cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Spatially Selective Active Noise Control Systems
Creators: name: Xiao, Tong
name: Xu, Buye
name: Zhao, Chuming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Active noise control (ANC) systems are commonly designed to achieve maximal sound reduction regardless of the incident direction of the sound. When desired sound is present, the state-of-the-art methods add a separate system to reconstruct it. This can result in distortion and latency. In this work, we propose a multi-channel ANC system that only reduces sound from undesired directions, and the system truly preserves the desired sound instead of reproducing it. The proposed algorithm imposes a spatial constraint on the hybrid ANC cost function to achieve spatial selectivity. Based on a six-channel microphone array on a pair of augmented eyeglasses, results show that the system minimized only noise coming from undesired directions. The control performance could be maintained even when the array was heavily perturbed. The proposed algorithm was also compared with the existing methods in the literature. Not only did the proposed system provide better noise reduction, but it also required much less effort. The binaural localization cues did not need to be reconstructed since the system preserved the physical sound wave from the desired source.
description: The following article has been submitted to the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA). It has been accepted and published in https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0019336
Truncated CD19 as a selection marker for the isolation of stem cell derived β-cells
Creators: name: Huang, Luo Ting (Helen)
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Stem cell-derived β-cells (SCβ-cell) are a renewable and scalable alternative to cadaveric islet transplants as a cell replacement therapy for type 1 diabetes (T1D). However, heterogeneity within SCβ-cell cultures remains problematic for graft safety and function. Magnetic selection of SCβ-cells expressing a unique cell surface marker may help deplete undesirable cell types and facilitate functional maturation. This is study, I explored CD19 as a potential cell surface marker for the enrichment of insulin-expressing SCβ-cells. Using CRISPR/Cas9 technology, I created a knock-in add-on of CD19-mScarlet downstream of the insulin coding sequence in human embryonic stem cells (hESCs). I established reproducible SCβ-cell surface expression of CD19-mScarlet. Importantly, I developed and optimized a magnetic sorting protocol for CD19-mScarlet-expressing cells, forming enriched SCβ-cell clusters with improved glucose-stimulated c-peptide secretion. This strategy holds promise to facilitate large-scale production of functional SCβ-cells for T1D disease modeling and cell replacement therapy.
Megaleporinus piavussu
Creators: name: Ota, Renata Rúbia
name: Deprá, Gabriel de Carvalho
name: Graça, Weferson Júnio da
name: Pavanelli, Carla Simone
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Characiformes
Anostomidae
Megaleporinus
Megaleporinus piavussu

description:  Megaleporinus piavussu (Britski, Birindelli, Garavello, 2012) Fig. 5 Body elongated; greatest depth contained 2.8 to 3.5, caudal peduncle depth 7.9 to 9.1 times in SL; head length 3.5 to 4.7, predorsal distance 2.0 to 2.2, caudal peduncle length 7.5 to 8.7 in SL; snout length 2.1 to 2.7, horizontal orbital diameter 3.7 to 5.1 and least interorbital width 1.9 to 2.4. Mouth subterminal; premaxilla and dentary with 3 teeth, no maxillary teeth. Lateral line with 41-44 pored scales; transverse series above lateral line with 6 or 7 scale rows and below with 5 or 6 scale rows. Dorsal fin with 11 or 12, pectoral fin with 15-19, pelvic fin with 9 and caudal fin with 19 rays (Britski et al., 2012). Ground color silvery; three dark-brown rounded blotches over lateral line. Dorsal fin whitish; pectoral, pelvic, anal and caudal fins yellowish. Maximum standard length. 410.0 mm. Distribution. Upper rio Paraná basin. Remarks. Megaleporinus piavussu was identified as L. obtusidens by Graça, Pavanelli (2007). Ramirez et al. (2016) described the new genus, Megaleporinus, and proposed the new combination. Britski et al. (2012) redescribed M. obtusidens and described the new species, M. piavussu (under Leporinus) from the upper rio Paraná basin. Megaleporinus piavussu can be distinguished by having 39 or 40, rarely 41, pored scales in the lateral line, and mouth terminal, except in some large adults with somewhat subterminal mouth (vs. 41 to 43, rarely 44 in M. obtusidens, and mouth directed somewhat or entirely downward in M. obtusidens). The epithet piavussu is similar to the common name of M. macrocephalus “ piavuçu, piaussu ”, but these are different species and should not be confused.
description: Published as part of Ota, Renata Rúbia, Deprá, Gabriel de Carvalho, Graça, Weferson Júnio da & Pavanelli, Carla Simone, 2018, Peixes da planície de inundação do alto rio Paraná e áreas adjacentes: revised, annotated and updated, pp. 1-111 in Neotropical Ichthyology 16 (2) on page 22, DOI: 10.1590/1982-0224-20170094, http://zenodo.org/record/3678395
description: {"references": ["Britski HA, Birindelli JLO, Garavello JC. A new species of Leporinus Agassiz, 1829 from the upper rio Parana basin (Characiformes, Anostomidae) with redescription of L. elongatus Valenciennes, 1850 and L. obtusidens (Valenciennes, 1837). Pap Avulsos Zool. 2012; 52 (37): 441 - 75.", "Pavanelli CS, Graca WJ, Zawadzki CH, Britski HA, Vidotti AP, Avelino GS, Verissimo S. Fishes from the Corumba Reservoir, Paranaiba River drainage, upper rio Parana basin, State of Goias, Brazil. Check List. 2007; 3 (1): 58 - 64."]}
Assessment of government’s intervention policies and its impact on the herder–farmer coexistence in North Central Nigeria
Creators: name: Ilesanmi, Olusegun Daniel
name: Femi, Asamu Festus
name: Bamidele, Rasak
name: Affiong, Mkperedem Abigail
name: Akinola, Odesanmi Festus
name: Oyeyipo, Joseph Eyitayo
name: Joseph, Olorunmola Jide
name: Wisdom, Adeleye Oluwaseyi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biotechnology
Science Policy

description: This research work examines the government intervention policies and how helpful they have been in achieving herder–farmer peaceful coexistence in the North Central part of Nigeria, with a focus on Kogi and Benue States. A cross-sectional study was conducted using a descriptive design with a sample size of 759 respondents, and both univariate analyses, i.e. descriptive statistics, such as frequency distribution in percentage and bivariate Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient and regression analysis, were adopted. The results show that the various intervention programmes or policies have not been helpful in improving the coexistence of the herders and farmers in the North Central region and Nigeria at a large scale as perceived by the respondents. The findings of the study show that people perceived the government intervention programme in their locality as not helpful in achieving the goal of herder–farmer peaceful coexistence. The findings also show that the policies of the government have not addressed the root cause of the conflict, making it difficult to have an expected effect on the two conflicting parties. Therefore, the study recommends implementing proper and prompt monitoring and evaluation of policies to determine their impact on the targeted population while conducting more orientation programmes about the intention of the government intervention programmes and policies, with particular emphasis on reaching out to the rural communities and not just focusing on the activities in the media only.
The destigmatization of “evil woman”: Hulijing as a modern Sphinx in the “Good Hunting” of Love, Death & Robots (2019)
Creators: name: Peng, Anqi
name: Tao, Shilong
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The hulijing (狐狸精) is a typical stigmatized example of “evil woman” in the history, religion, and culture, which serves as a scapegoat of man under the traditional patriarchy in China. This paper aims to explore the image of hulijing and the destigmatization of “evil woman” in the episode “Good Hunting” of TV series Love, Death & Robots (2019) from the perspective of feminism and ethical literary criticism, so as to provide ethical reflections on women”s gender and identity in contemporary society. In the “Good Hunting”, the hulijing is presented as a modern Sphinx to destigmatize the “evil woman”: (1) being a half-human and half-animal Sphinx, the hulijing Yan, hunted by Taoist priests, is forced into prostitution for survival; (2) being a half-human and half-machine Sphinx, she, transformed by the colonial governor, is forced to be a sex slave, but with the power of modern technology, the hulijing becomes the hunter from the hunted, asserts the sovereignty of her body, and finally realizes both economic and spiritual independence. By setting the story in Hong Kong under colonial rule and depicting such a modern Sphinx, the “Good Hunting” subverts the stereotype of hulijing in traditional myths, breaks the gender and power relation between the man and the woman, and answers the way out of contemporary women. Besides, as a resistance towards racialism and colonialism, the metamorphosis of hulijing’s identity and image in the “Good Hunting” reflects the original writer Ken Liu’s identity consciousness as a Chinese American and shows his attempts to move from the margin to the center.
The humane costs of the 1970s and 1980s famines in North Wollo, Ethiopia
Creators: name: Tadesse, Mesfin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: The purpose of this research paper is to investigate the humane costs of the 1973–74 and 1984–85 famine in North Wollo, Ethiopia. In Wollo, the northern side is always prone to drought and famine and its effect beyond the death tolls is also much highest. As a qualitative approach, descriptive analysis and purposive sampling techniques are used. Data’s gathered via interview, focused group discussion and document review showed, in the 20th century the two famines of 1973–74 and 1984–85 were the most difficult periods in which the people paid much sacrifice especially from the later which caused not only much death but also unnatural practices, and devotion towards one’s own interest (survival).The period passed as a trying times for families, and people of the region. The family ties and support of one another and the social fabric established through time seen hardly survived.
Tracing journey of crime victim’s position under Indian law with evolutionary insights from the United States’ federal code on victims’ rights
Creators: name: Nagpal, Megha
name: Rawandale, Chandrashekhar
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: In India, the inclusion of victims in the criminal process started slowly with the 1973 Criminal Procedure Code providing for victim compensation from fine imposed on the offender. It has since traversed a patchy path with the major reforms introduced in legislation post recommendations in the Malimath Committee Report and the 2009 Amendment to the Code. The present paper highlights crime victim’s position in the Indian Criminal Justice System tracing the evolutionary development of victim justice in India highlighting its reasons and progress while contrasting with that in the United States of America. It brings to light that victim rights in both common law countries have essentially been a result of social movements having the effect of visible changes in legislation. The paper reviews the literature on victims’ rights in a semi-structured method based on thematic analysis by dividing literature into dominant themes: victims’ informational rights, participation rights, and restitution. The paper concludes that though Indian Supreme Court and Law Commission of India recognise the importance attached to crime victim’s role in the formal process, yet concrete rights for the victim have only been achieved in a limited sense.
Simultaneous transmission of hyper-entanglement in 3 degrees of freedom through a multicore fiber
Creators: name: Achatz, Lukas
name: Bulla, Lukas
name: Ortega, Evelyn A.
name: Bartokos, Michael
name: Ecker, Sebastian
name: Bohmann, Martin
name: Ursin, Rupert
name: Huber, Marcus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Entanglement distribution is at the heart of most quantum communication protocols. Inevitable loss of photons along quantum channels is a major obstacle for distributing entangled photons over long distances, as the no-cloning theorem forbids the information to simply be amplified along the way as is done in classical communication. It is therefore desirable for every successfully transmitted photon pair to carry as much entanglement as possible. Spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) creates photons entangled in multiple high-dimensional degrees of freedom simultaneously, often referred to as hyper-entanglement. In this work, we use a multicore fibre (MCF) to show that energy-time and polarization degrees of freedom can simultaneously be transmitted in multiple fibre cores, even maintaining path entanglement across the cores. We verify a fidelity to the ideal Bell state of at least 95$\%$ in all degrees of freedom. Furthermore, because the entangled photons are created with a center wavelength of 1560 nm, our approach can readily be integrated into modern telecommunication infrastructure, thus paving the way for high-rate quantum key distribution and many other entanglement-based quantum communication protocols.
Disability_Art_Pandemic.pdf
Creators: name: Tanmoy Bhattacharya
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Disability Studies
subject: 130312 Special Education and Disability
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: The two-day event had a very well thought-out line-up of ten speakers who ranged from art historians, art critics, curators to practicing artists, like David Dibosa (art historian/ critic), Juliet Jacques (writer/journalist), Khairani Barokka (artist), Bárbara Rodríguez Muñoz (curator), Rehana Zaman (artist), Neo Sinoxolo Musangi (artist), Larne Abse-Gogarty (art history), Marina Vishmidt (writer, editor, critic), Robert McRuer (disability scholar), and Jade Montserrat (artist/ writer). However, this review will not touch upon all the content but only those issues will be highlighted that in some way or other are relevant to disability research and activism.
Schizodon Agassiz 1829
Creators: name: Ota, Renata Rúbia
name: Deprá, Gabriel de Carvalho
name: Graça, Weferson Júnio da
name: Pavanelli, Carla Simone
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Characiformes
Anostomidae
Schizodon

description: Schizodon 1. Mouth subterminal; snout prominent................ S. nasutus 1’. Mouth terminal; snout non-prominent........................... 2 2. Body without dark-brown transverse bars; darkbrown oval, horizontaly elongated, blotch on the caudal peduncle......................................................... S. altoparanae 2’. Body with dark-brown transverse bars; no dark-brown blotch on the caudal peduncle................................ S. borellii
description: Published as part of Ota, Renata Rúbia, Deprá, Gabriel de Carvalho, Graça, Weferson Júnio da & Pavanelli, Carla Simone, 2018, Peixes da planície de inundação do alto rio Paraná e áreas adjacentes: revised, annotated and updated, pp. 1-111 in Neotropical Ichthyology 16 (2) on page 22, DOI: 10.1590/1982-0224-20170094, http://zenodo.org/record/3678395
Comments on "Channel Coding Rate in the Finite Blocklength Regime": On the Quadratic Decaying Property of the Information Rate Function
Creators: name: Cao, Michael X.
name: Tomamichel, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The quadratic decaying property of the information rate function states that given a fixed conditional distribution $p_{\mathsf{Y}|\mathsf{X}}$, the mutual information between the (finite) discrete random variables $\mathsf{X}$ and $\mathsf{Y}$ decreases at least quadratically in the Euclidean distance as $p_\mathsf{X}$ moves away from the capacity-achieving input distributions. It is a property of the information rate function that is particularly useful in the study of higher order asymptotics and finite blocklength information theory, where it was already implicitly used by Strassen [1] and later, more explicitly, by Polyanskiy-Poor-Verdú [2]. However, the proofs outlined in both works contain gaps that are nontrivial to close. This comment provides an alternative, complete proof of this property.
description: Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory on Oct. 27th, 2022. Revised on March 7th, 2023. Accepted on April 30th 2023
Muslim precarity: Plagues of the mind and corona orientalism
Creators: name: Al-Moghales, Mashhoor Abdu
name: Adel, Abdel-Fattah M.
name: Ahmad, Suhail
name: Choudhury, Monir A
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: By focusing on epidemics that cut across time and space, this article analyses William Wittman’s Travels in Turkey, Asia Minor, Syria: and across the Desert into Egypt during the Years 1799, 1800, and 1801 (1804); John Lewis Burckhardt’s Travels in Arabia, Comprehending an Account of those Territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as Sacred (1829); and recent COVID-19-related media narratives. This article suggests that the orientalist agendas of the Eurocentric world towards the Muslim community are far from over, irrespective of geopolitical space. The article conceptualizes the everyday existential crisis of the Muslim community as “Muslim precarity,” exacerbating, as such representations do, the community’s life conditions, and making it more vulnerable and insecure. These Eurocentric views, racist as they turn out to be, can be termed as “plagues of the mind” that need a constant supply of stereotypical images to perpetuate their agendas and ensure their hegemony over Muslims.
On innovative design of traditional Chinese patterns based on aesthetic experience to product features space mapping
Creators: name: Yu-Ming, Ma
name: He-min, Du
name: Hao, Yao
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Consumers’ different aesthetic experience affects their choice of products, so how to construct product design features space based on consumers’ aesthetic experience, especially how to integrate traditional cultural elements into modern product design, has become one of the most effective ways to improve product design quality.Taking the innovative design of traditional Chinese Miao’s patterns on canvas bags as an example, this paper constructs the mapping relationship between consumers’ aesthetic experience and product feature space on the basis of analyzing the feature elements of Chinese Miao traditional patterns “Jiuqu River flower”, as pronounced in Chinese.Using word cloud semantic tool, this paper analyzes the interview results of three consumer groups, namely, fashion youth, intellectuals and housewives, and obtains the aesthetic expression of three consumer groups on the innovative design of traditional patterns on canvas bags. Based on this, the feature elements of traditional pattern extraction and redesign of “Jiuqujiang River Flower” are used. Three canvas bag styles containing traditional cultural elements were constructed for different perceptual word pairs. Finally, the 7-level semantic difference quantization method of Kansei Engineering was used to quantitatively evaluate the effectiveness of the spatial mapping method of aesthetic experience and product features. The final results showed that the modern product quality of creative design can be effectively improved by integrating with the traditional Chinese cultural elements, on the basis of making the mapping from aesthetic experience to product feature space, so that to meet the consumers’ aesthetic needs to the most.
Dissemination and Communication Strategy – updated – 2018.02
Creators: name: Di Rosa, Matteo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: dissemination plan, communication

description: This document intends to provide an update to the Dissemination and Communication Strategy. The structure of the document has not changed. The main parts of the previous contents are still present, but a series of new considerations have been added on the basis of the feedback received last year.

Following the previous version of the document, this updated version has a strong and concrete approach, based on the practical experience gained in the first three years of the project’s implementation. On the basis of the results reached, the main objective of this document is thus to realistically maintain the same level of the communication and dissemination activities implemented until now.
Subquadratic Kronecker Regression with Applications to Tensor Decomposition
Creators: name: Fahrbach, Matthew
name: Fu, Thomas
name: Ghadiri, Mehrdad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: F.2.1; G.1.3; G.1.6
subject: 62J05, 62J07, 65F10

description: Kronecker regression is a highly-structured least squares problem $\min_{\mathbf{x}} \lVert \mathbf{K}\mathbf{x} - \mathbf{b} \rVert_{2}^2$, where the design matrix $\mathbf{K} = \mathbf{A}^{(1)} \otimes \cdots \otimes \mathbf{A}^{(N)}$ is a Kronecker product of factor matrices. This regression problem arises in each step of the widely-used alternating least squares (ALS) algorithm for computing the Tucker decomposition of a tensor. We present the first subquadratic-time algorithm for solving Kronecker regression to a $(1+\varepsilon)$-approximation that avoids the exponential term $O(\varepsilon^{-N})$ in the running time. Our techniques combine leverage score sampling and iterative methods. By extending our approach to block-design matrices where one block is a Kronecker product, we also achieve subquadratic-time algorithms for (1) Kronecker ridge regression and (2) updating the factor matrices of a Tucker decomposition in ALS, which is not a pure Kronecker regression problem, thereby improving the running time of all steps of Tucker ALS. We demonstrate the speed and accuracy of this Kronecker regression algorithm on synthetic data and real-world image tensors.
description: 36 pages, 1 figure, 12 tables. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2107.10654
Toward relational ethics: foundational concepts for the shifting ground of GLAM
Creators: name: Jones, Michael
Publisher: name: University of Tasmania
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4401
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology
classificationCode: 43
subject: History, heritage and archaeology
classificationCode: 4303
subject: Historical studies
classificationCode: 430202
subject: Critical heritage, museum and archive studies
classificationCode: 47
subject: Language, communication and culture
classificationCode: 4702
subject: Cultural studies
classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society

description: In 2001/2002, the Humanities Research Centre and the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research at Australian National University published a two-part special issue of Humanities Research, ‘Museums of the Future/The Future of Museums.’ A number of common ideas are visible across the diverse contributions to the journal, seen in the recurring language of partnerships, collaborations, linkages, participation, engagement, and inclusion. Such ideas represent the culmination of many important changes in the theory, practice, and ethics of museums since the mid-twentieth century. But the future soon looked somewhat different as progressive museums and archives began to explore more complex, contextual, relational ways of working. This article explores the development of large national and state museums—and First Nations initiatives in particular—in two parts. The first summarises key moments from 1971–2010, including analysis of the Humanities Research issues. The second then looks at the changing theory and practice of museums since 2011, placing these in the context of key concepts from feminist, Indigenous, and archival thinking to reveal the emergence of increasingly relational forms of ethics. The article concludes by suggesting that relational thinking and ethics provide a valuable means for understanding, navigating, and working within contemporary museums and related institutions.
Schizodon altoparanae Garavello, Britski 1990
Creators: name: Ota, Renata Rúbia
name: Deprá, Gabriel de Carvalho
name: Graça, Weferson Júnio da
name: Pavanelli, Carla Simone
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Characiformes
Anostomidae
Schizodon
Schizodon altoparanae

description: Schizodon altoparanae Garavello, Britski, 1990 Fig. 5 Body elongated; greatest depth contained 3.6 to 3.8, caudal peduncle depth 9.0 times in SL; head length 4.0 to 4.5, predorsal distance 2.0 to 2.5, caudal peduncle length 7.7 to 8.0 in SL; snout length 2.0 to 2.5, horizontal orbital diameter 2.0 to 2.5, least interorbital width 2.0 to 2.5 and dentary width 5.0 to 5.5 in HL. Mouth terminal; premaxilla and dentary with 4 teeth, no maxillary teeth. Lateral line with 42 or 43 pored scales; transverse series above lateral line with 5 scale rows and below with 4 or 4½ scale rows. Dorsal fin with 14 or 15, pectoral fin with 13-17, pelvic fin with 9, anal fin with 12 or 13 and caudal fin with 19 rays (Garavello, Britski, 1990). Ground color silvery to yellowish; black oval, horizontally elongated, blotch on posterior half of caudal peduncle and caudal-fin base, extending to median caudal-fin rays. Hyaline fins (Graça, Pavanelli, 2007). Maximum standard length. 300.0 mm (Graça, Pavanelli, 2007). Distribution. Upper rio Paraná basin.
description: Published as part of Ota, Renata Rúbia, Deprá, Gabriel de Carvalho, Graça, Weferson Júnio da & Pavanelli, Carla Simone, 2018, Peixes da planície de inundação do alto rio Paraná e áreas adjacentes: revised, annotated and updated, pp. 1-111 in Neotropical Ichthyology 16 (2) on page 23, DOI: 10.1590/1982-0224-20170094, http://zenodo.org/record/3678395
description: {"references": ["Garavello JC, Britski HA. Duas novas especies do genero Schizodon Agassiz da bacia do alto Parana, Brasil, America do Sul (Ostariophysi, Anostomidae). Naturalia. 1990; 15: 153 - 70.", "Pavanelli CS, Graca WJ, Zawadzki CH, Britski HA, Vidotti AP, Avelino GS, Verissimo S. Fishes from the Corumba Reservoir, Paranaiba River drainage, upper rio Parana basin, State of Goias, Brazil. Check List. 2007; 3 (1): 58 - 64."]}
On the mass dependence of the modular operator for a double cone
Creators: name: Bostelmann, Henning
name: Cadamuro, Daniela
name: Minz, Christoph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a numerical approximation scheme for the Tomita-Takesaki modular operator of local subalgebras in linear quantum fields, working at one-particle level. This is applied to the local subspaces for double cones in the vacuum sector of a massive scalar free field in (1 + 1)- and (3 + 1)-dimensional Minkowski spacetime, using a discretization of time-0 data in position space. In the case of a wedge region, one component of the modular generator is well-known to be a mass-independent multiplication operator; our results strongly suggest that for the double cone, the corresponding component is still at least close to a multiplication operator, but that it is dependent on mass and angular momentum.
description: 23 pages, 16 figures, source code as ancillary files
Understanding the changes resulting from the virtualization of BIM-enabled collaborative design processes in the building construction industry
Creators: name: Bhonde, Devarsh
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: The Canadian construction industry contributes significantly to the country's economy but faces various challenges, such as inefficiency, delayed projects, and negative environmental impact. Building Information Modelling (BIM) has been identified as a key driver for the industry's digital transformation and a potential remedy to its challenges. However, the adoption of BIM has been limited in the construction industry, which remains among the least digitalized sectors. Enabling digitalization in the construction industry, such as adopting BIM-enabled tools, requires change management competency. This study aims to understand how the virtualization led by BIM-enabled tools changes building design processes, specifically collaborative design processes. The study investigates three collaborative design processes with increasing complexity levels that employ various BIM tools. The impact of BIM-enabled tools on the collaborative design processes of maintainability design reviews, multi-disciplinary design coordination, and lean design management was investigated in this study. These design processes were studied within the context of different real-world case study projects that were selected to ensure diverse collaborative environments and contractual structures. The study utilized an action research approach, and mixed methods of data collection consisting of direct observations, interviews, and document and model analysis were used. The findings suggest that adopting BIM-enabled tools can improve collaborative design processes by enhancing communication, increasing efficiency, and improving information exchange between project stakeholders. The contributions of this study are threefold—first, the usability of virtual reality tools to improve communication and decision-making for maintainability design reviews is empirically demonstrated. Second, a framework for categorizing the changes from adopting cloud-based collaboration tools is developed and operationalized to illustrate the impact of cloud-based collaboration tools on the design coordination process. Finally, empirical evidence and practical insights are provided into the efficacy and challenges of executing lean design management processes in completely remote and virtual collaborative work environments. The findings from this study can help design professionals and project managers better plan and implement BIM-enabled tools in practice and enable the virtualization of design processes in the building construction industry.
Optical properties of circular Bragg gratings with labyrinth geometry to enable electrical contacts
Creators: name: Buchinger, Quirin
name: Betzold, Simon
name: Höfling, Sven
name: Huber-Loyola, Tobias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an optical study of various device designs for electrically contactable circular Bragg grating cavities in labyrinth geometries. To create an electrical connection between the central disk and the surrounding membrane, which are separated through air gaps, we introduce connections between the adjacent rings. We propose to rotate these connections, creating a labyrinth like structure, to disable waveguiding and keep the mode confinement. To investigate how different arrangement and size of the connections affect the optical properties and to find the optimal design, six different layouts with either 3-fold or 4-fold symmetry and one with 2-fold symmetry are investigated experimentally and by numerical simulations. Reflectivity measurements and simulations show that rotating the connections improves the mode confinement, far-field pattern and Purcell factor compared to layouts with connections arranged in straight lines. We compare results between different layouts for different connection widths and perform polarization resolved measurements to investigate whether the connections create asymmetries in the photonic confinement that would impede the performance of the device.
title: Quality of Education and the Poor: Constraints on Learning
Creators: name: Batra, Poonam
Publisher: name: Max Weber Stiftung
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Indien
subject: Armut
subject: Bildung
subject: Bildungsniveau
subject: Bildungsreform
subject: Bildungssystem
subject: Identität
subject: 370
subject: 300.9

description: TRG Poverty & Education: Working Paper Series, vol. 4
ENVRI-FAIR D3.1: A strategic action plan for enhancing uptake of ENVRI data by the private sector
Creators: name: Galeotti, Marco
name: Tegas, Valentina
name: Quaranta, Gabriella
name: Dubost, Ariane
name: Franco Gerent, Nalu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: ENVRI-FAIR
deliverable
ENVRI services
FAIR standards
research infrastructures

description: The action plan is developed to address private sector clients/users of ENVRI services by defining and implementing strategies for strengthening RI innovation-cooperation awareness and preparedness and promoting industry uptake of ENVRI services in compliance with FAIR standards.
title: The Shadow School System and New Class Divisions in India: Multitudes of customers throng the gates of the education bazaar
Creators: name: Majumdar, Manabi
Publisher: name: Max Weber Stiftung
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Indien
subject: Private Bildungseinrichtung
subject: Soziale Ungleichheit
subject: 370.9
subject: 300.9

description: TRG Poverty & Education: Working Paper Series, vol. 2
title: Poverty, Markets and Elementary Education in India
Creators: name: Nambissan, Geetha
Publisher: name: Max Weber Stiftung
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Indien
subject: Armut
subject: Private Bildungseinrichtung
subject: Soziale Ungleichheit
subject: 370.9
subject: 300.9

description: TRG Poverty & Education: Working Paper Series, vol. 3
title: 'Government Brahmin': Caste, the educated unemployed, and the Reproduction of Inequalities
Creators: name: Vasavi, A.
Publisher: name: Max Weber Stiftung
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Indien
subject: Bildungssystem
subject: Soziale Ungleichheit
subject: 370
subject: 370.9
subject: 300.9

description: TRG Poverty & Education: Working Paper Series, vol. 1
Schizodon borellii
Creators: name: Ota, Renata Rúbia
name: Deprá, Gabriel de Carvalho
name: Graça, Weferson Júnio da
name: Pavanelli, Carla Simone
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Characiformes
Anostomidae
Schizodon
Schizodon borellii

description: Schizodon borellii (Boulenger, 1900) Fig. 5 Body elongated; greatest depth contained 3.0 to 5.0, caudal peduncle depth 9.7 to 10.0 times in SL; head length 3.6 to 4.6, predorsal distance 2.1 to 2.5, caudal peduncle length 8.2 to 9.7 in SL; snout length 2.3 to 2.4, horizontal orbital diameter 3.6 to 5.0, least interorbital width 1.8 to 2.0 and dentary width 4.0 to 4.7 in HL. Mouth terminal; premaxilla and dentary with 4 teeth, no maxillary teeth. Lateral line with 40-42 pored scales; transverse series above and below lateral line with 4½ scale rows. Dorsal and pectoral fin with 14 or 15, pelvic fin with 9, anal fin with 10 and caudal fin with 19 rays (Britski et al., 2007). Ground color silvery; four black transverse bars on flank. Hyaline fins, except caudal fin, with distal margins black (Graça, Pavanelli, 2007). Maximum standard length. 315.0 mm (Graça, Pavanelli, 2007). Distribution. Paraná-Paraguay system. Remarks. Schizodon borellii is a non-native species from the upper rio Paraná and its occurrence can be associated with the releasing of specimens in several reservoirs in the region for restocking (CESP, 1996; Júlio Júnior et al., 2009).
description: Published as part of Ota, Renata Rúbia, Deprá, Gabriel de Carvalho, Graça, Weferson Júnio da & Pavanelli, Carla Simone, 2018, Peixes da planície de inundação do alto rio Paraná e áreas adjacentes: revised, annotated and updated, pp. 1-111 in Neotropical Ichthyology 16 (2) on page 23, DOI: 10.1590/1982-0224-20170094, http://zenodo.org/record/3678395
description: {"references": ["Britski HA, Silimon KZS, Lopes BS. Peixes do Pantanal: manual de identificacao. Brasilia, DF: Embrapa Pantanal; 2007.", "Pavanelli CS, Graca WJ, Zawadzki CH, Britski HA, Vidotti AP, Avelino GS, Verissimo S. Fishes from the Corumba Reservoir, Paranaiba River drainage, upper rio Parana basin, State of Goias, Brazil. Check List. 2007; 3 (1): 58 - 64.", "Julio Junior HF, Dei Tos C, Agostinho AA, Pavanelli CS. A massive invasion of fish species after eliminating a natural barrier in the upper rio Parana basin. Neotrop Ichthyol. 2009; 7 (4): 709 - 18."]}
Tailoring the Acidity of Liquid Media with Ionizing Radiation -- Rethinking the Acid-Base Correlation Beyond pH
Creators: name: Fritsch, Birk
name: Körner, Andreas
name: Couasnon, Thaïs
name: Blukis, Roberts
name: Taherkhani, Mehran
name: Benning, Liane G.
name: Jank, Michael P. M.
name: Spieker, Erdmann
name: Hutzler, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Advanced in situ techniques based on electrons and X-rays are increasingly used to gain insights into fundamental materials dynamics in liquid media. Yet, ionizing radiation changes the solution chemistry. In this work, we show that ionizing radiation decouples the acidity from autoprotolysis. Consequently, pH is insufficient to capture the acidity of water-based systems under irradiation. Via radiolysis simulations, we provide a more conclusive description of the acid-base interplay. Finally, we demonstrate that acidity can be tailored by adjusting the dose rate and adding pH-irrelevant species. This opens up a huge parameter landscape for studies involving ionizing radiation.
description: 21 pages, 9 figures (main: 8 pages, 3 figures + SI: 13 pages, 6 figures)
Anisotropic higher rank $\mathbb{Z}_N$ topological phases on graphs
Creators: name: Ebisu, Hiromi
name: Han, Bo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study unusual gapped topological phases where they admit $\mathbb{Z}_N$ fractional excitations in the same manner as topologically ordered phases, yet their ground state degeneracy depends on the local geometry of the system. Placing such phases on 2D lattice, composed of an arbitrary connected graph and 1D line, we find that the fusion rules of quasiparticle excitations are described by the Laplacian of the graph and that the number of superselection sectors is related to the kernel of the Laplacian. Based on this analysis, we further show that the ground state degeneracy is given by $\bigl[N\times \prod_{i}\text{gcd}(N, p_i)\bigr]^2$, where $p_i$'s are invariant factors of the Laplacian that are greater than one and gcd stands for the greatest common divisor. We also discuss braiding statistics between quasiparticle excitations.
description: 31 pages, 7 figures
Clinical evidence for high-risk medical devices in children: A protocol for a scoping review
Creators: name: Kathrin, Guerlich
name: Bernadeta, Patro-Golab
name: Kammermeier, Michael
name: Dworakowski, Paulina
name: Berthold, Koletzko
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Medical Specialties
subject: Pediatrics

description: We aim to review existing published clinical evidence on high-risk medical devices in children, namely available evidence from clinical trials, in order to identify and describe methodologies applied in this research area. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 965246.
Porque se destroem e substituem obras de arte? Três exemplos da época moderna, em S. Torcato, Porto e Amarante
Creators: name: Afonso, José Ferrão
Publisher: name: Estudos de Conservação e Restauro
Year: 2009

description: Ao longo do século XVI ergueram-se retábulos e estruturas de madeira em igrejas da Foz do Douro, S. Torcato e Amarante que, na sua maior parte, viriam a ser substituídos, transformados ou simplesmente destruídos.
description: Estudos de Conservação e Restauro, n. 1 (2009)
title: Essays in macro finance
Creators: name: Kind, Thilo
Publisher: name: London Business School
Year: 2021

description: This thesis covers Fiscal and Monetary policy, Public Financing, and investment decisions from a theoretical and empirical Asset Pricing perspective. My first chapter highlights a novel risk-transmission channel in which the government's debt financing decision affects the path of inflation, even in a frictionless economy. The effects of maturity rebalancing on expected inflation in the fiscal theory directly depend on the conditional nominal term premium, giving rise to an optimal debt maturity policy that is state dependent. My research on monetary policy provides market-based evidence on threats to central bank independence. U.S. President Trump's tweets influence expectations about monetary policy leading to an erosion in the independence of the Federal Reserve due to political pressure. The high-frequency average effect on the expected fed funds rate is negative and statistically significant, with the magnitude growing by horizon. VAR evidence shows that the tweets impact actual monetary policy, the stock market, bond premia, and the macroeconomy. The chapter on Micro Uncertainty and Asset Prices shows that at low frequency, size and value premia exhibit strong positive co-movement, but are both negatively related to the equity premium. These patterns are explained in an investment-based asset pricing model featuring persistent micro and macro uncertainty. Micro uncertainty generates size and value premia waves, while macroeconomic uncertainty procures equity premium waves. The results highlights that the market index is a long-run hedge for value and size strategies. Lastly, my research on learning about ambiguous monetary policy highlights the effects of persistent revisions in policy rule expectations on macroeconomic variables and asset prices within a New Keynesian model with Calvo price setting. Extending the standard framework to generalized smooth recursive preferences allows me to separate the effects of risk aversion, elasticity of substitution, and ambiguity aversion when agents learn about regime switching monetary policy parameters.
Constraining modifications of black hole perturbation potentials near the light ring with quasinormal modes
Creators: name: Völkel, Sebastian H.
name: Franchini, Nicola
name: Barausse, Enrico
name: Berti, Emanuele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In modified theories of gravity, the potentials appearing in the Schrödinger-like equations that describe perturbations of non-rotating black holes are also modified. In this paper we ask: can these modifications be constrained with high-precision gravitational-wave measurements of the black hole's quasinormal mode frequencies? We expand the modifications in a small perturbative parameter regulating the deviation from the general-relativistic potential, and in powers of $M/r$. We compute the quasinormal modes of the modified potential up to quadratic order in the perturbative parameter. Then we use Markov-chain-Monte-Carlo (MCMC) methods to recover the coefficients in the $M/r$ expansion in an ``optimistic'' scenario where we vary them one at a time, and in a ``pessimistic'' scenario where we vary them all simultaneously. In both cases, we find that the bounds on the individual parameters are not robust. Because quasinormal mode frequencies are related to the behavior of the perturbation potential near the light ring, we propose a different strategy. Inspired by Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin (WKB) theory, we demonstrate that the value of the potential and of its second derivative at the light ring can be robustly constrained. These constraints allow for a more direct comparison between tests based on black hole spectroscopy and observations of black hole `shadows'' by the Event Horizon Telescope and future instruments.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures
Entre a tradição e a modernidade: os pigmentos ao dispor dos artistas e o conhecimento sobre esses materiais em Portugal no início do século XX
Creators: name: Cruz, António João
Publisher: name: Estudos de Conservação e Restauro
Year: 2009

description: Sob a forma de dicionário, são apresentados uns apontamentos manuscritos elaborados provavelmente na década de 1920 sobre a composição dos pigmentos utilizados em pintura e equivalências entre os respectivos nomes. O seu autor, não identificado, tinha experiência de preparação de pigmentos e significativos conhecimentos de química. O dicionário, com cerca de 150 entradas, pretende constituir um instrumento de trabalho útil para a interpretação das referências a pigmentos em fontes documentais da época. Além disso, permite saber quais os pigmentos com que poderá lidar uma intervenção de conservação e restauro de pintura do início do século XX.
description: Estudos de Conservação e Restauro, n. 1 (2009)