cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
New Affine Coherent States based on Elements of Nonrenormalizable Scalar Field Models
Creators: name: Klauder, John R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent proposals for a nontrivial quantization of covariant, nonrenormalizable, self-interacting, scalar quantum fields have emphasized the importance of quantum fields that obey affine commutation relations rather than canonical commutation relations. When formulated on a spacetime lattice, such models have a lattice version of the associated ground state, and this vector is used as the fiducial vector for the definition of the associated affine coherent states, thus ensuring that in the continuum limit, the affine field operators are compatible with the system Hamiltonian. In this article, we define and analyze the associated affine coherent states as well as briefly review the author's approach to nontrivial formulations of such nonrenormalizable models.
description: 19 pages, version accepted by journal (clarified a derivation and corrected several additional typos)
Additional file 2 of Transcriptomics and metabolomics analysis of L-phenylalanine overproduction in Escherichia coli
Creators: name: Sun, Wei
name: Ding, Dongqin
name: Bai, Danyang
name: Lin, Yang
name: Zhu, Yaru
name: Zhang, Cuiying
name: Zhang, Dawei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Fig S1. Detailed steps of strain mutagenesis. TC: Tube cultivation; ARTP: Atmospheric and room temperature plasma; FACS: Fluorescence activated cell sorting; PC: Plate cultivation; 96-WMP: 96-Well microtiter plate; MMR: Multimode microplate reader; SFC: Shake flask cultivation; HPLC: High performance liquid chromatography. Fig S2. Trends of transcription levels of DEGs in different metabolic pathways. a. X16 vs. X24. b. X24 vs. X48.Red indicates significantly up, green indicates significantly down, and black indicates no significant difference. Fig S3. The Glu determination of supernatant of fermentation broth in different periods. Experiments were conducted in triplicate and measurements are represented as the means ± S.D.
Risks of the ornamental horticulture production chain
Creators: name: Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority, Office for Risk Assessment and Research
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Ornamental horticulture production chain
subject: Plant health risks
subject: http://id.agrisemantics.org/gacs/C938
subject: http://id.agrisemantics.org/gacs/C246
subject: http://id.agrisemantics.org/gacs/C236
subject: http://id.agrisemantics.org/gacs/C92
subject: http://id.agrisemantics.org/gacs/C1470

description: The Netherlands produces many ornamental horticultural products, and the country is an important player in the global trade in these products. Ornamental horticulture is extremely diverse and encompasses both plants grown in greenhouses, particularly pot plants and cut flowers, and plants grown outdoors, particularly trees, shrubs, perennials and cut flowers. In 2018, an estimated 9 billion euros worth of ornamental horticultural products were exported to third countries and EU Member States, and more than 2 billion euros worth were imported. The ornamental horticulture sector supplies products that are valued by society, but it can also create risks for plants, nature, the environment, people and animals through the import, breeding, propagation, production and trade of ornamental horticultural products. The Office for Risk Assessment & Research (BuRO) has assessed these risks and compiled its key findings, conclusions and advice for the Inspector-General of the NVWA.The risk assessment of the ornamental horticulture production chain is part of a programme that develops systematic and periodic overviews and insights relating to the risks to people, animals, plants and nature that can occur in the production chains for food and consumer products.
description: NL; PDF; NVWAEFSAFocalPoint@nvwa.nl
Stretching and twisting of the DNA duplexes in coarse grained dynamical models
Creators: name: Niewieczerzał, Szymon
name: Cieplak, Marek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Three coarse-grained models of the double-stranded DNA are proposed and compared in the context of mechanical manipulation such as twisting and various schemes of stretching. The models differ in the number of effective beads (between two and five) representing each nucleotide. They all show similar behavior and, in particular, lead to a torque-force phase diagrams qualitatively consistent with experiments and all-atom simulations.
title: BigBio: A Framework for Data-Centric Biomedical Natural Language Processing
Creators: name: Fries, Jason
name: Weber, Leon
name: Seelam, Natasha
name: Altay, Gabriel
name: Datta, Debajyoti
name: Su, Ruisi
name: Garda, Samuele
name: Kang, Sunny MS
name: Biderman, Stella
name: Samwald, Matthias
name: Bach, Stephen H.
name: Kusa, Wojciech
name: Cahyawijaya, Samuel
name: Barth, Fabio
name: Ott, Simon
name: Sänger, Mario
name: Wang, Bo
name: Callahan, Alison
name: Leon Perinan, Daniel
name: Gigant, Theo
name: Haller, Patrick
name: Chim, Jenny
name: Posada, Jose
name: Giorgi, John
name: Sivaraman, Karthik Rangasai
name: Pamies, Marc
name: Nezhurina, Marianna
name: Martin, Robert
name: Freidank, Moritz
name: Dahlberg, Nathan
name: Mishra, Shubhanshu
name: Bose, Shamik
name: Broad, Nicholas
name: Labrak, Yanis
name: Deshmukh, Shlok
name: Kiblawi, Sid
name: Singh, Ayush
name: Vu, Minh Chien
name: Neeraj, Trishala
name: Golde, Jonas
name: Villanova del Moral, Albert
name: Beilharz, Benjamin
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2022
Subjects: datasets
bioNLP
bigbio
bigscience
NLP
prompt engineering

description: Training and evaluating language models increasingly requires the construction of meta-datasets -- diverse collections of curated data with clear provenance. Natural language prompting has recently lead to improved zero-shot generalization by transforming existing, supervised datasets into a variety of novel instruction tuning tasks, highlighting the benefits of meta-dataset curation. While successful in general-domain text, translating these data-centric approaches to biomedical language modeling remains challenging, as labeled biomedical datasets are significantly underrepresented in popular data hubs. To address this challenge, we introduce BigBio a community library of 126+ biomedical NLP datasets, currently covering 13 task categories and 10+ languages. BigBio facilitates reproducible meta-dataset curation via programmatic access to datasets and their metadata, and is compatible with current platforms for prompt engineering and end-to-end few/zero shot language model evaluation. We discuss our process for task schema harmonization, data auditing, contribution guidelines, and outline two illustrative use cases: zero-shot evaluation of biomedical prompts and large-scale, multi-task learning. BigBio is an ongoing community effort and is available at https://github.com/bigscience-workshop/biomedical
The Self-Organization of Interaction Networks for Nature-Inspired Optimization
Creators: name: Whitacre, James M.
name: Sarker, Ruhul A.
name: Pham, Q. Tuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Over the last decade, significant progress has been made in understanding complex biological systems, however there have been few attempts at incorporating this knowledge into nature inspired optimization algorithms. In this paper, we present a first attempt at incorporating some of the basic structural properties of complex biological systems which are believed to be necessary preconditions for system qualities such as robustness. In particular, we focus on two important conditions missing in Evolutionary Algorithm populations; a self-organized definition of locality and interaction epistasis. We demonstrate that these two features, when combined, provide algorithm behaviors not observed in the canonical Evolutionary Algorithm or in Evolutionary Algorithms with structured populations such as the Cellular Genetic Algorithm. The most noticeable change in algorithm behavior is an unprecedented capacity for sustainable coexistence of genetically distinct individuals within a single population. This capacity for sustained genetic diversity is not imposed on the population but instead emerges as a natural consequence of the dynamics of the system.
title: News. The European Lotteries
title: magazine des loteries européennes
titleType: Subtitle
title: News. The European Lotteries
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Association Européenne Des Loteries Et Totos D'Etat
Publisher: name: The European Lotteries, General Secretariat
Year: 0

description: A partir de 2016 la revue est disponible uniquement en ligne sur le site web
New lessons from the nucleon mass, lattice QCD and heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory
Creators: name: Walker-Loud, Andre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I will review heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory for the nucleon delta degrees of freedom and then examine the recent dynamical lattice calculations of the nucleon mass from the BMW, ETM, JLQCD, LHP, MILC, NPLQCD, PACS-CS, QCDSF/UKQCD and RBC/UKQCD Collaborations. Performing the chiral extrapolations of these results, one finds remarkable agreement with the physical nucleon mass, from each lattice data set. However, a careful examination of the lattice data and the resulting extrapolation functions reveals some unexpected results, serving to highlight the significant challenges in performing chiral extrapolations of baryon quantities. All the N_f=2+1 dynamical results can be quantitatively described by theoretically unmotivated fit function linear in the pion mass with m_pi ~ 750 -190 MeV. When extrapolated to the physical point, the results are in striking agreement with the physical nucleon mass. I will argue that knowledge of each lattice datum of the nucleon mass is required at the 1-2% level, including all systematics, in order to conclusively determine if this is a bizarre conspiracy of lattice artifacts or rather a mysterious phenomenon of QCD.
description: Plenary talk presented at the XXVI International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, July 14-19, 2008, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA; added references; typo corrected in Eq. (2.16)
title: Not that Simple: Email Delivery in the 21st Century
Creators: name: Holzbauer, Florian
name: Ullrich, Johanna
name: Lindorfer, Martina
name: Fiebig, Tobias
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2022
Subjects: email
protocol standards
security

description: Over the past two decades, the number of RFCs related to email and its security has exploded from below 100 to nearly 500. This embedded the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) into a tree of interdependent and delivery-relevant standards. In this paper, we investigate how far real-world deployments keep up with this increasing complexity of delivery- and security options. To gain an in-depth picture of email delivery apart from the giants in the ecosystem (Gmail, Outlook, etc.), we engage people to send emails to eleven differently configured target domains. Our measurements allow us to evaluate core aspects of email delivery, including security features, DNS configuration, and IP version support on the sending side across different types of providers. We find that novel technologies are often insufficiently supported, even by large providers. For example, while 65.4% of email providers can resolve hosts via IPv6, only 44.3% can also deliver emails via IPv6. Concerning security features, we observe that less than half (41.5%) of all providers rely on DNSSEC validating resolvers, and encryption is mostly opportunistic, with 89.7% of providers accepting invalid certificates. TLSA, as a DNS-based certificate verification method, is only used by 31.7% of the providers in our study. Finally, we turned our eye to the impact modern standards have on unsolicited bulk email (SPAM). We found that greylisting is effective, reducing the SPAM volume by roughly half while not impacting regular delivery. However, and interestingly, SPAM delivery currently seems to focus on plaintext IPv4 connections, making IPv6-only, TLS-enforcing inbound email servers a more effective anti-SPAM measure—even though it also means rejecting a major portion of legitimate emails.
Things Which Can Be Seen Only If You Should Stop
Creators: name: Song, Mira
Publisher: name: Emily Carr University of Art and Design
Year: 2013
Subjects: Painting--Memory--Contemplation

description: This thesis aims to provide a context in which to situate my interdisciplinary art practice concerned with painting that addresses architecture. The paper explores my childhood memory of space and contemplation as themes that are essential in shaping my art practice as a whole, but also as my way of relating to art, nature, and the built environments such as parks and gardens. By reflecting on and conflating historical, cultural and philosophical contexts from a Western and Asian perspective, I will investigate how my work has been transformed through my personal journey from Korea to Canada, and how my practice can be situated at the intersection between art and architecture and the space between the real and surreal. Chapter one will examine my childhood memory of looking at a little bonsai pot in my family garden, the catalyst to create my own art work amidst the realization of what I will refer to here as an “innerscape”. In this section, I will also introduce four predominant motifs in my artwork triggered by this childhood experience: Imagination, Space, Scale and Nature. In the following chapters, I will investigate these four themes by mirroring each in a relevant series of works: Water Series, City Series, Inventory of Architectural Forms and Pebble Series. The critical works Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard and Space and Place by Yi-Fu Tuan will provide underpinning theories as a bridge to connect these chapters together. The final chapter, “Things Which Can Be Seen Only If You Should Stop” will reflect on my experience of co-existing between eastern and western culture. In addition, it will discuss my research, aesthetic sensibilities and the philosophical context in which my artistic process operates. Through an investigation of different historical and theoretical backgrounds of contemplation in Asian perspective, I will provide a theoretical context for the processes that constitute my practice.
description: Space
description: Nature
description: Imagination
title: การศึกษาการตั้งครรภ์ไม่พึงประสงค์ของวัยรุ่นหญิง ในจังหวัดนครพนม
Creators: name: พัชราพร ควรรณสุ
Publisher: name: สาขารัฐประศาสนศาสตร์ คณะศิลปศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยกาฬสินธุ์
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2019
Subjects: วัยรุ่น
หญิงตั้งครรภ์
นครพนม

description: วารสารการบริหารปกครอง, 8, 1, 497-518
title: GREEN: Cool & Care
title: Grüne Wohn- und Pflegeheime. Technische Lösungen und soziale Innovationen
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Korjenic, Azra
name: Hollands, Jutta
name: Reitinger, Elisabeth
name: Pichler, Barbara
name: Knoll, Bente
name: Hofleitner, Birgit
name: Dopheide, Ralf
name: Fischer, Tatjana
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2022
Subjects: Innenraumbegrünung
Bauwerksbegrünung
Grünpflege
Grün in Wohn- und Pflegeheimen

description: Vor dem Hintergrund des Klimawandels, der immer dichter verbauten Städte und dem Urban Heat Island-Phänomen braucht es Strategien und konkrete Ansätze der sommerlichen Hitze entgegenzuwirken – gerade für vulnerable Bevölkerungsgruppen. Daher entwickelt das Projekt „GREEN: Cool & Care“ innovative Begrünungslösungen kooperativ mit mehreren Pflege- und Betreuungszentren in Niederösterreich. Die Begrünungen werden abgestimmt auf die Bedürfnisse und Anforderungen der Menschen, die in den Pflege- und Betreuungszentren wohnen und haupt- sowie ehrenamtlich tätig sind, erarbeitet und umgesetzt. Besonderes Augenmerk liegt auf der inter- und transdisziplinären Zusammenarbeit von Bauphysik, Bauökologie, Landschaftsplanung, Vegetationstechnik, Grünpflege, Sozial- und Pflegewissenschaften. Der gesamte Prozess wird wissenschaftlich begleitet.
Kobayashi-Royden pseudometric vs. Lempert function
Creators: name: Nikolov, Nikolai
name: Pflug, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 32F45

description: We give an example showing that the Kobayashi-Royden pseudometric for a non-taut domain is, in general, not the derivative of the Lempert function.
description: An essential mistake has been corrected in v2. Improved example in v3. v4: minor changes according to the referee remarks (Ann. Mat. Pura Appl.)
title: Maximally Expressive GNNs for Outerplanar Graphs
Creators: name: Bause, Franka
name: Jogl, Fabian
name: Indri, Patrick
name: Drucks, Tamara
name: Penz, David
name: Kriege, Nils
name: Gärtner, Thomas
name: Welke, Pascal
name: Thiessen, Maximilian
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2023
Subjects: Machine Learning
Graph Neural Networks
expressive graph representation learning

description: We propose a linear time graph transformation that enables the Weisfeiler-Leman (WL) test and message passing graph neural networks (MPNNs) to be maximally expressive on outerplanar graphs. Our approach is motivated by the fact that most pharmaceutical molecules correspond to outerplanar graphs. Existing research predominantly enhances the expressivity of graph neural networks without specific graph families in mind. This often leads to methods that are impractical due to their computational complexity. In contrast, the restriction to outerplanar graphs enables us to encode the Hamiltonian cycle of each biconnected component in linear time. As the main contribution of the paper we prove that our method achieves maximum expressivity on outerplanar graphs. Experiments confirm that our graph transformation improves the predictive performance of MPNNs on molecular benchmark datasets at negligible computational overhead.
Being Among: Reassembled Parts of an Incomplete Machine
Creators: name: McNaughton, Judith
Publisher: name: Emily Carr University of Art and Design
Year: 2013
Subjects: Assemblage--Installations--Machines--Psychology--Sculpture

description: Through practice-based and theoretical research, I consider relationships of connection and separation between objects, other living things, and myself against the backdrop of Western capitalist culture. Inspired by the practice-based research model of Graeme Sullivan, and Sarat Maharaj’s vision of the “contraption for generating knowledge,” I animate digital and kinetic assemblages as automated contraptions of inquiry (Maharaj 42). My practice employs a metonymic approach, activating the resonance of materiality and affect in order to draw the viewer toward alternate perceptions. Jean Baudrillard’s theory of consumption, and Agamben’s critique of anthropocentric systems of human/non-human separation inform the social context for my research. The thesis includes literary and visual art examples of ways cultural productions can shed light on conceptual dualities in Western society. Franz Kafka’s story Metamorphosis and Alan Rath’s sculptural assemblage Hound each portrays an implied fluidity between the human and non-human body. Mark Dion’s work brings into question the borders between nature and human culture, challenging our perceptions of such categories by repositioning the order of things (Thompson 46). The artworks—Boxette, Gidget Flying, and Mothlung—produced during my practice based research, use empathy, humour, and occasionally unease to draw the viewer toward a slightly altered perception of the relationship between humans and the things around us. My inquiry questions exclusions in Western ontology that have separated humans from non-humans. It reimagines these relationships not as subjects to objects, but as beings among beings, in hope of edging us toward more thoughtful relationships with the other things and beings of the world.
Streams and caustics: the fine-grained structure of LCDM haloes
Creators: name: Vogelsberger, Mark
name: White, Simon D. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first and so far the only simulations to follow the fine-grained phase-space structure of galaxy haloes formed from generic LCDM initial conditions. We integrate the geodesic deviation equation in tandem with the N-body equations of motion, demonstrating that this can produce numerically converged results for the properties of fine-grained phase-space streams and their associated caustics, even in the inner regions of haloes. Our effective resolution for such structures is many orders of magnitude better than achieved by conventional techniques on even the largest simulations. We apply these methods to the six Milky Way-mass haloes of the Aquarius Project. At 8 kpc from halo centre a typical point intersects about 10^14 streams with a very broad range of individual densities; the ~10^6 most massive streams contribute about half of the local dark matter density. As a result, the velocity distribution of dark matter particles should be very smooth with the most massive fine-grained stream contributing about 0.1% of the total signal. Dark matter particles at this radius have typically passed 200 caustics since the Big Bang. The peak densities on present-day caustics in the inner halo almost all lie well below the mean local dark matter density. As a result caustics provide a negligible boost (<0.1%) to the predicted local dark matter annihilation rate. The effective boost is larger in the outer halo but never exceeds about 10%. Thus fine-grained streams and their associated caustics have no effect on the detectability of dark matter, either directly in Earth-bound laboratories, or indirectly through annihilation radiation, with the exception that resonant cavity experiments searching for axions may see the most massive local fine-grained streams because of their extreme localisation in energy/momentum space. (abridged)
description: 21 pages, 20 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Beyond the Frame
Creators: name: Smythe, Joanna
Publisher: name: Emily Carr University of Art and Design
Year: 2013
Subjects: Video Art--Installations--Sculpture--Environment--Ethics

description: This thesis essay describes a body of work developed for the Low Residency Masters of Applied Arts program, which is presented in the form of three video installation environments: Ripple Effects (2012), Veiled Effects (2012), and Shoreline (2013). Video images of outdoor scenes are projected onto sculptural forms that set up points of indeterminacy to address our mediated and constructed relationship with the environment. The research focuses on a phenomenological connection to the environment supported by Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s concept of the “chiasmic embrace”, a relationship that acknowledges a two-way communication between our bodies and the environment. There is also a consideration of Timothy Morton's “dark ecology” that looks at the underbelly of environmental critique. The art works developed for the thesis examine how the aestheticization of nature turns it into abstract and ideological space, ignoring it as a complex and interconnected ecosystem. The work that emerged from the process of research and experimentation engages a vision of nature as an altered, synthetic, and hybrid environment. My practice is contextualized in part by examining what I find productive and generative in the work of Dan Graham, Bill Viola, Diana Thater, Ann Hamilton, and Char Davies, artists whose practices focus on an embodied awareness of the environment. In addition to Merleau-Ponty, and Timothy Morton, the ideas of thinkers and theorists such as Susan Stewart, Terry Smith, and Marshall McLuhan, add perspective to a discussion that addresses the relationship between aesthetics and environmental ethics.
title: Maximally Expressive GNNs for Outerplanar Graphs
Creators: name: Bause, Franka
name: Jogl, Fabian
name: Welke, Pascal
name: Thiessen, Maximilian
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2023
Subjects: Machine Learning
Graph Neural Networks

description: Most pharmaceutical molecules can be represented as outerplanar graphs. We propose a graph transformation that makes the Weisfeiler-Leman (WL) test and message passing graph neural networks maximally expressive on outerplanar graphs. While existing research predominantly focuses on enhancing expressivity of graph neural networks beyond the WL test on arbitrary graphs, our goal is to distinguish pharmaceutical graphs specifically. Our approach applies a linear time transformation, building on the fact that biconnected outerplanar graphs can be uniquely identified by their Hamiltonian adjacency list sequences. This pre-processing step can then be followed by any graph neural network. We achieve promising results on molecular benchmark datasets while keeping the pre-processing time low, in the order of seconds for common benchmarks.
Generative Art as Experiment
Creators: name: Wanner, Andres
Publisher: name: Emily Carr University of Art and Design
Year: 2013
Subjects: Art and science--Mechanical drawing--Robotics--Appropriation

description: This thesis investigates my generative art (1) practice with mechanical drawing machines, for which the relationship between humans and technology provides the larger context. The comparison between machinic and software-based generative art systems acts as a starting point for reflections on technology in general. Producing pictures with self-made, commissioned or appropriated drawing machines, my practice aims at subverting the instrumental nature of technology, and emphasizing its anthropological dimension (2). The practice focuses on inaccuracies, errors and deviations from my attempts at control. The glitch (a short lived, unexpected disturbance) is discussed as a way of highlighting the production process of a picture. My research explores the media-specific Eigensinn (obstinacy) of drawing machines, a synergetic force colliding with the intentions of myself as a human creator. Calling up technological history, I argue that making art with technology is a paradoxical endeavour, which I embrace as a way of investigating subjectivity in my aesthetic decisions and art making. The emotion of surprise, resulting from this collision, is presented as my primary motivator for engaging with generative art. The seeming autonomy of generative art systems brings up questions about the authorship (3) of such practices. These are contextualized with other practices less based on the hand of the artist than on the manipulation of symbolic entities,(4) e.g. readymades (Duchamp), and conceptual art (LeWitt). I draw a connection from my hands-off methodology to the scientific experiment, which runs without the interference of the scientist. My machine drawings are compared to scientific graphs and the artist studio is paralleled to the science laboratory (5). (1) Galanter, Boden and Edmonds (2) Heidegger (3) Irvin (4) Roberts (5) Latour
description: Drawing
description: Technology
description: Machines
Animation and Improvisation
Creators: name: Allemano, Luigi
Publisher: name: Emily Carr University of Art and Design
Year: 2013
Subjects: Animation--Drawing--Film--Improvisation--Music

description: This paper is a discussion of the research I have undertaken in developing a process of audio-visual composition based in the methodologies of ‘direct animation’ and musical improvisation. The central thesis project is Improvisation no. 1: Cumulative Loops, a work that might be described as audio-visual music, consisting of hand-drawn image sequences and music generated together in a cumulative and improvisatory process. Additional studio works related to this thesis include Bagirmi Beat, a sound composition achieved through frame-by-frame mark-making on the optical track of film, and nine experimental Motion Studies that investigate the audio-visual relationship between hand drawn animation and sound. Innovations emerging from my studio experiments include the pantographic brush array and an accompanying system of paper ‘filmstrips’. While all of the works incorporate these analog tools and materials, they are essentially digital media, made with and presented on computers, speakers and video displays. Speaking to the convergence of visual art and music in digital media and the possibilities for an individual artist therein, the works invite the viewer-listener to consider the place of materiality and the hand-made in the digital age. My methodology is based upon the notion that the fundamental correlation between image and sound is time. Arbitrary transpositions between, for example, pitch and color are less important than establishing in my mark-making process the conditions under which a musician might improvise. These conditions and the activities engaged with therein become the primary work while the resulting media ‘objects’ remain as testaments to the act of improvisation. Through the production and discussion of these works I address the importance of drawing in the ontology of animation and I explain the significance of human gesture, mark making and empathy in my practice. Referencing contemporary philosophical thought in the emerging area of improvisation studies, I position my audio-visual compositions within the idiomatic traditions of jazz music. Navigating the contradictions between pre-determination, spontaneity, chance and control, I present a body of work that speaks to the apparent paradox of improvisation in animation.
Effects of low-frequency noise cross-correlations in coupled superconducting qubits
Creators: name: D'Arrigo, A.
name: Mastellone, A.
name: Paladino, E.
name: Falci, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effects of correlated low frequency noise sources acting on a two qubit gate in a fixed coupling scheme. A phenomenological model for the spatial and cross-talk correlations is introduced. The decoherence inside the SWAP subspace is analysed by combining analytic results based on the adiabatic approximation and numerical simulations. Results critically depend on amplitude of the low frequency noise with respect to the qubits coupling strength. Correlations between noise sources induce qualitative different behaviors depending on the values of the above parameters. The possibility to reduce dephasing due to correlated low frequency noise by a recalibration protocol is discussed.
description: 18 pages, 7 figures
La politique chinoise au Cambodge : Un cas d'équilibrage géo-positionnel en Asie du Sud-Est?
Creators: name: Canonge, Boris
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Chine
Relations Internationales
Asie du Sud-Est
Cambodge

description: Depuis l’arrivée au pouvoir de Xi Jinping, la Chine a fortement accéléré ses investissements à l’étranger, notamment via de gigantesques programmes de connectivité et d’infrastructure. Si la frénésie des premiers investissements avait une focale assez large, impliquant de très nombreux pays, la Chine a reconcentré ses investissements de manière plus localisée, notamment dans sa périphérie directe, dont l’Asie Centrale et du Sud-Est. Avec des prises de position retentissantes dans le secteur maritime, notamment au Pakistan ou au Sri Lanka, la Chine assure une certaine présence, avec des finalités a priori géostratégiques, dans des lieux hautement importants pour son commerce et sa croissance, à proximité directe de concurrents géoéconomiques et géopolitiques. Il est donc nécessaire de se pencher sur le cas de l’Asie du Sud-Est, ou la Chine a accéléré sa présence au Cambodge, et de chercher à comprendre si cette présence obéit à une stratégie d’équilibrage géo-positionnel. La Chine prend en effet appui sur ce pays central de la péninsule indochinoise, pour y marquer durablement sa présence, et impacter durablement en sa faveur l’équilibre géopolitique de la région sud-est asiatique. L’argument géographique est omniprésent dans la sélection du Cambodge, de par sa façade maritime donnant sur le Golfe de Thaïlande et au sud de la mer de Chine méridionale, de sa proximité avec le détroit de Malacca essentiel au commerce chinois, et du Vietnam qui représente le principal rival au gain d’influence et économique chinois au niveau régional. Le Cambodge représente également un certain potentiel géostratégique face aux États-Unis, dont la Chine cherche à se libérer de son omniprésence dans la région afin de devenir l’acteur politique, économique et sécuritaire central et incontournable, et accomplir ses objectifs prioritaires fixés pour 2049.
Lyman Alpha Emitter Evolution in the Reionization Epoch
Creators: name: Dayal, P.
name: Ferrara, A.
name: Saro, A.
name: Salvaterra, R.
name: Borgani, S.
name: Tornatore, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Combining cosmological SPH simulations with a previously developed Lyman Alpha production/transmission model and the Early Reionization Model (ERM, reionization ends at redshift z~7), we obtain Lyman Alpha and UV Luminosity Functions (LFs) for Lyman Alpha Emitters (LAEs) for redshifts between 5.7 and 7.6. Matching model results to observations at z~5.7 requires escape fractions of Lyman Alpha, f_alpha=0.3, and UV (non-ionizing) continuum photons, f_c=0.22, corresponding to a color excess, E(B-V)=0.15. We find that (i) f_c increases towards higher redshifts, due the decreasing mean dust content of galaxies, (ii) the evolution of f_alpha/f_c hints at the dust content of the ISM becoming progressively inhomogeneous/clumped with decreasing redshift. The clustering photoionization boost is important during the initial reionization phases but has little effect on the Lyman Alpha LF for a highly ionized IGM. Halo (stellar) masses are in the range 10.0 < \log M_h < 11.8 (8.1 < \log M_* < 10.4) with M_h \propto M_*^{0.64}. The star formation rates are between 3-120 solar masses per year, mass-weighted mean ages are greater than 20 Myr at all redshifts, while the mean stellar metallicity increases from Z=0.12 to 0.22 solar metallicity from z~7.6 to z~5.7; both age and metallicity positively correlate with stellar mass. The brightest LAEs are all characterized by large star formation rates and intermediate ages (~200 Myr), while objects in the faint end of the Lyman Alpha LF show large age and star formation rate spreads. With no more free parameters, the Spectral Energy Distributions of three LAE at z~5.7 observed by Lai et al. (2007) are well reproduced by an intermediate age (182-220 Myr) stellar population and the above E(B-V) value.
description: 13 pages, 9 figures, accepted to MNRAS
Consciousness, Matter and the Invisible
Creators: name: Stefánsson, Leó Stefánsson
Publisher: name: Emily Carr University of Art and Design
Year: 2013
Subjects: Consciousness--Conceptual art--Mysticism--Media--Perception--Technology

description: In my work in the MAA program I have focused on bringing the invisible/inaudible into the scope of human consciousness. Human perception is limited to our senses, and in this thesis I will investigate how we can allow for the perception of the invisible/inaudible through the method of constructing translational systems that transform signals from one state to another by applying a range of tools. In order to approach a thing we cannot see, we have to consider both the physical world, in which the thing exists, and how the thing is perceived in consciousness. The idea of mind and matter existing independently of each other is traced back to Rene Descartes and his method of doubt and logic which excluded the spirit from the physical world which he described as motion in three dimensions where everything was made of matter. His work laid the grounds for reductionism in neuropsychology which led to the idea that the human brain, and eventually consciousness, could be reduced to simple interactions of units of matter. This allowed Alan Turing to describe his theoretical computational device which had states synonymous to human mental states and eventually resulted in the creation of the modern digital computer. In response to the reductionist view of consciousness, Amit Goswami describes what he calls monistic idealism; a model of the world where matter and consciousness are not incompatible terms but are parts of a unified system. Wassily Kandinsky used color, or frequencies of light, in combination with shape to portrait objectless ideas originating from within himself, allowing the spirit a physical representation through his consciousness. I look at my work in the same terms, but instead of using frequencies of color I use frequencies of sound to represent spiritual values. I also draw some of my methods and inspiration from James Turrell and the way he emphasizes the human perceptual apparatus in his work. In my own work I construct parascientific experiments that investigate physics, consciousness and their relationship. These experiments resulted in the creation of systems constructed for the analysis and reconstruction of units of time, or frequency. My artworks discussed in the thesis are constructed around the concept of time, which I consider to be the primary aspect of my work.
A study of the Beirut dialect of Judeo-Spanish as spoken by one informant
Creators: name: Taylor, Dorothy-Ann
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: This thesis is a study of the Beirut dialect of Judeo-Spanish as spoken by one informant of that community now living in Vancouver, B.C. The analysis of the dialect was based upon oral material which was tape-recorded. The study describes the phonology, lexicon, morphology, and syntax as they appeared in the corpus which consisted of about 33,000 words. Pertinent features are compared to both the Judeo-Spanish norm and to Old Spanish, noting the conformations, and differences, and indicating the reason for variances. The informant's speech contained many archaisms especially in the vocabulary. Archaic features of the phonology, however, have become obscured through the influence of superstrata and cannot provide any conclusive evidence which would corroborate certain phonetic distinctions of Old Spanish. There is also some variance between the phonology of this dialect and other Sephardic dialects. Also evident in the dialect studied here were: impoverishment of vocabulary, the introduction of neologisms and new formations, analogical changes common to Sephardic Spanish and some other analogical changes peculiar to this dialect only. While other dialect studies of Judeo-Spanish show a dominant number of Turkish loans, this dialect has a far greater number of Gallicisms of apparently recent introduction. Widespread social and cultural changes in the life of the Sephardim in recent years have radically affected these dialects. The increasing pressure of external influences is obscuring many phonological and syntactical patterns hitherto used by Judeo-Spanish and the existence of many anomalies and much free variation is evidence of the advanced state of decay of this dialect.
VERITAS Observations of Mgro J1908+06/Hess J1908+063
Creators: name: Ward, John E
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The unidentified TeV gamma-ray source MGRO J1908+06/HESS J1908+063 was observed with the VERITAS Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Array during October 2007 and May-June 2008. This extended source is located on the galactic plane at a galactic longitude of 40.45 degrees and has a hard TeV spectrum with an index of approximately 2.08. The Very High Energy (VHE) gamma-ray flux was measured by H.E.S.S. out to energies greater than 30 TeV which along with its unidentified nature makes it an interesting hard-spectrum extended source for study. We confirm the detection of VHE gamma-ray emission from this source using VERITAS.
description: Submitted to Proceedings of "4th Heidelberg International Symposium on High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy 2008"
title: บทความปริทรรศน์หนังสือ: Is Democracy Failing? (2018)
Creators: name: กิตติศักดิ์ เจิมสิทธิประเสริฐ
Publisher: name: สาขารัฐประศาสนศาสตร์ คณะศิลปศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยกาฬสินธุ์
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2019
Subjects: Democracy Failing

description: วารสารการบริหารปกครอง, 8, 1, 519-527
Uncertain Meanings: Voice-Off, Subtitles and Postmodern Allegories in My Recent Works
Creators: name: Pennuti, Paolo
Publisher: name: Emily Carr University of Art and Design
Year: 2013
Subjects: Allegory--Experimental--Film--Video Art--Symbolism--Translation

description: This thesis is about my recent works and some questions intimately related to them, with particular attention to my thesis project; the single channel video, I usually live abroad. This work plays with voice-over in order to discuss its traditional authoritative and absolute meaning. Further, the work reveals the impossibility of establishing an organic unity of meaning, proliferating the possible interpretation of the fragments that constitute the work. I will use the concept of postmodern allegory as defined by Jeremy Tambling to interpret my recent works that refer to the historic breakdown of ideologies whose fixed values and meanings seem incapable of interpreting contemporary reality. How can voice-over be used beyond the realms of authority and objectivity that are usually associated with this component of cinematic language? Instead of considering voice-over as belonging to a separate space from that of the images, I propose that it creates an interstitial space for a negotiation between the spoken text and the images. What is at stake for me is not the authority of the voice-over but its possibility to question objectivity through a subjective point of view able to provoke individual reactions among viewers. A second concern is what the potentialities are of the relationship between images and subtitles? The dominant use of subtitles is translation. I propose that there are other more creative uses of texts juxtaposed with images. Subtitles are for example a way to express unspoken thoughts or a possibility to subvert the centrality of the image in movies and videos, they can also create a dialogue instead of a translation in their relationship with the voice. This thesis also refers to a conception of allegory, developed by Walter Benjamin and Paul de Man, that is essential in exploring the deceptive nature of the language I use and the meanings I can communicate with it. I am specifically considering postmodern allegories as something distant from traditional allegories. Allegory is a device to express, through the use of fragments, a world in which it is impossible to establish any definitive meaning. Differently than a metaphor, an allegory doesn't state that A=B and it doesn't establish a consecutive pattern in which we associate something specific with one other specific thing, but often it creates a successive pattern open to several interpretations that fracture instead of unifying any further meaning. My recent works aim to feed this pattern.
Effects of pH and temperature of ultrafiltration on the composition and physicochemical properties of hot-water-extracted softwood galactoglucomannans
Creators: name: Halahlah, Abedalghani
name: Abik, Felix
name: H. Lahtinen, Maarit
name: Kemppinen, Asmo
name: Kaipanen, Kalle
name: O Kilpeläinen, Petri
name: Granato, Daniel
name: M. Ho, Thao
name: S. Mikkonen, Kirsi
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The recovery of softwood galactoglucomannans (GGM) by pressurized hot water extraction and further concentration by membrane filtration followed by spray drying yield biopolymers suitable as raw materials for renewable products. GGM are often characterized as having low viscosity in water and excellent emulsion stabilizing capacity, enhanced by lignin structures co-extracted with GGM. To reduce membrane fouling during filtration and subsequently to increase product yield, the pH and temperature of GGM liquor can be increased, but effects of such conditions on properties of recovered GGM have not been well understood. Herein, we systematically varied the ultrafiltration pH (6− 10) and temperature (30–60 ◦C) and characterized the composition and physicochemical properties of spray-dried GGM powders in comparison with freeze-dried (fGGM) and ethanol precipitated GGM (eGGM). The GGM samples ultrafiltrated at 60 ◦C and pH 10 (GGM-10/60) showed lower molar mass (2200 Da), degree of acetylation (0.09) and absolute ζ-potential (13 mV) than the other ultrafiltrated samples at pH (6− 10) and temperature (30–45 ◦C) (3200–3700 Da, 0.11–0.15 and 23–32 mV, respectively). These differences could explain the unique gel formation capacity of GGM-10/60 after ultrasonication, which opens new prospects in GGM applications such as thickening agents or in 3D printing. The present results allow the design of biorefinery processes to obtain GGM with desirable properties for specific applications.
title: Chances and psychometric limits of questionnaires for field-specific interest: an example from mechanical engineering
Creators: name: Weitensfelder, Lisbeth
name: Herbst, Ilona Renate
Publisher: name: Pabst Science Publishers
Year: 2021
Subjects: field-specific interests
interest assessment
questionnaire design
Rasch model

description: While interest questionnaires based on Holland's RIASEC-model face the challenge of finding an optimal congruence measure to match a person’s interests with the environment, tailor-made specific interest questionnaires avoid this problem in a pragmatic way: Instead of resulting in a general interest profile, only the interests needed in the particular field are assessed. The particular field can then be assessed in more detail, while other areas and therefore a typological interest are not looked for. The article presents construction, implementation and psychometric analyses (i.e. according to the Rasch model) of a field-specific interest questionnaire for mechanical engineering, focussing on the struggle of how to create a uni-dimensional and therefore fair measurement.