginary time crystals
Creators: name: Arouca, R.
name: Marino, E. C.
name: Smith, C. Morais
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the most important applications of quantum mechanics is the thermodynamic description of quantum gases. Despite the fundamental importance of this topic, a comprehensive description of the thermodynamic properties of non-Hermitian quantum gases is still lacking. Here, we investigate the properties of bosonic and fermionic non-Hermitian systems at finite temperatures. We show that non-Hermitian systems exihibit oscillations both in temperature and imaginary time. As such, they can be a possible platform to realize an imaginary time crystal (iTC) phase. The Hatano-Nelson model is identified as a simple lattice model to reveal this effect. In addition, we show that the conditions for the iTC to be manifest are the same as the conditions for the presence of disorder points, where the correlation functions show oscillating behavior. This analysis makes clear that our realization of iTC is effectively a way to filter one specific Matsubara mode. In this realization, the Matsubara frequency, that enters as a mathematical tool to compute correlation functions for finite temperatures, can be measured experimentally.
description: Reformulation of manuscript, some typos corrected, results are the same. 22+16 pages on single column
Factors affecting long-term psychosocial outcomes after hypospadias repair
Creators: name: Saralee Mattanarommayakij
name: Parichawan Chandarasiri
name: Paisarn Vejchapipat
name: Somboon Roekwibunsi
Publisher: name: Faculty of Medicine Chulalongkorn University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Hypospadias
long term
psychosocial
outcome
urethro-cutaneous fistula

description: Chulalongkorn Medical Journal, 67, 2, 147-152
Irish Regiments and Soldiers in the Crimean War – their contribution and legacy
Creators: name: Murphy, David
Publisher: name: British Journal for Military History
Year: 2023

description: During the Crimean War (1853-6), five Irish regiments served with the British expeditionary force, while thousands of Irish soldiers served across the British Army in non-Irish regiments. These Irish troops made a significant contribution, and the war was followed with considerable interest in Ireland, encouraging civilians to volunteer to serve as doctors, nurses, and engineers. This article will outline the context of this Irish involvement in the Crimean War and the level of public interest, while also referring to the survival of an awareness of that war in Irish folk memory until well into the twentieth century.
description: British Journal for Military History, Vol. 9 No. 2 (2023): Special Issue: The Irish Soldier in the British Army
Detection of pathogenic Leptospira spp. by RPA-NALFIA targeting lipL32 gene
Creators: name: Sirawit Jirawannaporn
name: Umaporn Limothai
name: Sasipha Tachaboon
name: Patcharakorn Kiatamornrak
name: Watchadaporn Chaisuriyong
name: Nattachai Srisawat
Publisher: name: Faculty of Medicine Chulalongkorn University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Detection
lateral flow
leptospira spp
leptospirosis

description: Chulalongkorn Medical Journal, 67, 2, 153-159
Radiation from a dipole perpendicular to the interface between two planar semi-infinite magnetoelectric media
Creators: name: Franca, O. J.
name: Urrutia, Luis F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider two semi-infinite magnetoelectric media with constant dielectric permittivity separated by a planar interface, whose electromagnetic response is described by non-dynamical axion electrodynamics and investigate the radiation of a point-like electric dipole located perpendicularly to the interface. We start from the exact Green's function for the electromagnetic potential, whose far-field approximation is obtained using a modified steepest descent approximation. This procedure yields the standard spherical waves as well as axially symmetric cylindrical superficial waves, which nevertheless are restricted to a region very close to the interface. We compute the angular distribution of the radiation and the total radiated power finding different interference patterns, depending on the relative position dipole-observer, and polarization mixing effects which are all absent in the standard dipole radiation. They are a manifestation of the magnetoelectric effect induced by axion electrodynamics. We illustrate our findings with some numerical estimations employing realistic media as well as some hypothetical choices in order to illuminate the effects of the magnetoelectric coupling which is usually very small.
description: 29 pages, 18 figures, new references added, results unchanged, improved explanations, matches accepted version in Rev. Mex. Fis
Perceptions of the seriousness of major public health problems during the COVID-19 pandemic in seven middle-income countries
Creators: name: Khossravi, Emily A.
name: Carson, Richard T.
name: Bonilla, Jorge A.
name: Chukwuone, Nnaemeka Andegbe
name: Adamowicz, Wiktor
name: Köhlin, Gunnar
name: Ndiritu, Simon Wagura
name: Hanemann, Michael
name: Whittington, Dale
name: Amuakwa-Mensah, Franklin
name: Chegere, Martin Julius
name: Nam, Pham Khanh
name: Visser, Martine
name: Sterner, Thomas
name: Alpizar, Francisco
name: Tan-Soo, Jie-Sheng
name: Jeuland, Marc
name: Wadehra, Shivani
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: INTRODUCTION: Public perception of the seriousness of the COVID-19 pandemic compared to six other major public health problems (alcoholism and drug use, HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, lung cancer and respiratory diseases caused by air pollution and smoking, and water-borne diseases like diarrhea) is unclear. We designed a survey to examine this issue using YouGov's internet panels in seven middle-income countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America in early 2022. METHODS: Respondents rank ordered the seriousness of the seven health problems using a repeated best-worst question format. Rank-ordered logit models allow comparisons within and across countries and assessment of covariates. RESULTS: In six of the seven countries, respondents perceived other respiratory illnesses to be a more serious problem than COVID-19. Only in Vietnam was COVID-19 ranked above other respiratory illnesses. Alcoholism and drug use was ranked the second most serious problem in the African countries. HIV/AIDS ranked relatively high in all countries. Covariates, particularly a COVID-19 knowledge scale, explained differences within countries; statistics about the pandemic were highly correlated with differences in COVID-19's perceived seriousness. CONCLUSIONS: People in the seven middle-income countries perceived COVID-19 to be serious (on par with HIV/AIDS) but not as serious as other respiratory illnesses. In the African countries, respondents perceived alcoholism and drug use as more serious than COVID-19. Our survey-based approach can be used to quickly understand how the threat of a newly emergent disease, like COVID-19, fits into the larger context of public perceptions of the seriousness of health problems.
An Interpretable Probabilistic Model for Short-Term Solar Power Forecasting Using Natural Gradient Boosting
Creators: name: Mitrentsis, Georgios
name: Lens, Hendrik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: PV power forecasting models are predominantly based on machine learning algorithms which do not provide any insight into or explanation about their predictions (black boxes). Therefore, their direct implementation in environments where transparency is required, and the trust associated with their predictions may be questioned. To this end, we propose a two stage probabilistic forecasting framework able to generate highly accurate, reliable, and sharp forecasts yet offering full transparency on both the point forecasts and the prediction intervals (PIs). In the first stage, we exploit natural gradient boosting (NGBoost) for yielding probabilistic forecasts, while in the second stage, we calculate the Shapley additive explanation (SHAP) values in order to fully comprehend why a prediction was made. To highlight the performance and the applicability of the proposed framework, real data from two PV parks located in Southern Germany are employed. Comparative results with two state-of-the-art algorithms, namely Gaussian process and lower upper bound estimation, manifest a significant increase in the point forecast accuracy and in the overall probabilistic performance. Most importantly, a detailed analysis of the model's complex nonlinear relationships and interaction effects between the various features is presented. This allows interpreting the model, identifying some learned physical properties, explaining individual predictions, reducing the computational requirements for the training without jeopardizing the model accuracy, detecting possible bugs, and gaining trust in the model. Finally, we conclude that the model was able to develop complex nonlinear relationships which follow known physical properties as well as human logic and intuition.
An Irish Catholic Amateur Military Tradition in the British Army? The Irish Militia, 1793-1908
Creators: name: Butler, William
Publisher: name: British Journal for Military History
Year: 2023

description: Both an Irish military tradition and an amateur military tradition have been explored in the historiography involving the study of British Army as they relate to forces recruited and serving in Ireland over two centuries. This article will take this exploration further by arguing that it is possible to demonstrate that an Irish Catholic amateur military tradition existed in the Irish Militia, as established in 1793, and existing until the turn of the twentieth century. This Irish Catholic tradition fed into these two broader traditions, becoming integral parts of them, while also exerting Irish identity in its own ways.
description: British Journal for Military History, Vol. 9 No. 2 (2023): Special Issue: The Irish Soldier in the British Army
Genderkompetenz in der Praxis Sozialer Arbeit: Eine qualitative Forschung
Creators: name: Weiss, Caroline
Publisher: name: Hochschule Luzern – Soziale Arbeit
Year: 2024

description: Die Soziale Arbeit steht vor der aktuellen Herausforderung, den sich wandelnden und vielfältiger werdenden Bedürfnisse von Individuen gerecht zu werden. Kategorisierungen in stereotypische Geschlechterrollen stehen den individuellen Lebenslagen und Bedürfnissen gegenüber. Menschen werden in Geschlechter kategorisiert und sind mit stereotypischen Erwartungen des sozialen Umfeldes konfrontiert, sich anzupassen. Als die sozialarbeiterische Antwort auf diesen Wandel kann Genderkompetenz gesehen werden. Die vorliegende Arbeit stellt sich der Frage, wie relevant Genderkompetenz in der Praxis für Sozialarbeiter*innen tatsächlich ist oder, ob die Praxis ohne genderkompetentem Arbeiten auskommt.

Dies gelingt zum Einstieg mit Hilfe einer Begriffsannäherung der Begriffe Geschlecht und Gender unter der Darstellung der historischen Verwendung des Begriffs Geschlecht und der späteren Einführung der zumeist synonym verwendeten Bezeichnung Gender. Weiterführend werden verschiedene Konzepte von Gender bzw. Geschlecht, sowie die Bedeutungen und Wirkungen als Struktur-, Risiko- und Ungleichheitskategorie auf Gesellschaft und Individuen dargestellt. Es folgt ein Exkurs über Intersektionalität als Konzept zur Darstellung verschiedener Diskriminierungsfaktoren, womit eine ganzheitliche Betrachtung des Themas gelingt. Danach wird das Konzept von Genderkompetenz in der Sozialen Arbeit näher beleuchtet und schließt die theoretischen Grundlagen für das nachfolgende methodische Vorgehen ab. Um die Forschungsfrage zu beantworten, wurden Einzelinterviews mit Fachkräften der Sozialen Arbeit geführt und diese nach der qualitativen Inhaltsanalyse nach Kuckartz und Rädiker (2022) ausgewertet. Es zeigt sich, dass Fachkräfte in der Praxis der Sozialen Arbeit zwar Wissen über Geschlechterthemen haben, dieses jedoch kaum theoretisch fundiert ist. Vielmehr begründen die eigenen Werte das professionelle Handeln. Auch wurde deutlich, dass eine intensive Auseinandersetzung mit dem Thema Genderkompetenz innerhalb des Studiums für die Implementierung in der Praxis unausweichlich ist.
description: + Code Diss LU: hslusa masa + Fussnote: Master of Science in Sozialer Arbeit, Bern, Luzern, St. Gallen, 2024 + NL-Code: NLLUHSA202409
Irish Junkers? The Irish Landed Class and the British Army in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Creators: name: Perry, Nicholas
Publisher: name: British Journal for Military History
Year: 2023

description: The Irish landed class from the eighteenth century onwards was one of the British Army’s main sources of officers; and as a national/regional elite with military service central to their sense of identity they have been compared to the Prussian Junker class. Their political relationship with the British government was, however, complex and occasionally confrontational. This article examines the extent of their military involvement in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, compares this with their counterparts in Britain, and suggests some parallels between their experience and that of regional landed elites in the Prussian Army in the late eighteenth century.
description: British Journal for Military History, Vol. 9 No. 2 (2023): Special Issue: The Irish Soldier in the British Army
The graviton Compton mass as Dark energy
Creators: name: Matos, Tonatiuh
name: L-Parrilla, Laura
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the greatest challenges of science is to understand the current accelerated expansion of the Universe. In this work, we show that by considering the quantum nature of the gravitational field, its wavelength can be associated with an effective Compton mass. We propose that this mass can be interpreted as dark energy, with a Compton wavelength given by the size of the observable Universe, implying that the dark energy varies depending on this size. If we do so, we find that: 1.- Even without any free constant for dark energy, the evolution of the Hubble parameter is exactly the same as for the LCDM model, so we expect this model to have the same predictions as LCDM. 2.- The density rate of the dark energy is $Ω_Λ= 0.69$ which is a very similar value as the one found by the Planck satellite $Ω_Λ= 0.684$. 3.- The dark energy has this value because it corresponds to the actual size of the radius of the Universe, thus the coincidence problem has a very natural explanation. 4.-It is possible to find also a natural explanation to why observations inferred from the local distance ladder find the value $H_0= 73$ km/s/Mpc for the Hubble constant. We show that if we take the variability of the dark energy into account, they should measure $H_0= 67.3$ km/s/Mpc as well. 5.-In this model the inflationary period contains a natural successful graceful exit.
description: Work based on a presentation at the congress IWARA2020
Pete and the Missing Scissors: a primary literature-focused case study that highlights the impact of SARS-CoV-2 on splicing
Creators: name: Kelly-Rajan, Kiran
name: Lane, April
name: Ott, Laura E.
name: Yencha, Caroline
name: Harrington, Meagan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: This case study was designed to help students explore the molecular mechanisms of the spliceosome and how SARS-CoV-2 impacts host cell spliceosomal function while interpreting figures from primary literature (A. K. Banjeree, et al., Cell 183:1325–1339, e1–e10, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2020.10.004). “Pete and the Missing Scissors” was designed and implemented in the spring of 2022 and fall of 2022 in two large-enrollment (150+) introductory molecular biology courses at a large, public research institution. The case study was formatted in alignment with the National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science (NCCSTS) framework, which has been shown to be an effective, student-centered approach to teaching complex biological concepts at the undergraduate level. The case study had four student learning objectives (SLOs) that aligned with Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy and required students to develop an understanding of the molecular mechanisms of splicing and analyze and interpret a figure from primary literature. Both formative and summative assessment questions are included in this activity, with each question mapping to one of the case study SLOs. Summative assessment questions were given in a pre-/post-manner, and a paired t-test was used to evaluate differences between students’ pre- and post-assessment scores. Assessment results demonstrated that students in both courses mastered each of the SLOs of this case study, given the significant increase in post-assessment scores compared to the pre-assessment. These findings indicate that the “Pete and the Missing Scissors” case study is an effective approach to develop students’ understanding of the spliceosome, as well as ability to interpret figures from primary literature.
Revisit of macroscopic dynamics for some non-equilibrium chemical reactions from a Hamiltonian viewpoint
Creators: name: Gao, Yuan
name: Liu, Jian-Guo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Most biochemical reactions in living cells are open systems interacting with environment through chemostats to exchange both energy and materials. At a mesoscopic scale, the number of each species in those biochemical reactions can be modeled by a random time-changed Poisson processes. To characterize macroscopic behaviors in the large volume limit, the law of large numbers in the path space determines a mean-field limit nonlinear reaction rate equation describing the dynamics of the concentration of species, while the WKB expansion for the chemical master equation yields a Hamilton-Jacobi equation (HJE) and the Lagrangian gives the good rate function in the large deviation principle. We decompose a general macroscopic reaction rate equation into a conservative part and a dissipative part in terms of the stationary solution to HJE. This stationary solution is used to determine the energy landscape and thermodynamics for general chemical reactions, which particularly maintains a positive entropy production rate at a non-equilibrium steady state. The associated energy dissipation law is proved together with the passage from the mesoscopic to macroscopic one. Furthermore, we use a reversible Hamiltonian to study a class of non-equilibrium enzyme reactions, which identifies a new concept of balance within the same reaction vector due to flux grouping degeneracy. This macroscopic reversibility, brought by the reversibility of the chemical reaction jumping process, gives an Onsager-type strong gradient flow. The reversible Hamiltonian also yields a time reversal symmetry for the corresponding Lagrangian. Thus a modified time reversed least action path serves as the transition paths with associated path affinities and energy barriers.
description: 52 pages
Geometric Algebras for Euclidean Geometry
Creators: name: Gunn, Charles G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Mathematics (math.GM)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 51FXX

description: The discussion of how to apply geometric algebra to euclidean $n$-space has been clouded by a number of conceptual misunderstandings which we first identify and resolve, based on a thorough review of crucial but largely forgotten themes from $19^{th}$ century mathematics. We then introduce the dual projectivized Clifford algebra $\mathbf{P}(\mathbb{R}^*_{n,0,1})$ (euclidean PGA) as the most promising homogeneous (1-up) candidate for euclidean geometry. We compare euclidean PGA and the popular 2-up model CGA (conformal geometric algebra), restricting attention to flat geometric primitives, and show that on this domain they exhibit the same formal feature set. We thereby establish that euclidean PGA is the smallest structure-preserving euclidean GA. We compare the two algebras in more detail, with respect to a number of practical criteria, including implementation of kinematics and rigid body mechanics. We then extend the comparison to include euclidean sphere primitives. We conclude that euclidean PGA provides a natural transition, both scientifically and pedagogically, between vector space models and the more complex and powerful CGA.
description: 25 pages, 4 figures in Advances in Applied Clifford Algebras, pages 1--24, 2016, online at link.springer.com
Polymer Modeling Reveals Interplay between Physical Properties of Chromosomal DNA and the Size and Distribution of Condensin-Based Chromatin Loops
Creators: name: Forest, M. Gregory
name: Stanton, John Donoghue
name: Kolbin, Daniel
name: Walker, Benjamin L.
name: Adalsteinsson, David
name: Hult, Caitlin
name: Bloom, Kerry
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
Year: 2023

description: Transient DNA loops occur throughout the genome due to thermal fluctuations of DNA and the function of SMC complex proteins such as condensin and cohesin. Transient crosslinking within and between chromosomes and loop extrusion by SMCs have profound effects on high-order chromatin organization and exhibit specificity in cell type, cell cycle stage, and cellular environment. SMC complexes anchor one end to DNA with the other extending some distance and retracting to form a loop. How cells regulate loop sizes and how loops distribute along chromatin are emerging questions. To understand loop size regulation, we employed bead–spring polymer chain models of chromatin and the activity of an SMC complex on chromatin. Our study shows that (1) the stiffness of the chromatin polymer chain, (2) the tensile stiffness of chromatin crosslinking complexes such as condensin, and (3) the strength of the internal or external tethering of chromatin chains cooperatively dictate the loop size distribution and compaction volume of induced chromatin domains. When strong DNA tethers are invoked, loop size distributions are tuned by condensin stiffness. When DNA tethers are released, loop size distributions are tuned by chromatin stiffness. In this three-way interaction, the presence and strength of tethering unexpectedly dictates chromatin conformation within a topological domain.
Testudacarus tripeltatus Walter 1928
Creators: name: Pešić, Vladimir
name: Chatterjee, Tapas
name: Bordoloi, Sabitry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Torrenticolidae
Testudacarus
Testudacarus tripeltatus

description: Testudacarus tripeltatus Walter, 1928
Records from the study area: Punjab—Walter (1928); Prasad (1974).
Habitat: Mountain streams.
Distribution: India, Bhutan (Pešić & Smit 2007b).
description: Published as part of Pešić, Vladimir, Chatterjee, Tapas & Bordoloi, Sabitry, 2010, A checklist of the water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) of India, with new records and description of one new species, pp. 1-54 in Zootaxa 2617 (1) on page 15, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2617.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/197964
'Constraint consistency' at all orders in Cosmological perturbation theory
Creators: name: Nandi, Debottam
name: Shankaranarayanan, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the equivalence of two - order-by-order Einstein's equation and Reduced action - approaches to cosmological perturbation theory at all orders for different models of inflation. We point out a crucial consistency check which we refer to as 'Constraint consistency' that needs to be satisfied. We propose a quick and efficient method to check the consistency for any model including modified gravity models. Our analysis points out an important feature which is crucial for inflationary model building i.e., all `constraint' inconsistent models have higher order Ostrogradsky's instabilities but the reverse is not true. In other words, one can have models with constraint lapse function and shift vector, though it may have Ostrogradsky's instabilities. We also obtain the single variable equation for non-canonical scalar field in the limit of power-law inflation for the second-order perturbed variables.
description: 25 pages
Programming and Reprogramming the Viscoelasticity and Magnetic Response of Magnetoactive Thermoplastic Elastomers
Creators: name: Kostrov S.A.
name: Marshall J.H.
name: Sheiko S.S.
name: Maw M.
name: Kramarenko E.Y.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
Year: 2023

description: We present a novel type of magnetorheological material that allows one to restructure the magnetic particles inside the finished composite, tuning in situ the viscoelasticity and magnetic response of the material in a wide range using temperature and an applied magnetic field. The polymer medium is an A-g-B bottlebrush graft copolymer with side chains of two types: polydimethylsiloxane and polystyrene. At room temperature, the brush-like architecture provides the tissue mimetic softness and strain stiffening of the elastomeric matrix, which is formed through the aggregation of polystyrene side chains into aggregates that play the role of physical cross-links. The aggregates partially dissociate and the matrix softens at elevated temperatures, allowing for the effective rearrangement of magnetic particles by applying a magnetic field in the desired direction. Magnetoactive thermoplastic elastomers (MATEs) based on A-g-B bottlebrush graft copolymers with different amounts of aggregating side chains filled with different amounts of carbonyl iron microparticles were prepared. The in situ restructuring of magnetic particles in MATEs was shown to significantly alter their viscoelasticity and magnetic response. In particular, the induced anisotropy led to an order-of-magnitude enhancement of the magnetorheological properties of the composites.
The Journal of Major General Robert Stearne of the Royal Regiment of Ireland
Creators: name: Saddington, Justin
Publisher: name: British Journal for Military History
Year: 2023

description: This article contains an analysis of Major General Robert Stearne’s journal of his service with the Royal Regiment of Ireland between 1678 and 1717. The article examines the provenance of the manuscript and addresses a major problem regarding its authenticity and relationship to the published accounts written by his regimental comrades. In so doing, it attempts to bring greater clarity to the question of its originality and to the sources that may have been used in its production. It then addresses the place of the journal within the historiography of the period and explores some of the new information that it contains.
description: British Journal for Military History, Vol. 9 No. 2 (2023): Special Issue: The Irish Soldier in the British Army
Monopole excitations of a harmonically trapped one-dimensional Bose gas from the ideal gas to the Tonks-Girardeau regime
Creators: name: Choi, S.
name: Dunjko, V.
name: Zhang, Z. D.
name: Olshanii, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using a time-dependent modified nonlinear Schrödinger equation (m-NLSE) -- where the conventional chemical potential proportional to the density is replaced by the one inferred from Lieb-Liniger's exact solution -- we study frequencies of the collective monopole excitations of a one-dimensional (1D) Bose gas. We find that our method accurately reproduces the results of a recent experimental study [E. Haller et al., Science Vol. 325, 1224 (2009)] in the full spectrum of interaction regimes from the ideal gas, through the mean-field regime, through the mean-field Thomas-Fermi regime, all the way to the Tonks-Giradeau gas. While the former two are accessible by the standard time-dependent NLSE and inaccessible by the time-dependent local density approximation (LDA), the situation reverses in the latter case. However, the m-NLSE treats all these regimes within a single numerical method.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures. To appear in Physical Review Letters
Motivic infinite cyclic covers
Creators: name: Villa, Manuel Gonzalez
name: Libgober, Anatoly
name: Maxim, Laurentiu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 32S55, 14J17, 14J70, 14H30, 32S45

description: We associate with an infinite cyclic cover of a punctured neighborhood of a simple normal crossing divisor on a complex quasi-projective manifold (assuming certain finiteness conditions are satisfied) an element in the Grothendieck ring $K_0({\rm Var}^{\hat μ}_{\mathbb{C}})$, which we call {\it motivic infinite cyclic cover}, and show its birational invariance. Our construction provides a unifying approach for the Denef-Loeser motivic Milnor fibre of a complex hypersurface singularity germ, and the motivic Milnor fiber of a rational function, respectively.
description: published version
Additional file 1 of Why does uptake of family planning services remain sub-optimal among Nigerian women? A systematic review of challenges and implications for policy
Creators: name: Akamike, Ifeyinwa Chizoba
name: Ijeoma Nkem Okedo-Alex
name: Eze, Irene Ifeyinwa
name: Obumneme Benaiah Ezeanosike
name: Chigozie Jesse Uneke
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.
title: Untersuchungen zum Verlauf von Sukzession auf Kahlflächen unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Standortes
Creators: name: Hoffmann, Veit
Publisher: name: Fachhochschule Erfurt
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 630

description: Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit den Standortsveränderungen während einer natürlichen Wiederbewaldung. Dafür werden auf zwei Versuchsflächen insgesamt sieben Teilflächen angelegt. Die Untersuchung findet im Landkreis Saalfeld – Rudolstadt, in den Gemarkungen Altenbeuthen und Lothra statt. Die Teilflächen haben zu unterschiedlichen Zeitpunkten eine vollständige Räumung des Oberstandes erfahren. Die Standorte werden durch Parameter wie Geologie, Klima, Lage und das Anlegen zweier Bodenprofile beschrieben. Nach einer Vegetationsaufnahme nach Braun Blanquet, erfolgt eine qualitative Mittelwertberechnung dieser. Durch die enge räumliche Beziehung der Teilflächen zueinander werden Standortunterschiede im zeitlichen Verlauf und auf engstem Raum ersichtlich. Weiterhin erlaubt die Aufnahme der potentiellen Samenbäume rund um die Teilflächen, die Beurteilung von Qualität und Quantität der Sukzession. Unter Berücksichtigung kleinstandörtlicher Verhältnisse wird eine Einschätzung der Wiederbewaldung auf natürliche Art und Weise möglich. Darauf kann mit waldbaulichen Eingriffen reagiert werden.
Introduction: The Irish Soldier in the British Army, c. 1680-1922
Creators: name: Bowman, Timothy
name: Grayson, Richard S
Publisher: name: British Journal for Military History
Year: 2023

description: The papers in this volume are a selection of those delivered at a conference at the National Army Museum in London in July 2022, held to mark the centenary of the disbandment of the ‘southern’ Irish regiments on the creation of the Irish Free State. This introduction summarizes each paper, situating them in analysis of past historiography on the Irish soldier in the British Army. It argues that while the First World War still looms large in that historiography, researchers are now more often moving beyond it, while also analysing matters such as class, gender and global contexts.
description: British Journal for Military History, Vol. 9 No. 2 (2023): Special Issue: The Irish Soldier in the British Army
Coherent control of electron spin qubits in silicon using a global field
Creators: name: Vahapoglu, E.
name: Slack-Smith, J. P.
name: Leon, R. C. C.
name: Lim, W. H.
name: Hudson, F. E.
name: Day, T.
name: Cifuentes, J. D.
name: Tanttu, T.
name: Yang, C. H.
name: Saraiva, A.
name: Abrosimov, N. V.
name: Pohl, H. -J.
name: Thewalt, M. L. W.
name: Laucht, A.
name: Dzurak, A. S.
name: Pla, J. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Silicon spin qubits promise to leverage the extraordinary progress in silicon nanoelectronic device fabrication over the past half century to deliver large-scale quantum processors. Despite the scalability advantage of using silicon technology, realising a quantum computer with the millions of qubits required to run some of the most demanding quantum algorithms poses several outstanding challenges, including how to control so many qubits simultaneously. Recently, compact 3D microwave dielectric resonators were proposed as a way to deliver the magnetic fields for spin qubit control across an entire quantum chip using only a single microwave source. Although spin resonance of individual electrons in the globally applied microwave field was demonstrated, the spins were controlled incoherently. Here we report coherent Rabi oscillations of single electron spin qubits in a planar SiMOS quantum dot device using a global magnetic field generated off-chip. The observation of coherent qubit control driven by a dielectric resonator establishes a credible pathway to achieving large-scale control in a spin-based quantum computer.
Studie 2021/22 : Maturität von Compliance Management Systemen bei Schweizer Versicherungsgesellschaften
Creators: name: Kiener, Matthias
name: Wipf, Denise
name: Zeier Röschmann, Angela
name: Barth, Sebastian
Publisher: name: Mazars
Year: 2022
Subjects: 332.38: Versicherungen
658.1: Organisation und Finanzen

description: Im September und Oktober 2021 hat Mazars in Zusammenarbeit mit der ZHAW School of Management and Law eine Umfrage betreffend Maturität von Compliance Management Systemen bei Schweizer Versicherungsgesellschaften durchgeführt.
Die vorliegende Studie zeichnet ein positives Bild der Maturität der Compliance Management Systeme auf. Nach Einschätzung der Compliance-Verantwortlichen sind die Versicherer insbesondere in den Bereichen «Verpflichtung» sowie «Prozesse und Instrumente» bereits weit fortgeschritten. Etwas kritischer stufen die Befragten den Reifegrad bezüglich Schulung, Awareness, Interaktion ein. Das grösste Entwicklungspotential besteht in der Entwicklung und Implementierung von Prozessen, Instrumenten und Praktiken, welche eine Leistungsbeurteilung erlauben.
title: 2. Erfurter Tagung : "Schnellwachsende Baumarten – Erntetechniken, –verfahren und Logistik": vom 28.02. - 01.03.2019
Creators: name: Fachhochschule Erfurt. Fakultät Landschaftsarchitektur, Gartenbau Und Forstwirtschaft
Publisher: name: Fachhochschule Erfurt
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 630
subject: 333.7

description: Tagungsband: schnellwachsende Baumarten, vol. 2019, no. 2
Electromagnetic wave propagation in general Kasner-like metrics
Creators: name: Bochner, Brett
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The curved spacetime Maxwell equations are applied to the anisotropically expanding Kasner metrics. Using the application of vector identities we derive 2$^\textrm{nd}$-order differential wave equations for the electromagnetic field components; through this explicit derivation, we find that the 2$^\textrm{nd}$-order wave equations are not uncoupled for the various components (as previously assumed), but that gravitationally-induced coupling between the electric and magnetic field components is generated directly by the anisotropy of the expansion. The lack of such coupling terms in the wave equations from several prior studies may indicate a generally incomplete understanding of the evolution of electromagnetic energy in anisotropic cosmologies. Uncoupling the field components requires the derivation of a 4$^\textrm{th}$-order wave equation, which we obtain for Kasner-like metrics with generalized expansion/contraction rate indices. For the axisymmetric Kasner case, $(p_{1}, p_{2}, p_{3}) = (1,0,0)$, we obtain exact field solutions (for general propagation wavevectors), half of which appear not to have been found before in previous studies. For the other axisymmetric Kasner case, $\{p_{1}, p_{2}, p_{3}\} = \{(-1/3),(2/3),(2/3)\}$, we use numerical methods to demonstrate the explicit violation of the geometric optics approximation at early times, showing the physical phase velocity of the wave to be inhibited towards the initial singularity, with $v \rightarrow 0$ as $t \rightarrow 0$.
description: 32 pages, 1 figure; Further developments of research presented at the 22nd International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation
Additional file 4 of Why does uptake of family planning services remain sub-optimal among Nigerian women? A systematic review of challenges and implications for policy
Creators: name: Akamike, Ifeyinwa Chizoba
name: Ijeoma Nkem Okedo-Alex
name: Eze, Irene Ifeyinwa
name: Obumneme Benaiah Ezeanosike
name: Chigozie Jesse Uneke
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 4.
Open Quantum Rotors: Connecting Correlations and Physical Currents
Creators: name: Puebla, Ricardo
name: Imparato, Alberto
name: Belenchia, Alessio
name: Paternostro, Mauro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a finite one-dimensional chain of quantum rotors interacting with a set of thermal baths at different temperatures. When the interaction between the rotors is made chiral, such a system behaves as an autonomous thermal motor, converting heat currents into non-vanishing rotational ones. Such a dynamical response is strongly pronounced in the range of the Hamiltonian parameters for which the ground state of the system in the thermodynamic limit exhibits a quantum phase transition. Such working points are associated with large quantum coherence and multipartite quantum correlations within the state of the system. This suggests that the optimal operating regime of such quantum autonomous motor is one of maximal quantumness.
description: 9 pages, 9 figures; comments welcome!
title: Cytogenetic Effects of Vitavax Fungicide on Secale cereale on Allium cepa
Creators: name: Staub, Jack Ernest
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1973

description: The effects of Vitavax fungicide (2,3-dihydro-5-carboxanilido-6-methyl-1,4-oxathiin) on meiotic chromosomes of rye (Secale cereale) and mitotic chromosomes of onion (Allium cepa) and rye were observed.
The principal aberrations recorded in pollen mother cells of rye were: 1-4 univalents at metaphase I; sticky bridges at telophase I; and micronuclei and misshapen nuclei at the quartet stage.
The principal aberrations recorded in root tip mitoses in onion and rye were: chromosome fragmentation, disintegration, clumping, aggregation and inhibition of mitosis.
All meiotic phases were significantly affected by 1,000, 5,000,10,000, 33,300, 66,600 ppm Vitavax at the 48, 72, and 96 hour application periods. Heavy application rates (10,000 ppm or more, 96 hours) induced disintegration of pollen mother cells. Spikes grown from seeds treated at recommended field rate (33,300 ppm) and double the field rate (66,600 ppm) showed no significant deviation in chromosomal behavior from controls.
Mitotic cells of onion and rye showed aggregation of chromosomes and inhibition of mitosis at 12 hours, 10,000 ppm, while clumping, fragmentation and disintegration occurred in onion at 48 hours, 66,600 ppm.
Paraffin sections of root tip meristems treated for 48 hours with 10,000 ppm Vitavax disclosed irregularly shaped nuclei and mitoticinhibition in onion and marked splitting of tissues and cell collapse in primary meristems of rye.
Beyond method: The diatribe between Feyerabend and Popper over the foundations of quantum mechanics
Creators: name: Del Santo, Flavio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Karl Popper and Paul Feyerabend have been among the most influential philosophers of science of the twentieth century. Extensive studies have been dedicated to the development of their controversial relationship, which saw Feyerabend turning from a student and supporter of Popper to one of his harshest critics. Yet, it is not as well known that the rift between Popper and Feyerabend generated mainly in the context of their studies on the foundation of quantum mechanics, which has been the main subject of their discussions for about two decades. This paper reconstructs in detail their diatribe over the foundations of quantum mechanics, emphasizing also the major role that their personal relationship played in their distancing.
description: Invited contribution to "Feyerabend and the Philosophy of Physics", Special Issue of International Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Comments are welcome
Vanishing ideals over finite fields
Creators: name: Tochimani, Azucena
name: Villarreal, Rafael H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 13P25, 14G50, 14G15, 11T71, 94B27, 94B05

description: Let $\mathbb{F}_q$ be a finite field, let $\mathbb{X}$ be a subset of a projective space ${\mathbb P}^{s-1}$, over the field $\mathbb{F}_q$, parameterized by rational functions, and let $I(\mathbb{X})$ be the vanishing ideal of $\mathbb{X}$. The main result of this paper is a formula for $I(\mathbb{X})$ that will allows us to compute: (i) the algebraic invariants of $I(\mathbb{X})$, and (ii) the basic parameters of the corresponding Reed-Muller-type code.
Algebraic Procedures in Integral Calculus and Ordinary Differential Equations
Creators: name: Barot, Tomas
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 80205 Numerical Computation
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In a preparation of future teachers at faculties of education, courses based on the mathematical theory can have a different form, which depends on a particular study program. An interesting situation can occur in case of education of foreign students. These students can have different experiences in a mathematical field of study. Although a mathematical education of foreign students can include individual approaches to students, an improving of educational schemes is a necessary trend. Especially in case of courses based on advanced parts of mathematics, modified approaches to education are required. In this paper, a proposal of using algebraic procedures is presented in favor of course of mathematical analysis. Finding roots and solving set of linear equations can be implemented using software Octave and then teacher can focus on an explanation of more difficult parts of mathematical analysis e.g. in integral calculus or in ordinary differential equations.