cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The cosmic neutrino background and effects of Rayleigh scattering on the CMB and cosmic structure
Creators: name: Alipour Khayer, Elham
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation, photons free-streaming from their last scattering surface at redshift around 1090, is currently our main source of information about the origin and history of the Universe. The vast recent advancement in technology has led to new possibilities for gathering data especially detecting the CMB with high accuracy. The goal of the two projects studied in this thesis is to improve the cosmological perturbation theory to better test cosmology with the upcoming data. In chapter 4 we explore the effect of Rayleigh scattering on the CMB and cosmic structure. During and after recombination, in addition to Thomson scattering with free electrons, photons also coupled to neutral hydrogen and helium atoms through Rayleigh scattering. The frequency-dependence of the Rayleigh cross section breaks the thermal nature of CMB temperature and polarization anisotropies and effectively doubles the number of variables needed to describe CMB intensity and polarization statistics, while the additional atomic coupling changes the matter distribution and the lensing of the CMB. We introduce a new method to capture the effects of Rayleigh scattering on cosmological power spectra. We show the Rayleigh signal, especially the cross-spectra between the thermal (Rayleigh) E-polarization and Rayleigh (thermal) intensity signal, may be detectable with future CMB missions even in the presence of foregrounds, and how this new information might help to better constrain the cosmological parameters. In chapter 5 we study the Cosmic Neutrino Background (CNB). In addition to the CMB, the standard cosmological model also predicts that neutrinos were decoupled from the rest of the cosmic plasma when the age of the Universe was less than one second, far earlier than the photons. We study the anisotropy of the CNB and for the first time present the full CNB anisotropy power spectrum at large and small scales both for a massless and massive neutrinos. We also show that how presence of nonstandard neutrino self-interactions compatible with current cosmological data alters the CNB power spectrum.
A institucionalização da Acção Católica Portuguesa e a festa de Cristo-Rei
Creators: name: Fontes, Paulo
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2007

description: O artigo analisa a relação entre a institucionalização da Acção Católica Portuguesa, em 1933, e a teologia da Cristo-Rei. Remontando embora ao século XIX, esta adquiriu novo impulso e abertura no século XX, com o papado de Pio XI. A encíclica Quas Primas (1925) ao instituir a Festa de Cristo-Rei como festa maior da “nova cristandade” criou uma referência incontornável para o militantismo católico até, pelo menos, ao II Concílio do Vaticano (1962-1965).
description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 19-20 (2007): Correntes Cristãs, Política e Missionação nos Séculos XIX e XX
Proposal for an Optomechanical Traveling Wave Phonon-Photon Translator
Creators: name: Safavi-Naeini, Amir H.
name: Painter, Oskar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article we describe a general optomechanical system for converting photons to phonons in an efficient, and reversible manner. We analyze classically and quantum mechanically the conversion process and proceed to a more concrete description of a phonon-photon translator formed from coupled photonic and phononic crystal planar circuits. Applications of the phonon-photon translator to RF-microwave photonics and circuit QED, including proposals utilizing this system for optical wavelength conversion, long-lived quantum memory and state transfer from optical to superconducting qubits are considered.
description: 32 pages, 11 figures
Additional file 1 of Model-based stratification of progression along the Alzheimer disease continuum highlights the centrality of biomarker synergies
Creators: name: Sadiq, Muhammad Usman
name: Kwak, Kichang
name: Dayan, Eran
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1.
Parametric design of timber shell structures
Creators: name: Cheng, Alexandra Adelle Hinkel
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Increasingly complex architectural geometries present new challenges for structural engineers. Collaborative, digital workflows which integrate 3D parametric architectural models with Finite Element Modelling software grant structural engineers a higher degree of geometric versatility and influence during the preliminary design phase. Through integrated parametric design models – also labelled “co-rationalized” – structural engineers may not only easily respond to rapid model variations and unusual assemblies, but also inform the building design from inception. This thesis presents an example of a project executed in a co-rationalized manner through architectural and structural collaboration, using both digitally-integrated and analog models, for the design and construction of solid timber shells structures using Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) panels. By exploring a co-rationalized design process, timber engineering details are identified and integrated into the architectural model, and the role of structural engineer takes an active rather than reactionary role in the preliminary design stages. The result of this process using integrated parametric models was the design, fabrication, and assembly of a folded plate wall prototype and three CLT panels with double curvature. This research demonstrates how collaboration and integrated modeling enables the realization of the architectural versatility that mass-timber has to offer, and the efficacy which co-rationalized design and integrated models can bring to orthodox and unusual structures alike. As a consequence, this research serves as a precedent for structural detailing-based generative architecture and collaborative work in the future.
Diversità e diritto internazionale privato: il ripudio islamico e la sua rilevanza nell’ordinamento giuridico italiano alla luce di due recenti pronunce della Corte di Cassazione
Creators: name: Milani, Daniela
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2021

description: SOMMARIO: 1. Dal riconoscimento degli effetti civili delle sentenze ecclesiastiche di nullità matrimoniale alla trascrizione del ripudio islamico - 2. Le specificità dell’istituto del ripudio - 3. I dubbi di compatibilità sollevati dal ripudio alla prova della recente giurisprudenza di legittimità - 4. La sentenza n. 16804 del 7 agosto 2020 e l’intrascrivibilità di un ripudio sciaraitico pronunciato in Palestina - 5. L’ordinanza n. 17170 del 14 agosto 2020 sulla trascrivibilità di un divorzio unilaterale pronunciato in Iran - 6. Annotazioni conclusive: ordine pubblico e diversità religiosa alla prova degli effetti generati dalla trascrizione. Diversity and Private International Law: Islamic repudiation and its relevance into the Italian legal system in the light of two recent judgments of the Court of Cassation ABSTRACT: Two recent judgments of the Court of Cassation lead to the center of attention the issue of recognition in Italy of repudiation orders issued abroad by Sharia courts. The general clause of international public order becomes thus the filter to measure the degree of openness of our legal system to other values, clearly foreign to the Italian and European legal horizon.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2021: 19 luglio
Ordine pubblico “internazionale” e ordine pubblico così detto “concordatario”: il contenuto del limite alla luce della recente giurisprudenza di legittimità
Creators: name: Marchei, Natascia
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2021

description: SOMMARIO: 1. La clausola generale di ordine pubblico nei rapporti con l’ordinamento matrimoniale canonico: luci e ombre di un percorso tortuoso e accidentato - 2. Il contenuto del limite nella recente giurisprudenza di legittimità in materia di riconoscimento di sentenze e provvedimenti stranieri - 3. Brevi considerazioni conclusive: ordine pubblico e principi confessionali. ‘International’ public order and so-called ‘concordatarian’ public order: the content of the limit in the light of the recent jurisprudence of legitimacy ABSTRACT: The limit of public order at the entry of judgments and provisions of external legal orders is interpreted by the jurisprudence of legitimacy with an increasingly attentive meaning to the subjective interests of the people involved. Thus, the clause is regressively oriented towards the protection of the internal harmony of the legal order, whilst it is progressively oriented towards guaranteeing the rights of individuals, recognized by the Constitutional Charter and the European Charters. This orientation leads to a subjectivized public order, the operation of which is often left to the availability of the parties.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2021: 19 luglio
L’andamento statistico del ‘processus matrimonialis brevior’: motivi di soddisfazione e di qualche preoccupazione
Creators: name: Del Pozzo, Massimo
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2021

description: SOMMARIO: 1. Il rilievo “esemplare” (ma contenuto) di un istituto nuovo e peculiare - 2. Un bilancio ancora parziale e limitato - 3. Uno sguardo generale sulla situazione mondiale: motivi di soddisfazione - 4. Un uso ragionevole del rito breviore - 5. La “non scontata” soluzione del giudizio episcopale - 6. La “relativa” controtendenza statunitense - 7. La focalizzazione su alcune situazioni particolari: motivi di preoccupazione - 8. Un’adozione territorialmente molto sbilanciata - 9. La renitenza di alcuni episcopati - 10. L’anomalia sudamericana e africana - 11. L’impressione di un’applicazione troppo diversificata e disomogenea - 12. Il riscontro estensivo o applicativo - 13. Il riscontro intensivo o procedimentale - 14. Trend e prospettive di sviluppo. The Course of the Statistical Data regarding the ‘Processus Matrimonialis Brevior coram Episcopo’: Motives for Contentment and Some Preoccupations ABSTRACT: The article analyzes the course of the statistical data on the abbreviated matrimonial process before the bishop. Although the data is still uncertain and limited (since it covers the period 2016-2019 and only certain targeted statistical points), it is possible to generally acknowledge that the practice is fairly restrained and reasonable. Regardless of the fact that the appeals were very rare, the admission to the processus brevior does not seem to denote a definitive institutional solution (the emergence of a number of cases in which the matter was referred to the ordinary method). Even in the United States, a representative country regarding the ecclesiastic judicial activity and problems with regard to said activity, the number of the briefer processes seems to be fairly moderate. Since the briefer process represents a special type of process, the cautious and thought-out reception of this institute points to a certain maturity of the system. The data show some reserves regarding the adoption of this institute in some territories, as well as the resistance of certain bishops, together with certain anomalies in its development in South America and Africa. The impression upon analyzing the data is that the enforcement of the institute is still too diversified and that it lacks homogeneity, either in its territorial extension or with regard to the intensity of the enforcement of the institute. The author then perceives the need for a greater extent of directive interventions and authoritative instructions, while he outlines certain trends and prospects for development.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2021: 19 luglio
Un sogno che affonda le radici nel mito: l’immortalità.Nota a RE JS (Disposal of Body) [2016] EWHC 2859 (FAM), [10]
Creators: name: Della Giustina, Camilla
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2021

description: SOMMARIO: 1. Introduzione - 2. La decisione dell’High Court of Family Division - 3. La crioconservazione: una nuova sfida per il diritto? - 4. Aspetti bioetici della crionica - 5. La soluzione si trova dove il sogno trova la propria origine: conclusioni. A Dream rooted in Myth: Immortality. Note a RE JS (Disposal of Body) [2016] EWHC 2859 (FAM), [10] ABSTRACT: This paper addresses the problem of cryonics through the analysis of a pronunciation of the High Court of Family Division. A first part is dedicated to the examination of the decision taken and then proceed to the analysis of the bioethical and biolaw issues that cryopreservation and neuropreservation pose. The aim is to introduce the biolaw debate in relation to the emergence of this new practice by highlighting the criticality of the same, such as, for example, that of not having adequate scientific basis. Given that the pursuit of immortality has its roots in Greek mythology, a possible solution could be to recall the warning that the same mythological narratives handed down.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2021: 19 luglio
On nodal Enriques surfaces and quartic double solids
Creators: name: Ingalls, Colin
name: Kuznetsov, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider the class of singular double coverings $X \to \PP^3$ ramified in the degeneration locus $D$ of a family of 2-dimensional quadrics. These are precisely the quartic double solids constructed by Artin and Mumford as examples of unirational but nonrational conic bundles. With such quartic surface $D$ one can associate an Enriques surface $S$ which is the factor of the blowup of $D$ by a natural involution acting without fixed points (such Enriques surfaces are known as nodal Enriques surfaces or Reye congruences). We show that the nontrivial part of the derived category of coherent sheaves on this Enriques surface $S$ is equivalent to the nontrivial part of the derived category of a minimal resolution of singularities of $X$.
description: 18 pages
Il crocifisso davanti alle Sezioni Unite della Cassazione: difesa di diritti o accanimento iconoclasta?
Creators: name: Cavana, Paolo
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2021

description: 1 - Con ordinanza n. 19618 del 18 settembre 2020 una sezione della Cassazione ha rimesso alle Sezioni Unite la decisione di un ricorso contro la sentenza della Corte d’appello di Perugia, che ha respinto l’appello proposto da un docente contro la sentenza del Tribunale della stessa sede che aveva ritenuto legittima la sanzione disciplinare della temporanea sospensione dall’insegnamento comminatagli dall’Ufficio Scolastico Provinciale. Alla base di tale provvedimento vi era stato il comportamento del docente, il quale - secondo quanto esposto nell’ordinanza in oggetto - (segue) The Crucifix controversy before the Supreme Court’s United Sections: protection of rights or iconoclast fury? ABSTRACT: This short paper critically examines, in the light of Italian and European case-law, the contents and juridical arguments of an order issued by a Section of the Italian Court of Cassation, which remits to the United Sections – the highest level of the Court – the decision on the Crucifix controversy arisen in a State school. Differently from previuos cases, in the presento one the teacher, and not the students or their families, removed the crucifix, hanging on the wall of the classroom as required by an old regulation, against student’s will. This repeated behaviour stirred a controversy between the teacher and the school director, which is now under judgment. Under the Italian law, secularism is not in contrast with the display of religious symbols in a State school, whose mission is that of fostering and promoting the development of children’s and student’s personality also through the free exchange of different ideas and points of view.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2021: 19 luglio
Women's experiences completing an online psychoeducational intervention for sexual health after cancer : a narrative inquiry
Creators: name: Breckon, Erin Nicole
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Psychoeducational interventions have been found to be effective in helping patients with distressing sexual sequelae commonly experienced after cancer treatment that can persist for years. Geographical barriers, time, financial constraints, and embarrassment/ discomfort prevent a large number of patients from accessing in-person psychosexual support. Quantitative results of a pilot online psychoeducation intervention for sexual health after cancer (OPES) revealed the program helped improve sexually-related distress, depressive symptoms and all domains of sexual response (i.e., desire, arousal, orgasm, lubrication, satisfaction, and pain) among 46 partnered women which were maintained at the 6-month follow-up. A high attrition rate (56.25%) and lengthy program completion times (M=30 weeks) suggest the program may have been helpful for a subset of female reproductive and colorectal cancer survivors. The current study implemented a narrative methodology in order to gain deeper insight into how OPES was experienced by six women who completed the program. In in-depth, in-person, largely unstructured interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed verbatim, analysed, and constructed into 6 individual narrative summaries (presented in full). A cross-case analysis between the 6 summaries revealed several common themes and subthemes subsumed under perceived benefits and challenges in completing the program, motivations, and suggested program improvements. Results are presented herein. Individual bio-psycho-social factors influenced the degree of distress that women experienced in completing the program and how helpful it was in improving their “sexual functioning.” These findings highlight the importance of incorporating qualitative research in improving our understanding of how such programs are perceived and experienced as helpful by those who participate in them. Implications for future research on psychoeducational interventions for the sexual sequelae of cancer and its treatment are also discussed.
Construir a história: a sede do CADC de Coimbra
Creators: name: Brites, Joana
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2007

description: O presente artigo procura analisar as sinergias inerentes à construção da sede do Centro Académico de Democracia Cristã (CADC) de Coimbra, as opções estilísticas tomadas e suas conexões com o ideário da organização, bem como o impacto e o significado que a nova casa assumiu para os sócios, a academia e o país em geral. Nesse sentido, partindo da necessária contextualização da evolução do CADC no âmbito da “acção católica” nacional e internacional, examinar-se-ão: as condições materiais em que se desenvolveu a intervenção do Centro até à sua primeira residência erguida de raiz; o projeto da sede e o significado da linguagem moderna que adotou; o longo processo de edificação e os agentes nele envolvidos; e a inauguração e a receção do edifício pela imprensa católica. Concluiremos sublinhando a continuidade do projeto democrata cristão que encontrou, também na arquitetura, um meio de expressão e concretização.
description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 19-20 (2007): Correntes Cristãs, Política e Missionação nos Séculos XIX e XX
Additional file 1 of Update of transmission modelling and projections of gambiense human African trypanosomiasis in the Mandoul focus, Chad
Creators: name: Rock, Kat S.
name: Huang, Ching-I
name: Crump, Ronald E.
name: Bessell, Paul R.
name: Brown, Paul E.
name: Tirados, Inaki
name: Solano, Philippe
name: Antillon, Marina
name: Picado, Albert
name: Mbainda, Severin
name: Darnas, Justin
name: Crowley, Emily H.
name: Torr, Steve J.
name: Peka, Mallaye
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Additional model description, results and PRIME-NTD criteria checklist.
Effect of rotation of feed and seed rods on the quality of Na0.75CoO2 single crystal grown by traveling solvent floating zone method
Creators: name: Sekar, C.
name: Paulraj, S.
name: Kanchana, P.
name: Schupp-Niewa, B.
name: Klingeler, R.
name: Krabbes, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High purity Na0.75CoO2 single crystals have been grown by floating zone method. We found the rotation of feed and seed rods play a crucial role in growing high quality single crystal. Systematic investigations suggest the occurrence of a phase separation at microscopic level, such as the separation into Na-rich and Na-poor domains during the growth, and formation of impurity phase(s) depending on growth conditions. NaxCoO2 (x = 0.30, 0.60) crystals have been prepared by sodium deintercalation from Na0.75CoO2. Powder X-ray and energy dispersive X-ray analyses have confirmed the phase purity and homogeneity of the samples. Magnetic susceptibility measurements of x = 0.60 and 0.75 crystals indicate a bulk phase transition at 22 K and an anomaly around 339 K and 334 K respectively which are attributed to structural transition. In addition some unique features related to Na0.60CoO2 were observed.
description: 23 Pages, 12 Figures
A focus on the risk of harm : applying a risk-centered purposive approach to the interpretation of "personal information" under Canadian data protection laws
Creators: name: Wojda, Magdalena A.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: We now live in a world where the Internet is in its second generation, big data is king, and a “Digital Earth” has emerged alongside advancements in 3S technologies, where cyber-attacks and cybercrime are the new trend in criminal activity. The ease with which we can now find, collect, store, transfer, mine and potentially misuse large amounts of personal information is unprecedented. The pressure on data protection regulators continues to mount against this backdrop of frenetic change and increased vulnerability. Law and policy makers around the world tasked with protecting information privacy in the face of these advances are simply struggling to keep pace. One important difficulty they encounter is defining the term “personal information” under data protection laws (DPLs) in order to delineate precisely what type of information enjoys the protection of these legislative instruments. As a result, the meaning and scope of this term have emerged as a pressing issue in scholarly debates in the field of privacy and data protection law. This thesis contributes to these discussions by critically appraising the approaches taken by Canadian courts, privacy commissioners and arbitrators to interpreting the statutory definitions of “personal information” under Canadian private sector DPLs, and showing that a different approach is justified in light of rapidly evolving technologies. The second part of my thesis recommends a purposive risk of harm focused framework advanced by Canadian privacy scholar Éloïse Gratton as a desirable substitute for existing expansionist approaches to interpreting the definition of “personal information” under Canada’s private sector DPLs. I support my recommendation by discussing the ways in which the proposed risk of harm framework can overcome the shortcomings of existing approaches, and demonstrate this by applying it to previously issued decisions in which Canadian arbitrators and privacy commissioners or their delegates have applied expansionist approaches to new data types and data gathered by new technologies. In so doing, I demonstrate that the proposed framework better reflects the fundamental purpose of Canadian private sector DPLs: to protect only data that raises a risk of harm to individuals impacted by its collection, use or disclosure.
Effects of Velocity-Dependent Dark Matter Annihilation on the Energy Spectrum of the Extragalactic Gamma-ray Background
Creators: name: Campbell, Sheldon
name: Dutta, Bhaskar
name: Komatsu, Eiichiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the effects of velocity-dependent dark matter annihilation cross sections on the intensity of the extragalactic gamma-ray background. Our formalism does not assume a locally thermal distribution of dark matter particles in phase space, and is valid for arbitrary velocity-dependent annihilation. As concrete examples, we calculate the effects of p-wave annihilation (with the $v$-weighted cross section of $σv=a+bv^2$) on the mean intensity of extragalactic gamma rays produced in cosmological dark matter halos. This velocity variation makes the shape of the energy spectrum harder, but this change in the shape is too small to see unless $b/a\agt 10^6$. While we find no such models in the parameter space of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM), we show that it is possible to find $b/a\agt 10^6$ in the extension MSSM$\otimes U(1)_{B-L}$. However, we find that the most dominant effect of the p-wave annihilation is the suppression of the amplitude of the gamma-ray background. A non-zero $b$ at the dark matter freeze-out epoch requires a smaller value of $a$ in order for the relic density constraint to be satisfied, suppressing the amplitude by a factor as low as $10^{-6}$ for a thermal relic. Non-thermal relics will have weaker amplitude suppression. As another velocity-dependent effect, we calculate the spectrum for s-wave annihilation into fermions enhanced by the attractive Sommerfeld effect. Resonances associated with this effect result in significantly enhanced intensities, with a slightly softer energy spectrum.
description: 18 pages, 10 figures
Additional file 1 of Social isolation induces neuroinflammation and microglia overactivation, while dihydromyricetin prevents and improves them
Creators: name: Al Omran, Alzahra J.
name: Shao, Amy S.
name: Watanabe, Saki
name: Zhang, Zeyu
name: Zhang, Jifeng
name: Xue, Chen
name: Watanabe, Junji
name: Davies, Daryl L.
name: Shao, Xuesi M.
name: Liang, Jing
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1. Table S1. The p-value and the mean ± SEM for the behavioral tests data. Table S2. Westernblot data. Table S3. Microglia analysis data. Table S4. Corticosterone ELISA.
Evidence of Orphic mystery cult in archaic Macedonian and Thracian burials
Creators: name: Tweten, Lisa
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: Gold foil is found in numerous burials in the Mediterranean dating to the early Mycenaean period and the material was used as clothing attachments, jewelry, headbands, wreaths, and other decorative adornments. One of the more distinctive uses of gold foil was as a mouth-plate (or epistomion), which is an ellipsoidal or rhomboidal piece of gold foil placed on the mouth of the deceased in a burial. An apparent increase in artifact occurrence in Macedonia during the archaic period was the impetus for this thesis, as a change in grave goods suggests a change in funerary rituals. This change may be linked to the rise of local private cults, including mystery cults, that took place in the archaic period. Furthermore, these artifacts are stylistically, materially, and contextually similar to the later Classical and Hellenistic periods use of gold foil for the inscribed Orphic gold tablets. The inscribed Orphic tablets have clear links to mystery cults and are related to both the initiation and the afterlife expectations of the deceased. Taking a selection of the uninscribed gold foil mouth-plates found in archaic burials of Macedonia and Thrace, this thesis examines the potential links between these two practices and asks whether the uninscribed gold foil mouth-plates can be assigned to the category of 'things Orphic', or if they are part of an unrelated burial tradition. While it is difficult to arrive at a definitive classification for these artifacts at the moment, this thesis offers a starting point to place the archaic mouth-plates in their proper social, cultural, and ritual context.
Una proposta di legge, frutto della collaborazione della scienza canonistica, sulla sede romana totalmente impedita e la rinuncia del papa
Creators: name: Boni, Geraldina
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2021

description: SOMMARIO: 1. La necessità e l’impellenza di una legislazione - 2. Due lacune da colmare - 3. Un primo draft per un appello alla scienza canonistica - 4. L’intervento del legislatore supremo - 5. La sede apostolica totalmente impedita. Impedimento temporaneo - 5.1. Cause fisiche di ordine esterno - 5.2. Cause di ordine personale: inabilità fisica o psichica provvisoria - 6. Inhabilitas totale, certa e perpetua - 7. Brevissima appendice sulla crux teologica e giuridica sottostante - 8. La rinuncia predisposta dal papa per il caso di sua inhabilitas - 9. Il papa che ha rinunciato - 10. Norme conclusive e postfazione sull’impedimento per ‘causa giuridica’. A proposal for a law on the entirely impeded Roman See and the Pope’s resignation as a result of the collaboration of canon law scholarship In the first place, the contribution highlights the reasons for the need and urgency of an intervention from the supreme legislator of the Church in order to fill two legal gaps. One of them concerns the regulation of the impeded Apostolic See, both temporarily and - notably - because of a permanent and irreversible impediment of the Roman Pontiff. The second one regards the legal status of a Roman Pontiff who resigned from his office. The potentially problematic matters that would have to be faced and the aspects about which a law should be issued are therefore presented. The ultimate purpose is that of urging and involving the universal canon law scholarship towards an open and constructive discussion in order to develop a carefully examined and considered legislative proposal to be offered to the ecclesiastical authority.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2021: 19 luglio
Robust CT scanning of logs with feature-tailored voxels
Creators: name: Angus, Edward J.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: The greatest cost in sawmills is contained in uncut logs. Significant increases in profit stand to be made if logs are properly processed so that the amount of defect and feature-free products is maximized. This has driven research into internal sensing such as computed tomography (CT) for use in sawmills. Traditional CT systems from the medical industry are ill-suited for industrial use and provide distorted reconstructions when used with less than perfect or partially incomplete data. Industrial CT systems in areas such quality control have embraced so-called Algebraic Reconstruction Techniques (ART) for robustness to errant data, but these systems are difficult to provide reconstructions rapidly enough for sawmill use. A system is proposed here for an ART scanning arrangement specific for log-scanning use. The image space's voxel pattern is defined to reflect the geometry of a log's internal features. This greatly reduces the number of unknowns without a loss of information and allows for faster reconstruction. The geometry of the voxels makes exact calculation and storage of the series solution basis fast and practical for multi-slice scans. Data scaling and normalization eliminate unnecessary voxels in the reconstruction. It also makes the reconstruction scheme tolerant of rigid body motion radially and circumferentially about the cone beam source. The voxel numbering scheme means that knot features are contained in voxels that are numerically close for quick registration. A camera-based detector system was implemented to collect radiographs of logs. Logs were translated and rotated in an x-ray cone beam and their position was monitored by an optical encoder. The detector was activated at the proper intervals to yield radiographic data. The series solution basis for this helical movement was constructed. An iterative solver and selective low-pass filtering was found to provide good reconstruction results. Segmentation was implemented to demonstrate use of the reconstructions for lumber processing. Eccentric spiral motion tests demonstrated the effectiveness of the data scaling and normalization process. Results are provided that point towards efficient automated registration of features.
Instantaneous, non-squeezed, noise-based logic
Creators: name: Peper, Ferdinand
name: Kish, Laszlo B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Other Computer Science (cs.OH)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Noise-based logic, by utilizing its multidimensional logic hyperspace, has significant potential for low-power parallel operations in beyond-Moore-chips. However universal gates for Boolean logic thus far had to rely on either time averaging to distinguish signals from each other or, alternatively, on squeezed logic signals, where the logic-high was represented by a random process and the logic-low was a zero signal. A major setback is that squeezed logic variables are unable to work in the hyperspace, because the logic-low zero value sets the hyperspace product vector to zero. This paper proposes Boolean universal logic gates that alleviate such shortcomings. They are able to work with non-squeezed logic values where both the high and low values are encoded into nonzero, bipolar, independent random telegraph waves. Non-squeezed universal Boolean logic gates for spike-based brain logic are also shown. The advantages vs. disadvantages of the two logic types are compared.
description: 6 pages
Observations of Plasma Blob Ejection from a Quiescent Prominence by Hinode SOT
Creators: name: Hillier, Andrew
name: Isobe, Hiroaki
name: Watanabe, Hiroko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report findings from 0.2" resolution observations of the 2007 October 03 quiescent prominence observed with the Solar Optical Telescope on the Hinode satellite. The observations show clear ejections from the top of the quiescent prominence of plasma blobs. The ejections, originating from the top of rising prominence threads, are impulsively accelerated to Alfvenic velocities and then undergo ballistic motion. The ejections have a characteristic size between ~ 1000 - 2000 km. These characteristics are similar to downwardly propagating knots (typical size ~ 700 km) that have been observed in prominence threads, we suggest that the plasma blob ejections could be the upward moving counterpart to the downwardly propagating knots. We discuss the tearing instability as a possible mechanism to explain the ejections.
description: 9 Pages, 4 Figures, Accepted for publication in PASJ letters
Protestantismo e Republicanismo: o percurso de Eduardo Moreira, protestante e membro do Partido Republicano Português
Creators: name: Leite, Rita Mendonça
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2007

description: A tendência comum para definir o cristianismo protestante como uma realidade secundária no interior da sociedade portuguesa resulta na subvalorização de um conjunto de iniciativas e personalidades com um papel significativo na construção da pluralidade em Portugal. O percurso de Eduardo Moreira (1886-1980), um dos vultos da história do protestantismo em Portugal, revela-se como uma das múltiplas portas de entrada na complexidade da estruturação da religiosidade evangélica no nosso país. Percorrendo, na passagem do século XIX para o século XX, o caminho da exclusão até à liberdade religiosa, o cristianismo reformado não se restringiu à utilização de meios espirituais, integrando-se também por via da intervenção social e da participação política. O estudo dos núcleos que, na cultura portuguesa, facilitaram essa abertura gradual conduziu-nos até à análise do encontro momentâneo entre protestantismo e republicanismo, representado, em parte, na pessoa de Eduardo Moreira.
description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 19-20 (2007): Correntes Cristãs, Política e Missionação nos Séculos XIX e XX
(Non)conclusioni: tre questioni su minoranze e laicità positiva negli attuali anni Venti
Creators: name: Pasquali Cerioli, Jlia
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2021

description: Gli interventi degli autorevoli relatori al convegno odierno mi suggeriscono di disattendere il compito che gli organizzatori della giornata mi hanno benevolmente affidato. Non credo infatti sia possibile azzardare alcuna conclusione, oggi, al nostro dibattito su Le minoranze religiose escluse. Il pluralismo religioso in Italia tra politica e diritto; con un'eccezione che credo sia difficilmente discutibile: il mutamento della geografia delle fedi nel nostro Paese necessita di un'analisi degli strumenti, anche giuridici, di inclusione aggiornata alle caratteristiche, del tutto peculiari, di una società ormai modellata sull'iperrealtà. (Not a) Conclusion: three issues regarding minorities and positive '"laicità" in the current Twenties ABSTRACT: Closing a debate on religious minorities, the Author poses three central issues for further investigation: the notion of minority itself, the politicisation of relations between the State and religious denominations and the contemporary evolution of positive "laicità".
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2021: 5 luglio
Group theoretic formulation of complementarity
Creators: name: Vaccaro, J. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We generalize Bohr's complementarity principle for wave and particle properties to arbitrary quantum systems. We begin by noting that a particle-like state is represented by a spatially-localized wave function and its narrow probability density is displaced by spatial translations. In contrast a wave-like state is represented by a spatially-delocalized wave function and the corresponding broad position probability density is invariant to spatial translations. The wave-particle dichotomy can therefore be seen as a competition between displacement and invariance of the state with respect to spatial translations. We generalize this dichotomy to arbitrary quantum systems with finite dimensional Hilbert spaces as follows. We use arbitrary finite symmetry groups to represent transformations of the quantum system. The symmetry (i.e. invariance) or asymmetry (i.e. displacement) of a given state with respect to transformations of the group are identified with the generalized wave and particle nature, respectively. We adopt a measure of wave and particle properties based on the amount of information that can be encoded in the symmetric and asymmetric parts of the state.
description: This paper appeared in a conference proceedings which is not widely available. 4 pages
I sikh, 'calvinisti' in Val Padana
Creators: name: Naso, Paolo
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2021

description: SOMMARIO: 1. Premessa - 2. L’etica del lavoro - 3. I simboli identitari - 4. Il gurdwara come risorsa sociale - 5. Il kirpan - 6. Il valore di un riconoscimento. Sikhs, Calvinists in the Po Valley ABSTRACT: Sikhs are an important component of the New Religious Pluralism (NRP) that, especially due to the migratory flows of last decades, we record in Italy today. Many Sikh workers are employed in the dairy farming sector and, at least in the North of the country, they appear to be well integrated. This process has been facilitated by strict work ethics grounded in their theology. Nevertheless, to date the Sikh community has not been legally recognized as a religious body. Efforts by Sikh representatives to adopt a kirpan (ritual dagger) compatible with Italian law have not produced the desired results. However, there is still an urgent need for legal recognition of a faith community that has achieved important and successful integration processes in just a few decades.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2021: 5 luglio
Le nuove Chiese evangeliche e pentecostali in Italia, senza fissa dimora, esposte a ragionevoli discriminazioni
Creators: name: Pace, Enzo
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2021

description: SOMMARIO: 1. Premessa - 2. Il complesso mondo protestante in Italia - 3. Come pensano le istituzioni - 4. Conclusione. The new Evangelical and Pentecostal Churches in Italy, homeless, exposed to reasonable discrimination ABSTRACT: The religious geography in Italy is changing. It is not only Islam, and the growth of the parishes of the various Orthodox Churches, that makes the religious panorama more lively. The spread of many and different Evangelical and Pentecostal Churches represent a sign of renewed vitality for the historical minority Churches that refer to the Reformation present for a long time. These new Churches have been able to rely on the hospitality offered by the various Protestant Churches. Another part, perhaps the most substantial, had to wander from one place to another, more or less precarious or resulting, to be able to offer their faithful a religious service worthy of the name. The article focuses on these homeless Churches exposed to the double contingency of being, on the one hand, more easily the target of reasonable discrimination by Regions and local authorities and, for another, without sufficient voice of the many small communities of believers. The public institutions continue to represent the socio-religious reality following the Ptolemaic scheme that considers the existence of a majority religion, Catholicism, versus small religious minorities, without asking whether this perspective can manage the diversity of increasing religious diversities.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2021: 5 luglio
Estrella d’Alva: um jornal ao serviço do nacionalismo católico (1901-1902)
Creators: name: Moura, Maria Lúcia De Brito
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2007

description: O Estrella d’Alva – que, nos inícios do século XX, foi publicado em Loriga, freguesia do concelho de Seia – não era um vulgar periódico defensor dos interesses locais. A equipa responsável pelo seu lançamento tinha em vista muito mais do que isso. Desejava que o jornal tivesse uma função pedagógica: fazer sair da indiferença política as populações, incitando-as a uma maior participação – especialmente através do voto – na administração regional e central, em ordem à moralização da vida pública, de acordo com os princípios defendidos pela Igreja Católica, vista como o grande suporte da estabilidade e da moral pública e privada. Era este o combate do médico e militante católico António Mendes Lages, conhecido pelo seu empenhamento na procura de soluções para a questão social, que se tornará o principal responsável pelo Estrella d’Alva. O periódico é mais uma voz dos que, defendendo uma “vida nova” para o país, lançam as bases do Partido Nacionalista que, segundo esperam, congregará os católicos para a grande tarefa de redenção nacional.
description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 19-20 (2007): Correntes Cristãs, Política e Missionação nos Séculos XIX e XX
SDO Observations of Magnetic Reconnection at Coronal Hole Boundaries
Creators: name: Yang, Shuhong
name: Zhang, Jun
name: Li, Ting
name: Liu, Yang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: With the observations from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) and the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) aboard the \emph{Solar Dynamics Observatory}, we investigate the coronal hole boundaries (CHBs) of an equatorial extension of polar coronal hole. At the CHBs, lots of extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) jets, which appear to be the signatures of magnetic reconnection, are observed in the 193 Å images, and some jets occur repetitively at the same sites. The evolution of the jets is associated with the emergence and cancelation of magnetic fields. We notice that both the east and the west CHBs shift westward, and the shift velocities are close to the velocities of rigid rotation compared with those of the photospheric differential rotation. This indicates that magnetic reconnection at CHBs results in the evolution of CHBs and maintains the rigid rotation of coronal holes.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in ApJL
Additional file 1 of Unattractive faces are more attractive when the bottom-half is masked, an effect that reverses when the top-half is concealed
Creators: name: Pazhoohi, Farid
name: Kingstone, Alan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Table S1. Estimates for the Effects of Facial Mask, Stimuli Sex, Participant Sex and Stimuli Attractiveness (Low vs. High) on the Ratings of Attractiveness in Young Faces. Table S2. Estimates for the Effects of Facial Mask, Stimuli Sex, Participant Sex and Stimuli Attractiveness (Low vs. High) on the Ratings of Attractiveness in Old Faces. Table S3. Estimates for the Effects of Face (Half vs. Full), Stimuli Sex, Participant Sex and Stimuli Attractiveness (Low vs. High) on the Ratings of Attractiveness. Table S4. Estimates for the Effects of Face (Lower Half vs. Full), Stimuli Sex, Participant Sex and Stimuli Attractiveness (Low vs. High) on the Ratings of Attractiveness.
A palavra e a implantação da República no Brasil: entre a neutralidade política como princípio e a militância
Creators: name: Gonçalves, Eduardo Cordeiro
Publisher: name: Lusitania Sacra
Year: 2007

description: Surgido em 1 de Agosto de 1872, no seio de um grupo de católicos radicado no Porto e liderado pelo conde de Samodães, o jornal A Palavra definiu-se desde o seu início como um título «exclusivamente religioso» e equidistante das questões políticas, para as quais considerava haver já «jornais políticos» onde os «indivíduos que [formavam aquele] grupo católico [poderiam] expender à vontade as suas opiniões particulares». Esta posição de neutralidade política é, pois, característica basilar daquele título católico portuense, isto no plano dos princípios, embora em momentos vários tivesse dado lugar a um certo engajamento por via de pontuais necessidades «operacionais». Um desses momentos está intimamente relacionado com as posições assumidas face às notícias da implantação do regime republicano no Brasil.
description: Lusitania Sacra, n. 19-20 (2007): Correntes Cristãs, Política e Missionação nos Séculos XIX e XX