cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 4: of Comparative efficacy and safety for different chemotherapy regimens used concurrently with thoracic radiation for locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer: a systematic review and network meta-analysis
Creators: name: Liu, Tingting
name: He, Zheng
name: Dang, Jun
name: Li, Guang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer

description: Table S2. Results of network meta-analysis (DOC 117 kb)
Local retail electricity markets for distribution grid services
Creators: name: Nair, Vineet Jagadeesan
name: Annaswamy, Anuradha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We propose a hierarchical local electricity market (LEM) at the primary and secondary feeder levels in a distribution grid, to optimally coordinate and schedule distributed energy resources (DER) and provide valuable grid services like voltage control. At the primary level, we use a current injection-based model that is valid for both radial and meshed, balanced and unbalanced, multi-phase systems. The primary and secondary markets leverage the flexibility offered by DERs to optimize grid operation and maximize social welfare. Numerical simulations on an IEEE-123 bus modified to include DERs, show that the LEM successfully achieves voltage control and reduces overall network costs, while also allowing us to decompose the price and value associated with different grid services so as to accurately compensate DERs.
description: 9 pages, 13 figures, Accepted to the 7th IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA) 2023
Physical Zero-Knowledge Proof for Ball Sort Puzzle
Creators: name: Ruangwises, Suthee
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Ball sort puzzle is a popular logic puzzle consisting of several bins containing balls of multiple colors. Each bin works like a stack; a ball has to follow the last-in first-out order. The player has to sort the balls by color such that each bin contains only balls of a single color. In this paper, we propose a physical zero-knowledge proof protocol for the ball sort puzzle using a deck of playing cards, which enables a prover to physically show that he/she knows a solution with $t$ moves of the ball sort puzzle without revealing it. Our protocol is the first zero-knowledge proof protocol for an interactive puzzle involving moving objects.
description: This paper has appeared at CiE 2023. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2302.01235
Vanguardia Obrera, 115, año XI
Creators: name: PCE(ML)
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1975
Subjects: PCE(ML)
vanguardia obrera

description: Órgano de expresión del Partido Comunista de España (M-L). Artículos principales que contiene: Llamamiento a la unidad para luchar contra la monarquía continuadora del Franquismo y contra las falsas soluciones colaboracionistas. El Franco-Juan Carlismo incrementa la represión contra el pueblo. Intensificar la lucha contra la creciente represión fascista. Los comunistas y el pueblo albaneses en solidaridad con nuestro Partido, con el F.R.A.P. y con el pueblo español en lucha. Sahara. Frente a las maniobras del déspota Hassan II del colonialismo franquista y del imperialismo: ¡Apoyemos la lucha del pueblo saharaui por su libertad e independencia!
Drag force on a sphere moving towards an anisotropic super-hydrophobic plane
Creators: name: Asmolov, Evgeny S.
name: Belyaev, Aleksey V.
name: Vinogradova, Olga I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze theoretically a high-speed drainage of liquid films squeezed between a hydrophilic sphere and a textured super-hydrophobic plane, that contains trapped gas bubbles. A super-hydrophobic wall is characterized by parameters $L$ (texture characteristic length), $b_1$ and $b_2$ (local slip lengths at solid and gas areas), and $ϕ_1$ and $ϕ_2$ (fractions of solid and gas areas). Hydrodynamic properties of the plane are fully expressed in terms of the effective slip-length tensor with eigenvalues that depend on texture parameters and $H$ (local separation). The effect of effective slip is predicted to decrease the force as compared with expected for two hydrophilic surfaces and described by the Taylor equation. The presence of additional length scales, $L$, $b_1$ and $b_2$, implies that a film drainage can be much richer than in case of a sphere moving towards a hydrophilic plane. For a large (compared to $L$) gap the reduction of the force is small, and for all textures the force is similar to expected when a sphere is moving towards a smooth hydrophilic plane that is shifted down from the super-hydrophobic wall. The value of this shift is equal to the average of the eigenvalues of the slip-length tensor. By analyzing striped super-hydrophobic surfaces, we then compute the correction to the Taylor equation for an arbitrary gap. We show that at thinner gap the force reduction becomes more pronounced, and that it depends strongly on the fraction of the gas area and local slip lengths. For small separations we derive an exact equation, which relates a correction for effective slip to texture parameters. Our analysis provides a framework for interpreting recent force measurements in the presence of super-hydrophobic surface.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures, submitted to PRE; EPAPS file included
Selectively Providing Reliance Calibration Cues With Reliance Prediction
Creators: name: Fukuchi, Yosuke
name: Yamada, Seiji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: For effective collaboration between humans and intelligent agents that employ machine learning for decision-making, humans must understand what agents can and cannot do to avoid over/under-reliance. A solution to this problem is adjusting human reliance through communication using reliance calibration cues (RCCs) to help humans assess agents' capabilities. Previous studies typically attempted to calibrate reliance by continuously presenting RCCs, and when an agent should provide RCCs remains an open question. To answer this, we propose Pred-RC, a method for selectively providing RCCs. Pred-RC uses a cognitive reliance model to predict whether a human will assign a task to an agent. By comparing the prediction results for both cases with and without an RCC, Pred-RC evaluates the influence of the RCC on human reliance. We tested Pred-RC in a human-AI collaboration task and found that it can successfully calibrate human reliance with a reduced number of RCCs.
description: 8 pages
Chiral indium catalysts for the ring-opening polymerization of cyclic esters
Creators: name: Aluthge, Dinesh Chinthaka
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: The development of highly active and stereoselective catalysts for lactide polymerization is an area of continuing interest in asymmetric catalysis. Aluminum complexes supported by (ONNO), tetradentate, bis(iminophenolate) or salen ligands are the most isoselective catalysts for lactide polymerization reported. However, these are sluggish initiators requiring elevated temperatures and multiple days to achieve high monomer conversion. Recently, indium based catalysts have attracted considerable attention as functional group tolerant catalysts for lactide polymerization. In this thesis a family of mononuclear and dinuclear chiral indium alkoxide complexes bearing salen ligands was prepared. Solution state and solid state characterization of these complexes were carried out. These were highly active catalysts for the ring-opening polymerization of lactide, to generate the biodegradable polymer, poly(lactic acid)(PLA). Polymerization behavior and the stereoselectivity of these systems showed a well-controlled and isoselective family of catalysts. An investigation into the effects of ligand modifications revealed a profound dependence of the stereoselectivity on the ortho-aryl substituents. A detailed study was carried out to gain insights into the mechanism of polymerization. This provided evidence for a mechanism consistent with a mononuclear propagating species. Modification of the ligand backbone to a binap functionality was carried out to synthesize the first reported indium salbinap complexes. The ligand shows the ability to coordinate in both a κ² and a κ⁴ coordination mode to a metal centre. However, these complexes were sluggish initiators with modest stereoselectivity for the ring-opening polymerization of lactide. A dinuclear indium catalyst was used to generate triblock copolymers of PLA and poly(hyroxybutyrate)(PHB) via simple sequential monomer addition. After confirming the formation of these A-B-C type PLA-PHB-PLA triblocks, a series of these copolymers with varying monomer composition were prepared and their thermo-mechanical properties were studies.
Modelling realistic horizontal branch morphologies and their impact on spectroscopic ages of unresolved stellar systems
Creators: name: Percival, Susan M.
name: Salaris, Maurizio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The presence of an extended blue horizontal branch (HB) in a stellar population is known to affect the age inferred from spectral fitting to stellar population synthesis models. However, most population synthesis models still rely on theoretical isochrones which do not include realistic modelling of extended HBs. In this work, we create detailed models for a range of old simple stellar populations (SSPs), to create a variety of realistic HB morphologies, from extended red clumps, to extreme blue HBs. We achieve this by utilising stellar tracks from the BaSTI database and implementing a different mass loss prescription for each SSP created, resulting in different HB morphologies. We find that, for each metallicity, there is some HB morphology which maximises Hbeta, making an underlying 14Gyr population look ~5-6Gyr old for the low and intermediate metallicity cases, and as young as 2Gyr for a solar metallicity SSP. We explore whether there are any spectral indices capable of breaking the degeneracy between an old SSP with extended blue HB and a truly young or intermediate age SSP, and find that the CaII index of Rose(1984) and the strength of the MgII doublet at 2800A are promising candidates, in combination with Hbeta and other metallicity indicators such as Mgb and Fe5406. We also run Monte Carlo simulations to investigate the level of statistical fluctuations in the spectra of typical stellar clusters. We find that fluctuations in spectral indices are significant even for average to large globular clusters, and that various spectral indices are affected in different ways, which has implications for full-spectrum fitting methods. Hence we urge caution if these types of stellar clusters are to be used as empirical calibrating objects for various aspects of SPS models. (Abridged)
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS. 10 pages, including 7 figures
Vanguardia Obrera, 148, año XII
Creators: name: PCE(ML)
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1976
Subjects: PCE(ML)
vanguardia obrera

description: Órgano de expresión del Partido Comunista de España (M-L). Artículos principales que contiene: Las II Conferencia Nacional: rotunda afirmación de la madurez y de la firmeza política del partido. En el marco de la Convención Republicana de los Pueblos de España: unir y movilizar a las amplias masas bajo la bandera de la República. Tomar de nuevo la ofensiva. La "amnistía" del pelele Juan Carlos no es más que un nuevo indulto fascista. Las luchas de los pueblos de España contra la Monarquía Fascista.
Varieties Connected by Chains of Lines
Creators: name: Marchesi, Simone
name: Massarenti, Alex
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14M99, 14N05, 14J45, 14M07

description: In this paper we give for any integer l > 2 a numerical criterion ensuring the existence of a chain of length l of lines through two general points of an irreducible variety X in P^N, involving the degrees and the number of homogeneous polynomials defining X. We show that our criterion is sharp.
description: 8 pages
Transfer Learning Enhanced Full Waveform Inversion
Creators: name: Kollmannsberger, Stefan
name: Singh, Divya
name: Herrmann, Leon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a way to favorably employ neural networks in the field of non-destructive testing using Full Waveform Inversion (FWI). The presented methodology discretizes the unknown material distribution in the domain with a neural network within an adjoint optimization. To further increase efficiency of the FWI, pretrained neural networks are used to provide a good starting point for the inversion. This reduces the number of iterations in the Full Waveform Inversion for specific, yet generalizable settings.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures
Capillary electrophoresis mass spectrometry for the characterization of glycoproteins and N-glycans
Creators: name: Jayo, Roxana Gabriela
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Glycosylation of proteins is ubiquitous and has the ability to significantly alter the biological and biophysical properties of proteins. The need to study structure-function relationships of glycans in a living organism requires the continuous development of rapid and sensitive technologies for the characterization of glycan components. In recent years, a broad range of technologies have evolved to provide new developments and emerging glycomics techniques. In this thesis we present the development of new methodologies based on capillary electrophoresis-electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry (CE-ESI-MS) for the study of protein N-glycosylation in complex biological systems and therapeutic recombinant drugs. Our approach involves the use of a flow-through microvial, a novel technology that provides a robust and easy-to use strategy for interfacing CE separation with MS detection. In chapter 2, we report a simple and robust CE-ESI-MS methodology for comprehensive characterization of glycosylated proteins at the level of intact protein, enzymatically released glycopeptide and glycans. In chapter 3, we characterize a complex set of enzymatically released N-glycans from a recombinant therapeutic drug that revealed extensive glycan heterogeneity. The study demonstrated the potential of our approach to complement established techniques for glycan characterization of therapeutic glycoproteins in the pharmaceutical industry. Chapters 4 and 5 of this thesis are devoted study protein glycosylation of relevant biological systems. In chapter 4, O-acetylated N-glycans from fish serum were characterized in their native state and the structural variations of their isomeric species were investigated by tandem MS approaches. The developed CE-MS methods may be useful not only for the characterization of acetylation of complex glycans but also to study other types of glycan modifications in different contexts. In chapter 5, we present CE-MS methodologies for characterizing protein N-glycosylation in human serum associated with prostate cancer and asthma. Comparison of glycan compositions and relative abundances revealed abnormal glycosylation in prostate cancer and asthma serum. The capability of our CE-ESI-MS method to perform global glycan profiling of human serum demonstrates its potential for comprehensive glycan profiling in the context of malignancies and for the discovery of glycan disease markers with high selectivity and specificity.
What is the super-sample covariance? A fresh perspective for second-order shear statistics
Creators: name: Linke, Laila
name: Burger, Pierre A.
name: Heydenreich, Sven
name: Porth, Lucas
name: Schneider, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cosmological analyses of second-order weak lensing statistics require precise and accurate covariance estimates. These covariances are impacted by two sometimes neglected terms: A negative contribution to the Gaussian covariance due to finite survey area and the super-sample covariance (SSC) which for the power spectrum contains the impact by Fourier modes larger than the survey window. We show here that these two effects are connected and can be seen as correction terms to the "large-field-approximation", the asymptotic case of an infinitely large survey area. We describe the two terms collectively as "Finite-Field-Terms". We derive the covariance of second-order shear statistics from first principles. For this, we use an estimator in real space without relying on an estimator for the power spectrum. The resulting covariance does not scale inversely with the survey area, as naively assumed. This scaling is only correct under the large-field approximation when the contribution of the finite-field terms tends to zero. Furthermore, all parts of the covariance, not only the SSC, depend on the power- and trispectrum at all modes, including those larger than the survey. We also show that it is generally impossible to transform an estimate for the power spectrum covariance into the covariance of a real-space statistic. Such a transformation is only possible in the asymptotic case of the "large-field approximation". Additionally, we find that the total covariance of a real-space statistic can be calculated using correlation functions estimates on spatial scales smaller than the survey window. Consequently, estimating covariances of real-space statistics, in principle, does not require information on spatial scales larger than the survey area. We demonstrate that this covariance estimation method is equivalent to the standard sample covariance method.
description: 8 pages + appendix, 3 figures, forthcoming in A&A, replaced by version accepted by journal
Vanguardia Obrera, 55, Año VII
Creators: name: PCE(ML)
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1971
Subjects: PCE(ML)
vanguardia obrera

description: Órgano de expresión del Partido Comunista de España (M-L). Artículos que contiene: Ni Franquismo sin Franco, ni Monarquía: ¡República democrática, popular y federativa! Servir al pueblo Una delegación de nuestro comité central visita Albania Nuevos avances de la lucha obrera en todo el país Las distintas camarilla oligárquicas cierran filas frente al pueblo Nueva patraña anticampesina de la legislación franquista Frente a la represión fascista: ¡Adelante la lucha popular revolucionaria! Tribuna del Militante Un documento histórico para estudio y guía de los comunistas Violencia: importantes acciones revolucionarias Hacia la proclamación del F.R.A.P.
Strain-induced interlayer magnetic coupling spike of two-dimensional van der Waals material Fe$_5$GeTe$_2$
Creators: name: Xie, Wen-Qiang
name: He, Chang-Chun
name: Yang, Xiao-Bao
name: Zhao, Yu-Jun
name: Geng, Wen-Tong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A stronger interlayer magnetic coupling (ILMC) can open up new opportunities in spintronics devices for Fe$_5$GeTe$_2$ (F5GT), a demonstrated two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) material with high Currie temperature. Here we observe an extraordinary ILMC spike in F5GT, jumping from 1.15 to 12.79 meV/f.u, by applying a 3% in-plane strain. This spike is mainly ascribed to a significant increase in the magnetic moment of the Fe5 ion. Moreover, the applied in-plane strain can also significantly enhance the magnetic anisotropy energy (MAE) of the system, triggering the transition between the in/off-plane configurations in multi-layer F5GT.
description: 25 pages, 9 figures
QCD Running Couplings and Effective Charges
Creators: name: Deur, A.
name: Brodsky, S. J.
name: Roberts, C. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss our present knowledge of $α_s$, the fundamental running coupling or effective charge of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). A precise understanding of the running of $α_s(Q^2) $ at high momentum transfer, $Q$, is necessary for any perturbative QCD calculation. Equally important, the behavior of $α_s$ at low $Q^2$ in the nonperturbative QCD domain is critical for understanding strong interaction phenomena, including the emergence of mass and quark confinement. The behavior of $α_s(Q^2)$ at all momentum transfers also provides a connection between perturbative and nonperturbative QCD phenomena, such as hadron spectroscopy and dynamics. We first sketch the origin of the QCD coupling, the reason why its magnitude depends on the scale at which hadronic phenomena are probed, and the resulting consequences for QCD phenomenology. We then summarize latest measurements in both the perturbative and nonperturbative domains. New theory developments include the derivation of the universal nonperturbative behavior of $α_s(Q^2)$ from both the Dyson-Schwinger equations and light-front holography. We also describe theory advances for the calculation of gluon and quark Schwinger functions in the nonperturbative domain and the relation of these quantities to $α_s$. We conclude by highlighting how the nonperturbative knowledge of $α_s$ is now providing a parameter-free determination of hadron spectroscopy and structure, a central and long-sought goal of QCD studies.
description: Invited review article, Prog Part. Nucl. Phys., in press. (143 pages, 9 figures)
Letter by David Gardiner to Alexander Gardiner and David Lyon Gardiner, July 9, 1839
Creators: name: Gardiner, David
name: Gardiner, Alexander
name: Gardiner, David Lyon
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1839
Subjects: Gardiner Family
Correspondence
Family

description: This letter was written by David Gardiner Sr. (1784-1844) to his sons, Alexander Gardiner (1818-1851) and David Lyon Gardiner (1816-1892), on July 9th, 1839.
Supplementary document for UV-VIS-NIR broadband flexible photodetector based on layered lead-free organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite - 6285758.pdf
Creators: name: Xu, Yanming
name: Wang, Fan
name: Xu, Jinlong
name: Lv, Xinjie
name: Zhao, Gang
name: Sun, Zhihua
name: Xie, Zhenda
name: Zhu, Shining
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary information
A New High Contrast Imaging Program at Palomar Observatory
Creators: name: Hinkley, Sasha
name: Oppenheimer, Ben R.
name: Zimmerman, Neil
name: Brenner, Douglas
name: Parry, Ian R.
name: Crepp, Justin R.
name: Vasisht, Gautam
name: Ligon, Edgar
name: King, David
name: Soummer, Remi
name: Sivaramakrishnan, Anand
name: Beichman, Charles
name: Shao, Michael
name: Roberts,, Lewis C.
name: Bouchez, Antonin
name: Dekany, Richard
name: Pueyo, Laurent
name: Roberts, Jennifer E.
name: Lockhart, Thomas
name: Zhai, Chengxing
name: Shelton, Chris
name: Burruss, Rick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe a new instrument that forms the core of a long-term high contrast imaging program at the 200-inch Hale Telescope at Palomar Observatory. The primary scientific thrust is to obtain images and low-resolution spectroscopy of brown dwarfs and young Jovian mass exoplanets in the vicinity of stars within 50 parsecs of the Sun. The instrument is a microlens-based integral field spectrograph integrated with a diffraction limited, apodized-pupil Lyot coronagraph, mounted behind the Palomar adaptive optics system. The spectrograph obtains imaging in 23 channels across the J and H bands (1.06 - 1.78 microns). In addition to obtaining spectra, this wavelength resolution allows suppression of the chromatically dependent speckle noise, which we describe. We have recently installed a novel internal wave front calibration system that will provide continuous updates to the AO system every 0.5 - 1.0 minutes by sensing the wave front within the coronagraph. The Palomar AO system is undergoing an upgrade to a much higher-order AO system ("PALM-3000"): a 3388-actuator tweeter deformable mirror working together with the existing 241-actuator mirror. This system will allow correction with subapertures as small as 8cm at the telescope pupil using natural guide stars. The coronagraph alone has achieved an initial dynamic range in the H-band of 2 X 10^-4 at 1 arcsecond, without speckle noise suppression. We demonstrate that spectral speckle suppression is providing a factor of 10-20 improvement over this bringing our current contrast at an arcsecond to ~2 X 10^-5. This system is the first of a new generation of apodized pupil coronagraphs combined with high-order adaptive optics and integral field spectrographs (e.g. GPI, SPHERE, HiCIAO), and we anticipate this instrument will make a lasting contribution to high contrast imaging in the Northern Hemisphere for years.
description: Accepted to PASP: 12 pages, 12 figures
Online-Only Data Supplement: Patterns of Use and Discontinuation of Secondary Prevention Medications After Stroke
Creators: name: Dalli, Lachlan L.
name: Kim, Joosup
name: Thrift, Amanda G.
name: Andrew, Nadine E.
name: Sanfilippo, Frank M.
name: Lopez, Derrick
name: Grimley, Rohan
name: Lannin, Natasha A
name: Wong, Lillian
name: Lindley, Richard I.
name: Campbell, Bruce C.V.
name: Anderson, Craig S.
name: Cadilhac, Dominique A.
name: Kilkenny, Monique F.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: classificationCode: 329999
subject: Other biomedical and clinical sciences not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 320905
subject: Neurology and neuromuscular diseases
classificationCode: 420299
subject: Epidemiology not elsewhere classified

description: Online-Only Data Supplement relating to research article: Patterns of Use and Discontinuation of Secondary Prevention Medications After Stroke (doi:10.1212/WNL.0000000000011083)
Quark-hadron phase transition in Brans-Dicke brane gravity
Creators: name: Atazadeh, K.
name: Ghezelbash, A. M.
name: Sepangi, H. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A standard picture in cosmology has been emerging over the past decade in which a phase transition, associated with chiral symmetry breaking after the electroweak transition, has occurred at approximately $10^{-6}$ seconds after the Big Bang to convert a plasma of free quarks and gluons into hadrons. In this paper, we consider the quark-hadron phase transition in a Brans-Dicke brane world scenario within an effective model of QCD. We study the evolution of the physical quantities relevant to quantitative description of the early universe, namely, the energy density, temperature and the scale factor before, during, and after the phase transition. We show that for different values of the Brans-Dicke coupling, $ω$, phase transition occurs and results in decreasing the effective temperature of the quark-gluon plasma and of the hadronic fluid. We then move on to consider the quark-hadron transition in the smooth crossover regime at high and low temperatures and show that such a transition occurs and results in decreasing the effective temperature of the quark-gluon plasma during the process of quark-hadron phase transition.
description: 17 pages, 7 figures, to appear in CQG
Search for pair production of third-generation leptoquarks decaying into a bottom quark and a $τ$-lepton with the ATLAS detector
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A search for pair-produced scalar or vector leptoquarks decaying into a $b$-quark and a $τ$-lepton is presented using the full LHC Run 2 (2015-2018) data sample of 139 fb$^{-1}$ collected with the ATLAS detector in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s} =13$ TeV. Events in which at least one $τ$-lepton decays hadronically are considered, and multivariate discriminants are used to extract the signals. No significant deviations from the Standard Model expectation are observed and 95% confidence-level upper limits on the production cross-section are derived as a function of leptoquark mass and branching ratio $B$ into a $τ$-lepton and $b$-quark. For scalar leptoquarks, masses below 1460 GeV are excluded assuming $B=100$%, while for vector leptoquarks the corresponding limit is 1650 GeV (1910 GeV) in the minimal-coupling (Yang-Mills) scenario.
description: 51 pages in total, author list starting page 34, 10 figures, 5 tables, published in EPJC. All figures including auxiliary figures are available at http://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/EXOT-2021-15
Magnetic behavior of curium dioxide with non-magnetic ground state
Creators: name: Niikura, Fumiaki
name: Hotta, Takashi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In order to understand magnetic behavior observed in CmO$_2$ with non-magnetic ground state, we numerically evaluate magnetic susceptibility on the basis of a seven-orbital Anderson model with spin-orbit coupling. Naively we do not expect magnetic behavior in CmO$_2$, since Cm is considered to be tetravalent ion with six $5f$ electrons and the ground state is characterized by $J$=0, where $J$ is total angular momentum. However, there exists magnetic excited state and the excitation energy is smaller than the value of the Landé interval rule due to the effect of crystalline electric field potential. Then, we open a way to explain magnetic behavior in CmO$_2$.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures. Submitted to Phys. Rev. B
Hořava-Lifshitz Quantum Cosmology
Creators: name: Bertolami, Orfeu
name: Zarro, Carlos A. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, a minisuperspace model for the projectable Hořava-Lifshitz (HL) gravity without the detailed balance condition is investigated. The Wheeler-deWitt equation is derived and its solutions are studied and discussed for some particular cases where, due to HL gravity, there is a "potential barrier" nearby $a=0$. For a vanishing cosmological constant, it is found a normalizable wave function of the universe. When the cosmological constant is non-vanishing, the WKB method is used to obtain solutions for the wave function of the universe. Using the Hamilton-Jacobi equation, one discusses how the transition from quantum to classical regime occurs and, for the case of a positive cosmological constant, the scale factor is shown to grow exponentially, hence recovering the GR behaviour for the late universe.
description: 27 pages, 7 figures
An alternative to the gauge theoretic setting
Creators: name: Schroer, Bert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The standard formulation of gauge theories results from the Lagrangian (functional integral) quantization of classical gauge theories. A more intrinsic qunantum theoretical access in the spirit of Wigner's representation theory shows that there is a fundamental clash between the pointlike localization of zero mass (vector, tensor) potentials and the Hilbert space (positivity, unitarity) structure of QT. The quantization approach has no other way than to stay with pointlike localization and sacrifice the Hilbert space whereas the approach build on the intrinsic quantum concept of modular localization keeps the Hilbert space and trades the conflict creating pointlike generation with the tightest consistent localization:: semiinfinite spacelike string localization. Whereas these potentials in the presence of interactions stay quite close to associated pointlike field strength, the interacting matter fields to which they are coupled bear the brunt of the nonlocal aspect in that they are string.generated in a way which cannot be undone by any differentiation. The new stringlike approach to gauge theory also revives the idea of a Schwinger-Higgs screening mechanism as a deeper and less metaphoric description of the Higgs spontaneous symmetry breaking and its accompanying tale about "God's particle" and its mass generation for all other particles.
description: 26 pages
DEP Bulletin:Volume 39 Issue 11
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: The DEP bulletin is a semi-monthly publication of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. It contains a list of construction permit applications recently filed or acted upon by the Department along with a calendar of events of interest, a schedule of public hearings, and Environmental Impact Statements acted upon during the period.
Islands in Non-Minimal Dilaton Gravity: Exploring Effective Theories for Black Hole Evaporation
Creators: name: Wu, Chih-Hung
name: Xu, Jiuci
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We start from $(3 + 1)$-dimensional Einstein gravity with minimally coupled massless scalar matter, through spherical dimensional reduction, the matter theory is non-minimally coupled with the dilaton in $(1 + 1)$-dimensions. Despite its simplicity, constructing a self-consistent one-loop effective theory for this model remains a challenge, partially due to a Weyl-invariant ambiguity in the effective action. With a universal splitting property for the one-loop action, the ambiguity can be identified with the state-dependent part of the covariant quantum stress tensor. By introducing on-shell equivalent auxiliary fields to construct minimal candidates of Weyl-invariant terms, we derive a one-parameter family of one-loop actions with unique, regular, and physical stress tensors corresponding to the Boulware, Hartle-Hawking and Unruh states. We further study the back-reacted geometry and the corresponding quantum extremal islands that were inaccessible without a consistent one-loop theory. Along the way, we elaborate on the implications of our construction for the non-minimal dilaton gravity model.
description: 70 pages, 5 figures; v2: fixed a few typos and updated references; v3: an updated version consistent with JHEP
The exclusive rare decay b->s gamma of heavy b-Baryons
Creators: name: Liu, Yong-lu
name: Gan, Long-fei
name: Huang, Ming-qiu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an analysis on the exclusive rare radiative decay modes Sigma_b->Sigma gamma and Xi_b->Xi gamma. The transition form factors which parameterize these processes are calculated using QCD light-cone sum rules. The decay widths we predict are Gamma(Sigma_b->Sigma gamma)=(7.21\pm0.04)\times10^{-18}GeV} and Gamma(Xi_b->Xi gamma)=(1.34\pm0.07)\times10^{-16}GeV. The Branching ratio of Xi_b->Xi gamma is predicted to be Br(Ξ_b->Xi gamma)=(3.03\pm0.10)\times10^{-4}.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures; to appear in Phys. Rev. D
A family of anisotropic integral operators and behaviour of its maximal eigenvalue
Creators: name: Mityagin, B. S
name: Sobolev, A. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Primary 45C05, Secondary 47A75

description: We study the family of compact integral operators $\mathbf K_β$ in $L^2(\mathbb R)$ with the kernel K_β(x, y) = \frac{1}π\frac{1}{1 + (x-y)^2 + β^2Θ(x, y)}, depending on the parameter $β>0$, where $Θ(x, y)$ is a symmetric non-negative homogeneous function of degree $γ\ge 1$. The main result is the following asymptotic formula for the maximal eigenvalue $M_β$ of $\mathbf K_β$: M_β= 1 - λ_1 β^{\frac{2}{γ+1}} + o(β^{\frac{2}{γ+1}}), β\to 0, where $λ_1$ is the lowest eigenvalue of the operator $\mathbf A = |d/dx| + Θ(x, x)/2$. A central role in the proof is played by the fact that $\mathbf K_β, β>0,$ is positivity improving. The case $Θ(x, y) = (x^2 + y^2)^2$ has been studied earlier in the literature as a simplified model of high-temperature superconductivity.
description: 16 pages
Mining Target-Oriented Fuzzy Correlation Rules to Optimize Telecom Service Management
Creators: name: Chueh, Hao-En
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: To optimize telecom service management, it is necessary that information about telecom services is highly related to the most popular telecom service. To this end, we propose an algorithm for mining target-oriented fuzzy correlation rules. In this paper, we show that by using the fuzzy statistics analysis and the data mining technology, the target-oriented fuzzy correlation rules can be obtained from a given database. We conduct an experiment by using a sample database from a telecom service provider in Taiwan. Our work can be used to assist the telecom service provider in providing the appropriate services to the customers for better customer relationship management.
description: 10 pages, 7 tables
Enhancing the sensitivity of atom-interferometric inertial sensors using robust control
Creators: name: Saywell, J. C.
name: Carey, M. S.
name: Light, P. S.
name: Szigeti, S. S.
name: Milne, A. R.
name: Gill, K. S.
name: Goh, M. L.
name: Perunicic, V. S.
name: Wilson, N. M.
name: Macrae, C. D.
name: Rischka, A.
name: Everitt, P. J.
name: Robins, N. P.
name: Anderson, R. P.
name: Hush, M. R.
name: Biercuk, M. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Atom-interferometric quantum sensors could revolutionize navigation, civil engineering, and Earth observation. However, operation in real-world environments is challenging due to external interference, platform noise, and constraints on size, weight, and power. Here we experimentally demonstrate that tailored light pulses designed using robust control techniques mitigate significant error sources in an atom-interferometric accelerometer. To mimic the effect of unpredictable lateral platform motion, we apply laser-intensity noise that varies up to 20$\%$ from pulse-to-pulse. Our robust control solution maintains performant sensing, while the utility of conventional pulses collapses. By measuring local gravity, we show that our robust pulses preserve interferometer scale factor and improve measurement precision by 10$\times$ in the presence of this noise. We further validate these enhancements by measuring applied accelerations over a 200 $μg$ range up to 21$\times$ more precisely at the highest applied noise level. Our demonstration provides a pathway to improved atom-interferometric inertial sensing in real-world settings.
description: 15 pages, 7 figures
Quantum simulation of colour in perturbative quantum chromodynamics
Creators: name: Chawdhry, Herschel A.
name: Pellen, Mathieu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum computers are expected to give major speed-ups for the simulation of quantum systems. In this work, we present quantum gates that simulate the colour part of the interactions of quarks and gluons in perturbative quantum chromodynamics (QCD). As a first application, we implement these circuits on a simulated noiseless quantum computer and use them to calculate colour factors for various examples of Feynman diagrams. This work constitutes a first key step towards a quantum simulation of generic scattering processes in perturbative QCD.
description: 20 pages, 11 figures. v2: published version
Molecular spectroscopy for ground-state transfer of ultracold RbCs molecules
Creators: name: Debatin, Markus
name: Takekoshi, Tetsu
name: Rameshan, Raffael
name: Reichsöllner, Lukas
name: Ferlaino, Francesca
name: Grimm, Rudolf
name: Vexiau, Romain
name: Bouloufa, Nadia
name: Dulieu, Olivier
name: Naegerl, Hanns-Christoph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform one- and two-photon high resolution spectroscopy on ultracold samples of RbCs Feshbach molecules with the aim to identify a suitable route for efficient ground-state transfer in the quantum-gas regime to produce quantum gases of dipolar RbCs ground-state molecules. One-photon loss spectroscopy allows us to probe deeply bound rovibrational levels of the mixed excited (A1Σ+ - b3Π0) 0+ molecular states. Two-photon dark state spectroscopy connects the initial Feshbach state to the rovibronic ground state. We determine the binding energy of the lowest rovibrational level |v"=0,J"=0> of the X1Σ+ ground state to be DX 0 = 3811.5755(16) 1/cm, a 300-fold improvement in accuracy with respect to previous data. We are now in the position to perform stimulated two-photon Raman transfer to the rovibronic ground state.
description: Submitted to PCCP themed issue: Physics and Chemistry of Cold Molecules
Mary Richmond and transitions in nursing education 1940-1990 : a biographical perspective
Creators: name: Hlina, Sandra Lynn
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: Nursing education in Canada, and more specifically British Columbia (BC) went through a significant period of transition post Second World War. The hospital based programs which began in the late 19th century started being phased out and move towards the college and university setting where nurses were educated in a manner similar to other professions. Mary L. Richmond, who was a graduate of a hospital based program at VGH in the 1940s, became a significant nursing leader in BC and played an influential part in the nursing profession during this time period. This study takes a historical look, using the biographical method, at the transition of nursing education from hospital based programs to college and university programs. This transition is examined through the lived experience of Mary L. Richmond, a nursing leader and innovator during the transition period of the 1940s through to the 1990s. The findings of the study reveal the many social, cultural, economic and political influences that affected the movement of nursing education away from the hospital based model. The study reveals several themes influencing the transition including advancing technology, resource allocation, changing demographics, re-assignment of responsibility, and the shifting place of nursing education. In addition, the study provides a personal perspective overlying the changes that occurred, and reveals how Richmond emerged as a leader in bridging nursing education and practice. Many of the themes and issues arising from this study are similar to issues in nursing education and practice today. This study adds to the current research of the history of nursing education in BC and Canada and it provides a historical perspective from which to view and problem solve nursing education and practice issues in today’s health care system.
Simultaneous generation and detection of energetic particle and radiation beams from relativistic plasma mirrors driven at kHz repetition rate
Creators: name: Kaur, Jaismeen
name: Ouillé, Marie
name: Levy, Dan
name: Daniault, Louis
name: Robbes, Axel
name: Zaïm, Neil
name: Flacco, Alessandro
name: Kroupp, Eyal
name: Malka, Victor
name: Haessler, Stefan
name: Lopez-Martens, Rodrigo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the first simultaneous measurement of high-order harmonics, relativistic electrons and low divergence proton beams generated from plasma mirrors driven at kHz repetition rate by relativistic-intensity milliJoule-energy femtosecond laser pulses. This setup enables detailed parametric studies of the particle and radiation spatio-spectral beam properties for a wide range of controlled interaction conditions, such as pulse duration and plasma density scale length. This versatile setup should aid in further understanding the collective laser absorption mechanisms at play during the laser-plasma interaction and in optimizing the secondary beam properties for potential applications.
Cloud Services Enable Efficient AI-Guided Simulation Workflows across Heterogeneous Resources
Creators: name: Ward, Logan
name: Pauloski, J. Gregory
name: Hayot-Sasson, Valerie
name: Chard, Ryan
name: Babuji, Yadu
name: Sivaraman, Ganesh
name: Choudhury, Sutanay
name: Chard, Kyle
name: Thakur, Rajeev
name: Foster, Ian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Applications that fuse machine learning and simulation can benefit from the use of multiple computing resources, with, for example, simulation codes running on highly parallel supercomputers and AI training and inference tasks on specialized accelerators. Here, we present our experiences deploying two AI-guided simulation workflows across such heterogeneous systems. A unique aspect of our approach is our use of cloud-hosted management services to manage challenging aspects of cross-resource authentication and authorization, function-as-a-service (FaaS) function invocation, and data transfer. We show that these methods can achieve performance parity with systems that rely on direct connection between resources. We achieve parity by integrating the FaaS system and data transfer capabilities with a system that passes data by reference among managers and workers, and a user-configurable steering algorithm to hide data transfer latencies. We anticipate that this ease of use can enable routine use of heterogeneous resources in computational science.