cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Budget Feasible Mechanism Design: From Prior-Free to Bayesian
Creators: name: Bei, Xiaohui
name: Chen, Ning
name: Gravin, Nick
name: Lu, Pinyan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Budget feasible mechanism design studies procurement combinatorial auctions where the sellers have private costs to produce items, and the buyer(auctioneer) aims to maximize a social valuation function on subsets of items, under the budget constraint on the total payment. One of the most important questions in the field is "which valuation domains admit truthful budget feasible mechanisms with `small' approximations (compared to the social optimum)?" Singer showed that additive and submodular functions have such constant approximations. Recently, Dobzinski, Papadimitriou, and Singer gave an O(log^2 n)-approximation mechanism for subadditive functions; they also remarked that: "A fundamental question is whether, regardless of computational constraints, a constant-factor budget feasible mechanism exists for subadditive functions." We address this question from two viewpoints: prior-free worst case analysis and Bayesian analysis. For the prior-free framework, we use an LP that describes the fractional cover of the valuation function; it is also connected to the concept of approximate core in cooperative game theory. We provide an O(I)-approximation mechanism for subadditive functions, via the worst case integrality gap I of LP. This implies an O(log n)-approximation for subadditive valuations, O(1)-approximation for XOS valuations, and for valuations with a constant I. XOS valuations are an important class of functions that lie between submodular and subadditive classes. We give another polynomial time O(log n/loglog n) sub-logarithmic approximation mechanism for subadditive valuations. For the Bayesian framework, we provide a constant approximation mechanism for all subadditive functions, using the above prior-free mechanism for XOS valuations as a subroutine. Our mechanism allows correlations in the distribution of private information and is universally truthful.
description: to appear in STOC 2012
<> spatio-temporal matching algorithm for 3D particle tracking velocimetry
Creators: name: Willneff, Jochen
Publisher: name: Zürich, Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH
Year: 2003
Subjects: SONDERGEBIETE DES VERMESSUNGSWESENS (GEODÄSIE)
ANEMOMETRIE, GESCHWINDIGKEITSMESSUNG (AERO-, FLUIDDYNAMIK)
DIGITALE BILDVERARBEITUNG
3D-MESSTECHNIK (OPTIK)

description: Diss., Technische Wissenschaften ETH Zürich, Nr. 15276, 2003. - Ref.: Armin Grün ; Korref.: Hans-Gerd Maas
APPLYING CLIP FOR LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION USING AERIAL AND SATELLITE IMAGERY
Creators: name: Meng, Kexin
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 460304
subject: Computer vision
classificationCode: 460307
subject: Multimodal analysis and synthesis

description: Land cover classification has always been a crucial topic in the remote sensing domain. Utilizing data collected by unmanned aerial vehicles and satellites, researchers can detect land degradation, monitor environmental changes, and provide insights for urban planning. Recent advancements in large multi-modal models have enabled open-vocabulary classification, which is particularly beneficial in this field. Becuase of the pre-training method, these models can perform zero-shot inference on unseen data, significantly reducing the costs associated with data collection and model training. This open-vocabulary feature of large-scale vision-language pre-training aligns well with the requirements of land cover classification, where benchmark datasets in the remote sensing domain comprise various categories, and transferring results from one dataset to another through supervised learning methods is challenging.In this thesis, the author explored the performance of zero-shot CLIP and linear probe CLIP to assess the feasibility of using the CLIP model for land cover classification tasks. Further, the author fine-tuned CLIP by creating hierarchical label sets for the datasets, leading to better zero-shot classification results and improving overall accuracy by 2.5%. Regarding data engineering, the author examined the performance of zero-shot CLIP and linear probe CLIP across different categories and proposed a categorization method for land cover datasets. In summary, this work evaluated CLIP's overall performance on land cover datasets of varying spatial resolutions and proposed a hierarchical classification method to enhance its zero-shot performance. The thesis also offers a practical approach for modifying current dataset categorizations to better align with the model.
Seeing through the Fog: An Algorithm for Fast and Accurate Touch Detection in Optical Tabletop Surfaces
Creators: name: Wolfe, Christopher
name: Graham, T.C.Nicholas
name: Pape, Joseph A.
Publisher: name: ACM
Year: 2010

description: Fast and accurate touch detection is critical to the usability of multi-touch tabletops. In optical tabletops, such as those using the popular FTIR and DI technologies, this requires efficient and effective noise reduction to enhance touches in the camera's input. Common approaches to noise reduction do not scale to larger tables, leaving designers with a choice between accuracy problems and expensive hardware. In this paper, we present a novel noise reduction algorithm that provides better touch recognition than current alternatives, particularly in noisy environments, without imposing higher computational cost. We empirically compare our algorithm to other noise reduction approaches using data collected from tabletops at research labs in Canada and Europe.
Ground- and satellite-based multi-view photogrammetric determination of 3D cloud geometry
Creators: name: Seiz, Gabriela
Publisher: name: Zürich, Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH
Year: 2003
Subjects: CLOUD CHARACTERISTICS DETERMINING INSTRUMENTS (METEOROLOGY)
CLOUD OBSERVATIONS (METEOROLOGY)

description: Diss., Technische Wissenschaften ETH Zürich, Nr. 15172, 2003. - Ref.: Armin Grün ; Korref.: Eugene E. Clothiaux, Emmanuel P. Baltsavias
Low redshift constraints on scalar-tensor theories
Creators: name: Fay, Stéphane
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Scalar-tensor theories are constrained with lunar laser ranging and supernovae data at low redshift. This allows to find some constraints on the scalar field independently on the form of its potential once the gravitation function is specified. We apply these results to some well known scalar-tensor theories showing that they agreed with the LCDM model at 1 sigma.
description: 3 pages, to be published in MNRAS
J/ψ photoproduction in Au+Au ultra-peripheral collisions at √sNN=200GeV at RHIC
Creators: name: Takahara, Akihisa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: PHENIX
RHIC
J/ψ
photoproduction
mid-rapidity
forward-rapidity
UPC

description: Doctoral thesis on the photoproduction of J/ψ in Au+Au collisions at the center of mass energy per nucleon pair of 200GeV studied at the PHENIX experiment at mid and forward rapidity at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL). This work is the first measurement from PHENIX on photoproduction in the forward rapidity.
A Set of Multi-touch Graph Interaction Techniques
Creators: name: Schmidt, Sebastian
name: Nacenta, Miguel
name: Dachselt, Raimund
name: Carpendale, Sheelagh
Publisher: name: ACM
Year: 2010

description: Interactive node-link diagrams are useful for describing and exploring data relationships in many domains such as network analysis and transportation planning. We describe a multi-touch interaction technique set (IT set) that focuses on edge interactions for node-link diagrams. The set includes five techniques (TouchPlucking, TouchPinning, TouchStrumming, TouchBundling and PushLens) and provides the flexibility to combine them in either sequential or simultaneous actions in order to address edge congestion.
The Influence of Social Media Usage on Entrepreneurial Opportunity Recognition: A Perspective from Ratanakiri Province, Kingdom of Cambodia.
Creators: name: Sopheaninh Khoeun
Publisher: name: Surindra Rajabhat University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Entrepreneur
Social Media Usage
Entrepreneurial Opportunity Recognition.

description: ASEAN Journal of Management & Innovation, 10, 1, 108 - 124
Spectroscopy of a fractional Josephson vortex molecule
Creators: name: Kienzle, U.
name: Meckbach, J. M.
name: Buckenmaier, K.
name: Gaber, T.
name: Sickinger, H.
name: Kaiser, Ch.
name: Ilin, K.
name: Siegel, M.
name: Koelle, D.
name: Kleiner, R.
name: Goldobin, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In long Josephson junctions with multiple discontinuities of the Josephson phase, fractional vortex molecules are spontaneously formed. At each discontinuity point a fractional Josephson vortex carrying a magnetic flux $|Φ|
description: submitted to Phys. Rev. B
What Caused That Touch? Expressive Interaction with a Surface through Fiduciary-Tagged Gloves
Creators: name: Marquardt, Nicolai
name: Kiemer, Johannes
name: Greenberg, Saul
Publisher: name: ACM
Year: 2010

description: The hand has incredible potential as an expressive input device. Yet most touch technologies imprecisely recognize limited hand parts (if at all), usually by inferring the hand part from the touch shapes. We introduce the fiduciary-tagged glove as a reliable, inexpensive, and very expressive way to gather input about: (a) many parts of a hand (fingertips, knuckles, palms, sides, backs of the hand), and (b) to discriminate between one person's or multiple peoples' hands. Examples illustrate the interaction power gained by being able to identify and exploit these various hand parts.
title:  Cronache di un insuccesso annunciato: la disciplina sui ritardi di pagamento
Creators: name: Pesce , Edoardo
Publisher: name: RomaTrE-Press
Year: 2019

description: Il presente lavoro, che riproduce fedelmente con la sola aggiunta delle note il testo della relazione svolta al convegno “Obsolescenza e caducità delle leggi civili” del 9 novembre 2018, riflette sulla disciplina (europea e italiana di recepimento) in materia di ritardo dei pagamenti nelle transazioni commerciali, tentando un primo e sintetico bilancio. A più di quindici anni dalla sua entrata in vigore, può dirsi che i suoi istituti più caratterizzanti, pur avendo innovato molte categorie del diritto contrattuale, non hanno ottenuto il riscontro pratico atteso. Di ciò sembra consapevole lo stesso legislatore europeo: nella nuova Direttiva (2011/7/UE) si invoca (ancora) “un passaggio deciso verso una cultura dei pagamenti rapidi”, giacché la legge, da sola, non basta.
description: Obsolescenza e caducità delle leggi civili
A Language to Define Multi-Touch Interactions
Creators: name: Khandkar, Shahedul Huq
name: Maurer, F.
Publisher: name: ACM
Year: 2010

description: Touch has become a common interface for human computer interaction. From portable hand held devices like smart phones to tabletops, large displays and even devices that project on arbitrary surfaces support touch interface. However, at the end, it is the applications that bring meaning for these technologies to people. Incorporating a touch interface in application requires translating meaningful touches into system recognizable events. This process often involves complex implementations that are sometimes hard to fine tune. Due to the lack of higher-level frameworks, developers often end up writing code from scratch to implement touch interactions in their application. To address this, we present a domain-specific language to define multi-touch interaction that hides the low level implementation complexities from application developers. This allows them to focus on designing touch interactions that are natural and meaningful to the application context without worrying about implementation complexities.
Surface measurement and tracking of human body parts from multi station video sequences
Creators: name: D'Apuzzo, Nicola
Publisher: name: Zürich, Institut für Geodäsie und Photogrammetrie an der Eidgenössischen Technischen Hochschule ETH Zürich
Year: 2003
Subjects: ELEKTRONISCHE EINZELBILDKAMERAS (FERNSEHTECHNIK)
DIGITALE BILDVERARBEITUNG
CAMCORDER (VIDEOTECHNIK)
KÖRPERMASSE + KÖRPERPROPORTIONEN (BIOLOGISCHE ANTHROPOLOGIE)
LADUNGSGEKOPPELTE BAUELEMENTE, CCD (ELEKTRONIK)
3D-MESSTECHNIK (OPTIK)
VIDEOKAMERAS (VIDEOTECHNIK)

description: Diss., Technische Wissenschaften ETH Zürich, Nr. 15271, 2003. - Ref.: Armin Grün ; Korref.: Henrik Haggrén, Hans-Peter Meinzer
Private loss, public memory : an ethnography of the Holocaust memorial exhibition Faces of Loss
Creators: name: Sevy Fua, Rosa Maria
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: This investigation consisted of an ethnographic study of the memorial exhibition Faces of Loss mounted at the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre. The exhibit was based on scanned images of original pre-Holocaust pictures of the victims of the Holocaust whose families now live in Vancouver. Pictures of deceased relatives, confined for years in the privacy of survivors’ and second generations’ homes, were publicly displayed. In conducting this ethnography, the researcher became a participant observer during the production and public display of the exhibition. Data were generated through descriptive fieldnotes, personal journal entries, twenty-eight individual interviews that included Holocaust survivors, child survivors and second generation, and one group interview with nine child survivors. The data analysis suggests that bringing their private losses to the public arena proved therapeutic for the participants. The images displayed allowed them to honour the memory of their relatives and provided the participants with a forum to talk about their losses. The exhibition became a medium for the wider community to bear witness to the participants’ trauma, offering the Holocaust survivors and their children the healing experience associated with testimonial acts. The exhibition also engaged participants in collective remembrance and mourning practices. The display of visual images played a crucial role in facilitating these processes among the participants. It follows that local Holocaust museums, as cultural places, could be turned into venues for facilitating memorial and therapeutic processes among Holocaust survivors and their children. By exploring the role of museums as forums for bringing private losses into public space, this study sheds light on the therapeutic use of community-based settings for individuals and groups who have undergone psychosocial trauma.
title: Factors of Muscle Quality and Determinants of Muscle Strength: A Systematic Literature Review
Creators: name: Kuschel, Luciano Bruno
name: Sonnenburg, Dominik
name: Engel, Tilman
Publisher: name: Universitätsverlag Potsdam
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Muscle quality defined as the ratio of muscle strength to muscle mass disregards underlying factors which influence muscle strength. The aim of this review was to investigate the relationship of phase angle (PhA), echo intensity (EI), muscular adipose tissue (MAT), muscle fiber type, fascicle pennation angle (θf), fascicle length (lf), muscle oxidative capacity, insulin sensitivity (IS), neuromuscular activation, and motor unit to muscle strength. PubMed search was performed in 2021. The inclusion criteria were: (i) original research, (ii) human participants, (iii) adults (≥18 years). Exclusion criteria were: (i) no full-text, (ii) non-English or -German language, (iii) pathologies. Forty-one studies were identified. Nine studies found a weak–moderate negative (range r: [−0.26]–[−0.656], p < 0.05) correlation between muscle strength and EI. Four studies found a weak–moderate positive correlation (range r: 0.177–0.696, p < 0.05) between muscle strength and PhA. Two studies found a moderate-strong negative correlation (range r: [−0.446]–[−0.87], p < 0.05) between muscle strength and MAT. Two studies found a weak-strong positive correlation (range r: 0.28–0.907, p < 0.05) between θf and muscle strength. Muscle oxidative capacity was found to be a predictor of muscle strength. This review highlights that the current definition of muscle quality should be expanded upon as to encompass all possible factors of muscle quality.
description: Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe; 838
Signatures of photon-axion conversion in the thermal spectra and polarization of neutron stars
Creators: name: Perna, Rosalba
name: Ho, Wynn C. G.
name: Verde, Licia
name: van Adelsberg, Matthew
name: Jimenez, Raul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Conversion of photons into axions under the presence of a strong magnetic field can dim the radiation from magnetized astrophysical objects. Here we perform a detailed calculation aimed at quantifying the signatures of photon-axion conversion in the spectra, light curves, and polarization of neutron stars (NSs). We take into account the energy and angle-dependence of the conversion probability and the surface thermal emission from NSs. The latter is computed from magnetized atmosphere models that include the effect of photon polarization mode conversion due to vacuum polarization. The resulting spectral models, inclusive of the general-relativistic effects of gravitational redshift and light deflection, allow us to make realistic predictions for the effects of photon to axion conversion on observed NS spectra, light curves, and polarization signals. We identify unique signatures of the conversion, such as an increase of the effective area of a hot spot as it rotates away from the observer line of sight. For a star emitting from the entire surface, the conversion produces apparent radii that are either larger or smaller (depending on axion mass and coupling strength) than the limits set by NS equations of state. For an emission region that is observed phase-on, photon-axion conversion results in an inversion of the plane of polarization with respect to the no-conversion case. While the quantitative details of the features that we identify depend on NS properties (magnetic field strength, temperature) and axion parameters, the spectral and polarization signatures induced by photon-axion conversion are distinctive enough to make NSs very interesting and promising probes of axion physics.
description: 18 pages, 9 figures, accepted to ApJ
Integrating 2D mouse emulation with 3D manipulation for visualizations on a multi-touch table.
Creators: name: Vlaming, L.
name: Collins, C.
name: Hancock, M.
name: Nacenta, M.
name: Isenberg, T.
name: Carpendale, S.
Publisher: name: ACM
Year: 2010

description: We present the Rizzo, a multi-touch virtual mouse that has been designed to provide the fine grained interaction for information visualization on a multi-touch table. Our solution enables touch interaction for existing mouse-based visualizations. Previously, this transition to a multi-touch environment was difficult because the mouse emulation of touch surfaces is often insufficient to provide full information visualization functionality. We present a unified design, combining many Rizzos that have been designed not only to provide mouse capabilities but also to act as zoomable lenses that make precise information access feasible. The Rizzos and the information visualizations all exist within a touch-enabled 3D window management system. Our approach permits touch interaction with both the 3D windowing environment as well as with the contents of the individual windows contained therein. We describe an implementation of our technique that augments the VisLink 3D visualization environment to demonstrate how to enable multi-touch capabilities on all visualizations written with the popular prefuse visualization toolkit.
Understanding ad hoc networks from geometry to mobility
Creators: name: O'Dell, Regina
Publisher: name: Konstanz, Hartung-Gorre Verlag
Year: 2006
Subjects: MOBILE AD HOC NETZWERKE + DRAHTLOSE AD HOC NETZWERKE (NACHRICHTENTECHNIK)
NETZWERKARCHITEKTUREN (COMPUTERSYSTEME)

description: Diss., Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule ETH Zürich, Nr. 16800, 2006
Modelling of spaceborne linear array sensors
Creators: name: Poli, Daniela
Publisher: name: Zürich, Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH
Year: 2005
Subjects: GEOGRAFISCHE INFORMATIONSSYSTEME
GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM, GPS + INDOOR GPS (GEODÄSIE)
LADUNGSGEKOPPELTE BAUELEMENTE, CCD (ELEKTRONIK)
DIGITAL ELEVATION MODELS + DIGITAL TERRAIN MODELS (GEODÄSIE)
SATELLITENAUFNAHMEN (GEODÄSIE)
ACTIVE SENSORS + SATELLITE SENSORS IN REMOTE SENSING (GEODÄSIE)
ANWENDUNGEN DER PHOTOGRAMMETRIE (GEODÄSIE)
PHOTOGRAMMETRISCHE INSTRUMENTE (GEODÄSIE)

description: Diss., Technische Wissenschaften, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule ETH Zürich, Nr. 15894, 2005. - Ref.: Armin Grün ; Korref.: Ian Dowman
PhysicsBox: Playful Educational Tabletop Games
Creators: name: Langner, Ricardo
name: Brosz, John
name: Dachselt, Raimund
name: Carpendale, Sheelagh
Publisher: name: ACM
Year: 2010

description: We present PhysicsBox, a collection of three multi-touch, physics-based, educational games. These games, based on concepts from elementary science have been designed to provide teachers with tools to enrich lessons and support experimentation. PhysicsBox combines two current trends, the introduction of multi-touch tabletops into classrooms and research on the use of simulated physics in tabletop applications. We also provide a Java library that supports hardware independent multi-touch event handling for several tabletops.
eGrid: Supporting the Control Room Operation of a Utility Company With Multi-Touch Tables
Creators: name: Selim, Elaf
name: Maurer, Frank
Publisher: name: ACM
Year: 2010

description: This work presents eGrid, a software environment designed for utility companies to enable the collaboration of control center team members in their daily tasks of analyzing and managing the electrical grid of a city. Despite the recent advances in geospatial data analysis applications, the need still arises for the design of innovative applications which facilitate the collaboration of control center team members in discussing problems and finding solutions, eliminating the headache of synchronizing paper maps frequently to reflect the changes made daily in electricity circuits. eGrid utilizes multi-touch digital table-top hardware to allow multiple users to interact concurrently with domain specific geographic information system (GIS) using finger touches and natural hand gestures. It is an advanced prototype of an actual application of tabletop technology in a non-trivial domain. The development of eGrid shows strong buy-in from the intended end-user community.
Universal Prediction of Selected Bits
Creators: name: Lattimore, Tor
name: Hutter, Marcus
name: Gavane, Vaibhav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Many learning tasks can be viewed as sequence prediction problems. For example, online classification can be converted to sequence prediction with the sequence being pairs of input/target data and where the goal is to correctly predict the target data given input data and previous input/target pairs. Solomonoff induction is known to solve the general sequence prediction problem, but only if the entire sequence is sampled from a computable distribution. In the case of classification and discriminative learning though, only the targets need be structured (given the inputs). We show that the normalised version of Solomonoff induction can still be used in this case, and more generally that it can detect any recursive sub-pattern (regularity) within an otherwise completely unstructured sequence. It is also shown that the unnormalised version can fail to predict very simple recursive sub-patterns.
description: 17 LaTeX pages
Designing User-, Hand-, and Handpart-Aware Tabletop Interactions with the TOUCHID Toolkit
Creators: name: Marquardt, N.
name: Diaz-Marino, R.
name: Boring, S.
name: Greenberg, S.
Publisher: name: ACM
Year: 2011

description: Recent work in multi-touch tabletop interaction introduced many novel techniques that let people manipulate digital content through touch. Yet most only detect touch blobs. This ignores richer interactions that would be possible if we could identify (1) which part of the hand, (2) which side of the hand, and (3) which person is actually touching the surface. Fiduciary-tagged gloves were previously introduced as a simple but reliable technique for providing this information. The problem is that its low-level programming model hinders the way developers could rapidly explore new kinds of user- and handpart-aware interactions. We contribute the TouchID toolkit to solve this problem. It allows rapid prototyping of expressive multi-touch interactions that exploit the aforementioned characteristics of touch input. TouchID provides an easy-to-use event-driven API as well as higher-level tools that facilitate development: a glove configurator to rapidly associate particular glove parts to handparts; and a posture configurator and gesture configurator for registering new hand postures and gestures for the toolkit to recognize. We illustrate TouchID's expressiveness by showing how we developed a suite of techniques that exploits knowledge of which handpart is touching the surface.
Structural Variation of Molecular Gas in the Sagittarius Arm and Inter-Arm Regions
Creators: name: Sawada, Tsuyoshi
name: Hasegawa, Tetsuo
name: Sugimoto, Masahiro
name: Koda, Jin
name: Handa, Toshihiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have carried out survey observations toward the Galactic plane at l~38 deg in the 12CO and 13CO J=1-0 lines using the Nobeyama Radio Observatory 45-m telescope. A wide area (0.8 x 0.8 deg) was mapped with high spatial resolution (17"). The line of sight samples the gas in both the Sagittarius arm and the inter-arm regions. The present observations reveal how the structure and physical conditions vary across a spiral arm. We classify the molecular gas in the line of sight into two distinct components based on its appearance: the bright and compact B component and the fainter and diffuse (i.e., more extended) D component. The B component is predominantly seen at the spiral arm velocities, while the D component dominates at the inter-arm velocities and is also found at the spiral arm velocities. We introduce the brightness distribution function and the brightness distribution index (BDI, which indicates the dominance of the B component) in order to quantify the map's appearance. The radial velocities of BDI peaks coincide with those of high 12CO J=3-2/12CO J=1-0 intensity ratio (i.e., warm gas) and H II regions, and tend to be offset from the line brightness peaks at lower velocities (i.e., presumably downstream side of the arm). Our observations reveal that the gas structure at small scales changes across a spiral arm: bright and spatially confined structures develop in a spiral arm, leading to star formation at downstream side, while extended emission dominates in the inter-arm region.
description: 36 pages, 16 figures. Preprint with full-resolution figures is available at http://www.nro.nao.ac.jp/~lib_pub/report/data/no682.pdf
Exploring physical information cloth on a multitouch table
Creators: name: Mikulecky, K.
name: Hancock, M.
name: Bosz, J.
name: Carpendale, S.
Publisher: name: ACM
Year: 2011

description: We expand multitouch tabletop information exploration by placing 2D information on a physically-based cloth in a shallow 3D viewing environment. Instead of offering 2D information on a rigid window or screen, we place our information on a soft flexible cloth that can be draped, pulled, stretched, and folded with multiple fingers and hands, supporting any number of information views. Combining our multitouch flexible information cloth with simple manipulable objects provides a physically-based information viewing environment that offers similar advantages to complex detail-in-context viewing. Previous detail-in-context views can be re-created by draping cloth over virtual objects in this physics simulation, thereby approximating many of the existing techniques by providing zoomed-in information in the context of zoomed-out information. These detail-in-context views are approximated because, rather than use distortion, the draped cloth naturally drapes and folds showing magnified regions within a physically understandable context. In addition, the information cloth remains flexibly responsive, allowing one to tweak, unfold, and smooth out regions as desired.
title:  Accesso alla proprietà e crisi economica
Creators: name: Dell’Utri, Marco
Publisher: name: RomaTrE-Press
Year: 2019

description: Il saggio esamina la figura del rent to buy, così come introdotto dal legislatore italiano nel 2014, ponendone in evidenza i legami con le vicende della crisi economica internazionale del 2008, e rievocando la ricerca sul rapporto tra crisi economica e categorie civilistiche.

Attraverso l’esame del testo legislativo, l’autore si sofferma sui caratteri della figura negoziale, traendone spunto per soffermarsi sui temi della disintermediazione del credito attraverso l’esercizio dell’autonomia negoziale; dell’acquisto procedimentale della proprietà; della tipicità negoziale; del rapporto tra natura reale o personale del godimento dei beni; sui termini della decostruzione della proprietà e sui limiti dell’autonomia privata.

Conclusivamente, si sottolinea l’emergere, nell’ambito delle moderne strutture negoziali, del senso dell’instabilità o dell’incertezza nelle previsioni e nel comportamento dei soggetti, secondo un disegno che pone in crisi modelli di valutazione tradizionali esclusivamente economici (come quello del buon padre di famiglia), nel tempo del declino del razionalismo e della calcolabilità giuridica, ad ulteriore testimonianza della storicità del diritto e del suo modo di riflettere l’inquieto modo contemporaneo di stare al mondo.
description: Obsolescenza e caducità delle leggi civili
Analysis of the difference in depths and variation in slope steepness of the Sunda Trench, Indonesia, east Indian Ocean
Creators: name: Lemenkova, Polina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 90901 Cartography
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering
subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 80308 Programming Languages
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 90504 Earthquake Engineering
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: Solid Earth Sciences
subject: 50204 Environmental Impact Assessment
subject: 90905 Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
subject: 40601 Geomorphology and Regolith and Landscape Evolution
subject: Oceanography
subject: 40503 Physical Oceanography
subject: Geophysics

description: The presented paper aims to assess the geomorphology of the Sunda Trench using the scripting cartographic techniques of Generic Mapping Tools (GMT). The GMT presents one of the technical mapping alternatives to the traditional GIS with well-defined scripting approaches for geomorphological mapping and scripting functionality which enables automatization in the geomorphological studies. In this context, modelling of the geospatial datasets is processing using machine learning approaches of GMT which presents fast and accurate modelling of the unreachable regions of the Earth, the deep-sea trenches. In this case, the study focused on the analysis of the submarine geomorphology of the selected segments of the Sunda Trench, located in the Indonesian archipelago, east Indian Ocean, by GMT scripting environment. This research effort is situated in the context of the geomorphology of the Sunda Trench. The aim is to point out which differences can be identified in the slope steepness of the cross-sectional profiles in the selected geomorphological segments of the trench in its southern and northern parts, as distinct by their geological settings and geospatial location. The actuality of the present paper is the analysis of the variations of the geomorphology in Indonesia supported by the GMT-based automated, machine-based geomorphological mapping, which plays an essential role in understanding of the Earth surface processes, sup- ports managements of natural resources, provides information for monitoring and prognosis of natural hazards and enables to predict possible changes in geomorphological evolution of the landforms.
Observation and cancellation of the dc Stark shift in strontium optical lattice clocks
Creators: name: Lodewyck, Jérôme
name: Zawada, Michal
name: Lorini, Luca
name: Gurov, Mikhail
name: Lemonde, Pierre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the observation of a dc Stark frequency shift at the $10^{-13}$ level by comparing two strontium optical lattice clocks. This frequency shift arises from the presence of electric charges trapped on dielectric surfaces placed under vacuum close to the atomic sample. We show that these charges can be eliminated by shining UV light on the dielectric surfaces, and characterize the residual dc Stark frequency shift on the clock transition at the $10^{-18}$ level by applying an external electric field. This study shows that the dc Stark shift can play an important role in the accuracy budget of lattice clocks, and should be duly taken into account.
Bank stock valuation theories: do they explain prices based on theories?
Creators: name: Leong, Ken-Yien
name: Ariff, Mohamed
name: Alireza, Zarei
name: Bhatti, Ishaq
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3502
subject: Banking, finance and investment
classificationCode: 3501
subject: Accounting, auditing and accountability

description: No description supplied.
Time Decay for solutions to One-Dimensional Two-Component Plasma Equations
Creators: name: Glassey, Robert
name: Pankavich, Stephen
name: Schaeffer, Jack
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We represent three generations of students: Bob Glassey, Walter's student finishing at Brown in 1972, Jack Schaeffer, Bob's student finishing at Indiana University in 1983, and Steve Pankavich, Jack's student finishing at Carnegie Mellon in 2005. We have all thrived professionally from our association with Walter and are delighted to dedicate this note to him on the occasion of his 70th birthday. The problem we study concerns the asymptotic behavior of solutions to Vlasov equations, an area to which Walter has contributed greatly.
description: 7 pages
Social networks, mobility biography and travel: paper
Creators: name: Axhausen, Kay W.
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: SOZIALE NETZWERKE (SOZIALWESEN)
subject: RÄUMLICHE MOBILITÄT (GEOGRAFIE)
subject: VERKEHRSVERHALTEN DER BEVÖLKERUNG (VERKEHR UND TRANSPORT)
subject: SOCIAL NETWORKS (SOCIAL WELFARE)
subject: SPATIAL MOBILITY (GEOGRAPHY)
subject: TRAVELLER BEHAVIOUR (TRANSPORTATION AND TRAFFIC)
subject: info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/624
subject: info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/380
subject: Civil engineering
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: Commerce, communications, transport

description: Arbeitsberichte Verkehrs- und Raumplanung, 343
Investigating menu discoverability on a digital tabletop in a public setting
Creators: name: Seto, Mindy
name: Scott, Stacey
name: Hancock, Mark
Publisher: name: ACM
Year: 2012

description: A common challenge to the design of digital tabletops for public settings is how to effectively invite and guide passersby--who often have no prior experience with such technology--to interact using unfamiliar interaction methods and interfaces. We characterize such enticement from the system interface as the system's discoverability. A particular challenge to modern surface interfaces is the discoverability of system functionality: does the system require gestures? are there system menus? if so, how are they invoked? This research focuses on the discoverability of system menus on digital tabletops designed for public settings. An observational study of menu invocation methods in a museum setting is reported. Study findings suggest that discernible and recognizable interface elements, such as buttons, supported by the use of animation, can effectively attract and guide the discovery of menus. Design recommendations for improving menu discoverability are also presented.
title:  Il contratto di rete tra segnali di vitalità e possibili ragioni di obsolescenza
Creators: name: D’Auria  , Massimo
Publisher: name: RomaTrE-Press
Year: 2019

description: Il saggio analizza l’istituto del contratto di rete nella dimensione legislativa, giurisprudenziale e dottrinale al fine di verificare in quali rischi dogmatici applicativi possa incorrere tale istituto.
description: Obsolescenza e caducità delle leggi civili
Multiwavelength Variability of the Blazars Mrk 421 and 3C 454.3 in the High-State
Creators: name: Gaur, Haritma
name: Gupta, Alok C.
name: Wiita, Paul J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the results of photometric observations of the blazars Mrk 421 and 3C 454.3 designed to search for intraday variability (IDV) and short-term variability (STV). Optical photometric observations were spread over eighteen nights for Mrk 421 and seven nights for 3C 454.3 during our observing run in 2009-2010 at the 1.04 m telescope at ARIES, India. Genuine IDV is found for the source 3C 454.3 but not for Mrk 421. Genuine STV is found for both sources. Mrk 421 was revealed by the MAXI X-ray detector on the International Space Station to be in an exceptionally high flux state in 2010 January - February. We performed a correlation between the X-ray and optical bands to search for time delays and found a weak correlation with higher frequencies leading the lower frequencies by about ten days. The blazar 3C 454.3 was found to be in high flux state in November-December 2009. We performed correlations in optical observations made at three telescopes, along with X-ray data from the MAXI satellite and public release gamma-ray data from the Fermi space telescope. We found strong correlations between the gamma-ray and optical bands at a time lag of about four days but the X-ray flux is not correlated with either. We briefly discuss the possible reasons for the time delays between these bands within the framework of existing models for X-ray and gamma-ray emission mechanisms.
description: 16 pages, 7 figures, 3 tables, aastex file was merged with manuscript file. now we have replaced the aastex file
MPEC 2023-X46 : 2023 XK
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 XK

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Probing Mach's principle
Creators: name: Annila, Arto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The principle of least action in its original form á la Maupertuis is used to explain geodetic and frame-dragging precessions which are customarily accounted for a curved spacetime by general relativity. The obtained least-time equations of motion agree with observations and are also in concert with general relativity. Yet according to the least-time principle, gravitation does not relate to the mathematical metric of spacetime, but to a tangible energy density embodied by photons. The density of free space is in balance with the total mass of the Universe in accord with Planck's law. Likewise, a local photon density and its phase distribution are in balance with mass and charge distribution of a local body. Here gravitational force is understood as an energy density difference that will diminish when the oppositely polarized pairs of photons co-propagate from the energy-dense system of bodies to the energy-sparse system of the surrounding free space. Thus when the body changes its state of motion, the surrounding energy density must accommodate the change. The concurrent resistance in restructuring of the surroundings, ultimately involving the entire Universe, is known as inertia. The all-around propagating energy density couples everything with everything else in accord with Mach's principle.
description: 7 pages, to appear in MNRAS
title: Общества трезвости Западной Сибири в условиях «сухого закона» Первой мировой войны
title: Sobriety Societies in Western Siberia in Conditions of “Dry Law” in the Years of the First World War
Creators: name: Белоус, Павел Владимирович
Publisher: name: Издательский центр СурГУ
Year: 2019

description: Существует точка зрения, согласно которой масштабы народного пьянства в начале XX века были катастрофичными. Также имеется немалое количество трудов, утверждающих обратное. В данной статье на основе фактов и мнений современников рассматриваются проблемы пьянства, а также деятельность обществ трезвости в территориальных рамках Тобольской епархии в годы Первой мировой войны.
description: There is a point of view, according to which drunkenness in Russia at the beginning of the 20th century acquired enormous proportions. There is also a considerable number of works claiming the opposite. The article describes the problems of drunkenness and the activities of sobriety societies in the Tobolsk eparchy during the Great War, 1914–1918, based on the facts and opinions of contemporaries.
Gradual Engagement between Digital Devices as a Function of Proximity: From Awareness to Progressive Reveal to Information Transfer
Creators: name: Marquardt, N.
name: Ballendat, T.
name: Boring, S.
name: Greenberg, S.
name: Hinckley, K.
Publisher: name: ACM
Year: 2012

description: The increasing number of digital devices in our environment enriches how we interact with digital content. Yet, cross-device information transfer -- which should be a common operation -- is surprisingly difficult. One has to know which devices can communicate, what information they contain, and how information can be exchanged. To mitigate this problem, we formulate the gradual engagement design pattern that generalizes prior work in proxemic interactions and informs future system designs. The pattern describes how we can design device interfaces to gradually engage the user by disclosing connectivity and information exchange capabilities as a function of inter-device proximity. These capabilities flow across three stages: (1) awareness of device presence/connectivity, (2) reveal of exchangeable content, and (3) interaction methods for transferring content between devices tuned to particular distances and device capabilities. We illustrate how we can apply this pattern to design, and show how existing and novel interaction techniques for cross-device transfers can be integrated to flow across its various stages. We explore how techniques differ between personal and semi-public devices, and how the pattern supports interaction of multiple users.
MPEC 2023-X47 : 2023 XL
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 XL

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Fusion algebras and cohomology of toroidal orbifolds
Creators: name: Duman, Ali Nabi
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: In this thesis we exhibit an explicit non-trivial example of the twisted fusion algebra for a particular finite group. The product is defined for the third power of modulo two group via the pairing of projective representations where the three cocycles are chosen using the inverse transgression map. We find the rank of the fusion algebra as well as the relation between its basis elements. We also give some applications to topological gauge theories. We next show that the twisted fusion algebra of the third power of modulo p group is isomorphic to the non-twisted fusion algebra of the extraspecial p-group of order p³ and exponent p. The final point of my thesis is to explicitly compute the cohomology groups of toroidal orbifolds which are the quotient spaces obtained by the action of modulo p group on the k-dimensional torus. We compute the particular case where the action is induced by the n-th power of augmentation ideal.
The X-ray luminous cluster underlying the z = 1.04 quasar PKS1229-021
Creators: name: Russell, H. R.
name: Fabian, A. C.
name: Taylor, G. B.
name: Sanders, J. S.
name: Blundell, K. M.
name: Crawford, C. S.
name: Johnstone, R. M.
name: Belsole, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a 100 ks Chandra observation studying the extended X-ray emission around the powerful z=1.04 quasar PKS1229-021. The diffuse cluster X-ray emission can be traced out to ~15 arcsec (~120 kpc) radius and there is a drop in the calculated hardness ratio inside the central 5 arcsec consistent with the presence of a cool core. Radio observations of the quasar show a strong core and a bright, one-sided jet leading to the SW hot spot and a second hot spot visible on the counter-jet side. Although the wings of the quasar PSF provided a significant contribution to the total X-ray flux at all radii where the extended cluster emission was detected, we were able to accurately subtract off the PSF emission using ChaRT and marx simulations. The resulting steep cluster surface brightness profile for PKS1229-021 appears similar to the profile for the FRII radio galaxy 3C444, which has a similarly rapid surface brightness drop caused by a powerful shock surrounding the radio lobes (Croston et al.). Using a model surface brightness profile based on 3C444, we estimated the total cluster luminosity for PKS1229-021 to be L_X ~ 2 x 10^{44} erg/s. We discuss the difficulty of detecting cool core clusters, which host bright X-ray sources, in high redshift surveys.
description: 10 pages, 9 figures, accepted by MNRAS
Zur Geologie des Nord-Alamut Gebietes (Zentral-Elburz, Iran)
Creators: name: Seger, Felix Ernst
Publisher: name: Zürich
Year: 1977
Subjects: ELBURZ MOUNTAINS (MOUNTAINS OF CENTRAL ASIA)
STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY
GEOLOGY + REGIONAL GEOLOGY + EARTH SCIENCES
LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY
IRAN (WEST ASIA). ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN

description: Diss. Naturwiss. ETH Zürich, Nr. 6093, 0000. Ref.: Gansser, A. ; Korref.: Stöcklin, J.