cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A Preliminary Plan for Preserving Muddy Creek Forks, Pennsylvania
Creators: name: Higgins, Melinda G.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Historic sites -- Conservation and restoration
subject: Historic preservation -- Planning
subject: Historic preservation -- Theses

description: This thesis explains the importance of preparing and following a preservation plan when undertaking a restoration, rehabilitation or preservation project of any size. It presents the definition and elements of a good preservation plan. This model of planning is then applied to a small rural village in southeastern York County, Pennsylvania. Muddy Creek Forks began as a grist milling community in the mid-18th century and expanded greatly when the railroad arrived in 1874. The railroad changed the village from a quiet milling community into a bustling center of commercial and agricultural distribution and processing activity. The Village enjoyed its most prosperous time between 1888 and 1935 when commercial, agricultural and railroad activity all reached their peak. The village slowly declined as railroad service decreased and railroad and commercial activities eventually ended completely. The village remained a time capsule of the early-20th century. Six buildings and three structures, now owned by a nonprofit entity, need preservation and interpretation of the role the railroad played in many smaller communities in the country. This thesis provides a plan for preserving and interpreting Muddy Creek Forks and serves as a model for the preservation of other communities.
A Historic Preservation Plan for Exurban Counties in Pennsylvania: With Particular Reference to Berks County
Creators: name: Epler, Carole W.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Historic preservation -- Planning
subject: City planning
subject: Regional planning
subject: Historic preservation -- Theses

description: This thesis undertakes an examination of the factors involved in the comprehensive planning process as it relates to historic preservation planning in general, and in Pennsylvania specifically. Factors examined include: the need for comprehensive planning as it relates to growth issues and the associated loss of environmental and historic resources; enabling legislation for comprehensive planning in Pennsylvania; the Municipalities Planning Code (MPC); types of land use controls allowed under the MPC; the legal basis for historic preservation; and the state historic preservation office. Comprehensive plans from several Pennsylvania municipalities are examined to show the various ways the MPC is applied and the result those variations have on land use and historic preservation planning in those municipalities. A look at state, county, and municipal comprehensive plans from other states provides examples of state mandated historic preservation planning, as well as historic preservation planning initiated at the local level. The historic preservation elements of those plans are examined to determine what differences in historic preservation measures exist, if any, in locations that are different both geographically and demographically. Berks County, Pennsylvania, is profiled to provide an in-depth view of its setting, history, growth, historic resources and the need for a comprehensive plan containing a historic preservation element. Political and cultural factors in the county are discussed as they relate to historic preservation issues.
Rank growth of elliptic curves in $S_4$ and $A_4$ quartic extensions of the rationals
Creators: name: Keliher, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11G05

description: We investigate the rank growth of elliptic curves from $\mathbb{Q}$ to $S_4$ and $A_4$ quartic extensions $K/\mathbb{Q}$. In particular, we are interested in the quantity $\mathrm{rk}(E/K) - \mathrm{rk}(E/\mathbb{Q})$ for fixed $E$ and varying $K$. When $\mathrm{rk}(E/\mathbb{Q}) \leq 1$, with $E$ subject to some other conditions, we prove there are infinitely many $S_4$ quartic extensions $K/\mathbb{Q}$ over which $E$ does not gain rank, i.e. such that $\mathrm{rk}(E/K) - \mathrm{rk}(E/\mathbb{Q}) = 0$. To do so, we show how to control the 2-Selmer rank of $E$ in certain quadratic extensions, which in turn contributes to controlling the rank in families of $S_4$ and $A_4$ quartic extensions of $\mathbb{Q}$.
description: v2: 21 pages. Updates to exposition in sections 2 and 5. Slight improvement to the main theorem. Accepted by Pacific Journal of Mathematics
Bell's Curve: Why the Arc of American History Does Not Bend Toward Racial Equality
Creators: name: Thomas, Jon
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2015

description: Socioeconomic disparities between whites and blacks are pervasive in American society. Structuring of the discussion of these disproportions is the liberal race relations paradigm. According to Racial Liberalism, racial inequalities are an impermanent feature of American society because they are due primarily to race prejudice and discriminatory practices, which are continuously diminishing among whites. Challenging this view is Racial Realism. Racial Realism attributes the persistence of racial inequality to institutional privileges whites retain and refuse to relinquish whether or not they are conscious of them. I argue that Racial Realism, with some qualification, is the better explanation for the persistence of racial inequality. Racial inequalities will persist, because American society and its entrenched institutions continue to affirm, white supremacy.
Deliberative Democratic Equality
Creators: name: Holmes, Travis
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2015

description: In what follows, I consider two influential views about distributive justice: democratic equality and luck egalitarianism. In examining and criticizing these views, I attempt to extract elements from each of them for what I take to be important to building a complete conception of distributive justice. I then present and defend my own view, deliberative democratic equality, a view that can be described as a hybrid account of luck egalitarianism and democratic equality.
Elliptic equations with a singular drift from a weak Morrey space
Creators: name: Chernobai, Misha
name: Shilkin, Timofey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we prove the existence and uniqueness of weak solutions to the Dirichlet problem for an elliptic equation with a drift $b$ satisfying $\operatorname{div} b\le 0$ in $Ω$. We assume $b$ belongs to some weak Morrey class which includes in the 3D case, in particular, drifts having a singularity along the axis $x_3$ with the asymptotic $b(x)\sim c/r$, where $r=\sqrt{x_1^2+x_2^2}$.
Extending Pereboom's Quarantine System
Creators: name: Houck, Nathan
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2015

description: Derk Pereboom (2014) argues that human beings do not have the kind of free will required for moral responsibility. Pereboom argues that we should use a system of incarceration for criminal offenders based on a quarantine analogy. Patients in quarantine scenarios are not responsible for their sickness, are separated from society because of the danger they pose, and are prepared for release as soon as possible. By analogy, criminal offenders should also be separated from society and rehabilitated to prepare them for release. In this thesis, I extend the ethical applicability of Pereboom's quarantine system by engaging with an objection from Saul Smilansky. I extend Pereboom's quarantine system in an additional way by discussing what constraints should be put on the use of direct brain interventions to rehabilitate criminal offenders. In doing so, I start a conversation about how the quarantine system could be implemented in a liberal democratic society.
3D Can Be Explored In 2D: Pseudo-Label Generation for LiDAR Point Clouds Using Sensor-Intensity-Based 2D Semantic Segmentation
Creators: name: Caunes, Andrew
name: Chateau, Thierry
name: Frémont, Vincent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Semantic segmentation of 3D LiDAR point clouds, essential for autonomous driving and infrastructure management, is best achieved by supervised learning, which demands extensive annotated datasets and faces the problem of domain shifts. We introduce a new 3D semantic segmentation pipeline that leverages aligned scenes and state-of-the-art 2D segmentation methods, avoiding the need for direct 3D annotation or reliance on additional modalities such as camera images at inference time. Our approach generates 2D views from LiDAR scans colored by sensor intensity and applies 2D semantic segmentation to these views using a camera-domain pretrained model. The segmented 2D outputs are then back-projected onto the 3D points, with a simple voting-based estimator that merges the labels associated to each 3D point. Our main contribution is a global pipeline for 3D semantic segmentation requiring no prior 3D annotation and not other modality for inference, which can be used for pseudo-label generation. We conduct a thorough ablation study and demonstrate the potential of the generated pseudo-labels for the Unsupervised Domain Adaptation task.
description: Accepted to IV2024
Kant and the Problems of Sex
Creators: name: Mendez, Daniel
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2015

description: Kant argues that sex is only permissible under the condition of marriage. In this paper, I argue that Kant's argument for the impermissibility of non-marital sex commits him to the impermissibility of all sex. I then show how he might alter his account of sexuality in such a way that it would both allow him to avoid the conclusion that all sex is impermissible and be more consistent with his broader ethical and anthropological thought.
First few overtones probe the event horizon geometry
Creators: name: Konoplya, R. A.
name: Zhidenko, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is broadly believed that quasinormal modes cannot tell the black-hole near-horizon geometry, because usually the low-lying modes are determined by the scattering of perturbations around the peak of the effective potential. Using the general parametrization of the black-hole spacetimes respecting the generic post-Newtonian asymptotic, we will show that tiny modifications of the Schwarzschild/Kerr geometry in a relatively small region near the event horizon lead to almost the same Schwarzschild/Kerr fundamental mode, but totally different first few overtones. Having in mind that the first several overtones affect the quasinormal ringing at its early and intermediate stage [M. Giesler, M. Isi, M. Scheel, and S. Teukolsky, Phys. Rev. X 9, 041060 (2019)], we argue that the near-horizon geometry could in principle be studied via the first few overtones of the quasinormal spectrum, which is important because corrections to the Einstein theory must modify precisely the near-horizon geometry, keeping the known weak field regime.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures
Supplementary document for Sifting scheme for continuous-variable quantum key distribution with short samples - 5661292.pdf
Creators: name: Zhang, Ling
name: Wu, Zijie
name: Wang, Yijun
name: Luo, Haisen
name: Mao, Yiyu
name: Huang, Duan
name: guo, ying
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental material
Exploring the application of quantum technologies to industrial and real-world use cases
Creators: name: Osaba, Eneko
name: Villar-Rodriguez, Esther
name: Oregi, Izaskun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recent advancements in quantum computing are leading to an era of practical utility, enabling the tackling of increasingly complex problems. The goal of this era is to leverage quantum computing to solve real-world problems in fields such as machine learning, optimization, and material simulation, using revolutionary quantum methods and machines. All this progress has been achieved even while being immersed in the noisy intermediate-scale quantum era, characterized by the current devices' inability to process medium-scale complex problems efficiently. Consequently, there has been a surge of interest in quantum algorithms in various fields. Multiple factors have played a role in this extraordinary development, with three being particularly noteworthy: (i) the development of larger devices with enhanced interconnections between their constituent qubits, (ii) the development of specialized frameworks, and (iii) the existence of well-known or ready-to-use hybrid schemes that simplify the method development process. In this context, this manuscript presents and overviews some recent contributions within this paradigm, showcasing the potential of quantum computing to emerge as a significant research catalyst in the fields of machine learning and optimization in the coming years.
description: This paper serves as the Guest Editorial for the Special Issue titled 'Exploring the Application of Quantum Technologies to Industrial and Real-World Use Cases', published in The Journal of Supercomputing: https://link.springer.com/collections/jhjideigge
Can Tracking Representationalism Make Sense of Synesthesia?
Creators: name: Landers, Casey
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2015

description: Synesthesia is a neurological phenomenon in which a single stimulus typically associated with one sensory modality automatically and involuntarily produces sensations not typically associated with that modality. I argue that synesthesia elucidates how two naturalistic theories of representation and phenomenal experience conflict. Strong representationalism holds that what an experience is like is determined by the experience's representational content. Informational semantics holds that representational content is determined by causal co-variation between a representation and an external object or property. I argue that according to informational semantics, synesthetes and normal perceivers represent the same content in different ways. However, according to strong representationalism, two experiences with the same content must be represented in the same way. Therefore, if strong representationalists want to account for synesthesia, they cannot hold onto informational semantics as a theory of mental content.
Pre-College Causes of Women's Underrepresentation in Philosophy
Creators: name: Dobbs, Christopher
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2015

description: Recent work on women's underrepresentation in philosophy has focused on a distinction between 'in class' and 'pre-university' effects as the primary cause of women's underrepresentation in philosophy. This paper reports from a large dataset (n > 2,000,000) from the Cooperative Institutional Research Program that shows that, of the American students that intended to major in philosophy before they started college, about two-thirds are men. This lends credence to the pre-university effects explanation for women's underrepresentation in philosophy. This paper will discuss this finding in light of Louise Antony's 'perfect storm' theory of women's underrepresentation in philosophy. I will argue that a major part of the perfect storm for women in philosophy is a masculine philosopher schema that discourages women from continuing in philosophy even before they enter a college philosophy class. I will also consider two objections to this argument, what I call the 'problem of ignorance' and the 'transmission problem.'
The extensible No-Three-In-Line problem
Creators: name: Nagy, Dániel T.
name: Nagy, Zoltán Lóránt
name: Woodroofe, Russ
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The classical No-Three-In-Line problem seeks the maximum number of points that may be selected from an $n\times n$ grid while avoiding a collinear triple. The maximum is well known to be linear in $n$. Following a question of Erde, we seek to select sets of large density from the infinite grid $Z^{2}$ while avoiding a collinear triple. We show the existence of such a set which contains $Θ(n/\log^{1+\varepsilon}n)$ points in $[1,n]^{2}$ for all $n$, where $\varepsilon>0$ is an arbitrarily small real number. We also give computational evidence suggesting that a set of lattice points may exist that has at least $n/2$ points on every large enough $n\times n$ grid.
description: 12 pages, 3 figures
Distinct Effects of Brain Activation Using tDCS and Observational Practice: Implications for Motor Rehabilitation
Creators: name: McLeod, Julianne
name: Chavan, Anuj
name: Lee, Harvey
name: Sattari, Sahar
name: Kurry, Simrut
name: Wake, Miku
name: Janmohamed, Zia
name: Hodges, Nicola J., 1970-
name: Virji-Babul, Naznin
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2024

description: Complex motor skills can be acquired while observing a model without physical practice. Transcranial direct-current stimulation (tDCS) applied to the primary motor cortex (M1) also facilitates motor learning. However, the effectiveness of observational practice for bimanual coordination skills is debated. We compared the behavioural and brain causal connectivity patterns following three interventions: primary motor cortex stimulation (M1-tDCS), action-observation (AO) and a combined group (AO+M1-tDCS) when acquiring a bimanual, two-ball juggling skill. Thirty healthy young adults with no juggling experience were randomly assigned to either video observation of a skilled juggler, anodal M1-tDCS or video observation combined with M1-tDCS. Thirty trials of juggling were performed and scored after the intervention. Resting-state EEG data were collected before and after the intervention. Information flow rate was applied to EEG source data to measure causal connectivity. The two observation groups were more accurate than the tDCS alone group. In the AO condition, there was strong information exchange from (L) parietal to (R) parietal regions, strong bidirectional information exchange between (R) parietal and (R) occipital regions and an extensive network of activity that was (L) lateralized. The M1-tDCS condition was characterized by bilateral long-range connections with the strongest information exchange from the (R) occipital region to the (R) temporal and (L) occipital regions. AO+M1-tDCS induced strong bidirectional information exchange in occipital and temporal regions in both hemispheres. Uniquely, it was the only condition that was characterized by information exchange between the (R) frontal and central regions. This study provides new results about the distinct network dynamics of stimulating the brain for skill acquisition, providing insights for motor rehabilitation.
Adaptive Complexity Model Predictive Control
Creators: name: Norby, Joseph
name: Tajbakhsh, Ardalan
name: Yang, Yanhao
name: Johnson, Aaron M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This work introduces a formulation of model predictive control (MPC) which adaptively reasons about the complexity of the model based on the task while maintaining feasibility and stability guarantees. Existing MPC implementations often handle computational complexity by shortening prediction horizons or simplifying models, both of which can result in instability. Inspired by related approaches in behavioral economics, motion planning, and biomechanics, our method solves MPC problems with a simple model for dynamics and constraints over regions of the horizon where such a model is feasible and a complex model where it is not. The approach leverages an interleaving of planning and execution to iteratively identify these regions, which can be safely simplified if they satisfy an exact template/anchor relationship. We show that this method does not compromise the stability and feasibility properties of the system, and measure performance in simulation experiments on a quadrupedal robot executing agile behaviors over terrains of interest. We find that this adaptive method enables more agile motion and expands the range of executable tasks compared to fixed-complexity implementations.
description: Published in Transactions on Robotics
Disability Theatre as Critical Participatory Action Research: Lessons for Inclusive Research
Creators: name: Hole, Rachelle
name: Schnellert, Leyton
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2024

description: Informed by critical disability studies and disability justice, this article describes the reflections of two university researchers co-researching with self-advocates (individuals with intellectual disability), theatre artists, researchers, and a community living society to create social justice disability theatre as critical participatory research (CPAR), demonstrating how disability theatre can contribute to and advance inclusive research practice. Disability justice-informed theatre as CPAR has direct relevance to people with intellectual disabilities; offers a platform where self-advocates’ diverse ways to communicate and be in the world are honoured and taken up as resources to the research and community; and can generate mentorship opportunities for self-advocates to learn, practice, and develop research skills. Significances include showing how the theatre creation process (devising, developing, and refining scenes) is research in itself and how tensions are recognized as sites of possibility. Future research should explore how increasing pathways to communication, co-creation of KT strategies, and protocols for power sharing and problem solving within disability theatre as CPAR impact the roles, outcomes, and experiences of disabled and non-disabled researchers and audience members.
Folk Intuition and Thought Experiments in Science
Creators: name: Freed, Benjamin
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2015

description: I defend a novel account of thought experiments in science. I motivate the need for my account by arguing for three desiderata that current views in the literature fail to satisfy. According to the view that I develop, scientific thought experiments enable us to entertain new thoughts about the natural world by temporarily disabling our na‹ve or folk empirical theories. This view is explanatory rich. It explains the phenomenology of thought experiments, provides an empirically informed account of the cognitive mechanisms underlying them, and makes sense of their epistemic value.
Why Pereboom's Four-Case Manipulation Argument is Manipulative
Creators: name: Spitzley, Jay
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2015

description: Research suggests that intuitions about thought experiments are vulnerable to a wide array of seemingly irrelevant factors. I argue that when arguments hinge on the use of intuitions about thought experiments, research on the subtle factors that affect intuitions must be taken seriously. To demonstrate how failing to consider such psychological influences can undermine an argument, I discuss Pereboom's four-case manipulation argument. I argue that by failing to consider the impact of subtle psychological influences such as order effects, Pereboom likely mis-identifies what really leads us to have the intuitions that we have about his cases, and this in turn undermines his argument for incompatibilism. Last, I consider objections and discuss how to empirically test my hypothesis.
Non-Adiabatic Electronic and Vibrational Ring-Opening Dynamics resolved with Attosecond Core-Level Spectroscopy
Creators: name: Severino, S.
name: Ziems, K. M.
name: Reduzzi, M.
name: Summers, A.
name: Sun, H. -W.
name: Chien, Y. -H.
name: Gräfe, S.
name: Biegert, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Non-adiabatic dynamics and conical intersections play a central role in the chemistry of most polyatomic molecules, ranging from isomerization to heterocyclic ring opening and avoided photo-damage of DNA. Studying the underpinning correlated dynamics of electronic and nuclear wave packets is a major challenge in real-time and, many times involves optically dark transient states. We show that attosecond core-level spectroscopy reveals the pathway dynamics of neutral furan across its conical intersections and dark states. Our method measures electronic-nuclear correlations to detect the dephasing of electronic coherence due to nuclear motion and identifies the ring-opened isomer as the dominant product. These results demonstrate the efficacy of attosecond core level spectroscopy as a potent method to investigate the real-time dynamics of photochemical reaction pathways in complex molecular systems.
title: Softsensor for the characterisation of the process fluid
Creators: name: Schmitz, Christian
name: Nakhjiri, Mehdi
name: Pelz, Peter F.
Publisher: name: UNSPECIFIED
Year: 2022

description: This paper introduces an intelligent fan equipped with a softsensor for the volume flow rate and composition of a two-component process fluid, as e.g. often found in chemical processes. This is done by combining the fans characteristic data with those of cheap pressure and temperature sensors as well as the mixture laws of a two-component gas. An example estimating the percentage of butane for a combustion flow is given. As the experiments show, the estimation uncertainty of the softsensor is 2 % for the butane concentration and 3 % for the volume flow rate and thus of the magnitude of the uncertainties of the used input data.
Formation of hydroxy, cyano and ethynyl derivatives of C4H4 isomers in the interstellar medium
Creators: name: Largo, Mario
name: Sanz-Novo, Miguel
name: Redondo, Pilar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The study of cyclic hydrocarbons is of utmost relevance in current astrochemical research, as they are considered to be among the most significant reservoirs of carbon in the interstellar medium. However, while unsaturated cyclic hydrocarbons with three, five, and six carbon atoms have been widely investigated, the highly strained antiaromatic cyclobutadiene, c-C4H4, still remains uncharted. Here, we employed high-level CCSD(T)-F12/cc-pVTZ-F12//B2PLYPD3/aug-cc-pVTZ theoretical calculations to analyze whether the cyano (CN), ethynyl (CCH), and hydroxy (OH) derivatives of c-C4H4 and its structural isomers butatriene (H2CCCCH2) and vinylacetylene (H2CCHCCH) can readily form via the gas-phase reaction: C4H4 + X -> C4H3X + H (where X = CN, CCH, and OH). For each system, we thoroughly explored the corresponding potential energy surfaces, identifying their critical points to enable a detailed analysis of the thermochemistry. Hence, we found various exothermic pathways for the formation of CN and CCH derivatives of butatriene and vinylacetylene, with no net activation barriers, while the formation of the OH derivatives is in general less favorable. Prior to the mechanistic study, we also analyzed the complete conformational panorama and stability of all the derivatives at the CCSD(T)-F12/cc-pVTZ-F12 level. Overall, c-C4H3CN and c-C4H3CCH emerge as particularly promising candidates for interstellar detection, provided that the parental c-C4H4 is present in the gas phase. These findings highlight the potential for detecting polar derivatives of c-C4H4 as indirect evidence of its presence in the ISM, as it appears to be "invisible" to radioastronomical observations. Also, this study underscores the need for future laboratory and theoretical efforts to characterize the spectroscopic properties of the proposed derivatives, paving the way for their eventual identification in space.
description: Accepted for publication in PCCP
Laser-induced electron diffraction in the over-the-barrier ionization (OBI) regime
Creators: name: Belsa, B.
name: Ziems, K. M.
name: Sanchez, A.
name: Chirvi, K.
name: Liu, X.
name: Grfe, S.
name: Biegert, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Large polyatomic molecules typically exhibit low ionization potentials, Ip, leading to over-the-barrier ionization (OBI) already at relatively low intensities (~1013 W/cm2). We revisit laser-induced electron diffraction (LIED) in the over-the-barrier ionization (OBI) regime and answer the question of whether imaging of molecular structure is still possible with LIED. We employ a hydrogen-like model system mimicking a molecule with low Ip using a classical trajectory-based model (CT) that incorporates the Coulomb potential; we also use the numerical solution to the time-dependent Schrodinger equation (TDSE). Specifically, we adopt the Fourier transform variant of LIED (FT-LIED) to show that even a significant contribution of short trajectories in the OBI regime does not preclude structure retrieval from strong-field diffractive patterns. This theoretical investigation shows that LIED can be well described by the classical recollision model even when ionization occurs within the OBI regime. This study paves the way towards strong-field imaging of chemical transformations of large polyatomic molecules in real-time based on strong-field electron recollision.
Human Flourishing and Autonomy as Passive
Creators: name: Taylor, Gerald
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2015

description: Most prominent accounts of autonomy are active accounts, which means they hold that an agent can be autonomous with respect to a given action only if that agent has appropriately sanctioned that action. Active accounts, however, are vulnerable to the regress problem, since it seems that the required sanctioning actions are themselves just actions that must be sanctioned. Passive accounts hope to avoid the regress problem by eschewing the notion that autonomous action requires agential sanction, but face in its place what I call the incompleteness problem for passive accounts. Here, I evaluate one passive account, recently defended by Sarah Buss, and argue that it can avoid the incompleteness problem only if it is supplemented by a satisfactory account of the development of autonomy. I then suggest that one development account, offered by Ishtiyaque Haji and Stefaan Cuypers, is an especially good supplement. My conclusion is that Buss's account, supplemented in the way I suggest, can avoid the incompleteness problem.
Nietzsche's Constructive Philosophy: Self-understanding and the Sovereign Individual
Creators: name: Duhaime, Walter
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2015

description: There is an apparent disagreement between recent commentators who find in Nietzsche both a constructive philosophy and a compatibilist account of freedom, and Brian Leiter's reading that rejects both.  The reason for this disagreement, I argue, is that Leiter's 'illiberal' view is limited in scope to Nietzsche's critical philosophy, while Nietzsche also has a constructive philosophy aimed at select readers.  I read Nietzsche's critical philosophy as targeting the metaphysical entities that underpin asceticism and herd values, not the mental states and processes with which these entities are associated.  The 'no such entity' reading preserves the resources needed to read Nietzsche as offering a replacement for the ascetic ideal'and an alternative source for life's meaning.  Although few of his readers will have been born with the drives needed to throw off herd values and enjoy compatibilist freedom, these readers are the intended audience for Nietzsche's constructive philosophy.
Preservation Strategies for Historic Commerical Roadside Tourist Attractions in Florida
Creators: name: Breslauer, Kenneth Charles
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Tourism -- Florida
subject: Automobile travel -- Florida
subject: Historic preservation -- Theses

description: This thesis examines the historical significance of, and preservation strategies for, Florida's commercial roadside tourist attractions. From 1929 to 1971, Florida's commercial roadside tourist attractions flourished. Silver Springs, Cypress Gardens, Marineland, and McKee Jungle Gardens were among Florida attractions that became nationally known tourist destinations. This thesis focuses on a significant period in Florida's tourist industry that begins with the dedication of Edward Bok's Singing Tower at Lake Wales in 1929 during the infancy of the automobile age and concludes with the opening of Disney World near Orlando in 1971. Corporate theme parks, such as Disney's Magic Kingdom, and changing travel habits of tourists resulted in the rapid attrition of Florida's significant historic tourism sites. This study is organized into five parts. Chapter One defines Florida's commercial tourist attractions and explains why they are important historic resources. This chapter describes the evolution of the Florida attractions industry and examines the various issues that have shaped its growth and ultimate decline. Chapter Two examines Florida's transportation systems in relation to the development of roadside attractions, with a particular focus on the development of Florida roads and the impact of the interstate highway system and Florida Turnpike. Chapter Three consists of a survey of 120 major Florida commercial tourist attractions founded from 1929 to 1971, classifying them by major categories: Garden, Aquatic, Zoological, Novelty, and Historic. Chapter Four reviews historic preservation activities in Florida, methods available to preserve historic attractions, and reviews the events leading to the preservation of a representative site: McKee Jungle Gardens in Vero Beach. Chapter Five provides a summary of findings and offers conclusions. Sources of this study include a variety of books, magazines, newspapers, Florida tourist attraction promotional literature, State of Florida records, archival collections, and interviews.
Does A Veridical Libertarian Experience Require Quantum Indeterminacy?
Creators: name: Green, Jessica
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2015

description: I argue that the question of whether or not all of our choices are determined by the past and the laws of physics requires answering the question of whether or not quantum mechanisms could have a functional role in the parts of our brain that are identical to conscious experience. I take a physicalist position on the mind-body problem as opposed to a dualist position. I present Mark Balaguer's theory of how a libertarian experience might be veridical. I suggest additions to Balaguer's theory that address further what is necessary for libertarian free will. I argue that our choices must be affected by an indeterministic process that occurs within the set of brain processes that are identitcal to consciousness in order for our libertarian experiences to be veridical.
Aristotle, Determinism, and Moral Responsibility
Creators: name: Daigle, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2015

description: Aristotle says that we are responsible (à'ç''') for our voluntary actions and character. But there's a question about whether he thinks we are morally responsible and, if so, what he thinks makes it such that we are. Interpretations of Aristotle on this question range from libertarian, according to which Aristotle considers us morally responsible in part because we have undetermined choices, to deflationary, according to which Aristotle has no theory of moral responsibility. Despite putative evidence to the contrary, neither interpretation captures Aristotle's view on the matter, and their rejection paves the way for a compatibilist proposal, one that works both as an interpretation of Aristotle and as an independently attractive view. I detail this view and defend it against one prominent objection.
A Moral Reconciliation With Aristotle's Intellectualism
Creators: name: Reisman, Asher
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2015

description: Aristotle's complete picture of human flourishing departs problematically from our commonplace conceptions of personal moral goodness when he draws rapid conclusions in Book X concerning the eudaimonic supremacy of theoria; a static comprehension of the timeless order of nature exemplified by the academic philosopher. I develop a sympathetic account of this anxiety as a philosophically legitimate ground of resistance to Aristotle, but go on to make a further case drawing on resources from Aristotle, particularly the relationship between phronesis and theoria and the role of friendship, which I believe can bring about significant if not total allayment of the worry and reconcile us to an Aristotelian approach for the justification of the ethical life.
Hegel on Marriage: The Importance of the Wedding Ceremony
Creators: name: Bisig, Joshua
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2015

description: In the Philosophy of Right, Hegel insists that a marriage is only established after a wedding ceremony has taken place but he provides no satisfactory justification for thinking this. In this paper, I attempt to provide some justifications for him. I advocate an interpretation of Hegel that (1) understands the declaration of consent uttered in the wedding ceremony to be a performative act whose force is what transforms a relationship into a marriage and that (2) understands Hegel's general concept of personality to inform his requirement that the agreement to marry be declared publicly.
Hörmander oscillatory integral operators: a revisit
Creators: name: Gao, Chuanwei
name: Gao, Zhong
name: Miao, Changxing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we present new proofs for both the sharp $L^p$ estimate and the decoupling theorem for the Hörmander oscillatory integral operator. The sharp $L^p$ estimate was previously obtained by Stein\;\cite{stein1} and Bourgain-Guth \cite{BG} via the $TT^\ast$ and multilinear methods, respectively. We provide a unified proof based on the bilinear method for both odd and even dimensions. The strategy is inspired by Barron's work \cite{Bar} on the restriction problem. The decoupling theorem for the Hörmander oscillatory integral operator can be obtained by the approach in \cite{BHS}, where the key observation can be roughly formulated as follows: in a physical space of sufficiently small scale, the variable setting can be essentially viewed as translation-invariant. In contrast, we reprove the decoupling theorem for the Hörmander oscillatory integral operator through the Pramanik-Seeger approximation approach \cite{PS}. Both proofs rely on a scale-dependent induction argument, which can be used to deal with perturbation terms in the phase function.
Ecclesiastical Architecture of Francis Henry Fassett of Maine
Creators: name: Magnuson, Rosalind K.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Church architecture -- Maine -- 19th century
subject: Historic preservation -- Theses

description: This thesis is a documentation of representative examples of the ecclesiastical architecture of Francis Henry Fassett in Maine. Although Francis H. Fassett was Maine's most prolific 19th century architect, to date very few buildings have been documented and little has been written about him. Fassett's ecclesiastical architecture was representative in style of his entire body of work in the areas of residential, commercial and civic architecture, and followed all the phases of American architecture which spanned the decades of Fassett's work, from the early 1840s until his death in 1908. Fassett followed national architectural trends, but his ecclesiastical designs were distinctly his own, and his clients included all of the major denominations in Maine. The study method employed included conducting research in towns where Fassett designed churches: at libraries, local museums and/or historical societies, and the specific church's archives. Additional resources included prior research by the Fassett family, and the several archives of the Maine Historical Society, the Maine State Museum, and Greater Portland Landmarks. The thesis is divided into seven parts. The first part is introductory and includes a biographical sketch of the architect; a discussion of the informal school of architecture Fassett conducted from his Portland, Maine office, and a discussion of his philosophy and practice of architecture. The next five parts are documentation of twenty of Fassett's churches, organized by chronology and architectural style. Vintage photographs are used as much as possible to illustrate each church Fassett designed, and to show subsequent changes. The final part of the thesis includes possible influences on Fassett's designs, and a discussion of the relationship between denomination, architectural style and plan form. There is also a brief discussion of the preservation ethic as it relates to the churches documented.
Turuptiana Walker 1869
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Turuptiana

description: Genus Turuptiana Walker, 1869
(Fig. 16C)
Turuptiana Walker, 1869: 19.
Sallaea Felder, 1874: pl. 101, fig. 10. — Type species: Sallaea ochrosterna Felder, 1874.
TYPE SPECIES. — Turuptiana obliqua Walker, 1869, by monotypy.
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 312, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
Individualism, the Total State and Race in the Views of Carl Schmitt
Creators: name: Imbsweiler, Eva
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2016

description: The jurist Carl Schmitt's views on the total state and race need further clarification as long as the English language edition of his Concept of the Political presents an apologist commentary. The questions are to which degree Schmitt's works written during the Weimar Republic are tainted with totalitarian and racist ideas and whether Schmitt gave up fundamental principles during Nationalist Socialism. This thesis examines writings by Schmitt between 1913 and 1940 to reconstruct a coherent anti-individualistic legal viewpoint and its arguments. The first part finds that Schmitt undermines the individual rights of the Weimar Constitution. The second part discusses Schmitt's role as a theorist of totalitarianism. The third part considers Schmitt's anti-Semitism as underlying motivation for his political theory and analyzes his racism in light of his anti-individualism. Schmitt frequently argues by invoking necessity of history and by justifying some political action as necessary. These arguments should be rejected.
Women Volunteers in Historic Preservation: Four Virginia Cases, 1966 to 1996
Creators: name: Horstman, Anne H.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Historic preservation -- United States -- History
subject: Voluntarism
subject: Historic preservation -- Theses

description: This thesis undertakes an examination and documentation of the contributions made to historic preservation by women who volunteer for preservation organizations in Virginia. Case studies of four organizations document these contributions between 1966 and 1996, each focusing on a specific element of preservation activities. The thesis is organized in six chapters. The first chapter examines the body of knowledge available to present an overview of the evolution of volunteerism in America, the traits and motivations of women who volunteer, and more specifically, highlights of the history of the role of women who volunteer in historic preservation. The second through the fifth chapters present the four case studies. These organizations and the focus of each are: Gunston Hall, fund raising; Historic Richmond Foundation, organization and development; Preservation of Historic Winchester, Inc., revolving fund; and Preservation Alliance of Virginia, statewide advocacy. The sixth chapter summarizes the contributions made to the case study organizations by female volunteers and the functions they performed. A profile of the common traits and motivations of the women is provided, and a final section identifies issues that can affect women's future involvement in historic preservation. Methods used to research this topic included surveys of national literature, examinations of publications, records, documents pertaining to the four case study organizations, and oral interviews with people who have volunteered or been associated with these organizations. The conclusion of the thesis is that many of the accomplishments made by preservation organizations studied can be attributed to the work of the women who have volunteered their time and talents.
Preservation Issues Related to the Peter Pan Cannery in Dillingham, Alaska
Creators: name: Bretz, Karen E.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Salmon canning industry -- Alaska
subject: Salmon fisheries -- Alaska
subject: Historic preservation -- Theses

description: This thesis explores the history and significance of the canned salmon industry in Alaska and the Bristol Bay region. Preservation issues related to the Peter Pan Cannery in Dillingham, Alaska are discussed. These issues include National Register listing, tourism, and federal investment tax credits. The Peter Pan Cannery is situated on the Nushagak River and is representative of salmon canneries in Alaska. The cannery complex consists of twenty-four structures, most of which are wood-framed and metal­ sided buildings. The entire cannery complex expresses the operation of the canned salmon industry. Among canneries in Alaska, the Peter Pan Cannery is one of the best candidates for preservation because it remains operational and is in stable shape.
A Group-Based Approach to Reparations
Creators: name: Dwyer, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2016

description: This paper attempts to offer a group-based approach to reparations for slavery. I argue that by appealing to a group-based approach to reparations, one can avoid some of the significant problems associated with attempting to justify reparations on an individual level. I argue that, properly formulated, a group-based approach can avoid problems of identification, the non-identity problem, as well as misgivings about appealing to the notion that groups can have a moral standing that is not merely the aggregation of the moral standing of the individual group members. In order to show that a group-based approach is a viable solution to these issues, I appeal to Larry May's account of groups.