cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A new measurement of the altitude dependence of the atmospheric muon intensity
Creators: name: Beatty, J. J.
name: Coutu, S.
name: Minnick, S. A.
name: Bhattacharyya, A.
name: Bower, C. R.
name: Musser, J. A.
name: McKee, S. P.
name: Schubnell, M.
name: Tarle, G.
name: Tomasch, A. D.
name: Labrador, A. W.
name: Muller, D.
name: Swordy, S. P.
name: DuVernois, M. A.
name: Nutter, S. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new measurement of atmospheric muons made during an ascent of the High Energy Antimatter Telescope balloon experiment. The muon charge ratio mu+/mu- as a function of atmospheric depth in the momentum interval 0.3-0.9 GeV/c is presented. The differential mu- intensities in the 0.3-50 GeV/c range and for atmospheric depths between 4-960 g/cm^2 are also presented. We compare these results with other measurements and model predictions. We find that our charge ratio is ~1.1 for all atmospheric depths and is consistent, within errors, with other measurements and the model predictions. We find that our measured mu- intensities are also consistent with other measurements, and with the model predictions, except at shallow atmospheric depths.
description: To appear in Physical Review D
Technical Efficiency in Producing Cashew Nuts in Benin’s Savanna Zone, West Africa
Creators: name: Degla, Pamphile
name: Degla, Pamphile
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Farm Management
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: cashew nuts
subject: technical efficiency
subject: stochastic production frontier
subject: Benin

description: In Benin, cashew nut represents the second major cash crop after the cotton. It is, therefore, an important source of income in rural areas. Accordingly, we investigated in this paper, the technical efficiency of producers in the management of their cashew orchards. Data were collected on 180 randomly selected producers, in the Central and Northern parts of Benin. We adopted a Cobb-Douglas functional form to estimate a production function using a stochastic production frontier approach. Results show that the cashew nut production in Central and Northern Benin was not optimal. The average technical efficiency score of cashew nut producers was to 0.63 (minimum 0.10, maximum 0.88) with a modal class of [0.70–0.80]. According to these results, the cashew nuts production system in the current settings is very extensive and could be improved through intensive use of labor and capital.
المتغيرات الدولية والميزة النسبية والقدرة التنافسية لقطاع اللحوم الحمراء فى الدول العربية
Creators: name: Soliman, Ibrahim
name: Soliman, Ibrahim
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: International changes and the comparative advantage and competitiveness of the red meat sector in the Arab countries
subject: Arab countries
subject: red meat

description: Journal of contemporary Egypt, number 453-454, Year 90, Jan-April, 1999, published by the Egyptian Society of political economy, statistics and legislation Cairo Egypt
Injection drug users’ experiences with supervised injection sites
Creators: name: De Sousa, Patrick Anthony
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The injection of illicit drugs, such as heroin and cocaine, is associated with human suffering and high financial costs that harm individuals, families, communities, and society. Canada has approximately 125 000 injection drug users (IDUs), with approximately 5 000 living within 16 square blocks in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. In this area’s streets and alleys, illicit drugs are openly sold, bought and consumed. To address problems related to drug trafficking and consumption, the City of Vancouver adopted in 2001 a "Four Pillar" approach of 1) Prevention; 2) Enforcement; 3) Treatment; and 4) Harm Reduction. One component of the harm reduction pillar was the establishment and operation of two supervised injection sites (SISs) as research pilot projects. Although SlSs are operating in Europe and Australia, Vancouver has the only official sites in North America. The limited research on SlSs has focused on operational statistics, client demographics and health, and the effects on the community. Very little is known about the experiences of IDUs. I conducted a qualitative study, using interpretive description as a methodology, to explore IDUs’ experiences with SISs. The primary data was collected through audiotaped interviews with seven lDUs residing in single-room occupancy hotels and apartments located near an open drug scene. Findings revealed that while participants unanimously support SISs, because they believe the sites save lives, most use the sites only rarely or occasionally. Although SlSs are designed as a low-threshold service to meet the needs of high-risk IDUs, five barriers that limit access to the service have been identified: 1) Limited Hours of Operation; 2) Public Entrance--Lack of Anonymity; 3) Waiting Time; 4) Atmosphere; and 5) Prohibition of Assisted Injection. This research revealed some unexpected findings. First, many participants feel unsafe because they perceive that the degree of violence on the streets has increased and they blame this on younger crack smoking addicts. Second, participants expressed a concern for others and they have acted to make positive changes through advocacy, action, and acts of compassion. These findings highlight the importance of including IDUs’ perspectives regarding health interventions, such as SISs, that are specifically directed at them.
Formation of GEMS from shock-accelerated crystalline dust in superbubbles
Creators: name: Westphal, A. J.
name: Bradley, J. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Interplanetary dust particles (IDPs) contain enigmatic sub-micron components called GEMS (Glass with Embedded Metal and Sulfides). The compositions and structures of GEMS indicate that they have been processed by exposure to ion- izing radiation but details of the actual irradiation environment(s) have remained elusive. Here we propose a mechanism and astrophysical site for GEMS formation that explains for the first time the following key properties of GEMS; they are stoichiometrically enriched in oxygen and systematically deple- ted in S, Mg, Ca and Fe (relative to solar abundances), most have normal (solar) oxygen isotopic compositions, they exhibit a strikingly narrow size distribution (0.1-0.5 $μ$m diameter), and some of them contain ``relict'' crystals within their glass matrices. We show that these properties are incon- sistent with amorphization by particles accelerated by diffusive shock accel- eration. Instead, we propose that GEMS are formed from crystalline grains that condense in outflows from massive stars in OB associations, are accelerated in encounters with frequent supernova shocks inside the associated superbubble, and are implanted with atoms from the hot gas in the SB interior. We thus rev- erse the usual roles of target and projectile. Rather than being bombarded at rest by energetic ions, grains are accelerated and bombarded by a nearly mono- velocity beam of atoms as viewed in their rest frame. Meyer, Drury and Ellison have proposed that galactic cosmic rays originate from ions sputtered from such accelerated dust grains. We suggest that GEMS are surviving members of a pop- ulation of fast grains that constitute the long-sought source material for gal- actic cosmic rays. Thus, representatives of the GCR source material may have been awaiting discovery in cosmic dust labs for the last thirty years.
description: 27 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal
The CECAM Electronic Structure Library and the modular software development paradigm
Creators: name: Oliveira, Micael J. T.
name: Papior, Nick
name: Pouillon, Yann
name: Blum, Volker
name: Artacho, Emilio
name: Caliste, Damien
name: Corsetti, Fabiano
name: de Gironcoli, Stefano
name: Elena, Alin M.
name: Garcia, Alberto
name: Garcia-Suarez, Victor M.
name: Genovese, Luigi
name: Huhn, William P.
name: Huhs, Georg
name: Kokott, Sebastian
name: Kucukbenli, Emine
name: Larsen, Ask H.
name: Lazzaro, Alfio
name: Lebedeva, Irina V.
name: Li, Yingzhou
name: Lopez-Duran, David
name: Lopez-Tarifa, Pablo
name: Luders, Martin
name: Marques, Miguel A. L.
name: Minar, Jan
name: Mohr, Stephan
name: Mostofi, Arash A.
name: O'Cais, Alan
name: Payne, Mike C.
name: Ruh, Thomas
name: Smith, Daniel G. A.
name: Soler, Jose M.
name: Strubbe, David A.
name: Tancogne-Dejean, Nicolas
name: Tildesley, Dominic
name: Torrent, Marc
name: Yu, Victor Wen-zhe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: First-principles electronic structure calculations are very widely used thanks to the many successful software packages available. Their traditional coding paradigm is monolithic, i.e., regardless of how modular its internal structure may be, the code is built independently from others, from the compiler up, with the exception of linear-algebra and message-passing libraries. This model has been quite successful for decades. The rapid progress in methodology, however, has resulted in an ever increasing complexity of those programs, which implies a growing amount of replication in coding and in the recurrent re-engineering needed to adapt to evolving hardware architecture. The Electronic Structure Library (\esl) was initiated by CECAM (European Centre for Atomic and Molecular Calculations) to catalyze a paradigm shift away from the monolithic model and promote modularization, with the ambition to extract common tasks from electronic structure programs and redesign them as free, open-source libraries. They include "heavy-duty" ones with a high degree of parallelisation, and potential for adaptation to novel hardware within them, thereby separating the sophisticated computer science aspects of performance optimization and re-engineering from the computational science done by scientists when implementing new ideas. It is a community effort, undertaken by developers of various successful codes, now facing the challenges arising in the new model. This modular paradigm will improve overall coding efficiency and enable specialists (computer scientists or computational scientists) to use their skills more effectively. It will lead to a more sustainable and dynamic evolution of software as well as lower barriers to entry for new developers.
description: Revised version as finally accepted by J. Chem. Phys. to appear within the Special Topic in Electronic Structure Software (version prior to JCP's typesetting and proofs)
Additional file 3 of Pregnancy outcomes of patients with acute fatty liver of pregnancy: a case control study
Creators: name: Lingzhi Chang
name: Wang, Ming
name: Haixia Liu
name: Qinghua Meng
name: Hongwei Yu
name: Wu, Yu-Mei
name: Yunxia Zhu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3 Suppl Table 3. Maternal outcomes in patients received intrauterine balloon pressure or not when postpartum hemorrhage exceeding 500 ml(n = 28)
Surface Brightness Fluctuation spectra to constrain stellar population properties
Creators: name: Vazdekis, A.
name: Cerviño, M.
name: Montes, M.
name: Martín-Navarro, I.
name: Beasley, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new set of Surface Brightness Fluctuation spectra computed with the E-MILES stellar population synthesis models. The model SBF spectra cover the range 1680-50000 Angstrom at moderately high resolution, all based on extensive empirical stellar libraries. The models span the metallicity range -2.3
description: MNRAS, accepted. 25 pages, 13 figures. Models can be downloaded from http://miles.iac.es/ (OTHER PREDICTIONS/DATA)
Three contexts of planning and decision analysis for disaster mitigation in hospitals : Taiwan, Vancouver, and Los Angeles
Creators: name: Cole, Darren
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: This thesis investigates the impact of power and water outages caused by both electrical grid failure and natural disasters on the operational capacity of hospitals in three case studies: 1999 Chi-Chi Taiwan Earthquake, Vancouver, and Los Angeles. Using a case study methodology and review of the literature, the study attempts to characterize the types of impacts that are likely to result from power and water outages and how the concurrent impacts of disaster may exacerbate the impacts. Beyond characterizing impacts, the study also investigates the role different regulatory environments play in decision-making. Decision analysis tools are used to illustrate the inter-connected nature of decision-making in disaster mitigation and to identify opportunities to improve outcomes and increase disaster resilience in hospitals. Decision-making outcomes about disaster mitigation are a combination of compliance with legislative standards and financial resources allocated to risk mitigation measures. Dissonance between desired outcomes and actual outcomes frequently arises because of lack of information about the impacts of power outages, budgetary decision-making, and lack of coordination in strategic planning and day-to-day operational choices. The results of the study indicate that while hospitals have made significant strides in disaster preparedness they remain extremely vulnerable to the impacts of power and water outages. Moreover, hospitals lack systemic, detailed information on the probability of a total failure occurring and have in general failed to plan in detail for a scenario where emergency power systems fail. To improve resiliency at hospitals and reduce vulnerability to power and water outages several steps are necessary. First, regulatory and accreditation bodies ought to develop a database to monitor and track the frequencies of outages, the performance of back-up measures, and the outcomes on patient care. Data for metrics such as duration of the outages, patient deaths, patient discharges, cancelled surgeries, financial impacts exist today, but are not reported systematically. Second, reducing hospital vulnerability to power and water outages ought to be a community priority for disaster mitigation planning and provide funding necessary for mitigating the impacts of power and water outages.
Heavy Quark Symmetry in Isosinglet Nonleptonic B-Decays
Creators: name: Blechman, Andrew E.
name: Mantry, Sonny
name: Stewart, Iain W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use a factorization theorem from the soft-collinear effective theory along with heavy quark symmetry to make model independent predictions for B-> D^(*)M where M={eta,eta',phi, omega}. Gluon production of these isosinglet mesons is included. We predict the equality of branching fractions in the B-> DM and B-> D*M channels, with corrections at order LambdaQCD/Q and alphas(Q) where Q=m_b,m_c, or E_M. We also predict that Br(B^0-> D eta')/Br(B^0-> D eta)=tan^2(theta) = 0.67 and Br(B-> D phi)/Br(B-> D omega) < 0.2, where here there are also alphas(sqrt{E*Lambda}) corrections. These results agree well with the available data. A test for SU(3) violation in these decays is constructed.
description: 12 pages, appendix removed
On the shear-affected zone of shear bands in bulk metallic glasses
Creators: name: Davani, Farnaz A.
name: Hilke, Sven
name: Rösner, Harald
name: Geissler, David
name: Gebert, Annett
name: Wilde, Gerhard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Notched bars of bulk metallic glasses, Pd$_{40}$Ni$_{40}$P$_{20}$ and Zr$_{52.5}$Cu$_{17.9}$Ni$_{14.6}$Al$_{10}$Ti$_{5}$, were deformed under 3-point bending conditions, resulting in the formation of shear bands before failure. The immediate environment of shear bands was investigated in detail using fluctuation electron microscopy to extract information on the strain-induced modifications of the medium-range order (MRO) and its lateral extension. Characteristic material-independent gradients were observed for the tensile and compressive sides of the samples indicating the impact of the local stress state on the MRO. Our results reveal an upper limit of a few microns for the lateral extension of the shear-affected environments of shear bands.
Electronic Supplementary Material from The broken-wing display across birds and the conditions for its evolution
Creators: name: de Framond, Léna
name: Brumm, Henrik
name: Thompson, Wren I.
name: Drabing, Shane M.
name: Francis, Clinton D.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Contains supplemental methods, results, tables S1-S4 and S2, plus figures S1-S8
Adaptive Interpolatory MOR by Learning the Error Estimator in the Parameter Domain
Creators: name: Chellappa, Sridhar
name: Feng, Lihong
name: de la Rubia, Valentin
name: Benner, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Interpolatory methods offer a powerful framework for generating reduced-order models (ROMs) for non-parametric or parametric systems with time-varying inputs. Choosing the interpolation points adaptively remains an area of active interest. A greedy framework has been introduced in Feng et al. [ESAIM: Math. Model. Numer. Anal. 51(6), 2017] and in Feng and Benner [IEEE Trans. Microw. Theory Techn. 67(12), 2019] to choose interpolation points automatically using a posteriori error estimators. Nevertheless, when the parameter range is large or if the parameter space dimension is larger than two, the greedy algorithm may take considerable time, since the training set needs to include a considerable number of parameters. As a remedy, we introduce an adaptive training technique by learning an efficient a posteriori error estimator over the parameter domain. A fast learning process is created by interpolating the error estimator using radial basis functions (RBF) over a fine parameter training set, representing the whole parameter domain. The error estimator is evaluated only on a coarse training set including a few parameter samples. The algorithm is an extension of the work in Chellappa et al. [arXiv e-prints 1910.00298] to interpolatory model order reduction (MOR) in frequency domain. Beyond this work, we use a newly proposed inf-sup-constant-free error estimator in the frequency domain, which is often much tighter than the error estimator using the inf-sup constant.
description: 21 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables. Submitted to the proceedings of MODRED 2019
Massless Limit of Transport Theory for Massive Fermions
Creators: name: Guo, Xingyu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We studied the $m=0$ limit of different components of Wigner functions for massive fermions. Comparing with the chiral kinetic theory, we separated the vanishing part and non-vanishing part for vector and axial vector components, up to the first order of $\hbar$. Then we discussed the possible physical meaning of the vanishing and non-vanishing parts, and their different behavior at thermal equilibrium.
description: 13 pages, 0 figures, accepted by Chinese Physics C
One for Many: Transfer Learning for Building HVAC Control
Creators: name: Xu, Shichao
name: Wang, Yixuan
name: Wang, Yanzhi
name: O'Neill, Zheng
name: Zhu, Qi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The design of building heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system is critically important, as it accounts for around half of building energy consumption and directly affects occupant comfort, productivity, and health. Traditional HVAC control methods are typically based on creating explicit physical models for building thermal dynamics, which often require significant effort to develop and are difficult to achieve sufficient accuracy and efficiency for runtime building control and scalability for field implementations. Recently, deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has emerged as a promising data-driven method that provides good control performance without analyzing physical models at runtime. However, a major challenge to DRL (and many other data-driven learning methods) is the long training time it takes to reach the desired performance. In this work, we present a novel transfer learning based approach to overcome this challenge. Our approach can effectively transfer a DRL-based HVAC controller trained for the source building to a controller for the target building with minimal effort and improved performance, by decomposing the design of neural network controller into a transferable front-end network that captures building-agnostic behavior and a back-end network that can be efficiently trained for each specific building. We conducted experiments on a variety of transfer scenarios between buildings with different sizes, numbers of thermal zones, materials and layouts, air conditioner types, and ambient weather conditions. The experimental results demonstrated the effectiveness of our approach in significantly reducing the training time, energy cost, and temperature violations.
description: Buildsys 2020 Accepted
title: Internal factors affecting brand performance
Creators: name: Harris, Fiona J.
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2002

description: In terms of effective branding, several recent trends have indicated the need for greater attention within the organisation than has traditionally been the case. With increased emphasis on corporate branding, the team responsible for managing a brand is becoming larger and more diverse and all staff, as the corporate brand's representatives, affect consumers' perceptions of the corporate brand. Furthermore, the shift in emphasis in the literature from the externally perceived brand image to the internally created brand identity entails actively creating how an organisation wishes to be perceived. To project a consistent corporate brand successfully to consumers, all staff need to have congruent perceptions about the brand's identity. The aim of this research was to identify internal factors influencing brand team members' and consumer-facing staffs perceptions of their brand's identity and the impact of these factors and perceptions on consumers' perceptions and brand performance. A conceptual model was developed and associated hypotheses formulated. Studies were conducted using postal questionnaires with three stakeholder groups in the financial services sector: (i) brand team members, (ii) consumer-facing staff and (iii) consumers. Although failing to identify correctly all of the intervening variables, support was found for sections of the conceptual model. The research confirmed that larger corporate brand teams increased the diversity of members' functional backgrounds. While brand teams composed of members with diverse functional backgrounds potentially have a wider range of knowledge and information available to them, diversity in brand team members' characteristics was found to impair the congruency of their brand perceptions. The importance of congruent brand perceptions among different stakeholder groups and the effect of congruent brand perceptions on brand performance were demonstrated. The results emphasised the need for improved internal brand communications and highlighted the influence of consumer-facing staff on consumers' brand perceptions.
How to manage the post pandemic opening? A Pontryagin Maximum Principle approach
Creators: name: Mansilla, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Economics (econ.GN)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 90B50 (Primary), 34C60 (Secondary)

description: The COVID-19 pandemic has completely disrupted the operation of our societies. Its elusive transmission process, characterized by an unusually long incubation period, as well as a high contagion capacity, has forced many countries to take quarantine and social isolation measures that conspire against the performance of national economies. This situation confronts decision makers in different countries with the alternative of reopening the economies, thus facing the unpredictable cost of a rebound of the infection. This work tries to offer an initial theoretical framework to handle this alternative.
description: 10 pages
Perturbations in Bouncing Cosmological Models
Creators: name: Pinto-Neto, Nelson
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I describe the features and general properties of bouncing models and the evolution of cosmological perturbations on such backgrounds. I will outline possible observational consequences of the existence of a bounce in the primordial Universe and I will make a comparison of these models with standard long inflationary scenarios.
description: 9 pages, no figures
April 17th 2025 Research Update.
Creators: name: Ussenaliyeva, Dr.Aizhan Aisha
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 380304
subject: Microeconomic theory
classificationCode: 380302
subject: Macroeconomic theory
classificationCode: 340503
subject: Organic chemical synthesis
classificationCode: 340502
subject: Natural products and bioactive compounds
classificationCode: 410401
subject: Conservation and biodiversity
classificationCode: 410402
subject: Environmental assessment and monitoring
classificationCode: 410403
subject: Environmental education and extension
classificationCode: 410404
subject: Environmental management

description: Office Logo Launch.
Possible Current-Induced Phenomena and Domain Control in an Organic Dirac Fermion System with Weak Charge Ordering
Creators: name: Osada, Toshihito
name: Kiswandhi, Andhika
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that when the electron and hole densities are unbalanced, observable nonlinear anomalous Hall effect and current-induced orbital magnetization appear at zero magnetic field in the weak charge ordering (CO) state of an organic two-dimensional Dirac fermion system, a-(BEDT-TTF)2I3. These current-induced phenomena are caused by a finite Berry curvature dipole resulting from inversion symmetry breaking and Dirac cone tilting. In the actual system, however, these effects are canceled out between different types of inversion asymmetric CO domains. To avoid the cancellation, we propose a new experimental method to realize the selective formation of a single type of domain using the current-induced magnetization.
description: 18 pages, 5 figures
Spiky strings and single trace operators in gauge theories
Creators: name: Kruczenski, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider single trace operators of the form O_{m_1 ... m_n} = tr D_+^{m_1} F ... D_+^{m_n} F which are common to all gauge theories. We argue that, when all m_i are equal and large, they have a dual description as strings with cusps, or spikes, one for each field F. In the case of N=4 SYM, we compute the energy as a function of angular momentum by finding the corresponding solutions in AdS_5 and compare with a 1-loop calculation of the anomalous dimension. As in the case of two spikes (twist two operators), there is agreement in the functional form but not in the coupling constant dependence. After that, we analyze the system in more detail and find an effective classical mechanics describing the motion of the spikes. In the appropriate limit, it is the same (up to the coupling constant dependence) as the coherent state description of linear combinations of the operators O_{m_1 ... m_n} such that all m_i are equal on average. This agreement provides a map between the operators in the boundary and the position of the spikes in the bulk. We further suggest that moving the spikes in other directions should describe operators with derivatives other than D_+ indicating that these ideas are quite generic and should help in unraveling the string description of the large-N limit of gauge theories.
description: 23 pages, 5 figures. v2: References and comments added
The IOGC model codes used in the study "Cascade Effects of Global Supply Chains Induced by Regional Conflicts Will Increase Global Inequality"
Creators: name: Zhao, Rongtian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 379901
subject: Earth system sciences
classificationCode: 380109
subject: Industry economics and industrial organisation
classificationCode: 380110
subject: International economics
classificationCode: 490104
subject: Complex systems

description: This is an example of using the standard IOGC model codes to take a simulation of regional shocks on the global supply chains. More details can be found in the original study named "Cascade Effects of Global Supply Chains Induced by Regional Conflicts Will Increase Global Inequality".
CLASS B2108+213: A new wide separation gravitational lens system
Creators: name: McKean, J. P.
name: Browne, I. W. A.
name: Jackson, N. J.
name: Koopmans, L. V. E.
name: Norbury, M. A.
name: Treu, T.
name: York, T. D.
name: Biggs, A. D.
name: Blandford, R. D.
name: de Bruyn, A. G.
name: Fassnacht, C. D.
name: Mao, S.
name: Myers, S. T.
name: Pearson, T. J.
name: Phillips, P. M.
name: Readhead, A. C. S.
name: Rusin, D.
name: Wilkinson, P. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present observations of CLASS B2108+213, the widest separation gravitational lens system discovered by the Cosmic Lens All-Sky Survey. Radio imaging using the VLA at 8.46 GHz and MERLIN at 5 GHz shows two compact components separated by 4.56 arcsec with a faint third component in between which we believe is emission from a lensing galaxy. 5-GHz VLBA observations reveal milliarcsecond-scale structure in the two lensed images that is consistent with gravitational lensing. Optical emission from the two lensed images and two lensing galaxies within the Einstein radius is detected in Hubble Space Telescope imaging. Furthermore, an optical gravitational arc, associated with the strongest lensed component, has been detected. Surrounding the system are a number of faint galaxies which may help explain the wide image separation. A plausible mass distribution model for CLASS B2108+213 is also presented.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Additional file 1 of MyoMiner: explore gene co-expression in normal and pathological muscle
Creators: name: Malatras, Apostolos
name: Michalopoulos, Ioannis
name: Duguez, Stéphanie
name: Butler-Browne, Gillian
name: Spuler, Simone
name: Duddy, William J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. Figure S1. Pair-wise correlations of 20 selected muscle genes in MyoMiner compared to the same pairwise correlations in GTEx and MEM, for healthy human whole muscle tissue. Table S1. Alternative IDs to the originals A-AFFY-44 for human UG-U133 Plus 2.0 and A-AFFY-45 for mouse MG 430 2 arrays. Table S2 - Table S3. Failed quality samples and series from the human and mouse microarray data collection. Table S4. Number of samples, series and expressed genes for each of 69 and 73 categories in human and mouse respectively. Table S5. Samples with opposite gender prediction. Table S6. Supplementary equations for ρ to Ζ and Z to ρ transformations, and confidence intervals calculation.
THE CAVES Project - Collaborative Analysis Versioning Environment System; THE CODESH Project - Collaborative Development Shell
Creators: name: Bourilkov, Dimitri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A key feature of collaboration in science and software development is to have a {\em log} of what and how is being done - for private use and reuse and for sharing selected parts with collaborators, which most often today are distributed geographically on an ever larger scale. Even better if this log is {\em automatic}, created on the fly while a scientist or software developer is working in a habitual way, without the need for extra efforts. The {\tt CAVES} and {\tt CODESH} projects address this problem in a novel way, building on the concepts of {\em virtual state} and {\em virtual transition} to provide an automatic persistent logbook for sessions of data analysis or software development in a collaborating group. A repository of sessions can be configured dynamically to record and make available the knowledge accumulated in the course of a scientific or software endeavor. Access can be controlled to define logbooks of private sessions and sessions shared within or between collaborating groups.
description: 4 pages, presented at the Meeting of the Division of Particles and Fields of the APS, Riverside, USA, August 2004
De Sitter Holography with a Finite Number of States
Creators: name: Parikh, Maulik K.
name: Verlinde, Erik P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the possibility that, in a combined theory of quantum mechanics and gravity, de Sitter space is described by finitely many states. The notion of observer complementarity, which states that each observer has complete but complementary information, implies that, for a single observer, the complete Hilbert space describes one side of the horizon. Observer complementarity is implemented by identifying antipodal states with outgoing states. The de Sitter group acts on S-matrix elements. Despite the fact that the de Sitter group has no nontrivial finite-dimensional unitary representations, we show that it is possible to construct an S-matrix that is finite-dimensional, unitary, and de Sitter-invariant. We present a class of examples that realize this idea holographically in terms of spinor fields on the boundary sphere. The finite dimensionality is due to Fermi statistics and an `exclusion principle' that truncates the orthonormal basis in which the spinor fields can be expanded.
description: 23 pages, 1 eps figure, LaTeX
Social App Accessibility for Deaf Signers
Creators: name: Mack, Kelly
name: Bragg, Danielle
name: Morris, Meredith Ringel
name: Bos, Maarten W.
name: Albi, Isabelle
name: Monroy-Hernández, Andrés
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Social media platforms support the sharing of written text, video, and audio. All of these formats may be inaccessible to people who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH), particularly those who primarily communicate via sign language, people who we call Deaf signers. We study how Deaf signers engage with social platforms, focusing on how they share content and the barriers they face. We employ a mixed-methods approach involving seven in-depth interviews and a survey of a larger population (n = 60). We find that Deaf signers share the most in written English, despite their desire to share in sign language. We further identify key areas of difficulty in consuming content (e.g., lack of captions for spoken content in videos) and producing content (e.g., captioning signed videos, signing into a phone camera) on social media platforms. Our results both provide novel insights into social media use by Deaf signers and reinforce prior findings on DHH communication more generally, while revealing potential ways to make social media platforms more accessible to Deaf signers.
A study of magnetically-supported dc discharge in cylindrical and inverted cyclindrical configuration
Creators: name: Bilyk, Olena
name: Kudrna, Pavel
name: Holik, Miroslav
name: Marek, Ales
name: Tichy, Milan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have investigated apparently stochastic fluctuations of magnetically-supported dc discharge in cylindrical coaxial configuration. In the system the electric field had radial direction while the magnetic field was applied axially. The discharge vessel length was 12 centimetres. Working gas was typically argon at pressure of several Pa, magnetic field 10-50 mT. The contribution describes experimental results - frequency and phase analysis of the instabilities, which we detected in our experimental system in both the conventional and inverted magnetron configurations. We bring also 2-D PIC model of the dc discharge under conditions, which can be achieved in the experimental apparatus.
description: 12th International Congress on Plasma Physics, 25-29 October 2004, Nice (France)
Global computational regulatory analysis of the anti-endotoxin effect of LL-37
Creators: name: Doho, Gregory Hyojun
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: LL-37, a human cationic peptide, selectively modulates the innate immune response by interacting with the effector cells of innate immunity. It has been demonstrated to stimulate chemokine production and protect against infection, as well as suppress the endotoxin/lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-mediated production of pro-inflammatory cytokines and endotoxic shock in mouse model experiments. Microarray experiments under these conditions have indicated that the expression of numerous genes is altered in the presence of LL-37 and/or LPS, but the mechanisms underlying these transcriptional changes and the immunomodulatory effects of LL-37 are poorly understood. Therefore a computational approach was applied to time course microarray data comprising gene sets upregulated in monocytic cells upon treatment with LPS, LL-37 or LPS and LL-37. Sets of co-expressed genes observed in microarray experiments were clustered by a variety of methods into related temporal gene expression patterns. Subsequently, the promoter regions of the genes in these clusters were analyzed to predict potential transcription factor binding sites (TFBS) and the application of rigorous statistics revealed over-represented TFBS. This then permitted the generation of hypotheses concerning the transcription factors and signaling pathways involved in the anti-endotoxin effect(s) of LL-37. These analyses indicated that LL-37 selectively neutralized the LPS-induced expression of genes with promoters containing the signatures of both nuclear factor (NF)-κB and transcription factors downstream of mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathways. Other genes that remained upregulated in the presence of both LPS and LL-37 tended to be deficient in TFBS for NF-κB but did contain the MAPK-related and other TFBS. LL-37 alone tended to induce expression of genes with promoters that bound transcription factors downstream of ERK1/2 and p38, MAPK that are known to be activated by LL-37, but did not induce the expression of most pro-inflammatory genes. Thus these data extend previous hypotheses that selective suppression of the NF-κB pathway is one of the anti-endotoxin mechanisms of LL-37, and indicate that residual gene expression is controlled in part by MAPK pathways.
Additional file 2 of Pregnancy outcomes of patients with acute fatty liver of pregnancy: a case control study
Creators: name: Lingzhi Chang
name: Wang, Ming
name: Haixia Liu
name: Qinghua Meng
name: Hongwei Yu
name: Wu, Yu-Mei
name: Yunxia Zhu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2:Suppl Table 2. Predictors of Negative mother Outcomes in mothers with AFLP(n = 55)
A model of student's dilemma
Creators: name: Lipowski, Adam
name: Ferreira, Antonio L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Each year perhaps millions of young people face the following dilemma: should I continue my education or rather start working with already acquired skills. Right decision must take into account somebody's own abilities, accessibility to education institutions, competition, and potential benefits. A multi-agent, evolutionary model of this dilemma predicts a transition between stratified and homogeneous phases, evolution that diminishes fitness, fewer applicants per seat for decreased capacity of the university, and presence of poor students at élite universities.
description: 4 pages, minor changes, accepted in Physica A
The Bohm Interpretation of Quantum Cosmology
Creators: name: Pinto-Neto, Nelson
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I make a review on the aplications of the Bohm-De Broglie interpretation of quantum mechanics to quantum cosmology. In the framework of minisuperspaces models, I show how quantum cosmological effects in Bohm's view can avoid the initial singularity, isotropize the Universe, and even be a cause for the present observed acceleration of the Universe. In the general case, we enumerate the possible structures of quantum space and time.
description: 28 pages, 1 figure, contribution to the James Cushing festschrift to appear in Foundations of Physics
Additional file 1 of Pregnancy outcomes of patients with acute fatty liver of pregnancy: a case control study
Creators: name: Lingzhi Chang
name: Wang, Ming
name: Haixia Liu
name: Qinghua Meng
name: Hongwei Yu
name: Wu, Yu-Mei
name: Yunxia Zhu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Suppl Table 1. The rates of Swansea criteria for the diagnosis of AFLP (n = 55).
A KÖRNYEZETTUDATOSSÁG MEGJELENÉSE A KÖZÉPISKOLÁSOK KÖRÉBEN
Creators: name: Kiss, Virág Ágnes
name: Tóth, Orsolya
name: Kiss, Virág Ágnes
name: Tóth, Orsolya
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: környezet
subject: környezettudatosság
subject: fiatalok
subject: environment
subject: environment-conscious
subject: young

description: A Föld-etika meghatározása szerint jó az, ami segít megőrizni az élő közösségek egységét, stabilitását és szépségét; rossz, ha nem így cselekszünk (LEOPOLD 2000, idézi LÁNYI 2013:820). A fogyasztói tudatosság és fenntartható fejlődés eszméje egyre hangsúlyosabban jelenik meg mind a médiában, mind a tudományos térben. A fogyasztók egyre inkább magukénak kezdik érezni a globális fenntarthatatlan életvitel okozta problémákat és az ezzel járó felelősséget is. A környezettudatosság és környezetvédelem kérdése az egyik legnagyobb vizsgálati múltra visszatekintő kutatási kérdés. A tudatos fogyasztás irányzata és mozgalma is a környezetvédelem alapelveiből alakult ki, vált mára „divatos” fogyasztói és kutatói tendenciává. A középiskolásokat érintő tudományos kutatások viszont nem számosak, pedig ezen generáció mint a jövő fogyasztói társadalma nem elhanyagolható szereppel bír a elkövetkezendő idők környezeti folyamatainak formálásban. A publikáció elkészítését a TÁMOP-4.2.2.B-15/1/KONV-2015-0001 számú projekt támogatta. A projekt az Európai Unió támogatásával, az Európai Szociális Alap társfinanszírozásával valósult meg. ----------------------------------------------
Superconductivity in an Al-Twisted Bilayer Graphene-Al Junction device
Creators: name: Rui, Dingran
name: Sun, Luzhao
name: Kang, N.
name: Peng, Hailin
name: Liu, Zhongfan
name: Xu, H. Q.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on realization and quantum transport study of a twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) Josephson junction device. High-quality tBLG employed in the device fabrication is obtained via chemical vapour deposition and the device is fabricated by contacting a piece of tBLG by two closely spaced Al electrodes in an Al-tBLG-Al Josephson junction configuration. Low-temperature transport measurements show that below the critical temperature of the Al electrodes ($T_c\approx1.1$ K), the device exhibits sizable supercurrents at zero magnetic field, arising from the superconducting proximity effect with high contact transparency in the device. In the measurements of the critical supercurrent as a function of perpendicularly applied magnetic field, a standard Fraunhofer-like pattern of oscillations is observed, indicating a uniform supercurrent distribution inside the junction. Multiple Andreev reflection characteristics are also observed in the spectroscopy measurements of the device, and their magnetic field and temperature dependencies are found to be well described by the Bardeen$-$Cooper$-$Schrieffer theory.
description: 14 pages, 4 figures
Analysis of the semileptonic decay $D^0 \to \bar{K}^0 π^-μ^+ν$
Creators: name: The FOCUS Collaboration
name: Link, J. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using data collected by the fixed target Fermilab experiment FOCUS, we present several first measurements for the semileptonic decay $D^0 \to \bar{K}^0π^-μ^+ν$. Using a model that includes a $\bar{K}^0 π^-$ S-wave component, we measure the form factor ratios to be r_v= 1.706+-0.677+-0.342 and r_2= 0.912+-0.370+-0.104 and the S-wave amplitude to be A=0.347+-0.222+-0.053 GeV^-1. Finally, we measure the vector semileptonic branching ratio $\frac{Γ(D^0 \to K^{*}(892){-}μ^+ν)}{Γ(D^0 \to \bar{K}^0π^-π^+)}= 0.337+-0.034+-0.013.
description: 14 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables