cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Novel is Going Mad
Creators: name: McManaman, Ann-Marie E
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2023

description: The Novel is Going Mad challenges the notion that novels replicate the forces of normativity. Expanding on the vibrant work in Mad and Disability literary studies and drawing on work in Queer Theory, this dissertation argues that novels do mad work – that is, novels invite readers to participate in madness as a re-orientation away from the normative centre. Collectively the novels in this study articulate various mad novelistic technologies including language, structure, atmosphere, temporality, and embodiment as part of a larger argument that madness is not something that is merely understood as a facet of literary representation. As such the chapters consider emergent, recurring and uneven technologies of the novel across the nineteenth and twentieth century to demonstrate how formal and representational madness coincides. The project begins with an account of mad language to propose that novels attempt to comprehend madness through structural means and metaphorical modes. Drawing on this understanding of language I then challenge the notion that novels normalize through the plot device of the death of the non-normative character by demonstrating that madness resides elsewhere in atmosphere and therefore lingers as a counter-mood. These readings culminate in an account of embodiment in both Victorian and Modernist literature to demonstrate that novels articulate madness through narrative structure, plot, and character perspective to ultimately argue that madness challenges the way we understand the boundaries of our bodies. The dissertation closes to consider mad work in pedagogical practice with a particular attention to fostering mad community.
Sunspot positions, areas, and group tilt angles for 1611-1631 from observations by Christoph Scheiner
Creators: name: Arlt, R.
name: Pavai, V. Senthamizh
name: Schmiel, C.
name: Spada, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Digital images of the observations printed in the books "Rosa Ursina sive solis" and "Prodromus pro sole mobili" by Christoph Scheiner as well as the drawings from Scheiner's letters to Marcus Welser are analysed in order to obtain information on positions and sizes of sunspots that appeared before the Maunder minimum. In most cases, the given orientation of the ecliptic is used to set up the heliographic coordinate system for the drawings. Positions and sizes are measured manually on the screen. Very early drawings have no indication of their orientation. A rotational matching using common spots of adjacent days is used in some cases, while in other cases, the assumption of images being aligned with a zenith-horizon coordinate system appeared to be the most probable. In total, 8167 sunspots were measured. A distribution of sunspot latitudes versus time (butterfly diagram) is obtained for Scheiner's observations. The observations of 1611 are very inaccurate, the drawings of 1612 have at least an indication of their orientation, while the remaining part of the spot positions from 1618-1631 have good to very good accuracy. We also computed 697 tilt angles of apparently bipolar sunspot groups observed in the period 1618-1631. We find that the average tilt angle of nearly 4 degrees is not significantly different from 20th-century values.
Newsletter 6. CHESS SETUP 3rd anniversary!
Creators: name: Edenway
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: newsletter
subject: https://shoutout.wix.com/so/02Mi8qPKz#/main

description: CHESS SETUP: STEP 6 3rd anniversary of the project! Welcome to our 6th newsletter, we wish you a pleasant reading
Spitzer Observations of Long Term Infrared Variability Among Young Stellar Objects in Chamaeleon I
Creators: name: Flaherty, Kevin M.
name: DeMarchi, Lindsay
name: Muzerolle, James
name: Balog, Zoltan
name: Herbst, William
name: Megeath, S. Thomas
name: Furlan, Elise
name: Gutermuth, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Infrared variability is common among young stellar objects, with surveys finding daily to weekly fluctuations of a few tenths of a magnitude. Space-based observations can produce highly sampled infrared light curves, but are often limited to total baselines of about a month due to the orientation of the spacecraft. Here we present observations of the Chameleon I cluster whose low declination makes it observable by the Spitzer space telescope over a 200 day period. We observe 30 young stellar objects with a daily cadence to better sample variability on timescales of months. We find such variability is common, occurring in ~80% of the detected cluster members. The change in [3.6]-[4.5] color over 200 days for many of the sources falls between that expected for extinction and fluctuations in disk emission. With our high cadence and long baseline we can derive power spectral density curves covering two orders of magnitude in frequency and find significant power at low frequencies, up to the boundaries of our 200 day survey. Such long timescales are difficult to explain with variations driven by the interaction between the disk and stellar magnetic field, which has a dynamical timescale of days to weeks. The most likely explanation is either structural or temperature fluctuations spread throughout the inner ~0.5 au of the disk, suggesting that the intrinsic dust structure is highly dynamic.
description: Accepted to ApJ
Landau levels and shallow donor states in GaAs/AlGaAs multiple quantum wells at mega-gauss magnetic fields
Creators: name: Zybert, M.
name: Marchewka, M.
name: Sheregii, E. M.
name: Rickel, D. G.
name: Betts, J. B.
name: Balakirev, F. F.
name: Gordon, M.
name: Stier, A. V.
name: Mielke, C. H.
name: Pfeffer, P.
name: Zawadzki, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Landau levels and shallow donor states in multiple GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells (MQWs) are investigated by means of the cyclotron resonance at mega-gauss magnetic fields. Measurements of magneto-optical transitions were performed in pulsed fields up to 140 T and temperatures from 6 to 300 K. The $14\times14$ \textbf{P}$\cdot$\textbf{p} band model for GaAs is used to interpret free-electron transitions in a magnetic field. Temperature behavior of the observed resonant structure indicates, in addition to the free-electron Landau states, contributions of magneto-donor states in the GaAs wells and possibly in the AlGaAs barriers. The magneto-donor energies are calculated using a variational procedure suitable for high magnetic fields and accounting for conduction band nonparabolicity in GaAs. It is shown that the above states, including their spin splitting, allow one to interpret the observed magneto-optical transitions in MQWs in the middle infrared region. Our experimental and theoretical results at very high magnetic fields are consistent with the picture used previously for GaAs/AlGaAs MQWs at lower magnetic fields.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures
Zwitterion Hydration and Ion Association Design Principles Elucidated by Simulation and Machine Learning
Creators: name: Christiansen, Daniel E
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2023

description: Design principles connecting material properties to underlying chemistry and processing are highly effective tools for aiding the discovery of materials with advanced and targeted properties. Recently, computational techniques, such as high-throughput simulations and machine learning, have accelerated the discovery of design principles and are being used to quantify the impact of changing molecular chemistry, processing conditions, etc. on resultant material properties. These methods can require a large volume of diverse data with standardized methodologies to produce accurate quantitative models. In this contribution, molecular dynamics simulations and machine learning models are implemented to examine the influence of molecular chemistry on hydration, ion association, and ionic conductivity properties of zwitterions and polyelectrolyte materials. Simulations are used to produce hydration and ion association data at the atomic scale for zwitterion molecules and polymers, then these data are incorporated with cheminformatic descriptors to train and evaluate machine learning models revealing quantitative relationships between design and property at the molecular, polymeric, and system scales.
On a vibration energy and power analysis method : frequency response analysis for power variables
Creators: name: Wang., Xu
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
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Dirac oscillator and minimal length
Creators: name: Valtancoli, Paolo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show how to solve the Dirac oscillator with a minimal length by using previous results on the harmonic oscillator in a Snyder algebra.
description: 11 pages, no figures
Newsletter 1. CHESS SET UP celebrates its 6 months
Creators: name: Edenway
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: newsletter
subject: http://shoutout.wix.com/so/8LfRH62B#/main

description: CHESS SETUP: STEP 1 Welcome to our 1st newsletter, we wish you a pleasant reading. CHESS SETUP celebrates its 6 months. You will receive this newsletter every 6 months. We will inform you about the project's achievements, and relevant news related to the Energy ecosystem.
Experimental and DFT investigation of (Cr,Ti)3AlC2 MAX phases stability
Creators: name: Burr, Patrick A.
name: Horlait, Denis
name: Lee, William E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using a synergistic combination of experimental and computational methods, we shed light on the unusual solubility of (Cr,Ti)3AlC2 MAX phase, showing that it may accommodate Cr only at very low concentrations (<2at%) or at the exact Cr/(Cr+Ti) ratio of 2/3, even when the ratio of reactants is far from this stoichiometry (1/2 < Cr/(Cr+Ti) < 5/6). In both phases Cr exclusively occupies the 4f sites, bridging carbide layers with the Al layer. Despite this, the peculiar stability of (Cr2/3Ti1/3)3AlC2 is attributed to the formation of strong, spin-polarised Cr-C bonds, which result in volume reduction and marked increase in c/a ratio.
description: 18 pages, 57 references, 2 supplementary tables, accepted in Materials Research Letters on 6-Aug-2016
Stability of trains under aerodynamic excitation for Addis Ababa Light railway transit (A.A.L.R.T)
Creators: name: Abel, Demissie
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2015

description: Railway train aerodynamic problems are closely associated with the flows occurring around train. This work is based on numerical model using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) approach to obtain the impact of air flow around a train operating in selected scenarios. These scenarios are train passing each other and train passing through the tunnel. The model of generic passenger train was developed using CatiaV5 and generated the wind tunnel and applied the boundary conditions in ANSYS workbench 13.0. The simulation work of the test vehicle and grid system is constructed by ANSYS-13.0. FLUENT which is the CFD solver and employed in the present work. In this study, numerical iterations are completed, then after aerodynamic data and detailed complicated flow structure are visualized The paper aimed at investigating the aerodynamic impact on a lightweight railway vehicle used in A.A.LRT. The performed simulation allows measuring the aerodynamic forces on the vehicles. Numerical prediction of incompressible flow has been performed in AALRT train moving at a speed of 22.2m/s (80k/hr). Fluent, the CFD code which incorporates - turbulence model and segregated implicit solver was used for the computation. The aerodynamic analysis was performed to study the flow behavior of the air over the train body. The analysis includes the study of contours of pressure and velocity. The peak pressure difference along the train is 1615KPa which is exhibited for trains passing each other. The two scenarios conducted for a train exiting and entering the tunnel shows that the pressure deviation is very low with a magnitude of 1411Kpa and 1355Kp respectively
Is There Really "Retrocausation" in Time-Symmetric Approaches to Quantum Mechanics?
Creators: name: Kastner, R. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Time-symmetric interpretations of quantum theory are often presented as featuring "retrocausal" effects in addition to the usual forward notion of causation. This paper examines the ontological implications of certain timesymmetric theories, and finds that no dynamical notion of causation applies to them, either forward or backward. It is concluded that such theories actually describe a static picture, in which the notion of causation is relegated to a descriptor of static relationships among events. In addition, these theories lead to an epistemic rather than ontologically referring, realist view of quantum states.
description: A few minor editorial changes and an expanded Conclusion section addressing the issue of whether 'causation' talk can ever mean anything dynamical as opposed to merely perspectival. Comments welcome. Paper given at the Retrocausation Workshop of the AAAS annual meeting, June 2016
Modelling of liquid flow on a spiral concentrator
Creators: name: Wang., Jing-Wu
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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UMTS/WCDMA Coverage and Capacity Planning for Better Safety and Operation of Railway, A Case Study of Addis Ababa – Djibouti Route
Creators: name: Welday, Gerezgiher
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2016

description: This thesis involves planning of coverage and estimated capacity of Universal Mobile Telecommunications Service network for railway (UMTS-R) which uses Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) radio interface between the third generation (3G) base station and user equipment for railway better operation and safety by replacing Global System for Mobile Communication – Railway (GSM-R) to ensure safety and increase additional services for future railway system so that customer satisfaction is enhanced. The Addis Ababa – Djibouti railway route at long stage operation (in 2035) is taken as a case study and geographical and morphological nature of the route is taken with the assumption of further extension of suburban areas in the future. The design involves certain steps including: creating route path on Google earth as KML/KMZ file, convert to AutoCAD file using Zonums online solution and then to TAB file using MapInfo professional 7.8. Finally Atoll radio network simulation uses this file as an input to design the coverage while nature of each node B site is taken in to consideration to optimize the coverage and capacity. The design involves numerous parameter calculations and WCDMA standard or assumed values used to compute the link budget of two samples that are mostly used data rates (12.2Kbps voice and 144 Kbps packet switched data) by using Okumura-Hata path loss model which is chosen reasonably after simulating the cell range versus path loss using MATLAB software. A rough estimation of both uplink and downlink maximum capacity is done for the mixed traffic. Repeated simulation trials have been done to obtain better redundant or reliable network service and ends up with 97 Node B sites to serve a redundant system in which half number of the total Node Bs can fully operate the route with acceptable signal level for the case study route. Finally, a rough comparison of Universal Mobile Telecommunication Services – Railway (UMTS-R) and GSM-R capacity and coverage for the route is done. As a result, an extra estimated capacity and better and reliable coverage is obtained. To make this design full and practically operable, there is a room to extend on analysis of inters and intra system interference, Electromagnetic Compatibility analysis, cost analysis and detail system optimization.
Psychometric Evaluation of Traditional, Complementary, Integrative Medicine (TCIM) Attitudes Scale
Creators: name: Maghrabi, Walaa Hussain
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2023

description: The use of traditional, complementary, integrative medicine (TCIM) has grown rapidly worldwide. In a direct response, the World Health Organization has called for promotion of safe and effective use of these treatment approaches through research, regulation, and integration into mainstream healthcare systems. Assessing attitudes toward TCIM enables healthcare providers and researchers to examine TCIM approaches that are prioritized by the local population. This helps to inform and initiate more targeted policies and services so that a culturally sensitive healthcare system can be established. However, no standard instrument is currently available for measuring individuals’ attitudes toward TCIM. This dissertation research addressed this gap in the measurement field. The first manuscript aimed to identify the most influential factor driving TCIM use. An umbrella review was conducted to provide a comprehensive synthesize of the available evidence on the topic. Five factors were identified and critically analyzed. Findings of this review was the cornerstone for the development of the TCIM Attitudes Scale. The TCIM Attitudes Scale was thus grounded on the most influential factor driving TCIM use, which is treatment usefulness. Treatment usefulness denotes how individuals perceive a treatment as useful in fulfilling their health needs. The perceived usefulness of a TCIM treatment may be based on scientific evidence or could be driven by hope or belief in its benefits. The second manuscript aimed to describe the development of the TCIM Attitudes Scale and assess its psychometric properties. The scale consists of 10 items and is designed to gauge the degree to which an individual is convinced about the usefulness of a specific TCIM approach for a specific health condition. A cross-sectional survey study was conducted to assess the scales’ psychometric properties among women with infertility in Saudi Arabia. This empirical study provided preliminary evidence of the scale’s reliability and validity. The newly developed scale is expected to be useful in understanding populations’ health-seeking behaviors and health service demands regarding TCIM. It also offers a standardized measure allowing consistent collection and meaningful comparison of data.
Customized Guideline for Designing Overhead Contact System for Ethiopian Railway: Case Study of Indode Station
Creators: name: Beyene, Aynabeba
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2014

description: This thesis presents Overhead Contact Line System design for Indode station. Overhead Contact System (OCS) is an essential interface between fixed installation and moving energy consumer for electric railway. Its design depends on mechanical, electrical and environmental loads. Therefore proper design and standard of overhead contact line system for a particular environment according to specific service requirement is necessary. In this work detailed technical design of overhead contact system for Indode station as reference to review other overhead contact line system design in Ethiopia Railway is done. In this thesis first overhead contact system for electrified root is modeled based on bottom to top approach. Trolley and simple catenary of both semi and auto compensated Overhead Contact System is modeled. Traction impendence of overhead contact system especially double track of simple catenary equivalent impendence is determined. Then based on this model and meteorological data, maximum span length, critical span length, maximum sag height, and maximum anchoring length are derived and determined. From this determined parameter and site plan of Indode station, Overhead contact system plan is prepared according to planning rules and standard using Microsoft Visio. Finally main thesis work is summarized by preparing overhead contact system design manual for Ethiopia Railway.
Rail-Road Integration for Freight Transportation along Djibouti Corridor
Creators: name: Arega, Koyehu
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2015

description: Modern transport and freight distribution system all over the world are tending towards the adoption of best practices those are reliable, timely and cost effective. Multimodal transport between road and rail, also known as combined transport, has received a large interest in recent years as part of a possible solution for a sustainable and efficient transport system. Hence, this study focuses on the model development and analyse the model validation of the potentials of integrated rail-road freight transportation of Ethiopia from Djibouti port to Addis Ababa and other major cities. Much of the primary data is obtained through the administration of a questionnaire specifically designed to gather information on the cost involved, distanced covered, area coverage, amount of tonnage during import and export, problems during loading and unloading and time taken to deliver cargoes to consignees. The respondents that are selected systematically for this study are traffic officers of major transport companies. Secondary data sources were obtained from the interviews of major transport companies operation, technical and marketing managers such as from Trans Ethiopia PLC, Ethiopian Railway Corporation, Ethiopian Shipping Lines and Logistics Enterprise and from Ministry of Transport. The data set are combined with the model development and validation to create the full model of the transport system used to answer the research questions; and contains the system size, transport demand, infrastructure and geographical data (rail network, road network, terminals, demand points, etc.), equipment (trucks, trains, etc.), costs data, environmental data, time windows, etc. The data are analyzed using Geometric Mean analysis. The findings of this paper reveal that integrating rail-road for hinterland bound goods would be potentially save 42.67% freight costs and time of transportation than that of using unimodal transportation i.e. road transportation. Furthermore, the emission of greenhouse gases can be minimized with 218.42% when freight transportation is done by road-rail integrations. The implications of these findings are that integrated road and rail modes of transport for porthinterland freight distribution would make the nation's transportation system to be faster, more cost-effective and less emission.
Development of Material for the Overhead Contact Line of the Addis Ababa Light Rail Transit (AA-LRT)
Creators: name: Yibeltal, Negash
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2016

description: The purpose of this research is to develop a better material for the AA-LRT overhead contact line production. So with this in mind, the mechanical wear and corrosion resistance as well as the conductivity and hardness test of Cu-Ag and three other age-hardened copper alloys (Cu-Sn, Cu-Sn-Cr, and Cu-Ag-Sn) were studied using a pin-on-disk tribometer, a Rockwell Hardness Test machine and a Corrosion resistance test apparatus. For a tribological test, the samples were forced to slide against a rotating disk made of a stainless steel at a room temperature under un-lubricated condition with a constant velocity of 80km/h and a vertical load up to 7N (The actual pressing force of the pantograph against the conduct line in real situation is far greater than 7N, however, due to the limitation of laboratory equipments the maximum load used was seven Newton. The worn surfaces of the samples were examined under an optical microscope. Upon examination of the surfaces it was observed that the mechanisms of wear were both abrasive and adhesive. The corrosion resistance test was done by immersion of samples in three different solutions, Na-Cl, PH5 acidic rain, and distilled water. Continuous fresh air was pumped through the fluids and a 30volt DC current was applied for an electrolytic condition. In both the tribological and corrosion resistance test weight difference of the sample alloys before and after the respective test was taken as a measure of their wear and corrosion resistance property. With its high wear and corrosion resistance as well as good conductivity, the Cu-Sn-Cr alloy is an appropriate material for future production of an alternate overhead contact line of the Addis-Ababa Light Rail Transit system.
The ALMA-PILS survey: First detections of ethylene oxide, acetone and propanal toward the low-mass protostar IRAS 16293-2422
Creators: name: Lykke, J. M.
name: Coutens, A.
name: Jørgensen, J. K.
name: van der Wiel, M. H. D.
name: Garrod, R. T.
name: Müller, H. S. P.
name: Bjerkeli, P.
name: Bourke, T. L.
name: Calcutt, H.
name: Drozdovskaya, M. N.
name: Favre, C.
name: Fayolle, E. C.
name: Jacobsen, S. K.
name: Öberg, K. I.
name: Persson, M. V.
name: van Dishoeck, E. F.
name: Wampfler, S. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the open questions in astrochemistry is how complex organic and prebiotic molecules are formed. Aims. Our aim is to start the process of compiling an inventory of oxygen-bearing complex organic molecules toward the solar-type Class 0 protostellar binary IRAS16293-2422 from an unbiased spectral survey with ALMA (PILS). Here we focus on the new detections of ethylene oxide (c-C$_2$H$_4$O), acetone (CH$_3$COCH$_3$), and propanal (C$_2$H$_5$CHO). Methods. With ALMA, we surveyed the spectral range from 329 to 363 GHz at 0.5$"$ (60 AU diameter) resolution. Using a simple model for the molecular emission in LTE, the excitation temperatures and column densities of each species were constrained. Results. We successfully detect propanal (44 lines), ethylene oxide (20 lines) and acetone (186 lines) toward one component of the protostellar binary, IRAS16293B. The high resolution maps demonstrate that the emission for all investigated species originates from the compact central region close to the protostar. This, along with a derived common excitation temperature of $\sim$ 125 K, is consistent with a coexistence of these molecules in the same gas. Conclusions. The observations mark the first detections of acetone, propanal and ethylene oxide toward a low-mass protostar. The relative abundance ratios of the two sets of isomers (CH$_3$COCH$_3$/C$_2$H$_5$CHO $\sim$ 8 and CH$_3$CHO/c-C$_2$H$_4$O $\sim$ 12) are comparable to previous observations toward high-mass protostars. The majority of observed abundance ratios from these results as well as those measured toward high-mass protostars are up to an order of magnitude above the predictions from chemical models. This may reflect either missing reactions or uncertain rates in the chemical networks. The physical conditions, such as temperatures or densities, used in the models, may not be applicable to solar-type protostars either.
description: Accepted in A&A
Value Co-Creation and Social Innovation for a New Generation of European Libraries
Creators: name: Fuglsang, Lars
name: Arundel, Anthony
name: Vrčon, Andrej
name: van der Vaart, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Pre-conference workshop 10: Value Co-Creation and Social Innovation for a New Generation of European Libraries
societal challenges
social innovation

description: Organised by the LibrarIN Project 1) Introduction to LibrarIN – rationale, aims, work The rationale for LibrarIN builds on the role of libraries as public services which are facing the varied challenges of the 21st century. Many of these challenges are shared with museums, cultural centres, galleries, and cultural institutions, such as the OECD and UNESCO, and professional associations like LIBER. These challenges include the delivery of efficient high-quality public services, and the improvement of libraries’ capacity to deal with societal challenges. The first part of the workshop will focus on the what, why and how of LibrarIN. Key terms will be explained and defined, and the aims of the project elaborated. The role of research librarians in the process of social innovations and the value co-creation of library services will be outlined.
 2) Interactive session – value co-creation and innovation in your library A key aim of LibrarIN is to understand the process of value co-creation in libraries service delivery, and to evaluate the different approaches to knowledge transformation in libraries, both in terms of their processes and their impact. This interactive section of the workshop will see participants discuss their personal experiences with value co-creation and social innovation within their libraries. We will look at common challenges, opportunities and needs to determine how libraries can further their role as public services. Participants will benefit from sharing their experiences of value co-creation and social innovation in libraries, and workshop ideas that they can put into practice at their own institutions (e.g. the concept of living labs, digital services for value co-creation and methods of encouraging social entrepreneurship within libraries) 3) Wrap-up plenary
 Participants will join to discuss their group work and share common experiences. The workshop hopes to achieve two aims:
 1. Participants are better informed about the concept of vale co-creation of library services, its benefits to the library community and wider society. 2. The LibrarIN project gains a snapshot into existing value-cocreation practices in LIBER libraries and the attitude to such activities amongst the research community.
Generative Adversarial Networks for Retinal Fundus Image Synthesis
Creators: name: Cellamare, Luca Giuseppe
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2023

description: To effectively develop a machine learning algorithm, one must first gather a sufficiently big and representative collection of samples. Collecting such a well-curated dataset is expensive, especially as the labeling and annotation sometimes involve the work of more than one expert from the field of interest, as in the case of medical applications. A possible solution to the lack of diverse and large annotated databases is to use Generative adversarial networks (GANs) for medical image synthesis. This thesis aims to present various GAN architectures able to synthesize very realistic-looking fundus images. The data used to train the GANs is a collection of high-resolution retinal images offered by EyePACS and is publicly available. Also, different evaluation methods will be presented and employed to assess the GAN’s output, including quantitative and qualitative validation methods. Lastly, it will be shown how a trained GAN can be efficiently employed for transfer learning experiments, especially in the small data regime setting.
BiTeCl and BiTeBr: a comparative high-pressure optical study
Creators: name: Crassee, I.
name: Borondics, F.
name: Tran, M. K.
name: Autès, G.
name: Magrez, A.
name: Bugnon, P.
name: Berger, H.
name: Teyssier, J.
name: Yazyev, O. V.
name: Orlita, M.
name: Akrap, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We here report a detailed high-pressure infrared transmission study of BiTeCl and BiTeBr. We follow the evolution of two band transitions: the optical excitation $β$ between two Rashba-split conduction bands, and the absorption $γ$ across the band gap. In the low pressure range, $p< 4$~GPa, for both compounds $β$ is approximately constant with pressure and $γ$ decreases, in agreement with band structure calculations. In BiTeCl, a clear pressure-induced phase transition at 6~GPa leads to a different ground state. For BiTeBr, the pressure evolution is more subtle, and we discuss the possibility of closing and reopening of the band gap. Our data is consistent with a Weyl phase in BiTeBr at 5$-$6~GPa, followed by the onset of a structural phase transition at 7~GPa.
description: are welcome
Newsletter 7. CHESS SETUP: the positive effects of CHESS SETUP solution are starting to show
Creators: name: Edenway
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: newsletter
subject: https://shoutout.wix.com/so/0cMyP40w4#/main

description: CHESS SETUP The positive effects of the CHESS SETUP solution are starting to show! Welcome to our 7th newsletter, we wish you a pleasant reading and we take the opportunity to wish you all a merry Christmas and happy winter holidays!
Finite element methods for nonlinear optical waveguides
Creators: name: Wang., Xinhua
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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$Λ_cΣ_cπ$ coupling and $Σ_c \rightarrowΛ_c π$ decay in lattice QCD
Creators: name: Can, K. U.
name: Erkol, G.
name: Oka, M.
name: Takahashi, T. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We evaluate the $Λ_cΣ_cπ$ coupling constant ($G_{Λ_c Σ_c π}$) and the width of the strong decay $Σ_c \rightarrowΛ_c π$ in 2+1 flavor lattice QCD on four different ensembles with pion masses ranging from 700 MeV to 300 MeV. We find $G_{Λ_c Σ_c π}=18.332(1.476)_{\rm{stat.}}(2.171)_{\rm{syst.}}$ and the decay width $Γ(Σ_c \rightarrowΛ_c π)=1.65(28)_{\rm{stat.}}(30)_{\rm{syst.}}$~MeV on the physical quark-mass point, which is in agreement with the recent experimental determination.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures
Mask-based turbine spirometer for respiratory function assessment
Creators: name: Bernardino, Mariana Madruga
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Engineering
subject: Pulmonology
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Medical Specialties
subject: Biomedical Devices and Instrumentation
subject: Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering

description: Design files: .scad and .stl files for 3D printing; firmware developed in Arduino IDE; .ipynb software for data analysis
Bose-Einstein Condensation of Photons versus Lasing and Hanbury Brown-Twiss Measurements with a Condensate of Light
Creators: name: Schmitt, Julian
name: Damm, Tobias
name: Dung, David
name: Vewinger, Frank
name: Klaers, Jan
name: Weitz, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The advent of controlled experimental accessibility of Bose-Einstein condensates, as realized with e.g. cold atomic gases, exciton-polaritons, and more recently photons in a dye-filled optical microcavity, has paved the way for new studies and tests of a plethora of fundamental concepts in quantum physics. We here describe recent experiments studying a transition between laser-like dynamics and Bose-Einstein condensation of photons in the dye microcavity system. Further, measurements of the second-order coherence of the photon condensate are presented. In the condensed state we observe photon number fluctuations of order of the total particle number, as understood from effective particle exchange with the photo-excitable dye molecules. The observed intensity fluctuation properties give evidence for Bose-Einstein condensation occurring in the grand-canonical statistical ensemble regime.
Essay on Customer Engagement Analytics in Social Media Using Deep Learning
Creators: name: Ma, Tengteng
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2023

description: Brands are increasingly using social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter to promote their services and products and engage with their customers. With the increasing prevalence of various social media platforms, intensive online marketing competition has emerged among companies. How to target potential customers in social media effectively and efficiently is an important yet unsolved problem. In the meantime, some newly emerged formats of advertisement have become indispensable components of online marketing, such as influencer marketing where brands collaborate with social media influencers to broadcast products or services. While the usefulness of leveraging influencer endorsements from the standpoint of a brand or corporation has been well examined, a crucial but unanswered topic is how commercial endorsements affect the influencers themselves. In this dissertation, I explore the algorithms and strategies that benefit brands and content providers in the competitive environment on social media. Specifically, from an algorithmic perspective, I develop novel Artificial Intelligence frameworks with interpretability grounded in behavioral and social theories to target potential customers on social media, which in turn prompt brand profitability and market performance. In addition, I combine econometrics with deep learning, text mining, and computer vision techniques, to understand the mechanism of online viewer behavior for influencer marketing. This study contributes to our understanding of how to engage customers for online marketing. The outcome provides stakeholders with a strong forecast and a comprehensive understanding of customer engagement mechanisms. This dissertation also brings practical information in the competitive climate of online marketing.
The microstructure of plasma sprayed ceramic coatings
Creators: name: Wang., Duo
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Modification of the structure of diamond with MeV ion implantation
Creators: name: Bosia, F.
name: Argiolas, N.
name: Bazzan, M.
name: Olivero, P.
name: Picollo, F.
name: Sordini, A.
name: Vannoni, M.
name: Vittone, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present experimental results and numerical simulations to investigate the modification of structural-mechanical properties of ion-implanted single-crystal diamond. A phenomenological model is used to derive an analytical expression for the variation of mass density and elastic properties as a function of damage density in the crystal. These relations are applied together with SRIM Monte Carlo simulations to set up Finite Element simulations for the determination of internal strains and surface deformation of MeV-ion-implanted diamond samples. The results are validated through comparison with high resolution X-ray diffraction and white-light interferometric profilometry experiments. The former are carried out on 180 keV B implanted diamond samples, to determine the induced structural variation, in terms of lattice spacing and disorder, whilst the latter are performed on 1.8 MeV He implanted diamond samples to measure surface swelling. The effect of thermal processing on the evolution of the structural-mechanical properties of damaged diamond is also evaluated by performing the same profilometric measurements after annealing at 1000 °C, and modeling the obtained trends with a suitably modified analytical model. The results allow the development of a coherent model describing the effects of MeV-ion-induced damage on the structural-mechanical properties of single-crystal diamond. In particular, we suggest a more reliable method to determine the so-called diamond "graphitization threshold" for the considered implantation type.
description: 19 pages, 4 figures
Global asymptotic stability of a PID control system with Coulomb friction
Creators: name: Bisoffi, Andrea
name: Da Lio, Mauro
name: Teel, Andrew R.
name: Zaccarian, Luca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: We propose a model for representing a point mass subject to Coulomb friction in feedback with a PID controller, based on a differential inclusion comprising all the possible magnitudes of static friction during the stick phase. For this model we study the set of all equilibria and we establish its global asymptotic stability using a discontinuous Lyapunov-like function, and a suitable LaSalle's invariance principle. We finally use well-posedness of the proposed model to establish useful robustness results, including an ISS property from a suitable input in a perturbed context. Simulation results are also given to illustrate our statements.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures
GSM-R Network Design for ATP System of Addis Ababa-Djibouti Route
Creators: name: Teklebrhan, Aregawi
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2015

description: Railway transport system hauls huge commodities and passengers from one location to another. Thereby, protection of the freight, passenger and the train itself from collisions and hazards is the pillar of railway system. There have been plenty of methods created to solve train protection problem all over the world so far. This thesis is also focused on solving protection problem in the route from Addis Ababa to Djibouti border (Dewele). Addis Ababa-Djibouti route has both single and double tracks, serves to both freight and passenger trains. Moving Trains at this track have different speeds, passenger trains are relatively run at high speed. Another problem within this track is head-on conflict of outward and inward running trains at the single track. This situation needs an effective train control and protection system in order to protect train collision, increase route capacity and supply proper power distribution. This thesis deals with designing proper, efficient and cost effective GSM-R radio coverage network for automatic train protection (ATP) system. Train detection mechanism is within GPS system. This work inspected the geographical and morphological nature of Addis Ababa-Djibouti (Dewele) route in detail. In this thesis the appropriate radio coverage is done depending on the real geographical nature of the route. The data rate load and dimension of each train, whole line and other communication services are calculated. This thesis has been using an appropriate path loss model to estimate the link budget of the network. The appropriate path loss model is selected with MATLAB software simulation. GSM-R radio network design parameters and appropriate algorithms are selected. Required mathematical calculations and analysis are defined on this thesis work. Then, lastly the network optimized with Atoll software.
Rapid TeV Flaring in Markarian 501
Creators: name: Zheng, Y. G.
name: Zhang, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate rapid TeV flaring in markarian 501 in the frame of a time-dependent one-zone synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) model. Inthis model, electrons are accelerated to extra-relativistic energy through the stochastic particle acceleration and evolve with the time, nonthermal photons are produced by both synchrotron and inverse Comtpon scattering off synchrotron photons. Moreover, nonthermal photons during a pre-flare are produced by the relativistic electrons in the steady state and those during a flare are produced by the electrons whose injection rate is changed at some time interval. We apply the model to the rapid flare of Markarian 501 on July 9, 2005 and obtain the multi-wavelength spectra during the pre-flare and during the flare. Our results show that the time-dependent properties of flares can be reproduced by varying the injection rate of electrons and a clear canonical anti-clockwise-loop can be given.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures, published in ApJ (2011ApJ...728..105Z)
Dynamic Analysis with Multi-Body Simulation Of Articulated Passenger Car Of AALRT
Creators: name: Belayhun, Ejiguale
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2017

description: The railway vehicle running along a track is one of the most complex dynamic systems in railway engineering and it has many degree of freedom, the interaction `between wheel and rail, suspension and articulation systems involves complex systems. However, thevehicle body lowering down to the rail at maximum load condition was critical issue for the corporation. To identify the stated problem, dynamic analysis with multi-body simulation of articulated passenger car is crucial by SIMACK MBS software package. The 3D modeling and the simulation process pass through three steps by using this multi-body simulation software package. The Simulation results were the predictions of vertical deformation of railway vehicle suspension and articulations on straight and curved track can be made. The primary suspension, secondary suspension and articulation systems vertical deformation were 5.25mm, 15.125mm, and 12.35mm in straight track and 17.125mm, 40mm and 22.125mm in curved track. In order to withstand the vehicle body lowering down problem, vertical primary and secondary suspension stiffness and damping value optimized. After optimization the primary and secondary suspension and articulation system vertical deformations were 15.975, 20.325 and 16.375mm. Therefore, the vertical suspension and articulation systems, maximum vehicle load, minimum track curve radius and wheel diameter variation have great effect for the current problem. To withstand this problem, the vertical suspension stiffness and damping value have to be optimized.
On dynamic programming with application to aircraft trajectory generation
Creators: name: Waller., Michael Christopher
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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