cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Dehydration of Animal Wastes from Livestock Markets
Creators: name: Mayes, Herman F.
name: Webb, Tarvin F.
name: Mayes, Herman F.
name: Webb, Tarvin F.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1973
Subjects: subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Production Economics
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Report Summary: Dehydration of cattle manure from livestock markets is a practical method of reducing the moisture content to a low level. The dried material can be merchandised as a specialty fertilizer. The four dehydrating plants covered in this study used rotary dryers with internal flighting. All dryers were direct fired using natural gas. The dehydrators had a relatively large electrical power demand. The moisture content of the raw material coming into the plant ranged from 38 to 65 percent. Raw material above 60-percent moisture tends to form balls which are extremely difficult to dry. Other problems which must be considered in operating a dehydrating plant are the possibility of fire in the storage areas, the abrasive effects of the dried product on duct work and elevator and auger housings, the effects of dust caused by dried material upon both workers and equipment, and the odor which is generally present at a manure dehydrating plant. The total operating cost for producing a pound of dried product ranges from 1.6 to 2.2 cents. Labor costs account for two-thirds of this total. Other costs include fuel, electricity, and repairs. Generally, the selling price of the dehydrated product only covers costs, and no profit is realized. Dehydration, however, may be the lowest cost method of disposing of large volumes of cattle manure and bedding. The dehydrated product is sold as a low-analysis fertilizer packaged in small units and is retailed through hardware stores, nurseries, and lawn and garden supply stores.
description: Prepared by Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture in cooperation with Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station.
Investigating student teachers’ responses to including sustainable development as part of their professional digital competence development
Creators: name: McGarr, Oliver
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education

description: This article puts forward the case for the inclusion of sustainability as an element of teachers’ professional digital competence. Following this, the article explores student teachers’ reaction to a course on digital technologies and sustainability. An online survey was used to record the student teachers’ reactions to the course and how they felt its content would influence their future actions. The student teachers had limited prior knowledge of the topic, but almost all acknowledged its importance, particularly in raising their awareness of global inequality. The student teachers reported they would change their purchasing habits, although some acknowledged that it would be difficult. Most believed it would influence their teaching, but perceived curriculum demands and school expectations tempered their expectations of what they believed they could achieve.
Constituency parsing via few shot prompting
Creators: name: Chavan, Anindita
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2023

description: Constituency parsing is a fundamental task in natural language processing (NLP) that involves analyzing the grammatical structure of a sentence and identifying its constituent parts, such as noun phrases, verb phrases, and clauses. Prompting pretrained large language models (LLMs) has dramatically improved the state of the art in NLP across many tasks. This leads us to the substantial interest in analyzing the syntactic knowledge that LLMs learn. In this work, we use prompting in zero shot and chain-of-thought setting on various LLMs with multiple prompt formats. The experiments carried out on Codex asking for direct parse trees given a sentence gives an F1 score of 62.8 which beats the current state-of-the-art by 5 points.
Traité de logique formelle tétravalente (French edition)
Creators: name: Célia-Violaine Bouchard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: logique, formelle, tétravalente, Fermat, implicite, table, vérité, nodale, mantisse, matriciel, opérateur, groupe, transformée, intégrale

description: La logique formelle d’ordre égal ou supérieur à quatre a trouvé
au cours du 20ème siècle jusqu’aux jours actuels que peu de
développements restant pour la plupart au niveau de
balbutiements C.F. les travaux inachevés du mathématicien
Emil Post († 57 ans T.) et ceux de Pierre de Fermat († 1665
A.T.). L’Univers entropique dans lequel nous évoluons en tant
qu’êtres pensants biologiquement constitués, est complexe
tout en étant simple, ce paradoxe apparent est la
conséquence d’un ensemble de lois qui régissent cet univers
selon des modalités relationnant entre elles des
déterminismes et des non déterministes immuables.
Unionicola (Conroyatax) setifera Cook 1967
Creators: name: Pešić, Vladimir
name: Chatterjee, Tapas
name: Bordoloi, Sabitry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Unionicolidae
Unionicola
Unionicola setifera

description: Unionicola (Conroyatax) setifera Cook, 1967
Records from the study area: Karnataka, Tamil Nadu—Cook (1967); Prasad (1974).
Habitat: Ponds.
Distribution: India, Sri Lanka
description: Published as part of Pešić, Vladimir, Chatterjee, Tapas & Bordoloi, Sabitry, 2010, A checklist of the water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) of India, with new records and description of one new species, pp. 1-54 in Zootaxa 2617 (1) on page 35, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2617.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/197964
Practice based education to improve delivery systems for prevention in primary care: randomised trial
Creators: name: Stuart, Jayne M
name: Keyes-Elstein, Lynette
name: Lannon, Carole M
name: Margolis, Peter A
name: Moore, Donald E
name: Fried, Bruce J
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2004

description: Objective To examine the effectiveness of an intervention that combined continuing medical education with process improvement methods to implement “office systems” to improve the delivery of preventive care to children.
Futurescan 3: Intersecting Identities - Contents
Creators: name: Figshare Admin Futurescan
Publisher: name: FUTURESCAN
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 120306 Textile and Fashion Design
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: Contents of Futurescan 3: Intersecting Identities, Glasgow School of Art, 11th-12th November 2015.

Futurescan 3: Intersecting Identities
Edited by Helena Britt, Laura Morgan and Kerry WaltonNovember 2015
ISBN: 978 1 911217 08 4
Highly Pathogenic H5N1 Avian Influenza Viruses Exhibit Few Barriers to Gene Flow in Vietnam
Creators: name: Wan, Xiu-Feng
name: Emch, Michael
name: Nguyen, Tung
name: Carrel, Margaret
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Locating areas where genetic change is inhibited can illuminate underlying processes that drive evolution of pathogens. The persistence of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza in Vietnam since 2003, and the continuous molecular evolution of Vietnamese avian influenza viruses, indicates that local environmental factors are supportive not only of incidence but also of viral adaptation. This article explores whether gene flow is constant across Vietnam, or whether there exist boundary areas where gene flow exhibits discontinuity. Using a dataset of 125 highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza viruses, principal components analysis and wombling analysis are used to indicate the location, magnitude, and statistical significance of genetic boundaries. Results show that a small number of geographically minor boundaries to gene flow in highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza viruses exist in Vietnam, but that overall there is little division in genetic exchange. This suggests that differences in genetic characteristics of viruses from one region to another are not the result of barriers to H5N1 viral exchange in Vietnam, and that H5N1 avian influenza is able to spread relatively unimpeded across the country.
Unified parameter for localization in isotope-selective rotational excitation of diatomic molecules using a train of optical pulses
Creators: name: Matsuoka, Leo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We obtained a simple theoretical unified parameter for the characterization of rotational population propagation of diatomic molecules in a periodic train of resonant optical pulses. The parameter comprises the peak intensity and interval between the pulses, and the level energies of the initial and final rotational states of the molecule. Using the unified parameter, we can predict the upper and lower boundaries of probability localization on the rotational level network, including the effect of centrifugal distortion. The unified parameter was tentatively derived from an analytical expression obtained by performing rotating-wave approximation and spectral decomposition of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation under an assumption of time-order invariance. The validity of the parameter was confirmed by comparison with numerical simulations for isotope-selective rotational excitation of KCl molecules.
Assessing the application of a geographic presence-only model for land suitability mapping
Creators: name: Heumann, Benjamin W.
name: McDaniel, Phillip M.
name: Walsh, Stephen J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Recent advances in ecological modeling have focused on novel methods for characterizing the environment that use presence-only data and machine-learning algorithms to predict the likelihood of species occurrence. These novel methods may have great potential for land suitability applications in the developing world where detailed land cover information is often unavailable or incomplete. This paper assesses the adaptation and application of the presence-only geographic species distribution model, MaxEnt, for agricultural crop suitability mapping in a rural Thailand where lowland paddy rice and upland field crops predominant. To assess this modeling approach, three independent crop presence datasets were used including a social-demographic survey of farm households, a remote sensing classification of land use/land cover, and ground control points, used for geodetic and thematic reference that vary in their geographic distribution and sample size. Disparate environmental data were integrated to characterize environmental settings across Nang Rong District, a region of approximately 1,300 sq. km in size. Results indicate that the MaxEnt model is capable of modeling crop suitability for upland and lowland crops, including rice varieties, although model results varied between datasets due to the high sensitivity of the model to the distribution of observed crop locations in geographic and environmental space. Accuracy assessments indicate that model outcomes were influenced by the sample size and the distribution of sample points in geographic and environmental space. The need for further research into accuracy assessments of presence-only models lacking true absence data is discussed. We conclude that the Maxent model can provide good estimates of crop suitability, but many areas need to be carefully scrutinized including geographic distribution of input data and assessment methods to ensure realistic modeling results.
Theoretical and experimental investigation of vacancy-based doping of monolayer MoS$_2$ on oxide
Creators: name: Valsaraj, Amithraj
name: Chang, Jiwon
name: Rai, Amritesh
name: Register, Leonard F.
name: Banerjee, Sanjay K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides are novel, gapped two-dimensional materials. Toward device applications, we consider MoS$_2$ layers on dielectrics, in particular in this work, the effect of vacancies on the electronic structure. In density-functional based simulations, we consider the effects of near-interface O vacancies in the oxide slab, and Mo or S vacancies in the MoS$_2$ layer. Band structures and atom-projected densities of states for each system and with differing oxide terminations were calculated, as well as those for the defect-free MoS$_2$-dielectrics system and for isolated dielectric layers for reference. Among our results, we find that with O vacancies, both the Hf-terminated HfO$_2$-MoS$_2$ system, and the O-terminated and H-passivated Al$_2$O$_3$-MoS$_2$ systems appear metallic due to doping of the oxide slab followed by electron transfer into the MoS$_2$, in manner analogous to modulation doping. The n-type doping of monolayer MoS$_2$ by high-k oxides with oxygen vacancies then is experimentally demonstrated by electrically and spectroscopically characterizing back-gated monolayer MoS$_2$ field effect transistors encapsulated by oxygen deficient alumina and hafnia.
description: Updated author list to reflect journal version
Utilization of Agricultural Crop Residues: An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Publications, 1966-76
Creators: name: Han, Y. W.
name: Smith, S. K.
name: Han, Y. W.
name: Smith, S. K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1978
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: waste utilization
subject: cellulose
subject: lignin
subject: animal feed
subject: protein
subject: fuel
subject: fiber
subject: food
subject: energy
subject: straw
subject: digestibility
subject: decomposition
subject: nutrition
subject: pollution
subject: compost
subject: fertilizer
subject: furfural
subject: xylitol
subject: ensiling
subject: single cell protein
subject: mulch
subject: soil conditioner
subject: cubing
subject: pelleting

description: This publication illustrates the great diversity of problems involved in utilizing agricultural crop residues and offers a guide to some of the important investigations in this field. Data were collected from a large number of U.S. and foreign publications to make them more easily available to researchers, farmers, and policymakers of agricultural management. There are 642 titles that were selected from Chemical Abstracts, Biological Abstracts, the National Agricultural Library Catalog (CAIN), and Food Science and Technology Abstracts published from 1966 through 1976. Abstracts were made either from other abstracts or from the original journal articles. Agricultural crop residues, which consist mainly of cellulose, hemicellulose, lignin, pectin, and other plant carbohydrates, can best be utilized as one of the five F's: Fuel, Fiber, Fertilizer, Feed, and Food. These utilization methods are broadly grouped into four categories: (1) Direct uses, (2) mechanical conversions, (3) chemical conversions, and (4) biological conversions.
description: Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture in Cooperation with Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station. Author and subject indexes included.
Social greenway in Jersey City: connecting the community with history and cultural nodes
Creators: name: Miranda, Aury Alejandra
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2023

description: The Morris Canal was a meaningful way of transportation in New Jersey during the early 1800s, which led to a new gate for the state's economy. This thesis investigated the history of the Morris Canal, its importance, and its impact on Jersey City. This research has the purpose of educating the reader on the history of this elaborate topic. This then opens the gate for the proposal of creating social nodes that reinforce the Morris Canal Greenway Plan that the city and different collaborations planned. This thesis includes the demography analysis of the Jersey City communities that informs on selecting the possible space to benefit from creating social nodes. The design proposal consists of developing three nodes with the design of different interactive elements where the community can get involved, learn, and socialize with each other. Through the research, many of the different materials that could be used to develop the node sites were discovered.
Engel relations in 4-manifold topology
Creators: name: Freedman, Michael
name: Krushkal, Vyacheslav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We give two applications of the 2-Engel relation, classically studied in finite and Lie groups, to the 4-dimensional topological surgery conjecture. The A-B slice problem, a reformulation of the surgery conjecture for free groups, is shown to admit a homotopy solution. We also exhibit a new collection of universal surgery problems, defined using ramifications of homotopically trivial links. More generally we show how n-Engel relations arise from higher order double points of surfaces in 4-space.
description: 53 pages. v3: Definition of weak link homotopy has been clarified and expanded (new section 6); other improvements in exposition
The evolution of preference strength under sensory bias: a role for indirect selection?
Creators: name: Frame, Alicia M.
name: Servedio, Maria R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Evidence suggests that female preferences may sometimes arise through sensory bias, and that males may subsequently evolve traits that increase their conspicuousness to females. Here, we ask whether indirect selection, arising through genetic associations (linkage disequilibrium) during the sexual selection that sensory bias imposes, can itself influence the evolution of preference strength. Specifically, we use population genetic models to consider whether or not modifiers of preference strength can spread under different ecological conditions when female mate choice is driven by sensory bias. We focus on male traits that make a male more conspicuous in certain habitats—and thus both more visible to predators and more attractive to females—and examine modifiers of the strength of preference for conspicuous males. We first solve for the rate of spread of a modifier that strengthens preference within an environmentally uniform population; we illustrate that this spread will be extremely slow. Second, we used a series of simulations to consider the role of habitat structure and movement on the evolution of a modifier of preference strength, using male color polymorphisms as a case study. We find that in most cases, indirect selection does not allow the evolution of stronger or weaker preferences for sensory bias. Only in a “two-island” model, where there is restricted migration between different patches that favor different male phenotypes, did we find that preference strength could evolve. The role of indirect selection in the evolution of sensory bias is of particular interest because of ongoing speculation regarding the role of sensory bias in the evolution of reproductive isolation.
title: Aqueous polyoxometalates: design and analysis of electrochemical catalysts for the indirect reduction of oxygen in PEM fuel cells
Creators: name: Alston, Ben
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2014

description: The applicability of aqueous, mixed addenda polyoxometalates with the general formula [PMo12-xVxO40](3+x)- as catalysts for FlowCath® technology has been demonstrated. These compounds were used as a platinum substitute in the PEM fuel cell cathode for the indirect reduction of oxygen. The effect of increased vanadium substitution within the Keggin structure upon the diffusion coefficient (Do) and the standard rate constant for electron transfer (ko) was investigated via simulation and electrochemical analysis. The apparent decrease in electrode kinetics linked with increased vanadium substitution is explained via simulation modelling, with the VxPOMs systems demonstrating multiple redox processes. The effects of solvent and electrode material upon the voltammetry are also discussed. Self supporting conditions analogous to the in fuel cell were employed to the VxPOM catalysts and their behaviour compared to the [Fe(CN)6]4-/3- redox couple via CV, simulation and RDE analysis. The resulting self-supported [Fe(CN)6]3-/4- system demonstrated significantly increased currents, but less than theoretically expected due to increases in cell resistance. The self-supported VxPOM system electrode processes are hindered due to the formation of a VO20 driven blocking layer reducing the actual potential experienced by the redox active species at the electrode surface. The resulting blocking layer prevented the VxPOM from approaching the electrode surface thus not experiencing the actual potential applied at the electrode surface. Tafel plots based upon the VxPOM systems showed characteristics not resembling ‘classical’ Tafel analysis with curvature preventing extrapolation for exchange current density. An ‘alternative’ analysis method involving the interpolation of the raw rotating disc electrode data to determine the required overpotential to generate a desired current was developed. The regeneration of the V4POM catalysts was investigated which demonstrated a possible change in speciation and a more ordered structure based upon single crystal X-ray analysis. The effects of formulation development of the lead V4POM catalyst upon its electrochemical and fuel cell performance were investigated. Substitution of Na+ counter ions with H+ (HV4POM) showed a decrease in charge transfer resistance (Rc) as well increase in membrane resistance (Rs) and cathodic current. The affects of adding stoichiometric quantities of H3PO4, HBF4 and VOSO4 were investigated with RDE and fuel cell testing indicating improved performance for the HBF4 formulation at fuel cell conditions. The effects of current developments in FlowCath® technology upon the H3PO4 formulation are also discussed.
Hydration-induced protomer switching in p-aminobenzoic acid studied by cold double ion trap infrared spectroscopy
Creators: name: Akasaka, Kyota
name: Hirata, Keisuke
name: Haddad, Fuad
name: Dopfer, Otto
name: Ishiuchi, Shun-Ichi
name: Fujii, Masaaki
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::540 Chemie::541 Physikalische Chemie
subject: synthesis
subject: para-aminobenzoic acid
subject: PABAH+
subject: gas-phase
subject: spectrometry

description: Para-Aminobenzoic acid (PABA) is a benchmark molecule to study solvent-induced proton site switching. Protonation of the carboxy and amino groups of PABA generates O- and N-protomers of PABAH+, respectively. Ion mobility mass spectrometry (IMS) and infrared photodissociation (IRPD) studies have claimed that the O-protomer most stable in the gas phase is converted to the N-protomer most stable in solution upon hydration with six water molecules in the gas-phase cluster. However, the threshold size has remained ambiguous because the arrival time distributions in the IMS experiments exhibit multiple peaks. On the other hand, IRPD spectroscopy could not detect the N-protomer for smaller hydrated clusters because of broad background due to annealing required to reduce kinetic trapping. Herein, we report the threshold size for O → N protomer switching without ambiguity using IR spectroscopy in a double ion trap spectrometer from 1300 to 1800 cm−1. The pure O-protomer is prepared by electrospray, and size-specific hydrated clusters are formed in a reaction ion trap. The resulting clusters are transferred into a second cryogenic ion trap and the distribution of O- and N-protomers is determined by mid-IR spectroscopy without broadening. The threshold to promote O → N protomer switching is indeed five water molecules. It is smaller than the value reported previously, and as a result, its pentahydrated structure does not support the Grotthuss mechanism proposed previously. The extent of O → N proton transfer is evaluated by collision-assisted stripping IR spectroscopy, and the N-protomer population increases with the number of water molecules. This result is consistent with the dominant population of the N-protomer in aqueous solution.
The magnitude of behavioral isolation is affected by characteristics of the mating community
Creators: name: Matute, Daniel R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Gene exchange between species occurs in areas of secondary contact, where two species have the opportunity to hybridize. If heterospecific males are more common than conspecific males, females will experience more encounters with males of other species. These encounters might increase the likelihood of heterospecific matings, and lead to the production of hybrid progeny. I studied the mating behavior of two pairs of sibling species endemic to Africa: Drosophila yakuba/Drosophila santomea and Drosophila simulans/Drosophila sechellia. Drosophila yakuba and D. simulans are cosmopolitan species widely distributed in the African continent, while D. santomea and D. sechellia are island endemics. These pairs of species hybridize in nature and have the potential to exchange genes in natural conditions. I used these two pairs of Drosophila species, and constructed mating communities of different size and different heterospecific:conspecific composition. I found that both the total number of potential mates and the relative frequency of conspecific versus heterospecific males affect female mating decisions in the cosmopolitan species but not in the island endemics. These results suggest that the population characteristics, in which mating occurs, may affect the magnitude of premating isolation. Community composition might thus facilitate, or impair, gene flow between species.
Mesh-free free-form lensing I: Methodology and application to mass reconstruction
Creators: name: Merten, Julian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Many applications and algorithms in the field of gravitational lensing make use of meshes with a finite number of nodes to analyze and manipulate data. Specific examples in lensing are astronomical CCD images in general, the reconstruction of density distributions from lensing data, lens-source plane mapping or the characterization and interpolation of a point-spread-function. We present a numerical framework to interpolate and differentiate in the mesh-free domain, defined by nodes with coordinates that follow no regular pattern. The framework is based on radial basis functions (RBFs) to smoothly represent data around the nodes. We demonstrate the performance of Gaussian RBF-based, mesh-free interpolation and differentiation, which reaches the sub-percent level in both cases. We use our newly developed framework to translate ideas of free-form mass reconstruction from lensing onto the mesh-free domain. By reconstructing a simulated mock lens we find that strong lensing only reconstructions achieve < 10% accuracy in the areas where these constraints are available but provide poorer results when departing from these regions. Weak-lensing only reconstructions give < 10% percent accuracy outside the strong lensing regime, but cannot resolve the inner core structure of the lens. Once both regimes are combined, accurate reconstructions can be achieved over the full field of view. The reconstruction of a simulated lens, using constraints that mimics real observations, yields accurate results in terms of surface-mass density, NFW parameter, Einstein radius and magnification map recovery, encouraging the application of this method to real data.
description: 20 pages, 27 figures. Accepted for publication in the MNRAS
Futurescan 3: Valuing Practice - Foreword
Creators: name: Figshare Admin Futurescan
Publisher: name: FUTURESCAN
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 120306 Textile and Fashion Design
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: Foreword for Futurescan 3: Intersecting Identities, Glasgow School of Art, 11th-12th November 2015.

Futurescan 3: Intersecting Identities
Edited by Helena Britt, Laura Morgan and Kerry WaltonNovember 2015
ISBN: 978 1 911217 08 4
Suppressing Alignment: Joint PAPR and Out-of-Band Power Leakage Reduction for OFDM-Based Systems
Creators: name: Tom, Anas
name: Sahin, Alphan
name: Arslan, Huseyin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) inherently suffers from two major drawbacks: high out-of-band (OOB) power leakage and high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR). This paper proposes a novel approach called suppressing alignment for the joint reduction of the OOB power leakage and PAPR. The proposed approach exploits the temporal degrees of freedom provided by the cyclic prefix(CP), a necessary redundancy in OFDM systems, to generate a suppressing signal, that when added to the OFDM symbol, results in marked reduction in both the OOB power leakage and PAPR. Additionally, and in order to not cause any interference to the information data carried by the OFDM symbol, the proposed approach utilizes the wireless channel to perfectly align the suppressing signal with the CP duration at the OFDM receiver. Essentially, maintaining a bit error rate (BER) performance similar to legacy OFDM without requiring any change in the receiver structure.
description: Accepted, Journal-ref: IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 64, no. 3, 1100 - 1109, 2015
Futurescan 3: Valuing Practice - Keynote Speaker Biographies
Creators: name: Figshare Admin Futurescan
Publisher: name: FUTURESCAN
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 120306 Textile and Fashion Design
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: Keynote speaker biographies for Futurescan 3: Intersecting Identities, Glasgow School of Art, 11th-12th November 2015.

Futurescan 3: Intersecting Identities
Edited by Helena Britt, Laura Morgan and Kerry WaltonNovember 2015
ISBN: 978 1 911217 08 4
title: Novel amphiphilic branched copolymer nanoparticles as candidates for drug delivery
Creators: name: Slater, Rebecca
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2014

description: The methanolic atom transfer radical polymerisation (ATRP) of 2-hydroxypropyl methacrylate (HPMA) to controllably form the hydrophobic polymer p(HPMA) using a one-pot methodology at ambient temperature has been demonstrated, where polymerisations were shown to reach >99 % conversion. By simple variation of initiator:monomer feed ratio, polymers of varying chain length were synthesised. Using identical polymerisation conditions, addition of a small amount of ethylene glycol dimethacrylate (EGDMA) divinyl brancher resulted in the generation of high molecular weight branched copolymers without any modification of reaction kinetics. This approach was extended to include the first synthesis of linear and branched amphiphilic A-B block copolymers using polyethylene oxide (PEG) macroinitiators without loss of the ATRP controlled polymerisation. A series of systematically varying copolymers, containing variation in PEG length and/or variation in p(HPMA) primary chain length, have been synthesised to allow direct comparison of the impact of architectural variation on polymer properties. Nanopreciptation approaches were investigated for the linear and branched copolymers and extremely stable hydrophobic nanoparticles were produced using copolymers with branched architecture. Moreover, it has been shown that nanoparticle z-average diameter can be controlled using extremely facile methods. The loading capacity of amphiphilic branched A-B block copolymer nanoparticles with various guest-molecules has been systematically investigated. The world leading HIV/AIDS antiretroviral drug Lopinavir (LPV) was used in a preliminary loading screen and shown to produce candidate LPV/drug nanocarrier options for future studies and optimisation.
Defect-Induced Kondo Effect in graphene: Role of Localized State of $π$ Electrons
Creators: name: Kanao, Taro
name: Matsuura, Hiroyasu
name: Ogata, Masao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss a role of the localized $π$ orbital, which exists around the defect, on the defect-induced Kondo effect in graphene by a numerical renormalization group study. We find that the localized $π$ orbital assists this Kondo effect, and the Kondo temperature is sensitive to the broadening of the localized $π$ orbital. Secondly, we focus on the negative magnetoresistance of this Kondo effect. In the experimental result, it has been shown that the negative magnetoresistance is ten times larger than the usual Kondo effect. In order to clarify the mechanism of the "magnetic sensitive" Kondo effect, as a first step, we study an orbital magnetic field dependence of the localized $π$ orbital by a tight-binding model with a Peierls phase. We find that as the magnetic field increases, the spectral width of the localized $π$ orbital increases and the local DOS at the Fermi level decreases. Since the Kondo temperature is strongly dependent of the broadening of the localized $π$ orbital, it is expected that this Kondo effect is sensitive to the orbital magnetic field as observed in the experiment.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures. To be published in J. Phys. Conf. Series
Innovative Broiler Farming: Leveraging Hydroponics for Optimal Poultry Growth
Creators: name: Naresh M1*, Balamurugan N2,LokeshP1andB K Keerthi Reddy1
Publisher: name: veterinary today
Year: 2024

description: Abstract:Feed cost poses a greater challenge in broiler management asitaccounts for 70-80%.Exclusive reliance on traditional dietsand high cost formulated feedsalonemay hinder optimal broiler production.Therefore, exploring alternative feed sources is essential to address nutritional gaps in proteins, vitamins and minerals in poultry diets.Cereal fodder hydroponics is anovel cost-effective technique for growing plants, using water or nutrient-rich solution by regulating optimum temperature and humidity for the growth of sprouts andproduction of highly nutritious greenfodder for poultry andlivestock.Including both the seed and therootis highly consumable and contains a substantial protein content of 10-17%. It takes only 8 days to grow from seed tofodder.As an alternative feed source,hydroponic fodder can be integrated into broiler dietsowing to itssignificant benefits for broiler farmers by enhancing various aspects of poultry healthandproductionperformance.Further research studies are in the need of thehour for standardize this technologyand exploreits potential
New model of axion monodromy inflation and its cosmological implications
Creators: name: Cai, Yi-Fu
name: Chen, Fang
name: Ferreira, Elisa G. M.
name: Quintin, Jerome
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a new realization of axion monodromy inflation in which axion monodromy arises from torsional cycles in a type IIB compactification. A class of monomial potentials is obtained with specific values for the power index. Moreover, the inflaton mass changes profile due to the couplings between various fields after compactification. Consequently, the potential obtains a step-like profile at some critical scale. We study the cosmological implications of one concrete realization of this model. At the background level, it realizes a sufficiently long inflationary stage, which allows for the violation of the slow-roll conditions for a short period of time when the inflaton is close to the critical scale. Accordingly, the Hubble horizon is perturbed and affects the dynamics of primordial cosmological perturbations. In particular, we analyze the angular power spectrum of B-mode polarization and find a boost on very large scales. We also find that the amplitude of scalar perturbations is suppressed near the critical scale. Thus our model provides an interpretation for the low-$\ell$ suppression of temperature anisotropies in the CMB power spectrum. We examine these effects and confront the model to observations.
description: 14 pages, 6 figures; v2: minor changes, references added; v3: replaced to match published version
Controls on pathogen species richness in plants’ introduced and native ranges: roles of residence time, range size and host traits
Creators: name: Jarošík, Vojtěch
name: Blumenthal, Dana
name: Puckett, Emily E.
name: Pyšek, Petr
name: Mitchell, Charles E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Introduced species escape many pathogens and other enemies, raising three questions. How quickly do introduced hosts accumulate pathogen species? What factors control pathogen species richness? Are these factors the same in the hosts’ native and introduced ranges? We analysed fungal and viral pathogen species richness on 124 plant species in both their native European range and introduced North American range. Hosts introduced 400 years ago supported six times more pathogens than those introduced 40 years ago. In hosts’ native range, pathogen richness was greater on hosts occurring in more habitat types, with a history of agricultural use and adapted to greater resource supplies. In hosts’ introduced range, pathogen richness was correlated with host geographic range size, agricultural use and time since introduction, but not any measured biological traits. Introduced species have accumulated pathogens at rates that are slow relative to most ecological processes, and contingent on geographic and historic circumstance.
Tuning Range-Separated Density Functional Theory for Photocatalytic Water Splitting Systems
Creators: name: Bokareva, Olga S.
name: Grell, Gilbert
name: Bokarev, Sergey I.
name: Kühn, Oliver
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the system-specific optimization of long-range separated density functional theory (DFT) for the prediction of electronic properties relevant for a photocatalytic cycle based on an Ir(III) photosensitizer (IrPS). Special attention is paid to the charge-transfer properties, which are of key importance for the photoexcitation dynamics, but and cannot be correctly described by means of conventional DFT. The optimization of the range-separation parameter using the $Δ$SCF method is discussed for IrPS including its derivatives and complexes with electron donors and acceptors used in photocatalytic hydrogen production. Particular attention is paid to the problems arising for a description of medium effects by means of a polarizable continuum model.
description: slightly revised version
Formation of diffraction gratings in optically patternable hydrogel films
Creators: name: Sabel‐Grau, Tina
name: Zhang, Zhenfang
name: Rahman, Rahima
name: Lensen, Marga C.
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::530 Physik::535 Licht, Infrarot- und Ultraviolettphänomene
subject: diffraction gratings
subject: hydrogels
subject: light-responsive materials
subject: multifunctional biomedical biomaterials
subject: photo curing
subject: photopolymers
subject: volume holography

description: Local light-induced material response forms the basis for volume holographic patterning of light-responsive materials. This enables applications as multifunctional biomedical materials capable of integrating optical functions, such as for advanced intraocular lens (IOL) implants. Therefore, hydrogel films based on 8-arm PEG and azobenzene-functionalized acrylates are prepared. A local change in optical properties is induced by UV exposure: a decrease in refractive index is detected by ellipsometric examination. One-dimensional diffractive surface gratings, generated using a photomask, show optical functionality and are visualized in the atomic force microscope. The results show that a local change in optical properties can be induced in functionalized hydrogel films by photochemical crosslinking, making them suitable for volume holographic patterning.
The Giffordstown Bog: water quality and habitat enhancement project
Creators: name: Stoop, Ashley N.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2023

description: The Barnegat Bay watershed has been negatively impacted per the result of the non-point solution pollution and development. As the health of Barnegat Bay continues to decline, the need to mitigate the on-going contamination along with a failing water control structure deemed unfit by NJDEP has prompted the creation of the Giffordtown Bog Water Quality and Habitat Enhancement Project. The area of interest for this project consists of three retired cranberry bogs located behind the Pinelands Regional High School in Little Egg Harbor Township. The GBWQHEP includes stakeholders from the Pinelands Regional School District, local & federal government, local community members, researchers, engineers and more. Through a series of meetings, the established Bog Committee had voted on restoration strategies such as the implementation of a Hemi-Marsh to help enhance habitat and increase the quality of water which flows through the Giffordtown Bogs. Tasked as the designer of this project, this thesis aims to create a design proposal which incorporates the goals and objectives set forward by the Stakeholders. Goals of the design proposal align with the need to create an aesthetically pleasing educational and recreational environment which provides ecosystem services that are beneficial to humans, flora and fauna.
Multi‐Event‐Camera Depth Estimation and Outlier Rejection by Refocused Events Fusion
Creators: name: Ghosh, Suman
name: Gallego, Guillermo
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::620 Ingenieurwissenschaften::620 Ingenieurwissenschaften und zugeordnete Tätigkeiten
subject: event cameras
subject: neuromorphic processing
subject: robotics
subject: spatial AI
subject: stereo depth estimation

description: Event cameras are bio-inspired sensors that offer advantages over traditional cameras. They operate asynchronously, sampling the scene at microsecond resolution and producing a stream of brightness changes. This unconventional output has sparked novel computer vision methods to unlock the camera's potential. Here, the problem of event-based stereo 3D reconstruction for SLAM is considered. Most event-based stereo methods attempt to exploit the high temporal resolution of the camera and the simultaneity of events across cameras to establish matches and estimate depth. By contrast, this work investigates how to estimate depth without explicit data association by fusing disparity space images (DSIs) originated in efficient monocular methods. Fusion theory is developed and applied to design multi-camera 3D reconstruction algorithms that produce state-of-the-art results, as confirmed by comparisons with four baseline methods and tests on a variety of available datasets.
title: Hominid retrotransposons as a modulator of genomic function
Creators: name: Savage, Abigail
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2014

description: Transposable elements constitute 45% of the human genome contributing to our evolution, creating new exons, structural variation and influencing the regulation of transcription. SINE-VNTR-Alus (SVAs) are a hominid specific retrotransposon that are still actively retrotransposing in the human genome today. The structure and sequence of SVAs, in particular their variable number tandem repeat (VNTR) domain, suggest their potential for influencing the regulation of gene expression through binding of transcription factors, differential methylation patterns and formation of secondary structures along with potential for genetic variation between individuals. This project has identified novel regulatory domains and genetic variation within elements belonging to a hominid specific group of retrotransposons. A global analysis undertaken of their distribution identified their preference for genic regions over gene deserts and their insertion into functional regions of the genome such as promoters and introns. An in depth analysis of two SVA insertions, one upstream of the FUS gene and another upstream of the PARK7 gene, demonstrated the ability of SVAs to affect reporter expression in vitro and in vivo. Both of these SVAs were identified as polymorphic in their central VNTR regions and the PARK7 SVA also demonstrated different copy numbers of repeats it its 5’ CCCTCT domain. Analysis of the PARK7 SVA insertion and gene in cell lines indicated the SVA is not epigenetically silenced, as dogma might suggest to suppress retrotransposition, but present in a transcriptionally active region of the genome. There is increasing evidence for loss of silencing of retrotransposons including within the human brain which would allow for greater influence of potential transcriptional properties embedded within SVAs impacting on genomic function.
Unionicola (Imamuratax) scutigera K. Viets 1926
Creators: name: Pešić, Vladimir
name: Chatterjee, Tapas
name: Bordoloi, Sabitry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Unionicolidae
Unionicola
Unionicola scutigera

description: Unionicola (Imamuratax) scutigera K. Viets, 1926
Records from the study area: Bengal—K. Viets (1926a, b); Kerala—John & Inasu (2005); Prasad (1974).
Habitat: Ponds.
Distribution: India.
description: Published as part of Pešić, Vladimir, Chatterjee, Tapas & Bordoloi, Sabitry, 2010, A checklist of the water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) of India, with new records and description of one new species, pp. 1-54 in Zootaxa 2617 (1) on page 35, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2617.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/197964
title: Phytoplankton aggregations in a turbulent boundary layer
Creators: name: Brereton, Ashley
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2014

description: Phytoplankton aggregations come in a wide range of space and time scales and, as such, simulating such behavior is computationally restrictive. I present a Large-eddy simulation of the upper mixed layer, resolving scales of o(1m). I then show how aggregations are promoted by nutrient upwellings (something which macroscale models struggle to emulate), facilitated primarily by Langmuir circulations. I then demonstrate how certain levels of turbulent mixing encourage planktonic thin layering, a phenomenon which is widely observed.