cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Dynamical origin of the $\star_θ$-noncommutativity in field theory from quantum mechanics
Creators: name: Rosenbaum, Marcos
name: Vergara, J. David
name: Juárez, L. Román
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that introducing an extended Heisenberg algebra in the context of the Weyl-Wigner-Groenewold-Moyal formalism leads to a deformed product of the classical dynamical variables that is inherited to the level of quantum field theory, and that allows us to relate the operator space noncommutativity in quantum mechanics to the quantum group inspired algebra deformation noncommutativity in field theory.
description: 17 pages, to be published in Phys. Lett. A
High-throughput screening of glutaminase inhibitors for the pharmacotherapy of schizophrenia: Implementation of a fluorescence-based assay
Creators: name: Mihali, Andra
name: MacDonald, Joanne
name: Tamir, Haddasah
name: Rayport, Stephen
Publisher: name: Columbia Undergraduate Science Journal
Year: 2020

description: Recent studies suggest that reducing synaptic glutamate release may prove therapeutic in schizophrenia. Phosphate-activated glutaminase (PAG), present in human brain mitochondria, is thought to mediate the major flux of glutamate to the neurotransmitter pool. PAG catalyzes the conversion of L-glutamine (Gln) to L-glutamic acid (Glu), so inhibiting PAG seems a promising means of reducing Glu release. The goal of this study was to establish the parameters for a high-throughput screening to identify potential PAG inhibitors. Glutaminase A from E. coli was used as a substitute for PAG. Gln was added as the substrate and its conversion to Glu measured using Amplex Red technology as Resorufin fluorescence. First, the linear range for the relationship between glutamate added and Resorufin fluorescence was determined. We measured the kinetics of PAG action, showing that after one hour there was a complete conversion of glutamine to glutamate. However, the relationship between PAG concentration and Resorufin fluorescence was non-linear, consistent with cooperativity in PAG function. We then assayed 6-diazo-5-oxo-L-norleucine (DON), the best known glutaminase inhibitor, and determined an inhibition constant of 73 nM. DON was more effective against bacterial glutaminase than the known millimolar-level inhibition in mammalian neurons, indicating that the bacterial glutaminase would not be suitable for screening for inhibiters of human PAG, and thus for identifying PAG inhibitors with therapeutic potential for schizophrenia. In conclusion, the parameters for the assay of PAG activity and its inhibition were established; and synthesis of human glutaminase should allow us to move forward to high-throughput screening.
description: Columbia Undergraduate Science Journal, Vol 4 (2009): Spring 2009
Do Not Forget to Attend to Uncertainty while Mitigating Catastrophic Forgetting
Creators: name: Kurmi, Vinod K
name: Patro, Badri N.
name: Subramanian, Venkatesh K.
name: Namboodiri, Vinay P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: One of the major limitations of deep learning models is that they face catastrophic forgetting in an incremental learning scenario. There have been several approaches proposed to tackle the problem of incremental learning. Most of these methods are based on knowledge distillation and do not adequately utilize the information provided by older task models, such as uncertainty estimation in predictions. The predictive uncertainty provides the distributional information can be applied to mitigate catastrophic forgetting in a deep learning framework. In the proposed work, we consider a Bayesian formulation to obtain the data and model uncertainties. We also incorporate self-attention framework to address the incremental learning problem. We define distillation losses in terms of aleatoric uncertainty and self-attention. In the proposed work, we investigate different ablation analyses on these losses. Furthermore, we are able to obtain better results in terms of accuracy on standard benchmarks.
description: Accepted WACV 2021
The lives of girls and women in mid-nineteenth century Pictou County, Nova Scotia
Creators: name: Pickles, Catherine Gillian
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2008

description: Much research in historical geography has ignored women’s experiences. Using archival sources and secondary literature, this thesis exposes the lives of girls and women in mid-nineteenth century Nova Scotia, with the case study of Pictou County. After an introduction to the perspective of the thesis and the context of Nova Scotia, specifically Pictou County, the chapters are divided into the life - stages of girls and women. The stages of girlhood, young womanhood, womanhood and widowhood each formed an ideological set of prevalent ideas and behaviours in the mid-nineteenth century. Childhood was a time of beginnings and learning to be a girl. Young womanhood was a time of transition, spent developing skills, and commencing courting practices in preparation for womanhood. Womanhood was the time to put learned skills into effect, fulfilling the role of a wife and mother in the warmth of the home. Widowhood was a time of potential freedom, but also of uncertainty, and, often, dependence. These stages also corresponded to spatial changes. Young women moved home upon marriage, and widows often moved to a room in their old house, or to a new location. An overall impression of the lives of girls and women emerges in which there are overriding similarities in conformity to the ideology of the mid-nineteenth century concept of the "spheres”. The public and private spheres were ideological as well as actual divisions of labour and behaviour believed to mirror women’s “innate" capacity as homemakers and carers of the family. However, the division between the public sphere of masculinity, objectivity, trade, commerce and government and the private sphere of femininity, subjectivity, the home and care, was artificial. The public sphere would not have been able to exist without the work of women in the home, and the realities of women's lives were much more complex than the ideology of the spheres credited them with being.
Zero-shot super-resolution with a physically-motivated downsampling kernel for endomicroscopy
Creators: name: Szczotka, Agnieszka Barbara
name: Shakir, Dzhoshkun Ismail
name: Clarkson, Matthew J.
name: Pereira, Stephen P.
name: Vercauteren, Tom
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Super-resolution (SR) methods have seen significant advances thanks to the development of convolutional neural networks (CNNs). CNNs have been successfully employed to improve the quality of endomicroscopy imaging. Yet, the inherent limitation of research on SR in endomicroscopy remains the lack of ground truth high-resolution (HR) images, commonly used for both supervised training and reference-based image quality assessment (IQA). Therefore, alternative methods, such as unsupervised SR are being explored. To address the need for non-reference image quality improvement, we designed a novel zero-shot super-resolution (ZSSR) approach that relies only on the endomicroscopy data to be processed in a self-supervised manner without the need for ground-truth HR images. We tailored the proposed pipeline to the idiosyncrasies of endomicroscopy by introducing both: a physically-motivated Voronoi downscaling kernel accounting for the endomicroscope's irregular fibre-based sampling pattern, and realistic noise patterns. We also took advantage of video sequences to exploit a sequence of images for self-supervised zero-shot image quality improvement. We run ablation studies to assess our contribution in regards to the downscaling kernel and noise simulation. We validate our methodology on both synthetic and original data. Synthetic experiments were assessed with reference-based IQA, while our results for original images were evaluated in a user study conducted with both expert and non-expert observers. The results demonstrated superior performance in image quality of ZSSR reconstructions in comparison to the baseline method. The ZSSR is also competitive when compared to supervised single-image SR, especially being the preferred reconstruction technique by experts.
Molecular Dynamics Study of Polarization Effects on AgI
Creators: name: Bitrián, Vicente
name: Trullàs, Joaquim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Three different models of AgI are studied by molecular dynamics simulations. The first one is the rigid ion model (RIM) with the effective pair potential of the Vashishta and Rahman form and the parameterization proposed by Shimojo and Kobayashi. The other two are polarizable ion models in which the induced polarization effects have been added to the RIM effective pair potential. In one of them (PIM1) only the anions are assumed to be polarizable by the local electric field. In the other one (PIM2s) the silver polarization is also included, and a short-range overlap induced polarization opposes the electrically induced dipole moments. This short-range polarization is proved to be necessary to avoid overpolarization when both species are assumed to be polarizable. The three models reproduce the superionic character of alpha-AgI at 573 K and the liquid behavior of molten AgI at 923 K. The averaged spatial distribution of the cations in the alpha-phase obtained for PIM1 appears to be in better agreement with experimental data analysis. The PIM1 also reproduces the structure factor prepeak at about 1 reciprocal angstrom observed from neutron diffraction data of molten AgI. The three models retain in the liquid phase the superionic character of alpha-AgI as the mobility of the cations is significantly larger than that for the anions. The ionic conductivity for the polarizable ion models is in better agreement with experimental data for alpha-AgI and molten AgI.
description: 35 pages, 11 figures
Dependence of radio halo properties on star formation activity and galaxy mass
Creators: name: Dahlem, M.
name: Lisenfeld, U.
name: Rossa, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the relation between the existence and size of radio halos, which are believed to be created by star formation (SF) related energy input into the interstellar medium, and other galaxy properties, most importantly star formation activity and galaxy mass. Based on radio continuum and H-alpha observations of a sample of seven late-type spiral galaxies we find a direct, linear correlation of the radial extent of gaseous halos on the size of the actively star-forming parts of the galaxy disks. Data of a larger sample of 22 galaxies indicate that the threshold energy input rate into the disk ISM per unit surface area for the creation of a gaseous halo depends on the mass surface density of the galaxy, in the sense that a higher threshold must be surpassed for galaxies with a higher surface density. Because of the good prediction of the existence of a radio halo from these two parameters, we conclude that they are important, albeit not the only contributors. The compactness of the SF-related energy input is also found to be a relevant factor. Galaxies with relatively compact SF distributions are more likely to have gaseous halos than others with more widespread SF activity. These results quantify the so-called "break-out" condition for matter to escape from galaxy disks, as used in all current models of the interstellar medium and first defined by Norman and Ikeuchi (1989).
description: accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Constraints induced delocalization
Creators: name: Sierant, Piotr
name: Lazo, Eduardo Gonzalez
name: Dalmonte, Marcello
name: Scardicchio, Antonello
name: Zakrzewski, Jakub
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the impact of quenched disorder on the dynamics of locally constrained quantum spin chains, that describe 1D arrays of Rydberg atoms in both frozen (Ising-type) and dressed (XY-type) regime. Performing large-scale numerical experiments, we observe no trace of many-body localization even at large disorder. Analyzing the role of quenched disorder terms in constrained systems we show that they act in two, distinct and competing ways: as an on-site disorder term for the basic excitations of the system, and as an interaction between excitations. The two contributions are of the same order, and as they compete (one towards localization, the other against it), one does never enter a truly strong disorder, weak interaction limit, where many-body localization occurs. Such a mechanism is further clarified in the case of XY-type constrained models: there, a term which would represent a bona-fide local quenched disorder term acting on the excitations of the clean model must be written as a series of non-local terms in the unconstrained variables. Our observations provide a simple picture to interpret the role of quenched disorder that could be immediately extended to other constrained models or quenched gauge theories.
description: 4 + 4 pages, comments welcome
Entanglement-swapping boxes and their communication properties
Creators: name: Grudka, Andrzej
name: Horodecki, Michal
name: Horodecki, Pawel
name: Horodecki, Ryszard
name: Piani, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We pose the fundamental question of communication properties of primitives irrespectively of their implementation. To illustrate the idea we introduce the concept of entanglement-swapping boxes, i.e. we consider any quantum operations which perform entanglement swapping, not necessarily via simple quantum teleportation. We ask a question about the properties of such boxes., i.e. what local operations and how much classical communication are needed to perform them. We also ask if any box which performs entanglement swapping can be used to establish classical communication. We show that each box needs at least two bits of classical communication to perform it. It is also shown that each box can be used for classical communication and, most importantly, that there exist boxes which allow to communicate at most one bit. Surprisingly we find basic irreversibility in the process of entanglement swapping with respect to its communication properties.
description: Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. A as a Rapid Communication
Baryon Acoustic Oscillations and Dynamical Dark Energy
Creators: name: Doran, Michael
name: Stern, Steffen
name: Thommes, Eduard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the impact of dark energy at last scattering on measurements of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs). We show that an early dark energy component can contribute a systematic uncertainty to BAO measurements of up to 2.5%. Whilst this effect turns out to only slightly affect current BAO surveys, the results of future BAO surveys might become biased. We find that BAO surveys alone appear unable to resolve this systematic uncertainty, so supplementary measurements are necessary.
description: 4 pages, added sections and references, matches published version
Musical Style and Experience in a Brooklyn Pentecostal Church: An “Insider’s” Perspective
Creators: name: Butler, Melvin L.
Publisher: name: Current Musicology
Year: 2000

description: When my wife, Lori, speaks of her move from Charlotte, North Carolina, to attend college in Boston, Massachusetts, she inevitably highlights the “culture shock” she felt upon first arriving. “I don’t like it. It’s different,” she tearfully tried to explain to her parents late one Sunday afternoon. Her voice had an air of despair that seemed to belie the faithbred optimism she usually portrayed even when things didn’t go her way. Lori was raised Pentecostal “from the womb,” as the saying goes, and her church background is steeped in the African American Pentecostal tradition. A couple of hours before, she had returned from church, thrown herself on her dorm room bed, and burst into tears. This was not a matter of simply adjusting to the climatic or culinary foreignness of New England, nor was it a temporary bout of homesickness one might expect from a pastor’s youngest daughter. Rather, what had made life in Boston suddenly seem so unbearable was the fact that, for her, West Indian-style musical worship had hindered the spiritual fulfillment she expected to receive in a Pentecostal setting. Church, she thought, was supposed to be something familiar-something enjoyable. Her parents had recommended that she attend this church; but perhaps even they were unaware it would be so “different.” Weren’t all black Pentecostal churches in the United States more or less the same?
description: Current Musicology, No 70 (2000): Current Musicology
Yield potential of field corn hybrids grown under conventional and minimum tillage methods in paddy field at Phetchabun Province
Creators: name: Chonlada Songnirundron
name: Jutamas Romkaew
name: Sarobol, Ed
name: Sarawut Rungmekarat1
Publisher: name: Faculty of Agriculture
Year: 2019
Subjects: after rice, management, soil preparation, appropriate technology, returns

description: Khon Kaen Agriculture Journal, 47, 4, 829-838
Dust in the Extremely Metal-Poor Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxy IZw18: The Spitzer Mid-Infrared View
Creators: name: Wu, Yanling
name: Charmandaris, V.
name: Hunt, L. K.
name: Bernard-Salas, J.
name: Brandl, B. R.
name: Marshall, J. A.
name: Lebouteiller, Vianney
name: Houck, J. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: IZw18, a blue compact dwarf (BCD) galaxy with the 2nd lowest metallicity measured in a star-forming object, has been observed with all three instruments on board the Spitzer Space Telescope. We present the deepest 5-36 micron mid-infrared (mid-IR) spectrum of this galaxy as yet obtained, as well as 3.6 to 70 micron imaging results. As with SBS0335-052E, another BCD with similar metallicity, IZw18 shows no detectable emission from polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). However, the continuum emission, from 15 to 70 micron, of IZw18 has a much steeper slope, more characteristic of a typical starburst galaxy of solar abundance. The neon abundance as measured from the infrared fine-structure lines is ~1/23 Z_sun, and the sulfur abundance is ~ 1/35 Z_sun, generally consistent with the nebular oxygen abundance of 1/30 Z_sun derived from optical lines. This suggests that the extinction to the infrared emitting regions of this galaxy is low, also in agreement with the optical Balmer line ratios.
description: Accepted by ApJ, 7 pages, 5 figures
“To how many shameful deeds must you lend your image”: Schubert’s Pattern of Telescoping and Excision in the Texts of His Latin Masses
Creators: name: Gingerich, John
Publisher: name: Current Musicology
Year: 2000

description: A constant of Schubert reception has been the image of an unintellectual composer. From the early stories of songs gushing from his pen at near-performance tempo, to the Biedermeier Liederfiirst, and the shy but good-natured tippler of Dreimiiderlhaus, an image of subconscious creativity became wedded to a popular persona of childlike innocence: tubby, chubby, bespectacled Schwammerl, slightly befuddled in a lovably helpless way, shielded from the harsh cares and calculations of this world by an absent-minded preoccupation with beautiful melody and convivial drink. This image of Schubert, long uncontroversial, now seems at best risibly quaint. Nevertheless, its grip remains deceptively tenacious. The more recent emphasis on Schubert's darker side-his unruly sexuality, his alienation, his venereal disease, his preoccupation with death-has reinforced the ambient image of Schubert as a creature of instinctual drives, and concomitantly, of somnambulant, clairvoyant creativity. The deep current of Schubert's reception as an instinctive genius sustains the new eddies swirling around Schubert the self-indulgent hedonist. Beneath the turbulent surface, Schubert, no longer childlike, remains innocent of sustained and serious thought.
description: Current Musicology, No 70 (2000): Current Musicology
Review of Julian Henriques. 2011.Sonic Bodies: Reggae Sound Systems, Performance Techniques, and Ways of Knowing. New York: Continuum.
Creators: name: Mulliken, Seth
Publisher: name: Current Musicology
Year: 2012

description: The evolution of sound studies over the past decade has been rapid. It would be wrong to say that sound studies is ‘arriving’: it has arrived. But this arrival has not brought with it even a tacit agreement about its place in the academy, and more specifically, within cultural studies. More than likely, this has to do with a lack of agreement about what precisely is being studied. While a comparison to visual studies for sound studies is specious at best, the field of visual studies has long ago ossified into cells of academic interest. Sound studies seems under no such threat of atrophy. As such, books that challenge the boundaries of sound studies continue to appear and examine the diverse roles sound plays in social life. The most cursory glance through the introduction of Julian Henriques’ Sonic Bodies: Reggae Sound Systems, Performance Techniques, and Ways of Knowing reveals a list of scholarly names familiar to any reader of sound studies: Douglas Kahn, Jonathan Sterne, Les Bull, Michael Bull, Mark Katz. Despite the familiarity of these names, Sonic Bodies describes sound studies as a field that offers much variation and dispersion across many areas sites and methods of analysis.
description: Current Musicology, No 93 (2012): Current Musicology
Geometric quantization of weak-Hamiltonian functions
Creators: name: Vaisman, Izu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53D17; 53D50

description: The paper presents an extension of the geometric quantization procedure to integrable, big-isotropic structures. We obtain a generalization of the cohomology integrality condition, we discuss geometric structures on the total space of the corresponding principal circle bundle and we extend the notion of a polarization.
description: LaTex, 23 pages
Elicitation and discussion
Creators: name: Bodji, Sylvain
name: Sande, Hannah Leigh
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: dic
subject: Guébie language

description: Postposition stranding, lexical categories, noun phrase order, negation, coordination. Session ends with discussion about norms in consultant's village (political structure, his relatives, daily life, seasons).
“Melanin in the Music”: Black Music History in Sound and Image
Creators: name: Carson, Charles
Publisher: name: Current Musicology
Year: 2012

description: In A Power Stronger Than Itself, George Lewis undertakes the arduous task of “writing back in” to history a story that had, for the most part, been excluded. The resulting narrative casts new light on heretofore marginalized modes of African–American creativity, altering our conception of not only the jazz canon, but the entirety of (at least) the American musical tradition. In doing so, Lewis forces us to ask one of the most difficult questions: What else have we missed?
description: Current Musicology, No 93 (2012): Current Musicology
Additional file 1 of Risk stratified breast cancer screening: UK healthcare policy decision-making stakeholders’ views on a low-risk breast screening pathway
Creators: name: McWilliams, Lorna
name: Woof, Victoria G.
name: Donnelly, Louise S.
name: Howell, Anthony
name: Evans, D. Gareth
name: French, David P.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Medicine
Pharmacology
Biotechnology
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.
Optical and Infrared Diagnostics of SDSS galaxies in the SWIRE Survey
Creators: name: Davoodi, Payam
name: Pozzi, Francesca
name: Oliver, Seb
name: Polletta, Mari
name: Afonso-Luis, Alejandro
name: Farrah, Duncan
name: Hatziminaoglou, Evanthia
name: Rodighiero, Giulia
name: Berta, Stefano
name: Waddington, Ian
name: Lonsdale, Carol
name: Rowan-Robinson, Michael
name: Shupe, Dave L.
name: Evans, Tracey
name: Fang, Fan
name: Smith, H. E.
name: Surace, Jason
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the rest-frame optical and infrared colours of a complete sample of 1114 z<0.3 galaxies from the Spitzer Wide-area InfraRed Extragalactic Legacy Survey (SWIRE) and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We discuss the optical and infrared colours of our sample and analyse in detail the contribution of dusty star-forming galaxies and AGN to optically selected red sequence galaxies. We propose that the optical (g-r) colour and infrared log(L_{24}/L_{3.6}) colour of galaxies in our sample are determined primarily by a bulge-to-disk ratio. The (g-r) colour is found to be sensitive to the bulge-to-disk ratio for disk-dominated galaxies, whereas the log(L_{24}/L_{3.6}) colour is more sensitive for bulge-dominated systems. We identify ~18% (195 sources) of our sample as having red optical colours and infrared excess. Typically, the infrared luminosities of these galaxies are found to be at the high end of star-forming galaxies with blue optical colours. Using emission line diagnostic diagrams, 78 are found to have an AGN contribution, and 117 are identified as star-forming systems. The red (g-r) colour of the star-forming galaxies could be explained by extinction. However, their high optical luminosities cannot. We conclude that they have a significant bulge component. The number densities of optically red star-forming galaxies are found to correspond to ~13% of the total number density of our sample. In addition, these systems contribute ~13% of the total optical luminosity density, and 28% of the total infrared luminosity density of our SWIRE/SDSS sample. These objects may reduce the need for "dry-mergers".
description: 14 pages, 8 figures, 4 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Come Out to Show the Split Subject: Steve Reich, Whiteness, and the Avant-Garde
Creators: name: Biareishyk, Siarhei
Publisher: name: Current Musicology
Year: 2012

description: Steve Reich’s Come Out (1966) begins with articulated speech—a mere sentence—and in the span of 12 minutes and 54 seconds, by way of looping and phasing, it deteriorates into utter noise. Come Out is a tribute to the Harlem Six case (1964) in which six African–American youths were falsely accused of murder. The voice in the composition belongs to one of these six men, Daniel Hamm; the noise at the end is a product of Reich’s experimentation in the development of what was then a new avant–garde technique. Jacques Attali theorizes music as an “organization of noise,” arguing that music is “inscribed between noise and silence, in the space of the social codification” (Attali 11;20). In order to transcend the musical tradition and its own time, many avant–garde composers appeal to this sphere of noise—a sphere identified as the “Other” of music; through the composer’s intervention, such noise becomes the avant-garde’s music. In Reich’s Come Out, the composer ostensibly identifies the noise as the signifier in the sphere of technology, namely, in tape recordings; and yet, one must insist on the question, why is the recorded voice that of a black man—of the domain that whiteness constructs as its Other? As I will argue, this sphere of noise, for the avantgarde musician, shares functional equivalence with what Jacques Lacan theorizes as the function of the “big” Other. It is nevertheless necessary to insist that the Lacanian field of the Other is a battery of signifiers; it is the field of the symbolic order that is understood as the Other of being, which is by no means synonymous with racial Otherness. If the Lacanian Other then overlaps with racial Otherness, as I contend it does in the case of Steve Reich’s Come Out and the avant–garde music more generally in a greater scope, it is a result of historical contingency and not structural necessity. But this historical contingency is a reason enough to insist relentlessly on the conditions of such historical manifestation; one must question all the more rigorously: why, in the development of the Western avant–garde music does the field of the Other fall on the voice of racialized Otherness? What is the function of this Other in reconstituting a subjectivity in crisis?
description: Current Musicology, No 93 (2012): Current Musicology
Local control over local resources habitat management in the Fraser Estuary
Creators: name: Jamieson, Marion Lea
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2008

description: This thesis approaches the issue of local control over local resources from the perspective of municipal and regional government involvement in habitat conservation. Using the Fraser River estuary as a case study area, the expanding role of local governments is described in order to examine the relationship between local and senior levels of government. The objective is to assess whether redistributing power between these levels of government would improve habitat management in the estuary. Improved habitat management is defined as a more democratic process of allocating costs and benefits associated with habitat conservation. Conventional administrative decision-making tends to exclude perspectives which are in conflict with maintenance of the existing distribution of costs and benefits. Two perspectives which have difficulty having their concerns addressed by administrations are the conservation and community perspectives, even though issues of conservation and community are at centre of public concern. An expanded political framework for examining resource planning and management issues is needed, as the spectrum of political issues that frames policy debates is too limited to encompass the concerns that contemporary policy-makers must address. The most practical mechanisms for encouraging the introduction of new ideas and innovations to the policy-making arena are existing institutional designs for communication among differing perspectives. The Fraser River Estuary Management Program (FREMP) is one mechanism with the potential to act as a conduit for new ideas. It is explored from the perspective of local government involvement in its habitat management activities. FREMP is part of the complex web of institutional arrangements for habitat management in the Fraser estuary. These arrangements are described with a focus on the role of local governments. The case study indicates that a process of developing an expanded framework for decision-making appears to be taking place in the estuary, reflecting the growing importance of both local government involvement and habitat conservation. Local councils are demanding more powerful enabling legislation in order to address local environmental concerns, and these demands raise the issue of the optimal balance of power between local and senior levels of government. In light of the pivotal role that both municipal and regional governments can play in conserving and protecting resources through land-use regulation and planning, this thesis concludes that enhanced local government powers would facilitate the protection and enhancement of conservation values in the estuary.
Effects of zinc and silicon on growth and yield of rice cv. Khao Dawk Mali 105
Creators: name: Benjapon Kunlanit
name: Chalita Wangpoomyai
name: Mongkol Vongsavas
name: Tanapon Siritrakulsak
name: Kanyarat Maneepradid
name: Patma Vityakon
Publisher: name: Faculty of Agriculture
Year: 2019
Subjects: Chemical fertilizer, Zinc, Silicon, Rice cv. Khao Dawk Mali 105, Loamy sand soil

description: Khon Kaen Agriculture Journal, 47, 4, 839-850
Tracing the history of child abuse in youth custody: does the archive offer current practitioners anything beyond useless knowledge after the fact?
Creators: name: Jarman, Ben
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: historical criminology
child abuse
child sexual abuse
archives

description: Presentation at a day workshop at Oxford Brookes University, entitled Confronting the Violence of the Archive. Slides from paper as presented. Paper will later be developed into a longer piece of writing, therefore speaking notes not yet published.
Review of Bryan R. Simms. 2000. The Atonal Music of Arnold Schoenberg, 1908-1923. New York: Oxford University Press
Creators: name: Haimo, Ethan
Publisher: name: Current Musicology
Year: 2000

description: Schoenberg's decision, around 1908, to begin writing compositions that had no tonal center and few, if any, traditional harmonies, remains an event of surpassing historical importance, one that has had an incalculable influence on the subsequent history of music. Given the central significance of this repertoire, it is surprising that-before now-no one had undertaken the challenge of writing a book devoted to Schoenberg's atonal compositions.
description: Current Musicology, No 70 (2000): Current Musicology
Ulysses Kay Special Collection: Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University
Creators: name: Lee, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Current Musicology
Year: 2012

description: African–American composer Ulysses Kay (1917–1995) wrote more than one hundred forty compositions in a wide range of forms—five operas, over twenty large orchestral works, more than thirty choral compositions, fifteen chamber works, a ballet, and numerous other compositions for voice, solo instruments, film, and television. Born in Tucson, Arizona to a musical family, Kay was encouraged by both his mother and her brother, Joe “King” Oliver, to study piano, violin and saxophone. He entered the University of Arizona in 1934, receiving the Bachelor of Music in 1938. For the next two years he studied composition at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, with Bernard Rogers and Howard Hanson, and received the Masters in Music in 1940. From 1941 to 1942 he studied with Paul Hindemith at Tanglewood and at Yale University. Compositions from this period include the “Sinfonietta for Orchestra,” the ballet “Danse Calinda,” and “Three Fanfares for Four Trumpets.”
description: Current Musicology, No 93 (2012): Current Musicology
การเปรียบเทียบประสิทธิภาพของตัวสถิติทดสอบไม่อิงพารามิเตอร์ 3 วิธี สำหรับแผนแบบการทดลอง 23 แฟกทอเรียล
Creators: name: ศรีวรรณ เมืองลอย
name: บุญอ้อม โฉมที
name: จุฑาภรณ์ สินสมบูรณ์ทอง
name: จันทร์ธา วงษ์อู่ทอง
Publisher: name: กองบริหารการวิจัย
Year: 2562
Subjects: ตัวสถิติทดสอบไม่อิงพารามิเตอร์
แผนแบบการทดลอง 23 แฟกทอเรียล
ความผิดพลาดแบบที่ 1
กำลังการทดสอบ

description: วารสารวิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี, 27, 4, 601-613
Review of Hillel Schwartz. 2011. Making Noise: From Babel to the Big Bang and Beyond. Brooklyn: Zone Books
Creators: name: Mattern, Shannon
Publisher: name: Current Musicology
Year: 2012

description: Hillel Schwartz’s Making Noise: From Babel to the Big Bang and Beyond is not merely a text to be read; it’s also an object to be grappled with. One must create space for it, adopt a proper reading posture to accommodate it, and listen to it—both to the words on the pages and to the pages themselves. At 9 ¼ in. x 6 ¼ in. x 2 3/8 in., Making Noise is not the kind of book one can easily tuck into a bag for subway reading. In fact, in the two months I spent working through the text, not once did I manage to find sufficient spare space in my bag to lug it to school or to a coffee shop; consequently, I read the book entirely in my apartment—in a familiar and relatively quiet acoustic environment, which may have set Schwartz’s babble and bang into acoustic relief. In addition, Making Noise is not the kind of book one can easily read while lying on the couch; its 2.5 pounds tired my wrists far too quickly. As a result, I read the entire book sitting or standing up, or while lying on my stomach on the living room carpet. I never experienced Schwartz with my head cocooned in a pillow, down and cloth providing acoustic insulation. Consequently, as I read, I became more conscious of the symphony of white noises—humming refrigerators and whirring hard drives—filling my seemingly quiet Brooklyn apartment.
description: Current Musicology, No 93 (2012): Current Musicology
Newly-Discovered Addenda to the Trouvère Repertoire
Creators: name: Tischler, Hans
Publisher: name: Current Musicology
Year: 2000

description: A recent article by Vivian S. Ramalingam and F. P. R. Akehurst (1997), "A New Trouvere Fragment in The Hague," brings to light a flyleaf of a lost late-thirteenth-century manuscript. 1 The authors established the date of this fragment based on its contents, script, and notational style. Obviously cut from a chansonnier or from a section of a manuscript containing trouvere songs, it was used to bind a codex from the second quarter of the fourteenth century, now located in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek in The Hague and bearing the shelf number 72 J 17. This flyleaf preserves three items: (1) a line of text, obviously from the end of a song, which the editors were unable to identifY; (2) a complete anonymous and otherwise unknown single-stanza song; and (3) music and the first four verses of text of a well-known song by Adam de la Hale (ca. 1230-1288), "Puis keje sui de l'amerouse loi."
description: Current Musicology, No 70 (2000): Current Musicology
Velocity dependence of friction and Kramers relaxation rates
Creators: name: Gelin, M. F.
name: Kosov, D. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the influence of the velocity dependence of friction on the escape of a Brownian particle from the deep potential well ($E_{b} \gg k_{B}T$, $E_{b}$ is the barrier height, $k_{B}$ is the Boltzmann constant, $T$ is the bath temperature). The bath-induced relaxation is treated within the Rayleigh model (a heavy particle of mass $M$ in the bath of light particles of mass $m\ll M$) up to the terms of the order of $O(λ^{4})$, $λ^{2}=m/M\ll1$. The term $\sim 1$ is equivalent to the Fokker-Planck dissipative operator, and the term $\sim λ^{2}$ is responsible for the velocity dependence of friction. As expected, the correction to the Kramers escape rate in the overdamped limit is proportional to $λ^{2}$ and is small. The corresponding correction in the underdamped limit is proportional to $λ^{2}E_{b}/(k_{B}T)$ and is not necessarily small. We thus suggest that the effects due to the velocity-dependent friction may be of considerable importance in determining the rate of escape of an under- and moderately damped Brownian particle from a deep potential well, while they are of minor importance for an overdamped particle.
Fluid Flow along the Riga Plate with the Influence of Magnetic Force in a Rotating System
Creators: name: Islam, Muhammad Minarul
name: Khatun, Sheela
name: Mollah, Md. Tusher
name: Alam, Md. Mahmud
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The fluid flow along the Riga plate with the influence of magnetic force in a rotating system has been investigated numerically. The governing equations have been derived from Navier-Stokes equations. Applying the boundary layer approximation, the appropriate boundary layer equations have been obtained. By using usual transformation, the obtained governing equations have been transformed into a coupled dimensionless non-linear partial differential equation. The obtained dimensionless equations have been solved numerically by explicit finite difference scheme. The simulated results have been obtained by using MATLAB R2015a. Also the stability and convergence criteria have been analyzed. The effect of several parameters on the primary velocity, secondary velocity, temperature distributions as well as local shear stress and Nusselt number have been shown graphically.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2103.13481
Troubadour Song as Performance: A Context for Guiraut Riquier’s “Pus sabers no’m val ni sens”
Creators: name: Boynton, Susan
Publisher: name: Current Musicology
Year: 2012

description: The songs of the troubadours present the fundamental challenge of understanding poetry as music. Although the Old Occitan lyric corpus was a sung tradition from its origins in the twelfth century, we do not know exactly how it sounded; the poetry and musical notation of troubadour song are only skeletal vestiges awaiting completion by the imagination. Miniature biographies of the troubadours known as vidas, which combine elements of fact and fiction, describe some poets as performers who sang and played instruments, while others apparently did not. Most manuscript sources of troubadour song lack musical notation; the few chansonniers that do include it provide the pitches and text underlay for one strophe of melody, with the remaining strophes of text laid out in prose format. The absence of music from so much of the written transmission of the corpus can be attributed to factors such as predominantly oral transmission of the melodies (resulting in their loss as the tradition waned) and the circumstances of compilation, which favored the presentation of the songs as poems. The repertory travelled in the thirteenth century to northern France, Italy, the Iberian peninsula and beyond through the movement of poets, singers, patrons, and not least, the formation of the manuscript tradition. As Marisa Galvez notes, the very concept of a troubadour corpus as an authorial tradition emerged from the chansonniers. The constitution of poetic personae in these manuscripts stands in for the construction of poetic agency and voice that would have occurred in performance (2012: 59–64). Many nonmusical, nonverbal components of performance that are now irrecoverable were as much part of the song as the melody and text, and were probably embedded in its early reception: the performers’ appearance and gestures, their relationship to the audience, their present or absent patrons.
description: Current Musicology, No 94 (2012): Current Musicology
Neutron star interiors and the equation of state of ultra-dense matter
Creators: name: Weber, F.
name: Negreiros, R.
name: Rosenfield, P.
name: Cuadrat, Andreu Torres i
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There has been much recent progress in our understanding of quark matter, culminating in the discovery that if such matter exists in the cores of neutron stars it ought to be in a color superconducting state. This paper explores the impact of superconducting quark matter on the properties (e.g., masses, radii, surface gravity, photon emission) of compact stars.
description: 3 pages, 4 figures; Paper presented at the Int. Conf. on Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum VII, Ponta Delgada, Acores, 2-7 September 2006; to be published by AIP
Screening vs. gevolution: in chase of a perfect cosmological simulation code
Creators: name: Eingorn, Maxim
name: Yukselci, A. Emrah
name: Zhuk, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compare two competing relativistic approaches to the N-body simulation of the Universe large-scale structure. To this end, employing the corresponding alternative computer codes ("gevolution" and "screening"), we conduct a series of cosmological simulations in boxes of different sizes and calculate the power spectra of the scalar perturbation $Φ$, the frame-dragging vector potential ${\bf B}$ and the difference between scalar modes $χ=Φ-Ψ$. We demonstrate that the corresponding power spectra are in very good agreement between the compared schemes. For example, the relative difference of the power spectra for $Φ$ is 0.04% maximum. Since the perturbed Einstein equations have much simpler form in the screening approach, the simulation with this code consumes less computational time, saving almost 40% of CPU hours.
description: 16 pages, 3 figures
Angular momentum conservation for dynamical black holes
Creators: name: Hayward, Sean A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Angular momentum can be defined by rearranging the Komar surface integral in terms of a twist form, encoding the twisting around of space-time due to a rotating mass, and an axial vector. If the axial vector is a coordinate vector and has vanishing transverse divergence, it can be uniquely specified under certain generic conditions. Along a trapping horizon, a conservation law expresses the rate of change of angular momentum of a general black hole in terms of angular momentum densities of matter and gravitational radiation. This identifies the transverse-normal block of an effective gravitational-radiation energy tensor, whose normal-normal block was recently identified in a corresponding energy conservation law. Angular momentum and energy are dual respectively to the axial vector and a previously identified vector, the conservation equations taking the same form. Including charge conservation, the three conserved quantities yield definitions of an effective energy, electric potential, angular velocity and surface gravity, satisfying a dynamical version of the so-called first law of black-hole mechanics. A corresponding zeroth law holds for null trapping horizons, resolving an ambiguity in taking the null limit.
description: 12 revtex4 pages, 3 eps figures. Version to be published, with minor improvements
อนุภาคนาโนแมกนีไทต์เคลือบด้วยอะกาโรส : การเตรียมและการประยุกต์ใช้สำหรับการดูดซับโคบอลต์(II)
Creators: name: เพชรลดา สัญชยานุกูล
name: สุดารัตน์ พรเพชรไพบูรณ์
name: ศศิธร มั่นเจริญ
Publisher: name: กองบริหารการวิจัย
Year: 2562
Subjects: แม่เหล็กนาโน
อะกาโรส
โคบอลต์(II)
เทคนิควิสิเบิลสเปกโทรโฟโตเมทรี
วิธีการตกตะกอนร่วม

description: วารสารวิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี, 27, 4, 614-629