cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Matching the QCD and Hadron Sectors and Medium Dependent Meson Masses; Hadronization in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions
Creators: name: Brown, G. E.
name: Rho, Mannque
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recent developments on the "vector manifestation" of chiral symmetry by Harada and Yamawaki provide a compelling evidence for, and "refine," the in-medium scaling of hadronic properties in dense/hot matter (call it ``BR scaling") proposed by the authors in 1991. We reinterpret the Harada-Yamawaki result obtained in a Wilsonian renormalization-group approach to hidden local symmetry theory matched to QCD at near the chiral scale in terms of the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model and predict that the vector meson mass in medium should scale $m_ρ^\star/m_ρ\sim (\la\bar{q}q\ra^\star/\la\bar{q}q\ra)^{1/2}$ from $n=0$ up to $\sim n=n_0$ (where $n_0$ is nuclear matter density) and then go over to the linear scaling $m_ρ^\star/m_ρ\sim \la\bar{q}q\ra^\star/\la\bar{q}q\ra$ up to the chiral transition density $n_c$ at which the mass is to vanish (in the chiral limit) according to the vector manifestation fixed point. In the regime of the linear scaling above $n_0$, the (vector) gauge coupling constant should fall linearly in $\la\bar{q}q\ra^\star$, vanishing at the critical point, with the width of the vector meson becoming steeply narrower. We suggest the in-medium vector meson mass, {\em both} parametric and pole, which goes smoothly to zero with increasing density, to be an order parameter for chiral symmetry restoration. Some issues related to recent RHIC observations are qualitatively discussed in the appendices. Our main conclusion that follows from these considerations is that the movement towards chiral restoration can be reliably described in Nambu-Jona-Lasinio mean field, with constituent quarks as variables, although there is probably density discontinuity following chiral restoration.
description: Contribution to the Hidenaga Yamagishi Commemorative Volume edited by E. Witten and I.Zahed
‘Cheese-scapes’: An Ethnoarchaeological Study of the Traditional Production of Halloumi in Cyprus
Creators: name: Laoutari, Rafael
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021

description: Since the introduction of the ‘Secondary Products Revolution’ by Sherratt in 1981, the importance of secondary products in the development of past societies has been discussed in numerous studies. The large-scale focus of these scholarly works overlooks the role of the secondary products in everyday life. Researchers have approached dairy products based on material culture, iconography, faunal remains, texts and recently, through lipids analysis and paleo-genetics. Nevertheless, the practice of using milk for making by-products has rarely been approached in terms of the associated primary activities. Consequently, this paper introduces the concept of ‘cheese-scape’ (the ‘knowledge-scape’ of cheese production) for further developing some of the implications of secondary products in past communities. Using ethnoarchaeology, the ‘cheese-scape’ unfolds in the traditional production of halloumi in Cyprus and provides a framework for the investigation of past societies where dairying was practised.
Increased indexed proximal aortic diameter is a predictor of poor prognosis in maintenance hemodialysis patients
Creators: name: Xu, Junwei
name: Tang, Wenyi
name: Song, Lizheng
name: Huang, Yuxi
name: Xiao, Li
name: Cheng, Fangyuan
name: Guan, Qianglin
name: Xu, Mei
name: Ma, Chuoxin
name: Chen, Jian
name: Ke, Jianting
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: Space Science
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy
Hematology

description: Recent studies have shown that the baseline values of absolute aortic root diameter (ARD) and indexed diameter are associated with all-cause mortality and cardiovascular events in the general population, even in the absence of aneurysmal aortic disease. However, there is limited available data on the association between ARD and prognosis in end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients receiving maintenance hemodialysis (MHD). Accordingly, the purpose of this study is to investigate the predictive value of ARD for all-cause mortality and cardiovascular events in this specific population. ARD was measured by echocardiography at the level of the sinuses of Valsalva at end diastole and indexed to body surface area (BSA). The primary endpoint was all-cause mortality. The secondary endpoint was major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE), including cardiovascular mortality, myocardial infarction and stroke. Cox proportional hazards models were conducted to evaluate the association between baseline ARD/BSA and clinical outcomes. A total of 391 patients were included in this study. The primary endpoint occurred in 95 (24.3%) patients while the secondary endpoint occurred in 71 (18.2%) patients. Multivariate Cox regression analysis showed that ARD/BSA was an independent prognostic factor for all-cause mortality (HR, per 1-SD increase, 1.403; 95% CI, 1.118–1.761; p = 0.003) as well as MACE (HR, per 1-SD increase, 1.356; 95% CI, 1.037–1.772; p = 0.026). Our results show that ARD/BSA is predictive of all-cause mortality and MACE in MHD patients with ESRD and support the view that assessment of ARD/BSA may refine risk stratification and preventive strategies in this population.
Esoteric Botanical Knowledge-scapes of Medieval Iberia
Creators: name: Prado, Shalen
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021

description: Esoteric texts containing botanical knowledge-scapes provide robust complementary data for paleoethnobotanical analyses. These data fill in the gaps for our interpretations of plant taxa that are often archaeologically invisible and provide more detail about the complex relationships between the people of the past and archaeologically visible plant remains. These texts also contain information that cannot be accessed through archaeology alone, such as the ‘qualities’ of plants that are determined by celestial bodies within the ‘great chain of being’ (among other factors). Lastly, such texts provide details on the sources and distribution of plants across the Medieval world (e.g. geographic indicators). Using the Picatrix, the Latin translation of an earlier Arabic esoteric text, the Ghāyat al-Ḥakīm, it is argued that esoteric texts have multiple applications for archaeological investigations that use paleoethnobotanical analyses.
Homolochunia gadaletae Guinot & Richer de Forges 1995
Creators: name: Forges, Bertrand Richer De
name: Ng, Peter K. L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Homolidae
Homolochunia
Homolochunia gadaletae

description: Homolochunia gadaletae Guinot & Richer de Forges, 1995
(Figs. 4C, 5D, 6C)
 Homolochunia gadaletae Guinot & Richer de Forges, 1995: 434, fig. 50e–f, 51d–f. — Huang & Hsueh 1998: 222, fig. 1A–D. — Tan et al. 2000: 183. — Ng et al. 2001: 6. — Cleva et al. 2007: 250, fig. 18A. — Ng et al. 2008: 40.
 Material examined. Taiwan: Ilan Province, Nanfangao Fishing Port, Su-Ao,, sandy-muddy bottom, 150–250 m depth, coll. P.-W. Hsueh, 4 July 1997: 1 ovigerous female (36.4 x 25.5 mm) (ZRC 1998.475).
 Remarks. Homolochunia gadaletae, which was described by Guinot and Richer de Forges (1995) from Japanese material originally referred to H. valdiviae, has also been recorded from Taiwan by Huang & Hsueh (1998). The species lives in relatively shallow depths of 150 to 250 m.
description: Published as part of Forges, Bertrand Richer De & Ng, Peter K. L., 2008, New western Pacific records of Homolidae De Haan, 1839, with descriptions of new species of Homolochunia Doflein, 1904, and Latreillopsis Henderson, 1888 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura), pp. 1-35 in Zootaxa 1967 on page 7
2019 Mobile and web-based application to get solutions from drug addiction- Telepsychiatry perspective.pdf
Creators: name: Dr Mazumder
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 80301 Bioinformatics Software
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 80702 Health Informatics
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: 80503 Networking and Communications
subject: 80502 Mobile Technologies

description: Mazumder AH, Rushdy MA, Mahmud MT, Sharma A, Zhyvolozhnyi A, Samoylenko A, Bart G, Huttula M, Yoshii H, Veijola J, Vainio S. Mobile and web-based application to get solutions from drug addiction- Telepsychiatry perspective. Ment Health Fam Med. 2019; 15: 868-876.
A Tale of Red and Black: Reconstructing Transfer of Knowledge in Late Chalcolithic Cyprus
Creators: name: Hadjigavriel, Maria
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021

description: This paper focuses on the interactions between communities in Late Chalcolithic Cyprus (c.2900/2700–2400 BC), when several red and black burnished pottery types were produced across the island. The aim is to investigate what that interaction can tell us about the sharing of technological knowledge between communities in western Cyprus, and about knowledge-scapes connecting communities of practice and sites. This paper builds upon studies on mobility, technology, and the social value of technology. A comparative macroscopic study of red monochrome pottery from three sites situated along western Cyprus is conducted to shed light on the intensity, nature and degree of contacts between these communities at the time. Specifically, the local variants of Red and Black Stroke Burnished Ware from Lemba-Lakkous, Kissonerga-Mosphilia and Chlorakas-Palloures are examined.
Signatures of unconventional pairing in spin-imbalanced one-dimensional few-fermion systems
Creators: name: Pęcak, Daniel
name: Sowiński, Tomasz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A system of a few attractively interacting fermionic $^6$Li atoms in one-dimensional harmonic confinement is investigated. Non-trivial inter-particle correlations induced by interactions in a particle-imbalanced system are studied in the framework of the noise correlation. In this way, it is shown that evident signatures of strongly correlated fermionic pairs in the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov state are present in the system and they can be detected by measurements directly accessible within state-of-the-art techniques. The results convincingly show that the exotic pairing mechanism is a very universal phenomenon and can be captured in systems being essentially non-uniform and far from the many-body limit.
On the Red-Green-Blue Model
Creators: name: Wilson, David B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We experimentally study the red-green-blue model, which is a sytem of loops obtained by superimposing three dimer coverings on offset hexagonal lattices. We find that when the boundary conditions are ``flat'', the red-green-blue loops are closely related to SLE_4 and double-dimer loops, which are the loops formed by superimposing two dimer coverings of the cartesian lattice. But we also find that the red-green-blue loops are more tightly nested than the double-dimer loops. We also investigate the 2D minimum spanning tree, and find that it is not conformally invariant.
description: 4 pages, 7 figures
Impacts of Three-Dimensional Non-Uniform Groundwater Flows for Quantifying Groundwater-Surface Water Interactions Using Heat as a Tracer
Creators: name: Reeves, Jonathan M
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2015

description: Heat-as-a-tracer has become a common method to quantify surface water-groundwater interactions (SW/GW). However, the method relies on a number of assumptions that are likely violated in natural systems. Numerical studies have explored the effects of violating these fundamental assumptions to various degrees, such as heterogeneous streambed properties, two-dimensional groundwater flow fields and uncertainty in thermal parameters for the 1-dimensional heat-as-a-tracer method. No work to date has addressed the impacts of non-uniform, three-dimensional groundwater flows on the use of heat-as-a-tracer to quantify SW/GW interactions. Synthetic temperature time series were generated using COMSOL Multiphysics for a three-dimensional cube designed to represent a laboratory setup of homogeneous, isotropic sand with a sinusoidal temperature variation applied to the top. We compare temperature-derived fluxes to model-generated fluxes to assess the performance of methods using temperature to quantify 1D vertical fluxes in response to multi-dimensional groundwater flows. Both increasingly non-uniform and non-vertical groundwater flow fields result in increasing errors for both amplitude-ratio-derived groundwater flux and temperature-derived effective thermal diffusivity. For losing flow geometries, errors in temperature-derived effective thermal diffusivity are highly correlated with errors in temperature-derived flux and can be used to identify if underlying assumptions necessary for heat-as-a-tracer for quantifying groundwater flows have been violated. For this model set-up, when groundwater flows are non-uniform, the thermal method generally calculates fluxes outside the range occurring between temperature sensor pairs. When errors are low (15% of flux calculations), temperature derived fluxes more closely match the minimum magnitude flow occurring between the sensors.
Lattice Boltzmann method for viscoelastic fluids
Creators: name: Ispolatov, Iaroslav
name: Grant, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Lattice Boltzmann model for viscoelastic flow simulation is proposed; elastic effects are taken into account in the framework of Maxwell model. The following three examples are studied using the proposed approach: a transverse velocity autocorrelation function for free evolving system with random initial velocities, a boundary-driven propagating shear waves, and a resonant enhancement of oscillations in a periodically driven fluid in a capillary. The measured shear wave dispersion relation is found to be in a good agreement with the theoretical one derived for the Navier-Stokes equation with the Maxwell viscoelastic term.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures
Generating Best Management Practices for Avian Conservation in a Land-Sparing Agriculture System, and the Habitat-Specific Survival of a Priority Migrant
Creators: name: Ritterson, Jeffrey D
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2015

description: A large amount of the world’s biodiversity is located in a disproportionately small amount of area, namely the tropics. Many of these areas are experiencing rapid landscape changes, mainly in the form of deforestation for agricultural practices. Current conservation efforts are focused on agricultural areas and their ability to provide habitat. The conservation value of a novel land-sparing agroforestry system, known as Integrated Open Canopy (IOC), was recently demonstrated on the study site when applied to coffee. IOC coffee supports forest species that are uncommon or absent in shade grown coffee. I generated best management practices for IOC farms relative to the conservation of forest-dependent birds by examining what features support the highest richness of species. The goal was to help develop guidelines for the implementation of IOC grown coffee.
The Golden-winged warbler (Vermivora chrysoptera) is a Neartic-Neotropical migrant of high conservation priority which has been documented using a range of nonbreeding habitat types, including IOC coffee farms. However, as is the case with many migrant species, little is known about whether survival differs among habitats. Though generally forest dependent, previous work found Golden-winged warblers select for habitat features other than categorical forest types, such as canopy height and microhabitat features. In an attempt to identify quality nonbreeding habitat, I estimated Golden-winged survival rates specific to an array of habitat features.
Charge-Transfer Selectivity and Quantum Interference in Real-Time Electron Dynamics: Gaining Insights from Time-Dependent Configuration Interaction Simulations
Creators: name: Ramakrishnan, Raghunathan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Many-electron wavepacket dynamics based on time-dependent configuration interaction (TDCI) is a numerically rigorous approach to quantitatively model electron-transfer across molecular junctions. TDCI simulations of cyanobenzene thiolates---para- and meta-linked to an acceptor gold atom---show donor states \emph{conjugating} with the benzene $π$-network to allow better through-molecule electron migration in the para isomer compared to the meta counterpart. For dynamics involving \emph{non-conjugating} states, we find electron-injection to stem exclusively from distance-dependent non-resonant quantum mechanical tunneling, in which case the meta isomer exhibits better dynamics. Computed trend in donor-to-acceptor net-electron transfer through differently linked azulene bridges agrees with the trend seen in low-bias conductivity measurements. Disruption of $π$-conjugation has been shown to be the cause of diminished electron-injection through the 1,3-azulene, a pathological case for graph-based diagnosis of destructive quantum interference. Furthermore, we demonstrate quantum interference of many-electron wavefunctions to drive para- vs. meta- selectivity in the coherent evolution of superposed $π$(CN)- and $σ$(NC-C)-type wavepackets. Analyses reveal that in the para-linked benzene, $σ$ and $π$ MOs localized at the donor terminal are \emph{in-phase} leading to constructive interference of electron density distribution while phase-flip of one of the MOs in the meta isomer results in destructive interference. These findings suggest that \emph{a priori} detection of orbital phase-flip and quantum coherence conditions can aid in molecular device design strategies.
Lamoha Ng 1998
Creators: name: Forges, Bertrand Richer De
name: Ng, Peter K. L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Homolidae
Lamoha

description: Lamoha Ng, 1998
 Hypsophrys Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891: 269; 1901: 66. – Serène & Lohavanijaya 1973: 30. – Guinot & Richer de Forges 1995: 439 (name pre-occupied by Hypsophrys Agassiz, 1859).
 Lamoha Ng, 1998a: 121. – Ng et al. 2008: 40.
description: Published as part of Forges, Bertrand Richer De & Ng, Peter K. L., 2008, New western Pacific records of Homolidae De Haan, 1839, with descriptions of new species of Homolochunia Doflein, 1904, and Latreillopsis Henderson, 1888 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura), pp. 1-35 in Zootaxa 1967 on page 18
Linear Response, Validity of Semi-Classical Gravity, and the Stability of Flat Space
Creators: name: Anderson, Paul R.
name: Molina-Paris, Carmen
name: Mottola, Emil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A quantitative test for the validity of the semi-classical approximation in gravity is given. The criterion proposed is that solutions to the semi-classical Einstein equations should be stable to linearized perturbations, in the sense that no gauge invariant perturbation should become unbounded in time. A self-consistent linear response analysis of these perturbations, based upon an invariant effective action principle, necessarily involves metric fluctuations about the mean semi-classical geometry, and brings in the two-point correlation function of the quantum energy-momentum tensor in a natural way. This linear response equation contains no state dependent divergences and requires no new renormalization counterterms beyond those required in the leading order semi-classical approximation. The general linear response criterion is applied to the specific example of a scalar field with arbitrary mass and curvature coupling in the vacuum state of Minkowski spacetime. The spectral representation of the vacuum polarization function is computed in n dimensional Minkowski spacetime, and used to show that the flat space solution to the semi-classical Einstein equations for n=4 is stable to all perturbations on distance scales much larger than the Planck length.
description: 22 pages: This is a significantly expanded version of gr-qc/0204083, with two additional sections and two new appendices giving a complete, explicit example of the semi-classical stability criterion proposed in the previous paper
A Flavor Symmetry Model for Bilarge Leptonic Mixing and the Lepton Masses
Creators: name: Ohlsson, Tommy
name: Seidl, Gerhart
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a model for leptonic mixing and the lepton masses based on flavor symmetries and higher-dimensional mass operators. The model predicts bilarge leptonic mixing (i.e., the mixing angles theta_{12} and theta_{23} are large and the mixing angle theta_{13} is small) and an inverted hierarchical neutrino mass spectrum. Furthermore, it approximately yields the experimental hierarchical mass spectrum of the charged leptons. The obtained values for the leptonic mixing parameters and the neutrino mass squared differences are all in agreement with atmospheric neutrino data, the Mikheyev--Smirnov--Wolfenstein large mixing angle solution of the solar neutrino problem, and consistent with the upper bound on the reactor mixing angle. Thus, we have a large, but not close to maximal, solar mixing angle theta_{12}, a nearly maximal atmospheric mixing angle theta_{23}, and a small reactor mixing angle theta_{13}. In addition, the model predicts theta_{12} ~= pi/4 - theta_{13}.
description: 41 pages, 4 figures, Elsevier LaTeX. Final version to be published in Nucl. Phys. B
Relaxation dynamics of spin 3/2 silicon vacancies in 4H-Silicon carbide
Creators: name: Ramsay, A. J.
name: Rossi, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Room temperature optically detected magnetic resonance experiments on spin 3/2 Silicon vacancies in 4H-SiC are reported. The $m_s=+1/2\leftrightarrow -1/2$ transition is accessed using a two microwave frequency excitation protocol. The ratio of the Rabi frequencies of the $+3/2 \leftrightarrow +1/2$ and $+1/2\leftrightarrow -1/2$ transitions is measured to be $(0.901\pm 0.013)$. The deviation from $\sqrt{3}/2$ is attributed to small difference in g-factor for different magnetic dipole transitions. Whereas a spin-1/2 system is characterized by a single spin lifetime $T_1$, we experimentally demonstrate that the spin 3/2 system has three distinct relaxation modes that can be preferentially excited and detected. The measured relaxation times are $(0.41\pm 0.02) T_{slow}=T_d= (3.3\pm 0.5)T_{fast} $. This differs from the values of $ T_p/3 =T_d= 2T_f $ expected for pure dipole ($T_p$), quadrupole ($T_d$), and octupole ($T_f$) relaxation modes, respectively, and implies admixing of the slow dipole and fast octupole relaxation modes.
description: 3 figs, 6 pages, updated
Ficopomatinae Pillai 1960
Creators: name: Pillai, T. Gottfried
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Sabellida
Serpulidae

description: Subfamily Ficopomatinae Pillai, 1960   Type genus: Ficopomatus Southern, 1921.
 Type species: Ficopomatus macrodon, Southern, 1921.
 The subfamily characters are re-defined below on the basis of its three presently constituent genera, namely, Ficopomatus Southern (1921), Marifugia Absolon & Hrabé 1930, and Neopomatus Pillai (1960).
 Subfamily characters: Operculum present, chitinous, occurring in position of first left branchial radiole; peduncle lacks pinnules and wings. Interradiolar membranes absent Number of thoracic chaetigers: 7 or 6; collar chaetae present or absent, strongly toothed when present; Apomatus -chaetae absent. Thoracic membranes free or joined over thorax; extend to end of thorax; apron present. Abdominal neurochaetae: geniculate. Anterior process of uncini gouged. Typical habitat: non-marine, i.e., brackish to totally freshwater.
 Remarks: Most serpulimorph polychaetes occur in typically marine habitats. The ability to survive and reproduce in non-marine environments, ranging from hypersaline to brackish-water as, for example, in F. enigmaticus, or brackish-water as in N. uschakovi, or even totally freshwater as in Marifugia cavatica, is an important character that needs to be to be taken into consideration in view of physiological adaptations involved. Hennig (1966 p. 101), while discussing the holomorphological methods of phylogenetic systematics, states that ‘it is an old demand that systematic work should consider “all characters as far as possible, and not be limited to only one sector of the fabric of characters.…..’
description: Published as part of Pillai, T. Gottfried, 2008, Ficopomatus talehsapensis, a new brackish-water species (Polychaeta: Serpulidae: Ficopomatinae) from Thailand, with discussions on the relationships of taxa constituting the subfamily, opercular insertion as a taxonomic character and their taxonomy, a key to its taxa, and their zoogeography, pp. 36-52 in Zootaxa 1967 on page 46
Obesity-Induced Inflammation in Human Mammary Tissue: A Potential Microenvironment Favorable to the Development of Postmenopausal Breast Cancer Via the Wnt Signaling Pathway
Creators: name: Roubert, Agathe A
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2015

description: In the United States, over one third of adult women are obese, and one in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime. Obesity has been shown to be a risk factor for postmenopausal breast cancer and is associated with increased aggressiveness and poor prognosis regardless of menopausal status. However, the mechanisms involved in the relationship between obesity and breast cancer are still not fully understood. Wnt signaling is often elevated in breast tumors (~60%) and is suspected to play a key role in cancer development. It has been shown that inflammatory cytokines, such as TNF-α, IL-1β, IFNγ, are potential mediators in the regulation of Wnt-signaling. We hypothesize that the low-grade inflammatory state associated with obesity is present in human mammary tissue, stimulates Wnt activity, and thereby leads to the development of breast cancer. In this project, we propose to 1) characterize the inflammatory cytokine profile, including IFN-γ, IL-1β, IL-2, IL-6, IL-8, and TNF-α, in the mammary tissue of normal weight, overweight, and obese postmenopausal women using a high performance electrochemiluminescence immunoassay; 2) determine the influences of the obesity-induced pro-inflammatory cytokines on Wnt-signaling by examining gene expression of seven Wnt-signaling target genes using real-time PCR; and 3) define the causality between TNF-α, one of the mot critical inflammatory cytokines, and Wnt signaling by measuring the gene expression of the Wnt targets in samples from normal to overweight and obese postmenopausal women treated with anti-TNF-α antibody or TNF-α recombinant protein respectively. We expect to define a novel mechanism that obesity mediates the development of postmenopausal breast via inflammation-driven Wnt signaling.
Using Digital Elevation Models Derived from Airborne LiDAR and Other Remote Sensing Data to Model Channel Networks and Estimate Fluvial Geomorphological Metrics
Creators: name: Slovin, Noah
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2015

description: Recent advances in remote-sensing technologies and analysis methods, specifically airborne-LiDAR elevation data and corresponding geographical information system (GIS) tools, present new opportunities for automated and rapid fluvial geomorphic (FGM) assessments that can cover entire watersheds. In this thesis, semi-automated GIS tools are used to extract channel centerlines and bankfull width values from digital elevation models (DEM) for five New England watersheds. For each study site, four centerlines are mapped. LiDAR and NED lines are delineated using ArcGIS spatial analyst tools with high-resolution (1-m to 2-m) LiDAR DEMs or USGS National Elevation Dataset (NED) DEMs, respectively. Resampled LiDAR decreases LiDAR DEM resolution and then runs spatial analyst tools. National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) lines are mapped by the USGS. All mapped lines are compared to centerlines delineated from photography and LiDAR DEMs. Bankfull widths at each site are determined through three methods. Regional regression equations are applied using variables derived from LiDAR and NED DEMs separately, producing two sets of width results. Additionally, the Hydrogeomorphological Geoprocessing Toolset (HGM) is used to extract widths from LiDAR data. Widths are also estimated visually from aerial photos and LiDAR DEMs. Widths measured directly in the field or derived from field-data are used as a baseline for comparison.
I find that with a minimal amount of preprocessing, specifically through DEM resampling, LiDAR data can be used to model a channel that is highly correlated with the shape and location of the mapped channel. NED-derived channels model the mapped channel shape with even greater accuracy, and model the channel location only minimally less accurately. No tool used in this study accurately extracted bankfull width values, but analysis of LiDAR data by the HGM toolset did capture details that could not be resolved using regression equations. Overall, I conclude that automated, computerized LiDAR interpretation needs to improve significantly for the expense of data collection to be cost-effective at a watershed scale.
Demicryptochironomus (Demicryptochironomus) asamaprimus Sasa et Hirabayashi
Creators: name: Yan, Chuncai
name: Saether, Ole A.
name: Jin, Zhaohui
name: Wang, Xinhua
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Chironomidae
Demicryptochironomus
Demicryptochironomus asamaprimus

description: Demicryptochironomus (Demicryptochironomus) asamaprimus Sasa et Hirabayashi
(Figs 1–3)
 Demicryptochironomus asamaprimus Sasa et Hirabayashi, 1991: 117; Sasa and Okazawa (1991a: 53); Sasa and Okazawa (1991b: 106); Sasa (1993: 82).
 Material examined. Holotype male (NSM No. 203: 71, misprinted as No. 203: 74 in the original paper), JAPAN: Nagano Prefecture, Asama-Onsen in the suburbs of Matsumoto City, 17.v.1990, light trap.
 Diagnostic characters. The species can be separated from other members of the subgenus by the thumblike superior volsella with 2 setae; reduced inferior volsella with microtrichia; prominent frontal tubercles; and AR of about 2.5.
 Male (Figs 1–3). As in Sasa and Hirabayashi (1991: 117) with the following corrections and additions:
 AR 2.51. Brachiolum with 2 setae, R with 21 setae, R 1 with 20 setae, R 4+5 with 22 setae. Midleg without sensilla chaetica. Tergite IX with 34 setae. Laterosternite IX with 5 setae. Anal tergite bands V-shaped. Phallapodeme 118 µm long. Transverse sternapodeme 82 µm long. Inferior volsella sheet-shaped, covered with microtrichia. Gonocoxite 128 µm long, inner margin with 7 strong setae. Gonostylus 193 µm long, swollen midially, tapering towards apex, inner margin with 20 setae. HR 0.66; HV 2.45.
 Distribution. The species is recorded from Japan.
description: Published as part of Yan, Chuncai, Saether, Ole A., Jin, Zhaohui & Wang, Xinhua, 2008, Three new species of the Harnischia complex from the Sino-Indian Region, with a review of Demicryptochironomus Lenz (Diptera: Chironomidae), pp. 1-22 in Zootaxa 1968 on pages 5-6
UNDERSTANDING STAKEHOLDERS PERCEPTION TOWARDS HUMAN-WILDLIFE INTERACTION AND CONFLICT IN A TIGER LANDSCAPE-COMPLEX OF INDIA
Creators: name: Sripal, Ronak T
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2015

description: Human-population of the earth exceeding 6 billion and growing at an estimates rate of 1.2% per year (US census Bureau, 2002) will lead to increase in human-wildlife encounters. Attacks on humans are perhaps the least understood of these encounters, but the most interesting and emotionally connected to people (Quigley Howard 2005). The main aim of the study if to understand stakeholders’ perception towards human-wildlife interaction and conflicts in Corbett National park, India. We used a standardized IRB (Institutional Review Board) approved questionnaire to survey 315 household from 15 villages lying within and around Corbett National Park of India using snow-ball technique and stratified random sampling technique.. We also surveyed and analyzed the head of the village, snow-ball technique and stratified random technique survey differently. We used multivariate regression analysis to understand the data obtained from questionnaire survey. Later, we also designed a conceptual model to understand factors influencing human-wildlife interaction; and an empirical model to identify factors affecting human-wildlife conflicts. The results of the study identified that most of the encounters with wildlife occurred while collecting timber or grass from forests. Wild pigs, elephants and cheetal are the species mainly responsible for crop-loss in our study area. Majority of the stakeholders were engaged in timber and grass collection from forested area. Multivariate regression results suggests that stakeholders whose farms were located far from highway, had good fencing and who had better socio-economic status faced least threat from wildlife with respect to crop-loss, livestock loss and human-life loss/injury. The simulation results of dynamic system experiment suggests that habitat loss and poaching play a very significant role in tiger population and its future. The study concludes that a holistic multi-disciplinary conservation approach is needed to address the increasing conflict issues in India. More emphases should be given on community based-conservation strategies and policies. Watch-towers, pits, solar-powered fencing are the best and most effective ways to keep wildlife away from damaging crops and killing livestock. Sustainable development and better higher education is the key to conserving tigers in India.
Topological Nature of Anomalous Hall Effect in Ferromagnet
Creators: name: Onoda, Masaru
name: Nagaosa, Naoto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The anomalous Hall effect in two-dimensional ferromagnets is discussed to be the physical realization of the parity anomaly in (2+1)D, and the band crossing points behave as the topological singularity in the Brillouin zone. This appears as the sharp peaks and the sign changes of the transverse conductance $σ_{xy}$ as a function of the Fermi energy and/or the magnetization. The relevance to the experiments including the three dimensional systems is also discussed.
description: LaTeX 13 pages, 3 figures
Demicryptochironomus (Demicryptochironomus) chuzequartus Sasa 1984
Creators: name: Yan, Chuncai
name: Saether, Ole A.
name: Jin, Zhaohui
name: Wang, Xinhua
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Chironomidae
Demicryptochironomus
Demicryptochironomus chuzequartus

description: Demicryptochironomus (Demicryptochironomus) chuzequartus Sasa
(Figs 4–6)
 Demicryptochironomus chuzequartus Sasa, 1984: 47; Sasa (1985: 111, 1989: 70); Zorina (2004: 225); Makarchenko et al. (2005: 409).
 Material examined. Holotype male (NSM No. A 39: 96), JAPAN: Lake Chuzenji, 28.iv.1979, M. Sasa.
 Diagnostic characters. The species can be distinguished by the following combination of characters: AR 2.93; LR 1 1.60; frontal tubercles prominent; both superior and inferior volsella tubercle-like, with 1–3 setae, lacking microtrichia.
 Male (Figs 4–6). As in Sasa (1984: 47) with the following corrections and additions: Brachiolum with 2 setae, R with 26 setae, R 1 with 22 setae, R 4+5 with 34 setae. Mid ta 1 with 3 sensilla chaetica. Tergite IX with 39 setae. Laterosternite IX with 7 setae. Anal tergite bands V-shaped. Phallapodeme 108 µm long. Transverse sternapodeme 48 µm long. Superior volsella with 1–2 setae, without microtrichia. Inferior volsella with 2–3 setae, without microtrichia. Gonocoxite 183 µm long, inner margin with 5 strong setae. Gonostylus 235 µm long, swollen medially, tapering towards apex, inner margin with 12 setae. HR 0.78; HV 2.63.
 Remarks. Without examining type material, Dutta et al. (1996) proposed that D. chuzequartus Sasa is as a synonym of Demicryptochironomus vulneratus (Zetterstedt). However, according to our examination the species should be retained as a valid species.
Zorina (2004) recorded the species from Sakhalin Island, Russia. The Russian specimens have the superior volsella covered with microtrichia, and the inferior volsella can be strongly reduced or absent.
 Distribution. The species is recorded from Japan and the Russian Far East.
description: Published as part of Yan, Chuncai, Saether, Ole A., Jin, Zhaohui & Wang, Xinhua, 2008, Three new species of the Harnischia complex from the Sino-Indian Region, with a review of Demicryptochironomus Lenz (Diptera: Chironomidae), pp. 1-22 in Zootaxa 1968 on pages 6-7
Gravitational Optics: Self-phase modulation and harmonic cascades
Creators: name: Mendonca, J. T.
name: Cardoso, Vitor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nonlinear wave interaction of low amplitude gravitational waves in flat space-time is considered. Analogy with optics is established. It is shown that the flat metric space-time is equivalent to a centro-symmetric optical medium, with no second order susceptibility. The lowest order nonlinear effects are those due to the third order nonlinearity and include self-phase modulation and high harmonic generation. These processes lead to an efficient energy dilution of the gravitational wave energy over an increasingly large spectral range.
description: 12 pages, REVTEX4
MOESM1 of Environmental determinants of distribution of freshwater snails and trematode infection in the Omo Gibe River Basin, southwest Ethiopia
Creators: name: Mereta, Seid
name: Bedewi, Jemal
name: Delenasaw Yewhalaw
name: Belayhun Mandefro
name: Yihun Abdie
name: Dechassa Tegegne
name: Wondwosen Birke
name: Worku Mulat
name: Kloos, Helmut
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Multilingual abstracts in the five official working languages of the United Nations.
Evaluation of the Springfield MENU Program
Creators: name: Stenger, Hannah
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2015

description: Studies have shown that many low-income and disadvantaged Americans have a poor diet quality, which increases obesity and chronic disease risk. According to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, education and income levels of Springfield residents are well below state averages, and racial diversity in Springfield has increased significantly over the past few decades. Springfield’s demographics increase the risk of health disparities in the community, and higher rates of diabetes, heart disease, and obesity are seen in Springfield. To promote healthy eating behaviors among Springfield residents, Mason Square Health Task Force (MSHTF), a Live Well Springfield (LWS) partner, created a 6-session nutrition curriculum, entitled The MENU Program. The goal was to increase overall health awareness and healthy eating behaviors among residents in communities that are being targeted by the LWS initiative. Topics of the The MENU Program included MyPlate guidelines and label reading, budget shopping and cooking, healthy restaurant choices, diet and chronic disease, and food justice. The objective of this study was to evaluate The MENU Program to assess its strengths, weaknesses, and effectiveness using both quantitative and qualitative data from surveys, process evaluation, and facilitator observations. There were two phases of this study: Phase 1 was the evaluation of the pilot program delivered to a group of senior women recruited through the Dunbar YMCA; Phase 2 evaluated the second offering of the curriculum to Mason Square residents enrolled in the Task Force Fit Challenge. All participants responded positively to The MENU Program sessions and positive changes were seen in knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors after both Phases. Participant-perceived useful material included handouts, group discussions, and hands-on activities. Observational data supports the usefulness of group discussion over lecture-based teaching methods. This study supports the use of The MENU Program as an effective community education program for Springfield, MA. It has the potential to positively influence residents’ diet quality and nutrition-related behaviors through improved nutrition knowledge and attitudes.
Complex Kerr Geometry and Nonstationary Kerr Solutions
Creators: name: Burinskii, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the frame of the Kerr-Schild approach, we consider the complex structure of Kerr geometry which is determined by a complex world line of a complex source. The real Kerr geometry is represented as a real slice of this complex structure. The Kerr geometry is generalized to the nonstationary case when the current geometry is determined by a retarded time and is defined by a retarded-time construction via a given complex world line of source. A general exact solution corresponding to arbitrary motion of a spinning source is obtained. The acceleration of the source is accompanied by a lightlike radiation along the principal null congruence. It generalizes to the rotating case the known Kinnersley class of "photon rocket" solutions.
description: v.3, revtex, 16 pages, one eps-figure, final version (to appear in PRD), added the relation to twistors and algorithm of numerical computations, English is corrected
Exclusive (Lambda_b -> Lambda l^+ l^-) decay beyond standard model
Creators: name: Aliev, T. M.
name: Ozpineci, A.
name: Savci, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the most general, model independent form of the effective Hamiltonian, the exclusive, rare baryonic (Lambda_b -> Lambda l^+ l^- ~l=μ,τ) decay is analyzed. We study sensitivity of the branching ratio and lepton forward-backward asymmetry to the new Wilson coefficients. Is is shown that these physical quantities are quite sensitive to the new Wilson coefficients. Determination of the position of zero value of the forward-backward asymmetry can serve as a useful tool for establishing new physics beyond the standard model, as well as fixing the sign of the new Wilson coefficients.
description: 21 pages, 16 figures, LaTeX formatted
title: Préface_Guide pratique de l'amateur électricien pour la construction de tous les appareils électriques
Creators: name: AmateurS
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020

description: Préface
description: ID_PARA_00829
Lattice gauge theory for Haldane conjecture and central-branch Wilson fermion
Creators: name: Misumi, Tatsuhiro
name: Tanizaki, Yuya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop the $(1+1)$d lattice $U(1)$ gauge theory in order to define $2$-flavor massless Schwinger model, and discuss its connection with Haldane conjecture. We propose to use the central-branch Wilson fermion, which is defined by relating the mass, $m$, and the Wilson parameter, $r$, as $m+2r=0$. This setup gives two massless Dirac fermions in the continuum limit, and it turns out that no fine-tuning of $m$ is required because the extra $U(1)$ symmetry at the central branch, $U(1)_{\bar{V}}$, prohibits the additive mass renormalization. Moreover, we show that Dirac determinant is positive semi-definite and this formulation is free from the sign problem, so the Monte Carlo simulation of the path integral is possible. By identifying the symmetry at low energy, we show that this lattice model has the mixed 't Hooft anomaly between $U(1)_{\bar{V}}$, lattice translation, and lattice rotation. We discuss its relation to the anomaly of half-integer anti-ferromagnetic spin chains, so our lattice gauge theory is suitable for numerical simulation of Haldane conjecture. Furthermore, it gives new and strict understanding on parity-broken phase (Aoki phase) of $2$d Wilson fermion.
description: 24 pages, 2 figures; (v2) discussion improved, refs added; (v3) minor changes
Demicryptochironomus (Demicryptochironomus) harunasecundus Yan & Saether & Jin & Wang 2008, comb. n.
Creators: name: Yan, Chuncai
name: Saether, Ole A.
name: Jin, Zhaohui
name: Wang, Xinhua
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Chironomidae
Demicryptochironomus
Demicryptochironomus harunasecundus

description: Demicryptochironomus (Demicryptochironomus) harunasecundus (Sasa) comb. n.
(Figs 13–15)
 Parachironomus harunasecundus Sasa, 1996: 95.
 Material examined. Holotype male (NSM No. 291: 11), JAPAN: Gunma Prefecture, Haruna Lake, 25.ix.1994, light trap, M. Sasa.
 Diagnostic characters. The species closely resembles Demicryptochironomus ginzancedeus Sasa et Suzuki in the shape of the superior volsella. It differs in having a bare inferior volsella with lateral projection with single apical seta.
 Male (Figs 13–15). As in Sasa (1996: 95) with the following corrections and additions: R with 24 setae, R 1 with 20 setae, R 4+5 with 32 setae. Midleg without sensilla chaetica. Tergite IX with 35 setae. Laterosternite IX with 4 setae. Anal tergite bands V-shaped. Phallapodeme 90 µm long. Transverse sternapodeme 30 µm long. Inferior volsella lacking microtrichia, with 1 apical seta, with lateral projection with 1 apical seta. Gonocoxite 138 µm long, inner margin with 6 strong setae. Gonostylus 188 µm long, swollen midially, tapering towards apex, inner margin with 13 setae. HR 0.73; HV 2.13.
 Remarks. The holotype of Parachironomus harunasecundus Sasa do not have a distinct apical tooth and conspicuous setal pits on the superior volsella. The characters of the superior volsella, gonostylus and the anal tergite are consistent with the diagnosis of Demicryptochironomus. The species is thus transferred to Demicryptochironomus as a new combination.
 Distribution. The species is recorded from Japan.
description: Published as part of Yan, Chuncai, Saether, Ole A., Jin, Zhaohui & Wang, Xinhua, 2008, Three new species of the Harnischia complex from the Sino-Indian Region, with a review of Demicryptochironomus Lenz (Diptera: Chironomidae), pp. 1-22 in Zootaxa 1968 on pages 8-9