cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Ascending aortic blood flow application
Creators: name: Konecny, Filip
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Ascending aortic blood flow in murine application has some important steps that are discussed during this workshop. While using these slides, surgical and also later a positional guidance of the head of the flowprobe on the aorta is discussed helping attendees to be able to perform the surgery on their own while in the lab. It is important to learn the approach to be able to collect good quality of data using this in-vivo application. These slides might help to access the ascending aorta in mouse and also with positioning the flowprobe on the aortic arch and ultimately to collect good signal tracings of aortic blood flow and its mean flow called cardiac output (CO).
On spin of plasma blob in edge and scrape-off layer regions of a tokamak
Creators: name: Bisai, N.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Rotation/spin of plasma blob in the edge and SOL regions in the presence of interchange plasma turbulence with a finite ion temperature gradient (∇⊥Ti) has been presented. ∇⊥Ti destabilizes plasma, but damps the eddies related to the plasma blob by enhanced viscosity, therefore, rotation is important for plasma dynamics as the rotation further stabilizes the blobs. The turbulence has been simulated numerically and results show monopolar vorticity is responsible for blob rotation, but the physics is different in the edge and SOL regions. A radial profile of vorticity, and angular speed of a typical plasma blob have been presented. The role of ∇⊥Ti has been identified.
Dyspnoea and pain in people hospitalised with an acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Creators: name: Clarke, Stephanie
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 320103
subject: Respiratory diseases
classificationCode: 420106
subject: Physiotherapy

description: This thesis explores the symptoms of dyspnoea and pain in people hospitalised with an acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). It investigates the prevalence of these two symptoms; current clinical practice in assessing these symptoms; and physiotherapists' perceptions of these symptoms and the influences on their clinical practice in assessing them, in this clinical state.
Stability analysis of anisotropic Bianchi type-I cosmological model in teleparallel gravity
Creators: name: Koussour, M.
name: Bennai, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we study a cosmological model of Bianchi type-I Universe in teleparallel gravity for a perfect fluid. To obtain the cosmological solution of the model, we assume that the deceleration parameter is a linear function of the Hubble parameter $H$ i.e. $q=-1+βH$ (where $β$ as a positive constant). Consequently, we get a model of our Universe, where it goes from the initial phase of deceleration to the current phase of acceleration. We have discussed some physical and geometric properties such as Hubble parameter, deceleration parameter, energy density, pressure, and equation of state (EoS) parameter and study their behavior graphically in terms of redshift and compare it with observational data such as Type Ia supernovae (SNIa). We also discussed the behavior of other parameters such as the Jerk parameter, Statefinder parameters and we tested the validity of the model by studying the stability analysis and energy conditions.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures, this version is under revision in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Effectiveness of mental health interventions on help-seeking in psychologically distressed young adults
Creators: name: Bentley, Eryn
name: Denenny, Danielle
name: Millman, Zachary
name: Jameson, Nicole
name: Fleischman, Rivka
name: Epstein, Gregory
name: Ereshefsky, Sabrina
name: Pitts, Steve
name: Schiffman, Jason
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: The aim of the present study was to examine the effectiveness of a video contact targeted to young adults on increasing help-seeking intentions among self-reported psychologically distressed individuals. The study used several brief interventions for serious mental illness stigma, including a consumer-produced contact video featuring an adult with schizophrenia, a contact video we developed for a young adult audience using empirically-supported principles of stigma change, and a non-psychiatric control video. Results lend preliminary validation for the utility of our audience-tailored anti-stigma video to positively impact help-seeking intentions in psychologically distressed young adults.
Surface plasma wave excitation using laser beat-wave and terahertz generation
Creators: name: Chamoli, Avijit
name: Gupta, Devki Nandan
name: Kumar, Vijay
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: In this paper, a study of surface plasma wave excitation from a magnetized metallic surface using two co-propagating lasers is conducted. Two lasers propagating in the same direction with frequency difference of plasmon frequency of the metal excite plasma oscillations on the metallic surface, which generate surface plasma waves. The transverse components of the field associated with these surface plasma wave lead to excite transverse current at terahertz frequency. We report a systematic theoretical model for this study and subsequent numerical results are presented for THz field estimation.
Comparative analysis of disinfection effectiveness of Helium CAP jet, sodium hypochlorite and QMix in Enterococcus faecalis infected root canals
Creators: name: Mishra, Abhijit
name: P., Soundharrajan
name: Kumar, Pravin
name: Prakash, Ram
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: In this work, a new geometry Helium Cold Atmospheric-pressure Plasma (CAP) jet operated using bi-polar pulsed power source is reported. Its effectiveness in disinfecting E. faecalis infected root canals is evaluated and compared to that of 5.25% NaOCl and QMix at various time intervals. Before treatment, the jet has been characterized electrically and accordingly optimized for different operating parameters. Kruskal–Wallis Rank Sum and Wilcoxon tests are performed to analyse the difference among all the treatment groups. The CAP jet has shown maximum antibacterial efficiency at 10 min of exposure. CAP Jet, NaOCl, and QMix treatment achieved maximum percentage reductions of 90.8%, 99.99% and 96%, respectively. However, NaOCl and QMix have several disadvantages. It is predicted that the controlled exposure of CAP jet can be used as root canal disinfectant and best optimized further as a non-intrusive method.
A prototype optical link board with redundancy design for the ATLAS liquid argon calorimeter Phase-2 upgrade
Creators: name: Huang, X.
name: Liu, C.
name: Deiana, A.
name: Deng, B.
name: Gong, D.
name: Hasley, L.
name: Hou, S.
name: Liu, T.
name: Sun, H.
name: Ye, J.
name: Zhang, L.
name: Zhang, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A prototype optical-link board has been developed for the ATLAS Liquid Argon Calorimeter Phase-2 upgrade. The board consists of 24 lpGBT chips and 8 VTRx+ modules and demonstrates the full optical link design of the future front-end board. The board has 22 simplex optical links to transmit detector data, which are emulated in FPGAs and injected through 6 FMC connectors, to the off-detector electronics. The board implements 2 duplex optical links for clocks, control, and monitoring with redundant design to improve the system reliability. Data transmission and all redundant designs have been verified. A fiber routing scheme, in which 2 or 3 VTRx+ modules are re-connected to the front panel with an MPO connector, has been prototyped.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures
A 40 Gbps Optical Transceiver for Particle Physics Experiments
Creators: name: Deng, B.
name: Huang, X.
name: Sun, H.
name: Chao, C. -P.
name: Chen, S. -W.
name: Gong, D.
name: Hou, S.
name: Huang, G.
name: Li, C. -Y.
name: Liu, C.
name: Liu, T.
name: Sun, Q.
name: Ye, J.
name: Zhang, L.
name: Zhang, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the design and the test results of a quad-channel optical transceiver module (QTRx) possibly for future particle physics experiments. The transmitters of QTRx, each at 10 Gbps, are based on a Quad-channel VCSEL Diode array Driver (QLDD) and 1 x 4 VCSEL array. The receivers of QTRx, with data rates of 2.56 Gbps or 10 Gbps per channel, are based on a Quad-channel Trans-Impedance and limiting Amplifier (QTIA) and 1 x 4 photodiode array of GaAs or InGaAs. QTRx is 20 mm x 10 mm x 5 mm and couples to an MT fiber connector. Test results indicate that QTRx achieves the design goals with a power consumption of 124 mW per transmitter channel at 10 Gbps and 120 mW at 2.56 Gbps for the receiver channel with an on-chip charge pump. The sensitivities of QTIA are -17 dBm at 2.56 Gbps and -8 dBm at 10 Gbps, respectively. Further improvements with a gold-finger interface and a more compact optical lens are being designed.
description: 7 pages, 7 figures
Analysis of short-term treatment effects of dielectric barrier discharge plasma to improve germination characteristics of wheat seeds
Creators: name: Jangra, Sushma
name: Mishra, Ritesh
name: Mishra, Abhijit
name: Pandey, Shikha
name: Prakash, Ram
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: In this work, an effort has been made to show that a cold atmospheric pressure plasma (CAPP) can be applied to promote the growth and development of wheat seedlings. A dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) plasma-based reactor has been developed having two-roller conveyor rollers running on sprockets to generate cold plasma. Wheat seeds (Triticum aestivum) are treated with cold plasma for shorter durations to examine their germination parameters. In the cold plasma, reactive oxygen and nitrogen species (RONS) are generated which alter the surface of the seeds. This results in enhanced germination, growth, and enduring vitality of the plants enhance seed germination. After plasma treatment, the germination rate was enhanced from 84% to 98%. Also, after treatment surfaces of wheat seeds became more hydrophilic, as confirmed by a decrease in the water contact angle which results in higher seed germination. It is inferred that plasma is a viable alternative to the conventional pre-sowing seed treatment for germination due to its uniform treatment without degradation and the use of pesticides.
Design and Structural Analysis of a Semi-Trailer Chassis
Creators: name: North American Academic Research
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The Chantier Naval Industriel du Cameroun (CINC), an autonomous entity within the Office National des Ports du Cameroun (ONPC), is aligned with the Cameroonian Government's long-term development initiative, "Cameroon Vision 2035," aiming for national emergence by 2035. This paper presents the design and sizing of a robust chassis for semi-trailers intended to transport goods weighing up to 27 tons, with the following specifications: payload capacity of 27,000 kg, overall length of 12,350 mm, and overall width of 2,500 mm. Our dimensioning adheres to internationally recognized standards and regulatory codes, including ABS (Construction and Classification Rules for Metal Construction Barges), EUROCODE 3 (Calculation of Steel Structures), and BS EN ISO 12944 (Protection of Metal Surfaces). These standards provide the foundation for the structural characteristics necessary for steel construction. To achieve our objectives, we employed various analytical tools, including the QQOQCCP method, the OCTOPUS diagram, and the horned beast digraph. Numerical analyses were performed using SOLIDWORKS software to validate the design. The estimated cost of the project is 4,813,798.18 CFA francs. Our analysis using Ansys software revealed that the structure would fail under the 27-ton load due to specific structural weaknesses. However, the analysis performed with SOLIDWORKS software concluded that our structure fully meets the service suitability conditions and can be safely deployed once installed on-site. Detailed results of these analyses are discussed in the subsequent sections of this paper.
Possible in situ formation of Uranus and Neptune via Pebble Accretion
Creators: name: Valletta, Claudio
name: Helled, Ravit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The origin of Uranus and Neptune is still unknown. In particular, it has been challenging for planet formation models to form the planets in their current radial distances within the expected lifetime of the solar nebula. In this paper, we simulate the in-situ formation of Uranus and Neptune via pebble accretion and show that both planets can form within ~ 3 Myr at their current locations, and have final compositions that are consistent with the heavy-element to H-He ratios predicted by structure models. We find that Uranus and Neptune could have been formed at their current locations. In several cases a few earth masses of heavy elements are missing, suggesting that Uranus and/or Neptune may have accreted $\sim$1 -- 3 M Earth's mass of heavy elements after their formation via planetesimal accretion and/or giant impacts.
Dr Antigone Samiou, La notion de la culture dans les récits de voyage en Grèce
Creators: name: Samiou, Antigone
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 470507
subject: Comparative and transnational literature
classificationCode: 470513
subject: Latin and classical Greek literature
classificationCode: 470514
subject: Literary theory
classificationCode: 470516
subject: Literature in French

description: Dr Antigone Samiou, La notion de la culture dans les récits de voyage en Grèce
Psychometrics for contemporary psychopathology assessment
Creators: name: Cohen, Alex
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Classical Test Theory (CTT) has been critical to psychopathology research for over 50 years. However, our understanding of psychopathology and our ability to measure it has evolved dramatically in the last decade. In this flash talk, I will briefly argue that standard psychometric approaches focusing on CTT fail to meaningfully appreciate the actual complexity of most latent psychopathology-related constructs. Moreover, inexpensive biobehavioral-based technologies (e.g., geolocation-based activity, EEG, vocal and facial analysis) are becoming increasingly available for use in empirical and clinical assessment of psychopathology. Standard CTT approaches fail in effectively evaluating these technologies. A vastly more sophisticated and flexible method of psychometric evaluation is needed. Ways forward, including the use of "Generalizability Theory" (for evaluating reliability), "Argument-Based" (for evaluating validity) and atheoretical "machine learning" approaches will be briefly highlighted.
Childhood pegboard task predicts adult-onset psychosis-spectrum disorder among a genetic high-risk sample
Creators: name: Rakhshan, Pamela
name: Sorensen, Holger
name: Mittal, Vijay
name: DeVylder, Jordan
name: Jameson, Nicole
name: Tsuji, Thomas
name: Ereshefsky, Sabrina
name: Bentley, Eryn
name: Mortensen, Erik
name: Sarnoff Mednick
name: Schiffman, Jason
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Motor function impairments are well documented in individuals with schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSD), and have emerged as a possible biomarker for future development of SSD. Pegboard tasks have been widely used to measure motor function in individuals diagnosed with SSD, showing impairments in their performance as compared to those with no mental illness and other psychiatric diagnoses. Pegboard tasks, however, have not been frequently evaluated in the context of a prospective high-risk sample, making it difficult to determine if deficits in adults with SSD are a sequelae of illness complications (e.g., medication, lifestyle), or are part of a preexisting underlying pathophysiology to SSD. In the context of a 45 year longitudinal project, the aim of this study is to evaluate pegboard performance among genetic high-risk children and controls to assess the ability of a pegboard task to predict adult diagnostic outcome. Results indicate that seconds to complete the task significantly differed among children who eventually developed a SSD as compared to those who developed other psychiatric disorders or no mental illness. These findings support the notion that on average, pegboard-determined motoric deficits are specific to and precede the development of SSD.
Helicity-dependent distribution of strange quarks in the proton from nonlocal chiral effective theory
Creators: name: He, Fangcheng
name: Ji, Chueng-Ryong
name: Melnitchouk, W.
name: Salamu, Y.
name: Thomas, A. W.
name: Wang, P.
name: Wang, X. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The helicity-dependent strange quark distribution in the proton, $Δs$, is calculated in a nonlocal chiral SU(3) effective field theory. The hadronic proton to meson plus octet or decuplet baryon splitting functions are derived at the one-loop level, with loop integrals rendered finite by correlation functions introduced in the nonlocal Lagrangian. Within the convolution framework, the proton strange helicity distribution is obtained using spin-flavor symmetry to constrain the input valence quark distributions in the hadronic intermediate states. The polarized strange quark distribution is found to be quite small, with the lowest moment of $Δs$ negative, but consistent with recent global QCD analyses.
description: 23 pages, 4 figures
Impacts of neutral collisions and finite electron inertia on longitudinal thermal instability of two-component radiative plasma for star formation in interstellar medium (ISM)
Creators: name: Mishra, Sarvesh
name: Kaothekar, Sachin
name: Phadke, Sushil
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: The impact of neutral friction, finite electron inertia and radiative heat-loss function on the thermal instability of viscous two-component plasma has been explored, integrating the impacts of thermal conductivity. A general dispersion relation is gained by means of the normal mode analysis scheme with the assist of appropriate linearized perturbation equations of the problem, and an amended circumstance of thermal instability is acquired. For the case of longitudinal propagation, it is obvious that the circumstance of thermal instability is independent of the finite electron inertia, magnetic field strength and viscosity of two components but relies on the radiative heat-loss function, thermal conductivity and neutral particle. From the curves, it is clear that the temperature-dependent heat-loss function, thermal conductivity and viscosity of two components represent stabilizing impact, while finite electron inertia and neutral collision depict destabilizing impact. Results discussed in this problem are helpful for star formation in ISM.
Color-flavor reflection in the continuum limit of two-dimensional lattice gauge theories with scalar fields
Creators: name: Bonati, Claudio
name: Franchi, Alessio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We address the interplay between local and global symmetries in determining the continuum limit of two-dimensional lattice scalar theories characterized by $SO(N_c)$ gauge symmetry and non-Abelian $O(N_f)$ global invariance. We argue that, when a quartic interaction is present, the continuum limit of these model corresponds in some cases to the gauged non-linear $σ$ model field theory associated with the real Grassmannian manifold $SO(N_f)/(SO(N_c)\times SO(N_f-N_c)$), which is characterized by the invariance under the color-flavor reflection $N_c\leftrightarrow N_f-N_c$. Monte Carlo simulations and Finite-Size Scaling analyses, performed for $N_f=7$ and several values of $N_c$, confirm the emergence of the color-flavor reflection symmetry in the scaling limit, and support the identification of the continuum limit.
description: 9 pages, 8 pdf figures
Supplementary document for Antireflection and radiative cooling difunctional coating design for silicon solar cells - 6467527.pdf
Creators: name: Tu, Yiteng
name: Tan, Xinyu
name: Yang, Xiongbo
name: Qi, Guiguang
name: Yan, Kun
name: Kang, Zhe
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Doument
Optimal parameter space for detecting stellar differential rotation and centre-to-limb convective variations
Creators: name: Roguet-Kern, N.
name: Cegla, H. M.
name: Bourrier, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The goal of this paper is to investigate the optimal parameters space for using the reloaded Rossiter-McLaughlin technique to detect differential rotation (DR) and centre-to-limb convective variations. We simulated a star-planet system with and without convective effects to map the optimal regions of the parameter space for retrieving the injected differential rotation. Our simulations explored all possible ranges of projected obliquity (spin-orbit angle), stellar inclination, and impact parameter, as well as differences in instrumental configuration, stellar magnitude, and exposure time. We find that DR is more easily retrieved at low-impact parameters, corresponding to system configurations in which the transiting planet crosses the largest number of stellar latitudes. The main hot-spots for detection (i.e. areas in which DR detectability is high) are $120^{\rm{o}}90^{\rm{o}}$ on average, and they tend to shrink as the impact parameter increases. Additionally, in contrast to the crucial impact of brightness, we identify that exposure time has a negligible impact on the difficulty of detecting DR as the increase in signal-to-noise ratio (S/N) at longer exposure times is counteracted by the degraded sampling rate. We determine that an ESPRESSO-like setup of instrumental configuration and sensitivity might retrieve DR up to $V = 12$, compared to $V = 10$ for HARPS. We reach no clear conclusion about limb-dependent convective effects and the possible confusion with DR; preliminary results suggest, however, that under certain circumstances, while it seems that one effect could be mistaken for the other, the accuracy of the fit (in particular of $α$) does not hold up under additional scrutiny.
description: 11 pages, 25 figures. Accepted for publication the 8. Stellar atmospheres section of A&A
Gravitational instability in magnetized viscoelastic fluid with radiation pressure effect
Creators: name: Mahajan, Mehak
name: Dhiman, Joginder Singh
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biophysics
Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cell Biology
Molecular Biology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: This study examines the gravitational instability of a finitely conducting magnetized viscoelastic fluid, under the influence of radiation pressure within the framework of a generalized hydrodynamic fluid model. The general dispersion relation, valid for strongly and weakly coupled fluids under kinetic and hydrodynamic limits respectively, is derived using normal mode analysis for a transverse wave propagation mode. The obtained Jeans instability criteria, in terms of critical Jeans wavenumbers under both limits, are modified by the presence of radiative effects, viscoelastic compressional speed, and Alfvén wave velocity. The findings highlight that viscoelastic compressional speed and radiative pressure slow the Jeans instability's growth rate, exerting a stabilizing effect on the initiation of gravitational collapse. The present investigation provides valuable insights into the role of radiative mechanisms in the gravitational collapse within the strongly coupled region of molecular cloud clumps.
Nonlinear master relation in microscopic mechanical response of semiflexible biopolymer networks
Creators: name: Honda, N.
name: Shiraki, K.
name: van Esterik, F.
name: Inokuchi, S.
name: Ebata, H.
name: Mizuno, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A network of semiflexible biopolymers, known as the cytoskeleton, and molecular motors play fundamental mechanical roles in cellular activities. The cytoskeletal response to forces generated by molecular motors is profoundly linked to physiological processes. However, owing to the highly nonlinear mechanical properties, the cytoskeletal response on the microscopic level is largely elusive. The aim of this study is to investigate the microscopic mechanical response of semiflexible biopolymer networks by conducting microrheology (MR) experiments. Micrometer-sized colloidal particles, embedded in semiflexible biopolymer networks, were forced beyond the linear regime at a variety of conditions by using feedback-controlled optical trapping. This high-bandwidth MR technology revealed an affine elastic response, which showed stiffening upon local forcing. After scaling the stiffening behaviors, with parameters describing semi-flexible networks, a collapse onto a single master curve was observed. The physics underlying the general microscopic response is presented to justify the collapse, and its potentials/implications to elucidate cell mechanics is discussed.
Barjols, atelier Fabre, fabrication du tambourin, mise au séchage du cercle dans le gabarit
Creators: name: Musée National Des Arts Et Traditions Populaires (Paris)
name: Centre D'ethnologie Française
Publisher: name: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales; Institut  interdisciplinaire d'anthropologie du contemporain (Paris); Laboratoire d'anthropologie et d'histoire de l'institution de la culture (Paris)
Year: 2024

Abstract
Current Legal Rules Benefit Spray Applicators When It Comes to Pesticide Drift
Creators: name: Goeringer, Paul
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2016
Subjects: pesticide
negligence
drift liability
pesticide drift
strict liability
agricultural law

description: Homeowners, landowners, pesticide applicators, and farmers are concerned about pesticide drift. It may injure a homeowner’s garden or flowers or ruin a neighboring farmer’s crop. While no Maryland court has considered the issue of liability from pesticide drift, courts in other states have. These decisions provide some guidance on how a Maryland court might handle the issue. Depending on the facts of the drift case, pesticide applicators and farmers could owe damages for nuisance or trespass case, or for uses inconsistent with the pesticide label.
Feeling the Future: User Reactions to Haptic Devices
Creators: name: Ninatanta, Chris
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Published in NRT-LEAD Annual Expo-2025 Booklet.
description: To enhance automated apple harvesting through human-machine collaboration, this study explores user experiences with a soft wearable haptic device designed for future cyber-physical systems (CPS). Haptic devices deliver tactile cues (vibration, pressure, temperature, etc.) to the user, creating a more engaging experience for users. The haptic interface, developed using inflatable fabric pouches delivers normal force to the user’s wrist that can enhance real-time teleoperation and situational awareness. Providing users with such feedback is vital for intuitive, non-visual guidance and error prevention during remote teleoperation. To evaluate the system’s perceptibility and reliability, participants wore the device while pouches were activated. Users were asked to identify which pouch they felt was active. To examine the relationship between pressure levels and perceptual accuracy, four inflation pressures were tested: 0.5, 1, 3, and 5 psi. In addition to accuracy, force data was collected using sensors placed directly between each pouch and the user’s skin. This allows for a more precise measure of contact force delivered at each pressure, providing insight into mechanical performance and consistency of the device during use. This work contributes to the development of intuitive haptic systems for wearable applications, highlighting the potential of soft pneumatic feedback for delivering directional or location-based cues.
A radio, optical, UV and X-ray view of the enigmatic changing look Active Galactic Nucleus 1ES~1927+654 from its pre- to post-flare states
Creators: name: Laha, Sibasish
name: Meyer, Eileen
name: Roychowdhury, Agniva
name: González, Josefa Becerra
name: Acosta-Pulido, J. A.
name: Thapa, Aditya
name: Ghosh, Ritesh
name: Behar, Ehud
name: Gallo, Luigi C.
name: Kriss, Gerard A.
name: Panessa, Francesca
name: Bianchi, Stefano
name: La Franca, Fabio
name: Scepi, Nicolas
name: Begelman, Mitchell C.
name: Longinotti, Anna Lia
name: Lusso, Elisabeta
name: Oates, Samantha
name: Nicholl, Matt
name: Cenko, S. Bradley
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The nearby type-II AGN 1ES1927+654 went through a violent changing-look (CL) event beginning December 2017 during which the optical and UV fluxes increased by four magnitudes over a few months, and broad emission lines newly appeared in the optical/UV. By July 2018 the X-ray coronal emission had completely vanished, only to reappear a few months later. In this work we report the evolution of the radio, optical, UV and X-rays from the pre-flare state through mid-2021 with new and archival data from the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), the European VLBI Network, the Very Large Array (VLA), the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG), Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC), The Neil Gehrels Swift observatory and XMM-Newton. The main results from our work are: (1) The source has returned to its pre-CL state in optical, UV, and X-ray; the disk-corona relation has been re-established as has been in the pre-CL state, with an $α_{\rm OX}\sim 1.02$. The optical spectra are dominated by narrow emission lines. (2) The UV light curve follows a shallower slope of $\propto t^{-0.91\pm 0.04}$ compared to that predicted by a tidal disruption event. We conjecture that a magnetic flux inversion event is the possible cause for this enigmatic event. (3) The compact radio emission which we tracked in the pre-CL (2014), during CL (2018) and post-CL(2021) at spatial scales $<1$ pc was at its lowest level during the changing look event in 2018, nearly contemporaneous with a low $2-10$ keV emission. The radio to X-ray ratio of the compact source $L_{\rm Radio}/L_{\rm X-ray}\sim 10^{-5.5}$, follows the Gudel-Benz relation, typically found in coronally active stars, and several AGN. (4) We do not detect any presence of nascent jets at the spatial scales of $\sim 5-10$ pc.
description: Resubmitted to ApJ following minor comments from the referee
Simultaneous view of the FRB~180301 with FAST and NICER during a bursting phase
Creators: name: Laha, Sibasish
name: Younes, George
name: Wadiasingh, Zorawar
name: Wang, Bo-Jun
name: Lee, Ke-Jia
name: Klingler, Noel
name: Zhang, Bing
name: Xu, Heng
name: Zhang, Chin-Feng
name: Zhu, Wei-Wei
name: Ghosh, Ritesh
name: Lien, Amy
name: Troja, Eleonora
name: Cenko, S. Bradley
name: Oates, Samantha
name: Nicholl, Matt
name: González, Josefa Becerra
name: Meyer, Eileen
name: Parsotan, Tyler
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: FRB180301 is one of the most actively repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) which has shown polarization angle changes in its radio burst emission, an indication for their likely origin in the magnetosphere of a highly-magnetized neutron star. We carried out a multi-wavelength campaign with the FAST radio telescope and NICER X-ray observatory to investigate any possible X-ray emission temporally coincident with the bright radio bursts. The observations took place on 2021 March 4, 9 and 19. We detected five bright radio bursts with FAST, four of which were strictly simultaneous with the NICER observations. The peak flux-density of the radio bursts ranged between $28-105$ mJy, the burst fluence between $27-170$ mJy-ms, and the burst durations between $1.7-12.3$ ms. The radio bursts from FRB~180301 exhibited complex time domain structure, and sub-pulses were detected in individual bursts, with no significant circular polarisation. The linear degree of polarisation in L-band reduced significantly compared to the 2019 observations. We do not detect any X-ray emission in excess of the background during the 5ms, 10ms, 100ms, 1sec and 100sec time intervals at/around the radio-burst barycenter-corrected arrival times, at a $>5σ$ confidence level. The $5σ$ upper limits on the X-ray a) persistent flux is $<7.64\times 10^{-12}\, \rm erg\, cm^{-2}\, s^{-1}$ , equivalent to $L_{\rm X}<2.50 \times 10^{45} \rm erg\, s^{-1}$ and b) 5 ms fluence is $<2\times 10^{-11} \rm erg\, cm^{-2}$, at the radio burst regions. Using the $5$ ms X-ray fluence upper limit, we can estimate the radio efficiency $η_{R/X} \equiv L_{\rm Radio}/L_{\rm X-ray} \gtrsim 10^{-8}$. The derived upper limit on $η_{R/X}$ is consistent with both magnetospheric models and synchrotron maser models involving relativistic shocks.
description: Resubmitted to ApJ following referee's minor comments
Systematic Investigation of Dust and Gaseous CO in 12 Nearby Molecular Clouds
Creators: name: Lewis, John Arban
name: Lada, Charles J.
name: Dame, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the first uniform and systematic study of dust and molecular gas in nearby molecular clouds. We use surveys of dust extinction and emission to determine the opacity and map the distribution of the dust within a dozen local clouds in order to derive a uniform set of basic cloud properties. We find: 1) the average dust opacity $\langleκ_{d,353}\rangle = 0.8\ {\rm cm^{2}\, g^{-1}}$ with variations of a factor of $\sim$ 2 between clouds, 2) cloud PDFs are exquisitely described by steeply falling power-laws with a narrow range of slope, and 3) a tight $M_{\rm GMC} \sim R_{\rm GMC}^2$ scaling relation for the cloud sample, indicative of a cloud population with an exactingly constant average surface density above a common fixed boundary. We compare these results to uniformly analyzed CO surveys. We measure the CO mass conversion factors and assess the efficacy of CO for tracing the physical properties of molecular clouds. We find $\langle α_{\rm CO}\rangle = 4.31 \pm 0.67$ M$_\odot$ (K km s$^{-1}$ pc$^2$)$^{-1}$ (corresponding to $X_{\rm CO}$ = 1.97 $\times$ 10$^{20}$ cm$^{-2}$(K km s$^{-1}$)$^{-1}$). We demonstrate that CO observations are a poor tracer of column density and structure on sub-cloud spatial scales. On cloud scales, CO observations can provide measurements consistent with those of the dust, provided data are analyzed in a similar, self-consistent fashion. Measurements of average GMC surface density are sensitive to choice of cloud boundary. Care must be exercised to adopt common fixed boundaries when comparing surface densities for cloud populations within and between galaxies.
description: 27 pages, 19 figures, 5 tables. Accepted ApJL. v2 Corrected bad coordinates on Appendix C maps. Brought text into alignment with final ApJL version
Search for the QCD Critical Point in High Energy Nuclear Collisions
Creators: name: Pandav, A.
name: Mallick, D.
name: Mohanty, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: QCD critical point is a landmark region in the QCD phase diagram outlined by temperature as a function of baryon chemical potential. To the right of this second-order phase transition point, one expects first order quark-hadron phase transition boundary, towards the left a crossover region, top of it lies the quark gluon plasma phase and below it the hadronic phase. Hence locating the QCD critical point through relativistic heavy-ion collision experiments is an active area of research. Cumulants of conserved quantities in strong interaction, such as net-baryon, net-charge, and net-strangeness, are suggested to be sensitive to the physics of QCD critical point and are therefore useful observables in the study of the phase transition between quark-gluon plasma and hadronic matter. We review the experimental status of the search for the QCD critical point via the measurements of cumulants of net-particle distributions in heavy ion collisions. We discuss various experimental challenges and associated corrections in such fluctuation measurements. We also comment on the physics implications of the measurements by comparing them with theoretical calculations. This is followed by a discussion on future experiments and measurements related to high baryonic density QCD matter.
description: Contribution to Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics. 56 pages and 36 figures
Visual tasks lead to unique sequences of cyclic attentional signals
Creators: name: Tsotsos, John K.
name: Womelsdorf, Thilo
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: The enormous breadth of human visual tasks highlights the question of how the visual cortex achieves this incredible generality. Recently, models of vision and visual attention (e.g., Tsotsos 2011, Beuth & Hamker 2015) have incorporated specific solutions toward such generality resulting in the insight that different visual tasks require unique patterns of neural activations to occur with specific timings in order to provide unified response. For example, sub-tasks such as task-set specific priming of visual features, disengaging from a previous attentional focus, selection of a next focus, matching focus to task, eye movements, storing extracted information into working memory, recognition of task completion (or failure), and resetting for the next task need to be set up, initiated, monitored and terminated with precise timing and coordination. Each computation takes time, each transfer of information between representations takes time, network transmission speeds and neural distance travelled vary, motor actions take time and so on. It is a major question to determine how segregated computational operations are temporally coordinated. Appeals to attentional executive processes and (de-)centralized control operations have appeared in the literature, but the desired generality has remained elusive in concept as well as possible neurobiological realization.

Here, we outline in the context of the Selective Tuning model (Tsotsos et al. 1995; Tsotsos 2011), how attentional control signals and their timing depend on the specific task being performed. We outline how tasks define sequences of computations with unique content and duration. We predict that these computational sequences give rise to periodic, oscillatory activity that is measured across visual and fronto-parietal networks implementing attentional control of vision.  We show how the computational constraints underlying visual tasks suggest a temporally precise unfolding of neural activation that is likely evident in brief periods of oscillatory activity measured across visual and attention networks of the brain.
From Campbell and Fiske to the RDoC Matrix
Creators: name: Clark, Lee Anna
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: One of a series of 5-minute flash talks in a symposium on elevating psychopathology research.  This talk is based on the premise that, as knowledge grows, the less we can research in a single study, so we need to find ways to connect findings across studies.  The talk's thesis is that we urgently need research that is coordinated, collaborative, and complementary, rather than work done in isolated silos.  Features of a NIMH-funded research project are used to illustrate how even a large-scale project is not comprehensive, and ways to coordinate collaborative, complementary research are suggested.
Upper bound on the smuon mass from vacuum stability in the light of muon $g-2$ anomaly
Creators: name: Chigusa, So
name: Moroi, Takeo
name: Shoji, Yutaro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive an upper bound on the smuon mass assuming that the muon $g-2$ anomaly is explained by the supersymmetric (SUSY) contribution. In the minimal SUSY standard model, the SUSY contribution to the muon $g-2$ is enhanced when the Higgsino mass parameter is large. Then, the smuon-smuon-Higgs trilinear coupling is enhanced, which may destabilize the electroweak vacuum. We calculate precisely the decay rate of the electroweak vacuum in such a case. We include one-loop effects which are crucial to determine the overall normalization of the decay rate. Requiring that the theoretical prediction of the muon anomalous magnetic moment is consistent with the observed value at the $1$ and $2σ$ levels (equal to the central value of the observed value), we found that the lightest smuon mass should be smaller than $1.38$ and $1.68\ {\rm TeV}$ ($1.20\ {\rm TeV}$) for $\tanβ=10$ (with $\tanβ$ being the ratio of the vacuum expectation values of the two Higgs bosons), respectively, and the bound is insensitive to the value of $\tanβ$.
description: 24 pages, 8 figures, version for journal submission
Dr Guy Razamany, Poétique de l’œuvre de Tianjama
Creators: name: Razamany, Guy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 470501
subject: African literature
classificationCode: 470507
subject: Comparative and transnational literature
classificationCode: 470514
subject: Literary theory
classificationCode: 470516
subject: Literature in French

description: Dr Guy Razamany, Poétique de l’œuvre de Tianjama
Problematic alcohol use and reduced hippocampal volume: disentangling cause from consequence in a meta-analysis and co-twin control study
Creators: name: Sylia Wilson
name: Malone, Stephen M.
name: Thomas, Kathleen M.
name: Iacono, William G.
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: A number of studies report reduced hippocampal volume in individuals with problematic alcohol use. However, the typical cross-sectional study design cannot differentiate whether reduced hippocampal volume confers risk for the development of problematic alcohol use, and/or whether alcohol has a neurotoxic effect on the hippocampus. We attempted to disentangle cause from consequence using two different approaches. First, we conducted a meta-analysis of existing studies of alcohol use and hippocampal volume (k = 23). Results indicated a moderate, significant association; associations were stronger for greater alcohol use severity and duration, consistent with an alcohol exposure effect. Second, we followed up the results of the meta-analysis using a causally informative study design, a co-twin control study of drinking and hippocampal volumes in early adulthood (n = 102). Co-twin control analyses indicated that the significant association between alcohol use and reduced hippocampal volume reflected both pre-existing vulnerability toward problematic alcohol use, as well as an alcohol exposure effect. Taken together, results of the meta-analysis and the co-twin control study suggest that premorbid hippocampal deviations reflect neurotoxic effects of alcohol exposure.
Kerr-Sen-like Lorentz violating black holes and Superradiance phenomena
Creators: name: Jha, Sohan Kumar
name: Rahaman, Anisur
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A Kerr-Sen-like black hole solution results from Einstein-bumblebee gravity. It contains a Lorentz violating (LV) parameter that enters when the bumblebee field receives vacuum expectation value through a spontaneously breaking of the symmetry of the classical action. The geometrical structure concerning the singularity of this spacetime is studied with reference to the parameters involved in the Kerr-Sen-like metric. We introduce this Einstein-bumblebee modified gravity to probe the role of spontaneous Lorentz violation on the superradiance scattering phenomena and the instability associated with it. We observe that for the low-frequency range of the scalar wave the superradiance scattering gets enhanced when the Lorentz-violating parameter $\ell$ takes the negative values and it reduces when values of $\ell$ are positive. The study of the black hole bomb issue reveals that for the negative values of $\ell$, the parameter space of the scalar field instability increase prominently, however, for its positive values, it shows a considerable reduction. We also tried to put constraints on the parameters contained in the Kerr-Sen-like black hole by comparing the deformation of the shadow produced by the black hole parameters with the observed deviation from circularity and the angular deviation from the $M87*$ data.
description: 22 pages latex with figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2111.02817
Barjols, atelier Fabre, fabrication du tambourin, peaux de chèvre à placer sur le fût de l'instrument
Creators: name: Musée National Des Arts Et Traditions Populaires (Paris)
name: Centre D'ethnologie Française
Publisher: name: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales; Institut  interdisciplinaire d'anthropologie du contemporain (Paris); Laboratoire d'anthropologie et d'histoire de l'institution de la culture (Paris)
Year: 2024

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