cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Homogeneity of neutron transmission imaging over a large sensitive area with a four-channel superconducting detector
Creators: name: Vu, The Dang
name: Shishido, Hiroaki
name: Kojima, Kenji M.
name: Koyama, Tomio
name: Oikawa, Kenichi
name: Harada, Masahide
name: Miyajima, Shigeyuki
name: Oku, Takayuki
name: Soyama, Kazuhiko
name: Aizawa, Kazuya
name: Hidaka, Mutsuo
name: Suzuki, Soh Y.
name: Tanaka, Manobu M.
name: Malins, Alex
name: Machida, Masahiko
name: Ishida, Takekazu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We previously proposed a method to detect neutrons by using a current-biased kinetic inductance detector (CB-KID), where neutrons are converted into charged particles using a 10B conversion layer. The charged particles are detected based on local changes in kinetic inductance of X and Y superconducting meanderlines under a modest DC bias current. The system uses a delay-line method to locate the positions of neutron-10B reactions by acquiring the four arrival timestamps of signals that propagate from hot spots created by a passing charged particle to the end electrodes of the meanderlines. Unlike conventional multi-pixel imaging systems, the CB-KID system performs high spatial resolution imaging over a 15 mm x 15 mm sensitive area using only four channel readouts. Given the large sensitive area, it is important to check the spatial homogeneity and linearity of detected neutron positions when imaging with CB-KID. To this end we imaged a pattern of 10B dot absorbers with a precise dot pitch to investigate the spatial homogeneity of the detector. We confirmed the spatial homogeneity of detected dot positions based on the distribution of measured dot pitches across the sensitive area of the detector. We demonstrate potential applications of the system by taking a clear transmission image of tiny metallic screws and nuts and a ladybug. The image was useful for characterizing the ladybug noninvasively. Detection efficiencies were low when the detector was operated at 4 K, so we plan to explore raising the operating temperature towards the critical temperature of the detector as a means to improve counting rates.
Development of high-fidelity numerical methods for turbulent flows simulation
Creators: name: Capuano, Francesco
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Year: 2015

description: Energy-conserving discretizations are widely regarded as a fundamental requirement for high-fidelity simulations of turbulent flows. A well-known approach to obtain semi-discrete conservation of energy in the inviscid limit is to employ the skew-symmetric splitting of the non-linear term. However, this approach has the drawback of being roughly  twice as expensive as the computation of the divergence or advective forms alone. A novel time-advancement strategy that retains the conservation properties of skew-symmetric-based schemes at a reduced computational cost has been developed. This method is based on properly constructed Runge-Kutta schemes in which a different form (advective or divergence) for the convective term is adopted at each stage. A general theoretical framework has been developed to derive new schemes with prescribed accuracy on both solution and energy conservation. The technique has been first developed and fine-tuned on the Burgers' equation, and then
applied to the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. Simulations of homogeneous isotropic turbulence performed at the Center for Turbulence Research (CTR) in Stanford have demonstrated that the novel procedure provides the same robustness of the skew-symmetric form while halving the computational cost for the non-linear term.
$μ-τ$ Symmetry and Radiatively Generated Leptogenesis
Creators: name: Ahn, Y. H.
name: Kang, Sin Kyu
name: Kim, C. S.
name: Lee, Jake
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a $μ-τ$ symmetry in neutrino sectors realized at GUT scale in the context of a seesaw model. In our scenario, the exact $μ-τ$ symmetry realized in the basis where the charged lepton and heavy Majorana neutrino mass matrices are diagonal leads to vanishing lepton asymmetries. We find that, in the minimal supersymmetric extension of the seesaw model with large $\tanβ$, the renormalization group (RG) evolution from GUT scale to seesaw scale can induce a successful leptogenesis even without introducing any symmetry breaking terms by hand, whereas such RG effects lead to tiny deviations of $θ_{23}$ and $θ_{13}$ from $π/4$ and zero, respectively. It is shown that the right amount of the baryon asymmetry $η_B$ can be achieved via so-called resonant leptogenesis, which can be realized at rather low seesaw scale with large $\tanβ$ in our scenario so that the well-known gravitino problem is safely avoided.
description: 17 pages, 5 figures. Published in PRD
Additional file 1 of Type 2 diabetes mellitus increases the risk of circumcision among men aged between 30 and 69 years using a nationwide population-based dataset in Taiwan: a five-year follow-up study
Creators: name: Wu, Yun-Rui
name: Lai, Yi-Horng
name: Wang, Chung-Cheng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biotechnology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy
Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1
Topics in Information Structures
Creators: name: Taylor, James
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2019

description: Economic analysis containing agents with incomplete information is common in many fields of economics, most notably Game Theory and Decision Theory. In these fields, information structures are typically represented by a state space of outcome-relevant variables, and each agent is endowed with a partition of the state space representing their information about the state of the world. This modeling implicitly assumes a great deal of logical sophistication on the part of agents in the model. For instance, agents can undertake introspection, and can never be mistaken. This thesis considers some effects of weakening various rationality assumptions on individuals' information processing capabilities. We allow agents to have much more general form of information structures in which agents may be mistaken, or potentially not understand modus ponens. These information structures are formalized by the knowledge operator, a function which takes each event into the set of states where the agent knows that the event has occurred. One consequence of this relaxation of assumptions is that the classical Aumann [1976] and Lewis [1969] definitions of common knowledge lose a range of desirable properties. A new definition of common knowledge is developed which reduces to the classical definitions when agents have sufficiently strong information processing capabilities, and retains many desirable properties even when agents lack these abilities. Information aggregation more generally is formalized, and a language for discussing knowledge aggregation is developed. Knowledge operators are used to develop a framework for the study of imprecise probabilities, the Behavioral Imprecise Probability. This new framework uses a standard probability function over the state space to capture Knightian risk, while the knowledge operator captures Knightian uncertainty, or ambiguity. Behavioral Imprecise Probability Models are systematically compared to existing frameworks of imprecise probability including the Multiple Prior Model of Gilboa and Schmeidler [1989], and totally monotone capacities, as in Dempster [1967], Shafer [1976], and Gilboa and Schmeidler [1994]. The second, much smaller, part of the thesis works on the Common Prior Assumption, or Harsanyi Consistency Problem Harsanyi [1967, 1968a,b]. This partreturns to using partitions to model information structures. Existing results of Rodrigues-Neto [2009] are generalised to allow for priors and posteriors without full support. Results from Hellwig [2013] are extended to remove geometric assumptions on the partitions of the agents.
Strumenti per l'individuazione delle procedure di allerta e prevenzione della crisi di impresa. Analisi di casi e modelli
Creators: name: Speranza, Liliana
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Year: 2015

description: Il lavoro svolto è un'analisi sulla crisi di impresa e sulle procedure di allerta al fine di individuare strumenti per consentire ad amministratori e sindaci di intervenire tempestivamente al fine di evitare il degenerare della crisi verso situazioni non più recuperabili.
Miscellaneous 1-205
Creators: name: Escalante, Tessy
name: Escalanti, Jessie W.
name: Halpern, Abraham M.
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: yum

description: 1 WAV file. Tape recorded on one side only. Digitization by The Audio Archive (Burlingame, California).
Contemporary Portraiture in Australia: 1990s to 2010s
Creators: name: Royston, Penelope Ann
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2017
Subjects: History of contemporary portraiture and visual culture in Australia.

description: Contemporary portraiture in Australia is undergoing a revolutionary change in response to the growth of new media, digital imaging and the proliferation of selfies in the networked-digital age. While the effects of new technologies on portraiture are undeniable, this thesis argues contemporary portraiture from the 1990s to 2010s is a synthesis of both traditional modes of representation and new art forms that is expanding our understanding of what is a portrait. Some contemporary portraits have vestiges of Western historic portraiture conventions—mimesis, physiognomy and authenticity—while in others the links have become fragile and contestable. This thesis analyses how contemporary portraiture extends beyond established portraiture traditions to create alternate forms of representation in new and unexpected ways. The study shows contemporary portraiture is becoming increasingly ambiguous and fragmented in form, style, and subject matter. Particular attention is paid to how the desire for social connectedness, that is, being linked up to social media and linked in to internet sites, and the need to take selfies on hand-held devices is redefining portraiture. Furthermore, it examines how the contemporary portrait contributes to changing perceptions of Australian society, national and cultural identity, and ideas of selfhood. It also analyses how new media is disrupting conventional ways of curating and presenting portraits in the gallery setting offering unparalleled opportunities for visitor engagement by presenting portraits on and off the walls. An important distinction made in this thesis, is the significance of portraits of country that gives rise to an alternative concept of subjectivity as a visual and spiritual marker of Indigenous cultural identity. When considered in this way, Indigenous portraits of country go beyond the Western concept of individual difference that allows for a more expansive meaning of portraiture. The outcome of this research study is a body of knowledge and scholarly discourse on recent developments in contemporary portraiture and visual culture brought about by a significant gap in knowledge of the subject.
Additional file 1 of Survival analysis of older adults with dementia: predicting factors after unplanned hospitalization in Maharaj Nakorn Chiang Mai Hospital
Creators: name: Yotruangsri, Thanachat
name: Phinyo, Phichayut
name: Buawangpong, Nida
name: Nantsupawat, Nopakoon
name: Angkurawaranon, Chaisiri
name: Pinyopornpanish, Kanokporn
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1
On the role of the WNH phase in the evolution of very massive stars: Enabling the LBV instability with feedback
Creators: name: Smith, Nathan
name: Conti, Peter S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: (abridged) We propose the new designation ``WNH'' for luminous Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars of the nitrogen sequence with H in their spectra. These are commonly called WNL stars (e.g., WN7h), but this new shorthand avoids confusion because there are late-type WN stars without H and early-type WN stars with H. Clearly differentiating WNH stars from H-free WN stars is critical when discussing progenitors of Type Ib/c SNe and GRBs -- the massive WNH stars are not likely SN progenitors, and are distinct from core-He burning WR stars. We show that the masses of WNH stars are systematically higher than H-poor WR stars (both WN and WC), with little overlap, while H mass fractions of luminous WNH stars exceed those of LBVs. We favor the interpretation that the most luminous WNH stars are still core-H burning, pre-LBVs. While on the main sequence, a star's mass is reduced due to winds while its luminosity slowly rises, so the star increases its Eddington factor and mass-loss rate, pushing it even closer to the Eddington limit. With this feedback, observed masses and mass-loss rates of WNH stars are a natural outcome near the end of core-H burning. Feedback from the strong WNH wind itself then enables the instability seen later as an LBV. Steadily climbing mass-loss rates also explain continuity in spectral traits from O3 V to O3 If* to WNH.
description: ApJ, in press, v. 679
LAMOST Observations in 15 \textit{K}2 Campaigns: I. Low resolution spectra from LAMOST DR6
Creators: name: Wang, Jiangtao
name: Fu, Jian-Ning
name: Zong, Weikai
name: Smith, M. C.
name: De Cat, Peter
name: Shi, Jianrong
name: Luo, Ali
name: Zhang, Haotong
name: Frasca, A.
name: Corbally, C. J.
name: Molenda-Żakowicz, J.
name: Catanzaro, G.
name: Gray, R. O.
name: Wang, Jiaxin
name: Pan, Yang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The LAMOST-\textit{K}2 (L\textit{K}2) project, initiated in 2015, aims to collect low-resolution spectra of targets in the \textit{K}2 campaigns, similar to LAMOST-\textit{Kepler} project. By the end of 2018, a total of 126 L\textit{K}2 plates had been observed by LAMOST. After cross-matching the catalog of the LAMOST data release 6 (DR6) with that of the \textit{K}2 approved targets, we found 160,619 usable spectra of 84,012 objects, most of which had been observed more than once. The effective temperature, surface gravity, metallicity, and radial velocity from 129,974 spectra for 70,895 objects are derived through the LAMOST Stellar Parameter Pipeline (LASP). The internal uncertainties were estimated to be 81 K, 0.15 dex, 0.09 dex and 5 kms$^{-1}$, respectively, when derived from a spectrum with a signal-to-noise ratio in the $g$ band (SNR$_g$) of 10. These estimates are based on results for targets with multiple visits. The external accuracies were assessed by comparing the parameters of targets in common with the APOGEE and GAIA surveys, for which we generally found linear relationships. A final calibration is provided, combining external and internal uncertainties for giants and dwarfs, separately. We foresee that these spectroscopic data will be used widely in different research fields, especially in combination with \textit{K}2 photometry.
description: 31 pages, 9 figures, 6 tables, accepted by ApJS
Cosmic Positron Signature from Dark Matter in the Littlest Higgs Model with T-parity
Creators: name: Asano, Masaki
name: Matsumoto, Shigeki
name: Okada, Nobuchika
name: Okada, Yasuhiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the flux of cosmic positrons from the dark matter annihilation in the littlest Higgs model with T-parity. The dark matter annihilates mainly into weak gauge bosons in the halo, and high energy positrons are produced through leptonic and hadronic decays of the bosons. We investigate a possibility to detect the positron signal in upcoming experiments such as PAMELA and AMS-02. We found that the dark matter signal can be distinguished from the background in the PAMELA experiment when the dark matter mass is less than 120 GeV and the signal flux is enhanced due to a small scale clustering of dark matter. Furthermore, the signal from the dark matter annihilation can be detected in the AMS-02 experiment, even if such enhancement does not exist. We also discuss the invisible width of the Higgs boson in this model.
description: 31 pages, 11 figures Added appendix on constraints from electroweak precision measurements
title: 'To see with their own eyes' : Australian travel writing on the Pacific islands c.1880-1941
title: Australian travel writing on the Pacific Islands c.1880-1941
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Halter, Nicholas
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2015

description: From the 1880s onwards, the Pacific Islands became increasingly accessible to the average Australian with improvements in transportation and the growth of trade and business, Christian outreach, and colonial administration in the region. Economic prosperity and social mobility in Australia facilitated their movement abroad, and the development of publishing and literacy encouraged the circulation of texts which generated excitement about travel and exotic foreign destinations. The varied experiences and impressions of Australians travelling to, and through, the Pacific Islands filled diaries, letters, books, magazines, memoirs and travelogues, many of which found a receptive Australian audience. This thesis explores this corpus of Australian travel writing on the Pacific Islands from c.1880 to 1941. In doing so, it examines how representations of the Pacific Islands within travel accounts reflected and contributed to Australian knowledge of the region. By contextualising these sources and their authors, this thesis explores the nuances and complexities of the individual Australian travel experience, whilst also situating them within the broader corpus of Australian travel literature. I discuss several themes which are prevalent in Australian travel writing of this period: the experience of seaboard travel and tourism, commerce and profit, romantic and utopian ideals, gender roles, ideas of nation and empire, theories of race and science, and notions of the 'savage' and 'civilised.' It explores how individual Australians negotiated these concepts whilst abroad in the Pacific Islands, and how their encounters and their texts highlight a diverse set of reactions, at times confirming, challenging or rejecting previous assumptions and expectations. This historical study of a previously neglected body of literature deepens our understanding of the historical engagement and exchange between Australians and Pacific Islanders. This was a relationship that reached beyond the political and economic interests of a select few - it permeated popular literature and public debate. Though European stereotypes of the Pacific Islands persisted well into the twentieth century, travel writing was crucial in familiarising and informing Australians about their close neighbours. These accounts also show that this engagement was not one-sided. The Pacific Islands played an important role in shaping the growth of the Australian nation too, and Australian travel writers recorded much about themselves as they did the exotic 'other' when placed in unfamiliar surroundings. This thesis argues that the diversity of travel writing challenges stereotypes of Australian travellers and readers, at the same time as it undermines stereotypes of the 'South Seas.'
Congenital Hypogonadotropic Hypogonadism: novel clinical, genetic and molecular insights
Creators: name: Maione, Luigi
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Year: 2015

description: GnRH decapeptide and its receptor are two key-player of the neuroendocrine control of reproduction. Mutations in genes encoding these proteins (GNRH1 and GNRHR) are associated with Congenital Hypogonadotropic Hypogonadism (CHH).
The aim of our work was to screen 450 individuals with CHH for mutations in GNRH1 and GNRHR genes and to determine their deleterious character. Two novel p.W26X and p.R31C mutations in GNRH1 and two novel p.T269M and p.Y290F mutations in GNRHR have been identified in eight CHH individuals from five different families. Molecular and functional characterizations have been performed.
The mutation p.W26X totally disrupts GnRH structure. The occurrence of this variant in two sisters affected by Kallmann Syndrome is not explained by genetics, and offers novel insights to define the pathogenesis in these patients.
The mutation p.R31C introduces a cysteine in position 8 within GnRH. This substitution dramatically alters protein structure and GnRH-dependent signaling, as assessed by impairment of binding, intracellular pathways as MAPK signaling or calcium mobilization, gene expression and biological activity. Moreover, the mutant pre-pro-GnRH is less expressed in various cell lines compared to wild type. Despite the deleterious effects on protein function of p.R31C product, the mode of inheritance suggests a negative dominance with intriguing yet elusive mechanisms.
The mutation p.T269M in GNRHR completely abolishes the binding, and produces a complete impairment of GnRH-dependent signals, as evaluated by calcium and MAPK. The homozygous status fully explains disease in two sisters with CHH.
The p.Y290F mutated GnRH receptor is less able to activate the main intracellular GnRH-dependent cascades. The girl with CHH harbors a homozygous mutation from consanguineous parents, consistent with disease.
In conclusion, novel GNRH1 and GNRHR mutations with deleterious properties are reported with their molecular characterization. In two cases, the disease cannot be fully explained by genetic abnormalities, thus opening interesting opportunities for further investigations in this field.
Finally, a section on sensorineural characterization of CHH patients is provided. To this aim, a novel and innovative diagnostic test (Flavor Identification Test) has been developed as part of my Ph.D. thesis. This test has received a National Patent.
Boost-invariant Hamiltonian approach to heavy quarkonia
Creators: name: Glazek, Stanislaw D.
name: Mlynik, Jaroslaw
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Light-front Hamiltonian formulation of QCD with only one flavor of quarks is used in its simplest approximate version to calculate masses and boost-invariant wave functions of c-anti-c or b-anti-b mesons. It is shown that in the Hamiltonian approach in its simplest version the strong coupling constant alpha and quark mass m (for suitable values of the renormalization group parameter lambda that is used in the calculation), can be adjusted so that a) masses of 12 lightest well-established b-anti-b mesons are reproduced with accuracy better than 0.5 percent for all of them, which means 50 MeV in a few worst cases and on the order of 10 MeV in other cases, or b) masses of 11 lightest c-anti-c mesons are reproduced with accuracy better than 3 percent for all of them, which means better than 100 MeV in a few worst cases and on the order of 10 MeV in the other cases, while the parameters alpha and m are near the values expected in the cases a) and b) by analogy with other approaches. A 4th-order study in the same Hamiltonian scheme will be required to explicitly include renormalization group running of the parameters alpha and m from the scale set by masses of bosons W and Z down to the values of lambda that are suitable in the bound-state calculations. In principle, one can use the Hamiltonian approach to describe the structure, decay, production, and scattering of heavy quarkonia in all kinds of motion, including velocities arbitrarily close to the speed of light. This work is devoted exclusively to a pilot study of masses of the quarkonia in the simplest version of the approach.
description: 28 pages, 7 figures, revtex4, corrected columns 4 and 5 in Table VI, curves bba in Figs. 5 and 6, and their description, added two sentences in abstract, comments explaining numerical accuracy, and 4 references for Section 5 C
Additional file 1 of Unexpected thermal stability of two enveloped megaviruses, Emiliania huxleyi virus and African swine fever virus, as measured by viability PCR
Creators: name: Balestreri, Cecilia
name: Schroeder, Declan C.
name: Sampedro, Fernando
name: Marqués, Guillermo
name: Palowski, Amanda
name: Urriola, Pedro E.
name: van de Ligt, Jennifer L. G.
name: Yancy, Haile F.
name: Shurson, Gerald C.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1. Quantifying EhV-86 using flow cytometry; Fig. S2. Example of a standard curve used in qPCR assays; Fig. S3. The standard curve created using a PRRSV TCID50 mL−1 tenfold dilution series and the Cq values obtained from RT-PCR; Fig. S4. Infectivity of EhV-86 after temperature treatment; Fig. S5. Efficiency of staining EhV-86 at different temperatures using a nucleic acid (DAPI) and lipid (FM 143) stain.
Impact of the protein composition on the structure and viscoelasticity of polymer-like gluten gels
Creators: name: Ramos, Laurence
name: Banc, Amélie
name: Louhichi, Ameur
name: Pincemaille, Justine
name: Jestin, Jacques
name: Fu, Zhendong
name: Appavou, Marie-Sousai
name: Menut, Paul
name: Morel, Marie-Hélène
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the structure of gluten polymer-like gels in a binary mixture of water/ethanol, $50/50$ v/v, a good solvent for gluten proteins. Gluten comprises two main families of proteins, monomeric gliadins and polymer glutenins. In the semi-dilute regime, scattering experiments highlight two classes of behavior, akin to standard polymer solution and polymer gel, depending on the protein composition. We demonstrate that these two classes are encoded in the structural features of the proteins in very dilute solution, and are correlated with the presence of proteins assemblies of typical size tens of nanometers. The assemblies only exist when the protein mixture is sufficiently enriched in glutenins. They are found directly associated to the presence in the gel of domains enriched in non-exchangeable H-bonds and of size comparable to that of the protein assemblies. The domains are probed in neutron scattering experiments thanks to their unique contrast. We show that the sample visco-elasticity is also directly correlated to the quantity of domains enriched in H-bonds, showing the key role of H-bonds in ruling the visco-elasticity of polymer gluten gels.
description: accepted for publication in Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Special issue on "Glasses and gels: a crossroad of molecular liquids, polymers and colloids"
Three-dimensional nonlinear dynamic seismic behaviour of a seven story reinforced concrete building
Creators: name: Doulatabadi, Peyman Rahmatian
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The three-dimensional seismic dynamic behaviour of reinforced concrete buildings has not been studied as extensively as their planar behaviour. Experimental studies, although limited, demonstrate that there is significant interaction of torsional response with the response of a building along its two principal axes. In order to gain better understanding of this interaction, a recently developed computer program called CANNY - E was used in this study to evaluate the three-dimensional response of a reinforced concrete structure subjected to prescribe seismic excitations. The purpose of this research was to study the seismic behaviour of a well-instrumented seven story reinforced concrete building in Van Nuys, California. This building has been subjected to ground motions from several earthquakes since 1971 and sustained severe structural damage during the 1994 Northridge earthquake. The lateral force resistance of the building is provided by both interior column-slab and exterior column-spandrel beam frames. Typical floor plan dimensions are 19 by 49 meters. The behaviour of the building during three earthquakes having different levels of demand was investigated. The first strong ground excitation that the building experienced was in 1971, during the San Fernando earthquake. The 1987 Whittier and the 1994 Northridge earthquakes were the other two recorded ground excitations used in this study. Detailed time and frequency domain analyses of the recorded motions from these three earthquakes were conducted to determine the dynamic characteristics of the system at the beginning and during each event. Then, three-dimensional, linear and nonlinear dynamic time history analyses of the building were conducted for each earthquake. The results of this study showed that by performing a nonlinear analysis, even based on material properties obtained from the design specifications rather than on material properties determined from core samples, one can effectively predict the real response of a building during an earthquake. The state and sequence of damage could also be predicted.
Gauss-Bonnet gravity, brane world models, and non-minimal coupling
Creators: name: Farakos, K.
name: Pasipoularides, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the case of brane world models with an additional Gauss-Bonnet term in the presence of a bulk scalar field which interacts non-minimally with gravity, via a possible interaction term of the form $-1/2 ξR ϕ^2$. The Einstein equations and the junction conditions on the brane are formulated, in the case of the bulk scalar field. Static solutions of this model are obtained by solving numerically the Einstein equations with the appropriate boundary conditions on the brane. Finally, we present graphically and comment these solutions for several values of the free parameters of the model.
description: 13 pages,4 figures, published version
Extended Falicov-Kimball model: Hartree-Fock vs DMFT approach
Creators: name: Kapcia, Konrad Jerzy
name: Lemański, Romuald
name: Zygmunt, Marcin Jakub
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we study the extended Falicov-Kimball model at half-filling within the Hartree-Fock approach (HFA) (for various crystal lattices) and compare the results obtained with the rigorous ones derived within the dynamical mean field theory (DMFT). The model describes a system, where electrons with spin-$\downarrow$ are itinerant (with hopping amplitude $t$), whereas those with spin-$\uparrow$ are localized. The particles interact via on-site $U$ and intersite $V$ density-density Coulomb interactions. We show that the HFA description of the ground state properties of the model is equivalent to the exact DMFT solution and provides a qualitatively correct picture also for a range of small temperatures. It does capture the discontinuous transition between ordered phases at $U=2V$ for small temperatures as well as correct features of the continuous order-disorder transition. However, the HFA predicts that the discontinuous boundary ends at the isolated-critical point (of the liquid-gas type) and it does not merge with the continuous boundary. This approach cannot also describe properly a change of order of the continuous transition for large $V$ as well as various metal-insulator transitions found within the DMFT.
description: 13 pages, 7 figures; pdfReVTex class. This is the Accepted Manuscript version (author created) of an article accepted for publication in J. Phys.: Condens. Matter. IOP Publishing Ltd is not responsible for any errors or omissions in this version of the manuscript or any version derived from it. The article has been published on a gold open access basis under a CC BY 3.0 licence
Kar'úk various
Creators: name: Escalanti, Jessie W.
name: Halpern, Abraham M.
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: yum

description: 2 WAV files. "Various" in title is extrapolation of "Kar'uk var." on original cassette case. Digitization by The Audio Archive (Burlingame, California).
Additional file 1 of Associations of combined polygenic risk score and glycemic status with atrial fibrillation, coronary artery disease and ischemic stroke
Creators: name: Kim, Juntae
name: Kim, Dongmin
name: Bae, Han-Joon
name: Park, Byoung-Eun
name: Kang, Tae Soo
name: Lim, Seong-Hoon
name: Lee, Su Yeon
name: Chung, Young Hak
name: Ryu, Ji Wung
name: Lee, Myung-Yong
name: Yang, Pil-Sung
name: Joung, Boyoung
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Mental Health
subject: Virology

description: Supplementary Material 1
Late-time observations of SN2006gy: Still Going Strong
Creators: name: Smith, Nathan
name: Foley, Ryan J.
name: Bloom, Joshua S.
name: Li, Weidong
name: Filippenko, Alexei V.
name: Gavazzi, Raphael
name: Ghez, Andrea
name: Konopacky, Quinn
name: Malkan, Matthew A.
name: Marshall, Phillip J.
name: Treu, Tommaso
name: Woo, Jong-Hak
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Owing to its extremely high luminosity and long duration, SN2006gy radiated more energy in visual light than any other known SN. Two hypotheses to explain its high luminosity -- that it was powered by shock interaction with CSM as implied by its Type IIn spectrum, or that it was fueled by radioactive decay from a large mass of 56Ni synthesized in a pair-instability SN -- predicted different late-time properties. Here we present observations of SN2006gy obtained more than a year after discovery. We were unable to detect it at visual wavelengths, but clear near-IR K and H-band detections show that it is still at least as luminous as the peak of a normal SN II. We also present spectra giving an upper limit to the late-time Ha luminosity of about 1e39 erg/s. Based on the weak late-time Ha, X-ray, and radio emission, combined with the difficulty of explaining the shift to IR wavelengths, we can rule out ongoing CSM interaction as the primary late-time power source. Instead, we propose that the evolution of SN2006gy is consistent with one of two possible scenarios: (1) A pair-instability SN plus modest CSM interaction, where the radioactive decay luminosity shifts to the IR because of dust formation. (2) An IR echo, where radiation emitted during peak luminosity heats a pre-existing dust shell at radii near 1 light year, requiring the progenitor star to have ejected another 10 Msun shell about 1500 yr before the SN.
description: ApJ accepted. changes from prev version include more extensive discussion of IR echo and implications, and new Fig 4
On Low-Rank Hankel Matrix Denoising
Creators: name: Yin, Mingzhou
name: Smith, Roy S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: The low-complexity assumption in linear systems can often be expressed as rank deficiency in data matrices with generalized Hankel structure. This makes it possible to denoise the data by estimating the underlying structured low-rank matrix. However, standard low-rank approximation approaches are not guaranteed to perform well in estimating the noise-free matrix. In this paper, recent results in matrix denoising by singular value shrinkage are reviewed. A novel approach is proposed to solve the low-rank Hankel matrix denoising problem by using an iterative algorithm in structured low-rank approximation modified with data-driven singular value shrinkage. It is shown numerically in both the input-output trajectory denoising and the impulse response denoising problems, that the proposed method performs the best in terms of estimating the noise-free matrix among existing algorithms of low-rank matrix approximation and denoising.
La Malattia di Addison nel cane
Creators: name: Improta, Nunzio
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Year: 2015

description: RIASSUNTO
In questo lavoro sarà presa in considerazione la Malattia di Addison nel cane con cenni obbligati e dovuti comparati alla malattia nell'uomo, riguardo i cenni storici, l'epidemiologia, il segnalamento, l'eziopatogenesi, la sintomatologia, la patologia clinica, le ricerche collaterali, la diagnosi, la diagnosi differenziale, la prognosi e la terapia.
Storicamente il primo riferimento alla malattia nell'uomo fu fatto da Gregorio Marañon, poi Richard Bright per arrivare infine a Thomas Addison, medico chirurgo inglese che nonostante le conoscenze dell'epoca in anatomia, istologia ed anatomia patologica non erano quelle attuali, ancora oggi la sua pubblicazione del 1849 resta un caposaldo di clinica medica.
Successivamente il Prof. Armand Trousseau riprese lo studio della malattia, la fece conoscere internazionalmente al mondo scientifico e le diede l'attuale nome in onore del suo scopritore.
Il primo caso di malattia di Addison nel cane fu riscontrato ben oltre100 anni dopo quello di Addison nell'uomo.
La malattia è molto rara, sia nell'uomo che nel cane. Nell'uomo esiste una certa familiarità, colpisce molto di più il sesso maschile, nel cane esiste una certa ereditarietà, ma solo in alcune razze.
La sintomatologia nell'uomo varia da una caratteristica iperpigmentazione cutanea fino a sintomi ben più gravi.
Nel cane, invece, non ci sono i caratteristici segni presenti nell'uomo che possono indirizzare sùbito verso la malattia.
Rilievi di laboratorio caratteristici nell'uomo possono essere assenti nel cane.
Circa la diagnosi, mentre nell'uomo c'è una vasta disponibilità di tests, nel cane, attualmente, il test gold standard è solo quello di stimolazione con l'ormone adrenocorticotropo (ACTH).
Differenze significative esistono anche riguardo la terapia, dato che nell'uomo esistono forme specifiche della malattia secondo la zona corticale interessata.
Il lavoro si conclude con la descrizione di 4 casi clinici.
Non saranno descritte forme di ipoadrenocorticismo secondario, nè forme così dette di crisi addisoniana, né forme atipiche né nell'uomo né nel cane.
IN00021 - IN00021 Gadhwa Donation 3 of the Time of Kumaragupta I, GE 98
Creators: name: Balogh, Dániel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: [caption id="attachment_6684" align="alignnone" width="300"] Gadhwa (गढ़वा किला, शंकरगढ़ Allahabad district). Inscriptions of Candragupta and Kumāragupta (Zenodo).[/caption]
Self-Compassion, Personal Well-Being ed Empowerment nelle donne vittime di maltrattamento
Creators: name: Carpinelli, Luna
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Year: 2015

description: Il lavoro è basato su solidi costrutti teorici indicati da Neff, quali comprensione di se stessi, non isolamento e consapevolezza del proprio vissuto doloroso: la self-compassion, in particolare, è considerata una innovativa strategia di regolazione emotiva, in cui i sentimenti dolorosi e angoscianti non sono evitati dal soggetto, ma sono invece detenuti con consapevolezza, secondo quanto proposto da Folkman e Moskowitz.

La ricerca include due fasi, una quantitativa ed una esperienziale.

Nella prima, due gruppi, uno di donne vittime di violenza di genere ed uno di controllo, sono valutate con una batteria di tests.

Gli strumenti usati nella prima fase includono scale di misura della violenza sessuale, del benessere, del quadro psicopatologico e, naturalmente, della self-compassion; i risultati attesi prevedono che quest'ultima possa essere concettualizzata come una strategia di coping che promuove il positivo funzionamento  soggettivo ed il benessere psicologico.

La seconda fase della ricerca, cioè quella esperienziale, prevede la realizzazione di un percorso di supporto psicologico costruito sulla tecnica TFC, ovvero la Terapia Focalizzata sulla Compassione.

Il percorso, dal suggestivo nome di "Compassionevol-Mente", prevede un intervento terapeutico multimodale, legato ad approcci cognitivo-comportamentali, ma non solo, teso a permettere alla paziente di prendere distanza dal coinvolgimento e giungere ad una ristrutturazione cognitiva, aiutandola a sviluppare regolazione emotiva, autoefficacia personale e mindfullness.

La partecipazione di centri anti violenza e associazioni contro la violenza di genere fornisce a questa ricerca un forte radicamento nella realtà sociale e culturale della Campania, legando in tal modo la realtà accademica al territorio, come sempre dovrebbe essere perché l'Università sia un vero attore della società civile.
Atomtronics: ultracold atom analogs of electronic devices
Creators: name: Seaman, B. T.
name: Kraemer, M.
name: Anderson, D. Z.
name: Holland, M. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Atomtronics focuses on atom analogs of electronic materials, devices and circuits. A strongly interacting ultracold Bose gas in a lattice potential is analogous to electrons in solid-state crystalline media. As a consequence of the band structure, cold atoms in a lattice can exhibit insulator or conductor properties. P-type and N-type material analogs can be created by introducing impurity sites into the lattice. Current through an atomtronic wire is generated by connecting the wire to an atomtronic battery which maintains the two contacts at different chemical potentials. The design of an atomtronic diode with a strongly asymmetric current-voltage curve exploits the existence of superfluid and insulating regimes in the phase diagram. The atomtronic analog of a bipolar junction transistor exhibits large negative gain. Our results provide the building blocks for more advanced atomtronic devices and circuits such as amplifiers, oscillators and fundamental logic gates.
Additional file 1 of Anti-leishmanial effects of Eryngium planum and Ecbilliun elaterum methanolic extract against Leishmania major
Creators: name: Ghaderian, Erfan
name: Esboei, Bahman Rahimi
name: Mousavi, Parisa
name: Pourhajibagher, Maryam
name: Homayouni, Mohammad Mohsen
name: Zeinali, Mohammad
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1: The anti-leishmanial and cytotoxic effects of the E. planum and E. elaterium in concentrations of 100, 200, 400 and 800 µg/ml
Hybrid construction heuristics for vehicle routing problem by parameter tuning process
Creators: name: Lie, Hok
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Programming (Mathematics)
subject: Heuristic programming
subject: Combinatorial optimization.

description: The vehicle routing problem (VRP) is very popular due to its practicality for modelling real-life optimisation problem in the areas of logistics and transportation. The various objectives and constraints that arise in different circumstances often lead to the development of new variants of the VRP, which requires the development of a solution method that is robust and flexible. It has been proven that VRP and its extension are NP-complete problems. Thus, VRPs with large sizes could usually only be solved by using non-exact algorithms, such as meta-heuristic algorithms. Meta-heuristic algorithms have high reusability components that make its implementation a straightforward task. However, choosing the right heuristic components of the meta-heuristic and their parameter setting is not easy. These problems are regarded as meta-heuristic algorithm configuration problems. There is a considerable quantity of well-established methodology to tackle the parameter tuning problem. This thesis attempts to solve the heuristic selection problem with a parameter tuning method that is available in the literature - the response surface methodology. The case study in this thesis is a construction heuristic for the VRP that considers problem characteristics. By employing a procedure called 'normalisation', this study was able to combine several heuristics into a new hybrid construction heuristic. The methodology proceeded in two stages. First, a screening experiment was conducted in order to choose the right combination of heuristics. Second, each chosen heuristic was given a weight based on the model developed in stage two. The results were then evaluated against a popular benchmark instance: VRP with time windows constraint (VRPTW). The computational results showed that the new heuristic performed better than the default setting in more than 80% of test cases. However, the experiment to incorporate the new heuristic into a higher-level framework - called 'adaptive large neighbourhood search' (ALNS) - indicated that further investigation is needed to achieve satisfying performance.
Resistive switching in reverse: voltage driven formation of a transverse insulating barrier
Creators: name: Salev, Pavel
name: Fratino, Lorenzo
name: Sasaki, Dayne
name: Berkoun, Rani
name: del Valle, Javier
name: Kalcheim, Yoav
name: Takamura, Yayoi
name: Rozenberg, Marcelo
name: Schuller, Ivan K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Application of an electric stimulus to a material with a metal-insulator transition can trigger a large resistance change. Resistive switching from an insulating into a metallic phase, which typically occurs by the formation of conducting filaments parallel to the current flow, has been an active research topic. Here we present the discovery of an opposite, metal-to-insulator switching that proceeds via nucleation and growth of an insulating barrier perpendicular to the driving current. The barrier formation leads to an unusual N-type negative differential resistance in the current-voltage characteristics. Electrically inducing a transverse barrier enables a novel approach to voltage-controlled magnetism. By triggering a metal-to-insulator resistive switching in a magnetic material, local on/off control of ferromagnetism can be achieved by a global voltage bias applied to the whole device.