cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Generalized Dynamics for Second Kind of Soft-Matter Quasicrystals
Creators: name: Fan, Tian-You
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The equations of generalized dynamics of the first kind of soft-matter quasicrystals are derived and given in the previous report, we now introduce the equations of the dynamics for the second kind of quasicrystals in soft matter.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1908.06425
High-Throughput In-Memory Computing for Binary Deep Neural Networks with Monolithically Integrated RRAM and 90nm CMOS
Creators: name: Yin, Shihui
name: Sun, Xiaoyu
name: Yu, Shimeng
name: Seo, Jae-sun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Deep learning hardware designs have been bottlenecked by conventional memories such as SRAM due to density, leakage and parallel computing challenges. Resistive devices can address the density and volatility issues, but have been limited by peripheral circuit integration. In this work, we demonstrate a scalable RRAM based in-memory computing design, termed XNOR-RRAM, which is fabricated in a 90nm CMOS technology with monolithic integration of RRAM devices between metal 1 and 2. We integrated a 128x64 RRAM array with CMOS peripheral circuits including row/column decoders and flash analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), which collectively become a core component for scalable RRAM-based in-memory computing towards large deep neural networks (DNNs). To maximize the parallelism of in-memory computing, we assert all 128 wordlines of the RRAM array simultaneously, perform analog computing along the bitlines, and digitize the bitline voltages using ADCs. The resistance distribution of low resistance states is tightened by write-verify scheme, and the ADC offset is calibrated. Prototype chip measurements show that the proposed design achieves high binary DNN accuracy of 98.5% for MNIST and 83.5% for CIFAR-10 datasets, respectively, with energy efficiency of 24 TOPS/W and 158 GOPS throughput. This represents 5.6X, 3.2X, 14.1X improvements in throughput, energy-delay product (EDP), and energy-delay-squared product (ED2P), respectively, compared to the state-of-the-art literature. The proposed XNOR-RRAM can enable intelligent functionalities for area-/energy-constrained edge computing devices.
Cold Clouds as Cosmic-Ray Detectors
Creators: name: Bialy, Shmuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Low energy cosmic-rays (CRs) are responsible for gas heating and ionization of interstellar clouds, which in turn introduces coupling to Galactic magnetic fields. So far the CR ionization rate (CRIR) has been estimated using indirect methods, such as its effect on the abundances of various rare molecular species. Here we show that the CRIR may be constrained from line emission of H$_2$ rovibrational transitions, excited by CRs. We derive the required conditions for CRs to dominate line excitation, and show that CR-excited lines may be detected with the Very Large Telescope (VLT) over 8 hours integration. Our method, if successfully applied to a variety of clouds at different Galactic locations will provide improved constraints on the spectrum of low energy CRs and their origins.
description: Accepted for publication in Nature Communications Physics. (editorial style changes following Nature publishing requirements, and some typo corrections)
Magnetic states of iron-based two-leg ladder tellurides
Creators: name: Zhang, Yang
name: Lin, Ling-Fang
name: Moreo, Adriana
name: Dong, Shuai
name: Dagotto, Elbio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recent discovery of superconductivity at high pressure in the two-leg ladder compounds BaFe$_2X_3$ ($X$=S, Se) started the novel field of quasi-one-dimensional iron-based superconductors. In this publication, we use Density Functional Theory (DFT) to predict that the previously barely explored ladder compound RbFe$_2$Te$_3$ should be magnetic with a CX-type arrangement involving ferromagnetic rungs and antiferromagnetic legs, at the realistic density of $n=5.5$ electrons per iron. The magnetic state similarity with BaFe$_2$S$_3$ suggests that RbFe$_2$Te$_3$ could also become superconducting under pressure. Moreover, at $n=6.0$ our DFT phase diagrams (with and without lattice tetramerization) reveal that the stable magnetic states could be either a 2$\times$2 magnetic Block-type, as for $X$=Se, or a previously never observed before CY-type state, with ferromagnetic legs and antiferromagnetic rungs. In the Te-based studies, electrons are more localized than in S, implying that the degree of electronic correlation is enhanced for the Te case.
description: 9pages, 7 figures
Gender Ambivalence in Late-Renaissance Italy: The Career and Reception of Tarquinia Molza
Creators: name: Firth, Kathryn
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2017

description: The role of women changed constantly during the Renaissance era. Especially notable was the evolution of the role of women within the arts, in which the female gender was becoming particularly sought after. One woman deserving of attention is poetess, philosopher, and musician Tarquinia Molza (1542-1617) who enjoyed notable success at the court of Ferrara. Molza by-passed gender conventions of the day by engaging in traditionally “masculine” activities like philosophy and “feminine” ones such as singing. While there is plentiful scholarship about Molza, no current scholarship has specifically considered how questions regarding the ambivalence of her gender affected Molza’s relationship with her contemporaries.
This thesis explores how the notion of masculinity and femininity impacted Molza’s reception among her peers. In order to do so, I examine Molza’s philosophical, poetic, and musical output, before looking at a similarly diverse output from her contemporaries. Though this study does not encompass all of the poetry and musical settings dedicated to Molza, it helps us gain a sense of poetic and musical style, providing the basis for further study.
My thesis seeks to further our understanding of the role of women in the northern Italian courts during the second half of the sixteenth century, and strives to examine the links between the gender ambivalence surrounding Tarquinia Molza and her reception among her contemporaries. Moreover, this study sheds light on the importance of gendered rhetoric in late sixteenth-century culture, a consideration that can be further developed and applied to the study of other notable figures.
A Lesson in Loving the Word: Translating Clarice Lispector into Polish
Creators: name: Gabor, Agnieszka
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2017

description: The goal of this thesis is to discuss Clarice Lispector in the Polish context and address the potential gaps in the reception of her oeuvre. Since the principal vehicle of popularizing her writing outside of the Portuguese-speaking world is translation, my thesis also examines the current situation of the Polish translations of Lispector’s work. Based on my research, I contend that the angle of interpretation related to Lispector’s literary awareness has not been well explored in Poland. Given that the perspective related to the creation process constitutes a recurrent characteristic of Lispector’s narrative, I provide a textual analysis of four short stories which specifically deal with this aspect of her writing: “O ovo e a galinha” [The Egg and the Chicken], “A quinta história” [The Fifth Story], “Seco estudo de cavalos” [Dry Sketch of Horses], and “O relatório da coisa” [Report on the Thing]. In order to address and promote this sphere of Lispector studies in Poland, I propose a translation of the above-mentioned four short stories, followed by a description of the challenges I have encountered as a translator of Lispector’s complex poetics. A survey of the most influential translation theories contextualizes both the suggested translations of Lispector’s stories and my own translation experience. With this project, I aim to reintroduce, revitalize, and rewrite – in the form of the presented textual analyses and the proposed translations – Clarice Lispector’s work in the Polish context.
Investigation of Cytochrome P450 Monooxygenases in S. homoeocarpa for Chlorothalonil Biotransformation
Creators: name: Green, Robert
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2017

description: Sclerotinia homoeocarpa (F.T. Bennett) is one of the most economically important pathogens on high amenity cool-season turfgrasses where it causes dollar spot. Due to decades of over-reliance and repeated chemical treatments, S. homoeocarpa has developed resistance and insensitivity to multiple classes of fungicides. To understand the genetic mechanisms of fungicide resistance, the whole genomes of two strains with varying resistance levels to fungicides, were sequenced. In unpublished data (Sang et al.), a RNA-sequencing analysis revealed three CYP450s that were validated to play a functional role in S. homoeocarpa’s resistance against different fungicide classes. We also identified CYP450 metabolic action on the multi-site mode of action fungicide chlorothalonil. Chlorothalonil is an extensively used contact fungicide and has been known to be persistent in soils. Yet, S. homoeocarpa resistance to chlorothalonil has not been reported in the field. High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) indicated faster rates of chlorothalonil biotransformation by CYP450 overexpression strains when compared to the wild-type. We show by GC-MS that the primary transformation intermediate found in soils, 4-hydroxy-2,5,6 trichloroisophthalonitrile is produced by CYP450s’ metabolism.
Exploring the worldline formulation of the Potts model
Creators: name: Gattringer, Christof
name: Göschl, Daniel
name: Törek, Pascal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We revisit the issue of worldline formulations for the q-state Potts model and discuss a worldline representation in arbitrary dimensions which also allows for magnetic terms. For vanishing magnetic field we implement a Hodge decomposition for resolving the constraints with dual variables, which in two dimensions implies self-duality as a simple corollary. We present exploratory 2-d Monte Carlo simulations in terms of the worldlines, based on worm algorithms. We study both, vanishing and non-zero magnetic field, and explore q between q = 2 and q = 30, i.e., Potts models with continuous, as well as strong first order transitions.
description: Discussion of statistical errors improved and various comments added. Final version to appear in Nuclear Physics B
Static Axisymmetric Vacuum Solutions and Non-Uniform Black Strings
Creators: name: Wiseman, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe new numerical methods to solve the static axisymmetric vacuum Einstein equations in more than four dimensions. As an illustration, we study the compactified non-uniform black string phase connected to the uniform strings at the Gregory-Laflamme critical point. We compute solutions with a ratio of maximum to minimum horizon radius up to nine. For a fixed compactification radius, the mass of these solutions is larger than the mass of the classically unstable uniform strings. Thus they cannot be the end state of the instability.
description: 48 pages, 13 colour figures; v2: references corrected
Cicurina (Cicurella) brunsi Cokendolpher 2004
Creators: name: Paquin, Pierre
name: Dupérré, Nadine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Hahniidae
Cicurina
Cicurina brunsi

description: Cicurina (Cicurella) brunsi Cokendolpher 2004
(Figs 18–19, 134)
 Cicurina brunsi Cokendolpher 2004a: 19–20, 22, 24, 27, 34, 38 –40, figs 32–33 (description of female). — Jackman 1997: 162; Reddell & Cokendolpher 2004: 79; Paquin & Hedin 2004: 3243–3245, 3249, 3253.
 HOLOTYPE female: “ Texas: Bexar Co., Camp Bullis, Stahl Cave, 1 Nov. 2001, J.R. Reddell and M. Reyes (molted 14 Dec. 2001, 2 Aug. 2002)”. Examined (AMNH).
 Description. Female holotype
Total length: 3.51; carapace length: 1.53; carapace width: 1.08; opisthosoma length: 1.98. Eyes absent. Cheliceral promargin right side with 3 teeth (1 large, 2 small), left side likewise; retromargin right side with 7 denticles (3 large, 4 small), left side with 6 denticles (3 large, 3 small). Leg I: total length: 4.30; femur: 1.25; patella: 0.45; tibia: 1.05; metatarsus: 0.95; tarsus: 0.60; leg IV: total length: 4.75; femur: 1.15; patella: 0.50; tibia: 1.10; metatarsus: 1.25; tarsus: 0.75. Tarsal claw IV: 0.15. Epigynum: 0.294 mm. Epigynal ventral plate with long transverse slit, bearing medial, shallow, inverted V-shaped indentation; atrium rectangular, half intruded by dorsal plate, atrial aperture moderate; bursa enlarged, not fused; copulatory ducts scarcely separated at midpoint, reaching top of primary lobe apex; copulatory ducts constriction located basally; primary pores not visible; stalk, short, straight, horizontal, joining the primary lobe at the aperture of the dictynoid pore; dictynoid pore rounded; primary lobe ear-shaped; secondary lobe absent; fertilization canal long, externally positioned from dictynoid pore; fertilization duct medially attached to the primary lobe base.
 Distribution. Only reported from the type locality: Stahl Cave (Bexar County, Texas, Fig. 134).
 Remarks. Male unknown.
description: Published as part of Paquin, Pierre & Dupérré, Nadine, 2009, of 60 troglobitic species of the subgenus Cicurella (Araneae: Dictynidae), and a first visual assessment of their distribution, pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 2002 on pages 16-17
Quasi-stationary distributions for stochastic processes with an absorbing state
Creators: name: Dickman, Ronald
name: Vidigal, Ronaldo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the long-time behavior of stochastic models with an absorbing state, conditioned on survival. For a large class of processes, in which saturation prevents unlimited growth, statistical properties of the surviving sample attain time-independent limiting values. We may then define a quasi-stationary probability distribution as one in which the ratios p_n(t)/p_m(t) (for any pair of nonabsorbing states n and m), are time-independent. This is not a true stationary distribution, since the overall normalization decays as probability flows irreversibly to the absorbing state. We construct quasi-stationary solutions for the contact process on a complete graph, the Malthus-Verhulst process, Schlogl's second model, and the voter model on a complete graph. We also construct the master equation and quasi-stationary state in a two-site approximation for the contact process, and for a pair of competing Malthus-Verhulst processes.
description: 20 pages, 13 figures
A Magnetic Resonance Compatible Knee Extension Ergometer
Creators: name: Jaber, Youssef
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2017

description: The product of this thesis aims to enable the study of the biochemical and physical dynamics of the lower limbs at high levels of muscle tension and fast contraction speeds. This is accomplished in part by a magnetic resonance (MR) compatible ergometer designed to apply a load as a torque of up to 420 Nm acting against knee extension at speeds as high as 4.7 rad/s. The system can also be adapted to apply the load as a force of up to 1200 N acting against full leg extension. The ergometer is designed to enable the use of magnetic resonance spectroscopy and imaging in a three Tesla Siemens Skyra MRI system. Due to the electromagnetic limitations of having the device operate inside the magnet, the design is split into two components. One designed to fit inside the 70 cm bore of the scanner. This component is electromagnetically passive; made out of materials exhibiting minimal magnetic interference, and having no electrically powered parts. The other component is electromagnetically active; it contains all of the powered elements and actuates the passive part from another room. A tensioned cable transmits power through a waveguide; a pipe through the wall of the MRI room with an RF shield. The device was tested applying a sagittal plane moment on the knee joint during isometric, isokinetic, isotonic, and constant power contractions.
HUMANITY IN A CHILDREN’S CANCER HOSPITAL
Creators: name: Jandaghi Jafari, Sara
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2017

description: Children, who are the future of the country, are the most important asset. If cancer in children is diagnosed at an early stage, effective precautionary measures can be taken in order to save their lives. Children sense their physical space in a very immediate and detailed manner and their response to spaces can be far more direct and energetic than adults. For children, visiting hospitals can be particularly difficult emotionally, as they are stressed by ill-health, painful medical procedures.
The objectives of this research are first to understand what constitutes a supportive pediatric setting from children’s and adolescents’ perspectives and try to explore the role of architecture in making hospital stays more pleasant. Second, to define a vision for the sustainable hospital design movement; and third, to illustrate the value of participatory research for healthcare design. The outline is a new design of the children hospital and how architectural design steps can be taken to improve cancer patients’ care.
On the Scaling Violations of Diffractive Structure Functions: Operator Approach
Creators: name: Blümlein, J.
name: Robaschik, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A quantum field theoretic treatment of inclusive deep-inelastic diffractive scattering is given. The process can be described in the general framework of non-forward scattering processes using the light-cone expansion in the generalized Bjorken region. Evolution equations of the diffractive hadronic matrix elements are derived at the level of the twist-2 contributions and are compared to those of inclusive deep-inelastic forward scattering (DIS). The diffractive parton densities are obtained as projections of two-variable parton distributions. We also comment on the higher twist contributions in the light-cone expansion.
description: 12 pages LATEX, 2 style files
Teleportation of Berry curvature on the surface of a Hopf insulator
Creators: name: Alexandradinata, A.
name: Nelson, Aleksandra
name: Soluyanov, Alexey A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The existing paradigm for topological insulators asserts that an energy gap separates conduction and valence bands with opposite topological invariants. Here, we propose that \textit{equal}-energy bands with opposite Chern invariants can be \textit{spatially} separated -- onto opposite facets of a finite crystalline Hopf insulator. On a single facet, the number of curvature quanta is in one-to-one correspondence with the bulk homotopy invariant of the Hopf insulator -- this originates from a novel bulk-to-boundary flow of Berry curvature which is \textit{not} a type of Callan-Harvey anomaly inflow. In the continuum perspective, such nontrivial surface states arise as \textit{non}-chiral, Schrödinger-type modes on the domain wall of a generalized Weyl equation -- describing a pair of opposite-chirality Weyl fermions acting as a \textit{dipolar} source of Berry curvature. A rotation-invariant lattice regularization of the generalized Weyl equation manifests a generalized Thouless pump -- which translates charge by one lattice period over \textit{half} an adiabatic cycle, but reverses the charge flow over the next half.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures. Version 2: title and abstract are modified to shift emphasis, but content in the main text is unchanged except for minor improvements in presentation
Cicurina (Cicurella) coryelli Gertsch 1992
Creators: name: Paquin, Pierre
name: Dupérré, Nadine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Hahniidae
Cicurina
Cicurina coryelli

description: Cicurina (Cicurella) coryelli Gertsch 1992
(Figs 30–31, 129)
 Gertsch 1992: 103, figs 71–72 (description of female). — Jackman 1997: 162; Cokendolpher & Reddell 2001: 40, figs 4–7; Cokendolpher 2004b: 59–61; Paquin & Hedin 2004: 3243–3245, 3249, 3253; Taylor et al. 2005: 98.
 HOLOTYPE female: “ Texas; Coryell County; Tippit Cave. 31 Jan. 1992 J. Reddell, M. Reyes ”. Examined (AMNH).
 Additional material examined. UNITED STATES: Coryell County: Big Red Cave (Fort Hood), 06.v.1999, 1♀, J. Reddell, M. Reyes (TMM); Egypt Cave (Fort Hood), 07.iv.1999, 1♀ [TMM #14230], J. Reddell, M. Reyes (TMM).
 Description. Female holotype
Total length: 3.80; carapace length: 1.70; carapace width: 1.10; opisthosoma length: 2.10. Eyes absent. Cheliceral promargin right side with 3 teeth (2 large, 1 small), left side with 3 teeth (2 large, 1 small); retromargin right side with 7 denticles (2 large, 5 small), left side with 6 denticles (2 large, 4 small). Leg I: total length: 5.00; femur: 1.40; patella: 0.55; tibia: 1.20; metatarsus: 1.05; tarsus: 0.80; leg IV: total length: 5.43; femur: 1.45; patella: 0.55; tibia: 1.25; metatarsus: 1.55; tarsus: 0.83. Tarsal claw IV: 0.13. Epigynum: 0.196 mm (half). Epigynal ventral plate with short transverse slit, bearing medial, deep, inverted U-shaped indentation; stalk, short, straight, horizontally directed.
 Distribution. Reported from three caves: Big Red Cave, Egypt Cave, Tippit Cave (type locality), all located in Coryell County (Texas, Fig. 129). The map provided by Cokendolpher & Reddell (2001) places one of these three caves in Bell County, which appears incorrect.
 Remarks. Male unknown. The epigynum description of the type specimen presented here is incomplete because this structure is heavily damaged. To bypass this problem and provide useable characters for species identification, Cokendolpher & Reddell (2001) illustrated another female collected in the same cave, that Gertsch (1992) also examined. As pointed by Cokendolpher & Reddell (2001), the holotype specimen epigynum was likely crushed when Gertsch described the species, as shown by his illustrations that do not show connecting ducts.
description: Published as part of Paquin, Pierre & Dupérré, Nadine, 2009, of 60 troglobitic species of the subgenus Cicurella (Araneae: Dictynidae), and a first visual assessment of their distribution, pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 2002 on page 22
Generalized parton distributions for weakly bound systems from light-front quantum mechanics
Creators: name: Tiburzi, B. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present generalized parton distributions for weakly bound systems on the light cone in order to build intuition about the light-front formalism. Physics at the crossover is reviewed in terms of the light-cone Fock space representation. Furthermore, we link light-cone Fock components to the equal (light-cone) time projection of the covariant Bethe-Salpeter amplitude. Continuity of the distributions arises naturally in this weak binding model.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures. Talk given at conference, "Exclusive Processes at High Momentum Transfer," held at Jefferson Laboratory, May 15-18, 2002
Suggestions for Benchmark Scenarios for MSSM Higgs Boson Searches at Hadron Colliders
Creators: name: Carena, M.
name: Heinemeyer, S.
name: Wagner, C. E. M.
name: Weiglein, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Higgs boson search has shifted from LEP2 to the Tevatron and will subsequently move to the LHC. Due to the different initial states, the Higgs production and decay channels relevant for Higgs boson searches were different at LEP2 to what they are at hadron colliders. We suggest new benchmark scenarios for the MSSM Higgs boson search at hadron colliders that exemplify the phenomenology of different parts of the MSSM parameter space. Besides the m_h^max scenario and the no-mixing scenario used in the LEP2 Higgs boson searches, we propose two new scenarios. In one the main production channel at the LHC, gg -> h, is suppressed. In the other, important Higgs decay channels at the Tevatron and at the LHC, h -> b \bar b and h -> tau^+ tau^-, are suppressed. All scenarios evade the LEP2 constraints for nearly the whole M_A-tan beta-plane.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures, extended version of the contribution to the workshop "Physics at TeV Colliders", Les Houches, France, May 2001
Functional approach to 2+1 dimensional gravity coupled to particles
Creators: name: Cantini, Luigi
name: Menotti, Pietro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The quantum gravity problem of N point particles interacting with the gravitational field in 2+1 dimensions is approached working out the phase-space functional integral. The maximally slicing gauge is adopted for a non compact open universe with the topology of the plane. The conjugate momenta to the gravitational field are related to a class of meromorphic quadratic differentials. The boundary term for the non compact space is worked out in detail. In the extraction of the physical degrees of freedom functional determinants related to the puncture formulation of string theory occur and cancel out in the final reduction. Finally the ordering problem in the definition of the functional integral is discussed.
description: 29 pages LaTex
Correspondencias Tempestuosas: Tres Ensayos para Acompañar a Sycorax y Calibán
Creators: name: vidales, santiago
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2014

description: William Shakespeare’s (1564-1616) theatrical work The Tempest was first performed in 1611 at the court of James I. Since the XVII century until today this work of art has travelled the world and has been (re)interpreted from the perspective of multiple ideologies. This thesis seeks to understand the representations and uses that Caliban has had in different spaces and historical moments. The anti-colonial interpretations of Roberto Fernández Retamar authorize us to read metaphorically the current socio-political situation of Latin immigrants in the United States through the perspective of The Tempest. The first chapter of this thesis studies and critically analyzes the way in which the character Caliban is negatively constructed. This chapter concludes that many of the critics that are cited base their interpretations of Caliban not necessarily on textual evidence but rather on their own colonial and oppressive ideologies. To illustrate this tension I present a detailed analysis of the supposed rape of Miranda by Caliban, I analyze Caliban’s poetic voice and give historical context of the theatrical work’s production and its critical reception by the European literary tradition. The second chapter seeks to present an ideological and analytic counterpoint to this European tradition. This chapter presents the anti-colonial project of Roberto Fernández Retamar who throughout his many essays on Caliban turned this character into a symbol of Latin-American and revolutionary identity. In this section I study the evolution of Fernández Retamar’s thinking through his many essays on Caliban. To understand the importance of his literary reinterpretation I analyze the Cuban historical context of the 60’s and 70’s while paying particular attention to the controversies surrounding the “Padilla affair”. The third chapter applies a metaphorical historic reading of contemporary Latin communities in the United States using the characters of The Tempest. This chapter seeks to centralize the importance of the feminine voice in this theatrical work by combating the supposed silence of Sycorax, Caliban’s mother. In this section I do a detailed textual study to demonstrate that Sycorax, even though she has no lines of her own, is an important character in the play and can be seen as a correction to a long masculinist trajectory that has silenced the importance of women in colonial literature. This last chapter seeks to synthesize the analyzing and theorizing of literature, the studying of social movements in Massachusetts and the political and social status of Latin people using Sycorax + Caliban as an identity metaphor. 
Design by Immersion: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Problem-Driven Visualizations
Creators: name: Hall, Kyle Wm.
name: Bradley, Adam J.
name: Hinrichs, Uta
name: Huron, Samuel
name: Wood, Jo
name: Collins, Christopher
name: Carpendale, Sheelagh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: H.5.0; H.5.2; I.3.6; I.3.8

description: While previous work exists on how to conduct and disseminate insights from problem-driven visualization projects and design studies, the literature does not address how to accomplish these goals in transdisciplinary teams in ways that advance all disciplines involved. In this paper we introduce and define a new methodological paradigm we call design by immersion, which provides an alternative perspective on problem-driven visualization work. Design by immersion embeds transdisciplinary experiences at the center of the visualization process by having visualization researchers participate in the work of the target domain (or domain experts participate in visualization research). Based on our own combined experiences of working on cross-disciplinary, problem-driven visualization projects, we present six case studies that expose the opportunities that design by immersion enables, including (1) exploring new domain-inspired visualization design spaces, (2) enriching domain understanding through personal experiences, and (3) building strong transdisciplinary relationships. Furthermore, we illustrate how the process of design by immersion opens up a diverse set of design activities that can be combined in different ways depending on the type of collaboration, project, and goals. Finally, we discuss the challenges and potential pitfalls of design by immersion.
description: The paper has been accepted to IEEE VIS (InfoVis) 2019, and will appear IEEE TVCG. ACM 2012 CCS - Human-centered computing, Visualization, Visualization design and evaluation methods
Numerical analysis of the master equation
Creators: name: Dickman, Ronald
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Applied to the master equation, the usual numerical integration methods, such as Runge-Kutta, become inefficient when the rates associated with various transitions differ by several orders of magnitude. We introduce an integration scheme that remains stable with much larger time increments than can be used in standard methods. When only the stationary distribution is required, a direct iteration method is even more rapid; this method may be extended to construct the quasi-stationary distribution of a process with an absorbing state. Applications to birth-and-death processes reveal gains in efficiency of two or more orders of magnitude.
description: 7 pages 3 figures
Cicurina (Cicurella) delrio Gertsch 1992
Creators: name: Paquin, Pierre
name: Dupérré, Nadine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Hahniidae
Cicurina
Cicurina delrio

description: Cicurina (Cicurella) delrio Gertsch 1992
(Figs 34–35, 138)
 Cicurina delrio Gertsch 1992: 96, charts 1–2, figs 21–22 (description of female). — Jackman 1997: 162.
 HOLOTYPE female: “ Texas; Sunset Cave, Val Verde Co., 12 mi. NW Del Rio (on Ellison Brit Ranch), on slit 50’ from entrance. December 14, 1962. Reddell & Russell”. Examined (AMNH).
 Additional material examined. UNITED STATES: Val Verde County: Diablo Cave (Calyx hole entrance), 11.viii.1963, 1♀ 1 juv., under a rotting shirt, J. Reddell, D. McKenzie (AMNH).
 Description. Female holotype
Total length: 3.90; carapace length: 1.65; carapace width: 1.25; opisthosoma length 2.25. Six eyes reduced to pale remnant spots. Cheliceral promargin right side with 3 teeth (2 large, 1 small), left side likewise, retromargin right side with 7 denticles (2 large, 5 small), left side 6 denticles (2 large, 4 small). Leg I total length: 4.95; femur: 1.35; patella: 0.50; tibia: 1.20; metatarsus: 1.00; tarsus: 0.70. Leg IV missing. Epigynum length: 0.462 mm. Epigynal ventral plate with long transverse slit, bearing medial, shallow, inverted U-shaped indentation; atrium rectangular, half intruded by straight dorsal plate; atrial aperture large; bursa slightly enlarged, not fused; copulatory ducts scarcely separated at midpoint, reaching over the top of primary lobe apex; copulatory ducts constriction located sub-basally; primary pores not visible; stalk short, procurved, joining primary lobe at the aperture of the dictynoid pore; dictynoid pore rounded; primary lobe light-bulb shape; secondary lobe absent; fertilization canal short, reaching the dictynoid pore; fertilization duct internally attached to the primary lobe base.
 Distribution. Known from Diablo Cave, Sunset Cave (type locality) and Unnamed Cave No 8, all three caves in Val Verde County (Texas, Fig. 138). The specimen from Unnamed Cave No 8 could not be located and examined to confirm the occurrence of Cicurina (Cicurella) delrio in that cave. However, the locality is included in Fig. 138 based on Gertsch’s (1992) record and indicated by an open symbol.
 Remarks. Male unknown. Gertsch (1992) added the information “on wall 50 feet from cave entrance” for that specimen, but that information does not appear on the label. Gertsch (1992) considered Cicurina (Cicurella) delrio as an eyed taxon, along with other epigean species. Examination of the type and other specimens of that species however suggest that the eyes are not functional and the species is clearly a troglobite. See also Cicurina (Cicurella) mirifica.
description: Published as part of Paquin, Pierre & Dupérré, Nadine, 2009, of 60 troglobitic species of the subgenus Cicurella (Araneae: Dictynidae), and a first visual assessment of their distribution, pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 2002 on page 23
Unitarity Triangles and the Search for New Physics
Creators: name: Botella, F. J.
name: Branco, G. C.
name: Nebot, M.
name: Rebelo, M. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Assuming that the Kobayashi-Maskawa mechanism gives the dominant contribution to CP violation at low energies, we propose a novel way of testing the flavour sector of the Standard Model which has the potencial for discovering New Physics. Using 3 x 3 unitarity of the V_{CKM} matrix and choosing a complete set of rephasing invariant phases, we derive a set of exact relations in terms of measurable quantities, namely moduli of V_{CKM} and arguments of rephasing invariant quartets. These tests complement the usual analysis in the ρ, ηplane and, if there is New Physics, may reveal its source.
description: 20 pages, 7 figures, uses tcilatex
The Chiral Anomaly and High-Energy Scattering in QCD
Creators: name: White, Alan R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Infra-red properties of the triangle anomaly and the ``anomaly pole'' are elaborated and applied to the study of high-energy scattering in QCD, when the gauge symmetry is partially broken to SU(2). It is shown that the chiral flavor anomaly provides a wee-gluon component for Goldstone bosons that combines with interactions due to the U(1) anomaly to produce an infra-red transverse momentum scaling divergence in scattering amplitudes. After the divergence is factorized out, as a wee-gluon condensate in the infinite momentum pion, the remaining physical amplitudes have confinement and chiral symmetry breaking. A lowest-order contribution to the pion scattering amplitude is calculated in detail. Although originating from very complicated diagrams, the amplitude has a remarkable (semi-)perturbative simplicity. The momentum structure is that of single gluon exchange but zero momentum quarks inject additional spin and color structure via anomaly interactions.
description: 64 pages, 33 ps figures in the text. Version to be published
Adaptive Design of Experiments for Conservative Estimation of Excursion Sets
Creators: name: Azzimonti, Dario
name: Ginsbourger, David
name: Chevalier, Clément
name: Bect, Julien
name: Richet, Yann
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: We consider the problem of estimating the set of all inputs that leads a system to some particular behavior. The system is modeled by an expensive-to-evaluate function, such as a computer experiment, and we are interested in its excursion set, that is, the set of points where the function takes values above or below some prescribed threshold. The objective function is emulated with a Gaussian process (GP) model based on an initial design of experiments enriched with evaluation results at (batch-) sequentially determined input points. The GP model provides conservative estimates for the excursion set, which control false positives while minimizing false negatives. We introduce adaptive strategies that sequentially select new evaluations of the function by reducing the uncertainty on conservative estimates. Following the stepwise uncertainty reduction approach we obtain new evaluations by minimizing adapted criteria. Tractable formulas for the conservative criteria are derived, which allow more convenient optimization. The method is benchmarked on random functions generated under the model assumptions in different scenarios of noise and batch size. We then apply it to a reliability engineering test case. Overall, the proposed strategy of minimizing false negatives in conservative estimation achieves competitive performance both in terms of model-based and model-free indicators. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.
Grid Valuation of Beef Carcass Quality: Market Power and Market Trends
Creators: name: Fausti, Scott W.
name: Qasmi, Bashir A.
name: Diersen, Matthew A
name: Adamson, Bill
name: Fausti, Scott W.
name: Qasmi, Bashir A.
name: Diersen, Matthew A
name: Adamson, Bill
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: slaughter cattle
subject: grid valuation
subject: carcass quality
subject: packers market poewr
subject: oligopsomy rent

description: The fed cattle grid pricing system’s premium and discount incentive mechanism is investigated. Two issues are addressed: a) we investigate changes in the weekly market value of an animal’s carcass quality attributes as determined by the USDA-Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) additive grid; and b) an evaluation of the effect of packer behavior on grid valuation of carcass quality attributes. A pooled-cross sectional data set containing carcass information on 598 fed steers evaluated weekly on the AMS publically reported price grid (National Carcass Premiums and Discounts for Slaughter Steers and Heifers) was constructed for the years 2001 to 2008 (226,000 observations). Thus individual animal carcass quality characteristics are held constant through time. For the 598 animals included in this study, the empirical evidence suggests that: a) premiums and discounts associated with specific carcass quality attributes have been adjusting over time; b) during periods of packer cooperative behavior in the fed cattle market, the market value of carcass quality declined, on average, by $0.50 per hundred weight; and c) the average market value of an animal’s carcass quality, meeting industry quality standards, exhibited a positive trend during the study period. This implies the grid incentive mechanism strengthened during this period for those producers who produced fed cattle that met industry quality standards.
VVV-WIT-04: an extragalactic variable source caught by the VVV Survey
Creators: name: Saito, Roberto K.
name: Minniti, Dante
name: Ivanov, Valentin D.
name: Masetti, Nicola
name: Navarro, Maria Gabriela
name: Fernandes, Roberto Cid
name: Ruschel-Dutra, Daniel
name: Smith, Leigh C.
name: Lucas, Philip W.
name: Gonzalez-Fernandez, Carlos
name: Ramos, Rodrigo Contreras
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the discovery of VVV-WIT-04, a near-infrared variable source towards the Galactic disk located ~0.2 arcsec apart from the position of the radio source PMN J1515-5559. The object was found serendipitously in the near-IR data of the ESO public survey VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea (VVV). Our analysis is based on variability, multicolor, and proper motion data from VVV and VVV eXtended surveys, complemented with archive data at longer wavelengths. We suggest that VVV-WIT-04 has an extragalactic origin as the near-IR counterpart of PMN J1515-5559. The Ks-band light-curve of VVV-WIT-04 is highly variable and consistent with that of an Optically Violent Variable (OVV) quasar. The variability in the near-IR can be interpreted as the redshifted optical variability. Residuals to the proper motion varies with the magnitude suggesting contamination by a blended source. Alternative scenarios, including a transient event such as a nova or supernova, or even a binary microlensing event are not in agreement with the available data.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Dynamic input demand functions and resource adjustment for US agriculture: state evidence
Creators: name: Warjiyo, Perry
name: Huffman, Wallace E.
name: Warjiyo, Perry
name: Huffman, Wallace E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis
Production Economics

description: The paper presents an econometric model of dynamic agricultural input demand functions that include research based technical change and autoregressive disturbances and fits the model to annual data for a set of state aggregates pooled over 1950-1982. The methodological approach is one of developing a theoretical foundation for a dynamic input demand system and accepting state aggreage behavior as approximated by nonlinear adjustment costs and long-term profit maximization. Although other studies have largely ignored autocorrelation in dynamic input demand systems, the results show shorter adjustment lags with autocorrelation than without. Dynamic input demand own-price elasticities for the six input groups are inelastic, and the demand functions possess significant cross-price and research effects.
China and Taiwan access to the World Trade Organization: implications for U.S. agriculture and trade
Creators: name: Wang, Zhi
name: Wang, Zhi
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
International Relations/Trade

description: This paper investigates the impact of China's and Taiwan's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) on U.S. and world agricultural trade by means of a 12-region, 14-sector Computable General Equilibrium model for world trade and production. The simulation results show that integrating China and Taiwan into the global trading system could induce more competition on labor-intensive products and reduce their prices. It could drive up the demand for capital and skill-intensive manufactured goods, thus further improving industrial countries' terms of trade. The expansion of labor-intensive sectors in China could also induce contraction in agricultural exports from China and increase its net agricultural imports by as much as US$9 billion annually, causing food and agricultural exports from other regions to increase. Total U.S. food and agricultural exports could increase by about US$2.4 billion annually, with the non-grain crop sectors gaining the most. The biggest winner from China's WTO accession is China itself. WTO membership could bring a net welfare gain of about US$30 billion a year for China, a substantial benefit compared with the gains for the USA (US$8.5 billion).
The Near-Horizon Limit of the Extreme Rotating d=5 Black Hole as a Homogenous Spacetime
Creators: name: Alonso-Alberca, N.
name: Lozano-Tellechea, E.
name: Ortin, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the spacetime of the near-horizon limit of the extreme rotating d=5 black hole, which is maximally supersymmetric in N=2,d=5 supergravity for any value of the rotation parameter j in [-1,1], is locally isomorphic to a homogeneous non-symmetric spacetime corresponding to an element of the 1-parameter family of coset spaces SO(2,1)x SO(3)/SO(2)_j in which the subgroup SO(2)_j is a combination of the two SO(2) subgroups of SO(2,1) and SO(3).
description: Some points clarified and misprints corrected. Version to be published in Classical and Quantum Gravity