cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A Polarimetric Method for Measuring Black Hole Masses in Active Galactic Nuclei
Creators: name: Piotrovich, M. Yu.
name: Gnedin, Yu. N.
name: Silant'ev, N. A.
name: Natsvlishvili, T. M.
name: Buliga, S. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The structure of the broad emission line region (BLR) in active galactic nuclei (AGN) remains unclear. We test in this paper a flattened configuration model for BLR. The virial theorem, by taking into account the disc shape of BLR, allows us to get a direct connection between the mass of a supermassive black hole (SMBH) and the inclination angle of the accretion flow. The inclination angle itself is derived from the spectropolarimetric data on broad emission lines using the theory for the generation of polarized radiation developed by Sobolev and Chandrasekhar. As the result, the new estimates of SMBH masses in AGN with measured polarization of BLR are presented. It is crucial that the polarimetric data allow also to determine the value of the virial coefficient that is essential for determining SMBH masses.
description: 5 pages
AARP Financial Security Trends Survey, July 2023 (Wave 4)
Creators: name: AARP
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2025

description: Current employment (9); current financial situation (2); reasons for changes in financial situation (30); expect improvement/worsening of financial situation in the next year (1); concern about covering expenses (7); debt (45); retirement savings (1); work/life balance (1); good employment opportunities (1); financial fraud (1); inflation (1); level of threat from lost income/unexpected cost (2); emergency savings (19); financial emergencies over the last 12 months (45); non-emergency use of emergency savings (18); monthly expenses compared to last year (12); largest monthly expenses (2); online financial planning/budgeting tools (2); major life events in the last year (15); family caregiver (1); financial support to adult family member/relative (1); financial assets/accounts (9).
The effects of effort, interest, and rapport on Wisconsin card sorting test performance in schizophrenia
Creators: name: Roberts, David L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2006

description: Individuals with schizophrenia typically perform poorly on measures of executive function. This poor performance is widely attributed to disease-related neurocognitive deficits despite the fact that the role of motivational and interpersonal factors have not been adequately studied. In the present study, 30 individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia completed two trials each of the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test, a measure of executive function. Between trials, half of the participants received enhanced instructions. It was hypothesized that this experimental group would achieve better WCST scores, and would also report exerting greater effort on the task, being more interested in the task, and experiencing better rapport with the experimenter than participants in the control group. Results showed significantly improved WCST performance in the experimental group relative to the control group. However, findings did not support the hypothesized group differences in effort, interest, and rapport. Implications are discussed.
Development of PHYSIO DSS component, V2
Creators: name: Angelidis, Christos
name: Panunzi, Simona
name: Borri, Alessandro
name: De Gaetano, Andrea
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Decision support system
Search and rescue
Crisis Management
DSS

description: The present deliverable is a technical document which provides the specifications for performing the correct calls to the webservices offered by the second version of the PHYSIO DSS (PHYSIOlogical evolution of the victim Decision Support System) component, which is part of the Decision Support System of the S&R project. The implementation of the PHYSIO DSS, that is the webservices residing on the CNR server, constitutes the real result related to part of the work done in the framework of task T4.5 “Development of DSS components”.
 This deliverable is strictly connected to the deliverable D4.10 (Design of the PHYSIO DSS component, V2) which provides instead a more detailed description of the functionalities offered by the component, by specifying all the modules and functions constituting the PHYSIO DSS.
 During the first period of the project, efforts have been addressed in particular to the design of the entire component, with the definition of most of the modules and functions, with the relative implementation in the testing environment (MATLAB) as well as with the set-up of the production (release) environment (a Webservice with a C++ implementation of the modules). After the release of the first version of the component, therefore, most of the work has been made above all for the implementation of the component in the production environment, with the release of the Webservices, and in the verification process for a complete consistency between the two implementations (MATLAB and C++). Details about the verification process will be given in the relative deliverable D4.13 “DSS Validation, V2” foreseen for August 2022.
The age of Taurus - environmental effects on disc lifetimes
Creators: name: Rees, Jon M.
name: Wilson, T.
name: Bell, C. P. M.
name: Jeffries, R. D.
name: Naylor, Tim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using semi-empirical isochrones, we find the age of the Taurus star-forming region to be 3-4 Myr. Comparing the disc fraction in Taurus to young massive clusters suggests discs survive longer in this low density environment. We also present a method of photometrically de-reddening young stars using $iZJH$ data.
description: 2 pages, 1 figure, To appear in "Young Stars and Planets Near the Sun", Proceedings of IAU Symposium No. 314 (Cambridge University Press), J.H. Kastner, B. Stelzer, S.A. Metchev, eds
From Virus Protection to Cell Isolation and Biomarker Discovery with Aptamers
Creators: name: Ghobadloo, Shahrokh
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: Virus protection
Cell isolation
Biomarker discovery
Oncolytic Virus
Aptamers

description: New affinity molecules such as nucleic acid aptamers are in demand in the science and medical fields. Current aptamer selection technologies can generate unique aptamers with desired properties to targets of interest. My thesis describes a series of investigations on the protection of an oncolytic virus, the isolation of target cells from biological fluids, and aptamer-facilitated biomarker discovery. We tested individual aptamers and constructed a tetramer aptamer structure (quadramer) to increase virus infectivity. The quadramer protects vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) during freeze–thaw cycles, shields the virus from neutralizing antibodies and increases viral active units. In addition to aptamers, we screened carbohydrate-based ice recrystallization inhibitors for the possible elimination of the cold chain of Vaccinia virus, VSV, and Herpes virus-1. N-octyl-gluconamide provides the longest shelf life for Vaccinia virus and Herpes virus-1 as tested according to the World Health Organization’s requirements for viral vaccines efficiency during transportation and distribution. We generated switchable aptamers capable of isolating cells expressing LIFR, NRP1, DLL4, uPAR, or PTCH1. These aptamers bind to the receptor positive cells in the presence of Mg2+ and Ca2+, and release the pure cells upon addition of EDTA. The aptamers were applied for a sequential positive immunomagnetic isolation of cells from mice bone marrow. We also utilized fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) in our aptamer selections to develop switchable aptamers to positive isolation of monocytes from human blood. Moreover, we have selected non-switchable aptamers as an affinity probe to the cells expressing Axl receptor for immunofluorescent analysis and cell sorting. We determined aptamers to CD107a and applied them for biomarker discovery with mass spectrometry and found that CD107a was co-expressing with PD-1. Furthermore, we identified CD91 as binding partners to our aptamers in human monocytes using FACS and orbitrap mass spectrometry.
title: Reader with exercises (книга для чтения на английском языке с лексико-грамматическими упражнениями). Часть 1
title: Учебное пособие
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Иванова О.В.
name:  Михайлова Г.И.
name:  Полушина Н.С.
name:  Хисамутдинова К.И.
Publisher: name: Новосибирский государственный архитектурно-строительный университет (Сибстрин)
Year: 2016

description: Настоящее учебное пособие представляет собой комплекс обучающего и контрольно-тренировочного характера. Цель пособия - ознакомление студентов I-II курсов с разнообразной профессионально ориентированной тематикой текстового материала, усвоение профессиональной лексики, развитие навыков анализа оригинальных и адаптированных текстов разного уровня сложности. Предназначено для студентов, обучающихся по направлению 08.03.01 «Строительство». Может быть рекомендовано в качестве дополнения для самостоятельной работы студентов.
description: This tutorial is a complex training and control training. The purpose of this manual is to familiarize the students I-II courses with a variety of professionally oriented subjects text material, learning professional vocabulary, development of skills of analysis of original and adapted texts of different levels of complexity. Designed for students enrolled in the direction 08.03.01 "Construction". Can be recommended as a Supplement for independent work of students.
Green's function approach to Chern-Simons extended electrodynamics: an effective theory describing topological insulators
Creators: name: Martín-Ruiz, A.
name: Cambiaso, M.
name: Urrutia, L. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Boundary effects produced by a Chern-Simons (CS) extension to electrodynamics are analyzed exploiting the Green's function (GF) method. We consider the electromagnetic field coupled to a $θ$-term in a way that has been proposed to provide the correct low energy effective action for topological insulators (TI). We take the $θ$-term to be piecewise constant in different regions of space separated by a common interface $Σ$, to be called the $θ$-boundary. Features arising due to the presence of the boundary, such as magnetoelectric effects, are already known in CS extended electrodynamics and solutions for some experimental setups have been found with specific configuration of sources. In this work we illustrate a method to construct the GF that allows to solve the CS modified field equations for a given $θ$-boundary with otherwise arbitrary configuration of sources. The method is illustrated by solving the case of a planar $θ$-boundary but can also be applied for cylindrical and spherical geometries for which the $θ$-boundary can be characterized by a surface where a given coordinate remains constant. The static fields of a point-like charge interacting with a planar TI, as described by a planar discontinuity in $θ$, are calculated and successfully compared with previously reported results. We also compute the force between the charge and the $θ$-boundary by two different methods, using the energy momentum tensor approach and the interaction energy calculated via the GF. The infinitely straight current-carrying wire is also analyzed.
Describing urban evolution with the fractal parameters based on area-perimeter allometry
Creators: name: Chen, Yanguang
name: Wang, Jiejing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The area-perimeter allometric scaling is a basic and important approach for researching fractal cities and has been studied for a long time. However, the boundary dimension of a city is always numerically overestimated by the traditional formula. An adjusting formula has been derived to revise the overestimated boundary dimension and estimate the form dimension, but the association between the global and local fractal parameters is not clear. This paper is devoted to describing the urban evolution by using the improved fractal parameters based on the area-perimeter measure relation. A system of 68 cities and towns in Yangtze River Delta, China, is taken as an example to make a case study. A discovery is that the average values of the local fractal parameters are approximately equal to the corresponding global fractal parameters of cities. This suggests that the local parameters are the decomposition of the global parameters. The novelty of this empirical study is as follows: first, the form dimension and boundary dimension are integrated to characterize the urban structure and texture; second, the global and local parameters are combined to characterize an urban system and individual cities. By illustrating how to carry out the area-perimeter scaling analysis in the case of remote sensing images with low resolution, this work suggests a possible new approach to researching fractal systems of cities.
description: 20 pages, 4 figures, 6 tables
On estimates for the $\displaystyle \bar \partial $ equation in Stein manifolds
Creators: name: Amar, Eric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We generalize to intersection of strictly $c$ -convex domains in Stein manifold, $ L^{r}-L^{s}$ and Lipschitz estimates for the solutions of the $ \bar \partial $ equation done by Ma and Vassiliadou for domains in $ {\mathbb{C}}^{n}.$ For this we use a Docquier-Grauert holomorphic retraction plus the raising steps method I introduce earlier. This gives results in the case of domains with low regularity, $ {\mathcal{C}}^{3},$ for their boundary.
description: I follow the nice suggestions done by the referee which substantially simplify the proof of theorem 4.1. Also typos are corrected and the presenrtation is slightly modified
Sauvagesia paganuccii D. B. O. S. Cardoso & Harley emend. Queiroz-Lima & D. B. O. S. Cardoso 2015
Creators: name: Queiroz-Lima, Adriana
name: Amorim, André M.
name: Cardoso, Domingos B. O. S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Malpighiales
Ochnaceae
Sauvagesia
Sauvagesia paganuccii

description: Sauvagesia paganuccii D.B.O.S.Cardoso & Harley emend. Queiroz-Lima & D.B.O.S.Cardoso
 Type: — BRAZIL. Bahia: Ruy Barbosa, Serra do Orobó, topo da Serra, 12°18’45’’S, 40°28’51’’W, 1015 m, 12 November 2004 (fl), L. P. de Queiroz et al. 9747 (holotype: HUEFS!; isotypes: K!, RB!).
 Emended description: —Multi-stemmed shrub, densely branched from the base. Leaves 7–17 × 2–6 mm, elliptic, length/width ratio 3:1, margin irregularly crenulate, the crenulae more spaced basally and closer distally, ca. 90° to the branch. Panicles ca. 70-flowered (based on the pedicel scars along the racemose axes). Flowers without filamentous external staminodes or these irregularly appearing in some flowers of the same individual; anthers bi-apiculate.
 Specimens examined:— BRAZIL. Bahia: Ruy Barbosa, Serra do Orobó, 12º18’S, 40º20’W, 1,020 m elev., 16 August 2005 (fl), A. K. A. Santos & P. L. Ribeiro 452 (ALCB, HUEFS); ibid., 12º19’3’’S, 40º29’0’’W, 1,020 m elev., 7 January 2007 (fl, fr), D. Cardoso et al. 1489 (ALCB, BRIT, HUEFS, K, MONT, NY, RB); ibid., 12º19’3’’S, 40º29’0’’W, 17 January 2015 (fl, fr), D. Cardoso & G. Ramos 3578 (ALCB, HUEFS, K, MO, NY, RB, US); ibid., 17 January 2015 (fl, fr), G. Ramos & D. Cardoso 91 (ALCB, RB).
description: Published as part of Queiroz-Lima, Adriana, Amorim, André M. & Cardoso, Domingos B. O. S., 2017, A new species of Sauvagesia (Ochnaceae) from the northern Espinhaço Range, Brazil, and an emended description of Sauvagesia paganuccii, pp. 59-66 in Phytotaxa 316 (1) on page 64, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.316.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/13686954
Immune response to functionalized mesoporous silica nanoparticles for targeted drug delivery
Creators: name: Heidegger, S.
name: Niedermayer, S.
name: Schmidt, A.
name: Gößl, D.
name: Argyo, C.
name: Endres, S.
name: Bein, T.
name: Bourquin, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Cell Behavior (q-bio.CB)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Multifunctional mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSN) have attracted substantial attention with regard to their high potential for targeted drug delivery. For future clinical applications it is crucial to address safety concerns and understand the potential immunotoxicity of these nanoparticles. In this study, we assess the biocompatibility and functionality of multifunctional MSN in freshly isolated, primary murine immune cells. We show that the functionalized silica nanoparticles are rapidly and efficiently taken up into the endosomal compartment by specialized antigen-presenting cells such as dendritic cells. The silica nanoparticles showed a favorable toxicity profile and did not affect the viability of primary immune cells from the spleen in relevant concentrations. Cargo-free MSN induced only very low immune responses in primary cells as determined by surface expression of activation markers and release of pro-inflammatory cytokines such as Interleukin-6, -12 and -1β. In contrast, when surface-functionalized MSN with a pH-responsive polymer capping were loaded with an immune-activating drug, the synthetic Toll-like receptor 7 agonist R848, a strong immune response was provoked. We thus demonstrate that MSN represent an efficient drug delivery vehicle to primary immune cells that is both non-toxic and non-inflammagenic, which is a prerequisite for the use of these particles in biomedical applications.
description: The manuscript includes 23 pages, 6 figures, 1 table
Catalan Nationalism: A Shift from Civic to Ethnic
Creators: name: Elmahdi, Ahmed I.
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 2013

description: Has the nationalist culture of Catalonia begun to move in the direction of ethnic exclusivity? As a region with a population harboring strong nationalist attitudes, Catalonia is among a unique brand of nationalism which elevates civic participation above ethnic lineage. This thesis will explore whether Catalan identity is truly inclusive and whether it has shifted towards the exclusionary ethnic brand of nationalism in response to political and economic crisis.
Feedback and Time are Essential for the Optimal Control of Computing Systems
Creators: name: Kerrigan, Eric C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: The performance, reliability, cost, size and energy usage of computing systems can be improved by one or more orders of magnitude by the systematic use of modern control and optimization methods. Computing systems rely on the use of feedback algorithms to schedule tasks, data and resources, but the models that are used to design these algorithms are validated using open-loop metrics. By using closed-loop metrics instead, such as the gap metric developed in the control community, it should be possible to develop improved scheduling algorithms and computing systems that have not been over-engineered. Furthermore, scheduling problems are most naturally formulated as constraint satisfaction or mathematical optimization problems, but these are seldom implemented using state of the art numerical methods, nor do they explicitly take into account the fact that the scheduling problem itself takes time to solve. This paper makes the case that recent results in real-time model predictive control, where optimization problems are solved in order to control a process that evolves in time, are likely to form the basis of scheduling algorithms of the future. We therefore outline some of the research problems and opportunities that could arise by explicitly considering feedback and time when designing optimal scheduling algorithms for computing systems.
The influence of carbon emission reduction instruments on blockchain technology adoption in recycling batteries of the new energy vehicles.docx
Creators: name: Feng, Zhangwei
name: Luo, Na
name: Shalpegin, Timofey
name: Cui, Huan
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2023
Subjects: Strategy

description: The key findings are as follows. Under a carbon tax system, (1) carbon emission reduction encourages the battery supplier to adopt blockchain technology; (2) blockchain technology adoption increases the profits of NEV supply chain stakeholders. Under carbon cap-and-trade regulations, (1) the unit outsourcing fee and the performance of the blockchain technology impact the investment decision of the manufacturer; (2) the profit of the third-party enterprise is increased by introducing the blockchain technology. Under both policies, improving the efficiency of blockchain technology helps to upgrade the traceability level and contribute to carbon neutrality in the NEV supply chain.
Modular transformations through sequences of topological charge projections
Creators: name: Barkeshli, Maissam
name: Freedman, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ground state subspace of a topological phase of matter forms a representation of the mapping class group of the space on which the state is defined. We show that elements of the mapping class group of a surface of genus $g$ can be obtained through a sequence of topological charge projections along at least three mutually intersecting non-contractible cycles. We demonstrate this both through the algebraic theory of anyons and also through an analysis of the topology of the space-time manifold. We combine this result with two observations: (i) that surfaces of genus $g$ can be effectively simulated in planar geometries by using bilayer, or doubled, versions of the topological phase of interest, and inducing the appropriate types of gapped boundaries; and (ii) that the required topological charge projections can be implemented as adiabatic unitary transformations by locally tuning microscopic parameters of the system, such as the energy gap. These observations suggest a possible path towards effectively implementing modular transformations in physical systems. In particular, they also show how the $\text{Ising} \otimes \overline{\text{Ising}}$ state, in the presence of disconnected gapped boundaries, can support universal topological quantum computation.
description: 21 pages. v2: Added appendix describing protocol for realizing the pi/8 phase gate in the Ising x Ising* state with gapped boundaries and topological charge measurements. v3: updated author affiliation
The Coulomb potential V(r)=1/r and other radial problems on the Bethe lattice
Creators: name: Petrova, Olga
name: Moessner, Roderich
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the problem of a particle hopping on the Bethe lattice in the presence of a Coulomb potential. We obtain an exact solution to the particle's Green's function along with the full energy spectrum. In addition, we present a mapping of a generalized radial potential problem defined on the Bethe lattice to an infinite number of one dimensional problems that are easily accessible numerically. The latter method is particularly useful when the problem admits no analytical solution.
description: 5 pages + references
Child Acquisition of Spanish Clitic Impersonal Constructions: An Empirical Study on the CHILDES Corpora
Creators: name: Seabrooks, Daniel
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: The passive and impersonal uses of the Spanish clitic se have been the focus of an important linguistic debate; they are often considered to be similar because they both de-emphasize the logical subject of the verb, but they differ in the way they affect the verb’s transitivity. Many theories have suggested that the clitic se raises to subject position and that these two forms are syntactically identical with a difference in the application of subject-verb agreement (e.g. Cinque 1988, Oesterreicher 1992, and Rivero 2002). Amaya Mendikoetxea’s (2008) analysis of Romance clitic impersonal constructions se/si offers a novel understanding, not only of the relationship between these two Spanish clitic constructions, but also of how the impersonal se construction differs from simple transitive sentences. Specifically, she theorizes that both impersonal and passive constructions containing se contain a generic null pronoun (which she calls G-pro) as Spec of vP and that they differ in whether or not v assigns accusative case to the verb’s complement. This difference in case marking determines whether the verb’s complement raises to subject (to yield the passive se construction) or whether the verb’s complement remains in place and a phonologically null expletive fills the subject position. With this analysis in mind, a CHILDES longitudinal study is conducted to assess children’s acquisition of Mendikoetxea’s proposed structures. The results confirm Mendikoetxea’s basic claim that there is a distinction among simple transitive sentences, impersonals with se and passives with se.
The influence of carbon emission reduction instruments on blockchain technology adoption in recycling batteries of the new energy vehicles.docx
Creators: name: Feng, Zhangwei
name: Luo, Na
name: Liu, Yanping
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2022
Subjects: Environmental management

description: The key findings are as follows. Under a carbon tax system, (1) carbon emission reduction encourages the battery supplier to adopt blockchain technology; (2) blockchain technology adoption increases the profits of NEV supply chain stakeholders. Under carbon cap-and-trade regulations, (1) the unit outsourcing fee and the performance of the blockchain technology impact the investment decision of the manufacturer; (2) the profit of the third-party enterprise is increased by introducing the blockchain technology. Under both policies, improving the efficiency of blockchain technology helps to upgrade the traceability level and contribute to carbon neutrality in the NEV supply chain.
On cobordisms between knots, braid index, and the Upsilon-invariant
Creators: name: Feller, Peter
name: Krcatovich, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M25, 57M27

description: We use Ozsváth, Stipsicz, and Szabó's Upsilon-invariant to provide bounds on cobordisms between knots that `contain full-twists'. In particular, we recover and generalize a classical consequence of the Morton-Franks-Williams inequality for knots: positive braids that contain a positive full-twist realize the braid index of their closure. We also establish that quasi-positive braids that are sufficiently twisted realize the minimal braid index among all knots that are concordant to their closure. Finally, we provide inductive formulas for the Upsilon invariant of torus knots and compare it to the Levine-Tristram signature profile.
description: 25 pages, 3 figures, comments welcome! Second version: Typos fixed, implementation of recommendations. Accepted for publication by Mathematische Annalen
Proceedings 12th International Workshop on Quantum Physics and Logic
Creators: name: Heunen, Chris
name: Selinger, Peter
name: Vicary, Jamie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This volume contains the proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Quantum Physics and Logic (QPL 2015), which was held July 15-17, 2015 at Oxford University. The goal of this workshop series is to bring together researchers working on mathematical foundations of quantum physics, quantum computing, spatio-temporal causal structures, and related areas such as computational linguistics. Of particular interest are topics that use logical tools, ordered algebraic and category-theoretic structures, formal languages, semantical methods and other computer science methods for the study of physical behaviour in general.
Deconstructing Bataknese Gorga Computationally
Creators: name: Situngkir, Hokky
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computational Geometry (cs.CG)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The carved and painted decorations in traditional Batak houses and buildings, gorga, are the source of their exoticism. There are no identical patterns of the ornaments within Batak houses and the drawings are closely related to the way ancient Batak capture the dynamicity of the growing 'tree of life', one of central things within their cosmology and mythology. The survey of ornaments of Batak houses and buildings in Northern Sumatera Indonesia has made us possible to observe the complex pattern. The fractal dimensions of the geometrical shapes in gorga are calculated and they are conjectured into 1.5-1.6, between the dimensional of a line and a plane. The way gorga is drawn is captured by using some modification to the turtle geometry of L-System model, a popular model to model the dynamics of growing plants. The result is a proposal to see Bataknese gorga as one of traditional heritage that may enrich the studies to the generative art.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures
Flyer SPLASH study for participant recruitment
Creators: name: Vredeveld, Tom
Publisher: name: University of Amsterdam / Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
Year: 2023
Subjects: Health Sciences

description: This is an example of a flyer that is distributed by physiotherapists, pelvic health physiotherapists or general practitioners in The Netherlands in primary care. It directs the patients of these healthcare provides to the SPLASH study
 This is part of the SPLASH study, the FigShare project of the study can be found here: https://uvaauas.figshare.com/projects/SPLASH_study_Survey_to_Profile_Men_with_Low_Back_Pain_and_Lower_Urinary_Tract_Symptoms_/152319 or at www.hva.nl/splash
 The flyer's graphical design was created by Margot de Vries from Sjeep
Longitudinal Associations Among Popularity, Likeability, and Drinking Across the Adolescent Transition: A Multivariate Latent Growth Curve Analysis
Creators: name: Choukas-Bradley, Sophia Crane
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 2011

description: This study used latent growth curve modeling to examine associations between two forms of peer status and longitudinal drinking trajectories across the transition to high school. In a sample of 165 adolescents in Grade 8 at baseline, participants self-reported their alcohol use and provided sociometric nominations of peers' popularity and likeability, at three annual time points. Consistent with hypotheses, higher 8th grade popularity was associated with higher baseline drinking and with increased drinking trajectories from 8th to 10th grade. However, contrary to hypotheses, lower baseline likeability predicted increased concurrent and longitudinal drinking. These findings underscore the importance of studying the risk behavior correlates of these two distinct peer status constructs. Additionally, results suggest the value in considering preventive interventions that target popular youth; these adolescents may be at higher risk for alcohol use and also may be in a unique position to influence the attitudes and behaviors of their peers.
Replication of Against Empathy Bias: The Moral Value of Equitable Empathy (2021) at BYU-I Winter 2023
Creators: name: Perez, Brenden
name: Sorensen, Anthony
name: Ricks, Thomas
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: Research related to empathy and morality has focused on empathy's effect on our morality. People have been shown to express more empathy towards those that are close to them or similar to them. But does morality have an effect on how empathy is expressed rather than just empathy impacting our morality? The original study sought to find possible answers to this question. The study was conducted on Amazon's Mechanical Turk with 604 participants. Study 1 focused on how participants judged hypothetical situations in third person, while study 2, the study we replicated, explored how people judged their own hypothetical empathetic reaction in various situations. Study 2 presented six different situations with six possible empathetic expressions: empathy felt only for a socially close individual, only for a socially distant individual, more for the socially close than the socially distant, more for the socially distant than the socially close, neither, and equally for both. Results from this study found that participants preferred empathy expressed to those that are socially close rather than those that are socially distant. It was found that empathy felt equally for both groups was viewed as the most moral position. There were two major deviations in our replication study from the original. Our replication was done at Brigham Young University - Idaho, a private religious institution, using students in General Psychology or Research Methods courses while the original was done at Amazon's Mechanical Turk. Secondly, our participants were incentivized with class credit while the participants in the original study were incentivized with a small monetary reward.
Neues Konzept zur Planung, Ausführung und Überwachung von Roboteraufgaben mit hierarchischen Petri-Netzen
Creators: name: Lehmann, Arne
Publisher: name: Universitätsverlag Karlsruhe
Year: 2008
Subjects: Robotik
Petri-Netz
Überwachung
Regelung

description: Es wird gezeigt, wie die aufgabenausführungsrelevanten Komponenten einer hybriden Steuerungsarchitektur mit Hilfe von hierarchischen Petri-Netzen umgesetzt, integriert und mit Überwachungsmodulen verknüpft werden können.Hierzu wird zunächst ein Konzept zur Generierung von Aufgabenwissen vorgeschlagen, das es erlaubt Bausteine komplexer Handlungen systematisiert zu entwerfen. Im Anschluss wird ein neues Konzept zur online Überwachung von Bewegungsvorgängen bei humanoiden Robotern vorgestellt.
Data-driven Demand Response Energy Management for Sustainable and Smart Manufacturing
Creators: name: Yun, Lingxiang
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2023

description: Demand response energy management is a key enabler for enhancing energy efficiency, electricity demand responsiveness, and cost-effectiveness for modern manufacturing systems. Nevertheless, most current demand response management strategies for manufacturing systems are based on empirical knowledge, statistical analysis, and static optimization. The existing approaches are either biased or time-consuming, which are unsuitable for real-time manufacturing system control under dynamic demand response programs. A grand challenge in dynamic demand response management is making real-time decisions responding to time-varying electricity prices and manufacturing uncertainties. To tackle this challenge and advance state-of-the-art demand response management, in this dissertation, an analytical model-based scheduling approach is first developed for production scheduling under static demand response. Then, based on the analytical system model, an explainable deep reinforcement learning algorithm is proposed for real-time manufacturing system control under stochastic and dynamic demand response. In order to support the data-driven scheduling approaches, data acquisition and processing are necessary. The third topic in this thesis focuses on proposing a cost-effective industrial IoT planning algorithm to address the data acquisition problem on the manufacturing shop floor. Finally, a new evaluation metric is proposed for data processing and real-time price prediction for utilities. This thesis provides insight into the design of sustainable and smart manufacturing systems as well as the application of data-driven methods in demand response control toward sustainable manufacturing. The outcomes of this thesis can facilitate the implementation of demand response in the manufacturing sector and contribute positively to the reliability and stability of power systems.
Conclusies, aanbevelingen en discussie
Creators: name: Plasschaert, Nicole
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2019

description: Investeringen in stedelijke vernieuwingswijken worden met het wegvallen van de rijksbijdragen na 2014 niet meer door de rijksoverheid gestimuleerd. Private partijen worden sindsdien geacht in deze achterblijvende wijken te investeren zonder ‘trigger money’ van het Rijk. Voor de continuïteit van stedelijke vernieuwing zijn met name investeringen door woningcorporaties van groot belang. De investeringsruimte van woningcorporaties is echter aanzienlijk verminderd, onder meer doordat zij sinds 2013 verhuurderheffing moeten betalen. Bovendien richten woningcorporaties zich als gevolg van de herziene Woningwet in 2015 meer op hun kerntaken, wat effect heeft op hun activiteiten en investeringen in stedelijke vernieuwingswijken. In de huidige realiteit is het investeringsgedrag van corporaties in stedelijke vernieuwing ingrijpend aan het veranderen en moeilijk te voorspellen. In dit proefschrift wordt inzicht gegeven in het investeringsgedrag van woningcorporaties in stedelijke vernieuwingswijken in samenwerking met andere actoren in de huidige context. Er is onderzoek gedaan naar de wijze waarop investeringsbeslissingen in stedelijke vernieuwing tot stand komen en naar de factoren die hierin een rol spelen. Omdat woningcorporaties minder investeringsruimte hebben en hun kernactiviteit is teruggebracht naar sociale huisvesting, komt het meer aan op samenwerking met andere actoren om investeringen in stedelijke vernieuwing van de grond te krijgen. Hierbij gaat het ten eerste om het samenspel tussen woningcorporaties en beleggers en ten tweede om het samenspel tussen woningcorporaties en bouwers (en in mindere mate ontwikkelaars). Ten derde gaat het om het samenspel tussen corporaties en gemeenten. In dit laatste hoofdstuk worden conclusies getrokken over het investeringsgedrag van woningcorporaties in stedelijke vernieuwing en over de factoren die hierop van invloed zijn. Daarnaast wordt gereflecteerd op de toegepaste onderzoeksmethode en het gekozen denkkader en worden aanbevelingen gedaan. In paragraaf 8.1 wordt antwoord gegeven op de onderzoeksvragen. In paragraaf 8.2 wordt ingegaan op de betrouwbaarheid en validiteit van de toegepaste onderzoeksmethode en op de theoretische benadering en het denkkader van Ostrom. Vervolgens worden aanbevelingen gedaan voor nader onderzoek. In paragraaf 8.3 worden de verwachtingen van het onderzoek weergegeven en worden meer algemene uitspraken gedaan op grond van de bevindingen.
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 11 (2019): Samenspel in stedelijke vernieuwing
Differential equations and dispersion relations for Feynman amplitudes. The two-loop massive sunrise and the kite integral
Creators: name: Remiddi, Ettore
name: Tancredi, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that the study of the imaginary part and of the corresponding dispersion relations of Feynman graph amplitudes within the differential equations method can provide a powerful tool for the solution of the equations, especially in the massive case. The main features of the approach are illustrated by discussing the simple cases of the 1-loop self-mass and of a particular vertex amplitude, and then used for the evaluation of the two-loop massive sunrise and the QED kite graph (the problem studied by Sabry in 1962), up to first order in the (d-4) expansion.
description: 36 pages, v3 fixed a typo in Eq.(5.5)
Samenspel corporatie en gemeente
Creators: name: Plasschaert, Nicole
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2019

description: In de twee voorgaande hoofdstukken werd ingegaan op het samenspel tussen woningcorporaties en respectievelijk beleggers en (ontwikkelende) bouwers. In dit hoofdstuk staat de samenwerking tussen woningcorporaties en gemeenten centraal, die als gevolg van de gewijzigde Woningwet en cyclus van prestatieafspraken is veranderd. Er wordt antwoord gegeven op de volgende onderzoeksvraag: “Op welke andere samenwerkingswijze kunnen woningcorporaties, gemeenten en huurdersorganisaties elkaar onder het regime van de nieuwe Woningwet door middel van samenwerkings- en prestatieafspraken stimuleren om te investeren in stedelijke vernieuwing en wijkontwikkeling?” Om inzicht te krijgen in deze deelvraag worden de volgende deelvragen onderscheiden. Hoe kunnen corporaties gestimuleerd worden om te investeren in stedelijke vernieuwingswijken door middel van samenwerkings- en prestatieafspraken? Hoe kunnen gemeenten bijdragen aan investeringen in stedelijke vernieuwingswijken door middel van samenwerkings- en prestatieafspraken met woningcorporaties? Op welke wijze kunnen huurdersorganisaties en marktpartijen hieraan bijdragen? Op basis van dezelfde methodiek als in de twee voorgaande hoofdstukken zijn vijf veronderstellingen geformuleerd in relatie tot deze vragen, gebaseerd op literatuuronderzoek en interviews. Deze veronderstellingen worden diepgaand onderzocht aan de hand van een gamesimulatie met de nadruk op het samenspel tussen corporaties en gemeente. De interviews zijn gehouden voorafgaand aan deze gamesimulatie, identiek aan hoofdstuk 5, omdat dit een goede volgorde is gebleken. Op basis van de bevindingen wordt de onderzoeksvraag van dit hoofdstuk beantwoord en worden conclusies getrokken. In de volgende paragraaf komt allereerst de achtergrond en het speelveld aan bod. In paragraaf 7.3 worden de interviews behandeld, waarna in paragraaf 7.4 en 7.5 de opzet en resultaten van de gamesimulatie uiteen worden gezet. Tot slot worden in paragraaf 7.6 conclusies getrokken.
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 11 (2019): Samenspel in stedelijke vernieuwing
Samenspel corporatie en bouwer
Creators: name: Plasschaert, Nicole
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2019

description: Dit hoofdstuk gaat primair over de samenwerking tussen woningcorporatie en bouwer. De focus van woningcorporaties is door de herziening van de Woningwet met name op het goedkope en betaalbare segment komen te liggen, wat vraagt om betaalbare oplossingen van bouwers met een lagere kostprijs. De bouwsector staat echter bekend om verspillingen van geld en materiaal, weinig innovatie en lange bouwprocessen (Vrijhoef, 2011). Eén van de oorzaken van deze inefficiëntie is de vaak problematische relatie tussen opdrachtgever en opdrachtnemer (Tazelaar en Snijders, 2010; Vrijhoef, 2011; Venselaar, 2017). Om samenwerking te verbeteren, verspillingen te reduceren en kwaliteit te verhogen wordt ketensamenwerking gezien als veelbelovend alternatief (Bygballe et al., 2010; Vrijhoef, 2011; Eriksson, 2015). Naast de samenwerking tussen corporatie en bouwer wordt ingegaan op de rol die ontwikkelaars zouden kunnen spelen. Als marktpartij kunnen zij een toegevoegde waarde hebben op inhoudelijk en financieel gebied, maar ook op het gebied van organisatie en marketing (Helleman, 2005; Kazemi et al, 2009; Gruis et al., 2009). Zij zouden de rol van intermediair tussen corporatie en bouwer op zich kunnen nemen en daarbij kennis en expertise kunnen inbrengen. Ontwikkelaars zouden bovendien de rol van gebiedsregisseur op zich kunnen nemen en grondposities kunnen inbrengen of ruilen met de corporatie.
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 11 (2019): Samenspel in stedelijke vernieuwing
Comprehensive Census and Complete Characterization of Nearby Debris Disk Stars
Creators: name: Cotten, Tara
name: Song, Inseok
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Debris disks are intimately linked to planetary system evolution since the rocky material surrounding the host stars is due to secondary generation from the collisions of planetesimals. With the conclusion and lack of future large scale infrared excess survey missions, it is time to summarize the history of using excess emission in the infrared as a tracer of debris. We have compiled a catalog of infrared excess stars from peer reviewed articles and performed an extensive search for new debris disks by cross correlating the Tycho 2 and AllWISE catalogs. This study will examine each debris disk stars parameters obtained through high resolution spectroscopy at various facilities. We will maintain a webpage devoted to these infrared excess sources and provide various resources related to our catalog creation, SED fitting, and data reduction.
description: To appear in "Young Stars and Planets Near the Sun", Proceedings of IAU Symposium No. 314 (Cambridge University Press), J.H. Kastner, B. Stelzer, S.A. Metchev, eds
A Journeyman and a Gentleman: Constructing Aristocratic Identity in the Memoirs of Jacques-Louis Menetra
Creators: name: Bauer, Nicole Therese
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 2013

description: Although this paper focuses on one individual who is unique and atypical in many ways, Ménétra's complex attitude towards aristocratic identity reveals how debates in the mid-eighteenth century around luxury, nobility and merit affected an everyday individual's identity formation, including the idea that he could construct his identity. Furthermore, the identity that Ménétra fashioned for himself challenged some of the prevailing hierarchies and values of his society even while he sometimes unknowingly reinforced them. I hope to illustrate this somewhat paradoxical idea by discussing the different aspects of aristocratic identity that Ménétra adopted for himself, namely aristocratic honor, the use of leisure time, libertinage, disinterest and waste; and lastly, the importance he places on his appearance and the gaze of others.