cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
An isolated, compact early-type galaxy with a diffuse stellar component: merger origin?
Creators: name: Paudel, Sanjaya
name: Lisker, Thorsten
name: Hansson, K. S. A.
name: Huxor, Avon P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The relation between the size and luminosity for both bright and faint early-type galaxies has been repeatedly discussed as a crucial proxy for understanding evolutionary scenarios, as galaxies grow and lose their stellar mass in different physical processes. The class of compact early-type galaxies (cEs) are, however, distinct outliers from this relation and mainly found around massive galaxies in the centres of groups and clusters. The recent discovery of a cE in isolation provided a new opportunity to understand their formation scenario in a different environment. Here, we report the discovery of an isolated cE, CGCG 036-042, using imagery from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). The CGCG 036-042 has an $r$-band absolute magnitude (M$_{r}$) of $-$18.21 mag and a half-light radius (R$_{e}$) of 559 pc. Interestingly, it possesses a faint outer stellar component, which extends up to 10 kpc from its centre and has a nearly constant $r$-band surface brightness of $\sim$26 mag/arcsec$^{2}$. ESO-VLT long-slit spectroscopic data reveal that the simple stellar population (SSP) properties are fairly similar to those of previously identified cEs, with an intermediate-age of 7.15$\pm$1.17 Gyr, a metallicity of --0.18$\pm$0.07 dex and a supersolar alpha-element abundance of 0.2$\pm$0.05 dex. The SSP metallicity also shows a significant decline outward from the center, by 0.5 dex over one half light radius. We discuss the possible origin of this galaxy and suggest that it might have originated from a merger of even smaller objects -- a well established scenario for the formation of massive early-type galaxies.
description: 8 pages, Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Opportunities for Increasing HPV Vaccine Provision in School Health Centers
Creators: name: Moss, Jennifer L.
name: Gilkey, Melissa B.
name: Feld, Ashley L.
name: Entzel, Pamela
name: Brewer, Noel T.
name: O'Malley, Brittany
name: Smith, Jennifer S.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Uptake of HPV vaccine remains low among adolescents in the United States. We sought to assess barriers to HPV vaccine provision in school health centers to inform subsequent interventions.
Null infinity and extremal horizons in AdS-CFT
Creators: name: Hickling, Andrew
name: Lucietti, James
name: Wiseman, Toby
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider AdS gravity duals to CFT on background spacetimes with a null infinity. Null infinity on the conformal boundary may extend to an extremal horizon in the bulk. For example it does so for Poincare-AdS, although does not for planar Schwarzschild-AdS. If null infinity does extend into an extremal horizon in the bulk, we show that the bulk near-horizon geometry is determined by the geometry of the boundary null infinity. Hence the `infra-red' geometry of the bulk is fixed by the large scale behaviour of the CFT spacetime. In addition the boundary stress tensor must have a particular decay at null infinity. As an application, we argue that for CFT on asymptotically flat backgrounds, any static bulk dual containing an extremal horizon extending from the boundary null infinity, must have the near-horizon geometry of Poincare-AdS. We also discuss a class of boundary null infinity that cannot extend to a bulk extremal horizon, although we give evidence that they can extend to an analogous null surface in the bulk which possesses an associated scale-invariant `near-geometry'.
description: 35 pages
On the optimality of optical pumping for a closed $Λ$-system with large decay rates of the intermediate excited state
Creators: name: Stefanatos, Dionisis
name: Paspalakis, Emmanuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use optimal control theory to show that for a closed $Λ$-system where the excited intermediate level decays to the lower levels with a common large rate, the optimal scheme for population transfer between the lower levels is actually optical pumping. In order to obtain this result we exploit the large decay rate to eliminate adiabatically the weakly coupled excited state, then perform a transformation to the basis comprised of the dark and bright states, and finally apply optimal control to this transformed system. Subsequently, we confirm the optimality of the optical pumping scheme for the original closed $Λ$-system using numerical optimal control. We also demonstrate numerically that optical pumping remains optimal when the decay rate to the target state is larger than that to the initial state or the two rates are not very different from each other. The present work is expected to find application in various tasks of quantum information processing, where such systems are encountered.
O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night on the Romanian Stage: Valorizing the performance potential in production history
Creators: name: Bulz, Adriana Carolina
Publisher: name: Roma : Carocci
Year: 2013
Subjects: O’Neill
Performance
Romania

description: This paper deals with the continuing dialogue between dramatic text and audience, while resorting to the tenets of reception theory. I have focused on the moral issues resulting from the unfolding of dramatic action in Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night and analyzed the ideological implications of performance in the course of this play’s stage history in Romania.
In Education We Trust
Creators: name: Rayudu, Posina Venkata
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Pedagogy
subject: Education
subject: Science
subject: Category theory
subject: Conceptual mathematics

description: Beginning with an examination of the deep history of making things and thinking about making things made up in our minds, I argue that the resultant declarative understanding of the procedural knowledge of abstracting theories and building models—the essence(s) of the practice of science—embodied in Conceptual Mathematics is worth learning: beginning with high school, along with grammar and calculus. One of the many profound scientific insights introduced—in a manner accessible to total beginners—in Lawvere and Schanuel's Conceptual Mathematics textbook is: the way we ought to think about things varies with the nature of things. In light of the universal yearning for understanding, it may be pedagogically unethical not to teach the eminently learnable Conceptual Mathematics. Summing it all, we need to champion the cause of taking Conceptual Mathematics to classrooms.
description: Champion the cause of taking Conceptual Mathematics to classrooms.
Evolution of covalent networks under cooling: contrasting the rigidity window and jamming scenarios
Creators: name: Yan, Le
name: Wyart, Matthieu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the evolution of structural disorder under cooling in supercooled liquids, focusing on covalent networks. We introduce a model for the energy of networks that incorporates weak non-covalent interactions. We show that at low-temperature, these interactions considerably affect the network topology near the rigidity transition that occurs as the coordination increases. As a result, this transition becomes mean-field and does not present a line of critical points previously argued for, the "rigidity window". Vibrational modes are then not fractons, but instead are similar to the anomalous modes observed in packings of particles near jamming. These results suggest an alternative interpretation for the intermediate phase observed in chalcogenides.
description: 5+2 pages, 5+3 figures
Overt and relational aggression and victimization: Multiple perspectives within the school setting
Creators: name: Kupersmidt, Janis B.
name: Dearing, Karen
name: Coie, John D.
name: Foster, Kristen J.
name: Putallaz, Martha
name: Grimes, Christina L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: The current study involved a comprehensive comparative examination of overt and relational aggression and victimization across multiple perspectives in the school setting (peers, teachers, observers in the lunchroom, self-report). Patterns of results involving sociometic status, ethnicity and gender were explored among 4th graders, with particular emphasis on girls. Controversial and rejected children were perceived as higher on both forms of aggression than other status groups, but only rejected children were reported as victims. Both European American and African American girls showed a greater tendency toward relational aggression and victimization than overt aggression or victimization. Results indicated negative outcomes associated with both relational and overt victimization and especially overt aggression for the target girl sample. Poorer adjustment and a socially unskillful behavioral profile were found to be associated with these three behaviors. However, relational aggression did not evidence a similar negative relation to adjustment nor was it related to many of the behaviors examined in the current study. Implications of these results are discussed.
Defining Service Coordination: A Social Work Perspective
Creators: name: Bunger, Alicia C.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: To address fragmentation, social workers are encouraged to “coordinate.” This pilot study explores the meaning of, and factors that facilitate or prevent “coordination” and is intended as a first step toward future conceptual refinement, theory development, and system interventions. Using data from treatment guidelines archived by the National Guideline Clearinghouse (n=9) and semi-structured interviews with social workers (n=4), themes related to the definition, indicators, and perceptions of coordination were explored using a grounded theory approach. Data suggest the need for coordination is driven by complex client needs, but the quality of providers’ personal relationships influence coordination. Future research might examine the impact of standardization of roles, referral procedures, and treatment philosophies.
title: Army Permit No. SAJ-2014-2685 - (201402685) - Sergey Novov - Dock Project
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: Endangered Species Act - Section 7 Consultation Biological Opinion Proposed USACE issuance of 3 regulatory permits in Miami-Dade County, Florida (SAJ-1992-30169, SAJ-2014-02685, and SAJ-2016-00243)
Creators: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. Southeast Region
Publisher: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. Southeast Region
Year: 2016

description: SERO-2015-00023
Aminosilane as an effective binder for hydroxyapatite-gelatin nanocomposites
Creators: name: Ko, Ching-Chang
name: Chiu, Chi-Kai
name: Luo, Tzy-Jiun M.
name: Llyod, Jacob
name: Huh, Uk
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Aminosilane has been explored as an alternative chemical linker to facilitate the binding and solidification of hydroxyapatite-gelatin nanocomposite at room temperature, which was synthesized using co-precipitation method in the presence of gelatin. This aminosilane treatment was found effective at low concentration (~25 μL/mL) and the solidification and dehydration of hydroxyapatite-gelatin slurry completes within hours depending on the amount of aminosilane. The resulting sample exhibits compressive strength of 133 MPa, about 40% higher than glutaraldehyde treated samples, and shows good biocompatibility based on cell adhesion, proliferation, alkaline phosphate synthesis, and mineralization studies.
Measurement of ${\cal B}r(H \to Zγ)$ at the 250 GeV ILC
Creators: name: Antonov, E.
name: Drutskoy, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The $e^+e^- \to HZ$ process with the subsequent decay of the Higgs boson $H \to Zγ$ is studied, where both $Z$ bosons are reconstructed in the final states with two jets. The analysis is performed using Monte Carlo data samples obtained with detailed ILD (The International Large Detector) detector simulation assuming an integrated luminosity of 2 ab$^{-1}$, beam polarizations of ${\cal{P}}_{e^-e^+} = (-0.8, +0.3)$, and center-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s}$ = 250 GeV. The analysis is repeated for the case of two 0.9 ab$^{-1}$ data samples with polarizations ${\cal{P}}_{e^-e^+} = (\mp0.8, \pm0.3)$. Contributions of the potential background processes are studied using all available ILD MC event samples. The largest background comes from the $e^+e^- \to W^+W^-$ process supplemented by an energetic photon produced by initial state radiation. To suppress this background we require that at least one of the $Z$ bosons decays to $b$-jets. To reduce the jet reconstruction uncertainties the $M_Δ = M(jjγ) - M(jj) + M(Z_{\rm nom})$ variable is used, where $M(Z_{\rm nom})$ = 91.2 GeV. The $M_Δ$ distributions are obtained for the studied signal and backgrounds to estimate the expected accuracy of the ${\cal B}r(H \to Zγ)$ measurement. The accuracy is 22$\%$ for the option of the single polarization sample described above and deteriorate to 24$\%$ in case of the sample with two polarizations. The proposed method can be applied at any future $e^+e^-$ collider.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2108.08867
An Auxiliary-Field Quantum Monte Carlo Study of the Chromium Dimer
Creators: name: Purwanto, Wirawan
name: Zhang, Shiwei
name: Krakauer, Henry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The chromium dimer (Cr2) presents an outstanding challenge for many-body electronic structure methods. Its complicated nature of binding, with a formal sextuple bond and an unusual potential energy curve, is emblematic of the competing tendencies and delicate balance found in many strongly correlated materials. We present a near-exact calculation of the potential energy curve (PEC) and ground state properties of Cr2, using the auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) method. Unconstrained, exact AFQMC calculations are first carried out for a medium-sized but realistic basis set. Elimination of the remaining finite-basis errors and extrapolation to the complete basis set (CBS) limit is then achieved with a combination of phaseless and exact AFQMC calculations. Final results for the PEC and spectroscopic constants are in excellent agreement with experiment.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Iridium-catalyzed hydroamination of allylic amines from aryl amines
Creators: name: Portillo, David
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2021
Subjects: Hydroamination
Catalysis
Anilines
Allylic amines
Directing group

description: 1,2-Diamines are a common motif found in many pharmaceutical and bioactive molecules. Current methods to access this functionality tend to be wasteful and involve multiple steps. Therefore, developing methods that access this functionality in an atom-economical and fast process are desirable. It is envisioned that hydroamination, the addition of an amine N–H bond across an unsaturated C–C bond, would allow access to this 1,2-diamine functionality using allylic amines as starting material. This is particularly appealing as the transformation occurs with complete atom economy and gives high value-added nitrogen containing products from feedstocks. We report the intermolecular iridium-catalyzed hydroamination of allylic amines from aryl amines to afford 1,2-diamine products in good to excellent yields. Excellent Markovnikov regioselectivity is observed for both primary and secondary allylic amines, with a variety of functional groups tolerated.
Direct Magnitude Estimation of Articulation Rate in Boys With Fragile X Syndrome
Creators: name: Harris, Adrianne A.
name: Zajac, David J.
name: Martin, Gary E.
name: Roberts, Joanne E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: This study a) compared perceived articulation rate of boys with fragile X syndrome (FXS) to chronologically age-matched boys (CA), and b) determined segmental and/or prosodic factors which account for perceived rate.
Phonological Accuracy and Intelligibility in Connected Speech of Boys With Fragile X Syndrome or Down Syndrome
Creators: name: Long, Steven H.
name: Martin, Gary E.
name: Barnes, Elizabeth
name: Berni, Mary C.
name: Mandulak, Kerry C.
name: Roberts, Joanne
name: Sideris, John
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: We compared the phonological accuracy and speech intelligibility of boys with fragile X syndrome with autism spectrum disorder (FXS-ASD), fragile X syndrome only (FXS-O), Down Syndrome (DS), and typically developing (TD) boys.
Oscillations in the radiative damping of plasma resonances in a gated disk of 2D electron gas
Creators: name: Rodionov, D. A.
name: Zagorodnev, I. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the absorption spectra of a conductive disk in the presence of a metal gate. In our analysis, we use the conductivity described by the Drude model. We examine the frequency and line width of the absorption resonances associated with the excited plasma waves. They are estimated both numerically and analytically for the fundamental and axisymmetric plasma modes. The line width is determined by the collisional and radiative losses. In high mobility samples, the latter may dominate even when the resonant frequencies can be described by a standard quasistatic approximation, i.e., neglecting electromagnetic retardation. Placing a metal near the disk drastically affects the radiative broadening of the line width due to the interference of electromagnetic fields created by the disk and the metal charges. Bringing the disk in close proximity to the gate makes the total field almost vanish. In that case, the line width is defined solely by the collisional broadening. As the disk is moved away from the gate, the line width first shows a reduction since the plasmon transforms into plasmon-polariton, which is dressed with undamped electromagnetic field surrounding the disk. Then it increases and exhibits decaying oscillations, reaching the asymptotic value of the ungated disk.
title: Consultation on issuing 16 Section 10 research permits and 1 for enhancement in OR, WA, ID, and CA
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: National Marine Fisheries Service Endangered Species Act (ESA) Section 7(a)(2) Biological Opinion and Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act Essential Fish Habitat Response Consultation on the Issuance of 16 ESA Section 10(a)(1)(A) Scientific Research Permits in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and California and One 10(a)(1)(A) Enhancement Permit in Idaho affecting Salmon, Steelhead, Eulachon, and Green Sturgeon in the West Coast Region
Creators: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region
Publisher: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region
Year: 2023

description: WCRO-2022-03632
Can molecular clouds live long?
Creators: name: Zasov, A.
name: Kasparova, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is generally accepted that the lifetime of molecular clouds does not exceed $3\cdot 10^7$ yr due to disruption by stellar feedback. We put together some arguments giving evidence that a substantial fraction of molecular clouds (primarily in the outer regions of a disc) may avoid destruction process for at least $10^8$ yr or even longer. A molecular cloud can live long if massive stars are rare or absent. Massive stars capable to destroy a cloud may not form for a long time if a cloud is low massive, or stellar initial mass function is top-light, or if there is a delay of the beginning of active star formation. A long duration of the inactive phase of clouds may be reconciled with the low amount of the observed starless giant molecular clouds if to propose that they were preceded by slowly contraction phase of the magnetized dark gas, non-detected in CO-lines.
description: Submitted to Ap&SS, 9 pages, 1 figure
title: FFP Packer Seawall-4411 NW 35th Terrace
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: Endangered Species Act - Section 7 Consultation Biological Opinion Shoreline Stabilization, Cape Coral, Lee County, Florida Permit Numbers SAJ-2022-00266 (Packer Seawall Lot 1) and SAJ-2022-00267 (Packer Seawall Lot 2)
Creators: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. Southeast Region
Publisher: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. Southeast Region
Year: 2023

description: SERO-2023-00292; SERO-2022-02019
title: Endangered Species Act Section 7(a)(2) Biological Opinion, and Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act Essential Fish Habitat Response for the McCall Oil Maintenance Dredging on the Willamette River (HUC 170900120202), Multnomah County, Oregon (Corps No.:NWP-1993-134-3).
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: Endangered Species Act Section 7(a)(2) Biological Opinion, and Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act Essential Fish Habitat Response for the McCall Oil Maintenance Dredging on the Willamette River (HUC 170900120202), Multnomah County, Oregon (Corps No.:NWP-1993-134-3).
Creators: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region
Publisher: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region
Year: 2020

description: ESA Section 7 Consultation ; WCRO-2019-03305
Statistical system with fantom scalar interaction. II. Macroscopic Equations and Cosmological Models
Creators: name: Ignatyev, Yu. G.
name: Agathonov, A. A.
name: Ignatyev, D. Yu.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on the proposed earlier by the Author approach to macroscopic description of scalar interaction, this paper develops the macroscopic model of relativistic plasma with a fantom scalar interaction of elementary particles. In the article the macroscopic equations for a statistical system with scalar interaction of particles are obtained and the complete set of macroscopic equations describing cosmological models is built.
description: 10 pages, 11 references
Behavioral and Physiological Responses to Child-Directed Speech as Predictors of Communication Outcomes in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders
Creators: name: Perryman, Twyla Y.
name: Roberts, Jane E.
name: David, Fabian J.
name: Baranek, Grace T.
name: Watson, Linda R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: To determine the extent to which behavioral and physiological responses during child-directed speech (CDS) correlate concurrently and predictively with communication skills in young children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD).
Differential Associations Between Sensory Response Patterns and Language, Social, and Communication Measures in Children With Autism or Other Developmental Disabilities
Creators: name: Watson, Linda R.
name: Patten, Elena
name: Lorenzi, Jill
name: Poe, Michele
name: Freuler, Ashley
name: Boyd, Brian A.
name: Baranek, Grace T.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Examine patterns of sensory responsiveness (i.e., hyperresponsiveness, hyporesponsiveness, and sensory seeking) as factors that may account for variability in social-communicative symptoms of autism and variability in language, social, and communication skill development in children with autism or other developmental disabilities.
Cognitive, Environmental, and Linguistic Predictors of Syntax in Fragile X Syndrome and Down Syndrome
Creators: name: Estigarribia, Bruno
name: Martin, Gary E.
name: Roberts, Joanne E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: We examined which cognitive, environmental, and speech/language variables predict expressive syntax in boys with fragile X syndrome (FXS), Down syndrome (DS), and typical development (TD), and whether predictive relationships differed by group.
High-stability lithium metal batteries enabled by a tetrahydrofuran-based electrolyte mixture
Creators: name: Paul-Orecchio, Austin
name: 0000-0001-6967-2153
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2022
Subjects: Lithium
LiF
Anode
SEI
Dendrite
THF

description: There has been significant interest from academic and industrial sectors to use lithium metal anodes in energy storage devices due to their much higher energy density (3860 mAh/g) compared with conventional, graphite-based counterparts. However, the safety and inefficiency concerns arising from lithium dendrite formation on these anodes during operation have prohibited their widespread adoption. This study focuses on reducing the dendritic tendencies on lithium anodes by forming an in situ, LiF-rich surface layer on the lithium metal, designed specifically to facilitate uniform lithium diffusion and nucleation. The LiF-rich solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) is a result of the employment of a low salt concentration electrolyte mixture (1.0 M LiFSI -THFMix). Remarkably, Li||Li symmetric cells with this type of electrolyte show stable cycling over 1700+ hours at a current density of 0.5 mA cm⁻². To understand the influence of electrolyte on the chemical composition of the SEI a combination of time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (ToF-SIMS) and x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) were applied. This work demonstrates a low concentration electrolyte mixture to significantly suppress dendritic growth in lithium metal batteries and identifies the key mechanisms for this beneficial effect.
Quantum Spin Hall Effect and Topological Field Effect Transistor in Two-Dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenides
Creators: name: Qian, Xiaofeng
name: Liu, Junwei
name: Fu, Liang
name: Li, Ju
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a new class of large-gap quantum spin Hall insulators in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides, namely, MX$_2$ with M=(Mo, W) and X=(S, Se, and Te), whose topological electronic properties are highly tunable by external electric field. We propose a novel topological field effect transistor made of these atomic layer materials and their van der Waals heterostructures. Our device exhibits parametrically enhanced charge-spin conductance through topologically protected transport channels, and can be rapidly switched off by electric field through topological phase transition instead of carrier depletion. Our work provides a practical material platform and device architecture for topological quantum electronics.
description: 22 pages, 10 figures, submitted in May 2014
Children's Identification of Consonants in a Speech-Shaped Noise or a Two-Talker Masker
Creators: name: Buss, Emily
name: Leibold, Lori J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: This study evaluated child-adult differences for consonant identification in a noise or a two-talker masker. Error patterns were compared across age and masker type to test the hypothesis that errors with the noise masker reflect limitations in the peripheral encoding of speech, whereas errors with the two-talker masker reflect target-masker confusions within the central auditory system.
title: Consultation on the “Evaluation and Recommended Determination of a Tribal Research and Monitoring Plan Submitted for Consideration Under the Endangered Species Act’s Tribal Plan Limit
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: Endangered Species Act (ESA) Section 7(a)(2) Biological Opinion and Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act Essential Fish Habitat Response Consultation on the “Evaluation and Recommended Determination of a Tribal Research and Monitoring Plan Submitted for Consideration Under the Endangered Species Act’s Tribal Plan Limit [50 CFR 223.204] for the Period September 18, 2019 – December 31, 2023” affecting Southern Oregon/Northern California coastal (SONCC) coho salmon in the West Coast Region
Creators: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region
Publisher: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region
Year: 2019

description: ESA Section 7 Consultation ; WCRO-2019-02320
Factors Affecting the Processing of Intensity in School-Aged Children
Creators: name: Grose, John H.
name: Hall, Joseph W.
name: Buss, Emily
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Thresholds of school-aged children are elevated relative to those of adults for intensity discrimination and amplitude modulation (AM) detection. It is unclear how these findings are related, or what role stimulus gating and dynamic envelope cues play in these results. Two experiments assessed the development of sensitivity to intensity increments in different stimulus contexts.
title: Endangered Species Act Section 7(a)(2) Biological Opinion, Letter of Concurrence, and Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act Essential Fish Habitat Response for the University of Washington’s Boat Street Project
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: Endangered Species Act Section 7(a)(2) Biological Opinion, Letter of Concurrence, and Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act Essential Fish Habitat Response for the University of Washington’s Boat Street Project, Seattle, Washington. HUC: 171100120400 – Lake Union
Creators: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region
Publisher: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region
Year: 2019

description: ESA Section 7 Consultation ; WCRO-2019-00451
A curvature form for pseudoconnections
Creators: name: Morales, C. A.
name: Vilches, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 53C05, Secondary 55R25

description: We obtain the curvature form $F^\nabla=P\circ d^\nabla\circ\nabla-d^\nabla\circ P\circ\nabla+d^\nabla\circ\nabla\circ P$ for a vector bundle pseudoconnection $\nabla$, where $d^\nabla$ is the exterior derivative associated to $\nabla$. We use $F^\nabla$ to obtain the curvature of $\nabla$. We also prove that $F^\nabla=0$ is a necessary (but not sufficient) condition for $d^\nabla$ to be a chain complex. Instead we prove that $F^\nabla=0$ and $d^\nabla\circ d^\nabla\circ\nabla=0$ are necessary and sufficient conditions for $d^\nabla$ to be a {\em chain $2$-complex}, i.e., $d^\nabla\circ d^\nabla\circ d^\nabla=0$.
description: 6 pages
Integrable classes of a family of evolution equations
Creators: name: Ndogmo, J. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The problem of classification into symmetry integrable classes is solved for a family of second order nonlinear evolution equations labeled by arbitrary functions. Four nonequivalent symmetry integrable classes are thus obtained and the results are transformed into known integrable equations from the literature. Recursion operators are also given for all the symmetry integrable classes found, some of which are the only ones known for some of the canonical classes.
description: 13 Pages
Diritti fondamentali e criticità dell’Unione europea tra Unione economica e monetaria ed “European Social Union”. A margine della sentenza del Bundesverfassungsgericht del 5 maggio 2020
Creators: name: Rizzo, Alfredo
Publisher: name: Universita' degli Studi di Salerno
Year: 2020
Subjects: Monetary and Economic Union
European Social Policy
Social rights
Court of Justice of the European Union
Effective human rights protection

description: A recent “conflict” between the German Constitutional Tribunal and the Court of Justice of the European Union on EU's monetary policy issues has brought to the fore the "crisis" of the Union itself, whose solution is now being seen on many sides in the need to achieve EU treaties' social aims, by strengthening the relevant EU tools. This need is particularly felt now that the European Union, together with its Member States, is facing a systemic and multi-sectoral crisis with a "regional" as well as "global" dimension. In this context, the European Committee of Social Rights has judged some EU Member States for breaches of the European Social Charter in the implementation of measures imposed at EU level on economic/monetary policies issues: as possible solutions, the paper assesses either EU accession to other international organizations (e.g., Council of Europe with specific reference to the European Social Charter) or a robust development of EU's competences in the socio-labor field.
Optimal shortcuts of Stimulated Raman Adiabatic Passage in the presence of dissipation
Creators: name: Stefanatos, Dionisis
name: Paspalakis, Emmanuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use optimal control theory to obtain shortcuts to adiabaticity which maximize population transfer in a three-level STIRAP system, for a given finite duration of the process and specified dissipation rate at the intermediate state. We fix the sum of the intensities of the pump and Stokes pulses and use the mixing angle as the sole control variable. We determine the optimal variation of this angle and reveal the role of singular arc in the optimal trajectory, in order to minimize the effect of dissipation.
description: An early version of the published article below
A Comparison of Pragmatic Language in Boys With Autism and Fragile X Syndrome
Creators: name: Klusek, Jessica
name: Martin, Gary E.
name: Losh, Molly
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Impaired pragmatic language (i.e., language use for social interaction) is a hallmark feature of both autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and fragile X syndrome (FXS), the most common known monogenic disorder associated with ASD. However, few cross-population comparisons of ASD and FXS have been conducted, and it is unclear whether pragmatic language profiles in these conditions overlap.
title: Formal Consultation under the Environmental Standards for United States Army Kwajalein Atoll Activities in the Republic of the Marshall Islands Biological Opinion And Informal Consultation under Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act. Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon Flight Tests
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: Formal Consultation under the Environmental Standards for United States Army Kwajalein Atoll Activities in the Republic of the Marshall Islands Biological Opinion And Informal Consultation under Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act
Creators: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. Pacific Islands Region
Publisher: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. Pacific Islands Region
Year: 2019

description: ESA Section 7 Consultation ; PIRO-2019-00639
The crossover region between long-range and short-range interactions for the critical exponents
Creators: name: Brezin, Edouard
name: Parisi, Giorgio
name: Ricci-Tersenghi, Federico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is well know that systems with an interaction decaying as a power of the distance may have critical exponents that are different from those of short-range systems. The boundary between long-range and short-range is known, however the behavior in the crossover region is not well understood. In this paper we propose a general form for the crossover function and we compute it in a particular limit. We compare our predictions with the results of numerical simulations for two-dimensional long-range percolation.
description: 17 pages, 6 figures
title: Endangered Species Act (ESA) Section 7(a)(2) Biological Opinion Hoonah Cruise Ship and Lightering Dock Construction at Icy Strait Hoonah, AK
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: Endangered Species Act (ESA) Section 7(a)(2) Biological Opinion Hoonah Cruise Ship and Lightering Dock Construction at Icy Strait Hoonah, AK
Creators: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. Alaska Regional Office
Publisher: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. Alaska Regional Office
Year: 2019

description: ESA Section 7 Consultation ; AKRO-2018-00370
Factors Affecting Sensitivity to Frequency Change in School-Age Children and Adults
Creators: name: Taylor, Crystal N.
name: Buss, Emily
name: Leibold, Lori J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: The factors affecting frequency discrimination in school-age children are poorly understood. The goal of the present study was to evaluate developmental effects related to memory for pitch and the utilization of temporal fine structure.
Combined DFT, SCAPS-1D, and wxAMPS frameworks for design optimization of efficient Cs2BiAgI6-based perovskite solar cells with different charge transport layers
Creators: name: Hossain, M. Khalid
name: Arnab, A. A.
name: Das, Ranjit C.
name: Hossain, K. M.
name: Rubel, M. H. K.
name: Rahman, Md. Ferdous
name: Bencherif, H.
name: Emetere, M. E.
name: Mohammed, Mustafa K. A.
name: Pandey, Rahul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this study, combined DFT, SCAPS-1D, and wxAMPS frameworks are used to investigate the optimized designs of Cs2BiAgI6 double perovskite-based solar cells. The first-principle calculation is employed to investigate the structural stability, optical responses, and electronic contribution of the constituent elements in Cs2BiAgI6 absorber material, where SCAPS-1D and wxAMPS simulators are used to scrutinize different configurations of Cs2BiAgI6 solar cells. Here, PCBM, ZnO, TiO2, C60, IGZO, SnO2, WS2, and CeO2 are used as ETL, and Cu2O, CuSCN, CuSbS2, NiO, P3HT, PEDOT: PSS, Spiro-MeOTAD, CuI, CuO, V2O5, CBTS, CFTS are used as HTL, and Au is used as a back contact. About ninety-six combinations of Cs2BiAgI6-based solar cell structures are investigated, in which eight sets of solar cell structures are identified as the most efficient structures. Besides, holistic investigation on the effect of different factors such as the thickness of different layers, series and shunt resistances, temperature, capacitance, Mott-Schottky and generation-recombination rates, and J-V (current-voltage density) and QE (quantum efficiency) characteristics is performed. The results show CBTS as the best HTL for Cs2BiAgI6 with all eight ETLs used in this work, resulting in a power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 19.99%, 21.55%, 21.59%, 17.47%, 20.42%, 21.52%, 14.44%, 21.43% with PCBM, TiO2, ZnO, C60, IGZO, SnO2, CeO2, WS2, respectively. The proposed strategy may pave the way for further design optimization of lead-free double perovskite solar cells.
description: 36 pages, 14 figures, 6 tables
Manifesto Resultante do 1º Encontro Brasileiro de Cidades Criativas UNESCO do Brasil
Creators: name: Pires, Anita
name: Lélio Costa Da Silva
name: Tadeu Melchiades Filho
name: Boffa, Marcos
name: Solís, Eduardo Seijo
name: Emmendoerfer, Magnus Luiz
name: Teschner, Márcia Regina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Manifesto elaborado em Florianópolis - SC, durante o 1º Encontro Brasileiro das Cidades Criativas da Gastronomia ocorrido nos dias 3 a 5 de agosto de 2023. Versão Preliminar em lingua portuguesa e adaptada para a lingua inglesa
description: Versão Preliminar
Group classification and exact solutions of a class of nonlinear waves
Creators: name: Ndogmo, J. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 58D19, 76M60, 35C05, 35C08

description: We apply an extension of a new method of group classification to a family of nonlinear wave equations labelled by two arbitrary functions, each depending on its own argument. The results obtained confirm the efficiency of the proposed method for group classification, termed the method of indeterminates. A model equation from the classified family of fourth order Lagrange equations is singled out. Travelling wave solutions of the latter are found through a similarity reduction by variational symmetry operators, followed by a double order reduction into a second order ordinary differential equation. Multi-soliton solutions and other exact solutions are also found by various methods including Lie group and Hirota methods. The most general action of the full symmetry group on any given solution is provided. Some remarkable facts on Lagrange equations emerging from the whole study are outlined.
description: 19 Pages
Entanglement in curved spacetimes and cosmology
Creators: name: Martin-Martinez, Eduardo
name: Menicucci, Nicolas C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review recent results regarding entanglement in quantum fields in cosmological spacetimes and related phenomena in flat spacetime such as the Unruh effect. We being with a summary of important results about field entanglement and the mathematics of Bogoliubov transformations that is very often used to describe it. We then discuss the Unruh-DeWitt detector model, which is a useful model of a generic local particle detector. This detector model has been successfully used as a tool to obtain many important results. In this context we discuss two specific types of these detectors: a qubit and a harmonic oscillator. The latter has recently been shown to have important applications when one wants to probe nonperturbative physics of detectors interacting with quantum fields. We then detail several recent advances in the study and application of these ideas, including echoes of the early universe, entanglement harvesting, and a nascent proposal for quantum seismology.
description: 29 pages, 7 figures. Accepted in Classical and Quantum Gravity. Currently in press. (Special Issue focused on the topic of "Entanglement and Quantum Gravity")
Equivalence classes and Linearization of the Riccati and Abel chain
Creators: name: Ndogmo, J. C.
name: Escobar-Ruiz, Adrian M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 34L30, 93B18, 54H15

description: The problem of linearization by point transformations is solved for equations in the generalized Riccati and Abel chain of order not exceeding the fourth. It is shown in particular that nonlinear third order and fourth order equations from the chain are not linearizable by any point transformations. The Lie pseudo-group of equivalence transformations for equations of arbitrary orders from the chain are then found, together with expressions for the transformed parameter functions. An important subgroup of the group of equivalence transformations found is considered and some associated equivalence classes are exhibited.
description: 20 Pages
title: Benton Falls Hydroelectric Project Species Protection Plan
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: National Marine Fisheries Service Endangered Species Act Biological Opinion Proposed amendment of the license for the Benton Falls (FERC No. 5073) Hydro Project
Creators: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. Greater Atlantic Regional Fisheries Office
Publisher: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. Greater Atlantic Regional Fisheries Office
Year: 2023

description: GARFO-2022-03605
Gap Detection in School-Age Children and Adults: Effects of Inherent Envelope Modulation and the Availability of Cues Across Frequency
Creators: name: Grose, John H.
name: Buss, Emily
name: Porter, Heather
name: Hall, Joseph W.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: The present study evaluated the effects of inherent envelope modulation and the availability of cues across frequency on behavioral gap detection with noise-band stimuli in school-age children.
Accretion and differentiation of the terrestrial planets with implications for the compositions of early-formed Solar System bodies and accretion of water
Creators: name: Rubie, David C.
name: Jacobson, Seth A.
name: Morbidelli, Alessandro
name: O'Brien, Dave P.
name: Young, Ed D.
name: de Vries, Jellie
name: Palme, Herbert
name: Frost, Daniel J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In order to test planetary accretion and differentiation scenarios, we integrated a multistage core-mantle differentiation model with N-body accretion simulations. Impacts between embryos and planetesimals result in magma ocean formation and episodes of core formation. The core formation model combines rigorous chemical mass balance with metal-silicate element partitioning data. The primary constraint on the combined model is the composition of the Earth's primitive mantle, the composition of the Martian mantle, and the mass fractions of the metallic cores of Earth and Mars. The model is refined by least squares minimization with up to five fitting parameters that consist of the metal-silicate equilibrium pressure and 1-4 parameters that define the starting compositions of primitive bodies. This integrated model has been applied to 6 Grand Tack simulations. Investigations of a broad parameter space indicate that: accretion of Earth was heterogeneous, metal-silicate equilibration pressures increase as accretion progresses and are 60-70% of core-mantle boundary pressures at the time of each impact, and a large fraction (70-100%) of the metal of impactor cores equilibrates with a small fraction of the silicate mantles of protoplanets during each core formation event. Acceptable fits to the Earth's mantle composition are obtained only when bodies that originated close to the Sun, at <0.9-1.2 AU, are highly reduced and those beyond this distance are increasingly oxidized. The FeO content of the Martian mantle depends critically on the heliocentric distance at which the Mars-forming embryo originated. Finally, the Earth's core is predicted to contain 8-9 wt% silicon, 2-4 wt% oxygen and 10-60 ppm hydrogen, whereas the Martian core is predicted to contain low concentrations (<1 wt%) of Si and O.
description: Accepted for publication in ICARUS on Oct 9, 2014