cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Dostoevsky and the Rousseau trap : considerations on the man of nature and truth : and on his proposed reformation
Creators: name: Shirley, Kaitlin Anne
name: 0000-0002-2061-7812
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2019
Subjects: Dostoevsky
Rousseau

description: This dissertation focuses on confession, as both a theme and a practice, as key to mapping and understanding the narrative modalities in four Dostoevsky novels: Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The Adolescent. At the core of my project is an attentiveness to the ways that Dostoevsky—unlike many other authors, particularly Russian authors—does not conflate the focalization in Rousseau’s work with Rousseau the man. Dostoevsky does not, like so many authors, like so many Russians, conflate the focalization in Rousseau’s work with Rousseau the man. The symmetrical projects of narrator and author are not the same in either case. Dostoevsky realizes this discrepancy in Rousseau, which is key to understanding how Dostoevsky’s voice is not autobiographical. His multiple narrative voices appear as part of an ongoing project of creating modalities of confession that are in dialogue with Rousseau and yet idiosyncratically his own. If we look at Dostoevsky’s work with a focus on confession then we can see his consistent preoccupation with the nature and flexibility of the confessional mode as his way of viewing Russian dialogical narrative. This preoccupation is particularly evident in The Adolescent, which is the main focus of my analysis. My project is heavily informed by Bakhtin’s concept of polyphony as outlined in The Dialogic Imagination and Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics. Based on Dostoevsky’s non-naïve view of the narrator, I argue that his diverse narratological practices create the shape of the modern Russian novel as understood by Bakhtin in his account of narrative dialogism.
Helichrysum globosum Sch. Bip.
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Asterales
Asteraceae
Helichrysum
Helichrysum globosum

description: Helichrysum globosum Sch.Bip.  —
Habit: Herb.
Habitat: LMWF, LMDF, BZ, UMF, HZ; up to 3 400 m. Distribution: II.
 Voucher: Chogoria Track, Alt. 3 311 m, 24 Jan. 2015, SAJIT 002810 (HIB).
References: Bussmann (1993, 1994), Agnew (2013).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 94, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Black Holes and Wormholes in 2+1 Dimensions
Creators: name: Aminneborg, Stefan
name: Bengtsson, Ingemar
name: Brill, Dieter
name: Holst, Soren
name: Peldan, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A large variety of spacetimes---including the BTZ black holes---can be obtained by identifying points in 2+1 dimensional anti-de Sitter space by means of a discrete group of isometries. We consider all such spacetimes that can be obtained under a restriction to time symmetric initial data and one asymptotic region only. The resulting spacetimes are non-eternal black holes with collapsing wormhole topologies. Our approach is geometrical, and we discuss in detail: The allowed topologies, the shape of the event horizons, topological censorship and trapped curves.
description: 23 pages, LaTeX, 11 figures
Additional file 1: of Understanding the behavioural determinants of opioid prescribing among family physicians: a qualitative study
Creators: name: L. Desveaux
name: M. Saragosa
name: N. Kithulegoda
name: N. Ivers
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Study interview guide. Questions that guided semi-structured interviews with participants. (PDF 84 kb)
Regularity/Controllability/Observability of an NDS with Descriptor Form Subsystems and Generalized LFTs
Creators: name: Zhou, Tong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This paper investigates regularity, controllability and observability for a networked dynamic system (NDS) with its subsystems being described in a descriptor form and system matrices of each subsystem being represented by a generalized linear fractional transformation (GLFT) of its parameters. Except a well-posedness condition, no any other constraints are put on either parameters or connections of a subsystem. Based on the Kronecker canonical form (KCF) of a matrix pencil, some matrix rank based necessary and sufficient conditions are established respectively for the regularity and complete controllability/observability of the NDS, in which the associated matrix depends affinely on both subsystem parameters and subsystem connections. These conditions keep the property that all the involved numerical computations are performed on each subsystem independently, which is attractive in the analysis and synthesis of a large scale NDS. Moreover, some explicit and easily checkable requirements are derived for subsystem dynamics/parameters with which a completely controllable/observable NDS can be constructed more easily.
description: 14 pages (accepted for publication in Automatica, June 19, 2020). arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1902.04440
Update of one-loop corrections for E+ E- --> F anti-F, first run of SANC system
Creators: name: Andonov, A.
name: Bardin, D.
name: Bondarenko, S.
name: Christova, P.
name: Kalinovskaya, L.
name: Nanava, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a description of calculations of the amplitude for E+ E- --> F anti-F process with account of electroweak and QED one-loop corrections. This study is performed within the framework of the project SANC. The calculations are done within the OMS (on-mass-shell) renormalization scheme in two gauges: in Rxi, which allows an explicit control of gauge invariance by examining cancellation of gauge parameters and search for gauge-invariant subsets of diagrams, and in the unitary gauge as a cross-check. The formulae we derived are realized in two independent FORTRAN codes, eeffLib, which was written in an old fashioned way, i.e. manually, and another one, created automatically with an aid of s2n.f (symbols to numbers) software -- a part of SANC system. We present a comprehensive comparison with the results of the well-known program ZFITTER for all the light fermion production channels, as well as with the results existing in the world literature for the process E+ E- --> F anti-F;
description: Updated version as appeared in the journal
The Bohemian Horizon: 21st-Century Little Magazines and the Limits of the Countercultural Artist-Activist
Creators: Mushett, Travis Michael
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Journalism
Periodicals
Bohemianism
Journalism--Social aspects
Little magazines
Communication

description: This dissertation examines the emergence of a cohort of independent literary, intellectual, and political publications—“little magazines”—in New York City over the past decade. Helmed by web-savvy young editors, these publications have cultivated formidable reputations by grasping and capitalizing on a constellation of economic, political, and technological developments. The little magazines understand themselves as a radical alternative both to a journalistic trend toward facile, easily digestible content and to the perceived insularity and exclusivity of academic discourse. However, the bohemian tradition in which they operate predisposes them toward an insularity of their own. Their particular web of allusions, codes, and prerequisite knowledge can render them esoteric beyond the borders of a specific subculture and, in so doing, curtail their political potency and reproduce systems of privilege. This dissertation explores the tensions and limitations of the bohemian artist-activist ideal, and locates instances in which little magazines were able to successfully transcend subcultural boundaries to productively engage in a broader politics.
On fusion algebra of chiral $SU(N)_{k}$ models
Creators: name: Lima-Santos, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss some algebraic setting of chiral $SU(N)_{k}$ models in terms of the statistical dimensions of their fields. In particular, the conformal dimensions and the central charge of the chiral $SU(N)_{k}$ models are calculated from their braid matrices. Futhermore, at level K=2, we present the characteristic polynomials of their fusion matrices in a factored form.
description: 11 pages, ioplppt
The Bomber Who Calls Ahead: Terrorism, Insurgency, and the Politics of Pre-Attack Warnings
Creators: Brown, Joseph Matthew
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: International relations
subject: Peace

description: Terrorist and insurgent groups sometimes give pre-attack warnings, informing governments of the time and place of attacks before they occur. This dissertation explains why militant groups give these warnings. It also explains why governments believe these warnings and respond to them, mobilizing emergency resources and carrying out economically disruptive evacuations. Based on interviews and other historical research on the Irish Republican Army (IRA), Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA), the Tamil Tigers, Shining Path, and Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA), this dissertation argues that pre-attack warnings serve a casualty-limiting function. Militant groups give warnings when civilian casualties are politically costly for the group. Civilian casualties are especially costly for groups that depend on local populations for shelter, funding and other critical resources. These conclusions are confirmed by logit analyses of a new database of more than 3,000 bombing events. A game theoretic signaling model also predicts when governments will believe and respond to warnings. Governments respond to warnings when militants are known to warn only when attacking and the frequency of prank warnings is low. The model's predictions are confirmed by interviews of police in Northern Ireland and Spain. A novel finding is that a high frequency of pranks (false warnings emanating from individuals outside the militant group) may force militants to warn truthfully. Militants may also work with governments to create clear channels for communication, using third party intermediaries, codes, and redundant messages to set militants' warnings apart from the ``noise'' of pranks. This finding substantiates a game theoretic prediction that experimental methods have so far failed to validate: that increased noise may induce separating equilibria, increasing rather than decreasing the information in a signal.
Antibacterial mechanism of Malaysian Carey clay against food-borne Staphylococcus aureus
Creators: name: Azmi, Nur Naqiyah
name: Mahyudin, Nor Ainy
name: Omar, Wan Hasyera Wan
name: Abdullah, Abdul Halim
name: Ismail, Roslan
name: Ishak, Che Fauziah
name: Sharples, Gary J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Depending on their chemical structure and geochemistry, clay minerals can display potent antibacterial properties against a range of bacterial pathogens. Malaysian Carey clay was evaluated for its antibacterial activity against food-borne Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 13565 strains. The minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) and minimum bactericidal activity (MBC) of both Carey clay leachates and suspension were 125 mg/mL and 250 mg/mL, respectively. Time-kill assay revealed that 2x MIC and 4x MIC Carey clay in both leachate and suspension forms resulted in complete killing of S. aureus. Antibacterial mechanism was investigated through imaging of bacterial morphology using TEM and determination of reactive oxygen species (ROS) using NBT assay. Imaging of bacterial morphology using TEM showed abnormalities, including disrupted cell walls following exposure to Carey clay, and the antibacterial activity was associated with generation of ROS. Our study suggests that Carey clay displays promising functionality as a natural antibacterial agent in the food industry.
Brazilian Primes Which Are Also Sophie Germain Primes
Creators: name: Grantham, Jon
name: Graves, Hester
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 11A41, Secondary 11A63

description: We disprove a conjecture of Schott that no Brazilian primes are Sophie Germain primes. We enumerate all counterexamples up to $10^{46}$.
description: v6: Clarified (or at least explained confusion over) origin of term "Brazilian" v7: expanded exposition somewhat v8: brought in line with published version
Helichrysum glumaceum DC.
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Asterales
Asteraceae
Helichrysum
Helichrysum glumaceum

description: Helichrysum glumaceum DC.  —
Habit: Herb.
Habitat: LMDF; up to 2 500 m. Distribution: I.
Voucher: N/A.
References: Bussmann (1994), Agnew (2013).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 94, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Optimal (Randomized) Parallel Algorithms in the Binary-Forking Model
Creators: name: Blelloch, Guy E.
name: Fineman, Jeremy T.
name: Gu, Yan
name: Sun, Yihan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper we develop optimal algorithms in the binary-forking model for a variety of fundamental problems, including sorting, semisorting, list ranking, tree contraction, range minima, and ordered set union, intersection and difference. In the binary-forking model, tasks can only fork into two child tasks, but can do so recursively and asynchronously. The tasks share memory, supporting reads, writes and test-and-sets. Costs are measured in terms of work (total number of instructions), and span (longest dependence chain). The binary-forking model is meant to capture both algorithm performance and algorithm-design considerations on many existing multithreaded languages, which are also asynchronous and rely on binary forks either explicitly or under the covers. In contrast to the widely studied PRAM model, it does not assume arbitrary-way forks nor synchronous operations, both of which are hard to implement in modern hardware. While optimal PRAM algorithms are known for the problems studied herein, it turns out that arbitrary-way forking and strict synchronization are powerful, if unrealistic, capabilities. Natural simulations of these PRAM algorithms in the binary-forking model (i.e., implementations in existing parallel languages) incur an $Ω(\log n)$ overhead in span. This paper explores techniques for designing optimal algorithms when limited to binary forking and assuming asynchrony. All algorithms described in this paper are the first algorithms with optimal work and span in the binary-forking model. Most of the algorithms are simple. Many are randomized.
Additional file 1: of ZBTB12 DNA methylation is associated with coagulation- and inflammation-related blood cell parameters: findings from the Moli-family cohort
Creators: name: Noro, Fabrizia
name: Gianfagna, Francesco
name: Gialluisi, Alessandro
name: Curtis, Amalia
name: Castelnuovo, Augusto
name: Napoleone, Emanuela
name: Cerletti, Chiara
name: Donati, Maria
name: Gaetano, Giovanni
name: Hoylaerts, Marc
name: Iacoviello, Licia
name: Izzi, Benedetta
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Putative transcription factor (TF) binding analysis of the blood cell count specific CpG units. Transcription factor predicted to bind to blood cell count specific CpG units. (DOCX 13 kb)
Homothetic Wyman Spacetimes
Creators: name: Clayton, M. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The time-dependent, spherically symmetric, Wyman sector of the Unified Field Theory is shown to be equivalent to a self-gravitating scalar field with a positive-definite, repulsive self-interaction potential. A homothetic symmetry is imposed on the fundamental tensor, and the resulting autonomous system is numerically integrated. Near the critical point (between the collapsing and non-collapsing spacetimes) the system displays an approximately periodic alternation between collapsing and dispersive epochs.
description: 15 pages with 6 figures; requires amsart, amssymb, amsmath, graphicx; formatted for publication in Int. J. Mod. Phys. D
Additional file 1 of Endoplasmic reticulum stress increases exosome biogenesis and packaging relevant to sperm maturation in response to oxidative stress in obese mice
Creators: name: Li, Yangyang
name: Zhao, Wenzhen
name: Fu, Rong
name: Ma, Zhuoyao
name: Hu, Yanqin
name: Liu, Yue
name: Ding, Zhide
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1.
Tenthredo consobrina Mocsary 1909
Creators: name: Taeger, Andreas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Tenthredinidae
Tenthredo
Tenthredo consobrina

description: Tenthredo consobrina Mocsáry, 1909
A junior subjective synonym of Tenthredo (Eurogaster) heros (Jakowlew, 1891). Synonymy by Enslin (1920).
TYPES. Tenthredo consobrina Mocsáry, 1909: 33. Syntypes Ƥ 3, “Turkestania: Montes Alai”. Primary homonym of Tenthredo consobrina Klug, 1816 [= Sciapteryx consobrina (Klug, 1816)]. 2 syntypes (1 3, 1Ƥ) “Alai mont.” [= Alai, mountain range in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan] examined.
= Tenthredella conopea Enslin, 1912b: 105. Replacement name for Tenthredo consobrina Mocsáry, 1909.
description: Published as part of Taeger, Andreas, 2013, The type specimens of Tenthredo Linnaeus, 1758 (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae) deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum, pp. 201-244 in Zootaxa 3626 (2) on page 209, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3626.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/248049
Helichrysum kilimanjari Oliv.
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Asterales
Asteraceae
Helichrysum
Helichrysum kilimanjari

description: Helichrysum kilimanjari Oliv.  —
Habit: Herb.
Habitat: BZ, UMF, HZ; 1 600–4 000 m. Distribution: II.
 Voucher: Chogoria Track, Alt. 3 311 m, 24 Jan. 2015, SAJIT 002817 (HIB).
References: Blundell (1987), Bussmann (1994), Agnew (2013).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 94, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Spectral Evidence of Squeezing of a Weakly Damped Driven Nanomechanical Mode
Creators: name: Huber, J. S.
name: Rastelli, G.
name: Seitner, M. J.
name: Kölbl, J.
name: Belzig, W.
name: Dykman, M. I.
name: Weig, E. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Because of the broken time-translation symmetry, in periodically driven vibrational systems fluctuations of different vibration components have different intensities. Fluctuations of one of the components are often squeezed, whereas fluctuations of the other component, which is shifted in phase by π/2, are increased. Squeezing is a multifaceted phenomenon; it attracts much attention from the perspective of high-precision measurements. Here we demonstrate a new and hitherto unappreciated side of squeezing: its direct manifestation in the spectra of driven vibrational systems. With a weakly damped nanomechanical resonator, we study the spectrum of thermal fluctuations of a resonantly driven nonlinear mode. In the attained sideband-resolved regime, we show that the asymmetry of the spectrum directly characterizes the squeezing. This opens a way to deduce squeezing of thermal fluctuations in strongly underdamped resonators, for which a direct determination by a standard homodyne measurement is impeded by frequency fluctuations. The experimental and theoretical results are in excellent agreement. We further extend the theory to also describe the spectral manifestation of squeezing of quantum fluctuations.
title: Konzeptionelle ModelIierung von Informationssystemen
Creators: name: Ehrich, Hans-Dieter
Publisher: name: Goltze
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Brunsvicensien der Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
subject: Jahrbuch der BWG
subject: 00

description: Wenn Sie eine Urlaubsreise buchen wollen, gehen Sie in ein Reisebüro. Dort wird Ihnen eine freundliche Angestellte am Bildschirm sagen können, ob zur gewünschten Zeit Flüge, Hotelzimmer und Mietwagen der gewünschten Kategorie verfügbar sind. Wenn Sie sich für ein Angebot entscheiden, wird sie sofort die Flüge buchen, das Hotelzimmer reservieren und einen Mietwagen bestellen. Wenn Sie sich anders besinnen, kein Problem: Flüge, Hotelzimmer und Mietwagen werden storniert, und Sie entscheiden sich für ein anderes Angebot. Während Sie Ihre Buchungen tätigen und revidieren, tun dies Hunderte, vielleicht Tausende anderer Kunden in Reisebüros in ganz Deutschland. Wenn Ihr Wunschhotel zu Ihrer Wunschzeit besetzt war, hat vielleicht ein Kunde in Köln Ihnen das letzte Zimmer eine Sekunde zuvor weggeschnappt.
Um Geschäftsgänge wie diese zu unterstützen, bedarf es eines computergestützten Informationssystems. Es verwaltet große Mengen von Daten, die ständig von vielen Stellen aus zu unvorhersehbaren Zeiten geändert werden und doch korrekt bleiben müssen. Kunden sind nicht zufrieden, wenn Flüge überbucht oder Hotelzimmer mehrfach belegt sind. Ein Hotel kann in seiner Existenz gefährdet werden, wenn Zimmer wochenlang leer bleiben, weil der Computer meint, sie seien belegt.
Informationssysteme sind Softwaresysteme. Software ist das System von Programmen, das einen Computer erst benutzbar macht: auf der internen Maschinenebene erscheinen Programme und Daten als Myriaden von binären Zeichen, sogenannten Bits; Software schafft von dort die Brücke zu menschlich verständlichen Begriffen wie Zahlen, Texten und Bildern sowie Anweisungen, wie mit ihnen zu verfahren ist.
Housing Markets and Migration: Evidence from New Zealand
Creators: name: Stillman, Steven
name: Maré, David C.
name: Stillman, Steven
name: Maré, David C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Public Economics
subject: Immigration
subject: Housing Markets
subject: House Prices
subject: New Zealand
subject: Internal Migration

description: New Zealand’s large and volatile external migration flows generate significant year-to-year fluctuations in the demand for residential housing. This paper uses population data from the 1986, 1991, 1996, 2001 and 2006 New Zealand Censuses, house sales price data from Quotable Value New Zealand and rent data from the Department of Building and Housing to examine how population change, international migration, including the return migration of New Zealanders abroad, and internal migration affect rents and sales prices of both apartments and houses in different housing markets in New Zealand. Our analysis focuses on the relationship between the changes in the population in local areas and changes in house sale prices and rents in these areas. Focusing on changes allows us to control for time-invariant unobservable characteristics of local areas that either attract or repel individuals and lead to differential costs of housing. We find that a one percent increase in an area’s population is associated with a 0.2 to 0.5 percent increase in local housing prices. Although international migration flows are an important contributor to population fluctuations, we find no evidence that the inflow of foreign-born immigrants to an area are positively related to local house prices, despite there being a strong correlation over time at the national level. On the other hand, there is a strong positive relationship between inflows of New Zealanders previously living abroad into an area and the appreciation of local housing prices, with a one percent increase in population resulting from higher inflows of returning Kiwis associated with a 6 to 9 percent increase in house prices. Our findings are, however, not robust to the choice of time period, suggesting that factors other than differences in population growth across areas may be more important in determining the rate of local house price appreciation.
Nuclear Effects on the Extraction of $\sin^2θ_W$
Creators: name: Kovalenko, Sergey
name: Schmidt, Ivan
name: Yang, Jian-Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the impact of nuclear effects on the extraction of the weak-mixing angle $\sin^2θ_W$ from deep inelastic (anti-)neutrino-nucleus scattering, with special emphasis on the recently announced NuTeV Collaboration 3$σ$ deviation of $\sin^2θ_W$ from its standard model value. We have found that nuclear effects, which are very important in electromagnetic deep inelastic scattering (DIS), are quite small in weak charged current DIS. In neutral current DIS processes, which contain the weak mixing angle, we predict that these effects play also an important role and may dramatically affect the value of $\sin^2θ_W$ extracted from the experimental data.
description: 15 pages, 3 figures; one figure added, conclusions changed
Spectroscopic evidence for strong correlations between local superconducting gap and local Altshuler-Aronov density-of-states suppression in ultrathin NbN films
Creators: name: Carbillet, C.
name: Cherkez, V.
name: Skvortsov, M. A.
name: Feigel'man, M. V.
name: Debontridder, F.
name: Ioffe, L. B.
name: Stolyarov, V. S.
name: Ilin, K.
name: Siegel, M.
name: Noûs, C.
name: Roditchev, D.
name: Cren, T.
name: Brun, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Disorder has different profound effects on superconducting thin films. For a large variety of materials, increasing disorder reduces electronic screening which enhances electron-electron repulsion. These fermionic effects lead to a mechanism described by Finkelstein: when disorder combined to electron-electron interactions increases, there is a global decrease of the superconducting energy gap $Δ$ and of the critical temperature $T_c$, the ratio $Δ$/$k_BT_c$ remaining roughly constant. In addition, in most films an emergent granularity develops with increasing disorder and results in the formation of inhomogeneous superconducting puddles. These gap inhomogeneities are usually accompanied by the development of bosonic features: a pseudogap develops above the critical temperature $T_c$ and the energy gap $Δ$ starts decoupling from $T_c$. Thus the mechanism(s) driving the appearance of these gap inhomogeneities could result from a complicated interplay between fermionic and bosonic effects. By studying the local electronic properties of a NbN film with scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS) we show that the inhomogeneous spatial distribution of $Δ$ is locally strongly correlated to a large depletion in the local density of states (LDOS) around the Fermi level, associated to the Altshuler-Aronov effect induced by strong electronic interactions. By modelling quantitatively the measured LDOS suppression, we show that the latter can be interpreted as local variations of the film resistivity. This local change in resistivity leads to a local variation of $Δ$ through a local Finkelstein mechanism. Our analysis furnishes a purely fermionic scenario explaining quantitatively the emergent superconducting inhomogeneities, while the precise origin of the latter remained unclear up to now.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures
Helichrysum kirkii Oliv. & Hiern
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Asterales
Asteraceae
Helichrysum
Helichrysum kirkii

description: Helichrysum kirkii Oliv. & Hiern  —
Habit: Herb.
Habitat: LMDF; up to 2 400 m. Distribution: II.
Voucher: N/A.
Reference: Beentje (2002).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 94, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Additional file 1: of Pleiotropic association of LIPC variants with lipid and urinary 8-hydroxy deoxyguanosine levels in a Taiwanese population
Creators: name: Teng, Ming-Sheng
name: Semon Wu
name: Lung-An Hsu
name: I-Shiang Tzeng
name: Hsin-Hua Chou
name: Su, Cheng-Wen
name: Ko, Yu-Lin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Table S1. Basic characteristics and genotyping assays for the LIPC gene variants. Table S2. Associations between the LIPC rs2043085 genotypes and metabolic traits and inflammatory marker levels. Table S3. Associations between the LIPC rs1532085 genotypes and metabolic traits and inflammatory marker levels. Table S4. Associations between the LIPC rs1800588 genotypes and metabolic traits and inflammatory marker levels. Additional file References. (DOC 118 kb)
New lignans from Phyllanthodendron dunnianum
Creators: name: Xu, Li
name: Tan, Jian-Bing
name: Zheng, Yu-Ting
name: Sang, Zi-Huan
name: Qin, Si-Yu
name: Huang, Yuan-Tao
name: Li, Mei-Fang
name: Zou, Zhen-Xing
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Hematology
subject: Virology

description: A new lignan phyllanins A (1) and a lignan phyllanins B (2) for which the absolute configuration was determined for the first time, along with four known lignans (3–6) were isolated from the branch and leaf extracts of Phyllanthodendron dunnianum. Their planar structures were mainly determined by a combination of 1D and 2D NMR, HRESIMS spectral analyses, and the absolute configurations of the compounds 1 and 2 were established by DFT GIAO 13C NMR and electronic circular dichroism (ECD) calculations. In addition, all these six lignans were firstly tested for the antibacterial activities against MRSA, Staphylococcus aureus, Enterococcus faecalis, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Escherichia coli. Among these compounds, 2 and 5 showed potential antibacterial activities against MRSA and S. aureus with MIC values of 4 and 8 µg/mL, respectively.
title: Entwicklungslinien des europäischen Umweltrechts
Creators: name: Rengeling, Hans-Werner
Publisher: name: Goltze
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Brunsvicensien der Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
subject: Jahrbuch der BWG
subject: 340

description: Die Erkenntnis, daß effektiver Umweltschutz nicht mehr allein national betrieben werden kann, ist längst Allgemeingut geworden. Die Europäische Gemeinschaft bietet sich schon wegen ihrer Struktur und als Rechtsgemeinschaft für einen effektiven Umweltschutz an. Ich möchte darauf in zwei Abschnitten eingehen: einmal für den Zeitraum bis 1987 (dazu unter B) und sodann auf den Zeitabschnitt danach bis heute (dazu unter C), weil die Rechtsgrundlagen für den Umweltschutz 1987 durch die sog. Einheitliche Europäische Akte (EEA) und 1993 durch den Vertrag über die Europäische Union (Vertrag von Maastricht) erheblich verändert und verbessert worden sind. Kurz hinzuweisen ist auch auf vorgesehene Neuerungen in dem Vertrag von Amsterdam, Juni 1997.
Causal Discovery from Heterogeneous/Nonstationary Data with Independent Changes
Creators: name: Huang, Biwei
name: Zhang, Kun
name: Zhang, Jiji
name: Ramsey, Joseph
name: Sanchez-Romero, Ruben
name: Glymour, Clark
name: Schölkopf, Bernhard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: It is commonplace to encounter heterogeneous or nonstationary data, of which the underlying generating process changes across domains or over time. Such a distribution shift feature presents both challenges and opportunities for causal discovery. In this paper, we develop a framework for causal discovery from such data, called Constraint-based causal Discovery from heterogeneous/NOnstationary Data (CD-NOD), to find causal skeleton and directions and estimate the properties of mechanism changes. First, we propose an enhanced constraint-based procedure to detect variables whose local mechanisms change and recover the skeleton of the causal structure over observed variables. Second, we present a method to determine causal orientations by making use of independent changes in the data distribution implied by the underlying causal model, benefiting from information carried by changing distributions. After learning the causal structure, next, we investigate how to efficiently estimate the "driving force" of the nonstationarity of a causal mechanism. That is, we aim to extract from data a low-dimensional representation of changes. The proposed methods are nonparametric, with no hard restrictions on data distributions and causal mechanisms, and do not rely on window segmentation. Furthermore, we find that data heterogeneity benefits causal structure identification even with particular types of confounders. Finally, we show the connection between heterogeneity/nonstationarity and soft intervention in causal discovery. Experimental results on various synthetic and real-world data sets (task-fMRI and stock market data) are presented to demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed methods.
Numerical Analysis for the Stress-Strain Evaluation of the Conversion of a Conventional Slurry Tailings Storage Facility to Filtered Tailings Storage Facility, Considering Different Scenarios
Creators: name: Vargas-Moreno, Carlos Omar
name: Guillén-Guillén, Jorge Bricio
name: Ramírez-Chávez, Rigoberto
name: Preciado, Humberto F.
name: Ang, Eduardo
name: Servigna, Daniel
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: This article presents numerical simulations to evaluate the stress-strain behaviour for the conversion of a conventional slurry tailings storage facility (TSF) to a filtered tailings storage facility (FTSF), considering various filtered tailings stacking scenarios, to evaluate deformation caused by undrained static loadings from the dry-stack on top of the slurry tailings stored in the TSF impoundment. A constitutive model was used to simulate the strain-softening behaviour of the previously deposited saturated slurry tailings, which are underlying the filtered tailings stack. The filtered tailings were simulated assuming various loading conditions derived from the proposed stacking plan, while the slurry tailings were defined and characterized based on results from recent site geotechnical investigations. The results of the analysis are presented based on the service state of the facility. In addition, the results of flow liquefaction risk triggering analysis for the different scenarios are presented.
Optimization Methods for Interpretable Differentiable Decision Trees in Reinforcement Learning
Creators: name: Silva, Andrew
name: Killian, Taylor
name: Rodriguez, Ivan Dario Jimenez
name: Son, Sung-Hyun
name: Gombolay, Matthew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Decision trees are ubiquitous in machine learning for their ease of use and interpretability. Yet, these models are not typically employed in reinforcement learning as they cannot be updated online via stochastic gradient descent. We overcome this limitation by allowing for a gradient update over the entire tree that improves sample complexity affords interpretable policy extraction. First, we include theoretical motivation on the need for policy-gradient learning by examining the properties of gradient descent over differentiable decision trees. Second, we demonstrate that our approach equals or outperforms a neural network on all domains and can learn discrete decision trees online with average rewards up to 7x higher than a batch-trained decision tree. Third, we conduct a user study to quantify the interpretability of a decision tree, rule list, and a neural network with statistically significant results ($p < 0.001$).
Percolation in the Hyperbolic Plane
Creators: name: Benjamini, Itai
name: Schramm, Oded
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 82B43; 60K35; 60D05

description: This is a study of percolation in the hyperbolic plane and on regular tilings in the hyperbolic plane. The processes discussed include Bernoulli site and bond percolation on planar hyperbolic graphs, invariant dependent percolations on such graphs, and Poisson-Voronoi-Bernoulli percolation. We prove the existence of three distinct nonempty phases for the Bernoulli processes. In the first phase, $p\in(0, p_c]$, there are no unbounded clusters, but there is a unique infinite cluster for the dual process. In the second phase, $p\in(p_c,p_u)$, there are infinitely many unbounded clusters for the process and for the dual process. In the third phase, $p\in [p_u,1)$, there is a unique unbounded cluster, and all the clusters of the dual process are bounded. We also study the dependence of $p_c$ in the Poisson-Voronoi-Bernoulli percolation process on the intensity of the underlying Poisson process.
description: To appear in Jour. Amer. Math. Soc
Application and Learnings of GISTM Management Optimization Tools
Creators: name: Bechard, Karen
name: James, Rachel
name: Salzsauler, Kristin
name: Han, Chao
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2024

description: Mining companies worldwide are implementing approaches to achieve Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management (GISTM) conformance. While the need and benefit for GISTM is evident through the voluntary participation of many mining companies, the implementation, organization, and management of GISTM within an organizations’ existing framework and within a compressed schedule can be challenging. For example, consideration of whether a facility is active versus closed can alter the interpretation of the GISTM requirements, as well as the robustness of reporting on aspects like ongoing system performance monitoring. There are many principles and requirements within the GISTM that will benefit from management optimization to successfully implement the program. This paper will provide an implementation framework for four GISTM management optimization tools that have been developed and are currently being applied at closed mining facilities within North America: 1. tiered schedule development from generic GISTM requirements to site-specific technical action plans; 2. facilitation of the transfer of learnings (for example existing standards) and resources across organizational functions (cross-facility and cross-program); 3. communication strategies that can be applied between the different disciplines within a managed facility team (technical, community outreach, environmental investigation, etc.) as well as groups within the organization (corporate best practices; operating team; GISTM support team); and 4. GISTM conformance tracking which can provide those in senior leadership roles the ability to view status reports including percent conformance and schedule variance at a high level. These tools can be tailored to complement and exploit pre-defined internal technical and management guidance frameworks. This paper will demonstrate how these GISTM management optimization tools have been applied to various technical mining scenarios and highlight how the implementation framework has been integral for achieving GISTM progress within a constrained timeline. Further, the paper will highlight outcomes of implementation of the tools such as: the cost and schedule savings realized; potential management challenges within the GISTM context; and recommended solutions based on experience supporting Operators with this program. It will also discuss the intangible benefits that can be realized, such as improved collaboration, communication, and team morale between internal stakeholders.
Additional file 1: of Circulating microRNAs miR-331 and miR-195 differentiate local luminal a from metastatic breast cancer
Creators: name: McAnena, Peter
name: Tanriverdi, Kahraman
name: Curran, Catherine
name: K. Gilligan
name: Freedman, Jane
name: Brown, James
name: Kerin, Michael
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Figure S1. Target miRNA expression in breast cancer, by lymphovascular invasion (LV invasion) status. A. miR-181 expression. B. miR-331 expression. C. miR-195 expression. Note: expression of miR-329 was below/outside detection threshold, with persistent Cq value >â 35 in over 50% of samples. Figure S2. miRNA expression in breast cancer does not correlate with tumour size. A. miR-181 expression. B. miR-331 expression. C. miR-195 expression. Figure S3. miRNA signature combinations that did not significantly distinguish local from metastatic Luminal A breast cancer. ROC curves: A. miR-181 and miR-195. B. miR-331 and miR-181. (PDF 611 kb)
Inversion of the linearized Korteweg-deVries equation at the multi-soliton solutions
Creators: name: Haragus-Courcelle, M.
name: Sattinger, D. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Uniform estimates for the decay structure of the $n$-soliton solution of the Korteweg-deVries equation are obtained. The KdV equation, linearized at the $n$-soliton solution is investigated in a class $\WW$ consisting of sums of travelling waves plus an exponentially decaying residual term. An analog of the kernel of the time-independent equation is proposed, leading to solvability conditions on the inhomogeneous term. Estimates on the inversion of the linearized KdV equation at the $n$-soliton are obtained.
description: 39 pages, 1 figure
Helichrysum maranguense O. Hoffm.
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Asterales
Asteraceae
Helichrysum
Helichrysum maranguense

description: Helichrysum maranguense O.Hoffm.  —
Habit: Herb.
Habitat: LMWF, LMDF, BZ, UMF; 1 900–3 600 m. Distribution: II.
Voucher: N/A.
Reference: Agnew (2013).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 94, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Entangled edge states of corank one with positive partial transposes
Creators: name: Choi, Jinwon
name: Kiem, Young-Hoon
name: Kye, Seung-Hyeok
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 81P15, 15A30, 46L05

description: We construct a parameterized family of $n\otimes n$ PPT (positive partial transpose) states of corank one for each $n\ge 3$. With a suitable choice of parameters, we show that they are $n\otimes n$ PPT entangled edge states of corank one for $3\le n\le 1000$. They violate the range criterion for separability in the most extreme way. Note that corank one is the smallest possible corank for such states. The corank of the partial transpose is given by $2n-3$, which is also the smallest possible corank for the partial transposes of PPT entangled edge states of corank one. They provide the first explicit examples of such states for $n\ge 4$.
description: Minor changes