cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Genetic Programming Framework for Fingerprint Matching
Creators: name: Ismail, Ismail A.
name: ElRamly, Nabawia A.
name: Abd-ElWahid, Mohammed A.
name: ElKafrawy, Passent M.
name: Nasef, Mohammed M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A fingerprint matching is a very difficult problem. Minutiae based matching is the most popular and widely used technique for fingerprint matching. The minutiae points considered in automatic identification systems are based normally on termination and bifurcation points. In this paper we propose a new technique for fingerprint matching using minutiae points and genetic programming. The goal of this paper is extracting the mathematical formula that defines the minutiae points.
description: 6 pages IEEE format, International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security, IJCSIS November 2009, ISSN 1947 5500, http://sites.google.com/site/ijcsis/
T-Duality, Dual Conformal Symmetry and Integrability for Strings on AdS_5 x S^5
Creators: name: Beisert, Niklas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In recent years two intriguing observations have been made for N=4 super Yang-Mills theory and for superstrings on AdS5xS5: In the planar limit the computation of the spectrum is vastly simplified by the apparent integrability of the models. Furthermore, planar scattering amplitudes of the gauge theory display remarkable features which have been attributed to the appearance of a dual superconformal symmetry. Here we review the connection of these two developments from the point of view of the classical symmetry by means of a super-T-self-duality. In particular, we show explicitly how the charges of conformal symmetry and of the integrable structure are related to the dual ones.
description: 11 pages
ПЕДАГОГИЧЕСКАЯ НЕОБХОДИМОСТЬ ИСПОЛЬЗОВАНИЯ ОБРАЗОВАТЕЛЬНОЙ ТЕХНОЛОГИИ STEAM. МЕЖДИСЦИПЛЕНАРНАЯ МЕТОДОЛОГИЯ, СВЯЗЬ ФИЗИКИ С МУЗЫКОЙ.
Creators: name: Хидоятуллаева Гульсора Зоировна Преподаватель Национального института эстрадного искусства имени Б. Закирова при ГКУз
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Статья посвящена преимуществу STEAM-образования среди педагогических технологий совершенствования метода обучения в образовании, особенно в музыкальном образовании, а именно о преимуществах объяснения области музыкального исполнительства физическими законами и актуальности междисциплинарности в поиске решение одной и той же проблемы с разных сторон.
Ключевые слова:
 Образовательная технология STEAM, музыка и физика, обертоновая система звука, орган, фортепиано
Tiliqua macularia Blyth
Creators: name: Müller, F
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1885
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Squamata
Sauria
Scincidae
Tiliqua
Tiliqua macularia

description: Tiliqua macularia Blyth, ang.
Tinnevelly v. F M. [1]
description: Published as part of Müller, F, 1885, Vierter Nachtrag zum Katalogder herpetologischen Sammlung des Basler Museums, pp. 668-717 in Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel. 7 (3) on page 706, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.part.2388, http://zenodo.org/record/15183591
RECONNECTING AGRICULTURE AND FOOD: METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES FOR THE ANALYSIS OF AGRO-FOOD SYSTEMS IN METROPOLITAN REGIONS
Creators: name: MONACO, FEDERICA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2015

description: Feeding the city is one of the most relevant challenge for modern productive systems, as it concerns food security and safety, the quality of food products, energy consumptions and the sustainability of the urban model in general. Cities have a strategic role in developing sustainable food systems, but are more often affected by several interrelated factors that modify their capacities of food provision - from population increase, to urbanization phenomenon and land use conflicts, to the progressive globalization of food supply and trade. On the other hand, the shift towards demand-driven agro-food systems underlines the key role of consumers and their preferences for more local food, to which the productive system is required to adapt and adjust. Thus, the complex structure of a regional agro-food system should be able to respond to the challenges of domestic supply, to compete in the global context and finally to meet citizens? demand for a direct relationship with food producers through the development of local systems. in this sense, it is therefore needed the enhancement of proximity agriculture, the exploitation of local resources, teh promotion of system?s potentialities, in order to diminish the distances between production and consumption sites and support the ties between the supply-demand pattern and the territory. In practice, this reconnection is ensured by the several existing alternative food systems, also encouraged by the regulatory framework proposed by policy makers. Despite the sectorial and cross-sectoral initiatives accordingly implemented, they provide some opportunities and limits as well. In particular, given the increasing importance of food-related initiatives in urban areas, the integration of policies - both horizontal and at different administrative and territorial levels - is of fundamental importance. It derives that specific interventions targeted at this, should be based on appropriate cognitive analysis that investigate the capacity of the system and local resources to adequately respond to urban food demand. Thus, it is provided a methodological framework, which on one hand can describe the regional agro-food system and, on the other hand, assess its capacities: a multidimensional approach that combines productive and economic aspects, and simultaneously returns the compliance and adequacy of food production, their contribution to the regional economic balance and vitality, their market orientation, in order to provide precious information for policy-makers.
Modification of Graphene Properties due to Electron-Beam Irradiation
Creators: name: Teweldebrhan, Desalegne
name: Balandin, Alexander A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The authors report micro-Raman investigation of changes in the single and bilayer graphene crystal lattice induced by the low and medium energy electron-beam irradiation (5 and 20 keV). It was found that the radiation exposures results in appearance of the strong disorder D band around 1345 1/cm indicating damage to the lattice. The D and G peak evolution with the increasing radiation dose follows the amorphization trajectory, which suggests graphene's transformation to the nanocrystalline, and then to amorphous form. The results have important implications for graphene characterization and device fabrication, which rely on the electron microscopy and focused ion beam processing.
description: 13 pages and 4 figures
Additional file 4 of A RE-AIM evaluation in early adopters to iteratively improve the online BeUpstanding™ program supporting workers to sit less and move more
Creators: name: Healy, Genevieve N.
name: Winkler, Elisabeth A. H.
name: Goode, Ana D.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 4.
Formalization and the Corporate Governance of Family-Owned Businesses in the South-East, Nigeria
Creators: name: Christopher O. Nwonu
name: Ibedu Onyebuchi Kevin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Formalization, Corporate Governance, Family-Owned Businesses and Sustainability

description: This study examined formalization and the corporate governance of family-owned businesses in South-East, Nigeria. Descriptive survey method based on primary and secondary sources of data collection was adopted. Data was obtained from primary and secondary sources. Primary data was gathered through questionnaire while the secondary data was gathered from a review of several research publications, annual reports, articles, textbooks, unpublished thesis, journals and internet sources related family businesses. The study population consisted of 43,868 family-owned businesses. The sample size is 554 determined using Cochran (1963) statistical formula. Analyses were carried out using simple descriptive statistics organized and presented in tables, frequency and simple percentages. At the inferential level of statistical analyses, the hypothesis was subjected to double-test using Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient and Simple Linear Regression. To establish whether an outcome is statistically significant, the researcher set up a 5% significance level while a 95% confidence level was applied and tested at 5% (p-value ≤ 0.05) alpha level. All analyses were carried out in SPSS 20.0.
The persistent shift in spin-down rate following the largest Crab pulsar glitch rules out external torque variations due to starquakes
Creators: name: Zheng, Xiao-Ping
name: Wang, Wei-Hua
name: Huang, Chun
name: Yuan, Jian-Ping
name: Yuan, Sheng-Jie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It was previously believed that, the long-term persistent increase in the spin-down rate of the Crab pulsar following a glitch is direct evidence of a starquake-induced glitch or at least related to a starquake. Using radio data covering 1710 days following the 2017 glitch, we obtain an extreme persistent increase of the spin-down rate, which allows to test two prevailing models related to starquake through an interrelation analysis between glitch size (the amplitude of the frequency step at a glitch) and persistent increase in the spin-down rate of the star. Our results do not support the hypothesis that glitches induce the external torque variation of the Crab pulsar, which may indicate no occurrence of starquake during the Crab pulsar glitch. This can explain why no changes in the radio and X-ray flux, pulse profile and spectrum of the Crab pulsar have been observed. We also suggest an internal mechanism due to superfluidity as an explanation for the long-term persistent shift in spin-down rate of the Crab pulsar following the relatively large glitches.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables. Published in ApJ, 982, 181 (2025)
Change of shell structure and magnetic moments of odd-N deformed nuclei towards neutron drip line
Creators: name: Hamamoto, Ikuko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Examples of the change of neutron shell-structure in both weakly-bound and resonant neutron one-particle levels in nuclei towards the neutron drip line are exhibited. It is shown that the shell-structure change due to the weak binding may lead to the deformation of those nuclei with the neutron numbers $N \approx$ 8, 20, 28 and 40, which are known to be magic numbers in stable nuclei. Nuclei in the "island of inversion" are most easily and in a simple manner understood in terms of deformation. As an example of spectroscopic properties other than single-particle energies, magnetic moments of some weakly-bound possibly deformed odd-N nuclei with neutron numbers close to those traditional magic numbers are given, which are calculated using the wave function of the last odd particle in deformed Woods-Saxon potentials.
description: 21 pages, 6 figures
Massive Satellites of Close-In Gas Giant Exoplanets
Creators: name: Cassidy, Timothy A.
name: Mendez, Rolando
name: Arras, Phil
name: Johnson, Robert E.
name: Skrutskie, Michael F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the orbits, tidal heating and mass loss from satellites around close-in gas giant exoplanets. The focus is on large satellites which are potentially observable by their transit signature. We argue that even Earth-size satellites around hot Jupiters may be immune to destruction by orbital decay; detection of such a massive satellite would strongly constrain theories of tidal dissipation in gas giants, in a manner complementary to orbital circularization. The star's gravity induces significant periodic eccentricity in the satellite's orbit. The resulting tidal heating rates, per unit mass, are far in excess of Io's and dominate radioactive heating out to planet orbital periods of months for reasonable satellite tidal $Q$. Inside planet orbital periods of about a week, tidal heating can completely melt the satellite. Lastly, we compute an upper limit to the satellite mass loss rate due to thermal evaporation from the surface, valid if the satellite's atmosphere is thin and vapor pressure is negligible. Using this upper limit, we find that although rocky satellites around hot Jupiters with orbital periods less than a few days can be significantly evaporated in their lifetimes, detectable satellites suffer negligible mass loss at longer orbital periods.
description: Accepted to ApJ
Remarks on the $α$--permanent
Creators: name: Frenkel, Péter E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 15A15

description: We recall Vere-Jones's definition of the $α$--permanent and describe the connection between the (1/2)--permanent and the hafnian. We establish expansion formulae for the $α$--permanent in terms of partitions of the index set, and we use these to prove Lieb-type inequalities for the $\pmα$--permanent of a positive semi-definite Hermitian $n\times n$ matrix and the $α/2$--permanent of a positive semi-definite real symmetric $n\times n$ matrix if $α$ is a nonnegative integer or $α\ge n-1$. We are unable to settle Shirai's nonnegativity conjecture for $α$--permanents when $α\ge 1$, but we verify it up to the $5\times 5$ case, in addition to recovering and refining some of Shirai's partial results by purely combinatorial proofs.
description: 9 pages
The Relevant Market for Music Streaming: Market Definition and Measurement Challenges
Creators: name: Antal, Daniel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Market definition
subject: Relevant markets
subject: Music industry
subject: United Kingdom
subject: Market analysis
subject: Zero-price platforms
subject: Online platforms
subject: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85005782.html
subject: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/878729/
subject: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85088944.html

description: Our dynamic The Relevant Market for Music Streaming: Market Definition and Measurement Challanges document is a versioned work-in-progress publication, available from the Zenodo open science repository. It is built upon the actual application of competition law in non-UK jurisdictions (Antal 2017a, 2019a), and it is intended for further research and publication. After reviewing some methods to empirically collect data about quantities, prices, market shares and market power in the music markets, we present some ideas on the definition of music markets. The Github repo of the working paper is https://github.com/dataobservatory-eu/music-competition
Additional file 1 of A novel Mcl-1 inhibitor synergizes with venetoclax to induce apoptosis in cancer cells
Creators: name: Zhao, Tianming
name: He, Qiang
name: Xie, Shurong
name: Zhan, Huien
name: Jiang, Cheng
name: Lin, Shengbin
name: Liu, Fangshu
name: Wang, Cong
name: Chen, Guo
name: Zeng, Hui
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1. MI-238 selectively suppressed cell growth of H1299 parental cells but not Mcl-1 knockout (KO) cells. Fig. S2. H1299 Mcl-1 KO cells or mouse embryonic fibroblast (MEF) cells do not depend on Mcl-1 for survival. Fig. S3. Primary bone marrow cells with elevated expression level of Mcl-1 is more sensitive to MI-238. Fig. S4. The profiles of apoptosis analysis by annexin V/PI staining in Molm13 cells treated with indicated concentrations of MI-238 and venetoclax or their combinations. Fig. S5. The activation of Bak in Molm13 cells after 24 h of indicated treatment was analyzed by flow cytometry. Fig. S6. The representative annexin V/PI staining profiles of primary patient AML cells treated with indicated concentrations of MI-238 for 48 h. Fig. S7. 20 μM of MI-238 failed to induce apoptosis in mononuclear bone marrow cells from healthy donor.
Phytochemical Screening and Fruit Quality of Commercial Eggplants
Creators: name: Hathairat Chokthaweepanich
Publisher: name: King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang
Year: 2021
Subjects: eggplant
Solanumspp.
fruit quality
phytochemicals
antioxidantactivity

description: Current Applied Science and Technology, 21, 1, 36-50
Stability, Instability, and Error of the Force-based Quasicontinuum Approximation
Creators: name: Dobson, Matthew
name: Luskin, Mitchell
name: Ortner, Christoph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65Z05, 70C20

description: Due to their algorithmic simplicity and high accuracy, force-based model coupling techniques are an exciting development in computational physics. For example, the force-based quasicontinuum approximation is the only known pointwise consistent quasicontinuum approximation for coupling a general atomistic model with a finite element continuum model. In this paper, we analyze the stability of the force-based quasicontinuum approximation. We then use our stability result to obtain an optimal order error analysis of this coupling method that provides theoretical justification for the high accuracy of the force-based quasicontinuum approximation -- the computational efficiency of continuum modeling can be utilized without the loss of significant accuracy if defects are captured in the atomistic region. The main challenge we need to overcome is the fact (which we prove) that the linearized quasicontinuum operator is typically not positive definite. Moreover, we prove that no uniform inf-sup stability condition holds for discrete versions of the $W^{1,p}$-$W^{1,q}$ "duality pairing" with $1/p+1/q=1$, if $1 \leq p < \infty$. We must therefore derive an inf-sup stability condition for a discrete version of the $W^{1,\infty}$-$W^{1,1}$ "duality pairing" which then leads to optimal order error estimates in a discrete $W^{1,\infty}$-norm.
description: typos fixed, exposition improved, 18 pages
Solving three-body scattering problem in the momentum lattice representation
Creators: name: Pomerantsev, V. N.
name: Kukulin, V. I.
name: Rubtsova, O. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A brief description of the novel approach towards solving few-body scattering problems in a finite-dimensional functional space of the $L_2$-type is presented. The method is based on the complete few-body continuum discretization in the basis of stationary wave packets. This basis, being transformed to the momentum representation, leads to the cell-lattice-like discretization of the momentum space. So the initial scattering problem can be formulated on the multi-dimensional momentum lattice which makes it possible to reduce the solution of any scattering problem above the breakup threshold (where the integral kernels include, in general, some complicated moving singularities) to convenient simple matrix equations which can be solved on the real energy axis. The phase shifts and inelasticity parameters for the three-body $nd$ elastic scattering with MT I-III $NN$ potential both below and above the three-body breakup threshold calculated with the proposed wave-packet technique are in a very good agreement with the previous accurate benchmark calculation results.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
Additional file 1 of The Code Silver Exercise: a low-cost simulation alternative to prepare hospitals for an active shooter event
Creators: name: Kim, Julie J.
name: Howes, Daniel
name: Forristal, Chantal
name: Willmore, Andrew
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary Documentation.
Encoding models for scholarly literature
Creators: name: Holmes, Martin
name: Romary, Laurent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We examine the issue of digital formats for document encoding, archiving and publishing, through the specific example of "born-digital" scholarly journal articles. We will begin by looking at the traditional workflow of journal editing and publication, and how these practices have made the transition into the online domain. We will examine the range of different file formats in which electronic articles are currently stored and published. We will argue strongly that, despite the prevalence of binary and proprietary formats such as PDF and MS Word, XML is a far superior encoding choice for journal articles. Next, we look at the range of XML document structures (DTDs, Schemas) which are in common use for encoding journal articles, and consider some of their strengths and weaknesses. We will suggest that, despite the existence of specialized schemas intended specifically for journal articles (such as NLM), and more broadly-used publication-oriented schemas such as DocBook, there are strong arguments in favour of developing a subset or customization of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) schema for the purpose of journal-article encoding; TEI is already in use in a number of journal publication projects, and the scale and precision of the TEI tagset makes it particularly appropriate for encoding scholarly articles. We will outline the document structure of a TEI-encoded journal article, and look in detail at suggested markup patterns for specific features of journal articles.
The nature of V39: an LBV candidate or LBV impostor in the very low metallicity galaxy IC 1613?
Creators: name: Herrero, A.
name: Garcia, M.
name: Uytterhoeven, K.
name: Najarro, F.
name: Lennon, D. J.
name: Vink, J. S.
name: Castro, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: [abridged] Context: Very few examples of luminous blue variable (LBV) stars or LBV candidates (LBVc) are known, particularly at metallicities below the SMC. The LBV phase is crucial for the evolution of massive stars, and its behavior with metallicity is poorly known. V39 in IC 1613 is a well-known photometric variable, with B-band changes larger than 1mag. over its period. The star, previously proposed to be a projection of a Galactic W Virginis and an IC 1613 red supergiant, shows features that render it a possible LBVc. Method: We investigate mid-resolution blue and red VLT-VIMOS spectra of V39, covering a time span of 40 days, and perform a quantitative analysis of the combined spectrum using the model atmosphere code CMFGEN. Results: We identify strong Balmer and FeII P-Cygni profiles, and a hybrid spectrum resembling a B-A supergiant in the blue and a G-star in the red. No significant Vrad variations are detected, and the spectral changes are small over the photometric period. Our analysis places V39 in the low-luminosity part of the LBV and LBVc region, but it is also consistent with a sgB[e] star. Conclusions: The radial velocity indicates that V39 belongs to IC 1613. The lack of Vrad changes and spectroscopic variations excludes binary scenarios. The features observed are not consistent with a W Virginis star, and this possibility is also discarded. We propose that the star is a B-A LBVc or sgB[e] star surrounded by a thick disk precessing around it. If confirmed, V39 would be the lowest metallicity resolved LBV candidate known to date. Alternatively, it could represent a new transient phase of massive star evolution, an LBV impostor.
description: In press at A&A. 10 pages, 11 figures
Reconstruction of Quark Mass Matrices with Weak Basis Texture Zeroes from Experimental Input
Creators: name: Emmanuel-Costa, D.
name: Simoes, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: All quark mass matrices with texture zeroes obtained through weak basis transformations are confronted with the experimental data. The reconstruction of the quark mass matrices M_u and M_d at the electroweak scale is performed in a weak basis where the matrices are Hermitian and have a maximum of three vanishing elements. The same procedure is also accomplished for the Yukawa coupling matrices at the grand unification scale in the context of the Standard Model and its minimal supersymmetric extension as well as of the two Higgs doublet model. The analysis of all viable power structures on the quark Yukawa coupling matrices that could naturally appear from a Froggatt-Nielsen mechanism is also presented.
description: RevTeX4, 3 tables, 21 pages; misprints corrected and one reference added
Location Update Accuracy in Human Tracking system using Zigbee modules
Creators: name: Amutha, B.
name: Ponnavaikko, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A location and tracking system becomes very important to our future world of pervasive computing. An algorithm for accurate location information is being incorporated in the human walking model and in the blind human walking model. We want to implement an accurate location tracking mechanism using Zigbee along with GPS, we have incorporated Markov chain algorithm for establishing accuracy. Normal Human and blind human walking steps were actually taken in the known environment within our campus and the Markov chain algorithm was used for smoothening the stepwise variation in location updates. A comparison module is also implemented to show the difference between normal human and blind human walking step variations. This accuracy is used for designing a blind tracking device so that the device can be used by the blind for finding the path without obstacles. We present a system level approach to localizing and tracking Human and blind users on a basis of different sources of location information [GPS plus Zigbee]. The system can be applied outdoors especially for avoiding accidents, GPS as the source of location data. Performance evaluation shows that the system is accurate and it is a future path finding device with service for the blind.
description: 10 pages IEEE format, International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security, IJCSIS November 2009, ISSN 1947 5500, http://sites.google.com/site/ijcsis/
Additional file 1 of A pre-pandemic COVID-19 assessment of the costs of prevention and control interventions for healthcare associated infections in medical and surgical wards in Québec
Creators: name: Tchouaket Nguemeleu, Eric
name: Robins, Stephanie
name: Boivin, Sandra
name: Sia, Drissa
name: Kilpatrick, Kelley
name: Dubreuil, Bruno
name: Larouche, Catherine
name: Parisien, Natasha
name: Letourneau, Josiane
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Algorithm.
The imprint of the interaction between dark sectors in large scale cosmic microwave background anisotropies
Creators: name: He, Jian-Hua
name: Wang, Bin
name: Zhang, Pengjie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dark energy interacting with dark matter is a promising model to solve the cosmic coincidence problem. We study the signature of such interaction on large scale cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature anisotropies. Based on the detail analysis in perturbation equations of dark energy and dark matter when they are in interaction, we find that the large scale CMB, especially the late Integrated Sachs Wolfe effect, is a useful tool to measure the coupling between dark sectors. We also discuss the possibility to detect the coupling by cross-correlating CMB maps with tracers of the large scale structure. We finally perform the global fitting to constrain the coupling by using the CMB power spectrum data together with other observational data. We find that in the $1σ$ range, the constrained coupling between dark sectors can solve the coincidence problem.
description: 17 pages, 9 figures, revised version, more discussions added, accepted for publication in PRD
Additional file 2 of A pre-pandemic COVID-19 assessment of the costs of prevention and control interventions for healthcare associated infections in medical and surgical wards in Québec
Creators: name: Tchouaket Nguemeleu, Eric
name: Robins, Stephanie
name: Boivin, Sandra
name: Sia, Drissa
name: Kilpatrick, Kelley
name: Dubreuil, Bruno
name: Larouche, Catherine
name: Parisien, Natasha
name: Letourneau, Josiane
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. Time Motion Guide.
Target annihilation by diffusing particles in inhomogeneous geometries
Creators: name: Cassi, Davide
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The survival probability of immobile targets, annihilated by a population of random walkers on inhomogeneous discrete structures, such as disordered solids, glasses, fractals, polymer networks and gels, is analytically investigated. It is shown that, while it cannot in general be related to the number of distinct visited points, as in the case of homogeneous lattices, in the case of bounded coordination numbers its asymptotic behaviour at large times can still be expressed in terms of the spectral dimension $\widetilde {d}$, and its exact analytical expression is given. The results show that the asymptotic survival probability is site independent on recurrent structures ($\widetilde{d}\leq2$), while on transient structures ($\widetilde{d}>2$) it can strongly depend on the target position, and such a dependence is explicitly calculated.
description: To appear in Physical Review E - Rapid Communications
Additional file 3 of A pre-pandemic COVID-19 assessment of the costs of prevention and control interventions for healthcare associated infections in medical and surgical wards in Québec
Creators: name: Tchouaket Nguemeleu, Eric
name: Robins, Stephanie
name: Boivin, Sandra
name: Sia, Drissa
name: Kilpatrick, Kelley
name: Dubreuil, Bruno
name: Larouche, Catherine
name: Parisien, Natasha
name: Letourneau, Josiane
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3. Prices of items used in IPC.
Markerless dynamic tumor tracking using diaphragm as a soft-tissue anatomical surrogate for liver tumors
Creators: name: Rostamzadeh, Maryam
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Liver cancer is the sixth most common cancer worldwide and radiation therapy has been a non-surgical alternative for treating patients with advanced liver cancer. Dynamic tumor tracking (DTT) has been developed to treat intra-fractionally moving liver tumors with radiation therapy. However, one of the most challenging aspects of DTT is detecting the internal tumor position, which usually relies on implanted markers as a surrogate for tumor position. This thesis addresses two questions: 1) The uncertainty in marker-based DTT by using in-vivo EPID (electronic portal imaging device) images, and 2) The feasibility of eliminating implanted markers by using soft tissue surrogates for the liver target. The first part of the thesis investigates the uncertainty in marker-based DTT for Stereotactic Ablative Body Radiotherapy (SABR) treatments of the liver. The study utilized in-vivo EPID images to assess the target localization uncertainty for DTT. Phantom and patient EPID images were acquired during non-coplanar 3DCRT-DTT delivered on a Vero4DRT linac, and the absolute differences between the measured center of mass (COM) of the markers relative to the aperture-center were reported in pan, tilt, and 2D-vector directions at the isocenter plane. The study found that marker-based DTT uncertainty could be evaluated in-vivo on a field-by-field basis using EPID images, which can contribute to PTV margin calculations for DTT. The second part of the thesis focuses on investigating the feasibility of using soft tissue surrogates for liver tumors during markerless dynamic tumor tracking (MDTT) radiotherapy. The study aimed to demonstrate the pre-clinical feasibility of MDTT using the diaphragm as an anatomical motion surrogate for liver radiotherapy. KV X-ray images from phantom and ten patients undergoing liver radiotherapy were used to analyze the relative motions of the diaphragm and gold markers. The study found that the diaphragm positions correlated well with markers' positions and could be used as a reliable surrogate for motion management. The study also utilized the Brainlab Vero4DRT linac MDTT module, originally designed for lung tracking, and applied it in a novel way to demonstrate the effectiveness of using the diaphragm as a surrogate for liver tumor motion management during MDTT radiotherapy.
Performance Evaluation of WiMAX (802.16) Using Different Encoding Schemes
Creators: name: Asif, Waqar
name: Qasim, Muhammad Bilal
name: Tirmzi, Syed Musa Raza
name: Khan, Usman Muhammad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper deals with the performance of Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX), when we enhance its physical layer attributes with help of different encoding techniques. For this evaluation Space Time Block Codes (STBC) and Turbo codes are separately introduced into the architecture of WiMAX that works on adaptive modulation technique.
description: 5 pages IEEE format, International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security, IJCSIS November 2009, ISSN 1947 5500, http://sites.google.com/site/ijcsis/
Stratification and Isotope Separation in CP Stars
Creators: name: Cowley, C. R.
name: Hubrig, S.
name: Gonzalez, F. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the elemental and isotopic stratification in the atmospheres of selected chemically peculiar (CP) stars of the upper main sequence. Reconfiguration of the UVES spectrograph in 2004 has made it possible to examine all three lines of the Ca II infrared triplet. Much of the material analyzed was obtained in 2008. We support the claim of Ryabchikova, Kochukhov & Bagnulo (RKB) that the calcium isotopes have distinct stratification profiles for the stars 10 Aql, HR 1217, and HD 122970, with the heavy isotope concentrated toward the higher layers. Better observations are needed to learn the extent to which Ca-40 dominates in the deepest layers of all or most CP stars that show the presence of Ca-48. There is little evidence for Ca-40 in the spectra of some HgMn stars, and the infrared triplet in the magnetic star HD 101065 is well fit by pure Ca-48. In HR 5623 (HD 133792) and HD 217522 it is likely that the heavy isotope dominates, though models are possible where this is not the case. While elemental stratification is surely needed in many cases, we point out the importance of including adjustments in the assumed Teff and log(g) values, in attempts to model stratification. We recommend emphasis on profiles of the strongest lines, where the influence of stratification is most evident. Isotopic mixtures, involving the 4 stable calcium nuclides with masses between 40 and 48 are plausible, but are not emphasized.
description: 16 Pages, 20 Figures, 10 Tables. Accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the RAS
Difference in antigenic determinant profiles between human and rat myeloperoxidase
Creators: name: FALK, R. J.
name: NACHMAN, P. H.
name: AUDRAIN, M. A. P.
name: MEFLAH, K.
name: ESNAULT, V. L. M.
name: PATRY, Y. C.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2003

description: We tested whether rat and human MPO have similar antigenic determinants using 36 human MPO-ANCA positive sera, one mouse anti-rat MPO and four mouse anti-human MPO monoclonal reagents. Purified rat and human MPO were used in ELISA, with or without crossinhibition by preincubation with human MPO or irrelevant antigen in the liquid phase. Only one human MPO ANCA positive serum exhibited significant binding in rat MPO ELISA. This binding was poorly inhibited by preincubation with human MPO in the liquid phase, but was conserved after adsorption of non specific anti-rat activity in a chromatography column. Three mouse anti-human MPO IgG monoclonal antibodies did not recognize rat MPO. Only one mouse anti-human MPO IgA monoclonal antibody bound to rat MPO. This binding was poorly inhibited by preincubation with human MPO (35% at 2 µg/ml). Conversely, the mouse anti-rat MPO monoclonal did not bind human MPO. We have concluded that: (1) Most human MPO-ANCA recognize antigenic determinants on human MPO which are absent on rat MPO. Therefore, human auto-antibodies bind to epitopes which recently appeared after species evolution; (2) Inversely, the mouse anti-rat MPO monoclonal do not bind human MPO. Therefore, rat MPO epitopes have been altered during species evolution; (3) Mice injected with human MPO preferentially develop antibodies against xeno-epitopes which are not present in rodents. Therefore, human MPO may not be the best antigen to raise ANCA in animal models and (4) A comparison of the amino acid sequences of rat and human MPO may help elucidate the major antigenic epitopes.
Hypothesis-based food, feed, and environmental safety assessment of GM crops: A case study using maize event DP-202216-6
Creators: name: Anderson, Jennifer A
name: Herman, Rod A.
name: Carlson, Anne
name: Mathesius, Carey
name: Maxwell, Carl
name: Mirsky, Henry
name: Roper, Jason
name: Smith, Brenda
name: Walker, Carl
name: Wu, Jingrui
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Event DP-2Ø2216-6 (referred to as DP202216 maize) was genetically modified to increase and extend the expression of the introduced zmm28 gene relative to endogenous zmm28 gene expression, resulting in plants with enhanced grain yield potential. The zmm28 gene expresses the ZMM28 protein, a MADS-box transcription factor. The safety assessment of DP202216 maize included an assessment of the potential hazard of the ZMM28 protein, as well as an assessment of potential unintended effects of the genetic insertion on agronomics, composition, and nutrition. The history of safe use (HOSU) of the ZMM28 protein was evaluated and a bioinformatics approach was used to compare the deduced amino acid sequence of the ZMM28 protein to databases of known allergens and toxins. Based on HOSU and the bioinformatics assessment, the ZMM28 protein was determined to be unlikely to be either allergenic or toxic to humans. The composition of DP202216 maize forage and grain was comparable to non-modified forage and grain, with no unintended effects on nutrition or food and feed safety. Additionally, feeding studies with broiler chickens and rats demonstrated a low likelihood of unintentional alterations in nutrition and low potential for adverse effects. Furthermore, the agronomics observed for DP202216 maize and non-modified maize were comparable, indicating that the likelihood of increased weediness or invasiveness of DP202216 maize in the environment is low. This comprehensive review serves as a reference for regulatory agencies and decision-makers in countries where authorization of DP202216 maize will be pursued, and for others interested in food, feed, and environmental safety.
Continuous-Time Markowitz's Model with Transaction Costs
Creators: name: Dai, Min
name: Xu, Zuo Quan
name: Zhou, Xun Yu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Portfolio Management (q-fin.PM)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: A continuous-time Markowitz's mean-variance portfolio selection problem is studied in a market with one stock, one bond, and proportional transaction costs. This is a singular stochastic control problem,inherently in a finite time horizon. With a series of transformations, the problem is turned into a so-called double obstacle problem, a well studied problem in physics and partial differential equation literature, featuring two time-varying free boundaries. The two boundaries, which define the buy, sell, and no-trade regions, are proved to be smooth in time. This in turn characterizes the optimal strategy, via a Skorokhod problem, as one that tries to keep a certain adjusted bond-stock position within the no-trade region. Several features of the optimal strategy are revealed that are remarkably different from its no-transaction-cost counterpart. It is shown that there exists a critical length in time, which is dependent on the stock excess return as well as the transaction fees but independent of the investment target and the stock volatility, so that an expected terminal return may not be achievable if the planning horizon is shorter than that critical length (while in the absence of transaction costs any expected return can be reached in an arbitrary period of time). It is further demonstrated that anyone following the optimal strategy should not buy the stock beyond the point when the time to maturity is shorter than the aforementioned critical length. Moreover, the investor would be less likely to buy the stock and more likely to sell the stock when the maturity date is getting closer. These features, while consistent with the widely accepted investment wisdom, suggest that the planning horizon is an integral part of the investment opportunities.
description: 30 pages, 1 figure
Hospitality in crisis : new sincerity and receiving the stranger in Ali Smith’s seasonal quartet
Creators: name: Christensen, Brianne
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Questions of hospitality––in particular, those concerning its offer at national borders and the potential outcomes of this encounter––are increasing in social and political import in the contemporary moment as global communities experience the largest forced migration of people since the Second World War. Scottish author Ali Smith recognizes and commits to narratively representing hospitality as an urgent issue, especially in the context of ongoing migration debates in post-Brexit Britain. My Master’s thesis explores, with specific consideration of post-Brexit migration discourse and national mood, how thinking about migration, hospitality, and sincerity in very concrete ways structures Smith’s Seasonal Quartet as a literary project. Across the four novels, Smith develops and demonstrates a distinct rhetoric of hospitality that connects socio-political context and literary concerns with sincerity. By theorizing this rhetoric, I show how Smith’s treatment of hospitality might engage, substantiate, challenge, and even complicate current theories of hospitality, such as those presented by Jacques Derrida, Sara Ahmed, and Judith Still. Furthermore, while Smith’s Quartet addresses the context of migration in post-Brexit Britain and the pressing need of hospitality in social life as well as in art and literature, she is also developing sincere modes of writing that are attuned to hospitality. My thesis illustrates that these modes of writing align with New Sincerity, a literary genre concerned with sincere communication through realist aesthetics. I explore how Smith’s Quartet contributes to current understandings of this genre by evaluating the correlation between the novels’ narrative voice and Smith’s authorial persona, as expressed in public paratexts like interviews and related publications. Ultimately, I argue that Smith’s distinct rhetoric of hospitality necessitates consideration of, and makes possible new outcomes from, “narrative hospitality,” the role of sincerity in politically engaged fiction, and the social responsibility of an author to be hospitable.
Euprepes trilineatus Gü. R. b. J.
Creators: name: Müller, F
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1885
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Squamata
Sauria
Scincidae
Euprepes

description: * Euprepes trilineatus Gü. R. b. J., ang.
Nilgherries v. F M. [1]
description: Published as part of Müller, F, 1885, Vierter Nachtrag zum Katalogder herpetologischen Sammlung des Basler Museums, pp. 668-717 in Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel. 7 (3) on page 706, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.part.2388, http://zenodo.org/record/15183591
Lack of Transit Timing Variations of OGLE-TR-111b: A re-analysis with six new epochs
Creators: name: Adams, E. R.
name: Lopez-Morales, M.
name: Elliot, J. L.
name: Seager, S.
name: Osip, D. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present six new transits of the exoplanet OGLE-TR-111b observed with the Magellan Telescopes in Chile between April 2008 and March 2009. We combine these new transits with five previously published transit epochs for this planet between 2005 and 2006 to extend the analysis of transit timing variations reported for this system. We derive a new planetary radius value of 1.019 +/- 0.026 R_J, which is intermediate to the previously reported radii of 1.067 +/- 0.054 R_J (Winn et al. 2007) and 0.922 +/- 0.057 R_J (Diaz et al. 2008). We also examine the transit timing variation and duration change claims of Diaz et al. (2008). Our analysis of all eleven transit epochs does not reveal any points with deviations larger than 2 sigma, and most points are well within 1 sigma. Although the transit duration nominally decreases over the four year span of the data, systematic errors in the photometry can account for this result. Therefore, there is no compelling evidence for either a timing or a duration variation in this system. Numerical integrations place an upper limit of about 1 M_E on the mass of a potential second planet in a 2:1 mean-motion resonance with OGLE-TR-111b.
description: 28 pages, 7 tables, 6 figures. Accepted by ApJ