cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Aparallactus modestus
Creators: name: Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoude
name: Trape, Jean François
name: David, Patrick
name: Ohler, Annemarie
name: Dubois, Alain
name: Glitho, Isabelle Adolé
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Lamprophiidae
Aparallactus
Aparallactus modestus

description: Aparallactus modestus (Günther, 1859)
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — 14 specimens (Côte d’Ivoire: MNHN 1992.4286 - 4289; Togo: GHS-0042, Sodo Zion; GHS-W 1036, GHS-W 1038, GHS-W 1049-50, GHS-W 1058, MRAC A7036.0024, MRAC A7036.0026, T 142, Agou [Mont Agou]; ZMB 10725, Togo, no precise locality).
MORPHOLOGY. — TL from 210 to 640 mm; 15 MSR, smooth; 132-161 Ven, smooth; 19-46 Sc, all single; anal single; 7 supralabials; 7-8 infralabials; 1 preocular; 2 (seldom 1) postoculars; temporal scale formula 0 + 1.
DISTRIBUTION. — This species had been mentioned from Togo by Matschie (1893), Sternfeld (1908b, 1909) and Loveridge (1944) from Adele and Missahohe, as well as from Grand Popo, now in Benin, and Wegbe, now in Ghana. Available specimens suggest that this species occurs in ER III, IV and V of the country.
description: Published as part of Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoude, Trape, Jean François, David, Patrick, Ohler, Annemarie, Dubois, Alain & Glitho, Isabelle Adolé, 2011, The snake fauna of Togo: systematics, distribution and biogeography, with remarks on selected taxonomic problems, pp. 325-360 in Zoosystema 33 (3) on page 340, DOI: 10.5252/z2011n3a4, http://zenodo.org/record/4547017
Increasing Voter Turnout Rates in the United States : Moving Forward from the National Voter Registration Act of 1993
Creators: name: Buck, Melanie
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: The United States tends to have low voter turnout in elections when compared with other established democracies. This research examines this trend through analyzing current voter turnout statistics, identifying which specific demographics are not voting, determining the major reasons why citizens are not voting and looking at the implications of not having the voices of these citizens heard. The paper looks at the last time Congress addressed this issue with the National Voter Registration Act of 1993. It evaluates the implementation and effectiveness of the act and finds that it did not have the desired effect of increasing voter turnout. Several more recent voter mobilization campaigns are then identified and their approaches to increasing voter turnout are discussed. The paper concludes with providing a seven step strategy developed from an analysis of the research to guide Congress when it next chooses to address the voter turnout issue legislatively.
Killer Couture
Creators: name: Caffey, Sarah
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 47
subject: Language, communication and culture

description: For the past several years I have spent most evenings in a similar pattern. I come home, change into pajamas, make a cup of tea, and idly read about one of two things: women’s issues, or women’s fashion. It has been impossible to avoid noticing the potentially contradictory nature of these interests, a conflict that plagues me with an uneasy guilt when I fantasize about purchasing a dress that was mass-produced in India or attempt to enjoy a fashion show that presents an unending stream of extremely thin, extremely white, extremely underage and extremely underpaid models. That fashion utilizes oppressive systems and produces oppressive messages is hardly a secret, but despite this, and despite my interest in social justice, I am not someone who hates fashion. I am not capable of being someone who wishes to dismantle the fashion system. I am too passionate about fashion both as an art form and a means for personal expression, and I am constantly forced to ask myself whether there is any ethical way to indulge this passion. Is it possible for me to joyfully participate in the fashion system and perhaps one day even work in the fashion industry without sacrificing my feminist and humanist principles? Killer Couture arose as an attempt to engage academically and artistically with the aspect of the fashion system that I personally find most troubling: fashion’s relationship with the body.
Gonionotophis granti
Creators: name: Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoude
name: Trape, Jean François
name: David, Patrick
name: Ohler, Annemarie
name: Dubois, Alain
name: Glitho, Isabelle Adolé
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Lamprophiidae
Gonionotophis
Gonionotophis granti

description: Gonionotophis granti (Günther, 1863)
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — 2 specimens (GHS-W 1090, Sodo Zion, T 135, Fazao).
MORPHOLOGY. — Based on characters of GHS-W 1090: TL 475 mm; 15 MSR, keeled; 171 Ven, smooth; 69 Sc, paired; anal single; 1 subrectangular loreal, longer than high; 7 supralabials; 8 infralabials; 1 preocular; 1 postocular; temporal scale formula 1 + 2.
DISTRIBUTION. — This species inhabits mostly forested areas and was recorded from ER IV. It might be present in the South of ER II. Previously it had been mentioned from Togo by Sternfeld (1908b: 212, 1909: 11) and Loveridge (1939).
description: Published as part of Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoude, Trape, Jean François, David, Patrick, Ohler, Annemarie, Dubois, Alain & Glitho, Isabelle Adolé, 2011, The snake fauna of Togo: systematics, distribution and biogeography, with remarks on selected taxonomic problems, pp. 325-360 in Zoosystema 33 (3) on page 341, DOI: 10.5252/z2011n3a4, http://zenodo.org/record/4547017
title: Combinatorial data analysis for data ordering
Creators: name: Kostopoulos, A
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2017

description: Seriation is a combinatorial optimisation problem that aims to sequence a set of objects such that a natural ordering is created. A large variety of applications exist ranging from archaeology to bioinformatics and text mining. Initially, a thorough and useful quantitative analysis compares different seriation algorithms using the positional proximity coefficient (PPC). This analysis helps the practitioner to understand how similar two algorithms are for a given set of datasets. The first contribution is consensus seriation. This method uses the principles of other consensus based methods to combine different seriation solutions according to the PPC. As it creates a solution that no individual algorithm can create, the usefulness comes in the form of combining different structural elements from each original algorithms. In particular, it is possible to create a solution that combines the local characteristics of one algorithm together with the global characteristics of another. Experimental results show that compared to consensus ranking based methods, using the Hamming, Spearman and Kendall coefficients, the consensus seriation using the PPC gives generally superior results according to the independent accumulated relative generalised anti-Robinson events measure. The second contribution is a metaheuristic for creating good approximation solutions very large seriation problems. This adapted harmony search algorithm makes use of modified crossover operators taken from genetic algorithm literature to optimise the least-squares criterion commonly used in seriation. As for all combinatorial optimisation problems, there is a need for metaheuristics that can produce better solutions quicker. Results show that that algorithm consistently outperforms existing metaheuristic algorithms such as genetic algorithm, particle swarm optimisation, simulated annealing and tabu search as well as the genetic algorithm using the modified crossover operators, with the main advantage of creating a much superior result in a very short iteration frame. These two major contributions offer practitioners and academics with new tools to tackle seriation related problems and a suggested direction for future work is concluded.
Stuck in time – a new Chaenothecopsis species with proliferating ascomata from Cunninghamia resin and its fossil ancestors in European amber
Creators: name: Tuovila, Hanna
name: Schmidt, Alexander
name: Beimforde, Christina
name: Dörfelt, Heinrich
name: Grabenhorst, Heinrich
name: Rikkinen, Jouko
Publisher: name: Springer Netherlands
Year: 2012

description: Resin protects wounded trees from microbial infection, but also provides a suitable substrate for the growth of highly specialized fungi. Chaenothecopsis proliferatus is described growing on resin of Cunninghamia lanceolata from Hunan Province, China. The new fungus is compared with extant species and two new fossil specimens from Eocene Baltic and Oligocene Bitterfeld ambers. The Oligocene fossil had produced proliferating ascomata identical to those of the newly described species and to other extant species of the same lineage. This morphology may represent an adaptation to growing near active resin flows: the proliferating ascomata can effectively rejuvenate if partially overrun by fresh, sticky exudate. Inward growth of fungal hyphae into resin has only been documented from Cenozoic amber fossils suggesting comparatively late occupation of resin as substrate by fungi. Still, resinicolous Chaenothecopsis species were already well adapted to their special ecological niche by the Eocene, and the morphology of these fungi has since remained remarkably constant.
Killer Couture
Creators: name: Caffey, Sarah
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: For the past several years I have spent most evenings in a similar pattern. I come home, change into pajamas, make a cup of tea, and idly read about one of two things: women’s issues, or women’s fashion. It has been impossible to avoid noticing the potentially contradictory nature of these interests, a conflict that plagues me with an uneasy guilt when I fantasize about purchasing a dress that was mass-produced in India or attempt to enjoy a fashion show that presents an unending stream of extremely thin, extremely white, extremely underage and extremely underpaid models. That fashion utilizes oppressive systems and produces oppressive messages is hardly a secret, but despite this, and despite my interest in social justice, I am not someone who hates fashion. I am not capable of being someone who wishes to dismantle the fashion system. I am too passionate about fashion both as an art form and a means for personal expression, and I am constantly forced to ask myself whether there is any ethical way to indulge this passion. Is it possible for me to joyfully participate in the fashion system and perhaps one day even work in the fashion industry without sacrificing my feminist and humanist principles? Killer Couture arose as an attempt to engage academically and artistically with the aspect of the fashion system that I personally find most troubling: fashion’s relationship with the body.
NAHUAL: A cool spectrograph for planets of ultra-cool objects
Creators: name: Guenther, E. W.
name: Martin, E. L.
name: Navascues, D. Barrado y
name: Laux, U.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the status of an ongoing study to built a a high resolution near infrared Echelle spectrograph (NAHUAL) for the 10.4-m-Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) which will be especially optimised for planet searches by means of high precision radial velocity measurements. We show that infrared radial velocity programs are particularly suitable to search for planets very low mass stars and brown dwarfs, as well as active stars. The goal of NAHUAL is to reach an accuracy of the radial velocity measurement of a few m/s, which would allow the detection of planets with a few earth-masses orbiting low-mass stars and brown dwarfs. It is planed that NAHUAL covers simultaneously the full wavelength range in the J, H, and K-band, and will also serve as a general purpose high resolution near infrared spectrograph of the GTC. The planed instrument will have a resolution of R=50,000 with a 0.175 arcsec slit, and an AO-system. An absorption cell will serve as a simultaneous wavelength reference.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures, conference
Thermosolutal Marangoni instability in a viscoelastic liquid film: Effect of heating from the free surface
Creators: name: Sarma, Rajkumar
name: Mondal, Pranab Kumar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the Marangoni instability in a thin polymeric liquid film heated from the free surface. Polymeric solutions are usually the binary mixture of a Newtonian solvent with polymeric solute and exhibit viscoelastic behaviour. In the presence of a temperature gradient, stratification of these polymeric solutes can take place via the Soret effect, which may give rise to the solutocapillary effect at the free surface. Considering the Soret effect and incorporating the effects of gravity, here we analyse the stability characteristics of this polymeric thin film bounded between its deformable free surface and a poorly conductive rigid substrate from below. A linear stability analysis around the quiescent base state reveals that under the combined influences of thermo-solutocapillarity, apart from the monotonic disturbance, two different oscillatory instabilities can emerge in the system. The characteristics of each instability mode are discussed, and a complete stability picture is perceived in terms of the phase diagrams, identifying the model parameter space wherein a particular instability mode can get dominant.
description: 26 Pages, 10 figures
Winning Without a Fight : How the United States Can Use Non-Violence in Combating Islamic Extremism
Creators: name: Caravias, Stephanie
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: For the past decade the United States has been embroiled in a series of conflicts in the Middle East in the hopes of eradicating the threat of terrorism. Despite monumental effort, money, and lives lost, many fear that this has not produced the desired results. This paper analyzes a series of case studies that focus on historical examples of how Islamic extremism was challenged without the use of violent force. By exploring case studies on economic incentives, supporting an alternative and moderate religious message, and supplementing programs of grassroots societal reform, the paper explores the ways in which terrorism has been confronted without the use of force. Based on analysis of these case studies the paper draws comparisons between their efficacy and makes policy recommendations as to which would be most amiable to America’s counter terrorism strategy.
Effect of iron and nanolites on Raman spectra of volcanic glasses: A reassessment of existing strategies to estimate the water content
Creators: name: Di Genova, Danilo
name: Sicola, Stefania
name: Romano, Claudia
name: Vona, Alessandro
name: Fanara, Sara
name: Spina, Laura
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 2017

description: The effect of iron content and iron nanolites on Raman spectra of hydrous geologically-relevant glasses is presented. Current procedures to estimate the water content using Raman spectra were tested to explore potential effects of iron content, its oxidation state, and nanolites on models' reliability. A chemical interval spanning from basalt to rhyolite, including alkali- and iron-rich compositions, with water content up to 5.6 wt% was investigated using two spectrometers. When considering nanolite-free samples, the area of the band at 3550 cm−1 linearly correlates with the sample water content regardless of chemical composition. Using this approach, data were reproduced with a root-mean-square error (RMSE) of ~ 0.15 wt%. Depending on the sample chemistry, water content, and acquisition conditions the laser-induced sample oxidation led to underestimating the water content up to ~ 90% with a long acquisition time (26 min). Normalising the water band region to the silicate band region minimises such a limitation. The area ratio between these bands linearly correlates with the water content and the use of different baseline procedures does not remove the dependence of such a correlation by the iron content and its oxidation state. With this procedure, data were reproduced with a RMSE of ~ 0.16 wt%. For both approaches, the presence of iron nanolites may result in underestimating the water content.
Fabry-Perot Lasers as Enablers for Parallel Reservoir Computing
Creators: name: Bogris, Adonis
name: Mesaritakis, Charis
name: Deligiannidis, Stavros
name: Li, Pu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: We introduce the use of Fabry-Perot (FP) lasers as potential neuromorphic computing machines with parallel processing capabilities. With the use of optical injection between a master FP laser and a slave FP laser under feedback we demonstrate the potential for scaling up the processing power at longitudinal mode granularity and perform real-time processing for signal equalization in 25 Gbaud intensity modulation direct detection optical communication systems. We demonstrate the improvement of classification performance as the number of nodes increases and the capability of simultaneous processing of arbitrary data streams. Extensive numerical simulations show that up to 8 longitudinal modes in typical Fabry-Perot lasers can be leveraged so as to enhance classification performance.
Additional file 1 of Culture-induced changes in mRNA expression levels of efflux and SLC-transporters in brain endothelial cells
Creators: name: C. Goldeman
name: B. Ozgür
name: B. Brodin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Quantitative analysis of the mRNA expression levels of the house keeping genes HPRT1, ACTB and GAPDH. Data are shown as mean of cycle quantification value. MC: mono culture, NCC: non-contact co-culture and CCC: contact co-culture. n = 5 − 6, N = 3. *: P ≤ 0.05, **: P ≤ 0.005. Error bars are Mean + SEM. Figure S2. Quantitative analysis of the mRNA expression levels of the house keeping genes HPRT1, ACTB and GAPDH. Each of the dots represents the mean of the technical replicates (N = 3) for 5–6 individual batches (n = 5 − 6), as mean of cycle quantification value. MC: mono culture, NCC: non-contact co-culture and CCC: contact co-culture. n = 5 − 3, N = 3. *: P ≤ 0.05, **: P ≤ 0.005. Error bars are Mean + SEM.
Comments on: “The effect of substituent groups on the reductive degradation of azo dyes by zerovalent iron.” By Hou M. et al. [J. Hazard. Mater. 145 (2007) 305]
Creators: name: Noubactep, C.
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 2007

description: This letter discusses possible improvements in experimental conditions to enable a purposeful discussion on the effect of substituent groups on the reductive degradation of azo dyes by elemental iron (Fe0) in a recent article by M. Hou and his co-workers. Also recalled is the pH dependence of the iron corrosion mechanism which is usually overlooked in the iron technology literature.
A continuous integration and web framework in support of the ATLAS Publication Process
Creators: name: Espinosa, Juan Pedro Araque
name: Levcovitz, Gabriel Baldi
name: Bianchi, Riccardo-Maria
name: Brock, Ian
name: Carli, Tancredi
name: Castro, Nuno Filipe
name: Ciocio, Alessandra
name: Colautti, Maurizio
name: Menezes, Ana Carolina Da Silva
name: da Fonseca, Gabriel De Oliveira
name: Alves, Leandro Domingues Macedo
name: Hoecker, Andreas
name: Ramos, Bruno Lange
name: Pinhão, Gabriela Lemos Lúcidi
name: Maidantchik, Carmen
name: Malek, Fairouz
name: McPherson, Robert
name: Picco, Gianluca
name: Santos, Marcelo Teixeira Dos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ATLAS collaboration defines methods, establishes procedures, and organises advisory groups to manage the publication processes of scientific papers, conference papers, and public notes. All stages are managed through web systems, computing programs, and tools that are designed and developed by the collaboration. A framework called FENCE is integrated into the CERN GitLab software repository, to automatically configure workspaces where each analysis can be documented by the analysis team and managed by the relevant coordinators. Continuous integration is used to guide the writers in applying consistent and correct formatting when preparing papers to be submitted to scientific journals. Additional software assures the correctness of other aspects of each paper, such as the lists of collaboration authors, funding agencies, and foundations. The framework and the workflow therein provide automatic and easy support to the researchers and facilitates each phase of the publication process, allowing authors to focus on the article contents. The framework and its integration with the most up to date and efficient tools has consequently provided a more professional and efficient automatized work environment to the whole collaboration.
description: 22 pages in total,11 figures, submitted to JINST. All figures including auxiliary figures are available at https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/GENR-2018-01/
Effective Temperatures in Driven Systems: Static vs. Time-Dependent Relations
Creators: name: O'Hern, C. S.
name: Liu, A. J.
name: Nagel, S. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using simulations of glassy systems under steady-state shear, we compare effective temperatures obtained from static linear response with those from time-dependent fluctuation-dissipation relations. Although these two definitions are not expected to agree, we show that they yield the same answer over two and a half decades of effective temperature. This suggests that a more complete conceptual framework is necessary for effective temperatures in steady-state driven systems.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Evolution Kernels from Splitting Amplitudes
Creators: name: Kosower, David A.
name: Uwer, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We recalculate the next-to-leading order Altarelli-Parisi kernel using a method which relates it to the splitting amplitudes describing the collinear factorization properties of scattering amplitudes. The method breaks up the calculation of the kernel into individual pieces which have an independent physical interpretation.
description: References added
Additional file 1 of ATAC-seq normalization method can significantly affect differential accessibility analysis and interpretation
Creators: name: Reske, Jake J.
name: Wilson, Mike R.
name: Chandler, Ronald L.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary Information (Methods and Figures).
Energy and Momentum in Spacetime Homogeneous G$\ddot{o}$del-type Metrics
Creators: name: Sharif, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using Einstein and Papapetrou energy-momentum complexes, we explicitly calculate the energy and momentum distribution associated with spacetime homogeneous G$\ddot{o}$del-type metrics. We obtain that the two definitions of energy-momentum complexes do not provide the same result for these type of metrics. However, it is shown that the results obtained are reduced to the energy-momentum densities of G$\ddot{o}$del metric already available in the literature
description: 13 pages, LaTex, no figures
Winning Without a Fight : How the United States Can Use Non-Violence in Combating Islamic Extremism
Creators: name: Caravias, Stephanie
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4407
subject: Policy and administration

description: For the past decade the United States has been embroiled in a series of conflicts in the Middle East in the hopes of eradicating the threat of terrorism. Despite monumental effort, money, and lives lost, many fear that this has not produced the desired results. This paper analyzes a series of case studies that focus on historical examples of how Islamic extremism was challenged without the use of violent force. By exploring case studies on economic incentives, supporting an alternative and moderate religious message, and supplementing programs of grassroots societal reform, the paper explores the ways in which terrorism has been confronted without the use of force. Based on analysis of these case studies the paper draws comparisons between their efficacy and makes policy recommendations as to which would be most amiable to America’s counter terrorism strategy.
Sediments of the Ries Crater Lake (Miocene, Southern Germany).
Creators: name: Arp, Gernot
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 2006

description: This field trip is devoted to the post-impact history of the Nördlinger Ries with focus on its carbonate lake sediments. We will explore major facies belts of the Ries crater lake, including basinal shales, littoral carbonate grainstones, dolomitic algal bioherms, sublacustrine spring mounds, carbonate floodplains, deltaic deposits and late freshwater limestones. Special emphasis is taken on fossil algae (green algae, charophytes, cyanobacteria), rhythms and cycles of bioherm growth, the genesis of microbialites in relation to climate and lake water chemistry, and paleosol formation in carbonate swamps.
Photon-number-dependent effective Lamb shift
Creators: name: Viitanen, Arto
name: Silveri, Matti
name: Jenei, Máté
name: Sevriuk, Vasilii
name: Tan, Kuan Yen
name: Partanen, Matti
name: Goetz, Jan
name: Grönberg, Leif
name: Vadimov, Vasilii
name: Lahtinen, Valtteri
name: Möttönen, Mikko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Lamb shift, an energy shift arising from the presence of the electromagnetic vacuum, has been observed in various quantum systems and established as the part of the energy shift independent of the environmental photon number. However, typical studies are based on simplistic bosonic models which may be challenged in practical quantum devices. We demonstrate a hybrid bosonic-fermionic environment for a linear resonator mode and observe that the photon number in the environment can dramatically increase both the dissipation and the effective Lamb shift of the mode. Our observations are quantitatively described by a first-principles model which we develop here also to guide device design for future quantum-technological applications. The device demonstrated here can be utilized as a fully rf-operated quantum-circuit refrigerator to quickly reset superconducting qubits.
description: 15 pages, 10 figures
Aqueous contaminant removal by metallic iron: Is the paradigm shifting?
Creators: name: Noubactep, C.
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 2011

description: Chemical reduction has long dominated the thinking about the mechanism of aqueous contaminant removal in the presence of metallic iron (e.g. Fe0/H2O systems). However, a large body of experimental evidence indicates that chemical reduction is not adequate to explain satisfactorily the efficiency of Fe0/H2O systems for several substances or classes of substances. By contrast, the alternative approach, that contaminants are fundamentally adsorbed and co-precipitated by iron corrosion products seems to provide a better explanation of observed efficiency. The new approach is obviously not really understood. The present communication aims at clarifying this key issue. It seems that a paradigm shift is necessary for the further development of the iron technology.
Gravitational Energy-Momentum Density in Bianchi Type-II Space-times
Creators: name: Aydogdu, Oktay
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper has been removed by arXiv administrators because of overlap with gr-qc/0303034. This paper also has excessive overlap with the following papers also written by the authors or their collaborators: gr-qc/0601133, gr-qc/0602012, gr-qc/0601070, gr-qc/0606028, and others.
description: This submission has been withdrawn by arXiv administrators due to inappropriate text reuse from external sources
Non-amenable products are not treeable
Creators: name: Pemantle, Robin
name: Peres, Yuval
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60B99 (Primary) 60D05, 20F32 (Secondary)

description: Let X and Y be infinite graphs, such that the automorphism group of X is nonamenable, and the automorphism group of Y has an infinite orbit. We prove that there is no automorphism-invariant measure on the set of spanning trees in the direct product X times Y. This implies that the minimal spanning forest corresponding to i.i.d. edge-weights in such a product, has infinitely many connected components almost surely.
description: 8 pages
EU Involvement in the Afghanistan War : Progress Toward a Viable EU Foreign and Security Policy
Creators: name: Gaylord, Grace
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Some observers of the European Union’s (EU) involvement in the Afghanistan war argue that the EU has made substantial political and economic contributions to the international efforts. The Afghanistan war began in October 2001 in response to the terrorist attacks in the United States (US) on September 11. Immediately following the attacks, the EU and its member states declared solidarity with the US, vowing that the EU “stands firmly and fully behind the US.” It was agreed by European leaders that the attacks were not just an aggression toward the US, but toward all democratic states. Economically, the EU took the lead on the humanitarian mission, becoming the second largest donor to the humanitarian and economic development in Afghanistan. Politically, the EU utilized its expertise in multilateralism by playing a critical role in the organization of the crucial international coalition used to find a solution to the crisis. The EU also contributed to the commitment to the rule of law and establishment of good governance by taking over a portion of the police training mission in 2007. Eva Gross, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for European Studies at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, has even gone so far as to say, “the EU has been a key…actor in Afghanistan.”
Atractaspis irregularis
Creators: name: Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoude
name: Trape, Jean François
name: David, Patrick
name: Ohler, Annemarie
name: Dubois, Alain
name: Glitho, Isabelle Adolé
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Lamprophiidae
Atractaspis
Atractaspis irregularis

description: Atractaspis irregularis (Reinhardt, 1843)
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — 12 specimens (MRAC 73 13 R 33, MRAC 73011.0088, Missahohe; MRAC A7036.0029, GHS-W 1037, GHS-W 1040, GHS-W 1054, Agou; ZMB 11256, Togo, no locality; GHS-W 1093, GHS-W 1419, GHS-W 1421, GHS-W 1434, Sodo Zion).
MORPHOLOGY. — TL from 240 to 680 mm; 25-27 MSR, smooth; 215-249 Ven, smooth; 24-27 Sc, paired; anal divided; 5 supralabials; 5-7 infralabials; 1 preocular; 1 postocular; 1 large temporal, no posterior temporal.
 DISTRIBUTION. — All collect localities are in the forested area of the country. This species is still unknown out of the forests but it might be present in the southern part of ER II and in ER V. Previously it had been mentioned from Togo by Sternfeld (1908b, 1909), Hulselmans & Verheyen (1970), Hulselmans et al. (1970), Harding & Welch (1980), Golay et al. (1993) and Chippaux (2006).
description: Published as part of Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoude, Trape, Jean François, David, Patrick, Ohler, Annemarie, Dubois, Alain & Glitho, Isabelle Adolé, 2011, The snake fauna of Togo: systematics, distribution and biogeography, with remarks on selected taxonomic problems, pp. 325-360 in Zoosystema 33 (3) on page 340, DOI: 10.5252/z2011n3a4, http://zenodo.org/record/4547017
EU Involvement in the Afghanistan War : Progress Toward a Viable EU Foreign and Security Policy
Creators: name: Gaylord, Grace
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4407
subject: Policy and administration
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Some observers of the European Union’s (EU) involvement in the Afghanistan war argue that the EU has made substantial political and economic contributions to the international efforts. The Afghanistan war began in October 2001 in response to the terrorist attacks in the United States (US) on September 11. Immediately following the attacks, the EU and its member states declared solidarity with the US, vowing that the EU “stands firmly and fully behind the US.” It was agreed by European leaders that the attacks were not just an aggression toward the US, but toward all democratic states. Economically, the EU took the lead on the humanitarian mission, becoming the second largest donor to the humanitarian and economic development in Afghanistan. Politically, the EU utilized its expertise in multilateralism by playing a critical role in the organization of the crucial international coalition used to find a solution to the crisis. The EU also contributed to the commitment to the rule of law and establishment of good governance by taking over a portion of the police training mission in 2007. Eva Gross, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for European Studies at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, has even gone so far as to say, “the EU has been a key…actor in Afghanistan.”
Anisotropic electrostatic screening of charged colloids in nematic solvents
Creators: name: Everts, Jeffrey C.
name: Senyuk, Bohdan
name: Mundoor, Haridas
name: Ravnik, Miha
name: Smalyukh, Ivan I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The physical behaviour of anisotropic charged colloids is determined by their material dielectric anisotropy, affecting colloidal self-assembly, biological function and even out-of-equilibrium behaviour. However, little is known about anisotropic electrostatic screening, which underlies all electrostatic effective interactions in such soft or biological materials. In this work, we demonstrate anisotropic electrostatic screening for charged colloidal particles in a nematic electrolyte. We show that material anisotropy behaves markedly different from particle anisotropy: The electrostatic potential and pair interactions decay with an anisotropic Debye screening length, contrasting the constant screening length for isotropic electrolytes. Charged dumpling-shaped near-spherical colloidal particles in a nematic medium are used as an experimental model system to explore the effects of anisotropic screening, demonstrating competing anisotropic elastic and electrostatic effective pair interactions for colloidal surface charges tunable from neutral to high, yielding particle-separated metastable states. Generally, our work contributes to the understanding of electrostatic screening in nematic anisotropic media.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures, SM under ancillary files
Urban recycling / reviving : the contribution of brownfield interventions to a more sustainable urban design
Creators: name: Belausteguigoitia, Jone
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The thesis argues brownfield interventions represent a significant opportunity to contribute to sustainability and quality of life in the city, particularly those located in urban areas. It is rooted in the concern about the presence of derelict and underused sites within urban areas together with the current need for more sustainable urban design and planning. The thesis explores the brownfield challenge in the contemporary post-industrial city and its potential to formulate a more sustainable urban design. With this as a basis it develops an evaluative framework based on the physical analysis of the sites before and after intervention. The application of the framework to four brownfield interventions within the city of Bilbao, a European middle size city with a significant amount of brownfield land, suggests that brownfield interventions - a process of urban recycling- can effectively contribute to reviving the city, with desirable consequences beyond the sites themselves, at a district scale, and to the city as a whole. At the same time, the framework reveals opportunities yet to be achieved in current brownfield intervention practice. The thesis concludes arguing for a new perspective to the brownfield challenge based on the identification of the sites, the evaluation of their potential, and the optimization of the contribution of brownfield interventions to urban sustainability and quality of life. Based on the overall framework, it proposes a series of design recommendations and an evaluation tool to inform design when dealing with interventions on brownfield sites in urban areas.
HEE and HSC for flavors: perturbative structure in open string geometries
Creators: name: Banerjee, Avik
name: Bhattacharya, Aranya
name: Maulik, Sabyasachi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Introduction of electric field in the D-brane worldvolume induces a horizon in the open string geometry perceived by the brane fluctuations. We study the holographic entanglement entropy (HEE) and subregion complexity (HSC) in these asymptotically AdS geometries in three, four and five dimensions aiming to capture these quantities in the flavor sector introduced by the D-branes. Both the strip and spherical subregions have been considered. We show that the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy associated with the open string horizon, which earlier failed to reproduce the thermal entropy in the boundary, now precisely matches with the entanglement entropy at high temperatures. We check the validity of embedding function theorem while computing the HEE and attempt to reproduce the first law of entanglement thermodynamics, at least at leading order. On the basis of obtained results, we also reflect upon consequences of applying Ryu-Takayanagi proposal on these non-Einstein geometries.
description: 36 pages, 2 figures, Published in JHEP
Duality, Quantum Mechanics and (Almost) Complex Manifolds
Creators: name: Isidro, J. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The classical mechanics of a finite number of degrees of freedom requires a symplectic structure on phase space C, but it is independent of any complex structure. On the contrary, the quantum theory is intimately linked with the choice of a complex structure on C. When the latter is a complex-analytic manifold admitting just one complex structure, there is a unique quantisation whose classical limit is C. Then the notion of coherence is the same for all observers. However, when C admits two or more nonbiholomorphic complex structures, there is one different quantisation per different complex structure on C. The lack of analyticity in transforming between nonbiholomorphic complex structures can be interpreted as the loss of quantum-mechanical coherence under the corresponding transformation. Observers using one complex structure perceive as coherent the states that other observers, using a different complex structure, do not perceive as such. This is the notion of a quantum-mechanical duality transformation: the relativity of the notion of a quantum.
description: 14 pages, LaTeX
Additional file 1 of Long-term care use after a stroke or femoral fracture and the role of family caregivers
Creators: name: Doutsen A. Van Der Burg
name: Diepstraten, Maaike
name: Wouterse, Bram
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Regression coefficients. Contains the Tables A1. and A2. of the regression estimates underlying the reported results in the paper.
The Gravest Danger : Kurdish Identity, Local Power Politics and the Future of Iraqi Federalism
Creators: name: Gillette, Robert
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The impending withdraw of American forces from Iraq will leave the country in the hands of what amounts to two separate military forces: Iraq’s national armed forces and those of the Kurdish Regional Government. Integral to the Iraqi federalist bargain is the autonomy of the Kurdistan region, which includes independent control over the Kurdish military, the Peshmerga. The standing tensions between Peshmerga forces and the Iraqi army along the so called triggerline attest to the potential dangers the situation poses. This paper explores the reasons why the integration of the Peshmega into the Iraqi national armed forces has not nor is likely to occur. It examines the hypothesis that a combination of identity politics, territorial disputes and local power structures has effectively prohibited integration for the immediate future.
Fabry-Perot Absorption-Line Spectroscopy of NGC 7079: Kinematics and Bar Pattern Speed
Creators: name: Debattista, Victor P.
name: Williams, T. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present Fabry-Perot absorption-line spectroscopy of the SB0 galaxy NGC 7079. This is the first use of Fabry-Perot techniques to measure the two-dimensional stellar kinematics of an early-type disk galaxy. We scan the infrared CaII line using the Rutgers Fabry-Perot (RFP), to obtain kinematic data extending to $I$-band surface brightness $μ_I \simeq 21$ mag./arcsec^-2, in a field of radius $\sim 40\arcsec$. The kinematic data, consisting of line-of-sight velocities and velocity dispersions, are in good agreement with data obtained along the major axis of the disk with standard slit spectroscopy. Comparison of the exposure times required for slit and RFP spectroscopy to reach the same limiting magnitude shows that the RFP is significantly more efficient for mapping absorption-line galaxy kinematics. We use the velocity data, together with our own deep broad-band photometry,to measure the bar pattern speed, $Ω_p$, of NGC 7079 with the model-independent Tremaine-Weinberg (TW) method. We find $Ω_p = 8.4 \pm 0.2$ km/s/arcsec; this is the best-constrained pattern speed ever measured for a bar using the TW method. From the rotation curve, corrected for asymmetric drift, we calculate the co-rotation radius and find that the bar ends just inside this radius. The two-dimensional character of these data allow us to show that the TW method is sensitive to errors in the position angle (PA) of the disk. For example, a PA error of $2\degrees$ can give errors $\sim \pm 25%$ in $Ω_p$.
description: Accepted to ApJ. 30 pages, 10 figures. Postscript version with high resolution figures is available at: http://www.exp-astro.phys.ethz.ch/debattista/personal/ms.ps
Time-dependent entropy of a cooling Bose gas
Creators: name: Wolschin, Georg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Exact analytic solutions of a nonlinear boson diffusion equation with suitable initial conditions that account for evaporative cooling of ultracold atoms, plus boundary conditions at the singularity $ε=μ<0$ are presented, and used to calculate the time-dependent entropy of a cold quantum gas.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures, as accepted by EPL
The Gravest Danger : Kurdish Identity, Local Power Politics and the Future of Iraqi Federalism
Creators: name: Gillette, Robert
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: The impending withdraw of American forces from Iraq will leave the country in the hands of what amounts to two separate military forces: Iraq’s national armed forces and those of the Kurdish Regional Government. Integral to the Iraqi federalist bargain is the autonomy of the Kurdistan region, which includes independent control over the Kurdish military, the Peshmerga. The standing tensions between Peshmerga forces and the Iraqi army along the so called triggerline attest to the potential dangers the situation poses. This paper explores the reasons why the integration of the Peshmega into the Iraqi national armed forces has not nor is likely to occur. It examines the hypothesis that a combination of identity politics, territorial disputes and local power structures has effectively prohibited integration for the immediate future.
Large-angle, gigahertz-rate random telegraph switching induced by spin-momentum transfer
Creators: name: Pufall, Matthew R.
name: Rippard, William H.
name: Kaka, Shehzaad
name: Russek, Steven E.
name: Silva, Thomas J.
name: Katine, Jordan
name: Carey, Matt
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that spin-polarized dc current passing through a small magnetic element induces two-state, random telegraph switching of the magnetization via the spin-momentum transfer effect. The resistances of the states differ by up to 50% of the change due to complete magnetization reversal. Fluctuations are seen for a wide range of currents and magnetic fields, with rates that can exceed 2 GHz, and involve collective motion of a large volume (10^4 nm^3) of spins. Switching rate trends with field and current indicate that increasing temperature alone cannot explain the dynamics. The rates approach a stochastic regime wherein dynamics are governed by both precessional motion and thermal perturbations.
description: 14 pages (with captions), 4 Figures