cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Economic cost of hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis under public-private partnership in a public tertiary care centre of Puducherry, India
Creators: name: Sahithya, Vanjavakam
name: Sivanantham, Parthibane
name: Anandraj, Jeyanthi
name: Parameswaran, Sreejith
name: Kar, Sitanshu Sekhar
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: India faces over 220 000 lakh new kidney failure cases annually, requiring approximately 34 million dialysis sessions, creating a significant economic burden on the healthcare system. This study estimates the costs of providing hemodialysis (HD) and Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis (CAPD) under a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) in a tertiary hospital. Economic health system costs (October 2021–2022) were estimated using a bottom-up approach. Resources consumed were identified, measured, and valued. Capital costs were annualized and discounted at 3%. Sensitivity analysis assessed the impact of variations in input costs. The total annual economic cost for HD (n = 103) under PPP was INR 32 611 618 (USD 393 432), and for CAPD (n = 12) was INR 4 103 781 (USD 49 509). The annual cost per beneficiary for HD and CAPD was INR 316 618 (USD 3820) and INR 341 979 (USD 4126), respectively. Unit cost per HD session was INR 1856 (USD 22) and per CAPD exchange was INR 323 (USD 4). This study provides detailed costs of HD and CAPD services under PPP, offering insights for expanding dialysis services under the Pradhan Mantri National Dialysis Programme and supporting cost-effectiveness analysis for resource allocation.
Transient response in granular quasi-2D bounded heap flow
Creators: name: Xiao, Hongyi
name: Ottino, Julio M.
name: Lueptow, Richard M.
name: Umbanhowar, Paul B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 76T25

description: We study the transition between steady flows of non-cohesive granular materials in quasi-2D bounded heaps by suddenly changing the feed rate. In both experiments and simulations, the primary feature of the transition is a wedge of flowing particles that propagates downstream over the rising free surface with a wedge front velocity inversely proportional to the square root of time. An additional longer duration transient process continues after the wedge front reaches the downstream wall. The entire transition is well modeled as a moving boundary problem with a diffusion-like equation derived from local mass balance and a local relation between the flux and the surface slope.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
The MACHO Project LMC Variable Star Inventory IV: Multimode RR Lyrae Stars, Distance to the LMC and Age of the Oldest Stars
Creators: name: Alcock, C.
name: Allsman, R. A.
name: Alves, D.
name: Axelrod, T. S.
name: Becker, A. C.
name: Bennett, D. P.
name: Cook, K. H.
name: Freeman, K. C.
name: Griest, K.
name: Guern, J.
name: Lehner, M. J.
name: Marshall, S. L.
name: Minniti, D.
name: Peterson, B. A.
name: Pratt, M. R.
name: Quinn, P. J.
name: Rodgers, A. W.
name: Sutherland, W.
name: Welch, D. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the discovery of 73 double-mode RR Lyrae (RRd) stars in fields near the bar of the LMC. The stars are detected among the MACHO database of short-period variables that currently contains about 7900 RR Lyrae stars. Fundamental periods (P_0) for these stars are found in the range 0.46-0.55 days and first overtone-to-fundamental period ratios are found to be in the range 0.742 < P_1/P_0 < 0.748. A significant fraction of our current sample have period ratios smaller than any previously discovered RRd variables. We present mean magnitudes, colors, and lightcurve properties for all LMC RRd stars detected to date. The range in period ratios is unexpectedly large. We present a determination of absolute magnitudes for these stars based primarily on pulsation theory and the assumption that all observed stars are at the fundamental blue edge (FBE) of the instability strip. Comparison of the calibrated MACHO V and R_KC photometry with these derived absolute magnitudes yields an absorption-corrected distance modulus to the LMC of 18.57 +/- 0.19 mag which is in good agreement with that found (18.5) through comparison of galactic and LMC Cepheids. Adopting this luminosity calibration, we derive an increase in the distance modulus, and thus a reduction in the age found via isochrone fitting for M15 of about 33% and discuss the implications for cosmology.
description: 22 pages (text and figures), 4 embedded Postscript figures, uses aasms4.sty and apjpt4.sty, one three-page landscape TeX table. Submitted for publication in the ApJ. Updated abstract to correct error. Added landscape PostScript version of Table 1
Has the Substructure of Quarks Been Found by the Collider Detector at Fermilab?
Creators: name: Akama, Keiichi
name: Terazawa, Hidezumi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The significant excess recently found by the CDF Collaboration in the inclusive jet cross section for jet transverse energies $E_T \ge 200$ GeV over current QCD predictions can be explained either by possible production of excited bosons (excited gluons, weak bosons, Higgs scalars, etc.) or by that of excited quarks. The masses of the excited boson and the excited quark are estimated to be around 1600 GeV and 500 GeV, respectively.
description: 6 pages, revtex, 4 figures (included)
Durability of fiber reinforced polymers (FRPs) in seawater sea sand concrete (SWSSC)
Creators: name: FAN GUO
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 90503 Construction Materials
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: Fiber reinforced polymers (FRP) are promising alternatives to carbon steel rebars as strengthening materials for seawater sea sand concrete (SWSSC) to mitigate the critical problem of unacceptable corrosion rate of steels in this high chloride-containing concrete environment. This thesis presents two experimental investigations on durability of three different types of FRPs in simulated SWSSC environments to enable more accurate service life prediction and suitable strengthening material selection for SWSSC, which is of great significance for civil infrastructures with a typical service life of 50-100 years.
Erica tetralix Linnaeus, 1753, spec. nov.
Creators: name: Linnaeus, Carolus
Publisher: name: Laurentius Salvius
Year: 1753
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Ericales
Ericaceae
Erica
Erica tetralix

description: Erica tetralix, spec. nov.
8. Erica antheris bicornibus inclusis, corollis subglobosis aggregatis calyce longioribus, foliis quaternis ciliatis patentibus.
 Erica foliis subulatis ciliatis quaternis, corollis globoso-ovatis terminalibus confertis. Hort. cliff. 148. Fl. suec. 310. Roy. lugdb. 442.
 Erica ex rubro nigricans scoparia. Bauh. pin. 486.
 Habitat in Europae borealis paludibus cespitosis. ♄
description: Published as part of Linnaeus, Carolus, 1753, Species plantarum: exhibentes plantas rite cognitas, ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas, Stockholm :Laurentius Salvius on page 353, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3931989
التعليم الديني المسيحي في إندونيسيا: دراسة مادة التربية الدينية في مدرسة إيمانويل الكاثوليكية بجاوا الشرقية
Creators: name: Syukur, Abdul
Publisher: name: Manara - Qatar Research Repository
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 50
subject: Philosophy and religious studies

description: Christianization is an familiar term to Muslims in Indonesia; most Muslims are aware of the Christianization program and its effect to their faith. Christianization missionaries target to implement Christianity in the daily lives of young aged as well as adolescent children, particularly in schools. Unfortunately, many Muslim parents appear to be unconcerned, ignorant, or even unaware about the existence of Christianization in schools. They enroll their children in Christian schools without worrying about christianization and are completely confident that these schools offer better curriculums than Islamic schools. This study is an opportunity to reaffirm that Christianity courses are transparently taught and Catholic religious activities are carried out by all students enrolled in Catholic schools, including the non-Catholics .  It is noted that, muslim students’ spiritual upbringing is influenced by comparing the contents of Christian textbooks that they receive in their Catholic schools to the Islamic studies taught in their home / surroundings. To produce a conclusion, the researcher analyzed three data sources; data collected from the sample school (Immanuel Catholic School, in Batu, Indonesia);  the history of Christianization movement’s beginning in Indonesia; and comparison through various books and documents. As a summary, Christian education taught in Christian schools contributes greatly in increasing the number of Christians in Indonesia, which automatically causes the gradual decrease in the number of Muslims.
Strong Clustering of Faint Galaxies at Small Angular Scales
Creators: name: Infante, L.
name: de Mello, D. F.
name: Menanteau, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The 2-point angular correlation function of galaxies, \wt, has been computed on equatorial fields observed with the CTIO 4m prime focus, within a total area of 2.31 deg$^2$. In the magnitude range $19\le m_R \le 21.5$, corresponding to $\approx 0.35$, we find an excess of power in \wt at scales $2''\leθ\le6''$ over what would be expected from an extrapolation of \wt measured at larger $θ$. The significance of this excess is $\approx 5σ$. At larger scales, $6''< θ\le 24''$, the amplitude of \wt is 1.6 times smaller than the standard no evolutionary model. At these scales there is remarkable agreement between the present data and Infante \& Pritchet (1995). At large angular scales ($6''< θ\le 24''$) the data is best described by a model where clustering evolution in $ξ(r,z)$ has taken place. Strong luminosity evolution cannot be ruled out with the present data. At smaller scales, $2''\le θ\le 6''$, our data are formally fit by models where $ε=-2.4 (Ω=0.2, r_o=5.1h^{-1}$Mpc) or $r_o = 7.3h^{-1}$Mpc $(Ω=0.2, ε=0)$. If the mean redshift of our sample is 0.35 then our data show a clear detection of the scale ($\approx 19h^{-1}kpc$) where the clustering evolution approaches a highly non linear regime, i.e., $ε\le 0$. The rate at which galaxies merge has been computed. If this rate is proportional to $(1+z)^m$, then $m=2.2 \pm 0.5$.
description: 10 pages, LaTeX text, 2 Postscript figures, To appear in ApJ Lett
A universal law for Voronoi cell volumes in infinitely large maps
Creators: name: Guitter, Emmanuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the volume of Voronoi cells defined by two marked vertices picked randomly at a fixed given mutual distance 2s in random planar quadrangulations. We consider the regime where the mutual distance 2s is kept finite while the total volume of the quadrangulation tends to infinity. In this regime, exactly one of the Voronoi cells keeps a finite volume, which scales as s^4 for large s. We analyze the universal probability distribution of this, properly rescaled, finite volume and present an explicit formula for its Laplace transform.
description: 23 pages, 6 figures
Creating Mulberry Harbour
Creators: name: Project Team, Their Finest Hour
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: My father was working for one of the contractors responsible for the assembly and construction of sections of Mulberry Harbour including the deep water caissons.
Ruling Out a Strongly-Interacting Standard Higgs Model
Creators: name: Riesselmann, Kurt
name: Willenbrock, Scott
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Previous work has suggested that perturbation theory is unreliable for Higgs- and Goldstone-boson scattering, at energies above the Higgs mass, for relatively small values of the Higgs quartic coupling $λ(μ)$. By performing a summation of nonlogarithmic terms, we show that perturbation theory is in fact reliable up to relatively large coupling. This eliminates the possibility of a strongly-interacting standard Higgs model at energies above the Higgs mass, complementing earlier studies which excluded strong interactions at energies near the Higgs mass. The summation can be formulated in terms of an appropriate scale in the running coupling, $μ=\sqrt{s}/e\approx\sqrt{s}/2.7$, so it can easily be incorporated in renormalization-group improved tree-level amplitudes as well as higher-order calculations.
description: 29 pages, 6 figures. The complete paper including figures is also available via WWW at http://www.physik.tu-muenchen.de/tumphy/d/T30d/PAPERS/TUM-HEP-236-96.ps.gz
Erica arborea Linnaeus, 1753, spec. nov.
Creators: name: Linnaeus, Carolus
Publisher: name: Laurentius Salvius
Year: 1753
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Ericales
Ericaceae
Erica
Erica arborea

description: Erica arborea, spec. nov.
9. Erica antheris bicornibus inclusis, corollis campanulatis longioribus, foliis quaternis patentissimis, caule subarboreo tomentoso.
 Erica erecta, foliis quaternis, floribus spicato-racemosis. Sauv. monsp. 170. 46.
 Erica foliis acerosis linearibus patentissimis, corollis ovatis, staminibus brevibus. Hort. cliff. 47. Roy. lugdb. 442.
 Erica maxima alba. Bauh. pin. 485.
 Habitat in Europa australi. ♄
description: Published as part of Linnaeus, Carolus, 1753, Species plantarum: exhibentes plantas rite cognitas, ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas, Stockholm :Laurentius Salvius on page 353, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3931989
Helical Strands in the Jet-like Narrow Line Region of ESO 428-G14
Creators: name: Falcke, Heino
name: Wilson, Andrew S.
name: Simpson, Chris
name: Bower, Gary A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present HST/WFPC2 images of the narrow line region (NLR) of the Seyfert 2 galaxy ESO 428-G14 (0714-2914, M4-1). The NLR consists of many individual, thin strands, which are very closely related to the radio jet and produce a highly complex yet ordered structure. We find that the jet is two-sided with a double-helix of emission-line gas apparently wrapped around the NW side. To the SE, the jet seems to be deflected at a ridge of highly excited gas. The strands to the SE may also wrap around the radio jet, but here complete helices are not seen. The overall structure is reminiscent of the jet seen in NGC 4258. Faint symmetric features aligned with the nucleus could indicate the presence of a highly collimated beam of photons or plasma from the center.
description: ApJ Letters, accepted for publication, 10 pages, 2 PS Figures, AASTeX, also available at http://www.astro.umd.edu/~hfalcke/publications.html#eso428
Experiences of Upper Limb Somatosensory Retraining in Persons With Stroke: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
Creators: name: Turville, Megan
name: Walker, Johanne
name: Blennerhassett, Jannette M
name: Carey, Leeanne
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 420109
subject: Rehabilitation
classificationCode: 320905
subject: Neurology and neuromuscular diseases
classificationCode: 320907
subject: Sensory systems

description: Purpose: The aim of this study was to explore experiences of upper limb somatosensory discrimination retraining in persons with stroke. Methods: A qualitative methodology was used within the context of a randomized control trial of somatosensory retraining: the CoNNECT trial. Participants in the CoNNECT trial completed a treatment program, known as SENSe therapy, to retrain upper limb somatosensory discrimination and recognition skills, and use of these skills in personally valued activities. Eight participants were interviewed on their experience of this therapy. Data were analyzed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). Results: Five themes represented participants' experiences of upper limb somatosensory retraining after stroke: (1) loss of sensation and desire to reclaim normality; (2) harnessing positivity in the therapeutic relationship and specialized therapy; (3) facing cognitive and emotional challenges; (4) distinct awareness of gains and differences in bodily sensations; and (5) improved functioning: control and choice in daily performance. Persons with stroke experienced somatosensory retraining as a valuable treatment that provided them with sensory and functional gains. Conclusion: Upper limb somatosensory retraining is a treatment that persons with stroke perceived as challenging and rewarding. People who have experienced stroke believed that somatosensory retraining therapy assisted them to improve their sensation, functional arm use, as well as daily performance and participation in life.
Flags in zero dimensional complete intersections and indices of real vector fields
Creators: name: Giraldo, L.
name: Gomez-Mont, X.
name: Mardesic, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 58K45; 58K05; 13H10

description: We introduce bilinear forms in a flag in a complete intersection local $\mathbb R$-algebra of dimension 0, related to the Eisenbud-Levine, Khimshiashvili bilinear form. We give a variational interpretation of these forms in terms of Jantzen's filtration and bilinear forms. We use the signatures of these forms to compute in the real case the constant relating the GSV-index with the signature function of vector fields tangent to an even dimensional hypersurface singularity, one being topologically defined and the other computable by finite dimensional commutative algebra methods.
description: 17 pages. v2: Some changes in the introduction. A few typos corrected. To appear in Mathematische Zeitschrift
SET POINT TRACKING CAPABILITY ANALYSIS FOR AN INDUSTRIAL IPDT PROCESS MODEL
Creators: name: Singh, Priyanka
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 90699 Electrical and Electronic Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: 40401 Electrical and Electromagnetic Methods in Geophysics
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: In this paper the Proportional integral controllers based on Internal Model Control principles tuning technique for a pure integrating process with dead time is designed. The performance of these controllers with different closed loop time constants is analyzed and compared for its set point tracking capability. The controller with best performance for the selected time constant is decided.
Erica pallidopurpurea Linnaeus, 1753, spec. nov.
Creators: name: Linnaeus, Carolus
Publisher: name: Laurentius Salvius
Year: 1753
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Ericales
Ericaceae
Erica
Erica pallidopurpurea

description: Erica pallidopurpurea, spec. nov.
 10. Erica foliis in summitate quinis, caule procumbente. Segu. ver. 280.
 Erica procumbens dilute purpurea. Bauh. pin. 486. Raj. hist. 1715.
 Erica foliis corios, flore purpureo dilutioris coloris. Bauh. hist. 1. p.358.
 Erica coris folio VII. Clus. hist. 1. p. 43.
 Habitat in Europa australi. ♄
 Numerosum gregem Ericarum AEthiopicarum aliorumque infinita diligentia dudum conquisivit, descripsit, delineavit & absolvit Botanicus vere magnus Ill. Adrian Royenus , quas ut edat publicique juris faciat, omnes Botanici mecum serio efflagitant.    * Antheris simplicibus obtusis emarginatis.
description: Published as part of Linnaeus, Carolus, 1753, Species plantarum: exhibentes plantas rite cognitas, ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas, Stockholm :Laurentius Salvius on page 354, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3931989
The Ubiquity of Large Graphs and Surprising Challenges of Graph Processing: Extended Survey
Creators: name: Sahu, Siddhartha
name: Mhedhbi, Amine
name: Salihoglu, Semih
name: Lin, Jimmy
name: Özsu, M. Tamer
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Graph processing is becoming increasingly prevalent across many application domains. In spite of this prevalence, there is little research about how graphs are actually used in practice. We performed an extensive study that consisted of an online survey of 89 users, a review of the mailing lists, source repositories, and whitepapers of a large suite of graph software products, and in-person interviews with 6 users and 2 developers of these products. Our online survey aimed at understanding: (i) the types of graphs users have; (ii) the graph computations users run; (iii) the types of graph software users use; and (iv) the major challenges users face when processing their graphs. We describe the participants' responses to our questions highlighting common patterns and challenges. Based on our interviews and survey of the rest of our sources, we were able to answer some new questions that were raised by participants' responses to our online survey and understand the specific applications that use graph data and software. Our study revealed surprising facts about graph processing in practice. In particular, real-world graphs represent a very diverse range of entities and are often very large, scalability and visualization are undeniably the most pressing challenges faced by participants, and data integration, recommendations, and fraud detection are very popular applications supported by existing graph software. We hope these findings can guide future research.
The role of the pion cloud in the interpretation of the valence light-cone wavefunction of the nucleon
Creators: name: Bass, S. D.
name: Schütte, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The pion cloud renormalises the light-cone wavefunction of the nucleon which is measured in hard, exclusive photon-nucleon reactions. We discuss the leading twist contributions to high-energy exclusive reactions taking into account both the pion cloud and perturbative QCD physics. The nucleon's electromagnetic form-factor at high $Q^2$ is proportional to the bare nucleon probability $Z$ and the cross-sections for hard (real at large angle or deeply virtual) Compton scattering are proportional to $Z^2$. Our present knowledge of the pion-nucleon system is consistent with $Z = 0.7 \pm 0.2$. If we apply just perturbative QCD to extract a light-cone wavefunction directly from these hard exclusive cross-sections, then the light-cone wavefunction that we extract measures the three valence quarks partially screened by the pion cloud of the nucleon. We discuss how this pion cloud renormalisation effect might be understood at the quark level in terms of the (in-)stability of the perturbative Dirac vacuum in low energy QCD.
description: Expanded Discussion of Phenomenology and Spin Physics
Could a Local Group X-Ray Halo Affect the X-Ray and Microwave Backgrounds?
Creators: name: Pildis, Rachel A.
name: McGaugh, Stacy S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Suto et al. (1996, astro-ph/9602061 and ApJ, 461, L33) have suggested that an X-ray halo in the Local Group might explain both the observed low-energy excess in the X-ray background and the quadrupole anisotropy in the cosmic microwave background. Recent observations of poor groups of galaxies by the ROSAT PSPC set reasonable limits on how extensive and dense such a halo could be. The poor groups most similar to the Local Group do not have a detectable halo, and the upper limits of these observations suggest that any Local Group halo would be nearly two orders of magnitude too tenuous to produce the effects Suto et al. (1996) discuss. In particular, the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect cannot contribute significantly to the quadrupole anisotropy measured by COBE.
description: 8 pages, to appear in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, paper can also be obtained at http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~pildis/smio.html
Bernstein -- von Mises theorems for statistical inverse problems II: Compound Poisson processes
Creators: name: Nickl, Richard
name: Söhl, Jakob
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 62G20, 65N21, 60G51, 60J75

description: We study nonparametric Bayesian statistical inference for the parameters governing a pure jump process of the form $$Y_t = \sum_{k=1}^{N(t)} Z_k,~~~ t \ge 0,$$ where $N(t)$ is a standard Poisson process of intensity $λ$, and $Z_k$ are drawn i.i.d.~from jump measure $μ$. A high-dimensional wavelet series prior for the Lévy measure $ν= λμ$ is devised and the posterior distribution arises from observing discrete samples $Y_Δ, Y_{2Δ}, \dots, Y_{nΔ}$ at fixed observation distance $Δ$, giving rise to a nonlinear inverse inference problem. We derive contraction rates in uniform norm for the posterior distribution around the true Lévy density that are optimal up to logarithmic factors over Hölder classes, as sample size $n$ increases. We prove a functional Bernstein-von Mises theorem for the distribution functions of both $μ$ and $ν$, as well as for the intensity $λ$, establishing the fact that the posterior distribution is approximated by an infinite-dimensional Gaussian measure whose covariance structure is shown to attain the information lower bound for this inverse problem. As a consequence posterior based inferences, such as nonparametric credible sets, are asymptotically valid and optimal from a frequentist point of view.
description: 51 pages, to appear in Electronic Journal of Statistics
Defending Sheerness
Creators: name: Project Team, Their Finest Hour
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: Pre-memory: May 1940, my mother, heavily pregnant, is both startled and frightened by the wartime bomb alarm sirens. The result: I am delivered into the world, slightly prematurely, on top of our deal wood dining table at No.1 Victoria Street, in Sheerness, Isle of Sheppey, Kent. The Doctor told Mum not to hold out too much hope for me! What did he know? I'm now a healthy eighty-three year-old!Fast forward now exactly four years and three weeks and Mum is set to give birth to my brother Dereck. My Dad decides to get me out of the way by taking me to work with him. Dad is a wartime Special Constable but his day job is Security Officer/caretaker at the Cooperative Wholesale Society, Wheatsheaf Hall buildings in Sheerness High Street. There, in the topmost attic with access to a flat roof, the authorities had installed a command post complete with a rifle, night vision binoculars and hand cranked telephone. Dad's duty was to study the night sky for incoming enemy planes, which he could identify by their silhouettes, and pass the information on to the main defence headquarters. I spent most of the rest of the war in that Co-op building, even sleeping overnight, with the luxury of a paraffin stove, not available at home, when necessary.The most exciting time was when on just one occasion, we witnessed an aerial dog fight over Sheerness Dockyard. I remember one plane going down and its occupant clearly lit by searchlight, slowly coming down by parachute: ours or the enemy, I'll never know. However I still remember him and hope that he made it!
Erica ciliaris Linnaeus, 1753, spec. nov.
Creators: name: Linnaeus, Carolus
Publisher: name: Laurentius Salvius
Year: 1753
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Ericales
Ericaceae
Erica
Erica ciliaris

description: Erica ciliaris, spec. nov.
 11. Erica antheris simplicibus inclusis, corollis ovatis irregularibus, floribus terno racemosis, foliis ternis ciliatis. Loefl. epist.2. n.9.
 Erica hirsuta anglica. Bauh. pin. 602.
 Erica XII. Clus. hist. 1. p. 46.
 Habitat in Lusitania . ♄
 Planta suffruticosa, bipedalis. Folia terna, patentia, sessilia, ovato-oblonga, acuta, margine reflexa, ciliata. Racemus terminalis, terno-verticillatus. Corolla magna, ovata, ore contracto inaequali.
description: Published as part of Linnaeus, Carolus, 1753, Species plantarum: exhibentes plantas rite cognitas, ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas, Stockholm :Laurentius Salvius on page 354, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3931989
Importance of isobar density distributions on the chiral magnetic effect search
Creators: name: Xu, Hao-jie
name: Wang, Xiaobao
name: Li, Hanlin
name: Zhao, Jie
name: Lin, Zi-Wei
name: Shen, Caiwan
name: Wang, Fuqiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Under the approximate chiral symmetry restoration, quark interactions with topological gluon fields in quantum chromodynamics can induce chirality imbalance and parity violation in local domains. An electric charge separation ({\sc cs}) could be generated along the direction of a strong magnetic field ({\bf B}), a phenomenon called the chiral magnetic effect ({\sc cme}). {\sc cs} measurements by azimuthal correlators are contaminated by a major background from elliptic flow anisotropy ($v_2$). Isobaric $^{96}_{44}$Ru+$^{96}_{44}$Ru and $^{96}_{40}$Zr+$^{96}_{40}$Zr collisions have been proposed to identify the {\sc cme} (expected to differ between the two systems) out of the background (expected to be almost the same). We show, by using the density-functional calculated proton and neutron distributions, that these expectations may not hold as originally anticipated, because the two systems may have sizable differences in eccentricity and $v_2$ and because their difference in {\bf B} may suffer from large uncertainties.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures. v2: Now the magnetic field averaged over the overlap area is presented, instead of that at the single point at the overlap center in the previous version. v3: published version
MAGNETIZED PLASMA WITH FERROMAGNETIC GRAINS AS A VIABLE NEGATIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX MEDIUM
Creators: name: Belayneh Mesfin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 20204 Plasma Physics; Fusion Plasmas; Electrical Discharges
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The propagation of electromagnetic waves in a cold magnetized plasma with ferromagnetic grains (MPFG) in the high frequency domain is studied theoretically. The dispersion of MPFG which is controlled by the simultaneous characterization of the permittivity and permeability tensors. is investigated theoretically and numerically near the resonance frequency. It is found that MPFG becomes transparent for the waves that cannot propagate in conventional magnetized electron-ion plasma. The refractive index of the waves propagating parallel to the applied magnetic field is found to be negative for the extraordinary wave in certain frequency domain. The results obtained show that in a narrow band of the super-high-frequency range near the electron cyclotron frequency, MPFG possess all the known characteristics of negative refractive index media, which would make it as a viable alternative medium to demonstrate the known and predicted peculiar properties of media having negative index of refraction.
Erica triflora Linnaeus, 1753, spec. nov.
Creators: name: Linnaeus, Carolus
Publisher: name: Laurentius Salvius
Year: 1753
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Ericales
Ericaceae
Erica
Erica triflora

description: Erica triflora, spec. nov.
12. Erica antheris bifidis inclusis, corollis subglobosis subvillosis ternis, pedunculis triphyllis, foliis ternis.
 Habitat in AEthiopia . ♄
description: Published as part of Linnaeus, Carolus, 1753, Species plantarum: exhibentes plantas rite cognitas, ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas, Stockholm :Laurentius Salvius on page 354, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3931989
Erica curviflora Linnaeus, 1753, spec. nov.
Creators: name: Linnaeus, Carolus
Publisher: name: Laurentius Salvius
Year: 1753
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Ericales
Ericaceae
Erica
Erica curviflora

description: Erica curviflora, spec. nov.
13. Erica antheris bifidis exsertis, corollis clavato-cylindricis curvis solitariis longis, foliis subternis.
 Erica foliis linearibus quaternis oppositis villosis, corollis longissimis solitariis. Hort. cliff. 148.
 Erica africana frutescens. Seb. thes. 2. p. 20. t. 19. f. 5.
 Erica spicata, floribus oblongis ex carneo purpureis. Pluk. mant. 67. t. 346. f.9.
 Habitat in AEthiopia . ♄
description: Published as part of Linnaeus, Carolus, 1753, Species plantarum: exhibentes plantas rite cognitas, ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas, Stockholm :Laurentius Salvius on page 354, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3931989
Robust zero-energy bound states in a helical lattice
Creators: name: Li, Pengke
name: Sau, Jay D.
name: Appelbaum, Ian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Atomic-scale helices exist as motifs for several material lattices. We examine a tight-binding model for a single one-dimensional monatomic chain with a p-orbital basis coiled into a helix. A topologically nontrivial phase emerging from this model supports a zero-energy mode localized to a boundary, always embedded within a continuum band, regardless of termination site. We identify a topological invariant for this phase that is related to the number of zero energy end modes by means of the bulk-boundary correspondence, and give strict conditions for the existence of the bound state. Another, non-topological, gapped edge mode in the model spectrum has practical consequences for surface states in e.g. trigonal tellurium and selenium and other van der Waals-bonded one-dimensional semiconductors.
Proximal Alternating Penalty Algorithms for Constrained Convex Optimization
Creators: name: Tran-Dinh, Quoc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 90C25, 90-08

description: We develop two new proximal alternating penalty algorithms to solve a wide range class of constrained convex optimization problems. Our approach mainly relies on a novel combination of the classical quadratic penalty, alternating minimization, Nesterov's acceleration, and adaptive strategy for parameters. The first algorithm is designed to solve generic and possibly nonsmooth constrained convex problems without requiring any Lipschitz gradient continuity or strong convexity, while achieving the best-known $O(\frac{1}{k})$-convergence rate in a non-ergodic sense, where $k$ is the iteration counter. The second algorithm is also designed to solve non-strongly convex, but semi-strongly convex problems. This algorithm can achieve the best-known $O(\frac{1}{k^2})$-convergence rate on the primal constrained problem. Such a rate is obtained in two cases: (i)~averaging only on the iterate sequence of the strongly convex term, or (ii) using two proximal operators of this term without averaging. In both algorithms, we allow one to linearize the second subproblem to use the proximal operator of the corresponding objective term. Then, we customize our methods to solve different convex problems, and lead to new variants. As a byproduct, these algorithms preserve the same convergence guarantees as in our main algorithms. We verify our theoretical development via different numerical examples and compare our methods with some existing state-of-the-art algorithms.
description: 35 pages, 6 figures and 1 table. The code is available at: https://github.com/quoctd/PAPA-s1.0
Who was Śiva
Creators: name: RODRIGUES, TENSING CARLOS
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: History
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Archaeology
subject: Geography
subject: Sociology

description: Of even greater importance for us, searching the identity of Śiva, is the description that the epics give of the kirāta attending Yudhiṣṭhira’s Rājasūya sacrifice : ‘wearing skins’ (carmvāsasaḥ), ‘they lived on the fruits and tubers’ (phalamūlāśanā) (Mahābhārata, II, 48, 8), ‘wearing thick topknots’ (Rāmāyaṇa, Kiṣkindhākāṇḍa, XI, 30). Two of these immediately relate to Śiva; he is usually portrayed clad in an animal skin, usually of tiger; and most of the pictures of Śiva show him with a topknot. Unlike other gods, Śiva is usually offered bel/bilva leaves as neivedyam. All these attributes and more show a strong affinity between Śiva and the kirāta; he shares with them their martial qualities and love for music and dance, as well as their simple nature and volatile temper. He indeed appears to be a god of the kirāta in their own image and likeness. Like Pūṣan, the god of the Vedic tribes, sharing entirely in their pastoralist attributes. As Srinivasan points out, the ‘paśupati’ on the Harappan seal no. 420 is surrounded by wild animals, not domestic animals. [Srinivasan, 1984 : Unhinging Śiva From The Indus Civilisation, The Journal Of Royal Asiatic Society Of Great Britain And Ireland, No. 1, 78] Valdiya calls Śiva the ‘spiritual supremo’ of the kirāta – a hero, a leader, a king, a god ? [Valdiya, 2012 :Geography, Peoples and Geodynamics of India in Purāṇas and Epics, 125]
Modelling Primordial Gas in Numerical Cosmology
Creators: name: Abel, T.
name: Anninos, P.
name: Zhang, Y.
name: Norman, M. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have reviewed the chemistry and cooling behaviour of low-density (n<10^4 cm^-3) primordial gas and devised a cooling model wich involves 19 collisional and 9 radiative processes and is applicable for temperatures in the range (1 K < T < 10^8 K). We derived new fits of rate coefficients for the photo-attachment of neutral hydrogen, the formation of molecular hydrogen via H-, charge exchange between H2 and H+, electron detachment of H- by neutral hydrogen, dissociative recombination of H2 with slow electrons, photodissociation of H2+, and photodissociation of H2. Further it was found that the molecular hydrogen produced through the gas-phase processes, H2+ + H -> H2 + H+, and H- + H -> H2 + e-, is likely to be converted into its para configuration on a faster time scale than the formation time scale. We have tested the model extensively and shown it to agree well with former studies. We further studied the chemical kinetics in great detail and devised a minimal model which is substantially simpler than the full reaction network but predicts correct abundances. This minimal model shows convincingly that 12 collisional processes are sufficient to model the H, He, H+, H-, He+, He++, and H2 abundances in low density primordial gas for applications with no radiation fields.
description: 26 pages of text, 4 tables, and 6 eps figures. The paper is also available at http://zeus.ncsa.uiuc.edu:8080/~abel/PGas/bib.html Submitted to New Astronomy. Note that some of the hyperlinks given in the paper are still under construction
The Quest for Scalability and Accuracy in the Simulation of the Internet of Things: an Approach based on Multi-Level Simulation
Creators: name: Ferretti, Stefano
name: D'Angelo, Gabriele
name: Ghini, Vittorio
name: Marzolla, Moreno
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Performance (cs.PF)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents a methodology for simulating the Internet of Things (IoT) using multi-level simulation models. With respect to conventional simulators, this approach allows us to tune the level of detail of different parts of the model without compromising the scalability of the simulation. As a use case, we have developed a two-level simulator to study the deployment of smart services over rural territories. The higher level is base on a coarse grained, agent-based adaptive parallel and distributed simulator. When needed, this simulator spawns OMNeT++ model instances to evaluate in more detail the issues concerned with wireless communications in restricted areas of the simulated world. The performance evaluation confirms the viability of multi-level simulations for IoT environments.
description: Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DS-RT 2017)
Cosmological Hydrodynamics with Multi-Species Chemistry and Nonequilibrium Ionization and Cooling
Creators: name: Anninos, Peter
name: Zhang, Yu
name: Abel, Tom
name: Norman, Michael L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have developed a method of solving for multi-species chemical reaction flows in non--equilibrium and self--consistently with the hydrodynamic equations in an expanding FLRW universe. The method is based on a backward differencing scheme for the required stability when solving stiff sets of equations and is designed to be efficient for three-dimensional calculations without sacrificing accuracy. In all, 28 kinetic reactions are solved including both collisional and radiative processes for the following nine separate species: H, H+, He, He+, He++, H-, H2+, H2, and e-. The method identifies those reactions (involving H- and H2+) ocurring on the shortest time scales, decoupling them from the rest of the network and imposing equilibrium concentrations to good accuracy over typical cosmological dynamical times. Several tests of our code are presented, including radiative shock waves, cosmological sheets, conservation constraints, and fully three-dimensional simulations of CDM cosmological evolutions in which we compare our method to results obtained when the packaged routine LSODAR is substituted for our algorithms.
description: Latex and postscript, 24 pages, with 6 figures. The paper is also available at http://zeus.ncsa.uiuc.edu:8080/~abel/PGas/bib.html Submitted to New Astronomy
Erica bruniades Linnaeus, 1753, spec. nov.
Creators: name: Linnaeus, Carolus
Publisher: name: Laurentius Salvius
Year: 1753
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Ericales
Ericaceae
Erica
Erica bruniades

description: Erica bruniades, spec. nov.
14. Erica antheris bifidis exsertis stylo brevioribus, corollis globosis tectis calyce lanato, foliis ternis.
 Eriocephalus bruniades ericaeformis monomopatensis, capitulis globulorum instar interius cavis & densa lanugine tectis. Pluk. mant. 69. t.347. f.9.
 Frutex africanus aromaticus. Seb. thes. 2. p. 64. t. 63. f. 7.
 Habitat in AEthiopia . ♄
description: Published as part of Linnaeus, Carolus, 1753, Species plantarum: exhibentes plantas rite cognitas, ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas, Stockholm :Laurentius Salvius on page 354, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3931989
From Hobbyists to Professionals: the Evolution of New Zealand Textile Artists: a Selective Annotated Bibliography of Resources
Creators: name: Lam, Pauline Lai Heung
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Art
subject: 130201 Creative Arts, Media and Communication Curriculum and Pedagogy
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: 210311 New Zealand History
subject: FOS: History and archaeology

description: A selected annotated bibliography for historians and researchers interested in exploring the history of textile art in New Zealand.
Scattered Short Gamma-Ray Bursts as Electromagnetic Counterparts to Gravitational Waves and Implications of GW170817 and GRB 170817A
Creators: name: Kisaka, Shota
name: Ioka, Kunihito
name: Kashiyama, Kazumi
name: Nakamura, Takashi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the faint short gamma-ray burst sGRB 170817A followed by the gravitational waves (GWs) from a merger of two neutron stars (NSs) GW170817, the spectral peak energy is too high to explain only by canonical off-axis emission. We investigate off-axis appearance of an sGRB prompt emission scattered by a cocoon, which is produced through the jet-merger-ejecta interaction, with either sub-relativistic or mildly-relativistic velocities. We show that the observed properties of sGRB 170817A, in particular the high peak energy, can be consistently explained by the Thomson-scattered emission with a typical sGRB jet, together by its canonical off-axis emission, supporting that an NS-NS merger is the origin of sGRBs. The scattering occurs at $\lesssim 10^{10}$--$10^{12}\,{\rm cm}$ not far from the central engine, implying the photospheric or internal shock origin of the sGRB prompt emission. The boundary between the jet and cocoon is sharp, which could be probed by future observations of off-axis afterglows. The scattering model predicts a distribution of the spectral peak energy that is similar to the observed one but with a cutoff around $\sim$ MeV energy, and its correlations with the luminosity, duration, and time lag from GWs, providing a way to distinguish it from alternative models.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal
Erica capitata Linnaeus, 1753, spec. nov.
Creators: name: Linnaeus, Carolus
Publisher: name: Laurentius Salvius
Year: 1753
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Ericales
Ericaceae
Erica
Erica capitata

description: Erica capitata, spec. nov.
15. Erica antheris bifidis exsertis, corollis globosis, calycibus hispidis.
 Erica africana calyce lanuginoso ex viridi luteo capitulum referente, floribus concoloribus exiguis lanugine obsitis. Seb. thes.1. p.30. t.20. f.1.
 Habitat in AEthiopia . ♄
description: Published as part of Linnaeus, Carolus, 1753, Species plantarum: exhibentes plantas rite cognitas, ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas, Stockholm :Laurentius Salvius on page 355, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3931989