cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
HighALPS: Ultra-High-Throughput Marker-Gene Amplicon Library Preparation and Sequencing on the Illumina NextSeq and NovaSeq Platforms
Creators: name: Flörl, Lena Victoria
name: Momo Cabrera, Paula
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2024

description: Microbiome research using amplicon sequencing of microbial marker genes has surged over the past decade, propelled by protocols for highly multiplexed sequencing with barcoded primer constructs. Newer Illumina platforms like the NovaSeq and NextSeq series significantly outperform older sequencers in terms of reads, output, and runtime. However these platforms are more prone to index-hopping, which limits the application of protocols designed for older platforms such as the Earth Microbiome Project (EMP) protocols, hence there is a need to adapt these established protocols. Here, we present an ultra-High-throughput Amplicon Library Preparation and Sequencing protocol (HighALPS) incorporating the capabilities of these newer sequencing platforms, designed for both 16S rRNA gene and fungal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) domain sequencing. Our results demonstrate good run performance across different sequencing platforms and flow cells, with successful sequencing of mock communities, validating the protocol’s effectiveness. The new HighALPS library preparation method offers a robust, cost effective, and ultra-high-throughput solution for microbiome research, compatible with the latest sequencing technologies. This protocol allows multiplexing thousands of samples in a single run at a read depth of tens of millions of sequences per sample.
description: bioRxiv
New Firm Startups: Key to Rural Growth
Creators: name: Malecki, Edward J.
name: Malecki, Edward J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1988
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
Labor and Human Capital

description: Entrepreneurs, and the firms they start, may be the most important element in rural economic development, more important than trying to lure branch plants from elsewhere and more important than encouraging existing businesses to expand. Encouraging entrepreneurship is the hard part. New firms need some things often in short supply in rural areas: technical and professional workers, financing, markets, business services. Here’s a look at what entrepreneurs need.
title: Cotton Mather: theological conviction and change
Creators: name: Meyer, Scott James
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cotton Mather, Puritans, New England, Theology, Covenant, Salem.

description: This thesis examines the ministry and work of eminent puritan Cotton Mather as it adapts, adjusts and reasserts itself during the times of upheaval, declension and transition in which he lived. As the puritan ideal changed going into the eighteenth century, I ask the question “how did Mather’s work and ministry morph, change and adapt to this shift?” By analyzing many of his relevant writings and sermons in depth I attempt to grasp the nature and direction in which his work morphed. I identify six overlapping areas of mutation that help to answer this question. His refined and ultimately innovative version of New England puritanism reflected changes in his views of ecclesiology, ecumenicism, piety, covenant theology, political philosophy (what Mather called “eleutherianism”) and Christian cosmopolitanism. When taken together, these areas become a lens by which to view the changing mosaic of Mather’s beliefs. Mather is recast as a puritan minister whose thought broadened and took energetic turns in unexpected ways at the same time that puritanism itself was contracting. This thesis brings a congruence to Mather’s changes and will provide a new coherence for his theology and ministry as a whole. I find that Mather moved away from his early commitment to New England exceptionalism and closer towards a new expression of a continuing protestant reformation in pursuit of Christ’s return to earth. This expression of hopeful change is where we find a Matherian worldview previously unexamined. We will see Cotton Mather incorporate many of the changes in his own life and ministry into an innovative theology of covenantal hope and assurance that becomes a forward-thinking and influential vision for the Christian church in New England and worldwide.
Higher education: sector reports review - September 2019 to January 2020
Creators: name: Mistry, Virendra
Publisher: name: Innovations in Practice
Year: 2021

description: This paper provides a summary of selected reports and papers (‘grey literature’) published by key HE sector organisations in England/UK and think tanks between September 2019 and January 2020. These include: Advance HE; The Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services (AGCAS); The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ); Department for Education (DfE); Education Policy Institute; Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC); Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI); Intergenerational Foundation; Jisc; Leading Routes; LKMoo; National Education Opportunities Network (NEON); National Centre for Entrepreneurship in Education (NCEE); National Union of Students (NUS); Office for Students (OfS); Stonewall; Student Minds; Theos; Unite Students; Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS); Universities and Colleges Union (UCU); Universities UK (UUK); Universities UK International (UUKi). The themes covered in the paper include: students response to the Augar review; university priorities; unconditional offers; outreach; social mobility; care leavers; student engagement; student expectations; sustainability; postgraduate experiences; mental health and wellbeing; initiations; racial harassment; Gypsy, Roma and Traveller students; Latinx students; LGBT students; prisoner education; religion; disability; online harassment; digital experiences; copied materials in HE teaching; language learning; employability and transition after graduation; male participation in nursing and allied health HE; casualisation of staff; staff diversity; the 2019 General Election; privilege in HE; and university chaplaincies.
description: Innovations in Practice, Vol 14 No 1 (2020)
Critical exponents and fine-grid vortex model of the dynamic vortex Mott transition in superconducting arrays
Creators: name: Granato, Enzo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the dynamic vortex Mott transition in two-dimensional superconducting arrays in a magnetic field with $f$ flux quantum per plaquette. The transition is induced by external driving current and thermal fluctuations near rational vortex densities set by the value of $f$, and has been observed experimentally from the scaling behavior of the differential resistivity. Recently, numerical simulations of interacting vortex models have demonstrated this behavior only near fractional $f$. A fine-grid vortex model is introduced, which allows to consider both the cases of fractional and integer $f$. The critical behavior is determined from a scaling analysis of the current-voltage relation and voltage correlations near the transition, and by Monte Carlo simulations. The critical exponents for the transition near $f=1/2$ are consistent with the experimental observations and previous numerical results from a standard vortex model. The same scaling behavior is obtained for $f=1$, in agreement with experiments. However, the estimated correlation-length exponent indicates that even at integer $f$, the critical behavior is not of mean-field type.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures, Phys. Rev. B (2019). arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1809.03027
Accuracy of picoseismic catalogs in hectometer-scale in-situ experiments
Creators: name: Rosskopf, Martina
name: Durand, Virginie
name: Plenkers, Katrin
name: Villiger, Linus
name: Giardini, Domenico
name: Obermann, Anne
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2024

description: ESS Open Archive
MOESM10 of CRISPR elements provide a new framework for the genealogy of the citrus canker pathogen Xanthomonas citri pv. citri
Creators: name: Kwanho Jeong
name: Muñoz-Bodnar, Alejandra
name: Rojas, Nathalia Arias
name: Poulin, Lucie
name: Rodriguez-R, Luis
name: Gagnevin, Lionel
name: Vernière, Christian
name: Pruvost, Olivier
name: Koebnik, Ralf
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 10: Table S3. List of draft genome resources used in this study.
Platygaster euhemerus Walker 1835
Creators: name: Buhl, Peter N.
name: Notton, David G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Platygaster
Platygaster euhemerus

description: Platygaster euhemerus Walker, 1835
England: Hampshire, Farley, 1 female, 12 June 1938, Benson, R.B. (BMNH); Kent, Blean Woods National Nature Reserve, 1 male, 5 June 1982, Brown, R.G. (BMNH).
Recorded from near London by Walker (1835), from England by Notton (2008), from Ireland by Buhl and O’Connor (2009), and from the Isle of Man by Buhl and Bennett (2009).
description: Published as part of Buhl, Peter N. & Notton, David G., 2009, A revised catalogue of the Platygastridae of the British Isles (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea), pp. 1651-1703 in Journal of Natural History 43 (27 - 28) on page 1675, DOI: 10.1080/00222930902993732, http://zenodo.org/record/5216619
An Approach to Super-Resolution of Sentinel-2 Images Based on Generative Adversarial Networks
Creators: name: Zhang, Kexin
name: Sumbul, Gencer
name: Demir, Begüm
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents a generative adversarial network based super-resolution (SR) approach (which is called as S2GAN) to enhance the spatial resolution of Sentinel-2 spectral bands. The proposed approach consists of two main steps. The first step aims to increase the spatial resolution of the bands with 20m and 60m spatial resolutions by the scaling factors of 2 and 6, respectively. To this end, we introduce a generator network that performs SR on the lower resolution bands with the guidance of the bands associated to 10m spatial resolution by utilizing the convolutional layers with residual connections and a long skip-connection between inputs and outputs. The second step aims to distinguish SR bands from their ground truth bands. This is achieved by the proposed discriminator network, which alternately characterizes the high level features of the two sets of bands and applying binary classification on the extracted features. Then, we formulate the adversarial learning of the generator and discriminator networks as a min-max game. In this learning procedure, the generator aims to produce realistic SR bands as much as possible so that the discriminator incorrectly classifies SR bands. Experimental results obtained on different Sentinel-2 images show the effectiveness of the proposed approach compared to both conventional and deep learning based SR approaches.
description: Accepted at IEEE Mediterranean and Middle-East Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (M2GARSS) 2020
The Asymptotic Dynamics of two-dimensional (anti-)de Sitter Gravity
Creators: name: Brigante, Mauro
name: Cacciatori, Sergio
name: Klemm, Dietmar
name: Zanon, Daniela
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the asymptotic dynamics of two-dimensional de Sitter or anti-de Sitter Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity is described by a generalized two-particle Calogero-Sutherland model. This correspondence is established by formulating the JT model of (A)dS gravity in two dimensions as a topological gauge theory, which reduces to a nonlinear 0+1-dimensional sigma model on the boundary of (A)dS space. The appearance of cyclic coordinates allows then a further reduction to the Calogero-Sutherland quantum mechanical model.
description: 16 pages, LaTeX, no figures, uses JHEP.cls. v2: Some references and comments added. v3: Minor errors corrected
HistoPlexer: Histopathology-based Protein Multiplex Generation using Deep Learning
Creators: name: Andani, Sonali
name: Chen, Boqi
name: Ficek-Pascual, Joanna
name: Heinke, Simon
name: Casanova, Ruben
name: Hild, Bernard
name: Sobottka, Bettina
name: Bodenmiller, Bernd
name: Tumor Profiler Consortium
name: Koelzer, Viktor H.
name: Rätsch, Gunnar
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2024

description: Multiplexed imaging technologies provide crucial insights into interactions between tumors and their surrounding tumor microenvironment (TME), but their widespread adoption is limited by cost, time, and tissue availability. We introduce HistoPlexer, a deep learning (DL) framework that generates spatially-resolved protein multiplexes directly from histopathology images. HistoPlexer employs the conditional generative adversarial networks with custom loss functions that mitigate slice-to-slice variations and preserve spatial protein correlations. In a comprehensive evaluation on metastatic melanoma samples, HistoPlexer consistently outperforms existing approaches, achieving superior Multiscale Structural Similarity Index and Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio. Qualitative evaluation by domain experts demonstrates that the generated protein multiplexes closely resemble the real ones, evidenced by Human Eye Perceptual Evaluation error rates exceeding the 50% threshold for perceived realism. Importantly, HistoPlexer preserves crucial biological relationships, accurately capturing spatial co-localization patterns among proteins. In addition, the spatial distribution of cell types derived from HistoPlexer-generated protein multiplex enables effective stratification of tumors into immune hot versus cold subtypes. When applied to an independent cohort, incorporating additional features from HistoPlexergenerated multiplexes enhances the performance of the DL model for survival prediction and immune subtyping, outperforming the model reliant solely on Hematoxylin & Eosin (H&E) image features. By enabling the generation of whole-slide protein multiplex from the H&E image, HistoPlexer offers a cost- and time-effective approach to understanding the TME, and holds promise for advancing precision oncology.
description: medRxiv
Observation of Nuclear Scaling in the $A(e,e^{\prime})$ Reaction at $x_B>$1
Creators: name: Egiyan, K. Sh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ratios of inclusive electron scattering cross sections of $^4$He, $^{12}$C, and $^{56}$Fe to $^3$He have been measured for the first time. It is shown that these ratios are independent of $x_B$ at Q$^2>$1.4 (GeV/c)$^2$ for $x_B>$ 1.5 where the inclusive cross section depends primarily on the high-momentum components of the nuclear wave function. The observed scaling shows that the momentum distributions at high-momenta have the same shape for all nuclei and differ only by a scale factor. The observed onset of the scaling at Q$^2>$1.4 and $x_B >$1.5 is consistent with the kinematical expectation that two nucleon short range correlations (SRC) are dominate the nuclear wave function at $p_m\gtrsim$ 300 MeV/c. The values of these ratios in the scaling region can be related to the relative probabilities of SRC in nuclei with A$\ge$3. Our data demonstrate that for nuclei with A$\geq$12 these probabilities are 5-5.5 times larger than in deuterium, while for $^4$He it is larger by a factor of about 3.5.
description: 11 pages, 10 figures
Platygaster frater Buhl 2006
Creators: name: Buhl, Peter N.
name: Notton, David G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Platygaster
Platygaster frater

description: Platygaster frater Buhl, 2006
England: Northamptonshire, Spratton, 1 female, May 1975, Malaise trap, Gauld, I and Gauld, P. (BMNH).
Recorded from Ireland by Buhl and O’Connor (2009).
description: Published as part of Buhl, Peter N. & Notton, David G., 2009, A revised catalogue of the Platygastridae of the British Isles (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea), pp. 1651-1703 in Journal of Natural History 43 (27 - 28) on page 1675, DOI: 10.1080/00222930902993732, http://zenodo.org/record/5216619
Comparing the inspiral of irrotational and corotational binary neutron stars
Creators: name: Duez, Matthew D.
name: Baumgarte, Thomas W.
name: Shapiro, Stuart L.
name: Shibata, Masaru
name: Uryu, Koji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We model the adiabatic inspiral of relativistic binary neutron stars in a quasi-equilibrium (QE) approximation, and compute the gravitational wavetrain from the late phase of the inspiral. We compare corotational and irrotational sequences and find a significant difference in the inspiral rate, which is almost entirely caused by differences in the binding energy. We also compare our results with those of a point-mass post-Newtonian calculation. We illustrate how the late inspiral wavetrain computed with our QE numerical scheme can be matched to the subsequent plunge and merger waveform calculated with a fully relativistic hydrodynamics code.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures, to be published in Physical Review D
Discrepant transport characteristics under Anderson localization at the two limits of disorder
Creators: name: Kumar, Randhir
name: Mondal, Sandip
name: Balasubrahmaniyam, M.
name: Kamp, Martin
name: Mujumdar, Sushil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Anderson localization is a striking phenomenon wherein transport of light is arrested due to the formation of disorder-induced resonances. Hitherto, Anderson localization has been demonstrated separately in two limits of disorder, namely, amorphous disorder and nearly-periodic disorder. However, transport properties in the two limits are yet unstudied, particularly in a statistically consistent manner. Here, we experimentally measure light transport across two-dimensional open mesoscopic structures, wherein the disorder systematically ranges from nearly-periodic to amorphous. We measure the generalized conductance, which quantifies the transport probability in the sample. Although localization was identified in both the limits, statistical measurements revealed a discrepant behavior in the generalized conductance fluctuations in the two disorder regimes. Under amorphous disorder, the generalized conductance remains below unity for any configuration of the disorder, attesting to the arrested nature of transport. Contrarily, at near-periodic disorder, the distribution of generalized conductance is heavy-tailed towards large conductance values, indicating that the overall transport is delocalized. Theoretical results from a model based on the tight-binding approximation, augmented to include open boundaries, are in excellent agreement with experiments, and also endorse the results over much larger ensembles. These results quantify the differences in the two disorder regimes, and advance the studies of disordered systems into actual consequences of Anderson localization in light transport.
description: 27 pages, 15 figures, including Supplementary Information
Evidence of inbreeding depression on stature in Brown Swiss cattle
Creators: name: He, Qiongyu
name: Deuber, Jessica
name: Seefried, Franz R.
name: Pausch, Hubert
name: Kadri, Naveen Kumar
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2025

description: Background Small effective population size and the disproportionately large use of few genetically superior bulls in artificial insemination lead to extensive runs of homozygosity and an increased risk of homozygosity for deleterious alleles in domestic cattle, which may cause inbreeding depression. The adverse effects of inbreeding on phenotypic performance are well established, but the genetic variants contributing to inbreeding depression remain largely unknown. This study aimed to analyse the impacts of inbreeding on stature (measured as height at the sacral bone) in a cohort of 15,306 Brown Swiss (BS) cows that have imputed genotypes at 20 million sequence variants and stature measurements as height at the sacral bone.

Results The average genomic inbreeding coefficient of the 15,306 BS cows estimated from runs of homozygosity (ROH) was 0.369 (± 0.022). We found a loss in stature, decreasing from a height of 0.076 cm at the sacral bone per 1% increase in inbreeding (p = 1.94e-09). Contributions to inbreeding depression were significant for long (> 2 Mb), medium (0.1 – 2 Mb), and short (50 kb – 0.1 Mb) ROH (p = 1.29e-12, p = 3.20e-04 and p = 1.77e-06, respectively), suggesting that both ancient and recent inbreeding have negative effects on stature. Non-additive association testing identified a novel recessive quantitative trait locus (QTL) for stature on chromosome 25 with the most significantly (p = 2.35e-21) associated SNP residing at 14,535,327 bp. Cows homozygous for the alternate allele of the top associated SNP were 2 cm shorter than heterozygous and reference allele homozygotes. Fine mapping of the QTL identified a splice donor variant (rs447836030 at 25:14,515,474) of the gene ABCC6 encoding ATP binding cassette subfamily C member 6 which causes exon skipping as both a positional and functional candidate causal variant.

Conclusions Our study reveals evidence for inbreeding depression on stature in a large cohort of BS cattle. We also uncover a recessive QTL that decreases stature through non-additive association testing. This QTL harbors a high-impact variant affecting a splice donor site of ABCC6 which leads to exon skipping, thereby possibly contributing to inbreeding depression. Accumulating non-lethal deleterious alleles in ROH may reduce the overall fitness of the BS cattle population.
description: bioRxiv
County Fiscal Policy and Entrepreneurship: The Impact of Occupational License Taxes on Business Startups
Creators: name: Burney, Shaheer
name: Allen, James E.
name: Davis, Alison F.
name: Burney, Shaheer
name: Allen, James E.
name: Davis, Alison F.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Public Economics
subject: occupational license tax
subject: entrepreneurship
subject: startup
subject: business
subject: fiscal policy
subject: county
subject: local government
subject: Kentucky

description: In this paper, we create a model of business startup decisions by utility maximizing individuals to determine the impact of county occupational license taxes on business startups. We utilize a unique dataset generated by the Kentucky Entrepreneurship Survey which allows us to observe personal traits of entrepreneurs, each year a startup was established, and the entrepreneurs’ perception of the entrepreneurial culture of each county. Controlling for relevant factors, we find that county-level occupational license taxes do not significantly impact the decision of entrepreneurs to start a business. We do, however, find strong evidence that other factors such as community culture influence startup decisions.
Black hole area quantization
Creators: name: Das, Saurya
name: Ramadevi, P.
name: Yajnik, U. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has been argued by several authors that the quantum mechanical spectrum of black hole horizon area must be discrete. This has been confirmed in different formalisms, using different approaches. Here we concentrate on two approaches, the one involving quantization on a reduced phase space of collective coordinates of a Black Hole and the algebraic approach of Bekenstein. We show that for non-rotating, neutral black holes in any spacetime dimension, the approaches are equivalent. We introduce a primary set of operators sufficient for expressing the dynamical variables of both, thus mapping the observables in the two formalisms onto each other. The mapping predicts a Planck size remnant for the black hole.
description: 7 pages, uses MPLA style file (included). Revised version with changes in notation for clarity and consistency. To appear in MPLA
Directed flow in Au+Au, Xe+CsI and Ni+Ni collisions and the nuclear equation of state
Creators: name: FOPI Collaboration
name: Andronic, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present new experimental data on directed flow in collisions of Au+Au, Xe+CsI and Ni+Ni at incident energies from 90 to 400A MeV. We study the centrality and system dependence of integral and differential directed flow for particles selected according to charge. All the features of the experimental data are compared with Isospin Quantum Molecular Dynamics (IQMD) model calculations in an attempt to extract information about the nuclear matter equation of state (EoS). We show that the combination of rapidity and transverse momentum analysis of directed flow allow to disentangle various parametrizations in the model. At 400A MeV, a soft EoS with momentum dependent interactions is best suited to explain the experimental data in Au+Au and Xe+CsI, but in case of Ni+Ni the model underpredicts flow for any EoS. At 90A MeV incident beam energy, none of the IQMD parametrizations studied here is able to consistently explain the experimental data.
description: RevTeX, 20 pages, 30 eps figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. C. Data files available at http://www.gsi.de/~fopiwww/pub/
Star-unitary transformations. From dynamics to irreversibility and stochastic behavior
Creators: name: Kim, Sungyun
name: Ordonez, Gonzalo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a simple model of a classical harmonic oscillator coupled to a field. In standard approaches Langevin-type equations for {\it bare} particles are derived from Hamiltonian dynamics. These equations contain memory terms and are time-reversal invariant. In contrast the phenomenological Langevin equations have no memory terms (they are Markovian equations) and give a time evolution split in two branches (semigroups), each of which breaks time symmetry. A standard approach to bridge dynamics with phenomenology is to consider the Markovian approximation of the former. In this paper we present a formulation in terms of {\it dressed} particles, which gives exact Markovian equations. We formulate dressed particles for Poincaré nonintegrable systems, through an invertible transformation operator $\Lam$ introduced by Prigogine and collaborators. $\Lam$ is obtained by an extension of the canonical (unitary) transformation operator $U$ that eliminates interactions for integrable systems. Our extension is based on the removal of divergences due to Poincaré resonances, which breaks time-symmetry. The unitarity of $U$ is extended to ``star-unitarity'' for $\Lam$. We show that $\Lam$-transformed variables have the same time evolution as stochastic variables obeying Langevin equations, and that $\Lam$-transformed distribution functions satisfy exact Fokker-Planck equations. The effects of Gaussian white noise are obtained by the non-distributive property of $\Lam$ with respect to products of dynamical variables. Therefore our method leads to a direct link between dynamics of Poincaré nonintegrable systems, probability and stochasticity.
description: 24 pages, no figures. Made more connections with other work. Clarified ideas on irreversibility
Magnetoelastic instability in soft thin films
Creators: name: Poty, M.
name: Weyer, F.
name: Grosjean, G.
name: Lumay, G.
name: Vandewalle, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ferromagnetic particles are incorporated in a thin soft elastic matrix. A lamella, made of this smart material, is studied experimentally and modeled. We show herein that thin films can be actuated using an external magnetic field applied through the system. The system is found to be switchable since subcritical pitchfork bifurcation is discovered in the beam shape when the magnetic field orientation is modified. Strong magnetoelastic effects can be obtained depending on both field strength and orientation. Our results provide versatile ways to contribute to many applications from the microfabrication of actuators to soft robotics. As an example, we created a small synthetic octopus piloted by an external magnetic field.
Adjusted ADM systems and their expected stability properties: constraint propagation analysis in Schwarzschild spacetime
Creators: name: Shinkai, Hisa-aki
name: Yoneda, Gen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In order to find a way to have a better formulation for numerical evolution of the Einstein equations, we study the propagation equations of the constraints based on the Arnowitt-Deser-Misner formulation. By adjusting constraint terms in the evolution equations, we try to construct an "asymptotically constrained system" which is expected to be robust against violation of the constraints, and to enable a long-term stable and accurate numerical simulation. We first provide useful expressions for analyzing constraint propagation in a general spacetime, then apply it to Schwarzschild spacetime. We search when and where the negative real or non-zero imaginary eigenvalues of the homogenized constraint propagation matrix appear, and how they depend on the choice of coordinate system and adjustments. Our analysis includes the proposal of Detweiler (1987), which is still the best one according to our conjecture but has a growing mode of error near the horizon. Some examples are snapshots of a maximally sliced Schwarzschild black hole. The predictions here may help the community to make further improvements.
description: 23 pages, RevTeX4, many figures. Revised version. Added subtitle, reduced figures, rephrased introduction, and a native checked. :-)
Sharp regularity results for many-electron wave functions
Creators: name: Fournais, Søren
name: Hoffmann-Ostenhof, Maria
name: Hoffmann-Ostenhof, Thomas
name: Sørensen, Thomas Østergaard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35B65; 35J10; 35B45; 81Q05; 35J15; 81V55

description: We show that electronic wave functions Psi of atoms and molecules have a representation Psi=F*phi, where F is an explicit universal factor, locally Lipschitz, and independent of the eigenvalue and the solution Psi itself, and phi has locally bounded second derivatives. This representation turns out to be optimal as can already be demonstrated with the help of hydrogenic wave functions. The proofs of these results are, in an essential way, based on a new elliptic regularity result which is of independent interest. Some identities that can be interpreted as cusp conditions for second order derivatives of Psi are derived.
description: 43 pages
MOESM1 of A nationwide cross-sectional survey of student experiential practice at community pharmacies in South Korea
Creators: name: Yejee Kim
name: Jeong, Kyeong
name: Kim, EunYoung
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Appendix 1. Survey of a nationwide cross-sectional survey of student experiential practice at community pharmacies in South Korea
Search for Time-Reversal Violation in the beta-Decay of Polarized 8Li Nuclei
Creators: name: Bodek, K.
name: Haeberli, W.
name: Huber, R.
name: Kistryn, St.
name: Lang, J.
name: Navert, S.
name: Naviliat-Cuncic, O.
name: Sromicki, J.
name: Stephan, E.
name: Zejma, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The transverse polarization of electrons emitted in the beta-decay of polarized 8Li nuclei has been measured. For the time reversal violating triple correlation parameter we find R = (0.9 +- 2.2)x10^{-3}. This result is in agreement with the standard model and yields improved constraints on exotic tensor contributions to the weak interaction. It also provides a new limit on the mass of a possible scalar leptoquark, m_{LQ} > 560 GeV/c^2 (90% C.L.).
description: Submitted to Physical Review Letters, 4 pages, 3 figures, uses revtex4
Singularity avoidance in quantum gravity
Creators: name: Kuntz, Iberê
name: Casadio, Roberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The purpose of this work is to investigate the consequences of quantum gravity for the singularity problem. We study the higher-derivative terms that invariably appear in any quantum field theoretical model of gravity, handling them both non-perturbatively and perturbatively. In the former case, by computing the contributions of the additional degrees of freedom to a congruence of geodesics, we show that the appearance of singularities is no longer a necessity. In the latter, which corresponds to treating the quantised general relativity as an effective field theory, we generalise the Hawking-Penrose theorems to include one-loop corrections of both massless matter and graviton fluctuations.
Platygaster galenus Walker 1835
Creators: name: Buhl, Peter N.
name: Notton, David G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Platygaster
Platygaster galenus

description: Platygaster galenus Walker, 1835
England: Kent, Tunbridge Wells, Hungershall Park, 1 female, 3 August 1974, in long grass, Plater, K. (BMNH).
Ireland: Sligo, Bunduff, 2 females, 23 July 1933, Nixon, G.E.J. (BMNH).
Recorded from Ireland by Walker (1835).
description: Published as part of Buhl, Peter N. & Notton, David G., 2009, A revised catalogue of the Platygastridae of the British Isles (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea), pp. 1651-1703 in Journal of Natural History 43 (27 - 28) on page 1676, DOI: 10.1080/00222930902993732, http://zenodo.org/record/5216619
Spatial and Cluster Analysis for Multifunctional Agriculture in New England Region
Creators: name: Marasteanu, I. Julia
name: Liang, Chyi-Lyi (Kathleen)
name: Goetz, Stephan
name: Marasteanu, I. Julia
name: Liang, Chyi-Lyi (Kathleen)
name: Goetz, Stephan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Farm Management
subject: Multifunctional Activities
subject: Diversified Farming
subject: Spatial Econometrics
subject: Hotspots

description: The purpose of the research presented in this poster is to investigate factors impacting farmers’ decisions to engage in multifunctional activities, which are hypothesized to enhance the sustainability and prosperity of farms and their communities. To achieve this research goal, we break it up into two specific objectives. The first objective is to identify statistically significant hot spots of farms participating in multifunctional activities (i.e., clusters of zipcodes with highly correlated, large numbers of farms participating in multifunctional activities). To complete this objective, we use the results of a short, postcard survey completed by small and medium sized farms in the northeastern United States. The survey contains four questions related to multifunctional practices (specifically, agritourism, direct sales, value added products and off-farm income) and also provides the zip codes of the respondents. Using the Geographic Information Systems software (GIS), we find statistically significant hot spots of farms participating in multifunctional activities based on the Local Moran’s I test statistic for spatial autocorrelation (Anselin, 1995). We perform these analyses for different types of multifunctional activities. Our second objective is to investigate the variables that are correlated with the distribution of farms participating in multifunctional activities, while controlling for the possibility of spatial autocorrelation. To complete this objective, we use Spatial Autoregressive Models (LeSage, 1998). Our independent variables consist of county/sub-county level variables related to demographics, economics, climate, and policy. Most of these variables can be obtained from publicly available sources such as the Census of Agriculture, the U.S. Census, and the Bureau of Economic Analysis, to name a few. The results of this research may have implications for policies related to encouraging farm participation in multifunctional activities.
Delocalisation phenomena in one-dimensional models with long-range correlated disorder: a perturbative approach
Creators: name: Tessieri, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the nature of electronic states in one-dimensional continuous models with weak correlated disorder. Using a perturbative approach, we compute the inverse localisation length (Lyapunov exponent) up to terms proportional to the fourth power of the potential; this makes possible to analyse the delocalisation transition which takes place when the disorder exhibits specific long-range correlations. We find that the transition consists in a change of the Lyapunov exponent, which switches from a quadratic to a quartic dependence on the strength of the disorder. Within the framework of the fourth-order approximation, we also discuss the different localisation properties which distinguish Gaussian from non-Gaussian random potentials.
description: 33 pages, 6 figures, LaTeX file
Adaptive Discretization for Episodic Reinforcement Learning in Metric Spaces
Creators: name: Sinclair, Sean R.
name: Banerjee, Siddhartha
name: Yu, Christina Lee
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.6
subject: 68Q32

description: We present an efficient algorithm for model-free episodic reinforcement learning on large (potentially continuous) state-action spaces. Our algorithm is based on a novel $Q$-learning policy with adaptive data-driven discretization. The central idea is to maintain a finer partition of the state-action space in regions which are frequently visited in historical trajectories, and have higher payoff estimates. We demonstrate how our adaptive partitions take advantage of the shape of the optimal $Q$-function and the joint space, without sacrificing the worst-case performance. In particular, we recover the regret guarantees of prior algorithms for continuous state-action spaces, which additionally require either an optimal discretization as input, and/or access to a simulation oracle. Moreover, experiments demonstrate how our algorithm automatically adapts to the underlying structure of the problem, resulting in much better performance compared both to heuristics and $Q$-learning with uniform discretization.
description: 46 pages, 15 figures
Platygaster gracilipes Huggert 1975
Creators: name: Buhl, Peter N.
name: Notton, David G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Platygaster
Platygaster gracilipes

description: Platygaster gracilipes Huggert, 1975
England: Hampshire, New Forest, Pignal Inclosure, 1 female, 6 July 1975, Noyes, J.S. (BMNH); Hampshire, New Forest, Rhinefield, SU20, 1 female, 8–21 June 1976, Nixon, G.E.J. (BMNH); Hampshire, New Forest, White Moor, 2 females, 31 May 1955, Clark, J.A. and Clark, D.J. (BMNH); Havering, Hornchurch, 1 female, 26 May 1974, Fergusson, N.D.M. (BMNH); Northamptonshire, Spratton, 2 females, July 1975, Malaise trap, Gauld, I and Gauld, P. (BMNH); Spratton, 9 females, August 1975; 1 female and 1 male, September 1975, Gauld, I and Gauld, P. (BMNH); Suffolk, Minsmere Bird Reserve, 1 female, 5 June 1976, Noyes, J.S. (BMNH); Suffolk, Westhall, 1 female, 17–27 August 1981, Cogan, B.H. (BMNH); Surrey, Ashtead, 1 female, 12 August 1931, Nixon, G.E.J. (BMNH); Herefordshire, Mary Knoll Valley, 1 female, 21–24 May 2007, Notton, D.G. (BMNH).
Ireland: Dublin, Glenasmole, 1 male, 18 August 1943, Stelfox, A.W. (BMNH); Sligo, Trawalua, 1 female, 24–29 July 1933, Nixon, G.E.J. (BMNH).
Scotland: Perth and Kinross, Ballinluig, 2 females and 1 male, 20 July 1977, Noyes, J.S., Rogers, L. and Huddleston, T. (BMNH).
Recorded from England by Buhl (1995b) and by Notton (2008), from Ireland by Buhl and O’Connor (2008), and from the Isle of Man by Buhl and Bennett (2009).
description: Published as part of Buhl, Peter N. & Notton, David G., 2009, A revised catalogue of the Platygastridae of the British Isles (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea), pp. 1651-1703 in Journal of Natural History 43 (27 - 28) on page 1676, DOI: 10.1080/00222930902993732, http://zenodo.org/record/5216619
Four Distinct Pathways to the Element Abundances in Solar Energetic Particles
Creators: name: Reames, Donald V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based upon recent evidence from abundance patterns of chemical elements in solar energetic particles (SEPs), and, ironically, the belated inclusion of H and He, we can distinguish four basic SEP populations: (1) SEP1 - pure "impulsive" SEPs are produced by magnetic reconnection in solar jets showing steep power-law enhancements of 1<= Z <= 56 ions versus charge-to-mass ratio A/Q from a ~3 MK plasma. (2) SEP2 - ambient ions, mostly protons, plus SEP1 ions reaccelerated by the shock wave driven by the narrow coronal mass ejection (CME) from the same jet. (3) SEP3 - a "gradual" SEP event is produced when a moderately fast, wide CME-driven shock wave barely accelerates ambient protons while preferentially accelerating accumulated remnant SEP1 ions from an active region fed by multiple jets. (4) SEP4 - a gradual SEP event is produced when a very fast, wide CME-driven shock wave is completely dominated by ambient coronal seed population of 0.8 - 1.8 MK plasma usually producing a full power law vs. A/Q for 1<= Z <= 56 ions. We begin with element abundances in the photosphere that are fractionated during transport up to the corona based upon their first ionization potential (FIP); this important "FIP effect" for SEPs provides our reference abundances and is different for SEPs from that for the solar wind. We then show evidence for each of the processes of acceleration, reacceleration, and transport that conspire to produce the four abundances patterns we distinguish.
description: 30 pages, 13 figures, submitted to Space Sci. Rev
Searching for a Sterile Neutrino in Tau Decays at B-factories
Creators: name: Dib, C. O.
name: Helo, J. C.
name: Nayak, M.
name: Neill, N. A.
name: Soffer, A.
name: Zamora-Saa, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The phenomenon of neutrino flavor oscillations motivates searches for sterile neutrinos in a broad range of masses and mixing-parameter values. A sterile neutrino $N$ that mixes predominantly with the $τ$ neutrino is particularly challenging experimentally. To address this challenge, we propose a new method to search for a $ν_τ$-mixing with $N$ lighter than the $τ$ lepton. The method uses the large $e^+e^-\toτ^+τ^-$ samples collected at $B$-factory experiments to produce the $N$ in $τ$-lepton decays. We exploit the long lifetime of a sterile neutrino in this mass range to suppress background and apply kinematic and vertexing constraints that enable measuring the sterile neutrino mass. Estimates for the sensitivities of the BaBar, Belle, and Belle~II experiments are calculated and presented.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures
Five-dimensional general relativity and Kaluza-Klein theory
Creators: name: Gladush, Valentin D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider 5D spaces which admit the most symmetric 3D subspaces. 5D vacuum Einstein equations are constructed and 5D analog of the mass function is found. The corresponding conservation law leads to 5D analog of Birkhoff's theorem. Hence the cylinder condition is dynamically implemented for the considered spaces. For some obtained metrics a period of space with respect to the fifth coordinate was found. The problem of the dynamical degrees of freedom of the fields system obtained in the process of dimensional reduction is discussed, and the problem of their interpretation is considered. One can think that the parametrization of the scalar field and 4D metric leading to the conformally invariant 4D theory for interacting gravitational and scalar fields is most natural and adequate.
description: 11 pages, LaTeX
Spectral and spatial analysis of the dark matter subhalo candidates among Fermi Large Area Telescope unidentified sources
Creators: name: Coronado-Blázquez, Javier
name: Sánchez-Conde, Miguel A.
name: Di Mauro, Mattia
name: Aguirre-Santaella, Alejandra
name: Ciucă, Ioana
name: Domínguez, Alberto
name: Kawata, Daisuke
name: Mirabal, Néstor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Fermi-LAT unidentified sources (unIDs) have proven to be compelling targets for performing indirect dark matter (DM) searches. In a previous work, we found that among the 1235 unIDs in Fermi-LAT catalogs (3FGL, 2FHL and 3FHL) only 44 of those are DM subhalos candidates. We now implement a spectral analysis to test whether these remaining sources are compatible or not with DM origin. This analysis is executed using almost 10 years of Pass 8 Fermi-LAT data. None of the unIDs are found to significantly prefer DM-induced emission compared to other, more conventional, astrophysical sources. In order to discriminate between pulsar and DM sources, we developed a new method which is based on the source's spectral curvature, peak energy, and its detection significance. We also look for spatial extension, which may be a hint for a DM origin according to our N-body simulation studies of the subhalo population. In addition, we used Gaia DR2 data to search for a potential stellar counterpart to our best DM subhalo candidates and, although no firm associations could be found, one of them coincides with the Sagittarius stream. Finally, previous constraints on the DM annihilation cross section are updated with the new number of remaining DM subhalo candidates among unIDs. Our limits now rule out canonical thermal WIMPs up to masses of 10 GeV for $b\bar{b}$ and 20 GeV for $τ^+τ^-$ annihilation channels, in this way being as sensitive and complementary to those obtained from other targets and probes.
description: 27 pages, 10 figures, JCAP accepted. Matches the accepted version