cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Estimate of the single diffractive heavy quark production in heavy ion collisions at the CERN-LHC
Creators: name: Ducati, M. B. Gay
name: Machado, M. M.
name: Machado, M. V. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The single diffractive cross section for heavy quarks production is calculated in next-no-leading order (NLO) in nucleus-nucleus collisions. Such processes are expected to occur at the LHC. We start using the hard diffractive factorization formalism, taking into account the recent experimental parameterization for the Pomeron Structure Function (DPDF). Absorptive corrections are accounted by the multiple Pomeron contributions considering a gap survival probability, where its theoretical uncertainty for nuclear collisions is discussed. We estimate the diffractive ratios for single diffraction process in nuclear coherent/incoherent collisions at the LHC.
description: 8 pages, 3 tables. Version to be published in Physical Review D
Entangling microwaves with optical light
Creators: name: Sahu, Rishabh
name: Qiu, Liu
name: Hease, William
name: Arnold, Georg
name: Minoguchi, Yuri
name: Rabl, Peter
name: Fink, Johannes M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Entanglement is a genuine quantum mechanical property and the key resource in currently developed quantum technologies. Sharing this fragile property between superconducting microwave circuits and optical or atomic systems would enable new functionalities but has been hindered by the tremendous energy mismatch of $\sim10^5$ and the resulting mutually imposed loss and noise. In this work we create and verify entanglement between microwave and optical fields in a millikelvin environment. Using an optically pulsed superconducting electro-optical device, we deterministically prepare an itinerant microwave-optical state that is squeezed by $0.72^{+0.31}_{-0.25}$\,dB and violates the Duan-Simon separability criterion by $>5$ standard deviations. This establishes the long-sought non-classical correlations between superconducting circuits and telecom wavelength light with wide-ranging implications for hybrid quantum networks in the context of modularization, scaling, sensing and cross-platform verification.
description: Main text 6 pages with 3 figures. Supplement 22 pages with 12 figures
BINN: A deep learning approach for computational mechanics problems based on boundary integral equations
Creators: name: Sun, Jia
name: Liu, Yinghua
name: Wang, Yizheng
name: Yao, Zhenhan
name: Zheng, Xiaoping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We proposed the boundary-integral type neural networks (BINN) for the boundary value problems in computational mechanics. The boundary integral equations are employed to transfer all the unknowns to the boundary, then the unknowns are approximated using neural networks and solved through a training process. The loss function is chosen as the residuals of the boundary integral equations. Regularization techniques are adopted to efficiently evaluate the weakly singular and Cauchy principle integrals in boundary integral equations. Potential problems and elastostatic problems are mainly concerned in this article as a demonstration. The proposed method has several outstanding advantages: First, the dimensions of the original problem are reduced by one, thus the freedoms are greatly reduced. Second, the proposed method does not require any extra treatment to introduce the boundary conditions, since they are naturally considered through the boundary integral equations. Therefore, the method is suitable for complex geometries. Third, BINN is suitable for problems on the infinite or semi-infinite domains. Moreover, BINN can easily handle heterogeneous problems with a single neural network without domain decomposition.
SDEs with no strong solution arising from a problem of stochastic control
Creators: name: Cox, Alexander M. G.
name: Robinson, Benjamin A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60G44, 60H10 (Primary), 93E20 (Secondary)

description: We study a two-dimensional stochastic differential equation that has a unique weak solution but no strong solution. We show that this SDE shares notable properties with Tsirelson's example of a one-dimensional SDE with no strong solution. In contrast to Tsirelson's equation, which has a non-Markovian drift, we consider a strong Markov martingale with Markovian diffusion coefficient. We show that there is no strong solution of the SDE and that the natural filtration of the weak solution is generated by a Brownian motion. We also discuss an application of our results to a stochastic control problem for martingales with fixed quadratic variation in a radially symmetric environment.
description: 20 pages, 1 figure
Identifying the most influential roads based on traffic correlation networks
Creators: name: Guo, Shengmin
name: Zhou, Dong
name: Fan, Jingfang
name: Tong, Qingfeng
name: Zhu, Tongyu
name: Lv, Weifeng
name: Li, Daqing
name: Havlin, Shlomo
Publisher: name: Berlin ; Heidelberg [u.a.] : Springer Open
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Congestion propagation
subject: Node importance
subject: Traffic correlation network
subject: 540

description: Prediction of traffic congestion is one of the core issues in the realization of smart traffic. Accurate prediction depends on understanding of interactions and correlations between different city locations. While many methods merely consider the spatio-temporal correlation between two locations, here we propose a new approach of capturing the correlation network in a city based on realtime traffic data. We use the weighted degree and the impact distance as the two major measures to identify the most influential locations. A road segment with larger weighted degree or larger impact distance suggests that its traffic flow can strongly influence neighboring road sections driven by the congestion propagation. Using these indices, we find that the statistical properties of the identified correlation network is stable in different time periods during a day, including morning rush hours, evening rush hours, and the afternoon normal time respectively. Our work provides a new framework for assessing interactions between different local traffic flows. The captured correlation network between different locations might facilitate future studies on predicting and controlling the traffic flows. © 2019, The Author(s).
title: Long Island Transportation Plan to Manage Congestion: Study Goals and Objectives
Creators: name: New York State Department of Transportation
name: New York Metropolitan Transportation Council
Publisher: name: Long Island Transportation Plan to Manage Congestion
Year: 2002
Subjects: classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/88462
subject: Traffic congestion
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/87905
subject: Multimodal transportation
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/88894
subject: Urban transportation policy

description: This three page document sets out five goals for the Long Island Transportation Plan Study and corresponding objectives.  Those goals are (1) Create a framework  to develop an integrated  multi-modal  transportation program for Long Island which coordinates all  related  agencies,  groups, service providers and the general public, (2) Develop  and  maintain  a  workable  program  that  will  quantitatively improve  measurable  congestion  parameters, (3) Develop cost effective strategies  that increase  mobility  as  measured  by moving  people  and  goods  with  minimal  delay  on  Long  Island's transportation  system, (4) Adequately evaluate transportation strategies, and (5) Comply with the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency  Act of 1991 (ISTEA) and the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 (CAAA).
Supplementary Information
Creators: name: Gillespie, Amy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 300302
subject: Animal management

description: Supplementary material for A survey of foot disinfection practices for control of bovine digital dermatitis; evaluating solution depth, footbath hygiene, and the potential of footbaths as infection reservoirs for Treponema species.
title: (Long Island Transportation Plan to Manage Congestion) Subcommittee Goals and Objectives
Creators: name: New York State Department of Transportation
name: New York Metropolitan Transportation Council
Publisher: name: Long Island Transportation Plan to Manage Congestion
Year: 2002
Subjects: classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/88462
subject: Traffic congestion
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/87905
subject: Multimodal transportation
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/88894
subject: Urban transportation policy
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/87936
subject: Public transit
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/88253
subject: Commuting

description: This document sets forth the goals, objectives, and leadership of the subcommittees for the Long Island Transportation Plan to Manage Congestion.
Multi-Label Logo Recognition and Retrieval based on Weighted Fusion of Neural Features
Creators: name: Bernabeu, Marisa
name: Gallego, Antonio Javier
name: Pertusa, Antonio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Classifying logo images is a challenging task as they contain elements such as text or shapes that can represent anything from known objects to abstract shapes. While the current state of the art for logo classification addresses the problem as a multi-class task focusing on a single characteristic, logos can have several simultaneous labels, such as different colors. This work proposes a method that allows visually similar logos to be classified and searched from a set of data according to their shape, color, commercial sector, semantics, general characteristics, or a combination of features selected by the user. Unlike previous approaches, the proposal employs a series of multi-label deep neural networks specialized in specific attributes and combines the obtained features to perform the similarity search. To delve into the classification system, different existing logo topologies are compared and some of their problems are analyzed, such as the incomplete labeling that trademark registration databases usually contain. The proposal is evaluated considering 76,000 logos (7 times more than previous approaches) from the European Union Trademarks dataset, which is organized hierarchically using the Vienna ontology. Overall, experimentation attains reliable quantitative and qualitative results, reducing the normalized average rank error of the state-of-the-art from 0.040 to 0.018 for the Trademark Image Retrieval task. Finally, given that the semantics of logos can often be subjective, graphic design students and professionals were surveyed. Results show that the proposed methodology provides better labeling than a human expert operator, improving the label ranking average precision from 0.53 to 0.68.
Techniques for Securing Data Exchange between a Database Server and a Client Program
Creators: name: Crista, Ovidiu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The goal of the presented work is to illustrate a method by which the data exchange between a standalone computer software and a shared database server can be protected of unauthorized interceptation of the traffic in Internet network, a transport network for data managed by those two systems, interceptation by which an attacker could gain illegetimate access to the database, threatening this way the data integrity and compromising the database.
description: 6 pages, exposed on 5th International Conference "Actualities and Perspectives on Hardware and Software" - APHS2009, Timisoara, Romania
Editorial: Recurrence Analysis of Complex Systems Dynamics
Creators: name: Beim Graben, Peter
name: Hutt, Axel
name: Marwan, Norbert
name: Uhl, Christian
name: Webber Jr., Charles L.
Publisher: name: Lausanne : Frontiers Media
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: medicine
subject: meteorology
subject: neuroscience
subject: psychology
subject: recurrence analysis
subject: 510

description: [No abstract available]
The Role of Electrolytes in the Relaxation of Near-Surface Spin Defects in Diamond
Creators: name: Freire-Moschovitis, Fabian A.
name: Rizzato, Roberto
name: Pershin, Anton
name: Schepp, Moritz R.
name: Allert, Robin D.
name: Todenhagen, Lina M.
name: Brandt, Martin S.
name: Gali, Adam
name: Bucher, Dominik B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum sensing with spin defects in diamond, such as the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center, enables the detection of various chemical species on the nanoscale. Molecules or ions with unpaired electronic spins are typically probed by their influence on the NV center's spin relaxation. Whereas it is well-known that paramagnetic ions reduce the NV center's relaxation time ($T_1$), here we report on the opposite effect for diamagnetic ions. We demonstrate that millimolar concentrations of aqueous diamagnetic electrolyte solutions increase the $T_1$ time of near-surface NV center ensembles compared to pure water. To elucidate the underlying mechanism of this surprising effect, single and double quantum NV experiments are performed, which indicate a reduction of magnetic and electric noise in the presence of diamagnetic electrolytes. In combination with ab initio simulations, we propose that a change in the interfacial band bending due to the formation of an electric double layer leads to a stabilization of fluctuating charges at the interface of an oxidized diamond. This work not only helps to understand noise sources in quantum systems but could also broaden the application space of quantum sensors towards electrolyte sensing in cell biology, neuroscience and electrochemistry.
Disruption and recovery of the US domestic airline networks during the COVID-19 pandemic
Creators: name: Sugishita, Kashin
name: Mizutani, Hiroki
name: Hanaoka, Shinya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The COVID-19 pandemic has had serious impacts on the airline industry. Ensuring that aviation policies in emergent situations both guarantee network connectivity and maintain competition among airlines is crucial in these circumstances. To this end, we aimed to understand the network dynamics of individual airlines. In this study, we quantitatively reveal the day-to-day dynamics of these US domestic airline networks, comprising 17 airlines, from January 2019 to December 2021. Specifically, we applied a framework for analyzing temporal networks, in which the network structure changes over time. We found that, first, even though the number of nodes and edges returned to pre-pandemic levels around July 2021, the structure of the entire US domestic airline network remained altered. We also found that the network dynamics varied significantly from airline to airline. Full-service carriers were less flexible in changing their network structure and suffered higher revenue losses. On the contrary, most regional carriers completely shifted to a new structure, which may have contributed to reducing their revenue losses. Low-cost carriers were characterized by more pronounced differences between airlines and drastically changed their network structure immediately after the declaration of a national emergency. Finally, we also examined the recovery process and found that the flights connecting airports that are more central and share more common neighbors, and those connecting airports with larger numbers of connections tend to recover earlier for most of the airlines.
description: 19 pages, 13 figures, 1 Table
Fulminant Hemorrhagic Vasculopathy Associated with COVID-19
Creators: name: Zeenat Qureshi Stroke Institutes
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Background— Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)–related neurologic complications remain poorlyunderstood. Current literature demonstrates that COVID-19 has been associated with cerebral microbleeds andleukoencephalopathy in as many 30% of critically-ill patients who undergo magnetic resonance imaging suggestiveof endothelial inflammation and thrombotic microangiopathy.Case Description— We report a patient who presented with the sudden onset of status epilepticus and coma.

Clinical and neuroimaging findings suggested a diffuse novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2)–induced hemorrhagic vasculopathy. Her level of consciousness improved dramatically with high dose

corticosteroids, and she made a good recovery.Conclusions— We report a patient with COVID-19 who developed clinical syndrome and radiological findingsmost consistent with diffuse cerebral vasculitis.
Gauge fields, ripples and wrinkles in graphene layers
Creators: name: Guinea, F.
name: Horovitz, B.
name: Doussal, P. Le
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze elastic deformations of graphene sheets which lead to effective gauge fields acting on the charge carriers. Corrugations in the substrate induce stresses, which, in turn, can give rise to mechanical instabilities and the formation of wrinkles. Similar effects may take place in suspended graphene samples under tension.
description: contribution to the special issue of Solid State Communications on graphene
title: Spring and Summer Habitat Preferences of Blue Grouse on the Bear River Range, Utah
Creators: name: Maestro, Robert M.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1971

description: A study of the spring and summer habitat preferences of blue grouse was conducted on the Bear River Range in northern Utah. The main objective was to determine the important factors associated with habitat selection by blue grouse during the breeding season.
One hundred and two sampling areas, delimited by similarities in vegetation and topography, were thoroughly searched with a dog for blue grouse. Fifty-four bio logical and physical variables were measured for each sampling area.
Chi-square tests performed on all variables showed 11 of the 54 variables to be significant at an alpha of 0.20. These 11 variables (li sted below) were considered to be the important factors influencing habitat selection by blue grouse.
(1) search area type
(2) area exposure
(3) elevation
(4) percent forested
(5) understory density
(6) primary cover species
(7) secondary cover species
(8) percent cover maples (Acer grandidentatum)
(9) percent cover mixed brush
(10) percent cover sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata)
(11) total acres
The chi-square test only determined if a variable significantly effected habitat selection by blue grouse. To determine whether this effect was positive or negative, the percent occurrence of areas on which blue grouse were present, or absent, was determined. Results indicated that the most favorable blue grouse habitat was draws at 5,500 -6.499 feet elevation. This favorable habitat contained 1-10 percent cover by maples, or a higher percent of maple which provided a large amount of edge effect; the presence of mixed brush or sagebrush, a medium understory, and an area incline of 5-19 percent.
Additional file 1 of Identifying pyroptosis- and inflammation-related genes in intracranial aneurysms based on bioinformatics analysis
Creators: name: Zhou, Donglin
name: Zhu, Yimin
name: Jiang, Peng
name: Zhang, Tongfu
name: Zhuang, Jianfeng
name: Li, Tao
name: Qi, Linzeng
name: Wang, Yunyan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1. Table S1. 51 Pyroptosis-related genes
title: Optimum Enterprise Combinations for Representative Farms in Seven Counties of Southwestern Utah, 1967
Creators: name: Maxwell, James F.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1971

description: Resources available for agricultural production were ascertained and trends in their use were studied for seven counties of southwestern Utah. Special consideration was given to cropland, irrigation water, and operating capital as resource restrictions for a linear programming model. Budget data were obtained for crop and livestock enterprises by interviewing farmers and ranchers in the area. Budgets for four representative farm types representing climatic and irrigation differences were made to study crop possibilities. Acreage minimums or maximums for selected crops were established as conservation measures. Budgets were prepared for farm livestock enterprises to use with crop budgets for each representative farm. Results provided profit maximizing enterprise combinations for each representative farm.
Operads for Symmetric Monoidal Categories
Creators: name: Elmendorf, A. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 18M05 (primary), 18M65, 19D23 (secondary)

description: This paper gives an explicit description of the categorical operad whose algebras are precisely symmetric monoidal categories. This allows us to place the operad in a sequence of four, and therefore a sequence of four successively stricter concepts of symmetric monoidal category. A companion paper will use this operadic presentation to describe a vast array of underlying multicategories for a symmetric monoidal category.
description: 10 pages. Makes minor expository improvements from the previous version
Digitalität in der Geografie-Ausbildung an der PH Zürich (GeoDigIT)
Creators: name: Reuschenbach, Monika
name: Schifferle, Tobias M.
name: Tschudi, Pascal
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Das Projekt GeoDigIT an der Pädagogischen Hochschule Zürich untersucht, wie fachspezifische digitale Medienkompetenzen in der Geografieausbildung von Lehrpersonen gefördert werden können. Durch eine systematische Literaturrecherche und Inhaltsanalyse wurden 20 digitale geografiespezifische Kompetenzen identifiziert, die für die Ausbildung relevant sind. Diese Kompetenzen wurden in Lehr-/Lernsettings integriert und mit Studierenden erprobt. Eine Befragung der Studierenden zu den geförderten Kompetenzen diente als Basis für die Entwicklung weiterer Lehr-/Lernsettings.
description: The GeoDigIT project at the Zurich University of Education examines how subject-specific digital media skills can be promoted in geography training for teachers. Through a systematic literature search and content analysis, 20 digital geography-specific competences that are relevant for training were identified. These competences were integrated into teaching/learning settings and tested with students. A survey of students on the competences promoted served as the basis for the development of further teaching/learning settings.
A magnetocaloric booster unit for energy-efficient air-conditioning
Creators: name: Krautz, M.
name: Beyer, M.
name: Jäschke, C.
name: Schinke, L.
name: Waske, A.
name: Seifert, J.
Publisher: name: Basel : MDPI AG
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Air-conditioning
subject: Magnetocaloric effect
subject: Regenerator
subject: Solid state cooling
subject: Tape casting
subject: 620

description: A concept for the application of a magnetocaloric device in energy-efficient air conditioners is introduced. In order to evaluate this concept, a test stand has been developed equipped with a magnetic field source providing about a 1.5-T flux density change into which different regenerator geometries can be implemented and evaluated. A processing route for the production of profiled magnetocaloric LaFeSiMn-based composite plates by tape casting is presented. The processed plates show a maximum isothermal entropy change of about 3.8 J kg −1 K −1 at a magnetic field change of 1.5 T at 285 K. The hydraulic and thermal performance of regenerator geometries that can be realized by profiled plates is assessed by calculations. © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
title: An Interregional Study of Kenya's Livestock Sector Using Linear Programming
Creators: name: Mwangi, Zakayo Joseph
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1981

description: The major purpose of this study was to determine the least- cost method of producing red meat in Kenya. Linear programming was used in the study. A simulated reduction of grazing land available in one of the settlement areas was carried out to indicate what effect this had on the overall regional production pattern of meat in the country.
Kenya was divided into eleven livestock producing and consuming regions. 1979 was used as the base year, and the demand projection was based on the 1979 population. Input and output coefficients, livestock unit requirements, and market prices were developed. A linear programming model was then used to generate the optimal production and marketing of both cattle and small stock.
title: An Economic Analysis of Contour Furrows and Gully Checks on the Frail Lands of Southeastern Utah
Creators: name: Simonson, Karl A.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1970

description: The upper Colorado River drainage system yields approximately 104,000 acre-feet of silt annually to the Colorado River. In an attempt to reduce the silt load, federal land management agencies have installed numerous land surface treatments. A study was conducted to measure the economic benefits of the land treatments near Cisco, Utah, and to compare them to the treatment costs and to develop predictive criteria for estimating the optimum intensity of treatment.
The economic evaluation was done in a benefit-cost framework and the criteria for estimating optimum intensity of treatment was done in a production-function framework.
The land treatments were found to be effective in retaining silt, but treatment apparently resulted in decreased livestock carrying capacity. Over-all, the land treatments were found to be uneconomical.
A High-Pressure Polarized $^3$He Gas Target for Nuclear Physics Experiments Using A Polarized Photon Beam
Creators: name: Ye, Q.
name: Laskaris, G.
name: Gao, H.
name: Chen, W.
name: Zheng, W.
name: Zong, X.
name: Averett, T.
name: Cates, G. D.
name: Tobias, W. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Following the first experiment on three-body photodisintegration of polarized $^3$He utilizing circularly polarized photons from High Intensity Gamma Source (HI$γ$S) at Duke Free Electron Laser Laboratory (DFELL), a new high-pressure polarized $^3$He target cell made of pyrex glass coated with a thin layer of sol-gel doped with aluminum nitrate nonahydrate has been built in order to reduce the photon beam induced background. The target is based on the technique of spin-exchange optical pumping of hybrid rubidium and potassium and the highest polarization achieved is $\sim$62% determined from both NMR-AFP and EPR polarimetry. The $X$ parameter is estimated to be $\sim0.06$ and the performance of the target is in good agreement with theoretical predictions. We also present beam test results from this new target cell and the comparison with the GE180 $^3$He target cell used previously at HI$γ$S. This is the first time that sol-gel coating technique has been used in a polarized $^3$He target for nuclear physics experiments.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures
title: Attitudes of Selected College Professors and College Students in Utah Toward Labor Unions
Creators: name: Stephenson, Dwain Dee
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1970

description: The attitudes of selected university professors and students in Utah toward labor unions were obtained through the medium of a questionnaire.
Most students and professors favored anti-trust laws for unions, were against the abolishment of the right-to-work law, and were evenly divided in their feelings concerning the settlement of strikes by compulsory arbitration.
A majority of students and professors were against an increase in overtime pay and a shorter work week. Students favored and professors opposed a raise in the minimum wage.
Professors and students anticipated growth in union membership as a percentage of the labor force.
Except for professors of Civil Engineering at Utah State University and Brigham Young University, all groups favored organized labor. Students and professors of Economics showed the strongest opinion in favor of unions. The summarized responses showed that 76.9 percent of all groups favored organized labor.
Numerical and algebraic methods for computer-aided design of linear and piece-wise linear systems
Creators: name: Sarkar, Basanta
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: A method is presented for linear control system design using functional relations between system parameters and system response. The functional relations are obtained by frequency domain evaluation of an integral performance criterion. The performance criterion is defined as a correlation measure between the responses of a known reference system and the system to be designed. A method is also presented for obtaining algebraic expressions relating the time-domain response of linear and piece-wise linear systems with system parameters. By means of a rational fraction approximation to the exponential e and through use of a known technique for evaluating time-domain convolution integrals, it becomes possible to obtain the time-domain response without the necessity of first having to determine the poles of the system. The time-domain response is obtained as a ratio of polynomials in t with the coefficients as algebraic functions of the system parameters. The extension of the linear design theory to cover non-linear and multivariable systems is given. Several examples are given to illustrate the usefulness of the proposed techniques.
Designing a Framework to Develop WEB Graphical Interfaces for ORACLE Databases - Web Dialog
Creators: name: Fintineanu, Georgiana-Petruta
name: Pintea, Florentina Anica
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Other Computer Science (cs.OH)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The present article aims to describe a project consisting in designing a framework of applications used to create graphical interfaces with an Oracle distributed database. The development of the project supposed the use of the latest technologies: database Oracle server, Tomcat web server, JDBC (Java library used for accessing a database), JSP and Tag Library (for the development of graphical interfaces).
description: 6 pages, exposed on 5th International Conference "Actualities and Perspectives on Hardware and Software" - APHS2009, Timisoara, Romania
Fusion matrices, generalized Verlinde formulas, and partition functions in WLM(1,p)
Creators: name: Rasmussen, Jorgen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The infinite series of logarithmic minimal models LM(1,p) is considered in the W-extended picture where they are denoted by WLM(1,p). As in the rational models, the fusion algebra of WLM(1,p) is described by a simple graph fusion algebra. The corresponding fusion matrices are mutually commuting, but in general not diagonalizable. Nevertheless, they can be simultaneously brought to Jordan form by a similarity transformation. The spectral decomposition of the fusion matrices is completed by a set of refined similarity matrices converting the fusion matrices into Jordan canonical form consisting of Jordan blocks of rank 1, 2 or 3. The various similarity transformations and Jordan forms are determined from the modular data. This gives rise to a generalized Verlinde formula for the fusion matrices. Its relation to the partition functions in the model is discussed in a general framework. By application of a particular structure matrix and its Moore-Penrose inverse, this Verlinde formula reduces to the generalized Verlinde formula for the associated Grothendieck ring.
description: 28 pages, v2: section, comments and references added
Superconducting phase transitions in frustrated Josephson-junction arrays on a dice lattice
Creators: name: Baek, In-Cheol
name: Yun, Young-Je
name: Choi, Mu-Yong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Transport measurements are carried out on dice Josephson-junction arrays with the frustration index $f=1/3$ and 1/2 which possess, within the limit of the $XY$ model, an accidental degeneracy of the ground states as a consequence of the formation of zero-energy domain walls. The measurements demonstrate that both the systems undergo a phase transition to a superconducting vortex-ordered state at considerably high temperatures. The experimental findings are in apparent contradiction with the theoretical expectation that frustration effects in the $f=1/3$ system are particularly strong enough to suppress a vortex-ordering transition down to near zero temperature. The data for $f=1/2$ are more consistent with theoretical evaluations. The agreement between the experiments and the Monte Carlo simulations of a $XY$ model for $f=1/3$ suggests that the order-from-disorder mechanism for the removal of an accidental degeneracy may still be effective in the $f=1/3$ system. The transport data also reveal that the dice arrays with zero-energy domain walls experience a much slower critical relaxation than other frustrated arrays only with finite-energy walls.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Antenna Array Calibration Via Gaussian Process Models
Creators: name: Tambovskiy, Sergey S.
name: Fodor, Gábor
name: Tullberg, Hugo M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Antenna array calibration is necessary to maintain the high fidelity of beam patterns across a wide range of advanced antenna systems and to ensure channel reciprocity in time division duplexing schemes. Despite the continuous development in this area, most existing solutions are optimised for specific radio architectures, require standardised over-the-air data transmission, or serve as extensions of conventional methods. The diversity of communication protocols and hardware creates a problematic case, since this diversity requires to design or update the calibration procedures for each new advanced antenna system. In this study, we formulate antenna calibration in an alternative way, namely as a task of functional approximation, and address it via Bayesian machine learning. Our contributions are three-fold. Firstly, we define a parameter space, based on near-field measurements, that captures the underlying hardware impairments corresponding to each radiating element, their positional offsets, as well as the mutual coupling effects between antenna elements. Secondly, Gaussian process regression is used to form models from a sparse set of the aforementioned near-field data. Once deployed, the learned non-parametric models effectively serve to continuously transform the beamforming weights of the system, resulting in corrected beam patterns. Lastly, we demonstrate the viability of the described methodology for both digital and analog beamforming antenna arrays of different scales and discuss its further extension to support real-time operation with dynamic hardware impairments.
description: International ITG 26th Workshop on Smart Antennas and 13th Conference on Systems, Communications, and Coding
2nd RoboSTEAM Project July 2020 videoconference
Creators: name: Conde-González, M. Á.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: RoboSTEAM, Erasmus+, STEAM, Robots, Computational Thinking, EU

description: Presentation and agenda of the July 30th 2020 videoconference of the RoboSTEAM Erasmus+ Project (Ref. 2018-1-ES01-KA201-050939)
description: RoboSTEAM (Integrating STEAM and computational thinking development by using robotics and physical devices) is a project funded under European Union ERASMUS+ KA2 – Cooperation and Innovation for Good Practices. Strategic Partnerships for school education Programme (2018-1-ES01-KA201-050939). The European Commission support for the production of this publication does not constitute an endorsement of the contents which reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
title: An Acculturation Study of Japanese-American Buddhists in Northern Utah
Creators: name: Timper, Priscilla Tomich
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1971

description: The primary purpose of this study was to present a sociological analysis of American Buddhism in northern Utah. Specifically, the analysis covered the acculturation changes of American Buddhism in X __ , Utah, the functions of the acculturation changes, and the effects of secularization on the Buddhists.
The findings were as follows:

Buddhism in X___ is becoming "American Buddhism" just as Buddhism in Japan became Japanese Buddhism.
Buddhism in X___ reinforces the norms and values of the X___ society but also puts a strain on social relationship by contributing to ethnocentrism and racial segregation.
The Buddhist Society in X___ has become more secular and, as a consequence of the secularization process, could cease to exist in the future.
In-Situ Measurement of Fresh Produce Respiration Using a Modular Sensor-Based System
Creators: name: Keshri, Nandita
name: Truppel, Ingo
name: Herppich, Werner B.
name: Geyer, Martin
name: Weltzien, Cornelia
name: Mahajan, Pramod V
Publisher: name: Basel : MDPI
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Apples
subject: DCA-RQ
subject: Dynamic Controlled Atmosphere (DCA) storage
subject: O2 and CO2 sensors
subject: Respiratory Quotient (RQ)
subject: Strawberries
subject: 620

description: In situ, continuous and real-time monitoring of respiration (R) and respiratory quotient (RQ) are crucial for identifying the optimal conditions for the long-term storage of fresh produce. This study reports the application of a gas sensor (RMS88) and a modular respirometer for in situ real-time monitoring of gas concentrations and respiration rates of strawberries during storage in a lab-scale controlled atmosphere chamber (190 L) and of Pinova apples in a commercial storage facility (170 t). The RMS88 consisted of wireless O2 (0% to 25%) and CO2 sensors (0% to 0.5% and 0% to 5%). The modular respirometer (3.3 L for strawberries and 7.4 L for apples) consisted of a leak-proof arrangement with a water-containing base plate and a glass jar on top. Gas concentrations were continuously recorded by the RMS88 at regular intervals of 1 min for strawberries and 5 min for apples and, in real-time, transferred to a terminal program to calculate respiration rates ( RO2 and RCO2 ) and RQ. Respiration measurement was done in cycles of flushing and measurement period. A respiration measurement cycle with a measurement period of 2 h up to 3 h was shown to be useful for strawberries under air at 10 °C. The start of anaerobic respiration of strawberries due to low O2 concentration (1%) could be recorded in real-time. RO2 and RCO2 of Pinova apples were recorded every 5 min during storage and mean values of 1.6 and 2.7 mL kg−1 h−1, respectively, were obtained when controlled atmosphere (CA) conditions (2% O2, 1.3% CO2 and 2 °C) were established. The modular respirometer was found to be useful for in situ real-time monitoring of respiration rate during storage of fresh produce and offers great potential to be incorporated into RQ-based dynamic CA storage system.
Additional file 2 of Identifying pyroptosis- and inflammation-related genes in intracranial aneurysms based on bioinformatics analysis
Creators: name: Zhou, Donglin
name: Zhu, Yimin
name: Jiang, Peng
name: Zhang, Tongfu
name: Zhuang, Jianfeng
name: Li, Tao
name: Qi, Linzeng
name: Wang, Yunyan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 2. Table S2. Clinical information on tissue samples
title: Applying the Concept of Feeding Stations to the Behavior of Cattle Grazing Variable Amounts of Available Forage
Creators: name: Flores, Enrique R.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1983

description: A quantitative description of the foraging process is necessary for effective planning and execution of intensive grazing schemes. Foraging behavior is defined as having two components: feeding and moving. At intervals the foraging animal walks a number of steps searching for food and then pauses to feed at a new position here termed a feeding station. Five behavioral variables were analyzed under this framework: 1) time spent at a feed ing station; 2) number of bites at a feeding station; 3) steps taken between stations; 4) rate of steps; and 5) foraging time. The experimental design consisted of grazing small adjacent, approximately 7-ha paddocks for periods lasting 8 days. Animals significantly (P
Derivation of a Relation for the Steepening of TeV Selected Blazar Gamma-ray Spectra with Energy and Redshift
Creators: name: Stecker, Floyd W.
name: Scully, Sean T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive a relation for the steepening of blazar gamma-ray spectra between the multi-GeV Fermi energy range and the TeV energy range observed by atmospheric Cerenkov telescopes. The change in spectral index is produced by two effects: (1) an intrinsic steepening, independent of redshift, owing to the properties of emission and absorption in the source, and (2) a redshift-dependent steepening produced by intergalactic pair production interactions of blazar gamma-rays with low energy photons of the intergalactic background light (IBL). Given this relation, with good enough data on the mean gamma-ray SED of TeV selected BL Lacs, the redshift evolution of the IBL can, in principle, be determined independently of stellar evolution models. We apply our relation to the results of new Fermi observations of TeV selected blazars.
description: Version to be published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters
Distilling Accurate Descriptors from Multi-Source Experimental Data for Discovering Highly Active Perovskite OER Catalysts
Creators: name: Wang, Jingzhou
name: Xie, Huachao
name: Wang, Yuanqing
name: Ouyang, Runhai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Perovskite oxides are promising catalysts for oxygen evolution reaction (OER), yet the huge chemical space remains largely unexplored due to the lack of effective approaches. Here, we report the distilling of accurate descriptors from multi-source experimental data for accelerated catalysts discovery by using the new method SCMT-SISSO that overcomes the challenge of data inconsistency between different sources. While many previous descriptors for the catalytic activity were proposed based on respective small datasets, we obtained the new 2D descriptor (d_B, n_B) based on 13 experimental datasets collected from different publications and the SCMT-SISSO. Great universality and predictive accuracy, and the bulk-surface correspondence, of this descriptor have been demonstrated. With this descriptor, hundreds of unreported candidate perovskites with activity greater than the benchmark catalyst Ba0.5Sr0.5Co0.8Fe0.2O3 were identified from a large chemical space. Our experimental validations on five candidates confirmed the three highly active new perovskite catalysts SrCo0.6Ni0.4O3, Rb0.1Sr0.9Co0.7Fe0.3O3, and Cs0.1Sr0.9Co0.4Fe0.6O3.
Synthesis of optimal controllers for a class of aerodynmical systems, and the numerical solution of nonlinear optimal control problems
Creators: name: Sutherland, James William
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: In Part I, a method is developed for determining the optimal control laws for a class of aerodynamical systems whose dynamics are linear in the thrust and nonlinear in the lift and thrust angle. Due to the presence of the linear thrust control, a singular subarc exists along which it is often possible to eliminate the Lagrange multipliers from the control equations. Conditions under which this elimination is possible are derived, and expressions for thrust and the rate of change of lift and thrust angle are obtained that depend only on state variables and a small number of time-invariant parameters. The optimal values of the unknown parameters are determined by a direct search in parameter space for that set which minimizes the system performance function. As a result, the proposed method is considerably simpler than standard numerical techniques that require a separate search in function space for each component of the control vector. Furthermore, since the control vector is generated by the direct solution of differential equations, the method appears suitable for use with in-flight guidance computers. Several numerical examples are presented consisting of one, two, and three dimensional control. In each case, it is shown that the search in multi-dimensional function space can be replaced by an equivalent search in the parameter space of initial conditions. In Part II, a three stage numerical algorithm is developed for a general class of optimal control problems. The technique is essentially a combination of the direct and indirect approaches. Like the indirect approach, the control law equations are used to eliminate the control vector from the system and adjoint equations. However, instead of trying to solve the two point boundary-value problem directly, the augmented performance function is first considered to be a function of the unknown initial conditions and is minimized by a gradient search in the initial condition space. It is shown that it is sufficient to search over the surface of any sphere for the intersection of the line μλ*₀ where λ*₀ is the classical solution of initial values. As a result, this first approach is not dependent on a good initial estimate of the optimal trajectory, and is therefore used in the first two stages of the proposed algorithm to provide the property of rapid initial convergence. The property of rapid final convergence is obtained by employing either a modified method of matching end points, or a method of determining the optimal step size for the gradient method of the first two stages. Either combination results in a three stage numerical algorithm that has good initial convergence, good final convergence, and which requires storage at terminal points only. Several examples are presented consisting of both bounded and unbounded control.