cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
NOvA central value tuning and uncertainties for the hN FSI model in GENIE 3
Creators: name: Gallagher, Hugh
name: Dolce, Michael
name: Wolcott, Jeremy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Historical versions of the GENIE neutrino generator modeled the reinteraction of outgoing hadrons in neutrino scattering from heavy targets, the final state interactions (FSI), using an "effective" cascade model, hA. In this paradigm the various possible final-state combinations of outgoing hadrons after rescattering are fixed directly from hadron scattering data. For NOvA's 2020 analysis, we use a more conventional semi-classical cascade model, GENIE's hN. This model steps through the nucleus via a nuclear density model, calculating step-by-step scattering probabilities using a theory-based cross section model which relates scattering amplitudes inside the nucleus to external amplitudes that can be constrained by data. However, agreement with external pion scattering data is poor. We present a tuning of the relative pion probabilities based on world pion scattering data. In addition, we introduce reweightable uncertainties for pion scattering in hN using a boosted decision tree technique.
title: Air ions and human comfort
Creators: name: Shaw, C. Y.
name: Tamura, G. T.
Publisher: name: National Research Council of Canada. Division of Building Research
Year: 1978
Subjects: subject: ions
subject: ions
subject: health
subject: santé
subject: comfort
subject: confort

description: Electrically-charged particles called air ions which possess various electrical and physical properties are present in the atmosphere in amounts that change due to atmospheric and other conditions. The artificial production of air ions in buildings is described and the results of studies of the effects of air ions on human comfort and health are reviewed.
Computational biorheology of human blood flow in health and disease.
Creators: name: Fedosov, Dmitry A.
name: Dao, Ming
name: Karniadakis, George Em
name: Subra  Suresh
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 90399 Biomedical Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Medical engineering

description: Hematologic disorders arising from infectious diseases, hereditary factors and environmental influences can lead to, and can be influenced by, significant changes in the shape, mechanical and physical properties of red blood cells (RBCs), and the biorheology of blood flow. Hence, modeling of hematologic disorders should take into account the multiphase nature of blood flow, especially in arterioles and capillaries. We present here an overview of a general computational framework based on dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) which has broad applicability in cell biophysics with implications for diagnostics, therapeutics and drug efficacy assessments for a wide variety of human diseases. This computational approach, validated by independent experimental results, is capable of modeling the biorheology of whole blood and its individual components during blood flow so as to investigate cell mechanistic processes in health and disease. DPD is a Lagrangian method that can be derived from systematic coarse-graining of molecular dynamics but can scale efficiently up to arterioles and can also be used to model RBCs down to the spectrin level. We start from experimental measurements of a single RBC to extract the relevant biophysical parameters, using single-cell measurements involving such methods as optical tweezers, atomic force microscopy and micropipette aspiration, and cell-population experiments involving microfluidic devices. We then use these validated RBC models to predict the biorheological behavior of whole blood in healthy or pathological states, and compare the simulations with experimental results involving apparent viscosity and other relevant parameters. While the approach discussed here is sufficiently general to address a broad spectrum of hematologic disorders including certain types of cancer, this paper specifically deals with results obtained using this computational framework for blood flow in malaria and sickle cell anemia.
"TEACHING ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE: PROFILING LEARNER IDENTITIES AND TAILORING INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES"
Creators: name: Zaripbayeva, Nasiba
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The language learning characteristics and instructional philosophies that are relevant to two English language learners at Webster University in Tashkent are examined in this thesis. It looks at the identities, histories, educational requirements, and motivational elements affecting their language learning. The study proposes ways for effective instruction by incorporating pedagogical approaches and theories of second language acquisition. To promote language competency, a focus on establishing encouraging learning settings and attending to the needs of each individual student is made.
title: Expletives Explained. Metaphor, Moral Panic and Swearing
Creators: name: Ward, Victoria
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2023

description: The aim of this thesis is to examine discourse on swearing by exploring the language used in two UK newspapers The Mirror and The Express between 2008 and 2009. In particular, the focal point became two national anti-swearing campaigns that developed after an incident on BBC Radio 2 known as Sachsgate. This was followed by the publication of several polls and reports that appeared to contradict the reasoning for the two campaigns. The discourse used in news reports, editorials and letters pages regarding swearing at this time was closely reviewed within two theoretical frameworks. Firstly, the study drew from Conceptual Metaphor Theory, as outlined by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson (2003). Secondly, it used a Moral Panic Theory framework, derived from Stanley Cohen's (2002) original thesis. The primary findings from this investigation demonstrated a significant correlation between swearing and three clusters of conceptual metaphors: Religiosity, Hygiene and Invasion. It is suggested that there is a blurring between the literal and non-literal that has resulted in swearing being stereotyped as something filthy, irreligious and a threat to the social and moral norms of the Self. The study continued to examine whether the discourse constituted a moral panic, finding that the narrative was presented in the stylised and stereotypical manner indicative of a moral panic and that this intensified the social issue of swearing as a deviant behaviour. This interdisciplinary study has provided evidence as to how (negative) attitudes towards swearing become defined and sustained.
title: Publications sur la technologie du bâtiment au Canada
Creators: name: Carson, E. R.
name: Williams, G. P.
Publisher: name: Conseil national de recherches du Canada. Division des recherches en construction
Year: 1978
Subjects: subject: construction technology
subject: technologie de construction
subject: building materials
subject: matériau de construction
subject: public libraries
subject: bibliothèque publique

description: Le présent Digeste sert d'introduction aux principales sources de donées imprimées sur la technologie du bâtiment. La première place où trouver des publications, des répertoires ou des périodiques est une bibliothèque. Les bibliothèques publiques ont souvent une section technique et différentes bibliothèques techniques relèvent des divers organismes publics ou privés. Des publications sur les matériaux, éléments et systèmes de construction sont préparées par les associations professionnelles canadiennes, dont plusieurs sont recensées dans le présent document.
Basel Carnival project, preserving intangible cultural heritage
Creators: name: Chiquet, Vera
name: Weber, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: digita intangible cultural heritage carneval web-archive database virtualculture

description: Basel Fasnacht (carnival) is a large festival that has inspired the population and artists of this city into active participation, not only during carnival time but also all year round. The city’s population uses this festival to vent their real opinions in a humorous and colourful way and to act and behave differently from their normal day to day live. For three days a year Basel lives in a different world. UNESCO, the specialized agency of the United Nations for education, science and culture, maintains lists of selected customs, arts and buildings worthy of protection and increased attention. Basel Fasnacht is on UNESCO‘s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. A new project with private-public partnership is being launched to help preserve this heritage and especially the “Schnitzelbank”, a storytelling written in verse in dialect (Baseldeutsch) and recited, that talks about the grievances and events of the past year. All verses are to be understood in the light of their respective political-social background as a source of their time. Not only humour but also the general use of language, dominate perspectives and socio-cultural understanding are subject to the historical context: people today find other things funny and appropriate than ten, twenty or even a hundred years ago. And vice versa: what was once considered fun may seem platitudinous or out of place today. The danger is that the contemporary witnesses become rare. The project unfolds with the creation of a Web-Archive that is conceived as a combination of archival materials, Living Archive and Information Website. It is realized with collaboration of University of Basel, the Schnitzelbank Commitee and the company Virtual Culture.
title: Flood-proofing of buildings
Creators: name: Williams, G. P.
Publisher: name: National Research Council of Canada. Division of Building Research
Year: 1978
Subjects: subject: Moisture performance
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0382
subject: Performance hygrométrique
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0382
subject: floods
subject: inondation
subject: protection
subject: buildings
subject: bâtiment

description: Design of buildings in flood plain areas to reduce potential damage to them from floods is discussed in relation to structural and economic factors. The basic methods of flood- proofing buildings are described and case studies illustrative of the use of flood-proofing are presented.
Controlling the contractile strength of engineered cardiac muscle by hierarchal tissue architecture.
Creators: name: Feinberg, Adam
name: Alford, Patrick W.
name: Hongwei  Jin
name: Ripplinger, Crystal M.
name: Werdich, Andreas A.
name: Sheehy, Sean P.
name: Grosberg, Anna
name: Parker, Kevin Kit
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 90399 Biomedical Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Medical engineering

description: The heart is a muscular organ with a wrapping, laminar structure embedded with neural and vascular networks, collagen fibrils, fibroblasts, and cardiac myocytes that facilitate contraction. We hypothesized that these non-muscle components may have functional benefit, serving as important structural alignment cues in inter- and intra-cellular organization of cardiac myocytes. Previous studies have demonstrated that alignment of engineered myocardium enhances calcium handling, but how this impacts actual force generation remains unclear. Quantitative assays are needed to determine the effect of alignment on contractile function and muscle physiology. To test this, micropatterned surfaces were used to build 2-dimensional myocardium from neonatal rat ventricular myocytes with distinct architectures: confluent isotropic (serving as the unaligned control), confluent anisotropic, and 20 μm spaced, parallel arrays of multicellular myocardial fibers. We combined image analysis of sarcomere orientation with muscular thin film contractile force assays in order to calculate the peak sarcomere-generated stress as a function of tissue architecture. Here we report that increasing peak systolic stress in engineered cardiac tissues corresponds with increasing sarcomere alignment. This change is larger than would be anticipated from enhanced calcium handling and increased uniaxial alignment alone. These results suggest that boundary conditions (heterogeneities) encoded in the extracellular space can regulate muscle tissue function, and that structural organization and cytoskeletal alignment are critically important for maximizing peak force generation.
title: Pompes à chaleur pour le chauffage des habitations
Creators: name: Cane, R. L. D.
Publisher: name: Conseil national de recherches du Canada. Division des recherches en construction
Year: 1978
Subjects: subject: Heating
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0630
subject: Chauffage
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0630
subject: heat pumps
subject: pompe de chaleur
subject: residential facilities
subject: équipement residentiel
subject: economics
subject: science économique

description: Une pompe à chaleur est un système qui utilise des appareils de réfrigération pour transmettre la chaleur d'un point en un autre point où elle peut être utilisée. Le même système peut servir à retirer la chaleur d'un point en un autre pour fins de refroidissement. Les sources et les renvois de chaleur peuvent être le sol autour de l'édifice, l'eau d'un lac, d'une rivière ou d'un puits, ou encore l'air ambiant. Même si elle est encore au stade expérimental, on porte un intérêt considérable à l'énergie solaire comme source thermique pour les pompes à chaleur. De toutes les sources, cependant, c'est l'air ambiant qui a été le plus utilisé à cause de son universalité et de son abondance. Le but du présent Digest est de souligner les caractéristiques générales et les aspects économiques des pompes à chaleur air-air utilisées pour le chauffage des édifices résidentiels.
title: Nettoyage de la maçonnerie en brique
Creators: name: Ritchie, T.
Publisher: name: Conseil national de recherches du Canada. Division des recherches en construction
Year: 1978
Subjects: subject: Brick
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0730
subject: Briques
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0730
subject: brickwork
subject: maçonnerie de brique
subject: cleaning
subject: nettoyage
subject: stains (dirt)
subject: tache (altération)
subject: hazards
subject: risque accidentel

description: L'auteur explique les causes des saletés et des taches sur les ouvrages de brique et décrit les méthodes communément employées pour le nettoyage. De nombreux produits et procédés sont offerts, mais il faut tenir compte, lors de la sélection, non seulement de l'efficacité de la méthode, mais aussi des dangers qu'elle comporte et des effets nuisibles possibles.
Analysis of High Energy Events in XENON1T
Creators: name: Capelli, Chiara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: The XENON1T experiment searches for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) with a dual-phase xenon time projection chamber (TPC). To extend its physics reach, the efforts of the XENON collaboration are directed toward exploring other detection channels. For this purpose, considerable work on the signal reconstruction and data analysis has been done to extend the available energy range up to 3 MeV, two orders of magnitude higher than the standard WIMP analysis. This would allow one to search for the neutrinoless double beta decay of $^{136}$Xe, which is fundamental to probing the Majorana nature of neutrinos and solving the hierarchy problem. The achievements and future prospects for the high energy analysis with dual-phase TPCs will be presented.
title: Evaluating the toxic hazard of fires
Creators: name: Sumi, K.
name: Tsuchiya, Y.
Publisher: name: National Research Council of Canada. Division of Building Research
Year: 1978
Subjects: subject: Combustion
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0410
subject: Combustion
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0410
subject: effects of fire
subject: action du feu
subject: toxicity
subject: toxicité
subject: smoke
subject: fumée
subject: chemical analysis
subject: analyse chimique

description: Most deaths in fires are caused by the inhalation of smoke, gases and vapours. Harmful products released by various materials in burning are described and methods of evaluating their fire toxicity are discussed. Studies of fire toxicity involve chemical analysis of the decomposition products and biological tests involving animals, but standard test methods have not yet been developed.
Generalization of Carey's Equality and a Theorem on Stationary Population
Creators: name: Rao, Arni S. R. Srinivasa
name: Carey, James R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Carey's Equality pertaining to stationary models is well known. In this paper, we have stated and proved a fundamental theorem related to the formation of this Equality. This theorem will provide an in-depth understanding of the role of each captive subject, and their corresponding follow-up duration in a stationary population. We have demonstrated a numerical example of a captive cohort and the survival pattern of medfly populations. These results can be adopted to understand age-structure and aging process in stationary and non-stationary population population models. Key words: Captive cohort, life expectancy, symmetric patterns.
title: Comprehensive mass spectrometry workflows to systematically elucidate transformation processes of organic micropollutants: a case study on photodegradation of four pharmaceuticals
Creators: name: Rick Helmus
name: Ingrida Bagdonaite
name: Pim De Voogt
name: Maarten R. Van Bommel
name: Emma Schymanski
name: Annemarie P. Van Wezel
name: Thomas L. Ter Laak
Publisher: name: LCSB
Year: 2024

description: Organic micropollutants (OMPs) in the aquatic environment challenge conventional water treatment processes. Advanced oxidation processes such as UV photolysis serve as effective strategies to remove OMPs. However, these often yield unknown transformation products (TPs). High resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS)-based non-target analysis (NTA) is commonly used to screen large numbers of chemicals, but faces specific challenges such as low concentrations of compounds of interest, lack of reference standards, and the need for sophisticated data analysis workflows when used for TP identification. This article describes comprehensive workflows to study UV photolysis-related processes and the resulting TPs, by combining an automated photodegradation setup, HRMS and advanced NTA approaches. Four pharmaceuticals were successfully degraded in a case study, and 38 NTA features were effectively prioritized from complex sample matrices and identified as TPs through complementary approaches developed in this work. The identified TPs were structurally diverse and mostly novel. Semi-quantitation suggested that the TPs explained a relevant part of the parent
removal. The developed workflows are a step towards systematic comprehensive analysis of transformation processes in water and beyond. The openly available data-processing tools and data enhance transformation data repositories and algorithms, and support NTA studies in general.
Measurements on the afterpulse of the 20-inch Photomultiplier Tubes for the JUNO experiment
Creators: name: Butorov, Ilya
name: Wang, Wei
name: Korablev, Denis
name: Zhimin Wang
name: Bjoern Wonsak
name: Olshevskiy, Alexander
name: Chen, Yu
name: Zhonghua Qin
name: Zhao, Rong
name: Anfimov, Nikolay
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: The afterpulse is one of the main characterizations of the photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) which can introduce undesired background noise signals, thus its detailed rate, time and charge distributions are important. We have measured two types of 20-inch PMTs to be used in the JUNO central detector, R12860-50 by Hamamatsu and MCP PMTs by North Night Vision technology. The PMT response waveforms were captured then the time and charge of each afterpulse were extracted independently, whose distributions will assist the analysis in the future physics runs. Two afterpulses at around 3μs and 15μs respectively were observed for Hamamatsu PMTs consistent with the vendor's data. For the MCP PMTs, three distinctive afterpulses centered at 898ns, 3.12 μs, and 4.53 μs respectively were found, with an average charge ratio of ~6.74% within the delay between 0.5 μs and 20 μs to the primary pulse.
Brazilian Leadership in Open Research.pdf
Creators: name: Heredia, Ana
name: Laurel, Haak
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 80609 Information Systems Management
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 80610 Information Systems Organisation
subject: Information Systems
subject: 160511 Research, Science and Technology Policy
subject: FOS: Political science

description: ORCID`s Executive Director, Laure Haak, and Head of Memberships Latin America, Ana Heredia, co-author a document explaining how the ORCID API is supporting the interoperability in the integrated, collaborative, and sustainable Brazilian system of research information.
Aortic arch morphogenesis and flow modeling in the chick embryo.
Creators: name: Yajuan  Wang
name: Dur, Onur
name: Patrick, Michael
name: Tinney, Joseph P.
name: Kimimasa  Tobita
name: Keller, Bradley B.
name: Pekkan, Kerem
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 90399 Biomedical Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Medical engineering

description: Morphogenesis of the "immature symmetric embryonic aortic arches" into the "mature and asymmetric aortic arches" involves a delicate sequence of cell and tissue migration, proliferation, and remodeling within an active biomechanical environment. Both patient-derived and experimental animal model data support a significant role for biomechanical forces during arch development. The objective of the present study is to quantify changes in geometry, blood flow, and shear stress patterns (WSS) during a period of normal arch morphogenesis. Composite three-dimensional (3D) models of the chick embryo aortic arches were generated at the Hamburger-Hamilton (HH) developmental stages HH18 and HH24 using fluorescent dye injection, micro-CT, Doppler velocity recordings, and pulsatile subject-specific computational fluid dynamics (CFD). India ink and fluorescent dyes were injected into the embryonic ventricle or atrium to visualize right or left aortic arch morphologies and flows. 3D morphology of the developing great vessels was obtained from polymeric casting followed by micro-CT scan. Inlet aortic arch flow and cerebral-to-lower body flow split was obtained from 20 MHz pulsed Doppler velocity measurements and literature data. Statistically significant variations of the individual arch diameters along the developmental timeline are reported and correlated with WSS calculations from CFD. CFD simulations quantified pulsatile blood flow distribution from the outflow tract through the aortic arches at stages HH18 and HH24. Flow perfusion to all three arch pairs are correlated with the in vivo observations of common pharyngeal arch defect progression. The complex spatial WSS and velocity distributions in the early embryonic aortic arches shifted between stages HH18 and HH24, consistent with increased flow velocities and altered anatomy. The highest values for WSS were noted at sites of narrowest arch diameters. Altered flow and WSS within individual arches could be simulated using altered distributions of inlet flow streams. Thus, inlet flow stream distributions, 3D aortic sac and aortic arch geometries, and local vascular biologic responses to spatial variations in WSS are all likely to be important in the regulation of arch morphogenesis.
CATAMI Label Tree - Western Antarctic Peninsula morphotaxa
Creators: name: Katz, Lea
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Underwater imagery

description: Label Tree based on the CATAMI annotation scheme (Althaus et al. 2015). To provide a more detailed identification of the Antarctic benthos, additional levels were incorporated into the base structure.

This Label Tree is made for image annotation and was made to be imported into BIIGLE (Langenkämper et al. 2017).

About the project

This Label Tree was made during the TANGO project (www.tango-expeditions.be). In this framework, two sampling campaigns were carried out to collect new information and samples to delineate responses of marine ecosystems to shifts in ice regimes in the WAP, taking full advantage of a nimble sampling platform, the R/V Australis, a steel-hulled, fully rigged motor sailor (Danis et al., 2024, 2023). Results will be published in a research paper soon!
title: Évaluation des surcharges de neige sur les toits
Creators: name: Schriever, W. R.
Publisher: name: Conseil national de recherches du Canada. Division des recherches en construction
Year: 1978
Subjects: subject: Snow and Ice loads
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0373
subject: Surcharges neige et glace
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0373
subject: Wind loads
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0372
subject: Surcharges vent
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0372
subject: roofing
subject: couvertures
subject: snow loads
subject: surcharges de neige
subject: roofs
subject: toiture
subject: design criteria
subject: critère de conception
subject: climates
subject: climat

description: L'auteur décrit les facteurs influant sur les surcharges de neige sur les toits, y compris les variantes climatiques telles la quantité et le type de neige tombée, le vent, la température de l'air et l'ensoleillement, ainsi que les variantes reliées à la toiture, telles la forme, les propriétés thermiques, l'exposition et les alentours. Il indique aussi la facon de déterminer les surcharges de neige utilisées dans la conception des toitures.
An Empirical Study of Key Factors Affecting Bitcoin Prices
Creators: name: Chen, Evelyn
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Bitcoin, a decentralized digital currency that supports peer-to-peer payments without the
need for intermediaries, has witnessed rises in popularity since 2013 drawing both miners
and investors from around the world. Subsequently, the price has experienced drastic
fluctuation within short periods. This empirical study examines how different factors -
including macroeconomic environment, national policy, security and bitcoin mining intensity -
correlate with bitcoin's price movements. Pearson correlation and case studies are
employed. Prior works have found a strong positive correlation between bitcoin price and
macroeconomic indicators, as well as bitcoin mining intensity. Additionally, the policies of
individual countries and security considerations have been shown to exert significant
influence on bitcoin prices. This study provides a better understanding of the different
dynamic forces of the bitcoin market.
Non-standard neutrino interaction search with IceCube DeepCore
Creators: name: Lohfink, Elisa
name: Boeser, Sebastian
name: Ehrhardt, Thomas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Non-standard neutrino interactions (NSI) generically emerge in various types of new physics. By modifying the matter potential encountered by atmospheric neutrinos, NSI can lead to deviations from the expected dominant two-neutrino vacuum oscillations $\nu_\mu\rightarrow\nu_\tau$. Their signature can be probed by high-statistics neutrino experiments such as IceCube. We present NSI constraints based on 3 years of IceCube-DeepCore data and sensitivities for an improved 8-year event selection. Both samples make use of the few-GeV energy threshold of DeepCore and reach up to energies of 100 GeV or above. Apart from increased statistics, the new sample includes significant enhancements related to background rejection, event reconstruction, and the treatment of systematic uncertainties. The inclusion of neutrinos of all flavours allows us to not only consider flavour-violating and -nonuniversal NSI in the $\mu-\tau$ sector, but also search for NSI involving the electron flavour.
Benchmark of sensor options
Creators: name: Celen, Burak
name: Fikirli, Ayberk
name: Cisel Aras
name: Suheda Ozli
name: Hofer, Günter
name: Heiries, Vincent
name: Lluís Trilla
name: Iosu Cendoya
name: Hoedemaekers, Erik
name: Núñez, Alberto Gómez
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: In this deliverable, a prioritized list of sensors to enhance cell performance, safe operation, etc. will be
 established. The sensor requirements will be re-evaluated and updated after initial sensor test results are
 available.
One-Loop Dominance in the Imaginary Part of the Polarizability: Application to Blackbody and Non-Contact van der Waals Friction
Creators: name: Jentschura, U. D.
name: Lach, G.
name: De Kieviet, M.
name: Pachucki, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Phenomenologically important quantum dissipative processes include black-body friction (an atom absorbs counterpropagating blue-shifted photons and spontaneously emits them in all directions, losing kinetic energy) and non-contact van der Waals friction (in the vicinity of a dielectric surface, the mirror charges of the constituent particles inside the surface experience drag, slowing the atom). The theoretical predictions for these processes are modified upon a rigorous quantum electrodynamic (QED) treatment, which shows that the one-loop "correction" yields the dominant contribution to the off-resonant, gauge-invariant, imaginary part of the atom's polarizability at room temperature, for typical atom-surface interactions. The tree-level contribution to the polarizability dominates at high temperature.
description: 5 pages; RevTeX
Large photocathode 20-inch PMT testing at the scanning station for the JUNO experiment
Creators: name: Olchevski, Alexander
name: Fedoseev, Dmitry
name: Hu, Hang
name: Wang, Wei
name: Korablev, Denis
name: Rybnikov, Arseniy
name: Zhimin Wang
name: Butorov, Ilia
name: Sokolov, Sergey
name: Zhao, Rong
name: Selyunin, Alexandr
name: Sotnikov, Albert
name: Chetverikov, Alexey
name: Sharov, Vladislav
name: Anfimov, Nikolay
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: The 20kt Liquid Scintillator (LS) JUNO detector is being constructed by the International Collaboration in China. The primary goal of JUNO is the neutrino mass ordering determination. The main challenge for JUNO is to achieve an unprecedented energy resolution, ~3% at 1 MeV of energy released in the LS. About 20000 large 20'' PMTs with high Photon Detection Efficiency (PDE) will cover the detector surface. High demands on the energy resolution place distinct requirements to PMTs properties, namely high uniformity of PDE and gain along the photocathode surface. A dedicated scanning system was constructed for PMTs tests that allows us to study the variation of the abovementioned characteristics. It allows for the testing of individual PMTs in all relevant aspects by means of scanning the photocathode and identifying any potential problems. The scanning setup, method and results of PMTs performance tests are reported.
Pseudogap in Eliashberg approach based on electron-phonon and electron-electron-phonon interaction
Creators: name: Szczesniak, R.
name: Durajski, A. P.
name: Duda, A. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The properties of the superconducting and the anomalous normal state have been described by using the Eliashberg method. The pairing mechanism has been reproduced with help of the Hamiltonian, which models the electron-phonon and electron-electron-phonon interaction (EEPh). The set of the Eliashberg equations, which determines the order parameter function ($φ$), the wave function renormalization factor ($Z$), and the energy shift function ($χ$) has been derived. It has been proven that for the sufficiently large values of EEPh potential, the doping dependence of order parameter ($φ/Z$) has the analogous course to that observed experimentally in cuprates. The energy gap in the electron density of states is induced by $Z$ and $χ$ - the contribution from $φ$ is negligible. The electron density of states possesses the characteristic asymmetric form and the pseudogap is observed above the critical temperature.
description: 12 pages, 8 figures
title: Publications on Canadian building technology
Creators: name: Carson, E. R.
name: Williams, G. P.
Publisher: name: National Research Council of Canada. Division of Building Research
Year: 1978
Subjects: subject: construction technology
subject: technologie de construction
subject: building materials
subject: matériau de construction
subject: public libraries
subject: bibliothèque publique

description: This Digest is intended to serve as a short introduction to the main Canadian sources of printed information on building technology. The places to begin a search for published information or for directories and periodicals are libraries, either public libraries, which often have a technical section, or the technical libraries of various government and private agencies. Publications on building materials, components and systems are available from Canadian trade associations, many of which are listed.
Separability of Bosonic Systems
Creators: name: Yu, Nengkun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we study the separability of quantum states in bosonic system. Our main tool here is the "separability witnesses", and a connection between "separability witnesses" and a new kind of positivity of matrices--- "Power Positive Matrices" is drawn. Such connection is employed to demonstrate that multi-qubit quantum states with Dicke states being its eigenvectors is separable if and only if two related Hankel matrices are positive semidefinite. By employing this criterion, we are able to show that such state is separable if and only if it's partial transpose is non-negative, which confirms the conjecture in [Wolfe, Yelin, Phys. Rev. Lett. (2014)]. Then, we present a class of bosonic states in $d\otimes d$ system such that for general $d$, determine its separability is NP-hard although verifiable conditions for separability is easily derived in case $d=3,4$.
description: Comments are welcome
Mid-infrared luminous quasars in the GOODS-Herschel fields: a large population of heavily-obscured, Compton-thick quasars at z~2
Creators: name: Del Moro, A.
name: Alexander, D. M.
name: Bauer, F. E.
name: Daddi, E.
name: Kocevski, D. D.
name: McIntosh, D. H.
name: Stanley, F.
name: Brandt, W. N.
name: Elbaz, D.
name: Harrison, C. M.
name: Luo, B.
name: Mullaney, J. R.
name: Xue, Y. Q.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the infrared (IR) and X-ray properties of a sample of 33 mid-IR luminous quasars ($ν$L(6 micron)>6x10$^{44}$ erg/s) at redshift z~1-3, identified through detailed spectral energy distribution analyses of distant star-forming galaxies, using the deepest IR data from Spitzer and Herschel in the GOODS-Herschel fields. The aim is to constrain the fraction of obscured, and Compton-thick (CT, N$_H$>1.5x10$^{24}$ cm$^{-2}$) quasars at the peak era of nuclear and star-formation activities. Despite being very bright in the mid-IR band, ~30% of these quasars are not detected in the extremely deep 2 Ms and 4 Ms Chandra X-ray data available in these fields. X-ray spectral analysis of the detected sources reveals that the majority (~67%) are obscured by column densities N$_H$>10$^{22}$ cm$^{-2}$; this fraction reaches ~80% when including the X-ray undetected sources (9 out of 33), which are likely to be the most heavily-obscured, CT quasars. We constrain the fraction of CT quasars in our sample to be ~24-48%, and their space density to be $Φ$=(6.7$\pm$2.2)x10$^{-6}$ Mpc$^{-3}$. From the investigation of the quasar host galaxies in terms of star-formation rates (SFRs) and morphological distortions, as a sign of galaxy mergers/interactions, we do not find any direct relation between SFRs and quasar luminosity or X-ray obscuration. On the other hand, there is tentative evidence that the most heavily-obscured quasars have, on average, more disturbed morphologies than the unobscured/moderately-obscured quasar hosts, which preferentially live in undisturbed systems. However, the fraction of quasars with disturbed morphology amongst the whole sample is ~40%, suggesting that galaxy mergers are not the main fuelling mechanism of quasars at z~2.
description: 21 pages, 10 figures, 4 tables. Changes made to address referee's comments (final version). Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Prospects for the Detection of Solar Neutrinos in DARWIN via Electron Scattering
Creators: name: Reichard, Shayne
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: We detail the sensitivity of the dark matter experiment DARWIN to solar neutrinos via elastic electron scattering. DARWIN will potentially measure five solar neutrino components: $pp$, $^7$Be, $^{13}$N, $^{15}$O and $pep$. The precision of the $^{13}$N, $^{15}$O and $pep$ components are hindered by the double-beta decay of $^{136}$Xe and thus would benefit from a depleted target. A high-statistics observation of $pp$ neutrinos would allow one to infer the values of electroweak parameters at recoil energies from a few keV up to 200 keV for the first time. A combination of all flux measurements would distinguish between the high (GS98) and low metallicity (AGS09) solar models with high significance, independent of external measurements from other experiments. Finally, we demonstrate that, with a depleted target, DARWIN would be sensitive to the neutrino capture process of $^{131}$Xe.
Cancer diagnosis by nuclear morphometry using spatial information (.)
Creators: name: Huang, Hu
name: Tosun, Akif Burak
name: Guo, Jia
name: Chen, Cheng
name: Wang, Wei
name: Ozolek, John A.
name: Rohde, Gustavo
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 90399 Biomedical Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Medical engineering

description: Methods for extracting quantitative information regarding nuclear morphology from histopathology images have been long used to aid pathologists in determining the degree of differentiation in numerous malignancies. Most methods currently in use, however, employ the naïve Bayes approach to classify a set of nuclear measurements extracted from one patient. Hence, the statistical dependency between the samples (nuclear measurements) is often not directly taken into account. Here we describe a method that makes use of statistical dependency between samples in thyroid tissue to improve patient classification accuracies with respect to standard naïve Bayes approaches. We report results in two sample diagnostic challenges.
title: Heat pumps for residential heating
Creators: name: Cane, R. L. D.
Publisher: name: National Research Council of Canada. Division of Building Research
Year: 1978
Subjects: subject: Heating
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0630
subject: Chauffage
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0630
subject: heat pumps
subject: pompe de chaleur
subject: residential facilities
subject: équipement residentiel
subject: economics
subject: science économique

description: A heat pump is a system that uses refrigeration equipment to take heat from a source and discharge it to a building space requiring it. The same system can be used to remove heat from the space and discharge it to a heat "sink" when cooling is required. Heat sources and sinks for heat pumps can be the ground surrounding a building, water in lakes, rivers or wells, and outdoor air. Although still largely in the research stage, considerable interest has also been shown in the use of solar energy as a heat source for heat pumps. Of all sources, however, outdoor air has been used most extensively because it offers a universal, abundant heat source/sink for heat pump operation. It is the purpose of this Digest to outline the general features and economics of the "air-to-air" heat pump for heating in residential buildings.
ANTARES measurement of the atmospheric electron neutrino flux
Creators: name: Versari, Federico
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: In this contribution the first measurement of the atmospheric flux of electron neutrinos in the energy range between 50 GeV and 100 TeV made with the ANTARES neutrino telescope is presented. This analysis exploits the large data sample collected in more than 10 years of data acquisition and the development of a new event selection strategy. Using a Boosted Decision Tree, which combines observables computed with different reconstruction algorithms, it is possible to reject completely the background of atmospheric muons and, at the same time, preserve a statistically significant neutrino sample to be used in the unfolding procedure.
Computational fluid dynamics analysis of blade tip clearances on hemodynamic performance and blood damage in a centrifugal ventricular assist device.
Creators: name: Jingchun  Wu
name: Paden, Bradley E.
name: Borovetz, Harvey S.
name: Antaki, James
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 90399 Biomedical Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Medical engineering

description: An important challenge facing the design of turbodynamic ventricular assist devices (VADs) intended for long-term support is the optimization of the flow path geometry to maximize hydraulic performance while minimizing shear-stress-induced hemolysis and thrombosis. For unshrouded centrifugal, mixed-flow and axial-flow blood pumps, the complex flow patterns within the blade tip clearance between the lengthwise upper surface of the rotating impeller blades and the stationary pump housing have a dramatic effect on both the hydrodynamic performance and the blood damage production. Detailed computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analyses were performed in this study to investigate such flow behavior in blade tip clearance region for a centrifugal blood pump representing a scaled-up version of a prototype pediatric VAD. Nominal flow conditions were analyzed at a flow rate of 2.5 L/min and rotor speed of 3000 rpm with three blade tip clearances of 50, 100, and 200 microm. CFD simulations predicted a decrease in the averaged tip leakage flow rate and an increase in pump head and axial thrust with decreasing blade tip clearances from 200 to 50 microm. The predicted hemolysis, however, exhibited a unimodal relationship, having a minimum at 100 microm compared to 50 microm and 200 microm. Experimental data corroborate these predictions. Detailed flow patterns observed in this study revealed interesting fluid dynamic features associated with the blade tip clearances, such as the generation and dissipation of tip leakage vortex and its interaction with the primary flow in the blade-blade passages. Quantitative calculations suggested the existence of an optimal blade tip clearance by which hydraulic efficiency can be maximized and hemolysis minimized.
title: Cleaning of brickwork
Creators: name: Ritchie, T.
Publisher: name: National Research Council of Canada. Division of Building Research
Year: 1978
Subjects: subject: Brick
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0730
subject: Briques
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0730
subject: brickwork
subject: maçonnerie de brique
subject: cleaning
subject: nettoyage
subject: stains (dirt)
subject: tache (altération)
subject: hazards
subject: risque accidentel

description: Causes of dirt and stains on brickwork are discussed and the cleaning methods commonly employed are described. Various cleaning materials and methods are available, but in making a selection consideration must be given not only to the effectiveness of the method but also to the hazards involved and to possible adverse effects.
Compact CNN for Indexing Egocentric Videos
Creators: name: Poleg, Yair
name: Ephrat, Ariel
name: Peleg, Shmuel
name: Arora, Chetan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: While egocentric video is becoming increasingly popular, browsing it is very difficult. In this paper we present a compact 3D Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architecture for long-term activity recognition in egocentric videos. Recognizing long-term activities enables us to temporally segment (index) long and unstructured egocentric videos. Existing methods for this task are based on hand tuned features derived from visible objects, location of hands, as well as optical flow. Given a sparse optical flow volume as input, our CNN classifies the camera wearer's activity. We obtain classification accuracy of 89%, which outperforms the current state-of-the-art by 19%. Additional evaluation is performed on an extended egocentric video dataset, classifying twice the amount of categories than current state-of-the-art. Furthermore, our CNN is able to recognize whether a video is egocentric or not with 99.2% accuracy, up by 24% from current state-of-the-art. To better understand what the network actually learns, we propose a novel visualization of CNN kernels as flow fields.
Coherent pion production in Neutrino(antineutrino) - Nucleon interaction
Creators: name: Shukla, Prashant
name: Hariom Sogarwal
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: We present a study for the coherent pion production in neutrino-nucleon scatteing in the resonance region using the formalism based on partially conserved axial current (PCAC) theorem which relates the neutrino-nucleus cross section to the pion-nucleus elastic cross section. We calculate the differential and integrated cross sections for neutral and charged current coherent pion production in neutrino Nucleus scattering for different Z-value material in different experiments. The nuclear density function for low Z-value material like carbon is taken as the harmonic oscillator type. The results of integrated cross-section calculations are compared with the measured data of MINERvA, T2K and NOvA experiments.
Detector Systematics Evaluation for the MicroBooNE Single Photon Analysis
Creators: name: Tang, Wei
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: MicroBooNE is an 85-ton active volume Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) which has been collecting data from the Booster Neutrino Beam at Fermilab since Fall 2015. The main goal of MicroBooNE is to investigate the Low Energy Excess (LEE) observed by the MiniBooNE experiment. One interpretation of the MiniBooNE LEE is that it could be due to photons from neutral current $\Delta$ (1232) decays ($\Delta$ (1232) $\to$ N$\gamma$) mis-identified as electrons. This poster presents the systematic evaluations for the single-photon analysis due to various detector effects, such as LArTPC wire response and drift electric field distortion from space charge effects. The results are then used together with beam and flux systematics for single-photon sensitivity studies.