cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Microscopic examination of hot spots giving rise to nonlinearity in superconducting resonators
Creators: name: Kurter, Cihan
name: Zhuravel, Alexander P.
name: Ustinov, Alexey V.
name: Anlage, Steven M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the microscopic origins of nonlinear rf response in superconducting electromagnetic resonators. Strong nonlinearity appearing in the transmission spectra at high input powers manifests itself through the emergence of jumplike features near the resonant frequency that evolve toward lower quality factor with higher insertion loss as the rf input power is increased. We directly relate these characteristics to the dynamics of localized normal regions (hot spots) caused by microscopic features in the superconducting material making up the resonator. A clear observation of hot-spot formation inside a Nb thin film self-resonant structure is presented by employing the microwave laser scanning microscope, and a direct link between microscopic and macroscopic manifestations of nonlinearity is established.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Towards intra-operative dosimetry for prostate brachytherapy : improved seed detection and registration to ultrasound using needle detection
Creators: name: Lobo, Julio
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Errors in seed placement during low dose rate prostate brachytherapy can result in over-treating healthy tissue and/or under-treating cancer cells. In a standard treatment procedure, seeds are implanted according to a planned seed distribution. This pre-operative plan (pre-plan) is created using an ultrasound volume scan taken about two weeks earlier. Errors in seed placement can occur due to changes in prostate structure during those two weeks, and from seed displacement during and after the actual operation. This thesis presents methods of seed localization that are suitable for both postoperative and intra-operative use. The techniques can be applied to the imaging modalities used in the current operation setup to implement a method of intraoperative planning. This involves using Transrectal Ultrasound (TRUS) and C-arm X-ray Fluoroscopy (fluoro) data to monitor the seed positions relative to the current target volume during an operation. Towards this goal, an automatic method of assigning seeds to their corresponding insertion needle tracks has been developed to match seeds between modalities so that seed displacements can be computed. This method can be applied to measure intra-operative misplacement, by comparing the desired positions to the actual positions computed from fluoro data, or post-implant movement, comparing the fluoro seed positions to those from post-implant Computed Tomography (CT) data. For the intra-operative and post-implant data, 99.31% and 99.41% of the seeds were correctly assigned, respectively. An average intra-operative seed displacement of 4.94±2.42 mm and a further 2.97±1.81 mm of post-implant movement is measured. This information reveals several directional trends and can be used to preemptively correct the pre-operative plan (pre-plan).
title: Oberstenaffäre
title: Oberstenaffäre
Creators: name: Steiner, Sebastian
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: o.P. Schweiz / Gruppe für Generalstabsdienste
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: o.P. World War, 1914-1918
subject: Espionage
subject: Switzerland

description: The so-called “''Oberstenaffäre''” (colonel’s affair) was a political scandal in Switzerland which erupted after details of a close cooperation between Swiss, German, and Austro-Hungarian military intelligence agencies emerged during World War I. Between 1915 and 1916, the affair evolved into one of the most serious internal political crises in Switzerland and influenced the course of Swiss neutrality.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
On the lateral expansion of GRB jets
Creators: name: Granot, Jonathan
name: Piran, Tsvi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dynamics of GRB jets during the afterglow phase have an important effect on the interpretation of their observations and for inferring key physical parameters such as their true energy and event rate. Semi-analytic models generally predict a fast lateral expansion, where the jet opening angle asymptotically grows exponentially with its radius. Numerical simulations, however, show a much more modest lateral expansion, where the jet retains memory of its initial opening angle for a very long time, and the flow remains non-spherical until it becomes sub-relativistic, and only then gradually approaches spherical symmetry. Here we suggest a new analytic model based on a new physically derived recipe for the lateral expansion. We also generalize the model by relaxing the common approximations of ultra-relativistic motion and a narrow jet opening angle. We find that the new analytic model fits much better the results of numerical simulations, mainly because it remains valid also in the mildly relativistic, quasi spherical regime. This model shows that for modest initial jet half-opening angles, θ_0, the outflow is not sufficiently ultra-relativistic when its Lorentz factor reaches Γ= 1/θ_0 and therefore the sideways expansion is rather slow, showing no rapid, exponential phase. On the other hand, we find that jets with an extremely narrow initial half-opening angle, of about θ_0 << 10^{-1.5} or so, which are still sufficiently ultra-relativistic at Γ= 1/θ_0, do show a phase of rapid, exponential lateral expansion. However, even such jets that expand sideways exponentially are still not spherical when they become sub-relativistic.
description: 35 pages, 12 figures, accepted to MNRAS
title: Propaganda at Home and Abroad
title: Propaganda at Home and Abroad
Creators: name: Demm, Eberhard
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: o.P. Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: Propaganda
subject: o.P. World War, 1914-1918--Propaganda

description: This article summarizes and compares the principal arguments and strategies of propaganda at the home front, the military front, as well as in neutral and enemy countries. These included the Manichean approach, the ridiculing of the enemy, the use of scapegoats, the qualities of holding out, duty and sacrifice, the rewards promised for after the war, and the campaign against the enemy’s political and cultural conceptions. The techniques of oral and printed indoctrination and the difficult distribution of the propaganda in neutral and enemy countries will then be analysed. The indoctrination of three target groups is studied separately: the propaganda against “own” soldiers, the enemy’s soldiers and the enemy’s minorities. Finally, the article discusses the thorny question of the effects of propaganda.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Self-consistent initial conditions for primordial black hole formation
Creators: name: Polnarev, A. G.
name: Nakama, Tomohiro
name: Yokoyama, Jun'ichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For an arbitrary strong, spherically symmetric super-horizon curvature perturbation, we present analytical solutions of the Einstein equations in terms of asymptotic expansion over the ratio of the Hubble radius to the length-scale of the curvature perturbation under consideration. To obtain this solution we develop a recursive method of quasi-linearization which reduces the problem to a system of coupled ordinary differential equations for the $N$-th order terms in the asymptotic expansion with sources consisting of a non-linear combination of the lower order terms. We use this solution for setting initial conditions for subsequent numerical computations. For an arbitrary precision requirement predetermined by the intended accuracy and stability of the computer code, our analytical solution yields optimal truncated asymptotic expansion which can be used to find the upper limit on the moment of time when the initial conditions expressed in terms of such truncated expansion should be set. Examples of how these truncated (up to eighth order) solutions provide initial conditions with given accuracy for different radial profiles of curvature perturbations are presented.
description: 22 pages, 7 figures, 1 table; typos, references and remarks added
title: German Spring Offensives 1918
title: German Spring Offensives 1918
Creators: name: Watson, Alexander
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: o.P. Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: Kriegsende
subject: o.P. World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Western Front

description: The Spring Offensives of 1918 were Germany’s last attempt to defeat the British and French armies on the Western Front, and thereby win total victory. Their failure by the mid-summer left the German army fatally weakened, demoralized and facing its own imminent and inevitable defeat through an Allied counteroffensive.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Spin squeezing and Schrödinger cat generation in atomic samples with Rydberg blockade
Creators: name: Opatrný, Tomáš
name: Mølmer, Klaus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A scheme is proposed to prepare squeezed states and Schrödinger cat-like states of the collective spin degrees of freedom associated with a pair of ground states in an atomic ensemble. The scheme uses an effective Jaynes-Cummings interaction which can be provided by excitation of the atoms to Rydberg states and an effective J_x interaction implemented by a resonant Raman coupling between the atomic ground states. Both dynamical evolution with a constant Hamiltonian and with adiabatic variation of the two interaction terms are studied. We show that by the application of further resonant laser fields, we can suppress non-adiabatic transfer under the time varying Hamiltonian and significantly speed up the evolution towards a maximally squeezed, J_z=0, collective spin state.
description: 11 pages, 11 figures
Letter to the Financial Times on Intellectual Property Protection and Medicines
Creators: name: Bhagwati, Jagdish N.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2002
Subjects: Economics
Medical innovations
Trade regulation
Intellectual property
Developing countries

description: The debate on intellectual property protection and medicines for the poor countries is part of a general debate on “how much” intellectual protection there should be and whether it should have been built into the World Trade Organization. But it raises some issues specific to medicines, of course.
Self-similarity of temperature profiles in distant galaxy clusters: the quest for a Universal law
Creators: name: Baldi, Alessandro
name: Ettori, Stefano
name: Molendi, Silvano
name: Gastaldello, Fabio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the XMM-Newton temperature profiles of 12 bright clusters of galaxies at 0.4=0.6 as NCC clusters. The profiles of CC and NCC clusters differ mainly in the central regions, with the latters exhibiting a marginally flatter central profile. A significant dependence of the temperature profiles on the pseudo-entropy ratio sigma is detected by fitting a function of both r and sigma, showing an indication that the outer part of the profiles becomes steeper for higher values of sigma (i.e. transitioning towards the NCC clusters). No significant evidence of redshift evolution could be found within the redshift range sampled by our clusters (0.40.4 has been attempted, as we were able to define the closest possible relation to a Universal law for the temperature profiles of galaxy clusters at 0.1
description: 14 pages, 8 figures, A&A in press, minor changes (language editing)
An extension of the momentum transfer model to time-dependent pipe turbulence
Creators: name: Calzetta, Esteban
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze a possible extension of Gioia and Chakraborty's momentum transfer model of friction in steady turbulent pipe flows (Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 044502 (2006)) to the case of time and/or space dependent turbulent flows. The end result is an expression for the stress at the wall as the sum of an steady and a dynamic component. The steady part is obtained by using the instantaneous velocity in the expression for the stress at the wall of a stationary flow. The unsteady part is a weighted average over the history of the flow acceleration, with a weighting function similar to that proposed by Vardy and Brown (Journal of Sound and Vibration 259, 1011 (2003); ibid. 270, 233 (2004)), but naturally including the effect of spatial derivatives of the mean flow, as in the Brunone model (B. Brunone et al., J. of Water Resources Planning and Management 236 (2000)).
description: 15 pages. 2 figures (included) arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1005.0400
Supplementary Material for "Using equivalence class counts for fast and accurate testing of differential transcript usage"
Creators: name: Cmero, Marek
name: Davidson, Nadia
name: Oshlack, Alicia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: RNA-seq
differential transcript usage
equivalence class
transcript compatibility class
pseudo-alignment
DEXSeq
Salmon
Kallisto

description: Contains the Supplementary Figures and Tables for the paper: "Using equivalence class counts for fast and accurate testing of differential transcript usage".
Supplementary Material for "Fast and accurate differential transcript usage by testing equivalence class counts"
Creators: name: Cmero, Marek
name: Davidson, Nadia
name: Oshlack, Alicia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: RNA-seq
differential transcript usage
equivalence class
transcript compatibility class
pseudo-alignment
DEXSeq
Salmon
Kallisto

description: Contains the Supplementary Figures and Table for the paper: "Fast and accurate differential transcript usage by testing equivalence class counts".
Data and Analysis for Population structure and phenotypic variation of _Sclerotinia sclerotiorum_ from dry bean (_Phaseolus vulgaris_) in the United States
Creators: name: Everhart, Sydney E.
name: Steadman, James
name: McCoy, Serena
name: Rachana Jhala
name: Kamvar, Zhian Namir
name: Bimal Sajeewa Amaradasa
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: mycelial compatibility group
subject: white mold
subject: network analysis
subject: fungal genetics
subject: plant breeding
subject: dry bean
subject: agriculture
subject: plant pathogen
subject: population genetics
subject: microsatellite
subject: Phaseolus vulgaris
subject: Sclerotinia sclerotiorum
subject: clonality

description: A population genetic analysis of 366 isolates of _Sclerotinia sclerotiorum_ from 11 states in the USA, along with Australia, Mexico, and France.
Extending dark optical trapping geometries
Creators: name: Arnold, Aidan S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: New counter-propagating geometries are presented for localising ultracold atoms in the dark regions created by the interference of Laguerre-Gaussian laser beams. In particular dark helices, an 'optical revolver,' axial lattices of rings and axial lattices of ring lattices of rings are considered and a realistic scheme for achieving phase-stability is explored. The dark nature of these traps will enable their use as versatile tools for low-decoherence atom interferometry with zero differential light shifts.
description: 3 pages, 6 figures Modified to include referees' improvements
Using PV efficiency models with monitoring data to identify faults and degradation
Creators: name: Driesse, Anton
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2023

description: Reliably detection of abnormal operation and accurate quantification of gradual performance reductions are high on the wish-list of PV system owners and operators. Monitoring systems have been used for decades to take relevant measurements, then store and display the data so that human operators or computer algorithms could identify problems. The number of systems and amount of data has grown steadily so that most or all of this analysis now needs to be done by algorithms. 
Some form of comparison between actual and expected output power (or energy) is done in almost every analysis. Normally the actual output is measured, and the challenge is to quantify the expected output. Solutions range from simple key performance indicators (KPI) to complex parallel simulations and "digital twin" implementations. In general, the more complex solutions use more parameters to describe the PV system design and construction, and also need more input variables or measurements taken while the system operates, therefore simpler approaches still dominate the industry. 
The core of the PV system, the array of modules, has the most complex characteristics and is the most important element in determining the expected system output. Simulation models such as the single-diode model use multiple of parameters to describe this behaviour, but this represents an ideal behaviour of a new module which may not correspond exactly to the installed array. In this work we use another class of performance models referred to collectively as PV efficiency models, which serve to calculate expected PV module efficiency as a function of irradiance and temperature. The advantage of these models is that their parameters can be determined easily from different information sources: lab measurements according to IEC-61853-1, synthetic efficiency data generated by a more complex model, e.g. SDM, or field measurements. 
This paper takes a practical approach to incorporating a PV efficiency model into a PV system monitoring context to provide enhanced capabilities that detect both gradual and sudden changes in performance. Initial model parameters can be obtained using manufacturer or lab data, or an initial period of operation—or all three. This paves the way for distinguishing between multiple expectations: as-designed, as-built, and perhaps as-modified at a future date. Expectations can be checked in two ways: expected system output can be calculated and compared over time and compared, or the model can be fit progressively to see how its parameters evolve compared to the initial parameters. 
Fitting the models to operational data is the most challenging part and main focus of the paper. Different pre-processing (filtering, binning) and fitting techniques (robust, weighted, constrained) are explored in conjunction multiple published models. We find that these techniques need to be tuned for specific efficiency models, but some models are clearly more suitable for this application than others.
Halo statistics in non-Gaussian cosmologies: the collapsed fraction, conditional mass function, and halo bias from the path-integral excursion set method
Creators: name: D'Aloisio, Anson
name: Zhang, Jun
name: Jeong, Donghui
name: Shapiro, Paul R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Characterizing the level of primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG) in the initial conditions for structure formation is one of the most promising ways to test inflation and differentiate among different scenarios. The scale-dependent imprint of PNG on the large-scale clustering of galaxies and quasars has already been used to place significant constraints on the level of PNG in our observed Universe. Such measurements depend upon an accurate and robust theory of how PNG affects the bias of galactic halos relative to the underlying matter density field. We improve upon previous work by employing a more general analytical method - the path-integral extension of the excursion set formalism - which is able to account for the non-Markovianity caused by PNG in the random-walk model used to identify halos in the initial density field. This non-Markovianity encodes information about environmental effects on halo formation which have so far not been taken into account in analytical bias calculations. We compute both scale-dependent and -independent corrections to the halo bias, along the way presenting an expression for the conditional collapsed fraction for the first time, and a new expression for the conditional halo mass function. To leading order in our perturbative calculation, we recover the halo bias results of Desjacques et. al. (2011), including the new scale-dependent correction reported there. However, we show that the non-Markovian dynamics from PNG can lead to marked differences in halo bias when next-to-leading order terms are included. We quantify these differences here. [abridged]
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS. Includes minor revisions recommended by referee, slightly revised notation for clarity, and corrected typos
Ground interpolation for the theory of equality
Creators: name: Fuchs, Alexander
name: Goel, Amit
name: Grundy, Jim
name: Krstić, Sava
name: Tinelli, Cesare
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: D.2.4, F.3.1, F.4.1, I.2.3

description: Theory interpolation has found several successful applications in model checking. We present a novel method for computing interpolants for ground formulas in the theory of equality. The method produces interpolants from colored congruence graphs representing derivations in that theory. These graphs can be produced by conventional congruence closure algorithms in a straightforward manner. By working with graphs, rather than at the level of individual proof steps, we are able to derive interpolants that are pleasingly simple (conjunctions of Horn clauses) and smaller than those generated by other tools. Our interpolation method can be seen as a theory-specific implementation of a cooperative interpolation game between two provers. We present a generic version of the interpolation game, parametrized by the theory T, and define a general method to extract runs of the game from proofs in T and then generate interpolants from these runs.
Theory of tunneling spectroscopy for chiral topological superconductors
Creators: name: Ii, Akihiro
name: Yamakage, Ai
name: Yada, Keiji
name: Sato, Masatoshi
name: Tanaka, Yukio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the charge conductance of an interface between a normal metal and a superconducting quantum anomalous Hall system, based on the recursive Green's function. The angle resolved conductance gamma(ky, eV) with the momentum ky parallel to the interface and the bias voltage V shows a rich structure depending on the Chern number N of the system. We find that when the bias voltage is tuned to the energy dispersion of the edge mode, eV = Eedge(ky), the angle resolved conductance gamma(ky,Eedge(ky)) shows a pronounced even-odd effect; the conductance vanishes for N = 0 or 2 while it takes a universal value 2e^2/h for N = 1. In particular, in N = 2 phase, we find that the conductance gamma(ky,Eedge(ky)) becomes zero due to interference of two degenerate Majorana edge modes, although the corresponding surface spectral weight remains non-zero.
description: 10 pages, 10 figures
Random Walk Picture of Basketball Scoring
Creators: name: Gabel, Alan
name: Redner, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present evidence, based on play-by-play data from all 6087 games from the 2006/07--2009/10 seasons of the National Basketball Association (NBA), that basketball scoring is well described by a weakly-biased continuous-time random walk. The time between successive scoring events follows an exponential distribution, with little memory between different scoring intervals. Using this random-walk picture that is augmented by features idiosyncratic to basketball, we account for a wide variety of statistical properties of scoring, such as the distribution of the score difference between opponents and the fraction of game time that one team is in the lead. By further including the heterogeneity of team strengths, we build a computational model that accounts for essentially all statistical features of game scoring data and season win/loss records of each team.
description: 10 pages, 14 figures; version 2: 20 pages, 8 figures, for publication in Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports
La Transformation digitale : Une approche innovante pour l'optimisation de la supply chain : Cas des entreprises Souss Massa
Creators: name: HAMRI Hicham Mohammed
name: ECH-CHARRADY Wiam
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: La transformation digitale peut être considérée comme une approche innovante pour l'optimisation de la supply chain, en effet, grâce aux technologies numériques, il est possible de mieux suivre les flux de produits et d'informations tout au long de la chaîne d'approvisionnement. Cela permet une visibilité en temps réel sur les inventaires, les niveaux de stock, les commandes et les livraisons, de plus, la transformation digitale peut faciliter la communication entre les différents acteurs de la chaîne d'approvisionnement et améliorer la collaboration. La mise en place de plateformes numériques de partage de données peut permettre une meilleure planification des opérations, une anticipation des ruptures de stock, une amélioration de la qualité des prévisions et une optimisation des livraisons. En somme, la transformation digitale peut aider à augmenter l'efficacité et la performance de la supply chain.
Dans cette perspective, cet article tente de combler le manque d'informations entre les praticiens et les universitaires sur la Transformation digital, cette dernière est un processus complexe qui implique l'introduction de nouvelles technologies numériques dans les processus de l'entreprise pour améliorer la performance et l'efficacité. Il est donc important que les praticiens, et les universitaires collaborent et partagent leurs connaissances pour aider les entreprises à mettre en place une transformation digitale réussie. L'article vise à fournir des informations pratiques pour aider les praticiens à comprendre les concepts clés de la transformation digitale et les aider à prendre les décisions stratégiques nécessaires pour la mettre en œuvre. 
Les universitaires peuvent également en bénéficier en ayant un aperçu des défis et des tendances liés à la mise en place de la transformation digitale dans le monde des affaires.
Partant de l'hypothèse que la transformation digitale peut en effet être une approche innovante pour optimiser la supply chain, l'enquête est basée sur les réponses d'un échantillon de 10 entreprises opérant la région de Souss-Massa.
La problématique que nous pourrions explorer dans notre étude pourrait être la suivante :
"Dans quelle mesure la transformation digitale peut-elle être une approche innovante et efficace pour l'optimisation de la supply chain des entreprises de la région Souss Massa, et quels sont les défis spécifiques rencontrés dans son implémentation ?"
Pour répondre à cette problématique, nous avons choisi une approche quantitative, en fait, nous avons essayé de collecter des données à travers des questionnaires, nous avons ensuite analysé les résultats collectés sur la base de plusieurs statistiques de méthode.
Mid-IR FORCAST/SOFIA Observations of M82
Creators: name: Nikola, T.
name: Herter, T. L.
name: Vacca, W. D.
name: Adams, J. D.
name: De Buizer, J. M.
name: Gull, G. E.
name: Henderson, C. P.
name: Keller, L. D.
name: Morris, M. R.
name: Schoenwald, J.
name: Stacey, G.
name: Tielens, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present 75"x75" size maps of M82 at 6.4 micron, 6.6 micron, 7.7 micron, 31.5 micron, and 37.1 micron with a resolution of ~4" that we have obtained with the mid-IR camera FORCAST on SOFIA. We find strong emission from the inner 60" (~1kpc) along the major axis, with the main peak 5" west-southwest of the nucleus and a secondary peak 4" east-northeast of the nucleus. The detailed morphology of the emission differs among the bands, which is likely due to different dust components dominating the continuum emission at short mid-IR wavelengths and long mid-IR wavelengths. We include Spitzer-IRS and Herschel/PACS 70 micron data to fit spectral energy distribution templates at both emission peaks. The best fitting templates have extinctions of A_V = 18 and A_V = 9 toward the main and secondary emission peak and we estimated a color temperature of 68 K at both peaks from the 31 micron and 37 micron measurement. At the emission peaks the estimated dust masses are on the order of 10^{4} M_sun.
description: ApJL in press (ApJ, 749, L19), article also available at at http://stacks.iop.org/2041-8205/749/L19
Additional file 2 of Comparison of the efficacy of hematopoietic stem cell mobilization regimens: a systematic review and network meta-analysis of preclinical studies
Creators: name: Luo, Chengxin
name: Wang, Li
name: Wu, Guixian
name: Huang, Xiangtao
name: Zhang, Yali
name: Ma, Yanni
name: Xie, Mingling
name: Sun, Yanni
name: Huang, Yarui
name: Huang, Zhen
name: Song, Qiuyue
name: Li, Hui
name: Hou, Yu
name: Li, Xi
name: Xu, Shuangnian
name: Chen, Jieping
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 2: Supplementary Table 2. Risk of bias assessment using the SYRCLE tool.
title: Mobilizing feminism: a feminist policy analysis of Canada’s commitment to the women, peace and security agenda
Creators: name: Maxwell-Campagna, Katia
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04haebc03
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: The purpose of this thesis is to understand how feminism is mobilized in Canada’s commitment to the Women, Peace and Security Agenda. It also aims to assess whether Canada’s commitment to WPS reproduces or challenges race, gender, and sexuality norms globally, and if it is influenced by hegemonic masculine and heteropatriarchal norms in international relations. To do so, I conducted a feminist critical discourse analysis using a set of questions adapted from Beverly A. McPhail’s (2003) Feminist Policy Analysis Framework. More specifically, I analyzed how feminism is mobilized in three policy documents–Canada’s National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security 2017-2022; Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy (FIAP) Action Area Six: Peace and Security; Canada’s Defence Policy Strong, Secure, Engaged; and the Elsie Initiative for Women in Peace Operations. Through this analysis, I found that Canada’s commitment reflects a neoliberal feminist framework that promotes the empowerment of women and girls as a means for improved economic development and stable peace processes. While it does display a kind of feminism, it does not utilize a transformative approach that feminist theorists have theorized and recommended, which I also endorse in this thesis. I conclude by suggesting that the Government of Canada should work towards integrating the recommendations of feminist scholars to include gender perspectives in policymaking that encourage a more intersectional feminist approach.
Gluon fusion contribution to W+W- + jet production
Creators: name: Melia, Tom
name: Melnikov, Kirill
name: Rontsch, Raoul
name: Schulze, Markus
name: Zanderighi, Giulia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe the computation of the $gg \to W^+W^-g$ process that contributes to the production of two $W$-bosons and a jet at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). While formally of next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in QCD, this process can be evaluated separately from the bulk of NNLO QCD corrections because it is finite and gauge-invariant. It is also enhanced by the large gluon flux and by selection cuts employed in the Higgs boson searches in the decay channel $ H \to W^+W^-$, as was first pointed out by Binoth {\it et al.} in the context of $gg \to W^+W^-$ production. For cuts employed by the ATLAS collaboration, we find that the gluon fusion contribution to $pp \to W^+W^-j$ enhances the background by about ten percent and can lead to moderate distortions of kinematic distributions which are instrumental for the ongoing Higgs boson searches at the LHC. We also release a public code to compute the NLO QCD corrections to this process, in the form of an add-on to the package {\tt MCFM}.
description: 13 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables
Van der Waals interaction in magnetic bilayer graphene nanoribbons
Creators: name: Santos, H.
name: Ayuela, A.
name: Chico, L.
name: Artacho, Emilio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the interaction energy between two graphene nanoribbons by first principles calculations, including van der Waals interactions and spin polarization. For ultranarrow zigzag nanoribbons, the direct stacking is even more stable than Bernal, competing in energy for wider ribbons. This behavior is due to the magnetic interaction between edge states. We relate the reduction of the magnetization in zigzag nanoribbons with increasing ribbon width to the structural changes produced by the magnetic interaction, and show that when deposited on a substrate, zigzag bilayer ribbons remain magnetic for larger widths.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures
From Greensands to Green Technology: Examination of Carbon Dioxide Storage Potential in Glauconitic Sandstones
Creators: name: Zhang, Qin
Publisher: name: Science
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: glauconite
subject: siderite
subject: mineral carbonation
subject: CO2 storage
subject: climate solution
subject: mineral kinetics
subject: Education--Sciences

description: Glauconite is a divalent cation-bearing mineral abundant in sedimentary rocks and hydrocarbon reservoirs worldwide, and it may be important for ongoing efforts to geologically store anthropogenic CO2. Since glauconite naturally contains both Fe(II) and Fe(III) in its mineral structure, it can also be leveraged to constrain paleoenvironmental redox conditions. Nevertheless, because of its complex mineralogy and redox sensitivity, thermodynamic and kinetic properties of glauconite have been difficult to constrain. This thesis has been devoted to fill this significant knowledge gap. Chapter 2 contains a detailed evaluation of the mechanisms through which carbonate minerals naturally replace glauconite during diagenesis of glauconitic sandstones from the Mannville Group in Alberta, Canada. Using a combination of petrological and geochemical analyses, we show that glauconite carbonation is a reduction-facilitated, coupled glauconite recrystallization and siderite precipitation reaction, which is accompanied by a significant reduction of Fe. These results suggest that geochemical conditions, most importantly, temperature, partial pressure of CO2, and fluid redox state were thermodynamically favorable for glauconite carbonation during burial diagenesis of Mannville Group glauconitic sandstones. Chapter 3 quantifies the far-from-equilibrium rates of glauconite dissolution using a novel experimental apparatus specifically designed to explore mineral dissolution kinetics under strictly anaerobic conditions. Steady-state glauconite dissolution rates were measured at varying pH from 1.7 to 11.2 and temperature from 24 to 80 °C. The experimental results show stoichiometric or close-to-stoichiometric glauconite dissolution for Fe, Mg and Si. In comparison to previous studies, we emphasize that the mechanism of glauconite dissolution is determined by redox condition and temperature, and the dissolution rates are pH-dependent in acidic conditions and pH-independent in natural to basic pH. Chapter 4 uses calculations based on 11,652 well logs to show that glauconitic sandstones offer significant and previously overlooked potential for sedimentary reservoir-based mineral carbonation. Our results demonstrate that hundreds of gigatons of CO2 could be sequestered by carbonating the immense quantity of glauconite underlying Alberta, Canada alone. Together, these findings suggest that glauconite had been underestimated both in terms of availability and reactivity, and these new findings provide important insights to re-evaluate CO2 storage in sedimentary basins.
title: The public personage as protagonist in the novels of Anthony Burgess
Creators: name: Levings, Anthony
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2021

description: When Anthony Burgess began writing novels that contained public personages as protagonists (Nothing Like the Sun, MF, Napoleon Symphony, ABBA ABBA, Earthly Powers, The End of the World News, Mozart and the Wolf Gang, A Dead Man in Deptford) in the latter half of the twentieth century, the challenge was to move away from (or re-manipulate) modernism but at the same time avoid a straightforward return to nineteenth-century (historical) realism. However, recognition and understanding of the way in which history is incorporated into the novel has changed dramatically over the last four decades. Burgess must now be read not only against earlier novelists, theorists and philosophers (particular examples being James Joyce, Roland Barthes and Kant), but also against a whole body of work by writers such as Salman Rushdie, Umberto Eco, John Banville and Giinter Grass, as well as theorists such as Linda Hutcheon, Hayden White, Thomas M. Greene and, once again, Umberto Eco, to name but a few. For these writers have pushed the boundaries of how history is understood. In performing such a reading, the thesis does not seek to categorize Burgess but instead identify, for example, his construction of possible worlds, his insertion of purposeful and creative anachronisms, his use of all manner of unexpected tropes and imaginings; each of which breaks from realism in unusual ways in order to achieve a better sense of reality. Through this approach it is hoped that the reader will begin to understand the range contained within these novel histories centred on public personages, and also that Burgess is a twentieth-century reminder of the challenges to literature that are to be found in the portrayal of historical figures, an art that has a history as long as literature itself. Above all, at the core of the thesis is the belief that the works discussed are not biographies, but are fictional novels that contain public personages as protagonists and actual events. This is because of the ways in which they play with the flaws of language, and among many other things, expose the often two-dimensional nature of biography and theory when applied to the world. Although biography has become increasingly sensitized to these issues, fiction can play with them more freely and innovate more readily, and Burgess's novels are an illustration of this.
The QCD scattering amplitude from area behaved Wilson loops
Creators: name: Makeenko, Y.
name: Olesen, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explicitly construct the dominant saddle-point trajectory in the sum-over-path representation of meson scattering amplitudes in large $N$ QCD for area-behaved Wilson loops and show that it dominates in the Regge regime. The graphic representation of the leading trajectory is very similar to the diagrams widely used to illustrate meson scattering.
description: 4pp., 1 figure; v2: references added, v3: minor corrections, v4: published in PLB
Turbulent flow behaviors on thermal enhancement in a circular tube heat exchanger equipped with sinusoidal baffles
Creators: name: P. Promthaisong
name: S. Suwannapan
Publisher: name: Thai Society of Mechanical Engineers (TSME)
Year: 2018
Subjects: Sinusoidal baffle
Turbulent flow
Nusselt number
Friction factor
Thermal enhancement factor

description: Journal of Research and Applications in Mechanical Engineering (JRAME), 6, 2, 95-112
The effect of static and dynamic loading to femoral bone by finite element analysis
Creators: name: K. Chalernphon
name: P. Aroonjarattham
name: K. Aroonjarattham
name: C. Somtua
Publisher: name: Thai Society of Mechanical Engineers (TSME)
Year: 2018
Subjects: Dynamic loading
static loading
femoral bone
finite element analysis

description: Journal of Research and Applications in Mechanical Engineering (JRAME), 6, 2, 113-130
Pancreatic ductal-derived mesenchymal stem cells : their distribution, characterization and cytotoxic effect on pancreatic cancer cells
Creators: name: Roshan Moniri, Mani
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have attracted significant attention in cancer research as a result of their accessibility, tumor-oriented homing capacity, and the feasibility of auto-transplantation. This study detected the sensitivity of pancreatic cancer cell lines (PCCs) to pancreatic-derived, engineered MSCs under different culture conditions. Pancreatic ductal tissue was extracted from adult human pancreas. MSCs were derived and expanded ex-vivo and verified to fulfil criteria for human MSCs according to the guidelines of the International Society for Cellular Therapy. MSCs were analyzed for distribution and migratory capacity to the site of pancreas and PCCs in in vivo and in vitro models, and found to have homing capacity to the pancreas and towards PCCs (MSCs were attracted to all PCCs compared to normal human A1F8 cells and they displayed significant attraction to the media obtained from cancer cells compared to normal media (p<0.05)). PCCs (BXPC3, ASPC1, Panc-1, TRM6 and HP62) were analyzed by FACS for TNF-α Related Apoptosis Inducing Ligand (TRAIL) receptors. MSCs engineered with non-secreting TRAIL (MSCnsTRAIL) and secreting TRAIL (MSCstTRAIL) and PTEN (MSCPTEN) were used for both direct and indirect co-cultures. TRAIL/PTEN expression was assessed by both ELISA and western blot analysis; higher molecular weight was observed in the MSCnsTRAIL (56kDA) compared with MSCstTRAIL (26kDa). The TRAIL content of supernanatats from MSCstTRAIL was significantly higher than MSCnsTRAIL (p<0.05). PTEN-RFP fusion protein showed a higher molecular weight of 74 kDa in comparison with endogenous PTEN (47 kDa). A real time detection of MSCs cytotoxicity on PCCs displayed proportional cancer cell death to the ratio of conditioned media used from MSCnsTRAIL, MSCstTRAIL, and MSCPTEN. Naive MSCs exhibit intrinsic cytotoxic effect on pancreatic cancer cells and this effect was potentiated by TRAIL/PTEN-engineering. This study provides a practical platform for the development of MSC-based therapy for pancreatic cancer.
title: Eoghan MacGilleoin, Mr Lachlann Campbell, and Col. Cailean Campbell: Manuscript production in Kintyre c. 1690-1698
Creators: name: Fatzinger, Danielle Kathryn
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2021

description: This thesis is a study of the production of four Gaelic manuscripts in Kintyre, Argyll, Scotland from 1690-1698. These were written by scribe Eoghan MacGilleoin (Hugh MacLean) for two patrons, Colonel Cailean Campbell of the Campbells of Kilberry (d. 1714) and Mr Lachlann Campbell (1675-1708), son of Iain Campbell of Kildalloig. The manuscripts were produced at a key moment in the transition of literary production within the classical Gaelic tradition, once shared with Gaelic Ireland, and a modern Scottish Gaelic vernacular tradition. This thesis argues that MacGilleoin, whose skill as a scribe has been dismissed in scholarship, is in fact a quality scribe influenced by the contemporary linguistic and literary transitions between the older classical Gaelic tradition and emerging standards of written Scottish Gaelic. Furthermore, MacGilleoin’s manuscripts include unique copies of poems and prose tales and represent a significant portion of the surviving corpus of Early Modern Scottish Gaelic manuscripts. To understand how and why MacGilleoin’s manuscripts were produced, they must be contextualised within details of their patrons’ lives and contemporary manuscript culture. The study utilises an interdisciplinary approach. Both literary and historical approaches are used through thematic analysis, close-reading, and comparison of texts alongside use of hitherto unpublished archival materials, including estate papers and Church records, to build a well-rounded picture of the patrons’ lives and the manuscripts’ contents. The analysis reveals continuing interaction between Gaelic communities in Ulster and Argyll and connections to England, Wales, and the European continent. Mr Lachlann is shown to be an amateur Gaelic scholar, part of a wider European scholarly culture. He participated in the production and transmission of Gaelic texts and manuscripts and corresponded with the pioneering antiquarian and Celtic scholar Edward Lhuyd. Col. Cailean’s manuscripts are shown to contain a variety of texts which reflect his political and social cultures, such as poems in support of the Marquis of Argyll, religious and moral poetry, prose tales from the Finn and Ulster Cycles, and poems about women. Altogether, the manuscripts, scribe, and patrons help reappraise and re-evaluate our understanding of late seventeenth-century scribal activity in Gaelic-speaking Kintyre.
Minimax optimization of entanglement witness operator for the quantification of three-qubit mixed-state entanglement
Creators: name: Ryu, Sungguen
name: Lee, Seung-Sup B.
name: Sim, H. -S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a numerical approach for quantifying entanglement in mixed quantum states by convex-roof entanglement measures, based on the optimal entanglement witness operator and the minimax optimization method. Our approach is applicable to general entanglement measures and states and is an efficient alternative to the conventional approach based on the optimal pure-state decomposition. Compared with the conventional one, it has two important merits: (i) that the global optimality of the solution is quantitatively verifiable, and (ii) that the optimization is considerably simplified by exploiting the common symmetry of the target state and measure. To demonstrate the merits, we quantify Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) entanglement in a class of three-qubit full-rank mixed states composed of the GHZ state, the W state, and the white noise, the simplest mixtures of states with different genuine multipartite entanglement, which have not been quantified before this work. We discuss some general properties of the form of the optimal witness operator and of the convex structure of mixed states, which are related to the symmetry and the rank of states.