cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Coding Theoretic Construction of Quantum Ramp Secret Sharing
Creators: name: Matsumoto, Ryutaroh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: E.3
subject: 81P94 (Primary) 94A62, 94B27 (Secondary)

description: We show a construction of a quantum ramp secret sharing scheme from a nested pair of linear codes. Necessary and sufficient conditions for qualified sets and forbidden sets are given in terms of combinatorial properties of nested linear codes. An algebraic geometric construction for quantum secret sharing is also given.
description: svjour3.cls, 12 pages, no figure. Version 5 added citations to relevant prior papers that were missing in previous versions. Contents unchanged
Characteristic initial data and smoothness of Scri. I. Framework and results
Creators: name: Chruściel, Piotr T.
name: Paetz, Tim-Torben
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the Cauchy problem for the vacuum Einstein equations with data on a complete light-cone in an asymptotically Minkowskian space-time. We provide conditions on the free initial data which guarantee existence of global solutions of the characteristic constraint equations. We present necessary-and-sufficient conditions on characteristic initial data in $3+1$ dimensions to have no logarithmic terms in an asymptotic expansion at null infinity.
description: 32 pages, some minor modifications
The Generic Superintegrable System on the 3-Sphere and the $9j$ Symbols of $\mathfrak{su}(1,1)$
Creators: name: Genest, Vincent X.
name: Vinet, Luc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The $9j$ symbols of $\mathfrak{su}(1,1)$ are studied within the framework of the generic superintegrable system on the 3-sphere. The canonical bases corresponding to the binary coupling schemes of four $\mathfrak{su}(1,1)$ representations are constructed explicitly in terms of Jacobi polynomials and are seen to correspond to the separation of variables in different cylindrical coordinate systems. A triple integral expression for the $9j$ coefficients exhibiting their symmetries is derived. A double integral formula is obtained by extending the model to the complex three-sphere and taking the complex radius to zero. The explicit expression for the vacuum coefficients is given. Raising and lowering operators are constructed and are used to recover the relations between contiguous coefficients. It is seen that the $9j$ symbols can be expressed as the product of the vacuum coefficients and a rational function. The recurrence relations and the difference equations satisfied by the $9j$ coefficients are derived.
Nucleon structure functions at small $x$ via the Pomeron exchange in AdS space with a soft infrared wall
Creators: name: Watanabe, Akira
name: Suzuki, Katsuhiko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present analyses on nucleon structure functions at the small Bjorken-$x$ in the framework of holographic QCD. In this study, we improve the description of the target nucleon in the current setup of the holographic model by introducing a soft-wall AdS/QCD model, in which the AdS geometry is smoothly cut off at IR. Combining the improved Pomeron-nucleon coupling and the wave function of the 5D U(1) vector field with the BPST Pomeron exchange kernel, then we obtain the structure functions. Here we focus on the nonperturbative kinematical region, where $10^{-6} \leq x \leq 10^{-2}$ and $0.1 \leq Q^2 \leq 10$ [GeV$^2$], and show that our calculations for $F_2^p$ and $F_L^p$ are consistent with experimental data of the deep inelastic scattering at HERA. Furthermore, we find that the resulting longitudinal-to-transverse ratio of the structure functions, $F_L^p/F_T^p$, depends on both of $x$ and $Q^2$.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures; v2: version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D, one reference added, minor modifications made throughout the text
Geometric quantum pumping in the presence of dissipation
Creators: name: Thingna, Juzar
name: Hänggi, Peter
name: Fazio, Rosario
name: Campisi, Michele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The charge transported when a quantum pump is adiabatically driven by time-dependent external forces in presence of dissipation is given by the line integral of a pumping field $\mathbf{F}$. We give a general expression of $\mathbf{F}$ in terms of quantum correlation functions evaluated at fixed external forces. Hence, an advantage of our method is that it transforms the original time-dependent problem into an autonomous one. Yet another advantage is that the curl of $\mathbf{F}$ gives immediate visual information about the geometric structures governing dissipative quantum pumping. This can be used in a wide range of experimental cases, including electron pumps based on quantum dots and Cooper-pair pumps based on superconducting devices. Applied to a Cooper-pair sluice, we find an intriguing dissipation-induced enhancement of charge pumping, reversals of current, and emergence of asymmetries. This geometric method thus enables one to unveil a plethora of beneficial, dissipation-assisted operation protocols.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures. v2 accepted by PRB
The windows for kinetically mixed Z'-mediated dark matter and the galactic center gamma ray excess
Creators: name: Cline, James M.
name: Dupuis, Grace
name: Liu, Zuowei
name: Xue, Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the simplest hidden sectors with signatures in the visible sector is fermionic dark matter $χ$ coupled to a $Z'$ gauge boson that has purely kinetic mixing with the standard model hypercharge. We consider the combined constraints from relic density, direct detection and collider experiments on such models in which the dark matter is either a Dirac or a Majorana fermion. We point out sensitivity to details of the UV completion for the Majorana model. For kinetic mixing parameter $ε\le 0.01$, only relic density and direct detection are relevant, while for larger $ε$, electroweak precision, LHC dilepton, and missing energy constraints become important. We identify regions of the parameter space of $m_χ$, $m_{Z'}$, dark gauge coupling and $ε$ that are most promising for discovery through these experimental probes. We study the compatibility of the models with the galactic center gamma ray excess, finding agreement at the 2-3$σ$ level for the Dirac model.
description: 13 pages, 10 figures; v.2 added reference; v.3 minor clarifications, published version
Macromolecular Self-Assembly: Simulation and Optimization
Creators: name: Thomas, Marcus
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Computational Biology

description: This thesis develops computational methods for the investigation of self-assembly systems in biology as well as methods for the simulation of reaction-diffusion chemistry. We discuss the current state of the field with respect to modeling self-assembly and its importance to systems biology generally. Our contributions come in the form of pipelines for model inference based on comparisons of in silico experiments with physical experiments monitoring assembly progress. A new black-box parameter optimization methodology suitable for noisy objective values, and using multiple Gaussian processes, is presented. We also discuss the current landscape of course-grained simulation methods for reaction-diffusion chemistry and their limitations. A novel algorithm generalizing the stochastic simulation algorithm to continuous space is presented. We describe its physical justification as well as its improvements over the state of the art in certain respects, e.g. run time efficiency. At the end, we describe our applied work in collaboration with the Faeder and Murphy Labs (University of Pittsburgh and CMU, respectively) on an immune cell signaling project. While not directly related to self-assembly or the methods described previously, this collaboration allowed us to design a kinetic model from scratch and develop an optimization framework tailored to real experimental data.
Mono-Higgs: a new collider probe of dark matter
Creators: name: Carpenter, Linda M.
name: DiFranzo, Anthony
name: Mulhearn, Michael
name: Shimmin, Chase
name: Tulin, Sean
name: Whiteson, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the LHC phenomenology of dark matter (DM) pair production in association with a 125 GeV Higgs boson. This signature, dubbed `mono-Higgs,' appears as a single Higgs boson plus missing energy from DM particles escaping the detector. We perform an LHC background study for mono-Higgs signals at $\sqrt{s} = 8$ and $14$ TeV for four Higgs boson decay channels: $γγ$, $b \bar b$, and $ZZ^* \to 4\ell$, $\ell\ell j j$. We estimate the LHC sensitivities to a variety of new physics scenarios within the frameworks of both effective operators and simplified models. For all these scenarios, the $γγ$ channel provides the best sensitivity, whereas the $b\bar b$ channel suffers from a large $t \bar t$ background. Mono-Higgs is unlike other mono-$X$ searches ($X$=jet, photon, etc.), since the Higgs boson is unlikely to be radiated as initial state radiation, and therefore probes the underlying DM vertex directly.
Condensate fraction and critical temperature of interacting Bose gas in anharmonic trap
Creators: name: Haldar, Sudip Kumar
name: Chakrabarti, Barnali
name: Bhattacharyya, Satadal
name: Das, Tapan Kumar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By using a correlated many body method and using the realistic van der Waals potential we study several statistical measures like the specific heat, transition temperature and the condensate fraction of the interacting Bose gas trapped in an anharmonic potential. As the quadratic plus a quartic confinement makes the trap more tight, the transition temperature increases which makes more favourable condition to achieve Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) experimentally. BEC in 3D isotropic harmonic potential is also critically studied, the correction to the critical temperature due to finite number of atoms and also the correction due to inter-atomic interaction are calculated by the correlated many-body method. Comparison and discussion with the mean-field results are presented.
XMM-Newton and Chandra Cross Calibration Using HIFLUGCS Galaxy Clusters: Systematic Temperature Differences and Cosmological Impact
Creators: name: Schellenberger, G.
name: Reiprich, T. H.
name: Lovisari, L.
name: Nevalainen, J.
name: David, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cosmological constraints from clusters rely on accurate gravitational mass estimates, which strongly depend on cluster gas temperature measurements. Therefore, systematic calibration differences may result in biased, instrument-dependent cosmological constraints. This is of special interest in the light of the tension between the Planck results of the primary temperature anisotropies of the CMB and Sunyaev-Zel'dovich plus X-ray cluster counts analyses. We quantify in detail the systematics and uncertainties of the cross-calibration of the effective area between five X-ray instruments, EPIC-MOS1/MOS2/PN onboard XMM-Newton and ACIS-I/S onboard Chandra, and the influence on temperature measurements. Furthermore, we assess the impact of the cross calibration uncertainties on cosmology. Using the HIFLUGCS sample, consisting of the 64 X-ray brightest galaxy clusters, we constrain the ICM temperatures through spectral fitting in the same, mostly isothermal, regions and compare them. Our work is an extension to a previous one using X-ray clusters by the IACHEC. Performing spectral fitting in the full energy band we find that best-fit temperatures determined with XMM-Newton/EPIC are significantly lower than Chandra/ACIS temperatures. We demonstrate that effects like multitemperature structure and different relative sensitivities of the instruments at certain energy bands cannot explain the observed differences. We conclude that using XMM-Newton/EPIC, instead of Chandra/ACIS to derive full energy band temperature profiles for cluster mass determination results in an 8% shift towards lower OmegaM values and <1% shift towards higher sigma8 values in a cosmological analysis of a complete sample of galaxy clusters. Such a shift is insufficient to significantly alleviate the tension between Planck CMB anisotropies and SZ plus XMM-Newton cosmological constraints.
description: Accepted by A&A; Python-Script for modification of XMM-Newton/EPIC and Chandra/ACIS effective areas according to the stacked residual ratios: https://wikis.mit.edu/confluence/display/iachec/Data3
Patient characteristics associated with retrospectively self-reported treatment outcomes following psychological therapy for anxiety or depressive disorders - a cohort of GLAD study participants.
Creators: name: Rayner, Christopher
name: Coleman, Jonathan RI
name: Skelton, Megan
name: Armour, Cherie
name: Bradley, John
name: Buckman, Joshua EJ
name: Davies, Molly R
name: Hirsch, Colette R
name: Hotopf, Matthew
name: Hübel, Christopher
name: Jones, Ian R
name: Kalsi, Gursharan
name: Kingston, Nathalie
name: Krebs, Georgina
name: Lin, Yuhao
name: Monssen, Dina
name: McIntosh, Andrew M
name: Mundy, Jessica R
name: Peel, Alicia J
name: Rimes, Katharine A
name: Rogers, Henry C
name: Smith, Daniel J
name: Ter Kuile, Abigail R
name: Thompson, Katherine N
name: Veale, David
name: Wingrove, Janet
name: Walters, James TR
name: Breen, Gerome
name: Eley, Thalia C
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2022
Subjects: Research
Cognitive behavioral therapy
Counselling
Minimal phenotyping

description: BACKGROUND: Progress towards stratified care for anxiety and depression will require the identification of new predictors. We collected data on retrospectively self-reported therapeutic outcomes in adults who received psychological therapy in the UK in the past ten years. We aimed to replicate factors associated with traditional treatment outcome measures from the literature. METHODS: Participants were from the Genetic Links to Anxiety and Depression (GLAD) Study, a UK-based volunteer cohort study. We investigated associations between retrospectively self-reported outcomes following therapy, on a five-point scale (global rating of change; GRC) and a range of sociodemographic, clinical and therapy-related factors, using ordinal logistic regression models (n = 2890). RESULTS: Four factors were associated with therapy outcomes (adjusted odds ratios, OR). One sociodemographic factor, having university-level education, was associated with favourable outcomes (OR = 1.37, 95%CI: 1.18, 1.59). Two clinical factors, greater number of reported episodes of illness (OR = 0.95, 95%CI: 0.92, 0.97) and higher levels of personality disorder symptoms (OR = 0.89, 95%CI: 0.87, 0.91), were associated with less favourable outcomes. Finally, reported regular use of additional therapeutic activities was associated with favourable outcomes (OR = 1.39, 95%CI: 1.19, 1.63). There were no statistically significant differences between fully adjusted multivariable and unadjusted univariable odds ratios. CONCLUSION: Therapy outcome data can be collected quickly and inexpensively using retrospectively self-reported measures in large observational cohorts. Retrospectively self-reported therapy outcomes were associated with four factors previously reported in the literature. Similar data collected in larger observational cohorts may enable detection of novel associations with therapy outcomes, to generate new hypotheses, which can be followed up in prospective studies.
Directed polymers in a random environment with a defect line
Creators: name: Alexander, Kenneth S.
name: Yıldırım, Gökhan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 82B44 (Primary) 82D60, 60K35 (Secondary)

description: We study the depinning transition of the $1+1$ dimensional directed polymer in a random environment with a defect line. The random environment consists of i.i.d. potential values assigned to each site of $\mathbb{Z}^2$; sites on the positive axis have the potential enhanced by a deterministic value $u$. We show that for small inverse temperature $β$ the quenched and annealed free energies differ significantly at most in a small neighborhood (of size of order $β$) of the annealed critical point $u_c^a=0$. For the case $u=0$, we show that the difference between quenched and annealed free energies is of order $β^4$ as $β\to 0$, assuming only finiteness of exponential moments of the potential values, improving existing results which required stronger assumptions.
description: 22 pages. Changes to Proposition 3.8 make Proposition 4.1 unnecessary; minor corrections made
Direct measurement of the scattering cross sections of liquid ortho-deuterium for ultracold neutrons and comparison with model calculations
Creators: name: Döge, Stefan
name: Hingerl, Jürgen
name: Petry, Winfried
name: Morkel, Christoph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Liquid deuterium is a fluid between the quantum and classical regimes. It attracts interest from fundamental research for the verification of quantum calculations but also from neutron physics as it is a widely used neutron moderator medium. We have measured the scattering cross sections of liquid ortho-deuterium in the ultracold-neutron range for four different temperatures (19-23 K) and compared them with calculations from a parameter-free analytical calculation model as well as with previous measurements at 19 K by another research group. All three show remarkable agreement, which establishes the validity of the calculation model and proves it is a reliable basis for the derivation of scattering kernels. The deconvolution of our measured transmission data changed the cross section results noticeably only for neutrons faster than 10 m/s. We found the total scattering cross section of liquid deuterium to be inversely proportional to velocity, as is predicted by theory.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures
A Note on a Modified Catuskoti
Creators: name: Makino, Tetu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The `catuskoti' or tetralemma in Buddhist logic is a problematic subject from the modern logical point of view. Recently a many-valued paraconsistent logic was proposed in order to formalize catuskoti adequately by G. Priest. On the other hand a slight modification of the formalization of catuskoti seems to allow an appropriate interpretation in the framework of the classical propositional calculus in the mathematical logic developed by Russell-Whitehead and Hilbert-Ackermann.
description: Appendix has been slightly corrected. No substantial changes
Foreground Model and Antenna Calibration Errors in the Measurement of the Sky-Averaged λ21 cm Signal at z~20
Creators: name: Bernardi, G.
name: McQuinn, M.
name: Greenhill, L. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The most promising near-term observable of the cosmic dark age prior to widespread reionization (z~15-200) is the sky-averaged λ21 cm background arising from hydrogen in the intergalactic medium. Though an individual antenna could in principle detect the line signature, data analysis must separate foregrounds that are orders of magnitude brighter than the λ21 cm background (but that are anticipated to vary monotonically and gradually with frequency). Using more physically motivated models for foregrounds than in previous studies, we show that the intrinsic "spectral smoothness" of the foregrounds is likely not a concern, and that data analysis for an ideal antenna should be able to detect the λ21 cm signal after deprojecting a ~5th order polynomial in log(ν). However, we find that the foreground signal is corrupted by the frequency-dependent response of a real antenna. The frequency dependence complicates modeling of foregrounds commonly based on the assumption of spectral smoothness. Much of our study focuses on the Large-aperture Experiment to detect the Dark Age (LEDA), which combines both radiometric and interferometric measurements. We show that statistical uncertainty remaining after fitting antenna gain patterns to interferometric measurements does not compromise extraction of the λ21 cm signal for a range of cosmological models after fitting a 7th order polynomial to radiometric data. Our results generalize to most efforts to measure the sky-averaged spectrum.
description: 12 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ. Accepted version uploaded
Noncommutative fitting invariants and improves annihilation results (Preliminary version)
Creators: name: Johnston, Henri
name: Nickel, Andreas
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Fitting invariant, annihilator
subject: 510 Mathematik
subject: 16H05
subject: 16H10
subject: 16L30

description: To each finitely presented module M over a commutative ring R one can associate an R-ideal FitR(M) which is called the (zeroth) Fitting ideal of M over R and which is always contained in the R-annihilator of M. In an earlier article, the second author generalised this notion by replacing R with a (not necessarily commutative) o-order in a finite dimensional separable algebra, where o is an integrally closed complete commutative noetherian local domain. To obtain annihilators, one has to multiply the Fitting invariant of a (left) �-module M by a certain ideal H(�) of the centre of �. In contrast to the commutative case, this ideal can be properly contained in the centre of �. In the present article, we determine explicit lower bounds for H(�) in many cases. Furthermore, we define a class of `nice' orders � over which Fitting invariants have several useful properties such as good behaviour with respect to direct sums of modules, computability in a certain sense, and H(�) being the best possible.
Coulomb branch Hilbert series and Hall-Littlewood polynomials
Creators: name: Cremonesi, Stefano
name: Hanany, Amihay
name: Mekareeya, Noppadol
name: Zaffaroni, Alberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There has been a recent progress in understanding the chiral ring of 3d $\mathcal{N}=4$ superconformal gauge theories by explicitly constructing an exact generating function (Hilbert series) counting BPS operators on the Coulomb branch. In this paper we introduce Coulomb branch Hilbert series in the presence of background magnetic charges for flavor symmetries, which are useful for computing the Hilbert series of more general theories through gluing techniques. We find a simple formula of the Hilbert series with background magnetic charges for $T_ρ(G)$ theories in terms of Hall-Littlewood polynomials. Here $G$ is a classical group and $ρ$ is a certain partition related to the dual group of $G$. The Hilbert series for vanishing background magnetic charges show that Coulomb branches of $T_ρ(G)$ theories are complete intersections. We also demonstrate that mirror symmetry maps background magnetic charges to baryonic charges.
description: v1: 40 pages + appendices, 3 figures; v2: minor revision, version to appear in JHEP
Prevalence of alcohol consumption in most at-risk groups in Iran: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Hosseinkhani, Zahra
name: Mohammadkhanloo, Marzieh
name: Zamanian, Maryam
name: Moradzadeh, Rahmatolla
name: Ramezani, Mohammad
name: Cheraghi, Zahra
name: Bagheri, Hadi
name: Jafari, Elahe
name: Osooli, Mehdi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Many studies have assessed the prevalence of alcohol consumption in Iran. In this study, we investigated the prevalence of alcohol consumption in different groups. We searched international and databases including PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus and we searched two main Farsi-language index databases including Scientific Information Database (SID) and the Irandoc. Grey literature search was also performed in Google Scholar, PsycINFO, ProQuest Dissertation and Theses without time limit until June 2020. All studies that reported the prevalence of alcohol consumption among Iranians were included in current study. From 9,038 screened studies, 109 studies with 925,480 participants were included. The pooled prevalence of alcohol consumption was estimated 24% (95% CI: 18.0–31.0), 12% (95%CI: 10.0–14.0), 14% (95%CI: 13.0–15.0), 19% (95%CI: 13.0–26.0), 15% (95%CI: 3.0–28.0) among prisoners, general population, students, drivers, and street children, respectively. This systematic review indicated higher prevalence of alcohol consumption in prisoners, drivers, and street children than the general population and other subgroups. The distribution of the alcohol prevalence studies in different groups and provinces were heterogeneous. The lack of studies among some groups and in regions warrants further, attention.
Coulomb branch Hilbert series and Three Dimensional Sicilian Theories
Creators: name: Cremonesi, Stefano
name: Hanany, Amihay
name: Mekareeya, Noppadol
name: Zaffaroni, Alberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We evaluate the Coulomb branch Hilbert series of mirrors of three dimensional Sicilian theories, which arise from compactifying the $6d$ $(2,0)$ theory with symmetry $G$ on a circle times a Riemann surface with punctures. We obtain our result by gluing together the Hilbert series for building blocks $T_{\mathbfρ}(G)$, where $\mathbfρ$ is a certain partition related to the dual group of $G$, which we evaluated in a previous paper. The result is expressed in terms of a class of symmetric functions, the Hall-Littlewood polynomials. As expected from mirror symmetry, our results agree at genus zero with the superconformal index prediction for the Higgs branch Hilbert series of the Sicilian theories and extend it to higher genus. In the $A_1$ case at genus zero, we also evaluate the Coulomb branch Hilbert series of the Sicilian theory itself, showing that it only depends on the number of external legs.
description: v1: 45 pages and 7 figures; v2: minor revision, version to appear in JHEP
Perceived effectiveness of anti-tobacco advertisements used in Indian cinema: results of a cross-sectional study from South-India
Creators: name: Nandru, Sukumar
name: Kodali, P. B.
name: Thankappan, K. R.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: The anti-tobacco advertisements, also known as Anti-Tobacco Health Spots (ATHS), are commonly used mass-media to promote tobacco prevention and control. This study was conducted to assess perceived effectiveness of ATHS used in Indian Cinema. The study also aims to identify factors associated with effectiveness of ATHS. A cross-sectional survey of 454 men aged ≥20 years selected through multi-stage stratified random sampling was conducted. Perceived effectiveness of ATHS was assessed using a six-item scale with 7-point Likert type items. Data were quantitatively analyzed using descriptive statistics and binary logistic regression. Over half of participants (51.54%, n=234) perceived ATHS to be “less effective.” The health spots were likely to be more effective when participants perceived them as powerful (OR=4.11; 95% CI=2.47–6.83) and emotional (OR=3.32; 95% CI=1.90–5.79). Among tobacco users, those with better readiness (OR=2.42, 95% CI=1.26–4.65) and higher motivation to quit tobacco (OR=4.08, 95% CI=1.25–13.31) perceived ATHS as more effective. The study findings emphasize the need to improve the Indian anti-tobacco health spots. Specific attributes such as ATHS being emotional, fear evoking and sadness inducing could be explored to make ATHS more effective.
Nature of strong hole pairing in doped Mott antiferromagnets
Creators: name: Zhu, Zheng
name: Jiang, Hong-Chen
name: Sheng, Dong-Ning
name: Weng, Zheng-Yu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cooper pairing instability in a Fermi liquid is well understood by the BCS theory, but pairing mechanism for doped Mott insulators still remains elusive. Previously it has been shown by density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) method that a single doped hole is always self-localized due to the quantum destructive interference of the phase string signs hidden in the t-J ladders. Here we report a DMRG investigation of hole binding in the same model, where a novel pairing-glue scheme beyond the BCS realm is discovered. Specifically, we show that, in addition to spin pairing due to superexchange interaction, the strong frustration of the phase string signs on the kinetic energy gets effectively removed by pairing the charges, which results in strong binding of two holes. By contrast, if the phase string signs are switched off artificially, the pairing strength diminishes significantly even if the superexchange coupling remains the same. In the latter, unpaired holes behave like coherent quasiparticles with pairing drastically weakened, whose sole origin may be attributed to the resonating-valence-bond (RVB) pairing of spins. Such non-BCS pairing mechanism is therefore beyond the RVB picture and may shed important light on the high-T_c cuprate superconductors.
description: 8+2 pages, 6+4 figures
Efficient Gradient-Based Inference through Transformations between Bayes Nets and Neural Nets
Creators: name: Kingma, Diederik P.
name: Welling, Max
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Hierarchical Bayesian networks and neural networks with stochastic hidden units are commonly perceived as two separate types of models. We show that either of these types of models can often be transformed into an instance of the other, by switching between centered and differentiable non-centered parameterizations of the latent variables. The choice of parameterization greatly influences the efficiency of gradient-based posterior inference; we show that they are often complementary to eachother, we clarify when each parameterization is preferred and show how inference can be made robust. In the non-centered form, a simple Monte Carlo estimator of the marginal likelihood can be used for learning the parameters. Theoretical results are supported by experiments.
Dizionario Armeno-Italiano. Volume 1
Creators: name: Ciakciak, Emmanuele
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2013

description: Ciakciak’s dictionary is one of the standard resources for the study of classical Armenian. After the Armenian headword, Armenian synonyms are given, the definition in later Armenian, some brief examples of the word in use from Armenian literature, and then the definition in Italian; a Turkish definition is sometimes added for clarity. Some post-classical words are included, but they are marked with an asterisk. The author gives a preface in both Armenian and Italian, and following these, the Armenian alphabet and some grammatical reference tables: regular and irregular noun declensions, pronoun declension, regular and irregular verb conjugations. An Armenian-Italian list of personal and geographical names concludes the second volume. This essential work belongs on the shelves of every advanced student and scholar of Armenian.
Sparsity prior for electrical impedance tomography with partial data
Creators: name: Garde, Henrik
name: Knudsen, Kim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65N21 (Primary) 65N20 (Secondary)

description: This paper focuses on prior information for improved sparsity reconstruction in electrical impedance tomography with partial data, i.e. data measured only on subsets of the boundary. Sparsity is enforced using an $\ell_1$ norm of the basis coefficients as the penalty term in a Tikhonov functional, and prior information is incorporated by applying a spatially distributed regularization parameter. The resulting optimization problem allows great flexibility with respect to the choice of measurement boundaries and incorporation of prior knowledge. The problem is solved using a generalized conditional gradient method applying soft thresholding. Numerical examples show that the addition of prior information in the proposed algorithm gives vastly improved reconstructions even for the partial data problem. The method is in addition compared to a total variation approach.
description: 17 pages, 12 figures
Research on selected companies operations and their financial result for locating emerging blue chip companies
Creators: name: ., MGMulla
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Finance
Investment and risk management

description: Indian capital market is vibrant and alive. its groeth in last decades has been phonomenal. In 1983, the market capitalisation of shres quoted in the Bombay stock exchange amounted to mere $7 billion. It grew to $65 billon in 1992, to $220 billion by April 2000 and it is, at the end of 2003, $432 billion.
Afrahat: Seine Person und sein Verständnis des Christentums
Creators: name: Schwen, Paul
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: In this important study, which is still a standard general resource on Aphrahat, Schwen deals with that writer’s life, works, and doctrine. The survey of his writing includes information on manuscripts, style, and reception history. Next, Schwen looks at the sources for Aphrahat’s Christianity: the Bible (with a discussion of canon, authority, and interpretation), church teaching, and Jewish traditions. The investigation of Christianity as presented by Aphrahat touches on topics such as the belief in one God, covenant, law, the Holy Spirit, sacraments, prayer, confession and forgiveness of sin, marriage and virginity, and asceticism. In addition, Schwen probes Aphrahat’s concept of history. This volume will be of certain use for students of Syriac literature and early Syriac Christianity.
Typisch lyrisch? Befragungen zur Lesererwartung an ein Gedicht
Creators: name: Petzold, Jochen
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Lyrik Leserbefragung Prototypentheorie Gattungstheorie
subject: 800 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft
subject: 820 Englische Literatur

description: Im Rahmen einer kognitionswissenschaftlich fundierten Studie zur Gattung ‘Lyrik’, Sprechsituationen lyrischer Dichtung: Ein Beitrag zur Gattungstypologie (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2012) führte der Verfasser eine Reihe von Befragungen durch. Dabei sollten zu folgenden Punkten empirische Daten erhoben werden: A Typische Aspekte eine Gedichts B Sprachliche Überstrukturierung in Gedichten C Sprechermodell und Sprecherpräsenz in Gedichten Die Befragungen wurden 2007 und 2008 mit verschiedenen Probandengruppen an den Universitäten Freiburg, Augsburg, Bielefeld, Köln und St. Andrews (Schottland) durchgeführt. Die detaillierte Diskussion des Befragungsdesigns sowie der Ergebnisse steht nicht im Vordergrund der Studie Sprechsituationen lyrischer Dichtung. Ergänzend sollen daher in der vorliegenden Online-Publikation die drei Befragungen hinsichtlich Design und Durchführung genauer vorgestellt, die Ergebnisse diskutiert und die erhobenen Daten in Form von Tabellen angegeben werden. Die Rohdaten liegen auch als QuatroPro-Tabellen vor und können interessierten Forschern gerne zugänglich gemacht werden. Die verwendeten Fragebögen finden sich im Anhang.
A new framework for climate sensitivity and prediction: a modelling perspective
Creators: name: Ragone, Francesco
name: Lucarini, Valerio
name: Lunkeit, Frank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The sensitivity of climate models to increasing CO2 concentration and the climate response at decadal time scales are still major factors of uncertainty for the assessment of the long and short term effects of anthropogenic climate change. While the relative slow progress on these issues is partly due to the inherent inaccuracies of numerical climate models, this also hints at the need for stronger theoretical foundations to the problem of studying climate sensitivity and performing climate change predictions with numerical models. Here we demonstrate that it is possible to use Ruelle's response theory to predict the impact of an arbitrary CO2 forcing scenario on the global surface temperature of a general circulation model. Response theory puts the concept of climate sensitivity on firm theoretical grounds, and addresses rigorously the problem of predictability at different time scales. Conceptually, our results show that performing climate change experiments with general circulation models is a well defined problem from a physical and mathematical point of view. Practically, our results show that considering one single CO2 forcing scenario is enough to construct operators able to predict the response of climatic observables to any other CO2 forcing scenario, without the need to perform additional numerical simulations. We also introduce a general relationship between climate sensitivity and climate response at different time scales, thus providing an explicit definition of the inertia of the system at different time scales. While what we report here refers to the linear response, the general theory allows for treating nonlinear effects as well. Our results pave the way for redesigning and interpreting climate change experiments from a radically new perspective.
Figs S1–S10: Coupled flow and transport modelling of a large-scale in situ migration experiment with 14C-labelled natural organic matter colloids in Boom Clay
Creators: name: Govaerts, Joan
name: Maes, Norbert
name: Durce, Delphine
name: Aertsens, Marc
name: Brassinnes, Stéphane
Publisher: name: Geological Society of London
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Graphical output of each step of the model development and its fit to the experimental data; surface plots of the final model to illustrate the model dimensions and setup; and a schematic drawing of the injection setup
Entanglement entropy of $α$-vacua in de Sitter space
Creators: name: Kanno, Sugumi
name: Murugan, Jeff
name: Shock, Jonathan P.
name: Soda, Jiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the entanglement entropy of a free massive scalar field in the one parameter family of $α$-vacua in de Sitter space by using a method developed by Maldacena and Pimentel. An $α$-vacuum can be thought of as a state filled with particles from the point of view of the Bunch-Davies vacuum. Of all the $α$-vacua we find that the entanglement entropy takes the minimal value in the Bunch-Davies solution. We also calculate the asymptotic value of the Rényi entropy and find that it increases as $α$ increases. We argue these feature stem from pair condensation within the non-trivial $α$-vacua where the pairs have an intrinsic quantum correlation.
description: 23 pages, 6 figures. Two figures and references added
Compression- and Shear-Driven Jamming of U-Shaped Particles in Two Dimensions
Creators: name: Marschall, Theodore
name: Franklin, Scott V.
name: Teitel, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We carry out numerical simulations of soft, U-shaped, frictionless particles in $d=2$ dimensions in order to explore the effects of complex particle shape on the jamming transition. We consider both cases of uniform compression-driven and shear-driven jamming as packing fraction $ϕ$ and compression or shear rate is varied. Upon slow compression, jamming is found to occur when the isostatic condition is satisfied. Under driven steady state shearing, jamming occurs at a higher packing fraction $ϕ_J$ than observed in compression. A growing relaxation time and translational correlation length is found as $ϕ$ increases towards $ϕ_J$. We consider the orientational ordering and rotation of particles induced by the shear flow. Both nematic and tetratic ordering are found, but these decrease as $ϕ$ increases to $ϕ_J$. At the jamming transition, the nematic ordering further decreases, while the tetratic ordering increases, but the orientational correlation lengths remain small throughout. The average angular velocity of the particles is found to increase as $ϕ$ increases, saturating to a plateau just below $ϕ_J$, but then increasing again as $ϕ$ increases above $ϕ_J$.
description: 13 pages, 15 figures in Granular Matter 2015; substantially revised version including new discussion of orientational order and angular rotation of particles undergoing uniform shear strain flow
Diatessaron in the Syriac Acts of John / Jacob of Serug and the Diatessaron
Creators: name: Connolly, R. Hugh (Richard Hugh)
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: This volume contains two short studies, originally printed in the Journal of Theological Studies, on the Diatessaron and Syriac literature. In the first, Connolly examines the evidence on the data and order of two biblical passages in the Syriac Acts of John in comparison with some other places in Syriac literature, such as Ephrem’s commentary on the Diatessaron, the Old Syriac Gospels, and Solomon of Basra’s Book of the Bee. In the second investigation, he looks at some material from Jacob of Serug showing his use of the Diatessaron or Old Syriac Gospels over against the Peshitta. Both studies suggest some lines of alteration that had taken place in the Arabic Diatessaron. Readers who study the history of the Gospels in Syriac and their reception and use in Syriac literature will find these two studies of interest.
Foliar morphology and epidermal ultrastructure of four Selaginella species (Selaginellaceae – Lycophyta)
Creators: name: López, Priscila D.
name: Martínez, Olga G.
name: Ponce, M. Mónica
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Pharmacology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: The leaf morphology of Selaginella species from subtropical South America show differences in structure and ultrastructure that are useful for species identification. We studied the following epidermal traits: micromorphology of stomatal types, distribution patterns of silica cells, silica cells and silica bodies of Selaginella convoluta, S. microphylla, S. sellowii and S. sulcata, using light and scanning electron microscopy. Five stomatal types were observed, anomocytic, actinocytic, anisocytic, staurocytic and tetracytic and two additional variants, anomodiacytic and anomoparacytic. Five silica cell distribution patterns were identified, laminar, medial, medial-basiscopic, subcostal, and submarginal. Pyramidal silica bodies and conical bodies with concave base are described for the first time. In the studied species, silica bodies are pyramidal in S. convoluta and globular, conical and pyramidal in S. microphylla, whereas in S. sellowii and S. sulcata they are conical, with concave base of different sizes. Illustrations of the epidermal features, LM photographs, SEM micrographs and comparative tables are presented.
Revisiting ASAS computed period for BL Leonis
Creators: name: Dev Goswami, Janapratim; Hazarika, Debasish; Reja Saleh, Parvej; Saxena, Bhupesh; Saikia, Eeshankur
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: binaries: close – binaries: eclipsing – stars: individual (BL Leo)

description: We present the updated period of BL Leonis, a less studied K-type overcontact
 binary, analyzing the publicly available V-band light curve obtained from All Sky
 Automated Survey (ASAS) catalogue. The period of BL Leonis was estimated and
 reported inaccurately in ASAS, which results high scatter in phase-magnitude diagram,
 and thereby making it difficult to fit model. With the estimation of updated period as
 0.28192994 days, obtained from the application of three standard period finding
 methods, i.e. Lomb-Scargle (LS), Phase Dispersion Minimization (PDM), and
 Minimization of Entropy (ME), the shape of the phase-magnitude diagram is
 significantly improved, which is crucial for light curve modelling and precise estimation
 of physical parameters of the star.
Energy transport and coherence properties of acoustic phonons generated by optical excitation of a quantum dot
Creators: name: Wigger, D.
name: Lüker, S.
name: Reiter, D. E.
name: Axt, V. M.
name: Machnikowski, P.
name: Kuhn, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The energy transport of acoustic phonons generated by the optical excitation of a quantum dot as well as the coherence properties of these phonons are studied theoretically both for the case of a pulsed excitation and for a continuous wave (cw) excitation switched on instantaneously. For a pulsed excitation, depending on pulse area and pulse duration, a finite number of phonon wave packets is emitted, while for the case of a cw excitation a sequence of wave packets with decreasing amplitude is generated after the excitation has been switched on. We show that the energy flow associated with the generated phonons is partly related to coherent phonon oscillations and partly to incoherent phonon emission. The efficiency of the energy transfer to the phonons and the details of the energy flow depend strongly and in a non-monotonic way on the Rabi frequency exhibiting a resonance behavior. However, in the case of cw excitation it turns out that the total energy transferred to the phonons is directly linked in a monotonic way to the Rabi frequency.