cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Bound states in the continuum in graphene quantum dot structures
Creators: name: Gonzalez, J. W.
name: Pacheco, M.
name: Rosales, L.
name: Orellana, P. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The existence of bound states in the continuum was predicted at the dawn of quantum mechanics by von Neumann and Wigner. In this work we discuss the mechanism of formation of these exotic states and the feasibility to observe them experimentally in symmetrical heterostructures composed by segments of graphene ribbons with different widths forming a graphene quantum dot. We identify the existence of bound states in the continuum in these graphene quantum dot systems by means of local density of states and electronic conductance calculations.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures. To appear in EPL
Additional file 1 of Nomograms for predicting difficult airway based on ultrasound assessment
Creators: name: Wang, Bin
name: Yao, Weidong
name: Xue, Qi
name: Wang, Mingfang
name: Xu, Jianling
name: Chen, Yongquan
name: Zhang, Ye
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biochemistry
Space Science
Medicine
Pharmacology
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Patients characteristics of difficult laryngoscopy and difficult tracheal intubation.
Correlations and pair emission in the escape dynamics of ions from one-dimensional traps
Creators: name: Petri, Christoph
name: Meyer, Stefan
name: Lenz, Florian
name: Schmelcher, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the non-equilibrium escape dynamics of long-range interacting ions in one-dimensional traps. The phase space of the few ion setup and its impact on the escape properties are studied. As a main result we show that an instantaneous reduction of the trap's potential depth leads to the synchronized emission of a sequence of ion pairs if the initial configurations are close to the crystalline ionic configuration. The corresponding time-intervals of the consecutive pair emission as well as the number of emitted pairs can be tuned by changing the final trap depth. Correlations between the escape times and kinetic energies of the ions are observed and analyzed.
description: 17 pages, 9 figures
Optimal rate of convergence for approximations of SPDEs with non-regular drift
Creators: name: Butkovsky, Oleg
name: Dareiotis, Konstantinos
name: Gerencsér, Máté
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60H15, 60H50, 60H35

description: A fully discrete finite difference scheme for stochastic reaction-diffusion equations driven by a $1+1$-dimensional white noise is studied. The optimal strong rate of convergence is proved without posing any regularity assumption on the non-linear reaction term. The proof relies on stochastic sewing techniques.
description: 35 pages
Evaluation of free-form concrete architecture, moulding systems and their technical potentials
Creators: name: Hickert, Sascha
Publisher: name: Journal of Facade Design and Engineering
Year: 2016

description: This article deals with the analysis of applied radii in built architecture. This basic evaluation is part of a DFG (largest German research funding organization) research project ‘Basics to develop adaptive formwork systems for free-formed concrete building parts’. It serves to pre-configure adaptive formwork surfaces. The article describes the changes in modern architecture, from rectangular box to free-formed ‘blobs’ in terms of the geometry and the resulting issues of costs and manufacturing process.
description: Journal of Facade Design and Engineering, Vol. 3 No. 3-4 (2015): Facade Design and Engineering
Characterization of the transcriptional regulator WhiB7 establishes a link between metabolism and intrinsic antibiotic resistance in mycobacteria
Creators: name: Burian, Ján
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the etiologic agent of tuberculosis, continues to be the world’s deadliest human bacterial pathogen. Current treatments are notoriously limited, lengthy, and becoming increasingly ineffective due to drug-resistant mutant strains. WhiB7, a putative transcriptional regulator, is an essential component of intrinsic antibiotic resistance in Mtb. Unique to Actinobacteria, multiple paralogous WhiB-like proteins have diverse roles in physiology, but little is known about their mode of action or regulation. To investigate WhiB7, a combination of in vitro run-off, two-hybrid assays, protein pull-down experiments, and genetic approaches was used. WhiB7 was characterized as an auto-regulatory, redox-sensitive transcriptional activator, providing the first biochemical proof that a WhiB-like protein directly promotes transcription. WhiB7’s antibiotic resistance function was dependent on three regions: an iron-sulfur cluster binding region likely required for stability; a middle region for binding to the vegetative sigma factor SigA; and a C-terminal DNA-binding region. Mutations disrupting any one of the regions led to an inability of WhiB7 to activate resistance. These experimental constraints were combined with protein modelling techniques to visualize the WhiB7:SigA:DNA complex which may serve as a platform for the design of inhibitors. Additionally, a GFP reporter was constructed to monitor whiB7 induction, and was used to screen our custom library of almost 600 bioactive compounds including the majority of clinical antibiotics. Expression was induced by compounds having diverse structures and targets, which did not correlate with drug susceptibility of the whiB7 mutant. Antibiotic-induced transcription was synergistically increased by the reductant dithiothreitol, an effect mirrored by a whiB7-dependent shift to a highly reduced intracellular condition reflected by the reduced:oxidized mycothiol ratio. Amino acid metabolism also contributed to WhiB7-mediated intrinsic resistance. To gain insights into whether other genetic loci contribute to WhiB7-mediated antibiotic resistance, a transposon library of Mycobacterium smegmatis was screened for WhiB7-like drug susceptibility or resistance. These studies revealed a putative aspartate aminotransferase (MSMEG_4060) that contributed to whiB7 repression and a pair of adjacent hypothetical genes (MSMEG_3637/3638) that contributed to whiB7 induction. Continued characterization of WhiB7 may serve as a paradigm for other WhiB-like proteins and lead to novel and desperately needed therapies for tuberculosis.
An energy-active façade element from mineralized foam (MF) and micro-reinforced, ultra-high-performance concrete (mrUHPC)
Creators: name: Maier, Andreas
Publisher: name: Journal of Facade Design and Engineering
Year: 2016

description: Today, an increase of the energy efficiency in the industry is typically achieved by separate, parallel measures, primarily on the level of the individual machines. Energy efficiency can be improved by a holistic, integrated approach, which links the machines, the production process, the technical infrastructure and the building and its envelope. The subject of this paper is the development of a new prefabricated element for façades and roofs, which was developed and built in the context of a research project called eta-Fabrik (i.e. energy-efficient factory, www.eta-fabrik.de) at TU Darmstadt, Germany. The element consists of purely mineral materials (concrete) and can be energetically activated by capillary tubes integrated in the surface layer. This surface layer consists of a micro-reinforced, ultra-high-performance concrete (mrUHPC) to achieve a low component thickness due to its high mechanical capacity, resistance against thermal changes, surface quality and low permeability. The core of the element is responsible for insulation. For this, a mineralized protein foam (MF) is used. It provides very good thermal insulation properties due to its eminently low density allowing low heat transfer coefficients. The final façade element thus combines limiting, bearing, insulating and thermal activation using concrete.
description: Journal of Facade Design and Engineering, Vol. 3 No. 3-4 (2015): Facade Design and Engineering
Almost Kähler manifolds of constant antiholomorphic sectional curvature
Creators: name: Kassabov, Ognian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53B35

description: It is proved that if an AK2-manifold of dimension greater or equal to 6 is of pointwise constant antiholomorphic sectional curvature, then it is a 6-dimensional manifold of constant negative sectional curvature or a Kähler manifold of constant holomorphic sectional curvature.
description: 5 pages, MR 85f:53040
Study on Energy Conservation Performance for Integrated External Louver Facades
Creators: name: Misawa, Yutaka
Publisher: name: Journal of Facade Design and Engineering
Year: 2016

description: The authors previously proposed integrated-facade-systems comprising different types of external louvers integrated with buckling restraint braces. The systems can be applied to both new and existing buildings, paying attention to the building’s appearance, upgraded structural performance and indoor environment. The authors have studied indoor daylight conditions with louver facades and a research paper was published in this journal (Misawa et al., 2014). This research study reports on the energy conservation performance for louver facades and proposes an External Shading Coefficient (hereinafter referred to as the ESC) for external louver systems. Situations with five external louvers types and no louvers, facing three facade orientations (East, South and West) are examined. The annual ESC is simulated every hour using Radiance software for transient solar radiation calculations. Furthermore, by using the proposed ESC, case studies for typical Japanese offices are carried out to verify reduction effects on the annual air-conditioning load and electrical energy consumption of an air source heat pump for each louver set-up. Simulation results are calculated for every hour using TRNSYS software; the results show that both air-conditioning loads and electrical energy consumption are reduced regardless of louver types and facade orientations when integrated external louver facades are installed.
description: Journal of Facade Design and Engineering, Vol. 3 No. 3-4 (2015): Facade Design and Engineering
Reply to "Comment on `Transition from Bose glass to a condensate of triplons in Tl$_{1-x}$K$_x$CuCl$_3$'"
Creators: name: Yamada, Fumiko
name: Tanaka, Hidekazu
name: Ono, Toshio
name: Nojiri, Hiroyuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Showing low-temperature specific heat and other experimental data and also on the basis of established physics, we argue against the comment made by Zheludev and Hüvonnen criticizing our recent study on the magnetic-field-induced spin ordering and critical behavior in Tl$_{1-x}$K$_x$CuCl$_3$, which is described as the Bose glass-condensate transition of triplons.
description: 2 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. B
Rainbow cycles for families of matchings
Creators: name: Aharoni, Ron
name: Guo, He
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 05C35, 05D40

description: Given a graph $G$ and a coloring of its edges, a subgraph of $G$ is called rainbow if its edges have distinct colors. The rainbow girth of an edge coloring of G is the minimum length of a rainbow cycle in G. A generalization of the famous Caccetta-Häggkvist conjecture, proposed by the first author, is that if in an coloring of the edge set of an $n$-vertex graph by $n$ colors, in which each color class is of size $k$, the rainbow girth is at most $\lceil \frac{n}{k} \rceil$. In the known examples for sharpness of this conjecture the color classes are stars, suggesting that when the color classes are matchings, the result may be improved. We show that the rainbow girth of $n$ matchings of size at least 2 is $O(\log n)$.
description: 5 pages; minor edits; to appear in Israel Journal of Mathematics
title: Auswirkungen von Retail-Management Maßnahmen auf die Key Performance Indicators einer Einzelhandelsimmobilie am Beispiel des Donauzentrums
Creators: name: Pöltl, Christina
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2008

description: Durch den zunehmenden Verdrängungswettbewerb in der Shopping Center Landschaft sowie laufende Veränderungen des Konsumentenverhaltens wird es für Investoren immer schwieriger, sich am Markt behaupten zu können und akzeptable Renditen zu erzielen. Deshalb ist eine kontinuierliche Planung und Umsetzung geeigneter Optimierungsmaßnahmen unumgänglich, um den wirtschaftlichen Erfolg eines Shopping Centers als Kapitalanlage langfristig sicherstellen zu können. Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, aufzuzeigen, welche Auswirkungen Optimierungsmaßnahmen auf den wirtschaftlichen Erfolg eines Shopping Centers haben. Dafür werden in einem ersten Schritt die Erfolgsfaktoren von Einkaufszentren im Allgemeinen definiert. Anschließend werden jene herausgearbeitet, denen während des Betriebs eines Einkaufszentrums eine entscheidende Rolle zukommt. Aufbauend auf den Erfolgsfaktoren in der Nutzungsphase, werden jene Optimierungsmaßnahmen abgeleitet, welche die Performance eines Shopping Centers positiv beeinflussen und somit den Erfolg sichern. Als Retail-Management Maßnahmen in der Nutzungsphase eines Shopping Centers konnten folgende identifiziert werden: Vermietung, Revitalisierung, Kommunikations- und Servicepolitik. Anschließend wurden so genannte Key Performance Indicators, d.h. wirtschaftliche Messgrößen der Performance eines Einkaufszentrums, definiert. Dabei konnten drei Arten von Messgrößen unterschieden wer-den: Einnahmenbezogene und aufwandbezogene Messgrößen der Performance sowie jene, die durch die Anzahl der Besucher bestimmt sind. Zu den einnahmenbezogenen Key Performance Indicators zählen die Nettomieteinnahmen, zusätzliche Mieteinnahmen (Specialty income), die Auslastung sowie die Leasing Activity. Die aufwandbezogenen Messgrößen umfassen Mietverluste, Mietrückstände sowie liegenschaftsbezogene Eigentümerkosten. Die Messgrößen, die idR von der Anzahl der Besucher abhängen, sind: Frequenz und Umsatz pro Quadratmeter. Basierend auf den Grundlagen des Allgemeinen Teils, beschäftigt sich der Praxisteil mit einer empirischen Studie über das Donauzentrum in Wien. Untersuchungszeitraum ist das Kalenderjahr 2006. Die Ausgangs- situation wird anhand der zuvor definierten Key Performance Indicators veranschaulicht. Anschließend erfolgt ein Überblick über die Optimie- rungsmaßnahmen 2006. Abschließend wird aufgezeigt, welche Auswir- kungen die Retail-Management Maßnahmen auf die wirtschaftlichen Kennzahlen und somit den Erfolg des Donauzentrums hatten.
Annual Daylight Simluations With EvalDRC: Assessing The Performance Of Daylight Redirecting Components
Creators: name: Bauer, Carsten
name: Wittkopf, Stephen
Publisher: name: Journal of Facade Design and Engineering
Year: 2016

description: EvalDRC is a newly developed daylight analysis tool for the evaluation of Daylight Redirecting Components (DRC) in architectural spaces. It focuses on the accurate simulation of light redirection with help of the lighting software environment RADIANCE. It employs various key technologies, among them are: a) the daylight coefficient method, b) characterisation of the light redirection behaviour of materials and specially designed systems with appropriate data models, and c) daylight metrics. We present several enhancements to these key technologies and the currently existing tools. In the context of daylight coefficients, we improve the solar contribution calculation by using realistic 0.5° solid angle sun primitives, thus generating True Sun coefficients. For simulating light redirection behaviour, we introduce Contribution Photon Mapping, a recent add-on to the RADIANCE environment. In addition, we introduce monthly breakdowns of the established daylight metrics Spatial Daylight Autonomy (sDA) and Annual Sunlight Exposure (ASE), to provide a more detailed assessment of DRC performance throughout the course of a year. The paper gives an overview of the mentioned annual daylight simulation key technologies, and explains how our enhancements and developments surpass the current approaches and lead to a versatile tool, capable of producing meaningful and detailed simulation results. A description of the implementation and an application example is given, rounded off by a discussion of the current state of the ongoing work and a tentative outlook.
description: Journal of Facade Design and Engineering, Vol. 3 No. 3-4 (2015): Facade Design and Engineering
Nonlinear Spinor Fields and its role in Cosmology
Creators: name: Saha, Bijan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Different characteristic of matter influencing the evolution of the Universe has been simulated by means of a nonlinear spinor field. Exploiting the spinor description of perfect fluid and dark energy evolution of the Universe given by an anisotropic Bianchi type-VI, VI$_0$, V, III, I or isotropic Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) one has been studied. It is shown that due to some restrictions on metric functions, initial anisotropy in the models Bianchi type-VI, VI$_0$, V and III does not die away, while the anisotropic Bianchi type-I models evolves into the isotropic one.
description: 22 pages, 12 Figures
HerMES: Herschel-SPIRE observations of Lyman Break Galaxies
Creators: name: Rigopoulou, D.
name: Magdis, G. E.
name: Ivison, R. J.
name: Amblard, A.
name: Arumugam, V.
name: Aussel, H.
name: Blain, A.
name: Bock, J.
name: Boselli, A.
name: Buat, V.
name: Burgarella, D.
name: Castro-Rodriguez, N.
name: Cava, A.
name: Chanial, P.
name: Clements, D. L.
name: Conley, A.
name: Conversi, L.
name: Cooray, A.
name: Dowell, C. D.
name: Dwek, E.
name: Eales, S.
name: Elbaz, D.
name: Farrah, D.
name: Franceschini, A.
name: Glenn, J.
name: Griffin, M.
name: Halpern, M.
name: Hatziminaoglou, E.
name: Huang, J. -S.
name: Ibar, E.
name: Isaak, K.
name: Lagache, G.
name: Levenson, L.
name: Lu, N.
name: Madden, S.
name: Maffei, B.
name: Mainetti, G.
name: Marchetti, L.
name: Nguyen, H. T.
name: O'Halloran, B.
name: Oliver, S. J.
name: Omont, A.
name: Page, M. J.
name: Panuzzo, P.
name: Papageorgiou, A.
name: Pearson, C. P.
name: Perez-Fournon, I.
name: Pohlen, M.
name: Rizzo, D.
name: Roseboom, I. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present first results of a study of the submillimetre (rest frame far-infrared) properties of z~3 Lyman Break Galaxies (LBGs) and their lower-redshift counterparts BX/BM galaxies, based on Herschel-SPIRE observations of the Northern field of the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS-N). We use stacking analysis to determine the properties of LBGs well below the current limit of the survey. Although LBGs are not detected individually, stacking the infrared luminous LBGs (those detected with Spitzer at 24 microns yields a statistically significant submm detection with mean flux = 5.9+/-1.4 mJy confirming the power of SPIRE in detecting UV-selected high-redshift galaxies at submillimetre wavelengths. In comparison, the Spitzer 24 microns detected BX/BM galaxies appear fainter with a stacked value of = 2.7 +/-0.8 mJy. By fitting the Spectral Energy Distributions (SEDs) we derive median infrared luminosities, L_{IR}, of 2.8x10^{12} Lsun and 1.5x10^{11} Lsun for z~3 LBGs and BX/BMs, respectively. We find that $L_{IR} estimates derived from present measurements are in good agreement with those based on UV data for z~2 BX/BM galaxies, unlike the case for z~3 infrared luminous LBGs where the UV underestimates the true $L_{IR}. Although sample selection effects may influence this result we suggest that differences in physical properties (such as morphologies, dust distribution and extent of star-forming regions) between z ~3 LBGs and z~2 BX/BMs may also play a significant role.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS HERSCHEL issue
Facade Design and Engineering
Creators: name: Klein, Tillmann
name: Knaack, Ulrich
Publisher: name: Journal of Facade Design and Engineering
Year: 2016

description: We are proud to announce that we have officially completed the NWO funding period by successfully establishing the Journal. For three years JFDE has been supported by the Open Access Fund of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research NWO (www.nwo.nl). We have been able to publish 40 papers in the first three volumes. That is slightly less than we have hoped but the numbers have steadily increased to 19 papers in volume 3 alone. We would like to thank NWO for the support. The funding allowed us to cover a large part of the publishing costs. Still, the TUDelft and our publisher IOS Press have invested a lot of time and money in the Journal. But without the support it would not have been possible to establish JFDE. Especially that JFDE became indexed by the Directory of Open Access Journals DOAJ during the funding period, is a great success for JFDE. DOAJ is a membership organization with the aim to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access journals and is co-author to the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing. With the indexation, DOAJ acknowledges our commitment to quality, peer-reviewed open access publishing. Based on this we can now prepare for other indexation possibilities and we are also working on securing the funding for the coming years. There are two challenges we face: our discipline of facade design and engineering is scientifically relatively young and the possibilities of new publishing concepts, which include author-fee principles only slowly get acknowledged. Therefore, one of the tasks of JFDE is to lobby for scientific OA publishing in a field that is located right between science and applied practice.
description: Journal of Facade Design and Engineering, Vol. 3 No. 3-4 (2015): Facade Design and Engineering
Inarticulate and unshareable : negative feelings and the memoir in David Foster Wallace's post-Infinite Jest fiction
Creators: name: Noh, Kisuk
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: This thesis reads David Foster Wallace’s post-Infinite Jest fiction against forms of confession found in the American “memoir boom,” a period marked by a surge in interest (both commercial and aesthetic) in nonfictional autobiography. More specifically, this thesis traces the way Wallace’s fiction between 1997 and 2008 registers diffuse and non-intentional affective states that typically do not appear in conventional memoirs. Problems attending the representation of such feelings first appear in Infinite Jest, intensify in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, and become an explicit point of concern with respect to the memoir-genre in The Pale King. Taking the memoir boom as defining a rhetorical milieu of confession, candor, and sincerity in which Wallace’s later fiction should be situated, this thesis examines the short stories “Octet” and “The Depressed Person” with respect to Wallace’s growing concern about the seeming disjunction between extant literary forms and the “nameless interhuman sameness” of contemporary experience. This thesis then discusses The Pale King – a long novel that self-consciously situates itself within the memoir boom, and which continues Wallace’s interest in “inarticulate” and “unshareable” feelings. The Chris Fogle novella that makes up the twenty-second section of Wallace’s final novel will be read as enacting a critique of the ways in which “inarticulate” feelings were passed over in literary representations of emotional experiences during the memoir boom. By contrast, section twenty-four – which features a notoriously long description of a traffic jam – will be read as illustrating the ways in which Wallace’s fictional representations of “unshareable” feelings complicate the more optimistic claims about empathy, community, and civics that we find in his nonfiction.
Magnetic behavior of nanoparticles in patterned thin films
Creators: name: Escrig, J.
name: Landeros, P.
name: Retamal, J. C.
name: Altbir, D.
name: Castro, J. d'Albuquerque e
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The magnetic behavior of truncated conical nanoparticles in patterned thin films is investigated as a function of their size and shape. Using a scaling technique, phase diagrams giving the relative stability of characteristic internal magnetic structures of the particles are obtained. The role of the uniaxial anisotropy in determining the magnetic properties of such systems is discussed, and a simple method for stablishing its strength is proposed.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Asymptotics of self-similar solutions to coagulation equations with product kernel
Creators: name: McLeod, J. B.
name: Niethammer, B.
name: Velázquez, J. J. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider mass-conserving self-similar solutions for Smoluchowski's coagulation equation with kernel $K(ξ,η)= (ξη)^λ$ with $λ\in (0,1/2)$. It is known that such self-similar solutions $g(x)$ satisfy that $x^{-1+2λ} g(x)$ is bounded above and below as $x \to 0$. In this paper we describe in detail via formal asymptotics the qualitative behavior of a suitably rescaled function $h(x)=h_λ x^{-1+2λ} g(x)$ in the limit $λ\to 0$. It turns out that $h \sim 1+ C x^{λ/2} \cos(\sqrtλ \log x)$ as $x \to 0$. As $x$ becomes larger $h$ develops peaks of height $1/λ$ that are separated by large regions where $h$ is small. Finally, $h$ converges to zero exponentially fast as $x \to \infty$. Our analysis is based on different approximations of a nonlocal operator, that reduces the original equation in certain regimes to a system of ODE.
An efficient IMEX-DG solver for the compressible Navier-Stokes equations for non-ideal gases
Creators: name: Orlando, Giuseppe
name: Barbante, Paolo Francesco
name: Bonaventura, Luca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We propose an efficient, accurate and robust IMEX solver for the compressible Navier-Stokes equation describing non-ideal gases with general equations of state. The method, which is based on an $h-$adaptive Discontinuos Galerkin spatial discretization and on an Additive Runge Kutta IMEX method for time discretization, is tailored for low Mach number applications and allows to simulate low Mach regimes at a significantly reduced computational cost, while maintaining full second order accuracy also for higher Mach number regimes. The method has been implemented in the framework of the $deal.II$ numerical library, whose adaptive mesh refinement capabilities are employed to enhance efficiency. Refinement indicators appropriate for real gas phenomena have been introduced. A number of numerical experiments on classical benchmarks for compressible flows and their extension to real gases demonstrate the properties of the proposed method.
Performance evaluation of buildings with advanced thermal insulation system: a numerical study
Creators: name: Ibrahim, Mohamad
name: Wurtz, Etienne
name: Achard, Patrick
name: Biwole, Pascal Henry
Publisher: name: Journal of Facade Design and Engineering
Year: 2016

description: In France, and in Europe in general, the building sector is the largest consumer of energy and accounts for about 43% of the total energy consumption and around 25% of CO2 emissions [1]. The building sector offers significant potential for improved energy efficiency through the use of high-performance insulation and energy-efficient systems In this study, the thermal behavior of buildings with an advanced thermal insulation system, particularly, with the aerogel-based rendering/mortar exterior insulation system is examined. In addition to new buildings, the rendering is very suitable for application to retrofit existing ones since it has a high insulation performance and its application is easy, compatible with the traditional masonry facades, and using the ordinary well-known techniques. Numerical modeling simulations are carried out on three different scales: (a) 1D envelope scale to examine the aerogel-rendering’s impact on the thermal and moisture transfer of exterior walls, (b) 2D envelope scale to examine its impact to limit the heat losses through some types of thermal bridges, and (c) full scale house to examine its impact on reducing the heating demands. Results show that adding the aerogel-based rendering on the exterior surface of the un-insulated or the already internally insulated walls reduces significantly or removes the moisture risks. It reduces significantly the wall heat losses, especially for old un-insulated buildings, and consequently the building’s energy consumption. In addition, this insulating rendering can act as a very suitable solution for some thermal bridges such as the window reveals. Due to its application technique and its high insulating performance, a small thickness can have great impact on reducing these heat losses. So, this type of insulating renderings/plasters can serve as a good solutions for places where traditional insulation is difficult to apply or where small insulation thicknesses are needed due to space or construction constraints.
description: Journal of Facade Design and Engineering, Vol. 4 No. 1-2 (2016): Special Issue AMANAC
Care's an enemy to life : Shakespeare goes to Mardi Gras. An analysis of costume design for Twelfth Night set in a modern-day land of voodoo and revelry.
Creators: name: Page, Shelby
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: This paper documents and describes the design process and final costume design for the University of British Columbia (UBC) 2014 production of William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. The production was the first show in the 2014-2015 season. It ran from September 26th to October 11th, 2014. The director was Stephen Heatley and the stage manager was Kiara Lawson. The creative team included Rebecca Burks (Set), Andrew Pye (Lighting), and Lauren Stewart (Sound Design). The costume advisor for the production was Jacqueline Firkins.
Structural performance of GFRP connectors in composite sandwich façade elements
Creators: name: Flansbjer, Mathias
name: Mueller, Urs
name: Honfi, Dániel
name: Vennetti, Daniel
name: Williams Portal, Natalie
name: Własak, Lech
Publisher: name: Journal of Facade Design and Engineering
Year: 2016

description: To take structural aspects into consideration in the SESBE research project, focusing on the development of “smart” façade elements a systematic testing and modelling program has been developed for the verification of the structural performance of the façade sandwich elements. The present paper mainly focuses on the verification of the mechanical performance of the glass fibre reinforced polymer (GFRP) connectors of the novel type of façade element composed of reactive powder concrete (RPC) panels with foam concrete insulation between them. Because of the reduced thickness of the large façade elements, the performance of the connectors is critical for the entire structural concept. The first series of the testing programme concerning connector performance are presented here. The results suggest that sufficient strength and ductility of the connectors can be ensured using GFRP in the proposed thin light-weight façade elements.
description: Journal of Facade Design and Engineering, Vol. 4 No. 1-2 (2016): Special Issue AMANAC
Modernising Furniture: Four Melbourne Designers 1946-60
Creators: name: Santoro, Leanne
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Fred Ward
Fred Lowen
Grant Featherston
Clement Meadmore
Fler
Mary Featherston
The House of Tomorrow
cafe culture
modernism
mid-century modern
mid-century modern furniture
furniture design
modern furniture
Australian furniture
Melbourne furniture
DIY furniture
1956 Melbourne Olympics
the International style
Bauhaus
Charles Eames
Ray Eames
Eames furniture
Robin Boyd
ICI House
post-war Australia
Australian houses
flat pack furniture

description: This thesis seeks to address the work of Australian mid-century modern furniture designers, focusing on four Melbourne-based designers, from 1946-60. Melbourne was a creative centre during this fourteen-year period, with some of the best-known modern Australian artists and designers working out of the city. This thesis will examine the furniture designed by Fred Ward (1900-1990), Fred Lowen (1919-2005), Grant Featherston (1922-1995), and Clement Meadmore (1929-2005), during this time, and will answer the question of how international design as well as Australian post-war aesthetics and society were manifested through their furniture. There has yet to be a definitive account written of the work these designers produced in the post-war era, and how Melbourne as a city responded to the emerging modernism of these designers. This thesis seeks to address this gap. It will also explore the craftsmanship of the designers, the materials and production techniques used, and the styling and marketing of the furniture. It will be shown that the majority of the furniture produced by these designers sold in large quantities and was used extensively throughout Melbourne and other cities. It will also examine the legacy of mid-century modern furniture and its resurgence in popularity in recent years.
The 2019 National General Election in Solomon Islands - A Personal Perspective: Navigating a Maze of Challenges
Creators: name: Aqorau, Transform
Publisher: name: Canberra, ACT: Dept. of Pacific Affairs, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University
Year: 2019

description: On 3 April this year, the people of Solomon Islands will go to the polls to elect their representatives in the national parliament for the next four years. The term ‘representatives’ is used loosely here as the typical member of parliament (MP) is elected with just over a third of the votes, meaning the majority of the electors did not in fact choose the winning candidate to represent them. This will be the tenth election since 1978 when the country gained full independence from the United Kingdom.
Vanuatu's Family Protection Act: Contextualisation, Resistance and Implementation
Creators: name: Kanan, Lindy
Publisher: name: Canberra, ACT: Dept. of Pacific Affairs, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University
Year: 2019

description: Over the past 10 years, many Pacific Island countries and territories have been amending their laws to address the issue of domestic violence. Vanuatu was the first Pacific Island country to put in place targeted legislation (Jalal 2009:3) with the passage of the Family Protection Act (the Act) in 2008. The Act was controversial, however, and took 11 years from drafting to being passed by the parliament. The purpose of the Act is to (a) preserve and promote harmonious family relationships, and (b) prevent domestic violence in all levels of society in Vanuatu. The Act is both civil and criminal: it creates a criminal offence for committing an act of domestic violence and also provides for civil protection orders (Forster 2011). Under the Act, domestic violence offenders can be sentenced for up to five years in prison or fined up to VUV100,000 (around AU1250) or both. Family protection orders can also be issued if the defendant has committed or is likely to commit an act of domestic violence against the complainant. This In Brief discusses how the legislation responds to the Vanuatu context, the resistance to its introduction and some challenges regarding its implementation.
The asymptotic behaviour of the heat equation in a twisted Dirichlet-Neumann waveguide
Creators: name: Krejcirik, David
name: Zuazua, Enrique
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the heat equation in a straight strip, subject to a combination of Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions. We show that a switch of the respective boundary conditions leads to an improvement of the decay rate of the heat semigroup of the order of $t^{-1/2}$. The proof employs similarity variables that lead to a non-autonomous parabolic equation in a thin strip contracting to the real line, that can be analyzed on weighted Sobolev spaces in which the operators under consideration have discrete spectra. A careful analysis of its asymptotic behaviour shows that an added Dirichlet boundary condition emerges asymptotically at the switching point, breaking the real line in two half-lines, which leads asymptotically to the 1/2 gain on the spectral lower bound, and the $t^{-1/2}$ gain on the decay rate in the original physical variables. This result is an adaptation to the case of strips with twisted boundary conditions of previous results by the authors on geometrically twisted Dirichlet tubes.
description: 15 pages, 2 figures
Modele Phi Newton Sparc
Creators: name: Nowak, Gabriel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Ce document présente une étude numérique sur l'efficacité d'un champ scalaire , dérivant de la théorie de la Singularité Partagée, pour reproduire les courbes de rotation de galaxies spirales sans faire appel à la matière noire.

Le champ est testé sous cinq formes de potentiels différents, combinées ensemble avec ajustement automatique des paramètres . Le modèle total est ensuite comparé aux données de rotation réelles de 10 galaxies issues de la base SPARC (Spitzer Photometry and Accurate Rotation Curves).
CS 5-4 survey toward nearby IR bright galaxies
Creators: name: Wang, Junzhi
name: Zhang, Zhiyu
name: Shi, Yong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: With the observations of the CS 5-4 line toward a sample of 24 infrared bright galaxies using HHSMT, we detected CS 5-4 emission in 14 galaxies, including 12 ULIRGs/LIRGs and 2 nearby normal galaxies. As a good dense gas tracer, which has been well used for studying star formation in the Milky Way, CS 5-4 can trace the active star forming gas in galaxies. The correlation between CS 5-4 luminosity, which is estimated with detected CS 5-4 line emission, and infrared luminosity in these 14 galaxies is fitted with correlation coefficient of 0.939 and the slope close to unity. This correlation confirmed that dense gas, which is closely linked to star formation, is very important for understanding star formation in galaxies.
description: 6 pages, 3 Figures, accepted by MNRAS Letters
Reactive powder concrete for facade elements – A sustainable approach
Creators: name: Mueller, Urs
Publisher: name: Journal of Facade Design and Engineering
Year: 2016

description: Reactive powder concrete (RPC) is a fairly novel material with extraordinary strength and durability properties. Due to these properties, it is increasingly being utilized for external facade cladding thus enabling a considerable reduction in the thickness of concrete elements. Commercial RPC formulations on the market are usually expensive and less sustainable due to high cement clinker contents. In this study, improved RPC formulations with higher amounts of supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) were developed. The formulations were combined with different types of reinforcements ranging from steel fibres to fibre textile grids primarily to enhance the ductility and tensile strength of the material. The results showed that even with clinker replacement levels of up to ca. 40 % of the total binder amount, a satisfactory mechanical performance of the RPC mixes could still be achieved. A fairly steep strength gain rendered heat treatment unnecessary. The materials displayed good flow properties and a reasonably short initial setting time. The incorporation of carbon textile fibre grids proved to be highly effective in improving the post failure performance of the RPC. The results validated a more sustainable approach for RPC applied to thin facade elements..
description: Journal of Facade Design and Engineering, Vol. 4 No. 1-2 (2016): Special Issue AMANAC
Additional file 1 of Gender minority stress and access to health care services among transgender women and transfeminine people: results from a cross-sectional study in China
Creators: name: Sha, Yongjie
name: Dong, Willa
name: Tang, Weiming
name: Zheng, Lingling
name: Huang, Xi
name: Muessig, Kathryn E.
name: Tucker, Joseph D.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Scores of gender minority stress subscales by item, N = 277, December 2019–June 2020.
An SO(10) model with adjoint fermions for double seesaw neutrino masses
Creators: name: Chakrabortty, Joydeep
name: Goswami, Srubabati
name: Raychaudhuri, Amitava
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An $SO(10)$ model where the $10_H$ and $120_H$ representations are used for generating fermion masses is quite predictive, though due to the absence of $SU(2)_{L,R}$ triplet/singlet fields it cannot give rise to neutrino masses through the usual type-I or type-II seesaw mechanisms. In this paper for neutrino masses we propose an extension of such an $SO(10)$ model by adding fermions in the adjoint representation (${45}_F$) and a symmetry breaking scalar $\bar{16}_H$. The $\bar{16}_H$ couples the adjoint fermions to the standard fermions in ${16}_F$ and induces neutrino masses through the `double seesaw' mechanism. In order to enhance the predictivity of the model we impose $μ-τ$ flavour symmetry on the Yukawa matrices for $10_H$ and $\bar{16}_H$ whereas for the $120_H$ it is assumed to be antisymmetric. We discuss the conditions that the mass matrices must obey so that the model can reproduce the tri-bimaximal mixing pattern.
description: 13 pages, 1 figure
NASA TOPS/HELIOS Slides from Columbia Physics Seminar: Year of Open Science Extravaganza
Creators: name: Martin, Paige
name: Carter, Caitlin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Open Science, Year of Open Science

description: Presentation slides from a seminar with Columbia Physics and Columbia Libraries on a Year of Open Science in New York, NY. These slides contain information and links about what NASA and HELIOS are doing to support open science and a year of open science.
Can a Bose gas be saturated?
Creators: name: Tammuz, Naaman
name: Smith, Robert P.
name: Campbell, Robert L. D.
name: Beattie, Scott
name: Moulder, Stuart
name: Dalibard, Jean
name: Hadzibabic, Zoran
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Bose-Einstein condensation is unique among phase transitions between different states of matter in the sense that it occurs even in the absence of interactions between particles. In Einstein's textbook picture of an ideal gas, purely statistical arguments set an upper bound on the number of particles occupying the excited states of the system, and condensation is driven by this saturation of the quantum vapour. Dilute ultracold atomic gases are celebrated as a realisation of Bose-Einstein condensation in close to its purely statistical form. Here we scrutinise this point of view using an ultracold gas of potassium (39K) atoms, in which the strength of interactions can be tuned via a Feshbach scattering resonance. We first show that under typical experi-mental conditions a partially condensed atomic gas strongly deviates from the textbook concept of a saturated vapour. We then use measurements at a range of interaction strengths and temperatures to extrapolate to the non-interacting limit, and prove that in this limit the behaviour of a Bose gas is consistent with the saturation picture. Finally, we provide evidence for the universality of our observations through additional measurements with a different atomic species, 87Rb. Our results suggest a new way of characterising condensation phenomena in different physical systems.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
THE EFFECT OF EXPORTATION PROMOTION PROGRAM ON EXPORTATION PERFORMANCE OF PETROCHEMICAL PRODUCTS
Creators: name: HamidReza Zare
Publisher: name: TUENGR Group
Year: 2018
Subjects: Export promotion information programs, Export promotion finance programs, Export marketing performance capability.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 9, 6, 579-588
ADVANCED MATERIALS AND NANOTECHNOLOGY CLUSTER
Creators: name: Founti, Maria
name: Astudillo Larraz, Julen
name: Klein, Tillmann
name: Knaack, Ulrich
Publisher: name: Journal of Facade Design and Engineering
Year: 2016

description: Buildings are the largest consumer of energy demand and the largest emitter of greenhouse gases. More than the 50% of the residential buildings in Europe were built before 1970; the renovation and upgrading of the existing buildings is a priority in the EU energy policies and in all the EU member states. Increasing focus on energy conservation necessitates the adoption of innovative materials. Government regulations and support for zero energy buildings provide an impetus to the adoption of innovative materials (Directive 2010/31/EU) AMANAC is a collaboration and coordination platform across all the Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology EU funded projects functioning in the frame of the Energy Efficiency in Buildings public Private Partnership (EeB-PPP), whose activities address development of advanced materials, components and systems for the improvement of the energy efficiency in the built environment. AMANAC is the cluster of 29 projects, representing 255 project partners, out of which 63% are Large Enterprises or SMEs. AMANAC aims to maximize the impact of the AMANAC projects towards the European Industry and Society. More information about AMANAC can be found at http://amanac.eu/ The adoption of innovative materials in building envelopes offers a great potential for future design and construction. This is why the Journal of Facade Design and Engineering dedicates this special issue to this topic. JFDE is a firm partner for the distribution of scientific knowledge of the ICAE2015 International Congress on Architectural Envelopes (www.icae2015.com/en), organised by Tecnalia in San Sebastian, Spain. The papers presented in this current issue originate from five AMANAC research projects that researched new advanced materials and systems for energy efficient buildings. The works have been selected among the AMANAC project research results, initially presented in a special Session at the ICAE2015. The extended papers have been subjected to the regular double, blind review process of the journal.
description: Journal of Facade Design and Engineering, Vol. 4 No. 1-2 (2016): Special Issue AMANAC