cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Algebraic techniques in designing quantum synchronizable codes
Creators: name: Fujiwara, Yuichiro
name: Tonchev, Vladimir D.
name: Wong, Tony W. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Quantum synchronizable codes are quantum error-correcting codes that can correct the effects of quantum noise as well as block synchronization errors. We improve the previously known general framework for designing quantum synchronizable codes through more extensive use of the theory of finite fields. This makes it possible to widen the range of tolerable magnitude of block synchronization errors while giving mathematical insight into the algebraic mechanism of synchronization recovery. Also given are families of quantum synchronizable codes based on punctured Reed-Muller codes and their ambient spaces.
description: 9 pages, no figures. The framework presented in this article supersedes the one given in arXiv:1206.0260 by the first author
The influence of magnetic fields, turbulence, and UV radiation on the formation of supermassive black holes
Creators: name: Van Borm, C.
name: Spaans, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context. The seeds of the supermassive black holes (SMBHs) with masses of ~10^9 M_Sun observed already at z ~ 6 may have formed through the direct collapse of primordial gas in T_vir >~ 10^4 K halos, whereby the gas must stay hot (~10^4 K) in order to avoid fragmentation. Aims. The interplay between magnetic fields, turbulence, and a UV radiation background during the gravitational collapse of primordial gas in a halo is explored; in particular, the possibilities for avoiding fragmentation are examined. Methods. Using an analytical one-zone model, the evolution of a cloud of primordial gas is followed from its initial cosmic expansion through turnaround, virialization, and collapse up to a density of 10^7 cm-3. Results. It was found that in halos with no significant turbulence, the critical UV background intensity (J_21^crit) for keeping the gas hot is lower by a factor ~10 for an initial comoving magnetic field B_0 ~ 2 nG than for the zero-field case, and even lower for stronger fields. In turbulent halos, J_21^crit is found to be a factor ~10 lower than for the zero-field-zero-turbulence case, and the stronger the turbulence (more massive halo and/or stronger turbulent heating) the lower J_21^crit. Conclusions. The reduction in J_21^crit is particularly important, since it exponentially increases the number of halos exposed to a supercritical radiation background.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures; minor language edits, added equation to section 2.3
Criticisms of modelling packet traffic using long-range dependence (extended version)
Creators: name: Clegg, R. G.
name: Landa, R.
name: Rio, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper criticises the notion that long-range dependence is an important contributor to the queuing behaviour of real Internet traffic. The idea is questioned in two different ways. Firstly, a class of models used to simulate Internet traffic is shown to have important theoretical flaws. It is shown that this behaviour is inconsistent with the behaviour of real traffic traces. Secondly, the notion that long-range correlations significantly affects the queuing performance of traffic is investigated by destroying those correlations in real traffic traces (by reordering). It is shown that the longer ranges of correlations are not important except in one case with an extremely high load.
description: This is an extended version of the conference paper http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.0144
Consensus Seeking in Multi-Agent Systems with Multiplicative Measurement Noises
Creators: name: Ni, Yuan-Hua
name: Li, Xun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, the consensus problems of the continuous-time integrator systems under noisy measurements are considered. The measurement noises, which appear when agents measure their neighbors' states, are modeled to be multiplicative. By multiplication of the noises, here, the noise intensities are proportional to the absolute value of the relative states of agent and its neighbor. By using known distributed protocols for integrator agent systems, the closed-loop {system is} described in the vector form by a singular stochastic differential equation. For the fixed and switching network topologies cases, constant consensus gains are properly selected, such that mean square consensus and strong consensus can be achieved. Especially, exponential mean square convergence of agents' states to the common value is derived for the fixed topology case. In addition, asymptotic unbiased mean square average consensus and asymptotic unbiased strong average consensus are also studied. Simulations shed light on the effectiveness of the proposed theoretical results.
Travel Time Curves at Small Distances and Wave Velocities of Principal Phases in the Southern California Ranges
Creators: name: Grobecker, Alan John
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1941
Subjects: subject: p-waves
subject: Peninsular Ranges
subject: travel time curves
subject: epicenters
subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Four shocks with epicenters in the region of the northern end of the Peninsular Range of Southern California were studied. Travel times of numerous phases of these four shocks were measured from seismograph records of stations at Pasadena, Mount Wilson, Riverside, La Jolla, Santa
Barbara, Tinemaha and Haiwee, in Southern California.

The velocities of propagation of eight principal phases were determined. Thicknesses of three layers above a depth of about 40 k.m. in the earth's crust were calculated.
Additional file 1 of Heterologous expression of nattokinase from B. subtilis natto using Pichia pastoris GS115 and assessment of its thrombolytic activity
Creators: name: Guangbo, Yan
name: Min, Shu
name: Wei, Shen
name: Lixin, Ma
name: Chao, Zhai
name: Yaping, Wang
name: Zunxi, Huang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1. Analyzing the relation between expression levels of NK-Bs and the copy number of aprN gene with plate assay. Table S1. Primers for the amplification of ORF encoding NK-Bs. Table S2. The ratio of the opaque halo diameter to the colony diameter.
Robust topological insulator surface conduction under strong surface disorder
Creators: name: Wu, Quansheng
name: Du, Liang
name: Sacksteder, Vincent E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Topological insulators are characterized by specially protected conduction on their outer boundaries. We show that the protected edge conduction exhibited by 2-D topological insulators (and also Chern insulators) is independent of non-magnetic boundary disorder. In particular, the edge states residing inside the bulk gap remain conducting even when edge state inhomogeneities destroy the characteristic linear Dirac relation between energy and momentum. The main effects of boundary disorder on the in-gap states are to decrease the Fermi velocity, increase the density of states, pull the states into the disordered region if spin is conserved, and at very large disorder shift the states to the boundary between the disordered edge and the clean bulk. These effects, which may be useful for device engineering, are controlled by a resonance between the disordered edge and the bulk bands. The resonance's energy is set by the bulk band width; protection of the in-gap edge states' plane-wave character is controlled by the bulk band width, not the bulk band gap.
title: Investigating Mitochondrial Influence on the Rate of Anaerobic Glycolysis in an in vitro Model
Creators: name: Taylor, Mackenzie Jenna'
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2023

description: The rate at which the muscle acidifies after an animal is harvested has a profound effect on the quality of the resulting pork. When acidification increases gradually, desirable pork quality characteristics are developed. In contrast, rapid acidification deteriorates pork quality, exemplified by the pale, soft, and exudative (PSE) pork defect. The rate of acidification is determined by the rate of anaerobic metabolism in postmortem muscle. Yet the processes controlling postmortem anaerobic metabolism are not well understood. Recent research suggests that mitochondria, the powerhouse of the cell, may influence this process by competing for substrate (pyruvate) with anaerobic metabolism, thereby reducing its rate. This study aimed to examine the role of mitochondria in post-harvest acidification of pork. We hypothesized that inhibiting mitochondrial ability to uptake pyruvate would increase the rate of acidification. To test this hypothesis, CPI-613 and Avidin, inhibitors of pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH) and pyruvate carboxylase (PC), respectively, were used in lab settings mimicking postmortem muscle metabolism. Four treatments were tested: control, CPI-613, Avidin, and CPI-613 + Avidin. A similar follow-up study incorporated a tracer to track pyruvate's fate. The results showed that inhibition of PDH with CPI-613 increased anaerobic metabolism and decreased mitochondrial metabolite enrichment, evidenced by an increased rate of acidification and anaerobic metabolism compared to the control. No effect was observed in the PC-inhibited samples. These findings suggest that mitochondria could have a regulatory role on the rate of post-harvest metabolism. Overall, the data support our hypothesis that inhibiting mitochondrial ability to uptake pyruvate increases the rate of acidification.
Additional file 1 of S100A8 and S100A9 in saliva, blood and gingival crevicular fluid for screening established periodontitis: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Kim, Hyun-Duck
name: Karna, Sandeep
name: Shin, YooJin
name: Vu, Huong
name: Cho, Hyun-Jae
name: Kim, Sungtae
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1. STROBE Statement—Checklist of items that should be included in reports of observational studies.
title: #BodyPositivity or #BodyPolitics?: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Body Positivity Myth Formed by Narratives of Political Myth
Creators: name: Lasike, Sydney Berenyi
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2023

description: The Body Positivity movement is well-known for advocating for the acceptance of all body types—including size, shape, color, and ability. Images online in support of the movement often showcase stretch marks, cellulite, and other “unattractive” bodily features to protest against the thin-ideal and strict standards of beauty placed upon women. Despite the goal to inspire self-love and celebration of all bodies, the hashtag #BodyPositivity has been taken-over by white, female influencers who have the idolized, female body. They contradict the original message of the movement through their posts on Instagram that centralize white feminine features and thin, Eurocentric bodies. This is the Body Positivity myth, a combination of the beauty myth and political myth, that holds women back from being able to progress through society successfully.
Additional file 1 of Maternal supply of cysteamine alleviates oxidative stress and enhances angiogenesis in porcine placenta
Creators: name: Huang, Shuangbo
name: Wu, Zifang
name: Huang, Zihao
name: Hao, Xiangyu
name: Zhang, Longmiao
name: Hu, Chengjun
name: Wei, Jianfu
name: Deng, Jinping
name: Tan, Chengquan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table S1. Composition and nutritional level of gestation and lactation basal diets (Air-Dry Basis, %).
title: Temporally Weighted Averaging: The Effects of Test Delay on Spontaneous Recovery of Choice
Creators: name: Van Allsburg, Jack
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2023

description: Foraging animals in natural environments must track the value of different behavioral options in order to make decisions that maximize their food intake. The process by which they track this value is poorly understood, but holds relevance for our understanding of how animals make choices in general. In a series of experiments conducted in operant chambers, we put rat subjects in a choice scenario where they could press two levers, one of which would intermittently produce the delivery of food pellets on a rich (more frequent) schedule, while the other would do the same on a lean (less frequent) schedule. We switched which lever was richly baited and which lever was leanly baited during a second phase of reinforcement, then imposed test delays where subjects were maintained at weight in their home cages before conducting test sessions in which neither lever was baited. Using this approach, we examined how the relative value of options (as measured by preference between those options) changes over time. Our procedure was explicitly designed to produce a phenomenon called spontaneous recovery of choice, in which a test delay results in a change in preference between options. This phenomenon has been previously linked to relapse in addiction or problem behavior treatment, and is not accounted for by dominant models of how animals track value. Test session data from the three experiments show compelling evidence of this phenomenon, but are inconsistent with previous work on the topic. Several models are applied to the data and compared quantitatively, and various interpretations are discussed.
Study of vortex shedding as related to torsional oscillations of a thin airfoil
Creators: name: Magnus, Richard J.
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1948
Subjects: Aeronautics

description: This report covers an experimental investigation of the relationship between the vortex shedding frequency and self excited torsional oscillation frequency for a thin airfoil. The work consisted of measurements of velocity fluctuations in the airstream in the vicinity of a wing model mounted in a wind tunnel so that it could oscillate about the wing axis.  The velocity fluctuation measurements were made with the Wing restrained and with the wing oscillating at various angles of attack and wind velocities.

Two distinct types of oscillations were found. One type was self sustaining and increased in amplitude with increasing wind velocity while the other type stopped for velocities beyond some critical value.
First-principles models and computation of thermodynamic functions in crystalline, quasicrystalline and liquid systems
Creators: name: Huang, Yang
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics
subject: 20304 Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering

description: Phase diagrams have been studied over centuries and applied to explain a variety of phenomena. In metallurgy, a phase diagram is an encyclopedia of an alloy which includes information about structure transformation, liquid-liquid phase separation, solid-solid phase separation, peritectic transition, eutectic transition, order-disorder transition, magnetic-paramagnetic phase transition and so on. Calculating a phase diagram is challenging which requires the knowledge of the Gibbs free energy of all phases at all conditions. From a macro point of view, the Gibbs free energy is related to enthalpy and entropy. From a micro point of view, these thermodynamic functions are reflections of micro particles or quasi-particles like molecules, atoms, ions, electrons, phonons etc. In solids, atoms are glued to a crystalline lattice. For an alloy, the way that chemical species are organized in the lattice determines the free energy of this phase which is called the configurational free energy. At finite temperature, atoms move away and vibrate around their site. These motions involve a collection of atoms and become intense at higher temperature. In liquids, atoms are free from the crystalline lattice, diffuse over time, and after reach equilibrium, form a uniform and isotropic system. It is also seen that atoms in a liquid have a non-uniform local structure and favor a certain type of species in the present of their neighborhood. All these contribute to the Gibbs free energy and it would be interesting to solve real world problems from these underlying fundamental physics. In this thesis, a systematic framework is presented to calculate the Gibbs free energy using first-principles methods and explain phase behaviors from a micro perspective. We will 1) predict Al-Co, Al-Ni binary phase diagrams and Al-Co-Cu ternary phase diagram; 2) calculate vibrational free energy from covariance matrices, compare with experimental measurements and explain BCC-HCP structure transformation; 3) study liquid-liquid phase separation in Li-Na and eutectic transition in K-Na; 4) examine information entropy model in LJ liquids and seek for a empirical rule for general liquid systems; 5) study the tiling pattern and tile decoration of decagonal quasicrystal and explain the stability at finite temperature.
The low-mass interacting binary system OO Aql revisited: a new quadruple system
Creators: name: İçli, Tuğçe
name: Koçak, Dolunay
name: Boz, G. Çisem
name: Yakut, Kadri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this study we present photometric and spectroscopic variation analysis and orbital period study of a low-mass interacting system OO Aql. Simultaneous solution of the light and radial velocity curves provide us a determination of new set of stellar physical parameters for the primary and the secondary companion as M$_{1}$ = 1.05(2) M$_{\odot}$, M$_{2}$ = 0.89(2) M$_{\odot}$, R$_{1}$ = 1.38(2) R$_{\odot}$, R$_{2}$ = 1.28(2) R$_{\odot}$, $\log{(L_1/L_{\odot})} = 0.258$ and $\log{(L_2/L_{\odot})} = 0.117$ and the separation of the components were determined a = 3.333(16) R$_{\odot}$. Newly obtained parameters yield the distance of the system as 136(8) pc. Analyses of the mid-eclipse times indicate a period increase of $\frac{P}{\dot{P}}=4\times 10^{7}$ yr that can be interpreted in terms of the mass transfer $\frac{dM}{dt}=5\times 10^{-8}$ M$_{\odot}$/yr from the less massive component to the more massive component. Our new solution confirmed that OO Aql is a multiple system in the form of AB + C + D. We found initial astrophysical parameters for the component of the system and its current age to be 8.6 Gyr using nonconservative stellar evolution model (EV-TWIN code).
description: Accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal (10 pages, including 3 figures and 4 tables)
Can Grammarly and ChatGPT accelerate language change? AI-powered technologies and their impact on the English language: wordiness vs. conciseness
Creators: name: Rudnicka, Karolina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The proliferation of NLP-powered language technologies, AI-based natural language generation models, and English as a mainstream means of communication among both native and non-native speakers make the output of AI-powered tools especially intriguing to linguists. This paper investigates how Grammarly and ChatGPT affect the English language regarding wordiness vs. conciseness. A case study focusing on the purpose subordinator in order to is presented to illustrate the way in which Grammarly and ChatGPT recommend shorter grammatical structures instead of longer and more elaborate ones. Although the analysed sentences were produced by native speakers, are perfectly correct, and were extracted from a language corpus of contemporary English, both Grammarly and ChatGPT suggest more conciseness and less verbosity, even for relatively short sentences. The present article argues that technologies such as Grammarly not only mirror language change but also have the potential to facilitate or accelerate it.
description: 10 pages, article
Additional file 2 of Maternal supply of cysteamine alleviates oxidative stress and enhances angiogenesis in porcine placenta
Creators: name: Huang, Shuangbo
name: Wu, Zifang
name: Huang, Zihao
name: Hao, Xiangyu
name: Zhang, Longmiao
name: Hu, Chengjun
name: Wei, Jianfu
name: Deng, Jinping
name: Tan, Chengquan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Supplementary Table S2. The number of sows during the experimental period.
title: Multispecies Genomic Sex Identification Using DDX3 Gene Polymorphisms
Creators: name: Felts, Jessica
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2023

description: PCR sex determination assays must be reliable and cost effective due to the frequent and integral use of these assays in biological research and the animal production industry. Thus, the design of proof of a primer pair with a built-in control is warranted to not only bypass the extra cost of a multiplex reaction, but also to prevent anomalous results that have been documented with other primer pairs.
The objective of this study was to design primer pairs with built in PCR amplification control to identify sex in Equus caballus (domestic horse), Homo sapiens (humans), Macaca mulatta (rhesus macaque), and Sus scrofa (domestic pig) DNA samples. The procedures utilized in this study were to first align the DDX3X gene with the Y chromosome homolog and create primer pairs to flank Y chromosome specific indels with each species. PCR with gel electrophoresis results showed confirmation of the hypothesis that the primer pairs can be used to accurately identify separate X and Y chromosome specific sequences via species-specific single primer pairs in Equus caballus, Homo sapiens, Macaca mulatta, and Sus scrofa genomic samples. Additionally, in silico and qualitative gel analyses were completed to assess the efficacy of the Equus caballus specific primers in alternative species, which yielded no results.
Summarily, results concluded that there are suitable indel regions for PCR amplification in Equus caballus, Homo sapiens, Macaca mulatta, and Sus scrofa. The results presented herein represent a meaningful contribution to the field from this methodology, these indel regions can be identified via the designed primers and utilized in an efficient, quick, and cost-effective way to identify sex without the need for multiplex or the risk of false identification.
The final log canonical model of $\bar{M}_6$
Creators: name: Müller, Fabian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We describe the birational model of $\bar{M}_6$ given by quadric hyperplane sections of the degree 5 del Pezzo surface. In the spirit of the genus 4 case treated by Fedorchuk, we show that it is the last non-trivial space in the log minimal model program for $\bar{M}_6$. We also obtain a new upper bound for the moving slope of the moduli space.
description: LaTeX, 11 pages
Spin Transport and Nonequilibrium Superconductivity in YBa2Cu3O7-δ
Creators: name: Huang, Zhao
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 2000
Subjects: Physics

description: Our studies of YBa2Cu3O7-δ under the injection of spin-polarized quasi-particles have yielded new spin transport information along the c-axis as well as signatures of non-equilibrium effects. We have found a surprisingly strong divergence of the spin diffusion lengths at the transition temperature Tc which suggests a new model for the suppression of the critical current Ic under the influence of excess spin. We have discovered at low temperatures quasiparticle distribution effects due to the perturbation of an external injection. We report preliminary results for the search for "preformed" Cooper pairs above Tc. And finally we present initial spin injection transport studies in a microwave background from which we can estimate an upper bound on the electron-phonon scattering time and Cooper pair recombination time in YBCO.
Additional file 3 of Maternal supply of cysteamine alleviates oxidative stress and enhances angiogenesis in porcine placenta
Creators: name: Huang, Shuangbo
name: Wu, Zifang
name: Huang, Zihao
name: Hao, Xiangyu
name: Zhang, Longmiao
name: Hu, Chengjun
name: Wei, Jianfu
name: Deng, Jinping
name: Tan, Chengquan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3: Supplementary Table S3. Primer sequences used for real-time PCR.
Characterization of thin-film NbN superconductor for single-photon detection by transport measurements
Creators: name: Lin, Shi-Zeng
name: Ayala-Valenzuela, Oscar
name: McDonald, Ross D.
name: Bulaevskii, Lev N.
name: Holesinger, Terry G.
name: Ronning, Filip
name: Weisse-Bernstein, Nina R.
name: Williamson, Todd L.
name: Mueller, Alexander H.
name: Hoffbauer, Mark A.
name: Rabin, Michael W.
name: Graf, Matthias J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The fabrication of high-quality thin superconducting films is essential for single-photon detectors. Their device performance is crucially affected by their material parameters, thus requiring reliable and nondestructive characterization methods after the fabrication and patterning processes. Important material parameters to know are the resistivity, superconducting transition temperature, relaxation time of quasiparticles, and uniformity of patterned wires. In this work, we characterize micro-patterned thin NbN films by using transport measurements in magnetic fields. We show that from the instability of vortex motion at high currents in the flux-flow state of the $IV$ characteristic, the inelastic life time of quasiparticles can be determined to be about 2 ns. Additionally, from the depinning transition of vortices at low currents, as a function of magnetic field, the size distribution of grains can be extracted. This size distribution is found to be in agreement with the film morphology obtained from scanning electron microscopy and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy images.
description: 9 pages, 10 figures
Criminologia midiática: Espetacularização da violência, cultura do medo e a falácia do discurso favorável a redução da maioridade penal
Creators: name: Florindo da Silva, Heleno
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: O presente artigo tem como principal proposta de trabalho a realização de uma análise da criminologia midiática e sua atuação como fonte criadora e propulsora da espetacularização da violência e da cultura do medo, principalmente em sociedades de modernidade tardia como a brasileira, bem como sua interferência em relação ao debate da redução da maioridade penal no Brasil. Para tanto, utilizou-se como referencial teórico condutor das discussões propostas, uma linha de pesquisa que perpassa o garantismo e o minimalismo penal, bem como a os contornos da criminologia crítica. Optou-se pela modalidade de pesquisa teórica aplicada, além de análise de pesquisas quantitativas, por meio das quais se buscouanalisar: se o discurso favorável à redução da maioridade penal encontra fundamento empírico ou se, em verdade, se constitui em divagações opinativas, por vezes inflamadas pela criminologia midiática. Ao final, verificou-se que a mídia, valendo-se de mecanismos sensacionalistas, interfere, parcialmente, no debate em torno da redução da maioridade penal, influenciando, diretamente, a opinião pública a posicionar-se favoravelmente a referida proposta. E mais, que os principais argumentos favoráveis à redução da maioridade penal não se sustentam, jurídica ou teoricamente, à luz da Constituição Federal de 1988, haja vista não encontrar fundamento científico razoavelmente válido neste ínterim
title: Assessment of Evapotranspiration, Transpiration, and Water Stress Using sUAS Information Over Commercial Vineyards Across Central California
Creators: name: Gau, Rui
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2023

description: The increasing global population and extreme weather events are putting pressure on agricultural water management to ensure high food production. One area greatly affected is grapevine cultivation in California, where factors like drought, regulations, and consumer sustainability concerns drive water resource usage changes. Fortunately, advancements in small unmanned aerial system (sUAS) technologies provide precise vineyard water management opportunities. These technologies enable the estimation of actual evapotranspiration (ET), vine water use, and vine water stress on a plant-scale, which is crucial for precision agriculture.
This research focuses on improving our understanding in three main areas. Firstly, it aims to generalize the estimation of green biomass (leaf area index - LAI) across different grapevine varieties, trellis management techniques, seasonal patterns, and climate regions within California’s Central Valley. This generalization helps in accurately estimating vine water use (transpiration) versus the total actual ET, which includes both the vine and interrow areas. Similar generalization schemes for biomass are explored in this aspect. Lastly, the study explores the correlation between sUAS information and direct measurements of vine water stress (leaf and stem water potential – LWP and SWP) in various vineyards across California. This correlation aids in generalizing the findings.
To conduct this research, a combination of ground measuremtns and sUAS imagery is utilized. Ground measurements include direct and time-synchronized LAI, LWP, SWP readings, and eddy covariance instrumentation. Optical, infrared, and thermal band imagery from Utah State University AggieAir sUAS is also employed.
The results of this study have significant implications for the precision management of vineyard blocks. The developed models, tailored to sUAS information, can be widely used in different vineyard practices and cultural settings within California and other arid regions worldwide. This research contributes to implementing practical solutions for water management in vineyards, ensuring sustainable and efficient agricultural practices.
title: Contextualization of El Salvador’s Need for a Powerful Executive: A Lockean Analysis of Nayib Bukele's Approach to Public Security in a Historical, Political, and Social Synthesis
Creators: name: Girón Alemán, Manuel Agresio
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2023

description: For most of the three decades that have presided over the Salvadoran Civil War, El Salvador has been a state tormented by high levels of crime, especially the country's homicide rate, a product of the strong presence of criminal organizations such as MS-13 and 18th Street Gang. The current president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, who took office in 2019, has declared war on gangs under a state of emergency where the human rights of suspected criminals are violated, particularly their due process guarantees. This has caused Bukele’s government to draw strong condemnation and criticism from foreign governments and human rights organizations. This thesis argues that the actions of the current Salvadoran government, and the high levels of acceptance by the population, can be understood under a historical, political, and social synthesis in the Salvadoran post-Civil War era.
Similarly, John Locke’s theory of executive prerogative and the right to life are used in this thesis to understand the current attributions that the executive branch has taken in El Salvador to decrease homicide rates and to understand the role of the president in protecting the rights of civilians when other government institutions are incapable of protecting such right.
The classification of subfactors of index at most 5
Creators: name: Jones, Vaughan F. R.
name: Morrison, Scott
name: Snyder, Noah
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A subfactor is an inclusion $N \subset M$ of von Neumann algebras with trivial centers. The simplest example comes from the fixed points of a group action $M^G \subset M$, and subfactors can be thought of as fixed points of more general group-like algebraic structures. These algebraic structures are closely related to tensor categories and have played important roles in knot theory, quantum groups, statistical mechanics, and topological quantum field theory. There's a measure of size of a subfactor, called the index. Remarkably the values of the index below 4 are quantized, which suggests that it may be possible to classify subfactors of small index. Subfactors of index at most 4 were classified in the '80s and early '90s. The possible index values above 4 are not quantized, but once you exclude a certain family it turns out that again the possibilities are quantized. Recently the classification of subfactors has been extended up to index 5, and (outside of the infinite families) there are only 10 subfactors of index between 4 and 5. We give a summary of the key ideas in this classification and discuss what is known about these special small subfactors.
description: 45 pages
Geology of Mount Pinos area, Ventura County
Creators: name: Staatz, Mortimer Hay
Publisher: name: California Institute of Technology
Year: 1940
Subjects: subject: granite
subject: Ventura County
subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: sandstones
subject: Mt. Pinos
subject: conglomerates
subject: Lockwood Valley
subject: shales
subject: basalt

description: This paper is written on the geology of the northern half of Lockwood Valley, which is located in northern Ventura County. The area in general is mountainous, and includes Mt. Pinos (8826 feet) as its highest peak.

The rocks consist of two igneous member (granite and basalt) and many sedimentary ones (shales, sandstones, and conglomerates). The oldest rock is granite intruded in the Jurassic. This is overlain by a series of continuous, marine sediments of Eocene age. These are overlain by a basalt flow which was extruded in early Miocene times. Both marine and terrestrial beds of the same age overlie the basalt. The only subsequent deposits are of terrace gravels and alluvium.

Faulting is the most prominent type of structure. Voiding is present, but plays a very minor part on the area studied. There are two sets of faults, one running concentrically about the other radially to Mt. Pinos. The second set is of little importance, The first set, is made up of four large faults, which uplift sediments and granite along the southern side of Mt, Pinos.

From an economic standpoint this is a place of both recent and historical interest. The region was one of the first localities in which borax was mined (1899), and mining was continued intermittently until 1913. Gold has been taken in large quantities from the southern side of Lockwood Valley since the early 18801s. At the present time the area has a new business in the mining of rotary mud. This is done by steam shovel from one of the valley's many clay beds.
Competition of rotation and stratification in flux concentrations
Creators: name: Losada, I. R.
name: Brandenburg, A.
name: Kleeorin, N.
name: Rogachevskii, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: J.2

description: In a strongly stratified turbulent layer, a uniform horizontal magnetic field can become unstable to spontaneously form local flux concentrations due to a negative contribution of turbulence to the large-scale (mean-field) magnetic pressure. This mechanism, called the negative effective magnetic pressure instability (NEMPI), is of interest in connection with dynamo scenarios where most of the magnetic field resides in the bulk of the convection zone, and not at the bottom. Recent work using the mean-field hydromagnetic equations has shown that NEMPI becomes suppressed at rather low rotation rates with Coriolis numbers as low as 0.1.}{Here we extend these earlier investigations by studying the effects of rotation both on the development of NEMPI and on the effective magnetic pressure. We also quantify the kinetic helicity from direct numerical simulations (DNS) and compare with earlier work.}{To calculate the rotational effect on the effective magnetic pressure we consider both DNS and analytical studies using the $τ$ approach. To study the effects of rotation on the development of NEMPI we use both DNS and mean-field calculations of the 3D hydromagnetic equations in a Cartesian domain.}{We find that the growth rates of NEMPI from earlier mean-field calculations are well reproduced with DNS, provided the Coriolis number is below about 0.06. In that case, kinetic and magnetic helicities are found to be weak. For faster rotation, dynamo action becomes possible. However, there is an intermediate range of rotation rates where dynamo action on its own is not yet possible, but the rotational suppression of NEMPI is being alleviated.}{Production of magnetic flux concentrations through the suppression of turbulent pressure appears to be possible only in the upper-most layers of the Sun, where the convective turnover time is less than 2 hours.}
description: 13 pages, 13 figures submitted to A&A
Additional file 1 of End of treatment cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) is predictive of radiation response and overall survival in oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma
Creators: name: Sumner, Whitney
name: Kim, Sangwoo S.
name: Vitzthum, Lucas
name: Moore, Kevin
name: Atwood, Todd
name: Murphy, James
name: Miyauchi, Sayuri
name: Califano, Joseph A.
name: Mell, Loren K.
name: Mundt, Arno J.
name: Sharabi, Andrew B.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Figure 1. Complete response on post-treatment imaging results in improved in progression-free survival. A Unadjusted Kaplan–Meier curve demonstrating progression-free survival for patients who experienced a CR (blue) and less than CR (PR, SD) (red) on 3-month post-treatment imaging.
Magnetic effects in curved quantum waveguides
Creators: name: Krejcirik, David
name: Raymond, Nicolas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The interplay among the spectrum, geometry and magnetic field in tubular neighbourhoods of curves in Euclidean spaces is investigated in the limit when the cross section shrinks to a point. Proving a norm resolvent convergence, we derive effective, lower-dimensional models which depend on the intensity of the magnetic field and curvatures. The results are used to establish complete asymptotic expansions for eigenvalues. Spectral stability properties based on Hardy-type inequalities induced by magnetic fields are also analysed.
description: 28 pages
title: Consumption of a Western Diet Enhanced Colitis-Associated Colorectal Cancer and Dysbiosis of the Fecal Microbiome in Mice Notwithstanding Dietary Intervention or Fecal Microbiome Transfer
Creators: name: Rodriguez Jimenez, Daphne Michelle
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2023

description: In a rodent model of inflammation-associated colorectal cancer, consumption of a Western-style diet increases gut inflammation and enhances risk of developing colon tumors. The goal of this dissertation was to understand the contribution of bacteria within the large intestine on colon inflammation and colon tumorigenesis. Two pre-clinical animal studies were performed using two different intervention strategies to shift the microbiome, and potentially gut inflammation and tumor development: 1) an experiment using dietary supplementation with black raspberries, a functional food enriched in bioactive anthocyanins with purported antiinflammatory activity, and 2) an experiment using fecal microbiota transfer from mice fed a healthy diet with low symptoms of colitis or mice fed a Western diet with severe symptoms of colitis to recipient mice fed either the healthy or Western diet directly. Dietary supplementation with black raspberries did reduce colon tumor number, irrespective of the basal diet, and caused significant shifts in the composition of the gut microbiome. Fecal microbiota transfer from mice with severe colitis did not exacerbate colitis in recipient mice fed a healthy diet, nor did transfer from mice with low symptoms protect mice fed a Western diet. However, for both experiments, we determined that the basal diet fed to the recipient mice was the driving factor affecting the gut inflammation and colon tumorigenesis.
The environmental dependence of the stellar mass function at z~1: Comparing cluster and field between the GCLASS and UltraVISTA surveys
Creators: name: van der Burg, Remco F. J.
name: Muzzin, Adam
name: Hoekstra, Henk
name: Lidman, Chris
name: Rettura, Alessandro
name: Wilson, Gillian
name: Yee, H. K. C.
name: Hildebrandt, Hendrik
name: Marchesini, Danilo
name: Stefanon, Mauro
name: Demarco, Ricardo
name: Kuijken, Konrad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the stellar mass functions (SMFs) of star-forming and quiescent galaxies from observations of 10 rich clusters in the Gemini Cluster Astrophysics Spectroscopic Survey (GCLASS) in the redshift range 0.86
description: 18 pages, 11 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A. More u-band data added, one co-author added, some minor changes to the text
title: Patient-Therapist Congruence on Aspects of the Therapeutic Alliance in Psychotherapy for Medically Unexplained Symptoms
Creators: name: Daehler, Sarah
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2023

description: Medically unexplained symptoms (MUS) are physical symptoms that cannot be explained or are not sufficiently explained by medical examination. These symptoms most typically present as pain or other discomfort, and are associated with significant psychological distress, healthcare utilization, and disability. Both psychologists and medical professionals have struggled to treat this population, and MUS patients have noted their dissatisfaction with the care they receive. The present study analyzed a sample of 174 patient-therapist dyads to explore the role of congruence, or agreement, on aspects of the therapeutic alliance in therapy for MUS as congruence research has not yet been conducted in this population. This study aimed to learn more about the types of congruence present in this population, whether certain types of congruence were associated with treatment outcomes, and whether any patient characteristics were associated with types of congruence. The results of this analysis suggested that certain types of congruence were associated with treatment outcomes and patient characteristics. However, the analysis also revealed that other elements of congruence, such as whether patients and therapists agree things are going well, or whether they agree things are going poorly, or whether they disagree, are important elements to consider. In addition, patient characteristics, such as whether they have any mental health diagnoses, were shown to be associated with congruence. Overall, congruence alone did not consistently relate to treatment outcomes. The present study illustrated the importance of considering other congruence-related factors when treating patients with MUS both in psychological care and medical care settings.
Data Quality Assurance from the Perspective of CoreTrustSeal
Creators: name: L'Hours, Hervé
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: CoreTrustSeal, Data quality management, Data quality assurance, Repository certification, Repositories, Research Data Repositories, re3data COREF

description: The slides were presented at the re3data COREF / CoreTrustSeal Workshop on Data Quality Management at Repositories that took place on October 5, 2022, 12:00-15:30 UTC.
Growth, Characterization, Vortex Pinning and Vortex Flow Properties of Single Crystals of Iron Chalcogenide Superconductor FeCr$_{0.02}$Se
Creators: name: Yadav, Anil K.
name: Thakur, Ajay D.
name: Tomy, C. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the growth and characterization of single crystals of iron chalcogenide superconductor FeCr$_{0.02}$Se. There is an enhancement of the superconducting transition temperature (T$_{\rm c}$) as compared to the T$_{\rm c}$ of the single crystals of the parent compound Fe$_{1+x}$Se by about 25%. The superconducting parameters such as the critical fields, coherence length, penetration depth and the Ginzburg-Landau parameter have been estimated for these single crystals. Analysis of the critical current data suggests a fluctuation in electronic mean free path induced ($δl$) pinning mechanism in this material. Thermally activated transport across the superconducting transition in the presence of external magnetic fields suggests a crossover from a single vortex pinning regime at low fields to a collective flux creep regime at higher magnetic fields. The nature of charge carriers in the normal state estimated from the Hall effect and thermal transport measurements could provide crucial information on the mechanism of superconductivity in Fe-based materials.
description: 2 additional figures, additional discussion on nature of charge carriers
Bodendenkmalpflege in Ostdeutschland - quo vadis ?
Creators: name: Wetzel, Günter
Publisher: name: DGUF e.V.
Year: 2017

description: [nicht vorhanden / not available]
description: Archäologische Informationen, Bd. 15, Nr. 1&2 (1992): Archäologische Informationen