cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
APPROACHES TO STRUCTURE-RELATED PREDICTION OF DRUG TOXICITY BY ANALYSIS OF HUMAN TOXICITY DATA (NSAIDS, SIDE-EFFECTS, ADR REPORTING)
Creators: name: Matta, Lygia B.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: There is a need for organizing and analyzing existing human toxicity data bases and linking them with the more structured chemical information data bases for the purposes of correlation and development of coherent concepts of chemical toxicity. This work explores the use of selected chemical and human toxicity data bases in relating generic chemical structural moieties to the occurrence of toxic events in exposed human populations. Data from the Adverse Drug Reaction System (ADR) data base, Division of Drug Experience, Food and Drug Administration and from the Michigan-Minnesota Medicaid data base, Health Information Designs, Inc. (HID), Washington, D.C., were analyzed in a pilot project using the non-steroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) as a test group of pharmacologically similar drugs with diverse chemical structures. Estimates of comparative toxicities were determined for the chemically different groups in the ADR data base using hepatic, renal, hematologic, serious upper gastro-intestinal, serious skin, and anaphylactoid side effects as the main categories. In analysis of spontaneous ADR data, it is an apparent given condition that reporting of ADRs varies with time of marketing, being proportionately higher relative to the market and eventually decreasing and leveling off at some point in time. However, when considered over a period of time, the ADR data base appears to contain information that may be representative of the experience with a drug of the U.S. population. Supporting this it was found that the demographic profiles of ADR reports correlate with population exposure and are similar for all drugs in the class. The ADR data were correlated with the relative rates (events per 1,000 patients) of hematologic and anaphylactic reactions in the NSAID exposed patients in the Michigan Medicaid data base of 1.1 million patients which links drug and diagnoses by data of service, thereby providing an unbiased estimate of clinical events after drug exposure. Although structural hypotheses were developed, logistic factors prevented full access and use of chemical structure data bases. These illustrate the need for additional steps to facilitate the linkage between these diverse data bases. The establishment of models for analyzing and correlating these toxicological data bases represents an important step towards the integration of chemical and drug toxicity information.
Asymptotic horizon formation, spacetime stretching and causality
Creators: name: Barceló, Carlos
name: Boyanov, Valentin
name: Carballo-Rubio, Raúl
name: Garay, Luis J.
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: In this work we analyse asymptotically flat, spherically symmetric spacetimes in which an event horizon is present without any trapped surfaces. We identify two types of such spacetimes, each related to the asymptotic behaviour (in time) of one of the two degrees of freedom of the metric. We study the causal structure of both types, showing that one almost always has a Cauchy horizon beyond which it is extendable, while the other is inextendable but has two separate future null infinity regions on either side of the horizon. We also study what energy conditions can be satisfied by the matter around the horizon. Some of these spacetimes were first introduced in an earlier work in which semiclassical effects near black-hole horizons were analysed. Here we generalise this analysis to a larger family of geometries.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures; v2: minor changes to match published version
FALLING PROFIT RATES AND RISING SURPLUS: ALTERNATIVE MARXIAN THEORIES ABOUT THE SECULAR DECLINE OF CAPITALISM AS THEY APPLY TO THE UNITED STATES SINCE WORLD WAR II (CRISIS)
Creators: name: Odisio, Roger A.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Three theories about the secular decline of capitalism, each claiming roots in Marxian thought, have been evaluated as explanations of the problems facing the United States economy since World War II: (1) A long run tendency for return on capital to fall due to a tendency for the organic composition of capital to rise, as explained by Marx. (2) A falling rate of return caused by a rising share of output being extracted as compensation by labor, as advanced by Andrew Glyn and Bob Sutcliffe. (3) The economic surplus comprising a growing share of annual output, producing realization problems that result in stagnation, wasted resources, and economic instability, as posited by Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy. The theories were tested using U.S. data, 1946-1981. The Glyn and Sutcliffe thesis was rejected. No declining trend in rates of return--capital income relative to fixed capital--could be clearly established, but even if they could, rising employee compensation was rejected as a cause. The data confirm, however, that the surplus has risen continuously as a share of output, although the forms of its disposition have deviated from Baran and Sweezy's analysis. The organic composition, measured as fixed capital relative to the social subsistence of productive labor, has risen continuously since the mid 1960s, while Marxian rates of return--capital income relative to fixed and circulating capital--may show a secular decline for the same period. The latter result is provisional due to the crudity of the data. Two problems for U.S. capital were therefore identified. First, the growth of unproductive consumption relative to return on capital as a surplus absorption mode can lead to stagnation unless unproductive consumption can be continuously increased. Second, rising organic composition signals difficulty in maintaining rates of return as fixed capital replaces labor, narrowing the grounds for labor's exploitation. Further study of surplus value components, the productive labor that generated it, and the fixed capital used by that labor is needed to better understand the factors affecting the relationship between surplus value produced and the part of it realized as return on capital.
Constraining dark photons and their connection to 21 cm cosmology with CMB data
Creators: name: Bondarenko, Kyrylo
name: Pradler, Josef
name: Sokolenko, Anastasia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the inhomogeneous Universe, the cosmological conversion of dark photons into ordinary photons (and vice versa) may happen at a great number of resonance redshifts. This alters the CMB observed energy spectrum and degree of small-scale anisotropies. We utilize results from the EAGLE simulation to obtain the conversion probability along random line-of-sights to quantify these effects. We then apply our results to the case where dark photons are sourced by dark matter decay and their high-redshift conversion into ordinary photons modify the global 21 cm signal expected from the cosmic dawn era. Concretely, we show that a significant portion of the parameter space for which a converted population of photons in the Rayleigh-Jeans tail of the CMB explains the absorption strength observed by EDGES, is ruled out from the brightness temperature measurements of COBE/FIRAS and the CMB anisotropy measurements of Planck and SPT.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures; numerical bug in Fig. 6 fixed; conclusions unchanged; references added
Incommensurate two-dimensional checkerboard charge density wave in the low dimensional superconductor Ta4Pd3Te16
Creators: name: Shi, Zhenzhong
name: Kuhn, S. J.
name: Flicker, F.
name: Helm, T.
name: Lee, J.
name: Steinhardt, W. M.
name: Dissanayake, S. E.
name: Graf, D.
name: Ruff, J. C.
name: Fabbris, G.
name: Haskel, D.
name: Haravifard, Sara
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the observation of a two-dimensional (2D) checkerboard charge density wave (CDW) in the low-dimensional superconductor Ta4Pd3Te16. By determining its CDW properties across the temperature-pressure (T-P) phase diagram and comparing with prototypical CDW materials, we conclude that Ta4Pd3Te16 features: a) an incommensurate CDW with a mixed character of dimensions (Q1D considering its needle-like shape along the b-axis, Q2D as the CDW has checkerboard wavevectors, and 3D because of CDW projections along all three axes); and b) one of the weakest CDWs compared to its superconductivity (SC), i.e. enhanced SC with respect to CDW, suggesting an interesting interplay of the two orders.
description: Z.S. and S.J.K. contributed equally to this work / Accepted for publication in Physical Review Research Rapid Communications
Accuracy of the time-dependent Hartree-Fock approximation for uncorrelated initial states
Creators: name: Bardos, Claude
name: Golse, Francois
name: Gottlieb, Alex D.
name: Mauser, Norbert J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This article concerns the time-dependent Hartree-Fock (TDHF) approximation of single-particle dynamics in systems of interacting fermions. We find that the TDHF approximation is accurate when there are sufficiently many particles and the initial many-particle state is any Gibbs equilibrium state for noninteracting fermions (with Slater determinants as a special example). Assuming a bounded two-particle interaction, we obtain a bound on the error of the TDHF approximation, valid for short times. We further show that the error of the TDHF approximation vanishes at all times in the mean field limit.
description: 18 pages. To appear in Journal of Statistical Physics
Additional file 3 of Video-assisted thoracoscopic lobectomy versus open lobectomy in the treatment of large lung cancer: propensity-score matched analysis
Creators: name: Yun, Jeonghee
name: Lee, Junghee
name: Shin, Sumin
name: Kim, Hong Kwan
name: Choi, Yong Soo
name: Kim, Jhingook
name: Zo, Jae Il
name: Shim, Young Mog
name: Cho, Jong Ho
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Space Science
Medicine
Cell Biology
Pharmacology
Cancer

description: Additional file 3: Table 1. Standard mean difference of matched variables. Table 2 Pattern of recurrence.
Constructing d-log integrands and computing master integrals for three-loop four-particle scattering
Creators: name: Henn, Johannes
name: Mistlberger, Bernhard
name: Smirnov, Vladimir A.
name: Wasser, Pascal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute all master integrals for massless three-loop four-particle scattering amplitudes required for processes like di-jet or di-photon production at the LHC. We present our result in terms of a Laurent expansion of the integrals in the dimensional regulator up to 8$^{\text{th}}$ power, with coefficients expressed in terms of harmonic polylogarithms. As a basis of master integrals we choose integrals with integrands that only have logarithmic poles - called $d$log forms. This choice greatly facilitates the subsequent computation via the method of differential equations. We detail how this basis is obtained via an improved algorithm originally developed by one of the authors. We provide a public implementation of this algorithm. We explain how the algorithm is naturally applied in the context of unitarity. In addition, we classify our $d$log forms according to their soft and collinear properties.
description: 5 figures, 533 integrals
FALLING PROFIT RATES AND RISING SURPLUS: ALTERNATIVE MARXIAN THEORIES ABOUT THE SECULAR DECLINE OF CAPITALISM AS THEY APPLY TO THE UNITED STATES SINCE WORLD WAR II (CRISIS)
Creators: name: Odisio, Roger A.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics
classificationCode: 3803
subject: Economic theory

description: Three theories about the secular decline of capitalism, each claiming roots in Marxian thought, have been evaluated as explanations of the problems facing the United States economy since World War II: (1) A long run tendency for return on capital to fall due to a tendency for the organic composition of capital to rise, as explained by Marx. (2) A falling rate of return caused by a rising share of output being extracted as compensation by labor, as advanced by Andrew Glyn and Bob Sutcliffe. (3) The economic surplus comprising a growing share of annual output, producing realization problems that result in stagnation, wasted resources, and economic instability, as posited by Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy. The theories were tested using U.S. data, 1946-1981. The Glyn and Sutcliffe thesis was rejected. No declining trend in rates of return--capital income relative to fixed capital--could be clearly established, but even if they could, rising employee compensation was rejected as a cause. The data confirm, however, that the surplus has risen continuously as a share of output, although the forms of its disposition have deviated from Baran and Sweezy's analysis. The organic composition, measured as fixed capital relative to the social subsistence of productive labor, has risen continuously since the mid 1960s, while Marxian rates of return--capital income relative to fixed and circulating capital--may show a secular decline for the same period. The latter result is provisional due to the crudity of the data. Two problems for U.S. capital were therefore identified. First, the growth of unproductive consumption relative to return on capital as a surplus absorption mode can lead to stagnation unless unproductive consumption can be continuously increased. Second, rising organic composition signals difficulty in maintaining rates of return as fixed capital replaces labor, narrowing the grounds for labor's exploitation. Further study of surplus value components, the productive labor that generated it, and the fixed capital used by that labor is needed to better understand the factors affecting the relationship between surplus value produced and the part of it realized as return on capital.
Hilbert schemes of points on the minimal resolution and soliton equations
Creators: name: Qin, Zhenbo
name: Wang, Weiqiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The equivariant and ordinary cohomology rings of Hilbert schemes of points on the minimal resolution C^2//G for cyclic G are studied using vertex operator technique, and connections between these rings and the class algebras of wreath products are explicitly established. We further show that certain generating functions of equivariant intersection numbers on the Hilbert schemes and related moduli spaces of sheaves on C^2//G are tau functions of 2-Toda hierarchies.
description: minor changes, use of AMS Contemp. Math. format, latex, 28 pages, to appear in Lepowsky-Wilson volume
Locally accessible information: How much can the parties gain by cooperating?
Creators: name: Badziag, Piotr
name: Horodecki, Michal
name: De, Aditi Sen
name: Sen, Ujjwal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate measurements of bipartite ensembles restricted to local operations and classical communication and find a universal Holevo-like upper bound on the locally accessible information. We analyze our bound and exhibit a class of states which saturate it. Finally, we link the bound to the problem of quantification of the nonlocality of the operations necessary to extract locally unaccessible information.
description: 4 pages, no figures, RevTeX4; v2: a conjecture partially proven, results unchanged; v3: small changes in presentation, published version
THE EFFECT ON THE COMPUTATIONAL ABILITY OF CHILDREN WITH ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA DUE TO PROPHYLACTIC TREATMENT OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
Creators: name: Bath, Barbara Blake
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3901
subject: Curriculum and pedagogy

description: Children diagnosed ten years ago as having acute lymphocytic leukemia had little chance of survival. Major advances have been made in the treatment of leukemia, but complications of the therapy are significant. With the introduction of prophylactic treatment of the central nervous system (CNS) to destroy leukemia cells in the cerebro-spinal fluid, the survival rate has dramatically increased. This treatment can lead to neurotoxicity which can impair intellectual functioning. Several researchers suggest this impairment is selective as to the abilities affected and that quantitative skills are affected the most. This research attempts to further delineate this issue. This research was conducted at the National Institutes of Health, Pediatric Oncology Branch, Bethesda, Maryland. It was based on earlier findings that acute lymphocytic leukemia patients who were treated with radiation to the brain and intrathecal methotrexate had lower intelligence scores than their healthy siblings. That study linked age at diagnosis to the amount of decrement in IQ. In this study the Stanford Diagnostic Mathematics Test, Computation Subtest, Blue Level, Form A, was given to 17 patients to assess their computational abilities. Those results were compared with results of computerized axial tomography scans (CAT) and scores on the Weschler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised. An analysis was done on the effects of age at diagnosis, age at testing, and the difference in those two ages on the scores on the math test. It was concluded that the younger a child was at diagnosis the lower the math score. The age at testing was not significantly related to the math score. The difference between age at diagnosis and age at testing was related to the math score. This result suggests the possibility of progressive deterioration resulting from the CNS treatment. This research also observed a coincidence of abnormal CAT scans and the decrease in computational ability and highlights, for this specific skill, the relationship between age at diagnosis and impairment.
Scale-invariant gravity: Spacetime recovered
Creators: name: Kelleher, Bryan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The configuration space of general relativity is superspace - the space of all Riemannian 3-metrics modulo diffeomorphisms. However, it has been argued that the configuration space for gravity should be conformal superspace - the space of all Riemannian 3-metrics modulo diffeomorphisms and conformal transformations. Recently a manifestly 3-dimensional theory was constructed with conformal superspace as the configuration space. Here a fully 4-dimensional action is constructed so as to be invariant under conformal transformations of the 4-metric using general relativity as a guide. This action is then decomposed to a (3+1)-dimensional form and from this to its Jacobi form. The surprising thing is that the new theory turns out to be precisely the original 3-dimensional theory. The physical data is identified and used to find the physical representation of the theory. In this representation the theory is extremely similar to general relativity. The clarity of the 4-dimensional picture should prove very useful for comparing the theory with those aspects of general relativity which are usually treated in the 4-dimensional framework.
description: Replaced with final version: minor changes to text
THE EFFECT ON THE COMPUTATIONAL ABILITY OF CHILDREN WITH ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA DUE TO PROPHYLACTIC TREATMENT OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
Creators: name: Bath, Barbara Blake
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Children diagnosed ten years ago as having acute lymphocytic leukemia had little chance of survival. Major advances have been made in the treatment of leukemia, but complications of the therapy are significant. With the introduction of prophylactic treatment of the central nervous system (CNS) to destroy leukemia cells in the cerebro-spinal fluid, the survival rate has dramatically increased. This treatment can lead to neurotoxicity which can impair intellectual functioning. Several researchers suggest this impairment is selective as to the abilities affected and that quantitative skills are affected the most. This research attempts to further delineate this issue. This research was conducted at the National Institutes of Health, Pediatric Oncology Branch, Bethesda, Maryland. It was based on earlier findings that acute lymphocytic leukemia patients who were treated with radiation to the brain and intrathecal methotrexate had lower intelligence scores than their healthy siblings. That study linked age at diagnosis to the amount of decrement in IQ. In this study the Stanford Diagnostic Mathematics Test, Computation Subtest, Blue Level, Form A, was given to 17 patients to assess their computational abilities. Those results were compared with results of computerized axial tomography scans (CAT) and scores on the Weschler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised. An analysis was done on the effects of age at diagnosis, age at testing, and the difference in those two ages on the scores on the math test. It was concluded that the younger a child was at diagnosis the lower the math score. The age at testing was not significantly related to the math score. The difference between age at diagnosis and age at testing was related to the math score. This result suggests the possibility of progressive deterioration resulting from the CNS treatment. This research also observed a coincidence of abnormal CAT scans and the decrease in computational ability and highlights, for this specific skill, the relationship between age at diagnosis and impairment.
Ion Modes in Dense Ionized Plasmas through Non-Adiabatic Molecular Dynamics
Creators: name: Davis, Ryan A.
name: Angermeier, W. A.
name: Hermsmeier, R.
name: White, Thomas G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform nonadiabatic simulations of warm dense aluminum based on the electron-force field (EFF) variant of wave-packet molecular dynamics. Comparison of the static ion-ion structure factor with density functional theory (DFT) is used to validate the technique across a range of temperatures and densities spanning the warm dense matter regime. Focusing on a specific temperature and density (3.5 eV, 5.2 g/cm3), we report on differences in the dynamic structure factor and dispersion relation across a variety of adiabatic and nonadiabatic techniques. We find the dispersion relation produced with EFF is in close agreement with the more robust and adiabatic Kohn-Sham DFT.
description: 7 pages and 5 figures in the main manuscript; typos corrected; final version of publication
ALIENATION AND CONTROL AMONG "SEMI-AUTONOMOUS WORK GROUPS" IN THE NON-UNIONIZED RESIDENTIAL SECTOR OF THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY (INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY, COOPERATION, RESEARCH METHODOLOGY)
Creators: name: Lee, Michael Edward
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: "Semi-autonomous work groups" have become the theoretical core of workplace experiments designed to increase production and decrease alienation. The introduction of the "craft administration of production" to the workplace, while increasing production, has resulted in problems relative to supervision not adequately explained by psychological theories of alienation. The research process itself (action research) becomes problematic when it becomes consultancy research. The dynamics of "semi-autonomous work groups" is not well understood. This research involves the study of pre-existing "semi-autonomous work groups" working in the open shop sector of the construction industry as "sidig applicators." The growing open shop sector is examined and contrasted with the more easily studied unionized sector. The history and structure of this occupation and one particular shop in a midwestern city provides the context for viewing these workers as an "ideal type" of semi-autonomous work groups. Sources of conflict between owners and workers are examined by means of participant observation, informal interviews, examination of company records, and formal interviews. These workers have nearly complete job site autonomy yet experience difficulties with "supervision" not easily explained as direct supervision. One of the major goals of workers, "being my own boss," is frequently attempted when they become "independents." The source of conflict, when autonomy and "craft administration of production" are present is traced to necessarily conflicting goals of owners and workers. The necessity of maintaining or increasing production is incompatible with worker goals of time freedom and being one's own boss even under the piece work system of pay. High levels of job site autonomy are found to be related to high expectations of freedom and control. These expectations are found to be related to higher needs for cooperation in the administration of production. When a model of a construction cooperative is presented this is seen by workers as more desirable than "being the boss," even when the "costs" of participation (more meetings, less pay) are introduced. The conflict in workplace democracy research settings requires that action research retain its dialectical nature and that the concept of alienation be expanded beyond psychological theories of "job satisfaction.".
Additional file 1 of Exposure to environmentally relevant concentrations of ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) depletes the ovarian follicle reserve and causes sex-dependent cardiovascular changes in apolipoprotein E null mice
Creators: name: Luderer, Ulrike
name: Lim, Jinhwan
name: Ortiz, Laura
name: Nguyen, Johnny D.
name: Shin, Joyce H.
name: Allen, Barrett D.
name: Liao, Lisa S.
name: Malott, Kelli
name: Perraud, Veronique
name: Wingen, Lisa M.
name: Arechavala, Rebecca J.
name: Bliss, Bishop
name: Herman, David A.
name: Kleinman, Michael T.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1. Effects of PM2.5 exposure on changes in systolic and diastolic blood pressure from baseline.
High statistic study of the K- -> pi0 mu- nu decay
Creators: name: Yushchenko, O. P.
name: Akimenko, S. A.
name: Belous, K. S.
name: Britvich, G. I.
name: Britvich, I. G.
name: Datsko, K. V.
name: Filin, A. P.
name: Inyakin, A. V.
name: Konstantinov, A. S.
name: Konstantinov, V. F.
name: Korolkov, I. Y.
name: Khmelnikov, V. A.
name: Leontiev, V. M.
name: Novikov, V. P.
name: Obraztsov, V. F.
name: Polyakov, V. A.
name: Romanovsky, V. I.
name: Ronjin, V. M.
name: Shelikhov, V. I.
name: Smirnov, N. E.
name: Tchikilev, O. G.
name: Uvarov, V. A.
name: Bolotov, V. N.
name: Laptev, S. V.
name: Pastsjak, A. R.
name: Polyarush, A. Yu.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The decay K- -> pi0 mu- nu has been studied using in-flight decays detected with the "ISTRA+" spectrometer. About 540K events were collected for the analysis. The lambda+ and lambda0 slope parameters of the decay form-factors f+(t), f0(t) have been measured : lambda+ = 0.0277+-0.0013 (stat)+-0.0009 (syst), lambda0 = 0.0183+-0.0011(stat)+-0.0006(syst), and d(lambda0)/d(lambda+)=-0.348. The limits on the possible tensor and scalar couplings have been derived: fT/f+(0)=-0.0007 +- 0.0071, fS/f+(0)=0.0017 +- 0.0014. No visible non-linearity in the form-factors have been observed.
description: 11 pages, 8 EPS figures, accepted by Physics Letters B
Carbon- and Oxygen-rich Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) stars in the Bulge Asymmetries and Dynamical Evolution (BAaDE) survey
Creators: name: Lewis, Megan O.
name: Pihlström, Ylva M.
name: Sjouwerman, Loránt O.
name: Stroh, Michael C.
name: Morris, Mark R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Detections of SiO masers from the Bulge Asymmetries and Dynamical Evolution (BAaDE) survey more tightly define the region where Oxygen-rich (O) Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) stars reside in multiple infrared (IR) color-color diagrams. Using MSX and 2MASS data along with radio spectra from the BAaDE survey we find that three main populations were observed in the BAaDE survey: O-rich AGB stars of which about $73\%$ host SiO masers, Carbon-rich (C) AGB stars which do not host these masers, and a small contaminating set of possible Young Stellar Objects (YSOs). The distinction between YSOs and AGB stars can be drawn using only MSX data, specifically the $[D]-[E]$ color, while the shorter wavelengths provided by 2MASS are necessary to divide potential C- and O-rich AGB stars. Divisions similar to these have been seen in multiple earlier IR-studies, but BAaDE currently provides a sample of $\sim$ 15000 sources which far exceeds previous studies in sample size, and therefore provides much more distinct divisions. With these IR distinctions in place, we discuss the sources which are exceptions in either their molecular detections or IR colors, as well as the distribution of the three populations in Galactic coordinates.
description: accepted for publication in ApJ
ALIENATION AND CONTROL AMONG "SEMI-AUTONOMOUS WORK GROUPS" IN THE NON-UNIONIZED RESIDENTIAL SECTOR OF THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY (INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY, COOPERATION, RESEARCH METHODOLOGY)
Creators: name: Lee, Michael Edward
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4410
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: "Semi-autonomous work groups" have become the theoretical core of workplace experiments designed to increase production and decrease alienation. The introduction of the "craft administration of production" to the workplace, while increasing production, has resulted in problems relative to supervision not adequately explained by psychological theories of alienation. The research process itself (action research) becomes problematic when it becomes consultancy research. The dynamics of "semi-autonomous work groups" is not well understood. This research involves the study of pre-existing "semi-autonomous work groups" working in the open shop sector of the construction industry as "sidig applicators." The growing open shop sector is examined and contrasted with the more easily studied unionized sector. The history and structure of this occupation and one particular shop in a midwestern city provides the context for viewing these workers as an "ideal type" of semi-autonomous work groups. Sources of conflict between owners and workers are examined by means of participant observation, informal interviews, examination of company records, and formal interviews. These workers have nearly complete job site autonomy yet experience difficulties with "supervision" not easily explained as direct supervision. One of the major goals of workers, "being my own boss," is frequently attempted when they become "independents." The source of conflict, when autonomy and "craft administration of production" are present is traced to necessarily conflicting goals of owners and workers. The necessity of maintaining or increasing production is incompatible with worker goals of time freedom and being one's own boss even under the piece work system of pay. High levels of job site autonomy are found to be related to high expectations of freedom and control. These expectations are found to be related to higher needs for cooperation in the administration of production. When a model of a construction cooperative is presented this is seen by workers as more desirable than "being the boss," even when the "costs" of participation (more meetings, less pay) are introduced. The conflict in workplace democracy research settings requires that action research retain its dialectical nature and that the concept of alienation be expanded beyond psychological theories of "job satisfaction.".
On separability of quantum states and the violation of Bell-type inequalities
Creators: name: Loubenets, Elena R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In contrast to the wide-spread opinion that any separable quantum state satisfies every classical probabilistic constraint, we present a simple example where a separable quantum state does not satisfy the original Bell inequality although the latter inequality, in its perfect correlation form, is valid for all joint classical measurements. In a very general setting, we discuss inequalities for joint experiments upon a bipartite quantum system in a separable state. We derive quantum analogues of the original Bell inequality and specify the conditions sufficient for a separable state to satisfy the original Bell inequality. We introduce the extended CHSH inequality and prove that, for any separable quantum state, this inequality holds for a variety of linear combinations.
description: 13 pages, extended version
Unsupervised machine learning of quantum phase transitions using diffusion maps
Creators: name: Lidiak, Alexander
name: Gong, Zhexuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Experimental quantum simulators have become large and complex enough that discovering new physics from the huge amount of measurement data can be quite challenging, especially when little theoretical understanding of the simulated model is available. Unsupervised machine learning methods are particularly promising in overcoming this challenge. For the specific task of learning quantum phase transitions, unsupervised machine learning methods have primarily been developed for phase transitions characterized by simple order parameters, typically linear in the measured observables. However, such methods often fail for more complicated phase transitions, such as those involving incommensurate phases, valence-bond solids, topological order, and many-body localization. We show that the diffusion map method, which performs nonlinear dimensionality reduction and spectral clustering of the measurement data, has significant potential for learning such complex phase transitions unsupervised. This method works for measurements of local observables in a single basis and is thus readily applicable to many experimental quantum simulators as a versatile tool for learning various quantum phases and phase transitions.
description: 11 pages, 10 figures. Version published in Physical Review Letters
ZAMBIA'S RELATIONS WITH MALAWI, BOTSWANA, MOZAMBIQUE, ZIMBABWE, AND SOUTH AFRICA: AN ANALYSIS WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF SOUTHERN AFRICA
Creators: name: Ndanga, Oswald Toindepi
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: This is a study of Zambia's relations with Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. Zambia's inter-state relations, as well as her foreign policy in the region, are assessed and identified in an attempt to establish the determinants of her foreign policy. The thesis of the study is that the existence of white minority governments in South Africa, Angola, Mozambique, Namibia, and Zimbabwe was a major influence on Zambia's inter-state relations from 1964 to 1980. The second thesis of the study is that while liberation movements used armed struggle, independent nations preferred to use diplomacy to put pressure on white minority governments to accept the principle of majority rule. The writer observes that Zambia played a crucial role in the political drama that led to the independence of many Southern African countries. Zambia, which authorized Southern African liberation movements to establish their headquarters in Lusaka, was at the center of diplomatic activities aimed at creating an atmosphere where negotiations for settlements could take place. Zambia did it by keeping channels of communication open and by reassuring minority leaders that whites were welcome to remain in Southern Africa under majority rule. The purpose of the study was to identify the major determinants of Zambia's foreign policy positions and its regional inter-state relations. Identification of foreign policy determinants and analysis of inter-state relations was conducted using some of the relevant methods of international relations. The methods utilized are comparative analysis, inter-nation influence approach, associational relations, and historical analysis. The land locked position of Zambia and her reliance on the railways system, then controlled by the three minority governments of Rhodesia, Mozambique, and South Africa, seriously limited Zambia's foreign policy options. However, there was a degree of economic interdependence which restrained both sides from taking extreme action. It was concluded that armed struggle and diplomacy are the two instruments used to put pressure on the white minority governments to accept the principle of African majority rule.
ZAMBIA'S RELATIONS WITH MALAWI, BOTSWANA, MOZAMBIQUE, ZIMBABWE, AND SOUTH AFRICA: AN ANALYSIS WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF SOUTHERN AFRICA
Creators: name: Ndanga, Oswald Toindepi
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This is a study of Zambia's relations with Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. Zambia's inter-state relations, as well as her foreign policy in the region, are assessed and identified in an attempt to establish the determinants of her foreign policy. The thesis of the study is that the existence of white minority governments in South Africa, Angola, Mozambique, Namibia, and Zimbabwe was a major influence on Zambia's inter-state relations from 1964 to 1980. The second thesis of the study is that while liberation movements used armed struggle, independent nations preferred to use diplomacy to put pressure on white minority governments to accept the principle of majority rule. The writer observes that Zambia played a crucial role in the political drama that led to the independence of many Southern African countries. Zambia, which authorized Southern African liberation movements to establish their headquarters in Lusaka, was at the center of diplomatic activities aimed at creating an atmosphere where negotiations for settlements could take place. Zambia did it by keeping channels of communication open and by reassuring minority leaders that whites were welcome to remain in Southern Africa under majority rule. The purpose of the study was to identify the major determinants of Zambia's foreign policy positions and its regional inter-state relations. Identification of foreign policy determinants and analysis of inter-state relations was conducted using some of the relevant methods of international relations. The methods utilized are comparative analysis, inter-nation influence approach, associational relations, and historical analysis. The land locked position of Zambia and her reliance on the railways system, then controlled by the three minority governments of Rhodesia, Mozambique, and South Africa, seriously limited Zambia's foreign policy options. However, there was a degree of economic interdependence which restrained both sides from taking extreme action. It was concluded that armed struggle and diplomacy are the two instruments used to put pressure on the white minority governments to accept the principle of African majority rule.
Additional file 1 of High-resolution melting analysis identifies reservoir hosts of zoonotic Leishmania parasites in Tunisia
Creators: name: Derghal, Moufida
name: Tebai, Abir
name: Balti, Ghofrane
name: Souguir-Omrani, Hajer
name: Chemkhi, Jomaa
name: Rhim, Adel
name: Bouattour, Ali
name: Guizani, Ikram
name: M’Ghirbi, Youmna
name: Guerbouj, Souheila
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Morphological criteria of the studied Meriones and hedgehogs, date of capture, and geographical origins.
The subhalo populations of LCDM dark haloes
Creators: name: Gao, Liang
name: White, Simon D. M.
name: Jenkins, Adrian
name: Stoehr, Felix
name: Springel, Volker
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use a large cosmological simulation and a variety of high resolution resimulations of individual cluster and galaxy haloes to study the systematics of subhalo populations over ranges of 1000 in halo mass and 1000 in the ratio of subhalo to parent halo mass. The subhalo populations of different haloes are not scaled copies of each other, but vary systematically with halo properties. On average, the amount of substructure increases with halo mass. At fixed mass, it decreases with halo concentration and with halo formation redshift. These trends are comparable in size to the scatter in subhalo abundance between similar haloes. Averaged over all haloes of given mass, the abundance of low mass subhaloes per unit parent halo mass is independendent of parent mass.It is very similar to the abundance per unit mass of low mass haloes in the universe as a whole, once differing boundary definitions for subhaloes and haloes are accounted for. The radial distribution of subhaloes within their parent haloes is substantially less centrally concentrated than that of the dark matter. It varies at most weakly with the mass(or concentration) of the parent halo and not at all with subhalo mass. It does depend on the criteria used to define the subhalo population considered. About 90% of present-day subhaloes were accreted after z=1 and about 70% after z=0.5. Only about 8% the total mass of all haloes accreted at z=1 survives as bound subhaloes at z=0. For haloes accreted at z=2, the survival mass fraction is just 2%. Subhaloes seen near the centre of their parent typically were accreted earlier and retain less of their original mass than those seen near the edge. These strong systematics mean that comparison with galaxies in real clusters is only possible if the formation of the luminous component is modelled appropriately.
description: 18 pages, 15 figures. MNRAS in press. Accepted version. references added, a typo in equation (1) corrected
INTERNATIONAL TRADE, INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT, AND INDUSTRIAL POLICIES: TOWARD A POLITICAL ECONOMY OF WORLD COMMERCE (AUTOMOBILES)
Creators: name: Noellert, William Alan
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation addresses the general issue of the role of government policy and actions in affecting the international allocation of resources and the exchange of goods and services between countries. The purpose is to lay the basis for a political economy of world commerce that explicitly integrates trade, investment, and government industrial policy into dynamic analytical framework. The problem is to identify the importance of industrial policy measures in world commerce. This is accomplished through a survey and analysis of industrial policy objectives in major U.S. trading partners and through a case study of the world automobile industry from 1950 to 1981. The specific hypothesis examined for the automobile industry is whether world automotive production and trade has been determined as much by government industrial policy as by trends in comparative advantage. The method of inquiry is to analyze explicitly the extent to which patterns of world automobile production and trade are explained by industrial policies as compared to comparative costs and to hold constant all other factors affecting international competitiveness. The survey results indicate a widespread use of industrial policy measures among both developed and developing countries, with a particular focus on industries considered to offer significant growth potential in terms of output, employment, and exports. The automobile case study indicates that government industrial policies can explain a significant amount of the patterns of production and trade that occurred from 1950 to 1981. Indices of comparative costs are also important in explaining some of the observed patterns of production and trade, but the explanatory results are significantly enhanced when indices of comparative costs are augmented with data on industrial policies. The general pattern observed throughout the period from 1950 to 1981 was that locations of production were more closely correlated with locations of demand than with locations of low cost. The empirical evidence presented indicates that much greater attention should be given to the role of government industrial policy in explaining patterns of world production and trade in manufactured products. However, more case studies of particular industries are required before the results from the analysis of the automobile industry can be generalized.
Probabilistic Memristive Networks: Application of a Master Equation to Networks of Binary ReRAM cells
Creators: name: Dowling, V. J.
name: Slipko, V. A.
name: Pershin, Y. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The possibility of using non-deterministic circuit components has been gaining significant attention in recent years. The modeling and simulation of their circuits require novel approaches, as now the state of a circuit at an arbitrary moment in time cannot be precisely predicted. Generally, these circuits should be described in terms of probabilities, the circuit variables should be calculated on average, and correlation functions should be used to explore interrelations among the variables. In this paper, we use, for the first time, a master equation to analyze the networks composed of probabilistic binary memristors. Analytical solutions of the master equation for the case of identical memristors connected in-series and in-parallel are found. Our analytical results are supplemented by results of numerical simulations that extend our findings beyond the case of identical memristors. The approach proposed in this paper facilitates the development of probabilistic/stochastic electronic circuits and advance their real-world applications.
Additional file 2 of High-resolution melting analysis identifies reservoir hosts of zoonotic Leishmania parasites in Tunisia
Creators: name: Derghal, Moufida
name: Tebai, Abir
name: Balti, Ghofrane
name: Souguir-Omrani, Hajer
name: Chemkhi, Jomaa
name: Rhim, Adel
name: Bouattour, Ali
name: Guizani, Ikram
name: M’Ghirbi, Youmna
name: Guerbouj, Souheila
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. List of collected samples from the studied dogs, Meriones, and hedgehogs.