cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Topology and zero energy edge states in carbon nanotubes with superconducting pairing
Creators: name: Izumida, W.
name: Milz, L.
name: Marganska, M.
name: Grifoni, Milena
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: BOUND-STATES; SPIN;
subject: 530 Physik

description: We investigate the spectrum of finite-length carbon nanotubes in the presence of onsite and nearest-neighbor superconducting pairing terms. A one-dimensional ladder-type lattice model is developed to explore the low-energy spectrum and the nature of the electronic states. We find that zero energy edge states can emerge in zigzag class carbon nanotubes as a combined effect of curvature-induced Dirac point shift and strong superconducting coupling between nearest-neighbor sites. The chiral symmetry of the system is exploited to define a winding number topological invariant. The associated topological phase diagram shows regions with nontrivial winding number in the plane of chemical potential and superconducting nearest-neighbor pair potential (relative to the onsite pair potential). A one-dimensional continuum model reveals the topological origin of the zero energy edge states: a bulk-edge correspondence is proven, which shows that the condition for nontrivial winding number and that for the emergence of edge states are identical. For armchair class nanotubes, the presence of edge states in the superconducting gap depends on the nanotube's boundary shape. For the minimal boundary condition, the emergence of the subgap states can also be deduced from the winding number.
High Ground, Spring 2003
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Association of New Jersey Environmental Coalitions (ANJEC)
Year: 2003

description: High Ground is the quarterly newsletter of the Highlands Coalition. This issue features: US Forest Service Releases Final Highlands Report, NJ Governor Jim McGreevey's Speech Emphasizes Highlands Preservation, Highlands Coalition Reaches Out to NJ Local/County Leaders, NJ Proposes Extensive Regulatory Changes for Water Protection, Hike the Critical Treasures of the Highlands, as well as regular features Gaining Ground, Threats, and Updates.
D5.3 MEDINA integrated solution-v1
Creators: name: Benedetto, Debora
name: Garbagnati, Daniele
name: Manea, Mirko
name: Zago, Claudia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Architecture
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: Workflows
subject: Components Integration
subject: CI/CD
subject: Integrated UI

description: This deliverable will integrate all the components developed by the other technical WPs in the MEDINA Framework. Different versions of the solution will be provided following an incremental approach. The first version will be an initial prototype with the core functionalities implemented (at M15); the second version (at M27) will augment these functionalities taking into consideration the feedback coming for the use cases and the final version (M33) will include corrections and feedback coming from the implementation of the use cases. The software will be accompanied by a Technical Specification Report. This set of deliverables is the result of Task 5.3.
Double Nonstationarity: Blind Extraction of Independent Nonstationary Vector/Component from Nonstationary Mixtures -- Algorithms
Creators: name: Koldovský, Zbyněk
name: Kautský, Václav
name: Tichavský, Petr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: In this article, nonstationary mixing and source models are combined for developing new fast and accurate algorithms for Independent Component or Vector Extraction (ICE/IVE), one of which stands for a new extension of the well-known FastICA. This model allows for a moving source-of-interest (SOI) whose distribution on short intervals can be (non-)circular (non-)Gaussian. A particular Gaussian source model assuming tridiagonal covariance matrix structures is proposed. It is shown to be beneficial in the frequency-domain speaker extraction problem. The algorithms are verified in simulations. In comparison to the state-of-the-art algorithms, they show superior performance in terms of convergence speed and extraction accuracy.
description: submitted to a journal
Regularized polysymplectic geometry and first steps towards Floer theory for covariant field theories
Creators: name: Brilleslijper, Ronen
name: Fabert, Oliver
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 53Z05, 53D40, 37K58, 83A99

description: It is the goal of this paper to present the first steps for defining the analogue of Hamiltonian Floer theory for covariant field theory, treating time and space relativistically. While there already exist a number of competing geometric frameworks for covariant field theory generalizing symplectic geometry, none of them are readily suitable for variational techniques such as Hamiltonian Floer theory, since the corresponding action functionals are too degenerate. Instead, we show how a regularization procedure introduced by Bridges leads to a new geometric framework for which we can show that the finite energy $L^2$-gradient lines of the corresponding action functional, called Floer curves, converge asymptotically to space-time periodic solutions. As a concrete example we prove the existence of Floer curves, and hence also of space-time periodic solutions, for a class of coupled particle-field systems defined in this new framework.
description: 35 pages
A Concept for Sketchable Workspaces and Workflows
Creators: name: Wimmer, Raphael
name: Hahn, Jürgen
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 004 Informatik

description: We present “Sketchable Workspaces and Workflows” as a generic concept that allows end users to define workspaces and workflows on interactive surfaces by drawing regions that change how objects within these regions behave. To this end, we extend the buffer framework by Isenberg et al. in three ways: users can sketch interactive regions, these regions can effect actions that modify non-visual properties of objects, and those actions also apply to further objects such as windows, pointers, or physical objects. For exam- ple, a user might draw a rectangle on their computer screen and assign a send to Tom action to it. Any files which are dragged into this area are then mailed to Tom. This initial concept still requires iterating on design decisions and solv- ing implementation challenges.
Transverse charge and magnetization densities in holographic QCD
Creators: name: Chakrabarti, Dipankar
name: Mondal, Chandan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a study of flavor structures of transverse charge and anomalous magnetization densities for both unpolarized and transversely polarized nucleons. We consider two different models for the electromagnetic form factors in holographic QCD. The flavor form factors are obtained by decomposing the Dirac and Pauli form factors for nucleons using the charge and isospin symmetry. The results are compared with two standard phenomenological parametrizations.
description: minor modifications, some references corrected
Explicit models of motions to understand protein side-chain dynamics
Creators: name: Bolik-Coulon, Nicolas
name: Languin-Cattoën, Olivier
name: Carnevale, Diego
name: Zachrdla, Milan
name: Laage, Damien
name: Sterpone, Fabio
name: Stirnemann, Guillaume
name: Ferrage, Fabien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nuclear magnetic relaxation is widely used to probe protein dynamics. For decades, most analyses of relaxation in proteins have relied successfully on the model-free approach, forgoing mechanistic descriptions of motions. Model-free types of correlation functions cannot describe a large carbon-13 relaxation dataset in protein sidechains. Here, we use molecular dynamics simulations to design explicit models of motion and solve Fokker-Planck diffusion equations. These models of motion provide better agreement with relaxation data, mechanistic insight and a direct link to configuration entropy.
Shop Smart: Your Guide to Buying a High Efficiency Natural Gas Hot Water Heater
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New Jersey's Clean Energy Program (NJCEP), New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU), Office of Clean Energy
Year: 2005

description: Choosing high efficiency gas water heating equipment can save New Jersey citizens money on their gas bills, while reducing pollution associated with energy use. In addition, choosing a quality installer to properly size and install the system will help to ensure that they receive good service and maximize the health and safety of their home. This booklet is designed to give citizens a better understanding of high efficiency gas water heating equipment, installer selection, and system installation and maintenance, as they shop for a natural gas hot water heater. Information on how to qualify for a cash rebate through the WARMAdvantage Program is also included.
The drag exerted by weakly dissipative trapped lee waves on the atmosphere: application to Scorer's two-layer model
Creators: name: Teixeira, Miguel A. C.
name: Argain, Jose L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: While it is known that trapped lee waves propagating at low levels in a stratified atmosphere exert a drag on the mountains that generate them, the distribution of the corresponding reaction force exerted on the atmospheric mean circulation, defined by the wave momentum flux profiles, has not been established, because for inviscid trapped lee waves these profiles oscillate indefinitely downstream. A framework is developed here for the unambiguous calculation of momentum flux profiles produced by trapped lee waves, which circumvents the difficulties plaguing the inviscid trapped lee wave theory. Using linear theory, and taking Scorer's two-layer atmosphere as an example, the waves are assumed to be subject to a small dissipation, expressed as a Rayleigh damping. The resulting wave pattern decays downstream, so the momentum flux profile integrated over the area occupied by the waves converges to a well-defined form. Remarkably, for weak dissipation, this form is independent of the value of Rayleigh damping coefficient, and the inviscid drag, determined in previous studies, is recovered as the momentum flux at the surface. The divergence of this momentum flux profile accounts for the areally-integrated drag exerted by the waves on the atmosphere. The application of this framework to this and other types of trapped lee waves potentially enables the development of physically-based parametrizations of the effects of trapped lee waves on the atmosphere.
description: 24 pages, 5 figures; submitted to Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
Enhanced superfluid response of parahydrogen in nanoscale confinement
Creators: name: Omiyinka, Tokunbo
name: Boninsegni, Massimo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Confinement has generally the effect of suppressing order in condensed matter. Indeed, phase transitions such as freezing, or the superfluid transition in liquid helium, occur at lower temperatures in confinement than they do in the bulk. We provide here an illustration of a physical setting in which the opposite takes place. Specifically, the enhancement of the superfluid response of parahydrogen confined to nanoscale size cavities is demonstrated by means of first principle computer simulations. Prospects to stabilize and observe the long sought but yet elusive bulk superfluid phase of parahydrogen in purposefully designed porous media are discussed.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures in color
Precision spectroscopy technique for dipole allowed transitions in laser cooled ions
Creators: name: Gardner, Amy
name: Sheridan, Kevin
name: Groom, William
name: Seymour-Smith, Nicolas
name: Keller, Matthias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we present a technique for the precise measurement of electric dipole allowed transitions in trapped ions. By applying a probe and a cooling laser in quick succession, the full transition can be probed without causing distortion from heating the ion. In addition, two probes can be utilized to measure a dispersion-like signal, which is well suited to stabilizing the laser to the transition. We have fully characterized the parameters for the measurement and find that it is possible to measure the transition frequency to better than 100kHz with an interrogation time of 30s. The long-term stability of the spectroscopy signal is determined by employing two independent ion trap systems. The first ion trap is used to stabilize the spectroscopy laser. The second ion trap is then employed to measure the stability by continuously probing the transition at two frequencies. From the Allan variance a frequency instability of better than 10$^{-10}$ is obtained for an interrogation time of 1000s.
description: 6 pages, 7 figures
$|V_{cb}|$, Lepton Flavour Universality and $SU(3)_F$ symmetry breaking in $B_s \to D_s^{(*)} \ell ν_\ell$ decays through unitarity and lattice QCD
Creators: name: Martinelli, G.
name: Naviglio, M.
name: Simula, S.
name: Vittorio, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In addition to the well-known $B \to D^{(*)} \ell ν_\ell$ decays, semileptonic $B_s \to D_s^{(*)} \ell ν_\ell$ processes offer the possibility to determine the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix element $\vert V_{cb}\vert$. We implement the Dispersive Matrix (DM) approach to describe the hadronic Form Factors (FFs) for the $B_s \to D_s^{(*)}$ transition in the whole kinematical range, starting from recent Lattice QCD computations at large values of the 4-momentum transfer. We extract $\vert V_{cb} \vert$ from the experimental data, obtaining $\vert V_{cb} \vert \cdot 10^3 = (41.7 \pm 1.9)$ from $B_s \to D_s \ell ν_\ell$ and $\vert V_{cb} \vert \cdot 10^3 =(40.7 \pm 2.4)$ from $B_s \to D_s^* \ell ν_\ell$ decays. After averaging with the values of $\vert V_{cb} \vert$ obtained from the $B \to D^{(*)}$ channels [1,2] we get $\vert V_{cb} \vert \cdot 10^3 =(41.2 \pm 0.8)$, which is compatible with the most recent inclusive estimate $\vert V_{cb} \vert_{\rm{incl}} \cdot 10^3 = 42.16 \pm 0.50$ [3] at the $1 σ$ level. In addition we test the Lepton Flavour Universality (LFU) by computing the $τ/ \ell$ ratios of the total decay rates (where $\ell$ is a light lepton), obtaining $R(D_s) = 0.298\,(5)$ and $R(D_s^*)= 0.250\,(6)$. We also address the issue of the $SU(3)_F$ symmetry breaking by comparing the hadronic FFs entering the semileptonic $B \to D^{(*)}$ and $B_s \to D_s^{(*)}$ channels.
description: 31 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables. Revised and reformatted version to appear in PRD. Results and conclusions unchanged
Analytic continuation over complex landscapes
Creators: name: Kent-Dobias, Jaron
name: Kurchan, Jorge
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we follow up the study of 'complex complex landscapes,' rugged landscapes of many complex variables. Unlike real landscapes, the classification of saddles by index is trivial. Instead, the spectrum of fluctuations at stationary points determines their topological stability under analytic continuation of the theory. Topological changes, which occur at so-called Stokes points, proliferate among saddles with marginal (flat) directions and are suppressed otherwise. This gives a direct interpretation of the gap or 'threshold' energy -- which in the real case separates saddles from minima -- as the level where the spectrum of the hessian matrix of stationary points develops a gap. This leads to different consequences for the analytic continuation of real landscapes with different structures: the global minima of 'one step replica-symmetry broken' landscapes lie beyond a threshold, their hessians are gapped, and are locally protected from Stokes points, whereas those of 'many step replica-symmetry broken' have gapless hessians and Stokes points immediately proliferate. A new matrix ensemble is found, playing the role that GOE plays for real landscapes in determining the topological nature of saddles.
Near-infrared transmission spectrum of the warm-uranus GJ 3470b with the Wide Field Camera-3 on the Hubble Space Telescope
Creators: name: Ehrenreich, David
name: Bonfils, Xavier
name: Lovis, Christophe
name: Delfosse, Xavier
name: Forveille, Thierry
name: Mayor, Michel
name: Neves, Vasco
name: Santos, Nuno C.
name: Udry, Stéphane
name: Ségransan, Damien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The atmospheric composition of low-mass exoplanets is the object of intense observational and theoretical investigations. GJ3470b is a warm uranus recently detected in transit across a bright late-type star. The transit of this planet has already been observed in several band passes from the ground and space, allowing observers to draw an intriguing yet incomplete transmission spectrum of the planet atmospheric limb. In particular, published data in the visible suggest the existence of a Rayleigh scattering slope, making GJ3470b a unique case among the known neptunes, while data obtained beyond 2 um are consistent with a flat infrared spectrum. The unexplored near-infrared spectral region between 1 and 2 um, is thus key to undertanding the atmospheric nature of GJ3470b. Here, we report on the first space-borne spectrum of GJ3470, obtained during one transit of the planet with WFC3 on board HST, operated in stare mode. The spectrum covers the 1.1--1.7-um region with a resolution of about 300. We retrieve the transmission spectrum of GJ3470b with a chromatic planet-to-star radius ratio precision of 0.15% (about one scale height) per 40-nm bins. At this precision, the spectrum appears featureless, in good agreement with ground-based and Spitzer infrared data at longer wavelengths, pointing to a flat transmission spectrum from 1 to 5 um. We present new simulations of transmission spectra for GJ3470b, which allow us to show that the HST/WFC3 observations rule out cloudless hydrogen-rich atmospheres (>10 sigma) as well as hydrogen-rich atmospheres with tholin haze (>5 sigma). Adding our near-infrared measurements to the full set of previously published data from 0.3 to 5 um, we find that a cloudy, hydrogen-rich atmosphere can explain the full transmission spectrum if, at the terminator, the clouds are located at low pressures (<1 mbar) or the water mixing ratio is extremely low (<1 ppm).
description: Astronomy & Astrophysics, in press. 19 figures. 2 tables
$L^2$ Sobolev space bijectivity of the scattering-inverse scattering transforms related to defocusing Ablowitz-Ladik systems
Creators: name: Chen, Meisen
name: Fan, Engui
name: He, Jingsong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we establish $L^2$-Sobolev space bijectivity of the inverse scattering transform related to the defocusing Ablowitz-Ladik system. On the one hand, in the direct problem, based on the spectral problem, we establish the reflection coefficient and the corespondent Riemann-Hilbert problem. And we also prove that if the potential belongs to $l^{2,k}$ space, then the reflection coefficient belongs to $H^k_θ(Σ)$. On the other hand, in the inverse problem, based on the Riemann-Hilbert problem, we obtain the corespondent reconstructed formula and recover potentials from reflection coefficients. And we also confirm that if reflection coefficients are in $H^k_θ(Σ)$, then we show that potentials also belong to $l^{2,k}$. This study also confirm that for the initial-valued problem of defocusing Ablowitz-Ladik equations, it the initial potential belongs to $l^{2,k}$ and satisfying $\parallel q\parallel_\infty<1$, then the solution for $t\ne0$ also belongs to $l^{2,k}$.
Spreading of droplets under various gravitational accelerations
Creators: name: D'Angelo, Olfa
name: Kuthe, Felix
name: van Nieuwland, Kasper
name: Janssen, Clint Ederveen
name: Voigtmann, Thomas
name: Jalaal, Maziyar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe a setup to perform systematic studies on the spreading of droplets of complex fluids under microgravity conditions. Tweaking the gravitational acceleration under which droplets are deposited provides access to different regimes of the spreading dynamics, quantified through the Bond number. In particular, microgravity allows to form large droplets while remaining in the regime where surface tension effects and internal driving stresses are predominant over hydrostatic forces. The VIP-DROP2 experimental module provides a versatile platform to study a wide range of complex fluids through the deposition of axisymmetric droplets. The module offers the possibility to deposit droplets on a precursor layer, which can be composed of the same or of a different fluid. Besides, it allows to deposit four droplets simultaneously, while conducting shadowgraphy on all of them, and observing either the flow field (through particle image velocimetry), or the stress distribution inside the droplet in the case of stress birefringent fluids. Developed for a drop tower catapult system, it is designed to withstand a vertical acceleration of up to 30 times Earth's gravitational acceleration in the downwards direction, and can operate remotely, under microgravity conditions. We provide a detailed description of the module, and exemplary data analysis for droplets spreading on-ground and in microgravity.
description: Review of Scientific Instruments (2022)
The 2HD+a model for a combined explanation of the possible excesses in the CDF $\mathbf{M_W}$ measurement and $\mathbf{(g-2)_μ}$ with Dark Matter
Creators: name: Arcadi, Giorgio
name: Djouadi, Abdelhak
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The new measurement of the $W$ boson mass performed by the CDF experiment at the Tevatron shows a significant deviation not only with the expectation in the Standard Model but also with other precision measurements performed at LEP, the Tevatron and the LHC. We nevertheless take this new measurement at face value and interpret it as an effect of new physics. We particularly try to link it with other possible anomalies such as the recent muon $g-2$ and consider a scenario that addresses some shortcomings of the Standard Model. We show that a model with two doublets and a light pseudoscalar Higgs fields, supplemented by a stable isosinglet fermion, can simultaneously explain the possible $M_W$ and $(g-2)_μ$ anomalies and accounts for the weakly interacting massive particle that could be responsible of the dark matter in the universe.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
Bi-Lipschitz embedding of projective metrics
Creators: name: Kovalev, Leonid V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 30L05, Secondary 30C65, 51M10

description: We give a sufficient condition for a projective metric on a subset of a Euclidean space to admit a bi-Lipschitz embedding into Euclidean space of the same dimension.
description: 10 pages, revised after referee's report. To appear in Conformal Geometry and Dynamics
Behavior of Supercooled Aqueous Solutions Stemming from Hidden Liquid-Liquid Transition in Water
Creators: name: Biddle, John W.
name: Holten, Vincent
name: Anisimov, Mikhail A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A popular hypothesis that explains the anomalies of supercooled water is the existence of a metastable liquid-liquid transition hidden below the line of homogeneous nucleation. If this transition exists and if it is terminated by a critical point, the addition of a solute should generate a line of liquid-liquid critical points emanating from the critical point of pure metastable water. We have analyzed thermodynamic consequences of this scenario. In particular, we consider the behavior of two systems, H2O-NaCl and H2O-glycerol. We find the behavior of the heat capacity in supercooled aqueous solutions of NaCl, as reported by Archer and Carter, to be consistent with the presence of the metastable liquid-liquid transition. We suggest an interpretation of the liquid-liquid transition in aqueous solutions of glycerol, recently observed by Murata and Tanaka, elucidating the non-conserved nature of the order parameter, its coupling with density and concentration, and the peculiarity of "spinodal decomposition without phase separation". We also show how the shape of the critical line in a solution controls the difference in concentration of the coexisting liquid phases.
description: 12 pages; 6 figures; Added info to Fig. 4, added Fig. 5 on density maximum, removed figure (Fig. 6 in previous version); Added info to Appendix, clarified conclusion and introduction, added references; Conclusions unchanged
Biochemical and functional analysis of Arabidopsis metacaspases
Creators: name: Wang, Jianqiao
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2018

description: Metacaspases are a group of cysteine proteases found in plants, protozoa and fungi, which share structural similarities and are considered functional homologs of metazoan caspases. Although metacaspases were discovered almost two decades ago, research on their characteristics, functions and mechanisms remain rather limited. In order to get a better understanding of plant metacaspases, I conducted several studies on metacaspases from the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana.             My first project presented in Chapter Two is domain functional analysis of AtMC4 and AtMC9, two type II Arabidopsis metacaspases (AtMCs) that are distinct in many of their biochemical characteristics. Through domain swapping, I generated six chimeric type II MCs (called Domain Swap Proteins or DSPs) for all possible permutations of functional domains of AtMC4 and AtMC9. Subsequent activity assays and immunoblots of these DSPs (DSP1-DSP6) identified essential domain elements involved in each specific biochemical trait of either AtMC4 or AtMC9.  Also, conserved "signature" residues in each domain of both AtMC4 and AtMC9 were identified, which relates to the origins of those metacaspases and eventually links AtMC9-like proteases with the evolution of more complex root archetypes in terrestrial plants.                My second project presented in Chapter Three is about the in planta function of AtMC3. AtMC3 is an atypical member of the type I Arabidopsis metacaspases gene family. Research record on this metacaspases gene is close to none, which could be due to lack of proper knockout mutants. Utilizing the newly developed CRISPR/Cas9 technology, I created atmc3 knockout mutants. atmc3 mutant alone or in combination with other type I atmc mutants do not produce any visible abnormal phenotypes. However, when crossed into lsd1-related mutant background, atmc3 mutant displays an alleviating effect on the runaway cell death phenotype of lsd1, indicating that AtMC3 may act as a positive regulator in the HR cell death pathway.                 My third project presented in Chapter Four is about characterization of the underlying biochemical properties of type I AtMCs in vitro, for which no relevant research result are available so far. I expressed all three type I AtMC recombinant proteins in E.coli and tested their activation pH optima, calcium dependency as well as the potential effect of prodomains on those proteases’ activity levels. I also examined the significance of the conserved cysteines in those type I AtMCs through point mutations and found that most of those cysteines do not play a catalytic role in those AtMCs, although a slight exception was seen with AtMC1. My study provided the first available data set for biochemical characterization of Arabidopsis type I metacaspases.
Liquid-Hexatic-Solid phases in active and passive Brownian particles determined by stochastic birth and death events
Creators: name: Almodóvar, Alejandro
name: Galla, Tobias
name: López, Cristóbal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effects of stochastic birth and death processes on the structural phases of systems of active and passive Brownian particles subject to volume exclusion. The total number of particles in the system is a fluctuating quantity, determined by the birth and death parameters, and on the activity of the particles. As the birth and death parameters are varied we find liquid, hexatic and solid phases. For passive particles these phases are found to be spatially homogeneous. For active particles motility-induced phase separation (co-existing hexatic and liquid phases) occurs for large activity and sufficiently small birth rates. We also observe a re-entrant transition to the hexatic phase when the birth rate is increased. This results from a balance of an increasing number of particles filling the system, and a larger number of defects resulting from the birth and death dynamics.
Mosquito Control Pesticide Use in New Jersey: 2001 Survey
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Pesticide Control Program : Pesticide Evaluation and Monitoring : New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP)
Year: 2001

description: The New Jersey Pesticide Control Program (NJPCP) began a series of pesticide use surveys in 1985. These surveys address use for mosquito control. The information collected from the NJPCP surveys is used by agencies within the NJ Department of Environmental Protection to help research and monitoring efforts in areas such as ground waterprotection, farm worker protection and education, and residual pesticide sampling. The survey data are also downloaded into state and federal geographical information systems for mapping purposes. All general pesticide use information is available to the public.
New Jersey State Development and Redevelopment Plan
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: New Jersey State Planning Commission
Year: 2001

description: The State Development and Redevelopment Plan is designed to establish 'statewide planningobjectives' regarding land use, housing, economic development, transportation, natural resource conservation, agriculture and farmland retention, recreation, urban and suburban redevelopment, historic preservation, public facilities and services and intergovernmental coordination. Sound and integrated statewide planning is the anticipated result of a statewide planning process that involves the active participation of state agencies, local governments, and the private sector.
Painlevé I and exact WKB: Stokes phenomenon for two-parameter transseries
Creators: name: van Spaendonck, Alexander
name: Vonk, Marcel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: For more than a century, the Painlevé I equation has played an important role in both physics and mathematics. Its two-parameter family of solutions was studied in many different ways, yet still leads to new surprises and discoveries. Two popular tools in these studies are the theory of isomonodromic deformation that uses the exact WKB method, and the asymptotic description of transcendents in terms of two-parameter transseries. Combining methods from both schools of thought, and following work by Takei and collaborators, we find complete, two-parameter connection formulae for solutions when they cross arbitrary Stokes lines in the complex plane. These formulae allow us to study Stokes phenomenon for the full two-parameter family of transseries solutions. In particular, we recover the exact expressions for the Stokes data that were recently found by Baldino, Schwick, Schiappa and Vega and compare our connection formulae to theirs. We also explain several ambiguities in relating transseries parameter choices to actual Painlevé transcendents, study the monodromy of formal solutions, and provide high-precision numerical tests of our results.
description: 71 pages, 16 figures, 5 tables and 4 appendices. v2: Minor changes (rewrites, typos, added references)
A Vision Statement: A Must for All Communities
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Association of New Jersey Environmental Commissions (ANJEC)
Year: 2003

description: Creating a vision statement is a give and take, long-term process. Planning board members must practice smart growth concepts for years before calling a consultant to help verbalize the vision statement. Board members must plan pro-actively, rather than reacting to individual site plans and fighting developers in court. They must also draw on the good and bad images they see when taking field trips to  other towns and cities.
Advances in actinide thin films: synthesis, properties, and future directions
Creators: name: Vallejo, K. D.
name: Kabir, F.
name: Poudel, N.
name: Marianetti, C. A.
name: Hurley, D. H.
name: Simmonds, P. J.
name: Dennett, C. A.
name: Gofryk, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Actinide-based compounds exhibit unique physics due to the presence of 5f electrons, and serve in many cases as important technological materials. Targeted thin film synthesis of actinide materials has been successful in generating high-purity specimens in which to study individual physical phenomena. These films have enabled the study of the unique electron configuration, strong mass renormalization, and nuclear decay in actinide metals and compounds. The growth of these films, as well as their thermophysical, magnetic, and topological properties, have been studied in a range of chemistries, albeit far fewer than most classes of thin film systems. This relative scarcity is the result of limited source material availability and safety constraints associated with the handling of radioactive materials. Here, we review recent work on the synthesis and characterization of actinide-based thin films in detail, describing both synthesis methods and modelling techniques for these materials. We review reports on pyrometallurgical, solution-based, and vapor deposition methods. We highlight the current state-of-the-art in order to construct a path forward to higher quality actinide thin films and heterostructure devices.
description: 23 pages, 5 figures
Sparse dynamical system identification with simultaneous structural parameters and initial condition estimation
Creators: name: Wei, Baolei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Sparse Identification of Nonlinear Dynamics (SINDy) has been shown to successfully recover governing equations from data; however, this approach assumes the initial condition to be exactly known in advance and is sensitive to noise. In this work we propose an integral SINDy (ISINDy) method to simultaneously identify model structure and parameters of nonlinear ordinary differential equations (ODEs) from noisy time-series observations. First, the states are estimated via penalized spline smoothing and then substituted into the integral-form numerical discretization solver, leading to a pseudo-linear regression. The sequential threshold least squares is performed to extract the fewest active terms from the overdetermined set of candidate features, thereby estimating structural parameters and initial condition simultaneously and meanwhile, making the identified dynamics parsimonious and interpretable. Simulations detail the method's recovery accuracy and robustness to noise. Examples include a logistic equation, Lokta-Volterra system, and Lorenz system.
Clean Ocean Advocate, April 2005
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Clean Ocean Action (COA)
Year: 2005

description: The monthly Clean Ocean Advocate newsletter informs citizens about critical ocean pollution issues, important meeting dates, proposed legislation, special events, and other notes of interest. Articles in this issue include: 20 Years of Beach Sweeps; Mercury in Fish; and New to COA's Crew - Jennifer Smiga.
D-term inflation in braneworld models: Consistency with cosmic-string bounds and early-time Hubble tension resolving models
Creators: name: Lin, Chia-Min
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We revisit D-term inflation with the bounds of the cosmic string tension from gravitational wave observations and consider the possible deviation of the spectral index compared with the $Λ$CDM model in light of prerecombination resolutions of the Hubble tension. D-term inflation requires very small coupling constants under these constraints. We show that natural coupling constants ($g=λ=0.1$) can be achieved in the case of D-term inflation on the brane.
description: 11 pages, to be published in Physical Review D
Post-Sphaleron baryogenesis and $n-\bar{n}$ oscillation in non-SUSY SO(10) GUT with gauge coupling unification and proton decay
Creators: name: Patra, Sudhanwa
name: Pritimita, Prativa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Post-sphaleron baryogenesis, a fresh and profound mechanism of baryogenesis accounts for the matter-antimatter asymmetry of our present universe in a framework of Pati-Salam symmetry. We attempt here to embed this mechanism in a non-SUSY SO(10) grand unified theory by reviving a novel symmetry breaking chain with Pati-Salam symmetry as an intermediate symmetry breaking step and as well to address post-sphaleron baryogenesis and neutron-antineutron oscillation in a rational manner. The Pati-Salam symmetry based on the gauge group $SU(2)_L \times SU(2)_{R} \times SU(4)_C$ is realized in our model at $10^{5}-10^{6}$ GeV and the mixing time for the neutron-antineutron oscillation process having $ΔB=2$ is found to be $τ_{n-\bar{n}} \simeq 10^{8}-10^{10}\,\mbox{secs}$ with the model parameters which is within the reach of forthcoming experiments. Other novel features of the model includes low scale right-handed $W^{\pm}_R$, $Z_R$ gauge bosons, explanation for neutrino oscillation data via gauged inverse (or extended) seesaw mechanism and most importantly TeV scale color sextet scalar particles responsible for observable $n-\bar{n}$ oscillation which can be accessible to LHC. We also look after gauge coupling unification and estimation of proton life-time with and without the addition of color sextet scalars.
description: v2: 28 pages, matches the version to be published in European Physical Journal C
The heavy tetra-quark states after the discovery of tetra-charm states
Creators: name: Becchi, Carlo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper is devoted to the study of exclusive charm and bottom aggregates which are suitable, at least partially, for a non-relativistic description. Starting from a simple choice of quarkonia and tetra-quark wave functions we study their production cross sections, total widths and more interesting decay properties. In particular, we compute the production cross sections of the ground state scalar quarkonia getting results compatible with the values appearing in the literature. We also compute the production cross sections of the lower energy states of the charm and bottom tetra-quarks, their decay widths and the decay rates in two $μ\barμ$ pairs and in the $q\bar qμ\barμ$ channel. Our results on the tetra-charm are consistent with the data published by the LHCb Collaboration and those on the tetra-bottom show a reasonable agreement with the indications published by the CMS Collaboration. Our cross section analyses are based on interpolations based on the gluon-gluon luminosity grids published by the NNPDF and CTEQ Collaborations. The hard amplitude calculations are based on QCD in the tree approximation. We think that a careful improvement of our method and a refinement of the experimental data after the foreseen luminosity increase at the LHC will make possible valuable tests of QCD at the intermediate energies.
description: 33 pages, 21 figures
Local Noise Enforcement Options and Model Noise Ordinance (With Pre-Approved Language for the State of New Jersey)
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Rutgers Cooperative Extension, NJ Agricultural Experiment Station
Year: 1997

description: This document addresses the need for noise ordinances in New Jersey by suggesting mechanisms to control noise locally, describing who has the authority to adopt a noise ordinance, explaining who can be a Noise Enforcement Officer, detailing what noise sources are not covered in a noise ordinance, and finally, providing a model noise ordinance, of which some portions are optional.
Curvature-induced Resolution of Anti-brane Singularities
Creators: name: Junghans, Daniel
name: Schmidt, Daniel
name: Zagermann, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study AdS$_7$ vacua of massive type IIA string theory compactified on a 3-sphere with $H_3$ flux and anti-D6-branes. In such backgrounds, the anti-brane backreaction is known to generate a singularity in the $H_3$ energy density, whose interpretation has not been understood so far. We first consider supersymmetric solutions of this setup and give an analytic proof that the flux singularity is resolved there by a polarization of the anti-D6-branes into a D8-brane, which wraps a finite 2-sphere inside of the compact space. To this end, we compute the potential for a spherical probe D8-brane on top of a background with backreacting anti-D6-branes and show that it has a local maximum at zero radius and a local minimum at a finite radius of the 2-sphere. The polarization is triggered by a term in the potential due to the AdS curvature and does therefore not occur in non-compact setups where the 7d external spacetime is Minkowski. We furthermore find numerical evidence for the existence of non-supersymmetric solutions in our setup. This is supported by the observation that the general solution to the equations of motion has a continuous parameter that is suggestive of a modulus and appears to control supersymmetry breaking. Analyzing the polarization potential for the non-supersymmetric solutions, we find that the flux singularities are resolved there by brane polarization as well.
description: 25 pages, 9 figures. v2: minor changes, discussion of scalar masses added
A GIS Approach to Habitat Restoration Site Selection and Prioritization in the New York-New Jersey Harbor Estuary
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University
Year: 2005

description: Restoring the degraded habitat of NY/NJ Harbor is important to ensure that the harbor can continue to be used as an economic, recreational, and ecological resource. The NY/NJ Harbor Estuary Program has been working with government agencies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and the public since 1996 to protect and restore habitat. This paper discusses the measures presently being taken by the New York-New Jersey Harbor Estuary Program to restore habitat in the harbor and explores a method to improve the scientific rigor of current restoration site selection efforts using a geographic information system (GIS).
14 jours pour changer Wikipedia
Creators: name: Bois, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Wikipedia
Fondation Wikimedia
OMS WHO
Inclusivité

description: Le 22 octobre 2020 Wikimédia et l'OMS annoncent un accord pour une information riche et sérieuse sur le Covid. La veille, Une fabrique de communs avait lancé une campagne pour une information riche et sérieuse sur le Covid sur Wikipédia. Il n'y a pas de hasard ! Il y a un vrai problème identifié par différents acteurs. Notre campagne a été faite en anglais. Aujourd'hui nous en reprenons les principaux éléments pour le lecteur francophone. Censure de certains types d'articles sur Wikipédia. Problème du mode de décision pour la suppression d'articles.
 Le Conseil de la Fondation Wikimédia avait lancé l'alerte en mai 2020 - nous le découvrons au fil de notre campagne. Les actions à mener sont complémentaires : au niveau des "casseurs d'articles", au niveau du système de prise de décision, etc. Découverte des "Chevaliers noirs" qui détruisent des articles au nom d'une inquiétante "pureté".
ANJEC Report Spring 2004: Vol. 24, No. 2
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Association of New Jersey Environmental Commissions (ANJEC)
Year: 2004

description: This report from the Association of New Jersey Environmental Commissions (ANJEC) features the following articles: How Can Environmental Commisioners Use RutgersCooperative Extension?; Intercomm; The Conservation Plan Element; Stormwater Brochure; Resource Center; Smart Growth Updates; ANJEC Green City Gazette; ANJEC in the City; Good Earthkeeping; Book Reviews; ANJEC Environmental Achievement Award Application
Non-Fermi liquid manifold in a Majorana device
Creators: name: Eriksson, Erik
name: Mora, Christophe
name: Zazunov, Alex
name: Egger, Reinhold
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose and study a setup realizing a stable manifold of non-Fermi liquid states. The device consists of a mesoscopic superconducting island hosting $N \ge 3$ Majorana bound states tunnel-coupled to normal leads, with a Josephson contact to a bulk superconductor. We find a nontrivial interplay between multi-channel Kondo and resonant Andreev reflection processes, which results in the fixed point manifold. The scaling dimension of the leading irrelevant perturbation changes continuously within the manifold and determines the power-law scaling of the temperature dependent conductance.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures