cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Dissemination and Exploitation including Communication Activities
Creators: name: Dovha, Anna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Dissemination
Exploitation
Communication

description: Deliverable 4.2 articulates CORENET’s dissemination, exploitation, and communication strategies, aiming to optimise the project's impact. The plan comprises objectives (section 1), a framework and methods for achieving them (sections 2-3), encompassing dissemination principles, identification of six target groups, five key messages, and the tools for stakeholder outreach. It enumerates specific communication activities, their target groups, impact, and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) (section 4), alongside partner responsibilities (section 5). The exploitation strategy (section 6) seeks to facilitate future project results utilisation. Monitoring and evaluation plans (section 7) are also outlined. The plan remains open to updates throughout the project.
Effect Of Internal Marketing On Organizational Commitment: The Case Study Of Selected Commercial Banks In Ethiopia
Creators: name: Zeray, Yohannes
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2017

description: Internal marketing is taking employees as the most invaluable asset of an organization and treating them as internal customers because this result in gaining competitive advantage by organization respected. This research paper was conducted to examine the effect of internal marketing on organizational commitment in selected commercial banks in Ethiopia.. The target population of the study was employees of four commercial banks (Commercial bank of Ethiopia, Dashen bank, Bank of Abyssina and Wegagen bank). The most commonly used dimensions of internal marketing were identified and used to attest its impact on organizational commitment. The data collection resulted from 38 feedbacks received from employees' working at those selected banks and their branches. In addition to correlation analysis, further regression analysis was conducted to examine the effect of internal marketing on organizational commitment. The result indicate that all selected dimensions of internal marketing have significant relation with organizational commitment where communication, motivation, training and development and job satisfaction and significant impact organizational commitment. Therefore, The selected commercial banks is recommended to fully implement internal marketing principles to increase employees' communication, motivation job satisfaction and training and development to help those employees have an idea of how the organization is committed to them and towards their work and have a positive impact on customer as it is one of the competitive advantages of an organization to remain competitive in such dynamic, ambiguous and turbulent business environment.
Internal and external radiative widths in the combined R-matrix and potential model formalism
Creators: name: Mukhamedzhanov, A. M.
name: Shubhchintak
name: Bertulani, C. A.
name: Hao, T. V. Nhan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the $R$-matrix approach we calculate the radiative width for a resonance decaying to a bound state through electric dipole, $E1$, transitions. The total radiative width is determined by the interference of the nuclear internal and external radiative width amplitudes. For a given channel radius the external radiative width amplitude is model independent and is determined by the asymptotic normalization coefficient (ANC) of the bound state to which the resonance decays. It also depends on the partial resonance width. To calculate the internal radiative width amplitude we show that a single particle potential model is appropriate. We compare our results with a few experimental data.
description: Version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. C
Gene Expression Patterns of CsZCD and Apocarotenoid Accumulation during Saffron Stigma Development
Creators: name: Shams, Zohreh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Other Quantitative Biology (q-bio.OT)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Crocus sativus L., otherwise known as saffron, is a highly prized plant due to its unique triploid capability and elongated stigmas, contributing to its status as the costly spice globally. The color and taste properties of saffron are linked to carotenoid elements including cis- and trans-crocin, picrocrocin, and safranal. In the research carried out, we dedicated our attention to the gene CsZCD, an important player in the formation of apocarotenoids. Through the application of real-time polymerase chain reaction to RNA purified from saffron stigmas at various growth phases, it was determined that the peak expression of the CsZCD gene coincided with the red stage, which is associated with the highest concentration of apocarotenoids. The data showed a 2.69-fold enhancement in CsZCD gene expression during the red phase, whereas a 0.90-fold and 0.69-fold reduction was noted at the stages characterized by orange and yellow hues, respectively. A noteworthy observation was that CsZCD's expression was three times that of the CsTUB gene. Additionally, relative to CsTUB, CsLYC displayed 0.7-fold and 0.3-times expression. Our investigation provides insight into the governance of CsZCD during stigma maturation and its possible influence on the fluctuation in apocarotenoid content. These discoveries carry significance for the industrial production of saffron spice and underscore the importance of additional studies on pivotal genes participating in the synthesis of apocarotenoids.
The inversion theory : viewing the anthropomorphic as a study for the miniature object
Creators: name: Dorall, Daniel Luke.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Non-linear Embeddings in Hilbert Simplex Geometry
Creators: name: Nielsen, Frank
name: Sun, Ke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A key technique of machine learning and computer vision is to embed discrete weighted graphs into continuous spaces for further downstream processing. Embedding discrete hierarchical structures in hyperbolic geometry has proven very successful since it was shown that any weighted tree can be embedded in that geometry with arbitrary low distortion. Various optimization methods for hyperbolic embeddings based on common models of hyperbolic geometry have been studied. In this paper, we consider Hilbert geometry for the standard simplex which is isometric to a vector space equipped with the variation polytope norm. We study the representation power of this Hilbert simplex geometry by embedding distance matrices of graphs. Our findings demonstrate that Hilbert simplex geometry is competitive to alternative geometries such as the Poincaré hyperbolic ball or the Euclidean geometry for embedding tasks while being fast and numerically robust.
description: 21 pages, 12 figures
Additional file 1 of Role of time perspectives and self-control on well-being and ill-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: A multiple mediation model
Creators: name: Zong, Min
name: Dong, Dan
name: Yang, Zhizun
name: Feng, Yi
name: Qiao, Zhihong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Supplementary Material 1
Antiferromagnetic Ordering in Superconducting YBa2Cu3O6.5
Creators: name: Bernhard, C.
name: Bourges, P.
name: Niedermayer, C.
name: Sidis, Y.
name: Ulrich, C.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
Triplet Pairing in pure neutron matter
Creators: name: Srinivas, Sarath
name: Ramanan, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the zero temperature BCS gaps for the triplet channel in pure neutron matter using Similarity Renormalization Group (SRG) evolved interactions. We use the dependence of the results on the SRG resolution scale, as a tool to analyze medium and many-body corrections. In particular, we study the effects of including the three-body interactions at leading order, which appear at N2LO in the Chiral EFT, as well as that of the first-order self-energy corrections on the zero temperature gap. In addition we also extract the transition temperature as a function of densities and verify the BCS scaling of the zero temperature gaps to the transition temperature. We observe that the self-energy effects are very crucial in order to reduce the SRG resolution scale dependence of the results, while the three-body effects at the leading order do not change the two-body resolution scale dependence. On the other hand, the results depend strongly on the three-body cut-off, emphasizing the importance of the missing higher-order three-body effects. We also observe that self-energy effects reduce the overall gap as well as shift the gap closure to lower densities.
description: 13 pages and 16 figures, Improved text for clarity
Topography of Photochemical Initiation in Molecular Materials
Creators: name: Aluker, Edward D.
name: Krechetov, Alexander G.
name: Mitrofanov, Anatoly Y.
name: Zverev, Anton S.
name: Kuklja, Maija M.
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2013
Subjects: molecular energetic materials
high explosive decomposition
laser excitation
PETN
excitonic mechanism of initiation

description: We propose a fluctuation model of the photochemical initiation of an explosive chain reaction in energetic materials. In accordance with the developed model, density fluctuations of photo-excited molecules serve as reaction nucleation sites due to the stochastic character of interactions between photons and energetic molecules. A further development of the reaction is determined by a competition of two processes. The first process is growth in size of the isolated reaction cell, leading to a micro-explosion and release of the material from the cell towards the sample surface. The second process is the overlap of reaction cells due to an increase in their size, leading to the formation of a continuous reaction zone and culminating in a macro-explosion, i.e., explosion of the entire area, covering a large part of the volume of the sample. Within the proposed analytical model, we derived expressions of the explosion probability and the duration of the induction period as a function of the initiation energy (exposure). An experimental verification of the model was performed by exploring the initiation of pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN) with the first harmonic of YAG: Nd laser excitation (1,064 nm, 10 ns), which has confirmed the adequacy of the model. This validation allowed us to make a few quantitative assessments and predictions. For example, there must be a few dozen optically excited molecules produced by the initial fluctuations for the explosive decomposition reaction to occur and the life-time of an isolated cell before the micro-explosion must be of the order of microseconds.
Light tolerance of extended spectrum β-lactamase producing Escherichia coli strains after repetitive exposure to far-UVC and blue LED light
Creators: name: Gardner, Mandy
name: Soni, Aswathi
name: Cookson, Adrian
name: Brightwell, Gale
Publisher: name: AgResearch
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3107
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Aims: The aim of this study was to investigate dual far-UVC (Ultraviolet-C) (222 nm) and blue LED (Light Emitting Diode) (405 nm) light on the inactivation of extended spectrum β-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli (ESBL-Ec) and to determine if repetitive exposure to long pulses of light resulted in changes to light tolerance, and antibiotic susceptibility.Methods and results: Antimicrobial efficiency of dual and individual light wavelengths and development of light tolerance in E. coli was evaluated through a spread plate method after exposure to light at 25 cm. Dual light exposure for 30 min resulted in a 5-6 log10 CFU mL-1 reduction in two ESBL-Ec and two antibiotic-sensitive control E. coli strains. The overall inhibition achieved by dual light treatment was always greater than the combined reductions (log10 CFU) observed from exposure to individual light wavelengths (combined 222-405 nm), indicating a synergistic relationship between blue LED and far-UVC light when used together. Repetitive long pulses of dual and individual far-UVC light exposure resulted in light tolerance in two ESBL-Ec strains but not the antibiotic-sensitive E. coli strains. Subsequent passages of repetitive light-treated ESBL-Ec strains continued to exhibit light tolerance. Antibiotic susceptibility was determined through a standard disk diffusion method. No changes were observed in the antibiotic susceptibility profiles for any of the four strains after exposure to either dual or individual wavelengths.Conclusions: Dual light exposure was effective in the disinfection of ESBL-Ec in solution; however, antibiotic-resistant E. coli were able to develop light tolerance after repetitive exposure to light.
Into the umwelt : an investigation of distinct Australian fauna marking and the potential of cross-species perception and communication explored through studio practice
Creators: name: Cook, Annette.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Possible structural quantum criticality tuned by rare-earth ion substitution in infinite-layer nickelates
Creators: name: Subedi, Alaska
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I show the infinite-layer rare-earth nickelates are near a structural quantum critical point by mapping the energetics of their structural instabilities using first priniciples calculations. I first confirm previous results that show a phonon instability in the $P4/mmm$ phase leading to the $I4/mcm$ structure for $R$NiO$_2$ with $R$ = Sm--Lu. I then study the non-spin-polarized phonon dispersions of the $I4/mcm$ phase and find that they exhibit rare-earth size dependent instabilities at the $X$ and $M$ points for materials with $R$ = Eu--Lu. Group-theoretical analysis was used to enumerate all the isotropy subroups due to these instablities, and the distorted structures corresponding to their order parameters were generated using the eigenvectors of the unstable phonons. These structures were then fully relaxed by minimizing both the atomic forces and lattice stresses. I was able to stabilize only five out of the twelve possible distortions. The $Pbcn$ isotropy subgroup with the $M_5^+(a,a)$ order parameter shows noticeable energy gain relative to other distortions for the compounds with late rare-earth ions. However, the order parameter of the lowest-energy phase switches first to $X_2^- (0,a) + M_5^+ (b,0)$ and then to $X_2^- (0,a)$ as the size of the rare-earth ion is progressively increased. Additionally, several distorted structures lie close in energy for the early members of this series. These features of the structural energetics persist even when antiferromagnetism is allowed. Such a competition between different order parameters that can be tuned by rare-earth ion substitution suggests that any structural transition that could arise from the phonon instabilities present in these materials can be suppressed to 0 K.
A new $G$-parity violating amplitude in the $J/ψ$ decay?
Creators: name: Ferroli, R. Baldini
name: De Mori, F.
name: Destefanis, M.
name: Maggiora, M.
name: Pacetti, S.
name: Yan, L.
name: Bertani, M.
name: Calcaterra, A.
name: Felici, G.
name: Patteri, P.
name: Wang, Y. D.
name: Zallo, A.
name: Bettoni, D.
name: Cibinetto, G.
name: Farinelli, R.
name: Fioravanti, E.
name: Garzia, I.
name: Mezzadri, G.
name: Santoro, V.
name: Savrié, M.
name: Bianchi, F.
name: Greco, M.
name: Marcello, S.
name: Spataro, S.
name: Calame, C. M. Carloni
name: Montagna, G.
name: Nicrosini, O.
name: Piccinini, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The $J/ψ$ meson has negative $G$-parity so that, in the limit of isospin conservation, its decay into $π^+π^-$ should be purely electromagnetic. However, the measured branching fraction $\mathcal{B}(J/ψ\toπ^+π^-)$ exceeds by more than 3.9 standard deviations the expectation computed according to BaBar data on the $e^+e^-\toπ^+π^-$ cross section. The possibility that the two-gluon plus one-photon decay mechanism is not suppressed by $G$-parity conservation is discussed, even by considering other multi-pion decay channels. As also obtained by phenomenological computation, such a decay mechanism could be responsible for the observed discrepancy. Finally, we notice that the BESIII experiment, having the potential to perform an accurate measurement of the $e^+e^-\toπ^+π^-$ cross section in the 3 GeV energy region, can definitely prove or disprove this strong $G$-parity-violating mechanism by confirming or confuting the BaBar data.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures
Assessment of Local Administrative Discretion and Accountability Mechanisms in Addis Ababa City Administration: the Case of Yeka Sub-City Woreda 10
Creators: name: Masresha, Miheret
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2016

description: The thesis attempts to explore with objective of , assessing the administrative discretions as well as the applicability of administrative accountability mechanisms practice in Addis Ababa yeka sub -city woreda ten . To meet the above objectives, the research employed more of qualitative case study approach. Both primary and secondary data sources were used in gathering pertinent information. The technique of collecting primary data includes in-depth interviews at sub-city and woreda , focus group discussions with the community representative. Secondary sources such as published and unpublished materials such as books, proclamation, procedures, directives and manuals are used. Descriptive method of analysis is used to analyze the primary and secondary data. The study found that local administrative discretionary power is not adequately devolved and accountability mechanisms, at woredas of Addis Ababa are not properly designed due to different reasons. It is challenged by many problems such as crucial autonomy still remain in the upper stratum, as well as lack in properly codified rules and regulation in administrative autonomy. As well as due to political curiosity intervening of politically assigned official in administrative procedures is also to be mentioned .The public accountability mechanisms are also not properly designed and social accountability is completely not designed. Hence to make administrative decentralization meaningful recommendations are made on devolving adequate administrative autonomy ,codifying proclamation and other regulations and directives . Both the public and social accountability mechanisms have to be designed properly and adequately in woredas of Addis Ababa. Key words: Administrative, Discretion, Accountability, Woreda, Regulating abilities, Procurement,Humanresource
Additional file 1 of Future public health emergencies and disasters: sustainability and insights into support programs for healthcare providers
Creators: name: Dhuper, Misha
name: Ruttan, Lesley
name: MacGillvray, Lindsey
name: McKay, Martha
name: Li, Adrienne
name: Stewart, Donna
name: Abbey, Susan
name: Berkhout, Suze
name: Sheehan, Kathleen
name: Schulz-Quach, Christian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Supplemental Table 1. Personal Characteristics of Research Team.
Solving the spin-2 Gross-Pitaevskii equation using exact nonlinear dynamics and symplectic composition
Creators: name: Symes, L. M.
name: Blakie, P. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop numerical methods for solving the spin-2 Gross-Pitaevskii equation. The basis of our work is a two-way splitting of this evolution equation that leads to two exactly solvable subsystems. Utilizing second-order and fourth-order composition schemes we realize two fully symplectic integration algorithms, the first such algorithms for evolving spin-2 condensates. We demonstrate the accuracy of these algorithms against other methods on application to an exact continuous wave solution that we derive.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1602.06638
The Effect of Customer Service Quality on Customer Satisfaction in Selected Private Banks (Addis Ababa)
Creators: name: Kassa, Tizazu
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2012

description: This research examined the effect of customer service quality on customer satisfaction in selected private banks in Addis Ababa. Service quality has been defined as a degree and direction of discrepancy between customers' service perception and expectations. Customer satisfaction is defined as the customer's subjective evaluation of a consumption experience, based on some relationship between the customer's perceptions and objective attributes of the product. To achieve the objectives of this study, data was collected through questionnaire from a sample of 342 bank customer. These respondents were selected using simple random sampling method. The data collected from the questionnaire were analyzed using Statistical tools such as mean, standard deviation, correlation, and multiple regression analysis. The results of this study indicate that, except responsiveness the four service quality dimensions (tangibility, assurance, empathy and reliability) have positive and significant relationship with customer satisfaction. The finding of this study also indicates that customers were most satisfied with the assurance dimensions of service quality. On the contrary, customers were less satisfied with reliability and empathy dimensions of service quality. The results also indicate that unlike responsiveness the four service quality dimensions (tangibility, empathy, assurance and reliability) have positive and significant effect on customer satisfaction. Furthermore, the service quality dimensions (tangibility, reliability, assurance and empathy) significantly explain 80% of the variations in customer satisfaction in private banks in Addis Ababa. Based on the findings of the study, the researcher forwards some recommendations to the banks management and suggestions for other researchers.
Certified Symmetry and Dominance Breaking for Combinatorial Optimisation
Creators: name: Bogaerts, Bart
name: Gocht, Stephan
name: McCreesh, Ciaran
name: Nordström, Jakob
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Symmetry and dominance breaking can be crucial for solving hard combinatorial search and optimisation problems, but the correctness of these techniques sometimes relies on subtle arguments. For this reason, it is desirable to produce efficient, machine-verifiable certificates that solutions have been computed correctly. Building on the cutting planes proof system, we develop a certification method for optimisation problems in which symmetry and dominance breaking are easily expressible. Our experimental evaluation demonstrates that we can efficiently verify fully general symmetry breaking in Boolean satisfiability (SAT) solving, thus providing, for the first time, a unified method to certify a range of advanced SAT techniques that also includes XOR and cardinality reasoning. In addition, we apply our method to maximum clique solving and constraint programming as a proof of concept that the approach applies to a wider range of combinatorial problems.
description: This paper was published in the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research https://doi.org/10.1613/jair.1.14296 It is an extended version of our (equally-named) paper to appear in the proceedings of AAAI 2022 https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/20283
Right Onsite: Accelerating deployment of onsite clean energy technology in the industrial sector (presentation)
Creators: name: Niemeyer, Kyle E.
name: Kelly, Meegan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: industry
clean energy
onsite energy

description: Achieving net-zero emissions in the US industrial sector will require simultaneously pursuing technology solutions in energy efficiency, electrification, and low-carbon sources, as well as carbon capture, utilization, and storage. Among this portfolio of strategies, generating clean power onsite at industrial facilities combined with electrifying processes is critically needed to fully decarbonize industry. Although some industrial users have already installed such technology, various barriers exist that impede broad adoption. Based on stakeholder engagement activities performed in 2022, DOE identified significant barriers and needs for industrial end- users to install onsite clean energy solutions. Building on those activities, in 2023 the DOE’s Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization Office (IEDO) announced a new program focused on deployment of onsite energy to meet those needs and help industrial facilities and other large energy users to increase the adoption of onsite clean energy technologies. This paper will describe the current state of onsite clean energy generation in the U.S. industrial sector, perspectives from industry about their interest in onsite energy, barriers to wide adoption, and the technical assistance, tools, and training that industry needs in this space. It also describes strategies DOE is developing to meet these needs by supporting subject matter expertise, research, and analysis in onsite clean energy technologies. Industry needs tools and guidance that provide unbiased evaluations of multi-technology solutions, information about policy incentives and financial support, assistance engaging with communities and other stakeholders, and support for workforce development efforts.
Field Theories Without a Holographic Dual
Creators: name: McInnes, Brett
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In applying the gauge-gravity duality to the quark-gluon plasma, one models the plasma using a particular kind of field theory with specified values of the temperature, magnetic field, and so forth. One then assumes that the bulk, an asymptotically AdS black hole spacetime with properties chosen to match those of the boundary field theory, can be embedded in string theory. But this is not always the case: there are field theories with no bulk dual. The question is whether these theories might include those used to study the actual plasmas produced at such facilities as the RHIC experiment or the relevant experiments at the LHC. We argue that, \emph{provided} that due care is taken to include the effects of the angular momentum associated with the magnetic fields experienced by the plasmas produced by peripheral collisions, the existence of the dual can be established for the RHIC plasmas. In the case of the LHC plasmas, the situation is much more doubtful.
description: Conclusion now discusses question of fine tuning. Version to appear in Nuclear Physics B. 30 pages, 11 figures
Magnetic imaging and domain nucleation in CrSBr down to the 2D limit
Creators: name: Zur, Yishay
name: Noah, Avia
name: Boix-Constant, Carla
name: Mañas-Valero, Samuel
name: Fridman, Nofar
name: Rama-Eiroa, Ricardo
name: Huber, Martin E.
name: Santos, Elton J. G.
name: Coronado, Eugenio
name: Anahory, Yonathan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent advancements in 2D materials have revealed the potential of van der Waals magnets, and specifically of their magnetic anisotropy that allows applications down to the 2D limit. Among these materials, CrSBr has emerged as a promising candidate, because its intriguing magnetic and electronic properties have appeal for both fundamental and applied research in spintronics or magnonics. Here, nano SQUID-on-tip (SOT) microscopy is used to obtain direct magnetic imaging of CrSBr flakes with thicknesses ranging from monolayer (N=1) to few-layer (N=5). The ferromagnetic order is preserved down to the monolayer, while the antiferromagnetic coupling of the layers starts from the bilayer case. For odd layers, at zero applied magnetic field, the stray field resulting from the uncompensated layer is directly imaged. The progressive spin reorientation along the out-of-plane direction (hard axis) is also measured with a finite applied magnetic field, allowing to evaluate the anisotropy constant, which remains stable down to the monolayer and is close to the bulk value. Finally, by selecting the applied magnetic field protocol, the formation of Néel magnetic domain walls is observed down to the single layer limit.
description: Main text: 13 pages, 4 figures. Supplementary information: 10 pages, 7 figures, 1 table
Temperature dependent ARPES of the metallic-like bands in Si(553)-Au
Creators: name: Dudy, Lenart
name: Aulbach, Julian
name: Schäfer, Jörg
name: Claessen, Ralph
name: Rogalev, Victor
name: Chudzinski, Piotr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We conducted a thorough investigation into the temperature dependence of the metallic-like bands of Si(553)-Au using angular-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES). Our study addresses the challenges posed by the short-term stability of the surface and photo-voltage effects, which we overcame to extract changes in the band-filling and Fermi-velocity. Our findings shed light on the low-temperature phase of the step edge in Si(553)-Au, which has been a topic of ongoing debate regarding its structural or electronic nature. Through comparison with theoretical predictions of a structural-related low-temperature to high-temperature phase transition, we discovered that the band-filling and Fermi-velocity do not change accordingly, thereby ruling out this scenario. Our study contributes to a better understanding of this material system and provides an important reference for future research.
Visible Neutrino Decays and the Impact of the Daughter-Neutrino Mass
Creators: name: de Gouvêa, André
name: Sen, Manibrata
name: Weill, Jean
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the differential decay width of two- and three-body neutrino decays, assuming neutrinos are Dirac fermions and allowing for the possibility that the decay-daughters have nonzero masses. We examine different hypotheses for the interaction that mediates neutrino decay and concentrate on identifying circumstances where the decay-daughters can significantly impact the neutrino-decay signature at different experiments. We are especially interested in decay daughters produced by right-chiral neutrino fields, when the mass of the daughter plays a decisive role. As a concrete example, we compare the effects of visible and invisible antineutrino decays at the JUNO experimental setup.
description: 23 pages, 14 figures, matches published version
The Effect of Job Satisfaction on the Performance of Administrative Staffs in Addis Ababa University
Creators: name: Leyu, Abebe
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2019

description: The purpose of the study was to assess the effect of job satisfaction on performance of administrative staffs in Addis Ababa University. The study made use of both primary and secondary data sources. The required data was collected through the administration of questionnaire and in-depth interview. Questionnaires were administered for 407 administrative staffs from which 380 responded. In-depth interviews for management staff were conducted to elicit their responses on job satisfaction and its effect on performance. Descriptive statistics such as frequencies, percentages, mean and standard deviation were used. The study indicated extrinsic and intrinsic job satisfaction factors influence the level of employees' job satisfaction in the university. The study concludes that job satisfaction and determinants of job satisfaction highly influenced employees' work performance. The study recommends the management of AAU should make improvement on job satisfaction and job satisfaction factors in order to increase employees' work performance which maintains high level of productiveness in the organization.
Entanglement manipulation of multipartite pure states with finite rounds of classical communication
Creators: name: de Vicente, J. I.
name: Spee, C.
name: Sauerwein, D.
name: Kraus, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We studied pure state transformations using local operations assisted by finitely many rounds of classical communication ($LOCC_{\mathbb{N}}$) in C. Spee, J.I. de Vicente, D. Sauerwein, B. Kraus, arXiv:1606.04418 (2016). Here, we first of all present the details of some of the proofs and generalize the construction of examples of state transformations via $LOCC_{\mathbb{N}}$ which require a probabilistic step. However, we also present explicit examples of SLOCC classes where any separable transformation can be realized by a protocol in which each step is deterministic (all-det-$LOCC_{\mathbb{N}}$). Such transformations can be considered as natural generalizations of bipartite transformations. Furthermore, we provide examples of pure state transformations which are possible via separable transformations, but not via $LOCC_{\mathbb{N}}$. We also analyze an interesting genuinely multipartite effect which we call locking or unlocking the power of other parties. This means that one party can prevent or enable the implementation of LOCC transformations by other parties. Moreover, we investigate the maximally entangled set restricted to $LOCC_{\mathbb{N}}$ and show how easily computable bounds on some entanglement measures can be derived by restricting to $LOCC_{\mathbb{N}}$.
description: 19 pages, 3 figures. See also the companion paper arXiv:1606.04418
Additional file 1 of A novel aquaporin-4-associated optic neuritis rat model with severe pathological and functional manifestations
Creators: name: Morita, Yuko
name: Itokazu, Takahide
name: Nakanishi, Toru
name: Hiraga, Shin-ichiro
name: Yamashita, Toshihide
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1. Pathological changes after direct injection of high-affinity anti-aquaporin-4 (AQP4) monoclonal antibody into the optic nerve. Representative images of AQP4, GFAP, Iba1, and MPO staining of sagittal optic nerve sections obtained from Intact and AQP4-IgG-injected animals at day 1, day 2, day 4, day 7, and day 24 after injection. Scale bar: 500 μm.
High Dimensional Quantum Machine Learning With Small Quantum Computers
Creators: name: Marshall, Simon C.
name: Gyurik, Casper
name: Dunjko, Vedran
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Quantum computers hold great promise to enhance machine learning, but their current qubit counts restrict the realisation of this promise. In an attempt to placate this limitation techniques can be applied for evaluating a quantum circuit using a machine with fewer qubits than the circuit naively requires. These techniques work by evaluating many smaller circuits on the smaller machine, that are then combined in a polynomial to replicate the output of the larger machine. This scheme requires more circuit evaluations than are practical for general circuits. However, we investigate the possibility that for certain applications many of these subcircuits are superfluous, and that a much smaller sum is sufficient to estimate the full circuit. We construct a machine learning model that may be capable of approximating the outputs of the larger circuit with much fewer circuit evaluations. We successfully apply our model to the task of digit recognition, using simulated quantum computers much smaller than the data dimension. The model is also applied to the task of approximating a random 10 qubit PQC with simulated access to a 5 qubit computer, even with only relatively modest number of circuits our model provides an accurate approximation of the 10 qubit PQCs output, superior to a neural network attempt. The developed method might be useful for implementing quantum models on larger data throughout the NISQ era.
description: 13 pages, 7 figures
Stability of many-body localization in Floquet systems
Creators: name: Sierant, Piotr
name: Lewenstein, Maciej
name: Scardicchio, Antonello
name: Zakrzewski, Jakub
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study many-body localization (MBL) transition in disordered Floquet systems using a polynomially filtered exact diagonalization (POLFED) algorithm. We focus on disordered kicked Ising model and quantitatively demonstrate that finite size effects at the MBL transition are less severe than in the random field XXZ spin chains widely studied in the context of MBL. Our conclusions extend also to other disordered Floquet models, indicating smaller finite size effects than those observed in the usually considered disordered autonomous spin chains. We observe consistent signatures of the transition to MBL phase for several indicators of ergodicity breaking in the kicked Ising model. Moreover, we show that an assumption of a power-law divergence of the correlation length at the MBL transition yields a critical exponent $ν\approx 2$, consistent with the Harris criterion for 1D disordered systems.
description: version accepted in PRB, clarifications in Eq. 3 and Fig. 5 added, comments welcome
Tale of one body : an exploration through artistic practice of individual and collective perceptions of the 'fat' female in Australia today
Creators: name: Coveney, Allison.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Hamiltonian simulation of the Schwinger model at finite temperature
Creators: name: Buyens, Boye
name: Verstraete, Frank
name: Van Acoleyen, Karel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using Matrix Product Operators (MPO) the Schwinger model is simulated in thermal equilibrium. The variational manifold of gauge invariant MPO is constructed to represent Gibbs states. As a first application the chiral condensate in thermal equilibrium is computed and agreement with earlier studies is found. Furthermore, as a new application the Schwinger model is probed with a fractional charged static quark-antiquark pair separated infinitely far from each other. A critical temperature beyond which the string tension is exponentially suppressed is found, which is in qualitative agreement with analytical studies in the strong coupling limit. Finally, the CT symmetry breaking is investigated and our results strongly suggest that the symmetry is restored at any nonzero temperature.
description: Updated manuscript matching its published version: more detailed continuum extrapolation of chiral condensate in section III
Determinants of Consumer Ethnocentrism in the Furniture Market in Ethiopia: The case of Finfine Furniture Factory PLC (3F)
Creators: name: Eshetu, Rahel
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2017

description: Consumer ethnocentrism is one factor that affects consumers 'decision to prefer a product that is made locally more than a foreign made product and it also helps companies to prepare their plans and strategies. The main objectives of the study was to investigate the effect of demographic variables called gender, age, income and educational level and socio-psychological factors namely patriotism and cultural openness on consumer ethnocentrism in the furniture market in Ethiopia through a case analysis of Finfine Furniture Factory PLC (3F). The analyses of the demographic variables showed that people with older age, low educational level and low income exhibit a higher level of ethnocentrism however, no significant relationship was found between ethnocentrism and gender. Further, it was found that there is a positive and significant relationship between ethnocentrism and patriotism and a negative significant relationship with cultural openness. It was also shown that Ethiopian consumers are moderately ethnocentric and companies interested in operating in the local furniture market in Ethiopia can segment the market according to the level of ethnocentric tendency of consumers and this helps them in deciding the target market and in developing the appropriate positioning and marketing mix strategies.
Mutual information change in feedback processes driven by measurement
Creators: name: Kwon, Chulan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate thermodynamics of feedback processes driven by measurement. Regarding system and memory device as a composite system, mutual information as a measure of correlation between the two constituents contributes to the entropy of the composite system, which makes the generalized total entropy of the joint system and reservoir satisfy the second law of thermodynamics. We investigate the thermodynamics of the Szilard engine for an intermediate period before the completion of cycle. We show the second law to hold resolving the paradox of Maxwell's demon independent of the period taken into account. We also investigate a feedback process to confine a particle excessively within a trap, which is operated by repetitions of feedback in a finite time interval. We derive the stability condition for multi-step feedback and find the condition for confinement below thermal fluctuation in the absence of feedback. The results are found to depend on interval between feedback steps and intensity of feedback protocol, which are expected to be important parameters in real experiments.
description: 4 figures
Game among Interdependent Networks: The Impact of Rationality on System Robustness
Creators: name: Fan, Yuhang
name: Cao, Gongze
name: He, Shibo
name: Chen, Jiming
name: Sun, Youxian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Many real-world systems are composed of interdependent networks that rely on one another. Such networks are typically designed and operated by different entities, who aim at maximizing their own payoffs. There exists a game among these entities when designing their own networks. In this paper, we study the game investigating how the rational behaviors of entities impact the system robustness. We first introduce a mathematical model to quantify the interacting payoffs among varying entities. Then we study the Nash equilibrium of the game and compare it with the optimal social welfare. We reveal that the cooperation among different entities can be reached to maximize the social welfare in continuous game only when the average degree of each network is constant. Therefore, the huge gap between Nash equilibrium and optimal social welfare generally exists. The rationality of entities makes the system inherently deficient and even renders it extremely vulnerable in some cases. We analyze our model for two concrete systems with continuous strategy space and discrete strategy space, respectively. Furthermore, we uncover some factors (such as weakening coupled strength of interdependent networks, designing suitable topology dependency of the system) that help reduce the gap and the system vulnerability.
Kernel methods for advanced statistical process control
Creators: name: Ben Khedhiri, Issam
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Kernel methods
subject: Statistical process controll
subject: 310

description: This thesis investigated development and application of Kernel methods to enhance Statistical Process Control procedures. The first part of this thesis discussed the development of a control chart based on adaptive Kernel Principal Components Analysis (KPCA) to monitor non-stationary nonlinear process behaviour. Moreover, in order to have a fast adaptive KPCA model, we proposed an updating method that provides a reduced computation cost for large-scale KPCA model and a good tracking of the original matrix with a small reconstruction error. Analysis and comparison with other Principal Components Analysis control charts showed that the proposed procedure provides overall competitive detection results. The second part of this thesis investigated monitoring of nonlinear autocorrelated processes based on Support Vector Regression (SVR). The advantage of this procedure is that it allows modelling and control of nonlinear processes without the need to find analytical solutions to describe phenomena of interest. Results showed that the used control charts can effectively monitor the process behaviour while guarantying an acceptable robustness. The third part of this dissertation dealt with development of local Support Vector Domain Description (SVDD) based control chart to monitor complex and multimodal processes without specifying a probability distribution. This procedure allows simplifying and reducing the complexity of the problem which can help selecting SVDD parameters. Analysis of the proposed control chart using simulated and real case studies showed that this procedure allows better detection results while guaranteeing a reduced false alarm rate.