cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
WKB propagators in position and momentum space for a linear potential with a "ceiling" boundary
Creators: name: Zapata, T. A.
name: Fulling, S. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81Q20

description: As a model for the semiclassical analysis of quantum-mechanical systems with both potentials and boundary conditions, we construct the WKB propagator for a linear potential sloping away from an impenetrable boundary. First, we find all classical paths from point $y$ to point $x$ in time $t$ and calculate the corresponding action and amplitude functions. A large part of space-time turns out to be classically inaccessible, and the boundary of this region is a caustic of an unusual type, where the amplitude vanishes instead of diverging. We show that this curve is the limit of caustics in the usual sense when the reflecting boundary is approximated by steeply rising smooth potentials. Then, to improve the WKB approximation we construct the propagator for initial data in momentum space; this requires classifying the interesting variety of classical paths with initial momentum $p$ arriving at $x$ after time $t$. The two approximate propagators are compared by applying them to Gaussian initial packets by numerical integration; the results show physically expected behavior, with advantages to the momentum-based propagator in the classically forbidden regime (large $t$).
description: 30 pages, 8 figures
Timothy McCall, Brilliant Bodies. Fashioning Courtly Men in Early Renaissance Italy
Creators: name: Duits, Rembrandt
Publisher: name: 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual
Year: 2023

description: 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual, Bd. 4 Nr. 2 (2023): 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual. Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte und visuellen Kultur
Interaction and resistance: The recognition of intentions in new human-computer interaction
Creators: name: Müller, Vincent C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Just as AI has moved away from classical AI, human-computer interaction (HCI) must move away from what I call 'good old fashioned HCI' to 'new HCI' - it must become a part of cognitive systems research where HCI is one case of the interaction of intelligent agents (we now know that interaction is essential for intelligent agents anyway). For such interaction, we cannot just 'analyze the data', but we must assume intentions in the other, and I suggest these are largely recognized through resistance to carrying out one's own intentions. This does not require fully cognitive agents but can start at a very basic level. New HCI integrates into cognitive systems research and designs intentional systems that provide resistance to the human agent.
Christina Bradstreet, Scented Visions. Smell in Art, 1850–1914
Creators: name: Sauer, Christian
Publisher: name: 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual
Year: 2023

description: 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual, Bd. 4 Nr. 2 (2023): 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual. Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte und visuellen Kultur
Theresa Holler, Jenseitsbilder. Dantes Commedia und ihr Weiterleben im Weltgericht bis 1500
Creators: name: Bokody, Péter
Publisher: name: 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual
Year: 2023

description: 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual, Bd. 4 Nr. 2 (2023): 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual. Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte und visuellen Kultur
Fast sausage modes in magnetic tubes with continuous transverse profiles: effects of a finite plasma beta
Creators: name: Chen, Shao-Xia
name: Li, Bo
name: Xiong, Ming
name: Yu, Hui
name: Guo, Ming-Zhe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: While standing fast sausage modes in flare loops are often invoked to interpret quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs) in solar flares, it is unclear as to how they are influenced by the combined effects of a continuous transverse structuring and a finite internal plasma beta ($β_{\rm i}$). We derive a generic dispersion relation (DR) governing linear sausage waves in straight magnetic tubes for which plasma pressure is not negligible and the density and temperature inhomogeneities of essentially arbitrary form take place in a layer of arbitrary width. Focusing on fast modes, we find that $β_{\rm i}$ only weakly influences $k_{\rm c}$, the critical longitudinal wavenumber separating the leaky from trapped modes. Likewise, for both trapped and leaky modes, the periods $P$ in units of the transverse fast time depend only weakly on $β_{\rm i}$, which is compatible with the fact that the effective wavevectors of fast sausage modes are largely perpendicular to the background magnetic field. However, a weak $β_{\rm i}$ dependence of the damping times $τ$ is seen only when the length-to-radius ratio $L/R$ is $\sim 50\%$ larger than some critical value $π/(k_{\rm c} R)$, which itself rather sensitively depends on the density contrast, profile steepness as well as on how the transverse structuring is described. In the context of QPPs, we conclude that the much simpler zero-beta theory can be employed for trapped modes, as long as one sees the deduced internal Alfvén speed as actually being the fast speed. In contrast, effects due to a finite beta in flare loops should be considered when leaky modes are exploited.
description: 43 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Has Part IVA excluded the "choice principle" from the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936?
Creators: name: Goldhammer, Efrem E.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Ilka Mestemacher, Marmor, Gold und Edelsteine. Materialimitation in der karolingischen Buchmalerei
Creators: name: Kitzinger, Beatrice
Publisher: name: 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual
Year: 2023

description: 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual, Bd. 4 Nr. 2 (2023): 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual. Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte und visuellen Kultur
Miruna Achim, Susan Deans-Smith, and Sandra Rozental (eds.), Museum Matters. Making and Unmaking Mexico’s National Collections
Creators: name: Stenz, Christian
Publisher: name: 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual
Year: 2023

description: 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual, Bd. 4 Nr. 2 (2023): 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual. Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte und visuellen Kultur
Maria Stavrinaki, Transfixed by Prehistory. An Inquiry into Modern Art and Time
Creators: name: Potts, Alex
Publisher: name: 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual
Year: 2023

description: 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual, Bd. 4 Nr. 2 (2023): 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual. Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte und visuellen Kultur
High-resolution studies of the Majorana atomic chain platform
Creators: name: Feldman, Benjamin E.
name: Randeria, Mallika T.
name: Li, Jian
name: Jeon, Sangjun
name: Xie, Yonglong
name: Wang, Zhijun
name: Drozdov, Ilya K.
name: Bernevig, B. Andrei
name: Yazdani, Ali
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ordered assemblies of magnetic atoms on the surface of conventional superconductors can be used to engineer topological superconducting phases and realize Majorana fermion quasiparticles (MQPs) in a condensed matter setting. Recent experiments have shown that chains of Fe atoms on Pb generically have the required electronic characteristics to form a 1D topological superconductor and have revealed spatially resolved signatures of localized MQPs at the ends of such chains. Here we report higher resolution measurements of the same atomic chain system performed using a dilution refrigerator scanning tunneling microscope (STM). With significantly better energy resolution than previous studies, we show that the zero bias peak (ZBP) in Fe chains has no detectable splitting from hybridization with other states. The measurements also reveal that the ZBP exhibits a distinctive 'double eye' spatial pattern on nanometer length scales. Theoretically we show that this is a general consequence of STM measurements of MQPs with substantial spectral weight in the superconducting substrate, a conclusion further supported by measurements of Pb overlayers deposited on top of the Fe chains. Finally, we report experiments performed with superconducting tips in search of the particle-hole symmetric MQP signature expected in such measurements.
description: Accepted to Nature Physics; available through Advance online publication
A study for location of store-based retail in urban areas : a case study of Apparel market areas in Kanpur
Creators: name: Tripathi, Adarsh
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017

description: Since the last quarter of 20th century, Globalization emerged as an important phenomenon across the world because of its exponential growth and taking over many countries. It calls for trade of products and services from any part of world to another part in a smooth way. This provides investors an opportunity to invest in new emerging markets and economies. Retail is one of the biggest investment sector showing immense potential. For a systematic investment and recovery framework, it needs to be organized. Organized retail can also be categorized into various types in which store-based retail pops out as a major one. It is globally accepted that Indian markets has a huge potential for investment because of its unique demographic profile of nearly 1.3 billion people. Earlier Indian economy was closed and due to lack of huge investment opportunities, Indian markets were led by informal/unorganized sector. Indian economic reforms took place on 1991 which opened paths for investment opportunities in India. With over 92 percent of the business coming from unorganized sector, Indian retail sector offers immense potential for growth and consolidation. The revenue generation from organized retail was INR 0.9 trillion (USD15.5 Billion) in 2009, INR 2.4trillion (USD41.4 billion) in 2012, and is expected to continuously growing at an impressive rate to a projected INR 5.5 trillion (USD94.8billion) by 2019. (KPMG, 2014) Indian economy is drastically changed from the era of economic reforms which took place more than 25 years ago. There are many demand and supply factors which are presently leading the direction of Indian markets. But the success of a retail store cannot be completely articulated from these factors. From various decades of studies, it is found that location is the most important factor for articulating the success or failure of a retail store. A store’s location is one of the most important decisions a retailer must make, as it typically involves substantial financial outlay and long-term commitment. Location is a major cost factor-  It involves large capital investment.  It affects transportation cost.A study for location of store-based retail in urban areas: A case study of Apparel market areas in Kanpur ii  It affects Human resource cost. Location is a major revenue factor-  The volume of business depends on location.  A prime location gives advantage over Competitors.  It effects the consumers’ traffic. In previous years, a growing interest can be seen among the academic world and the private organizations for using GIS techniques in the investigation and planning of retail stores network. Almost all the various retail establishments have felt the need to plan for approaching consumer markets and compete with established competitions.
Mental health project for Wuhan coronavirus outbreak
Creators: name: Zheng, Lei
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: This is an open-ended project. We aim to investigate the social-psychological factors that may affect people living in Wuhan, where China's coronavirus outbreak began. By a two-wave longitudinal design, we plan to recruit Wuhan participants from the internet. The project will collect data using the doctor-patient trust scale, risk perception scale, and consumer purchase items. The results will contribute to public health and epidemiological research.
Using the Multi-Object Adaptive Optics demonstrator RAVEN to observe metal-poor stars in and towards the Galactic Centre
Creators: name: Lamb, Masen
name: Venn, Kim
name: Andersen, David
name: Oya, Shin
name: Shetrone, Matthew
name: Fattahi, Azadeh
name: Howes, Louise
name: Asplund, Martin
name: Lardiere, Olivier
name: Akiyama, Masayuki
name: Ono, Yoshito
name: Terada, Hiroshi
name: Hayano, Yutaka
name: Suzuki, Genki
name: Blain, Celia
name: Jackson, Kathryn
name: Correia, Carlos
name: Youakim, Kris
name: Bradley, Colin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The chemical abundances for five metal-poor stars in and towards the Galactic bulge have been determined from H-band infrared spectroscopy taken with the RAVEN multi-object adaptive optics science demonstrator and the IRCS spectrograph at the Subaru 8.2-m telescope. Three of these stars are in the Galactic bulge and have metallicities between -2.1 < [Fe/H] < -1.5, and high [alpha/Fe] ~+0.3, typical of Galactic disk and bulge stars in this metallicity range; [Al/Fe] and [N/Fe] are also high, whereas [C/Fe] < +0.3. An examination of their orbits suggests that two of these stars may be confined to the Galactic bulge and one is a halo trespasser, though proper motion values used to calculate orbits are quite uncertain. An additional two stars in the globular cluster M22 show [Fe/H] values consistent to within 1 sigma, although one of these two stars has [Fe/H] = -2.01 +/- 0.09, which is on the low end for this cluster. The [alpha/Fe] and [Ni/Fe] values differ by 2 sigma, with the most metal-poor star showing significantly higher values for these elements. M22 is known to show element abundance variations, consistent with a multi-population scenario (i.e. Marino et al. 2009, 2011; Alves-Brito et al. 2012) though our results cannot discriminate this clearly given our abundance uncertainties. This is the first science demonstration of multi-object adaptive optics with high resolution infrared spectroscopy, and we also discuss the feasibility of this technique for use in the upcoming era of 30-m class telescope facilities.
description: 23 pages, 11 figures, Accepted to MNRAS
title: Optimising Exercise Prescription in Patients with Intermittent Claudication: A United Kingdom Perspective
Creators: name: Seed, Sally
Publisher: name: University of Central Lancashire
Year: 2024

description: The National Institute for Health Care Excellence guidelines (NICE) recommend supervised exercise programmes (SEPs) as the first line of treatment for patients with intermittent claudication (IC). However, there are inconsistencies between guidelines regarding the optimal level of claudication pain prescribed. This thesis aimed to synthesis the current evidence in the literature and undertake a randomised control trial to understand which level of claudication pain was optimal in improving functional outcomes for patients with IC. In addition, it aimed to assess barriers, uptake and adherence to SEPs. Additional components of this thesis including a systematic review identifying how many studies had directly compared exercise prescription at differing levels of claudication pain on walking performance and a commentary highlighting the limitations of current guidance to clinicians and exercise professionals which could lead to variability in care.

Evidence from this thesis indicates that maximal claudication pain appears to elicit a larger benefit in treadmill related maximal walking distance compared to pain-free and moderate claudication pain, supporting the current NICE guidelines. However, at the time of submission we had not fully recruited and therefore results may be subject to change.

In addition, the evidence indicates that adherence to exercise in this clinical population is poor. Although, this was largely associated with non-PAD related health issues. Common barriers to attending the SEP included time and location of the class. Therefore, centres should engage with their patients to develop an effective accessible rehabilitation programme.
Each n-by-n matrix with n>1 is a sum of 5 coninvolutory matrices
Creators: name: Abara, Ma. Nerissa M.
name: Merino, Dennis I.
name: Rabanovich, Vyacheslav I.
name: Sergeichuk, Vladimir V.
name: Maria, John Patrick Sta.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 15A21, 15A23

description: An $n\times n$ complex matrix $A$ is called coninvolutory if $\bar AA=I_n$ and skew-coninvolutory if $\bar AA=-I_n$ (which implies that $n$ is even). We prove that each matrix of size $n\times n$ with $n>1$ is a sum of 5 coninvolutory matrices and each matrix of size $2m\times 2m$ is a sum of 5 skew-coninvolutory matrices. We also prove that each square complex matrix is a sum of a coninvolutory matrix and a condiagonalizable matrix. A matrix $M$ is called condiagonalizable if $M=\bar S^{-1}DS$ in which $S$ is nonsingular and $D$ is diagonal.
description: 11 pages
Intraseasonal variability of the circulation over Vietnam
Creators: name: Do, Thi Le Thuy.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Relaxed Binaural LCMV Beamforming
Creators: name: Koutrouvelis, Andreas I.
name: Hendriks, Richard C.
name: Heusdens, Richard
name: Jensen, Jesper
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: In this paper we propose a new binaural beamforming technique which can be seen as a relaxation of the linearly constrained minimum variance (LCMV) framework. The proposed method can achieve simultaneous noise reduction and exact binaural cue preservation of the target source, similar to the binaural minimum variance distortionless response (BMVDR) method. However, unlike BMVDR, the proposed method is also able to preserve the binaural cues of multiple interferers to a certain predefined accuracy. Specifically, it is able to control the trade-off between noise reduction and binaural cue preservation of the interferers by using a separate trade-off parameter per interferer. Moreover, we provide a robust way of selecting these trade-off parameters in such a way that the preservation accuracy for the binaural cues of the interferers is always better than the corresponding ones of the BMVDR. The relaxation of the constraints in the proposed method achieves approximate binaural cue preservation of more interferers than other previously presented LCMV-based binaural beamforming methods that use strict equality constraints.
GMM-Free Flat Start Sequence-Discriminative DNN Training
Creators: name: Gosztolya, Gábor
name: Grósz, Tamás
name: Tóth, László
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recently, attempts have been made to remove Gaussian mixture models (GMM) from the training process of deep neural network-based hidden Markov models (HMM/DNN). For the GMM-free training of a HMM/DNN hybrid we have to solve two problems, namely the initial alignment of the frame-level state labels and the creation of context-dependent states. Although flat-start training via iteratively realigning and retraining the DNN using a frame-level error function is viable, it is quite cumbersome. Here, we propose to use a sequence-discriminative training criterion for flat start. While sequence-discriminative training is routinely applied only in the final phase of model training, we show that with proper caution it is also suitable for getting an alignment of context-independent DNN models. For the construction of tied states we apply a recently proposed KL-divergence-based state clustering method, hence our whole training process is GMM-free. In the experimental evaluation we found that the sequence-discriminative flat start training method is not only significantly faster than the straightforward approach of iterative retraining and realignment, but the word error rates attained are slightly better as well.
Simulation study of the correlation ($X_{max}^μ$, $N^μ$) in view of obtaining information on primary mass of the UHECRs
Creators: name: Arsene, Nicusor
name: Sima, Octavian
name: Haungs, Andreas
name: Rebel, Heinigerd
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we study, using Monte Carlo simulations, the possibility to discriminate the mass of the Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs) by combining information obtained from the maximum $X_{max}^μ$ of the muon production rate longitudinal profile of Extensive Air Showers (EAS) and the number of muons, $N^μ$, which hit an array of detectors located in the horizontal plane. We investigate the sensitivity of the 2D distribution $X_{max}^μ$ versus $N^μ$ to the mass of the primary particle generating the air shower. To this purpose we analyze a set of CORSIKA showers induced by protons and iron nuclei at energies of $10^{19}$eV and $10^{20}$eV, at five angles of incidence, $0^{\circ}$, $37^{\circ}$, $48^{\circ}$, $55^{\circ}$ and $60^{\circ}$. Using the simulations we obtain the 2D Probability Functions $Prob(X_{max}^μ,N^μ \ | \ p)$ and $Prob(X_{max}^μ,N^μ \ | \ Fe)$ which give the probability that a shower induced by a proton or iron nucleus contributes to a specific point on the plane ($X_{max}^μ$, $N^μ$). Then we construct the probability functions $Prob(p\ | \ X_{max}^μ,N^μ)$ and $Prob(Fe \ | \ X_{max}^μ,N^μ)$ which give the probability that a certain point on the plane ($X_{max}^μ$, $N^μ$) corresponds to a shower initiated by a proton or an iron nucleus, respectively. Finally, a test of this procedure using a Bayesian approach, confirms an improved accuracy of the primary mass estimation in comparison with the results obtained using only the $X_{max}^μ$ distributions.
From Compliance to Impact: Tracing the Transformation of an Organizational Security Awareness Program
Creators: name: Haney, Julie M.
name: Lutters, Wayne G.
Publisher: name: arXiv.org
Year: 2023
Subjects: cybersecurity, security awareness, training, compliance, measures, case study

description: There is a growing recognition of the need for a transformation from organizational security awareness programs focused on compliance − measured by training completion rates − to those resulting in behavior change. However, few prior studies have begun to unpack the organizational practices of the security awareness teams tasked with executing program transformation. We conducted a year-long case study of a security awareness program in a United States (U.S.) government agency, collecting data via field observations, interviews, and documents. Our findings reveal the challenges and practices involved in the progression of a security awareness program from being compliance-focused to emphasizing impact on workforce attitudes and behaviors. We uniquely capture transformational organizational security awareness practices in action via a longitudinal study involving multiple workforce perspectives. Our study insights can serve as a resource for other security awareness programs and workforce development initiatives aimed at better defining the security awareness work role.
“Desobediencia es habitar la revuelta” (Grafiti, Santiago de Chile, noviembre 2019)
Creators: name: Vilches, Flora
Publisher: name: 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual
Year: 2023

description: The Chilean social uprising of October 2019 led to intense, massive protests against the abuses people experienced under the modern neoliberal system. Several everyday artifacts and technologies became part of the protests. Santiago was constantly transformed at a vertiginous rate by ephemeral events that left low-permanence material traces. Part of the graffiti, flags, sculptures, and clothing alluded to Pre-Hispanic populations bearing witness to an apparent transversal solidarity to denounce the temporal depth of abuses against Indigenous peoples that continue to exist. Drawing on this social and political contingency, I identify some traits that contribute to the long-term Pre-Columbian art/archaeology debate explored in this special issue.
description: 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual, Bd. 4 Nr. 2 (2023): 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual. Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte und visuellen Kultur
Contemporaneity and Composition in Mexican Design
Creators: name: Kett, Robert J.
Publisher: name: 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual
Year: 2023

description: This essay tracks a series of ethnographic episodes at the intersections of heritage and design in Mexico today. Rather than draw conclusions about the present and future of Mexico’s cultural patrimony, these moments instead illustrate key tensions around the country’s cultural politics in practice, the histories that condition them, and strategies for grappling with this landscape today. Drawing on the concept of contemporaneity and the idea of composition as a critical and creative technique, it outlines emerging formations within the world of design that seek to articulate new possibilities within a cultural field historically dominated by official interests and policies.
description: 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual, Bd. 4 Nr. 2 (2023): 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual. Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte und visuellen Kultur
Ch’u Mayaa and the Appropriation of the Past
Creators: name: Lerner, Jesse
Publisher: name: 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual
Year: 2023

description: The short video Ch’u Mayaa (Maya Blue, 2017) by artist Clarissa Tossin uses the Barnsdall (or Hollyhock) House, one of five Southern California textile block homes by Frank Lloyd Wright built in the early 1920s, as the setting for a dance performance by the choreographer Crystal Sepúlveda. Without dialogue or narration, the video raises complex issues about the use and appropriation of imagery and designs from the ancient Americas, and the ways in which a structure from the past, now designated an architectural landmark, can be reframed by contemporary artists. The essay concludes with a brief discussion of the author’s collaboration with Mexican artist Mariana Castillo Deball, a playful conceptual project which also highlights the relationship between the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright and that of the ancient Maya.
description: 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual, Bd. 4 Nr. 2 (2023): 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual. Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte und visuellen Kultur
Some Thoughts on Latin American Art History in the United States
Creators: name: Miller, Mary E.
Publisher: name: 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual
Year: 2023

description: This essay addresses the role of Latin American collections in U.S. museums, with particular attention to the college and university museum, and the accessibility of those collections to students and the public. At the same time, the essay considers the instruction of Latin American subjects, particularly in history and art history, that may or may not interface with the establishment of museum collections. The author argues for the role of technology in the dissemination and promulgation of Latin American visual culture.
description: 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual, Bd. 4 Nr. 2 (2023): 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual. Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte und visuellen Kultur
Catholic Kinaestheology
Creators: name: Wilkinson, Darryl
name: Fowles, Severin
Publisher: name: 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual
Year: 2023

description: The study of Christian art is often synonymous with the study of Christian images. Yet in this article we adopt a different approach; examining a particular corpus of Christian art not as a collection of images, so much as the outcome of bodily gestures. Specifically, we analyze an extensive collection of rock art from the deserts of northern New Mexico as traces left behind by generations of Catholics, particularly the members of a lay fraternity known as the Penitentes. These penitents sought to manifest their piety through the pain and suffering incurred in the repetitive pecking of crosses onto basalt boulders. Even though the result of their actions was an image, we argue that privileging an iconographic analysis of such art fails to adequately capture the kinaesthetic theology that underlay its production.
description: 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual, Bd. 4 Nr. 2 (2023): 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual. Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte und visuellen Kultur
Catastrophic thinning of dielectric elastomers
Creators: name: Zurlo, Giuseppe
name: Destrade, Michel
name: DeTommasi, Domenico
name: Puglisi, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide a clear energetic insight into the catastrophic nature of the so-called creasing and pull-in instabilities in soft electro-active elastomers. These phenomena are ubiquitous for thin electro-elastic plates and are a major obstacle to the development of giant actuators; yet they are not completely understood nor modelled accurately. Here, in complete agreement with experiments, we give a simple formula to predict the voltage thresholds for these instability patterns and model their shape, and show that equilibrium is impossible beyond their onset. Our analysis is fully analytical, does not require finite element simulations, and can be extended to include pre-stretch and to encompass any material behaviour.
Evidence for Reduced Specific Star Formation Rates in the Centers of Massive Galaxies at z = 4
Creators: name: Jung, Intae
name: Finkelstein, Steven L.
name: Song, Mimi
name: Dickinson, Mark
name: Dekel, Avishai
name: Ferguson, Henry C.
name: Fontana, Adriano
name: Koekemoer, Anton M.
name: Lu, Yu
name: Mobasher, Bahram
name: Papovich, Casey
name: Ryan, Russell E.
name: Salmon, Brett
name: Straughn, Amber N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform the first spatially-resolved stellar population study of galaxies in the early universe (z = 3.5 - 6.5), utilizing the Hubble Space Telescope Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS) imaging dataset over the GOODS-S field. We select a sample of 418 bright and extended galaxies at z = 3.5 - 6.5 from a parent sample of ~ 8000 photometric-redshift selected galaxies from Finkelstein et al. (2015). We first examine galaxies at 3.5< z < 4.0 using additional deep K-band survey data from the HAWK-I UDS and GOODS Survey (HUGS) which covers the 4000A break at these redshifts. We measure the stellar mass, star formation rate, and dust extinction for galaxy inner and outer regions via spatially-resolved spectral energy distribution fitting based on a Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithm. By comparing specific star formation rates (sSFRs) between inner and outer parts of the galaxies we find that the majority of galaxies with the high central mass densities show evidence for a preferentially lower sSFR in their centers than in their outer regions, indicative of reduced sSFRs in their central regions. We also study galaxies at z ~ 5 and 6 (here limited to high spatial resolution in the rest-frame ultraviolet only), finding that they show sSFRs which are generally independent of radial distance from the center of the galaxies. This indicates that stars are formed uniformly at all radii in massive galaxies at z ~ 5 - 6, contrary to massive galaxies at z < 4.
description: Accepted to ApJ, 20 pages, 15 figures
Algorithms for computing analytical solutions of systems of polynomial nonlinear partial differential equations
Creators: name: Jenkins, Russell John.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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The London Symphony Orchestra and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in the First World War : musical institutions, cultural identity and national conflict in Britain and Imperial Germany
Creators: name: Leung, Percy Pok Lai
Publisher: name: University of St Andrews
Year: 2023
Subjects: First World War
Cultural history
Classical music
Symphony orchestras
Musical cultures
Cultural nationalism
Anglo-German comparative history
Transnational history
London Symphony Orchestra
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

description: This thesis offers a comparative study of the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (BPO) during the First World War (WWI), examining how their music-making and their performances were affected between 1914 and 1918, how they attempted to support their countries and societies throughout the conflict, as well as how the groups of people associated with them – namely soloists, conductors, orchestral players, critics and concertgoers – contributed to, and also reflected, the identity of classical music in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain and Germany. These two distinguished and admired musical institutions are also used as prisms to investigate two contrasting cultural configurations, specifically with regard to issues such as nationalism, patriotism and propaganda. It will be argued that the LSO and the BPO were also agents that made notable social, economic and political contributions to their countries at a time of total war. This thesis is structured in three parts. It first explores how the two orchestras performed and operated, as well as what it meant to be a music-making institution in London and Berlin, during WWI. Then the focus shifts to the symbiotic relationship between music-making and music-listening and how the LSO and the BPO entertained, educated and provided solace for their audiences. Finally, this thesis considers how the two orchestras’ performances and extramusical activities interacted with the political, cultural, charitable and propaganda contexts at the time. This thesis seeks to contribute to four rich fields of historical inquiry, namely cultural history, music history, war history and orchestral history. It contributes to scholarly debates surrounding the role of music in fostering national identity, furthers our understanding of how music could be used to advance cultural and political nationalism and offers a fresh insight into Anglo-German cultural history at the time of WWI.
Variance reporting and production budgeting in a manufacturing management software system
Creators: name: Chan, Joseph Wing-Cheung.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Drop tower setup for dynamic light scattering in dense gas-fluidized granular media
Creators: name: Born, Philip
name: Schmitz, Johannes
name: Bussmann, Michael
name: Sperl, Matthias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Investigation of dynamics in dense granular media is challenging. Here we present a setup that facilitates gas fluidization of dense granular media in microgravity. The dynamics is characterized using diffusing wave spectroscopy. We demonstrate that agitated granular media reach a steady state within fractions of a second in drop tower flights. The intensity autocorrelation functions obtained in microgravity show a remarkable dependence on sample volume fraction and driving strength. A plateau in correlation merges at low volume fractions and strong driving, while correlation decays only very slowly but continuously at high packing fractions. The setup allows to independently set sample volume fraction and driving strength, and thus extends the possibilities for investigations on dynamics in dense granular on ground.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures
XXII Международная научно-практическая конференция «Актуальные проблемы науки и образования в условиях современных вызовов»
Creators: name: ООО "Институт развития образования и консалтинга"
Publisher: name: ООО "Институт развития образования и консалтинга"
Year: 2023

description: XXII Международная научно-практическая конференция «Актуальные проблемы науки и образования в условиях современных вызовов»
CTA in the Context of Searches for Particle Dark Matter - a glimpse
Creators: name: Conrad, Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this contribution, CTAs potential role in detection of particle dark matter in the context of other detection approaches is briefly discussed for an audience of gamma-ray astronomers. In particular searches for new particles at the large hadron collider and detection of dark matter particles in deep underground detectors are considered. We will focus on Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMP). Approaches will be compared in terms of (a) robustness of sensitivity predictions, (b) timeline and (c) reach. The estimate of the reach will be model-dependent. Given our ignorance about the nature of dark matter, and the complementarity of detection techniques even within a given framework (e.g. Supersymmetry), the trivial conclusion is that we might need all approaches and the most sensitive experiments. Our discussion will be somewhat more restrictive in order to be able to be more concrete. With the caveat of incompleteness, under the assumption that the WIMP paradigm describes nature, CTA is more likely to discover multi-TeV WIMP dark matter, whereas for lower masses direct detection and LHC has significantly better prospects. We will illustrate this conclusion with examples from foremost Supersymmetry, but mention effective field theory or simplified models. We will comment on a few models predicting high mass WIMPs, in particular 1 TeV higgsino and wino WIMPs, as well as Minimal Dark Matter and point out the relevance of updated measurements of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon for CTAs role in searches for Supersymmetry.
description: Invited contribution to 6th International Symposium on High-Energy Gamma-ray Astronomy (Gamma2016). 9 pages, 5 figures
The Gaussian coefficient revisited
Creators: name: Ehrenborg, Richard
name: Readdy, Margaret A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 06A07, Secondary 05A05, 05A10, 05A30

description: We give a new $q$-$(1+q)$-analogue of the Gaussian coefficient, also known as the $q$-binomial which, like the original $q$-binomial $\genfrac{[}{]}{0pt}{}{n}{k}_{q}$, is symmetric in $k$ and $n-k$. We show this $q$-$(1+q)$-binomial is more compact than the one discovered by Fu, Reiner, Stanton and Thiem. Underlying our $q$-$(1+q)$-analogue is a Boolean algebra decomposition of an associated poset. These ideas are extended to the Birkhoff transform of any finite poset. We end with a discussion of higher analogues of the $q$-binomial.
description: 8 pages, 1 table
The SpaceInn-SISMA database: characterization of a large sample of variable and active stars by means of HARPS spectra
Creators: name: Rainer, M.
name: Poretti, E.
name: Mistò, A.
name: Panzera, R.
name: Molinaro, M.
name: Cepparo, F.
name: Roth, M.
name: Michel, E.
name: Monteiro, M. J. P. F. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We created a large database of physical parameters and variability indicators by fully reducing and analysing the large number of spectra taken to complement the asteroseismic observations of the CoRoT satellite. 7103 spectra of 261 stars obtained with the ESO echelle spectrograph HARPS have been stored in the VO-compliant database Spectroscopic Indicators in a SeisMic Archive (SISMA), along with the CoRoT photometric data of the 72 CoRoT asteroseismic targets. The remaining stars belong to the same variable classes of the CoRoT targets and were observed to better characterize the properties of such classes. Several useful variability indicators (mean line profiles; indices of differential rotation, activity and emission lines) together with vsini and radial velocity measurements have been extracted from the spectra. The atmospheric parameters Teff, logg and [Fe/H] have been computed following a homogeneous procedure. As a result, we fully characterize a sample of new and known variable stars by computing several spectroscopic indicators, also providing some cases of simultaneous photometry and spectroscopy.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures Accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal
Aspects of testing non-nested linear regression models
Creators: name: Martin, Gael M. .
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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The Joint Physics Analysis Center: Recent results
Creators: name: Fernandez-Ramirez, Cesar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review some of the recent achievements of the Joint Physics Analysis Center, a theoretical collaboration with ties to experimental collaborations, that aims to provide amplitudes suitable for the analysis of the current and forthcoming experimental data on hadron physics. Since its foundation in 2013, the group is focused on hadron spectroscopy in preparation for the forthcoming high statistics and high precision experimental data from BELLEII, BESIII, CLAS12, COMPASS, GlueX, LHCb and (hopefully) PANDA collaborations. So far, we have developed amplitudes for $πN$ scattering, $\bar{K}N$ scattering, pion and $J/ψ$ photoproduction, two kaon photoproduction and three-body decays of light mesons ($η$, $ω$, $ϕ$). The codes for the amplitudes are available to download from the group web page and can be straightforwardly incorporated to the analysis of the experimental data.
description: To be published in Journal of Physics Conference Series (IOP). Joint Proceedings of the XV Mexican Workshop on Particles and Fields & the XXX Annual Meeting of the Division of Particles and Fields of the Mexican Physical Society
Deliverable D7.1: Governance context appraisal
Creators: name: Mayrhofer, Michaela Th
name: Akyüz, Kaya
name: Goisauf, Melanie
name: Wilson, Becca
name: Avraam, Devetris
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Access to research data is constrained by ethico-legal and social considerations and by data governance restrictions. Data may be of a sensitive nature and/or may not be held by the researcher’s own organisation. The principal aim of EUCAN-connect is to accelerate multi-center studies that enable data pooling to increase statistical power, in particular using federated data analysis approaches such as DataSHIELD. The principal aim of DataSHIELD is to enable remote statistical analysis/co-analysis of data in real time, while actively mitigating disclosure risk through a multi-layered system of disclosure-preventing mechanisms. DataSHIELD is not implemented in isolation, but has been designed to operate in tandem with disclosure protections and mitigations represented as formal regulatory and professional conditions for data use and best practice. This report concludes that DataSHIELD has set up good governance components by mitigating data disclosure risks.
Trading activity and volatility in equity and foreign exchange markets
Creators: name: Ting, Sze Shih.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Diplazon laetatorius
Creators: name: Fullaway, D. T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1946
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Diplazon
Diplazon laetatorius

description: 3. Diplazon laetatorius (Fabricius). Ichneumon laetatorius Fabricius, Spec. Ins. 1: 424, 1781. Bassus laetatorius, Morley, Ichn. Brit. Mus. 3: 125, 1914. Diplazon laetatorius, Kelly, Jour. Econ. Ent. 7: 294, 1914. Only one specimen of this cosmopolitan syrphid parasite was obtained at Piti, Sept. 16, Swezey.
description: Published as part of Fullaway, D. T., 1946, Ichneumonidae, Evaniidae, And Braconidae Of Guam, pp. 221-227 in Insects of Guam II, Honolulu, Hawaii :Bernice P. Bishop Museum on page 222, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5156759