cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Slider-Block Friction Model for Landslides: Application to Vaiont and La Clapiere Landslides
Creators: name: Helmstetter, A.
name: Sornette, D.
name: Grasso, J. -R.
name: Andersen, J. V.
name: Gluzman, S.
name: Pisarenko, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Accelerating displacements preceding some catastrophic landslides have been found empirically to follow a time-to-failure power law, corresponding to a finite-time singularity of the velocity $v \sim 1/(t_c-t)$ [{\it Voight}, 1988]. Here, we provide a physical basis for this phenomenological law based on a slider-block model using a state and velocity dependent friction law established in the laboratory and used to model earthquake friction. This physical model accounts for and generalizes Voight's observation: depending on the ratio $B/A$ of two parameters of the rate and state friction law and on the initial frictional state of the sliding surfaces characterized by a reduced parameter $x_i$, four possible regimes are found. Two regimes can account for an acceleration of the displacement. We use the slider-block friction model to analyze quantitatively the displacement and velocity data preceding two landslides, Vaiont and La Clapière. The Vaiont landslide was the catastrophic culmination of an accelerated slope velocity. La Clapière landslide was characterized by a peak of slope acceleration that followed decades of ongoing accelerating displacements, succeeded by a restabilizing phase. Our inversion of the slider-block model on these data sets shows good fits and suggest to classify the Vaiont (respectively La Clapière) landslide as belonging to the velocity weakening unstable (respectively strengthening stable) sliding regime.
description: shortened by focusing of the frictional model, Latex document with AGU style file of 14 pages + 11 figures (1 jpeg photo of figure 6 given separately) + 1 table
Atheta harwoodi WILLIAMS 1930
Creators: name: Assing, V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Atheta
Atheta harwoodi

description: Atheta harwoodi WILLIAMS 1930
 Material examined: 1 ex., Pelopónnisos, northern Taygetos, E Perivolia, 1300 m, creek valley, 24.III.1997, leg. Assing (cAss); 1 ex., Pelopónnisos, SE Zakháro, 6 km E Néa Figalia, 700 m, 2.X.2004, leg. Bense (SMNS).
description: Published as part of Assing, V., 2006, New species and records of Staphylinidae from Greece, with two new synonymies (Insecta: Coleoptera), pp. 333-379 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 38 (1) on page 357, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5433223
Scale-dependent estimates of niche overlap and environmental effects on two sister species of Neotropical snakes
Creators: name: Thaís De Almeida Corrêa Nogueira
name: Wellyngton Espíndola Ayala
name: Jussara Santos Dayrell
name: Fraga, Rafael De
name: Kaefer, Igor Luis
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Detecting ecological patterns is highly dependent on the spatial scale of the analysis. However, the importance of scale has been poorly explored when testing environmental influences and estimating niche overlap between animal species. In this study, we tested the hypotheses that: 1) environmental influences on species distribution at different geographic scales will be distinct, 2) niche overlap limits species local occurrence. We modeled ecological distributions of Philodryas argentea (n = 319) and P. georgeboulengeri (n = 61) in the Amazonian biome at different spatial scales: local, using regression analysis along 880 km transect with evenly distributed plots; and broad, modeling occurrence data with a Maximum Entropy algorithm. Variables that contributed to P. argentea occurrence were tree cover and elevation at local scale and annual temperature range for broad scale. For P. georgeboulengeri, the most important variables at local and broad scales were tree cover and elevation, respectively. Niche overlap was estimated at 23% and niches were not similar. We conclude: 1) detection of the most relevant variables for distribution of both species is dependent on spatial scale used; 2) although limited, co-occurrence of species at local scale seems to be allowed by the high niche dissimilarity observed in broad scale.
Typical entanglement entropy in the presence of a center: Page curve and its variance
Creators: name: Bianchi, Eugenio
name: Dona, Pietro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a quantum system in a pure state, a subsystem generally has a nonzero entropy because of entanglement with the rest of the system. Is the average entanglement entropy of pure states also the typical entropy of the subsystem? We present a method to compute the exact formula of the momenta of the probability $P(S_A) \mathrm{d}S_A$ that a subsystem has entanglement entropy $S_A$. The method applies to subsystems defined by a subalgebra of observables with a center. In the case of a trivial center, we reobtain the well-known result for the average entropy and the formula for the variance. In the presence of a nontrivial center, the Hilbert space does not have a tensor product structure and the well-known formula does not apply. We present the exact formula for the average entanglement entropy and its variance in the presence of a center. We show that for large systems the variance is small, $ΔS_A/\langle{S_{A}}\rangle\ll 1$, and therefore the average entanglement entropy is typical. We compare exact and numerical results for the probability distribution and comment on the relation to previous results on concentration of measure bounds. We discuss the application to physical systems where a center arises. In particular, for a system of noninteracting spins in a magnetic field and for a free quantum field, we show how the thermal entropy arises as the typical entanglement entropy of energy eigenstates.
description: 6 pages + 7 pages, 2 figures. v3: discussion of the role of the center extended
Atheta ischnocera THOMSON 1870
Creators: name: Assing, V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Atheta
Atheta ischnocera

description: Atheta ischnocera THOMSON 1870
 Material examined: 1 ex., Makedhonía, Dráma, Falakró, above ski resort, 1750-1850 m, 26.V.1999, leg. Assing (cAss).
description: Published as part of Assing, V., 2006, New species and records of Staphylinidae from Greece, with two new synonymies (Insecta: Coleoptera), pp. 333-379 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 38 (1) on page 357, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5433223
An Assortment of Unsupervised and Supervised Applications to Large Data
Creators: Agne, Michael Robert
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Biometry

description: This dissertation presents several methods that can be applied to large datasets with an enormous number of covariates. It is divided into two parts. In the first part of the dissertation, a novel approach to pinpointing sets of related variables is introduced. In the second part, several new methods and modifications of current methods designed to improve prediction are outlined. These methods can be considered extensions of the very successful I Score suggested by Lo and Zheng in a 2002 paper and refined in many papers since.
      In Part I, unsupervised data (with no response) is addressed. In chapter 2, the novel unsupervised I score and its associated procedure are introduced and some of its unique theoretical properties are explored. In chapter 3, several simulations consisting of generally hard-to-wrangle scenarios demonstrate promising behavior of the approach. The method is applied to the complex field of market basket analysis, with a specific grocery data set used to show it in action in chapter 4. It is compared it to a natural competition, the A Priori algorithm. The main contribution of this part of the dissertation is the unsupervised I score, but we also suggest several ways to leverage the variable sets the I score locates in order to mine for association rules.
      In Part II, supervised data is confronted. Though the I Score has been used in reference to these types of data in the past, several interesting ways of leveraging it (and the modules of covariates it identifies) are investigated. Though much of this methodology adopts procedures which are individually well-established in literature, the contribution of this dissertation is organization and implementation of these methods in the context of the I Score. Several module-based regression and voting methods are introduced in chapter 7, including a new LASSO-based method for optimizing voting weights. These methods can be considered intuitive and readily applicable to a huge number of datasets of sometimes colossal size. In particular, in chapter 8, a large dataset on Hepatitis and another on Oral Cancer are analyzed. The results for some of the methods are quite promising and competitive with existing methods, especially with regard to prediction. A flexible and multifaceted procedure is suggested in order to provide a thorough arsenal when dealing with the problem of prediction in these complex data sets.
      Ultimately, we highlight some benefits and future directions of the method.
Localization Bounds for an Electron Gas
Creators: name: Aizenman, M.
name: Graf, G. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Mathematical analysis of the Anderson localization has been facilitated by the use of suitable fractional moments of the Green function. Related methods permit now a readily accessible derivation of a number of physical manifestations of localization, in regimes of strong disorder, extreme energies, or weak disorder away from the unperturbed spectrum. The present work establishes on this basis exponential decay for the modulus of the two--point function, at all temperatures as well as in the ground state, for a Fermi gas within the one-particle approximation. Different implications, in particular for the Integral Quantum Hall Effect, are reviewed.
description: An extended version of the previous draft. LaTeX, 1 figure (eps)
An estimate of the dark matter density from galaxy clusters and supernovae data
Creators: name: Holanda, R. F. L.
name: Gonçalves, R. S.
name: Gonzales, J. E.
name: Alcaniz, J. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we discuss a model-independent way to obtain the present dark matter density parameter ($Ω_{\rm{c,0}}$) by combining gas mass fraction measurements in galaxy clusters ($f_{gas}$), type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) observations and measurements of the cosmic baryon abundance from observations of absorption systems at high redshifts. Our estimate is $Ω_{\rm{c,0}} = 0.244 \pm 0.013$ ($1σ$). By considering the latest local measurement of the Hubble constant, we obtain $Ω_{\rm{M,0}} = 0.285 \pm 0.013$ ($1σ$) for the total matter density parameter. We also investigate departures of the evolution of the dark matter density with respect to the usual $a^{-3}$ scaling, as usual in interacting models of dark matter and dark energy. As the current data cannot confirm or rule out such an interaction, we perform a forecast analysis to estimate the necessary improvements in number and accuracy of upcoming $f_{gas}$ and SNe Ia observations to detect a possible non-minimal coupling in the cosmological dark sector.
description: JCAP Accepted, 7 pages, 4 figures
Oedemeridae Latreille 1810
Creators: name: Švihla, Vladimír
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Oedemeridae

description: Key to the Socotran species of the Oedemeridae  1. Both mandibles and claws simple................................................................................... 2
– Either both mandibles bifid apically or right mandibles with subapical tooth; claws dentate basally.............................................................................................................................. 3
 2. Parameres with ventrobasal tooth, pygidium rounded apically in both sexes, coloration as in Figs. 1–2. Socotra........................  Colobostomoides marshalli socotraensis ssp. nov.
 – Parameres without ventrobasal tooth; pygidium narrowly incised apically in both sexes; for habitus and coloration as in ŠVIHLA (2008b). Socotra, UAE, S Pakistan....................................................................................  Probosca (Proboxanth a)  maindroni (Pic, 1935)
 3. Both mandibles bifid apically; basal teeth of claws reaching at least their midlength; pygidium triangularly emarginate in both sexes; parameres glabrous; habitus and coloration as in Figs. 6–8. Socotra....................................................  Anisochrodes janavlada sp. nov.
– Left mandibles simple, right one with subapical tooth; basal teeth of claws not reaching their midlength; pygidium rounded in both sexes; parameres pubescent....................... 4
 4. Head and vertex unicolor; aedeagus with apical tooth; habitus and coloration as in Fig. 5. Socotra, Abd al Kuri........................................... Dentostomus guichardi (Švihla, 1987)
 – Head with darker spot on vertex; pronotum infuscate medio-longitudinally and laterally; aedeagus without apical tooth; habitus and coloration as in Figs. 3–4. Socotra, Darsah, Abd al Kuri....................................................... Dentostomus socotrensis (Švihla, 1986)
description: Published as part of Švihla, Vladimír, 2012, A review of the family Oedemeridae (Coleoptera) of the Socotra Archipelago, pp. 337-346 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 52 on page 344, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5339158
title: Post-transcriptional control of the mammalian circadian clock
title: implications for health and disease
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Preußner, Marco
name: Heyd, Florian
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Circadian clock
subject: Post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression
subject: Chronomedicine
subject: Alternative splicing mRNA stability Translation
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie::572 Biochemie

description: Many aspects of human physiology and behavior display rhythmicity with a period of approximately 24 h. Rhythmic changes are controlled by an endogenous time keeper, the circadian clock, and include sleep-wake cycles, physical and mental performance capability, blood pressure, and body temperature. Consequently, many diseases, such as metabolic, sleep, autoimmune and mental disorders and cancer, are connected to the circadian rhythm. The development of therapies that take circadian biology into account is thus a promising strategy to improve treatments of diverse disorders, ranging from allergic syndromes to cancer. Circadian alteration of body functions and behavior are, at the molecular level, controlled and mediated by widespread changes in gene expression that happen in anticipation of predictably changing requirements during the day. At the core of the molecular clockwork is a well-studied transcription-translation negative feedback loop. However, evidence is emerging that additional post-transcriptional, RNA-based mechanisms are required to maintain proper clock function. Here, we will discuss recent work implicating regulated mRNA stability, translation and alternative splicing in the control of the mammalian circadian clock, and its role in health and disease.
Atheta laticollis
Creators: name: Assing, V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Atheta
Atheta laticollis

description: Atheta laticollis (STEPHENS 1832)
 Material examined: 1 ex., Pelopónnisos, Stimfalia, 800 m, lakeshore, 24.IX.2004, leg. Schawaller (SMNS).
description: Published as part of Assing, V., 2006, New species and records of Staphylinidae from Greece, with two new synonymies (Insecta: Coleoptera), pp. 333-379 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 38 (1) on page 357, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5433223
A Trinomial Analogue of Bailey's Lemma and N=2 Superconformal Invariance
Creators: name: Andrews, G. E.
name: Berkovich, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose and prove a trinomial version of the celebrated Bailey's lemma. As an application we obtain new fermionic representations for characters of some unitary as well as nonunitary models of N = 2 superconformal field theory (SCFT). We also establish interesting relations between N = 1 and N = 2 models of SCFT with central charges $(3/2)( 1 -{2(2 - 4ν)^2}/{2(4ν)})$ and $3(1 - 2/{4ν})$. A number of new mock theta function identities are derived.
description: Reference and note added
Sensing single atoms in a cavity using a broadband squeezed light
Creators: name: Bao, D. Q.
name: Zhu, C. J.
name: Yang, Y. P.
name: Agarwal, G. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate a single atom cavity-QED system directly driven by a broadband squeezed light. We demonstrate how the squeezed radiation can be used to sense the presence of a single atom in a cavity. This happens by transferring one of the photons from the field in a state with even number of photons to the atom and thereby populating odd number Fock states. Specifically, the presence of the atom is sensed by remarkable changing in the presence of one photon and the loss of squeezing of the cavity field. A complete study of quantum fluctuations and the excitation of multiphoton transitions is given.
Hercostomus Loew 1857
Creators: name: Zhang, Lili
name: Yang, Ding
name: Grootaert, Patrick
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Dolichopodidae
Hercostomus

description: Hercostomus Loew, 1857
  Diagnosis. –  Dolichopodinae with veins R 4+5 and M straight and running almost parallel, usually slightly converging apically. Pteropleuron without hairs i.e. no hairs in front of the posterior thoracic spiracle. Fifth pair of dc not or rarely slightly convergent.
description: Published as part of Zhang, Lili, Yang, Ding & Grootaert, Patrick, 2008, Mangrove Hercostomus Sensu Lato (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) Of Singapore, pp. 17-28 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 56 (1) on page 18, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5339229
Additional file 13: of Intrachromosomal colocalization strengthens co-expression, co-modification and evolutionary conservation of neighboring genes
Creators: name: Lian, Shuaibin
name: Liu, Tianliang
name: Jing, Shengli
name: Yuan, Hongyu
name: Zhang, Zaibao
name: Cheng, Lin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Figure S5. The biological process enrichment analysis of colocalized gene pairs. (DOCX 18 kb)
Repaying Microcredit Loans: A Natural Experiment on Liability Structure
Creators: name: Mahreen Mahmud
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: This paper utilises a natural experiment – the shift from individual to joint lending by a microfinance organisation in Pakistan – to show significant improvement in borrower discipline under joint liability loans. I find that a possible mechanism for this impact is the degree of pre-existing social connection between the group members. For the mechanism analysis, I use the exogenous variation in the number of months borrowers had till the expiry of their individual liability loans at the time of the announcement of the shift to joint leading as an instrument for the degree of social connection of the group.
Finite Crystals and Paths
Creators: name: Hatayama, Goro
name: Koga, Yoshiyuki
name: Kuniba, Atsuo
name: Okado, Masato
name: Takagi, Taichiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81R10

description: We consider a category of finite crystals of a quantum affine algebra whose objects are not necessarily perfect, and set of paths, semi-infinite tensor product of an object of this category with a certain boundary condition. It is shown that the set of paths is isomorphic to a direct sum of infinitely many, in general, crystals of integrable highest weight modules. We present examples from C_n^{(1)} and A_{n-1}^{(1)}, in which the direct sum becomes a tensor product as suggested from the Bethe Ansatz.
description: 15 pages, LaTeX2e, submitted to the proceedings of the RIMS98 program "Combinatorial Methods in Representation Theory"
The Wang-Landau Algorithm as Stochastic Optimization and Its Acceleration
Creators: name: Dai, Chenguang
name: Liu, Jun S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We show that the Wang-Landau algorithm can be formulated as a stochastic gradient descent algorithm minimizing a smooth and convex objective function, of which the gradient is estimated using Markov chain Monte Carlo iterations. The optimization formulation provides us a new way to establish the convergence rate of the Wang-Landau algorithm, by exploiting the fact that almost surely, the density estimates (on the logarithmic scale) remain in a compact set, upon which the objective function is strongly convex. The optimization viewpoint motivates us to improve the efficiency of the Wang-Landau algorithm using popular tools including the momentum method and the adaptive learning rate method. We demonstrate the accelerated Wang-Landau algorithm on a two-dimensional Ising model and a two-dimensional ten-state Potts model.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures
Atheta nigra KRAATZ 1856
Creators: name: Assing, V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Atheta
Atheta nigra

description: Atheta nigra KRAATZ 1856
 Material examined: 1 ex., Pelopónnisos, 10 km NE Gíthio, beach debris, 23.& 26.III.1997, leg. Assing (cAss); 1 ex. (det. J. Vogel), Crete, Lefka Ori, Mt. Psári, 1700 m, VI.2002, leg. Feldmann (cFel).
description: Published as part of Assing, V., 2006, New species and records of Staphylinidae from Greece, with two new synonymies (Insecta: Coleoptera), pp. 333-379 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 38 (1) on page 357, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5433223
Differential DNA methylation in blood as a mediator of the association between cigarette smoking and bladder cancer risk among postmenopausal women
Creators: name: Jordahl, Kristina M.
name: Phipps, Amanda I.
name: Randolph, Timothy W.
name: Tindle, Hilary A.
name: Liu, Simin
name: Tinker, Lesley F.
name: Kelsey, Karl T.
name: White, Emily
name: Bhatti, Parveen
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Smoking accounts for approximately 52% of bladder cancer incidence among postmenopausal women, but the underlying mechanism is poorly understood. Our study investigates whether changes in DNA methylation, as measured in blood, mediate the impact of smoking on bladder cancer risk among postmenopausal women. We conducted analyses among 206 cases and 251 controls that were current or never smokers at baseline from a previous case-control study of bladder cancer and genome-wide DNA methylation nested within the Women’s Health Initiative. Separate mediation analyses were conducted for three CpG sites demonstrating robust associations with smoking in prior methylome-wide association studies: cg05575921 (AhRR), cg03636183 (F2RL3), and cg19859270 (GPR15). We estimated causal effects using the regression-based, four-way decomposition approach, which addresses the interaction between smoking and each CpG site. The overall proportion of the excess relative risk mediated by cg05575921 was 92% (p-value = 0.004) and by cg19859270 was 79% (p-value = 0.02). The largest component of the excess relative risk of bladder cancer due to 30 pack-years of smoking history in current smokers was the mediated interaction for both cg05575921 (72%, p = 0.02) and cg19859270 (72%, p-value = 0.04), where the mediated interaction is the effect of smoking on bladder cancer that both acts through differential methylation and depends on smoking history. There was little evidence that smoking was mediated through cg03636183. Our results suggest that differential methylation of cg05575921 and cg19859270 mediate the effects of smoking on bladder cancer, potentially revealing downstream effects of smoking relevant for carcinogenesis.
Bilinear Representation for Language-based Image Editing Using Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks
Creators: name: Mao, Xiaofeng
name: Chen, Yuefeng
name: Li, Yuhong
name: Xiong, Tao
name: He, Yuan
name: Xue, Hui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The task of Language-Based Image Editing (LBIE) aims at generating a target image by editing the source image based on the given language description. The main challenge of LBIE is to disentangle the semantics in image and text and then combine them to generate realistic images. Therefore, the editing performance is heavily dependent on the learned representation. In this work, conditional generative adversarial network (cGAN) is utilized for LBIE. We find that existing conditioning methods in cGAN lack of representation power as they cannot learn the second-order correlation between two conditioning vectors. To solve this problem, we propose an improved conditional layer named Bilinear Residual Layer (BRL) to learning more powerful representations for LBIE task. Qualitative and quantitative comparisons demonstrate that our method can generate images with higher quality when compared to previous LBIE techniques.
description: To appear at ICASSP 2019. Implementation: https://github.com/vtddggg/BilinearGAN_for_LBIE
Composite 2HDM with singlets: a viable dark matter scenario
Creators: name: Davoli, Alessandro
name: De Simone, Andrea
name: Marzocca, David
name: Morandini, Alessandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the non-minimal composite Higgs model with global symmetry $\text{SO}(7)$ broken to $\text{SO}(5)\times \text{SO}(2)$. The model results in a composite Two-Higgs doublet model (2HDM) equipped with two extra singlets, the lightest of which can be a viable dark matter candidate. The model is able to reproduce the correct dark matter relic density both via the usual thermal freeze-out and through late time decay of the heavier singlet. In the case of thermal freeze-out, it is possible to evade current experimental constraints even with the minimum fine tuning allowed by electroweak precision tests.
description: 41 pages, 8 figures, corrected abstract typo, matches published version
Re-entrant spin glass and magnetoresistance in Co_{0.2}Zn_{0.8}Fe_{1.6}Ti_{0.4}O_4 spinel oxide
Creators: name: Bhowmik, R. N.
name: Ranganathan, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have investigated the static and dynamic response of magnetic clusters in Co_{0.2}Zn_{0.8}Fe_{1.6}Ti_{0.4}O_4 spinel oxide, where a sequence of magnetic phase transitions, i.e., paramagnetic (PM) to ferromagnetic at T_{C} $\leq$ 270K and ferromagnetic to canted spin glass state at T_f$ $\leq$ 125K is observed.
An Avatar Video Intervention on Type 2 Diabetes for Women of Color Using Brief Motivational Interviewing: Predictors of Self-efficacy Post-video for Performing the American Association of Diabetes Educator’s Seven Self-care Behaviors
Creators: Gesinde, Bukunmi
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Health education
Public health
Self-efficacy
Diabetics
Motivational interviewing

description: This online study evaluated the efficacy of an e-health avatar/cartoon video with women of color living with type 2 diabetes for a minimum of 2 years. After considerable dropout, the sample size declined from n=149, as 50.3% (n=75, 50.33%) did not complete the survey. After eliminating those who did not watch “all” or “most” of the video, the sample declined further. The final sample (n=64) was 31.3% (n=20) U.S.-born, 100% (n=64) female, 79.7% (n=51) Black, and 12.5% (n=8) Asian—with mean age of 49.28 (Min=22, Max=79, SD=13.24). Using backwards stepwise regression, higher post-video global self-efficacy to perform AADE7 Self-Care Behaviors™ was significantly predicted by: higher level of coping self-efficacy—stopping unpleasant emotions and thoughts (B=0.131, p =.001); and higher age (B=0.026, p=.002) with the R2=.331 (Adjusted R2 =.298; 29.8% of the variance was explained). However, less emphasis should be placed on findings from this controversial regression with small sample size. Instead, as this is an online evaluation of a brief online video intervention, what are important are results of pre- versus post-video paired t-test results. These suggested that engagement in the brief online intervention of watching the new video was associated with: a significant increase in type 2 diabetes self-management knowledge for performing the AADE7™ Self-Care Behaviors; and, a significant increase for stages of change, self-efficacy, and motivation to perform the 7 diabetes self-management behaviors. Finally, the mixed methods data were important for underscoring the value of the study’s quantitative findings. Some 89.1% (n=57) would recommend the video to other women of color living with type 2 diabetes. Reflecting how the video intervention was a true innovation in integrating a brief form of motivational interviewing with relapse prevention, consider sample emergent themes: video was motivational; and video covered relapse prevention and problem solving, using a menu of options. There is value in ensuring exposure to an e-health avatar video on the AADE7 Self-Care Behaviors™ that also integrates the evidence-based approaches of motivational interviewing and relapse prevention, in order to meet the health education needs of those diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.
Comparison of common side effects from mood stabilizers and antipsychotics between pediatric and adult patients with bipolar disorder: a systematic review of randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials
Creators: name: Yuanhan Bai
name: Tiebang Liu
name: Ahong Xu
name: Haichen Yang
name: Keming Gao
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Introduction: To compare common side effects of mood stabilizers (MSs) and antipsychotics in pediatric and adult bipolar disorder (BD). Area covered: MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsycINFO was searched for randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials (RCTs) in the treatment of pediatric and adult BD. Twelve RCTs for pediatric patients and 30 for adult patients were included. The risk for the discontinuation due to adverse events, ≥7% weight gain, somnolence, akathisia, nausea and vomiting from a medication relative to placebo was estimated with absolute risk increase and the number needed to harm. The relative risk of these measures in pediatric and adult patients was compared. Expert opinion: Overall, the relative risk for ≥7% weight gain, somnolence, nausea, or vomiting was higher, and akathisia was lower in pediatric patients than in adults. The magnitude of difference among MSs and antipsychotics and between pediatrics and adults varied widely. The risk for pediatric patients could be underestimated because in most pediatric studies, doses of studied medications were lower and flexibly dosed, and titration speeds were slower than in adult studies. Clinicians should pay attention to differences in study designs to understand the risk for common side effects when prescribing a medication for BD.
An Ambivalent Hospitality: Aboriginal Senior Public Servants And The Representation Of Others In Australia's Self-Governing Northern Territory
Creators: name: Ganter, Elizabeth Joan
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Northern Territory
Indigenous political studies
public policy and administration
Australian history
political theory
minority representation

description: "How can you make decisions about Aboriginal people when you can’t even talk to the people you’ve got here that are blackfellas?" This question was posed by an Aboriginal senior public servant whom I interviewed for this research in 2007. She was imagining a conversation with the Northern Territory Public Service, whose invitation for Aborigines to join its departments provides the backdrop to my study. Counterposing the absent Aboriginal policy subject with the ever-present, idiomatic blackfella‘ public servant, the question aptly reframes the government expectation that an Aboriginal presence within the public service will represent the absent through Aborigines‘ numeric sufficiency, their location in the corridors of power and their contribution to Aboriginal policies and programs. This interviewee was insisting that she be heard, if her people were to be taken into account. This thesis begins with a history of Aboriginal employment in the Northern Territory administration which concludes that the unplanned accretion of a substantial number of Aboriginal public servants, in 1978, became the new Northern Territory Government‘s opportunity to legitimize itself as a representative bureaucracy. After reviewing empirical studies of representative bureaucracy and theories of political representation, I argue that all public servants discretionarily represent others in their advice to government. I go on to explore the extent to which Aboriginal senior public servants understand themselves to represent other Aborigines in their work. Analyzing data from 76 interviewees, I ask: how compelling to Aboriginal senior officials is the Northern Territory Government‘s self-account as a representative bureaucracy? I argue that these officials work to a social imaginary in which they are present for those Aborigines whom they regard as absent only by circumstance. Aboriginal senior public servants see themselves as neither the naïve tokens nor misguided advocates that the literature has largely made them out to be. Rather, they see themselves as exemplary representatives of others, for whom they model mindful professionalism, and with whom they share fates as Aboriginal Territorians.
Atheta nigritula
Creators: name: Assing, V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Atheta
Atheta nigritula

description: Atheta nigritula (GRAVENHORST 1802)
 Material examined: 1 ex., Thessalia, Ossa Oros, 6 km W Karitsa, 750 m, beech forest, 4.IV.1998, leg. Assing (cAss); 1 ex., Thessalia, Ossa Oros, E-slope, 1150-1200 m, beech forest, 8.IV.1998, leg. Assing (cAss).
description: Published as part of Assing, V., 2006, New species and records of Staphylinidae from Greece, with two new synonymies (Insecta: Coleoptera), pp. 333-379 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 38 (1) on page 357, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5433223
Hercostomus Zhang, Yang & Grootaert, 2008, sensu lato
Creators: name: Zhang, Lili
name: Yang, Ding
name: Grootaert, Patrick
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Dolichopodidae
Hercostomus

description: Key to species (males) of Hercostomus sensu lato from Singapore
 1. Wing with grey to brown stigma at end of R 1; R 4+5 thickened from basal quarter onwards (Figs. 15, 20)........................... 2
 – Wing without stigma; R 4+5 not thickened............................ 3
 2. Stigma elongate, extending beyond start of thickening of vein R 4+5 (Fig. 15); aedeagus with small denticle, in a more basal position (Fig. 16); knee hind femur darkened above.................................................................. H. lanceolatus, new species
 – Stigma shorter, reaching the level of thickening of vein R 4+5 (Fig. 20); aedaegus with a larger denticle in a more anteriad position (Fig. 22); knee hind femur not darkened above................................................................................ H. limosus, new species
3. First flagellomere distinctly elongated, at least 2.0 times as long as wide (Figs. 1, 25)............................................................ 4
– First flagellomere not elongated, at most 1.6 times as long as wide....................................................................................... 5
 4. First flagellomere 2.3 times as long as wide (Fig. 1); all coxae blackish; femora blackish except tip of fore and mid femora; cercus with 3 strong bristles on outer margin.......................................................................... H. brevidigitalis, new species
 – First flagellomere distinctly elongated, 3.0 times as long as wide (Fig. 25), fore coxa yellow, mid and hind coxae brown, femora yellow; cercus without strong bristles on outer margin...................................................................... H. meieri, new species
 5. Fore tarsomere 1 (Fig. 6) shortened, concave ventrally with 2 long curved ventral bristles; mid tarsomere 1 (Fig. 7) concave ventrally, with 1 strong ventral bristle near middle and 5 short ventrals basally; cercus large, with short apical tail (Fig. 8).................................................. H. singaporensis, new species
– Fore tarsus normal; cercus triangular, without apical tail... 6
 6. Fore and hind coxae yellow; middle coxa pale brownish with a black anterior stripe; cercus strongly curved, nearly geniculate; aedeagus with 2 inner denticles (Fig. 12).................................................................................... H. brevicornis, new species
 – Fore coxa yellow, mid and hind coxae brownish; cercus triangular; aedeagus with 1 inner denticle (Fig. 30)....................................................................... H. plumatus, new species
description: Published as part of Zhang, Lili, Yang, Ding & Grootaert, Patrick, 2008, Mangrove Hercostomus Sensu Lato (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) Of Singapore, pp. 17-28 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 56 (1) on page 18, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5339229
Stochastic gravitational wave background from accreting primordial black hole binaries during early inspiral stage
Creators: name: Sarkar, Arnab
name: Nayak, K. Rajesh
name: Majumdar, A. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the stochastic gravitational wave background produced by primordial black hole binaries during their early inspiral stage while accreting high-density radiation surrounding them in the early universe. We first show that the gravitational wave amplitude produced from a primordial black hole binary has correction terms because of the rapid rate of increase in masses of the primordial black holes. These correction terms arise due to non-vanishing first and second time derivatives of the masses and their contribution to the overall second time derivative of quadrupole moment tensor. We find that some of these correction terms are not only significant in comparison with the main term but even dominant over the main term for certain ranges of time in the early Universe. The significance of these correction terms is not only for the gravitational wave amplitude produced from an individual PBH-binary, but persists for the overall stochastic gravitational wave background produced from them. We show that the spectral density produced from such accreting primordial black hole binaries lie within the detectability range of some present and future gravitational wave detectors.
description: 11 pages and 8 figures
Atheta paracrassicornis BRUNDIN 1954
Creators: name: Assing, V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Atheta
Atheta paracrassicornis

description: Atheta paracrassicornis BRUNDIN 1954
 Material examined: 1 ex., Thessalia, Kato Olympos, E Kallipefki, 1450-1500 m, beech and fir forest, sifted, 6.IV.1998, leg. Assing (cAss).
description: Published as part of Assing, V., 2006, New species and records of Staphylinidae from Greece, with two new synonymies (Insecta: Coleoptera), pp. 333-379 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 38 (1) on page 358, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5433223
Bose-Einstein condensate confined in a 1D ring stirred with a rotating delta link
Creators: name: Pérez-Obiol, Axel
name: Cheon, Taksu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a Bose-Einstein condensate with repulsive interactions confined in a 1D ring where a Dirac delta is rotating at constant speed. The spectrum of stationary solutions in the delta comoving frame is analyzed in terms of the nonlinear coupling, delta velocity, and delta strength, which may take positive and negative values. It is organized into a set of energy levels conforming a multiple swallowtail structure in parameter space, consisting in bright solitons, gray and dark solitonic trains, and vortices. Analytical expressions in terms Jacobi elliptic functions are provided for the wave functions and chemical potentials. We compute the critical velocities and perform a Bogoliubov analysis for the ground state and first few excited levels, establishing possible adiabatic transitions between the stationary and stable solutions. A set of adiabatic cycles is proposed in which gray solitons and vortices of arbitrary quantized angular momenta are obtained from the ground state by setting and unsetting a rotating delta.
description: 12 pages, 11 figures
title: Exploring 2D-Material-based Nanofiltration Membranes for Water Treatment
Creators: name: Xing, Chao
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 2D materials
subject: water treatment
subject: nanofiltration membranes

description: Nanochannels with nanoscale characteristic dimensions have sparked broad interest across scientific and engineering disciplines. The emergence of a versatile family of two-dimensional (2D) materials enables high-throughput engineering of nanochannels with tunable layered structural and functional properties in the form of laminar membranes, which opens up new opportunities for applications in liquid molecular separation, gas separation, and ion sieving. Despite significant progress in 2D-material-based nanochannel, thorough understanding of this field is still lacking. In this thesis, I systematically and in-depth explored the mechanism of nanochannel modification on filtration. I also fabricated a series of 2D-material-based nanochannel membranes for water treatment. My research demonstrated that interlayer spacing plays a crucial role in determining the selectivity and permeability of nanofiltration membranes. Proper tuning gives these membranes high throughput, precise selectivity, and multiple uses. [...]
Probing Vortex Unbinding via Dipole Fluctuations
Creators: name: Fertig, H. A.
name: Straley, Joseph P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a numerical method for detecting a vortex unbinding transition in a two-dimensional system by measuring large scale fluctuations in the total vortex dipole moment ${\vec P}$ of the system. These are characterized by a quantity $\cal F$ which measures the number of configurations in a simulation for which the either $P_x$ or $P_y$ is half the system size. It is shown that $\cal F$ tends to a non-vanishing constant for large system sizes in the unbound phase, and vanishes in the bound phase. The method is applied to the XY model both in the absence and presence of a magnetic field. In the latter case, the system size dependence of $\cal F$ suggests that there exist three distinct phases, one unbound vortex phase, a logarithmically bound phase, and a linearly bound phase.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures