cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Stirtonia rhizophorae Kalb & Mongkolsuk 2012, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Kalb, Klaus
name: Buaruang, Kawinnat
name: Mongkolsuk, Pachara
name: Boonpragob, Kansri
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Ascomycota
Arthoniomycetes
Arthoniales
Arthoniaceae
Stirtonia
Stirtonia rhizophorae

description: Stirtonia rhizophorae Kalb & Mongkolsuk sp. nov. (Fig. 2K–L) Mycobank MB564186 Sicut Stirtonia macrocarpa Makhija & Patw. et S. schummii Aptroot, sed acidum confluenticum continet. Type:— THAILAND. Trat Province: Muang District, near Ban Nam Chieo, in a ± disturbed mangrove forest on Rhizophora apiculata, ± 3 m, 12°10’25’’ N, 102°28’37’’ E, 25 February 2011, K. Kalb & P. Mongkolsuk (holotype RAMK, isotype hb. Kalb 38845). Etymology:—The new species is named after the phorophyte on which the type species was collected. Thallus spreading, covering an area of up to 7 cm diam., contiguous, smooth to slightly warty, whitish grey, with calcium oxalate crystals, I+ blue. Ascigerous zones delimited, round to slightly elongated in outline, 0.5– 1.5 mm diam., raised, always higher than the thallus, white, with calcium oxalate crystals, I+ blue. Asci globose to ovoid, 8-spored, ascospores 12–15-septate, ellipsoid, 60–85 × 25–33 µm, cells of ± equal size (Fig. 2 L). Chemistry: confluentic acid (TLC). Thallus and ascigerous zones C-, Pd-, KOH-, UV-. Notes:—At present, no other species of Stirtonia is known to have this chemistry. It should be noted that a chemical reinvestigation of the type of Stirtonia schummii did not confirm the presence of perlatolic acid as mentioned in the protologue, but rather psoromic acid. This finding was confirmed by co-chromatography with the pure acid. Furthermore, Stirtonia macrocarpa probably does not contain 2’- O -methylperlatolic acid as mentioned by Aptroot (2009), but three unknown substances (Makhija & Patwardan 1987). Confluentic acid is a common substance in the related genus Cryptothecia which differs from Stirtonia in having muriform ascospores. However, ascospore septation is variable in many genera and both transversely septate and muriform ascospores can be found in closely related species of the same genus (Lücking 2009). The genera of Arthoniales are currently being revised by G. Thor and A. Frisch (pers. comm.) so that no taxonomic changes are made here.
description: Published as part of Kalb, Klaus, Buaruang, Kawinnat, Mongkolsuk, Pachara & Boonpragob, Kansri, 2012, New or otherwise interesting Lichens. VI, including a lichenicolous fungus, pp. 35-47 in Phytotaxa 42 on page 45, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.42.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/4894823
description: {"references": ["Lucking, R. (2009) The taxonomy of the genus Graphis sensu Staiger (Ascomycota: Ostropales: Graphidaceae). Lichenologist 41: 319 - 362."]}
Observation of Log-Periodic Oscillations in the Quantum Dynamics of Electrons on the One-Dimensional Fibonacci Quasicrystal
Creators: name: Lifshitz, Ron
name: Mandel, Shahar Even-Dar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We revisit the question of quantum dynamics of electrons on the off-diagonal Fibonacci tight-binding model. We find that typical dynamical quantities, such as the probability of an electron to remain in its original position as a function of time, display log-periodic oscillations on top of the leading-order power-law decay. These periodic oscillations with the logarithm of time are similar to the oscillations that are known to exist with the logarithm of temperature in the specific heat of Fibonacci electrons, yet they offer new possibilities for the experimental observation of this unique phenomenon.
Effective short-range interaction for spin-singlet P-wave nucleon-nucleon scattering
Creators: name: Ipson, K. L.
name: Helmke, K.
name: Birse, M. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Distorted-wave methods are used to remove the effects of one- and two-pion exchange up to order Q^3 from the empirical 1P1 phase shift. The one divergence that arises can be renormalised using an order-Q^2 counterterm which is provided by the (Weinberg) power counting appropriate to the effective field theory for this channel. The residual interaction is used to estimate the scale of the underlying physics.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures (pdf)
Intense ultra-broadband down-conversion from randomly poled nonlinear crystals
Creators: name: Svozilík, Jiří
name: Peřina, Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Randomly poled nonlinear crystals are shown to be able to emit intense ultra-broadband photon-pair fields with properties comparable to those coming from chirped periodically-poled crystals. Their intensities scale linearly with the number of domains. Also photon pairs extending over intervals with durations comparable to one optical cycle can be generated in these crystals.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
Physician and patient preferences for stroke prophylaxis in atrial fibrillation
Creators: name: Kuo, I Fan
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: Purpose. To derive and compare relative preferences of physicians and patients for selecting oral antithrombotics in atrial fibrillation (AF). Methods. Elicitation task: Time trade-off (TTO) and best worst scaling (BWS) choice experiments were constructed from literature review and expert opinion, reflecting four attributes relevant to oral antithrombotic selection in the setting of stroke prevention in AF – frequency of laboratory monitoring, annual risk of stroke, annual risk of major bleed, availability of reversal agent. Analysis. Utilities based on the patient TTO data were derived and analyzed for subgroup differences. Relative utilities based on the BWS choice data were derived using the conditional logit model and latent class analysis. The Wilcoxon signed-rank test was performed to assess the difference in preference for each attribute level between the Best-Worst score for the two groups. Results. 33 physicians and 58 patients completed the choice experiment. Both groups favoured “annual stroke risk of 0%” as the most valued attribute-level, and “annual stroke risk of 10%” was the least favourable attribute-level. Significant preference differences between the two perspectives for several of the attribute levels were also found. The results points out that while both groups had strong positive preferences for “annual stroke 0%”, the physicians valued this attribute level to be much more desirable than the patients. Similar observation applies to “annual stroke 10%”, where physicians had much stronger negative preferences for the attribute level compared to the patients as well as the range of annual bleeding rates, suggesting that physicians in general, were more stroke and bleed averse than the patients. Conclusions. There is a general congruence in physician and patient preferences for stroke prophylaxis, however, the strength of preferences differ for several attributes differ between the two groups. Using a BWS choice experiment, a preference elicitation method based on the random utility theory, this is the first study that quantitatively evaluated the preferences of physicians and patients for stroke prophylaxis in atrial fibrillation and provides important insights into clinical decision-making in a patient-centered care model.
Poisson brackets with prescribed Casimirs
Creators: name: Damianou, Pantelis A.
name: Petalidou, Fani
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53D17, 53D15

description: We consider the problem of constructing Poisson brackets on smooth manifolds $M$ with prescribed Casimir functions. If $M$ is of even dimension, we achieve our construction by considering a suitable almost symplectic structure on $M$, while, in the case where $M$ is of odd dimension, our objective is achieved by using a convenient almost cosymplectic structure. Several examples and applications are presented.
description: 24 pages
Unpaired composite fermion, topological exciton, and zero mode
Creators: name: Sreejith, G. J.
name: Wojs, Arkadiusz
name: Jain, Jainendra K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The paired state of composite fermions is expected to support two kinds of excitations: vortices and unpaired composite fermions. We construct an explicit microscopic description of the unpaired composite fermions, which we demonstrate to be accurate for a 3-body model interaction, and, possibly, adiabatically connected to the Coulomb solution. This understanding reveals that an unpaired composite fermion carries with it a charge-neutral "topological" exciton, which, in turn, helps provide microscopic insight into the origin of zero modes, fusion rules, and energetics.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures from 7 figure files
Fate of the false monopoles: induced vacuum decay
Creators: name: Kumar, Brijesh
name: Paranjape, M. B.
name: Yajnik, U. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a gauge theory model where there is an intermediate symmetry breaking to a meta- stable vacuum that breaks a simple gauge group to a U (1) factor. Such models admit the existence of meta-stable magnetic monopoles, which we dub false monopoles. We prove the existence of these monopoles in the thin wall approximation. We determine the instantons for the collective coordinate that corresponds to the radius of the monopole wall and we calculate the semi-classical tunneling rate for the decay of these monopoles. The monopole decay consequently triggers the decay of the false vacuum. As the monopole mass is increased, we find an enhanced rate of decay of the false vacuum relative to the celebrated homogeneous tunneling rate due to Coleman [1].
description: 10 pages, 4 figures
Precise determination of the eta_c mass and width in the radiative J/Psi -> eta_c gamma decay
Creators: name: Brambilla, Nora
name: Roig, Pablo
name: Vairo, Antonio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an effective field theory based extraction of the eta_c mass and width from a recent measurement by CLEO of the photon line shape in J/Psi -> eta_c gamma decay.
description: 3 pages, 3 figures, contribution to 'Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum IX', Univ. Complutense de Madrid, August 30th-September 3rd, 2010
First direct observation of the Van Hove singularity in the tunneling spectra of cuprates
Creators: name: Piriou, A.
name: Jenkins, N.
name: Berthod, C.
name: Maggio-Aprile, I.
name: Fischer, Ø.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In two-dimensional lattices the electronic levels are unevenly spaced, and the density of states (DOS) displays a logarithmic divergence known as the Van Hove singularity (VHS). This is the case in particular for the layered cuprate superconductors. The scanning tunneling microscope (STM) probes the DOS, and is therefore the ideal tool to observe the VHS. No STM study of cuprate superconductors has reported such an observation so far giving rise to a debate about the possibility of observing directly the normal state DOS in the tunneling spectra. In this study, we show for the first time that the VHS is unambiguously observed in STM measurements performed on the cuprate Bi-2201. Beside closing the debate, our analysis proves the presence of the pseudogap in the overdoped side of the phase diagram of Bi-2201 and discredits the scenario of the pseudogap phase crossing the superconducting dome.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Perlomyia ainu Sivec & Stark 2012, sp. n.
Creators: name: Sivec, Ignac
name: Stark, Bill P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Plecoptera
Leuctridae
Perlomyia
Perlomyia ainu

description: Perlomyia ainu sp. n. (Figs. 1-3) Material examined. Holotype ♂, Japan, Iwate Prefecture, Hienuki River, 16 km above Hayachine Dam, 3 May 2002, C.D. Kerst (PMSL). Male. Forewing length 5 mm. General color dark brown to black. Epiproct long and slender, forming a narrow triangular structure in dorsal aspect (Fig. 1), and shaped like a raptorial beak in lateral aspect (Fig. 3). Tergum 9 broadly excavated on posterior margin; small knobs absent from tergum 10, but posterolateral margins developed into low wide mounds. Tergum 8 with small, erect median lobe truncate on posterior margin and tergum 6 with a minute posteromedian lobe. Cerci bear a small posteromedian spine in lateral aspect (Fig. 3). Paraprocts fused into a broad, thick process; lateral aspect of paraprocts wide at base and tapered to form a sagittate structure in ventral aspect (Fig. 2). Apex of sternum 9 curved strongly dorsad (Fig. 3); vesicle wide apically and tapered to base (Fig. 2). Female. Unknown. Larva. Unknown. Etymology. The species name, used as a noun in apposition, honors the early Ainu culture once known from the area of the type locality. Diagnosis. This species is one of at least four Japanese species without the distinctive pair of small knobs found on P. parva and several other members of the genus (Kawai 1967; Nelson & Hanson 1973); we are uncertain about the presence of these structures on P. gifuensis. This new species is easily distinguished from other Japanese species by the presence of a truncate lobe on male tergum 8 and by the small apical spine on the male cerci. Perlomyia kersti, described below, is the only other Japanese species known to have a male tergal lobe and in that species the dorsal lobe is located on tergum 9. At least two other Asian Perlomyia, P. levanidovae (Zhiltzova 1975) and P. smithae Nelson & Hanson 1973, lack knobs on male tergum 10, but these species also lack dorsal lobes on segment 8.
description: Published as part of Sivec, Ignac & Stark, Bill P., 2012, Seven New Species Of Perlomyia (Plecoptera: Leuctridae) From Japan, pp. 94-103 in Illiesia 8 (7) on page 95, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4760796
description: {"references": ["Kawai, T. 1967. Fauna Japonica. Plecoptera (Insecta). Biogeographical Society of Japan, Tokyo. 211 pp.", "Nelson, C. H. & J. F. Hanson. 1973. The genus Perlomyia (Plecoptera: Leuctridae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 46: 187 - 199.", "Zhiltzova, L. A. 1975. Rhopalopsole, a new for the USSR genus of stoneflies (Plecoptera, Leuctridae). Zoologischesky Zhurnal, 54: 221 - 230. [Russian]"]}
Multiscale modeling of granular flows with application to crowd dynamics
Creators: name: Cristiani, Emiliano
name: Piccoli, Benedetto
name: Tosin, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35L65, 91D10

description: In this paper a new multiscale modeling technique is proposed. It relies on a recently introduced measure-theoretic approach, which allows to manage the microscopic and the macroscopic scale under a unique framework. In the resulting coupled model the two scales coexist and share information. This allows to perform numerical simulations in which the trajectories and the density of the particles affect each other. Crowd dynamics is the motivating application throughout the paper.
description: 30 pages, 9 figures
The targum (1872:Nov.)
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Targum Association
Year: 1872

description: Some University historians indicate that the Targum was first published as an annual in 1867, but of this we have no extant evidence. In January 1869, the Targum as we now know it, made its appearance as a monthly paper that concerned itself with student “literary contributions” and college news as well as serving as a vehicle for bringing news to alumni and the general public. The newspaper, which originally was for sale, varied in frequency over the years as did its title (The Targum, Rutgers Targum, Rutgers Daily Targum, and Daily Targum). The newspaper has continuously been published since 1869 with the exception of 19 months during the second world war, between February 1944 and October 1945. The Targum was published by the students of Rutgers College, and later Rutgers University—New Brunswick represented through the years as the Targum Association, Rutgers Targum Association, and Rutgers College Targum. As a student organization, the Targum operated under the oversight of the dean of students and student government but in October 1980, the Targum became an independent college paper.
Additional file 1 of An observation of the peer-assisted learning (PAL) method in the clinical teaching of vertigo/dizziness-related diseases for standardized residency training (SRT) students in China: a randomized, controlled, multicenter study
Creators: name: Xu, Rui
name: Duan, Chunmei
name: He, Qian
name: Meng, Zhaoyou
name: Wang, Gong
name: Liu, Shu
name: Guo, Meng
name: Chen, Xiaoyan
name: Wang, Yue
name: Duan, Wei
name: Zhang, Qin
name: Yang, Qingwu
name: Liang, Xiaojun
name: Bai, Yang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. The paper used for theoretical knowledge examination of VD-related diseases. Table S2. The rating scale used for clinical skills evaluation of VD-related diseases.
Perlomyia honshu Sivec & Stark 2012, sp. n.
Creators: name: Sivec, Ignac
name: Stark, Bill P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Plecoptera
Leuctridae
Perlomyia
Perlomyia honshu

description: Perlomyia honshu sp. n. (Figs. 4-7) Material examined. Holotype ♂, Japan, Nara Prefecture, Takami River, Aritoshi, 15 April 1995, Y. Isobe (PMSL). Paratypes: 1♂, 3♀, same data (PMSL). Male. Forewing length 7-7.5 mm. General color dark brown to black. Epiproct almost straight in lateral aspect, but with small tab-like triangular tip (Fig. 6). Tergum 9 broadly excavated posteromesally; tergum 10 with small rounded knobs placed near center of sclerites (Figs. 4, 6). Cerci somewhat globular in dorsal aspect, apex truncate or slightly rounded in lateral aspect and without conspicuous dorsobasal lobe or apical spine. Paraprocts fused into a broad, thick process (Figs. 4, 6). Sternum 9 prolonged beyond paraprocts and curved gently upward (Figs. 5-6). Vesicle almost circular in outline. Female. Forewing length 8-8.5 mm. Posterior margin of sternum 7 slightly produced over base of sternum 8, projecting portion relatively well sclerotized (Fig. 7). Sternum 8 with a narrow, mesal membranous strip which separates dark median sclerites; lateral wing-like sclerites narrowly separated from median sclerites. Larva. Unknown. Etymology. The species name, used as a noun in apposition, is based on Honshu Province where it was first collected. Diagnosis. Perlomyia honshu is one of four Japanese species with small knobs on male tergum 10. Two of these, P. kappa and P. parva, have an apical spine visible in lateral aspect on the male cerci, and in P. iwate, the epiproct tip is not enlarged.
description: Published as part of Sivec, Ignac & Stark, Bill P., 2012, Seven New Species Of Perlomyia (Plecoptera: Leuctridae) From Japan, pp. 94-103 in Illiesia 8 (7) on page 96, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4760796
Perlomyia isobeae Sivec & Stark 2012, sp. n.
Creators: name: Sivec, Ignac
name: Stark, Bill P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Plecoptera
Leuctridae
Perlomyia
Perlomyia isobeae

description: Perlomyia isobeae sp. n. (Figs. 8-11) Material examined. Holotype ♂, Japan, Nara Prefecture, Takami River, Aritoshi, 11 April 1995, Y. Hajashi (PMSL). Paratypes: 2♂, 3♀, same data (PMSL). Male. Forewing length 5.5 mm. General color dark brown to black. Epiproct slightly curved in lateral aspect with apex appearing flat on dorsum and slightly expanded (Fig. 10); dorsal aspect of tip saggitate (Fig. 8). Tergum 9 not constricted mesally, but sclerotized area of segment narrowed near anterior margin (Fig. 8); tergum 10 without small knobs. Cerci rounded with low dorsal lobe and small spine-like apex (Figs. 8, 10); basal knob small, rounded and inconspicuous. Paraprocts fused into a broad, curved process. Sternum 9 projecting beyond paraprocts and curved gradually upwards in lateral aspect (Figs. 9-10). Female. Forewing length 6 mm. Posterior margin of sternum 7 straight and unproduced over sternum 8 (Fig. 11). Sternum 8 with a broad mesal sclerite narrowly divided on meson and excavated on posterior margin; wing-like lateral areas of sclerite ribbon-shaped and attached to posterolateral margins of median sclerite. Larva. Unknown. Etymology. The matronym honors Professor Yu Isobe for her outstanding contributions to the study of Japanese Plecoptera and for her contribution of specimens to this study. Diagnosis. This species is another of the four Japanese Perlomyia whose males lack small knobs on abdominal tergum 10 (see P. ainu above). It is distinguished from these similar species by the truncate epiproct tip in lateral aspect and by the presence of a low rounded lobe and small spine in dorsal aspect of the cerci.
description: Published as part of Sivec, Ignac & Stark, Bill P., 2012, Seven New Species Of Perlomyia (Plecoptera: Leuctridae) From Japan, pp. 94-103 in Illiesia 8 (7) on pages 97-98, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4760796
The metabolic effects of leptin therapy in a mouse model of type 1 diabetes.
Creators: name: Denroche, Heather Courtney
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Type 1 diabetes is a life-long disease, with devastating consequences and no cure. While the hormone insulin has been the only effective treatment to date for type 1 diabetes, emerging evidence has revealed that the fat-derived hormone leptin can also exert profound glucose lowering effects, and reduce mortality in type 1 diabetes. This has generated interest in the therapeutic potential of leptin as an anti-diabetic treatment, and propelled leptin into clinical trials for type 1 diabetes. The fact that leptin monotherapy (without insulin administration) can so potently lower blood glucose in insulin-deficient diabetes is surprising, given that for almost a century, insulin has been assumed to be the only hormone that can lower blood glucose in type 1 diabetes. The overarching goal of this thesis was to perform pre-clinical studies to elucidate the mechanism of the anti-diabetic effects of leptin in type 1 diabetes. To this end, we thoroughly assessed the changes in metabolic and energy homeostasis that occur in a mouse model of type 1 diabetes receiving leptin therapy. The roles of hepatic and neuronal leptin receptor signalling in the anti-diabetic action of leptin were also investigated, through tissue specific disruption of leptin signalling using the Cre-lox method. In addition, we assessed whether leptin therapy can serve as an adjuvant to islet transplantation therapy in type 1 diabetes. This thesis revealed that leptin therapy lowers blood glucose in a mouse model of type 1 diabetes, correlating with decreased hepatic glucose production and enhanced insulin sensitivity. The anti-diabetic action of leptin is not blunted in mice with disrupted neuronal leptin signalling outside of the arcuate and ventromedial hypothalamus, or in mice with disrupted hepatic leptin signalling, suggesting that leptin acts through alternate or redundant pathways to lower blood glucose. Finally, low-dose leptin administration dramatically enhanced the ability of islet transplants to restore euglycemia, suggesting that leptin and islet co-therapy could be a successful therapeutic strategy for type 1 diabetes. Collectively the findings in this thesis contribute insight into the mechanism of action, and the therapeutic potential of leptin as a treatment for type 1 diabetes.
Generalized Satisfiability for the Description Logic ALC
Creators: name: Meier, Arne
name: Schneider, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The standard reasoning problem, concept satisfiability, in the basic description logic ALC is PSPACE-complete, and it is EXPTIME-complete in the presence of unrestricted axioms. Several fragments of ALC, notably logics in the FL, EL, and DL-Lite families, have an easier satisfiability problem; sometimes it is even tractable. We classify the complexity of the standard satisfiability problems for all possible Boolean and quantifier fragments of ALC in the presence of general axioms.
description: Technical Report with complete Proofs, Conference Version appeared in TAMC2011
The meaning of the Hindu temple for the North Indian community in Vancouver
Creators: name: Garde, Niranjan Anil
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: This research study asks how the North Indian community in Vancouver gives meaning to its Hindu temple. It examines how community identity is expressed through the built environment of the temple. In order to understand the meaning attributed to the Hindu temple by the North Indian community, I undertook an ethnographic case study of a Hindu temple in the city of Surrey, Greater Vancouver Region. The study is also a personal journey through which I have come to understand the built environment as an expression of identity. The research study claims that the meaning of the built environment is related to how one perceives it – which depends on one’s values, which in turn, are related to the context. Such a study offers an important contribution to knowledge about how North Indians use their temples in a diasporic context. It also suggests that the study of this kind of architecture is dependent on the community’s perceptions and meanings.
Perlomyia iwate Sivec & Stark 2012, sp. n.
Creators: name: Sivec, Ignac
name: Stark, Bill P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Plecoptera
Leuctridae
Perlomyia
Perlomyia iwate

description: Perlomyia iwate sp. n. (Figs. 12-15) Material examined. Holotype ♂, Japan, Iwate Prefecture, Hienuki River, Oinokubo Riverside Park, 12 km above Hayachine Dam, 4 May 2002, C.D. Kerst (PMSL). Paratypes: 4♂, 3♀; 3 May 2002, same locality; 2♂, 7♀, 4 May 2002, same locality (PMSL). Male. Forewing length 6 mm. General color dark brown to black. Epiproct curved slightly forward in lateral aspect, long, slender and pointed or slightly rounded at tip (Fig. 14). Tergum 9 narrowed posteromesally; tergum 10 with a pair of small mesolateral knobs (Fig. 12). Cerci apically rounded in dorsal aspect, broad, more or less trapezoidal in lateral aspect and without apical spine. Paraprocts fused into a broad, thick process, angulate near midlength and tapered to a narrow apex in lateral aspect (Fig. 14). Sternum 9 curved upward in lateral aspect and broadly triangular in apical half in ventral aspect and extending beyond base of paraprocts. Vesicle broadly rounded at apex, much wider apically than at base (Fig. 13). Female. Forewing length 7 mm. Posterior margin of sternum 7 straight, but slightly swollen (Fig. 15). Sternum 8 bearing a conspicuous pair of large dark median sclerites, narrowly separated on meson; lateral wing-like sclerites directed posterolaterally, wider at apex than at base. Larva. Unknown. Etymology. The species name, used as a noun in apposition, is based on the type locality in Iwate Prefecture. Diagnosis. Among the four species of Japanese Perlomyia which share small knobs on tergum 10 (see P. honshu above) only P. parva and P. iwate lack an expanded apex to the epiproct. In P. parva the epiproct apex is acute and the cerci bear a small apical spine, whereas in P. iwate the epiproct apex is narrowly rounded and the cerci lack the apical spine.
description: Published as part of Sivec, Ignac & Stark, Bill P., 2012, Seven New Species Of Perlomyia (Plecoptera: Leuctridae) From Japan, pp. 94-103 in Illiesia 8 (7) on pages 98-99, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4760796
Python GUI Scripting Interface for Running Atomic Physics Applications
Creators: name: Tahat, Amani
name: Tahat, Mofleh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We create a Python GUI scripting interface working under Windows in addition to (UNIX/Linux). The GUI has been built around the Python open-source programming language. We use the Python's GUI library that so called Python Mega Widgets (PMW) and based on Tkinter Python module (http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld/tutgui.htm). The new GUI was motivated primarily by the desire of more updated operations, more flexibility incorporating future and current improvements in producing atomic data. Furthermore it will be useful for a variety of applications of atomic physics, plasma physics and astrophysics and will help in calculating various atomic properties.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures
Perlomyia kappa Sivec & Stark 2012, sp. n.
Creators: name: Sivec, Ignac
name: Stark, Bill P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Plecoptera
Leuctridae
Perlomyia
Perlomyia kappa

description: Perlomyia kappa sp. n. (Figs. 16-18) Material examined. Holotype ♂, Japan, Iwate Prefecture, Hienuki River, Oinokubo Riverside Park, 12 km above Hayachine Dam, 3 May 2002, C.D. Kerst (PMSL). Male. Forewing length 7 mm. General color dark brown to black. Epiproct swollen basally, slender for most of length and expanded apically in lateral aspect (Fig. 18). Tergum 9 broadly excavated posteromesally (Fig. 16); small projections present posterolaterally on tergum 10. Cercal apices with a long terminal spine (Figs. 16-18). Paraprocts fused into a broad, thick process, rounded at the tip in lateral aspect. Sternum 9 apex broadly triangular apically in ventral aspect (Fig. 17), sharply upturned in the apical half in lateral aspect. Vesicle broad near apex, strongly narrowed at base. Female. Unknown. Larva. Unknown. Etymology. The species name, used as a noun in apposition, is based on the Kappa, or river goblins, of Japanese mythology. Diagnosis. Perlomyia kappa has small knobs on tergum 10 and differs from similar Japanese species of the genus in having prominent cercal spines and an apically enlarged epiproct.
description: Published as part of Sivec, Ignac & Stark, Bill P., 2012, Seven New Species Of Perlomyia (Plecoptera: Leuctridae) From Japan, pp. 94-103 in Illiesia 8 (7) on page 99, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4760796
DNA-psoralen: single-molecule experiments and first principles calculations
Creators: name: Rocha, M. S.
name: Lúcio, A. D.
name: Alexandre, S. S.
name: Nunes, R. W.
name: Mesquita, O. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The authors measure the persistence and contour lengths of DNA-psoralen complexes, as a function of psoralen concentration, for intercalated and crosslinked complexes. In both cases, the persistence length monotonically increases until a certain critical concentration is reached, above which it abruptly decreases and remains approximately constant. The contour length of the complexes exhibits no such discontinuous behavior. By fitting the relative increase of the contour length to the neighbor exclusion model, we obtain the exclusion number and the intrinsic intercalating constant of the psoralen-DNA interaction. Ab initio calculations are employed in order to provide an atomistic picture of these experimental findings.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures in re-print format 3 pages, 4 figures in the published version
The EXOTIME targets HS0702+6043 and HS0444+0458
Creators: name: Lutz, Ronny
name: Schuh, Sonja
name: Silvotti, Roberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Pulsations in subdwarf B (sdB) stars are an important tool to constrain the evolutionary status of these evolved objects. Interestingly, the same data used for this asteroseismological approach can also be used to search for substellar companions around these objects by analyzing the timing of the pulsations by means of a so-called O-C diagram. Substellar objects around sdB stars are important for two different reasons: they are suspected to be able to influence the evolution of their host-star and they are an ideal test case to examine the properties of exoplanets which have survived the red giant expansion of their host stars.
description: Part of PlanetsbeyondMS/2010 proceedings http://arxiv.org/html/1011.6606v1
Brain-Computer Interfaces using Machine Learning
Creators: name: Papadopoulos, Theodoros
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Brain-Computer Interface
Machine Learning
Signal Processing
Electroencephalography
Spatial Filtering
Amazon Alexa
Smart Home

description: This thesis explores machine learning models for the analysis and classification of electroencephalographic (EEG) signals used in Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) systems. The goal is 1) to develop a system that allows users to control home-automation devices using their mind, and 2) to investigate whether it is possible to achieve this, using low-cost EEG equipment. The thesis includes both a theoretical and a practical part.

In the theoretical part, we overview the underlying principles of Brain-Computer Interface systems, as well as, different approaches for the interpretation and the classification of brain signals. We also discuss the emergent launch of low-cost EEG equipment on the market and its use beyond clinical research. We then dive into more technical details that involve signal processing and classification of EEG patterns using machine leaning.

Purpose of the practical part is to create a brain-computer interface that will be able to control a smart home environment.  As a first step, we investigate the generalizability of different classification methods, conducting a preliminary study on two public datasets of brain encephalographic data. The obtained accuracy level of classification on 9 different subjects was similar and, in some cases, superior to the reported state of the art.

Having achieved relatively good offline classification results during our study, we move on to the last part, designing and implementing an online BCI system using Python. Our system consists of three modules. The first module communicates with the MUSE (a low-cost EEG device) to acquire the EEG signals in real time, the second module process those signals using machine learning techniques and trains a learning model. The model is used by the third module, that takes control of cloud-based home automation devices. Experiments using the MUSE resulted in significantly lower classification results and revealed the limitations of the low-cost EEG signal acquisition device for online BCIs.
Dust aerosols above the south polar cap of Mars as seen by OMEGA
Creators: name: Vincendon, Mathieu
name: Langevin, Yves
name: Poulet, François
name: Bibring, Jean-Pierre
name: Gondet, Brigitte
name: Jouglet, Denis
name: Team, OMEGA
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The time evolution of atmospheric dust at high southern latitudes on Mars has been determined using observations of the south seasonal cap acquired in the near infrared (1-2.65 μm) by OMEGA/Mars Express in 2005. Observations at different solar zenith angles and one EPF sequence demonstrate that the reflectance in the 2.64 μm saturated absorption band of the surface CO2 ice is mainly due to the light scattered by aerosols above most places of the seasonal cap. We have mapped the total optical depth of dust aerosols in the near-IR above the south seasonal cap of Mars from mid-spring to early summer with a time resolution ranging from one day to one week and a spatial resolution of a few kilometers. The optical depth above the south perennial cap is determined on a longer time range covering southern spring and summer. A constant set of optical properties of dust aerosols is consistent with OMEGA observations during the analyzed period. Strong variations of the optical depth are observed over small horizontal and temporal scales, corresponding in part to moving dust clouds. The late summer peak in dust opacity observed by Opportunity in 2005 propagated to the south pole contrarily to that observed in mid spring. This may be linked to evidence for dust scavenging by water ice-rich clouds circulating at high southern latitudes at this season.
The electrochemical properties of conducting polymers for energy storage applications
Creators: name: Bremner, Glen
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: The synthesis and characterization of oligothiophene-capped Au and Cu nanoparticles (NPs) are reported. Homo- and co-polymer films of these NPs were prepared electrochemically and studied using cyclic voltammetry, electron microscopy, and absorption and emission spectroscopies. The Au NPs were capped by either 3'-thiol-substituted terthiophene (1) or 3'-phosphine-substituted terthiophene (2). The electrochemical oxidation of 1-capped Au NPs (4) resulted in a polymeric film which displayed good electroactivity whereas attempted electropolymerization of 2-capped Au NPs (5) was unsuccessful. Exposing the poly(4) films to an iodide/triiodide solution lead to etching of the Au and a decrease in the electroactivity of the polymer. A hybrid copolymer was formed by electropolymerizing ethylenedioxythiophene in solution with 4 (PEDOT-4). It was found that it was possible to selectively etch Au from PEDOT-4 films to yield porous PEDOT films, which were analyzed using elemental analysis methods and electron microscopy. The films after etching showed slightly improved charging and discharging kinetics, suggestive of improved ionic diffusion in the polymer. Cu NPs capped by 1 (7) were electrochemically oxidized to form a polymer film. The lower oxidation potential of 7 relative to 4 allowed for the formation of crystalline regions in the polymer film, and exhibited the characteristic XRD peaks of Cu (0). PEDOT-7 films were prepared which showed enhanced electroactivity over pure PEDOT films. An azidostyrylthiophene compound (9) was synthesized and was shown to be both thermally and photochemically reactive. PEDOT-9 copolymers were prepared and studied using cyclic voltammetry. Irradiation of the PEDOT-9 films show improved charging / discharging kinetics due to crosslinking of the polymer film by the reactive azide substituent.
Example of a first-order Néel to Valence-Bond-Solid transition in two-dimensions
Creators: name: Sen, Arnab
name: Sandvik, Anders W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the $S=1/2$ Heisenberg model with nearest-neighbor interaction $J$ and an additional multi-spin interaction $Q_3$ on the square lattice. The $Q_3$ term consists of three bond-singlet projectors and is chosen to favor the formation of a valence-bond solid (VBS) where the valence bonds (singlet pairs) form a staggered pattern. The model exhibits a quantum phase transition from the Néel state to the VBS as a function of $Q_3/J$. We study the model using quantum Monte Carlo (stochastic series expansion) simulations. The Néel-VBS transition in this case is strongly first-order in nature, in contrast to similar previously studied models with continuous transitions into columnar VBS states. The qualitatively different transitions illustrate the important role of an emerging U(1) symmetry in the latter case, which is not possible in the present model due to the staggered VBS pattern (which does not allow local fluctuations necessary to rotate the local VBS order parameter).
description: 8 pages, 7 figures
Additional file 4 of Hookworm infection in central China: morphological and molecular diagnosis
Creators: name: Xu, Fang Fang
name: Niu, Yu Fei
name: Chen, Wen Qing
name: Liu, Sha Sha
name: Li, Jing Ru
name: Jiang, Peng
name: Wang, Zhong Quan
name: Cui, Jing
name: Zhang, Xi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 4: Figure S3. Epidemiological investigation and hospital-diagnosed hookworm cases for 5-year periods from 1949 to 2020 in Henan Province of central China.
Perlomyia kersti Sivec & Stark 2012, sp. n.
Creators: name: Sivec, Ignac
name: Stark, Bill P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Plecoptera
Leuctridae
Perlomyia
Perlomyia kersti

description: Perlomyia kersti sp. n. (Figs. 19-23) Material examined. Holotype ♂, Japan, Iwate Prefecture, Hienuki River, headwater area, 22 km above Hayachine Dam, 3 May 2002, C.D. Kerst (PMSL). Paratype: 1♀, same data (PMSL). Male. Forewing length 6 mm. General color dark brown to black. Epiproct falcate in lateral aspect, curved forward slightly, expanded at midlength and narrowly pointed at tip (Fig. 21). Tergum 9 with mesal lobe set in broad excavation (Fig. 19); small knobs absent from tergum 10 but bearing a shallow transverse groove near tip. Cerci thimble shaped in lateral aspect, but bearing a small dorsobasal knob. Paraprocts fused into a broad, thick process; apex of paraprocts truncate in lateral aspect (Fig. 21), but with a small posteroapical notch. Apex of sternum 9 curved slightly dorsad and strongly narrowed from body of sternum (Figs. 20-21). Vesicle short and broadly rounded at apex. Female. Forewing length 7.5 mm. Posterior margin of sternum 7 enlarged, sclerotized and projecting over base of sternum 8 (Figs. 22-23). Sclerites of sternum 8 wide, but restricted to basal half of segment, and notched on meson; apically directed wing-like sclerites absent, but basally directed ones present. Larva. Unknown. Etymology. The patronym honors C.D. Kerst, collector of the type material. Diagnosis. Among the Japanese Perlomyia which lack knobs on tergum 10, P. kersti is the only known species with a median lobe on tergum 9.
description: Published as part of Sivec, Ignac & Stark, Bill P., 2012, Seven New Species Of Perlomyia (Plecoptera: Leuctridae) From Japan, pp. 94-103 in Illiesia 8 (7) on pages 100-101, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4760796
Thermodynamics of quantum jump trajectories in systems driven by classical fluctuations
Creators: name: Budini, Adrian A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The large-deviation method can be used to study the measurement trajectories of open quantum systems. For optical arrangements this formalism allows to describe the long time properties of the (non-equilibrium) photon counting statistics in the context of a (equilibrium) thermodynamic approach defined in terms of dynamical phases and transitions between them in the trajectory space [J.P. Garrahan and I. Lesanovsky, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 160601 (2010)]. In this paper, we study the thermodynamic approach for fluorescent systems coupled to complex reservoirs that induce stochastic fluctuations in their dynamical parameters. In a fast modulation limit the thermodynamics corresponds to that of a Markovian two-level system. In a slow modulation limit, the thermodynamic properties are equivalent to those of a finite system that in an infinite-size limit is characterized by a first-order transition. The dynamical phases correspond to different intensity regimes, while the size of the system is measured by the transition rate of the bath fluctuations. As a function of a dimensionless intensive variable, the first and second derivative of the thermodynamic potential develop an abrupt change and a narrow peak respectively. Their scaling properties are consistent with a double-Gaussian probability distribution of the associated extensive variable.
description: 12 pages, 3 figures
Microwave properties of DyBCO monodomain in the mixed state and comparison with other RE-BCO systems
Creators: name: Pompeo, N.
name: Rogai, R.
name: Ausloos, M.
name: Cloots, R.
name: Augieri, A.
name: Celentano, G.
name: Silva, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on microwave measurements on DyBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{7-\rmδ}$ monodomains grown by the top-seeded melt-textured technique. We measured the field increase of the surface resistance $R_{\rm s}(H)$ in the a-b plane at 48.3 GHz. Measurements were performed at fixed temperatures in the range 70 K - $T_{\rm c}$ with a static magnetic field $μ_0H<0.8$ T parallel to the c-axis. Low field steep increase of the dissipation, typical signature of the presence of weak links, is absent, thus indicating the single-domain behaviour of the sample under study. The magnetic field dependence of $R_{\rm s}(H)$ is ascribed to the dissipation caused by vortex motion. The analysis of $X_{\rm s}(H)$ points to a free-flow regime, thus allowing to obtain the vortex viscosity as a function of temperature. We compare the results with those obtained on RE-BCO systems. In particular, we consider strongly pinned films of YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{7-\rmδ}$ with nanometric BaZrO$_3$ inclusions.
description: 17 pages, 5 figures; ISS2010 proceedings, to be published as a special issue of Physica C
The targum (1872:Dec.)
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Targum Association
Year: 1872

description: Some University historians indicate that the Targum was first published as an annual in 1867, but of this we have no extant evidence. In January 1869, the Targum as we now know it, made its appearance as a monthly paper that concerned itself with student “literary contributions” and college news as well as serving as a vehicle for bringing news to alumni and the general public. The newspaper, which originally was for sale, varied in frequency over the years as did its title (The Targum, Rutgers Targum, Rutgers Daily Targum, and Daily Targum). The newspaper has continuously been published since 1869 with the exception of 19 months during the second world war, between February 1944 and October 1945. The Targum was published by the students of Rutgers College, and later Rutgers University—New Brunswick represented through the years as the Targum Association, Rutgers Targum Association, and Rutgers College Targum. As a student organization, the Targum operated under the oversight of the dean of students and student government but in October 1980, the Targum became an independent college paper.