cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Track Record of Zero-Emission Vehicle Mandates in Canada and the United States
Creators: name: Gendron-Rossignol, Jonathan
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2021

description: In 2018, the road transportation sector accounted for 22 and 28 percent of Canada and the United States’ GHG emissions, respectively (Environment and Climate Change 2020, 21; U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 2020). To mitigate those emissions, several Canadian provinces and US state governments have deployed zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) mandate regulations which require vehicle manufacturers to sell an increasing percentage of ZEVs as part of their total sales. This study investigates whether ZEV mandates have been effective at promoting ZEV adoption and availability in subnational jurisdictions in Canada and the US. Three findings emerge but with important caveats. First, jurisdictions with ZEV regulations appear to have on average higher ZEV adoption and availability than their counterparts without such regulations. However, there is insufficient evidence to establish a clear link between regulations and ZEV adoption and availability. Second, there is a pattern of increased ZEV adoption following the adoption and implementation of a regulation. However, there are several inconsistencies in this pattern and there are many other factors that could influence ZEV adoption, including the introduction of popular new ZEV models, varying consumer preferences, declining ZEV prices and the potential impact of other environmental policies. Third, jurisdictions with more stringent ZEV regulations may experience greater ZEV adoption and availability in the long term. However, all the ZEV regulations in the US have similar stringency. Overall, British Columbia has the most stringent regulation. However, the added stringency of its compliance requirements only take effect starting in 2026. Therefore, it remains unclear whether this added stringency is responsible for greater ZEV adoption and availability in the province.
Flat-Lined But Still Alive - Analyses of the Provincial and Territorial 2012-2013 Budgets from te Perspective of Arts, Culture and Heritage
Creators: name: Centre On Governance/Canadian Conference Of The Arts
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Culture
Arts
Heritage

description: This publication -- Flat-lined but Still Alive – is intended to provide an overview of these Budgets with a view to discerning highlights, lowlights and trends. Authors were asked to structure their analyses in four sections – context of the Budget, impact of the Budget on the cultural sector, reaction to the Budget by the cultural community, and implications of the Budget for the future.
Hyperon-Quark Mixed Phase in Dense Matter
Creators: name: Maruyama, Toshiki
name: Chiba, Satoshi
name: Schulze, Hans-Josef
name: Tatsumi, Toshitaka
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the properties of the hadron-quark mixed phase in compact stars using a Brueckner-Hartree-Fock framework for hadronic matter and the MIT bag model for quark matter. We find that the equation of state of the mixed phase is similar to that given by the Maxwell construction. The composition of the mixed phase, however, is very different from that of the Maxwell construction; in particular, hyperons are completely suppressed.
description: Invited talk at "Exotic States of Matter 2007 (EXOCT2007)", Catania, June 10-19, 2007
CodEv: An Automated Grading Framework Leveraging Large Language Models for Consistent and Constructive Feedback
Creators: name: Tseng, En-Qi
name: Huang, Pei-Cing
name: Hsu, Chan
name: Wu, Peng-Yi
name: Ku, Chan-Tung
name: Kang, Yihuang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Grading programming assignments is crucial for guiding students to improve their programming skills and coding styles. This study presents an automated grading framework, CodEv, which leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) to provide consistent and constructive feedback. We incorporate Chain of Thought (CoT) prompting techniques to enhance the reasoning capabilities of LLMs and ensure that the grading is aligned with human evaluation. Our framework also integrates LLM ensembles to improve the accuracy and consistency of scores, along with agreement tests to deliver reliable feedback and code review comments. The results demonstrate that the framework can yield grading results comparable to human evaluators, by using smaller LLMs. Evaluation and consistency tests of the LLMs further validate our approach, confirming the reliability of the generated scores and feedback.
Electric current induced unidirectional propagation of surface plasmon-polaritons
Creators: name: Bliokh, K. Y.
name: Rodríguez-Fortuño, F. J.
name: Bekshaev, A. Y.
name: Kivshar, Y. S.
name: Nori, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nonreciprocity and one-way propagation of optical signals is crucial for modern nanophotonic technology, and is typically achieved using magneto-optical effects requiring large magnetic biases. Here we suggest a fundamentally novel approach to achieve unidirectional propagation of surface plasmon-polaritons (SPPs) at metal-dielectric interfaces. We employ a direct electric current in metals, which produces a Doppler frequency shift of SPPs due to the uniform drift of electrons. This tilts the SPP dispersion, enabling one-way propagation, as well as zero and negative group velocities. The results are demonstrated for planar interfaces and cylindrical nanowire waveguides.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, to appear in Opt. Lett
Analysis and Verification Challenges for Cyber-Physical Transportation Systems
Creators: name: Clarke, Edmund M
name: Krogh, Bruce
name: Platzer, Andre
name: Rajkumar, Raj
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Substantial technological and engineering advances in various disciplines make it possible more than ever before to provide autonomous control choices for cars, trains, and aircraft. Correct automatic control can improve overall safety tremendously. Yet, ensuring a safe operation of those control assistants under all circumstances requires analysis techniques that are prepared for the rising complexity resulting from combinations of several computerized safety measures. We identify cases where cyber-physical transportation systems pose particularly demanding challenges for future research in formal analysis techniques.
Strain engineering of the silicon-vacancy center in diamond
Creators: name: Meesala, Srujan
name: Sohn, Young-Ik
name: Pingault, Benjamin
name: Shao, Linbo
name: Atikian, Haig A.
name: Holzgrafe, Jeffrey
name: Gundogan, Mustafa
name: Stavrakas, Camille
name: Sipahigil, Alp
name: Chia, Cleaven
name: Burek, Michael J.
name: Zhang, Mian
name: Wu, Lue
name: Pacheco, Jose L.
name: Abraham, John
name: Bielejec, Edward
name: Lukin, Mikhail D.
name: Atature, Mete
name: Loncar, Marko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We control the electronic structure of the silicon-vacancy (SiV) color-center in diamond by changing its static strain environment with a nano-electro-mechanical system. This allows deterministic and local tuning of SiV optical and spin transition frequencies over a wide range, an essential step towards multi-qubit networks. In the process, we infer the strain Hamiltonian of the SiV revealing large strain susceptibilities of order 1 PHz/strain for the electronic orbital states. We identify regimes where the spin-orbit interaction results in a large strain suseptibility of order 100 THz/strain for spin transitions, and propose an experiment where the SiV spin is strongly coupled to a nanomechanical resonator.
description: 14 pages, 10 figures
Semi-Transparent Image Sensors for Eye-Tracking Applications
Creators: name: Mercier, Gabriel
name: Polat, Emre O.
name: Shi, Shengtai
name: Gupta, Shuchi
name: Konstantatos, Gerasimos
name: Goossens, Stijn
name: Koppens, Frank H. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Image sensors hold a pivotal role in society due to their ability to capture vast amounts of information. Traditionally, image sensors are opaque due to light absorption in both the pixels and the read-out electronics that are stacked on top of each other. Making image sensors visibly transparent would have a far-reaching impact in numerous areas such as human-computer interfaces, smart displays, and both augmented and virtual reality. In this paper, we present the development and analysis of the first semi-transparent image sensor and its applicability as an eye-tracking device. The device consists of an 8x8 array of semi-transparent photodetectors and electrodes disposed on a fully transparent substrate. Each pixel of the array has a size of 60 x 140 μm and an optical transparency of 85-95%. Pixels have a high sensitivity, with more than 90% of them showing a noise equivalent irradiance < 10-4 W/m2 for wavelengths of 637 nm. As the semi-transparent photodetectors have a large amount of built-in gain, the opaque read-out electronics can be placed far away from the detector array to ensure maximum transparency and fill factor. Indeed, the operation and appearance of transparent image sensors present a fundamental shift in how we think about cameras and imaging, as these devices can be concealed in plain sight.
Interior Structures and Tidal Heating in the TRAPPIST-1 Planets
Creators: name: Barr, Amy C.
name: Dobos, Vera
name: Kiss, László L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: With seven planets, the TRAPPIST-1 system has the largest number of exoplanets discovered in a single system so far. The system is of astrobiological interest, because three of its planets orbit in the habitable zone of the ultracool M dwarf. Assuming the planets are composed of non-compressible iron, rock, and H$_2$O, we determine possible interior structures for each planet. To determine how much tidal heat may be dissipated within each planet, we construct a tidal heat generation model using a single uniform viscosity and rigidity for each planet based on the planet's composition. With the exception of TRAPPIST-1c, all seven of the planets have densities low enough to indicate the presence of significant H$_2$O in some form. Planets b and c experience enough heating from planetary tides to maintain magma oceans in their rock mantles; planet c may have eruptions of silicate magma on its surface, which may be detectable with next-generation instrumentation. Tidal heat fluxes on planets d, e, and f are lower, but are still twenty times higher than Earth's mean heat flow. Planets d and e are the most likely to be habitable. Planet d avoids the runaway greenhouse state if its albedo is $\gtrsim$ 0.3. Determining the planet's masses within $\sim0.1$ to 0.5 Earth masses would confirm or rule out the presence of H$_2$O and/or iron in each planet, and permit detailed models of heat production and transport in each planet. Understanding the geodynamics of ice-rich planets f, g, and h requires more sophisticated modeling that can self-consistently balance heat production and transport in both rock and ice layers.
description: 34 pages, 3 tables, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics -- final version including corrections made in proof stage
Reflexões teóricas sobre a transdisciplinariedade: um olhar crítico da perspetiva epistémica de Kuhn
Creators: name: Mateus, Maria Nascimento
name: Coca, Juan Romay
name: Matas, Jesús Valero
name: Diaz, Anabel Paramá
name: Caballero, Isabel Caballero
Publisher: name: Instituto Politécnico de Bragança
Year: 2017

description: Tomando como premissa inicial o facto de que todo o trabalho educativo deve ter um caráter transdisciplinar, pretendemos com este estudo, de índole teórica, refletir sobre a transdisciplinaridade como estratégia de ensino aprendizagem. O principal objetivo é contribuir para o desenvolvimento formativo dos alunos do ensino superior e fomentar o desenvolvimento de competências que aportem ferramentas teóricas adequadas a uma educação formal e à sua própria vida, ajudando - os a cumprir o que lhes é exigido pelo sistema, reforçando o seu o espírito crítico. A metodologia utilizada tem por base a análise documental, baseada num processo colaborativo, no trabalho em equipa e no fornecimento de um conhecimento comum. Ancorados no lema de que a relação docente/discente assenta nas premissas aprender a aprender, aprender a ensinar, desenvolver o espírito crítico e as competências democráticas, a pesquisa transdisciplinar, como técnica de ensino-aprendizagem, permitirá que os diferentes atores atinjam o sucesso educativo.
description: Eduser - Revista de Educação, v. 9 n. 1 (2017): Eduser - Revista de Educação
The combined effect of AGN and supernovae feedback in launching massive molecular outflows in high-redshift galaxies
Creators: name: Biernacki, Pawel
name: Teyssier, Romain
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have recently improved our model of active galactic nucleus (AGN) by attaching the supermassive black hole (SMBH) to a massive nuclear star cluster (NSC). Here we study the effects of this new model in massive, gas-rich galaxies with several simulations of different feedback recipes with the hydrodynamics code RAMSES. These simulations are compared to a reference simulation without any feedback, in which the cooling halo gas is quickly consumed in a burst of star formation. In the presence of strong supernovae (SN) feedback, we observe the formation of a galactic fountain that regulates star formation over a longer period, but without halting it. If only AGN feedback is considered, as soon as the SMBH reaches a critical mass, strong outflows of hot gas are launched and prevent the cooling halo gas from reaching the disk, thus efficiently halting star formation, leading to the so-called "quenching". If both feedback mechanisms act in tandem, we observe a non-linear coupling, in the sense that the dense gas in the supernovae-powered galactic fountain is propelled by the hot outflow powered by the AGN at much larger radii than without AGN. We argue that these particular outflows are able to unbind dense gas from the galactic halo, thanks to the combined effect of SN and AGN feedback. We speculate that this mechanism occurs at the end of the fast growing phase of SMBH, and is at the origin of the dense molecular outflows observed in many massive high-redshift galaxies.
description: 16 pages, 13 figures, accepted to MNRAS
Intimate Partner Violence and Child Growth: The Effect of Domestic Abuse on Children Lenght-for-Age Z-Scores
Creators: name: Issaa, Jawa
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2019

description: This paper looks at the long-term health effect of domestic violence on children’s growth in Egypt. Most often, the literature focuses on the psychological effect on the children with a few exceptions that focus on physical health. This being said, studies that look at the effect on children’s nutritional status are scarce and do not draw out the causal relationship between both variables. Using data from the Egyptian Demographic Health Survey (EDHS) of 2014, the objective of this paper is to provide causal evidence for domestic violence’s impact on children’s development and growth through an instrumental variable: female genital cutting. Given that domestic violence questionnaires are available for a subsample of the population, we focus on a reduced form model where we look at the effect of mother’s female genital cutting on children’s physical health. We find evidence of a statistically significant causal effect of female genital cutting on long-term malnutrition in Egyptian children under five. Having a mother who has had a genital cutting reduces mean z-scores of length-for-age by 0.47 standard deviation. We also provide evidence that female genital cutting increases the probability of being a victim of domestic violence in a significant way. Thus, the impact of female genital cutting on children’s physical health flows through domestic violence. To provide evidence that goes beyond the average effect, we conduct a distributional analysis. Our distributional analysis suggests that, at z-scores less than -2, the difference in the treated (mothers who are victims of genital mutilation) and untreated groups is due to differences in characteristics between both groups, however at z-scores equal or higher than -2, the differences between the treated and the control group are not explained by differences in characteristics. This means that female genital cutting has a negative impact on children physical health but not to the extent of increasing the probability of stunting.
Improving retention: predicting ART retention among PLHIV using a supervised machine learning approach
Creators: name: Efejiro Ashano
name: Adeola, Juliet
name: Akanda, Patrick
name: Samuels, Jay
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2019

description: Poor ART care retention due to loss to follow up have dire clinical consequence including poor treatment outcomes among HIV+ individuals and increased transmission rates in populations especially in sub-Saharan Africa (notably Nigeria) and has long beleaguered goals to achieve HIV global targets. Several studies have been conducted to predict or prevent this loss. Machine learning, a field in artificial intelligence, employs statistical, probabilistic and optimization techniques for pattern recognition applied for predicting future events from large (and often complex) data sets and has been used successfully in business, engineering and health analytics. Owing to the need to reduce loss to follow up, the objective of this study is to predict candidate HIV+ individual who would potentially be lost to follow up when they are still enrolled in ART care using a computational approach.
Analysis and Optimization of Multi-dimensional Percentile Mechanisms
Creators: name: Sui, Xin
name: Boutilier, Craig
name: Sandholm, Tuomas W
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We consider the mechanism design problem for agents with single-peaked preferences over multi-dimensional domains when multiple alternatives can be chosen. Facility location and committee selection are classic embodiments of this problem. We propose a class of percentile mechanisms, a form of generalized median mechanisms, that are strategy-proof, and derive worst-case approximation ratios for social cost and maximum load for L1 and L2 cost models. More importantly, we propose a samplebased framework for optimizing the choice of percentiles relative to any prior distribution over preferences, while maintaining strategy-proofness. Our empirical investigations, using social cost and maximum load as objectives, demonstrate the viability of this approach and the value of such optimized mechanisms vis-a-vis ` mechanisms derived through worst-case analysis.
A sub-structuring approach for model reduction of frictionally clamped thin-walled structures
Creators: name: Hippold, Patrick
name: Gross, Johann
name: Krack, Malte
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Thin-walled structures clamped by friction joints, such as aircraft skin panels are exposed to bending-stretching coupling and frictional contact. We propose an original sub-structuring approach, where the system is divided into thin-walled and support regions, so that geometrically nonlinear behavior is relevant only in the former, and nonlinear contact behavior only in the latter. This permits to derive reduced component models, in principle, with available techniques. The Hurty-/Craig-Bampton method, combined with an interface reduction relying on an orthogonal polynomial series, is used to construct the reduction basis for each component. To model geometrically nonlinear behavior, implicit condensation is used, where an original, engineering-oriented proposition is made for the delicate scaling of the static load cases required to estimate the coefficients of the nonlinear terms. The proposed method is validated and its computational performance is assessed for the example of a plate with frictional clamping, using finite element analysis as reference. The numerical results shed light into an interesting mutual interaction: The extent of geometric hardening is limited by the reduced boundary stiffness when more sliding occurs in the clamping. On the other hand, the frictional dissipation is increased by the tangential loading induced by membrane stretching.
Towards Personalized Evaluation of Large Language Models with An Anonymous Crowd-Sourcing Platform
Creators: name: Cheng, Mingyue
name: Zhang, Hao
name: Yang, Jiqian
name: Liu, Qi
name: Li, Li
name: Huang, Xin
name: Song, Liwei
name: Li, Zhi
name: Huang, Zhenya
name: Chen, Enhong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Large language model evaluation plays a pivotal role in the enhancement of its capacity. Previously, numerous methods for evaluating large language models have been proposed in this area. Despite their effectiveness, these existing works mainly focus on assessing objective questions, overlooking the capability to evaluate subjective questions which is extremely common for large language models. Additionally, these methods predominantly utilize centralized datasets for evaluation, with question banks concentrated within the evaluation platforms themselves. Moreover, the evaluation processes employed by these platforms often overlook personalized factors, neglecting to consider the individual characteristics of both the evaluators and the models being evaluated. To address these limitations, we propose a novel anonymous crowd-sourcing evaluation platform, BingJian, for large language models that employs a competitive scoring mechanism where users participate in ranking models based on their performance. This platform stands out not only for its support of centralized evaluations to assess the general capabilities of models but also for offering an open evaluation gateway. Through this gateway, users have the opportunity to submit their questions, testing the models on a personalized and potentially broader range of capabilities. Furthermore, our platform introduces personalized evaluation scenarios, leveraging various forms of human-computer interaction to assess large language models in a manner that accounts for individual user preferences and contexts. The demonstration of BingJian can be accessed at https://github.com/Mingyue-Cheng/Bingjian.
title: Évaluation 1 projet HYDROSYRA L'exploitation des ressources environnementales d'un territoire. L'approvisionnement en eau de la ville de Syracuse de l'antiquité à l'époque contemporaine. L'aqueduc du Galermi (Syracuse, Italie) 2014
Creators: name: LabexMed
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2019

description: Évaluation du projet Hydrosyra L'exploitation des ressources environnementales d'un territoire. L'approvisionnement en eau de la ville de Syracuse de l'antiquité à l'époque contemporaine. L'aqueduc du Galermi (Syracuse, Italie), réalisée en 2014.
Projet de recherche porté par Sophie Bouffier (UMR 7299 CCJ), dans le cadre du programme APRIMED, initié par le LabexMed.
Inverse curvature flows in Riemannian warped products
Creators: name: Scheuer, Julian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C44, 53C21

description: The long-time existence and umbilicity estimates for compact, graphical solutions to expanding curvature flows are deduced in Riemannian warped products of a real interval with a compact fibre. Notably we do not assume the ambient manifold to be rotationally symmetric, nor the radial curvature to converge, nor a lower bound on the ambient sectional curvature. The inverse speeds are given by powers $p\leq 1$ of a curvature function satisfying few common properties.
description: 34 pages. Fixed minor errors and typos. Comments welcome
Next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the decay of Higgs to vector meson and Z boson
Creators: name: Sun, Qing-Feng
name: Wang, An-Min
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The exclusive decay of the Higgs boson to a vector meson ($ J/ψ$ or $ Υ(1S) $) and $ Z $ boson is studied in this work. The decay amplitudes are separated into two parts in a gauge invariant manner. The first part comes from the direct coupling of the Higgs boson to the charm (bottom) quark and the other from the $ HZZ^{*} $ or the loop-induced $ HZγ^{*} $ vertexes in the standard model. While the branching ratios from the direct channel are much smaller than those of the indirect channel, their interference terms give nontrivial contributions. We further calculate the QCD radiative corrections to both channels, which reduce the total branching ratios by around 20% for both $ J/ψ$ and $ Υ(1S) $ production. These results may help to check the SM predictions of the $ H c\bar{c}(H b\bar{b}) $ coupling and to seek for hints of new physics at the High Luminosity LHC or future hadron colliders.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures, 3 tables
Spinors Fields in Co-dimension One Braneworlds
Creators: name: Mendes, W. M.
name: Alencar, G.
name: Landim, R. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we analyze the zero mode localization and resonances of $1/2-$spin fermions in co-dimension one Randall-Sundrum braneworld scenarios. We consider delta-like, domain walls and deformed domain walls membranes. Beyond the influence of the spacetime dimension $D$ we also consider three types of couplings: (i) the standard Yukawa coupling with the scalar field and parameter $η_1$, (ii) a Yukawa-dilaton coupling with two parameters $η_2$ and $λ$ and (iii) a dilaton derivative coupling with parameter $h$. Together with the deformation parameter $s$, we end up with five free parameter to be considered. For the zero mode we find that the localization is dependent of $D$, because the spinorial representation changes when the bulk dimensionality is odd or even and must be treated separately. For case (i) we find that in odd dimensions only one chirality can be localized and for even dimension a massless Dirac spinor is trapped over the brane. In the cases (ii) and (iii) we find that for some values of the parameters, both chiralities can be localized in odd dimensions and for even dimensions we obtain that the massless Dirac spinor is trapped over the brane. We also calculated numerically resonances for cases (ii) and (iii) by using the transfer matrix method. We find that, for deformed defects, the increasing of $D$ induces a shift in the peaks of resonances. For a given $λ$ with domain walls, we find that the resonances can show up by changing the spacetime dimensionality. For example, the same case in $D=5$ do not induces resonances but when we consider $D=10$ one peak of resonance is found. Therefore the introduction of more dimensions, diversely from the bosonic case, can change drastically the zero mode and resonances in fermion fields.
description: 28 pages, 7 figures
Nothing About Them Without Them. Refugee Participation in the International Refugee Regime
Creators: name: Heath, Anna Dorothea
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2022

description: The international refugee regime has seen significant changes since 2015, which have had an impact on refugee participation within it. I argue that that the level of meaningful participation of refugees has progressed to some extent in the international refugee regime since 2015. I demonstrate this by using Arnstein’s Ladder of Citizen Participation framework to determine the level of refugee participation in the New York Declaration in 2016, the Global Compact on Refugees in 2018, and the Global Refugee Forum in 2019. I also propose four recommendations to continue this progression: the inclusion of a refugee in State delegations, the creation of a refugee delegation, UNHCR-refugee partnership in the planning and organising of the Global Refugee Forum 2023, and hosting future Global Refugee Forums in refugee host countries.
The Reconstruction of $f(ϕ)R$ and Mimetic Gravity from Viable Slow-roll Inflation
Creators: name: Odintsov, S. D.
name: Oikonomou, V. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we extend the bottom-up reconstruction framework of $F(R)$ gravity to other modified gravities, and in particular for $f(ϕ)R$ and mimetic $F(R)$ gravities. We investigate which are the important conditions in order for the method to work, and we study several viable cosmological evolutions, focusing on the inflationary era. Particularly, for the $f(ϕ)R$ theory case, we specify the functional form of the Hubble rate and of the scalar-to-tensor ratio as a function of the $e$-foldings number and accordingly, the rest of the physical quantities and also the slow-roll and the corresponding observational indices can be calculated. The same method is applied in the mimetic $F(R)$ gravity case, and in both cases we thoroughly analyze the resulting free parameter space, in order to show that the viability of the models presented is guaranteed and secondly that there is a wide range of values of the free parameters for which the viability of the models occurs. In addition, the reconstruction method is also studied in the context of mimetic $F(R)=R$ gravity. As we demonstrate, the resulting theory is viable, and also in this case, only the scalar-to-tensor ratio needs to be specified, since the rest follow from this condition. Finally, we discuss in brief how the reconstruction method could function for other modified gravities.
description: 28 pages, NPB Accepted
SQuIGG$\vec{L}$E: Observational Evidence of Low Ongoing Star Formation Rates in Gas-Rich Post-Starburst Galaxies
Creators: name: Zhu, Pengpei
name: Suess, Katherine A.
name: Kriek, Mariska
name: Setton, David J.
name: Bezanson, Rachel
name: Donofrio, Vincenzo
name: Feldmann, Robert
name: Goulding, Andy D.
name: Greene, Jenny E.
name: Narayanan, Desika
name: Spilker, Justin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: ALMA observations have shown that candidate "post-starburst" galaxies (PSBs) at z$\sim$0.6 can retain significant molecular gas reservoirs. These results would imply that -- unlike many model predictions -- galaxies can shut down their star formation before their cold gas reservoirs are depleted. However, these studies inferred star formation rates (SFRs) either from [O II] line fluxes or from spectral energy distribution modeling, and could have missed large dust-obscured contributions to the SFRs. In this study, we present Keck/NIRES observations of 13 massive ($\mathrm{M_*}\gtrsim \times 10^{11} \,\, \mathrm{M_\odot}$) PSBs, which allow us to estimate $\mathrm{Hα}$ SFRs in these gas-rich post-starburst galaxies. We confirm the previously inferred low SFRs for the majority of the sample: 11/13 targets show clear $\mathrm{Hα}$ absorption, with minimal infilling indicating dust-corrected SFRs of $<4.1 \,\mathrm{M_\odot\, yr^{-1}}$. These SFRs are notably low given the large $\mathrm{H_2}$ reservoirs ($\sim 1-5 \times 10^{10} \,\, \mathrm{M_\odot}$) present in 5/13 of these galaxies, placing them significantly offset from star-forming galaxies on the Kennicutt-Schmidt relation for star-forming galaxies. The [N II]/H$α$ ratios of all 13 PSBs imply contributions from non-star-forming ionization mechanisms (e.g., AGN, shocks, or hot evolved stars) to their $\mathrm{Hα}$ emission, suggesting that even these low ongoing SFRs may be overestimated. These low $\mathrm{Hα}$ SFRs, dust-corrected using A$_v$ estimates from SED fitting, confirm that these galaxies are very likely quiescent and, thus, that galaxies can quench before their cold gas reservoirs are fully depleted.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures, 1 table. Accepted by the Astrophysical Journal (ApJ)
Explicit Ramsey graphs and Erdos distance problem over finite Euclidean and non-Euclidean spaces
Creators: name: Vinh, Le Anh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C35; 05C38; 05C55; 05C25

description: We study the Erdos distance problem over finite Euclidean and non-Euclidean spaces. Our main tools are graphs associated to finite Euclidean and non-Euclidean spaces that are considered in Bannai-Shimabukuro-Tanaka (2004, 2007). These graphs are shown to be asymptotically Ramanujan graphs. The advantage of using these graphs is twofold. First, we can derive new lower bounds on the Erdos distance problems with explicit constants. Second, we can construct many explicit tough Ramsey graphs R(3,k).
An Unanchored Matching Algorithm for Lexical Access
Creators: name: Rudnicky, Alexander
name: Zong-Ge  Li
name: Polifroni, Joseph H
name: Thayer, Eric
name: Gale, Julia L
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Describes the lexical access component of the Carnegie-Mellon University (CMU) continuous speech recognition system. The word recognition algorithm operates in a left to right fashion, building words as it traverses an input network. Search is initiated at each node in the input network. The score assigned to a word is a function of both arc phone probabilities assigned by the acoustic phonetic module and knowledge of expected phone duration and frequency of occurrence of different word pronunciations. The algorithm also incorporates knowledge-based strategies to control the number of hypotheses generated by the matcher. These strategies use criteria external to the search. Performance characteristics are reported using a 1029 word lexicon built automatically from standard pronunciation base forms by context-dependent phonetic rules. Lexical rules are independent of specific lexicons and are derived by examination of transcribed speech data. The lexical representation now includes juncture rules that model specific inter-word phenomena. A junction validation module is also described, whose task is to evaluate the connectivity of words in the word hypotheses lattice.
An Overview of Separation Logic
Creators: name: Reynolds, John C
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: After some general remarks about program verification, we introduce separation logic, a novel extension of Hoare logic that can strengthen the applicability and scalability of program verification for imperative programs that use shared mutable data structures or shared memory concurrency.
Pressure dependence of the oxygen isotope effect in YBa$_2$Cu$_4$O$_8$
Creators: name: Suresh, N.
name: Storey, J. G.
name: Williams, G. V. M.
name: Tallon, J. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have carried out measurements of the pressure dependence to 1.2 GPa of the oxygen isotope effect on $T_c$ in the high-$T_c$ superconductor YBa$_2$Cu$_4$O$_8$ using a clamp cell in a SQUID magnetometer. This compound lies close to, but just above, the 1/8$^{th}$ doping point where in La$_{2-x}$Sr$_x$CuO$_4$ marked anomalies in isotope effects occur. Both isotopes show the same very large pressure dependence of $T_c$ with the result that the isotope exponent remains low ($\sim$0.08) but increases slightly with increasing pressure. This is discussed in terms of stripe suppression, a competing pseudogap and the effect of superconducting fluctuations.
description: 4 pages, 1 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. B
RecoverNow: A mobile tablet-based therapy platform for early stroke rehabilitation
Creators: name: Pugliese, Michael
name: Ramsay, Tim
name: Shamloul, Rany
name: Mallet, Karen
name: Zakutney, Lise
name: Corbett, Dale
name: Dukelow, Sean
name: Stotts, Grant
name: Shamy, Michel
name: Wilson, Kumanan
name: Guerinet, Julien
name: Dowlatshahi, Dar
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2019

description: Stroke survivors frequently experience a range of post-stroke deficits. Specialized stroke rehabilitation improves recovery, especially if it is started early post-stroke. However, resource limitations often preclude early rehabilitation. Mobile technologies may provide a platform for stroke survivors to begin recovery when they might not be able to otherwise. The study objective was to demonstrate the feasibility of RecoverNow, a tablet-based stroke recovery platform aimed at delivering speech and cognitive therapy.
PORTABLE NANOPARTICLE CYTOTOXICITY TESTER FOR CANCER
Creators: name: P, Ruban
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: PORTABLE NANOPARTICLE CYTOTOXICITY TESTER FOR CANCERInternational Design Classification:Version: 14-2023Class: 24 MEDICAL AND LABORATORY EQUIPMENTSubclass: 01 APPARATUS AND EQUIPMENT FOR DOCTORS, HOSPITALSAND LABORATORIES
A Black Hole - White Dwarf Compact Binary Model for Long Gamma-ray Bursts without Supernova Association
Creators: name: Dong, Yi-Ze
name: Gu, Wei-Min
name: Liu, Tong
name: Wang, Junfeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are luminous and violent phenomena in the universe. Traditionally, long GRBs are expected to be produced by the collapse of massive stars and associated with supernovae. However, some low-redshift long GRBs have no detection of supernova association, such as GRBs 060505, 060614 and 111005A. It is hard to classify these events convincingly according to usual classifications, and the lack of the supernova implies a non-massive star origin. We propose a new path to produce long GRBs without supernova association, the unstable and extremely violent accretion in a contact binary system consisting of a stellar-mass black hole and a white dwarf, which fills an important gap in compact binary evolution.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS Letters
Outcomes of joint preservation surgery: comparison of patients with developmental dysplasia of the hip and femoroacetabular impingement
Creators: name: Belzile, Etienne L.
name: Beaulé, Paul E.
name: Ryu, Jae-Jin
name: Clohisy, John C.
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016

description: Femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) and developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) are fundamentally and structurally different hip abnormalities yet their clinical presentation can often be very similar. We asked whether adult patients surgically treated for DDH when compared with FAI patients achieve (i) better outcome as reflected by the WOMAC Osteoarthritis Index, (ii) higher physical activity as reflected by the UCLA physical activity scale. Five hundred fifty-six patients treated by periacetabular osteotomy for DDH and 540 patients treated for FAI (cam, pincer, or combined) in nine high-volume centers, between 2008 and 2011 were matched using propensity analysis, based on age and BMI. After exclusions, 144 pairs were evaluated on WOMAC, SF-12 Health Survey, modified Harris Hip Score (mHHS) and UCLA scale at pre and post-operations. At pre-operative evaluation, FAI patients showed lower scores on WOMAC (total, stiffness, function) and SF-12 physical. Statistically significant improvements in the outcome scores were observed from pre to post-operative time points in both treatment groups. Once FAI and DDH patients were compared, FAI patients showed lower scores on most of the outcome measures. However, these differences diminished in time, with only SF-12 mental and mHHS scores remaining significantly lower at 2-year follow-up. Because of more advanced disease at presentation, patients with FAI had an inferior clinical outcome compared with patients with DDH after surgical correction. Further prospective studies are required to better describe the long-term clinical benefits of hip joint preservation surgery.
Adhesion and Reconstruction of Graphene/Hexagonal Boron Nitride Heterostructures: A Quantum Monte Carlo Study
Creators: name: Szyniszewski, Marcin
name: Mostaani, Elaheh
name: Knothe, Angelika
name: Enaldiev, Vladimir
name: Ferrari, Andrea C.
name: Fal'ko, Vladimir I.
name: Drummond, Neil D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate interlayer adhesion and relaxation at interfaces between graphene and hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) monolayers in van der Waals heterostructures. The adhesion potential between graphene and hBN is calculated as a function of local lattice offset using diffusion quantum Monte Carlo methods, which provide an accurate treatment of van der Waals interactions. Combining the adhesion potential with elasticity theory, we determine the relaxed structures of graphene and hBN layers at interfaces, finding no metastable structures. The adhesion potential is well described by simple Lennard-Jones pair potentials that we parameterize using our quantum Monte Carlo data. Encapsulation of graphene between near-aligned crystals of hBN gives rise to a moiré pattern whose period is determined by the misalignment angle between the hBN crystals superimposed over the moiré superlattice previously studied in graphene on an hBN substrate. We model minibands in such supermoiré superlattices and find them to be sensitive to a 180$^\circ$ rotation of one of the encapsulating hBN crystals. We find that monolayer and bilayer graphene placed on a bulk hBN substrate and bulk hBN/graphene/bulk hBN systems do not relax to adopt a common lattice constant. The energetic balance is much closer for free-standing monolayer graphene/hBN bilayers and hBN/graphene/hBN trilayers. The layers in an alternating stack of graphene and hBN are predicted to strain to adopt a common lattice constant and hence we obtain a new, stable three-dimensional crystal with a unique electronic structure.
Additional file 1 of Exploring health workers’ experiences of mental health challenges during care of patients with COVID-19 in Uganda: a qualitative study
Creators: name: Muzyamba, Choolwe
name: Makova, Ogylive
name: Mushibi, Geofrey Samukulu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1. Interview Guide—Uganda.
Additional file 6 of Comparative transcriptome analyses on terpenoids metabolism in field- and mountain-cultivated ginseng roots
Creators: name: Fan, Hang
name: Li, Ke
name: Yao, Fan
name: Sun, Liwei
name: Liu, Yujun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Table S7. Morphological characterization of field- and mountain-cultivated ginsengs. (DOCX 16 kb)
The Impact of Adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards on Canadian Chartered Banks, with Focus on Residential Mortgage Loans
Creators: name: Cheff, Danika
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2019

description: king Canada’s accounting standards comparable with those of other countries1, enables investors to better make financial comparisons across countries. This change in accounting standards affected how asset holdings are recognized, measured, disclosed and presented. In turn, this resulted in Canadian chartered banks (CCB) having to change what constituted a holding on their balance sheet as well as how such holdings were valued. This paper explores the impact the IFRS transition has had on the balance sheet of CCB. As the major impact was on residential mortgage loans, this paper focus on how the transition affected CCB’s holdings of residential mortgages. This paper refers to previous research methodology to understand the key areas of impact. It also reviews the first annual reports under IFRS for the Big-Six banks. This review specified the impact of the IFRS adoption to the assets portfolio reported on their balance sheet. Time series techniques were then applied to all the CCB, not only the Big-Six. The results of the analysis show that the IFRS transition had an impact on residential mortgage loans, increasing holdings by 11% at the time of transition. The findings of this paper open to further research on the cyclicality of residential mortgages post-IFRS and the impact of more recent requirements applicable to residential mortgage loans, such as stress-tests and further IFRS requirements, both having come into effect in 2018. Future research on these topics could provide further insights on the risk management decisions affecting residential mortgages loans. For instance, it could show if individuals are opting to decrease their residential mortgage debt, such as seeking a house at a lower price to meet the stress test requirements or if they are seeking alternative funding outside Canadian chartered banks. Effective in 2018, banks also have to disclose further details on their credit risk as part of their financial statements when issuing loans while also meeting funding ratios. These additional requirements are expected to impact their assets portfolio and their risk assessment decision when providing loans.