cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
From Work to Text, Then Where? Observations on French Postdramatic Poetics from 1980 Onwards
Creators: name: Kondylaki, Dimitra
Publisher: name: Gramma: Journal of Theory and Criticism
Year: 2009

description: The contemporary dramatic work, especially in France which is a princi­pal axis for the formation of European dramaturgical tendencies, seems to be the sui generis and paradoxical product of the crisis in literary gen­res: on the one hand its narrative and "fragmented" dimension com­pletely contradicts the rules of traditional dramatic form. On the other hand, it lays claim to an intensely poetic dimension which returns the­ater to the sphere of literature. "Postdramatic theater" is an anti-dramat­ic theater, "poetic" in the sense of the predominance of the word over ac­tion, of monologue over dialogue, but also of interiority/reading over spectacle/watching. Representative of the "postdramatic theater" of the last two decades of the twentieth century is Valere Novarina's "Theatre of the Ears," on the meaning of which we especially focus here. To what extent, however, can a contemporary poetic theater completely disen­gage itself from drama? This is the main question posed by this paper, with reference to dramatists who constitute the core of contemporary French theater, from Bernard-Marie Koltes to Olivier Py and Valere No-varina.
description: Gramma: Journal of Theory and Criticism, Vol 17 (2009): The Text Strikes Back: The Dynamics of Performativity
The Challenge of Neo-dramatic Writing in the Anglo-Saxon Theater
Creators: name: Sidiropoulou, Avra
Publisher: name: Gramma: Journal of Theory and Criticism
Year: 2009

description: With the establishment in the theater of the director-auteur, reversing the traditional roles of "author-supreme text" and "author-servile perform­ance" has advanced startling forms of writing. In the 1990s, dramatic writing re-emerged from its prior state of hibernation and lethargy, claiming the right to exist on stage not merely as an employee to the per­formance text, but as a powerful partner to the director's creative ex­pression. Thus the emergence of a certain type of neo-dramatic writing within the Anglo-Saxon literary canon comes to fill up the need for dra­matic language to reveal its performative potential and for new texts for the stage, which dare reinvent theatrical form in order to capture some of the ambiguity, subversion and indeterminacy contained in post-twen­tieth-century sensibilities. The "reformation" of dramatic writing, an "ecriture" enriched with the potentialities of the stage, reveals the on growing need for the theater's return to the text as well as a need for a strong narrative as a point of departure for performance. Essentially, in neo-dramatic writing textual primacy is restored after having been per­colated through performance considerations. At the same time, the neo-dramatists' emphasis is on how to grant back to language its immediacy, after many years of cliched usage.
description: Gramma: Journal of Theory and Criticism, Vol 17 (2009): The Text Strikes Back: The Dynamics of Performativity
Cancer Langscapes and the (Digital) Art of Pain in Beth Herst's Dark Room/Gray Scale /White Noise
Creators: name: Dakari, Virginia
Publisher: name: Gramma: Journal of Theory and Criticism
Year: 2009

description: The aim of this paper is to examine the intersection of live and digital theater in Beth Herst's performance Dark Room/Gray Scale/White Noise. First, I will discuss the way Herst employs discourse, with emphasis placed on the written/projected/printed dramatic text itself, and its performativity, to create linguistic landscapes, or "langscapes." These sites are shaped out of Herst's language of pain and its problematic expressibility by means of cancer metaphors and their digitalized mise en scene. Further on, I will examine the tension found in the interplay of living versus digital/symbolic suffering bodies, which expands to embrace the playwright's concerns regarding the cultural effects of the new technolo­gies reflected in the body of traditional art. As a conclusion, I will at­tempt an evaluation of Herst's digital theater experiment under the per­spective of the disparate attitudes regarding the future of the dramatic text and its contested technologically-empowered hybridization.
description: Gramma: Journal of Theory and Criticism, Vol 17 (2009): The Text Strikes Back: The Dynamics of Performativity
Mrk 1014: An AGN Dominated ULIRG at X-rays
Creators: name: Boller, Th.
name: Gallo, L. C.
name: Lutz, D.
name: Sturm, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we report on an XMM-Newton observation of the ultraluminous infrared QSO Mrk 1014. The X-ray observation reveals a power-law dominated (photon index of about 2.2) spectrum with a slight excess in the soft energy range. AGN and starburst emission models fit the soft excess emission equally well, however, the most plausible explanation is an AGN component as the starburst model parameter, temperature and luminosity, appear physically unrealistic. The mean luminosity of Mrk 1014 is about 2 times 10^44 erg s^-1. We have also observed excess emission at energies greater than 5 keV. This feature could be attributed to a broadened and redshifted iron complex, but deeper observations are required to constrain its origin. The light curve shows small scale variability over the 11 ks observation. There is no evidence of intrinsic absorption in Mrk 1014. The X-ray observations support the notion of an AGN dominated central engine. We establish the need for a longer observation to constrain more precisely the nature of the X-ray components.
description: 5 pages incl. 3 figures, MNRAS in press
Resonant Silence: Love, Desire, and Intimacy in Suzan-Lori Parks's Venus
Creators: name: Mendelman, Lisa
Publisher: name: Gramma: Journal of Theory and Criticism
Year: 2009

description: Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks's Venus (1990) pres­ents versions of love that problematize its construct as a straightforward process of discovering a subject's stable, knowable interior. Drawing up­on a range of theories to define romantic love as an engagement of phys­ical desire and emotional intimacy, this essay reads Parks's staged si­lences, called "Spells," to explore the affective valence of these non-ver­bal exchanges between distinct bodies. Parks's definition of "Spells" as a "place of great (unspoken) emotion... a place for an emotional transi­tion" highlights a series of bodies—the architecture of the text, the char­acters in the play, their historical analogs, the audience, the directors, the actors, the reader—all of whom participate, to varying degrees, in the af­fective experience evoked by unregulated public space. The Spells thus allow an interaction that highlights the complex dynamics of love—the ambiguities of indirect transmission, the freedom of individual interpre­tation, and the possibility of misunderstanding/misalliance or mistaken intimacy.
description: Gramma: Journal of Theory and Criticism, Vol 17 (2009): The Text Strikes Back: The Dynamics of Performativity
The Persian (?) Sculptures in the Sanctuaries of Apollo in Cyprus
Creators: name: Abedi, Farzad
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Archaeology

description: The island of Cyprus was considered one of the most strategic territories of the Achaemenid Empire. The local Cypriot kings continued to rule various parts of the country during this period, but this did not mean the absence of an imperial presence on the island. The satraps of Ebir-Nāri (beyond the Euphrates) ruled directly over Cyprus, and signs of this domination can be seen in some archaeological evidence from the island. From the Achaemenid period, especially the fifth and fourth centuries BC, a large number of statues, headstones and figurines have been found in temples of Apollo at various cities on Cyprus, which according to most scholars show influence of Achaemenid art. This is mostly manifested in the form of curly beard designs. There is no doubt that some of these sculptures were created under the influence of Assyrian art, which reached Cyprus before the political domination of the Achaemenids and significantly influenced its sculptural production. However, there is compelling evidence that some of these sculptures were influenced by Achaemenid sculpture or depict Persian figures. It seems that starting already during the beginning of the Achaemenid period, a close connection was formed between the Achaemenid Empire and the temples of Apollo. On one side of this connection was the financial support of the Achaemenids and on the other, the spiritual support of the god Apollo. This historical connection could provide the basis for the presentation of sculptures of Persian figures or the influence of Achaemenid art on the sculptures offered to the temples.
Additional file 2: of Incorporating individual historical controls and aggregate treatment effect estimates into a Bayesian survival trial: a simulation study
Creators: name: Brard, Caroline
name: Hampson, Lisa
name: Gaspar, Nathalie
name: Marie-CĂŠcile Le Deley
name: GwĂŠnaĂŤl Le Teuff
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Likelihood of the distributions used. Description of the likelihood of a Weibull proportional hazards model and of a piecewise exponential model. (PDF 198 kb)
Testing General Relativity with the Black Hole Shadow Size and Asymmetry of Sagittarius A*: Limitations from Interstellar Scattering
Creators: name: Zhu, Ziyan
name: Johnson, Michael D.
name: Narayan, Ramesh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a global 230 GHz VLBI array, achieves an angular resolution of ${\approx} 20\,μ{\rm as}$, sufficient to resolve the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). This resolution may soon enable measurement of the black hole "shadow" size and asymmetry, predicted to be ${\approx}50\,μ$as and ${\lesssim} 3\,μ$as, respectively. Measurements that depart from these values could indicate a violation of the "no-hair theorem." However, refractive scattering by the turbulent ionized interstellar medium distorts the image of Sgr A*, affecting its apparent size and asymmetry. In this paper, we present a general analytic approach to quantify the expected image wander, distortion, and asymmetry from refractive scattering. If the turbulence in the scattering material of Sgr A* is close to Kolmogorov, we estimate the mean refractive image wander, distortion, and asymmetry to be 0.53 $μ$as, 0.72 $μ$as, and 0.52 $μ$as at 230 GHz. However, alternative scattering models with flatter power spectra can yield larger values, up to 2.1 $μ$as, 6.3 $μ$as, and 5.0 $μ$as, respectively. We demonstrate that these effects can be reduced by averaging images over multiple observations. For a small number of observations, the effects of scattering can be comparable to or greater than those from black hole spin, and they determine a fundamental limit for testing general relativity via images of Sgr A*.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ
Expanding the Classical V-Model for the Development of Complex Systems Incorporating AI
Creators: name: Ullrich, Lars
name: Buchholz, Michael
name: Dietmayer, Klaus
name: Graichen, Knut
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Research in the field of automated vehicles, or more generally cognitive cyber-physical systems that operate in the real world, is leading to increasingly complex systems. Among other things, artificial intelligence enables an ever-increasing degree of autonomy. In this context, the V-model, which has served for decades as a process reference model of the system development lifecycle is reaching its limits. To the contrary, innovative processes and frameworks have been developed that take into account the characteristics of emerging autonomous systems. To bridge the gap and merge the different methodologies, we present an extension of the V-model for iterative data-based development processes that harmonizes and formalizes the existing methods towards a generic framework. The iterative approach allows for seamless integration of continuous system refinement. While the data-based approach constitutes the consideration of data-based development processes and formalizes the use of synthetic and real world data. In this way, formalizing the process of development, verification, validation, and continuous integration contributes to ensuring the safety of emerging complex systems that incorporate AI.
description: Published in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, 29 July 2024
Additional file 4: of Research funding impact and priority setting â advancing universal access and quality healthcare research in Malaysia
Creators: name: Weng Fun
name: Sondi Sararaks
name: Ee Tan
name: Kar Tang
name: Chong, Diane
name: Low, Lee
name: Sapian, Roslinda
name: S. Ismail
name: Govind, Suresh
name: Siti Mahmud
name: Murad, Shahnaz
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: ExampleÂ of weight assigned for eachÂ criterion. This table describes the method used to calculate the average weight for each criterion, that takes into consideration the scores allocated by all stakeholders involved. (DOCX 18 kb)
Additional file 3: of Incorporating individual historical controls and aggregate treatment effect estimates into a Bayesian survival trial: a simulation study
Creators: name: Brard, Caroline
name: Hampson, Lisa
name: Gaspar, Nathalie
name: Marie-Cécile Le Deley
name: Gwénaël Le Teuff
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Figure A1. Mixture prior distribution of the treatment effect for different values of ω. Mixture prior distribution where the informative component is π H β D TE H ~ N log 0.786 0.012 $$ {\uppi}_{\mathrm{H}}\left(\upbeta |{D}_{TE}^H\right)\sim \mathrm{N}\left(\log (0.786),0.012\right) $$ and the vague component is π0(β)~N(0, 10) (PDF 225 kb)
Additional file 3: of Research funding impact and priority setting â advancing universal access and quality healthcare research in Malaysia
Creators: name: Weng Fun
name: Sondi Sararaks
name: Ee Tan
name: Kar Tang
name: Chong, Diane
name: Low, Lee
name: Sapian, Roslinda
name: S. Ismail
name: Govind, Suresh
name: Siti Mahmud
name: Murad, Shahnaz
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Survey on Health Research Priority Setting: Values & Importance. This survey form was developed to elicit stakeholdersâ values on research criteria and importance of each research domain. (DOCX 230 kb)
Finding Good Itemsets by Packing Data
Creators: name: Tatti, Nikolaj
name: Vreeken, Jilles
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The problem of selecting small groups of itemsets that represent the data well has recently gained a lot of attention. We approach the problem by searching for the itemsets that compress the data efficiently. As a compression technique we use decision trees combined with a refined version of MDL. More formally, assuming that the items are ordered, we create a decision tree for each item that may only depend on the previous items. Our approach allows us to find complex interactions between the attributes, not just co-occurrences of 1s. Further, we present a link between the itemsets and the decision trees and use this link to export the itemsets from the decision trees. In this paper we present two algorithms. The first one is a simple greedy approach that builds a family of itemsets directly from data. The second one, given a collection of candidate itemsets, selects a small subset of these itemsets. Our experiments show that these approaches result in compact and high quality descriptions of the data.
Local anisotropy of space in a frame of reference co-moving with the Earth
Creators: name: Bel, Ll.
name: Molina, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider, in the framework of General Relativity, the linear approximation of the gravitational field of the Earth taking into account its mass, its quadrupole moment, its shape and its diurnal rotation. We conclude that in the frame of reference co-moving with the Earth the local anisotropy of the space is of the order of $10^{-12}-10^{-13}$ and could be observed.
description: LaTeX, 14 pages
A Postdramatic Composer in Search of a Dramatic Aesthetic, or, the Apotheosis and Decline of Andrew Lloyd Webber
Creators: name: Siropoulos, Vagelis
Publisher: name: Gramma: Journal of Theory and Criticism
Year: 2009

description: Andrew Lloyd Webber has been associated with a type of musical the­ater that disregards the conventions of the character-driven musical play, offering, instead, a stream of impressive and loosely connected au­ral and visual images. His compositional method could be easily de­scribed as "postdramatic," prioritizing the audiovisual intensity of the individual dramatic moment, rather than its insertion into a coherent narrative structure. However, a closer reading of Lloyd Webber's musico-dramatic texts can reveal the composer's consistent effort to develop a more traditionally dramatic musical aesthetic. This experimentation with more dramatic models of musical composition produced Lloyd Webber's biggest commercial triumph, The Phantom of the Opera, but can also be considered responsible for his subsequent demise. The present paper will try to trace these developments in Lloyd Webber's composi­tional method, offering, at the same time, a sociological reading of his aesthetic that explains the reasons for the composer's vast popularity in postmodern culture as well as the reasons for his decline.
description: Gramma: Journal of Theory and Criticism, Vol 17 (2009): The Text Strikes Back: The Dynamics of Performativity
Ideology of Form in Storytelling Theater: The Politics of Inter-medial Adaptation in Discovering Elijah, A Play about War
Creators: name: Ben-Shaul, Daphna
Publisher: name: Gramma: Journal of Theory and Criticism
Year: 2009

description: The performance Discovering Elijah, A Play about War (first performed in Israel in 2001), directed by Ruth Kanner as storytelling theater, is based on a literary-documentary text about the 1973 Yom Kippur War written by S. Yizhar, a notable Israeli writer. This is one of the instances in which Kanner's postdramatic search has generated unique directorial patterns that, while not precluding performances of written plays, rely on the power of words, mostly through adaptation of non-dramatic texts. The article focuses on the striking, unsettling performance Discovering Elijah, performed by the Ruth Kanner Theater Group, as a case study to a hermeneutic view according to which the ideology is embedded in the structure itself and becomes an "ideology of form." In this case, this phe­nomenon is inherently structured in theater which is created most dominantly through the inter-medial co-existence (or clash) of different sign- systems—telling (a reductive formulation of the epic principle) and show­ing. The spatial-anecdotal array by which the story of war is presented in the performance seems to intensify patterns of narrative logic which can be seen as a paradigm of Superstructure. But in the encounter between the narrative action and the physical-perceptual performative acts is em­bedded a constant tension between a need for an overall rationale for war and a concrete, appallingly incomprehensible experience. It is through this tension that the theater "strikes back," activating its opposing power.
description: Gramma: Journal of Theory and Criticism, Vol 17 (2009): The Text Strikes Back: The Dynamics of Performativity
In Jerusalem
Creators: name: Van Zoost, Steven
Publisher: name: Nova Scotia Teachers Union
Year: 2009
Subjects: Education

description: This is the Version of Record (VoR); So there I was, in Jerusalem in January watching Kenneth Branagh in Conspiracy during lunch when the air sirens all over the city went off. Looking around the Visual Centre,I noticed that others were looking up from the screens at their booths and were pulling off their headsets.
The translation of -ḫi in the list of sheep donors from Bastam, in Iran National Museum
Creators: name: Dara, Maryam
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Archaeology

description: Urartians ruled over the regions around the three lakes Van, Urmia and Sevan for about three centuries from ca. 900 to 600 B.C. Urartian inscriptions have been discovered in Turkey, Armenia, Iran, Nakhchivan (Azerbaijan), and northern Iraq. Studies of the Urartian language demonstrate its relationship to the Hurrian language. Different suffixes were used in the Urartian language to determine the role of words, including -ḫi, the meaning of which is difficult to reconstruct. Some functions of -ḫi are connected to patronyms, affiliation adjectives, along with the names of cities and countries, and the genitive form. Melikišvili, Salvini, and Wilhelm first identified this suffix in the Urartian language. Of course, there are more suffixes in the Urartian language to show the affiliation and genitive form. A damaged and broken tablet discovered at Bastam, Iran, and currently in the National Museum of Iran, carries an inscription that contains the names of persons offering sheep. On this tablet, -ḫi is written following the word “one”. It is a challenging form as -ḫi has not been discovered written in this method before. The remaining of the inscription with four damaged lines is written in the Urartian cuneiform. This article discusses the different roles of -ḫi and proposes a translation of “of” for this inscription. This suffix is usually attached to a name and this inscription is the first example of -ḫi being attached to a numeral.
Xyroptila masaia Kovtunovich & Ustjuzhanin 2006
Creators: name: Mbata, Keith J.
name: Prins, Jurate De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Pterophoridae
Xyroptila
Xyroptila masaia

description: Xyroptila masaia Kovtunovich & Ustjuzhanin, 2006
COMMON NAME(S): Plume moth or Pterophorid moth.
SYNONYM(S): None.
IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).
DISTRIBUTION: Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Kabwe, in Central Province.
LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Unknown.
SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Kovtunovich & Ustjuzhanin 2006.
description: Published as part of Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), pp. 1-503 in Zootaxa 5354 (1) on pages 40-41, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10130434
Characterizing nonlocal dispersion compensation in deployed telecommunications fiber
Creators: name: Grieve, James A.
name: Shi, Yicheng
name: Poh, Hou Shun
name: Kurtsiefer, Christian
name: Ling, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Propagation of broadband photon pairs over deployed telecommunication fibers is used to achieve nonlocal dispersion compensation without the deliberate introduction of negative dispersion. This is made possible by exploiting time-energy entanglement and the positive and negative dispersive properties of the fiber. We demonstrate preservation of photon timing correlations after transmission over two multi-segment 10km spans of deployed fiber and up to 80km of laboratory-based fiber.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures
Grave 12 at Chalow: The Burial of a Lady of the “Greater Khorasan Civilization”
Creators: name: R. Vahdati, Ali
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Archaeology

description: Grave 12 of Tepe Chalow is the richest burial excavated to date at the site. It is a typical GKC pit grave in which was buried a female adolescent younger than 18 years. In the grave were found 34 objects: 12 typical GKC pottery vases; 4 stone objects of chlorite, white and black stone, serpentine, and lapis lazuli; 13 metal objects of gold, bronze, typical GKC, and two ivory pins.
 The burial matches the funeral rituals attested at Chalow. The grave was oriented NE-SW and the body crouched on the right side with the hands near the face, looking toward the SE. Ceramic vessels were placed behind the back of the skeleton, from the head to the feet; there were two pins near the shoulders and two bracelets on the arms; the large vase near the feet contained a significant object. The chlorite objects were grouped near the face of the deceased, and so were the metal objects and ivory pins, with the exception of a small bronze jar and two pins. The beads also were near the face and the neck, probably forming one or more necklaces. Remains of ovid/caprid bones inside a pottery bowl indicate a food-offering for the burial. All of these burial goods and funeral rituals of grave 12 at Chalow have close parallels at many burial grounds of Bactria and Margiana indicating close cultural ties between the area of northern Khorasan with the Bactro-Margiana cultural sphere.
Distributed Synthesis of Surveillance Strategies for Mobile Sensors
Creators: name: Bharadwaj, Suda
name: Dimitrova, Rayna
name: Topcu, Ufuk
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We study the problem of synthesizing strategies for a mobile sensor network to conduct surveillance in partnership with static alarm triggers. We formulate the problem as a multi-agent reactive synthesis problem with surveillance objectives specified as temporal logic formulas. In order to avoid the state space blow-up arising from a centralized strategy computation, we propose a method to decentralize the surveillance strategy synthesis by decomposing the multi-agent game into subgames that can be solved independently. We also decompose the global surveillance specification into local specifications for each sensor, and show that if the sensors satisfy their local surveillance specifications, then the sensor network as a whole will satisfy the global surveillance objective. Thus, our method is able to guarantee global surveillance properties in a mobile sensor network while synthesizing completely decentralized strategies with no need for coordination between the sensors. We also present a case study in which we demonstrate an application of decentralized surveillance strategy synthesis.
Typology and Comparative Studies on Qeytariyeh Ceramic’s collection, National Museum of Iran
Creators: name: Farokhnia, Sharareh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Archaeology

description: Archaeological excavations of Qeytariyeh Cemetery have yielded an assemblage of artifacts and remarkable data. Since previous archaeological projects in the site were inadequate in terms of methodology and remain largely unpublished, the restudy project of the collection (in the National Museum of Iran) was necessary. The project contributes to a better understanding of the cultural interactions of Bronze and Early Iron Age societies in northern central Iran. An improvied ceramic typology and comparative studies can provide a better picture of the Iron Age societies in the region. The high diversity in ceramic types and the ceramic technology could be a proxy of craft specialization and high skills of local producers. Comparative studies demonstrate that some ceramic types are comparable to the northeastern parts of Iran in the Bronze age. Also, some typical Iron age I type wares such as worn bowls and pedestal tankards are comparable with northwestern Iran and Gilan in the central Zagros. However, some other ceramic types such as spouted bowls and pitchers with handles are only found in northeastern Iran and the central Iranian Plateau (See Table 2). It can be concluded that the central Iranian Plateau plays an important role as an intermediate for cultural interaction between the northeast, north, and northwest. Based on the result of comparative studies, the proposed relative chronology for the Iron age sites in the central plateau should be reviewed.
Additional file 1: of Incorporating individual historical controls and aggregate treatment effect estimates into a Bayesian survival trial: a simulation study
Creators: name: Brard, Caroline
name: Hampson, Lisa
name: Gaspar, Nathalie
name: Marie-CĂŠcile Le Deley
name: GwĂŠnaĂŤl Le Teuff
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Motivating example: the Sarcome-13 trial. Context and design of the Sarcome-13 trial. This document also describes the available historical data. (PDF 296 kb)
An Entropic Optimal Transport Loss for Learning Deep Neural Networks under Label Noise in Remote Sensing Images
Creators: name: Damodaran, Bharath Bhushan
name: Flamary, Rémi
name: Seguy, Viven
name: Courty, Nicolas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Deep neural networks have established as a powerful tool for large scale supervised classification tasks. The state-of-the-art performances of deep neural networks are conditioned to the availability of large number of accurately labeled samples. In practice, collecting large scale accurately labeled datasets is a challenging and tedious task in most scenarios of remote sensing image analysis, thus cheap surrogate procedures are employed to label the dataset. Training deep neural networks on such datasets with inaccurate labels easily overfits to the noisy training labels and degrades the performance of the classification tasks drastically. To mitigate this effect, we propose an original solution with entropic optimal transportation. It allows to learn in an end-to-end fashion deep neural networks that are, to some extent, robust to inaccurately labeled samples. We empirically demonstrate on several remote sensing datasets, where both scene and pixel-based hyperspectral images are considered for classification. Our method proves to be highly tolerant to significant amounts of label noise and achieves favorable results against state-of-the-art methods.
description: Under Consideration at Computer Vision and Image Understanding
Model selection for behavioral learning data and applications to contextual bandits
Creators: name: Aubert, Julien
name: Köhler, Louis
name: Lehéricy, Luc
name: Mezzadri, Giulia
name: Reynaud-Bouret, Patricia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Learning for animals or humans is the process that leads to behaviors better adapted to the environment. This process highly depends on the individual that learns and is usually observed only through the individual's actions. This article presents ways to use this individual behavioral data to find the model that best explains how the individual learns. We propose two model selection methods: a general hold-out procedure and an AIC-type criterion, both adapted to non-stationary dependent data. We provide theoretical error bounds for these methods that are close to those of the standard i.i.d. case. To compare these approaches, we apply them to contextual bandit models and illustrate their use on both synthetic and experimental learning data in a human categorization task.
Additional file 2: of Research funding impact and priority setting â advancing universal access and quality healthcare research in Malaysia
Creators: name: Weng Fun
name: Sondi Sararaks
name: Ee Tan
name: Kar Tang
name: Chong, Diane
name: Low, Lee
name: Sapian, Roslinda
name: S. Ismail
name: Govind, Suresh
name: Siti Mahmud
name: Murad, Shahnaz
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Items within each criterion used for priority setting. This table describes the three criteria and their associated questions chosen to evaluate health research areas identified in the HRPS process. (DOCX 21 kb)
Inhomogeneous Einstein-Rosen String Cosmology
Creators: name: Clancy, Dominic
name: Feinstein, Alexander
name: Lidsey, James E.
name: Tavakol, Reza
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Families of anisotropic and inhomogeneous string cosmologies containing non-trivial dilaton and axion fields are derived by applying the global symmetries of the string effective action to a generalized Einstein-Rosen metric. The models exhibit a two-dimensional group of Abelian isometries. In particular, two classes of exact solutions are found that represent inhomogeneous generalizations of the Bianchi type VI_h cosmology. The asymptotic behaviour of the solutions is investigated and further applications are briefly discussed.
description: Minor extension of concluding section; 18 pages, to appear in Phys.Rev. D
Tribute or Taxation; New Evidence of the Structure of Iran’s Political Economy in the Proto-Elamite Period Based on a Proto-Elamite Tablet from Tepe Yahya: TY.11, Kept in National Museum of Iran
Creators: name: Yazdani, Sahar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Archaeology
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: This study examines the political economy, social participation in financial interactions, and the position of Proto-Elamite communities at Tepe Yahya in the center of the Iranian plateau at the end of the second half of the fourth millennium BC. The elites of the Proto-Elamite period received a part of household surplus production as tribute, and in the form of a redistribution system, increased the accumulation of wealth among the ruling class. Centralized storage of information, administrative management techniques, and information registration and maintenance (seals and tablets) also support this theory. Tablet TY.11 from Tepe Yahya, which forms the focus of this article, offers some of the best evidence for the payment of tribute during this period. This article presents available information on economic transactions within the Yahya community in the form of tribute or taxation or offering, common economic resources, produced and consumed goods, and possible trading patterns that could have enabled the elites of Tepe Yahya (in the late fourth millennium) to interact with other sections of society. Also, changes in the level of complexity of these communities based on the tablets of the Proto- Elamite period mentioned in this article will be discussed as a possible indicator of complexity and social change.
Old Age as Theatrical Matter: Devising and Performing CollAge, a Play on the Masks and Mirrors of the Ageing Process
Creators: name: Casado Gual, Núria
Publisher: name: Gramma: Journal of Theory and Criticism
Year: 2009

description: This article will present the architectural configuration of CollAge, a the­atrical show that focuses on old age and the inner lives it may generate, and which intends to highlight the irrelevant permanences and neces­sary ephemeralities which characterize our socio-cultural perceptions of the elderly. It addresses the following questions: What aspects of old age should be theatricalized, considering the marginal position of the elder­ly in our contemporary Western societies? Through which sources and techniques can old age be re-presented as relevant and truthful subject matter? What is gained and lost through the generational gap between author/actor and character and between the distance that separates ac­tors/characters and the target audience in their respective processes of ageing? Ultimately, this paper intends to reflect upon the boundaries and potentialities of dramaturgy and performativity when the intricacies of the ageing process in its advanced phase are placed center stage.
description: Gramma: Journal of Theory and Criticism, Vol 17 (2009): The Text Strikes Back: The Dynamics of Performativity
Measuring the filamentary structure of interstellar clouds through wavelets
Creators: name: Ossenkopf-Okada, Volker
name: Stepanov, Rodion
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ubiquitous presence of filamentary structures in the interstellar medium asks for an unbiased characterization of their properties including a stability analysis. We propose a novel technique to measure the spectrum of filaments in any two-dimensional data set. Using anisotropic wavelets we can quantify and distinguish local and global anisotropies and measure the size distribution of filaments. The wavelet analysis does not need any assumptions on the alignment or shape of filaments in the maps, but directly measures their typical spatial dimensions. In a rigorous test program, we calibrate the scale-dependence of the method and test the angular and spatial sensitivity. We apply the method to molecular line maps from magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) simulations and observed column density maps from Herschel observations. When applying the anisotropic wavelet analysis to the MHD data, we find that the observed filament sizes depend on the combination of magnetic-field dominated density-velocity correlations with radiative transfer effects. This can be exploited by observing tracers with different optical depth to measure the transition from a globally ordered large-scale structure to small-scale filaments with entangled field lines. The unbiased view to Herschel column density maps does not confirm a universal characteristic filament width. The map of the Polaris Flare shows an almost scale-free filamentary spectrum up to the size of the dominating filament of about 0.4pc. For the Aquila molecular cloud the range of filament widths is limited to 0.05-0.2pc. The filaments in Polaris show no preferential direction in contrast to the global alignment that we trace in Aquila. By comparing the power in isotropic and anisotropic structures we can measure the relative importance of spherical and cylindrical collapse modes and their spatial distribution.
description: Accepted for publication by A&A
Dust emission from inhomogeneous interstellar clouds: radiative transfer in 3D with transiently heated particles
Creators: name: Juvela, M.
name: Padoan, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a numerical code for continuum radiative transfer that is based on the idea of a `library' describing the relation between the intensity of the local radiation field and the resulting dust emission. With this information and local intensities at a few reference wavelengths, the radiative transfer equation can be integrated through the source and an approximation of the emission spectrum is obtained. Tests with small models for which the radiative transfer problem can be solved directly show that with our method one can easily obtain an accuracy of a few per cent. We show spectra computed from three-dimensional MHD simulations containing up to 128^3 cells. The models represent starless, inhomogeneous interstellar clouds embedded in the normal interstellar radiation field. The intensity ratios between IRAS bands show large variations that follow the filamentary density distribution. The power law index of the spatial power spectrum of the column density map is -2.8. In infrared maps temperature variations increase the power at high spatial frequencies, and the index varies between -2.5 and -2.7. Assuming constant dust properties throughout the cloud, the IRAS ratio decreases in densest cores only by a factor of ~4 compared with the value in diffuse medium. In observations the ratio can decrease twice as much even in optically thinner clouds. This requires that most of the small grains are removed in these regions, and possibly a modification of the properties of large grains.
description: 12 pages, 10 figures. Revised version, accepted to A&A
Developing a New Program: The "Creator-Researcher Actor" as a "Postdramatic Writer"
Creators: name: Yerushalmi, Dorit
Publisher: name: Gramma: Journal of Theory and Criticism
Year: 2009

description: This article discusses three performance projects of the Tel Aviv Univer­sity Theater Department, and is an attempt to explore the "Creator-Re­searcher Actor" program as a local pedagogical model that frees the ac­tor from the relatively narrow confines of his/her role as a performer subject to the authority of playwright and director. Since the raw mate­rials of the projects derive from non-dramatic texts rather than plays, the creator-researcher actor can be viewed as a kind of "postdramatic writer." Although the program is not ideologically labeled "Feminist Theater," indirectly it furnishes women actors with a creative space, "a stage of their own" that permits them to lay claim to their works and let their voices be heard. The article examines the poetics that transform the performers into speaking subjects, and how the creative power of writ­ing non-dramatic texts is revealed through reading. Furthermore, it looks at how the attitude toward text as texture encourages stage strate­gies that place the corporeality and materiality of the verbal text by which the text is staged in the foreground as a component, so that the text strikes back.
description: Gramma: Journal of Theory and Criticism, Vol 17 (2009): The Text Strikes Back: The Dynamics of Performativity
Girth of the Cayley graph and Cayley hash functions
Creators: name: Shpilrain, Vladimir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Cayley hash functions are based on a simple idea of using a pair of semigroup elements, A and B, to hash the 0 and 1 bit, respectively, and then to hash an arbitrary bit string in the natural way, by using multiplication of elements in the semigroup. The main advantage of Cayley hash functions compared to, say, hash functions in the SHA family is that when an already hashed document is amended, one does not have to hash the whole amended document all over again, but rather hash just the amended part and then multiply the result by the hash of the original document. In this article, we survey some of the previously proposed Cayley hash functions and single out a very simple hash function whose security has not been compromised up to date.
description: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2402.04943
Acquisition, Production, Consumption, and Discard: 1 Reconstruction of Operational Chain of Haft Tappeh Metal Artifacts
Creators: name: Rafi,i-Alavi, Babak
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Archaeology

description: The present study seeks to understand the 'Chaîne Opératoire' of Haft Tappeh metal objects from raw material to the time they were retrieved through archaeological excavation. For reconstructing the operational sequence, the archaeological and textual evidence, as well as isotopic analysis were used. The essential goal of this paper is not only to reconstruct the life cycle of Haft Tappeh metal artifacts but also to understand the society and everyday life of the people behind objects. The typological diversity and spatial distribution of metal objects in Haft Tappeh show that it was an urban center with industrial characteristics and one of the production centers during the first phase of the Middle Elamite period, where manufacturing weapons and tools was of particular importance. The comparison between the Chogha Zanbil and Haft Tappeh in terms of metal objects shows fundamental differences between the types and amount of metal objects in these two Middle Elamite urban centers with distinctly diverse characteristics.
Approximation theorem for the self-focusing Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation and for the periodic curves in ${\bf R}^3$
Creators: name: Grinevich, Piotr G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown, that any sufficiently smooth periodic solution of the self-focusing Nonlinear Schrödinger equation can be approximated by periodic finite-gap ones with an arbitrary small error. As a corollary an analogous result for the motion of closed curves in ${\Bbb R}^3$ guided by the Filament equation is proved. This equation describes the dynamics of very thin filament vortices in a fluid.
description: 11 pages, LaTeX, macroses amssym.tex and elsart.cls are used (elsart.cls is avaliable on http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/latex)
Causal continuity in degenerate spacetimes
Creators: name: Borde, A.
name: Dowker, H. F.
name: Garcia, R. S.
name: Sorkin, R. D.
name: Surya, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A change of spatial topology in a causal, compact spacetime cannot occur when the metric is globally Lorentzian. One can however construct a causal metric from a Riemannian metric and a Morse function on the background cobordism manifold, which is Lorentzian almost everywhere except that it is degenerate at each critical point of the function. We investigate causal structure in the neighbourhood of such a degeneracy, when the auxiliary Riemannian metric is taken to be Cartesian flat in appropriate coordinates. For these geometries, we verify Borde and Sorkin's conjecture that causal discontinuity occurs if and only if the Morse index is 1 or n-1.
description: 34 pages, 11 figures, Latex2e, important references added, introduction and discussions sections reworded slightly