cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Searches for long-lived and highly-ionizing particles at the CMS and ATLAS experiments
Creators: name: Lenz, Teresa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Long-lived particles are contained in a variety of beyond Standard Model theories, including supersymmetric models, universal extra dimensions, or technicolor theories. If the lifetime of such a particle is long enough, the particle can enter - or even pass through - the detector before it decays. Therefore, searches for long-lived particles require a very different search strategy compared to conventional searches for particles beyond the Standard Model. If the new particle is not only weakly interacting, the particle can be reconstructed itself and not only via its decay products. A very specific characteristic of such new heavy charged particles is their large ionization losses when traveling through the detector. This article summarizes searches for long-lived particles at the CMS and ATLAS experiments that exploit the potentially high ionization losses per path length (dE/dx) of the new particle. The presented searches are performed on 8 and/or 13 TeV data. Additionally, an overview of the methodology of dE/dx measurements at the CMS and ATLAS experiments is given.
description: 10 pages, 11 figures, published in the proceedings of the 4th Conference on Large Hadron Collider Physics 2016 (LHCP 2016), Lund, Sweden; PoS(LHCP2016)104
Quantum state readout of individual quantum dots by electrostatic force detection
Creators: name: Miyahara, Yoichi
name: Roy-Gobeil, Antoine
name: Grutter, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Electric charge detection by atomic force microscopy (AFM) with single- electron resolution (e-EFM) is a promising way to investigate the electronic level structure of individual quantum dots (QD). The oscillating AFM tip modulates the energy of the QDs, causing single electrons to tunnel between QDs and an electrode. The resulting oscillating electrostatic force changes the resonant frequency and damping of the AFM cantilever, enabling electrometry with a single-electron sensitivity. Quantitative electronic level spectroscopy is possible by sweeping the bias voltage. Charge stability diagram can be obtained by scanning the AFM tip around the QD. e-EFM technique enables to investigate individual colloidal nanoparticles and self- assembled QDs without nanoscale electrodes. e-EFM is a quantum electromechanical system where the back-action of a tunneling electron is detected by AFM; it can also be considered as a mechanical analog of admittance spectroscopy with a radio frequency resonator, which is emerging as a promising tool for quantum state readout for quantum computing. In combination with the topography imaging capability of the AFM, e-EFM is a powerful tool for investigating new nanoscale material systems which can be used as quantum bits.
description: 28 pages, 17 figures
The Lopsided Triangle vs. the People: The Case of ProSAVANA
Creators: name: Moon, Alice
Publisher: name: University of Chicago
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: triangular cooperation
subject: South-South cooperation
subject: international development
subject: accountability
subject: civil society

description: Triangular cooperation has attracted the attention of researchers as a rising trend of international development cooperation, yet questions have been raised about the location of political accountability within such complex networks. To explore these differences, this study compares two closely related cases, one bilateral (PRODECER, between Japan and Brazil) and the second a trilateral project that was modeled on PRODECER (PROSAVANA, between Japan, Brazil, and Mozambique). Through a longitudinal analysis of each case based on qualitative analysis of key policy documents and evaluations, the study explains the very different outcomes of these similarly designed projects as the result of triangularity’s effects beyond the state: an additional third actor and the disregard of the people led to the halt in the implementation of ProSAVANA. Triangular cooperation brought together a diverse range of domestic and transnational non-state actors together against ProSAVANA through the extension of networks, issue bundling, and information sharing. The formation of multiple networks provided civil society the means to share common issues. States then begin to be held accountable by their own citizens and international actors, but at the cost of project success. Through this analysis, the future possibilities for strengthening accountability mechanisms during triangular cooperation projects can be better understood.
Landau modeling of dynamical nucleation of martensite at grain boundaries under local stress
Creators: name: Xu, G.
name: Wang, C.
name: Beltrán, J. I.
name: LLorca, J.
name: Cui, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dynamical nucleation of martensite in polycrystals is simulated by means of Lagrange-Rayleigh dynamics with Landau energetics, which is capable of obtaining the local stress as a result of the interplay of the potential of transformation and external loadings. By monitoring the patio-temporal distribution of the strain in response to the local stress, we demonstrate that the postcursors, high angle grain boundaries and triple junctions act as favorable heterogeneous nucleation sites corresponding to different loading and cooling conditions, and predict the phase diagram of the nucleation mode of martensite.
Iron K$α$ line of boson stars
Creators: name: Cao, Zheng
name: Cardenas-Avendano, Alejandro
name: Zhou, Menglei
name: Bambi, Cosimo
name: Herdeiro, Carlos A. R.
name: Radu, Eugen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The present paper is a sequel to our previous work [Y. Ni et al., JCAP 1607, 049 (2016)] in which we studied the iron K$α$ line expected in the reflection spectrum of Kerr black holes with scalar hair. These metrics are solutions of Einstein's gravity minimally coupled to a massive, complex scalar field. They form a continuous bridge between a subset of Kerr black holes and a family of rotating boson stars depending on one extra parameter, the dimensionless scalar hair parameter $q$, ranging from 0 (Kerr black holes) to 1 (boson stars). Here we study the limiting case $q=1$, corresponding to rotating boson stars. For comparison, spherical boson stars are also considered. We simulate observations with XIS/Suzaku. Using the fact that current observations are well fit by the Kerr solution and thus requiring that acceptable alternative compact objects must be compatible with a Kerr fit, we find that some boson star solutions are relatively easy to rule out as potential candidates to explain astrophysical black holes, while other solutions, which are neither too dilute nor too compact are more elusive and we argue that they cannot be distinguished from Kerr black holes by the analysis of the iron line with current X-ray facilities.
description: 1+18 pages, 9 figures. v2: refereed version
An analytic function approach to weak mutually unbiased bases
Creators: name: Olupitan, T.
name: Lei, C.
name: Vourdas, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum systems with variables in ${\mathbb Z}(d)$ are considered, and three different structures are studied. The first is weak mutually unbiased bases, for which the absolute value of the overlap of any two vectors in two different bases is $1/\sqrt{k}$ (where $k|d$) or $0$. The second is maximal lines through the origin in the ${\mathbb Z}(d)\times {\mathbb Z}(d)$ phase space. The third is an analytic representation in the complex plane based on Theta functions, and their zeros. It is shown that there is a correspondence (triality) that links strongly these three apparently different structures. For simplicity, the case where $d=p_1\times p_2$, where $p_1,p_2$ are odd prime numbers different from each other, is considered.
Using radiative energy losses to constrain the magnetisation and magnetic reconnection rate at the base of black hole jets
Creators: name: Potter, William J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the severe radiative energy losses which occur at the base of black hole jets using a relativistic fluid jet model, including in-situ acceleration of non-thermal leptons by magnetic reconnection. Our results demonstrate that including a self-consistent treatment of radiative energy losses is necessary to perform accurate MHD simulations of powerful jets and that jet spectra calculated via post-processing are liable to vastly overestimate the amount of non-thermal emission. If no more than 95% of the initial total jet power is radiated away by the plasma travels as it travels along the length of the jet, we can place a lower bound on the magnetisation of the jet plasma at the base of the jet. For typical powerful jets, we find that the plasma at the jet base is required to be highly magnetised, with at least 10,000 times more energy contained in magnetic fields than in non-thermal leptons. Using a simple power-law model of magnetic reconnection, motivated by simulations of collisionless reconnection, we determine the allowed range of the large-scale average reconnection rate along the jet, by restricting the total radiative energy losses incurred and the distance at which the jet first comes into equipartition. We calculate analytic expressions for the cumulative radiative energy losses due to synchrotron and inverse-Compton emission along jets, and derive analytic formulae for the constraint on the initial magnetisation.
description: 21 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
title: Konzeptuelle Metaphern in der IT-Sprache am Beispiel von Cybersicherheitsfachsprache auf Deutsch, Englisch und Russisch
Creators: name: Alekseeva, Kseniia
Year: 2023

description: Die vorliegende Masterarbeit ist eine sprachvergleichende Analyse konzeptueller Metaphern in der Fachsprache der Cybersicherheit für die Sprachen Deutsch, Englisch und Russisch. Das Ziel dieser Masterarbeit ist es, die konzeptuellen Metaphern in der IT-Sprache am Beispiel von Cybersicherheit zu finden und zu analysieren, und zwar wie weit die Konzeptsysteme mit den zu Deutsch verwandten und nicht-verwandten Sprachen Ähnlichkeiten und Unterschiede aufweisen, und konzeptuelle Metaphern aufzudecken, die über Kulturen hinweg konsistent sind. Zu diesem Zweck wurde auf der Basis der konzeptuellen Metapherntheorie von Lakoff und Johnson in einem Korpus der relevanten Fachliteratur für die Sprachen Deutsch, Englisch und Russisch konzeptuelle Metaphern unter Verwendung der Methodik der Construction Patterns von Dodge et al. identifiziert. Für die Validierung der Ergebnisse wurde eine Umfrage unter IT-Expert*innen durchgeführt. Die zentrale Erkenntnis dieser Arbeit ist, dass sich in der Fachsprache der Cybersicherheit mehrere klar definierbare Gruppen von metaphorischen Ausdrücken identifizieren lassen, auf deren Basis man die zu Grunde liegenden konzeptuellen Metaphern formulieren kann und dass diese Formulierungen in Sprachen wie Deutsch, Englisch und Russisch praktisch identisch oder mindestens synonym sind.
Nambu-Goldstone Boson Hypothesis for Squarks and Sleptons in Pure Gravity Mediation
Creators: name: Yanagida, Tsutomu T.
name: Yin, Wen
name: Yokozaki, Norimi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We point out that a hypothesis of squarks and sleptons being Nambu-Goldstone (NG) bosons is consistent with pure gravity mediation or minimal split supersymmetry (SUSY). As a concrete example, we consider a SUSY $E_7/SU(5) \times U(1)^3$ non-linear sigma model in the framework of pure gravity mediation. The model accommodates three families of the quark and lepton chiral multiplets as (pseudo) NG multiplets of the Kahler manifold, which may enable us to understand the origin and number of the families. We point out that squarks in the first and second generations are likely to be as light as a few TeV if the observed baryon asymmetry is explained by the thermal leptogenesis; therefore, these colored particles can be discovered at the LHC Run-2 or at the high luminosity LHC.
description: 18 pages, 7 figures
Befotertinib: First Approval
Creators: name: Blair, Hannah A.
Publisher: name: Adis Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: Medicine

description: Declarations Funding The preparation of this review was not supported by any external funding. Authorship and Conflict of interest During the peer review process, the manufacturer of the agent under review was offered an opportunity to comment on the article. Changes resulting from any comments received were made by the authors on the basis of scientific completeness and accuracy. Hannah Blair is a salaried employee of Adis International Ltd/Springer Nature and declares no relevant conflicts of interest. All authors contributed to this article and are responsible for its content. Ethics approval, Consent to participate, Consent to publish, Availability of data and material, Code availability Not applicable.
 Additional information about this Adis Drug Review can be found here. Abstract Befotertinib (Surmana®) is an orally administered, highly selective, third-generation epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) being developed by Betta Pharmaceuticals and InventisBio for the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). In May 2023, befotertinib was approved in China for the second-line treatment of patients with locally advanced or metastatic NSCLC who have received EGFR TKI therapy and have disease progression with positive EGFR T790M mutation. Befotertinib is under regulatory review for the first-line treatment of NSCLC in China. Clinical studies assessing befotertinib as an adjuvant therapy after surgery for early EGFR-mutant NSCLC (phase III) and in combination with icotinib for advanced or metastatic EGFR-mutant NSCLC (phase II) are currently underway in China. This article summarizes the milestones in the development of befotertinib leading to this first approval for the second-line treatment of EGFR T790M-mutated locally advanced or metastatic NSCLC.
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Network formation and gelation in Telechelic star polymers
Creators: name: Wadgaonkar, Indrajit
name: Chatterji, Apratim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the efficiency of gelation and network formation in telechelic star polymer melt, where the tips of polymer arms are dipoles while rest of the monomers are uncharged. Our work is motivated by the experimental observations [A.Kulkarni et.al, Macromolecules, {\bf 48}, 6580 (2015)], in which rheological studies of telechelic star polymers of poly-(L-actide), a bio-degradable polymer, showed a drastic increase in elastic properties (up to $2000$ times) compared to corresponding star polymers without the telechelic arm ends. In contrast to previous studies, we avoid using effective attractive Lennard Jones potentials or dipolar potentials to model telechelic interactions. Instead we use explicit Coulomb positive and negative charges at the tip of polymer-arms of our bead-spring model of star polymers. By our simulations we show that the dipoles at the tip of star arms aggregate together to form clusters of dipoles. Each cluster has contribution from several stars, and in turn each star contributes to several clusters. Thus the entire polymer melt forms a connected network. Network forming tendencies decrease with decrease of the value of the effective charge constituting the dipole: this can be experimentally realized by choosing a different ionomer for the star tip. We systematically varied the value of dipole charges, the fraction of star-arms with dipoles at the tip and the length of the arms. The choice of explicit charges in our calculations enables us to make better quantitative predictions about the onset of gelation, moreover we get qualitatively distinct results about structural organization of dipoles within a dipole-cluster.
A method of design for rock-socketed piles with work-softening behaviour
Creators: name: Tan, Melvyn Joo Chai.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Agencies and Science-Experiment Risk
Creators: name: Johnson, Eric E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There is a curious absence of legal constraints on U.S. government agencies undertaking potentially risky scientific research. Some of these activities may present a risk of killing millions or even destroying the planet. Current law leaves it to agencies to decide for themselves whether their activities fall within the bounds of acceptable risk. This Article explores to what extent and under what circumstances the law ought to allow private actions against such non-regulatory agency endeavors. Engaging with this issue is not only interesting in its own right, it allows us to test fundamental concepts of agency competence and the role of the courts. Two case studies provide a foundation for discussion: NASA's use of plutonium power supplies on spacecraft, which critics say could cause millions of cancers in the event of atmospheric disintegration, and a Department of Energy particle-collider experiment (the RHIC, or Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider) that allegedly poses a small risk of collapsing the Earth (via a "killer strangelet"). These extreme examples serve as a test-bed for applying insights from neoclassical economics, behavioral economics, risk-management studies, and cognitive psychology. The resulting analysis suggests that in low-probability/high-harm scenarios, agencies are likely to do a poor job of judging the acceptability of risk to the public. Instead, generalist judges working in a common-law vein may have surprising advantages. This in turns suggests that under certain circumstances the government should be subject to legal action that provides non-deferential review of discretionary agency actions that are non-regulatory in nature.
description: 61 pages, published in the University of Illinois Law Review, vol. 2016, no. 2, pp. 527-587 (2016)
Inter-event correlations from avalanches hiding below the detection threshold
Creators: name: Janićević, Sanja
name: Laurson, Lasse
name: Måløy, Knut Jørgen
name: Santucci, Stéphane
name: Alava, Mikko J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Numerous systems ranging from deformation of materials to earthquakes exhibit bursty dynamics, which consist of a sequence of events with a broad event size distribution. Very often these events are observed to be temporally correlated or clustered, evidenced by power-law distributed waiting times separating two consecutive activity bursts. We show how such inter-event correlations arise simply because of a finite detection threshold, created by the limited sensitivity of the measurement apparatus, or used to subtract background activity or noise from the activity signal. Data from crack propagation experiments and numerical simulations of a non-equilibrium crack line model demonstrate how thresholding leads to correlated bursts of activity by separating the avalanche events into sub-avalanches. The resulting temporal sub-avalanche correlations are well-described by our general scaling description of thresholding-induced correlations in crackling noise.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, Supplemental Material as an ancillary file, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett
Hereditary triangulated categories
Creators: name: Chen, Xiao-Wu
name: Ringel, Claus Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We call a triangulated category \emph{hereditary} provided that it is equivalent to the bounded derived category of a hereditary abelian category, where the equivalence is required to commute with the translation functors. If the triangulated category is algebraical, we may replace the equivalence by a triangle equivalence. We give two intrinsic characterizations of hereditary triangulated categories using a certain full subcategory and the non-existence of certain paths. We apply them to piecewise hereditary algebras.
Cyclic Loading Response of Hollow Tubular Flange Plate Girders: Behavior and Performance Analysis
Creators: name: Ali, Yasmin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Structural engineering
subject: Cyclic loading
subject: Structural Dynamics

description: This study investigates the dynamic behavior of hollow tubular flange plate girders under cyclic loading. By analyzing their performance, we aim to enhance the understanding of their structural resilience and potential applications in engineering. This work was part of an MSc thesis, with the defense conducted in July 2023, under the supervision of Professor Mahmoud El-Boghdadi and Associate Professor Ahmed El Hadidy.
Near-Field studies of anisotropic variations and temperature induced structural changes in a supported single lipid bilayer
Creators: name: Johnson, Merrell A.
name: Decca, Ricardo S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Temperature controlled Polarization Modulation Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscopy (PM-NSOM) measurements of a single supported $L_{β^{\prime}}$ 1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DPPC) lipid bilayer are presented. The effective retardance ($ΔS = \frac{2 π(n_e-n_o)t}λ$), where $t$ is the thickness of the bilayer and $λ$ is the wavelength of light used and the direction of the projection of the acyl chains ($θ$) were measured simultaneously. From $ΔS$ the birefringence ($n_e-n_o$) of the bilayer was determined. A change of $ΔS$ $\sim$ (3.8 $\pm$ 0.3)~mrad at the transition temperature $T_m \sim$ 41$^{\circ}$C between the gel $L_{β^{\prime}}$ to liquid disorder $L_α$ was observed in a single planar bilayer. This agrees well with previous values of ($n_e-n_o$) in the $L_{β^{\prime}}$ phase and translates to an assumed $\langle ϕ\rangle $ $\sim$ 32$^{\circ}$ when T $T_m$. Evidence of supper heating and supper cooling are presented, along with a discussion of the behavior that occurs around $T_m$.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures
Supplemental Material for Amster and Sella, 2020
Creators: name: Amster, Guy
name: Sella, Guy
Publisher: name: GSA Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 60411 Population, Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics

description: Supplemental information for Life history effects on neutral diversity levels of autosomes and sex chromosomes
Electrical conductivity of a monolayer produced by random sequential adsorption of linear $k$-mers onto a square lattice
Creators: name: Tarasevich, Yuri Yu.
name: Laptev, Valeri V.
name: Goltseva, Valeria A.
name: Lebovka, Nikolai I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 82B43

description: The electrical conductivity of a monolayer produced by the random sequential adsorption (RSA) of linear $k$-mers onto a square lattice was studied by means of computer simulation. Overlapping with pre-deposited $k$-mers and detachment from the surface were forbidden. The RSA continued until the saturation jamming limit, $p_j$. The isotropic and anisotropic depositions for two different models: of an insulating substrate and conducting $k$-mers (C-model) and of a conducting substrate and insulating $k$-mers (I-model) were examined. The Frank-Lobb algorithm was applied to calculate the electrical conductivity in both the $x$ and $y$ directions for different lengths ($k=1$ -- $128 $) and concentrations ($p=0$ -- $p_j$) of the $k$-mers. The `intrinsic electrical conductivity' and concentration dependence of the relative electrical conductivity $Σ(p)$ ($Σ=σ/ σ_m$ for the C-model and $Σ=σ_m /σ$ for the I-model, where $σ_m$ is the electrical conductivity of substrate) in different directions were analyzed. At large values of $k$ the $Σ(p)$ curves became very similar and they almost coincided at $k=128$. Moreover, for both models the greater the length of the $k$-mers the smoother the functions $Σ_{xy}(p)$, $Σ_{x}(p)$ and $Σ_{y}(p)$. For the C-model, the other interesting findings are: for large values of $k$ ($k=64, 128$), the values of $Σ_{xy}$ and $Σ_{y}$ increase rapidly with the initial increase of $p$ from 0 to 0.1; for $k \geq 16$, all the $Σ_{xy}(p)$ and $Σ_{x}(p)$ curves intersect with each other at the same iso-conductivity points; for anisotropic deposition, the percolation concentrations are the same in the $x$ and $y$ directions, whereas, at the percolation point the greater the length of the $k$-mers the larger the anisotropy of the electrical conductivity, i.e., the ratio $σ_y/σ_x$ ($>1$).
description: 11 pages, 12 figures, 2 tables, 44 references, submitted to Phys.Rev.E
title: Ο Μικρόκοσμος του χώρου της κουζίνας | Μια αναζήτηση στις αθηναϊκές κατοικίες του 19ου και 20ου αιώνα

title: The microcosm of the kitchen,  a search in Athenian residences of the 19th and 20th century
Creators: name: Τρουλλινος Ιωαννης
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2023

description: Σκοπός της εν λόγω ερευνητικής εργασίας είναι η διερεύνηση της εξέλιξης του χώρου της κουζίνας στις αθηναϊκές κατοικίες του 19ου και 20ου αιώνα. Αντικείμενο της έρευνας αποτελεί ο χώρος της κουζίνας στους διάφορους τύπους κατοικίας (αστικά μέγαρα, μονοκατοικίες, διπλοκατοικίες, πολυκατοικίες, εργατικές και προσφυγικές κατοικίες), που εμφανίζονται στην πρωτεύουσα, τη χρονική περίοδο που αναφέρθηκε, όπως αποτυπώνονται μέσα από σχέδια, φωτογραφίες, έργα ζωγραφικής και διαφημίσεις. Σαν χώρος, η κουζίνα έχει κεντροβαρικό ρόλο στη καθημερινότητα των χρηστών της και γενικότερα στο ανθρώπινο κατοικείν, αφού περιλαμβάνει αναμεμειγμένα λειτουργίες όπως, παρασκευή και κατανάλωση φαγητού, αποθήκευση και διατήρηση των τροφίμων, καθαριότητα και συχνά διημέρευση. Η μελέτη αποτελεί σημείο τομής αρχιτεκτονικών και κοινωνιολογικών παρατηρήσεων μιας και στον χώρο της αντικατοπτρίζονται οικονομικές, ταξικές, έμφυλες σχέσεις και εστιάζει στη λειτουργική της οργάνωση, τον εσωτερικό της διάκοσμο και εξοπλισμό, τη σχέση της με τους υπόλοιπους χώρους της κατοικίας και το ρόλο της για τον εκάστοτε χρήστη. Η ερμηνεία επιχειρείται με όχημα τον εκσυγχρονισμό, για να γίνει διακριτό, ποια από τα παραπάνω χαρακτηριστικά παραμένουν σταθερά και ποια αλλάζουν κατά την εξεταζόμενη περίοδο.
The design of marine structures in the Asia/Pacific region
Creators: name: Oldfield, Douglas O.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Highly efficient frequency conversion with bandwidth compression of quantum light
Creators: name: Allgaier, Markus
name: Ansari, Vahid
name: Sansoni, Linda
name: Quiring, Viktor
name: Ricken, Raimund
name: Harder, Georg
name: Brecht, Benjamin
name: Silberhorn, Christine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hybrid quantum networks rely on efficient interfacing of dissimilar quantum nodes, since elements based on parametric down-conversion sources, quantum dots, color centres or atoms are fundamentally different in their frequencies and bandwidths. While pulse manipulation has been demonstrated in very different systems, to date no interface exists that provides both an efficient bandwidth compression and a substantial frequency translation at the same time. Here, we demonstrate an engineered sum-frequency-conversion process in Lithium Niobate that achieves both goals. We convert pure photons at telecom wavelengths to the visible range while compressing the bandwidth by a factor of 7.47 under preservation of non-classical photon-number statistics. We achieve internal conversion efficiencies of 75.5%, significantly outperforming spectral filtering for bandwidth compression. Our system thus makes the connection between previously incompatible quantum systems as a step towards usable quantum networks.
The far-ultraviolet spectra of two hot PG1159 stars
Creators: name: Werner, K.
name: Rauch, T.
name: Kruk, J. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: PG1159 stars are hot, hydrogen-deficient (pre-) white dwarfs with atmospheres mainly composed of helium, carbon, and oxygen. The unusual surface chemistry is the result of a late helium-shell flash. Observed element abundances enable us to test stellar evolution models quantitatively with respect to their nucleosynthesis products formed near the helium-burning shell of the progenitor asymptotic giant branch stars. Because of the high effective temperatures (Teff), abundance determinations require ultraviolet spectroscopy and non-local thermodynamic equilibrium model atmosphere analyses. Up to now, we have presented results for the prototype of this spectral class and two cooler members (Teff in the range 85,000-140,000 K). Here we report on the results for two even hotter stars (PG1520+525 and PG1144+005, both with Teff = 150,000 K) which are the only two objects in this temperature-gravity region for which useful far-ultraviolet spectra are available, and revisit the prototype star. Previous results on the abundances of some species are confirmed, while results on others (Si, P, S) are revised. In particular, a solar abundance of sulphur is measured in contrast to earlier claims of a strong S deficiency that contradicted stellar evolution models. For the first time, we assess the abundances of Na, Al, and Cl with newly constructed non-LTE model atoms. Besides the main constituents (He, C, O), we determine the abundances (or upper limits) of N, F, Ne, Na, Al, Si, P, S, Cl, Ar, and Fe. Generally, good agreement with stellar models is found.
description: Accepted for publication in A&A
Time dependent scour in a constricted channel
Creators: name: Kong, Philip Chin Khiong.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Electronic and magnetic structures of hole doped trilayer La(4-x)Sr(x)Ni3O8 from first principles calculations
Creators: name: Patra, Lokanath
name: Kishore, M. R. Ashwin
name: Vidya, R.
name: Sjastad, Anja O.
name: Fjellvag, H.
name: Ravindran, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The magnetic and electronic properties of trilayer La4Ni3O8, similar to hole doped cuprates, are investigated by performing full-potential linearized augmented plane wave method-based spin-polarized calculations with LDA and GGA functionals including Hubbard U parameters to account for strong correlation effects. Based on these calculations, we found that La4Ni3O8 is a C-type antiferromagnetic (C-AFM) Mott insulator in agreement with previous experimental and theoretical observations. Our calculations suggest that Ni1+ and Ni2+ ions are found to be in high spin state with an average valency of +1.33. Intermediate band gap states are originated from dz2 electrons of both types of Ni ions after including the strong correlation effects. In order to understand the role of hole doping on electronic structure, phase stability, and magnetic properties of La4Ni3O8, similar calculations have been performed for La(4-x)Sr(x)Ni3O8 as a function of x, using the supercell approach. We have found that the hole doping brings insulator-to-metal transition without changing the C-AFM ordering though the magnetic moment is enhanced at both Ni sites. Moreover, these Ni atoms are always in an average valence state irrespective of hole doping or volume change. So the electronic properties of hole doped La4Ni3O8 can not be compared with hole doped cuprates which are high Tc.
Transition from the C3-dominated discharge to the sooting plasma
Creators: name: Ahmad, Shoaib
name: Ahmad, Bashir
name: Riffat, Tasneem
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Mass spectrometry and photoemission spectroscopy of a graphite hollow cathode source identify the parameters of the transition from the C(3) dominated discharge to the sooting plasma. The transition is a function of the shape and profile of a special cusp magnetic field which is a function of radius and azimuth angle, the geometry of the source, the discharge current, and pressure. Characteristic atomic and molecular emission lines and bands in the C(3) discharge transform into broad bands emitted by the excited soot. We identify four prominent emission bands between 300 to 400 nm to be the hallmark of the sooting plasma.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures
Detection of forbidden line components of lithium-like carbon in stellar spectra
Creators: name: Werner, K.
name: Rauch, T.
name: Hoyer, D.
name: Quinet, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the first identification of forbidden line components from an element heavier than helium in the spectrum of astrophysical plasmas. As yet, these components were identified only in laboratory plasmas and not in astrophysical objects. Forbidden components are well known for neutral helium lines in hot stars, particularly in helium-rich post-AGB stars and white dwarfs. We discovered that two hitherto unidentified lines in the ultraviolet spectra of hot hydrogen-deficient (pre-) white dwarfs can be identified as forbidden line components of triply ionized carbon (C IV). The forbidden components (3p-4f and 3d-4d) appear in the blue and red wings of the strong, Stark broadened 3p-4d and 3d-4f lines at 1108 Angstroem and 1169 Angstroem, respectively. They are visible over a wide effective temperature range (60,000-200,000 K) in helium-rich (DO) white dwarfs and PG1159 stars that have strongly oversolar carbon abundances.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters
PENETRATION TESTING
Creators: name: Nitin Sukhija
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This slide deck provides a deep dive into penetration testing with a focus on the capabilities of Kali Linux. The slides begin with an overview and then divide into information gathering, vulnerability analysis, exploitation, and post-exploitation tools. For each tool, there is an overview, a guide on installation and usage, discussion of their strengths and limitations, and finally a case study. Together this gives the reader a step-by-step walkthrough on penetration tests, introducing multiple tools at each step, as well as how and when to use them.
MALWARE ANALYSIS
Creators: name: Nitin Sukhija
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This slide deck lays out the differences between static and dynamic malware analysis methods. Relevant and valuable tools such as IDA Pro, PE Explorer, OllyDBG, WinDBG, and Procmon are covered in depth. For each tool there is an overview, a detailed description of the key features, and then a brief overview of other relevant features. Each tool's strengths and limitations are highlighted, and use cases are shown. After viewing, the reader will have a thorough understanding of several malware analysis tools, as well as the information necessary to choose the best tool for each specific use case. 
Hindered settling in non-Newtonian fluids
Creators: name: Allen, Elise.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Galaxy Secular Mass Flow Rate Determination Using the Potential-Density Phase Shift Approach: Application to Six Nearby Spiral Galaxies
Creators: name: Zhang, Xiaolei
name: Buta, Ronald J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the potential-density phase shift approach developed by the present authors in earlier publications, we estimate the magnitude of radial mass accretion/excretion rates across the disks of six nearby spiral galaxies having a range of Hubble types. Our goal is to examine these rates in the context of bulge building and secular morphological evolution along the Hubble sequence. Stellar surface density maps of the sample galaxies are derived from SINGS 3.6um and SDSS i-band images. Corresponding molecular and atomic gas surface densities are derived from published CO(1-0) and HI interferometric observations of the BIMA SONG, THINGS, and VIVA surveys. The mass flow rate calculations utilize a volume-type torque integral to calculate the angular momentum exchange rate between the basic state disk matter and density wave modes. The potential-density phase shift approach yields angular momentum transport rates several times higher than those estimated using the Lynden-Bell and Kalnajs (1972) approach. The current approach leads to predictions of significant mass redistribution induced by the quasi-steady density wave modes, enough for the morphological types of disks to evolve substantially within its lifetime. This difference with the earlier conclusions of Lynden-Bell and Kalnajs reflects the dominant role played by collisionless shocks in the secular evolution of galaxies containing extremely non-linear, quasi-steady density wave modes, thus enabling significant morphological transformation along the Hubble sequence during a Hubble time. We show for the first time also, using observational data, that STELLAR mass accretion/excretion is just as important, and oftentimes much more important, than the corresponding accretion/excretion processes in the GASEOUS component, with the latter being what had been emphasized in most of the previous secular evolution studies.
description: 28 pages, 28 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1203.5334
Kindergarten transition services, school climate, and parental involvement : effects on children’s developmental outcomes in third grade
Creators: name: Boyle, Alaina Elizabeth
name: 0000-0003-3071-3506
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2016
Subjects: Kindergarten transition
School climate
Transition services
Parental educational involvement
Academic achievement
Socioemotional well-being
Early education
Middle childhood

description: Transition into kindergarten is a critical educational transition for children that has enduring academic and social consequences. Academic, socioemotional, and behavioral challenges following the transition to K-12 schooling can initiate turning points characterized by negative academic trajectories across young people’s educational careers. The current study examines the effects of kindergarten school processes (i.e., transition services and school climate) on children’s academic and socioemotional outcomes in third grade and to what extent these relations are mediated by children’s early adjustment and parental educational involvement. Family socioeconomic status (SES) was also tested as a possible moderator of study relations. Data were drawn from 10,540 kindergarten students (50% females; 63% White, 11% African American, 16% Latino, 6% Asian American, and 4% other race/ethnicity) participating in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort 1998. Results indicated that both kindergarten transition services and school climate were related to children’s academic abilities, but not socioemotional adjustment, in third grade. The link between kindergarten school processes and children’s distal outcomes was mediated by children’s greater early academic skills mastery in the spring of kindergarten, which in turn elicited greater parental educational involvement behaviors. Moderation analyses revealed that greater early academic skills elicited more school-based involvement strategies for high SES children, whereas lower levels of early academic skills elicited more home-based involvement strategies for middle and low SES children. These findings suggest that academic interventions and supports could be carefully targeted to better support young children’s early educational success.
Steady State and Dynamics of Joule Heating in Magnetic Tunnel Junctions Observed via the Temperature Dependence of RKKY Coupling
Creators: name: Chavent, A.
name: Ducruet, C.
name: Portemont, C.
name: Vila, L.
name: Alvarez-Hérault, J.
name: Sousa, R.
name: Prejbeanu, I. L.
name: Dieny, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Understanding quantitatively the heating dynamics in magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJ) submitted to current pulses is very important in the context of spin-transfer-torque magnetic random access memory development. Here we provide a method to probe the heating of MTJ using the RKKY coupling of a synthetic ferrimagnetic storage layer as a thermal sensor. The temperature increase versus applied bias voltage is measured thanks to the decrease of the spin-flop field with temperature. This method allows distinguishing spin transfer torque (STT) effects from the influence of temperature on the switching field. The heating dynamics is then studied in real-time by probing the conductance variation due to spin-flop rotation during heating. This approach provides a new method for measuring fast heating in spintronic devices, particularly magnetic random access memory (MRAM) using thermally assisted or spin transfer torque writing.
description: 6 pages, 9 figures
STATIC VS DYNAMIC SECURITY TESTING
Creators: name: Nitin Sukhija
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This slide deck covers the differences between static (SAST) and dynamic (DAST) application security testing. It provides relevant information for those aiming to enhance their cybersecurity defenses while simultaneously demonstrating the importance of application security testing (AST). Starting with an overview of cybersecurity attacks and software vulnerability exploitation, its later transitions into AST tools. An overview of SAST is followed by an in-depth look at Veracode’s and Reshift’s solutions, highlighting their key features. DAST is covered next, along with a brief discussion of HCL’s and Detectify’s implementations. For each type of AST tool, strengths and weaknesses are covered, and an emphasis on the importance of combining both approaches emerges. 
Spin excitations in systems with hopping electron transport and strong position disorder in a large magnetic field
Creators: name: Shumilin, A. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the spin excitations in systems with hopping electron conduction and strong position disorder. We focus on the problem in a strong magnetic field when the spin Hamiltonian can be reduced to the effective single-particle Hamiltonian and treated with conventional numerical technics. It is shown that in a 3D system with Heisenberg exchange interaction the spin excitations have a delocalized part of the spectrum even in the limit of strong disorder, thus leading to the possibility of the coherent spin transport. The spin transport provided by the delocalized excitations can be described by a diffusion coefficient. Non-homogenous magnetic fields lead to the Anderson localization of spin excitations while anisotropy of the exchange interaction results in the Lifshitz localization of excitations. We discuss the possible effect of the additional exchange-driven spin diffusion on the organic spin-valve devices.
description: To be published in Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
Air conditioning liquid chiller modelling with particular emphasis of building energy usage
Creators: name: Cruickshank, Ian John.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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How quantum mechanics probes superspace
Creators: name: Nicolis, Stam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the relation between the partition function of a non--relativistic particle, that describes the equilibrium fluctuations implicitly, and the partition function of the same system, deduced from the Langevin equation, that describes the fluctuations explicitly, of a bath with additive white--noise properties. We show that both can be related to the partition function of an ${\mathcal N}=1$ supersymmetric theory with one--dimensional bosonic worldvolume and that they can all describe the same physics, since the correlation functions of the observables satisfy the same identities for all systems.The supersymmetric theory provides the consistent closure for describing the fluctuations, even though supersymmetry may be broken, when their backreaction is taken into account. The trajectory of the classical particle becomes a component of a superfield, when fluctuations are taken into account. These statements can be tested by the identities the correlation functions satisfy, by using a lattice regularization of an action that describes commuting fields only.
description: 4 pages, LaTeX, 2 figures. Written contribution to the Workshop "Supersymmetries and Quantum Symmetries", SQS2015, Dubna, 2015