cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Fabrication and stabilization of nanosilver using Houttugniae for antibacterial and catalytic application
Creators: name: Zhang, Guobin
name: Wan, Hong
name: Mia, Rony
name: Huang, Qinglin
name: Liu, Huihong
name: Mahmud, Sakil
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) were synthesised utilising a one-pot green synthesis process using phytonutrients obtained from Houttugniae herba (HH) as a reductant and stabiliser. The proposed technique was fast, simple, eco-friendly, and cost-effective, and it does not require any additional processing or toxic ingredients to reduce and stabilise the AgNPs. All parameters (concentration of HH, reaction duration, temperature, and pH) involved in the reduction/stabilisation reaction were evaluated using a one-factor-at-a-time (OFAT) technique in a set of the experimental array to establish an optimal reaction state. Intense yellow colour and a prominent peak at 411 nm in the UV–vis absorption spectra indicated the growth of AgNPs in the reaction system. The produced AgNPs deploying optimum parameters were nearly spherical, with nanometre size (16.28 ± 4.48 nm), highly crystalline (d-spacing = 0.234 and 0.258 nm), and well stabilised (zeta potential = −26.4 mV). The measurement and analysis also yielded that the AgNPs were formed by an oxidation-reduction reaction between plant-derived phytonutrients and metal precursors and subsequently stabilised by the encapsulation of phytonutrients. The biogenic AgNPs exhibited remarkable antibacterial effectiveness against gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria. In addition, the AgNPs demonstrated significant catalytic degradation and mineralisation of industrially essential di-azo dyes with a degradation efficiency of nearly 100% within 20 min. The present investigation shows a simple and environmentally friendly way to synthesise AgNPs, which might be feasible to meet the current need for bacterial reduction and textile wastewater treatment.
Early verb development of two Finnish-speaking children: a preliminary approach to miniparadigms
Creators: name: Laalo, Klaus
Publisher: name: ZAS Papers in Linguistics
Year: 2000

description: This paper is a preliminary overview of the early acquisition of verb inflection in Finnish. The analysis of the first verb forms concentrates on two children, but background material from other children is also used. The analysis of the first miniparadigms concentrates on one girl (Tuulikki).
description: ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Bd. 18 (2000): First verbs: on the way to mini-paradigms
Early development of verb-constructions in an English-speaking child
Creators: name: Gülzow, Insa
Publisher: name: ZAS Papers in Linguistics
Year: 2000

description: In this paper the first results concerning the development of early verb morphology in an L1-English speaking child are presented. Adopting the framework of morphological development of Dressler (Dressler, this volume) the data of a girl from the CHILDES database, Nina of the Suppes corpus, is analysed with regard to the emergence of early verbal categories (e.g. number and person) and their appearance in a first mini-paradigm. In the sessions analysed so far the child Nina has reached an age of 2;2 when the first mini-paradigm emerges.
description: ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Bd. 18 (2000): First verbs: on the way to mini-paradigms
On long-time existence for the flow of static metrics with rotational symmetry
Creators: name: Gulcev, L.
name: Oliynyk, T. A.
name: Woolgar, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: B List has proposed a geometric flow whose fixed points correspond to solutions of the static Einstein equations of general relativity. This flow is now known to be a certain Hamilton-DeTurck flow (the pullback of a Ricci flow by an evolving diffeomorphism) on RxM^n. We study the SO(n) rotationally symmetric case of List's flow under conditions of asymptotic flatness. We are led to this problem from considerations related to Bartnik's quasi-local mass definition and, as well, as a special case of the coupled Ricci-harmonic map flow. The problem also occurs as a Ricci flow with broken SO(n+1) symmetry, and has arisen in a numerical study of Ricci flow for black hole thermodynamics. When the initial data admits no minimal hypersphere, we find the flow is immortal when a single regularity condition holds for the scalar field of List's flow at the origin. This regularity condition can be shown to hold at least for n=2. Otherwise, near a singularity, the flow will admit rescalings which converge to an SO(n)-symmetric ancient Ricci flow on R^n.
description: 30 pages; typos fixed; accepted version for Commun Anal Geom
Early verb development in one German-speaking child
Creators: name: Bittner, Dagmar
Publisher: name: ZAS Papers in Linguistics
Year: 2000

description: This paper deals with the emergence of verb morphology in one German child up to the time mini-paradigms occur in the data. I will focus on the role of protomorphology as a transitional stage between rote learning and the productive use of morphological distinctions.
description: ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Bd. 18 (2000): First verbs: on the way to mini-paradigms
Sustainability Plan: Advances at the Guadalajara Meeting
Creators: name: O'Leary, C.
name: Contreras, S.
name: García-Holgado, A.
name: Villa, J. L.
name: Ojeda-Caicedo, V. V.
name: Heffernan, L.
name: Dunne, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Women, Science, CBHE, EU, gender, STEM, W-STEM, Sustainability plan

description: The 3rd meeting of the W-STEM ERASMUS + Capacity-building in Higher Education European Project (Ref. 598923-EPP-1-2018-1-ES-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP) had scheduled to be held in Guadalajara (Mexico). The COVID-19 pandemic did not allow us to meet face-to-face, and we decided to organize the meeting online on January 12-14, 2021. The advances of the sustainability plan were presented in this meeting by the Sustainability Planning Team.
Tracking sources and contributing factors of Pb contamination in drinking water supply system of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Creators: name: Endale, Yohannes Tesfaye
name: Ambelu, Argaw
name: Sahilu, Geremew
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Lead (Pb) in drinking water is a serious concern due to its adverse health impacts. Aiming to identify sources and contributing factors of waterborne Pb, this study tracked Pb at different locations in Addis Ababa’s (capital of Ethiopia) water distribution system, successively from 3 water sources, 15 storage reservoirs and 88 taps. The mean Pb concentration at sources was 2.6 µg/L, significantly varying from the concentration at taps, 15.9 µg/L (ANOVA Post Hoc, P = 0.02). A significant variation of Pb was also observed among the city’s water distribution sub-systems and source waters (ANOVA Post Hoc, P = 0.006). Surface waters exhibited a negative Langelier saturation index (LSI) and higher corrosivity. Analysis from first-drop and flushed water samples showed that water stagnation for 6–8 hours would increase Pb leaching by 11.5 Points (95% CI [6.23, 16.78]). Metal plumbing releases more Pb compared to plastics (t30 = −4.358, P < 0.001), where the leaching is higher from new faucets than the old (r = −0.368, P < 0.05). A multiple linear regression (R2 = 0.61, F5, 80 = 24.617, P < 0.001) predicted that a 1% increase of Fe in the water can raise the Pb concentration by 0.35% (t80 = 7.033, P < 0.001), while 1% increment of Zn can raise Pb by 0.21% (t80 = 4.45, P < 0.001). The analysis suggests that leaded-brass and galvanised-steel could be important Pb sources. In conclusion, Pb contamination in Addis Ababa’s drinking water system chiefly arises from the plumbing and pipelines, where the main portal of entry lies between storage reservoirs and taps. Water properties (hardness, tendency to scale formation and corrosivity), water stagnation time in pipelines, and material types and age of premise plumbing were significant contributing factors.
Early verb development in one Austrian child
Creators: name: Klampfer, Sabine
Publisher: name: ZAS Papers in Linguistics
Year: 2000

description: The purpose of this paper is to trace the early development of verbs (first 50 verb lemmas) in one Austrian child. The paper focusses on verb morphology, and especially on the emergence of first verb paradigms.
description: ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Bd. 18 (2000): First verbs: on the way to mini-paradigms
Introduction
Creators: name: Bittner, Dagmar
name: Dressler, Wolfgang U.
name: Kilani-Schoch, Marianne
Publisher: name: ZAS Papers in Linguistics
Year: 2000

description: This 18th issue of ZAS-Papers in Linguistics consists of papers on the development of verb acquisition in 9 languages from the very early stages up to the onset of paradigm construction.
description: ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Bd. 18 (2000): First verbs: on the way to mini-paradigms
First verbs: on the way to mini-paradigms
Creators: name: Bittner, Dagmar
name: Dressler, Wolfgang U.
name: Kilani-Schoch, Marianne
Publisher: name: ZAS Papers in Linguistics
Year: 2000

description: This 18th issue of ZAS-Papers in Linguistics consists of papers on the development of verb acquisition in 9 languages from the very early stages up to the onset of paradigm construction. Each of the 10 papers deals with first-Ianguage developmental processes in one or two children studied via longitudinal data. The languages involved are French, Spanish, Russian, Croatian, Lithuanien, Finnish, English and German. For German two different varieties are examined, one from Berlin and one from Vienna. All papers are based on presentations at the workshop 'Early verbs: On the way to mini-paradigms' held at the ZAS (Berlin) on the 30./31. of September 2000. This workshop brought to a close the first phase of cooperation between two projects on language acquisition which has started in October 1999: a) the project on "Syntaktische Konsequenzen des Morphologieerwerbs" at the ZAS (Berlin) headed by Juergen Weissenborn and Ewald Lang, and financially supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, and b) the international "Crosslinguistic Project on Pre- and Protomorphology in Language Acquisition" coordinated by Wolfgang U. Dressler in behalf of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
description: ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Bd. 18 (2000): First verbs: on the way to mini-paradigms
German participle II constructions as adjuncts
Creators: name: Zimmermann, Ilse
Publisher: name: ZAS Papers in Linguistics
Year: 2000

description: The present investigation is concerned with German participles II (past participles) as lexical heads of adjuncts. Within a minimalist framework of sound-meaning correlation, the analysis presupposes a lexicalist conception of morphology and the differentiation of Semantic Form and Conceptual Structure. It is argued that participles II have the same argument structure as the underlying verbs and can undergo passivization, perfectivization and conversion to adjectives. As for the potential of participles to function as modifiers, it is shown that attributive and adverbial participle constructions involve further operations of conversion. Participle constructions are considered as reduced sentences. They do not have a syntactic position for the subject, for an operator (comparable to the relative pronoun in relative clauses) or for an adverbial relator (as in adverbial clauses). The pertinent components are present only in the semantic structure. Two templates serve the composition of modifiers - including participle constructions - with the modificandum. It is necessary to differentiate between modification which unifies two predicates relating to participants or to situations and frame setting modification where the modifier is given the status of a propositional operator. The proposed analysis shows that the high degree of semantic underspecification and interpretative flexibility of German participle II constructions resides in the indeterminacy of participles II with respect to voice and perfect, in the absence of certain constituents in the syntactic structure and in the presence of corresponding parameters in the Semantic Form of the participle phrases.
description: ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Bd. 17 (2000): Approaching the grammar of adjuncts : proceedings of the Oslo conference, September 22 - 25, 1999
How are results represented and modified? Remarks on Jäger & Blutner's anti-decomposition
Creators: name: Von Stechow, Arnim
Publisher: name: ZAS Papers in Linguistics
Year: 2000

description: The paper investigates a recent proposal to resultativity by G. Jäger and R. Blutner (J&B). J&B say that the representation of result states of accomplishments by means of CAUSE and BECOME is not correct and should not be done in the syntax in terms of decomposition. They develop an axiomatic approach where each accomplishment/achievement is related to its result by a particular axiom. Modification of the result by "again" makes use of these axioms and the restitutive/resultative ambiguity is a matter of lexical ambiguity or polysemy. They argue that the classical decomposition theory cannot treat the restitutive reading of "A Delaware settled in New Jersey again" (there had been Delawares in New Jersey but not this particular one; and those earlier Delawares never moved to New Jersey but were borne there). I discuss (and dispute) these data and compare the two theories. J&B's contains an OT-part dealing with the disambiguating role of stress. While the decomposition theory cannot deal with the data mentioned, it can integrate the OT-part of J&B's theory.
description: ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Bd. 17 (2000): Approaching the grammar of adjuncts : proceedings of the Oslo conference, September 22 - 25, 1999
Interplay of electronic correlations and lattice instabilities in BaVS3
Creators: name: Choi, Kwang-Yong
name: Wulferding, Dirk
name: Berger, Helmuth
name: Lemmens, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The quasi-one-dimensional metallic system BaVS3 with a metal-insulator transition at T_MI=70 K shows large changes of the optical phonon spectrum, a central peak, and an electronic Raman scattering continuum that evolve in a three-step process. Motivated by the observation of a strongly fluctuating precursor state at high temperatures and orbital ordering and a charge gap at low temperatures we suggest a concerted action of the orbital, electronic, and lattice subsystems dominated by electronic correlations.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Bayesian estimation for selective trace gas detection
Creators: name: Stockton, John K.
name: Tuchman, Ari K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a Bayesian estimation analysis for a particular trace gas detection technique with species separation provided by differential diffusion. The proposed method collects a sample containing multiple gas species into a common volume, and then allows it to diffuse across a linear array of optical absorption detectors, using, for example, high-finesse Fabry-Perot cavities. The estimation procedure assumes that all gas parameters (e.g. diffusion constants, optical cross sections) are known except for the number population of each species, which are determined from the time-of-flight absorption profiles in each detector.
Foliations in deformation spaces of local G-shtukas
Creators: name: Hartl, Urs
name: Viehmann, Eva
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20G25, 11G09, 14L05, 14M15

description: We study local G-shtukas with level structure over a base scheme whose Newton polygons are constant on the base. We show that after a finite base change and after passing to an étale covering, such a local G-shtuka is isogenous to a completely slope divisible one, generalizing corresponding results for p-divisible groups by Oort and Zink. As an application we establish a product structure up to finite morphism on the closed Newton stratum of the universal deformation of a local G-shtuka, similarly to Oort's foliations for p-divisible groups and abelian varieties. This also yields bounds on the dimensions of affine Deligne-Lusztig varieties and proves equidimensionality of affine Deligne-Lusztig varieties in the affine Grassmannian.
description: 26 pages
The impact of magnetic properties on atom-wall interaction
Creators: name: Bimonte, G.
name: Klimchitskaya, G. L.
name: Mostepanenko, V. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Lifshitz-type formulas for the free energy and Casimir-Polder force acting between an atom possessing a permanent magnetic moment and a wall made of different materials are derived. Simple model allowing analytic results is considered where the atomic magnetic susceptibility is frequency-independent and wall is made of ideal metal. Numerical computations of the Casimir-Polder force are performed for H atom interacting with walls made of ideal metal, nonmagnetic (Au) and ferromagnetic (Fe) metals and of ferromagnetic dielectric. It is shown that for the first three wall materials the inclusion of the magnetic moment of an atom decreases and for the fourth material increases the magnitude of the Casimir-Polder force.
description: 14 pages, 2 figures; accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. A
Observation of wave turbulence in vibrating plates
Creators: name: Boudaoud, Arezki
name: Cadot, Olivier
name: Odille, Benoît
name: Touzé, Cyril
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The nonlinear interaction of waves in a driven medium may lead to wave turbulence, a state such that energy is transferred from large to small lengthscales. Here, wave turbulence is observed in experiments on a vibrating plate. The frequency power spectra of the normal velocity of the plate may be rescaled on a single curve, with power-law behaviors that are incompatible with the weak turbulence theory of D{ü}ring et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 025503 (2006)]. Alternative scenarios are suggested to account for this discrepancy -- in particular the occurrence of wave breaking at high frequencies. Finally, the statistics of velocity increments do not display an intermittent behavior.
Syntactic position and the readings of 'manner' adverbs
Creators: name: Shaer, Benjamin
Publisher: name: ZAS Papers in Linguistics
Year: 2000

description: In this study, I investigate the positions and interpretations available to 'manner' adverbs in English. My central claim, contra Wyner (1994, 1998), is that an association does exist between 'manner' adverb positions and interpretations, which is best characterized in terms of Peterson's (1997) distinction between 'restrictive' and 'non-restrictive' modification. I also claim, however, that the association in question is not as general as commonly claimed; and, in particular, does not apply directly to 'manner' adverbs in 'fronted' and 'parenthetical' positions, which require special syntactic description.
description: ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Bd. 17 (2000): Approaching the grammar of adjuncts : proceedings of the Oslo conference, September 22 - 25, 1999
Secondary predication and aspectual structure
Creators: name: Rothstein, Susan Deborah
Publisher: name: ZAS Papers in Linguistics
Year: 2000

description: This paper presents an analysis of secondary predicates as aspectual modifiers and secondary predication as a summing operation which sums the denotation of the matrix verb and the secondary predicate. I argue that, as opposed to the summing peration involved in simple conjunction, there is a constraint on secondary predication; in the 0 case of depictives, the event introduced by the matrix verb must be PART-OF the event introduced by the secondary predicate, where e1 is PART-OF e2 if the running time of e1 is contained in the running time of e2 and if e1 and e2 share a grammatical argument. I argue resultative predication differs from depictive predication in that the PART-OF constraint holds in resultative constructions between the event which is the culmination of e1 and e2: formally, while depictive predication introduces the statement PART-OF(e1,e2), resultative predication introduces the statement PART-OF(cul(e1),e2). I show that this is all that is necessary to explain the well-known properties of resultative predication.
description: ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Bd. 17 (2000): Approaching the grammar of adjuncts : proceedings of the Oslo conference, September 22 - 25, 1999
Rethinking the adjunct
Creators: name: Rosengren, Inger
Publisher: name: ZAS Papers in Linguistics
Year: 2000

description: The purpose of the present paper is twofold: first, to show that, when defining the adjunct, it is necessary to distinguish in a strict modular way between the syntactic level and the lexico-semantic level. Thus, the adjunct is a syntactic category on a par with the specifier and the complement, whereas the argument belongs to the same set as does (among others) the modifier. The consequence of this distinction is that there is no direct one-to-one opposition between adjuncts and arguments. Nor is there any direct one-to one relation between adjuncts and modifiers. The second and main purpose of the paper is to account for the well-known difference between the position of a specific set of modifiers (cause, time, place etc.) in, on the one hand, English and Swedish, on the other, German. In English and Swedish the default position of these modifiers is postverbal, whereas in German it is preverbal. Further, in English and Swedish, these modifiers occur in a mirror order compared with their German counterparts, an order which, from a semantic point of view, is not the expected one. I shall demonstrate that this difference is due to the different settings of the verbal head parameter, the former languages being VO-languages and the latter being OV -languages. I shall further argue that in English and Swedish these modifiers are base generated as adjuncts to an empty VP, which is a complement of the main verb of what I shall call the minimal VP (MVP), whereas in German they are adjuncts on top of the MVP. Finally, I shall argue that the postverbal modifiers move at the latest at LF to the top of the MVP, in order to take scope over it, the restriction being 'Shortest move'. The movement results in the correct scope order of the postverbal modifiers. The proposed structure also accounts for the binding data, in particular for the binding of a specific Swedish possessive anaphor 'sin'. This pronoun, which may occur within the MVP, must not occur within the postverbal modifiers in the empty VP. This supports the assumption that there is a strict borderline between the MVP and the assumed empty VP. The account is also in accordance with the focus data, the specific set of modifiers being potential focus exponents in a wide focus reading in English and Swedish, but not in German.
description: ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Bd. 17 (2000): Approaching the grammar of adjuncts : proceedings of the Oslo conference, September 22 - 25, 1999
Approximate Parametrization of Plane Algebraic Curves by Linear Systems of Curves
Creators: name: Perez-Diaz, Sonia
name: Rueda, Sonia L.
name: Sendra, Juana
name: Sendra, J. Rafael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 68W30, 68W25, 14Q05

description: It is well known that an irreducible algebraic curve is rational (i.e. parametric) if and only if its genus is zero. In this paper, given a tolerance $ε>0$ and an $ε$-irreducible algebraic affine plane curve $\mathcal C$ of proper degree $d$, we introduce the notion of $ε$-rationality, and we provide an algorithm to parametrize approximately affine $ε$-rational plane curves, without exact singularities at infinity, by means of linear systems of $(d-2)$-degree curves. The algorithm outputs a rational parametrization of a rational curve $\bar{\mathcal C}$ of degree at most $d$ which has the same points at infinity as $\mathcal C$. Moreover, although we do not provide a theoretical analysis, our empirical analysis shows that $\bar{\mathcal C}$ and $\mathcal C$ are close in practice.
Position and interpretation of adjuncts : process, event and 'wieder' 'again'
Creators: name: Pittner, Karin
Publisher: name: ZAS Papers in Linguistics
Year: 2000

description: This paper deals with restitutive and repetitive 'wieder'. Proceeding from the assumption that adverbial adjuncts have base positions which reflect their semantic relations to the rest of the sentence, it is shown that repetitive 'wieder' belongs to the class of event adverbs minimally c-commanding the base positions of all arguments whereas restitutive 'wieder' has many properties in common with process adjuncts, minimally c-commanding the final verb.
description: ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Bd. 17 (2000): Approaching the grammar of adjuncts : proceedings of the Oslo conference, September 22 - 25, 1999
Genitives, relational nouns, and the argument-modifier distinction
Creators: name: Partee, Barbara H.
name: Borschev, Vladimir
Publisher: name: ZAS Papers in Linguistics
Year: 2000

description: The argument-modifier distinction is less clear in NPs than in VPs; nouns do not typically take arguments. The clearest cases of arguments in NPs are in certain kinds of nominalizations which retain some "verbal" properties (Grimshaw 1990). The status of apparent arguments of non-deverbal relational nouns like sister is more controversial. Genitive constructions like 'John's teacher', 'team of John's' offer a challenging testing ground for the argument-modifier distinction in NPs, both in English and cross-linguistically. On the analyses of Partee (1983/97) and Barker (1995), the DP in a genitive phrase (i.e. 'John' in 'John's') is always an argument of some relation, but the relation does not always come from the head noun. On those "ambiguity" analyses, some genitives are argument-like and some are modifier-like. Recent proposals by Jensen and Vikner and by Borschev and Partee analyze all genitives as argument-like, a conclusion we are no longer sure of. In this paper we explore a range of possible analyses: argument-only, modifier-only, and ambiguity analyses, and consider the kinds of semantic evidence that suggest that different analyses may be correct for different genitive or possessive constructions in different languages.
description: ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Bd. 17 (2000): Approaching the grammar of adjuncts : proceedings of the Oslo conference, September 22 - 25, 1999
Phase Separation and Charge-Ordered Phases of the d = 3 Falicov-Kimball Model at T>0: Temperature-Density-Chemical Potential Global Phase Diagram from Renormalization-Group Theory
Creators: name: Sarıyer, Ozan S.
name: Hinczewski, Michael
name: Berker, A. Nihat
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The global phase diagram of the spinless Falicov-Kimball model in d = 3 spatial dimensions is obtained by renormalization-group theory. This global phase diagram exhibits five distinct phases. Four of these phases are charge-ordered (CO) phases, in which the system forms two sublattices with different electron densities. The CO phases occur at and near half filling of the conduction electrons for the entire range of localized electron densities. The phase boundaries are second order, except for the intermediate and large interaction regimes, where a first-order phase boundary occurs in the central region of the phase diagram, resulting in phase coexistence at and near half filling of both localized and conduction electrons. These two-phase or three-phase coexistence regions are between different charge-ordered phases, between charge-ordered and disordered phases, and between dense and dilute disordered phases. The second-order phase boundaries terminate on the first-order phase transitions via critical endpoints and double critical endpoints. The first-order phase boundary is delimited by critical points. The cross-sections of the global phase diagram with respect to the chemical potentials and densities of the localized and conduction electrons, at all representative interactions strengths, hopping strengths, and temperatures, are calculated and exhibit ten distinct topologies.
description: Calculated density phase diagrams. Added discussions and references. 14 pages, 9 figures, 4 tables
Modification and underspecification : a free variable account of locative modifiers
Creators: name: Maienborn, Claudia
Publisher: name: ZAS Papers in Linguistics
Year: 2000

description: The present paper offers evidence that there are two variants of adverbial modification that differ with respect to the way in which a modifier is linked to the verb's eventuality argument. So-called external modifiers relate to the full eventuality, whereas internal modifiers relate to some integral part of it. The choice between external and internal modification is shown to be dependent on the modifier's syntactic base position. External modifiers are base-generated at the VP periphery, whereas internal modifiers are base generated at the V periphery. These observations are accounted for by a refined version of the standard Davidsonian approach to adverbial modification according to which modification is mediated by a free variable. In the case of external modification, the grammar takes responsibility for identifying the free variable with the verb's eventuality argument, whereas in the case of internal modification, a value for the free variable is determined by the conceptual system on the basis of contextually salient world knowledge.
description: ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Bd. 17 (2000): Approaching the grammar of adjuncts : proceedings of the Oslo conference, September 22 - 25, 1999
Global circulation as the main source of cloud activity on Titan
Creators: name: Rodriguez, Sébastien
name: Mouélic, Stéphane Le
name: Rannou, Pascal
name: Tobie, Gabriel
name: Baines, Kevin H.
name: Barnes, Jason W.
name: Griffith, Caitlin A.
name: Hirtzig, Mathieu
name: Pitman, Karly M.
name: Sotin, Christophe
name: Brown, Robert H.
name: Buratti, Bonnie J.
name: Clark, Roger N.
name: Nicholson, Phil D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Clouds on Titan result from the condensation of methane and ethane and, as on other planets, are primarily structured by circulation of the atmosphere. At present, cloud activity mainly occurs in the southern (summer) hemisphere, arising near the pole and at mid-latitudes from cumulus updrafts triggered by surface heating and/or local methane sources, and at the north (winter) pole, resulting from the subsidence and condensation of ethane-rich air into the colder troposphere. General circulation models predict that this distribution should change with the seasons on a 15-year timescale, and that clouds should develop under certain circumstances at temperate latitudes (~40\degree) in the winter hemisphere. The models, however, have hitherto been poorly constrained and their long-term predictions have not yet been observationally verified. Here we report that the global spatial cloud coverage on Titan is in general agreement with the models, confirming that cloud activity is mainly controlled by the global circulation. The non-detection of clouds at latitude ~40\degree N and the persistence of the southern clouds while the southern summer is ending are, however, both contrary to predictions. This suggests that Titan's equator-to-pole thermal contrast is overestimated in the models and that its atmosphere responds to the seasonal forcing with a greater inertia than expected.
semantic account of the stative adverb gap
Creators: name: Katz, Graham
Publisher: name: ZAS Papers in Linguistics
Year: 2000

description: It is argued that there is a surprising gap in the distribution of adverbial modifiers, namely that there are (practically) no adverbs that modify exclusively stative verbs. Given the general range of selectional restrictions associated with adverb/verb modification, this comes as a surprise. It is argued that this gap cannot be the result of standard selectional restrictions. An independently motivated account of the state-event verb contrast, in which state verbs are proposed to lack Davidsonian arguments is presented and argued to account for this stative adverb gap. Some apparent and real problems with the analysis are discussed.
description: ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Bd. 17 (2000): Approaching the grammar of adjuncts : proceedings of the Oslo conference, September 22 - 25, 1999
Syntactic requirements on adjuncts
Creators: name: Frey, Werner
Publisher: name: ZAS Papers in Linguistics
Year: 2000

description: The paper proposes structural constraints for different adjunct classes in German and English. Approaches in which syntax has only the task to provide adjunct positions and in which principles of scope are supposed to explain the distribution of adjuncts are rejected as incomplete. The syntactic requirements are not as rigid as other approaches require, such that there is just one possible position for a given adjunct. Rather the syntactic constraints may be fulfilled in different positions.
description: ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Bd. 17 (2000): Approaching the grammar of adjuncts : proceedings of the Oslo conference, September 22 - 25, 1999
Majorana bound states without vortices in topological superconductors with electrostatic defects
Creators: name: Wimmer, M.
name: Akhmerov, A. R.
name: Medvedyeva, M. V.
name: Tworzydło, J.
name: Beenakker, C. W. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Vortices in two-dimensional superconductors with broken time-reversal and spin-rotation symmetry can bind states at zero excitation energy. These socalled Majorana bound states transform a thermal insulator into a thermal metal and may be used to encode topologically protected qubits. We identify an alternative mechanism for the formation of Majorana bound states, akin to the way in which Shockley states are formed on metal surfaces: An atomic-scale electrostatic line defect can have a pair of Majorana bound states at the end points. The Shockley mechanism explains the appearance of a thermal metal in vortex-free lattice models of chiral p-wave superconductors and (unlike the vortex mechanism) is also operative in the topologically trivial phase.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures; the appendices are included as supplemental material in the published version
Adverbials with floating and fixed semantic scope
Creators: name: Filipenko, Marina V.
Publisher: name: ZAS Papers in Linguistics
Year: 2000

description: The present study offers the analysis of the role of adverbials in the semantic structure of a sentence. To clarify this role new notions "Adverbials with floating and fixed semantic scope" are proposed. This classification also can clarify the role of adverbials from the point of view of the division into arguments vs. adjuncts.
description: ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Bd. 17 (2000): Approaching the grammar of adjuncts : proceedings of the Oslo conference, September 22 - 25, 1999
Oxygen abundance in local disk and bulge: chemical evolution with a strictly universal IMF
Creators: name: Caimmi, R.
name: Milanese, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The empirical differential oxygen abundance distribution (EDOD) is deduced from subsamples related to two different samples involving solar neighbourhood (SN) thick disk, thin disk, halo, and bulge stars. The EDOD of the SN thick + thin disk is determined by weighting the mass, for assumed SN thick to thin disk mass ratio within the range, 0.1-0.9. Inhomogeneous models of chemical evolution for the SN thick disk, the SN thin disk, the SN thick + thin disk, the SN halo, and the bulge, are computed assuming the instantaneous recycling approximation. The EDOD data are fitted, to an acceptable extent, by their TDOD counterparts provided (i) still undetected, low-oxygen abundance thin disk stars exist, and (ii) a single oxygen overabundant star is removed from a thin disk subsample. In any case, the (assumed power-law) stellar initial mass function (IMF) is universal but gas can be inhibited from, or enhanced in, forming stars at different rates with respect to a selected reference case. Models involving a strictly universal IMF (i.e. gas neither inhibited from, nor enhanced in, forming stars with respect to a selected reference case) can also reproduce the data. The existence of a strictly universal IMF makes similar chemical enrichment within active (i.e. undergoing star formation) regions placed in different environments, but increasing probability of a region being active passing from SN halo to SN thick + thin disk, SN thin disk, SN thick disk, and bulge. On the basis of the results, it is realized that the chemical evolution of the SN thick + thin disk as a whole cannot be excluded.
description: 26 pages, 10 tables, and 5 figures; tables out of page are splitted in two parts in Appendix B; sects.4 and 5 rewritten for better understanding of the results; further references added. Accepted for publication in Astrophysics & Space Science
Victim of an 'Extraordinary Conspiracy'? Sir John Eardley Eardley-Wilmot Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land 1843-46
Creators: name: Mickleborough, Leonie
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023
Subjects: Australian history

description: Introduction -- Part 1: Environment, concepts and arrival. Ch. 1. The formation of Sir John Eardley-Wilmot's attitudes and opinions: his approach to crime and punishment in England -- Ch. 2. Prelude to Van Diemen's Land: House of Commons, slavery and financial insecurity -- Ch. 3. Appointment and reception: 'a strong & steady hand'? -- Part 2: The convict system. Ch. 4. Opposition to the established scheme: assignment to probation -- Ch. 5. Probation and population: the system under Eardley-Wilmot -- Ch. 6. 'Misguided little creatures' and female protagonists -- Part 3: Colonial life, controversies and dismissal. Ch. 7. Colonial chaplaincies: church and state -- Ch. 8. Taxes, finances and elected representatives -- Ch. 9. Growth of colonial society -- Ch. 10. Rumours and recall -- Conclusion.
Status and First Results of the Acoustic Detection Test System AMADEUS
Creators: name: Lahmann, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The AMADEUS system is integrated in the ANTARES neutrino telescope in the Mediterranean Sea and aims for the investigation of acoustic particle detection techniques in the deep sea. Installed at a depth of more than 2000m, the acoustic sensors of AMADEUS are using piezo-ceramic elements for the broad-band recording of acoustic signals with frequencies ranging up to 125kHz. AMADEUS consists of six clusters, each one comprising six acoustic sensors that are arranged at distances of roughly 1m from each other. Three acoustic clusters are installed along a vertical mechanical structure (a so-called Line) of ANTARES with spacings of about 15m and 110m, respectively. The remaining 3 clusters are installed with vertical spacings of 15m on a further Line of the ANTARES detector. The horizontal distance between the two lines is 240m. Each acoustic cluster allows for the suppression of random noise by requiring local coincidences and the reconstruction of the arrival direction of acoustic waves. Source positions can then be reconstructed using the precise time correlations between the clusters provided by the ANTARES clock system. AMADEUS thus allows for extensive acoustic background studies including signal correlations on several length scales as well as source localisation. The system is therefore excellently suited for feasibility studies for a potential future large scale acoustic neutrino telescope in sea water. Since the start of data taking on December 5th, 2007 a wealth of data has been recorded. The AMADEUS system will be described and some first results will be presented.
description: Proceedings of the ARENA 2008 workshop (http://www.roma1.infn.it/arena2008/), June 2008. 8 pages, 10 figures
Semantic features and the distribution of adverbs
Creators: name: Ernst, Thomas
Publisher: name: ZAS Papers in Linguistics
Year: 2000

description: This paper proposes that we can predict which adverbs cannot adjoin to the right in headinitial languages by means of a particular semantic property, that of being a "subjective" adverb, one which maps an event or proposition onto a scale with the high degree of indeterminacy and context-dependence. Such adverbs, such as 'probably' or 'luckily', cannot adjoin to the right with non-manner readings, while other adverbs (like 'politically', 'often', or 'deliberately') may. This supports the view that the distribution of adverbs depends heavily, and subtly, on their lexicosemantic properties.
description: ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Bd. 17 (2000): Approaching the grammar of adjuncts : proceedings of the Oslo conference, September 22 - 25, 1999
Surface Spline Approximation on SO(3)
Creators: name: Hangelbroek, Thomas
name: Schmid, Dominik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 41A25, 42C15, 43A35, 43A75, 46E35

description: The purpose of this article is to introduce a new class of kernels on SO(3) for approximation and interpolation, and to estimate the approximation power of the associated spaces. The kernels we consider arise as linear combinations of Green's functions of certain differential operators on the rotation group. They are conditionally positive definite and have a simple closed-form expression, lending themselves to direct implementation via, e.g., interpolation, or least-squares approximation. To gauge the approximation power of the underlying spaces, we introduce an approximation scheme providing precise L_p error estimates for linear schemes, namely with L_p approximation order conforming to the L_p smoothness of the target function.
description: 22 pages, to appear in Appl. Comput. Harmon. Anal
dual analysis of adjuncts/complements in categorial grammar
Creators: name: Dowty, David
Publisher: name: ZAS Papers in Linguistics
Year: 2000

description: The distinction between COMPLEMENTS and ADJUNCTS has a long tradition in grammatical theory, and it is also included in some way or other in most current formal linguistic theories. But it is a highly vexed distinction, for several reasons, one of which is that no diagnostic criteria have emerged that will reliably distinguish adjuncts from complements in all cases – too many examples seem to "fall into the crack" between the two categories, no matter how theorists wrestle with them. In this paper, I will argue that this empirical diagnostic "problem" is, in fact, precisely what we should expect to find in natural language, when a proper understanding of the adjunct/complement distinction is achieved: the key hypothesis is that a complete grammar should provide a DUAL ANALYSIS of every complement as an adjunct, and potentially, an analysis of any adjunct as a complement. What this means and why it is motivated by linguistic evidence will be discussed in detail.
description: ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Bd. 17 (2000): Approaching the grammar of adjuncts : proceedings of the Oslo conference, September 22 - 25, 1999
Self-compressed inhomogeneous stabilized jellium model and surface relaxation of simple metal thin films
Creators: name: Payami, M.
name: Mahmoodi, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The interlayer spacings near the surface of a crystal are different from that of the bulk. As a result, the value of the ionic density in the normal direction and near to the surface shows some oscillations around the bulk value. To describe this behavior in a simple way, we have formulated the self-compressed inhomogeneous stabilized jellium model and have applied it to simple metal thin films. In this model, for a $ν$-layered slab, each ionic layer is replaced by a jellium slice of constant density. The equilibrium densities of the slices can be determined by minimizing the total energy per electron of the slab with respect to the slice densities. To avoid the complications that arise due to the number of independent slice-density parameters for large-$ν$ slabs, we consider a simplified version of the model with three jellium slices: one inner bulk slice with density $\bar n_1$ and two similar surface slices of densities $\bar n_2$. In this simplified model, each slice may contain more than one ionic layer. Application of this model to the $ν$-layered slabs ($3\leν\le 10$) of Al, Na, and Cs shows that, in the equilibrium state, $\bar n_1$ and $\bar n_2$ assume different values, which is significant in the Al case, and the state is more stable than that predicted in the homogeneous model in which only one global jellium density is used for the whole system. In addition, we have calculated the overall relaxations, the work functions, and the surface energies, and compared with the results of the earlier works.
description: 19 pages, 9 figures, in pdf format
Lucan's Bellum Ciuile and the Epic Genre
Creators: name: Alexis, Frances
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023
Subjects: Latin and classical Greek literature

description: Introduction: Lucan's Bellum Ciuile and the epic genre -- Ch. 1. Lucan's Book 1: beginnings of epic -- Ch. 2. Lucan - the intrusive narrator -- Ch. 3. Lucan's Book 2: civil war and more -- Ch. 4. Lucan's Book 3: sea battles -- Ch. 5. Lucan's Book 4: taking sides -- Ch. 6. Lucan's Book 7: wounds and weapons.
Reinterpretations in adverbal modification : a general approach
Creators: name: Dölling, Johannes
Publisher: name: ZAS Papers in Linguistics
Year: 2000

description: This paper is concerned with the fact that a number of adverbal modifications involve a systematic reinterpretation of at least one of the expressions connected by the operation in question. It offers an approach in which such transfers of meaning turn out to be a result of contextually controlled enrichments of an underspecified as well as a strictly compositionally structured semantic representation. The approach proposed is general for three reasons: First, it takes into account not only reinterpretations in temporal but also such in non-temporal modification. Second, it allows considering so-called secondary predications as a particular kind of adverbal modification. Third, it explains the respective reinterpretations within a uniform formal framework of meaning variation.
description: ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Bd. 17 (2000): Approaching the grammar of adjuncts : proceedings of the Oslo conference, September 22 - 25, 1999