cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Batch Sorption Experiments on Recycling Building Wastes and Dewatered Alum Sludge as Reactive Packing Media in Permeable Reactive Barriers (PRB) to Treat the Heavy Metals of the Ground Water Contaminated by Landfill-Leachate
Creators: name: Arulmoly, Branavan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Batch experiments
Adsorption
Isotherms
Heavy metals
Reactive media
Ground water

description: Abstract: The Batch sorption experiments were conducted in order to treat the heavy metals in the
 ground water which is contaminated by landfill – leachate. For this process some building
 waste materials and dewatered alum sludge (DAS) are used as for the treatment materials.
 For the accuracy of the works, the building waste materials are classified into four
 categories; Floor wastes (FW), Brick wastes (BW), Roof wastes (RW) and Concrete
 wastes (CW).
 Here for the batch sorption experiments, contact time and adsorbent dosage were
 considered as the major parameters affecting the adsorption process. Therefore initially
 kinematic experiments (Time optimization) were conducted at different time intervals
 using a pre-determined mass value of adsorbent. Then by using the optimized time from
 the kinematic experiments for each selected reactive materials, adsorption isotherm (Mass
 optimization) experiments were conducted using a series of adsorbent dosage to obtain
 the optimum adsorption capacity of each materials.
 In this research removal efficiencies of heavy metals like Fe, Cd, Zn, Mn, Cu, Pb and As
 for each selected reactive materials were analysed individually. Results show that Fe, Cd
 and Pb were highly removable heavy metals from the diluted leachate samples and RW
 has the lowest adsorbing capacity of heavy metals. Finally according to the adsorption
 isotherms, the theoretical adsorption capacities were obtained for the adsorption isotherm
 experiment samples.
Low Complexity Adaptive Machine Learning Approaches for End-to-End Latency Prediction
Creators: name: Larrenie, Pierre
name: Bercher, Jean-François
name: Venard, Olivier
name: Lahsen-Cherif, Iyad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Software Defined Networks have opened the door to statistical and AI-based techniques to improve efficiency of networking. Especially to ensure a certain Quality of Service (QoS) for specific applications by routing packets with awareness on content nature (VoIP, video, files, etc.) and its needs (latency, bandwidth, etc.) to use efficiently resources of a network. Monitoring and predicting various Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) at any level may handle such problems while preserving network bandwidth. The question addressed in this work is the design of efficient, low-cost adaptive algorithms for KPI estimation, monitoring and prediction. We focus on end-to-end latency prediction, for which we illustrate our approaches and results on data obtained from a public generator provided after the recent international challenge on GNN [12]. In this paper, we improve our previously proposed low-cost estimators [6] by adding the adaptive dimension, and show that the performances are minimally modified while gaining the ability to track varying networks.
The Role of Large-Scale Ungulate Movements in Climate Regulation: An Empirical Study
Creators: name: ALIEV, Almaz Bolotbekovic
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Physical Sciences and Mathematics
subject: Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology
subject: Life Sciences
subject: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences
subject: Meteorology
subject: Earth Sciences
subject: Animal Sciences
subject: Climate
subject: Hydrology

description: This research aims to explore the potential of large-scale ungulate movements in modulating local climates. Leveraging both historical data and modern-day observations, we investigate the correlation between ungulate movements and climate variables such as precipitation patterns and temperature fluctuations. We aim to elucidate whether the activity and migration of these animals can have significant, potentially beneficial impacts on the local climate. This could pave the way for novel, nature-based solutions to some of the challenges posed by climate change.
Influence of cloud processing on CCN activation behaviour in the Thuringian Forest, Germany during HCCT-2010
Creators: name: Henning, S.
name: Dieckmann, K.
name: Ignatius, K.
name: Schäfer, M.
name: Zedler, P.
name: Harris, E.
name: Sinha, B.
name: Van Pinxteren, D.
name: Mertes, S.
name: Birmili, W.
name: Merkel, M.
name: Wu, Z.
name: Wiedensohler, A.
name: Wex, H.
name: Herrmann, H.
name: Stratmann, F.
Publisher: name: München : European Geopyhsical Union
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: aerosol
subject: cloud condensation nucleus
subject: cloud cover
subject: hygroscopicity
subject: particle size
subject: supersaturation
subject: 550

description: Within the framework of the "Hill Cap Cloud Thuringia 2010" (HCCT-2010) international cloud experiment, the influence of cloud processing on the activation properties of ambient aerosol particles was investigated. Particles were probed upwind and downwind of an orographic cap cloud on Mt Schmücke, which is part of a large mountain ridge in Thuringia, Germany. The activation properties of the particles were investigated by means of size-segregated cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) measurements at 3 to 4 different supersaturations. The observed CCN spectra together with the total particle spectra were used to calculate the hygroscopicity parameter κ for the upwind and downwind stations. The upwind and downwind critical diameters and κ values were then compared for defined cloud events (FCE) and non-cloud events (NCE). Cloud processing was found to increase the hygroscopicity of the aerosol particles significantly, with an average increase in κ of 50%. Mass spectrometry analysis and isotopic analysis of the particles suggest that the observed increase in the hygroscopicity of the cloud-processed particles is due to an enrichment of sulfate and possibly also nitrate in the particle phase.
Can modified gravity models reconcile the tension between CMB anisotropy and lensing maps in Planck-like observations?
Creators: name: Hu, Bin
name: Raveri, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Planck-2015 data seem to favour a large value of the lensing amplitude parameter, $A_{\rm L}=1.22\pm0.10$, in CMB spectra. This result is in $2σ$ tension with the lensing reconstruction result, $A_{\rm L}^{ϕϕ}=0.95\pm0.04$. In this paper, we simulate several CMB anisotropy and CMB lensing spectra based on Planck-2015 best-fit cosmological parameter values and Planck blue book beam and noise specifications. We analyse several modified gravity models within the effective field theory framework against these simulations and find that models whose effective Newton constant is enhanced can modulate the CMB anisotropy spectra in a way similar to that of the $A_{\rm L}$ parameter. However, in order to lens the CMB anisotropies sufficiently, like in the Planck-2015 results, the growth of matter perturbations is substantially enhanced and gives a high $σ_8$ value. This in turn proves to be problematic when combining these data to other probes, like weak lensing from CFHTLenS, that favour a smaller amplitude of matter fluctuations.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures
title: Beyond the orbital septum: a cross-sectional imaging review of the Chandler classification of orbital infections
Creators: name: Fahrenhorst-Jones, Travis
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Anatomy
subject: Eyes
subject: Head and neck
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Other
subject: Abscess
subject: Infection
subject: Other

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To demonstrate the Chandler Classification of orbital infections through illustrations and cross-sectional imaging To understand the anatomical basis of the Chandler classification of orbital infections To develop an appreciation of when imaging is...
IR Spectroscopy of Synthetic Glasses with Mercury Surface Composition: Analogs for Remote Sensing
Creators: name: Morlok, Andreas
name: Klemme, Stephan
name: Weber, Iris
name: Stojic, Aleksandra N.
name: Sohn, Martin
name: Hiesinger, Harald
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a study to provide ground truth data for mid infrared observations of the surface of Mercury with the MERTIS (Mercury Radiometer and Thermal Infrared Spectrometer) instrument onboard the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission, we have studied 17 synthetic glasses. These samples have the chemical compositions of characteristic Hermean surface areas based on MESSENGER data. The samples have been characterized using optical microscopy, EMPA and Raman spectroscopy. Mid infrared spectra have been obtained from polished thin sections using Micro FTIR, and of powdered size fractions of bulk material (0-25, 25-63, 93-125 and 125-250 micron) in the 2.5 to 18 micron range. The synthetic glasses display mostly spectra typical for amorphous materials with a dominating, single Reststrahlen Band (RB) at 9.5 micron to 10.7 micron. RB Features of crystalline forsterite are found in some cases at 9.5 to 10.2 micron, 10.4 to 11.2 micron, and at 11.9 micron. Dendritic crystallization starts at a MgO content higher than 23 wt.% MgO. The Reststrahlen Bands, Christiansen Features (CF), and Transparency Features (TF) shift depending on the SiO2 and MgO contents. Also a shift of the Christiansen Feature of the glasses compared with the SCFM (SiO2/(SiO2+CaO+FeO+MgO)) index is observed. This shift could potentially help distinguish crystalline and amorphous material in remote sensing data. A comparison between the degree of polymerization of the glass and the width of the characteristic strong silicate feature shows a weak positive correlation. A comparison with a high-quality mid-IR spectrum of Mercury shows some moderate similarity to the results of this study, but does not explain all features.
Influence of the boundary conditions on the current flow pattern along a superconducting wire
Creators: name: Berger, Jorge
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the patterns at which the current flow stabilizes in a 1D superconducting wire, for various experimentally reasonable boundary conditions, for small fixed current densities and temperatures close to $T_c$. We pay special attention to the possible existence of a stationary regime. If the contacts are superconducting, truly stationary or normal regimes do not exist, but can be approached as a limit. In the case of weak superconducting contacts, a rich phase diagram is found, with several periodic regimes that involve two phase slip centers. For some of these regimes, the density of Cooper pairs does not have mirror symmetry. If the contacts are normal, the stationary regime is possible.
The Role of Large-Scale Ungulate Movements in Climate Regulation: An Empirical Study
Creators: name: ALIEV, Almaz Bolotbekovic
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Evolution
subject: Physical Sciences and Mathematics
subject: Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology
subject: Life Sciences
subject: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
subject: Meteorology
subject: Climate

description: This research aims to explore the potential of large-scale ungulate movements in modulating local climates. Leveraging both historical data and modern-day observations, we investigate the correlation between ungulate movements and climate variables such as precipitation patterns and temperature fluctuations. We aim to elucidate whether the activity and migration of these animals can have significant, potentially beneficial impacts on the local climate. This could pave the way for novel, nature-based solutions to some of the challenges posed by climate change.
title: Diverticulosis in a 15-year-old Female: a rare case report
Creators: name: Kenyon, Sarrinder
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Colon
subject: Paediatric
subject: CT
subject: Education
subject: Diverticula

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: In this report, we present the case of a 15-year-old female with a rare incidental finding of diverticulosis on imaging for investigation of acute abdominal pain. Images repeated for a similar presentation a year later demonstrate a progression of...
The Galactic Kinematics of Cataclysmic Variables
Creators: name: Ak, T.
name: Bilir, S.
name: Özdönmez, A.
name: Soydugan, F.
name: Soydugan, E.
name: Püsküllü, C.
name: Ak, S.
name: Eker, Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Kinematical properties of CVs were investigated according to population types and orbital periods, using the space velocities computed from recently updated systemic velocities, proper motions and parallaxes. Reliability of collected space velocity data are refined by removing 34 systems with largest space velocity errors. The 216 CVs in the refined sample were shown to have a dispersion of $53.70 \pm 7.41$ km s$^{-1}$ corresponding to a mean kinematical age of $5.29 \pm 1.35$ Gyr. Population types of CVs were identified using their Galactic orbital parameters. According to the population analysis, seven old thin disc, nine thick disc and one halo CV were found in the sample, indicating that 94% of CVs in the Solar Neighbourhood belong to the thin-disc component of the Galaxy. Mean kinematical ages $3.40 \pm 1.03$ and $3.90 \pm 1.28$ Gyr are for the non-magnetic thin-disc CVs below and above the period gap, respectively. There is not a meaningful difference between the velocity dispersions below and above the gap. Velocity dispersions of the non-magnetic thin-disc systems below and above the gap are $24.95 \pm 3.46$ and $26.60 \pm 4.18$ km s$^{-1}$, respectively. This result is not in agreement with the standard formation and evolution theory of CVs. The mean kinematical ages of the CV groups in various orbital period intervals increase towards shorter orbital periods. This is in agreement with the standard theory for the evolution of CVs. Rate of orbital period change was found to be $dP/dt=-1.62(\pm 0.15)\times 10^{-5}$ sec yr$^{-1}$.
description: 17 pages, 6 figures and 4 tables, accepted for publication in Astrophysics and Space Science
The role of the North Atlantic overturning and deep ocean for multi-decadal global-mean-temperature variability
Creators: name: Schleussner, C.F.
name: Runge, J.
name: Lehmann, J.
name: Levermann, A.
Publisher: name: München : European Geopyhsical Union
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 500

description: Earth's climate exhibits internal modes of variability on various timescales. Here we investigate multi-decadal variability of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC), Northern Hemisphere sea-ice extent and global mean temperature (GMT) in an ensemble of CMIP5 models under control conditions. We report an inter-annual GMT variability of about ±0.1° C originating solely from natural variability in the model ensemble. By decomposing the GMT variance into contributions of the AMOC and Northern Hemisphere sea-ice extent using a graph-theoretical statistical approach, we find the AMOC to contribute 8% to GMT variability in the ensemble mean. Our results highlight the importance of AMOC sea-ice feedbacks that explain 5% of the GMT variance, while the contribution solely related to the AMOC is found to be about 3%. As a consequence of multi-decadal AMOC variability, we report substantial variations in North Atlantic deep-ocean heat content with trends of up to 0.7 × 1022 J decade−1 that are of the order of observed changes over the last decade and consistent with the reduced GMT warming trend over this period. Although these temperature anomalies are largely density-compensated by salinity changes, we find a robust negative correlation between the AMOC and North Atlantic deep-ocean density with density lagging the AMOC by 5 to 11 yr in most models. While this would in principle allow for a self-sustained oscillatory behavior of the coupled AMOC–deep-ocean system, our results are inconclusive about the role of this feedback in the model ensemble.
Additional file 1 of Disruption of maternal vascular remodeling by a fetal endoretrovirus-derived gene in preeclampsia
Creators: name: Gong, Xiaoli
name: He, Wei
name: Jin, Wan
name: Ma, Hongwei
name: Wang, Gang
name: Li, Jiaxin
name: Xiao, Yu
name: Zhao, Yangyu
name: Chen, Qiong
name: Guo, Huanhuan
name: Yang, Jiexia
name: Qi, Yiming
name: Dong, Wei
name: Fu, Meng
name: Li, Xiaojuan
name: Liu, Jiusi
name: Liu, Xinghui
name: Yin, Aihua
name: Zhang, Yi
name: Wei, Yuan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1. Placental cell type composition in this study. Fig. S2. Placental cell types with mixed-origin. Fig. S3. Similarity between accessibility and gene expression in scATAC. Fig. S4. Scissor inferred phenotype associated cells. Fig. S5. Examples of marker gene expression in PE and control placenta bulk RNAseq dataset [172–179]. Fig. S6. Cell cycle scores in trophoblast clusters. Fig. S7. Expression of trophoblast cluster marker genes. Fig. S8. The frequency of trophoblast cluster and cell cycle phase. Fig. S9. Latent time distribution across gestational week in control and PE trophoblasts. Fig. S10. Latent time of trophoblasts, grouped by trimester. Fig. S11. scRNA analysis of trophoblast cells in external validation dataset. Fig. S12. Developmental trajectory switch in PE trophoblast. Fig. S13. RNA expression and transcription factor binding activity of master transcription factors (TF). Fig. S14. Transcription factor activities upstream of EZH2 in PE placenta. Fig. S15. Master transcription factor controlled velocity gene set expression in the trophoblast cells in external validation dataset. Fig. S16. Bulk ATAC seq assay on frozen placenta tissue. Fig. S17. Differential DNA methylation between control and PE. Fig. S18. Differential methylation in fetal and maternal face of placenta between PE and control. Fig. S19. Deficient ExE-specific de novo methylation in paternally imprinted loci in PE placenta. Fig. S20. DNA methylation levels on recently evolved, primate-specific retrotransposons, particularly the imprinted LTR12C, discriminate PE and control placenta. Fig. S21. PE DMR regions are enriched with PRC2 related binding loci. Fig. S22. Differential expression of imprinted genes in trophoblast. Fig. S23. Reduced H3K27me3 modification on EZH2-controlled genes in PE placenta. Fig. S24. Reduced H3K27me3 modification on paternally imprinted genes in PE placenta. Fig. S25. PE trophoblast overexpressed genes to stall its cell cycle progression. Fig. S26. Differential gene expression in each trophoblast lineage. Fig. S27. Differential epigenetic modification around PEG10. Fig. S28. Motif similarity of cargo genes. Fig. S29. Heatmap of similarity of cargo gene RNA expression between trophoblasts and endothelial cells. Fig. S30. Differential expression and cell cycle activity in endothelial cells. Fig. S31. Differential expressed genes in Wnt beta Catenin and TGF-beta pathways. Fig. S32. PEG10 qPCR and western blot. Fig. S33 Transcriptional dysregulations under PEG10 perturbation.
title: Epipericardial Fat Necrosis: an unusual cause of acute chest pain
Creators: name: Kenyon, Sarrinder
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Plain radiographic studies
subject: Education
subject: Acute

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: In this poster, we present the rare differential diagnosis of epipericardial fat necrosis (EFN) as a cause of acute pleuritic chest pain in a patient with normal laboratory results and in the presence of no acute ECG changes. We demonstrate the...
title: You Make Me Feel Like Dancing – Incidental Finding of Dancing Megasperm on Ultrasound
Creators: name: Lewis, Marissa
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genital / Reproductive system male
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Other

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To appreciate the radiological appearance of the “dancing megasperm” phenomenon Discuss the clinical context for this incidental...
title: Beyond the usual way – a new hybrid technique for ileocolic intussusception reduction in the paediatric population.
Creators: name: Norman, Edward
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: Paediatric
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Other
subject: Acute

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To describe our hybrid technique for ileocolic intussusception reduction in the paediatric population along with examples of successful...
A framework for cultural heritage digital libraries in the developing world
Creators: name: Moulaison, Heather Lea
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: The purpose of this study is to investigate the role that Digital Libraries (DLs) can play in the transmission of information for non-literate people in the developing world. People from oral cultures are well-positioned to exploit DLs as a way of accessing audio-visual (A/V) documents if the DL is properly adapted. Cultural heritage documents created by researchers during fieldwork may be audio, video, or images that can be sources of national pride for non-literate citizens; these documents could be stored in a cultural heritage DL (CHDL) for online access by non-literate citizens. The primary methodology employed in this study is a review of relevant literature. National culture and universal usability contribute to cultural usability, the human aspects of DL use being explored. Machine aspects of DLs are investigated within the Library and Information Science (LIS) framework, with an emphasis on theories of organization of information and information retrieval, and a complementary discussion of the read/write Web. The concept of DL interface as intermediary between humans and machines is explored in the context of the developing world. Supplementary methodologies for approaching the problem of access for non-literate users in the developing world include ethnographically-based reflections on daily life, opportunistic conversations with colleagues in Morocco during a 10-month Fulbright teaching grant, and a content analysis of Moroccan Web sites. The resulting framework considers the differences between Western and non-Western cultures in terms of system structure and interface design in light of the "mental programming" of non-literate users. Contributions of this study include recommendations for ways to meet needs of non-literate citizens, with an emphasis on the role of the community instead of the individual. This study recommends that each national culture be studied in order for a successful CHDL to be created. It also outlines a paradigm shift in library services in the developing world to consider the provision of access to A/V materials for non-literate citizens through DLs. Suggested future work includes the creation of a CHDL with read/write functionalities supporting contributions by non-literate citizens to democratize information creation along with access.
Lidar Upsampling with Sliced Wasserstein Distance
Creators: name: Savkin, Artem
name: Wang, Yida
name: Wirkert, Sebastian
name: Navab, Nassir
name: Tombar, Federico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Lidar became an important component of the perception systems in autonomous driving. But challenges of training data acquisition and annotation made emphasized the role of the sensor to sensor domain adaptation. In this work, we address the problem of lidar upsampling. Learning on lidar point clouds is rather a challenging task due to their irregular and sparse structure. Here we propose a method for lidar point cloud upsampling which can reconstruct fine-grained lidar scan patterns. The key idea is to utilize edge-aware dense convolutions for both feature extraction and feature expansion. Additionally applying a more accurate Sliced Wasserstein Distance facilitates learning of the fine lidar sweep structures. This in turn enables our method to employ a one-stage upsampling paradigm without the need for coarse and fine reconstruction. We conduct several experiments to evaluate our method and demonstrate that it provides better upsampling.
Can we use Weak Lensing to Measure Total Mass Profiles of Galaxies on 20 kiloparsec Scales?
Creators: name: Kobayashi, Masato I. N.
name: Leauthaud, Alexie
name: More, Surhud
name: Okabe, Nobuhiro
name: Laigle, Clotilde
name: Rhodes, Jason
name: Takeuchi, Tsutomu T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Current constraints on dark matter density profiles from weak lensing are typically limited to radial scales greater than 50-100 kpc. In this paper, we explore the possibility of probing the very inner regions of galaxy/halo density profiles by measuring stacked weak lensing on scales of only a few tens of kpc. Our forecasts focus on scales smaller than the equality radius (Req) where the stellar component and the dark matter component contribute equally to the lensing signal. We compute the evolution of Req as a function of lens stellar mass and redshift and show that Req=7-34 kpc for galaxies with the stellar mass of 10^{9.5}-10^{11.5} solar masses. Unbiased shear measurements will be challenging on these scales. We introduce a simple metric to quantify how many source galaxies overlap with their neighbours and for which shear measurements will be challenging. Rejecting source galaxies with close-by companions results in about a 20 per cent decrease in the overall source density. Despite this decrease, we show that Euclid and WFIRST will be able to constrain galaxy/halo density profiles at Req with signal-to-noise ratio >20 for the stellar mass of >10^{10} solar masses. Weak lensing measurements at Req, in combination with stellar kinematics on smaller scales, will be a powerful means by which to constrain both the inner slope of the dark matter density profile as well as the mass and redshift dependence of the stellar initial mass function.
description: 19 pages, 14 figures, 3 tables, submitted to MNRAS, included the referee comments
A compact, continuous-wave terahertz source based on a quantum-cascade laser and a miniature cryocooler
Creators: name: Richter, H.
name: Greiner-Bär, M.
name: Pavlov, S.G.
name: Semenov, A.D.
name: Wienold, M.
name: Schrottke, L.
name: Giehler, M.
name: Hey, R.
name: Grahn, H.T.
name: Hübers, H.-W.
Publisher: name: Washington, DC : Optical Society of America
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Semiconductor lasers
subject: quantum cascade
subject: Laser beam shaping
subject: Infrared
subject: far
subject: Spectroscopy
subject: terahertz
subject: 620

description: We report on the development of a compact, easy-to-use terahertz radiation source, which combines a quantum-cascade laser (QCL) operating at 3.1 THz with a compact, low-input-power Stirling cooler. The QCL, which is based on a two-miniband design, has been developed for high output and low electrical pump power. The amount of generated heat complies with the nominal cooling capacity of the Stirling cooler of 7 W at 65 K with 240 W of electrical input power. Special care has been taken to achieve a good thermal coupling between the QCL and the cold finger of the cooler. The whole system weighs less than 15 kg including the cooler and power supplies. The maximum output power is 8 mW at 3.1 THz. With an appropriate optical beam shaping, the emission profile of the laser is fundamental Gaussian. The applicability of the system is demonstrated by imaging and molecular-spectroscopy experiments.
Hadron structure functions at small $x$ from string theory
Creators: name: Koile, Ezequiel
name: Kovensky, Nicolas
name: Schvellinger, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Deep inelastic scattering of leptons from hadrons at small values of the Bjorken parameter $x$ is studied from superstring theory. In particular, we focus on single-flavored scalar and vector mesons in the large $N$ limit. This is studied in terms of different holographic dual models with flavor Dp-branes in type IIA and type IIB superstring theories, in the strong coupling limit of the corresponding dual gauge theories. We derive the hadronic tensor and the structure functions for scalar and polarized vector mesons. In particular, for polarized vector mesons we obtain the eight structure functions at small values of the Bjorken parameter. The main result is that we obtain new relations of the Callan-Gross type for several structure functions. These relations have similarities for all different Dp-brane models that we consider. This would suggest their universal character, and therefore, it is possible that they hold for strongly coupled QCD in the large $N$ limit.
description: 50 pages, 6 figures
title: Audit of consecutive CTC cases after introduction of a non-laxative oral preparation – what works; where can we improve?
Creators: name: Lee, Ju Won
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: CT-Colonography
subject: Other
subject: Cancer

description: Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: AtNorth Shore and Waitakere Hospitals in Auckland, New Zealand, we have recently discontinued using laxative oral preparations and barium for CT colonography (CTC). Although no previous audits are available for comparison, we decided to assess...
Modeling of two different water uptake approaches for mono-and mixed-species forest stands
Creators: name: Gutsch, Martin
name: Lasch-Born, Petra
name: Suckow, Felicitas
name: Reyer, Christopher P.O.
Publisher: name: Basel : MDPI
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 4C
subject: drought
subject: forest modeling
subject: root water uptake
subject: climate change
subject: model validation
subject: 500

description: To assess how the effects of drought could be better captured in process-based models, this study simulated and contrasted two water uptake approaches in Scots pine and Scots pine-Sessile oak stands. The first approach consisted of an empirical function for root water uptake (WU1). The second approach was based on differences of soil water potential along a soil-plant-atmosphere continuum (WU2) with total root resistance varying at low, medium and high total root resistance levels. Three data sets on different time scales relevant for tree growth were used for model evaluation: Two short-term datasets on daily transpiration and soil water content as well as a long-term dataset on annual tree ring increments. Except WU2 with high total root resistance, all transpiration outputs exceeded observed values. The strongest correlation between simulated and observed annual tree ring width occurred with WU2 and high total root resistance. The findings highlighted the importance of severe drought as a main reason for small diameter increment. However, if all three data sets were taken into account, no approach was superior to the other. We conclude that accurate projections of future forest productivity depend largely on the realistic representation of root water uptake in forest model simulations.
Accelerated Bose-Einstein condensates in a double-well potential
Creators: name: Sacchetti, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Devices based on ultracold atoms moving in an accelerating optical lattice or double-well potential are a promising tool for precise measurements of fundamental physical constants as well as for the construction of sensors. Here, we carefully analyze the model of a couple of BECs separated by a barrier in an accelerated field and we show how the observable quantities, mainly the period of the beating motion or of the phase-shift, are related to the physical parameters of the model as well as to the energy of the initial state.
description: 5 figures
title: Sustainable value in the fashion industry: A case study of value construction/destruction using digital twins
Creators: name: Wagner, Ralf
name: Kabalska, Agnieszka
Publisher: name: Universität Kassel
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: digital twin
subject: fashion
subject: sustainability
subject: sustainable value
subject: value creation
subject: 300
subject: 330
subject: Digitaler Zwilling
subject: Mode
subject: Nachhaltigkeit
subject: Wert
subject: Wertschöpfung

description: Gefördert im Rahmen des Projekts DEAL
So Far, It Has Not Been Possible: Rubber, Geopolitics, and the Transformation of China’s Infinite Southern Frontier
Creators: name: Sojourner, James
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: In 1949, when the Chinese Communist Party seized power in China, the new state produced no raw rubber. By the end of the 1980s, the People's Republic of China was one of the top producers of raw rubber in the world. Rubber is a key input for industry. In the early days of the Cold War, an American embargo on strategic materials for the PRC, including rubber, forced Beijing to embark on a massive, state-led project to turn China's state-resistant southern frontiers into productive rubber plantations. The mass migration and ecological transformation such a project entailed remade the landscape of the southern borderlands—both literal and political—and allowed the Chinese state to consolidate control of regions that had resisted its advance for a millennium. In just three decades, using rubber as its tool, the PRC completed a movement southward of the Chinese central state that had begun with the Song Dynasty, folded the southern frontiers into the emergent nation-state, and built a key resource base to help power its economic miracle in the 1980s and beyond.
title: Junior doctors do not understand contrast phases in CT imaging – results from a single-centre survey.
Creators: name: Ajjikuttira, Aiyapa
Publisher: name: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Contrast agents
subject: CT
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Education and training

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Purpose: Cross sectional computed tomography (CT) is an important investigation in the clinician’s arsenal. Contrast-enhancement allows tissue of interest to be more readily visualised against surrounding structures. 1 However, tissue appearance in a...
Additional file 12 of Disruption of maternal vascular remodeling by a fetal endoretrovirus-derived gene in preeclampsia
Creators: name: Gong, Xiaoli
name: He, Wei
name: Jin, Wan
name: Ma, Hongwei
name: Wang, Gang
name: Li, Jiaxin
name: Xiao, Yu
name: Zhao, Yangyu
name: Chen, Qiong
name: Guo, Huanhuan
name: Yang, Jiexia
name: Qi, Yiming
name: Dong, Wei
name: Fu, Meng
name: Li, Xiaojuan
name: Liu, Jiusi
name: Liu, Xinghui
name: Yin, Aihua
name: Zhang, Yi
name: Wei, Yuan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 12. Review history.
The KOBE experiment: looking for habitable worlds around late K-dwarf stars
Creators: name: Lillo-Box, Jorge
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Exoplanets, K-dwarfs, radial velocity, detection

description: The study of habitable exoplanets will be clearly enhanced in the coming years by the development of high-spatial resolution and high-contrast instrumentation that will allow the direct detection of planets (and thence the study of their atmospheres) in the habitable zone of solar-type stars (and even M-dwarfs). On one hand, the sweet spot for habitability in astrophysical terms requires relatively quiet stellar hosts, with M dwarfs clearly threatening their habitable planets. On the other hand, the need for targets hosting habitable planets amenable to this new technological capabilities requires that those planets are easily detectable, with habitable zone periods in G dwarfs being too long for RV characterization. Hence, K-dwarfs and specifically the late K-dwarfs are the Goldilocks environments for this purpose. In this poster I summarise the goals and status of the KOBE experiment survey taking place with the CARMENES instrument, devoted to this relevant role.
All field emission experiments are noisy, {\ldots} are any meaningful?
Creators: name: Ayari, Anthony
name: Vincent, Pascal
name: Perisanu, Sorin
name: Poncharal, Philippe
name: Purcell, Stephen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Representing field emission data on a Fowler--Nordheim plot is both very common and strongly not recommended. It leads to a spurious estimation of the emitter parameters despite a very good data fit. There is a lack of a reliable method of analysis and a proper estimation of the uncertainty in the extracted parameters. In this article, we show that the uncertainty in the estimation of the field enhancement factor or the emission area can be as high as [Formula: see text] even for a tungsten single emitter in good ultrahigh vacuum conditions analyzed by the Murphy--Good model. Moreover, the choice of the exact Murphy--Good method can have a noticeable impact. We found that advanced analysis methods, based on the measurement of the differential conductance of the emitter, are so demanding in terms of emitter stability that up to now its requirements are probably out of reach in any field emission laboratory.
The Occurrence Rate of Terrestrial Planets Orbiting Nearby Mid-to-late M Dwarfs
Creators: name: Charbonneau, David
name: Ment, Kristo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: We present an analysis of a volume-complete sample of 363 mid-to-late M dwarfs within 15 pc of the Sun with masses between 0.1 and 0.3 M⊙ observed by TESS. We search the TESS 2-minute cadence light curves for transiting planets with orbital periods below 7 days and recover all 6 known planets within the sample as well as a likely planet candidate orbiting LHS 475. Each of these planets is consistent with a terrestrial composition, with planet radii ranging from 0.91 R⊕ to 1.31 R⊕. We perform a transit injection and recovery analysis to characterize the sensitivity as a function of planet radius, insolation, and orbital period. We obtain a cumulative occurrence rate of 0.61 terrestrial planets per M dwarf with radii above 0.5 R⊕ and orbital periods between 0.4-7 days. We find that for comparable insolations, planets larger than 1.5 R⊕ (sub-Neptunes and water worlds) are significantly less abundant around mid-to-late M dwarfs compared to earlier-type stars, while the occurrence rate of terrestrial planets is comparable to that of more massive M dwarfs. We estimate that overall, terrestrials outnumber sub-Neptunes around mid-to-late M dwarfs at a ratio of 14 to 1, in contrast to GK dwarfs where they are roughly equinumerous. We find evidence for a downturn in occurrence rates for planet radii below 0.9 R⊕, suggesting that Earth-sized and larger terrestrials may be more common than Mars-sized worlds. We will also summarize work to understand the duration of the active phase of these stars, which indicates that their attendant terrestrial planets experienced very high radiation and particle fluxes for 3 Gyr, sculpting or destroying their secondary atmospheres.
Rotochemical heating of millisecond and classical pulsars with anisotropic and density-dependent superfluid gap models
Creators: name: González-Jiménez, Nicolás
name: Petrovich, Cristobal
name: Reisenegger, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: When a rotating neutron star loses angular momentum, the progressive reduction of the centrifugal force makes it contract. This perturbs each fluid element, raising the local pressure and originating deviations from beta equilibrium, inducing reactions that release heat (rotochemical heating). This effect has previously been studied by Fernández & Reisenegger (2005) for non-superfluid neutron stars and by Petrovich & Reisenegger (2010) for superfluid millisecond pulsars. Both studies found that pulsars reach a quasi-steady state in which the compression driving the matter out of beta equilibrium is balanced by the reactions trying to restore the equilibrium. We extend previous studies by considering the effect of density-dependence and anisotropy of the superfluid energy gaps, for the case in which the dominant reactions are the modified Urca processes, the protons are non-superconducting, and the neutron superfluidity is parametrized by models proposed in the literature. By comparing our predictions with the surface temperature of the millisecond pulsar PSR J0437-4715 and upper limits for twenty-one classical pulsars, we find the millisecond pulsar can be only explained by the models with the effectively largest energy gaps (type B models), the classical pulsars require with the gap models that vanish for some angle (type C) and two different envelope compositions. Thus, no single model for neutron superfluidity can simultaneously account for the thermal emission of all available observations of non-accreting neutron stars, possibly due to our neglect of proton superconductivity.
description: 14 pages, 11 figures
Reactions To The Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM) By Psychodynamic, CBT And Other Non- Psychodynamic Psychologists
Creators: name: Gordon, Robert
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Clinical psychology

description: The Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM Task Force, 2006) was introduced to 192 psychologists as part of either ethics/risk management or MMPI-2 workshops; 65 were psychodynamic, 76 CBT and 51 other non-psychodynamic psychologists (i.e. systems, humanistic/existential, eclectic with no primary preference, etc.). Over all the psychologists gave the PDM a 90% favorable rating. There were no differences between the psychodynamic and other nonpsychodynamic psychologists in their ratings of the PDM. Only the CBT psychologists significantly rated two out of four questions less than the psychodynamic psychologists in the areas requiring more abstract reasoning or psychological mindedness. For these psychologists, a non-hermeneutic, concrete language may help in communicating a psychodynamic formulation. The appreciation of the PDMacross theoretical orientations suggests the need for greater psychodynamic and PDM education in psychology programs.
But they did not build this house
Creators: name: Phalen, William J.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2010

description: This dissertation will examine the attitude of American Evangelical Protestantism towards immigration to the United States from its inception until the Immigration Act of 1924. It will also take into consideration the effect that the Roman Catholic Church had upon the evangelist's thinking on the subject of immigration. The examination will include the formation of the evangelist's ideas during the American antebellum period when evangelism became a primary part of the Protestant ethos.The dissertation's chapters will outline the effect that this basically non-Protestant immigration had on American: cities, politics, and education. It will also deal with the evangelist's chief adversary, the Irish and their control of the American Catholic Church as well as their control of politics in the large urban areas of the Northeast. Chapter four will take the reader through one of the evangelist's primary organizations for recognizing and combating its problems, the Evangelical Alliance. A chapter also treats with an evangelical success; the enactment of a law against alcohol, a problem that the evangelists believed was primarily fostered by the Irish and German immigrants. Finally, the conclusion, which is split into two parts, one giving the necessity for immigration restriction from the viewpoint of the nativist, and the other from the viewpoint of the evangelist, a necessity which has been proven by the words of the evangelists themselves in their writings, speeches, and sermons.
The Rocky Planets in Equatorial Stars program at IAC
Creators: name: Nari, Nicola
name: Suárez Mascareño, Alejandro
name: Passegger, Vera Maria
name: Rebolo López, Rafael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The search for exoplanets orbiting solar-type stars is one of particular importance. Thanks to the large angular separation between the planets and the stars, the planets orbiting these stars are prime candidates for characterization with future high-contrast instruments, such as ANDES for the ELT or space missions like NASA HabEx or LUVOIR, or the ESA LIFE mission. Past and current photometric missions have contributed greatly to the characterization of the inner regions of planetary systems. However, for moderate-to-long orbital periods, the situation is very different. Transit missions have difficulties accessing this region of the parameter space. The only way to find planets at these orbital periods and establish their occurrence rates is with long-term radial velocity campaigns. The RoPES program, led by the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, aims to investigate the presence of super-Earths and mini-Neptunes at orbital periods compatible with the habitable zone of these systems. To do that, an intensive observational campaign with the HARPS and HARPS-N spectrographs is conducted, to create a dense sample of observations for more than 20 systems over a long timescale, to characterize both the short and long-term Keplerian and activity signals. The sample of the RoPES program consists of low-activity stars with spectral types between G0 and K3, and V-magnitudes between 3 and 9. This program has already obtained its first results, with the discovery and publication of a multi-planetary system (HD176896). We are currently working on several new candidate planetary systems, which we expect to confirm over the coming months.