cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Adoption of business-to-business E-commerce in China: an empirical analysis of the Pearl River Delta economic region, the Yangtze River Delta economic region and West China
Creators: name: Tan, Jing
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2011

description: This thesis analyses e-commerce adoption by businesses in China from organisational, inter-organisational and external perspectives, taking into consideration the impact of regional differences within the nation. A comprehensive theoretical framework was created from both the Information System and Marketing literature. A quantitative study of 445 companies was conducted to validate the proposed theoretical framework. Eight determining factors were extracted from the organisational, inter-organisational and external perspectives by using Principal Component Factor Analysis. They are: Awareness, Intention, Preparation, Business Resources, Human Resources, Power/Dependence, Conflict/Cooperation and External Environment. Discriminant Analysis was then employed to analyse the ranking of these factors in each of three regions in China - the Pearl River Delta Economic Region, the Yangtze River Delta Economic Region and the West Region. This revealed the impact of uneven regional development on B2B e-commerce adoption patterns. Results from MANOVA test further identified differences between the regions. This thesis confirmed the effectiveness of both organisational and technological factors on B2B e-commerce adoption in developing economies, extending previous knowledge from IS literature. This study also revealed the importance of the inter-organisational interaction atmosphere on adoption preferences, which was ignored in existing literature. It is further found in this thesis that regional differences strongly influenced adoption, resulting in three completely different regional adoption patterns. Implications are drawn for both academics and practitioners who wish to study B2B e-commerce adoption in specific geographical regions.
Infinitely generated symbolic Rees algebras over finite fields
Creators: name: Sannai, Akiyoshi
name: Tanaka, Hiromu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: For the polynomial ring over an arbitrary field with twelve variables, there exists a prime ideal whose symbolic Rees algebra is not finitely generated.
description: 16 pages, v2: minor revisions, v3: minor revisions
In vitro selection and characterisation of human anti-HIV-1 antibody fragments
Creators: name: Tang, Jie
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2011

description: Generation of neutralising antibodies with broad specificity would be one of the effective approaches to control HIV-1 spread. It is clear that a method that allows rapid generation of neutralising antibodies is needed. This project aims at developing a novel approach to rapidly access human anti-HIV-1 antibodies in vitro by using ribosome display and selection from DNA libraries of HIV-1 patients. Two single-chain antibody libraries (M325 and K530) were constructed from two HIV-1 long-term non-progressors, whose sera showed cross-neutralising activities against various HIV-1 strains across a range of clades. In each library, total RNA was extracted from blood of each donor and used to synthesise cDNA. Families of 4 κ light chains, 9 λ light chains and 8 heavy chains were generated by using RT-PCR amplification. These fragments were then assembled with all possible combinatorial pairs to form diversified repertories in the form of VL-link-VH-partial CH. Both libraries were subjected to ribosome display for in vitro selection of functional antibodies. Ribosome display is a cell-free technique used to generate proteins that can bind to an immobilised antigen. During this process, the translated proteins are associated with their mRNAs, enabling a simultaneous selection of functional proteins and their gene. The employment of ribosome display facilitated rapid screening of two large libraries against recombinant gp120 (generated from patient K530).
(501970) Violet Howey
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.
Interacting chains of orbital polarons in "Colossal" magnetoresistive La1-xSrxMnO3 revealed by spin and lattice dynamics
Creators: name: Hennion, Martine
name: Petit, Sylvain
name: Ivanov, Alexandre
name: Castellan, Jean-Paul
name: Lamago, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The origin of the effect of colossal magneto-resistance (CMR) remains still unexplained. In this work we revisit the spin dynamics of the pseudo-cubic La1-xSrxMnO3 along the Mn-O-Mn bond direction at four x doping values (x < 0.5) and various temperatures and report a new lattice dynamics study at x0=0.2, representative of the optimal doping for CMR. We propose an interpretation of the spin dynamics in terms of orbital polarons. This picture is supported by the observation of a discrete magnetic energy spectrum Enmag (q) characteristic of the internal excitations of "orbital polarons" defined by Mn3+ neighbors surrounding a Mn4+ center with a hole. Because of its hopping, the hole mixes up dynamically all the possible orbital configurations of its surrounding Mn3+ sites with degenerate energies. The Enmag values indicate a lift of orbital degeneracy by phonon excitations. The number n varies with the spatial dimension D of the polaron and the q-range determines its size. At x=0.125 and x=0.3 the spectrum reveals 2D polarons coupled by exchange and 3D "free" polarons respectively, with sizes l=1.67a < 2a in all bond directions. At x0=0.2, the spin and the lattice dynamics provide evidence for chains of orbital polarons of size l=2a with a periodic distribution over ~ 3a and an interaction energy ~ 3 meV. At T < Tc the charges propagate together with the longitudinal acoustic phonons along the chains enhancing their ferromagnetic character. The phase separation between metallic and ferromagnetic chains in a non-metallic matrix may be crucial for CMR.
(501969) Eleanor [Henderson]
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
The development-security nexus and security sector reform
Creators: name: Telatin, Michela
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2011

description: The thesis investigates the link between development and security - the ‘development-security nexus’- which emerged during the 1990s, facilitated by the formulation of human development and human security. It examines how this development-security nexus has evolved over time and has influenced the interrelated significance of development and security for international relations. The thesis questions this interdependence and analyses the theory and practice that see development and security issues as reciprocally reinforcing each other, in particular through a set of policies called Security Sector Reform (SSR). The research includes three main areas of interest related to the different meanings of development and security focusing in particular on human development and human security; the various interpretations of the development-security nexus since the 1990s; and the analysis of how Security Sector Reform, publicised as development-security nexus policies, are designed to translate it into practice. The thesis argues that the nexus between development and security is under-theorised, and the originality of this research is to investigate the link between its theories and practices. The critical view of this thesis towards current dominant theoretical and operational orientations of the development-security nexus is based on an analysis of literature on Critical Security Studies, Post- Development, and Non-mainstream International Relations approaches. The thesis contributes to existing scholarship by unpacking the different meanings of development and security embedded in Security Sector Reform policies and reveals the need to contextualise the significance of their interlinkages within each policy scenario. In particular the three case studies on Defence Reform of Armenia, SSR Afghanistan and SSR Guinea-Bissau highlight respectively: 1) the novelty of concerns raised by SSR and the complexity to categorise concerns on security within a single, even if inclusive, policy discourse. 2) the need to go beyond the narrow view of a militarised view of security and its inadequacy to support the implementation of development objectives and 3) that the link between development and security is still very much dependent on a vision of security linked to the state’s armed forces, and of development which is focused on state security governance capacity.
S. Tudno's Church and the Earthworks on the Great Orme, North Wales
Creators: name: Thompson, James D A
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 4, 108-111
description: Details of Mr. Thompsons visit to St, Tudno's Church, The Great Orme, Llandudno.
Rethinking Thai architecture and cultural identity
Creators: name: Tharavichitkun, Burin
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2011

description: By the mid-19th century, in order to combat the threat of colonisation by western powers, the Thai king and the country’s social elite decided to adopt and implement western notions and technology as a superior ways to develop Thailand into a civilised nation, since it was believed that a new modern image of Thai cultural identity would help the country to be regarded as equal to Europe. At the same time, traditional Thai beliefs – especially the values of ‘pure’ Buddhism – were left behind as they were seen to be entirely different from the new western notions. Ever since then westernised modes of thinking have been supported by several generations of Thai rulers through a series of examples of imposed ‘top-down’ planning. This inappropriate and failed harmonisation of modern culture with Thai tradition, a process which is increasingly influenced by globalisation, has resulted in a contemporary cultural crisis that creates many problems in different aspects of the Thai built environment. The objective of this doctoral study is therefore to observe the results of these cross-cultural conflicts, and to find new ways to use architectural design to focus on a different approach from the westernised notions embodied in globalisation. The ideals of eco-Buddhism and of localised, ‘bottom-up’ planning – together with architectural participation by local people – thus become the inspirational ideas behind this study. The framework of the thesis chooses to investigate two different dimensions of the cultural conflicts caused by unsuccessful hybridisation in Thailand: firstly, the extreme physical changes to the built environment caused by the western influences; and secondly, the specific Thai pheonmena that illustrate the negative impact of cultural hybridisation on the mentality of local people. The cities of Bangkok and Chiang Mai have thus been chosen as the two main case studies because each exemplifies particular problems. This thesis, as a PhD by Design will propose various small-scale architectural projects which are expressed differently according to their background problems. These often simple projects – seen as ‘small changes’ introduced by architects – are presented in the hope that their impacts would then be scaled up through local participation and the latent creativities of the residents of these urban areas in Thailand’s two main cities.
Universal theories and compactly expandable models
Creators: name: Casanovas, Enrique
name: Shelah, Saharon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Our aim is to solve a quite old question on the difference between expandability and compact expandability. Toward this, we further investigate the logic of countable cofinality.
Robust Non-Rigid Registration with Reweighted Position and Transformation Sparsity
Creators: name: Li, Kun
name: Yang, Jingyu
name: Lai, Yu-Kun
name: Guo, Daoliang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Computational Geometry (cs.CG)
subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Non-rigid registration is challenging because it is ill-posed with high degrees of freedom and is thus sensitive to noise and outliers. We propose a robust non-rigid registration method using reweighted sparsities on position and transformation to estimate the deformations between 3-D shapes. We formulate the energy function with position and transformation sparsity on both the data term and the smoothness term, and define the smoothness constraint using local rigidity. The double sparsity based non-rigid registration model is enhanced with a reweighting scheme, and solved by transferring the model into four alternately-optimized subproblems which have exact solutions and guaranteed convergence. Experimental results on both public datasets and real scanned datasets show that our method outperforms the state-of-the-art methods and is more robust to noise and outliers than conventional non-rigid registration methods.
description: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Characterisation of burkholderia cepacia from clinical and environmental origins
Creators: name: Wigley, Paul
Publisher: name: Cardiff Metropolitan University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Clinical microbiology
Other biomedical and clinical sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Burkholderia cepacia isolates were obtained from the sputum of cystic fibrosis patients or isolated from the environment. The isolates were characterised phenotypically by determining antibiotic resistance profiles and their ability to macerate onion tissue, and genetically by PCR ribotyping and macro-restriction analysis (genome fingerprinting).
 The replicon (chromosomal) organisation was determined by pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and the presence of plasmids was also investigated. Plasmid transfer by conjugation was also investigated.
 A high degree of genetic and phenotypic variation was found both within and between clinical and environmental populations of B. cepacia. Environmental isolates were generally less resistant to antibiotics but showed greater ability to macerate onion tissue. Genetic characterisation showed little evidence of acquisition of B. cepacia from the environment by CF patients, but revealed strong evidence supporting person-to- person transmission of B. cepacia in the Cardiff CF centre and other European centres.
 Two or more chromosomes were found in 93 % of B. cepacia isolates tested, and were also found in other closely related species suggesting such organisation may be common in Î²-2 proteobacteria. Plasmids, often in excess of 100 kb, were found to be harboured in 52 Yo of isolates, though were more commonly found in CF isolates (65 % of isolates) than environmental isolates (23 % of isolates). Plasmid transfer by conjugation was demonstrated into, between and from B. cepacia strains. Evidence of plasmids encoding antibiotic resistance was also found.
Criticality of a randomly-driven front
Creators: name: Dembo, Amir
name: Tsai, Li-Cheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60K35 (Primary) 35B30, 80A22 (Secondary)

description: Consider an advancing `front' $ R(t) \in \mathbb{Z}_{\geq 0} $ and particles performing independent continuous time random walks on $ (R(t),\infty)\cap\mathbb{Z} $. Starting at $R(0)=0$, whenever a particle attempts to jump into $R(t)$ the latter instantaneously moves $k \ge 1$ steps to the right, absorbing all particles along its path. We take $ k $ to be the minimal random integer such that exactly $ k $ particles are absorbed by the move of $ R $, and view the particle system as a discrete version of the Stefan problem \begin{align*} &\partial_t u_*(t,ξ) = \tfrac12 \partial^2_ξ u_*(t,ξ), \quad ξ>r(t), &u_*(t,r(t))=0, &\tfrac{d~}{dt}r(t) = \tfrac12 \partial_ξu_*(t,r(t)), &t\mapsto r(t) \text{ non-decreasing }, \quad r(0):=0. \end{align*} For a constant initial particles density $u_*(0,ξ)=ρ{\bf 1}_{\{ξ>0\}}$, at $ρ<1$ the particle system and the PDE exhibit the same diffusive behavior at large time, whereasat $ρ\ge 1$ the PDE explodes instantaneously. Focusing on the critical density $ ρ=1 $, we analyze the large time behavior of the front $ R(t) $ for the particle system, and obtain both the scaling exponent of $R(t)$ and an explicit description of its random scaling limit. Our result unveils a rarely seen phenomenon where the macroscopic scaling exponent is sensitive to the amount of initial local fluctuations. Further, the scaling limit demonstrates an interesting oscillation between instantaneous super- and sub-critical phases. Our method is based on a novel monotonicity as well as PDE-type estimates.
description: 43 pages, 6 figures. Updated to match the version to be published
Thomas Robinson: Evangelical Clergyman in Leicester, 1774-1813
Creators: name: Thorneycroft Rimmington, Gerald
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2022

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 75, 105-117
description: This study examines the life and work of Thomas Robinson, an Evangelical minister in Leicester from 1774 to 1813. From 1778, as vicar of St. Mary-de-Castro, he devoted himself to parish work, preaching and pastoral care, and to the organisation of charity schools, a benevolent society and a 'Female asylum'. He was active in support of the national campaign to abolish slavery, in the development of foreign missions, and in the campaigns to supply Bibles to the poor. He was friendly and sympathetic towards Baptist colleagues such as William Carey and Robert Hall, but was concerned about threats to unbalance the religious and political status quo, and by opposition from dissidents within his own congregation. As a result he failed to encourage political reforms, even those which dealt with the civil rights of Dissenters.
A ADVOCACIA PÚBLICA E A NOVA HERMENÊUTICA CONSTITUCIONAL
Creators: name: Santana, José Cláudio Pavão
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: ADVOCACIA PÚBLICA
HERMENÊUTICA
STF

description: Sumário: 1. Introdução. 2. Advocacia na CF. 3. Entre o público e o privado na advocacia. 4. No jardim da “reipública”. 5. A construção hermenêutica contemporânea. 6. Ativismo judicial “versus” ativismo constitucional. Conclusões.
Wilsonian Ward Identities
Creators: name: Rosten, Oliver J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For conformal field theories, it is shown how the Ward identity corresponding to dilatation invariance arises in a Wilsonian setting. In so doing, several points which are opaque in textbook treatments are clarified. Exploiting the fact that the Exact Renormalization Group furnishes a representation of the conformal algebra allows dilatation invariance to be stated directly as a property of the action, despite the presence of a regulator. This obviates the need for formal statements that conformal invariance is recovered once the regulator is removed. Furthermore, the proper subset of conformal primary fields for which the Ward identity holds is identified for all dimensionalities.
description: v2: 18 pages, published version
Ground state degeneracy of non-Abelian topological phases from coupled wires
Creators: name: Iadecola, Thomas
name: Neupert, Titus
name: Chamon, Claudio
name: Mudry, Christopher
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct a family of two-dimensional non-Abelian topological phases from coupled wires using a non-Abelian bosonization approach. We then demonstrate how to determine the nature of the non-Abelian topological order (in particular, the anyonic excitations and the topological degeneracy on the torus) realized in the resulting gapped phases of matter. This paper focuses on the detailed case study of a coupled-wire realization of the bosonic $su(2)^{\,}_{2}$ Moore-Read state, but the approach we outline here can be extended to general bosonic $su(2)^{\,}_{k}$ topological phases described by non-Abelian Chern-Simons theories. We also discuss possible generalizations of this approach to the construction of three-dimensional non-Abelian topological phases.
description: 33 pages, 3 figures. v3 replaces previous discussion of 3D case with an outlook. Published version
Osteoarthritis: the role and mechanisms of the chondroprotective peptide Urocortin I
Creators: name: White, Omeco
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2011

description: Osteoarthritis (OA), a chronic degenerative condition of the diarthrodial joints is most predominant amongst the middle aged and elderly population, where it is associated with progressive disability and deformity of the joints. Whilst the exact mechanism of OA pathogenesis is currently unknown, chondrocyte death by apoptosis is seen as one of the main contributors to the disease process. It is increasingly recognised that the overproduction of mediators such as Nitric Oxide (NO) in Osteoarthritic cartilage contributes to the disease pathology partly by inducing chondrocyte apoptosis. Therefore, agents, which protect against NOinduced mitochondrial injury, may have therapeutic potential in Osteoarthritis. The CRF related peptide, Urocortin I (UCNI), has been shown to protect the human chondrocyte cell line, C-20/A4, from SNAP/NO induced apoptotic death, but little is yet known about its mechanism of action. Therefore the aim of this project is to investigate the potential mechanism through which UCNI exerts its observed protective effects. The studies documented here, have demonstrated the endogenous expression of this cytoprotective peptide, UCNI, by C-20/A4 chondrocytes and have shown that treatment of chondrocytes with SNAP (a NO donor) resulted in a significant increase in apoptosis which was abrogated by the addition of exogenous UCNI. Therefore, an investigation into the potential mechanism for UCNI mediated protection against apoptosis in chondrocytes (i.e. chondroprotection) detected the mRNA expression of both CRFR1 and CRFR2 receptors specifically the CRFR1α and CRFR2β splice variants by the C-20/A4 chondrocytes. However the CRFR antagonist, α−helical CRH failed to induce apoptosis or abrogate the protective effects of UCNI against SNAP/NO induced apoptosis. RT-PCR studies have also demonstrated C-20/A4 mRNA expression of the Kir6.1, Kir6.2, SUR1 and SUR2B subunits of the KATP channels suggesting that functional KATP channels are also present in these cells, which represent a further putative mechanism of action for UCNI. Quantitative PCR studies were performed to determine regulation of CRFR and Kir6.1 expression by UCNI. These studies showed that treatment of chondrocytes with UCNI and SNAP alone and concurrently resulted in no significant change in mRNA expression of either CRF receptors or kir6.1 (the pore forming subunit of the mitochondrial KATP channel). Treatment of chondrocytes with Diazoxide, a mitochondrial KATP channel opener, resulted in a reduction in SNAP induced apoptosis, mimicking that seen for UCNI, suggesting a similar protective role for these channels in chondrocytes, to that proposed in other cell types and supporting these channels as potential targets for UCNI in chondroprotection.
Methodism in Leicestershire between the Two World Wars
Creators: name: Thorneycroft Rimmington, Gerald
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2022

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 77, 111-122
description: This article examines changes in the Methodist membership in Leicestershire during the inter-war period, at a time when non-conformity in general was declining. Changes in membership were effected by the fusion of the three main strands of the denomination to form the Methodist Church, as well as by social and economic factors. Although numbers were maintained in Methodism, both nationally and locally, the seeds of decline were evident.
The Oxford Movement in Leicester in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Creators: name: Thorneycroft Rimmington, Gerald
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2022

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 78, 124-140
description: During the 1830s a small group of Oxford dons, who were also priests, believing that the Church of England had strayed from its Catholic roots, began a movement that was to affect the churches in Leicester. This article traces the development of the Oxford Movement, through its earlier manifestation in Tractarianism, to Ritualism, its later form, in a county town that was already a bastion of Nonconformity and where Anglican Evangelicalism had also become fairly strong.
(501968) Thomas Henderson
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.
Characterizations of quasitrivial symmetric nondecreasing associative operations
Creators: name: Devillet, Jimmy
name: Kiss, Gergely
name: Marichal, Jean-Luc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20N15, 39B72 (Primary), 20M14 (Secondary)

description: We provide a description of the class of n-ary operations on an arbitrary chain that are quasitrivial, symmetric, nondecreasing, and associative. We also prove that associativity can be replaced with bisymmetry in the definition of this class. Finally we investigate the special situation where the chain is finite.
Mixed Quantum Classical Dynamics for Near Term Quantum Computers
Creators: name: Bultrini, Daniel
name: Vendrell, Oriol
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This archive contains the code and data for the paper "Mixed Quantum Classical Dynamics for Near Term Quantum Computers". This should allow the interested reader to reproduce all the figures and run their own simulations. The ipython notebooks are self-contained and have code to generate all the relevant figures in the paper. To reproduce the figures, all of the .zip files must be extracted so that the top-level directory is in the same folder as the ipython notebooks. Other simulations can be run by following the examples in the .slurm file, running the runme.py with appropriate inputs or scripting around the pVQD_cluster.py file. The exact_simulator.py file contains the exact simulator that is used to compare the quantum computing results. To run this, the most critical requirement is to use qiskit 0.22.1. Other libraries are not expected to have much of an impact on performance, but the versions are provided in the additional notes.
description: Specific library versions required: numpy 1.23.4 scipy 1.7.1 qiskit 0.22.1 seaborn 0.12.2 matplotlib 3.6.2 pandas 1.4.4 Thanks are given to the creators of https://github.com/StefanoBarison/p-VQD and https://github.com/smparker/mudslide whose code was referenced in the creation of this code. There may also be slight variations between the plots generated here and in the figures, but these are limited to the combination of two plots into one or cosmetic changes such as changing label/axis names or manual movement of legends.
DFT+DMFT calculations of the complex band and tunneling behavior for the transition metal monoxides MnO, FeO, CoO and NiO
Creators: name: Zhang, Long
name: Staar, Peter
name: Kozhevnikov, Anton
name: Wang, Yun-Peng
name: Trinastic, Jonathan
name: Schulthess, Thomas
name: Cheng, Hai-Ping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report complex band structure (CBS) calculations for the four late transition metal monoxides, MnO, FeO, CoO and NiO, in their paramagnetic phase. The CBS is obtained from density functional theory plus dynamical mean field theory (DMFT) calculations to take into account correlation effects. The so-called $β$ parameters, governing the exponential decay of the transmission probability in the non-resonant tunneling regime of these oxides, are extracted from the CBS. Different model constructions are examined in the DMFT part of the calculation. The calculated $β$ parameters provide theoretical estimation for the decay length in the evanescent channel, which would be useful for tunnel junction applications of these materials.
description: 16 pages, 13 figures
Clerical Incumbents in Leicestershire between the Two World Wars
Creators: name: Thorneycroft Rimmington, Gerald
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2022

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 80, 163-176
description: After the 1914-18 war clerical incumbents faced a difficult time. There was widespread disillusionment about the role of the churches. There were also more severe trade cycles, the depths of which threw many of their parishioners into long-term unemployment. Added to this was a rise in the strength of the episcopacy in making appointments, and the adjustments made necessary by the development of parochial church councils, as well as problems in clergy recruitment and qualifications. This article analyses the changes in Leicestershire, as a microcosm of the English scene, in the appointment, qualifications and payment of clerical incumbents; there was also the challenges presented by the restoration of the Diocese of Leicester.
Correlative analysis on InGaN/GaN nanowires: structural and optical properties of self-assembled short-period superlattices
Creators: name: Alonso-Orts, Manuel
name: Hötzel, Rudolfo
name: Grieb, Tim
name: Auf Der Maur, Matthias
name: Ries, Maximilian
name: Nippert, Felix
name: März, Benjamin
name: Müller-Caspary, Knut
name: Wagner, Markus R.
name: Rosenauer, Andreas
name: Eickhoff, Martin
Publisher: name: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::620 Ingenieurwissenschaften::620 Ingenieurwissenschaften und zugeordnete Tätigkeiten
subject: InGaN
subject: nanowires
subject: superlattice
subject: strain
subject: photoluminescence
subject: STEM

description: The influence of self-assembled short-period superlattices (SPSLs) on the structural and optical properties of InGaN/GaN nanowires (NWs) grown by PAMBE on Si (111) was investigated by STEM, EDXS, µ-PL analysis and k·p simulations. STEM analysis on single NWs indicates that in most of the studied nanostructures, SPSLs self-assemble during growth. The SPSLs display short-range ordering of In-rich and In-poor InxGa1-xN regions with a period of 2–3 nm that are covered by a GaN shell and that transition to a more homogenous InxGa1-xN core. Polarization- and temperature-resolved PL analysis performed on the same NWs shows that they exhibit a strong parallel polarized red-yellow emission and a predominantly perpendicular polarized blue emission, which are ascribed to different In-rich regions in the nanostructures. The correlation between STEM, µ-PL and k·p simulations provides better understanding of the rich optical emission of complex III-N nanostructures and how they are impacted by structural properties, yielding the significant impact of strain on self-assembly and spectral emission.
Congregationsalism and Society in Leicestershire and Rutland 1919-1966
Creators: name: Thorneycroft Rimmington, Gerald
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2022

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 81, 137-152
description: From 1916 to 1966, after which most Congregational churches were absorbed into the United Reformed Church, Congregationalism experienced considerable reduction in membership although there were some temporary increases in the after the two world wars. While middle-class suburban and large town churches continued to maintain their membership, the 'downtown' churches of Leicester disappeared, as did smaller community churches, where their independent status could not cope adequately with pastoral needs. The Leicestershire situation illustrates the problems which led to the replacement of a free association of independent churches with a more hierarchical entity.
(501966) Ann [Archbold]
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.
(501965) Thomas Archbold
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.
Quantum periods and prepotential in ${\cal N}=2$ SU(2) SQCD
Creators: name: Ito, Katsushi
name: Kanno, Shoichi
name: Okubo, Takafumi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study ${\cal N}=2$ SU(2) supersymmetric QCD with massive hypermultiplets deformed in the Nekrasov-Shatashvili limit of the Omega-background. The prepotential of the low-energy effective theory is determined by the WKB solution of the quantum Seiberg-Witten curve. We calculate the deformed Seiberg-Witten periods around the massless monoplole point explicitly up to the fourth order in the deformation parameter.
description: 1+40 pages, 3 figures, v2: references added; v3: typos corrected
Evangelicalism in Late Victorian Leicester
Creators: name: Thorneycroft Rimmington, Gerald
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2022

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 82, 229-243
description: Evangelicalism in late Victorian Leicester was represented by three parishes, Christ Church, Holy Trinity and St. Peter's. Each adhered to the main tenets of the movement - biblical teaching and preaching about the sacrifice of Christ, missionary endeavour, and concern for pastoral care - but was somewhat different in the ways that their incumbents expressed their theological views and actions.
Late Victorian and Clerical Incumbents in Rutland
Creators: name: Thorneycroft Rimmington, Gerald
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2022

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 83, 219-228
description: After 1873 English clerical incumbents in rural areas like Rutland were faced with a deepening agricultural depression that was only slightly alleviated after 1896. Many of the communities were decimated, because the heavy clay soils of the region were responsible for the tendency to turn over to less labour intensive pastoral activities. This was especially disastrous not only for farmers but also for the clergy. Clerical incomes were largely derived from glebe rents and these declined in the face of poor harvests and competition from imports of wheat from North America. C. F. K. Brown notes that 'in 1880 the number of benefices of an annual value of over �100 and less than �200 was 2,597, but in 1892 the number was 4,173'.
Influence of edge-deposited layers on mechanical and corrosion properties of laser beam welds of 15 mm thick AISI 2205 duplex stainless steel
Creators: name: Straße, Anne
name: Gumenyuk, Andrey
name: Rethmeier, Michael
Publisher: name: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::620 Ingenieurwissenschaften::620 Ingenieurwissenschaften und zugeordnete Tätigkeiten
subject: direct energy deposition by laser beam
subject: laser metal deposition
subject: laser beam welding
subject: stainless steel
subject: Duplex AISI 2205

description: AISI 2205 duplex stainless steel is used in a variety of industries, including the chemical and petrochemical industries. This is due to its high tensile strength combined with good ductility and corrosion resistance. However, in laser beam welding, these properties are negatively affected by the high cooling rates typical of the welding process. The resulting higher ferrite content in the weld metal than in the base material leads to a reduction in the ductility and corrosion resistance of the welded joint. To overcome this problem, in this study, thick plates were coated by direct energy deposition (DED) prior to laser beam welding, whereas a duplex powder mixture containing a higher nickel concentration was used as a coating material. To improve the weld quality for the proposed two-step process, a method of additional material deposition instead of conventional tack weld was investigated. The resulting welded joints showed a well-balanced austenite to ferrite ratio and their properties and microstructure were verified by metallographic analysis, electron backscatter diffraction and Charpy impact testing. Using the standard ASTM G48 test method, it was found that the corrosion resistance of the welds was improved by a factor of four in average compared to the conventionally welded joints. The resulting properties, such as good ductility and corrosion resistance, of the welds with pre-coated edges showed good agreement with those of the base metal and confirmed the proposed two-step process as a promising alternative to the conventional approaches for welding thick duplex stainless steel plates.
Isolating the chiral magnetic effect from backgrounds by pair invariant mass
Creators: name: Zhao, Jie
name: Li, Hanlin
name: Wang, Fuqiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Topological gluon configurations in quantum chromodynamics induce quark chirality imbalance in local domains, which can result in the chiral magnetic effect (CME)--an electric charge separation along a strong magnetic field. Experimental searches for the CME in relativistic heavy ion collisions via the charge-dependent azimuthal correlator ($Δγ$) suffer from large backgrounds arising from particle correlations (e.g. due to resonance decays) coupled with the elliptic anisotropy. We propose differential measurements of the $Δγ$ as a function of the pair invariant mass ($m_{\rm inv}$), by restricting to high $m_{\rm inv}$ thus relatively background free, and by studying the $m_{\rm inv}$ dependence to separate the possible CME signal from backgrounds. We demonstrate by model studies the feasibility and effectiveness of such measurements for the CME search.
description: 16 preprint pages 5 figures. v2: added a test with a broad "instanton/sphaleron" peak, and added clarifying texts; v3: added event-shape engineering (and two new figures) and expanded discussions on the low invariant mass region; v4: repeated cautionary discussions in introduction and conclusion sections, published version
(501964) Mary Taylor
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.
Methodist Churches in Leicestershire 1945-80
Creators: name: Thorneycroft Rimmington, Gerald
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2022

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 84, 303-315
description: Methodism, with its circuit system of organisation and its reliance on local preachers, fared better in the post-1945 years than the older Nonconformist denominations. In Leicestershire, as elsewhere, it had to deal with the aftermath of the reunion of Wesleyan, Primitive and United Methodist connexions. There was also the challenge of Afro-Caribbean immigration that was faced with imagination and resolution.
Clerical Incumbents in Rutland between the Two World Wars
Creators: name: Thorneycroft Rimmington, Gerald
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2022

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 85, 155-163
description: This article examines the appointments, qualifications and incomes of clerical incumbents in agriculturally depressed Rutland between the two World Wars. Comparisons are made with the situation in Leicestershire during the same period.
(501963) William Gibb
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.
Emmy: A Proof Assistant for Reasoning about Programs
Creators: name: Xu, Junfeng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: We present Emmy, a proof assistant optimised for teaching and learning, that fills the gap
 between existing teaching tools and powerful practical theorem provers. Emmy supports a
 many-sorted first-order logic in which recursive functions, data structures, and arithmetic
 operations can be expressed. Emmy can express and prove the properties of many computer
 programs, in addition to theorems in propositional and first-order logic.
 To make it convenient for students to start using Emmy, we also developed a web-based
 interface for Emmy, which has been proven in tests to be easy to learn. Alternatively, the
 users may also write proofs in an LISP-like DSL, and check their proofs by ‘running’ them
 using Emmy’s interpreter.
 Since we intend to use Emmy in the teaching of the reasoning about programs course, we
 demonstrated the proving power of Emmy with regard to the course materials. The results
 are satisfying: we believe that Emmy has enough proving power to be used in actual teaching.
Clerical Incumbents in Leicestershire 1946-66
Creators: name: Thorneycroft Rimmington, Gerald
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2022

description: Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 88, 141-150
description: English clerical incumbents who lived and functioned in the immediate post-1945 period were much more fortunate than those who worked in the inter-war period. Their expectations were different from those who had waited in vain for the return of young men from the trenches after 1918. It was a period of relative stability. Throughout England as a whole the number of Easter Day communicants in parish churches rose from 1,728,940 in 1947 to 1,899,469 in 1956. Between 1956 and 1962 there was an increase to more than two million. Electoral rolls varied very little, from 2,989,704 in 1947 to 2,682,181 in 1966. At the same time the number of benefices fell from 12,838 in 1951 to 11,314 in 1966, while the total number of incumbents was reduced from 11,300 in 1951 to 10,198 in 1966. The total assistant curates, however, increased from 2,200 in 1951 to 3,262 in 1966, indicating that there were plenty of men prepared to put themselves forward for ordination.