cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Literary Representations of Alexandria: Cosmopolitanism and History in Lawrence Durrell, André Aciman, and Ibrahim Abdul Meguid
Creators: name: Aljahdali, Banan
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2021

description: During the first half of the twentieth century, Alexandria underwent significant historical changes, including war and decolonization. This inspired various literary reconstructions by colonial and postcolonial authors in both English and Arabic. My study examines how Alexandria was given a literary form and represented during these crucial times in the history of the city. It brings together and critically interrogates diverse perspectives: the voice of the colonizer represented by Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet (1962), the voice of the Alexandrian minority represented by André Aciman's Out of Egypt (1994), and the voice of the Egyptians represented by Ibrahim Abdul Meguid's No One Sleeps in Alexandria (1996; trans. 1999). It compares and contrasts these different representations of the city, its history, and its cosmopolitan makeup. Using Said's conception of orientalism and other postcolonial critics, this study argues that the Alexandria Quartet and Out of Egypt feature orientalist representations of Alexandria, while No One Sleeps in Alexandria finds in realism a useful frame to counteract those representations.The thesis is composed of four chapters. The first chapter discusses the history of Egypt from Muhammad Ali to Nasser, the timeframe of the works under discussion. This chapter highlights the historical transformations Egypt, and Alexandria in particular, have experienced, and it helps to clarify the literary representation of history in each work. The second chapter examines Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet and argues that the tetralogy is an orientalist representation of Alexandria and its inhabitants, and that the permanence of cosmopolitanism in Durrell's Alexandria is linked to British domination. Durrell's representation is an example and continuation of Western orientalist discourse that started centuries ago.The third chapter argues that André Aciman used Durrell's Alexandria Quartet as a guide for his representation of Alexandria in Out of Egypt. Aciman's focus on his Jewishcommunity produces an orientalist representation of the city from which the city itself and its locals outside the community are absent. Furthermore, Aciman presents a reductionist conception of cosmopolitanism in two different sites: his Jewish community and Victoria College.The last chapter discusses voices of the Egyptians and their self-representation of Alexandria as a form of writing back to empire. The main focus of this chapter is No One Sleeps in Alexandria, with additional references to Naguib Mahfouz's Miramar (1967; trans. 1993) and Edwar Al-Kharrat's City of Saffron (1980; trans. 1989). Using the technique of realism, Abdul Meguid presents a humanizing depiction of the city by giving voice to the locals (both Copts and Muslims) in order for them to speak of their suffering under colonial power and during the two World Wars. He actively re-centres the voices that Durrell and Aciman marginalize.
SMALL-SCALE FISHERIES IN BANGLADESH: SOME SOCIOECONOMIC PROBLEMS AND ISSUES
Creators: name: Rahman, M. Mahbubur
name: Rahman, M. Mahbubur
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1986
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: The paper discusses the role of socioeconomic status of fishermen, village power structure, village money lenders in fishery credit, ownership pattern of ponds and inefficient control on public water bodies, and of government regulations on the development of fisheries resources. The paper also describes the rote of CIRDAP in the development of fisheries and outlines priority research and action areas.
Effects of cavity nonlinearities and linear losses on silicon microring-based reservoir computing
Creators: name: Castro, Bernard J. Giron
name: Peucheret, Christophe
name: Zibar, Darko
name: Da Ros, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Microring resonators (MRRs) are promising devices for time-delay photonic reservoir computing, but the impact of the different physical effects taking place in the MRRs on the reservoir computing performance is yet to be fully understood. We numerically analyze the impact of linear losses as well as thermo-optic and free-carrier effects relaxation times on the prediction error of the time-series task NARMA-10. We demonstrate the existence of three regions, defined by the input power and the frequency detuning between the optical source and the microring resonance, that reveal the cavity transition from linear to nonlinear regimes. One of these regions offers very low error in time-series prediction under relatively low input power and number of nodes while the other regions either lack nonlinearity or become unstable. This study provides insight into the design of the MRR and the optimization of its physical properties for improving the prediction performance of time-delay reservoir computing.
description: 20 pages, 11 figures, submitted to Optics Express (reviewed version)
DEVELOPING POND FISHERIES IN BANGLADESH: SOME FINDINGS OF A STUDY ON CREDIT AND MARKETING ASPECTS
Creators: name: Rahman, M. Lutfor
name: Ali, Md. Harun
name: Rahman, M. Lutfor
name: Ali, Md. Harun
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1986
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: The article describes the credit and marketing aspects of pond fisheries in two districts (old) of, Bangladesh. From each district 75 fish pond owners, receiving credit from banks for fishery purposes were studied. The recipients of fishery credit are generally the medium and large farmers, having average size of 7.50 acres in both the areas. Utilization of fishery credit was found to be more or less satisfactory. However, the repayment performance was disappointing. Less than ten percent of the borrowed undo were diverted for family consumption. Disposal of surplus fish did not pose a serious problem. In majority of the cases about half of the catch was consumed at home and the surplus was sold to the local fishermen. Non-availability of good quality fries from government fish farms was found to be the most discouraging factor for scientific fish culture. The performance of the Upazela Fishery Officer is rendering technical services to the pond owners for pisciculture was also found far from satisfactory. Thus provision of adequate credit facilities, good quality fish fries and technical knowledge for fish culture are essential for pond fisheries development in Bangladesh.
Numerical simulation of flux jump behavior in REBaCuO ring bulks with an inhomogeneous J c profile during pulsed-field magnetization
Creators: name: Hirano, Tatsuya
name: Fujishiro, Hiroyuki
name: Naito, Tomoyuki
name: Ainslie, Mark D
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Paper
Focus on Processing and Application of Superconducting Bulk Materials 2019
bulk superconductor
pulsed field magnetization
flux jump
mechanical stress
numerical simulation
inhomogeneous Jc profile

description: Funder: Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development; doi: https://doi.org/10.13039/100009619
description: Abstract: We have investigated the electromagnetic and thermal properties of a REBaCuO ring bulk with an inhomogeneous critical current density, Jc, profile during pulsed field magnetization (PFM) using a numerical simulation and compared those to a bulk with a homogeneous Jc profile. A notch was introduced in the bulk periphery, which was assumed as a crack existing in the actual bulk material. A sudden flux penetration (flux jump) took place through the notch area and as a result, a large temperature rise also took place around this notch. Consequently, the final trapped field profile was simulated to be a ‘C-shaped profile’, which qualitatively reproduced our previous experimental results. The size and position dependences of the notch on the flux penetration behaviour were also simulated, in which a larger and outer notch promotes the flux jump phenomenon easily. On the other hand, in the homogeneous model, under the same conditions, no flux jump phenomenon was observed. These results suggest that the imperfection in the bulk can be a possible starting point of the flux jump. The electromagnetic and thermal hoop stresses were also simulated in the ring bulk during PFM, in which the electromagnetic stress and the thermal stress were both observed to be lower than the fracture strength of the bulk material. This provides good evidence that the experimentally observed ‘C-shaped profile’ results from the flux jump rather than the fracture of the bulk.
SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF POND FISHERIES
Creators: name: Khan, M. Sekendar
name: Khan, M. Sekendar
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1986
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Fishery resource development in pond represent two separate issues. One related to bringing ponds into use and the other relate to raising the existing traditional fish farming practices to a semi-intensive level. We have analysed the pond ownership and pond use types as the two most important factors affecting the fishery use of pond. The latter part of the essay explain the role of different factors in raising the intensity of fish farming. The discussion evidently suggests that family income, level of education, type of ownership are important socioeconomic factors affecting utilization of ponds for fish farming. Other important factors are size of pond and stocking rate. Cultural factors and marketing facilities also affect fish farming in ponds.
DISTRIBUTION AND USE OF WATER BODIES IN BANGLADESH: SURVEY FINDINGS
Creators: name: Quasem, Md. Abul
name: Quasem, Md. Abul
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1986
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: A survey of 631 households in six districts revealed that only 27 percent households own ponds and ditches. Twenty nine percent of these are individually owned, but 15 percent of pond area is individually owned. Eighty percent of the ponds are usable for fish culture and 90 percent of these are already in use. However, productivity is very low being about 3 maunds per acre annually. Owners indicated that regular supplies of fish fries, provision of credit and marketing facilities would help increase fish production.
Freeform surface topology prediction for prescribed illumination via semi-supervised learning
Creators: name: Cerpentier, Jeroen
name: Meuret, Youri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Despite significant advances in the field of freeform optical design, there still remain various unsolved problems. One of these is the design of smooth, shallow freeform topologies, consisting of multiple convex, concave and saddle shaped regions, in order to generate a prescribed illumination pattern. Such freeform topologies are relevant in the context of glare-free illumination and thin, refractive beam shaping elements. Machine learning techniques already proved to be extremely valuable in solving complex inverse problems in optics and photonics, but their application to freeform optical design is mostly limited to imaging optics. This paper presents a rapid, standalone framework for the prediction of freeform surface topologies that generate a prescribed irradiance distribution, from a predefined light source. The framework employs a 2D convolutional neural network to model the relationship between the prescribed target irradiance and required freeform topology. This network is trained on the loss between the obtained irradiance and input irradiance, using a second network that replaces Monte-Carlo raytracing from source to target. This semi-supervised learning approach proves to be superior compared to a supervised learning approach using ground truth freeform topology/irradiance pairs; a fact that is connected to the observation that multiple freeform topologies can yield similar irradiance patterns. The resulting network is able to rapidly predict smooth freeform topologies that generate arbitrary irradiance patterns, and could serve as an inspiration for applying machine learning to other open problems in freeform illumination design.
Small-world phenomena and the statistics of linear polymer networks
Creators: name: Sen, Parongama
name: Chakrabarti, Bikas K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A regular lattice in which the sites can have long range connections at a distance l with a probabilty $P(l) \sim l^{-δ}$, in addition to the short range nearest neighbour connections, shows small-world behaviour for $0 \le δ< δ_c$. In the most appropriate physical example of such a system, namely the linear polymer network, the exponent $δ$ is related to the exponents of the corresponding n-vector model in the $n \to 0$ limit, and its value is less than $δ_c$. Still, the polymer networks do not show small-world behaviour. Here, we show that this is due a (small value) constraint on the number q of long range connections per monomer in the network. In the general $δ- q$ space, we obtain a phase boundary separating regions with and without small-world behaviour, and show that the polymer network falls marginally in the regular lattice region.
description: Minor corrections in text, Fig. 3 replaced
Diagonalizing the Ricci Tensor
Creators: name: Krishnan, Anusha M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C30, 53C44

description: We show that a basis of a semisimple Lie algebra of compact type, for which any diagonal left-invariant metric has a diagonal Ricci tensor, is characterized by the Lie algebraic condition of being "nice". Namely, the bracket of any two basis elements is a multiple of another basis element. This extends the work of Lauret and Will on nilpotent Lie algebras. The result follows from a more general characterization for diagonalizing the Ricci tensor for homogeneous spaces. Finally, we also study the Ricci flow behavior of diagonal metrics on cohomogeneity one manifolds.
description: LaTeX2e, 17 pages, final version
title: BILLS OF LADING AND ELECTRONIC EQUIVALENT
Creators: name: Psarros, Stavros
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2011
Subjects: Bills of Lading
Electronic Bills of Lading
e-Bills
Bolero
Cargodocs

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description: This thesis will examine bills of lading and their electronic equivalent offered currently to the commercial world. Accepting that electronic equivalent of bills of lading are a commercial reality, the aim of this study is to examine how these systems successfully operate on the current legal framework designed for their paper counterparts. Therefore the first part of this study is dedicated to paper bills of lading and the functions they acquired over the years, whilst the second part of this study is devoted to the examination of their electronic equivalent currently offered. Specifically, it will be examined whether and how these electronic bills of lading work within the current legal framework. However, only BOLERO and CARGODOCS will be examined in detail as they are the only systems that operate on a commercial level at present. Also, this thesis includes a brief examination of the Rotterdam Rules with regards to these electronic transport documents. The study will conclude by briefly discussing fraud issues related to traditional bills of lading and their electronic equivalent.
title: Emotional Spaces in Virtual Reality: Applications for Healthcare & Wellbeing
Creators: name: Tabbaa, Luma
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2021

description: Despite the abundance of research that supports the efficacy of Virtual Reality (VR) in applications for healthcare and wellbeing, the process of designing VR as an emotional space that fosters the appropriate therapeutic milieu is rarely discussed. Furthermore, current approaches for VR design tend to be lone one-off controlled experiments, rather than extensions to advance knowledge of best practices that considers the real-world deployment contexts. In this research thesis, a series of studies were carried out to investigate the effects of emotional experiences in VR within healthcare contexts, and how to design emotional spaces in VR, in a way that meets the needs of key stakeholders such as clinicians, patients and the deployment setting. First, the psychological and physiological effects of VR was explored. This study investigated the emotional effects of engaging in 360-degree video-based experiences in VR and the use of eye-tracking in VR to predict emotional elicitation. The study also explored the potential of eye-tracking in VR as a tool for emotional assessment in healthcare and wellbeing. The second study investigated the use of VR as an emotional space in a healthcare setting by presenting VR as a non-pharmacological intervention for people living with moderate to severe dementia residing in a locked psychiatric hospital. The study concluded that by "bringing the outside in" VR was cognitively stimulating, sustained attention, promoted wellbeing among the patients, reduced behaviour that challenges, and offered a unique medium for caregivers and patients to build therapeutic rapport. Finally, the last study analysed the co-design, iterative prototyping and evaluation of four user-centred psychological, cognitive and behavioural VR interventions. This study aimed to understand the design elements of effective, meaningful and enriched VR interventions. The findings are drawn in this thesis, and the implications of these findings extend the theoretical and practical knowledge in designing emotional spaces within VR in a way that fosters the appropriate therapeutic medium for healthcare and wellbeing contexts.
Selective sweeps on novel and introgressed variation shape mimicry loci in a butterfly adaptive radiation
Creators: name: Moest, Markus
name: Van Belleghem, Steven M.
name: James, Jennifer E.
name: Salazar, Camilo
name: Martin, Simon H.
name: Barker, Sarah L.
name: Moreira, Gilson R. P.
name: Mérot, Claire
name: Joron, Mathieu
name: Nadeau, Nicola J.
name: Steiner, Florian M.
name: Jiggins, Chris D.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Research Article
subject: Biology and life sciences
subject: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Earth sciences
subject: Ecology and environmental sciences

description: Funder: FP7 Ideas: European Research Council; funder-id: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100011199; Grant(s): FP7-IDEAS-ERC 339873
description: Funder: Isaac Newton Trust; funder-id: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100004815
description: Natural selection leaves distinct signatures in the genome that can reveal the targets and history of adaptive evolution. By analysing high-coverage genome sequence data from 4 major colour pattern loci sampled from nearly 600 individuals in 53 populations, we show pervasive selection on wing patterns in the Heliconius adaptive radiation. The strongest signatures correspond to loci with the greatest phenotypic effects, consistent with visual selection by predators, and are found in colour patterns with geographically restricted distributions. These recent sweeps are similar between co-mimics and indicate colour pattern turn-over events despite strong stabilising selection. Using simulations, we compare sweep signatures expected under classic hard sweeps with those resulting from adaptive introgression, an important aspect of mimicry evolution in Heliconius butterflies. Simulated recipient populations show a distinct ‘volcano’ pattern with peaks of increased genetic diversity around the selected target, characteristic of sweeps of introgressed variation and consistent with diversity patterns found in some populations. Our genomic data reveal a surprisingly dynamic history of colour pattern selection and co-evolution in this adaptive radiation.
Probing a light charged Higgs boson at the LHC Run 3
Creators: name: Arhrib, A.
name: Benbrik, R.
name: Krab, M.
name: Manaut, B.
name: Moretti, S.
name: Wang, Y.
name: Yan, Q. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) discovery prospects of a light charged Higgs boson decaying into a $W$ boson and a non-Standard Model (SM)-like Higgs within the 2-Higgs Doublet Model type-I. In the analysis, we consider the associated production of a charged Higgs boson with a light neutral one, $pp \rightarrow H^{\pm} h$, with the subsequent $H^\pm \rightarrow W^{\pm*} h$. We then investigate the emerging $W^{\pm*} + 4b$ final state and provide several benchmark points for signal-to-background analysis. We therefore show that this signal could be an excellent avenue for identifying $H^\pm$ at the LHC.
description: 6 pages, 4 tables, contribution to the proceedings of the EPS-HEP2023 conference
ChronoMID—Cross-modal neural networks for 3-D temporal medical imaging data
Creators: name: Rakowski, Alexander G.
name: Veličković, Petar
name: Dall’Ara, Enrico
name: Liò, Pietro
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Research Article
subject: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Biology and life sciences
subject: Research and analysis methods
subject: Medicine and health sciences
subject: Engineering and technology
subject: FOS: Engineering and technology

description: ChronoMID—neural networks for temporally-varying, hence Chrono, Medical Imaging Data—makes the novel application of cross-modal convolutional neural networks (X-CNNs) to the medical domain. In this paper, we present multiple approaches for incorporating temporal information into X-CNNs and compare their performance in a case study on the classification of abnormal bone remodelling in mice. Previous work developing medical models has predominantly focused on either spatial or temporal aspects, but rarely both. Our models seek to unify these complementary sources of information and derive insights in a bottom-up, data-driven approach. As with many medical datasets, the case study herein exhibits deep rather than wide data; we apply various techniques, including extensive regularisation, to account for this. After training on a balanced set of approximately 70000 images, two of the models—those using difference maps from known reference points—outperformed a state-of-the-art convolutional neural network baseline by over 30pp (> 99% vs. 68.26%) on an unseen, balanced validation set comprising around 20000 images. These models are expected to perform well with sparse data sets based on both previous findings with X-CNNs and the representations of time used, which permit arbitrarily large and irregular gaps between data points. Our results highlight the importance of identifying a suitable description of time for a problem domain, as unsuitable descriptors may not only fail to improve a model, they may in fact confound it.
Systematic Field-Theory for the Hard-Core One-Component Plasma
Creators: name: Brilliantov, Nikolai V.
name: Malinin, Vitali V.
name: Netz, Roland R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An accurate and systematic equation of state for the hard-core one-component plasma (HCOCP) is obtained. The result is based on the Hubbard-Schofield transformation which yields the field-theoretical Hamiltonian, with coefficients expressed in terms of equilibrium correlation functions of the reference hard-core fluid. Explicit calculations were performed using the Gaussian approximation for the effective Hamiltonian and known thermodynamic and structural properties of the reference hard-core fluid. For small values of the plasma parameter G and packing fraction the Debye-Huckel result is recovered, while for G>>1, the excess free energy F_ex and internal U_{ex} energy depend linearly on G. The obtained expression for U_ex is in a good agreement with the available Monte Carlo data for the HCOCP. We also analyse the validity of the widely used approximation, which represents the free energy as a sum of the hard-core and electrostatic part.
description: 14 pages, 3 figures
Loss of Kat2a enhances transcriptional noise and depletes acute myeloid leukemia stem-like cells
Creators: name: Domingues, Ana Filipa
name: Kulkarni, Rashmi
name: Giotopoulos, George
name: Gupta, Shikha
name: Vinnenberg, Laura
name: Arede, Liliana
name: Foerner, Elena
name: Khalili, Mitra
name: Adao, Rita Romano
name: Johns, Ayona
name: Tan, Shengjiang
name: Zeka, Keti
name: Huntly, Brian J
name: Prabakaran, Sudhakaran
name: Pina, Cristina
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Research Article
Cancer Biology
Chromosomes and Gene Expression
acute myeloid leukaemia
transcriptional heterogeneity
epigenetics
Kat2a
Single-cell RNA seq
transcriptional bursting
Mouse

description: Funder: Isaac Newton Trust; FundRef: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100004815
description: Funder: Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro; FundRef: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100005010
description: Funder: Cambridge Commonwealth, European & International Trust; FundRef: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100003343
description: Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) is an aggressive hematological malignancy with abnormal progenitor self-renewal and defective white blood cell differentiation. Its pathogenesis comprises subversion of transcriptional regulation, through mutation and by hijacking normal chromatin regulation. Kat2a is a histone acetyltransferase central to promoter activity, that we recently associated with stability of pluripotency networks, and identified as a genetic vulnerability in AML. Through combined chromatin profiling and single-cell transcriptomics of a conditional knockout mouse, we demonstrate that Kat2a contributes to leukemia propagation through preservation of leukemia stem-like cells. Kat2a loss impacts transcription factor binding and reduces transcriptional burst frequency in a subset of gene promoters, generating enhanced variability of transcript levels. Destabilization of target programs shifts leukemia cell fate out of self-renewal into differentiation. We propose that control of transcriptional variability is central to leukemia stem-like cell propagation, and establish a paradigm exploitable in different tumors and distinct stages of cancer evolution.
Perspectives of Nuclear Physics
Creators: name: Faessler, Amand
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The organizers of this meeting have asked me to present perspectives of nuclear physics. This means to identify the areas where nuclear physics will be expanding in the next future. In six chapters a short overview of these areas will be given, where I expect that nuclear physics willdevelop quite fast: A. Quantum Chromodynamics and effective field theories in the confinement region; B. Nuclear structure at the limits; C. High energy heavy ion collisions; D. Nuclear astrophysics; E. Neutrino physics; F. Test of physics beyond the standard model by rare processes. After a survey over these six points I will pick out a few topics where I will go more in details. There is no time to give for all six points detailed examples. I shall discuss the following examples of the six topics mentionned above: 1. The perturbative chiral quark model and the nucleon $Σ$-term, 2. VAMPIR (Variation After Mean field Projection In Realistic model spaces and with realistic forces) as an example of the nuclear structure renaissance, 3. Measurement of important astrophysical nuclear reactions in the Gamow peak, 4. The solar neutrino problem. As examples for testing new physics beyond the standard model by rare processes I had prepared to speak about the measurement of the electric neutron dipole moment and of the neutrinoless double beta decay. But the time is limited and so I have to skip these points, although they are extremely interesting.
description: 27 pages. Invited talk given at the ``IX Cortona meeting on problems in theoretical nuclear physics", Cortona, Italy, October 9-12, 2002
ABISIMBEL - Die Abizeitung 1988
Creators: name: Balser, Thomas
name: Baumann, Diethelm
name: Bosselmann, Philip
name: Dröscher, Stephan
name: Frech, Nana
name: Kelz, Henrik
name: Löwe, Peter
name: Nachtmann, Evi
name: Schneider, Frank
name: Silber-Bonz, Christoph
name: Weller, Esra Eckehard
name: Bryson, Anthony
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1988
Subjects: Michelstadt
Gymnasium Michelstadt
GyMi
1988
Abizeitung
Abiturzeitung
Abisimbel
Abisimbl

description: Abiturzeitung des Jahrgangs 1988 am Gymnasium Michelstadt.
Denoising Heat-inspired Diffusion with Insulators for Collision Free Motion Planning
Creators: name: Chang, Junwoo
name: Ryu, Hyunwoo
name: Kim, Jiwoo
name: Yoo, Soochul
name: Choi, Jongeun
name: Seo, Joohwan
name: Prakash, Nikhil
name: Horowitz, Roberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Diffusion models have risen as a powerful tool in robotics due to their flexibility and multi-modality. While some of these methods effectively address complex problems, they often depend heavily on inference-time obstacle detection and require additional equipment. Addressing these challenges, we present a method that, during inference time, simultaneously generates only reachable goals and plans motions that avoid obstacles, all from a single visual input. Central to our approach is the novel use of a collision-avoiding diffusion kernel for training. Through evaluations against behavior-cloning and classical diffusion models, our framework has proven its robustness. It is particularly effective in multi-modal environments, navigating toward goals and avoiding unreachable ones blocked by obstacles, while ensuring collision avoidance. Project Website: https://sites.google.com/view/denoising-heat-inspired
description: 9 pages, 6 figures
title: Belief and the People's War: Heterodoxy in Second World War Britain
Creators: name: Parken, Oliver
name: N/A
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2021

description: Britain's Second World War looms large in popular cultural memory. Yet the war is rarely considered as being distinctly religious or spiritual in both academic and popular histories. This thesis addresses this omission by reconsidering the pressing significance of beliefs and believing in the total war context. Using the concept of 'heterodoxy' to reconstruct wartimedebates on the policing of belief by state, military, and cultural agents, it argues that these discourses were shaped by specific wartime conditions as well as longer-term factors. It was here in the 'People's War' context that pre-existing social tensions and technological, military, and political developments stemming from the nineteenth century influenced debates onbelieving. Social and cultural methods are utilised in order to connect these debates with beliefs' lived experience. Ultimately, ideas on heterodoxy were shaped by the relationship between belief and morale. This was both classed and gendered. Perceived differences between home and front, men and women, West and non-West at the cultural level masked the infiniteways beliefs traversed imagined social binaries. To illustrate this, the thesis draws on thematic case studies which showcase different sites and contexts of war. These include the workings of ghosts in the metropole; spiritualism, mediumship, and psychical research in organised context; astrology propaganda and its relationship to domestic morale; superstitionwithin the military sphere; and soldiers' engagement with belief cultures in South/South-East Asia. Adopting an expanded approach to the 'archive', the thesis blends traditional document-based sources with material/visual culture, contemporary media products (newspapers, film and music), rumours and ephemera, as well as sources of the self and ethnographicmaterials (notably diaries, letters, oral testimonies, and Mass Observation reports). In terms of original contribution, the thesis offers a fresh analysis of class and gender in wartime through the prism of belief. It also develops conceptual readings of religion and belief in modern Britain; pushing discussion beyond 'diffusive Christianity' and 'popular religion', and challenging twentieth century secularising arguments from a broader interpretation of 'belief' during a neglected time period.
Magnetar-like X-ray Bursts from an Anomalous X-ray Pulsar
Creators: name: Gavriil, F. P.
name: Kaspi, V. M.
name: Woods, P. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Anomalous X-ray Pulsars (AXPs) are a class of rare X-ray pulsars whose energy source has been perplexing for some 20 years. Unlike other, better understood X-ray pulsars, AXPs cannot be powered by rotation or by accretion from a binary companion, hence the designation ``anomalous.'' AXP rotational and radiative properties are strikingly similar to those of another class of exotic objects, the Soft Gamma Repeaters (SGRs). However, the defining property of SGRs, namely their low-energy gamma-ray and X-ray bursts, have heretofore not been seen in AXPs. SGRs are thought to be ``magnetars,'' young neutron stars powered by the decay of an ultra-high magnetic field. The suggestion that AXPs are magnetars has been controversial. Here we report the discovery, from the direction of AXP 1E 1048-5937, of two X-ray bursts that have many properties similar to those of SGR bursts. These events imply a close relationship between AXPs and SGRs, with both being magnetars.
description: 14 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in Nature. Note: The content of this paper is embargoed until 1900 hrs London time / 1400 US Eastern Time on Sept 11
RESOURCE USE AND ECONOMIC RETURN IN POND FISH CULTURE
Creators: name: Islam, Md. Serajul
name: Dewan, Somen
name: Islam, Md. Serajul
name: Dewan, Somen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1986
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Production practices of pond fish culture are described in this study. Pond fish production in the sample areas was mainly based on stocking of fish seed, use of fertilizer and feed, and human labour for different operations and management. The majority of the farmers no various species of indigenous and exotic carps and produced 1700 to 3889 kg/ha/year in different locations. However, higher yield was not the only factor for higher net return.. Net return was influenced by price of the output and economic use of both material inputs and labour.
Cine cardiac MRI reconstruction using a convolutional recurrent network with refinement
Creators: name: Xue, Yuyang
name: Du, Yuning
name: Carloni, Gianluca
name: Pachetti, Eva
name: Jordan, Connor
name: Tsaftaris, Sotirios A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Cine Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) allows for understanding of the heart's function and condition in a non-invasive manner. Undersampling of the $k$-space is employed to reduce the scan duration, thus increasing patient comfort and reducing the risk of motion artefacts, at the cost of reduced image quality. In this challenge paper, we investigate the use of a convolutional recurrent neural network (CRNN) architecture to exploit temporal correlations in supervised cine cardiac MRI reconstruction. This is combined with a single-image super-resolution refinement module to improve single coil reconstruction by 4.4\% in structural similarity and 3.9\% in normalised mean square error compared to a plain CRNN implementation. We deploy a high-pass filter to our $\ell_1$ loss to allow greater emphasis on high-frequency details which are missing in the original data. The proposed model demonstrates considerable enhancements compared to the baseline case and holds promising potential for further improving cardiac MRI reconstruction.
description: MICCAI STACOM workshop 2023
Forecasting the prevalence of overweight and obesity in India to 2040
Creators: name: Luhar, Shammi
name: Timæus, Ian M.
name: Jones, Rebecca
name: Cunningham, Solveig
name: Patel, Shivani A.
name: Kinra, Sanjay
name: Clarke, Lynda
name: Houben, Rein
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Research Article
Biology and life sciences
Medicine and health sciences
People and places
Earth sciences

description: Background: In India, the prevalence of overweight and obesity has increased rapidly in recent decades. Given the association between overweight and obesity with many non-communicable diseases, forecasts of the future prevalence of overweight and obesity can help inform policy in a country where around one sixth of the world’s population resides. Methods: We used a system of multi-state life tables to forecast overweight and obesity prevalence among Indians aged 20–69 years by age, sex and urban/rural residence to 2040. We estimated the incidence and initial prevalence of overweight using nationally representative data from the National Family Health Surveys 3 and 4, and the Study on global AGEing and adult health, waves 0 and 1. We forecasted future mortality, using the Lee-Carter model fitted life tables reported by the Sample Registration System, and adjusted the mortality rates for Body Mass Index using relative risks from the literature. Results: The prevalence of overweight will more than double among Indian adults aged 20–69 years between 2010 and 2040, while the prevalence of obesity will triple. Specifically, the prevalence of overweight and obesity will reach 30.5% (27.4%-34.4%) and 9.5% (5.4%-13.3%) among men, and 27.4% (24.5%-30.6%) and 13.9% (10.1%-16.9%) among women, respectively, by 2040. The largest increases in the prevalence of overweight and obesity between 2010 and 2040 is expected to be in older ages, and we found a larger relative increase in overweight and obesity in rural areas compared to urban areas. The largest relative increase in overweight and obesity prevalence was forecast to occur at older age groups. Conclusion: The overall prevalence of overweight and obesity is expected to increase considerably in India by 2040, with substantial increases particularly among rural residents and older Indians. Detailed predictions of excess weight are crucial in estimating future non-communicable disease burdens and their economic impact.
Giant Polarization Drag in a Gas of Molecular Superrotors
Creators: name: Steinitz, Uri
name: Averbukh, Ilya Sh.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Experiments on light dragging in a moving medium laid the cornerstones of modern physics more than a century ago, and they still are in the focus of current research. When linearly polarized light is transmitted through a rotating dielectric, the polarization plane is slightly rotated -- a phenomenon first studied by Fermi in 1923. For typical non-resonant dielectric materials, the measured polarization drag angle does not surpass several microradians. Here we show that this effect may be dramatically enhanced if the light is sent to a gas of fast unidirectionally spinning molecular superrotors. Several femtosecond-laser labs have already succeeded in optically creating such a medium. We show that the specific rotation power of the superrotor medium exceeds the values previously observed in mechanically rotated bulk optical specimens by many orders of magnitude. This nonreciprocal opto-mechanical phenomenon may open new avenues for ultra-fast control of the polarization state of light.
Pseudogaps in an Incoherent Metal
Creators: name: Haule, K.
name: Rosch, A.
name: Kroha, J.
name: Wölfle, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: How are the properties of a metal changed by strong inelastic scattering? We investigate this question within the two-dimensional t-J model using extended dynamical mean field theory and a generalized non-crossing approximation. Short-ranged antiferromagnetic fluctuations lead to a strongly incoherent single particle dynamics, large entropy and resistance. Close to the Mott transition at low hole doping a pseudogap opens, accompanied by a drop in resistivity and an increase in the Hall constant for both lower temperatures and doping levels. The behavior obtained bears surprising similarity to properties of the cuprates.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, LaTex, relation to work by Parcollet and Georges discussed and reference added
Dryodurgades Zachvatkin
Creators: name: C. A. Viraktamath
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Dryodurgades

description: Key to Oriental species of Dryodurgades Zachvatkin
 1. Aedeagus with unbranched pair of apical processes (Figs 167, 168); anal collar process narrow, hook-like (Fig. 165)...................................................................................... D. formosana (Matsumura)
- Aedeagus with branched pair of apical processes (Fig. 171).................................................... 2
 2. Aedeagus with both pairs of processes apically bifurcate (Fig. 171)............................. D. lamellaris Vilbaste
 - Aedeagus with only more distal pair of pocesses forked................................... D. dentistylus Zhang & Li
description: Published as part of C. A. Viraktamath, 2011, Revision of the Oriental and Australian Agalliini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Megophthalminae) 2844, pp. 1-118 in Zootaxa 2844 on page 39
Durgades aviana Viraktamath
Creators: name: C. A. Viraktamath
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Durgades
Durgades aviana

description: Durgades aviana Viraktamath
Figs 173–179.
 Durgades aviana Viraktamath 2004: 367, figs 1–8. HOLOTYPE ♂, INDIA: Simla (UASB, examined).
 Color. Ochraceous. Face with median inverted Y-shaped marking on upper part, arms fused with lateral stripes on face, latter anteriorly fused with each other and occupying entire clypellus, apices of lora, black. Elongate oval to oval spot on either side of median line near vertex, transverse stripe connecting outer margin of ocellus with inner margin of eyes and broader near eye, black. Antennal cavities black, ledge of antennae ochraceous. Spot on inner margin of gena near lorum black in some specimens. Pronotum anteriorly broadly, with lateral, caudal and median slender color extensions not reaching lateral and caudal margins, black. Scutellum black with lateral, and caudal apex beyond median impressed line, ochraceous. Forewings with some segments of venation and some cells brown. Forefemora marked with brown. Thoracic pleura and abdominal segments chocolate brown with ochraceous margins. Subgenital plates ochraceous.
 Male genitalia. Pygofer dark pigmented, caudodorsally produced into attenuated process with preapical finger-like process. Styles elongate, delicate, inner arm longer than outer arm and apically pointed. Connective black, wider at base and as wide as long. Aedeagus in lateral view with short dorsal apodeme with bifid membranous sclerite, preatrium shorter than in D. dunchensis and bears short process, shaft basally bulbous in lateral view and apex resembles head of bird with beak; gonopore apical, large, with lateral lamellate expansion. Anal collar process simple, produced into short finger-like process.
 Measurements. Male 3.82 (3.6–4.0) mm long and 1.37 mm wide across eyes.
 Material examined. HOLOTYPE ♂, INDIA: Himachal Pradesh: Simla, 2133m, 14.x.1979, C.A. Viraktamath (UASB). PARATYPES: 10 ♂, same data as holotype except collected by K.D. Ghorpade (2 ♂), A.R.V. Kumar (8 ♂); 9 ♂, with same data as holotype except 18–21.x.1981 by I. Dwrakowska; 5 ♂, Manali, 10.x.1979, C.A. Viraktamath (UASB).
 Remarks. This species can easily be recognized by the two cross veins between the claval veins of the forewings and by the structure of the male genitalia. It resembles D. dunchensis, but differs in the structure of the pygofer and aedeagus.
description: Published as part of C. A. Viraktamath, 2011, Revision of the Oriental and Australian Agalliini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Megophthalminae) 2844, pp. 1-118 in Zootaxa 2844 on page 42
Sharp signature of DDW quantum critical point in the Hall coefficient of the cuprates
Creators: name: Chakravarty, Sudip
name: Nayak, Chetan
name: Tewari, Sumanta
name: Yang, Xiao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the behavior of the Hall coefficient, $R_H$, in a system exhibiting $d_{{x^2}-{y^2}}$ density-wave (DDW) order in a regime in which the carrier concentration, $x$, is tuned to approach a quantum critical point at which the order is destroyed. At the mean-field level, we find that $n_{\rm Hall}=1/R_H$ evinces a sharp signature of the transition. There is a kink in $n_{\rm Hall}$ at the critical value of the carrier concentration, $x_c$; as the critical point is approached from the ordered side, the slope of $n_{\rm Hall}$ diverges. Hall transport experiments in the cuprates, at high magnetic fields sufficient to destroy superconductivity, should reveal this effect.
description: 5 pages, 2 eps figures
title: Principles and Practice: Craft and Mechanisation in the Fabrication of A.W.N. Pugin's Designs in the Applied Arts
Creators: name: Jacobs, Jamie Louise
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2021

description: The British Victorian architect and designer Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-1852) was responsible for a wide variety of buildings and designs in the Gothic Revival style. In his publications, Pugin championed the architecture of the Middle Ages as representing an ideal mixture of style and faith and has subsequently been portrayed as advocating the return to a Medieval way of life. Conflated with that other champion of the Gothic Revival John Ruskin, scholars have applied Ruskin's dislike of machine-made products to Pugin when in fact he was never concerned with the way in which his goods were produced. To accomplish such a vast amount of work in his short lifetime, Pugin relied on a group of skilled and trusted collaborators - John Hardman for metalwork and stained glass, John Gregory Crace for wallpaper and furniture, Herbert Minton for encaustic tiles, and George Myers for building construction - who utilised a range of mechanised processes to realise his designs. By examining Pugin's working process, this thesis has sought to show that rather than rejecting mechanisation, Pugin took advantage of new materials and methods as a means to conveniently and expeditiously create the range of high-quality works for which he is known today.