cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Torsional-rotational spectrum of doubly-deuterated dimethyl ether (CH$_3$OCHD$_2$) -- First ALMA detection in the interstellar medium
Creators: name: Richard, C.
name: Jørgensen, J. K.
name: Margulès, L.
name: Motiyenko, R. A.
name: Guillemin, J. -C.
name: Groner, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In 2013, we have published the first rotational analysis and detection of mono-deuterated dimethyl ether in the solar-type protostar IRAS 16293-2422 with the IRAM 30m telescope. Dimethyl ether is one of the most abundant complex organic molecules (COMs) in star-forming regions and their D-to-H (D/H) ratios is important to understand its chemistry and trace the source history. We present the first analysis of doubly-deuterated dimethyl ether (methoxy-d2-methane, 1,1-dideuteromethylether) in its ground-vibrational state, based on an effective Hamiltonian for an asymmetric rotor molecules with internal rotors. The analysis covers the frequency range 0.15-1.5THz. The laboratory rotational spectrum of this species was measured between 150 and 1500 GHz with the Lille's submillimeter spectrometer. For the astronomical detection, we used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations from the Protostellar Interferometric Line Survey, PILS. New sets of spectroscopic parameters have been determined by a least squares fit with the ERHAM code for both symmetric and asymmetric conformers. As for the mono-deuterated species, these parameters have permitted the first identification in space of both conformers of a doubly-deuterated dimethyl ether via detection near the B component of the Class 0 protostar IRAS 16293-2422.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures and 6 tables, not yet published, just accepted
Concurrence via entanglement witnesses
Creators: name: Mintert, Florian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive an experimentally observable lower bound on concurrence of mixed quantum states in terms of an entanglement witness, relating measurements on single states with those on two copies.
Review with Bertha Ulvi
Creators: name: Manker, Jonathan
name: Ulvi, Bertha
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: haa
subject: Han language

description: Han_BU_07152014_20: working with Bertha Ulvi; reviewing fry bread video from last year; ~37:00 we start reviewing the previous work her sisters Ruth and Ethel had done while she was away. Han_BU_07152014_21: Bertha reviews other sentences previously given by her sisters, making grammaticality judgments, etc. Han_BU_07152014_22: more grammaticality judgments of Ethel and Ruth’s sentences by Bertha. Han_BU_07152014_23: Bertha Ulvi makes more grammaticality judgments; review of imperfective aspect, purpose, simultaneous and temporal clauses.
Quenching effects in the cumulative jet spectrum
Creators: name: Takacs, Adam
name: Tywoniuk, Konrad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The steeply falling jet spectrum induces bias on the medium modifications of jet observables in heavy-ion collisions. To explore this bias, we develop a novel analytic framework to study the quenched jet spectrum, and its cumulative. We include many energy-loss-related effects, such as soft and hard medium induced emissions, broadening, elastic scattering, jet fragmentation, cone size, coherence effects, etc. We show that, different jet spectrum-based observables are connected, e.g., the nuclear modification, spectrum shift, and the quantile procedure. We present the first predictions for the nuclear modification factor and the quantile procedure with cone size dependence. As an example, we compare dijet and boson+jet events to unfold the spectrum bias effects. We improve quark-, and gluon-jet classification using arguments based on the cumulative. Besides pointing out its flexibility, we apply our framework with other energy loss models such as the hybrid weak-, strong-coupling.
description: 38 pages, 12 figures
Reproducing Development’s Trusteeship and Discursive Power
Creators: name: Lie, Jon Harald Sande
Publisher: name: Consilience
Year: 2020

description: Development aid is characterised by an inherently asymmetry between donor and recipient institution. Despite regular aid reforms and bold ambitions to change this relation, the asymmetry seems to persist. Inspired by post-development theory, and drawing on both a review of development theory and ethnographic fieldwork within the World Bank, this article argues that the lopsided aid-relations are contineously being reproduced through the formation of development expert knowledge within authoritative donor communities. Here, contemporary konwledge/power formations shape and are shaped by historically embedded structures and epistemic communities that benefit the donor’s need for legible and operational knowledge, being knowledge of a particular kind. Hence, top-down approaches to development planning are reproduced at the cost of participatory, bottom-up ones, as per the official order and rhetoric.
description: Consilience, No 15 (2016): Issue Fifteen: 2016
Capitalizing on Public Discourse in Bolivia – Evo Morales and Twenty-first Century Capitalism
Creators: name: Hollender, Rebecca
Publisher: name: Consilience
Year: 2020

description: The 2005 election of Evo Morales as the president of Bolivia marked a moment of celebration for the social movements who backed the rise to power of the Movimiento al Socialismo party (MAS – Movement for Socialism), with Morales as its leader. Morales adopted discourses derived from popularly supported Buen Vivir, alternatives to development, social and solidarity economies, and other forms of localized political and economic autonomy, creating a politics of possibility around such proposals. However, despite initial commitments and actions taken by Morales to improve well-being without replicating historically unsustainable and destructive pathways to industrial development, Bolivia continues to be characterized by fiscal dependence and macroeconomic prioritization of growth-centric policies sustained by extractive activities. In addition, the country is now rife with socio-environmental conflict. This paper will explore Morales’ neglect of longer-term political goals for economic independence, self-sufficiency, and sustainability by considering competing theories of social movements, political parties, and the state that provide different lenses for understanding MAS’ abandonment of its original political platform for change, Twenty-First Century Socialism (Socialismo del Siglo XXI). The paper reveals how the current scenario creates new barriers for the social movements that continue to uphold proposals for sustainable futures, including deepened structural entrenchment in extractivism, the cooptation of alternatives to development proposals by government, the division of once-unified popular fronts, shifting electoral constituencies, and the emergence of new economic elites. Lessons from the Bolivian case are significant for guiding wider efforts at building sustainable alternatives to capitalist development.
description: Consilience, No 15 (2016): Issue Fifteen: 2016
Qualitätskriterien für Citizen Science-Projekte auf Österreich forscht | Version 1.2
Creators: name: Heigl, Florian
name: Dörler, Daniel
name: Cieslinski, Marika
name: Ernst, Marlene
name: Grohmann, Steph
name: Grömer, Karina Theresia
name: Hatlauf, Jennifer
name: Heinisch, Barbara
name: Konturek, Barbara
name: Krisai-Greilhuber, Irmgard
name: Lanner, Julia
name: Neuwirth, Gernot
name: Peer, Christian
name: Walcher, Johanna
name: Zink, Richard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Die Plattform Österreich forscht (www.citizen-science.at) wurde 2014 mit den Zielen gegründet, (1) Citizen Science-Akteur*innen in Österreich zu vernetzen, (2) einen möglichst umfassenden Überblick über Citizen Science-Projekte in Österreich zu geben und (3) allgemein die Methodik Citizen Science wissenschaftlich weiterzuentwickeln.

Viele Institutionen, welche in Citizen Science aktiv sind, haben sich 2017 auf Initiative der Plattform Österreich forscht im Citizen Science Network Austria zusammengeschlossen und dazu bekannt, die Qualität von Citizen Science in Österreich zu fördern (https://www.citizen-science.at/netzwerk).

Ein wichtiger Schritt zur Qualitätsförderung war die Aufstellung von transparenten Kriterien, die jene Projekte erfüllen müssen, die auf der Plattform Österreich forscht gelistet werden möchten. Das Ziel dieser Kriterien ist, die Qualität der auf der Plattform vorgestellten Projekte zu gewährleisten und noch weiter zu steigern. Der vorliegende Katalog ist die dritte Version (1.2) der Kriterien, am Ende der Präambel sind die Vorgängerversionen verlinkt.

Von März 2017 bis Februar 2018 hat eine Arbeitsgruppe der Plattform Österreich forscht, bestehend aus Vertreter*innen von 17 Institutionen, Version 1.0 der Kriterien ausgearbeitet, die eine transparente Bewertung jener Projekte ermöglichen, die auf Österreich forscht gelistet werden möchten. Zusätzlich sollen die Kriterien dazu dienen, den Citizen Scientists eine informierte Entscheidung zu ermöglichen, ob sie sich im Projekt engagieren möchten.

Die Version 1.0 der Qualitätskriterien wurde im Rahmen der 4. Österreichischen Citizen Science Konferenz (ÖCSK), 1.-3. Februar 2018, der Öffentlichkeit präsentiert. Mit diesem Datum haben die Qualitätskriterien ihre Gültigkeit erlangt.

Bereits bei der ÖCSK 2018 wurden von den anwesenden Personen Vorschläge für Änderungen der Kriterien eingebracht, die von der Arbeitsgruppe unmittelbar danach in Version 1.1 eingearbeitet wurden. Daher entsprechen, mit Stand 13. Oktober 2023, alle Projekte auf Österreich forscht den Qualitätskriterien der Version 1.1.

Bei der Entwicklung der Qualitätskriterien wurde beschlossen, dass diese auch zukünftig nach Bedarf adaptiert werden sollen, um neuen Herausforderungen und Entwicklungen gerecht zu werden. Die Versionsnummer der Kriterien, welcher ein Projekt entspricht, wird auf der jeweiligen Projektseite angegeben.

In Version 1.2 wurden im Jahr 2024 vor allem die Kriterien zu ethischen Aspekten in Citizen Science-Projekten den aktuellen Entwicklungen angepasst.
Review of the Relationship between Food Insecurity (Nutrients Imbalance) and Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDS)
Creators: name: Dhaba Mengesha Adula
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The Glob today is facing an ‘‘epidemic’’ of diet-related non-communicable diseases (DR-NCDs), along with widely prevalent under-nutrition resulting in substantial socioeconomic burden. The aim of this paper is to review the relationship between nutrients and energy metabolism and implications for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in different parts of the world’s so as to understand optimal choices for healthy diets for the prevention of NCDs. The literature search was carried out in PubMed and Google Scholar search up to December 2019. A manual search for all other references, national and medical databases was also carried out. A decreasing intake of coarse cereals, pulses, fruits and vegetables, an increasing intake of meat products and salt, coupled with declining levels of physical activity due to rapid urbanization have resulted in escalating levels of obesity, atherogenic dyslipidemia, subclinical inflammation, metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and coronary heart disease in different parts of the world. Studies also suggest that adverse perinatal events due to maternal nutritional deprivation may cause low-birth weight infants, which, coupled with early childhood ‘‘catch-up growth’’, leads to obesity in early childhood, thus predisposing to NCDs later in life. In view of rapidly increasingly imbalanced diets, a multisectoral preventive approach is needed to provide balanced diets to pregnant women, children and adults, and to maintain a normal body weight from childhood onwards, to prevent the escalation of DR-NCDs.

Keywords: obesity, overweight, diabetes, coronary heart disease, diet, energy metabolism, metabolic syndrome
Nondestructive detection of photonic qubits
Creators: name: Niemietz, Dominik
name: Farrera, Pau
name: Langenfeld, Stefan
name: Rempe, Gerhard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the biggest challenges in experimental quantum information is to keep the fragile superposition state of a qubit alive. Long lifetimes can be achieved for material qubit carriers as memories, at least in principle, but not for propagating photons that are rapidly lost by absorption, diffraction or scattering. The loss problem can be mitigated with a nondestructive photonic qubit detector that heralds the photon without destroying the encoded qubit. Such detector is envisioned to facilitate protocols where distributed tasks depend on the successful dissemination of photonic qubits, to improve loss-sensitive qubit measurements, and to enable certain quantum key distribution attacks. Here we demonstrate such a detector based on a single atom in two crossed fibre-based optical resonators, one for qubit-insensitive atom-photon coupling, the other for atomic-state detection. We achieve a nondestructive detection efficiency upon qubit survival of $(79\pm3)\,\%$, a photon survival probability of $(31\pm1)\,\%$, and preserve the qubit information with a fidelity of $(96.2\pm0.3)\,\%$. To illustrate the potential of our detector we show that it can provide, already with current parameters, an advantage for long-distance entanglement and quantum-state distribution, resource optimization via qubit amplification, and detection-loophole-free Bell tests.
description: 27 pages, main text and methods, 4 main figures, 3 extended data figures, 1 extended data table, for supplementary information see journal reference
La peculiare evoluzione rimica della terzina dantesca nella Legenda per rima vulgare in terça del “Frate Philippo de l'Ordine predicante” del Braidense AC IX 34, 8r-13r
Creators: name: Minetti, Francesco Filippo
Publisher: name: Pavia University Press - Edizioni dell'Università degli Studi di Pavia
Year: 2009

description: La peculiare evoluzione rimica della terzina dantesca        nella Legenda per rima vulgare in terça del “Frate Philippo        de l'Ordine predicante” del Braidense AC IX 34, 8r-13r
description: Philomusica on-line, Vol 3, N° 1 (2004): Annata 2003-2004
The Meso-Structured Magnetic Atmosphere -- A Stochastic Polarized Radiative Transfer Approach
Creators: name: Carroll, T. A.
name: Kopf, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a general radiative transfer model which allows the Zeeman diagnostics of complex and unresolved solar magnetic fields. Present modeling techniques still rely to a large extent on a-priori assumptions about the geometry of the underlying magnetic field. In an effort to obtain a more flexible and unbiased approach we pursue a rigorous statistical description of the underlying atmosphere. Based on a Markov random field model the atmospheric structures are characterized in terms of probability densities and spatial correlations. This approach allows us to derive a stochastic transport equation for polarized light valid in a regime with an arbitrary fluctuating magnetic field on finite scales. One of the key ingredients of the derived stochastic transfer equation is the correlation length which provides an additional degree of freedom to the transport equation and can be used as a diagnostic parameter to estimate the characteristic length scale of the underlying magnetic field. It is shown that the stochastic transfer equation represents a natural extension of the (polarized) line formation under the micro- and macroturbulent assumption and contains both approaches as limiting cases. In particular, we show how in an inhomogeneous atmosphere asymmetric Stokes profiles develop and that the correlation length directly controls the degree of asymmetry and net circular polarization (NCP). In a number of simple numerical model calculations we demonstrate the importance of a finite correlation length for the polarized line formation and its impact on the resulting Stokes line profiles.
Il piffero delle Quattro Province nel repertorio attuale: l'esperienza di Stefano Valla
Creators: name: Gianotti, Marta
Publisher: name: Pavia University Press - Edizioni dell'Università degli Studi di Pavia
Year: 2009

description: Il piffero delle        Quattro Province nel repertorio attuale: l'esperienza di Stefano Valla
description: Philomusica on-line, Vol 3, N° 1 (2004): Annata 2003-2004
Adjoint Chiral Supermultiplets and Their Phenomenology
Creators: name: Cui, Yanou
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Matter fields in the MSSM are chiral supermultiplets in fundamental (or singlet) representations of the standard model gauge group. In this paper we introduce chiral superfields in the adjoint representation of $SU(3)_C$ and study the effective field theory and phenomenology of them. These states are well motivated by intersecting D-brane models in which additional massless adjoint chiral supermultiplets appear generically in the low energy spectrum. Although it has been pointed out that the existence of these additional fields may make it difficult to obtain asymptotic freedom, we demonstrate that this consideration does not rule out the existence of adjoints. The QCD gauge coupling can be perturbative up to a sufficiently high scale, and therefore a perturbative description for a D-brane model is valid. The full supersymmetric and soft SUSY breaking Lagrangians and the resulting renormalization group equations are given. Phenomenological aspects of the adjoint matter are also studied, including the decay and production processes. The similarity in gauge interaction between the adjoint fermion and gluino facilitates our study on these aspects. It is found that these adjoint multiplets can give detectable signals at colliders and satisfy the constraints from cosmology.
description: 18 pages, 3 figures; minor corrections, references added
D5.3 Evaluation Report
Creators: name: Botto, Francesco
name: Sciannamblo, Martina
name: Rough, Daniel
name: Angelo, Antonella De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: The report summarises the evaluation activities and results of the PIE News project. Starting from the Evaluation Plan (D5.1), the report describes in detail the evaluation activities, explaining eventual deviations from the planned ones, and provides the outcomes and reflections for the different dimensions of the project evaluation: risk detection, on-line questionnaires and tests, project website analytics, social networks analytics, commonfare platform analytics, network dynamics analysis, reports on the two digital currency for events experimentations, key performance indicators and the final internal self-evaluation results.
Historical Repetition and Development Narratives in Guyana’s Coastal Drainage and Irrigation System
Creators: name: Mullenite, Joshua
Publisher: name: Consilience
Year: 2020

description: This article takes a critical look at the historiography of development in Guyana as it appears in archival materials and the primary (governmental and non-governmental reports) and secondary (scholarly) literature. I ask why development schemes were so heavily focused on D&I necessary, how was this focus justified, and is there another way to think about the possibilities for development in Guyana in the future? It is argued that, in Guyana, various development actors attempt to relocate what they perceive to be the previous regimes failures through discourses of racial and political difference. Their solutions to these problems are often subsequently portrayed as corrections to the failures of the previous regime despite significant repetition of certain themes. Finally, it offers some insight into how these development projects might be reconsidered.
description: Consilience, No 14 (2015): Issue Fourteen: 2015
Modular Design of Hexagonal Phased Arrays Through Diamond Tiles
Creators: name: Rocca, P.
name: Anselmi, N.
name: Polo, A.
name: Massa, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: The modular design of planar phased array antennas with hexagonal apertures is addressed by means of innovative diamond-shaped tiling techniques. Both tiling configuration and subarray coefficients are optimized to fit user-defined power-mask constraints on the radiation pattern. Toward this end, suitable surface-tiling mathematical theorems are customized to the problem at hand to guarantee optimal performance in case of low/medium-size arrays, while the computationally hard tiling of large arrays is yielded thanks to an effective integer-coded GA-based exploration of the arising high-cardinality solution spaces. By considering ideal as well as real array models, a set of representative benchmark problems is dealt with to assess the effectiveness of the proposed architectures and tiling strategies. Moreover, comparisons with alternative tiling architectures are also performed to show to the interested readers the advantages and the potentialities of the diamond subarraying of hexagonal apertures.
Additional file 1 of Health care experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic by race and social determinants of health among adults age ≥ 58 years in the REGARDS study
Creators: name: Levitan, Emily B.
name: Howard, Virginia J.
name: Cushman, Mary
name: Judd, Suzanne E.
name: Tison, Stephanie E.
name: Yuan, Ya
name: Kamin Mukaz, Debora
name: Wang, Henry E.
name: Pamir, Nathalie
name: Plante, Timothy B.
name: Juraschek, Stephen P.
name: Safford, Monika M.
name: Goyal, Parag
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Additional file 1. REGARDS Computer-Assisted Telephone Interview CATI – COVID-19. REGARDS COVID-19 module administered beginning July 6, 2020.
Study on discrete-force suspension system for a car on randomly profiled road
Creators: name: Yang, Dajiang
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: An active suspension system possesses the ability to generate arbitrarily controllable forces in an automotive suspension. It has widely been accepted as the most promising car suspension scheme. Prototype active suspension systems have shown impressively smooth ride, firm attitude control ability and good handling quality. Present implementations are, however, not perfect and still leaves some problems which represent the limitations of an active suspension system. The most conspicuous problem of performance is ride harshness over small, sharp bumps. Active suspension is worse than the passive variety at isolating high frequency vibration because the force actuator bandwidth is not big enough to cover the frequency range for both sprung and unsprung masses. The energy consumption is also a problem. The power required by system's hydraulic pump is more than three horsepower. A new suspension scheme called discrete force suspension (DFS) is introduced to solve these problems. In order to improve the high frequency characteristics of the active suspension and significantly reduce the extra external power required by the hydraulic system , a new type of hydraulic actuator — digital force actuator (DFA) is developed to replace the conventional one. A DFA only outputs a limited number of force levels but does not restrict the flow in the system. Therefore, it transmits little high frequency disturbance through it and has a very little energy loss. It has been studied through theoretical analysis and numerical simulation. Results show satisfyingly small equivalent stiffness and damping coefficient, and a quite linear relation between output and input. Unfortunately, no sensible outcome was obtained for the physical experiment due to mistakes made during the manufacturing and design. Then the idea to control the low frequency body mode and the high frequency wheel mode separately by a DFA and a conventional damper (or a dynamic absorber) respectively is developed to avoid the necessity of wide bandwidth actuators and to achieve a better high frequency performance. Due to introducing DFA into the control system, a new control strategy — step-wise reference control, was also developed, analyzed and adopted to cope with the problem of discrete control force coming up with DFA. Numerical simulations have been performed for a quarter car model to demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of a DFS in terms of the independence of the DFA output to the suspension motion, the significant reduction of the extra power requirement of the DFS in comparison with an active suspension, and the vibration isolation characteristics.
Influenze pucciniane nella canzone d'inizio secolo
Creators: name: Niccolai, Michela
Publisher: name: Pavia University Press - Edizioni dell'Università degli Studi di Pavia
Year: 2009

description: Influenze pucciniane nella canzone d'inizio secolo
description: Philomusica on-line, Vol 3, N° 1 (2004): Annata 2003-2004
Social Media and Public Policy Process in Africa: Enhanced Policy Process in Digital Age
Creators: name: Oginni, Simon Oyewole
name: Moitui, Joash Ntenga
Publisher: name: Consilience
Year: 2020

description: In recent times, civic engagement in policy process has been emphasized globally but channels to facilitate public participation in policy process in Africa remain unexplored. Given the conservative nature of policy process in most of Africa countries, the study examined level of social media use for civic engagement among government/policymakers and proposed a model to enhance policy process in a digital community using Easton’s theory of political analysis. The study employed case studies, descriptive and correlation analysis covering 53 African countries. Findings revealed that social media use has taken new shape in respect of citizens’ engagement in electoral process in Africa but its use for civic engagement in policy process was very low (and below global average); that increase investment in telecommunication infrastructures is yet to have significant effect on human capital ICT literacy in Africa. Investment in ICTs should include building of human capital ICT literacy and policymakers should explore citizens’ engagement online and adjust policies to incorporate technology in sub-regional and national development plans.
description: Consilience, No 14 (2015): Issue Fourteen: 2015
Five new very low mass binaries
Creators: name: Montagnier, G.
name: Segransan, D.
name: Beuzit, J. -L.
name: Forveille, T.
name: Delorme, P.
name: Delfosse, X.
name: Perrier, C.
name: Udry, S.
name: Mayor, M.
name: Chauvin, G.
name: Lagrange, A. -M.
name: Mouillet, D.
name: Fusco, T.
name: Gigan, P.
name: Stadler, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the discovery of companions to 5 nearby late M dwarfs (>M5), LHS1901, LHS4009, LHS6167, LP869-26 and WT460, and we confirm that the recently discovered mid-T brown dwarf companion to SCR1845-6357 is physically bound to that star. These discoveries result from our adaptive optics survey of all M dwarfs within 12 pc. The new companions have spectral types M5 to L1, and orbital separations between 1 and 10 AU. They add significantly to the number of late M dwarfs binaries in the immediate solar neighbourhood, and will improve the multiplicity statistics of late M dwarfs. The expected periods range from 3 to 130 years. Several pairs thus have good potential for accurate mass determination in this poorly sampled mass range.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Astronomy & Astrophysics
Impedance-optical Dual-modal Cell Culture Imaging with Learning-based Information Fusion
Creators: name: Liu, Zhe
name: Bagnaninchi, Pierre
name: Yang, Yunjie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: While Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) has found many biomedicine applications, a better resolution is needed to provide quantitative analysis for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. This paper proposes an impedance-optical dual-modal imaging framework, which is mainly aimed at high-quality 3D cell culture imaging and can be extended to other tissue engineering applications. The framework comprises three components, i.e., an impedance-optical dual-modal sensor, the guidance image processing algorithm, and a deep learning model named multi-scale feature cross fusion network (MSFCF-Net) for information fusion. The MSFCF-Net has two inputs, i.e., the EIT measurement and a binary mask image generated by the guidance image processing algorithm, whose input is an RGB microscopic image. The network then effectively fuses the information from the two different imaging modalities and generates the final conductivity image. We assess the performance of the proposed dual-modal framework by numerical simulation and MCF-7 cell imaging experiments. The results show that the proposed method could significantly improve image quality, indicating that impedance-optical joint imaging has the potential to reveal the structural and functional information of tissue-level targets simultaneously.
Sustainability As: An Analysis of the Alberta Oil Sands Industry’s Metaphorical Discourse
Creators: name: Berry, Megan Nicole
Publisher: name: Consilience
Year: 2020

description: Analysis of the Alberta oil sands industry’s sustainability perspectives from a communication, and specifically metaphorical, standpoint is a valuable endeavour due to the importance of the oil sands (both in Alberta and elsewhere) today with the world’s reliance on fossil fuels. Learning how sustainability is used and conceptualized by the industry will reward us with a more comprehensive understanding of how to approach industry sustainable development. Moreover, analysing the industry’s sustainability metaphors in a systematic manner will allow a greater variety of metaphors to be introduced and investigated, allowing us to more succinctly articulate metaphorical conceptualizations of sustainability, sustainable and energy development, environmentalism, nature, and the oil sands.
description: Consilience, No 14 (2015): Issue Fourteen: 2015
Impact of Poverty Alleviation Programmes on Indigenous Women’s Economic Empowerment in Nigeria: Evidence from Port Harcourt Metropolis
Creators: name: Deedam, Nua J
name: Onoja, Anthony O
Publisher: name: Consilience
Year: 2020

description: The study was designed to assess the impact of participation of Port Harcourt indigenous women in poverty eradication programmes in Rivers State, Nigeria. The study used questionnaires to elicit responses from 385 indigenous women randomly selected in a multi-stage technique. Descriptive statistics and t-test were used to analyze the data collected. Results showed that majority (58.3%) of the women were members of a cooperative society, 63.5 percent were members of community-based organizations (CBO) while 60.9 percent were members of “Esusu” (rotator credit schemes). About 66.3 percent of the women had engaged in jobs aimed at poverty alleviation. Only 6.0 percent identified that they were not members of any poverty alleviation programmes (PAP) by government. It was found that after joining the PAP, 75.5 percent of them experienced an increase in income of 36.6 percent. Significant differences existed in the income of the women after joining poverty alleviation programmes. It was therefore recommended that more programmes designed to alleviate poverty in Rivers State should target indigenous women; government should also establish entrepreneurship capacity-building programmes to enable women to bring out their optimal input while participating in the poverty eradication programmes.
description: Consilience, No 14 (2015): Issue Fourteen: 2015
Large-Scale Land Acquisitions by Foreign Investors in West Africa: Learning Points
Creators: name: Onoja, Anthony O
name: Achike, Anthonia I
Publisher: name: Consilience
Year: 2020

description: Recent reports indicating that large portions of land (estimated 50-80m hectares) have been bought by international investors in middle- and low-income countries, with roughly two-thirds of those purchases occurring in sub-Saharan Africa, calls for a cursory appraisal of the implications of the trend of land grabbing for West African food security. This study reviews cases of land grabbing by foreign investors in West Africa, identifies the possible drivers of large-scale land acquisition by foreign investors in the region, and discusses the implications of the findings for agricultural and land policy reforms in West Africa. Land transactions involving foreign investors have increased in the area over the past 10 years. Over 100,000 ha have been documented in Nigeria. Ghana and Mali have many significant transactions on land by foreign investors. Several investors have more than 100,000ha. Burkina Faso has one significant land transaction (200,000 ha) while Niger and Senegal have relatively small land transactions. Most lands grabbed in West Africa were profit driven (by biofuel investors) and were made under the guise of using the lands acquired for agricultural investments. There were noted dangers in the deals with respect to food security drive, food safety, environmental safety, employment generation, and land tenure threats, which endangered peace, sovereignty, and the economic wellbeing of citizens. We recommend applying a regional approach by African countries, implementing land reforms that will involve the local communities who own the land, stopping long-term leasing beyond 50 years, building capacity, and creating awareness about land transactions of large magnitudes.
description: Consilience, No 14 (2015): Issue Fourteen: 2015
Double-crystal measurements at the CERN SPS
Creators: name: Scandale, W.
name: Arduini, G.
name: Cerutti, F.
name: D'Andrea, M.
name: Esposito, L. S.
name: Garattini, M.
name: Gilardoni, S.
name: Mirarchi, D.
name: Montesano, S.
name: Natochii, A.
name: Redaelli, S.
name: Rossi, R.
name: Smirnov, G. I.
name: Burmistrov, L.
name: Dubos, S.
name: Puill, V.
name: Stocchi, A.
name: Addesa, F.
name: Murtas, F.
name: Galluccio, F.
name: Kovalenko, A. D.
name: Taratin, A. M.
name: Denisov, A. S.
name: Gavrikov, Yu. A.
name: Ivanov, Yu. M.
name: Lapina, L. P.
name: Malyarenko, L. G.
name: Skorobogatov, V. V.
name: Afonin, A. G.
name: Chesnokov, Yu. A.
name: Durum, A. A.
name: Maisheev, V. A.
name: Sandomirskiy, Yu. E.
name: Yanovich, A. A.
name: Borg, J.
name: James, T.
name: Hall, G.
name: Pesaresi, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The UA9 setup, installed in the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) at CERN, was exploited for a proof of principle of the double-crystal scenario, proposed to measure the electric and the magnetic moments of short-lived baryons in a high-energy hadron collider, such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Linear and angular actuators were used to position the crystals and establish the required beam configuration. Timepix detectors and high-sensitivity Beam Loss Monitors were exploited to observe the deflected beams. Linear and angular scans allowed exploring the particle interactions with the two crystals and recording their efficiency. The measured values of the beam trajectories, profiles and of the channeling efficiency agree with the results of a Monte-Carlo simulation.
description: 25 pages, 13 figures
Smallholder Agriculture Production in Zimbabwe: A Survey
Creators: name: Mutami, Cephas
Publisher: name: Consilience
Year: 2020

description: The study focussed on smallholder agriculture production in Zimbabwe as a pathway for fighting rural poverty and underdevelopment. The entitlement approach was used to analyse the agriculture issues of smallholder farmers. Using questionnaires and interviews to gather household data the study employed quantitative and qualitative data analysis through spreadsheet and Atlas Ti analysis. The study revealed that smallholder agriculture in Zimbabwe is predominantly staple production, with cash cropping more prevalent to resettlement areas. Poverty remains deeply entrenched in communal areas where land tenure systems, input supply programs and farmer representations are detrimental to the sector development. Revitalising smallholder agriculture would provide pathways of nearly 7 million people in rural Zimbabwe out of poverty. Thus development would need a refocus of policy conditions in communal areas to allow smallholder agriculture growth and development.
description: Consilience, No 14 (2015): Issue Fourteen: 2015
An Impact Assessment Model for Web-Based Time Banks – A Thought-Experiment in the Operationalization of Social Capital
Creators: name: Moyer, Liz
Publisher: name: Consilience
Year: 2020

description: The following paper is meant to be practical, in that it offers an impact assessment model for web-based time banks that was produced as a consultancy project deliverable; and academic, in that it offers a thought-experiment about the measurement of social capital and its association with sustainable development. As the development field continues to transition towards sustainable models that include social variables, innovative impact assessment tools are needed to fully understand the role of these variables for planning and investment. Web-based time banks – online networks that members exchange services by using an alternative currency in the form of time – offer an opportunity to look at the operationalization of social variables in a unique way, particularly social capital and its relationship to economic development. The impact assessment model seeks to answer: how do time banks as a development intervention augment the social capital of communities? The model was designed based on three dimensions of social capital, psychological, social and economic, and Edgar Cahn’s theory of co-production. The model contributes to the economic valuation of time bank participation through the metrics: Market Value Savings and Economic Risk of Participation.
description: Consilience, No 14 (2015): Issue Fourteen: 2015
Legal Aspects of Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis in Sustainable Urban Development
Creators: name: Caytas, Joanna Diane
Publisher: name: Consilience
Year: 2020

description: Large-scale urban development, not to mention synthetic urbanization, will not remain sustainable absent structural changes to the normative and decision making framework that include rolling technology assessment and systems analysis. Technology policies need to be based on outcomes as well as on significant improvements in complexity management at critical stages of planning and implementation. This conclusion endures even if it requires limiting options of political decision making in open democratic societies through normative structural automatisms. Independent of political trends, social consensus almost everywhere favors a prioritization of energy efficiency, alternative energies, resource recycling, urban farming, cost- and time-effective public transportation, water economy, and extended product life. But public interest-driven decision making processes, legislation, and dispute resolution do not adequately take into account the acceleration of technological innovation on the one hand, and of environmental deterioration on the other hand. This paper exposes fundamental weaknesses and future needs for technology assessment drawing on European, American and global experiences. It highlights challenges to avoid possible crises of legitimacy and anti-technology groundswells of Luddite proportions as well as forgoing groundbreaking opportunities for an open knowledge society based on informed consent rather than state mandate.
description: Consilience, No 14 (2015): Issue Fourteen: 2015
21 cm Signals from Early Ionizing Sources
Creators: name: Liu, Jiren
name: Qiu, Jing-Mei
name: Feng, Long-Long
name: Shu, Chi-Wang
name: Fang, Li-Zhi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the 21 cm signals from the UV ionizing sources in the reionization epoch. The formation and evolution of 21 cm emission and absorption regions depend essentially on the kinetics of photons in the physical and frequency spaces. To solve the radiative transfer equation, we use the WENO algorithm, which is effective to capture the sharp ionization profile and the cut-off at the front of light $(r=ct)$ and to handle the small fraction of neutral hydrogen and helium in the ionized sphere. We show that a spherical shell of 21 cm emission and absorption will develop around a point source once the speed of the ionization front (I-front) is significantly lower than the speed of light. The 21 cm shell extends from the I-front to the front of light; its inner part is the emission region and its outer part is the absorption region. The 21 cm emission region depends strongly on the intensity, frequency-spectrum and life-time of the UV ionizing source. For a source of short life-time, no 21 cm emission region can be formed if the source dies out before the I-front speed is significantly lower than the speed of light. Yet, a 21 cm absorption region can form and develop even after the emission of the source ceases.
description: 25 pages, 9 figures, accepted by ApJ
Simultaneous Clauses
Creators: name: Beck, Ethel
name: Manker, Jonathan
name: Ridley, Ruth
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: haa
subject: Han language

description: Han_RR_EB_07142014_18: simultanous clauses (temporal but with durative action), ‘while;’ also some ‘before’ and ‘after;’ ‘arrive,’ ‘make,’ ‘eat.’ Han_RR_EB_07142014_19: more simultaneous clauses, ‘while eating,’ ‘while sleeping,’ with different aspects.
Additional file 2 of One-pot universal NicE-seq: all enzymatic downstream processing of 4% formaldehyde crosslinked cells for chromatin accessibility genomics
Creators: name: Vishnu, Udayakumar S.
name: Estève, Pierre-Olivier
name: Chin, Hang Gyeong
name: Pradhan, Sriharsa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 2: Table S1. Data sets used in this study.
Mind the Gap – The Discrepancy between the Normative Debate and the Actual Use of Human Rights Language in International Climate Negotiations
Creators: name: Beck, Gregor
name: Ditzel, Cora
name: Ganter, Sofia
name: Perov, Olga
Publisher: name: Consilience
Year: 2020

description: Over the last years there has been an emerging normative debate on how the impacts of climate change do not only affect the environment but also have dire consequences for the enjoyment of basic human rights in vulnerable regions. A human rights-based approach to climate negotiations could improve the debate beyond a mostly scientific and technical discussion. This paper analyzes in a case study how human rights are actually articulated within international climate negotiations and what role they play in the international political debate on climate change. Through a first inductive analysis of state submissions and interview data collected at the 2ndsession of the ADP during UNFCCC COP 19 we examine how state parties make use of human rights in international climate negotiations. The paper shows that despite the growing normative debate on the topic almost no parties refer to human rights directly in the actual climate negotiations. When human rights are mentioned, they are more likely to be articulated by state groups, they are often referred to in an indirect way, and non-binding rights are articulated more often than universally binding human rights. This shows that there is a clear gap between the normative debate and the political realities of the linkages of human rights and climate change.
description: Consilience, No 14 (2015): Issue Fourteen: 2015
Molecular origin of viscoelasticity in mineralized collagen fibrils
Creators: name: Milazzo, Mario
name: David, Alessio
name: Jung, Gang Seob
name: Danti, Serena
name: Buehler, Markus J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Bone is mineralized tissue constituting the skeletal system, supporting and protecting body organs and tissues. At the molecular level, mineralized collagen fibril is the basic building block of bone tissue, and hence, understanding bone properties down to fundamental tissue structures enables to better identify the mechanisms of structural failures and damages. While efforts have focused on the study of the micro- and macro-scale viscoelasticity related to bone damage and healing based on creep, mineralized collagen has not been explored on a molecular level. We report a study that aims at systematically exploring the viscoelasticity of collagenous fibrils with different mineralization levels. We investigate the dynamic mechanical response upon cyclic and impulsive loads to observe the viscoelastic phenomena from either shear or extensional strains via molecular dynamics. We perform a sensitivity analysis with several key benchmarks: intrafibrillar mineralization percentage, hydration state, and external load amplitude. Our results show a growth of the dynamic moduli with an increase of mineral percentage, pronounced at low strains. When intrafibrillar water is present, the material softens the elastic component but considerably increases its viscosity, especially at high frequencies. This behaviour is confirmed from the material response upon impulsive loads, in which water drastically reduces the relaxation times throughout the input velocity range by one order of magnitude, with respect to the dehydrated counterparts. We find that upon transient loads, water has a major impact on the mechanics of mineralized fibrillar collagen, being able to improve the capability of the tissue to passively and effectively dissipate energy, especially after fast and high-amplitude external loads.