cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Thermophysical modelling and parameter estimation of small solar system bodies via data assimilation
Creators: name: Hamm, M.
name: Pelivan, I.
name: Grott, M.
name: de Wiljes, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Deriving thermophysical properties such as thermal inertia from thermal infrared observations provides useful insights into the structure of the surface material on planetary bodies. The estimation of these properties is usually done by fitting temperature variations calculated by thermophysical models to infrared observations. For multiple free model parameters, traditional methods such as Least-Squares fitting or Markov-Chain Monte-Carlo methods become computationally too expensive. Consequently, the simultaneous estimation of several thermophysical parameters together with their corresponding uncertainties and correlations is often not computationally feasible and the analysis is usually reduced to fitting one or two parameters. Data assimilation methods have been shown to be robust while sufficiently accurate and computationally affordable even for a large number of parameters. This paper will introduce a standard sequential data assimilation method, the Ensemble Square Root Filter, to thermophysical modelling of asteroid surfaces. This method is used to re-analyse infrared observations of the MARA instrument, which measured the diurnal temperature variation of a single boulder on the surface of near-Earth asteroid (162173) Ryugu. The thermal inertia is estimated to be $295 \pm 18$ $\mathrm{J\,m^{-2}\,K^{-1}\,s^{-1/2}}$, while all five free parameters of the initial analysis are varied and estimated simultaneously. Based on this thermal inertia estimate the thermal conductivity of the boulder is estimated to be between 0.07 and 0.12 $\mathrm{W\,m^{-1}\,K^{-1}}$ and the porosity to be between 0.30 and 0.52. For the first time in thermophysical parameter derivation, correlations and uncertainties of all free model parameters are incorporated in the estimation procedure which is more than 5000 times more efficient than a comparable parameter sweep.
Earthquake Event Catalog for Leeu Gamka, Karoo Basin, SA
Creators: name: Whitehead, Benjamin
name: Janse van Rensburg, Melody
name: Quiros, Diego
name: Sloan, Alastair
name: Shaw Kahle, Beth
Publisher: name: University of Cape Town
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 370609
subject: Seismology and seismic exploration

description: Earthquake catalog for the 105 events detected via STA/LTA in Leeu Gamka, RSA.The catalog provides UTC time, latitude, longitude, and depth of each event.Manuscript: Seismic swarm in the Karoo Basin, South Africa, highlights the presence of critically stressed faults in an area of proposed shale gas explorationAbstract: Stable continental region seismicity is now recognised as a significant source of hazard and the combination of shale gas exploration and wastewater disposal dramatically increases the likelihood of failure of critically stressed structures. Here, we describe a natural swarm of earthquakes that occurred within the Karoo Basin, South Africa, in the vicinity of the crustal-scale structure associated with the Beattie magnetic anomaly. The cluster began suddenly in 2007, in an area of little prior seismicity, and is characterised by earthquakes with predominantly low magnitudes, however the largest event was ML 4.8. A short-term geophone deployment characterized the depth extent and trend of microseismicity, which runs WNW-ESE and spans the lower parts of the sedimentary cover down to, and perhaps into, the upper crystalline basement. Focal mechanisms suggest that the earthquakes involve left-lateral strike-slip motion. Ambient noise tomography reveals a prominent velocity transition concordant to the trend of the microseismicity within the sedimentary units. These results suggest that a critically stressed fault extends from the proposed target for shale gas exploration down to the basement, and so the necessary preconditions for significant induced seismicity may be met.
Sustainable transportation : UBC athletic events as an agent of change
Creators: name: Brophy, Erin
name: Hamberlin, William
name: Khuu, Tiffany
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Redefining Domesticity: Francesca Woodman's "House" Series and the Politics of Feminism
Creators: name: Matthews, Anna
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Francesca Woodman (1958-1981) was an American photographer who produced the bulk of her work while she was a student at Rhode Island School of Design from 1975-1978. Her oeuvre is defined by the use of the nude female body (often herself) as a subject. Woodman’s use of her own body as the subject of her work has led scholars to analyze the photographs most often through the lends of self-portraiture. By contrast, this thesis offers a new reading of Woodman’s “House” series (1976) through the lens of craft culture, which is evoked by the architecture depicted in the series and the artist’s own approach to photography. In the “House” photographs, which are small black and white gelatin prints, Woodman is engaged with the architectural material and detritus scattered about. Her engagement within the surrounding prompts viewers to foreground and account for her setting. In this thesis, I argue that the “House” photographs represent the home as a site of creativity. In the midst of the feminist movement, activists and artists had understandably targeted the home as a site of female oppression. But Woodman, who was deeply vested in Victorian culture, saw it as a respite from the messy politics of the public sphere. By positing the home as a site of creativity she was able to assert photography’s status as such, too. While many photographers at this time used photography to document works in other media, Woodman saw it as a craft unto itself.
Continuous Charge Modulated Diagonal Phase in Manganites
Creators: name: Brey, Luis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a novel ground state that explain the continuous modulated charge diagonal order recently observed in manganese oxides, at hole densities $x$ larger than one half. In this diagonal phase the charge is modulated with a predominant Fourier component inversely proportional to $1-x$. Magnetically this state consist of antiferromagnetic coupled zig-zag chains. For a wide range of relevant physical parameters as electron-phonon coupling, antiferromagnetic interaction between Mn ions and on-site Coulomb repulsion, the diagonal phase is the ground state of the system. The diagonal phase is favored by the modulation of the hopping amplitude along the zig-zag chains, and it is stabilized with respect to the one dimensional straight chain by the electron phonon coupling. For realistic estimation of the physical parameters, the diagonal modulation of the electron density is only a small fraction of the average charge, a modulation much smaller than the obtained by distributing Mn$^{+3}$ and Mn$^{+4}$ ions. We discuss also the spin and orbital structure properties of this new diagonal phase.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures included
Energy in Topologically Massive Gravity
Creators: name: Deser, S.
name: Tekin, Bayram
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We define conserved gravitational charges in -cosmologically extended- topologically massive gravity, exhibit them in surface integral form about their de-Sitter or flat vacua and verify their correctness in terms of two basic types of solution.
description: 6 pages
Playing with Pain: Injury Prevention Strategies for Music Schools in the United States
Creators: name: Hale, Garrett
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This research study explores the topic of playing-related musculoskeletal injuries among instrumental musicians. In particular, it seeks to determine what strategies that post-secondary music schools should implement to most effectively prevent injuries within their student populations. An extensive review of the relevant literature uncovered a small but growing body of research on the subject of playing-related injuries, including the various types of injuries and how to most effectively treat and prevent them, in addition to other factors such as the unique experience of being an injured musician and its potential effects on a professional career. To ascertain the state of the field, twenty of the top music schools in the United States were researched and seven were surveyed in-depth regarding the injury prevention strategies in use. Analysis of website and survey data revealed that while most schools offer basic forms of prevention strategies, there is room for improvement. The following recommendations are informed by study results and made using pertinent literature as supporting evidence: 1) the integration of injury prevention courses in school curricula; 2) the training of full-time school faculty in prevention strategies; and 3) the development of adequate access to specialized medical care for music students.
Additional file 1 of Mutations in COL1A1/A2 and CREB3L1 are associated with oligodontia in osteogenesis imperfecta
Creators: name: Andersson, Kristofer
name: Malmgren, Barbro
name: Åström, Eva
name: Nordgren, Ann
name: Taylan, Fulya
name: Dahllöf, Göran
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Summary statistics of whole-genome sequencing data.
Additional file 1 of Being involved in research as a collaborator with experience of a prenatal diagnosis of congenital heart defect in the fetus: a qualitative study
Creators: name: Carlsson, Tommy
name: Marttala, Ulla Melander
name: Mattsson, Elisabet
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Guidance for Reporting Involvement of Patients and the Public (GRIPP2) checklist.
Playing with Pain: Injury Prevention Strategies for Music Schools in the United States
Creators: name: Hale, Garrett
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3603
subject: Music

description: This research study explores the topic of playing-related musculoskeletal injuries among instrumental musicians. In particular, it seeks to determine what strategies that post-secondary music schools should implement to most effectively prevent injuries within their student populations. An extensive review of the relevant literature uncovered a small but growing body of research on the subject of playing-related injuries, including the various types of injuries and how to most effectively treat and prevent them, in addition to other factors such as the unique experience of being an injured musician and its potential effects on a professional career. To ascertain the state of the field, twenty of the top music schools in the United States were researched and seven were surveyed in-depth regarding the injury prevention strategies in use. Analysis of website and survey data revealed that while most schools offer basic forms of prevention strategies, there is room for improvement. The following recommendations are informed by study results and made using pertinent literature as supporting evidence: 1) the integration of injury prevention courses in school curricula; 2) the training of full-time school faculty in prevention strategies; and 3) the development of adequate access to specialized medical care for music students.
Experiential Marketing in the Performing Arts
Creators: name: York, Kara
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3604
subject: Performing arts

description: This thesis explores the theory and practice of experiential marketing in the performing arts. It argues that in the performing arts, experiential marketing has two facets: marketing the whole experience of attending a performance, and marketing as an experience itself. Experiential marketing is about creating experiences that consumers want to be a part of. It is inherently part of the performing arts, because they are an experience in and of themselves. However, experiential marketing as a concrete concept has been underexplored in the performing arts in a formal manner. There is literature on experiential marketing in corporate marketing, but a lack of literature on its application in the performing arts. Experiential marketing connects marketing and programming. For patrons, it is all part of the same experience – from the moment of impact created by the organization’s marketing techniques to the moment they stop interacting with the organization after they return home.
Higgs boson production in bottom quark fusion at next-to-next-to-leading order
Creators: name: Harlander, Robert V.
name: Kilgore, William B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The total cross section for Higgs production in bottom-quark annihilation is evaluated at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in QCD. This is the first time that all terms at order alpha_s^2 are taken into account. We find a greatly reduced scale dependence with respect to lower order results, for both the factorization and the renormalization scales. The behavior of the result is consistent with earlier determinations of the appropriate factorization scale for this process of mu_F ~ M_H/4, and supports the validity of the bottom parton density approach for computing the total inclusive rate. We present precise predictions for the cross section at the Tevatron and the LHC.
description: 16 pages, 10 figures. Minor changes. References Added. Journal reference added
title: Automatic particle detection in digitized electron micrographs
Creators: name: Short, Judith M
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2005

description: High resolution structural analysis of biological complexes can be carried out by single particle electron microscopy where a large number of particle images are available. Many approaches to automate the process of selection of particle positions from digitized electron micrograph images have been described, but so far none has proved as good as manual selection.
This thesis describes a method which I have developed to locate such biological complexes by matching small boxed areas to a set of reference images using the radius of gyration, complemented by a series of other simple criteria. From the reference images, parameters such as the ratio between the average density of the central area and that in its surrounding band, and the density sum and variance are calculated. They are compared with corresponding values from a moving square window of densities extracted from the micrograph, and the coordinates of successfully matched candidate squares are recorded. Since the same particle is detected in a series of overlapping windows, candidates found to be within close proximity are grouped, and the best-fitting one is selected from each cluster. Along with a small stack of boxed reference images, a few specified parameter values, such as the particle radius and the minimum acceptable distance between particle centres are required to select the windows. Micrograph labels and other areas that do not contain appropriate specimens are automatically ignored in order to minimize false positives, and reduce the computing time.
A computer program SLEUTH written to carry out this method of automatic particle detection includes a graphical user interface to assist the user in setting up the parameter values. The program has been tested successfully on a variety of different biological structures, from both negatively stained and ice-embedded specimens.
Experiential Marketing in the Performing Arts
Creators: name: York, Kara
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This thesis explores the theory and practice of experiential marketing in the performing arts. It argues that in the performing arts, experiential marketing has two facets: marketing the whole experience of attending a performance, and marketing as an experience itself. Experiential marketing is about creating experiences that consumers want to be a part of. It is inherently part of the performing arts, because they are an experience in and of themselves. However, experiential marketing as a concrete concept has been underexplored in the performing arts in a formal manner. There is literature on experiential marketing in corporate marketing, but a lack of literature on its application in the performing arts. Experiential marketing connects marketing and programming. For patrons, it is all part of the same experience – from the moment of impact created by the organization’s marketing techniques to the moment they stop interacting with the organization after they return home.
Quantum Hall States of Gluons in Quark Matter
Creators: name: Iwazaki, Aiichi
name: Morimatsu, Osamu
name: Ohtani, Munehisa
name: Nishikawa, Tetsuo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have recently shown that dense quark matter possesses a color ferromagnetic phase in which a stable color magnetic field arises spontaneously. This ferromagnetic state has been known to be Savvidy vacuum in the vacuum sector. Although the Savvidy vacuum is unstable, the state is stabilized in the quark matter. The stabilization is achieved by the formation of quantum Hall states of gluons, that is, by the condensation of the gluon's color charges transmitted from the quark matter. The phase is realized between the hadronic phase and the color superconducting phase. After a review of quantum Hall states of electrons in semiconductors, we discuss the properties of quantum Hall states of gluons in quark matter in detail. Especially, we evaluate the energy of the states as a function of the coupling constant. We also analyze solutions of vortex excitations in the states and evaluate their energies. We find that the states become unstable as the gauge coupling constant becomes large, or the chemical potential of the quarks becomes small, as expected. On the other hand, with the increase of the chemical potential, the color superconducting state arises instead of the ferromagnetic state. We also show that the quark matter produced by heavy ion collisions generates observable strong magnetic field $\sim 10^{15}$ Gauss when it enters the ferromagnetic phase.
description: 11 pages, 2 figures
Accelerating longitudinal expansion of resistive relativistic-magneto-hydrodynamics in heavy ion collisions
Creators: name: Moghaddam, M. Haddadi
name: Alberico, W. M.
name: She, Duan
name: Kord, A. F.
name: Azadegan, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the evolution of the longitudinal expansion of an ideal fluid with finite electrical conductivity, which is subject to the EM fields. In the framework of resistive relativistic-magneto-hydrodynamic, we find an exact analytical solution for the EM fields and for the acceleration of the fluid.
description: 9 pages, 12 figures
Cold Tolerance of Native Wolbachia Endosymbiotes in Aedes Albopictus Larvae
Creators: name: Riske, Brendan Francis
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This series of experiments will investigate the cold tolerance of native Wolbachia symbiotes in Aedes albopictus. Ae. albopictus will be exposed to a low temperature treatment at various life stages in order to see if low temperature affects the density of the native Wolbachia strains. qPCR will be used to generate density estimates of wAlbA and wAlbB in mosquito samples from four populations collected in the United States. These will be used to determine if there is a significant difference in due to cold treatment. This data is very useful and timely, as Wolbachia based vector control strategies are being developed to combat the spread of Ae. albopictus, and many of these will be deployed in regions which experience low temperature.
Cold Tolerance of Native Wolbachia Endosymbiotes in Aedes Albopictus Larvae
Creators: name: Riske, Brendan Francis
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: This series of experiments will investigate the cold tolerance of native Wolbachia symbiotes in Aedes albopictus. Ae. albopictus will be exposed to a low temperature treatment at various life stages in order to see if low temperature affects the density of the native Wolbachia strains. qPCR will be used to generate density estimates of wAlbA and wAlbB in mosquito samples from four populations collected in the United States. These will be used to determine if there is a significant difference in due to cold treatment. This data is very useful and timely, as Wolbachia based vector control strategies are being developed to combat the spread of Ae. albopictus, and many of these will be deployed in regions which experience low temperature.
The Beauty Sleeping in the Swamp
Creators: name: Castellano, Anthony
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The Beauty Sleeping in the Swamp is an original novel blending European fairy tale traditions and New England folklore with urban legends about the Hockomock Swamp. Through the Hero’s Journey of a neurodivergent protagonist experiencing the trials and triumphs of autistic adulthood, the author explores questions of legacy, loss, and the cyclical nature of history in a fabulist version of a Massachusetts town.
PROCUREMENT POLICY AND STRATEGIES: DEVELOPING A FRAMEWORK FOR EFFECTIVE PROCUREMENT POLICY AND STRATEGY FORMULATION IN THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTORS
Creators: name: Paraschos Maniatis*
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Procurement Policy, Procurement strategy, Public sector, Private sector, Best practices, Implementation challenges, framework.

description: Abstract: Effective procurement policy and strategy formulation are crucial to the success of any organization. This research paper aims to develop a framework for effective procurement policy and strategy formulation in the public and private sectors. The paper identifies best practices and models for procurement policy and strategy formulation, analyzes the challenges and issues in procurement policy and strategy implementation, and develops a framework for effective procurement policy and strategy formulation. The framework will be beneficial for organizations looking to improve their procurement processes and achieve better procurement outcomes.
The Beauty Sleeping in the Swamp
Creators: name: Castellano, Anthony
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3602
subject: Creative and professional writing

description: The Beauty Sleeping in the Swamp is an original novel blending European fairy tale traditions and New England folklore with urban legends about the Hockomock Swamp. Through the Hero’s Journey of a neurodivergent protagonist experiencing the trials and triumphs of autistic adulthood, the author explores questions of legacy, loss, and the cyclical nature of history in a fabulist version of a Massachusetts town.
Small-angle impurity scattering and the spin Hall conductivity in 2D systems
Creators: name: Shytov, A. V.
name: Mishchenko, E. G.
name: Engel, H. -A.
name: Halperin, B. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An arbitrarily small concentration of impurities can affect the spin Hall conductivity in a two-dimensional semiconductor system. We develop a Boltzmann-like equation that can be used for impurity scattering with arbitrary angular dependence, and for arbitrary angular dependence of the spin-orbit field b(k) around the Fermi surface. For a model applicable to a 2D hole system in GaAs, if the impurity scattering is not isotropic, we find that the spin Hall conductivity depends on the derivative of b with respect to the energy and on deviations from a parabolic band structure, as well as on the angular dependence of the scattering. In principle, the resulting spin Hall conductivity can be larger or smaller than the ``intrinsic value'', and can have opposite sign. In the limit of small angle scattering, in a model appropriate for small hole concentrations, where the band is parabolic and b ~ k^3, the spin Hall conductivity has opposite sign from the intrinsic value, and has larger magnitude. Our analysis assumes that the spin-orbit splitting $b$ and the transport scattering rate tau^{-1} are both small compared to the Fermi energy, but the method is valid for for arbitrary value of b*tau.
description: Errors corrected, references added
Additional file 1 of Prediction of short-term mortality in acute heart failure patients using minimal electronic health record data
Creators: name: Ashwath Radhachandran
name: Anurag Garikipati
name: Zelin, Nicole S.
name: Pellegrini, Emily
name: Ghandian, Sina
name: Calvert, Jacob
name: Hoffman, Jana
name: Qingqing Mao
name: Ritankar Das
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1. Machine learning workflow. Table S1. Inputs used to train the machine learning algorithm. Table S2. International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) codes used to identify emergency department encounters for acute heart failure. Table S3. Hyperparameter Optimization for the Top5F and 33F models. For each model, the first row lists the values of the optimal hyperparameters selected during model training. For each subsequent row, a single (bolded) hyperparameter is altered, and all other hyperparameters are unchanged.
ENHANCING U.S. EXPORTS: A COMPARISON OF MARKETING LOANS AND EXPORT SUBSIDIES
Creators: name: Glauber, Joseph W.
name: Miranda, Mario J.
name: Glauber, Joseph W.
name: Miranda, Mario J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1988
Subjects: Agricultural Finance
International Relations/Trade

description: Marketing. loans and export subsidies have narkedly different effects on comnoclity narkets. While export subsidies are more cost effective in raising exports, narketing loans benefit both producers and domestic consumers and thus are more efficient from the standpoint of net social welfare. Furthermore, export subsidies destabilize domestic market prices.
Midseason
Creators: name: Trotter, Amy
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Midseason is a book of poems in three sections that explores a woman’s identity between the seasons of daughterhood and motherhood. At once, she is the daughter of drug addicts and the stand-in mother to a sibling battling mental illness. She then carries this narrative into her own nuclear family and the marital relationship, as both mother and wife. In the middle of these two familiar worlds, there is a blank space. Not a clean, empty slate or a fresh pallet of possibility, but an embodied disfigurement from the traumas of loss, abuse, and neglect. This work is a reclamation of that blank space - a poetic emergence into identity transformation. Countless women encounter this dilemma of prolapsed identity from their gendered role as caregivers in society. By extension, the narratives taking place in this book are drawn not only from a well of personal experience, but from the oceans of feminine condition. These poems born from loss and trauma are a shared, collective experience whose evolution is explored through variations of metaphor, form, sound, and rhythm. Elements of the Earth recur as poignant metaphors for physicality and landscape, and become intertwined with spiritual and magical images that harmonize the form with the theme. Just as with the seasons of the Earth, there are shifting seasons of our lives, and this book aims to encapsulate that ever-allusive midseason, the time and experience where we are neither who we were, or who we are yet to become.
Midseason
Creators: name: Trotter, Amy
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3602
subject: Creative and professional writing

description: Midseason is a book of poems in three sections that explores a woman’s identity between the seasons of daughterhood and motherhood. At once, she is the daughter of drug addicts and the stand-in mother to a sibling battling mental illness. She then carries this narrative into her own nuclear family and the marital relationship, as both mother and wife. In the middle of these two familiar worlds, there is a blank space. Not a clean, empty slate or a fresh pallet of possibility, but an embodied disfigurement from the traumas of loss, abuse, and neglect. This work is a reclamation of that blank space - a poetic emergence into identity transformation. Countless women encounter this dilemma of prolapsed identity from their gendered role as caregivers in society. By extension, the narratives taking place in this book are drawn not only from a well of personal experience, but from the oceans of feminine condition. These poems born from loss and trauma are a shared, collective experience whose evolution is explored through variations of metaphor, form, sound, and rhythm. Elements of the Earth recur as poignant metaphors for physicality and landscape, and become intertwined with spiritual and magical images that harmonize the form with the theme. Just as with the seasons of the Earth, there are shifting seasons of our lives, and this book aims to encapsulate that ever-allusive midseason, the time and experience where we are neither who we were, or who we are yet to become.
Building Computationally Efficient and Well-Generalizing Person Re-Identification Models with Metric Learning
Creators: name: Sovrasov, Vladislav
name: Sidnev, Dmitry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This work considers the problem of domain shift in person re-identification.Being trained on one dataset, a re-identification model usually performs much worse on unseen data. Partially this gap is caused by the relatively small scale of person re-identification datasets (compared to face recognition ones, for instance), but it is also related to training objectives. We propose to use the metric learning objective, namely AM-Softmax loss, and some additional training practices to build well-generalizing, yet, computationally efficient models. We use recently proposed Omni-Scale Network (OSNet) architecture combined with several training tricks and architecture adjustments to obtain state-of-the art results in cross-domain generalization problem on a large-scale MSMT17 dataset in three setups: MSMT17-all->DukeMTMC, MSMT17-train->Market1501 and MSMT17-all->Market1501.
description: Submitted to International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2020)
EVALUATING THE INCUBATION POTENTIAL OF ARTS ORGANIZATIONS IN HAITI
Creators: name: Jonathan Perodin, Leon S.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: ABSTRACTThe purpose of this study is to identify and analyze the available services for artists and student artists in the Haitian cultural ecosystem, the institutions that provide these services, their strengths and their weaknesses. The general lack of support for the Haitian cultural sector, more specifically, the difficulty for most local artists to make a living from their art, constitute the issues leading to a need for research. This study seeks to facilitate the assessment of the incubation potential of local arts organizations, their ability to help artists launch their careers and establish themselves in the marketplace. The researcher conducted a review of the available literature on creative placemaking, community development, arts entrepreneurship and the Haitian culture. However, due to scarce data on the latter, the researcher also interviewed the leaders of various local arts organizations, artists of different generations and backgrounds and other experts in the fields of arts and culture.This study and its findings will be useful to Haitian arts organizations, artists, aspiring artists, students, professionals and all who are interested in cultural issues. It hopes to encourage future efforts to seek thoughtful and innovative solutions to the challenges facing the Haitian cultural sector.
EVALUATING THE INCUBATION POTENTIAL OF ARTS ORGANIZATIONS IN HAITI
Creators: name: Jonathan Perodin, Leon S.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3507
subject: Strategy, management and organisational behaviour
classificationCode: 3604
subject: Performing arts

description: ABSTRACTThe purpose of this study is to identify and analyze the available services for artists and student artists in the Haitian cultural ecosystem, the institutions that provide these services, their strengths and their weaknesses. The general lack of support for the Haitian cultural sector, more specifically, the difficulty for most local artists to make a living from their art, constitute the issues leading to a need for research. This study seeks to facilitate the assessment of the incubation potential of local arts organizations, their ability to help artists launch their careers and establish themselves in the marketplace. The researcher conducted a review of the available literature on creative placemaking, community development, arts entrepreneurship and the Haitian culture. However, due to scarce data on the latter, the researcher also interviewed the leaders of various local arts organizations, artists of different generations and backgrounds and other experts in the fields of arts and culture.This study and its findings will be useful to Haitian arts organizations, artists, aspiring artists, students, professionals and all who are interested in cultural issues. It hopes to encourage future efforts to seek thoughtful and innovative solutions to the challenges facing the Haitian cultural sector.
Assessment of density functional approximations: long-range correlations and self-interaction effects
Creators: name: Jung, J.
name: García-González, P.
name: Alvarellos, J. E.
name: Godby, R. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The complex nature of electron-electron correlations is made manifest in the very simple but non-trivial problem of two electrons confined within a sphere. The description of highly non-local correlation and self-interaction effects by widely used local and semi-local exchange-correlation energy density functionals is shown to be unsatisfactory in most cases. Even the best such functionals exhibit significant errors in the Kohn-Sham potentials and density profiles.
description: 7 pages 4 figures. Accepted in PRA
Gold Nanoparticle-Modified Carbon Fiber Microelectrodes for Enhanced Neurotransmitter Detection
Creators: name: Mohanaraj, Durga Sanuja
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Carbon-fiber microelectrodes (CFMEs) are the standard biosensors for neurotransmission detection due to their biocompatibility, size, and electrochemical properties. However, unmodified CFMEs have been known to have several limitations for neurotransmitter detection with fast-scan cyclic voltammetry (FSCV). Because carbon-fiber microelectrodes are mostly composed of basal plane carbon, unmodified-electrodes have relatively low electroactive surface areas that lead to poor sensitivities. Additionally, surface fouling may occur with certain neurochemicals that could potentially obstruct further neurotransmitter adsorption onto the electrode surface. These days, there has been an emphasis on improving the sensitivity of CFMEs, and the most widespread method of enhancing electrode functionality is by coating the fiber surface with a conductive polymer or another form of carbon. In the present work, the electrochemical performance of CFMEs for neurochemical measurements is enhanced by electrodepositing gold nanoparticles (AuNP) onto the fiber surface using electrodeposition and cyclic voltammetry. Gold is an ideal electrode material for neurochemical detection as it is a stable, conductive, and relatively inert metal. The modified-electrodes possess improved sensitivity of neurochemical detection than unmodified electrodes. The thin and uniform layer of gold nanoparticles on the fiber-surface increases electroactive surface area for neurotransmitter adsorption, which leads to considerably higher peak oxidative currents and lower limits of detection. The potential separation of the oxidation and reduction peaks (∆Ep) of the AuNP-CFMEs is smaller, suggesting higher conductivity and faster electron transfer kinetics which is ideal for measuring phasic firing of dopaminergic neurons and fast neurochemical changes in the brain. Furthermore, the coated-electrodes also possess uniform stability for dopamine detection for over a four-hour period which is the typical time period for ¬in-vivo experiments. This is significant as it denotes the potential applicability of the AuNP-CFMEs for in-vivo¬ testing. Additionally, a linear rise in peak oxidative currents is observed with the AuNP-modified electrodes with regards to both dopamine concentration and scan rate, indicative of dopamine adsorption control to the electrode surface. However, an asymptotic curve is seen with higher dopamine concentrations suggesting that dopamine is now saturated at the electrode surface with more diffusion control taking place. This study has a myriad of applications for enhanced neurochemical detection and is crucial for the development of novel electrode sensors for in-vivo neurotransmitter measurements to analyze the neurochemical effects of drug abuse and other psychostimulants, Parkinson’s disease, depression, and other behavioral conditions.
Additional file 1 of Patient desire for spiritual assessment is unmet in urban and rural primary care settings
Creators: name: Fuchs, Joseph R.
name: Fuchs, Jeffrey W.
name: Hauser, Joshua M.
name: Coors, Marilyn E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.
Dynamical Electroweak Superconductivity from a Composite Little Higgs
Creators: name: Nelson, Ann E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I describe, from the bottom up, a sequence of natural effective field theories. Below a TeV we have the minimal standard model with a light Higgs, and an extra neutral scalar. In the 1-10 TeV region these scalars are part of a multiplet of pseudo Nambu-Goldstone Bosons. Interactions with additional TeV mass scalars, gauge bosons, and vector-like charge 2/3 quarks stabilize the Higgs mass squared parameter without finetuning. Electroweak superconductivity may be determined in this effective theory as a UV insensitive vacuum alignment problem. Above the 10 TeV scale we have strongly coupled new gauge interactions.
description: 16 pages, no figures, writeup of talk given at "Strong Coupling Gauge Theories and Effective Field Theories" conference in Nagoya, Japan, Dec 2002
QCD: Theoretical Developments
Creators: name: Gehrmann, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I review recent theoretical advances in quantum chromodynamics. Particular emphasis is put on developments related to the precise prediction and interpretation of experimental data from present and future high energy colliders.
description: 12 pages, LaTeX, Invited talk at "XXI International Symposium on Lepton and Photon Interactions at High Energies," (Fermilab, Chicago, August 2003), minor changes, references added
Gauss-Manin connections for arrangements, III Formal connections
Creators: name: Cohen, Daniel C.
name: Orlik, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 32S22, 14D05, 52C35, 55N25

description: We study the Gauss-Manin connection for the moduli space of an arrangement of complex hyperplanes in the cohomology of a complex rank one local system. We define formal Gauss-Manin connection matrices in the Aomoto complex and prove that, for all arrangements and all local systems, these formal connection matrices specialize to Gauss-Manin connection matrices.
Gold Nanoparticle-Modified Carbon Fiber Microelectrodes for Enhanced Neurotransmitter Detection
Creators: name: Mohanaraj, Durga Sanuja
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 34
subject: Chemical sciences
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Carbon-fiber microelectrodes (CFMEs) are the standard biosensors for neurotransmission detection due to their biocompatibility, size, and electrochemical properties. However, unmodified CFMEs have been known to have several limitations for neurotransmitter detection with fast-scan cyclic voltammetry (FSCV). Because carbon-fiber microelectrodes are mostly composed of basal plane carbon, unmodified-electrodes have relatively low electroactive surface areas that lead to poor sensitivities. Additionally, surface fouling may occur with certain neurochemicals that could potentially obstruct further neurotransmitter adsorption onto the electrode surface. These days, there has been an emphasis on improving the sensitivity of CFMEs, and the most widespread method of enhancing electrode functionality is by coating the fiber surface with a conductive polymer or another form of carbon. In the present work, the electrochemical performance of CFMEs for neurochemical measurements is enhanced by electrodepositing gold nanoparticles (AuNP) onto the fiber surface using electrodeposition and cyclic voltammetry. Gold is an ideal electrode material for neurochemical detection as it is a stable, conductive, and relatively inert metal. The modified-electrodes possess improved sensitivity of neurochemical detection than unmodified electrodes. The thin and uniform layer of gold nanoparticles on the fiber-surface increases electroactive surface area for neurotransmitter adsorption, which leads to considerably higher peak oxidative currents and lower limits of detection. The potential separation of the oxidation and reduction peaks (∆Ep) of the AuNP-CFMEs is smaller, suggesting higher conductivity and faster electron transfer kinetics which is ideal for measuring phasic firing of dopaminergic neurons and fast neurochemical changes in the brain. Furthermore, the coated-electrodes also possess uniform stability for dopamine detection for over a four-hour period which is the typical time period for ¬in-vivo experiments. This is significant as it denotes the potential applicability of the AuNP-CFMEs for in-vivo¬ testing. Additionally, a linear rise in peak oxidative currents is observed with the AuNP-modified electrodes with regards to both dopamine concentration and scan rate, indicative of dopamine adsorption control to the electrode surface. However, an asymptotic curve is seen with higher dopamine concentrations suggesting that dopamine is now saturated at the electrode surface with more diffusion control taking place. This study has a myriad of applications for enhanced neurochemical detection and is crucial for the development of novel electrode sensors for in-vivo neurotransmitter measurements to analyze the neurochemical effects of drug abuse and other psychostimulants, Parkinson’s disease, depression, and other behavioral conditions.
Additional file 1 of Extracting clearer tsunami currents from shipborne Automatic Identification System data using ship yaw and equation of ship response
Creators: name: Inazu, Daisuke
name: Ikeya, Tsuyoshi
name: Iseki, Toshio
name: Waseda, Takuji
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1. Time series of AIS data of nine vessels (#1, #4, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #12, and #13). See also Fig. 4. Fig. S2. Corrected HDG-normal velocity (green) and tsunami current simulation (red) using the initial condition of Saito et al. (2011). Compare to Fig. 6b. Fig. S3. Same as Fig. 8 but vc is calculated by tsunami current simulation using the initial condition of Saito et al. (2011).
Critical currents and vortex dynamics in percolative superconductors containing fractal clusters of a normal phase
Creators: name: Kuzmin, Yuriy I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effect of fractal clusters on magnetic and transport properties of percolative superconductors is considered. The superconductor contains percolative superconducting cluster, carrying a transport current, as well as clusters of a normal phase, which act as pinning centers. A prototype of such a structure is a high-temperature superconducting wire. It is found that normal-phase clusters can have fractal features that affect the vortex dynamics. The fractal dimension of the normal-phase cluster boundary in YBCO films is estimated. Depinning and transport of vortices in fractal superconducting structures are investigated. The current-voltage characteristics of superconductors containing fractal clusters are obtained. Dependencies of free vortex density on the fractal dimension as well as the resistance on the transport current are studied. It is found that the fractality of the cluster boundary intensifies pinning. This feature enables the current-carrying capability of a superconductor to be enhanced without changing of its chemical composition.
description: 16 pages, 11 figures, accepted as a chapter in "Superconductivity Research" by Nova Science Publishers, Inc., NY, 2006