cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Exploring the three-dimensional vasculature of dermal hard tissues in thyestiid osteostracans using synchrotron radiation microtomography
Creators: name: Bremer, Oskar
name: Qu, Qingming
name: Sanchez, Sophie
name: Märss, Tiiu
name: Fernandez, Vincent
name: Blom, Henning
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Osteostracans are stem-gnathostomes with bony tissues that represent an important link between living jawed and jawless vertebrates, the latter of which lack skeletal hard tissues. In this study, a number of skeletal microremains from a diverse group of osteostracans called thyestiids have been investigated using propagation phase-contrast X-ray synchrotron microtomography. This enabled detailed reconstructions of their three-dimensional vasculature. The dermal skeleton of thyestiids is divided into three layers that vary in proportion between taxa, similar to gnathostomes and other osteostracans. The basal layer is confirmed as an acellular bony tissue composed of fiber bundles that contains narrow, vertical canals and/or large cavities. Bundles bend around smaller canals but form jagged edges around larger cavities, which suggests delayed mineralization. The presumed vascular mesh canals of the deep middle layer are radially arranged in some taxa, but more irregular or even tree-like in others, suggesting a relation to how the elements developed and grew. A number of mesh canals ascend toward the superficial layer where they supply the subepidermal vascular plexus, or create pore fields that open to the surface in some taxa. These ascending mesh canals most likely expanded and formed a network of canals underneath more extensive pore fields. Aestiaspis viitaensis has a simple upper canal system above these fields, while Tremataspis mammillata and Tr. milleri scales have a polygonal network of upper mesh canals above extensive perforated septa. These systems are most likely homologous, but their relation to intra- and inter-areal canals described in other osteostracans remains ambiguous.
title: Periodical foreign news printed in London in the early seventeenth century
Creators: name: Boys, Jayne E. E
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2022

description: This thesis explores printed periodical news coverage of the Thirty Years’ War, its readership and impact. It sets the media in its context in Chapter 1 by considering the scope and constraints of methods of communicating contemporary events in the early seventeenth century and the way the start of the war was reported. Chapter 2 provides the European press news context and explores the material that became available in London, its scope, strengths and weaknesses as a source of information, and its growth as the war progressed. Chapter 3 shows how English periodical news coverage began in the Netherlands, was taken up in London and its legitimacy established. This assesses the array of evidence and previous bibliographical dispute over the earliest corantos and newsbooks to provide an explanation of what happened, while Chapter 4 expands upon the theme of the pivotal role of publishers. This explores the London trade, the size of prints and distribution network to establish the scale, financial viability and reach of the trade. Chapters 5 and 6 consider the impact of news coverage through explorations of the relationship of editors with their readers, particularly in years of heightened interest in the early 1620s and 30s, and of relationships with the authorities from 1622 until the mid 1640s when John Dillingham established The Moderate Intelligencer. These chapters show how increasing literacy, licensing, unfolding diplomatic relations, and Crown policy influenced the content of newsbooks and contributed to the development of public opinion.
Solvable continuous time random walk model of the motion of tracer particles through porous media
Creators: name: Fouxon, Itzhak
name: Holzner, Markus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the continuous time random walk model (CTRW) of tracer's motion in porous medium flows based on the experimentally determined distributions of pore velocity and pore size reported in Holzner et al. Phys. Rev. E 92, 013015 (2015). The particle's passing through one channel is modelled as one step of the walk. The step's (channel) length is random and the walker's velocity at consecutive steps of the walk is conserved with finite probability mimicking that at the turning point there could be no abrupt change of velocity. We provide the Laplace transform of the characteristic function of the walker's position and reductions for different cases of independence of the CTRW's step's duration τ, length l and velocity v. We solve our model with independent l and v. The model incorporates different forms of the tail of the probability density of small velocities that vary with the model parameter α. Depending on that parameter all types of anomalous diffusion can hold, from super- to subdiffusion. In a finite interval of α, ballistic behavior with logarithmic corrections holds that was observed in a previously introduced CTRW model with independent l and τ. Universality of tracer's diffusion in the porous medium is considered.
description: 15 pages
The oldest articulated ranid from Europe: a Pelophylax specimen from the lowest Oligocene of Chartres-de-Bretagne (N.W. France)
Creators: name: Lemierre, Alfred
name: Gendry, Damien
name: Poirier, Marie-Margaux
name: Gillet, Valentin
name: Vullo, Romain
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Ranids represent an important part of the extant anuran diversity of Europe. One of the best-known genera is Pelophylax (green-water frog). This genus is considered to have arrived in Europe during the Eocene/Oligocene transition, with numerous occurrences of the genus throughout European Oligocene sites. Unfortunately, most of the specimens are isolated bones, hampering our understanding of the diversity and evolution of the genus during this time. We here present the description of an incomplete but articulated anuran skeleton from the lowest Oligocene of Chartres-de-Bretagne (western France). This specimen, missing its head, preserves almost all postcranial bones articulated and skin impressions. The osteological description allows to assign this specimen to Pelophylax kl. esculentus, making it one of the oldest known occurrences of the genus. We also suggest that specimens assigned to the late Oligocene “Rana” aquensis should be referred to the genus Pelophylax. The presence of a Pelophylax in western Europe during the early Oligocene indicates that the genus had already spread throughout Europe, no later than 5 Ma after its emergence in the eastern part of the continent. It suggests that Pelophylax benefitted from the extinction of ranoids during the “Grande Coupure.”
Stringy correlations on deformed $ AdS_{3}\times S^{3} $
Creators: name: Roychowdhury, Dibakar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, following the basic prescriptions of Gauge/String duality, we perform a strong coupling computation on \textit{classical} two point correlation between \textit{local} (single trace) operators in a gauge theory dual to $ κ$-deformed $ AdS_{3}\times S^{3}$ background. Our construction is based on the prescription that relates every local operator in a gauge theory to that with the (semi)classical string states propagating within the \textit{physical} region surrounded by the holographic screen in deformed $ AdS_3 $. In our analysis, we treat strings as being that of a point like object located near the physical boundary of the $ κ$- deformed Euclidean Poincare $ AdS_{3} $ and as an extended object with non trivial dynamics associated to $ S^{3} $. It turns out that in the presence of small background deformations, the usual power law behavior associated with two point functions is suppressed exponentially by a non trivial factor which indicates a faster decay of two point correlations with larger separations. On the other hand, in the limit of large background deformations ($ κ\gg 1 $), the corresponding two point function reaches a point of saturation. In our analysis, we also compute finite size corrections associated with these two point functions at strong coupling. As a consistency check of our analysis, we find perfect agreement between our results to that with the earlier observations made in the context of vanishing deformation.
description: Typos fixed, Published Version
Development of Chemical Procedures for Isotope Harvesting: Separation of Trace Hafnium from Tungsten
Creators: name: Kmak, Kelly N.
name: Despotopulos, John D.
name: Scielzo, Nicholas D.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: The separation of trace hafnium from bulk tungsten alloys is of interest for isotope harvesting at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory and the Facility for Rare Ion Beams because 172Hf, the parent of 172Lu, accumulates in tungsten alloy beam blockers at these facilities. In this work, a procedure for the separation of trace hafnium from a bulk tungsten alloy (454 g) was established using tracer isotopes (175Hf, 88Zr, 173Lu, and 88Y). The procedure employed dissolution in an HF–HNO3 solution followed by a calcium fluoride precipitation, and then extraction chromatography was used for more selective separation steps. Two stages of column separations using LN resin (HDEHP based) and TRU resin (CMPO based) were performed. Gamma-ray spectroscopy and mass spectrometry were used to analyze the final hafnium sample and follow the steps in the chemical processing. The final recovery of hafnium was high (90 ± 8)%, and the mass of tungsten and other transition metals was reduced to near background levels (as determined by ICP-MS of the blank acid solutions). Zirconium follows hafnium quantitatively in this procedure; there was no detectable 173Lu in the final hafnium sample.
Extraction of Cesium, Strontium, and Stable Simulated HLW Components with Substituted Crown Ethers in New Fluorinated Diluents
Creators: name: Smirnov, I.V.
name: Karavan, M.D.
name: Kenf, E.V.
name: Tkachenko, L.I.
name: Timoshenko, V.V.
name: Brechalov, A.A.
name: Maltseva, T.V.
name: Ermolenko, Yu.E.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: The extraction of cesium, strontium, and a number of stable components of simulated high-level waste solutions from nitric acid media with solutions of crown ether derivatives in new fluorinated diluents was studied. Based on the data on the solubility of the extractants into the aqueous phase and the physicochemical properties of the diluents used, the most promising extraction systems were chosen: crown ethers 4,4‘(5’)-di-tert-butyldibenzo-18-crown-6 (L1) and 4,4‘(5’)-di-tert-butyldicyclohexyl-18-crown-6 (L2) in bis(2,2,3,3-tetrafluoropropyl) carbonate (BK-1) and bis(2,2,3,3-tetrafluoropropoxy)methane (FN-1). For these systems, the extraction of a number of stable components and their subsequent stripping with water and solutions of chelating agents were studied. Lead was found to be co-extracted to the greatest extent. To a lesser extent, barium and calcium cations are co-extracted with strontium, and rubidium and potassium cations with cesium. Lead, barium, and silver are the most difficult to strip; however, the problem of lead stripping can be solved by using DTPA or citric acid solutions neutralized with ammonia to weakly alkaline (pH 8) media.
Minimal flavor-changing $Z'$ models and muon $g-2$ after the $R_{K^*}$ measurement
Creators: name: Di Chiara, Stefano
name: Fowlie, Andrew
name: Fraser, Sean
name: Marzo, Carlo
name: Marzola, Luca
name: Raidal, Martti
name: Spethmann, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There has been a steady interest in flavor anomalies and their global fits as ideal probes of new physics. If the anomalies are real, one promising explanation is a new $Z'$ gauge boson with flavor-changing coupling to bottom and strange quarks and a flavor-conserving coupling to muons and, possibly, electrons. We point out that direct production of such a $Z'$, emerging from the collision of $b$ and $s$ quarks, may offer a complementary window into these phenomena because collider searches already provide competitive constraints. On top of that, we analyse the same $Z'$ scenario in relation to another long-standing discrepancy between theory and experiment that concerns the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon. By scanning the allowed $Z'$ coupling strengths in the low-mass region, we assess the compatibility of the signals from LHCb with the $Z'$ searches in the high energy LHC data and the measurements of the anomalous magnetic moment of the involved leptons. We also argue that observations of the latter can break the degeneracy pattern in the Wilson coefficients $C_9$ and $C_{10}$ presented by LHCb data. The $Z'$ model we consider is compatible with the new measurement of $R_{K^*}$, therefore it can potentially account for the long-standing deviations observed in $B$-physics.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures. Missing factors corrected in eqs. 2.7-2.9 with slight updates in fig. 2
Liquid–Liquid Extraction and Supported Liquid Membrane Transport of Neptunium(IV) Across a Flat-Sheet Supported Liquid Membrane Containing a TREN-DGA Derivative
Creators: name: Mahanty, Bholanath
name: Mohapatra, Prasanta K.
name: Leoncini, Andrea
name: Huskens, Jurriaan
name: Verboom, Willem
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 20199 Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Liquid–liquid extraction and liquid membrane transport behavior of tetravalent actinide ions viz. Th(IV), Np(IV), and Pu(IV) were investigated for the first time using a diglycolamide (DGA) based dendrimer with a tris(2-aminoethyl)amine (TREN) scaffold as the organic extractant. The generation of 1 dendrimer with six DGA pendent moieties (termed as TREN-G1-DenDGA) extracted Np(IV) more effectively than the other two ions, the trend being Np(IV) > Pu(IV) > Th(IV). The extraction studies of Np(IV) from 3 M HNO3 indicated a 1:1 (metal:ligand) species and the extraction efficiency increased with increasing nitric acid concentration (1–6 M). The transport efficiency of Np(IV) increased with the nitric acid concentration (1–6 M) as well as with the ligand concentration. A very low concentration of 5.75 × 10−4 M ligand, when used as the carrier, resulted in the transport of ca. 25% metal ion transport in 5 h, which increased to >85% with 4.4 × 10−3 M ligand. The transport efficiency of the metal ion across the SLM followed the trend Np(IV) > Th(IV) > Pu(IV). The membrane stability was not satisfactory as seen over a period of 5 days suggesting long-term use may require regular replenishment of the carrier solvent. The effective diffusion coefficient (Deff) of Np(IV)-TREN-G1-DenDGA were determined by the lag-time method and was found to be 5.1 × 10−8 cm2/s.
[OP.6C.03] DO PATIENTS ACTUALLY DO WHAT WE ASK? PATIENT PERFORMANCE AND PERSISTENCE IN THE TASMIN-SR BLOOD PRESSURE SELF-MANAGEMENT TRIAL.
Creators: name: Schwartz, C
name: Seyed-Safi, A
name: Sayeed Haque, M
name: Bray, E
name: Greenfield, S
name: Hobbs, R
name: Little, P
name: Mant, Jonathan
name: Williams, B
name: McManus, R
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2016

description: OBJECTIVE: This study assessed how accurately patients reported their blood pressure (BP) and titrated their antihypertensive medications according to the protocol set out by the TASMIN-SR trial. DESIGN AND METHOD: The TASMIN-SR self-management intervention involved patients with above target clinic BP and stroke, diabetes, CHD or CKD, self-monitoring their BP for the first week of every month followed by implementation of an individualised self-titration schedule. 276 patients were randomised to the intervention and 226 (80%) successfully completed 2 or 3 training sessions. Patients were followed up for 12 months and during this time submitted written records of home BP readings, and details of any medication changes made, on a monthly basis. BP readings were downloaded from each patient's monitor at 6 and 12 month follow-up clinics and these were compared to those submitted along with an assessment of protocol fidelity. RESULTS: Of 226 patients who were successfully trained, 174 (77%) completed self-management. 10,038/11,684 (85.9% (95% CI, 85.3 - 86.5) of all readings submitted were reported accurately, when compared to the readings downloaded from the monitor, and 164 patients (95%) reported their readings with at least 80% accuracy. There was an average error rate of 6.7% per patient and the only characteristic affecting this was age, under 65 years compared to those above (4.5%, (95% CI 3.2 - 5.6) vs 7.7%, (95% CI 6.4 - 9.0), p
New constraints on the millimetre emission of six debris disks
Creators: name: Marshall, Jonathan P.
name: Maddison, S. T.
name: Thilliez, E.
name: Matthews, B. C.
name: Wilner, D. J.
name: Greaves, J. S.
name: Holland, W. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The presence of dusty debris around main sequence stars denotes the existence of planetary systems. Such debris disks are often identified by the presence of excess continuum emission at infrared and (sub-)millimetre wavelengths, with measurements at longer wavelengths tracing larger and cooler dust grains. The exponent of the slope of the disk emission at sub-millimetre wavelengths, `q', defines the size distribution of dust grains in the disk. This size distribution is a function of the rigid strength of the dust producing parent planetesimals. As part of the survey `PLAnetesimals around TYpical Pre-main seqUence Stars' (PLATYPUS) we observed six debris disks at 9-mm using the Australian Telescope Compact Array. We obtain marginal (~3-σ) detections of three targets: HD 105, HD 61005, and HD 131835. Upper limits for the three remaining disks, HD20807, HD109573, and HD109085, provide further constraint of the (sub-)millimetre slope of their spectral energy distributions. The values of q (or their limits) derived from our observations are all smaller than the oft-assumed steady state collisional cascade model (q = 3.5), but lie well within the theoretically expected range for debris disks q ~ 3 to 4. The measured q values for our targets are all < 3.3, consistent with both collisional modelling results and theoretical predictions for parent planetesimal bodies being `rubble piles' held together loosely by their self-gravity.
description: 7 pages, 5 tables, 2 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Computer Vision Approaches for the Absolute Energy Calibration of Bragg Crystal Setups
Creators: name: Grech, Christian
name: Guetg, Marc
name: Geloni, Gianluca
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2023

description: SPIE Optics + Optoelectronics, Prague, Czech Republic, 23 Apr 2023 - 27 Apr 2023
description: Bragg crystals are widely used in free electron lasers to diffract and isolate an extremely narrow spectral range from the initial self-amplified spontaneous emission (SASE) signal. By rotating the crystal along one of its axes, multiple reflections can be generated as per Bragg's law. A measurement model based on Bragg's law was established at the SASE2 beamline of the European XFEL after extensive hours of hard x-ray self-seeding (HXRSS) operation. This model characterizes the crystal's range of motion and reflections. In this presentation, two computer vision techniques, the Hough transform and template matching, are implemented to identify the absolute photon energy from photon diagnostic images. By comparing the spectrometer correlation scans with the model, the actual operational energy can be determined from the measured data using these techniques, enabling accurate calibration as well as the ability to freely scan the photon energy with a self-seeded beam over a wide energy range.
War Diary of 1st Battalion Canadian Scottish Regiment, Vol. 66, February 1, 1945 to February 28, 1945
Creators: name: Canada. Canadian Army. Canadian Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary's)
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Canada. Canadian Army
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/531187
subject: Canada. Canadian Army. Canadian Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary's)
subject: World War (1939-1945)
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1180924
subject: War diaries
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1745536

description: The war diaries are official records kept by the Battalions during a one month period. They contain the daily orders, correspondence, newsletters, and an intelligence log detailing troop activities, locations, and weather conditions. The war diaries detail the activities and movement of the 1st Battalion from training in Canada and England to active duty on the Western Front and their return to Victoria in January 1946. This diary was kept while at Nijmegen, Niel, Kleve, Bedburg, Kalkar, and Uedem. It has entries about preparing for Operation "Veritable", dealing with an overflow of water from the Rhine River possibly by the enemy to hinder their movements, beginning Operation "Veritable" with a barrage from more than 1000 guns with the Battalion listening to news of how the operation was going as they waited until the evening for their part to begin, moving into Germany and engaging with the enemy, issues with the wireless causing communication problems during the operation, D and A coys being separated and then marooned on the second story of buildings until eventually being rescued by Buffaloes, Cleve having been destroyed much like Caen, sleeping in cellar billets made by the Germans, moving through Bedburg to prepare to attack the enemy strong-point at Calcar and staying in an old insane asylum also occupied by civilian refugees, working with the Reginas and Winnipegs to engage the enemy, advancing through heavy opposition, A Coy outpost being attacked and eliminated during the night with the men presumed to have been taken prisoner, holding a position and fighting off numerous counter-attacks from the enemy with many casualties, the sky clearing and Typhoon planes bombing the Germans, getting a break with reorganizing and burying the dead, learning that their next assignment will not be as intense as the last and that they will be in reserve, friendly fire from planed, and taking up residence in a shoe factory making belts, holsters, boots, etc. from materials left behind by hastily retreating Germans, among other activities and information. Includes appendices covering intelligence logs, battle logs, intelligence summaries, admin notes, strength returns, maps, aerial photos, casualties, traces, defence places, field sketches, Operation "Veritable", report on POWs, personal accounts of battle, "The Rhine is Our Objective", enemy tanks, recommendations for honours and awards, correspondence, orders, "Comforts" correspondence, the Maple Leaf, the West Wall Climber, and field messages.
Benchmarking Black Hole Heat Engines
Creators: name: Chakraborty, Avik
name: Johnson, Clifford V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of initiating a benchmarking scheme that allows for cross-comparison of the efficiencies of black holes used as working substances in heat engines. We use a circular cycle in the p-V plane as the benchmark engine. We test it on Einstein-Maxwell, Gauss-Bonnet, and Born-Infeld black holes. Also, we derive a new and surprising exact result for the efficiency of a special `ideal gas' system to which all the black holes asymptote.
description: 16 pages, 8 figures
Building a Miniature Rocket Model with Thrust Vector Control and Data Logging Capabilities
Creators: name: Dutta, Pritam
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Rocket Science
Open Rocket

description: The first step in building our miniature rocket model is to design it. We will need to decide on the size of the rocket and the materials we will use to build it. The size of the rocket will depend on the motors we have available and the amount of thrust we need to achieve the desired altitude. We will use fins to provide stability to the rocket during the flight. One of the most important features of our miniature rocket model is thrust vector control. This feature allows us to change the direction of the rocket during the flight by changing the angle of the motor's nozzle. This is accomplished by using a servo motor that controls the angle of the nozzle. The servo motor will be connected to a microcontroller that will receive inputs from a remote control or a pre-programmed flight path.
PandExo: A Community Tool for Transiting Exoplanet Science with JWST & HST
Creators: name: Batalha, Natasha E.
name: Mandell, Avi
name: Pontoppidan, Klaus
name: Stevenson, Kevin B.
name: Lewis, Nikole K.
name: Kalirai, Jason
name: Greene, Thomas
name: Albert, Loïc
name: Nielsen, Louise D.
name: Earl, Nick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As we approach the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) era, several studies have emerged that aim to: 1) characterize how the instruments will perform and 2) determine what atmospheric spectral features could theoretically be detected using transmission and emission spectroscopy. To some degree, all these studies have relied on modeling of JWST's theoretical instrument noise. With under two years left until launch, it is imperative that the exoplanet community begins to digest and integrate these studies into their observing plans, as well as think about how to leverage the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to optimize JWST observations. In order to encourage this and to allow all members of the community access to JWST & HST noise simulations, we present here an open-source Python package and online interface for creating observation simulations of all observatory-supported time-series spectroscopy modes. This noise simulator, called PandExo, relies on some aspects of Space Telescope Science Institute's Exposure Time Calculator, Pandeia. We describe PandExo and the formalism for computing noise sources for JWST. Then, we benchmark PandExo's performance against each instrument team's independently written noise simulator for JWST, and previous observations for HST. We find that \texttt{PandExo} is within 10% agreement for HST/WFC3 and for all JWST instruments.
description: 9 pages, 9 figures, accepted PASP
OPERAS, the research infrastructure for Social sciences and the Humanities
Creators: name: Giglia, Elena
name: Dumouchel, Suzanne
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: OPERAS, Open Science, Humanities, Social Sciences, ESFRI, EOSC

description: Presentation of OPERAS for the CONOSC members, Dec. 20, 2022
The Effect of Government Expenditure on Education on the Enrollment Rate of Different Educational Levels in Selected OECD Countries.
Creators: name: Hajebi, Elnaz
name: Billing, Carol
name: Hajebi, Mahtab
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Macroeconomics (incl. monetary and fiscal theory)
Banking, finance and investment not elsewhere classified
Other economics not elsewhere classified

description: One of the most important factors in economic, social, and cultural development is to create a development plan to acquire knowledge, and govern the spirit of learning in the society, leading to the strengthening of human capital, and increasing the quality of the educational system in accordance with the needs of economic, and social development.
 Regarding this, and also based on the recognition of the importance of education in economic growth, economists, and economic development planners have paid special attention to the basics of resource allocation in the education sector.
 Therefore, according to the fact that government expenditure on education can be an effective factor to encourage people to acquire knowledge, and improve their level of education, and on the other hand, based on the fact that the improvement of people's level of education in the society shows the increase of human capital in the country, which itself has a positive effect on the economic growth of the country, and the inequality reduction, this paper aims to investigate the effect of government expenditure on education on the enrollment rate in different educational levels in selected OECD countries from 2010 to 2019.
 The results show that the effect of all coefficients of the variables is expected based on the theoretical foundations, and the government expenditure on education has a significant positive effect on the enrollment rate in the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels.
title:   Advanced Microstructural Characterization of Functionally Graded Dental Ceramic Material for Materials-Informed Finishing
Creators: name: Vigneswaran, Angani
Publisher: name: University of Kentucky Libraries
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 2.5
subject: FOS: Materials engineering

description: Yttria-stabilized tetragonal zirconia polycrystal (Y-TZP) has gained popularity as the choice of material for dental prosthetics. Ivoclar Vivadent’s IPS e.max ZirCAD Prime dental ceramic incorporates a unique gradient technology that varies the yttria content over the thickness of the material. The top layer is composed of 5Y-TZP which is desired for its optical properties while the bottom layer is composed of a much stronger 3Y-TZP. In between the two layers, 5Y-TZP and 3Y-TZP are mixed to form a transition layer. Varying the amount of yttria allows for more esthetically pleasing translucency in the visible areas of the restoration without compromising mechanical strength in the body. This study aims to address the gap between microstructural characterization of this dental ceramic and machining parameters that are relevant to the dental professionals performing surface finishing.

The material was examined, before and after sintering, via scanning electron microscopy (SEM), electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD), and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS), from which average grain size, crystallographic orientation, and elemental composition were analyzed. Critical linear feed rates were derived from these measured parameters. The recommendation of using high cutting speeds addresses the variability in linear feed rate of handheld finishing tools as well as the ductile-to-brittle transition of IPS e.max ZirCAD Prime.
description: © 2023 Angani Vigneswaran
OPERAS, the research infrastructure for Social sciences and the Humanities
Creators: name: Giglia, Elena
name: Dumouchel, Suzanne
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: OPERAS, Open Science, Humanities, Social Sciences, ESFRI, EOSC

description: Presentation of OPERAS for the CONOSC members, Dec. 20, 2022 Vision, mission, core values, strategic plan: paving the way for future collaborations.
description: V2: addedd video recording of the presentation
Determining Phonon Coherence Using Photon Sideband Detection
Creators: name: Ding, Ding
name: Yin, Xiaobo
name: Li, Baowen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Generating and detection coherent high-frequency heat-carrying phonons has been a great topic of interest in recent years. While there have been successful attempts in generating and observing coherent phonons, rigorous techniques to characterize and detect these phonon coherence in a crystalline material have been lagging compared to what has been achieved for photons. One main challenge is a lack of detailed understanding of how detection signals for phonons can be related to coherence. The quantum theory of photoelectric detection has greatly advanced the ability to characterize photon coherence in the last century and a similar theory for phonon detection is necessary. Here, we re-examine the optical sideband fluorescence technique that has been used detect high frequency phonons in materials with optically active defects. We apply the quantum theory of photodetection to the sideband technique and propose signatures in sideband photon-counting statistics and second-order correlation measurement of sideband signals that indicates the degree of phonon coherence. Our theory can be implemented in recently performed experiments to bridge the gap of determining phonon coherence to be on par with that of photons.
description: 3 Figures
MMHT PDFs: updates and outlook
Creators: name: Harland-Lang, L. A.
name: Martin, A. D.
name: Nathvani, R.
name: Thorne, R. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the latest results of studies within the MMHT PDF framework. We discuss the impact of the most recent ATLAS 7 TeV jet data, demonstrating that while a good fit can be achieved for individual jet rapidity bins, it is not possible to achieve a good description of the data when all bins are fitted. We examine the role that the experimental correlated systematic uncertainties play in this, and demonstrate that by simply decorrelating no more than two sources of error between rapidity bins a remarkably improved description of the data can be achieved. We then study the impact of NNLO corrections, showing that a mild decrease in the fit quality is produced. We also present the results of including new LHC $W$, $Z$, $W+c$ and $t\overline{t}$ data on the MMHT14 PDF set, showing that a marked decrease in the $s+\overline{s}$ uncertainty is in particular achieved. Finally, some discussion of the latest work towards the inclusion of the photon PDF within the MMHT framework is presented.
description: 13 pages, 8 figures. To appear in the proceedings of the XXIII Cracow Epiphany Conference
The Role of Counterexample and Paradox in Teaching Statistics and Probability.
Creators: name: Hajebi, Elnaz
name: Hajebi, Mahtab
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Macroeconomics (incl. monetary and fiscal theory)
Banking, finance and investment not elsewhere classified
Other economics not elsewhere classified

description: Different groups of enzymes and regulatory elements are involved in the synthesis of Ribodioside A, which is one of the most important sweetening compounds in stevia. The UGT family (UDPglycosyltransferase) is a group of regulatory genes that are very effective in converting steviol glycoside to Ribodioside A. Bioinformatics analyses on this gene family, which included the UGT74G1, UGT76G1, and UGT85C2 genes, showed that the protein encoded by these genes had a UDPGT protected protein domain. Also, the study of the secondary structure of these proteins showed that the total corrosion of these proteins is mainly from alpha-helix and random screws or loops that are connected with linear strands. Also, the study of the secondary structure of these proteins showed that the total corrosion of these proteins is mainly from alpha-helix and random screws or loops that are connected with linear strands. The results of studying the three-dimensional structure of the studied proteins confirmed the previous findings of high genomic similarity between these proteins. The results of the ProtScale program showed that the abundance of amino acids with negative hydropathicity in the sequence of these proteins is high, which is effective in creating plant resistance to drought stress. Finally, the codon preference trend of these proteins was investigated using the sequence manipulation suite database. This information can be used for other research, including the transfer of these proteins.
title: ÐÑÐ¾ÐµÐºÑÐ¸ÑÐ¾Ð²Ð°Ð½Ð¸Ðµ ÑÐ¸ÑÑÐµÐ¼Ñ ÑÐ»ÐµÐºÑÑÐ¾ÑÐ½Ð°Ð±Ð¶ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ 500/220 ÐºÐ
title: Ð²ÑÐ¿ÑÑÐºÐ½Ð°Ñ ÐºÐ²Ð°Ð»Ð¸ÑÐ¸ÐºÐ°ÑÐ¸Ð¾Ð½Ð½Ð°Ñ ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÐ° Ð±Ð°ÐºÐ°Ð»Ð°Ð²ÑÐ°
titleType: Subtitle
title: Design of the 500/220 kV power supply system
Creators: name: Ð¡ÐµÐ½Ð¾ÐºÐ¾ÑÐ¾Ð², ÐÐ½ÑÐ¾Ð½
Publisher: name: Ð¡Ð°Ð½ÐºÑ-ÐÐµÑÐµÑÐ±ÑÑÐ³ÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ Ð¿Ð¾Ð»Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐ½Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ ÑÐ½Ð¸Ð²ÐµÑÑÐ¸ÑÐµÑ ÐÐµÑÑÐ° ÐÐµÐ»Ð¸ÐºÐ¾Ð³Ð¾
Year: 2024
Subjects: ÑÐ»ÐµÐºÑÑÐ¾ÑÐ½Ð°Ð±Ð¶ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ðµ
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power supply
steady-state operation
single-phase short circuit
dynamic stability improvement
maximum allowed time for short circuit
automatic turbine speed regulator

description: Ð¦ÐµÐ»Ñ: Ð²ÑÐ¿Ð¾Ð»Ð½ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ðµ Ð¼Ð¾Ð´ÐµÐ»Ð¸ÑÐ¾Ð²Ð°Ð½Ð¸Ñ Ð¸ Ð´Ð°Ð»ÑÐ½ÐµÐ¹ÑÐµÐ³Ð¾ Ð¸ÑÑÐ»ÐµÐ´Ð¾Ð²Ð°Ð½Ð¸Ðµ Ð·Ð°Ð´Ð°Ð½Ð½Ð¾Ð¹ ÑÐ¸ÑÑÐµÐ¼Ñ ÑÐ»ÐµÐºÑÑÐ¾ÑÐ½Ð°Ð±Ð¶ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ 500/220 ÐºÐ. ÐÑÐµÐ´ÑÑÐ°Ð²Ð»ÐµÐ½Ð½Ð°Ñ ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÐ° ÑÐ¾ÑÑÐ¾Ð¸Ñ Ð¸Ð· 4 Ð¾ÑÐ½Ð¾Ð²Ð½ÑÑ ÑÐ°Ð·Ð´ÐµÐ»Ð¾Ð²: 1. ÐÐµÑÐ²ÑÐ¹ ÑÐ°Ð·Ð´ÐµÐ» Ð¾ÑÐ²ÐµÑÐ°ÐµÑ Ð·Ð° Ð²ÑÐ±Ð¾Ñ Ð¾ÑÐ½Ð¾Ð²Ð½Ð¾Ð³Ð¾ Ð¾Ð±Ð¾ÑÑÐ´Ð¾Ð²Ð°Ð½Ð¸Ñ ÑÐ¸ÑÑÐµÐ¼Ñ ÑÐ»ÐµÐºÑÑÐ¾ÑÐ½Ð°Ð±Ð¶ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ (Ð³ÐµÐ½ÐµÑÐ°ÑÐ¾Ñ, Ð³ÐµÐ½ÐµÑÐ°ÑÐ¾ÑÐ½ÑÐ¹ ÑÑÐ°Ð½ÑÑÐ¾ÑÐ¼Ð°ÑÐ¾Ñ, ÑÐ¸Ð»Ð¾Ð²ÑÐµ ÑÑÐ°Ð½ÑÑÐ¾ÑÐ¼Ð°ÑÐ¾ÑÑ, Ð°Ð²ÑÐ¾ÑÑÐ°Ð½ÑÑÐ¾ÑÐ¼Ð°ÑÐ¾ÑÑ, Ð¿ÑÐ¾Ð²Ð¾Ð´Ð° Ñ Ð¾Ð¿ÑÐµÐ´ÐµÐ»ÑÐ½Ð½ÑÐ¼ ÑÐµÑÐµÐ½Ð¸ÐµÐ¼). 2. ÐÑÐ¾ÑÐ¾Ð¹ ÑÐ°Ð·Ð´ÐµÐ» Ð¾ÑÐ²ÐµÑÐ°ÐµÑ Ð·Ð° ÑÐ°ÑÑÐµÑ ÑÐµÐ¶Ð¸Ð¼Ð° ÑÑÑÐ°Ð½Ð¾Ð²Ð¸Ð²ÑÐµÐ¹ÑÑ ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÑ Ð­Ð­Ð¡. 3. Ð¢ÑÐµÑÐ¸Ð¹ ÑÐ°Ð·Ð´ÐµÐ» Ð¾ÑÐ²ÐµÑÐ°ÐµÑ Ð·Ð° ÑÐ°ÑÑÐµÑ ÑÐ¾ÐºÐ¾Ð² Ð¸ Ð½Ð°Ð¿ÑÑÐ¶ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ð¹ Ð½ÐµÑÐ¸Ð¼Ð¼ÐµÑÑÐ¸ÑÐ½Ð¾Ð³Ð¾ ÐºÐ¾ÑÐ¾ÑÐºÐ¾Ð³Ð¾ Ð·Ð°Ð¼ÑÐºÐ°Ð½Ð¸Ñ. 4. ÐÐ°ÐºÐ»ÑÑÐ°ÑÑÐ¸Ð¹ ÑÐ°Ð·Ð´ÐµÐ» Ð¾ÑÐ²ÐµÑÐ°ÐµÑ Ð·Ð° Ð¸ÑÑÐ»ÐµÐ´Ð¾Ð²Ð°Ð½Ð¸Ðµ ÑÐ¸ÑÑÐµÐ¼Ñ Ð½Ð° Ð´Ð¸Ð½Ð°Ð¼Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐºÑÑ ÑÑÑÐ¾Ð¹ÑÐ¸Ð²Ð¾ÑÑÑ.
description: Purpose: modeling and further research of a given 500/220 kV power supply system. The presented work consists of 4 main chapters: 1. The first chapter is responsible for the selection of the main equipment of the power supply (generator, generator transformer, power transformers, autotransformers, wires with a certain cross-section). 2. The second chapter is responsible for calculating the steady-state operation of the EPS. 3. The third chapter is responsible for the calculation of the asymmetrical short-circuit currents and voltages. 4. The final chapter is responsible for analyzing the system for dynamic stability.
War Diary of 1st Battalion Canadian Scottish Regiment, Vol. 65, January 1, 1945 to January 31, 1945
Creators: name: Canada. Canadian Army. Canadian Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary's)
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Canada. Canadian Army. Canadian Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary's)
subject: War diaries
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1745536
subject: World War (1939-1945)
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1180924
subject: Canada. Canadian Army
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/531187

description: The war diaries are official records kept by the Battalions during a one month period. They contain the daily orders, correspondence, newsletters, and an intelligence log detailing troop activities, locations, and weather conditions. The war diaries detail the activities and movement of the 1st Battalion from training in Canada and England to active duty on the Western Front and their return to Victoria in January 1946. This diary was kept while at Goresbeek and Nijmegen, Holland. It has entries about leaves getting started again with 110 very excited men getting 8 day leaves and the chance to get back to Canada with two of this first group planning on getting married to their fiances while they are back home, a lecture about preparing defensive positions as a response to the Germans breaking through at Ardennes and it being a concern that it might happen in this location too, two men returning to the Battalion after being captured by the Germans for 3 months, dealing with snow and cold weather, a detailed description of the dugouts and how some of the men made them as comfortable as possible, the Pioneer Platoon demoloshing a former enemy position called the "Tank House", engaging in Operation "Pete" to discover as much as possible about the enemy forces holding LIttle Tebruk, "C" Coy HQ being hit by a shell from friendly fire, the Germans using a loudspeaker to read their news in German across the river, engaging in Operation "Alfred" where Sgt MacDonald and one man went missing, dealing with mines that the Germans send down the Waal River in an attempt to destroy the Nijmegen Bridge, and taking care of mail and fitness training while on a short break, among other activities and information. Includes appendices covering an intelligence log, battle logs, intelligence summaries, signal security notes, counter-attack plans, exercises Falcon, Indian and Buffalo, Artificial moonlight, counter-mortar notes, mines and mine laying, parols, traces, defence plans, field sketches, maps, administration notes, field messages, strength returns, orders, casualties, recommendations for honours and awards, "Two Came Back" report, notes on leaves, personal accounts of battle, Notes on the Canadian Infantry Divisional School, correspondence about the pipe band, the Maple Leaf and the West Wall Climber.
Quantitative sodium magnetic resonance imaging of cartilage, muscle, and tendon
Creators: name: Bangerter, N
name: Tarbox, G
name: Taylor, M
name: Kaggie, Joshua
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 0

description: Sodium magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), or imaging of the 23Na nucleus, has been under exploration for several decades, and holds promise for potentially revealing additional biochemical information about the health of tissues that cannot currently be obtained from conventional hydrogen (or proton) MRI. This additional information could serve as an important complement to conventional MRI for many applications. However, despite these exciting possibilities, sodium MRI is not yet used routinely in clinical practice, and will likely remain strictly in the domain of exploratory research for the coming decade. This paper begins with a technical overview of sodium MRI, including the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) signal characteristics of the sodium nucleus, the challenges associated with sodium MRI, and the specialized pulse sequences, hardware, and reconstruction techniques required. Various applications of sodium MRI for quantitative analysis of the musculoskeletal system are then reviewed, including the non-invasive assessment of cartilage degeneration in vivo, imaging of tendinopathy, applications in the assessment of various muscular pathologies, and assessment of muscle response to exercise.
Machine Learning Techniques for Speech Recognition using the Magnitude
Creators: name: Krishnan, C Gopala
name: Robinson, Y Harold
name: Chilamkurti, Naveen
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 460212
subject: Speech recognition
classificationCode: 4611
subject: Machine learning

description: Machine learning consists of supervised and unsupervised learning among which supervised learning is used for the speech recognition objectives. Supervised learning is the Data mining task of inferring a function from labeled training data. Speech recognition is the current trend that has gained focus over the decades. Most automation technologies use speech and speech recognition for various perspectives. This paper demonstrates an overview of major technological standpoint and gratitude of the elementary development of speech recognition and provides impression method has been developed in every stage of speech recognition using supervised learning. The project will use DNN to recognize speeches using magnitudes with large datasets.
The close pair fraction of BCGs since $z=0.5$: major mergers dominate recent BCG stellar mass growth
Creators: name: Groenewald, Danièl N.
name: Skelton, Rosalind E.
name: Gilbank, David G.
name: Loubser, S. Ilani
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the redMaPPer cluster catalogue based on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) photometry, we investigate the importance of major mergers in the stellar mass build-up of brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) between $0.08 \leq z \leq 0.50$. We use the SDSS spectroscopy, supplemented with spectroscopic observations from the Southern African Large Telescope at higher redshifts, to identify which BCGs and nearby companions are potential major merger candidates. We use the pair fraction as a proxy for the merger fraction in order to determine how much stellar mass growth the BCGs have experienced due to major mergers. We observe a weak trend of the BCG pair fraction increasing with decreasing redshift, suggesting that major mergers may become more important towards the present day. Major mergers are found to contribute, on average, $24 \pm 14 $ $(29 \pm 17)$ per cent towards the stellar mass of a present day BCG since $z=0.32$ (0.45), assuming that half of the companion's stellar mass is accreted onto the BCG. Furthermore, using our merger results in conjunction with predictions from two recent semi-analytical models along with observational measurements from the literature, we find that major mergers have sufficient stellar material to account for the stellar mass growth of the intracluster light between $z=0.3$ and $z=0$.
description: Resubmitted to MNRAS after addressing referee's comments, 19 pages, 9 figures