cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Quest for the Dynamical Origin of Mass - An LHC perspective from Sakata, Nambu and Maskawa
Creators: name: Yamawaki, Koichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I review the dynamical symmetry breaking (DSB) approach to the Origin of Mass, which is traced back to the original (2008 Nobel prize) work of Nambu based on the BCS analogue of superconductor where mass of nucleon (then elementary particle) arises due to Cooper paring and pions are provided as massless Nambu-Goldstone (NG) bosons, being composite as in Fermi-Yang/Sakata model. In this talk I will focus on the modern version of DSB or composite Higgs models: Walking/Conformal Technicolor, Hidden Local Symmetry (HLS) or Moose, and Top Quark Condensate, with the their extra dimension versions closely related with HLS. Particular emphasis will be placed on the large anomalous dimension and conformal symmetry at the conformal fixed points, developed along the line of the pioneering work of Maskawa and Nakajima. Due to (approximate) conformal symmetry these models do have composite Higgs particle ("Techni-dilaton", "Top-sigma" etc.). Weakly coupled composite gauge boson is realized at "Vector Manifestation" formulated at conformal fixed point, which may be applied to the composite W/Z boson models. They will be tested in the upcoming LHC experiments.
description: 18 pages, 5 figures, Talk presented on Jan. 26, 2009 at Yukawa International Seminar (YKIS) "Particle Physics beyond the Standard Model" Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (YITP),Kyoto University, Japan, January 26 - March 25, 2009
A thematic study of the characterization of women in three novels by George Eliot
Creators: name: Kirby, Elizabeth Anne
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: A Thematic Study of the Characterization of Women in Three Novels by George Eliot emphasizes the development of her ability to end her novels in a genuine and consistent manner. This process culminates in her final novel through her extension of a sympathetic appreciation of human error and psychological illusion to a credible conclusion which both convinces the reader and satisfies the demands of plot. Her initial use of artificial endings, such as death and marriage, assures the reader that there will be no extraneous experiences to consider at the close of each novel. In Daniel Deronda, however, George Eliot depicts the future of her heroine as an unknown element in which the only constant is the process of maturation. This novel offers a detailed perspective on human development concluding with the concept of a future in which new awareness will be applied to unspecified events. Considering the intricacies of the issues of human nature that George Eliot deals with, such as individual illusions, the effects of social pressure, the inescapable consequences of past behavior, and the course of moral growth, the simplicity of her closed and happy endings in the novels previous to Daniel Deronda are aesthetically and emotionally unsatisfying for the reader. This study accounts for the superiority of her final novel by virtue of its faithfulness to the condition of change implied throughout the development of plot and characterization. Chapters I and II of this thesis deal with Maggie Tulliver's drowning in The Mill on the Floss and Dorothea Brooke's final marriage in Middlemarch as examples of George Eliot's characteristic of completing her novels with a brief and ungratifying account of the heroine after rendering a slow and faithful description of her temperament, her emotional traumas and the consequent moral dilemmas established against the panoramic background of provincial society. Chapter III, however, establishes Gwendolen Harleth's new and disturbing vision of reality and the uncertainty of her future as a conclusion to Daniel Deronda. This open-ended structure gratifies the reader's expectation by its consistency with the complexity of the heroine's psychological drama.
JAVANESE CULTURE-BASED DIGITAL BOOK FOR FOREIGN SPEAKERS
Creators: name: Budhi Setiawan
name: Kundharu Saddhono
name: Muhammad Rohmadi
name: Memet Sudaryanto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Digital Textbooks, BIPA, Javanese Culture, Local Wisdom, Cultural Integration.

description: Abstract

Digital textbooks are learning tools that support distance learning needs, especially Indonesian for foreign speakers. It is important to develop digital textbooks based on Javanese culture as a vehicle for introducing Javanese culture as well as improving Indonesian language skills. In order to answer the formulation of the problem, research, design, and development of compatible, valid, and reliable digital textbooks were carried out. The effectiveness of digital textbooks is analyzed through the analysis of accessibility, media quality, legability, easy to understand, cultural representation, clarity, ease of use, and navigation. The results of the assessment are used as the basis for product improvement so that it can be applied more widely in improving Indonesian language proficiency for foreign speakers. In general, product development is divided into (1) development of Indonesian language teaching materials based on Javanese culture, and (2) development of android-based textbooks, starting from making flowcharts, story boards, and developing multimedia based on Javanese culture. The topic of Javanese culture was well presented and was able to increase enthusiasm for learning Indonesian for foreign speakers. Final product evaluation to see the usability of digital textbooks, including functionality, reliability, usability, efficiency, maintainability, and protability which showed very significant results.
Map of the dominant mineralogy over and around the Mars2020 landing ellipse with correspondent spectral signatures
Creators: name: Parente, Mario
name: Saranathan, Arun M.
name: Itoh, Yuki
name: Tarnas, Jesse D.
name: Seelos, Frank P.
name: Mustard, John F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Mars 2020, Perseverance, mineral maps, CRISM, hyperspectral images

description: This map of the dominant mineralogy over and around the Mars 2020 landing ellipse at Jezero crater was created from CRISM L detector observations HRL000040FF, FRT000047A3, FRT0005C5E, and FRS00031442. Each individual raw cube underwent combined atmospheric compensation and denoising according to the method described in (Itoh and Parente, 2021). Then the GAN-based method, described in (Saranathan and Parente, 2021), was employed to obtain a mineral map for each observation. The final mosaic was obtained by coregistering the individual maps to the USGS Mars 2020 Jezero Crater Landing Site Controlled CTX and HiRISE DEM available at https://astrogeology.usgs.gov/maps/mars-2020-jezero-crater-landing-site-controlled-orthomosaics. The map mosaic image 'jezeroFinal.tif' is in TIFF format and has a null (black space) value of 0. It shows the spatial distribution of the spectral prototypes depicted in the ancillary plot 'JezeroEM.png' following the same color convention. The prototype spectra are also collected in the attached ENVI spectral library. For each color in the map, bright tones represent very high confidence that the underlying pixel exhibit a spectrum very similar to the corresponding prototype. for darker tones, the confidence is slightly reduced, in the sense that there could be slight variations in the spectrum due to small residual artifacts. Color convention and preliminary mineral attributions can be found in 'Jezero_readme.pdf'. The corrected hyperspectral cubes and the mineral maps derived from them were extensively validated by a concerted effort by research groups at the University of Massachusetts (UMass), Brown University, the Washington University in St. Louis (WashU), and the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL). The researchers verified the good correlation between the spectral products by the Umass group used to produce this published map with independently processed images by the WashU and APL groups. The mineral maps produced by the Umass group were validated by independent application of the DAFA/TT method proposed by the group at Brown University. DAFA/TT also helped identify some of the prototype spectra.
description: Supported by US National Science Foundation (NSF) grant # 1564032
description: {"references": ["Yuki Itoh, Mario Parente (2021). A new method for atmospheric correction and de-noising of CRISM hyperspectral data, Icarus, Volume 354, 2021, 114024, ISSN 0019-1035, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2020.114024.", "Arun M. Saranathan, Mario Parente (2021). Adversarial feature learning for improved mineral mapping of CRISM data, Icarus, Volume 355, 2021, 114107, ISSN 0019-1035, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2020.114107."]}
Brane/flux annihilation transitions and nonperturbative moduli stabilization
Creators: name: Brown, Charles Max
name: DeWolfe, Oliver
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By extending the calculation of Kahler moduli stabilization to account for an embiggened antibrane, we reevaluate brane/flux annihilation in a warped throat with one stabilized Kahler modulus. We find that depending on the relative size of various fluxes three things can occur: the decay process proceeds unhindered, the anti-D3-branes are forbidden to decay classically, or the entire space decompactifies. Additionally, we show that the Kahler modulus receives a contribution from the collective 3-brane tension. This allows for a significant change in compactified volume during the transition and possibly mitigates some fine tuning otherwise required to achieve large volume.
description: 25 pages, 6 figures, LaTeX. v2: references added
Can warm absorbers be driven by ultra-fast outflows?
Creators: name: Bu, De-Fu
name: Yang, Xiao-Hong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Warm absorbers (WAs) located approximately in the region of $1-1000$ parsecs are common phenomena in many active galactic nuclei (AGNs). The driving mechanism of WAs is still under debate. Ultra-fast outflows (UFOs) which are launched very close to the central black hole are also frequently observed in AGNs. When UFOs move outwards, they will collide with the interstellar medius (ISM) gas. In this paper, we study the possibility that whether WAs can be generated by the interaction between ISM gas and the UFOs. We find that under some ISM gas conditions, WAs can be generated. However, the covering factor of WAs is much smaller than that given by observations. This indicates that other mechanisms should also be at work. We also find that the properties of the WAs mainly depend on the density of the ISM injected into the computational domain from the outer radial boundary (1000 parsec). The higher the density of the ISM is, the higher the mass flux and kinetic power of the WAs will be. The kinetic power of the UFO driven WAs is much less than $1\%$ of the bolometric luminosity of its host AGNs. Therefore, the UFO driven WAs might not contribute sufficient feedback to its host galaxy.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures, published in ApJ
Theoretical studies of microfluidics: "walking" drops and "melting" snowflakes.
Creators: name: Gallo, Tommaso <1981>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2011
Subjects: CHIM/02 Chimica fisica

description: The present PhD thesis summarizes two examples of research in microfluidics.
Both times water was the subject of interest, once in the liquid state (droplets adsorbed on chemically functionalized surfaces), the other time in the solid state (ice snowflakes and their fractal behaviour). The first problem deals with a slipping nano-droplet of water adsorbed on a surface with photo-switchable wettability characteristics. Main focus was on identifying the underlying driving forces and mechanical principles at the molecular level of detail. Molecular Dynamics simulation was employed as investigative tool owing to its record of successfully describing the microscopic behaviour of liquids at interfaces. To reproduce the specialized surface on which a water droplet can effectively “walk”, a new implicit surface potential was developed. 
Applying this new method the experimentally observed droplet slippage 
could be reproduced successfully. Next the movement of the droplet was analyzed at various conditions emphasizing on the behaviour of the water molecules in contact with the surface. The main objective was to identify driving forces and molecular mechanisms underlying the slippage process. The second part of this thesis is concerned with theoretical studies of snowflake melting. In the present work snowflakes are represented by filled von Koch-like fractals of mesoscopic beads. A new algorithm has been developed from scratch to simulate the thermal collapse of fractal structures based on Monte Carlo and Random Walk Simulations (MCRWS). The developed method was applied and compared to Molecular Dynamics simulations regarding the melting of ice snowflake crystals and new parameters were derived from this comparison. Bigger snow-fractals were then studied looking at the time evolution at different temperatures again making use of the developed MCRWS method. This was accompanied by an in-depth analysis of fractal properties (border length and gyration radius) in order to shed light on the dynamics of the melting process.
CIFRA National Survey: Uruguay October 1994
Creators: name: CIFRA, In Bogliaccini, Juan, And Queirolo Rosario Laboratorio De Opinión Pública And Redes Sociales En Uruguay Collection (Social Networks And Public Opinion Lab Collection)
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2021

description: Economic situation of the country; interest in politics; reason for gender gap in politics; women in politics; family voting habits; approval of President Luis Alberto Lacalle; approval of Parliament; approval of the district mayor; likability of politicians and presidential candidates; qualities and morals of political candidates; political spectrum position; economic situation of your family; referendum on education; referendum on social security; opinions about political parties; alternatives to Lacalle; past voting history; probable voting decisions; future voting tendencies. Montevideo: Personal medical services; recent medical visits; quality of medical appointments; preferred presidential candidate; problems with district public services. National Agency for Research and Innovation (ANII) Collection
Empress Wei, Consort Shang-Kuan and the political conflicts in the reign of Chung-Tsung
Creators: name: Tang, Karen Kai-Ying
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Female intervention in government happened from time to time in Chinese history. The women involved were usually either ambitious individuals who made use of favourable opportunities to seize political power or daughters of powerful families whose marriages into the Imperial House were arranged in order to insure the power of their male relatives. In tracing the background of these women, we find that the former type often came from a non-Chinese or lower-class family while the latter type were usually Chinese and invariably had an aristocratic background. Although coming from different backgrounds these ladies shared the common characteristic that they were contented with the position they had as Empress or Empress Dowager. The further ambition of themselves ascending to the throne never occurred to them. The cases of female intervention during the Tang period were rather different from the above stereotypes. They were a succession of ambitious female members of the Imperial family who tried to follow in the footsteps of Empress Wu in order to rule the country both in name and in fact. Though none of them did succeed, their ambition and struggle was one of the major factors that influenced the political history of the first half of the eighth century.
Density gradients for the exchange energy of electrons in two dimensions
Creators: name: Pittalis, S.
name: Rasanen, E.
name: Vilhena, J. G.
name: Marques, M. A. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive a generalized gradient approximation to the exchange energy to be used in density functional theory calculations of two-dimensional systems. This class of approximations has a long and successful history, but it has not yet been fully investigated for electrons in two dimensions. We follow the approach originally proposed by Becke for three-dimensional systems [Int. J. Quantum Chem. 23, 1915 (1983), J. Chem. Phys. 85, 7184 (1986)]. The resulting functional depends on two parameters that are adjusted to a test set of parabolically confined quantum dots. Our exchange functional is then tested on a variety of systems with promising results, reducing the error in the exchange energy by a factor of 4 with respect to the simple local density approximation.
TECHNOLOGY AS A DRIVER AND DETERMINANT OF THE TRANSFORMATION OF JOURNALISM IN KOSOVO AND THE BALKANS
Creators: name: Safet Zejnullahu
name: Gëzim Qerimi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Technology, Kosovo, Balkans, Media, Transformation.

description: Abstract

The Balcan is a region with specific development, especially in the last thirty years. A region with approximate elements of development, in the totalitarian system of power, found itself unprepared for the normal transition of society, and it ‘s all segments, including the influence of technology and the media, as the focus of our interest. Instead of following the path of technological  development and media transition, from a media controlled by the government to a free media and determined by the free market of speech and ideas, this media remained in a pre-transition. Wars broke out and, instead of transition, the media remained in chaos. When the wars in the former Yugoslavia ended and the media began to recover in terms of content, it found itself facing the great difficulties of doing  a journalism, facing the wave of changes that  thecnology  imposed to media. Only after the wars, this mainly  traditional journalism became a question of the past. Technology imposed a new form: of research, of writing, of publication, of public relations. A whole new view of the media, was imposed by the dynamic developments of technology.
Oxidation of graphene on metals
Creators: name: Starodub, Elena
name: Bartelt, Norman C.
name: McCarty, Kevin F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use low-energy electron microscopy to investigate how graphene is removed from Ru(0001) and Ir(111) by reaction with oxygen. We find two mechanisms on Ru(0001). At short times, oxygen reacts with carbon monomers on the surrounding Ru surface, decreasing their concentration below the equilibrium value. This undersaturation causes a flux of carbon from graphene to the monomer gas. In this initial mechanism, graphene is etched at a rate that is given precisely by the same non-linear dependence on carbon monomer concentration that governs growth. Thus, during both growth and etching, carbon attaches and detaches to graphene as clusters of several carbon atoms. At later times, etching accelerates. We present evidence that this process involves intercalated oxygen, which destabilizes graphene. On Ir, this mechanism creates observable holes. It also occurs mostly quickly near wrinkles in the graphene islands, depends on the orientation of the graphene with respect to the Ir substrate, and, in contrast to the first mechanism, can increase the density of carbon monomers. We also observe that both layers of bilayer graphene islands on Ir etch together, not sequentially.
description: 15 pages, 10 figures. Manuscript revised to improve discussion, following referee comments. Accepted for publication in Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Feb. 11, 2010
CIFRA National Survey: Uruguay August 1996
Creators: name: CIFRA, In Bogliaccini, Juan, And Queirolo Rosario Laboratorio De Opinión Pública And Redes Sociales En Uruguay Collection (Social Networks And Public Opinion Lab Collection)
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2021

description: Total population: daily routine; approval of various political figures and groups; gifts for Día del Niño (Children’s Day); rate kindness of political leaders; Uruguay economy; where do you go when you need a doctor; monthly medical fees payment; family economic situation; purchases in the last year; borrowing money and loans; ability to pay bills; should the government implement more public works projects for employment; democracy in Uruguay; political corruption; how often do you go to the hair salon; makeup and beauty; men’s shaving frequency; do you work in the public or private sector; unemployment details of family members; dedication to religion; satisfaction with life; interest in politics; 1989 voting history; 1994 voting history. Montevideo and Canelones: saving for a future house; moving details. National Agency for Research and Innovation (ANII) Collection
Charmless $B_s\to V S$ Decays in PQCD Approach
Creators: name: Liu, Zhao-Wu
name: Zou, Zhi-Tian
name: Li, Ying
name: Liu, Xin
name: Wang, Jie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we investigate the $B_s\to V S$ decays in the perturbative QCD approach, where $V$ and $S$ denote the vector meson and scalar meson respectively. Based on the two-quark structure, considering two different scenarios for describing the scalar mesons, we calculate the branching fractions and the direct $CP$ asymmetries of all $B_s\to VS$ decays. Most branching fractions are predicted to be at $10^{-7}$ to $10^{-5}$, which could be measured in the LHCb and Belle-II experiments, especially for these color-allowed $B_s\to κ(800)(K_0^*(1430))K^*$ decays. It is found that the branching fractions of $B_s\to K_0^{*0}(1430)\bar{K}^{*0}$ and $B_s\to K_0^{*+}(1430)\bar{K}^{*-}$ are very sensitive to the scenarios, which can be used to determine whether $K_0^{*0}(1430)$ belongs to the ground state or the first excited state, if the data were available. We also note that some decays have large direct $CP$ asymmetries, some of which are also sensitive to the scenarios, such as the $B_s \to a_0^+(1450)K^{*-}$ and the $B_s\to f_0(1500) K^{*0}$ decays. Since the experimental measurements of $B_s\to VS$ decays are on the way, combined with the available data in the future, we expect the theoretical predictions will shed light on the structure of the scalar mesons.
description: 18 Pages, 3 Figures
Lowering the Barrier for Modern Cloud-based Geospatial Big Data Analysis by Combined Use of Innovative and Traditional Infrastructure
Creators: name: Girgin, Serkan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: big data
cloud computing
geospatial data
geoprocessing
earth observation
big geodata
computing platform
lessons learned

description: Geospatial data is getting bigger and such large and complex datasets are becoming more and more difficult to process by using traditional systems and methods, such as individual workstations. Numerous spatial computing solutions have been developed to tackle this challenge by enabling distributed data stores, parallel and distributed computing capabilities, and special computing units (e.g., GPU/TPU) to enable discovery, delivery, analysis, and visualisation of geospatial data. However, these solutions require specialized know-how and expertise, as well as access to adequate computing infrastructure that is mostly located remotely in the Cloud. Therefore, a transition in modus operandi is necessary. The Geospatial Computing Platform lowers the barrier by providing a state-of-the-art computing infrastructure designed for big geospatial analysis tasks that combines low-energy, high-performance Edge AI units with powerful GPU-enabled big data computing units in a seamless and innovative manner. Through the platform the users can access thousands of scientific software packages (e.g. Python / R) that are kept up to date regularly. Public datasets available platform-wide improve data access and reduce data duplication, whereas shared workspaces allow research groups to work in a collaborative manner. Beside a modern interactive notebook interface, the platform also allows remote desktop access for desktop applications (e.g., QGIS, SNAP) and features integrated geospatial database, map serving, and data collection services to benefit from existing well-established tools and technologies. This talk first provides an introduction to geospatial big data and cloud computing. The experience of the participants with these technologies and their needs to better utilize them in their research activies are discussed in an interactive manner. Then information about the design and architecture of the platform, current use cases, and lessons learned during the operation period of two years, involving 250,000+ hours of multi-core/GPU computation and a user community of more than 800 users are presented.
SOCIAL MEDIA NETWORK ANALYSIS IN ONLINE GAMBLING DISCUSSION ON YOUTUBE: A CASE STUDY OF THE VIDEO "INDONESIA EMERGENCY ONLINE GAMBLING"
Creators: name: JIHAN ATSILAH SIREGAR
name: CATUR NUGROHO
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Online Gambling; Mobile-Mediated Communication; Social Media; Network Analysis; YouTube.

description: Abstract

This research explores the dynamics of interaction and information distribution regarding the issue of online gambling in Indonesia through social media network analysis in the comment section of a YouTube video titled "Indonesia Darurat Judi Online" uploaded by the tvOneNews.com channel. The background of this research is based on the high level of discussion activity about online gambling on social media, indicating the importance of YouTube as a virtual public space. This research aims to identify critical actors, interaction patterns, and how information about online gambling is distributed among YouTube users. The research method uses Social Media Network Analysis (SNA) with the population of comments on the video. Data collection was conducted through Edu.Communalytic.org and analyzed using Gephi software. The results showed 3,110 nodes and 424 edges with a diameter value of 2, density of 0, reciprocity of 0, and centralization of 0.00001, depicting a decentralized communication network with minimal and one-way interactions. Key actors like @wanwan6171 and @diditsamodra have significantly influenced this network. These findings affirm the critical role of social media in disseminating information and shaping public opinion on complex social issues such as online gambling. The novelty of this research lies in the use of SNA to understand the dynamics of communication on YouTube social media related to the issue of online gambling in Indonesia. Policymakers can consider the implications of this research in designing more effective countermeasures.
Detailed Analysis of Filamentary Structure in the Weibel Instability
Creators: name: Suzuki, Akihiro
name: Shigeyama, Toshikazu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results of a 2D3V kinetic Vlasov simulation of the Weibel instability. The kinetic Vlasov simulation allows us to investigate the velocity distribution of dilute plasmas, in which the effect of collisions between particles is negligible, and has the advantage that the accuracy of the calculated velocity distribution does not depend on the density of plasmas at each point in the physical space. We succeed in reproducing some features of the Weibel instability shown by other simulations, for example, the exponentially growing phase, the saturation of the magnetic field strength, the formation of filamentary structure, and the coalescence of the filaments. Especially, we concentrate on the behavior of the filaments after the saturation of the magnetic field strength and find that there is a kind of quasi-equilibrium states before the coalescence occurs. Furthermore, it is found that an analytical solution for stationary states of the 2D3V Vlasov-Maxwell system can reproduce some dominant features of the quasi-equilibrium, e.g, the configuration of the magnetic field and the velocity distribution at each point. The analytical expression could give a plausible model for the transition layer of a collisionless shock where a strong magnetic field generated by the Weibel instability provides an effective dissipation process instead of collisions between particles.
description: 9 pages, 11figures, to appear in ApJ
Trust-aware Control for Intelligent Transportation Systems
Creators: name: Cheng, Mingxi
name: Zhang, Junyao
name: Nazarian, Shahin
name: Deshmukh, Jyotirmoy
name: Bogdan, Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Many intelligent transportation systems are multi-agent systems, i.e., both the traffic participants and the subsystems within the transportation infrastructure can be modeled as interacting agents. The use of AI-based methods to achieve coordination among the different agents systems can provide greater safety over transportation systems containing only human-operated vehicles, and also improve the system efficiency in terms of traffic throughput, sensing range, and enabling collaborative tasks. However, increased autonomy makes the transportation infrastructure vulnerable to compromised vehicular agents or infrastructure. This paper proposes a new framework by embedding the trust authority into transportation infrastructure to systematically quantify the trustworthiness of agents using an epistemic logic known as subjective logic. In this paper, we make the following novel contributions: (i) We propose a framework for using the quantified trustworthiness of agents to enable trust-aware coordination and control. (ii) We demonstrate how to synthesize trust-aware controllers using an approach based on reinforcement learning. (iii) We comprehensively analyze an autonomous intersection management (AIM) case study and develop a trust-aware version called AIM-Trust that leads to lower accident rates in scenarios consisting of a mixture of trusted and untrusted agents.
title: Patología obstructiva no vascular en cabeza y cuello.
Creators: name: Quintana Blanco, David
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Head and neck
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Ear / Nose / Throat
subject: Ultrasound
subject: CT
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Dacryocystography
subject: Sialography
subject: Obstruction / Occlusion
subject: Neoplasia
subject: Foreign bodies

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
Bibliografía
description: Objetivo docente:
Las obstrucciones son una complicación común en muchos de los órganos cervico-faciales. Recordaremos las causas,
la presentación clínica,
los hallazgos por imagen y el manejo de las obstrucciones órgano por órgano,
desde el sistema lacrimal y...
Negative and positive refraction are not Lorentz covariant
Creators: name: Mackay, Tom G.
name: Lakhtakia, Akhlesh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The refraction of linearly polarized plane waves into a half-space occupied by a material moving at constant velocity was studied by directly implementing the Lorentz transformations of electric and magnetic fields. From the perspective of a co-moving observer, the moving material was a spatially local, pseudochiral omega material. Numerical studies revealed that whether or not negative refraction occurrs in the moving material depends upon the speed of movement as well as the angle of incidence and the polarization state of the incident plane wave. Furthermore, the phenomenons of negative phase velocity and counterposition in the moving material were similarly found not to be Lorentz covariant; both phenomenons were also found to be sensitive to the angle of incidence and the polarization state of the incident plane wave.
title: Hernia intestinal interna: Causa infrecuente de obstrucción intestinal.
Creators: name: Tello Moreno, Manuel
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Obstruction / Occlusion
subject: Hernia
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Technical aspects
subject: CT
subject: Abdomen

description: Objetivos
Material y método
Resultados
Conclusiones
Bibliografía
description: Objetivos:
La hernia intestinal interna es una causa infrecuente de obstrucción intestinal que siempre debemos tener en cuenta en el diagnóstico diferencial,
sobre todo en pacientes que no presentan antecedentes quirúrgicos.
Por ello,
es importante...
The inward continuities : aesthetics, crisis and The anathemata of David Jones
Creators: name: Li, Victor Paw Hoon
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The purpose of this thesis is to show the interrelationship between David Jones's writings on aesthetics, his expressed concern over the threat technology presents to the practice of art, and the compositional problems of The Anathemata. David Jones's aesthetic concepts appear idiosyncratic and strange to many of us because we no longer understand the language of poiesis and signs in which he speaks. Hence the language of his aesthetics needs to be translated, his aesthetic concepts defined. Accordingly, the first three chapters explore Jones's writings on art and attempt to define and explain certain key terms in his aesthetic vocabulary, terms such as poiesis, sign, sacrament, anamnesis, 're-present,' materia poetica, and so on. The fourth chapter investigates David Jones's contention that the arts are in a state of crisis in our technological epoch. The dominant utilitarian ideology of our technocracy, Jones argues, threatens the 'extra-utile,' gratuitous nature of artistic activity. Consequently, he believes that a modern aesthetic must be based on anxiety. This chapter also discusses how Jones's aesthetic views presented in the first three chapters furnish at once a critique of modern technological trends and an aesthetic valid for our epoch. In the fifth chapter, The Anathemata is examined in the context provided for it by the preceding chapters. In particular, this chapter examines the problems (especially of a structural nature) faced by David Jones in composing a long poem like The Anathemata. It also argues that Jones successfully solves the problem of unity in The Anathemata by adopting a flexible structure which not only accommodates a multiplicity and variety of allusions, ideas, and themes, but, at the same time, manages to conjoin them into an ordered whole. Finally, the thesis concludes that the central principle which informs David Jones's writings is his belief in the interrelatedness of all things, a belief supported by his practice as an artist and his faith as a Catholic.
INVESTIGATING THE IMPACT OF NON-PERFORMANCE FINANCING ON PROFITABILITY: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF ISLAMIC BANKS IN INDONESIA
Creators: name: Achmad Fauzi
name: Etty Murwaningsari
name: Tatik Marjanti
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Nonperformance Financing, Productive, Consumer, Cost of Loan, Profitability.

description: Abstract

Background: The growth of consumer financing at Islamic banks in Indonesia is more aggressive than productive financing. The emphasis on the consumer sector is anticipated to pose challenges for Islamic banks and could significantly impact customer behavior in the future. Aims: This study examines the influence of non-performing financing on the Profitability of Islamic banks in Indonesia through empirical evidence in the context of productive and consumptive financing and the dynamics of the cost of loans. Research Methode: This study used Structural Equation Model-Partial Least Square (SEM-PLS) to test and analyze the influence of several structural equations (regression equations). The variables used in this study are Non-Performing Productive Financing, Performing Productive Financing, Non-Performing Consumer Financing, Performing Consumer Financing, Cost of Loan, and Profitability. Control Variables include Loan Pricing, Money Market Pricing, Third-Party Fund Pricing, Third-Party Funds, and Operational Costs. The data used are time series data, which are monthly aggregated data of the Islamic banking industry in Indonesia from January 2010 to July 2023. Results and Conclusion: This study indicates full mediation, where Non-Performing Productive Financing significantly negatively affects Profitability through Performing Productive Financing and the Cost of the Loan. For Non-Performing Consumer Financing, remediation occurs, where the Cost of the Loan does not prove to mediate the negative influence of Non-Performing Consumer Financing on Profitability. Non-performing productive financing directly affects Profitability negatively but insignificantly. Non Performing Consumer Financing directly affects Profitability. Performing Consumer Financing proves to mediate the influence of Non-Performing Consumer Financing on Profitability. This indicates partial mediation has occurred. Non-performing consumer financing directly affects performing consumer financing negatively, and performing consumer financing positively affects Profitability. Contribution: Theory: This study reinforces the concept that a balance between productive and consumer financing is important for economic stability. It also demonstrates the importance of maqashid sharia principles in managing bank risk and Profitability. Practice: Islamic banks should develop a more balanced policy in disbursing financing. Improved risk management is needed to manage both productive and consumer financing. Adjusting the profit strategy with forming a regulated loan cost can increase long-term stability.
Measurement of the Flux of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays by the Stereo Technique
Creators: name: Abbasi, R. U.
name: Abu-Zayyad, T.
name: Al-Seady, M.
name: Allen, M.
name: Amann, J. F.
name: Archbold, G.
name: Belov, K.
name: Belz, J. W.
name: Bergman, D. R.
name: Blake, S. A.
name: Brusova, O. A.
name: Burt, G. W.
name: Cannon, C.
name: Cao, Z.
name: Deng, W.
name: Fedorova, Y.
name: Findlay, J.
name: Finley, C. B.
name: Gray, R. C.
name: Hanlon, W. F.
name: Hoffman, C. M.
name: Holzscheiter, M. H.
name: Hughes, G.
name: Huntemeyer, P.
name: Ivanov, D.
name: Jones, B. F.
name: Jui, C. C. H.
name: Kim, K.
name: Kirn, M. A.
name: Loh, E. C.
name: Maestas, M. M.
name: Manago, N.
name: Marek, L. J.
name: Martens, K.
name: Matthews, J. A. J.
name: Matthews, J. N.
name: Moore, S. A.
name: O'Neil, A.
name: Painter, C. A.
name: Perera, L.
name: Reil, K.
name: Riehle, R.
name: Roberts, M. D.
name: Rodriguez, D.
name: Sasaki, M.
name: Schnetzer, S. R.
name: Scott, L. M.
name: Sinnis, G.
name: Smith, J. D.
name: Snow, R.
name: Sokolsky, P.
name: Springer, R. W.
name: Stokes, B. T.
name: Stratton, S. R.
name: Thomas, J. R.
name: Thomas, S. B.
name: Thomson, G. B.
name: Tupa, D.
name: Wiencke, L. R.
name: Zech, A.
name: Zhang, B. K.
name: Zhang, X.
name: Zhang, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The High Resolution Fly's Eye experiment has measured the flux of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays using the stereoscopic air fluorescence technique. The HiRes experiment consists of two detectors that observe cosmic ray showers via the fluorescence light they emit. HiRes data can be analyzed in monocular mode, where each detector is treated separately, or in stereoscopic mode where they are considered together. Using the monocular mode the HiRes collaboration measured the cosmic ray spectrum and made the first observation of the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin cutoff. In this paper we present the cosmic ray spectrum measured by the stereoscopic technique. Good agreement is found with the monocular spectrum in all details.
description: 20 pages, 10 figures
title: Utilidad del acido gadoxético ( Gd-EOB-DTPA PrimovistR ) en la valoración de fistulas bilio-entéricas y fugas biliares tras cirugía hepato-biliar.
Creators: name: Lecumberri Cortes, Gonzalo
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Fistula
subject: Cholangiography
subject: MR
subject: Abdomen

description: Objetivos
Material y método
Resultados
Conclusiones
Bibliografía
description: Objetivos:
Valorar la utilidad del ácido gadoxético en el diagnóstico de fugas biliares tras cirugía hepatobiliar y demostrar fístulas bilio-entéricas. El ácido gadoxético ( gd-EOB-DTPA) es un contraste hepatoespecífico que por sus características...
A Novel Data Pre-processing Technique: Making Data Mining Robust to Different Units and Scales of Measurement
Creators: name: Baniya, Arbind Agrahari
name: Aryal, Sunil
name: KC, Santosh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Many existing data mining algorithms use feature values directly in their model, making them sensitive to units/scales used to measure/represent data. Pre-processing of data based on rank transformation has been suggested as a potential solution to overcome this issue. However, the resulting data after pre-processing with rank transformation is uniformly distributed, which may not be very useful in many data mining applications. In this paper, we present a better and effective alternative based on ranks over multiple sub-samples of data. We call the proposed pre-processing technique as ARES | Average Rank over an Ensemble of Sub-samples. Our empirical results of widely used data mining algorithms for classification and anomaly detection in a wide range of data sets suggest that ARES results in more consistent task specific? outcome across various algorithms and data sets. In addition to this, it results in better or competitive outcome most of the time compared to the most widely used min-max normalisation and the traditional rank transformation.
description: This paper is published in a special issue of the Australian Journal of Intelligent Information Processing Systems as part of the proceedings of the International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP) 2019
Elementary equivalence of right-angled Coxeter groups and graph products of finite abelian groups
Creators: name: Casals-Ruiz, Montserrat
name: Kazachkov, Ilya
name: Remeslennikov, Vladimir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20E06, 20F55, 03C07 (Primary); 20E99 (Secondary)

description: We show that graph products of finite abelian groups are elementarily equivalent if and only if they are $\exists\forall$-equivalent if and only if they are isomorphic. In particular, two right-angled Coxeter groups are elementarily equivalent if and only if they are isomorphic.
description: 7 pages; version 2: added a reference to David Radcliffe's rigidity result and Remark 2.4
CIFRA National Survey: Uruguay November 1994
Creators: name: CIFRA, In Bogliaccini, Juan, And Queirolo Rosario Laboratorio De Opinión Pública And Redes Sociales En Uruguay Collection (Social Networks And Public Opinion Lab Collection)
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2021

description: Total population: Uruguay economy; comparison of Uruguay 5 years ago vs. now vs. 5 years in the future; parents' political parties; approval of political figures and groups; rate kindness of political figures; closeness to political party; family economic situation; constitutional reform improving education; change in social security law; who you think will become the next president aside from your favorite candidate; parties you would never vote for; what time do you go vote; preferred methods to vote; 1984 voting history; voter readiness. Montevideo: where do you receive medical help; in what areas has the city council taken the most action. National Agency for Research and Innovation (ANII) Collection
Competitività in sostenibilità urbana e territoriale.
L’Emilia Romagna, regione d’Europa
Creators: name: Pistocchi, Filippo <1979>
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2008
Subjects: M-GGR/01 Geografia

description: The thesis in Urban and Regional Geography titled “URBAN AND
TERRITORIAL COMPETITIVENESS IN SUSTAINABILITY. EMILIA-ROMAGNA,
REGION OF EUROPE” is divided into two sections.
Section one is additionally composed by two chapters (chap. 1 and 2)
and deals with theoretical and gnosiological issues.
Section two, of two more chapters (chap. 3 and 4), provides practical
contributions: these issues give explanatory patterns to interpret the
performances of emiliano-romagnoli urban systems.
Chapter one is an introductory chapter. It analyzes globalization that
involves a larger and larger number of cities, rich or poor. It also considers
the so called “digital divide” either as one of the major phenomena of this unhomogeneous
development or as an interesting gnosiological and practical
challenge of geography. Globalization is now involving all the cities, large or
small, but the small ones have higher risks of exclusion: it depends on their
more fragile socio-economic, cultural, and environmental urban structure.
That’s why European Union (chapter two) promotes policies and
endows politics to sustain cities, because urban systems are the basis for the
territorial development. So, European, national and local Institutions are
firmly interested in promoting urban and local interventions and projects.
Section two deals with economic-geography methods, which consists
on collecting indicators and the benchmarking methodology. It also
specifically analyzes the urban systems of Emilia-Romagna. Consequences of
the globalization on the cities are interpreted with a study of their local
resources, intended as potentials for their development. The STeMA approach,
proposed by Professor Maria Prezioso (University of Roma, “Tor Vergata”)
and used by the ESPON (European Spatial Program Observation Network)
project, describes the main “determinants” of the territorial and urban
development. These are easily comparable to one another (similar or better
performing). This approach achieves two goals. On one hand, it is possible to
analyze every urban system in its all main characteristics and to preserve its
historical and cultural factors. On another hand, each city is “knowable” and
“understandable” by all scholars, as it is objectively comparable. So, urban
planners can propose specific “multi-level” and “multi-varied” programs of
governance. These will face globalization by exalting local empowerment.