cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Minimum spanning tree filtering of correlations for varying time scales and size of fluctuations
Creators: name: Kwapien, Jaroslaw
name: Oswiecimka, Pawel
name: Forczek, Marcin
name: Drozdz, Stanislaw
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistical Finance (q-fin.ST)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on a recently proposed $q$-dependent detrended cross-correlation coefficient $ρ_q$, we generalize the concept of minimum spanning tree (MST) by introducing a family of $q$-dependent minimum spanning trees ($q$MST) that are selective to cross-correlations between different fluctuation amplitudes and different time scales. They inherit this ability directly from the coefficients $ρ_q$ that are processed here to construct a distance matrix. Conventional MST with detrending corresponds in this context to $q=2$. We apply the $q$MSTs to sample empirical data from the stock market and discuss the results. We show that the $q$MST graphs can complement $ρ_q$ in disentangling correlations that cannot be observed by the MST graphs based on $ρ_{\rm DCCA}$ and, therefore, they can be useful in many areas where the multivariate cross-correlations are of interest. We apply our method to data from the stock market and obtain more information about correlation structure of the data than by using $q=2$ only. We show that two sets of signals that differ from each other statistically can give comparable trees for $q=2$, while only by using the trees for $q \ne 2$ we become able to distinguish between these sets. We also show that a family of $q$MSTs for a range of $q$ express the diversity of correlations in a manner resembling the multifractal analysis, where one computes a spectrum of the generalized fractal dimensions, the generalized Hurst exponents, or the multifractal singularity spectra: the more diverse the correlations are, the more variable the tree topology is for different $q$s. Our analysis exhibits that the stocks belonging to the same or similar industrial sectors are correlated via the fluctuations of moderate amplitudes, while the largest fluctuations often happen to synchronize in those stocks that do not necessarily belong to the same industry.
Non-Markovian dynamics of a superconducting qubit in an open multimode resonator
Creators: name: Malekakhlagh, Moein
name: Petrescu, Alexandru
name: Türeci, Hakan E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the dynamics of a transmon qubit that is capacitively coupled to an open multimode superconducting resonator. Our effective equations are derived by eliminating resonator degrees of freedom while encoding their effect in the Green's function of the electromagnetic background. We account for the dissipation of the resonator exactly by employing a spectral representation for the Green's function in terms of a set of non-Hermitian modes and show that it is possible to derive effective Heisenberg-Langevin equations without resorting to the rotating wave, two level or Markov approximations. A well-behaved time domain perturbation theory is derived to systematically account for the nonlinearity of the transmon. We apply this method to the problem of spontaneous emission, capturing accurately the non-Markovian features of the qubit dynamics, valid for any qubit-resonator coupling strength.
description: 30 pages, 13 figures
Finding flaky tests in JavaScript applications using stress and test suite reordering
Creators: name: Yost, Gillian Ann
name: 0009-0002-9456-8504
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2023
Subjects: Flaky tests
JavaScript
TypeScript
Stress
Jest
Stress-Ng
Flaky test detection

description: Flaky tests are an issue when software tests fail non-deterministically on the same version of code. Research has been conducted on flaky tests in Java, C/C++, and Python, but little research has been conducted in JavaScript even though it is a popular programming language. Thus, we conducted an empirical study of flaky tests found from 58 JavaScript GitHub repositories that used Jest as their testing framework. We developed a technique called StressSequence to detect flaky tests in JavaScript applications. StressSequence stresses the machine using Stress-Ng and a random sequencer for reordering test suites in Jest. StressSequence then reruns the tests multiple times under these conditions, detecting a flaky test when it observes the test both pass and fail. We evaluated StressSequence on our subjects, comparing the detected flaky tests against a baseline technique of simply rerunning tests without stress or reordering, Reruns. The subjects were run 10 times with StressSequence and 10 times each with Reruns as a comparison. We found 71 flaky tests from both StressSequence and Reruns. StressSequence found 56 and Reruns found 41 with 26 overlapping. Of the 71 flaky tests, 30 were from timeouts and 30 came from one application due to test dependencies. Of the remaining eleven flaky tests the majority of them are of the Async Wait and UI categories. Based on the manual inspection the random sequencer did not help reveal any flaky tests. Running with stress, however, did impact the flake rate of certain flaky tests and found flaky tests not found using Reruns.
Variational inequality approach to enforce the non-negative constraint for advection-diffusion equations
Creators: name: Chang, J.
name: Nakshatrala, K. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Predictive simulations are crucial for the success of many subsurface applications, and it is highly desirable to obtain accurate non-negative solutions for transport equations in these numerical simulations. In this paper, we propose a computational framework based on the variational inequality (VI) which can also be used to enforce important mathematical properties (e.g., maximum principles) and physical constraints (e.g., the non-negative constraint). We demonstrate that this framework is not only applicable to diffusion equations but also to non-symmetric advection-diffusion equations. An attractive feature of the proposed framework is that it works with with any weak formulation for the advection-diffusion equations, including single-field formulations, which are computationally attractive. A particular emphasis is placed on the parallel and algorithmic performance of the VI approach across large-scale and heterogeneous problems. It is also shown that QP and VI are equivalent under certain conditions. State-of-the-art QP and VI solvers available from the PETSc library are used on a variety of steady-state 2D and 3D benchmarks, and a comparative study on the scalability between the QP and VI solvers is presented. We then extend the proposed framework to transient problems by simulating the miscible displacement of fluids in a heterogeneous porous medium and illustrate the importance of enforcing maximum principles for these types of coupled problems. Our numerical experiments indicate that VIs are indeed a viable approach for enforcing the maximum principles and the non-negative constraint in a large-scale computing environment. Also provided are Firedrake project files as well as a discussion on the computer implementation to help facilitate readers in understanding the proposed framework.
A comparison of George Bernard Shaw's "Major Barbara" and Bertolt Brecht's "Die Heilige Johanna der Schlachthöfe"
Creators: name: Pfeffer, Rosemarie.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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(202334) Thomasina Stewart
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
MPEC 2024-R14 : 2024 RB
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 RB

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
High critical field superconductivity at ambient pressure in MoB$_2$ stabilized in the P6/mmm structure via Nb substitution
Creators: name: Hire, A. C.
name: Sinha, S.
name: Lim, J.
name: Kim, J. S.
name: Dee, P. M.
name: Fanfarillo, L.
name: Hamlin, J. J.
name: Hennig, R. G.
name: Hirschfeld, P. J.
name: Stewart, G. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently it was discovered that, under elevated pressures, MoB$_2$ exhibits superconductivity at a critical temperature, $T_c$, as high as 32 K. The superconductivity appears to develop following a pressure-induced structural transition from the ambient pressure R$\bar{3}$m structure to an MgB$_2$-like P6/mmm structure. This suggests that remarkably high $T_c$ values among diborides are not restricted to MgB$_2$ as previously appeared to be the case, and that similarly high $T_c$ values may occur in other diborides if they can be coerced into the MgB$_2$ structure. In this paper, we show that density functional theory calculations indicate that phonon free energy stabilizes the P6/mmm structure over the R$\bar{3}$m at high temperatures across the Nb$_{1-x}$Mo$_x$B$_2$ series. X-ray diffraction confirms that the synthesized Nb-substituted MoB$_2$ adopts the MgB$_2$ crystal structure. High magnetic field electrical resistivity measurements and specific heat measurements demonstrate that Nb$_{1-x}$Mo$_x$B$_2$ exhibits superconductivity with $T_c$ as high as 8 K and critical fields approaching 6 T.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures, 1 table
Cardiovascular health in urban poor and middle-income communities in Jamaica: Impact of psychological stress, social networks, and social support: Project Report
Creators: name: Ferguson, Trevor S
name: McKenzie, Joette
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 420210
subject: Social epidemiology
classificationCode: 420208
subject: Nutritional epidemiology
classificationCode: 420299
subject: Epidemiology not elsewhere classified

description: This project aims to estimate the prevalence of ideal cardiovascular health (ICH) and its individual components (current non-smoking, body mass index <25kg/m2, physical activity of at least 150 minutes per week, healthy diet, normal blood pressure, normal glucose and normal cholesterol levels) in urban Jamaica, using data from the third Jamaica Health and Lifestyle Survey (JHLS-III). The project further aims to evaluate the association between cardiovascular health and neighbourhood poverty, psychosocial stress, and social support and to identify factors which may serve as a basis for social, behavioural or policy interventions to improve cardiovascular health in Jamaica and similar populations.
Additional file 11 of Epstein-Barr viral product-containing exosomes promote fibrosis and nasopharyngeal carcinoma progression through activation of YAP1/FAPα signaling in fibroblasts
Creators: name: Lee, Po-Ju
name: Sui, Yun-Hua
name: Liu, Tzu-Tung
name: Tsang, Ngan-Ming
name: Huang, Chen-Han
name: Lin, Ting-Yi
name: Chang, Kai-Ping
name: Liu, Shu-Chen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 11: Supplementary Fig. S8. Correlation analysis between expression of FAPα and immune regulatory molecules. Expression data were extracted from the TCGA head and neck squamous cell carcinoma RNA sequencing dataset. Spearman’s correlation test was used to calculate the correlation between mRNA expressions of two select genes.
Minority representation and majority grievances : explaining radical right-wing support
Creators: name: Pitre Young, Ariel Symone
name: 0009-0007-0391-1503
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2023
Subjects: Political parties
Eastern Europe

description: What motivates electoral support for radical right-wing parties (RRP)? Existing literature argues that people vote for RRPs when majority groups are aggrieved by minority groups. In this report, I contend this is problematic in two respects. First, not all minority groups are conceptually equal. Since all groups are situated in some social hierarchy, it follows that some minorities are more acceptable than others. Second, the grievance mechanism does not theoretically differentiate between descriptive or substantive representation. To address these shortcomings, I empirically test my argument in Central-Eastern Europe – home to large rising RRPs. Specifically, I empirically test my argument using both observational data in Central-Eastern Europe and experimental data in Romania to leverage between the different grievance types and minority groups. Findings suggest radical right electoral outcomes are determined by the type of representation in institutions. Additionally, I find that evaluations of minority groups vary depending on social distance to the majority group, resource extraction, and visibility.
Almost Budget Balanced Mechanisms with Scalar Bids For Allocation of a Divisible Good
Creators: name: Thirumulanathan, D.
name: Vinay, H.
name: Bhashyam, Srikrishna
name: Sundaresan, Rajesh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper is about allocation of an infinitely divisible good to several rational and strategic agents. The allocation is done by a social planner who has limited information because the agents' valuation functions are taken to be private information known only to the respective agents. We allow only a scalar signal, called a bid, from each agent to the social planner. Yang and Hajek [Jour. on Selected Areas in Comm., 2007] as well as Johari and Tsitsiklis [Jour. of Oper. Res., 2009] proposed a scalar strategy Vickrey-Clarke-Groves (SSVCG) mechanism with efficient Nash equilibria. We consider a setting where the social planner desires minimal budget surplus. Example situations include fair sharing of Internet resources and auctioning of certain public goods where revenue maximization is not a consideration. Under the SSVCG framework, we propose a mechanism that is efficient and comes close to budget balance by returning much of the payments back to the agents in the form of rebates. We identify a design criterion for {\em almost budget balance}, impose feasibility and voluntary participation constraints, simplify the constraints, and arrive at a convex optimization problem to identify the parameters of the rebate functions. The convex optimization problem has a linear objective function and a continuum of linear constraints. We propose a solution method that involves a finite number of constraints, and identify the number of samples sufficient for a good approximation.
description: Accepted for publication in the European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR)
(202335) David Stewart
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Pterodáctilo Blog November 2019
Creators: name: University Of Texas At Austin
Publisher: name: Pterodáctilo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Mexican American culture
Mexican American Studies
Latin American Studies
Hispanic culture
Luso-Brazilian culture

description: Contents: November 2, 2019 The Monster Hiding in the Archives: Spanish and Paleography and its Secrets (Part 3) // by Marlena Cravens -- November 6, 2019 10 Totally Do-able Steps to Start Preparing for the Alt-Ac World // by Gabriela Perez -- November 21, 2019 My Grandma // by Siri Gurudev -- November 21, 2019 Vivir de viaje // by Ana Almar Liante
Investigating CDMs: Blending theory with practicality
Creators: name: George, Ann Cathrice
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Kognitiv diagnostische Modelle
subject: Kompetenzen
subject: Methodische Entwicklung
subject: 370
subject: Schulleistungsmessung
subject: Bildungsstandard
subject: Fachwissen
subject: Pädagogische Diagnostik

description: Im Zusammenhang mit immer stärkerer Ergebnisorientierung der Bildungspolitik werden die Anforderungen nach detaillierten Informationen über Schülerleistungen größer. Zunächst wird in der Arbeit beschrieben warum und in welcher Form die statistische Modellklasse der kognitiv diagnostischen Modelle (Cognitive diagnosis models; CDMs) diese Forderung erfüllen kann. Nach der Einordnung in den bildungswissenschaftlichen Kontext werden die methodisch-statistischen Grundlagen beschrieben und die Modelle mit artverwandten statistischen Modellklassen verglichen. Grob umrissen werden mit CDMs Schülerleistungen auf Kompetenzniveau gemessen. Dazu wird eine allgemeine Fähigkeit (z.B. Mathematik) durch Fachexperten in mehrere Grundfähigkeiten (Kompetenzen) aufgegliedert (z.B. Zahlen, Funktionen, Geometrie, Statistik) und anhand dieser Grundfähigkeiten die Schülerleistungen bewertet. In das statistische CDM gehen nicht nur Vorstellungen über die Anzahl und Art dieser Grundfähigkeiten ein, sondern es können auch Informationen über Zusammenhänge zwischen den Fähigkeiten mit modelliert werden (z.B. Grundfähigkeit A ist eine Voraussetzung für Grundfähigkeit B). In einem nächsten Schritt wird in der Dissertation das eigen entwickelte R Paket CDM vorgestellt. Dieses ermöglicht die unproblematische Schätzung von CDMs bei großen Datensätzen (z.B. 80000 Schüler und 8 Skills) und enthält gleichzeitig einige eigenentwickelte weiterführende Methoden wie z.B. einen multiple group Ansatz. Mit Hilfe der vorgestellten Software werden Anwendungsmöglichkeiten von CDMs praxisnah erläutert: Die Beispiele kommen zum einen aus dem Gebiet der Mathematik (hier wurden die Daten der Bildungsstandardstestung in Mathematik auf der 8ten Schulstufe in Österreich ausgewertet) und zum anderen aus dem Gebiet Lesen (hier ist eine Ergänzungsstudie zu IGLU die Datengrundlage). In den Beispielen werden weiterführende methodische Ansätze wie unter anderem multiple-group Modelle oder hierarchische Modellierungsansätze für Kompetenzmodelle eingeführt. Dabei wird jeweils der Mehrwert für die Praxis erläutert.
(202337) May Stewart
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Determinants of Financial Reporting Quality: Evidence from Ethiopian Private Banks
Creators: name: Eden, Sisay
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2017

description: This study intends to assess the impact of firm specific (profitability, liquidity, leverage, nonperforming loan, bank age and auditor change) determinants of financial reporting quality in Ethiopian private banks. Accordingly, the study used document review of banks' audited financial statements. Using purposive sampling method, the study selected a sample of six private banks from a total population of sixteen private banks to conduct a study for the period of fifteen years (2002-2016) with the total of 90 observations. To test the hypotheses, the study adopted the quantitative research approach. The secondary data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, correlation matrix and multiple linear regression analysis and data from document reviews were interpreted qualitatively. The results of panel least square regression analysis show that profitability and non-performing loan have statistically significant and negative effect on Ethiopian private banks' financial reporting quality. On the other hand, liquidity and bank age have statistically significant and positive effect on Ethiopian private banks financial reporting quality. However, leverage and auditor change have statistically insignificant effect on financial reporting quality of Ethiopian private banks. In addition, the results of the analysis indicate that signaling theory is pertinent theory in Ethiopian banking industry, whereas there is little evidence to support the agency theory. Therefore, banks should give consideration to profitability, liquidity, non-performing loan and bank age in order to have better financial reports.
Reproductive Rights Through the Lens of Causal Stories: A Policy Analysis
Creators: name: Rodman, Sheyla
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2023
Subjects: Reproductive rights
policy
political science
policy analysis
causal stories
public opinion
abortion
birth control

description: Reproductive Rights Through the Lens of Causal Stories: A Policy Analysis seeks to draw a connection between reproductive rights policy, causal stories, and public opinion. The causal stories theory explains that the way we define a problem–specifically, how we attribute blame and responsibility to that problem and whether or not we view it as amenable to change by human intervention–influences the government’s response to them. Thus, causal stories often translate into public policy responses. By marking out important punctuations in reproductive rights policy, this thesis traces the historical evolution of reproductive rights, uses the events of the time to gauge the causal stories influencing policy, evaluates the role that political actors have played in promoting those causal stories, and measures how public opinion has responded to certain policy decisions. A core argument in this thesis is that, for a causal story to effect policy change, the causal story must have majority public support because the U.S. government is designed to be responsive to public opinion. To assess this claim, I compare reproductive rights policy and the causal stories implicated in it with public opinion, mainly gathered through public opinion polling results throughout the last few decades. I find that, for the most part, this claim holds up relatively well; however, in 2022, reproductive rights experienced a significant shift that ran contrary to public opinion. The thesis ends with a discussion of what the overturn of Roe v. Wade signals for the democraticness of the Supreme Court, the causal stories involved in the decision, and what this means for the future of American democracy.
Additional file 1 of Epstein-Barr viral product-containing exosomes promote fibrosis and nasopharyngeal carcinoma progression through activation of YAP1/FAPα signaling in fibroblasts
Creators: name: Lee, Po-Ju
name: Sui, Yun-Hua
name: Liu, Tzu-Tung
name: Tsang, Ngan-Ming
name: Huang, Chen-Han
name: Lin, Ting-Yi
name: Chang, Kai-Ping
name: Liu, Shu-Chen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table S1. Baseline Characteristics of the YAP1 Study Population.
Bound state properties of ABC-stacked trilayer graphene quantum dots
Creators: name: Xiong, Haonan
name: Jiang, Wentao
name: Song, Yipu
name: Duan, Luming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The few-layer graphene quantum dot provides a promising platform for quantum computing with both spin and valley degrees of freedom. Gate-defined quantum dots in particular can avoid noise from edge disorders. In connection with the recent experimental efforts [Y. Song et al., Nano Lett. 16, 6245 (2016)], we investigate the bound state properties of trilayer graphene (TLG) quantum dots (QDs) through numerical simulations. We show that the valley degeneracy can be lifted by breaking the time reversal symmetry through the application of a perpendicular magnetic field. The spectrum under such a potential exhibits a transition from one group of Landau levels to the other group, which can be understood analytically through perturbation theory. Our results provide insight to the transport property of TLG QDs, with possible applications to study of spin qubits and valleytronics in TLG QDs.
description: 9+3 pages, 7+3 figures; added a reference
Neorhyzobius fuegensis
Creators: name: Gonzalez, Guillermo
name: Cotoras, Darko D.
name: Grez, Audrey A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Neorhyzobius
Neorhyzobius fuegensis

description: Neorhyzobius fuegensis (Brèthes, 1925) (Fig. 5c).
Examined material: Not available.
Original reference: Brèthes (1925): “Useless Bay, à la Terre de Feu ” (BMNH).
Comments: The only endemic species of the island. It has not been collected again since its original description. It needs to be reviewed. The genus is endemic to Chile with a distribution between the provinces of Copiapó and Valdivia (González 2006).
description: Published as part of Gonzalez, Guillermo, Cotoras, Darko D. & Grez, Audrey A., 2020, Annotated list of island lady beetles from Chile (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae), pp. 501-526 in Zootaxa 4852 (5) on page 519, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4852.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4410156
Association between individual ovarian dimensions with ovarian reserve indices
Creators: name: Naeini, Elham Hashemian
name: Neyestanak, Mohammad Zare
name: Berjis, Katayon
name: Shokoohi, Mostafa
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: ovarian length
subject: ovarian width
subject: FSH
subject: oestradio
subject: infertility
subject: 610

description: In some young female candidates of assisted reproductive technology (ART), ovarian response to simulative treatments is less than what is expected. More precise assessment of oocyte quality and quantity through studying ovarian dimensions can be useful for determining the dose of ovarian stimulant drugs and for preventing ART cycles cancellation. The aim of the present study is to determine the association between ovarian dimensions and ovarian reserve (OR) indices and whether ovarian dimensions can predict ovarian reserve. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 85 infertile women were studied. In early follicular phase, ovarian diameters (including length and width of the ovaries) were measured using transvaginal ultrasonography. Mean ovarian diameters (MOD) were calculated according to average length and width of the ovaries. A serum sample was taken from all patients to measure the level of Follicular Stimulating Hormone (FSH) and oestradiol as OR indices. Results: The results of univariate analysis showed that FSH and oestradiol had a negative significant association with width, length and MOD (P < 0.01). The results of multivariate regression analysis showed that FSH and oestradiol had a negative significant association with width (βFSH=-0.59, P = 0.001 and βOestradiol= -0.019, P = 0.029) and MOD (βFSH = -0.52, P = 0.003 and βOestradiol = -0.021, P = 0.017) and had a borderline negative significant correlation with ovarian length (βFSH= -0.49, P=0.077 and βOestradiol= 0.022, P = 0.08) Conclusions: The results of this study revealed that despite a moderate correlation, ovarian diameters could be an applicable index for predicting OR. Using this method along with other methods may be useful in treatment with ovarian stimulants.
description: EXCLI Journal ; Vol. 12, 2013
Pterodáctilo Blog December 2019
Creators: name: University Of Texas At Austin
Publisher: name: Pterodáctilo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Mexican American culture
Mexican American Studies
Latin American Studies
Hispanic culture
Luso-Brazilian culture

description: Contents: December 13, 20191 The Monster Hiding in the Archives: Spanish Paleography and its Secretes (Part 4) // by Marlena Cravens
(202338) William Kirkbride
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
The universe remembers no wavefunction collapse
Creators: name: Stoica, Ovidiu Cristinel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81P05, 81P15

description: Two thought experiments are analyzed, revealing that the quantum state of the universe does not contain definitive evidence of the wavefunction collapse. The first thought experiment shows that unitary quantum evolution alone can account for the outcomes of any combination of quantum experiments. This is in contradiction with the standard view on quantum measurement, which appeals to the wavefunction collapse, but it is in full agreement with the special state proposal (L.S. Schulman in Phys Lett A 102(9):396-400, 1984; J Stat Phys 42(3):689-719 1986; Time's arrows and quantum measurement, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1997) that there are some rare states that account for quantum experiments by unitary evolution alone. The second thought experiment consists in successive measurements, and reveals that the standard quantum measurement scheme predicts violations of the conservation laws. It is shown that the standard view on quantum measurements makes some unnecessary assumptions which lead to the apparent necessity to invoke wavefunction collapse. Once these assumptions are removed, a new hope of a measurement scheme emerges, which, while still having open problems, is compatible with both the unitary evolution and the conservation laws, and suggests means to experimentally distinguish between full unitarity and discontinuous collapse.
description: 23 pages
Immunization Strategies Based on the Overlapping Nodes in Networks with Community Structure
Creators: name: Chakraborty, Debayan
name: Singh, Anurag
name: Cherifi, Hocine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Understanding how the network topology affects the spread of an epidemic is a main concern in order to develop efficient immunization strategies. While there is a great deal of work dealing with the macroscopic topological properties of the networks, few studies have been devoted to the influence of the community structure. Furthermore, while in many real-world networks communities may overlap, in these studies non-overlapping community structures are considered. In order to gain insight about the influence of the overlapping nodes in the epidemic process we conduct an empirical evaluation of basic deterministic immunization strategies based on the overlapping nodes. Using the classical SIR model on a real-world network with ground truth overlapping community structure we analyse how immunization based on the membership number of overlapping nodes (which is the number of communities the node belongs to) affect the largest connected component size. Comparison with random immunization strategies designed for networks with non-overlapping community structure show that overlapping nodes play a major role in the epidemic process.
Additional file 2 of Epstein-Barr viral product-containing exosomes promote fibrosis and nasopharyngeal carcinoma progression through activation of YAP1/FAPα signaling in fibroblasts
Creators: name: Lee, Po-Ju
name: Sui, Yun-Hua
name: Liu, Tzu-Tung
name: Tsang, Ngan-Ming
name: Huang, Chen-Han
name: Lin, Ting-Yi
name: Chang, Kai-Ping
name: Liu, Shu-Chen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 2: Supplementary Table S2. Baseline Characteristics of the FAPα Study Population.
A history of the State Library of Victoria, 1853-1974
Creators: name: McVilly, David.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Pterodáctilo Blog January 2020
Creators: name: University Of Texas At Austin
Publisher: name: Pterodáctilo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Mexican American culture
Mexican American Studies
Latin American Studies
Hispanic culture
Luso-Brazilian culture

description: Contents: January 30, 2020 Pterocast, episodio #11. Roxana Miranda Rupailaf. «No concibo una literatura descontextualizada” // by Ana Cecilia Calle
Pterodáctilo Blog February 2020
Creators: name: University Of Texas At Austin
Publisher: name: Pterodáctilo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Mexican American culture
Mexican American Studies
Latin American Studies
Hispanic culture
Luso-Brazilian culture

description: Contents: February 4, 2020 Minit // by Yoel Villahermosa Serrano -- February 19, 2020 The Challenges of Exhibiting Gabriel García Márquez´s Literary Intimacy -- February 21, 2020 Descripciones del hambre // by Camila Torres-Castro -- February 26, 2020 A Black History Month Ode to The Chocolate Baby of My Dreams // by Aris Clemons -- February 27, 2020 Detailed overview of the writemypapers.org educational platform // by Yoel Villahermosa Serrano -- February 28, 2020 Healing Practices in Feminism: A Story // by Siri Gurudev
Observation of the Transverse Optical Plasmon in SmLa0.8Sr0.2CuO4 delta
Creators: name: Broun, D. M.
name: Dulic, Diana
name: Kamal, Saeid
name: Pimenov, A.
name: Van Der Marel, D.
Publisher: name: The American Physical Society
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: 530

description: Physical Review Letters
Pterodáctilo Blog March 2020
Creators: name: University Of Texas At Austin
Publisher: name: Pterodáctilo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Mexican American culture
Mexican American Studies
Latin American Studies
Hispanic culture
Luso-Brazilian culture

description: Contents: March 2, 2020 Totlaltonantzin no es Santa Clos: Necromitos y mitos éticos // by Adam J Martinez -- March 10, 2020 A poetic journey through memory in Patricio Guzmán´s 2015 movie The Pearl Button -- March 23, 2020 Pteorcast, episodio #12. Dr. Kim TallBear: «Settler colonialism doesn’t only hurt indigenous peoples.» // by Ana Cecilia Calle -- March 31, 2020 Estoy en una relación complicada // by Dinorah Cossio
Macro economic planning and regional impact : a Victorian regional analysis, 1953-1974
Creators: name: Clark, Gordon.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Additional file 3 of Epstein-Barr viral product-containing exosomes promote fibrosis and nasopharyngeal carcinoma progression through activation of YAP1/FAPα signaling in fibroblasts
Creators: name: Lee, Po-Ju
name: Sui, Yun-Hua
name: Liu, Tzu-Tung
name: Tsang, Ngan-Ming
name: Huang, Chen-Han
name: Lin, Ting-Yi
name: Chang, Kai-Ping
name: Liu, Shu-Chen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 3: Supplementary Table S3. Primer information for quantitative RT-PCR analysis.
Second order behavior of the block counting process of beta coalescents
Creators: name: Lin, Yier
name: Mallein, Bastien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The Beta coalescents are stochastic processes modeling the genealogy of a population. They appear as the rescaled limits of the genealogical trees of numerous stochastic population models. In this article, we take interest in the number of blocs at small times in the Beta coalescent. Berestycki, Berestycki and Schweinsberg proved a law of large numbers for this quantity. Recently, Limic and Talarczyk proved that a functional central limit theorem holds as well. We give here a simple proof for an unidimensional version of this result, using a coupling between Beta coalescents and continuous-time branching processes.
description: 9 pages. The result of the previous version was wrong due to a major error. Our method only gives a unidimensional central limit theorem
The Third Gravitational Lensing Accuracy Testing (GREAT3) Challenge Handbook
Creators: name: Mandelbaum, Rachel
name: Rowe, Barnaby
name: Bosch, James
name: Chang, Chihway
name: Courbin, Frederic
name: Gill, Mandeep
name: Jarvis, Mike
name: Kannawadi, Arun
name: Kacprzak, Tomasz
name: Lackner, Claire
name: Leauthaud, Alexie
name: Miyatake, Hironao
name: Nakajima, Reiko
name: Rhodes, Jason
name: Simet, Melanie
name: Zuntz, Joe
name: Armstrong, Bob
name: Bridle, Sarah
name: Coupon, Jean
name: Dietrich, Jörg P.
name: Gentile, Marc
name: Heymans, Catherine
name: Jurling, Alden S.
name: Kent, Stephen M.
name: Kirkby, David
name: Margala, Daniel
name: Massey, Richard
name: Melchior, Peter
name: Peterson, John
name: Roodman, Aaron
name: Schrabback, Tim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The GRavitational lEnsing Accuracy Testing 3 (GREAT3) challenge is the third in a series of image analysis challenges, with a goal of testing and facilitating the development of methods for analyzing astronomical images that will be used to measure weak gravitational lensing. This measurement requires extremely precise estimation of very small galaxy shape distortions, in the presence of far larger intrinsic galaxy shapes and distortions due to the blurring kernel caused by the atmosphere, telescope optics, and instrumental effects. The GREAT3 challenge is posed to the astronomy, machine learning, and statistics communities, and includes tests of three specific effects that are of immediate relevance to upcoming weak lensing surveys, two of which have never been tested in a community challenge before. These effects include realistically complex galaxy models based on high-resolution imaging from space; spatially varying, physically-motivated blurring kernel; and combination of multiple different exposures. To facilitate entry by people new to the field, and for use as a diagnostic tool, the simulation software for the challenge is publicly available, though the exact parameters used for the challenge are blinded. Sample scripts to analyze the challenge data using existing methods will also be provided. See http://great3challenge.info and http://great3.projects.phys.ucl.ac.uk/leaderboard/ for more information.
description: 30 pages, 13 figures, published in MNRAS. URLs in abstract no longer work, but all data are available for download as described in https://github.com/barnabytprowe/great3-public (v4 only has updates to comments)
The theme of depersonalization and loss of identity in modern Hispanic literature
Creators: name: Close, Denis.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Optical counterpart of the Foucault pendulum
Creators: name: Okulov, A. Yu.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The twin beam vortex interferometer with phase-conjugating mirror is analyzed in rotating reference frame.Circular motion of the interference pattern occurs due to exchange of the angular momenta between photons and interferometer. Using the concept of the $ideal$ phase-conjugating mirror it is shown that motion of the helical interference pattern of the interacting vortex photons with topological charge $\ell$ may be used for the detection of the slow rotations. The higher density of interference fringes may improve the sensitivity by factor containing $2 \ell$ compared to the conventional Michelson interferometry.
description: 10 pages,3 figures, submitted to referred journal
Quantum Gravity in the Sky: Interplay between fundamental theory and observations
Creators: name: Ashtekar, Abhay
name: Gupt, Brajesh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Observational missions have provided us with a reliable model of the evolution of the universe starting from the last scattering surface all the way to future infinity. Furthermore given a specific model of inflation, using quantum field theory on curved space-times this history can be pushed \emph{back in time} to the epoch when space-time curvature was some $10^{62}$ times that at the horizon of a solar mass black hole! However, to extend the history further back to the Planck regime requires input from quantum gravity. An important aspect of this input is the choice of the background quantum geometry and of the Heisenberg state of cosmological perturbations thereon, motivated by Planck scale physics. This paper introduces first steps in that direction. Specifically we propose two principles that link quantum geometry and Heisenberg uncertainties in the Planck epoch with late time physics and explore in detail the observational consequences of the initial conditions they select. We find that the predicted temperature-temperature (T-T) correlations for scalar modes are indistinguishable from standard inflation at small angular scales even though the initial conditions are now set in the deep Planck regime. However, \emph{there is a specific power suppression at large angular scales}. As a result, the predicted spectrum provides a better fit to the PLANCK mission data than standard inflation, where the initial conditions are set in the general relativity regime. Thus, our proposal brings out a deep interplay between the ultraviolet and the infrared. Finally, the proposal also leads to specific predictions for power suppression at large angular scales also for the (T-E and E-E) correlations involving electric polarization. The PLANCK team is expected to release this data in the coming year.
description: Invited article, to appear in CQG. This paper is addressed both to the quantum gravity and cosmology audiences. Cosmologists can focus just on sections I, IV.C, IV.D and V without loss of continuity. 43 pages, 13 figures. Version 2 contains a few clarifications and new references, especially to compare and contrast related results in the literature
The poetry of credibility : realism and idealism in Robert Browning's delineation of love
Creators: name: Khan, Adibuz Zaman.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Initial-boundary value problems for multi-term time-fractional diffusion equations with positive constant coefficients
Creators: name: Li, Zhiyuan
name: Liu, Yikan
name: Yamamoto, Masahiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35G16, 35R11, 33E12, 35B40, 44A10

description: In this paper, we investigate the well-posedness and the long-time asymptotic behavior for the initial-boundary value problem for multi-term time-fractional diffusion equations, where the time differentiation consists of a finite summation of Caputo derivatives with decreasing orders in (0,1) and positive constant coefficients. By exploiting several important properties of multinomial Mittag-Leffler functions, various estimates follow from the explicit solutions in form of these special functions. Then the uniqueness and continuous dependency upon initial value and source term are established, from which the continuous dependence of solution of Lipschitz type with respect to various coefficients is also verified. Finally, by a Laplace transform argument, it turns out that the decay rate of the solution as time tends to infinity is dominated by the minimum order of the time-fractional derivatives.
description: 24 pages, 2 figures. Modification of the previous version. New results added and structure changed
Additional file 4 of Epstein-Barr viral product-containing exosomes promote fibrosis and nasopharyngeal carcinoma progression through activation of YAP1/FAPα signaling in fibroblasts
Creators: name: Lee, Po-Ju
name: Sui, Yun-Hua
name: Liu, Tzu-Tung
name: Tsang, Ngan-Ming
name: Huang, Chen-Han
name: Lin, Ting-Yi
name: Chang, Kai-Ping
name: Liu, Shu-Chen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 4: Supplementary Fig. S1. Uncropped western blots for figures.