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THE NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION ACT OF 1978: ORIGINS, CONTRADICTIONS, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR CONTROL OF PEACEFUL NUCLEAR ACTIVITIES (UNITED STATES; CONGRESS, FUEL CYCLE, PLUTONIUM)
Creators: name: Beckman, Robert L.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The U.S. Congress has written stringent nonproliferation legislation that attempts to tighten U.S. nuclear export criteria and strengthen the international nonproliferation regime. NNPA/78 created worldwide controversy because of its unilateral nature, and assertions by Congress that commercial reprocessing, plutonium and breeder reactors are inherently dangerous. Nonetheless, efforts continue in Congress to close loopholes in nonproliferation law and to prevent commercial trafficking in explosives-grade material. This paper chronicles the history of those efforts, using extensive interviews with members of "the nuclear priesthood" and with nuclear reformers seeking to reorient energy policy and to prevent the "second nuclear era" from repeating the alleged mistakes of the first. Beginning with the Acheson-Lilienthal Report, and moving through both military and commercial nuclear history, the study highlights critical shifts in thought on nuclear dangers: Atoms for Peace, arms control efforts, the NPT, the National Environmental Policy Act, the Energy Reorganization Act, energy crises, the Indian explosion, and crucial legislative roles played by antinuclear activists and zealous congressional staffmembers. Extensive attention is paid to shifts in philosophical orientations in Congress about nuclear power, and to the growing distrust of the AEC, the JCAE, and the IAEA safeguards regime. NNPA/78 is fundamentally a congressional broadside against the momentum to close the nuclear fuel cycle. It reflects the education of Congress to the overlooked dangers of plutonium stockpiles, and is the most important manifestation of disaffections with the nuclear promise. Draft versions of NNPA/78 proved too restrictive for Jimmy Carter's administration; thus, the compromise final legislation watered down inordinately rigid congressional strictures against nuclear exports. However, the law reflects the will of Congress and is not, as is widely believed, the culmination of Carter pathbreaking efforts. An extensive analysis of hearings and committee reports aids the search for definitional clarification of such terms as timely warning, subsequent arrangements, fullscope safeguards and dual-use items. That analysis is current through April 1984 and helps explain efforts in Congress to prevent the Reagan administration's return to nuclear free-market principles, and to solidify congressional ascension in nuclear export policymaking.
PPN motion of the S-stars around Sgr A*
Creators: name: Gainutdinov, R. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Parametrized Post-Newtonian (PPN) equations of motion for several S-stars nearest to the Galactic Center compact relativistic object SgrA* are considered. The effect of the orbital periods difference between Newtonian and Post-Newtonian cases is taken into account. The best fit PN orbit of S2 has a period which is 16 days longer than Newtonian one. The PPN parameters $β_\text{PPN}$ and $γ_\text{PPN}$ are measured. Bayesian sampling is used to fit the trajectories of the PPN laws of motion. Posterior estimates of $β_\text{PPN}$ and $γ_\text{PPN}$ are $0.97^{+0.42}_{-0.65}$ and $0.81^{+0.46}_{-0.60}$ respectively. The result confirms General Relativity prediction for the Post-Newtonian equations of motion in the conditions of orbital motions in vicinity of the SgrA*.
description: Prepared for submission to 'Astrophysics' journal
THE NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION ACT OF 1978: ORIGINS, CONTRADICTIONS, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR CONTROL OF PEACEFUL NUCLEAR ACTIVITIES (UNITED STATES; CONGRESS, FUEL CYCLE, PLUTONIUM)
Creators: name: Beckman, Robert L.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: The U.S. Congress has written stringent nonproliferation legislation that attempts to tighten U.S. nuclear export criteria and strengthen the international nonproliferation regime. NNPA/78 created worldwide controversy because of its unilateral nature, and assertions by Congress that commercial reprocessing, plutonium and breeder reactors are inherently dangerous. Nonetheless, efforts continue in Congress to close loopholes in nonproliferation law and to prevent commercial trafficking in explosives-grade material. This paper chronicles the history of those efforts, using extensive interviews with members of "the nuclear priesthood" and with nuclear reformers seeking to reorient energy policy and to prevent the "second nuclear era" from repeating the alleged mistakes of the first. Beginning with the Acheson-Lilienthal Report, and moving through both military and commercial nuclear history, the study highlights critical shifts in thought on nuclear dangers: Atoms for Peace, arms control efforts, the NPT, the National Environmental Policy Act, the Energy Reorganization Act, energy crises, the Indian explosion, and crucial legislative roles played by antinuclear activists and zealous congressional staffmembers. Extensive attention is paid to shifts in philosophical orientations in Congress about nuclear power, and to the growing distrust of the AEC, the JCAE, and the IAEA safeguards regime. NNPA/78 is fundamentally a congressional broadside against the momentum to close the nuclear fuel cycle. It reflects the education of Congress to the overlooked dangers of plutonium stockpiles, and is the most important manifestation of disaffections with the nuclear promise. Draft versions of NNPA/78 proved too restrictive for Jimmy Carter's administration; thus, the compromise final legislation watered down inordinately rigid congressional strictures against nuclear exports. However, the law reflects the will of Congress and is not, as is widely believed, the culmination of Carter pathbreaking efforts. An extensive analysis of hearings and committee reports aids the search for definitional clarification of such terms as timely warning, subsequent arrangements, fullscope safeguards and dual-use items. That analysis is current through April 1984 and helps explain efforts in Congress to prevent the Reagan administration's return to nuclear free-market principles, and to solidify congressional ascension in nuclear export policymaking.
Ecos del mundo clásico en las Cantigas de Santa María, Textos anexos
Creators: name: Mañas, Mónica Durán
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 200514 Literature in Spanish and Portuguese
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Textos anexos del artículo Ecos del mundo clásico en las Cantigas de Santa María
WMAP Data and Recent Developments in Supersymmetric Dark Matter
Creators: name: Chattopadhyay, Utpal
name: Corsetti, Achille
name: Nath, Pran
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A brief review is given of the recent developments in the analyses of supersymmetric dark matter. Chief among these is the very accurate determination of the amount of cold dark matter in the universe from analyses using WMAP data. The implications of this data for the mSUGRA parameter space are analyzed. It is shown that the data admits solutions on the hyperbolic branch (HB) of the radiative breaking of the electroweak symmetry. A part of the hyperbolic branch lies in the so called inversion region where the LSP neutralino $χ_1^0$ becomes essentially a pure Higgsino and degenerate with the next to the lightest neutralino $χ_2^0$ and the light chargino $χ_1^{\pm}$. Thus some of the conventional signals for the observation of supersymmetry at colliders (e.g., the missing energy signals) do not operate in this region. On the other hand the inversion region contains a high degree of degeneracy of $χ_1^0$, $χ_2^0$, $χ_1^{\pm}$ leading to coannihilations which allow for the satisfaction of the WMAP relic density constraints deep on the hyperbolic branch. Further, an analysis of the neutralino-proton cross sections in this region reveals that this region can still be accessible to dark matter experiments in the future. Constraints from $g_μ-2$ and from $B^0_s\to μ^+μ^-$ are discussed. Future prospects are also discussed.
description: 15 pages Latex. Invited talk at the IV International Conference on Non-accelerator New Physics (NANP'03), Dubna, Russia, June 23-28, 2003
Effective Lagrangian for $χ^+_iχ_j^0H^-$ Interaction in the MSSM and Charged Higgs Decays
Creators: name: Ibrahim, Tarek
name: Nath, Pran
name: Psinas, Anastasios
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend previous analyses of the supersymmetric loop correction to the charged Higgs couplings to include the coupling $H^{\pm}χ^{\mp}χ^0$. The analysis completes the previous analyses where similar corrections were computed for $H^+\bar t b$ ($H^-t\bar b$), and for $H^+τ^- \barν_τ$ ($H^- τ^+ ν_τ$) couplings within the minimal supersymmetric standard model. The effective one loop Lagrangian is then applied to the computation of the charged Higgs decays. The sizes of the supersymmetric loop correction on branching ratios of the charged Higgs $H^+(H^-)$ into the decay modes $t\bar b$ ($\bar t b$), $\barτν_τ$ ($τ\bar ν_τ$), and $χ_i^+χ_j^0(χ_i^-χ_j^0)$ (i=1,2; j=1-4) are investigated and the supersymmetric loop correction is found to be significant, i.e., in the range 20-30% in significant regions of the parameter space. The loop correction to the decay mode $χ_1^{\pm}χ_2^0$ is examined in specific detail as this decay mode leads to a trileptonic signal. The effects of CP phases on the branching ratio are also investigated. A brief discussion of the implications of the analysis for collders is given.
description: 22 pages, 7 figures
An investigation into sustainable patio heaters for the Perch Restaurant
Creators: name: Archutick, Janyce
name: Chappell-Moss, Nick
name: Gumboc, William
name: Wong, Justin
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: This report is an investigation into potential methods of supplying heat to the Perch restaurant’s patio in an economical, sustainable, and socially responsible manner. The aim of our research is to reduce carbon emissions emitted through heating methods in order to meet the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold certification for the AMS Student Nest, and achieve UBC’s sustainability goals. The stakeholder for this project is Chiyi Tam, the AMS Sustainability Coordinator. The amount of heat required must match or exceed the amount needed for 80-90 seats. Instead of calculating heat output per area, the quantity of each heater needed was calculated by taking the proximity of each heater to each customer into account. Bioethanol burners and electric infrared heaters were chosen to be suitable products to investigate for heating the patio. To ensure that the recommended mechanism was effective, each product was compared to the traditional propane patio heater. This comparison was conducted by investigating a standard model of each heater: the Endless Summer® Stainless Steel Propane Patio Heater, the Ecosmar⁺ᵗᵐ Fire AB3 Bioethanol Burner, and the PARAMOUNT⁺ᵗᵐ Offset Pole Mounted Stainless Steel Infrared Patio Heater. By not only comparing the environmental impacts, but also the economic and social impacts in a triple bottom line assessment, the best heating choice for the Perch's patio was uncovered. The result of the investigation was that electric infrared heaters stood to be the most environmentally friendly with no emissions coming from the actual product, and only 5t of CO₂/GWh coming from the production of electricity. The chosen model also stood to be the most cost effective with its implementation having a $3192.00 total upfront cost for eight infrared heaters and an additional $999.94/year for operating costs. In the social aspect, the electric heaters need to be implemented carefully because of limited space, and wire tripping hazards. It is recommended that the AMS Student Perch install 8 PARAMOUNT⁺ᵗᵐ Offset Pole Mounted Stainless Steel Infrared Patio Heaters onto the patio of the restaurant in order to be more sustainable and extend the patio season. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Kina-Russland-India-trippelalliansen i olje- og gassindustrien
Creators: name: Petrov, Alexander
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160603 Comparative Government and Politics
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: Economics
subject: 140210 International Economics and International Finance
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: 150308 International Business

description: I løpet av de siste fem årene har Russland, med statlig finansiering, begynt å utvikle egen offshore-teknologi, selv om dette aldri har vært en russisk topprioritering. De største selskapene mottar mesteparten av olje og gass fra virksomhet på land, og er særlig opptatt med å øke fortjenesten. De har begynt å legge press på boreentreprenørene for å redusere prisen på arbeidskraft. Samtidig fortsetter de gigantiske oljeselskapene å motta statlig støtte, og eksporterer olje og gass mot betaling i dollar. Imens har de interne prisene falt med cirka femti prosent på grunn av rubelens devaluering.
CONSULTANTS, UNIONS, AND NLRB ELECTIONS (LOGIT MODELS)
Creators: name: Frazier, Thomas Patrick
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation is about a significant and growing force in labor-management relations in the United States. This force is the outside consultant hired by management either to prevent unions from gaining a foothold in their company or, in the case where the union is already present, to oust the incumbent union. This dissertation focuses on several questions. First, what is the role played by consultants in National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) representational elections? Second, what is the impact of these consultants on the outcome of NLRB elections?; A profile of the characteristics of NLRB elections involving consultants is drawn from survey data provided by the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO). The following election characteristics exhibit a statistically significant relationship with consultant activity: geographical location, size of the unit, company is part of larger corporation, number of years at the election site. The extent of the pervasive consultant involvement in NLRB election campaigns is suggested by the findings of this study that over 70 percent of the election campaigns were run by outside consultants. Two specific campaign tactics were found often in consultant-led campaigns. Consultants were found to be involved in a significant number of elections where the union did not obtain the requested bargaining unit. In elections where the union did not obtain the desired unit, it lost a disproportionate number of those elections. Another trait of consultant-led campaigns is the use of front-line supervisors. Here again, the union lost a significant number of elections when the consultant used front-line supervisors in the campaign. In order to assess the impact of these consultants on the outcome of NLRB elections, a logit regression model was developed using data from the U.S. Department of Labor and the AFL-CIO. The results of the logit regression model indicate that consultants are responsible for approximately a twelve percentage point "swing" in votes for the employer. A simulation was performed to gauge the impact of consultants on NLRB elections held in 1979, 1980, and 1981. The results of the simulation suggest that if consultants had not been employed in any of the elections over the three-year period, union victories would have increased by 2,241. This would have meant an addition of almost a quarter of a million members.
Additional file 8 of High-resolution melting analysis identifies reservoir hosts of zoonotic Leishmania parasites in Tunisia
Creators: name: Derghal, Moufida
name: Tebai, Abir
name: Balti, Ghofrane
name: Souguir-Omrani, Hajer
name: Chemkhi, Jomaa
name: Rhim, Adel
name: Bouattour, Ali
name: Guizani, Ikram
name: M’Ghirbi, Youmna
name: Guerbouj, Souheila
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 8: Figure S3. Sensitivity of PCR-HRM targeting 7SL RNA and HSP70 genes. Detection limit of PCR-HRM using 7SL RNA and HSP70 genes was determined using tenfold dilutions of DNA from each reference Leishmania isolate, representing L. infantum (MHOM/TN/94/LV50), L. major (MHOM/TN/2011/EMPA10), and L. tropica (MHOM/IQ/65/L75). a. 7SL PCR-HRM using L. infantum DNA b. HSP70 PCR-HRM using L. infantum DNA. c. 7SL PCR-HRM using L. major DNA d. HSP70 PCR-HRM using L. major DNA. e. 7SL PCR-HRM using L. tropica DNA f. HSP70 PCR-HRM using L. tropica DNA. The right sections of the figures show the tested samples, which are color-coded according to the amplification result, red when positive and green when negative. In all panels, sample codes correspond to the following DNA amounts: A: 20 ng; B: 10 ng; C: 1 ng; D: 0.1 ng; E: 0.01 ng; F: 0.001 ng; G: 0.0001 ng; H: negative control (no DNA).
Kinetic energy of the Langevin particle
Creators: name: Escudero, Carlos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the kinetic energy of the Langevin particle using different approaches. We build stochastic differential equations that describe this physical quantity based on both the Itô and Stratonovich stochastic integrals. It is shown that the Itô equation possesses a unique solution whereas the Stratonovich one possesses infinitely many, all but one absent of physical meaning. We discuss how this fact matches with the existent discussion on the Itô vs Stratonovich dilemma and the apparent preference towards the Stratonovich interpretation in the physical literature.
CONSULTANTS, UNIONS, AND NLRB ELECTIONS (LOGIT MODELS)
Creators: name: Frazier, Thomas Patrick
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics

description: This dissertation is about a significant and growing force in labor-management relations in the United States. This force is the outside consultant hired by management either to prevent unions from gaining a foothold in their company or, in the case where the union is already present, to oust the incumbent union. This dissertation focuses on several questions. First, what is the role played by consultants in National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) representational elections? Second, what is the impact of these consultants on the outcome of NLRB elections?; A profile of the characteristics of NLRB elections involving consultants is drawn from survey data provided by the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO). The following election characteristics exhibit a statistically significant relationship with consultant activity: geographical location, size of the unit, company is part of larger corporation, number of years at the election site. The extent of the pervasive consultant involvement in NLRB election campaigns is suggested by the findings of this study that over 70 percent of the election campaigns were run by outside consultants. Two specific campaign tactics were found often in consultant-led campaigns. Consultants were found to be involved in a significant number of elections where the union did not obtain the requested bargaining unit. In elections where the union did not obtain the desired unit, it lost a disproportionate number of those elections. Another trait of consultant-led campaigns is the use of front-line supervisors. Here again, the union lost a significant number of elections when the consultant used front-line supervisors in the campaign. In order to assess the impact of these consultants on the outcome of NLRB elections, a logit regression model was developed using data from the U.S. Department of Labor and the AFL-CIO. The results of the logit regression model indicate that consultants are responsible for approximately a twelve percentage point "swing" in votes for the employer. A simulation was performed to gauge the impact of consultants on NLRB elections held in 1979, 1980, and 1981. The results of the simulation suggest that if consultants had not been employed in any of the elections over the three-year period, union victories would have increased by 2,241. This would have meant an addition of almost a quarter of a million members.
Noise representations of open system dynamics
Creators: name: Szańkowski, Piotr
name: Cywiński, Łukasz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the conditions under which the dynamics of a quantum system open to a given environment can be simulated with an external noisy field that is a surrogate for the environmental degrees of freedom. We show that such a field is either a subjective or an objective surrogate; the former is capable of simulating the dynamics only for the specific system--environment arrangement, while the latter is an universal simulator for any system interacting with the given environment. Consequently, whether the objective surrogate field exists and what are its properties is determined exclusively by the environment. Thus, we are able to formulate the sufficient criterion for the environment to facilitate its surrogate, and we identify a number of environment types that satisfy it. Finally, we discuss in what sense the objective surrogate field representation can be considered classical and we explain its relation to the formation of system--environment entanglement, and the back-action exerted by the system onto environment.
Disk Temperature Variations and Effects on the Snow Line in the Presence of Small Protoplanets
Creators: name: Jang-Condell, Hannah
name: Sasselov, Dimitar D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We revisit the computation of a "snow line" in a passive protoplanetary disk during the stage of planetesimal formation. We examine how shadowing and illumination in the vicinity of a planet affects where in the disk ice can form, making use of our method for calculating radiative transfer on disk perturbations with some improvements on the model. We adopt a model for the unperturbed disk structure that is more consistent with observations and use opacities for reprocessed dust instead of interstellar medium dust. We use the improved disk model to calculate the temperature variation for a range of planet masses and distances and find that planets at the gap-opening threshold can induce temperature variations of up to +/-30%. Temperature variations this significant may have ramifications for planetary accretion rates and migration rates. We discuss in particular the effect of temperature variations near the sublimation point of water, since the formation of ice can enhance the accretion rate of disk material onto a planet. Shadowing effects can cool the disk enough that ice will form closer to the star than previously expected, effectively moving the snow line inward.
description: 28 pages, 14 figures, to appear in the Astrophysical Journal
SN 2010kd: Photometric and Spectroscopic Analysis of a Slow-Decaying Superluminous Supernova
Creators: name: Kumar, Amit
name: Pandey, Shashi Bhushan
name: Konyves-Toth, Reka
name: Staten, Ryan
name: Vinko, Jozsef
name: Wheeler, J. Craig
name: Zheng, Weikang
name: Filippenko, Alexei V.
name: Kehoe, Robert
name: Quimby, Robert
name: Fang, Yuan
name: Akerlof, Carl
name: Mckay, Tim A.
name: Chatzopoulos, Emmanouil
name: Thomas, Benjamin P.
name: Dhungana, Govinda
name: Aryan, Amar
name: Dastidar, Raya
name: Gangopadhyay, Anjasha
name: Gupta, Rahul
name: Misra, Kuntal
name: Kumar, Brajesh
name: Brahme, Nameeta
name: Buckley, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper presents data and analysis of SN 2010kd, a low-redshift ($z = 0.101$) H-deficient superluminous supernova (SLSN), based on ultraviolet/optical photometry and optical spectroscopy spanning between $-$28 and +194 days relative to $\mathit{B}$ band maximum light. The $\mathit{B}$ band light curve comparison of SN 2010kd with a subset of well-studied SLSNe I at comparable redshifts indicates that it is a slow-decaying PTF12dam like SLSN. Analytical light-curve modeling using the $\mathtt{Minim}$ code suggests that the bolometric light curve of SN 2010kd favors circumstellar matter interaction for the powering mechanism. $\mathtt{SYNAPPS}$ modeling of the early-phase spectra does not identify broad H or He lines, whereas the photospheric-phase spectra are dominated by O I, O II, C II, C IV and Si II, particularly, presence of both low and high-velocity components of O II and Si II lines. The nebular-phase spectra of SN 2010kd are dominated by O I and Ca II emission lines similar to those seen in other SLSNe I. The line velocities in SN 2010kd exhibit flatter evolution curves similar to SN 2015bn but with comparatively higher values. SN 2010kd shows a higher single-zone local thermodynamic equilibrium temperature in comparison to PTF12dam and SN 2015bn, and it has an upper O I ejected mass limit of $\sim 10~M_\odot$. The host of SN 2010kd is a dwarf galaxy with a high star-formation rate ($\sim 0.18 \pm 0.04~M_\odot$ yr$^{-1}$) and extreme emission lines.
description: 26 pages, 16 figures, Accepted in ApJ, updated to match the accepted version
Molecular excited state in the interaction quench dynamics of two different atoms in a two-dimensional anisotropic trap
Creators: name: Ishmukhamedov, I. S.
name: Ishmukhamedov, A. S.
name: Jalankuzov, Zh. E.
name: Ismailov, D. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the interaction quench dynamics of two atoms with different masses and subject to different trapping potentials. Notably, under such anisotropic conditions, the nonequilibrium dynamics can lead to the occupation of molecular excited states. We consider cases of quenching from attractive to repulsive interaction and vice versa, analyzing the impact of the pre- and postquench states. The analysis of overlap integrals for the both states reveals a significant contribution from the molecular excited state. Moreover, the overlap with the prequench states might serve as an indicator of when this excited state may emerge. Additionally, we calculate the energy spectrum for the lowest levels in the both isotropic and anisotropic harmonic traps. Throughout our study, we use a Gaussian-shaped finite-range interaction potential.
description: This preprint has not undergone peer review (when applicable) or any post-submission improvements or corrections. The Version of Record of this article is published in The European Physical Journal Plus, and is available online at https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-024-04864-2
A new method for the solution of the Schrodinger equation
Creators: name: Amore, Paolo
name: Aranda, Alfredo
name: De Pace, Arturo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new method for the solution of the Schrodinger equation applicable to problems of non-perturbative nature. The method works by identifying three different scales in the problem, which then are treated independently: An asymptotic scale, which depends uniquely on the form of the potential at large distances; an intermediate scale, still characterized by an exponential decay of the wave function and, finally, a short distance scale, in which the wave function is sizable. The key feature of our method is the introduction of an arbitrary parameter in the last two scales, which is then used to optimize a perturbative expansion in a suitable parameter. We apply the method to the quantum anharmonic oscillator and find excellent results.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, RevTex4
THE NEW YORK TIMES, U.S. FOREIGN POLICY AND THE IRANIAN REVOLUTION (PRESS; UNITED STATES)
Creators: name: Malekzadeh, Abbas
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: It is generally argued that in American society the press plays an important role in foreign policy process. This study focuses on the performance of "the most elite" newspaper, the New York Times, and compares the "paper's foreign policy" with the official U.S. policy in regard to Iran. Three specific time periods have been studied in this dissertation: (1) 1968-1978, a decade prior to the Iranian revolution; (2) 1978-1979, era of the revolution; and (3) 1979-1981, the hostage "crisis". The New York Times editorials and the Department of State Bulletin were selected as two sources for a systematic qualitative and quantitative analysis to test a number of hypotheses developed in this study. The results of the study revealed that the New York Times and the U.S. Government had a very similar, and "positive" attitude toward Iran for a decade prior to the revolution. There were no significant differences between the two sources between 1968-1978. The Iranian revolution marked a significant shift in the New York Times' approach towards that country: first, by criticizing the royal regime and then by initiating a critical approach in its analysis of past U.S. policies toward Iran. For the first time, there was a significantly meaningful difference between the New York Times editorials and the U.S. policy reflected in the Department of State Bulletin. The hostage crisis, however, created a situation as a result of which both sources once again took similar approach towards Iran and Iranian affairs. This time, the New York Times and the Department of State Bulletin portrayed Iran in a very "unfavorable" light. In conclusion, this study suggests that the lack of critical analysis on the part of the New York Times, could be considered a contributing factor in the failure of American policies toward Iran. Although the study did not investigate a causal relationship between the New York Times editorials and the outcome of the U.S. foreign policy, it was demonstrated that changes observed in the editorials position followed by changes in U.S. official foreign policies.
Resonant inelastic x-ray scattering study of holon-antiholon continuum in SrCuO2
Creators: name: Kim, Young-June
name: Hill, J. P.
name: Benthien, H.
name: Essler, F. H. L.
name: Jeckelmann, E.
name: Choi, H. S.
name: Noh, T. W.
name: Motoyama, N.
name: Kojima, K. M.
name: Uchida, S.
name: Casa, D.
name: Gog, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a resonant inelastic x-ray scattering study of charge excitations in the quasi-one-dimensional Mott insulator SrCuO2. We observe a continuum of low-energy excitations, in which a highly dispersive feature with a large sinusoidal dispersion (~1.1 eV) resides. We have also measured the optical conductivity, and studied the dynamic response of the extended Hubbard model with realistic parameters, using a dynamical density-matrix renormalization group method. In contrast to earlier work, we do not find a long-lived exciton, but rather these results suggest that the excitation spectrum comprises a holon-antiholon continuum together with a broad resonance.
description: Final version to be published in Phys. Rev. Lett
Planck-scale structure of spacetime and some implications for astrophysics and cosmology
Creators: name: Amelino-Camelia, Giovanni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I briefly review some scenarios for the role of the Planck length in quantum gravity. In particular, I examine the differences between the schemes in which quantum gravity is expected to introduce a maximum acceleration and the schemes in which the Planck length sets the minimum value of wavelengths (maximum value of momentum). I also comment on some pictures for the structure of spacetime at the Planck scale, such as spacetime discretization and spacetime noncommutativity. I stress that some of these proposals can have significant implications in astrophysics and cosmology.
description: 9 pages, LaTex. Invited talk at ``Thinking, Observing and Mining the Universe", Sorrento, Italy, September 22-27, 2003 (to appear in the proceedings). V2: Paper unchanged, some references added
Additional file 1 of Healthcare providers’ perception of advance care planning for patients with critical illnesses in acute-care hospitals: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Yamamoto, Kanako
name: Yonekura, Yuki
name: Nakayama, Kazuhiro
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.
Dynamics of plane partitions: Proof of the Cameron-Fon-Der-Flaass conjecture
Creators: name: Patrias, Rebecca
name: Pechenik, Oliver
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05E18, 05A17, 06A07

description: One of the oldest outstanding problems in dynamical algebraic combinatorics is the following conjecture of P. Cameron and D. Fon-Der-Flaass (1995). Consider a plane partition $P$ in an $a \times b \times c$ box ${\sf B}$. Let $Ψ(P)$ denote the smallest plane partition containing the minimal elements of ${\sf B} - P$. Then if $p= a+b+c-1$ is prime, Cameron and Fon-Der-Flaass conjectured that the cardinality of the $Ψ$-orbit of $P$ is always a multiple of $p$. This conjecture was established for $p \gg 0$ by Cameron and Fon-Der-Flaass (1995) and for slightly smaller values of $p$ in work of K. Dilks, J. Striker, and the second author (2017). Our main theorem specializes to prove this conjecture in full generality.
description: 6 pages. Title updated again to match publication version
Additional file 1 of The characteristic and potential therapeutic effect of isolated multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii lytic phage
Creators: name: Sisakhtpour, Behnam
name: Mirzaei, Arezoo
name: Karbasizadeh, Vajihe
name: Hosseini, Nafiseh
name: Shabani, Mehdi
name: Moghim, Sharareh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. The antibiotic sensitivity results and the spot test of pISF-AB2 phage, Figure S1. pH stability test, Figure S2: Thermal stability of pISF-AB2 phage.
THE NEW YORK TIMES, U.S. FOREIGN POLICY AND THE IRANIAN REVOLUTION (PRESS; UNITED STATES)
Creators: name: Malekzadeh, Abbas
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: It is generally argued that in American society the press plays an important role in foreign policy process. This study focuses on the performance of "the most elite" newspaper, the New York Times, and compares the "paper's foreign policy" with the official U.S. policy in regard to Iran. Three specific time periods have been studied in this dissertation: (1) 1968-1978, a decade prior to the Iranian revolution; (2) 1978-1979, era of the revolution; and (3) 1979-1981, the hostage "crisis". The New York Times editorials and the Department of State Bulletin were selected as two sources for a systematic qualitative and quantitative analysis to test a number of hypotheses developed in this study. The results of the study revealed that the New York Times and the U.S. Government had a very similar, and "positive" attitude toward Iran for a decade prior to the revolution. There were no significant differences between the two sources between 1968-1978. The Iranian revolution marked a significant shift in the New York Times' approach towards that country: first, by criticizing the royal regime and then by initiating a critical approach in its analysis of past U.S. policies toward Iran. For the first time, there was a significantly meaningful difference between the New York Times editorials and the U.S. policy reflected in the Department of State Bulletin. The hostage crisis, however, created a situation as a result of which both sources once again took similar approach towards Iran and Iranian affairs. This time, the New York Times and the Department of State Bulletin portrayed Iran in a very "unfavorable" light. In conclusion, this study suggests that the lack of critical analysis on the part of the New York Times, could be considered a contributing factor in the failure of American policies toward Iran. Although the study did not investigate a causal relationship between the New York Times editorials and the outcome of the U.S. foreign policy, it was demonstrated that changes observed in the editorials position followed by changes in U.S. official foreign policies.
Cosmic acceleration, scalar fields and observations
Creators: name: Terrero-Escalante, C. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Conditions for accelerated expansion of Friedmann-Robertson-Walker space-time are analyzed. Connection of this scenario with present-day observations are reviewed. It is explained how a scalar field could be responsible for cosmic acceleration observed in present times and predicted for the very early Universe. Ideas aimed at answering whether is that the actual case for our Universe are described.
description: Published in "The Early Universe and Observational Cosmology", Springer-Verlag, Eds.: N. Breton, J. L. Cota-Cervantes and M. Salgado
Luttinger liquid versus charge density wave behaviour in the one-dimensional spinless fermion Holstein model
Creators: name: Fehske, H.
name: Wellein, G.
name: Hager, G.
name: Weisse, A.
name: Becker, K. W.
name: Bishop, A. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the nature of the different ground states of the half-filled Holstein model of spinless fermions in 1D. In the metallic regime we determine the renormalised effective coupling constant and the velocity of the charge excitations by a density-matrix renormalisation group (DMRG) finite-size scaling approach. At low (high) phonon frequencies the Luttinger liquid is characterised by an attractive (repulsive) effective interaction. In the charge-density wave Peierls-distorted state the charge structure factor scales to a finite value indicating long-range order.
description: 2 pages, 3 figures, submitted to SCES'04
Anomaly Detection using Deep Autoencoders for in-situ Wastewater Systems Monitoring Data
Creators: name: Russo, Stefania
name: Disch, Andy
name: Blumensaat, Frank
name: Villez, Kris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Due to the growing amount of data from in-situ sensors in wastewater systems, it becomes necessary to automatically identify abnormal behaviours and ensure high data quality. This paper proposes an anomaly detection method based on a deep autoencoder for in-situ wastewater systems monitoring data. The autoencoder architecture is based on 1D Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) layers where the convolutions are performed over the inputs across the temporal axis of the data. Anomaly detection is then performed based on the reconstruction error of the decoding stage. The approach is validated on multivariate time series from in-sewer process monitoring data. We discuss the results and the challenge of labelling anomalies in complex time series. We suggest that our proposed approach can support the domain experts in the identification of anomalies.
description: 10th IWA Symposium on Modelling and Integrated Assessment (Watermatex 2019)
Additional file 1 of Routine HIV clinic visit adherence in the African Cohort Study
Creators: name: Dear, Nicole
name: Esber, Allahna
name: Iroezindu, Michael
name: Bahemana, Emmanuel
name: Kibuuka, Hannah
name: Maswai, Jonah
name: Owuoth, John
name: Polyak, Christina S.
name: Ake, Julie A.
name: Crowell, Trevor A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Additional tables.
A Note on effective N=1 Super Yang-Mills Theories versus Lattice Results
Creators: name: Cerdeno, David G.
name: Knauf, Anke
name: Louis, Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compare the glueball mass spectrum of an effective N=1 pure super Yang-Mills theory formulated in terms of a three-form supermultiplet with the available lattice data. These confirm the presence of four scalars and two Majorana fermions but the detailed mass spectrum is difficult to reconcile with the effective supersymmetric theory. By imposing supersymmetry and using two of four bosonic masses we get a prediction for the remaining masses as well as the mixing angles. We find that the mass of the three-form dominates over the contribution of the Veneziano-Yankielowicz-Dijkgraaf-Vafa term. As a byproduct we introduce a Fayet-Iliopoulos term for the three-form multiplet and show that it generates a glueball condensate.
description: 11 pages LaTeX, reference added, typos corrected
FEMALE CANDIDATES AND SECONDARY SCHOOL PRINCIPALSHIPS: AN ANALYSIS OF THE PERCEPTIONS OF KEY EDUCATIONAL PERSONNEL IN THE SELECTION OF SECONDARY SCHOOL PRINCIPALS
Creators: name: Mero, Dianne Pemble
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Statement of the Problem. The purpose of this study was to investigate the selection process for secondary principals and to compare the perceptions of school officials with principals regarding attitudes toward, and the qualifications of, female secondary school principals. Procedures. The participants were the superintendents, directors of personnel, presidents of school boards and secondary principals from the mid-Atlantic region. Attitudes toward female principals were measured by the Attitude Research Instrument developed by Thomas A. Ringness at the University of Wisconsin. A questionnaire was used to gather background information, opinions regarding qualifications of principals and a description of the selection process used in the school districts. Results. School officials gave similar responses regarding attitudes toward females, as did the male and female principals. However, the school officials differed from the principals in their responses. All groups stated positive perceptions of females in three areas: women are encouraged to prepare professionally, women have the qualifications, and women have the necessary experiences for the principalship. The school officials expressed perceptions of the promotional process which were different from the principals' perceptions. Female principals stated that the selection procedures were not well understood and that opportunities for secondary principalships were not as available to females as males. Conclusions. Female principals achieved the highest scores on the ARI which indicated that they possessed the most favorable attitudes toward females. They were followed by directors of personnel, board of education presidents, superintendents and male principals, in that order. Male and female principals are equally qualified for the principalship. Female principals believe that most school system employees do not understand the principal selection procedures. Most school systems use a traditional method of principal screening. Recommendations. School systems should conduct a "self-analysis" regarding promotional procedures, should consider the "Assessment Center" approach to increase equity in the process and should disseminate information regarding promotions in a widely advertised manner. This study should be expanded with more emphasis on identification of the characteristics of successful female candidates as well as further study of the school systems which have promoted women in equitable numbers.
Additional file 1 of Transferring the sandwich principle to instructional videos: is it worth the effort?
Creators: name: Bock, Anna
name: Thomas, Christina
name: Heitzer, Marius
name: Winnand, Philipp
name: Peters, Florian
name: Lemos, Martin
name: Hölzle, Frank
name: Modabber, Ali
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1.
Gravimetric prospecting: Searching for new hydrocarbon basins using global models
Creators: name: Colpani, Stefano
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Geophysics
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: DTU post-print: thesis (MSC), appendix (APX), presentation (PPT), dataset (DAT). We present a serie of digital items, in which the latest data compilation features a set of global maps, in the form of gravity anomalies, gradients, and invariants, gridded at the ellipsoidal height ten kilometres above GRS80, resolved at a ten by ten arc minutes, corresponding to the observed GOCE satellite gravity signal (SAT), the computed regional gravity signature of CRUST1 seismic-constrained stacked crustal units (REG), and, resulting independently by means of gravity-stripping, the residual gravity signature of sedimentary basins (SED).