cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Measurement & analysis of energy-saving optimization systems for vending machines
Creators: name: Harnanan, Kiran
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: The purpose of this report was to examine the functionality of load managing devices in the form of vending misers and snack misers and quantify any energy savings which could be achieved if there is full implementation of these devices on the UBC campus vending machines. Three types of machines were evaluated: a conventional chilled beverage vending machine, an Energy Star rated chilled beverage vending machine and an unrefrigerated snack machine. A watt-meter was used to gather baseline data on power and energy while an IR thermometer was used to obtain temperature readings. Thereafter, the VM-170 and SM-170 misers were installed on the vending and snack machines respectively. Surveys were issued to customers and post-miser installation data was obtained followed by data evaluation and comparative analysis on the two sets of data. It was found that the load managing devices saved 41.0%, 9.7% and 43.1% of energy on a conventional chilled beverage vending machine, an Energy Star rated chilled beverage vending machine and an unrefrigerated snack machine respectively. Based on the above percentages and payback period after a cost-benefit analysis, it was determined that the best suitable machines for misers in a full scale analysis, were conventional machines which had estimated cost savings of $73.77/year, energy savings of 126,264kWh/year and a payback period of 3.3 years (without rebate). It was found, as well, that although the average temperature of chilled beverages rose by 0.6°C, 65.7% of survey respondents were unable to distinguish a change in temperature. Through behavioural assessment, there was no need for a customer educational campaign relating to how vending machines work with vending misers since devices did not power down the machines until after closing hours when there was no occupancy. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Additional file 1: of Carboplatin/paclitaxel, E7-vaccination and intravaginal CpG as tri-therapy towards efficient regression of genital HPV16 tumors
Creators: name: Domingos-Pereira, Sonia
name: Galliverti, Gabriele
name: Hanahan, Douglas
name: Nardelli-Haefliger, Denise
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer

description: Effect of C+P on myeloid cell infiltration. (PDF 308 kb)
Temporal surrogates of spatial turbulent statistics: the Taylor hypothesis revisted
Creators: name: L'vov, Victor S.
name: Pomyalov, Anna
name: Procaccia, Itamar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Taylor hypothesis which allows surrogating spatial measurements requiring many experimental probes by time series from one or two probes is examined on the basis of a simple analytic model of turbulent statistics. The main points are as follows: (i) The Taylor hypothesis introduces systematic errors in the evaluation of scaling exponents. (ii) When the mean wind $\bar{V}_0$ is not infinitely larger than the root-mean-square longitudinal turbulent fluctuations $v_T$, the effective Taylor advection velocity $V_{ad}$ should take the latter into account. (iii) When two or more probes are employed the application of the Taylor hypothesis and the optimal choice of the effective advecting wind $V_{ad}$ need extra care. We present practical considerations for minimizing the errors incurred in experiments using one or two probes. (iv) Analysis of the Taylor hypothesis when different probes experience different mean winds is offered.
description: PRE, submitted. RevTex, 11 pages, 5 figures included . Online (HTML) version of this paper is avaliable at http://lvov.weizmann.ac.il
Additional file 7: of Identification of charged amino acids required for nuclear localization of human L1 ORF1 protein
Creators: name: B. Freeman
name: M. Sokolowski
name: A. Roy-Engel
name: M. Smither
name: V. Belancio
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Alignment of ORF1 sequences from genomic L1s. Alignment performed using clustal W method relative to the human ORF1p L1PA1 sequence. (PDF 75 kb)
Graceful Exit in String Cosmology
Creators: name: Brustein, Ram
name: Madden, Richard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The graceful exit transition from a dilaton-driven inflationary phase to a decelerated Friedmann-Robertson-Walker era requires certain classical and quantum corrections to the string effective action. Classical corrections can stabilize a high curvature string phase while the evolution is still in the weakly coupled regime, and quantum corrections can induce violation of the null energy condition, allowing evolution towards a decelerated phase.
description: 6 pages, LateX. Contribution to the proceedings of the workshop Modern Modified Theories of Gravitation and Cosmology, 29-30 June, 1997, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel and the International Europhysics Conference on High-Energy Physics, 19-26 August, 1997, Jerusalem, Israel
Painlevé V, Painlevé XXXIV and the Degenerate Laguerre Unitary Ensemble
Creators: name: Min, Chao
name: Chen, Yang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 15B52, 42C05, 33E17

description: In this paper, we study the Hankel determinant associated with the degenerate Laguerre unitary ensemble. This problem originates from the largest or smallest eigenvalue distribution of the degenerate Laguerre unitary ensemble. We derive the ladder operators and its compatibility condition with respect to a general perturbed weight. By applying the ladder operators to our problem, we obtain two auxiliary quantities $R_n(t)$ and $r_n(t)$ and show that they satisfy the coupled Riccati equations, from which we find that $R_n(t)$ satisfies the Painlevé V equation. Furthermore, we prove that $σ_{n}(t)$, a quantity related to the logarithmic derivative of the Hankel determinant, satisfies both the continuous and discrete Jimbo-Miwa-Okamoto $σ$-form of the Painlevé V. In the end, by using Dyson's Coulomb fluid approach, we consider the large $n$ asymptotic behavior of our problem at the soft edge, which gives rise to the Painlevé XXXIV equation.
description: 23 pages
Correlations between zeros and supersymmetry
Creators: name: Bleher, Pavel
name: Shiffman, Bernard
name: Zelditch, Steve
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In our previous work [math-ph/9904020], we proved that the correlation functions for simultaneous zeros of random generalized polynomials have universal scaling limits and we gave explicit formulas for pair correlations in codimensions 1 and 2. The purpose of this paper is to compute these universal limits in all dimensions and codimensions. First, we use a supersymmetry method to express the n-point correlations as Berezin integrals. Then we use the Wick method to give a closed formula for the limit pair correlation function for the point case in all dimensions.
description: 13 pages, 1 figure
Additional file 1 of Identification of effector CEP112 that promotes the infection of necrotrophic Alternaria solani
Creators: name: Wang, Chen
name: Zhang, Dai
name: Cheng, Jianing
name: Zhao, Dongmei
name: Pan, Yang
name: Li, Qian
name: Zhu, Jiehua
name: Yang, Zhihui
name: Wang, Jinhui
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Bioinformatics-based identification of the AsCEP112 protein. Figure S1. Detection of AsCEP112 Protein Signal Peptide. Figure S3. The signal peptide (SP) of AsCEP112 is functional. The validation of the function of AsCEP112SP with yeast signal trap assay. The YTK12 yeast strain containing pSUC2 is able to grow on a CMD−W medium without tryptophan, but not on YPRAA medium. AsCEP112SP can grow on both CMD−W and YPRAA media. The SP of Avr1b was used as positive control. Figure S4. Transient expression of AsCEP112 in N. benthamiana leaves. The upper left and upper right corners of the leaf were injected with control (EV) and AsCEP112 (FL/NSP), respectively. The lower left and right corners were respectively injected with INF1 and AsCEP112 (FL/NSP) coupled with INF1. Figure S5. Figure S6. The colony areas and growth radii of the WT, AsCEP112 mutant and revertant strains. Figure S7. Determination of the phenotypes of the wild-type, AsCEP112 mutant and revertant strains. The colony phenotypes of Alternaria solani wild-type (left 1), AsCEP112 mutant (middle 2, 3) and revertant (right 4, 5) strains cultured on PDA medium for 7 d at 25°C in the dark. Figure S8. Pathogenicity detection of AsCEP112 gene. The isolated potato leaves were inoculated with the spore suspensions of AsCEP112 mutant strains (left, leaf tip to petiole direction), wild-type strains (upper right, leaf tip to petiole direction) and revertant strains (lower right, leaf tip to petiole direction). Figure S9. Full-length gel of Figure S5. The red line is the intercepted part. Figure S10. Subcellular localization of AsCEP112 proteins in N. benthamiana. The Agrobacterium strain EHA105 containing the pCAMBIA1301 vector, as the control, and the AsCEP112 gene were independently transiently expressed in N. benthamiana leaves. Bar = 20 μm. Figure S11. Full-length gel of Figure 4B. The red box is the intercepted part. Figure S12. Subcellular localization of AsCEP112 proteins in N. benthamiana. All images are AsCEP112.
Consistent Fixed-Effects Selection in Ultra-high dimensional Linear Mixed Models with Error-Covariate Endogeneity
Creators: name: Ghosh, Abhik
name: Thoresen, Magne
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recently, applied sciences, including longitudinal and clustered studies in biomedicine require the analysis of ultra-high dimensional linear mixed effects models where we need to select important fixed effect variables from a vast pool of available candidates. However, all existing literature assume that all the available covariates and random effect components are independent of the model error which is often violated (endogeneity) in practice. In this paper, we first investigate this important issue in ultra-high dimensional linear mixed effects models with particular focus on the fixed effects selection. We study the effects of different types of endogeneity on existing regularization methods and prove their inconsistencies. Then, we propose a new profiled focused generalized method of moments (PFGMM) approach to consistently select fixed effects under 'error-covariate' endogeneity, i.e., in the presence of correlation between the model error and covariates. Our proposal is proved to be oracle consistent with probability tending to one and works well under most other type of endogeneity too. Additionally, we also propose and illustrate a few consistent parameter estimators, including those of the variance components, along with variable selection through PFGMM. Empirical simulations and an interesting real data example further support the claimed utility of our proposal.
description: To appear in Statistica Sinica (2020)
Deconvolving the information from an imperfect spherical gravitational wave antenna
Creators: name: Merkowitz, Stephen M.
name: Johnson, Warren W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have studied the effects of imperfections in spherical gravitational wave antenna on our ability to properly interpret the data it will produce. The results of a numerical simulation are reported that quantitatively describe the systematic errors resulting from imperfections in various components of the antenna. In addition, the results of measurements on a room-temperature prototype are presented that verify it is possible to accurately deconvolve the data in practice.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, to be published in Europhysics Letters
Additional file 4 of Combined proteomics, metabolomics and physiological analyses of rice growth and grain yield with heavy nitrogen application before and after drought
Creators: name: Du, Jie
name: Shen, Tianhua
name: Xiong, Qiangqiang
name: Zhu, Changlan
name: Peng, Xiaosong
name: He, Xiaopeng
name: Fu, Junru
name: Ouyang, Linjuan
name: Bian, Jianmin
name: Hu, Lifang
name: Sun, Xiaotang
name: Zhou, Dahu
name: He, Haohua
name: Zhong, Lei
name: Chen, Xiaorong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 4: Figure S4. Detection of total protein in ‘Wufengyou 286’ under heavy nitrogen application before and after drought by SDS-PAGE electrophoresis. NBD-1, NBD-2 and NBD-3; NAD-1, NAD-2 and NAD-3 represent three repeats of different treatments.
Accretion of water in carbonaceous chondrites: current evidence and implications for the delivery of water to early Earth
Creators: name: Trigo-Rodríguez, Josep M.
name: Rimola, Albert
name: Tanbakouei, Safoura
name: Cabedo, Victoria
name: Lee, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Protoplanetary disks are dust-rich structures around young stars. The crystalline and amorphous materials contained within these disks are variably thermally processed and accreted to make bodies of a wide range of sizes and compositions, depending on the heliocentric distance of formation. The chondritic meteorites are fragments of relatively small and undifferentiated bodies, and the minerals that they contain carry chemical signatures providing information about the early environment available for planetesimal formation. A current hot topic of debate is the delivery of volatiles to terrestrial planets, understanding that they were built from planetesimals formed under far more reducing conditions than the primordial carbonaceous chondritic bodies. In this review, we describe significant evidence for the accretion of ices and hydrated minerals in the outer protoplanetary disk. In that distant region highly porous and fragile carbon and water-rich transitional asteroids formed, being the parent bodies of the carbonaceous chondrites (CCs). CCs are undifferentiated meteorites that never melted but experienced other physical processes including thermal and aqueous alteration. Recent evidence indicates that few of them have escaped significant alteration, retaining unique features that can be interpreted as evidence of wet accretion. Some examples of carbonaceous chondrite parent body aqueous alteration will be presented. Finally, atomistic interpretations of the first steps leading to water-mediated alteration during the accretion of CCs are provided and discussed. From these new insights into the water retained in CCs we can decipher the pathways of delivery of volatiles to the terrestrial planets.
description: 37 pages, 2 Tables, 10 Figures Presented in the International ESAC workshop "Ices in the Solar System" To be published in Space Science Reviews (SPAC-D-18-00036R3)
Asymptotics for power posterior mean estimation
Creators: name: Ray, Ruchira
name: Medina, Marco Avella
name: Rush, Cynthia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Power posteriors "robustify" standard Bayesian inference by raising the likelihood to a constant fractional power, effectively downweighting its influence in the calculation of the posterior. Power posteriors have been shown to be more robust to model misspecification than standard posteriors in many settings. Previous work has shown that power posteriors derived from low-dimensional, parametric locally asymptotically normal models are asymptotically normal (Bernstein-von Mises) even under model misspecification. We extend these results to show that the power posterior moments converge to those of the limiting normal distribution suggested by the Bernstein-von Mises theorem. We then use this result to show that the mean of the power posterior, a point estimator, is asymptotically equivalent to the maximum likelihood estimator.
description: 8 pages, In Proceedings of the 59th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing
Additional file 1 of Erbin protects against sepsis-associated encephalopathy by attenuating microglia pyroptosis via IRE1α/Xbp1s-Ca2+ axis
Creators: name: Jing, Guoqing
name: Zuo, Jing
name: Fang, Qing
name: Yuan, Min
name: Xia, Yun
name: Jin, Qiyan
name: Liu, Yuping
name: Wang, Yanlin
name: Zhang, Zongze
name: Liu, Wanhong
name: Wu, Xiaojing
name: Song, Xuemin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Fig. S1. Erbin deficiency facilitates NLRP3 inflammasome activation and pyroptosis of microglia in vivo and vitro. Fig. S2. Erbin regulates pyroptosis via IRE1α/Xbp1s/Ca2+ in vivo and vitro. Fig. S3. Erbin inhibits pyroptosis via IRE1α/Xbp1s/Ca2+ in BV2 cells and improves synaptic proteins by inhibiting IRE1α/Xbp1s pathway. Fig. S4. LPS/nigericin stimulation resulted in decreased TXNIP protein levels regardless of Erbin knockdown in BV2 cells.
Zero-field dynamics stabilized by in-plane shape anisotropy in MgO-based spin-torque oscillators
Creators: name: Kowalska, Ewa
name: Kákay, Attila
name: Fowley, Ciarán
name: Sluka, Volker
name: Lindner, Jürgen
name: Fassbender, Jürgen
name: Deac, Alina M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Here we demonstrate numerically that shape anisotropy in MgO-based spin-torque nano-oscillators consisting of an out-of-plane magnetized free layer and an in-plane polarizer is necessary to stabilize out-of-plane magnetization precession without the need of external magnetic fields. As the in-plane anisotropy is increased, a gradual tilting of the magnetization towards the in-plane easy direction is introduced, favouring zero-field dynamics over static in-plane states. Above a critical value, zero-field dynamics are no longer observed. The optimum ratio of in-plane shape to out-of-plane uniaxial anisotropy, for which large angle out-of-plane zero-field dynamics occur within the widest current range, is reported.
Additional file 1 of Persistence of dysfunctional immune response 12 months after SARS-CoV-2 infection and their relationship with pulmonary sequelae and long COVID
Creators: name: Cruz, Tamara
name: Albacar, Núria
name: Ruiz, Estibaliz
name: Lledo, Gema M.
name: Perea, Lídia
name: Puebla, Alba
name: Torvisco, Alejandro
name: Mendoza, Núria
name: Marrades, Pau
name: Sellares, Jacobo
name: Agustí, Alvar
name: Viñas, Odette
name: Sibila, Oriol
name: Faner, Rosa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Supplementary Material 1.
Exploring the Dependence of Gas Cooling and Heating Functions on the Incident Radiation Field with Machine Learning
Creators: name: Robinson, David
name: Avestruz, Camille
name: Gnedin, Nickolay Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gas cooling and heating functions play a crucial role in galaxy formation. But, it is computationally expensive to exactly compute these functions in the presence of an incident radiation field. These computations can be greatly sped up by using interpolation tables of pre-computed values, at the expense of making significant and sometimes even unjustified approximations. Here, we explore the capacity of machine learning to approximate cooling and heating functions with a generalized radiation field. Specifically, we use the machine learning algorithm XGBoost to predict cooling and heating functions calculated with the photoionization code Cloudy at fixed metallicity, using different combinations of photoionization rates as features. We perform a constrained quadratic fit in metallicity to enable a fair comparison with traditional interpolation methods at arbitrary metallicity. We consider the relative importance of various photoionization rates through both a principal component analysis (PCA) and calculation of SHapley Additive exPlanation (SHAP) values for our XGBoost models. We use feature importance information to select different subsets of rates to use in model training. Our XGBoost models outperform a traditional interpolation approach at each fixed metallicity, regardless of feature selection. At arbitrary metallicity, we are able to reduce the frequency of the largest cooling and heating function errors compared to an interpolation table. We find that the primary bottleneck to increasing accuracy lies in accurately capturing the metallicity dependence. This study demonstrates the potential of machine learning methods such as XGBoost to capture the non-linear behavior of cooling and heating functions.
description: 12+4 pages, 6+2 figures. Published in MNRAS. Updated to match MNRAS accepted version
Population III star formation: multiple gas phases prevent the use of an equation of state at high densities
Creators: name: Prole, Lewis R.
name: Clark, Paul C.
name: Priestley, Felix D.
name: Glover, Simon C. O.
name: Regan, John A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Advanced primordial chemistry networks have been developed to model the collapse of metal-free baryonic gas within the gravitational well of dark matter (DM) halos and its subsequent collapse into Population III stars. At the low densities of 10^-26-10^-21 g cm-3 (10-3-10^2 cm-3) the collapse is dependent on H2 production, which is a function of the compressional heating provided by the DM potential. Once the gas decouples from the DM, the temperature-density relationship follows a well established path dictated by various chemical reactions until the formation of the protostar at 10^-4 g cm-3 (10^19 cm-3). Here we explore the feasibility of replacing the chemical network (CN) with a barotropic equation of state (EoS) just before the formation of the first protostar, to reduce the computational load of simulating the further fragmentation, evolution and characteristics of the very high density gas. We find a significant reduction in fragmentation when using the EoS. The EoS method produces a protostellar mass distribution that peaks at higher masses when compared to CN runs. The change in fragmentation behaviour is due to a lack of cold gas falling in through the disc around the first protostar when using an EoS. Despite this, the total mass accreted across all sinks was invariant to the switch to an EoS, hence the star formation rate (Msun yr^-1) is accurately predicted using an EoS. The EoS routine is approximately 4000 times faster than the CN, however this numerical gain is offset by the lack of accuracy in modelling secondary protostar formation and hence its use must be considered carefully.
description: Accepted in the Open Journal of Astrophysics
Nonstandard quasi-monotonicity: an application to the wave existence in a neutral KPP-Fisher equation
Creators: name: Hernández, Eduardo
name: Trofimchuk, Sergei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 34K40, 35K57, 92D25

description: We revisit Wu and Zou non-standard quasi-monotonicity approach for proving existence of monotone wavefronts in monostable reaction-diffusion equations with delays. This allows to solve the problem of existence of monotone wavefronts in a neutral KPP-Fisher equation. In addition, using some new ideas proposed recently by Solar et al., we establish the uniqueness (up to a translation) of these monotone wavefronts.
description: 19 pages, submitted
UBC transition from steam to hot water district energy : alternatives for addressing MacMillan’s steam orphanage and UBC’s absorption chillers
Creators: name: Castro, Brenda Scott
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: The current steam heating system will be replaced with a hot water distribution system that will reduce campus GHG emissions by 22%, energy use by 24%, and up to $4 million/year in operational and energy costs. Even though heating and domestic hot water are the main end uses of most buildings on campus, there are buildings that require steam for other processes; those buildings will become steam orphans. The purpose of this project is to identify alternatives for addressing the steam orphanage for MacMillan building’s steam equipment, as well as for the three UBC’s campus absorption chillers in three other buildings. The main objectives for this project are: to outline the specifications, operating hours, steam consumption, O&M costs, GHG impacts and life expectancy of MacMillan’s steam equipment and the three absorption chillers in CICSR, FSC, and Brimacombe. As well as to evaluate feasibility, costs and business case for different alternatives. Three indicators were chosen to identify the best option for each building: capital cost, net present value and GHG impacts. However, from a simple environmental perspective, if the following options are implemented: MacMillan – New Autoclaves, CICSR – Heat Recovery Chiller, FSC – Electric Chiller, and Brimacombe – Electric Chiller. UBC can save up to 1,360 tonnes of GHG emissions, which is equal to 2.2% of total campus yearly emissions. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Masses of the Kepler-419 Planets from Transit Timing Variations Analysis
Creators: name: Saad-Olivera, X.
name: de Souza, A. Costa
name: Roig, F.
name: Nesvorny, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform dynamical fits to the Transit Timing Variations (TTVs) of Kepler-419b. The TTVs from 17 Kepler quarters are obtained from Holczer et al (2016, ApJS 225,9). The dynamical fits are performed using the MultiNest Bayesian inference tool, coupled to an efficient symplectic N-body integrator. We find that the existing TTV data alone are able to uniquely constrain the planetary masses of Kepler-419b and c. Our estimates are in a good agreement with previous mass determinations that combined different techniques and observations, such as TTVs, radial velocity measurements, and the photoeccentric effect. As expected, however, our mass estimates have larger uncertainty. We study the global stability of the system within the parameters uncertainties to discard possible unstable solutions. We conclude that our method applied to the Holczer et al. data can provide reliable determinations of the planetary parameters. In the fore-coming work, we will use Holczer et al. (2016b) data to determine planetary parameters for a large set of Kepler systems.
Class of exact solutions of the Skyrme and the Faddeev model
Creators: name: Hirayama, M.
name: Yamashita, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Class of exact solutions of the Skyrme and the Faddeev model are presented. In contrast to previously found solutions, they are produced by the interplay of the two terms in the Lagrangians of the models. They are not solitonic but of wave character. With an appropriate choice of field variables, the field equations of the two models are written in exactly the same form. The solutions supply us with examples of the superposition of two plane waves in nonlinear field theories.
description: 14 pages, Revtex,Some minor corrections
Microscopic derivation of the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy formula for non-extremal black holes
Creators: name: Sfetsos, K.
name: Skenderis, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy formula for four and five dimensional non-supersymmetric black holes (which include the Schwarzchild ones) by counting microscopic states. This is achieved by first showing that these black holes are U-dual to the three-dimensional black hole of Banados-Teitelboim-Zanelli and then counting microscopic states of the latter following Carlip's approach. Higher than five dimensional black holes are also considered. We discuss the connection of our approach to the D-brane picture.
description: Misprints corrected, discussion section expanded, some references added. Version to appear in Nucl. Phys. B. 29 pages, latex
title: Braunschweigische Anzeigen : offizielles Regierungs- und Anzeigeblatt. 65. Jahr 1809
title: Braunschweigische Anzeigen für das königlich westfälische Okerdepartement 65. Jahr 1809
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: :None
Publisher: name: Waisenhaus-Buchdruckerei
Year: 1809
Subjects: subject: Brunsvicensien der Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
subject: 902

description: Braunschweigische Anzeigen: offizielles Regierungs- und Anzeigeblatt, vol. 65. 1809
Deep-Learning-Based Radio-Frequency Side-Channel Attack on Quantum Key Distribution
Creators: name: Baliuka, Adomas
name: Stöcker, Markus
name: Auer, Michael
name: Freiwang, Peter
name: Weinfurter, Harald
name: Knips, Lukas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum key distribution (QKD) protocols are proven secure based on fundamental physical laws, however, the proofs consider a well-defined setting and encoding of the sent quantum signals only. Side channels, where the encoded quantum state is correlated with properties of other degrees of freedom of the quantum channel, allow an eavesdropper to obtain information unnoticeably as demonstrated in a number of hacking attacks on the quantum channel. Yet, also classical radiation emitted by the devices may be correlated, leaking information on the potential key, especially when combined with novel data analysis methods.
 We here demonstrate a side-channel attack using a deep convolutional neural network to analyze the recorded classical, radio-frequency electromagnetic emissions. Even at a distance of a few centimeters from the electronics of a QKD sender employing frequently used electronic components we are able to recover virtually all information about the secret key. Yet, as shown here, countermeasures can enable a significant reduction of both the emissions and the amount of secret key information leaked to the attacker. Our analysis methods are independent of the actual device and thus provide a starting point for assessing the presence of classical side channels in QKD devices.
description: 14 pages, 10 figures. Comments welcome!
MOESM2 of Excess risk of preterm birth with periconceptional iron supplementation in a malaria endemic area: analysis of secondary data on birth outcomes in a double blind randomized controlled safety trial in Burkina Faso
Creators: name: Brabin, Bernard
name: Gies, Sabine
name: Roberts, Stephen
name: Salou Diallo
name: Lompo, Olga
name: Kazienga, Adama
name: Brabin, Loretta
name: Sayouba Ouedraogo
name: Halidou Tinto
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Table S1. Characteristics of women who became pregnant, proceeded to singleton live births and who had assessment at birth. Table S2. Results of the ITT analysis comparing CRP between trial arms at ANC1 and ANC2. Table S3. Genital tract infection biomarkers at enrolment, ANC1, or ANC2, for preterm/term outcomes. Table S4. Genital tract infection biomarkers at enrolment, ANC1, or ANC2, for SGA/AGA outcomes.
title: Braunschweigische Anzeigen : offizielles Regierungs- und Anzeigeblatt. 68. Jahr 1812
title: Öffentliche Anzeigen für das Königl. Westfälische Oker-Departement
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: :None
Publisher: name: Waisenhaus-Buchdruckerei
Year: 1812
Subjects: subject: Brunsvicensien der Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
subject: 902

description: Braunschweigische Anzeigen: offizielles Regierungs- und Anzeigeblatt, vol. 68. 1812
TeV neutrinos and hard X-rays from relativistic reconnection in the corona of NGC 1068
Creators: name: Fiorillo, Damiano F. G.
name: Petropoulou, Maria
name: Comisso, Luca
name: Peretti, Enrico
name: Sironi, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recent discovery of astrophysical neutrinos from the Seyfert galaxy NGC 1068 suggests the presence of non-thermal protons within a compact "coronal" region close to the central black hole. The acceleration mechanism of these non-thermal protons remains elusive. We show that a large-scale magnetic reconnection layer, of the order of a few gravitational radii, may provide such a mechanism. In such a scenario, rough energy equipartition between magnetic fields, X-ray photons, and non-thermal protons is established in the reconnection region. Motivated by recent three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations of relativistic reconnection, we assume that the spectrum of accelerated protons is a broken power law, with the break energy being constrained by energy conservation (i.e., the energy density of accelerated protons is at most comparable to the magnetic energy density). The proton spectrum is $dn_p/dE_p\propto E_p^{-1}$ below the break, and $dn_p/dE_p\propto E_p^{-s}$ above the break, with IceCube neutrino observations suggesting $s \simeq 3$. Protons above the break lose most of their energy within the reconnection layer via photohadronic collisions with the coronal X-rays, producing a neutrino signal in good agreement with the recent observations. Gamma-rays injected in photohadronic collisions are cascaded to lower energies, sustaining the population of electron-positron pairs that makes the corona moderately Compton thick.
description: Updated discussion, 8 pages, 3 figures, with Appendices
Additional file 1: of Accelerometer-derived physical activity estimation in preschoolers – comparison of cut-point sets incorporating the vector magnitude vs the vertical axis
Creators: name: Leeger-Aschmann, Claudia
name: Schmutz, Einat
name: Zysset, Annina
name: Kakebeeke, Tanja
name: Messerli-Bürgy, Nadine
name: Stülb, Kerstin
name: Arhab, Amar
name: Meyer, Andrea
name: Munsch, Simone
name: Jenni, Oskar
name: Jardena Puder
name: Kriemler, Susi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional tables and subgroup analyses according to age, sex and weight status are summarized in the additional file of “Accelerometer-derived physical activity estimation in preschoolers – Comparison of cut-point sets incorporating the vector magnitude vs the vertical axis”. (PDF 592 kb)
Multiband superconductivity and a deep gap minimum from the specific heat in KCa$_2$(Fe$_{1-x}$Ni$_x$)$_4$As$_4$F$_2$ ($x$ = 0, 0.05, 0.13)
Creators: name: Li, Yiwen
name: Zhu, Zhengyan
name: Ye, Yongze
name: Hong, Wenshan
name: Li, Yang
name: Li, Shiliang
name: Luo, Huiqian
name: Wen, Hai-Hu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Specific heat can explore low-energy quasiparticle excitations of superconductors, so it is a powerful tool for bulk measurement on the superconducting gap structure and pairing symmetry. Here, we report an in-depth investigation on the specific heat of the multiband superconductors KCa$_2$(Fe$_{1-x}$Ni$_x$)$_4$As$_4$F$_2$ ($x$ = 0, 0.05, 0.13) single crystals and the overdoped non-superconducting one with $x$ = 0.17. Clear specific heat anomalies can be observed at the superconducting transition temperature of 33.6 K and 28.8 K for the samples with $x$ = 0 and $x$ = 0.05, respectively. For the two samples, the magnetic field induced specific heat coefficient $Δγ(H)$ in the low-temperature limit increases rapidly below 2 T, then it rises slowly above 2 T. Using the non-superconducting sample with $x$ = 0.17 as a reference, the specific heat of phonon background for various superconducting samples can be obtained and subtracted, which allows us to extract the electronic specific heat of the superconducting samples. Through comparative analyses, it is found that the energy gap structure including two $s$-wave gaps and an extended $s$-wave gap with large anisotropy can reasonably describe the electronic specific heat data. According to these results, we suggest that at least one anisotropic superconducting gap with a deep gap minimum should exist in this multiband system. With the doping of Ni, the superconducting transition temperature of the sample decreases along with the decrease of the large $s$-wave gap, but the extended $s$-wave gap increases due to the enlarged electron pockets via adding more electrons. Despite these changes, the general properties of the gap structure remain unchanged versus doping Ni.
The association between gender nonconformity and mental health – Protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis (duplicate for peer review)
Creators: name: Schäfer, Sarah
name: Michael, Tanja
name: Issler, Tobias Christoph
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Mental Disorders
subject: Clinical Psychology
subject: Psychiatry and Psychology
subject: Health Psychology
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Important: This is a duplicate of another pre-registration for the purpose of peer review. The original preregistration was published on November 04, 2022.

The present registration contains the protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis on the association between gender nonconformity and mental health. Furthermore moderator effects of gender, sexual orientation, gender nonconformity measures, study design (cross-sectional vs. longitudinal), reference age (i.e., childhood gender nonconformity vs. current gender nonconformity), and cultural aspects will be analyzed.
Cosmological Constraints on 4-Dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet Gravity
Creators: name: Zanoletti, Carola M. A.
name: Hull, Brayden R.
name: Leonard, C. Danielle
name: Mann, Robert B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: 4-Dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (4DEGB) gravity has garnered significant attention in the last few years as a phenomenological competitor to general relativity. We consider the theoretical and observational implications of this theory in both the early and late universe, (re-)deriving background and perturbation equations and constraining its characteristic parameters with data from cosmological probes. Our investigation surpasses the scope of previous studies by incorporating non-flat spatial sections. We explore consequences of 4DEGB on the sound and particle horizons in the very early universe, and demonstrate that 4DEGB can provide an independent solution to the horizon problem for some values of its characteristic parameter $α$. Finally, we constrain an unexplored regime of this theory in the limit of small coupling $α$ (empirically supported in the post-Big Bang Nucleosynthesis era by prior constraints). This version of 4DEGB includes a geometric term that resembles dark radiation at the background level, but whose influence on the perturbed equations is qualitatively distinct from that of standard forms of dark radiation. In this limit, only one beyond-$Λ$CDM degree of freedom persists, which we denote as $\tildeα_C$. Our analysis yields the estimate $\tildeα_C = (-9 \pm 6) \times 10^{-6}$ thereby providing a new constraint of a previously untested sector of 4DEGB.
description: 17 pages, 5 figures (excluding appendices). Updated to reflect JCAP author-accepted version
AJ-HEALTH-2025_2_16-001.pdf
Creators: name: Publishing, AJ
name: John Patrick, Abingwa
name: Hebron, Abingwa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 310299
subject: Bioinformatics and computational biology not elsewhere classified

description: The field of health informatics is rapidly evolving with technological advancements that enable the integration, analysis, and application of vast amounts of health data. Emerging trends in data analysis within this domain are transforming healthcare by enhancing the accuracy of diagnoses, enabling personalized medicine, improving patient outcomes, and optimizing healthcare management. This paper explores the key emerging trends in data analysis within health informatics, including artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, real-time data processing, big data analytics, and advancements in genomics and bioinformatics. Additionally, the paper discusses the role of data visualization, clinical decision support systems. This Analytical Review is publishe at https://publishing.datacops.ltd/category/health/
Toxic Criminalities in Francoist Spain: The Making of a European Dictatorship
Creators: Atutxa, Ibai
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Comparative literature
subject: Motion pictures
subject: Criminology
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Dictatorship
subject: Neoliberalism

description: This dissertation investigates the transformation undergone by the Francoist dictatorship (1939-1978) in Spain in the 1950s and 1960s, which occurred under conditions of neoliberal rationalities and petroleum toxicity –petrotoxicty. It addresses the transformation at three levels: the dictatorship’s criminalized bodies; the Francoist national political project; and early transnational attempts for European unification. By exploring an archive of laws, mass media, and intellectual dialogues, the dissertation contends that there was a shift in regimes of criminality that allowed the dictatorship in the south and Europe in the north to establish the initial form of their coalition.
      The dissertation addresses processes of recognition of criminality by establishing a critical framework that examines the transition from a dominant paradigm of disease toxicity to one of petrotoxicity. In proposing that this transition took place together with the development of neoliberalism, the dissertation argues that the neoliberal regime operated during its period of consolidation by generalizing, at national and transnational scales, forms of exclusion and inclusion that were characteristic of what the text presents as the “petrotoxic regime of criminality.”
      By conducting the analysis through the lens of the petrotoxic regime of criminality, the dissertation offers a fresh perspective to the debate within Spanish Peninsular Cultural Studies about the seemingly contradictory nature that the Francoist dictatorship acquired during this period; both anti-modern and modern; both Catholic fundamentalist and neoliberal capitalist. It allows us to shed light on a process of revaluation of the regime’s toxic nature that resulted in a Catholic Fundamentalist Capitalist dictatorship.
title: Braunschweigische Anzeigen : offizielles Regierungs- und Anzeigeblatt. 67. Jahr 1811
title: Öffentliche Anzeigen für das Königl. Westfälische Oker-Departement
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: :None
Publisher: name: Waisenhaus-Buchdruckerei
Year: 1811
Subjects: subject: Brunsvicensien der Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
subject: 902

description: Braunschweigische Anzeigen: offizielles Regierungs- und Anzeigeblatt, vol. 67. 1811