cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
From exploration to post-closure : the benefits of using terrain stability assessments in mine life planning
Creators: name: Stevens, Victoria
name: Tashe, Natalie
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Terrain stability assessments are an important a planning tool that is used from the routing trails for mineral exploration through construction, to post-closure changes in stability from mining activities. Quantifying landscape stability conditions can influence mine design and reclamation plans, while sitespecific terrain stability assessments for construction of exploration trails and drill pads will help prevent localized instability. Mechanisms of alterations to terrain stability will change through the life of a project, and may include such forces as landscape-level groundwater fluctuations associated with pit dewatering; slope loading resulting from waste rock dumps; subsidence resulting from underground mines, or alterations to hydrologic networks due to infrastructure construction that directs drainage onto downslope terrain. All of these mechanisms can affect reclamation planning and end-land use objectives. The benefits of applying diligent terrain stability assessment protocols are two-fold: economic and environmental. Economic benefits can be derived from lowered project costs for access road maintenance, proactive versus reactive planning, and reduced mitigation and monitoring measures associated with post-closure activities. Environmental benefits include reduced impacts from landslides negatively affecting sensitive receptors such as fisheries habitat or wetland environments, and by preserving soil resources.
Generic Finite Size Enhancement of Pairing in Mesoscopic Fermi Systems
Creators: name: Farine, M.
name: Hekking, F. W. I.
name: Schuck, P.
name: Vinas, X.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The finite size dependent enhancement of pairing in mesoscopic Fermi systems is studied under the assumption that the BCS approach is valid and that the two body force is size independent. Different systems are investigated such as superconducting metallic grains and films as well atomic nuclei. It is shown that the finite size enhancement of pairing in these systems is in part due to the presence of a surface which accounts quite well for the data of nuclei and explains a good fraction of the enhancement in Al grains.
description: Updated version 17/02/03
Edge fracture instability in sheared complex fluids: onset criterion and possible mitigation strategy
Creators: name: Hemingway, Ewan J.
name: Fielding, Suzanne M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform a detailed theoretical study of the edge fracture instability, which commonly destabilises the fluid-air interface during strong shear flows of entangled polymeric fluids, leading to unreliable rheological measurements. By means of direct nonlinear simulations, we map out phase diagrams showing the degree of edge fracture in the plane of the surface tension of the fluid-air interface and the imposed shear rate, within the Giesekus and Johnson-Segalman models, for different values of the nonlinear constitutive parameters that determine the dependencies on shear rate of the shear and normal stresses. The threshold for the onset of edge fracture is shown to be relatively robust against variations in the wetting angle where the fluid-air interface meets the hard walls of the flow cell, whereas the nonlinear dynamics depend strongly on wetting angle. We perform a linear stability calculation to derive an exact analytical expression for the onset of edge fracture, expressed in terms of the shear-rate derivative of the second normal stress difference, the shear-rate derivative of the shear stress (sometimes called the tangent viscosity), the jump in shear stress across the interface between the fluid and the outside air, the surface tension of that interface, and the rheometer gap size. Full agreement between our analytical calculation and nonlinear simulations is demonstrated. We also elucidate in detail the mechanism of edge fracture, and finally suggest a new way in which it might be mitigated in experimental practice. Some of the results in this paper were first announced in an earlier letter. The present manuscript provides additional simulation results, calculational details of the linear stability analysis, and more detailed discussion of the significance and limitations of our findings.
description: 18 pages, 12 figures; v2: updated to post-referee version
Discrete series of representations for Uq(sl(2,R))
Creators: name: Stovicek, Pavel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 17B37;81R50

description: A possible generalization of the method of orbits to SLq(2,R) is discussed.
description: 5 pages, a corrected version
Cyperus hemisphaericus Boeckeler
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Poales
Cyperaceae
Cyperus
Cyperus hemisphaericus

description: Cyperus hemisphaericus Boeckeler  —
Habit: Herb.
Habitat: LMDF; up to 1 900 m. Distribution: II.
Voucher: N/A.
Reference: Fries & Fries (1925).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 33, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Nahm transform for doubly-periodic instantons
Creators: name: Jardim, Marcos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the Nahm transform of the doubly-periodic instantons introduced in math.DG/9909069, converting them into certain meromorphic solutions of Hitchin's equations over an elliptic curve.
description: Exposition improved; 39 pages
Remarks on Renormalization of Black Hole Entropy
Creators: name: Kim, Sang Pyo
name: Kim, Sung Ku
name: Soh, Kwang-Sup
name: Yee, Jae Hyung
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We elaborate the renormalization process of entropy of a nonextremal and an extremal Reissner-Nordström black hole by using the Pauli-Villars regularization method, in which the regulator fields obey either the Bose-Einstein or Fermi-Dirac distribution depending on their spin-statistics. The black hole entropy involves only two renormalization constants. We also discuss the entropy and temperature of the extremal black hole.
description: 14 pages, revtex, no figures
Geometric Entropy and Curvature Coupling in Conical Spaces: zeta Function Approach
Creators: name: Moretti, Valter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The local $ζ-$function approach is implemented to regularize the natural path integral definition of the geometric entropy in the large mass black hole Euclidean manifold. The case of a massless field coupled with the (off-shell) singular curvature is considered. It is proved that the geometric entropy is independent of the curvature coupling parameter $ξ$ avoiding negative values obtained in other approaches.
description: 6 pages, LaTex, no figures, minor text errors corrected, a reference added, final version to be published in Class. Quant. Grav
Determinative Role of the Jahn-Teller Disorder in the Raman Scattering of Mixed-Valence Manganites
Creators: name: Iliev, M. N.
name: Abrashev, M. V.
name: Popov, V. N.
name: Hadjiev, V. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The mixed-valence perovskitelike manganites are characterized by unique interrelation of Jahn-Teller distortions, electric and magnetic properties. The Jahn-Teller distortion follows the Mn(3+)->Mn(4+) charge transfer with some delay. Its development depends on the lifetime of Mn in (3+) state, governed by the Mn(4+)/Mn(3+) ratio and magnetic correlation. The non-coherence of Jahn-Teller distortions in orthorhombic mixed-valence manganites and rhombohedral RMnO3 (R = rare earth) results in oxygen disorder. We demonstrate that the Raman spectra in this case are dominated by disorder-induced bands reflecting the oxygen partial phonon density of states (PDOS). The PDOS origin of the main Raman bands in insulating phases of such compounds is evidenced by the similar lineshape of experimental spectra and calculated smeared PDOS and disappearance of the PDOS bands in ordered ferromagnetic metallic phase.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Planning for closure : Porcupine Gold Mine’s mine closure program
Creators: name: Stevens, C.J.
name: Sulatycky, T.
name: Small, C.A.
name: Götz, L.
name: Taillefer, R.T.
name: Burke, L.E.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: This paper describes the closure program that is underway by Goldcorp Canada Ltd. at their Porcupine Gold Mines (PGM) operation in Timmins, Ontario. As part of the mine property acquisitions, PGM made a corporate commitment to work with the communities and other stakeholders to close out the legacy sites while PGM mines are in operation. This led PGM to institute a closure planning program that involved assessing the environmental and safety risks associated with each legacy site and then prioritizing and scheduling detailed site investigations, closure options development, closure plan submissions, and preliminary to detailed engineering design through to construction. The closure program considers all the PGM sites and, where possible, incorporates closure measures between sites such as the consolidation of tailings or utilizing historical tailings as paste fill material at another underground mine.
Cyperus impubes Steud.
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Poales
Cyperaceae
Cyperus
Cyperus impubes

description: Cyperus impubes Steud.  —
Habit: Herb.
Habitat: LMWF, LMDF; 1 300–2 300 m. Distribution: II.
Voucher: N/A.
References: Fries & Fries (1925), Bussmann (1994).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 33, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Paranapiacaba Bechyne 1958
Creators: name: Viswajyothi, Keezhpattillam
name: Clark, Shawn M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Paranapiacaba

description: Genus Paranapiacaba Bechyné, 1958
Paranapiacaba Bechyné, 1958: 562 (type species Diabrotica decemverrucata Gahan, 1891, by original designation).
Remarks
This genus contains 58 described species. They occur from the United States through much of South America, and in West Indies. See Figs 70–71 for habitus illustrations.
description: Published as part of Viswajyothi, Keezhpattillam & Clark, Shawn M., 2022, New World genera of Galerucinae Latreille, 1802 (tribes Galerucini Latreille, 1802, Metacyclini Chapuis, 1875, and Luperini Gistel, 1848): an annotated list and identification key (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), pp. 1-102 in European Journal of Taxonomy 842 on page 21, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.842.1945, http://zenodo.org/record/7222499
Additional file 1: of Interleukin-1-related activity and hypocretin-1 in cerebrospinal fluid contribute to fatigue in primary Sjögren’s syndrome
Creators: name: Bårdsen, Kjetil
name: Brede, Cato
name: Kvivik, Ingeborg
name: Kvaløy, Jan
name: Jonsdottir, Kristin
name: Tjensvoll, Anne
name: Ruoff, Peter
name: Omdal, Roald
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Figure S1. The visual analog scale (fVAS) used for scoring of fatigue. (DOC 25 kb)
Order parameter evolution in scalar QFT: renormalization group resummation of secular terms
Creators: name: de Vega, H. J.
name: Salgado, J. F. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The quantum evolution equations for the field expectation value are analytically solved to cubic order in the field amplitude and to one-loop level in the lambda phi-fourth model. We adapt and use the renormalization group (RG) method for such non-linear and non-local equations. The time dependence of the field expectation value is explicitly derived integrating the RG equations. It is shown that the field amplitude for late times approaches a finite limit as the time to the power -3/2. This limiting value is expressed as a function of the initial field amplitude.
description: Latex file, 13 pages, no figures
Identities and Many-Body Approaches in Bose-Einstein Condensates
Creators: name: Watabe, Shohei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper discusses exact relations in Bose--Einstein condensates (BECs), starting from basic properties of an ideal Bose gas. In particular, focused on are the Hugenholtz--Pines relation, Nepomnyashchii--Nepomnyashchii identity, and identities for the density response function. After introducing these exact relations, a few approaches of many-body approximations are discussed, which satisfy the exact relations in BECs. This paper will serve as a bridge between theories on exact relations and those on approximations in BECs.
description: 10 pages
Delocalization of edge states in topological phases
Creators: name: Malki, M.
name: Uhrig, G. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The presence of a topologically non-trivial discrete invariants implies the existence of gapless modes in finite samples, but it does not necessarily imply their localization. The disappearance of the indirect energy gap in the bulk generically leads to the absence of localized edge states. We illustrate this behavior in two fundamental lattice models on the single-particle level. By tuning a hopping parameter the indirect gap is closed while maintaining the topological properties. The inverse participation ratio is used to measure the degree of localization.
description: 5 pages including 6 figures and 4 pages supplement including 8 figure
Spectral Unmixing: A Derivation of the Extended Linear Mixing Model from the Hapke Model
Creators: name: Drumetz, Lucas
name: Chanussot, Jocelyn
name: Jutten, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: In hyperspectral imaging, spectral unmixing aims at decomposing the image into a set of reference spectral signatures corresponding to the materials present in the observed scene and their relative proportions in every pixel. While a linear mixing model was used for a long time, the complex nature of the physical mixing processes, led to shift the community's attention towards nonlinear models and algorithms accounting for the variability of the endmembers. Such intra class variations are due to local changes in the physico-chemical composition of the materials, and to illumination changes. In the physical remote sensing community, a popular model accounting for illumination variability is the radiative transfer model proposed by Hapke. It is however too complex to be directly used in hyperspectral unmixing in a tractable way. Instead, the Extended Linear Mixing Model (ELMM) allows to easily unmix hyperspectral data accounting for changing illumination conditions. In this letter, we show that the ELMM can be obtained from the Hapke model by successive simplifiying physical assumptions, thus theoretically confirming its relevance to handle illumination induced variability in the unmixing problem.
Cyperus involucratus Rottb.
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Poales
Cyperaceae
Cyperus
Cyperus involucratus

description: Cyperus involucratus Rottb.  —
Habit: Herb.
Habitat: LMDF; up to 2 200 m. Distribution: II.
 Voucher: Lower Imenti Forest, Alt. 1 379 m, 8 Aug. 2015, SAJIT 003878 (HIB).
Reference: N/A.
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 33, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Monodromy of fiber-type arrangements and orbit configuration spaces
Creators: name: Cohen, Daniel C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20F36, 52B30 (Primary) 19B99, 20F40 (Secondary)

description: We prove similar theorems concerning the structure of bundles involving complements of fiber-type hyperplane arrangements and orbit configuration spaces. These results facilitate analysis of the fundamental groups of these spaces, which may be viewed as generalizations of the Artin pure braid group. In particular, we resolve two disparate conjectures. We show that the Whitehead group of the fundamental group of the complement of a fiber-type arrangement is trivial, as conjectured by Aravinda, Farrell, and Rouchon. For the orbit configuration space corresponding to the natural action of a finite cyclic group on the punctured plane, we determine the structure of the Lie algebra associated to the lower central series of the fundamental group. Our results show that this Lie algebra is isomorphic to the module of primitives in the homology of the loop space of a related orbit configuration space, as conjectured by Xicotencatl.
description: LaTeX, 19 pages with 3 figures
Rainbow scattering of gravitational plane waves by a compact body
Creators: name: Stratton, Tom
name: Dolan, Sam R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the time-independent scattering of a planar gravitational wave propagating in the curved spacetime of a compact body with a polytropic equation of state. We begin by considering the geometric-optics limit, in which the gravitational wave propagates along null geodesics of the spacetime; we show that a wavefront passing through a neutron star of tenuity $R/M = 6$ will be focussed at a cusp caustic near the star's surface. Next, using the linearized Einstein Field Equations on a spherically-symmetric spacetime, we construct the metric perturbations in the odd and even parity sectors; and, with partial-wave methods, we numerically compute the gravitational scattering cross section from helicity-conserving and helicity-reversing amplitudes. At long wavelengths, the cross section is insensitive to stellar structure and, in the limit $M ω\rightarrow 0$, it reduces to the known low-frequency approximation of the black hole case. At higher frequencies $M ω\gtrsim 1$, the gravitational wave probes the internal structure of the body. In essence, we find that the gravitational wave cross section is similar to that for a massless scalar field, although with subtle effects arising from the non-zero helicity-reversing amplitude, and the coupling in the even-parity sector between the gravitational wave and the fluid of the body. The cross section exhibits \emph{rainbow scattering} with an Airy-type oscillation superposed on a Rutherford cross section. We show that the rainbow angle, which arises from a stationary point in the geodesic deflection function, depends on the polytropic index. In principle, rainbow scattering provides a diagnostic of the equation of state of the compact body; but, in practice, this requires a high-frequency astrophysical source of gravitational waves.
description: 23 pages, 7 figures. Typos corrected (notably in equations 24 and 25), and references updated. Added discussion on astrophysical context and detectability
Electronic and optical properties of LiBC
Creators: name: Pronin, A. V.
name: Pucher, K.
name: Lunkenheimer, P.
name: Krimmel, A.
name: Loidl, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: LiBC, a semiconducting ternary borocarbide constituted of the lightest elements only, has been synthesized and characterized by x-ray powder diffraction, dielectric spectroscopy, and conductivity measurements. Utilizing an infrared microscope the phonon spectrum has been investigated in single crystals. The in-plane B-C stretching mode has been detected at 150 meV, noticeably higher than in AlB2, a non-superconducting isostructural analog of MgB2. It is this stretching mode, which reveals a strong electron-phonon coupling in MgB2, driving it into a superconducting state below 40 K, and is believed to mediate predicted high-temperature superconductivity in hole-doped LiBC [H. Rosner, A. Kitaigorodsky, and W. E. Pickett, Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 127001 (2002)].
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Almost continuous extension for taut foliations
Creators: name: Calegari, Danny
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M50

description: A taut foliation of a hyperbolic 3-manifold has the continuous extension property for leaves in almost every direction; that is, for each leaf of the universal cover of the foliation and almost every geodesic ray in the leaf, the limit of the ray in the universal cover of the 3-manifold is a well-defined point in the ideal boundary.
description: 3 pages; incorporates some suggestions of the referee
Cyperus karisimbiensis Kuk.
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Poales
Cyperaceae
Cyperus
Cyperus karisimbiensis

description: Cyperus karisimbiensis (Cherm.) Kük.  —
Habit: Herb.
Habitat: LMDF; 1 700–3 100 m. Distribution: IIIa.
Voucher: N/A.
Reference: Fries & Fries (1925).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 33, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
ANJEC report winter 2020: Vol. 40, no. 1
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2020

description: The Association of New Jersey Environmental Commissions is a private, non-profit educational organization serving environmental commission and open space committee members, concerned individuals, non-profits, and local officials. ANJEC’s programs aim to promote the public interest in natural resource preservation, sustainable development and reclamation and support environmental commissions and open space committees working with citizens and other non-profit organizations.
How strong is the Second Harmonic Generation in single-layer monochalcogenides? A response from first-principles real-time simulations
Creators: name: Attaccalite, Claudio
name: Palummo, Maurizia
name: Cannuccia, Elena
name: Grüning, Myrta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Second Harmonic Generation (SHG) of single-layer monochalcogenides, such as GaSe and InSe, has been recently reported [2D Mater. 5 (2018) 025019; J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 79947997] to be extremely strong with respect to bulk and multilayer forms. To clarify the origin of this strong SHG signal, we perform first-principles real-time simulations of linear and non-linear optical properties of these two-dimensional semiconducting materials. The simulations, based on ab-initio many-body theory, accurately treat the electron-hole correlation and capture excitonic effects that are deemed important to correctly predict the optical properties of such systems. We find indeed that, as observed for other 2D systems, the SHG intensity is redistributed at excitonic resonances. The obtained theoretical SHG intensity is an order of magnitude smaller than that reported at the experimental level. This result is in substantial agreement with previously published simulations which neglected the electron-hole correlation, demonstrating that many-body interactions are not at the origin of the strong SHG measured. We then show that the experimental data can be reconciled with the theoretical prediction when a single layer model, rather than a bulk one, is used to extract the SHG coefficient from the experimental data.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures
Precepts and Performances: Overseas Monks and the Emergence of Cosmopolitan Japan
Creators: MacBain, Abigail Ironside
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Religion
History
Tang Dynasty (China)
Buddhism
Buddhism--Discipline
Buddhist monks

description: In 733, Japan’s ninth diplomatic mission to Tang China conveyed two Japanese Buddhist monks committed to finding a Chinese master of Buddhist precepts. The prevailing explanation for the precepts master solicitation states that Japan lacked sufficient numbers of fully ordained monks to conduct ordinations using vinaya codes of conduct. While this campaign successfully resulted in precept masters going to Japan in 736 and again in 754, there were no notable changes to monastic ordinations until after the final monk arrived. It is commonly presumed that only the latter precepts master possessed sufficient charisma, training, and followers necessary to establish a vinaya tradition. However, this explanation presumes that the later reforms matched the original expedition’s intent. Moreover, this position ignores the other monks’ activities in Japan’s political, cultural, and religious affairs between 736-754. It is also not supported by period texts. In this work, I utilize textual and physical evidence to demonstrate that these overseas monks’ activities and significance were largely unrelated to monastic precepts and ordinations. Instead, they rose to prominence due to their knowledge of Buddhist texts and rituals, familiarity with neighboring countries’ Buddhist legitimation and protection systems, fluency in overseas forms of cultural capital, and embodied otherness. Their influence can be seen in their involvement in the Ministry for Monastic Affairs, promulgation of the Avataṃsaka Sutra, and the creation and worship of the Great Buddha of Nara. Through highlighting these understudied and highly diverse monks, I demonstrate that Japan’s overseas population was intrinsically involved with the country’s transformation into a transregionally-connected, Buddhist country. Moreover, I argue that the overseas monks affiliated with Daianji Temple (大安寺) provided the Japanese court with direct ties to foreign countries that not only expanded Japanese international awareness, but also helped establish the country’s understanding of its position within a broader Buddhist world.
Relativity at Action or Gamma-Ray Bursts
Creators: name: Piran, Tsvi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gamma ray Bursts (GRBs) - short bursts of few hundred keV $γ$-rays - have fascinated astronomers since their accidental discovery in the sixties. GRBs were ignored by most relativists who did not expect that they are associated with any relativistic phenomenon. The recent observations of the BATSE detector on the Compton GRO satellite have revolutionized our ideas on these bursts and the picture that emerges shows that GRBs are the most relativistic objects discovered so far.
description: 7 pages, 4th prize in this years gravity essay competition to appear in General Relativity and Gravitation. Complete PS file is available at ftp://shemesh.fiz.huji.ac.il or at http://shemesh.fiz.huji.ac.il/papers/essay96.uu
title: Узнаем больше о России…
title: Учебное пособие для студентов-иностранцев по развитию речи
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Коломейцева Е.Б.
name:  Черняева Е.П.
Publisher: name: Ай Пи Ар Медиа
Year: 2020

description: Учебное пособие представляет собой корректировочный курс, цель которого — совершенствование речевых навыков и навыков чтения обучающихся при переходе с подготовительного отделения на I курс вуза. В учебные материалы включены тексты культурологической направленности, которые сопровождаются переводом на три языка: английский, французский и китайский. Система предлагаемых заданий направлена на коммуникативную активность обучающихся в ходе аудиторных занятий. Подготовлено с учетом требований Федерального государственного образовательного стандарта высшего образования. Учебное пособие предназначено для занятий с иностранными студентами, продолжающими изучение русского языка (уровень В1).
ALP inflation and Big Bang on Earth
Creators: name: Takahashi, Fuminobu
name: Yin, Wen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a hilltop inflation model where an axion-like particle (ALP) plays the role of the inflaton. We find that, for a broad class of potentials, the decay constant and the mass at the potential minimum satisfy the relation, $m_ϕ\sim 10^{-6} f$, to explain the CMB normalization. The ALP is necessarily coupled to the standard model particles for successful reheating. The ALP with the above relation can be searched at beam dump experiments, e.g., the SHiP experiment, if the inflation scale is sufficiently low. In this case, the ALP decays through the interactions that led to the reheating of the Universe. In other words, the Big Bang may be probed at ground-based experiments.
description: 29pages, 7figures, v3: version published in JHEP
Additional file 3: of Significance of sphingosine kinase 1 expression in feline mammary tumors
Creators: name: Yi-Chih Chang
name: Hsiao-Li Chuang
name: Ji-Hang Yin
name: Jiunn-Wang Liao
name: Ter-Hsin Chen
name: Yu-Chih Wang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Box and whisker plot of the immunohistochemical intensity scores of SPHK1. (PDF 16 kb)
Regularized big bang singularity
Creators: name: Klinkhamer, F. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Following up on earlier work on the regularization of the singular Schwarzschild solution, we now apply the same procedure to the singular Friedmann solution. Specifically, we are able to remove the divergences of the big bang singularity, at the price of introducing a 3-dimensional spacetime defect with a vanishing determinant of the metric. This particular regularization also suggests the existence of a "pre-big-bang" phase.
description: 16 pages, 1 figure, v6: published version
Entropy of Schwarzschild black hole and string-black hole correspondence
Creators: name: Solodukhin, Sergey N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The string-black hole correspondence is considered in the context of the correspondence principle proposed recently by Horowitz and Polchinski. We demonstrate that the entropy of string states and the entropy of a Schwarzschild black hole can be matched including the subleading terms which depend on mass logarithmically. We argue the necessity to include the string interaction (with coupling $g$) in the consideration and propose the $g^2$-dependent modification of the string entropy. The matching of it with the entropy of Schwarzschild black hole is analyzed.
description: 12 pages, latex, no figures, extended version
Pre-active PD: A Therapist Delivered Physical Activity Behavior Change Program for People With Early Stage Parkinson's Disease
Creators: Long, Katrina M.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Occupational therapy
subject: Physical therapy
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Parkinson's disease--Treatment
subject: Exercise therapy

description: PURPOSE Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder. Engagement in exercise and physical activity (PA) produce positive effects in people with PD (PwPD), including improvements in motor and cognitive functions. PwPD are 1/3 less active than healthy adults and PA levels decline. Study aim was to evaluate feasibility, acceptability and preliminary efficacy for PA levels, self-efficacy, motivation, and self-perception of performance. DESIGN: Single arm cohort feasibility study was conducted over 4 months. An occupational therapist (OT) delivered 6 individual (remote or in-person) sessions to provide directed support regarding PA and exercise habits, with check-ins on the other weeks. METHOD: Sessions utilized workbook-based approach to provide disease-specific education and guide goal setting. Fitbit Charge 2 devices were provided to track progress towards goals and to facilitate therapist coaching. Outcome measures included retention and adherence rates, implementation fidelity, intervention acceptability (TFA questionnaire and PAS-HCCQ), PA levels, time spent in planned versus unplanned activity (Brunel), exercise motivation (BREQ-2), self-efficacy (Norman scale), and perception of and satisfaction with active recreation (mCOPM). Mean differences (post-pre) were calculated for each participant for each measure and then a group mean change with 95% CI, as well as Cohen’s d to calculate effect size. RESULTS: 61 individuals were contacted. 13 participants with Hoehn and Yahr (H&Y) Stages I-II (mean (SD) age = 61.69 (9.14)) were enrolled. 92% of participants completed all 6 sessions. Intervention delivery had high fidelity and acceptability. Post-intervention improvements seen in self-efficacy (MD = 5.55; 95% CI -1.74-12.74; d = 0.33); identified regulation of motivation (MD = 0.21; 95% CI -0.14-0.55; d = 0.48); planned PA (MD =; 95% CI -0.28-0.98; d = 0.45); and % time in MVPA (MD = 0.79%; 95% CI 0.62-2.38; d = 0.49). Significant improvement in perceptions of performance (MD = 3.09; 95% CI 2.12-4.06; d = 1.63) and satisfaction (MD = .58; 95% CI 1.72-4.06; d = 1.63). CONCLUSION: Findings suggest Pre-Active PD is feasible and acceptable for PwPD H&Y stage I-II, and may improve exercise levels, self-efficacy, motivation, and planned PA. Future research needed to address limitations and evaluate comparative effectiveness in larger sample size.
Arbitrarily Weak Nonlinearity Can Destroy the Anderson Localization
Creators: name: Zhen, Wang
name: Weicheng, Fu
name: Yong, Zhang
name: Hong, Zhao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Whether the Anderson localization can survive from the weak enough nonlinear interaction is still an open question. In this Letter, we study the effect of nonlinear interaction on disordered chain based on the wave turbulence theory. It is found that the equipartition time $T_{eq}$ is inversely proportional to the square of the nonlinearity strength $λ$, i.e., $T_{eq}\proptoλ^{-2}$, in thermodynamic limit. This result has two fundamentally important consequences. First, the Anderson localized modes can not survive from arbitrarily weak nonlinearity. Secondly, contrary to popular belief, disorder can lead to a more fast thermalization in the weak nonlinear region, which is due to the emergence of three-wave resonance.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Resonant Transport in Nb/GaAs/AlGaAs/GaAs Microstructures
Creators: name: Giazotto, F.
name: Pingue, P.
name: Beltram, F.
name: Lazzarino, M.
name: Orani, D.
name: Rubini, S.
name: Franciosi, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Resonant transport in a hybrid semiconductor-superconductor microstructure grown by MBE on GaAs is presented. This structure experimentally realizes the prototype system originally proposed by de Gennes and Saint-James in 1963 in \emph{all}-metal structures. A low temperature single peak superimposed to the characteristic Andreev-dominated subgap conductance represents the mark of such resonant behavior. Random matrix theory of quantum transport was employed in order to analyze the observed magnetotransport properties and ballistic effects were included by directly solving the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations.
description: 7 pages REVTeX, 4 figures, to be published by World Scientific in Proceedings of International Symposium on Mesoscopic Superconductivity and Spintronics (NTT R&D Center Atsugi, Japan, March 2002)
Long term post-reclamation management of the Pinchi Lake Mine
Creators: name: Unger, Michelle
name: Donald, Bruce
name: Marsland, Rob
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: The Pinchi Lake Mine was owned and operated by Cominco Ltd. (a predecessor of Teck Metals Ltd.) from 1940 to 1944, and between 1968 and 1975. The property is located approximately 25 km northwest of Fort St James, British Columbia. Between 2010 and 2012, the Pinchi Lake mine underwent decommissioning and reclamation. This paper discusses Teck’s commitment to post-reclamation management of the site. The site has waste rock dumps, a tailings impoundment area and dam, a creek diversion, an industrial landfill, residual mercury in soils. A post-reclamation risk management plan has been developed and is currently under regulatory review. The plan includes monitoring for; geotechnical stability (creek diversion, waste rock dumps, tailings dam, calcine waste dump, and tailings impoundment cover), surface and ground water quality, re-vegetation progress, and mercury uptake by aquatic and terrestrial receptors. To support the long term implementation of the monitoring plans, an environmental management system is being established. The mine site will continue to be owned and managed by Teck and the site will continue to have controlled access.
Precision Lattice Calculation of Kaon Decays with Möbius Domain Wall Fermions
Creators: Yin, Hantao
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Particles (Nuclear physics)
Physics

description: We report our recent development in algorithms and progress in measurements in lattice QCD. The algorithmic development includes the forecasted force gradient integrator, and further theoretical development and implementation of the Möbius domain wall fermions. These new technologies make it practical to simulate large 48^3*96 and 64^3*128 lattice ensembles with (5.5fm)^3 boxes and 140MeV pion. The calculation was performed using the Möbius domain wall fermions and the Iwasaki gauge action. Simulated directly at physical quark masses, these ensembles are of great value for our ongoing and future lattice measurement projects.With the help of measurement techniques such as the eigCG algorithm and the all mode averaging method, we perform a direct, precise lattice calculation of the semileptonic kaon decay K→πlν using these newly generated high quality lattice ensembles. Our main result is the form factor f^+_{Kπ}(q^2) evaluated directly at zero momentum transfer q^2=0. Free of various systematic errors, this new result can be used to determine the CKM matrix element Vus to a very high precision when combined with experimental input. The calculation also provides results for various low energy strong interaction constants such as the pseudoscalar decay constants f_K and f_π, and the neutral kaon mixing matrix element B_K. These calculations are naturally performed by reusing the propagators calculated for the kaon semileptonic decay mentioned above. So they come with no or very low additional cost. The results allow us to also determine these important low energy constants on the lattice to unprecedented accuracy.
Additional file 2: of Significance of sphingosine kinase 1 expression in feline mammary tumors
Creators: name: Yi-Chih Chang
name: Hsiao-Li Chuang
name: Ji-Hang Yin
name: Jiunn-Wang Liao
name: Ter-Hsin Chen
name: Yu-Chih Wang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Representative images taken from tissues with various levels of SPHK1 expression. (PDF 148 kb)
Intersecting Loop Models on Z^D: Rigorous Results
Creators: name: Chayes, L.
name: Pryadko, Leonid P.
name: Shtengel, Kirill
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a general class of (intersecting) loop models in D dimensions, including those related to high-temperature expansions of well-known spin models. We find that the loop models exhibit some interesting features - often in the ``unphysical'' region of parameter space where all connection with the original spin Hamiltonian is apparently lost. For a particular n=2, D=2 model, we establish the existence of a phase transition, possibly associated with divergent loops. However, for n >> 1 and arbitrary D there is no phase transition marked by the appearance of large loops. Furthermore, at least for D=2 (and n large) we find a phase transition characterised by broken translational symmetry.
description: LaTeX+elsart.cls; 30 p., 6 figs; submitted to Nucl. Phys. B; a few minor typos corrected
Electronic Compressibility of Magic-Angle Graphene Superlattices
Creators: name: Tomarken, S. L.
name: Cao, Y.
name: Demir, A.
name: Watanabe, K.
name: Taniguchi, T.
name: Jarillo-Herrero, P.
name: Ashoori, R. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the first electronic compressibility measurements of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene. The evolution of the compressibility with carrier density offers insights into the interaction-driven ground state that have not been accessible in prior transport and tunneling studies. From capacitance measurements, we determine chemical potential as a function of carrier density and find the widths of the energy gaps at fractional filling of the moiré lattice. In the electron-doped regime, we observe unexpectedly large gaps at quarter- and half-filling and strong electron-hole asymmetry. Moreover, we measure a $\mathord{\sim}35\,\textrm{meV}$ mini-bandwidth that is much wider than most theoretical estimates. Finally, we explore the field dependence up to the quantum Hall regime and observe significant differences from transport measurements.
description: 13 pages, 10 figures
PU(2) monopoles and a conjecture of Marino, Moore, and Peradze
Creators: name: Feehan, Paul M. N.
name: Kronheimer, Peter B.
name: Leness, Thomas G.
name: Mrowka, Tomasz S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article we show that some of the recent results of Marino, Moore, and Peradze (math.DG/9812042, hep-th/9812055) -- in particular their conjecture that all closed, smooth four-manifolds with b_2^+ > 1 (and Seiberg-Witten simple type) are of `superconformal simple type' -- can be understood using a simple mathematical argument via the PU(2)-monopole cobordism of Pidstrigach and Tyurin (dg-ga/9507004) and results of the first and third authors (dg-ga/9712005, dg-ga/9709022).
description: 13 pages, 1 figure. Improved exposition, typographical slips corrected, figure and references added. Minor correction on page 2. To appear in Mathematical Research Letters