cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Low-Energy Electronic Structure of the High-Tc Cuprates La2-xSrxCuO4 Studied by Angle-resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy
Creators: name: Yoshida, T.
name: Zhou, X. J.
name: Lu, D. H.
name: Komiya, Seiki
name: Ando, Yoichi
name: Eisaki, H.
name: Kakeshita, T.
name: Uchida, S.
name: Hussain, Z.
name: Shen, Z. -X.
name: Fujimori, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have performed a systematic angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) study of the high-Tc cuprates La2-xSrxCuO4, ranging from the underdoped insulator to the superconductor to the overdoped metal. We have revealed a systematic doping evolution of the band dispersions and (underlying) Fermi surfaces, pseudogap and quasi-particle features under the influence of strong electron-electron interaction and electron-phonon interaction. The unusual transport and thermodynamic properties are explained by taking into account the pseudogap opening and the Fermi arc formation, due to which the carrier number decreases as the doped hole concentration decreases.
description: 27 pages, 17 figures, accepted in Journal of Physics Condensed Matter
Stress Measurements on the I 65 Bridge over the Ohio River at Louisville
Creators: name: Hopwood, Theodore
name: Oberst, Christopher M.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: Kentucky Transportation Center personnel conducted measurements of live stresses on structural members of the I 65 (John F. Kennedy Memorial) Bridge over the Ohio River. That work was performed in conjunction with an extensive flaw evaluation of the bridge by Hazelet & Erdal Consulting Engineers.  The measurements were performed by placing strain gages on the upper chord (an H-beam) and a vertical post and transverse strut that were framed into the upper chord at PP63 on the West truss. Measurements were performed using battery-powered data logging instruments that were capable of unattended strain measurement. The units were used to monitor live stresses induced by routine traffic. Specific tests included short duration time-history measurements on the three structural members, a short duration strain gage rosette measurement on the upper chord and a day-long stress histogram measurement also on the upper chord.  The time-history measurements were intended to measure the magnitude of live stresses in the beams. Multiple gages were installed on opposite faces of the structural members for those tests to gain insight into the nature of forces acting on them. The rosette test was performed to measure the principle stresses acting on the upper chord and, thereby, ascertain the nature of forces acting on the upper chord. The stress histogram measurements were conducted to determine the magnitudes of live stresses and number of stress cycles over an extended period.  The time-history test data revealed low magnitude live stresses at all the test locations. The maximum tensile live stresses measured were: 1) 1,147 psi for the upper chord, 2) 2,230 psi for the vertical post and 3) 580 psi for the transverse strut. The rosette test yielded a maximum principle stress of 1,120 psi. The stress histogram data indicated that the variable-amplitude live stresses acting on the bridge were comparable to a constant-amplitude live stress of 1,660 psi at a rate of 773,864 cycles per year.  Comparisons of stress data taken on the upper chord indicated that it was subject to some non-axial forces. Similar measurements taken on the vertical post indicate that it was subject to transverse forces possibly induced by the strut.  Based upon the low stress magnitudes measured during the tests, it appears that live stresses generated by traffic do not have a significant impact on the structural integrity of the bridge.
The impact of timing on the salience of smartphone app privacy notices
Creators: name: Balebako, Rebecca
name: Schaub, Florian
name: Adjerid, Idris
name: Acquisti, Alessandro
name: Cranor, Lorrie
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 80602 Computer-Human Interaction
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: In a series of experiments, we examined how the timing impacts the salience of smartphone app privacy notices. In a web survey and a field experiment, we isolated different timing conditions for displaying privacy notices: in the app store, when an app is started, during app use, and after app use. Participants installed and played a history quiz app, either virtually or on their phone. After a distraction or delay they were asked to recall the privacy notice's content. Recall was used as a proxy for the attention paid to and salience of the notice. Showing the notice during app use significantly increased recall rates over showing it in the app store. In a follow-up web survey, we tested alternative app store notices, which improved recall but did not perform as well as notices shown during app use. The results suggest that even if a notice contains information users care about, it is unlikely to be recalled if only shown in the app store.
Presented at 5th Annual ACM CCS Workshop on Security and Privacy in Smartphones and Mobile Devices, October 2015
The Renewable Energy Transition and “the People” – Exploring the Intersections of Right-wing Populism and the Renewable Energy Transition in Portuguese Media Discourses
Creators: name: Valquaresma, Andreia
name: Batel, Susana
name: Afonso, Ana Isabel
name: Guerra, Rita
name: Silva, Luís
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Local contestation to the deployment of large-scale renewable energy infrastructures has been increasing. Right-wing populism has also been on the rise across the world. This article aims to explore the potential relations between these two socio-political issues, by analyzing Portuguese media discourses on the renewable energy transition and if and how those expose associations with right-wing populist rhetoric. 465 articles published by Portuguese newspapers were analyzed through Thematic Analysis, which revealed three main themes: Portugal at the forefront of the green transition; the dark side of the transition; and, less pervasively, energy justice as crucial for a green transition. These themes and how they are discursively organized resonate with far-right wing populist rhetoric, such as nationalist, anti-elitist and anti-establishment views. This might find echo in rural communities affected by the green energy transition feelings of marginalization. Key policy highlightsPortuguese media communication on the green transition and its injustices, uses similar devices and tropes to right-wing populist rhetoric, which might incentivize support to right-wing populist parties;The media have a key role in communicating about the green energy transition and related justice issues in a politicized and multivocal way;Policy-makers need to promote a more just transition and contest the commodification of renewable energy and the discourse of renewable energy infrastructures as inherently sustainable. Portuguese media communication on the green transition and its injustices, uses similar devices and tropes to right-wing populist rhetoric, which might incentivize support to right-wing populist parties; The media have a key role in communicating about the green energy transition and related justice issues in a politicized and multivocal way; Policy-makers need to promote a more just transition and contest the commodification of renewable energy and the discourse of renewable energy infrastructures as inherently sustainable.
Die Rechtfertigung durch den Glauben aus der Sicht der Ausgeschlossenen
Creators: name: Tamez, Elsa
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 48 Nr. 3 (1999): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 48, Heft 3
Monolithic Thulium Fiber Laser with 567 W output power at 1970 nm
Creators: name: Walbaum, Till
name: Heinzig, Matthias
name: Schreiber, Thomas
name: Eberhardt, Ramona
name: Tünnermann, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on a monolithic thulium fiber laser with 567 W output power at 1970 nm, which is the highest power reported so far directly from a thulium oscillator. This is achieved by optimization of the splice parameters for the active fiber (minimizing signal light in the fiber cladding) and direct water cooling. Dual transverse mode operation is visible from the optical spectrum and can also be deduced from the measured beam quality of M^2 = 2.6. \c{opyright} 2016 Optical Society of America under Open Access Publishing Agreement. Users may use, reuse, and build upon the article, or use the article for text or data mining, so long as such uses are for non-commercial purposes and appropriate attribution is maintained. All other rights are reserved.
Power Allocation for Relayed OFDM with Index Modulation Assisted by Artificial Neural Network
Creators: name: Zhou, Jiusi
name: Dang, Shuping
name: Shihada, Basem
name: Alouini, Mohamed-Slim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: In this letter, we propose a power allocation scheme for relayed orthogonal frequency division multiplexing with index modulation (OFDM-IM) systems. The proposed power allocation scheme replies on artificial neural network (ANN) and deep learning to allocate transmit power among various subcarriers at the source and relay nodes. The objective of the power allocation scheme is to minimize the overall transmit power under a set of constraints. Without loss of generality, we assume all subcarriers at source and relay nodes are independently distributed with different statistical distribution parameters. The relay node adopts the fixed-gain amplify-and-forward (FG AF) relaying protocol. We employ the adaptive moment estimation method (Adam) to implement back-propagation learning and simulate the proposed power allocation scheme. The analytical and simulation results show that the proposed power allocation scheme is able to provide comparable performance as the optimal solution but with lower complexity.
Opportunities for Early Science with Rubin Observatory/LSST
Creators: name: Guy, Leanne P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: LSST
Rubin Observatory
Vera C. Rubin Observatory

description: Starting in 2023, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will spend its first 10 years conducting the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). LSST will observe the entire visible southern sky and provide the widest, fastest and deepest view of the night sky ever observed. The resulting astronomical archive will be vast; 500PB of image data products and a 15PB final catalog of ~ 40 billion Objects. LSST will dramatically advance our knowledge in many fields including dark energy and dark matter, as well as galaxy formation and potentially hazardous asteroids. In this talk I give an overview of the Rubin Observatory and the Legacy Survey of Space and Time and talk about opportunities for early science and how to get involved.
Grammatical elicitation: Word order with conjoined verbs
Creators: name: Gómez, María
name: Dabkowski, Maksymilian
name: Jarvis, Rebecca
name: Michael, Lev
name: Russell, Katherine
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: gug

description: Word order of conjoined verbs with objects, adverbs, and functional morphemes, including -se, -ve, -ta, -va, -ha, -ramo, -rire, -'aja, -jave.
Additional file 4 of Mining massive genomic data of two Swiss Braunvieh cattle populations reveals six novel candidate variants that impair reproductive success
Creators: name: Häfliger, Irene M.
name: Seefried, Franz R.
name: Spengeler, Mirjam
name: Drögemüller, Cord
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 4: Figure S1. Manhattan plots and their QQ-plots of the GWAS results for the BS and OB populations. There is a page for each of the fertility, birth and growth-related trait groups, including a Manhattan plot for every single trait according to Table 2.
Breakaway Timber Utility Pole Installations in Kentucky
Creators: name: Hughes, Ronald D.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: This report describes the installation of ten breakaway timber utility poles in Lexington, Kentucky. Installations were made by Kentucky Utilities Company personnel and monitoring has been performed by Kentucky Transportation Center investigators. Retrofit hardware is described and locations of modified poles are detailed.  Modified poles have not been struck by vehicles during the monitoring period.
“Climate Change” or “Global Warming”? The (Un)Politicization of Climate in Chinese Social Media Platform
Creators: name: Li, Yuhan
name: Yu, Beichen
name: Dai, Jia
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Though previous research shows the terminology and framing way that political elites choose can influence public climate attitudes, the association between term preferences and politicization of climate change is understudied. This study focuses on how different social groups in China use terminologies and frames and how the wording and framing choices affect public climate opinions. Using manual and computer-assisted content analysis of the highest viewed videos and users’ comments on Bilibili, we found government accounts tended to use climate change (CC) and associated climate problems with politics, while individuals were likely to use global warming (GW) and understood climate mainly from its potential impacts. Post-video comments under the CC-titled videos were about climate politics, while comments under the GW-titled videos focused on humanity and earth. Meanwhile, users’ comments to specific video frames had certain emotional patterns. We characterized the differences of CC- and GW-titled videos and comments as politicization and unpoliticization respectively. Our findings suggest that the preferences of terminologies and associated frames among different social groups can affect public opinions and facilitate (un)politicization of climate change in China. This study sheds light on how communication strategies could significantly spin public understanding of important public issues.
Gravitational scattering at the seventh order in $G$: nonlocal contribution at the sixth post-Newtonian accuracy
Creators: name: Bini, Donato
name: Damour, Thibault
name: Geralico, Andrea
name: Laporta, Stefano
name: Mastrolia, Pierpaolo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A recently introduced approach to the classical gravitational dynamics of binary systems involves intricate integrals (linked to a combination of nonlocal-in-time interactions with iterated $\frac1r$-potential scattering) which have so far resisted attempts at their analytical evaluation. By using computing techniques developed for the evaluation of multi-loop Feynman integrals (notably Harmonic Polylogarithms and Mellin transform) we show how to analytically compute all the integrals entering the nonlocal-in-time contribution to the classical scattering angle at the sixth post-Newtonian accuracy, and at the seventh order in Newton's constant, $G$ (corresponding to six-loop graphs in the diagrammatic representation of the classical scattering angle).
description: This paper is a significantly extended version of our previous, separate arxiv submission "Gravitational dynamics at O(G^6): perturbative gravitational scattering meets experimental mathematics" e-Print: 2008.09389 [gr-qc]. The most significant extension is that we now present results at the 7th order in G. 24 pages; revtex macros used; 1 ancillary file
Die Rechtfertigungslehre als Kraftquelle der Ökumene
Creators: name: Huovinen, Eero
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 48 Nr. 3 (1999): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 48, Heft 3
ENERGIYA SAMARADOR DEVORBOB MATERIALLARNING ASOSIY  XUSUSIYATLARINI O'RGANISH
Creators: name: Qurolova, Norigul
name: Kuchimov, Sardorbek
name: Ortiqqulov, Davron
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Mavzuning dolzarbligi yuqori sifatli energiya samarador qurilish materiallari va buyumlari olishda sanoat chiqindisidan va aynan fosfogips chiqindisidan foydalanish xisoblanadi. Fosfogips chiqindisi asosida iqdisodiy foydali buyum olish va ushbu materiallarni  fizik, mexanik va kimyoviy xarakteristikalarini o’rganish
Contribution of high energy physics techniques to the medical imaging field
Creators: name: Vert, P. -E.
name: Lecoq, J.
name: Montarou, G.
name: Pauna, N.
name: Joly, B.
name: Boutemeur, M.
name: Mathez, H.
name: Gaglione, R.
name: Dû, P. Le
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The purpose of this study was to show how advanced concepts of compact, lossless and "Time Of Flight" (TOF) capable electronics similar to those foreseen for the LHC and ILC experiments could be fairly and easily transferred to the medical imaging field through Positron Emission Tomography (PET). As a wish of explanation, the two overriding weaknesses of PET camera readout electronics, namely dead-time and timing resolution, were investigated analytically and with a Monte-Carlo simulator presently dedicated to this task. Results have shown there was room left for count rate enhancement through a huge decrease of the timing resolution well below the nanosecond. The novel electronics scheme suggested for PET in this paper has been partly inspired by the long experience led in High Energy Physics where the latter requirement is compulsory. Its structure entirely pipelined combined to a pixelation of the whole detector should allow dead-times to be suppressed, while the absence of devoted timing channel would remove the preponderant contributions to the timing resolution. To the common solution for timing would substitute an optimal filtering method witch clearly appears as a good candidate as timing resolution of a few tens of picoseconds may be achieved provided the shape of the signal is known and sufficient samples are available with enough accuracy. First investigations have yield encouraging results as a sampling frequency of 50 MHz with a 7 bits precision appears sufficient to ensure the 500ps coincidence timing resolution planed. At this point, there will be a baby step ahead to draw benefice from a TOF implementation to the design and the enormous noise variance enhancement that would come with.
description: presented at EuroMedIm 2006 : 1st European Conference on Molecular Imaging Technology, Marseille 9-12 May 2006, 6 pp, 4 figures, submitted to NIM
Thinking about God through childhood and adolescence
Creators: name: Smoliak, Wendy Gay
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The purpose of this interdisciplinary study was to examine children's and adolescents' (aged 6 to 16) thoughts of God that were hypothesized to reflect the child's religious context and to be related to a child's cognitive maturity and gender. The following four objectives guided the study: (1) to examine children's thoughts of God within a particular religious school environment, (2) to investigate age-related changes in children's representations of God as indicated by their narrative texts, (3) to explore children's (female and male) representations of God as described in their narrative texts, and (4) to suggest transitions in the developmental structure of children's narrative texts about God across levels of cognitive maturity. The children (N=114) selected for the study were chosen from a Christian school setting where religious instruction was part of the curriculum focus. Each child, upon parental consent, participated in a one-to-one interview and accomplished a series of developmental tasks including generating a story about God, responding to a story about Jesus, answering questions about God, and completing a short memory task. Parents were asked to complete a questionnaire about religious life inside and outside the family home. A review of the religious education curriculum was conducted. The collected data were analyzed using both qualitative and quantitative research methodologies. The results were fourfold. First, the study found that the religious school environment (e.g., religious education program and religious activities both inside and outside the family home) had the potential to influence children's changing thoughts about God. Second, there were differences in female and male representations of God. Third, there were significant changes in children's representations of God as they matured. These changes were based not only on children's cognitive maturity but also as a result of the children's religious knowledge acquired within their religious environment. Also, these changes reflected unique subtle differences in children's conceptual understandings of God. Fourth, as children cognitively matured, there were changes in the structure of their narratives about God. These changes paralleled the narrative structure posited by McKeough (1992a) and the stages and substages posited by Case (1992a).
Neural Proof Nets
Creators: name: Kogkalidis, Konstantinos
name: Moortgat, Michael
name: Moot, Richard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Linear logic and the linear λ-calculus have a long standing tradition in the study of natural language form and meaning. Among the proof calculi of linear logic, proof nets are of particular interest, offering an attractive geometric representation of derivations that is unburdened by the bureaucratic complications of conventional prooftheoretic formats. Building on recent advances in set-theoretic learning, we propose a neural variant of proof nets based on Sinkhorn networks, which allows us to translate parsing as the problem of extracting syntactic primitives and permuting them into alignment. Our methodology induces a batch-efficient, end-to-end differentiable architecture that actualizes a formally grounded yet highly efficient neuro-symbolic parser. We test our approach on ÆThel, a dataset of type-logical derivations for written Dutch, where it manages to correctly transcribe raw text sentences into proofs and terms of the linear λ-calculus with an accuracy of as high as 70%.
description: 14 pages, CoNLL2020
Polarization evolution accompanying the very early sharp decline of GRB X-ray afterglows
Creators: name: Fan, Yi-Zhong
name: Xu, Dong
name: Wei, Da-Ming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the synchrotron radiation model, the polarization property depends on both the configuration of the magnetic field and the geometry of the visible emitting region. Some peculiar behaviors in the X-ray afterglows of {\it Swift} gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), such as energetic flares and the plateau followed by a sharp drop, might by highly linearly-polarized because the outflows powering these behaviors may be Poynting-flux dominated. Furthermore, the broken-down of the symmetry of the visible emitting region may be hiding in current X-ray data and will give rise to interesting polarization signatures. In this work we focus on the polarization accompanying the very early sharp decline of GRB X-ray afterglows. We show that strong polarization evolution is possible in both the high latitude emission model and the dying central engine model which are used to interpret this sharp X-ray decline. It is thus not easy to efficiently probe the physical origin of the very early X-ray sharp decline with future polarimetry. Strong polarization evolution is also possible in the decline phase of X-ray flares and in the shallow decline phase of X-ray light curves characterized by chromatic X-ray VS. Optical breaks. An {\it XRT}-like detector but with polarization capability on board a {\em Swift}-like satellite would be suitable to test our predictions.
description: 9 pages including 4 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS, typos corrected
Probing the Spatial Variation of the Inter-Valley Tunnel Coupling in a Silicon Triple Quantum Dot
Creators: name: Borjans, F.
name: Zhang, X.
name: Mi, X.
name: Cheng, G.
name: Yao, N.
name: Jackson, C. A. C.
name: Edge, L. F.
name: Petta, J. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Electrons confined in silicon quantum dots exhibit orbital, spin, and valley degrees of freedom. The valley degree of freedom originates from the bulk bandstructure of silicon, which has six degenerate electronic minima. The degeneracy can be lifted in silicon quantum wells due to strain and electronic confinement, but the "valley splitting" of the two lowest lying valleys is known to be sensitive to atomic-scale disorder. Large valley splittings are desirable to have a well-defined spin qubit. In addition, an understanding of the inter-valley tunnel coupling that couples different valleys in adjacent quantum dots is extremely important, as the resulting gaps in the energy level diagram may affect the fidelity of charge and spin transfer protocols in silicon quantum dot arrays. Here we use microwave spectroscopy to probe spatial variations in the valley splitting, and the intra- and inter-valley tunnel couplings ($t_{ij}$ and $t'_{ij}$) that couple dots $i$ and $j$ in a triple quantum dot (TQD). We uncover large spatial variations in the ratio of inter-valley to intra-valley tunnel couplings $t_{12}'/t_{12}=0.90$ and $t_{23}'/t_{23}=0.56$. By tuning the interdot tunnel barrier we also show that $t'_{ij}$ scales linearly with $t_{ij}$, as expected from theory. The results indicate strong interactions between different valley states on neighboring dots, which we attribute to local inhomogeneities in the silicon quantum well.
On the excluded space in applications of Feshbach projection formalism
Creators: name: Karataglidis, S.
name: Amos, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Various model applications in nuclear structure and reactions have been formulated starting with the Feshbach projection formalism. In recent studies a truncated excluded space has been enumerated to facilitate calculation and identify a convergence in expansions within that truncation. However, the effect of any remainder must be addressed before results from such can be considered physical.
description: 6 pages, submitted to Physics Letters B
Additional file 1 of Methylation-derived inflammatory measures and lung cancer risk and survival
Creators: name: Zhao, Naisi
name: Ruan, Mengyuan
name: Koestler, Devin C.
name: Lu, Jiayun
name: Salas, Lucas A.
name: Kelsey, Karl T.
name: Platz, Elizabeth A.
name: Michaud, Dominique S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary Methods.
Voronoi chains, blocks, and clusters in perturbed square lattices
Creators: name: Lazar, Emanuel A.
name: Shoan, Amir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Perturbed lattices provide simple models for studying many physical systems. In this paper we study the distribution of Voronoi chains, blocks, and clusters with prescribed combinatorial features in the perturbed square lattice, generalizing earlier work. In particular, we obtain analytic results for the presence of hexagonally-ordered regions within a square-ordered phase. Connections to high-temperature crystals and to non-equilibrium phase transitions are considered. In an appendix, we briefly consider the site-percolation threshold for this system.
description: 15 pages, 7 figures
Pharmacovigilant Machine Learning in Big Data?
Creators: name: Kaas-Hansen, Benjamin Skov
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: PhD thesis, submitted to the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, on 4 November 2021.
description: The PhD project was funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation (NNF17OC0027594, NNF14CC0001) and Innovation Fund Denmark (5153-00002B).
GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM AS A TOOL USED IN ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE SURVEILLANCE
Creators: name: Zięte-Barszcz Anna, Wasyl Dariusz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: geographical Information sysytem, Escherichia coli, mapping, AMR surveillance

description: Geographical information system (GIS) is a tool allowing to show geographical dependencies in order to better interpretation of the obtained results. The aim of the study was to use GIS for mapping the results of AMR Escherichia coli obtained within official monitoring acc. to Decision 2013/652/EC in Poland in 2018. The input data accounted for localisation places of origin of broiler and turkey flocks, at the level of municipalities, were obtained from General Veterinary Inspectorate and the tests results were obtained from National Reference Laboratory for AMR (Dept. of Microbiology, NVRI). Data on occurrence of indicator E. coli, E. coli producing ESBL or AmpC, and carbapenemase-producing E. coli were presented on maps generated using ArcGIS 10.4.1 (ESRI). Maps showing that places of sample collections were spread all over the country. The number of indicatory E. coli isolates per municipality for broilers oscillated between 1 and 16 and for turkeys – between 1 and 20. For both broiler and turkey flocks, most of indicator E. coli were located in the western part of Poland, but the main localisation of isolates was in the north of the country. For E. coli producing ESBL or AmpC isolated from broilers the number of isolates per municipality was from 1 to 5 isolates while for turkeys from 1 to 11. For both broiler and turkey flocks, most of E. coli producing ESBL or AmpC, were located in the same municipality located in the western part of Poland. In the case of carbapenemase-producing E. coli no positive results were found both for broilers and turkeys. GIS mapping of AMR surveillance results revealed usefulness of the tool. The visualisation of geographical information might give stakeholders and scientists the possibility to locate problematic areas.
A Gravity Dual of Metastable Dynamical Supersymmetry Breaking
Creators: name: DeWolfe, Oliver
name: Kachru, Shamit
name: Mulligan, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Metastable, supersymmetry-breaking configurations can be created in flux geometries by placing antibranes in warped throats. Via gauge/gravity duality, such configurations should have an interpretation as supersymmetry-breaking states in the dual field theory. In this paper, we perturbatively determine the asymptotic supergravity solutions corresponding to anti-D3-brane probes placed at the tip of the cascading warped deformed conifold geometry, which is dual to an SU(N+M) x SU(N) gauge theory. The backreaction of the antibranes has the effect of introducing imaginary anti-self-dual flux, squashing the compact part of the space and forcing the dilaton to run. Using the generalization of holographic renormalization to cascading geometries, we determine the expectation values of operators in the dual field theory in terms of the asymptotic values of the supergravity fields.
description: 27 pages, LaTeX
title: By-Product and Discarded Material Utilization in Highway Construction and Maintenance
title: A Literature Review
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Hunsucker, David Q.
name: Tilley, J. Michael
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: This report summarizes the findings of an extensive literature search and review conducted to determine current attitudes relative to the use of recyclable and recoverable materials in highway construction and maintenance activities. Specifically, the literature search focused upon the engineering, economic, and performance aspects of using recyclable and recoverable materials in highway construction and maintenance projects. The literature review focused on asphalt and cement concrete pavement recycling, discarded tire recycling, reuse of paint removal wastes, fly ash, glass, alternative fuels, and other miscellaneous recycled and recovered materials as related to construction and maintenance of highways. Additionally, regulatory and policy matters associated with the use of recyclable and recoverable materials in the transportation area were investigated during the review of literature.
ALMA detects molecular gas in the halo of the powerful radio galaxy TXS 0828+193
Creators: name: Fogasy, Judit
name: Knudsen, Kirsten K.
name: Drouart, Guillaume
name: Gullberg, Bitten
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Both theoretical and observational results suggest that high-redshift radio galaxies (HzRGs) inhabit overdense regions of the universe and might be the progenitors of local, massive galaxies residing in the centre of galaxy clusters. In this paper we present CO(3-2) line observations of the HzRG TXS 0828+193 (z=2.57) and its environment using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array. In contrast to previous observations, we detect CO emission associated with the HzRG and derive a molecular gas mass of $(0.9\pm0.3)\times10^{10}\,\rm M_{\odot}$. Moreover, we confirm the presence of a previously detected off-source CO emitting region (companion #1), and detect three new potential companions. The molecular gas mass of each companion is comparable to that of the HzRG. Companion #1 is aligned with the axis of the radio jet and has stellar emission detected by Spitzer. Thus this source might be a normal star-forming galaxy or alternatively a result of jet-induced star formation. The newly found CO sources do not have counterparts in any other observing band and could be high-density clouds in the halo of TXS 0828+193 and thus potentially linked to the large-scale filamentary structure of the cosmic web.
description: Accepted by MNRAS; 9 pages, 4 figures
REEEM-D2.1a_Innovation and Technology Roadmap - Energy Storage Application
Creators: name: REEEM Project
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: In the framework of the REEEM project the development of three technology and innovation roadmap is planned to highlight the role of innovation and technologies in the transition pathways. The first roadmap, presented in this report, is dedicated to energy storage application. The primary findings of this roadmap were consolidated in a stakeholder workshop held on 19 May 2017 in Brussel. The inputs are incorporated in this report. This report will be complemented by IRL reports, assessing and evaluate innovation readiness of 5 storage technologies (to be published on July 31st) 2017, and a report on evaluating techno-economic parameters of storage technologies (to be published on February 28th 2018). The outcome of the current report will result in the aforementioned data which in turn, will be used as input in several of the modelling exercises of the REEEM project.
title: Alleviation of Fuel Tax Evasion in Kentucky
title: (Interim Report)
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Irby, Marjorie S.
name: Crabtree, Joseph D.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: Motor fuel tax evasion is a problem of major significance nationwide. In Kentucky, evasion of motor fuel taxes could mean an annual loss of approximately $25 million. This study was initiated to provide Kentucky officials involved with fuel tax collection with the best available information on the problem of fuel tax evasion and the best uses of all resources to alleviate the problem.  This interim report concludes the first phase of the study and provides a qualitative look at motor fuel tax evasion in Kentucky. It discusses the fuel tax process in the Commonwealth, how evasion occurs, efforts to alleviate evasion, and preliminary findings and recommendations.  Findings include the tact that fuel tax evasion by dishonest dealers places honest dealers at a major competitive disadvantage, as well as contributing to the loss of funds tor highway construction end maintenance. Kentucky is combating evasion through a combination of state and cooperative regional and national efforts.  Future research will include examining three basic approaches to developing a quantitative estimate of the magnitude of fuel tax evasion in Kentucky end implementing the most promising of these approaches. Additional research could be conducted on experience gained by other states, average fuel burn rates tor various types of engines and furnaces, and a cost/benefit analysis tor Kentucky's Motor Fuel Tax Audit program to justify additional funds for that program.
The Witten Index for One-dimensional Non-unitary Quantum Walks with Gapless Time-evolution
Creators: name: Asahara, Keisuke
name: Funakawa, Daiju
name: Seki, Motoki
name: Tanaka, Yohei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent developments in the index theory of discrete-time quantum walks allow us to assign a certain well-defined supersymmetric index to a pair of a unitary time-evolution $U$ and a $\mathbb{Z}_2$-grading operator $\varGamma$ satisfying the chiral symmetry condition $U^* = \varGamma U \varGamma.$ In this paper, this index theory will be extended to encompass non-unitary $U$. The existing literature for unitary $U$ makes use of the indispensable assumption that $U$ is essentially gapped; that is, we require that the essential spectrum of $U$ contains neither $-1$ nor $+1$ to define the associated index. It turns out that this assumption is no longer necessary, if the given time-evolution $U$ is non-unitary. As a concrete example, we shall consider a well-known non-unitary quantum walk model on the one-dimensional integer lattice, introduced by Mochizuki-Kim-Obuse.
A comparison of blood flow of the vastus lateralis during exercise in trained and untrained cyclists as measured by 133 Xenon clearance
Creators: name: Sharpe, Glen Patrick
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The purpose of this investigation was to examine muscle blood flow (MBF) in the vastus lateralis of trained and untrained cyclists using the ¹³³Xenon clearance method. MBF was measured in five trained cyclists (V02max = 68.8 ± 4.2 ml/kg/min) and five untrained subjects (V02max = 48.2 ± 4.2 ml/kg/min) at 150 Watts, the anaerobic threshold (AT), and at 100% V02max. These workloads corresponded to an absolute (150 W), relative (AT) and maximal comparison between groups. ¹³³Xenon dissolved in saline (3-9 MBq in < 0.2 ml volume), was injected in the vastus lateralis muscle prior to ergometer work. Clearance of the isotope was monitored using a gamma camera positioned adjacent to the injection site (Chung et. al., 1987). MBF calculations are based on the half clearance time (T1/2) during the initial steep portion of the clearance curve, and the blood-muscle partition coefficient value of ¹³³Xenon (0.7) according to the formula MBF = (In 2/T1/2) * 0.7 * 100 (Clausen and Lassen, 1971). MBF was not significantly different between the two groups at 150 Watts (28.7 ± 3.7 vs. 27.5 ± 7.9 ml/100g/min for trained and untrained groups respectively) or at AT (35.1 ± 8.6 vs. 29.8 ± 2.6 ml/100g/min), but was significantly higher in the trained group at 100% V02max (35.6 ± 8.1 vs. 27.0 ± 4.3 ml/100g/min). It appears that the high variability in the MBF results may have masked some differences, thereby identifying this limitation in the gamma camera technique. No significant differences were evident across the three exercise conditions in either group, and no significant relationships were detected between MBF and workload (expressed in Watts, ml of oxygen, or % V02max). The lack of a strong correlation between workload and MBF indicates that the technique may not accurately track MBF across all exercise intensities. It appears that the gamma camera technique may not be suitable for measuring MBF at high exercise intensities due to the short time course of ¹³³Xenon washout.
Comparing prolonged infusion to intermittent infusion strategies for beta-lactam antibiotics in patients with gram-negative bacterial infections: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Lin, Chih-Chung
name: Wu, Jheng-Yen
name: Huang, Po-Yu
name: Sung, Hui-Lin
name: Tung, Yu-Chun
name: Lai, Chih-Cheng
name: Wei, Yu-Feng
name: Fu, Pin-Kuei
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Our objective is to determine whether prolonged infusion (PI) of beta-lactam antibiotics yields superior outcomes compared to intermittent infusion (II) in patients with Gram-Negative Bacterial (GNB) infections. We systematically searched papers from PubMed, the Cochrane Library, Embase, and Clinicaltrials.gov, targeting mortality as the primary outcome and looking at the clinical cure rate, hospital and intensive care unit (ICU) stay lengths, antibiotic treatment duration, and mechanical ventilation (MV) duration as secondary outcomes. Our meta-analysis of 18 studies, including 5 randomized control trials and 13 observational studies, with a total of 3,035 patients—1,510 in the PI group and 1,525 in the II group, revealed significant findings. PI was associated with reduced mortality (RR, 0.67; 95% CI, 0.55–0.81; p = 0.001; I2 = 4.52%) and a shorter MV duration (SMD, −0.76; 95% CI, −1.37 to −0.16; p = 0.01; I2 = 87.81%) compared to II. However, no differences were found in clinical cure rates, antibiotic treatment duration, length of hospital stay, or length of ICU stay. The PI approach for administering beta-lactam antibiotics in patients with suspected or confirmed GNB infections may be advantageous in reducing mortality rates and the duration of MV when compared to the II strategy.
Comparison of effectiveness and safety of nirmatrelvir/ritonavir versus sotrovimab for COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Amani, Behnam
name: Amani, Bahman
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine
Science Policy

description: This study aims to compare the effectiveness and safety of nirmatrelvir/ritonavir (Paxlovid) and sotrovimab for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). A search was conducted on PubMed, Cochrane Library, and Web of Science to explore relevant studies from January 2021 to November 2023. The risk of bias in the included studies was assessed using the Cochrane Collaboration’s tool. Data analysis was conducted using the Comprehensive Meta-Analysis software (version 3.0). Fifteen retrospective studies involving 13, 306 patients were included. The meta-analysis revealed no significant difference between the nirmatrelvir/ritonavir and sotrovimab groups in terms of mortality rate (odds ratio [OR] = 0.62, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.28 to 1.38), hospitalization rate (OR = 0.76, 95% CI: 0.48 to 1.22), death or hospitalization rate (OR = 0.75, 95% CI: 0.51 to 1.10), and intensive unit care admission (OR = 1.97, 95% CI: 0.38 to 10.07). In terms of safety, nirmatrelvir/ritonavir was associated with a higher incidence of adverse events (OR = 3.44, 95% CI: 1.29 to 9.17). The meta-analysis showed that nirmatrelvir/ritonavir and sotrovimab have similar effectiveness in treating COVID-19 patients. However, the certainty of evidence supporting these findings is low. High-quality research is needed to better compare these interventions in COVID-19.
Grammatical elicitation: Morphophonology of Spanish loanwords, reduplication
Creators: name: Gómez, María
name: Russell, Katherine
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: gug

description: Various Spanish loanwords and interactions with nasality spreading, namely whether a nasal consonant within a Spanish loanword triggers leftward and rightward nasal spreading.
Additional file 1 of Assessment of artificial and natural sweeteners present in packaged non-alcoholic beverages (NABs) sold on the Singapore market
Creators: name: Tan, Rebecca
name: Chew, Sharon
name: Cleanthous, Xenia
name: Anastasiou, Kimberley
name: Brooker, Paige G.
name: Pham, Theresa
name: Smith, Benjamin P. C.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Appendix 1. Category Definition – Non-Alcoholic Beverages (NABs).
Inverse analysis of asteroseismic data: a review
Creators: name: Bellinger, Earl P.
name: Basu, Sarbani
name: Hekker, Saskia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Asteroseismology has emerged as the best way to characterize the global and internal properties of nearby stars. Often, this characterization is achieved by fitting stellar evolution models to asteroseismic observations. The star under investigation is then assumed to have the properties of the best-fitting model, such as its age. However, the models do not fit the observations perfectly. This is due to incorrect or missing physics in stellar evolution calculations, resulting in predicted stellar structures that are discrepant with reality. Through an inverse analysis of the asteroseismic data, it is possible to go further than fitting stellar models, and instead infer details about the actual internal structure of the star at some locations in its interior. Comparing theoretical and observed stellar structures then enables the determination of the locations where the stellar models have discrepant structure, and illuminates a path for improvements to our understanding of stellar evolution. In this invited review, we describe the methods of asteroseismic inversions, and outline the progress that is being made towards measuring the interiors of stars.
description: 12 pages, 1 figure. Invited review, Dynamics of the Sun and Stars