cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The effective field theory approach of teleparallel gravity, $f(T)$ gravity and beyond
Creators: name: Li, Chunlong
name: Cai, Yong
name: Cai, Yi-Fu
name: Saridakis, Emmanuel N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop the effective field theory approach to torsional modified gravities, a formalism that allows for the systematic investigation of the background and perturbation levels separately. Starting from the usual effective field theory approach to curvature-based gravity, we suitably generalize it at the background level by including terms of the contracted torsion tensor, and at the perturbation level by including pure torsion perturbative terms and mixed perturbative terms of torsion and curvature. Having constructed the effective field theory action of general torsional modified gravity, amongst others we focus on $f(T)$ gravity and we perform a cosmological application. We investigate the scalar perturbations up to second order, and we derive the expressions of the Newtonian constant and the post Newtonian parameter $γ$. Finally, we apply this procedure to two specific and viable $f(T)$ models, namely the power-law and the exponential ones, introducing a new parameter that quantifies the deviation from general relativity and depends on the model parameters. Since this parameter can be expressed in terms of the scalar perturbation mode, a precise measurement of its evolution could be used as an alternative way to impose constraints on $f(T)$ gravity and break possible degeneracies between different $f(T)$ models.
description: 23 pages, 4 figures; v2: updated to match published version, includes extended discussion and new references
On-Chip Optical Transduction Scheme for Graphene Nano-Electro-Mechanical Systems in Silicon-Photonic Platform
Creators: name: Dash, Aneesh
name: Selvaraja, S. K.
name: Naik, A. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a scheme for on-chip optical transduction of strain and displacement of Graphene-based Nano-Electro-Mechanical Systems (NEMS). A detailed numerical study on the feasibility of three silicon-photonic integrated circuit configurations is presented: Mach-Zehnder Interferometer(MZI), micro-ring resonator and ring-loaded MZI. An index-sensing based technique using a Mach-Zehnder Interferometer loaded with a ring resonator with a moderate Q-factor of 2400 can yield a sensitivity of 28 fm/sqrt(Hz), and 6.5E-6 %/sqrt(Hz) for displacement and strain respectively. Though any phase sensitive integrated photonic device could be used for optical transduction, here we show that optimal sensitivity is achievable by combining resonance with phase sensitivity.
MPEC 2024-E147 : 2024 EB3
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 EB3

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
The SLUGGS Survey: The Inner Dark Matter Density Slope of the Massive Elliptical Galaxy NGC 1407
Creators: name: Wasserman, Asher
name: Romanowsky, Aaron J.
name: Brodie, Jean
name: van Dokkum, Pieter
name: Conroy, Charlie
name: Villaume, Alexa
name: Forbes, Duncan A.
name: Strader, Jay
name: Alabi, Adebusola
name: Bellstedt, Sabine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the dark matter density profile of the massive elliptical galaxy, NGC 1407, by constructing spherically symmetric Jeans models of its field star and globular cluster systems. Two major challenges in such models are the degeneracy between the stellar mass and the dark matter halo profiles, and the degeneracy between the orbital anisotropy of the tracer population and the total mass causing the observed motions. We address the first issue by using new measurements of the mass-to-light ratio profile from stellar population constraints that include a radially varying initial mass function. To deal with the mass--anisotropy degeneracy, we make use of multiple kinematic tracers, including two subpopulations of globular clusters in addition to the galaxy's field stars. We create a hierarchical Bayesian model that addresses several often neglected systematic uncertainties, such as the statistical weight given to various datasets and the adopted distance. After sampling the posterior probability distribution with a Markov Chain Monte Carlo method, we find evidence for a central cusp with a log-slope of $γ= 1.0^{+0.3}_{-0.4}$. This is lower than expected for dark matter halos that have undergone adiabatic contraction, supporting inferences from gravitational lensing that some process has suppressed the steepening of halos in massive galaxies. We also confirm radially-biased orbits for the metal-rich globular clusters and tangentially-biased orbits for the metal-poor globular clusters, which remains a puzzling finding for an accretion-dominated halo.
description: 23 pages, 19 figures, submitted to ApJ
Cosmological simulations with "realistic" feedback: What do we learn and how to test with observations?
Creators: name: Xiangcheng Ma
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: Comparing observations and cosmological simulations is the only way for testing our understanding of galaxy formation physics, yet this is a challenging task. In this talk, I will present a series of results from state-of-the-art cosmological zoom-in simulations of high-redshift galaxies. These simulations predict a broad range of observables of distant galaxies that will be confronted with better measurements of galaxy properties in the foreseeable future, such as metallicity gradients, bursty star formation, morphology and sizes, kinematics, etc. of galaxies at z~2-10. I will discuss some outstanding discrepancies between simulations using different models for star formation and feedback and what observations of distant galaxies achievable in the near future can be used to test against these models.
Measure-geometric Laplacians on the real line
Creators: name: Kesseböhmer, Marc
name: Samuel, Tony
name: Weyer, Hendrik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 47G30, 42B35, 35P20

description: Motivated by the fundamental theorem of calculus, and based on the works of Feller as well as Kac and Kre\uın, given an atomless Borel probability measure $η$ supported on a compact subset of $\mathbb{R}$, Freiberg and Zähle introduced a measure-geometric approach to define a first order differential operator $\nabla_η$ and a second order differential operator $Δ_η$, with respect to $η$. We generalise this approach to measures of the form $η= ν+ δ$, where $ν$ is continuous and $δ$ is finitely supported. We determine analytic properties of $\nabla_η$ and $Δ_η$ and show that $Δ_η$ is a densely defined, unbounded, linear, self-adjoint operator with compact resolvent. Moreover, we give a systematic way to calculate the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of $Δ_η$. For two leading examples, we determine the eigenvalues and the eigenfunctions, as well as the asymptotic growth rates of the eigenvalue counting function.
description: 13 pages, 2 figures
Congestion-Based Lead-Time Quotation for Heterogenous Customers with Convex-Concave Delay Costs: Optimality of a Cost-Balancing Policy Based on Convex Hull Functions
Creators: name: Akan, Mustafa
name: Baris  Ata
name: Tava  Olsen
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 1983
Subjects: subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: We consider a congestible system serving multiple classes of customers who differ in their delay sensitivity and valuation of service (or product). Customers are endowed with convex-concave delay cost functions. A system manager offers a menu of lead times and corresponding prices to arriving customers, who then choose the lead-time–price pair that maximizes their net utility (value minus disutility of delay and price). We investigate how such menus should be chosen dynamically (depending on the system backlog) to maximize welfare. We formulate a novel fluid model of the problem and show that the cost-balancing policy (based on the convex hulls of the delay cost functions) is socially optimal if the system manager can tell customer types apart. If types are indistinguishable to the system manager, the cost-balancing policy is also incentive compatible under social optimization. Finally, we show through a simulation study that the cost-balancing policy does well in the context of the original (stochastic) problem by testing it against various natural benchmarks.
MPEC 2024-E148 : 2024 EC3
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 EC3

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
On the Rayleigh-Taylor instability in presence of a background shear
Creators: name: Shvydkoy, Roman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 76E20, 35P05, 47D06

description: In this note we revisit the classical subject of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability in presence of an incompressible background shear flow. We derive a formula for the essential spectral radius of the evolution group generated by the linearization near the steady state and reveal that the velocity variations neutralize shortwave instabilities. The formula is a direct generalization of the result of H. J. Hwang and Y. Guo in the hydrostatic case \cite{HG}. Furthermore, we construct a class of steady states which posses unstable discrete spectrum with neutral essential spectrum. The technique involves the WKB analysis of the evolution equation and contains novel compactness criterion for pseudo-differential operators on unbounded domains.
description: 19 pages
On the classification of consistent boundary conditions for $ \mathit{f}(\mathit{R})$-Gravity
Creators: name: Khodabakhshi, H.
name: Shojai, F.
name: Shirzad, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using a completely covariant approach, we discuss the role of boundary conditions (BCs) and the corresponding Gibbons--Hawking--York (GHY) terms in $ \mathit{f}(\mathit{R}) $-gravity in arbitrary dimensions. We show that $ f(\mathit{R}) $-gravity, as a higher derivative theory, is not described by a degenerate Lagrangian, in its original form. Hence, without introducing additional variables, one can not obtain consistent BCs, even by adding the GHY terms (except for $f(\mathit{R})=R$). However, following the Ostrogradsky approach, we can introduce a scalar field in the framework of Brans-Dicke formalism to the system to have consistent BCs by considering appropriate GHY terms. In addition to the Dirichlet BC, the GHY terms for both Neumann and two types of mixed BCs are derived. We show the remarkable result that the $f(\mathit{R})$-gravity is itself compatible with one type of mixed BCs, in $D$ dimension, i.e. it doesn't require any GHY term. For each BC, we rewrite the GHY term in terms of Arnowit-Deser-Misner (ADM) variables.
description: 21 pages
Bryum argenteum Hedw.
Creators: name: Price, Michelle J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Bryales
Bryaceae
Bryum
Bryum argenteum

description: BN: Bryum argenteum Hedw.,
Sp. Musc. Frond.: 181. 1801.
CN / SY: Bryum argenteum Hedw., Sp. Musc. Frond.: 181. 1801.
PL: Ad muros, tecta, rupes Europae.
LI: Bryum argenteum antheris pendulis surculis cylindricis imbricatis laevibus Linn. Spec. pl. 2. p. 1586. n. 27. Bryum pendulum iulaceum argenteum et sericeum Dill H. Musc. 392 t. 50 f. 62. [a. Brasil Beyrich ad muros Rio Janeiro. b. lanatum Palisot c. argyrioides Brid. Bryo U 1. 846.].
LT: OCHYRA & al. (2008: 453), lectotype in G, “the central specimen glued to the sheet between the specimens marked ‘b’ and ‘a’ on the sheet bearing the label ‘Bryum argenteum antheris pendulis surculis cylindricis imbricatis laevibus Linn. Spec. pl. 2 p. 1586. n. 27. Bryum pendulum iulaceum argenteum et sericeum Dill H. Musc. 392 t. 50 f. 62.’ G-Hedwig/ Schwägrichen”. [G00040370], syntype in G [G00040059].
Figure: PRICE (2005: f. 31 & 30, respectively).
description: Published as part of Price, Michelle J., 2014, Hedwig-Schwägrichen types catalogue update (1): new typifications and typification corrections, pp. 119-133 in Candollea 69 (2) on page 121, DOI: 10.15553/c2014v692a3, http://zenodo.org/record/5715296
The Use of Si-B Alloys in Thermal Energy Storage Systems
Creators: name: Jianmeng Jiao
name: Safarian, Jafar
name: Tangstad, Merete
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Si-B alloys, PCM, graphite, carbides, TES

description: Si-B alloys are considered as phase change materials (PCMs) in the thermal energy storage (TES) systems due to their high latent heats and moderate temperatures. In order to successful apply them, proper Si-B alloy composition and a suitable ceramic refractory material that can survive long time corrosion at high temperatures should be determined. Here, we investigate serials of Si-B alloys with the B range of 2-11 mass % in graphite crucibles in the temperature range 1450-1750 oC. This work shows that the interaction between Si-B alloys and graphite goes into two stages. Single SiC is formed at the interface at the B content of 2 mass %. SiC and B4C are produced at the interface at the B contents of higher than 5 mass %. Additionally, the results of structural characterization are supported by thermodynamic calculation. These results provide reliable data in the use of Si-B alloys as PCMs in the TES systems.
Congestion, Tolls, and the Economic Capacity of a Waterway
Creators: name: Lave, Lester B.
name: DeSalvo, Joseph S.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: One externality which has received little attention from economists is that connected with congestion (a recent treatment is Strotz, 1965). An increase in the utilization of a facility can result in longer waiting time or in a less appealing service. For example, an increased number of tows on a water- way can give rise to greater delays at locks; a larger crowd at a beach can lead to a lower satisfaction for each "customer." The former case, which involves production, is particularly complex. Here, delay is caused either by the random arrival of customers or by a random service (production) rate. Serving tows at a lock is analogous to serving shoppers at a super- market checkout stand. Similar problems occur with respect to allocating docking facilities in a port, runways and terminals in an airport, land to streets in an industrial park, and machines in a job shop
Linking evapotranspiration, boundary-layer processes and atmospheric moisture using isotope tracer modeling and data
Creators: name: Lai, Chun-Ta
Publisher: name: Dryad
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00x6h5n95
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2015
Subjects: hydrogen isotopes
water vapor
Wind River Field Station

description: This study uses high-quality spectroscopy measurements to place local
 constraints on the isotopic composition of near-surface water vapor in an
 isotope-incorporated land surface model. A full-year, near continuous
 observation of hourly oxygen-18 and deuterium isotope ratios in
 atmospheric water vapor at Wind River field station, WA, USA, reveals
 times of strong influence from surface ET versus times when convective
 mixing dominates. These surface isotope measurements provide a robust
 foundation to improve the representation of the kinetic isotopic effects
 arising from ET and source water partitioning. Nudged, isotope-enabled GCM
 (IsoGSM) simulations reproduce isotopic variations influenced by
 large-scale, synoptic weather cycles, but are less successful in capturing
 variations associated with sub-grid processes. Specifically, the model is
 unable to produce the large and consistent variability in the deuterium
 excess (dx) values of near-surface water vapor. This ‘terrestrial
 feedback’ to the atmosphere is poorly parameterized in the IsoGSM. This
 work provides a summary of general findings for a DataOne dataset
 'Stable Isotopologues of Atmospheric Moisture at Wind River Field
 Station (USA), doi:10.15146/R33W26'.
description: Stable oxygen and hydrogen isotope ratios measurements were made by using
 an off-axis cavity-enhanced absorption spectroscopy analyzer (Los Gatos
 Research). Poster presented at 2013 AGU Fall Meeting #A51B-0024.
MPEC 2024-E149 : 2024 ED3
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 ED3

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
title: ADCO, Ordre cistercien : comptes (1499-1515) (11 H 1162), f. 00345
Creators: name: de la Côte-d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Petot, Frédéric
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CBMA/CG21/F.PETOT/2019
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: comptes
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge

description: Ordre cistercien : comptes (1499-1515), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, (11 H 1162). Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Ordre cistercien : comptes (1499-1515), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, (11 H 1162), f. 00345, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi \[Ressource en ligne\], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
Charm Penguin in $B^\pm \to K^\pm K^+ K^-$: partonic and hadronic loops
Creators: name: Bediaga, Ignacio
name: Frederico, Tobias
name: Magalhães, Patricia C
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Charm penguin diagrams are known to be the main contribution to charmless B decay process with strangeness variation equal to minus one, which is the case of $B^\pm \to K^\pm K^+ K^-$ decay. The large phase space available in this and other B three-body decays allows non trivial final state interactions with all sort of rescattering processes and also access high momentum transfers in the central region of the Dalitz plane. In this work we investigate the charm Penguin contribution to $B^\pm \to K^\pm K^+ K^-$, described by a hadronic triangle loop in nonperturbative regions of the phase space, and by a partonic loop at the quasi perturbative region. These nonresonant amplitudes should have a particular structure in the Dalitz plane and their contributions to the final decay amplitude can be confirmed by a data amplitude analysis in this channel. In particular, the hadronic amplitude has a changing sign in the phase at $D\bar{D}$ threshold which can result in a change of sign for the CP asymmetry.
An $O(3)$ Global Anomaly in 0+1 Dimension
Creators: name: Axenides, Minos
name: Johansen, Andrei
name: Nielsen, Holger Bech
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a simple exactly solvable quantum mechanical example of the global anomaly in an $O(3)$ model with an odd number of fermionic triplets coupled to a gauge field on a circle. Because the fundamental group is non-trivial, $π_1 (O(3)) ={\bf Z}_2$, fermionic level crossing or circling occur in the eigenvalue spectrum of the 1-dim. Dirac \op under continuous external field transformations. They are shown to be related to the presence of an odd number of normalizable zero modes in the spectrum of an appropriate 2-dim. Dirac \op . We argue that fermionic degrees of freedom in the presence of an infinitely large external field violate perturbative decoupling.
description: 7 pages+3 figures available upon request, NBI-HE-93-53
title: [Book review appearing in Planning West] Restorative cities: Urban design for mental health and wellness
Creators: name: Alexander, Don
Publisher: name: Planning Institute of British Columbia
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: City planning
subject: Environmental psychology

description: Don Alexander reviews Restorative cities: Urban design for mental health and wellness by Jenny Roe and Layla McCay (London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021).
Integrability of Vortex Equations on Riemann Surfaces
Creators: name: Popov, Alexander D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Abelian Higgs model on a compact Riemann surface Σof genus g is considered. We show that for g > 1 the Bogomolny equations for multi-vortices at critical coupling can be obtained as compatibility conditions of two linear equations (Lax pair) which are written down explicitly. These vortices correspond precisely to SO(3)-symmetric Yang-Mills instantons on the (conformal) gravitational instanton Σ\times S^2 with a scalar-flat Kahler metric. Thus, the standard methods of constructing solutions and studying their properties by using Lax pairs (twistor approach, dressing method etc.) can be applied to the vortex equations on Σ. In the twistor description, solutions of the integrable vortex equations correspond to rank-2 holomorphic vector bundles over the complex 3-dimensional twistor space of Σ\times S^2. We show that in the general (nonintegrable) case there is a bijection between the moduli spaces of solutions to vortex equations on Σand of pseudo-holomorphic bundles over the almost complex twistor space.
description: 16 pages; v2: typos fixed, clarifying comments added, published version
Supercriticality of a Class of Critical String Cosmological Solutions
Creators: name: Nanopoulos, Dimitri V.
name: Xie, Dan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For a class of Friedmann-Robertson-Walker type string solutions with compact hyperbolic spatial slices formulated in critical dimension, we find the world sheet conformal field theory which involves the linear dilaton and Wess-Zumino-Witten type model with the compact hyperbolic target space. By analyzing the infrared spectrum, we conclude that the theory is actually supercritical due to the modular invariance of string theory. Thus, taking into account previous results, we conclude that all the simple nontrivial string cosmological solutions are supercritical. A possible explanation of why we are living in D=4 is provided. The interesting relation of this background with the Supercritical String Cosmology (SSC) is pointed out.
Deep CFHT Y-band Imaging of VVDS-F22 Field: II. Quasar Selection and Quasar Luminosity Function
Creators: name: Yang, Jinyi
name: Wu, Xue-Bing
name: Liu, Dezi
name: Fan, Xiaohui
name: Yang, Qian
name: Wang, Feige
name: McGreer, Ian D.
name: Fan, Zuhui
name: Yuan, Shuo
name: Shan, Huanyuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the result of a faint quasar survey in a one square degree field. The aim is to test the Y-K/g-z and J-K/i-Y color selection criteria for quasars at faint magnitude, to obtain a complete sample of quasars based on deep optical and near-infrared color-color selection, and to measure the faint end of quasar luminosity function (QLF) over a wide redshift range. We carried out a quasar survey based on the Y-K/g-z and J-K/i-Y quasar selection criteria, using the deep Y-band data obtained from our CFHT/WIRCam Y-band images in a two-degree field within the F22 field of the VIMOS VLT deep survey, optical co-added data from Sloan Digital Sky Survey Stripe 82 and deep near-infrared data from the UKIDSS Deep Extragalactic Survey in the same field. We discovered 25 new quasars at 0.5 < z < 4.5 and i < 22.5 mag within one square degree field. The survey significantly increases the number of faint quasars in this field, especially at z ~ 2-3. It confirms that our color selections are highly complete in a wide redshift range (z < 4.5), especially over the quasar number density peak at z ~ 2-3, even for faint quasars. Combining all previous known quasars and new discoveries, we construct a sample with 109 quasars, and measure the binned QLF and parametric QLF. Although the sample is small, our results agree with a pure luminosity evolution at lower redshift and luminosity evolution and density evolution model at redshift z > 2.5.
description: 14 pages, 10 figures, accepted by AJ
title: [Book review appearing in Cities & Health] Restorative cities: Urban design for mental health and wellbeing
Creators: name: McCunn, Lindsay J.
Publisher: name: Routledge
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: City planning
subject: Environmental psychology

description: This is an Accepted Manuscript version of a book review published by Taylor & Francis in Cities & Health on December 14, 2021, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23748834.2021.2009706
description: Lindsay McCunn reviews Restorative cities: Urban design for mental health and wellness by Jenny Roe and Layla McCay (London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021).
Bryum dichotomum Hedw.
Creators: name: Price, Michelle J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Bryales
Bryaceae
Bryum
Bryum dichotomum

description: BN: Bryum dichotomum Hedw.,
Sp. Musc. Frond.: 183, t. XLII, f. 8-12. 1801.
CN / SY: Bryum dichotomum Hedw., Sp. Musc. Frond.: 183. 1801.
PL: Nova Seelandia.
LI: Bryum dichotomum Spec. Musc. p. 183. t. 42, f. 8-12. aus Neu Seeland.
LT: OCHYRA & al. (2008: 462), lectotype in G, “the third shoot from the left on the sheet labelled ‘ Bryum dichotomum Spec. Musc. p. 183. t. 42, f. 8-12. aus Neu Seeland’ – G-Hedwig/ Schwägrichen”. [G00040365].
Figure: PRICE (2005: Fig. 35).
description: Published as part of Price, Michelle J., 2014, Hedwig-Schwägrichen types catalogue update (1): new typifications and typification corrections, pp. 119-133 in Candollea 69 (2) on page 121, DOI: 10.15553/c2014v692a3, http://zenodo.org/record/5715296
The Impact of Phonetic Training in the Perception and Poduction of European Portuguese Stops by Mandarin Speakers
Creators: name: Nunes, Ana Margarida Belém
name: Côrte, Bruno Camacho Da
Publisher: name: E-Journal of Intercultural Studies
Year: 2021

description: This study aims to improve knowledge regarding the process of L2 consonants acquisition and investigate the effectiveness of training strategies that can favor its learning. It compares the effect of a phonetic training using two High Variability Phonetic Training (HVPT) methods on training the perception of European Portuguese (EP) stop consonants by Mandarin native speakers, learners of EP as a L2. More specifically, it will investigate if the expected improvement is greater under the HVPT approach using an identification task (ID) or through an AX discrimination task (DIS). In a pretest-training-posttest design, thirty L2 learners of EP will be divided into 2 experimental groups and a control group. Experimental groups will differ in the training method: ID task and DIS task. Participants will be tested on their ability to perceive the target sounds presented in non-words and real words before training, after training and two months later. Thus, this study will address the following questions: a) whether training can improve the perception and production of trained as well as untrained segments, b) whether improvement generalizes to novel stimuli and talkers, c) if improvement is retained over time, and d) which training method is more effective (ID or DIS).
description: E-Journal of Intercultural Studies, Vol. 2 N.º 9 (2021)
title: Jahreshefte der Gesellschaft für Naturkunde in Württemberg, Bd. 160 (2004): Jahreshefte der Gesellschaft für Naturkunde in Württemberg, 160. Jahrgang
title: Jahreshefte der Gesellschaft für Naturkunde in Württemberg, 160. Jahrgang
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Jahreshefte Der Gesellschaft Für Naturkunde In Württemberg
Publisher: name: Jahreshefte der Gesellschaft für Naturkunde in Württemberg
Year: 2021

description: Erstnachweis der mitteljurassischen sauzei-Zone am westlichen Riesrand (Baden-Württemberg)...025-032 Bericht der Gesellschaft für Naturkunde in Württemberg 2004...397-402 Bericht des Staatlichen Museums für Naturkunde Stuttgart 2003...331-395 Nachruf Ottilie Zeller (1913- 2004)...329-330 Nachruf Siegfried Künkele (1931-2004)...319-327 Nachruf Wilhelm Koch (1911-2004)...307-318 Nachruf Benno Herting (1923 – 2004)...297-305 Das Taubertal zwischen Rothenburg und Bad Mergentheim...265-296 Prähistorische Vorkommen von Hornmoosen (Anthocerotae) in Baden-Württemberg...253-263 Von der Flora des Stuttgarter Trümmerschutts...161-251 Equisetum subgenus Hippochaete-Hybriden in Baden-Württemberg - Verbreitung und Häufigkeit...123-159 Kieselig erhaltene Spicula von Kieselschwämmen aus dem Weissen Jura der Ulmer Gegend - Überblick und Überlegungen zur Diagenese...085-122 Kristallkieselhölzer aus dem basalen Schilfsandstein des württembergischen Keupers (km2), Trias...049-083 Schwankende Umweltbedingungen des südwestdeutschen Oberjura dokumentiert in Kalk-Mergel-Wechselfolgen...033-048 Der Nusplinger Plattenkalk (Weisser Jura ζ) – Grabungskampagne 2003...007-024 Vorwort des Herausgebers...005-005
Upskilling & Training for Libraries: The LIBER Role and Perspective
Creators: name: Vasso Kalaitzi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: EOSC
Open Science
Libraries

description: This presentation was part of the session 'Skills development for EOSC - Competences' at the EOSC Symposium on 27 November 2019 in Budapest, Hungary. The objective of this session was to bring stakeholders together to discuss existing knowledge and efforts on skills (sharing data and services, aligning Open Science policies), to integrate different views and to articulate a common understanding for competences needed for EOSC. In particular, this session aspired to gather both the experts’ views already working in the field of skills/training in various EOSC related projects, and the research community requirements, and collectively provide a first input to the EOSC EB. The results of this workshop will help bootstrap the work of the proposed EOSC Working Group on Skills and Training and provide guidance on the community needs. The session revolved on skills on the following topics/target groups: RDM for researchers for open/FAIR science Service provisioning for/within EOSC Supporting open science activity in institutions
Testing stellar evolution models with a stable mass transfer in the evolution of Algols
Creators: name: Seblu Humne Negu
name: Tessema, Solomon Belay
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: In this study, we investigate the stellar evolution models using the open-source software instrument Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics to study the mass and angular momentum loss in the evolution of Algols. We examine the stability of mass transfer in these systems by the physical principle of Roche lobe overflow. Also, we have investigated the ongoing challenge of chemical mixing and exhibit improvements that allow for the simulation of orbital and stellar parameters via gravitational radiation and magnetic braking.
On the nature of outflows in intermediate-mass protostars: a case study of IRAS 20050+2720
Creators: name: Beltran, M. T.
name: Estalella, R.
name: Girart, J. M.
name: Ho, P. T. P.
name: Anglada, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context. This is the third of a series of papers devoted to study in detail and with high-angular resolution intermediate-mass molecular outflows and their powering sources. Aims. The aim of this paper is to study the intermediate-mass YSO IRAS 20050+2720 and its molecular outflow, and put the results of this and the previous studied sources in the context of intermediate-mass star formation. Methods. We carried out VLA observations of the 7 mm continuum emission, and OVRO observations of the 2.7 mm continuum emission, CO(1-0), C18O(1-0), and HC3N(12-11) to map the core towards IRAS 20050+2720. The high-angular resolution of the observations allowed us to derive the properties of the dust emission, the molecular outflow, and the dense protostellar envelope. By adding this source to the sample of intermediate-mass protostars with outflows, we compare their properties and evolution with those of lower mass counterparts. Results. The 2.7mm continuum emission has been resolved into three sources, labeled OVRO 1, OVRO 2, and OVRO 3. Two of them, OVRO 1 and OVRO 2, have also been detected at 7 mm. OVRO 3, which is located close to the C18O emission peak, could be associated with IRAS 20050+2720. The mass of the sources, estimated from the dust continuum emission, is 6.5 Msun for OVRO 1, 1.8 Msun for OVRO 2, and 1.3 Msun for OVRO 3. The CO(1-0) emission traces two bipolar outflows within the OVRO field of view, a roughly east-west bipolar outflow, labeled A, driven by the intermediate-mass source OVRO 1, and a northeast-southwest bipolar outflow, labeled B, probably powered by a YSO engulfed in the circumstellar envelope surrounding OVRO 1.
description: 13 pages, 8 figures, 5 tables. Accepted for publication by A&A
Research Tools: Supporting Research and Publication
Creators: name: Ale Ebrahim, Nader
Publisher: name: Dryad
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00x6h5n95
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Bibliometrics
subject: h-index
subject: Increase citations
subject: ISI paper
subject: Research impact
subject: Research tools

description: “Research Tools” can be defined as vehicles that broadly facilitate
 research and related activities. Scientific tools enable researchers to
 collect, organize, analyze, visualize and publicized research outputs. Dr.
 Nader has collected over 700 tools that enable students to follow the
 correct path in research and to ultimately produce high-quality research
 outputs with more accuracy and efficiency. It is assembled as an
 interactive Web-based mind map, titled “Research Tools”, which is updated
 periodically. “Research Tools” consists of a hierarchical set of nodes. It
 has four main nodes: (1) Searching the literature, (2) Writing a paper,
 (3) Targeting suitable journals, and (4) Enhancing visibility and impact
 of the research, and six auxiliary nodes. Several free tools can be found
 in the child nodes. Some paid tools are also included. In this workshop
 some tools as examples from the four main nodes will be described. The
 e-skills learned from the workshop are useful across various research
 disciplines and research institutions.
Super-Reflection in Fluid Discs: Corotation Amplifier, Corotation Resonance, Rossby Waves, and Overstable Modes
Creators: name: Tsang, David
name: Lai, Dong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In differentially rotating discs with no self-gravity, density waves cannot propagate around the corotation, where the wave pattern rotation speed equals the fluid rotation rate. Waves incident upon the corotation barrier may be super-reflected (commonly referred to as corotation amplifier), but the reflection can be strongly affected by wave absorptions at the corotation resonance/singularity. The sign of the absorption is related to the Rossby wave zone very near the corotation radius. We derive the explicit expressions for the complex reflection and transmission coefficients, taking into account wave absorption at the corotation resonance. We show that for generic discs, this absorption plays a much more important role than wave transmission across the corotation barrier. Depending on the sign of the gradient of the specific vorticity of the disc the corotation resonance can either enhance or diminish the super-reflectivity, and this can be understood in terms of the location of the Rossby wave zone relative to the corotation radius. Our results provide the explicit conditions (in terms of disc thickness, rotation profile and specific vorticity gradient) for which super-reflection can be achieved. Global overstable disc modes may be possible for discs with super-reflection at the corotation barrier.
description: 16 pages, 5 figures, MNRAS in press
Congestion and Urban Location
Creators: name: Lave, Lester B.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Each of the functional systems within a city is highly interactive. The demand for transportation depends on the locations of residential areas, work areas, shopping areas, and recreation areas. The location and type of housing demanded depends on the quality and cost of available transportation. Other important components in the analysis include the size of city, demand for freight transportation, amount of congestion, and means for regulating congestion.
Hidden charm dynamically generated resonances and the $e^+e^-\to J/ψD \bar D$, $J/ψD\bar D^*$ reactions
Creators: name: Gamermann, D.
name: Oset, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze two recent reactions of Belle, producing $D\bar D$ and $D\bar D^*$ states that have an enhancement of the invariant $D\bar D$, $D\bar D^*$ mass distribution close to threshold, from the point of view that they might be indicative of the existence of a hidden charm scalar and an axial vector meson states below $D\bar D$ or $D\bar D^*$ thresholds, respectively. We conclude that the data is compatible with the existing prediction of a hidden charm scalar meson with mass around 3700 MeV, though other possibilities cannot be discarded. The peak seen in the $D\bar D^*$ spectrum above threshold is, however, unlikely to be due to a threshold enhancement produced by the presence, below threshold, of the hidden charm axial vector meson X(3872).
description: 5 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables
A hierarchical model of non-homogeneous Poisson processes for Twitter retweets
Creators: name: Lee, Clement
name: Wilkinson, Darren J
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present a hierarchical model of non-homogeneous Poisson processes (NHPP) for information diffusion on online social media, in particular Twitter retweets. The retweets of each original tweet are modelled by a NHPP, for which the intensity function is a product of time-decaying components and another component that depends on the follower count of the original tweet author. The latter allows us to explain or predict the ultimate retweet count by a network centrality-related covariate. The inference algorithm enables the Bayes factor to be computed, in order to facilitate model selection. Finally, the model is applied to the retweet data sets of two hashtags.
description: 48 pages, 13 figures, 2 tables
Confucian Ethics and Labor Rights
Creators: name: Kim, Tae Wan
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: In this article I inquire into Confucian ethics from a non-ideal stance investigating the complex interaction between Confucian ideals and the reality of the modern workplace. I contend that even Confucian workers who regularly engage in social rites at the workplace have an internal, Confucian reason to appreciate the value of rights at the workplace. I explain, from a Confucian non-ideal perspective, why I disagree with the presumptuous idea that labor (or workplace) rights are necessarily incompatible with Confucian ideals and values. Specifically, I argue that if managers were “sages,” the highest moral exemplars and authorities in the Confucian tradition, they would perceive that social rituals alone are often not a contextually intelligent and valued response for the development of intimate communities in the modern workplace. The sage perspective will lead Confucian managers to realize, from their own moral perspective, that they have good reason to balance rites with rights, so long as the adoption is extrinsically valuable and consistent with the Confucian ideal. This article contributes to the debates about Confucianism’s compatibility with rights, helps Western human rights scholars better contextualize their arguments in Confucianism-influenced cultures,
Imagining the Trans Symphony: Integrating Transgender Composer Identity in Music Analysis
Creators: name: Allphin, Penrose M
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2021

description: Contemporary music analysts have generally downplayed the relevance of composer intent, a dismissal which ignores the potential for an enhanced expressive context afforded by composers' own assessments and also contributes to the silencing of already othered voices, such as in the case of queer and trans composers. Allowing the trans composer a voice in the reading of their work affirms the integral part of the trans experience that is self-determination. Over time, this project to tell trans stories evolved into a series of vignette-like analyses of trans composers’ works in which I use a methodology that incorporates the voices of living composers while building on and modifying the work of music theorists and queer theorists, and moving queer musicology towards a new trans musicology that includes non-binary genders. This thesis demonstrates my theoretical framework using interviews of six transgender composers to supplement my analyses of their works. By analyzing the work with the added context of the composer’s statements about their own music, my analyses paint more nuanced and complete pictures of the work that reinvest music analysis with the trans voice behind the composition.
Stabilizing Rabi Oscillation of a Charge Qubit via Atomic Clock Technique
Creators: name: Yu, Deshui
name: Landra, Alessandro
name: Kwek, Leong Chuan
name: Amico, Luigi
name: Dumke, Rainer
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a superconducting circuit-atom hybrid, where the Rabi oscillation of single excess Cooper pair in the island is stabilized via the common atomic-clock technique. The noise in the superconducting circuit is mapped onto the voltage source which biases the Cooper-pair box via an inductor and a gate capacitor. The fast fluctuations of the gate charge are significantly suppressed by an inductor-capacitor resonator, leading to a long-relaxation-time Rabi oscillation. More importantly, the residual low-frequency fluctuations are further reduced by using the general feedback-control method, in which the voltage bias is stabilized via continuously measuring the dc-Stark-shift-induced atomic Ramsey signal. The stability and coherence time of the resulting charge-qubit Rabi oscillation are both enhanced. The principal structure of this Cooper-pair-box oscillator is studied in detail.
description: 4 figures
Creating New Cultural Hubs in American Cities: The Syrian Diaspora of Worcester, Massachusetts
Creators: name: Asfoura, Aleesa
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2021

description: Architectural design can be used as a tool to assist in integrating Syrian immigrants into American culture. Conceived of as a vital place-making technique, architecture can build Syrian community in the United States, while maintaining and promoting the links to Middle Eastern heritage. This thesis draws upon the lived experience of a large Syrian population in Worcester, MA, and makes a case for design in the development of a Syrian-American community center. This Syrian-American community center seeks to satisfy three goals. First, it offers a space for Syrian immigrants to better transition into American culture while also staying strongly connected to their Syrian culture. Second, the center helps to integrate Syrian people of different religious backgrounds and generations and promote the development of a shared Syrian-American community. Third, it aims to raise awareness among non-Syrian Americans of Syrian immigrants and culture.
Towards these ends, the design of the community center is driven by Syrian concepts and culture. It includes spaces to support group programming, educational and cultural classes, exhibitions, parties, festivals, and performances. The design centers around an interior courtyard, representing the family or the heart of the home. Through this concept and the reimagining of traditional Syrian elements such as materials and patterns, the community center promotes and encourages relationships among its users and aids Syrians in transitioning into their new lives.