cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Elastic electron scattering in quantum corrals: The importance of the shape of the adatom potential
Creators: name: Rahachou, A. I.
name: Zozoulenko, I. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report elastic scattering theory for surface electron waves in quantum corrals defined by adatoms on the surface of noble metals. We develop a scattering-matrix technique that allows us to account for a realistic smooth potential profile of the scattering centers. Our calculations reproduce quantitatively all the experimental observations, which is in contrast to previous theories (treating the adatoms as point scatterers) that require additional inelastic channels of scattering into the bulk in order to achieve the agreement with the experiment. Our findings thus indicate that surface states are not coupled to the bulk electrons.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
title: Money, inflation and growth in South Africa.
Creators: name: Nell, Kevin S
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2022

description: The main objective of this thesis is to assess the effectiveness of monetary policy in SouthAfrica to promote high and sustainable real economic growth rates after the adoption of moremarket-oriented measures in 1980. The thesis consists of three interrelated issues which areexamined from the early 1960s until the late 1990s: the exogenous/endogenous nature of themoney supply, the underlying causes of inflation and the costs and benefits of inflation.The main findings that emerge from the thesis are as follows. From a long-run perspective,the results show that the money supply is endogenously determined and that the moneysupply has been passive in the inflationary process over the period 1966-1997. Theinflationary impact of excessive monetary expansion is only relevant over the period 1966-1979 when monetary policy was based on direct control measures. However, direct controlmeasures were largely ineffective in reducing and stabilising inflation because the moneysupply was also endogenously determined during the period 1966-1979. The endogenousnature of the money supply required a more extensive analysis of the underlying causes ofinflation which may not necessarily have been the outcome of excessive monetary expansionby the monetary authorities. After an extensive analysis of structural and/or cost-push forcesof inflation, the empirical results indicate that the causes of inflation have changed from ademand-pull inflation over the period 1973-1983, to a cost-push cause of inflation (importprices and wage rate changes) since 1987 when a market determined exchange rate finallystabilised.The study suggests that even though the cause of inflation was essentially cost-push since themid-1980s, restrictive demand management policies were effective in reversing theaccelerating inflationary trend experienced since the early 1970s. Moreover, the negativeimpact of double digit inflation on economic growth during the deflationary zone, supportsthe South African Reserve Bank's (SARB) primary objective of low and stable inflation rates.However, the growth benefits of mild inflation indicate that the SARB's unofficial inflationtarget of 1-5 percent is too conservative. Furthermore, restrictive monetary policy which isgeared towards unrealistically low or even zero inflation, imposes a permanent cost. Cost-push inflation resulting from exchange rate depreciations and wage rate changes will alwayscreate an environment which is biased towards inflation. To control cost-push inflationdemand management policies will have to be restrictive on a permanent basis, but at the costof permanent output and employment losses.
Searching for Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (CEvNS) with the NUCLEUS detectors
Creators: name: Giammei, Marco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (CEvNS) is an interaction well predicted by the Standard Model. Its large cross-section allows to study neutrinos with relatively small detectors. Precision measurement of the CEvNS cross-section is a way to study neutrino properties and search for new physics beyond the Standard Model. The NUCLEUS experiment aims to detect and characterize CEvNS using reactor neutrinos, in an ultra-low background environment. The NUCLEUS target detector will be a 10g array of cubic CaWO4 and Al2O3 crystals with 5mm side. The experiment will be installed between two 4.25 GW reactor cores at the Chooz-B nuclear power plant in France. The experiment is currently under commissioning at the 15 m.w.e. underground lab at TUM (Munich) and will move to Chooz in 2024. The recent results and prospects of NUCLEUS will be presented.
Emergence of pulled fronts in fermionic microscopic particle models
Creators: name: Moro, Esteban
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the emergence and dynamics of pulled fronts described by the Fisher-Kolmogorov-Petrovsky-Piscounov (FKPP) equation in the microscopic reaction-diffusion process A + A A$ on the lattice when only a particle is allowed per site. To this end we identify the parameter that controls the strength of internal fluctuations in this model, namely, the number of particles per correlated volume. When internal fluctuations are suppressed, we explictly see the matching between the deterministic FKPP description and the microscopic particle model.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. E as a Rapid Communication
Caenestheria sarsii
Creators: name: Richter, Stefan
name: Timms, Brian V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Branchiopoda
Diplostraca
Cyzicidae
Caenestheria
Caenestheria sarsii

description: Caenestheria sarsii (Sayce, 1903)
 Estheria sarsii Sayce, 1903: 252–253, 256 (synopsis), pl. 35 fig. 1a–f. Cyzicus sarsi.– Wolf, 1911: 254 (list).
 Cyzicus sarsii.– Dakin, 1914: 295 (list).
 Caenestheria sarsi.– Daday, 1914: 55 (key), 57–59, fig. 2. Estheria sarsii.– Henry, 1924: 122 (list), 134 (key).
 Eocyzicus sarsii.– Brtek, 1997: 50 (list).
 Type material. None designated.
 Distribution. Lake Aurean, Murchison (Western Australia) (Sayce, 1903).
description: Published as part of Richter, Stefan & Timms, Brian V., 2005, A List of the Recent Clam Shrimps (Crustacea: Laevicaudata, Spinicaudata, Cyclestherida) of Australia, Including a Description of a New Species of Eocyzicus, pp. 341-354 in Records of the Australian Museum 57 (3) on page 344, DOI: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.57.2005.1454, http://zenodo.org/record/4685620
Can the Acceleration of Our Universe Be Explained by the Effects of Inhomogeneities?
Creators: name: Ishibashi, Akihiro
name: Wald, Robert M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: No. It is simply not plausible that cosmic acceleration could arise within the context of general relativity from a back-reaction effect of inhomogeneities in our universe, without the presence of a cosmological constant or ``dark energy.'' We point out that our universe appears to be described very accurately on all scales by a Newtonianly perturbed FLRW metric. (This assertion is entirely consistent with the fact that we commonly encounter $δρ/ρ> 10^{30}$.) If the universe is accurately described by a Newtonianly perturbed FLRW metric, then the back-reaction of inhomogeneities on the dynamics of the universe is negligible. If not, then it is the burden of an alternative model to account for the observed properties of our universe. We emphasize with concrete examples that it is {\it not} adequate to attempt to justify a model by merely showing that some spatially averaged quantities behave the same way as in FLRW models with acceleration. A quantity representing the ``scale factor'' may ``accelerate'' without there being any physically observable consequences of this acceleration. It also is {\it not} adequate to calculate the second-order stress energy tensor and show that it has a form similar to that of a cosmological constant of the appropriate magnitude. The second-order stress energy tensor is gauge dependent, and if it were large, contributions of higher perturbative order could not be neglected. We attempt to clear up the apparent confusion between the second-order stress energy tensor arising in perturbation theory and the ``effective stress energy tensor'' arising in the ``shortwave approximation.''
description: 20 pages, 1 figure, several footnotes and references added, version accepted for publication in CQG;some clarifying comments added
Supplementary Material from Measuring aggregation in parasite populations
Creators: name: R. McVinish
name: R.J.G. Lester
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Environmental Science
subject: 10202 Biological Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Aggregation, a fundamental feature of parasite distributions, has been measured using a variety of indices. We use the definition that parasite–host system A is more aggregated than parasite–host system B if any given proportion of the parasite population is concentrated in a smaller proportion of the host population A than of host population B. This leads to indices based on the Lorenz curve such as the Gini index (Poulin’s D), coefficient of variation and the Hoover index, all of which measure departure from a uniform distribution. The Hoover index is particularly useful because it can be interpreted directly in terms of parasites and hosts. An alternative view of aggregation is degree of departure from a Poisson (or random) distribution, as used in the index of dispersion and the negative binomial k. These and Lloyd’s mean crowding index are reinterpreted and connected back to Lorenz curves. Aggregation has occasionally been defined as the slope from Taylor’s law, although the slope appears unrelated to other indices. The Hoover index may be the method of choice when data points are available, and the coefficient of variation when only variance and mean are given.
Stimulus control of cocaine self-administration
Creators: name: Weiss, Stanley J.
name: Kearns, David
name: Cohn, Scott I.
name: Schindler, Charles W.
name: Panlilio, Leigh V.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Environmental stimuli that set the occasion wherein drugs are acquired can trigger drug-related behavior. Investigating the stimulus control of drug self-administration in laboratory animals should help us better understand this aspect of human drug abuse. Stimulus control of cocaine self-administration was generated here for the first time using multiple and chained schedules with short, frequently-alternating components--like those typically used to study food-maintained responding. The procedures and results are presented along with case histories to illustrate the strategies used to produce this stimulus control. All these multicomponent schedules contained variable-interval (VI) components as well as differential-reinforcement-of-other-behavior (DRO) or extinction components. Schedule parameters and unit dose were adjusted for each rat to produce stable, moderate rates in VI components, with minimal postreinforcement (infusion) pausing, and response cessation in extinction and DRO components. Whole-body drug levels on terminal baselines calculated retrospectively revealed that all rats maintained fairly stable drug levels (mean, 2.3 to 3.4 mg/kg) and molar rates of intake (approximately 6.0 mg/kg/hr). Within this range, no relation between local VI response rates and drug level was found. The stimulus control revealed in cumulative records was indistinguishable from that achieved with food under these schedules, suggesting that common mechanisms may underlie the control of cocaine- and food-maintained behavior.
Additional file 1 of Variations in situational risk factors for fractures of the distal forearm, hip, and vertebrae in older women
Creators: name: Yu, Wen-Yu
name: Hei-Fen Hwang
name: Mau-Roung Lin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary materials. Full Questionnaire in English version.
Stimulus control of cocaine self-administration
Creators: name: Weiss, Stanley J.
name: Kearns, David
name: Cohn, Scott I.
name: Schindler, Charles W.
name: Panlilio, Leigh V.
Publisher: name: Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Environmental stimuli that set the occasion wherein drugs are acquired can trigger drug-related behavior. Investigating the stimulus control of drug self-administration in laboratory animals should help us better understand this aspect of human drug abuse. Stimulus control of cocaine self-administration was generated here for the first time using multiple and chained schedules with short, frequently-alternating components--like those typically used to study food-maintained responding. The procedures and results are presented along with case histories to illustrate the strategies used to produce this stimulus control. All these multicomponent schedules contained variable-interval (VI) components as well as differential-reinforcement-of-other-behavior (DRO) or extinction components. Schedule parameters and unit dose were adjusted for each rat to produce stable, moderate rates in VI components, with minimal postreinforcement (infusion) pausing, and response cessation in extinction and DRO components. Whole-body drug levels on terminal baselines calculated retrospectively revealed that all rats maintained fairly stable drug levels (mean, 2.3 to 3.4 mg/kg) and molar rates of intake (approximately 6.0 mg/kg/hr). Within this range, no relation between local VI response rates and drug level was found. The stimulus control revealed in cumulative records was indistinguishable from that achieved with food under these schedules, suggesting that common mechanisms may underlie the control of cocaine- and food-maintained behavior.
Jeans criterion and nonextensive velocity distribution function in kinetic theory
Creators: name: Du, Jiulin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effect of nonextensivity of self-gravitating systems on the Jeans criterion for gravitational instability is studied in the framework of Tsallis statistics. The nonextensivity is introduced in the Jeans problem by a generalized q-nonextensive velocity distribution function through the equation of state of ideal gas in nonextensive kinetic theory. A new Jeans criterion is deduced with a factor that, however, differs from that one in Ref.[21] and new results of gravitational instability are analyzed for the nonextensive parameter q. An understanding of physical meaning of q and a possible seismic observation to find astronomical evidence for a value of q different from unity are also discussed.
description: 10 pages, 27 references
Asymptotic behavior for the 1-D stochastic Landau Lifshitz Bloch equation
Creators: name: Qiu, Zhaoyang
name: Tang, Yanbin
name: Wang, Huaqiao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The stochastic Landau-Lifshitz-Bloch equation describes the phase spins in a ferromagnetic material and has significant role in simulating heat-assisted magnetic recording. In this paper, we consider the deviation of the solution to the 1-D stochastic Landau-Lifshitz-Bloch equation, that is, we give the asymptotic behavior of the trajectory $\frac{u_\varepsilon-u_0}{\sqrt{\varepsilon}λ(\varepsilon)}$ as $\varepsilon\rightarrow 0+$, for $λ(\varepsilon)=\frac{1}{\sqrt{\varepsilon}}$ and $1$ respectively. In other words, the large deviation principle and the central limit theorem are established respectively.
An investigation into sustainable transport options
Creators: name: De Beaupre, Nick
name: Londry, Michaella
name: While, Miles
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: The University of British Columbia (UBC) prides itself in being a national leader of sustainable development and studies. The UBC Farm is a center for sustainable learning and teachings. Therefore, it is critical that thorough investigations into sustainable options are completed before the farm makes major purchases. The UBC Farm has asked teams of the APSC 261 course to look into a triple bottom line assessment of sustainable transport options. UBC Farm needs to replace its aging gasoline operated farm and delivery vehicle. The UBC Farm is looking for a new vehicle to use to transport produce to the market, relocate machinery, and transport employees around Vancouver. Requirements given include: must reliably run for at least 3 years, is highly fuel efficient, able to be maintained by the university, by plant-ops garage staff specifically, and is either a small truck or a 10 passenger van. Due to personnel and time constraints three options were investigated: using a car co-op’s services, purchasing a diesel engine vehicle, and purchasing a diesel vehicle and using bio-diesel. The investigation has found that purchasing a diesel vehicle and fueling it with bio-diesel is the recommended choice of action. While Modo has offered discounts on their services, the inconvenience of traveling off campus to find and retrieve a vehicle out ways the potential cost savings and the ability to spread the knowledge of car sharing. Diesel engines are more efficient than conventional gasoline engines, and used vehicles are relatively inexpensive; emissions are a concern with older models. Bio-diesel is available on campus, at the same price as conventional diesel, and has less emission problems as conventional diesel. Furthermore, the bio-diesel is partially renewable and a diesel engine truck will not need to be converted if the model year is after 1994. Investigating all the options, bio-diesel is ultimately the best choice economically, environmentally, and socially. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Supplementary Figures Tables (S2,S3,S4) Methods from Development and testing of a novel killer–rescue self-limiting gene drive system in Drosophila melanogaster
Creators: name: Webster, Sophia H.
name: Vella, Michael R.
name: Scott, Maxwell J.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology

description: Here we report the development and testing of a novel self-limiting gene drive system, Killer–Rescue (K–R), in Drosophila melanogaster. This system is composed of an autoregulated Gal4 Killer (K) and a Gal4-activated Gal80 Rescue (R). Overexpression of Gal4 is lethal, but in the presence of R activation of Gal80 leads to much lower levels of Gal4 and R of lethality. We demonstrate that with a single 2 : 1 engineered to wild-type release, K drives R through the population and after nine generations, more than 98% of the population carry R and less than 2% of the population are wild-type flies. We discuss how this simple K–R gene drive system may be readily adapted for population replacement in a human health pest, Aedes aegypti, or for population suppression in an agricultural pest, Drosophila suzukii.
Constrained spin dynamics description of random walks on hierarchical scale-free networks
Creators: name: Noh, Jae Dong
name: Rieger, Heiko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a random walk problem on the hierarchical network which is a scale-free network grown deterministically. The random walk problem is mapped onto a dynamical Ising spin chain system in one dimension with a nonlocal spin update rule, which allows an analytic approach. We show analytically that the characteristic relaxation time scale grows algebraically with the total number of nodes $N$ as $T \sim N^z$. From a scaling argument, we also show the power-law decay of the autocorrelation function $C_{\bfsigma}(t)\sim t^{-α}$, which is the probability to find the Ising spins in the initial state ${\bfsigma}$ after $t$ time steps, with the state-dependent non-universal exponent $α$. It turns out that the power-law scaling behavior has its origin in an quasi-ultrametric structure of the configuration space.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures
Antiferromagnetic domain walls in lightly doped layered cuprates
Creators: name: Horovitz, Baruch
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent ESR data shows rotation of the antiferromagnetic (AF) easy axis in lightly doped layered cuprates upon lowering the temperature. We account for the ESR data and show that it has significant implications on spin and charge ordering according to the following scenario: In the high temperature phase AF domain walls coincide with (110) twin boundaries of an orthorhombic phase. A magnetic field leads to annihilation of neighboring domain walls resulting in antiphase boundaries. The latter are spin carriers, form ferromagnetic lines and may become charged in the doped system. However, hole ordering at low temperatures favors the (100) orientation, inducing a pi/4 rotation in the AF easy axis. The latter phase has twin boundaries and AF domain walls in (100) planes.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures (1 eps). v2: no change in content, Tex shadow problem cleared
Appendix 1 from The smallest known Devonian tetrapod shows unexpectedly derived features
Creators: name: Ahlberg, Per E.
name: Clack, Jennifer A.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 40308 Palaeontology (incl. Palynology)
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Phylogenetic character list
Associations between obesity, obesogenic environments, and structural racism vary by county-level racial composition
Creators: name: Bell, Caryn N.
name: Kerr, Jordan
name: Owens-Young, Jessica
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Obesity rates in the U.S. are associated with area-level, food-related characteristics. Studies have previously examined the role of structural racism (policies/practices that advantaged White Americans and deprived other racial/ethnic minority groups), but racial inequalities in socioeconomic status (SES) is a novel indicator. The aim of this study is to determine the associations between racial inequalities in SES with obesity and obesogenic environments. Data from 2007–2014 County Health Rankings and 2012–2016 County Business Patterns were combined to assess the associations between relative SES comparing Blacks to Whites with obesity, and number of grocery stores and fast food restaurants in U.S. counties. Random effects linear and Poisson regressions were used and stratified by county racial composition. Racial inequality in poverty, unemployment, and homeownership were associated with higher obesity rates. Racial inequality in median income, college graduates, and unemployment were associated with fewer grocery stores and more fast food restaurants. Associations varied by county racial composition. The results demonstrate that a novel indicator of structural racism on the county-level is associated with obesity and obesogenic environments. Associations vary by SES measure and county racial composition, suggesting the ability for targeted interventions to improve obesogenic environments and policies to eliminate racial inequalities in SES.
Caenestheria elliptica
Creators: name: Richter, Stefan
name: Timms, Brian V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Branchiopoda
Diplostraca
Cyzicidae
Caenestheria
Caenestheria elliptica

description: Caenestheria elliptica (Sars, 1897)
 Estheria elliptica Sars, 1897: 12–17, pl. 2; Sayce, 1903: 252, 255 (synopsis), pl. 36, fig. B; Henry, 1924: 122 (list), 134 (key); Gurney, 1927: 63–64.
 Cyzicus ellipticus.– Wolf, 1911: 254 (list); Dakin, 1914: 295 (list).
 Caenestheria elliptica.– Daday, 1914: 56 (key), 96–98, fig. 14.
 346 Records of the Australian Museum (2005) Vol. 57 Eocyzicus ellipticus.– Brtek, 1997: 49 (list).
 Type material. Zoological Museum, Oslo, has possible syntype material.
 Distribution. near Roebuck Bay (Western Australia) (Sars, 1897).
description: Published as part of Richter, Stefan & Timms, Brian V., 2005, A List of the Recent Clam Shrimps (Crustacea: Laevicaudata, Spinicaudata, Cyclestherida) of Australia, Including a Description of a New Species of Eocyzicus, pp. 341-354 in Records of the Australian Museum 57 (3) on pages 344-346, DOI: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.57.2005.1454, http://zenodo.org/record/4685620
Associations between obesity, obesogenic environments, and structural racism vary by county-level racial composition
Creators: name: Bell, Caryn N.
name: Kerr, Jordan
name: Owens-Young, Jessica
Publisher: name: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences
classificationCode: 4206
subject: Public health

description: Obesity rates in the U.S. are associated with area-level, food-related characteristics. Studies have previously examined the role of structural racism (policies/practices that advantaged White Americans and deprived other racial/ethnic minority groups), but racial inequalities in socioeconomic status (SES) is a novel indicator. The aim of this study is to determine the associations between racial inequalities in SES with obesity and obesogenic environments. Data from 2007–2014 County Health Rankings and 2012–2016 County Business Patterns were combined to assess the associations between relative SES comparing Blacks to Whites with obesity, and number of grocery stores and fast food restaurants in U.S. counties. Random effects linear and Poisson regressions were used and stratified by county racial composition. Racial inequality in poverty, unemployment, and homeownership were associated with higher obesity rates. Racial inequality in median income, college graduates, and unemployment were associated with fewer grocery stores and more fast food restaurants. Associations varied by county racial composition. The results demonstrate that a novel indicator of structural racism on the county-level is associated with obesity and obesogenic environments. Associations vary by SES measure and county racial composition, suggesting the ability for targeted interventions to improve obesogenic environments and policies to eliminate racial inequalities in SES.
A privacy‐preserving framework for ranked retrieval model
Creators: name: Yan, Tong
name: Gao, Yunpeng
name: Zhang, Nan
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: In this paper, we address privacy issues related to ranked retrieval model in web databases, each of which takes private attributes as part of input in the ranking function. Many web databases keep private attributes invisible to public and believe that the adversary is unable to reveal the private attribute values from query results. However, prior research (Rahman et al. in Proc VLDB Endow 8:1106–17, 2015) studied the problem of rank-based inference of private attributes over web databases. They found that one can infer the value of private attributes of a victim tuple by issuing well-designed queries through a top-k query interface. To address the privacy issue, in this paper, we propose a novel privacy-preserving framework. Our framework protects private attributes’ privacy not only under inference attacks but also under arbitrary attack methods. In particular, we classify adversaries into two widely existing categories: domain-ignorant and domain-expert adversaries. Then, we develop equivalent set with virtual tuples (ESVT) for domain-ignorant adversaries and equivalent set with true tuples (ESTT) for domain-expert adversaries. The ESVT and the ESTT are the primary parts of our privacy-preserving framework. To evaluate the performance, we define a measurement of privacy guarantee for private attributes and measurements for utility loss. We prove that both ESVT and ESTT achieve the privacy guarantee. We also develop heuristic algorithms for ESVT and ESTT, respectively, under the consideration of minimizing utility loss. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our techniques through theoretical analysis and extensive experiments over real-world dataset.
Additional file 1 of 3D-printed microplate inserts for long term high-resolution imaging of live brain organoids
Creators: name: Mansilla, Mariana Oksdath
name: Salazar-Hernandez, Camilo
name: Perrin, Sally L.
name: Scheer, Kaitlin G.
name: Cildir, Gökhan
name: Toubia, John
name: Kristyna Sedivakova
name: Tea, Melinda N.
name: Sakthi Lenin
name: Ponthier, Elise
name: Yeo, Erica C. F.
name: Tergaonkar, Vinay
name: Poonnoose, Santosh
name: Ormsby, Rebecca J.
name: Pitson, Stuart M.
name: Brown, Michael P.
name: Ebert, Lisa M.
name: Gomez, Guillermo A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Figure 1 (related to Fig. 2). Representative sections of cerebral organoids grown on the micro-well inserts and stained with Hoechst 33342 and against cleaved caspase 3. Cleaved caspase 3 is observed in the periphery of cortical structures within organoids, without significant differences across the different experimental conditions (i.e. with or without microplate inserts). Panels were made with cropped images (same size for all time points and conditions). Image’s intensity levels were contracted (same extent for each of the channels across all conditions) from their original 16-bit range to 8-bit RGB for Figure preparation in Adobe Illustrator. Scale Bar = 100 μm.
A flux tube solar dynamo model based on the competing role of buoyancy and downflows
Creators: name: Li, L. H.
name: Sofia, S.
name: Belvedere, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A magnetic flux tube may be considered both as a separate body and as a confined field. As a field, it is affected both by differential rotation ($Ω$-effect) and cyclonic convection ($α$-effect). As a body, the tube experiences not only a buoyant force, but also a dynamic pressure due to downflows above the tube. These two competing dynamic effects are incorporated into the $α$-$Ω$ dynamo equations through the total magnetic turbulent diffusivity, leading to a flux tube dynamo operating in the convection zone. We analyze and solve the extended dynamo equations in the linear approximation by adopting the observed solar internal rotation and assuming a downflow effect derived from numerical simulations of solar convection zone. The model reproduces: the 22-year cycle period; the extended butterfly diagram with the confinement of strong activity to low heliographic latitudes $|Φ|\le 35^\circ$; the evidence that at low latitudes the radial field is in an approximately $π$ phase lag compared to the toroidal field at the same latitude; the evidence that the poleward branch is in a $π/2$ phase lag with respect to the equatorward branch; and the evidence that most of the magnetic flux is present in an intermittent form, concentrated into strong flux tubes.
description: 29 pages, 3 figures, aastex style
A privacy‐preserving framework for ranked retrieval model
Creators: name: Yan, Tong
name: Gao, Yunpeng
name: Zhang, Nan
Publisher: name: Computational Social Networks
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 46
subject: Information and computing sciences
classificationCode: 47
subject: Language, communication and culture

description: In this paper, we address privacy issues related to ranked retrieval model in web databases, each of which takes private attributes as part of input in the ranking function. Many web databases keep private attributes invisible to public and believe that the adversary is unable to reveal the private attribute values from query results. However, prior research (Rahman et al. in Proc VLDB Endow 8:1106–17, 2015) studied the problem of rank-based inference of private attributes over web databases. They found that one can infer the value of private attributes of a victim tuple by issuing well-designed queries through a top-k query interface. To address the privacy issue, in this paper, we propose a novel privacy-preserving framework. Our framework protects private attributes’ privacy not only under inference attacks but also under arbitrary attack methods. In particular, we classify adversaries into two widely existing categories: domain-ignorant and domain-expert adversaries. Then, we develop equivalent set with virtual tuples (ESVT) for domain-ignorant adversaries and equivalent set with true tuples (ESTT) for domain-expert adversaries. The ESVT and the ESTT are the primary parts of our privacy-preserving framework. To evaluate the performance, we define a measurement of privacy guarantee for private attributes and measurements for utility loss. We prove that both ESVT and ESTT achieve the privacy guarantee. We also develop heuristic algorithms for ESVT and ESTT, respectively, under the consideration of minimizing utility loss. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our techniques through theoretical analysis and extensive experiments over real-world dataset.
Social Security and privacy for social IoT polymorphic value set : A solution to inference attacks on social networks
Creators: name: Gao, Yunpeng
name: Zhang, Nan
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Social Internet of Things (SIoT) integrates social network schemes into Internet of Things (IoT), which provides opportunities for IoT objects to form social communities. Existing social network models have been adopted by SIoT paradigm. The wide distribution of IoT objects and openness of social networks, however, make it more challenging to preserve privacy of IoT users. In this paper, we present a novel framework that preserves privacy against inference attacks on social network data through ranked retrieval models. We propose PVS, a privacy-preserving framework that involves the design of polymorphic value sets and ranking functions. PVS enables polymorphism of private attributes by allowing them to respond to different queries in different ways. We begin this work by identifying two classes of adversaries, authenticity-ignorant adversary, and authenticity-knowledgeable adversary, based on their knowledge of the distribution of private attributes. Next, we define the measurement functions of utility loss and propose PVSV and PVST that preserve privacy against authenticity-ignorant and authenticity-knowledgeable adversaries, respectively. We take into account the utility loss of query results in the design of PVSV and PVST. Finally, we show that PVSV and PVST meet the privacy guarantee with acceptable utility loss in extensive experiments over real-world datasets.
Social Security and privacy for social IoT polymorphic value set : A solution to inference attacks on social networks
Creators: name: Gao, Yunpeng
name: Zhang, Nan
Publisher: name: Security and Communication Networks
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 46
subject: Information and computing sciences
classificationCode: 47
subject: Language, communication and culture

description: Social Internet of Things (SIoT) integrates social network schemes into Internet of Things (IoT), which provides opportunities for IoT objects to form social communities. Existing social network models have been adopted by SIoT paradigm. The wide distribution of IoT objects and openness of social networks, however, make it more challenging to preserve privacy of IoT users. In this paper, we present a novel framework that preserves privacy against inference attacks on social network data through ranked retrieval models. We propose PVS, a privacy-preserving framework that involves the design of polymorphic value sets and ranking functions. PVS enables polymorphism of private attributes by allowing them to respond to different queries in different ways. We begin this work by identifying two classes of adversaries, authenticity-ignorant adversary, and authenticity-knowledgeable adversary, based on their knowledge of the distribution of private attributes. Next, we define the measurement functions of utility loss and propose PVSV and PVST that preserve privacy against authenticity-ignorant and authenticity-knowledgeable adversaries, respectively. We take into account the utility loss of query results in the design of PVSV and PVST. Finally, we show that PVSV and PVST meet the privacy guarantee with acceptable utility loss in extensive experiments over real-world datasets.
Caenestheria rubra
Creators: name: Richter, Stefan
name: Timms, Brian V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Branchiopoda
Diplostraca
Cyzicidae
Caenestheria
Caenestheria rubra

description: Caenestheria rubra (Henry, 1924)
 Estheria rubra Henry, 1924: 121 (list), 134–135, pl. 32, figs. 8–9.
 Type material. Australian Museum, Sydney, P6773, 1 female syntypes (body and carapace in two different vials). The study of this single female shows that this species belongs to the genus Caenestheria. Brtek (1997: 52) noted “ Estheria rubra Henry, 1924 = probably Cyzicus sp.”, but he has not examined the type specimen.
 Distribution. Marra and Budda Stations on the Darling River, Goorimpa Station on the Paroo (New South Wales).
description: Published as part of Richter, Stefan & Timms, Brian V., 2005, A List of the Recent Clam Shrimps (Crustacea: Laevicaudata, Spinicaudata, Cyclestherida) of Australia, Including a Description of a New Species of Eocyzicus, pp. 341-354 in Records of the Australian Museum 57 (3) on page 346, DOI: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.57.2005.1454, http://zenodo.org/record/4685620
Non-Universal Critical Behaviour of Two-Dimensional Ising Systems
Creators: name: Minami, Kazuhiko
name: Suzuki, Masuo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two conditions are derived for Ising models to show non-universal critical behaviour, namely conditions concerning 1) logarithmic singularity of the specific heat and 2) degeneracy of the ground state. These conditions are satisfied with the eight-vertex model, the Ashkin-Teller model, some Ising models with short- or long-range interactions and even Ising systems without the translational or the rotational invariance.
description: 17 pages
Philosophy of biology : seizing an opportunity
Creators: name: Zurn, Perry
name: Bassett, Danielle S.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: As the techniques available to neuroscientists to probe the inner workings of the brain become more powerful, the volume of data generated increases exponentially and the tools used to analyze these data become ever more sophisticated. Alongside this feverish press into the future comes a growing interest in the use of new data technologies to study old literary and philosophical texts. And as researchers develop new methods to unearth patterns hidden within complex data, it is natural to think of these old texts as simply more data reflecting the intricacies of the human mind, waiting to succumb to the powerful, objective, and reliable perception of machines. Here we argue that historical texts are more than prone booty to be exploited: rather, they offer researchers in neuroscience, philosophy, and literature the opportunity to work together, to learn from and enrich each other’s methodologies. Using the study of human curiosity as an illustration, we describe our vision for a collaborative approach to exploring the mysteries of the mind and human behavior.
The Utility of the Voting Power Approach
Creators: name: Leech, Dennis
name: Leech, Dennis
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Political Economy
Public Economics

description: This paper argues that the voting power approach is much more general than is portrayed by Albert (“The Voting Power Approach: Measurement without Theory”, European Union Politics, 4:3, 2003) and is therefore capable of generating important insights about voting systems, such as qualified majority voting in the EU Council. The voting power approach focuses on understanding the properties of voting systems by analysing outcomes and thereby is able to generate empirical facts that are not otherwise obvious. That the approach is so general has not previously been pointed out in the relevant literature; it has usually been taken as coinciding with power indices. Albert’s criticism is directed at one aspect of the theory of voting power indices: the assumption of probabilistic voting that underlies conventional power indices. It is argued that he fails to take account of the different uses of power indices and that the probabilistic voting assumptions he derides may or may not be useful depending on this. It is necessary to emphasise the key distinction between a priori power indices and measure of empirical voting power. Albert misrepresents the voting power approach and is not willing to allow that it encompasses a diversity of methods as well as a research agenda.
Consumers and Competition
Creators: name: Waterson, Michael
name: Waterson, Michael
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Diamond Paradox
subject: Search Behaviour
subject: Oligopoly pricing

description: This paper shows that even if all consumers face search costs, if these are below a certain level dependent upon the firm numbers and demand elasticity, the Diamond-type equilibrium with all prices at the monopoly level fails to exist.
Philosophy of biology : seizing an opportunity
Creators: name: Zurn, Perry
name: Bassett, Danielle S.
Publisher: name: eLife
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 5003
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: As the techniques available to neuroscientists to probe the inner workings of the brain become more powerful, the volume of data generated increases exponentially and the tools used to analyze these data become ever more sophisticated. Alongside this feverish press into the future comes a growing interest in the use of new data technologies to study old literary and philosophical texts. And as researchers develop new methods to unearth patterns hidden within complex data, it is natural to think of these old texts as simply more data reflecting the intricacies of the human mind, waiting to succumb to the powerful, objective, and reliable perception of machines. Here we argue that historical texts are more than prone booty to be exploited: rather, they offer researchers in neuroscience, philosophy, and literature the opportunity to work together, to learn from and enrich each other’s methodologies. Using the study of human curiosity as an illustration, we describe our vision for a collaborative approach to exploring the mysteries of the mind and human behavior.
Fiscal Interactions Among European Countries
Creators: name: Redoano, Michela
name: Redoano, Michela
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Spatial Correlation
subject: Yardstick Competition
subject: Tax Competition

description: In this paper we investigate whether there is empical evidence that EU Countries set their public expenditure and their taxes interdependently. We use a panel of data across european countries, years and fiscal variables to estimated countries’ reactions functions. We find evidence of intedependences consistent with the literature on tax and yardistick competition.
title: 01_2349
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Dynamic Price Competition with Price Adjustment Costs and Product Differentiation
Creators: name: Vernasca, Gianluigi
name: Vernasca, Gianluigi
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: price adjustment costs
subject: di¤erence game
subject: Markov perfect equilibrium
subject: Open-loop equilibrium

description: We study a discrete time dynamic game of price competition with spatially di¤erentiated products and price adjustment costs. We characterise the Markov perfect and the open-loop equilibrium of our game. We …nd that in the steady state Markov perfect equilibrium, given the presence of adjustment costs, equilibrium prices are always higher than prices at the repeated static Nash solution, even though, adjustment costs are not paid in steady state. This is due to intertemporal strategic complementarity in the strategies of the …rms and from the fact that the cost of adjusting prices adds credibility to high price equilibrium strategies. On the other hand, the stationary open-loop equilibrium coincides always with the static solution. Furthermore, in contrast to continuous time games, we show that the stationary Markov perfect equilibrium converges to the static Nash equilibrium when adjustment costs tend to zero. Moreover, we obtain the same convergence result when adjustment costs tend to in…nity.