cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: The Human Right to Water, Climate Change and Justice: Analysing multiple interactions through a case study of India
Creators: name: Ohdedar, Birsha
Publisher: name: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Year: 2023

description: Climate change poses new and complex questions related to water and how it is accessed, distributed and conserved. In India, where water conflicts and water stress have already been prevalent, face critical issues in this context. Access to water for basic needs is still a major issue for a significant part of the population. In this context, the realisation of the human right to water is significant. This thesis analyses the human right to water from a climate and water justice perspective. The justice framework developed in this thesis draws upon political ecology and human geography, to examine questions of ‘how’ injustices occur. Political ecologists have highlighted to how climate and water injustices are ‘produced’ through both social and ecological processes interacting. Thus, the realisation of human right to water is viewed based on the interaction of these processes. The thesis unpacks the ‘production’ of water and climate (in)justice, through these processes, and specifically examines the role of law and the realisation of the right to water. Case studies are carried out in two different states of India - West Bengal and Rajasthan - in areas experiencing sea level rise, floods and droughts. The case studies analyse the role of law and policy, interacting with governance processes, the role of the state, urbanisation, neoliberalism, hydropower, as well as discourses and ideas around water, land and climate. Law and policy play an integral role here, differentially allocating power, creating hierarchies, priorities and mediating relationships. Ultimately, it is demonstrated that the (unequal) realisation of the right to water access to water is mediated through contestations driven by these processes. Drawing on the empirical case studies, the thesis critiques the current framing of the human right to water. To a large extent, the delivery of the human right to water has been through a narrow focus on delivering access to drinking and domestic water (a consumption or entitlement approach). Such an interpretation is broadly consistent with the international policy level, where the right is seen as an individual right of access to a particular quantity of water for consumption. However, it is demonstrated that such a narrow framing does not adequately tackle the daily struggles for water that are experienced from a water and climate justice perspective. Accordingly, the thesis argues that the human right to water needs to be a tool to reformulate the way water is shared, distributed and conserved across different scales. It needs to change from a consumption or entitlement right to a right to ‘transform’ the ‘hydro-social’ conditions and processes which mediate how water is accessed. In order to do this, the right needs to recognise multiple uses of water, to transform into broader right to reclaim the commons, and to incorporate more radical forms of participation.
Loss functions with symbolic constraints in deep learning
Creators: name: Belle, Vaishak
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: For this talk, I will choose to focus on some of our recent inquiries regarding loss functions using logical formulas. This all began with the so-called multiplexnet paper with Nicholas Hoernle from AAAI 2022, which is related to approaches such as the semantic loss from UCLA and DeepProbLog from KU Leuven. From there, the work we’ve been doing recently goes along two directions. In some work that I’m carrying out with Nijesh Uperti, we’re looking at the foundations of weak supervision from a logical standpoint. The idea is to provide an idealized characterization of what kind of hypotheses are learned in the weak signal experimental evaluations in these papers. The second piece of related work is looking at the idea of a loss function using logical formulas from a geometric point of view, mainly in work with Miguel Mendez (ICAART 2025). The idea is that if you see the loss function as a kind of constrained distribution and the baseline neural network as the input distribution, we are trying to minimize the distance between these two distributions. 

 

This talk was given at the new Research Theme dedicated to Safe and Secure AI for Robotics, by Ekaterina Komendantskaya, Marta Romeo, among others.
Bounds on Neutrino Mass in Viscous Cosmology
Creators: name: Anand, Sampurn
name: Chaubal, Prakrut
name: Mazumdar, Arindam
name: Mohanty, Subhendra
name: Parashari, Priyank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Effective field theory of dark matter fluid on large scales predicts the presence of viscosity of the order of $10^{-6} H_0 M_P^2$. It has been shown that this magnitude of viscosities can resolve the discordance between large scale structure observations and Planck CMB data in the $σ_8$-$Ω_m^0$ and $H_0$-$Ω_m^0$ parameters space. Massive neutrinos suppresses the matter power spectrum on the small length scales similar to the viscosities. We show that by including the effective viscosity, which arises from summing over non linear perturbations at small length scales, severely constrains the cosmological bound on neutrino masses. Under a joint analysis of Planck CMB and different large scale observation data, we find that upper bound on the sum of the neutrino masses at 2-$σ$ level, decreases from $\sum m_ν\le 0.396\,$eV (normal hierarchy) and $\sum m_ν\le 0.378 \,$eV (inverted hierarchy) to $\sum m_ν\le 0.267\,$eV (normal hierarchy) and $\sum m_ν\le 0.146\,$eV (inverted hierarchy) when the effective viscosities are included.
description: 19 pages, 13 figures
A template bank for gravitational waveforms from coalescing binary black holes: non-spinning binaries
Creators: name: Ajith, P.
name: Babak, S.
name: Chen, Y.
name: Hewitson, M.
name: Krishnan, B.
name: Sintes, A. M.
name: Whelan, J. T.
name: Bruegmann, B.
name: Diener, P.
name: Dorband, N.
name: Gonzalez, J.
name: Hannam, M.
name: Husa, S.
name: Pollney, D.
name: Rezzolla, L.
name: Santamaria, L.
name: Sperhake, U.
name: Thornburg, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gravitational waveforms from the inspiral and ring-down stages of the binary black hole coalescences can be modelled accurately by approximation/perturbation techniques in general relativity. Recent progress in numerical relativity has enabled us to model also the non-perturbative merger phase of the binary black-hole coalescence problem. This enables us to \emph{coherently} search for all three stages of the coalescence of non-spinning binary black holes using a single template bank. Taking our motivation from these results, we propose a family of template waveforms which can model the inspiral, merger, and ring-down stages of the coalescence of non-spinning binary black holes that follow quasi-circular inspiral. This two-dimensional template family is explicitly parametrized by the physical parameters of the binary. We show that the template family is not only \emph{effectual} in detecting the signals from black hole coalescences, but also \emph{faithful} in estimating the parameters of the binary. We compare the sensitivity of a search (in the context of different ground-based interferometers) using all three stages of the black hole coalescence with other template-based searches which look for individual stages separately. We find that the proposed search is significantly more sensitive than other template-based searches for a substantial mass-range, potentially bringing about remarkable improvement in the event-rate of ground-based interferometers. As part of this work, we also prescribe a general procedure to construct interpolated template banks using non-spinning black hole waveforms produced by numerical relativity.
description: A typo fixed in Eq.(B11)
Commentary: Macroeconomic Policy and Long-Run Growth
Creators: name: Meltzer, Allan
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: DeLong and Summers' paper covers three principal topics. First, they document the international character of the decline in productivity growth during the past 20 years. Second, they look for macroeconomic causes of the slowdown, particularly the effect of inflation. Third, they present some evidence suggesting that the growth rate rises much more in response to investment in plant and equipment spending than for other types of investment DeLong and Summers conclude that subsidies or incentives for equipment investment are desirable. I begin by commenting on each of these points and on their conclusion before turning to some related issues.
Dicranum longifolium Hedw.
Creators: name: Price, Michelle J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Dicranales
Dicranaceae
Dicranum
Dicranum longifolium

description: BN: Dicranum longifolium Hedw.,
Sp. Musc. Frond.: 130. 1801.
CN / SY: Paraleucobryum longifolium (Hedw.) Loeske, Hedwigia 47: 171. 1908.
PL: In Suecia Upsaliae et in Scoticis alpibus ad rivulorum ripas (in Hercynia et in Sudetibus Ludwig, in Austria Host).
LI: [Dicranum longifolium Hedw. St. Cr. III. p. 341. t. 9. Upsalia Ehrh ad J. Hedwig].
LT: FRAHM & ISOVIITA (1988: 95), holotype in G, corrected in PRICE (2012: 302), lectoype in G, “the two extant stems on herbarium sheet G00040217, labelled as above, and as illustrated in Hedwig (1791-1792)” [G00040217].
Figure: PRICE (2005: Fig. 63).
Notes: The original typification by FRAHM & ISOVIITA (1988) was not listed in PRICE (2005).
description: Published as part of Price, Michelle J., 2014, Hedwig-Schwägrichen types catalogue update (1): new typifications and typification corrections, pp. 119-133 in Candollea 69 (2) on page 122, DOI: 10.15553/c2014v692a3, http://zenodo.org/record/5715296
Neutrino oscillations in a stochastic model for space-time foam
Creators: name: Alexandre, J.
name: Farakos, K.
name: Mavromatos, N. E.
name: Pasipoularides, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study decoherence models for flavour oscillations in four-dimensional stochastically fluctuating space times and discuss briefly the sensitivity of current neutrino experiments to such models. We pay emphasis on demonstrating the model dependence of the associated decoherence-induced damping coefficients in front of the oscillatory terms in the respective transition probabilities between flavours. Within the context of specific models of foam, involving point-like D-branes and leading to decoherence-induced damping which is inversely proportional to the neutrino energies, we also argue that future limits on the relevant decoherence parameters coming from TeV astrophysical neutrinos, to be observed in ICE-CUBE, are not far from theoretically expected values with Planck mass suppression. Ultra high energy neutrinos from Gamma Ray Bursts at cosmological distances can also exhibit in principle sensitivity to such effects.
description: 12 pages RevTex4, no figures
Conformal symbols and the action of contact vector fields over the superline
Creators: name: Conley, Charles H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 17B66

description: Let K be the Lie superalgebra of contact vector fields on the supersymmetric line. We compute the action of K on the modules of differential and pseudodifferential operators between spaces of tensor densities, in terms of their conformal symbols. As applications we deduce the geometric subsymbols, 1-cohomology, and various uniserial subquotients of these modules. We also outline the computation of the K-equivalences and symmetries of their subquotients.
description: 48 pages
Search for Flavoured Multiquarks in a Simple Bag Model
Creators: name: Zouzou, S.
name: Richard, J. -M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use a bag model to study flavoured mesonic $(Qq\bar q\bar q)$ and baryonic $({\overline Q}qqqq)$ states, where one heavy quark $Q$ is associated with light quarks or antiquarks, and search for possible stable multiquarks. No bound state is found. However some states lie not too high above their dissociation threshold, suggesting the possibility of resonances, or perhaps bound states in improved models.
description: REVTEX, VERSION 3.0
Instanton representation of Plebanski gravity. Euclidean signature minisuperspace solution
Creators: name: Ita, Eyo Eyo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the action for the instanton representation of Plebanski gravity (IRPG), we construct minisuperspace solutions restricted to diagonal variables. We have treated the Euclidean signature case with zero cosmological constant, depicting a gravitational analogy to free particle motion. This paper provides a testing ground for the IRPG for a simple case, which will be extended to the full theory in future work.
description: 12 pages. Accepted by Modern Physics Letters A
Homogenization of variational problems in manifold valued Sobolev spaces
Creators: name: Babadjian, Jean-Francois
name: Millot, Vincent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 74Q05, 49J45, 49Q20

description: Homogenization of integral functionals is studied under the constraint that admissible maps have to take their values into a given smooth manifold. The notion of tangential homogenization is defined by analogy with the tangential quasiconvexity introduced by Dacorogna, Fonseca, Maly and Trivisa \cite{DFMT}. For energies with superlinear or linear growth, a $Γ$-convergence result is established in Sobolev spaces, the homogenization problem in the space of functions of bounded variation being the object of \cite{BM}.
description: 22 pages
Predicting the emission profile and estimation of model parameters for some nearby LLAGN using accretion and jet models
Creators: name: Bandyopadhyay, Bidisha
name: Xie, Fu-Guo
name: Schleicher, Dominik R. G.
name: Nagar, Neil M.
name: Ramakrishnan, Venkatessh
name: Arevalo, Patricia
name: Lopez, Elena
name: Diaz, Yaherlyn
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: accretion, accretion disks
black hole physics
Galaxy: nucleus

description: The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) provides a unique opportunity to probe the physics of supermassive black holes through Very Large Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), such as the existence of the event horizon, the accretion processes as well as jet formation in Low Luminosity AGN (LLAGN). We build a theoretical model which includes an Advection Dominated Accretion Flow (ADAF) and a simple radio jet outflow. The predicted spectral energy distribution (SED) of this model can be compared to observations to get the best estimates of the model parameters. The
 model-predicted radial emission profiles at different frequency bands can be used to predict whether the inflow can be resolved by the EHT or other telescopes. We have applied this method to some nearby LLAGN such as M84, NGC 4594, NGC 4278 and NGC 3998. We also estimate the model parameters for each of them using high resolution data from different surveys.
description: We acknowledge the following funding sources: CONICYT Programa de Astronom\'ia Fondo ALMA-Conicyt 2016 31160001, the Conicyt PIA ACT172033 as well as the BASAL Centro de Astrof\'isica y Tecnolog\'ias Afines (CATA) AFB-170002. BB thanks funding via Fondecyt Postdoctorado (project code 3190366). FGX is supported in part by the National Program on Key R\&D Project of China (Grants 2016YFA0400804), the NSFC (grant 11873074), and the YIPA program of CAS (id. 2016243). NMN also acknowledges support from Conicyt through Fondecyt 1171506.
Commentary: Benefit-Cost Analysis
Creators: name: Eads, George C.
name: Lave, Lester B
name: Farrow, Scott
name: Toman, Michael
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: SCOTT Farrow AND MICHAEL TOMAN make a perfectly reasonable case for using benefit-cost analysis to evaluate environmental programs I found myself playing the same role in I98 I , urging environmental groups to embrace this approach to decision making. They rejected my advice, saying that their opponents were using benefit- cost analysis to undermine environmental regulations and that Reagan’s Executive Order 12291 was intended to slow or stop regulation.
Constraining Cosmic Evolution of Type Ia Supernovae
Creators: name: Foley, Ryan J.
name: Filippenko, A. V.
name: Aguilera, C.
name: Becker, A. C.
name: Blondin, S.
name: Challis, P.
name: Clocchiatti, A.
name: Covarrubias, R.
name: Davis, T. M.
name: Garnavich, P. M.
name: Jha, S.
name: Kirshner, R. P.
name: Krisciunas, K.
name: Leibundgut, B.
name: Li, W.
name: Matheson, T.
name: Miceli, A.
name: Miknaitis, G.
name: Pignata, G.
name: Rest, A.
name: Riess, A. G.
name: Schmidt, B. P.
name: Smith, R. C.
name: Sollerman, J.
name: Spyromilio, J.
name: Stubbs, C. W.
name: Tonry, J. L.
name: Suntzeff, N. B.
name: Wood-Vasey, W. M.
name: Zenteno, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first large-scale effort of creating composite spectra of high-redshift type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) and comparing them to low-redshift counterparts. Through the ESSENCE project, we have obtained 107 spectra of 88 high-redshift SNe Ia with excellent light-curve information. In addition, we have obtained 397 spectra of low-redshift SNe through a multiple-decade effort at Lick and Keck Observatories, and we have used 45 UV spectra obtained by HST/IUE. The low-redshift spectra act as a control sample when comparing to the ESSENCE spectra. In all instances, the ESSENCE and Lick composite spectra appear very similar. The addition of galaxy light to the Lick composite spectra allows a nearly perfect match of the overall spectral-energy distribution with the ESSENCE composite spectra, indicating that the high-redshift SNe are more contaminated with host-galaxy light than their low-redshift counterparts. This is caused by observing objects at all redshifts with the same slit width, which corresponds to different projected distances. After correcting for the galaxy-light contamination, subtle differences in the spectra remain. We have estimated the systematic errors when using current spectral templates for K-corrections to be ~0.02 mag. The variance in the composite spectra give an estimate of the intrinsic variance in low-redshift maximum-light SN spectra of ~3% in the optical and growing toward the UV. The difference between the maximum light low and high-redshift spectra constrain SN evolution between our samples to be < 10% in the rest-frame optical.
description: 22 pages, 22 figures, submitted to ApJ. Composite spectra can be downloaded from http://astro.berkeley.edu/~rfoley/composite/
Two new naphthalene glycosides from the seeds of Cassia obtusifolia
Creators: name: Pang, Xu
name: Na-Na Li
name: He-Shui Yu
name: Kang, Li-Ping
name: Yu, Hai-Yang
name: Song, Xin-Bo
name: Guan-Wei Fan
name: Han, Li-Feng
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology

description: A phytochemical study on the seeds of Cassia obtusifolia was carried out, which finally led to obtain two naphthalenes (1 and 2), two naphthopyrans (3 and 4) and twelve anthraquinones (5–16). The structures of all compounds were established mainly by NMR and MS experiments as well as the necessary chemical evidence. Among them, 1 and 2 (obtusinaphthalensides A and B) were identified to be new naphthalene glycosides.
ALMA observation of the disruption of molecular gas in M87
Creators: name: Simionescu, A.
name: Tremblay, G.
name: Werner, N.
name: Canning, R. E. A.
name: Allen, S. W.
name: Oonk, J. B. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results from ALMA observations centred $40^{\prime\prime}$ (3 kpc in projection) southeast of the nucleus of M87. We report the detection of extended CO (2-1) line emission with a total flux of $(5.5 \pm 0.6) \times 10^{-18}$ erg s$^{-1}$ cm$^{-2}$ and corresponding molecular gas mass $M_{H_2}=(4.7 \pm 0.4) \times 10^5 M_\odot$, assuming a Galactic CO to H$_2$ conversion factor. ALMA data indicate a line-of-sight velocity of $-129\pm3$ km s$^{-1}$, in good agreement with measurements based on the [CII] and H$α$+[NII] lines, and a velocity dispersion of $σ=27\pm3$ km s$^{-1}$. The CO(2-1) emission originates only outside the radio lobe of the AGN seen in the 6~cm VLA image, while the filament prolongs further inwards at other wavelengths. The molecular gas in M87 appears to be destroyed or excited by AGN activity, either by direct interaction with the radio plasma, or by the shock driven by the lobe into the X-ray emitting atmosphere. This is an important piece of the puzzle in understanding the impact of the central AGN on the amount of the coldest gas from which star formation can proceed.
description: 6 pages, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Edge Dynamics from the Path Integral: Maxwell and Yang-Mills
Creators: name: Blommaert, Andreas
name: Mertens, Thomas G.
name: Verschelde, Henri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive an action describing edge dynamics on interfaces for gauge theories (Maxwell and Yang-Mills) using the path integral. The canonical structure of the edge theory is deduced and the thermal partition function calculated. We test the edge action in several applications. For Maxwell in Rindler space, we recover earlier results, now embedded in a dynamical canonical framework. A second application is 2d Yang-Mills theory where the boundary action becomes just the particle-on-a-group action. Correlators of boundary-anchored Wilson lines in 2d Yang-Mills are matched with, and identified as correlators of bilocal operators in the particle-on-a-group edge model.
description: 50 pages, v2: typos corrected and references added, matches published version
Commentary on 4'Increasing Indebtedness and Financial Stability in the United States"
Creators: name: Meltzer, Allan
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 1966
Subjects: subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Benjamin Friedman's paper considers some recently popular questions among regulators and some parts of the financial community. When measured against some appropriate benchmark, is the aggregate debt in the United States rising too fast? Does the recent growth of debt pose a problem for monetary policy? What could, or should, be done?
Existence of rational points on smooth projective varieties
Creators: name: Poonen, Bjorn
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14G05 (Primary), 11G35, 11U05, 14G25, 14J20 (Secondary)

description: Fix a number field k. We prove that if there is an algorithm for deciding whether a smooth projective geometrically integral k-variety has a k-point, then there is an algorithm for deciding whether an arbitrary k-variety has a k-point and also an algorithm for computing X(k) for any k-variety X for which X(k) is finite. The proof involves the construction of a one-parameter algebraic family of Chatelet surfaces such that exactly one of the surfaces fails to have a k-point.
description: 11 pages
Bound State Soliton Description of Low Partial Wave Octet Baryon Resonances
Creators: name: Gobbi, C.
name: Scoccola, N. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A version of the bound state soliton model which allows both $η$ and $K$ bound states is used to study low partial wave octet baryon resonances. It is found that negative parity $S-$wave resonances are well described within this framework. A possible interpretation of the $P-$wave resonances is also discussed.
description: 8 pages (+ 2 figures, available from the authors), Latex file, TAN-FNT-93-08
Recombination of H3+ Ions in the Afterglow of a He-Ar-H2 Plasma
Creators: name: Glosik, J.
name: Korolov, I.
name: Plasil, R.
name: Novotny, O.
name: Kotrik, T.
name: Hlavenka, P.
name: Varju, J.
name: Greene, Chris H.
name: Kokoouline, V.
name: Mikhailov, I. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recombination of H3+ with electrons was studied in a low temperature plasma in helium. The plasma recombination rate is driven by two body, H3+ + e, and three-body, H3+ + e + He, processes with the rate coefficients 7.5x10^{-8}cm3/s and 2.8x10^{-25}cm6/s correspondingly at 260K. The two-body rate coefficient is in excellent agreement with results from storage ring experiments and theoretical calculations. We suggest that the three-body recombination involves formation of highly excited Rydberg neutral H3 followed by an l- or m- changing collision with He. Plasma electron spectroscopy indicates the presence of H3.
description: 4 figures
Reweighting Lefschetz Thimbles
Creators: name: Bluecher, Stefan
name: Pawlowski, Jan M.
name: Scherzer, Manuel
name: Schlosser, Mike
name: Stamatescu, Ion-Olimpiu
name: Syrkowski, Sebastian
name: Ziegler, Felix P. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
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: One of the main challenges in simulations on Lefschetz thimbles is the computation of the relative weights of contributing thimbles. In this paper we propose a solution to that problem by means of computing those weights using a reweighting procedure. Besides we present recipes for finding parametrizations of thimbles and anti-thimbles for a given theory. Moreover, we study some approaches to combine the Lefschetz thimble method with the Complex Langevin evolution. Our numerical investigations are carried out by using toy models among which we consider a one-site z^4 model as well as a U(1) one-link model.
description: 11 pages, 9 figures, 2 tables; in revised version added a few references
A patient-specific respiratory model of anatomical motion for radiation treatment planning
Creators: name: Zhang, Qinghui
name: Pevsner, Alex
name: Hertanto, Agung
name: Hu, Yu-Chi
name: Rosenzweig, Kenneth E.
name: Ling, C. Clifton
name: Mageras, Gig S
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Modeling of respiratory motion is important for a more accurate understanding and accounting of its effect on dose to cancers in the thorax and abdomen by radiotherapy. We have developed a model of respiration-induced organ motion in the thorax, without the commonly adopted assumption of repeatable breath cycles. The model describes the motion of a volume of interest within the patient, based on a reference 3-dimensional image (at end-expiration), and the diaphragm positions at different time points. The input data are respiration-correlated CT images of patients treated for nonsmall cell lung cancer, consisting of 3D images, including the diaphragm positions, at 10 phases of the respiratory cycle. A deformable image registration algorithm calculates the deformation field that maps each 3D image to the reference 3D image. A principle component analysis is performed to parameterize the 3D deformation field in terms of the diaphragm motion. We show that the first two principal components are adequate to accurately and completely describe the organ motion in the data of 4 patients. Artifacts in the RCCT images that commonly occur at the mid-respiration states are reduced in the model-generated images. Further validation of the model is demonstrated in the successful application of the parameterized 3D deformation field to RCCT data of the same patient but acquired several days later. We have developed a method for predicting respiration-induced organ motion in patients that has potential for improving the accuracy of dose calculation in radiotherapy.
description: 18 pages, 9 figures
Comment: Low-Cost Strategies for Coping with CO₂ Emission Limits
Creators: name: Lave, Lester B
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Projecting what energy generation and use-technologies will be available and will be used during the next century ( and longer) can be somewhat more scientific than debating how many fairies can dance on the head of a pin -- if one is careful. The New Millennium could see the equivalent of ~old fusion, a small scale, nonpolluting technology that uses abundant materials and has no toxic residuals. We could have end-use technologies that are ten or one-hundred times more efficient than those currently available.
title: ADCO, Cinquième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1664), Cart. 28 (G 132), 258 folios, f. 00391
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Petot, Frédéric
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: cartulaire

description: Cinquième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1664), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 28 (G 132), 258 folios, f. 00391, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cinquième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1664), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 28 (G 132), 258 folios, f. 00391, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https://manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye Saint-Étienne de Dijon
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15945019
Genetic characteristics of HPV16, 18, 52 and 58 from Changsha, China
Creators: name: 芷华 欧
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2021
Subjects: Genome sequencing and assembly
Multiisolate

description: Persistent infection of high-risk HPV is the leading cause of cervical cancers. To eliminate cervical cancers, vaccination against multiple types of high-risk HPVs has been reinforced in many places of the world. However, in low- and middle-income regions, vaccine coverage is low and HPV-induced cervical cancer continues threating women’s health. In China, HPV vaccines are only accessible to a small fraction of young females. Hence, cervical cancer screening and treatment remains essential work to eliminate the disease in recent decades. To understand the genetic diversity of circulating HPVs in Chinese women, we collected cervical exfoliated cell samples from females participating in the National Cervical Cancer Screening Program in Changsha city and obtained 358 viral genomes of four major HPV types, including HPV 16 (n=80), 18 (n=35), 52 (n=125) and 58 (n=118). The lineage/sublineage distribution of the four HPVs was largely consistent with previous reports, with the predominant prevailing sublineage as A4 (51%), A1 (30%) and A3 (19%) for HPV16, A1 (83%) for HPV18, B2 (86%) for HPV52 and A1 (66%), A2 (14%) and A3 (16%) for HPV58. We also detected a potentially new HPV18 sublineage based on the Changsha strains. Virus mutation profile analysis further revealed the presence of HPV16 strains associated with high cancer risks. Our results expanded knowledge on the HPV genetic diversity in China, which would provide valuable evidence to facilitate effective HPV DNA screening, vaccine development and control strategy evaluation.
More on Symmetries in Heavy Quark Effective Theory
Creators: name: Das, Ashok
name: Mathur, V. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a general classification of all normal and ``chiral" symmetries of heavy quark effective theories. Some peculiarities and conondrums associated with the ``chiral" symmetries are discussed.
description: 15 pages, preprint UR-1320, ER40685-770
Magnetohydrodynamics wave propagation in the neighbourhood of two dipoles
Creators: name: McLaughlin, J. A.
name: Hood, A. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper is the third in a series of investigations by the authors. The nature of fast magnetoacoustic and Alfvén waves is investigated in a 2D $β=0$ plasma in the neighbourhood of two dipoles. We use both numerical simulations (two-step Lax-Wendroff scheme) and analytical techniques (WKB approximation). It is found that the propagation of the linear fast wave is dictated by the Alfvén speed profile and that close to the null, the wave is attracted to the neutral point. However, it is also found that in this magnetic configuration some of the wave can escape the refraction effect; this had not been seen in previous investigations by the authors. The wave split occurs near the regions of very high Alfvén speed (found near the loci of the two dipoles). Also, for the set-up investigated it was found that 40% of the wave energy accumulates at the null. Ohmic dissipation will then extract the wave energy at this point. The Alfvén wave behaves in a different manner in that part of the wave accumulates along the separatrices and part escapes. Hence, the current density will accumulate at this part of the topology and this is where wave heating will occur. The phenomenon of wave accumulation at a specific place is a feature of both wave types, as is the result that a fraction of the wave can now escape the numerical box when propagating in this magnetic configuration.
description: 15 pages, 12 figures
Comment on: Restoring Full Employment in Japan
Creators: name: Meltzer, Allan
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 1986
Subjects: subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Mr. Omori has presented two papers that are related but distinct. One discusses the labor market. The other discusses structural reform of the economy. Both offer many interesting insights for the non-specialist. I will comment briefly on these two parts. Then I will take up a point that, I believe, the paper passes over too quickly
Properties of polycrystalline nanoparticles with uniaxial and cubic types of magnetic anisotropy of individual grains
Creators: name: Bautin, V. A.
name: Seferyan, A. G.
name: Nesmeyanov, M. S.
name: Usov, N. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The influence of the crystal structure inhomogeneities on the magnetic properties of cobalt nanoparticles with different aspect ratio and spherical nanoparticles of chromium dioxide, cobalt ferrite and magnetite has been studied by means of numerical simulation. The polycrystalline nanoparticles are modeled by means of subdivision of the nanoparticle volume into tightly bound single-crystal granules with randomly distributed directions of the easy anisotropy axes. The probability of appearance of quasi uniform and vortex states in sufficiently large assemblies of polycrystalline nanoparticles of various types have been calculated depending on the nanoparticle diameter. It is shown that the subdivision of a nanoparticle into single-crystal granules with different orientations of the easy anisotropy axes substantially reduces the effective single-domain diameters for particles with uniaxial type of anisotropy of individual granules. However, for particles with cubic type of magnetic anisotropy the influence of the crystal structure inhomogeneities on the equilibrium properties of the particles is not so important even for magnetically hard cobalt ferrite nanoparticles. It is practically absent for magnetically soft magnetite nanoparticles.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures
Probing the magnetoelectric effect in noncentrosymmetric superconductors by equal-spin Andreev tunneling
Creators: name: Tkachov, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In noncentrosymmetric superconductors (NCSs), the conversion of a charge current into spin magnetization - the so called magnetoelectric effect - is the direct indicator of the unconventional, mixed-parity order parameter. This paper proposes a scheme to detect the magnetoelectric effect by anomalous, equal-spin Andreev tunneling in NCS/ferromagnet contacts. The proposal relies on the ability to generate spin-polarized triplet pairing by passing an electric current through an NCS. Such an induced triplet pairing bears a similarity to the paradigmatic nonunitary pairing in triplet superfluids with a complex vector order parameter ${\bf d}$. The qualitative difference is that the induced nonunitary state can be realised in NCSs with a purely real ${\bf d}$ by breaking the time-reversal symmetry in current-biased setups. This offers a possibility to access the unconventional superconductivity in NCSs through electrical transport measurements.
description: preprint format, accepted version
Predicción de la respuesta a terapia fotodinámica en pacientes con coriorretinopatía serosa central utilizando inteligencia artificial basada en imágenes de tomografía de coherencia óptica
Creators: name: Gómez Calleja, Verónica
name: Fernández-Vigo, José Ignacio
name: Moura, Joaquim de
name: Novo, Jorge
name: Ortega Hortas, Marcos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Coriorretinopatía serosa central crónica (CSCc)
Tomografía de coherencia óptica (OCT)
Terapia fotodinámica (TFD)
Inteligencia artificia

description: El objetivo del póster es determinar si mediante el análisis de la OCT macular basal de los pacientes con coriorretinopatía serosa central crónica (CSCc) se puede predecir mediante inteligencia artificial (IA) la respuesta a la terapia fotodinámica (TFD)
Oblique Corrections To The W Width
Creators: name: Rosner, Jonathan L.
name: Worah, Mihir P.
name: Takeuchi, Tatsu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The lowest-order expression for the partial $W$ width to $e ν,~Γ(W \to e ν) = G_μM_W^3 /(6 π\sqrt{2})$, has no oblique radiative corrections from new physics if the measured $W$ mass is used. Here $G_μ= (1.16639 \pm 0.00002) \times 10^{-5}$ GeV/$c^2$ is the muon decay constant. For the present value of $M_W = (80.14 \pm 0.27)$ GeV/$c^2$, and with $m_t = 140$ GeV$/c^2$, one expects $Γ(W \to e ν) = (224.4 \pm 2.3)$ MeV. The total width $Γ_{\rm tot}(W)$ is also expected to lack oblique corrections from new physics, so that $Γ_{\rm tot} (W)/ Γ(W \to e ν) = 3 + 6 [1 + \{α_s (M_W)/π\}]$. Present data are consistent with this prediction.
description: 15 pages (LaTeX), one PostScript figure not included (available upon request)
On ground fields of arithmetic hyperbolic reflection groups. III
Creators: name: Nikulin, Viacheslav V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20F55, 51F15, 22E40

description: This paper continues arXiv.org:math.AG/0609256, arXiv:0708.3991 and arXiv:0710.0162 . Using authors's methods of 1980, 1981, some explicit finite sets of number fields containing all ground fields of arithmetic hyperbolic reflection groups in dimension at least 3 are defined, and explicit bounds of their degrees (over Q) are obtained. Thus, now, explicit bound of degree of ground fields of arithmetic hyperbolic reflection groups is known in all dimensions. Thus, now, we can, in principle, obtain effective finite classification of arithmetic hyperbolic reflection groups in all dimensions together.
description: Var3: 24 pages, 5 figures; unnecessary Corollary 3.3 removed
Is “stiff-person syndrome” really autoimmune?
Creators: name: Broxmeyer, MD, Dr. Lawrence
name: Perry, PhD, Dr. George
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 429999
subject: Other health sciences not elsewhere classified

description: When French Canadian Singer Céline Dion went on her Taking Chances World Tour (2008-9), which included nine shows across five cities in South Africa, as well as performances in Dubai, Tokyo, Osaka, Macau, Seoul, Shanghai, Kuala Lumpur (Malasia) and 4 performances in Latin America ˗ she was taking way more “chances” in contracting serious infectious disease then she or her handlers might have predicted. Read more about this possibility here: Although its true cause is unknown, Stiff-Person Syndrome (SPS) is considered to be autoimmune, one of the ever-growing list of what now constitutes, according to The National Institutes of Health, more than 80 “autoimmune” diseases. However since SPS remains largely a clinical diagnosis, whose signs and symptoms are non-specific, and mimicked by other disease, its inclusion into autoimmunity has been questioned. Yehuda Shoenfeld’s Infection and Autoimmunity long ago came to the conclusion that all autoimmune diseases were infectious until proven otherwise. Infections themselves are important environmental triggers of autoimmunity, its onset and its severity. Therefore, before a disease can be proclaimed Autoimmune, exhaustive studies must be performed to carefully rule-out infectious disease. The association between immune response to certain mycobacterial infections and autoimmune disease, according to Shoenfeld, has long been suspected. However, a review of the literature shows that this possibility is not being ruled-out, in most cases, by anything beyond a mere acid-fast smear. However, studies have shown that a CSF (cerebrospinal fluid) tubercular acid-fast bacillus (AFB) smear has poor sensitivity (10-15%). In the meantime, disease such as Whipple’s Disease, with its movement disorders, once itself thought to be autoimmune, was found to be caused by an organism related to Mycobacterium avium. Moreover, there is not a sign or symptom in the Stiff-person syndrome and its spectrum that is not found in the literature of neuromuscular phenomena as a result of Central Nervous System mycobacterial infection of the spine and midbrain.
Comment on the Long-Run and Short-Run Demand for Money
Creators: name: Brunner, Karl
name: Meltzer, Allan
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 1976
Subjects: subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: In his recent contribution to the theory and empirical analysis of the demand for money, Gregory Chow attempted to reconcile the short- and long-run behavior of the demand for money by "introducing a mechanism for the adjustment of actual money stock to desired stock. . ." (Chow, 1966, p. 111). In this brief comment, we will argue that his formulation of the adjustment equation contains implications that make it difficult to accept and that his empirical evidence does not distinguish the "relative importance of current income as compared with wealth or permanent income" (Chow, 1966, p. Ill), as he claims. Further, we show that when income and prices are not combined in a single variable, nominal income, his more important conclusions about the effect of current income on the demand for money are reversed.
The set of non-squares in a number field is diophantine
Creators: name: Poonen, Bjorn
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14G05 (Primary) 11G35, 11U99, 14G25, 14J20 (Secondary)

description: Fix a number field k. We prove that k* - k*^2 is diophantine over k. This is deduced from a theorem that for a nonconstant separable polynomial P(x) in k[x], there are at most finitely many a in k* modulo squares such that there is a Brauer-Manin obstruction to the Hasse principle for the conic bundle X given by y^2 - az^2 = P(x).
description: 5 pages; corrected minor typos, improved exposition, added reference
Fifth forces, Higgs portals and broken scale invariance
Creators: name: Burrage, Clare
name: Copeland, Edmund J.
name: Millington, Peter
name: Spannowsky, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the relationship between the strength of fifth forces and the origin of scale breaking in the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics. We start with a light scalar field that is conformally coupled to a toy SM matter sector through a Weyl rescaling of the metric. After appropriately normalizing the fields, the conformally coupled scalar only interacts directly with the would-be Higgs field through kinetic-mixing and Higgs-portal terms. Thus, for the first time, we describe the equivalence of conformally coupled scalar-tensor modifications of gravity and Higgs-portal theories, and we find that the usual tree-level fifth forces only emerge if there is mass mixing between the conformally coupled scalar and the Higgs field. The strength of the fifth force, mediated by the light scalar, then depends on whether the mass of the Higgs arises from an explicit symmetry-breaking term or a spontaneous mechanism of scale breaking. Solar System tests of gravity and the non-observation of fifth forces therefore have the potential to provide information about the structure of the Higgs sector and the origin of its symmetry breaking, setting an upper bound on the magnitude of any explicit scale-breaking terms. These results demonstrate the phenomenological importance (both for cosmology and high-energy physics) of considering how scalar-tensor modifications of gravity are embedded within extensions of the SM.
description: 39 pages, 1 figure, revtex format; text and equations updated to match published version