cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Virtually overlooked: reimagining emerging technologies through the lenses of identity, ethics and human rights
Creators: name: Weizman, Aviva
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: technological innovations
ethics
human rights
minority groups

description: Second semester University: University of Ljubljana
description: The means by which algorithms interact with society have become omnipresent in the modern age. While new technologies and algorithms have long been a hot topic for science fiction authors, the manners in which they actually affect the lived experience of many individuals tend to be more banal and obscure. However, by and large, algorithms have the potential to affect minority groups in different and much more dangerous ways than those who do not belong to such groups. This work will take a nuanced consideration into ways in which algorithms can adversely affect those who are constantly and consistently overlooked. This discussion will be framed around the issue of ‘bias’, technological ‘progress’, and the knowledge claims that have been an evergrowing point of interest and contention, through the incorporation of philosophical and human rights-based frameworks.
Meta-Analysis Intuitive (Dis)honesty
Creators: name: Köbis, Nils
name: Shalvi, Shaul
name: Verschuere, Bruno
name: Bereby-Meyer, Yoella
name: Rand, David
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: cheating
subject: deception
subject: depletion
subject: intuition
subject: time pressure
subject: unehtical behavior

description: Meta-analysis on the role of intuition on unehtical behavior
Called to Stewardship of Creation: American Evangelical Protestant Perspectives on the Environment
Creators: name: Patterson, Molly
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: The Bible tells us that "love does no harm to its neighbor" (Romans 13:10), yet the way we live now harms our neighbors, both locally and globally. For the world's poorest people, climate change means dried-up wells in Africa, floods in Asia that wash away crops and homes, wildfires in the U.S. and Russia, loss of villages and food species in the Arctic, environmental refugees, and disease. Our changing climate threatens the health, security, and well-being of millions of people who are made in God's image. The threat to future generations and global prosperity means we can no longer afford complacency and endless debate. We as a society risk being counted among "those who destroy the earth" (Revelation 11:18) -200 evangelical scientists to Congress, July 10, 2013 The excerpt above comes from a July 2013 letter from a group of 200 evangelical scientists addressed to Congress.1 Perhaps surprisingly, the letter expresses the opinion that Bible-believing Christians have the responsibility to take part in fighting the destruction of the natural environment. And I argue that in recent years, many evangelical Christians have begun to do just that. This thesis examines these recent developments in American evangelicalism by highlighting the specific ways in which evangelicals frame their discussions of the natural world and environmental issues. I conducted ethnographic interviews2 with individuals from local churches to add depth and context to denominational statements, publications, and other literature from evangelicals writing to a national audience. I argue that American evangelicals increasingly understand the natural environment in theological ways that call for its protection as a moral issue. Key themes in evangelical environmental discussions include creation, stewardship, experiencing God in nature, redemption of creation, creation care as a mission opportunity, and individual accountability.
title: PILOTS: Partnerschaften International im Lehramt durch Online-Tandem-Seminare ; Einblicke in ein Projekt zu Virtual Exchanges
Creators: name: Funk, Alexandra
name: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena. Zentrum Für Lehrerbildung Und Bildungsforschung
name: Eibensteiner, Lukas
name: Volkmann, Laurenz
Publisher: name: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Zentrum für Lehrerbildung und Bildungsforschung
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Virtual Exchange
subject: Interkulturelles Lernen
subject: Mehrsprachigkeit
subject: Lehramt
subject: digitales Lernen
subject: internationales Lernen
subject: Hochschuldidaktik
subject: 370

description: In der Hochschullehre zeigen sich zunehmend die besonderen Optionen und Chancen der Digitalisierung des Lehrens und Lernens im Bereich der Internationalisierung. So ist es Studierenden durch internationalen digitalen Austausch, sog. Virtual Exchanges (VEs), möglich, mit geringem Aufwand per Telekommunikation authentische interkulturelle und mehrsprachige Erfahrungen in ihren Studienalltag von zu Hause aus zu integrieren. Das Sammeln interkultureller wie mehrsprachiger Erfahrungen ist gerade in der Lehrer:innenbildung relevant (Volkmann, 2021). Ebenfalls mit Bezug auf digitale Kompetenzen bieten VEs eine Möglichkeit, den Standards der Lehrer:innenbildung zu entsprechen (Kultusministerkonferenz, 2023). Aktuelle Forschungen unterstreichen, dass Virtual Exchanges positive Effekte auf die Förderung von interkulturellen und mehrsprachigen Aspekten sowie von digitalen Fertigkeiten erzielen (EVALUATE Group, 2019). Vor diesem Hintergrund realisierte die Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena ein Projekt zur Implementierung digitaler internationaler Kooperationen in den Studienalltag. PILOTS (Partnerschaften International im Lehramt durch Online-Tandem-Seminare) organisierte, beforschte und begleitete diverse VEs im Lehramt auf der Basis wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse und Methoden. Vorliegend wird zunächst die Arbeitsweise von PILOTS erläutert. Anschließend wird die Begleitforschung ausgewertet, um Reflexionsansätze für die erfolgreiche Durchführung zukünftiger VEs an Hochschulen zu ermitteln.
Decentralised Governance: Crafting effective democracies around the world - Chapter 11 Supplementary Material
Creators: name: Shonchoy, Abu S.
name: Wahhaj, Zaki
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Local Governance
Bangladesh
Birth Registration
Child Rights

description: Supplementary material for: Shonchoy, Abu S. and Wahhaj, Zaki (2023) "Birth registration, child rights and local governance in Bangladesh", in: Faguet, Jean-Paul and Pal, Sarmistha (eds) Decentralised Governance: Crafting effective democracies around the world, London: LSE Press BLURB: For developing countries, decentralising power from central government to local authorities holds the promise of deepening democracy, empowering citizens, improving public services and boosting economic growth. Decentralised Governance brings together a new generation of political economy studies that explore these issues analytically, blending theoretical insights with empirical innovation.
Monolithically integrated waveguide-coupled silica microtoroids
Creators: name: Richter, Jens
name: Nezhad, Maziar Pourabdollah
name: Witzens, Jeremy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the design and fabrication of a new type of microtoroid high-Q silica resonators monolithically coupled to on-chip silicon nanowire waveguides. In order to enable monolithic waveguide coupling, the microtoroid geometry is inverted such that the resonator is formed by thermal reflow at the circumference of a hole etched in a suspended SiO2 membrane. This configuration is shown to be conducive to integration with a fully functional Silicon Photonics technology platform.
Envisioning Narrative Intelligence: A Creative Visual Storytelling Anthology
Creators: name: Halperin, Brett A.
name: Lukin, Stephanie M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: J.5

description: In this paper, we collect an anthology of 100 visual stories from authors who participated in our systematic creative process of improvised story-building based on image sequences. Following close reading and thematic analysis of our anthology, we present five themes that characterize the variations found in this creative visual storytelling process: (1) Narrating What is in Vision vs. Envisioning; (2) Dynamically Characterizing Entities/Objects; (3) Sensing Experiential Information About the Scenery; (4) Modulating the Mood; (5) Encoding Narrative Biases. In understanding the varied ways that people derive stories from images, we offer considerations for collecting story-driven training data to inform automatic story generation. In correspondence with each theme, we envision narrative intelligence criteria for computational visual storytelling as: creative, reliable, expressive, grounded, and responsible. From these criteria, we discuss how to foreground creative expression, account for biases, and operate in the bounds of visual storyworlds.
description: 21 pages, 11 figures
Shunguhuan Yuyai: The Battle for Kichwa Language and Culture Revitalization in Ecuador as Thinking-Feeling and Performance
Creators: name: Acosta Munoz, Felipe Esteban
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: An indigenous language with more than one million speakers in Ecuador, Colombia, and Peru, Kichwa is one of the most spoken indigenous languages in South America and an official language in Ecuador. Unfortunately, Kichwa is experiencing a rapid loss among young generations, which is leading to growing discontent about the education system, community and self-identity crises, among other issues. Furthermore, the situation of Kichwa is one example of a widespread indigenous language loss taking place worldwide, and it exemplifies the disappearance of indigenous cultures.
It has been predicted that, by the end of the XXI century, approximately half of 7000 World languages will be extinct (Austin and Sallabank 2014, 2). Some more pessimistic sources provide an extinction rate by the end of the century up to 90%. However, there are efforts being done to revitalize endangered indigenous languages globally and, although many programs are struggling in their efforts, there are successful examples of revitalization through these programs. The best studied examples include languages like Maori, Hawaiian, and Basque. The purpose of this project is to understand Kichwa language revitalization in comparative perspective with other language programs. Within this goal, this thesis addresses four main issues: The first will be to look at the growth and challenges faced by Kichwa revitalization movement. Then, the reasons and arguments that Kichwa revitalization activists provide for the undertaking of such task will be presented. This will be done with the purpose of drawing initial lessons from past and present failing projects attempting Kichwa revival. Lastly, the signs of hope for future and current revitalization projects from each interlocutor in my project will be presented and analyzed. With these goals in mind, I will present how Kichwa revitalization movements are operating in Ecuador and how these efforts influence the younger generation of speakers.
Local rights and global land hunger : a human rights-based approach in a context of large-scale land acquisitions
Creators: name: Tengnas, Karin
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2011
Subjects: land grabbing
Africa
land tenure

description: Second semester University: Université du Luxembourg
description: The global competition over African land is at an historical peak. Some call it “win-win opportunities”, others “land-grabbing”, violating the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Firstly, this dissertation explores the impact of large-scale land acquisitions on local livelihoods and rights, with a particular focus on African women. On this topic, the study concludes that local impacts depend on multiple factors, displaying a huge diversity between countries and individual investments. Despite new employment opportunities, cases generally illustrate severe negative impacts, i.e. loss of land, food scarcity and insecure employment conditions. Many African countries have initiated land reforms. The traditional systems, under which land is frequently governed, are commonly transformed into formal tenure systems. Secondly, the dissertation explores the impact of these formalisation processes, especially on women. While there is a risk that discriminatory practises and biases make women’s already fragile rights even weaker, some cases show that a formal right to land can enhance tenure security for women, by allowing for enforceable claims. Land governance, and its mutually reinforcing relation to human rights, is of vital importance for turning large-scale land acquisitions into development opportunities while protecting local rights. Thirdly, the dissertation explores the human rights-based approach (HRBA) as a normative framework and analytical and operational tool in relation to large-scale land acquisitions. The study concludes that a HRBA adds strength and legal substance to the principles of participation and inclusion; openness and transparency; accountability and the rule of law, and equality and non-discrimination. Such addition promotes good land governance. By empowering the rights-holders and enhancing the capacity of the duty-bearers (governments, corporations, and traditional authorities), international development cooperation may lead to greater and more gender balanced inclusion of civil society in negotiations of large-scale land acquisitions, increased capacity of civil society to scrutinise these deals, greater adherence of duty-bearers to the rule of law and new policies and procedures ensuring the protection of local rights and livelihoods. This is especially important in African countries with large amounts of land and weak legal and institutional capacity to protect rights, especially those of women.
Inhibiting JNK in combination with FOLFOX chemotherapy shows potential as pancreatic cancer treatment
Creators: name: Nielsen, Lucas
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Pancreatic cancer is the 3rd leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States. A combination regimen of folinic acid, 5-fluorouracil, and oxaliplatin (FOLFOX) has an established efficacy in treating pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) and is amenable to further drug combination, but the cellular signaling response to FOLFOX has not been determined.
MPEC 2023-F160 : 2020 FJ3
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
The principle of the best interests of the child in European expulsion case law : a leading human rights principle anxious to be taken seriously
Creators: name: Leloup, Mathieu
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: children rights
migrants
expulsion
European Court of Human Rights
Court of Justice of the European Union
family
torture

description: Second semester University:Université de Strasbourg
description: For some years now, Europe has been struggling with a migration crisis. Every year, the total number of migrants that arrive in Europe increases and there is no sign that this trend will change in the near future. This has prompted states to adopt more strict expulsion mechanisms. However, many of these migrants are families with children, and in international law there is a general principle that in every decision the child’s best interests should be the primary consideration. In this master thesis, we examine how the European Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Justice balance the prerogative of states to expel aliens with the principle of the best interests of the child. Our research is limited to the case law concerning the right to family life and the prohibition of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment. After a thorough analysis of the available case law, we come to the conclusion that the courts do not use the best interests principle to its full potential. We contend that the international courts should adopt a procedural approach to the principle. This way, they could better protect the child’s interests, while at the same time guaranteeing a more coherent case law.
Replicating "Birth of the Cool" (Morin and Acerbi 2016) on non-literary material
Creators: name: Morin, Olivier
name: Acerbi, Alberto
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: The goal of this project is to replicate the pattern of results that Morin & Acerbi (2016) reported for three corpus of Anglophone literature, on a corpus of non-literary data. See "cool-replication.dcox" for more detail.
Submodular Norms with Applications To Online Facility Location and Stochastic Probing
Creators: name: Patton, Kalen
name: Russo, Matteo
name: Singla, Sahil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Optimization problems often involve vector norms, which has led to extensive research on developing algorithms that can handle objectives beyond the $\ell_p$ norms. Our work introduces the concept of submodular norms, which are a versatile type of norms that possess marginal properties similar to submodular set functions. We show that submodular norms can accurately represent or approximate well-known classes of norms, such as $\ell_p$ norms, ordered norms, and symmetric norms. Furthermore, we establish that submodular norms can be applied to optimization problems such as online facility location, stochastic probing, and generalized load balancing. This allows us to develop a logarithmic-competitive algorithm for online facility location with symmetric norms, to prove a logarithmic adaptivity gap for stochastic probing with symmetric norms, and to give an alternative poly-logarithmic approximation algorithm for generalized load balancing with outer $\ell_1$ norm and inner symmetric norms.
description: Preliminary version appeared in APPROX 2023
Impact Of Trade with China On The Unemployment Rate In Taiwan
Creators: name: Sun, Isabella
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: The Sunflower Movement protests that occurred in March of 2014 in Taiwan in response to the passing of a bilateral free trade agreement with Mainland China drew attention to the concerns over the impact of increased trade on the domestic unemployment rate. This paper looks at the effect that increased imports and exports to China as well as to the rest of the world has on the aggregate unemployment rate in Taiwan. Using the official trade statistics and unemployment rates provided by the Taiwanese government, this research uses a vector autoregressive model to test that impact and finds that an increased trade with China increases the aggregate unemployment rate in Taiwan. Trade with the rest of the world not including China has the opposite effect where an increase in trade here will decrease the unemployment rate. Looking at the separate effect of imports versus exports on the unemployment rate, the vector autoregressive model shows that both imports and exports from China increases the aggregate unemployment rate. Imports and exports from the rest of the world not including China, however, decrease the aggregate unemployment rate in Taiwan.
Remark on the eigenvalues of a tridiagonal matrix in biogeography
Creators: name: Castillo, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 15A15

description: The main result proved in [The eigenvalues of a tridiagonal matrix in biogeography, Appl. Math. Comput. 218 (2011) 195-201; MR2821464] by B. Igelnik and D. Simon is virtually the Sylvester determinant.
German action plan on business and human rights: a step forward or just business as usual?
Creators: name: Hutt, Lara Sophia
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: business
human rights
Germany

description: Second semester University: University of Seville
description: With the endorsement of the UN Framework and the associated Guiding Principles the business and human rights debate obtained a long lacking authoritative conceptual framework, clarifying the different but complementary responsibilities of states and corporations. Now, in order to achieve sustainable progress and to ensure its functionality, much depends on the legal and political implementation of the principles at the national level - through so-called National Action Plans on business and human rights (NAPs). In the last five years, twenty-one countries have published such action plans and many more are in the process of drafting. In this thesis, a special focus has been set on the German NAP and its current status of practical implementation. Countries such as Germany, which are home to a large number of corporations operating globally, have a particular role to play in fostering human rights protection. After having announced the publication of an ambitious action plan, Germany had the opportunity to provide a minimum standard of human rights due diligence and to implement measures to effectively preventing possible violations in the first place. The questions of whether Germany fulfils this role and to what extent the NAP has the potential to contribute towards greater responsibility and accountability of state measures and corporate practice lie at the core of this paper.
Recursive Tree Algorithms for Orthogonal Matrix Generation and Matrix-Vector Multiplications in Rigid Body Simulations
Creators: name: Fang, Fuhui
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: In this paper, we study a numerical linear algebra problem arising from the efficient simulation of Brownian dynamics with hydrodynamics interactions where molecules are modeled as ensembles of rigid bodies. Given the ﬁrst 6 rows of a matrix Q of size 3n x 3n describing how the force on each of the n particles in a rigid body P can be mapped to the 6 entries in P’s resultant force and torque, we show how the remaining 3n − 6 rows of vectors can be constructed explicitly using O(nlog(n)) operations and storage, so that (1) they form an orthonormal basis and (2) they are orthogonal to each of the ﬁrst 6 vectors. For applications where only the matrix-vector multiplications are needed, without forming Q, we introduce O(n) recursive tree algorithms for computing both Q · v and QT · v for an arbitrary vector v. Preliminary numerical results are presented to demonstrate the performance and accuracy of the numerical algorithms.
Radial Limits of Bounded Nonparametric PMC Surfaces
Creators: name: Entekhabi, Mozhgan
name: Lancaster, Kirk E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53A10, 35B40

description: Consider a solution $f\in C^{2}(Ω)$ of a prescribed mean curvature equation \[ {\rm div}\left(\frac{\nabla f}{\sqrt{1+|\nabla f|^{2}}}\right)=2H(x,f) \ \ \ \ {\rm in} \ \ Ω, \] where $Ω\subset \Real^{2}$ is a domain whose boundary has a corner at ${\cal O}=(0,0)\in\partialΩ.$ If $\sup_{x\inΩ} |f(x)|$ and $\sup_{x\inΩ} |H(x,f(x))|$ are both finite and $Ω$ has a reentrant corner at ${\cal O},$ then the radial limits of $f$ at ${\cal O},$ \[ Rf(θ) \myeq \lim_{r\downarrow 0} f(r\cos(θ),r\sin(θ)), \] are shown to exist and to have a specific type of behavior, independent of the boundary behavior of $f$ on $\partialΩ.$ If $\sup_{x\inΩ} |f(x)|$ and $\sup_{x\inΩ} |H(x,f(x))|$ are both finite and the trace of $f$ on one side has a limit at ${\cal O},$ then the radial limits of $f$ at ${\cal O}$ exist and have a specific type of behavior.
description: 12 pages. Submitted to the Pacific Journal of Mathematics
Gastrodia angusta S. Chow et S. C. Chen
Creators: name: Li, Jian-Wu
name: Huang, Lu-Qi
name: Li, Guo-Wu
name: Pan, Bo
name: Yin, Jian-Tao
name: Jin, Xiao-Hua
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Asparagales
Orchidaceae
Gastrodia
Gastrodia angusta

description: Gastrodia angusta S. Chow et S. C. Chen in Acta Bot. Yunnan. 5(4): 363. 1983.
 Lectotype (designated here): — CHINA, Shuigongqing Nature village, Sanjia Village, Longpeng Town, Shiping County, Yunnan Province. Under bamboo forests, alt. 1700 m, 5 April 1974, S. Chow, Y. H. Yang & H. S. Liang 7401 (lectotype: KUN No. 0484714; isolectotype: KUN No. 0484713; both KUN No. 0548938 and 0548939 has rejected).
 Epitype (designated here): — CHINA. Shuigongqing Nature village, Sanjia Village, Longpeng Town, Shiping County, Honghe Prefecture, Yunnan Province. Under bamboo forests, E: 102°33 ′, N: 23°51 ′, alt. 1900 m, 18 April 2016, Jian-Wu LI 4540 (epitype, isoepitype: HITBC!). Figures 2–3.
 Taxonomic revision:— Mycoheterotrophic plants, leafless. Corm fleshy, fusiform, 4–15 cm long, 1–5 cm in diam. at middle, sometimes larger, densely noded, with triangular scales at nodes. Inflorescence terminal, erect, gray brown, 40–80 cm long, sometimes up to 150 cm, 4–8 mm in diam., peduncle with 3–7 sheaths, sheath concave, membranous, 8–15 mm long; rachis 3–40 cm long, subdensely to densely with 3–40-flowered, floral bracts ovate-triangular, ca. 8 mm long, 3.5–4.0 mm wide, apex acuminate. Flowers suberect, white, not open widely; pedicel and ovary ca. 15 mm long. Sepal tube urceolate, 15–16 mm long, 9–10 mm in diam., lobed at apex, with a deep sinus between lateral sepals; lobe of dorsal sepal ovate-rounded, ca. 4 mm, margins sometime irregular erose, apex slightly emarginated; lobes of lateral sepals triangular, ca. 5 mm long, 7 mm wide, margins sometime irregular erose, apex obtuse, mid-vine convex abaxially, and with 3–5 dens, ca. 0.5 mm long; petals ovate, ca. 3 mm long, 2.5 mm wide, margins involute, apex truncate; lip triangular-oblong, ca. 16 mm long; epichile ca. 11 mm long, 6 mm wide at base, margins undulate and irregular erose, apex rounded and sometime irregular erose, disc with a longitudinal yellow, rugose, 2 mm wide belt, mid-vine concave abaxially; margins of mesochile retrousse and folded, forming two upright, semi-orbicular lamella on hypochile, lamellae 5 mm long, ca. 2 mm high, inside densely with orange-yellow powder particles (pseudo-pollen). Column ca. 10 mm long, 4 mm wide, wings ca. 0.7 mm wide, stelidias ca. 1 mm long; column foot short, ca. 2 mm long; pollinia 2.
 Phenology:— Flowering from March to early May.
 Distribution and habitat:— Gastrodia angusta was found in Shiping County, Honghe Perfecture, Yunnan Province, China, at elevations 1680–2050 m, terrestrial under bamboo forests.
description: Published as part of Li, Jian-Wu, Huang, Lu-Qi, Li, Guo-Wu, Pan, Bo, Yin, Jian-Tao & Jin, Xiao-Hua, 2018, Lectotype, epitype and amendment of Gastrodia angusta (Orchidaceae), pp. 291-296 in Phytotaxa 356 (4) on pages 295-296, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.356.4.5, http://zenodo.org/record/13706978
Stochastic modelling of regional archaeomagnetic series
Creators: name: Hellio, G.
name: Gillet, N.
name: Bouligand, C.
name: Jault, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: SUMMARY We report a new method to infer continuous time series of the declination, inclination and intensity of the magnetic field from archeomagnetic data. Adopting a Bayesian perspective, we need to specify a priori knowledge about the time evolution of the magnetic field. It consists in a time correlation function that we choose to be compatible with present knowledge about the geomagnetic time spectra. The results are presented as distributions of possible values for the declination, inclination or intensity. We find that the methodology can be adapted to account for the age uncertainties of archeological artefacts and we use Markov Chain Monte Carlo to explore the possible dates of observations. We apply the method to intensity datasets from Mari, Syria and to intensity and directional datasets from Paris, France. Our reconstructions display more rapid variations than previous studies and we find that the possible values of geomagnetic field elements are not necessarily normally distributed. Another output of the model is better age estimates of archeological artefacts.
eulogies in law & soil
Creators: name: Simpson, Annie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Landscape images, no matter how straight forward, are subjective & bound up in cultural memory which shapes narratives that obfuscate the racist violence done upon people within the landscape. This project seeks to show the political and duplicitous landscapes of Northampton County through the context of environmental racism. I will narrate how topography lends itself to formulating one’s conception of self, how this historical micro-chasm of environmental terror fits into the record of racism that is integral to American history, and how the Southern landscape as a cultural construction is, at its heart, deceitful and memorialized through false and a-historical remembering.
Nonequilibrium work energy relation for non-Hamiltonian dynamics
Creators: name: Mandal, Dibyendu
name: DeWeese, Michael R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent years have witnessed major advances in our understanding of nonequilibrium processes. The Jarzynski equality, for example, provides a link between equilibrium free energy differences and finite-time, nonequilibrium dynamics. We propose a generalization of this relation to non-Hamiltonian dynamics, relevant for active matter systems, continuous feedback, and computer simulation. Surprisingly, this relation allows us to calculate the free energy difference between the desired initial and final equilibrium states using arbitrary dynamics. As a practical matter, this dissociation between the dynamics and the initial and final states promises to facilitate a range of techniques for free energy estimation in a single, universal expression.
description: 10 pages, no figures
Children behind bars : a study on children deprived of liberty within the criminal justice system in Kosovo
Creators: name: Bursac, Natasha
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: detained persons
Kosovo
children
children rights
prison
criminal justice

description: Second semester University: University of Vienna
description: Despite an almost universal ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by all states around the world, the practice of depriving children of their liberty on arbitrary and illegal grounds continues to be widespread on a global level. Too often, the deprivation of liberty takes place under circumstances and on grounds that are not only a gross violation of the right of the child, but in direct contradiction of the most fundamental values of International Human Rights Law. This Study has reviewed the situation of children deprived of liberty within the juvenile justice system in Kosovo, in light of relevant international human rights law. As such, the Study includes a monitoring visit to the only juvenile prison in Kosovo, undertaken in collaboration with the Kosovo Rehabilitation Centre for Torture Victims, which is part of the National Preventative Mechanism established in Kosovo. Important findings include the lack of separation between children and adults, which has negative implications in regard to upholding the best interest of the child, as well as an extensive use of disciplinary punishments for reasons which are strictly forbidden in International Law, including the use of solitary confinement. Promoting a juvenile justice system that is restorative in its nature does not only contribute to upholding the rights of the child, but will have a significantly positive impact on the society as a whole, particularly in terms of reducing juvenile delinquency. The capacity of the governmental authorities needs to be enhanced greatly in order to meet the challenges that currently exist. Most importantly, there needs to be a societal change of attitude towards children in conflict with the law. Kosovo has the youngest population in Europe – therefore, an investment in children should be a main priority, particularly in regard to children deprived of liberty, who are among the most vulnerable groups in society.
An Operational Data-Driven Malfunction Detection Framework for Enhanced Power Distribution System Monitoring -- The DeMaDs Approach
Creators: name: Fellner, David
name: Strasser, Thomas I.
name: Kastner, Wolfgang
name: Behnam, Feizifar
name: Abdulhadi, Ibrahim F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: The changes in the electric energy system toward a sustainable future are inevitable and already on the way today. This often entails a change of paradigm for the electric energy grid, for example, the switch from central to decentralized power generation which also has to provide grid-supporting functionalities. However, due to the scarcity of distributed sensors, new solutions for grid operators for monitoring these functionalities are needed. The framework presented in this work allows to apply and assess data-driven detection methods in order to implement such monitoring capabilities. Furthermore, an approach to a multi-stage detection of misconfigurations is introduced. Details on implementations of the single stages as well as their requirements are also presented. Furthermore, testing and validation results are discussed. Due to its feature of being seamlessly integrable into system operators' current metering infrastructure, clear benefits of the proposed solution are pointed out.
description: 27th International Conference on Electricity Distribution (CIRED 2023)
Frequency-dependent effective permeability tensor of unsaturated polycrystalline ferrites
Creators: name: Thibaudeau, Pascal
name: Tranchida, Julien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Frequency-dependent permeability tensor for unsaturated polycrystalline ferrites is derived through an effective medium approximation that combines both domain-wall motion and rotation of domains in a single consistent scattering framework. Thus derived permeability tensor is averaged on a distribution function of the free energy that encodes paramagnetic states for anhysteretic loops. The initial permeability is computed and frequency spectra are given by varying macroscopic remanent field.
description: 24 pages, 3 figures
Best of Both Worlds: Merging 360˚ Image Capture with 3D Reconstructed Environments for Improved Immersion in Virtual Reality
Creators: name: Rajkumar, Vijay
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: With the recent proliferation of high-quality 360° photos and video, consumers of
virtual reality (VR) media have come to expect photorealistic immersive content. Most
360° VR content, however, is captured with monoscopic camera rigs and inherently fails
to provide users with a sense of 3D depth and 6 degree-of-freedom (DOF) mobility. As a
result, the medium is significantly limited in its immersive quality. This thesis aims to demonstrate how content creators can further bridge the gap between 360° content and
fully immersive real-world VR simulations. We attempt to design a method that
combines monoscopic 360° image capture with 3D reconstruction -- taking advantage of
the best qualities of both technologies while only using consumer-grade equipment. By
mapping the texture from panoramic 360° images to the 3D geometry of a scene, this
system significantly improves the photo-realism of 3D reconstructed spaces at specific
points of interest in a virtual environment. The technical hurdles faced during the course of this research work, and areas of further work needed to perfect the system, are discussed in detail. Once perfected, a user of the system should be able to simultaneously appreciate visual detail in 360-degrees while experiencing full mobility, i.e., to move around within the immersed scene.
Optimised resource construction for verifiable quantum computation
Creators: name: Kashefi, Elham
name: Wallden, Petros
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent developments make the possibility of achieving scalable quantum networks and quantum devices closer. From the computational point of view these emerging technologies become relevant when they are no longer classically simulatable. Hence a pressing challenge is the construction of practical methods to verify the correctness of the outcome produced by universal or non-universal quantum devices. A promising approach that has been extensively explored is the scheme of verification via encryption through blind quantum computing initiated by Fitzsimons and Kashefi. We present here a new construction that simplifies the required resources for any such verifiable blind quantum computating protocol. We obtain an overhead that is linear in the size of the input, while the security parameter remains independent of the size of the computation and can be made exponentially small. Furthermore our construction is generic and could be applied to any non-universal scheme with a given underlying graph.
description: 26 pages, 2 figures
Diploneis zannii Frenguelli 1933
Creators: name: Vouilloud, Amelia A.
name: Sala, Silvia E.
name: Heguilor, Santiago
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Chromista
Ochrophyta
Bacillariophyceae
Naviculales
Diploneidaceae
Diploneis
Diploneis zannii

description: Diploneis zannii Frenguelli (1933: 415, pl. IV, fig. 10) (Figs 1–23)
 Description: LM (Figs 1–16). Valves elliptic-lanceolate (length 37.5–57.5 μm, breadth 27–36 μm, L/B: 1.7–2.2). Longitudinal canals occupying 1/3 of valve width, together forming a narrow lanceolate area. Striae uniseriate, slightly radial at valve center (8–10/10 μm), strongly radial at poles (10–11/10 μm), interrupted at canals.
 SEM (Figs 17–23). Raphe filiform (Figs 17–19) with external proximal ends straight located at bottom of a depression (Fig. 18); distal ends curved in obtuse angle (Fig. 19) to the same side. Longitudinal canals with one row of areolae separated from striae by conspicuous hyaline area (Figs. 17–19). Externally, each alveolus opens as a uniseriate stria composed of equidistant areolae (10–12/10 μm) (Figs 18–19). Internally, raphe straight, running through sunken area between longitudinal canals (Figs 20–22); proximal and distal ends simple, helictoglossae slightly developed (Figs 21–22). Transapical ribs straight delimiting alveoli (Figs 20–23). Transapical ribs fungiform in transverse section (Fig. 23, arrows). Areolae open in single foramina (Figs 21, 23, arrowheads).
 Type: — ARGENTINA. Corrientes: Itatí Rincón Lagoon, Esteros del Iberá, 28°42’00’’S; 58°06’00’’W, J. Frenguelli, 24 February 1941 (lectotype designated here, Frenguelli Collection! 268, slide 268 (3), England Finder: N 47 (4), here illustrated as Figs 14–16; Isolectotype designated here: Frenguelli Collection! 268, Slides 268 (1–3, 6, 8, 15, 16).
description: Published as part of Vouilloud, Amelia A., Sala, Silvia E. & Heguilor, Santiago, 2018, Revision of the type material of Diploneis zannii Frenguelli (Bacillariophyceae), pp. 239-245 in Phytotaxa 351 (3) on page 240, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.351.3.5, http://zenodo.org/record/13707252
Atomic-scale positioning of single spins via multiple nitrogen-vacancy centers
Creators: name: Ma, Wen-Long
name: Li, Shu-Shen
name: Cao, Geng-Yu
name: Liu, Ren-Bao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a scheme of positioning a single electron spin with sub-nanometer resolution through multiple nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond. With unwanted noise suppressed by dynamical decoupling, the spin coherence of each center develops characteristic oscillations due to a single electron spin located $4{\sim20}$ nm away from the centers. We can extract the position information from the characteristic electron spin-coherence oscillations of each center. This scheme is useful for high-resolution nanoscale magnetometry and spin-based quantum computing.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures
Interaction of antiprotons with nuclei
Creators: name: Hrtánková, J.
name: Mareš, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We performed fully self-consistent calculations of $\bar{p}$-nuclear bound states using a complex ${\bar p}$-nucleus potential accounting for $\bar{p}$-atom data. While the real part of the potential is constructed within the relativistic mean-field (RMF) model, the $\bar{p}$ annihilation in the nuclear medium is described by a phenomenological optical potential. We confirm large polarization effects of the nuclear core caused by the presence of the antiproton. The ${\bar p}$ annihilation is treated dynamically, taking into account explicitly the reduced phase space for annihilation from deeply bound states as well as the compressed nuclear density due to the antiproton. The energy available for the products of ${\bar p}$ annihilation in the nuclear medium is evaluated self-consistently, considering the additional energy shift due to transformation from the ${\bar p}N$ system to ${\bar p}$-nucleus system. Corresponding $\bar{p}$ widths in the medium are significantly suppressed, however, they still remain considerable for the $\bar{p}$ potential consistent with experimental data.
description: preprint submitted to Nuclear Physics A
Don’t be universal; be human! : clash between universalism and relativism as an obstacle in protection of human rights
Creators: name: Popik, Jakub
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: human rights
philosophy
political theories

description: Second semester University: Masaryk University, Brno.
description: The ongoing academic debate between Universalism and Relativism has had negative effect on implementation of human rights into practice and causes human rights to be less accepted within the human society. This thesis critically analyses both of these notions and discovers their flaws that have the biggest negative effects on human rights protection. Human rights violations are in the next chapters examined on the background of modern political trends, societal tendencies, but also on the background of opposing academic arguments within this debate. The goal of the thesis is disregarding the ongoing debate as outdated, irrelevant and provide an alternative for improvement. Resulting from this analysis, the thesis provides a new conception, formed on a revision of universalism and relativism, with the fundamental values of human rights in regard. The newly established theory shall expresses the capability to implement human rights acceptance in the modern society, a trait necessary for human rights to be effective in practice.
Pilot Study
Creators: name: Gazder, Taranah
name: Robson, Jennie
name: Stanton, Sarah
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: relationships
subject: schadenfreude

description: The purpose of this pilot study is to identify one or more vignettes that are most likely to arouse feelings of schadenfreude. The vignettes will then be used in follow-up studies.
Determining the Role of Casz1 in Heart Development
Creators: name: Labiner, Hanna Emily
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Castor (Casz1) is a zinc finger transcription factor that has been shown to be required for
heart development in Xenopus. Casz1 has also been linked to high blood pressure and
hypertension in humans through a recent Genome Wide Association Study. The purpose of this
research was to determine the role of Casz1 in cardiac development and how Casz1 fits into the
cardiac transcription program. A mouse model was used because of the high genomic
conservation between mice and humans. To determine the spatial and temporal expression of
Casz1 mRNA during murine heart development, I utilized in situ hybridization. In addition, to
confirm that CASZ1 protein is present in the developing heart, I performed
immunohistochemistry. My studies showed that Casz1 is expressed in the atria and left ventricle
of the developing heart. To determine the role of Casz1 in cardiac development, I examined the
cardiomyocyte mitotic index of wild type embryos and Casz1 mutant embryos, and demonstrated
that cardiomyocytes lacking Casz1 over-proliferate. This indicates that Casz1 regulates
cardiomyocyte proliferation. Future studies are aimed at identifying genes that Casz1 regulates,
providing further insight into the cardiac gene program. These studies hold implications for
understanding congenital heart defects by giving us further insight into the molecular
mechanisms that regulate cardiac development.
Gate-controlled semimetal-topological insulator transition in an InAs/GaSb heterostructure
Creators: name: Suzuki, Kyoichi
name: Harada, Yuichi
name: Onomitsu, Koji
name: Muraki, Koji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a gate-controlled transition of a semimetallic InAs/GaSb heterostructure to a topological insulator. The transition is induced by decreasing the degree of band inversion with front and back gate voltages. Temperature dependence of the longitudinal resistance peak shows the energy gap opening in the bulk region with increasing gate electric field. The suppression of bulk conduction and the transition to a topological insulator are confirmed by nonlocal resistance measurements using a dual lock-in technique, which allows us to rigorously compare the voltage distribution in the sample for different current paths without the influence of time-dependent resistance fluctuations.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures
Diploneis zannii J. Frenguelli
Creators: name: Vouilloud, Amelia A.
name: Sala, Silvia E.
name: Heguilor, Santiago
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Chromista
Ochrophyta
Bacillariophyceae
Naviculales
Diploneidaceae
Diploneis
Diploneis zannii

description: Diploneis zannii J. Frenguelli emend Vouilloud
 Emended diagnosis: Valves elliptic-lanceolate, 37.5–57.5 μm length, 27–36 μm breadth. Longitudinal canals occupying 1/3 of valve width, together forming a narrow lanceolate area. Striae uniseriate, slightly radial at valve center, 8–10/10 μm, strongly radial at ends, 10–11/10 μm, interrupted at canals. Transapical ribs fungiform in transverse section. Raphe filiform; external proximal ends straight, located at bottom of a depression; distal ends curved in obtuse angle to same side. Internally raphe straight, running through sunken area between longitudinal canals; proximal and distal ends simple, helictoglossae slightly developed. Longitudinal canals with row of areolae separated from striae by conspicuous hyaline area. Externally, each alveolus opens as a uniseriate stria composed of equidistant areolae, 10–12/10 μm.
description: Published as part of Vouilloud, Amelia A., Sala, Silvia E. & Heguilor, Santiago, 2018, Revision of the type material of Diploneis zannii Frenguelli (Bacillariophyceae), pp. 239-245 in Phytotaxa 351 (3) on page 244, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.351.3.5, http://zenodo.org/record/13707252