cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Dynamical quantum phase transitions and broken-symmetry edges in the many-body eigenvalue spectrum
Creators: name: Mazza, Giacomo
name: Fabrizio, Michele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Many body models undergoing a quantum phase transition to a broken-symmetry phase that survives up to a critical temperature must possess, in the ordered phase, symmetric as well as non-symmetric eigenstates. We predict, and explicitly show in the fully-connected Ising model in a transverse field, that these two classes of eigenstates do not overlap in energy, and therefore that an energy edge exists separating low-energy symmetry-breaking eigenstates from high-energy symmetry-invariant ones. This energy is actually responsible, as we show, for the dynamical phase transition displayed by this model under a sudden large increase of the transverse field. A second situation we consider is the opposite, where the symmetry-breaking eigenstates are those in the high-energy sector of the spectrum, whereas the low-energy eigenstates are symmetric. In that case too a special energy must exist marking the boundary and leading to unexpected out-of-equilibrium dynamical behavior. An example is the fermionic repulsive Hubbard model Hamiltonian H. Exploiting the trivial fact that the high energy spectrum of H is also the low energy one of -H, we conclude that the high energy eigenstates of the Hubbard model are superfluid. Simulating in a time-dependent Gutzwiller approximation the time evolution of a high energy BCS-like trial wave function, we show that a small superconducting order parameter will actually grow in spite of the repulsive nature of interaction.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures
Targeting Inflammation Resolution in Obesity - The Effect of SPM Supplementation on Immune Function in Individuals with Obesity
Creators: name: Regan, Jennifer
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: This short PowerPoint summarizes my research conducted as a part of my 2021 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship project. It outlines the aims, results, and significance of the project. For my independent research project, I utilized samples collected from patients enrolled in a clinical trial for Shaikh Laboratory in which patients had blood drawn prior and immediately following four weeks of supplementation with omega-3-derived molecules known as specialized pro-resolving mediators (SPMs). From these pre- and post-supplementation samples I isolated immune B cells and cultured them with chemicals to simulate infection in order to compare immune function before and after supplementation by measuring antibody levels.
Controlling emergence in an interactive multi-agent musical system
Creators: name: Waghorn, Daniel
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Swarm intelligence has quickly become a popular technique for designing problem-solving systems, imitating the collective behaviours of social animals to address problems with very large solution spaces. Swarm systems specifically try to replicate and harness two properties of swarms in nature – self-organisation, where group behaviour works without central controllers; and emergence, where interaction between agents in the swarm produces higher-level patterns and structures.

 The tendency of swarms to produce very complex behaviour even when the agents they comprise are very simple makes them immediately promising for use in generative music; however, while music is often highly structured, swarm behaviour is generally unpredictable. A small number of musical systems have begun to experiment with swarming techniques, simulating the behaviours of groups of birds, ants or fish, and translating their movements into music. While these existing systems are useful for discovering the kind of music that popular swarming algorithms can produce, there has been no focus so far on how to control these swarms, and therefore it has remained unclear whether they are suited to use as musical tools.

 This thesis aims to address controllability of musical swarms, by examining how control mechanisms added to a musical swarm might influence the swarm to create higher-level musical features as demanded by a user. As part of this goal, a new swarm-based musical tool, called Chirashi, was developed and is demonstrated within. Chirashi implements a common flocking swarm algorithm, and turns user input into influence upon the behaviour of agents within the swarm, to guide groups of agents to produce music with desired aesthetic features, while retaining the swarm’s ability to act autonomously to produce emergent behaviour. In addition to the tool itself, the thesis considers the musical effects of control mechanisms upon the swarm, examining its behaviour and capacity to comply with musical demands while in use in actual music making. Above all, this thesis intends to expand the repertoire of tools available to practitioners of real time, generative music, by establishing control over a technique that is unpredictable enough to surprise its user, to make it predictable enough to allow the user to learn and master it.
Additional file 9 of Outcome prediction for patients assessed by the medical emergency team: a retrospective cohort study
Creators: name: Adielsson, Anna
name: Danielsson, Christian
name: Forkman, Pontus
name: Karlsson, Thomas
name: Pettersson, Linda
name: Herlitz, Johan
name: Lundin, Stefan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 9.
Gerbillus gerbillus
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Cricetidae
Gerbillus
Gerbillus gerbillus

description: Gerbillus gerbillus (Olivier, 1801). Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris, 2: 121. TYPE LOCALITY: Egypt, Giza Prov. DISTRIBUTION: Israel to Morocco and Mauritania; Chad. COMMENT: Includes foleyi and longicaudus (see Petter, 1975, Part 6.3:9), dalloni (see Kock, 1978, Senckenberg. Biol., 58: 126), hirtipes which was formerly included in pyramidum by Petter, 1975, Part 6.3:8 (see Cockrum, 1976, Mammalia, 40:523-524, and Corbet, 1978:121). Lay et al., 1975, Z. Saugetierk., 40: 148, suggested that hirtipes may be a distinct species. Schlitter, 1976, Unpubl. Ph. D. Dissertation, Univ. Maryland, 558 pp., included hirtipes in pyramidum. Formerly included latastei; see Cockrum, 1977, Mammalia, 41:78. Formerly included cheesmani, gleadowi, and sudanensis; see Corbet, 1978:121- 122, Schlitter, 1976, Diss. Abstr. Int., 37(6), Harrison, 1972, The Mammals of Arabia, 3:546, and Kock, 1978, Senckenberg. Biol., 58(3):113. DML considers dalloni and hirtipes distinct species pending revision. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008091016001 as G. gerbillus. 5301410008091010001 as G. dallonii (sic). 5301410008091015001 as G. foleyi. 5301410008091021001 as G. longicaudus.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 3), pp. 392-476 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 414, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353031
description: {"references": ["Kock, D. 1978. Vergleichende untersuchung einiger saugetiere im sudlichen Niger. Senckenbergiana Biologica, 58: 113 - 136."]}
The Tsallis-Laplace Transform
Creators: name: Plastino, A.
name: Rocca, M. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce here the q-Laplace transform as a new weapon in Tsallis' arsenal, discussing its main properties and analyzing some examples. The q-Gaussian instance receives special consideration. Also, we derive the q-partition function from the q-Laplace transform.
description: 30 pages, no figures. Title has changed. Text has changed. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1112.1985
Gerbillus gleadowi Murray 1886
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Cricetidae
Gerbillus
Gerbillus gleadowi

description: Gerbillus gleadowi Murray, 1886. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 17: 246. TYPE LOCALITY: Pakistan (Upper Sin), Rohri Dist., Mirpur-Drahrki Taluka, 15 mi. (24 km) southwest of Rehti, Beruto. DISTRIBUTION: N.W. India, Pakistan. COMMENT: Formerly included in gerbillus by Petter, 1975, Part 6.3:9; Corbet, 1978: 122, Schlitter, 1976, Diss. Abstr. Int., 37(6), and Lay and Nadler, 1975, Mammalia, 39:423-443, considered gleadowi a distinct species. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008091017001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 3), pp. 392-476 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 414, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353031
description: {"references": ["Lay, D. M., and C. F. Nadler. 1975. A study of Gerbillus (Rodentia: Muridae) east of the Euphrates River. Mammalia, 39: 423 - 445."]}
Constraining minimal and non-minimal UED models with Higgs couplings
Creators: name: Dey, Ujjal Kumar
name: Ray, Tirtha Sankar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Early indications from the LHC for the observed scalar boson imply properties close to the Standard Model Higgs, putting considerable constraints on TeV scale new physics scenarios. In this letter we consider flat extra dimensional scenarios with the fifth spatial dimension compactified on an S^1/Z_2 orbifold. We find in the minimal model the experimentally preferred effective Higgs couplings to gluon and photon at 95% confidence level disfavor the New Physics scale below 1.3 TeV. We demonstrate that a generalization of these models to include brane localized kinetic terms can relieve the tension to accommodate scales as low as 0.4 TeV.
description: KK level mixing effects included, resembles published version, 8 pages, 4 figures
Additional file 10 of Outcome prediction for patients assessed by the medical emergency team: a retrospective cohort study
Creators: name: Adielsson, Anna
name: Danielsson, Christian
name: Forkman, Pontus
name: Karlsson, Thomas
name: Pettersson, Linda
name: Herlitz, Johan
name: Lundin, Stefan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 10.
MML Inference of Decision Trees, Graphs and Forests
Creators: name: Tan, Peter J.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The Minimum Message Length (MML) principle is a general inductive inference framework which recasts inductive inference as a coding process. Using assumptions identical to those from the well-known Bayesian inference, prediction and modelling, MML represents general inductive and statistical inference problems as a data encoding process which conveys the data to a receiver in a two-part message. The first part is the message to encode the inferred model. The second part is the message to encode the data in light of the inferred model. MML states that the model with the shortest two-part message is the best model approximating the true model.

 Decision trees, decision graphs and decision forests are popular supervised learning methods in machine learning. In this dissertation, the MML principle is applied to build machine learning schemes for decision trees, decision graphs and decision forests. Two novel MML inference schemes are developed. One is a MML coding scheme for Oblique decision trees, which are decision trees with linear discriminate functions at their internal nodes. Another is a MML coding scheme for decision graphs with multi-way joins and dynamic attributes. A decision forests learning scheme based on MML oblique decision trees is also presented.

 Experiments were conducted across a range of problems using data from University of California Machine Learning Repository and the Singapore Data Mining Centre. These experiments showed that compared to other popular decision tree models such C4.5 and C5, models generated by MML inference schemes achieved favourable results in both classification and probabilistic predictive accuracy. The study showed that MML inference schemes are able to find the optimal trade-off between the complexity of these structure models and goodness-of-fit for a given set of data.
title: Vignetten zur situationsbezogenen Erfassung von MPCK
Creators: name: Stankovic, Sanja
name: Brunner, Esther
Publisher: name: Publikationsserver der Pädagogischen Hochschule Thurgau
Year: 2023
Subjects: Professionelle Kompetenzen
Unterrichtsgestaltungskompetenzen
Diagnosekompetenzen
Implizites Wissen
Interdisziplinarität

description: Professionelle Kompetenzen von Lehrpersonen (z.B. Baumert & Kunter, 2011) als Voraussetzung für kompetentes unterrichtliches Handeln sind auch aus fachdidaktischer Perspektive ein zentrales Forschungsthema. Diese Kompetenzen sind von den Lehrpersonen nicht immer explizit verfügbar, sondern werden in einer konkreten Unterrichtssituation, bei der es um „Handeln unter Druck“ (Wahl, 1991) geht, oft in Form von implizitem Wissen angewandt. Deshalb integrieren neue Modelle professioneller Kompetenzen auch implizite Wissensbestände (z. B. Gasteiger & Benz, 2016). Während explizite Wissensbestände von Lehrpersonen auf Basis herkömmlicher Tests erfasst werden können, besteht in Bezug auf die Erfassung von impliziten professionellen Kompetenzen eine Forschungslücke. Auf Basis von theoretischen Grundlagen, curricularem Rahmen und Gestaltungsprinzipien wird im vorliegenden Beitrag ein eigens entwickeltes Instrument vorgestellt, welches einen Beitrag zur Schließung dieser Forschungslücke zu leisten versucht. Als Zielsetzung dieses Testinstruments wird eine situationsbezogene Erfassung der mathematikdidaktischen Kompetenzen (MPCK) von angehenden und praktizierenden Primarlehrpersonen angestrebt und damit ein Instrument zur Erfassung von implizitem Wissen vorgestellt.
description: Beiträge zum Mathematikunterricht 2022, p. 1241
‚ÄövÑv=Being authentic‚ÄövÑv¥ and the indie beer idyll in Tasmania‚ÄövÑv¥s independent brewing
Creators: name: Pinkard, Benjamin
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: I explore what a sense of authenticity does for the independent brewing industry in Tasmania and how this shapes the industry‚ÄövÑv¥s participation in a changing global economy. Sociological literature on authenticity often neglects the individual lived experiences of the indie beer producers. Thus, I ask how is authenticity constructed and communicated in the independent brewing industry of Tasmania and what are the relationships between indie beer production, a sense of place, and the producers? Semi-structured interviews were carried out with 10 Tasmanian indie beer producers to show how a sense of authenticity is carried with the individual and is developed in relationship with the social construction of indie beer, which I term the indie beer idyll. I suggest the construction and communication of a sense of authenticity manifests through performative tactics based on each producer‚ÄövÑv¥s understanding of the materiality of their beer brand, a sense of place, and their affective and embodied experiences. I have formed three thematic pillars to represent these performative tactics, which are Materiality and Processes; Brand Identity and Place; and Emotional Labour and Indie Producers. Producers deploy various aspects of each pillar to fabricate and enhance ‚ÄövÑv=authenticity‚ÄövÑv¥, which generates a collective identity for the indie beer industry in Tasmania and helps to position Tasmania in a globalised economy. I extend the knowledge of authenticity through the three pillars by stressing the significance of producers‚ÄövÑv¥ perceptions of authenticity to develop a theory of performative neolocalist authenticity. I provide theoretical insights linking the embodied experience of beer production, the sense of place created by the producers and a sense of authenticity. As place-based research the data provides insights into how indie beer brands collectively deploy the three pillars as tactics to evoke an affective response in consumers‚ÄövÑv¥ desire for the fulfilment of self in a changing global economy.
Estimating DNA methylation levels by joint modeling of multiple methylation profiles from microarray data: Model-Based Analysis of DNA Methylation Arrays
Creators: name: Chen, Mengjie
name: Zhao, Hongyu
name: Wang, Tao
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: DNA methylation studies have been revolutionized by the recent development of high throughput array-based platforms. Most of the existing methods analyze microarray methylation data on a probe-by-probe basis, ignoring probe-specific effects and correlations among methylation levels at neighboring genomic locations. These methods can potentially miss functionally relevant findings associated with genomic regions. In this paper, we propose a statistical model that allows us to pool information on the same probe across multiple samples to estimate the probe affinity effect, and to borrow strength from the neighboring probe sites to better estimate the methylation values. Using a simulation study we demonstrate that our method can provide accurate model-based estimates. We further use the proposed method to develop a new procedure for detecting differentially methylated regions, and compare it with a state-of-the-art approach via a data application.
Polya urns via the contraction method
Creators: name: Knape, Margarete
name: Neininger, Ralph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60C05, 60F05, 60J05, 68Q25

description: We propose an approach to analyze the asymptotic behavior of Pólya urns based on the contraction method. For this, a new combinatorial discrete time embedding of the evolution of the urn into random rooted trees is developed. A decomposition of these trees leads to a system of recursive distributional equations which capture the distributions of the numbers of balls of each color. Ideas from the contraction method are used to study such systems of recursive distributional equations asymptotically. We apply our approach to a couple of concrete Pólya urns that lead to limit laws with normal limit distributions, with non-normal limit distributions and with asymptotic periodic distributional behavior.
description: minor revision; accepted for publication in Combinatorics, Probability & Computing (Special issue dedicated to the memory of Philippe Flajolet)
Gerbillus henleyi
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Cricetidae
Gerbillus
Gerbillus henleyi

description: Gerbillus henleyi (De Winton, 1903). Novit. Zool., 10: 284. TYPE LOCALITY: Lower Egypt, Wadi Natron, Zaghig. DISTRIBUTION: Algeria to Israel and Jordan; North Yemen. COMMENT: Includes mariae and jordani; see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951:634, Kock, 1978, Bull. Carnegie Mus. Nat. Hist., 6:31 -37, and Osborn and Helmy, 1980, Fieldiana Zool., n.s., 5: 179- 181, who included henleyi in genus Dipodillus; but see comment under Gerbillus. See Bahmangar and Lay, 1975, Mammalia, 39:323, for discussion of distribution. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008091019001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 3), pp. 392-476 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 414, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353031
description: {"references": ["Ellerman, J. R., and T. C. S. Morrison-Scott. 1951. Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian mammals 1758 to 1946. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 810 pp.", "Kock, D. 1978. Vergleichende untersuchung einiger saugetiere im sudlichen Niger. Senckenbergiana Biologica, 58: 113 - 136.", "Osborn, D. J., and I. Helmy. 1980. The contemporary land mammals of Egypt (including Sinai). Fieldiana: Zoology, 5: 1 - 579."]}
Semantics & implementation of computational software families - software development as an inverse process
Creators: name: Quenette, Stevan
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Software development is generally thought of as a “forward problem”, where increments (revisions) of software are developed, often iteratively, to satisfy requirements. However, a dichotomy exists between “developing efficient” programs, and “efficiently developing” programs. To “develop efficiently”, programmers may tend to emphasise on program correctness over program run-time efficiency. As the complexity of the problem domain and hardware increases, managing software complexity, and consequently correctness, becomes increasingly difficult. To “efficiently develop efficient programs” requires the ability to change flow control and/or architecture whilst retaining the ability to prove its correctness. Moreover, ideally these changes are automated, without requiring a programmer to re-introduce optimisations lost by the language constructs used to manage complexity.

 To bridge this dichotomy we propose a new notion – that software development is actually an “inverse problem”. By considering increments as parameters to the inverse process, software development becomes the endeavour to answer the question “which increments best satisfy the requirements?” Software development as an inverse process has a compelling property – the engineering process is mathematically described, underpinned by inverse theory and inverse methods that are well understood. Specifically we apply a formulation of inversion to software decomposition, where the approach to software decomposition is determined by the act of parameterisation in the inversion process. Further, seemingly fine-grained, stakeholder-specified features are formally mapped to both the intended modularity (one side of the dichotomy) and for example, the intended computations (the other side of the dichotomy). We provide this mapping within the one semantic framework, which then permits us to automate changes, shifting a program written on one side of the dichotomy to the other. To achieve this, we model the development process as a Bayesian inference, seeking to discover posterior variants given application data. This is hence a contribution towards continuum rather than a logical or empirical approach to reasoning about programs.

 This work is a treatise of mathematical foundations of programming languages given a formal inverse framing to software development. A new monadic minimal machine – Variational Execution, provides the basis for the one semantic framework. A new extension to a C-based programming language – COMputational ASpectS (COMPASS) is given as both formal semantics and as a tool.
Converting turfgrass to xeriscape: Evaluating Southern Nevada water authority's "Water smart program"
Creators: name: Hudak, Tom
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2005

description: This study evaluated the use and effectiveness of the Xeriscape Conversion program, dubbed the "Water Smart Program," administered by the Southern Nevada Water Authority. The Conversion program is used by five water purveyors throughout Southern Nevada. Because of phenomenal growth in the area, water has become one of the most valuable resources. With its limited availability, conservation has become the logical solution to ever increasing demand. Using empirical data, effectiveness of the program was evaluated in areas such as: water savings after xeriscape conversion; maintenance savings after conversion; the influence of system design on water consumption; and the long term savings potential of xeriscape versus traditional turfgrass. Changes made to the program by SNWA were examined in this paper to determine their effectiveness in keeping pace with growing demand.
title: A Leftist Political Surge: How an Authoritarian Past Helped Spawn a Modern Political Movement in Spain and Portugal
Creators: name: Sykes, Jared
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: Since the 2008 financial crisis ravaged the EU, Spain and Portugal struggled economically to recover, especially as forces in the EU, the European Central Bank (ECB), and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) enforced bailout packages conditional on the implementation of austerity. Additionally, Spanish and Portuguese society have continuously struggled with a history of authoritarian legacies, of the Franco and Salazar dictatorships that ruled the Iberian Peninsula for nearly 50 years. As outrage continued, protest movements, most notably the Spanish 15-M Movement, fueled voter dissatisfaction. Eventually, many prominent figures from the protest movement founded or brough momentum to left-wing political forces, chiefly the Spanish Podemos and the Portuguese Left Bloc, that saw a meteoric rise in the aftermath of the financial crisis.

As a result, this thesis will argue that the combined effects of the immediate fallout of the financial crisis and the long-standing implications of Iberian authoritarian legacies have culminated in the rise of the Spanish and Portuguese New Left. In turn, these factors culminated in immense electoral success for both Podemos and the Left Bloc, and even allowed both parties to participate in government coalitions with mainstream social democratic parties, and resulted in a more economically redistributive and socially liberal system of governing in both countries. Moreover, the rise of the Iberian New Left shows a transformation of the European far-left away from tradition matter regarding workers’ rights and more toward a progressive agenda that appeals to university educated and urban voters.
Customer loyalty program integration in a restaurant: POS system tracking
Creators: name: Ashcraft, Raegan D.
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2008

description: Restaurants today have a high failure rate for several reasons. Heavy competition is one reason that leads to the necessity of customer loyalty. Loyal customers represent not only "stable revenues", but they are also "six times less expensive to plan marketing. Restaurants are challenged with applying the personability to each individual customer that enters the front door in order to gain a return visit. This can be attained through "a greeting by name or simply a reference to a favorite dessert" (Liddle, 1999 ). Currently there are numerous customer loyalty programs implemented in other areas of hospitality: gaming and hotel operations. The implementation of such programs in restaurants can achieve the same loyalty gaming and hotels are seeing daily. This in turn will be beneficial for the restaurant's image as well as having a positive impact on the bottom line.
title: Substrate Monitoring, Contaminant Monitoring, and Educational Outreach on Quagga Mussels (Dreissena bugensis) in Lake Mead, Nevada
Creators: name: Mueting, Sara Ann
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2009

description: The invasive species, the quagga mussel, Dreissena bugensis, was found in Lake Mead, Nevada-Arizona, USA on January 6, 2007. Since then, researchers have been attempting to quantify the amount of damage these mussels will cause to the lower Colorado River basin. Three projects were implemented in this thesis to research the quagga mussel in Lake Mead. First, a study to determine which types of substrates quagga mussels will grow on preferentially was conducted. Six different substrates, Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS) plastic, High Density Polyethylene (HDPE) plastic, Concrete Underlayment Board (CUB), aluminum, stainless steel and fiberglass, were placed in the Boulder Basin of Lake Mead for approximately one year in a modified randomized block design. Half of the substrates were removed and replaced every two months, and the other half remained in the water for the duration of the study (one year). Mussels had no preference in substrate type, but settlement was limited by depth. Mussel settlement on substrates at depths from 6-28 m was significantly greater than on substrates from 32-54 m. This divergence in depth preference is likely due to the different water quality characteristics at these depths. The second study was conducted to determine concentrations of mercury in quagga mussel soft tissue from Lakes Mead and Mohave. The range of mercury concentrations in mussel tissues was 0.017 -0.074 µg/g dry weight. The final project was designed to educate the public and determine certain characteristics of boaters that utilize Lake Mead. Boaters were asked questions about where their next boating destination would be, if they were aware of quagga mussels and if they cleaned their boat between launchings. Of 236 people interviewed, 81% were aware of quagga mussels, but this number needs to increase. To prevent the spread of mussels to other bodies of water, boater education and awareness is vitally important.
Folded potentials in cluster physics - a comparison of Yukawa and Coulomb potentials with Riesz fractional integrals
Creators: name: Herrmann, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In cluster physics a single particle potential to determine the microscopic part of the total energy of a collective configuration is necessary to calculate the shell- and pairing effects. In this paper we investigate the properties of the Riesz fractional integrals and compare their properties with the standard Coulomb and Yukawa potentials commonly used. It is demonstrated, that Riesz potentials may serve as a promising extension of standard potentials and may be reckoned as a smooth transition from Coulomb to Yukawa like potentials, depending of the fractional parameter $α$. For the macroscopic part of the total energy the Riesz potentials treat the Coulomb-, symmetry- and pairing-contributions from a generalized point of view, since they turn out to be similar realizations of the same fractional integral at distinct $α$ values.
description: final version
Gerbillus hesperinus Cabrera 1936
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Cricetidae
Gerbillus
Gerbillus hesperinus

description: Gerbillus hesperinus Cabrera, 1936. Bol. Real. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat., p. 365. TYPE LOCALITY: Morocco, Mogador (=Essouira). DISTRIBUTION: Coastal Morocco north of Middle Atlas Mtns. COMMENT: Corbet, 1978:122, included hesperinus in pyramidum, and Schlitter, 1976, Unpubl. Ph.D. Dissertation, Univ. Maryland, 558 pp., included it in riggenbachi; but see Lay, 1975, Fieldiana Zool., 65:95- 98, and Benazzou and Genest-Villard, 1980, Mammalia, 44:410, who considered hesperinus a distinct species.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 3), pp. 392-476 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 414, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353031
description: {"references": ["Genest-Villard, H. 1980. Regime alimentaire des rongeurs myomorphes de foret equatoriale region du M'Baiki, Republique Centrafricaine. Mammalia, 44: 423 - 484."]}
Iris recognition in less constrained environments: a video-based approach
Creators: name: Mahadeo, Nitin Kumar
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This dissertation focuses on iris biometrics. Although the iris is the most accurate biometric, its adoption has been relatively slow. Conventional iris recognition systems utilize still eye images captured in ideal environments and require highly constrained subject presentation. A drop in recognition performance is observed when these constraints are removed as the quality of the data acquired is affected by heterogeneous factors. For iris recognition to be widely adopted, it can therefore be argued that the image capture must be facilitated and better performance should be achieved in less constrained imaging conditions. The research work presented in this dissertation demonstrates how performance in iris recognition systems is improved by adopting a video-based approach. The following components have been investigated in this study and presented in relevant publications: (1) Robust eye extraction method of eye images in face videos captured at a distance and on the move (2) Selection of optimal frames in iris videos (3) Iris segmentation in less constrained environments (4) An automated method for predicting inaccurate iris segmentation (5) Optimization of iris codes for improved recognition. The main results and novelties of this work include: Firstly, the development of a fast and accurate method for detecting eye images in face videos. Secondly, this work demonstrates that selection of optimal frames in NIR iris videos lead to better recognition performance. Thirdly, an accurate and robust iris segmentation model for eye images captured in uncontrolled conditions is proposed. Fourthly, this research presents a fully automated segmentation evaluation model for detection of in- correctly segmented iris images. Finally, a new method for optimization of several iris codes into a single highly optimized iris code is introduced. Our results and experiments suggest that incorporation of the above methods in traditional iris recognition systems will be useful for the adoption of this technology by a larger community.
Effect of C$_{60}$ giant resonance on the photoabsorption of encaged atoms
Creators: name: Chen, Zhifan
name: Msezane, Alfred Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The absolute differential oscillator strengths (DOS's) for the photoabsorption of the Ne, Ar, and Xe atoms encapsulated in the C$_{60}$ have been evaluated using the time-dependent-density-functional-theory, which solves the quantum Liouvillian equation with the Lanczos chain method. The calculations are performed in the energy regions both inside and outside the C$_{60}$ giant resonance. The photoabsorption spectra of the atoms encaged in the C$_{60}$ demonstrate strong oscillations inside the energy range of the C$_{60}$ giant resonance. This type of oscillation cannot be explained by the confinement resonance, but is due to the energy transfer from the C$_{60}$ valence electrons to the photoelectron through the intershell coupling.
Additional file 11 of Outcome prediction for patients assessed by the medical emergency team: a retrospective cohort study
Creators: name: Adielsson, Anna
name: Danielsson, Christian
name: Forkman, Pontus
name: Karlsson, Thomas
name: Pettersson, Linda
name: Herlitz, Johan
name: Lundin, Stefan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 11.
Quantum Phase Transition in a Resonant Level Coupled to Interacting Leads
Creators: name: Mebrahtu, Henok T.
name: Borzenets, Ivan V.
name: Liu, Dong E.
name: Zheng, Huaixiu
name: Bomze, Yuriy V.
name: Smirnov, Alex I.
name: Baranger, Harold U.
name: Finkelstein, Gleb
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An interacting one-dimensional electron system, the Luttinger liquid, is distinct from the "conventional" Fermi liquids formed by interacting electrons in two and three dimensions. Some of its most spectacular properties are revealed in the process of electron tunneling: as a function of the applied bias or temperature the tunneling current demonstrates a non-trivial power-law suppression. Here, we create a system which emulates tunneling in a Luttinger liquid, by controlling the interaction of the tunneling electron with its environment. We further replace a single tunneling barrier with a double-barrier resonant level structure and investigate resonant tunneling between Luttinger liquids. For the first time, we observe perfect transparency of the resonant level embedded in the interacting environment, while the width of the resonance tends to zero. We argue that this unique behavior results from many-body physics of interacting electrons and signals the presence of a quantum phase transition (QPT). In our samples many parameters, including the interaction strength, can be precisely controlled; thus, we have created an attractive model system for studying quantum critical phenomena in general. Our work therefore has broadly reaching implications for understanding QPTs in more complex systems, such as cold atoms and strongly correlated bulk materials.
description: 11 pages total (main text + supplementary)
Gerbillus hoogstraali Lay 1975
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Cricetidae
Gerbillus
Gerbillus hoogstraali

description: Gerbillus hoogstraali Lay, 1975. Fieldiana Zool., 65: 90. TYPE LOCALITY: Morocco, 7 km S. Taroudannt. DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 3), pp. 392-476 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 415, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353031
Parity of the number of primes in a given interval and algorithms of the sublinear summation
Creators: name: Lelechenko, Andrew V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: F.2.1
subject: 11Y11, 11Y16, 11Y70

description: Recently Tao, Croot and Helfgott invented an algorithm to determine the parity of the number of primes in a given interval in O(x^{1/2-c+\eps}) steps for some absolute constant c. We propose a slightly different approach, which leads to the implicit value of c. To achieve this aim we discuss the summation of multiplicative functions, developing sublinear algorithms and proving several general theorems.
description: 12 pages; fixed typos
Partially functional linear regression in high dimensions
Creators: name: Kong, Dehan
name: Xue, Kaijie
name: Yao, Fang
name: Zhang, Hao H.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: In modern experiments, functional and nonfunctional data are often encountered simultaneously when observations are sampled from random processes and high-dimensional scalar covariates. It is difficult to apply existing methods for model selection and estimation. We propose a new class of partially functional linear models to characterize the regression between a scalar response and covariates of both functional and scalar types. The new approach provides a unified and flexible framework that simultaneously takes into account multiple functional and ultrahigh-dimensional scalar predictors, enables us to identify important features, and offers improved interpretability of the estimators. The underlying processes of the functional predictors are considered to be infinite-dimensional, and one of our contributions is to characterize the effects of regularization on the resulting estimators. We establish the consistency and oracle properties of the proposed method under mild conditions, demonstrate its performance with simulation studies, and illustrate its application using air pollution data.
Conseils phytosanitaires pour la culture maraîchère biologique
Creators: name: Hauenstein, Samuel
name: Hedrich, Tino
name: Gamper-Cardinali, Carlo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: phytosanitaire
culture maraîchère biologique
culture maraîchère

description: Cette publication présente des mesures préventives et directes de protection phytosanitaire pour plusieurs cultures ou groupes de cultures maraîchères. Ces conseils complètent les communications sur la protection phytosanitaire publiées chaque semaine pendant la campagne agricole par Agroscope et le FiBL pour la culture maraîchère suisse.
Impacts on Cosmological Constraints from Degeneracies
Creators: name: Li, Hong
name: Xia, Jun-Qing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we study the degeneracies among several cosmological parameters in detail and discuss their impacts on the determinations of these parameters from the current and future observations. By combining the latest data sets, including type-Ia supernovae "Union2.1" compilation, WMAP seven-year data and the baryon acoustic oscillations from the SDSS Data Release Seven, we perform a global analysis to determine the cosmological parameters, such as the equation of state of dark energy w, the curvature of the universe Ω_k, the total neutrino mass \sum{m_ν}, and the parameters associated with the power spectrum of primordial fluctuations (n_s, α_s and r). We pay particular attention on the degeneracies among these parameters and the influences on their constraints, by with or without including these degeneracies, respectively. We find that $w$ and Ω_k or \sum{m_ν} are strongly correlated. Including the degeneracies will significantly weaken the constraints. Furthermore, we study the capabilities of future observations and find these degeneracies can be broken very well. Consequently, the constraints of cosmological parameters can be improved dramatically.
description: 9 figures, 6 tables, Accepted for publication in JCAP
Additional file 12 of Outcome prediction for patients assessed by the medical emergency team: a retrospective cohort study
Creators: name: Adielsson, Anna
name: Danielsson, Christian
name: Forkman, Pontus
name: Karlsson, Thomas
name: Pettersson, Linda
name: Herlitz, Johan
name: Lundin, Stefan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 12.
R code for paper: "Social uncertainty promotes signal complexity during approaches in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) and mangabeys (Cercocebus atys atys)". Grampp et al.
Creators: name: Grampp, Mathilde
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 310901
subject: Animal behaviour

description: Rcode for analyses in 'Social uncertainty promotes signal complexity during approaches in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) and mangabeys (Cercocebus atys atys)' Grampp et al.
title: Pedestrian perceptions: a study of the Mount Pleasant neighborhood in Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Creators: name: Guinn, Jeffery M.
Publisher: name: Western Washington University
Year: 2012

description:
Most short distance travel, less than three miles, is being completed by single occupancy vehicles in North America, which leads to many negative effects on the physical environment and citizens' quality of life. Therefore, understanding influences on travel behavior, more specifically non-automotive travel behavior, is crucial. Many researchers and city planners have touted specific factors for encouraging walking and biking, but the body of work to support such notions remains small and fragmented. This study was developed to test all previously identified motivating factors for walking and biking and their relative influence over one's choice. The Mount Pleasant neighborhood in Vancouver, B.C., Canada was chosen as the location for this study because all of the motivating factors were present. Data was collected through a questionnaire-based survey, which also contained demographic and behavioral clarifying questions. In the end, all previous factors were shown to have some influence over one's decision, but some relationships were stronger than others. This work provides a basic outline for future travel behavior studies, and highlights important factors that need further exploration.
Transport through two interacting resonant levels connected by a Fermi sea
Creators: name: Canovi, Elena
name: Moreno, Alexander
name: Muramatsu, Alejandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study transport at finite bias, i.e. beyond the linear regime, through two interacting resonant levels connected by a Fermi sea, by means of time-dependent density matrix renormalization group. We first consider methodological issues, like the protocol that leads to a current-currying state and the characterization of the steady state. At finite sizes both the current and the occupations of the interacting levels oscillate as a function of time. We determine the amplitude and period of such oscillations as a function of bias. We find that the occupations on the two dots oscillate with a relative phase which depends on the distance between the impurities and on the Fermi momentum of the Fermi sea, as expected for RKKY interactions. Also the approximant to the steady-state current displays oscillations as a function of the distance between the impurities. Such a behavior can be explained by resonances in the free case. We then discuss the incidence of interaction on such a behavior. We conclude by showing the effect of the bias on the current, making connection with the one-impurity case.
description: 11 pages, 17 figures, revised version, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. B
An evaluation of configuration management for high performance computing on clouds
Creators: name: Goh, Tian
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis has developed a Dynamic Configuration Management Framework and implemented a prototype using Puppet Enterprise to support evaluation of the suitability of said framework. The field of research in Configuration Management, specifically in the High Performance Computing Application area for Cloud infrastructures is still under developed and this research contributes greatly to that field of research, serving as a stepping stone for future work to be done. The results from the implementation of the prototype demonstrates an overwhelming increase in efficiency and reliability of Configuration Management of 77% to 81%, and 89% to 100% respectively. This assures the framework of two facts. Firstly, the proof that the use of the framework proposed and the Configuration Management tool has a positive effect on efficiency, and secondly, that the reliability of the system Configuration Management increases when compared to a traditional style of Configuration Management, that is - the manual or semi-scripted process. This thesis demonstrates the feasibility on the investment for a Configuration Management tool in use with distributed infrastructure such as the Cloud. The framework proposed also serves as a guideline and process chart for Configuration Management of dynamic packages and High Performance Computing application requirements.