cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
PH-VAE: A Polynomial Hierarchical Variational Autoencoder Towards Disentangled Representation Learning
Creators: name: Chen, Xi
name: Li, Shaofan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.6; I.5.1
subject: 68T07 (Primary) 92B20 (Secondary)

description: The variational autoencoder (VAE) is a simple and efficient generative artificial intelligence method for modeling complex probability distributions of various types of data, such as images and texts. However, it suffers some main shortcomings, such as lack of interpretability in the latent variables, difficulties in tuning hyperparameters while training, producing blurry, unrealistic downstream outputs or loss of information due to how it calculates loss functions and recovers data distributions, overfitting, and origin gravity effect for small data sets, among other issues. These and other limitations have caused unsatisfactory generation effects for the data with complex distributions. In this work, we proposed and developed a polynomial hierarchical variational autoencoder (PH-VAE), in which we used a polynomial hierarchical date format to generate or to reconstruct the data distributions. In doing so, we also proposed a novel Polynomial Divergence in the loss function to replace or generalize the Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence, which results in systematic and drastic improvements in both accuracy and reproducibility of the re-constructed distribution function as well as the quality of re-constructed data images while keeping the dataset size the same but capturing fine resolution of the data. Moreover, we showed that the proposed PH-VAE has some form of disentangled representation learning ability.
description: 15 pages,14 figures
Incremental constitutive tensors and strain localization for prestressed elastic lattices: Part II -- incremental dynamics
Creators: name: Bordiga, G.
name: Cabras, L.
name: Piccolroaz, A.
name: Bigoni, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Floquet-Bloch wave asymptotics is used to homogenize the in-plane mechanical response of a periodic grillage of elastic Rayleigh rods, possessing a distributed mass density, together with rotational inertia. The grid is subject to incremental time-harmonic dynamic motion, superimposed to a given state of axial loading of arbitrary magnitude. In contrast to the quasi-static energy match (addressed in Part I of the present study), the vibrational properties of the lattice are directly represented by the acoustic tensor of the equivalent solid (without passing through the constitutive tensor). The acoustic tensor is shown to be independent of the rods' rotational inertia and allows the analysis of strong ellipticity of the equivalent continuum, evidencing coincidence with macro-bifurcation in the lattice. On the other hand, micro-bifurcation corresponds to a vibration of vanishing frequency of the lowest dispersion branch of the lattice, occurring at finite wavelength. Dynamic homogenization reveals the structure of the acoustic branches close to ellipticity loss and the analysis of forced vibrations (both in physical space and Fourier space) shows low-frequency wave localizations. A comparison is presented between strain localization occurring near ellipticity loss and forced vibration of the lattice, both corresponding to the application of a concentrated pulsating force. The comparison shows that the homogenization technique allows an almost perfect representation of the lattice, with the exception of cases where micro-bifurcation occurs, which is shown to leave the equivalent solid unaffected. Therefore, the presented results pave the way for the design of architected cellular materials to be used in applications where extreme deformations are involved.
description: 32 pages, 19 figures
Periodic ground state for the charged massive Schwinger model
Creators: name: Nagy, S.
name: Polonyi, J.
name: Sailer, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that the charged massive Schwinger model supports a periodic vacuum structure for arbitrary charge density, similar to the common crystalline layout known in solid state physics. The dynamical origin of the inhomogeneity is identified in the framework of the bozonized model and in terms of the original fermionic variables.
description: 19 pages, 10 figures, revised version, accepted in Phys. Rev. D
Biomarker-based validity of a food frequency questionnaire estimating intake in Brazilian children and adolescents
Creators: name: Hillesheim, Elaine
name: Roseli Borges Donegá Toffano
name: Tamiris Trevisan De Barros
name: Salomão, Roberta Garcia
name: Mathias, Mariana Giaretta
name: De Almeida Coelho-Landell, Carolina
name: Almada, Maria Olímpia Ribeiro Do Vale
name: Camarneiro, Joyce Moraes
name: Camelo-Junior, José Simon
name: Fábio Da Veiga Ued
name: Campos-Gimenez, Esther
name: Redeuil, Karine
name: Giner, Maria Pilar
name: Francois-Pierre Martin
name: Montoliu, Ivan
name: Moco, Sofia
name: Kaput, Jim
name: Monteiro, Jacqueline Pontes
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: This study evaluated the validity of nutrient and food group intakes estimated by an FFQ against biomarkers. A 71-item semiquantitative FFQ was administered to 210 Brazilian children and adolescents aged 9–13 years. Intakes were correlated with biomarkers in plasma and red blood cells. Correlations between nutrients and their biomarkers were presented for animal protein, myristic acid (C14:0), EPA, DHA, β-carotene, folate, and vitamins B3, B5 and B6. Food groups and biomarkers were correlated as follows: fish products with EPA and DHA; milk and dairy with C14:0, pyridoxal 5'-phosphate and vitamin B12; total vegetables and dark green and orange vegetables with β-carotene; 5-methyltetrahydrofolate with green vegetables; and flour products with para-aminobenzoylglutamic acid. This FFQ is a valid tool for ranking Brazilian children and adolescents according to their intake of several nutrients and food groups.
title: Towards a sediment budget of Permo-Triassic successions in the Central European Basin - implications for terrestrial perturbations around the Permian-Triassic Boundary (PTB)
Creators: name: Mansouri, Maryam
name: Hinderer, Matthias
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2020

description: Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany

 For the first time, we quantified the erosional pulse around the Permian-Triassic Boundary (PTB) over an entire sedimentary basin. Our GIS-based analysis relies on basin-wide homogenized seismic, sedimentary and stratigraphic data of the Petroleum Geological Atlas of the Southern Permian Basin. We calculated sediment volumes, sediment fluxes and sedimentation rates (SR) averaged over the entire basin from isopach maps of the Rotliegend, the Zechstein, the Lower, Middle and Upper Buntsandstein, the Muschelkalk and the Keuper. To separate chemical versus clastic sediments, we analyzed facies maps according to their predominant sediment composition.
Latest Supernova data in the framework of Generalized Chaplygin Gas model
Creators: name: Bertolami, O.
name: Sen, A. A.
name: Sen, S.
name: Silva, P. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use the most recent Type-Ia Supernova data in order to study the dark energy - dark matter unification approach in the context of the Generalized Chaplygin Gas (GCG) model. Rather surprisingly, we find that data allow models with $α> 1$. We have studied how the GCG adjusts flat and non-flat models, and our results show that GCG is consistent with flat case upto 68% confidence level. Actually this holds even if one relaxes the flat prior assumption. We have also analysed what one should expect from a future experiment such as SNAP. We find that there is a degeneracy between the GCG model and a XCDM model with a phantom-like dark energy component.
description: 9 pages, 10 eps figures, mn2e style, detail study about degeneracy between GCG and phantom type XCDM has been included. This is the same version accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Magnetic anisotropy and magnetoresistance of sputtered [(FeTaN)/(TaN)](n) multilayers
Creators: name: Nie, H. B.
name: Xu, S. Y.
name: Li, J.
name: Ong, C. K.
name: Wang, J. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We studied the in-plane magnetic anisotropy of rf (radio frequency) sputtered [(FeTaN)/(TaN)](n) multilayers synthesized on Si substrates. In the multilayers where n=5, the FeTaN thickness is fixed at 30 nm and the thickness of TaN, t(TaN), is varied from 0 to 6.0 nm, we observed a clear trend that, with increasing t(TaN), the values of coercivity, grain size, and amplitude of maximum magnetoresistance (MR) of the samples all decrease first and then increase after reaching a minimum when t(TaN) is around 2.0-4.0 nm. This trend is also associated with an evolution of in-plane magnetic anisotropy, where the multilayers change from uniaxial anisotropy to biaxial at t(TaN) around 4.0 nm and above. We attribute the phenomena to the interlayer coupling effect of FeTaN films as a function of the coupling layer (TaN) thickness, rather than to the thickness dependence observed in single-layered FeTaN films, where the direction of easy axis switches 90degrees when the film is thicker than 300 nm. The in-plane anisotropy of the [(FeTaN)/(TaN)](n) multilayers also shows signs of oscillation when the number of coupling layers varies. The MR effects observed are mainly due to anisotropy MR (AMR), while the grain size and exchange coupling may also contribute to the change of maximum MR ratios in the multilayers with changing t(TaN).
Resonances in the System of Pi+Pi- -- Mesons from the Reaction np->npPi+Pi- at Pn=5.20GeV/c: Search, Results of Direct Observations, Interpretation
Creators: name: Troyan, Yu. A.
name: Plekhanov, E. B.
name: Pechenov, V. N.
name: Troyan, A. Yu.
name: Beljaev, A. V.
name: Jerusalimov, A. P.
name: Aracelian, S. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ten resonances were found in the mass spectrum of pi+pi- -system from the reaction np->nppi+pi- in np-interactions at Pn=5.20 GeV/c in the 1-m HBC of LHE JINR by using the criterion cos(teta)[c.m.c.] p>0. Such effects were not found in pi-pi0 - combinations from the reaction np->pppi-pi0. Therefore, it is necessary to attribute the value of isotopic spin I = 0 to the resonances found in the mass spectrum of the pi+pi- -system. The spin was estimated for the most statistically provided resonances. We determine with a high degree of confidence that J = 0 for the resonances at MR = 757 MeV/c^2 and MR = 418 MeV/c^2. Therefore, it can be affirmed that at least 3 states with quantum numbers of sigma0-meson 0+(0++) have been found at masses of 418, 511 and 757 MeV/c^2. The fact low-mass sigma0-mesons are glueballs is one of the possible interpretations. The comparison with the data of other papers has also been made. The investigation has been performed at the Veksler and Baldin Laboratory of High Energies,JINR.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures, 1 table
Axial-vector weak coupling at medium momentum for astro neutrinos and double beta decays
Creators: name: Ejiri, Hiroyasu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Neutrino nuclear responses associated with medium momentum transfer of q=20-80 MeV for astro neutrinos and double beta decays were studied by using charge exchange reactions on Te128 and Te130. Gamow-Teller and spin dipole nuclear matrix elements are found to be reduced with respect to the pnQRPA matrix elements by the coefficient of around 0.35. The reduction is discussed in terms of the quenching of axial vector coupling (g_A).
title: 01_0695
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Topological hybrid inflation in brane world
Creators: name: Matsuda, Tomohiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we show that certain types of cosmological brane configurations may induce topological inflation. In generic models for topological inflation, there is a strict bound for the potential of the inflaton field. Naively, it seems that these constraints can be removed if inflation starts with a hybrid potential. However, it is difficult to combine topological inflation and hybrid inflation, because of the difference in their initial conditions. In this paper, we show some examples in which a novel type of topological inflation is realized with the unconventional hybrid potential.
description: 6pages, latex2e, accepted for publication in JCAP
Additional file 2 of Circular RNA MCTP2 inhibits cisplatin resistance in gastric cancer by miR-99a-5p-mediated induction of MTMR3 expression
Creators: name: Sun, Guangli
name: Li, Zheng
name: He, Zhongyuan
name: Wang, Weizhi
name: Wang, Sen
name: Zhang, Xing
name: Cao, Jiacheng
name: Xu, Penghui
name: Wang, Haixiao
name: Huang, Xiaoxu
name: Xia, Yiwen
name: Lv, Jialun
name: Xuan, Zhe
name: Jiang, Tianlu
name: Fang, Lang
name: Yang, Jing
name: Zhang, Diancai
name: Xu, Hao
name: Xu, Zekuan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Virology

description: Additional file 2: Fig. S1. CircMCTP2 is a predictive biomarker for CDDP resistance in GC and a favorable factor for prognosis of GC patients. (a) Expression of circMCTP2 in 75 CDDP-sensitive and 25 CDDP-resistant GC tissues. (b) ROC curve of circMCTP2 with the area under the curve being 0.9450. (c, d) Kaplan-Meier survival curves of DFS and OS for patients with high (n = 50) or low (n = 50) expression of circMCTP2. The median circMCTP2 expression value was used as the cutoff. (*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01. Data are expressed as the means ± SDs).
Error Scaling of Sea Quark Isospin-Breaking Effects
Creators: name: Altherr, Anian
name: Campos, Isabel
name: Cotellucci, Alessandro
name: Gruber, Roman
name: Harris, Tim
name: Marinković, Marina Krstić
name: Parato, Letizia
name: Patella, Agostino
name: Rosso, Sara
name: Tavella, Paola
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Sea-quark isospin-breaking effects (IBE) are difficult to compute since they require the evaluation of all-to-all propagators. However, the quest for high-precision calculations motivates a detailed study of these contributions. There are strong arguments that the stochastic error associated with these quantities should diverge in the continuum and infinite-volume limit, resulting in a possible bottleneck for the method. In this work, we present the study of the error scaling for these quantities using $N_f=3$ $O(a)$-improved Wilson fermions QCD with C-periodic boundary conditions in space, a pion mass $M_π=400$ MeV, a range of lattice spacings $a=0.05, 0.075, 0.1$ fm, and volumes $L=1.6, 2.4, 3.2$ fm. The analysis of the error as a function of the number of stochastic sources shows that we reach the gauge error for the dominant contributions. The errors do not show the leading order divergence $1/a$ for strong-IBE and $1/a^2$ for electromagnetic IBE, in the considered range of lattice spacings. On the other hand, our data are consistent with the predicted leading divergence $\sqrt{V}$.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures, RC* collaboration, Contribution to the 41st International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, 28th July-3rd August 2024, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom. Corrected the bibliography, the abstract and equation 2
The effect of canola, sesame and sesame-canola oils on body fat and composition in adults: a triple-blind, three-way randomised cross-over clinical trial
Creators: name: Moghtaderi, Fatemeh
name: Amiri, Mojgan
name: Alireza Zimorovat
name: Hamidreza Raeisi-Dehkordi
name: Rahmanian, Masoud
name: Mahdieh Hosseinzadeh
name: Fallahzadeh, Hossein
name: Salehi-Abargouei, Amin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: The present study aimed to examine the effect of replacing edible oils with sesame oil (SO), canola oil (CO) and sesame-canola oil (SCO) on body weight and composition in adults. Adults without any chronic diseases (n = 77) were entered a 4-week run-in period and then were randomised to receive SO, CO and SCO for their household use in 9-week intervention periods (separated by 4-week washout intervals). Anthropometric measurements, as well as body composition markers, were assessed at baseline, middle and after each intervention period. In total, 73 participants completed the study. Although significant time effects were seen for waist and hip circumference, waist-to-hip ratio, central obesity index, body adiposity index, muscle mass and body fat percent (ptimep>.05). The present clinical trial revealed that CO, SO and SCO might not differently affect body fat and composition. Trial registration code: IRCT2016091312571N6 (http://en.irct.ir/trial/12622).
MOESM1 of Neuropeptide S-initiated sequential cascade mediated by OX1, NK1, mGlu5 and CB1 receptors: a pivotal role in stress-induced analgesia
Creators: name: Lee, Ming
name: Chiu, Yu-Ting
name: Chiu, Yu-Chun
name: Hor, Chia
name: Hsin-Jung Lee
name: Guerrini, Remo
name: Calo, Girolamo
name: Lih-Chu Chiou
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. The representative diagram of i.pag. (A) and i.c.v. (B) microinjections in mice. The diagrams were adapted from mouse brain atlas [44]. The black dots (A) and white dots (B) represent the microinjection sites.
Effects of the scalar FCNC in $b\to sl^+l^-$ transitions and supersymmetry
Creators: name: Chankowski, P. H.
name: Slawianowska, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the potential effects of the scalar flavour changing neutral currents that are generated e.g. in supersymmetry with $\tanβ\gg1$ in the $b\to sl^+l^-$ transitions. Using the experimental upper limit on $BR(B^0_s\toμ^+μ^-)$ we place stringent model independent constraints on the impact these currents may have on the rates $BR(B\to X_sμ^+μ^-)$ and $BR(B\to Kμ^+μ^-)$. We find that in the first case, contrary to the claim made recently in the literature, the maximal potential effects are always smaller than the uncertainty of the Standard Model NNLO prediction, that is of order 5-15%. In the second case, the effects can be large but the experimental errors combined with the unsettled problems associated with the relevant formfactors do not allow for any firm conclusion about the detectability of a new physics signal in this process. In supersymmetry the effects of the scalar flavour changing neutral currents are further constrained by the experimental lower limit on the $B^0_s$-$\bar B^0_s$ mass difference, so that most likely no detectable signal of the supersymmetry generated scalar flavour changing neutral currents in processes $B\to X_sμ^+μ^-$ and $B\to Kμ^+μ^-$ is possible.
description: 24 pages 1 ps figure. Version accepted for Eur.Phys.J. C
Search for physics beyond the standard model in events with jets and two same-sign or at least three charged leptons in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV
Creators: name: CMS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A data sample of events from proton-proton collisions with at least two jets, and two isolated same-sign or three or more charged leptons, is studied in a search for signatures of new physics phenomena. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 137 fb$^{-1}$ at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, collected in 2016-2018 by the CMS experiment at the LHC. The search is performed using a total of 168 signal regions defined using several kinematic variables. The properties of the events are found to be consistent with the expectations from standard model processes. Exclusion limits at 95% confidence level are set on cross sections for the pair production of gluinos or squarks for various decay scenarios in the context of supersymmetric models conserving or violating R parity. The observed lower mass limits are as large as 2.1 TeV for gluinos and 0.9 TeV for top and bottom squarks. To facilitate reinterpretations, model-independent limits are provided in a set of simplified signal regions.
description: Replaced with the published version. Added the journal reference and the DOI. All the figures and tables can be found at http://cms-results.web.cern.ch/cms-results/public-results/publications/SUS-19-008 (CMS Public Pages)
Environmental, social and economic perceptions of local food production: a case study of Aberdeenshire farmers’ markets
Creators: name: Wardle, Jennifer
name: Sorathia, Aslam
name: Smith, Pete
name: Feliciano, Diana
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: 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: Sustainable food systems are an important aspect of curbing the impacts of climate change and meeting targets of global food security. It is increasingly recognised that a wider suite of indicators is required to assess sustainability beyond the traditional environmental factors. This study focuses on Aberdeenshire, an atypical area of the UK where soils, climate and topography are not conducive to diverse or large-scale fruit and vegetable production, which in other areas, are a dominant feature of farmers’ markets. Nevertheless, Aberdeenshire needs economic diversification to offset some of the impacts of the decline in the oil and gas industry. Face-to-face questionnaires were conducted across Aberdeenshire farmers’ markets in summer 2022 to assess buyer and seller perceptions of the environmental, social and economic benefits of local food products. There was a positive attitude to local products with the majority of buyers perceiving the quality, nutrition, organic status and use of sustainable farming practices to be high. Conversely, the main products bought, baked goods and meat, are associated with negative impacts on the environment and/or human health. We discuss why, despite these shortfalls, farmers’ markets provide a valuable opportunity to distribute and promote high quality wares to support the local economy.
title: Cenozoic Mass Transport Deposits in the Northern Dutch Offshore: Anatomy and Implications revealed by HiRes Seismic Mapping
Creators: name: Marks, Alex
name: Hoetz, Guido
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2020

description: KU Leuven, Belgium (1); EBN, Netherlands, The (2)

 Recent high resolution 3D seismic reflection data allowed to map Late Cenozoic Mass Transport Deposits (MTD) in great detail. These deformation structures in Miocene/Pliocene sediments are linked to the Eridanos delta system and the corresponding clinoforms. The structures have been identified in the Northern Dutch and German offshore where they can be found now in the depth range of 500-1000m bsf. Aim of this research was to identify and to characterize MTDs by scanning of state-of-the-art seismic data. The findings were used to assist in a better understanding of the spatial characteristics and internal anatomy of the features.
An optical test bench for the precision characterization of absolute quantum efficiency for the TESS CCD detectors
Creators: name: Krishnamurthy, Akshata
name: Villasenor, Joel
name: Kissel, Steve
name: Ricker, George
name: Vanderspek, Roland
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will search for planets transiting bright stars with Ic<13. TESS has been selected by NASA for launch in 2018 as an Astrophysics Explorer mission, and is expected to discover a thousand or more planets that are smaller in size than Neptune. TESS will employ four wide-field optical charge-coupled device (CCD) cameras with a band-pass of 650 nm-1050 nm to detect temporary drops in brightness of stars due to planetary transits. The 1050 nm limit is set by the quantum efficiency (QE) of the CCDs. The detector assembly consists of four back-illuminated MIT Lincoln Laboratory CCID-80 devices. Each CCID-80 device consists of 2048x2048 imaging array and 2048x2048 frame store regions. Very precise on-ground calibration and characterization of CCD detectors will significantly assist in the analysis of the science data obtained in space. The characterization of the absolute QE of the CCD detectors is a crucial part of the characterization process because QE affects the performance of the CCD significantly over the redder wavelengths at which TESS will be operating. An optical test bench with significantly high photometric stability has been developed to perform precise QE measurements. The design of the test setup along with key hardware, methodology, and results from the test campaign are presented.
Evolution of In-Plane Magnetic Anisotropy In Sputtered FeTaN/TaN/FeTaN Sandwich Films
Creators: name: Nie, H. B.
name: Ong, C. K.
name: Wang, J. P.
name: Li, Z. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: FeTaN/TaN/FeTaN sandwich films, FeTaN/TaN and TaN/FeTaN bilayers were synthesized by using RF magnetron sputtering. The magnetic properties, crystalline structures, microstructures and surface morphologies of the as-deposited samples were characterized using angle-resolved M-H loop tracer, VSM, XRD, TEM, AES and AFM. An evolution of the in-plane anisotropy was observed with the changing thickness of the nonmagnetic TaN interlayer in the FeTaN/TaN/FeTaN sandwiches, such as the easy-hard axis switching and the appearing of biaxial anisotropy. It is ascribed to three possible mechanisms, which are interlayer magnetic coupling, stress, and interface roughness, respectively. Interlayer coupling and stress anisotropies may be the major reasons to cause the easy-hard axis switching in the sandwiches. Whereas, magnetostatic and interface anisotropies may be the major reasons to cause biaxial anisotropy in the sandwiches, in which magnetostatic anisotropy is the dominant one.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures
Mean-field study of repulsive 2D and 3D Bose polarons
Creators: name: Hryhorchak, O.
name: Panochko, G.
name: Pastukhov, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The detailed mean-field treatment of the Bose polaron problem in two and three dimensions is presented. Particularly, assuming that impurity is immersed in the dilute Bose gas and interacts with bosons via the hard-sphere two-body potential, we calculate the low-momentum parameters of its spectrum, namely, the binding energy and the effective mass. The limits of applicability of the mean-field approach to a problem of mobile impurity in Bose-Einstein condensates are discussed by comparing our results to the Monte Carlo simulations data.
description: 9 pages, 9 figures; the discussion of the 2D Bose polaron has been extended; the misleading statement about the average density of bosons has been corrected
Hoping to Win, Expected to Lose: Theory and Lessons on Micro Enterprise Development
Creators: name: Karlan, Dean S.
name: Knight, Ryan
name: Udry, Christopher R.
name: Karlan, Dean S.
name: Knight, Ryan
name: Udry, Christopher R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: International Development
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: entrepreneurship
subject: credit constraints
subject: business training
subject: consulting
subject: managerial capital

description: Many basic economic theories with perfectly functioning markets do not predict the existence of the vast number of microenterprises readily observed across the world. We put forward a model that illuminates why financial and managerial capital constraints may impede experimentation, and thus limit learning about the profitability of alternative firm sizes. The model shows how lack of information about one’s own type, but willingness to experiment to learn one’s type, may lead to short-run negative expected returns to investments on average, with some outliers succeeding. To test the model we put forward first a motivating experiment from Ghana, and second a small meta-analysis of other experiments. In the Ghana experiment, we provide inputs to microenterprises, specifically financial capital (a cash grant) and managerial capital (consulting services), to catalyze adoption of investments and practices aimed towards enterprise growth. We find that entrepreneurs invest the cash, and take the advice, but both lead to lower profits on average. In the long run, they revert back to their prior scale of operations. The small meta analysis includes results from 18 other experiments in which either capital or managerial capital were relaxed, and find mixed support for this theory.
title: Tim4: A New Sentinel in Tumor Immune Surveillance
Creators: name: Joshi, Sonal
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2024

description: Cross-presentation of tumor antigens by subsets of macrophages at different stages along tumor progression may have divergent impacts on anti-tumoral immune responses. Here we show that TIM4+ large peritoneal macrophages (LPM) avidly capture tumor cells and cross-present tumor-associated antigens at early stages of peritoneal infiltration by ovarian cancer cells. The phosphatidylserine (PS) receptor TIM4 promotes maximal uptake and triggers inflammatory and metabolic gene programs in combination with cytoskeletal remodeling and upregulation of transcriptional signatures related to antigen processing. At the cellular levels, TIM4 is recruited with F-actin at the phagocytic cup and translocates in nascent phagosomes, controlling the kinetic of phagosomal acidification and cargo degradation. TIM4 deletion abrogates cross-presentation of tumor-associated antigens and blunts expansion of effector CD8 T cells at tumor inception. In addition, targeting tumor antigens to LPM by PS liposomes can trigger CD8 T cell activation. Together these results suggest that TIM4 enables LPMs to scan the antigenic content of incoming tumor cells to promote immune surveillance by CD8 T cells and, at defined temporal windows, may be exploited for therapeutic purposes.
MOESM2 of Online training and support program (iSupport) for informal dementia caregivers: protocol for an intervention study in Portugal
Creators: name: Soraia Teles
name: Ferreira, Ana
name: Seeher, Katrin
name: Stéfanie Fréel
name: Paúl, Constança
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 2. Participant information form and consent form
The mental wellbeing of young farmers in Ireland and the UK: driving factors, help-seeking, and support
Creators: name: Rose, David Christian
name: Bradley, Fergal
name: O’Connor, Deirdre
name: Hall, Jilly
name: Morrison, Rosie
name: Mulkerrins, Martin
name: Nye, Caroline
name: Russell, Tomás
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Whilst research attention on the mental wellbeing of farmers is growing, there are few studies focused on young farmers. Our research set out to better understand the factors affecting young farmer mental wellbeing and help-seeking behaviour. We draw insights from a combined study in Ireland and the UK, supplemented by separate studies by the same author team in both places. Through the use of young farmer interviews and surveys, as well as interviews of those who support young farmers with their mental wellbeing, we identify a mixed picture of mental wellbeing and a plethora of factors affecting it. Though many of these factors have been identified in the wider literature, the impact of socialisation and time off the farm, and sexism/misogyny affecting young female farmers, were specifically identified in our study. In some cases, young farmers were considered to be better at speaking about mental wellbeing than their older counterparts, but our study indicated that some people in this demographic fail to seek assistance because of stigma, stoicism, and possible lack of confidentiality. Improving the accessibility of mental wellbeing services, as well as normalising conversations on the subject and providing support in informal social settings, were identified as key recommendations.
title: "Le mappe della disuguaglianza: una geografia sociale metropolitana" di Keti Lelo, Salvatore Monni, Federico Tomassi
Creators: name: Celata, Filippo
Publisher: name: Semestrale di studi e ricerche di geografia
Year: 2020

description: Semestrale di studi e ricerche di geografia, N. 1 (2020)
Extra dimensions and invisible decay of orthopositronium
Creators: name: Gninenko, S. N.
name: Krasnikov, N. V.
name: Rubbia, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We point out that some models with infinite additional dimension(s) of Randall-Sundrum type predict the disappearance of orthopositronium (o-Ps) into additional dimension(s). The experimental signature of this effect is the o-Ps -> invisible decay of orthopositronium which may occur at a rate within three orders of magnitude of the present experimental upper limit. This result enhances existing motivations for a more sensitive search for this decay mode and suggests additional directions for testing extra dimensions in non accelerator experiments.
description: 3 pages, to appear in Phys. Rev. D
Analytical modeling of participation reduction in superconducting coplanar resonator and qubit designs through substrate trenching
Creators: name: Murray, Conal E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A strategy aimed at decreasing dielectric loss in coplanar waveguides (CPW) and qubits involves the creation of trenches in the underlying substrate within the gaps of the overlying metallization. Participation of contamination layers residing on surfaces and interfaces in these designs can be reduced due to the change in the effective dielectric properties between the groundplane and conductor metallization. Although finite element method approaches have been previously applied to quantify this decrease, an analytical method is presented that can uniquely address geometries possessing small to intermediate substrate trench depths. Conformal mapping techniques produce transformed CPW and qubit geometries without substrate trenching but a non-uniform contamination layer thickness. By parametrizing this variation, one can calculate surface participation through the use of a two-dimensional, analytical approximation that properly captures singularities in the electric field intensity near the metallization corners and edges. Examples demonstrate two regimes with respect to substrate trench depth that capture an initial increase in substrate-to-air surface participation due to the trench sidewalls and an overall decrease in surface participation due to the reduction in the effective dielectric constant, and are compared to experimental measurements to extract loss tangents on this surface.
An effective field theory for coupled-channel scattering
Creators: name: Cohen, Thomas D.
name: Gelman, Boris A.
name: van Kolck, U.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The problem of describing low-energy two-body scattering for systems with two open channels with different thresholds is addressed in the context of an effective field theory. In particular, the problem where the threshold is unnaturally small and the cross section at low energy is unnaturally large is considered. It is shown that the lowest-order point coupling associated with the mixing of the channels scales as $Λ^{-2}$ rather than $Λ^{-1}$ (the scaling of the same-channel coupling and the scaling in a single-channel case) where $Λ$ is the ultraviolet cutoff. The renormalization of the theory at lowest order is given explicitly. The treatment of higher orders is straightforward. The potential implications for systems with deep open channels are discussed.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures; references added
The effectiveness of pre-performance routines in sports: A meta-analysis (Supplementary Material)
Creators: name: Rupprecht, Anton
name: Tran, Ulrich
name: Gröpel, Peter
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 170114 Sport and Exercise Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Applied Psychology

description: Supplementary material to the article 'The effectiveness of pre-performance routines in sports: A meta-analysis'

Includes: Supplementary Table S1, R-code for all three meta-analyses (pre-post, experimental, & under pressure), and data sets of the three meta-analyses.
Heuristic Description of Perpendicular Diffusion of Energetic Particles in Astrophysical Plasmas
Creators: name: Shalchi, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A heuristic approach for collisionless perpendicular diffusion of energetic particles is presented. Analytic forms for the corresponding diffusion coefficient are derived. The heuristic approach presented here explains the parameter $a^2$ used in previous theories in order to achieve agreement with simulations and its relation to collisionless Rechester & Rosenbluth diffusion. The obtained results are highly relevant for applications because previously used formulas are altered significantly in certain situations.
description: Paper was accepted by The Astrophysical Journal Letters on August 1st, 2019
Another Look at Foreign Aid
Creators: name: Ranis, Gustav
name: Ranis, Gustav
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: International Development
subject: Political Economy
subject: Foreign aid
subject: self-conditionality
subject: program lending
subject: new donors

description: The discussion of the effectiveness of foreign aid has reached a high pitch. This paper assesses the sorry past and present key arguments for a potentially more effective and sustainable method of aid delivery. A key ingredient is to shake off the vestiges of structural adjustment and move towards true recipient country ownership complete with “self-conditionality” with aid recipients formulating their own reform packages. This means donors become much more passive, act like a bank and respond to proposals which concentrate on a few critical areas over a three to five-year period. Policy-based program lending should respond to packages put together by the main domestic stakeholders with the help, if necessary, of independent third parties. There should be no compulsion to lend; indeed, an aid hiatus is an indication that the new system is effective. What is required is for donors to stop using aid as a short-term foreign policy tool and for recipients to accept the notion that aid provides the opportunity to reduce the inevitable adjustment pains caused by real reforms.
MOESM1 of Online training and support program (iSupport) for informal dementia caregivers: protocol for an intervention study in Portugal
Creators: name: Soraia Teles
name: Ferreira, Ana
name: Seeher, Katrin
name: Stéfanie Fréel
name: Paúl, Constança
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. SPIRIT 2013 Checklist for recommended items to address in a protocol
Gaussian expansion approach to Coulomb breakup
Creators: name: Egami, T.
name: Ogata, K.
name: Matsumoto, T.
name: Iseri, Y.
name: Kamimura, M.
name: Yahiro, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An accurate treatment of Coulomb breakup reactions is presented by using both the Gaussian expansion method and the method of continuum discretized coupled channels. As $L^2$-type basis functions for describing bound- and continuum-states of a projectile, we take complex-range Gaussian functions, which form in good approximation a complete set in a large configuration space being important for Coulomb-breakup processes. Accuracy of the method is tested quantitatively for $^{8}{\rm B}+^{58}$Ni scattering at 25.8 MeV.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures; typos removed, a reference added for introduction and submitted to Phys. Rev. C as a brief report
Konserwatywny nacjonalizm. Studium doktryny w świetle myśli politycznej Igora Szafariewicza
Creators: name: Diec, Joachim
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 160699 Political Science not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Konserwatywny nacjonalizm. Studium doktryny w świetle myśli politycznej Igora Szafariewicza (Conservative Nationalism. The Study of the Doctrine in the Context of the Political Thought of Igor Shafarevich), Księgarnia Akademicka, Kraków 2013, ss. 492.
Core to Cosmic Edge: SIMBA-C's New Take on Abundance Profiles in the Intragroup Medium at z = 0
Creators: name: Padawer-Blatt, Aviv
name: Shao, Zhiwei
name: Hough, Renier T.
name: Rennehan, Douglas
name: Barré, Ruxin
name: Saeedzadeh, Vida
name: Babul, Arif
name: Davé, Romeel
name: Kobayashi, Chiaki
name: Cui, Weiguang
name: Mernier, François
name: Gozaliasl, Ghassem
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We employ the SIMBA-C cosmological simulation to study the impact of its upgraded chemical enrichment model (Chem5) on the distribution of metals in the intragroup medium (IGrM). We investigate the projected X-ray emission-weighted abundance profiles of key elements over two decades in halo mass ($10^{13} \leq M_{500}/\mathrm{M_\odot} \leq 10^{15}$). Typically, SIMBA-C generates lower-amplitude abundance profiles than SIMBA with flatter cores, in better agreement with observations. For low-mass groups, both simulations over-enrich the IGrM with Si, S, Ca, and Fe compared to observations, a trend likely related to inadequate modeling of metal dispersal and mixing. We analyze the 3D mass-weighted abundance profiles, concluding that the lower SIMBA-C IGrM abundances are primarily a consequence of fewer metals in the IGrM, driven by reduced metal yields in Chem5, and the removal of the instantaneous recycling of metals approximation employed by SIMBA. Additionally, an increased IGrM mass in low-mass SIMBA-C groups is likely triggered by changes to the AGN and stellar feedback models. Our study suggests that a more realistic chemical enrichment model broadly improves agreement with observations, but physically motivated sub-grid models for other key processes, like AGN and stellar feedback and turbulent diffusion, are required to realistically reproduce observed group environments.
description: 38 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables. Published in Universe. This article belongs to the Special Issue Universe: Feature Papers 2024--"Galaxies and Clusters"