cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Parametric unfolding. Method and restrictions
Creators: name: Gagunashvili, Nikolay
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 62-07 (Primary), 62F03, 62F10, 62P35, 62P30 (Secondary)

description: Parametric unfolding of a true distribution distorted due to finite resolution and limited efficiency for the registration of individual events is discussed. Details of the computational algorithm of the unfolding procedure are presented.
description: 14 pages, 9 figures
Rotation and variability of very low mass stars and brown dwarfs near Epsilon Ori
Creators: name: Scholz, Alexander
name: Eisloeffel, Jochen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the rotation and activity of very low mass (VLM) objects by means of a photometric variability study. Our targets in the vicinity of Epsilon Ori belong to the OriOB1b population in the Orion star-forming complex. In this region we selected 143 VLM stars and brown dwarfs (BDs), whose photometry in RIJHK is consistent with membership of the young population. The variability of these objects was investigated using a densely sampled I-band time series covering four consecutive nights with altogether 129 data points per object. Our targets show three types of variability: Thirty objects, including nine BDs, show significant photometric periods, ranging from 4h up to 100h, which we interpret as the rotation periods. Five objects, including two BDs, exhibit variability with high amplitudes up to 1 mag which is at least partly irregular. This behaviour is most likely caused by ongoing accretion and confirms that VLM objects undergo a T Tauri phase similar to solar-mass stars. Finally, one VLM star shows a strong flare event of 0.3 mag amplitude. The rotation periods show dependence on mass, i.e. the average period decreases with decreasing object mass, consistent with previously found mass-period relationships in younger and older clusters. The period distribution of BDs extends down to the breakup period, where centrifugal and gravitational forces are balanced. Combining our BD periods with literature data, we found that the lower period limit for substellar objects lies between 2h and 4h, more or less independent of age. Contrary to stars, these fast rotating BDs seem to evolve at constant rotation period from ages of 3 Myr to 1 Gyr, in spite of the contraction process. Thus, they should experience strong rotational braking.
description: 17 pages, 13 figures, A&A, in press
Test, LIMS and Physician Interface Development
Creators: name: Innovative Genomics Institute
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110303 Clinical Microbiology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Test, LIMS and Physician Interface Development for the SARS-CoV test used in the Innovative Genomics Institute testing laboratory.
The role of environment on quenching, star formation and AGN activity
Creators: name: Poggianti, Bianca M.
name: Bellhouse, Callum
name: Deb, Tirna
name: Franchetto, Andrea
name: Fritz, Jacopo
name: George, Koshy
name: Gullieuszik, Marco
name: Jaffe', Yara
name: Moretti, Alessia
name: Mueller, Ancla
name: Radovich, Mario
name: Ramatsoku, Mpati
name: Vulcani, Benedetta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Galaxies undergoing ram pressure stripping in clusters are an excellent opportunity to study the effects of environment on both the AGN and the star formation activity. We report here on the most recent results from the GASP survey. We discuss the AGN-ram pressure stripping connection and some evidence for AGN feedback in stripped galaxies. We then focus on the star formation activity, both in the disks and the tails of these galaxies, and conclude drawing a picture of the relation between multi-phase gas and star formation.
description: Proceedings of the IAU Symposium 359 "Galaxy evolution and feedback across different environments", editors T. Storchi-Bergmann, R. Overzier, W. Forman & R. Riffel - final version
Verification and Validation of Convex Optimization Algorithms for Model Predictive Control
Creators: name: Cohen, Raphaël
name: Féron, Eric
name: Garoche, Pierre-Loïc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Formal Languages and Automata Theory (cs.FL)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Advanced embedded algorithms are growing in complexity and they are an essential contributor to the growth of autonomy in many areas. However, the promise held by these algorithms cannot be kept without proper attention to the considerably stronger design constraints that arise when the applications of interest, such as aerospace systems, are safety-critical. Formal verification is the process of proving or disproving the ''correctness'' of an algorithm with respect to a certain mathematical description of it by means of a computer. This article discusses the formal verification of the Ellipsoid method, a convex optimization algorithm, and its code implementation as it applies to receding horizon control. Options for encoding code properties and their proofs are detailed. The applicability and limitations of those code properties and proofs are presented as well. Finally, floating-point errors are taken into account in a numerical analysis of the Ellipsoid algorithm. Modifications to the algorithm are presented which can be used to control its numerical stability.
Every Query Counts: Analyzing the Privacy Loss of Exploratory Data Analyses
Creators: name: von Voigt, Saskia Nuñez
name: Pauli, Mira
name: Reichert, Johanna
name: Tschorsch, Florian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: An exploratory data analysis is an essential step for every data analyst to gain insights, evaluate data quality and (if required) select a machine learning model for further processing. While privacy-preserving machine learning is on the rise, more often than not this initial analysis is not counted towards the privacy budget. In this paper, we quantify the privacy loss for basic statistical functions and highlight the importance of taking it into account when calculating the privacy-loss budget of a machine learning approach.
description: Accepted Paper for DPM 2020 co-located ESORICS 2020
SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL.docx Limited WKY chromosomal regions confer increases in anxiety and fear memory in a F344 congenic rat strain
Creators: name: Redei, Eva
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 320903
subject: Central nervous system

description: · Whole genome sequencing of congenic strains should be a criterion for their recognition.· Sequence variations between WKY and F344 at regions of Chrs 9, 14 and 15 contribute to differences in contextual fear memory and anxiety-like behaviors.· Stress during adolescence affects these behaviors in males, but not females, and is independent of strain.
One Country: Two Traditions, Two Sets Of Laws
Creators: name: Roe, Ronald
name: Hayes, Alexander
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111701 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110403 Traditional Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Medicine and Treatments
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 130301 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: 180101 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Law
subject: FOS: Law
subject: 210301 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History
subject: FOS: History and archaeology
subject: 200201 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Studies
subject: FOS: Other humanities
subject: 80701 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Knowledge Management
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: 200501 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Literature
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: 210101 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Archaeology
subject: 50201 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Environmental Knowledge
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: A short paper detailing the ongoing struggle with rampant development which has huge environmental impact in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Edited by Alexander Hayes.
Változások az európai gabonatermelésben 2000 és 2010 között
Creators: name: Feher, Istvan
name: Kiss, Istvan
name: Feher, Istvan
name: Kiss, Istvan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: EU-27
subject: gabonaszektor
subject: termésmennyiség
subject: intervenciós ár
subject: intervenciós készletek
subject: EU27
subject: cereal sector
subject: production quantity
subject: intervention price
subject: intervention stocks

description: Az EU-27 gabonatermesztésbe vont területei enyhe csökkenést mutatnak a 2000 és 2010 közötti időszakban, ennek a csökkenésnek a hátterében főként a repce mint olajos növény felfutása áll. A területi csökkenés ellenére a megtermelt gabonamennyiség szinten maradt, azonban kisebb-nagyobb ingadozások az évjárathatás miatt tapasztalhatók. A megtermelt mennyiség stagnálásának oka a termésátlagok növekedésére vezethető vissza. A növekedés a biológiai alapok javulásával magyarázható, nem pedig a műtrágya-felhasználás növekedésével. Az Európai Unió intervenciós szabályai többször változtak a vizsgált időszakban. A módosítások nélkül az intervenciós rendszer fenntarthatatlanná vált volna. Az intervenciós szabályok megváltoztatása az EU belső árait közelítette a világpiaci árakhoz. Természetesen nem szabad arról sem megfeledkezni, hogy a szabályok megváltozása óta a gabonaárak szintje szinte minden évben meghaladta az intervenciós rendszerben elérhető felvásárlási árakat, és ebből kifolyólag szinte megszűnt az igény az intervencióra. ----------------- In the EU-27, the harvested area of cereals decreased slightly between 2000 and 2010, mostly due to the increasing share in production of oilseed rape. Nevertheless, in contrast to the decreasing harvested area of cereals, the harvested amount of cereals stagnated; only minor fluctuations occurred that could be attributed to the different harvest years. The main reason for the stagnating harvested amount is the increasing yields per hectare, and these increasing yields are achieved by improving the biological resources and not by increasing the use of artificial fertilisers. The rules of the European Union (EU) on intervention underwent several changes during the period of investigation, in the absence of which it can be stated that the intervention system would have become unsustainable. At the same time, it can also be claimed that the reformed intervention system brought the EU’s markets and producers closer to the world market. Another important point is that the price of the cereals exceeded the intervention prices in the intervention systems in almost every year since the rules were changed. Therefore the need for intervention has almost ended.
The Experimental Status of the Standard Electroweak Model at the End of the LEP-SLC Era
Creators: name: Field, J. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A method is proposed to calculate the confidence level for agreement of data with the Standard Model (SM) by combining information from direct and indirect Higgs Boson searches. Good agreement with the SM is found for $m_H \simeq 120$ GeV using the observables most sensitive to $m_H$: $A_l$ and $m_W$. In particular, quantum corrections, as predicted by the SM, are observed with a statistical significance of forty-four standard deviations. However, apparent deviations from the SM of 3.7$σ$ and 2.8$σ$ are found for the Z$ν\barν$ and right-handed Zb$\bar{\rm b}$ couplings respectively. The maximum confidence level for agreement with the SM of the entire data set considered is $\simeq 0.006$ for $m_H \simeq 180$ GeV. The reason why confidence levels about an order of magnitude higher than this have been claimed for global fits to similar data sets is explained.
description: 47 pages, 8 figures, 24 tables. An in-depth study of statistical issues related to the comparison of precision EW data to the SM
title: A Two-time-level model for mission and flight planning of an inhomogeneous fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles
title: Ein Zwei-Zeitraster-Modell für die Missions- und Flugplanung einer inhomogenen Flotte unbemannter Luftfahrzeuge
Creators: name: Schmidt, Johannes
name: Fügenschuh, Armin
Publisher: name: BTU  Cottbus - Senftenberg
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 510 Mathematik

description: We consider the mission and flight planning problem for an inhomogeneous fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Therein, the mission planning problem of assigning targets to a fleet of UAVs and the flight planning problem of finding optimal flight trajectories between a given set of waypoints are combined into one model and solved simultaneously. Thus, trajectories of an inhomogeneous fleet of UAVs have to be specified such that the sum of waypoint-related scores is maximized, considering technical and environmental constraints. Several aspects of an existing basic model are expanded to achieve a more detailed solution. A two-level time grid approach is presented to smooth the computed trajectories. The three-dimensional mission area can contain convex-shaped restricted airspaces and convex subareas where wind affects the flight trajectories. Furthermore, the flight dynamics are related to the mass change, due to fuel consumption, and the operating range of every UAV is altitude-dependent. A class of benchmark instances for collision avoidance is adapted and expanded to fit our model and we prove an upper bound on its objective value. Finally, the presented features and results are tested and discussed on several test instances using GUROBI as a state-of-the-art numerical solver.
description: Wir betrachten das Missions- und Flugplanungsproblem für eine inhomogene Flotte unbemannter Luftfahrzeuge (UAVs). Darin werden das Missionsplanungsproblem der Zuweisung von Zielen zu einer Flotte von UAVs und das Flugplanungsproblem der Suche nach optimalen Flugbahnen zwischen einer gegebenen Menge von Wegpunkten in einem Modell kombiniert und gelöst. Darin müssen die Flugbahnen einer inhomogenen Flotte von UAVs so spezifiziert werden, dass die Summe der wegpunktbezogenen Bewertungen unter Berücksichtigung technischer und umweltbedingter Einschränkungen maximiert wird. Eine vorhandenes Grundmodell wird erweitert, um eine detailliertere Lösung zu erzielen. Ein zweistufiger Zeitrasteransatz wird vorgestellt, um die berechneten Trajektorien zu glätten. Das dreidimensionale Missionsgebiet kann konvex geformte eingeschränkte Lufträume und konvexe Teilbereiche enthalten, in denen Wind die Flugbahnen beeinflusst. Darüber hinaus hängt die Flugdynamik mit der Massenänderung aufgrund des Kraftstoffverbrauchs zusammen, und die Reichweite jedes UAV ist höhenabhängig. Eine Klasse von Benchmark-Instanzen zur Kollisionsvermeidung wird an unser Modell angepasst und erweitert, und wir beweisen eine Obergrenze für den Zielfunktionswert. Schließlich werden die vorgestellten Funktionen und Ergebnisse an mehreren Testinstanzen getestet und diskutiert, wobei GUROBI als hochmoderner numerischer Löser verwendet wird.
description: Cottbus Mathematical Preprints; 16, 2021
Methods - LDT validation experiments, patient sample processing, LIMS validation and Resulting protocol
Creators: name: Innovative Genomics Institute
name: Doudna, Jennifer
name: Hockemeyer, Dirk
name: Urnov, Fyodor
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110303 Clinical Microbiology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Methodological overview of LDT validation experiments, patient sample processing, LIMS validation and Resulting protocol at the Innovative Genomics Institute SARS-CoV-2 testing laboratory.
Influence of Different Surface Morphologies on the Performance of High Voltage, Low Resistance Diamond Schottky Diodes
Creators: name: Reinke, Philipp
name: Benkhelifa, Fouad
name: Kirste, Lutz
name: Czap, Heiko
name: Pinti, Lucas
name: Zürbig, Verena
name: Cimalla, Volker
name: Nebel, Christoph
name: Ambacher, Oliver
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Vertical diamond Schottky diodes with blocking voltages $V_{\text{BD}} > 2.4 \text{ kV}$ and on-resistances $R_{\text{On}} < 400 \text{ m}Ω\text{cm}^{2}$ were fabricated on homoepitaxially grown diamond layers with different surface morphologies. The morphology (smooth as-grown, hillock-rich, polished) influences the Schottky barrier, the carrier transport properties, and consequently the device performance. The smooth as-grown sample exhibited a low reverse current density $J_{\text{Rev}} < 10^{-4} \text{ A}/\text{cm}^{2}$ for reverse voltages up to $2.2 \text{ kV}$. The hillock-rich sample blocked similar voltages with a slight increase in the reverse current density ($J_{\text{Rev}} < 10^{-3} \text{ A}/\text{cm}^{2}$). The calculated 1D-breakdown field, however, was reduced by $30 \text{ } \%$, indicating a field enhancement induced by the inhomogeneous surface. The polished sample demonstrated a similar breakdown voltage and reverse current density as the smooth as-grown sample, suggesting that a polished surface can be suitable for device fabrication. However, a statistical analysis of several diodes of each sample showed the importance of the substrate quality: A high density of defects both reduces the feasible device area and increases the reverse current density. In forward direction, the hillock-rich sample exhibited a secondary Schottky barrier, which could be fitted with a modified thermionic emission model employing the Lambert W-function. Both polished and smooth sample showed nearly ideal thermionic emission with ideality factors $1.08$ and $1.03$, respectively. Compared with literature, all three diodes exhibit an improved Baliga Figure of Merit for diamond Schottky diodes with $V_{\text{BD}} > 2 \text{ kV}$.
description: Accepted April 20, 2020
The decline and restoration of riparian and hilltop forests in the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
Creators: name: Sharam, Gregory J.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The riparian and hilltop forests of Serengeti National Park, Tanzania, have been in rapid decline since the early 1970s. Fifty percent of riparian forests and 85% of hilltop forests have been converted to grassland in that time. This thesis investigates the causes of this decline and the conditions under which forests will stabilize and recolonize grassland areas. Fire is the main cause of decline, particularly affecting the upwind side of rivers and removing seedlings and canopy trees at the forest-grassland boundary. The effects of fire depend on the type of forest and forest edge. Closed-canopy forests with dense dripline edges are more resistant to fire than open-canopy, advancing edges. Mortality of seedlings and canopy trees in closed-canopy forests increased only when stands were burned in four successive years, while seedlings and canopy tree mortality occurred after only one year of burning in forests with open-canopy advancing edges. Germination of forest trees within forests is limited by grass abundance and conditions in the grassland, but is increased by recent fires, floods and grass removal. Subsequent survival and growth of seedlings is limited by fires at the forest periphery and by antelope browsing. Survival of large trees is reduced by fire and by elephants; however, elephant damage was insufficient to limit replacement of the forest canopy although elephants did damage canopy trees. Seedling establishment is poor in the grassland adjacent to forests, despite the removal of fire, grass and antelope browsers. However, isolated stands of savanna trees can act as nurse trees and facilitate the establishment of riparian forests by excluding grass, fire and browsers, and increasing dry season soil moisture. Moreover, current forest stands probably developed from previous nurse stands. The history of Serengeti forests is reviewed and its implications for forest conservation and management are discussed.
Robust Inference for Univariate Proportional Hazards Frailty Regression Models
Creators: name: Kosorok, Michael R.
name: Lee, Bee Leng
name: Fine, Jason P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 62N01, 60F05 (Primary) 62B10, 62F40 (Secondary)

description: We consider a class of semiparametric regression models which are one-parameter extensions of the Cox [J. Roy. Statist. Soc. Ser. B 34 (1972) 187-220] model for right-censored univariate failure times. These models assume that the hazard given the covariates and a random frailty unique to each individual has the proportional hazards form multiplied by the frailty. The frailty is assumed to have mean 1 within a known one-parameter family of distributions. Inference is based on a nonparametric likelihood. The behavior of the likelihood maximizer is studied under general conditions where the fitted model may be misspecified. The joint estimator of the regression and frailty parameters as well as the baseline hazard is shown to be uniformly consistent for the pseudo-value maximizing the asymptotic limit of the likelihood. Appropriately standardized, the estimator converges weakly to a Gaussian process. When the model is correctly specified, the procedure is semiparametric efficient, achieving the semiparametric information bound for all parameter components. It is also proved that the bootstrap gives valid inferences for all parameters, even under misspecification. We demonstrate analytically the importance of the robust inference in several examples. In a randomized clinical trial, a valid test of the treatment effect is possible when other prognostic factors and the frailty distribution are both misspecified. Under certain conditions on the covariates, the ratios of the regression parameters are still identifiable. The practical utility of the procedure is illustrated on a non-Hodgkin's lymphoma dataset.
description: Published by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org) in the Annals of Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009053604000000535
An unusual isotope effect in a high-transition-temperature superconductor
Creators: name: Gweon, G. -H.
name: Sasagawa, T.
name: Zhou, S. Y.
name: Graf, J.
name: Takagi, H.
name: Lee, D. -H.
name: Lanzara, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In conventional superconductors, the electron pairing that allows superconductivity is caused by exchange of virtual phonons, which are quanta of lattice vibration. For high-transition-temperature (high-Tc) superconductors, it is far from clear that phonons are involved in the pairing at all. For example, the negligible change in Tc of optimally doped Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8 (Bi2212) upon oxygen isotope substitution (16O to 18O leads to Tc decreasing from 92 to 91 K) has often been taken to mean that phonons play an insignificant role in this material. Here we provide a detailed comparison of the electron dynamics of Bi2212 samples containing different oxygen isotopes, using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. Our data show definite and strong isotope effects. Surprisingly, the effects mainly appear in broad high-energy humps, commonly referred to as "incoherent peaks". As a function of temperature and electron momentum, the magnitude of the isotope effect closely correlates with the superconducting gap - that is, the pair binding energy. We suggest that these results can be explained in a dynamic spin-Peierls picture, where the singlet pairing of electrons and the electron-lattice coupling mutually enhance each other.
Aharonov Bohm Effect in Graphene Fabry Pérot Quantum Hall Interferometers
Creators: name: Ronen, Yuval
name: Werkmeister, Thomas
name: Najafabadi, Danial
name: Pierce, Andrew T.
name: Anderson, Laurel E.
name: Shin, Young J.
name: Lee, Si Young
name: Lee, Young Hee
name: Johnson, Bobae
name: Watanabe, Kenji
name: Taniguchi, Takashi
name: Yacoby, Amir
name: Kim, Philip
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum interferometers are powerful tools for probing the wave-nature and exchange statistics of indistinguishable particles. Of particular interest are interferometers formed by the chiral, one-dimensional (1D) edge channels of the quantum Hall effect (QHE) that guide electrons without dissipation. Using quantum point contacts (QPCs) as beamsplitters, these 1D channels can be split and recombined, enabling interference of charged particles. Such quantum Hall interferometers (QHIs) can be used for studying exchange statistics of anyonic quasiparticles. In this study we develop a robust QHI fabrication technique in van der Waals (vdW) materials and realize a graphene-based Fabry-Pérot (FP) QHI. By careful heterostructure design, we are able to measure pure Aharonov-Bohm (AB) interference effect in the integer QHE, a major technical challenge in finite size FP interferometers. We find that integer edge modes exhibit high visibility interference due to relatively large velocities and long phase coherence lengths. Our QHI with tunable QPCs presents a versatile platform for interferometer studies in vdW materials and enables future experiments in the fractional QHE.
Functional analyses of Arabidopsis MAPK gene families
Creators: name: Sritubtim, Somrudee
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: In plants, mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) cascades have been implicated in controlling intracellular signaling in developmental processes and in response to many external stimuli, including biotic and abiotic stresses. The hallmark of a MAPK cascade is the participation of three classes of protein kinases (MAPK, MAPKK and MAPKKK) that operate hierarchically to amplify the initial signal. Plant genomes appear to encode an exceptionally rich array of MAPK cascade proteins (at least 20 MAPK and 10 MAPKK homologies have been identified in Arabidopsis) but functional analysis of this extensive matrix is just beginning. To gain insight into the specificity/redundancy of MAPKs and MAPKKs, I have used RT-PCR to examine the expression profiles of each of the identified MAPKK and MAPK genes in Arabidopsis. Gene expression patterns have been examined in various tissues, at several developmental stages and following a series of stress treatments. The findings reveal distinct expression patterns of AtMKK6, AtMPK13 and AtMPKll genes. I have analyzed further the cell and tissue distribution of their expression during development and in response to many external stimuli through use of promoter
Supplementary document for Impact of a tilted coverslip on two-photon and STED microscopy - 6771536.pdf
Creators: name: Le Bourdelles, Guillaume
name: Mercier, Luc
name: Roos, Johannes
name: Bancelin, Stephane
name: Nägerl, Valentin
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2024
Subjects: Neuroscience

description: Supplemental Figures with captions
title: Electoral integrity in unconsolidated democracies: challenges and potential remedies
Creators: name: Ahlbäck, Johan
Publisher: name: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Year: 2020

description: The thesis studies challenges to electoral integrity in unconsolidated democracies and seeks to examine possible strategies or remedies that can alleviate these. I present three empirical studies on the topic. The first empirical study focuses on female electoral participation and disenfranchisement in Pakistan and examines whether the presence of election observers at female-only polling stations can influence this. The study makes use of the random allocation of domestic observers to individual polling stations during the 2008 Pakistan general elections, to estimate causal effects of observer presence on turnout in female-only polling stations. The second study analyses electoral malpractices in individual polling stations in Ukraine and examines the association between existing local support for the fraudulent party and the use of malpractices to either inflate or suppress votes. The study compares polling station data between two consequent presidential elections in 2004 in Ukraine and uses election forensics methods to measure the occurrence and type of different malpractices. The third and final study considers politicians’ evaluations of electoral integrity in Malawi and analyses the impact of partisanship and concerns raised by election observer in determining these evaluations. To gauge politicians’ evaluations on electoral integrity, the study makes use of an elite-level survey in Malawi with an embedded experiment. The findings of the empirical studies point to some potentials but also trials when it comes to alleviating challenges to electoral integrity in unconsolidated democracies.
Pentaquarks in a Breathing Mode Approach to Chiral Solitons
Creators: name: Weigel, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this talk I report on a computation of the spectra of exotic pentaquarks and radial excitations of the low--lying ${1/2}^+$ and ${3/2}^+$ baryons in a chiral soliton model. In addition I present model results for the transition magnetic moments between the N(1710) and the nucleon.
description: Talk presented at the Pentaquark workshop at Spring--8, July 2004. Eight pages
Phase-dependent study of near-infrared disk emission lines in LB-1
Creators: name: Liu, Jifeng
name: Zheng, Zheng
name: Soria, Roberto
name: Aceituno, Jesus
name: Zhang, Haotong
name: Lu, Youjun
name: Wang, Song
name: Hamann, Wolf-Rainer
name: Oskinova, Lida M.
name: Ramachandran, Varsha
name: Yuan, Hailong
name: Bai, Zhongrui
name: Wang, Shu
name: McKee, Brendan J.
name: Wu, Jianfeng
name: Wang, Junfeng
name: Lattanzi, Mario
name: Belczynski, Krzysztof
name: Casares, Jorge
name: Simon-Diaz, Sergio
name: Hernández, Jonay I. González
name: Rebolo, Rafael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The mass, origin and evolutionary stage of the binary system LB-1 has been the subject of intense debate, following the claim that it hosts an $\sim$70$M_{\odot}$ black hole, in stark contrast with the expectations for stellar remnants in the Milky Way. We conducted a high-resolution, phase-resolved spectroscopic study of the near-infrared Paschen lines in this system, using the 3.5-m telescope at Calar Alto Observatory. We find that Pa$β$ and Pa$γ$ (after proper subtraction of the stellar absorption component) are well fitted with a standard double-peaked model, typical of disk emission. We measured the velocity shifts of the red and blue peaks at 28 orbital phases: the line center has an orbital motion in perfect antiphase with the stellar motion, and the radial velocity amplitude ranges from 8 to 13 km/s for different choices of lines and profile modelling. We interpret this curve as proof that the disk is tracing the orbital motion of the primary, ruling out the circumbinary disk and the hierarchical triple scenarios. The phase-averaged peak-to-peak half-separation (proxy for the projected rotational velocity of the outer disk) is $\sim$70 km s$^{-1}$, larger than the stellar orbital velocity and also inconsistent with a circumbinary disk. From those results, we infer a primary mass 4--8 times higher than the secondary mass. Moreover, we show that the ratio of the blue and red peaks (V/R intensity ratio) has a sinusoidal behaviour in phase with the secondary star, which can be interpreted as the effect of external irradiation by the secondary star on the outer disk. Finally, we briefly discuss our findings in the context of alternative scenarios recently proposed for LB-1. Definitive tests between alternative solutions will require further astrometric data from $Gaia$.
description: To be submitted to ApJ. Comments are welcome
Geographies of transition: The political and geographical factors of agrarian change in Tajikistan
Creators: name: Hofman, Irna
name: Visser, Oane
name: Hofman, Irna
name: Visser, Oane
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Political Economy
subject: Agrarian change
subject: political economy
subject: former Soviet Union
subject: Central Asia
subject: Agrartransformation
subject: politische Ökonomie
subject: ehemalige Sowjetunion
subject: Zentralasien

description: After more than two decades of agrarian change in Tajikistan, farming structures seem to crystallise. The first signs towards farm individualisation were observed only around 2000, which were the result of significant pressure from outside, when the post-conflict state was highly susceptible to pressure from multilateral institutions. Over time, striking differences in agrarian structures have emerged nation-wide; from highly fragmented, autonomous farms, to elite-controlled large-scale cotton farming. In this paper we analyse and describe the Tajik path of reform, and locate the Tajik case amongst the other reformers in the CIS. We use a political economy and geographical approach to understand the way in which different geographies of transition have emerged in the aftermath of the Soviet collapse. Particular pathways of reform are conditioned by geographical factors, in which in turn, a local political economy comes into play that further shapes the emergence of particular farm models over time.
Exact Travelling Wave Solutions of Some Nonlinear Nonlocal Evolutionary Equations
Creators: name: Vladimirov, Vsevolod A.
name: Kutafina, Ekaterina V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35A30

description: Direct algebraic method of obtaining exact solutions to nonlinear PDE's is applied to certain set of nonlinear nonlocal evolutionary equations, including nonlinear telegraph equation, hyperbolic generalization of Burgers equation and some spatially nonlocal hydrodynamic-type model. Special attention is paid to the construction of the kink-like and soliton-like solutions.
description: 13 pages, LaTeX2e
Supplementary document for Impact of a tilted coverslip on two-photon and STED microscopy - 6795845.pdf
Creators: name: Le Bourdelles, Guillaume
name: Mercier, Luc
name: Roos, Johannes
name: Bancelin, Stephane
name: Nägerl, Valentin
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2024
Subjects: Neuroscience

description: Supplemental Figures with captions
Review of Effective Convergence between China’s Rural Minimum Subsistence Security System and the Development Policy of Poverty Alleviation
Creators: name: Wei, Song
name: Wei, Song
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Countryside
subject: Minimum subsistence security system
subject: Poverty alleviation and development
subject: Convergence
subject: China

description: Based on the conclusion of the related researches on China’s rural poverty alleviation policies and poverty problems, studies of Chinese scholars on the convergence between rural minimum subsistence system and the development policies of poverty alleviation are illustrated and personal understandings proposed. On the one hand, considering the actual situations of the quickening of China’s urbanization and deepening of poverty, it is necessary to make significant adjustment and transformation in China’s poverty reduction policies and minimum subsistence security system. On the other hand, it is pointed out that there is no omnipotent experience to follow in the convergence of minimum subsistence security system and poverty reduction policies. The actual conditions in various regions should be taken into consideration. And it is suggested that China should achieve the organic integration of rural minimum subsistence security system and poverty alleviation policies from management, capital and policy.
ЦИФРОВИЗАЦИЯ И НУМЕРОЛОГИЯ  В ФИЛОСОФСКОМ КОНТЕКСТЕ
Creators: name: ELKHOVA Oxana Igorevna
name: KUDRYASHEV Alexandr Fedorovich
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: DIGITALIZATION AND NUMEROLOGY IN THE PHILOSOPHICAL CONTEXT
description: The article provides a philosophical analysis of the digitalization processes that take place in modern society. It is emphasized that in recent years the topic of digitalization has been in the mainstream of modern social, humanitarian and philosophical developments. Digitalization is inevitably associated with number and numerology, which have been the subject of study since antiquity. The authors refer to the content aspects of the concept of «number», dwell on the digital coding of information during digitalization, compare digitalization and numerology, consider digitalization through the prism of ideas about the resurrection of a person (creating his digital twin), the synthesis of religion, science and technology in the transformation of the entire universe, which were expressed in the philosophy of Russian cosmism.
description: В статье осуществляется философский анализ процессов цифровизации, которые происходят в современном обществе. Подчеркивается, что в последние годы тема цифровизации находится  в мейнстриме современных социально-гуманитарных и философских разработок. В то время как  цифровизация оказывается  неизбежно связанной с числом и нумерологией, ставшими предметом изучения еще  во времена античности. Авторы обращаются к содержательным аспектам понятия «число»,  останавливаются на цифровом кодировании информации при цифровизации, сопоставляют цифровизацию и нумерологию, рассматривают цифровизацию через призму идей о воскрешении человека (создании его  цифрового двойника), синтеза религии, науки и техники в деле преображения всего мироздания, которые были высказаны еще  в философии русского космизма.
Comparison of the Lindhard-Sorensen and Mott-Bloch corrections to the Bethe stopping formula at moderately relativistic energies
Creators: name: Kats, P. B.
name: Halenka, K. V.
name: Voskresenskaya, O. O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The results of numerical calculating the total Mott-Bloch correction to the Bethe stopping formula and the Lindhard-Sorensen correction in the point nucleus approximation, as well as the Mott correction and the difference between the Lindhard-Sorensen and Bloch corrections, which were obtained by some rigorous and approximate methods, are compared for the ranges of a gamma factor of approximately from 1 to 10 and the ion nuclear charge number Z from 6 to 114. It is shown that the accurate calculation of the Mott-Bloch corrections based on the Mott exact cross section using a method previously proposed by one of the authors gives excellent agreement between its values and the values of the Lindhard-Sorensen corrections in the gamma and Z ranges under consideration. In addition, it is demonstrated that the results of stopping power calculations obtained by the two above-mentioned rigorous methods coincide with each other up to the seventh significant digit and provide the best agreement with experimental data in contrast with the results of some approximate methods, such as the methods of Ahlen, Jackson-McCarthy, etc.
description: 16 pages, 3 tables, 5 figures, PDF
Étude du cas rationnel de la théorie des formes linéaires de logarithmes. (French) [Study of the rational case of the theory of linear forms in logarithms]
Creators: name: Gaudron, Éric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11J86, 11J61, 11J13

description: We establish new measures of linear independence of logarithms on commutative algebraic groups in the so-called \emph{rational case}. More precisely, let k be a number field and v_{0} be an arbitrary place of k. Let G be a commutative algebraic group defined over k and H be a connected algebraic subgroup of G. Denote by Lie(H) its Lie algebra at the origin. Let u\in Lie(G(C_{v_{0}})) a logarithm of a point p\in G(k). Assuming (essentially) that p is not a torsion point modulo proper connected algebraic subgroups of G, we obtain lower bounds for the distance from u to Lie(H)\otimes_{k} C_{v_{0}}. For the most part, they generalize the measures already known when G is a linear group. The main feature of these results is to provide a better dependence in the height Log a of p, removing a polynomial term in LogLog a. The proof relies on sharp estimates of sizes of formal subschemes associated to H (in the sense of J.-B. Bost) obtained from a lemma by M. Raynaud as well as an absolute Siegel lemma and, in the ultrametric case, a recent interpolation lemma by D. Roy.
description: Version d\'efinitive
Methods - LDT validation experiments, patient sample processing, LIMS validation and Resulting protocol
Creators: name: Innovative Genomics Institute
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110303 Clinical Microbiology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Methodological overview of LDT validation experiments, patient sample processing, LIMS validation and Resulting protocol at the Innovative Genomics Institute SARS-CoV-2 testing laboratory.
A Bernstein-von Mises theorem in the nonparametric right-censoring model
Creators: name: Kim, Yongdai
name: Lee, Jaeyong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 62C10 (Primary) 62G20, 62N01. (Secondary)

description: In the recent Bayesian nonparametric literature, many examples have been reported in which Bayesian estimators and posterior distributions do not achieve the optimal convergence rate, indicating that the Bernstein-von Mises theorem does not hold. In this article, we give a positive result in this direction by showing that the Bernstein-von Mises theorem holds in survival models for a large class of prior processes neutral to the right. We also show that, for an arbitrarily given convergence rate n^{-α} with 0
description: Published by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org) in the Annals of Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009053604000000526
The Theoretical Foundation and its Mode Transformation of Rural Public Goods Supply in the Perspective of Organizational Competition
Creators: name: Qi, Xue-Xiang
name: Qi, Xue-Xiang
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Rural public goods
subject: Organizational competition
subject: Mode transformation
subject: China

description: Theoretical expositions of public goods supply by the liberalism, new institutionalism and the school of public choice are conducted in the perspective of organizational competition. And the theoretical foundation of rural public goods is put forward. Then, the changes of the supply mode of rural public goods are discussed before and after the tax reform, that is, the “Community Cooperation” supply mode of rural public goods before the tax reform and the “Organization Cooperation” supply mode of rural public goods after the tax reform. Finally, the diversification of rural public goods supply in China in future is forecasted.
Supplementary material S1 from Phenological Patterns of Tropical Mountain Forest Trees Across the Neotropics: Evidence from Herbarium Specimens
Creators: name: Ordonez, Jenny
name: Tovar, Carolina
name: Walker, B.E.
name: Wheeler, J.
name: Ayala-Ruano, S.
name: Aguirre-Carvajal, Kevin
name: McMahon, Sean
name: Cuesta, Francisco
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 310399
subject: Ecology not elsewhere classified

description: Species list from tropical mountain forests on the north-western slope of the Ecuadorian Andes (available at Dryad)
Study on Fluctuation of Grain Yield in China's Major Grain Producing Areas
Creators: name: Gu, Li-Li
name: Gu, Li-Li
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Grain yield， Periodic fluctuation， Major grain producing areas， Grain price， Grain circulation， China

description: By using the statistical data of grain yield in China’s major grain producing areas from 1949 to 2008, and fluctuation theory, the historical process and main cause of fluctuation of grain yield in China’s major grain producing areas are analyzed. The results of research show that the grain yield in China’s major grain producing areas grows in unstable fluctuation, with high-frequency fluctuation cycle and regular length; the amplitude of fluctuation, on the whole, is moderate, with not strong stability; the fluctuation of grain yield has correspondence, reflecting the N-shape developmental trend of grain production at present; the fluctuation of grain yield has gradient characteristics; in the process of comparison of grain yield, the average growth rate annually of grain yield in China’s major grain producing areas is higher than that of the national average, but the relative fluctuation coefficient is also higher than that of the national average. From five aspects, namely natural disaster, agricultural policy, production input, grain price and grain circulation, the cause of fluctuation of grain yield in China’s major grain producing areas is analyzed, and measures of preventing and arresting super-long fluctuation of grain yield are put forward. Firstly, stick to strict farmland protection system, and strive to promote farmland quality; secondly, strengthen infrastructure construction of grain production and beef up the ability of preventing natural disaster; thirdly, quicken the pace of agricultural technology and establish robust technology supporting system; fourthly, lay stress on innovation of agricultural organization system and provide implementation path and vehicle for application of agricultural technology measures; fifthly, perfect disaster precaution system and grain market system, and strengthen the ability of preventing risk of grain production.
Volume Integral Theorem for Exotic Matter
Creators: name: Nandi, Kamal Kanti
name: Zhang, Yuan-Zhong
name: Kumar, K. B. Vijaya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We answer an important question in general relativity about the volume integral theorem for exotic matter by suggesting an exact integral quantifier for matter violating Averaged Null Energy Condition (ANEC). It is checked against some well known static, spherically symmetric traversable wormhole solutions of general relativity with a sign reversed kinetic term minimally coupled scalar field. The improved quantifier is consistent with the principle that traversable wormholes can be supported by arbitrarily small quantities of exotic matter.
description: 7 pages