cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
From Di-Nucleus to Mono-Nucleus - Neck Evolution in Fusion of Massive Systems -
Creators: name: Abe, Y.
name: Shen, C.
name: Boilley, D.
name: Giraud, B. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dynamics of the neck degree of freedom during fusioning process between heavy ions is studied. Time scales of the three degrees of freedom (the relative distance, the neck and the mass-asymmetry) are studied, showing an early equilibration of the neck. This means that a di-nucleus formed by the incident combination of ions quickly forms a mono-nucleus with a superdeformation during the fusion process and that the other two degrees of freedom have to be solved in a coupled way. A brief introduction of Langevin approach and dissipation-fluctuation dynamics is also given and of the application to the synthesis of the superheavy elements.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, Proceedings of the Japanese French Symposium - New paradigms in Nuclear Physics, Paris, 29th September - 2nd October, to be published in Int. J. of Modern Physics E
Black holes and Galactic density cusps -- I. Radial orbit cusps and bulges
Creators: name: Delliou, Morgan Le
name: Henriksen, Richard N.
name: Macmillan, Joseph D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we study the distribution functions that arise naturally during self-similar radial infall of collisionless matter. Such matter may be thought of either as stars or as dark matter particles. If a rigorous steady state is assumed, then the system is infinite and is described by a universal distribution function given the self-similar index. The steady logarithmic potential case is exceptional and yields the familiar Gaussian for an infinite system with an inverse-square density profile. We show subsequently that for time-dependent radial self-similar infall, the logarithmic case is accurately described by the Fridmann and Polyachenko distribution function. The system in this case is finite but growing. We are able to embed a central mass in the universal steady distribution only by iteration, except in the case of massless particles. The iteration yields logarithmic corrections to the massless particle case and requires a `renormalization' of the central mass. A central spherical mass may be accurately embedded in the Fridmann and Polyachenko growing distribution however. Some speculation is given concerning the importance of radial collisionless infall in actual galaxy formation.
description: 10 pp, 3 figs
On the isomorphism problem for a class of bipartite graphs
Creators: name: Dixon, Anthony H.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the graph isomorphism problem for a special class of graphs. Each graph is characterized by its edge set, and a subgroup of its automorphism group, called the colour group. In particular, a simple, efficient algorithm for determining whether two graphs are isomorphic if at least one is a member of the class is developed. Chapter 1 provides some basic definitions and lemmas required in the text. The concepts of reducibility and reducible bipartite graphs are introduced, and the properties of the colour groups of such graphs are investigated. Chapter 2 establishes some results concerning the existence of reducible graphs. Conditions based on the existence of vertices with prescribed properties are shown to provide sufficient conditions for a graph to be reducible. In the special case of trees they are shown to be both necessary and sufficient. Necessary conditions for the reducibility of graphs, based on their radius and diameter are also established. Chapter 3 describes an algorithm for determining whether a graph is completely reducible, which is applied to a test for isomorphism. An investigation of the speed of this algorithm is made and its efficiency is compared with an algorithm of D. Corneil [5], which this author considers the best for arbitrary graphs in the current literature.
A FLOSS Tool for Antenna Radiation Patterns
Creators: name: Yannopoulou, Nikolitsa
name: Zimourtopoulos, Petros
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper briefly highlights the features of the software tool [RadPat4W], named after Radiation Patterns for Windows but also compatible with the [Wine] environment of Linux. The tool is a stand-alone part of a freeware suite that is based on an alternative exposition of fundamental Antenna Theory and is under active development for many years now. Nevertheless, [RadPat4W] source code has been now released as FLOSS Free Libre Open Source Software and thus it may be freely used, copied, modified or redistributed, individually or cooperatively, by the interested user to suit her/his personal needs for reliable antenna applications from the simplest to the more complex.
description: No changes in the paper since [v3] Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:45:59 GMT (1076kb): [v5] = [v4] = [v3]
title: The Human Takes It All
title: Humanlike Synthesized Voices Are Perceived as Less Eerie and More Likable. Evidence From a Subjective Ratings Study
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Kühne, Katharina
name: Fischer, Martin H.
name: Zhou, Yuefang
Publisher: name: Universität Potsdam
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Technologie
subject: 610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background: The increasing involvement of social robots in human lives raises the question as to how humans perceive social robots. Little is known about human perception of synthesized voices. Aim: To investigate which synthesized voice parameters predict the speaker's eeriness and voice likability; to determine if individual listener characteristics (e.g., personality, attitude toward robots, age) influence synthesized voice evaluations; and to explore which paralinguistic features subjectively distinguish humans from robots/artificial agents. Methods: 95 adults (62 females) listened to randomly presented audio-clips of three categories: synthesized (Watson, IBM), humanoid (robot Sophia, Hanson Robotics), and human voices (five clips/category). Voices were rated on intelligibility, prosody, trustworthiness, confidence, enthusiasm, pleasantness, human-likeness, likability, and naturalness. Speakers were rated on appeal, credibility, human-likeness, and eeriness. Participants' personality traits, attitudes to robots, and demographics were obtained. Results: The human voice and human speaker characteristics received reliably higher scores on all dimensions except for eeriness. Synthesized voice ratings were positively related to participants' agreeableness and neuroticism. Females rated synthesized voices more positively on most dimensions. Surprisingly, interest in social robots and attitudes toward robots played almost no role in voice evaluation. Contrary to the expectations of an uncanny valley, when the ratings of human-likeness for both the voice and the speaker characteristics were higher, they seemed less eerie to the participants. Moreover, when the speaker's voice was more humanlike, it was more liked by the participants. This latter point was only applicable to one of the synthesized voices. Finally, pleasantness and trustworthiness of the synthesized voice predicted the likability of the speaker's voice. Qualitative content analysis identified intonation, sound, emotion, and imageability/embodiment as diagnostic features. Discussion: Humans clearly prefer human voices, but manipulating diagnostic speech features might increase acceptance of synthesized voices and thereby support human-robot interaction. There is limited evidence that human-likeness of a voice is negatively linked to the perceived eeriness of the speaker.
description: Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe; 700
Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy of Iron-Chalcogenide Superconductor Fe1.03Te0.7Se0.3 : Strong-Coupling Superconductivity and Universality of Inter-Band Scattering
Creators: name: Nakayama, K.
name: Sato, T.
name: Richard, P.
name: Kawahara, T.
name: Sekiba, Y.
name: Qian, T.
name: Chen, G. F.
name: Luo, J. L.
name: Wang, N. L.
name: Ding, H.
name: Takahashi, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have performed high-resolution angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy of iron-chalcogenide superconductor Fe1.03Te0.7Se0.3 (Tc = 13 K) to investigate the electronic structure relevant to superconductivity. We observed a hole- and an electron-like Fermi surfaces at the Brillouin zone center and corner, respectively, which are nearly nested by the Q~(pi, pi) wave vector. We do not find evidence for the nesting instability with Q~(pi+delta, 0) reminiscent of the antiferromagnetic order in the parent compound Fe1+yTe. We have observed an isotropic superconducting gap along the hole-like Fermi surface with the gap size Delta of ~4 meV (2Delta/kBTc~7), demonstrating the strong-coupling nature of the superconductivity. The observed similarity of low-energy electronic excitations between iron-chalcogenide and iron-arsenide superconductors strongly suggests that common interactions which involve Q~(pi, pi) scattering are responsible for the superconducting pairing.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Better Together? An Evaluation of AI-Supported Code Translation
Creators: name: Weisz, Justin D.
name: Muller, Michael
name: Ross, Steven I.
name: Martinez, Fernando
name: Houde, Stephanie
name: Agarwal, Mayank
name: Talamadupula, Kartik
name: Richards, John T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Generative machine learning models have recently been applied to source code, for use cases including translating code between programming languages, creating documentation from code, and auto-completing methods. Yet, state-of-the-art models often produce code that is erroneous or incomplete. In a controlled study with 32 software engineers, we examined whether such imperfect outputs are helpful in the context of Java-to-Python code translation. When aided by the outputs of a code translation model, participants produced code with fewer errors than when working alone. We also examined how the quality and quantity of AI translations affected the work process and quality of outcomes, and observed that providing multiple translations had a larger impact on the translation process than varying the quality of provided translations. Our results tell a complex, nuanced story about the benefits of generative code models and the challenges software engineers face when working with their outputs. Our work motivates the need for intelligent user interfaces that help software engineers effectively work with generative code models in order to understand and evaluate their outputs and achieve superior outcomes to working alone.
description: 35 pages, 3 figures. To be published in IUI 2022
title: The irrelevance of fee structures for certification
Creators: name: Pollrich, Martin
name: Strausz, Roland
Publisher: name: Hertie School
Year: 2023

description: In models of certification possible restrictions on the nature of the fee structures are commonly analyzed. We show that they are irrelevant for the certifier’s ability to maximize profits and trade efficiency. Our results establish that certification schemes involve two substitutable dimensions—the fee structure and the disclosure rule. In the context of a canonical unit good certification setup, these dimensions act as perfect substitutes for achieving trade efficiency and (monotone) distributions of rents; adjustments in the disclosure dimension can fully mitigate restrictions in the fee dimension, but these changes do affect market transparency.
Environmental Metal Pollution Considered as Noise: Effects on the Spatial Distribution of Benthic Foraminifera in two Coastal Marine Areas of Sicily (Southern Italy)
Creators: name: Valenti, D.
name: Tranchina, L.
name: Brai, M.
name: Caruso, A.
name: Cosentino, C.
name: Spagnolo, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We analyze the spatial distributions of two groups of benthic foraminifera (Adelosina spp. + Quinqueloculina spp. and Elphidium spp.), along Sicilian coast, and their correlation with six different heavy metals, responsible for the pollution. Samples were collected inside the Gulf of Palermo, which has a high level of pollution due to heavy metals, and along the coast of Lampedusa island (Sicily Channel, Southern Mediterranean), which is characterized by unpolluted sea waters. Because of the environmental pollution we find: (i) an anticorrelated spatial behaviour between the two groups of benthic foraminifera analyzed; (ii) an anticorrelated (correlated) spatial behaviour between the first (second) group of benthic foraminifera with metal concentrations; (iii) an almost uncorrelated spatial behaviour between low concentrations of metals and the first group of foraminifera in clean sea water sites. We introduce a two-species model based on the generalized Lotka-Volterra equations in the presence of a multiplicative noise, which models the interaction between species and environmental pollution due to the presence in top-soft sediments of heavy metals. The interaction coefficients between the two species are kept constant with values in the coexistence regime. Using proper values for the initial conditions and the model parameters, we find for the two species a theoretical spatial distribution behaviour in a good agreement with the data obtained from the 63 sites analyzed in our study.
description: 28 pages, 8 figures, 5 tables
Sciurus (Tenes) anomalus Guldenstadt 1785
Creators: name: Aidek, Ahmad E.
name: Ibrahim, Amir
name: Amr, Zuhair
name: Hutterer, Rainer
name: Kryštufek, Boris
name: Serra, Gianluca
name: Benda, Petr
name: Shkaky, Yesra
name: Barbanera, Filippo
name: Al-Sheikhly, Omar F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Sciuridae
Sciurus
Sciurus anomalus

description: 8. Caucasian Squirrel, Sciurus (Tenes) anomalus Güldenstädt, 1785
(IUCN Red List: LC)
Subspecies: S. a. syriacus Ehrenberg, 1828.
Distribution: Common in the western coastal mountain range, but apparently rare in Ghota and Mount Hermon (Fig. 12).
Previous records: Qastal Maaf, Slenfeh, and Al-Furunlok (Lehmann 1965), Mount Hermon and wooded areas near Damascus (Tristram 1866; Harrison & Bates 1991; Shehab et al. 2018), and Abu Qubays and Al-Furunlok (Daoud & Khalil 2009a, b). A total of 83 recent records throughout Syria were provided by Aidek et al. (2021a).
Remarks: Aidek et al. (2021a) provided a detailed account on the current distribution of the Caucasian Squirrel in Syria based on recent and previous records mainly from the Tartous area.
description: Published as part of Aidek, Ahmad E., Ibrahim, Amir, Amr, Zuhair, Hutterer, Rainer, Kryštufek, Boris, Serra, Gianluca, Benda, Petr, Shkaky, Yesra, Barbanera, Filippo & Al-Sheikhly, Omar F., 2025, Checklist of Mammals of Syria, pp. 1-130 in Zootaxa 5580 (1) on page 32, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5580.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14797597
Payment Contract from Post Office Department to Isaac Edwards, February 17, 1854
Creators: name: (:Unas)
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1854
Subjects: Edwards Family
Post offices
Postal service
Postal service employees
East Hampton

description: This letter is from the Third Assistant Postmaster General at the Post Office Department to Isaac Edwards, in regards to his contracted mail route in East Hampton, dated for February 17, 1854. This item is part of the Isaac Edwards Deed Collection, donated by Bess Rattray in December 2020.
title: Women, labor and television: a critical analysis of women portrayed in Pakistani drama serials
Creators: name: Zaheer, Ayat
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Year: 2020

description: The purpose of this research is to look critically at the way women are represented in mainstream entertainment media on Pakistani television channels, mainly in televised drama serials. My chief research question is: How is women’s labor represented in select Pakistani televised drama serials? One reason women’s work is not always apparent is because of the gendered nature of work, and especially care work, where it is assumed that women will look after the household chores, especially in patriarchal societies. I propose that these shows (1) naturalize a certain form or notion of femininity as the only suitable one for Pakistan’s women, and (2) naturalize a theory of work that both denies the actual work that women do and that discourages women from stepping into the masculinist marketplace of public careers. I use feminist media representation theory. Because media has the power to disseminate patriarchal and ideological views, it has always been at the centre of feminist criticism. Feminist audiovisual content analysis enables me to critically highlight the biases towards women employed in different occupations, as well as if and how the social reproductive labor of the women who are portrayed as mothers, sisters, daughters, wives, and grandmothers on screen is ignored or taken for granted.
Warm tachyonic inflation in warped background
Creators: name: Deshamukhya, Atri
name: Panda, Sudhakar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze warm tachyonic inflation, proposed in the literature, but from the viewpoint of four dimensional effective action for tachyon field on a non-BPS D3-brane. We find that consistency with observational data on density perturbation and validity of effective action requires warped compactification. The number of background branes which source the flux is found to be of the order of 10 in contrast to the order of $10^{14}$ in the standard cold inflationary scenario.
description: 9 pages, RevTeX
Additional file 2 of Identification of metabolism-associated genes and construction of a prognostic signature in bladder cancer
Creators: name: Shen, Chengquan
name: Liu, Jing
name: Wang, Liping
name: Liang, Zhijuan
name: Niu, Haitao
name: Wang, Yonghua
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 2: Table S1. The differences in the protein levels of MAGs between BC samples and normal samples.
title: The radical right: both winners and losers in northern Europe.
Creators: name: Noxon, Clarissa Miles
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Year: 2020

description: Radical right-wing parties have been increasing their electoral success across Europe over the last few decades. Despite the widely covered surge in their success, many radical right-wing parties have achieved marginal to no electoral success, but there continues to be a lack of research trying to explain their failure. The question guiding this thesis focuses on why there is varied electoral success of radical right-wing parties across Europe and suggests that it could be explained through differences in the importance of economic compared to cultural-political issues in each country. To investigate this, the work uses data from public opinion surveys and party manifesto content from three countries which saw different radical right-wing party success in elections between 2005 and 2011 - Finland, Norway, and Iceland. Tentative findings indicate that cultural issues were the most salient in the public and amongst parties in the country with the most electorally successful radical right-wing party, Norway. Broadly, however, the public is still much more focused on economic issues than cultural issues, but political party rhetoric is much more evenly divided. Partisanship is the most influential factor on vote choice and though issue salience was rarely significant in vote choice, it was nearly always significant when trying to explain partisanship. Though issue salience is not directly influencing vote choice, it is influencing partisanship which has a strong impact on vote choice.
Developing a REPO Assessment Workbook: Supporting Open Science Communities in the Transition to Online Learning
Creators: name: Woods, Nathan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Open Science
Reimagining Educational Practices for Open (REPO)

description: During the Covid-19 health emergency, the issue of scientific collaboration has received unprecedented attention and with it a renewed public interest in open science. In this context, elements of open science—such as preprints, open access to publications, and open data resources—are critically valorized as crucial components to be enhanced in preparation for future crises. Less discussed is the issue of open science pedagogy, its critical importance, and the shifts Open Science communities have experienced in the pandemic with the move to online working, teaching and learning. How do we learn to be ‘open’ in open research? The Reimagining Educational Practices for Open (REPO) project examines this question through a practitioner led exploration of how Open Science communities have navigated the transition to online and hybrid formats. In this workshop, we will review REPO’s ongoing community engagement efforts to document change and best practices in open online training and education. We then present two related outcomes of our work: 1. A framework for integrating and comparing insights from multiple communities of practice; 2. A prototype reflection and assessment workbook for open science educators working to build participatory learning communities. The workshop will include some time collaboratively thinking about how to construct assessment tools for open science learning communities as they move to online or hybrid formats.
title: Producing performance collectively in austere times (UK 2008-2018)
Creators: name: Holton, Simon James
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2023

description: This thesis examines collective and artist-run performance producing practices in the UK in the period of austerity from 2008-2018. This thesis examines collective practices in opposition to the rhetoric, logic, and impacts of neoliberal austerity, while examining how they are, at one and the same time, caught up within them, and frequently complicit with them. I argue that collectives can temporarily reverse and rework the negative material and affective impacts of austerity through gathering artists and producers with similar practices and concerns together in the same space, producing social and affective spaces that feel and operate differently to the rest of the artistic infrastructure, and sharing material and immaterial resources. As I go on to establish, austerity works by making people feel precarious, uncared for, alone, indebted, hopeless, and disentitled. At their best, collectives work by making people feel the opposite. In gathering together in their own space, these artists and producers feel and imagine the possibility of a different way of doing things. These spaces exist to present the performance of others, to support the organisers’ individual practices and administrative work, to run festivals and performance events, and to organise around particular issues. An analysis of these functions of collective practice structure the main body of this thesis, which begins by examining collective and artist-run models of performance venues, then studios, then festivals, and finally, networks. In each chapter I examine a specific negative affect of austerity which these groups seek to resist. These are: insecurity or precarity, neglect or a lack of care, isolation or disconnectedness, and hopelessness or a lack of access to futurity. I show, using Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of field, Henri Lefebvre’s production of space, and Sara Ahmed’s work on affect, how the practices of each structural model of collective and artist-run organisation responds to and reworks these conditions by producing affective spaces of security, care, communitas, and hope. These spaces, and the practices that create them, are embedded within the wider context of neoliberalism and austerity which they oppose, and are thus temporary and susceptible to reproducing exploitative and exclusive practices. The task of this thesis is to reveal the immediate positive affective and material impacts of these collectives in opposition to austerity, as well as the complexity of the problems that arise as these groups interact with a wider context over which they have no control. Despite the limitations of collective practice, this thesis argues that through providing relief from the negative affective impacts of austerity, it can provide vital support to artists, practices, and communities during difficult economic conditions, and allow them to survive, to organise, and to imagine and enact better and more liveable futures in the field of performance.
A Study of End-Fed Arrays with Application to Single Driving-Point Self-Standing Linear Arrays
Creators: name: Kondylis, Konstantinos
name: Yannopoulou, Nikolitsa
name: Zimourtopoulos, Petros
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The array factor of a both geometrically and electrically uniform array is the simple formula for the complex geometric progression sum. This fact, although results in the simplest of all possible analytical designs, obviously does not in the least simplify the complicated practical problem of feeding the array elements using multiple driving points. In order to begin the examination of uniform linear arrays with a single driving point, this short paper presents a compact study of the end-fed space arrays with application to geometrically uniform, self-standing linear arrays of parallel dipoles. A number of test array models were simulated, constructed and their radiation pattern was then measured. The experimental and computational results were found to be in good agreement. The developed software applications are available through the Internet as FLOSS Free Libre Open Source Software.
description: No changes in the paper since [v2] Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:57:20 GMT (1299kb): [v4] = [v3] = [v2] = [v1]
Scarturus (Paralactaga) aulacotis
Creators: name: Aidek, Ahmad E.
name: Ibrahim, Amir
name: Amr, Zuhair
name: Hutterer, Rainer
name: Kryštufek, Boris
name: Serra, Gianluca
name: Benda, Petr
name: Shkaky, Yesra
name: Barbanera, Filippo
name: Al-Sheikhly, Omar F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Dipodidae
Scarturus
Scarturus aulacotis

description: 9. Syrian Five-toed Jerboa, Scarturus (Paralactaga) aulacotis (Wagner, 1840)
(IUCN Red List: LC)
Distribution: Probably widespread but known with certainty only from Homs, Al-Qaryatein, and Damascus (Kryštufek et al. 2013) (Fig. 13).
Previous records: Homs, Al-Qaryatein, and Damascus (Kryštufek et al. 2013).
Remarks: S. aulacotis is a sister taxon to S. williamsi but not to S. euphraticus (Kryštufek et al. 2013).
description: Published as part of Aidek, Ahmad E., Ibrahim, Amir, Amr, Zuhair, Hutterer, Rainer, Kryštufek, Boris, Serra, Gianluca, Benda, Petr, Shkaky, Yesra, Barbanera, Filippo & Al-Sheikhly, Omar F., 2025, Checklist of Mammals of Syria, pp. 1-130 in Zootaxa 5580 (1) on page 32, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5580.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14797597
Swift Observations of Hard X-ray Emitting White Dwarfs in Symbiotic Stars
Creators: name: Kennea, J. A.
name: Mukai, K.
name: Sokoloski, J. L.
name: Luna, G. J. M.
name: Tueller, J.
name: Markwardt, C. B.
name: Burrows, D. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The X-ray emission from most accreting white dwarfs (WDs) in symbiotic binary stars is quite soft. Several symbiotic WDs, however, produce strong X-ray emission at energies greater than ~20 keV. The Swift BAT instrument has detected hard X-ray emission from 4 such accreting WDs in symbiotic stars: RT Cru, T CrB, CD -57 3057, and CH Cyg. In one case (RT Cru), Swift detected X-rays out to greater than 50 keV at a > 5 sigma confidence level. Combining data from the XRT and BAT detectors, we find that the 0.3-150 keV spectra of RT Cru, T CrB, and CD -57 3057 are well described by emission from a single-temperature, optically thin thermal plasma, plus an unresolved 6.4-6.9 keV Fe line complex. The X-ray spectrum of CH Cyg contains an additional bright soft component. For all 4 systems, the spectra suffer high levels of absorption from material that both fully and partially covers the source of hard X-rays. The XRT data did not show any of the rapid, periodic variations that one would expect if the X-ray emission were due to accretion onto a rotating, highly magnetized WD. The X-rays were thus more likely from the accretion-disk boundary layer around a massive, non-magnetic WD in each binary. The X-ray emission from RT Cru varied on timescales of a few days. This variability is consistent with being due to changes in the absorber that partially covers the source, suggesting localized absorption from a clumpy medium moving into the line of sight. The X-ray emission from CD -57 3057 and T CrB also varied during the 9 months of Swift observations, in a manner that was also consistent with variable absorption.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ. 9 pages, 6 figures
Additional file 1 of DT2216—a Bcl-xL-specific degrader is highly active against Bcl-xL-dependent T cell lymphomas
Creators: name: He, Yonghan
name: Koch, Raphael
name: Budamagunta, Vivekananda
name: Zhang, Peiyi
name: Zhang, Xuan
name: Khan, Sajid
name: Thummuri, Dinesh
name: Ortiz, Yuma T.
name: Zhang, Xin
name: Lv, Dongwen
name: Wiegand, Janet S.
name: Li, Wen
name: Palmer, Adam C.
name: Zheng, Guangrong
name: Weinstock, David M.
name: Zhou, Daohong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Figure 1. Effect of DT2216 on BCL2L1, BCL2, and MCL1 mRNA expressions in TCL cells. Supplementary Figure 2. Effect of DT2216 on MJ, MAC2A and L82 TCL cells. Supplementary Figure 3. Effect of DT2216 and/or ABT199 on TCL PDX cell blood engraftment and body weight in TCL PDX mice. Supplementary Figure 4. The combination therapy of DT2216 and ABT199 is more effective than either agent alone or ABT263 against TCL PDX in mice. Supplementary Table 1. Effects of chemotherapy drugs, Bcl-2 family protein inhibitors and DT2216 on DFTL-28776 TCL PDX cells in vitro.
QCD equation of state: Physical quark masses and asymptotic temperatures
Creators: name: Bluhm, M.
name: Kampfer, B.
name: Schulze, R.
name: Seipt, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Within a phenomenological quasiparticle model, the quark mass and temperature dependence of the QCD equation of state is discussed and compared with lattice QCD results. Different approximations for the quasiparticle dispersion relations are employed, scaling properties of the equation of state with quark mass and deconfinement temperature are investigated and a continuation to asymptotically large temperatures is presented.
description: Jan 2009. 8 pp. Contribution to the International School of Nuclear Physics - 30th Course: Heavy-Ion Collisions from the Coulomb Barrier to the Quark-Gluon Plasma, Erice, Sicily, Italy, 16-24 Sep 2008
Regularity of primes associated with polynomial parametrisations
Creators: name: Cioffi, Francesca
name: Conca, Aldo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 13D02, 13P10

description: We prove a doubly exponential bound for the Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity of prime ideals defining varieties with polynomial parametrisation.
description: To appear in Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Classe di Scienze
L’edizione Adelphi de Il rituale del serpente. Un capitolo di storia culturale europea. Intervista a Flavio Cuniberto
Creators: name: Cuniberto, Flavio; De Laude Silvia
Publisher: name: La Rivista di Engramma
Year: 2023
Subjects: Aby Warburg
The Snake Ritual
Gianni Carchia and Flavio Cuniberto Translation
Ulrich Raulff
Adelphi Publisher

description: In 1998, Aby Warburg’s Il rituale del serpente (The Serpent Ritual) is published by Adelphi. The release of the volume interrupts the reprinting of the 1984 issue 199-200 of “aut aut”, which contained the first Italian translation of the Kreuzlingen lecture, edited by Gianni Carchia. The new Italian translation is based on the 1988 German edition (edited by Ulrich Raulff - whose Postfazione has been republished in the Italian edition), but the ending of the Warburgian text differs substantially from the one published in 1984. Adelphi commissioned the translation to Gianni Carchia, author of the “aut aut” translation, and Flavio Cuniberto who offers a first-hand account of the story in the interview here proposed.
Parabolic and Levi subalgebras of finitary Lie algebras
Creators: name: Dan-Cohen, Elizabeth
name: Penkov, Ivan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 17B05; 17B65

description: Let $\g$ be a locally reductive complex Lie algebra which admits a faithful countable-dimensional finitary representation $V$. Such a Lie algebra is a split extension of an abelian Lie algebra by a direct sum of copies of $\sl_\infty$, $\so_\infty$, $\sp_\infty$, and finite-dimensional simple Lie algebras. A parabolic subalgebra of $\g$ is any subalgebra which contains a maximal locally solvable (that is, Borel) subalgebra. Building upon work by Dimitrov and the authors of the present paper, we give a general description of parabolic subalgebras of $\g$ in terms of joint stabilizers of taut couples of generalized flags. The main differences with the Borel subalgebra case are that the description of general parabolic subalgebras has to use both the natural and conatural modules, and that the parabolic subalgebras are singled out by further "trace conditions" in the suitable joint stabilizer. The technique of taut couples can also be used to prove the existence of a Levi component of an arbitrary subalgebra $\k$ of $\gl_\infty$. If $\k$ is splittable, we show that the linear nilradical admits a locally reductive complement in $\k$. We conclude the paper with descriptions of Cartan, Borel, and parabolic subalgebras of arbitrary splittable subalgebras of $\gl_\infty$.
description: 36 pages
title: Correlation-Savvy Sellers
Creators: name: Strausz, Roland
Publisher: name: Hertie School
Year: 2023

description: A multi-product monopolist sells sequentially to a buyer who privately learns his valuations. Using big data, the monopolist learns the intertemporal correlation of the buyer’s valuations. Perfect price discrimination is generally unattainable—even when the seller learns the correlation perfectly, has full commitment, and in the limit where the consumption good about which the buyer has ex ante private information becomes insignificant. This impossibility is due to informational externalities which requires information rents for the buyer’s later consumption. These rents induce upward and downward distortions, violating the generalized no distortion at the top principle of dynamic mechanism design.
Structure of Lardeau group rockes, Albert Canyon, British Columbia.
Creators: name: Karvinen, William Oliver
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: At the north end of the Kootenay Arc, isolated patches of gritty quartzite of the upper Lardeau Broadview Formation (Ord.?) lie in the core of a northwesterly trend-in structure, the Illecilleweat Synform. These rocks overlie, in tectonic contact, black, carbonaceous phyllite of the lower Lardeau Index Formation (lower to middle Ord.). The contact is enclosed in a zone of highly sheared and recrystallized rocks designated here as a phyllonite zone. The Broadview rocks were thrust into juxtaposition with the Index during an early phase of isoclinal, recumbent folding which correlates with the development of nappe structures during deformation along the Kootenay Arc. Interstratal formations of the middle Lardeau were sheared out. The phase was accompanied by regional metamorphism of greenschist grade which aided recrystallization and reoientation of quartz and mica. Similar folding, nearly co-axial with Phase 1 and accompanied by waning metamorphism, folded, tightened, and reactivated earlier-formed structures. This resulted in transposition of lithology and the asymmetric Illecillewaet Synform. The relative age of the Broadview, which is very similar lithologically to Horsethief Creek elastics of Windermere age, has not been established from this study.
Scarturus (Paralactaga) euphraticus
Creators: name: Aidek, Ahmad E.
name: Ibrahim, Amir
name: Amr, Zuhair
name: Hutterer, Rainer
name: Kryštufek, Boris
name: Serra, Gianluca
name: Benda, Petr
name: Shkaky, Yesra
name: Barbanera, Filippo
name: Al-Sheikhly, Omar F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Dipodidae
Scarturus
Scarturus euphraticus

description: 10. Euphrates Jerboa, Scarturus (Paralactaga) euphraticus (Thomas, 1881)
(IUCN Red List: LC)
Distribution: Records of Scarturus cf. euphraticus are abundant along the Euphrates Valley, Mesopotamia, and in arid and semi-arid areas of Al-Badia, but the majority of them were not properly classified at the species level. The occurrence of S. euphraticus is probable in northern Syria (cf. Kryštufek et al. 2013), but still not confirmed (Fig. 14).
Previous records: Taxonomically unassigned records are available from Tell Abiad, Ain Al-Arous, Khneiz (Misonne 1957), Al-Qaryatein and Palmyra (Atallah & Harrison 1967), Qal’at er-Rahba and Jabal Al-Bilaas (Kock & Nader 1983), ar-Raqqa, Buhayrat Al-Khatuniyah, Al-Hasaka (Bauer 1988), Tell Sheikh Hamad (Kock et al. 1994), Al-Qaryatein (Shehab 2004a), Tell Al-Buderi, Qal’at er-Rahba, 12 km south of ar-Raqqa, ar- Rasafah (Shehab et al. 2004), Palmyra (Serra et al. 2009a, b), Jabal Abd Al-Aziz (Daoud & Khalil 2009c), and Najha (Shehab et al. 2018).
Recent records: Jabal Abd Al-Aziz, 5 km east of as-Suwar, vicinity of Lake Al-Khatuniyah, ar-Rawda steppe, Al-Hjeifat, 5 km southwest of Al-Mayadin, ad-Dukhoul, Al- Bolaiyah, Al-Khraiteh, vicinity of ar-Raqqa, vicinity of ar-Rasafah, az-Zimlah, Feidhat Ibn Muwyin’e, Jabal Al-Bishri, around ach-Chola, around Kabajep, north of Maadan, around Palmyra, Mabroukah, Slouq, Abu Khashab, and an-netoliyeh (2006–2012).
Remarks: Referred to as Allactaga euphratica by earlier authors. The genus Allactaga has been taxonomically reorganized and the majority of species are now in the genus Scarturus. Scarturus euphraticus consists of two species, S. euphraticus sensu stricto and the newly recognized S. aulacotis (see distribution). Ellerman & Morrison-Scott (1951:532) did list Dipus aulacotis Wagner, 1840 in the synonymy of Allactaga major which lives to the north of line Black Sea—Caucasus—Caspian Sea— Kyrgyzstan; therefore, it is not present in the Middle East. For reasons which are not explained, Ellerman & Morrison-Scott suspected Wagner’s locality to be “obviously erroneous”. We do not share this opinion. Wagner (1840) published material collected by von Schubert in Egypt and Palestine.
description: Published as part of Aidek, Ahmad E., Ibrahim, Amir, Amr, Zuhair, Hutterer, Rainer, Kryštufek, Boris, Serra, Gianluca, Benda, Petr, Shkaky, Yesra, Barbanera, Filippo & Al-Sheikhly, Omar F., 2025, Checklist of Mammals of Syria, pp. 1-130 in Zootaxa 5580 (1) on pages 32-34, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5580.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14797597
Numerical simulation of thermal conductivity of stainless steel and Al-12Si powders for additive manufacturing
Creators: name: Ankudinov, V.
name: Gordeev, G. A.
name: Kharanzhevskiy, E. V.
name: Krivilyov, M. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: G.1.8
subject: 35Q79 (Primary), 80M10

description: A three-dimensional model of a partially melted powder bed with particles stochastically distributed in size and space coordinates has been developed. Numerical simulation of temperature distributions in stainless steel AISI 316L and Al-12Si powders in vacuum, air and argon has been performed to analyze unsteady heat transfer in a porous medium. The numerical model demonstrates a large effect of heat transfer through the gas phase in case of powders with low thermal conductivities like stainless steels. At the porosity level of 65\% and above, the mechanism of heat transfer drastically changes and a linear dependence of thermal conductivity on porosity frequently used in literature becomes incorrect. The effects of the consolidation coefficient and size distribution on effective heat transfer in powders are discussed. The obtained dependencies of the effective thermal conductivity on porosity and the consolidation coefficient could be used in additive manufacturing applications.
description: 15 pages, 9 figures
title: Missing links: on the decoupling between women's rights policies, outcomes and reports
Creators: name: Ilonze, Princess C.
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Year: 2020

description: Countries continuously fall short of gender equality goals despite countless efforts to promote change. Therefore, I ask: Why do these inequalities persist, especially among low- to middle-income countries and regardless of the international support they receive? Using a World Society lens, this thesis examines policies and practices in gender and development to understand the gap between their objectives and results. I employ a mixed-methods approach in two related studies. The first study is a quantitative analysis of the impact of laws against gendered employment-discrimination on women's participation in quality work. In the second study, I carry out a discourse analysis on country self-reports on their CEDAW implementation efforts. In an appendix, I apply the findings from both chapters to the context of Newfoundland and Labrador. The findings from this thesis suggest a need for reform to ensure that gender equality policies are adequately adapted to the cultural context.
CULTURAL COMPETENCE IN TEACHING ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE
Creators: name: Turganbaeva, Ayzada
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Cultural competence is essential in English as a Second Language (ESL) education, especially in today's increasingly globalized world where classrooms are more culturally diverse than ever. This article explores the pivotal role of cultural competence in ESL teaching, highlighting its impact on student engagement, learning styles, and language acquisition. It also addresses the challenges faced by educators in culturally diverse ESL settings, such as language barriers, differing educational expectations, and the use of culturally biased teaching materials. To overcome these challenges, the article offers strategies for developing cultural competence, including continuous professional development, using culturally relevant materials, adapting teaching styles, and fostering an inclusive and empathetic classroom environment.
Ein wenig Licht. Indagini filologiche sullo Schlangenritual di Aby Warburg
Creators: name: Vescovo, Piermario
Publisher: name: La Rivista di Engramma
Year: 2023
Subjects: Aby Warburg
Warburg Institute Archive
Serpente Ritual
Kreuzlingen
Wagenbach
Adelphi Publisher
Philology

description: In this contribution, Piermario Vescovo presents a philological reconstruction of the text of the lecture Bilder aus dem Gebiet der Pueblo-Indianer in Nord-Amerika, delivered by Aby Warburg in Kreuzlingen on 21 April 1923. Through the study of archival material, summarised with various examples, the author establishes the relationship between the drafts of the text that have come down to us and reconstructs the chronology of its composition.
WADcher: Public final report
Creators: name: Velasco, Carlos A
name: Mohamad, Yehya
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: WADcher, web accessibility, Web Accessibility Directive, WAD, European Union, European Commission, Horizon 2020, public sector, evaluation of websites

description: This document contains a summary of the results and scope of the WADcher project addressed to the general public. The project addresses the challenges people with various degrees of disabilities face when accessing mainstream online products and services, thus being excluded from benefiting from Web content and services on an equal basis as people without disabilities. Marginalising people with disabilities on this level is a critical and problematic issue, especially in today’s “Information Society”, where access to information should be equally available to all. While these challenges have been identified (also by the EC with the published Web Accessibility Directive (WAD), which entered into force on 22/12/2016), they have not yet been addressed efficiently. In this context and building on ongoing tools, WADcher researched, developed and demonstrated a set of innovative frameworks: an Observatory, a Decision Support Environment (DSE) and a Monitor Service, for large scale hybrid web accessibility assessment services and WAD compliance by implementing the monitoring, reporting and enforcement procedures of the WAD in all European public sector websites, while minimising costs and development-time along with increased scalability, accessibility and usability for all stakeholders, to enable “Web Access by Default”.