cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
From Noise to Feature: Exploiting Intensity Distribution as a Novel Soft Biometric Trait for Finger Vein Recognition
Creators: name: Kang, Wenxiong
name: Lu, Yuting
name: Li, Dejian
name: Jia, Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Most finger vein feature extraction algorithms achieve satisfactory performance due to their texture representation abilities, despite simultaneously ignoring the intensity distribution that is formed by the finger tissue, and in some cases, processing it as background noise. In this paper, we exploit this kind of noise as a novel soft biometric trait for achieving better finger vein recognition performance. First, a detailed analysis of the finger vein imaging principle and the characteristics of the image are presented to show that the intensity distribution that is formed by the finger tissue in the background can be extracted as a soft biometric trait for recognition. Then, two finger vein background layer extraction algorithms and three soft biometric trait extraction algorithms are proposed for intensity distribution feature extraction. Finally, a hybrid matching strategy is proposed to solve the issue of dimension difference between the primary and soft biometric traits on the score level. A series of rigorous contrast experiments on three open-access databases demonstrates that our proposed method is feasible and effective for finger vein recognition.
description: 11 pages
Shaping Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropy of Co2MnGa Heusler Alloy Using Ion Irradiation for Magnetic Sensor Applications
Creators: name: Mahendra, Anmol
name: Murmu, Peter P
name: Acharya, Susant Kumar
name: Islam, Atif
name: Fiedler, Holger
name: Gupta, Prasanth
name: Granville, Simon
name: Kennedy, John
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 50299 Environmental Science and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 90699 Electrical and Electronic Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: Distributed Computing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 30199 Analytical Chemistry not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Magnetic sensors are key elements in many industrial, security, military, and biomedical applications. Heusler alloys are promising materials for magnetic sensor applications due to their high spin polarization and tunable magnetic properties. The dynamic field range of magnetic sensors is strongly related to the perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA). By tuning the PMA, it is possible to modify the sensing direction, sensitivity and even the accuracy of the magnetic sensors. Here, we report the tuning of PMA in a Co2MnGa Heusler alloy film via argon (Ar) ion irradiation. MgO/Co2MnGa/Pd films with an initial PMA were irradiated with 30 keV 40Ar+ ions with fluences (ions·cm−2) between 1 × 1013 and 1 × 1015 Ar·cm−2, which corresponds to displacement per atom values between 0.17 and 17, estimated from Monte-Carlo-based simulations. The magneto optical and magnetization results showed that the effective anisotropy energy (Keff) decreased from ~153 kJ·m−3 for the un-irradiated film to ~14 kJ·m−3 for the 1 × 1014 Ar·cm−2 irradiated film. The reduced Keff and PMA are attributed to ion-irradiation-induced interface intermixing that decreased the interfacial anisotropy. These results demonstrate that ion irradiation is a promising technique for shaping the PMA of Co2MnGa Heusler alloy for magnetic sensor applications.
Keldysh technique and non-linear sigma-model: basic principles and applications
Creators: name: Kamenev, Alex
name: Levchenko, Alex
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The purpose of this review is to provide a comprehensive pedagogical introduction into Keldysh technique for interacting out-of-equilibrium fermionic and bosonic systems. The emphasis is placed on a functional integral representation of underlying microscopic models. A large part of the review is devoted to derivation and applications of the non-linear sigma-model for disordered metals and superconductors. We discuss such topics as transport properties, mesoscopic effects, counting statistics, interaction corrections, kinetic equation, etc. The sections devoted to disordered superconductors include Usadel equation, fluctuation corrections, time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau theory, proximity and Josephson effects, etc. (This review is a substantial extension of arXiv:cond-mat/0412296.)
description: Review: 103 pages, 19 figures
Threonine as the second limiting amino acid in barley for rowing-finishing pigs and growing rats
Creators: name: Aw-Yong, Lai Mon
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Supplementation with graded levels of threonine to an all barley-lysine diet (0.75% total lysine) improved the daily gain, feed efficiency and carcass quality of growing-finishing pigs. An addition of 0.10% threonine produced the optimum growth response in the experimental animals. No additional improvement was obtained with higher levels of threonine or threonine plus methionine supplementation of the diet. The 0.10% level of threonine supplementation gave performance criteria which were comparable to those obtained with the barley-soybean control diet, except the former diet resulted in significantly higher backfat measurements. Threonine added at levels of 0.15% resulted in higher nitrogen retention than the other barley-lysine-threonine diets. Nitrogen retention on this diet did not differ significantly from the control diet. Barley-amino acid diets resulted in better protein ultilization than barley-soybean control diets. Feeding trials and metabolism trials indicated that methionine was not limiting in barley and that threonine was the second limiting amino acid. Growth trials with weanling rats confirmed the results obtained in the pig nutritional experiments. Rat experiments indicated that no additional beneficial effects were obtained when lysine levels were increased from 0.75% to 0.90% even when supplemented with additional threonine. Results indicated that supplementation with lysine to a total level of 0.75% and threonine at a level of 0.10% resulted in a highly balanced amino acid ratio for rats, and gave growth rates which approached those obtained on the control diet. Supplementation of the barley-lysine diet with 0.20% threonine and all other essential amino acids resulted in growth rates and nitrogen retentions which resembled the results obtained with the control diet. The replacement of the essential amino acid mixture with glycine on an equal nitrogen basis did not result in adequate nitrogen retention or growth rates.
Round-Core-Radius-Dependent Electromagnetic Coupling of Multifilament Helical Superconducting Tapes in a Swept Magnetic Field
Creators: name: Higashi, Yoichi
name: Mawatari, Yasunori
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: With the excitation and demagnetization of a magnet for magnetic resonance imaging in mind, we theoretically and numerically investigated electromagnetic coupling--especially its dependence on the round core radius $R$--of multifilament helically wound superconducting tapes under steady-state conditions in a constantly ramped magnetic field. We found that even in a rapidly ramped magnetic field, the electromagnetic coupling can be suppressed by reducing $R$ to close to the tape width. We also clarified that the coupling sweep rate at which the electromagnetic coupling starts scales as $R^{-2}$, showing that the dependence on $R$ reflects the penetration of magnetic flux from the edges of the tape. Even when the round core is as narrow as the tape width, the behavior is considered to be similar to the electromagnetic response of a flat tape rather than that of a tubular wire.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
Additional file 1 of Symptoms, impacts, and suitability of the Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension-Symptoms and Impact (PAH-SYMPACT™) questionnaire in patients with sarcoidosis-associated pulmonary hypertension (SAPH): a qualitative interview study
Creators: name: Currie, Brooke M.
name: Davies, Evan W.
name: Beaudet, Amélie
name: Stassek, Larissa
name: Kleinman, Leah
name: Baughman, Robert P.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Additional tables.
Advanced piezoresistance of extended metal/insulator core shell nanoparticle assemblies
Creators: name: Athanassiou, E. K.
name: Krumeich, F.
name: Grass, R. N.
name: Stark, W. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Assembled metal/insulator nanoparticles with a core/shell geometry provide access to materials containing a large number (>106) of tunneling barriers. We demonstrate the production of ceramic coated metal nanoparticles exhibiting an exceptional pressure sensitive conductivity. We further show that graphene bi- and trilayers on 20 nm copper nanoparticles are insulating in such core/shell geometry and show a similar pressure dependent conductivity. This demonstrates that core/shell metal/insulator assemblies offer a route to alternative sensing materials.
description: 14 pages, 3 figures, published in Physical Review Letters
The Impact of Stressors on the Psychological Wellbeing of New Zealand Farmers and The Development of an Explanatory Conceptual Model
Creators: name: Bin, Huat
name: Lamm, Felicity
name: Tipples, Rupert
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 160599 Policy and Administration not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Political science

description: No description supplied
Final state dipole showers and the DGLAP equation
Creators: name: Nagy, Zoltan
name: Soper, Davison E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a parton shower description, based on a dipole picture, of the final state in electron-positron annihilation. In such a shower, the distribution function describing the inclusive probability to find a quark with a given energy depends on the shower evolution time. Starting from the exclusive evolution equation for the shower, we derive an equation for the evolution of the inclusive quark energy distribution in the limit of strong ordering in shower evolution time of the successive parton splittings. We find that, as expected, this is the DGLAP equation. This paper is a response to a recent paper of Dokshitzer and Marchesini that raised troubling issues about whether a dipole based shower could give the DGLAP equation for the quark energy distribution.
description: 28 pages with 6 figures. This is the revised version, close to what will be published in JHEP. The main changes were additional observations in the conclusions section
Scarica l'intero Num. 8 (1996) di Classiconorroena (4 Mb)
Creators: name: (A Cura Di), Redazione Di Classiconorroena
Publisher: name: Società culturale Classiconorroena
Year: 2014

description: - Carlo Santini- Simonetta Battista- Giancarlo Abbamonte
description: Classiconorroena, Vol 8 (1996)
Background model of Phoswich X-ray detector on board small balloon
Creators: name: Roy, Abhijit
name: Sarkar, Ritabrata
name: Chakrabarti, Sandip K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We performed a detailed modelling of the background counts observed in a phoswich scintillator X-ray detector at balloon altitude, used for astronomical observations, on board small scientific balloon. We used Monte Carlo simulation technique in Geant4 simulation environment, to estimate the detector background from various plausible sources. High energy particles and radiation generated from the interaction of Galactic Cosmic Rays with the atmospheric nuclei is a major source of background counts (under normal solar condition) for such detectors. However, cosmogenic or induced radioactivity in the detector materials due to the interaction of high energy particles and natural radioactive contamination present in the detector can also contribute substantially to the detector background. We considered detailed 3D modelling of the earth's atmosphere and magnetosphere to calculate the radiation environment at the balloon altitude and deployed a proper mass model of the detector to calculate the background counts in it. The calculation satisfactorily explains the observed background in the detector at 30 km altitude (atmospheric depth: 11.5 $g/cm^{2}$) during the balloon flight experiment from a location near 14.5$^{\circ}$N geomagnetic latitude.
description: 28 pages, 8 figures
Additional file 2 of Symptoms, impacts, and suitability of the Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension-Symptoms and Impact (PAH-SYMPACT™) questionnaire in patients with sarcoidosis-associated pulmonary hypertension (SAPH): a qualitative interview study
Creators: name: Currie, Brooke M.
name: Davies, Evan W.
name: Beaudet, Amélie
name: Stassek, Larissa
name: Kleinman, Leah
name: Baughman, Robert P.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2: Additional figure.
Germs of integrable forms and varieties of minimal degree
Creators: name: Pereira, Jorge Vitorio
name: Perrone, Carlo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study the subvariety of integrable 1-forms in a finite dimensional vector space $W \subset Ω^1(\mathbb C^n,0)$. We prove that the irreducible components with dimension comparable with the rank of $W$ are of minimal degree.
Canonical quantization of the electromagnetic field in the presence of non-dispersive bi-anisotropic inhomogeneous magnetodielectric media
Creators: name: Amooshahi, M.
name: Esfahani, B. Nasre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By introducing a suitable Lagrangian, a canonical quantization of the electromagnetic field in the presence of a non-dispersive bi-anisotropic inhomogeneous magnetodielectric medium is investigated. A tensor projection operator is defined and the commutation relation between the vector potential and its canonically conjugate variable is written in terms of the projection operator. The quantization method is generalized in the presence of the atomic systems. The spontaneous emission of a two-level atom located in a non-dispersive anisotropic megnetodielectric medium is studied.
description: 27 pages, No figures
Empirical analysis of business location in Greater Vancouve
Creators: name: Morris, John Edward
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: This thesis represents an empirical analysis of business location in Greater Vancouver based upon the analysis of the returns to a location survey questionnaire. This questionnaire comprises a portion of the HPS project which is a large-scale, special research study of the Region. The study empirically determines which questionnaire variables (factors) influence the relative location/ relocation of various firms located in the G.V.R.D. Statistical analysis and regression models provide an empirical data base for the land use group in their development of models which allocate economic activities across the Region. The questionnaire returns possess limitations with respect to both scope of coverage and questionnaire format. Analysis is accordingly limited; suggestions are made to obtain better quality empirical data in future studies. The thesis derives some general interregional results although the data is extensively utilized in a decidedly intrametropolitan context. The interregional results depict which variables are important in the location and relocation decisions for each subpopulation. In contrast, an empirical basis for intrametropolitan business location policy in the G.V.R.D. is derived from the analysis herein. The intrametropolitan analysis is feasible because size (i.e. number of employees) and location are known for most respondents. An empirical synthesis via some common independent variables is suggested to exist, at least for the G.V.R.D., between interregional and intrametropolitan location. This will aid in the construction of future questionnaire studies for each subpopulation at the interregional or intrametropolitan levels in the G.V.R.D. Eventually, location theories of substantial empirical utility will be derived for each subpopulation. Aside from the empirical value, this thesis is valuable in terms of analytical procedure. The regression transformation technique is applicable to other questionnaire studies where the type of response scale constructed is in question. The overview of location theory and Metropolitan Vancouver are furthermore thought to provide an appropriate background to this study as well as represent a substantial literary contribution.
The Role of the So-called Aśoka Inscriptions in the Attempt to Date the Buddha
Creators: name: Tieken, Herman
Publisher: name: Rivista di Studi Sudasiatici
Year: 2006

description: The date of the Buddha is calculated on the basis of the date of Aśoka’s consecration. According to one Buddhist tradition this event took place 100 years after the Buddha’s death, according to another tradition 218 later. Aśoka’s dates, in turn, are calibrated by those of the certain Greek kings mentioned in Rock Edict xiii. However, in the present article it is argued that the “Aśoka inscriptions” are not necessarily by Aśoka and that the name Aśoka found in some of the inscriptions is a later insertion.
description: Rivista di Studi Sudasiatici, I (2006)
The Long-Term Effects of Workplace Bullying on Health, Wellbeing, and on the Professional and Personal Lives of Bully-victims
Creators: name: Marlowe, Carolyn
name: Ang, Huat Bin
name: Akhtaruzzaman, Akhtar
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 220299 History and Philosophy of Specific Fields not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: One of the aims of this study was to give a voice to the victims of workplace bullying (WPB). Narratives or stories told by the victims allow researchers to better understand, challenge, and update outdated thinking of WPB. This paper identifies gaps in the literature regarding the long-term consequences of WPB on workers’ health and wellbeing, and how this impacts their professional and personal lives. The findings of this paper are based on a qualitative study that documented individual experiences of six WPB victims. Analysis of the findings shows how deeply rooted the issue of WPB is, opens conversations, highlights possible causes, and redefines solutions. Reflecting on Aotearoa New Zealand’s laissez-faire attitude towards WPB as well as realising the need for anti-bullying strategies, clearer guidelines, and the promotion of interventions to support employees, this study raises the awareness of the long-term consequences of WPB and its impact on victims and society.
Additional file 1 of The impact of Mediterranean diet on coronary plaque vulnerability, microvascular function, inflammation and microbiome after an acute coronary syndrome: study protocol for the MEDIMACS randomized, controlled, mechanistic clinical trial
Creators: name: Fernández, Ana I.
name: Bermejo, Javier
name: Yotti, Raquel
name: Martínez-Gonzalez, Miguel Ángel
name: Mira, Alex
name: Gophna, Uri
name: Karlsson, Roger
name: Al-Daccak, Reem
name: Martín-Demiguel, Irene
name: Gutiérrez-Ibanes, Enrique
name: Charron, Dominique
name: Fernández-Avilés, Francisco
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology

description: Additional file 1. High-intensity MedDiet specifications.
L’egemonia costituente dei Quaderni del carcere di Gramsci
Creators: name: Maltese, Pietro
Publisher: name: Studi sulla Formazione
Year: 2013

description: This paper discusses the category of Hegemony in Gramsci’s theory and considers it a key to the interpretation of Subjectivity Growth. In Prison Notebooks, indeed, every hegemonic relationship, such as every political relationship, is necessarily a Pedagogic Relationship. Therefore, the studying of Hegemony like a construction device of subjectivity and society, ends by outlining a pedagogic theory, that helps to conceptualize the link between education and politics.
description: Studi sulla Formazione, Anno XVI, I-2013
Chiral symmetry and spectral properties of the Dirac operator in G2 Yang-Mills Theory
Creators: name: Danzer, Julia
name: Gattringer, Christof
name: Maas, Axel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking and the spectral properties of the staggered lattice Dirac operator using quenched gauge configurations for the exceptional group G2, which has a trivial center. In particular we study the system below and above the finite temperature transition and use the temporal boundary conditions of the fermions to probe the system. We evaluate several observables: The spectral density at the origin, the spectral gap, the chiral condensate and the recently proposed dual chiral condensate. We show that chiral symmetry is broken at low temperatures and is restored at high temperatures at the thermodynamic phase transition. Concerning the role of the boundary conditions we establish that in all respects the spectral quantities behave for G2 in exactly the same way as for SU(N), when for the latter group the gauge ensemble above T_c is restricted to the sector of configurations with real Polyakov loop.
description: Minor modifications, version to appear in JHEP
Do Financial Incentives Encourage Women to Apply for a Tech Job? Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment
Creators: name: Feld, Jan
name: Ip, Edwin
name: Leibbrandt, Andreas
name: Vecci, Joseph
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: We conduct a natural field experiment to test whether offering financial incentives encourages more female job seekers to complete their applications for a tech job. All eligible applicants for the job were invited to perform an online skill assessment. We randomized whether or not they were offered an incentive of up to $10 for completing the assessment. We find no significant effect of the incentive for female applicants (or male applicants).
Art-directing Appearance using an Environment Map Latent Space
Creators: name: Petikam, Lohit
name: Chalmers, Andrew
name: Anjyo, Ken
name: Rhee, Taehyun
Publisher: name: The Eurographics Association
Year: 2021
Subjects: Computing methodologies
Dimensionality reduction and manifold learning
Rendering

description: In look development, environment maps (EMs) are used to verify 3D appearance in varied lighting (e.g., overcast, sunny, and indoor). Artists can only assign one fixed material, making it laborious to edit appearance uniquely for all EMs. Artists can artdirect material and lighting in film post-production. However, this is impossible in dynamic real-time games and live augmented reality (AR), where environment lighting is unpredictable. We present a new workflow to customize appearance variation across a wide range of EM lighting, for live applications. Appearance edits can be predefined, and then automatically adapted to environment lighting changes. We achieve this by learning a novel 2D latent space of varied EM lighting. The latent space lets artists browse EMs in a semantically meaningful 2D view. For different EMs, artists can paint different material and lighting parameter values directly on the latent space. We robustly encode new EMs into the same space, for automatic look-up of the desired appearance. This solves a new problem of preserving art-direction in live applications, without any artist intervention.
description: Pacific Graphics Short Papers, Posters, and Work-in-Progress Papers
description: Neural Rendering and 3D Models
description: 43
description: 48
description: Lohit Petikam, Andrew Chalmers, Ken Anjyo, and Taehyun Rhee
description: CCS Concepts: Computing methodologies --> Dimensionality reduction and manifold learning; Rendering
Additional file 4 of Hpgd affects the progression of hypoxic pulmonary hypertension by regulating vascular remodeling
Creators: name: He, Meng
name: Tao, Kelong
name: Xiang, Min
name: Sun, Jian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Material 4
Additional file 2 of The impact of Mediterranean diet on coronary plaque vulnerability, microvascular function, inflammation and microbiome after an acute coronary syndrome: study protocol for the MEDIMACS randomized, controlled, mechanistic clinical trial
Creators: name: Fernández, Ana I.
name: Bermejo, Javier
name: Yotti, Raquel
name: Martínez-Gonzalez, Miguel Ángel
name: Mira, Alex
name: Gophna, Uri
name: Karlsson, Roger
name: Al-Daccak, Reem
name: Martín-Demiguel, Irene
name: Gutiérrez-Ibanes, Enrique
name: Charron, Dominique
name: Fernández-Avilés, Francisco
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology

description: Additional file 2. Methods for the determination of the study variables.
Quasinormal modes of warped $AdS_3$ black holes and AdS/CFT correspondence
Creators: name: Chen, Bin
name: Xu, Zhi-bo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the scalar quasinormal modes of warped $AdS_3$ black holes analytically. We find that in general they are not in agreement with the prediction of the usual AdS/CFT correspondence. Nevertheless, for the black hole not deviating far from BTZ black hole, the quasinormal frequencies are still well consistent with AdS/CFT correspondence.
description: 10 pages; more clarifications, references added
Art-directing Appearance using an Environment Map Latent Space
Creators: name: Petikam, Lohit
name: Chalmers, Andrew
name: Anjyo, Ken
name: Rhee, Taehyun
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 80103 Computer Graphics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In look development, environment maps (EMs) are used to verify 3D appearance in varied lighting (e.g., overcast, sunny, and indoor). Artists can only assign one fixed material, making it laborious to edit appearance uniquely for all EMs. Artists can artdirect material and lighting in film post-production. However, this is impossible in dynamic real-time games and live augmented reality (AR), where environment lighting is unpredictable. We present a new workflow to customize appearance variation across a wide range of EM lighting, for live applications. Appearance edits can be predefined, and then automatically adapted to environment lighting changes. We achieve this by learning a novel 2D latent space of varied EM lighting. The latent space lets artists browse EMs in a semantically meaningful 2D view. For different EMs, artists can paint different material and lighting parameter values directly on the latent space. We robustly encode new EMs into the same space, for automatic look-up of the desired appearance. This solves a new problem of preserving art-direction in live applications, without any artist intervention.
Additional file 1 of Interleukin-10 improves stroke outcome by controlling the detrimental Interleukin-17A response
Creators: name: Piepke, Marius
name: Clausen, Bettina H.
name: Ludewig, Peter
name: Vienhues, Jonas H.
name: Bedke, Tanja
name: Javidi, Ehsan
name: Rissiek, Björn
name: Jank, Larissa
name: Brockmann, Leonie
name: Sandrock, Inga
name: Degenhardt, Karoline
name: Jander, Alina
name: Roth, Vanessa
name: Schädlich, Ines S.
name: Prinz, Immo
name: Flavell, Richard A.
name: Kobayashi, Yasushi
name: Renné, Thomas
name: Gerloff, Christian
name: Huber, Samuel
name: Magnus, Tim
name: Gelderblom, Mathias
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Il10−/− mice exhibit worsened neurological scores compared to WT littermate controls, whereas mortality did not differ between groups. (A) Bederson score and survival rate; (B) 14 days after tMCAO in WT control and Il10−/− mice. Figure S2. Generation of bone-marrow chimeric mice and characterization of post-ischemic IL-10 producers. (A) Generation of bone-marrow chimeras. (B) Representative FACS plots of peripheral blood of bone-marrow chimeras after sacrifice. (C) Flow cytometric analysis of IL-10 produced by B cells, NK cells, CD8+, and CD4+ T cells after sham surgery and 3, 7, and 14 days after stroke in FIR-tiger mice. (D) Expression of Tr1 cell markers CD49b and Lag-3 on CD4+ T cells in spleen and CNS 3 days after tMCAO in FIR-tiger mice. Figure S3. IL-10 deficiency leads to an activation of the IL-17A axis and IL-17A positive γδ T cellls co-express PD-1 in the post ischemic brain. (A) Flow cytometric analysis of the number of infiltrating IL-17A+ CD4+ and γδ T cells isolated from ischemic hemispheres of WT controls and Il10−/− mice 7 days after tMCAO. (B) Relative gene expression of Cxcl1 and Mmp3 in ischemic hemispheres of WT and Il10−/− mice 3 days after tMCAO. (C) Flow cytometric analysis of IL-17 production and PD-1 co-expression by γδ T cells in cervical lymph nodes and the CNS 3 days after stroke.
Highlights from the NA61/SHINE strong-interactions programme
Creators: name: Kuich, Magdalena
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: NA61/SHINE is a multipurpose fixed-target facility at the CERN SPS. The main goals of the NA61/SHINE strong-interactions programme are to discover the critical point of strongly interacting matter as well as to study the properties of the onset of deconfinement. In order to reach these goals, a study of hadron production properties is performed in nucleus-nucleus, proton-proton and proton-nucleus interactions as a function of collision energy and size of the colliding nuclei. In this contribution, the NA61/SHINE results from a strong interaction measurement programme are presented. In particular, the latest results from different reactions p+p, Be+Be, Ar+Sc, and Pb+Pb on hadron spectra, as well as intermittency, higher-order moments of multiplicity fluctuations and spectator induced electromagnetic effects are discussed.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2112.01877
Scarica l'intero Num. 6 (1995) di Classiconorroena (25Mb)
Creators: name: (A Cura Di), Redazione Di Classiconorroena
Publisher: name: Società culturale Classiconorroena
Year: 2014

description: P. Cherchi
R. Simek
G. Salvucci
F. Stok

description: Classiconorroena, Vol 6 (1995)
Carbon nanoelectronics: unzipping tubes into graphene ribbons
Creators: name: Santos, H.
name: Chico, L.
name: Brey, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the transport properties of novel carbon nanostructures made of partially unzipped carbon nanotubes, which can be regarded as a seamless junction of a tube and a nanoribbon. We find that graphene nanoribbons act at certain energy ranges as a perfect valley filters for carbon nanotubes, with the maximum possible conductance. Our results show that a partially unzipped carbon nanotube is a magnetoresistive device, with a very large value of the magnetoresistance. We explore the properties of several structures combining nanotubes and graphene nanoribbons, demonstrating that they behave as optimal contacts for each other, and opening a new route for the design of mixed graphene/nanotube devices.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures included
Kumārila’s Notion of Pauruṣeyavacana
Creators: name: Kataoka, Kei
Publisher: name: Rivista di Studi Sudasiatici
Year: 2007

description: In the Mīmāṃsā tradition, man-made statements, in contrast to perception or Vedic injunctions, are not ultimately counted as primary sources of information. Kumārila inherits Śabara’s idea that man-made speech can convey only a speaker’s cognition (vaktṛjñāna) and not the actual object in question. Thus the essential part of Dharmakīrti’s view on speech as being vaktrabhiprāyasūcaka is already found in the Śābarabhāṣya. It is more appropriate to say that Dharmakīrti’s idea of vaktrabhiprāyasūcaka was prefigured by Kumārila or some other Mīmāṃsakas than to say that Dharmakīrti invented it building on Dignāga’s apoha theory.
description: Rivista di Studi Sudasiatici, II (2007)
A quale ruolo “adulto” formerà la scuola? Riflessioni a par- tire dalla strategia europea Rethinking Education
Creators: name: Marescotti, Elena
Publisher: name: Studi sulla Formazione
Year: 2014

description: This paper focuses on the European Commission Communication Rethinking Education: Investing in skills for better socio-economic outcomes (November 2012). The comments concern the school educational tasks and, in particular, the young-adult “identity” required to face multiple challenges of current global crisis. In an educational perspective, it require a "re-thinking" of education, maintaining a meaning horizon dedicated to the promotion of a "genuine" quality of life, and an anthropological project that cannot be sacrificed in the name of the contingent political and economic pressures. In a lifelong education view, this article considers the relationship between education/adult education and the meaning of adult identity, to improve the human "desirable" ideals vs than what is too often presented as “necessary evil”.
description: Studi sulla Formazione, Anno XVI, II-2013
Complex networks in climate dynamics - Comparing linear and nonlinear network construction methods
Creators: name: Donges, Jonathan F.
name: Zou, Yong
name: Marwan, Norbert
name: Kurths, Jürgen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Complex network theory provides a powerful framework to statistically investigate the topology of local and non-local statistical interrelationships, i.e. teleconnections, in the climate system. Climate networks constructed from the same global climatological data set using the linear Pearson correlation coefficient or the nonlinear mutual information as a measure of dynamical similarity between regions, are compared systematically on local, mesoscopic and global topological scales. A high degree of similarity is observed on the local and mesoscopic topological scales for surface air temperature fields taken from AOGCM and reanalysis data sets. We find larger differences on the global scale, particularly in the betweenness centrality field. The global scale view on climate networks obtained using mutual information offers promising new perspectives for detecting network structures based on nonlinear physical processes in the climate system.
description: 24 pages, 10 figures
Additional file 1 of Frequency and source of worries in an International sample of pregnant and postpartum women during the Covid-19 pandemic
Creators: name: Wyszynski, Diego F.
name: Hernandez-Diaz, Sonia
name: Gordon-Dseagu, Vanessa
name: Ramiro, Noemi
name: Basu, Archana
name: Kim, Hannah H.
name: Koenen, Karestan C.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. IRCEP-HSPH Wellbeing Survey.pdf Health and Wellbeing of Pregnant and Post-Partum Women During the COVID-19 Pandemic Questionnaire. Survey used to assess the mental health and wellbeing of pregnant and recently pregnant women during the COVID-19 pandemic in 64 countries
Unraveling the sign reversal of the anomalous Hall effect in ferromagnet/heavy-metal ultrathin films
Creators: name: Zhang, Yao
name: Cortie, D
name: Lagrange, T
name: Lee, W
name: Butler, T
name: Ludbrook, Bartholomew
name: Granville, Simon
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The sign reversal in the anomalous Hall effect (AHE) that occurs for material offers great prospects for AHE-based spintronic devices design. However, the mechanisms are still controversial in ultrathin ferromagnetic/heavy metal thin film systems due to the complicatedly interfacial effects. Here, we investigate the AHE sign reversal in ultrathin ferromagnetic Mn2CoAl/Pd films, a system which has shown unusual AHE, significant spin-orbit coupling, and magnetic texturing. Element-sensitive cross-sectional STEM imaging and the depth-resolved magnetization profile from polarized neutron reflectometry identifies the presence of a second ferromagnetic layer from intermixed Co-Pd. To quantitatively explain the sign reversal of the AHE, we build a model based on two contributions, ferromagnetic Mn2CoAl and the intermixed CoPd layer. We also clarify that contributions to the AHE from magnetic proximity and spin Hall effect are negligible. Our work demonstrates that interfacial alloying can be a critical factor and provides insightful methods to determine the origins of the AHE in ferromagnet/heavy-metal thin film systems.
Origin of postmaximum bump in luminous type Ic SN 2019stc
Creators: name: Chugai, Nikolai N.
name: Utrobin, Victor P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We address the issue of the postmaximum bump observed in the light curve of some superluminous supernovae. We rule out the popular mechanism of a circumstellar interaction suggested for the bump explanation. Instead we propose that the postmaximum bump is caused by the magnetar dipole field enhancement several months after the explosion. The modeling of SN 2019stc light curve based on the thin shell approximation implies that at the age of $\sim 90$ days the initial dipole magnetic field should be amplified by a factor of 2.8 to account for the postmaximum bump. The specific mechanism for the field amplification of the newborn magnetar on the timescale of several months has yet to be identified.
description: Accepted for MNRAS Letters
Additional file 1 of Prophylactic transcatheter arterial embolization for high-risk ulcers following endoscopic hemostasis: a meta-analysis
Creators: name: Yu, Qian
name: Liu, Chenyu
name: Collura, Biagio
name: Navuluri, Rakesh
name: Patel, Mikin
name: Yu, Zhiyong
name: Ahmed, Osman
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: S. Table 1. Rebleeding rate between EO (14.3%) and PTAE (6.8%) groups. EO: endoscopy only. PTAE: prophylactic transcatheter embolization. S. Table 2. Pooled rate of surgical intervention after EO (86/617, 14.4%) or PTAE (8/265, 3%). EO: endoscopy only. PTAE: prophylactic transcatheter embolization. S. Table 3. Mortality rate between EO (8.8%) and PTAE (4.5%) groups. EO: endoscopy only. PTAE: prophylactic transcatheter embolization. S. Table 4.1. Sensitivity Analysis of the odds ratio of rebleeding risk after PTAE versus conservative management. S. Figure 1.1. Sensitivity Analysis of the odds ratio of rebleeding risk after PTAE versus conservative management. S. Table 4.2. Sensitivity Analysis of the odds ratio of mortality after PTAE versus conservative management. S. Figure 1.2. Sensitivity Analysis of the odds ratio of rebleeding risk after PTAE versus conservative management. Supplement Table 5.1. Newcastle Ottawa Scale (NOS) of cohort studies was used to evaluate the quality for each eligible study. Supplement Table 5.2. The Cochrane Collaboration’s tool for assessing risk of bias in randomized trials.
Multi-modal Networks Reveal Patterns of Operational Similarity of Terrorist Organizations
Creators: name: Campedelli, Gian Maria
name: Cruickshank, Iain J.
name: Carley, Kathleen M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Capturing dynamics of operational similarity among terrorist groups is critical to provide actionable insights for counter-terrorism and intelligence monitoring. Yet, in spite of its theoretical and practical relevance, research addressing this problem is currently lacking. We tackle this problem proposing a novel computational framework for detecting clusters of terrorist groups sharing similar behaviors, focusing on groups' yearly repertoire of deployed tactics, attacked targets, and utilized weapons. Specifically considering those organizations that have plotted at least 50 attacks from 1997 to 2018, accounting for a total of 105 groups responsible for more than 42,000 events worldwide, we offer three sets of results. First, we show that over the years global terrorism has been characterized by increasing operational cohesiveness. Second, we highlight that year-to-year stability in co-clustering among groups has been particularly high from 2009 to 2018, indicating temporal consistency of similarity patterns in the last decade. Third, we demonstrate that operational similarity between two organizations is driven by three factors: (a) their overall activity; (b) the difference in the diversity of their operational repertoires; (c) the difference in a combined measure of diversity and activity. Groups' operational preferences, geographical homophily and ideological affinity have no consistent role in determining operational similarity.
description: 42 pages, 19 figures
Additional file 3 of CircPVT1 promotes proliferation of lung squamous cell carcinoma by binding to miR-30d/e
Creators: name: Shi, Jie
name: Lv, Xin
name: Zeng, Lizhong
name: Li, Wei
name: Zhong, Yujie
name: Yuan, Jingyan
name: Deng, Shanshan
name: Liu, Boxuan
name: Yuan, Bo
name: Chen, Yang
name: Ming, Zongjuan
name: Yang, Xia
name: Fang, Ping
name: Yang, Shuanying
name: Chen, Guoan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 3: Figure S2. qRT-PCR analysis of circPVT1 expression in H520 cells after treatment with miR-30d minics or miR-30e minics or miR-30d inhibitors or miR-30e inhibitors.
The Search for Heavy Majorana Neutrinos
Creators: name: Atre, Anupama
name: Han, Tao
name: Pascoli, Silvia
name: Zhang, Bin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Majorana nature of neutrinos can be experimentally verified only via {\it lepton-number} violating processes involving charged leptons. We study 36 lepton-number violating ($\lv$) processes from the decays of tau leptons and pseudoscalar mesons. These decays are absent in the Standard Model but, in presence of Majorana neutrinos in the mass range $\sim 100 \mev$ to $5 \gev$, the rates for these processes would be enhanced due to their resonant contribution. We calculate the transition rates and branching fractions and compare them to the current bounds from direct experimental searches for $\dl=2$ tau and rare meson decays. The experimental non-observation of such $\lv$ processes places stringent bounds on the Majorana neutrino mass and mixing and we summarize the existing limits. We also extend the search to hadron collider experiments. We find that, at the Tevatron with $8 {fb}^{-1}$ integrated luminosity, there could be $2σ$ ($5σ$) sensitivity for resonant production of a Majorana neutrino in the $μ^\pm μ^\pm$ modes in the mass range of $\sim 10 - 180 {\gev} (10 - 120 {\gev})$. This reach can be extended to $\sim 10 - 375 {\gev} (10 - 250 mbox{\gev})$ at the LHC of 14 TeV with $100 {fb}^{-1}$. The production cross section at the LHC of 10 TeV is also presented for comparison. We study the $μ^\pm e^\pm$ modes as well and find that the signal could be large enough even taking into account the current bound from neutrinoless double-beta decay. The signal from the gauge boson fusion channel $W^+ W^+\to \ell^+_1 \ell^+_2$ at the LHC is found to be very weak given the rather small mixing parameters. We comment on the search strategy when a $τ$ lepton is involved in the final state.
description: 60 pages, 27 figures, minor changes,some references added, matches the published version
Additional file 1 of High larvicidal efficacy of yeast-encapsulated orange oil against Aedes aegypti strains from Brazil
Creators: name: Gomes, Bruno
name: Ogélio, Huarlen
name: Brant, Fabiane
name: Pereira-Pinto, Camila Jesus
name: Workman, Michael J.
name: Costa, Monique
name: Lima, José Bento Pereira
name: Martins, Ademir Jesus
name: Ramalho-Ortigao, Marcelo
name: Durvasula, Ravi
name: Hurwitz, Ivy
name: David, Mariana Rocha
name: Genta, Fernando Ariel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Mortality of positive control in laboratory assays with YEOO against reference strain Aedes aegypti—Rockefeller.