cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Texas Hunters’ Perceptions Regarding the Acceptability of Toxicants to Control Wild Pig Populations
Creators: name: Carlisle, Keith M
name: McKee, Sophie
name: Ellis, Hailey E
name: Jaebker, Lauren M.
name: Tomeček, John M
name: Bright, Alan D.
name: Connally, Rachael L
name: Frank, Maureen G.
name: Shwiff, Stephanie A
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2022

description: Wild pigs (Sus scrofa) are an invasive species in the United States. They damage agriculture, degrade water quality and ecological communities, and host a number of viruses, parasites, and bacteria transmissible to humans and animals. In states such as Texas, USA, where wild pigs cause extensive damage to agriculture and property, officials have considered allowing for the use of toxicants to control wild pig populations. To provide decision-makers with information regarding stakeholders’ perceptions of the use of toxicants to control wild pigs, we surveyed Texas hunters in 2019 to assess the level of acceptance of a hypothetical wild pig toxicant, the sociodemographic and other factors most closely associated with acceptability of such a toxicant, and the specific concerns that underlie hunters’ positions on the use of such a toxicant. We received 37,317 completed responses to an online, self-administered survey. Respondents were divided over the use of a toxicant, with 43% finding a toxicant acceptable, 18% neutral, and 39% finding a toxicant unacceptable. The factor most closely associated with acceptance of a wild pig toxicant was respondents’ desired wild pig population size in Texas (χ2 = 3,657.7, P < 0.001, V = 0.26), with 70% of respondents who preferred that wild pigs be completely removed from Texas finding the use of a toxicant to be acceptable, compared to 14% of respondents who preferred that wild pig populations increase or stay the same. The most commonly raised concerns in connection with toxicant usage were potential negative impacts to nontarget animals (33%) and negative impacts to human health (24%). Our research suggests that while achieving a consensus among Texas hunters on toxicant usage is unrealistic, building majority support may be possible if the identified concerns are sufficiently addressed in product development and outreach.
Additional file 1 of Unhealthy lifestyles and clusters status among 3637 adolescents aged 11–23 years: a school-based cross-sectional study in China
Creators: name: Song, Yalin
name: Liu, Jingru
name: Zhao, Yize
name: Gong, Lu
name: Chen, Qiuyuan
name: Jiang, Xili
name: Zhang, Jiangtao
name: Hao, Yudan
name: Zhou, Huijun
name: Lou, Xiaomin
name: Wang, Xian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
classificationCode: 111714
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 1. Figure legends.
Additional file 4 of Unhealthy lifestyles and clusters status among 3637 adolescents aged 11–23 years: a school-based cross-sectional study in China
Creators: name: Song, Yalin
name: Liu, Jingru
name: Zhao, Yize
name: Gong, Lu
name: Chen, Qiuyuan
name: Jiang, Xili
name: Zhang, Jiangtao
name: Hao, Yudan
name: Zhou, Huijun
name: Lou, Xiaomin
name: Wang, Xian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
classificationCode: 111714
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 4. Table S1.
Additional file 5 of Unhealthy lifestyles and clusters status among 3637 adolescents aged 11–23 years: a school-based cross-sectional study in China
Creators: name: Song, Yalin
name: Liu, Jingru
name: Zhao, Yize
name: Gong, Lu
name: Chen, Qiuyuan
name: Jiang, Xili
name: Zhang, Jiangtao
name: Hao, Yudan
name: Zhou, Huijun
name: Lou, Xiaomin
name: Wang, Xian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
classificationCode: 111714
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 5. Table S2.
Learning Human-like Locomotion Based on Biological Actuation and Rewards
Creators: name: Kim, Minkwan
name: Lee, Yoonsang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We propose a method of learning a policy for human-like locomotion via deep reinforcement learning based on a human anatomical model, muscle actuation, and biologically inspired rewards, without any inherent control rules or reference motions. Our main ideas involve providing a dense reward using metabolic energy consumption at every step during the initial stages of learning and then transitioning to a sparse reward as learning progresses, and adjusting the initial posture of the human model to facilitate the exploration of locomotion. Additionally, we compared and analyzed differences in learning outcomes across various settings other than the proposed method.
description: SIGGRAPH 2023 Posters
Ground Improvement A Green Technology towards a Sustainable Housing, Infrastructure and Utilities Developments in Malaysia
Creators: name: Yee, Kenny
Publisher: name: Southeast Asian Geotechnical Society
Year: 2010
Subjects: Ground Improvement
A Green Technology
SustainableHousing
Infrastructure
Utilities Developments
Malaysia

description: The Geotechnical Engineering Journal of the SEAGS & AGSSEA, 41, 3, pp 1-20
On Quantum Nonunitarity as a Basis for the Second Law of Thermodynamics
Creators: name: Kastner, R. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It was first suggested by David Z. Albert that the existence of a real, physical non-unitary process (i.e., "collapse") at the quantum level would yield a complete explanation for the Second Law of Thermodynamics (i.e., the increase in entropy over time). The contribution of such a process would be to provide a physical basis for the ontological indeterminacy needed to derive the irreversible Second Law against a backdrop of otherwise reversible, deterministic physical laws. An alternative understanding of the source of this possible quantum "collapse" or non-unitarity is presented herein, in terms of the Transactional Interpretation (TI). The present model provides a specific physical justification for Boltzmann's often-criticized assumption of molecular randomness (Stosszahlansatz), thereby changing its status from an ad hoc postulate to a theoretically grounded result, without requiring any change to the basic quantum theory. In addition, it is argued that TI provides an elegant way of reconciling, via indeterministic collapse, the time-reversible Liouville evolution with the time-irreversible evolution inherent in so-called "master equations" that specify the changes in occupation of the various possible states in terms of the transition rates between them. The present model is contrasted with the Ghirardi-Rimini-Weber (GRW) "spontaneous collapse" theory previously suggested for this purpose by Albert.
description: Clarification to footnote 5
Programmable biomolecule-mediated processors
Creators: name: Shu, Jian-Jun
name: Tan, Zi Hian
name: Wang, Qi-Wen
name: Yong, Kian-Yan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Programmable biomolecule-mediated computing is a new computing paradigm as compared to contemporary electronic computing. It employs nucleic acids and analogous biomolecular structures as information-storing and -processing substrates to tackle computational problems. It is of great significance to investigate the various issues of programmable biomolecule-mediated processors that are capable of automatically processing, storing, and displaying information. This Perspective provides several conceptual designs of programmable biomolecule-mediated processors and provides some insights into potential future research directions for programmable biomolecule-mediated processors.
Piled Raft A Cost-Effective Foundation Method for High-Rises
Creators: name: Long, Phung Duc
Publisher: name: Southeast Asian Geotechnical Society
Year: 2010
Subjects: Piled Raft
A Cost-Effective Foundation Method
High- Rises

description: The Geotechnical Engineering Journal of the SEAGS & AGSSEA, 41, 3, pp 1-12
Supplementary Material for: Drivers and facilitators of the illegal killing of elephants across 64 African sites
Creators: name: Kuiper, Timothy
name: Altwegg, Res
name: Beale, Colin
name: Carroll, Thea
name: Dublin, Holly T.
name: Hauenstein, Severin
name: Kshatriya, Mrigesh
name: Schwarz, Carl
name: Thouless, Chris R.
name: Royle, Andrew
name: Milner-Gulland, E.J.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2022
Subjects: Environmental Science

description: This includes: Supplementary Material S1: Supplementary Figures S1 to S6 Supplementary Material S2- Supplementary Text: Full supplementary details on covariates tested in the statistical model (literature evidence for hypothesis, data source, and data extraction methods). This includes supplementary Figures S7 to S11. Supplementary Material S3- Supplementary Text: Covariates reviewed but not tested in the statistical model References for supplementary text
The Enhancement of Pile Capacity by Shaft Grouting Technique in the Ruspa Bridge Project in Bangladesh.
Creators: name: Manai, Ryuji
Publisher: name: Southeast Asian Geotechnical Society
Year: 2010
Subjects: Pile Capacity
Shaft Grouting Technique
Rupsa Bridge Project

description: The Geotechnical Engineering Journal of the SEAGS & AGSSEA, 41, 3, pp 1-6
Quiescent Light Curve of Accreting Neutron Star MAXI J0556-332
Creators: name: Liu, Helei
name: Matsuo, Yasuhide
name: Hashimoto, Masa-aki
name: Noda, Tsuneo
name: Fujimoto, Masayuki Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: MAXI J0556-332 is the hottest transient accreting neutron star at the beginning of its quiescence. A theoretical model with crustal heating indicates that an additional shallow heat source of Qshallow > 6 MeV per accreted nucleon is required in the shallow outer crust with respect to the deeper star crust by considering the observed decline in accretion rate at the end of outburst. However, the physical source of this shallow heating is still unclear. In the present investigation, we performed stellar evolutionary calculations, adopting the effects of outburst behavior of the accretion rate. As a consequence, we find that the quiescent light curve of MAXI J0556-332 can be well explained by the nuclear energy generation due to the hot CNO cycle.
description: 9 pages, 2 figures
Cooperative Receding Horizon 3D Coverage Control with a Team of Networked Aerial Agents
Creators: name: Papaioannou, Savvas
name: Kolios, Panayiotis
name: Theocharides, Theocharis
name: Panayiotou, Christos G.
name: Polycarpou, Marios M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This work proposes a receding horizon coverage control approach which allows multiple autonomous aerial agents to work cooperatively in order cover the total surface area of a 3D object of interest. The cooperative coverage problem which is posed in this work as an optimal control problem, jointly optimizes the agents' kinematic and camera control inputs, while considering coupling constraints amongst the team of agents which aim at minimizing the duplication of work. To generate look-ahead coverage trajectories over a finite planning horizon, the proposed approach integrates visibility constraints into the proposed coverage controller in order to determine the visible part of the object with respect to the agents' future states. In particular, we show how non-linear and non-convex visibility determination constraints can be transformed into logical constraints which can easily be embedded into a mixed integer optimization program.
Additional file 1 of Evaluation of a workplace assessment method designed to improve self-assessment in operative dentistry: a quasi-experiment
Creators: name: Alfakhry, Ghaith
name: Mustafa, Khattab
name: Ybrode, Kamal
name: Jazayerli, Bashar
name: Milly, Hussam
name: Abohajar, Salam
name: Hassan, Hussam
name: Alhomsi, Khaled
name: Jamous, Issam
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
classificationCode: 39999
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
classificationCode: 111714
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 1
Space-time nature of causality
Creators: name: Bianco-Martinez, Ezequiel
name: Baptista, Murilo S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a causal world the direction of the time arrow dictates how past causal events in a variable $X$ produce future effects in $Y$. $X$ is said to cause an effect in $Y$, if the predictability (uncertainty) about the future states of $Y$ increases (decreases) as its own past and the past of $X$ are taken into consideration. Causality is thus intrinsic dependent on the observation of the past events of both variables involved, to the prediction (or uncertainty reduction) of future event of the other variable. We will show that this {temporal} notion of causality leads to another natural spatio-temporal definition for it, and that can be exploited to detect the arrow of influence from $X$ to $Y$, either by considering shorter time-series of $X$ and longer time-series of $Y$ (an approach that explores the time nature of causality) or lower precision measured time-series in $X$ and higher precision measured time-series in $Y$ (an approach that explores the spatial nature of causality). Causality has thus space and time signatures, causing a break of symmetry in the topology of the probabilistic space, or causing a break of symmetry in the length of the measured time-series, a consequence of the fact that information flows from $X$ to $Y$.
Vortex on surfaces and Brownian-motion in higher dimensions: special metrics
Creators: name: Grotta-Ragazzo, Clodoaldo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 76B47, 30F30, 58J65, 31C12, 60J45, 53C25

description: A single hydrodynamic vortex on a surface will in general moves unless its Riemannian metric is a special "Steady Vortex Metric" (SVM). Metrics of constant curvature are SVM only in surfaces of genus zero and one. In this paper:
 (1) I show that K. Okikiolu's work on the regularization of the spectral zeta function leads to the conclusion that each conformal class of every compact surface with a genus of two or more possesses at least one Steady Vortex Metric (SVM).
 (2) I apply a probabilistic interpretation of the regularized zeta function for surfaces, as developed by P. G. Doyle and J. Steiner, to extend the concept of SVM to higher dimensions.
 The new special metric, which aligns with the Steady Vortex Metric (SVM) in two dimensions, has been termed the "Uniform Drainage Metric" for the following reason: For a compact Riemannian manifold $ M $, the "narrow escape time" (NET) is defined as the expected time for a Brownian motion starting at a point $ p $ in $ M \setminus B_ε(q) $ to remain within this region before escaping through the small ball $ B_ε(q) $, which is centered at $ q $ with radius $ε$ and acts as the escape window. The manifold is said to possess a uniform drainage metric if, and only if, the spatial average of NET, calculated across a uniformly distributed set of initial points $ p $, remains invariant regardless of the position of the escape window $ B_ε(q) $, as $ ε$ approaches $ 0 $.
description: This version of the article has been accepted for publication, after peer review and is subject to Springer Nature's AM terms of use, but is not the Version of Record and does not reflect post-acceptance improvements, or any corrections. The Version of Record is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00332-023-10007-1
chemcomp: Modeling the chemical composition of planets formed in protoplanetary disks
Creators: name: Schneider, Aaron David
name: Bitsch, Bertram
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Future observations of exoplanets will hopefully reveal detailed constraints on planetary compositions. Recently, we have developed and introduced chemcomp (Schneider & Bitsch 2021a), which simulates the formation of planets in viscously evolving protoplanetary disks by the accretion of pebbles and gas. The chemical composition of planetary building blocks (pebbles and gas) is traced by including a physical approach of the evaporation and condensation of volatiles at evaporation lines. We have now open-sourced the chemcomp code to enable comparisons between planet formation models and observational constraints by the community. The code can be found at https://github.com/AaronDavidSchneider/chemcomp, is easy to use (using configuration files) and comes with a detailed documentation and examples.
description: url: https://github.com/AaronDavidSchneider/chemcomp
Additional file 2 of Evaluation of a workplace assessment method designed to improve self-assessment in operative dentistry: a quasi-experiment
Creators: name: Alfakhry, Ghaith
name: Mustafa, Khattab
name: Ybrode, Kamal
name: Jazayerli, Bashar
name: Milly, Hussam
name: Abohajar, Salam
name: Hassan, Hussam
name: Alhomsi, Khaled
name: Jamous, Issam
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
classificationCode: 39999
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
classificationCode: 111714
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 2
Measurement incompatibility does not give rise to Bell violation in general
Creators: name: Bene, Erika
name: Vértesi, Tamás
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the case of a pair of two-outcome measurements incompatibility is equivalent to Bell nonlocality. Indeed, any pair of incompatible two-outcome measurements can violate the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt Bell inequality, which has been proven by Wolf et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 230402 (2009)]. In the case of more than two measurements the equivalence between incompatibility and Bell nonlocality is still an open problem, though partial results have recently been obtained. Here we show that the equivalence breaks for a special choice of three measurements. In particular, we present a set of three incompatible two-outcome measurements, such that if Alice measures this set, independent of the set of measurements chosen by Bob and the state shared by them, the resulting statistics cannot violate any Bell inequality. On the other hand, complementing the above result, we exhibit a set of $N$ measurements for any $N>2$ that is $(N-1)$-wise compatible, nevertheless it gives rise to Bell violation.
description: 10 pages, 2 figures
Presentation: Hidroponic Melon Cultivation in Mine Reclamation Land for Community Development and Emporwerment Program
Creators: name: Nursanto, Edy
name: Indah Widowati
name: Wilis Kaswidjanti
name: Bambang Supriyanta
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: This material has presented on 1st International Conference on Advance Research in Agriculture and Food. October 25, 2022
Additional file 3 of Evaluation of a workplace assessment method designed to improve self-assessment in operative dentistry: a quasi-experiment
Creators: name: Alfakhry, Ghaith
name: Mustafa, Khattab
name: Ybrode, Kamal
name: Jazayerli, Bashar
name: Milly, Hussam
name: Abohajar, Salam
name: Hassan, Hussam
name: Alhomsi, Khaled
name: Jamous, Issam
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
classificationCode: 39999
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
classificationCode: 111714
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 3
Supernova-regulated ISM -- V. Space- and time-correlations
Creators: name: Hollins, James F.
name: Sarson, Graeme R.
name: Shukurov, Anvar
name: Fletcher, Andrew
name: Gent, Frederick A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We apply correlation analysis to random fields in numerical simulations of the supernova-driven interstellar medium (ISM) with the magnetic field produced by dynamo action. We solve the thermo-magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations in a shearing, Cartesian box representing a local region of the ISM, subject to thermal and kinetic energy injection by supernova explosions, and parameterized optically-thin radiative cooling. We consider the cold, warm\, and hot phases of the ISM separately; the analysis mostly considers the warm gas, which occupies the bulk of the domain. Various physical variables have different correlation lengths in the warm phase: $40 pc$, $50 pc$, and $60 pc$ for random magnetic field, density, and velocity, respectively, in the midplane. The correlation time of the random velocity is comparable to the eddy turnover time, about $10^7 yr$, although it may be shorter in regions with higher star formation rate. The random magnetic field is anisotropic, with the standard deviations of its components $b_x/b_y/b_z$ having approximate ratios $0.5/0.6/0.6$ in the midplane. The anisotropy is attributed to the global velocity shear from galactic differential rotation, and locally inhomogeneous outflow to the galactic halo. The correlation length of Faraday depth along the $z$-axis, $120 pc$, is greater than for electron density, $60 - 90 pc$, and vertical magnetic field, $60 pc$. Such comparisons may be sensitive to the orientation of the line of sight. Uncertainties of the structure functions of synchrotron intensity rapidly increase with the scale. This feature is hidden in power spectrum analysis, which can undermine the usefulness of power spectra for detailed studies of interstellar turbulence.
description: 15 pages, 16 figures
Additional file 1 of Epicardial adipose tissue in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: systematic review with meta‑analysis and trial sequential analysis
Creators: name: Lan, Yi
name: Ma, Qianli
name: Luo, Guangming
name: Yang, Heping
name: Li, Yingrui
name: Zhang, Qiao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
classificationCode: 69999
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
classificationCode: 111714
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 1
New physics model constraints derived from SME coefficient limits using IceCube astrophysical neutrino flavour data
Creators: name: Argüelles, Carlos. A.
name: Farrag, Kareem
name: Katori, Teppei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The IceCube collaboration has set stringent limits on neutrino sector isotropic SME coefficients through the measurement of the astrophysical neutrino flavor data. We investigate the consequences of these limits on various new physics models.
Additional file 1 of Hepatitis C Virus in people with experience of injection drug use following their displacement to Southern Ukraine before 2020
Creators: name: Yakovleva, Anna
name: Kovalenko, Ganna
name: Redlinger, Matthew
name: Smyrnov, Pavlo
name: Tymets, Olga
name: Korobchuk, Anna
name: Kotlyk, Lyudmyla
name: Kolodiazieva, Anna
name: Podolina, Anna
name: Cherniavska, Svitlana
name: Antonenko, Petro
name: Strathdee, Steffanie A.
name: Friedman, Samuel R.
name: Goodfellow, Ian
name: Wertheim, Joel O.
name: Bortz, Eric
name: Meredith, Luke
name: Vasylyeva, Tetyana I.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
classificationCode: 110309
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
classificationCode: 60506
subject: Virology

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary Methods and Figures.
Generation of single skyrmions by picosecond magnetic field pulses
Creators: name: Flovik, Vegard
name: Qaiumzadeh, Alireza
name: Nandy, Ashis K.
name: Heo, Changhoon
name: Rasing, Theo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We numerically demonstrate an ultrafast method to create $\textit{single}$ skyrmions in a $\textit{collinear}$ ferromagnetic sample by applying a picosecond (effective) magnetic field pulse in the presence of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. For small samples the applied magnetic field pulse could be either spatially uniform or nonuniform while for large samples a nonuniform and localized field is more effective. We examine the phase diagram of pulse width and amplitude for the nucleation. Our finding could ultimately be used to design future skyrmion-based devices.
description: 4.5 pages+Supplemental Material
Power spectra in warm G-inflation and its consistency: stochastic approach
Creators: name: Motaharfar, Maysam
name: Massaeli, Erfan
name: Sepangi, Hamid Reza
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, it has been realized that the so-called G-inflation model inspired by supplementing a generalized covariant Galileon-like non-linear derivative self-interacting term to the standard kinetic term should be ruled out from inflationary models. This is due to the fact that it suffers from lack of an oscillatory phase at the end of the inflationary regime which is typically accompanied by the appearance of a negative squared propagation speed of the scalar mode leading to instabilities of small-scale perturbations. In this regard, the warm G-inflation scenario is proposed where for G-inflation to survive, the Galileon scalar field is coupled to the radiation field through a dissipation term which results in removing the reheating period due to the characteristics of warm inflationary scenario. In so doing, a linear stability analysis is first performed to obtain the appropriate slow-roll conditions in such a proposal. Cosmological perturbations of the model are then investigated by utilizing fluctuation-dissipation theorem and analytical expressions are derived for observable quantities; the power spectrum, tilt spectral index and tensor-to-scalar ratio in terms of $PSR$ parameters and Galileon flow functions. Finally, the model is solved for chaotic self-interacting potentials, particularly the renormalizable Higgs potential $\fracλ{4} ϕ^{4}$, and shown to be consistent with observations in the weak dissipation $Q \ll 1+ 3\frac{δ_{GX}}{δ_{X}}$ and G-dominant $3\frac{δ_{GX}}{δ_{X}}\gg 1$ regime despite its large self-coupling, since the energy scale at the horizon crossing is depressed by the synergy of Galileon and thermal effects.
description: 13 pages, 4 figures, to appear in PRD
Topological phase transitions in multi-component superconductors
Creators: name: Wang, Yuxuan
name: Fu, Liang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the phase transition between a trivial and a time-reversal-invariant topological superconductor in a single-band system. By analyzing the interplay of symmetry, topology and energetics, we show that for a generic normal state band structure, the phase transition occurs via extended intermediate phases in which even- and odd-parity pairing components coexist. For inversion-symmetric systems, the coexistence phase spontaneously breaks time-reversal symmetry. For noncentrosymmetric superconductors, the low-temperature intermediate phase is time-reversal breaking, while the high-temperature phase preserves time-reversal symmetry and has topologically protected line nodes. Furthermore, with approximate rotational invariance, the system has an emergent $U(1) \times U(1)$ symmetry, and novel topological defects, such as half vortex lines binding Majorana fermions, can exist. We analytically solve for the dispersion of the Majorana fermion and show that it exhibit small and large velocities at low and high energies. Relevance of our theory to superconducting pyrochlore oxide Cd$_2$Re$_2$O$_7$ and half-Heusler materials is discussed.
description: 14 pages, 7 figures; to appear on Phys. Rev. Lett
An indirect probe of higgsino world at the CEPC
Creators: name: Liu, Ning
name: Wu, Lei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The higgsino world is one of the popular natural SUSY scenarios, in which $|μ| \ll M_{gauginos} \ll M_{scalars}$. As such, searching for light degenerate higgsinos becomes an essential task of testing naturalness in supersymmetry (SUSY). In this work, we study the indirect effects of light higgsinos in the process $e^+e^- \to W^+W^-$ at future Higgs factories, such as Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC) in China. we find that the higgsino mass parameter $μ\lesssim 210$ GeV favored by naturalness can be covered if the accuracy of the measurement of $W^+W^-$ production can reach 0.1\% at 240 GeV CEPC.
description: discussions and figures added, version accepted by EPJC
Access Strategy in Super WiFi Network Powered by Solar Energy Harvesting: A POMDP Method
Creators: name: Wang, Tingwu
name: Wang, Jian
name: Jiang, Chunxiao
name: Wang, Jingjing
name: Ren, Yong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The recently announced Super Wi-Fi Network proposal in United States is aiming to enable Internet access in a nation-wide area. As traditional cable-connected power supply system becomes impractical or costly for a wide range wireless network, new infrastructure deployment for Super Wi-Fi is required. The fast developing Energy Harvesting (EH) techniques receive global attentions for their potential of solving the above power supply problem. It is a critical issue, from the user's perspective, how to make efficient network selection and access strategies. Unlike traditional wireless networks, the battery charge state and tendency in EH based networks have to be taken into account when making network selection and access, which has not been well investigated. In this paper, we propose a practical and efficient framework for multiple base stations access strategy in an EH powered Super Wi-Fi network. We consider the access strategy from the user's perspective, who exploits downlink transmission opportunities from one base station. To formulate the problem, we used Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP) to model users' observations on the base stations' battery situation and decisions on the base station selection and access. Simulation results show that our methods are efficacious and significantly outperform the traditional widely used CSMA method.
description: 14 pages
Anisotropy Driven Transition from Moore-Read State to Quantum Hall Stripes
Creators: name: Zhu, Zheng
name: Sodemann, Inti
name: Sheng, D. N.
name: Fu, Liang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the nature of the quantum Hall liquid in a half-filled second Landau level ($n=1$) as a function of band mass anisotropy using numerical exact diagonalization (ED) and density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) methods. We find increasing the mass anisotropy induces a quantum phase transition from the Moore-Read state to a charge density wave state. By analyzing the energy spectrum, guiding center structure factors and by adding weak pinning potentials, we show that this charge density wave is a uni-directional quantum Hall stripe, which has a periodicity of a few magnetic lengths and survives in the thermodynamic limit. We find smooth profiles for the guiding center occupation function that reveal the strong coupling nature of the array of chiral Luttinger liquids residing at the stripe edges.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Producing Geometric Deformations of Orthogonal and Symplectic Galois Representations
Creators: name: Booher, Jeremy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: For a representation of the absolute Galois group of the rationals over a finite field of characteristic $p$, we study the existence of a lift to characteristic zero that is geometric in the sense of the Fontaine-Mazur conjecture. For two-dimensional representations, Ramakrishna proved that under technical assumptions odd representations admit geometric lifts. We generalize this to higher dimensional orthogonal and symplectic representations. A key step is generalizing and studying a local deformation condition at $p$ arising from Fontaine-Laffaille theory.
description: This is one piece of the earlier submission which was split for publication
Properties of field functionals and characterization of local functionals
Creators: name: Brouder, Christian
name: Dang, Nguyen Viet
name: Laurent-Gengoux, Camille
name: Rejzner, Kasia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Functionals (i.e. functions of functions) are widely used in quantum field theory and solid-state physics. In this paper, functionals are given a rigorous mathematical framework and their main properties are described. The choice of the proper space of test functions (smooth functions) and of the relevant concept of differential (Bastiani differential) are discussed. The relation between the multiple derivatives of a functional and the corresponding distributions is described in detail. It is proved that, in a neighborhood of every test function, the support of a smooth functional is uniformly compactly supported and the order of the corresponding distribution is uniformly bounded. Relying on a recent work by Yoann Dabrowski, several spaces of functionals are furnished with a complete and nuclear topology. In view of physical applications, it is shown that most formal manipulations can be given a rigorous meaning. A new concept of local functionals is proposed and two characterizations of them are given: the first one uses the additivity (or Hammerstein) property, the second one is a variant of Peetre's theorem. Finally, the first step of a cohomological approach to quantum field theory is carried out by proving a global Poincaré lemma and defining multi-vector fields and graded functionals within our framework.
description: 32 pages, no figure
Complex Network Theoretical Analysis on Information Dissemination over Vehicular Networks
Creators: name: Wang, Jingjing
name: Jiang, Chunxiao
name: Gao, Longxiang
name: Yu, Shui
name: Han, Zhu
name: Ren, Yong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: How to enhance the communication efficiency and quality on vehicular networks is one critical important issue. While with the larger and larger scale of vehicular networks in dense cities, the real-world datasets show that the vehicular networks essentially belong to the complex network model. Meanwhile, the extensive research on complex networks has shown that the complex network theory can both provide an accurate network illustration model and further make great contributions to the network design, optimization and management. In this paper, we start with analyzing characteristics of a taxi GPS dataset and then establishing the vehicular-to-infrastructure, vehicle-to-vehicle and the hybrid communication model, respectively. Moreover, we propose a clustering algorithm for station selection, a traffic allocation optimization model and an information source selection model based on the communication performances and complex network theory.
description: 16 pages
Multiscale Granger causality
Creators: name: Faes, Luca
name: Nollo, Giandomenico
name: Stramaglia, Sebastiano
name: Marinazzo, Daniele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In the study of complex physical and biological systems represented by multivariate stochastic processes, an issue of great relevance is the description of the system dynamics spanning multiple temporal scales. While methods to assess the dynamic complexity of individual processes at different time scales are well-established, multiscale analysis of directed interactions has never been formalized theoretically, and empirical evaluations are complicated by practical issues such as filtering and downsampling. Here we extend the very popular measure of Granger causality (GC), a prominent tool for assessing directed lagged interactions between joint processes, to quantify information transfer across multiple time scales. We show that the multiscale processing of a vector autoregressive (AR) process introduces a moving average (MA) component, and describe how to represent the resulting ARMA process using state space (SS) models and to combine the SS model parameters for computing exact GC values at arbitrarily large time scales. We exploit the theoretical formulation to identify peculiar features of multiscale GC in basic AR processes, and demonstrate with numerical simulations the much larger estimation accuracy of the SS approach compared with pure AR modeling of filtered and downsampled data. The improved computational reliability is exploited to disclose meaningful multiscale patterns of information transfer between global temperature and carbon dioxide concentration time series, both in paleoclimate and in recent years.
On the non-detection of Glashow resonance in IceCube
Creators: name: Sahu, Sarira
name: Zhang, Bing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Electron anti-neutrinos at the Glashow resonance (GR, at $E_{\bar ν_e} \sim 6.3$ PeV) have an enhanced probability to be detected. With three neutrinos detected by IceCube in the (1-2) PeV energy range at present, one would expect that about 1 to 4 GR $\barν_e$ should have been detected. The high-energy $\sim 8.7$ PeV muon neutrino detected by IceCube may not be a GR event. If so, we expect to detect 50 to 70 GR $\barν_e$, then one would have a "missing Glashow-resonance problem". This would suggest (1) that $pγ$ interaction rather than $pp$ interaction is the dominant channel to produce the observed IceCube high-energy neutrinos, (2) that multi-pion $pγ$ interactions are suppressed, and (3) that the magnetic field and photon energy density in the $pγ$ emission region is such that significant $μ^+$ cooling occurs before decaying, yet $π^+$'s essentially do not cool before decaying.
description: single column, 11 pages
Material Suplementar / Supplementar Material
Creators: name: Oliveira, Eduardo Vinícius
name: Gouveia, Sidney Feitosa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 310302
subject: Community ecology (excl. invasive species ecology)
classificationCode: 310399
subject: Ecology not elsewhere classified

description: Padrões de coocorrência entre Psittacanthus robustus (Mart.) Mart. e seus hospedeiros e dispersores na América do SulTabS1. Matriz de coocorrência entre Psittacanthus robustus e espécies de árvores hospedeiras e aves dispersoras na América do Sul.FigS1. Distribuição das cadeias de Markov (painéis A e C) e das densidades posteriores (painéis B e D). Resultados mostram que as cadeias tem alcançado uma distribuição estacionária.
Additional file 1 of Diesel Exhaust Particle (DEP)-induced glucose intolerance is driven by an intestinal innate immune response and NLRP3 activation in mice
Creators: name: Bosch, Angela J. T.
name: Rohm, Theresa V.
name: AlAsfoor, Shefaa
name: Low, Andy J. Y.
name: Baumann, Zora
name: Parayil, Neena
name: Noreen, Faiza
name: Roux, Julien
name: Meier, Daniel T.
name: Cavelti-Weder, Claudia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplementary Material 1
Analog beamforming using time-modulated arrays with digitally preprocessed rectangular sequences
Creators: name: Maneiro-Catoira, R.
name: Brégains, J.
name: García-Naya, José A.
name: Castedo, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Conventional time-modulated arrays are based on the application of variable-width periodical rectangular pulses (easily implemented with radio frequency switches) to the individual antenna excitations. However, a serious bottleneck arises when the number of exploited harmonic beams increases. In this context, the modest windowing features of the rectangular pulses produce an inflexible and ineffective harmonic beamforming. The use of other pulses, such as sum of weighted cosines, partially solves these issues at the expense of introducing additional non-timing variables. We propose the discrete-time preprocessing of rectangular pulses before being applied to the antenna to accomplish an agile, efficient, and accurate harmonic beamforming, while keeping the simplicity of the hardware structure.
description: 4 pages, 6 figures, Published in IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters
JTAG-based Remote Configuration of FPGAs over Optical Fibers
Creators: name: Deng, Binwei
name: Liu, Chonghan
name: Chen, Jinghong
name: Chen, Kai
name: Gong, Datao
name: Guo, Di
name: Hou, Suen
name: Huang, Deping
name: Li, Xiaoting
name: Liu, Tiankuan
name: Teng, Ping-Kun
name: Xiang, Annie C.
name: Xu, Hao
name: You, Yang
name: Ye, Jingbo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, a remote FPGA-configuration method based on JTAG extension over optical fibers is presented. The method takes advantage of commercial components and ready-to-use software such as iMPACT and does not require any hardware or software development. The method combines the advantages of the slow remote JTAG configuration and the fast local flash memory configuration. The method has been verified successfully and used in the Demonstrator of Liquid-Argon Trigger Digitization Board (LTDB) for the ATLAS liquid argon calorimeter Phase-I trigger upgrade. All components on the FPGA side are verified to meet the radiation tolerance requirements.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures
Mobile Data Transactions in Device-to-Device Communication Networks: Pricing and Auction
Creators: name: Wang, Jingjing
name: Jiang, Chunxiao
name: Bie, Zhi
name: Quek, Tony Q. S.
name: Ren, Yong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Device-to-Device (D2D) communication is offering smart phone users a choice to share files with each other without communicating with the cellular network. In this paper, we discuss the behaviors of two characters in the D2D data transaction model from an economic point of view: the data buyers who wish to buy a certain quantity of data, as well as the data sellers who wish to sell data through the D2D network. The optimal price and purchasing strategies are analyzed and deduced based on game theory.
description: 10 pages
Bright Breathers in Nonlinear Left-Handed Metamaterial Lattices
Creators: name: Koukouloyannis, V.
name: Kevrekidis, P. G.
name: Veldes, G. P.
name: Frantzeskakis, D. J.
name: DiMarzio, D.
name: Lan, X.
name: Radisic, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 37K60, 35Q55, 74J30

description: In the present work, we examine a prototypical model for the formation of bright breathers in nonlinear left-handed metamaterial lattices. Utilizing the paradigm of nonlinear transmission lines, we build a relevant lattice and develop a quasi-continuum multiscale approximation that enables us to appreciate both the underlying linear dispersion relation and the potential for bifurcation of nonlinear states. We focus here, more specifically, on bright discrete breathers which bifurcate from the lower edge of the linear dispersion relation at wavenumber $k=π$. Guided by the multiscale analysis, we calculate numerically both the stable inter-site centered and the unstable site-centered members of the relevant family. We quantify the associated stability via Floquet analysis and the Peierls-Nabarro barrier of the energy difference between these branches. Finally, we explore the dynamical implications of these findings towards the potential mobility or lack thereof (pinning) of such breather solutions.
The curious case of high-energy deuterons in Galactic cosmic rays
Creators: name: Tomassetti, Nicola
name: Feng, Jie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new analysis of cosmic ray (CR) data collected by the SOKOL experiment in space found that the deuteron-to-helium ratio at energies between 500 and 2000 GeV/nucleon takes the value d/He ~ 1.5. As we will show, this result cannot be explained by standard models of secondary CR production in the interstellar medium and points to the existence of a high-energy source of CR deuterons. To account for the deuteron excess in CRs, we argue that the only viable solution is hadronic interaction processes of accelerated particles inside old supernova remnants (SNRs). From this mechanism, however, the B/C ratio is also expected to increase at energy above ~50 of GeV/nucleon, in conflict with new precision data just released by the AMS-02 experiment. Hence, if this phenomenon is a real physical effect, hadronic production of CR deuterons must occur in SNRs characterized by low metal abundance. In such a scenario, the sources accelerating C-N-O nuclei are not the same as those accelerating helium or protons, so that the connection between d/He ratio and B/C ratio is broken, and the latter cannot be used to place constraints on the production of light isotopes or antiparticles.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, matches published version