cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Singularities on the brane aren't isotropic
Creators: name: Bruni, Marco
name: Dunsby, Peter K. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent studies of homogeneous anisotropic universe models in the brane world scenario show that the cosmological singularity in this context is isotropic. It has therefore been suggested that this may be a generic feature of singularities on the brane, even in the inhomogeneous case. Using a perturbative approach, we show that this is not the case. As in the GR case, the presence of decaying modes in the perturbations signal the instability (in the past) of the isotropic singularity. The brane universe is therefore not born with isotropy built in: as in standard cosmology, the observed large-scale isotropy and homogeneity remains to be explained.
description: 5 pages, REVTEX
Trapping charge carriers in low-dimensional Dirac materials
Creators: name: Downing, C. A.
name: Portnoi, M. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the problem of confining the famously elusive Dirac-like quasiparticles, as found in some recently discovered low-dimensional systems. After briefly surveying the existing theoretical proposals for creating bound states in Dirac materials, we study relativistic excitations with a position-dependent mass term. With the aid of an exactly-solvable model, we show how bound states begin to emerge after a critical condition on the size of the mass term is met. We also reveal some exotic properties of the unusual confinement discovered, including an elegant chevron structure of the bound state energies as a function of the size of the mass.
description: 6 pages, 1 figure, Int. J. Nanosci. (2019)
Soil characteristics for sites from Vermeire et al 2021
Creators: name: Hawkins, Heidi
Publisher: name: University of Cape Town
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 310308
subject: Terrestrial ecology
classificationCode: 410603
subject: Soil biology

description: In South African savanna and grassland, exclusion of ecological disturbances (fire, herbivory) led to increases in woody cover. Resultant changes in edaphic properties (Mg, pH, Ca) drove bacterial community structure while changes in vegetation drove fungal community structure. Despite differences between fire and herbivory treatments, there was relatively little impact on soil microbial communities, soil organic carbon and other soil characteristics. We conclude that soil microbial communities in disturbance-driven grassy biomes are resistant to change.
title: Zwischen Schöpfung und Erlösung
title: drei christlichtheologische Variationen über Geschlecht
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Heß, Ruth
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Christentum
subject: Geschlechterverhältnis
subject: Körper
subject: Feminismus
subject: Geschlechterforschung
subject: 270 Geschichte des Christentums, Kirchengeschichte
subject: Feministische Theologie

description: Anhand dreier exemplarisch ausgewählter Modelle theologischer Anthropologie fragt der Beitrag nach der Produktion normativer Umrisse von Geschlecht in der christlichen Tradition. Der Ansatz Papst Benedikts XVI., der der feministischen Theologin Catharina Halkes und der des Kirchenvaters Gregor von Nyssa werden darauf hin analysiert, wie sie menschliche Geschlechtlichkeit in ihrer Qualität und Stabilität, insbesondere im Blick auf die verschiedenen Aspekte der ‚Heilsgeschichte‘ (‚Schöpfung‘, ‚Sünde‘, ‚Versöhnung‘, ‚Erlösung‘), konzeptualisieren. Abschließend plädiert der Beitrag für eine systematische Berücksichtigung theologischer Vorstellungswelten in der Geschlechterforschung, um den häufi g angenommenen Kon nex von Geschlecht und (christlicher) Religion theoretisch präziser zu erfassen, sowie für eine strategische Pluralisierung innertheologischer Diskurse.
description: Between Creation and Salvation: Three Christian-Theological Variations on Sexuality Based on three exemplarily selected models of theological anthropology, the article investigates the normative production of sex/gen- der in Christian traditions. The approaches of Pope Benedict XVI., feminist theologian Catharina Halkes, and Church Father Gregory of Nyssa are analyzed in how they conceptualize human sexuality in its quality and stability, particularly with regard to the different aspects of ‚salvific history‘ (‚creation‘, ‚sin‘, ‚reconciliation‘, ‚salvation‘). Finally, the arti- cle argues for a systematic consideration of theological imaginations by gender research, in order to understand more accurately the frequently assumed connection between sex/ gender and (Christian) religion, as well as for a strategic proliferation of inner theological discourses.
Counting surface states in the loop quantum gravity
Creators: name: Krasnov, Kirill V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We adopt the point of view that (Riemannian) classical and (loop-based) quantum descriptions of geometry are macro- and micro-descriptions in the usual statistical mechanical sense. This gives rise to the notion of geometrical entropy, which is defined as the logarithm of the number of different quantum states which correspond to one and the same classical geometry configuration (macro-state). We apply this idea to gravitational degrees of freedom induced on an arbitrarily chosen in space 2-dimensional surface. Considering an `ensemble' of particularly simple quantum states, we show that the geometrical entropy $S(A)$ corresponding to a macro-state specified by a total area $A$ of the surface is proportional to the area $S(A)=αA$, with $α$ being approximately equal to $1/16πl_p^2$. The result holds both for case of open and closed surfaces. We discuss briefly physical motivations for our choice of the ensemble of quantum states.
description: This paper is a substantially modified version of the paper `The Bekenstein bound and non-perturbative quantum gravity'. Although the main result (i.e. the result of calculation of the number of quantum states that correspond to one and the same area of 2-d surface) remains unchanged, it is presented now from a different point of view. The new version contains a discussion both of the case of open and closed surfaces, and a discussion of a possibility to generalize the result obtained considering arbitrary surface quantum states. LaTeX, 21 pages, 6 figures added
Onychotillus minutus de Zayas 1988
Creators: name: Opitz, Weston
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Onychotillus
Onychotillus minutus

description: Onychotillus minutus de Zayas, 1988
Figure 15.
 Type material. Syntype series: 9 specimens. Type locality: Cuba, Provincia de Guantanamo, Yateras (FDZC). Zayas did not specify in his description which specimen should be the name bearer of this species. Until the specimens are available for study, a lectotype cannot be designated until statements can be made to positively identify the lectotype from the others (ICZN 1999, Article 74.7).
 Diagnosis. Cranium, pronotum, legs flavotestaceous, antenna black, elytra brown. These characteristics will distinguish the members of this species from congeners.
 Redescription. Size. Length 3.0 mm; width 0.7 mm. Form. As in Fig. 15. Color. Cranium, pronotum, legs flavotestaceous, antenna black, elytra and abdomen brown. Head. Cranium finely punctate, eyes prominent, frons much wider than length of pedicel; EW/FW 10/30. Thorax. Pronotum finely punctate, minimally expanded at middle 1/2; subapical depression faintly expressed; collar narrow; PW/PL 40/40; elytra punctations striate, striae reduced near elytral apex; EL/EW 150/70; short elytral setae decumbent, long elytral setae recumbent. Abdomen. Aedeagus not available for study.
 Variation. Size. The available specimens are quite homogenous.
 Distribution. This species is known from Cuba. I examined two specimens from the vicinity of Santiago de Cuba, Yaturita (FDZC).
description: Published as part of Opitz, Weston, 2022, Revision of the checkered beetle genus Onychotillus Chapin (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Tillinae), pp. 1-16 in Insecta Mundi 2022 (913) on page 4, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6391885
title: Ligularia stenocephala (Maxim.) Matsum. & Koidz.
Creators: name: :None
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Digitale Pflanzenbilder: Sammlung Dietmar Brandes
subject: 580

description: Pflanzensammlung Dietmar Brandes: Digitale Pflanzenbilder
Low-energy dynamics of condensed matter from the high-energy point of view: Studies in the effective field theory of matter
Creators: Krichevsky, Rafael
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Physics
Condensed matter
Gravitational fields
Field theory (Physics)

description: In this work, we develop effective field theory (EFT) methods for the study of a wide variety of condensed matter systems, including superfluids, ordinary fluids, solids, and supersolids. As a first application, we focus on the dynamics of vortex lines in trapped superfluid condensates, studying their precessional motion and working out the frequency of precession from EFT principles. We consider the effects of trapping in two and three dimensions, as well as implications of trapping for the dispersion relation of Kelvin waves along superfluid vortex lines. We also apply our formalism to study the effects of gravitational fields on sound waves in several different media, discovering that localized sound waves propagate with an associated (negative) net mass, which in turn generates a tiny gravitational field. We confirm that this effect is a robust result that can be found from purely classical, non-relativistic methods. We then present three Lorentz invariant, renormalizable, weakly coupled theories that implement the symmetry-breaking pattern of a perturbative homogeneous and isotropic solid, as potential UV-completions of the low-energy effective theory that we studied. We demonstrate that a particular class of homogeneous, isotropic solids at long distances corresponds to states that are also homogeneous at short distances, unlike typical solids found in nature. We find that each case leads to the same rather unorthodox effective theory of a solid with luminal transverse excitations. Finally, we discuss applications of the methods we have developed and the potential for interesting new directions of this research.
Low-rank graphical models and Bayesian inference in the statistical analysis of noisy neural data
Creators: Smith, Carl Alexander
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: We develop new methods of Bayesian inference, largely in the context of analysis of neuroscience data. The work is broken into several parts. In the first part, we introduce a novel class of joint probability distributions in which exact inference is tractable. Previously it has been difficult to find general constructions for models in which efficient exact inference is possible, outside of certain classical cases. We identify a class of such models that are tractable owing to a certain "low-rank" structure in the potentials that couple neighboring variables. In the second part we develop methods to quantify and measure information loss in analysis of neuronal spike train data due to two types of noise, making use of the ideas developed in the first part. Information about neuronal identity or temporal resolution may be lost during spike detection and sorting, or precision of spike times may be corrupted by various effects. We quantify the information lost due to these effects for the relatively simple but sufficiently broad class of Markovian model neurons. We find that decoders that model the probability distribution of spike-neuron assignments significantly outperform decoders that use only the most likely spike assignments. We also apply the ideas of the low-rank models from the first section to defining a class of prior distributions over the space of stimuli (or other covariate) which, by conjugacy, preserve the tractability of inference. In the third part, we treat Bayesian methods for the estimation of sparse signals, with application to the locating of synapses in a dendritic tree. We develop a compartmentalized model of the dendritic tree. Building on previous work that applied and generalized ideas of least angle regression to obtain a fast Bayesian solution to the resulting estimation problem, we describe two other approaches to the same problem, one employing a horseshoe prior and the other using various spike-and-slab priors. In the last part, we revisit the low-rank models of the first section and apply them to the problem of inferring orientation selectivity maps from noisy observations of orientation preference. The relevant low-rank model exploits the self-conjugacy of the von Mises distribution on the circle. Because the orientation map model is loopy, we cannot do exact inference on the low-rank model by the forward backward algorithm, but block-wise Gibbs sampling by the forward backward algorithm speeds mixing. We explore another von Mises coupling potential Gibbs sampler that proves to effectively smooth noisily observed orientation maps.
Trustworthy Experimentation Under Telemetry Loss
Creators: name: Gupchup, Jayant
name: Hosseinkashi, Yasaman
name: Dmitriev, Pavel
name: Schneider, Daniel
name: Cutler, Ross
name: Jefremov, Andrei
name: Ellis, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Other Computer Science (cs.OH)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Failure to accurately measure the outcomes of an experiment can lead to bias and incorrect conclusions. Online controlled experiments (aka AB tests) are increasingly being used to make decisions to improve websites as well as mobile and desktop applications. We argue that loss of telemetry data (during upload or post-processing) can skew the results of experiments, leading to loss of statistical power and inaccurate or erroneous conclusions. By systematically investigating the causes of telemetry loss, we argue that it is not practical to entirely eliminate it. Consequently, experimentation systems need to be robust to its effects. Furthermore, we note that it is nontrivial to measure the absolute level of telemetry loss in an experimentation system. In this paper, we take a top-down approach towards solving this problem. We motivate the impact of loss qualitatively using experiments in real applications deployed at scale, and formalize the problem by presenting a theoretical breakdown of the bias introduced by loss. Based on this foundation, we present a general framework for quantitatively evaluating the impact of telemetry loss, and present two solutions to measure the absolute levels of loss. This framework is used by well-known applications at Microsoft, with millions of users and billions of sessions. These general principles can be adopted by any application to improve the overall trustworthiness of experimentation and data-driven decision making.
description: Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, October 2018
Environmental monitoring toward end land use objectives at Elkview Coal
Creators: name: Dixon, B. M. (Brenda M.), 1952-
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Three land-based parameters, land capability, land status and vegetative productivity, were selected to provide the basis for monitoring and modelling the overall productivity of the prime elk winter ranges on this south-east coal mine property. Three animal-based parameters, elk behaviour, reproductive success and winter diet quality, were monitored to provide a context for the interpretation of the land-based data. This approach is expected to provide, on an annual basis, information that demonstrates achievement of the prescribed end land use as wildlife habitat. This approach is also used to demonstrate the maintenance of wildlife habitat values while active mining is underway. To date, 39 km² of Class 1 elk winter range have been included in the ongoing assessment. A method to calculate and model the amount of winter forage available for elk was developed (the Model). The land status combined with forage productivity provides information on the total number of Animal Unit Months (AUMs) of winter grazing that is available in the Class 1 winter range areas. This calculation was used to show that there were 2,150 AUMs of grazing available in 1969, prior to extensive surface development and 2,766 AUMs in 1999. Productivity losses from ongoing development have been offset by gains from reclamation and enhancement. When long range mining and reclamation plans are complete, the Model can be used to project AUMs available at any point throughout the mine development.
Wastewater analysis for nicotine, cocaine, amphetamines, opioids and cannabis in New York City
Creators: name: Centazzo, Nicole
name: Bonnie-Marie Frederick
name: Alethea Jacox
name: Cheng, Shu-Yuan
name: Concheiro-Guisan, Marta
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: According to current surveys and overdoses data, there is a drug crisis in the USA. Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) is an evolving discipline that analyses wastewater samples to detect drugs and metabolites to estimate drug consumption in a certain community. This study demonstrates how drug relative presence could be tracked by testing wastewater, providing real-time results, in different boroughs in New York City throughout 1 year. We developed and fully validated two analytical methods, one for 21 drugs and metabolites, including nicotine, cocaine, amphetamines, opioids and cannabis markers; and another for the normalization factor creatinine. Both methods were performed by liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) using positive electrospray ionization, achieving a limit of quantification of 5–10 ng/L for drugs and metabolites, and 0.01 mg/L for creatinine. These methods were applied to 48 one-time grab wastewater samples collected from six wastewater treatment plants in New York City (Manhattan, The Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn), eight different times throughout 2016, before and after major holidays, including Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labour Day and New Year’s. In this study, the drug group normalized concentrations present in the wastewater samples, in decreasing order, were cocaine, nicotine, opioids, cannabis and amphetamines. When looking at individual compounds, the one with the highest normalized concentration was benzoylecgonine (BE), followed by cotinine, morphine and 11-nor-9-carboxy-tetrahydrocannabinol (THCCOOH). To estimate community use, these concentrations were multiplied by the corresponding correction factor, and the most present were THCCOOH, followed by BE, cotinine and morphine. When comparing the treatment plants by drug group (nicotine, cocaine, amphetamines, opioids and cannabis), samples collected from The Bronx had the highest normalized concentrations for nicotine, cocaine and opioids; The Bronx and Manhattan for cannabis; and Manhattan and Queens for amphetamines. In most of the cases, no effect due to holiday was observed. This study provides the first snapshot of drug use in New York City and how that changes between key calendar dates employing wastewater analysis.
General Relativistic 1+3 Orthonormal Frame Approach Revisited
Creators: name: van Elst, Henk
name: Uggla, Claes
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The equations of the 1+3 orthonormal frame approach are explicitly presented and discussed. Natural choices of local coordinates are mentioned. A dimensionless formulation is subsequently given. It is demonstrated how one can obtain a number of interesting problems by specializing the general equations. In particular, equation systems for ``silent'' dust cosmological models also containing magnetic Maxwell fields, locally rotationally symmetric spacetime geometries and spatially homogeneous cosmological models are presented. We show that while the 3-Cotton--York tensor is zero for Szekeres dust models, it is nonzero for a generic representative within the ``silent'' class.
description: 41 pages, uufiles encoded postscript file, submitted to Phys. Rev. D
Onychotillus cubana de Zayas 1988
Creators: name: Opitz, Weston
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Onychotillus
Onychotillus cubana

description: Onychotillus cubana de Zayas, 1988
Figure 18.
 Type material. Holotype: Gender not known. Type locality: Cuba, Provincia de Granma, Pico Turquino (FDZC).
 Diagnosis. Pronotum yellow, elytra dark blue.
 Description. Size. 4.0 mm. Form. as in Fig. 18. Color. Antenna, cranium and legs black, pronotum yellow, elytra dark blue. Head. Finely wrinkled. Pronotum. Subapical depression faintly expressed; collar narrow. Elytra punctations striate, striae reduced near elytral apex.
 Distribution. The type locality and Cabo Cruz, in Cuba (FDZC).
description: Published as part of Opitz, Weston, 2022, Revision of the checkered beetle genus Onychotillus Chapin (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Tillinae), pp. 1-16 in Insecta Mundi 2022 (913) on pages 5-6, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6391885
Lucan's Mutilated Voice: The Poetics of Incompleteness in Roman Epic
Creators: Crosson, Isaia Mattia
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Classical literature
Epic poetry, Latin
Language and languages
Comparative literature
Latin poetry

description: In this doctoral dissertation I seek to reassess the innovativeness of the young Corduban poet Lucan’s masterpiece, the Civil War. Faced with the abrupt closure of Lucan’s poem 546 lines into Book 10, I adopt the view propounded by Haffter, Masters and Tracy, that what most have taken as incompletion brought on by the poet’s premature death in 65 CE is in fact a deliberate artistic decision. I then argue back from this view and reread several key features of the poem as manifestations of the same deliberate bodily incompleteness, the same sudden mutilation of a voice that the ending of the poem as we have it presents. My dissertation consists of two macro-sections, one on the structural and thematic characteristics of Lucan’s Civil War, and one on the characterization of the two antagonists most actively involved in the conflict: Julius Caesar, himself the author of an incomplete prose account of the very civil war that Lucan chooses to focus on; and Pompey the Great, a broken man whose mangled body reproduces at the microcosmic level the lack of finish exhibited by the textual body of the poem itself.
Gravitation as a Many Body Problem
Creators: name: Mazur, Pawel O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The idea of viewing gravitation as a many body phenomenon is put forward here. Physical arguments supporting this idea are briefly reviewed. The basic mathematical object of the new gravitational mechanics is a matrix of operators. Striking similarity of the method of R-matrix (QISM) to the mathematical formulation of the new gravitational mechanics is pointed out. The s-wave difference Schrodinger equation describing a process of emission of radiation by a gravitating particle is shown to be analogous to the Baxter equation of the QISM.
description: RevteX file, 7 pp., Talk given at the Confernce ``Beyond the Standard Model V'', April 29-May 4, 1997, Balholm, Norway
Item Listing Optimization for E-commerce Websites based on Diversity
Creators: name: Nishimura, Naoki
name: Tanahashi, Kotaro
name: Suganuma, Koji
name: Miyama, Masamichi J.
name: Ohzeki, Masayuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: For e-commerce websites, deciding the manner in which items are listed on webpages is an important issue because it can dramatically affect item sales. One of the simplest strategies of listing items to improve the overall sales is to do so in a descending order of sales or sales numbers. However, in lists generated using this strategy, items with high similarity are often placed consecutively. In other words, the generated item list might be biased toward a specific preference. Therefore, this study employs penalties for items with high similarity being placed next to each other in the list and transforms the item listing problem to a quadratic assignment problem (QAP). The QAP is well-known as an NP-hard problem that cannot be solved in polynomial time. To solve the QAP, we employ quantum annealing (QA), which exploits the quantum tunneling effect to efficiently solve an optimization problem. In addition, we propose a problem decomposition method based on the structure of the item listing problem because the quantum annealer we use (i.e., D-Wave 2000Q) has a limited number of quantum bits. Our experimental results indicate that we can create an item list that considers both sales and diversity. In addition, we observe that using the problem decomposition method based on a problem structure can lead to a better solution with the quantum annealer in comparison with the existing problem decomposition method.
Low-tech approaches to infrastructure development: Anaerobic Digestion and Waste Management in Sub-Saharan West Africa
Creators: Onikute, Cuthbert A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Sewage--Purification--Anaerobic treatment
Public health
Refuse and refuse disposal
City planning

description: The challenges of waste management have persistently troubled local and national governments across the Global South. Target 7c of the Millennium Development Goals is specifically focused on urban waste management. In sub-Saharan Africa the failure of waste management is especially pronounced in non-capital urban environments. The failures of waste management are often attributed to failures to adequate collect and properly manage disposal, both failures are often attributed to lack of funding. A waste management system built around anaerobic digestion has the potential to provide multiple economic incentives for full waste collection and treatment. This thesis model’s the likely cost and economic returns to small and medium sized cities in West Africa if they operate a waste management system that incorporates locally constructed anaerobic digesters.
Thermodynamic studies of Different Type of Black Holes: General Uncertainty Principle Approach
Creators: name: Halder, Amritendu
name: Biswas, Ritabrata
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an investigation on thermodynamics of two different types of black holes viz. Kiselev black hole (asymptotically flat) and Taub-NUT (non-asymptotically flat) black hole. We compute the thermodynamic variables like black hole's Hawking temperature, entropy at the black hole's event horizon. Further we derive the heat capacity and examine it to study the thermal stability of the black holes. We also calculate the rate of emission assuming the black holes radiate energy in terms of photons by tunneling. We represent all the parameters including the rate of emission of the black holes graphically and interpret them physically. We depict a comparative study of thermodynamics between the afroesaid types of black holes. Here we find the existence of a transition of phase. Finally, we obtain the quantum-corrected thermodynamics on the basis of general uncertainty principle and it is seen from the quantum-corrected entropy that it contains the logarithmic term. We offer comparative studies on joint effect of generalised uncertainty principle parameter $α$ along with the concerned black holes' parameters on the thermodynamics.
description: 15 pages, 25 figures
Luminous Pasts: Artificial Light and the Novel, 1770-1930
Creators: Gibson, Lindsay Gail
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Light and darkness in literature
English literature

description: Over the course of the nineteenth century, gaslight supplanted the candles and oil lamps that had brightened Europe and America for centuries, and, by 1900, electricity would attain decisive dominance over both. In their narrative figurations of lighting, however, novels of the same period often arrest this march of progress, lingering in an Arcadian past organized around the rhythms of the solar day and the agricultural year. Mining works by Frances Burney, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Marcel Proust, and others, my dissertation argues that novelists employ obsolete lighting technologies not merely to provide historical texture, but to express narrative impulses that run counter to the realist mode, to dramatize transgressive forms of ambition within the rural communities they depict, and sometimes even to voice ambivalence about the commercial constraints of the serial form. Characters in these novels who avail themselves of artificial illumination alter the rhythm of the workday in order to satisfy desires inconsistent with the interests and pursuits sanctioned by their neighbors: by the light of lamps and candles, they pursue cross-class romance, literary aspirations, or professional goals that fall outside the parameters dictated by social class and the historical moment. For Proust’s narrator, this entails a series of adjustments to his evening schedule over the course of the Recherche, first to accommodate an aristocratic social calendar, and, later, to facilitate the nocturnal composition of his own novel. In Eliot’s case, the inclination to stay awake after nightfall—whether the illicit romantic fantasies of a Hetty Sorrel or the workmanlike resolve of an Adam Bede—constitutes a meaningful challenge to the author’s narrative realism. By examining the formal innovations these technologies provoke in nineteenth-century fiction, my research unearths a pervasive counter-realist tendency in novels often famed for their fidelity to the protocols of realist representation.
Acoustic excitation and electrical detection of spin waves and spin currents in hypersonic bulk waves resonator with YIG/Pt system
Creators: name: Polzikova, N. I.
name: Alekseev, S. G.
name: Luzanov, V. A.
name: Raevskiy, A. O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the self-consisted semi-analytical theory of magnetoelastic excitation and electrical detection of spin waves and spin currents in hypersonic bulk acoustic waves resonator with ZnO-GGG-YIG/Pt layered structure. Electrical detection of acoustically driven spin waves occurs due to spin pumping from YIG to Pt and inverse spin Hall (ISHE) effect in Pt as well as due to electrical response of ZnO piezotransducer. The frequency-field dependences of the resonator frequencies and ISHE voltage $U_{ISHE}$ are correlated with experimental ones observed previously. Their fitting allows to determine some magnetic and magnetoelastic parameters of YIG. The analysis of the YIG film thickness influence on $U_{ISHE}$ gives the possibility to find the optimal thickness for maximal $U_{ISHE}$ value.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures
Measurement of ultrashort vector pulses from polarization gates by in-line, single-channel spectral interferometry
Creators: name: Alonso, Benjamín
name: Sola, Íñigo J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The growing use of ultrashort laser pulses exhibiting time-varying polarization (vector pulses) demands simple and robust characterization techniques capable to perform measurements in a broad range of experimental and environmental conditions. Here we present in-line, single-channel setup based on spectral interferometry to characterize ultrashort vector pulses. The use of a bulk interferometer based on birefringence is key for the stability and sensitivity of the technique, thus being simple and highly robust. The technique is used to measure vector pulses corresponding to polarization gates, which are used in many applications. Those results are validated by simulations. The technique here presented has a number of potential applications in nonlinear effects (e.g. transient birefringence and nonlinear phenomena with vector pulses).
description: Information: 11 pages, 5 figures. Date of Publication: 27 March 2019. This work was partially supported by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action with grant agreement No. 798264, project FastMeasure entitled 'Development and industry transfer of new techniques: full characterization of vector ultrashort pulsed laser beams'
Luring Investment through Higher Taxes: Evaluating the Impact of New York City Business Improvement Districts on Property Development
Creators: Agudelo, Myles
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2021
Subjects: City planning--Economic aspects
Community development, Urban--Economic aspects
Economic development projects--Planning
Business enterprises--Taxation

description: Business improvement districts (BID) are a widely used tool intended to address quality of life concerns and promote economic development. While BIDs have been shown to provide a variety of positive impacts to their districts, it is less clear whether these impacts translate into increased levels of commercial property development within the district. There is also a question of whether any observed increases in development is a result of existing economic resources that have been shifted from surrounding districts. This thesis attempts to quantify the impact of New York City’s BIDs on commercial property development both within BIDs and their surrounding neighborhoods. To evaluate a BIDs role as an economic development tool, this thesis uses a difference-in-differences approach to compare the number of construction permits both in and around three Manhattan BIDs before and after the BIDs were established. Results show that BIDs do not play a significant role in increasing levels of commercial property development within their districts and neighborhoods surrounding BIDs do not experience a decline in commercial property development after a nearby BID is established. These results call into question a BIDs role as a major economic development tool especially as the number of BIDs in New York City continues to grow.
Pit to park : gravel mine reclamation using biosolids
Creators: name: Van Ham, Mike
name: Lee, Ken
name: McLean, Barry
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: In an innovative recycling and mine reclamation project Valley Gravel Sales Ltd., GVRD Parks, GVRD Biosolids Recycling and Sylvis Environmental worked together in the reclamation of a gravel pit located in one of GVRD's regional parks. In the transformation from "Pit to Park" the use of Nutrifor™ (GVRD's biosolids) and Nutrifor compost was proposed as a soil amendment to assist in the establishment of vegetation over the site. Extensive public consultation was conducted in both final land use planning and the use of organic amendments in achieving mutual objectives. As the gravel pit and park are located over the sensitive Abbotsford Sumas aquifer, there was concern that the addition of organic amendments would further compromise aquifer quality. Local area residents, some on shallow well water, were also concerned about the possible impact of the application on their drinking water source. Local area wells were included in the monitoring program and stakeholders were involved in the decision-making and progress of the reclamation activities through public meetings, tours, direct mail-outs and newspaper advertisements. A lysimeter study was completed to quantify the environmental effects of the proposed applications on the groundwater, soil and vegetation prior to reclamation. This study assisted in refining and verifying amendment application rates that are protective of the environment. Upon receiving a BC Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks Approval, approximately 12 hectares of the recontoured pit were reclaimed with 930 bulk tonnes (235 dry tonnes) of biosolids and 3918 bulk tonnes (1884 dry tonnes) of biosolids compost as a 1:1:4 by volume mix (compost:biosolids:native soil) in September, 1999. After the removal of the last sand stockpile expected in Summer 2000, final applications will be made in the late summer to the remaining areas. Environmental monitoring showed a post application increase in soil nutrients. No effect on groundwater or surface water was observed. The gravel pit within Aldergrove Lake Regional Park will soon be a parkland green space, complete with picnic area, concert bowl, and a canoeing lake with three islands.
The course of the London to Brighton Roman road south of Burgess Hill.
Creators: name: Shields, Glen
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2002

description: Sussex Archaeological Collections, 137, 81-90
description: Proposes and describes a new course for the London to Brighton Roman road in the Hassocks area and through the Clayton Gap. The road has implications for a possible Iron Age road in the region and for the Roman settlement of Ham Farm, Hassocks.
Singularity of Some Random Continued Fractions
Creators: name: Lyons, Russell
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60G30; 28A78

description: We prove singularity of some distributions of random continued fractions that correspond to iterated function systems with overlap and a parabolic point. These arose while studying the conductance of Galton-Watson trees.
description: To appear in J. Theoret. Prob
The Excavation of a Medieval Aisled Hall at Park Farm, Salehurst, East Sussex
Creators: name: Gardiner, Mark
name: Jones, Gwen
name: Martin, David
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2021

description: Sussex Archaeological Collections, 129, 81-97
description: Topsoil stripping un covered traces of a medieval aisled hall. Subsequent excavation allowed the identification of three periods of construction. The timber hall was first built in the I 3th century. The walls were subsequently replaced in stone, probably in the I 4th century . Later, the building was extended to the south, perhaps to incorporate a cross-wing. The building is identified as part of the Robertsbridge Abbey grange of Park. Traces of earlier activity beneath the hall are associated with the Domesday vill of Drisnesel.
Cross-Subject Transfer Learning in Human Activity Recognition Systems using Generative Adversarial Networks
Creators: name: Soleimani, Elnaz
name: Nazerfard, Ehsan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Application of intelligent systems especially in smart homes and health-related topics has been drawing more attention in the last decades. Training Human Activity Recognition (HAR) models -- as a major module -- requires a fair amount of labeled data. Despite training with large datasets, most of the existing models will face a dramatic performance drop when they are tested against unseen data from new users. Moreover, recording enough data for each new user is unviable due to the limitations and challenges of working with human users. Transfer learning techniques aim to transfer the knowledge which has been learned from the source domain (subject) to the target domain in order to decrease the models' performance loss in the target domain. This paper presents a novel method of adversarial knowledge transfer named SA-GAN stands for Subject Adaptor GAN which utilizes Generative Adversarial Network framework to perform cross-subject transfer learning in the domain of wearable sensor-based Human Activity Recognition. SA-GAN outperformed other state-of-the-art methods in more than 66% of experiments and showed the second best performance in the remaining 25% of experiments. In some cases, it reached up to 90% of the accuracy which can be obtained by supervised training over the same domain data.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures
title: Limnanthes douglasii R. Br.
Creators: name: :None
Publisher: name: Braunschweig : Univ.-Bibl.
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Digitale Pflanzenbilder: Sammlung Dietmar Brandes
subject: 580

description: Digitale Pflanzenbilder: Sammlung Dietmar Brandes
Onychotillus dimidiatus de Zayas 1988
Creators: name: Opitz, Weston
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Onychotillus
Onychotillus dimidiatus

description: Onychotillus dimidiatus de Zayas, 1988
Figure 19.
 Type material. Holotype: Gender not known. Type locality: Cuba, Provincia de Matanzas, Canasí (FDZC).
 Diagnosis. Head, pronotum, and anterior 1/2 of elytral testaceous, posterior elytral 1/2 dark blue.
 Description. Size. 8.0 mm. Form. as in Fig. 19. Color. Antenna and tibia black, femur mostly testaceous, elytra bicolorous Head. Finely punctate. Pronotum. Subapical depression faintly expressed; collar narrow. Elytra punctations striate, striae not reduced near elytral apex.
 Distribution. The type locality, Canasí, in Cuba.
description: Published as part of Opitz, Weston, 2022, Revision of the checkered beetle genus Onychotillus Chapin (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Tillinae), pp. 1-16 in Insecta Mundi 2022 (913) on page 6, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6391885
Physical states of Bianchi type IX quantum cosmologies described by the Chern-Simons functional
Creators: name: Graham, Robert
name: Paternoga, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A class of exact solutions of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation for diagonal Bianchi type IX cosmologies with cosmological constant is derived in the metric representation. This class consists of all the ``topological solutions'' which are associated with the Bianchi type IX reduction of the Chern-Simons functional in Ashtekar variables. The different solutions within the class arise from the topologically inequivalent choices of the integration contours in the transformation from the Ashtekarrepresentation to the metric representation. We show how the saddle-points of the reduced Chern-Simons functional generate a complete basis of such integration contours and the associated solutions. Among the solutions we identify two, which, semi-classically, satisfy the boundary conditions proposed by Vilenkin and by Hartle and Hawking, respectively. In the limit of vanishing cosmological constant our solutions reduce to a class found earlier in special fermion sectors ofsupersymmetric Bianchi type IX models.
description: 25 pages, Revtex, 8 figures included, submitted to Phys. Rev. D
title: Limonium papillatum (Webb & Berthel.) O. Kuntze
Creators: name: :None
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Digitale Pflanzenbilder: Sammlung Dietmar Brandes
subject: 580

description: Pflanzensammlung Dietmar Brandes: Digitale Pflanzenbilder
The Investigation of a Roman Tilery at Dell Quay, West Sussex
Creators: name: Rudling, David
name: Bartlett, Alister
name: Cartwright, Caroline R
name: Dance, Jonathan
name: Pepper, Marcus
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2021

description: Sussex Archaeological Collections, 125, 81-90
description: Recent fieldwork has confirmed the location of a Roman tilery near Dell Quay, West Sussex. Although part of the site has been destroyed by coastal erosion, a geophysical land immediately adjacent to the foreshore was successful in locating a substantial magnetic anomaly which may represent a kiln. Trial excavations also revealed the presence of other features associated with the tilery. Finds from the site provide an insight into the range of products which was manufactured there, but are unfortunately of limited use for establishing the date of operation of the tilery.
CeO2-based nanocomposites: An advanced alternative to TiO2 and ZnO in sunscreens
Creators: name: Khan, Mohammad Mansoob
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 30201 Bioinorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 30601 Catalysis and Mechanisms of Reactions
subject: 30301 Chemical Characterisation of Materials
subject: Environmental Chemistry

description: To encounter the increasing risk of melanoma as well as sunburns and premature ageing, tremendous effortsare being put forwarded by the researchers to improve the existing sunscreen materials used in cosmetics. Skinirritation and photoinstability issues of the organic filters motivate researchers to develop suitable alternativesbased on inorganic oxides such as titanium dioxide (TiO2) and zinc oxide (ZnO).
The Cosmological Constant Problem and Nonlocal Quantum Gravity
Creators: name: Moffat, J. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A nonlocal quantum gravity theory is presented which is finite and unitary to all orders of perturbation theory. Vertex form factors in Feynman diagrams involving gravitons suppress graviton and matter vacuum fluctuation loops by introducing a low-energy gravitational scale, Lambda_{Gvac} < 2.4 X 10^{-3} eV. Gravitons coupled to non-vacuum matter loops and matter tree graphs are controlled by a vertex form factor with the energy scale, Lambda_{GM} < 1-10 TeV. A satellite Eotvos experiment is proposed to test a violation of the equivalence principle for coupling of gravitons to pure vacuum energy compared to matter.
description: 8 pages. No figures. Latex file. Talk given at the MRST 2002 Meeting, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, May 1-17, 2002, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada and at the XVIIIth IAP Colloquium: Observational and Theoretical Results on the Accelerating Universe, July 1-5, 2002, Paris, France. Title correction. Equation corrected