cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Improved Service Delivery and Cost Effective Framework for e-Governance in India
Creators: name: Kumar, Puneet
name: Kumar, Dharminder
name: Kumar, Narendra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In current era, the involvement of technologies like virtualization, consolidation and cloud computing, and adoption of free and open source software in designing and deploying e-governance that can reduce the total cost associated with and hence the financial burden abide by the state and central governments. The success of any e-governance project depends upon its utilization by the intended group and so there accessibility needs to be enhanced drastically by reengineered framework. Here, we design an Improved Service Delivery and Cost Effective Framework for e-Governance that will be useful for success of e-governance projects and the delivery mechanism in India by using free and open access software for development and deployment of e-governance applications, virtualization and consolidation techniques for management of e-services and cloud computing for enhancing the accessibility of services.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures Published with International Journal of Computer Applications (IJCA)
Multi-azimuthal-angle effects in self-induced supernova neutrino flavor conversions without axial symmetry
Creators: name: Mirizzi, Alessandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The flavor evolution of neutrinos emitted by a supernova (SN) core is strongly affected by the refractive effects associated with the neutrino-neutrino interactions in the deepest stellar regions. Till now, all numerical studies have assumed the axial symmetry for the "multi-angle effects" associated with the neutrino-neutrino interactions. Recently, it has been pointed out in \cite{Raffelt:2013rqa} that removing this assumption, a new multi-azimuthal-angle (MAA) instability would emerge in the flavor evolution of the dense SN neutrino gas in addition to the one caused by multi-zenith-angle (MZA) effects. Inspired by this result, for the first time we numerically solve the non-linear neutrino propagation equations in SN, introducing the azimuthal angle as angular variable in addition to the usual zenith angle. We consider simple energy spectra with an excess of ν_e over anti-ν_e. In these cases, we find that even starting with a complete axial symmetric neutrino emission, the MAA effects would lead to significant flavor conversions in normal mass hierarchy, in cases otherwise stable under the only MZA effects. The final outcome of the flavor conversions, triggered by the MAA instability, depends on the initial asymmetry between ν_e and anti-ν_e spectra. If it is sufficiently large, final spectra would show an ordered behavior with spectral swaps and splits. Conversely, for small flavor asymmetries flavor decoherence among angular modes develops, affecting the flavor evolution also in inverted mass hierarchy.
description: (v2:13 pages, 9 eps figures. Final version. Text and figures clarified. References updated. Matches the version published on PRD)
Origins of bad metal conductivity and the insulator-metal transition in the rare-earth nickelates
Creators: name: Jaramillo, R.
name: Ha, Sieu D.
name: Silevitch, D. M.
name: Ramanathan, Shriram
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For most metals, increasing temperature (T) or disorder will quicken electron scattering. This hypothesis informs the Drude model of electronic conductivity. However, for so-called bad metals this predicts scattering times so short as to conflict with Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. Here we introduce the rare-earth nickelates (RNiO_3, R = rare earth) as a class of bad metals. We study SmNiO_3 thin films using infrared spectroscopy while varying T and disorder. We show that the interaction between lattice distortions and Ni-O bond covalence explains both the bad metal conduction and the insulator-metal transition in the nickelates by shifting spectral weight over the large energy scale established by the Ni-O orbital interaction, thus enabling very low σwhile preserving the Drude model and without violating the uncertainty principle.
Single polymer gating of channels under a solvent gradient
Creators: name: Nath, S
name: Foster, D P
name: Giri, D
name: Kumar, S
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effect of a gradient of solvent quality on the coil-globule transition for a polymer in a narrow pore. A simple self-attracting self-avoiding walk model of a polymer in solution shows that the variation in the strength of interaction across the pore leads the system to go from one regime (good solvent) to the other (poor solvent) across the channel. This may be thought analogous to thermophoresis, where the polymer goes from the hot region to the cold region under the temperature gradient. The behavior of short chains is studied using exact enumeration whilst the behavior of long chains is studied using transfer matrix techniques. The distribution of the monomer density across the layer suggests that a gate-like effect can be created, with potential applications as a sensor.
description: 5 Pages, 7 Figures, Accepted in Phys. Rev. E (2013)
THE EFFECT OF BANK REGULATION ON PERFORMANCE OF PRIVATE COMMERCIAL BANKS IN ETHIOPIA
Creators: name: ZEGEYE TADESSE
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: The financial system plays a pivotal role in economic activities in any country. Thus it is vital to determine the status and assess the financial health of the financial system and take corrective policy measures continuously. The main objective of the study is to examine the effect of bank regulation on the performance of private commercial banks. The study used balanced panel model in examining the regression model and collect data from ten private commercial banks covering the period of six (6) consecutive years, 2011-2016with a total of 60 observations. To this end, the study employed a quantitative research approach by documentary analysis based on their audited financial statement. The study used panel data techniques specifically fixed effect model on the regression analysis and used E-view8 software. The study used two dependent variables return on asset (ROA) and return on equity (ROE), six independent variables that are NBE bill purchase, legal reserve requirement, equity investment, capital requirement, capital adequacy and bank size
Proceedings Sixth Transformation Tool Contest
Creators: name: Van Gorp, Pieter
name: Rose, Louis M.
name: Krause, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: F.4.3;I.2.8;D.3.3

description: The aim of the Transformation Tool Contest (TTC) series is to compare the expressiveness, the usability and the performance of graph and model transformation tools along a number of selected case studies. Participants want to learn about the pros and cons of each tool considering different applications. A deeper understanding of the relative merits of different tool features will help to further improve graph and model transformation tools and to indicate open problems. TTC 2013 involved 18 offline case study solutions: 6 solutions to the FlowGraphs case, 9 solutions to the Petri Nets to Statecharts case and 3 solutions to the Restructuring case. 13 of the 18 solutions have undergone a non-blind peer review before the workshop and were presented and evaluated during the workshop in Budapest. This volume contains the submissions that have passed an additional (post-workshop, blind) reviewing round.
Median eigenvalues of bipartite subcubic graphs
Creators: name: Mohar, Bojan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C50

description: It is proved that the median eigenvalues of every connected bipartite graph $G$ of maximum degree at most three belong to the interval $[-1,1]$ with a single exception of the Heawood graph, whose median eigenvalues are $\pm\sqrt{2}$. Moreover, if $G$ is not isomorphic to the Heawood graph, then a positive fraction of its median eigenvalues lie in the interval $[-1,1]$. This surprising result has been motivated by the problem about HOMO-LUMO separation that arises in mathematical chemistry.
description: Accepted for publication in Combin. Probab. Comput
Automatic Mammogram image Breast Region Extraction and Removal of Pectoral Muscle
Creators: name: Boss, R. Subash Chandra
name: Thangavel, K.
name: Daniel, D. Arul Pon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Currently Mammography is a most effective imaging modality used by radiologists for the screening of breast cancer. Finding an accurate, robust and efficient breast region segmentation technique still remains a challenging problem in digital mammography. Extraction of the breast profile region and the removal of pectoral muscle are essential pre-processing steps in Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) system for the diagnosis of breast cancer. Primarily it allows the search for abnormalities to be limited to the region of the breast tissue without undue influence from the background of the mammogram. The presence of pectoral muscle in mammograms biases detection procedures, which recommends removing the pectoral muscle during mammogram image pre-processing. The presence of pectoral muscle in mammograms may disturb or influence the detection of breast cancer as the pectoral muscle and mammographic parenchymas appear similar. The goal of breast region extraction is reducing the image size without losing anatomic information, it improve the accuracy of the overall CAD system. The main objective of this study is to propose an automated method to identify the pectoral muscle in Medio-Lateral Oblique (MLO) view mammograms. In this paper, we proposed histogram based 8-neighborhood connected component labelling method for breast region extraction and removal of pectoral muscle. The proposed method is evaluated by using the mean values of accuracy and error. The comparative analysis shows that the proposed method identifies the breast region more accurately.
description: 8 Pages, 5 Figures
Generalized adiabatic connection in ensemble density-functional theory for excited states: example of the H2 molecule
Creators: name: Franck, Odile
name: Fromager, Emmanuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A generalized adiabatic connection for ensembles (GACE) is presented. In contrast to the traditional adiabatic connection formulation, both ensemble weights and interaction strength can vary along a GACE path while the ensemble density is held fixed. The theory is presented for non-degenerate two-state ensembles but it can in principle be extended to any ensemble of fractionally occupied excited states. Within such a formalism an exact expression for the ensemble exchange-correlation density-functional energy, in terms of the conventional ground-state exchange-correlation energy, is obtained by integration over the ensemble weight. Stringent constraints on the functional are thus obtained when expanding the ensemble exchange-correlation energy through second order in the ensemble weight. For illustration purposes, the analytical derivation of the GACE is presented for the H2 model system in a minimal basis, leading thus to a simple density-functional approximation to the ensemble exchange-correlation energy. Encouraging results were obtained with this approximation for the description in a large basis of the first ^1Σ^+_g excitation in H2 upon bond stretching. Finally, a range-dependent GACE has been derived, providing thus a pathway to the development of a rigorous state-average multi-determinant density-functional theory.
description: 3 figures
Apodemus gurkha Thomas 1924
Creators: name: Musser, Guy G.
name: Carleton, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Apodemus
Apodemus gurkha

description: Apodemus gurkha Thomas, 1924. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 29:888. TYPE LOCALITY: Nepal, Gorkha, Laprak. DISTRIBUTION: Nepal. COMMENTS: Subgenus Alsomys. Reviewed and contrasted with A. sylvaticus by Martens and Niethammer (1972). Chromosomal data reported and contrasted with other Apodemus by Gemmeke and Niethammer (1983). Also listed as a distinct species by Corbet (1978c) and Corbet and Hill (1991).
description: Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 571, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
description: {"references": ["Martens, J., and J. Niethammer. 1972. Die Waldmause (Apodemus) Nepals. Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde, 37: 144 - 154.", "Corbet, G. B. 1978 c. The mammals of the Palaearctic region: A taxonomic review. British Museum (Natural History), London, 314 pp.", "Corbet, G. B., and J. E. Hill. 1991. A world list of mammalian species. Third ed. British Museum (Natural History) Publications, London, 243 pp."]}
Apodemus hermonensis Filippucci, Simson, and Nevo 1989
Creators: name: Musser, Guy G.
name: Carleton, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Apodemus
Apodemus hermonensis

description: Apodemus hermonensis Filippucci, Simson, and Nevo, 1989. Boll. Zool., 56:374. TYPE LOCALITY: Mt Hermon, Israel. DISTRIBUTION: Alpine "tragacanthic" belt at about 2000 m on Mt Hermon, but may also occur in Lebanon (Filippucci et al., 1989). COMMENTS: Subgenus Sylvaemus. Morphologically and genetically closely related to A. flavicollis, which it displaces on Mt Hermon (and possibly also Lebanon and Antilebanon mountain ranges) at elevations above 1900 m (Filippucci et al., 1989).
description: Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on pages 571-572, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
description: {"references": ["Filippucci, M. G., S. Simson, and E. Nevo. 1989. Evolutionary biology of the genus Apodemus Kaup, 1829 in Israel. Allozymic and biometric analyses with description of a new species: Apodemus hermonensis (Rodentia, Muridae). Bollettino di Zoologia, 56: 361 - 376."]}
Dispersion C3 coefficients for the alkali-metal atoms interacting with a graphene layer and with a carbon nanotube
Creators: name: Arora, Bindiya
name: Kaur, Harjeet
name: Sahoo, B. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We evaluate separation dependent van der Waal dispersion ($C_3$) coefficients for the interactions of the Li, Na, K and Rb alkali atoms with a graphene layer and with a single walled carbon nanotube (CNT) using the hydrodynamic and Dirac models. The results from both the models are evaluated using accurate values of the dynamic polarizabilities of the above atoms. Accountability of these accurate values of dynamical polarizabilities of the alkali atoms in determination of the above $C_3$ coefficients are accentuated by comparing them with the coefficients evaluated using the dynamic dipole polarizabilities estimated from the single oscillator approximation which are typically employed in the earlier calculations. For practical description of the atom-surface interaction potentials the radial dependent $C_3$ coefficients are given for a wide range of separation distances between the ground states of the considered atoms and the wall surfaces and also for different values of nanotube radii. The coefficients for the graphene layer are fit to a logistic function dependent on the separation distance. For CNT, we have carried out a paraboloid kind of fit dependent on both the separation distances and radii of the CNT. These fitted functions,with the list of fitting parameters, can be used to extrapolate the interaction potentials between the considered alkali atoms and the graphene layer or CNT surface conveniently at the given level of accuracy.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures
title: Восстановление эксплуатационной надежности зданий и сооружений. Основания и фундаменты
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Донской государственный технический университет
Year: 2019

description: Изложены вопросы восстановления эксплуатационной надежности аварийных зданий и сооружений. Рассмотрены технические и организационные методы повышения надежности оснований и фундаментов зданий и сооружений. Предназначено для обучающихся по специальности 21.05.01 Прикладная геодезия и по направлениям подготовки 21.03.03 и 21.04.03 Геодезия и дистанционное зондирование.
Electronic transport properties of topological insulator films and low dimensional superconductors
Creators: name: Xing, Ying
name: Sun, Yi
name: Singh, Meenakshi
name: Zhao, Yan-Fei
name: Chan, Moses H. W.
name: Wang, Jian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this review, we present a summary of some recent experiments on topological insulators (TIs) and superconducting nanowires and films. Electron-electron interaction (EEI), weak anti-localization (WAL) and anisotropic magneto-resistance (AMR) effect found in TI films by transport measurements are reported. Then, transport properties of superconducting films, bridges and nanowires and proximity effect in non-superconducting nanowires are described. Finally, the interplay between TIs and superconductors (SCs) is also discussed.
Searching for Oscillations in the Primordial Power Spectrum: Perturbative Approach (Paper I)
Creators: name: Meerburg, P. Daniel
name: Spergel, David N.
name: Wandelt, Benjamin D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this first of two papers, we present a new method for searching for oscillatory features in the primordial power spectrum. A wide variety of models predict these features in one of two different flavors: logarithmically spaced oscillations and linearly spaced oscillations. The proposed method treats the oscillations as perturbations on top of the scale-invariant power spectrum, allowing us to vary all cosmological parameters. This perturbative approach reduces the computational requirements for the search as the transfer functions and their derivatives can be precomputed. We show that the most significant degeneracy in the analysis is between the distance to last scattering and the overall amplitude at low frequencies. For models with logarithmic oscillations, this degeneracy leads to an uncertainty in the phase. For linear spaced oscillations, it affects the frequency of the oscillations. In this first of two papers, we test our code on simulated Planck-like data, and show we are able to recover fiducial input oscillations with an amplitude of a few times order 10^{-2}. We apply the code to WMAP9-year data and confirm the existence of two intriguing resonant frequencies for log spaced oscillations. For linear spaced oscillations we find a single resonance peak. We use numerical simulations to assess the significance of these features and conclude that the data do not provide compelling evidence for the existence of oscillatory features in the primordial spectrum.
description: 13 pages, 22 figures. Paper 1 of 2. Fixed typos, added references
Apodemus hyrcanicus Vorontsov, Boyeskorov, and Mezhzherin 1992
Creators: name: Musser, Guy G.
name: Carleton, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Apodemus
Apodemus hyrcanicus

description: Apodemus hyrcanicus Vorontsov, Boyeskorov, and Mezhzherin, 1992. Zool. Zh., 71:127. TYPE LOCALITY: Azerbaijan, Caucasus, Astarinski (R-NO), Hirkauski Preserve, "Piavolil" Dist., 450 m. DISTRIBUTION: E Caucasus (see map in Vorontsov et al., 1992: 124) where it is apparently endemic in the low mountain broadleaf forests of the Talysh region. COMMENTS: Apodemus hyrcanicus, along with A. uralensis, A. fulvipectus, and A. ponticus, are all found in the Caucasus and have recently been revised by Vorontsov et al. (1992) using chromosomal, biochemical, and morphological characters.
description: Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 572, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
description: {"references": ["Vorontsov, N. N., G. G. Boyeskorov, S. V. Mezhzherin, E. A. Lyapunova, and A. S. Kandaurov. 1992. [Systematics of the Caucasian wood mice of the subgenus Sylvaemus (Mammalia, Rodentia, Apodemus).] Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 71: 119 - 131 (in Russian with English summary)."]}
Apodemus latronum Thomas 1911
Creators: name: Musser, Guy G.
name: Carleton, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Apodemus
Apodemus latronum

description: Apodemus latronum Thomas, 1911. Abstr. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 100:49. TYPE LOCALITY: China, W Szechwan, Tatsienlu. DISTRIBUTION: China (E Xizang, Sichuan, Yunnan) and N Burma. COMMENTS: Subgenus Alsomys. Treated as a subspecies of A. draco by Feng et al. (1986), but latronum is a separate species that is sympatric with draco in Sichuan (Corbet, 1978c).
description: Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 572, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
description: {"references": ["Feng Zuo-jiang, Cai Gui-quan, and Zheng Chang-lin. 1986. [The mammals of Xizang. The comprehensive scientific expedition to the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau]. Science Press, Academia Sinica, Beijing, 423 pp. (in Chinese).", "Corbet, G. B. 1978 c. The mammals of the Palaearctic region: A taxonomic review. British Museum (Natural History), London, 314 pp."]}
Are Boltzmann Plots of Hydrogen Balmer lines a tool for identifying a subclass of S1 AGN?
Creators: name: Rafanelli, P.
name: Ciroi, S.
name: Cracco, V.
name: Di Mille, F.
name: Ilić, D.
name: La Mura, G.
name: Popović, L. Č.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is becoming clear that we can define two different types of nearby AGN belonging to the Seyfert 1 class (S1), on the basis of the match of the intensities of their Broad Balmer Lines (BBL) with the Boltzmann Plots (BP). These two types of S1 galaxies, that we call BP-S1 and NoBP-S1, are characterized, in first approximation, by Broad Line Regions (BLR) with different structural and physical properties. In this communication, we show that these features can be well pointed out by a multi-wavelength analysis of the continuum and of the broad recombination Hydrogen lines, that we carry out on a sample of objects detected at optical and X-ray frequencies. The investigation is addressed to verify whether BP-S1 are the ideal candidates for the study of the kinematical and structural properties of the BLR, in order to derive reliable estimates of the mass of their central engine and to constrain the properties of their nuclear continuum spectrum.
description: 26 pages, 4 figures (1 multi-paged). Accepted for publication on Advances in Space Research. Contribution to the IX SCSLSA
Recurrent Neural Network-based Base Transceiver Station Power System Failure Prediction
Creators: name: Tewodros Kibatu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: Global network infrastructures are increasing with the development of new technologies and growth in Internet traffic. As network infrastructures increases, maintaining and monitoring them will become very challenging since thousands of alarms are generated every day. Clearing those alarms by corrective maintenance activities require considerable effort and resources (car, labour, and budget).
PRGS_SupplementaryInformation.docx from Changes of Cinchona distribution over the past two centuries in the northern Andes
Creators: name: González-Orozco, Carlos E.
name: Guillén, Esther García
name: Cuvi, Nicolás
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: Environmental Science

description: The Cinchona genus is important for humanity due to its ethnobotanical properties, and in particular its ability to prevent and treat malaria. However, there have been historical changes of Cinchona distribution in the tropical Andes that remain undocumented. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, several explorers recorded Cinchona precise localities in present-day Colombia and Ecuador, countries which harbour about half of the species of the genus, including C. officinalis. We compare historical and twentieth-century records to evaluate whether elevational ranges, mean elevation and latitude varied between the two periods. A large expansion of 662.5 m in average elevation for Cinchona and 792.5 m in elevational range for C. officinalis was found. These findings have implications for the conservation of economically important species and help us understand the impacts of the Anthropocene over time.
A New Approach to Developing Interactive Software Modules through Graduate Education
Creators: name: Sanders, Nathan E.
name: Faesi, Chris
name: Goodman, Alyssa A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Educational technology has attained significant importance as a mechanism for supporting experiential learning of science concepts. However, the growth of this mechanism is limited by the significant time and technical expertise needed to develop such products, particularly in specialized fields of science. We sought to test whether interactive, educational, online software modules can be developed effectively by students as a curriculum component of an advanced science course. We discuss a set of fifteen such modules developed by Harvard University graduate students to demonstrate various concepts related to astronomy and physics. Their successful development of these modules demonstrates that online software tools for education and outreach on specialized topics can be produced while simultaneously fulfilling project-based learning objectives. We describe a set of technologies suitable for module development and present in detail four examples of modules developed by the students. We offer recommendations for incorporating educational software development within a graduate curriculum and conclude by discussing the relevance of this novel approach to new online learning environments like edX
description: 12 pages, 4 figures, 1 table; V2 as accepted by the Journal of Science Education and Technology; for more information visit http://ay201b.wordpress.com/topical-modules/2013-topical-modules/
Electron shakeoff following the ?+ decay of trapped 35Ar+ ions
Creators: name: Couratin, C.
name: Fabian, X.
name: Fabre, B.
name: Pons, B.
name: Fléchard, X.
name: Liénard, E.
name: Ban, G.
name: Breitenfeldt, M.
name: Delahaye, P.
name: Durand, D.
name: Méry, A.
name: Naviliat-Cuncic, O.
name: Porobic, T.
name: Quéméner, G.
name: Rodriguez, D.
name: Severijns, N.
name: Thomas, J. C.
name: Van Gorp, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The electron shakeoff of $^{35}$Cl atoms resulting from the $β$$^+$ decay of $^{35}$Ar$^+$ ions has been investigated using a Paul trap coupled to a recoil-ion spectrometer. The charge-state distribution of the recoiling daughter nuclei is compared to theoretical calculations accounting for shakeoff and Auger processes. The calculations are in excellent agreement with the experimental results and enable to identify the ionization reaction routes leading to the formation of all charge states.
description: Physical Review A In press (2013)
Instability of the ferrofluid layer on a magnetizable substrate in a perpendicular magnetic field
Creators: name: Zakinyan, Arthur
name: Mkrtchyan, Levon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The paper presents an experimental study of the instability of a magnetic fluid layer of finite thickness covering a magnetizable metal plate exposed to a perpendicular magnetic field. The critical field strength and the instability wave number have been measured.
Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude and Practices of Medical laboratory professionals on use of Internal Quality Control (IQC) for Clinical Laboratory Tests among Selected Health Centers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Creators: name: DEREJE MAMUYE
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014

description: Background: Internal quality control (IQC) is designed to detect, reduce, and correct deficiencies in a laboratory's internal analytical process prior to the release of patient results, in order to improve the quality of the results reported by the laboratory. As different studies indicated, 5% to 10% of laboratories are deficient in IQC practices, including IQC frequency, use of appropriate material, and statistical processing. Understanding what medical laboratory professionals know about IQC, their thinking about it and their actual practice of what they know will help to design solutions for improving quality of medical laboratory service. Objective: To assess Knowledge, altitude and practices (KAP) of medical laboratory professionals on the use of IQC for laboratory tests among selected Health centers
A Hamiltonian Monte Carlo method for Bayesian Inference of Supermassive Black Hole Binaries
Creators: name: Porter, Edward K.
name: Carré, Jérôme
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the use of a Hamiltonian Monte Carlo to map out the posterior density function for supermassive black hole binaries. While previous Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods, such as Metropolis-Hastings MCMC, have been successfully employed for a number of different gravitational wave sources, these methods are essentially random walk algorithms. The Hamiltonian Monte Carlo treats the inverse likelihood surface as a "gravitational potential" and by introducing canonical positions and momenta, dynamically evolves the Markov chain by solving Hamilton's equations of motion. We present an implementation of the Hamiltonian Markov Chain that is faster, and more efficient by a factor of approximately the dimension of the parameter space, than the standard MCMC.
description: 16 pages, 8 figures
Apodemus mystacinus
Creators: name: Musser, Guy G.
name: Carleton, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Apodemus
Apodemus mystacinus

description: Apodemus mystacinus (Danford and Alston, 1877). Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1877:279. TYPE LOCALITY: Turkey, Adana Prov., Bulgar Dagh Mt, Zebil. DISTRIBUTION: SE Europe, Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Iraq, NW Iran, S Georgia in Caucasus, Rhodes, Crete, and other inshore Aegean isls, and N Arabia (Corbet, 1978c; Niethammer, 1978a). SYNONYMS: epimelas, euxinus, pohlei, rhodius, smyrnensis. COMMENTS: Subgenus Karstomys. Reviewed by Storch (1977) and Niethammer (1978a), who included krkensis as a subspecies; that form, however, is a color phase of A. sylvaticus (see that account). The Arabian portion of its range includes the form named pohlei (Harrison and Bates, 1991). Vorontsov et al. (1989) provided chromosomal data in context of defining species in Caucasia.
description: Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 572, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
description: {"references": ["Corbet, G. B. 1978 c. The mammals of the Palaearctic region: A taxonomic review. British Museum (Natural History), London, 314 pp.", "Niethammer, J. 1978 a. Apodemus mystacinus (Danford and Alston, 1877) -- Felsenmaus. Pp. 306 - 324, in Handbuch der Saugetiere Europas (J. Niethammer and F. Krapp, eds.). Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft (Wiesbaden), 1: 1 - 476.", "Harrison, D. L., and P. J. J. Bates. 1991. The mammals of Arabia, Second ed. Harrison Zoological Museum, Sevenoaks, United Kingdom, 354 pp.", "Vorontsov, N. N., S. V. Mezhzherin, G. G. Boeskorov, and E. A. Lyapunova. 1989. [Genetic differentiation of sibling species of wood mice (Apodemus) in the Caucasia and their diagnostics.] Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, 309: 1234 - 1238 (in Russian)."]}
Vector Fields in Kerr/CFT Correspondence
Creators: name: Ghezelbash, A. M.
name: Siahaan, H. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we use the appropriate boundary action for the vector fields near the horizon of near extremal Kerr black hole to calculate the two-point function for the vector fields in Kerr/CFT correspondence. We show the gauge-independent part of the two-point function is in agreement with what is expected from CFT.
description: 27 pages, misprints corrected, references added, clarifying remarks added
PRGS_SupplementaryInformation.docx from Changes of cinchona distribution over the past two centuries in the northern Andes
Creators: name: González-Orozco, Carlos E.
name: Guillén, Esther García
name: Cuvi, Nicolás
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: Environmental Science

description: The Cinchona genus is important for humanity, due to its ethnobotanical properties, particularly its ability to prevent and treat malaria. However, historical changes of Cinchona distribution in the tropical Andes remain undocumented. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, several explorers precisely recorded Cinchona localities in present-day Colombia and Ecuador, countries which harbour about half of the species of the genus, including C. officinalis. We compared historical and twentieth century records to evaluate whether elevational ranges, mean elevation and latitude varied between the two periods. A large expansion of 662.5/948.5 m in the average and elevational range for C. officinalis and 792.5 for Cinchona was obtained. These findings have implications for the conservation of economically important species and to understand the impacts of the Anthropocene over time.
title: Изготовление модельной оснастки
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Донской государственный технический университет
Year: 2015

description: В учебном пособии рассмотрены вопросы проектирования и изготовления модельной оснастки литейного производства, описаны традиционные технологии механической обработки объектов литейной оснастки и технологии синтезирования (аддитивные технологии) моделей и форм, приведены рекомендации для разработки технологических процессов и организации производства. Пособие предназначено для студентов направлений 15.03.01 «Машиностроение» и 29.03.04 «Технология художественной обработки материалов», а также может быть полезно специалистам в области литейного производства.
Assessment of Project Identification and Selection Practice of Ethiopian Sugar Corporation
Creators: name: Sewagegnehu Dagne
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: Sugar projects are one of the biggest projects in the Ethiopia history taking more than 4 billion dollars, which is equal with the Ethiopian renascence dam. However, after taking this much capital and 8 years of construction the projects are still lagging far behind the targeted goal of solving the sugar shortage of the country and becoming a source of foreign currency earning. Taking these problems of sugar projects in mind, the goal of this research was to investigate the initial phases of the projects which is how the projects were identified and selected and if they followed the appropriated phases before the implementation were began. The research targeted staffs of the sugar corporation and the projects manager who are directly related with the projects overall activity. The research is done from the data collected from 30 management level staffs of Sugar Corporation and finds out that the problems of the projects begin from the blind move of the corporation towards project implementation without effective preparation and appraisal. This lack of preparation then accompanied by largeness and over ambitiousness of the projects time and performance targets took the whole project in to bust. When selecting the projects they lacked minds to predict the potential risks going to happen. In addition, the feasibility study of the projects was for formality only, which evolved vicious circle of problems. Therefore, for Sugar Corporation and other companies this should be the best course for their future project responsibilities, they should note that skipping the project identification, selection processes to save time is not really saving time rather it is creating a gap for potential project implementation delays, and cost overran.
Reconstruction of physics objects in the CMS detector
Creators: name: Nayak, Aruna Kumar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The reconstruction and identification of physics objects in the CMS detector, in the context of the charged Higgs boson search analysis, are presented. The reconstruction algorithms and their performance in 7 TeV and 8 TeV LHC data are discussed. The identification of tau hadronic decays, the reconstruction of hadronic jets and missing transverse energy and the identification of b jets are described in detail.
description: Published in the proceedings of "Prospects for Charged Higgs Discovery at Colliders - Charged 2012, October 8-11, 2012, Uppsala University, Sweden"
Factors Influencing the Distribution Performance (The Case of Muger Cement Factory)
Creators: name: Tefera Workalemahu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: The purpose of this study was to examine factors that influence the distribution performance of Muger cement factory. The guiding research question of this study was `` To what extent dose financial capacity, transport outsourcing and information system impact the distribution performance of Muger cement factory. The study used a stratified method of sampling technique on sample respondents Muger cement management staffs comprising of 2-top management, 9-process owners and 82-team leaders: who are located at Muger, Tatek and Addis Ababa cement. A structured questionnaire was developed by the researcher and a quantitative data was gathered and used. From the distributed 93-questionaire, 78 of them are responded which constitute more than 80 percent of response rate.
Apodemus ponticus Sviridenko 1936
Creators: name: Musser, Guy G.
name: Carleton, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Apodemus
Apodemus ponticus

description: Apodemus ponticus Sviridenko, 1936. Abs. Works Zool. Inst. Moscow State Univ., 3:103. TYPE LOCALITY: N Caucasus, Chernomorski Dist., (Black Sea) Olgino Village. DISTRIBUTION: From shore of Azov Sea through Ciscaucasia, south through Caucasus into Armenia, E Turkey, Iraq, and possibly NW Iran; limits unknown. Parts of the Russian distribution were mapped by Vereshchagin (1967; as fulvipectus), Mezhzherin (1991), and Vorontsov et al. (1992). SYNONYMS: argyropuli, argyropuloi, brevicauda, parvus, persicus, planicola, samaricus, samariensis, saxatilis. COMMENTS: Subgenus Sylvaemus. The names above have been associated with A. flavicollis (Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951; Harrison and Bates, 1991), but they identify samples of A. ponticus which is a distinct species (Bobrinskii et al., 1944; Mezhzherin, 1991; O. Rossolimo, in litt.; Vereshchagin, 1967:510; Vorontsov et al., 1992). True flavicollis does not occur in the Caucasus and parts of the M East. The names argyropuli Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951, and argyropuloi Heptner, 1948 (see Harrison and Bates, 1991) were proposed to replace parvus.
description: Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 572, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
description: {"references": ["Vereshchagin, N. K. 1967. The mammals of the Caucasus, a history of the evolution of the fauna [A translation of N. K. Vereshchagin, 1959, Mlekopitayushchie Kavkaza: Istoriya formirovaniya fauny]. Israel Program for Scientific Translations, Jerusalem, 816 pp.", "Vorontsov, N. N., G. G. Boyeskorov, S. V. Mezhzherin, E. A. Lyapunova, and A. S. Kandaurov. 1992. [Systematics of the Caucasian wood mice of the subgenus Sylvaemus (Mammalia, Rodentia, Apodemus).] Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 71: 119 - 131 (in Russian with English summary).", "Ellerman, J. R., and T. C. S. Morrison-Scott. 1951. Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian mammals 1758 to 1946. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 810 pp.", "Harrison, D. L., and P. J. J. Bates. 1991. The mammals of Arabia, Second ed. Harrison Zoological Museum, Sevenoaks, United Kingdom, 354 pp.", "Bobrinskii, N. A., B. A. Kuznetsov, and A. P. Kuzyakin. 1944. Opredelitl' mlekopitayushchikh SSSR [Guide to the mammals of the U. S. S. R.]. Sovietskaya Nauka, Moscow, 439 pp. (in Russian)."]}
Tune-out wavelengths and landscape modulated polarizabilities of alkali Rydberg atoms in infrared optical lattices
Creators: name: Topcu, Turker
name: Derevianko, Andrei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Intensity modulated optical lattice potentials can change sign for an alkali metal Rydberg atom, and the atoms are not always attracted to intensity minima in optical lattices with wavelengths near the CO$_2$ laser band. Here we demonstrate that such IR lattices can be tuned so that the trapping potential seen by the Rydberg atom can be made to vanish for atoms in \targeted" Rydberg states. Such state selective trapping of Rydberg atoms can be useful in controlled cold Rydberg collisions, cooling Rydberg states, and species-selective trapping and transport of Rydberg atoms in optical lattices. We tabulate wavelengths at which the trapping potential vanishes for the $n$s, $n$p, and $n$d Rydberg states of Na and Rb atoms, and discuss advantages of using such optical lattices for state selective trapping of Rydberg atoms. We also develop exact analytic expressions for the lattice induced polarizability for the $m_z = 0$ Rydberg states, and derive an accurate formula predicting tune-out wavelengths at which the optical trapping potential becomes invisible to Rydberg atoms in targeted $l = 0$ states.
Average Case Analysis of Java 7's Dual Pivot Quicksort
Creators: name: Wild, Sebastian
name: Nebel, Markus E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Recently, a new Quicksort variant due to Yaroslavskiy was chosen as standard sorting method for Oracle's Java 7 runtime library. The decision for the change was based on empirical studies showing that on average, the new algorithm is faster than the formerly used classic Quicksort. Surprisingly, the improvement was achieved by using a dual pivot approach, an idea that was considered not promising by several theoretical studies in the past. In this paper, we identify the reason for this unexpected success. Moreover, we present the first precise average case analysis of the new algorithm showing e.g. that a random permutation of length $n$ is sorted using $1.9n\ln n-2.46n+\mathcal{O}(\ln n)$ key comparisons and $0.6n\ln n+0.08n+\mathcal{O}(\ln n)$ swaps.
description: Best paper award at ESA 2012, recorded talk: http://www.slideshare.net/sebawild/average-case-analysis-of-java-7s-dual-pivot-quicksort
Time-dependent CP-violations of B(Bs) decays in the perturbative QCD approach
Creators: name: Yu, Xin
name: Zou, Zhi-Tian
name: Lu, Cai-Dian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the decay modes of B_{s}^{0}(\bar{B}_{s}^{0})-->D_{s}^{\pm} K^{\mp}, B_{s}^{0}(\bar{B}_{s}^{0})-->D^{\pm} π^{\mp} and B^{0}(\bar{B}^{0})-->D^{\pm} π^{\mp} in the perterbative QCD approach based on k_T factorization, including the branching ratios and CP violation parameters which provide a clear way to extract the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa angle γ. Our results of branching ratios of B_{s}^{0}(\bar{B}_{s}^{0})-->D_{s}^{\pm} K^{\mp} and B^{0}(\bar{B}^{0})--> D^{\pm} π^{\mp} and the CP asymmetry of B^{0}(\bar{B}^{0})--> D^{\pm} π^{\mp} agree well with the experimental data. We also give the predictions of the other observables, which provide some guidance for experiments in the future, especially for LHCb experiment.
description: 14 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables
Apodemus rusiges Miller 1913
Creators: name: Musser, Guy G.
name: Carleton, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Apodemus
Apodemus rusiges

description: Apodemus rusiges Miller, 1913. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 26:81. TYPE LOCALITY: N India, C Kashmir. DISTRIBUTION: N India (Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, and Kumaun); range limits unresolved. SYNONYMS: griseus. COMMENTS: Subgenus Sylvaemus. Miller's rusiges was a renaming of True's griseus (see Ellerman, 1941:100). Listed as a subspecies of A. flavicollis by Ellerman (1941, 1961) and Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951), and as a subspecies of A. sylvaticus by Corbet (1978c), the long-tailed and distinctively patterned rusiges appears to be a separate species endemic to N India.
description: Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 573, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
description: {"references": ["Ellerman, J. R. 1941. The families and genera of living rodents. Vol. II. Family Muridae. British Museum (Natural History), London, 690 pp.", "Ellerman, J. R. 1961. Rodentia. Volume 3, in The fauna of India including Pakistan, Burma and Ceylon. Mammalia. Second ed. Manager of Publications, Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta, vol. 3 (in 2 parts), 1: 1 - 482; 2: 483 - 884.", "Ellerman, J. R., and T. C. S. Morrison-Scott. 1951. Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian mammals 1758 to 1946. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 810 pp.", "Corbet, G. B. 1978 c. The mammals of the Palaearctic region: A taxonomic review. British Museum (Natural History), London, 314 pp."]}