cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Going all the way in the search for WIMP dark matter at the muon collider through precision measurements
Creators: name: Franceschini, Roberto
name: Zhao, Xiaoran
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dark Matter is a necessary ingredient for a complete theory of Nature, which has so far remained elusive in laboratory searches for new particles. Searches at current and future colliders are in principle a promising way to search for electroweak charged dark matter particles, but the sensitivity of experiments at the LHC and future $pp$ colliders falls short to fully probe the whole mass range allowed for electroweak charged dark matter particles, which extends in principle up to the O(0.1) PeV. In this work we examine the effect of on-shell and off-shell propagation of electroweak charged thermal dark matter particles on integrated and differential rates of several Standard Model final states at the muon collider, considering candidates from weak 2-plet at the TeV scale up to 7-plet and 9-plet in the O(0.1) PeV ballpark. For fermionic WIMPs we find that all dark matter candidates with $n\leq 5$, corresponding to a thermal mass up to 14~TeV, can be excluded at the high-energy muon collider for some center-of-mass energy at or below 14~TeV. For the $n>5$ WIMPs our results show that higher energy muon colliders offer a route to conclusively probe both scalar and fermionic WIMPs off-shell production all the way up to the perturbativity bound for WIMP dark matter at O(0.1)~PeV. Our results bring WIMPs over the whole allowed mass range in the realm of collider searches and motivate research and development for the realization of a high energy muon collider.
description: 11 pages, 9 figures
Are dietary choline and betaine intakes determinants of total homocysteine concentration?
Creators: name: Giovannucci, Edward
name: Lee, Jung Eun
name: Zeisel, Steven H.
name: Cho, Eunyoung
name: Jacques, Paul F.
name: Dougherty, Lauren
name: Selhub, Jacob
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Background: Elevated homocysteine concentrations are associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease and a decline in cognitive function. Intakes of choline and betaine, as methyl donors, may affect homocysteine concentrations.
(100874) Elizabeth Lucy Carter
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.
Choline intake and genetic polymorphisms influence choline metabolite concentrations in human breast milk and plasma
Creators: name: Stephenson, Brigitte
name: Fischer, Leslie M.
name: Vick, Julie
name: Galanko, Joseph
name: Zeisel, Steven H.
name: Sha, Wei
name: Da Costa, Kerry Ann
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Background: Choline is essential for infant nutrition, and breast milk is a rich source of this nutrient. Common single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) change dietary requirements for choline intake.
Diet quality and weight gain among black and white young adults: the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study (1985–2005)
Creators: name: Gordon-Larsen, Penny
name: Popkin, Barry M.
name: Jacobs Jr., David R.
name: Zamora, Daisy
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Background: Little is known about the long-term health consequences of following the 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA; Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 2005).
Detecting Axion-Like Particles with Primordial Black Holes
Creators: name: Agashe, Kaustubh
name: Chang, Jae Hyeok
name: Clark, Steven J.
name: Dutta, Bhaskar
name: Tsai, Yuhsin
name: Xu, Tao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Future gamma-ray experiments, such as the e-ASTROGAM and AMEGO telescopes, can detect the Hawking radiation of photons from primordial black holes (PBHs) if they make up a fraction or all of dark matter. PBHs can analogously also Hawking radiate new particles, which is especially interesting if these particles are mostly secluded from the Standard Model (SM) sector, since they might therefore be less accessible otherwise. A well-motivated example of this type is axion-like particles (ALPs) with a tiny coupling to photons. We assume that the ALPs produced by PBHs decay into photons well before reaching the earth, so these will augment the photons directly radiated by the PBHs. Remarkably, we find that the peaks in the energy distributions of ALPs produced from PBHs are different than the corresponding ones for Hawking radiated photons due to the spin-dependent greybody factor. Therefore, we demonstrate that this process will in fact distinctively modify the PBHs' gamma-ray spectrum relative to the SM prediction. We use monochromatic asteroid-mass PBHs as an example to show that e-ASTROGAM can observe the PBH-produced ALP gamma-ray signal (for masses up to ~60 MeV) and further distinguish it from Hawking radiation without ALPs. By measuring the gamma-ray signals, e-ASTROGAM can thereby probe yet unexplored parameters in the ALP mass and photon coupling.
description: 8 pages + references, 5 figures
DETERMINAZIONE DELLE CARATTERISTICHE FENOTIPICHE E GENOTIPICHE DI CEPPI DI STAPHYLOCOCCUS IN RELAZIONE A METICILLINO- E VANCOMICINO-RESISTENZA
Creators: name: FERRETTI, MANUELA MARIA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: OBJECTIVE ? The aim of the study was to evaluate the phenotypic and genotypic characteristics of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus pseudintermedius in samples from dogs and cats processed in the laboratory of a veterinarian teaching hospital. We also performed tests for vancomycinresistance on the same isolates. MATERIALS AND METHODS ? A total of 36 strains of Staphylococcus were isolated from 33 dogs and 3 cats (from skin, eyes, ears, urine, surgical wounds and others). The strains were identified by cultivation on selective medium (MSA), by biochemical system (API-Staph�) and by molecular method (HRM-PCR). The evaluation of the resistance pattern of the strains was performed using Kirby-Bauer method, testing different antimicrobial classes in addition to methicillin and vancomycin. We also performed MIC for methicillin and vancomycin. The presence of mecA gene was evaluated by PCR. RESULTS ? 31 strain of S. pseudintermedius, 1 strain of S. aureus and 4 strains of other Staphylococcus species were identified by HRM-PCR method. Among the 36 strains of S. pseudintermedius isolated, 19 were phenotypically resistant to methicillin and 16 of these MRSP carried the mecA gene. The 50% of the 36 isolates were found to be multiresistant and 16 of these strains were also methicillin-resistant. No vancomycin-resistant strains were found. CONCLUSIONS ? This study confirmed the increasing prevalence of MRSP and the absence so far of vancomycin-resistance in strains of Staphylococcus isolated from small domestic animals. The most reliable methods for the identification of species were the molecular ones, instead of the biochemical, less effective to have conclusive results.
ANTIDISCRIMINATION LAW AND LEGAL MOBILISATION IN ITALY. SHAPING EQUALITY FOR MIGRANTS
Creators: name: PROTOPAPA, VENERA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2016

description: Moving from an analysis of the US literature on public interest law, on law and social change and law and social movements, the research explores how, under what conditions and with what consequences, legal actors have relied on the prohibition of discrimination to challenge nationality related differences of treatment in the Italian context. It will analyse how the implementation of the Racial Equality Directive and the equal treatment clauses provided under EU law with regard to specific categories of TCNs have effected the opportunities for effective enforcement of the prohibition of discrimination at the national level and investigate the extent to which such opportunities have shaped legal strategies. Finally the research will assess the impact of litigation in terms of achieving equal rights in courts and generating policy response.
Spin-transfer torque based damping control of parametrically excited spin waves in a magnetic insulator
Creators: name: Lauer, V.
name: Bozhko, D. A.
name: Brächer, T.
name: Pirro, P.
name: Vasyuchka, V. I.
name: Serga, A. A.
name: Jungfleisch, M. B.
name: Agrawal, M.
name: Kobljanskyj, Yu. V.
name: Melkov, G. A.
name: Dubs, C.
name: Hillebrands, B.
name: Chumak, A. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The damping of spin waves parametrically excited in the magnetic insulator Yttrium Iron Garnet (YIG) is controlled by a dc current passed through an adjacent normal-metal film. The experiment is performed on a macroscopically sized YIG(100nm)/Pt(10nm) bilayer of 4x2 mm^2 lateral dimensions. The spin-wave relaxation frequency is determined via the threshold of the parametric instability measured by Brillouin light scattering (BLS) spectroscopy. The application of a dc current to the Pt film leads to the formation of a spin-polarized electron current normal to the film plane due to the spin Hall effect (SHE). This spin current exerts a spin transfer torque (STT) in the YIG film and, thus, changes the spin-wave damping. Depending on the polarity of the applied dc current with respect to the magnetization direction, the damping can be increased or decreased. The magnitude of its variation is proportional to the applied current. A variation in the relaxation frequency of +/-7.5% is achieved for an applied dc current density of 5*10^10 A/m^2.
Dietary choline requirements of women: effects of estrogen and genetic variation
Creators: name: Galanko, Joseph
name: Da Costa, Kerry Ann
name: Fischer, Leslie M.
name: Kwock, Lester
name: Zeisel, Steven H.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Background: Choline is obtained from the diet and from the biosynthesis of phosphatidylcholine. Phosphatidylcholine is catalyzed by the enzyme phosphatidylethanolamine-N-methyltransferase (PEMT), which is induced by estrogen. Because they have lower estrogen concentrations, postmenopausal women are more susceptible to the risk of organ dysfunction in response to a low-choline diet. A common genetic polymorphism (rs12325817) in the PEMT gene can also increase this risk.
Perturbing the symmetric orbifold from the worldsheet
Creators: name: Fiset, Marc-Antoine
name: Gaberdiel, Matthias R.
name: Naderi, Kiarash
name: Sriprachyakul, Vit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The symmetric orbifold of $\mathbb{T}^4$ is the analogue of free SYM in four dimensions, and its dual is described by a tensionless string propagating in ${\rm AdS}_3\times {\rm S}^3 \times \mathbb{T}^4$. In this paper we study the deformation of this exact AdS/CFT duality away from the free point. On the symmetric orbifold side this amounts to perturbing the theory by the exactly marginal operator from the $2$-cycle twisted sector. We identify the corresponding perturbation in the dual worldsheet description, and show that the anomalous conformal dimensions of a number of symmetric orbifold currents are correctly reproduced from this worldsheet perspective.
description: 27 pages, 1 figure
(100870) James Carter
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.
Empowering the use of preprints in ecology and evolution: an exploration of the first 1000 EcoEvoRxiv preprints
Creators: name: Noble, Daniel
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Other Life Sciences
subject: Life Sciences
subject: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
subject: Biology

description: The goal of this Project is to quantify various attributes of first 1000 preprints to better understand preprint practices and publication pathways in Ecology and Evolution. There are currently well >1100 preprints on the new *EcoEvoRxiv*, which was established in 2018. The aims of this project are to determine: 1) how long it takes for a preprint to become published, and how many preprints remain unpublished; 2) what countries make use of preprints; 3) how career stage and gender impact preprint use; 4) whether data and code are more likely to be shared in preprints; and 5) the extent to which authors make use of preprint servers for registered reports and community driven peer review.
Drumhead Surface States and Topological Nodal-Line Fermions in TlTaSe2
Creators: name: Bian, Guang
name: Chang, Tay-Rong
name: Zheng, Hao
name: Velury, Saavanth
name: Xu, Su-Yang
name: Neupert, Titus
name: Chiu, Ching-Kai
name: Sanchez, Daniel S.
name: Belopolski, Ilya
name: Alidoust, Nasser
name: Chen, Peng-Jen
name: Chang, Guoqing
name: Bansil, Arun
name: Jeng, Horng-Tay
name: Lin, Hsin
name: Hasan, M. Zahid
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A topological nodal-line semimetal is a new condensed matter state with one-dimensional bulk nodal lines and two-dimensional drumhead surface bands. Based on first-principles calculations and our effective k . p model, we propose the existence of topological nodal-line fermions in the ternary transition- metal chalcogenide TlTaSe2. The noncentrosymmetric structure and strong spin-orbit coupling give rise to spinful nodal-line bulk states which are protected by a mirror reflection symmetry of this compound. This is remarkably distinguished from other proposed nodal-line semimetals such as Cu3NPb(Zn) in which nodal lines exist only in the limit of vanishing spin-orbit coupling. We show that the drumhead surface states in TlTaSe2, which are associated with the topological nodal lines, exhibit an unconventional chiral spin texture and an exotic Lifshitz transition as a consequence of the linkage among multiple drumhead surface-state pockets.
description: Related papers at http://physics.princeton.edu/zahidhasangroup/index.html
(100871) Elizabeth Carter
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.
Does hunger and satiety drive eating anymore? Increasing eating occasions and decreasing time between eating occasions in the United States
Creators: name: Duffey, Kiyah J.
name: Popkin, Barry M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Background: The design of dietary, metabolic, and intervention studies should reflect the meal patterning of free-living individuals, but this design has not been systematically reviewed recently.
A Simple Derivation of the Fong-Wandzura Pulse Sequence
Creators: name: Zeuch, Daniel
name: Bonesteel, N. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We give an analytic construction of a class of two-qubit gate pulse sequences that act on five of the six spin-$\frac12$ particles used to encode a pair of exchange-only three-spin qubits. Within this class, the problem of gate construction reduces to that of finding a smaller sequence that acts on four spins and is subject to a simple constraint. The optimal sequence satisfying this constraint yields a two-qubit gate sequence equivalent to that found numerically by Fong and Wandzura. Our construction is sufficiently simple that it can be carried out entirely with pen, paper, and knowledge of a few basic facts about quantum spin. We thereby analytically derive the Fong-Wandzura sequence that has so far escaped intuitive explanation.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
(100872) Henry W Carter
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.
GLOBAL GRADIENT BOUNDS FOR SOLUTIONS OF PRESCRIBED MEAN CURVATURE EQUATIONS ON RIEMANNIAN MANIFOLDS
Creators: name: COLOMBO, GIULIO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2021

description: This thesis is concerned with the study of qualitative properties of solutions of the minimal surface equation and of a class of prescribed mean curvature equations on complete Riemannian manifolds. We derive global gradient bounds for non-negative solutions of such equations on manifolds satisfying a uniform Ricci lower bound and we obtain Liouville-type theorems and other rigidity results on Riemannian manifolds with non-negative Ricci curvature. The proof of the aforementioned global gradient bounds for non-negative solutions u is based on the application of the maximum principle to an elliptic differential inequality satisfied by a suitable auxiliary function z=f(u,|Du|), in the spirit of Bernstein?s method of a priori estimates for nonlinear PDEs and of Yau?s proof of global gradient bounds for harmonic functions on complete Riemannian manifolds. The particular choice of the auxiliary function z parallels the one in Korevaar?s proof of a priori gradient estimates for the prescribed mean curvature equation in Euclidean space. The rigidity results obtained in the last part of the thesis include a Liouville theorem for positive solutions of the minimal surface equation on complete Riemannian manifolds with non-negative Ricci curvature, a splitting theorem for complete parabolic manifolds of non-negative sectional curvature supporting non-constant solutions with linear growth of the minimal surface equation, and a splitting theorem for domains of complete parabolic manifolds with non-negative Ricci curvature supporting non-constant solutions of overdetermined problems involving the mean curvature operator.
Essays on Credit Rationing
Creators: name: AFFUSO, ANTONIO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2008

description: This thesis focuses on the relationship between credit rationing and collateral value. The thesis is divided into three chapters. In Chapter 1, I make an overview on credit rationing. I emphasize that economists have linked credit rationing to problems of imperfect information (Jaffee and Russell 1976, Stiglitz and Weiss 1981). The interest rate is not the only term in debt contracts, and several papers have also investigated the role of collateral in solving credit rationing (Bester 1985). I also investigate the theory of collateral linked to the value of the assets (Williamson 1988, Shleifer and Vishny 1992). Finally, I review some empirical works. In Chapter 2, I construct a model that combines a credit rationing model with the idea that firms debt capacity and investments are linked to the value of assets in cases of distress. The model shows the link between firms debt capacities and asset values in case of distress. The main contribution of the paper is to show how each good firm derives positive externalities from the existence of bad firms. In Chapter 3, I show empirically how the value of real assets is inversely linked to credit rationing of Italian small and medium firms. I consider the relation between credit rationing and firms capital structure, rather than the relation between debt ratio and firms capital structure. In this Chapter, I also focus on the propensity score matching model, introduced by Rosenbaum and Rubin (1983), to investigate a causal link between public incentives and firms rationing.
Competition of non-Hermitian skin effect and topological localization of corner states observed in circuits
Creators: name: Tang, Chan
name: Yang, Huanhuan
name: Song, Lingling
name: Yao, Xianglong
name: Yan, Peng
name: Cao, Yunshan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Exploring topological phases in non-Hermitian systems has attracted significant recent attention. One intriguing question is how topological edge states compete with the non-Hermitian skin effect. Here, we report the experimental observation of corner states in a two-dimensional non-reciprocal rhombus honeycomb electric circuit. We construct non-reciprocal and non-Hermitian circuits by introducing current-direction resolved capacitance between two nodes depends on the current direction. Skin effect thus emerges due to the non-reciprocity and prevails in dragging the corner state into the bulk. The non-Bloch winding number defined in generalized Brillouin zone is adopted to characterize the topological phase transition. Interestingly, we find that the non-Bloch $Z_2$ Berry phase can serve as an invariant to describe the non-Hermitian topology. By tuning the non-reciprocal parameter, we observe unbalanced distribution of corner states emerging on two acute angles of the rhombus lattice, with the localization length of the left corner state increasing exponentially with the degree of non-reciprocity.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures; Accepted by PRB
ESiWACE2 Project Public website (D7.2)
Creators: name: ESiWACE2 Project Office
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: ESiWACE2

description: ESiWACE stands for Centre of Excellence in Simulation of Weather and Climate in Europe: the community
 of ESiWACE is made up of two projects, ESiWACE and ESiWACE2, both funded under the H2020
 programme with two different grants.
 The website www.esiwace.eu presents the community behind the Centre of Excellence (CoE) in its entirety,
 with information on the goals, expected impacts, project tools and results, providing a global overview on
 the work plan, the main achievements and the partners.This document is describing the website basic structure.
(100868) Edith A Carnick
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.
Using network science and text analytics to produce surveys in a scientific topic
Creators: name: Silva, Filipi N.
name: Amancio, Diego R.
name: Bardosova, Maria
name: Oliveira, Osvaldo N.
name: Costa, Luciano da F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The use of science to understand its own structure is becoming popular, but understanding the organization of knowledge areas is still limited because some patterns are only discoverable with proper computational treatment of large-scale datasets. In this paper, we introduce a network-based methodology combined with text analytics to construct the taxonomy of science fields. The methodology is illustrated with application to two topics: complex networks (CN) and photonic crystals (PC). We built citation networks using data from the Web of Science and used a community detection algorithm for partitioning to obtain science maps of the fields considered. We also created an importance index for text analytics in order to obtain keywords that define the communities. A dendrogram of the relatedness among the subtopics was also obtained. Among the interesting patterns that emerged from the analysis, we highlight the identification of two well-defined communities in PC area, which is consistent with the known existence of two distinct communities of researchers in the area: telecommunication engineers and physicists. With the methodology, it was also possible to assess the interdisciplinary and time evolution of subtopics defined by the keywords. The automatic tools described here are potentially useful not only to provide an overview of scientific areas but also to assist scientists in performing systematic research on a specific topic.
Drinking caloric beverages increases the risk of adverse cardiometabolic outcomes in the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study
Creators: name: Popkin, Barry M.
name: Duffey, Kiyah J.
name: Gordon-Larsen, Penny
name: Steffen, Lyn M.
name: Jacobs Jr., David R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Background: Intake of caloric beverages is hypothesized to contribute to adverse health outcomes, but the beverages and populations studied vary considerably.
Study of charm and beauty mass spectra, semileptonic decays of $B_{(s,c)}$ and ${B_c} \to J/ψ({η_c}) + P(V)$ in a phenomenological potential model
Creators: name: Rahmani, S.
name: Luo, W. C.
name: Xiao, C. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using a non-relativistic potential model, we obtain the mass spectra, leptonic decay constants, and parameters of the Isgur-Wise function for the beauty and charm mesons. With the calculated quantities, we investigate purely leptonic decays of $B^+$, $B^{*}$, $B_c^+$, semileptonic decay modes ${B_{(s)}} \to {D_{(s)}}lν$ and ${B_c} \to {η_c}\ell \bar ν$ for three lepton channels $e,μ,τ$, and obtain the corresponding branching fractions. $\bar B_{(s)}^{} \to D_{(s)}^*l\bar ν$ transitions are also studied. Next, we apply the form factors for spin zero and spin one transitions of $B_c$ to calculate the nonleptonic branching ratios of ${B_c} \to J/ψ({η_c}) + P(V)$, where $P$ and $V$ stand for the $D_q^{* - }$ vector meson and the $D_q$ pseudoscalar meson, respectively. Our results are found to be in agreement with those obtained in the experimental and theoretical results.
Longitudinal study of the diagnosis of components of the metabolic syndrome in individuals with binge-eating disorder
Creators: name: Lalonde, Justine K.
name: Bulik, Cynthia M.
name: Crow, Scott J.
name: Hudson, James I.
name: Hudson, Margo S.
name: Tsuang, Ming T.
name: Rosenthal, Norman R.
name: Pope Jr., Harrison G.
name: Yanovski, Jack A.
name: McElroy, Susan L.
name: Coit, Caitlin E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Background: Binge-eating disorder may represent a risk factor for the metabolic syndrome.
INTRA-EU MOBILITY AND NATIONAL WELFARE STATES
Creators: name: MONTANARI, MARIA GIULIA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2020

description: This research enlightens several critical issues emerging from the tension between intra-European mobility and national welfare states. Initially, a broad literature review presents the current academic contributions dealing with the topic from a variety of points of view. Four main disciplines (sociology, economics, political sciences and law) and three levels of analysis (the national, the supra-national and the individual one) are discussed. Subsequently, three empirical chapters provide examples of studies on ?micro? data against this ?macro? background. In particular, two chapters are dedicated to the debated issue of mobile European citizens? access to welfare in host member states. The focus is on unemployment, family and housing benefits which present higher rates of receipt among EU citizens and are the most ?visible? dimension of welfare. The first study provides also a detailed descriptive overview on the populations of EU citizens across countries, while the second tests the concept of ?migration neutrality? over time both intra and inter generations. The use of benefits by EU citizens does not seem to be always connected with their socio-economic profiles, and the first five years of residence come out to be the only relevant threshold to access benefits across all welfare regimes. The last empirical chapter faces a new emerging issue by adopting the point of view of sending countries, that is whether intra-EU mobility is beneficial for intergenerational social mobility. In the case of Romanians, who are the most mobile population in Europe nowadays, the choice to migrate emerges to be detrimental for social mobility, independently from the area of destination. These insights contribute to add evidence to the complex and evolving picture of intra-European mobility, hopefully informing both academics and policy makers.
(100869) Alice Carnick
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.
title: Wie tickt eine Atomuhr?
title: Realisierung der Sekunde von 1955 bis heute
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Bauch, Andreas
name: Weyers, Stefan
name: Peik, Ekkehard
Publisher: name: Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
Year: 2016
Subjects: Internationales Einheitensystem (SI)
Zeit
Basiseinheit Sekunde
Atomuhr
Caesiumatomuhr
Optische Atomuhr
Laserkühlung
Uhrenübergang

description: PTB-Mitteilungen. Band 126 (2016), Heft 2. ISSN 0030-834X
Eignung aktueller Industriekameras für modulare Digitalkameratachymeter
Creators: name: Thiery, Florian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: geodesy
camera
laser
geodesy
imaging total station
high dynamic range
CMOS

description: Gegenstand der Bachelorarbeit ist die Bestimmung des Auflösungsvermögens des MoDiTa-Systems, sowie die Untersuchung von Techniken und Einstellungen zur Verbesserung der Sichtbarkeit von Himmelskörpern und Laserdots. Zudem werden Tools vorgestellt, die es ermöglichen, Aufnahmen von Targets im gesamten Blickfeld in Messserien zu erzeugen und das Auflösungsvermögen automatisch zu bestimmen. Verschiedene Komponenten des MoDiTa-Systems haben unterschiedliche Einflüsse auf das Auflösungsvermögen. Diese Arbeit zeigt die Unterschiede auf und gibt schlussendlich Empfehlungen für den Einsatz bestimmter Komponenten und Einstellungen bei der Bestimmung des Auflösungsvermögens.
What surfaces in the operation of noble liquids dark matter detectors
Creators: name: Pereverzev, Sergey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Electron and ion accumulation atop liquid can lead to formation of macroscopic charged hillocks and electrospraying, small signal suppression by charged crust. Design changes for large detectors are required.
description: 12 pages, 9 figures. Submitted for publication at the preceding Light Detection in Noble Elements (LIDINE2022) conference
Severe obesity, gestational weight gain, and adverse birth outcomes
Creators: name: Abrams, Barbara
name: Bodnar, Lisa M.
name: Simhan, Hyagriv N.
name: Siega-Riz, Anna Maria
name: Himes, Katherine P.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Background: The 2009 Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee to Reevaluate Gestational Weight Gain Guidelines concluded that there were too few data to inform weight-gain guidelines by obesity severity. Therefore, the committee recommended a single range, 5–9 kg at term, for all obese women.
I BENI DEGLI ESULI. I SEQUESTRI AUSTRIACI IN VENETO TRA CONTROLLO POLITICO E PRASSI BUROCRATICA (1848-1861)
Creators: name: GIRARDI, GIACOMO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2019

description: The thesis proposes a study about the Italian exile in the year before the Unification of Italy, with a particular attention to the decade 1848-1859. The work aims to identify the protagonists of the Venetian exile that are mainly neglected by the historiography. The purpose of this work is to create a data-base in which catalogue, as completely as possibile, the informations about the financial conditions of the exiles after and before their comdamnation to the seizure of goods organizated by the Austrian from 1848 to 1857, the social status, the effectiveness or the ineffectiveness of the measures taken by the patriots to safeguard their goods and the the strategies prepared by the Austrian authorities to complete the seizure. The social and economical aspects of the exiles of the Risorgimento were for long time neglected and a cultural and political perspective was preferred. It is also important to underline that for the first time the exile became a massive phenomenon, involving any social class and age, not only the great aristocracy and the rich bourgeoisie. This essay is divided into four chapters: in the first is underline the argument of the origins of confiscation and seizure in Lombardy and Venetia during the modern age, through a detailed study of crucial moments, as the 1797 in Venice and the Napoleonic period. The second aims to show every measure taken by the Austrian administrations in the years between 1848 and 1857, with also an analysis of the years 1860-1866. The third and the fourth chapters are devoted to observe the work of the Austrian administration offices and the strategies and the real state of the exiles and their familes.
Long-chain branching of polypropylene by electron-beam irradiation in the molten state
Creators: name: Krause, Beate
name: Stephan, M.
name: Volkland, S.
name: Voigt, D.
name: Häußler, L.
name: Dorschner, H.
Publisher: name: Hoboken, NJ [u.a.] : Wiley InterScience
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Branched
subject: Chromatography
subject: Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC)
subject: Electron beam irradiation
subject: Polypropylene (PP)
subject: 540

description: The electron-beam irradiation of polymers generates modification effects in the macromolecular structure and material properties. Therefore, irradiation processing is mostly realized in the polymer solid state. In this way, the modification of linear polypropylene may result in long-chain branching of polypropylene macromolecules. The objective of this article is to investigate the effect of a polymer in the molten state during electron-beam irradiation on the macromolecular structure and material properties of polypropylene. For this procedure, a special irradiation vessel (BG3) has been developed in which a rapid transfer of polymer films from the solid state to the molten state and a defined temperature during electron-beam irradiation are realizable. The irradiated samples have been analyzed by high-temperature size exclusion chromatography coupled with a multi-angle laser light scattering detector and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) measurements. With an increasing irradiation dose, a high reduction of the molar mass and an increasing amount of long-chain branching are found. Compared with irradiation in the solid state, the modification in the molten state leads to a higher degree of branching. The Theological experiments in elongation flow clearly exhibit the existence of long-chain branching. Furthermore, DSC measurements show that the glass-transition temperature and peak temperatures of melting and crystallization decrease. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Cooperative shielding in many-body systems with long-range interaction
Creators: name: Santos, Lea F.
name: Borgonovi, Fausto
name: Celardo, Giuseppe Luca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In recent experiments with ion traps, long-range interactions were associated with the exceptionally fast propagation of perturbation, while in some theoretical works they have also been related with the suppression of propagation. Here, we show that such apparently contradictory behavior is caused by a general property of long-range interacting systems, which we name "Cooperative Shielding". It refers to shielded subspaces that emerge as the system size increases and inside of which the evolution is unaffected by long-range interactions for a long time. As a result, the dynamics strongly depends on the initial state: if it belongs to a shielded subspace, the spreading of perturbation satisfies the Lieb-Robinson bound and may even be suppressed, while for initial states with components in various subspaces, the propagation may be quasi-instantaneous. We establish an analogy between the shielding effect and the onset of quantum Zeno subspaces. The derived effective Zeno Hamiltonian successfully describes the short-ranged dynamics inside the subspaces up to a time scale that increases with system size. Cooperative Shielding can be tested in current experiments with trapped ions.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures (accepted at Phys. Rev. Lett.)
Satellite Content and Halo Mass of Galaxy Clusters: Comparison between Red-Sequence and Halo-based Optical Cluster Finders
Creators: name: Golden-Marx, Jesse B.
name: Zu, Ying
name: Wang, Jiaqi
name: Li, Hekun
name: Zhang, Jun
name: Yang, Xiaohu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cluster cosmology depends critically on how optical clusters are selected from imaging surveys. We compare the conditional luminosity function (CLF) and weak lensing halo masses between two different cluster samples at fixed richness, detected within the same volume ($0.1{<}z{<}0.34$) using the red-sequence and halo-based methods. After calibrating our CLF deprojection method against mock galaxy samples, we measure the 3D CLFs by cross-correlating clusters with SDSS photometric galaxies. As expected, the CLFs of red-sequence and halo-based finders exhibit redder and bluer populations, respectively. The red-sequence clusters have a flat distribution of red galaxies at the faint end, while the halo-based clusters host a decreasing faint red and a boosted blue population at the bright end. By comparing subsamples of clusters that have a match between the two catalogues to those without matches, we discover that the CLF shape is mainly caused by the different cluster centroiding. However, the average weak lensing halo mass between the matched and non-matched clusters are consistent with each other in either cluster sample for halos with $λ>30$ (M$_{h}^{WL}{>}1.5\times10^{14}h^{-1}M_{\odot}$). Since the colour preferences of the two cluster finders are almost orthogonal, such a consistency indicates that the scatter in the mass-richness relation of either cluster sample is close to random. Therefore, while the choice of how optical clusters are identified impacts the satellite content, our result suggests that it should not introduce strong systematic biases in cluster cosmology, except for the $λ<30$ regime.
description: 18 pages, 12 figures, 6 tables; Submitted to MNRAS
Comparison of the molecular properties and morphology of polypropylenes irradiated under different atmospheres and after annealing
Creators: name: Krause, Beate
name: Häußler, Liane
name: Voigt, Dieter
Publisher: name: Hoboken, NJ [u.a.] : Wiley InterScience
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Branched
subject: Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC)
subject: Electron beam irradiation
subject: Poly(propylene) (PP)
subject: Spherulites
subject: 540

description: Electron-beam irradiation, a well-known way of generating long-chain branching, was used to modify polypropylene. Samples were investigated with differential scanning calorimetry, polarized light microscopy, and size exclusion chromatography. Independently of the atmosphere, postannealing led to the deactivation of residual radicals and to the reduction of the nucleus density. In comparison with the initial polypropylene, the crystallization temperatures increased for nonannealed samples but decreased for annealed samples. Stable products were obtained only by irradiation in nitrogen followed by annealing. A reaction including free radicals with oxygen in the ambient atmosphere led to increasing molar mass degradation and the formation of long-chain branching after Storage. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Consumption of monosodium glutamate in relation to incidence of overweight in Chinese adults: China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS)
Creators: name: Wang, Huijun
name: Sharma, Sangita
name: He, Ka
name: Popkin, Barry
name: Zhai, Fengying
name: Du, Shufa
name: Xun, Pengcheng
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Background: It has been hypothesized that monosodium glutamate (MSG), a flavor enhancer, is positively associated with weight gain, which influences energy balance through the disruption of the hypothalamic signaling cascade of leptin action.
title: Cerebral venous return anomalies and chronic neurological conditions
Creators: name: van den Broek, Maarten
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Veins / Vena cava
subject: Head and neck
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: MR-Angiography
subject: MR
subject: Normal variants
subject: Haemodynamics / Flow dynamics

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: 1. To become familiar with two relatively easy MRI techniques allowing for high definition imaging of cerebral venous structures. 2. To distinguish between the many different variants of cerebral venous return and to understand the logic of the link...
Diffractive dissociation in high energy pp collisions in Additive Quark Model
Creators: name: Shabelski, Yu. M.
name: Shuvaev, A. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High energy (CERN SPS and LHC) $pp$ ($p\bar p$) scattering is treated in the framework of Additive Quark Model together with Pomeron exchange theory. The reasonable agreement with experimental data is achieved both for the elastic scattering and for the diffractive dissociation with natural parameters for the strong matter distribution inside proton.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures, 1 table. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1406.1421
title: Role of quantitative spectral CT parameters in assessment of differentiation in patients with gastric adenocarcinoma and its correlation with clinicopathological features
Creators: name: Li, Jing
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Computer applications
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: CT
subject: CT-Quantitative
subject: CT
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: Computer Applications-General
subject: Dynamic swallowing studies

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: To evaluate the ability of quantitative spectral CT parameters in assessing degree of differentiation of gastric adenocarcinoma and its correlation with clinicopathological...
Characterization of electron beam irradiated polypropylene: Influence of irradiation temperature on molecular and rheological properties
Creators: name: Krause, Beate
name: Voigt, Dieter
name: Häuβler, Liane
name: Auhl, Dietmar
name: Münstedt, Helmut
Publisher: name: Hoboken, NJ [u.a.] : Wiley InterScience
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC)
subject: Electron beam irradiation
subject: Long chain branching
subject: Poly(propylene) (PP)
subject: Rheology
subject: 540

description: The aim of the investigations was to analyze the influence of the temperature during the irradiation process of polypropylene on the molar mass, the formation of long chain branching and the final branching topology. A linear isotactic polypropylene homopolymer was modified by electron beam irradiation at different temperatures, with two irradiation doses to insert long chain branching. The Samples were analyzed by size exclusion chromatography coupled with a multiangle laser light scattering detector, by differential scanning calorimetry, and by shear and elongational rheology. The shear and elongational flow behavior isdiscussed in terms of the influence of molecular parameters and used to analyze the topology of the irradiated samples. With increasing temperature, a slight reduction of the molar mass, an increase of long chain branching and an increase of crystallization temperature were found. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.