Public Articles
Supplemental Material for WASP: allele-specific methods for unbiased discovery of molecular quantitative trait loci
and 1 collaborator
To detect differences in molecular phenotypes from sequencing data it is essential to remove read mapping biases, which are a major source of false positives. The WASP read mapping pipeline accomplishes this task by ensuring that the mapping of each individual read is unbiased.
The formation of filamentary bundles in turbulent molecular clouds
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The classical picture of a star-forming filament is a near-equilibrium structure, with collapse dependent on its gravitational criticality. Recent observations have complicated this picture, revealing filaments as a mess of apparently interacting subfilaments, with transsonic internal velocity dispersions and mildly supersonic intra-subfilament dispersions. How structures like this form is unresolved. Here we study the velocity structure of filamentary regions in a simulation of a turbulent molecular cloud. We present two main findings: first, the observed complex velocity features in filaments arise naturally in self gravitating hydrodynamic simulations of turbulent clouds without the need for magnetic or other effects. Second, a region that is filamentary only in projection and is in fact made of spatially distinct features can displays these same velocity characteristics. The fact that these disjoint structures can masquerade as coherent filaments in both projection and velocity diagnostics highlights the need to continue developing sophisticated filamentary analysis techniques for star formation observations.
Human Typology Sustainability Behaviour
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Abstract
This article proposes a typology of four types of individuals who are impeded to engage in sustainable lifestyles.
Social Recommender Systems
Recommender systems play an increasingly important role in the success of social media websites. Higher portions of social websites’ traffic are triggered by recommendations and those sites rely on the quality of the recommendations to attract new users and retain existing ones. In this chapter, we will introduce the notion of social recommender systems as recommender systems that target the social media domain. After a short introduction, we will discuss in detail two of the most prominent types of social recommender systems — recommendation of social media content and recommendation of people. We will describe the main approaches and state-of-the-art techniques for each of the recommendation types. We will also review related work from the recent years that studied such recommender systems, in order to demonstrate the different use cases and methods applied to take advantage of the unique data. We will conclude by summarizing the key aspects, emerging domains, and open challenges for social recommender systems.
Authorea newsletter. Oct 2014
Hi friend,
Now that the academic year is back in full swing, we'd like to share with you some of our latest news. First things first: We are happy to announce that we have raised a round of investment from FF Ventures and the New York Angels! We are solidifying and growing our team which means that Authorea will get better faster. We will keep working toward our mission to accelerate science, to improve dissemination and quality of research results and to promote Open Science.
In terms of technical developments, we have implemented a bunch of new features and bug fixes. We wanted to highlight our sleek brand new commenting interface - try it now! Go ahead, highlight some text and click on the comment popup. It's fast and it will let you discuss your manuscripts with coauthors, reviewers, and the public.
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One more feature which will make some of you happy is the Microsoft Word export. Yeah that's right. Whether you are writing a math-heavy LaTeX manuscript or a student review paper, you can now export your document to Word.
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Representatietheorie
Since v ≠ 0, clearly there exists a basis element b0 such that b0*(v)≠0. Since b0* is in the dual vector space, we are done.
Motivation to join the SENSE programme
I am passionate about sustainability. I aim to live sufficiently and enjoy the personal qualities that come along with a lifestyle of reduced consumption. Despite the increasing relevancy and debates around green growth and socially fair conditions in society, the majority of the people are hampered or struggle with adopting more sustainable practices in their day to day life. Thereby the key question for me is: How can we better understand the complex dynamics that play out on individual behaviour in the context of a sustainable transition path?
Throughout the first year of my studies, courses such as on Energy and Material Efficiency or Environmental and Material Policy contributed to a better understanding of the technical and institutional side of sustainable development. Aside the classroom, the practical involvement in a number of voluntary initiatives allowed me to explore my interest in grassroots initiatives and the promotion of sustainable lifestyles. They showed me that there is a large transformative potential within people and small communities. Those have achieved a more balanced state within a certain domain, and allow us to learn from their living labs. They are admirable front-runners in that they are willing to fundamentally change their behaviour despite the currently still prevailing systemic incompatibilities, lock-ins and discomforts.
Throughout the last weeks I have been attending conferences on sustainability transitions, degrowth and energy efficiency. I came to the conclusion that in all these research fields, a more comprehensive understanding of particularly sufficiency behaviour on an individual level is crucial, and that a better conceptualisation could be a useful addition to the existing theoretical frameworks. Therefore I want to devote my Master thesis to this research area, prospectively in the scope of a wider research project.
I am excited about the great challenges lying ahead of us that ask for my and everyone else’s contribution, to bridge practical experiences with scientific research. And I am very enthusiastic to work together with other passionate researchers in programmes such as offered by SENSE, on further exploring the dynamical trias of individuals, behaviour and sustainability.
Spatial Implications of Tax and Expenditure Limitations in Colorado
The economic potential of any system is not only driven by the presence of natural and/or developed capital, but also the institutions that govern the exploitation of these valuable assets. In this sense, the term economic potential is misleadingly incomplete. The mechanism that drives resource allocation is a function of both the distribution of purely economic value and the feasible range of activities governed by political institutions. The goal in institutional design for economic growth, therefore, ought to be the facilitation of those activities that increase the marginal product of value extraction efforts. If the objective is the maximization of economic growth, this broad goal is unlikely to draw many detractors. The devil, however, is in the details.
Among the multitude of policy innovations that have been advanced in service of increasing economic growth, institutional reforms that act on the property tax base have materially altered local government finance for more than a century. As early as the 1880s, these reforms were dominated by efforts to target specific populations via circuit breakers and homestead exemptions. \cite{Bowman2008} However, starting in large part with the Tax Revolt of the 1970s, more interest has taken root in implementing reforms that target the base in a general way: tax and expenditure limitations. The impact of these and other measures has been noticeable. While property tax revenue remains fairly buoyant with respect to the economy, it has declined in importance, dropping as a percentage of general revenue from 34% to 27% over the 1977-2002 period. \cite{Edwards2006}
This paper is one component of a larger study seeking to understand the unintended consequences of tax and expenditure limitations. The broad study is a three part empirical examination of the differential impact of tax and expenditure limitations in Colorado (henceforth COTELs) on counties of with different economic foundations. Each section is characterized by exploration of three thematic hypotheses:
The unifying principle across each of these inquiries is the idea that COTELs have constraint levels that vary both cross-sectionally and temporally. This paper explots this variation to explore the extent to which fiscal clustering (measured as fiscal capacity and revenue generation in this context) is driven by this "COTEL intensity" concept.
416492 ORCID iDs and Counting: Uptake by the Astronomical Community
and 7 collaborators
ORCID – an acronym short for Open Researcher and Contributor ID – is an international, interdisciplinary and community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of persistent, unique identifiers for researchers and scholars. ORCID IDs are extremely important in the disambiguation of non-unique author names. They can also be embedded in key workflows, such as research profile maintenance, manuscript submissions and grant applications. Using several approaches to reach out to our users, we will report on ORCID ID uptake by the astronomical community.
Measurements of Resonance Cones and Cone angle in a Steady State Magnetic Field
and 2 collaborators
Resonance Cones were observed in a plasma affected by a steady state magnetic field and their angular distribution was measured over a set of electric radio frequencies from the time varying oscillation of a short antenna. The angles were compared to the theoretical values under the cold electron approximation and found to match within a few degrees. Resonance cones at smaller angles were also observed, as predicted by theory for warm electron temperatures where $\frac{T_{i}}{T_{e}}\ll1$[3].
Evaluating Southern Ocean cloud biases in ACCESS1.3 using hybrid cloud regimes
Cloud biases in representing current climate, and effects for predicting cloud feedback in warming climate.
Use of cloud regimes to aid model evaluation (identifying compensating biases)
Use of ISCCP-style cloud regimes to for observational studies and model evaluation.
Issues relating to identifying ISCCP-style cloud regimes from models:
Identifying inconsistent cloud regimes in each model.
Applying modelled clouds to observed cloud regimes.
In this study we present a hybrid approach, using both observed and modelled cloud to identify cloud regimes that are common to the model and observations, as well as cloud regimes found only in the models.
We evaluate the ACCESS1.3 GCM; a basic comparison of this model against observations using the ISCCP-simulator is given in Figure [fig:hist_sim-obs]: we note that optically thick low and mid-topped cloud are strongly under-represented, while optically thin cloud is over-represented.
NOTE: significant under-estimate in cloud about! May be the same problem noticed by John Haynes. Shit.
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Big Brother is Watching You... To Predict Crashes
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Motivation to join the 6^th Sustainable Summer School
I am passionate about sustainability. I aim to live sustainably and enjoy the personal qualities that come along with a sustainable way of life. But also outside of my sustainability club, in the lives of the common people, I notice an increasing relevancy for green growth and socially fair conditions. However, many people are hampered or struggle with adopting more sustainable practices in their day to day life. What are the reasons? And what can I do as a current Master Student of Sustainable Development to help these people successfully overcoming their individual challenges?
Throughout the first year of my studies, courses such as on Energy and Material Efficiency or Environmental and Material Policy contributed to a better understanding of the technical and institutional side of sustainable development. Aside the classroom, the practical involvement in a number of voluntary initiatives allowed me to explore my interest in urban transitions, grassroots initiatives and the promotion of sustainable lifestyles. But they also help me to reflect on who I am: an advanterous young man who sees himself in an experimental playground for the bettering of the life conditions of the people around him.
I have devoted this year’s semester vacations to cycle through France, Germany and Czech Republic to visit sustainability communities. I am fascinated by their straightforward bottom-up approach and want to help sharing the success factors of their developments1.
These encounters showed me the large transformative potential within people and small communities. They have achieved a more balanced state within a certain domain, and allow us to learn from their living labs. They are admirable front-runners in that they are willing to fundamentally change their behaviour despite the currently still prevailing difficulties and discomforts.
I am excited about the great challenge lying ahead of mankind that asks for my and everyone else’s contribution, to bridge practical experiences with scientific research. And I am very enthusiastic to work together with other passionate people in projects such as offered by the 6th Sustainability Summer School, on exploring the dynamical trias of individuals, behaviour and sustainability.
I am sharing my experiences in form of storylines. An example is the community supported agriculture (CSA) initiative in the Southwest of Paris: https://medium.com/susvoice-showcasing-sustainability/community-supported-agriculture-in-the-region-of-gif-sur-yvette-219ea65d76c9↩
Extended Authorea LaTeX Cheat Sheet
Phase | Time | M1 | M2 | ΔM | P |
1 ZAMS | 0 | 16 | 15 | – | 5.0 |
2 Case B | 9.89 | 15.92 | 14.94 | 0.14 | 5.1 |
3 ECCB | 11.30 | 3.71 | 20.86 | 6.44 | 42.7 |
4 ECHB | 18.10 | – | 16.76 | – | – |
5 ICB | 18.56 | – | 12.85 | – | – |
6 ECCB | 18.56 | – | 12.83 | – | – |
CLAS 40 Assignment #2
1. This is not a good thesis because it is an obvious statement
2. Same with this one.
3. This is a good example of a thesis statement because while it is obvious that Gaia gave advice to Zeus, it is not certain that without her advice Zeus would not have succeeded. Because of this, it sets up a specific provable point that the author can persue.
Through the acceptance of the apple, the “author” of the Garden of Eden myth portrays women as the ultimate source of evil. This thesis is good because it contradicts the normal thinking that the snake is the representation of evil and is something one could look to prove in the text.
Classics 40 Assignment #1
“The mother archetype was repsented on Mt. Olympus by Demeter, whose most important roles were as mother (of Persephone) and as provider of food (as Goddess of Grain) and spiritual sustenance (the Eleusian Mysteries). Although other goddess were also mothers (Hera and Aphrodite), her daughter was Demeter’s most dignificant relationship” (Demeter the Archetype, 1).
“You’ve suffered pain and humiliation. / Your mind wanders into distraction, / like a bad doctor taken ill / and unable to find the cure” (Prometheus Bound, pg 2).
“Every woman who falls in love with someone who is also in love with her at that moment is a personification of the Aphrodite archetype” (Aphrodite the Archetype, 1).
“A new feature, interpolated by Plato, is the vision of the structure of the unicerse, in which the ’pattern set up in the havens ... is revealed to the souls before they choose a new life” (Plato, Republic 349).
“Ouranos, father of all, eternal cosmic element, / primeval, beginning of all and end of all, / lord of the universe, moving about the earth like a sphere /home of the blessed gods” (Orphic Hymns, 1-4).
Elliptical black hole singularity
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One more edit! Here I can write whatever I like in simple text or in Latex as well. I can use the toolbar above too. Let me paste some text: Astronomers produce and peruse vast amounts of scientific data. Let’s add a citation: \cite{Goodman_2009}. And a medical reference too: \cite{24938513}
Making these data publicly available is important to enable both reproducible research and long term data curation and preservation. Because of their sheer size, however, astronomical data are often left out entirely from scientific publications and are thus hard to find and obtain. In recent years, more and more astronomers are choosing to store and make available their data on institutional repositories, personal websites and data digital libraries. In this article, we describe the use of personal data repositories as a means to enable the publication of data by individual astronomy researchers. And some Latex:
By associativity, if ζ is combinatorially closed then δ = Ψ. Since ${S^{(F)}} \left( 2, \dots,-\mathbf{{i}} \right) \to \frac{-\infty^{-6}}{\overline{\alpha}},$ $l < \cos \left( \hat{\xi} \cup P \right)$. Thus every functor is Green and hyper-unconditionally stable. Obviously, every injective homeomorphism is embedded and Clifford. Because 𝒜 > S, $\tilde{i}$ is not dominated by b. Thus Tt > |A|.
Obviously, WΞ is composite. Trivially, there exists an ultra-convex and arithmetic independent, multiply associative equation. So $\infty^{1} > \overline{0}$. It is easy to see that if v(W) is not isomorphic to 𝔩 then there exists a reversible and integral convex, bounded, hyper-Lobachevsky point. One can easily see that $\hat{\mathscr{{Q}}} \le 0$. Now if $\bar{\mathbf{{w}}} > h' ( \alpha )$ then zσ, T = ν. Clearly, if ∥Q∥∼∅ then every dependent graph is pseudo-compactly parabolic, complex, quasi-measurable and parabolic. This completes the proof.
Convex black holes
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Astronomers produce and peruse vast amounts of scientific data. Making these data publicly available is important to enable both reproducible research and long term data curation and preservation. Because of their sheer size, however, astronomical data are often left out entirely from scientific publications and are thus hard to find and obtain. In recent years, more and more astronomers are choosing to store and make available their data on institutional repositories, personal websites and data digital libraries. In this article, we describe the use of personal data repositories as a means to enable the publication of data by individual astronomy researchers.
Here I can type some random text and use the toolbar above.
Analysis of First,Second, and Fourth Sound Modes in a Helium 4 Superfluid
First,second,and fourth sound were successfully found and plotted. Graphs show a lack of steepness in decay as sound modes approach Tλ, this could be due to refilling liquid helium later than recommended leaving less medium for the sound modes to propogate through. Scattering factor,n, was found to be n=1.239 ± .007 and porosity,P, was found to be 0.46 ± 0.02 close to the theoretical value of ≈40% porosity.
Phys 131 Study Guide
For a boost in the x direction,
\begin{equation} \begin{split} t' = \gamma ( t - v x) \\ x' = \gamma (x - vt) \\ y' = y \\ z' = z \\ \end{split} \end{equation}
\begin{equation} \begin{split} \mathbf{u} = (\gamma, \gamma v) \\ \mathbf{u} \cdot \mathbf{u} = -1 \\ \mathbf{p_{\gamma}} \cdot \mathbf{p_{\gamma}} = 0 \\ E_{obs} = - p \cdot \mathbf{u} \\ \mathbf{p}^2 = m^2 \\ E^2 = p^2 + m ^2 \\ \end{split} \end{equation}
\begin{equation} \begin{split} l' = \frac{l}{\gamma} \\ \Delta x' = \gamma (\Delta x - v \Delta t) \\ \Delta t' = \gamma (\Delta t - x \Delta x) \\ u' = \frac{u - v}{1- uv} \end{split} \end{equation}
where
\begin{equation} \gamma = \frac{1}{\sqrt{1-v^2}} \end{equation}
elevators in a feely falling elevator on earth experience the same physics as someone who is not in the elevator. From this you can get the bending of light
weight in elevator =m(g + a) so if a = −g then w = 0 so gravity is not a real force and can be seen as a curvature in spacetime
A Novel Machine Learning Based Approach for Retrieving Information from Receipt Images
Measurements of Resonant Frequencies,Phase Velocities,Q factors, and Damping Coefficients,Alpha, of Dispersive Water Waves and Observations of Solitons.
Resonant frequencies measured at (0.69,1.93,2.92,3.69,4.31,4.82) Hz. Q factors varied from the sweeps and from measurements of alpha largely but this can be due to the effect of high amplitudes on the higher frequencies and the natural error in trying to measure the time decaying exponential of a wave that has been turned off from the amplifier.
Towards circular organic waste management: Exploring the potentials for coffee residue use in the province of Utrecht.
and 3 collaborators
This paper analysis the potentials for a transition towards circular waste management in the province of Utrecht, the Netherlands, and proposes a transition agenda to facilitate the transition. We specifically focus on the potentials for small & medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) for several reasons. Firstly, little research has been done on the contribution potential of SMEs to a circular economy. Secondly, a recent survey amongst 300 Western European SMEs found that 50% were not familiar with the concept of a circular economy and that a quarter does not understand the concept \cite{Fusion_2014}. Thirdly, given the large number of SMEs in the province of Utrecht (X in year Y), this paper hopes to make a contribution towards new business models and concepts within this important group of actors.
Our paper is structured as follows. In Section [utrecht-province] we briefly highlight the current state of waste management practices and economic developments in the province of Utrecht, followed by a short theoretical review on the circular economy in Section [circular-economy]. In Section [methods] we introduce our methodological approach, which is used in Section [transition-agenda] to develop a transition agenda that can be used by regional policy-makers, companies and other interested actor groups to faciliate the transition to more circular waste management in the province of Utrecht.
What are the opportunities for the province of Utrecht to accelerate the transition to a circular economy?
How can the opportunities be facilitated, barriers removed and the transition be shaped?
What is the desired role for the provincial government in this?