cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Presence of negative entropies in Casimir interactions
Creators: name: Høye, Johan S.
name: Brevik, Iver
name: Milton, Kimball A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Negative entropy in connection with the Casimir effect at uniform temperature is a phenomenon rooted in the circumstance that one is describing a nonclosed system, or only part of a closed system. In this paper we show that the phenomenon is not necessarily restricted to electromagnetic theory, but can be derived from the quantum theory of interacting harmonic oscillators, most typically two oscillators interacting not directly but indirectly via a third one. There are two such models, actually analogous to the transverse magnetic (TM) and transverse electric (TE) modes in electrodynamics. These mechanical models in their simplest version were presented some years ago, by J. S. Høye et al., Physical Review E {\bf 67}, 056116 (2003). In the present paper we re-emphasize the physical significance of the mechanical picture, and extend the theory so as to include the case where there are several mediating oscillators, instead of only one. The TE oscillator exhibits negative entropy. Finally, we show explicitly how the interactions via the electromagnetic field contain the two oscillator models.
description: 12 pages, no figures
"param_card.strong.dat" of "Search for long-lived charginos based on a disappearing-track signature in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector"
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: HEPData
Year: 2020

description: SLHA file listing the superpartner masses and decay channels for the signal chargino in strong production
description: CERN-LHC. This paper presents a search for direct electroweak gaugino or gluino pair production with a chargino nearly mass-degenerate with a stable neutralino. It is based on an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb$^{-1}$ of $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV collected by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. The final state of interest is a disappearing track accompanied by at least one jet with high transverse momentum from initial-state radiation or by four jets from the gluino decay chain. The use of short track segments reconstructed from the innermost tracking layers significantly improves the sensitivity to short chargino lifetimes. The results are found to be consistent with Standard Model predictions. Exclusion limits are set at 95% confidence level on the mass of charginos and gluinos for different chargino lifetimes. For a pure wino with a lifetime of about 0.2 ns, chargino masses up to 460 GeV are excluded. For the strong production channel, gluino masses up to 1.65 TeV are excluded assuming a chargino mass of 460 GeV and lifetime of 0.2 ns. For the strong production channel, gluino masses up to 1.65 TeV are excluded assuming a chargino mass of 460 GeV and lifetime of 0.2 ns.
The association between body condition score and the udder skin surface temperature in goats
Creators: name: Korelidou, V.
name: Kalogianni, A.I.
name: Gelasakis, A.I.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Thermal imaging
infrared thermography
udder temperature
body condition score
BCS
goat

description: This poster was presented at the 74th Annual Meeting of EAAP and aimed to examine the relationship between body condition score and the udder skin surface temperature in goats.
Observations of Binary Systems with the H.E.S.S. Telescopes
Creators: name: Bordas, P.
name: Dubus, G.
name: Eger, P.
name: Ernenwein, J. -P.
name: Laffon, H.
name: Mariaud, C.
name: Murach, T.
name: de Naurois, M.
name: Romoli, C.
name: Schüssler, F.
name: Zanin, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Observations of binary systems obtained recently with the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S) of Cherenkov telescopes are reported. The outcomes of a detailed observation campaign on PSR B1259-63 during its periastron passage in 2014 will be presented. This system was observed for the first time with H.E.S.S. II, providing spectra and light curves down to 200 GeV, which will be compared with observations conducted during previous periastron passages and with results from an analysis of contemporaneously taken Fermi-LAT data. Also long-term observations of LS 5039 with H.E.S.S in phase I and phase II are reported. This source was monitored at very high energies (VHEs) in a period of time spanning more than ten years. Its spectral energy distribution measured with H.E.S.S. II extends down to 120 GeV. Spectral results from the Fermi-LAT observations are shown as well, and the compatibility with H.E.S.S. results in the overlapping energy range is discussed. The identification of the new gamma-ray binary candidate HESS J1832-093 will also be presented. Furthermore, the search for VHE emission from the microquasars GRS 1915+105, Circinus X-1 and V4641 Sgr based on data from H.E.S.S. observations conducted contemporaneously with the RXTE satellite experiment will be reported. These data provide constraints on the integral gamma-ray flux at different X-ray states of the three sources.
description: 6 pages, 7 figures; Contribution to the 6th International Symposium on High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy (Gamma2016), July 11-15, 2016, Heidelberg, Germany. To be published in the AIP Conference Proceedings
Interview with Anonymous (2019-02-20)
Creators: name: HIV In My Day
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2021
Subjects: Stigma & Discrimination
Positive Thinking & Resiliency
Isolation & Lack of Support
Indigenous Community

description: An interview with Anonymous as part of the HIV in My Day Oral History project. Interviewers: Art Holbrook & Charlene Anderson. Location: Victoria.
REPOSIDONIA: Final Project Report Mapping Posidonia oceanica (Linnaeus) Delile, 1813 meadows in Spetses and Velopoula islands
Creators: name: Naasan Aga - Spyridopoulou, Roxani
name: Gkikas, Raphael
name: Poursanidis, Dimitris
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Posidonia meadows
Remote Sensing

description: In the context of REPOSIDONIA project, in 2022, iSea uptook the mapping of Posidonia oceanica meadows surrounding Spetses and Velopoula islands, in the Argolic Gulf, Greece. The project was implemented by iSea, with the collaboration of terraSolutions and the funding of Argolic Environment Foundation.
Efficacy of Cranberry Extract against established Endodontic Biofilm in an In vitro Tooth Model
Creators: name: Tischke, Gail MB
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Efficacy of Cranberry Extract against established Endodontic Biofilm in an In-vitro Tooth Model INTRODUCTION: Cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon), a native North American fruit, has been reported to have anti-bacterial, anti-adhesion, anti-tumorigenic, anti-inflammatory and antiox-idant activity. Besides its broad-spectrum antimicrobial activity against microorganisms, cran-berry extract has also demonstrated inhibition against biofilms of Enterococcus faecalis. OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this investigation is to determine the efficacy of cranberry wash as an endodontic irrigant against established multispecies mixed culture endodontic biofilm in an in vitro tooth model. MATERIALS/METHODS: Seventy-two extracted human single canal teeth were collected and standardized to a length of 14 mm. Teeth were cultured in Schaedler broth with Fusobacterium nucleatum, E. faecalis, and Porphyromonas gingivalis for 21 days and then randomly assigned to 6 treatment groups [sterile saline; 5.25% sodium hypochlorite (NaOCl); 2% chlorhexidine (CHX); three cranberry extracts]. The teeth were instrumented and irrigated with 6 mL of the irrigants. Culture in the canals were sampled before and after instrumentation for viable bacte-ria. Viable bacteria in the dentinal tubules were also determined after instrumentation. Data was analyzed using Kruskal-Wallis chi squared test (P < 0.05). RESULTS: Bacterial growth was noted in all root canal samples prior to instrumentation. NaOCl and CHX significantly reduced bacterial viability. However, cranberry extracts did not demon-strate significant germ-kill efficacy compared to the non-treatment control (saline group). CONCLUSIONS: Although cranberry extract has been reported to reduce supra-gingival plaque biofilm adherence and formation, it did not demonstrate significant germ-kill effect as an effective endodontic irrigant against pre-established multi-species biofilm.
Extreme Heat Vulnerability of the Population in Georgia, USA
Creators: name: Bakari Baker
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: We developed a new variable based on apparent temperature to more accurate assess the extent to which extreme heat poses a threat. This cumulative extreme heat exposure exceedance (cEHEE) matrix was calculated by introducing a threshold above which the temperatures are likely to pose a threat to the public. This new cEHEE calculation matrix resulted in the identification of significant amount of days of extreme heat exposure exceedance (EHEE) well above 95 degrees in GA. An evaluation of the usefulness of the land cover variables Urban land cover, Low urban land cover (LULC), Total Natural Land Cover (NLC) and Material land cover (MLC) was performed. Heat-related climate change is adversely affecting the people in the state of Georgia. Extreme heat conditions in Georgia are increasing the morbidity rates of the total population in GA. These indicators were compared to the age-adjusted morbidity rates per county from 2000 to 2004. The analyses were compare to the new c.EHEE variable, socio-economic variables and age-adjusted morbidity rates. In most cases the addition of the land cover variables improves performance especially in terms of Classification Failure (CF). Determining the extreme heat vulnerability of a population by utilizing the newly developed land cover and EHEE variables to the historically used socio-economic provides more accurate identification of groups that are currently vulnerable. The use of land cover also allows public health officials to more accurately predict future vulnerable populations. Our research analysis has identified several counties that have been historically more vulnerable to extreme heat conditions and will more than likely continue to be more vulnerable in the future.
Attitude change in school children : a case study-the school play
Creators: name: Greenaway, David F.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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"susy.mAMSB_315600.slha" of "Search for long-lived charginos based on a disappearing-track signature in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector"
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: HEPData
Year: 2020

description: SLHA file listing the superpartner masses and decay channels for the 900 GeV signal chargino in electroweak production
description: CERN-LHC. This paper presents a search for direct electroweak gaugino or gluino pair production with a chargino nearly mass-degenerate with a stable neutralino. It is based on an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb$^{-1}$ of $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV collected by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. The final state of interest is a disappearing track accompanied by at least one jet with high transverse momentum from initial-state radiation or by four jets from the gluino decay chain. The use of short track segments reconstructed from the innermost tracking layers significantly improves the sensitivity to short chargino lifetimes. The results are found to be consistent with Standard Model predictions. Exclusion limits are set at 95% confidence level on the mass of charginos and gluinos for different chargino lifetimes. For a pure wino with a lifetime of about 0.2 ns, chargino masses up to 460 GeV are excluded. For the strong production channel, gluino masses up to 1.65 TeV are excluded assuming a chargino mass of 460 GeV and lifetime of 0.2 ns. For the strong production channel, gluino masses up to 1.65 TeV are excluded assuming a chargino mass of 460 GeV and lifetime of 0.2 ns.
Go Run That Code: Developing Trust in Trainees to Lead Pediatric Resuscitations
Creators: name: Sushant Srinivasan
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Background: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation is a high-acuity, low-frequency event. Studies show gaps in trainee confidence and experience. Resuscitation has been proposed as an entrustable professional activity for general pediatric and pediatric critical care trainees. Supervisor entrustment of trainees to lead pediatric resuscitations can be challenging given the characteristics of this professional activity. Previous studies investigating the development of trust have not focused on pediatric resuscitation or the impact of clinical context or models of supervision. Purpose: To describe trust development in pediatric resuscitation highlighting the impact of context and supervision model. Methods: Qualitative, multi-institutional study using semi-structured interviews of trainees and supervisors. Interviews elucidated roles and expectations of trainees and supervisors involved in pediatric resuscitation teams and factors impacting entrustment. Results: Ten interviews were conducted, 5 trainees and 5 supervisors. Thematic analysis to achieve saturation conducted by two coders. Themes about trust development differed significantly between supervisors and trainees. Context affected the development of trust. No significant difference was noted across different supervision models. Conclusions: The development of trust in trainees to lead pediatric resuscitations is complex and multi-faceted with clinical context an important factor. Training programs may be able to incorporate curricular and institutional changes to enhance trust development.
Design and Performance Analysis of Non-Coherent Detection Systems with Massive Receiver Arrays
Creators: name: Jing, Lishuai
name: De Carvalho, Elisabeth
name: Popovski, Petar
name: Martinez, Alex Oliveras
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Harvesting the gain of a large number of antennas in a mmWave band has mainly been relying on the costly operation of channel state information (CSI) acquisition and cumbersome phase shifters. Recent works have started to investigate the possibility to use receivers based on energy detection (ED), where a single data stream is decoded based on the channel and noise energy. The asymptotic features of the massive receiver array lead to a system where the impact of the noise becomes predictable due to a noise hardening effect. This in effect extends the communication range compared to the receiver with a small number of antennas, as the latter is limited by the unpredictability of the additive noise. When the channel has a large number of spatial degrees of freedom, the system becomes robust to imperfect channel knowledge due to channel hardening. We propose two detection methods based on the instantaneous and average channel energy, respectively. Meanwhile, we design the detection thresholds based on the asymptotic properties of the received energy. Differently from existing works, we analyze the scaling law behavior of the symbol-error-rate (SER). When the instantaneous channel energy is known, the performance of ED approaches that of the coherent detection in high SNR scenarios. When the receiver relies on the average channel energy, our performance analysis is based on the exact SER, rather than an approximation. It is shown that the logarithm of SER decreases linearly as a function of the number of antennas. Additionally, a saturation appears at high SNR for PAM constellations of order larger than two, due to the uncertainty on the channel energy. Simulation results show that ED, with a much lower complexity, achieves promising performance both in Rayleigh fading channels and in sparse channels.
Automatic parametrization of implicit solvent models for the blind prediction of solvation free energies
Creators: name: Wang, Bao
name: Wang, Chengzhang
name: Wei, Guowei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 65-04

description: In this work, a systematic protocol is proposed to automatically parametrize implicit solvent models with polar and nonpolar components. The proposed protocol utilizes the classical Poisson model or the Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KSDFT) based polarizable Poisson model for modeling polar solvation free energies. For the nonpolar component, either the standard model of surface area, molecular volume, and van der Waals interactions, or a model with atomic surface areas and molecular volume is employed. Based on the assumption that similar molecules have similar parametrizations, we develop scoring and ranking algorithms to classify solute molecules. Four sets of radius parameters are combined with four sets of charge force fields to arrive at a total of 16 different parametrizations for the Poisson model. A large database with 668 experimental data is utilized to validate the proposed protocol. The lowest leave-one-out root mean square (RMS) error for the database is 1.33k cal/mol. Additionally, five subsets of the database, i.e., SAMPL0-SAMPL4, are employed to further demonstrate that the proposed protocol offers some of the best solvation predictions. The optimal RMS errors are 0.93, 2.82, 1.90, 0.78, and 1.03 kcal/mol, respectively for SAMPL0, SAMPL1, SAMPL2, SAMPL3, and SAMPL4 test sets. These results are some of the best, to our best knowledge.
description: 19 pages, 9 figures
Semi-Supervised Machine Learning & Deep Learning Models in Crisis-Related Informativeness Classification
Creators: name: Rennola, Alessandro
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This study examines the impact of several state-of-the-art Machine Learning and Deep Learning techniques in the context of semi-supervised disaster-related Twitter mining. The goal is to create a model able to successfully classify informative tweets in the context of natural and human-induced disasters by employing several Machine Learning (Naive Bayes and Support-Vector Machines) and Deep Learning (Convolutional Neural Networks, Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory) mechanisms. Firstly, we evaluate the performance of supervised instances. Subsequently, the supervised models are extended to assess the impact of semi-supervised techniques (self-training for NB, SVM, CNN; Virtual Adversarial Loss for Bi-LSTM). The accuracy of our Bi-LSTM model peaks at 0.961 in the English dataset, and 0.969 in the Italian dataset. In our knowledge, our semi-supervised learning models for informativeness classification outperform other supervised state-of-the-art models. Finally, our conclusions are drawn as a means to provide a meaningful starting point for future research opportunities.
Topological classifier for detecting the emergence of epileptic seizures
Creators: name: Piangerelli, Marco
name: Rucco, Matteo
name: Merelli, Emanuela
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.5.2

description: In this work we study how to apply topological data analysis to create a method suitable to classify EEGs of patients affected by epilepsy. The topological space constructed from the collection of EEGs signals is analyzed by Persistent Entropy acting as a global topological feature for discriminating between healthy and epileptic signals. The Physionet data-set has been used for testing the classifier.
description: Open data: Physionet data-set
Interview with Koba ter Neuzen
Creators: name: HIV In My Day
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2021
Subjects: ter Neuzen, Koba
Positive Thinking & Resiliency
ASOs
Treatment & Medical Responses
Women & HIV

description: An interview with Koba ter Neuzen as part of the HIV in My Day Oral History project. Interviewers: Art Holbrook & Bruce Budden. Location: Victoria.
Perceived influences on teachers' attempts to implement a curriculum change
Creators: name: Draper, Victor J.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Hipposideros breviceps Tate 1941
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Rhinolophidae
Hipposideros
Hipposideros breviceps

description: Hipposideros breviceps Tate, 1941. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 78:358. TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia, Sumatra, Mentawai Isis., N. Pagi Isl. DISTRIBUTION: Mentawai Isis.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 137, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
The RG-improved Twin Higgs effective potential at NNLL
Creators: name: Greco, Davide
name: Mimouni, Kin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the Renormalization Group improvement of the Twin Higgs effective potential at cubic order in logarithmic accuracy. We first introduce a model-independent low-energy effective Lagrangian that captures both the pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson nature of the Higgs field and the twin light degrees of freedom charged under a copy of the Standard Model. We then apply the background field method to systematically re-sum all the one loop diagrams contributing to the potential. We show how this technique can be efficient to implicitly renormalize the higher-dimensional operators in the twin sector without classifying all of them. A prediction for the Higgs mass in the Twin Higgs model is derived and found to be of the order of $M_H \sim 120 ~\text{GeV}$ with an ultraviolet cut-off $m_*\sim 10-20 ~\text{TeV}$. Irrespective of any possible ultraviolet completion of the low-energy Lagrangian, the infrared degrees of freedom alone are therefore enough to account for the observed value of the Higgs mass through running effects.
description: 28 pages, 6 figures
Interview with Claude Heneault
Creators: name: HIV In My Day
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2021
Subjects: Heneault, Claude
Positive Thinking & Resiliency
ASOs
Isolation & Lack of Support

description: An interview with Claude Heneault as part of the HIV in My Day Oral History project. Interviewer: Art Holbrook. Location: Victoria.
Improved NYHA class and KCCQ-12 after septal myectomy in patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Creators: name: Cambron, Claire
name: Lin, Lucy
name: Kim, Morris
name: Rashdan, Lana
name: Li, Sarah
name: Zhao, Yuanzi
name: Graham, Kellie
name: Fischer, Katherine
name: Nazer, Babak
name: Heitner, Stephen B.
name: Song, Howard
name: Masri, Ahmad
Publisher: name: Oregon Health and Science University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Female
subject: Cardiac Myosins
subject: Prevalence
subject: Placebo Effect
subject: Prospective Studies
subject: Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic
subject: Heart Failure
subject: Surveys and Questionnaires
subject: Physicians
subject: Humans

description: Patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (oHCM) frequently present with heart failure symptoms refractory to medical therapy and require septal myectomy (SM). The magnitude of benefit from SM is thought to be better than the recently reported data from EXPLORER-HCM and REDWOOD-HCM trials. We prospectively investigated the association between SM, patient-reported 12-item Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (KCCQ-12) and physician-reported NYHA class in a community-based cohort of oHCM. SM ± submitral valve repair is associated with improvement in NYHA class and KCCQ-12 but with a varying magnitude of benefit.
Vacuum $ f(R)$ thick brane solution with a Gaussian warp function
Creators: name: Hashemi, S. Sedigheh
name: Riazi, Nematollah
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This work deals with $f(R)$ modified gravity in five dimensional space-time. The Gaussian thick brane is shown to be an exact solution in the frame work of $f(R)$ gravity in five dimensions with a bulk cosmological constant. Response of the brane to gravitational fluctuations and concordance with the Starobinsky model is addressed. It is shown that the matter which supports the Starobinsky $f(R)$ solution with the background geometry being flat FLRW with a Gaussian warp function, behaves like a radiation dominated era of universe, gradually changing to a dark energy dominated era.
description: 14 pages, 6 figures
Leadership in educational administration : a descriptive - analytic study of the leadership expressions and expectations of Victorian primary school principals-elect
Creators: name: Curley, Brian T.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Hipposideros caffer
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Rhinolophidae
Hipposideros
Hipposideros caffer

description: Hipposideros caffer (Sundevall, 1846). Ofv. Kongl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Forhandl. Stockholm, 3(4):118. TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, Natal, near Durban. DISTRIBUTION: Most of subsaharan Africa except the central forested region; Morocco; Yemen; Zanzibar; Pemba. COMMENT: Includes braima, nanus, and auriantiaca; see Hayman and Hill, 1971, Part 2: 29. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405007008006001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 137, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
description: {"references": ["Hayman, R. W., and J. E. Hill. 1971. Order Chiroptera. Part 2. Pp. 1 - 73, in The mammals of Africa: An identification manual (J. Meester and H. W. Setzer, eds.) [issued 15 Jul 1971]. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., not continuously paginated."]}
REPOSIDONIA: Final Project Report Estimating the ecological status and blue carbon stock of the Posidonia oceanica (Linnaeus) Delile, 1813 meadows of northeast Corfu Island
Creators: name: Giovos, Ioannis
name: Gkikas, Raphael
name: Poursanidis, Dimitris
name: Papathanasiou, Vasilis
name: Naasan Aga - Spyridopoulou, Roxani
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Posidonia meadows
Blue Carbon
PREI index
Conservation Index
Erimitis

description: In the context of REPOSIDONIA project, in 2022, iSea visited the marine area of Erimitis in North East Corfu to assess the health of Posidonia meadows and estimate the total Blue carbon stock sequestered in their rhizomes. The project was implemented by iSea, in collaboration with terraSolutions and was funded by Ionian Environment Foundation.
Adaptive Position-Based Fluids: Improving Performance of Fluid Simulations for Real-Time Applications
Creators: name: Köster, Marcel
name: Krüger, Antonio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.3.5; I.3.7

description: The Position Based Fluids (PBF) method is a state-of-the-art approach for fluid simulations in the context of real-time applications like games. It uses an iterative solver concept that tries to maintain a constant fluid density (incompressibility) to realize incompressible fluids like water. However, larger fluid volumes that consist of several hundred thousand particles (e.g. for the simulation of oceans) require many iterations and a lot of simulation power. We present a lightweight and easy-to-integrate extension to PBF that adaptively adjusts the number of solver iterations on a fine-grained basis. Using a novel adaptive-simulation approach, we are able to achieve significant improvements in performance on our evaluation scenarios while maintaining high-quality results in terms of visualization quality, which makes it a perfect choice for game developers. Furthermore, our method does not weaken the advantages of prior work and seamlessly integrates into other position-based methods for physically-based simulations.
description: 16 pages, International Journal of Computer Graphics & Animation Vol.6, No.3, July 2016
A Superradiant Topological Peierls Insulator inside an Optical Cavity
Creators: name: Mivehvar, Farokh
name: Ritsch, Helmut
name: Piazza, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a spinless ultracold Fermi gas tightly trapped along the axis of an optical resonator and transversely illuminated by a laser closely tuned to a resonator mode. At a certain threshold pump intensity the homogeneous gas density breaks a $\mathbf{Z}_2$ symmetry towards a spatially periodic order, which collectively scatters pump photons into the cavity. We show that this known self-ordering transition also occurs for low field seeking fermionic particles when the laser light is blue-detuned to an atomic transition. The emergent superradiant optical lattice in this case is homopolar and possesses two distinct dimerizations. Depending on the spontaneously chosen dimerization the resulting Bloch bands can have a non-trivial topological structure characterized by a non-vanishing Zak phase. In the case the Fermi momentum is close to half the cavity-mode wavenumber, a Peierls-like instability here creates a topoloical insulator with a gap at the Fermi surface, which hosts a pair of edge states. The topological features of the system can be non-destructively observed via the cavity output: the Zak phase of the bulk coincides with the relative phase between laser and cavity field, while the fingerprint of edge states can be observed as additional broadening in a well defined frequency window of the cavity spectrum.
description: 4 figures, 4+3 pages
Leave No One Behind: Inclusion of Persons With Disabilities In the United Nations Development Agenda
Creators: name: Cuk, Vladimir
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Historically, persons with disabilities were excluded from the official and internationally agreed development programs and agendas, including those implemented by the United Nations (UN). This exclusion had severe consequences on the rights of persons with disabilities across the world and thus positioned persons with disabilities amongst those that are the poorest of the poor and those that are left behind. The goal of this study is to explore a connection between the UN development agenda and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and thus contribute to providing guidance for implementing development inclusive of persons with disabilities. The research questions are: 1. What is the connection between the articles of CRPD and internationally agreed goals from the UN development agenda? 2. What is the historical development of global and universal commitments of the UN with its member states towards sustainable development inclusive of persons with disabilities and their rights? 3. How has the inclusion of people with disabilities in the UN development agenda changed over time? 4. What guidelines can be provided to policymakers in implementing the development goals inclusive of persons with disabilities, and particularly in the areas of education, employment, inclusive cities and data? To respond to these questions, the researcher uses the research method of Critical Discourse Analysis by exploring how the references to persons with disabilities in the UN development documents can be correlated with the CRPD. Through application of the critical discourse analysis, the study attempts to provide recommendations for policymakers at the national level. The study use model developed by Diane Kingston in a review of 17 UN development documents, which revealed an increase in number of references to persons with disabilities in these documents. The study further, provides a presentation of historical events that potentially influence this increase in number. The key events recognized by the study that could potentially influence the increasing number of references are the adoption of the CRPD and systematic and organized advocacy work of the International Disability Alliance (IDA) and International Disability and Development Consortium (IDDC). The study concludes that there is a connection between UN development documents and the CRPD, through the application of the model. This builds a solid argument for recommendations to policymakers to focus on implementation of the CRPD in order to implement a development agenda inclusive of persons with disabilities.
Astrometry with MCAO: HST-GeMS proper motions in the globular cluster NGC 6681
Creators: name: Massari, D.
name: Fiorentino, G.
name: McConnachie, A.
name: Bellini, A.
name: Tolstoy, E.
name: Turri, P.
name: Andersen, D.
name: Bono, G.
name: Stetson, P. B.
name: Véran, J. -P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Aims: for the first time the astrometric capabilities of the Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics (MCAO) facility GeMS with the GSAOI camera on Gemini-South are tested to quantify the accuracy in determining stellar proper motions in the Galactic globular cluster NGC 6681. Methods: proper motions from HST/ACS for a sample of its stars are already available, and this allows us to construct a distortion-free reference at the epoch of GeMS observations that is used to measure and correct the temporally changing distortions for each GeMS exposure. In this way, we are able to compare the corrected GeMS images with a first-epoch of HST/ACS images to recover the relative proper motion of the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxy with respect to NGC 6681. Results: we find this to be (μ_αcosδ, μ_δ) = (4.09,-3.41) mas/yr, which matches previous HST/ACS measurements with a very good accuracy of 0.03 mas/yr and with a comparable precision (r.m.s of 0.43 mas/yr). Conclusions: this study successfully demonstrates that high-quality proper motions can be measured for quite large fields of view (85 arcsec X 85 arcsec) with MCAO-assisted, ground-based cameras and provides a first, successful test of the performances of GeMS on multi-epoch data.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication by A&A Letters
A PUTATIVE JUVENILE SPECIMEN OF EUSAUROSPHARGIS DALSASSOI FROM THE ANISIAN (MIDDLE TRIASSIC) OF PIZ DA PERES (DOLOMITES, NORTHERN ITALY)
Creators: name: RENESTO, SILVIO
name: KUSTATSCHER, EVELYN
name: GIANOLLA, PIERO
Publisher: name: RIVISTA ITALIANA DI PALEONTOLOGIA E STRATIGRAFIA
Year: 2020

description: The partial skeleton of a small tetrapod, collected from the lower Buchenstein Formation (uppermost Illyrian, Anisian Middle Triassic) of Piz da Peres (Northern Dolomites, Italy) is described. Incomplete ossification of some bones indicate that the specimen is a juvenile. Its absolute size and proportions, along with several skeletal structures show striking similarities with a juvenile specimen of Eusaurosphargis dalsassoi from the slightly younger Prosanto Formation (Switzerland), a taxon known also from the Anisian/Ladinian Besano Formation (Italy and Switzerland). The finding may suggest that during the middle-late Anisian the basins of the Northern Dolomites, of the Besano Formation and Prosanto Formation shared not only several taxa of fishes but also the emerged lands nearby had a similar reptilian fauna.
description: RIVISTA ITALIANA DI PALEONTOLOGIA E STRATIGRAFIA , Vol 126 No 2 (2020)
An evaluation of the organizational effectiveness of two faculties in a College of Advanced Education
Creators: name: Brown, Raymond Maxwell.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Impact of New Gamow-Teller Strengths on Explosive Type Ia Supernova Nucleosynthesis
Creators: name: Mori, Kanji
name: Famiano, Michael A.
name: Kajino, Toshitaka
name: Suzuki, Toshio
name: Hidaka, Jun
name: Honma, Michio
name: Iwamoto, Koichi
name: Nomoto, Ken'ichi
name: Otsuka, Takaharu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent experimental results have confirmed a possible reduction in the GT$_+$ strengths of pf-shell nuclei. These proton-rich nuclei are of relevance in the deflagration and explosive burning phases of Type Ia supernovae. While prior GT strengths result in nucleosynthesis predictions with a lower-than-expected electron fraction, a reduction in the GT$_+$ strength can result in an slightly increased electron fraction compared to previous shell model predictions, though the enhancement is not as large as previous enhancements in going from rates computed by Fuller, Fowler, and Newman based on an independent particle model. A shell model parametrization has been developed which more closely matches experimental GT strengths. The resultant electron-capture rates are used in nucleosynthesis calculations for carbon deflagration and explosion phases of Type Ia supernovae, and the final mass fractions are compared to those obtained using more commonly-used rates.
description: Accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal
Hipposideros calcaratus
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Rhinolophidae
Hipposideros
Hipposideros calcaratus

description: Hipposideros calcaratus (Dobson, 1877). Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1877: 122. TYPE LOCALITY: Papua New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago, Duke of York Isl. DISTRIBUTION: New Guinea; Bismarck Arch.; Solomon Isis.; adjacent small islands. COMMENT: Includes cupidus; see Smith and Hill, 1981, Los Ang. Cty. Mus. Contrib. Sci., 331:8. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405007008007001 as H. calcaratus. 5301405007008013001 as H. cupidus.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 138, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
description: {"references": ["Smith, J. D., and J. E. Hill. 1981. A new species and subspecies of bat of the Hipposideros bicolor-group from Papua New Guinea and the systematic status of Hipposideros calcaratus and Hipposideros cupidus (Mammalia: Chiroptera: Hipposideridae). Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 331: 1 - 19."]}
Relationships between mathematical experience, spatial ability and conservation of volume for Form 1 pupils
Creators: name: Byrt, Edwin Andrew.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Hipposideros camerunensis Eisentraut 1956
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Rhinolophidae
Hipposideros
Hipposideros camerunensis

description: Hipposideros camerunensis Eisentraut, 1956. Zool. Jahrb. Abt. Syst. Oekol. Geogr. Tiere, 84:526. TYPE LOCALITY: Cameroun, near Buea. DISTRIBUTION: Cameroun; E. Zaire. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405007008008001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 138, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
Development of an instrument to aid the development of camping programs in Victorian secondary schools : an exploratory study
Creators: name: Bassed, David John.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Equivalent Resistance from the Quantum to the Classical Transport Limit
Creators: name: Sarkar, Saheli
name: Kroeber, Damaris
name: Morr, Dirk K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We generalize the concept of equivalent resistance to the entire range from coherent quantum to diffusive classical transport by introducing the notion of transport equivalent networks. We show that this novel concept presents us with a platform to simplify the structure of quantum networks while preserving their global and local transport properties, even in the presence of electron-phonon or electron-electron interactions. This allows us to describe the evolution of equivalent quantum networks to equivalent classical resistor networks with increasing interaction strength.
Hipposideros cineraceus Blyth 1853
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Rhinolophidae
Hipposideros
Hipposideros cineraceus

description: Hipposideros cineraceus Blyth, 1853. J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 22:410. TYPE LOCALITY: Pakistan, Punjab, Salt Range, near Pind Dadan Khan. DISTRIBUTION: Pakistan; India to Vietnam and Borneo; adjacent small islands. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405007008010001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 138, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
Slow electrostatic fluctuations generated by beam-plasma interaction
Creators: name: Pommois, Karen
name: Valentini, Francesco
name: Pezzi, Oreste
name: Veltri, Pierluigi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Eulerian simulations of the Vlasov-Poisson equations have been employed to analyze the excitation of slow electrostatic fluctuations (with phase speed close to the electron thermal speed), due to a beam-plasma interaction, and their propagation in linear and nonlinear regime. In 1968, O'Neil and Malmberg [Phys. Fluids {\bf 11}, 1754 (1968)] dubbed these waves "beam modes". In the present paper, it is shown that, in the presence of a cold and low density electron beam, these beam modes can become unstable and then survive Landau damping unlike the Langmuir waves. When an electron beam is launched in a plasma of Maxwellian electrons and motionless protons and this initial equilibrium is perturbed by a monochromatic density disturbance, the electric field amplitude grows exponentially in time and then undergoes nonlinear saturation, associated with the kinetic effects of particle trapping and phase space vortex generation. Moreover, if the initial density perturbation is setup in the form of a low amplitude random phase noise, once the most unstable mode has reached its nonlinear saturation amplitude after the linear growth, the whole Fourier spectrum of wavenumbers is excited. As a result, the electric field profile appears as a train of isolated pulses, each of them being associated with a phase space vortex in the electron distribution function. At later times, these vortical structures tend to merge and, correspondingly, the electric pulses collapse, showing the tendency towards a time asymptotic configuration with a single phase space structure associated to an electric soliton-like pulse. This dynamical evolution is driven by purely kinetic processes, possibly at work in many space and laboratory plasma environments.