cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Finding Distant Galactic HII Regions
Creators: name: Anderson, L. D.
name: Armentrout, W. P.
name: Johnstone, B. M.
name: Bania, T. M.
name: Balser, Dana S.
name: Wenger, Trey V.
name: Cunningham, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The WISE Catalog of Galactic HII Regions contains $\sim2000$ HII region candidates lacking ionized gas spectroscopic observations. All candidates have the characteristic HII region mid-infrared morphology of WISE $12\,\,μ\,m$ emission surrounding $22\,μ\,m$ emission, and additionally have detected radio continuum emission. We here report Green Bank Telescope (GBT) hydrogen radio recombination line (RRL) and radio continuum detections at X-band (9GHz; 3cm) of 302 WISE HII region candidates (out of 324 targets observed) in the zone $225^{\circ} > l > -20^{\circ}$, $|b| \le 6^{\circ}$. Here we extend the sky coverage of our HII region Discovery Survey (HRDS), which now contains nearly 800 HII regions distributed across the entire northern sky. We provide LSR velocities for the 302 detections and kinematic distances for 131 of these. Of the 302 new detections, five have ($l, b, v$) coordinates consistent with the Outer Scutum-Centaurus Arm (OSC), the most distant molecular spiral arm of the Milky Way. Due to the Galactic warp, these nebulae are found at Galactic latitudes $>1^{\circ}$ in the first Galactic quadrant, and therefore were missed in previous surveys of the Galactic plane. One additional region has a longitude and velocity consistent with the OSC but lies at a negative Galactic latitude (G039.183$-$01.422; $-$54.9 kms). With Heliocentric distances >22 kpc and Galactocentric distances >16 kpc, the OSC HII regions are the most distant known in the Galaxy. We detect an additional three HII regions near $l \simeq 150^{\circ}$ whose LSR velocities place them at Galactocentric radii >19 kpc. If their distances are correct, these nebulae may represent the limit to Galactic massive star formation.
description: Accepted by ApJS; 30 pages, 6 figures, 6 tables Check out the data here: http://astro.phys.wvu.edu/wise/ and here: http://www.cv.nrao.edu/hrds/
Non-equilibrium spin-crossover in copper phthalocyanine
Creators: name: Siegert, Benjamin
name: Donarini, Andrea
name: Grifoni, Milena
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate the tip induced control of the spin state of copper phthalocyanine (CuPc) on an insulator coated substrate. Accounting for electronic correlations, we find that, under the condition of energetic proximity of neutral excited states to the anionic groundstate, the system can undergo a population inversion towards these excited states. The resulting state of the system is accompanied by a change in the total spin quantum number. Experimental signatures of the crossover are the appearance of additional nodal planes in the topographical STM images as well as a strong suppression of the current near the center of the molecule. The robustness of the effect against moderate charge conserving relaxation processes has also been tested.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures; added supplemental material (+ 5 pages)
Structural plasticity driven by task performance leads to criticality signatures in neuromorphic oscillator networks
Creators: name: Feketa, Petro
name: Meurer, T
name: Kohlstedt, H
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 46
subject: Information and computing sciences
classificationCode: 4611
subject: Machine learning

description: Oscillator networks rapidly become one of the promising vehicles for energy-efficient computing due to their intrinsic parallelism of execution. The criticality property of the oscillator-based networks is regarded to be essential for performing complex tasks. There are numerous bio-inspired synaptic and structural plasticity mechanisms available, especially for spiking neural networks, which can drive the network towards the criticality. However, there is no solid connection between these self-adaption mechanisms and the task performance, and it is not clear how and why particular self-adaptation mechanisms contribute to the solution of the task, although their relation to criticality is understood. Here we propose an evolutionary approach for the structural plasticity that relies solely on the task performance and does not contain any task-independent adaptation mechanisms, which usually contribute towards the criticality of the network. As a driver for the structural plasticity, we use a direct binary search guided by the performance of the classification task that can be interpreted as an interaction of the network with the environment. Remarkably, such interaction with the environment brings the network to criticality, although this property was not a part of the objectives of the employed structural plasticity mechanism. This observation confirms a duality of criticality and task performance, and legitimizes internal activity-dependent plasticity mechanisms from the viewpoint of evolution as mechanisms contributing to the task performance, but following the dual route. Finally, we analyze the trained network against task-independent information-theoretic measures and identify the interconnection graph’s entropy to be an essential ingredient for the classification task performance and network’s criticality.
Equal Opportunities in Academic Careers? How Mid-Career Scientists at ETH Zurich Evaluate the Impact of Their Gender and Age
Creators: name: Hansmann, Ralph
name: Schröter, Dagmar
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Chancengleichheit
subject: Karriere
subject: Hochschule
subject: Universität
subject: Gender
subject: Alter
subject: Diskriminierung
subject: Nachhaltigkeit
subject: 303 Gesellschaftliche Prozesse

description: Gender equality is essential to social justice and sustainable development in the higher education sector. An important aspect thereof is to promote equal opportunities for academic careers. This study investigates the current situation and possibilities for improvement in this regard from the perspectives of mid-career scientists in a sustainability-oriented university department. A survey of scientists from the postdoctoral to adjunct professor level (N = 82) in the Department of Environmental Systems Science (D-USYS) of ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich) was thus conducted to investigate judgements, experiences, and ideas for improvement concerning equal career opportunities. About 90% of the respondents perceived no disadvantages based on gender, ethnicity, race, or faith. However, about 30% felt disadvantaged due to their age. Comments revealed not a single case in which latter disadvantages were based on prejudice. Instead, ETH-wide or national age and time-based restrictions for certain positions caused the inequality perceptions. Furthermore, comments indicated that these restrictions can disadvantage scientists taking care of children. Some participants suggested a revision or removal of corresponding rules. Further suggestions included an improved availability of childcare places. ETH Zurich recently undertook great efforts to provide excellent and affordable childcare services, increasing the number of available places by about 30% in the year following this survey.
Repositorien für die 4Culture-Community: Daten zu materiellen und immateriellen Kulturgütern in verschiedenen Medienformaten nachhaltig publizieren und archivieren
Creators: name: Große, Peggy
name: Chistyakova, Maria
name: Herzog, Sabrina
name: Büttner, Alexandra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: NDFI4Culture
Repositorien
Forschungsdaten
Publizieren
Archivieren
Kunstgeschichte
Musikwissenschaften
Darstellende Künste
Medienwissenschaften
Architektur
Kulturwissenschaft

description: Poster-Präsentation im Rahmen des 3. NFDI4Culture Community Plenary vom 29.-31. März 2023 an der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur in Mainz. Das Poster bietet einen Überblick über fachspezifische und generische Repositorien für die 4Culture-Community, in denen Daten zu materiellen und immateriellen Kulturgütern in verschiedenen Medienformaten nachhaltig publiziert und archiviert werden können.
description: Gefördert durch die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) – 441958017.
Electoral participation of internally displaced persons (IDPs) : a case study of Ukraine
Creators: name: Drnovsky, Adam
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: internally displaced persons
elections
right to vote
Ukraine

description: Second semester University: University of Vienna
description: The aim of the presented thesis is to examine electoral participation of IDPs in Ukraine’s elections in the view of relevant international standards. To this end, this thesis provides a comprehensive overview of IDP electoral participation from the theoretical perspective which is put into the contrast with often lacking practical realization of IDP voting rights. Based on this tension, a list of critical areas of IDP electoral participation is formulated and utilised for the purposes of the case study analysis. In order to assess IDP electoral participation in the view of international standards, next part of the thesis deals with relevant international instruments protecting IDP voting rights and summarizes Ukraine’s commitments in this regard. Subsequently, the case study of Ukraine is analysed in regard to three electoral process held in the recent years and following the assessment framework created in the previous part. Building upon conclusions of the previous parts, the last part of the thesis assesses Ukraine’s compliance with relevant international standards in light of IDP electoral participation in Ukraine’s elections. The thesis finds that IDP electoral participation in Ukraine’s elections was mostly impeded by various obstacles of practical and legal nature which resulted in Ukraine’s failure to follow its international commitments regarding IDP enfranchisement.
Deep learning and geochemical modelling as tools for solute geothermometry
Creators: name: Ystroem, Lars H.
name: Vollmer, Mark
name: Nitschke, Fabian
name: Kohl, Thomas
Publisher: name: European Geothermal Energy Council (EGEC)
Year: 2023
Subjects: solute geothermometry
multicomponent geothermometer
artificial neural network geothermometer

description: Geothermometry is constituted one of the most important geochemical tools for reservoir exploration and development. Solute geothermometers are used to estimate the temperature in the subsurface. Therefore, the chemical composition of a discharging geothermal fluid is used to infer the temperature of the reservoir. Changes in the chemical composition because of boiling, degassing, and dilution are disturbing the equilibrium state within the fluid leading to uncertainties in the temperature estimation. Especially, the pH value, the aluminium concentration, as well as boiling and dilution are parameters prone to changes. These parameters are elaborated in the geochemical modelling process to optimise these values to fit their in-situ reservoir conditions again. This geochemical modelling method can be used for multicomponent geothermometers leading to more robust and precise temperature estimations. However, this process is time-consuming, and geochemical as well as mineralogical knowledge is beneficial. Consequently, the field of artificial intelligence offers powerful methods to solve complex issues, even considering multiple unknowns. Therefore, a new solute geothermometer based on a deep learning algorithm is developed. This neural solute geothermometer is tested and compared to the optimised multicomponent geothermometer and in-situ temperature measurements concluding in a new generation of solute geothermometer as precise as an optimised multicomponent geothermometer but much easier and faster in its applicability.
The right to health in prison : a socio-economic right under the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights(?)
Creators: name: Wetschko, Bernhard Reinhold
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: right to health
prison
European Court of Human Rights
social rights
economic rights

description: Second semester University: University of Nottingham
description: Currently, more than 10 million people are held in prisons or other penal institutions throughout the world, often facing an environment, which is particularly harmful to the imprisoned individuals’ health. As a socio-economic right, the right to health, however, receives a lower level of protection than that granted to traditional civil and political rights in the Council of Europe human rights protection system. Accordingly, the right to health is absent from the text of the European Convention on Human Rights, raising questions regarding the effective protection of the prisoners’ right to health and beyond. In light of this, the research questions addressed in this thesis are; does the right to health in general and especially in a prison context, fall within the scope of jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights, despite it traditionally being a socio-economic right? And if so; to what extent does the European Court of Human Rights engage with the right to health in general and especially in a prison context? It is argued that by applying progressive means of interpretation, the Court opens its doors for an engagement with the right to health, at least in prisons. While the reluctance of the European Court of Human Right regarding health-related issues in hospitals and other health services outside prisons is far from overcome, prisoners’ health is indeed well-covered by the jurisprudence of the Court.
Picosecond-petawatt laser-block ignition of avalanche boron fusion by ultrahigh acceleration and ultrahigh magnetic fields
Creators: name: Hora, H.
name: Lalousis, P.
name: Giuffrida, L.
name: Margarone, D.
name: Korn, G.
name: Eliezer, S.
name: Mley, G. H.
name: Moustizis, S.
name: Mourou, G.
name: Barty, C. P. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Fusion energy from reacting hydrogen (protons) with the boron isotope 11 (HB11) resulting in three stable helium nuclei, is without problem of nuclear radiation in contrast to DT fusion. But the HB11 reaction driven by nanosecond laser pulses with thermal compression and ignition by lasers is extremely difficult. This changed radically when irradiation with picosecond laser pulses produces a non-thermal plasma block ignition with ultrahigh acceleration. This uses the nonlinear (ponderomotive) force to surprisingly resulting in same thresholds as DT fusion even under pessimistic assumption of binary reactions. After evaluation of reactions trapped cylindrically by kilotesla magnetic fields and using the measured highly increased HB11 fusion gains for the proof of an avalanche of the three alphas in secondary reactions, possibilities for an absolutely clean energy source at competitive costs were concluded.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, presented at IFSA 2015 conference, Seattle WA 22 SEP 2015
Bordering (in)humanity: an analysis and critique of Mexico’s (im)migration policy failures
Creators: name: Escobedo, Eduardo
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: human rights violations
migrations
Mexico
emigration and immigration law
right to health
social security
United States of America

description: Second semester University: University of Seville
description: Since the inception of the Mexico’s reformed migration law, national development programs, and its provided support from the U.S., human rights violations, public health, and increased migrant vulnerability have seen high levels of concern which has garnered international interest. Due to the aforementioned effects of Mexico’s migration strategy, its suppression and enforcement-based approach could be perceived as a near-sighted solution since it does not properly attend to the situation in an intersectional manner. If Mexico were to decide to respond in a comprehensive, human security-based approach, it could not only more effectively meet international human rights obligations but could more adequately manage the migrating population, prioritizing the health of the migrating individuals and the public within the affected region(s). While analyzing and critiquing the failures of Mexico’s current (im)migration policy, this body of argues how their enforcement-centric approach perpetuates human rights violations and provokes vulnerability amongst migratory populations.
How I Began to Move Away
Creators: name: Faison, Anna
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Contents: 1. To An Imaginary Travel Companion 2. Gleaning 3. Crying Over a Chopped Onion 4. Sheetrock
5. Midnight On the Crescent 6. My First Time in the Desert 7. The Last of the Radium Girls 8.
Delicate Arch 9. And That’s How We Lived Here Most of Our Lives 10. Train Delayed Two Hours in
Seattle 11. I Want to Get Back to That First Bird 12. My Father, Who Died Before You Were Born 13.
Automatic Card Shuffler 14. My Darling 15. You Said Some of These Women Had Big Personalities 16. If
I Could Be Anything, I’d Be a Snapping Turtle 17. In the Morning When I Haven’t Slept 18. Now That
We Have Started to Lose Ourselves 19. How To Kill a Dove 20. My Father in Space 21. We Would Go Out
Many Times a Week 22. On the River By Your House 23. The Year I Forgot to Wash My Hair 24. The
Father Running Out of Words 25. To Wave a Handkerchief 26. Letter From the Garden of Eden 27.
Elberton, GA 28. I Want to Be Good at Something 29. Inspection 30. Here Is My Lead-­‐Footed Apology
31. As the Almanac Makers Say of the Weather, My Condition Was Variable 32. I Missed It the Way You
Miss a Train 33. It Was Not Hard to Adjust 34. Tell Me About a Time You Got All Dressed Up 35. I
Didn’t Have the Heart to Tell Him 36. When Judy Garland Sings in My Kitchen 37. How I Began to Move
Away
Artificial homeostatic temperature regulation via bio-inspired feedback mechanisms
Creators: name: Feketa, Petro
name: Birkoben, T
name: Noll, M
name: Schaum, A
name: Meurer, T
name: Kohlstedt, H
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 40
subject: Engineering
classificationCode: 3101
subject: Biochemistry and cell biology

description: Homeostasis comprises one of the main features of living organisms that enables their robust functioning by adapting to environmental changes. In particular, thermoregulation, as an instance of homeostatic behavior, allows mammals to maintain stable internal temperature with tightly controlled self-regulation independent of external temperatures. This is made by a proper reaction of the thermoeffectors (like skin blood vessels, brown adipose tissue (BAT), etc.) on a wide range of temperature perturbations that reflect themselves in the thermosensitive neurons’ activity. This activity is being delivered to the respective actuation points and translated into thermoeffectors’ actions, which bring the temperature of the organism to the desired level, called a set-point. However, it is still an open question whether these mechanisms can be implemented in an analog electronic device: both on a system theoretical and a hardware level. In this paper, we transfer this control loop into a real electric circuit by designing an analog electronic device for temperature regulation that works following bio-inspired principles. In particular, we construct a simplified single-effector regulation system and show how spiking trains of thermosensitive artificial neurons can be processed to realize an efficient feedback mechanism for the stabilization of the a priori unknown but system-inherent set-point. We also demonstrate that particular values of the set-point and its stability properties result from the interplay between the feedback control gain and activity patterns of thermosensitive artificial neurons, for which, on the one hand, the neuronal interconnections are generally not necessary. On the other hand, we show that such connections can be beneficial for the set-point regulation and hypothesize that the synaptic plasticity in real thermosensitive neuronal ensembles can play a role of an additional control layer empowering the robustness of thermoregulation. The electronic realization of temperature regulation proposed in this paper might be of interest for neuromorphic circuits which are bioinspired by taking the basal principle of homeostasis on board. In this way, a fundamental building block of life would be transferred to electronics and become a milestone for the future of neuromorphic engineering.
Phase-locking in cascaded stimulated Brillouin scattering
Creators: name: Büttner, Thomas F. S.
name: Poulton, Christopher G.
name: Steel, M. J.
name: Hudson, Darren D.
name: Eggleton, Benjamin J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cascaded stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) is a complex nonlinear optical process that results in the generation of several optical waves that are frequency shifted by an acoustic resonance frequency. Four-wave mixing (FWM) between these Brillouin shifted optical waves can create an equally spaced optical frequency comb with a stable spectral phase, i.e. a Brillouin frequency comb (BFC). Here, we investigate phase-locking of the spectral components of BFCs, considering FWM interactions arising from the Kerr-nonlinearity as well as from coupling by the acoustic field. Deriving for the first time the coupled-mode equations that include all relevant nonlinear interactions, we examine the contribution of the various nonlinear processes to phase-locking, and show that different regimes can be obtained that depend on the length scale on which the field amplitudes vary.
Repositorien für die 4Culture-Community: Publizieren und Archivieren (Kunstgeschichte und Architektur, Musikwissenschaften, Darstellende Künste, Medienwissenschaften)
Creators: name: Große, Peggy
name: Chistyakova, Maria
name: Herzog, Sabrina
name: Büttner, Alexandra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Repositorien
Publizieren
Archivieren
Forschungsdaten
NFDI4Culture
Kulturwissenschaft
Kunstgeschichte
Architektur
Darstellende Künste
Medienwissenschaften
Musikwissenschaften

description: Präsentationen im Rahmen der Poster-Session des 3. NFDI4Culture Community Plenary vom 29.-31. März 2023 an der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur in Mainz. Aufgeteilt nach Disziplinen (Kunstgeschichte und Architektur, Musikwissenschaften, Darstellende Künste, Medienwissenschaften) bieten die Präsentationen einen Überblick über fachspezifische und generische Repositorien für die 4Culture-Community, in denen Daten zu materiellen und immateriellen Kulturgütern in verschiedenen Medienformaten nachhaltig publiziert und archiviert werden können.
description: Gefördert durch die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) – 441958017.
consICA: a package for reference-free deconvolution reveals oncogenic processes in “omics” data and highlights the benefits of multimodal data analysis for patient stratification
Creators: name: Chepeleva, Maryna
name: Kaoma, Tony
name: Kakoichankava, Aliaksandra
name: Reka Toth
name: Nazarov, Petr V
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2023

description: In cancer research, the analysis of patient-derived molecular profiles, such as gene expression or DNA methylation, is not straightforward because of the tumor heterogeneity that masks important molecular signatures. This can be caused by natural variability in cell type proportions or by clonal variation between species of tumor cells. Additionally, technical biases between experimental platforms may limit the direct comparison of patient data to large public datasets.

 We previously presented a reference-free deconvolution algorithm based on consensus independent component analysis (consICA). It allows reproducible mapping of small clinical data into a space of biologically relevant components defined by a large reference dataset, simultaneously correcting for technical biases. The method was tested on cell line data and showed its potential in extracting realistic biological signals and predicting tumor phenotypes. Importantly, the resulting weights of independent signals (loadings) may have diagnostic or prognostic power.

 We applied consICA to 33 tumor cohorts presented in the TCGA dataset and established recommendations on the use of specific data modalities for better prediction of patient survival: mRNA, microRNA and DNA methylation data were considered. More specifically, mRNA should be used for SKCM, KIRC, PAAD cohorts, while DNA methylation for LGG/GBM, KIRP, SARC patients. BRCA and UCEC cohorts strongly benefit from the combination of transcriptomic and methylation data. We also built a connectivity network uniting clusters of signals specific to cancer hallmarks (proliferation, invasion, angiogenesis, inflammation, metabolism deregulation).

 The package is available on GitHub (biomod-lih/consICA) and it is undergoing Bioconductor review.
Polystichum hartwegii Hieron., Hedwigia
Creators: name: Kessler, Michael
name: Moran, Robbin C.
name: Mickel, John T.
name: Matos, Fernando B.
name: Smith, Alan R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Polypodiales
Dryopteridaceae
Polystichum
Polystichum hartwegii

description: Polystichum hartwegii (Klotzsch) Hieron., Hedwigia 46: 355. 1907.
 Range: —Southern Mexico to Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia (LP).
 Ecology: —Rare; terrestrial at humid forest edges and roadsides; 1300–2800 m.
 Notes: —Very similar to P. lehmannii, which mainly differs by lacking indusia, even though the two species are not closely related (McHenry & Barrington 2014). Polystichum hartwegii is part of a difficult taxonomic complex centered in southern Mexico and Mesoamerica.
description: Published as part of Kessler, Michael, Moran, Robbin C., Mickel, John T., Matos, Fernando B. & Smith, Alan R., 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXV. Dryopteridaceae, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 353 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.353.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13706233
Electron Spin Resonance in a Spin-1/2 Heisenberg Strong-rung Ladder
Creators: name: Ponomaryov, A. N.
name: Ozerov, M.
name: Zviagina, L.
name: Wosnitza, J.
name: Povarov, K. Yu.
name: Xiao, F.
name: Zheludev, A.
name: Landee, C.
name: Čižmár, E.
name: Zvyagin, A. A.
name: Zvyagin, S. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cu(C$_8$H$_6$N$_2$)Cl$_2$, a strong-rung spin-1/2 Heisenberg ladder compound, is probed by means of electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy in the field-induced gapless phase above $H_{c1}$. The temperature dependence of the ESR linewidth is analyzed in the quantum field theory framework, suggesting that the anisotropy of magnetic interactions plays a crucial role, determining the peculiar low-temperature ESR linewidth behavior. In particular, it is argued that the uniform Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (which is allowed on the bonds along the ladder legs) can be the source of this behavior in Cu(C$_8$H$_6$N$_2$)Cl$_2$.
Considering Counter-Narratives: An Exploration of Gothic Representations of Organ Transplantation in Literature
Creators: name: Millo, Lorena
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Producing a combination of curiosity, anxiety, fear, and celebration, organ
transplantation has generated a plethora of literature due to its persistent ability to
fascinate and perplex people. This thesis seeks to examine gothic counter-narratives that
resist the dominant metaphors and trends in medical transplant commentary. These
stories constitute the often unseen and unspoken tales in circulation about the meaning
and experience of organ transplantation in US culture. Unlike the multitude of firstperson
narratives that one finds on transplantation websites, all of which seem to
participate in a single overarching narrative of recovery and restitution through
transplantation, the stories I examine write against this prescriptive form and speak to
the underlying anxieties produced by a procedure that reconfigures the biological
boundaries between bodies and conjures up vivid associations and rearticulations of the
relationship between the self and the other (UNOS).
An Extension of the Kunz-Souillard Approach to Localization in One Dimension and Applications to Almost-Periodic Schrödinger Operators
Creators: name: Damanik, David
name: Gorodetski, Anton
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We generalize the approach to localization in one dimension introduced by Kunz-Souillard, and refined by Delyon-Kunz-Souillard and Simon, in the early 1980's in such a way that certain correlations are allowed. Several applications of this generalized Kunz-Souillard method to almost periodic Schrödinger operators are presented. On the one hand, we show that the Schrödinger operators on $l^2(\mathbb{Z})$ with limit-periodic potential that have pure point spectrum form a dense subset in the space of all limit-periodic Schrödinger operators on $l^2(\mathbb{Z})$. More generally, for any bounded potential, one can find an arbitrarily small limit-periodic perturbation so that the resulting operator has pure point spectrum. Our result complements the known denseness of absolutely continuous spectrum and the known genericity of singular continuous spectrum in the space of all limit-periodic Schrödinger operators on $l^2(\mathbb{Z})$. On the other hand, we show that Schrödinger operators on $l^2(\mathbb{Z})$ with arbitrarily small one-frequency quasi-periodic potential may have pure point spectrum for some phases. This was previously known only for one-frequency quasi-periodic potentials with $\|\cdot\|_\infty$ norm exceeding $2$, namely the super-critical almost Mathieu operator with a typical frequency and phase. Moreover, this phenomenon can occur for any frequency, whereas no previous quasi-periodic potential with Liouville frequency was known that may admit eigenvalues for any phase.
description: 21 pages
Flannery Dissertation Preregistration: The "Depressed" Gut-Brain Axis during Adolescence
Creators: name: Flannery, Jessica
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: "Gut Feelings: What the Gut-Brain Axis may reveal about Depressive Symptomatology during Adolescence." This is a preregistration of my dissertation. This is the product of an interdisciplinary collaboration and will bridge my training (across my respective mentors) in clinical, developmental neuroscience, and microbiology. As I enter new methodological and theoretical territory, this is meant to be a living document as I attempt live my example with an imperfect preregistration with complex methodology in a developmental sample. As I meet with my dissertation committee, I will update this document to reflect decisions and road blocks we hit with original analysis plans. I am using the fMRI preregistration template (as best I can with what I know) https://osf.io/6juft/.
Highly anisotropic scaling limits
Creators: name: Cassandro, Marzio
name: Colangeli, Matteo
name: Presutti, Errico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider a highly anisotropic $d=2$ Ising spin model whose precise definition can be found at the beginning of Section 2. In this model the spins on a same horizontal line (layer) interact via a $d=1$ Kac potential while the vertical interaction is between nearest neighbors, both interactions being ferromagnetic. The temperature is set equal to 1 which is the mean field critical value, so that the mean field limit for the Kac potential alone does not have a spontaneous magnetization. We compute the phase diagram of the full system in the Lebowitz-Penrose limit showing that due to the vertical interaction it has a spontaneous magnetization. The result is not covered by the Lebowitz-Penrose theory because our Kac potential has support on regions of positive codimension.
Balance Between Daily Solitude and Socializing May Reflect Time or Motivation for Being Alone [Registered Report Stage 1 protocol]
Creators: name: Weinstein, Netta
name: Adams, Mark
name: Nguyen, Thuy-vy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Personality, Social and Criminal Psychology

description: Abstract:
 Two literatures argue that time alone is harmful (i.e., isolation) and valuable (i.e., positive solitude) to well-being. Taken together, people may benefit from a balance between their daily solitude and social time, but the ‘right’ quantities for maximizing well-being may vary across individuals. The proposed study explores this balance by quantifying the proportion of the number of hours spent daily in solitude and in interaction with others, using a day reconstruction method. Participants (n = 150) will report on their self-determined motivation for solitude and complete a 21-day ecological momentary assessment measuring their daily solitude time through reconstructing their daily events, self-reported daily choiceful motivation for solitude, and daily well-being (aloneliness, loneliness, perceived stress, autonomy and day satisfaction). This procedure minimizes retrospective bias and tests natural variations across time. Quadratic functions identifying local maxima and minima – the points at which linear slopes reverse their direction – in multilevel modelling will identify variability at daily and individual levels, test for tipping points when solitude time becomes harmful, and examine whether these vary by motivation for solitude at the individual and daily levels.
Coupling Identical 1D Many-Body Localized Systems
Creators: name: Bordia, Pranjal
name: Lüschen, Henrik P.
name: Hodgman, Sean S.
name: Schreiber, Michael
name: Bloch, Immanuel
name: Schneider, Ulrich
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We experimentally study the effects of coupling one-dimensional Many-Body Localized (MBL) systems with identical disorder. Using a gas of ultracold fermions in an optical lattice, we artifically prepare an initial charge density wave in an array of 1D tubes with quasi-random onsite disorder and monitor the subsequent dynamics over several thousand tunneling times. We find a strikingly different behavior between MBL and Anderson Localization. While the non-interacting Anderson case remains localized, in the interacting case any coupling between the tubes leads to a delocalization of the entire system.
description: 4+3 pages, 5+4 figures final version using stretched exponential fits to improve fit quality
Second-order correlations in an exciton-polariton Rabi oscillator
Creators: name: Rubo, Yuri G.
name: Sheremet, Alexandra
name: Kavokin, Alexey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop the theoretical formalism to calculate second-order correlations in dissipative exciton-polariton system and we propose intensity-intensity correlation experiments to reveal the physics of exciton-light coupling in semiconductor microcavities in the Rabi oscillation regime. We predict a counter intuitive behaviour of the correlator between upper and lower polariton branches: due to the decoherence caused by stochastic exciton-photon conversions this correlator is expected to decrease below 1, while the individual second-order coherence of upper and lower polaritons exhibits non-monotonous bunching.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
The children of the lake: an analysis of the enslaved children in Ghana’s lake Volta
Creators: name: Briffett, Krista
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2019
Subjects: child labour
Ghana
human rights

description: Second semester University: Queen's University, Belfast
description: The phenomenon of child labour is definitely not a new concept. A child’s involvement within the labour industry is not only hazardous and detrimental to their physical health but also their psychological health. The combination of each factors has proven to be detrimental to children throughout their entire lives, even if they are able to escape or be rescued from working. While Ghana has achieved great strides in providing children with greater welfare and protection from exploitation by way of ratifying international human rights legal instruments and launching national programmes, there still exists a large gap between such initiatives and practice.
What Does Race Have To Do With Getting on the "Right Track?" Through Their Own Voices: An Analysis of How Tracking Stratifies Students by Race
Creators: name: Riel, Virginia
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Rooted in an extensive history of racial segregation between schools, this research
addresses the subsequent stratification within schools that often arises once schools are
integrated, through an analysis of tracking and its implications for students in rural high schools.
Using a sample of three racially diverse public high schools, this interview and fieldwork based
study assesses how tracking stratifies students by race. Although studies have analyzed the
permanency of students’ track placements and their differential college readiness, most studies
focus exclusively on placement or polarization and have not thoroughly explored how students
perceive their track placements, particularly in relation to other tracks. This study fills these gaps
by assessing, from students’ own views, their placement into tracks as well as their perceptions
of their school experiences, their teachers' expectations, and their schools’ college-going culture,
while also taking into account their plans for the future. Through in-depth interviews with thirty-seven
students, with a specific focus on how students are stratified by race, this study acquires a
more holistic perspective of why students are placed in their tracks, whether they change tracks,
how they perceive their tracks, and how their placements and perceptions impact their plans for
and confidence about their futures. This study’s in-depth analysis of the process of tracking, from
placement to perception of treatment to plans after high school provides increased insight about
how race plays a role in educational opportunity within schools. By exploring tracking from
students’ placements and mobility to their perceptions and plans, this study analyzes how the
structure of schools stratifies students by race, and it enhances our understanding of the enduring
implications of tracking for students, including limited racial diversity, hindered interaction
between races, differential encouragement about college, and judgment from higher-tracked
groups, as inflexible tracking structures in schools tend to reproduce inequality outside of them.
Phase and precession evolution in the Burgers equation
Creators: name: Buzzicotti, Michele
name: Murray, Brendan P.
name: Biferale, Luca
name: Bustamante, Miguel D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a phenomenological study of the phase dynamics of the one-dimensional stochastically forced Burgers equation, and of the same equation under a Fourier mode reduction on a fractal set. We study the connection between coherent structures in real space and the evolution of triads in Fourier space. Concerning the one-dimensional case, we find that triad phases show alignments and synchronisations that favour energy fluxes towards small scales --a direct cascade. In addition, strongly dissipative real-space structures are associated with entangled correlations amongst the phase precession frequencies and the amplitude evolution of Fourier triads. As a result, triad precession frequencies show a non-Gaussian distribution with multiple peaks and fat tails, and there is a significant correlation between triad precession frequencies and amplitude growth. Links with dynamical systems approach are briefly discussed, such as the role of unstable critical points in state space. On the other hand, by reducing the fractal dimension $D$ of the underlying Fourier set, we observe: i) a tendency toward a more Gaussian statistics, ii) a loss of alignment of triad phases leading to a depletion of the energy flux, and iii) the simultaneous reduction of the correlation between the growth of Fourier mode amplitudes and the precession frequencies of triad phases.
Polystichum lepidotum Sundue & M. Kessler, Brittonia
Creators: name: Kessler, Michael
name: Moran, Robbin C.
name: Mickel, John T.
name: Matos, Fernando B.
name: Smith, Alan R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Polypodiales
Dryopteridaceae
Polystichum
Polystichum lepidotum

description: Polystichum lepidotum Sundue & M.Kessler, Brittonia 57(3): 210, f. 1a–j. 2005.
 Range: — Endemic to Bolivia (LP); known to us only from the type collection.
 Ecology: —Rare; dryish places at bases of rocks in grassland; 4250 m.
 Notes: — McHenry & Barrington (2014) included a specimen from Bolivia in their analysis.
description: Published as part of Kessler, Michael, Moran, Robbin C., Mickel, John T., Matos, Fernando B. & Smith, Alan R., 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXV. Dryopteridaceae, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 353 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.353.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13706233
Experimental evidence of electrification processes at the 2009 LAquila earthquake mainshock
Creators: name: Nenovski, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two types of coseismic magnetic field events are simultaneously observed: transient offset events and magnetic field signal that occurred at the destructive, Mw6.1 LAquila earthquake (EQ) mainshock. The offset event, conventionally interpreted as a signature of piezomagnetic effects, however could not be ascribed as such. The reason is that the presently known geology of the LAquila basin consists mainly of carbonates, dolomites and limestone, thus it does not suggest an appearance of piezomagnetic related effects under EQ fracture/slip events. The second type of coseismic event, the transient magnetic signal starts simultaneously with the offset event and reaches amplitude of 0.8 nT in the total magnetic field. The signal is local one, in the sense that its form differs from the signals of ionospheric/magnetospheric origin confirmed (indirectly) by additional magnetic field data in Italy and Central Europe. The reliability of the observed local signal is examined also: it follows from the fact that the transient signal is recorded by two different measurements: i) in components (by fluxgate magnetometers) and 2) absolute one (overhauser magnetometer), it persists after the seismic wave train passage but within the first five minutes after the EQ shock and is not a consequence of ionosphere disturbances caused by the seismic wave train. Its amplitude shape resembles diffusion-like form with time scale characteristics that are indicative for a source deep in the crust. The polarity of the transient signal is in the horizontal plane and nearly parallel to the LAquila fault strike, i.e. along the NW-SE direction.
description: 17 pages, 6 figures
Writing the history of violence anew: transitional justice and reconciliation through childrens narrative
Creators: name: Sirna, Caterina
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2013
Subjects: collective memory
human rights education
psychology
reconciliation
transitional justice

description: Second semester University: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
description: This research attempts to explore the possibilities of rethinking the mechanism of transitional justice within a new framework stemming from psychological and social science. Rather than focusing on the debate whether it is better to punish or to forgive past wrongdoings, it points out the necessity of fully respecting the memory of suffering in order to create a healing narrative. As victims of mass atrocities or totalitarian regimes are told to be unique and qualitative different from victims of ordinary crimes, my research has attempted to shed a light to those mechanisms within transitional justice, which better respond to the need of victims. Supported by new researches in the field of psychology and social science, my thesis states that neither the court nor a non- judicial system can offer a complete sense of justice after mass atrocities. However, this does not mean that a post-conflict society does not need legal intervention in terms of accountability. It implies instead another important assumption: peace and stability can be obtained when truth has been fully disclosed and historicized. In this sense, the government of a society in transition has the duty to adopt any instrument that would allow the construction of a shared narrative and memory, which has a healing effect in the long run. Within this new paradigm, reconciliation aimed by transitional justice becomes a concrete amount of emotions, attitudes and behavior, which can be measured. Reconciliation is thus seen as equal neither to forgetting, nor to forgiving, nor even to a diminished sense of vengeance. It is seen instead as a making-sense process of one's own story through the story of another. The narratives of children becomes precious and equally important to the adult's own in this process. In this respect, the work done by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission child-friendly version in Sierra Leone is notable in this effort to create a new narrative of war, where understanding the past and promoting hope for a better future will allow to never again commit the same mistakes of the past.
An Experimental Investigation Into Whether Choice Architecture Interventions Are Considered Ethical. [Registered Report Stage 1 protocol]
Creators: name: Turetski, Daniella
name: Rondina, Renante
name: Feng, Bing
name: Soman, Dilip
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Social and Community Psychology

description: Abstract: Despite their increasing use, choice architecture interventions have faced criticism for being possibly manipulative and unethical. We aim to empirically explore how an intervention’s acceptability differs by domain, by the type of intervention utilized, and by the way in which its implementation and benefits are explained. Using a 5x5x5 factorial design with domain, type of intervention, and explanation as fully crossed predictor variables, we will measure participants’ acceptance of the proposed intervention, perceived threat to autonomy and freedom of choice, and belief that the intervention will be successful. We hypothesize that acceptability of the intervention and perceived threat to autonomy will change as a function of the type of intervention used, the domain in which it is implemented, and the rationale for which its use is presented. Exploratory analyses will be conducted to test the difference between specific levels within factors, and interactions between factors.