cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Direct measurement of the radiative lifetime of vibrationally excited OH radicals
Creators: name: van de Meerakker, Sebastiaan Y. T.
name: Vanhaecke, Nicolas
name: van der Loo, Mark P. J.
name: Groenenboom, Gerrit C.
name: Meijer, Gerard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Neutral molecules, isolated in the gas-phase, can be prepared in a long-lived excited state and stored in a trap. The long observation time afforded by the trap can then be exploited to measure the radiative lifetime of this state by monitoring the temporal decay of the population in the trap. This method is demonstrated here and used to benchmark the Einstein $A$-coefficients in the Meinel system of OH. A pulsed beam of vibrationally excited OH radicals is Stark decelerated and loaded into an electrostatic quadrupole trap. The radiative lifetime of the upper $Λ$-doublet component of the $X ^2Π_{3/2}, v=1, J=3/2$ level is determined as $59.0 \pm 2.0$ ms, in good agreement with the calculated value of $57.7 \pm 1.0$ ms.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett
Statistics of the Mesoscopic Field
Creators: name: Chabanov, A. A.
name: Genack, A. Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We find in measurements of microwave transmission through quasi-1D dielectric samples for both diffusive and localized waves that the field normalized by the square root of the spatially averaged flux in a given sample configuration is a Gaussian random process with position, polarization, frequency, and time. As a result, the probability distribution of the field in the random ensemble is a mixture of Gaussian functions weighted by the distribution of total transmission, while its correlation function is a product of correlators of the Gaussian field and the square root of the total transmission.
description: RevTex: 5 pages, 2 figures; to be presented at Aspects of Quantum Chaotic Scattering (Dresden, March 7-12, 2005)
The Fun Model: How to implement fun in teams for better team function, relationships, and results: a quick-start guide for leaders, managers, and people passionate about teams.
Creators: name: Hains-Wesson, Rachael
name: Fannon, Anne-Marie
name: Brekke Hauglid, Borghild
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 390403
subject: Educational administration, management and leadership
classificationCode: 390301
subject: Continuing and community education

description: (Please note: all links in document are read only in Preview formatting but are hyperlinked when the "Fun Model" PDF is downloaded. All links are also available below in this Repository record.)In the ever-evolving landscape of higher education, where the pressures of performance, innovation, and collaboration are omnipresent, an often-overlooked element can make a great difference: fun.The concept of fun in professional settings might be met with scepticism, especially in academic environments where the stakes are high and the work is serious (Wright et al., 2021). However, integrating fun into higher education is not just a trivial pursuit; it’s a critical strategy for fostering creativity (Yang, 2020), enhancing teamwork (Michel et al., 2019), employees’ well-being (Renee Baptiste, 2009), and ultimately achieving success.To help achieve this, we have undertaken a three-year research project, supported by the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia via a small grant to explore how we can test a Fun Model first penned by Hains-Wesson et al., (2023) and how it impacts teamwork. The research took the form of group-based autoethnography where we carved out dedicated time to pursue fun as a key element in team meetings, observing, reflecting, and critiquing fun. We used our experiences to create a Fun Quick Guide for leaders, managers and people passionate about teams, which we share here and for the wider community to consider introducing fun into their higher education work lives.
Absorption and analysis of unbound quantum particles -- one by one
Creators: name: Selstø, Sølve
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In quantum physics, the theoretical study of unbound many-body systems is typically quite complex -- owing to the combination of their large spatial extension and the so-called {\it curse of dimensionality}. Often, such systems are studied on truncated numerical domains -- at the cost of losing information. Here we present methods for calculating differential probabilities for unbound particles which are subjected to a {\it complex absorbing potential}. In addition to attenuating outgoing waves, this absorber is also used to probe them by projection onto single-particle scattering states, thus rendering the calculation of multi-particle scattering states superfluous. Within formalism based on the Lindblad equation, singly differential spectra from subsequent absorptions are obtained by resolving the dynamics of the remaining particles after the first absorption. While the framework generalizes naturally to any number of particles, explicit, compact and intuitive expressions for the differential probability distributions are derived for the two-particle case. The applicability of the method is illustrated by numerical examples involving two-particle model-systems. These examples, which address scattering and photo ionization, demonstrate how energy distributions of unbound particles may be determined on numerical domains considerably smaller than the actual extension of the system.
description: 12 pages, 8 figures
The Fun Model: How to implement fun in teams for better team function, relationships, and results: a quick-start guide for leaders, managers, and people passionate about teams.
Creators: name: Hains-Wesson, Rachael
name: Fannon, Anne-Marie
name: Brekke Hauglid, Borghild
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 390403
subject: Educational administration, management and leadership
classificationCode: 390301
subject: Continuing and community education

description: In the ever-evolving landscape of higher education, where the pressures of performance, innovation, and collaboration are omnipresent, an often-overlooked element can make a great difference: fun.The concept of fun in professional settings might be met with scepticism, especially in academic environments where the stakes are high and the work is serious (Wright et al., 2021). However, integrating fun into higher education is not just a trivial pursuit; it’s a critical strategy for fostering creativity (Yang, 2020), enhancing teamwork (Michel et al., 2019), employees’ well-being (Renee Baptiste, 2009), and ultimately achieving success.To help achieve this, we have undertaken a three-year research project, supported by the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia via a small grant to explore how we can test a Fun Model first penned by Hains-Wesson et al., (2023) and how it impacts teamwork. The research took the form of group-based autoethnography where we carved out dedicated time to pursue fun as a key element in team meetings, observing, reflecting, and critiquing fun. We used our experiences to create a Fun Quick Guide for leaders, managers and people passionate about teams, which we share here and for the wider community to consider introducing fun into their higher education work lives.
Musique, sons et dissidence: le pouvoir poetique feminin dans les rues de Rio de Janeiro
Creators: name: Fernandes, Cíntia Sanmartin
name: Herschmann, Micael
Publisher: name: ECHO
Year: 2020
Subjects: urban culture; music; performativity; poetry slam; hip-hop; culture urbaine; musique; performativité; slam de poésie; hip-hop

description: One of the outstanding presences in recent years in the city of Rio de Janeiro (in Brazil) have been the rounds and street parties carried out by a group of women who, through music, threads and gestures, updated the demands feminists and post-feminists at the start of this decade. Requirements such as the right to the body, to the city, to pleasure and possible transitivities are present in the performances of these artists, who use the street as a stage and political writing of their bodies. The “feminine rhymes rounds” which occupy urban spaces in the various localities of the country - from hip-hop or slam to poetry - today constituting fundamental spaces for the expression and visibility of the new wave of feminism itself. It occurs in a more authoritarian context in Brazil. Based on the specialized literature and the cartographic method, this article aims to rethink the vitality and the capacity for movement of music and rhymed sounds - that of their performances - aesthetically and politically potentiate the "art-ivist" experiences in the city of Rio de Janeiro, elaborating territorialities and dissent. L’une des présences marquantes ces années dernières dans la ville de Rio de Janeiro (au Brésil) ont été les rondes et fêtes de rue réalisées par un groupe de femmes qui, à travers des musiques, fils et gestes, mis à jour les exigences féministes et post-féministes au début de cette décennie. Des exigences telles que le droit au corps, à la ville, au plaisir et aux transitivités possibles sont présentes dans les spectacles de ces artistes, qui utilisent la rue en tant que scène et écriture politique de leurs corps. Les “rondes féminines de rimes” qui occupent des espaces urbains dans les différentes localités du pays - de hip-hop ou de slam de poésie - constituante aujourd’hui des espaces fondamentaux pour l’expression et la visibilité de la nouvelle vague de féminisme même si se produit dans un contexte plus autoritaire au Brésil. Basé sur la littérature spécialisée et la méthode cartographique, cet article vise à repenser la vitalité et la capacité de mouvement de la musique et des sons rimés - que de leurs performances - potentialisent esthétiquement et politiquement les expériences “art-ivistes” dans la ville de Rio de Janeiro, élaborant des territorialités et des dissentiments.
description: ECHO, N. 2 (2020): Semiosi della colonialità e dinamiche culturali al tempo della mobilità globale
Valuing Options in California Water Markets: A Laboratory Investigation
Creators: name: Hansen, Kristiana
name: Kaplan, Jonathan D.
name: Kroll, Stephan
name: Howitt, Richard E.
name: Hansen, Kristiana
name: Kaplan, Jonathan D.
name: Kroll, Stephan
name: Howitt, Richard E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Risk and reliability dominate water supply discussions in the arid western United States. In the past, water managers built additional storage to mitigate supply risk. The optimal, least expensive storage sites have now been taken, and there are strong, environmental objections to new facilities. Reliability of existing supplies is further diminished due to concerns about endangered species and global climate change. Thus water agencies increasingly turn to contractual mechanisms such as dry-year options to manage supply risk in advance of need. However, although a few water agencies across the West have implemented dry-year options, sufficient data for conventional econometric analysis do not yet exist. We thus utilize experimental economics to analyze the effect of annual dry-year options on water markets. How do market structure (competitive versus market power) and option contract availability affect water price and allocation within a market? Experiment participants trade stochastic realizations of water in a non-uniform double auction parameterized to resemble the California water market. We find that realized gains from trade are on average higher when options can be traded, by 11% in competitive markets and by 21% in dominant buyer markets. Findings in this analysis may assist policymakers in preparing for the next multi-year drought in California.
Dealing with Preference Uncertainty: A Mixture Model Approach
Creators: name: Loureiro, Maria L.
name: Loomis, John B.
name: Loureiro, Maria L.
name: Loomis, John B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis

description: In the current paper, we compare alternative approaches to incorporating uncertainty into the statistical analysis of dichotomous choice responses. In doing so, first we employ previous modelling techniques that included uncertainty of preferences, and secondly we compare the obtained results with those coming from a novel approach here developed, a finite mixture model. The finite mixture model is a very flexible framework used to deal with preference uncertainty. Our case study uses data gathered in the Prestige oil spill valuation study from Spain.
Néspolo, Jimena (2015). Episodios de Cacería. Buenos Aires: Santiago Arcos Editor, pp. 91
Creators: name: Mancini, Adriana
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2015

description:

description: Rassegna iberistica
Canfield, Martha; Minarelli, Enzo (a cura di) (2014). Esplorare l’invisibile-Ascoltare l’inaudito: La ricerca poetica di Jorge Eduardo Eielson, antologia verbo-voco-visuale 1949-1998. Firenze: Centro Studi Jorge Eielson, pp. 271
Creators: name: Serafin, Silvana
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2015

description:

description: Rassegna iberistica
Synchronization of spectral components and its regularities in chaotic dynamical systems
Creators: name: Hramov, Alexander E.
name: Koronovskii, Alexey A.
name: Kurovskaya, Mariya
name: Moskalenko, Olga
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The chaotic synchronization regime in coupled dynamical systems is considered. It has been shown, that the onset of synchronous regime is based on the appearance of the phase relation between interacting chaotic oscillators frequency components of Fourier spectra. The criterion of synchronization of spectral components as well as the measure of synchronization have been discussed. The universal power law has been described. The main results are illustrated by coupled Rössler systems, Van-der-Pol and Van-der-Pol-Duffing oscillators.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures
Palladino, Nicola (2012). Le Oceanine di Eugenio d’Ors. Le (i)dee “novecentiste” e “mediterranee” in forma di romanzo. Roma: Edizioni Nuova Cultura, pp. 165. Iberica
Creators: name: Corsi, Daniele
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2015

description:

description: Rassegna iberistica
Gramsci, l’interferenza epistemica e le possibilità di sud-alternità
Creators: name: Larkosh-Lenotti, Christopher
Publisher: name: ECHO
Year: 2020
Subjects: translation; decoloniality; subalternity; epistemic interference.

description: Antonio Gramsci's writings, not surprisingly, have served as a necessary point of departure for many scholars and intellectuals to theorize on the subaltern groups and subsequently on the politics and practice of transcultural studies. I now wish to chart the circulation of the term subaltern in contemporary intellectual discourses both in Anglo-American academia and beyond, to focus on processes of identity negotiation in Italy and the Global South and, on a more personal level, through my own translation of Italian academic texts which often facilitate a potential connectivity between them. In order to examine these shifting and overlapping spaces of personal, national and global identity, I explore the potential relationship that Gramsci draws between subaltern groups and the role of the organic intellectual, particularly in relation to the selective act of translation into English, and the ways in which these distinctions become increasingly complicated, over the course of the 20th and into the 21st century, as structures of hegemony within Italian and other national institutions change. Traduzione di Dora Renna
description: ECHO, N. 2 (2020): Semiosi della colonialità e dinamiche culturali al tempo della mobilità globale
Mathematical framework for simulation of quantum fields in complex interferometers using the two-photon formalism
Creators: name: Corbitt, Thomas
name: Chen, Yanbei
name: Mavalvala, Nergis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a mathematical framework for simulation of optical fields in complex gravitational-wave interferometers. The simulation framework uses the two-photon formalism for optical fields and includes radiation pressure effects, an important addition required for simulating signal and noise fields in next-generation interferometers with high circulating power. We present a comparison of results from the simulation with analytical calculation and show that accurate agreement is achieved.
Climate Stability and Policy: A Synthesis
Creators: name: Marsh, Gerald E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: During most of the Phanerozoic eon, which began about a half-billion years ago, there were few glacial intervals until the late Pliocene 2.75 million years ago. Beginning at that time, the Earth's climate entered a period of instability with the onset of cyclical ice ages. At first these had a 41,000 year cycle, and about 1 million years ago the period lengthened to 100,000 years, which has continued to the present. Over this period of instability the climate has been extraordinarily sensitive to small forcings, whether due to Milankovitch cycles, solar variations, aerosols, or albedo variations driven by cosmic rays. The current interglacial has lasted for some ten thousand years-about the duration of past interglacials-and serious policy considerations arise as it nears its likely end. It is extremely unlikely that the current rise in carbon dioxide concentration-some 30% since 1750, and projected further increase over the next few decades-will significantly postpone the next glaciation.
description: 19 pages, 6 figures
Disfare e rifare il mondo: le piccole ONG e la cooperazione internazionale
Creators: name: Pellerey, Roberto
Publisher: name: ECHO
Year: 2020
Subjects: Decrescita; ONG; cooperazione internazionale; sovranità alimentare; Degrowth; NGO; international cooperation; food sovereignty; family agricultural production

description: The NGOs that are now implementing international cooperation in the “impoverished” countries follow methods and principles based on real knowledge and collaboration with the communities in which they operate, totally different from the interventions of the 1950s and 1990s, based on industrialization and the realization of large infrastructures for industrial development. With the new principles, NGOs have made stable living conditions improvements in their communities, and communities have taken over control of their own lives have achieved self-sufficiency. The NGOs have thus really made societies fully responsive to the ideal model elaborated in the so-called “degrowth theory” (the article discusses its basic theoretical lines), which instead focuses its attention only on what happens in Western societies. Degrowth society already exists, not in Europe but in the “ex-impoverished” countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America.
description: ECHO, N. 2 (2020): Semiosi della colonialità e dinamiche culturali al tempo della mobilità globale
Food Recalls and Food Safety Perceptions: The September 2006 Spinach Recall Case
Creators: name: Onyango, Benjamin M.
name: Miljkovic, Dragan
name: Hallman, William K.
name: Nganje, William E.
name: Condry, Sarah C.
name: Cuite, Cara L.
name: Onyango, Benjamin M.
name: Miljkovic, Dragan
name: Hallman, William K.
name: Nganje, William E.
name: Condry, Sarah C.
name: Cuite, Cara L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: food recalls
subject: food safety
subject: public perceptions
subject: spinach

description: This study analyzes public perceptions on food safety using a national survey conducted soon after the nationwide spinach recall (November 2006). We explore relationships between peoples' perceived risks of food contamination (spinach in this case) and their trust in the institutions in charge of safeguarding/ensuring safety. Finally, we explore relationships between individual observance of basic good food handling practices and food safety. Trust in institutions through which food passes and regulatory agencies were shown to be critical in determining food safety perceptions. For example, skepticism with which the public views food corporations (processors, transporters or retailers) impacted food safety perceptions negatively. On the other, confidence in the USDA as a regulatory agent was viewed positively and hence contributed toward viewing the four types of spinach as safe for consumption.
Alegre, Manuel (2015). Bairro Ocidental. Lisboa: Publicações Dom Quixote, pp. 51
Creators: name: Simões, Manuel G.
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2015

description:

description: Rassegna iberistica
Estimation of state-of-power capability for lithium-ion battery considering limiting conditions recalibration
Creators: name: Li, YuFang
name: Xu, BingQin
name: Zhang, YuMei
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: As one of the most significant deciding factors for energy management systems (EMSs) and battery management systems (BMSs) in electrified vehicles, battery state-of-power (SOP) estimation is an area of interest in battery research. Battery model parameters change obviously under the limiting working condition of SOP, and the available maximum current and state-of-charge (SOC) have to be updated for accurate SOP estimation. This paper tries to contribute to the existing literature as follows: Based on Thevenin model, recursive least-square (RLS) and H-infinity filter algorithm are adopted for parameter identification and SOC estimation for a recalibration purpose to improve the prediction of battery SOP under variable degradation. Multi-constraints are firstly adopted to calculate the limiting current, and the response function of capacity loss-temperature-discharge rate is brought back to correct the actual capacity at this current for the revised limiting current with consideration of weight distribution ratio. Finally, the experiment verifies that the final maximum charging-discharging current modifies the initial calculation value by 5% and 4%, and realizes the more accurate online SOP estimation. This method provides a more accurate and reliable SOP estimation method for electric vehicles.
Pla, Josep (2014). La vida lenta. Notes per a tres diaris (1956, 1957, 1964). Edició i pròleg de Xavier Pla. Barcelona: Destino, pp. 360
Creators: name: Carol Geronès, Lidia
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2015

description:

description: Rassegna iberistica
Lo sguardo dell’altro: artivismo, ideologia e rappresentazione
Creators: name: Vannoni, Mirco
Publisher: name: ECHO
Year: 2020
Subjects: semiotics; critical theory; theory of art; artivism; visual anachronism; border studies; semiotica; teoria critica; teoria dell’arte; artivismo; anacronie visive; border studies

description: In a global context in which society has become spectacle, everything turns into representation (Debord 1967). The phenomenon of nation-states fortification emerges in a problematic way with respect to the neoliberal capital-work relationship (Mezzadra e Nielson 2013). The need to build walls, in fact, is a mode of representation that is exploited for a strategic construction of alterity. The aim of this research is to highlight the “naturalization” of stereotyped imagery, prompted by mediatic and political discourses concerning the migratory phenomenon. Starting from a recognition of the critical thinking of scholars such as Michel Foucault and Louis Marin, the goal of this paper is to take stock of the relationship between the concepts of ideology, representation and power in a border crossing context. By combining the theory of arts with a semiotic approach, I will focus on the specific case of the practice of artivism as counter-narratives, realized by the street artist JR on the border between Mexico and the United States. This case study is recognizable as a syncretic work developed in two phases. The first is attributable to the piece Giants. Kikito - Border Mexico (2017) that JR created after the executive order signed by Donald Trump to complete the construction of the wall; the second consists of an artistic practice which is rather recognizable as an ongoing performance: Migrants. Picnic across the border (2017). The importance of reading these two works in dialogue with each other lies in the intrinsic power of the images (Bredekamp 2010). In fact, the effects of meaning underlying the project, want to undermine the idea of the wall as a self-legitimizing object of the “natural world”. The issue of the critical construction of the gaze, that is to say of a point of view, is the key to understand the semiotic efficacy of artistic work in analyzing social discourses. Thanks to JR’s work it will be possible to reveal the construction and remodulation of the concept of otherness. The latter is in fact based on a specular principle (Stoichita 2014) whereby the encounter between two entities is both proof of the other and strengthening of the same.
description: ECHO, N. 2 (2020): Semiosi della colonialità e dinamiche culturali al tempo della mobilità globale
Inertial effects on the Brownian gyrator
Creators: name: Bae, Youngkyoung
name: Lee, Sangyun
name: Kim, Juin
name: Jeong, Hawoong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recent interest into the Brownian gyrator has been confined chiefly to the analysis of Brownian dynamics both in theory and experiment despite the applicability of general cases with definite mass. Considering mass explicitly in the solution of the Fokker--Planck equation and Langevin dynamics simulations, we investigate how inertia can change the dynamics and energetics of the Brownian gyrator. In the Langevin model, the inertia reduces the nonequilibrium effects by diminishing the declination of the probability density function and the mean of a specific angular momentum, $j_θ$, as a measure of rotation. Another unique feature of the Langevin description is that rotation is maximized at a particular anisotropy while the stability of the rotation is minimized at a particular anisotropy or mass. Our results suggest that the Langevin dynamics description of the Brownian gyrator is intrinsically different from that with Brownian dynamics. In addition, $j_θ$ is proven to be essential and convenient for estimating stochastic energetics such as heat currents and entropy production even in the underdamped regime.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures
García, Xavier (ed.) (2015). Joan Oliver - Joaquim Molas Diàleg epistolar il·lustrat (1959-1982). Lleida: Pagès Editors, pp. 186
Creators: name: Bou, Enric
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2015

description:

description: Rassegna iberistica
Frassinelli P.P. 2019, Borders, Media Crossings and the Politics of Translation: The Gaze from Southern Africa, Routledge, London-New York, pp. 142
Creators: name: Cazzato, Luigi Carmine
Publisher: name: ECHO
Year: 2019

description: ECHO, N. 1 (2019): Il soggetto, la realtà, la verità nel tempo delle loro determinazioni digitali. Nuovi linguaggi, nuove narrazioni.
MPEC 2024-T221 : 2024 TO8
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 TO8

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.
Zuboff S. 2019, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power, Public Affairs, New York; trad. it. Il Capitalismo della Sorveglianza. Il futuro dell’umanità nell’era dei nuovi poteri, Luiss University Press, Roma, pp. 691
Creators: name: Di Chio, Sabino
Publisher: name: ECHO
Year: 2019

description: ECHO, N. 1 (2019): Il soggetto, la realtà, la verità nel tempo delle loro determinazioni digitali. Nuovi linguaggi, nuove narrazioni.
Stated Preferences for Ecotourism Alternatives On the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation
Creators: name: Hearne, Robert R.
name: Tuscherer, Sheldon
name: Hearne, Robert R.
name: Tuscherer, Sheldon
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: choice experiments
subject: ecotourism
subject: Native Americans
subject: Standing Rock Sioux

description: Despite favorable locations and the potential for economic development, Native American tribes have not developed their ecotourism markets substantially. This paper presents a choice experiment analysis of potential tourist and local resident preferences for alternative ecotourism development scenarios for the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation. The choice experiments- elicitation featured attributes of both cultural and nature-based tourist attractions. Survey results demonstrated that visitors interviewed at powwows had significantly different preferences from those interviewed at local tourist attractions. Results from all samples showed positive preferences towards an amphitheater, a nature trail, and a bison meal, and no preference toward an ATV trail. Non-powwow tourists had significant willingness to pay for a number of potential attractions, including nature trails, a road through the bison pasture, and an interpretive center with amphitheatre show.
DETERMINING THE PHYSIOLOGICAL ROLE OF THE MECHANOSENSITIVE CHANNEL TbrMscS IN TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BLOODSTREAM FORMS
Creators: name: Pham, Tiffine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Trypanosoma brucei
mechanosensation
mechanosensitive channel
T. brucei

description: African sleeping sickness, also known as Human African Trypanosomiasis, is a disease primarily affecting poor sub-Saharan African communities caused by the unicellular parasite Trypanosoma brucei. T. bruceispends its lifetime split between mammalian hosts and the Tsetse fly, and both host environments present unique mechanical challenges that must be overcome for parasitic survival. Organisms adapt and respond to changing environments through a group of channels known as mechanosensitive channels, which respond to mechanical stimuli. Within T. brucei, the bacterial-like mechanosensitive channel named TbrMscS regulates the flow of ions and small osmolytes, but the extent of this channel’s impact on the physiology of the parasite is unknown. Localization studies reveal TbrMscS to be in the mitochondria of bloodstream form (BSFs) of the parasite, and qPCR analysis shows that expression in this life stage is lower than that of the procyclic forms (PCFs). Knockdown of TbrMscS in BSFs result in no difference in growth, nor was there a difference in the ability of BSFs to recover from osmotic shock. Analysis of mitochondrial membrane potential reveals that downregulation of TbrMscS results in a decrease in the mitochondrial membrane potential. Study of TbrMscS and its effects in the BSF opens avenues for insight into how the parasite survives extreme environmental changes between hosts, especially as this mechanosensitive channel presents a highly specific potential therapeutic target.
De Luca Y. 2019 (a cura di), Soggettività e culture in movimento. Narrare dallo spazio della non appartenenza, Cafagna Editore, Barletta, pp. 128
Creators: name: Renna, Dora
Publisher: name: ECHO
Year: 2019

description: ECHO, N. 1 (2019): Il soggetto, la realtà, la verità nel tempo delle loro determinazioni digitali. Nuovi linguaggi, nuove narrazioni.
National and International Factors in Pickle Markets
Creators: name: Martinez, Lourdes R.
name: Thornsbury, Suzanne
name: Nagai, Tomokazu
name: Martinez, Lourdes R.
name: Thornsbury, Suzanne
name: Nagai, Tomokazu
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
International Relations/Trade

description: This report presents global and domestic information regarding production, trade and market developments for pickled cucumbers. U.S. cucumber production and trade are commonly divided into two categories: fresh and pickling. Michigan is the largest producer of pickling cucumbers in the country, accounting for 18 percent of total U.S. production. Like many agri-food industries, this processed product sector has gone through numerous changes in the past decade which have influenced production and marketing trends, and assessing the influence of individual factors is difficult. However, using production and trade data it is possible to infer some possible drivers of trends and outcomes for the industry. Year-round supply from other countries, quality products at more competitive prices, changing consumer preferences, and more service-oriented business models have introduced new marketing structures likely to continue driving future trade and production patterns. The information presented in this report is important in order to assess competitiveness and develop a broad and well-informed perspective for the pickling industry in Michigan. The report is structured as follows: first, we present information on global volume produced in the period 1992 to 2004, including rates of change in production and shares of total world production by country. Second, we compare total acreage trends in the U.S and production and acreage trends in Michigan during the late 1990s and early 2000s. Third, we highlight information on pickled cucumber import and export volumes by country. Finally, we present a brief description of historic trends in food marketing and globalization that are likely to continue influencing the pickling industry in the future.
Higher-order contact mechanics
Creators: name: de León, Manuel
name: Gaset, Jordi
name: Laínz, Manuel
name: Muñoz-Lecanda, Miguel C.
name: Román-Roy, Narciso
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Primary: 37J55, 53D10, 70G75, 70H50. Secondary: 37J05, 70G45, 70H03, 70H05

description: We present a complete theory of higher-order autonomous contact mechanics, which allows us to describe higher-order dynamical systems with dissipation. The essential tools for the theory are the extended higher-order tangent bundles, ${\rm T}^kQ\times{\mathbb R}$, whose geometric structures are previously introduced in order to state the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalisms for these kinds of systems, including their variational formulation. The variational principle, the contact forms, and the geometric dynamical equations are obtained by using those structures and generalizing the standard formulation of contact Lagrangian and Hamiltonian systems. As an alternative approach, we develop a unified description that encompasses the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian equations as well as their relationship through the Legendre map; all of them are obtained from the contact dynamical equations and the constraint algorithm that is implemented because, in this formalism, the dynamical systems are always singular. Some interesting examples are finally analyzed using these geometric formulations.
description: 39 pp. Minor changes. References updated
WETLAND USES AND FUNCTIONS AS PERCEIVED BY MID-MICHIGAN RESIDENTS: QUALITATIVE RESEARCH RESULTS
Creators: name: Hoehn, John P.
name: Kaplowitz, Michael D.
name: Lupi, Frank
name: Heyboer, Gwyn
name: Hoehn, John P.
name: Kaplowitz, Michael D.
name: Lupi, Frank
name: Heyboer, Gwyn
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: Land Economics/Use

description: The following report outlines the results of focus group discussions that were conducted to help researchers learn what it is about wetlands, wetland services, and wetland characteristics that matter to people. The participants were asked questions in the areas of natural resources, their prior knowledge of wetlands, wetland types, public policies relating to wetlands, and wetland functions. The focus group discussions reported here were the first set of qualitative discussions in the research project. The purpose of the discussions was to create a basis of information concerning the respondents' perceptions and understanding of wetland uses and functions. These initial focus groups represent a first step in a larger project that will develop and test stated preference instruments for valuing ecosystem characteristics associated with freshwater wetlands. The information on respondents' uses, perceptions, and knowledge of wetland functions will be used to develop survey instruments and serve as the starting point for out wetlands research.
CULTURAL FRAME SWITCHING OF RESPONSE STYLES AS A FUNCTION OF LANGUAGE AND CULTURAL VALUES
Creators: name: Cortès, Marlene
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: response styles
ERS
ARS
cultural frame switching
bilingualism
Mexican Americans

description: As the discourse in society shifts to include previously marginalized perspectives, it is imperative that the forms of assessing and characterizing individuals from diverse backgrounds be re-evaluated as well. Research on response styles has raised concern over the interpretation of test and survey results of diverse groups. The aim of the present study was to further investigate response styles rather than perpetuate the practice of eliminating them. Consistent with dynamic constructivism, the culture-carrier-context (CCC) model and cultural frame switching (CFS), the present study examines the role that cultural values play in explaining the mechanism through which language influences responding. This study sampled 87 Mexican American bicultural bilingual undergraduate students. Participants completed five subscales of the Latino/Anglo Cultural Value Scales (LCVS) that assess the Latinx cultural values of familismo, simpatía/respeto, gender roles, power distance, and allocentrism. Participants were randomly assigned to the English (or Spanish) language condition at Time 1 and the Spanish (or English) language condition at Time 2. Results suggest that overall, participants engage in greater ARS and ERS on Spanish-language questionnaires compared to English-language questionnaires. Simpatía was also found to mediate the language-ARS association. As expected, participants more strongly endorsed the cultural values of simpatía and allocentrism when responding to Spanish-language questionnaires compared to English-language questionnaires. Contrary to expectations, participants were also found to endorse less power distance in Spanish than in English. Study implications and future research are discussed.
Shear viscosity and electric conductivity of a hot and dense QGP with a chiral phase transition
Creators: name: Soloveva, Olga
name: Fuseau, David
name: Aichelin, Jörg
name: Bratkovskaya, Elena
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate two transport coefficients -- the shear viscosity over entropy ratio $η/s$ and the ratio of the electric conductivity to the temperature $σ_0/T$ -- of strongly interacting quark matter within the extended $N_f=3$ Polyakov Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (PNJL) model along the crossover transition line for moderate values of baryon chemical potential $0 \leq μ_B \leq 0.9$ GeV as well as in the vicinity of the critical endpoint (CEP) and at large baryon chemical potential $μ_B=1.2$ GeV, where the first-order phase transition takes place. The evaluation of the transport coefficients is performed on the basis of the effective Boltzmann equation in the relaxation time approximation. We employ two different methods for the calculation of the quark relaxation times: i) using the averaged transition rate defined via thermal averaged quark-quark and quark-antiquark PNJL cross sections and ii) using the 'weighted' thermal averaged quark-quark and quark-antiquark PNJL cross sections. The $η/s$ and $σ_0/T$ transport coefficients have a similar temperature and chemical potential behavior when approaching the chiral phase transition for the both methods for the quark relaxation time, however, the differences grow with increasing temperature. We demonstrate the effect of the first-order phase transition and of the CEP on the transport coefficients in the deconfined QCD medium.
description: 16 pages, 21 figures, 4 tables
Experimental Quantum Process Discrimination
Creators: name: Laing, Anthony
name: Rudolph, Terry
name: O'Brien, Jeremy L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Discrimination between unknown processes chosen from a finite set is experimentally shown to be possible even in the case of non-orthogonal processes. We demonstrate unambiguous deterministic quantum process discrimination (QPD) of non-orthogonal processes using properties of entanglement, additional known unitaries, or higher dimensional systems. Single qubit measurement and unitary processes and multipartite unitaries (where the unitary acts non-separably across two distant locations) acting on photons are discriminated with a confidence of $\geq97%$ in all cases.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, comments welcome. Revised version includes multi-partite QPD
Modeling elastic wave velocities in porous media : frequency-dependent effects of heterogeneity at the pore- and patch-scale
Creators: name: Taylor, Richard
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The prediction of relationships between elastic wave velocities in a porous medium and the properties of the fluid and solid constituents therein is a longstanding problem in geophysical exploration. Previous authors have shown that such relationships depend on both the wave frequency and degree of heterogeneity present. This frequency dependence arises via the state of relaxation of the pore fluids. At sufficiently low frequencies, deformation-induced flow leads to equilibration of the fluid pressure, and the pore fluids are said to be in a "relaxed" state. At sufficiently high frequencies, there is insufficient time for equilibration to occur, and the fluids are said to be "unrelaxed". Current models of elastic wave velocities in porous media are, for the most part, confined to either the relaxed limit (e.g., the poroelastic Biot-Gassmann theory) or the unrelaxed limit (e.g., inclusion-based effective medium theory). In this thesis we incorporate an explicit description of the relaxation mechanism into inclusion-based effective medium theory, so as to extend the theory toward the relaxed limit. Analysis of the mechanisms of relaxation leads to a description of the effective elastic behavior of the porous medium in terms of effective complex elastic moduli of the medium's constituents. Previous authors have identified two distinct scales of fluid distribution heterogeneity: the pore scale and the patch scale. Accordingly, we treat these scales separately, describing relaxation in terms of Poiseuille flow at the pore scale, and Darcy's law at the patch scale. The results of our analyses are effective medium theories that provide a consistent approach to the prediction of elastic wave velocities, as well as attenuation due to the relaxation mechanism, over a broad range of frequencies and length scales of heterogeneity. In particular, our model is applicable to the regime where the pore fluids are in a state of relaxation intermediate between the completely relaxed and completely unrelaxed end members.
Secondary motion impact on momentum and heat transfer in a fully developed turbulent channel flow
Creators: name: Stroh, Alexander
name: Deyn, Lars Hendrik Von
name: Schäfer, Kay
name: Forooghi, Pourya
name: Frohnapfel, Bettina
Publisher: name: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Year: 2023

description: Surface structuring in form of streamwise-aligned triangular ridges is investigated in a DNS of a fully developed turbulent channel flow with constant wall temperatures of different values prescribed on the upper and lower walls at $\mathrm{Re}_\tau=180, 500$ and $1000$. Two arrangements of the ridges on both channel walls are considered -- a symmetrical arrangement and a staggered arrangement with a spanwise shift of the upper wall structure by a half ridge-to-ridge separation. The ridges generate a strong large-scale secondary motion and hence enhance momentum and heat transfer in the channel. The composition of skin friction coefficient and Stanton number vary depending on $Re_\tau$ and structure arrangement from $7$ to $32\%$. The component wise split-up of the Stanton number shows that staggered arrangement performs better in terms of heat transfer at higher $Re_\tau$ due to a more pronounced dispersive component.
Morphological and Rotation Structures of Circumgalactic Mg II Gas in the EAGLE Simulation and the Dependence on Galaxy Properties
Creators: name: Ho, Stephanie H.
name: Martin, Crystal L.
name: Schaye, Joop
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Low-ionization-state Mg II gas has been extensively studied in quasar sightline observations to understand the cool, $\sim$$10^4$ K gas in the circumgalactic medium. Motivated by recent observations showing that the Mg II gas around low-redshift galaxies has significant angular momentum, we use the high-resolution EAGLE cosmological simulation to analyze the morphological and rotation structures of the $z\approx0.3$ circumgalactic Mg II gas and examine how they change with the host galaxy properties. Around star-forming galaxies, we find that the Mg II gas has an axisymmetric instead of a spherical distribution, and the axis of symmetry aligns with that of the Mg II gas rotation. A similar rotating structure is less commonly found in the small sample of simulated quiescent galaxies. We also examine how often Mg II gas around galaxies selected using a line-of-sight velocity cut includes gas physically outside of the virial radius ($r_\mathrm{vir}$). For example, we show that at an impact parameter of 100 pkpc, a $\pm500$ km s$^{-1}$ velocity cut around galaxies with stellar masses of $10^9$-$10^{9.5}\mathrm{M_\odot}$ ($10^{10}$-$10^{10.5}\mathrm{M_\odot}$) selects Mg II gas beyond the virial radius 80% (6%) of the time. Because observers typically select Mg II gas around target galaxies using such a velocity cut, we discuss how this issue affects the study of circumgalactic Mg II gas properties, including the detection of corotation. While the corotating Mg II gas generally extends beyond $0.5r_\mathrm{vir}$, the Mg II gas outside of the virial radius contaminates the corotation signal and makes observers less likely to conclude that gas at large impact parameters (e.g., $\gtrsim0.25 r_\mathrm{vir}$) is corotating.
description: 26 pages with 18 figures and 3 tables; accepted for publication in ApJ