cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Constraining the size of the narrow line region in distant quasars
Creators: name: Yonehara, Atsunori
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a proper method to measure the size of the narrow line region (NLR) in distant quasars. The apparent angular size of the NLR is, in general, too small to resolve technically. However, it is possible to map the NLR if with gravitational lensing. In our method, we directly compare the observed image of the NLR with the expected lensed images of the NLR for various source sizes and lens models. Seeking the best fit image via the comparison procedures, we can obtain the best-fit size and the best-fit lens model. We apply this method to the two-dimensional spectroscopic data of a famous lensed quasar, Q2237+0305. If the lens galaxy resembles the applied lens model, an upper limit to the NLR size can be set 750 pc. Further, we examine how the fitting results will be improved by future observations, taking into account the realistic observational effects, such as seeing. Future observations will provide us more stringent constraints on the size of the NLR and on the density profile of the lens galaxy.
description: 17 pages including 4 figures, accepted to ApJ
Asymptotic Symmetries and Subleading Soft Photon Theorem in Effective Field Theories
Creators: name: Laddha, Alok
name: Mitra, Prahar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In [1,2] it was shown that the subleading soft photon theorem in tree level amplitudes in massless QED is equivalent to a new class of symmetries of the theory parameterized by a vector field on the celestial sphere. In this paper, we extend these results to the subleading soft photon theorem in any Effective Field Theory containing photons and an arbitrary spectrum of massless particles. We show that the charges associated to the above class of symmetries are sensitive to certain three point functions of the theory and are corrected by irrelevant operators of specific dimensions. Our analysis shows that the subleading soft photon theorem in any tree level scattering amplitude is a statement about asymptotic symmetries of the ${\cal S}$-matrix.
description: 26 pages, 3 figures
Immune function and development in altricial-developing passerine house sparrows (Passer domesticus)
Creators: name: King, Marisa Olson
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Passeriformes -- Immunology

description: Passerine birds are known to be ecologically, agriculturally, and environmentally relevant fixtures on six of the seven world continents and yet the immune systems for these altricial-developing species are poorly defined. We profiled the early humoral development of the adaptive immune system in an altricial-developing wild passerine species, the house sparrow (Passer domestics) and characterized the half-life of maternal antibodies in nestling plasma, the onset of de novo synthesis of endogenous antibodies by nestlings, and the timing of immunological independence, where nestlings rely entirely on their own antibodies for immunologic protection. We developed assays to measure both antigen-specific and total antibody concentration in the plasma of females, yolks, and nestlings and traced the transfer of maternal antibodies from females to nestlings through the yolk. Based on the short half-life of maternal antibodies, the rapid production of endogenous antibodies by nestlings and the relatively low transfer of maternal antibodies to nestlings, our findings suggest that 1) altricial-developing sparrows achieve immunologic independence much earlier than precocial chickens and 2) maternal antibodies may not confer the immunologic protection or immune priming previously proposed in other passerine studies. Maternal antibodies are believed to protect immunologically immature avian offspring during the critical period between hatch and the onset of endogenous antibody production. Yet, as aforementioned, house-sparrow specific patterns of immunity suggest that maternal antibodies may play a limited role in protecting and priming immunologically na ve young against environmental pathogens. We tested the ability of female house sparrows to influence the immunologic phenotype of their offspring s humoral immune system through the transfer of antigen-specific maternal antibodies and found no effect of maternal antibodies on nestling body condition or immunity. Our results suggest that maternal antibodies may be a neutral byproduct of the female immune system more so than a reflection of adaptive maternal investment. Further research needs to be conducted on other altricial passerines to determine if the results of our study are a species-specific phenomenon or if they can be applied to other avian species.
MOESM3 of The effect of case management and vector-control interventions on spaceâ time patterns of malaria incidence in Uganda
Creators: name: Ssempiira, Julius
name: Kissa, John
name: Nambuusi, Betty
name: Kyozira, Carol
name: Rutazaana, Damian
name: Mukooyo, Eddie
name: Opigo, Jimmy
name: Makumbi, Fredrick
name: Kasasa, Simon
name: Vounatsou, Penelope
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3. Estimating district-level indicator estimates.
WLCG Networks: Update on Monitoring and Analytics
Creators: name: Kee, Shawn Mc
name: Bockelman, Brian Paul
name: Vukotic, Ilija
name: Babik, Marian
name: Weitzel, Derek John
name: Zvada, Marian
name: Hernandez, Edgar Fajardo
name: Gardner, Robert
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: WLCG relies on the network as a critical part of its infrastructure and therefore needs to guarantee effective network usage and prompt detection and resolution of any network issues, including connection failures, congestion and traffic routing. The OSG Networking Area, in partnership with WLCG, is focused on being the primary source of networking information for its partners and constituents. It was established to ensure sites and experiments can better understand and fix networking issues, while providing an analytics platform that aggregates network monitoring data with higher level workload and data transfer services. This has been facilitated by the global network of the perfSONAR instances that have been commissioned and are operated in collaboration with WLCG Network Throughput Working Group. An additional important update is the inclusion of the newly funded NSF project SAND (Service Analytics and Network Diagnosis) which is focusing on network analytics. In this talk we'll describe the current state of the network measurement and analytics platform and summarise the activities taken by the working group and our collaborators, focusing mainly on the throughput issues that have been reported and resolved during the recent period with the help of the perfSONAR network. We will also cover the updates on the higher level services that were developed to help bring perfSONAR network to its full potential. This includes the progress being made in providing higher level analytics, alerting and alarming from the rich set of network metrics we are gathering. . Finally, we will discuss and propose potential R&D areas related to improving the network throughput in general as well as prepare the infrastructure for the foreseen major changes in the way network will be provisioned and operated in the future.
Soft Covariant Gauges on the Lattice
Creators: name: Henty, D. S.
name: Oliveira, O.
name: Parrinello, C.
name: Ryan, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an exploratory study of a one-parameter family of covariant, non-perturbative lattice gauge-fixing conditions, that can be implemented through a simple Monte Carlo algorithm. We demonstrate that at the numerical level the procedure is feasible, and as a first application we examine the gauge dependence of the gluon propagator.
description: 11 pages, Latex, epsf.sty included + 5 PostScript pictures
Particle-based membrane model for mesoscopic simulation of cellular dynamics
Creators: name: Sadeghi, Mohsen
name: Weikl, Thomas R.
name: Noé, Frank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a simple and computationally efficient coarse-grained and solvent-free model for simulating lipid bilayer membranes. In order to be used in concert with particle-based reaction-diffusion simulations, the model is purely based on interacting and reacting particles, each representing a coarse patch of a lipid monolayer. Particle interactions include nearest-neighbor bond-stretching and angle-bending, and are parameterized so as to reproduce the local membrane mechanics given by the Helfrich energy density over a range of relevant curvatures. In-plane fluidity is implemented with Monte Carlo bond-flipping moves. The physical accuracy of the model is verified by five tests: (i) Power spectrum analysis of equilibrium thermal undulations is used to verify that the particle-based representation correctly captures the dynamics predicted by the continuum model of fluid membranes. (ii) It is verified that the input bending stiffness, against which the potential parameters are optimized, is accurately recovered. (iii) Isothermal area compressibility modulus of the membrane is calculated and is shown to be tunable to reproduce available values for different lipid bilayers, independent of the bending rigidity. (iv) Simulation of two-dimensional shear flow under a gravity force is employed to measure the effective in-plane viscosity of the membrane model, and show the possibility of modeling membranes with specified viscosities. (v) Interaction of the bilayer membrane with a spherical nanoparticle is modeled as a test case for large membrane deformations and budding involved in cellular processes such as endocytosis...
description: 13 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables, manuscript accepted for publication at The Journal of Chemical Physics
Characterization of Arabidopsis long-chain Acyl-coenzyme A synthetases involved in cuticle development
Creators: name: Weng, Hua
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Plant cuticle

description: The cuticle is a continuous extracellular layer deposited on the aerial surfaces of terrestrial plants. The important functions of the cuticle include reduction in non-stomatal water loss and protection against pathogen attacks. Cutin and cuticular wax, both synthesized in the epidermal cells, are major components of the cuticle. Long-chain acyl-CoA synthetase 2 (LACS2) has been proved to be required for cutin biosynthesis, by characterization of lacs2 null mutants. In this study, the subcellular localization and in vitro activity of LACS2 were investigated to better understand the function of LACS2. A green fluorescent protein-LACS2 fusion protein was localized to the endoplasmic reticulum. The recombinant hexahistidinetagged LACS2 protein showed high enzymatic activity using cutin monomers such as 16- hydroxypalmitate and three long-chain dicarboxylic acids. LACS1 is also highly transcribed in stem epidermal cells, as observed by a transcription profiling analysis. To study the function of LACS1 in vivo, a reverse genetics approach was used. lacs1 null mutants had the glossy stem phenotype typical of mutants with defects in cuticular wax biosynthesis. In lacs1 stems, the amounts of three predominant wax constituents - alkane, secondary alcohol and ketone with 29-carbon chains - were reduced by 36%, 45% and 37%, respectively, whereas the level of the precursor, a 30-carbon saturated fatty acid, was elevated over ten-fold. As such, LACS1 is an acyl-CoA synthetase that activates very-long-chain fatty acids for modification and use in cuticular wax biosynthesis. To assess the contribution of wax and cutin in cuticle development and function, lacs1 lacs2 double mutants were generated. lacs1 lacs2 plants displayed pleiotropic phenotypes including organ fusion, abnormal flower development and reduced seed set that neither lacs1 nor lacs2 single mutants had. lacs1 lacs2 had higher cuticular permeability and was more susceptible to drought stress than either of its parental lines. Taken together, these results extend the understanding of the function of LACS2 in cutin biosynthesis, provide evidence for the involvement of LACS1 in cuticular wax biosynthesis, and suggest that both cutin and cuticular wax are required for maintaining the integrity and functions of the cuticle.
Federated anomaly detection with Isolation Forest in the IoT network
Creators: name: Li, Junyan
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 460402
subject: Data and information privacy

description: With the advancement of modern technology, the utilization of various devices in daily life has become increasingly extensive. Particularly with the emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT), numerous devices are now interconnected within networks. However, alongside the convenience brought by IoT, attacks targeting these devices have also emerged as a major concern. These IoT devices continuously generate and transmit data containing crucial user information. Exploiting this characteristic, attackers initiate malicious attacks to compromise this valuable data. To safeguard users from such threats, timely detection and identification are essential before any damage occurs. In addressing this issue, this thesis initially reviews state-of-the-art anomaly detection methods and proposes a novel framework that combines Federated Learning with Isolation Forests based on identified gaps in existing approaches. The framework performs tree construction on the clients’ end and further uploads the encrypted data containing the nodes’ information of the trees to the central server for the forest construction, after multiple interactions, the abnormal behaviour in the clients could be able to be identified more effectively and ultimately improved the accuracy of the detection results while protecting the privacy of the client data.
Rural Survey Thoughts and Practice Activities of Dong Shijin
Creators: name: LI Siyuan
name: YANG Peng
name: LI Siyuan
name: YANG Peng
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Dong Shijin, Rural survey, Rural revitalization, Implications

description: The rural survey movement started in China in the 1920s and 1930s provided a solid support for understanding the rural areas, solving the crisis in rural areas, and saving and revitalizing the rural areas. At that time, various forces at home and abroad devoted themselves to this movement and made remarkable valuable research achievements. Dong Shijin was committed to the prevention and treatment of water and drought disasters and the survey of “agriculture, rural areas and farmers”. His agronomic thought not only has great academic value in the rural survey movement, but also has practical reference for the implementation of the rural revitalization strategy.
title: Redefining cyclic electron flow around photosystem I (CEF1)
title: The induction, pathway, and role of CEF1 in C3 plants
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Livingston, Aaron Kyle
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Photosynthesis

description: While traditional photosynthetic research has focused on the "linear" electron transfer pathway, alternative "cyclic" pathways have been proposed as a means to balance energy needs in plants. After decades of work, spanning a diverse field of techniques and ideas, controversy remains as to the pathway, role and regulation of cyclic electron flow around photosystem I (CEF1). CEF1 must be elucidated to understand how plants respond to and survive changing environmental stresses, such as drought, cold, heat and salt. We have isolated a new mutant phenotype where CEF1 is greatly increased with respect to normal photosynthesis or linear electron transfer. These high CEF1, or hcef, mutants provide a unique opportunity for answering key questions about the regulation, role, and pathway of CEF1. Through the utilization of map-based cloning, new spectroscopic techniques, and crossing with other known CEF1 mutants, we have determined that CEF1 is a highly dynamic, regulated, and large capacity pathway in plants. CEF1 in C3 plants appears to run through the thylakoid NAD(P)H dehydrogenase (NDH) complex and not the once favored antimycin A-sensitive ferredoxin-plastoquinone oxidoreductase (FQR), or PGR5 (proton gradient regulator 5) dependent pathway. Furthermore, hydrogen peroxide has been found to be both an inducer of the formation of the NDH complex and activator of NDH mediated CEF1.
On higher dimensional Einstein spacetimes with a non-degenerate double Weyl aligned null direction
Creators: name: Ortaggio, Marcello
name: Pravda, Vojtěch
name: Pravdová, Alena
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We prove that higher dimensional Einstein spacetimes which possess a geodesic, non-degenerate double Weyl aligned null direction (WAND) $\ell$ must additionally possess a second double WAND (thus being of type D) if either: (a) the Weyl tensor obeys $C_{abc[d}\ell_{e]}\ell^c=0$ ($\LeftrightarrowΦ_{ij}=0$, i.e., the Weyl type is II(abd)); (b) $\ell$ is twistfree. Some comments about an extension of the Goldberg-Sachs theorem to six dimensions are also made.
description: 9 pages. v2: introduction expanded, minor changes in the text
Quantum triple point and quantum critical endpoints in metallic magnets
Creators: name: Belitz, D.
name: Kirkpatrick, T. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In low-temperature metallic magnets, ferromagnetic (FM) and antiferromagnetic (AFM) orders can exist in a single system in different parts of the phase diagram as a function of some control parameter. These phases can be adjacent, or exist concurrently, resulting in a phase transition between a FM phase and an AFM one, or between a phase of concurrent FM and AFM order and either of the pure phases. We show that universal quantum fluctuations qualitatively alter the known phase diagrams for classical magnets: They shrink the region of concurrent FM and AFM order, change various transitions from second to first order, and, in the presence of a magnetic field, lead to either a quantum triple point where the FM, AFM and paramagnetic phases coexist, or to a quantum critical end point.
description: 5pp, 4 figs
Additional file 1 of Effectiveness of indoor residual spraying on malaria control: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Zhou, Yiguo
name: Zhang, Wan-Xue
name: Tembo, Elijah
name: Xie, Ming-Zhu
name: Zhang, Shan-Shan
name: Wang, Xin-Rui
name: Wei, Ting-Ting
name: Feng, Xin
name: Zhang, Yi-Lin
name: Du, Juan
name: Liu, Ya-Qiong
name: Zhang, Xuan
name: Cui, Fuqiang
name: Lu, Qing-Bin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Medicine
Cancer
Science Policy
Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Quality assessment of observational studies. Table S2. Quality assessment of RCT studies. Table S3. Sensitivity analysis by omitting each article. Figure S1. The effect of IRS on the malaria incidence classified by study design using the random effects model. Figure S2. The effect of IRS on the malaria incidence classified by GDP using the random effects model. Figure S3. The effect of IRS on the malaria incidence classified by malaria incidence rate (A) and malaria epidemic level (B) using the random effects model. Figure S4. The effect of IRS on the malaria incidence classified by IRS insecticide using the random effects model. Figure S5. The effect of IRS on the malaria incidence classified by IRS coverage rate (A) and bed net coverage net (B) using the random effects model. Figure S6. The effect of IRS on the malaria incidence in subgroup analysis using the random effects model only within cross-sectional/case-control studies. Figure S7. The effect of IRS on the malaria incidence in subgroup analysis using the random effects model only within cohort/RCT studies.
title: Readiness for college
title: factors affecting minority high school students in two large Washington school districts
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Rieger, Merri M.
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Minority high school students -- Washington (State)

description: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships among ethnicity, academic achievement, students' perceptions of their teachers' attitudes about their academic ability, and students' attitudes about achievement to identify factors that influence college readiness for minority students. Study participants included approximately 2100 students in grade 11 from two large Washington school districts' who were surveyed about their perceptions of teacher support, academic selfperception, motivation self-regulation, and concrete achievement attitudes. The information from the survey was linked to academic performance and demographic data. Analysis of variance and correlations were conducted to examine differences by ethnic groups. Multiple regressions were conducted using academic performance, ethnicity, perception and attitude variables to determine the amount of variation in college readiness accounted for by each variable. The results indicated that writing achievement and student attitudes were the strongest factors for college readiness for minority students. Additional factors affecting minority college readiness were prior academic achievement and some minimum influence of teacher expectations.
FELIX: commissioning the new detector interface for the ATLAS trigger and readout system
Creators: name: Vazquez, William Panduro
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: After the current LHC shutdown (2019-2021), the ATLAS experiment will be required to operate in an increasingly harsh collision environment. To maintain physics performance, the ATLAS experiment will undergo a series of upgrades during the shutdown. A key goal of this upgrade is to improve the capacity and flexibility of the detector readout system. To this end, the Front-End Link eXchange (FELIX) system has been developed. FELIX acts as the interface between the data acquisition; detector control and TTC (Timing, Trigger and Control) systems; and new or updated trigger and detector front-end electronics. The system functions as a router between custom serial links from front end ASICs and FPGAs to data collection and processing components via a commodity switched network. The serial links may aggregate many slower links or be a single high bandwidth link. FELIX also forwards the LHC bunch-crossing clock, fixed latency trigger accepts and resets received from the TTC system to front-end electronics. FELIX uses commodity server technology in combination with FPGA-based PCIe I/O cards. FELIX servers run a software routing platform serving data to network clients. Commodity servers connected to FELIX systems via the same network run the new multi-threaded Software Readout Driver (SW ROD) infrastructure for event fragment building, buffering and detector-specific processing to facilitate online selection. This presentation will cover the design of FELIX, the SW ROD, and the results of the installation and commissioning activities for the full system in summer 2019.
Additional file 2: of Correlation of neuropsychological and metabolic changes after epilepsy surgery in patients with left mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with hippocampal sclerosis
Creators: name: GĂźvenĂ§, Canan
name: Dupont, Patrick
name: Stock, Jan Van Den
name: Seynaeve, Laura
name: Porke, Kathleen
name: Dries, Eva
name: Bouwel, Karen Van
name: Loon, Johannes Van
name: Theys, Tom
name: Karolien Goffin
name: Paesschen, Wim Van
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Changes in brain metabolism between postoperative and preoperative PET. (DOCX 20 kb)
Two Birds with One Stone: Transforming and Generating Facial Images with Iterative GAN
Creators: name: Ma, Dan
name: Liu, Bin
name: Kang, Zhao
name: Zhou, Jiayu
name: Zhu, Jianke
name: Xu, Zenglin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Generating high fidelity identity-preserving faces with different facial attributes has a wide range of applications. Although a number of generative models have been developed to tackle this problem, there is still much room for further improvement.In paticular, the current solutions usually ignore the perceptual information of images, which we argue that it benefits the output of a high-quality image while preserving the identity information, especially in facial attributes learning area.To this end, we propose to train GAN iteratively via regularizing the min-max process with an integrated loss, which includes not only the per-pixel loss but also the perceptual loss. In contrast to the existing methods only deal with either image generation or transformation, our proposed iterative architecture can achieve both of them. Experiments on the multi-label facial dataset CelebA demonstrate that the proposed model has excellent performance on recognizing multiple attributes, generating a high-quality image, and transforming image with controllable attributes.
Fine group gradings of the real forms of $sl(4,\C)$, $sp(4,\C)$, and $o(4,\C)$
Creators: name: Patera, Jiří
name: Pelantová, Edita
name: Svobodová, Milena
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 17B70

description: We present an explicit description of the 'fine group gradings' (i.e. group gradings which cannot be further refined) of the real forms of the semisimple Lie algebras $sl(4,\C)$, $sp(4,\C)$, and $o(4,\C)$. All together 12 real Lie algebras are considered, and the total of 44 of their fine group gradings are listed. The inclusions $sl(4,\C)\supset sp(4,\C)\supset o(4,\C)$ are an important tool in our presentation. Systematic use is made of the faithful representations of the three Lie algebras by $4\times 4$ matrices.
description: 19 pages
title: Channel and recipient characteristics
title: Effects on communication effectiveness and performance
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Scott, Christopher L.
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Information theory -- Testing

description: One significant problem that organizations face today is their ability to disseminate information within and across their organizational boundaries efficiently. The purpose of this dissertation is to examine how communication media with different characteristics, and individual recipients with different characteristics, influence the performance of the message recipients on tasks that are dependent on the message. Well known communication media theories (e.g., Daft & Lengel, 1986) have come under scrutiny for weak empirical support and newer theories have emerged (e.g., Dennis, Fuller, & Valacich, in press) that will require empirical testing to validate. This dissertation represents an initial empirical test of several elements of Media Synchronicity Theory (MST). This dissertation is composed of three essays which describe a series of empirical studies. The studies were carried out (1) to create measurement scales to psychometrically assess individuals perceptions of media characteristics/capabilities; (2) to experimentally manipulate two media capabilities and evaluate downstream, individual performance relative to a communicated message; and (3) to assess recipient retention of communicated information after a time delay from the experimental manipulations of media capabilities. The ultimate goal of this research is to provide a rigorous, tightly controlled evaluation of several aspects of MST, and to propose and test two media appropriation factors as an extension to MST. This dissertation is organized in the following manner. The first chapter provides an introduction to the three essays. This introductory chapter will provide a brief theoretical discussion of MST, how MST has evolved over the last decade, and brief introductions to each essay. The second chapter includes the first essay, which will describe the instrument development studies. The third chapter includes the second essay, which will describe the first experimental study. The fourth chapter, containing the third essay, will describe the follow-up experimental study that incorporates a longitudinal aspect into the research model. Finally, the fifth chapter is composed of a summary section that will briefly discuss the dissertation as a whole.
Atom Pairing in Optical Superlattices
Creators: name: Kangara, J.
name: Cheng, Chingyun
name: Pegahan, S.
name: Arakelyan, I.
name: Thomas, J. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the pairing of fermions in a one-dimensional lattice of tunable double-well potentials using radio-frequency spectroscopy. The spectra reveal the coexistence of two types of atom pairs with different symmetries. Our measurements are in excellent quantitative agreement with a theoretical model, obtained by extending the Green's function method of Orso et al., [Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 060402 (2005)], to a bichromatic 1D lattice with finite harmonic radial confinement. The predicted spectra comprise hundreds of discrete transitions, with symmetry-dependent initial state populations and transition strengths. Our work provides an understanding of the elementary pairing states in a superlattice, paving the way for new studies of strongly interacting many-body systems.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
On the Consistent Effect Histories Approach to Quantum Mechanics
Creators: name: Rudolph, Oliver
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A formulation of the consistent histories approach to quantum mechanics in terms of generalized observables (POV measures) and effect operators is provided. The usual notion of `history' is generalized to the notion of `effect history'. The space of effect histories carries the structure of a D-poset. Recent results of J.D. Maitland Wright imply that every decoherence functional defined for ordinary histories can be uniquely extended to a bi-additive decoherence functional on the space of effect histories. Omnes' logical interpretation is generalized to the present context. The result of this work considerably generalizes and simplifies the earlier formulation of the consistent effect histories approach to quantum mechanics communicated in a previous work of this author.
description: LaTeX 2.09 version replaced by LaTeX2e version, minor changes
Tuning-less Object Naming with a Foundation Model
Creators: name: Lucny, Andrej
name: Petrovic, Pavel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.9

description: We implement a real-time object naming system that enables learning a set of named entities never seen. Our approach employs an existing foundation model that we consider ready to see anything before starting. It turns seen images into relatively small feature vectors that we associate with index to a gradually built vocabulary without any training of fine-tuning of the model. Our contribution is using the association mechanism known from transformers as attention. It has features that support generalization from irrelevant information for distinguishing the entities and potentially enable associating with much more than indices to vocabulary. As a result, the system can work in a one-shot manner and correctly name objects named in different contents. We also outline implementation details of the system modules integrated by a blackboard architecture. Finally, we investigate the system's quality, mainly how many objects it can handle in this way.
description: This work was funded (or co-funded) by the Horizon-Widera-2021 European Twinning project TERAIS G.A. n. 101079338 World Symposium on Digital Intelligence for Systems and Machines (DISA2023), Kosice, September 21-22, 2023 citations: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10308905 codes: https://github.com/andylucny/whatisthis, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10702868 7 pages, 9 figures, 0 tables
Electronic structure and nematic phase transition in superconducting multi-layer FeSe films grown by pulsed laser deposition method
Creators: name: Shen, Bing
name: Feng, Zhongpei
name: Huang, Jianwei
name: Hu, Yong
name: Gao, Qiang
name: Li, Cong
name: Xu, Yu
name: Liu, Guodong
name: Yu, Li
name: Zhao, Lin
name: Jin, Kui
name: Zhou, X. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report comprehensive angle-resolved photoemission investigations on the electronic structure of single crystal multiple-layer FeSe films grown on CaF2 substrate by pulsed laser deposition (PLD) method. Measurements on FeSe/CaF2 samples with different superconducting transition temperatures Tc of 4 K, 9 K and 14 K reveal electronic difference in their Fermi surface and band structure. Indication of the nematic phase transition is observed from temperature-dependent measurements of these samples; the nematic transition temperature is 140-160 K, much higher than 90 K for the bulk FeSe. Potassium deposition is applied onto the surface of these samples; the nematic phase is suppressed by potassium deposition which introduces electrons to these FeSe films and causes a pronounced electronic structure change. We compared and discussed the electronic structure and superconductivity of the FeSe/CaF2 films by PLD method with the FeSe/SrTiO3 films by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) method and bulk FeSe. The PLD-grown multilayer FeSe/CaF2 is more hole-doped than that in MBE-grown multiple-layer FeSe films. Our results on FeSe/CaF2 films by PLD method establish a link between bulk FeSe single crystal and FeSe/SrTiO3 films by MBE method, and provide important information to understand superconductivity in FeSe-related systems.
description: 22 pages, 8 figures
The ATLAS Hardware Track Trigger design towards first prototypes
Creators: name: Boveia, Antonio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: In the High Luminosity LHC, planned to start with Run4 in 2026, the ATLAS experiment will be equipped with the Hardware Track Trigger (HTT) system, a dedicated hardware system able to reconstruct tracks in the silicon detectors with short latency. This HTT will be composed of about 700 ATCA boards, based on new technologies available on the market, like high speed links and powerful FPGAs, as well as custom-designed Associative Memories ASIC (AM), which are an evolution of those used extensively in previous experiments and in the ATLAS Fast Tracker (FTK). The HTT is designed to cope with the expected extreme high luminosity in the so called L0—only scenario, where HTT will operate at the L0 rate (1 MHz). It will provide good quality tracks to the software High-Level-Trigger (HLT), operating as coprocessor, reducing the HLT farm size by a factor of 10, by lightening the load of the software tracking. All ATLAS upgrade projects are designed also for an evolved, so-called "L0/L1" architecture, where part of HTT is used in a low-latency mode (L1Track), providing tracks in regions of ATLAS at a rate of up to 4MHz, with a latency of a few micro-seconds. This second phase poses very stringent requirements on the latency budget and to the dataflow rates. All the requirements and the specifications of this system have been assessed. The design of all the components has being reviewed and validated with preliminary simulation studies. After these validations are completed, the development of the first prototypes will start. In this paper we describe the status of the design review, showing challenges and assessed specifications, towards the preparation of the first slice tests with real prototypes.
Additional file 3: of Identifying bottlenecks in the iron and folic acid supply chain in Bihar, India: a mixed-methods study
Creators: name: Wendt, Amanda
name: Stephenson, Rob
name: Young, Melissa
name: Verma, Pankaj
name: Sridhar Srikantiah
name: Webb-Girard, Amy
name: Hogue, Carol
name: Ramakrishnan, Usha
name: Martorell, Reynaldo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: IDI District storekeeper: In-depth interview guide for district storekeepers. (DOCX 21Â kb)
Kinematics of the Narrow-Line Region in the Seyfert 2 Galaxy NGC 1068: Dynamical Effects of the Radio Jet
Creators: name: Das, V.
name: Crenshaw, D. M.
name: Deo, R. P.
name: Kraemer, S. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a study of high-resolution long-slit spectra of the narrow-line region (NLR) in NGC 1068 obtained with the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) aboard The Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The spectra were retrieved from the Multimission Archive at Space Telescope (MAST) obtained from two visits and seven orbits of HST time. We also obtained MERLIN radio maps of the center of NGC 1068 to examine the dependence of the NLR cloud velocities on the radio structure. The radial velocities and velocity dispersions of the bright NLR clouds appear to be unaffected by the radio knots, indicating that the radio jet is not the principal driving force on the outflowing NLR clouds. However, the velocities of the fainter NLR clouds are split near knots in the jet, indicating a possible interaction. Biconical outflow models were generated to match the data and for comparison to previous models done with lower dispersion observations. The general trend is an increase in radial velocity roughly proportional to distance from the nucleus followed by a linear decrease after roughly 100 parsec similar to that seen in other Seyfert galaxies, indicating common acceleration/deceleration mechanisms.
description: 42 pages, 12 figures accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal
title: Shelf label nutrition information
title: Consumer preferences and behavior
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Berning, Joshua Paul
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Consumers -- Attitudes

description: Motivated by a steady global increase in obesity and an increasing demand for healthy foods, a large number of different nutrition labels are being offered to consumers. Nutrition labels benefit consumers by increasing product knowledge, reducing search costs, and making it easier to identify healthier choices. Available nutrition labels provide varying amounts of nutrition information, however. Consumers have heterogeneous preferences for information and therefore respond differently to certain types of nutrition labels, making some labels more effective than others. This work contributes to the economics and marketing literatures by identifying consumer preferences for nutrition information provided on grocery store shelf labels and testing whether shelf label nutrition information affects consumer behavior. Choice experiments are used to elicit consumer preferences for nutrition information provided on grocery store shelf labels. The results of the choice experiments are analyzed using random parameters logit models. In general, consumers demonstrate a strong affinity for shelf label nutrition information; however, preferences vary between identified market segments. The presentation of the nutrition information significantly affects consumer preferences as well. In terms of the type of nutrition information provided, consumers have higher mean preferences for detailed nutrition labels over summary nutrition labels. There is a larger dispersion, however, of population preferences for the detailed information. While nutritionally conscious consumers prefer the detailed nutrition information, it may be more effective to provide shoppers who normally do not acquire nutrition information with summary labels. A field experiment is used to examine the effectiveness of nutrition information provided on grocery store shelf labels where effectiveness is measured in terms of how well shelf label nutrition information attracts attention and how it affects shopper behavior. We find that a highly prominent display of shelf label nutrition information attracts shopper attention and affects shopper behavior as well. The effect on behavior, however, is dependent on the type of product. Grocery stores that choose to offer their own nutrition labels can benefit from generating awareness of their efforts.
Lattice Background Effective Action: a Proposal
Creators: name: Cea, Paolo
name: Cosmai, Leonardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a method based on the Schrödinger functional for computing on the lattice the gauge invariant effective action for external background fields. We check this method by studying the U(1) lattice gauge theory in presence of a constant magnetic background field.
description: Talk presented at LATTICE96(topology)
title: Quasi-barbarians' and 'Wandering Jews'
title: The Balfour Declaration in light of world events
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Rhett, Maryanne Agnes
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Zionism -- Great Britain

description: On 2 November 1917, the British government formally issued the Balfour Declaration, one of the most important documents in defining the Middle East for the coming century. The Declaration laid the groundwork for the eventual creation of the state of Israel while at the same time problematizing the concept of "nation" for the entire world. This dissertation looks beyond the two traditional explanations for why the Declaration was created: British martial and imperial wartime need or the moral obligation felt by some influential politicians to the world s Jewry. These accounts, while useful and necessary, only narrowly demonstrate the document s significance, exclude factors which helped to create it, and prevent an examination of those global realities which developed as a result of its issuance. Instead, this work examines the Declaration in terms of the global context, broadening the scope of the document s significance and creating a clearer picture of the global community as a composite of individual actors, regional pressures, and trans-regional realities. Crucial to this discussion is the impact ideals of race, gender, and nation had on policy-making structures and how events in Palestine, India, Kenya, Ireland and Europe influenced the Declaration s formation, issuance, and outcomes.
Separability of Mixed States: Necessary and Sufficient Conditions
Creators: name: Horodecki, Michal
name: Horodecki, Pawel
name: Horodecki, Ryszard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide necessary and sufficient conditions for separability of mixed states. As a result we obtain a simple criterion of separability for $2\times2$ and $2\times3$ systems. Here, the positivity of the partial transposition of a state is necessary and sufficient for its separability. However, it is not the case in general. Some examples of mixtures which demonstrate the utility of the criterion are considered.
description: Revtex, 13 pages, replaced with minor typos corrected and some examples added
MOESM1 of Genetic and physiological basis for antibody production by Kluyveromyces marxianus
Creators: name: Nambu-Nishida, Yumiko
name: Nishida, Keiji
name: Hasunuma, Tomohisa
name: Kondo, Akihiko
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Primers used in this study. Figure S1. Amino acid sequence of scFv. Figure S2. Sequence of codon optimized scFv fragment. Figure S3. Sequence of E02-014 plasmid. Figure S4. Sequence of KmPMDH1. Figure S5. Sequence of KmPACO1. Figure S6. Secreted scFv activity per cell amount.
Correcting artifacts from finite image size in Differential Dynamic Microscopy
Creators: name: Giavazzi, Fabio
name: Edera, Paolo
name: Lu, Peter J.
name: Cerbino, Roberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Differential Dynamic Microscopy (DDM) analyzes traditional real-space microscope images to extract information on sample dynamics in a way akin to light scattering, by decomposing each image in a sequence into Fourier modes, and evaluating their time correlation properties. DDM has been applied in a number of soft-matter and colloidal systems. However, objects observed to move out of the microscope's captured field of view, intersecting the edges of the acquired images, can introduce spurious but significant errors in the subsequent analysis. Here we show that application of a spatial windowing filter to images in a sequence before they enter the standard DDM analysis can reduce these artifacts substantially. Moreover, windowing can increase significantly the accessible range of wave vectors probed by DDM, and may further yield unexpected information, such as the size polydispersity of a colloidal suspension.
Additional file 1 of Relationship between different particle size fractions and all-cause and cause-specific emergency ambulance dispatches
Creators: name: Wang, Xiaojie
name: Tian, Junzhang
name: Li, Ziyi
name: Lai, Jun
name: Huang, Xin
name: He, Yongcong
name: Ye, Zebing
name: Li, Guowei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Pearson correlation coefficients between the daily mean concentrations of air pollutants between 2014 to 2018 in Guangzhou. Table S2. Sensitivity analysis for emergency ambulance dispatches associated with each 10 μg/m3 increment of different size fractions of particulate matter pollution at lag03.