cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Pointless moves in tic-tac-toe
Creators: name: Gaillard, Pierre-Yves
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: mathematics, positional games, tic-tac-toe

description: A tic-tac-toe move x is pointless if all the winning sets containing x are blocked by both players. We show that, if a pointless move is optimal, then any other move is also optimal.eng.
Doctoral thesis recital (trumpet)
Creators: name: Orr, Chelsea
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2019
Subjects: Brass nonets (Flugelhorns (2), horns (2), trombones (2), trumpet, tuba)
Trumpet and harp music.
Trios (Piano, trumpet, harp)
Trombone and trumpet music.
Brass trios (Trumpets (3))
Brass sextets (Horn, trombone, trumpets (3), tuba)

description: The arrival of the Queen of Sheba (1749) / George Friederic Handel -- Soirée de St. Pétersbourg: (1900) / Oskar Böhme -- Nightsongs : (1973) / Richard Peaslee -- Cousins : (1904) / Herbert L. Clarke -- Suite pour trois trompettes (1964) / Henri Tomasi -- Brass sextet in E♭ minor (1906) / Oskar Bohme.
Supplementary tables S1 and S2 from Water-repellent plant surface structure induced by gall-forming insects for waste management
Creators: name: Uematsu, Keigo
name: Kutsukake, Mayako
name: Takema Fukatsu
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 90301 Biomaterials
subject: FOS: Medical engineering
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Collection localities of the study species and statistical information reported in this study.
BrainstorML: Exploring the applications of Artificial Intelligence in Interaction Design
Creators: name: La Vattiata, Stefania
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 120304 Digital and Interaction Design
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: Artificial Intelligence (AI) has impacted various aspects of our lives and provided ubiquitous and efficient information using algorithm-based products and services (through calculation, recognition, classification of data). Although it has been widely applied in everyday interactions, unlike engineers, designers can rarely integrate it into their designprocesses, primarily due to technical barriers, the lack of knowledge in computer science and statistics. Therefore, this research examines different AI-powered platforms and Machine Learning algorithms to identify the current use of AI in Design or by designers. This research uses case studies and interviews to explore the opportunities in the Interaction Design process that avail from Machine Learning integration. It proposes a new application obtainedfrom the research to enhance the affinity mapping process to allow for first pattern discovery in the ideas collection and enable the labeling of those groups. I hypothesize that the applications of AI and ML can assist designers throughout their processes and provide the first step towards thegeneration of creative concepts. They could automate repetitive and tedious tasks that are time-consuming, like ethnographic research transcription, that do not require creative aptitudes. And potentially have computational assistance to augment their vision with diverseinteractions, allowing for inventiveness to ignite new thinking, frameworks, tools, systems, and experiences.
The clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: a tomographic measurement of structure growth and expansion rate from anisotropic galaxy clustering in Fourier space
Creators: name: Zheng, Jinglan
name: Zhao, Gong-Bo
name: Li, Jian
name: Wang, Yuting
name: Chuang, Chia-Hsun
name: Kitaura, Francisco-Shu
name: Rodriguez-Torres, Sergio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform a tomographic structure growth and expansion rate analysis using the monopole, quadrupole and hexadecapole of the redshift-space galaxy power spectrum derived from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III) Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) Data Release 12 combined sample, which covers the redshift range of $0.20
description: 9 pages, 5 figures; Tomographic BAO and RSD measurement derived from this work is available at https://github.com/Alice-Zheng/RSD-data; version accepted to MNRAS
Pointless moves in tic-tac-toe
Creators: name: Gaillard, Pierre-Yves
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: mathematics
combinatorics
combinatorial games
positional games
tic-tac-toe

description: A tic-tac-toe move x is pointless if all the winning sets containing x are blocked by both players. We show that, if a pointless move is optimal, then any other move is also optimal.eng.
Pointless moves in tic-tac-toe
Creators: name: Gaillard, Pierre-Yves
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: mathematics
combinatorics
combinatorial games
positional games
tic-tac-toe

description: Warning! I have just found an error in this text. I am trying to fix it. March 6, 2024. Here is what I am trying to prove: A tic-tac-toe move x is pointless if all the winning sets containing x are blocked by both players. We show that, if a pointless move is optimal, then any other move is also optimal.
Long-term evaluation of building envelope materials
Creators: name: Sin, Dat M.
name: 0000-0001-5061-640X
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2019
Subjects: Building envelope materials
Durability
Tapes
Self-adhered flashings
Exterior plasters
Water repellents

description: The building envelope is arguably the most important aspect of a building besides its structure. It is the first line of defense against the environment and maintains comfortable humidity and air conditions. However, in contrast to structural components, the material specification and testing standards of the building envelope are less well defined, which leads to premature failure and costly maintenance. This thesis summarizes the research performed, the developed test, and the findings from ongoing research at the Durability Lab to evaluate the long-term performance of various building envelope materials. Code requirements for tapes and self-adhered flashings are tabulated and compared with test results. It is determined that the adhesion requirements of these products are not well developed. In addition, the performance of tape products is also evaluated using shear adhesion testing. The study emphasizes the compatibility of the adhesives at a variety of temperature ranges. Furthermore, materials testing of exterior plaster mixtures specified in ASTM C926 and common manufacturer's pre-blended mixtures is conducted. The study aims to determine the physical and mechanical properties of exterior plasters. The variability of the coefficient of thermal expansion is found to correspond to different moisture conditions. Several ACI (American Concrete Institute) models are also introduced to predict the tensile strength and modulus of elasticity of plaster mixtures using their compressive strength. An additional model is developed to better characterize the plaster modulus. Strong agreement between the test results and models is observed. Finally, the report summarizes the results from large-scale tests performed on 32 clear penetrating water repellents, for which data were collected over three years. Prolonged exposure to UV radiation is found to have a significant impact on evaluation of the long-term durability of water repellents. The general behavior of "good" and "bad" products is also noted. This research is part of an ongoing project at the University of Texas at Austin's Durability Lab. The Durability Lab was formed by Building Diagnostics, Inc. to study the durability of building components. It is located at the University of Texas at Austin on the J.J. Pickle Research Campus. Other ongoing testing, including water-resistive barrier mockups, stucco panels, and elastomeric sealants, is not included in this thesis.
Electroweak baryogenesis via chiral gravitational waves
Creators: name: Abedi, H.
name: Ahmadvand, M.
name: Gousheh, S. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a new mechanism for electroweak baryogenesis based on gravitational waves generated by helical magnetic fields that are present during a first order electroweak phase transition. We generate a net lepton number through the gravitational chiral anomaly which appears due to the chiral gravitational waves produced by these magnetic fields. The observed value of baryon asymmetry can be obtained in our mechanism within parameter space of scenarios with an inverse cascade evolution for magnetic fields which can also be candidates for large-scale magnetic fields.
description: 10 pages, Published version
Collective Care: Advancing menstrual health with design and collective intelligence
Creators: name: Ranade, Anuprita
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 120304 Digital and Interaction Design
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: The advent of smartphones and wearables has made health tracking for self-awareness commonplace. The technology available to us today allows us to track health indicators likesleep cycle, physical activity, heart rate, nutrition, etc. in great detail. For approximately 50% of the world’s population, the menstrual cycle is a key indicator of general health and wellbeing. However, despite being a key health indicator, the tracking of menstrual cycles currently remains a relatively unexplored and under-researched domain.There exist many digital applications for tracking menstrual cycles. The rise in usage of these applications shows that there is a genuine need for menstrual tracking tools. However, most of these applications fail their users in many ways like lack of accuracy in predictions, wrong assumptions of the gender identity and sexual orientation of users, and a biased focus on fertility. These applications fail to provide relevant insights to menstruators for their specific needs thus rendering these applications ineffective. The userexperience of menstrual tracking tools merits design intervention. Menstruation has been historically stigmatized and this has resulted in limited research for developingtools and technologies in this domain. This thesis is an exploration of the shortcomings of current menstrual tracking tools and technologies and identifies opportunities for design intervention. Through the course of this project, I investigated the value of period tracking by understandinghow menstruators plan their professional and social lives around their periods. I then applied my learnings to propose design principles that guide the experience design of menstrual tracking tools to enable menstruators to effectively track periods, gain self-awareness, and mitigate challenges associated with menstruation in daily life scenarios.
Unified Schemes for Radio-Loud Active Galactic Nuclei
Creators: name: Urry, C. Megan
name: Padovani, Paolo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The appearance of active galactic nuclei (AGN) depends so strongly on orientation that our current classification schemes are dominated by random pointing directions instead of more interesting physical properties. Light from the centers of many AGN is obscured by optically thick circumnuclear matter and in radio-loud AGN, bipolar jets emanating from the nucleus emit light that is relativistically beamed along the jet axes. Understanding the origin and magnitude of radiation anisotropies in AGN allows us to unify different classes of AGN; that is, to identify each single, underlying AGN type that gives rise to different classes through different orientations. This review describes the unification of radio-loud AGN, which include radio galaxies, quasars, and blazars. We describe the classification and properties of AGN and summarize the evidence for anisotropic emission. We outline the two most plausible unified schemes for radio-loud AGN, one linking quasars and luminous radio galaxies and another linking BL~Lac objects and less luminous radio galaxies. Using the formalism appropriate to samples biased by relativistic beaming, we show the population statistics for two schemes are in accordance with available data. We analyze the possible connections between low- and high-luminosity radio-loud AGN. We review potential difficulties with unification and conclude that none currently constitutes a serious problem. We discuss likely complications to unified schemes that are suggested by realistic physical considerations; these will be important to consider when more comprehensive data for larger complete samples become available. We conclude with a list of the ten questions we believe are the most pressing in this field.
description: 88 pages, latex file, uses aaspp.sty macro (available via ftp from ftp://aas.org/pubs/aastex/). Accompanying 22 figures and 3 tables available at http://itovf2.roma2.infn.it/padovani/review.html. (Abstract is abridged.) The only change is that the revised version indicates this paper is an invited review for PASP, in press, September 1995 issue
Supplementary figures S1, S2 and S3 from Water-repellent plant surface structure induced by gall-forming insects for waste management
Creators: name: Uematsu, Keigo
name: Kutsukake, Mayako
name: Takema Fukatsu
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 90301 Biomaterials
subject: FOS: Medical engineering
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Additional information on trichomes induced in C. clematis and other study species
Spin splitting induced in a superconductor by an antiferromagnetic insulator
Creators: name: Kamra, Akashdeep
name: Rezaei, Ali
name: Belzig, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Inspired by recent feats in exchange coupling antiferromagnets to an adjacent material, we demonstrate the possibility of employing them for inducing spin splitting in a superconductor, thereby avoiding the detrimental, parasitic effects of ferromagnets employed to this end. We derive the Gor'kov equation for the matrix Green's function in the superconducting layer, considering a microscopic model for its disordered interface with a two-sublattice magnetic insulator. We find that an antiferromagnetic insulator with effectively uncompensated interface induces a large, disorder-resistant spin splitting in the adjacent superconductor. In addition, we find contributions to the self-energy stemming from the interfacial disorder. Within our model, these mimic impurity and spin-flip scattering, while another breaks the symmetries in particle-hole and spin spaces. The latter contribution, however, drops out in the quasi-classical approximation and thus, does not significantly affect the superconducting state.
Supplementary Material from Genetic data reveal mixed-stock aggregations of gray whales in the North Pacific Ocean
Creators: name: Brüniche-Olsen, Anna
name: Ramirez, Jorge Urban
name: Vertyankin, Vladimir V.
name: Godard-Codding, Céline A. J.
name: Bickham, John W.
name: J. Andrew Dewoody
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Gray whales (Eschrichtius robustus) in the Western Pacific are critically endangered, whereas in the Eastern Pacific, they are relatively common. Holocene environmental changes and commercial whaling reduced their numbers, but gray whales in the Eastern Pacific now outnumber their Western counterparts by more than 100-fold. Herein, we investigate the genetic diversity and population structure within the species using a panel of genic single nucleotide polymorphisms. Results indicate the gray whale gene pool is differentiated into two substocks containing similar levels of genetic diversity, and that both our Eastern and Western geographical samples represent mixed-stock aggregations. Ongoing or future gene flow between the stocks may conserve genetic diversity overall, but admixture has implications for conservation of the critically endangered Western gray whale.
COBE Observations of the Microwave Counterparts of Gamma Ray Bursts
Creators: name: Schaefer, R. K.
name: Ali, S.
name: Limon, M.
name: Piccirillo, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have used the data from the COBE satellite to search for delayed microwave emission (31 - 90 GHz) from Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs). The large $7^\circ$ beam of COBE is well matched to the large positional uncertainties in the GRB locations, although it also means that fluxes from (point source) GRB objects will be diluted. In view of this we are doing a statistical search of the GRBs which occurred during the currently released COBE DMR data (years 1990 and 1991), which overlap $\sim 200$ GRBs recorded by GRO. Here we concentrate on just the top 10 GRBs (in peak counts/second). We obtain the limits on the emission by comparing the COBE fluxes before and after the GRB at the GRB location. Since it is thought that the microwave emission should lag the GRB event, we have searched the GRB position for emission in the few months following the GRB occurrence.
description: 5 pages, LaTEX
Helical solitons in vector modified Korteweg-de Vries equations
Creators: name: Pelinovsky, Dmitry E.
name: Stepanyants, Yury A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study existence of helical solitons in the vector modified Korteweg-de Vries (mKdV) equations, one of which is integrable, whereas another one is non-integrable. The latter one describes nonlinear waves in various physical systems, including plasma and chains of particles connected by elastic springs. By using the dynamical system methods such as the blow-up near singular points and the construction of invariant manifolds, we construct helical solitons by the efficient shooting method. The helical solitons arise as the result of co-dimension one bifurcation and exist along a curve in the velocity-frequency parameter plane. Examples of helical solitons are constructed numerically for the non-integrable equation and compared with exact solutions in the integrable vector mKdV equation. The stability of helical solitons with respect to small perturbations is confirmed by direct numerical simulations.
description: 20 pages, 10 figures
A Peculiar Emission Line Feature in the X-ray Spectrum of the Quasar PKS 0637-752
Creators: name: Yaqoob, T.
name: George, I. M.
name: Turner, T. J.
name: Nandra, K.
name: Ptak, A.
name: Serlemitsos, P. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the results from an ASCA observation of the high-luminosity, radio-loud quasar PKS 0637-752 (redshift 0.654), covering the 0.8-15 keV band in the quasar-frame. We find the source to have a luminosity ~10^46 erg/s in the 2-10 keV band, a factor of ~3 lower than during a previous GINGA observation. The continuum appears to be well modeled by a simple power-law with a photon index of 1.64 +/- 0.07, with no evidence for absorption by material intrinsic to the quasar, or Fe-K emission (with an equivalent width < 80 eV at 90% confidence). However we do find evidence for a narrow emission line at an energy 1.60 +/- 0.07 keV and equivalent width 59 [+38,-34] eV (both in the quasar frame). Line emission at these energies has not been observed in any other active galaxy or quasar to date. We reject the possibility that this line is the result of instrumental artifacts, and briefly explore possible identifications.
description: 16 pages plus 2 figures. Latex with separate postscript figure files. AASTEX 4.0 macro. Accepted for the Astrophysical Journal Letters
Improvement of (transition metal-modified) activated carbon regeneration by H2O2-promoted catalytic wet air oxidation
Creators: name: Benhamed, Imane
name: Barthe, Laurie
name: Kessas, Rachid
name: Delmas, Henri
name: Julcour, Carine
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Physiology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: Computational Biology

description: Oxidative regeneration of activated carbon (AC) exhausted with phenolic compounds is still a challenging issue due to the frequent porosity loss. Addition of low H2O2 amount is investigated as a way to promote catalytic wet air oxidation (CWAO) of adsorbed pollutants and thereby to recover absorbent properties. Commercial AC and transition metal (iron or copper)-modified counterparts are tested in repeated adsorption/batch peroxide-promoted CWAO of phenol. Cycles are operated in both fixed bed and slurry reactors to vary the initial pollutant distribution in between the two phases. Influence of metal location is also studied by adding iron salt to the pollutant solution prior to perform peroxide-promoted oxidation on bare carbon. Regeneration results are analyzed through a detailed analysis of both the solid and the liquid phases during the oxidative treatment. It is proved that a convenient H2O2 dosage can increase the lifetime of adsorbent in adsorption–oxidation cycles, but coupling with (un)supported metal oxide does not provide significant gain.
Search for Higgs boson pair production in the $γγ\mathrm{b\overline{b}}$ final state in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV
Creators: name: CMS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A search is presented for the production of a pair of Higgs bosons, where one decays into two photons and the other one into a bottom quark-antiquark pair. The analysis is performed using proton-proton collision data at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV recorded in 2016 by the CMS detector at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb$^{-1}$. The results are in agreement with standard model (SM) predictions. In a search for resonant production, upper limits are set on the cross section for new spin-0 or spin-2 particles. For the SM-like nonresonant production hypothesis, the data exclude a product of cross section and branching fraction larger than 2.0 fb at 95% confidence level (CL), corresponding to about 24 times the SM prediction. Values of the effective Higgs boson self-coupling $κ_λ$ are constrained to be within the range $-$11 < $κ_λ$ < 17 at 95% CL, assuming all other Higgs boson couplings are at their SM value. The constraints on $κ_λ$ are the most restrictive to date.
description: Replaced with the published version. Added the journal reference. All the figures and tables can be found at http://cms-results.web.cern.ch/cms-results/public-results/publications/HIG-17-008 (CMS Public Pages)
A GLOBAL PROGRAMME ON PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH AND GENDER ANALYSIS FOR TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AND ORGANISATIONAL INNOVATION
Creators: name: Systemwide Programme On Participatory Research And Gender Analysis
name: Systemwide Programme On Participatory Research And Gender Analysis
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: International Relations/Trade
Labor and Human Capital

description: Ensuring the participation of users in the process of agricultural technology development is an important strategic research issue, vital to achieving impact which benefits poor people. User participation in the early stages of technology design enables technologies to be adopted rapidly. Women are a particularly important category of users since household food security— especially among children in poor countries — is vitally affected by their access to incomegenerating technologies. Gender analysis is therefore crucial for ensuring that women's special needs are taken into account. The aim of this paper is to introduce a programme which brings a number of the international agricultural research centres of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research together to collaborate with of a variety of other institutions including national agricultural research institutes and non-governmental organisations. The programme will attempt to advance the methodological development and institutionalisation of participatory research and gender analysis (PR/GA). It will, however, take a critical approach to the range of participatory methods currently in use and it lays great emphasis on measuring impact and cost effectiveness. An important goal is to disseminate strategic methods and institutional innovations to the full range of agricultural and natural resource research and development practitioners and to improve the efficiency of the agricultural research system itself.
Sprouting capacity of Quercus serrata Thunb. and Quercus acutissima Carruth. after cutting canopy trees in an abandoned coppice forest
Creators: name: Dinh, Tai Tien
name: Akaji, Yasuaki
name: Matsumoto, Tetsuya
name: Toribuchi, Takumi
name: Takushi Makimoto
name: Muneto Hirobe
name: Sakamoto, Keiji
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Rejuvenation by sprouting is a possible solution to prevent abandoned coppice forests in Japan from outbreaks of oak wilt disease. Applying this approach requires examining the sprouting capacity of large-sized oak trees. Therefore, the present study investigated the effects of stump size, sprout characteristics (emerging time and origin position), and environmental factors (slope, convexity, soil moisture, soil net nitrogen mineralization rate (Net-NMR) and canopy closure) on sprout regeneration of the two widely distributed oaks in Japan, Quercus serrata and Quercus acutissima, in the first growing season after cutting. In November 2013, a study plot (40 × 90 m) was set, and canopy trees within the plot and edge areas were cut. We recorded sprout emergence, sprout origin position, sprout survival, and length from May to October 2014. Our data indicated that both species (ca. 60 years old) have not yet lost their ability of sprouting. In Q. acutissima, the sprouting probability increased with light availability and was higher in concave area, and its number of living sprouts was positively related to stump diameter. In Q. serrata, the number of living sprouts increased with light availability. Sprouts emerged earlier and/or originated from the lower part of stump exhibited a higher survival probability. Emerging time substantially influenced sprout growth pattern and its effect followed a similar tendency in both species. Our results evidence that the ability of sprouting and the number of living sprouts might not be reduced in large-sized trees, and the increasing of light availability could promote sprout regeneration.
Additional file 1 of Exosomal microRNAs are novel circulating biomarkers in cigarette, waterpipe smokers, E-cigarette users and dual smokers
Creators: name: Singh, Kameshwar P.
name: Maremanda, Krishna P.
name: Li, Dongmei
name: Rahman, Irfan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1. Differential expressed microRNAs from plasma exosomes of E-cigarette users in comparison to non-smokers pairwise comparison.
Quantum Nonlinear Optics in Atomically Thin Materials
Creators: name: Wild, Dominik S.
name: Shahmoon, Ephraim
name: Yelin, Susanne F.
name: Lukin, Mikhail D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that a nonlinear optical response associated with a resonant, atomically thin material can be dramatically enhanced by placing it in front of a partially reflecting mirror, rendering otherwise weakly nonlinear systems suitable for experiments and applications involving quantum nonlinear optics. Our approach exploits the nonlinear response of long-lived polariton resonances that arise at particular distances between the material and the mirror. The scheme is entirely based on free-space optics, eliminating the need for cavities or complex nanophotonic structures. We analyze a specific implementation based on exciton-polariton resonances in two-dimensional semiconductors and discuss the role of imperfections and loss.
description: Supplementary material available as ancillary file
The outburst of the T Tauri star EX Lupi in 1994
Creators: name: Lehmann, Thomas
name: Reipurth, Bo
name: Brandner, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have observed an outburst of the T Tauri star EX Lup in March 1994. We present both photometric (BVR) and spectroscopic (low and medium resolution) observations carried out during the decline after outburst. The star appears much bluer during outburst due to an increased emission of a hot continuum. This is accompanied by a strong increase of the veiling of photospheric lines. We observe inverse P Cygni profiles of many emission lines over a large brightness range of EX Lup. We briefly discuss these features towards the model of magnetospherically supported accretion of disk material.
description: Latex (requires laa.sty) with links to 6 postscript figures, uuencoded gzipped tar file. Complete postscript version also available at http://lucky.astro.uni-wuerzburg.de/ . Accepted for publication in A&A
Crystal collimation for LHC
Creators: name: Mirarchi, Daniele
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2015

description: Future upgrades of the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) may demand improved cleaning performance of its collimation system. Very efficient collimation is required during regular operations at high intensities, because even a small amount of energy deposited on superconducting magnets can cause an abrupt loss of superconducting conditions (quench). The present collimation system has accomplished its tasks during the LHC Run I very well, where no quench with circulating beam took place with up to 150 MJ of stored energy at 4 TeV. On the other hand, uncertainty remains on the performance at the design energy of 7 TeV and with 360 MJ of stored energy. In particular, a further increase up to about 700 MJ is expected for the high luminosity upgrade (HL-LHC), where improved cleaning performance may be needed together with a reduction of collimator impedance. The possibility to use a crystal-based collimation system represents an option for improving both cleaning performance and impedance compared to the present system. A bent crystal can in theory replace primary collimators and steer all halo particles onto one single absorber, providing better cleaning with reduced impedance than the present multi-stage collimation system, which is based on massive amorphous blocks of material that surround the beam. Although promising results on the principle of crystal collimation were obtained during experimental tests at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS), feasibility studies at the LHC are mandatory before relying on this approach for future upgrades. The main goal of this Ph.D. thesis is the design of an optimised prototype crystal collimation system for these tests in the LHC, which has been installed during April 2014.
title: 02_1131
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
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Thirty-year stand dynamics of an old evergreen coppice forest in Southern Kyushu, Southwestern Japan
Creators: name: Yamashita, Kazuhiro
name: Ito, Satoshi
name: Hirata, Ryoko
name: Mitsuda, Yasushi
name: Kiwamu Yamagishi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: We investigated forest development processes for a period of 30 years (during 87–116-year-old) in an evergreen coppice stand in southern Japan that was highly dominated by Castanopsis sieboldii. Stand age changing developmental stages were verified and compared with the results of a previous case study of evergreen coppices mainly dominated by C. cuspidata, C. sieboldii and Quercus salicina in the same region. A survey plot was established in 1985, and tree height and diameter at breast height of all living stems were recorded. Stems of single-stem individuals and multi-stem individuals were distinguished based on observations of stem bases for each of the overstory and understory. Changes in stem density and species diversity were then evaluated. In the overstory, stem density declined between 92- and 116-year-old. On the other hand, stem density in the understory exhibited a distinct increase during the study period; however, it was primarily single-stem and multi-stem evergreen shrubs, such as Aucuba japonica, and multi-stem evergreen trees, such as C. sieboldii that contributed to this increase. The species diversity index (H’) also indicated the same trends. Therefore, it was concluded that the stand examined in the present study exhibited characteristics of the “understory re-initiation” stage after 92-year-old, and that stand development was delayed compared to development of stands examined in a previous study. These results indicated that the progress of stand development may differ depending on dominant species or forest environment even within evergreen coppices in the same region.
A Long Way to the Top: Significance, Structure, and Stability of Internet Top Lists
Creators: name: Scheitle, Quirin
name: Hohlfeld, Oliver
name: Gamba, Julien
name: Jelten, Jonas
name: Zimmermann, Torsten
name: Strowes, Stephen D.
name: Vallina-Rodriguez, Narseo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A broad range of research areas including Internet measurement, privacy, and network security rely on lists of target domains to be analysed; researchers make use of target lists for reasons of necessity or efficiency. The popular Alexa list of one million domains is a widely used example. Despite their prevalence in research papers, the soundness of top lists has seldom been questioned by the community: little is known about the lists' creation, representativity, potential biases, stability, or overlap between lists. In this study we survey the extent, nature, and evolution of top lists used by research communities. We assess the structure and stability of these lists, and show that rank manipulation is possible for some lists. We also reproduce the results of several scientific studies to assess the impact of using a top list at all, which list specifically, and the date of list creation. We find that (i) top lists generally overestimate results compared to the general population by a significant margin, often even an order of magnitude, and (ii) some top lists have surprising change characteristics, causing high day-to-day fluctuation and leading to result instability. We conclude our paper with specific recommendations on the use of top lists, and how to interpret results based on top lists with caution.
description: To be published at ACM IMC 2018. Web site with live data under: https://toplists.github.io
Optimal Microlensing Observations
Creators: name: Gould, Andrew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the major limitations of microlensing observations toward the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is the low rate of event detection. What can be done to improve this rate? Is it better to invest telescope time in more frequent observations of the inner high surface-brightness fields, or in covering new, less populated outer fields? How would a factor 2 improvement in CCD sensitivity affect the detection efficiency? Would a series of major (factor 2--4) upgrades in telescope aperture, seeing, sky brightness, camera size, and detector efficiency increase the event rate by a huge factor, or only marginally? I develop a simplified framework to address these questions. With observational resources fixed at the level of the MACHO and EROS experiments, the biggest improvement (factor ~2) would come by reducing the time spent on the inner ~25 deg^2 and applying it to the outer ~100 deg^2. By combining this change with the characteristics of a good medium-size telescope (2.5 m mirror, 1" point spread function, thinned CCD chips, 1 deg^2 camera, and dark sky), it should be possible to increase the detection of LMC events to more than 100 per year (assuming current estimates of the optical depth apply to the entire LMC).
description: Submitted to ApJ, 13 pages plus 3 figures
Embedding fractals in Banach, Hilbert or Euclidean spaces
Creators: name: Banakh, Taras
name: Nowak, Magdalena
name: Strobin, Filip
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: General Topology (math.GN)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 28A80

description: By a metric fractal we understand a compact metric space $K$ endowed with a finite family $\mathcal F$ of contracting self-maps of $K$ such that $K=\bigcup_{f\in\mathcal F}f(K)$. If $K$ is a subset of a metric space $X$ and each $f\in\mathcal F$ extends to a contracting self-map of $X$, then we say that $(K,\mathcal F)$ is a fractal in $X$. We prove that each metric fractal $(K,\mathcal F)$ is $\bullet$ isometrically equivalent to a fractal in the Banach spaces $C[0,1]$ and $\ell_\infty$; $\bullet$ bi-Lipschitz equivalent to a fractal in the Banach space $c_0$; $\bullet$ isometrically equivalent to a fractal in the Hilbert space $\ell_2$ if $K$ is an ultrametric space. We prove that for a metric fractal $(K,\mathcal F)$ with the doubling property there exists $k\in\mathbb N$ such that the metric fractal $(K,\mathcal F^{\circ k})$ endowed with the fractal structure $\mathcal F^{\circ k}=\{f_1\circ\dots\circ f_k:f_1,\dots,f_k\in\mathcal F\}$ is equi-Hölder equivalent to a fractal in a Euclidean space $\mathbb R^d$. This result is used to prove our main result saying that each finite-dimensional compact metrizable space $K$ containing an open uncountable zero-dimensional space $Z$ is homeomorphic to a fractal in a Euclidean space $\mathbb R^d$. For $Z$, being a copy of the Cantor set, this embedding result was proved by Duvall and Husch in 1992.
description: 20 pages
Anomaluos RR Lyrae (V-I)_0 colors in Baade's Window
Creators: name: Stutz, Amelia
name: Popowski, Piotr
name: Gould, Andrew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compare (V-I)_0-(V-K)_0 color-color and (V-I)_0-log P period-color diagrams for Baade's Window and local RRab Lyrae stars. We find that for a fixed log P the Baade's Window RR Lyrae stars are ~0.17 magnitudes redder in (V-I)_0 than the local RR Lyrae stars. We also show that there is no such effect observed in (V-K)_0. We argue that an extinction misestimate towards Baade's Window is not a plausible explanation of the discrepancy. Unlike Baade's Window RR Lyrae stars, the local ones follow a black-body color-color relation and are well approximated by theoretical models. We test two parameters, metallicity and surface gravity, and find that their effects are too small to explain the (V-I)_0 discrepancy between the two groups of stars. We do not provide any explanation for the anomalous (V-I)_0 behavior of the Baade's Window RR Lyrae stars. We note that a similar effect for clump giant stars has been recently reported by Paczynski and we caution that RR Lyrae stars and clump giants, often used as standard candles, can be subject to the same type of systematics.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures, submitted to ApJ
Business model innovation to promote a low carbon economy in Dubai
Creators: name: Al Muthanna, Dalya
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2015

description: Dubai energy sector is facing two main challenges: energy insecurity that is mainly driven by limitations to accessibility of natural gas and the high levels of carbon dioxide emissions due to a growing economy and power demand. As a result Dubai launched its Integrated Energy Strategy 2030 to diversify its energy resources and include solar energy within its power generation mix. A key issue facing Dubai would be addressing the discrepancy between the cost of solar and the cost of conventional power. This thesis aims to examine the possibility of involving the private sector, in this case the tourism industry in Dubai, given it was identified as one of the fastest growing sectors and one of the largest contributors to Dubai’s economy, in participating in the payment of the premium for solar. To address the thesis aim, the study draws upon literature and semi structured interviews with the Dubai utility (DEWA), tourism department (DTCM), and large hotel chains who were identified as potential off-takers of the solar energy.As a result of the empirical investigation and the use of the Business Model Canvas framework, first the core characteristics of the Dubai energy business model are presented, showing the transition from the traditional model to the current one after introducing solar energy and Independent Power Producers to the energy production. The analysis of the hotel interviews resulted in a set of potential value propositions that could be offered by the Dubai government (through DTCM) to incentivize hotels to pay for solar energy and by that providing initial support to enhance renewable energy promotion in Dubai. The research finds that the implementation and introduction of innovation to business models could play a vital role in facilitating transitions to more sustainable energy systems. The study has also shown that with providing the right incentives, it is possible to attract the private sector to participate in promoting RE production.
Geocentrism reexamined
Creators: name: Goodman, Jeremy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The universe is nearly isotropic on very large scales. It is much more difficult to show that the universe is radially homogeneous (independent of distance), or equivalently, that it is isotropic about distant points. This taken as an axiom, since if it were not true, then we would occupy a preferred position. This paper considers several empirical arguments for radial homogeneity based on the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The tightest limits on inhomogeneity on the scale of the horizon are of order ten percent but will improve soon. These limits involve the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect in clusters of galaxies, excitation of low-energy atomic transitions, and the accurately thermal spectrum of the CMB. Weaker limits from primordial nucleosynthesis are discussed briefly.
description: RevTeX source, 14 pages, no figs. To appear Phys Rev D
Distinct spin-lattice and spin-phonon interactions in monolayer magnetic CrI$_3$
Creators: name: Webster, Lucas
name: Liang, Liangbo
name: Yan, Jia-An
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We apply the density-functional theory to study various phases (including non-magnetic (NM), anti-ferromagnetic (AFM), and ferromagnetic (FM)) in monolayer magnetic chromium triiodide (CrI$_3$), a recently fabricated 2D magnetic material. It is found that: (1) the introduction of magnetism in monolayer CrI$_3$ gives rise to metal-to-semiconductor transition; (2) the electronic band topologies as well as the nature of direct and indirect band gaps in either AFM or FM phases exhibit delicate dependence on the magnetic ordering and spin-orbit coupling; and (3)the phonon modes involving Cr atoms are particularly sensitive to the magnetic ordering, highlighting distinct spin-lattice and spin-phonon coupling in this magnet. First-principles simulations of the Raman spectra demonstrate that both frequencies and intensities of the Raman peaks strongly depend on the magnetic ordering. The polarization dependent $A_{1g}$ modes at 77 cm$^{-1}$ and 130 cm$^{-1}$ along with the $E_g$ mode at about 50 cm$^{-1}$ in the FM phase may offer a useful fingerprint to characterize this material. Our results not only provide a detailed guiding map for experimental characterization of CrI$_3$, but also reveal how the evolution of magnetism can be tracked by its lattice dynamics and Raman response.
description: 17 pages, 8 figures