cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Dark and Baryonic Matter in Bright Spiral Galaxies: II. Radial Distributions for 34 Galaxies
Creators: name: Kassin, Susan A.
name: de Jong, Roelof S.
name: Weiner, Benjamin J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We decompose the rotation curves of 34 bright spiral galaxies into baryonic and dark matter components. Stellar mass profiles are created by applying color-M/L relations to near-infrared and optical photometry. We find that the radial profile of the baryonic-to-dark-matter ratio is self-similar for all galaxies, when scaled to the radius where the contribution of the baryonic mass to the rotation curve equals that of the dark matter (R_X). We argue that this is due to the quasi-exponential nature of disks and rotation curves that are nearly flat after an initial rise. The radius R_X is found to correlate most strongly with baryonic rotation speed, such that galaxies with R_X measurements that lie further out in their disks rotate faster. This quantity also correlates very strongly with stellar mass, Hubble type, and observed rotation speed; B-band central surface brightness is less related to R_X than these other galaxy properties. Most of the galaxies in our sample appear to be close to maximal disk. For these galaxies, we find that maximum observed rotation speeds are tightly correlated with maximum rotation speeds predicted from the baryon distributions, such that one can create a Tully-Fisher relation based on surface photometry and redshifts alone. Finally, we compare our data to the NFW parameterization for dark matter profiles with and without including adiabatic contraction as it is most commonly implemented. Fits are generally poor, and all but 2 galaxies are better fit if adiabatic contraction is not performed. In order to have better fits, and especially to accommodate adiabatic contraction, baryons would need to contribute very little to the total mass in the inner parts of galaxies, seemingly in contrast with other observational constraints.
description: 39 pages, accepted to ApJ
The Accordiatron: A MIDI Controller For Interactive Music
Creators: name: Gurevich, Michael
name: von Muehlen, Stephan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: H.5.5

description: The Accordiatron is a new MIDI controller for real-time performance based on the paradigm of a conventional squeeze box or concertina. It translates the gestures of a performer to the standard communication protocol of MIDI, allowing for flexible mappings of performance data to sonic parameters. When used in conjunction with a realtime signal processing environment, the Accordiatron becomes an expressive, versatile musical instrument. A combination of sensory outputs providing both discrete and continuous data gives the subtle expressiveness and control necessary for interactive music.
description: Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, 2001
Arbitrarily large neutron amplification in subcritical nuclear reactors
Creators: name: Tilloy, Antoine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a subcritical reactor, each neutron produces only keff < 1 neutron per generation (asymptotically and on average), and thus the neutron population decreases exponentially in the absence of external source. The chain reaction is thus easy to stop, making such reactors inherently stable. Interestingly, and contrary to common wisdom, there is no relation between keff, the external source intensity, and the output power of the reactor. In this paper, I present various possible strategies to exploit this fact, and apply them to the design of a rudimentary multi-layer system that allows to reach an arbitrarily large number of fissions per source neutron, while keeping keff < 1 fixed (I used keff=0.97). The behavior of the amplifier is verified with simple Monte-Carlo transport simulations. The proposal admittedly brings complications and subtleties that need to be studied further, but, if developed, could allow to drive subcritical reactors with faint neutron sources, e.g. radioisotope based.
description: 4 pages
Multi-Fidelity Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization: An Output Space Entropy Search Approach
Creators: name: Belakaria, Syrine
name: Deshwal, Aryan
name: Doppa, Janardhan Rao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We study the novel problem of blackbox optimization of multiple objectives via multi-fidelity function evaluations that vary in the amount of resources consumed and their accuracy. The overall goal is to approximate the true Pareto set of solutions by minimizing the resources consumed for function evaluations. For example, in power system design optimization, we need to find designs that trade-off cost, size, efficiency, and thermal tolerance using multi-fidelity simulators for design evaluations. In this paper, we propose a novel approach referred as Multi-Fidelity Output Space Entropy Search for Multi-objective Optimization (MF-OSEMO) to solve this problem. The key idea is to select the sequence of candidate input and fidelity-vector pairs that maximize the information gained about the true Pareto front per unit resource cost. Our experiments on several synthetic and real-world benchmark problems show that MF-OSEMO, with both approximations, significantly improves over the state-of-the-art single-fidelity algorithms for multi-objective optimization.
description: corrected typos. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2009.05700
title: Fantastic Circuits and Where to Find Them—A Holistic ILP Formulation for Model-Based Hardware Design
Creators: name: Fiege, Nicolai
name: Zipf, Peter
Publisher: name: KOBRA Universität Kassel
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: design tools
subject: electronic design automation
subject: energy efficiency
subject: hardware compiler
subject: optimisation
subject: reconfigurable systems
classificationCode: 004
subject: 004
classificationCode: 600
subject: 600
classificationCode: Designwissenschaft
subject: Designwissenschaft
classificationCode: Softwarewerkzeug
subject: Softwarewerkzeug
classificationCode: Entwurfsautomation
subject: Entwurfsautomation
classificationCode: Energieeffizienz
subject: Energieeffizienz
classificationCode: Hardware
subject: Hardware
classificationCode: Compiler
subject: Compiler
classificationCode: Optimierung
subject: Optimierung
classificationCode: Rekonfiguration
subject: Rekonfiguration

description:
The end of Moore’s law and Dennard scaling emphasizes the need for application-specific computing architectures to achieve high resource and energy efficiency and real-time performance. The concept of a silicon compiler remains an enduring aspiration for design time reduction. In order to generate hardware implementations at register transfer level from behavioral descriptions, design automation tools must address challenging and interdependent problems, including allocation, scheduling, and binding. Additionally, manual intervention by the user is necessary to balance the resources vs. performance tradeoff via, for example, function inlining or loop unrolling/pipelining. Existing approaches typically solve these problems sequentially, compromising optimality in favor of simplicity and runtime. Here we show how to model the whole model-based design flow as one holistic integer linear programming (ILP) formulation aiming at consistently deriving the optimal microarchitecture for any given application. Incorporating clock gating minimizes the number of useless operations with negligible resource overhead (if any), while always guaranteeing optimal throughput. The unified nature of the proposed ILP model enables implementations unmatched by state-of-the-art approaches in terms of resource efficiency and measured power consumption. These results facilitate a streamlined design flow for highly optimized embedded systems in the context of model-based design.
A proposal for detection of absolute rotation using superconductors and large voltages
Creators: name: Forgan, E. M.
name: Muirhead, C. M.
name: Rae, A. I. M.
name: Speake, C. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe designs for practical detectors of absolute rotation, which rely on the creation of magnetic fields by charged objects that are rotating with respect to an inertial frame. Our designs, motivated by an original suggestion by R.M. Brady, utilise the properties of superconductors, both to shield and confine the magnetic fields, and also as the basis of a SQUID detector of the fields produced. We show that with commercially available SQUIDs, our designs can have sufficient sensitivity and signal-to-noise ratio to measure the sidereal rate of rotation of the Earth. We consider three different designs: two of these can also be configured to provide a confirmation of the form that Maxwell's equations take in a rotating frame. We can also make a direct experimental test of whether low-frequency electromagnetic energy experience the same inertial rest-frame as matter.
Anomalous Binder Cumulant and Lack of Self-Averageness in Systems with Quenched Disorder
Creators: name: Hong, Hyunsuk
name: Park, Hyunggyu
name: Tang, Lei-Han
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Binder cumulant (BC) has been widely used for locating the phase transition point accurately in systems with thermal noise. In systems with quenched disorder, the BC may show subtle finite-size effects due to large sample-to-sample fluctuations. We study the globally coupled Kuramoto model of interacting limit-cycle oscillators with random natural frequencies and find an anomalous dip in the BC near the transition. We show that the dip is related to non-self-averageness of the order parameter at the transition. Alternative definitions of the BC, which do not show any anomalous behavior regardless of the existence of non-self-averageness, are proposed.
Enhanced Orbital Degeneracy in Momentum Space for LaOFeAs
Creators: name: Zhang, Hai-Jun
name: Xu, Gang
name: Dai, Xi
name: Fang, Zhong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Fermi surfaces (FS) of LaOFeAs (in $k_z$=0 plane) consist of two hole-type circles around $Γ$ point, which do not touch each other, and two electron-type co-centered ellipses around M point, which are degenerate along the M-X line. By first-principles calculations, here we show that additional degeneracy exists for the two electron-type FS, and the crucial role of F-doping and pressure is to enhance this orbital degeneracy. It is suggested that the inter-orbital fluctuation is the key point to understand the unconventional superconductivity in these materials.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures
Tangible Music Interfaces Using Passive Magnetic Tags
Creators: name: Paradiso, Joseph A.
name: Hsiao, Kai-yuh
name: Benbasat, Ari
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: H.5.5

description: The technologies behind passive resonant magnetically coupled tags are introduced and their application as a musical controller is illustrated for solo or group performances, interactive installations, and music toys.
description: Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, 2001
ปัจจัยที่มีความสัมพันธ์กับการคงอยู่ในงานของคนงานก่อสร้าง ในบริษัทก่อสร้างที่พักอาศัยในกรุงเทพมหานคร
Creators: name: พัชร์สิริณทร์  ผ่องแผ้ว
Publisher: name: กองนวัตกรรมและวิจัย กรมควบคุมโรค
Year: 2561
Subjects: การคงอยู่ในงาน
คนงานก่อสร้าง
กรุงเทพมหานคร

description: วารสารควบคุมโรค, 44, 3, 274-281
Λεπτομερής μελέτη και περιγραφή της τρισδιάστατης αποτύπωσης του Αρρηφορίου στη βόρεια πλευρά της Ακρόπολης
Creators: name: Τασιοπούλου, Κερασούλα Δημητρίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2015
Subjects: Αρρηφόριον της Ακρόπολης Αθηνών
Τρισδιάστατη αποτύπωση
Τρισδιάστατος σαρωτής
Arrephoria of Acropolis of Athens
3D surveying
3d laser scanner

description: Το Aρρηφόριο κτίστηκε προ του 480 π.Χ. στη βορειοδυτική πλευρά της Ακρόπολης. Πρόκειται για το οίκημα των Αρρηφόρων, οι οποίες ήταν μικρά κορίτσια ηλικίας 7-11 ετών. Οι Αρρηφόροι επιλέγονταν κάθε χρόνο για να συμμετάσχουν στην τελετή των Αρρηφορίων και να βοηθήσουν στην ύφανση του πέπλου της θεάς Αθηνάς, που χρησιμοποιούσαν για να ντύσουν το ξόανο της θεάς στην Ακρόπολη στην εορτή των Παναθήναιων. Αντικείμενο της διατριβής είναι η τρισδιάστατη αποτύπωση του Αρρηφορίου της Ακρόπολης με τη χρήση του σαρωτή Laser Scanner Focus 3D της Faro και πραγματοποιήθηκε στα πλαίσια του Μεταπτυχιακού Προγράμματος Σπουδών «Γεωπληροφορική», με κατεύθυνση «Τοπογραφικές Εφαρμογές Υψηλής Ακρίβειας» του τμήματος Αγρονόμων και Τοπογράφων Μηχανικών της Πολυτεχνικής Σχολής του Αριστοτελείου Πανεπιστημίου Θεσσαλονίκης.Παρουσιάζεται η μέθοδος της τρισδιάστατης αποτύπωσης, περιγράφοντας την αρχή λειτουργίας των σαρωτών, τη μεθοδολογία και την επεξεργασία των μετρήσεων. Επιπλέον, αναδεικνύονται τα πλεονεκτήματα και η χρησιμότητα της μεθόδου μέσα από την περιγραφή όλων των σταδίων της αποτύπωσης και επεξεργασίας των μετρήσεων. Τελικά προϊόντα της διατριβής αποτελούν ορθοεικόνες και τα σχέδια κάτοψης,όψης και τομών.
description: Arrephoria was built before 480 B.C. at the northwest side of Acropolis. It is about the residence of Arrephoroi, who were two little girls, seven to eleven years old. Every year, Arrephoroi were chosen to participate in the feast of Arrephoria and help at weaving the veil of goodness Athena, which was used to dress up the xoanon of goodness at Acropolis at the fest of Panathenaia.The subject of this dissertation was the object-dimensional imprinting of Arrephoria of Acropolis using Faro Laser Scanner Focus 3D and was carried out as an integral part of the M.Sc. in Geomatics (specialization in High Accuracy Surveying applications) of the School of Rural and Surveying Engineering (Faculty of Engineering) at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.The method of the object-dimensional imprinting is illustrated in particular, by describing the principle of scanner operation, methodology and process of measurements. Furthermore, the benefits and usefulness of this method are highlighted through the description of all the steps of imprinting and data processing. The final products of dissertation comprise the orthoimages and the floor plan, view and sections.
Resonant Scattering Can Enhance the Degree of Entanglement
Creators: name: Yuasa, Kazuya
name: Nakazato, Hiromichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Generation of entanglement between two qubits by scattering an entanglement mediator is discussed. The mediator bounces between the two qubits and exhibits a resonant scattering. It is clarified how the degree of the entanglement is enhanced by the constructive interference of such bouncing processes. Maximally entangled states are available via adjusting the incident momentum of the mediator or the distance between the two qubits, but their fine tunings are not necessarily required to gain highly entangled states and a robust generation of entanglement is possible.
description: 7 pages, 13 figures
International trade and taxation: the GATT and domestic tax policy
Creators: name: Rajan, Cindy L.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The thesis is that to give insufficient recognition to international trade agreements in developing tax policies can result in distortions in international trade. It is not suggested that the objective of facilitating free trade should be paramount to sovereign interests which underlie tax policy decisions. However, the proposition is that in selecting from among alternative tax policies, the policy which should be chosen is that which achieves national objectives while minimizing distortive effects on international trade. The goals of this study are: 1) to determine whether particular tax provisions impede, distort, or otherwise have a negative and unjustifiable effect on free trade; and 2) to reflect on the intersecting role of taxation and international trade. Although many tax policies may be viewed as prima facie "discriminatory", such discrimination may be acceptable pursuant to international agreements, or overriding national interests may prevail. An attempt is made to develop a framework for examining the effects of taxation on international trade which can be used as a guide for tax policy makers in selecting policies which meet domestic criteria as well as facilitate free trade. The thesis consists of five chapters. The first f chapter sets out the methodology, conceptual framework and theoretical basis for the study. The next three chapters examine specific tax regimes in the context of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (the "GATT") and underlying principles of free trade. The tax regimes are: 1) withholding taxes for payments under software licensing arrangements; 2) research and development tax incentives; and 3) cross-border transfer pricing provisions. Chapter five summarizes the case studies and outlines approaches to fiscal harmonization under a free trade regime. The conclusion is that a GATT tax code may be an appropriate mechanism for achieving harmonization for certain tax measures. However, it is infeasible, at least in the short term, to expect a GATT tax code will be placed on the World Trade Organization's agenda. Even if such a code is attainable in the future, unilateral, bilateral and other multi-lateral approaches to eliminating distortive tax policies may be more appropriate in some cases.
Feedback Control of Non-linear Quantum Systems: a Rule of Thumb
Creators: name: Jacobs, Kurt
name: Lund, Austin P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that in the regime in which feedback control is most effective -- when measurements are relatively efficient, and feedback is relatively strong -- then, in the absence of any sharp inhomogeneity in the noise, it is always best to measure in a basis that does not commute with the system density matrix than one that does. That is, it is optimal to make measurements that disturb the state one is attempting to stabilize.
description: 4 pages, revtex4, 1 eps figure
High Order Correction Terms for The Peak-Peak Correlation Function in Nearly-Gaussian Models
Creators: name: Andrade, Ana Paula
name: Ribeiro, André Luís B.
name: Wuensche, Carlos Alexandre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One possible way to investigate the nature of the primordial power spectrum fluctuations is by investigating the statistical properties of the local maximum in the density fluctuation fields. In this work we present a study of the mean correlation function, $ξ_r$, and the correlation function for high amplitude fluctuations (the peak-peak correlation) in a slighlty non-Gaussian context. From the definition of the correlation excess, we compute the Gaussian two-point correlation function and, using an expansion in Generalized Hermite polynomials, we estimate the correlation of high density peaks in a non-Gaussian field with generic distribution and power spectrum. We also apply the results obtained to a scale-mixed distribution model, which correspond to a nearly Gaussian model. The results reveal that, even for a small deviation from Gaussianity, we can expect high density peaks to be much more correlated than in a Gaussian field with the same power spectrum. In addition, the calculations reveal how the amplitude of the peaks in the fluctuations field is related to the existing correlations. Our results may be used as an additional tool to investigate the behavior of the N-point correlation function, to understand how non-Gaussian correlations affect the peak-peak statistics and extract more information about the statistics of the density field.
description: Accepted for publication in A&A
Weather regimes linked to daily precipitation anomalies in Northern Chile
Creators: name: Meseguer-Ruiz, Ó.
name: Cortesi, N.
name: Guijarro, J. A.
name: Sarricolea, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Northern Chile is one of the most arid regions in the world, with precipitation mainly occurring during austral summer, between December and April 1966-2015. The aim of this study is to classify the main weather regimes derived from sea level pressure, surface wind speed, 500 or 250 hPa geopotential heights, in order to measure their influence on precipitation anomalies and determine if they can be considered sources of predictability of rainfall in this region. Four weather regimes were found to optimally describe atmospheric circulation in the study area and for each of the four levels described above. Using daily precipitation data from a network of 161 meteorological stations across the region, the rainfall anomalies associated with each weather regime were quantified. They are coherent with the direction of flow derived from pressure and geopotential anomalies, bringing humid air masses from the Amazon Basin or the Pacific. The transitions between the different regimes are also coherent, representing transitions to and from similar regimes. A few negative and significant trends in the persistence of different regimes were detected, most likely linked to the absence of anthropogenic warming in the Antarctic as opposed to the Arctic. Finally, two of the regimes derived from surface wind speed exhibit a negative and significant trend in its frequency of occurrence, determining a precipitation decrease in the south of the study area (28-30 S), which can be compared with the Megadrought experienced in central Chile.
description: 24 pages, 12 figures
Γενετικές εξετάσεις και βιοηθικοί προβληματισμοί
Creators: name: Ακριτίδου, Δέσποινα Θεοχάρη
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2015
Subjects: γενετικές εξετάσεις
γενετικό υλικό
γενετικά δεδομένα
genetics tests
genetic material
genetic data

description: Τα τελευταία χρόνια έχουν γίνει σημαντικά βήματα ως προς τη δυνατότητα αναγνώρισης, εντοπισμού και λειτουργίας των γονιδίων που προκαλούν διάφορες ασθένειες ή προδιαθέτουν την εμφάνισή τους, με τη χρήση σύγχρονων διαγνωστικών εργαλείων όπως είναι η μοριακή και η κυτταρογεννετική ανάλυση. Τα βήματα αυτά έχουν αντανάκλαση στην εφαρμογή μιας εξατομικευμένης θεραπείας, στο σχεδιασμό φαρμάκων ή κατάλληλων δοσολογιών με βάση το γενετικό προφίλ του κάθε ασθενούς. Ο σκοπός της παρούσης διπλωματικής εργασίας είναι η ανάδειξη του βιοηθικού προβληματισμού που σχετίζεται τόσο με την έρευνα πάνω στο ανθρώπινο γονιδίωμα όσο και με την αξιοποίηση των γνώσεων που προκύπτουν από αυτήν. Η εν λόγω εργασία βασίστηκε στην ανασκόπηση ελληνικής και ξένης βιβλιογραφίας, άρθρων και περιοδικών.
description: In recent years there have been significant steps as to the identification, localization and function of genes that cause various diseases or predispose their appearance using modern diagnostic tools such as molecular and cytogenetic analysis.These steps have been reflected in the implementation of an individualized therapy, in drug design or appropriate doses based on the individual patient's genetic profile. The purpose of this work is the emergence of bioethics concerns arising from research on the human genome and the exploitation of knowledge resulting from it. This work was based on the review of Greek and foreign books, articles and magazines.
Σύνθεση παραγώγων της γαλλοκυανίνης
Creators: name: Μπούσης, Σπυρίδων Νικολάου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2015
Subjects: Γαλλοκυανίνη
Αναστολέας
Παράγωγα
Gallocyanine
Inhibitor
Derivatives

description: Το Alzheimer, μια μάστιγα του σύγχρονου κόσμου, αποτελεί μια δυσεπίλυτη νόσο, στην οποία πολλές ερευνητικές ομάδες έχουν εστιάσει την προσοχή τους. Ένας από τους παράγοντες που προκαλούν την εμφάνιση της νόσου είναι ο σχηματισμός νευροϊνιδιακών δεµατίων (NFTs) στο εσωτερικό των νευρικών κυττάρων. Τα NFT’s είναι μια ανεξέλεγκτη πρωτεϊνική συνάθροιση υπερφωσφορυλιωμένης Tau που οδηγούν σε νευρική απώλεια. Ύστερα από μελέτες, η κινάση GSK-3β, η οποία ρυθμίζεται από το σηματοδοτικό μονοπάτι wnt, έχει συνδεθεί με την υπερφωσφορυλίωση της Tau σε κύτταρα νευρικού ιστού, αποτελώντας έναν ενδιαφέροντα φαρμακευτικό στόχο στη θεραπεία νευροπαθολογικών διαταραχών. Στην παρούσα μεταπτυχιακή εργασία συντέθηκαν παράγωγα της γαλλοκυανίνης, με πιθανή δράση κατά της νόσου Alzheimer. Ειδικότερα, επιδιώχθηκε η δημιουργία νέων ενώσεων που θα παρεμποδίζουν τη σύνδεση της πρωτεΐνης DKK1 στο μεμβρανικό υποδοχέα LRP 5/6 με σκοπό την απενεργοποίηση της κινάσης GSK-3β, επάγοντας κατ’ αυτόν τον τρόπο νευροπροστατευτικές ιδιότητες.
description: Alzheimer is a disease (AD), which in recent years has been researched in depth, by many scientific groups, due to its increase at an alarming rate. A primary marker of AD seems to be the formation of Neurofibrillary Tangles (NFTs) in neuron cells. The NFTs are formed by hyperphosphorylation of a microtubule-associated protein known as tau, causing it to aggregate, in an insoluble form. GSK-3β, a kinase regulated by the wnt signaling pathway, has been associated with pathological features of Alzheimer's disease, thereby GSK-3 inhibitors are considered to have positive therapeutic effects on AD treatment. In search of safe and effective anti-Alzheimer agents a series of gallocyanine derivatives have been synthesized. Especially, new phenoxazinones were developed as potent inhibitors of the DKK1/LRP complex, reducing the activity of GSK-3 kinase and faction as neuroprotective agents.
Memory based Boolean game and self-organized phenomenon on networks
Creators: name: Huang, Zi-Gang
name: Wu, Zhi-Xi
name: Guan, Jian-Yue
name: Wang, Ying-Hai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a memory-based Boolean game (MBBG) taking place on the regular ring, wherein each agent acts according to its local optimal states of the last M time steps recorded in memory, and the agents in the minority are rewarded. One free parameter p among 0 and 1 is introduced to denote the strength of the agents' willing to make a decision according to its memory. We find that, given proper willing strength p, the MBBG system can spontaneously evolve to a state of better performance than the random game; while for larger p, the herd behavior emerges which reduces the system profit. By analyzing the dependence of the system's dynamics on the memory capacity M, we find that a higher memory capacity favors the emergence of the better performance state, and effectively restrains the herd behavior, therefore increases the system profit. Considering the high cost of long-time memory, the enhancement of memory capacity for restraining the herd behavior is also discussed, and the M=5 is suggested to be one good choice.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures
Post-Hartree-Fock method in Quantum Chemistry for Quantum Computer
Creators: name: Shikano, Yutaka
name: Watanabe, Hiroshi C.
name: Nakanishi, Ken M.
name: Ohnishi, Yu-ya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum computational chemistry is a potential application of quantum computers that is expected to effectively solve several quantum-chemistry problems, particularly the electronic structure problem. Quantum computational chemistry can be compared to the conventional computational devices. This review comprehensively investigates the applications and overview of quantum computational chemistry, including a review of the Hartree-Fock method for quantum information scientists. Quantum algorithms, quantum phase estimation, and variational quantum eigensolver, have been applied to the post-Hartree-Fock method.
description: 31 pages, 6 figures
Schrodinger-Newton equation as a possible generator of quantum state reduction
Creators: name: van Wezel, Jasper
name: Brink, Jeroen van den
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has been suggested by Diosi and Penrose that the occurrence of quantum state reduction in macroscopic objects is related to a manifestation of gravitational effects in quantum mechanics. Although within Penrose's framework the dynamics of the quantum state reduction is not prescribed, it was suggested that the so called Schrodinger-Newton equation can be used to at least identify the resulting classical end states. Here we analyze the extent to which the Schrodinger-Newton equation can be used as a model to generate a full, time dependent description of the quantum state reduction process. We find that when supplied with an imaginary gravitational potential, the Schrodinger-Newton equation offers a rationalisation for some of the hitherto unexplained characteristics of quantum state reduction. The description remains incomplete however, because it is unclear how to fully recover Born's rule.
description: 7 pages, 7 figures; added references
The Visual Monitoring Camera (VMC) on Mars Express: a new science instrument made from an old webcam orbiting Mars
Creators: name: From, Jorge
name: :
name: Hernández-Bernal, Jorge
name: Moinelo, Alejandro Cardesin
name: Hueso, Ricardo
name: Ravanis, Eleni
name: Sierra, Abel Burgos
name: Wood, Simon
name: Sitja, Marc Costa
name: Escalante, Alfredo
name: Grotheer, Emmanuel
name: de la Parra, Julia Marin Yaseli
name: Merrit, Donald
name: Almeida, Miguel
name: Breitfellner, Michel
name: Sierra, Mar
name: Martin, Patrick
name: Titov, Dmitri
name: Wilson, Colin
name: Larsen, Ethan
name: Gaztelurrutia, Teresa del Rio
name: Lavega, Agustin Sanchez
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Visual Monitoring Camera (VMC) is a small imaging instrument onboard Mars Express with a field of view of ~40x30 degrees. The camera was initially intended to provide visual confirmation of the separation of the Beagle 2 lander and has similar technical specifications to a typical webcam of the 2000s. In 2007, a few years after the end of its original mission, VMC was turned on again to obtain full-disk images of Mars to be used for outreach purposes. As VMC obtained more images, the scientific potential of the camera became evident, and in 2018 the camera was given an upgraded status of a new scientific instrument, with science goals in the field of Martian atmosphere meteorology. The wide Field of View of the camera combined with the orbit of Mars Express enable the acquisition of full-disk images of the planet showing different local times, which for a long time has been rare among orbital missions around Mars. The small data volume of images also allows videos that show the atmospheric dynamics of dust and cloud systems to be obtained. This paper is intended to be the new reference paper for VMC as a scientific instrument, and thus provides an overview of the updated procedures to plan, command and execute science observations of the Martian atmosphere. These observations produce valuable science data that is calibrated and distributed to the community for scientific use.
Dark and Baryonic Matter in Bright Spiral Galaxies: I.Near-infrared and Optical Broadband Surface Photometry of 30 Galaxies
Creators: name: Kassin, Susan A.
name: de Jong, Roelof S.
name: Pogge, Richard W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present photometrically calibrated images and surface photometry in the B, V, R, J, H, and K-bands of 25, and in the g, r, and K-bands of 5 nearby bright (Bo_T<12.5 mag) spiral galaxies with inclinations between 30-65 degrees spanning the Hubble Sequence from Sa to Scd. Data are from The Ohio State University Bright Spiral Galaxy Survey, the Two Micron All Sky Survey, and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Second Data Release. Radial surface brightness profiles are extracted, and integrated magnitudes are measured from the profiles. Axis ratios, position angles, and scale lengths are measured from the near-infrared images. A 1-dimensional bulge/disk decomposition is performed on the near-infrared images of galaxies with a non-negligible bulge component, and an exponential disk is fit to the radial surface brightness profiles of the remaining galaxies.
description: 28 pages
EFFECT OF DIFFERENT ORGANIC MANURES ON THE DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES OF HOUSE FLY (MUSCA DOMESTIC) UNDER LABORATORY CONDITION
Creators: name: JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES JSAES
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This study examines, in the laboratory, the effects of various organic manures on the stages of development of house flies (Musca domestica). The departmental ethics committee and the directorate of advanced studies at Lasbela University of Agriculture, Water and Marine Science, Uthal, gave their ethical approval to the project. In a carefully regulated laboratory setting, three different organic diets animal manure, poultry manure, and vegetable and fruit peel were fed to house fly (Musca domestica) larvae. During the larval, pupal, and adult phases, observations were made about the days of development and the rates of death. Utilizing SPSS 16, statistical analyses were conducted, utilizing one-way ANOVA along with Tukey's test for mean comparison (p < 0.05). The average larval development period for poultry manure was 4.25 days, and the mortality rate was 2.1%. Animal manure resulted in a somewhat greater death rate (2.8%) and a longer developmental period (6.87 days). Fruit and vegetable manure-exposed larvae showed the greatest developmental period (9.13 days) and the highest mortality rate (4.8%). Different responses were seen in the pupal phases; optimal circumstances were found with poultry manure (3.9 days, no mortality). The flies from the poultry manure had the shortest lifespan (21.6 days), whereas the flies from the fruit and vegetable dung had the maximum lifespan (45.5 days). This study contributes to our understanding of the ecological interactions in this common insect and sheds light on the subtle effects of organic manure on the developmental dynamics of house flies.
Entropy of BTZ black strings in the brick wall approach
Creators: name: Jassal, H. K.
name: Sriramkumar, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: During the last few years, exact solutions that describe black holes that are bound to a two-brane in a four dimensional anti-de Sitter bulk have been constructed. In situations wherein there is a negative cosmological constant on the brane, for large masses, these solutions are exactly the rotating BTZ black holes on the brane and, in fact, describe rotating BTZ black strings in the bulk. We evaluate the canonical entropy of a free and massless scalar field (at the Hawking temperature) around the rotating BTZ black string using the brick wall model. We explicitly show that the Bekenstein-Hawking `area' law is satisfied both on the brane as well as in the bulk.
description: v1: Revtex4, 11 pages; v2: Minor changes and additions in response to referees' comments, accepted for publication in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Body, Clothes, Water, and Toys: Media Towards Natural Music Expressions with Digital Sounds
Creators: name: Mase, Kenji
name: Yonezawa, Tomoko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: H.5.5

description: In this paper, we introduce our research challenges for creating new musical instruments using everyday-life media with intimate interfaces, such as the self-body, clothes, water and stuffed toys. Various sensor technologies including image processing and general touch sensitive devices are employed to exploit these interaction media. The focus of our effort is to provide user-friendly and enjoyable experiences for new music and sound performances. Multimodality of musical instruments is explored in each attempt. The degree of controllability in the performance and the richness of expressions are also discussed for each installation.
description: Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, 2001
Ionization of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Molecules around the Herbig Ae/Be environment
Creators: name: Sakon, Itsuki
name: Okamoto, Yoshiko K.
name: Kataza, Hirokazu
name: Onaka, Takashi
name: Kaneda, Hidehiro
name: Honda, Mitsuhiko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of mid-infrared N-band spectroscopy of the Herbig Ae/Be system MWC1080 using the Cooled Mid-Infrared Camera and Spectrometer (COMICS) on board the 8m Subaru Telescope. The MWC1080 has a geometry such that the diffuse nebulous structures surround the central Herbig B0 type star. We focus on the properties of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and PAH-like species, which are thought to be the carriers of the unidentified infrared (UIR) bands in such environments. A series of UIR bands at 8.6, 11.0, 11.2, and 12.7um is detected throughout the system and we find a clear increase in the UIR 11.0um/11.2um ratio in the vicinity of the central star. Since the UIR 11.0um feature is attributed to a solo-CH out-of-plane wagging mode of cationic PAHs while the UIR 11.2um feature to a solo-CH out-of-plane bending mode of neutral PAHs, the large 11.0um/11.2um ratio directly indicates a promotion of the ionization of PAHs near the central star.
description: accepted for publication in Advances in Geoscience
Πάθη και Αρετές κατά τη διδασκαλία του αββά Δωροθέου Γάζης
Creators: name: Νεοφύτου, Ανδρέας-Δωρόθεος Χρήστου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2015
Subjects: Πάθος
Αρετή
Αμαρτία
Passion
Virtue
Sin

description: Ο αββάς Δωρόθεος έζησε τον 6ο αιώνα μ.Χ. ως κοινοβιάτης μοναχός στη μονή του αββά Σερίδου στη Γάζα και αργότερα ίδρυσε στην ίδια περιοχή το δικό του μοναστήρι. Υπήρξε βαθύς γνώστης της ανθρώπινης ψυχής, σε όλες τις εκφάνσεις της, συναγωνιζόμενος τα γνωσιακά επιτεύγματα της σύγχρονης επιστήμης της ψυχολογίας. Ακολουθώντας την πατερική παράδοση βλέπει την κακία ως συνέπεια της πτώσεως του ανθρώπου και της απομακρύνσεώς του από τον Θεό. Έτσι, ενώ ο Θεός είχε δώσει στον άνθρωπο ως δώρο τις αρετές για να τον κοσμούν, μετά την πτώση τη θέση των αρετών κατέλαβαν τα πάθη, τα οποία ενεργούνται διά της αμαρτίας, ως συγκεκριμένη ενέργεια. Όταν τέλος τα πάθη χρονίσουν μέσα στην ψυχή τότε γίνονται «έξις», ένα μόνιμο ιδίωμα δηλαδή της ψυχής. Αυτή είναι μία κατάσταση από την οποία πολύ δύσκολα μπορεί πλέον να θεραπευθεί κανείς και μόνο διά της Χάριτος του Θεού. Αντίθετα, ο δρόμος για την καλλιέργεια των αρετών είναι η τήρηση των εντολών του Χριστού μέσω της υπακοής και της εκούσιας ταπεινώσεως. Στην παρούσα εργασία γίνεται μία συστηματική μελέτη των παθών και της αμαρτίας, καθώς και των τρόπων θεραπείας της ψυχής από αυτά. Ακολούθως παρουσιάζεται η έννοια της αρετής στον αββά Δωρόθεο, αλλά και οι τρόποι και τα μέσα για την επίτευξή της. Τέλος εξετάζεται ο ρόλος της βούλησης και ο ρόλος της χάριτος στη σωτηρία του ανθρώπου.
description: Abba Dorotheus lived in the 6th century AD as a cenobitic monk in the monastery of Abba Seridou in Gaza and he later founded at the same area his own monastery. He had a deep understanding of the human soul in all its manifestations, being familiar with the cognitive achievements of the modern science of psychology. Following the patristic tradition, he sees evil as the consequence of man's fall and of God's absence. So, while God had given to man virtues as a gift to adorn him, after the fall, the virtues were conquered by passions, which are effected through sin as concrete action. When passions become chronic within the soul then 'exis' becomes a permanent idiom of the soul. This is a situation which can hardly be treated and only by the grace of God. On the other hand, the way for the cultivation of virtues is the observance of the commandments of Christ through obedience and voluntary humility. This paper is a systematic study of the passions and sin, along with soul's different treatments of these. In addition, Abba's Dorotheus concept of virtue is presented, and the ways and means to achieve it. Finally, the role of will and the role of grace are examined during man's salvation process.
Antiferromagnetic correlations and impurity broadening of NMR linewidths in cuprate superconductors
Creators: name: Harter, J. W.
name: Andersen, B. M.
name: Bobroff, J.
name: Gabay, M.
name: Hirschfeld, P. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a model of a d-wave superconductor with strong potential scatterers in the presence of antiferromagnetic correlations and apply it to experimental nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) results on Zn impurities in the superconducting state of YBCO. We then focus on the contribution of impurity-induced paramagnetic moments, with Hubbard correlations in the host system accounted for in Hartree approximation. We show that local magnetism around individual impurities broadens the line, but quasiparticle interference between impurity states plays an important role in smearing out impurity satellite peaks. The model, together with estimates of vortex lattice effects, provides a semi-quantitative description of the impurity concentration dependence of the NMR line shape in the superconducting state, and gives a qualitative description of the temperature dependence of the line asymmetry. We argue that impurity-induced paramagnetism and resonant local density of states effects are both necessary to explain existing experiments.
description: 15 pages, 23 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. B
The KIT-NAIST (Contrastive) English ASR System for IWSLT 2012
Creators: name: Heck, Michael
name: Kubo, Keigo
name: Sperber, Matthias
name: Sakti, Sakriani
name: Stüker, Sebastian
name: Saam, Christian
name: Kilgour, Kevin
name: Mohr, Christian
name: Neubig, Graham
name: Toda, Tomoki
name: Nakamura, Satoshi
name: Waibel, Alex
Publisher: name: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Year: 2012

description: This paper describes the KIT-NAIST (Contrastive) English speech recognition system for the IWSLT 2012 Evaluation Campaign. In particular, we participated in the ASR track of the IWSLT TED task. The system was developed by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) teams in collaboration within the interACT project. We employ single system decoding with fully continuous and semi-continuous models, as well as a three-stage, multipass system combination framework built with the Janus Recognition Toolkit. On the IWSLT 2010 test set our single system introduced in this work achieves a WER of 17.6%, and our final combination achieves a WER of 14.4%.
Superconductivity due to spin fluctuations originating from multiple Fermi surfaces in a double chain superconductor Pr$_2$Ba$_4$Cu$_7$O$_{15-δ}$}
Creators: name: Nakano, Tsuguhito
name: Kuroki, Kazuhiko
name: Onari, Seiichiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The mechanism of superconductivity in Pr$_2$Ba$_4$Cu$_7$O$_{15-δ}$ is studied using a quasi-one dimensional double chain model with appopriate hopping integrals, on-site $U$, and off-site repulsion $V_1$. Applying the fluctuation exchange method to this model and solving the Eliashberg equation, we obtain the doping dependence of superconductivity that is consistent with the experiments. The superconducting gap has an extended s-wave-like form, which gives a temperature dependence of the spin lattice relaxation rate that does not contradict with the experimental results.
description: 5 pages, 8 figures, REVTeX
The MATRIX: A Novel Controller for Musical Expression
Creators: name: Overholt, Dan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: H.5.5

description: The MATRIX (Multipurpose Array of Tactile Rods for Interactive eXpression) is a new musical interface for amateurs and professionals alike. It gives users a 3- dimensional tangible interface to control music using their hands, and can be used in conjunction with a traditional musical instrument and a microphone, or as a stand-alone gestural input device. The surface of the MATRIX acts as a real-time interface that can manipulate the parameters of a synthesis engine or effect algorithm in response to a performer's expressive gestures. One example is to have the rods of the MATRIX control the individual grains of a granular synthesizer, thereby "sonically sculpting" the microstructure of a sound. In this way, the MATRIX provides an intuitive method of manip
description: Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, 2001
Operator Product Expansion in the Production and Decay of the X(3872)
Creators: name: Braaten, Eric
name: Lu, Meng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The X(3872) seems to be a weakly-bound hadronic molecule whose constituents are two charm mesons. Its binding energy is much smaller than all the other energy scales in QCD. This separation of scales can be exploited through factorization formulas for production and decay rates of the X. In a low-energy effective field theory for the constituents of the X, the factorization formulas can be derived using the operator product expansion. The derivations are carried out explicitly for the simplest effective theory in which the constituents interact through a contact interaction that produces a large scattering length. The long-distance factors in the operator product expansions for various observables are calculated nonperturbatively in the interaction strength of the contact interaction. After renormalization of the coupling constant, all remaining ultraviolet divergences can be absorbed into the short-distance factors in the operator product expansions.
description: 30 pages, 5 figures