cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Gymnodactylus pipiens Pall.
Creators: name: Müller, F
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1885
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Squamata
Sauria
Phyllodactylidae
Gymnodactylus

description: * Gymnodactylus pipiens Pall., ang.
Bogdo-Berg (Gouvern. Astrachan), gekauft. [1]
description: Published as part of Müller, F, 1885, Vierter Nachtrag zum Katalogder herpetologischen Sammlung des Basler Museums, pp. 668-717 in Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel. 7 (3) on page 710, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.part.2388, http://zenodo.org/record/15183591
Implications of $D^0-\overline{D^0}$ on the rare top quark decays $t\to uγ$ and $t\to ug$
Creators: name: Aranda, J. I.
name: Cordero--Cid, A.
name: Ramírez--Zavaleta, F.
name: Toscano, J. J.
name: Tututi, E. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recently observed mass difference of the $D^0-\overline{D^0}$ mixing is used to predict the branching ratios of the rare top quark decays $t\to uγ$ and $t\to ug$ in a model independent way using the effective Lagrangian approach. It is found that $Br(t\to uγ)<4\times 10^{-4}$ and $Br(t\to ug)<2\times 10^{-3}$, which still may be within reach of the LHC collider.
description: 6 pages, 1 figure
Additional file 1 of Uncovering deeply conserved motif combinations in rapidly evolving noncoding sequences
Creators: name: Ross, Caroline Jane
name: Rom, Aviv
name: Spinrad, Amit
name: Gelbard-Solodkin, Dikla
name: Degani, Neta
name: Ulitsky, Igor
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Conserved elements in the libra lncRNA. Figure S2. Gaps in the genomic assembly around the first exon in the Chaserr lncRNA locus. Figure S3. Functional characterization of the conserved elements in Chaserr lncRNA. Figure S4. Conserved elements. Figure S5. Additional analysis of LncLOOM motifs identified in 3’UTRs. Figure S6. Constraints imposed on the Figure S7. Partitioning of the LncLOOM graph and iterative refinement of selected repeated k-mers. LncLOOM graph.in the DICER 3’UTRs. Figure S8. Processing steps in the LncLOOM framework.
Supplementary Figure 3. from Hidden diversity of double-stranded DNA phages in symbiotic Rhizobium species
Creators: name: Santamaría, Rosa I.
name: Bustos, Patricia
name: Van Cauwenberghe, Jannick
name: González, Víctor
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 60301 Animal Systematics and Taxonomy
subject: 60310 Plant Systematics and Taxonomy
subject: 60408 Genomics

description: Size distribution of predicted prophages. (a) VIBRANT predictions in 612 Rhizobium genomes. (b) VirSorter-2 predictions in 410 Rhizobium genomes. The density plot was constructed with ggplot based on the length in kilobases of the predicted prophages (x-axis) compared to the length of the complete genomes already determined for Rhizobium phages (Supp. Table 5). The inset shows the colour code and the number of prophages in each VIBRANT category, and the phage reference genomes.
Influences of photoperiod manipulations at three different sizes on Atlantic salmon gastrointestinal osmoregulation
Creators: name: Laronde, Daniel
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) undergo a drastic change of environment during their lifecycle as they go from being salt-limited in freshwater to being water-limited in seawater. Fish prepare for this challenge by increasing various methods of water uptake and ion secretion. Currently the aquaculture industry prepares salmon for seawater entry by simulating the shift from a winter photoperiod to a summer photoperiod before transferring them into marine net pens at ~150g. Fish are then grown to the market size of ~4kg over the following 12-18 months. The marine net-pen environment is unpredictable and prone to high mortality events due to toxic algal blooms and periodic hypoxia, among other challenges. There is a strong interest on the part of the aquaculture industry in reducing the time salmon spend in net-pens by rearing them for longer in freshwater recirculating aquaculture systems to a much larger size prior to attempting to induce smoltification using photoperiod manipulations for seawater transfer. For this project, I aimed to use the industry standard light manipulation to generate fish that were ready for seawater entry at ~200g, ~500g, and ~1kg. Each size class had photoperiod-manipulated (PT) fish and control (C) fish to determine whether the light manipulation used in industry is effective in preparing salmon for seawater entry at larger sizes. Fish in seawater must drink water to offset passive water loss, so I measured drinking rates and plasma osmolytes to ask whether the amount that they drank was sufficient. As the intestine is a largely overlooked osmoregulatory organ, I investigated 3 different regions (proximal, mid, and distal intestines) of the intestine and measured Na⁺/K⁺-ATPase (NKA) activity to inform on the importance of photoperiod manipulation in growing larger fish for seawater transfer. Drinking rate did not differ between the PT and C fish, but did increase upon seawater transfer and was accompanied by adaptive changes in plasma osmolytes. NKA activity overall did not differ between treatments, but an increase in hindgut NKA activity was measured upon seawater transfer. The results of this thesis support the transfer of Atlantic salmon into the marine environment at larger sizes.
Skyline fossilized birth-death priors resolve deep root attraction in total-evidence dating
Creators: name: Zhang, Chi
name: Ronquist, Fredrik
name: Stadler, Tanja
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: fossilized birth-death
skyline
total-evidence dating
deep root attraction
OU process

description: Several total-evidence dating studies under the fossilized birth-death (FBD) prior produced very old age estimates which are not supported by the fossil record, and this phenomenon has been termed "deep root attraction'' (DRA). For the Hymenoptera and Eutheria data, utilizing diversified extant sampling in the FBD process has been shown to greatly reduce the DRA effect. However, it is unclear how to proceed in data analyses where typically both the random and diversified samplings are only rough model approximations of the underlying procedure, while having drastic effects on the results. We investigate a more flexible skyline FBD (SFBD) process where the diversification and fossil-sampling rates can vary over time, and the extant sampling can either be diversified or random, on resolving DRA. The rates among different time intervals can either be independent and identically distributed, or autocorrelated according to an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck (OU) process. By re-analyzing the Hymenoptera and Eutheria data, we show that these variants of the SFBD priors resolve DRA, and also unify age estimates under random and diversified sampling assumptions. The SFBD priors also provide more insights on the diversification dynamics that the constant-rate FBD process unable to recover. This study reveals the importance of relaxing the constant-rate assumption in the FBD prior in total-evidence dating.
description: 1. OUSimTraj.R: code to simulate trajectories of 1000 replicates under the OU process (Fig. 1) 2. *.xml: XML inputs for BEAST2 analyses. Abbreviations: div: diversified extant sampling rnd: random extant sampling cst: constant-rate FBD iid10: skyline FBD with independent and identically distributed rates among 10 time intervals ou10: skyline FBD with Ornstein-Uhlenbeck smoothing hyperprior rates among 10 time intervals ou20: skyline FBD with Ornstein-Uhlenbeck smoothing hyperprior rates among 20 time intervals drs: d-r-s parameterization for the birth, death and sampling rates, instead of direct parameterization 3. *.pdf: Maximum clade credibility trees Abbreviations: same as above
L1506: a prestellar core in the making
Creators: name: Pagani, Laurent
name: Ristorcelli, Isabelle
name: Boudet, Nathalie
name: Giard, Martin
name: Abergel, Alain
name: Bernard, Jean-Philippe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Exploring the structure and dynamics of cold starless clouds is necessary to understand the different steps leading to the formation of protostars. Because clouds evolve slowly, many of them must be studied in detail to pick up different moments of a cloud's lifetime. We study here L1506C in the Taurus region, a core with interesting dust properties which have been evidenced with the PRONAOS balloon-borne telescope. To trace the mass content of L1506C and its kinematics, we mapped the dust emission, and the line emission of two key species, C18O and N2H+ (plus 13CO and C17O). This cloud shows peculiar features: i) a large envelope traced solely by 13CO holding a much smaller core with a strong C18O depletion in its center despite a low maximum opacity (Av~20 mag), ii) extremely narrow C18O lines indicating a low, non-measurable turbulence, iii) contraction traced by C18O itself (plus rotation), iv) unexpectedly, the kinematical signature from the external envelope is opposite to the core one: the 13CO and C18O velocity gradients have opposite directions and opposite profiles (C18O blue peaked, 13CO red peaked). The core is large (r = 3E4 AU) and not very dense (n(H2) ? 5E4 cm-3 or less). This core is therefore not prestellar yet. All these facts suggest that the core is kinematically detached from its envelope and in the process of forming a prestellar core. This is the first time that the dynamical formation of a prestellar core is witnessed. The extremely low turbulence could be the reason for the strong depletion of this core despite its relatively low density and opacity in contrast with undepleted cores such as L1521E which shows a turbulence at least 4 times as high.
Supplementary Figure 5. from Hidden diversity of double-stranded DNA phages in symbiotic Rhizobium species
Creators: name: Santamaría, Rosa I.
name: Bustos, Patricia
name: Van Cauwenberghe, Jannick
name: González, Víctor
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 60301 Animal Systematics and Taxonomy
subject: 60310 Plant Systematics and Taxonomy
subject: 60408 Genomics

description: Ratios of non-synonymous to synonymous substitutions in the phage genomes in VCs. Common homologous genes between pairs of genomes of members of a VC were translated into codons, and the rate of non-synonymous to synonymous substitutions was then determined using the Ka/Ks calculator (Zhang Z, KaKs_Calculator: calculating Ka and Ks through model selection and model averaging. Genomics Proteomics Bioinformatics. 2006. 4(4):259-63. doi: 10.1016/S1672-). In (a) VC_14; (b) VC_62; (c) VC_P23. Coloured dots indicate the Ka/Ks ratio for pairs of genes from the genomes in the legend, respect to a reference: (a) TM3_3_9; (b) N1_10; (c) Prophage R_leg_SM100_frg37.
The Mid-Infrared Luminosities of Normal Galaxies over Cosmic Time
Creators: name: Kelson, Daniel D.
name: Holden, Bradford P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Modern population synthesis models estimate that 50% of the restframe K-band light is produced by TP-AGB stars during the first Gyr of a stellar population, with a substantial fraction continuing to be produced by the TP-AGB over a Hubble time. Between 0.2 and 1.5 Gyr, intermediate mass stars evolve into TP-AGB C stars which, due to significant amounts of circumstellar dust, emit half their energy in the mid-IR. We combine these results using published mid-IR colors of Galactic TP-AGB M and C stars to construct simple models for exploring the contribution of the TP-AGB to 24micron data as a function of stellar population age. We compare these empirical models with an ensemble of galaxies in the CDFS from z=0 to z=2, and with high quality imaging in M81. Within the uncertainties, the TP-AGB appears responsible for a substantial fraction of the mid-IR luminosities of galaxies from z=0 to z=2, the maximum redshift to which we can test our hypothesis, while, at the same time, our models reproduce much of the detailed structure observed in mid-IR imaging of M81. The mid-IR is a good diagnostic of star formation over timescales of ~1.5 Gyr, but this implies that on-going star formation rates at z=1 may be overestimated by factors of ~1.5-6, depending on the nature of star formation events. Our results, if confirmed through subsequent work, have strong implications for the star formation rate density of the universe and the growth of stellar mass over time.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, Accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal Letters
Coherent transport of atomic wave packets in amplitude-modulated vertical optical lattices
Creators: name: Alberti, A.
name: Ferrari, G.
name: Ivanov, V. V.
name: Chiofalo, M. L.
name: Tino, G. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the realization of dynamical control of transport for ultra-cold Sr88 atoms loaded in an accelerated and amplitude-modulated 1D optical lattice. We tailor the energy dispersion of traveling wave packets and reversibly switch between Wannier-Stark localization and driven transport based on coherent tunneling. Within a Loschmidt-echo scheme where the atomic group velocities are reversed at once, we demonstrate a novel mirror for matter waves working independently of the momentum state and discuss possible applications to force measurements at micrometric scales.
Supplementary Figure 2. from Hidden diversity of double-stranded DNA phages in symbiotic Rhizobium species
Creators: name: Santamaría, Rosa I.
name: Bustos, Patricia
name: Van Cauwenberghe, Jannick
name: González, Víctor
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 60301 Animal Systematics and Taxonomy
subject: 60310 Plant Systematics and Taxonomy
subject: 60408 Genomics

description: Complete vConTACT network involving 3,842 phages including in the ProkaryoticViral RefSeq v201 database integrated into the vConTACT, 155 Rhizobium phages, and 270 predicted prophages. There are 88,693 edges, with a minimal weight >1. The network was visualised using Cytoscape. Gray ellipses represent phages and VCs from the RefSeq database. Yellow ellipses represent the Rhizobium phages in VCs and singletons. Purple ellipses represent the prophages predicted by VIBRANT.
Additional file 7 of Uncovering deeply conserved motif combinations in rapidly evolving noncoding sequences
Creators: name: Ross, Caroline Jane
name: Rom, Aviv
name: Spinrad, Amit
name: Gelbard-Solodkin, Dikla
name: Degani, Neta
name: Ulitsky, Igor
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 7: Review history.
Empirical likelihood for estimating equations with missing values
Creators: name: Wang, Dong
name: Chen, Song Xi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 62G05 (Primary) 62G20 (Secondary)

description: We consider an empirical likelihood inference for parameters defined by general estimating equations when some components of the random observations are subject to missingness. As the nature of the estimating equations is wide-ranging, we propose a nonparametric imputation of the missing values from a kernel estimator of the conditional distribution of the missing variable given the always observable variable. The empirical likelihood is used to construct a profile likelihood for the parameter of interest. We demonstrate that the proposed nonparametric imputation can remove the selection bias in the missingness and the empirical likelihood leads to more efficient parameter estimation. The proposed method is further evaluated by simulation and an empirical study on a genetic dataset on recombinant inbred mice.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/07-AOS585 the Annals of Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Additional file 6 of Uncovering deeply conserved motif combinations in rapidly evolving noncoding sequences
Creators: name: Ross, Caroline Jane
name: Rom, Aviv
name: Spinrad, Amit
name: Gelbard-Solodkin, Dikla
name: Degani, Neta
name: Ulitsky, Igor
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 6: Table S1. Order of sequences analyzed by LncLOOM. Table S3. Oligonucleotide sequences used for RNA pulldown. Mutated bases are underlined. Table S4. Oligonucleotide sequences of ASOs and LNA GapmeRs. Table S5. Primer sequences.
Minimizing the Dick Effect in an Optical Lattice Clock
Creators: name: Westergaard, Philip G.
name: Lodewyck, Jerome
name: Lemonde, Pierre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the minimization of the Dick effect in an optical lattice clock. We show that optimizing the time sequence of operation of the clock can lead to a significant reduction of the clock stability degradation by the frequency noise of the interrogation laser. By using a non-destructive detection of the atoms, we are able to recycle most of the atoms between cycles and consequently to strongly reduce the time spent capturing the atoms in each cycle. With optimized parameters, we expect a fractional Allan deviation better than 2E-16$τ^{-1/2}$ for the lattice clock.
description: 6 pages, 10 figures. Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control
Emergent Community Structure in Social Tagging Systems
Creators: name: Cattuto, Ciro
name: Baldassarri, Andrea
name: Servedio, Vito D. P.
name: Loreto, Vittorio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A distributed classification paradigm known as collaborative tagging has been widely adopted in new Web applications designed to manage and share online resources. Users of these applications organize resources (Web pages, digital photographs, academic papers) by associating with them freely chosen text labels, or tags. Here we leverage the social aspects of collaborative tagging and introduce a notion of resource distance based on the collective tagging activity of users. We collect data from a popular system and perform experiments showing that our definition of distance can be used to build a weighted network of resources with a detectable community structure. We show that this community structure clearly exposes the semantic relations among resources. The communities of resources that we observe are a genuinely emergent feature, resulting from the uncoordinated activity of a large number of users, and their detection paves the way for mapping emergent semantics in social tagging systems.
description: 14 pages, 8 figures
In memoria di Giovanni Noseda, licenziato in diritto
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Zentralbibliothek Zürich
Year: 1931
Subjects: subject: 920 Biografien, Genealogie, Insignien
subject: Nachruf
subject: Noseda, Giovanni
subject: Vacallo

description: Raccolta di annunci, epigrafi, discorsi, condoglianze, ecc
Additional file 1 of Ventilator-associated pneumonia in critically ill patients with COVID-19
Creators: name: Maes, Mailis
name: Higginson, Ellen
name: Pereira-Dias, Joana
name: Curran, Martin D.
name: Surendra Parmar
name: Khokhar, Fahad
name: Cuchet-Lourenço, Delphine
name: Lux, Janine
name: Sharma-Hajela, Sapna
name: Ravenhill, Benjamin
name: Hamed, Islam
name: Heales, Laura
name: Razeen Mahroof
name: Solderholm, Amelia
name: Forrest, Sally
name: Sushmita Sridhar
name: Brown, Nicholas M.
name: Baker, Stephen
name: Vilas Navapurkar
name: Dougan, Gordon
name: Scott, Josefin Bartholdson
name: Morris, Andrew Conway
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1. Supplemental methods and results.
Framework for discovering GPS spoofing attacks in drone swarms
Creators: name: Yao, Yingao
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Swarm robotics, particularly drone swarms, are used in various safety-critical tasks (e.g., package delivery, warehouse management, entertainment, agriculture, etc). Drone swarms use swarm intelligence to carry out the mission in collaboration. While a lot of attention has been given to improving swarm control algorithms for improved intelligence, the security implications of various design choices in swarm control algorithms have not been studied. We highlight how an attacker can exploit the vulnerabilities in swarm control algorithms to disrupt drone swarms. GPS attack is a kind of physical attack that feeds the drone with erroneous GPS signals via physical channels such as the GPS signal emitter. Specifically, we show that the attacker can target a swarm member (target drone) through GPS spoofing attacks, and indirectly cause other swarm members (victim drones) to veer from their course, resulting in a collision. We call these Swarm Propagation Vulnerabilities. In this thesis, we introduce a fuzzing framework consisting of two fuzzing tools, SwarmFuzzGraph and SwarmFuzzBinary , to capture the attacker’s ability, and efficiently find such vulnerabilities in swarm control algorithms. SwarmFuzzGraph uses a combination of graph theory and gradient-guided optimization to find the potential attack parameters. Our evaluation on a popular swarm control algorithm shows that SwarmFuzzGraph achieves an average success rate of 48.8% in finding SPVs. Compared to random fuzzing, SwarmFuzzGraph has a 10x higher success rate, and 3x lower runtime. However, SwarmFuzzGraph fails to find SPVs when applied in another swarm control algorithm due to its inability to handle different swarm topologies. We then propose SwarmFuzzBinary , which uses observation-based seed scheduling and binary search to find attack parameters in swarms with various topologies. The evaluation on the same two swarm control algorithms shows that SwarmFuzzBinary ’s success rate is comparable to SwarmFuzzGraph and works in all tested algorithms. Specifically, SwarmFuzzBinary achieves an average success rate of 60.2% and 86.5% in each swarm control algorithm. Compared to random fuzzing, SwarmFuzzBinary has a 5x higher success rate, and 3x lower runtime. We also find that swarms of a larger size are more vulnerable to this attack type, for a given spoofing distance.
Structure of the Accretion Flow in Broad-Line Radio Galaxies: The Case of 3C390.3
Creators: name: Sambruna, R. M.
name: Reeves, J. N.
name: Braito, V.
name: Lewis, K. T.
name: Eracleous, M.
name: Gliozzi, M.
name: Tavecchio, F.
name: Ballantyne, D. R.
name: Ogle, P. M.
name: Barth, A. J.
name: Tueller, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present XMM and Suzaku observations of the Broad-Line Radio Galaxy (BLRG) 3C390.3. The Fe Ka line has a width FWHM ~ 8,800 km/s, consistent within a factor two with the width of the double-peaked H_alpha line, suggesting an origin from the Broad Line Region. The data show for the first time a weak, broad bump extending from 5 to 7 keV. When fitted with a Gaussian, its centroid energy is 6.6 keV in the source's rest-frame with FWHM of 43,000 km/s and EW of 50 eV; its most likely interpretation is emission from He-like Fe (Fe XXV), suggesting the presence of an ionized medium in the inner regions of 3C390.3. The broad-band 0.5-100 keV continuum is well described by a single power law with photon index Gamma=1.6 and cutoff energy 157 keV, plus cold reflection with strength R=0.5. In addition, ionized reflection is required to account for the 6.6 keV bump in the broad-band continuum, yielding an ionization parameter xi ~ 2700 ergs cm s^-1; the inner radius of the ionized reflector is constrained to be larger than 20 r_G, although this result depends on the assumed emissivity profile of the disk. If true, we argue that the lack of broad Fe K emission from within 20 r_G indicates that the innermost regions of the disk in 3C390.3 are obscured and/or poorly illuminated. While the SED of 3C390.3 is generally dominated by accretion-related continuum, during accretion low states the jet can significantly contribute in the optical to X-ray bands via synchrotron self-Compton emission. (Abridged)
description: 7 figures, 5 tables, accepted for publication in ApJ
Supplementary document for Electrically switchable capabilities of conductive polymers-based plasmonic nanodisk arrays - 6009188.pdf
Creators: name: Li, Rui
name: Wei, Xinran
name: Liang, Yuzhang
name: Gao, Huixuan
name: Kurilkina, Svetlana
name: Peng, Wei
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary figures about PPy and PANI
Nonconvex projections arising in bilinear mathematical models
Creators: name: Krishan Lal, Manish
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: This thesis contributes to the study of projection operators associated with bilinear sets. Bilinear sets are not convex and appear in many applications such as deep learning, inverse problems, and other bilinear models in control and optimization. The closed-form projection formulas for some of these bilinear sets namely crosses, hyperbolas, and hyperbolic paraboloids are provided. Along the way, a convenient presentation for the roots of cubic polynomials is highlighted and utilized further to develop more projection formulas and proximal mappings which are essential tools used in projection algorithms and proximal splitting algorithms. The notion of Fejer monotonicity is instrumental in unifying the convergence proofs of many iterative methods, such as the Krasnoselskii-Mann iteration, the proximal point method, and the projection algorithms. In a finite-dimensional Hilbert space, the sequences generated by the proximal point algorithm enjoy directionally asymptotic properties. A comprehensive study of directionally asymptotical results of strongly convergent subsequences of Fejer monotone sequences in general Hilbert spaces is provided along with some detailed examples. We also provide a foundational mathematical model of Elser’s framework for matrix factorization.
Supplementary Figure 7. from Hidden diversity of double-stranded DNA phages in symbiotic Rhizobium species
Creators: name: Santamaría, Rosa I.
name: Bustos, Patricia
name: Van Cauwenberghe, Jannick
name: González, Víctor
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 60301 Animal Systematics and Taxonomy
subject: 60310 Plant Systematics and Taxonomy
subject: 60408 Genomics

description: MCP IQ-tree phylogeny. The phylogeny of 449 MCP phage proteins was performed as indicated for TerL (see Material and Methods). At the left side of the phylogeny, the columns in color, from the left to the right: host NCBI taxonomy; phages ICTV taxonomy; and VCs. Color code for the distinct taxonomic ranks and VC are similar to the inset in Figure 3. Bootstrap values are shown at the clade bifurcation.
Data, model and code to accompany paper "DAS-N2N: Machine learning Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) signal denoising without clean data"
Creators: name: Lapins, Sacha
name: Butcher, Antony
name: Kendall, J.-Michael
name: Hudson, Thomas S.
name: Stork, Anna L.
name: Brisbourne, Alex M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This archived repository contains example data, trained DAS-N2N model, and Python notebook to reproduce results in paper "DAS-N2N: Machine learning Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) signal denoising without clean data" (https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.08120).
The problem of "macroscopic charge quantization" in single-electron devices
Creators: name: Burmistrov, I. S.
name: Pruisken, A. M. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a recent Letter by the authors [I.S. Burmistrov and A.M.M. Pruisken, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 056801 (2008)] it was shown that single-electron devices (single electron transistor or SET) display "macroscopic charge quantization" which is completely analogous to the quantum Hall effect observed on very different electron systems. In this investigation we present more detail on these new findings. Based on the Ambegaokar-Eckern-Schoen (AES) theory of the Coulomb blockade we introduce a general response theory that probes the sensitivity of SET to changes in the boundary conditions. This response theory defines a new set of physical observables and we establish the contact with the standard results obtained from ordinary linear response theory. The response parameters generally define the renormalization behavior of the SET in the entire regime from weak coupling with large values of the tunneling conductance all the way down to the strong coupling phase where the system displays the Coulomb blockade. We introduce a general criterion for charge quantization that is analogous to the Thouless criterion for Anderson localization. We present the results of detailed computations on the weak coupling side of the theory, i.e. both perturbative and non-perturbative (instantons). Based on an effective theory in terms of quantum spins we study the quantum critical behavior of the AES model on the strong coupling side. Consequently, a unifying scaling diagram of the SET is obtained. This diagram displays all the super universal topological features of the theta-angle concept that previously arose in the theory of the quantum Hall effect.
description: RevTex, 22 pages, 10 figures
Additional file 1 of Assessment of monitoring systems in the management of severe acute malnutrition in northern Nigeria
Creators: name: Tuffrey, Veronica
name: Mezger, Cora
name: Nanama, Simeon
name: Assaye Bulti
name: Olisenekwu, Gloria
name: Umar, Charles
name: Jones, Emma
name: Namukasa, Esther
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. CMAM Interview and verification instruments. Facility-level data collection tools; LGA-level data collection tools; State-level data collection tools; Federal-level data collection tools; Protocol for verification of CMAM admission and discharge data; OTP data verification collection forms, and RUTF data verification collection forms.
Evaluation and calibration of low-cost particulate matter sensors for respirable coal mine dust monitoring
Creators: name: Feng, Zikang
name: Zheng, Lina
name: Zhang, Xuehan
name: Liu, Jia
name: Xue, Ning
name: Wang, Mengmeng
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Prolonged exposure to coal mine dust has led to various respiratory diseases among coal mine workers. Accurate monitoring of personal exposure concentration is crucial for evaluating dust exposure among underground coal mine workers. However, existing personal monitoring devices are expensive and bulky, limiting their widespread application and resulting in unknown personal exposure levels for most miners. This study evaluated the performance of two low-cost particulate matter (PM) sensors (PMS12 and PMS16) at high and low coal dust concentration levels. The results showed that both sensors possess good enough linearity (R2 = 0.92–0.93) and acceptable errors (RMSE = 29–32 μg/m3) at low concentrations. However, as the coal dust concentration increased, linearity decreased (R2 = 0.76–0.79), and measurement errors increased (RMSE = 238–244 μg/m3), but the NRMSE was still below 21%, similar to those at the low concentrations. Precise detection of experimental results showed that the sensor’s precision level diminished with rising coal dust concentrations. To further improve the PM sensor’s measurement performance, a two-layer correction model was introduced. It incorporated the two top-performing models chosen from the four basic models (KNN, RF, ET, XGBoost) as inputs for the second-layer linear regression model to make predictions. Additionally, temperature and humidity data were included as correction factors in the model. The results indicated that the correction models exhibited strong performance across all levels of coal dust concentration (R2 was 0.97–0.98, and RMSE was 80–91μg/m3). This study demonstrates that the application of low-cost sensors for personal coal dust exposure monitoring in underground coal mines is feasible with appropriate calibration. Copyright © 2023 American Association for Aerosol Research
Chaos in Partial Differential Equations
Creators: name: Li, Y. Charles
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This is a survey on the recent theory of chaos in partial differential equations.
Eublepharis hardwickii Gü. R. b. J.
Creators: name: Müller, F
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1885
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Squamata
Sauria
Eublepharidae
Eublepharis
Eublepharis hardwickii

description: Eublepharis hardwickii Gü. R. b. J.
Ostindien v. F M. [1]
description: Published as part of Müller, F, 1885, Vierter Nachtrag zum Katalogder herpetologischen Sammlung des Basler Museums, pp. 668-717 in Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel. 7 (3) on page 710, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.part.2388, http://zenodo.org/record/15183591
Acceleration of ultra-thin electron layer. Analytical treatment compared with 1D-PIC simulation
Creators: name: Wen, Meng
name: Wu, Hui-Chun
name: Meyer-ter-Vehn, Jürgen
name: Shen, Baifei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we apply an analytical model [V.V. Kulagin et al., Phys. Plasmas 14,113101 (2007)] to describe the acceleration of an ultra-thin electron layer by a schematic single-cycle laser pulse and compare with one-dimensional particle-in-cell (1D-PIC) simulations. This is in the context of creating a relativistic mirror for coherent backscattering and supplements two related papers in this EPJD volume. The model is shown to reproduce the 1D-PIC results almost quantitatively for the short time of a few laser periods sufficient for the backscattering of ultra-short probe pulses.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, submitted to the special issue "Fundamental Physics with Ultra-High Fields" in The European Physical Journal D
Does functional diversity increase the resilience and productivity of trees to drought under climate change?
Creators: name: Mustafa, Sirajul Momin
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: There is increased interest in mixed conifer-broadleaf forests as a way to enhance forest resilience to climate-induced droughts due to complementary functional traits of species. Based on a 23-year-old experiment in coastal British Columbia, Canada, this study assesses the effects of different red alder (Alnus rubra) and paper birch (Betula papyrifera) densities on the drought tolerance of three conifers: coastal Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii var. menziesii), western redcedar (Thuja plicata), and western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla). The broadleaves were planted at three densities either as single species or in a 50:50 mixture in between alternating conifers planted at a 3×3m spacing. Tree-ring data from 202 trees served to evaluate tolerance to a severe drought in 2015. Three indices of relative growth change were calculated: resistance, recovery, and resilience. Resistance is the ratio between pre-disturbance basal area increment (BAI) to during-disturbance BAI, recovery assesses during-disturbance to post-disturbance BAI, and resilience compares pre-disturbance to post-disturbance BAI. Among the conifers, Douglas-fir showed the lowest resistance, recovery, and resilience across treatments. In the high-density alder treatment, western redcedar exhibited increased resistance, and western hemlock displayed significantly greater recovery compared to the control. Additionally, western redcedar exhibited a tradeoff between its resistance and individual tree volume, displaying the highest resistance but the lowest productivity. There were net competitive effects in the birch treatments. Here, western hemlock had significantly lower drought tolerance. There were no specific patterns in the 50:50 alder and birch admixtures. In terms of productivity, there were no differences among the treatments. However, within species, hemlock generally had the highest individual tree volume, followed by Douglas-fir and western redcedar. Overall, the results suggested net facilitation for red alder admixture at 1150 stems/hectare for shade-tolerant western redcedar and western hemlock, enhancing drought resilience. Admixture of birch generally caused net competition for the conifers. This highlights the importance of functional traits like the shade tolerance of conifers along with the density of broadleaves. Delaying broadleaf introduction might be beneficial for managing mixed stands of shade-intolerant Douglas-fir and red alder.
title: A mixed methods investigation of Master’s students’ year in the UK: career adaptability and lived experience
Creators: name: Barghouthi, Sahar
Publisher: name: University of Reading
Year: 2025

description: In a socio-economic context undergoing continuous change, career adaptability emerges as a central 
psychosocial construct reflecting individuals’ resources for managing career tasks and challenges. 
Literature shows a need for more research on career adaptability change and qualitatively 
investigating that. This research investigated the lived experience of master’s students to explore how 
career adaptability (CA) changes during the year and what factors might influence that change. In 
order to do so, a sequential mixed methods design was used. First, quantitative data were collected 
from Postgraduate taught (PGT) students at Henley business school who completed the Career Adapt�Abilities Scale at two different points six to eight months apart. Paired sample t-test and hierarchical 
multiple regression analysis were used to analyse the quantitative data. After that, the lived 
experience of the students, who took part in the quantitative study, was explored through semi�structured interviews. The qualitative data were analysed using inductive thematic analysis
The quantitative results showed that students' CA has changed in different directions (increasing and 
decreasing) there was no significant change in CA for the students.
The qualitative data analysis showed that personal and contextual factors impacted their career 
adaptability change. Students with increased career adaptability at the end of the year showed a high 
level of self-management with a clear goal, time management and planning. The one-year master’s 
experience allowed students to know themselves better through engaging in different activities inside 
and outside the university. In addition, students with higher career adaptability showed maturity and 
the ability to see things differently by enhancing their critical thinking skills. Focusing on the learning 
process itself and dealing with feedback constructively helped them enjoy the journey and lower 
stress levels. Social support from family, friends and teachers assisted students’ stability and the ability 
to develop in a new diverse environment. Networking helped them feel more confident about their 
abilities and increased career adaptability.
Value of this study: By quantitively and qualitatively investigating the change in career adaptability,
this study offers new insights into the factors that can influence career adaptability development. In 
addition, it gives insight into the lived experience of master’s students, which is under-researched in 
the literature, and it provides theoretical and empirical implications for universities and career 
counsellors in addition to future research ideas for researchers.
Quasi-Periodic Flares from Star-Accretion Disc Collisions
Creators: name: Dai, Lixin
name: Fuerst, Steven V.
name: Blandford, Roger
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present simulated results of quasi-periodic flares generated by the inelastic collisions of a star bound to a super-massive black hole (SMBH) and its attendant accretion disc. We show that the behavior of the quasi-periodicity is affected by the mass and spin of the black hole and the orbital elements of the stellar orbit. We also evaluate the possibility of extracting useful information on these parameters and verifying the character of the Kerr metric from such quasi-periodic signals. Comparisons are made with the observed optical outbursts of OJ287, infrared flares from the Galactic center and X-ray variability in RE J1034+396.
description: 16 pages, 11 figures, submitted to MNRAS; corrected typos
title: Stadtklima und Klimaanpassung in der städtebaulichen Planung
Creators: name: Baumüller, Jürgen
name: Katzschner, Lutz
Publisher: name: Deutscher Wetterdienst
Year: 2023

description: Promet 106, Beitrag 11
description: Mit der Novellierung des Deutschen Baugesetzbuchs im Jahr 2011 wurde die Klimaanpassung als wichtiger Belang in der Bauleitplanung verankert. Durch das geänderte Planrecht sind die gesetzlichen Möglichkeiten gegeben, die Klimaanpassung bei Planungsvorhaben auf allen Ebenen zu berücksichtigen.
Um die Umsetzung stadtklimatischer Belange und der Klimaanpassung hinreichend berücksichtigen zu können, ist es notwendig, auf die Stadt bezogene entsprechende klimatische Bewertungen zu erarbeiten. Da man sich schon lange in Deutschland mit stadtklimatischen Untersuchungen befasst, ist es möglich, auf ein großes Knowhow zurückzugreifen: Seien dies Messungen oder Modelle, die es ermöglichen, flächendeckende klimatische Aussagen zu treffen und auch in Karten Planungshinweise auf allen Planungsebenen in Klimaanalysekarten darzustellen.
EDELWEISS-II Dark Matter Search : status and first results
Creators: name: Sanglard, Veronique
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The EDELWEISS II experiment is devoted to the search for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMP) that would constitute the Dark Matter halo of our Galaxy. For this purpose, the experiment uses cryogenic germanium detectors, cooled down at 20 mK, in which the collision of a WIMP with an atomic nucleus produces characteristic signals in terms of ionization and elevation of temperature. We will present the preliminary results of the first operation of the detectors installed in the underground laboratory of the Frejus Tunnel (LSM), attesting to the very low radioactive background conditions achieved so far. New detectors, with a special electrode design for active rejection of surface events, have been shown to be suited for searches of WIMPs with scattering cross-sections on nucleon well below 10-8 pb. Preliminary results of WIMP search performed with a first set of these detectors are presented.
description: 4 pages, to appear in the proceedings of the TAUP09 conference (Rome, July 1st-5th 2009)
title: Untersuchungsmethoden zum Stadtklima
Creators: name: Foken, Thomas
name: Parlow, Eberhard
name: Gross, Günter
name: Leitl, Bernd
Publisher: name: Deutscher Wetterdienst
Year: 2023

description: Promet 106, Beitrag 10
description: Für die Bearbeitung stadtklimatischer Fragestellungen stehen mehrere Untersuchungsmethoden zur Verfügung. Neben direkten und indirekten Messungen mit verschiedensten Beobachtungssystemen können auch Modelle herangezogen werden. Diese unterteilen sich in physikalische Modelle (z. B. Windkanal) und in numerische Simulationsmodelle. Jede der Untersuchungsmethoden hat ganz spezifische Stärken, aber auch Schwächen. Aus diesem Grunde erscheint es vorteilhaft, Aussagen zum Stadtklima aus der Zusammenschau der sehr unterschiedlichen Ergebnisse abzuleiten.
Graphene-based spin-pumping transistor
Creators: name: Guimarães, F. S. M.
name: Costa, A. T.
name: Muniz, R. B.
name: Ferreira, M. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate with a fully quantum-mechanical approach that graphene can function as gate-controllable transistors for pumped spin currents, i.e., a stream of angular momentum induced by the precession of adjacent magnetizations, which exists in the absence of net charge currents. Furthermore, we propose as a proof of concept how these spin currents can be modulated by an electrostatic gate. Because our proposal involves nano-sized systems that function with very high speeds and in the absence of any applied bias, it is potentially useful for the development of transistors capable of combining large processing speeds, enhanced integration and extremely low power consumption.
A Review of Empirical Studies of Heroes and Heroism
Creators: name: Sun, Yuning
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: This preregistration outlines a scoping review aimed at addressing the gap in the literature pertaining to heroes and heroism in psychology. Our primary goal is to analyze and synthesize empirical studies in this domain to understand the topics covered and identify future research trends.