cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Validation of the Bond et al. (2010) SDSS-derived kinematic models for the Milky Way's disk and halo stars with Gaia Data Release 3 proper motion and radial velocity data
Creators: name: Domínguez, Bruno
name: Chaini, Siddharth
name: Mrakovčić, Karlo
name: Sallee, Brandon
name: Ivezić, Željko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We validate the Bond et al. (2010) kinematic models for the Milky Way's disk and halo stars with Gaia Data Release 3 data. Bond et al. constructed models for stellar velocity distributions using stellar radial velocities measured by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and stellar proper motions derived from SDSS and the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey astrometric measurements. These models describe velocity distributions as functions of position in the Galaxy, with separate models for disk and halo stars that were labeled using SDSS photometric and spectroscopic metallicity measurements. We find that the Bond et al. model predictions are in good agreement with recent measurements of stellar radial velocities and proper motions by the Gaia survey. In particular, the model accurately predicts the skewed non-Gaussian distribution of rotational velocity for disk stars and its vertical gradient, as well as the dispersions for all three velocity components. Additionally, the spatial invariance of velocity ellipsoid for halo stars when expressed in spherical coordinates is also confirmed by Gaia data at galacto-centric radial distances of up to 15 kpc.
description: 10 pages, 13 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
The exploratory art of Bruce Chatwin
Creators: name: Griffiths, Michael.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Victor Louis von Deschwanden (1795-1878) an Joseph Wolfgang von Deschwanden (1819-1866) und an Karl von Deschwanden (1823-1889)
Creators: name: Deschwanden, Victor Louis von
name: Deschwanden, Carolina von
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1842

description: Brief aus Stans, gerichtet an "Meine Lieben"
Briefzusatz von Carolina von Deschwanden
Magnetic Coordinate Systems
Creators: name: Laundal, K. M.
name: Richmond, A. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Geospace phenomena such as the aurora, plasma motion, ionospheric currents and associated magnetic field disturbances are highly organized by Earth's main magnetic field. This is due to the fact that the charged particles that comprise space plasma can move almost freely along magnetic field lines, but not across them. For this reason it is sensible to present such phenomena relative to Earth's magnetic field. A large variety of magnetic coordinate systems exist, designed for different purposes and regions, ranging from the magnetopause to the ionosphere. In this paper we review the most common magnetic coordinate systems and describe how they are defined, where they are used, and how to convert between them. The definitions are presented based on the spherical harmonic expansion coefficients of the International Geomagnetic Reference Field (IGRF) and, in some of the coordinate systems, the position of the Sun which we show how to calculate from the time and date. The most detailed coordinate systems take the full IGRF into account and define magnetic latitude and longitude such that they are constant along field lines. These coordinate systems, which are useful at ionospheric altitudes, are non-orthogonal. We show how to handle vectors and vector calculus in such coordinates, and discuss how systematic errors may appear if this is not done correctly.
Marcel Duchamp's readymades and their critical reception
Creators: name: Hicks-Williams, Linda.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Particle production and hadronization temperature in the massive Schwinger model
Creators: name: Batini, Laura
name: Kuhn, Lara
name: Berges, Jürgen
name: Floerchinger, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the pair production, string breaking, and hadronization of a receding electron-positron pair using the bosonized version of the massive Schwinger model in quantum electrodynamics in 1+1 space-time dimensions. Specifically, we study the dynamics of the electric field in Bjorken coordinates by splitting it into a coherent field and its Gaussian fluctuations. We find that the electric field shows damped oscillations, reflecting pair production. Interestingly, the computation of the asymptotic total particle density per rapidity interval for large masses can be fitted using a Boltzmann factor, where the temperature can be related to the hadronization temperature in QCD. Lastly, we discuss the possibility of an analog quantum simulation of the massive Schwinger model using ultracold atoms, explicitly matching the potential of the Schwinger model to the effective potential for the relative phase of two linearly coupled Bose-Einstein condensates.
description: 15 pages, 8 figures. v2: 2 references added includes minor clarifications, matches published version
(202548) James Fielder
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Precise radial velocities of giant stars IX. HD 59686 Ab: a massive circumstellar planet orbiting a giant star in a ~13.6 au eccentric binary system
Creators: name: Ortiz, Mauricio
name: Reffert, Sabine
name: Trifonov, Trifon
name: Quirrenbach, Andreas
name: Mitchell, David
name: Nowak, Grzegorz
name: Buenzli, Esther
name: Zimmerman, Neil
name: Bonnefoy, Mickael
name: Skemer, Andy
name: Defrère, Denis
name: Lee, Man Hoi
name: Fischer, Debra
name: Hinz, Philip
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context: For over 12 yr, we have carried out a precise radial velocity survey of a sample of 373 G and K giant stars using the Hamilton Échelle Spectrograph at Lick Observatory. There are, among others, a number of multiple planetary systems in our sample as well as several planetary candidates in stellar binaries. Aims: We aim at detecting and characterizing substellar+stellar companions to the giant star HD 59686 A (HR 2877, HIP 36616). Methods: We obtained high precision radial velocity (RV) measurements of the star HD 59686 A. By fitting a Keplerian model to the periodic changes in the RVs, we can assess the nature of companions in the system. In order to discriminate between RV variations due to non-radial pulsation or stellar spots we used infrared RVs taken with the CRIRES spectrograph at the Very Large Telescope. Additionally, to further characterize the system, we obtain high-resolution images with LMIRCam at the Large Binocular Telescope. Results: We report the likely discovery of a giant planet with a mass of $m_{p}~\sin i=6.92_{-0.24}^{+0.18}~M_{Jup}$ orbiting at $a_{p}=1.0860_{-0.0007}^{+0.0006}$ au from the giant star HD 59686 A. Besides the planetary signal, we discover an eccentric ($e_{B}=0.729_{-0.003}^{+0.004}$) binary companion with a mass of $m_{B}~\sin i=0.5296_{-0.0008}^{+0.0011}~M_{Sun}$ orbiting at a semi-major axis of just $a_{B}=13.56_{-0.14}^{+0.18}$ au. Conclusions: The existence of the planet HD 59686 Ab in a tight eccentric binary system severely challenges standard giant planet formation theories and requires substantial improvements to such theories in tight binaries. Otherwise, alternative planet formation scenarios such as second generation planets or dynamical interactions in an early phase of the system's lifetime should be seriously considered in order to better understand the origin of this enigmatic planet.
description: 14 pages, 11 figures, 2 tables. Accepted for publication in A&A. Updated version to match the published paper
Scattering Theory of Kondo Mirages and Observation of Single Kondo Atom Phase Shift
Creators: name: Eigler, D. M.
name: Fiete, Gregory A.
name: Heller, Eric J.
name: Hersch, Jesse S.
name: Lutz, C. P.
name: Manoharan, H. C.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
Superconductivity in Ropes of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
Creators: name: Bouchiat, H.
name: Gorbatov, Y. B.
name: Guéron, S.
name: Kasumov, A. Y.
name: Khodos, I. I.
name: Kociak, M.
name: Reulet, B.
name: Vaccarini, L
name: Volkov, V. T.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
Quantum Interference and Ballistic Transmission in Nanotube Electron Waveguides
Creators: name: Dai, Hongjie
name: Kim, Woong
name: Kong, Jing
name: Tombler, Thomas W.
name: Yenilmez, Erhan
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
Alternative possibilites and forms of compulsion
Creators: name: Mrksa, Kris.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Simultaneous Tissue Extraction and Quantification of Reproductive Neuropeptides and Sex Steroids in Zebrafish and Mouse
Creators: name: Lu, Chunyu
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2022
Subjects: Secretoneurin
LC-MS/MS
Quantification
Hormone

description: The detection and quantification of hormones are important to assess the reproductive and stress status of experimental models and for the diagnosis of diseases in human and veterinary clinics. The peptide secretoneurin (SN) has been proposed as a new sex hormone, but effective quantification methods are challenging. Traditional methods require the use of antibodies with either radioactive or non-radioactive tracers. There are difficulties with these methods in terms of sensitivity, specificity, and inter-laboratory repeatability. Liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) can circumvent many of these challenges. Another source of variation is the extraction of lipophilic steroidal compounds, which is incompatible with the extraction of hydrophilic peptide hormones. I have developed efficient extraction and sensitive detection methods of SN with numerous other peptide and steroid hormones in the same tissue sample in mice and zebrafish. The extraction efficiency for both peptide and steroid analytes is over 85%. The standard deviation for extraction and LC-MS/MS analysis for each compound varies between 5-10%. The steroid hormones can be quantified in the low to medium fmol/µL range. We quantified peptide hormones in the high fmol/µL to low pmol/µL range. Mouse SN levels were measured and compared against the levels of GnRH 1, oxytocin, vasopressin, E2, and P4 in multiple tissues at 3 important periods through the estrous cycle. In addition, SN levels were found to be moderately related to GnRH 1 levels in the hypothalamus in the estrous cycle. This is important because it is GnRH 1 that stimulates the luteinizing hormone surge in the pituitary that regulates ovulation in all vertebrate species. I also determined that SNa and SNb were both within the 2-8 pmol/µL range in the brain or pituitary harvested from a single female zebrafish. This makes it feasible for the first time to study the correlation between the SNs and other peptides and steroid hormones by quantifying them simultaneously in very small tissue samples. Untargeted peptidomics determined that the SN peptides in zebrafish can be further processed into smaller discrete fragments. This implies not only active synthesis and selective peptide processing but suggests that the are unknown functions of the SN peptide fragments that await discovery. This cost-effective package was used for the detailed assessment of hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal function in mice and zebrafish and may be adaptable to many other hormones across species.
Achieving quantum supremacy with sparse and noisy commuting quantum computations
Creators: name: Bremner, Michael J.
name: Montanaro, Ashley
name: Shepherd, Dan J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The class of commuting quantum circuits known as IQP (instantaneous quantum polynomial-time) has been shown to be hard to simulate classically, assuming certain complexity-theoretic conjectures. Here we study the power of IQP circuits in the presence of physically motivated constraints. First, we show that there is a family of sparse IQP circuits that can be implemented on a square lattice of n qubits in depth O(sqrt(n) log n), and which is likely hard to simulate classically. Next, we show that, if an arbitrarily small constant amount of noise is applied to each qubit at the end of any IQP circuit whose output probability distribution is sufficiently anticoncentrated, there is a polynomial-time classical algorithm that simulates sampling from the resulting distribution, up to constant accuracy in total variation distance. However, we show that purely classical error-correction techniques can be used to design IQP circuits which remain hard to simulate classically, even in the presence of arbitrary amounts of noise of this form. These results demonstrate the challenges faced by experiments designed to demonstrate quantum supremacy over classical computation, and how these challenges can be overcome.
description: 23 pages, 1 figure; v4: uses standard journal style
(202543) William Gregory
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Autômatos celulares bidimensionais estocásticos aplicados à evacuação de pedestres em locais com ocorrência de incêndios
Creators: name: Nunes, Nayara Terezinha
name: Santos, Maria Eduarda Rosa
name: Castro, Andre Pereira de
name: Silva, Eduardo Cassiano da
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 120105 Architecture Management
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: A segurança em ambientes caracterizados pelo intenso fluxo de pessoas com tendência de formação de aglomerações ou conflitos, merecem atenção especial. Caso uma multidão falhe ao escapar em tempo de um local que ofereça risco, pela escolha de um caminho errado ou maior, pode haver iminência de lesões e até mesmo de morte. Simulações computacionais são importantes para determinar a confiabilidade e segurança de um projeto de edificação ou até mesmo de urbanização. O principal objetivo da pesquisa é a proposição de um modelo de simulação de dinâmica populacional para evacuação emergencial de ambientes com propagação de incêndio baseado na teoria de autômatos celulares adaptados de modelos precursores.
Ensemble Average Theory of Gravity
Creators: name: Khosravi, Nima
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We put forward the idea that all the theoretically consistent models of gravity have contributions to the observed gravity interaction. In this formulation, each model comes with its own Euclidean path-integral weight where general relativity (GR) has automatically the maximum weight in high-curvature regions. We employ this idea in the framework of Lovelock models and show that in four dimensions the result is a specific form of the $f(R,G)$ model. This specific $f(R,G)$ satisfies the stability conditions and possesses self-accelerating solutions. Our model is consistent with the local tests of gravity since its behavior is the same as in GR for the high-curvature regime. In the low-curvature regime the gravitational force is weaker than in GR, which can be interpreted as the existence of a repulsive fifth force for very large scales. Interestingly, there is an intermediate-curvature regime where the gravitational force is stronger in our model compared to GR. The different behavior of our model in comparison with GR in both low- and intermediate-curvature regimes makes it observationally distinguishable from $Λ$CDM.
description: 6 pages, typos corrected, comments are welcome, replaced with published version
A categorification of a quantum Frobenius map
Creators: name: Qi, You
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: K-Theory and Homology (math.KT)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 81R50, 16E20, 16E35

description: A quantum Frobenius map a la Lusztig for $\mathfrak{sl}_2$ is categorified at a prime root of unity.
description: 37 pages, many figures, v2 contains corrections from the referee report. Comments welcome, Journal of the Institute of Mathematics of Jussieu, 2017
Educational discourses and their effects on young people in Technical and Further Education and Community Youth Support Scheme Programs
Creators: name: Rutter, Anthea.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund Nr. 12/2003
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Dortmund
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: 080

description: Amtlicher Teil: Erste Ordnung zur Änderung der Prüfungsordnung für den Masterstudiengang "Robotics and Automation / Process Automation" der Fakultät für Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik an der Universität Dortmund vom 16. Oktober 2003
description: Amtlicher Teil: Erste Ordnung zur Änderung der Studienordnung für den Diplomstudiengang der Elektrotechnik an der Universität Dortmund vom 15. Oktober 2003
description: Amtlicher Teil: Erste Ordnung zur Änderung der Studienordnung für den Diplomstudiengang der Informationstechnik an der Universität Dortmund vom 15. Oktober 2003
description: Amtlicher Teil: Erste Ordnung zur Änderung der Studienordnung für den Masterstudiengang "Automation and Robotics / Process Automation" der Fakultät für Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik an der Universität Dortmund vom 16. Oktober 2003
description: Amtlicher Teil: Neubekanntmachung der Studienordnung für den Diplomstudiengang der Elektrotechnik an der Universität Dortmund vom 15. Oktober 2003
description: Amtlicher Teil: Neubekanntmachung der Studienordnung für den Diplomstudiengang der Informationstechnik an der Universität Dortmund vom 15. Oktober 2003
description: Amtlicher Teil: Rahmen-Studienordnung für das Studium an der Universität Dortmund in den Studiengängen der Lehrämter mit dem Abschluss der Ersten Staatsprüfung vom 15. Oktober 2003
description: Amtlicher Teil: Standards für die studienbegleitende Fachberatung an der Universität Dortmund
description: Amtliche Mitteilungen der Universität Dortmund ; 12, 2003
Measurement of light and charge yield of low-energy electronic recoils in liquid xenon
Creators: name: Goetzke, L. W.
name: Aprile, E.
name: Anthony, M.
name: Plante, G.
name: Weber, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dependence of the light and charge yield of liquid xenon on the applied electric field and recoil energy is important for dark matter detectors using liquid xenon time projections chambers. Few measurements have been made of this field dependence at recoil energies less than 10 keV. In this paper we present results of such measurements using a specialized detector. Recoil energies are determined via the Compton coincidence technique at four drift fields relevant for liquid xenon dark matter detectors: 0.19, 0.48, 1.02, and 2.32 kV/cm. Mean recoil energies down to 1 keV were measured with unprecedented precision. We find that the charge and light yield are anti-correlated above 3 keV, and that the field dependence becomes negligible below 6 keV. However, below 3 keV we find a charge yield significantly higher than expectation and a reconstructed energy deviating from linearity.
description: 17 pages, 9 figures
Equivalence of dose response curves
Creators: name: Dette, Holger
name: Möllenhoff, Kathrin
name: Volgushev, Stanislav
name: Bretz, Frank
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: dose response studies
subject: parametric bootstrap
subject: constrained parameter estimation
subject: equivalence of curves
subject: nonlinear regression
subject: 310
subject: 330
subject: 620

description: This paper investigates the problem if the difference between two parametric models m₁,m₂ describing the relation between the response and covariates in two groups is of no practical significance, such that inference can be performed on the basis of the pooled sample. Statistical methodology is developed to test the hypotheses H₀ :d(m₁,m₂) ≥ ε versus H₁ : d(m₁,m₂) < ε of equivalence between the two regression curves m₁;m₂, where d denotes a metric measuring the distance between m₁ and m₂ and ε is a pre specified constant. Our approach is based on an estimate d(m̂₁,m̂₂)) of this distance and its asymptotic properties. In order to improve the approximation of the nominal level for small sample sizes a bootstrap test is developed, which addresses the specific form of the interval hypotheses. In particular, data has to be generated under the null hypothesis, which implicitly defines a manifold for the vector of parameters. The results are illustrated by means of a simulation study, and it is demonstrated that the new methods yield a substantial improvement with respect to power compared to all currently available tests for this problem.
description: Discussion Paper / SFB 823;14/2015
Differentiability and Optimization of Multiparameter Persistent Homology
Creators: name: Scoccola, Luis
name: Setlur, Siddharth
name: Loiseaux, David
name: Carrière, Mathieu
name: Oudot, Steve
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computational Geometry (cs.CG)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Real-valued functions on geometric data -- such as node attributes on a graph -- can be optimized using descriptors from persistent homology, allowing the user to incorporate topological terms in the loss function. When optimizing a single real-valued function (the one-parameter setting), there is a canonical choice of descriptor for persistent homology: the barcode. The operation mapping a real-valued function to its barcode is differentiable almost everywhere, and the convergence of gradient descent for losses using barcodes is relatively well understood. When optimizing a vector-valued function (the multiparameter setting), there is no unique choice of descriptor for multiparameter persistent homology, and many distinct descriptors have been proposed. This calls for the development of a general framework for differentiability and optimization that applies to a wide range of multiparameter homological descriptors. In this article, we develop such a framework and show that it encompasses well-known descriptors of different flavors, such as signed barcodes and the multiparameter persistence landscape. We complement the theory with numerical experiments supporting the idea that optimizing multiparameter homological descriptors can lead to improved performances compared to optimizing one-parameter descriptors, even when using the simplest and most efficiently computable multiparameter descriptors.
description: 13 pages + 13 page appendix, 8 figures. v2: update references and fix typos
Large Deviations for Brownian Particle Systems with Killing
Creators: name: Budhiraja, Amarjit
name: Fan, Wai-Tong Louis
name: Wu, Ruoyu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60F10, 60K35, 60B10, 93E20

description: Particle approximations for certain nonlinear and nonlocal reaction-diffusion equations are studied using a system of Brownian motions with killing. The system is described by a collection of i.i.d. Brownian particles where each particle is killed independently at a rate determined by the empirical sub-probability measure of the states of the particles alive. A large deviation principle (LDP) for such sub-probability measure-valued processes is established. Along the way a convenient variational representation, which is of independent interest, for expectations of nonnegative functionals of Brownian motions together with an i.i.d. sequence of random variables is established. Proof of the LDP relies on this variational representation and weak convergence arguments.
description: v2: minor revisions, accepted by Journal of Theoretical Probability, 37 pages
Testing PSF Interpolation In Weak Lensing With Real Data
Creators: name: Lu, Tianhuan
name: Zhang, Jun
name: Dong, Fuyu
name: Li, Yingke
name: Liu, Dezi
name: Fu, Liping
name: Li, Guoliang
name: Fan, Zuhui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Reconstruction of the point spread function (PSF) is a critical process in weak lensing measurement. We develop a real-data based and galaxy-oriented pipeline to compare the performances of various PSF reconstruction schemes. Making use of a large amount of the CFHTLenS data, the performances of three classes of interpolating schemes - polynomial, Kriging, and Shepard - are evaluated. We find that polynomial interpolations with optimal orders and domains perform the best. We quantify the effect of the residual PSF reconstruction error on shear recovery in terms of the multiplicative and additive biases, and their spatial correlations using the shear measurement method of Zhang et al. (2015). We find that the impact of PSF reconstruction uncertainty on the shear-shear correlation can be significantly reduced by cross correlating the shear estimators from different exposures. It takes only 0.2 stars (SNR > 100) per square arcmin on each exposure to reach the best performance of PSF interpolation, a requirement that is generally satisfied in the CFHTlenS data.
description: 13 pages, 15 figures
(202544) Joseph Gregory
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
The use of computer-assisted instruction for reader education in Australian academic libraries
Creators: name: Hopley, Judith Anne.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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O Extremo Sul baiano na Segunda Guerra Mundial
Creators: name: Silva, Tharles S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: WW II
Extremo Sul da Bahia
História do Brasil
Getúlio Vargas
Força Expedicionária Brasileira (FEB)

description: A Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945) foi a maior das catástrofes humanas, como disse o historiador britânico Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012). Os efeitos políticos e econômicos desse conflito moldaram as relações entre as nações na segunda metade do século XX. E, em certa medida, ainda sentimos seus impactos. A guerra, que foi o maior conflito bélico na história da humanidade, deixou um rastro de destruição humana até então inédito. Mais de 70 milhões de pessoas foram mortas, entre minorias étnicas, como judeus, e políticas, como os intelectuais de esquerda. Cidades inteiras foram destruídas, principalmente na Ásia e na Europa, gerando milhões de refugiados de guerra.
Post-operative acute kidney injury in non-suprainguinal vascular surgery patients with a pre-operative history of hypertension
Creators: name: Moodley, Yoshan
name: Biccard, Bruce M.
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Acute kidney injury
subject: vascular surgery
subject: hypertensive
subject: 610

description: Hypertension is an independent predictor of acute kidney injury (AKI) in non-cardiac surgery patients. There are a few published studies which report AKI following non-suprainguinal vascular procedures, but these studies have not investigated predictors of AKI, including anti-hypertensive medications and other comorbidities, in the hypertensive population alone. We sought to identify independent predictors of post-operative AKI in non-suprainguinal vascular surgery patients with a pre-operative history of hypertension. We performed univariate (chi-squared, or Fisher’s exact testing) and multivariate (binary logistic regression) statistical analysis of prospectively collected data from 243 adult hypertensive patients who underwent non-suprainguinal vascular surgery (lower limb amputation or peripheral artery bypass surgery) at a tertiary hospital between 2008 and 2011 in an attempt to identify possible associations between comorbidity, acute pre-operative antihypertensive medication administration, and post-operative AKI (a post-operative increase in serum creatinine of ≥ 25 % above the pre-operative measurement) in these patients. The incidence of post-operative AKI in this study was 5.3 % (95 % Confidence Interval: 3.2-8.9 %). Acute pre-operative β-blocker administration was independently associated with post-operative AKI in non-suprainguinal vascular surgery patients with a pre-operative history of hypertension (Odds Ratio: 3.24; 95 % Confidence Interval: 1.03-10.25). The acute pre-operative administration of β-blockers should be carefully considered in non-suprainguinal vascular surgery patients with a pre-operative history of hypertension, in lieu of an increased risk of potentially poor post-operative renal outcomes.
description: EXCLI Journal ; Vol. 14, 2015
Resistance breaking strains of tomato spotted wilt orthotospovirus: distribution and evaluation of their impact on tomato and pepper production
Creators: name: Gambley, Cherie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Euphresco, plant health, surveillance, genomics, diagnostics, resistance-breaking, Tomato spotted wilt orthotospovirus, tomato, pepper, weeds

description: Slide of the Euphresco project 2020-A-343 'Resistance breaking strains of tomato spotted wilt orthotospovirus: distribution and evaluation of their impact on tomato and pepper production'
description: Project funded through the Euphresco network
Politics and psychoanalysis : a critical discussion of the work of A. J. Davies ?/ John O'Hara.
Creators: name: O'Hara, John.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Biodegradation and detoxification of textile azo dyes by bacterial consortium under sequential microaerophilic/aerobic processes
Creators: name: Lade, Harshad
name: Kadam, Avinash
name: Paul, Diby
name: Govindwar, Sanjay
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Azo dyes
subject: P. rettgeri strain HSL1
subject: Pseudomonas sp. SUK1
subject: bacterial consortium
subject: decolorization
subject: biodegradation
subject: sequential microaerophilic/aerobic process
subject: detoxification
subject: 610

description: Release of textile azo dyes to the environment is an issue of health concern while the use of microorganisms has proved to be the best option for remediation. Thus, in the present study, a bacterial consortium consisting of Providencia rettgeri strain HSL1 and Pseudomonas sp. SUK1 has been investigated for degradation and detoxification of structurally different azo dyes. The consortium showed 98-99 % decolorization of all the selected azo dyes viz. Reac-tive Black 5 (RB 5), Reactive Orange 16 (RO 16), Disperse Red 78 (DR 78) and Direct Red 81 (DR 81) within 12 to 30 h at 100 mg L-1 concentration at 30 ± 0.2 °C under microaero-philic, sequential aerobic/microaerophilic and microaerophilic/aerobic processes. However, decolorization under microaerophilic conditions viz. RB 5 (0.26 mM), RO 16 (0.18 mM), DR 78 (0.20 mM) and DR 81 (0.23 mM) and sequential aerobic/microaerophilic processes viz. RB 5 (0.08 mM), RO 16 (0.06 mM), DR 78 (0.07 mM) and DR 81 (0.09 mM) resulted into the formation of aromatic amines. In distinction, sequential microaerophilic/ aerobic process doesn’t show the formation of amines. Additionally, 62-72 % reduction in total organic carbon content was observed in all the dyes decolorized broths under sequential microaerophilic/aerobic processes suggesting the efficacy of method in mineralization of dyes. Notable induction within the levels of azoreductase and NADH-DCIP reductase (97 and 229 % for RB 5, 55 and 160 % for RO 16, 63 and 196 % for DR 78, 108 and 258 % for DR 81) observed under sequential microaerophilic/aerobic processes suggested their critical involvements in the initial breakdown of azo bonds, whereas, a slight increase in the levels of laccase and veratryl alcohol oxidase confirmed subsequent oxidation of formed amines. Also, the acute toxicity assay with Daphnia magna revealed the nontoxic nature of the dye-degraded metabolites under sequential microaerophilic/aerobic processes. As biodegradation under sequential microaerophilic/aerobic process completely detoxified all the selected textile azo dyes, further efforts should be made to implement such methods for large scale dye wastewater treatment technologies.
description: EXCLI Journal ; Vol. 14, 2015
A polygenic risk score for type 2 diabetes and its potential utility in identifying high-risk individuals: a prospective Chinese cohort study
Creators: name: Liu, Jia
name: Wang, Lu
name: Cui, Xuan
name: Shen, Qian
name: Wu, Dun
name: Yang, Man
name: Wang, Qiuhong
name: Dong, Yunqiu
name: Liu, Yongchao
name: Chen, Hai
name: Yang, Zhijie
name: Liu, Yaqi
name: Zhu, Meng
name: Ma, Hongxia
name: Jin, Guangfu
name: Qian, Yun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Endocrinology

description: Objective: To construct a polygenic risk score (PRS) for type 2 diabetes (T2D) and evaluate its potential utility in identifying high-risk individuals in Chinese Hans. Design: Prospective population-based cohort study. Methods: This cohort included 5024 participants without non-communicable disease in the Wuxi Non-Communicable Diseases cohort. 80 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were genotyped to construct PRS. Lifestyle was determined according to smoking, alcohol consumption, physical exercise, diet, body mass index and waist circumference. Chinese diabetes risk score (CDRS) generated by 6 traditional clinical risk factors was categorized as high risk and low risk. Cox proportion hazards regression was used to assess the risk of PRS, lifestyle, CDRS and their interaction on T2D incidence. Results: With the 14 years of follow-up, 440 out of 5024 participants developed T2D. Compared with individuals at low genetic risk (bottom quintile PRS), the hazard ratios (HR) in those with intermediate (2nd to 4th quintile), high (top quintile) PRS were 1.46 (95%CI: 1.04-2.05), 2.06 (95%CI: 1.42-2.97), respectively. Among high PRS individuals, the 10-year incidence of T2D slumped from 6.77% to 3.28% for participants having an ideal lifestyle compared with a poor lifestyle. Individuals with low CDRS and high PRS demonstrated a 10-year T2D risk of 3.34%, which excessed the level of those with high CDRS and low PRS (2.91%). Conclusion: These findings suggested that the PRS of 46 SNPs could identify high-risk individuals and improve the risk stratification defined by traditional clinical risk factors for T2D, which demonstrated the utility in promoting early screening and precise prevention.
TRABAJO GRUPAL SOBRE TRANSECTO EN ALTO SELVA ALEGRE
Creators: name: Herrera, Mildred
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 70199 Agriculture, Land and Farm Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other agricultural sciences

description: La importancia del transecto radica en que es el método de muestreo más utilizado para estimar la abundancia, la densidad de las poblaciones y/o comunidades de vegetales, animales, personas, etc. en general cualquier ser vivo al mismo tiempo que se experimenta de primera mano cómo es el relieve, clima, topografía de la zona selecta o de un recorrido desde un punto A a un punto B, en este caso el grupo decidió que el lugar donde se llevaría a cabo el transecto para la realización de este informe sería en el distrito de Alto Selva Alegre en Arequipa - Perú, donde se conocerá el lugar y se obtendrá la mayor cantidad de información sobre el sitio y lo que hay allí, las actividades que se realizan allí, etc. con el fin de publicarlo en páginas de dominio público para que la gente tenga conocimiento sobre ello y saber como es la zona desde un punto de vista ecológico en el distrito de Alto Selva Alegre.
Cosmological implications of the transition from the false vacuum to the true vacuum state
Creators: name: Stachowski, Aleksander
name: Szydlowski, Marek
name: Urbanowski, Krzysztof
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 83F05

description: We study the cosmology with the running dark energy. The parametrization of dark energy with the respect to the redshift is derived from the first principles of quantum mechanics. Energy density of dark energy is obtained from the quantum process of transition from the false vacuum state to the true vacuum state. This is the class of the extended interacting $Λ$CDM models. We consider the energy density of dark energy parametrization $ρ_\text{de}(t)$, which follows from the Breit-Wigner energy distribution function which is used to model the quantum unstable systems. The idea that properties of the process of the quantum mechanical decay of unstable states can help to understand the properties of the observed universe was formulated by Krauss and Dent and this idea was used in our considerations. In the cosmological model with the mentioned parametrization there is an energy transfer between the dark matter and dark energy. In such a evolutional scenario the universe is starting from the false vacuum state and going to the true vacuum state of the present day universe. We find that the intermediate regime during the passage from false to true vacuum states takes place. The intensity of the analyzed process is measured by a parameter $α$. For the small value of $α$ ($0 0.4$ the density of the dark energy simply jumps down. In both cases (independent from the parameter $α$) the today value of density of dark energy is reached at the value of $0.7$. We estimate the cosmological parameters for this model with visible and dark matter. This model becomes in good agreement with the astronomical data and is practically indistinguishable from $Λ$CDM model.
description: 14 pages, 16 figures
Determining the value of the fine-structure constant from a current balance: getting acquainted with some upcoming changes to the SI
Creators: name: Davis, Richard S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The revised International System of Units (SI), expected to be approved late in 2018, has implications for physics pedagogy; the ampere definition which dates from 1948 will be replaced by a definition that fixes the numerical value of the elementary charge, e, in coulombs. The kilogram definition which dates from 1889 will be replaced by a definition that fixes the numerical value of the Planck constant, h, in joule seconds. Existing SI equations are completely unaffected. However, there will be a largely-negligible, but nevertheless necessary, change to published numerical factors relating SI electrical units to their corresponding units in the Gaussian and other CGS systems of units. The implications of the revised SI for electrical metrology are neatly illustrated by considering the interpretation of results obtained from a current balance in the present SI and in the revised SI.
description: The updated version (version 3) has been published in the American Journal of Physics after reformatting by the journal
(202540) George Miller
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
(202541) Victor James Moore
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Nothocolus sicardi
Creators: name: Gonzalez, Guillermo
name: Cotoras, Darko D.
name: Grez, Audrey A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Nothocolus
Nothocolus sicardi

description: Nothocolus sicardi (Brèthes, 1925) (Fig 4k).
Examined material: 1 ex. “ Chile, Isla Tenglo, 03-10-2014, leg. A. Lüer” (CALH).
Original reference: First record of this species for Isla Tenglo.
Comments: A very common species along Chile, distributed between the provinces of Curicó and Magallanes. In Argentina, is present in the Austral Patagonia (González 2006).
description: Published as part of Gonzalez, Guillermo, Cotoras, Darko D. & Grez, Audrey A., 2020, Annotated list of island lady beetles from Chile (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae), pp. 501-526 in Zootaxa 4852 (5) on page 514, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4852.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4410156