cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Novel tigecycline resistance mechanisms in Acinetobacter baumannii mediated by mutations in adeS, rpoB and rrf
Creators: name: Hua, Xiaoting
name: He, Jintao
name: Wang, Jingfen
name: Zhang, Linghong
name: Zhang, Linyue
name: Xu, Qingye
name: Shi, Keren
name: Leptihn, Sebastian
name: Shi, Yue
name: Fu, Xiaoting
name: Zhu, Pengfei
name: Higgins, Paul G.
name: Yu, Yunsong
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Acinetobacter baumannii is an important pathogen in hospital acquired infections. Although tigecycline currently remains a potent antibiotic for treating infections caused by multidrug resistant A. baumannii (MDRAB) strains, reports of tigecycline resistant isolates have substantially increased. The resistance mechanisms to tigecycline in A. baumannii are far more complicated and diverse than what has been described in the literature so far. Here, we characterize in vitro-selected MDRAB strains obtained by increasing concentrations of tigecycline. We have identiﬁed mutations in adeS, rrf and rpoB that result in reduced susceptibility to tigecycline. Using in situ complementation experiments, we confirm that mutations in rrf, rpoB, and two types of mutations in adeS correlate with tigecycline resistance. By Western blot and polysome profile analysis, we demonstrate that the rrf mutation results in decreased expression of RRF, which affects the process of ribosome recycling ultimately leading to increased tigecycline tolerance. A transcriptional analysis shows that the mutated rpoB gene plays a role in regulating the expression of the SAM-dependent methyltransferase (trm) and transcriptional regulators, to confer moderate tigecycline resistance. This study provides direct in vitro evidence that mutations in the adeS, rpoB and rrf are associated with tigecycline resistance in A. baumannii.
Culicoides (Amossovia) cochisensis Wirth and Blanton
Creators: name: Phillips, Robert A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Ceratopogonidae
Culicoides
Culicoides cochisensis

description: Culicoides (Amossovia) cochisensis Wirth and Blanton
(Fig. 101, 155, 191)
 Culicoides cochisensis Wirth and Blanton, 1967: 218 (key; female, male, pupa; fig. female antenna, wing, eye separation, spermathecae, leg, palpus, male genitalia, parameres; Arizona; paratype records show Culicoides villosipennis Root and Hoffman record for Utah was a misidentification). Wirth et al. 1985: 20 (numerical characters; fig. female wing). Wirth et al. 1988: 30 (numerical characters; fig. female wing). Murphree and Mullen 1991: 330 (key; larva; numerical characters; fig. epipharynx, mandible, hypostoma, caudal segment).
 Culicoides (Amossovia) cochisensis: Borkent and Spinelli 2000: 27 (in Neotropical catalog).
 Culicoides villosipennis Root and Hoffman, misidentified: Bullock 1952: 24 (misspelled as “villosopennis”; key; female [male description invalid]; Utah: Salt Lake County). Rees and Bullock 1954 (misspelled as “villosopennis”; Utah: Salt Lake County).
 Diagnosis. (Tables 14, 15) Dark brown; wing pattern distinct; r 2 dark; distal pale spot in r 3 medially constricted and roughly C-shaped; pale spots straddling at ~0.2 on M 1 and ~0.4 on M 2; CuA 1 and CuA 2 within dark areas except at tip of CuA 1; pore of sensory pit on palpal segment 3>0.5 the diameter of segment (as in Fig. 247 C. californiensis); pale band subapical on hind tibiae, absent from hind femora and subapically from fore and mid tibiae; ventral apodeme of gonocoxite simple; aedeagus Y-shaped, median process slender to pointed tip; parameres separate, apices simple, pointed.
 Distribution. California, Utah (Salt Lake City), Arizona, Baja California. The only Utah record is of a female collected at a window in Salt Lake City 14 September 1952 (Bullock 1952). The other collection records are from the Sonoran Desert; hence, it is likely not resident in Utah, and the record is of a transient.
 Larval ecology and adult behavior. Culicoides cochisensis larvae have been collected from water in a pocket of a saguaro cactus (Carnegiea gigantea [Engelmann] Britton and Rose, Cactaceae) (Wirth and Blanton 1967). However, its adult hosts are unknown, though the mandibular and lacinial teeth on the female indicate it feeds on vertebrate blood.
description: Published as part of Phillips, Robert A., 2022, Culicoides Latreille and Leptoconops Skuse biting midges of the southwestern United States with emphasis on the Canyonlands of southeastern Utah (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), pp. 1-214 in Insecta Mundi 2022 (907) on pages 45-46, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6391684
Distinguishing photon blockade in a PT-symmetric optomechanical system
Creators: name: Wang, Dong-Yang
name: Bai, Cheng-Hua
name: Liu, Shutian
name: Zhang, Shou
name: Wang, Hong-Fu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effects of parity-time(PT)-symmetry on the photon blockade and distinguish the different blockade mechanisms in a double-cavity optomechanical system. By studying the light statistics of the system, we find the completely different photon blockade behaviors when the PT-symmetry is broken or unbroken, which is related to the PT phase transition. Furthermore, an interesting phenomenon that the two cavities are blocked at the same time is found with the appropriate system parameters. Those statistical phenomenons are all analyzed in detail and demonstrated by analytically solving the Schrodinger equation and numerically simulating the master equation, respectively. Finally, we also consider the non-PT symmetric situations which further reveal the physical essence of the photon blockade by comparing those results. Different from the usual photon blockade, our proposal is feasible even with weak parameter mechanism, i.e., the proposal neither requires the strong optomechanical coupling nor the large tunneling coupling between cavities.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures, to appear in Physical Review A, 2019
Liver X Receptor cis-Repression and Cholesterol Efflux Restrain Innate Immunity and Coronary Artery Disease
Creators: Thomas, David George
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Cytology
Molecular biology
Biochemistry
Atherosclerosis--Prevention
Immunity
Nuclear receptors (Biochemistry)

description: Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease secondary to deposition of apolipoprotein B-containing lipoproteins in the artery wall is a leading cause of mortality. Therapies that reduce serum levels of atherogenic lipoprotein-cholesterol have been successful in reducing cardiovascular mortality, but this approach requires long-term treatment and substantial residual risk remains. Here, we investigate mechanistic determinants of atherosclerosis protection by two potential therapeutic approaches for lowering of residual cardiovascular risk. Using mouse models, we show that the nuclear receptor liver X receptor exerts an anti-inflammatory activity on innate immunity and atherosclerosis through both promotion of cholesterol efflux and a direct cis-repressive activity affecting neutrophil inflammation. We then assess the causal role of the cholesterol efflux pathway in human cardiovascular events by using genetic variants that modify high density lipoprotein-cholesterol in instrumental variable analysis. We show that this pathway is associated with protection from cardiovascular disease in a precise and robust Mendelian randomization analysis on an FDR-controlled set of variants, which suggests a causal effect. Thus, agents that target the cholesterol efflux and liver X receptor cis-repression pathways may be protective in atherosclerosis.
title: Lavandula multifida L. subsp. canariensis (Mill.) P. & P.
Creators: name: :None
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Digitale Pflanzenbilder: Sammlung Dietmar Brandes
subject: 580

description: Pflanzensammlung Dietmar Brandes: Digitale Pflanzenbilder
Decoherence and collective effects in critical media
Creators: name: Angelis, F. M. D
name: Pinheiro, F. A.
name: Impens, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the influence of critical phenomena on two distinct physical processes: the center-of-mass decoherence of a single emitter, and the collective radiation of two emitters. We address these different physical mechanisms with an unified formalism relying on standard perturbation theory. We decompose the decoherence and the collective emission rates as a sum of two contributions, accounting for the spontaneous emission and for interference effects respectively. The former is enhanced by the Purcell effect when the material is in the vicinity of the emitter(s). The latter, associated to quantum interferences, experiences a "sudden death" near the critical point of the phase transition. Our findings unveil the interplay between the Purcell and collective effects and its dependence on metal-insulator transitions. We discuss two specific examples of phase transitions: the percolation transition in a metal-dielectric composite, and the metal-insulator transition in VO2. In the latter, decoherence and collective emission rates exhibit a characteristic hysteresis that strongly depends on the material temperature. These results, based on experimental data, suggest that VO2 could be explored as a versatile material platform where decoherence and collective emission can be tuned by varying the temperature.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures
On Inertial Navigation and Attitude Initialization in Polar Areas
Creators: name: Wu, Yuanxin
name: He, Chao
name: Liu, Gang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Inertial navigation and attitude initialization in polar areas become a hot topic in recent years in the navigation community, as the widely-used navigation mechanization of the local level frame encounters the inherent singularity when the latitude approaches 90 degrees. Great endeavors have been devoted to devising novel navigation mechanizations such as the grid or transversal frames. This paper highlights the fact that the common Earth-frame mechanization is sufficiently good to well handle the singularity problem in polar areas. Simulation results are reported to demonstrate the singularity problem and the effectiveness of the Earth-frame mechanization.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures
Lives Across Spaces: the Place of Adolescents’ Spatial Experiences in Their Lives as Students
Creators: Michael, Heather
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Education
Teenagers
Teenagers--Attitudes
Spatial behavior
Middle school students

description: The purpose of this work is to explore the spatial lives of three adolescents in grade nine, between January and May, as they navigated their lives and anticipated their upcoming transition to high school (for students in Grades 10 – 12), with an interest in equitable access to International Baccalaureate programs.  Researched in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, in a context where access to IB was a student choice, free of cost, and void of consideration regarding academic history, the students involved in this study came from neighborhoods that have been historically marginalized from participation in IB, regardless of this “open access” policy.
      Methodologically, this study is grounded in spatial theory (hooks 1989; Lefebvre, 1979, 1991; Soja, 1996, 2010) and draws on narrative (Clandinin & Connelly, 2000; Naraian, 2017) and ethnographic techniques (Emerson, Fretz & Shaw, 1995; LeCompte & Schensul, 1999; Merriam, 2009), using an a/r/tographic stance, that is Artist, Researcher, Teacher positionality (Fendler, 2013; Irwin & Springgay, 2008) as a way to conceptualize the adolescents lives in and outside of school.  The research questions address: how adolescents define, describe and map the spaces where they spend time; how they describe their identities, experiences and relationships across space and time; and, what connections they make between engaging in this process and their perceptions about high school.
      The findings suggest that the spatial stories of adolescents matter, are complex, and provide insight into the ways in which they navigate their worlds and make decisions about their academic futures.  Methodologically, using a narrative and ethnographically inspired a/r/tographic approach to exploring the spatial lives of adolescents was useful and generative in terms of eliciting insight and understanding of their complex lives in and out of school.  Finally, the findings suggest that for schools seeking to become more inclusive of historically marginalized adolescents, they may need to reconsider an approach that pulls marginalized youth into the “main body” (hooks, 1989), and, instead, travel to the “margin” (hooks, 1989) to re-conceptualize and design programs from there, the “space of radical openness” (hooks, 1989).
title: Mermaids of the Arabian Gulf: archaeological evidence for the exploitation of dugongs from prehistory to the present/ Mark J. Bee
Creators: name: Beech, Mark J.
Publisher: name: National Library and Archives
Year: 2010
Subjects: Dugong - Arabian Sea - Archaeology
Dugong - Arabian Gulf - Antiquities
Mermaids - Arabian Gulf - Antiquities
Akab Island(Umm Al-Qaiwain) - Antiquities

After Northern Australia the Arabian Gulf contains the second largest population in the world of sea cows or dugongs (Dugong dugon). These shy large marine mammals have been exploited for more than 7,000 years within this region. This paper highlights the economic and ritual use of dugongs by both prehistoric and historic coastal populations. Dugongs provided economically valuable products in terms of meat, oil, fat and hide, but the animals themselves were also venerated at a special monumental site constructed around 5,500 years ago on Akab Island in Umm Al-Qaiwain emirate. Their remains were also used in association with Islamic burial practice during the recent historical period on Marawah Island in Abu Dhabi emirate.
Living Stones: Sculpted Foliage in Gothic Architecture, c.1140-1300
Creators: Cataldo, Emogene
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Decorative arts, Medieval
Middle Ages
History
Architecture, Gothic
Architecture--Historiography
Decoration and ornament, Architectural
Leaves in art

description: This dissertation examines key examples of foliate carving from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, re-evaluating its historiographic context while refracting foliate decoration through the lens of climate in the medieval West. Looking to medieval ideas about plant life, weather, and religious devotion in France and England, this study posits that ecological change, rather than the influx of ideas in medieval universities, was a key factor in changing attitudes towards nature in the Middle Ages. The foliate program on the west façade of Notre-Dame of Amiens illustrates connections to environmental miracles, authenticity of local relics, and the Church’s attempts to intervene in natural disasters. Taking one of the most significant examples of medieval foliate sculpture, the interior foliate frieze of Amiens, a new analysis argues that sculptors knowingly made this monumental frieze look as if it were organic and alive, rather than reproducing each segment identically. Crockets, on the other hand, a site of repetition and modular adaptation, are considered an important aspect of Gothic design, especially in the quire and west front of Wells Cathedral, where innovative crocket designs appear to complement the visual identity crafted by the diocese.
Additional file 1 of DctR contributes to the virulence of avian pathogenic Escherichia coli through regulation of type III secretion system 2 expression
Creators: name: Zhang, Yaodong
name: Wang, Yao
name: Zhu, Hong
name: Yi, Zhengfei
name: Afayibo, Dossêh Jean Apôtre
name: Tao, Chenglin
name: Li, Tao
name: Tian, Mingxing
name: Qi, Jingjing
name: Ding, Chan
name: Yu, Shengqing
name: Wang, Shaohui
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics

description: Additional file 1: Primers used in this study.
Living Globally: Exploring the Need for Foreign Enclaves in Shanghai
Creators: Chung, Peter
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: City planning
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Social sciences--Research

description: More often than not, the principles of ethnic integration trump segregation in today’s post-modern, cosmopolitan cities. However, in different urban contexts segregation may actually induce economic benefits. Foreign urban enclaves in emerging economies can function as residences for highly skilled foreign workers who collectively contribute toward a municipality’s economic output. This study examines the need for foreign transnational enclave communities in Shanghai. The hypothesis is that the planning of foreign enclaves is necessary because such environments provide a socially and culturally familiar space for expatriates allowing them to establish a lifestyle in an otherwise unfamiliar urban setting. The findings suggest that although this was a strategy that Shanghai implemented in the past to retain the skills of foreign workers, the circumstances have now changed. Western expatriates are more integrated than they are segregated, and their locational decisions are based on factors other than maintaining a sense of cultural and social familiarity. The study argues that in the context of Shanghai, planned foreign enclaves are not necessary due to the city’s historical trajectory, current economic state, and a gradual economic independence through improving domestic capabilities.
Sexing of Romano-British baby burials from the Beddingham and Bignor villas .
Creators: name: Waldron, Tony
name: Taylor, G M
name: Rudling, David R
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2002

description: Sussex Archaeological Collections, 137, 71-79
description: A simple method is described for measuring the depth of the sciatic notch in fetal ilia. Morphological and molecular analyses were undertaken separately to determine the sexes of seven Romano-British infant burials from the Roman villas at Beddingham, East Sussex and Bignor, West Sussex. Geometric analysis of the sciatic notch indicate that three of the infants from Beddingham were female, while three were male. Using the same criteria the Bignor baby was determined as female. Amelogenin polymerase chain reaction confirmed the sexing of four of the infants from Beddingham (three male, one female), but could not sex the other remains due to poor DNA preservation. If the burials at Beddingham were the result of infanticide, its victims were not exclusively female.
The spectral representation of the spacetime structure: The `distance' between universes with different topologies
Creators: name: Seriu, Masafumi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the representation of the geometrical information of the universe in terms of the eigenvalues of the Laplacian defined on the universe. We concentrate only on one specific problem along this line: To introduce a concept of distance between universes in terms of the difference in the spectra. We can find out such a measure of closeness from a general discussion. The basic properties of this `spectral distance' are then investigated. It can be related to a reduced density matrix element in quantum cosmology. Thus, calculating the spectral distance gives us an insight for the quantum theoretical decoherence between two universes. The spectral distance does not in general satisfy the triangular inequality, illustrating that it is not equivalent to the distance defined by the DeWitt metric on the superspace. We then pose a question: Whether two universes with different topologies interfere with each other quantum mechanically? We concentrate on the difference in the orientabilities. Several concrete models in 2-dimension are set up, and the spectral distances between them are investigated: Tori and Klein's bottles, spheres and real projective spaces. Quite surprisingly, we find many cases of spaces with different orientabilities in which the spectral distance turns out to be very short. It may suggest that, without any other special mechanism, two such universes interfere with each other quite strongly.
description: 47 pages
Living Law in Japan: Social Jurisprudence in the Interwar Period
Creators: Jones, Colin Philip Charles
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: History
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Jurisprudence

description: Scholarship on modern Japanese law tends to focus on the codification of Japan’s legal system in the 1890s and its dramatic overhaul after 1945. This dissertation argues that the interwar years constituted a third point of inflection that transformed Japanese law and laid the foundation for the Japanese welfare state.
      In the wake of World War I, amid varied and widespread social tumult, a group of influential professors at Tokyo Imperial University undertook to remake civil law as an instrument of social policy. They rejected the Japanese civil code as it was codified in the 1890s, along with the methods of strict interpretation developed by their teachers. In its place they envisioned a new paradigm of legal thinking and practice that they believed could mend tearing social fabric. Their ideas were inspired by a transnational discourse on the centrality of society to law that emerged at the end of the nineteenth century. In Japan they coalesced into a new and nationally distinct legal movement that came to be called “social jurisprudence” (shakai hōgaku). There were many elements, but the most notable were an emphasis on the indeterminacy of legal interpretation and a preference for informal conflict resolution, as opposed to the formal procedures of the modern judiciary.
      The 1923 Kanto Earthquake afforded an opportunity to put these ideas into practice on a large scale. In these years two of the most notable features of modern Japanese law were established: reliance on judicial precedents rather than simply the statutory law, and the prevalence of informal mediation. With these tools, the social jurist strove to reform urban housing, rural tenancy, labor relations, and family law. From the 1930s they took their ideas to the Chinese mainland, where they were deployed in the puppet state Manchukuo in an attempt to pacify the local population by harnessing “Asian” customs. Never did these efforts hit their intended mark, yet they gave rise to new legislation, legal practices, and frames for thinking about society, history and gender that have endured into the present.
Integrability of the pairing hamiltonian
Creators: name: Cambiaggio, M. C.
name: Rivas, A. M. F.
name: Saraceno, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that a many-body Hamiltonian that corresponds to a system of fermions interacting through a pairing force is an integrable problem, i.e. it has as many constants of the motion as degrees of freedom. At the classical level this implies that the Time-dependent Hartree-Fock- Bogoliubov dynamics is integrable and at the quantum level that there are conserved operators of two-body character which reduce to the number operators when the pairing strength vanishes. We display these operators explicitly and study in detail the three-level example.
description: 14 pages, latex, 2 figures, to be published in Nuclear Physics A
Deterministic subtraction of single photons based on a coupled single quantum dot-cavity system
Creators: name: Du, Jinjin
name: Li, Wenfang
name: Bajcsy, Michal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe a scheme of deterministic single-photon subtraction in a solid-state system consisting of a charged quantum dot coupled to a bimodal photonic-crystal cavity with a moderate magnetic field applied in a Voigt configuration. We numerically simulate injection of optical pulses into one of the modes of the bimodal cavity and show that the system deterministically transfers one photon into the second cavity mode for input pulses in the form of both Fock states and coherent states.
description: 7 pages, 7 figures
Anomalous Pauli electron states for magnetic fields with tails
Creators: name: Exner, Pavel
name: Hirokawa, Masao
name: Ogurisu, Osamu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a two-dimensional electron with an anomalous magnetic moment, g>2, interacting with a nonzero magnetic field B perpendicular to the plane which gives rise to a flux F. Recent results about the discrete spectrum of the Pauli operator are extended to fields with the O(r^{-2-δ}) decay at infinity: we show that if |F| exceeds an integer N, there is at least N+1 bound states. Furthermore, we prove that weakly coupled bound states exist under mild regularity assumptions also in the zero flux case.
description: 12 pages, LaTeX2e; the final version, to appear in Lett. Math. Phys
A topological phase transition on the edge of the 2d $\mathbb{Z}_2$ topological order
Creators: name: Chen, Wei-Qiang
name: Jian, Chao-Ming
name: Kong, Liang
name: You, Yi-Zhuang
name: Zheng, Hao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The unified mathematical theory of gapped and gapless edges of 2d topological orders was developed by two of the authors. It provides a powerful tool to study pure edge topological phase transitions on the edges of 2d topological orders (without altering the bulks). In particular, it implies that the critical points are described by enriched fusion categories. In this work, we illustrate this idea in a concrete example: the 2d $\mathbb{Z}_2$ topological order. In particular, we construct an enriched fusion category, which describes a gappable non-chiral gapless edge of the 2d $\mathbb{Z}_2$ topological order; then use an explicit lattice model construction to realize the critical point and, at the same time, all the ingredients of this enriched fusion category.
description: 31 pages, 58 figures, Comments are welcome
The Casimir effect in the Fulling-Rindler vacuum
Creators: name: Avagyan, R. M.
name: Saharian, A. A.
name: Yeranyan, A. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The vacuum expectation values of the energy--momentum tensor are investigated for massless scalar fields satisfying Dicichlet or Neumann boundary conditions, and for the electromagnetic field with perfect conductor boundary conditions on two infinite parallel plates moving by uniform proper acceleration through the Fulling--Rindler vacuum. The scalar case is considered for general values of the curvature coupling parameter and in an arbitrary number of spacetime dimension. The mode--summation method is used with combination of a variant of the generalized Abel--Plana formula. This allows to extract manifestly the contributions to the expectation values due to a single boundary. The vacuum forces acting on the boundaries are presented as a sum of the self--action and interaction terms. The first one contains well known surface divergences and needs a further regularization. The interaction forces between the plates are always attractive for both scalar and electromagnetic cases. An application to the 'Rindler wall' is discussed.
description: 23 pages, LaTeX, 3 EPS figures, references added, the general case of the spatial dimension is considered for the electromagnetic field, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D
Electrostatic self-force in a static weak gravitational field with cylindrical symmetry
Creators: name: Boisseau, B.
name: Charmousis, C.
name: Linet, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We determine the electrostatic self-force at rest in an arbitrary static metric with cylindrical symmetry in the linear approximation in the Newtonian constant. In linearised Einstein theory, we express it in terms of the components of the energy-momentum tensor.
description: 11 pages, no figure, latex
Contaminated site legislation and mine closure
Creators: name: Wilson, Cathy A.
name: Sandstrom, N.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Environmental protection and restoration during mine closure has for many years been regulated under the Mines Act. The potential currently exists for mine closure to trigger the investigation and remediation requirements of the Contaminated Sites Regulation. In order to minimize or eliminate duplication of effort, the Ministry of Mines, Ministry of Environment, Lands & Parks, and the mining industry are currently working on a harmonized process. In the meantime, Cominco Ltd. is proceeding with the closure of its Kimberley Operations, and has developed strategies for meeting CSR requirements by assessing its future land use plans, and by maximizing the use of data already collected to meet closure requirements under their reclamation permit. The focus of the CSR investigation has been on potential impacts associated with contaminants not otherwise addressed under the reclamation permit. The large mine site was split into smaller areas for the purpose of investigating both soil and water (groundwater and surface water). The concentrations of targeted contaminants were characterized and delineated, and remediation strategies were developed which take full advantage of strategies already in place under the reclamation permit. A gap analysis of the existing hydrogeological model and chemical database has provided a framework for determining the need for additional sampling stations and/or analytical parameters under the current monitoring program.
Additional file 1: of Evaluating the effectiveness of an evidence-based online training program for health professionals in eating disorders
Creators: name: Maguire, Sarah
name: Li, Ang
name: Cunich, Michelle
name: Maloney, Danielle
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Eating disorder online learning evaluation questionnaire regarding attitudes, knowledge and skills. (DOCX 24 kb)
Culicoides (Diphaomyia) erikae Atchley and Wirth
Creators: name: Phillips, Robert A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Ceratopogonidae
Culicoides
Culicoides erikae

description: Culicoides (Diphaomyia) erikae Atchley and Wirth
(Fig. 76, 129, 240, 271)
 Culicoides (Diphaomyia) erikae Atchley and Wirth, 1979: 532 (key; numerical characters; female; male genitalia; pupa; fig. female antenna, palpus, wing, eye separation, spermathecae, male antenna, parameres, genitalia; New Mexico). Wirth et al. 1985: 18 (numerical characters; fig. female wing).
 Diagnosis. (Tables 14, 15) Wing pattern reduced; r 2 dark; distal pale spots absent from r 3, m 1, m 2, often cua 1; spermathecae with sclerotized necks ~2× longer than wide; sclerotized ring on spermathecal duct; ventral apodeme of gonocoxite with two widely divergent processes, footlike; basal arms of aedeagus each with spurlike process on posterior margin, median process of aedeagus narrow parallel-sided, aedeagal ratio ~0.4; parameres separate, each with bulbous submedian lobe and subapical fringe of spines.
 Distribution. Utah (Box Elder, Grand, Uintah counties), Arizona, New Mexico. Nine of the 14 C. erikae collected were from 2436 m elevation in Uintah County (Table 7), suggesting it is more common at higher elevations than were routinely sampled.
 Larval ecology. Atchley collected or reared pupae from Silver Creek Canyon, Otero County, New Mexico, in May of 1973 and from Cedar Creek Canyon, Lincoln County, New Mexico, in June of 1973 but did not report details of the habitats (Atchley and Wirth 1979).
 Adult behavior. The mandibular and lacinial teeth on the female indicate it feeds on vertebrate blood; however, its hosts are unknown.
description: Published as part of Phillips, Robert A., 2022, Culicoides Latreille and Leptoconops Skuse biting midges of the southwestern United States with emphasis on the Canyonlands of southeastern Utah (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), pp. 1-214 in Insecta Mundi 2022 (907) on page 55, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6391684
On the long time behavior of time relaxation model of fluids
Creators: name: Pakzad, Ali
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The time relaxation model, which is family of high accuracy turbulence models, has proven to be effective in regularization of Navier Stokes Equations. The model belongs to the class of Large Eddy Simulation models, and is derived by adding a linear time regularization term $χu^{\star}$ to the Navier Stokes Equations. The time relaxation operator truncates small solution scales by injecting an extra dissipation to a simulation, without altering appreciably the solution's large scales. Herein to evaluate the effect of the time regularization term on a simulation, the rate of energy dissipation of the model in body force driven turbulence is studied. Our result, which agrees with Kolmogorov's conventional turbulence theory, is also consistent with the rate proven for the NSE. Moreover, employing the model requires a choice of the coefficient $χ$. It is known that the model's simulation is sensitive to the parameter. The analysis motivates a range of possible values for the coefficient $χ$ in $3d$ turbulent flows away from walls.
description: 11 Pages
title: Which pathways to respond to the energy crisis ?: recommendations on EU financial instruments
Creators: name: Bokhorst, David
name: Lutringer, Christine
name: Mexi, Maria
name: Monti, Luciano
name: Randeria, Shalini
name: Žarković, Jelena
Publisher: name: Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/007ygn379
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2022

description: AHCD Policy brief ; No. 1/22
Modulational Estimate for Fermi-Pasta-Ulam Chain Lyapunov Exponents
Creators: name: Dauxois, Thierry
name: Ruffo, Stefano
name: Torcini, Alessandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the framework of the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU) model, we show a simple method to give an accurate analytical estimation of the maximal Lyapunov exponent at high energy density. The method is based on the computation of the mean value of the modulational instability growth rates associated to unstable modes. Moreover, we show that the strong stochasticity threshold found in the $β$-FPU system is closely related to a transition in tangent space: the Lyapunov eigenvector being more localized in space at high energy.
description: 4 pages, revtex, 4 ps figures, submitted to PRE
Living the American Dream? Second Generation Dominican High School Students in a Diverse Suburban Community
Creators: Duran, Jacquelyn Nely
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Children of immigrants--Social conditions
subject: Dominican Americans
subject: High school students
subject: Children of immigrants--Education

description: My dissertation examines second generation Dominican high school students and their parents in a diverse, middle-class suburb. At a moment when immigrant families are arriving directly to suburban locations, and the number of second generation immigrants in our public schools is growing, it is important to examine how they are making sense of their experiences in this new context. In my study, I consider how one sub-group of Latinx high school students, with at least one parent born in the Dominican Republic, are experiencing a new place. Specifically, I look at their experiences within their community, school and family influence their assimilation processes, their ideas about future success, and the role of education in reaching that success. I also explore how the parents’ experiences in this community inform their definitions of success for their children and the role that education plays in achieving it, and how those beliefs affect their children. I examine the parents’ accounts through in-depth interviews and the students’ accounts through pre and post in-depth interviews two years apart, as well as photo elicitation interviews.
      I found that the location of this suburb, adjacent to an ethnic enclave, provides a context that supports the process of selective acculturation, whereby the students are learning English and American customs while also developing and maintaining their Dominican cultural practices, including speaking Spanish. I also uncovered nuances to their understanding of the role of education in securing future success, through the use of open-ended questions. I found that the students with college-educated parents were more cautious about believing in the American Dream, and the idea that education guarantees success. Despite this, all of the families in the study approached education in similar ways, a style typically attributed to low-income families. And lastly, I found that the families lacked the social and cultural capital to gain educational advantages, specifically in the college application process. My study challenges the assumption that immigrant families arriving to middle-class suburbs are equipped to take advantage of the resources that their place of residence can afford them. Living in this type of place signals an achievement of the American Dream, but we have to question whether their children will be able to maintain it.
Conditions for Steady Gravitational Radiation from Accreting Neutron Stars
Creators: name: Wagoner, Robert V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The gravitational-wave and accretion driven evolution of the angular velocity, core temperature, and (small) amplitude of an r-mode of neutron stars in low mass X-ray binaries and similar systems is investigated. The conditions required for evolution to a stable equilibrium state (with gravitational wave flux proportional to average X-ray flux) are determined. In keeping with conclusions derived from observations of neutron star cooling, the core neutrons are taken to be normal while the core protons and hyperons and the crust neutrons are taken to be singlet superfluids. The dominant sources of damping are then hyperon bulk viscosity (if much of the core is at least 2--3 times nuclear density) and (e-e and n-n) shear (and possibly magnetic) viscosity within the core--crust boundary layer. It is found that a stable equilibrium state can be reached if the superfluid transition temperature of the hyperons is sufficiently small ($\lesssim 2\times 10^9$ K), allowing the gravitational radiation from Sco X-1 and several other neutron stars in low-mass X-ray binaries to be potentially detectable by the second generation LIGO (and VIRGO) arrays.
description: 13 pages, 3 figures; submitted to Astrophysical Journal Letters
Social Network, Activity Space, Sentiment, and Evacuation: What Can Social Media Tell Us?
Creators: name: Yuqin Jiang
name: Zhenlong Li
name: Cutter, Susan L.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Hurricanes are one of the most common natural hazards in the United States. To reduce fatalities and economic losses, coastal states and counties take protective actions, including sheltering in place and evacuation away from the coast. Not everyone adheres to hurricane evacuation warnings or orders. In reality, evacuation rates are far less than 100 percent and are estimated using posthurricane questionnaire surveys to residents in the affected area. To overcome limitations of traditional data collection methods that are costly in time and resources, an increasing number of natural hazards studies have used social media data as a data source. To better understand social media users’ evacuation behaviors, this article investigates whether activity space, social network, and long-term sentiment trends are associated with individuals’ evacuation decisions by measuring and comparing Twitter users’ evacuation decisions during Hurricane Matthew in 2016. We find that (1) evacuated people have larger long-term activity spaces than nonevacuated people, (2) people in the same social network tend to make the same evacuation decision, and (3) evacuated people have smaller long-term sentimental variances than nonevacuated people. These results are consistent with previous studies based on questionnaire and survey data and thus provide researchers a new method to study human behavior during disasters. Key Words: big data, disaster management, evacuation, hurricane, social media.
Living with Water: Adaptation processes, heritage conservation, and conflicting values
Creators: Gaikwad, Shivali
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Historic preservation
Climatic changes
Historic sites
Cultural property--Protection
Cultural property

description: Heritage sites are constantly changing due to natural and social processes. Climate change research and predictions indicate that the pace will only accelerate in the future, especially in the coastal areas. Living with current weather conditions involves adapted lifestyles of communities that are linked to actions of individuals, societies and governments worldwide. The historic preservation community is now presented with complex issues of considering and adapting to climate change and its lasting effects, which will significantly influence decision-making and heritage policies. These issues raise important questions about the role that individual and societal values play in adapting to climate change: How do adaptation measures taken by some affect the values of others? In the case of value conflicts, whose values should be prioritized? What are the challenges and limits to adaptation processes in the context of culture and livelihoods? Ultimately, it is important to identify adaptation strategies that acknowledge and address a spectrum of values with governance based on shared cultural practices, ethics, justice and equity considerations.

The object of this thesis is to examine how an understanding of past impacts on heritage-related livelihoods from rising waters and erosion can help design and operationalize future interventions in the era of climate change. It looks at adaptation as a social process with implications for economic and political stability as well as culture, among many other things; with a specific focus on traditional knowledge systems and governance. This is developed through an examination of a primary case study on Majuli, a river island in Assam, India. There is a difference between how heritage is defined and how it is protected, and this thesis is about realizing that in communities like Majuli there is not only a tradition of dealing with threats, but also about dealing with fluctuating weather and water conditions. It deals with a history of adaptation, and skills and traditions that have built and evolved in response to harsh weather conditions. In the era of climate change, there has been a static approach when deciding what heritage is, though in reality it is dynamic. This thesis aims at exploring how to reconcile these incompatible concepts of adaptation traditions.
Cloud Computing Platforms for Big Geospatial Data
Creators: name: Wu, Qiusheng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: cloud computing
big geospatial data

description: This presentation gives an overview of cloud computing platforms for big geospatial data, including Google Earth Engine, Microsoft Planetary Computer, Pangeo Cloud, Sentinel Hub, OpenEO, Open Data Cube, and Multi-Mission Algorithm and Analysis Platform (MAAP).
Specialized testing requirements to meet the BC Contaminated Sites Regulation
Creators: name: Mawdsley, Brent D.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: British Columbia's Contaminated Sites Regulation requires the use of several specialized laboratory testing procedures that determine to what degree a site is contaminated. The results of these analyses can have a significant impact on mine decommissioning projects. Several of these tests are the same as those required for regular environmental monitoring programs. However, the testing for hydrocarbon contamination has been recently revised and more changes are expected in the summer of 1999. Hence, hydrocarbon analysis and interpretation of data are a source of confusion to other industry sectors. This paper outlines the testing requirements of the BC Contaminated Sites Regulation in relation to mine decommissioning with emphasis on clarifying the hydrocarbon testing procedures. It also addresses issues pertaining to analytical variability that can have a significant effect on data interpretation.