cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
COVID-19 Working Paper: Filling the Pandemic Meal Gap: Disruptions to Child Nutrition Programs and Expansion of Free Meal Sites in the Early Months of the Pandemic
Creators: name: Toossi, Saied
name: Toossi, Saied
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Public Economics
subject: COVID-19
subject: coronavirus
subject: pandemic
subject: child nutrition programs
subject: National School Lunch Program
subject: School Breakfast Program
subject: Child and Adult Care Food Program
subject: Seamless Summer Option
subject: Summer Food Service Program
subject: free meals

description: Beginning in March 2020, the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic struck the United States abruptly and unexpectedly, forcing the school and childcare center closures nationwide. These closures disrupted the provision of meals to children through the largest of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) child nutrition programs. In response, USDA issued a series of waivers to facilitate the continued provision of meals to children while prioritizing the health and safety of communities. This study assesses the extent to which the child nutrition infrastructure was able to rapidly adapt to meet the needs of children at the onset of the crisis. It documents disruptions in the provision of meals through the National School Lunch Program, School Breakfast Program, and Child and Adult Care Food Program from March through May 2020. In addition, this report examines the extent waivers allowed for greater flexibility in the implementation of these programs and the expansion of free meal sites helped to compensate for these disruptions.
Theory and simulation of two-dimensional nematic and tetratic phases
Creators: name: Geng, Jun
name: Selinger, Jonathan V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent experiments and simulations have shown that two-dimensional systems can form tetratic phases with four-fold rotational symmetry, even if they are composed of particles with only two-fold symmetry. To understand this effect, we propose a model for the statistical mechanics of particles with almost four-fold symmetry, which is weakly broken down to two-fold. We introduce a coefficient $κ$ to characterize the symmetry breaking, and find that the tetratic phase can still exist even up to a substantial value of $κ$. Through a Landau expansion of the free energy, we calculate the mean-field phase diagram, which is similar to the result of a previous hard-particle excluded-volume model. To verify our mean-field calculation, we develop a Monte Carlo simulation of spins on a triangular lattice. The results of the simulation agree very well with the Landau theory.
description: 7 pages, including 12 postscript figures, uses REVTeX 4
Additional file 1: of Analysis of the stability and affinity of BlaR-CTD protein to β-lactam antibiotics based on docking and mutagenesis studies
Creators: name: Ning, Jianan
name: Ahmed, Saeed
name: Cheng, Guyue
name: Chen, Ting
name: Wang, Yulian
name: Peng, Dapeng
name: Yuan, Zonghui
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Virology

description: Table S1. Amino acid residues within 5 Å in the active pocket. Table S2. The mutational sites with score of 1.0 predicted by SIFT. Table S3. Scoring results by PolyPhen software. Table S4. Determination of free sulfhydryl group in mutant protein. Table S5. Acitivity identification of BlaR-CTD wild-type and mutant protein using HRP-AMP. Table S6. Binding sites of I188K/S19C/G24C to β-lactam antibiotics. Figure S1. Expression of BlaR-CTD protein. Figure S2. Standard curve of cysteine based on DTNB. Figure S3. The DNA and amino acid sequences of recombinant wildtype BlaR-CTD protein. (DOCX 120 kb)
A synthesis of the phenomenology of the underdoped cuprates
Creators: name: Senthil, T.
name: Lee, P. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The underdoped cuprates have a number of interesting and unusual properties that often seem hard to reconcile with one another. In this paper we show how many of these diverse phenomena can be synthesized into a single coherent theoretical picture. Specifically we present a description where a pseudogap and gapless Fermi arcs exist in the normal state above the superconducting transition temperature ($T_c$), but give way to the observed quantum oscillations and other phenomena at low temperature when the superconductivity is suppressed by a magnetic field. We show the consistency between these phenomena and observations of enhanced Nernst and diamagnetic signals above $T_c$. We also develop a description of the vortex core inside the superconducting state and discuss its relation with the high field phenomena.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures; (v2) some minor changes
title: What to be considered when you buy a new sprayer?: Guideline for stakeholders – demands on a modern environmental sprayer
Creators: name: Gil, Emilio
name: Schulze-Stentrop, Christoph
Publisher: name: Julius Kühn Institute, Germany
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 630
subject: 624

description: SPISE ADVICE: Standardized Procedures for the Inspection of Sprayers in Europe, vol. 2023, no. 01, p. 1
Magnetic Nested-wind Scenarios for Bipolar Outflows: Pre-planetary and YSO nebular shaping
Creators: name: Dennis, Timothy J.
name: Frank, Adam
name: Blackman, Eric G.
name: DeMarco, Orsola
name: Balick, Bruce
name: Mitran, Sorin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results of a series of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) and hydro- dynamic (HD) 2.5D simulations of the morphology of outflows driven by nested wide-angle winds - i.e. winds which eminate from a central star as well as from an orbiting accretion disk. While our results are broadly relevent to nested wind systems we have tuned the parameters of the simulations to touch on issues in both Young Stellar Objects and Planetary Nebula studies. In particular our studies connect to open issues in the early evolution of Planetary Nebulae. We find that nested MHD winds exhibit marked morphological differences from the single MHD wind case along both dimensions of the flow. Nested HD winds on the other hand give rise mainly to geometric distortions of an outflow that is topologically similar to the flow arising from a single stellar HD wind. Our MHD results are insensitive to changes in ambient temperature between ionized and un-ionized circumstellar environments. The results are sensitive to the relative mass-loss rates, and to the relative speeds of the stellar and disk winds. We also present synthetic emission maps of both nested MHD and HD simulations. We find that nested MHD winds show knots of emission appearing on-axis that do not appear in the HD case.
description: 28 pages, 8 figures
Asynchronous dynamic graph processing with real-time analysis
Creators: name: Sallinen, Scott
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2024

description: The rapid increase in connected data from various sources such as the World Wide Web, social networks, and financial transactions has led to the widespread use of graph-based representations for data analysis of these networks. However, traditional high-performance computing (HPC) solutions designed for static graphs are inefficient and impractical for dynamic graphs that evolve over time. This approach leads to high overheads, loss of information between snapshots, and potential correctness issues. The demand for fast, real-time analytics on continuously evolving real-world systems at a massive scale has become critical for applications such as online recommendations, financial fraud detection, and counter-terrorism. For example, social media networks like Facebook handle potentially millions of interactions per second, and payment networks like Visa process thousands of transactions per second. To address these challenges, my dissertation focuses on the opportunities and challenges of analyzing dynamic graphs in real-time, offering an infrastructure-algorithm co-design for dynamic graph analytics at scale. To this end, I develop and present a pattern for dynamic graph algorithms, and a supporting software infrastructure architecture, that together form a cohesive real-time graph analysis model. My algorithm pattern is designed to be amenable to distributed systems with concepts such as message passing, asynchronicity, and termination, while considering the timeliness requirements for real-time analysis. The infrastructure architecture considers real-world properties of dynamic data generation and hardware constraints, aiming for versatility, performance, and scalability. It supports dynamic graph topology evolution and provides interfaces for expressing algorithms for dynamic graph analysis and collecting results during runtime. I demonstrate that many common static graph algorithms can be re-designed for dynamic processing and real-time analysis, and can be built and scaled efficiently. My dynamic graph model offers advantages over static designs, such as low-cost updates to the graph and the ability to observe algorithm results before or after topology modifications. The implementation of my model shows near-linear scalability in performance, and supports real-time analysis at potentially orders of magnitude higher evolution rates compared to alternative designs; providing a generic, scalable, and performant solution for dynamic graph analysis, addressing the challenges of analyzing large-scale, continuously evolving network data in real-time.
Resonance: Drawing from Memories to Imagine Positive Futures through AI-Augmented Journaling
Creators: name: Zulfikar, Wazeer
name: Chiaravalloti, Treyden
name: Shen, Jocelyn
name: Picard, Rosalind
name: Maes, Pattie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: People inherently use experiences of their past while imagining their future, a capability that plays a crucial role in mental health. Resonance is an AI-powered journaling tool designed to augment this ability by offering AI-generated, action-oriented suggestions for future activities based on the user's own past memories. Suggestions are offered when a new memory is logged and are followed by a prompt for the user to imagine carrying out the suggestion. In a two-week randomized controlled study (N=55), we found that using Resonance significantly improved mental health outcomes, reducing the users' PHQ8 scores, a measure of current depression, and increasing their daily positive affect, particularly when they would likely act on the suggestion. Notably, the effectiveness of the suggestions was higher when they were personal, novel, and referenced the user's logged memories. Finally, through open-ended feedback, we discuss the factors that encouraged or hindered the use of the tool.
description: 17 pages, 13 figures
Tuning the Mass of Chameleon Fields in Casimir Force Experiments
Creators: name: Brax, Ph.
name: van de Bruck, C.
name: Davis, A. C.
name: Shaw, D. J.
name: Iannuzzi, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have calculated the chameleon pressure between two parallel plates in the presence of an intervening medium that affects the mass of the chameleon field. As intuitively expected, the gas in the gap weakens the chameleon interaction mechanism with a screening effect that increases with the plate separation and with the density of the intervening medium. This phenomenon might open up new directions in the search of chameleon particles with future long range Casimir force experiments.
description: submitted for publication on March 8, 2010
Additional file 3 of Zearalenone disturbs the reproductive-immune axis in pigs: the role of gut microbial metabolites
Creators: name: Wang, Shujin
name: Fu, Wei
name: Zhao, Xueya
name: Chang, Xiaojiao
name: Liu, Hujun
name: Zhou, Lin
name: Li, Jian
name: Cheng, Rui
name: Wu, Xin
name: Li, Xi
name: Sun, Changpo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3: Supplemental Fig. S1. (Related to Fig. 1c-d). Mycotoxin-contaminated food causes a larger vulvar area of pre-starter (phase 1; a) and starter (phase 2; b) between the control group and the mycotoxin (zearalenone, ZEN) group (n=4).
A CAPTAÇÃO DE RECURSOS NAS UNIVERSIDADES PÚBLICAS: UM OLHAR SOBRE A UNIVERSIDADE DO ESTADO DA BAHIA (UNEB).
Creators: name: DE SOUZA, ANA CLEIDE
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Education

description: Este artigo é resultado da pesquisa bibliográfica sobre o processo de captação de recursos no ensino público superior brasileiro, abordando a temática do desenvolvimento educacional com um olhar na Universidade do Estado da Bahia (Uneb). O objetivo é destacar a importância do recebimento de recursos financeiros, materiais e humanos para a Educação, articulada a minha atuação como colaboradora na Gerência de Programas e Projetos Especiais da Pró-Reitoria de Planejamento (Proplan), da Uneb. A instituição vem conseguindo consideráveis ​​resultados, mas necessita garantir a sua continuidade e ampliar como suas conquistas, visto que a sua captação ainda foi muito aquém ao das outras instituições que também receberam recursos ao longo de todos esses certame
Meissner response of a bulk superconductor with an embedded sheet of reduced penetration depth
Creators: name: Kirtley, J. R.
name: Kalisky, B.
name: Luan, L.
name: Moler, K. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the change in susceptibility resulting from a thin sheet with reduced penetration depth embedded perpendicular to the surface of an isotropic superconductor, in a geometry applicable to scanning Superconducting QUantum Interference Device (SQUID) microscopy, by numerically solving Maxwell's and London's equations using the finite element method. The predicted stripes in susceptibility agree well in shape with the observations of Kalisky et al. of enhanced susceptibility above twin planes in the underdoped pnictide superconductor Ba(Fe1-xCox)2As2 (Ba-122). By comparing the predicted stripe amplitudes with experiment and using the London relation between penetration depth and superfluid density, we estimate the enhanced Cooper pair density on the twin planes, and the barrier force for a vortex to cross a twin plane. Fits to the observed temperature dependence of the stripe amplitude suggest that the twin planes have a higher critical temperature than the bulk, although stripes are not observed above the bulk critical temperature.
description: 16 pages, 9 figures
The Structure of Phonological Networks Across Multiple Languages
Creators: name: Arbesman, Samuel
name: Strogatz, Steven H.
name: Vitevitch, Michael S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The network characteristics based on the phonological similarities in the lexicons of several languages were examined. These languages differed widely in their history and linguistic structure, but commonalities in the network characteristics were observed. These networks were also found to be different from other networks studied in the literature. The properties of these networks suggest explanations for various aspects of linguistic processing and hint at deeper organization within human language.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables, submitted to Phys. Rev. E
Enhancing the aerial image-based photogrammetric pipeline through the integration of existing and novel deep neural networks
Creators: name: Tucsok, Matthew David Frank
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2024

description: This thesis focuses on integrating openly available and novel deep neural networks into the photogrammetric pipeline, aiming to enhance 3D reconstruction performance. The efforts are directed towards three key areas: The initial research area involves a comparative analysis between Deep Feature Matcher (DFM), an open-source deep learning-based method, and Scale-Invariant Feature Transform, a traditional counterpart. This analysis necessitated the creation of an incremental Structure-from-Motion pipeline to assess method performance under ideal conditions. The findings underscore the limitations of both methods and emphasize the significance of applying deep learning in the upstream photogrammetric process of image acquisition. A second research area addresses image utility assignment, a crucial aspect of efficient data acquisition. This is achieved by sorting images (views) based on the reconstruction performance of a deep learning-based Single-view AutoEncoder (SAE) trained on 3D reconstruction from single views. The sorted position of a view indicates its utility, facilitating improvement in downstream reconstruction tasks and augmentation of image datasets. Moreover, the high-utility views identified by this novel method exhibit robustness to noise and offer insights into the 2D to 3D image feature encoding of autoencoder-like networks. In the final research area, the utility of sorted views is further tested, and the challenge of camera guidance in image acquisition is addressed. A novel deep learning-based model, the Graph-Best-ViewFinder (GBVF), is proposed. This model fuses a graph neural network designed for camera relocalization with a Long Short-Term Memory layer for sequential capture processing. Trained on an augmented view dataset leveraging the utility metric provided by the SAE, the GBVF provides an end-to-end full application solution. It iteratively constructs a graph embedding of the 3D scene and suggests the pose of the next best view when given a sequence of color images. An analysis of trajectory generation and 3D reconstruction performance highlights the learning capabilities of GBVF. Alongside GBVF development, a comprehensive package named the View Planning Toolbox is created and made openly available to automate view planning dataset generation, trajectory visualization, and reconstruction coverage evaluation for researchers in the field of view planning.
Neutral H density at the termination shock: a consolidation of recent results
Creators: name: Bzowski, M.
name: Moebius, E.
name: Tarnopolski, S.
name: Izmodenov, V.
name: Gloeckler, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss a consolidation of determinations of the density of neutral interstellar H at the nose of the termination shock carried out with the use of various data sets, techniques, and modeling approaches. In particular, we focus on the determination of this density based on observations of H pickup ions on Ulysses during its aphelion passage through the ecliptic plane. We discuss in greater detail a novel method of determination of the density from these measurements and review the results from its application to actual data. The H density at TS derived from this analysis is equal to 0.087 \pm 0.022 cm-3, and when all relevant determinations are taken into account, the consolidated density is obtained at 0.09 \pm 0.022 cm-3. The density of H in CHISM based on literature values of filtration factor is then calculated at 0.16 \pm 0.04 cm-3.
description: Submitted to Space Science Reviews
Quantum-limited metrology and Bose-Einstein condensates
Creators: name: Boixo, Sergio
name: Datta, Animesh
name: Davis, Matthew J.
name: Shaji, Anil
name: Tacla, Alexandre B.
name: Caves, Carlton M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss a quantum-metrology protocol designed to estimate a physical parameter in a Bose-Einstein condensate of N atoms, and we show that the measurement uncertainty can decrease faster than 1/N. The 1/N scaling is usually thought to be the best possible in any measurement scheme. From the perspective of quantum information theory, we outline the main idea that leads to a measurement uncertainty that scales better than 1/N. We examine in detail some potential problems and challenges that arise in implementing such a measurement protocol using a Bose-Einstein condensate. We discuss how some of these issues can be dealt with by using lower-dimensional condensates trapped in nonharmonic potentials.
description: 32 pages, 1 figure, updated references
Trident: Interference Avoidance in Multi-reader Backscatter Network via Frequency-space Division
Creators: name: Zou, Yang
name: Na, Xin
name: Sun, Yimiao
name: He, Yuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Backscatter is a key technology for battery-free sensing in industrial IoT applications. To fully cover numerous tags in the deployment area, one often needs to deploy multiple readers, each of which communicates with tags within its communication range. However, the actual backscattered signals from a tag are likely to reach a reader outside its communication range and cause interference. Conventional TDMA or CSMA based approaches for interference avoidance separate readers' media access in time, leading to limited network throughput. In this paper, we propose TRIDENT, a novel backscatter design that enables interference avoidance via frequency-space division. By incorporating a tunable bandpass filter and multiple terminal loads, a TRIDENT tag can detect its channel condition and adaptively adjust the frequency and the power of its backscattered signals. We further propose a frequency assignment algorithm for the readers. With these designs, all the readers in the network can operate concurrently without being interfered. We implement TRIDENT and evaluate its performance under various settings. The results demonstrate that TRIDENT enhances the network throughput by 3.18x, compared to the TDMA-based scheme.
Predictions for m_t and m_W in Minimal Supersymmetric Models
Creators: name: Buchmueller, O.
name: Cavanaugh, R.
name: De Roeck, A.
name: Ellis, J. R.
name: Flacher, H.
name: Heinemeyer, S.
name: Isidori, G.
name: Olive, K. A.
name: Ronga, F. J.
name: Weiglein, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using a frequentist analysis of experimental constraints within two versions of the minimal supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model, we derive the predictions for the top quark mass, m_t, and the W boson mass, m_W. We find that the supersymmetric predictions for both m_t and m_W, obtained by incorporating all the relevant experimental information and state-of-the-art theoretical predictions, are highly compatible with the experimental values with small remaining uncertainties, yielding an improvement compared to the case of the Standard Model.
description: 8 pages, 9 figures
FRW Universe in Horava Gravity
Creators: name: Mazumder, Nairwita
name: Chakraborty, Subenoy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, a field theoretic model for a UV complete theory of gravity has been proposed by Horava. This theory is a non-relativistic renormalizable gravity theory which coincides with Einstein's general relativity at large distances. Subsequently Lü et al have formulated the modified Friedmann equations and have presented a solution in vacuum. In the present work, we rewrite the modified FRW equations in the form of usual FRW equations in Einstein gravity and consequences has been analyzed. Also the thermodynamics of the FRW universe has been studied.
Additional file 1 of Efficacy and pharmacokinetics of betaine in CBS and cblC deficiencies: a cross-over randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Imbard, Apolline
name: Toumazi, Artemis
name: Magréault, Sophie
name: Garcia-Segarra, Nuria
name: Schlemmer, Dimitri
name: Kaguelidou, Florentia
name: Perronneau, Isabelle
name: Haignere, Jérémie
name: de Baulny, Hélène Ogier
name: Kuster, Alice
name: Feillet, François
name: Alberti, Corinne
name: Guilmin-Crépon, Sophie
name: Benoist, Jean-François
name: Schiff, Manuel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Mental Health
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1: Patients’ characteristics. Table S2: Detail of patient current treatment. Table S3: Clinical data at inclusion. Figure S1: Carry-over effect. Figure S2: plasma total homocysteine (tHcy) before and after one month treatment with 100 mg/kg/day) (A, D) or 250 mg/kg/day (B, E) in pnrCBS patients (A, B) and cblC patients (B, E) and the corresponding difference (ΔtHcy) for each pnrCBS (C) and cblC (F) patient. Figure S3: SAM (A, B), SAH (C, D) and the SAM/SAH ratio (E, F) after 1 month of treatment at 100 mg/kg (light grey) or 250 mg/kg (dark grey) of betaine in CBS (on left) and cblC patients (on right).
Additional file 1 of Roxadustat improves diabetic myocardial injury by upregulating HIF-1α/UCP2 against oxidative stress
Creators: name: Fang, Tingting
name: Ma, Congcong
name: Yang, Bingyun
name: Zhao, Meiyu
name: Sun, Luning
name: Zheng, Ningning
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1.
Zinc oxide nanowires integrated with flexible polymer energy harvester devices for biomedical applications
Creators: name: Bin Che Mahzan, Muhammad Ammar
Publisher: name: The University of Edinburgh
Year: 2023
Subjects: Zinc oxide nanowires
flexible polymer energy harvester devices
biomedical applications
Flexible piezoelectric energy harvester devices
encapsulation polymers
ZnO NW growth patterns
finite element method (FEM)
MEMS pressure sensor

description: Flexible piezoelectric energy harvester devices for biomedical applications have been developed and characterized using different encapsulation polymers and ZnO NW growth patterns. A flexible piezoelectric energy harvester device must be biocompatible, cheap, low-temperature, and scalable. The device must also produce a minimum voltage output of 1 volt for pacemakers. This work examines the growth of hydrothermal-grown ZnO NWs in terms of length, diameter, and density under different growth conditions. Precursor concentration, substrate type, and seed layer thickness were considered. Kapton film and silicon substrates were compared to understand how surface roughness affects ZnO NW growth. The best vertically aligned ZnO NW growth occurred at 200 nm silver seed layer thickness and 40 mM precursor concentration. Synthesis took 18 hours at 90 °C. The devices were sandwich-like nanogenerators with ZnO nanostructures embedded in a dielectric polymer matrix between top and bottom electrodes. Testing showed that the best encapsulation was Polyimide (PI) with a thickness of 7 μm and a resistance of ~24 MΩ. Electrical leakage during polarization prevented PVDF-TrFE encapsulation from working. For ZnO NW growth, a circular seed layer with varied diameter was designed. Circular area diameter increases piezoelectric response. As the seed layer diameter increased, ZnO NW growth morphology showed an increase in small empty patches. Thus a new design with several 1 mm by 1 mm square areas patterned within a larger 15 mm by 15 mm area with varying distances between the small squares. When the squares were 0.1 mm apart, piezoelectric response (1297 mV) and sensitivity (14.75 mV/kPa) were best. The software Coventorware10 was used to run simulations using the finite element method (FEM). The ZnO NWs height, diameter, density, substrate area, applied pressure, encapsulating polymer, and design are some of the variables that will affect the piezoelectric response and sensitivity of the device. The FEM simulations that were run help in understanding these variables. Using collected data, the optimised device was made. Substrate (Kapton film), seed layer (200 nm Ag), polymer encapsulating ZnO NWs (PI 7 μm), and design (distance between 1 mm by 1 mm ZnO NWs pads of 0.1mm). Finally, the fabricated flexible pressure sensor was compared to FEM simulations. Trends are similar. The findings from this research can potentially be valuable in understanding the fabrication and design of a flexible MEMS pressure sensor in biomedical applications and potentially for other applications.
Additional file 2 of Comparing external fixators and intramedullary nailing for treating open tibia fractures: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
Creators: name: Liu, Jun
name: Xie, Lifeng
name: Liu, Li
name: Gao, Guicheng
name: Zhou, Ping
name: Chu, Dejun
name: Qiu, Dewei
name: Tao, Jun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. Sensitivity analysis of union time.
Genetic noise control via protein oligomerization
Creators: name: Ghim, C. -M.
name: Almaas, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Molecular Networks (q-bio.MN)
subject: Cell Behavior (q-bio.CB)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Gene expression in a cell entails random reaction events occurring over disparate time scales. Thus, molecular noise that often results in phenotypic and population-dynamic consequences sets a fundamental limit to biochemical signaling. While there have been numerous studies correlating the architecture of cellular reaction networks with noise tolerance, only a limited effort has been made to understand the dynamic role of protein-protein interactions. Here we have developed a fully stochastic model for the positive feedback control of a single gene, as well as a pair of genes (toggle switch), integrating quantitative results from previous in vivo and in vitro studies. We find that the overall noise-level is reduced and the frequency content of the noise is dramatically shifted to the physiologically irrelevant high-frequency regime in the presence of protein dimerization. This is independent of the choice of monomer or dimer as transcription factor and persists throughout the multiple model topologies considered. For the toggle switch, we additionally find that the presence of a protein dimer, either homodimer or heterodimer, may significantly reduce its random switching rate. Hence, the dimer promotes the robust function of bistable switches by preventing the uninduced (induced) state from randomly being induced (uninduced). The specific binding between regulatory proteins provides a buffer that may prevent the propagation of fluctuations in genetic activity. The capacity of the buffer is a non-monotonic function of association-dissociation rates. Since the protein oligomerization per se does not require extra protein components to be expressed, it provides a basis for the rapid control of intrinsic or extrinsic noise.
HISQ action in dynamical simulations
Creators: name: Bazavov, A.
name: Bernard, C.
name: DeTar, C.
name: Freeman, W.
name: Gottlieb, Steven
name: Heller, U. M.
name: Hetrick, J. E.
name: Laiho, J.
name: Levkova, L.
name: Osborn, J.
name: Sugar, R.
name: Toussaint, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on recent progress in employing the Highly Improved Staggered Quark (HISQ) action introduced by the HPQCD/UKQCD collaboration in simulations with dynamical fermions. The HISQ action is an order $a^2$ Symanzik-improved action with further suppressed taste symmetry violations. The improvement in taste symmetry is achieved by introducing Fat7 smearing of the original gauge links and reunitarization (projection to an element of U(3) or SU(3)) followed by Asq-type smearing. Major challenges for calculating the fermion force are related to the reunitarization step. We present a preliminary study of the HISQ action on two 2+1+1 flavor ensembles with the lattice spacing roughly equivalent to the MILC asqtad a=0.125 and 0.09 fm ensembles.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures, talk presented at the XXVI International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, July 14-19, 2008, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA
Chelodina longicollis DB.
Creators: name: Müller, F
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1885
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
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Chelodina longicollis

description: * Chelodina longicollis DB., ang.
Thursday-Insel (TorresStrasse), gek., F M. [1]
description: Published as part of Müller, F, 1885, Vierter Nachtrag zum Katalogder herpetologischen Sammlung des Basler Museums, pp. 668-717 in Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel. 7 (3) on page 716, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.part.2388, http://zenodo.org/record/15183591
Generalisation of Helmholtz-Thevenin theorem to three-phase electrical circuits
Creators: name: Mihai, Gheorghe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The scope of this paper is to determine the generalized form for equivalent tension generator theorem (Helmholtz-Thevenin theorem) for three-phase electrical circuit. Any complicated electrical power systems we can reduce depending on any three-phase electrical consumer to a three-phase electrical generator that has certain internal impedance. Starting with this assumption, we have demonstrated the way to obtain the electromotive voltages for an equivalent generator and its internal impedances.
description: 12 pages, 12 figures
Experimental Determination of the Gain Distribution of an Avalanche Photodiode at Low Gains
Creators: name: Tsujino, Kenji
name: Akiba, Makoto
name: Sasaki, Masahide
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A measurement system for determining the gain distributions of avalanche photodiodes (APDs) in a low gain range is presented. The system is based on an ultralow-noise charge--sensitive amplifier and detects the output carriers from an APD. The noise of the charge--sensitive amplifier is as low as 4.2 electrons at a sampling rate of 200 Hz. The gain distribution of a commercial Si APD with low average gains are presented, demonstrating the McIntyre theory in the low gain range.
description: 3 pages, 4 figures
title: Convolution analysis for detection purposes concerning the signal's moving-window signal-to-noise ratio
title: A computational test on (damped) sinusoidal signals in noise
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Harden, Jakob
Publisher: name: Graz University of Technology
Year: 2025
Subjects: convolution
signal analysis
signal-to-noise ratio
SNR
detection
test

description: To temporally localize a signal in a signal stream in noisy environments, it is necessary to identify a suitable transformation that suppresses the noise-floor and amplifies the signal sections. In this computational test, different combinations of the discrete-time signal x and its transformation result y are convolved with a moving non-causal Dirichlet window. The transformation used here is a moving-window signal-to-noise ratio.The test aims to determine which combination of input data leads to the highest amplitude ratio between the noise floor and the signal section.
Additional file 1 of Comparing external fixators and intramedullary nailing for treating open tibia fractures: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
Creators: name: Liu, Jun
name: Xie, Lifeng
name: Liu, Li
name: Gao, Guicheng
name: Zhou, Ping
name: Chu, Dejun
name: Qiu, Dewei
name: Tao, Jun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Sensitivity analysis of deep infection.
Mitigating maximal extractable value via multiparty delay encryption
Creators: name: Khajehpourdezfoli, Amirhossein
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2024

description: Ethereum is a decentralized and permissionless network offering several attractive features. However, block proposers in Ethereum can exploit the order of transactions to extract value. This phenomenon, known as maximal extractable value (MEV), not only disrupts the optimal functioning of different protocols but also undermines the stability of the underlying consensus mechanism. In this work, we present a new method to alleviate the MEV problem by separating transaction inclusion and execution, keeping transactions encrypted before execution. We formulate the notion of multiparty delay encryption (MDE) and construct a practical MDE scheme based on time-lock puzzles. Unlike other encryption-based methods, our method excels in scalability (in terms of transaction decryption), efficiency (minimizing communication and storage overhead), and security (with minimal trust assumptions). To demonstrate the effectiveness of our MDE scheme, we have implemented it on a local Ethereum testnet. We also prove that with the presence of just one honest attestation aggregator per slot, the MEV threat can be significantly mitigated in a practical way.
Near-infrared counterparts to Chandra X-ray sources toward the Galactic Center. II. Discovery of Wolf-Rayet stars and O supergiants
Creators: name: Mauerhan, Jon C.
name: Muno, Michael P.
name: Morris, Mark R.
name: Stolovy, Susan R.
name: Cotera, Angela S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present new identifications of infrared counterparts to the population of hard X-ray sources near the Galactic center detected by the Chandra X-ray Observatory. We have confirmed 16 new massive stellar counterparts to the X-ray population, including nitrogen-type (WN) and carbon-type (WC) Wolf-Rayet stars, and O supergiants. For the majority of these sources, the X-ray photometry is consistent with thermal emission from plasma having temperatures in the range of kT=1-8 keV or non-thermal emission having power-law indices in the range of -1
description: Accepted to ApJ on December 5, 2009. 61 pages, including 17 figures
title: Eco-Innovation as a Basis for Clean Production Model in the Food Industry: an Insight from Bulgaria
Creators: name: Topleva, Silviya
name: Prokopov, Tsvetko
name: Taneva, Donka
Publisher: name: Proceeding of 1st International Conference on Environmental Protection and Disaster RISKs, 2020, p. 568-576
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: In this paper we propose a model for implementation of ecoinnovations of clean production in the SMEs of the food industry in Bulgaria. The clean production is a preventative approach to managing environmental aspects. The paper presents the essence of clean production, the methods for its achievement and outlining the possible options and barriers for SMEs from the food industry in Bulgaria to implement the relevant eco-innovations. The ecological footprint of the food industry makes the need for an integrated implementation of clean production practices from raw material extraction to packaging and waste disposal of final consumer.
description: Proceeding of 1st International Conference on Environmental Protection and Disaster RISKs, 2020, p. 568-576
Messung der Feldverteilung von Windkraftanlagen anhand eines skalierten Modells
Creators: name: Reschka, Cornelia
name: Garbe, Heyno
Publisher: name: Aachen : Apprimus
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: EMV
subject: Verträglichkeit
subject: Elektromagnetik
subject: Konferenzschrift
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::620 | Ingenieurwissenschaften und Maschinenbau::621 | Angewandte Physik::621,3 | Elektrotechnik, Elektronik

description: Im Rahmen der Energiewende werden in Deutschland zunehmend Windkraftanlagen (WKA) errichtet. Dabei werden weiträumig unbebaute, erhöht gelegene Flächen bevorzugt. Diese exponierte Lage wird jedoch ebenfalls für sicherheitsrelevante Funkdienste, wie Anlagen der terrestrischen Flugnavigation oder zur Schiffsnavigation, genutzt. In dem dadurch entstandenen Interessenkonflikt dürfen unter anderem die unbeabsichtigten elektromagnetischen Emissionen von Windkraftanlagen normativ vorgegebene Grenzwerte nicht überschreiten. Für diese Messungen sind in der CISPR 11 [1] und CISPR 16 [2] sowie in der TR9 [3] Messpositionen und Frequenzbänder definiert. Die Messungen werden in einem Abstand von 30 m an vier, um 90° versetzten, Positionen um die Anlage herum vorgenommen. Für Messungen im Frequenzbereich 150 kHz bis 30 MHz ist dabei gemäß [2] eine Messhöhe von 1 m vorgesehen, für Messungen von 30 MHz bis 1 GHz 2 m Höhe. Bei vorherigen Untersuchungen [4] wurde das elektrische Feld in dem Abstand von 29,75 m bis 30,25 m und der Höhe von 1 m bis 4 m numerisch simuliert. Dabei konnte eine nichthomogene Feldverteilung mit lokalen Minima und Maxima gezeigt werden. Es bleibt jedoch offen, welche Feldverteilung im Bereich 4 m bis 120 m zu erwarten ist. Diese ist jedoch durchaus von Interesse, wenn der Einfluss auf beispielsweise terrestrischer Flugnavigation bewertet werden soll. Da in diesen Höhen an einer WKA nur schwer bis unmöglich gemessen werden kann, wird in dieser Arbeit ein Windkraftanlagenmodell im Maßstab 1:100 vorgestellt. Bevor dieses Modell im Detail präsentiert wird, wird die numerische Überprüfung der Angaben aus [6] zur Skalierung des Messobjektes vorgestellt.
Additional file 1 of Genomic patterns of strain-specific genetic structure, linkage, and selection across fall armyworm populations
Creators: name: Tessnow, Ashley E.
name: Nagoshi, Rodney N.
name: Meagher, Robert L.
name: Gilligan, Todd M.
name: Sadd, Ben M.
name: Carrière, Yves
name: Davis, Holly N.
name: Fleischer, Shelby J.
name: Richers, Kelly
name: Palumbo, John C.
name: Porter, Patrick
name: Verle Rodrigues, Jose Carlos
name: Sword, Gregory A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1
A Quirky Little Higgs Model
Creators: name: Cai, Haiying
name: Cheng, Hsin-Chia
name: Terning, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider an extra dimensional model where the quadratically divergent top loop contribution to the Higgs mass is cancelled by an uncolored heavy "top quirk" charged under a different SU(3) gauge group. The cancellation is enforced by bulk gauge symmetries. Thus we have an unusual type of little Higgs model which has some quirky signatures. The top partner in this model could be identified at the Large Hadron Collider due to macroscopic strings that connect quirk and anti-quirks. The model can undergo radiative electroweak symmetry breaking and is consistent with precision electroweak measurements.
description: 20 pages, 1 figure
Die Entdeckung neuer Bilder - Zur ekstatischen Wahrheit in Werner Herzogs Dokumentarfilmen
Creators: name: Eisin, Leonie
Publisher: name: ForAP- Forschungsergebnisse von Absolventen und Promovierenden der SLK
Year: 2022

description: Mit seinen dokumentarischen Werken trug der deutsche Filmemacher Werner Herzog zu einer Neukonzeption der Gattung bei. Herzog wehrt sich gegen Fernseh- und Konsumbilder und möchte unverbrauchte und verborgene Bilder entdecken. Die Produktion solcher Bilder beschreibt er als eine existenzielle Notwendigkeit für das Überleben der Gesellschaft. Dabei ist er stets auf der Suche nach dem Wesen der Menschen und nach einer tieferen, zunächst nicht sichtbaren, ekstatischen Wahrheit. Herzog ist fasziniert von extremen Lebenssituationen und existenziellen Außenseitern, deren Geschichten er erzählt. Durch eine experimentelle Bildsprache, die besondere Form der filmischen Präsentation sowie aufwendige Inszenierungen verfolgt der Filmemacher eine ganz eigene Erzählstrategie. Anhand des Dokumentarfilms Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit (1971) wird untersucht, worin sich der besondere filmische Stil Herzogs in seinen Werken manifestiert.
description: ForAP- Forschungsergebnisse von Absolventen und Promovierenden der SLK, Bd. 5 Nr. 5 (2022): ForAP: Forschungsergebnisse von Absolventen und Promovierenden der Fakultät für Sprach-, Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften
Vorwort (Ralf Junkerjürgen)
Creators: name: Junkerjürgen, Ralf
Publisher: name: ForAP- Forschungsergebnisse von Absolventen und Promovierenden der SLK
Year: 2022

description: ForAP- Forschungsergebnisse von Absolventen und Promovierenden der SLK, Bd. 5 Nr. 5 (2022): ForAP: Forschungsergebnisse von Absolventen und Promovierenden der Fakultät für Sprach-, Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften
American Exceptionalism in Death Stranding: Videogames and Culture
Creators: name: Kurasov, Anja
Publisher: name: ForAP- Forschungsergebnisse von Absolventen und Promovierenden der SLK
Year: 2022

description: With videogames being one of the most popular and widespread forms of entertainment media to date, this essay wishes to regard the medium as a cultural artifact that both shapes and continuously is shaped by culture. For this purpose, this essay analyzes the 2019 videogame Death Stranding, delving into the game’s central theme of reconnecting a post-apocalyptic United States during a time of deep division, tying this to a criticism of the ideology of American exceptionalism. Through analysis of both the game’s narrative elements and the ways in which the game is played, this paper makes evident how Death Stranding deconstructs American exceptionalist narratives with the intention of laying bare foundational issues within American society, problems that all stem from the same narratives that so deeply define the Unitet States' national identity.
description: ForAP- Forschungsergebnisse von Absolventen und Promovierenden der SLK, Bd. 5 Nr. 5 (2022): ForAP: Forschungsergebnisse von Absolventen und Promovierenden der Fakultät für Sprach-, Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften