cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
ASTROMOVES: Astrophysics, Diversity, Mobility
Creators: name: Holbrook, Jarita
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The US astronomy/astrophysics community comes together to create a decadal report that summarizes grant funding priorities, observatory & instrumental priorities as well as community accomplishments and community goals such as increasing the number of women and the number of people from underrepresented groups. In the 2010 US National Academies Decadal Survey of Astronomy (National Research Council, 2010), it was suggested that having to move so frequently which is a career necessity may be unattractive to people wanting to start a family, especially impacting women. Whether in Europe or elsewhere, as postdocs, astrophysicists will relocate every two to three years, until they secure a permanent position or leave research altogether. Astrophysicists do perceive working abroad as important and positive for their careers (Parenti, 2002); however, it was found that the men at equal rank had not had to spend as much time abroad to further their careers (Fohlmeister & Helling, 2012). By implication, women need to work abroad longer or have more positions abroad to achieve the same rank as men. Astrophysicists living in the United Kingdom prefer to work in their country of origin, but many did not do so because of worse working conditions or difficultly finding a job for their spouse (Fohlmeister & Helling, 2014). In sum, mobility and moving is necessary for a career in astrophysics, and even more necessary for women, but astrophysicists prefer not to move as frequently as needed to maintain a research career. To gather more data on these issues and to broaden the discourse beyond male/female to include the gender diverse as well as to include other forms of diversity, I designed the ASTROMOVES project which is funded through a Marie Curie Individual Fellowship. Though slowed down by COVID-19, several interviews have been conducted and some preliminary results will be presented.
description: 9 pages
Investigation on light dark matter
Creators: name: Bernabei, R.
name: Belli, P.
name: Cappella, F.
name: Cerulli, R.
name: Dai, C. J.
name: He, H. L.
name: Incicchitti, A.
name: Kuang, H. H.
name: Ma, J. M.
name: Ma, X. H.
name: Montecchia, F.
name: Nozzoli, F.
name: Prosperi, D.
name: Sheng, X. D.
name: Ye, Z. P.
name: Wang, R. G.
name: Zhang, Y. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Some extensions of the Standard Model provide Dark Matter candidate particles with sub-GeV mass. These Light Dark Matter particles have been considered for example in Warm Dark Matter scenarios (e.g. the keV scale sterile neutrino, axino or gravitino). Moreover MeV scale DM candidates have been proposed in supersymmetric models and as source of the 511 keV line from the Galactic center. In this paper the possibility of direct detection of a Light Dark Matter candidate is investigated considering the inelastic scattering processes on the electron or on the nucleus targets. Some theoretical arguments are developed and related phenomenological aspects are discussed. Allowed volumes and regions for the characteristic phenomenological parameters of the considered scenarios are derived from the DAMA/NaI annual modulation data.
description: 16 pages, 8 figures, submitted for publication. Corrected typos
Using Feature Alignment Can Improve Clean Average Precision and Adversarial Robustness in Object Detection
Creators: name: Xu, Weipeng
name: Huang, Hongcheng
name: Pan, Shaoyou
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The 2D object detection in clean images has been a well studied topic, but its vulnerability against adversarial attack is still worrying. Existing work has improved robustness of object detectors by adversarial training, at the same time, the average precision (AP) on clean images drops significantly. In this paper, we propose that using feature alignment of intermediate layer can improve clean AP and robustness in object detection. Further, on the basis of adversarial training, we present two feature alignment modules: Knowledge-Distilled Feature Alignment (KDFA) module and Self-Supervised Feature Alignment (SSFA) module, which can guide the network to generate more effective features. We conduct extensive experiments on PASCAL VOC and MS-COCO datasets to verify the effectiveness of our proposed approach. The code of our experiments is available at https://github.com/grispeut/Feature-Alignment.git.
On Generalized Lemaitre-Tolman-Bondi Metric. Fractal Matter at the end of Matter-Antimatter Recombination
Creators: name: Cacciatori, Sergio
name: Marrani, Alessio
name: Re, Federico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Many recent researches have investigated the deviations from the Friedmannian cosmological model, as well as their consequences on unexplained cosmological phenomena, such as dark matter and the acceleration of the Universe. On the one hand, a first order perturbative study of matter inhomogeneity returned a partial explanation of dark matter and dark energy, as relativistic effects due to the retarded potentials of far objects. On the other hand, the fractal cosmology, now modeled with a Lemaitre-Tolman-Bondi (LTB) metric, results in distortions of the luminosity distances of SNe Ia, explaining the acceleration as apparent. In this work we extend the LTB metric to ancient times. The origin of the fractal distribution of matter is explained as the matter remnant after the matter-antimatter recombination epoch. We show that the evolution of such a inhomogeneity necessarily requires a dynamical generalization of LTB, and we propose a particular solution.
description: 1+26 pages, 0 figures
Story about driving to Montana
Creators: name: Parker, Verdena
name: Escamilla, Ramón
name: Newbold, Lindsey
name: Spence, Justin
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: hup

description: Video file VP-051210-06: A story about driving to see Verdena's son compete in a baseball tournament in Montana, told in Hupa and then in English. Audio extracted from this recording was previously deposited with the Endangered Language Archive (ELAR) with identifier "0186-20140318 - Robbie and his baseball team," part of the collection "Expanding the Documentation and Description of Hupa (Athabaskan)" (collection ID hupa-campbell-0186).
Tau functions in combinatorial Bethe ansatz
Creators: name: Kuniba, Atsuo
name: Sakamoto, Reiho
name: Yamada, Yasuhiko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce ultradiscrete tau functions associated with rigged configurations for A^{(1)}_n. They satisfy an ultradiscrete version of the Hirota bilinear equation and play a role analogous to a corner transfer matrix for the box-ball system. As an application, we establish a piecewise linear formula for the Kerov-Kirillov-Reshetikhin bijection in the combinatorial Bethe ansatz. They also lead to general N-soliton solutions of the box-ball system.
description: 52 pages
Toxicity Detection in Drug Candidates using Simplified Molecular-Input Line-Entry System
Creators: name: Nath, Mriganka
name: Goswami, Subhasish
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The need for analysis of toxicity in new drug candidates and the requirement of doing it fast have asked the consideration of scientists towards the use of artificial intelligence tools to examine toxicity levels and to develop models to a degree where they can be used commercially to measure toxicity levels efficiently in upcoming drugs. Artificial Intelligence based models can be used to predict the toxic nature of a chemical using Quantitative Structure Activity Relationship techniques. Convolutional Neural Network models have demonstrated great outcomes in predicting the qualitative analysis of chemicals in order to determine the toxicity. This paper goes for the study of Simplified Molecular Input Line-Entry System (SMILES) as a parameter to develop Long short term memory (LSTM) based models in order to examine the toxicity of a molecule and the degree to which the need can be fulfilled for practical use alongside its future outlooks for the purpose of real world applications.
description: 4 Pages, 4 Figures, Published with International Journal of Computer Applications (IJCA)
Practical decoy state method in quantum key distribution with heralded single photon source
Creators: name: Wang, Qin
name: Wang, Xiang-Bin
name: Guo, Guang-Can
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a practical decoy state method with heralded single photon source for quantum key distribution (QKD). In the protocol, 3 intensities are used and one can estimate the fraction of single-photon counts. The final key rate over transmission distance is simulated under various parameter sets. Due to the lower dark count than that of a coherent state, it is shown that a 3-intensity decoy-state QKD with a heralded source can work for a longer distance than that of a coherent state.
description: 10 pages, 4 Postscript figures
title: Path Dependent and Risk Averse: Is Retail Planning Inhibited by a Culture of Fear
Creators: name: Davies, Mark
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2019

description: As new digital technology fundamentally changes the way people shop, retail firms are increasingly seeking to optimise their store portfolios so that they effectively support the provision of an omni-channel retail offer, which is leading to the decline of many traditional retail spaces. This thesis seeks to explore this issue, by considering why, in the face of such profound structural changes in retailing, the prevailing response of planners has been to re-emphasise support for 'town-centre-first', despite the fact that such an approach appears fundamentally misaligned with the issues that are driving decline today. Utilising a mixed methods approach, involving a detailed historical analysis of the evolution of retail planning in England and in-depth interviews with planners, this thesis seeks to understand why it is that town-centre-first continues to pervade as a strategic approach in retail planning. In doing so, it will be shown that retail planning exhibits evidence of having become path dependent, which, it is proposed, is reflective of an increasing tendency towards risk-averse decision-making in planning more widely. In considering why risk-aversion has become a dominant characteristic of decision making in retail planning, this thesis builds upon the small but growing body of literature, which proposes that 'fear', as an emotional state, has come to have a significant influence over the decision-making behaviour of planners. In doing so, it is argued that a culture of 'fear' within planning practice is acting to inhibit the development of radical solutions to the decline of high street and town centre environments, ultimately resulting in a continuation of existing strategic policy approaches.
CIFRA National Survey: Uruguay August 1993
Creators: name: CIFRA, In Bogliaccini, Juan, And Queirolo Rosario Laboratorio De Opinión Pública And Redes Sociales En Uruguay Collection (Social Networks And Public Opinion Lab Collection)
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2022

description: Sleeping hours; domestic living routines; work hours; economic situation of the country; intra-national government power; likability of candidates; personal habits; economic situation of your family; opinions regarding citizens with disabilities; characteristics of specific government departments; ideal job for the Secretary of the Treasury; performance of the Secretary of the Treasury; approval of President Luis Alberto Lacalle; approval of Parliament; approval of the district mayor; contribution of foreigners; opinions regarding relationships with different ethnic groups; political spectrum position; approval of Uruguyan politicians; national soccer team; alternatives to President Luis Alberto Lacalle; past voting history; future voting tendencies; ideal distribution of government funds. Montevideo: Position on tax referendum. Florida: State of the dairy industry. National Agency for Research and Innovation (ANII) CollectionNational Agency for Research and Innovation (ANII) Collection.
Statistical Modelling and Analysis of the Computer-Simulated Datasets
Creators: name: Harshvardhan, M.
name: Ranjan, Pritam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Over the last two decades, the science has come a long way from relying on only physical experiments and observations to experimentation using computer simulators. This chapter focusses on the modelling and analysis of data arising from computer simulators. It turns out that traditional statistical metamodels are often not very useful for analyzing such datasets. For deterministic computer simulators, the realizations of Gaussian Process (GP) models are commonly used for fitting a surrogate statistical metamodel of the simulator output. The chapter starts with a quick review of the standard GP based statistical surrogate model. The chapter also emphasizes on the numerical instability due to near-singularity of the spatial correlation structure in the GP model fitting process. The authors also present a few generalizations of the GP model, reviews methods and algorithms specifically developed for analyzing big data obtained from computer model runs, and reviews the popular analysis goals of such computer experiments. A few real-life computer simulators are also briefly outlined here.
A FDR-consistent field theory for the stochastic dynamic density functional model
Creators: name: Kim, Bongsoo
name: Kawasaki, Kyozi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a brief review of our recent efforts to develop a FDR-preserving field theory for the stochastic dynamic density functional model, emphasizing the essential structure of the theory.
description: A contribution to the Symposium on the 50th Anniversary of the Alder Transition (Nov. 29-30, Kanazawa, Japan). To appear in Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement
How FAR is FAIR? Der öffentliche Zugang zu geisteswissenschaftlichen Forschungsdaten als gute wissenschaftliche Praxis und die Rolle des Forschungsdatenmanagements
Creators: name: Wuttke, Ulrike
name: Klar, Jochen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: research data management
digital humanities
data management tools
active data management
FAIR Data Principles

description: Präsentationsfolien für einen Vortrag im Rahmen des DH-Kolloquiums an der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (BBAW) am 02.08.2019 unter dem Titel: "How FAR is FAIR? Der öffentliche Zugang zu geisteswissenschaftlichen Forschungsdaten als gute wissenschaftliche Praxis und die Rolle des Forschungsdatenmanagements" (Dr. Ulrike Wuttke, Fachbereich Informationswissenschaften, RDMO, Fachhochschule Potsdam & Dr. Jochen Klar, Berater und Softwareentwickler, RDMO)
 Abstract: Durch die zunehmende Digitalisierung nimmt die Bedeutung von Forschungsdaten in den Geisteswissenschaften, insbesondere in den Digital Humanities, zu. Dabei rücken in den letzten Jahren verstärkt Open Science-Paradigmen, wie der möglichst offene Zugang zu den Daten und die FAIR Data Principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reuseable) in den Fokus. Diese bedeuten einen Paradigmenwechsel für Wissenschaftler*innen und Wissenschafts- und Gedächtnisinstitutionen und erfordern die Kooperation im Rahmen nationaler und internationaler Infrastrukturen. Zur Förderung guter Datenmanagementpraktiken verlangen verschiedene nationale und internationale Förderorganisationen bei Projektanträgen Auskunft über den Umgang mit nachgenutzten oder erstellten Forschungsdaten, z. B. in der Form von Datenmanagementplänen (DMPs). Inzwischen setzt sich die Erkenntnis durch, dass es nicht mit einem einmaligen Datenmanagementplan getan ist, sondern dass DMPs während des Projektverlaufs angepasst werden müssen, um das Forschungsdatenmanagement aktiv und unter Einbeziehung aller relevanten Stakeholder zu unterstützen und seine Potenziale auszuschöpfen (aktives Forschungsdatenmanagement). Hierfür wird im Rahmen eines DFG-Projekts das Werkzeug Research Data Management Organizer (RDMO) entwickelt. Der Vortrag gibt eine Einführung in die wichtigsten Begrifflichkeiten und Konzepte des geisteswissenschaftlichen Forschungsdatenmanagements und seine Bedeutung für die Sicherung der guten wissenschaftlichen Praxis, die Qualitätssicherung der Forschungsdaten und die Erhöhung des Impacts der Resultate digitaler geisteswissenschaftlicher Forschung und führt diesbezüglich in Funktionalitäten und Anwendungsmöglichkeiten des Werkzeugs RDMO ein. Link zur Ankündigung: https://dhd-blog.org/?p=12082
Reverberation of pulsar wind nebulae (I): Impact of the medium properties and other parameters upon the extent of the compression
Creators: name: Bandiera, R.
name: Bucciantini, N.
name: Martin, J.
name: Olmi, B.
name: Torres, D. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The standard approach to the long term evolution of pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) is based on one-zone models treating the nebula as a uniform system. In particular for the late phase of evolved systems, many of the generally used prescriptions are based on educated guesses for which a proper assessment lacks. Using an advanced radiative code we evaluate the systematic impact of various parameters, like the properties of the supernova ejecta, of the inner pulsar, as well of the ambient medium, upon the extent of the reverberation phase of PWNe. We investigate how different prescriptions shift the starting time of the reverberation phase, how this affects the amount of the compression, and how much of this can be ascribable to the radiation processes. Some critical aspects are the description of the reverse shock evolution, the efficiency by which at later times material from the ejecta accretes onto the swept-up shell around the PWN, and finally the density, velocity and pressure profiles in the surrounding supernova remnant. We have explicitly treated the cases of the Crab Nebula, and of J1834.9--0846, taken to be representatives of the more and the less energetic pulsars, respectively. Especially for the latter object the prediction of large compression factors is confirmed, even larger in the presence of radiative losses, also confirming our former prediction of periods of super-efficiency during the reverberation phase of some PWNe.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Status of GRB Observations with the Suzaku Wideband All-sky Monitor
Creators: name: Tashiro, M. S.
name: Terada, Y.
name: Urata, Y.
name: Onda, K.
name: Kodaka, N.
name: Endo, A.
name: Suzuki, M.
name: Morigami, K.
name: Yamaoka, K.
name: Nakagawa, Y. E.
name: Sugita, S.
name: Fukazawa, Y.
name: Ohno, M.
name: Takahashi, T.
name: Kira, C.
name: Uehara, T.
name: Tamagawa, T.
name: Enoto, T.
name: Miyawaki, R.
name: Nakazawa, K.
name: Makishima, K.
name: Sonoda, E.
name: Yamauchi, M.
name: Maeno, S.
name: Tanaka, H.
name: Hara, R.
name: Suzuki, M.
name: Kokubun, M.
name: Takahashi, T.
name: Hong, S. J.
name: Murakami, T.
name: Tajima, H.
name: team, the HXD
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Wide-band All-sky Monitor (WAM) is a function of the large lateral BGO shield of the Hard X-ray Detector (HXD) onboard Suzaku. Its large geometrical area of 800 cm^2 per side, the large stopping power for the hard X-rays and the wide-field of view make the WAM an ideal detector for gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) observations in the energy range of 50-5000 keV. In fact, the WAM has observed 288 GRBs confirmed by other satellites, till the end of May 2007.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, to be published in the proceedings of ''Gamma Ray Bursts 2007'', Santa Fe, New Mexico, November 5-9
Story of why Centipede is bald
Creators: name: Parker, Verdena
name: Escamilla, Ramón
name: Newbold, Lindsey
name: Spence, Justin
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: hup

description: Video file VP-051210-05: A story explaining why Centipede is bald, told in Hupa and then in English. Audio extracted from this recording was previously deposited with the Endangered Language Archive (ELAR) with identifier "0186-20140318 - Why centipede is bald," part of the collection "Expanding the Documentation and Description of Hupa (Athabaskan)" (collection ID hupa-campbell-0186).
Die Menschenrechte im Kontext der Orthodoxen Theologie
Creators: name: Delikostantis, Konstantinos
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 56 Nr. 1 (2007): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 56, Heft 1
Minutes of meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Winfield & Okanagan Centre Irrigation District, August 27, 1931
Creators: name: Trustees Of The Winfield And Okanagan Centre Irrigation District
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Minutes of meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Winfield & Okanagan Centre Irrigation District, dated August 27, 1931, regarding the acquisition of the pipe system by the district and the assessment roll.
U(1) symmetry breaking in one-dimensional Mott insulator studied by the Density Matrix Renormalization Group method
Creators: name: Maruyama, Isao
name: Koide, Tetsuji
name: Hatsugai, Yasuhiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new type of external fields violating the particle number preservation is studied in one-dimensional strongly correlated systems by the Density Matrix Renormalization Group method. Due to the U(1) symmetry breaking, the ground state has fluctuation of the total particle number, which implies injection of electrons and holes from out of the chain. This charge fluctuation can be relevant even at half-filling because the particle-hole symmetry is preserved with the finite effective field. In addition, we discuss a quantum phase transition obtained by considering the symmetry-breaking fields as a mean field of interchain-hopping.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures
Dispersion and transitions of dipolar plasmon modes in graded plasmonic waveguides
Creators: name: Xiao, J. J.
name: Yakubo, K.
name: Yu, K. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Coupled plasmon modes are studied in graded plasmonic waveguides, which are periodic chains of metallic nanoparticles embedded in a host with gradually varying refractive indices. We identify three types of localized modes called "light", "heavy", and "light-heavy" plasmonic gradons outside the passband, according to various degrees of localization. We also demonstrate new transitions among extended and localized modes when the interparticle separation $d$ is smaller than a critical $d_c$, whereas the three types of localized modes occur for $d>d_c$, with no extended modes. The transitions can be explained with phase diagrams constructed for the lossless metallic systems.
description: Preliminary results have been presented at ETOPIM 7. Submitted to Appl. Phys. Lett
Concepts of Symmetry in the Work of Wolfgang Pauli
Creators: name: Giulini, Domenico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: "Symmetry" was one of the most important methodological themes in 20th-century physics and is probably going to play no lesser role in physics of the 21st century. As used today, there are a variety of interpretations of this term, which differ in meaning as well as their mathematical consequences. Symmetries of crystals, for example, generally express a different kind of invariance than gauge symmetries, though in specific situations the distinctions may become quite subtle. I will review some of the various notions of "symmetry" and highlight some of their uses in specific examples taken from Pauli's scientific oevre.
description: 54 pages, 4 figures
Study of star clusters in the M83 galaxy with a convolutional neural network
Creators: name: Bialopetravičius, J.
name: Narbutis, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present a study of evolutionary and structural parameters of star cluster candidates in the spiral galaxy M83. For this we use a convolutional neural network trained on mock clusters and capable of fast identification and localization of star clusters, as well as inference of their parameters from multi-band images. We use this pipeline to detect 3,380 cluster candidates in Hubble Space Telescope observations. The sample of cluster candidates shows an age gradient across the galaxy's spiral arms, which is in good agreement with predictions of the density wave theory and other studies. As measured from the dust lanes of the spiral arms, the younger population of cluster candidates peaks at the distance of $\sim$0.4 kpc while the older candidates are more dispersed, but shifted towards $\gtrsim$0.7 kpc in the leading part of the spiral arms. We find high extinction cluster candidates positioned in the trailing part of the spiral arms, close to the dust lanes. We also find a large number of dense older clusters near the center of the galaxy and a slight increase of the typical cluster size further from the center.
description: 14 pages, 9 figures, 1 table
A Health Literacy-Focused Intervention for Latinos with Hypertension
Creators: name: Han, Hae-Ra
name: Delva, Sabianca
name: Greeno, Rebeca Vergara
name: Negoita, Serban
name: Cajita, Maan Isabella
name: Will, Wilson
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Latinos in the United States are experiencing increasing incidences of uncontrolled high blood pressure (HBP). Health literacy is an important determinant of adequate HBP self-management, yet no community-based intervention has effectively addressed health literacy in the management of HBP in the target community. The purpose of this study was to test the acceptability and preliminary efficacy of a health literacy-focused HBP intervention in Spanish-speaking Latinos with uncontrolled HBP. Using a one-group pre- and post-test study design, the study intervention was delivered to Spanish-speaking Latinos in Baltimore, MD, who had uncontrolled HBP. The intervention consisted of four weekly group sessions for health literacy training combined with disease knowledge education in HBP management, followed by phone counseling and text messages for 3 months. Seventeen participants received the study intervention. Eleven who completed the follow-up assessment at 16 weeks reported high satisfaction with the intervention. Participation in the intervention resulted in improved blood pressure, numeracy, and psychological outcomes. Our findings support health literacy education as a promising avenue in promoting HBP control among inner-city Spanish-speaking Latinos. [HLRP: Health Literacy Research and Practice. 2018;2(1):e21-e25.].
Local groundwater management for British Columbia: linking data to protection practices
Creators: name: Berardinucci, Julia Frances
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Groundwater management decisions are continuously made under conditions of incomplete data and information. The hidden nature of groundwater resources makes detection of contamination and depletion of supply difficult to anticipate. However, neglecting to monitor groundwater resources can lead to consequences which are difficult or impossible to rectify. Changing trends in the governance of water resources in Canada indicate that greater responsibility for groundwater management is being shifted to local levels of government. This however requires information and expertise traditionally maintained at senior levels of government. The purpose of this thesis is to develop an analytical framework for use by local governments in B.C. planning for sustained, multipurpose groundwater use and quality protection. Analysis for this framework focusses on threeareas of concern for local governments facing increasing responsibility for groundwater management: data requirements, land use management and groundwater protection practices. Of the various approaches surveyed, georeferenced analysis is suggested to be one of the more flexible and useful analytical tools for use in groundwater management. The framework suggested consists of four components: 1) a list of parameters required for land use management for the purpose of groundwater protection, 2) an analysis of groundwater protection measures and required data, 3) a prioritized list of data collection activities based on the ease of collection of information, the time required to collect a critical mass of data and the relative importance to present groundwater concerns in B.C. and 4) a procedure for integrating land use classification with groundwater data collection and protection measures. Hatzic Valley, situated in the Lower Fraser Basin is used to illustrate the suggested framework and to investigate the extent of existing data for an area which has not previously been intensely studied. Available data for the area, while limited, is found to be sufficient for initial delineation of land areas which should be protected to reduce the likelihood of groundwater contamination in the area. However, groundwater quality data, used as a primary indicator of change in groundwater resources, is largely lacking. Groundwater management is an iterative process within which communication of uncertainty and consultation with the public allow for effective and flexible groundwater protection planning. Community involvement in data collection is a cost effective alternative to expenditures on groundwater remediation or developing alternative sources of water should contamination occur. Uncertainty in all aspects of groundwater management can be reduced by clearer expression of where and what the limitations are in the available data. Decision makers should address issues of community development and values to most efficiently resolve community and groundwater resource use conflict.
Minutes of meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Winfield & Okanagan Centre Irrigation District, September 1, 1931
Creators: name: Trustees Of The Winfield And Okanagan Centre Irrigation District
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Minutes of meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Winfield & Okanagan Centre Irrigation District, dated September 1, 1931, regarding the tenders received for the construction of the Crooked Lake dam.
Data Mining Techniques in Predicting Breast Cancer
Creators: name: Saad, Hamza
name: Nagarur, Nagendra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Background and Objective: Breast cancer, which accounts for 23% of all cancers, is threatening the communities of developing countries because of poor awareness and treatment. Early diagnosis helps a lot in the treatment of the disease. The present study conducted in order to improve the prediction process and extract the main causes impacted the breast cancer. Materials and Methods: Data were collected based on eight attributes for 130 Libyan women in the clinical stages infected with this disease. Data mining was used by applying six algorithms to predict disease based on clinical stages. All the algorithms gain high accuracy, but the decision tree provides the highest accuracy-diagram of decision tree utilized to build rules from each leafnode. Ranking variables applied to extract significant variables and support final rules to predict disease. Results: All applied algorithms were gained a high prediction with different accuracies. Rules 1, 3, 4, 5 and 9 provided a pure subset to be confirmed as significant rules. Only five input variables contributed to building rules, but not all variables have a significant impact. Conclusion: Tumor size plays a vital role in constructing all rules with a significant impact. Variables of inheritance, breast side and menopausal status have an insignificant impact in analysis, but they may consider remarkable findings using a different strategy of data analysis.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures, paper published in journal
Diversity of fear responses : investigating a broader fear behaviour repertoire in mice
Creators: name: Scott, GK
Publisher: name: University of Tasmania
Year: 2024

description: The prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among surveyed Australians is 5.6% in 2022. (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2022). This debilitating disorder can cause a variety of physical, behavioural, and psychological symptoms. As a result, research into fear and its underlying mechanisms is a crucial area of study. A typical methodology employed in fear research involves introducing rodents to frightening stimuli and measuring their fear responses (Colom-Lapetina et al., 2019). The most widely utilised measure is freezing, which is a robust, well-researched measure that can be recorded and analysed by computer software. However, emerging studies suggest that the tendency of studies to use freezing as the sole behavioural measure dismiss the complexity of fear (Gruene et al., 2015a). This investigative paper explored the fear responses of 12 male mice, to investigate potential new measures of fear. The findings reveal that 12.62% of total fear response time was occupied by fear-related behaviours other than freezing, suggesting that a portion of potentially informative animal data may be neglected in favour of an oversimplified approach. The paper makes suggestions on ways that these other fear behaviours may be incorporated into emerging research software.
title: THE VALUE OF DISTANCE: ART’S CULTURAL IDENTITY AMIDST TECHNOLOGY’S TRANSFORMATIONS OF SPACE
Creators: name: Ogle, DH
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2525

description: This study explores technology’s propensity to transform our comprehensions of space, considering the implications of this for our understandings of the work of art and the value that we ascribe to it. With our encounters increasingly a by-product of technological interface, the central question of this work is posed as follows: In what ways (and to what degree) may we regard the contemporary conditions facing the art object (and the values that these elicit) as a consequence of our prevailing technological landscape and its capacity to re-configure our conceptions of space and place? In confronting this, the study begins by surveying recent public justifications made for the arts and the criteria by which their value is ascertained. A trend is recognised, in the growing prevalence of instrumental qualifiers for art’s worth (its quantifiable impacts as a social utility) and a shift away from intrinsic measures. In response to this, I propose the concept of Accumulative Value, arguing that the totality of an art object’s intellectual considerations and explorations (over historical time) are an intrinsic attribute of the object itself and a qualifier of its objective worth. The notion of value itself (with its varying interpretations) is then explored, followed by a contemporary re-evaluation of Walter Benjamin’s concept of the aura, arguing that in our present circumstances this notion may be used in description of an object’s fixed spatial locality. The degree to which technologies of telepresence undermine such locality is then examined, noting trends in technological progression toward an abolition of distance, in both a spatial and temporal sense, that diminish our ability to recognise Accumulative Value. In consummation, it is proposed that technologies, as Competitive Cognitive Artefacts, may play a role in manifesting a situation in which the intrinsic measures of art’s worth are progressively disregarded, yet, that the auric artwork can come to fulfil a timely imperative, in reconnecting us to a somatic relationship with space and a linear understanding of time; such perceivable phenomena that are jeopardised by technological transformations.
Speloeophorus elevatus Rathbun 1898
Creators: name: Oliveira-Filho, Ronaldo R.
name: Antunes, Mariana
name: Tamburus, Ana F.
name: Rogeri, Lucas Oliveira-
name: Bochini, Gabriel L.
name: Hostim-Silva, Maurício
name: Mantelatto, Fernando L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Leucosiidae
Speloeophorus
Speloeophorus elevatus

description: Speloeophorus elevatus Rathbun, 1898
(Fig. 2C)
Speloeophorus elevatus Rathbun, 1898: 290, pl. 3 fig. 1.
Material examined. 1 female (CW 8.87 × CL 8.13 mm), station PA05, 06.viii.2019 (CCDB 7458).
Geographic distribution. Western Atlantic— USA (Florida), Gulf of Mexico, Antilles, Brazil (Maranhão, Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, Alagoas, Bahia, Espírito Santo) (Rathbun 1937; Coelho & Ramos 1972; Powers 1977; Coelho & Ramos-Porto 1986; Barreto et al. 1993; Melo 1996; Melo & Torres 1998; Melo & Veloso 2005; Coelho Filho 2006; Almeida & Coelho 2008; Diez García 2014).
Remarks. This is the first record of Speloeophorus elevatus from Espírito Santo state and the southernmost documented record from the Western Atlantic. The values of the BLAST query cover (88%) and percent identity (>92%) were suitable for this identification within Leucosiidae Samouelle 1819, since our sequence aligned with other representatives of the same family (Magalhães et al. 2016). This sequence is the first of the genus to be deposited in the GenBank database. Sequence accession number (GenBank): CCDB 7458—16S (OR501065) (present study).
description: Published as part of Oliveira-Filho, Ronaldo R., Antunes, Mariana, Tamburus, Ana F., Rogeri, Lucas Oliveira-, Bochini, Gabriel L., Hostim-Silva, Maurício & Mantelatto, Fernando L., 2025, New records of decapod crustaceans (Crustacea, Decapoda) in the central coast of Brazil supported by integrative analysis, pp. 196-210 in Zootaxa 5621 (2) on pages 199-200, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5621.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/15262522
Moving system with speeded-up evolution
Creators: name: Shirokov, M. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the classical (non-quantum) relativity theory the course of the moving clock is dilated as compared to the course of the clock at rest (the Einstein dilation). Any unstable system may be regarded as a clock. The time evolution (e.g., the decay) of a uniformly moving physical system is considered using the relativistic quantum theory. The example of a moving system is given whose evolution turns out to be speeded-up instead of being dilated. A discussion of this paradoxical result is presented.
description: 10 pages, LaTeX
Theory of Fano-Kondo effect in quantum dot systems: temperature dependence of the Fano line shapes
Creators: name: Maruyama, I.
name: Shibata, N.
name: Ueda, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Fano-Kondo effect in zero-bias conductance is studied based on a theoretical model for the T-shaped quantum dot by the finite temperature density matrix renormalization group method. The modification of the two Fano line shapes at much higher temperatures than the Kondo temperature is also investigated by the effective Fano parameter estimated as a fitting parameter.
description: 2 pages, 2 figures, the proceeding of SCES'05
Generator coordinate method with a conjugate momentum: application to the particle number projection
Creators: name: Hizawa, N.
name: Hagino, K.
name: Yoshida, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss an extension of the generator coordinate method (GCM) by taking simultaneously a collective coordinate and its conjugate momentum as generator coordinates. To this end, we follow the idea of the dynamical GCM (DGCM) proposed by Goeke and Reinhard. We first show that the DGCM method can be regarded as an extension of the double projection method for the center of mass motion. As an application of DGCM, we then investigate the particle number projection, for which we not only carry out an integral over the gauge angle as in the usual particle number projection but also take a linear superposition of BCS states which have different mean particle numbers. We show that the ground state energy is significantly lowered by such effect, especially for magic nuclei for which the pairing gap is zero in the BCS approximation. This suggests that the present method makes a good alternative to the variation after projection (VAP) method, as the method is much simpler than the VAP.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures
Spin Triplet Excitations for a Valence Bond Solid on the Kagome Lattice
Creators: name: Yang, Bohm-Jung
name: Kim, Yong Baek
name: Yu, Jaejun
name: Park, Kwon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the most promising candidate ground states for the quantum antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on the Kagome lattice is the valence bond solid (VBS) with a 36-site unit cell. We present a theory of triplet excitation spectra about this ground state using bond operator formalism. In particular we obtain dispersions of all 18 triplet modes in the reduced Brillouin zone. In the bond operator mean-field theory, it is found that a large number of triplet modes are non-dispersive. In particular, the lowest triplet excitation is non-dispersive and degenerate with a dispersive mode at the zone center. Away from the zone center, the lowest triplet is separated from two other flat modes by a small energy gap. Quantum fluctuations are considered by taking into account scattering processes of two triplets and their bound state formation, which leads to a downward renormalization of the lowest spin triplet gap. The dispersion of the lowest triplet excitation in the VBS state is compared with the dispersive lower bound of the triplet continuum expected in competing spin liquid phases. Implications to future neutron scattering experiments are discussed.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures, 1 table
Long-Term Stabilization of Two-Dimensional Perovskites by Encapsulation with Hexagonal Boron Nitride
Creators: name: Seitz, Michael
name: Gant, Patricia
name: Castellanos-Gomez, Andres
name: Prins, Ferry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Metal halide perovskites are known to suffer from rapid degradation, limiting their direct applicability. Here, the degradation of phenethylammonium lead iodide (PEA2PbI4) two-dimensional perovskites under ambient conditions is studied using fluorescence, absorbance and fluorescence lifetime measurements. It is demonstrated that a long-term stability of two-dimensional perovskites can be achieved through the encapsulation with hexagonal boron nitride. While un-encapsulated perovskite flakes degrade within hours, the encapsulated perovskites are stable for at least three months. In addition, encapsulation considerably improves the stability under laser irradiation. The environmental stability, combined with the improved durability under illumination, is a critical ingredient for thorough spectroscopic studies of the intrinsic opto-electronic properties of this material platform.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures, and supporting information
title: Longitudinal Beam Characterisation on VELA using a Transverse Deflecting Cavity
Creators: name: Mckenzie, J
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2019

description: This thesis presents the design and commissioning of a system to characterise the longitudinal beam properties of VELA (Versatile Electron Linear Accelerator) based around a transverse deflecting cavity, and the first measurements made using it. VELA at Daresbury Laboratory consists of an S-band RF photoinjector, which accelerates electrons to approximately 5 MeV/c. VELA was intended as the injector for the CLARA Free Electron Laser test facility. The gun is operated in the ``blow-out'' regime, driven by a laser of pulse length 76 fs rms, with the electron beam distribution formed by the space-charge of the bunch. The transverse deflecting cavity is a 9-cell standing wave S-band cavity and the design was intended to provide 10 fs temporal resolution for the 250 MeV beam from CLARA. This thesis shows how the design of the cavity evolved via beam dynamics simulations to reduce unwanted transverse beam offset and momentum change through the cavity. Bunch length measurements are presented using the deflecting cavity to characterise the ``blow-out'' regime of the gun at bunch charges from 40 fC to 215 pC, and as a function of gun phase and beam momentum. Investigations into measurements of the longitudinal phase space distribution of the beam are also presented.
The flow equation approach to the pairing instability problem
Creators: name: Domanski, T.
name: Donabidowicz, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By means of the continuous unitary transformation similar to a general scheme of the Renormalization Group (RG) procedure we study the issue of symmetry breaking and pairing instability in the system of interacting fermions. Constructing a generalized version of the Bogoliubov transformation we show that formation of the fermion pairs and their superconductivity/superfluidity can appear at different temperatures. It is shown that strong quantum fluctuations can destroy the long-range order without breaking the fermion pairs which may still exist as incoherent and/or damped entities. Such unusual phase is characterized by a partial suppression of the density of states near the Fermi energy and by residual collective features like the sound-wave mode in the fermion pair spectrum.
description: (7 pages, 4 figures) A brief summary of some recent works using the flow equation approach to the pairing instability problem