cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Assessing the Model Fit of Multidimensional Item Response Theory Models with Polytomous Responses Using Limited-Information Statistics
Creators: name: Li, Caihong Rosina
Publisher: name: University of Kentucky Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Abstract:
Under item response theory, three types of limited information goodness-of-fit test statistics – M2, Mord, and C2 – have been proposed to assess model-data fit when data are sparse. However, the evaluation of the performance of these GOF statistics under multidimensional item response theory (MIRT) models with polytomous data is limited. The current study showed that M2 and C2 were well-calibrated under true model conditions and were powerful under misspecified model conditions. Mord were not well-calibrated when the number of response categories was more than three. RMSEA2 and RMSEAC2 are good tools to evaluate approximate fit.
The second study aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Religious Commitment Inventory-10 (RCI-10; Worthington et al., 2003) within the IRT framework and estimate C2 and its RMSEA to assess global model-fit. Results showed that the RCI-10 was best represented by a bifactor model. The scores from the RCI-10 could be scored as unidimensional notwithstanding the presence of multidimensionality. Two-factor correlational solution should not be used. Study two also showed that religious commitment is a risk factor of intimate partner violence, whereas spirituality was a protecting factor from the violence. More alcohol was related with more abusive behaviors. Implications of the two studies were discussed.
Caihong Li's ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7790-5436
Copyright: © Caihong Rosina Li 2018
Funding information: Applied Psychometric Strategies (APS) Lab, P20 Motivation and Learning Lab, Robinson Scholarship Program, Center for Research on Violence Against Women, Quantitative and Psychometric Methods (QPM) program, Educational Psychology (EDP) program, College of Education
"Apports à l'histoire de la consommation, de la production et de la diffusion des céramiques dans le Sud-Ouest de la France au 18e s.", dans Céramique landaise. L'artisanat et l'industrie de la céramique dans le département des Landes aux XIXe et XXe siècles, Mont-de-Marsan, ALDRES, 2006, pp. 5-12.
Creators: name: Duhart, Frédéric
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Material Culture
Consumption History
History of Food
Cooking Technics
Ceramics
Protoindustry
Tableware
Fashion
Folk Art

description: Fondée sur l’exploitation d’un corpus varié, au sein duquel l’inventaire après décès côtoie le livre de raison, et l’examen des reliquats du passé (qu’ils soient de modestes tessons ou des pièces qui ont triomphé des ans), l’histoire de la consommation des céramiques épulaires et culinaires peut s’avérer fort utile à la compréhension des processus de production et de diffusion de ces produits qui participent pleinement à la grande mutation des objets du XVIIIe siècle : dans le vaste sud-ouest de la France qui nous occupe ici, une approche par la consommation autorise une réflexion sur le dynamisme de petits centres locaux et sur la variété de la production de manufactures plus considérables, tout en apportant des éléments de réponse à la délicate question de la pénétration des productions extérieures à la région. En introduisant la variable sociale, l’histoire de la consommation affine aussi l’approche des phénomènes de diffusion propres à chacun des différents types de céramiques.
Public hearing before Assembly Corrections, Health and Human Services Committee on Assembly Bill 1262, "New Jersey Conservation Corps Act"
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1983

description: Transcript of the public hearing before Assembly Corrections, Health and Human Services Committee on Assembly Bill 1262, "New Jersey Conservation Corps Act"  Held: April 21, 1983Assembly ChamberState HouseTrenton, New Jersey
Cohesion and Repulsion in Bayesian Distance Clustering
Creators: name: Natarajan, Abhinav
name: De Iorio, Maria
name: Heinecke, Andreas
name: Mayer, Emanuel
name: Glenn, Simon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Clustering in high-dimensions poses many statistical challenges. While traditional distance-based clustering methods are computationally feasible, they lack probabilistic interpretation and rely on heuristics for estimation of the number of clusters. On the other hand, probabilistic model-based clustering techniques often fail to scale and devising algorithms that are able to effectively explore the posterior space is an open problem. Based on recent developments in Bayesian distance-based clustering, we propose a hybrid solution that entails defining a likelihood on pairwise distances between observations. The novelty of the approach consists in including both cohesion and repulsion terms in the likelihood, which allows for cluster identifiability. This implies that clusters are composed of objects which have small "dissimilarities" among themselves (cohesion) and similar dissimilarities to observations in other clusters (repulsion). We show how this modelling strategy has interesting connection with existing proposals in the literature as well as a decision-theoretic interpretation. The proposed method is computationally efficient and applicable to a wide variety of scenarios. We demonstrate the approach in a simulation study and an application in digital numismatics.
description: 1 supplementary PDF attached. To view the supplementary PDF, please download the attachment under "Ancilliary Files"
Von Feuerbach bis Bredekamp. Zur Geschichte zeitgenössischer Bilddiskurse. Teil 1: Das 19. und beginnende 20. Jahrhundert
Creators: name: Paul, Gerhard
Publisher: name: ZZF - Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam e.V.
Year: 2019

description: Von Beginn an wurde das „visuelle Zeitalter“ von Diskursen über Sinn und Unsinn, über Wert und Unwert der jeweils neuen visuellen Erfindungen begleitet – und dies sowohl im Wort als auch im Bild selbst. Diese Diskurse können geradezu als ein Charakteristikum des „visuellen Zeitalters“ gelten. Wissenschaftler beteiligten sich an ihnen ebenso wie Publizisten, Maler und Fotografen. Ihre Stellungnahmen waren sachlicher wie polemischer, systematischer wie sporadischer Art. Fast schon stereotyp finden sich hier Begriffe und Metaphern wie die der „Bilderflut“ und der „müßigen Schaulust“. Erst in den letzten beiden Jahrzehnten scheinen sich die Diskurse versachlicht und institutionalisiert zu haben.
On the Augmented Zagreb Index
Creators: name: Ali, Akbar
name: Raza, Zahid
name: Bhatti, Akhlaq Ahmad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Topological indices play an important role in mathematical chemistry especially in the quantitative structure-property relationship (QSPR) and quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR). Recent research indicates that the augmented Zagreb index (AZI) possess the best correlating ability among several topological indices. The main purpose of the current study is to establish some mathematical properties of this index, or more precisely, to report tight bounds for the AZI of chemical bicyclic and chemical unicyclic graphs. A Nordhaus-Gaddum-type result for the AZI (of connected graph whose complement is connected) is also derived.
description: 13 pages, 3 figures
Pulmonary distribution and efficacy of exogenous surfactant in lung-lavaged rabbits are influenced by the instillation technique
Creators: name: Segerer, Hugo
name: van Gelder, W.
name: Angenent, F. W.
name: van Woerkens, L. J.
name: Curstedt, T.
name: Obladen, M.
name: Lachmann, B.
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: 610 Medizin
subject: 1,2-Dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine/pharmacokinetics
subject: Animals
subject: Biological Products
subject: Carbon Radioisotopes
subject: Instillation, Drug
subject: Lung/physiology
subject: Male
subject: Microspheres
subject: Phospholipids
subject: Positive-Pressure Respiration
subject: Pulmonary Surfactants/pharmacokinetics
subject: Rabbits
subject: Systole
subject: Therapeutic Irrigation

description: Surfactant bolus instillation has been reported to cause changes in arterial blood pressure (BP) and cerebral blood flow velocities which may increase the risk of intraventricular haemorrhage. To avoid these effects, slow tracheal infusion was evaluated as a possible alternative method of surfactant administration. Saline lung lavages were performed in 13 anesthetized and artificially ventilated adult rabbits to produce respiratory distress syndrome. Curosurf (CS, 200 mg/kg) labeled with 14C-dipalmitoyl-phosphatidylcholine (-DPPC) and/or red microspheres (RMS) was instilled into the trachea either as a single bolus (n = 8) or by infusion during 45 min via a side-channel within the wall of the tracheal tube (n = 5). An arterial cannula was placed for monitoring of blood gases and BP. To determine surfactant distribution, the lungs were cut into 60-70 pieces and radioactivity and/or the number of RMS were measured in each piece. The distribution of RMS was closely related to the distribution of 14C-DPPC (r = 0.96). Bolus instillation of CS led to a prompt and sustained increase in PaO2 (from < 10.5 to > 40 kPa within 2 min), a transient decrease in BP, and a reasonably homogeneous pulmonary surfactant distribution. Tracheal infusion of CS changed neither BP nor PaO2 during the observation period of 60 min. The pulmonary distribution of CS was extremely uneven after infusion. The distribution of exogenous surfactant and its effects on gas exchange are influenced by the instillation method. An inadequate instillation technique may add to the causes of "poor response" after surfactant replacement.
Sampling Artifact in Volume Weighted Velocity Measurement.--- I. Theoretical Modelling
Creators: name: Zhang, Pengjie
name: Zheng, Yi
name: Jing, Yipeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cosmology based on large scale peculiar velocity preferes volume weighted velocity statistics. However, measuring the volume weighted velocity statistics from inhomogeneously distributed galaxies (simulation particles/halos) suffer from an inevitable and significant sampling artifact. We study this sampling artifact in the velocity power spectrum measured by the nearest-particle (NP) velocity assignment method(Zheng et al. 2013, PRD). We derive the analytical expression of leading and higher order terms. We find that the sampling artifact suppresses the $z=0$ E-mode velocity power spectrum by $\sim 10\%$ at $k=0.1h/$Mpc , for samples with number density $10^{-3}({\rm Mpc}/h)^{-3}$. This suppression becomes larger for larger $k$ and for sparser samples. We argue that, this source of systematic errors in peculiar velocity cosmology, albeit severe, can be self-calibrated in the framework of our theoretical modelling. We also work out the sampling artifact in the density-velocity cross power spectrum measurement. More robust evaluation of related statistics through simulations will be presented in a companion paper (Zheng, Zhang & Jing, 2015, PRD). We also argue that similar sampling artifact exists in other velocity assignment methods and hence must be carefully corrected to avoid systematic bias in peculiar velocity cosmology.
description: v1: 11 pages, 3 figures.. v2: minor revisions. matched the published version on PRD
Application of the effective Fisher matrix to the frequency domain inspiral waveforms
Creators: name: Cho, Hee-Suk
name: Lee, Chang-Hwan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Fisher matrix (FM) has been generally used to predict the accuracy of the gravitational wave parameter estimation. Although a limitation of the FM has been well known, it is still mainly used due to its very low computational cost compared to the Monte Carlo simulations. Recently, Rodriguez et al. [Phys. Rev. D 88, 084013 (2013)] performed Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) simulations for nonspinning binary systems with total masses $M \leq 20 M_{\odot}$, they found systematic differences between the predictions from FM and MCMC for $M>10 M_{\odot}$. On the other hand, an effective Fisher matrix (eFM) was recently introduced by Cho et al. [Phys. Rev. D 87, 24004 (2013)]. The eFM is a semi-analytic approach to the standard FM, in which the partial derivative is taken by a quadratic fitting function to the local overlap surface. In this work, we apply the eFM method to several nonspinning binary systems and find that the error bounds in eFM are qualitatively in good agreement with the MCMC results of Rodriguez et al. in all mass regions. In particular, we provide concrete examples showing an importance of taking into account the template-dependent frequency cutoff of the inspiral waveforms.
description: 13 pages, 5figures; final version accepted for publication in CQG; changed significantly from v2
Efficient exploration of reionization parameters for the upcoming 21 cm observations using a photon conserving semi-numerical model SCRIPT
Creators: name: Maity, Barun
name: Choudhury, Tirthankar Roy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the most promising probes to constrain the reionization history of the universe is the power spectrum of neutral hydrogen 21 cm emission fluctuations. The corresponding analyses require computationally efficient modelling of reionization, usually achieved through semi-numerical simulations. We investigate the capability of one such semi-numerical code, SCRIPT, to constrain the reionization parameters. Our study involves creating a mock data set corresponding to the upcoming SKA-Low, followed by a Bayesian inference method to constrain the model parameters. In particular, we explore in detail whether the inferred parameters are unbiased with respect to the inputs used for the mock, and also if the inferences are insensitive to the resolution of the simulation. We find that the model is successful on both fronts. We also develop a simple template model of reionization which can mimic the complex physical processes like inhomogeneous recombinations and radiative feedback and show that it can recover the global reionization history reliably with moderate computational cost. However, such simple models are not suitable for constraining the properties of the ionizing sources. Our results are relevant for constraining reionization using high-quality data expected in future telescopes.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Crossing numbers and combinatorial characterization of monotone drawings of $K_n$
Creators: name: Balko, Martin
name: Fulek, Radoslav
name: Kynčl, Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 05C10

description: In 1958, Hill conjectured that the minimum number of crossings in a drawing of $K_n$ is exactly $Z(n) = \frac{1}{4} \lfloor\frac{n}{2}\rfloor \left\lfloor\frac{n-1}{2}\right\rfloor \left\lfloor\frac{n-2}{2}\right\rfloor\left\lfloor\frac{n-3}{2}\right\rfloor$. Generalizing the result by Ábrego et al. for 2-page book drawings, we prove this conjecture for plane drawings in which edges are represented by $x$-monotone curves. In fact, our proof shows that the conjecture remains true for $x$-monotone drawings of $K_n$ in which adjacent edges may cross an even number of times, and instead of the crossing number we count the pairs of edges which cross an odd number of times. We further discuss a generalization of this result to shellable drawings, a notion introduced by Ábrego et al. We also give a combinatorial characterization of several classes of $x$-monotone drawings of complete graphs using a small set of forbidden configurations. For a similar local characterization of shellable drawings, we generalize Carathéodory's theorem to simple drawings of complete graphs.
description: 43 pages, 30 figures; minor changes, three additional references
Circular Geodesics in the Kerr-Newman-Taub-NUT Space-time
Creators: name: Pradhan, Parthapratim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we investigate the equatorial causal (time-like and null) circular geodesics of the Kerr-Newman-Taub-NUT(Newman-Unti-Tamburino) black hole in four dimensional Lorentzian geometry. The special characteristics of this black hole is that it is of \emph{Petrov-Pirani type D} and the photon trajectories are \emph{doubly degenerate principal null congruence}. We derive the conditions for existence of innermost stable circular orbit, marginally bound circular orbit and circular photon orbit in the background of Kerr-Newman-Taub-NUT(KNTN) space-time. The effective potential for both time-like case and null cases have been studied. It is shown that the \emph{presence of the NUT parameter deforms the shape of the effective potential in contrast with the zero NUT parameter}. We further investigate the energy extraction by the Penrose process for this space-time. It is shown that the efficiency of this black hole depends on both the charge and NUT parameter. It is observed that the energy gain is maximum when NUT parameter goes to zero value and for the maximum spin value. When the value of NUT parameter is increasing the energy-gain is decreasing.
description: Accepted in Classical Quantum Gravity, 18/06/2015, Some 3D figures could not be submitted due to arxiv submission problem this could be found in Journal version
Hamiltonian formalism for Fermi excitations in a plasma with a non-Abelian interaction
Creators: name: Markov, Yu. A.
name: Markova, M. A.
name: Markov, N. Yu.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Hamiltonian theory for the collective longitudinally polarized colorless gluon excitations (plasmons) and for collective quark-antiquark excitations with abnormal relation between chirality and helicity (plasminos) in a high-temperature quark-gluon plasma (QGP) is developed. For this purpose, Zakharov's forma\-lism for constructing the wave theory in nonlinear media with dispersion is used. A generalization of the Poisson superbracket involving both commuting and anticommuting variables to the case of a continuous medium is performed and the corresponding Hamilton equations are presented. The canonical transformations including simultaneously both bosonic and fermionic degrees of freedom of the collective excitations in QGP are discussed and a complete system of the canonicity conditions for these transformations is written out. An explicit form of the effective fourth-order Hamiltonians describing the elastic scattering of plasmino off plasmino and plasmino off plasmon is found and the Boltzmann type kinetic equations describing the processes of elastic scattering are obtained. A detailed comparison of the effective amplitudes defined within the (pseudo)classical Hamiltonian theory, with the corresponding matrix elements calcu\-la\-ted early in the framework of high-temperature quantum chromodynamics in the so-called hard thermal loop approximation is performed. This enables one to obtain, in particular, an explicit form of the vertex and coefficient functions in the effective amplitudes and in the canonical transformations, correspondingly, and also to define the validity of a purely pseudoclassical approach in the Hamiltonian description of the dynamics of a quark-gluon plasma. The problem of determining the higher-order coefficient functions in the canonical transformations of fermionic and bosonic normal variables is considered.
description: 72 pages, 2 figures, Introduction and Conclusion are expanded, few typos corrected, references added, the version published in Int.J.Mod.Phys.A
Analysis of Availability Using Virtual Machine Placement Algorithms for Cloud IaaS
Creators: name: Ammanuel Shawel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Cloud Computing paradigm is most popular for its flexibility in resource provisioning by creating virtual machines of the requested specification on the underlying physical infrastructure. Infrastructure-as-a-Service, which requires a provider to allocate virtual machines (VMs), has significant impact on the availability of accommodated applications. Due to this, several algorithms have been proposed for the VM placement problem with little or no objective comparison hiding the fact which one works best or what factors influence the availability of the algorithms. In this thesis work, comparison of four algorithms using metrics of availability is presented. The findings showed that the impact of VM placement algorithms along with memory and CPU utilization play an important role in maintaining the availability of IaaS for cloud
Geotagging One Hundred Million Twitter Accounts with Total Variation Minimization
Creators: name: Compton, Ryan
name: Jurgens, David
name: Allen, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: G.1.6; H.2.8; H.3.4
subject: 68T99

description: Geographically annotated social media is extremely valuable for modern information retrieval. However, when researchers can only access publicly-visible data, one quickly finds that social media users rarely publish location information. In this work, we provide a method which can geolocate the overwhelming majority of active Twitter users, independent of their location sharing preferences, using only publicly-visible Twitter data. Our method infers an unknown user's location by examining their friend's locations. We frame the geotagging problem as an optimization over a social network with a total variation-based objective and provide a scalable and distributed algorithm for its solution. Furthermore, we show how a robust estimate of the geographic dispersion of each user's ego network can be used as a per-user accuracy measure which is effective at removing outlying errors. Leave-many-out evaluation shows that our method is able to infer location for 101,846,236 Twitter users at a median error of 6.38 km, allowing us to geotag over 80\% of public tweets.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures, accepted to IEEE BigData 2014, Compton, Ryan, David Jurgens, and David Allen. "Geotagging one hundred million twitter accounts with total variation minimization." Big Data (Big Data), 2014 IEEE International Conference on. IEEE, 2014
Flavored dark matter beyond Minimal Flavor Violation
Creators: name: Agrawal, Prateek
name: Blanke, Monika
name: Gemmler, Katrin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the interplay of flavor and dark matter phenomenology for models of flavored dark matter interacting with quarks. We allow an arbitrary flavor structure in the coupling of dark matter with quarks. This coupling is assumed to be the only new source of violation of the Standard Model flavor symmetry extended by a $U(3)_χ$ associated with the dark matter. We call this ansatz Dark Minimal Flavor Violation (DMFV) and highlight its various implications, including an unbroken discrete symmetry that can stabilize the dark matter. As an illustration we study a Dirac fermionic dark matter $χ$ which transforms as triplet under $U(3)_χ$, and is a singlet under the Standard Model. The dark matter couples to right-handed down-type quarks via a colored scalar mediator $ϕ$ with a coupling $λ$. We identify a number of "flavor-safe" scenarios for the structure of $λ$ which are beyond Minimal Flavor Violation. For dark matter and collider phenomenology we focus on the well-motivated case of $b$-flavored dark matter. The combined flavor and dark matter constraints on the parameter space of $λ$ turn out to be interesting intersections of the individual ones. LHC constraints on simplified models of squarks and sbottoms can be adapted to our case, and monojet searches can be relevant if the spectrum is compressed.
description: 40 pages, 19 figures, 3 tables. Clarifying comments and some references added, matches published version
Epstein--Barr virus-induced cell fusion
Creators: name: Bayliss, G. J.
name: Wolf, Hans J.
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 1980
Subjects: subject: 610 Medizin
subject: Cell Fusion
subject: Cell Line
subject: Cells, Cultured
subject: Epithelial Cells
subject: Herpesvirus 4, Human
subject: Humans
subject: Lymphocytes/microbiology
subject: Receptors, Virus/physiology
subject: Virus Replication

description: Serological and molecular biological studies have shown an association between Epstein--Barr virus (EBV) and nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Although it has been shown that the epithelioid tumour cells carry EBV genomes, they are apparently devoid of receptors for EBV (H.W., unpublished observations). Other have suggested that fusion of EBV carrying cells with epithelial cells may be the mode of entry of the virus into cells unable to absorb the virus and that this may be mediated by one of the known syncytium-forming viruses which inhabit the respiratory tract (for example, members of the paramyxovirus group). de Thé and colleagues suggested that intercellular bridges could be seen in NPC tumour material. We have developed a technique which permits the preparation of stable monolayers of viable human lymphoblastoid cell lines. Using this technique we have now demonstrated that EBV can induce fusion between EBV-superinfected lymphoblastoid cells and cells devoid of EBV receptors.
Impact of Capital Structure on Financial Performance: A Case Study of Selected Nigerian Banks
Creators: name: Bertha, Chinyere Smith
name: Dr. James, Anderson
Publisher: name: AYDEN JOURNAL
Year: 2024
Subjects: Banks, Capital, Effects, Finance, Nigeria, Structure

description: Capital structure is critical and crucial for business organization. This study investigated capital structure effects on corporate finance base performance of named Nigerian based banks. The Ex- post facto research design was employed, with a study population consisting of twentytwo deposit money banks that were dully registered by CBN and were dully licensed to operate as at 2017. The purposive sampling technique was employed in choosing sample frame from 2006 to 2017 with four selected banks. The study concentrated on secondary data obtained from published finance base statements of sampled deposit money banks; generated from NSE fact books, official list of NSE, annual report and accounts of banks. For clarity sake, interest are; total assets, STD, LTD, shareholders’ funds, dividend value, market price and profit figure for each finance year from 2006-2017. Panel data structure from 2006 to 2017 which is twelve observations years as stated in annual reports and accounts of sampled banks was used and analyzed using Eview 9 statistical package, correlogram test, panel unit root, panel co-integration, error correction model, panel OLS method and panel granger casuality test. Econometric method used followed this step; First, test for panel unit root was conducted which is necessary because of presence of unit roots in used series, secondly, co-integration association between used proxies in long run was tested with panel co-integration test. Finally, conditional on co-integration, for such causal association between parameters was explored through employing Granger causality test. The result also showed that, all parameter shows negative coefficient indicating positive relationship and movement with criterion parameter with exception of short term debt and equity financing thus affecting proposed apriori expectation. It was concluded that, there is a strong positive links and connection between selected variables on PAT while EPS was average together and capital structure.
On the Oscillation of Species
Creators: name: Bena, Iosif
name: Ross, Simon F.
name: Warner, Nicholas P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe a new class of BPS objects called magnetubes: their supersymmetry is determined by their magnetic charges, while their electric charges can oscillate freely between different species. We show how to incorporate these objects into microstate geometries and create BPS solutions in which the charge densities rotate through different U(1) species as one moves around a circle within the microstate geometry. Our solutions have the same "time-like" supersymmetry as five-dimensional, three-charge black holes but, in various parts of the solution, the supersymmetry takes the "null" form that is normally associated with magnetic charges. It is this property that enables the species oscillation of magnetubes to be compatible with supersymmetry. We give an example in which the species oscillate non-trivially around a circle within a microstate geometry, and yet the energy-momentum tensor and metric are completely independent of this circle: only the amplitude of the oscillation influences the metric.
description: 37 pages, latex, v2: minor changes in response to referee
On SU(2) anomaly and Majorana fermions
Creators: name: Patrascu, Andrei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper a loophole in the SU(2) gauge anomaly is presented. It is shown that using several topological tools a theory can be designed that implements the quantization of a single Weyl doublet anomaly free while keeping the non-abelian character of the particle in the theory. This opens the perspective for non-Abelian statistics of deconfined particle like objects in 3+1 dimensions and for applications in Quantum Computing. Moreover, if this loophole cannot be closed, old arguments related to anomaly cancelations must be reviewed.
description: 27 pages in total, comments are welcome
Set of fluorochromophores in the wavelength range from 450 to 700 nm and suitable for labeling proteins and amino-modified DNA
Creators: name: Wetzl, Bianca
name: Gruber, Michaela
name: Oswald, Bernhard
name: Dürkop, Axel
name: Weidgans, Bernhard
name: Probst, Mario
name: Wolfbeis, Otto S.
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Fluorochromophores; Proteins; DNA, amino-modified
subject: 540 Chemie

description: We describe the synthesis, purification, and spectral properties of new dyes and reactive labels. They absorb in the visible range between 450 and 700 nm and display analytically useful fluorescence. They were made amino-reactive by esterification with N-hydroxysuccinimide (NHS). The resulting oxysuccinimide (OSI) esters were covalently linked to the amino groups of human serum albumin (HSA) or certain DNA oligomers. Except for dyes 9 and 13, they contain one reactive group only in order to avoid cross linking of biomolecules. Labeling of amino-modified biomolecules was performed by standard protocols, and the labeled proteins and oligonucleotides were separated from the unreacted dye by gel chromatography using Sephadex G25 as the stationary phase in the case of proteins, and reversed-phase HPLC in the case of DNA oligomers. The dyes also have been used as donor–acceptor pairs in fluorescence energy transfer systems and in energy transfer cascades.
Lymphoproliferative disease in a cotton-top marmoset after inoculation with infectious mononucleosis-derived Epstein-Barr virus
Creators: name: Werner, J.
name: Wolf, Hans J.
name: Apodaca, J.
name: zur Hausen, H.
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 1975
Subjects: subject: 610 Medizin
subject: Animals
subject: Antibodies
subject: Antibodies, Anti-Idiotypic/analysis
subject: Antibodies, Viral/analysis
subject: Burkitt Lymphoma/microbiology
subject: Callitrichinae
subject: Cell Line
subject: Cell Transformation, Neoplastic
subject: DNA, Viral/isolation & purification
subject: Female
subject: Herpesvirus 4, Human/isolation & purification
subject: Infectious Mononucleosis/microbiology
subject: Lymph Nodes/microbiology
subject: Lymphoma/pathology
subject: Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin/pathology
subject: Male
subject: Neoplasms, Experimental/pathology
subject: Spleen/microbiology
subject: Virus Replication

description: Injection of concentrated EBV derived from cells of the Kaplan line of infectious mononucleosis (IM) origin resulted in malignant lymphoproliferation in one out of three cotton-top marmosets 6 weeks after inoculation. Two additional animals receiving the same isolate after incubation with an antibody-containing human serum did not develop tumors. Inoculation of concentrated virus derived from the P3HR-1 line of Burkitt origin did not lead to lymphoproliferations in five marmosets. Three of these received non-neutralized, and two received neutralized P3HR-1 virus. The tumor obtained with the Kaplan isolate revealed characteristics of a lymphosarcome. It contained EBV-specific DNA. In addition, EBV-synthesizing lymphoblastoid lines were established from a tumorous lymph-node, as well as from the spleen of the diseased marmoset. Virus recovered from these lines transformed lymphocytes derived from spleens of healthy marmosets. The tumor-bearing animal developed low levels of anti-VCA antibodies during the course of tumor growth. These data demonstrate the oncogenic potential of EBV directly derived from cells of IM origin.
Sequence stratigraphy study of Miocene reservoirs in the South China Sea
Creators: name: Ho, Thanh Thi
Publisher: name: Department of Geology, Chulalongkorn University
Year: 2014
Subjects: South China Sea, slope aprons, turbidites, sand-rich canyon fills

description: Bulletin of Earth Sciences of Thailand (BEST), 7, 2-Jan, 178-185
Report on EU & international regulations on the organization and status of multiverse universities
Creators: name: Università Degli Studi Di Torino
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: The European Economic Interest Grouping

description: The report concerns the transformation of Unita into an autonomous legal entity and the possible options provided at EU and national level. It is based on the results of the work of the task force appointed by the members of the Alliance within the WP8 and on the directives formulated by the Unita Governance Board. It illustrates the reasons and aims pursued with the establishment of the legal entity, such as the possibility to manage financial resources, to participate to competitive procedures, to recruit staff and so on, but also the definition of a permanent governance model, and more in general the strengthening of the collaboration among the partners, accordingly with the purposes of the European Research Area (ERA). The methodology followed by the group and the steps of the analysis are explained. All legal entities available are illustrated, distinguishing between EU options, national non-profit options and public entities. The report concludes with the choice of some models to analyse in depth. All the templates filled by the members of the group are in annexes.
description: UNITA Grant number 101004082
Particle Production and Universal Thermodynamics
Creators: name: Saha, Subhajit
name: Chakraborty, Subenoy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the present work, particle creation mechanism has been employed to the Universe as a thermodynamical system. The Universe is considered to be a spatially flat FRW model and cosmic fluid is chosen as a perfect fluid with a barotropic equation of state -- $p = (γ-1)ρ$. By proper choice of the particle creation rate, expressions for the entropy and temperature have been determined at various stages of evolution of the Universe. Finally, using the deceleration parameter $q$ as a function of the redshift parameter $z$ based on recent observations, the particle creation rate has been evaluated and its variation at different epochs have been shown graphically.
description: 18 pages, 13 figures
Otto Markwart (1861-1919)
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Zentralbibliothek Zürich
Year: 1919
Subjects: subject: 370 Bildung und Erziehung
subject: 900 Geschichte und Geografie
subject: 920 Biografien, Genealogie, Insignien
subject: Nachruf
subject: Markwart, Otto
subject: Waldenburg (Basel-Landschaft)
subject: Zürich

description: Sonderdruck aus: Zeitungs-Ausschnitte
Die Bedeutung von Epstein-Barr-Virus-Antikörpern für Diagnose und Verlauf des Nasopharynxkarzinoms = Significance of virus-specific antibodies to EBV-antigens in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma (author's transl.)
Creators: name: Wilmes, E.
name: Wolf, Hans J.
name: Deinhardt, F.
name: Naumann, H. H.
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 1979
Subjects: subject: 610 Medizin
subject: Antibodies, Viral/analysis
subject: Herpesvirus 4, Human/immunology
subject: Humans
subject: Immunoglobulin A/analysis
subject: Immunoglobulin G/analysis
subject: Nasopharyngeal Neoplasms/immunology

description: Sera collected from patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma, patients with other head and neck neoplasms, patients with infectious mononucleosis (IM), and healthy donors were titrated for antibodies (IgM, IgG, IgA) against Epstein-Barr-Virus (EBV) specific antigens (VCA, EA, EBNA) by indirect and by antikomplementary immunfluorescence. NPC-patients develop significantly high anti-EBV titers of IgG and IgA. In contrast patients with neoplasms (mainly carcinomas) arising in sites of the head and neck other than the nasopharynx revealed a lower incidence of high titers. Our results emphasize the remarkable predominance of IgA-antibodies to VCA and EA in NPC-patients and shows that Europeans to not differ in that respect from Asian patients. The significance and implications of these findings are discussed.
Shot-noise-limited magnetometer with sub-pT sensitivity at room temperature
Creators: name: Lucivero, Vito Giovanni
name: Anielski, Pawel
name: Gawlik, Wojciech
name: Mitchell, Morgan W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a photon shot-noise-limited (SNL) optical magnetometer based on amplitude modulated optical rotation using a room-temperature $^{85}$Rb vapor in a cell with anti-relaxation coating. The instrument achieves a room-temperature sensitivity of $70$ fT/$\sqrt{\mathrm{Hz}}$ at $7.6$ $μ$T. Experimental scaling of noise with optical power, in agreement with theoretical predictions, confirms the SNL behaviour from $5$ $μ$T to $75$ $μ$T. The combination of best-in-class sensitivity and SNL operation makes the system a promising candidate for application of squeezed light to a state-of-the-art atomic sensor.
description: 9 pages, 11 figures
Learning regularities in a sequence of decision-making tasks
Creators: name: Shah, Vedant
name: von Helversen, Bettina
name: Schlegelmilch, René
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Category Learning
subject: Decision Making
subject: Judgement
subject: Sequence Learning

description: Like in the previously preregistered experiment under the same project, we investigate the effect of regularities in a sequence of decision-making tasks on learning and generalization. In this experiment, we determine whether regularities in two tasks can influence learning and whether these regularities are applied to novel objects. We investigated whether regularity was learned between the outcome of a categorization task and an estimation task. We further investigated whether the two tasks were adjacent (the tasks followed each other) or non-adjacent (an estimation task was the intervening task between them). In the experiment, participants are presented with several objects and perform three tasks for each object. There are two categorization tasks in which participants have to categorize the stimulus into one of two categories, and an estimation task, in which they have to estimate a value between 1 to 50 for the presented stimulus. The participants learn the correct response for the tasks via response feedback. In the adjacent and non-adjacent conditions, the output of the estimation task is dependent on the outcome of one of the categorization tasks. In the control condition, the outcomes of the tasks are independent. The experiment has 2 phases. Phase 1 is to learn the regularities, and Phase 2 is to observe the learned and generalization pattern.
title: Microcantilever Fracture Tests of α-Cr Containing NiAl Bond Coats
Creators: name: Gabel, Stefan
name: Giese, Sven
name: Webler, Ralf Uwe
name: Neumeier, Steffen
name: Göken, Mathias
Publisher: name: Universität Kassel
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: bond coats
subject: fracture toughnesses
subject: intermetallics
subject: microcantilever bending
subject: 600
subject: 660
subject: Verbindungsschicht
subject: Bruchzähigkeit
subject: Intermetallische Verbindungen
subject: Biegung
subject: Thermomechanische Eigenschaft

description: H2020 European Research Council. Grant Numbers: 725483, 949626; Open access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL
D2.8 - Transparency and Compliance Algorithms V2
Creators: name: Sabrina Kirrane (WU)
name: Piero Bonatti (CeRICT)
name: Javier D.  Fernández (WU)
name: Clemente Galdi (CeRICT)
name: Luigi Sauro  (CeRICT)
name: Daniele Dell'Erba (CeRICT)
name: Iliana  Petrova  (CeRICT)
name: Ida Siahaan (CeRICT)
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Privacy, GDPR, transparency, compliance

description: The aim of this deliverable is to dig deeper into open technical and research challenges in terms of personal data processing and sharing transparency, and compliance checking
Black hole information recovery from gravitational waves
Creators: name: Hamaide, Louis
name: Torres, Theo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the classical and quantum black hole information in gravitational waves from a black hole's history. We review the necessary concepts regarding quantum information in many-body systems to motivate information retrieval and content in gravitational waves. We then show the first step in an optimal information retrieval strategy is to search for information in gravitational waves, compared to searching for correlations in Hawking radiation. We argue a large portion of the information of the initial collapsing state may be in the gravitational waves. Using the Zerilli equation for particles falling radially into Schwarzschild black holes, we then describe a method to retrieve full classical information about infalling sources, including masses, infall times and angles.
description: 26 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, 1 appendix, Class. Quantum Grav (2023)
Brane worlds in gravity with auxiliary fields
Creators: name: Guo, Bin
name: Liu, Yu-Xiao
name: Yang, Ke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, Pani, Sotiriou, and Vernieri explored a new theory of gravity by adding nondynamical fields, i.e., gravity with auxiliary fields [Phys. Rev. D 88, 121502(R) (2013)]. In this gravity theory, higher-order derivatives of matter fields generically appear in the field equations. In this paper we extend this theory to any dimensions and discuss the thick braneworld model in five dimensions. Domain wall solutions are obtained numerically. The stability of the brane system under the tensor perturbation is analyzed. We find that the system is stable under the tensor perturbation and the gravity zero mode is localized on the brane. Therefore, the four-dimensional Newtonian potential can be realized on the brane.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures
Information-Geometric Equivalence of Transportation Polytopes
Creators: name: Kovačević, Mladen
name: Stanojević, Ivan
name: Šenk, Vojin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 94A17, 52B11, 52B12, 62B10, 62H17, 54C99

description: This paper deals with transportation polytopes in the probability simplex (that is, sets of categorical bivariate probability distributions with prescribed marginals). Information projections between such polytopes are studied, and a sufficient condition is described under which these mappings are homeomorphisms.
description: 6 pages, 1 figure. v2: A remark concerning Frechet-Hoeffding bounds is added
Pinelands interpretive plan : a newsletter from the National Park Service - July 1973
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 1993

description: This newsletter discusses the Congressional mandate for the creation of a Pinelands interpretive and educational program. The Interpretive Plan will identify an overall vision for the Pinelands which encourages an appreciation of its many resources and outlines a role for education and interpretation in the region.
Prospects of Probing Dark Matter Condensates with Gravitational Waves
Creators: name: Banerjee, Shreya
name: Bera, Sayantani
name: Mota, David F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Lambda-Cold Dark Matter model explains cosmological observations most accurately till date. However, it is still plagued with various shortcomings at galactic scales. Models of dark matter such as superfluid dark matter, Bose-Einstein Condensate(BEC) dark matter and fuzzy dark matter have been proposed to overcome some of these drawbacks. In this work, we probe these models using the current constraint on the gravitational wave (GW) propagation speed coming from the binary neutron star GW170817 detection by LIGO-Virgo detector network and use it to study the allowed parameter space for these three models for Advanced LIGO+Virgo, LISA, IPTA and SKA detection frequencies. The speed of GW has been shown to depend upon the refractive index of the medium, which in turn, depends on the dark matter model parameters through the density profile of the galactic halo. We constrain the parameter space for these models using the bounds coming from GW speed measurement and the Milky Way radius bound. Our findings suggest that with Advanced LIGO-Virgo detector sensitivity, the three models considered here remain unconstrained. A meaningful constraint can only be obtained for detection frequencies $\leq 10^{-9}$ Hz, which falls in the detection range of radio telescopes such as IPTA and SKA. Considering this best possible case, we find that out of the three condensate models, the fuzzy dark matter model is the most feasible scenario to be falsified/ validated in near future.
description: 26 pages, 6 figures; references added, typos corrected; version accepted for publication in JCAP
Vanishing of the higher direct images of the structure sheaf
Creators: name: Chatzistamatiou, Andre
name: Rülling, Kay
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove that the higher direct images of the structure sheaf under a birational and projective morphism between excellent and regular schemes vanish.
description: final version, to appear in Compositio Math