cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Predictive Method for Pipeline Strain Demand Subject to Permanent Ground Displacements with Internal Pressure & Temperature
Creators: Allouche, Ismael S
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2022

Pipelines subject to ground deformations generated by geohazard loads carry high importance on pipeline analysis, design, and assessment due to risk of structural damage or failure. Additionally, internal pressure and temperature variation within an operating pipe induce additional strains in combination with pipe strains generated by ground displacement. In this thesis, these additional loads are implemented in several hypothetical finite element analysis (FEA) simulations to assess the impact of internal pressure and temperature change for pipes subject to ground displacement in soils of varying stiffnesses. Furthermore, an enhanced predictive method is proposed founded upon methods employed by Zheng et al. (2021b) to predict pipeline behaviour subject to permanent ground displacement, while considering effects of internal pressure and temperature variation. The proposed method accounts for the initial thermal strains, and biaxial stress state in the pipe due to hoop stress generated by internal pressure. These additional strains are considered within the expressions of internal axial force and bending moment, derived based on the actual stress distribution on the pipes’ cross-section. The accuracy of the proposed method is validated against the finite element method (FEM) with respect to results of pipe strain and deformation using several indicative case studies. This research provides a new effective method of incorporating temperature and internal pressure loads on the inelastic strain demand of pipelines subject to permanent ground displacement of varying types, magnitudes, and directions.
Comparing and Forecasting Performances in Different Events of Athletics Using a Probabilistic Model
Creators: name: Godsey, Brian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Though athletics statistics are abundant, it is a difficult task to quantitatively compare performances from different events of track, field, and road running in a meaningful way. There are several commonly-used methods, but each has its limitations. Some methods, for example, are valid only for running events, or are unable to compare men's performances to women's, while others are based largely on world records and are thus unsuitable for comparing world records to one other. The most versatile and widely-used statistic is a set of scoring tables compiled by the IAAF, which are updated and published every few years. Unfortunately, these methods are not fully disclosed. In this paper, we propose a straight-forward, objective, model-based algorithm for assigning scores to athletic performances for the express purpose of comparing marks between different events. Specifically, the main score we propose is based on the expected number of athletes who perform better than a given mark within a calendar year. Computing this naturally interpretable statistic requires only a list of the top performances in each event and is not overly dependent on a small number of marks, such as the world records. We found that this statistic could predict the quality of future performances better than the IAAF scoring tables, and is thus better suited for comparing performances from different events. In addition, the probabilistic model used to generate the performance scores allows for multiple interpretations which can be adapted for various purposes, such as calculating the expected top mark in a given event or calculating the probability of a world record being broken within a certain time period. In this paper, we give the details of the model and the scores, a comparison with the IAAF scoring tables, and...
description: Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports. Volume 8, Issue 2, ISSN (Online) 1559-0410, June 2012
OAHP Inventory, Building 2006 Hospital Non-Commissioned Officers' Barracks, Fort Sam Houston, Texas
Creators: name: Walter, Chelsea
Publisher: name: Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation, Department of the Interior
Year: 1978
Subjects: subject: Fort Sam Houston
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/83681/fort-sam-houston
subject: San Antonio
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/4149/san-antonio
subject: Bexar (County)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/4150/bexar-county
subject: Texas
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/6923/texas
subject: WWI
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/6372/wwi
subject: Historic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/25/historic
subject: Governmental Structure
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/318/governmental-structure
subject: Historic Governmental Structure
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/320/historic-governmental-structure
subject: Non-Domestic Structures
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/309/non-domestic-structures
subject: Communal / Public Structure
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/314/communal-public-structure
subject: Historic Communal / Public Structure
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/316/historic-communal-public-structure
subject: OAHP
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/138292/oahp
subject: Barracks
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/135131/barracks
subject: Administration Building
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/31915/administration-building
subject: Building 2006
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/146505/building-2006
subject: Architectural Documentation
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/16/architectural-documentation
subject: Historic Background Research
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/18/historic-background-research
subject: Architectural Survey
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/2/architectural-survey
subject: Heritage Management
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/24/heritage-management

description: An Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation inventory form for Building 2006 at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. The structure was built in 1912 as a hospital non-commissioned officers' barracks and now serves as an administration building.
title: Regulation of renal artery circadian contractility by glucocorticoids in female C57BL/6 mice
Creators: name: Komolova, Anastasiia
Publisher: name: The University of Edinburgh
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: glucocorticoids
subject: Circadian rhythmicity
subject: Circadian rhythmicity in the circulating levels of glucocorticoids
subject: nondipping blood pressure
subject: circadian variation in vascular reactivity
subject: C57Bl/6Ch mice
subject: corticosterone (main murine GC) rhythmicity

description: Circadian rhythmicity in the circulating levels of glucocorticoids (GC) plays an important role in establishing the time-dependent variation in a variety of functions, such as stress response, cardiovascular function and immune function. Disruptions in GC rhythm leads to nondipping blood pressure. A recent study showed arrhythmic GC levels caused disrupted circadian variation in vascular reactivity in male C57Bl/6Ch mice. Whether GC also influence circadian arterial contractility in females is not known. To further unravel the role GC plays in the rhythm of vascular reactivity I took two approaches which are presented as two independent studies in this thesis. First, I assessed the vasoreactivity in renal arteries from C57BL/6Ch female mice in conditions of normal and chronically abolished corticosterone (main murine GC) rhythmicity at two time-points corresponding to the physiological peak and trough of GC circulating levels. Second, I assessed the vasoreactivity of isolated renal arteries from C57BL/6Ch female mice in response to acute corticosterone administration. In contrast to what was observed in male mice, I found an absence of vasoreactivity variation between day and night as well as no difference in vascular function between control and experimental groups. Similarly, acute corticosterone did not cause any changes in vascular reactivity in female mice. This suggests that in contrast to male mice GC do not play a major role in the circadian variation of renal artery function in female mice. These data build a strong base for further unraveling of the mechanisms of the nondipping BP and their sex dependent differences.
Statistical Power Law due to Reservoir Fluctuations and the Universal Thermostat Independence Principle
Creators: name: Biro, Tamas Sandor
name: Van, Peter
name: Barnafoldi, Gergely Gabor
name: Urmossy, Karoly
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Certain fluctuations in particle number at fixed total energy lead exactly to a cut-power law distribution in the one-particle energy, via the induced fluctuations in the phase-space volume ratio. The temperature parameter is expressed automatically by an equipartition relation, while the q-parameter is related to the scaled variance and to the expectation value of the particle number. For the binomial distribution q is smaller, for the negative binomial q is larger than one. These results also represent an approximation for general particle number distributions in the reservoir up to second order in the canonical expansion. For general systems the average phase-space volume ratio expanded to second order delivers a q parameter related to the heat capacity and to the variance of the temperature. However, q differing from one leads to non-additivity of the Boltzmann-Gibbs entropy. We demonstrate that a deformed entropy, K(S), can be constructed and used for demanding additivity. This requirement leads to a second order differential equation for K(S). Finally, the generalized q-entropy formula contains the Tsallis, Renyi and Boltzmann-Gibbs-Shannon expressions as particular cases. For diverging temperature variance we obtain a novel entropy formula.
description: Talk given by T.S.Biro at Sigma Phi 2014, Rhodos, Greece
Loss of Percolation Transition in the Presence of Simple Tracer-Media Interactions
Creators: name: Bonomo, Ofek Lauber
name: Reuveni, Shlomi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Random motion in disordered media is sensitive to the presence of obstacles that prevent atoms, molecules, and other particles from moving freely in space. When obstacles are static, a sharp transition between confined motion and free diffusion occurs at a critical obstacle density: the percolation threshold. To test if this conventional wisdom continues to hold in the presence of simple tracer-media interactions, we introduce the Sokoban random walk. Akin to the protagonist of an eponymous video game, the Sokoban has some ability to push away obstacles that block its path. While one expects this will allow the Sokoban to venture further away, we surprisingly find that this is not always the case. Indeed, as it moves $\unicode{x2013}$ pushing obstacles around $\unicode{x2013}$ the Sokoban always confines itself to a finite region whose mean size is uniquely determined by the initial obstacle density. Consequently, the percolation transition is lost. This finding breaks from the ruling "ant in a labyrinth" paradigm, vividly illustrating that even weak and localized tracer-media interactions cannot be neglected when coming to understand transport phenomena.
title: Deciphering landscape dynamics across the Sub-Himalayan ranges
Creators: name: Wahyudi, Donny R.
Publisher: name: The University of Edinburgh
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Himalayan frontal range
subject: topographic analysis
subject: progressive landscape evolution

description: Fluvial channels dissect mountainous areas and control the spacing between ridges and valleys as well as the distribution of relief. These channels develop in response to external forcing that applies to the landscape. Fluvial are often used as tools for landscape dynamics investigation. A frequently used analysis is channel profile analysis. Before the availability of digital topographic data, the process of channel profile analyses was done through the calculation and measurement of contour maps. As the availability and quality of topographic data have improved over the last decades, the ability to process topographic analyses has also improved. The bulk of the crustal shortening across the Himalayas is accommodated across the Main Frontal Thrust (MFT), forming the topographic ridges of the Siwalik Hills. Here, I quantify topographic metrics to document the geomorphic response to progressive shortening. I use the integral method of channel profile analysis to assess the topographic response to the development of thrust anticline ridges in the eastern and western Churia, Dundwa, and Mohand Ranges. River channel steepness (ksn), the distribution of knickpoints, and channel concavity (θ) in the Siwalik Hills indicate geomorphic evolution during ongoing shortening across the deformation front. Mean channel steepness indices increase with increasing shortening over the Quaternary amongst the eastern Churia (~3.8 km shortening), Mohand (~6.9 km shortening), and Dundwa Ranges (~9 km shortening). Higher channel steepness at the western tip of the Churia Range (~0.4 km shortening) than in the eastern Churia and Mohand Ranges may indicate that the topography is still responding to the initial stages of shortening and relative uplift. Balanced cross sections reveal that there is spatial variability in the growth of these ranges, and as shortening increases, the drainage divide migrates southward (away from the mountains) relative to the flat-ramp transition of the underlying thrust; this results in steepening of the southward-draining catchments (basinward facing), and elongation of the northward-flowing catchments. Basinward facing channels also have more prominent knickpoints and greater channel concavities caused by ongoing shortening between their fluvial base level and the drainage divide; this contrasts with the mountain facing channels where there is net growth of the distance between the drainage divide and the base level. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)-based channel roughness analysis supports the interpretation since there is no correlation between channel roughness and channel concavities in this case. Despite the asymmetry of erosional processes, the southward displacement of the drainage divide over the underlying thrust ramp drives topographic advection into the foreland succession which eventually leads to the propagation of new thrust-cored ridges.
title: Investigating the interactions between pathobionts, commensals and host cells of the respiratory tract in vitro
Creators: name: Koppensteiner, Lilian
Publisher: name: The University of Edinburgh
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: respiratory microbiome

description: Members of the respiratory microbiome play a key role in respiratory health. Commensal bacteria of the respiratory tract have host-protective effects such as colonisation resistance towards pathogens, influencing the local immune response and promoting epithelial barrier function. Research has shown that microbiome community profiles rich in the common nasopharyngeal commensal colonisers Corynebacterium and Dolosigranulum are negatively associated with respiratory tract infection and the presence of the pathobionts Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae, making them keystone species in respiratory health. To investigate the underlying mechanisms of these correlations, we used in vitro models to explore interbacterial and host-microbe interactions. Our data show that multiple strains of Corynebacterium pseudodiphteriticum and Corynebacterium propinquum inhibit the growth of Streptococcus pneumoniae 6B, and for one strain this effect is augmented by the presence of Dolosigranulum pigrum. Furthermore, our data indicate a delay in epithelial translocation of pathobionts when co-cultured with these commensals. Finally, we identified several local immune-modulatory properties of the commensals, with amongst others a modulation of TNFα release by peripheral blood mononuclear cells stimulated with S. pneumoniae or H. influenzae in the presence of commensals and an increased production of the immune-regulatory cytokine IL10 by the commensals. These results suggest complex mechanisms underlying host-pathogen-commensals interactions in the respiratory microbiome.
Preservation Brief 39, Holding the Line: Controlling Unwanted Moisture in Historic Buildings
Creators: name: Park, Sharon C.
Publisher: name: Technical Preservation Services, National Park Service
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Historic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/25/historic
subject: Conservation
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/1819/conservation
subject: Architectural Documentation
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/16/architectural-documentation
subject: Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/6/methodology-theory-or-synthesis
subject: Heritage Management
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/24/heritage-management
subject: Site Stabilization
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/11/site-stabilization

description: This is number thirty-nine of 42 preservation briefs prepared by the Technical Preservation Services of the National Park Service. This brief focuses on controlling unwanted moisture in historic buildings. Uncontrolled moisture is the most prevalent cause of deterioration in older and historic buildings. It leads to erosion, corrosion, rot, and ultimately the destruction of materials, finishes, and eventually structural components. Ever-present in our environment, moisture can be controlled to provide the differing levels of moisture necessary for human comfort as well as the longevity of historic building materials, furnishings, and museum collections. The challenge to building owners and preservation professionals alike is to understand the patterns of moisture movement in order to better manage it-not to try to eliminate it. There is never a single answer to a moisture problem. Diagnosis and treatment will always differ depending on where the building is located, climatic and soil conditions, ground water effects, and local traditions in building construction.
Inklings: An Auto-Bibliography of Creative Writing Practice, Pedagogy, and Research in Post-Secondary Education
Creators: Martin, Lisa
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2022

My dissertation, Inklings: An Auto-bibliography of Creative Writing Practice, Pedagogy, and Research in Post-Secondary Education, considers the distinctive contributions Creative Writing makes to contemporary post-secondary humanities education. My research looks at disciplinary Creative Writing in its three key aspects—artistic practice, pedagogical practice, and practice-led research. I argue that the centrality of practice in Creative Writing amounts to a defining commitment to practice which in turn opens space for local, concrete, and embodied thinking within post-secondary education, thereby contributing to greater inclusivity in post-secondary education. Following Margaret Mackey’s “auto-bibliographic” method—combining narrative autobiography with narrative bibliography—my dissertation contributes to the emerging field of Creative Writing Studies, while attempting to intervene in the early definition of that field.

This dissertation draws on my own artistic practice as a poet and essayist as well as more than a decade of pedagogical practice in Creative Writing to suggest a critical reframing of Creative Writing research as both practice-led and scholarly study. I disarticulate the discipline of Creative Writing as such from the emerging field of Creative Writing Studies (and from the category of Research-Creation) to foreground Creative Writing’s specific contributions to thinking and learning in post-secondary humanities education. Braiding together disciplinary history, reflections on pedagogy, and scholarly research in adjacent fields such as creativity studies and educational psychology, I connect Creative Writing’s central commitment to artistic practice and local, concrete, embodied thinking to the development of learner-centred pedagogies that, I argue, have implications for reimagining post-secondary education in more equitable, diverse, and inclusive directions.
jacobi: Error propagation made easy
Creators: name: Dembinski, Hans Peter
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: In HEP, we often use Monte-Carlo simulation or bootstrapping to propagate errors in more complicated scenarios. However, standard error propagation could be done in most cases, if it was easy to compute the derivatives of the mapping function. Jacobi is a new library which offers a very powerful, fast, easy-to-use, and robust numerical derivative calculator. In contrast to libraries which do error propagation with with automatic differentiation, like the popular uncertainties library, Jacobi can compute derivatives for any analytical function, even if the function is opaque and calls into non-Python code. Jacobi is also completely non-intrusive, since it does not require one to replace the number and array types in the analysis with special number or array objects. In the talk, I show how to perform simple and more advanced error propagation with Jacobi.
OAHP Inventory, Building 5901 and Building 5902, Camp Bullis, Texas
Creators: name: Walter, Chelsea
Publisher: name: Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation
Year: 1978
Subjects: subject: Fort Sam Houston
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/83681/fort-sam-houston
subject: San Antonio
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/4149/san-antonio
subject: Bexar (County)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/4150/bexar-county
subject: Camp Bullis
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/82533/camp-bullis
subject: Texas
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/6923/texas
subject: Historic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/25/historic
subject: Governmental Structure
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/318/governmental-structure
subject: Historic Governmental Structure
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/320/historic-governmental-structure
subject: Non-Domestic Structures
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/309/non-domestic-structures
subject: Lavatory
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/158259/lavatory
subject: OAHP
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/138292/oahp
subject: Building 5901
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/146692/building-5901
subject: Building 5902
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/146693/building-5902
subject: Medical Administration Building
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/159001/medical-administration-building
subject: Architectural Documentation
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/16/architectural-documentation
subject: Architectural Survey
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/2/architectural-survey
subject: Heritage Management
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/24/heritage-management

description: An inventory form by the Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation for Building 5901 and Building 5902 at Camp Bullis, Texas. The structures were due in 1930 as a detached lavatory building and medical administration building.
Effective potential energy for relativistic particles in the field of inclined rotating magnetized sphere
Creators: name: Epp, V.
name: Masterova, M. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dynamics of a charged relativistic particle in electromagnetic field of a rotating magnetized celestial body with the magnetic axis inclined to the axis of rotation is studied. The covariant Lagrangian function in the rotating reference frame is found. Effective potential energy is defined on the base of the first integral of motion. The structure of the equipotential surfaces for a relativistic charged particle is studied and depicted for different values of the dipole moment. It is shown that there are trapping regions for the particles of definite energies.
description: 20 pages, 18 figures
Dark Hex: A Large Scale Imperfect Information Game
Creators: Tapkan, Mustafa B
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2022

Imperfect information games model many large-scale real-world problems. Hex is the classic two-player zero-sum no-draw connection game where each player wants to join their two sides. Dark Hex is an imperfect information version of Hex in which each player sees only their own moves. Finding Nash equilibrium for Dark Hex problems is computationally challenging, as the number of possible strategies for each player is large: for example, for the 4$\times$3 board, the number of pure strategies is around $10^{113}$.  In this work, we use a variety of methods to find improved strategies for 4$\times$3 Dark Hex. To start, we discuss different versions of Dark Hex. After that we introduce a strategy for both players that improve the current results of the $\epsilon$-Nash equilibrium of Dark Hex on the 4$\times$3 board; previously it was known that the first player can win with a probability of $0.112$ and the second player with $0.732$ giving $\epsilon=0.156$. We first improve these bounds with new handcrafted strategies to $0.1428$ and $0.75$ respectively in the abstract game, $\epsilon=0.107$. We then further improve the strategies using a player, trained by Monte Carlo Counterfactual Regret Minimization using probability one pruning and \textit{imperfect recall} abstraction. We introduce a new simplification approach where we limit the actions based on their probabilities, the new strategies

introduced using simplification over the MCCFR strategies give us an improved $\epsilon=0.01$ in the abstract game.

We then introduce probability smoothing with extra parameters. The final results give use $0.791$ and $0.205$ for players respectively, giving us $\epsilon=0.002$, in the abstract game. We discuss the differences between handcrafted and computer-generated strategies.

Lastly, we compare players who were trained using Neural Fictitious Self-Play and Monte Carlo Counterfactual Regret Minimization in different abstraction and pruning settings, we fashion a round-robin tournament and report the results; comparing the strength of all the trained players.
A luminous fast radio burst that probes the Universe at redshift 1
Creators: name: Ryder, Stuart D.
name: Bannister, Keith W.
name: Bhandari, S.
name: Deller, A. T.
name: Ekers, R. D.
name: Glowacki, Marcin
name: Gordon, Alexa C.
name: Gourdji, Kelly
name: James, C. W.
name: Kilpatrick, Charles D.
name: Lu, Wenbin
name: Marnoch, Lachlan
name: Moss, V. A.
name: Prochaska, J. Xavier
name: Qiu, Hao
name: Sadler, Elaine M.
name: Simha, Sunil
name: Sammons, Mawson W.
name: Scott, Danica R.
name: Tejos, Nicolas
name: Shannon, R. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration pulses of radio emission originating from extragalactic distances. Radio dispersion on each burst is imparted by intervening plasma mostly located in the intergalactic medium. We observe a burst, FRB 20220610A, in a morphologically complex host galaxy system at redshift $z=1.016 \pm 0.002$. The burst redshift and dispersion are consistent with passage through a substantial column of material from the intergalactic medium. The burst shows evidence for passage through additional turbulent magnetized plasma, potentially associated with the host galaxy. We use the burst energy of $2 \times 10^{42}$ erg, to revise the maximum energy of an FRB.
description: 52 pages
A Framework for Lattice QCD Calculations on GPUs
Creators: name: Winter, F. T.
name: Clark, M. A.
name: Edwards, R. G.
name: Joó, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Mathematical Software (cs.MS)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Computing platforms equipped with accelerators like GPUs have proven to provide great computational power. However, exploiting such platforms for existing scientific applications is not a trivial task. Current GPU programming frameworks such as CUDA C/C++ require low-level programming from the developer in order to achieve high performance code. As a result porting of applications to GPUs is typically limited to time-dominant algorithms and routines, leaving the remainder not accelerated which can open a serious Amdahl's law issue. The lattice QCD application Chroma allows to explore a different porting strategy. The layered structure of the software architecture logically separates the data-parallel from the application layer. The QCD Data-Parallel software layer provides data types and expressions with stencil-like operations suitable for lattice field theory and Chroma implements algorithms in terms of this high-level interface. Thus by porting the low-level layer one can effectively move the whole application in one swing to a different platform. The QDP-JIT/PTX library, the reimplementation of the low-level layer, provides a framework for lattice QCD calculations for the CUDA architecture. The complete software interface is supported and thus applications can be run unaltered on GPU-based parallel computers. This reimplementation was possible due to the availability of a JIT compiler (part of the NVIDIA Linux kernel driver) which translates an assembly-like language (PTX) to GPU code. The expression template technique is used to build PTX code generators and a software cache manages the GPU memory. This reimplementation allows us to deploy an efficient implementation of the full gauge-generation program with dynamical fermions on large-scale GPU-based machines such as Titan and Blue Waters which accelerates the algorithm by more than an order of magnitude.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures, as published in the proceedings of IPDPS '14
Response from Stan Graves to Richard Strimel, Family Housing Improvements Infantry Post Area, Buildings 630, 632, 634, 636, 638, 640, and 642, Fort Sam Houston, Texas
Creators: name: Graves, Stanley O.
Publisher: name: Texas Historical Commission
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: JBSA-Sam Houston
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/82532/jbsa-sam-houston
subject: San Antonio
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/4149/san-antonio
subject: Bexar (County)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/4150/bexar-county
subject: Texas
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/6923/texas
subject: Historic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/25/historic
subject: Governmental Structure
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/318/governmental-structure
subject: Domestic Structures
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/256/domestic-structures
subject: Historic Governmental Structure
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/320/historic-governmental-structure
subject: Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/251/domestic-structure-or-architectural-complex
subject: Building 636
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/156767/building-636
subject: Building 642
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/146429/building-642
subject: Building 630
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/146424/building-630
subject: Building 638
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/146427/building-638
subject: Infantry Post
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/154363/infantry-post
subject: Building 640
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/146428/building-640
subject: Building 632
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/146425/building-632
subject: Family Housing
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/153385/family-housing
subject: Building 634
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/146426/building-634
subject: Architectural Documentation
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/16/architectural-documentation
subject: Heritage Management
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/24/heritage-management

description: Fort Sam Houston submitted plans and specifications to the Texas Historical Commission for the 35% design review of modifications proposed for the family housing in the Infantry Post area. The structures included in the project are buildings 630, 632, 634, 636, 638, 640, and 642. This letter is the Commission's response to the 35% design review and details the recommendations and modifications they would like to impose on the project.
Response from Scott Shepherd to James Cipollone, Generators Louvers Building 497, Randolph Air Force Base, Texas
Creators: name: Shepherd, Scott B.
Publisher: name: Department of the Air Force, Air Education and Training Command
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Randolph Field Historic Landmark District
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/83364/randolph-field-historic-landmark-district
subject: San Antonio
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/4149/san-antonio
subject: Texas
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/6923/texas
subject: Randolph Air Force Base
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/78971/randolph-air-force-base
subject: Historic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/25/historic
subject: Governmental Structure
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/318/governmental-structure
subject: Historic Governmental Structure
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/320/historic-governmental-structure
subject: Building 497
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/158611/building-497
subject: Architectural Documentation
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/16/architectural-documentation
subject: Heritage Management
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/24/heritage-management

description: Randolph Air Force Base conducted an evaluation on Building 497 and determined that the property is not listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was also determined that the proposed project concerning the generators louvers will have no adverse effect on the surrounding historic property and district.
GWSim: Python package for creating mock GW samples for different astrophysical populations and cosmological models of binary black holes
Creators: name: Karathanasis, Christos
name: Revenu, Benoit
name: Mukherjee, Suvodip
name: Stachurski, Federico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Precision cosmology with gravitational wave (GW) sources requires a deeper understanding of the interplay between GW source population and cosmological parameters governing the dynamics of the Universe. With the swift increase in GW detections, it is necessary to develop a tool for exploring many aspects of cosmology and fundamental physics; this tools allows to simulate GW mock samples for several populations and cosmological models. We have developed a new code called GWSim, which allows us to make a large sample of GW mock events from a broad range of configurations, while varying the cosmology, the merger rate, and the GW source parameters (i.e. mass and spin distributions in particular) for a given network of GW detectors. A large sample of simulated mock GW events will be useful for improving our understanding of the statistical properties of the distribution of GW sources, as long as it is detectable for a given detector noise and an astrophysical and cosmological model. It will also be useful to compare simulated samples with the observed distribution of the GW sources from data and infer the underlying population of the GW source parameters and cosmology. We restricted the cosmology to spatially flat universes, including models with varying dark energy equation of state. The GWSim code provides each mock event with a position in the sky and a redshift; these values can be those of random host galaxies coming from an isotropic and homogeneous simulated Universe or a user-supplied galaxy catalog. We used realistic detector configurations of the LIGO and Virgo network of detectors to demonstrate the performance of this code for the latest observation runs and the upcoming observation run.
description: 18 pages, 13 figures, published in A&A. Figure 5 has been corrected with respect to the previous arxiv version
(:unas) unassigned
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universita' degli Studi di Salerno
Year: 2024

description: Il discorso critico è strettamente costruito a parte Dantis, su cui si concentrano per la maggior parte i rinvii alle fonti e i riferimenti bibliografici. Vi si affrontano i rapporti con la Commedia di Eliot e di Montale, poeti tra i più rappresentativi della Modernità. Pur nella diversità dei rispettivi conte sti storici e culturali, non dissimili sono le loro ri flessioni sulla funzione e la continua trasforma zione del linguaggio poetico, che interagisce con il comune interesse per la capacità di Dante di tra sferire le vicende personali nella dimensione sto rica e metafisica. Se, per Eliot, il “correlativo og gettivo” è la chiave per interpretare l’allegoria come oggettivazione poetica della struttura dot trinaria del poema e individuare la poeticità in trinseca del procedimento allegorico, allo stesso modo per Montale Dante crea sensibilmente gli oggetti nominandoli ed esprimendo con sintesi fulminee il “massimo” di oggettivismo e razionali smo poetico. Essendo, inoltre, poeta “concentrico”, si rivela estraneo al tempo presente, a una realtà in espansione e progressivamente allontanatasi dal centro, a una civiltà “soggettivistica” con fre quenti spinte irrazionali; e, tuttavia, quanto più il suo mondo si allontana dal mondo attuale, tanto più cresce la volontà dei Moderni di conoscerlo.
description: The critical discourse is strictly constructed a parte Dantis, on which the references to sources and bibliographical references mostly focus. The relationships of Eliot and Montale, among the most representative poets of Modernity, with Commedia are addressed. Despite the diversity of their respective historical and cultural contexts, their reflections on the function and continuous transformation of poetic language are not dissim ilar, which interacts with the common interest in Dante’s ability to transfer personal events into the historical and metaphysical dimension. If, for El iot, the “objective correlative” is the key to inter preting allegory as a poetic objectification of the doctrinal structure of the poem and identifying the intrinsic poeticity of the allegorical procedure, in the same way for Montale Dante sensitively cre ates objects by naming them and expressing them with synthesis the “maximum” of objectivism and poetic rationalism was lightning fast. Further more, being a “concentric” poet, he reveals himself to be alien to the present time, to a reality that is expanding and progressively moving away from the center to a “subjectivist” civilization with fre quent irrational impulses; and, however, the more his world distances itself from the current world, the more the desire of the Moderns to know it grows.
A Novel Dynamic Model to Estimate the Reactivity Ratios of Ethylene/1-Olefin Copolymers
Creators: Obaidoon, Salman
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2022

Polyolefins are the largest class of commodity polymers. Polyethylene and polypropylene are the most common commercial types of these polymers. The former accounts for nearly one-third of the world polymer market and it is predicted that its demand will keep growing in the foreseeable future. Commercial polyethylene resins are produced as homopolymers or copolymers of ethylene with α-olefins.

Polymerization kinetic models are needed to predict the microstructures and properties of polyolefins. These models contain unknown parameters whose values are sometimes difficult to estimate; reactivity ratios are among them. A method that is widely used to estimate reactivity ratios is to perform low-conversion copolymerizations at several initial monomer feed compositions. Reactivity ratio estimates are obtained by fitting the copolymer composition data made at several comonomer ratios to a suitable form of the copolymer composition equation (the Mayo-Lewis equation) through linear or non-linear regression. Sometimes, significant composition drift occurs during the polymerizations, requiring an alternative approach using dynamic modeling and optimization.

In this thesis, the microstructural characteristics, including reactivity ratios, of ethylene/1-hexene and ethylene/1-octene copolymers made with constrained geometry catalysts (CGC) were investigated in a semi-batch reactor. The catalyst was activated with modified methylaluminoxane (MMAO) or with dimetylanilinium tetrakis (pentafluorophenyl) borate. The investigation was based on the effect of comonomer concentration and polymerization time on the copolymer properties.

To estimate the reactivity ratios of these copolymers, a dynamic mathematical model was developed, combining the Mayo-Lewis equation and phase equilibrium calculations. The method can be applied to two cases: 1) only one polymerization is done and samples are taken from the reactor at different polymerization times, or 2) a set of polymerization runs are done with the same feed composition and operation conditions, but at different polymerization times. The model generates ordinary differential equations for each polymerization mode. The simultaneous numerical solution of the differential equations for all polymerization runs provides reliable estimates of the reactivity ratios. It also predicts the molar fractions of comonomer in the reactor as a function of time for all polymerizations using the estimated values.
Spatially resolved kinematics, galactic wind, and quenching of star formation in the luminous infrared galaxy IRAS F11506-3851
Creators: name: Cazzoli, S.
name: Arribas, S.
name: Colina, L.
name: Piqueras-Lopez, J.
name: Bellocchi, E.
name: Emonts, B.
name: Maiolino, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a multi-wavelength integral field spectroscopic study of the low-z LIRG IRAS F11506-3851, on the basis of VIMOS and SINFONI (ESO-VLT) observations. The morphology and the 2D kinematics of the gaseous (neutral and ionized) and stellar components have been mapped using the NaD doublet, the H$α$ line, and the near-IR CO(2-0) and CO(3-1) bands. The kinematics of the ionized gas and the stars are dominated by rotation, with large observed velocity amplitudes and centrally peaked velocity dispersion maps. The stars lag behind the warm gas and represent a dynamically hotter system, as indicated by the observed dynamical ratios. Thanks to these IFS data we have disentangled the contribution of the stars and the ISM to the NaD feature, finding that it is dominated by the absorption of neutral gas clouds in the ISM. The neutral gas 2D kinematics shows a complex structure dominated by two components. On the one hand, the thick slowly rotating disk lags significantly compared to the ionized gas and the stars, with an irregular and off-center velocity dispersion map. On the other hand, a kpc-scale neutral gas outflow is observed along the semi-minor axis of the galaxy, as revealed by large blueshifted velocities (30-154 km/s). We derive an outflowing mass rate in neutral gas of about 48 $\dot{M_{\rm w}}$/yr. Although this implies a global mass loading factor of 1.4, the 2D distribution of the ongoing SF suggests a much larger value of mass loading factor associated with the inner regions (R$
Temperature-dependent splicing of beta-globin pre-mRNA
Creators: name: Gemignani, F.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2002

description: A T→G mutation at nucleotide 705 of human β-globin intron 2 creates an aberrant 5′ splice site and activates a cryptic 3′ splice site upstream. In consequence, the pre-mRNA is spliced via aberrant splice sites, despite the presence of the still functional correct sites. Surprisingly, when IVS2-705 HeLa or K562 cells were cultured at temperatures below 30°C, aberrant splicing was inhibited and correct splicing was restored. Similar temperature effects were seen for another β-globin pre-mRNA, IVS2-745, and in a construct in which a β-globin intron was inserted into a coding sequence of EGFP. Temperature-induced alternative splicing was affected by the nature of the internal aberrant splice sites flanking the correct sites and by exonic sequences. The results indicate that in the context of thalassemic splicing mutations and possibly in other alternatively spliced pre-mRNAs, temperature is one of the parameters that affect splice site selection.
CCU TEA and LCA Guidance 2023 – A Harmonized Approach
Creators: name: McCord, Stephen
name: Ahmed, Alauddin
name: Cooney, Gregory
name: Dominguez-Faus, Rosa
name: Galindo, Rosana
name: Krynock, Michelle
name: Leitch, Michael
name: Strunge, Till
name: Tan, Eric
name: Sick, Volker
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Carbon capture and utilization
subject: CCU
subject: Life Cycle Assessment
subject: LCA
subject: Techno-economic Assessment
subject: TEA
subject: Mechanical Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering
subject: Engineering

description: The Global CO2 Initiative hosted the 2023 TEA/LCA Workshop on Harmonizing CCU Assessments on May 16-18. This fifth workshop in the series was planned and conducted by the International CCU Assessment Harmonization Group with members from the USA (GCI at U-M, NETL, NREL, ANL), Canada (NRC), Germany (RIFS, formerly known as IASS), Switzerland (ETH Zürich), and Japan (NIAIST). This team works to advance transparent and uniform assessments of CCU technologies and products. These workshops have traditionally engaged a broad audience in breakout sessions to debate, resolve, and define key issues with assessments in CCU. Note that occasionally, it makes sense to include border aspects and include assessments of CO2 sequestration into the discussions. Hence, in some sections, the mention of CCUS is included. The focus topics for 2023 had been selected to address social aspects and standardization. 51 on-site and up to 265 remote attendees spent one-and a-half days in lively discussions. This report presents a summary of the breakout session discussions, key status descriptions, and open issues. We will take this as a starting point for a year of continued collaboration to advance LCA & TEA for CCU and for planning our next annual gathering on May 22 & 23, 2024 in Ann Arbor. We welcome suggestions and questions that can be submitted to info@globalco2initiative.org