cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 1 of Ten-year longitudinal molecular epidemiology study of Escherichia coli and Klebsiella species bloodstream infections in Oxfordshire, UK
Creators: name: Lipworth, Samuel
name: Vihta, Karina-Doris
name: Chau, Kevin
name: Barker, Leanne
name: George, Sophie
name: Kavanagh, James
name: Davies, Timothy
name: Vaughan, Alison
name: Andersson, Monique
name: Jeffery, Katie
name: Oakley, Sarah
name: Morgan, Marcus
name: Hopkins, Susan
name: Peto, Timothy E. A.
name: Crook, Derrick W.
name: Walker, Ann Sarah
name: Stoesser, Nicole
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Fig S1. Gene presence/absence heatmap showing AMR gene presence/absence against the core genome phylogeny for E. coli. Fig S2: Time-scaled phylogenies for ST131, ST95, ST73 and ST69. Fig S3: Possible transmission within nursing homes. Fig S4: Gene presence/absence heatmap showing AMR gene presence/absence against the core genome phylogeny for Klebsiella spp. Fig S5: Manhattan plots of a pangenome wide association study of the association of genes with community/healthcare associated onset. Fig S6: Proportions of presumed infectious foci for CA and HA BSI. Fig S7: Timescaled phylogeny of Klebsiella pneumoniae ST490 with a heatmap of AMR genes. Fig S8: Phylogenetic tree of Klebsiella spp annotated with species and virulence score. Fig S9: top panel - plasmid types in the PlasmidFinder database identified in the major/other E. coli/Klebsiella spp., bottom left - plot showing kmer based plasmidome similarity (y-axis) against chromosome similarity (x-axis) for isolates of the same MLST. Fig S10: DAPC plots for Klebsiella spp. Fig S11: Networks of genes/plasmids/insertion sequences commonly co-occurring in E. coli. Fig S12: Networks of genes commonly co-occuring in Klebsiella spp. Table S1: Incidence rate ratios for sub-lineage of major STs identified by fastbaps. Table S2: SNP ratios (median within/between region) and (median HA/all) were calculated for each ST. Table S3: Evolutionary distinctiveness (ED) scores for community-associated (CA) and healthcare-associated (HA) isolates amongst major E. coli STs. Table S4: Top hits from a pangenome-wide association study (PGWAS) performed using Pyseer [50] of the assocation of gene presence/absence with pysician identified BSI source.
Competing Nematic, Anti-ferromagnetic and Spin-flux orders in the Ground State of Bilayer Graphene
Creators: name: Lemonik, Y.
name: Aleiner, I. L.
name: Fal'ko, V. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the phase diagram of the Bilayer graphene (BLG) at zero temperature and doping. Assuming that at the high energies the electronic system of BLG can be described within a weak coupling theory (consistent with the experimental evidence), we systematically study the evolution of the couplings with going from high to low energies. The divergences of the couplings at some energies indicates the tendency towards certain symmetry breakings. Carrying out this program, we found that the phase diagram is determined by microscopic couplings defined on the short distances (initial conditions). We explored all plausible space of these initial conditions and found that the three states have the largest phase volume of the initial couplings: nematic, antiferromagnetic and spin flux (a.k.a quantum spin Hall). In addition, ferroelectric and two superconducting phases and appear only near the very limits of the applicability of the weak coupling approach. The paper also contains the derivation and analysis of the renormalization group equations and the group theory classification of all the possible phases which might arise from the symmetry breakings of the lattice, spin rotation, and gauge symmetries of graphene.
description: 19 pages, 16 figures
Coupling, matching, and equivariance
Creators: name: Soo, Terry
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: This thesis consists of four research papers and one expository note that study factors of point processes in the contexts of thinning and matching. In "Poisson Splitting by Factors," we prove that given a Poisson point process on Rd with intensity λ, as a deterministic function of the process, we can colour the points red and blue, so that each colour class forms a Poisson point process on Rd, with any given pair of intensities summing λ; furthermore, the function can be chosen as an isometry-equivariant finitary factor (that is, if an isometry is applied to the points of the original process the points are still coloured the same way). Thus using only local information, without a central authority or additional randomization, points of a Poisson process can split into two groups, each of which are still Poisson. In "Deterministic Thinning of Finite Poisson Processes," we investigate similar questions for Poisson point processes on a finite volume. In this setting we find that even without considerations of equivariance, thinning can not always be achieved as a deterministic function of the Poisson process and the existence of such a function depends on the intensities of the original and resulting Poisson process. In "Insertion and Deletion Tolerance of Point Processes," we define for point processes a version of the concept of finite-energy. This simple concept has many interesting consequences. We explore the consequences of having finite-energy in the contexts of the Boolean continuum percolation model, Palm theory and stable matchings of point processes. In "Translation-Equivariant Matchings of Coin-Flips on Zd," as a factor of i.i.d. fair coin-flips on Zd, we construct perfect matchings of heads and tails and prove power law upper bounds on the expected distance between matched pairs. In the expository note "A Nonmeasurable Set from Coin-Flips," using the notion of an equivariant function, we give an example of a nonmeasurable set in the probability space for an infinite sequence of coin-flips.
Polynomial functions for direct calculation of the surface free energy developed from the Neumann Equation of State method
Creators: name: Schuster, Jonathan M.
name: Schvezov, Carlos E.
name: Rosenberger, Mario R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Neumann Equation of State (EQS) allows obtaining the value of the surface free energy of a solid $γ_{SV}$ from the contact angle $(θ)$ of a probe liquid with known surface tension $γ_{LV}$. The value of $γ_{SV}$ is obtained by numerical methods solving the corresponding EQS. In this work, we analyzed the discrepancies between the values of $γ_{SV}$ obtained using the three versions of the EQS reported in the literature. The condition number of the different EQS was used to analyze their sensitivity to the uncertainty in the $θ$ values. Polynomials fit to one of these versions of EQS are proposed to obtain values of $γ_{SV}$ directly from contact angles $(γ_{SV} (θ))$ of particular probe liquids. Finally, a general adjusted polynomial is presented to obtain the values of $γ_{SV}$ not restricted to a particular probe liquid $(γ_{SV}(θ,γ_{LV}))$. Results showed that the three versions of EQS present non-negligible discrepancies, especially at high values of $θ$. The sensitivity of the EQS to the uncertainty in the values of $θ$ is very similar in the three versions and depends on the probe liquid used (greater sensitivity at higher $γ_{LV})$ and on the value of $γ_{SV}$ of the solid (greater sensitivity at lower $γ_{SV})$. The discrepancy of the values obtained by numerical resolution of both the fifth-order fit polynomials and the general fit polynomial was low, no larger than ${\pm}0.40\,mJ/m^{2}$. The polynomials obtained allow the analysis and propagation of the uncertainty of the input variables in the determination of $γ_{SV}$ in a simple and fast way.
description: 37 pages, 13 figures
Performance Measurement Using IRI and Collision Rates in the Province of Alberta
Creators: name: Sharif Tehrani, Saleh
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Civil
subject: Road safety
subject: Collisions
subject: Road roughness
subject: Pavement management systems
subject: Rutting

description: The major objective of every highway agency in Canada is to provide a safe and reliable road network. Road safety is commonly evaluated by number of collisions while different performance measures are employed for evaluating the reliability and performance of roads. The International Roughness Index (IRI) is a widely used performance measure in Canada and Internationally. It is calculated from direct profile measurement of the pavement wheel paths and translated into metres per kilometre. In 1999, the Province of Alberta tied its performance publicly to a rolling three year target IRI that was tabled on the floor of the legislature. Subsequent annual business plans refer to the IRI and rehabilitation programs are developed on the basis of threshold values of IRI that are defined as good (<1.5), fair (1.5-1.9) or poor (>1.9). In this study, the definition of `good' (equal to IRI<1.5 in the Province of Alberta) is tested against the public’s perception using a survey tool. At selected sites in the Province, the driving public was asked about their opinion about the condition of the highway. Over 300 surveys were collected and the correlation between public perception and IRI was drawn using t-test and Psychometric Scaling Analysis. According to the results, Alberta Transportation threshold values of IRI do not match the road users' opinion and a new set of threshold values were suggested. The other part of this study evaluates the relationship between the number of collisions and IRI to estimate any measurable relationship between these two measures. The relationship between IRI and number of collisions is evaluated to see if number of collisions increases/decreases as a function of IRI, while all other characteristics of roads and traffic remains unchanged. Therefore, this study tried to fundamentally investigate and demonstrate a methodology that can consistently, objectively and robustly link IRI to road safety and work towards the development of a decision support tool for estimating the potential safety issues on the road network. The result showed that IRI can be used as a surrogate for safety and the number of collisions increase when the IRI value of the road increases.
Fission half-lives of super-heavy nuclei in a microscopic approach
Creators: name: Warda, M.
name: Egido, J. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A systematic study of 160 heavy and super-heavy nuclei is performed in the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov approach with the finite range and density dependent Gogny force with the D1S parameter set. We show calculations in several approximations: with axially symmetric and reflexion symmetric wave functions, with axially symmetric and non-reflexion symmetric wave functions and finally some representative examples with triaxial wave functions are also discussed. Relevant properties of the ground state and along the fission path are thoroughly analyzed. Fission barriers, Q$_α$-factors and lifetimes with respect to fission and $α$-decay as well as other observables are discussed. Larger configuration spaces and more general HFB wave functions as compared to previous studies provide a very good agreement with the experimental data.
description: 26 pages, 15 figures
Updated values of running quark and lepton masses at GUT scale in SM, 2HDM and MSSM
Creators: name: Bora, Kalpana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Updated values of running quark and lepton masses at GUT (Grand unified theories) scales are important for fermion mass model building, and to calculate neutrino masses, in GUTs . We present their values at GUT scales, in SM, MSSM and 2HDM theories, using the latest values of running quark and lepton masses.
description: 6 pages, 6 tables
Empirical analysis of the reliability of a bus route with several time points
Creators: name: Sun, Liming
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Civil
subject: Reliability
subject: On-time performance
subject: Running time adherence
subject: Headway adherence

description: Many factors were used to build a bus reliability measurement framework to optimize the operation of a bus route. It was found that, at the time point level, the amount of the slack time inserted into the route is always the key method in recovering reliability. The number and locations of the time points also play a significant role in impacting bus service reliability. Several surveys, including ride check and point check surveys, were conducted in the summer of 2012 to collect data. Distribution fitting was utilized in this research to determine the regularity of bus running time. Linear regression then was used to show the importance of each factor in affecting bus running time. As with the results of previous research studies, bus running time was critically influenced by link lengths, and signal intersections and bus dwell times at stops. Dwell times also proved to be significantly impacted by passenger activities, i.e. boarding and alighting. Reliability, as set by running time, was employed to analyze the optimal design of routes with different conditions. It was shown that travel speed is definitely the key factor in running time and is significantly affected by traffic conditions; and, scheduled running time influence different bus travel speeds. Therefore, determination of the scheduled running time is a trade-off between operator and customer costs, which is always the major goal of the transit planner. In route design, the number and locations of bus stops, particularly time points, critically relate to the reliability of a route.
Superconductivity studied by solving ab initio low-energy effective Hamiltonians for carrier doped CaCuO$_2$, Bi$_2$Sr$_2$CuO$_6$, Bi$_2$Sr$_2$CaCu$_2$O$_8$, and HgBa$_2$CuO$_4$
Creators: name: Schmid, Michael Thobias
name: Morée, Jean-Baptiste
name: Kaneko, Ryui
name: Yamaji, Youhei
name: Imada, Masatoshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We numerically analyze superconductivity (SC) in the cuprate superconductors by using ab initio effective Hamiltonians consisting of the antibonding combination of Cu $3d_{x^2-y^2}$ and O $2p_σ$ orbitals. We perform variational Monte Carlo calculations for the four carrier doped cuprates with diverse experimental optimal SC critical temperature $T_{c}^{\rm opt}$: CaCuO$_2$ ($T_{c}^{\rm opt} \sim 110$ K), Bi$_2$Sr$_2$CuO$_6$ ($T_{c}^{\rm opt} \sim 10$-$40$ K), Bi$_2$Sr$_2$CaCu$_2$O$_8$ ($T_{c}^{\rm opt} \sim 85$-$100$ K), and HgBa$_2$CuO$_4$ ($T_{c}^{\rm opt} \sim 90$ K). Materials and hole doping concentration ($δ$) dependencies of the SC order parameter $F_{\rm SC}$ and the competition with spin/charge order show essential and quantitative agreements with the available experiments in the following points: (1) The ground state is commonly the SC state, which is severely competing with the charge/spin stripe and antiferromagnetic states. (2) $F_{\rm SC}$ shows amplitude consistent with the superfluid density measured in the muon spin resonance and its dome structure found in $δ$ dependence shows consistency with that of the SC gap in the tunneling and photoemission measurements. We further find insights into the universal SC mechanism: (I) $F_{\rm SC}$ increases with the ratio $U/|t_1|$, indicating that $U/|t_1|$ is the principal component controlling the SC. Here, $U$ and $t_1$ are the onsite Coulomb repulsion and the nearest neighbor hopping, respectively, in the Hamiltonians. (II) A universal scaling $T_{c}^{\rm opt}\sim 0.16 \lvert t_1 \rvert F_{\rm SC}$ holds. (III) SC is enhanced and optimized if $U$ is increased beyond the real available materials. It is further enhanced by decreasing the offsite interaction. The present findings provide useful clues for the design of new SC materials with even higher $T_{c}^{\rm opt}$.
description: 27 pages, 30 figures
Failure to Reproduce: Assisted Reproductive Technology Policy in Canada
Creators: name: Snow, Dave
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Public Administration
subject: Public Health
subject: Canadian Politics
subject: assisted reproductive technologies
subject: Supreme Court of Canada
subject: constitutional law
subject: Institutionalism

description: Comparative political science concerning assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) has faced two problems: first, it has not adequately defined the field; second, it has focused almost exclusively on policy produced by national governments. This dissertation uses Canada as a case study to demonstrate how a new six-part typology for ART policy, coupled with a focus on multiple policymakers, can produce greater clarity. It uses historical institutionalism to trace Canadian policy, and finds that the 1993 Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies – a “critical juncture” – engaged in constitutionally unstable framing strategies that shaped policy for decades to come. The Commission framed certain practices and technologies by combining a pro-technology “medical-scientific” discourse with a “national” discourse to justify federal government intervention. These framing strategies were recreated in path-dependent ways leading up to the 2004 Assisted Human Reproduction Act. However, framing the positive aspects of ART policy from a primarily “medical-scientific” perspective deprived the federal government of much of the constitutional ammunition that would permit a “national” response. This constitutionally risky strategy was confirmed in 2010 when a majority of Supreme Court justices struck down much of the Assisted Human Reproduction Act for violating provincial jurisdiction. In the face of this sub-optimal policy outcome, provincial governments, courts, and medical organizations have engaged in considerable policymaking concerning surrogacy, parentage, and assisted conception policy. While much of Canadian ART policy constitutes a “patchwork” of prohibitions, regulations, common law rulings, and clinical guidelines, it is a mistake to call it “unregulated.” The Canadian case study provides several conclusions for comparative scholars. First, combining the six-part typology with a focus on multiple policymakers can better explain ART policy variation within and across regimes. Second, policy framing strategies must take into account existing institutional structures; how actors frame jurisdictional responsibilities can matter as much as how they frame policy content. Finally, scholars should pay more attention to how ideas become (or do not become) institutionalized. While policy framing can create ideational path dependence, the actual transfer from ideas to institutions often requires more than legislation.
The Challenges Of Scientific Computing
Creators: name: Di Meglio, Alberto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: CERN
openlab
LHC
WLCG

description: This presentation describes a number of computing and data challenges experienced as part of the LHC and WLCG programs. It shows how these challenges are evolving also as part the CERN openlab partners' programs to follow the growing LHC requirements and discusses the importance of global collaborations and new service provisioning models in scientific research.
Additional file 1 of Dynamic reciprocal relationships between cognitive and functional declines along the Alzheimer’s disease continuum in the prospective COGICARE study
Creators: name: Carles, Sophie
name: Taddé, Bachirou O.
name: Berr, Claudine
name: Helmer, Catherine
name: Jacqmin-Gadda, Hélène
name: Carrière, Isabelle
name: Proust-Lima, Cécile
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1.
Visual-Policy Learning through Multi-Camera View to Single-Camera View Knowledge Distillation for Robot Manipulation Tasks
Creators: name: Acar, Cihan
name: Binici, Kuluhan
name: Tekirdağ, Alp
name: Wu, Yan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The use of multi-camera views simultaneously has been shown to improve the generalization capabilities and performance of visual policies. However, the hardware cost and design constraints in real-world scenarios can potentially make it challenging to use multiple cameras. In this study, we present a novel approach to enhance the generalization performance of vision-based Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms for robotic manipulation tasks. Our proposed method involves utilizing a technique known as knowledge distillation, in which a pre-trained ``teacher'' policy trained with multiple camera viewpoints guides a ``student'' policy in learning from a single camera viewpoint. To enhance the student policy's robustness against camera location perturbations, it is trained using data augmentation and extreme viewpoint changes. As a result, the student policy learns robust visual features that allow it to locate the object of interest accurately and consistently, regardless of the camera viewpoint. The efficacy and efficiency of the proposed method were evaluated both in simulation and real-world environments. The results demonstrate that the single-view visual student policy can successfully learn to grasp and lift a challenging object, which was not possible with a single-view policy alone. Furthermore, the student policy demonstrates zero-shot transfer capability, where it can successfully grasp and lift objects in real-world scenarios for unseen visual configurations.
description: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
Concept Learning Supported Semantic Search Using Multi-Agent System Based on Social Networks
Creators: name: El_sherif, Shimaa Mansour Moailak
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence
subject: Computer Science
subject: Engineering--Electronics and Electrical
subject: Multi-Agent System
subject: Social networks
subject: Concept Learning

description: In this research, we propose an agent-based semantic search system supported by ontological concept learning and contents annotation. Our system consists of a group of multi-agent systems (MASs), each controlling a repository of structured and unstructured documents. Each repository has its own concept hierarchy, i.e. ontology. . Each MAS consists of a group of agents, each with its own responsibilities and an assigned tasks to perform. All agents in each MAS cooperate with each other to perform more general tasks. Agents of different MASs communicate with each other by developing a common understanding of concepts used during communication. Agents communicate with each other via a social network. Strengths of ties between agents in the social network represent how close/far two agents are to each other. In our system, there are two major modules: a semantic search module and a concept learning module. In the semantic search module, MASs cooperate with each other to perform semantic search and return results back to the user. The second major module in our system is the concept learning module. During the semantic search process, a MAS may discover that it needs to learn new concepts. The Concept Learning module helps that MAS to learn the new concepts from other MASs. A social network is used in communication between agents from different MASs. In this research, we define two case studies to test the system. These case studies evaluate the efficiency of using social networks in representing relationships between agents in different MASs in learning new concepts from several teachers. We also introduce a novel approach of calculating tie strengths in social networks using Hidden Markov Model (HMM). The results obtained show that using social networks in communicating between agents in different MASs has a positive effect in our system. During leaning new concepts, using social networks between the learner and the teachers gives betters accuracies in all concepts learnt and with different machine learning techniques used. On the other hand, using social networks decrease the negative effect of increasing number of teachers in the concept learning process.
Mechanistic investigations of molecular water oxidation catalysis
Creators: name: Wasylenko, Derek
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Chemistry--Inorganic
subject: mechanism
subject: Kinetics
subject: Electrochemistry
subject: water oxidation

description: The overarching goal of the studies presented herein was to investigate the mechanisms of catalytic homogeneous water oxidation in order to develop more active and robust catalysts. In Chapter 2, a series of polypyridyl Ru complexes related to [RuII(tpy)(bpy)(OH2)]2+ were synthesized and characterized. The complexes were investigated for catalytic water oxidation capabilities when driven by the sacrificial, one-electron oxidant, (NH¬4)2[CeIV(NO3)6]. Chemical modification of the bidentate ligand that resides trans to the active Ru-O vector has the most pronounced effects on catalytic performance in terms of catalytic turnovers and rates. Decomposition pathways were also identified. Chapter 3 provides spectroscopic, electrochemical and kinetic investigations of complexes related to [RuII(tpy)(bpy)(OH2)]2+, and expose the role that electronic modification of the ligand framework has on the kinetics of the catalytic water oxidation mechanism. Experiments using in situ electrospray-ionization mass spectrometry provided structural verification of proposed catalytic intermediates. Additional experiments suggested an unprecedented O-O bond formation pathway involving a Ce species. The effects of reaction medium on the Ce(IV) oxidant, and the catalytic mechanism were investigated in Chapter 4. It was found that the Ce(IV) reduction potential is only mildly perturbed by the nature of the acid anion (e.g. HNO3, HClO4, CF3SO3H and H2SO4), and that certain conditions promote the spontaneous decomposition of Ce(IV). The basicity of NO3- relative to the other acids anions facilitates certain reaction steps, however, at the cost of undesired sources of O-atoms. Chapter 5 discusses the development of [CoII(PY5)(OH2)]2+ as a possible water oxidation electrocatalyst. Unprecedented and well-defined proton-coupled electron transfer chemistry conceivably enables access to a high-valent and catalytically active [CoIV-OH]3+ species that undergoes O-O bond formation with OH-. Detection of dioxygen using electrolytic methods confirmed catalysis, and thus established [CoII(PY5)(OH2)]2+ as the first single-site Co water oxidation electrocatalyst. Kinetic and mechanistic investigations using cyclic voltammetry provided insights into the proposed catalytic mechanism. Issues associated with potential decomposition of [CoII(PY5)(OH2)]2+ into catalytically active Co-oxides were investigated and suggest the possibility of genuine molecular origins to catalysis, but with significant encumbrances brought on by potential decomposition species.
Current status of the T2K experiment
Creators: name: Oyama, Yuichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The T2K long-baseline neutrino-oscillationexperiment was started in January 2010 for the purpose of physics data-taking. Until the massive earthquake on March 11, 2011 in Japan, $1.43\times 10^{20}$ pot data were accumulated. In this data, 6 possible $ν_{e}$ appearance candidates are found forexpected background of 1.5$\pm$0.3(syst.)if $\sin^{2}2θ_{13}=0$ is assumed.The probability that 6 or more events can be observed for1.5$\pm$0.3 expected events is 7$\times10^{-3}$,equivalent to 2.5$σ$ significance. This is the first indication of a $ν_{e}$ appearance or, in other words, the first indication of a non-zero $\sin^{2}2θ_{13}$.
description: Talk at "2nd International Conference on Particle Physics (ICPP-Istanbul II)",Istanbul, Turkey, June 20-25, 2011. 10 pages, 10 figures
Parametric Surface Constrained Upsampler Network for Point Cloud
Creators: name: Cai, Pingping
name: Wu, Zhenyao
name: Wu, Xinyi
name: Wang, Song
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Designing a point cloud upsampler, which aims to generate a clean and dense point cloud given a sparse point representation, is a fundamental and challenging problem in computer vision. A line of attempts achieves this goal by establishing a point-to-point mapping function via deep neural networks. However, these approaches are prone to produce outlier points due to the lack of explicit surface-level constraints. To solve this problem, we introduce a novel surface regularizer into the upsampler network by forcing the neural network to learn the underlying parametric surface represented by bicubic functions and rotation functions, where the new generated points are then constrained on the underlying surface. These designs are integrated into two different networks for two tasks that take advantages of upsampling layers - point cloud upsampling and point cloud completion for evaluation. The state-of-the-art experimental results on both tasks demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method. The code is available at https://github.com/corecai163/PSCU.
description: Update Supplementary Files
Properties of 2D anyon gas
Creators: name: Lundholm, Douglas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An overview is given of the 2D many-anyon gas, including its definition (both for ideal and certain less-than-ideal particles, as well as for abelian and nonabelian braid group representations), its corresponding known properties starting out from the intricate relationship between exchange and exclusion, as well as its emergence from bosons and/or fermions in 3D.
description: Invited contribution to the Encyclopedia of Condensed Matter Physics, 2nd edition. Revised bibliography & minor corrections. 31 pages, 14 figures
Optimization Over the Boolean Hypercube Via Sums of Nonnegative Circuit Polynomials
Creators: name: Dressler, Mareike
name: Kurpisz, Adam Andrzej
name: De Wolff, Timo
Publisher: name: Springer
Year: 2021
Subjects: Certificate
Hypercube optimization
Nonnegativity
Sum of nonnegative circuit polynomials
Sum of squares Mathematics Subject Classification 14P10
68Q25
90C09

description: Various key problems from theoretical computer science can be expressed as polynomial optimization problems over the boolean hypercube. One particularly successful way to prove complexity bounds for these types of problems is based on sums of squares (SOS) as nonnegativity certificates. In this article, we initiate optimization problems over the boolean hypercube via a recent, alternative certificate called sums of nonnegative circuit polynomials (SONC). We show that key results for SOS-based certificates remain valid: First, for polynomials, which are nonnegative over the n-variate boolean hypercube with constraints of degree d there exists a SONC certificate of degree at most n + d. Second, if there exists a degree d SONC certificate for nonnegativity of a polynomial over the boolean hypercube, then there also exists a short degree d SONC certificate that includes at most n O(d) nonnegative circuit polynomials. Moreover, we prove that, in opposite to SOS, the SONC cone is not closed under taking affine transformation of variables and that for SONC there does not exist an equivalent to Putinar’s Positivstellensatz for SOS. We discuss these results from both the algebraic and the optimization perspective.
Additional file 1 of 2021 recommendations of the Brazilian Society of Rheumatology for the gynecological and obstetric care of patients with Sjogren’s syndrome
Creators: name: Oliveira, Fabiola Reis
name: Valim, Valeria
name: Pasoto, Sandra Gofinet
name: Fernandes, Marilena Leal Mesquita Silvestre
name: Lopes, Maria Lucia Lemos
name: de Magalhães Souza Fialho, Sonia Cristina
name: Pinheiro, Aysa César
name: dos Santos, Laura Caldas
name: Appenzeller, Simone
name: Fidelix, Tania
name: Ribeiro, Sandra Lucia Euzébio
name: de Brito, Danielle Christinne Soares Egypto
name: Libório, Tatiana
name: Santos, Maria Carmen Lopes Ferreira Silva
name: Tanure, Leandro
name: Gennari, Juliana DAgostino
name: Civile, Vinicius Tassoni
name: Pinto, Ana Carolina Pereira Nunes
name: Rocha-Filho, César Ramos
name: Miyamoto, Samira Tatiyama
name: Guedes, Lissiane Karine Noronha
name: Pugliesi, Alisson
name: Trevisani, Virginia Fernandes Moça
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Additional file 1. Table 1: Gynecological symptoms in Sjogren´s syndrome patients. Table 2: Gestational outcomes in patients with Sjogren's syndrome or rheumatic diseases with reactive anti-SSA / Ro antibodies.
Understanding and Preventing Ni Oxidation in Ni-YSZ Anode-Supported SOFCs
Creators: name: Young, Jason Lee
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Chemistry--Physical
subject: Ni Oxidation
subject: Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC)
subject: Reverse Bias
subject: Redox Cycling
subject: Anode-Supported
subject: Electrolyte Cracking

description: Ni-yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) anode-supported cell architectures are the current state-of-the-art in solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs), but their lifetime is too short due to sulphur (S) poisoning, coking and deleterious Ni oxidation. The aim of this work was to understand the mechanisms by which Ni oxidation (‘redox cycling’) damages the cell and develop solutions to this problem. It was shown that degradation due to air exposure increases as the temperature was increased from 600 to 900˚C and as pO2 was decreased. The severity of degradation was correlated to the steepness of the NiO gradient in the anode layer. It was also shown that when oxidation is homogeneous in the anode, some NiO particles were pushed out of the air-anode interface. A pre-oxidation cycle, aimed at intentionally forcing NiO out onto the surface, increased the oxidation tolerance at 600˚C from 74% to 80%, but the tolerance at 800˚C was not changed by the process, although the severity of the electrolyte degradation was lowered. Raman spectroscopy was used to quantitatively map the NiO gradient across partially oxidized anodes. It is shown that this technique can quickly and accurately map the NiO distribution through the thickness of a Ni-YSZ anode layer and even showed 20% NiO content in regions of the anode that were not expected to contain any NiO. A reverse bias (a negative bias applied to the Ni-YSZ anode) technique was also used during air exposure to attempt to prevent Ni oxidation. Ex situ microscopy showed that Ni adjacent to the electrolyte is protected preferentially. A new technique, in operando TGA, that allows electrochemical evaluation while concurrently monitoring cell mass was developed. It was shown that the application of > -1.5 V or > -13 mA∙cm-2 to a Ni-YSZ electrode during air exposure (800˚C) can prevent a large fraction of Ni oxidation. It was also demonstrated with in operando TGA that S-define could be removed by an air exposure with a reverse bias applied, although it may be necessary to oxidize the Ni surface in the region of the electrolyte to fully remove the S.
Room Temperature Magnetoelectric Effects on Single Slabs of Z-type Hexaferrites
Creators: name: Ebnabbasi, Khabat
name: Chen, Yajie
name: Geiler, Anton
name: Harris, Vincent
name: Vittoria, Carmine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, magnetoelectric effects of Sr Z-type hexaferrite, Sr3Fe24Co2O41, at room temperature is measured. The change in remanence magnetization was measured by applying a DC voltage or electric field across a slab of hexaferrite. Changes of ~ 18% in remanence was observed in an electric field of 10,000V/cm implying a similar change in the microwave permeability at frequencies below 3GHz. In these types of measurements high resistivity is critical in order to reduce current flow in the hexaferrite. The resistivity of the hexaferrite was raised to 4.28x10^8 ohm?-cm by annealing under oxygen pressure. The measurements indicate that indeed electric polarization and magnetization changes were induced by the application of magnetic and electric fields, respectively. The implications for microwave applications appear to be very promising at room temperature.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Female Partner Preferences in Colobus vellerosus
Creators: name: Potvin-Rosselet, Edith
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Female
subject: Affiliation
subject: Reproductive status
subject: Kinship
subject: Colobus vellerosus

description: Social relationships directly influence female fitness in primates. While females benefit from affiliating with other females and males, social constraints on females can lead to unequal distribution of affiliative behaviours. In Colobus vellerosus, where females are facultative dispersers and where infanticide pressure is high, do females prefer to affiliate with females or with the resident male? I identified females’ social partners and investigated the influence of maternal relatedness and reproductive status on the rates of affiliation between females and their partners. The majority of females distributed affiliative behaviours towards one female top partner. The reproductive status of females consistently influenced the rates of affiliative interactions between females and their top partners whereas relatedness did not. Lactating females received grooming at higher rates. As relatedness was not a strong predictor of the strength of affiliative relationships between females, I suggest that natal attraction mainly influences partner preferences in this population.
Additional file 1 of Molecular detection of Strongyloides sp. in Australian Thoroughbred foals
Creators: name: Abbas, Ghazanfar
name: Ghafar, Abdul
name: Koehler, Anson V.
name: Bauquier, Jenni
name: Wilkes, Edwina J. A.
name: Jacobson, Caroline
name: Beasley, Anne
name: Hurley, John
name: Cudmore, Lucy
name: Carrigan, Peter
name: Tennent-Brown, Brett
name: El-Hage, Charles
name: Nielsen, Martin K.
name: Gauci, Charles G.
name: Hughes, Kristopher J.
name: Beveridge, Ian
name: Jabbar, Abdul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Alignment of the small subunit nuclear ribosomal DNA (18S) sequence of Strongyloides sp. determined herein (bold) and the selected reference sequences. A dot indicates an identical nucleotide with respect to the sequence of Strongyloides sp.; a dash indicates an insertion/deletion (indel) event.
SuSeFLAV: A program for calculating supersymmetric spectra and lepton flavor violation
Creators: name: Chowdhury, Debtosh
name: Garani, Raghuveer
name: Vempati, Sudhir K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce the program SuSeFLAV for computing supersymmetric mass spectra with flavor violation in various supersymmetric breaking scenarios with/without seesaw mechanism. A short user guide summarizing the compilation, executables and the input files is provided.
description: 3 pages, latex, pramana style, proceedings for Lepton Photon 2011
Neutrino production coherence and oscillation experiments
Creators: name: Akhmedov, E. Kh.
name: Hernandez, D.
name: Smirnov, A. Yu.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Neutrino oscillations are only observable when the neutrino production, propagation and detection coherence conditions are satisfied. In this paper we consider in detail neutrino production coherence, taking π\to μν\ decay as an example. We compare the oscillation probabilities obtained in two different ways: (1) coherent summation of the amplitudes of neutrino production at different points along the trajectory of the parent pion; (2) averaging of the standard oscillation probability over the neutrino production coordinate in the source. We demonstrate that the results of these two different approaches exactly coincide, provided that the parent pion is considered as pointlike and the detection process is perfectly localized. In this case the standard averaging of the oscillation probability over the finite spatial extensions of the neutrino source (and detector) properly takes possible decoherence effects into account. We analyze the reason for this equivalence of the two approaches and demonstrate that for pion wave packets of finite width σ_{xπ} the equivalence is broken. The leading order correction to the oscillation probability due to σ_{xπ}\ne 0 is shown to be \sim [v_g/(v_g-v_π)]σ_{xπ}/l_{osc}, where v_g and v_π\ are the group velocities of the neutrino and pion wave packets, and l_{osc} is the neutrino oscillation length.
description: LaTeX, 40 pages, 4 figures. v2: minor typos corrected
title: Wybrane problemy umowy przewłaszczenia na zabezpieczenia nieruchomości
Creators: name: Łach, Agnieszka
Publisher: name: E-Wydawnictwo. Prawnicza i Ekonomiczna Biblioteka Cyfrowa. Wydział Prawa, Administracji i Ekonomii Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego
Year: 2019

description: Niniejszy artykuł przedstawia jedną z form zabezpieczenia wierzytelności, tj. umowę przewłaszczenia na zabezpieczenie nieruchomości. Z uwagi na brak jej pełnej regulacji w treści obowiązujących przepisów jest uznawana za umowę nienazwaną. Umowa ta z uwagi także na przedmiot przewłaszczenia budzi liczne kontrowersje, a jej byt w obrocie cywilnoprawnym jest stawiany pod znakiem zapytania. Celem opracowania jest omówienie praw i obowiązków stron tejże umowy, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem wynikających z niej dla podmiotu przewłaszczającego zagrożeń. Nadto artykuł ten wskazuje jak bardzo istotne byłoby stworzenie przepisów, które w pełni uregulowałyby przedmiotową instytucję.
Rooting depth and specific leaf area modify the impact of experimental drought duration on temperate grassland species
Creators: name: Künzi, Yvonne
name: Zeiter, Michaela
name: Fischer, Markus
name: Stampfli, Andreas
Publisher: name: Wiley-Blackwell
Year: 2025

description: 1. Due to climate change, temperate grasslands are being exposed to increasingly severe droughts. Concurrently, land-use intensification is altering grasslands' functional composition by promoting fast-growing, resource-acquisitive species with high specific leaf area (SLA). 2. How SLA affects the ability of grassland species to resist and recover from increasingly severe droughts and if deep roots improve their drought performance remains unclear. To investigate this, we established a common-garden field experiment including temperate grassland species with SLAs of 17.9–39.3 mm2 g−1 and maximal rooting depths of 16–252 cm. After 1.5 years, we simulated droughts for 0, 79, 134, 177 and 220 days. 3. Drought effects on plant performance increased with drought length, reducing the survival of green tissue and annual biomass by up to ~50% across all 32 species considered. As plant-available water remained in deep soil layers by the end of all treatments, deep roots mitigated the negative effect of increasing drought length on productivity in the later stage of drought and favoured productivity after a longer drought. The low-to-high SLA trait gradient among the 16 graminoid species seemed to represent alternative survival strategies ranging from dehydration tolerance to dehydration avoidance, rather than drought sensitivity. Variable drought responses along the SLA gradient of forbs imply that multiple other traits are related to drought resistance across evolutionarily distant species. 4. Synthesis. Our results suggest that deep roots are beneficial for temperate grassland species subjected to longer periods without rainfall when plant-available water is lacking in shallow soil layers but remaining in deep soil layers. In the face of increasing drought severity, we thus recommend (1) fostering deep-rooted species in intensive grasslands on deep, productive soil and (2) directing further studies towards identifying management practices that support deep rooting in semi-natural grasslands.
Peer review report
Creators: name: Costa, Vítor
name: Esgalhado, Graça
name: Cunha, Ana Isabel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: deradicalization
exit programmes
evaluation
intervention programmes

description: This deliverable presents a report based on the results gathered in online questionnaires and semi-structured interviews applied to previously identified exit programmes. A total of 14 exit workers agreed to be interviewed by one of the consortium partners, and after summarising or transcribing the interviews, aggregated results were developed and are presented in the current report. Results from the online questionnaires and interviews show that exit programmes share similarities in domains such as the team composition and duration of the intervention, while other aspect may differ according to the programme goals, such as the role played by ideology, the type of intervention, or the contact approach. The comparison between the different programmes’ evaluation attributes also allowed the authors to flag aspects of the programmes that, in general, may need improvement, such as the use of risk and needs assessment tools and the evaluation of the programmes.