cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Post-Accident Sporadic Releases of Airborne Radionuclides from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Site
Creators: name: Steinhauser, Georg
name: Niisoe, Tamon
name: Harada, Kouji H.
name: Shozugawa, Katsumi
name: Schneider, Stephanie
name: Synal, Hans-Arno
name: Walther, Clemens
name: Christl, Marcus
name: Nanba, Kenji
name: Ishikawa, Hirohiko
name: Koizumi, Akio
Publisher: name: Washington D.C. : American Chemical Society
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant (FDNPP)
subject: nuclear accident
subject: Japan
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::530 | Physik

description: The Fukushima nuclear accident (March 11, 2011) caused the widespread contamination of Japan by direct deposition of airborne radionuclides. Analysis of weekly air filters has revealed sporadic releases of radionuclides long after the Fukushima Daiichi reactors were stabilized. One major discharge was observed in August 2013 in monitoring stations north of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant (FDNPP). During this event, an air monitoring station in this previously scarcely contaminated area suddenly reported 137Cs activity levels that were 30-fold above the background. Together with atmospheric dispersion and deposition simulation, radionuclide analysis in soil indicated that debris removal operations conducted on the FDNPP site on August 19, 2013 are likely to be responsible for this late release of radionuclides. One soil sample in the center of the simulated plume exhibited a high 90Sr contamination (78 ± 8 Bq kg–1) as well as a high 90Sr/137Cs ratio (0.04); both phenomena have usually been observed only in very close vicinity around the FDNPP. We estimate that through the resuspension of highly contaminated particles in the course of these earthmoving operations, gross 137Cs activity of ca. 2.8 × 1011 Bq has been released.
Molecular line emission from a protoplanetary disk irradiated externally by a nearby massive star
Creators: name: Walsh, Catherine
name: Millar, T. J.
name: Nomura, Hideko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Star formation often occurs within or nearby stellar clusters. Irradiation by nearby massive stars can photoevaporate protoplanetary disks around young stars (so-called proplyds) which raises questions regarding the ability of planet formation to take place in these environments. We investigate the two-dimensional physical and chemical structure of a protoplanetary disk surrounding a low-mass (T Tauri) star which is irradiated by a nearby massive O-type star to determine the survivability and observability of molecules in proplyds. Compared with an isolated star-disk system, the gas temperature ranges from a factor of a few (in the disk midplane) to around two orders of magnitude (in the disk surface) higher in the irradiated disk. Although the UV flux in the outer disk, in particular, is several orders of magnitude higher, the surface density of the disk is sufficient for effective shielding of the disk midplane so that the disk remains predominantly molecular in nature. We also find that non-volatile molecules, such as HCN and H2O, are able to freeze out onto dust grains in the disk midplane so that the formation of icy planetesimals, e.g., comets, may also be possible in proplyds. We have calculated the molecular line emission from the disk assuming LTE and determined that multiple transitions of atomic carbon, CO (and isotopologues, 13CO and C18O), HCO+, CN, and HCN may be observable with ALMA, allowing characterization of the gas column density, temperature, and optical depth in proplyds at the distance of Orion (~400 pc).
description: 24 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, journal-formatted article available at http://iopscience.iop.org/2041-8205/766/2/L23/
Validating phase-space methods with tensor networks in two-dimensional spin models with power-law interactions
Creators: name: Muleady, Sean R.
name: Yang, Mingru
name: White, Steven R.
name: Rey, Ana Maria
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using a recently developed extension of the time-dependent variational principle for matrix product states, we evaluate the dynamics of 2D power-law interacting XXZ models, implementable in a variety of state-of-the-art experimental platforms. We compute the spin squeezing as a measure of correlations in the system, and compare to semiclassical phase-space calculations utilizing the discrete truncated Wigner approximation (DTWA). We find the latter efficiently and accurately captures the scaling of entanglement with system size in these systems, despite the comparatively resource-intensive tensor network representation of the dynamics. We also compare the steady-state behavior of DTWA to thermal ensemble calculations with tensor networks. Our results open a way to benchmark dynamical calculations for two-dimensional quantum systems, and allow us to rigorously validate recent predictions for the generation of scalable entangled resources for metrology in these systems.
description: 6+4 pages, 3+1 figures
Patterning of Nanoparticle‐Based Aerogels and Xerogels by Inkjet Printing
Creators: name: Lübkemann, Franziska
name: Miethe, Jan F.
name: Steinbach, Frank
name: Rusch, Pascal
name: Schlosser, Anja
name: Zámbó, Dániel
name: Heinemeyer, Thea
name: Natke, Dominik
name: Zok, Dorian
name: Dorfs, Dirk
name: Bigall, Nadja C.
Publisher: name: Hoboken, NJ : Wiley
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: aerogels
subject: gelation via inkjet printing
subject: inkjet printing
subject: semiconductor nanoparticles
subject: xerogels
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::540 | Chemie

description: Nanoparticle-based voluminous 3D networks with low densities are a unique class of materials and are commonly known as aerogels. Due to the high surface-to-volume ratio, aerogels and xerogels might be suitable materials for applications in different fields, e.g. photocatalysis, catalysis, or sensing. One major difficulty in the handling of nanoparticle-based aerogels and xerogels is the defined patterning of these structures on different substrates and surfaces. The automated manufacturing of nanoparticle-based aerogel- or xerogel-coated electrodes can easily be realized via inkjet printing. The main focus of this work is the implementation of the standard nanoparticle-based gelation process in a commercial inkjet printing system. By simultaneously printing semiconductor nanoparticles and a destabilization agent, a 3D network on a conducting and transparent surface is obtained. First spectroelectrochemical measurements are recorded to investigate the charge–carrier mobility within these 3D semiconductor-based xerogel networks.
Clump mass function at an early stage of molecular cloud evolution: II. Galactic cloud complexes
Creators: name: Veltchev, Todor V.
name: Donkov, Sava
name: Klessen, Ralf S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The statistical approach for derivation of the clump mass function (ClMF) developed by Donkov, Veltchev & Klessen is put to observational test through comparison with mass distributions of clumps from molecular emission and dust continuum maps of Galactic cloud complexes, obtained by various authors. The results indicate gravitational boundedness of the dominant clump population, with or without taking into account the contribution of their thermal and magnetic energy. The ClMF can be presented by combination of two power-law functions separated by a characteristic mass from about ten to hundreds solar masses. The slope of the intermediate-mass ClMF is shallow and nearly constant (-0.25 \gtrsim Γ_{IM} \gtrsim -0.55) while the high-mass part is fitted by models that imply gravitationally unstable clumps and exhibit slopes in a broader range (-0.9 \gtrsim Γ_{IM} \gtrsim -1.6), centered at the value of the stellar initial mass function (Γ_{HM} \gtreqless -1.3).
description: 14 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables; accepted for publication in MNRAS
Additional file 1 of Mothers’ lived experience of caring for children with inborn errors of amino acid metabolism
Creators: name: Shirdelzade, Sara
name: Ramezani, Monir
name: Eshraghi, Peyman
name: Heydari, Abbas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1
Actis: A Strictly Local Union-Find Decoder
Creators: name: Chan, Tim
name: Benjamin, Simon C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Fault-tolerant quantum computing requires classical hardware to perform the decoding necessary for error correction. The Union-Find decoder is one of the best candidates for this. It has remarkably organic characteristics, involving the growth and merger of data structures through nearest-neighbour steps; this naturally suggests the possibility of its realisation using a lattice of simple processors with nearest-neighbour links. In this way the computational load can be distributed with near-ideal parallelism. Here we show for the first time that this strict (rather than partial) locality is practical, with a worst-case runtime $\mathcal O(d^3)$ and mean runtime subquadratic in the surface code distance $d$. A novel parity-calculation scheme is employed which can simplify previously proposed architectures, and our approach is optimised for circuit-level noise. We compare our local realisation with one augmented by long-range links; while the latter is of course faster, we note that local asynchronous logic could negate the difference.
description: 19 pages, 18 figures; link emulation code and raw data, rename definitions, make diagrams colourblind friendly, update acknowledgments
Photoactivity of Titanium Dioxide Foams
Creators: name: Jami, Maryam
name: Dillert, Ralf
name: Suo, Yanpeng
name: Bahnemann, Detlef W.
name: Wark, Michael
Publisher: name: Kairo : Hindawi
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: TiO2 foams
subject: X-ray diffraction (XRD)
subject: X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS)
subject: UV-vis absorption spectroscopy
subject: scanning electron microscopy (SEM)
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::540 | Chemie

description: TiO2 foams have been prepared by a simple mechanical stirring method. Short-chain amphiphilic molecules have been used to stabilize colloidal suspensions of TiO2 nanoparticles. TiO2 foams were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), UV-vis absorption spectroscopy, and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The photoassisted oxidation of NO in the gas phase according to ISO 22197-1 has been used to compare the photoactivity of the newly prepared TiO2 foams to that of the original powders. The results showed that the photoactivity is increased up to about 135%. Foam structures seem to be a good means of improving the photoactivity of semiconductor materials and can readily be used for applications such as air purification devices.
Fine-scale Structures of Flux Ropes Tracked by Erupting Material
Creators: name: Li, Ting
name: Zhang, Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the Solar Dynamics Observatory observations of two flux ropes respectively tracked out by material from a surge and a failed filament eruption on 2012 July 29 and August 04. For the first event, the interaction between the erupting surge and a loop-shaped filament in the east seems to "peel off" the filament and add bright mass into the flux rope body. The second event is associated with a C-class flare that occurs several minutes before the filament activation. The two flux ropes are respectively composed of 85$\pm$12 and 102$\pm$15 fine-scale structures, with an average width of about 1$\arcsec$.6. Our observations show that two extreme ends of the flux rope are rooted in the opposite polarity fields and each end is composed of multiple footpoints (FPs) of the fine-scale structures. The FPs of the fine-scale structures are located at network magnetic fields, with magnetic fluxes from 5.6$\times10^{18}$ Mx to 8.6$\times10^{19}$ Mx. Moreover, almost half of the FPs show converging motion of smaller magnetic structures over 10 hr before the appearance of the flux rope. By calculating the magnetic fields of the FPs, we deduce that the two flux ropes occupy at least 4.3$\times10^{20}$ Mx and 7.6$\times10^{20}$ Mx magnetic fluxes, respectively.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures, ApJL in press
Frequency Doubling Nanocrystals for Cancer Theranostics
Creators: name: Staedler, Davide
name: Magouroux, Thibaud
name: Passemard, Solène
name: Schwung, Sebastian
name: Dubled, Marc
name: Schneiter, Guillaume Stéphane
name: Rytz, Daniel
name: Gerber-Lemaire, Sandrine
name: Bonacina, Luigi
name: Wolf, Jean-Pierre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A novel bio-photonics approach based on the nonlinear optical process of second harmonic generation by non-centrosymmetric nanoparticles is presented and demonstrated on malignant human cell lines. The proposed method allows to directly interact with DNA in absence of photosensitizing molecules, to enable independent imaging and therapeutic modalities switching between the two modes of operation by simply tuning the excitation laser wavelength, and to avoid any risk of spontaneous activation by any natural or artificial light source.
description: 16 pages, 7 figures
Photoluminescence Lifetime based Investigations of Linker Mediated Electronic Connectivity Between Substrate and Nanoparticle
Creators: name: Miethe, Jan F.
name: Lübkemann, Franziska
name: Bigall, Nadja C.
name: Dorfs, Dirk
Publisher: name: Lausanne : Frontiers Media
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: nanoparticles
subject: photoluminescence
subject: substrate
subject: quenching
subject: charge carrier dynamics
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::540 | Chemie

description: The evolution of systems based on nanoparticles as the main component seems to be a self-accelerating process during the last five decades. Hence, an overview across this field gets more and more challenging. It is sometimes rewarding to focus on the fundamental physical phenomenon of the electronic interconnection between the different building blocks of the obtained devices. Therefore, the investigation of charge transport among the utilized particles and their substrate is one of the mandatory steps in the development of semiconductor nanoparticle based devices like e.g., sensors and LEDs. The investigation of the influence of tunneling barriers on the properties of nanoparticle-functionalized surfaces is a challenging task. The different basic influences on the charge transport dynamics are often difficult to separate from each other. Non-invasive and easily viable experiments are still required to resolve the charge distributing mechanisms in the systems. In the presented work, we want to focus on thin and transparent indium tin oxide (ITO) layers covered glass slides since this substrate is frequently utilized in nanoelectronics. CdSe/CdS nanorods (NRs) are applied as an optically addressable probe for the electronic surface states of the conductive glass. The presented experimental design provides the proof of electronic interconnections in ITO coated glass/linker/NR electrodes via easy reproducible functionalization and polishing experiments. UV/Vis absorption and photoluminescence (PL) lifetime measurements revealed changes in the optical properties caused by differences in the charge carrier dynamics between the system. Our work is focused on the modification of charge carrier dynamics due to the application of linker molecules with different functional groups like (3-mercaptopropyl)methoxysilane (MPTMS) and (3-aminopropyl)trimethoxysilane (APTMS). The presented observations are explained with a simple kinetic model.
Quadrupole moments of rotating neutron stars and strange stars
Creators: name: Urbanec, Martin
name: Miller, John C.
name: Stuchlik, Zdenek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results for models of neutron stars and strange stars constructed using the Hartle-Thorne slow-rotation method with a wide range of equations of state, focusing on the values obtained for the angular momentum $J$ and the quadrupole moment $Q$, when the gravitational mass $M$ and the rotational frequency $Ω$ are specified. Building on previous work, which showed surprising uniformity in the behaviour of the moment of inertia for neutron-star models constructed with widely-different equations of state, we find similar uniformity for the quadrupole moment. These two quantities, together with the mass, are fundamental for determining the vacuum space-time outside neutron stars. We study particularly the dimensionless combination of parameters $QM/J^2$ (using units for which $c=G=1$). This quantity goes to 1 in the case of a Kerr-metric black hole and deviations away from 1 then characterize the difference between neutron-star and black-hole space-times. It is found that $QM/J^2$ for both neutron stars and strange stars decreases with increasing mass, for a given equation of state, reaching a value of around 2 (or even less) for maximum-mass models, meaning that their external space-time is then rather well approximated by the Kerr metric. If $QM/J^2$ is plotter against compactness $R/2M$ (where $R$ is the radius), it is found that the relationship is nearly unique for neutron-star models, independent of the equation of state, while it is significantly different for strange stars. This gives a new way of possibly distinguishing between them.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures. Submitted to MNRAS
Prediction of the Diplocarpon rosae secretome reveals candidate genes for effectors and virulence factors
Creators: name: Neu, Enzo
name: Debener, Thomas
Publisher: name: Amsterdam : Elsevier
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Black spot
subject: Effector prediction
subject: Fungi
subject: Plant cell wall-degrading enzymes
subject: Plant-pathogen interaction
subject: Roses
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::570 | Biowissenschaften, Biologie
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::580 | Pflanzen (Botanik)

description: Rose black spot is one of the most severe diseases of field-grown roses. Though R-genes have been characterised, little information is known about the molecular details of the interaction between pathogen and host. Based on the recently published genome sequence of the black spot fungus, we analysed gene models with various bioinformatic tools utilising the expression data of infected host tissues, which led to the prediction of 827 secreted proteins. A significant proportion of the predicted secretome comprises enzymes for the degradation of cell wall components, several of which were highly expressed during the first infection stages. As the secretome comprises major factors determining the ability of the fungus to colonise its host, we focused our further analyses on predicted effector candidates. In total, 52 sequences of 251 effector candidates matched several bioinformatic criteria of effectors, contained a Y/F/WxC motif, and did not match annotated proteins from other fungi. Additional sequences were identified based on their high expression levels during the penetration/haustorium formation phase and/or by matching known effectors from other fungi. Several host genotypes that are resistant to the sequenced isolate but differ in the R-genes responsible for this resistance are available. The combination of these genotypes with functional studies of the identified candidate effectors will allow the mechanisms of the rose black spot interaction to be dissected.
Potential of electrospun cationic BSA fibers to guide osteogenic MSC differentiation via surface charge and fibrous topography
Creators: name: Raic, Annamarija
name: Friedrich, Frank
name: Kratzer, Domenic
name: Bieback, Karen
name: Lahann, Joerg
name: Lee-Thedieck, Cornelia
Publisher: name: Berlin : Springer Nature
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: mesenchymal stromal cells
subject: bone fractures
subject: bone repair
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::530 | Physik

description: Large or complex bone fractures often need clinical treatments for sufficient bone repair. New treatment strategies have pursued the idea of using mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) in combination with osteoinductive materials to guide differentiation of MSCs into bone cells ensuring complete bone regeneration. To overcome the challenge of developing such materials, fundamental studies are needed to analyze and understand the MSC behavior on modified surfaces of applicable materials for bone healing. For this purpose, we developed a fibrous scaffold resembling the bone/bone marrow extracellular matrix (ECM) based on protein without addition of synthetic polymers. With this biomimetic in vitro model we identified the fibrous structure as well as the charge of the material to be responsible for its effects on MSC differentiation. Positive charge was introduced via cationization that additionally supported the stability of the scaffold in cell culture, and acted as nucleation point for mineralization during osteogenesis. Furthermore, we revealed enhanced focal adhesion formation and osteogenic differentiation of MSCs cultured on positively charged protein fibers. This pure protein-based and chemically modifiable, fibrous ECM model allows the investigation of MSC behavior on biomimetic materials to unfold new vistas how to direct cells’ differentiation for the development of new bone regenerating strategies.
Lattice Radial Quantization: 3D Ising
Creators: name: Brower, Richard
name: Fleming, George
name: Neuberger, Herbert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Lattice radial quantization is introduced as a nonperturbative method intended to numerically solve Euclidean conformal field theories that can be realized as fixed points of known Lagrangians. As an example, we employ a lattice shaped as a cylinder with a 2D Icosahedral cross-section to discretize dilatations in the 3D Ising model. Using this method, we obtain the preliminary estimate eta=0.034(10).
description: 13 pages, 5 figures
Production of a Recombinant Non-Hydroxylated Gelatin Mimetic in Pichia pastoris for Biomedical Applications
Creators: name: Gellermann, Pia
name: Schneider-Barthold, Caroline
name: Nicolin Bolten, Svenja
name: Overfelt, Ethan
name: Scheper, Thomas
name: Pepelanova, Iliyana
Publisher: name: Basel : MDPI
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: gelatin-mimetic protein
subject: recombinant gelatin
subject: Komagataella pfaffi (Pichia pastoris)
subject: recombinant ECM-protein
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::570 | Biowissenschaften, Biologie

description: Proteins derived from the natural extracellular matrix like collagen or gelatin are common in clinical research, where they are prized for their biocompatibility and bioactivity. Cells are able to adhere, grow and remodel scaffolds based on these materials. Usually, collagen and gelatin are sourced from animal material, risking pathogenic transmission and inconsistent batch-to-batch product quality. A recombinant production in yeast circumvents these disadvantages by ensuring production with a reproducible quality in animal-component-free media. A gelatin mimetic protein, based on the alpha chain of human collagen I, was cloned in Pichia pastoris under the control of the methanol-inducible alcohol oxidase (AOX1) promoter. A producing clone was selected and cultivated at the 30 L scale. The protein was secreted into the cultivation medium and the final yield was 3.4 g·L−1. Purification of the target was performed directly from the cell-free medium by size exclusion chromatography. The gelatin mimetic protein was tested in cell culture for biocompatibility and for promoting cell adhesion. It supported cell growth and its performance was indistinguishable from animal-derived gelatin. The gelatin-mimetic protein represents a swift strategy to produce recombinant and human-based extracellular matrix proteins for various biomedical applications.
Average Symmetry Protected Higher-order Topological Amorphous Insulators
Creators: name: Tao, Yu-Liang
name: Wang, Jiong-Hao
name: Xu, Yong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: While topological phases have been extensively studied in amorphous systems in recent years, it remains unclear whether the random nature of amorphous materials can give rise to higher-order topological phases that have no crystalline counterparts. Here we theoretically demonstrate the existence of higher-order topological insulators in two-dimensional amorphous systems that can host more than six corner modes, such as eight or twelve corner modes. Although individual sample configuration lacks crystalline symmetry, we find that an ensemble of all configurations exhibits an average crystalline symmetry that provides protection for the new topological phases. To characterize the topological phases, we construct two topological invariants. Even though the bulk energy gap in the topological phase vanishes in the thermodynamic limit, we show that the bulk states near zero energy are localized, as supported by the level-spacing statistics and inverse participation ratio. Our findings open an avenue for exploring average symmetry protected higher-order topological phases in amorphous systems without crystalline counterparts.
description: 17 pages, 7 figures
Social Robots As Companions for Lonely Hearts: The Role of Anthropomorphism and Robot Appearance
Creators: name: Jung, Yoonwon
name: Hahn, Sowon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Loneliness is a distressing personal experience and a growing social issue. Social robots could alleviate the pain of loneliness, particularly for those who lack in-person interaction. This paper investigated how the effect of loneliness on the anthropomorphism of social robots differs by robot appearance, and how it influences purchase intention. Participants viewed a video of one of the three robots (machine-like, animal-like, and human-like) moving and interacting with a human counterpart. Bootstrapped multiple regression results revealed that although the unique effect of animal-likeness on anthropomorphism compared to human-likeness was higher, lonely individuals' tendency to anthropomorphize the animal-like robot was lower than that of the human-like robot. This moderating effect remained significant after covariates were included. Bootstrapped mediation analysis showed that anthropomorphism had both a positive direct effect on purchase intent and a positive indirect effect mediated by likability. Our results suggest that lonely individuals' tendency of anthropomorphizing social robots should not be summarized into one unified inclination. Moreover, by extending the effect of loneliness on anthropomorphism to likability and purchase intent, this current study explored the potential of social robots to be adopted as companions of lonely individuals in their real life. Lastly, we discuss the practical implications of the current study for designing social robots.
description: Accepted for oral presentation at the 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication(RO-MAN 2023). Camera-ready (ver2)
Papyrus, Forest Resources and Rural Livelihoods: A Village Computable General Equilibrium Analysis from Northern Zambia
Creators: name: Gronau, Steven
name: Winter, Etti
name: Grote, Ulrike
Publisher: name: Wuhan : Scientific Research Publishing
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Papyrus
subject: Bioenergy
subject: Forest Resources
subject: Village Computable General Equilibrium Model
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::300 | Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie::330 | Wirtschaft::333 | Boden- und Energiewirtschaft::333,7 | Natürliche Ressourcen, Energie und Umwelt

description: Papyrus is increasingly suggested as an alternative bioenergy source to reduce the pressure on forest ecosystems. However, there are few studies on the economic viability of papyrus wetlands and the benefits for local communities. We construct a village Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model to examine whether papyrus harvesting and processing has the potential to improve local livelihoods and simultaneously counteract pressure on local forest resources. We apply the CGE model to a village in northern Zambia where overexploitation of forest resources to produce energy from firewood and charcoal poses a serious problem. The analysis is based on survey data from 105 households collected in 2015. The model results show that papyrus briquetting would be a possible alternative biofuel and that this technology improves household income and utility through labor reallocations. Higher opportunity costs lead to households switching from firewood extraction and charcoal production activities to papyrus harvesting and processing to produce bioenergy. Replacing energy supplies from firewood and charcoal with papyrus briquettes results in substitution effects between forest land and wetland and thereby reduces the pressure on local forest resources. The CGE approach allows for an economy-wide ex-ante analysis at village level and can support management decisions to ensure the success of papyrus bioenergy interventions.
Self-regulated ligand-metal charge transfer upon lithium ion de-intercalation process from LiCoO2 to CoO2
Creators: name: Fantin, Roberto
name: van Roekeghem, Ambroise
name: Benayad, Anass
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Understanding the role of metal and oxygen in the redox process of layered 3d transition metal oxides is crucial to build high density and stable next generation Li-ion batteries. We combine hard X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and ab-initio-based cluster model simulations to study the electronic structure of prototypical end-members LiCoO2 and CoO2. The role of cobalt and oxygen in the redox process is analyzed by optimizing the values of d-d electron repulsion and ligand-metal p-d charge transfer to the Co 2p spectra. We clarify the nature of oxidized cobalt ions by highlighting the transition from positive to negative ligand-to-metal charge transfer upon Li+ de-intercalation.
description: Using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and ab-initio simulations, this study reveals the changes in electronic structure upon discharge for LixCoO2, an archetypal cathode material for lithium-ion batteries
Classification and analysis of emission-line galaxies using mean field independent component analysis
Creators: name: Allen, James T.
name: Hewett, Paul C.
name: Richardson, Chris T.
name: Ferland, Gary J.
name: Baldwin, Jack A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an analysis of the optical spectra of narrow emission-line galaxies, based on mean field independent component analysis (MFICA). Samples of galaxies were drawn from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and used to generate compact sets of `continuum' and `emission-line' component spectra. These components can be linearly combined to reconstruct the observed spectra of a wider sample of galaxies. Only 10 components - five continuum and five emission line - are required to produce accurate reconstructions of essentially all narrow emission-line galaxies; the median absolute deviations of the reconstructed emission-line fluxes, given the signal-to-noise ratio (S/N) of the observed spectra, are 1.2-1.8 sigma for the strong lines. After applying the MFICA components to a large sample of SDSS galaxies we identify the regions of parameter space that correspond to pure star formation and pure active galactic nucleus (AGN) emission-line spectra, and produce high S/N reconstructions of these spectra. The physical properties of the pure star formation and pure AGN spectra are investigated by means of a series of photoionization models, exploiting the faint emission lines that can be measured in the reconstructions. We are able to recreate the emission line strengths of the most extreme AGN case by assuming the central engine illuminates a large number of individual clouds with radial distance and density distributions, f(r) ~ r^gamma and g(n) ~ n^beta, respectively. The best fit is obtained with gamma = -0.75 and beta = -1.4. From the reconstructed star formation spectra we are able to estimate the starburst ages. These preliminary investigations serve to demonstrate the success of the MFICA-based technique in identifying distinct emission sources, and its potential as a tool for the detailed analysis of the physical properties of galaxies in large-scale surveys.
description: MNRAS accepted. 29 pages, 24 figures, 3 tables
Notes on conformal anomaly, nonlocal effective action and the metamorphosis of the running scale
Creators: name: Barvinsky, A. O.
name: Wachowski, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the structure of nonlocal effective action generating the conformal anomaly in classically Weyl invariant theories in curved spacetime. By the procedure of conformal gauge fixing, selecting the metric representative on a conformal group orbit, we split the renormalized effective action into anomalous and Weyl invariant parts. A wide family of thus obtained anomalous actions is shown to include two special cases of Riegert--Fradkin--Tseytlin and Fradkin--Vilkovisky actions. Both actions are shown to be contained in the first three orders of the curvature expansion for a generic one-loop effective action obtained by covariant perturbation theory. The complementary Weyl invariant part of the action is given by the ``conformization'' of the full effective action -- restricting its argument to the conformally invariant representative of the orbit of the conformal group. This is likely to resolve a long-standing debate between the proponents of the Riegert action and adherents of the perturbation expansion for the effective action with typical nonlocal logarithmic form factors. We derive the relation between quantum stress tensors on conformally related metric backgrounds, which generalizes the known Brown-Cassidy equation to the case of nonzero Weyl tensor, and discuss applications of this relation in the cosmological model driven by conformal field theory. We also discuss the issue of renormalization group running for the cosmological and gravitational coupling constants and show that it exhibits a kind of a metamorphosis to the nonlocal form factors of the so-called partners of the cosmological and Einstein terms -- nonlocal curvature squared terms of the effective action.
description: Comments on the minimal form of the conformal Wess-Zumino action and a-theorem are added along with the additional new reference
Halpha3: an Halpha imaging survey of HI selected galaxies from ALFALFA. III. Nurture shapes up the Hubble sequence in the Great Wall
Creators: name: Gavazzi, Giuseppe
name: Savorgnan, Giulia
name: Fossati, Matteo
name: Dotti, Massimo
name: Fumagalli, Michele
name: Boselli, Alessandro
name: Gutierrez, Leonel
name: Toledo, Hector Hernandez
name: Giovanelli, Riccardo
name: Haynes, Martha P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the analysis of Halpha3, an Halpha imaging survey of galaxies selected from the HI ALFALFA Survey in the Coma Supercluster. By using the Halpha line as a tracer of the "instantaneous" star formation, complemented with optical colors from SDSS we explore the hypothesis that a morphological sequence of galaxies of progressively earlier type, lower gas-content exists in the neighborhood of the Coma cluster, with specific star formation activity decreasing with increasing local galaxy density and velocity dispersion. In the dwarf regime (8.5
description: 16 pages, 15 figures, 3 tables, A&A accepted, language edited
Rinaldo Rod Puppet
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Renaud de Montauban (Legendary character)
Knights and knighthood

description: Sicilian rod puppet operated from above. Face, hands, feet of painted wood or plaster. Armor, shield, sword, scabbard of unpainted tin. Skirt of pale-red muslin with metallic tape trim. Tin lion atop helmet, on shield and breastplate. Scholar suggests Palermo.
A Fuzzy Topsis Multiple-Attribute Decision Making for Scholarship Selection
Creators: name: 'Uyun, Shofwatul
name: Riadi, Imam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: As the education fees are becoming more expensive, more students apply for scholarships. Consequently, hundreds and even thousands of applications need to be handled by the sponsor. To solve the problems, some alternatives based on several attributes (criteria) need to be selected. In order to make a decision on such fuzzy problems, Fuzzy Multiple Attribute Decision Making (FMDAM) can be applied. In this study, Unified Modeling Language (UML) in FMADM with TOPSIS and Weighted Product (WP) methods is applied to select the candidates for academic and non-academic scholarships at Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Kalijaga. Data used were a crisp and fuzzy data. The results show that TOPSIS and Weighted Product FMADM methods can be used to select the most suitable candidates to receive the scholarships since the preference values applied in this method can show applicants with the highest eligibility
description: 10 pages, 5 figures, arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1306.5960
Proceedings of the 11th European Workshop on Aircraft Design Education
Creators: name: European Workshop On Aircraft Design Education (EWADE)
Publisher: name: Linköping : EWADE
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Aircraft
subject: Design
subject: Aircraft Design
subject: Conceptual Design
subject: Preliminary Design
subject: Optimization
subject: Civil Airplane
subject: Hybrid Propulsion
subject: Stability
subject: Control
subject: Transport Aircraft
subject: Tail
subject: General Aviation
subject: Turboprop
subject: Engineering Education
subject: Course
subject: Lecture
subject: UAV
subject: UAS
subject: Open Access
subject: Aerospace
subject: Passenger Aircraft
subject: In-Flight Refueling
subject: Collaboration
subject: Blended Wing Body
subject: BWB
subject: Toolkit
subject: Network
subject: Aerospace Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering
subject: Visualization
subject: OpenVSP
subject: Vehicle Sketch Pad
subject: NASA
subject: Workshop
subject: Education
subject: University
subject: Research
subject: Teaching
subject: Europe
subject: Flugzeugentwurf
subject: Flugzeug
subject: Entwurf
subject: Passagierflugzeug
subject: Lehre
subject: Luftfahrt
subject: Konferenzschrift
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::620 | Ingenieurwissenschaften und Maschinenbau
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::620 | Ingenieurwissenschaften und Maschinenbau::629,1 | Luft- und Raumfahrttechnik

description: These are the Proceedings of the 11th European Workshop on Aircraft Design Education (in short: EWADE 2013). The workshop took place from 17. to 19.09.2013 in Linköping, Sweden. EWADE 2013 was for the first time integrated into the CEAS European Air & Space Conference. Location was the congress center located right in the heart of the city of Linköping. The workshop was organized by Prof. Dieter Scholz, Aircraft Design and Systems Group (AERO), Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, in close cooperation with Prof. Petter Krus, Head of the CEAS2013 Programme Committee and Head of the Division of Fluid and Mechatronic System, Linköping University and Dr. Tomas Melin, CEAS 2013 Programme Secretary and Research Associate in the Division of Fluid and Mechatronic System, Linköping University. The workshop had 4 technical sessions: EWADE 1 - Presentations from EWADE Founders and Hosts. EWADE 2 - Teaching and Research Activities in Aircraft Design. EWADE 3 - Aircraft Design Studies. EWADE 4 - Aircraft Design - Methods and Tools. The proceedings cover all 19 presentations. 6 of these presentations are accompanied by full text papers.
title: Применение геотекстильных материалов для ремонта автомобильных дорог
Creators: name: Саканская-Грицай, Елена
Publisher: name: Технико-технологические проблемы сервиса
Year: 2018

description: В статье анализируются проблемы эксплуатации автомобильных дорог, их решение путём использования в конструкции дорожной одежды современных геотекстильных материалов. Рассматриваются виды и варианты применение геотекстильных материалов. Предполагается повысить экономичность отдельных проектов за счёт использования регенерированных ПЭТ-волокон из бутылочных флексов, а также с помощью инновационных цифровых 3D систем автоматического нивелирования для дорожно-строительных машин.
Precise Orbit Determination of GOCE based on GNSS observations
Creators: name: Shabanloui, Akbar
name: Kusche, Jürgen
Publisher: name: Leibniz Universität Hannover
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Geometrical Precise Orbit Determination
subject: GOCE
subject: GNSS observations
subject: Geometrische Bahnbestimmung
subject: GNSS Beobachtungen
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::520 | Astronomie, Kartographie
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::620 | Ingenieurwissenschaften und Maschinenbau

description: The geometrical point-wise satellite positions can be derived by GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) analysis techniques. Based on only geometrical high- low Satellite to Satellite Tracking (hl-SST) between GNSS satellites and LEO (Low Earth Orbiter), the absolute positions are estimated and defined as geometrical POD (GPOD). In this paper, the zero differenced estimation procedure will be applied to GOCE (Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer) observations and results will be discussed. Initial POD results show that the GOCE geometrical point-wise positions can be estimated based on high-low SST with an accuracy of 2-3 cm.
An Analytical Model-based Capacity Planning Approach for Building CSD-based Storage Systems
Creators: name: Byun, Hongsu
name: Jamil, Safdar
name: Han, Jungwook
name: Park, Sungyong
name: Lee, Myungcheol
name: Kim, Changsoo
name: Choi, Beongjun
name: Kim, Youngjae
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The data movement in large-scale computing facilities (from compute nodes to data nodes) is categorized as one of the major contributors to high cost and energy utilization. To tackle it, in-storage processing (ISP) within storage devices, such as Solid-State Drives (SSDs), has been explored actively. The introduction of computational storage drives (CSDs) enabled ISP within the same form factor as regular SSDs and made it easy to replace SSDs within traditional compute nodes. With CSDs, host systems can offload various operations such as search, filter, and count. However, commercialized CSDs have different hardware resources and performance characteristics. Thus, it requires careful consideration of hardware, performance, and workload characteristics for building a CSD-based storage system within a compute node. Therefore, storage architects are hesitant to build a storage system based on CSDs as there are no tools to determine the benefits of CSD-based compute nodes to meet the performance requirements compared to traditional nodes based on SSDs. In this work, we proposed an analytical model-based storage capacity planner called CSDPlan for system architects to build performance-effective CSD-based compute nodes. Our model takes into account the performance characteristics of the host system, targeted workloads, and hardware and performance characteristics of CSDs to be deployed and provides optimal configuration based on the number of CSDs for a compute node. Furthermore, CSDPlan estimates and reduces the total cost of ownership (TCO) for building a CSD-based compute node. To evaluate the efficacy of CSDPlan, we selected two commercially available CSDs and 4 representative big data analysis workloads.
Rinaldo
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Renaud de Montauban (Legendary character)
Knights and knighthood

description: Sicilian rod puppet operated from above. Face, legs of painted wood or plaster. Hands of metal. Armor, shield, sword, scabbard of unpainted tin decorated with copper and brass lions atop helmet, on shield and breastplate. Skirt of white silk with metallic tape trim and spangles. Breeches of lavender. A red and green feather plume attached to helmet. Scholar suggests made in Palermo.
title: Пути решения проблем профессионального обучения специалистов сервиса в условиях виртуального пространства
Creators: name: Грицай, Елена
Publisher: name: Технико-технологические проблемы сервиса
Year: 2011

description: Рассмотрены проблемы обучения специалистов сервисных специальностей с использованием электронных ресурсов. Обозначен ряд преимуществ инновационных образова-тельных технологий для развития профессионально-творческих компетентностей студентов вуза.