cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Dall’allegoria all’allegoresi. Il contributo degli Stoici
Creators: name: Radice, Roberto
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2015

description: This paper aims to provide an excurcus on the presence and use of allegorical interpretation in Stoicism. In particular, Stoic philosophy represents a key moment for the evolution of the allegory in allegoresis, that is to say, as a systematic and rational interpretation of symbols and myths.
description: Itinera, No 9 (2015)
La materia di Elena e del suo doppio: le derive artistiche di un mito
Creators: name: Matelli, Elisabetta
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2015

description: The paper reconsiders some aspects of the ancient legend of Helen, paying particular attention to her divine origin continued in the Spartan and Laconian traditions, which were collected and elaborated by the poet Stesichorus in two different versions of his Palinodia. Here he said that Proteus kept Helen in Aegypt giving to Paris / Alexander an eidôlon of Helen in her substitution. The author wonders about the matter of this eidôlon. The ‘drift’ of this myth is then considered in relationship with the history of visual arts, that seems to have been influenced by the fame of Helen’s beauty from Parrasios and Zeuxis’s time until modern age, in strict connections with its literary afterlife.
description: Itinera, No 9 (2015)
Everyday life in the golden city : a historical geography of Rossland, British Columbia
Creators: name: Ripmeester, Michael R.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Rossland, British Columbia, like many other Kootenay towns was the child of a turn-of-the-century lode mining boom. As such, Rossland was a frontier settlement, but it was also part of an industrial mining complex which had been working northward out of the California gold fields of the 1840s. The period under examination extends from the discovery of ores on Red Mountain in 1887 to 1902, by which time Rossland was established as a mature mining city. I argue that there was a relationship between the level of mechanized mining on Red Mountain and the social structure of Rossland. Research indicates that the rapid mechanization of Rossland’s mines produced a stratified social structure, a specific residential pattern, and an ethnically segmented labour force. Very quickly one's occupation, one's gender, and one's ethnicity determined what one's opportunities and experiences would be.
Искусство Евразии, Выпуск 2(13) 2019
Creators: name: Алтайский государственный технический университет им. И.И. Ползунова
Publisher: name: Искусство Евразии
Year: 2019

description: , Выпуск 2(13) 2019
description: Редакция журнала ставит перед собой две основных цели. Во-первых, создать платформу для презентации работ художников, архитекторов, скульпторов, представителей различных художественных движений на евразийском пространстве. Во-вторых, заново поднять вечные вопросы — об искусстве как таковом, о его сути, задачах и проблемах, а также напомнить о том, как эти вопросы решались в трудах выдающихся мыслителей разных времен. И, в-третьих, способствовать культурному диалогу и взаимообмену, совместным проектам в сфере искусства, которое объединяет людей поверх искусственных разделений и государственных границ. Основной язык журнала — русский, но на английской странице, помимо абстрактов, часть статей представляется на английском языке.
The cosmological gravitational wave background from primordial density perturbations
Creators: name: Ananda, Kishore N.
name: Clarkson, Chris
name: Wands, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the gravitational wave background generated by primordial density perturbations evolving during the radiation era. At second-order in a perturbative expansion, density fluctuations produce gravitational waves. We calculate the power spectra of gravitational waves from this mechanism, and show that, in principle, future gravitational wave detectors could be used to constrain the primordial power spectrum on scales vastly different from those currently being probed by large-scale structure. As examples we compute the gravitational wave background generated by both a power-law spectrum on all scales, and a delta-function power spectrum on a single scale.
description: 8 Pages
STAGES OF THE AUDIT PROCEDURES AND TAX AUDIT SAMPLE AUDIT VAT
Creators: name: Khakhonova, N.
name: Abzaeba, N.M.
Publisher: name: Norwegian Journal of Development of the International Science
Year: 2021
Subjects: Tax audit
VAT audit
stages of VAT verification
audit procedures for VAT verification

description: The article discusses topical issues of organizing and conducting a tax audit in the Russian Federation using the example of VAT calculations. The main stages and procedures of the audit are highlighted and characterized, the sources of the audit and the main errors identified during the audit are disclosed. Special attention is paid to the description of the problem of the audit of VAT settlements, which consists in the establishment of permissible limits for minimizing VAT payments by an economic entity in order to avoid possible problems with the tax authorities.
Gravitoelectromagnetism and Dark Energy in Superconductors
Creators: name: de Matos, Clovis Jacinto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A gravitomagnetic analogue of the London moment in superconductors can explain the anomalous Cooper pair mass excess reported by Janet Tate. Ultimately the gravitomagnetic London moment is attributed to the breaking of the principle of general covariance in superconductors. This naturally implies non-conservation of classical energy-momentum. Possible relation with the manifestation of dark energy in superconductors is questioned.
description: 10 pages. Poster presented at "From Quantum to Cosmos - Fundamental Physics Research in Space" 22-24 May 2006, To Appear in Int. J. Mod. Phys. D
D1.2 – Experimental tests and validation activities on the MULTIROBOTS-SURGERY platform
Creators: name: Oleari, Elettra
name: Leporini, Alice
name: Trojaniello, Diana
name: Cristiano, Alessia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: functional tests
effectiveness
usability tests
coordination
cooperation
force feedback

description: The aim of this document is to describe the test plan structured for the SARAS MULTIROBOTS-SURGERY platform. The activities outlined are meant to be functional tests, and not technical ones (which are discussed in Deliverables 3.1 and 7.2), addressing therefore the system as a whole, its ability in carrying out the expected surgical tasks for the RARP simplified procedure (see Deliverable 1.1) and its level of usability from the surgeon’s point of view. In particular the test plan has been framed in order to:
 - Assess the effectiveness of the SARAS MULTIROBOTS platform in performing the expected surgical tasks (outlined in Deliverable 1.1) for the benchmark procedures;
 - Investigate the perceived satisfaction in using/operating the SARAS MULTIROBOTS platform from the testers’ perspective (i.e. MIS experienced urological surgeons);
 - Evaluate the coordination and cooperation of the main surgeon at the da Vinci® IS1200 console and the assistant surgeon tele-operating the SARAS robotic arms;
 - Evaluate the impact of force feedback and virtual fixtures on the surgical tasks’ performance. SARAS Deliverable 1.2 is structured as follows:
 - The first part (Chapter 3) describes the rationale behind the choice of the different functional test and their specific aim;
 - Chapter 4 provides a description of pre-testing phase of the SARAS MULTIROBOTS platform;
 - Chapter 5 describes the results obtained in the functional evaluation of the SARAS MULTIROBOTS platform;
 - The attached documents (Annexes to Deliverable 1.2) include the appendices which provide the actual test’s details:
 o Appendix I recalls the procedural steps of the SARAS simplified RARP, as it has been described in Deliverable 1.1;
 o Appendix III collects all the other questionnaires developed for the present investigation;
 o Appendix IV collects all the aggregated responses to the questionnaires provided by surgeons.
Vera narratio
Creators: name: Botturi, Francesco
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2015

description: Vico’s speculation is not primarily interested in a theory of myth itself, rather than in the anthropological idea laying at the core of human existence in its social and politcal forms. Hence, his mythopoeic theory must be seen as a contribution to the modern debate on subjectivity where the subject is, in the first place, author and object of the human foundational narrative.
description: Itinera, No 9 (2015)
Uncertainty Relations for Positive Operator Valued Measures
Creators: name: Massar, Serge
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: How much unavoidable randomness is generated by a Positive Operator Valued Measure (POVM)? We address this question using two complementary approaches. First we study the variance of a real variable associated to the POVM outcomes. In this context we introduce an uncertainty operator which measures how much additional noise is introduced by carrying out a POVM rather than a von Neumann measurement. We illustrate this first approach by studying the variances of joint estimates of σ_x and σ_z for spin 1/2 particles. We show that for unbiased measurements the sum of these variances is lower bounded by 1. In our second approach we study the entropy of the POVM outcomes. In particular we try to establish lower bounds on the entropy of the POVM outcomes. We illustrate this second approach by examples.
description: 5 pages, minor modifications and clarifications
title: Solving Challenging Large Scale QAPs
Creators: name: Fujii, Koichi
name: Ito, Naoki
name: Kim, Sunyoung
name: Kojima, Masakazu
name: Shinano, Yuji
name: Toh, Kim-Chuan
Year: 2021

description: We report our progress on the project for solving larger scale quadratic assignment problems (QAPs). Our main approach to solve large scale NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems such as QAPs is a parallel branch-and-bound method efficiently implemented on a powerful computer system using the Ubiquity Generator(UG) framework that can utilize more than 100,000 cores. Lower bounding procedures incorporated in the branch-and-bound method play a crucial role in solving the problems. For a strong lower bounding procedure, we employ the Lagrangian doubly nonnegative (DNN) relaxation and the Newton-bracketing method developed by the authors’ group. In this report, we describe some basic tools used in the project including the lower bounding procedure and branching rules, and present some preliminary numerical results. Our next target problem is QAPs with dimension at least 50, as we have succeeded to solve tai30a and sko42 from QAPLIB for the first time.
description: ZIB-Report; 21-02
Stochastic quantization of interacting classical particles system
Creators: name: Scarfone, A. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Starting from a many-body classical system governed by a trace-form entropy we derive, in the stochastic quantization picture, a family of non linear and non-Hermitian Schroedinger equations describing, in the mean filed approximation, a quantum system of interacting particles. The time evolution of the main physical observables is analyzed by means of the Ehrenfest equations showing that, in general, this family of equations takes into account dissipative and damped effects due to the interaction of the system with the background. We explore the presence of steady states by means of solitons, describing conservative solutions. The results are specialized to the case of a system governed by the Boltzmann-Gibbs entropy.
description: 16 pages, IOP macro style, version accepted on Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment
La deriva del mitologo? Una polemica romantica
Creators: name: Castelli, Carla
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2015

description: The study provides an overview of the well-known controversy about Friedrich Creuzer’s Symbolik und Mythologie der alten Völker, besonders der Griechen, seen from the point of view of classical philology. Particular attention is paid to the position of Gottfried Hermann, and to the role he reserved to language in the study of myth, in the context of the epistemological controversies that dominated the classical studies in Germany during the XIXth century.
description: Itinera, No 9 (2015)
Sinacroneuria
Creators: name: Stark, Bill P.
name: Sivec, Ignac
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Plecoptera
Perlidae
Sinacroneuria

description: Provisional Key for Sinacroneuria Males (S. flavata unknown) 1 Biocellate (Fig. 1); tergum 9 without small posteromesal lobe (Fig. 2) …………….… biocellata 1’ Triocellate; tergum 9 with small posteromesal lobe (Fig. 5) ………………………………………. 2 2 Tergum 9 spinule patch narrowly divided; tergum 10 with complete median membrane strip; Y-stem of aedeagal sclerite about as long as arms ……………………………………………... orientalis 2’ Tergum 9 spinule patch undivided (Fig. 5); tergum 10 membrane strip not reaching anterior margin; Y-stem of aedeagal sclerite about half as long as arms (Fig. 6) ……………………. bicornuata
description: Published as part of Stark, Bill P. & Sivec, Ignac, 2008, Studies On Sinacroneuria Yang & Yang (Plecoptera: Perlidae) With Description Of New Species From China And Vietnam, pp. 150-153 in Illiesia 4 (15) on page 150, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4754757
Blumenberg. La ragione del mito
Creators: name: Marassi, Massimo
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2015

description: Myth is not a way to go back to the origins, it has rather got its own function within the task that men carry out in receiving history. Such function also includes a continuous mythicization in order to set a distance from reality’s absolutism. Myth has its own proper sense, which is not in opposition to the function of the logos. It is rather a principle of the constitution of meaning in the finitude of existence.
description: Itinera, No 9 (2015)
Sinacroneuria biocellata Stark & Sivec 2008, n. sp.
Creators: name: Stark, Bill P.
name: Sivec, Ignac
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Plecoptera
Perlidae
Sinacroneuria
Sinacroneuria biocellata

description: Sinacroneuria biocellata n. sp. (Figs. 1-4) Material studied. Holotype ♂ from Vietnam, Lao Cai, Sapa, large waterfall on Sapa to Lai Chau road, UV light, 8 May 1995, D. Currie, B. Hubley, J. Swann, ROM 956022 (ROM) Adult habitus. Biocellate. Head with large dark brown area covering ocelli and extending to M-line (Fig. 1); lappets and saggitate mark forward of M-line pale brown. Pronotum pale brown with scattered obscure rugosities on disk; margins and median suture dark brown. Wing membrane transparent, veins pale brown. Femora pale but slightly darker along dorsal edge; tibiae brown. Segments on basal half of antennal flagellum dark brown but apical segments pale. 1 3 Male. Forewing length 16.5 mm. Tergum 9 with sparse mesal patch of sensilla basiconica narrowly divided along midline; tergum 10 with sensilla basiconica patches widely separated and tergum almost divided by membrane (Fig. 2). Paraproct tips small, acute and darkly sclerotized. Cerci short, consisting of about 14 segments. Hammer present on sternum 9. Y-stem of aedeagal sclerite short (Fig. 3); arms wide basally and about 2.5 times long as stem; ventral surface of aedeagus armed with a slender, median sclerite, sparsely covered with small spines (Fig. 4). 4 Female. Unknown. Larva. Unknown. Etymology. The species name refers to the presence of only two ocelli on this species. Diagnosis. Sinacroneuria biocellata adults are distinguished from those of congeners by the presence of only two ocelli. Males appear to have more widely separated sensilla patches on tergum 10 and those on tergum 9 are less abundant and form a more-or-less united patch. Additionally the aedeagal sclerite Y-stem is relatively shorter than is shown by Yang & Yang (1995) for S. orientalis. Yang & Yang (1995) also show the 10 th tergum of the male to be completely divided by membrane, and this species has the membrane strip incomplete.
description: Published as part of Stark, Bill P. & Sivec, Ignac, 2008, Studies On Sinacroneuria Yang & Yang (Plecoptera: Perlidae) With Description Of New Species From China And Vietnam, pp. 150-153 in Illiesia 4 (15) on pages 150-152, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4754757
description: {"references": ["Yang, C. & D. Yang. 1995. A new genus and new species of Plecoptera from east China (Perlidae: Acroneuriinae). Entomological Journal of East China, 4: 1 - 2."]}
Derive e macchinazioni mitologiche. Omaggio a Furio Jesi
Creators: name: Boffi, Guido
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2015

description: The expression “mythological machine” indicates for Furio Jesi a complex autopoietic apparatus which incorporates and transfers collective experiences together with the socialized knowledge of myth, while it reproduces, with political purposes, mythologies, tales, narrations and artistic figurations. “Mythological materials” are products historically-verifiable by the machine, whereas the “myth” is the invention of something to whose autonomous existence the machine alludes. The science of mythology is the study of the internal mechanisms of the mythological machine, the analysis of the inner and autonomous existence linguistic circulation that makes those materials mythological. The science of myth is instead the typical science of what historically does not exist which is therefore translatable in the analysis of the different modalities  of the myth.
description: Itinera, No 9 (2015)
Near-Infrared Surface Photometry of a Sample of Barred Galaxies
Creators: name: Gadotti, Dimitri
name: Athanassoula, Lia
name: Carrasco, Luis
name: Bosma, Albert
name: de Souza, Ronaldo
name: Recillas, Elsa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have obtained deep J and Ks images of a sample of nine barred galaxies in order to collect a reliable and homogeneous set of images to which N-body simulations of barred galaxies will be compared. The observations were performed using the new near-infrared camera available at the 2.1-m telescope of the Observatorio Astrofisico Guillermo Haro (OAGH) in Cananea, Sonora, Mexico. We present the results of surface photometry techniques applied to the observed images, as well as to the deprojected images. These results include radial profiles of surface brightness (elliptically averaged), colour, position angle, ellipticity and the b4 Fourier component. In addition, we present isophotal maps, colour maps, surface brightness profiles along the bar major and minor axes, characteristic radial scale-lengths and bar length estimates. We discuss how projection effects can influence these measurements and the uncertainties introduced by deprojecting galaxy images. We show that analytical expressions can be used to obtain reliable estimates of deprojected bar lengths, ellipticities and position angles directly from the observed images. These expressions are based on the assumption that the outer parts of the bar are vertically thin, as shown by theoretical work. The usefulness of our data in addressing issues on bar formation and evolution is also discussed. In particular, we present results showing a steep drop in the ellipticity profile, as expected for bar formation processes in which the dark matter halo plays a fundamental role. Furthermore, we show that the location of this drop is a good indicator of the end of the bar in strongly barred galaxies, as predicted by numerical models.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS; 25 pages, including 7 tables and 13 figures; full resolution version available at http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/~dimitri/cananea1.pdf - source code to perform calculations in Appendix A (2D analytical bar deprojection) available at http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/~dimitri/deprojell.f
Decline and growth : Canadian-Japanese economic relations, 1978-1988
Creators: name: Beynon, Robert Arthur
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: This thesis examines the development of Japanese economic interest in Canada between 1978 and 1988, with a special emphasis on multinational decision making. The paper takes an eclectic approach to the issue because the trends within different industrial sectors varied widely, from strong growth in forestry investment and trade to slow expansions of technological ties. As a result of the increasing importance of the United States and the European Economic Community in the eyes of Japanese managers, coupled with the decline of the energy crisis in mid decade, resource suppliers like Canada declined in relative importance to Japan during this period, although Japanese investment and trade here expanded steadily in real terms.
The current progress of the ALICE Ring Imaging Cherenkov Detector
Creators: name: Braem, A.
name: De Cataldo, G.
name: Davenport, M.
name: Di Mauro, A.
name: Franco, A.
name: Gallas, A.
name: Hoedlmoser, H.
name: Martinengo, P.
name: Nappi, E.
name: Paic, G.
name: Piuz, F.
name: Peskov, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, the last two modules (out of seven) of the ALICE High Momentum Particle Identification detector (HMPID) were assembled and tested. The full detector, after a pre-commissioning phase, has been installed in the experimental area, inside the ALICE solenoid, at the end of September 2006. In this paper we review the status of the ALICE/HMPID project and we present a summary of the series production of the CsI photo-cathodes. We describe the key features of the production procedure which ensures high quality photo-cathodes as well as the results of the quality assessment performed by means of a specially developed 2D scanner system able to produce a detailed map of the CsI photo-current over the entire photo-cathode surface. Finally we present our recent R&D efforts toward the development of a novel generation of imaging Cherenkov detectors with the aim to identify, in heavy ions collisions, hadrons up to 30 GeV/c.
description: Presented at the Imaging-2006 Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, June 2006
Sinacroneuria bicornuata Stark & Sivec 2008, sp. n.
Creators: name: Stark, Bill P.
name: Sivec, Ignac
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Plecoptera
Perlidae
Sinacroneuria
Sinacroneuria bicornuata

description: Sinacroneuria bicornuata sp. n. (Figs. 5-6) Material examined. Holotype ♂ (pinned) from China, Szechuan [Sichuan] Province, Mt. Omei [Emei Shan], July 1936, D.C. Graham (USNM). Adult habitus. Triocellate. General color pattern pale brown but details obscured due to specimen condition. Ocellar triangle covered with dark pigment but most of head apparently pale brown. Wings pale, veins yellow brown. Femora yellow brown, tibiae slightly darker. Male. Forewing length 21 mm. Tergum 9 produced along posterior margin into a small lobe projecting over base of tergum 10; lobe densely armed with prominent sensilla basiconica. Tergum 10 with sensilla basiconica patches separated by posterior incursion of U-shaped membranous area (Fig. 5). Paraproct tips small, acute and darkly sclerotized. Hammer present on sternum 9. Aedeagus armed with massive Y-shaped sclerite with long projecting horns and short stem; lateral aspect of apical aedeagal section with narrow supporting sclerites. Basal section of aedeagus membranous but armed with a band of brown, setal spines across ventrobasal area (Fig. 6). Female. Unknown. Larva. Unknown. Etymology. The species name is based on the prominent aedeagal horns. Diagnosis. This species appears to be distinct from others on the basis of the large horn-like aedeagal sclerite with short Y-stem, the basal, aedeagal, setal spine patch, and the small, projecting mesal lobe on tergum 9. The holotype specimen bears a determination label of “ Acroneuria yiui (Wu) ” by Nathan Banks, but that species lacks the lobe on tergum 9 (Wu 1935; Yang & Yang 1998), and the aedeagus lacks the Y-shaped sclerite of this species (Yang & Yang 1998). The type specimen was previously studied by the senior author in 1974 and at that time, the aedeagus was fully everted and drawn but a decision was made to wait for fresh material before publication. Now, more than 34 years later, we proceed in order to continue the documentation of the diverse and interesting Asian stonefly fauna.
description: Published as part of Stark, Bill P. & Sivec, Ignac, 2008, Studies On Sinacroneuria Yang & Yang (Plecoptera: Perlidae) With Description Of New Species From China And Vietnam, pp. 150-153 in Illiesia 4 (15) on pages 152-153, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4754757
description: {"references": ["Wu, C. F. 1935. New species of stoneflies from east and south China. Bulletin of the Peking Society of Natural History, 9: 227 - 243.", "Yang, D. & C. Yang. 1998. Plecoptera: Styloperlidae, Perlidae, and Leuctridae. Insects of Longwangshan, 8: 40 - 46."]}
Reconstrual of the stimulus in majority and minority influence
Creators: name: Scratchley, Linda Sharon
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: This research attempted to demonstrate that faction size affects what people are looking for when they attend to conformity stimuli. It was expected that subjects exposed to a majority look for valid informational reasons to agree with the advocated norm, subjects exposed to one influence source attempt to validate the other's judgment, and subjects exposed to a minority attempt both to validate and understand the reason for the minority's judgment. Reconstrual of the stimulus was the proposed mechanism by which majority subjects could find reasons to agree with advocated norm and minority subjects could come to understand the reason for the advocated norm. Thus, stimulus reconstrual was expected to mediate conformity and facilitate private acceptance. Faction size, norm extremity, and attention to the stimulus were manipulated; conformity, reconstrual of the stimulus, and subsequent private acceptance were measured. The stimuli consisted of trait adjectives that subjects rated for positivity during the conformity task. It was found that conformity was greater with a large faction, high attention, and high norm extremity. A main effect for attention had not been found in past research that used perceptual stimuli. It is argued that this difference in findings reflects some fundamental difference between factual judgments (e.g., perceptual stimuli) and value judgments (e.g., trait ratings). More specifically, it is argued that with factual judgments there is an objectively correct answer, whereas with value judgments "correctness" is determined by social comparison. The mplications of the presence or absence of an objectively correct response is discussed with regard to the balance between normative and informational influence mechanisms. In parallel to the effect on conformity it was also found that higher attention increased reconstrual and private acceptance. However, the Faction Size X Attention interaction, which was significant for private acceptance and marginal for reconstrual, indicated that these effects of attention were more pronounced for subjects exposed to a minority than for subjects exposed to a majority. Majority subjects showed almost the same amounts of reconstrual and private acceptance in response to both the high- and low-attention trials. Since it is assumed that subjects did not have enough time to reconstrue the stimulus before they gave their public response on the low-attention trials, this unexpected finding raises questions about the temporal ordering of conformity and reconstrual. That is does reconstrual precede and mediate conformity or succeed and justify conformity, and does the answer vary according to faction size and attention conditions. The present study could not directly answer these questions. Although no clear answer is provided to the question of whether faction size affects what subjects look for when they attend to conformity stimuli, a number of fruitful avenues for future research are discussed.
Estimation and Inference on Time-Varying FAVAR Models
Creators: name: Fu, Zhonghao
name: Su, Liangjun
name: Wang, Xia
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: We introduce a time-varying (TV) factor-augmented vector autoregressive (FAVAR) model to capture the TV behavior in the factor loadings and the VAR coefficients. To consistently estimate the TV parameters, we first obtain the unobserved common factors via the local principal component analysis (PCA) and then estimate the TV-FAVAR model via a local smoothing approach. The limiting distribution of the proposed estimators is established. To gauge possible sources of TV features in the FAVAR model, we propose three L2-distance-based test statistics and study their asymptotic properties under the null and local alternatives. Simulation studies demonstrate the excellent finite sample performance of the proposed estimators and tests. In an empirical application to the U.S. macroeconomic dataset, we document overwhelming evidence of structural changes in the FAVAR model and show that the TV-FAVAR model outperforms the conventional time-invariant FAVAR model in predicting certain key macroeconomic series.
Testing the standard fireball model of GRBs using late X-ray afterglows measured by Swift
Creators: name: Willingale, R.
name: O'Brien, P. T.
name: Osborne, J. P.
name: Godet, O.
name: Page, K. L.
name: Goad, M. R.
name: Burrows, D. N.
name: Zhang, B.
name: Rol, E.
name: Gehrels, N.
name: Chincarini, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that all X-ray decay curves of GRBs measured by Swift can be fitted using one or two components both of which have exactly the same functional form comprised of an early falling exponential phase followed by a power law decay. The 1st component contains the prompt gamma-ray emission and the initial X-ray decay. The 2nd component appears later, has a much longer duration and is present for ~80% of GRBs. It most likely arises from the external shock which eventually develops into the X-ray afterglow. In the remaining ~20% of GRBs the initial X-ray decay of the 1st component fades more slowly than the 2nd and dominates at late times to form an afterglow but it is not clear what the origin of this emission is. The temporal decay parameters and gamma/X-ray spectral indices derived for 107 GRBs are compared to the expectations of the standard fireball model including a search for possible "jet breaks". For ~50% of GRBs the observed afterglow is in accord with the model but for the rest the temporal and spectral indices do not conform to the expected closure relations and are suggestive of continued, late, energy injection. We identify a few possible jet breaks but there are many examples where such breaks are predicted but are absent. The time, T_a, at which the exponential phase of the 2nd component changes to a final powerlaw decay afterglow is correlated with the peak of the gamma-ray spectrum, E_peak. This is analogous to the Ghirlanda relation, indicating that this time is in some way related to optically observed break times measured for pre-Swift bursts.
description: submitted to ApJ
Alerta, la sinrazón busca imponerse
Creators: name: Suing, Abel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Comunicación
FUNDAMEDIOS
derechos
Ecuador
libertad
expresión
humanos
información

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Phalacrus penicillatus Say 1824
Creators: name: Majka, Christopher
name: Gimmel, Matthew
name: Langor, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Phalacridae
Phalacrus
Phalacrus penicillatus

description: Phalacrus penicillatus Say, 1824 MANITOBA: Division No. 7, Aweme, 16.VII.1917, N. Criddle (1, NFRC). SASKATCHEWAN: Division No. 8, Lancer Ferry, 30.VI.1975, (1, NFRC). Phalacrus penicillatus is newly recorded from Manitoba and Saskatchewan. The species is a western North American one that has been recorded in the United States from Arizona, California, Idaho, Kansas, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington (LeConte 1856; Casey 1916; Snow 1906; Hatch 1962; Bechtel et al. 1983; Caterino 2006) and in Canada from British Columbia (Hatch 1962; Campbell 1991). No specific information on its biology is available, but it is probably associated with smuts like other species in the genus Phalacrus.
description: Published as part of Majka, Christopher, Gimmel, Matthew & Langor, David, 2008, The Phalacridae (Coleoptera, Cucujoidea) of Canada: new records, distribution, and bionomics with a particular focus on the Atlantic Canadian fauna, pp. 209-220 in ZooKeys 2 (2) on page 211, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.2.16, http://zenodo.org/record/576403
description: {"references": ["LeConte JL (1856) Synopsis of the Phalacridae of the United States. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 8: 15 - 17.", "Casey TL (1916) Phalacridae. Memoirs on the Coleoptera 7: 35 - 86.", "Snow FH (1906) List of Coleoptera collected in New Mexico by the entomological expeditions of the University of Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 20: 165 - 189.", "Hatch MH (1962) Th e Beetles of the Pacific Northwest. Part III. Pselaphidae and Diversicornia I. University of Washington Publications in Biology, Volume 16, Seattle, 503 pp.", "Bechtel RC, Hanks LM, Rust RW (1983) Coleoptera of Sand Mountain and Blow Sand Mountains, Nevada. Th e Southwestern Naturalist 28 (4): 473 - 478.", "Caterino M (2006) California Beetle Project. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. http: // www. sbcollections. org / [accessed 26 August 2008]", "Campbell JM (1991) Family Phalacridae: Shining Flower Beetles. In Bousquet Y (Ed) Checklist of Beetles of Canada and Alaska. Agriculture Canada Publication 1861 / E: 1 - 226."]}
Universal low-temperature behavior of frustrated quantum antiferromagnets in the vicinity of the saturation field
Creators: name: Derzhko, Oleg
name: Richter, Johannes
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the low-temperature thermodynamic properties of a number of frustrated quantum antiferromagnets which support localized magnon states in the vicinity of the saturation field. For this purpose we use 1) a mapping of the low-energy degrees of freedom of spin systems onto the hard-core object lattice gases and 2) an exact diagonalization of finite spin systems of up to N=30 sites. The considered spin systems exhibit universal behavior which is determined by a specific hard-core object lattice gas representing the independent localized magnon states. We test the lattice gas description by comparing its predictions with the numerical results for low-lying energy states of finite spin systems. For all frustrated spin systems considered we find a strong variation of the low-temperature specific heat passing the saturation field and a maximum in the isothermal entropy at saturation field resulting in an enhanced magnetocaloric effect.
description: 21 pages, 8 figures
Coherent Transport through an interacting double quantum dot: Beyond sequential tunneling
Creators: name: Pedersen, Jonas Nyvold
name: Lassen, Benny
name: Wacker, Andreas
name: Hettler, Matthias H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Various causes for negative differential conductance in transport through an interacting double quantum dot are investigated. Particular focus is given to the interplay between the renormalization of the energy levels due to the coupling to the leads and the decoherence of the states. The calculations are performed within a basis of many-particle eigenstates and we consider the dynamics given by the von Neumann-equation taking into account also processes beyond sequential tunneling. A systematic comparison between the levels of approximation and also with different formalisms is performed. It is found that the current is qualitatively well described by sequential processes as long as the temperature is larger than the level broadening induced by the contacts.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures included in text
Effizienz und Sicherheit der transradialen Koronarinterventionen an einem high volume-Zentrum der Maximalversorgung in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Creators: name: Krasowska-Schmitz, Anna Ewelina
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences Medicine

description: Das Ziel dieser Arbeit war die Überprüfung der Effizienz und der Sicherheit der transradialen Technik der Herzkatheteruntersuchung in einem High-volume-Zentrum der Maximalversorgung in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Zusammenfassend können wir anhand unserer Datenanalyse feststellen, dass die TRA-Technik eine effiziente und sichere Alternative zur TFA-Technik im Rahmen der Herzkatheterdiagnostik und -therapie darstellt. Aufgrund der geringeren Komplikationsrate und hoher Erfolgsrate ist die TRA-Technik in erfahrenen Zentren zum Standard geworden.
On the neutron star-disc interaction in Be/X-ray binaries
Creators: name: Reig, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have investigated the long-term X-ray variability, defined as the root-mean-square (rms) of the ASM RXTE light curves, of a set of galactic Be/X-ray binaries and searched for correlations with system parameters, such as the spin period of the neutron star and the orbital period and eccentricity of the binary. We find that systems with larger rms are those harbouring fast rotating neutron stars, low eccentric and narrow orbits. These relationships can be explained as the result of the truncation of the circumstellar disc. We also present an updated version of the Halpha equivalent width-orbital period diagram, including sources in the SMC. This diagram provides strong observational evidence of the interaction of neutron star with the circumstellar envelope of its massive companion.
description: accepted for publication in MNRAS
Heavy traffic limit for a processor sharing queue with soft deadlines
Creators: name: Gromoll, H. Christian
name: Kruk, Łukasz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60K25 (Primary) 60F17, 68M20, 90B22 (Secondary)

description: This paper considers a GI/GI/1 processor sharing queue in which jobs have soft deadlines. At each point in time, the collection of residual service times and deadlines is modeled using a random counting measure on the right half-plane. The limit of this measure valued process is obtained under diffusion scaling and heavy traffic conditions and is characterized as a deterministic function of the limiting queue length process. As special cases, one obtains diffusion approximations for the lead time profile and the profile of times in queue. One also obtains a snapshot principle for sojourn times.
description: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/105051607000000014 in the Annals of Applied Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aap/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
On the rarity of double black hole binaries: consequences for gravitational-wave detection
Creators: name: Belczynski, Krzysztof
name: Taam, Ronald E.
name: Kalogera, Vassiliki
name: Rasio, Frederic A.
name: Bulik, Tomasz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Double black hole binaries are among the most important sources of gravitational radiation for ground-based detectors such as LIGO or VIRGO. Even if formed with lower efficiency than double neutron star binaries, they could dominate the predicted detection rates, since black holes are more massive than neutron stars and therefore could be detected at greater distances. Here we discuss an evolutionary process that can very significantly limit the formation of close double black hole binaries: the vast majority of their potential progenitors undergo a common envelope (CE) phase while the donor, one of the massive binary components, is evolving through the Hertzsprung gap. Our latest theoretical understanding of the CE process suggests that this will probably lead to a merger, inhibiting double black hole formation. Barring uncertainties in the physics of CE evolution, we use population synthesis calculations, and find that the corresponding reduction in the merger rate of double black holes formed in galactic fields is so great (by ~500) that their contribution to inspiral detection rates for ground-based detectors could become relatively small (1 in 10) compared to double neutron star binaries. A similar process also reduces the merger rates for double neutron stars, by factor of ~5, eliminating most of the previously predicted ultracompact NS-NS systems. Our predicted detection rates for Advanced LIGO are now much lower for double black holes (~2/yr), but are still quite high for double neutron stars (~20/yr). If double black holes were found to be dominant in the detected inspiral signals, this could indicate that they mainly originate from dense star clusters (not included here) or that our theoretical understanding of the CE phase requires significant revision.
description: 13 pages, significant additions/changes (ApJ)
Magnetic properties of dense nanoparticle arrays with core/shell morphology
Creators: name: Kechrakos, D.
name: Trohidou, K. N.
name: Vasilakaki, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the magnetization hysteresis for an ordered array of composite magnetic nanoparticles with a ferromagnetic (FM) core and an antiferromagnetic (AFM) shell, located on a triangular lattice and coupled via magnetostatic forces. Each nanoparticle is described by a pair of exchange-coupled (J), anisotropic spins (Meiklejohn-Bean model). The magnetization hysteresis loop is obtained using the Metropolis Monte Carlo algorithm. For magnetically hard nanoparticles we find that the coercivity is reduced with increasing the dipolar coupling strength, while the exchange bias field shows an non-monotonous behavior resulting from the competition between the random anisotropy and interparticle dipolar interactions. The possibility of enhancing the exchange bias field by increasing the packing density is discussed.
description: 3 pages, 2 figures; Presented at JEMS '06, San-Sebastian, Spain
Phalacrus politus Melsheimer 1844
Creators: name: Majka, Christopher
name: Gimmel, Matthew
name: Langor, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Phalacridae
Phalacrus
Phalacrus politus

description: Phalacrus politus Melsheimer, 1844 NEWFOUNDLAND: Terra Nova National Park, Salton Brook, 21.VI.1978, (15, MUN); Gander, 20.VI.1981, (1, MUN); South Pond, 27.VI.1980, Brennan and D. Larson, beaver pond, (1, MUN). Phalacrus politus is newly recorded in Canada (Fig. 1). Th e species is widely distributed in the eastern United States from Maine south to Florida and west to Louisiana, Missouri, and Michigan (Casey 1916; Leng 1920; Leonard 1928; Downie and Arnett 1996; Chandler 2001; Gimmel 2008). Specimens of Phalacrus politus were reported on sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench, Poaceae) by Hayes (1920). Steiner (1984) found adults and larvae in the powdery galls of corn smut, Ustilago maydis (Dc.) Cda growing on corn, Zea mays L., and in an unidentified smut on the panic grass, Panicum dichotomiflorum Michx. (Poaceae). Specimens of Phalacrus politus have also been collected in western Maine [Augusta, 21.VIII.1943, A.E. Brower, (1, UNH); Brunswick, 17.IX.1939, A.E. Brower, (2, UNH); Gilead, 26.VIII.1956, A.E. Brower, (1, UNH); Lexington, 13.VII.1959, A.E. Brower, (1, UNH)].
description: Published as part of Majka, Christopher, Gimmel, Matthew & Langor, David, 2008, The Phalacridae (Coleoptera, Cucujoidea) of Canada: new records, distribution, and bionomics with a particular focus on the Atlantic Canadian fauna, pp. 209-220 in ZooKeys 2 (2) on page 212, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.2.16, http://zenodo.org/record/576403
description: {"references": ["Casey TL (1916) Phalacridae. Memoirs on the Coleoptera 7: 35 - 86.", "Leng CW (1920) Catalogue of the Coleoptera of America north of Mexico. John D. Sherman Jr., Mount Vernon, New York, 470 pp.", "Leonard MD (1928) A list of the insects of New York, with a list of the spiders and certain other allied groups. Cornell University Agriculture Experiment Station, Memoir 101: 1 - 1121.", "Downie NM, Arnett RH, Jr (1996) Th e Beetles of Northeastern North America, Volumes 1 and 2. Sandhill Crane Press, Gainesville, Florida, 1721 pp.", "Chandler DS (2001) University of New Hampshire Insect and Arachnid Collections http: // colsa 1. unh. edu: 591 / unhinsects. htm [accessed 25 July 2008]", "Gimmel ML (2008) Checklist of the Coleoptera of Louisiana. http: // entomology. lsu. edu / lsam / coleopteraoflouisiana / lacoleoptera. htm [accessed 26 August 2008]", "Steiner WE, Jr (1984) A review of the biology of phalacrid beetles (Coleoptera). In Wheeler Q, Blackwell M (Eds) Fungus-Insect Relationships: Perspectives in Ecology and Evolution. Columbia University Press, New York, 424 - 455."]}
Cryptoreality of nonanticommutative Hamiltonians
Creators: name: Ivanov, E. A.
name: Smilga, A. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We note that, though nonanticommutative (NAC) deformations of Minkowski supersymmetric theories do not respect the reality condition and seem to lead to non-Hermitian Hamiltonians H, the latter belong to the class of ``cryptoreal'' Hamiltonians considered recently by Bender and collaborators. They can be made manifestly Hermitian via the similarity transformation H -> exp{R} H exp{-R} with a properly chosen R. The deformed model enjoys the same supersymmetry algebra as the undeformed one, though being realized differently on the involved canonical variables. Besides quantum-mechanical models, we treat, along similar lines, some NAC deformed field models in 4D Minkowski space.
description: 15 pages, 2 figures