cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A clustering approach to integrate traffic safety in road maintenance prioritization
Creators: name: Janstrup, Kira H.
name: Møller, Mette
name: Pilegaard, Ninette
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Objectives: We combine data on roads and crash characteristics to identify patterns in road traffic crashes with regard to road characteristics. We illustrate how combined analysis of data regarding road maintenance, maintenance costs, road characteristics, crash characteristics, and geographical location can enrich road maintenance prioritization from a traffic safety perspective. Methods: The study is based on traffic crash data merged with road maintenance data and annual average daily traffic (AADT) collected in Denmark. We analyzed 3,964 crashes that occurred from 2010 to 2015. A latent class clustering (LCC) technique was used to identify crash clusters with different road and crash characteristics. The distribution of crash severity and estimated road maintenance costs for each cluster was found and cluster differences were compared using the chi-square test. Finally, a map matching procedure was used to identify the geographical distribution of the crashes in each cluster. Results: Results showed that based on road maintenance levels there was no difference in the distribution of crash severity. The LCC technique revealed 11 crash clusters. Five clusters were characterized by crashes on roads with a poor maintenance level (levels 4 and 3). Only a few of these crashes included a vulnerable road user (VRU) but many occurred on roads without barriers. Four clusters included a large share of crashes on acceptably maintained roads (level 2). For these clusters only small variations in road characteristics were found, whereas the differences in crash characteristics were more dominant. The last 2 clusters included crashes that mainly occurred on new roads with no need for maintenance (level 1). Injury severity, estimated maintenance costs, and geographical location were found to be differently distributed for most of the clusters. Conclusions: We find that focusing solely on road maintenance and crash severity does not provide clear guidance of how to prioritize between road maintenance efforts from a traffic safety perspective. However, when combined with geographical location and crash characteristics, a more nuanced picture appears that allows consideration of different target groups and perspectives.
Cussonia arborea A. Rich.
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Apiales
Araliaceae
Cussonia
Cussonia arborea

description: Cussonia arborea Hochst. ex A.Rich.  —
Habit: Tree.
Habitat: LMDF; up to 2 500 m. Distribution: II.
Voucher: N/A.
Reference: Bussmann (1994).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 98, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
The Distortion of Discussion
Creators: Backer, David I.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Education--Philosophy
Education--Study and teaching
Teaching
Education

description: This dissertation addresses a common, but troubling, educational interaction: when a facilitator (whether teacher, professor, or organizer) announces that a discussion will take place about some subject or question, but proceeds to speak at length and field questions regarding that subject. In this case, a controlled and unequal form of interaction known as recitation has occurred, though the interaction was called a "discussion" at the outset. Since discussion, as a form of interaction, connotes democracy, equality, and freedom, this interaction (where recitation passes for discussion) is distorted.
      After a survey of discussion's many pedagogical meanings, a Marxist theoretical approach--primarily drawing from Louis Althusser and Valentin Voloshinov--is used to critique the distortion of discussion. From the Voloshinovian perspective, the aforementioned distortion composes and iterates the social formation known as neoliberal capitalism. A psychoanalytic theoretical approach is then used to propose a new concept of discussion that works against this neoliberal distortion, one founded on Jacques Lacan's early concept of dehiscence. The dissertation concludes with suggestions for dehiscent facilitation practices, calling for greater emphasis on the form of interaction (as opposed to content) when working for social and political change.
Exploring relationships between observed activation rates and functional attributes of lane departure prevention
Creators: name: Reagan, Ian J.
name: Cicchino, Jessica B.
name: Montalbano, Carl J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Objective: Drivers’ use of lane departure warning and prevention systems is lower than use of other crash avoidance technologies and varies significantly by manufacturer. One factor that may affect use is how well a system prevents unintended departures. The current study evaluated the performance of systems that assist in preventing departures by providing steering or braking input in a 2016 Chevrolet Malibu, 2016 Ford Fusion, 2016 Honda Accord, and 2018 Volvo S90. These vehicles were selected because a prior observational study found that the percentage of privately owned vehicles that had lane departure prevention systems turned on varied among these 4 automakers. Method: In each vehicle, a test driver induced 40 lane drifts on left and right curves by steering the vehicle straight into the curve so that vehicles departed in the opposite direction and 40 lane drifts on straightaways by slight steering input to direct the vehicle to left and right lane markers. Results: Vehicles from automakers with higher observed lane departure prevention use rates (Volvo, Chevrolet) featured systems that provided steering input earlier and more often avoided crossing lane markers by more than 35 cm compared to vehicles from automakers with lower observed use rates (Ford, Honda). Conclusion: The study identified functional characteristics (i.e., timing of steering input, prevention of departures more than 35 cm) of lane departure prevention systems that were strongly associated with observed activation of these systems in privately owned vehicles. Although this relationship does not imply causation, the findings support the hypothesis that functional characteristics of lane departure prevention systems affect their use. Designers may be able to use these results to maximize driver acceptance of future implementations of lane departure prevention.
The critical temperature of the 2D-Ising model through Deep Learning Autoencoders
Creators: name: Alexandrou, Constantia
name: Athenodorou, Andreas
name: Chrysostomou, Charalambos
name: Paul, Srijit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate deep learning autoencoders for the unsupervised recognition of phase transitions in physical systems formulated on a lattice. We focus our investigation on the 2-dimensional ferromagnetic Ising model and then test the application of the autoencoder on the anti-ferromagnetic Ising model. We use spin configurations produced for the 2-dimensional ferromagnetic and anti-ferromagnetic Ising model in zero external magnetic field. For the ferromagnetic Ising model, we study numerically the relation between one latent variable extracted from the autoencoder to the critical temperature $T_c$. The proposed autoencoder reveals the two phases, one for which the spins are ordered and the other for which spins are disordered, reflecting the restoration of the $\mathbb{Z}_2$ symmetry as the temperature increases. We provide a finite volume analysis for a sequence of increasing lattice sizes. For the largest volume studied, the transition between the two phases occurs very close to the theoretically extracted critical temperature. We define as a quasi-order parameter the absolute average latent variable ${\tilde z}$, which enables us to predict the critical temperature. One can define a latent susceptibility and use it to quantify the value of the critical temperature $T_c(L)$ at different lattice sizes and that these values suffer from only small finite scaling effects. We demonstrate that $T_c(L)$ extrapolates to the known theoretical value as $L \to \infty$ suggesting that the autoencoder can also be used to extract the critical temperature of the phase transition to an adequate precision. Subsequently, we test the application of the autoencoder on the anti-ferromagnetic Ising model, demonstrating that the proposed network can detect the phase transition successfully in a similar way.
description: 17 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication in Eur. Phys. J. B
A Quantum Mechanical Model of the Reissner-Nordstrom Black Hole
Creators: name: Makela, Jarmo
name: Repo, Pasi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a Hamiltonian quantum theory of spherically symmetric, asymptotically flat electrovacuum spacetimes. The physical phase space of such spacetimes is spanned by the mass and the charge parameters $M$ and $Q$ of the Reissner-Nordström black hole, together with the corresponding canonical momenta. In this four-dimensional phase space, we perform a canonical transformation such that the resulting configuration variables describe the dynamical properties of Reissner-Nordström black holes in a natural manner. The classical Hamiltonian written in terms of these variables and their conjugate momenta is replaced by the corresponding self-adjoint Hamiltonian operator, and an eigenvalue equation for the ADM mass of the hole, from the point of view of a distant observer at rest, is obtained. Our eigenvalue equation implies that the ADM mass and the electric charge spectra of the hole are discrete, and the mass spectrum is bounded below. Moreover, the spectrum of the quantity $M^2-Q^2$ is strictly positive when an appropriate self-adjoint extension is chosen. The WKB analysis yields the result that the large eigenvalues of the quantity $\sqrt{M^2-Q^2}$ are of the form $\sqrt{2n}$, where $n$ is an integer. It turns out that this result is closely related to Bekenstein's proposal on the discrete horizon area spectrum of black holes.
description: 37 pages, Plain TeX, no figures
ИССЛЕДОВАНИЕ ВОЗМОЖНОСТИ ПРИМЕНЕНИЯ РОССИЙСКИХ СОРТОВ КУКУРУЗЫ ДЛЯ ПРОИЗВОДСТВА СОЛОДА
Creators: name: Сердюкова, Яна
Publisher: name: ООО Цифра
Year: 2024
Subjects: maize
malt
food processing
кукуруза
солод
пищевое производство

description: Journal of Agriculture and Environment, Выпуск 5 (45) 2024
Tenthredo minuta Mocsary 1909
Creators: name: Taeger, Andreas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Tenthredinidae
Tenthredo
Tenthredo minuta

description: Tenthredo minuta Mocsáry, 1909
A junior subjective synonym of Tenthredo (Tenthredella) ferruginea Schrank, 1776. Synonymy by Shinohara (1997).
TYPES. Tenthredo minuta Mocsáry, 1909: 37. Syntype (s) Ƥ, ”Sibiria orientalis: Raddefka”. Primary homonym of Tenthredo minuta Christ, 1791 [= Hoplocampa minuta (Christ, 1791)]. Lectotype Ƥ, designated by Shinohara, 1997. Type locality: “Sibiria or. Raddefka” [= Russia: Birobidzan: Radde]. Examined.
= Tenthredella dentina Enslin, 1912: 105. Replacement name for Tenthredo minuta Mocsáry, 1909
description: Published as part of Taeger, Andreas, 2013, The type specimens of Tenthredo Linnaeus, 1758 (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae) deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum, pp. 201-244 in Zootaxa 3626 (2) on page 222, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3626.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/248049
New Zealand Housing Markets: Just a BitPlayer in the A-League?
Creators: name: Grimes, Arthur
name: Holmes, Mark
name: Tarrant, Nicholas
name: Grimes, Arthur
name: Holmes, Mark
name: Tarrant, Nicholas
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: International Development
subject: Public Economics
subject: House price convergence
subject: international housing markets
subject: Australasia

description: House price trends in each of New Zealand and Australia are frequently discussed as national level developments. Sub-national developments are also important, especially where regions display idiosyncratic trends driven either by demand factors (differential income patterns) or by supply factors (geographical or regulatory restrictions). At a broader scale, it is possible that the New Zealand housing market, or a specific regional housing market (e.g. Auckland), is part of a broader Australasian housing market. If this were the case, New Zealand house prices would converge to a broadly stable ratio of house prices in Australia. One reason this could occur is if international macroeconomic and asset price trends dominate housing market outcomes. New Zealand authorities may then be relatively powerless to control the major real determinants of house prices through regulatory or other policies. We extract the major drivers of house prices at regional levels within New Zealand and Australia to examine the degree of differentiation across regional housing markets. While some minor regional differences are apparent, the evidence points to the dominance of a single trans-Tasman housing trend.
title: Braunschweigisches Adreßbuch für das Jahr 1916
Creators: name: :None
Publisher: name: Meyer
Year: 1916
Subjects: subject: Brunsvicensien der Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
subject: Stadt Braunschweig
subject: 902

description: Braunschweigisches Adreßbuch, vol. 1916
Cussonia holstii Engl.
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Apiales
Araliaceae
Cussonia
Cussonia holstii

description: Cussonia holstii Harms ex Engl.  —
Habit: Tree.
Habitat: LMDF; up to 2 500 m. Distribution: II.
 Voucher: Mount Kenya, Naro Moru, near the river, 21 May, 1972, Hagberg in E.A.H. 15109 (EA).
References: Fries & Fries (1925), Bussmann (1994), Bussmann & Beck (1995a).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on pages 98-99, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Tidal disruption event rates in galaxy merger remnants
Creators: name: Pfister, Hugo
name: Bar-Or, Ben
name: Volonteri, Marta
name: Dubois, Yohan
name: Capelo, Pedro R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The rate of tidal disruption events (TDEs) depends sensitively on the stellar properties of the central galactic regions. Simulations show that galaxy mergers cause gas inflows, triggering nuclear starbursts, increasing the central stellar density. Motivated by these numerical results, and by the observed over-representation of post-starburst galaxies among TDE hosts, we study the evolution of the TDE rate in high-resolution hydrodynamical simulations of a galaxy merger, in which we capture the evolution of the stellar density around the massive black holes (BHs). We apply analytical estimates of the loss-cone theory, using the stellar density profiles from simulations, to estimate the time evolution of the TDE rate. At the second pericentre, a nuclear starburst enhances the stellar density around the BH in the least massive galaxy, leading to an enhancement of the TDE rate around the secondary BH, although the magnitude and the duration of the increase depend on the stochasticity of star formation on very small scales. The central stellar density around the primary BH remains instead fairly constant, and so is its TDE rate. After the formation of the binary, the stellar density decreases, and so does the TDE rate.
description: Letter accepted in MNRAS
The Divergent Effects of Diversity Ideologies for Race and Gender Relations
Creators: Martin, Ashley E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Management
Race awareness
Intergroup relations
Diversity in the workplace
Sex role

description: Both practitioners and scholars have shown interest in initiatives that reduce bias and promote inclusion. Diversity ideologies—or beliefs and practices regarding how to approach group differences in diverse settings—have been studied as one set of strategies to promote racial equality, and argued to be effective for other intergroup relations, as well; however, little work has examined diversity ideologies in the context of gender, giving a limited understanding of their potential to improve gender relations. The present research compares the influence of two competing and commonly used ideologies—awareness and blindness—on race and gender relations. Awareness approaches recommend acknowledging and celebrating intergroup differences, whereas blindness approaches advocate for reducing and ignoring category membership. In contrast to research suggesting that race awareness is more effective at reducing racial bias than race blindness, I show that the opposite is true for gender. I theorize that awareness and blindness ideologies act upon unique types of race and gender differences in ways that preserve power for the dominant group, either exposing their opportunity-limiting nature (for race) or reifying their biological functionality (for gender). Using system justification theory, I show that diversity ideologies act upon distinct system-justifying rationales, where race awareness exposes differences in opportunities and experience, lessening denial of inequality, and thereby diminishing support for the status quo. In contrast, gender awareness highlights gender roles and their biological underpinnings, legitimizing gender differences in occupational segregation, and increasing support for the status quo (Studies 1–4). Additionally, I show that diversity ideologies have implications for unique forms of opportunity outcomes for women and racial minorities. For race, by increasing recognition of societal inequities, awareness leads Whites to show more support for policies that combat systemic inequality (i.e., affirmative action). For gender, by increasing biological attributions, awareness makes men more likely to stereotype in ways that limit women’s potential for success (Study 4). Finally, supporting my theory about the importance of the types of differences highlighted through awareness, I show that shifting the focus of differences toward external (opportunity, experience) ones leverages the benefits of awareness for both race and gender, providing a practical solution to improving race and gender equality (Studies 5–7). I conclude by discussing the implications of these findings for improving intergroup relations.
Correlations in Measurement-Based Quantum Computing and Bell Inequalities
Creators: name: Browne, Daniel
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Measurement-based quantum computation (or the one-way quantum computation) is a model in which a series of adaptive single qubit measurements upon an entangled resource state can produce classical output data equivalent to an arbitrary quantum logic circuit. Loosely speaking, the correlations in these measurements can be considered the resource which allows the computation to be performed. Bell inequalities demonstrate that quantum mechanics permits the outcomes of sets of measurements to be correlated in ways incompatible with the predictions of any local hidden variable theory, including classical physics. In the Bell inequality, and multi-party generalisations, a set of single-qubit measurements are performed, on spatially separated systems. Correlations in these measurements can act as a signature that no local hidden variable description of the experiment is possible. At first sight, we see superficial similarities between these settings. In both cases, non-classical correlations play a central role. However, there are also some key differences. Most importantly, measurement-based quantum computing requires adaptive measurements, at odds with the spatial-separated nature of Bell inequality experiments. Nevertheless some striking connections have been reported [1], [2] particularly between GHZ-type paradoxes and deterministic MBQC computations, and between CHSH-type Bell inequalities and non-deterministic MBQC correlations [1], [3]. In my talk I will survey these works and some recent results [3], [4] from my group at UCL, in which a number of connections between multi-party Bell inequalities and MBQC are explored. [1] J. Anders and D.E. Browne, "The Computational Power of Correlations", Physical Review Letters 102, 050502 (2009) [2] R. Raussendorf, "Quantum computation, discreteness, and contextuality", arxiv:0907.5449 [3] M. J. Hoban, E.T. Campbell, K. Loukopolous, D.E. Browne, "Non-adaptive measurement-based quantum computation and multi-party Bell inequalties", in preparation. [4] M. J. Hoban and D.E. Browne, in preparation.
Correlation amplitude for the XXZ spin chain in the disordered regime
Creators: name: Lukyanov, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We proposed an analytical expression for the amplitude defining the long distance asymptotic of the correlation function .
description: 5 pages, harvmac.tex, one epsf figure
Borel subsystems and ergodic universality for compact $\mathbb Z^d$-systems via specification and beyond
Creators: name: Chandgotia, Nishant
name: Meyerovitch, Tom
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37A35, 37A05, 37B50, 37B40

description: A Borel system $(X,S)$ is `almost Borel universal' if any free Borel dynamical system $(Y,T)$ of strictly lower entropy is isomorphic to a Borel subsystem of $(X,S)$, after removing a null set. We obtain and exploit a new sufficient condition for a topological dynamical system to be almost Borel universal. We use our main result to deduce various conclusions and answer a number of questions. Along with additional results, we prove that a `generic' homeomorphism of a compact manifold of topological dimension at least two can model any ergodic transformation, that non-uniform specification implies almost Borel universality, and that $3$-colorings in $\mathbb Z^d$ and dimers in $\mathbb Z^2$ are almost Borel universal
description: Revised after Referee's comments; 70 pages
Coherent final state interaction in jet production in nucleus-nucleus collisions
Creators: name: Zakharov, B. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the coherent final state interaction of an energetic parton produced in AA collisions caused by the change in the cutoff scale and running coupling constant from the vacuum to QGP. We demonstrate that the contribution of this new mechanism to the energy loss may be of the order of magnitude of the induced gluon radiation. However, an accurate evaluation of this medium effect is a difficult task because there is a strong cancellation between the cutoff and running coupling constant effects. The uncertainties in the contribution of the coherent final state interaction restrict strongly the accuracy of jet tomographic analyses of the matter density produced in AA reactions.
description: 9 pages, Latex
Towards a more complex description of chemical profiles in exoplanets retrievals: A 2-layer parameterisation
Creators: name: Changeat, Quentin
name: Edwards, Billy
name: Waldmann, Ingo
name: Tinetti, Giovanna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: State of the art spectral retrieval models of exoplanet atmospheres assume constant chemical profiles with altitude. This assumption is justified by the information content of current datasets which do not allow, in most cases, for the molecular abundances as a function of pressure to be constrained. In the context of the next generation of telescopes, a more accurate description of chemical profiles may become crucial to interpret observations and gain new insights into atmospheric physics. We explore here the possibility of retrieving pressure-dependent chemical profiles from transit spectra, without injecting any priors from theoretical chemical models in our retrievals. The "2-layer" parameterisation presented here allows for the independent extraction of molecular abundances above and below a certain atmospheric pressure. By simulating various cases, we demonstrate that this evolution from constant chemical abundances is justified by the information content of spectra provided by future space instruments. Comparisons with traditional retrieval models show that assumptions made on chemical profiles may significantly impact retrieved parameters, such as the atmospheric temperature, and justify the attention we give here to this issue. We find that the 2-layer retrieval accurately captures discontinuities in the vertical chemical profiles, which could be caused by disequilibrium processes -- such as photo-chemistry -- or the presence of clouds/hazes. The 2-layer retrieval could also help to constrain the composition of clouds and hazes by exploring the correlation between the chemical changes in the gaseous phase and the pressure at which the condensed phase occurs. The 2-layer retrieval presented here therefore represents an important step forward in our ability to constrain theoretical chemical models and cloud/haze composition from the analysis of future observations.
description: 19 pages, 17 figures, Accepted in ApJ
Imprints of the Metrically-coupled Dilaton on Density Perturbations in Inflationary Cosmology
Creators: name: Chiba, Takeshi
name: Sugiyama, Naoshi
name: Yokoyama, Jun'ichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spectra of density perturbations produced during chaotic inflation are calculated, taking both adiabatic and isocurvature modes into account in a class of scalar-tensor theories of gravity in which the dilaton is metrically coupled. Comparing the predicted spectrum of the cosmic microwave background radiation anisotropies with the one observed by the COBE-DMR we calculate constraints on the parameters of these theories, which turn out to be stronger by an order-of-magnitude than those obtained from post-Newtonian experiments.
description: title changed, 20 pages, to appear in Nucl.Phys.B
Cussonia spicata Thunb.
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Apiales
Araliaceae
Cussonia
Cussonia spicata

description: Cussonia spicata Thunb.  —
Habit: Tree.
Habitat: LMDF; 1 400–2 600 m. Distribution: II.
Voucher: N/A.
References: Fries & Fries (1925), Bussmann (1993, 1994), Bussmann & Beck (1995a).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 99, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Створення багатовимірного OLAP-куба ресторанного господарства міста Львова
Creators: name: , Лозован
name: Свелеба
name: Катеринчук
name: Куньо
name: Карпа
name: Свелеба
name: Шмигельський
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Бази даних
OLAP-куб
Інформаційні технології

description: В. Лозован, С. Свелеба, І. Катеринчук, І. Куньо, І. Карпа, Н. Свелеба, Я. Шмигельський // Створення багатовимірного OLAP-куба ресторанного господарства міста Львова // Електроніка та інформаційні технології // IX-ої Українсько-польська науково - практична конференція 28–31 серпня 2017 р. // Львів – Чинадієво, Україна. С. 10-13. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3435333
S1 File
Creators: name: Nyakura, Justice
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary online material (S1 File) containing the data collection form used in Justice Nyakura (VL uptake among PBF on ART in Mazowe, Zimbabwe, 2017)
The Domain-Specificity of Epistemological Understanding in Making Aesthetic Judgments
Creators: Crow, William Brice
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Cognition
Aesthetics--Psychological aspects
Art in education
Art--Psychology
Developmental psychology
Cognitive psychology
Art--Study and teaching

description: Literature in arts education suggests that experiences in the arts support the development of thinking skills such as critical thinking and reasoning (Fiske, 1999; Eisner, 2004; Greene, Kisida, and Bowen, 2014).  But do individuals make aesthetic judgments supported by critical thinking and reasoning, or are these judgments based only on subjective preferences or personal taste?  The present study examines whether undergraduate college students from an elite private university serving primarily students of high socioeconomic status (SES) and a public university serving primarily low SES students (n=150) invoke criteria when making evaluative judgments across the domains of visual art, music, and a non-aesthetic more general domain.  Students were asked to compare two works of art (visual art or music), and to compare two fictional political candidates and to indicate whether one could be judged superior to the other and if so on what basis.  Responses reflected levels of epistemological understanding—that is, whether judgments are based primarily on facts (Absolutist level), subjective opinions (Multiplist level), or criteria (Evaluativist level).
      The majority of participants displayed Multiplist levels in the aesthetic domains.  Evaluativist levels were more common in the non-aesthetic domain, although significantly so only in comparison to the music domain among the students from the private elite university.
      Group comparisons across the two aesthetic domains showed that individuals scored at the Evaluativist level with more frequency in the visual art domain as compared to the music domain.  However, this difference was significant only among the participants from the private elite university and not among the participants from the public university.  The general educational and social background of the participants (private elite university setting versus public university setting) proved to be the strongest predictor of Evaluativist-level responses.
      Continued research in epistemological understanding in the aesthetic domain is needed, as development in epistemological thinking may afford insights into the degree to which individuals exercise critical thinking about the arts, and how such thinking can be fostered.
The Double-edged Sword of a Successful Securitization: the Trade Off of Human Rights for a Flawed Sense of Security? The Case of the Securitization of Refugees From Syria in Lebanon Since 2011
Creators: Khouri, Andrea
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Political refugees
Human rights
Political refugees--Government policy
Political refugees--Civil rights
Refugees
Refugees--Government policy
Refugees--Civil rights
Refugees, Arab
Refugees, Arab--Government policy

description: The Syrian crisis has shed a light on the tragedy of refugee flows and on the behaviour of states when dealing with this tragedy, underlining the shortcomings of the current refugee protection framework. The forced displacement resulting from the Syrian crisis has placed the questions of state responsibility and refugee agency at the forefront of forced displacement debates. Indeed, refugees are increasingly being seen as security threats, not only by the potential host countries in the West, but also by the neighbouring countries in the region where most of the world’s refugee populations reside.  This dissertation focuses on Lebanon’s policies of securitization regarding its refugee population from Syria since 2011. It will first present a conceptual framework of the theory of securitization, and will argue that the Copenhagen School of Security is not, on its own, adequate to deconstruct and understand the securitization of refugees from Syria in Lebanon. The dissertation will argue that a more sociological approach of securitization and a study of the context are required to better comprehend the process; consequently, the thesis will also take on a socio-political, and psycho-cultural analysis of Lebanon.

This conceptual and contextual analysis will help put forward the paradox of securitization. In other words, the increased concerns about security and policies emanating from emergency politics enabled a flawed sense of security, and often put at risk the population the policies were trying to protect. Indeed, the current securitization policies in Lebanon not only inflict human rights abuses on the refugee populations, but also create protection gaps for the Lebanese populations. These human rights and protection gaps are also the result of the current Refugee Convention and international community dynamics. This essay will therefore put forward the discussion regarding the role of non-traditional actors, such as development actors, in dealing with large flows of forced displacement, in an age where refugee displacement has become increasingly protracted. It will address the benefits of expanding the set of actors involved in protecting and managing refugees, and will explore the undergoing development projects involving refugees in countries similar to Lebanon.
title: DVB-C2: high performance data transmission on cable ; technology, implementation, networks
Creators: name: :None
Publisher: name: Shaker
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: DVB-C2
subject: Standardisierung
subject: Implementierung
subject: HFC-Netze
subject: standardization
subject: implementation
subject: HFC networks
subject: cable networks
subject: hybrid fiber coax
subject: 62

description: Erläuterung des Standards DVB-C2 und Erfahrungen zur Implementierung sowie zum operationellen Betrieb.
description: Explanation of the standard DVB-C2 and experience for implementation as well as for operation of the technology.
description: Mitteilungen aus dem Institut für Nachrichtentechnik der Technischen Universität Braunschweig, vol. 13
The Double in Late 19th Century Italian Literature: Readings in Fogazzaro and his Contemporaries
Creators: Fleck, Samuel Theodor
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Literature
Italian literature
Doubles in literature

description: This dissertation is organized around main axes: the literary and critical concept of the Double and the analysis of Antonio Fogazzaro’s 1881 novel, Malombra, in which the Double plays a complex thematic role. In the first chapter, I address the concept of the Double as a critical category, assessing its meaning across three different levels of reality: in terms of the cultural specificity of the representation (the 19th century and Romantic literature), in terms of the theoretical approach (whether it is construed as a transcendental figure, as in Freudian theory, or a transgressive figure, as in Jungian theory, etc.) and in terms of its placement relative to the other themes in the text. In the second chapter, I take up the analysis of three Italian texts from the second half of the 19th century which privilege the theme of the Double and invest it with idiosyncratic meaning: Uno spirito in un lampone by Iginio Ugo Tarchetti (1867), Due anime in un corpo by Emilio de Marchi (1877) and Le storie del castello di Trezza by Giovanni Verga (1875). My reading of these texts draw on diverse psychoanalytic perspectives, namely those of Jung, Lacan and Abraham and Torok. In the third chapter, I carry out an extensive analysis of Fogazzaro’s Malombra. The first part of the analysis, which focuses on the novel’s two primary characters, Marina and Silla, shows how these characters’ unconscious conflicts animate the narrative, shape its itinerary and anchor it in a phantasmatic past; the second part examines the ways in which the primary aspects of the plot work in tension with, and are offset by, the novel’s two subplots; the third part looks at points of comparison between Malombra and the three texts discussed in the second chapter, both in relation to the theme of the Double and to more general literary signifiers.
Matrix Games, Mixed Strategies, and Statistical Mechanics
Creators: name: Berg, J.
name: Engel, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Matrix games constitute a fundamental problem of game theory and describe a situation of two players with completely conflicting interests. We show how methods from statistical mechanics can be used to investigate the statistical properties of optimal mixed strategies of large matrix games with random payoff matrices and derive analytical expressions for the value of the game and the distribution of strategy strengths. In particular the fraction of pure strategies not contributing to the optimal mixed strategy of a player is calculated. Both independently distributed as well as correlated elements of the payoff matrix are considered and the results compared with numerical simulations.
description: submitted to PRL, for related information see http://itp.nat.uni-magdeburg.de/~jberg/games.html
The Downfall of Commercial Surrogacy in Mumbai: Disparities in Wealth and Education, and the Persistence of Traditional Gender Roles
Creators: Trahan, Claudia
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Human rights
Surrogate mothers--Moral and ethical aspects
Patriarchy
Sex role
Mothers--Social conditions

description: The main objective of this research is to identify the public perceptions and attitudes toward commercial surrogacy in Mumbai, India, as well as the public sentiment regarding the Indian government’s decision to institute a ban on the practice. In identifying these perceptions and attitudes, this thesis seeks to achieve a greater understanding of the actual lived experiences of surrogate mothers in Mumbai, who may face severe stigmatization from their families and communities at large in consequence to their involvement in commercial surrogacy arrangements. Through a close examination of the existing literature on commercial surrogacy in India, and a thorough analysis of interviews conducted with doctors, other professionals working closely with surrogate mothers, legal experts, and members from the general public in Mumbai, this thesis presents a multitude of both positive and negative perceptions and attitudes toward the practice in Mumbai, which resonate to a degree with views found across India more generally. Based on the study’s findings, this thesis argues that the public perceptions and attitudes toward commercial surrogacy in Mumbai reveal large disparities in terms of education and wealth among the population, as well as the persistence of a patriarchal culture and traditional gender roles.
Polygamy relations of multipartite entanglement beyond qubits
Creators: name: Jin, Zhi-Xiang
name: Fei, Shao-Ming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the polygamy relations related to the concurrence of assistance for any multipartite pure states. General polygamy inequalities given by the $α$th $(0\leq α\leq 2)$ power of concurrence of assistance is first presented for multipartite pure states in arbitrary-dimensional quantum systems. We further show that the general polygamy inequalities can even be improved to be tighter inequalities under certain conditions on the assisted entanglement of bipartite subsystems. Based on the improved polygamy relations, lower bound for distribution of bipartite entanglement is provided in a multipartite system. Moreover, the $β$th ($0\leq β\leq 1$) power of polygamy inequalities are obtained for the entanglement of assistance as a by-product, which are shown to be tighter than the existing ones. A detailed example is presented.
description: 6 pages, 1 figure
Splitting of the pi - rho spectrum in a renormalized light-cone QCD-inspired model
Creators: name: Frederico, T.
name: Pauli, Hans-Christian
name: Zhou, Shan-Gui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the splitting between the light pseudo-scalar and vector meson states is due to the strong short-range attraction in the ^1S_0 sector which makes the pion and the kaon light particles. We use a light-cone QCD-inspired model of the mass squared operator with harmonic confinement and a Dirac-delta interaction. We apply a renormalization method to define the model, in which the pseudo-scalar ground state mass fixes the renormalized strength of the Dirac-delta interaction.
description: 9 pages, 2 figures, revtex, accepted by Phys. Rev. D; Corrected typos
The Draft Riots Reconsidered: Interpreting New York’s Sites of Racial Conflict
Creators: Kazmierski, Nicholas A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Historic preservation
Race discrimination--Study and teaching
Draft Riot (New York, New York : 1863)
Race relations

description: The 1863 New York Draft Riots were the largest civil insurrection in American history— it is estimated that hundreds perished in the violence of the week of July 13-18, 1863, triggered principally by the imposition of the Union Army’s Federal Conscription Act. Motivated additionally by the passage of the Emancipation Proclamation earlier that year, mobs viciously targeted the City’s African American population, brutally beating and lynching black New Yorkers in the streets. While New York’s identity has traditionally been understood as that of a great melting pot, a haven for diversity, the violence of the Draft Riots perhaps serves as the singular, representative event in the City’s history to counter such a notion. This thesis involves a proposal for the design and implementation of a series of experimental, site-based, public history interpretation efforts related to the racial and social implications of the 1863 New York Draft Riots.  The initiatives formulated throughout seek to interpret the contemporary social significance and relevance of the Draft Riots, and the most effective means of place-based education of the events, which thus far have remained largely obscured in the public conscience.
Polyscias kikuyuensis Summerh.
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Apiales
Araliaceae
Polyscias
Polyscias kikuyuensis

description: Polyscias kikuyuensis Summerh.  —
Habit: Tree.
Habitat: LMWF; 1 700–2 700 m. Distribution: IIIb.
 Voucher: Kagochi, near Rogati River, Alt. 2 134 m, 28 Feb. 1960, Kerfoot 1500 (EA, K).
References: Bussmann (1993, 1994), Bussmann & Beck (1995a, 1999).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 99, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
title: Stochastic Description of Aircraft Simulation Models and Numerical Approaches
Creators: name: Rosic, Bojana
name: Diekmann, Jobst
Publisher: name: Institut für Wissenschaftliches Rechnen
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Flugzeugsimulationsmodell
subject: der Unsicherheitsquantifizierung
subject: Pseudo-Galerkin
subject: stochastische Kollokation
subject: flight dynamics model
subject: uncertainty quantification
subject: stochastic collocation
subject: 004

description: Der Artikel befasst sich mit der Unsicherheitsquantifizierung eines Flugzeugsimulationsmodells. Mathematisch gesehen handelt es sich bei dem Flugzeugmodell um ein System von Differentialgleichungen zweiter Ordnung. Dabei hängt das System von Eingangsparametern ab, die der Masse, der Aerodynamik und der Struktur des Flugzeugs zugeordnet sind. Die aerodynamischen Eingangsparameter sind als Zufallsvariablen und -prozesse modelliert, deren Wahrscheinlichkeitsverteilungen nach dem Maximum-Entropie-Prinzip und verfügbaren experimentellen Daten ausgewählt werden. Für das Flugdynamikmodell wird die Unsicherheitsentwicklung der Flugzustandsverläufe mittels sogenannter nicht-intrusiver numerischer Verfahren abgeschätzt. Die Verfahren sind beispielsweise direkte Integrationsverfahren, stochastische Kollokationsverfahren und Pseudo-Galerkin Verfahren. Diese numerischen Verfahren basieren auf Stichproben von Flugzustandsverläufen, welche durch das Lösen der zugehörigen deterministischen gewöhnlichen Differentialgleichungen erhalten werden.
description: This paper is concerned with the uncertainty quantification of an aircraft simulation model. Mathematically speaking the aircraft model represents a system of second order differential equations dependent on a set of input parameters related to the mass, aerodynamics and the structure of the aircraft. The input aerodynamic parameters are modelled as random variables and processes whose probability distributions are chosen according to the maximum entropy principle and available experimental data. For a flight dynamics model the evolution of uncertainties in the aircraft state trajectory is estimated with the help of so-called non-intrusive numerical approaches, examples of which are the direct integration method, the stochastic collocation approach and the pseudo-Galerkin method. These numerical methods rely on a set of samples of aircraft state trajectories simply obtained by solving the corresponding systems of deterministic ordinary differential equations.
description: Informatik-Berichte der Technischen Universität Braunschweig, vol. 2014-01
Two models of double descent for weak features
Creators: name: Belkin, Mikhail
name: Hsu, Daniel
name: Xu, Ji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The "double descent" risk curve was proposed to qualitatively describe the out-of-sample prediction accuracy of variably-parameterized machine learning models. This article provides a precise mathematical analysis for the shape of this curve in two simple data models with the least squares/least norm predictor. Specifically, it is shown that the risk peaks when the number of features $p$ is close to the sample size $n$, but also that the risk decreases towards its minimum as $p$ increases beyond $n$. This behavior is contrasted with that of "prescient" models that select features in an a priori optimal order.