cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Gemini/GMOS Spectroscopy of 26 Strong Lensing Selected Galaxy Cluster Cores
Creators: name: Bayliss, Matthew B.
name: Hennawi, Joseph F.
name: Gladders, Michael D.
name: Koester, Benjamin P.
name: Sharon, Keren
name: Dahle, Hakon
name: Oguri, Masamune
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results from a spectroscopic program targeting 26 strong lensing cluster cores that were visually identified in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the Second Red-Sequence Cluster Survey (RCS-2). The 26 galaxy cluster lenses span a redshift range of 0.2 < z < 0.65, and our spectroscopy reveals 69 unique background sources with redshifts as high as z=5.200. We also identify redshifts for 262 cluster member galaxies and measure the velocity dispersions and dynamical masses for 18 clusters where we have redshifts for N \geq 10 cluster member galaxies. We include an accounting for the expected biases in dynamical masses of strong lensing selected clusters as predicted by results from numerical simulations and discuss possible sources of bias in our observations. The median dynamical mass of the 18 clusters with N \geq 10 spectroscopic cluster members is M_{Vir} = 7.84 x 10^14 M_sun h_{0.7}^{-1}, which is somewhat higher than predictions for strong lensing selected clusters in simulations. The disagreement is not significant considering the large uncertainty in our dynamical data, systematic uncertainties in the velocity dispersion calibration, and limitations of the theoretical modeling. Nevertheless our study represents an important first step toward characterizing large samples of clusters that are identified in a systematic way as systems exhibiting dramatic strong lensing features.
description: 27 Pages, 13 Figures, 4 Tables, eapj, published in ApJS
Generalized Model of Migration-Driven Aggregate Growth - Asymptotic Distributions, Power Laws and Apparent Fractality
Creators: name: Gordienko, Yu. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The rate equation for exchange-driven aggregation of monomers between clusters of size $n$ by power-law exchange rate ($\sim{n}^α$), where detaching and attaching processes were considered separately, is reduced to Fokker-Planck equation. Its exact solution was found for unbiased aggregation and agreed with asymptotic conclusions of other models. Asymptotic transitions were found from exact solution to Weibull/normal/exponential distribution, and then to power law distribution. Intermediate asymptotic size distributions were found to be functions of exponent $α$ and vary from normal ($α=0$) through Weibull ($0
description: 11 pages, 7 figures
Dark matter annihilation through a lepton-specific Higgs boson
Creators: name: Logan, Heather E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It was recently argued by Hooper and Goodenough [arXiv:1010.2752] that the excess gamma ray emission from within 1-2 degrees of the galactic center can be well-described by annihilation of ~8 GeV dark matter particles into tau pairs. I show that such a dark matter signal can be obtained naturally in the lepton-specific two-Higgs-doublet model extended by a stable singlet scalar dark matter candidate. The favored parameter region prefers a light Higgs state (below 200 GeV) with enhanced couplings to leptons and sizable invisible branching fraction. Part of the favored region leads to invisible decays of both of the CP-even neutral Higgs states.
description: 15 pages, no figures. V2: references added, fine-tuning discussion improved, submitted to PRD. V3: added Sec. 6 on direct detection prospects and associated refs, version accepted by PRD
An algorithm for computing compatibly Frobenius split subvarieties
Creators: name: Katzman, Mordechai
name: Schwede, Karl
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14B05, 13A35

description: Let $R$ be a ring of prime characteristic $p$, and let $F^e_* R$ denote $R$ viewed as an $R$-module via the $e$th iterated Frobenius map. Given a surjective map $ϕ: F^e_* R \to R$ (for example a Frobenius splitting), we exhibit an algorithm which produces all the $ϕ$-compatible ideals. We also explore a variant of this algorithm under the hypothesis that $ϕ$ is not necessarily a Frobenius splitting (or even surjective). This algorithm, and the original, have been implemented in Macaulay2.
description: 15 pages, many statements clarified and numerous other substantial improvements to the exposition (thanks to the referees). To appear in the Journal of Symbolic Computation
IPBES VA Chapter 4. Systematic review on motivational crowding by economic incentives in conservation policies
Creators: name: Engel, Stefanie
name: Ortiz-Riomalo, Juan Felipe
name: Rode, Julian
name: Thomas, Fabian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: IPBES
Values Assessment
Chapter 4

description: Systematic review on motivational crowding by economic incentives in conservation policies Code: VA_4.1_Ch4 Versioning:03 (26.11.2020) DOI:10.5281/zenodo.4390996 Description The IPBES Scoping document for the Values Assessment describes that Chapter 4 should address values and valuation in relation to decision-making and policymaking at different levels and in different contexts. The chapter provides evidence on how conservation policies based on economic incentives affects the values at stake in the relevant decision-making processes. In this context a review of empirical studies focused on motivational crowding by economic incentives in conservation policies was conducted and is further described in annexes below.
Magnetic properties of the Ag-In-rare-earth 1/1 approximants
Creators: name: Ibuka, Soshi
name: Iida, Kazuki
name: Sato, Taku J
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have performed magnetic susceptibility and neutron scattering measurements on polycrystalline Ag-In-RE (RE: rare-earth) 1/1 approximants. In the magnetic susceptibility measurements, for most of the RE elements, inverse susceptibility shows linear behaviour in a wide temperature range, confirming well localized isotropic moments for the RE$^{3+}$ ions. Exceptionally for the light RE elements, such as Ce and Pr, non-linear behaviour was observed, possibly due to significant crystalline field splitting or valence fluctuation. For RE = Tb, the susceptibility measurement clearly shows a bifurcation of the field-cooled and zero-field-cooled susceptibility at $T_{\rm f} = 3.7$~K, suggesting a spin-glass-like freezing. On the other hand, neutron scattering measurements detect significant development of short-range antiferromagnetic spin correlations in elastic channel, which accompanied by a broad peak at $\hbarω= 4$~meV in inelastic scattering spectrum. These features have striking similarity to those in the Zn-Mg-Tb quasicrystals, suggesting that the short-range spin freezing behaviour is due to local high symmetry clusters commonly seen in both the systems.
description: 14 pages, 12 figures
Local quasi hidden variable modelling and violations of Bell-type inequalities by a multipartite quantum state
Creators: name: Loubenets, Elena R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We introduce for a general correlation scenario a new simulation model, a local quasi hidden variable (LqHV) model, where locality and the measure-theoretic structure inherent to an LHV model are preserved but positivity of a simulation measure is dropped. We specify a necessary and sufficient condition for LqHV modelling and, based on this, prove that every quantum correlation scenario admits an LqHV simulation. Via the LqHV approach, we construct analogs of Bell-type inequalities for an N-partite quantum state and find a new analytical upper bound on the maximal violation by an N-partite quantum state of S_{1}x...xS_{N}-setting Bell-type inequalities - either on correlation functions or on joint probabilities and for outcomes of an arbitrary spectral type, discrete or continuous. This general analytical upper bound is expressed in terms of the new state dilation characteristics introduced in the present paper and not only traces quantum states admitting an S_{1}x...xS_{N}-setting LHV description but also leads to the new exact numerical upper estimates on the maximal Bell violations for concrete N-partite quantum states used in quantum information processing and for an arbitrary N-partite quantum state. We, in particular, prove that violation by an N-partite quantum state of an arbitrary Bell-type inequality (either on correlation functions or on joint probabilities) for S settings per site cannot exceed (2S-1)^{N-1} even in case of an infinite dimensional quantum state and infinitely many outcomes.
description: Improved, edited version
Klein tunneling in carbon nanostructures: a free particle dynamics in disguise
Creators: name: Jakubsky, Vit
name: Nieto, Luis-Miguel
name: Plyushchay, Mikhail S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The absence of backscattering in metallic nanotubes as well as perfect Klein tunneling in potential barriers in graphene are the prominent electronic characteristics of carbon nanostructures. We show that the phenomena can be explained by a peculiar supersymmetry generated by a first order Hamiltonian and zero order supercharge operators. Like the supersymmetry associated with second order reflectionless finite-gap systems, it relates here the low-energy behavior of the charge carriers with the free particle dynamics.
description: 4 pages, 1 fig., typos corrected
Tanglewood Trail Walking and Voucher Program
Creators: name: McHugh, Kelci Marie
Publisher: name: University of Kentucky Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Abstract:
Rural Appalachian populations have greater rates of obesity and chronic diseases attributed to lesser consumption of fruits and vegetables (F/V) and physical inactivity. Barriers to F/V consumption and physical activity include poor access and affordability. To help overcome these barriers, a community-initiated walking and farmers market F/V voucher program was implemented.
Participants were encouraged to walk (1.2 miles roundtrip) to the local farmers market to redeem a $10 voucher which could only be spent on F/V. The 16-week program (June – Sept) included 121 participants. Data was analyzed by creating two groups, low-engagers and high-engagers that differed significantly in the number of times walked to the market and redeemed vouchers, p ≤ 0.0001.
Among all participants’ significant decreases were seen in total cholesterol, LDL, ratio of total cholesterol/HDL cholesterol, 10-year risk of heart disease or stroke score, and hemoglobin A1c (p ≤ 0.05). Significant increases were seen in HDL, quantity and variety of F/V consumption among all participants and the high-engagers group. There were improvements in knowledge pertaining to participants’ awareness of the term “phytonutrient” with correctly identifying plant-based foods as the source (p=0.01).
Results demonstrate that a community-based walking and farmers market F/V voucher program can improve health in a Rural Appalachian population.
Copyright: © Kelci Marie McHugh 2019
Funding information: Research reported was supported by the University of Kentucky Department of Dietetics and Human Nutrition; the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture Food, School of Human Environmental Sciences Research Activity Award; and NIEHS/NIH grant P42ES007380. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of NIH.
Determinants of Profitability of Grain Dependent Short Line Railroads
Creators: name: Prater, Marvin
name: Babcock, Michael W.
name: Prater, Marvin
name: Babcock, Michael W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Public Economics

description: Presented at the 39th Transportation Research Forum meeting, Oct. 16-18, 1997, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
IPBES VA Chapter 4. Literature & case study review on protected areas and conservation schemes outcomes
Creators: name: Chaplin-Kramer, Rebecca
name: Neugarten, Rachel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: IPBES
Values Assessment
Chapter 4

description: Literature & case study review on protected areas and conservation schemes outcomes. Code: VA_4.6_Ch4 Versioning:01 (24.11.2020) DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4394268 Description: The IPBES Scoping document for the Values Assessment highlights the need to assess the types of values of nature that have (or have not) been incorporated into decision-making, the types of valuation approaches incorporated into decision-making, the challenges that have hindered the incorporation of diverse conceptualizations of values of nature in a range of decision and policy-making contexts and the implications for different stakeholders. In this context a literature & case-study review was conducted to examine how values are articulated by diverse stakeholders through Protected Area policies and other conservation schemes including Indigenous Community Conserved Areas (ICCAs), and how they come to influence outcomes. Through this review we address the following questions: What types of protected area impacts are most frequently studied, what valuation methods are used to assess these impacts, and where are the gaps in the evidence on the impacts of protected areas? What enabling conditions related to protected area design and implementation processes are linked to more beneficial social and environmental impacts? What aspects of the decision process and specifically the inclusion of marginalized values and the values of marginalized people in decision-making are associated with improvements in well-being, sustainability and justice?
IPBES VA Chapter 4. Literature review on environmental certification.
Creators: name: Leimona, Beria
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: IPBES
Values Assessment
Chapter 4

description: Literature review on environmental certification. Code: VA_4.5_Ch4 Versioning: 01 (01.12.2020) Description: The IPBES Scoping document for the Values Assessment highlights the need to assess the types of values of nature that have (or have not) been incorporated into decision-making, the types of valuation approaches incorporated into decision-making, the challenges that have hindered the incorporation of diverse conceptualizations of values of nature in a range of decision and policy-making contexts and the implications for different stakeholders. In this context a literature review was conducted to examine how values are articulated in environmental certification schemes by diverse stakeholders. Through this review we address the following questions: What are the states of sustainability certifications programs for various agricultural commodities, with the focus of commodities that have high economical values and export oriented? How decisions among sustainability certifications are influenced by stakeholders relevant to each supply chain of the commodities? What values are involved, by whom, and what are the relationships between value articulation approaches (implicit and explicit) that support decisions towards sustainability certifications and ‘desired’ outcomes? Are there any contested values among stakeholders?
IPBES VA Chapter 4. Literature & case study review on values articulated in Payments for Ecosystem Services / Compensation for Ecosystem Services (PES/CES) programmes.
Creators: name: Nelson, Sara
name: Chaplin-Kramer, Rebecca
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: IPBES
Values Assessment
Chapter 4

description: Literature & case study review on values articulated in Payments for Ecosystem Services / Compensation for Ecosystem Services (PES/CES) programmes. Code: VA_4.7_Ch4 Versioning:01 (23.10.2020) DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4394521 Description The IPBES Scoping document for the Values Assessment highlights the need to assess the types of values of nature that have (or have not) been incorporated into decision-making, the types of valuation approaches incorporated into decision-making, the challenges that have hindered the incorporation of diverse conceptualizations of values of nature in a range of decision and policy-making contexts and the implications for different stakeholders. In this context a literature & case-study review was conducted to examine how values are articulated by diverse stakeholders through Payments for Ecosystem Services / Compensation for Ecosystem Services (PES/CES) programs, including REDD+, and how they come to shape impacts. Through this review we address the following questions: Whose values come to matter in PES design, implementation and assessment and how? How do (mis)alignments between local values, institutions, knowledge systems and program design and implementation shape impacts of PES? What value articulation processes are most effective at aligning local values, institutions, and knowledge systems with PES design and implementation? What contextual factors support/undermine these efforts? What is the potential for plural valuation to enhance just and sustainable impacts in PES?
Social justice in the clinic : caring for larger patients
Creators: name: Kanagasingam, Deana
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: Many larger patients experience weight-based discrimination in healthcare settings, and are judged by practitioners as irresponsible and non-compliant (Phelan et al., 2014). Though there has been increased attention on how weight-based discrimination jeopardizes patient health outcomes (Sutin et al., 2015), empirical research is lacking on 1) practitioners who adopt a social justice approach to caring for larger patients or 2) larger patients’ experiences of receiving social justice-informed care. Social justice in practice refers to addressing intersecting macro-level inequities such as racism, sexism, and sizeism through micro-level practitioner-patient interactions (Mishler, 2005). The present study fills a research gap by examining how social justice is understood, enacted, and experienced in weight-related clinical interventions. Drawing on one-on-one interviews with 22 diverse healthcare practitioners who identify as social justice advocates and 20 larger patients served by such practitioners, four main questions were addressed: 1) How do participants understand social justice? 2) How do practitioners translate social justice principles into practice? 3) What challenges do practitioners encounter when practicing social justice? 4) How does social justice-informed care shape larger patients’ experience? The findings reveal that participants rejected the notion of obesity as an individual problem, and demonstrated a deep awareness of the broader social factors shaping weight and overall wellbeing. Nonetheless, participants’ approaches to care differed depending on whether they regarded obesity as either primarily a social construct or a biomedical fact. Furthermore, despite the prevailing paradigm of obesity as a disease, participants conveyed that non weight-related factors such as financial strain and racism more profoundly impacted patients’ health, which casts doubt on whether medicalizing obesity truly benefits larger patients. A social justice informed-approach to care was found to enhance patients’ experience, with patients expressing appreciation for having their trauma histories and social challenges handled with compassion and curiosity. The study highlights the need to integrate micro-level strategies for individual healing with a macro-level framework of systemic change, as well as cultivate in patients, clinicians, and the public at large a more nuanced understanding of weight and health. The findings provide practice-oriented insights for care informed by frameworks of weight-inclusivity, structural competency, and person-centredness.
title: Active Design – How the built environment matters to mobile games for health
Creators: name: Knöll, Martin
name: Dutz, Tim
name: Hardy, Sandro
name: Göbel, Stefan
name: Mitgutsch, Konstantin
name: Huber, Simon
name: Wimmer, Jeffrey
name: Wagner, Michael
name: Rosenstingl, Herbert
Publisher: name: new academic press
Year: 2023

description: Mobile games for health aim to provide both for an attractive gaming experience and for a positive effect on their users’ wellbeing. Most of these games are context-sensitive, as they take note of the state of the player’s environment and use this information to adapt the game experience. This article points to the limited research available that validates either the physiological effects of playing context-sensitive games for health regularly, or research that focuses on the complex relationship between mobile games, a players’ health and wellbeing, and the (urban) environment in which many of these games are being played. It reviews aspects of health-oriented urban design that has been shown to influence people’s everyday activity patterns including running and cycling. It speculates how “active design” context can also have an impact on how we play mobile games for health and explains how this knowledge can be used to improve such games.
Marginal Contribution for LTL Pricing
Creators: name: D'Avignon, Gilles
name: Miller, Joanne
name: D'Avignon, Gilles
name: Miller, Joanne
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Public Economics

description: Presented at the 39th Transportation Research Forum meeting, Oct. 16-18, 1997, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Ordered community structure in networks
Creators: name: Gregory, Steve
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Community structure in networks is often a consequence of homophily, or assortative mixing, based on some attribute of the vertices. For example, researchers may be grouped into communities corresponding to their research topic. This is possible if vertex attributes have discrete values, but many networks exhibit assortative mixing by some continuous-valued attribute, such as age or geographical location. In such cases, no discrete communities can be identified. We consider how the notion of community structure can be generalized to networks that are based on continuous-valued attributes: in general, a network may contain discrete communities which are ordered according to their attribute values. We propose a method of generating synthetic ordered networks and investigate the effect of ordered community structure on the spread of infectious diseases. We also show that community detection algorithms fail to recover community structure in ordered networks, and evaluate an alternative method using a layout algorithm to recover the ordering.
description: This is an extended preprint version that includes an extra example: the college football network as an ordered (spatial) network. Further improvements, not included here, appear in the journal version. Original title changed (from "Ordered and continuous community structure in networks") to match journal version
IPBES VA Chapter 4. Literature review on values articulated in agrobiodiversity management
Creators: name: Demongeot, Marilou
name: Chaplin-Krammer, Becky
name: Pascual, Unai
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: IPBES
Values Assessment
Chapter 4

description: Literature review on values articulated in agrobiodiversity management Code: VA_4.8_Ch4 Versioning:01 (25.12.2020) DOI:10.5281/zenodo.4394548 Description The IPBES Scoping document for the Values Assessment highlights the need to assess the types of values of nature that have (or have not) been incorporated into decision-making, the types of valuation approaches incorporated into decision-making, the challenges that have hindered the incorporation of diverse conceptualizations of values of nature in a range of decision and policy-making contexts and the implications for different stakeholders. As biodiversity plays an important role in supporting agricultural systems and agrobiodiversity is internationally recognized as an essential element for building more sustainable, resilient and just food systems, and within agrobiodiverse systems multiple decisions are made that result in different outcomes for ecosystems and people we conducted a literature review to examine how values are articulated by diverse stakeholders (particularly farmers) related to agrobiodiversity systems and how they shape impacts for people and nature. The review focuses on the following questions: What are the multiple values (intrinsic, relational, instrumental) that farmers mention directly or that can be inferred through the management of on-farm agrobiodiversity (it is important to tease apart values stated by farmers themselves and those revealed by their management decisions)? What trade-offs or synergies between values are involved in decision-making at the household level? How do farmers’ management decisions (within the broader context [institutions, market, etc.] result in outcomes that influence the trends of agrobiodiversity (abandonment, adoptions)? Do farmers in different types of farming systems (small-scale/large scale farming systems) convey different values of agrobiodiversity? What are other documented outcomes, in terms of impact on livelihoods, from agrobiodiversity management decisions? Possible outcomes can be: sustaining livelihood, income, food security, insurance effect, subjective wellbeing… What are the effects of policies such as payments for ecosystem services and eco-certification schemes decision farmers make about agrobiodiversity management given the multiples values they ascribe to agrobiodiversity (how do these values interact with policies to affect management decisions)? To what extent can such policies support cultivated diversity and associated diversity?
title: Ist eine technische Realisierung des Situationsbewusstseins möglich?
Creators: name: Muthig, Olga
name: Söffker, Dirk
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications Online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2015

description: Der Begriff Situationsbewusstsein hat aktuell in vielen Forschungsbereichen stark an

Bedeutung gewonnen. Die Interaktion des Menschen mit der Umwelt in komplexen dynamischen

Situationen und besonders in Hochrisikobereichen erfordert das Vorhandensein eines optimalen

und fehlerfreien Situationsbewusstseins. Eine fehlerhafte Entscheidung und daraus resultierende

Konsequenzen können zu hohen Kosten oder erheblichem Schaden führen; in gravierenden

Fällen Menschenleben gef¨ahrden. Eine verlässliche Verhaltensweise/Interaktion in kognitiven

Systemen mit damit verbundener Handlungsautonomie erfordert Fähigkeiten wie Planen,

Vorhersehen, Handeln und somit das Vorhandensein eines optimalen Situationsbewusstseins.

In diesem Beitrag werden die zu einer technischen Realisierung des Situationsbewusstseins

notwendigen Anforderungen und Methoden vorgestellt. Im Falle einer korrekten technischen

Umsetzung des Situationsbewusstseins sollte ein System in der Lage sein, Planungen und

Handlungen hinsichtlich vorhandener Ziele zu realisieren sowie die Konsequenzen der Handlung

bzw. Handlungsalternativen abzuschätzen. An Beispielen wird aufgezeigt in welcher Form dies

bereits heute möglich ist.
Dual Spaces of Resonance In Thick $p-$Branes
Creators: name: Landim, R. R.
name: Alencar, G.
name: Tahim, M. O.
name: Gomes, M. A. M.
name: Filho, R. N. Costa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we consider $q-$form fields in a $p-$brane embedded in a $D=(p+2)$ space-time. The membrane is generated by a domain wall in a Randall-Sundrum-like scenario. We study conditions for localization of zero modes of these fields. The expression agrees and generalizes the one found for the zero, one, two and three-forms in a $3-$brane. By a generalization we mean that our expression is valid for any form in an arbitrary dimension with codimension one. We also point out that, even without the dilaton coupling, some form fields are localized in the membrane. The massive modes are considered and the resonances are calculated using a numerical method. We find that different spaces have identical resonance structures, which we call dual spaces of resonances(DSR).
description: 15 pages
On the fairness of the main galaxy sample of SDSS
Creators: name: Meng, Kelai
name: Ma, Bin
name: Pan, Jun
name: Feng, Longlong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Flux-limited and volume-limited galaxy samples are constructed from SDSS data releases DR4, DR6 and DR7 for statistical analysis. The two-point correlation functions $ξ(s)$, monopole of three-point correlation functions $ζ_0$, projected two-point correlation function $w_p$ and pairwise velocity dispersion $σ_{12}$ are measured to test if galaxy samples are fair for these statistics. We find that with increment of sky coverage of SDSS, $ξ(s)$ of flux-limited sample is extremely robust and insensitive to local structures at low redshift. But for volume-limited samples fainter than $L^*$ at large scales $s>\sim 10\hmpc$, deviation of $ξ(s)$ and $ζ_0$ of DR7 to those of DR4 and DR6 increases with larger absolute magnitude. In the weakly nonlinear regime, there is no agreement between $ζ_0$ of different data releases in all luminosity bins. Furthermore, $w_p$ of volume-limited samples of DR7 in luminosity bins fainter than $-M_{r,0.1}=[18.5,19.5]$ are significantly larger, and $σ_{12}$ of the two faintest volume-limited samples of DR7 display very different scale dependence than results of DR4 and DR6. Our findings call for cautions in understanding clustering analysis results of SDSS faint galaxy samples, and higher order statistics of SDSS volume-limited samples in the weakly nonlinear regime. The first zero-crossing points of $ξ(s)$ of volume-limited samples are also investigated and discussed.
description: 16 pages, 12 figures, accepted
Pathways of host cell exit by intracellular pathogens
Creators: name: Flieger, Antje
name: Frischknecht, Freddy
name: Häcker, Georg
name: Hornef, Mathias W.
name: Pradel, Gabriele
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: compartment
subject: egress
subject: exit
subject: host cell
subject: membrane lysis
subject: pathogen
subject: programmed cell death
subject: vacuolar escape
subject: 610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Host cell exit is a critical step in the life-cycle of intracellular pathogens, intimately linked to barrier penetration, tissue dissemination, inflammation, and pathogen transmission. Like cell invasion and intracellular survival, host cell exit represents a well-regulated program that has evolved during host-pathogen co-evolution and that relies on the dynamic and intricate interplay between multiple host and microbial factors. Three distinct pathways of host cell exit have been identified that are employed by three different taxa of intracellular pathogens, bacteria, fungi and protozoa, namely (i) the initiation of programmed cell death, (ii) the active breaching of host cell-derived membranes, and (iii) the induced membrane-dependent exit without host cell lysis. Strikingly, an increasing number of studies show that the majority of intracellular pathogens utilize more than one of these strategies, dependent on life-cycle stage, environmental factors and/or host cell type. This review summarizes the diverse exit strategies of intracellular-living bacterial, fungal and protozoan pathogens and discusses the convergently evolved commonalities as well as system-specific variations thereof. Key microbial molecules involved in host cell exit are highlighted and discussed as potential targets for future interventional approaches.
IPBES VA Chapter 4. Case study review on big development projects.
Creators: name: Lele, Sharachchandra
name: Chaplin-Kramer, Rebecca
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: IPBES
Values Assessment
Chapter 4

description: Case study review on big development projects. Code: VA_4.9_Ch4 Versioning:01 (26.12.2020) DOI:10.5281/zenodo.4395986 Description The IPBES Scoping document for the Values Assessment highlights the need to assess the types of values of nature that have (or have not) been incorporated into decision-making, the types of valuation approaches incorporated into decision-making, the challenges that have hindered the incorporation of diverse conceptualizations of values of nature in a range of decision and policy-making contexts and the implications for different stakeholders. As major environmentally disruptive and irreversible projects, such as large dams and mines, pose a special challenge to decision-making we ask whether the inclusion of marginalized values and values of marginalized people, and more inclusive approaches to incorporating knowledge in the design, appraisal and decision-making on such environmentally disruptive projects can lead to a better balance between individual and aggregate well-being, sustainability and justice, across multiple dimensions and scales. In particular, using large dams and large mines as examples, we ask, to what extent and in what manner have plural values (marginalized values for nature and society, and values of marginalized people) and knowledge been recognized and incorporated into appraisals of such “big, environmentally disruptive, irreversible” projects (recognition justice), and to what extent the affected communities themselves were heard in the appraisal and decision-making process (procedural justice), whether this led to better decisions, and translated into better long-term outcomes, and if so, what might be the factors enabling such plural appraisal and democratic decision-making about environmentally disruptive projects.
IPBES VA Chapter 4. Literature review on values considered in decision-making contexts at local level.
Creators: name: Monroy, Liliana Bravo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: IPBES
Values Assessment
Chapter 4

description: Literature review on values considered in decision-making contexts at local level.  Code:VA_4.2_Ch4 Versioning:01 (28.12.2020) DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4396231 Description The IPBES Scoping document for the Values Assessment highlights the need to assess main findings and lessons learned on valuation methodologies and approaches for decision-making and policymaking at different levels. Values across decision-making contexts are also present through non-formal valuation approaches and within institutions. In this context, we conduct this literature review with two purposes: To evaluate the extent to which literature assesses decision-making processes considering diverse values as well as specificities of decision-making contexts at local scales To analyse inconsistencies, gaps and/or dominant approaches in the historical evolution of values in institutions regulating protected areas and inditenous territories (from 1890 TO 2020) and their impact on decision making and policy
IPBES VA Chapter 4. Literature review for the Amazonia ILK cross-assessment case study (cross-chapter/ILK)
Creators: name: Monroy, Liliana Bravo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: IPBES
Values Assessment
Chapter 4

description: Literature review for the Amazonia ILK cross-assessment case study (cross-chapter/ILK) Code: VA_ 4.10_Ch4 Version: 03 (28.Dec.2020) DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4396204 Description: In its rationale, the scoping document for the IPBES Methodological Assessment on Values established that “the design of governance, institutions and policies rarely takes into account the diverse conceptualization of multiple values of nature and its benefits to people.” In consequence, we conducted a review to look for information about values and valuation of nature in multiple sources, and considering various types of knowledge, including Indigenous and local knowledge (ILK). In order to provide a cohesive story throughout the six chapters of the IPBES Methodological Assessment on Values regarding ILK, the members of the ILK liaison group selected two case-studies to be presented as boxes in each chapter. One of those cases is the Amazonia case for which the search of literature is described in this report.
Screening of cosmological constant for De Sitter Universe in non-local gravity, phantom-divide crossing and finite-time future singularities
Creators: name: Bamba, Kazuharu
name: Nojiri, Shin'ichi
name: Odintsov, Sergei D.
name: Sasaki, Misao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate de Sitter solutions in non-local gravity as well as in non-local gravity with Lagrange constraint multiplier. We examine a condition to avoid a ghost and discuss a screening scenario for a cosmological constant in de Sitter solutions. Furthermore, we explicitly demonstrate that three types of the finite-time future singularities can occur in non-local gravity and explore their properties. In addition, we evaluate the effective equation of state for the universe and show that the late-time accelerating universe may be effectively the quintessence, cosmological constant or phantom-like phases. In particular, it is found that there is a case in which a crossing of the phantom divide from the non-phantom (quintessence) phase to the phantom one can be realized when a finite-time future singularity occurs. Moreover, it is demonstrated that the addition of an $R^2$ term can cure the finite-time future singularities in non-local gravity. It is also suggested that in the framework of non-local gravity, adding an $R^2$ term leads to possible unification of the early-time inflation with the late-time cosmic acceleration.
description: 42 pages, no figure, version accepted for publication in General Relativity and Gravitation
Immunogenicity and predictors of response to a single dose trivalent seasonal influenza vaccine in multiple sclerosis patients receiving disease‐modifying therapies
Creators: name: Metze, Christoph
name: Winkelmann, Alexander
name: Loebermann, Micha
name: Hecker, Michael
name: Schweiger, Brunhilde
name: Reisinger, Emil Christian
name: Zettl, Uwe Klaus
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: disease-modifying therapy
subject: immunogenicity
subject: immunomodulation
subject: influenza vaccine
subject: multiple sclerosis
subject: 610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Aims To evaluate the immunogenicity and safety of a seasonal influenza vaccine in a cohort of multiple sclerosis (MS) patients receiving different immunomodulating/immunosuppressive therapies and assess predictors of immune response. Methods A prospective, multicenter, non‐randomized observational study including 108 patients receiving a trivalent seasonal influenza vaccination was conducted. Influenza‐specific antibody titers (H1N1, H3N2, and influenza B) were measured to evaluate rates of seroprotection and seroconversion/significant titer increase. Univariable and multivariable analyses were performed to identify prognostic factors of vaccination outcomes. Results Regarding the whole cohort, seroprotection rates >70% were achieved for each influenza strain. Interferon‐treated patients reached high seroprotection rates (>84%). Good seroprotection rates were seen in patients treated with glatiramer acetate. In particular for H3N2, response rates were low in natalizumab‐treated patients and in the small subgroup of fingolimod‐treated patients. Patients with a previous disease‐modifying therapy and a longer disease duration were less likely to respond sufficiently. No severe adverse events were reported. MS disease activity was not increased after a one‐year follow‐up period. Conclusion Vaccination led to good immunogenicity, especially in MS patients treated with interferons and glatiramer acetate. At least for the H1N1 strain, rates of seroprotection and seroconversion/significant titer increase were high (>70% and >60%, respectively) for all therapeutic subgroups. Patients with a longer duration of the disease are exposed to an increased risk of insufficient immune response to vaccination.
Root scanning using a flatbed scanner with transparency unit
Creators: name: York, Larry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This guide is meant to allow reproducible scanning of clean roots, with soil or media already washed away. The produced images are intended to be directly ready for batch analysis in RhizoVision Explorer. If you use this guide to set up a scanner, scan roots, and report measurements in presentations or publications, please cite this repository.
Modulating clot stability by regulating lysis with lipid nanoparticle-delivered siRNA
Creators: name: Strilchuk, Amy Wong
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2024

description: Despite the importance of the thrombolytic and fibrinolytic pathways in regulating thrombosis, hemostasis, and inflammation, there exist distinct gaps in our ability to regulate these processes in the lab and the clinic. This work utilizes RNA interference machinery, delivered via lipid nanoparticle (LNP), to suppress the expression of ADAMTS13, plasminogen, and FXIII, proteins that control the degradation of VWF and fibrin multimers. We used LNPs composed of recently-developed lipid compositions, including ionizable cationic lipids DLin-MC3-DMA (MC3) and ALC-0315, to reach targets in hepatocytes and hepatic stellate cells. This thesis shows that ALC-0315 enables the knockdown of novel targets in hepatic stellate cells, such as ADAMTS13, of which the antigen and activity levels in plasma were depleted by over 50%, while MC3 is equally efficient at infiltrating hepatocytes, and induces less hepatotoxicity at high doses. Using MC3 LNPs, siRNA was used to knock-down the non-enzymatic B-subunit of FXIII (FXIII-B), causing a depletion of both FXIII-B and FXIII-A subunits from blood plasma, without impacting FXIII-A levels in platelets. Subsequently formed clots were more susceptible to lysis, including in a mouse model of arterial thrombosis. In both mice and rabbits, knockdown of plasma FXIII did not exacerbate blood loss after injury, though mice exhibited more re-bleeding events due to clot failure. siRNA-LNPs were also used to knock-down plasminogen, the precursor to the fibrinolytic protease, plasmin. Accordingly, depletion of plasminogen protein from plasma, and consequent suppression of plasmin activity showed clot stabilizing effects in mouse and dog models of FVIII deficiency. This suggests that fibrinolysis may contribute to impaired early stages of hemostasis in hemophilia A. It was also observed that sustained plasminogen levels < 25% were not associated with symptoms of plasminogen deficiency, providing further insight into the minimal plasminogen necessary for normal control of fibrin deposition. This work develops a method for controlling three proteins involved in clot lysis, and provides insight into their roles in thrombosis and hemostasis. This method may be extended to countless other targets in hepatocytes and hepatic stellate cells.
Root scanning using a flatbed scanner with transparency unit
Creators: name: York, Larry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This guide is meant to allow reproducible scanning of clean roots, with soil or media already washed away. The produced images are intended to be directly ready for batch analysis in RhizoVision Explorer. If you use this guide to set up a scanner, scan roots, and report measurements in presentations or publications, please cite this repository. V2: Updated the 12000XL scanner name from Perfection to Expression and minor edits
IPBES VA Chapter 2. Systematic review of Indigenous and Local Knowledge and Philosophies (Stage II Review)
Creators: name: Athayde, Simone
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: IPBES
Values Assessment
Chapter 2

description: IPBES VA Ch2. Systematic review of Indigenous and Local Knowledge and Philosophies (Stage 2) Code: VA_ 2.2_Ch2 Version: 01 (12.OCT.2020) DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4396279 Description: To respond to mandate that the IPBES Scoping document for the Values Assessment has for Chapter 2, regarding the assessment of “the coverage of diverse conceptualizations of values with regard to nature and nature’s benefits to people'' that should draw on “qualitative case studies associated with indigenous and local knowledge” a Literature Search and Review was conducted as part of the Stage 2 of the literature review strategy for the Chapter. This exercise had per objective to identify the main trends in academic literature regarding the conceptualization of values by Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLC) in order to inform different sections of the Chapter concerning worldviews, human-nature relationships, value types, power, justice, sustainability, institutions, and languages. Chapter 2’s Stage 2 is a way to incorporate other sources of evidence appropriate for each section and subsection, with searches tailored to specific questions that permit to obtain a broader and deeper database to fulfill the mandate of the Scoping document.
A Single Laser System for Ground-State Cooling of 25-Mg+
Creators: name: Hemmerling, Boerge
name: Gebert, Florian
name: Wan, Yong
name: Nigg, Daniel
name: Sherstov, Ivan V.
name: Schmidt, Piet O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a single solid-state laser system to cool, coherently manipulate and detect $^{25}$Mg$^+$ ions. Coherent manipulation is accomplished by coupling two hyperfine ground state levels using a pair of far-detuned Raman laser beams. Resonant light for Doppler cooling and detection is derived from the same laser source by means of an electro-optic modulator, generating a sideband which is resonant with the atomic transition. We demonstrate ground-state cooling of one of the vibrational modes of the ion in the trap using resolved-sideband cooling. The cooling performance is studied and discussed by observing the temporal evolution of Raman-stimulated sideband transitions. The setup is a major simplification over existing state-of-the-art systems, typically involving up to three separate laser sources.
Importance of nuclear effects in the measurement of neutrino oscillation parameters
Creators: name: Fernandez-Martinez, Enrique
name: Meloni, Davide
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate how models for neutrino-nucleus cross sections based on different assumptions for the nuclear dynamics affect the forecasted sensitivities to neutrino oscillation parameters at future neutrino facilities. We limit ourselves to the quasi-elastic regime, where the neutrino cross sections can be evaluated with less uncertainties, and discuss the sensitivity reach to theta_{13} and the CP violation phase at a prototype low-gamma beta-beam, mostly sensitive to the quasi-elastic regime.
description: Error in cross section implementation corrected and sensitivities reevaluated accordingly. Relative performance of diffrent models and conclusions unchanged. Version to be published in PLB