nils-herrmann/clean_scirepeval huggingface dataset:
Vacuum Rabi splitting in a plasmonic cavity at the single quantum emitter limit
Venue: Nature communications

The strong interaction of individual quantum emitters with resonant cavities is of fundamental interest for understanding light matter interactions. Plasmonic cavities hold the promise of attaining the strong coupling regime even under ambient conditions and within subdiffraction volumes. Recent experiments revealed strong coupling between individual plasmonic structures and multiple organic molecules; however, strong coupling at the limit of a single quantum emitter has not been reported so far. Here we demonstrate vacuum Rabi splitting, a manifestation of strong coupling, using silver bowtie plasmonic cavities loaded with semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) A transparency dip is observed in the scattering spectra of individual bowties with one to a few QDs, which are directly counted in their gaps. A coupling rate as high as 120 meV is registered even with a single QD, placing the bowtie QD constructs close to the strong coupling regime. These observations are verified by polarization dependent experiments and validated by electromagnetic calculations.
Quantitative immunoenzymatic detection of viral encephalopathy and retinopathy virus (betanodavirus) in sea bass Dicentrarchus labrax.
Venue: Journal of fish diseases

Viral encephalopathy and retinopathy disease caused by betanodavirus, genus of the family Nodaviridae, affects marine, wild and farmed species including sea bass, one of the most important farmed species in Europe. This work describes a reliable and sensitive indirect ELISA assay to detect betanodavirus in biological samples using a polyclonal antiserum (pAb 283) against the 283/I09 virus strain, the most common red spotted grouper nervous necrosis virus (RGNNV) genotype in the Mediterranean area, and a capture based ELISA using a monoclonal antibody (mAb 4C3) specific to a common epitope present on the capsid protein. Using adsorbed, purified VERv preparation, the detection limit of indirect ELISA was 2 mg mL( 1) (3 x 10(5) TCID50 per mL) whereas for capture based ELISA, the sensitivity for the antigen in solution was 17 mg mL( 1) (35 x 10(5) TCID50 per mL) The capture based ELISA was employed to detect VERv in brain homogenates of in vivo infected sea bass and resulted positive in 22 of 32 samples, some of these with a high viral load estimates (about 1.1 x 10(8) TCID50 per mL) The ELISA system we propose may be helpful in investigations where coupling of viral content in fish tissues with the presence of circulating VERv specific IgM is required, or for use in samples where PCR is difficult to perform.
Multi locus DNA barcoding identifies matK as a suitable marker for species identification in Hibiscus L.
Venue: Genome

The genus Hibiscus L. includes several taxa of medicinal value and species used for the extraction of natural dyes. These applications require the use of authentic plant materials. DNA barcoding is a molecular method for species identification, which helps in reliable authentication by using one or more DNA barcode marker. In this study, we have collected 44 accessions, representing 16 species of Hibiscus, distributed in the southern peninsular India, to evaluate the discriminatory power of the two core barcodes rbcLa and matK together with the suggested additional regions trnH psbA and ITS2. No intraspecies divergence was observed among the accessions studied. Interspecies divergence was 0% 9.6% with individual markers, which increased to 0% 12.5% and 0.8% 20.3% when using two and three marker combinations, respectively. Differentiation of all the species of Hibiscus was possible with the matK DNA barcode marker. Also, in two marker combinations, only those combinations with matK differentiated all the species. Though all the three marker combinations showed 100% species differentiation, species resolution was consistently better when the matK marker formed part of the combination. These results clearly showed that matK is more suitable when compared to rbcLa, trnH psbA, and ITS2 for species identification in Hibiscus.
Eigenvalues distribution for products of independent spherical ensembles

We consider the product of independent spherical ensembles. By the special structure of eigenvalues as a rotation invariant determinant point process, we show that the empirical spectral distribution of the product converges, with probability one, to a non random distribution. And the limiting eigenvalue distribution is a power of spherical law. We also present an interesting correspondence between the eigenvalues of three classes of random matrix ensembles and zeros of random polynomials.
Simulation of spatial distribution of absorbed laser energy in spherical microcapsules

Specific features of optical field distribution in composite spherical particles consisting of a liquid core and nanocomposite absorbing shell are theoretically studied at different wavelengths of incident radiation. Using the numerical simulation it is shown that the thickness of the shell of the spherical microcapsule particle and its intrinsic absorption coefficient determine the character of the spatial distribution and the absorbed power. The variation of these parameters allows one to change the spatial position of efficient volume absorption regions and peak absorption values. This provides favourable conditions for opening the shells in appropriate spatial zones to release the contents of the microcapsules.
"When Said with a Sneer" Translating Language, Race, and Culture Through an English Football Race Controversy

This article examines the origins and aftermath of a 2011 English football race controversy, where an English Football Association tribunal found Uruguayan Luis Suarez guilty of using racially abusive language against Patrice Evra, a Frenchman of Senegalese descent. It approaches the Suarez Evra controversy as a flashpoint of broader transformations in England, France, and Uruguay associated with sports, race, and nationalism, highlighting the problematic nature of cultural and linguistic translation under shifting racial, ethnic, and cultural dynamics. The controversy also provided an opportunity for Afro Uruguayans to collectively denounce and redress longstanding forms of racism in that country. [Soccer (football) Race; Globalization; England; France; Uruguay]
Multi Robot Localization and Mapping Based on Signed Distance Functions
Venue: J. Intell. Robotic Syst.

This publication describes a 2D Simultaneous Localization and Mapping approach applicable to multiple mobile robots. The presented strategy uses data of 2D LIDAR sensors to build a dynamic representation based on Signed Distance Functions. Novelties of the approach are a joint map built in parallel instead of occasional merging of smaller maps and the limited drift localization which requires no loop closure detection. A multi threaded software architecture performs registration and data integration in parallel allowing for drift reduced pose estimation of multiple robots. Experiments are provided demonstrating the application with single and multiple robot mapping using simulated data, public accessible recorded data, two actual robots operating in a comparably large area as well as a deployment of these units at the Robocup rescue league.
When will a stuttering moment occur? The determining role of speech motor preparation
Venue: Neuropsychologia

The present study aimed to evaluate whether increased activity related to speech motor preparation preceding fluently produced words reflects a successful compensation strategy in stuttering. For this purpose, a contingent negative variation (CNV) was evoked during a picture naming task and measured by use of electro encephalography. A CNV is a slow, negative event related potential known to reflect motor preparation generated by the basal ganglia thalamo cortical (BGTC) loop. In a previous analysis, the CNV of 25 adults with developmental stuttering (AWS) was significantly increased, especially over the right hemisphere, compared to the CNV of 35 fluent speakers (FS) when both groups were speaking fluently (Vanhoutte et al. (2015) doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.05.013) To elucidate whether this increase is a compensation strategy enabling fluent speech in AWS, the present analysis evaluated the CNV of 7 AWS who stuttered during this picture naming task. The CNV preceding AWS stuttered words was statistically compared to the CNV preceding AWS fluent words and FS fluent words. Though no difference emerged between the CNV of the AWS stuttered words and the FS fluent words, a significant reduction was observed when comparing the CNV preceding AWS stuttered words to the CNV preceding AWS fluent words. The latter seems to confirm the compensation hypothesis: the increased CNV prior to AWS fluent words is a successful compensation strategy, especially when it occurs over the right hemisphere. The words are produced fluently because of an enlarged activity during speech motor preparation. The left CNV preceding AWS stuttered words correlated negatively with stuttering frequency and severity suggestive for a link between the left BGTC network and the stuttering pathology. Overall, speech motor preparatory activity generated by the BGTC loop seems to have a determining role in stuttering. An important divergence between left and right hemisphere is hypothesized.
Pervasive device and service discovery protocol in XBee sensor network
Venue: 2016 International Conference on Advanced Computer Science and Information Systems (ICACSIS)

Internet of Things is a novel paradigm that combined microcomputer and wireless communication technology. IoT device will be considered as a pervasive and ubiquitous device that able to interact with it user and environment autonomously with minimum human intervention. At present, wireless technology already has pervasive features in the link and the network layer. They able to do the dynamic addressing, finding a neighbor and do the routing task such as in Xbee technology. In the future, pervasive sensing will support adaptive context aware services that are not provided by the wireless sensor network protocol in the link and the network layer. Our research proposed pervasive device and service discovery protocol at the application level by creating a protocol in the smart sensor device and the smart sensor gateway. By implementing our protocol, the sensor network gateway is able to find each of the sensor network device and service descriptions and request the on demand service to the smart sensor device. The protocol is implemented in two Arduino Uno integrated with XBee transceiver as the smart sensor device and the raspberry pi as the smart sensor gateway. Result shows, the gateway was able to find both device and service description in the smart sensor network with 4.13 seconds average time. The average round trip time for request and response data from the gateway is 0.201 seconds.
Iconicity and Abduction
Venue: Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics

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GestureChords: Transparency in gesturally controlled digital musical instruments through iconicity and conceptual metaphor

This paper presents GestureChords, a mapping strategy for chord selection in freehand gestural instruments. The strategy maps chord variations to a series of hand postures using the concepts of iconicity and conceptual metaphor, influenced by their use in American Sign Language (ASL) to encode meaning in gestural signs. The mapping uses the conceptual metaphors MUSICAL NOTES ARE POINTS IN SPACE and INTERVALS BETWEEN NOTES ARE SPACES BETWEEN POINTS, which are mapped respectively to the number of extended fingers in a performer's hand and the abduction or adduction between them. The strategy is incorporated into a digital musical instrument and tested in a preliminary study for transparency by both performers and spectators, which gave promising results for the technique.
Extrusion foaming of protein based thermoplastic and polyethylene blends

Currently the extrusion foamability of Novatein(r) Thermoplastic Protein (NTP) is being investigated at the University of Waikato in collaboration with the Biopolymer Network Ltd (NZ) NTP has been developed from bloodmeal >86 wt% protein) a co product of the meat industry, by adding denaturants and plasticisers (tri ethylene glycol and water) allowing it to be extruded and injection moulded. NTP alone does not readily foam when sodium bicarbonate is used as a chemical blowing agent as its extensional viscosity is too high.The thermoplastic properties of NTP were modified by blending it with different weight fractions of linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE) and polyethylene grafted maleic anhydride (PE g MAH) compatibiliser. Extrusion foaming was conducted in two ways, firstly using the existing water content in the material as the blowing agent and secondly by adding sodium bicarbonate. When processed in a twin screw extruder (L/D 25 and 10 mm die) the material readily expanded due to the internal moi.
HUBUNGAN INTENSITAS MEMBACA DENGAN KETERAMPILAN MENULIS NARASI SISWA KELAS IV SD GUGUS II PENGASIH KULON PROGO TAHUN AJARAN 2015/2016

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk: (1) mengetahui tingkat intensitas membaca, (2) mengetahui tingkat keterampilan menulis narasi, (3) mengetahui hubungan antara intensitas membaca dengan keterampilan menulis narasi siswa kelas IV SD gugus II Pengasih Kulon Progo tahun ajaran 2015/2016. Pendekatan penelitian yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah pendekatan kuantitatif dengan jenis penelitian korelasi. Subjek dalam penelitian ini siswa kelas IV SD gugus II. Teknik pengambilan sampel menggunakan simple ramdom sampling dengan jumlah sampel 65 siswa. Teknik pengumpulan data pada penelitian ini menggunakan angket dan tes. Uji validitas menggunakan rumus product moment, sedangkan uji reliabilitas menggunakan rumus alpha. Untuk menguji hipotesis menggunakan analisis korelasi product moment. Hasil perhitungan menunjukkan tingkat intensitas membaca secara umum berada pada kategori sedang yaitu sebesar 55,38% dan keterampilan menulis narasi secara umum berada pada kategori sedang yaitu sebesar 60% Hasil pengujian hipotesis menunjukkan harga koefisien korelasi (r hitung)>r tabel (0,617>0,244) dengan taraf signifikansi sebesar 5% dan N=65. Harga koefisien korelasi tersebut menunjukkan adanya hubungan positif dan signifikan antara intensitas membaca dengan keterampilan menulis narasi siswa kelas IV SD gugus II Pengasih Kulon Progo tahun ajaran 2015/ 2016. Hal ini berarti semakin tinggi intensitas membaca maka semakin tinggi pula keterampilan menulis narasi siswa.  intensitas membaca, keterampilan menulis narasi
The relationship between personality types and leisure time activities amongst Casino employees' workplace expectations

Associations between a person's character strengths, happiness and well being can be explained with the overlap that they have with personality. Casino employees' working hours were and are increasing, which means that their leisure time is decreasing concomitantly, with only 20 hours per week being used in pursuit of leisure activities.  The primary purpose of this research was to investigate 1502 casino employees' personality types and the relationship it has on their leisure life and overall happiness.  The importance of leisure participation and time to take part in leisure activities, and the effect it has on casino employees' happiness in the workplace, warrants further investigation. If human resources managers and general management want happier casino employees in the workplace, they should focus on their personality types and make more leisure activities available to them; which will result in a happier workforce. Research design, approach and method: The target population consisted of 3032 casino employees, who received the questionnaires and were given the opportunity to complete the questionnaires anonymously. An availability sampling technique was used, based on the number of casino employees who were willing and available to complete the questionnaires. Main findings and practical/managerial implications: In terms of the structural equation modelling, it was found that the positive personalities such as extraversion and openness to experience correlated well with leisure life and happiness. In this study, the standardised regression weights showed that if an individual has a negative personality, he or she will not necessarily be unhappy. A positive relationship was found between positive personality traits such as cooperativeness and agreeableness and leisure life and happiness. Considering mediation effects, leisure preference was the greatest partial mediator between happiness and personalities.  Human resource managers of casino establishments can use these results to determine the type of personality of casino employees that will experience a good leisure life and happiness in relation to the workplace, contributing to positive psychology and human resource literature.  Casino employees; employee benefits; feelings toward the company; happiness; human resource management
The Effect of a Pedometer based Program Improvement of Physical Activity in Tabriz University Employees
Venue: International journal of preventive medicine

Regular physical activity (PA) has been shown to reduce risk of morbidity and overall mortality. A study has displayed that achieving 10,000 steps/day is associated with important health outcomes and have been used to promote PA. Pedometers are a popular tool for PA interventions in different setting. This study investigated the effects on pedometer based and self reported PA among Tabriz University employees.  This experimental study assessed the effects of 16 weeks pedometer based workplace intervention. Participants (n 154) were employees of two worksites. Pedometer based and self reported PA from one intervention worksite was compared with the data of a comparison workplace. International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) for self reported measure of PA, and demographic (age, marital status, educational level, employment status, and stage of change) variables were obtained. To measure PA objectively pedometer was used.  Participants reported to increase the step counts from baseline (end of summer) to posttest (winter) The intervention effect revealed significant increase in the intervention group (8279 2759 steps/day than in the comparison work place (4118 1136) Self reported based on IPAQ concluded women in intervention worksite had a significant increase in the leisure time domain, but similar finding was not found in the comparison worksite.  Pedometer used might rather benefit those individuals who want feedback on their current PA, also walking should be considered to increase PA in employee women.
The nexus between sectoral FDI and institutional quality: empirical evidence from Pakistan

This study investigates short and long run bidirectional causality between institutional quality and sectoral level FDI in Pakistan by using the ARDL technique. The results confirm that long run bidirectional causality exists between institutional quality and aggregate FDI. The in depth sectoral level FDI analysis substantiates the presence of long run bidirectional causality between institutional quality and FDI in services and manufacturing sectors, while no long run causality is observed between institutional quality and FDI inflows in primary sector. Furthermore, the results in the study reveal short run bidirectional causality only between institutional quality and manufacturing FDI and report insignificant short run causal link between institutional quality and FDI in primary and services sectors. The overall findings of the study suggest that in the long run institutional quality attract FDI and FDI inflows, particularly to manufacturing and services sectors, significantly enhance the quality of institutions in Pakistan.
Which sectoral FDI flows crowd in domestic entrepreneurship

This study examines the impact of several sector and industry level FDI inflows mining, manufacturing, total services, and financial services on domestic entrepreneurship, which is measured as the density of newly registered firms. We use a unique dataset of sectoral FDI coupled with data from the World Bank Doing Business Indicators for a panel of up to 96 countries and the period 2004 2012. Our model controls for fixed capital formation, quality of institutions, as well as several cost of doing business indicators: the cost of starting a business, tax rates, and export costs. We use a dynamic panel estimator that allows us to exploit the time varying characteristics of the data and to control for omitted variable biases and endogeneity issues in the data. We find that although services and mining FDI are related to crowding in of domestic entrepreneurship, manufacturing FDI is associated with a crowding out effect.
Linac Coherent Light Source: The first five years

A new scientific frontier opened in 2009 with the start of operations of the world's first x ray freeelectron laser (FEL) the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. LCLS provides femtosecond pulses of x rays (270 eV to 11.2 keV) with very high peak brightness to access new domains of ultrafast x ray science. This article presents the fundamental FEL physics and outlines the LCLS source characteristics along with the experimental challenges, strategies, and instrumentation that accompany this novel type of x ray source. The main part of the article reviews the scientific achievements since the inception of LCLS in the five primary areas it serves: atomic, molecular, and optical physics; condensed matter physics; matter in extreme conditions; chemistry and soft matter, and biology.
Matter under extreme conditions experiments at the Linac Coherent Light Source

The matter in extreme conditions end station at the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) is a new tool enabling accurate pump probe measurements for studying the physical properties of matter in the high energy density (HED) physics regime. This instrument combines the world's brightest x ray source, the LCLS x ray beam, with high power lasers consisting of two nanosecond Nd:glass laser beams and one short pulse Ti:sapphire laser. These lasers produce short lived states of matter with high pressures, high temperatures or high densities with properties that are important for applications in nuclear fusion research, laboratory astrophysics and the development of intense radiation sources. In the first experiments, we have performed highly accurate x ray diffraction and x ray Thomson scattering measurements on shock compressed matter resolving the transition from compressed solid matter to a co existence regime and into the warm dense matter state. These complex charged particle systems are dominated by strong correlations and quantum effects. They exist in planetary interiors and laboratory experiments, e.g. during high power laser interactions with solids or the compression phase of inertial confinement fusion implosions. Applying record peak brightness x rays resolves the ionic interactions at atomic (Angstrom) scale lengths and measure the static structure factor, which is a key quantity for determining equation of state data and important transport coefficients. Simultaneously, spectrally resolved measurements of plasmon features provide dynamic structure factor information that yield temperature and density with unprecedented precision at micron scale resolution in dynamic compression experiments. These studies have demonstrated our ability to measure fundamental thermodynamic properties that determine the state of matter in the HED physics regime.