cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
...Or Speaking with the Alien, a Refrain...
Creators: name: Keller, Ed
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: “On a global scale, the Solar Rattle is the ultimate mu-sicality: It registers any message-oriented or signaling datastream  as  a  parasitic  sub-noise  ambient  within itself. The Solar Rattle rewrites every datastream as an Unsign, even beyond any pattern of disinformation . . . The   highly   stratified   structure   of   Iono-sphere/Magnetosphere provides the Earth with secret warmachines older than the Sun itself, with which it traps  solar  winds  [high  energy  particles  of  the sun] and  turns  them  into peculiarly planetary sonic enti-ties. Ionospheric strata have been customized and ar-ranged in such a way that they reinforce the earth’s surface with demonic currents and forces by capturing solar winds,  bringing the earth’s surface and its bio-sphere into an immanence with the Sun and the burn-ing  core  of  the  Earth  through  a  sonic  axis”
Current research issues on destination image – what lies ahead and what is left behind on ISI current contents of the web of knowledge platform
Creators: name: Corfu, Adriana
name: Costa, Carlos
name: Nistoreanu, Puiu
Publisher: name: Journal of Tourism & Development
Year: 2010

description: No abstract available.
description: Journal of Tourism & Development, vol. 3 n.º 13/14 (2010): INVTUR 2010 Intl' Conference - Abstracts
Competing orders, competing anisotropies, and multicriticality: The case of Co-doped YbRh2Si2
Creators: name: Andrade, Eric C.
name: Brando, Manuel
name: Geibel, Christoph
name: Vojta, Matthias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by the unusual evolution of magnetic phases in stoichiometric and Co-doped YbRh2Si2, we study Heisenberg models with competing ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic ordering combined with competing anisotropies in exchange interactions and g factors. Utilizing large-scale classical Monte-Carlo simulations, we analyze the ingredients required to obtain the characteristic crossing point of uniform susceptibilities observed experimentally near the ferromagnetic ordering of Yb(Rh0.73Co0.27)2Si2. The models possess multicritical points, which we speculate to be relevant for the behavior of clean as well as doped YbRh2Si2. We also make contact with experimental data on YbNi4P2 where a similar susceptibility crossing has been observed.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures
Paediatric User Guide (Data Standards User Guide for Paediatrics)
Creators: name: Owen, John
name: Aurich, Beate
name: Bae, Hingung
name: Cavallar Giacomo
name: Cornet, Ronald
name: Degraeuwe, Eva
name: Engel, Corina
name: Felderhoff, Ursula
name: Franz, Axel
name: Gandini, Paola
name: Hedley, Victoria
name: Hung, Alexandra
name: Kalra, Dipak
name: Karadag, Bulent
name: Leary, Rebecca
name: Luethy, Thomas
name: Malik, Salma
name: Marshall, Richard
name: Medisetti, Yugeshwar
name: Nally, Sinead
name: Palmeri, Avril
name: Peddineni, Mohan
name: Presijn, Laura
name: Rasegaonkar, Sneha Nitin
name: Schaufelberger, Daniel
name: Scott, Kathleen
name: Sen, Anando
name: Sokillik, Christiane
name: Sridharan, Arjun
name: Stauch, Anette
name: Thuet, Jacques
name: Turner, Mark
name: Urru, Silvana Anna Maria
name: Vanderchaeghe, Simon
name: Walsh, Melissa
name: Woodworth, Simon
name: Yoon, Jung
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Data dictionary, paediatric clinical trials, data standardization, data standards, CDISC

description: Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) and conect4children (c4c) have announced the release of a Paediatrics User Guide, freely available on the CDISC website (free CDISC registration required), to facilitate the development of medicines for children. The User Guide focuses on cross-cutting clinical concepts related to paediatric research and describes how to use CDISC standards to collect and structure data used in clinical trials to facilitate the aggregation of information, take advantage of big data and support data sharing. Adopting CDISC standards is an invaluable investment that leads to more meaningful, more efficient research by streamlining the flow of data throughout the research process.
Dark Whiteness: Benjamin Brawley and Chaucer
Creators: name: Barrington, Candace
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: On   the   northern   edge   of   the   Boston   Commons,   at   the intersection of its Freedom Trail and its Black Heritage Trail, stands   a   life-sized   relief   commemorating   Colonel   Robert Gould Shaw. While tour buses pause at the adjacent red light, microphoned  guides  repeat  what  walkers  can  read  from  the posted   information:   the   white   Colonel   Shaw   led   the   all-African-American Massachusetts 54th Regiment, the first of its kind, into the Civil War. Among the hundreds of thousands of men who served and died in the American Civil War, Shaw is singled  out,  not  because  he  fought  and  not  because  he  died, but  because  he  granted  military  legitimacy  to  the  brigade  of African-American  troops  who  were  otherwise  not  allowed  to fight  in  their  own  cause.  Augustus  Saint-Gauden’s  monu-mental  bronze  centers  Colonel  Shaw  on  horseback,  with  his regiment  members  preceding  and  following.  Although  these men  walking  with  the  hero  were  cast  with  facial  features identifying  them  as  African-American,  their  skin  color  is indistinguishable  from  the  military  leader’s  because  his  is darkened  to  the  same  hue  by  the  bronze.  In  effect,  Saint-Gaudens’  memorial  does  what  no  war  and no  legislation  has been  able  to  do:  erase  the  color  difference,  not  by  making  all the men white but by making all the men dark.
Chaucerian Afterlives: Reception and Eschatology
Creators: name: Gilbert, Gaelan
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: The  claim  of  this essai  is  that Chaucer  is  eschatological.  I  use this   rather   specific   term   first   in   order   to   indicate   the apocalyptic    aspect    of    Chaucer’s    late-medieval    theological context of the four last things (eschata) — death, judgment, hell and  heaven —  and  secondly  to  illumine  a  dynamic  of  textual dispossession   at   work   in   Chaucer’s   anticipations   of   reader response,  and  of  his  and  his  texts’  interconnected  ‘afterlives.’ These  dense  formulations  will  require  some  unpacking,  but  at this point it suffices to say that an orientation to the prospect of future  evaluation  conditions  in  advance  the  “dark”  moments explored below.Any discussion of eschatology seems for us moderns (even modern medievalists) to be something of a dark topic, and in at least two ways. One is the popular darkness associated with divine  judgment,  an  anxiety  nowadays  often  stripped  of  any theological   reference   whatsoever.   Another   sense   is   that analogous to the Pauline “we see now in a mirror but darkly,” or videmus  nunc  per  speculum  in  enigmate  (1  Cor.  13:12), simply  the  fact  that  we  cannot  see  beyond  the  mortal  bounds of  this  life,  except  obscurely  in  figures.  And  that  kind  of obscurity makes the prospect of judgment sometimes hard to bear.  The Cloud-author  alludes  to  our  limits  in  just  these terms:For when I sey derknes, I mene a lackyng of knowyng; as  alle  thing  that  thou  knowest  not,  or  elles  that  thou hast  forgetyn,  it  is  derk  to  thee,  for  thou  seest  it  not with thi goostly ighe. And for this skile it is not clepid a cloude  of  the  eire,  bot  a  cloude  of  unknowyng,  that  is bitwix thee and thi God.
Subject(s) matter: a grounded theory of technology teachers’ conceptions of the purpose of teaching technology
Creators: name: Doyle, Andrew
name: Seery, Niall
name: Gumaelius, Lena
name: CANTY, DONAL
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education

description: Technology education internationally has for some time struggled to achieve continuity between what is depicted in policy and curricular documents and the reality of day-today practices. With its focus often articulated through the nature of activity students are to engage with, technology teachers are recognised as having significant autonomy in the design and implementation of their practices. From this, it is important to understand teachers’ beliefs about technology education, as their conceptions of the subject will inform practice. As such, this study sought to investigate teachers’ conceptions of the purpose of teaching technology through reflection on their enacted practices. A constructivist grounded theory methodology was employed for the design of the study and analysis of data. According to our analysis, despite similarities between the nature of student activity that teachers designed and implemented, teachers represented the purpose of the subject in different ways. Three different conceptions of the purpose of teaching technology were identified; obtaining knowledge and skills for application, ability to act in a technological way, and ability to think in a technological way. Central to the three conceptions were contentions in the representations of what constituted subject matter knowledge in the subject, and the role that different application cases played in teaching technology. Without consideration and explicit articulation of the purposes for teaching technology, this lack of clarity and differences in rationale for teaching technology are likely to continue.
Adaptive division of growth and development between hosts in helminths with two‐host life cycles
Creators: name: Benesh, Daniel
name: Chubb, James C
name: Parker, Geoff
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Acanthocephala
subject: adaptive decoupling hypothesis
subject: Cestoda
subject: comparative analysis
subject: life‐history model
subject: Nematoda
subject: 570 Biologie

description: Parasitic worms (helminths) with complex life cycles divide growth and development between successive hosts. Using data from 597 species of acanthocephalans, cestodes, and nematodes with two‐host life cycles, we found that helminths with larger intermediate hosts were more likely to infect larger, endothermic definitive hosts, although some evolutionary shifts in definitive host mass occurred without changes in intermediate host mass. Life‐history theory predicts parasites to shift growth to hosts in which they can grow rapidly and/or safely. Accordingly, helminth species grew relatively less as larvae and more as adults if they infected smaller intermediate hosts and/or larger, endothermic definitive hosts. Growing larger than expected in one host, relative to host mass/endothermy, was not associated with growing less in the other host, implying a lack of cross‐host trade‐offs. Rather, some helminth orders had both large larvae and large adults. Within these taxa, however, size at maturity in the definitive host was unaffected by changes to larval growth, as predicted by optimality models. Parasite life‐history strategies were mostly (though not entirely) consistent with theoretical expectations, suggesting that helminths adaptively divide growth and development between the multiple hosts in their complex life cycles.
title: To be happy in Canada: do religious participation, transnational economic engagement, and host country language ability relate to immigrant emotional/mental health?
Creators: name: Yu, Meng (Megan)
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Year: 2024

description: Existing literature has mainly attributed the decline of immigrant health in the host country to labour market inequalities and barriers in accessing healthcare services, as well as immigrants’ acquiring of unhealthy lifestyles. Whether strategies immigrants adopt to adapt to life in the host country have any impact on their emotional or mental health has rarely been examined in the Canadian context. This dissertation departs from previous research by studying whether immigrants’ emotional/mental health is affected when they participate in religious activities to maintain their ethnic or cultural identity, forge transnational economic ties, or have better host country language ability. Data from all three waves of the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada (LSIC) were analysed to answer the research question asked in this dissertation in three separate manuscripts. The first study in this dissertation found that frequent participation in religious activities is associated with better emotional/mental health status for immigrants. However, compared to those who did not participate in religious activities, female immigrants fared worse if they participated regularly, whereas male participants did not differ in their emotional/mental health status regardless of frequency of religious participation. Religious affiliation did not appear to make a difference to how religious participation relates to immigrants’ emotional/mental health. Findings from the second study indicated that engaging in transnational economic activities can have both positive and negative effects on immigrants’ emotional/mental health. Sending money outside of Canada to relatives or friends was found to harm the emotional/mental health of immigrants who planned to settle permanently in Canada or were unsure of their settlement plan. Among those who planned to settle permanently in Canada, investing in another country had a negative effect on their emotional/mental health, but receiving income from outside the country appeared to protect their emotional/mental health. The last study in this dissertation examined the relationship between host country language ability and immigrants’ emotional/mental health in a bilingual country. It found that, in general, immigrants in Canada with better ability in an official language tend to have worse emotional/mental health. A more nuanced examination revealed that the negative association between official language ability and emotional/mental health existed only among immigrants living in Ontario, the Prairie Provinces, and Quebec when French was considered the host country language. Immigrants with better English language ability in Quebec appeared to have better emotional/mental health than immigrants with worse English ability.
Black Gold: The Former (and Future) Age
Creators: name: Harrison, Leigh
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: Despite   their   pretense   of   explaining   beginnings,   creation myths  often  if  not  always  have  ends  in  mind —  a  fact  that certainly  holds  true  for  Chaucer’s  “Former  Age.”  On  the  face of it, the poem is onlya creation myth: its verse tells the story of  human  community  at  its  origins,  of  a  freer  life  (with  only “good   feith   the   empeirice”   [55])1 before   complex   estate hierarchies and the State. Its few stanzas have all the look and feel of a sad song whose melody the centuries have worn away, with all the misty revelation of prehistoric “folk” impulse that the “ballad” label still inevitably implies. This obscurity of age in turn lends the poem its own rusty darkness, over and above the  darkness  of  loss  that  its  narrative  claims  (however  dimly) to  recover  and  bring  to  light.  Most  readers,  including  me, encounter  “The  Former  Age”  mainly  as  a  poem  cataloging and expressing — simply about — great loss.
{\it NuSTAR} Reveals an Intrinsically X-ray Weak Broad Absorption Line Quasar in the Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxy Markarian 231
Creators: name: Teng, Stacy H.
name: Brandt, W. N.
name: Harrison, F. A.
name: Luo, B.
name: Alexander, D. M.
name: Bauer, F. E.
name: Boggs, S. E.
name: Christensen, F. E.
name: Comastri, A.
name: Craig, W. W.
name: Fabian, A. C.
name: Farrah, D.
name: Fiore, F.
name: Gandhi, P.
name: Grefenstette, B. W.
name: Hailey, C. J.
name: Hickox, R. C.
name: Madsen, K. K.
name: Ptak, A. F.
name: Rigby, J. R.
name: Risaliti, G.
name: Saez, C.
name: Stern, D.
name: Veilleux, S.
name: Walton, D. J.
name: Wik, D. R.
name: Zhang, W. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present high-energy (3--30 keV) {\it NuSTAR} observations of the nearest quasar, the ultraluminous infrared galaxy (ULIRG) Markarian 231 (Mrk 231), supplemented with new and simultaneous low-energy (0.5--8 keV) data from {\it Chandra}. The source was detected, though at much fainter levels than previously reported, likely due to contamination in the large apertures of previous non-focusing hard X-ray telescopes. The full band (0.5--30 keV) X-ray spectrum suggests the active galactic nucleus (AGN) in Mrk 231 is absorbed by a patchy and Compton-thin (N$_{\rm H} \sim1.2^{+0.3}_{-0.3}\times10^{23}$ cm$^{-2}$) column. The intrinsic X-ray luminosity (L$_{\rm 0.5-30 keV}\sim1.0\times10^{43}$ erg s$^{1}$) is extremely weak relative to the bolometric luminosity where the 2--10 keV to bolometric luminosity ratio is $\sim$0.03% compared to the typical values of 2--15%. Additionally, Mrk 231 has a low X-ray-to-optical power law slope ($α_{\rm OX}\sim-1.7$). It is a local example of a low-ionization broad absorption line (LoBAL) quasar that is intrinsically X-ray weak. The weak ionizing continuum may explain the lack of mid-infrared [O IV], [Ne V], and [Ne VI] fine-structure emission lines which are present in sources with otherwise similar AGN properties. We argue that the intrinsic X-ray weakness may be a result of the super-Eddington accretion occurring in the nucleus of this ULIRG, and may also be naturally related to the powerful wind event seen in Mrk 231, a merger remnant escaping from its dusty cocoon.
description: 15 pages in ApJ style including 6 figures and 1 table. Accepted for publication in ApJ
Estatuto científico do turismo no ensino superior português
Creators: name: Salgado, Manuel
name: Lemos, Fernando Florim De
name: Costa, Carlos
name: Santiago, Rui
Publisher: name: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento
Year: 2010

description: Sem resumo disponível.
description: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento, vol. 3 n.º 13/14 (2010): INVTUR 2010 Intl' Conference - Abstracts
Algebraic Decompositions of DP Problems with Linear Dynamics
Creators: name: Tsakiris, Manolis C.
name: Tarraf, Danielle C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Inspired by rational canonical forms, we introduce and analyze two decompositions of dynamic programming (DP) problems for systems with linear dynamics. Specifically, we consider both finite and infinite horizon DP problems in which the dynamics are linear, the cost function depends only on the state, and the state-space is finite dimensional but defined over an arbitrary algebraic field. Starting from the natural decomposition of the state-space into the direct sum of subspaces that are invariant under the system's linear transformation, and assuming that the cost functions exhibit an additive structure compatible with this decomposition, we extract from the original DP problem two distinct families of smaller DP problems, each associated with a system evolving on an invariant subspace of the original state-space. We propose that each of these families constitutes a decomposition of the original problem when the optimal policy and value function of the original problem can be reconstructed from the optimal policies and value functions of the individual subproblems in the family. We derive necessary and sufficient conditions for these decompositions to exist both in the finite and infinite horizon cases. We also propose a readily verifiable sufficient condition under which the first decomposition exists, and we show that the first notion of decomposition is generally stronger than the second.
The Dark is Light Enough: The Layout of the Tale of Sir Thopas
Creators: name: White, Thomas
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: Sir  Thopas — Chaucer’s “rym” (VII.709) that so disappoints the   Host   —is   not   generally   discussed   in   terms   of   dark moments or abyssal themes. In fact, in its wilful and relentless ineptitude,   Chaucer’s   parody   of   the   tail-rhyme   romance represents one of the most sustained comic moments in all of the Tales, culminating in Harry’s uncompromising interruption.   However,   beneath   the   surface   of   Chaucer’s parody of the likes of “Ypotas,” “Bevys” and “sir Gy” (VII.898–899),  the  repeated  elision  of  a  specific  paratextual  feature  of Thopas  in  both  a  large  proportion  of  the  fifteenth-century manuscripts  of  the Tales as  well  the  vast  majority  of  printed editions  points  toward  the  potential  inscrutability  not  only  of medieval  textual  records  but  also  early-modern  and  modern records as well.1 This paratextual feature — Chaucer’s use and subtle  amplification  of  the  traditional  tail-rhyme  verse  layout — forms part of a focus in Fragment VII of the Tales on both the resources available to the English poet writing at the close of  the  fourteenth  century  and,  more  generally,  the  very  act  of reading and the problematic nature of interpretation itself.
A evolução da investigação em turismo: uma nova plataforma de conhecimento?
Creators: name: Lopes, Iris
name: Castela, Guilherme
name: Rebelo, Efigénio
name: Silva, João Albino
Publisher: name: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento
Year: 2010

description: Sem resumo disponível.
description: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento, vol. 3 n.º 13/14 (2010): INVTUR 2010 Intl' Conference - Abstracts
Observation of Long-Lived Interlayer Excitons in Monolayer MoSe2-WSe2 Heterostructures
Creators: name: Rivera, Pasqual
name: Schaibley, John R.
name: Jones, Aaron M.
name: Ross, Jason S.
name: Wu, Sanfeng
name: Aivazian, Grant
name: Klement, Philip
name: Ghimire, Nirmal J.
name: Yan, Jiaqiang
name: Mandrus, D. G.
name: Yao, Wang
name: Xu, Xiaodong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two-dimensional (2D) materials, such as graphene1, boron nitride2, and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs)3-5, have sparked wide interest in both device physics and technological applications at the atomic monolayer limit. These 2D monolayers can be stacked together with precise control to form novel van der Waals heterostructures for new functionalities2,6-9. One highly coveted but yet to be realized heterostructure is that of differing monolayer TMDs with type II band alignment10-12. Their application potential hinges on the fabrication, understanding, and control of bonded monolayers, with bound electrons and holes localized in individual monolayers, i.e. interlayer excitons. Here, we report the first observation of interlayer excitons in monolayer MoSe2-WSe2 heterostructures by both photoluminescence and photoluminescence excitation spectroscopy. The energy and luminescence intensity of interlayer excitons are highly tunable by an applied vertical gate voltage, implying electrical control of the heterojunction band-alignment. Using time resolved photoluminescence, we find that the interlayer exciton is long-lived with a lifetime of about 1.8 ns, an order of magnitude longer than intralayer excitons13-16. Our work demonstrates the ability to optically pump interlayer electric polarization and provokes the immediate exploration of interlayer excitons for condensation phenomena, as well as new applications in 2D light-emitting diodes, lasers, and photovoltaic devices.
description: With Supplementary Materials
Abstraction and Value: The Medieval Origins of Financial Quantification
Creators: name: Srnicek, Nick
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2013

description: We live in an era plagued by the debilitating fallout of finan-cial  implosion.  By  now  credit  default  swaps,  collateralized debt  obligations,  options,  futures,  and  other  “financial  weap-ons  of  mass  destruction”  have  all  entered  into  the  common lexicon. While the economically speculative nature of finance is  abundantly  clear,  the  philosophically  speculative  nature  of finance  is  less  well  recognized.  Perhaps  surprisingly,  it  is  in finance that we find the purest attempt at the quantification of all  available  material,  to  an  extent  conceivably  greater  than even  modern  natural  science.  Empirical  and  non-empirical, actual  and  possible,  order  and  chaos—all  are  available  for measurement  and  calculation  within  the  algorithms  of  mod-ern financial models.
Disc-protoplanet interaction Influence of circumprimary radiative discs on self-gravitating protoplanetary bodies in binary star systems
Creators: name: Gyergyovits, M.
name: Eggl, S.
name: Lohinger, E. Pilat -
name: Theis, Ch.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context. More than 60 planets have been discovered so far in systems that harbour two stars, some of which have binary semi-major axes as small as 20 au. It is well known that the formation of planets in such systems is strongly influenced by the stellar components, since the protoplanetary disc and the particles within are exposed to the gravitational influence of the binary. However, the question on how self-gravitating protoplanetary bodies affect the evolution of a radiative, circumprimary disc is still open. Aims. We present our 2D hydrodynamical GPU-CPU code and study the interaction of several thousands of self-gravitating particles with a viscous and radiative circumprimary disc within a binary star system. To our knowledge this program is the only one at the moment that is capable to handle this many particles and to calculate their influence on each other and on the disc. Methods. We performed hydrodynamical simulations of a circumstellar disc assuming the binary system to be coplanar. Our gridbased staggered mesh code relies on ideas from ZEUS-2D, where we implemented the FARGO algorithm and an additional energy equation for the radiative cooling according to opacity tables. To treat particle motion we used a parallelised version of the precise Bulirsch - Stoer algorithm. Four models in total where computed taking into account (i) only N-body interaction, (ii) N-body and disc interaction, (iii) the influence of computational parameters (especially smoothing) on N-body interaction, and (iv) the influence of a quiet low-eccentricity disc while running model (ii). The impact velocities where measured at two different time intervals and were compared. Results. We show that the combination of disc- and N-body self-gravity can have a significant influence on the orbit evolution of roughly Moon sized protoplanets.
Students of tourism today, and tomorrow?
Creators: name: Dragin, Aleksandra
name: Ivkov-Dzigurski, AndjeliJa
name: Pasic, Milana
Publisher: name: Journal of Tourism & Development
Year: 2010

description: No abstract available.
description: Journal of Tourism & Development, vol. 3 n.º 13/14 (2010): INVTUR 2010 Intl' Conference - Abstracts
NNLL Momentum-Space Resummation for Stop-Pair Production at the LHC
Creators: name: Broggio, Alessandro
name: Ferroglia, Andrea
name: Neubert, Matthias
name: Vernazza, Leonardo
name: Yang, Li Lin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: If supersymmetry near the TeV scale is realized in Nature, the pair production of scalar top squarks is expected to be observable at the Large Hadron Collider. Recently, effective field-theory methods were employed to obtain approximate predictions for the cross section for this process, which include soft-gluon emission effects up to next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in perturbation theory. In this work we employ the same techniques to resum soft-gluon emission effects to all orders in perturbation theory and with next-to-next-to-logarithmic (NNLL) accuracy. We analyze the effects of NNLL resummation on the stop-pair production cross section by obtaining NLO+NNLL predictions in pair invariant mass and one-particle inclusive kinematics. We compare the results of these calculations to the approximate NNLO predictions for the cross sections.
description: 25 pages, 6 figures
Farmer Direct Marketing Bibliography 2001
Creators: name: Klotz, Jennifer-Claire V.
name: Klotz, Jennifer-Claire V.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession

description: Excerpts from the Executive Summary: Direct marketing continues to grow in the United States as a method for small and medium-size producers to increase their profits. The number of farmers markets in the United States increased by 63 percent between 1994 and 2000. There are currently 2,863 seasonal and year-round markets throughout the country. As the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) increases its involvement in direct marketing, it is important to facilitate access to resources for all participants: producers, vendors, market managers, consumers, academics, extension educators, and Federal and State employees. The objective of this publication is to assist in this process by compiling a bibliography of various documents concerning farmer direct marketing.
Dust Formation By Failed Supernovae
Creators: name: Kochanek, C. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider dust formation during the ejection of the hydrogen envelope of a red supergiant during a failed supernova (SN) creating a black hole. While the dense, slow moving ejecta are very efficient at forming dust, only the very last phases of the predicted visual transient will be obscured. The net grain production consists of ~0.01 solar masses of very large grains (10 to 1000 microns). This means that failed SNe could be the source of the very large extrasolar dust grains identified by Ulysses, Galileo and radar studies of meteoroid re-entry trails rather than their coming from an ejection process associated with protoplanetary or other disks.
description: submitted to MNRAS
Transmission by Sponge: Aristotle's Poetics
Creators: name: Klosowska, Anna
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2013

description: The history of transmission of Aristotle in the West is surpris-ingly complex,  and  it  attaches  (but  what  doesn’t?)  to  period distinctions between medieval and modern. For instance, the propagation  of  Aristotle’s Physics  is  contemporary  with  the rise of instrumentaria, that is, making things to measure other things,  but  also  production  of  musical  instruments.  The  first graduated  thermometers  appear  throughout  Europe  around the turn of the sixteenth century, roughly the same time when the writing of poetry and playing musical instruments become both more popular and more specialized. In that period, lutes become more widespread as middle class possessions, leading historians to catalogue lutes as a means to establish the rise of early  modern  middle  class  in  Paris.  This  is  the  period  of  spe-cialization  when  teaching,  writing  and  publishing  music  is decoupled  from  writing  poetry.  That  transformative  time  for Physics  is  also  when  some  intellectuals  move  away  from  the traditional  Averroes’s  commentary  on  Aristotle’s Poetics  and in creasingly rely on direct translations from the Greek.
D6.10 Roadmap for the incorporation of EO-based monitoring in environmental assurance standards
Creators: name: Fišić, Maja
name: Mrkajic, Vladimir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The central aim of this report is to provide a roadmap for the integration of EO-based monitoring within environmental assurance standards, aligning with the objectives of the ENVISION project. This roadmap is instrumental in evaluating the current state of EO-based monitoring practices and identifying pertinent standards and guidelines within the environmental standardization landscape.
A Recipe for Disaster: Practical Metaphysics: Response to Julian Yates
Creators: name: Blake, Liza
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2013

description: There  are  two  ways  of  approaching  the  topic  of  Speculative Medievalisms.  On  the  one  hand,  one  might  consider  the  role of  the  medieval  or  medievalism  within  speculation  or  the speculative. Allan Mitchell offers a version of this approach in his piece in this volume, “Cosmic Eggs, or Events Before Eve-rything,”  when  he  reflects  on  how  the  medieval  is already to be  found  in  the  speculative,  whether  consciously  or  uncon-sciously.  Another  way  of  approaching  the  topic  would  be  to consider how the theses, ideas or propositions found in specu-lative  realism  translate  to  a  medieval—or  in Yates’s  case,  an early modern—literary critical practice. This second approach serves as the focus of Yates’s essay, and so it will be the subject of  my  response.  In  this  response  I  will  re-compose Yates’sessay, schematically restructuring it so as to draw out the im-plications for speculative medieval critical practice.Harman’s  technique in  his  book Prince  of  Networks is  a complicated one, but one whose mechanisms are worth study-ing.1  Harman  takes  as  his  starting  point  Bruno  Latour’s  critical  practice  for,  and  as,  sociology,  science  studies,  and  actor network   theory   (among   others).   From   Latour’s   practice, Harman then extrapolates its underlying, more or less explicit metaphysics.  In  Part  II  of  the Prince  of  Networks, Harman tweaks  this  metaphysics  slightly  to  present  a  new  or  slightly modified  version  of  Latourian  metaphysics,  and  this  tweaked Latourian  metaphysics  becomes  Object  Oriented  Ontology. The  end  of  the  book  leaves  readers  with  one  critical  practice (Latourian  practice,  as  embodied  in  his  work)  and  two  meta-physics (the Latourian metaphysics Harman describes and the metaphysics he himself  elaborates).  The  third  section  of  Har-man’s  book—the  section  of  the  book  where  he  works  back from Part II’s metaphysics to a critical practice—has not been written yet. If Latourian critical practice can produce or imply a metaphysics, then what are the contours of the critical prac-tice  that  might  correspond  to  the  metaphysics  of  Part  II? What is a Harmanian or speculative realist critical practice?
Three Notes, Three Questions: Response to Graham Harman
Creators: name: Clough, Patricia Ticineto
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2013

description: When  I  was  invited  to  respond  to  a  talk  to  be  given  by  Gra-ham  Harman  at  a  conference  on  Speculative  Medievalisms, my first thoughts were not about Aristotle.  My first thoughts were  about  Harman’s  work  on  Bruno  Latour,   who has fa-mously claimed  that we  have  never  been  modern.  So  perhaps we are becoming medieval, I thought: circuiting back through the Enlightenment and the Renaissance to a future age where darkness is to be revalued, with speculative realism, the meas-ure.  Although  I  first  read  Latour  in  the  late  1980s  when  some few  sociologists  studying  science  and  technology  were  doing so,  Harman’s  reading  of  Latour  was  pleasantly  surprising  on two   counts.   His  positioning  of  Latour  as  a  philosophical thinker  who  is  essential  to  the  current  ontological  turn  was resonant  with  my  own  early  situating  of  Latour  not  only  in science  and  technology  studies  but  also  as  part  of  the  philo-sophical  debates  of  the  late  1980s  and  1990s  around  post-structuralism.    However,  Harman’s  Latour  offered  another pleasant surprise in that it re-oriented my thoughts about phi-losophy  and  sociality,  giving  them  a  new  direction  beyond social  construction,  discursive  construction,  psychic  or  unconscious construction,  and finally deconstruction. Harman’s Latour instead points to a rethinking of sociality that necessi-tates  an  ontological  re-booting  that  aims  to  restore  the  won-der of objects, conceive of a causality of allure, and offer a take on aesthetics. In all this a refreshing aporia is inserted between ontology and epistemology,  such that objects are allowed to be re  gardless of our consciousness of them.
FAIRification strategy for eCREAM outputs
Creators: name: Rujano, Maria Alexandra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Data Sharing and Reuse
subject: Ethical and Legal Requirements
subject: Data Management
subject: Sensitive Health Data
subject: Electronic Health Record
subject: Emergency medicine
subject: Emergency Departments

description: The eCREAM project addresses the critical need for continuous assessment and improvement of emergencydepartments to ensure timely and effective patient care. By leveraging electronic health records (EHRs) andadvanced natural language processing tools, eCREAM aims to overcome the challenges posed by high patientvolumes and staff shortages that hinder clinical research in emergency medicine. The project will developnew technical solutions to extract valuable clinical information from EHRs, creating high-quality databaseson patients visiting emergency departments. To maximise the impact of these outputs for secondary researchand policymaking, eCREAM is committed to ensuring that the data it generates are readily discoverable andaccessible to researchers, clinicians, policymakers, and citizens. Therefore, eCREAM will adhere to the FAIRprinciples—making its data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable.

This document represents Milestone “M13 - FAIRification strategy for eCREAM outputs.” It explains the FAIRprinciples and their significance for the project, details the data workflows within eCREAM, and outlines thestrategy that will be used to FAIRify the project’s outputs. The FAIRification approach is grounded in theFAIRification process defined by the GO FAIR initiative and incorporates recommendations specific tohealthcare data workflows.
KIC11911480: the second ZZ Ceti in the $Kepler$ field
Creators: name: Greiss, S.
name: Gaensicke, B. T.
name: Hermes, J. J.
name: Steeghs, D.
name: Koester, D.
name: Ramsay, G.
name: Barclay, T.
name: Townsley, D. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the discovery of the second pulsating hydrogen-rich (DA) white dwarf in the $Kepler$ field, KIC11911480. It was selected from the $Kepler$-INT Survey (KIS) on the basis of its colours and its variable nature was confirmed using ground-based time-series photometry. An atmosphere model fit to an intermediate-resolution spectrum of KIC11911480 places this DA white dwarf close to the blue edge of the empirical boundaries of the ZZ Ceti instability strip: $T_\mathrm{eff} = 12\,160 \pm 250$ K and $\log{g} = 7.94 \pm 0.10 $. Assuming a mass-radius relation and cooling models for DA white dwarfs, the atmospheric parameters yield: M$_{\rm WD}$ = 0.57 $\pm$ 0.06 M$_\odot$. We also obtained two quarters (Q12 and Q16) of nearly uninterrupted short-cadence $Kepler$ data on this star. We detect a total of six independent pulsation modes with a $\geq$ 3$σ$ confidence in its amplitude power spectrum. These pulsations have periods ranging between 172.9 s and 324.5 s, typical of the hotter ZZ Ceti stars. Our preliminary asteroseismic study suggest that KIC11911480 has a rotation rate of 3.5$\pm$0.5 days.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Measuring gravitational lens time delays using low-resolution radio monitoring observations
Creators: name: Gurkan, G.
name: Jackson, N.
name: Koopmans, L. V. E.
name: Fassnacht, C. D.
name: Alba, A. Berciano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Obtaining lensing time delay measurements requires long-term monitoring campaigns with a high enough resolution (< 1 arcsec) to separate the multiple images. In the radio, a limited number of high-resolution interferometer arrays make these observations difficult to schedule. To overcome this problem, we propose a technique for measuring gravitational time delays which relies on monitoring the total flux density with low-resolution but high-sensitivity radio telescopes to follow the variation of the brighter image. This is then used to trigger high-resolution observations in optimal numbers which then reveal the variation in the fainter image. We present simulations to assess the efficiency of this method together with a pilot project observing radio lens systems with the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT) to trigger Very Large Array (VLA) observations. This new method is promising for measuring time delays because it uses relatively small amounts of time on high-resolution telescopes. This will be important because instruments that have high sensitivity but limited resolution, together with an optimum usage of followup high-resolution observations from appropriate radio telescopes may in the future be useful for gravitational lensing time delay measurements by means of this new method.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures, accepted by MNRAS
Report about description of the project website
Creators: name: Tinti, Francesco
name: Kasmaeeyazdi, Sara
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2020
Subjects: ING-IND/28 Ingegneria e sicurezza degli scavi

description: The INCO-Piles 2020 website is available at the following link: https://site.unibo.it/inco-piles-2020/en. The website has been created inside the University of Bologna Platform “Websites on demand”. The main objective of the website is to assure the dissemination of the project results and initiatives. Therefore, the INCO-Piles 2020 website provides: - An overview on the project and its objectives, with special attention to case studies and round tables. Moreover, specific sections are devoted to the partners’ presentation, to EIT Raw Materials and RIS Strategy and to reference contacts, in order to allow interested people getting more information about the consortium. - The outputs and results. - Social media link to follow and share the project activities.
title: Performance improvement on a world-class drilling project
Creators: name: Rashid, Faisal
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Year: 2023

description: The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) implemented a new phase of offshore oilfield development in 2009 that was intended to increase overall offshore oil production by 40% by 2017. This new development strategy was based on replacing the traditional practice of drilling small well clusters from Mobile Offshore Drilling Units (MODUs) and producing from offshore drilling platforms to developing 4 large scale offshore artificial islands and utilizing Extended Reach Drilling (ERD) to reach drilling targets up to 10 km from the islands. Early in the new development phase, it became apparent that the existing practice of liaising with drilling, completions, service contractors and vendors, and monitoring contractor performance and delivery on these contracts was insufficient for the increased level of development activities. The author was engaged in evaluating the existing ADNOC practices for monitoring and evaluating drilling, completions, and related contracts and to provide recommendations for improving practices. This led to the development of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that were used as the basis for internal ADNOC activities, for developing contracts with timelines for key deliverables and performance targets, for assessing contractor performance during contracts, and for evaluating deliverables at the end of contracts. Knowledge management tools and processes were implemented to aid the development of these KPIs, including internal bin-lists, external nonconformance and non-productive time (NPT) reports, databases for lessons learned, and databases for new technology and best practices. Using these tools, KPIs were developed for i) management and executive-level reporting, ii) Well Quality, iii) key services provided by external vendors (including directional drilling and measurements, wireline/E-line, drilling fluids, cementing, and coiled tubing), and iv) performance incentive bonuses for vendors. Implementing these new management practices and KPIs started in 2012 and data to date had indicated improvements of average well days from 168 days to 70 days, a 140% decrease in well duration and a 42% reduction in well cost in 3 years.
The Rhetoric of Disaster: Surviving the End of the Humanities
Creators: name: Van Houdt, John
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2013

description: In this paper I will present a potential critical use of the rhetoric of disaster or what I will sometimes call “disaster speak,” borrowing largely from Blanchot’s analysis in The Writing  of  the  Disaster.  So  what  is  the  present  “disaster”  we  are  talking  about  at  this  conference? For those working in and around academia today, it is hard to ignore the substantial  changes  the  university  is  undergoing  especially  in  the  humanities.  To  wit,  this generally recognized change in the university has given way to serious prognostica-tions  of  the  “end  of  the  university.”  On  this  count,  the  humanities  have  outpaced  the  university itself. In my own discipline, philosophy, for instance, talk about the “end of philosophy” has been a common theme for at least a century or so. There are plenty of reasons  for  the  prevalence  of  disaster-speak  in  our  current  situation  (many  of  which  have  little  to  do  with  the  university);  and  there  is  certainly  no  dearth  of  examples  of  disaster-speak applied to the situation of the university in general and the humanities in  particular.2  In  what  follows  I  will  bracket  the  question  of  whether  in  fact  the  “end  is nigh” and focus on the rhetoric of that impending disaster to evaluate a strategy for deflating the catastrophic sense of impending doom invoked by disaster-speak.
Instrumentational complexity of music genres and why simplicity sells
Creators: name: Percino, Gamaliel
name: Klimek, Peter
name: Thurner, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Listening habits are strongly influenced by two opposing aspects, the desire for variety and the demand for uniformity in music. In this work we quantify these two notions in terms of musical instrumentation and production technologies that are typically involved in crafting popular music. We assign a "complexity value" to each music style. A style is complex if it shows the property of having both high variety and low uniformity in instrumentation. We find a strong inverse relation between variety and uniformity of music styles that is remarkably stable over the last half century. Individual styles, however, show dramatic changes in their "complexity" during that period. Styles like "new wave" or "disco" quickly climbed towards higher complexity in the 70s and fell back to low complexity levels shortly afterwards, whereas styles like "folk rock" remained at constant high complexity levels. We show that changes in the complexity of a style are related to its number of sales and to the number of artists contributing to that style. As a style attracts a growing number of artists, its instrumentational variety usually increases. At the same time the instrumentational uniformity of a style decreases, i.e. a unique stylistic and increasingly complex expression pattern emerges. In contrast, album sales of a given style typically increase with decreasing complexity. This can be interpreted as music becoming increasingly formulaic once commercial or mainstream success sets in.
description: 17 pages, 5 figures, Supporting Information