cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Hydrokinetic turbine power converter and controller system design and implementation
Creators: name: Liu, Mofei
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: Due to environmental considerations and decline of fossil fuels, searching for the viable energy alternatives is a pressing need. In order to meet the energy demand globally, research into the renewable energy technologies must be pursued. Wind energy has emerged as the leader of new energy source, while other types of energy sources continue to be investigated. Hydrokinetic power as a potential opportunity to harvest energy is being explored recently. Because the hydrokinetic turbines are still in an early stage of development, study on the hydrokinetic system is an active topic of academic research. Although water speed is instable and unpredictable, the hydrokinetic system can still operate at the peak power point. For this reason, the power converter and rotor speed controller are the most important components in this study. In the first two chapters some background studies and some system components are introduced. In this project, the maximum power point tracking is realized by the hill-climb searching method and the lookup table method, plus the analysis and comparison of these two methods are presented. In terms of rotor speed controller design, the Field Oriented Control strategy is applied and discussed. The presented hydrokinetic system is a stand-alone system which throws excessive energy to a load resistor. In order to demonstrate the feasibility of the system, the hydrokinetic system model is simulated in the PSIM software. A number of cases are simulated with the PSIM model to validate the feasibility of this hydrokinetic system. Finally, the project objectives are achieved and some of the hardware is tested. Future work is still required, such as the bench testing with a real PMSG, a variable frequency drive, and the optimization of the maximum power point tracking method and rotor speed controller with the hardware test results.
Review: Robert Stilling, Beginning at the End: Decadence, Modernism, and Postcolonial Poetry (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018)
Creators: name: Herold, Katharina
Publisher: name: Volupté
Year: 2018

description: Is Decadence the end or the beginning of a series of existential concerns about personal identity, nationhood, and literary tradition? Robert Stilling’s Beginning at the End: Decadence, Modernism, and Postcolonial Poetry addresses this important and long-overdue question. He establishes Western Decadence as a crucial model and foundation to postcolonial poetics. Decadence, Stilling argues, served eminent poets and artists such as Chinua Achebe, Derek Walcott, Agha Shahid Ali, Derek Mahon, Yinka Shonibare, Wole Soyinka, and Bernardine Evaristo as a springboard to shape their countries’ own poetics either by adapting or rejecting the Decadent writings of prominent nineteenth-century figures such as J.-K. Huysmans, Walter Pater, Henry James, and Oscar Wilde. Stilling’s study considers a wide range of postcolonial (European (Irish), South Asian, African, and Caribbean) narratives. He champions the idea of Decadence as an innovative force, one of cultural renovation. Put more figuratively, he considers Decadence as metaphor describing the ‘death in birth’ (p. 36) of the emergence of postcolonial aesthetics. For many writers ‘the postcolonial nation begins in a state of artistic decadence, a decadence not simply imported from the West but composed of those backward-looking elements of indigenous traditions exaggerated by the colonizers’ (p. 63).
description: Volupté, Vol 1 No 2 (2018): Decadence, Magic(k), and the Occult
Numerical simulation of flow over flapping wings in tandem: wingspan effects
Creators: name: Jurado, Rafael
name: Arranz, Gonzalo
name: Flores, Oscar
name: García-Villalba, Manuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report direct numerical simulations of a pair of wings in horizontal tandem configuration, to analyze the effect of their aspect ratio on the flow and the aerodynamic performance of the system. The wings are immersed in a uniform free-stream at Reynolds number Re = 1000, and they undergo heaving and pitching oscillation with Strouhal number St = 0.7. The aspect ratios of forewing and hindwing vary between 2 and 4. The aerodynamic performance of the system is dictated by the interaction between the trailing edge vortex (TEV) shed by the forewing and the induced leading edge vortex formed on the hindwing. The aerodynamic performance of the forewing is similar to that of an isolated wing irrespective of the aspect ratio of the hindwing, with a small modulating effect produced by the forewing-hindwing interactions. On the other hand, the aerodynamic performance of the hindwing is clearly affected by the interaction with the forewing's TEV. Tandem configurations with a larger aspect ratio on the forewing than on the hindwing result in a quasi-two-dimensional flow structure on the latter. This yields an 8% increase in the time-averaged thrust coefficient of the hindwing, with no change in its propulsive efficiency.
description: The following article has been accepted by Physics of Fluids. After it is published, it will be found at: https://publishing.aip.org/resources/librarians/products/journals/
Clearing the Gas from Globular Clusters & Dwarf Spheroidals with Classical Novae
Creators: name: Moore, Kevin
name: Bildsten, Lars
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Observations of the intra-cluster medium (ICM) in galactic globular clusters (GCs) show a systematic deficiency in ICM mass as compared to that expected from accumulation of stellar winds in the time available between galactic plane crossings. In this paper, we reexamine the original hypothesis of Scott and Durisen that hydrogen-rich explosions on accreting white dwarfs, classical novae (CNe), will sweep out the ICM from the cluster more frequently than galactic plane crossings. From the CNe rate and stellar mass-loss rate, this clearing mechanism predicts that ~ 0.03 M_sun should be present in <= 10^5 M_sun GCs. We model the expanding remnant made from the 10^-4 M_sun nova ejecta and show that it escapes long before it has cooled. We discuss the few positive ICM measurements and use a Monte-Carlo simulation of the accumulation and CNe recurrence times to reveal the possible variance in the ICM masses for the higher mass (> 5x10^5 M_sun) GCs. We find that nova shells are effective at clearing the ICM in low-mass GCs (<= 10^5 M_sun), whereas higher-mass clusters may experience a quiescent time between novae long enough to prevent the next nova shell from escaping. The nova clearing mechanism will also operate in ultra-faint Milky Way satellites, where many upper limits on gas masses are available.
description: 9 pages, 2 figures Accepted to ApJ 12/7/2010
Magnetic Field Evolution in Neutron Star Crusts: Beyond the Hall Effect
Creators: name: Gourgouliatos, Konstantinos N.
name: De Grandis, Davide
name: Igoshev, Andrei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Neutron stars host the strongest magnetic fields that we know of in the Universe. Their magnetic fields are the main means of generating their radiation, either magnetospheric or through the crust. Moreover, the evolution of the magnetic field has been intimately related to explosive events of magnetars, which host strong magnetic fields, and their persistent thermal emission. The evolution of the magnetic field in the crusts of neutron stars has been described within the framework of the Hall effect and Ohmic dissipation. Yet, this description is limited by the fact that the Maxwell stresses exerted on the crusts of strongly magnetised neutron stars may lead to failure and temperature variations. In the former case, a failed crust does not completely fulfil the necessary conditions for the Hall effect. In the latter, the variations of temperature are strongly related to the magnetic field evolution. Finally, sharp gradients of the star's temperature may activate battery terms and alter the magnetic field structure, especially in weakly magnetised neutron stars. In this review, we discuss the recent progress made on these effects. We argue that these phenomena are likely to provide novel insight into our understanding of neutron stars and their observable properties.
description: 18 Pages, 6 Figures, Symmetry MDPI
Arthur Machen, Decadent and Occult Works, ed. by Dennis Denisoff (Cambridge: MHRA, 2018)
Creators: name: Freeman, Nick
Publisher: name: Volupté
Year: 2018

description: Arthur Machen (‘rhymes with blacken,’ as he used to say) is one of the most intriguing writers and personalities of the fin de siècle. A major reason for this is that he seems to at once embody and yet stand apart from so many of its defining characteristics. A cigarette may have been Oscar Wilde’s ‘perfect pleasure’ but Machen preferred the less exquisite, more richly satisfying briar, hymning the joys of languorous nicotine consumption in The Anatomy of Tobacco (1886). While Decadents from Charles Baudelaire onwards have been devout ailurophiles, Machen stalked the backstreets of Bloomsbury in the company of Juggernaut, a bulldog fierce enough to frighten even George Egerton. He loved France but preferred the vineyards of Touraine to the fleshpots and cabarets of gay Paris. He was a Celt, but his Welshness gave him a perspective on the world quite different from that of Irish nationalists such as W. B. Yeats.
description: Volupté, Vol 1 No 2 (2018): Decadence, Magic(k), and the Occult
Review: Catherine Maxwell, Scents and Sensibility: Perfume in Victorian Literary Culture (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017)
Creators: name: Leonard, Sandra M
Publisher: name: Volupté
Year: 2018

description: As the author of two other monographs involving the Victorian sensory imagination, The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne: Bearing Blindness (Manchester University Press, 2001) and Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature (Manchester University Press, 2008), Catherine Maxwell brings her vast historical knowledge of literary figures of the Victorian period to her latest study, Scents and Sensibility: Perfume in Victorian Literary Culture.

Scents and Sensibility is a work of literary history peppered with analysis of scent-related texts. Maxwell reads many of these texts as demonstrating a given author’s idiosyncratic tastes but also as revealing deeper connections to cultural mores and metaphors. These connections, in turn, blossom into fuller readings of the texts themselves as we better understand them in their cultural contexts. The main organizing principle of this study, therefore, is a focus on the authors, whom Maxwell identifies as olfactifs, those particularly sensitive to odours as an indicator of their Decadent aesthetic credentials.
description: Volupté, Vol 1 No 2 (2018): Decadence, Magic(k), and the Occult
Preparation of helical liquid crystal electrolyte with L-isoleucine derivatives and molecular asymmetric imprinting polymerization in liquid crystal to produce electro-optically coloration active polymers having chiral charge carrier chiralions
Creators: name: Komaba, Kyoka
name: Jo, Tomoaki
name: Goto, Hiromasa
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Molecular asymmetric imprinting polymerization in the cholesteric liquid crystal was carried out. An L-isoleucine derivative with fluorine was synthesized for a chiral inducer to induce the cholesteric liquid crystal from the nematic liquid crystal. A substance with multiple asymmetric centers can be obtained conveniently to use amino acid as chiral substance. The L-isoleucine derivative induced helical structure for 4-cyano-4'-hexylbiphenyl (6CB). Electrochemical preparation of π-conjugated polymers was carried out in the cholesteric liquid crystal. Fingerprint texture derived from the cholesteric liquid crystal was transcribed to the polymers. UV-vis and circular dichroism (CD) spectra of oxidized (doped) for and reduced (dedoped) form of the polymer were measured. Electrochemical polymerization in the helical liquid crystal produced the molecular aggregation imprinted chiral polymers, which have liquid crystal-like aggregation form, chirality with no stereogenic center via formation of polymer atropisomer, and electrochemical driven change in optical activity, as a form of electro-optically coloration active polymers. Finally, the polarons and bipolarons are in the form of chiral structure. These charge carriers in the polymers can be determined as chiral charge carrier “chiralions”.
Accelerating Reinforcement Learning by Composing Solutions of Automatically Identified Subtasks
Creators: name: Drummond, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper discusses a system that accelerates reinforcement learning by using transfer from related tasks. Without such transfer, even if two tasks are very similar at some abstract level, an extensive re-learning effort is required. The system achieves much of its power by transferring parts of previously learned solutions rather than a single complete solution. The system exploits strong features in the multi-dimensional function produced by reinforcement learning in solving a particular task. These features are stable and easy to recognize early in the learning process. They generate a partitioning of the state space and thus the function. The partition is represented as a graph. This is used to index and compose functions stored in a case base to form a close approximation to the solution of the new task. Experiments demonstrate that function composition often produces more than an order of magnitude increase in learning rate compared to a basic reinforcement learning algorithm.
Penny Wong’s diplomacy efforts in the Pacific begin to bear fruit with PNG security pact
Creators: name: O'Keefe, Michael
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science
classificationCode: 440801
subject: Australian government and politics

description: Papua New Guinea (PNG) has announced it wants to establish a security agreement with Australia, welcome news for analysts wary of rising Chinese influence.
Infrared Luminosities and Aromatic Features in the 24um Flux Limited Sample of 5MUSES
Creators: name: Wu, Yanling
name: Helou, George
name: Armus, Lee
name: Cormier, Diane
name: Shi, Yong
name: Dale, Daniel
name: Dasyra, Kalliopi
name: Smith, J. D.
name: Papovich, Casey
name: Draine, Bruce
name: Rahman, Nurur
name: Stierwalt, Sabrina
name: Fadda, Dario
name: Lagache, G.
name: Wright, Edward L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a 24\,$μ$m selected sample of 330 galaxies observed with the Infrared Spectrograph for the 5\,mJy Unbiased Spitzer Extragalactic Survey. We estimate accurate total infrared luminosities by combining mid-IR spectroscopy and mid-to-far infrared photometry, and by utilizing new empirical spectral templates from {\em Spitzer} data. The infrared luminosities of this sample range mostly from 10$^9$L$_\odot$ to $10^{13.5}$L$_\odot$, with 83% in the range 10$^{10}$L$_\odot$$
description: accepted for publication in ApJ
Studying the Lunar-Solar Wind Interaction with the SARA Experiment aboard the Indian Lunar Mission Chandrayaan-1
Creators: name: Bhardwaj, Anil
name: Barabash, Stas
name: Dhanya, M. B.
name: Wieser, Martin
name: Yoshifumi, Futaana
name: Holmstrom, Mats
name: Sridharan, R.
name: Wurz, Peter
name: Schaufelberger, Audrey
name: Kazushi, Asamura
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The first Indian lunar mission Chandrayaan-1 was launched on 22 October 2008. The Sub-keV Atom Reflecting Analyzer (SARA) instrument onboard Chandrayaan-1 consists of an energetic neutral atom (ENA) imaging mass analyzer called CENA (Chandrayaan-1 Energetic Neutrals Analyzer), and an ion-mass analyzer called SWIM (Solar wind Monitor). CENA performed the first ever experiment to study the solar wind-planetary surface interaction via detection of sputtered neutral atoms and neutralized backscattered solar wind protons in the energy range ~0.01-3.0 keV. SWIM measures solar wind ions, magnetosheath and magnetotail ions, as well as ions scattered from lunar surface in the ~0.01-15 keV energy range. The neutral atom sensor uses conversion of the incoming neutrals to positive ions, which are then analyzed via surface interaction technique. The ion mass analyzer is based on similar principle. This paper presents the SARA instrument and the first results obtained by the SWIM and CENA sensors. SARA observations suggest that about 20% of the incident solar wind protons are backscattered as neutral hydrogen and ~1% as protons from the lunar surface. These findings have important implications for other airless bodies in the solar system.
description: 4 pages, 6 figures
Estilos de liderazgo y clima organizacional percibido por el personal de enfermería de un hospital público de la ciudad de Bahía Blanca
Creators: name: González, Nélida Gladys
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Introducción: Liderar en Salud implica la capacidad de mejorar un servicio a través de diferentes actores y mediante cambios que beneficien a la población. El clima laboral es un filtro o fenómeno interviniente que media entre los factores del sistema organizacional (estructura, liderazgo, toma de decisiones) y las tendencias motivacionales que se traducen en un comportamiento que tiene consecuencias sobre la organización en cuanto a productividad, satisfacción, rotación y ausentismo. Objetivo: describir la percepción de los estilos de liderazgo y el clima organizacional percibido por el personal de enfermería de un hospital público de la ciudad de Bahía Blanca. Diseño Metodológico: Se realizó un estudio observacional, descriptivo de corte transversal en el periodo de mayo a junio de 2021 en un hospital público de la ciudad de Bahía Blanca en Argentina. La muestra estuvo constituida por 70 profesionales de enfermería. Se utilizaron dos instrumentos, que ha sido previamente validado con un Alfa de Cronbach con valores de 0,962 y 0,964 respectivamente. Resultados: Desde el punto de vista sociodemográfico destaca la prevalencia del sexo femenino, el 50 % de los encuestados se encontraba en edades entre los rangos de 23 y 37 años, valores similares se encontraron en el grupo de los Licenciados en Enfermería entre los grados académicos. Cuando se analizó el comportamiento de los cuestionarios sobre Liderazgo, y Clima Organizacional, 10 de 12 indicadores tuvieron valores neutros, llama la atención que no hubo indicadores con valores negativos como promedio. Se analizó el coeficiente de correlación de Pearson, así como el nivel de significación estadística en cada uno de los casos. Conclusiones: La población estudiada se caracterizó por una prevalencia femenina, joven con formación de grado en enfermería y menos de 10 años de trabajo. El estudio encontró una relación estrecha entre en liderazgo y el clima organizacional, si bien los encuestados plantean neutralidad en la percepción global de estas dos dimensiones.
Review: Spellbound: Magic, Ritual and Witchcraft, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 31 August 2018 – 6 January 2019
Creators: name: Alston, Adam
Publisher: name: Volupté
Year: 2018

description: ‘Could you stab the image of a loved one?’ This is one of six questions posed by Sophie Page and Marina Wallace, the two lead curators of Spellbound: Magic, Ritual and Witchcraft, intended to prompt visitors to ‘explore the place of magical thinking in our lives, and to connect this to magical thinking in the past’. In drawing an emotive correspondence between a person and a surrogate, it is a question that strikes at the heart of one of the exhibition’s key aims, an aim shared with the Leverhulme-funded project that enabled it: to historicize identity and subjectivity in light of emotional experience and supernatural belief.
description: Volupté, Vol 1 No 2 (2018): Decadence, Magic(k), and the Occult
The cloverleaf antenna : a compact wide-bandwidth dual-polarization feed for CHIME
Creators: name: Deng, Meiling
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: A compact, wide-bandwidth, dual-polarization cloverleaf-shaped antenna has been developed to feed the CHIME radio telescope. The antenna has been tuned using a commercial antenna simulation program, CST, to have a very good impedance match to our amplifiers. Specifically, the return loss is smaller than -10dB for over an octave of bandwidth, covering the full CHIME band from 400MHz to 800MHz and this performance has been confirmed by measurement. The antennas are made of conventional low-loss circuit boards and can be mass produced economically, which is important because CHIME requires 1280 feeds. They are compact enough to be placed 30cm apart in a linear array at any azimuthal rotation. 128 of these feeds have now been built, tested and deployed on CHIME pathfinder.
Packing structure and non-classical hydrogen bonding interactions of the toluene solvate crystal of 1,8-bis(4-methylbenzoyl)naphthalene-2,7-diyl dibenzoate: Role of toluene molecule in determination of the spatial arrangement of the major constituent molecules
Creators: name: Kobayashi, M.
name: Sakamoto, R.
name: Zhang, P.
name: Zhao, Y.
name: Li, K.
name: Noguchi, K.
name: Yonezawa, N.
name: Okamoto, A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: The toluene solvate crystal of the titled highly congested aromatic ketone-ester compound has been subjected to crystal structural analysis from the viewpoints of the clarification of distribution feature of effective non-classical hydrogen bonds and the retention and perturbation of the symmetric nature. The two independent molecules of the title naphthalene derivative, which bears two aroyl groups at the adjacent inner positions and two benzoyloxy groups at the neighboring β-positions, and one disordered solvent toluene molecule are incorporated in the asymmetric unit of P21/c (Z′= 2). In the packing of the solvate crystal, the solvent toluene molecule plays the multi roles of hydrogen donor/acceptor for C–H…π non-classical hydrogen bonds and hydrogen donor for C–H…O = C ones. On the other hand, the role of other benzene rings of the parts of the title compound molecules is confined. The 4-methylbenzoyl groups situated at the molecular inner positions mainly play the role of the hydrogen donor of C–H…π non-classical hydrogen bond. The benzoyloxy groups that extend outward from the molecular body mainly act as the hydrogen acceptors of C–H…O and C–H…π non-classical hydrogen bonds. The naphthalene ring moderately contributes as the hydrogen acceptor for C–H…π non-classical hydrogen bonds and as the hydrogen donor for C–H…O non-classical hydrogen bonds. The roles of the toluene molecule are not limited to a simple filler for the void among the major constituent molecules but proved to position at the pseudo-centrosymmetric center of the counter-configurated pair of molecules of the independent major component compounds to concentrate the effective non-classical hydrogen bonds.
Review: Transnational Poetics, Aestheticism, and Decadence at the Fin de Siècle, New York University, 14 May 2018
Creators: name: Kwok, Cherrie
Publisher: name: Volupté
Year: 2018

description: New York City receives thousands of visitors daily, but perhaps none were more delightful than the scholars who arrived on 14 May 2018 to attend Transnational Poetics, Aestheticism, and Decadence at the Fin de Siècle at New York University. Organized by Professor Marion Thain (New York University), Dr Kate Hext (Exeter), and Professor Jane Desmarais (Goldsmiths), and sponsored by their respective institutions, the one-day symposium comprised a keynote by Professor Regenia Gagnier (Exeter) titled ‘Transcultural Poiesis and the Making of Community’, thirteen ten-minute position papers, and a discussion about fostering a transnational Aestheticism and Decadence network in the future.
description: Volupté, Vol 1 No 2 (2018): Decadence, Magic(k), and the Occult
Parameter Learning of Logic Programs for Symbolic-Statistical Modeling
Creators: name: Sato, T.
name: Kameya, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We propose a logical/mathematical framework for statistical parameter learning of parameterized logic programs, i.e. definite clause programs containing probabilistic facts with a parameterized distribution. It extends the traditional least Herbrand model semantics in logic programming to distribution semantics, possible world semantics with a probability distribution which is unconditionally applicable to arbitrary logic programs including ones for HMMs, PCFGs and Bayesian networks. We also propose a new EM algorithm, the graphical EM algorithm, that runs for a class of parameterized logic programs representing sequential decision processes where each decision is exclusive and independent. It runs on a new data structure called support graphs describing the logical relationship between observations and their explanations, and learns parameters by computing inside and outside probability generalized for logic programs. The complexity analysis shows that when combined with OLDT search for all explanations for observations, the graphical EM algorithm, despite its generality, has the same time complexity as existing EM algorithms, i.e. the Baum-Welch algorithm for HMMs, the Inside-Outside algorithm for PCFGs, and the one for singly connected Bayesian networks that have been developed independently in each research field. Learning experiments with PCFGs using two corpora of moderate size indicate that the graphical EM algorithm can significantly outperform the Inside-Outside algorithm.
Review: Mystical Symbolism: The Salon de la Rose + Croix in Paris, 1892–1897, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 30 June – 4 October 2017, and Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, 28 October – 7 January 2018
Creators: name: La Plume, Hieronymous
Publisher: name: Volupté
Year: 2018

description: This exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City is the first by a major museum (or any museum) to present those works displayed in the several salons staged by Joséphin Péladan (1858–1918), the decadent symbolist eccentric who styled himself Sâr Merodack, leader of L’Ordre de RoseXCroix du Temple et du Graal, the secret fraternal society Péladan established after a falling out with the occult poet Stanislas de Guaïta, head of a Rosicrucian sect. It is probably best not to ask how the esoteric system of the RXC differs from ‘orthodox’ Rosicrucianism. Historically, the Rosicrucian Brotherhood dates from 1614, when Fama Fraternitatis, dess Löblichen Ordens des Rosenkreutzes [The Declaration of the Worthy Order of the Rosy Cross] was published at Kassel, Germany. This book claimed that one Christian Rosenkreuz, whose life spanned the fin-de-siècle period between the 14th and 15th centuries, founded the secret order after a journey to the East. Two more books about the secret adventures of Herr Rosenkreuz appeared, the last and weirdest being Die Chymische Hochzeit Christiani Rosenkreutz [The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz] (1616).
description: Volupté, Vol 1 No 2 (2018): Decadence, Magic(k), and the Occult
Hyperaccreting Disks around Neutrons Stars and Magnetars for GRBs: Neutrino Annihilation and Strong Magnetic Fields
Creators: name: Zhang, Dong
name: Dai, Z. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hyperaccreting disks around neutron stars or magnetars cooled via neutrino emission can be the potential central engine of GRBs. The neutron-star disk can cool more efficiently, produce much higher neutrino luminosity and neutrino annihilation luminosity than its black hole counterpart with the same accretion rate. The neutron star surface boundary layer could increase the annihilation luminosity as well. An ultra relativistic jet via neutrino annihilation can be produced along the stellar poles. Moreover, we investigate the effects of strong fields on the disks around magnetars. In general, stronger fields give higher disk densities, pressures, temperatures and neutrino luminosity; the neutrino annihilation mechanism and the magnetically-driven pulsar wind which extracts the stellar rotational energy can work together to generate and feed an even stronger ultra-relativistic jet along the stellar magnetic poles.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, Proceedings for Deciphering the Ancient Universe with GRBs, Kyoto, Japan, April, 2010
The Magickal Body – Text and Image
Creators: name: Hudson, Geraldine
Publisher: name: Volupté
Year: 2018

description: Artist’s Statement – Topography of Myth

As a border walker I am continually exploring questions around the inherent meaning of fiction and myth, authority, power and cultural concepts of origin, using various methods in my practice as means to engage, wandering between installation, object, photography, printmaking and artists’ books, the inherent materiality being essential. Significantly, the relationship between the permanence of the porcelain, with the vulnerability of paper, hair and other organic material.

Using a methodology of walking, whether drifting or purposefully revisiting certain places, I attempt to explore notions of genius loci, examining the topography of myth in order to map a forensics of transgressive happenings as essential to the human condition.

In combining concepts of the stratalogical unconscious with the lay of the land, my practice continues to focus on notions of heterotopia, interweaving the psychogeographic experience with elements of esoteric initiation while questioning the shifting relations between the sacred and the profane in both urban and rural environments.

My more recent work has furthermore engaged with feminist notions of the personal as political, taking the standpoint of an ‘other’ regarding the visceral experience of the witch in relation to nature and site, as interpreted through ritual performance.

June 2018
description: Volupté, Vol 1 No 2 (2018): Decadence, Magic(k), and the Occult
Multiparticle covariance matrices and the impossibility of detecting graph state entanglement with two-particle correlations
Creators: name: Gittsovich, Oleg
name: Hyllus, Philipp
name: Gühne, Otfried
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a criterion for multiparticle entanglement based on covariance matrices. On the one hand, the criterion allows to detect bound entangled states which are not detected by other criteria; on the other hand, some strongly entangled pure states such as the GHZ states are not detected. We show, however, that this is a general phenomenon: No separability criterion based on two-particle correlations can recognize the entanglement in the family of graph states, to which the GHZ states belong.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures
On the precision of noise correlation interferometry
Creators: name: Weaver, Richard L
name: Hadziioannou, Céline
name: Larose, Eric
name: Campillo, Michel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Long duration noisy-looking waveforms such as those obtained in randomly multiply scattering and reverberant media are complex; they resist direct interpretation. Nevertheless, such waveforms are sensitive to small changes in the source of the waves or in the medium in which they propagate. Monitoring such waveforms, whether obtained directly or obtained indirectly by noise correlation, is emerging as a technique for detecting changes in media. Interpretation of changes is in principle problematic; it is not always clear whether a change is due to sources or to the medium. Of particular interest is the detection of small changes in propagation speeds. An expression is derived here for the apparent, but illusory, waveform dilation due to a change of source. The expression permits changes in waveforms due to changes in wavespeed to be distinguished with high precision from changes due to other reasons. The theory is successfully compared with analysis of a laboratory ultrasonic data set and a seismic data set from Parkfield California.
Pacific Islands benefit from geostrategic competition
Creators: name: Zhang, Denghua
name: O'Keefe, Michael
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 440807
subject: Government and politics of Asia and the Pacific

description: The Pacific islands are receiving more attention from other countries, with high-level delegations from the United States, Japan, Australia and New Zealand visiting the region over the past five months. Alarmed by China’s rise, traditional powers are now stepping up their engagement with the region to actively compete with China.
Producción científica sobre seguridad del paciente en el área de Enfermería en Latinoamérica
Creators: name: Aguirre, Mirian Haidee
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Introducción: La seguridad del paciente es prioridad en la atención en los centros de salud, donde la mirada del profesional de enfermería está enfocada en la atención directa con el paciente sin la intención de cometer eventos adversos comprometiéndose en la atención centrada y segura libre de incidentes, pero que estos pueden ser modificados si no existe una cultura de calidad en la atención. Objetivo: de caracterizar la producción científica sobre seguridad del paciente en el área de Enfermería en Latinoamérica. Diseño Metodológico: Se realizó un estudio de bibliométrico descriptivo, en la base de datos Scopus, en las publicaciones comprendidas entre enero de 2000 a diciembre de 2020. Se recuperaron 939 documentos. Resultados: La producción científica tuvo un marcado crecimiento luego de 2007, el 97,8 de los documentos eran documentos citables, el idioma con mayor cantidad de artículos y citas por documentos es el inglés con 872 documentos y 16,3 citas por documentos respectivamente. Se encontró una correlación positiva significativa entre los indicadores de colaboración y visibilidad científica. Conclusiones: La producción científica latinoamericana en sobre seguridad del paciente en el área de la enfermería está caracterizada por una tendencia al crecimiento en volumen, con marcada disminución del impacto científico. Destaca los altos productores como Brasil y México, sin embargo, existe un bajo liderazgo científico latinoamericano. Destaca la necesidad de potenciar la investigación en esta área temática en la región, como forma de reconocer la importancia de una atención segura y de calidad como base para la práctica enfermera.
Literary Decadence and the French Occult Revival: A Survey Essay with Two New Translations of Joséphin Péladan
Creators: name: Stableford, Brian
Publisher: name: Volupté
Year: 2018

description: The history of how the term ‘decadence’ came to be used as a description for certain kinds of literary productivity, eventually spawning a ‘Decadent Movement’ in the 1880s, which expanded to embrace the visual arts as well as poetry and prose fiction, is complicated and curious.

The notion of cultural decadence had been popularized by the eighteenth-century philosophe Charles-Louis le Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu, in Considérations sur les causes de la grandeur des Romains et de leur decadence [Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and their Decline] (1734). Montesquieu argued that the disintegration of the Roman Empire had not been a series of unfortunate accidents, but the inevitable unfolding of a pattern governed by a quasi-scientific law, applicable to all empires, and all civilizations, according to which they follow a life-cycle that guides them inevitably from infancy to virility, and from virility to decrepitude. Implicit within that argument was the notion that France was repeating that inevitable life-cycle, its decadence symbolized by the courts of Louis XIV and Louis XV, and its climactic catastrophe looming.
description: Volupté, Vol 1 No 2 (2018): Decadence, Magic(k), and the Occult
A Distributed Cluster Scheme For Bandwidth Management In Multi-hop MANETs
Creators: name: Pattanayak, Binod Kumar
name: Jagadev, Alok Kumar
name: Mishra, Manoj Kumar
name: Nayak, Manoj Ranjan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Electronic collaboration among devices in a geographically localized environment is made possible with the implementation of IEEE 802.11 based wireless ad hoc networks. Dynamic nature of mobile ad hoc networks(MANETs) may lead to unpredictable intervention of attacks or fault occurrence, which consequently may partition the network, degrade its performance, violate the QoS requirements and most importantly, affect bandwidth allocation to mobile nodes in the network. In this paper, we propose a new distributed cluster scheme for MANETs, especially in harsh environments, based on the concept of survivability to support QoS requirements and to protect bandwidth efficiently. With the incorporation of clustering algorithms in survivability technology, we employ a simple network configuration and expect to reduce occurrences of faults in MANETs. At the same time, we address the scalability problem, which represents a great challenge to network configuration. We do expect a simplification of accessing bandwidth allocation with required QoS support for different applications.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures
Freedom of the Press in China: a conceptual history, 1831-1949
Creators: name: Guo, Yi
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 399999
subject: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Today's conception of press freedom is fundamentally related to its past. While scholars criticise that individual speech is still suffering from arbitrary restrictions and that mass media in China remains within an authoritarian mode as defined in the classic Four Theories of the Press, the history of press freedom in the Chinese context has so far received little examination. Unlike the conventional historical account of press freedom dedicated to narrating the institutional development of censorship and people's resistance against arbitrary repression, this dissertation aims to present a conceptual history of press freedom, which sheds light on the transcultural transference and localisation of the concept in modern Chinese history spanning from its initial transplantation in 1831 to 1949. Inspired by Reinhart Koselleck's theoretical legacy of conceptual history and James Carey's critical thoughts on the cultural approach to journalism history, this dissertation focuses on the changing meaning of press freedom by examining three genres of discourse (intellectual elite's thoughts, common people's attitudes, and official opinions) along with the social-cultural factors that were involved in negotiating Chinese interpretations and practices.
 The central argument is that socio-cultural factors, originating both from the domestic situation (including traditional intellectual resources) and international engagements, exerted an enormous influence on the emergent and ongoing Chinese discourse of press freedom and thereby defined the changing meanings of the concept in China. As a result, despite there being moments in time when there was the potential for an institutionalised press freedom to develop which may have satisfied Western expectations, in the end this became impossible in modern China. This dissertation is underpinned by John Dewey's thesis that freedom is a product of special circumstances and is tied up with the culture in which it arises. Even though freedom of speech and the press was impossible in late imperial and early republican China, the one-hundred-year history of China grappling with the concept of press freedom still provides insights for understanding the issue of press freedom in China today.
Finding a Path is Harder than Finding a Tree
Creators: name: Meek, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: I consider the problem of learning an optimal path graphical model from data and show the problem to be NP-hard for the maximum likelihood and minimum description length approaches and a Bayesian approach. This hardness result holds despite the fact that the problem is a restriction of the polynomially solvable problem of finding the optimal tree graphical model.
How to efficiently design aircraft with minimum climate impact?
Creators: name: Radhakrishnan, Kaushik
name: Linke, Florian
name: Grewe, Volker
name: Vos, Roelof
name: Niklaß, Malte
name: Lührs, Benjamin
name: Yin, Feijia
name: Dedoussi, Irene
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Aircraft design
Climate impact
CFAD
Climate function
Non-CO2 effects

description: Given the comparably high impact of aircraft emissions, especially their non-CO2 effects,on climate in the order of 5%, aviation stakeholders are required to act to reduce the warming effects of air traffic. Besides new operational procedures, like e.g.climate-optimized routing, this demands the development of completely new global-warming optimized aircraft by aircraft manufacturers. The European Clean Sky 2 project "Global-Warming Optimized Aircraft Design" (GLOWOPT) aims at providing aircraft designers an innovative tool to perform aircraft design studies for minimum climate impact, which we call Climate Functions for Aircraft Design (CFAD). The CFAD will substantially change the way aircraft are designed, while maintaining compatibility to existing Multidisciplinary Design Optimization (MDO) methods. The functions need to integrate a lot of information on the typical aircraft usage, including the routes the aircraft will be operated on. This is because, besides the amount of emissions, the impact of aviation non-CO2 effects, such as NOx, H2O as well as contrails, on climate is highly dependent on location (i.e.latitude,longitude) and altitude. So, the representative operating profile of the aircraft needs to be considered in a characteristic route and fleet model.This work will present the interdisciplinary GLOWOPT approach, which comprises expertise on aircraft design, operations, atmospheric physics and climate. Conceptual thoughts on how the complexity of the operating profile in combination with the geographically variable climate impact of aircraft emissions will be reduced such that it can be used in an aircraft design process are given.
Occultism and the homme fatal in Robert Smythe Hichens’s Flames: A London Phantasy
Creators: name: Pulham, Patricia
Publisher: name: Volupté
Year: 2018

description: Decadent literature is often characterized by lives lived at the fringes of convention. While the intersections between Victorian literature and the supernatural in its various forms have been the topic of considerable discussion, the presence and function of occultism in Decadent literature remain relatively underexplored. In contrast, occultism’s contribution to modernist literature and culture has received continued attention, most recently in John Bramble’s Modernism and the Occult(2015) and in Tessel M. Baudin and Henrik Johnsson’s collection, The Occult in Modernist Art, Literature, and Cinema(2018). The existing lacuna in Decadence Studies is particularly surprising given that Decadent literature, with its noted focus on the strange and the curious, lends itself to such critical scrutiny. This essay is the first to examine how the homme fatal– a key Decadent trope notoriously explored in Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray(1890-91) – sits at the intersections between Decadence, occultism, and homoerotic desire in Robert Smythe Hichens’s Flames: A London Phantasy(1897). Here I argue that, though Hichens is best known for The Green Carnation(1894), the homosocial and homoerotic triangulations of desire in Hichens’s Flamesimply that Wilde’s novel had a far more serious impact on Hichens’s writing than his scandalous parody might suggest.
description: Volupté, Vol 1 No 2 (2018): Decadence, Magic(k), and the Occult
Ukrainian Translation Workshop in Priashiv. Book Review
Creators: name: Shmiher, Taras
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: Review

Ukrainian Translation Workshop in Priashiv. Ukrajinský jazyk a kultúra v umeleckom a odbornom preklade v stredoeurópskom priestore: Zbornik príspevkov z medzinárodného vedeckého seminára, ktorý sa konal dňa 27.9.2017 na Katedre ukrajinistiky Inštitutu ukrajinistiky a stredoeurópskych štúdií Filozofickej fakulty Prešovskej univerzity. Filozofická fakulta Prešovskej univerzity v Prešove, Jarmila Kredátusová, Ed. Prešov: Filozofická fakulta Prešovskej univerzity v Prešove, 2018. 216 s.  (Opera Translatologica; 6/2018).
Michel Winock, Décadence fin de siècle, L’Esprit de la cité (Paris: Gallimard, 2017), 288 pp.
Creators: name: Suwanwattana, Fay Wanrug
Publisher: name: Volupté
Year: 2018

description: In his latest publication, Michel Winock, a prolific historian specialising in intellectual history and the history of the French Republic and whose writings have been recognized by many prestigious prizes (Prix Médicis1997 and Prix Goncourt de la Biographie2010), focuses on a network of writers, journalists, pamphleteers, and activists in the last decades of nineteenth-century France (1870s-1890s).
description: Volupté, Vol 1 (2018): Arthur Symons at the Fin de Siècle