cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Technological Afterlife: Religious Imagery, Digital Reincarnation and the Representation of the Posthuman in Westworld.
Creators: name: Fernández Menicucci, Amaya
Publisher: name: Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media
Year: 2021

description: In this paper, I intend to explore the way in which the creators of the HBO series Westworld, Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, provide the viewer with both Transhumanist and Posthumanist representations of posthuman selves that break the mind-body continuum only to recreate it by means of a different ‘body’ and across multiple dimensions. Specifically, I argue that, by resorting to a significant number of religious images, Westworld presents us with a technological rendition of an afterlife that encompasses both the digital sublimation of human consciousness and its material reincarnation in cyborgs. Given the dialectical relationship between the emergence of consciousness in cyborgs and the embedment of the human consciousness in the material, I approach my analysis of the relationship between bodies, religious imagery and cultural discourse from Donna Haraway’s revisited notion of the “cyborg”, and from Rosi Braidotti’s and Francesca Ferrando’s understanding of the posthuman as a critical subject in a post-secular, post-anthropocentric world.
description: Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media, No 5 (2021): Religion, Mobilities and Belongings & Other Essays
Observations of the X-ray Burster MX 0836-42 by the INTEGRAL and RXTE Orbiting Observatories
Creators: name: Chelovekov, I. V.
name: Lutovinov, A. A.
name: Grebenev, S. A.
name: Sunyaev, R. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of our study of the emission from the transient burster MX 0836-42 using its observations by the INTEGRAL and RXTE X-ray and gamma-ray observatories in the period 2003-2004. The source's broadband X-ray spectrum in the energy range 3-120 keV has been obtained and investigated for the first time. We have detected 39 X-ray bursts from this source. Their analysis shows that the maximum 3-20 keV flux varies significantly from burst to burst, F ~ (0.5-1.5)x10^{-8} erg cm^{-2} s^{-1}. Using the flux at the maximum of the brightest detected burst, we determined an upper limit for the distance to the source, D ~ 8 kpc.
description: 22 pages, 6 figures
Compassionate, Gentler Sci-Fi: Extraterrestrial, Interspecies’ Dialogue (EID) in Becky Chambers’ Wayfarers Series
Creators: name: Admirand, Peter
Publisher: name: Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media
Year: 2021

description: After a brief overview of Becky Chambers’ the Wayfarers series, I will focus on character-catharses in the four novels that highlight interactions with some ‘other’, demanding reassessment, if not movement towards greater interspecies communion and awareness. While applying the new field of astrotheology, I will first sketch what I call extraterrestrial, interspecies’ dialogue (EID) and touch upon key modes and methods of interreligious dialogue. Ultimately, I will contend why and how these compassionate works of gentler science fiction can be valuable today for interreligious and intercultural encounters, providing examples to both emulate and mirror. Linked to this journal issue’s special theme is also how and why such interfaith and intercultural encounters are relevant to mobility studies. In short, they expand and enhance both inner and outer growth, providing impetus for building bridges across societal and religious divides.
description: Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media, No 5 (2021): Religion, Mobilities and Belongings & Other Essays
Jūḥannā, Menassī: Buch des vollkommenen Beweises für die Wahrheit des Glaubens
Creators: name: Graf, G.
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 30 Nr. 2 (1933): Oriens christianus, Band 30, Heft 2
Impulsive waves in ghost free infinite derivative gravity in anti-de Sitter spacetime
Creators: name: Dengiz, Suat
name: Kilicarslan, Ercan
name: Kolář, Ivan
name: Mazumdar, Anupam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study exact impulsive gravitational waves propagating in anti-de Sitter spacetime in the context of the ghost free infinite derivative gravity. We show that the source-free theory does not admit any AdS wave solutions other than that of Einstein's general relativity. The situation is significantly different in the presence of sources. We construct impulsive-wave solutions of the infinite derivative gravity generated by massless particles and linear sources in four and three dimensions. The singularities corresponding to distributional curvature at the locations of the sources get smeared by the non-localities. The obtained solutions are regular everywhere. They reduce to the corresponding solutions of general relativity in the infrared regime and in the local limit.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures, minor corrections and references added, Published in Phys.Rev. D
Appendix 2. (continued 1). Central sagging of a giant mafic intrusion: the Ediacaran Sept Îles Layered Intrusion (Québec, Canada)
Creators: name: O. Bolle
name: H. Diot
name: W. Fransen
name: M.D. Higgins
Publisher: name: Geological Society of London
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Appendix 2. (continued 1).
Inelastic X-ray scattering studies of phonon dispersions in superconductors at high pressures
Creators: name: Souliou, S. M.
name: Bosak, A.
name: Garbarino, G.
name: Tacon, M. Le
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Electron-phonon interaction is of central importance for the electrical and heat transport properties of metals, and is directly responsible for charge-density-waves or (conventional) superconducting instabilities. The direct observation of phonon dispersion anomalies across electronic phase transitions can provide insightful information regarding the mechanisms underlying their formation. Here, we review the current status of phonon dispersion studies in superconductors under hydrostatic and uniaxial pressure. Advances in the instrumentation of high resolution inelastic X-ray scattering beamlines and pressure generating devices allow these measurements to be performed routinely at synchrotron beamlines worldwide.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures. Invited review submitted to Superconductor Science and Technology, Focus issue on Hydride & High-Pressure Superconductors. References in figure caption fixed. Hyperlinks added
Are CAP Decoupling Policies Really Production Neutral?
Creators: name: Katranidis, Stelios D.
name: Kotakou, Christina A.
name: Katranidis, Stelios D.
name: Kotakou, Christina A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: CAP
subject: decoupling
subject: uncertainty

description: This paper examines the effects of decoupling policies on Greek cotton production. We estimate a system of cotton supply and input derived demand functions under the hypothesis that producers face uncertainty about prices. Using our estimation results we simulate the effects on cotton production under four alternative policy scenarios: the ‘Old’ CAP regime (i.e. the policy practiced until 2005), the Mid Term Review regime, a fully decoupled policy regime and a free trade-no policy scenario. Our results indicate that cotton production gradually decreases as more decoupled policies are adopted. Moreover, the fully decoupled payment is found to be non-production neutral since it indirectly affects producers’ decisions through the wealth effect.
Global geometric deformations of current algebras as Krichever-Novikov type algebras
Creators: name: Fialowski, Alice
name: Schlichenmaier, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 17B66; 17B56; 17B65; 17B68; 14D15; 14H52; 30F30, 81T40

description: We construct algebraic-geometric families of genus one (i.e. elliptic) current and affine Lie algebras of Krichever-Novikov type. These families deform the classical current, respectively affine Kac-Moody Lie algebras. The construction is induced by the geometric process of degenerating the elliptic curve to singular cubics. If the finite-dimensional Lie algebra defining the infinite dimensional current algebra is simple then, even if restricted to local families, the constructed families are non-equivalent to the trivial family. In particular, we show that the current algebra is geometrically not rigid, despite its formal rigidity. This shows that in the infinite-dimensional Lie algebra case the relations between geometric deformations, formal deformations and Lie algebra two-cohomology are not that close as in the finite-dimensional case. The constructed families are e.g. of relevance in the global operator approach to the Wess-Zumino-Witten-Novikov models appearing in the quantization of Conformal Field Theory.
description: 35 pages, AMS-Latex
Jan-Jonathan Bock, John Fahy, and Samuel Everett, editors. Emerging Religious Pluralisms. Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, pp. 325.
Creators: name: Papageorgiou, Niki
Publisher: name: Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media
Year: 2021

description: Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media, No 5 (2021): Religion, Mobilities and Belongings & Other Essays
Haefeli, Leo: Die Peschita des Alten Testaments mit Rücksicht auf ihre textkritische Bearbeitung und Herausgabe
Creators: name: Euringer, Sebastian
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 30 Nr. 2 (1933): Oriens christianus, Band 30, Heft 2
Mapping the Decoupling : Transfer Efficiency of the Single Farm Payment Scheme
Creators: name: Courleux, F.
name: Guyomard, Herve
name: Piet, Laurent
name: Courleux, F.
name: Guyomard, Herve
name: Piet, Laurent
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Single Farm Payment
subject: transfer efficiency
subject: surplus transformation curve

description: This paper focuses on the question of the transfer efficiency of the SFP scheme and represents graphically the results of an analytical framework with the seminal Surplus Transformation Curve initiated by Josling (1974) and developed by Gardner (1983). The special feature of the SFP scheme resides in the paradox that exists between the tradability of the entitlements and the activation constraint that creates a particular link to the land. The main result is that redistributive effects between landowners and farmers depend on the total number of entitlements, so they have to be considered as a lever to increase the transfer efficiency of the scheme.
From Meaning to Metaphor: Reading Exile and Faith in Zia Haider Rahman's 'In the Light of What We Know'
Creators: name: Thakur, Chinmaya Lal
Publisher: name: Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media
Year: 2021

description: Zia Haider Rahman’s acclaimed novel In the Light of What We Know has been interpreted as a nuanced negotiation of exile, belongingness, and the limits of epistemology carried out in the backdrop of events like the 9/11 attacks and the Global Financial Crisis of 2008. What most commentators have missed, however, is the nature of the ‘consolation’ that its protagonist Zafar achieves as its narrative comes to the point of conclusion. The present paper argues that Zafar’s realization—that humans are essentially incapable of grasping the nature of things—is not only the consequence of his exilic circumstance marked by disruptive global events. Rather, the awareness is also on account of his coming to experience and invest his faith in someone outside of himself. This paper suggests that Zafar comprehends the limits to human endeavor and agency, and expresses his faith in metaphors, metaphors like trust and faith, that provide him the bare minimum to continue with the business of living.
description: Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media, No 5 (2021): Religion, Mobilities and Belongings & Other Essays
Divisibility Theory and Complexity of Algorithms in Free Partially Commutative Groups
Creators: name: Esyp, E. S.
name: Kazachkov, I. V.
name: Remeslennikov, V. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20E06; 20F05; 20F10

description: The original version of the paper was published in Contemporary Mathematics 378 ``Groups, Languages, Algorithms''; 2005, pp. 319-348. This is a modified version with Appendix that holds a corrected formulation of Proposition 4.1.
description: 43 pages, Appendix included
Managing nitrate pollution in a Tunisian irrigated area: A multi-criteria analysis approach
Creators: name: Laajimi, Abderraouf
name: Ben Nasr, J.
name: Ferchichi, M.
name: Laajimi, Abderraouf
name: Ben Nasr, J.
name: Ferchichi, M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Nitrate pollution
subject: environmental impact
subject: multicriteria analysis

description: In Tunisia, the extension of irrigated area is justified by its important role in the development and diversification of agricultural production. Nevertheless, the strong intensification of the agricultural activities may lead to the pollution of underground water resources due to an excess use of fertilisers and other chemical products. In fact, the high nitrate concentrations observed in some Tunisian irrigated areas, are related to the excessive use of nitrate fertilizers in intensive agriculture. The objective of the present study is to implement decision-making methods allowing a better combination of factors production by optimization of an economic objective and an environmental objective. This research is based on multi-criteria modelling through the optimization of two conflict objectives: an economic objective as settled by farmer in the short or medium-run (Gross margin), and an environmental objective (nitrate pollution reduction) as a long-run objective of the decision maker in order to ensure the continuity of agriculture activities and ecosystems sustainability. Data were collected through a survey conducted in the irrigated area of Kalaât El Andalous in Tunisia with a sample containing 57 farms. Efficient solutions were obtained and compared through the "constraints", "NISE" and "compromises" methods. Main results obtained indicate a significant degree of conflict between these two objectives. Indeed the maximization of the total gross margin involves an increase in the degrees of nitrate pollution and conversely. Finally, some policy implications are presented.
Detection of Macroscopic Entanglement by Correlation of Local Observables
Creators: name: Shimizu, Akira
name: Morimae, Tomoyuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a correlation of local observables on many sites in macroscopic quantum systems. By measuring the correlation one can detect, if any, superposition of macroscopically distinct states, which we call macroscopic entanglement, in arbitrary quantum states that are (effectively) homogeneous. Using this property, we also propose an index of macroscopic entanglement.
description: Although the index q was proposed for mixed states, it is also applicable to pure states, on which we fix minor bugs (that will be reported in PRL as erratum). The conclusions of the paper remain unchanged. (4 pages, no figures.)
Janne Lahti and Rebecca Weaver-Hightower, editors. Cinematic Settlers: The Settler Colonial World in Film. Routledge, 2020, pp. 218.
Creators: name: Dimitriadis, Giorgos
Publisher: name: Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media
Year: 2021

description: Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media, No 5 (2021): Religion, Mobilities and Belongings & Other Essays
Unconditional two-mode squeezing of separated atomic ensembles
Creators: name: Parkins, A. S.
name: Solano, E.
name: Cirac, J. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose schemes for the unconditional preparation of a two-mode squeezed state of effective bosonic modes realized in a pair of atomic ensembles interacting collectively with optical cavity and laser fields. The scheme uses Raman transitions between stable atomic ground states and under ideal conditions produces pure entangled states in the steady state. The scheme works both for ensembles confined within a single cavity and for ensembles confined in separate, cascaded cavities.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures
Journeys toward becoming teachers : subtitle charting the course of professional development
Creators: name: Jarvis-Selinger, Sandra
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The purpose of this study was threefold: 1) to illustrate how preservice teachers undergo identity transformations toward becoming teachers, 2) to understand the challenges these preservice teachers face as they navigate their B.Ed, program and 3) to identify potential impacts of prior perspectives on their journeys and challenges. Twenty-three secondary preservice teachers completed the Teaching Perspectives Inventory (TPI) twice and were interviewed twice over the course of their one-year B.Ed, program. TPI data were analyzed using a pre/post design along with comparisons of dominant teaching perspectives held at the beginning and end of the program. Analyses of the TPI data revealed an increase in participants' grouped mean scores on the Developmental perspective. The comparison of dominant perspectives showed that by the end of the program two shifts were evident: seven of twenty-three participants held no dominant teaching perspective and ten moved away from their initial dominant perspective to another dominant one. The multidimensional nature of these movements was reinforced by the analysis of interview data. Relying on a constant comparative method the interview analysis revealed the importance of participants' perceptions of their teaching identity and their commitment to the profession. These two dimensions were used to 'profile' participants in terms of their position at the beginning of the program and the changes (journeys) participants made over the course of their teacher education. The analysis of participants' journeys reinforced the notion of multidimensionality. Participants began with various levels of a teacher identity and a variety of reasons for why they began teacher education. Similarly, participants ended the program with different perceptions of themselves as teachers and wanted to engage in a variety of different teaching careers options (i.e., full time contract, teacher-on-call). The final analysis focused on what challenges participants experienced over the course of their teacher education program. Three themes emerged from the analysis: structural, professional, and role challenges. Initial perceptions of teacher identity strongly differentiated how participants experienced the challenges.
1_A Novel ICT Tool For Interactive Learning For.pdf
Creators: name: Phade, Gayatri
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 99902 Engineering Instrumentation
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies
subject: Computer Engineering

description: Abstract— According to survey of India today, the present engineering education system, is now concluded to be insufficient to fulfil t hecurrent industrial market requirements. It is due to lack of required skill sets in the students. Talking about some engineer ing students,initially they anticipates some courses are difficult courses as an example, Electronics Engineering. Thus teaching such subj ects becomesquite a challenging task for the teacher. Effective teaching learning of an engineering education mainly depends on theoretical andpractical knowledge. As an example, Electronics Engineering includes logical and conceptual subjects in which things are to be imaginedand visualized. Classroom teaching is provided through real papers, or books with additional web links, videos, or presentations, or static3D model, simulations software helps up to some extent. Still there is need to develop some ICT based tools for conceptual understandingof the subject. Augmented Reality (AR) is one of the platforms to develop an ICT based tools. AR provides integration of both real andvirtual world. Proposed system is developed using AR with which it is possible to find solutions to both the theoretical as well as practicalapproach by embossing the 4D images in the real world that include sound. Since high-end AR applications could be used on smartphones, Tablet PC’s etc., updated knowledge regarding the subjects can be easily made available for the students to understand theconcept. This paper explores design and development of a novel and interactive ICT tool using AR. It include concept of AR Labs and ARclassroom for engineering students. With this, AR Classroom which are virtual class room, will be available in student’s smart phone in theform of Mobile Application and AR Labs for lab experimentation will also be there whose output can be seen on Desktop or projector too.
Electronic Supplementary Material from Science-based approach to using growth rate to assess coral performance and restoration outcomes
Creators: name: Edmunds, Peter J.
name: Putnam, Hollie M.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Science
subject: Ecology

description: Additional methodological details and supporting analyses
A Postsecular Poetics of Dislocation: Secularism and Religion in the Indian-American Poetry of Meena Alexander
Creators: name: Ratti, Manav
Publisher: name: Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media
Year: 2021

description: This article examines the work of Indian-American poet Meena Alexander (1951-2018), one of postcolonial India’s foremost poets, and argues that Alexander’s combination of religion and secularism in her poetry gestures toward postsecular possibilities and conditions, especially as such postsecularism emerges from the worldly crises and violence of the twenty-first century. The secularisms that inform Alexander’s work include state secularism in postcolonial India, and political and philosophical secularism in the west, especially in the US. In addition to these senses of secularism, I explore the secular as worldly, material, and historical, all three of which include the embodiments of gender, race, migration, and dislocation, especially as Alexander describes them in her collection of essays Poetics of Dislocation (2009). How can postcolonial poetry gesture toward, explore, and search for—in highly personal, experimental ways—some sense of affirmative values in the wake of the dissatisfactions and disenchantments of philosophical secularism, while retaining the inclusive, democratic aspirations of political secularism (as non-establishment of religion in the state)? What values and aesthetic forms—however precarious, fragile, and tentative—emerge for the postcolonial, transnational, dislocated poet, values that cannot return to the ideologies of religions that have so fueled violence?
description: Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media, No 5 (2021): Religion, Mobilities and Belongings & Other Essays
Consequences of the background in piezoresponse force microscopy on the imaging of ferroelectric domain structures
Creators: name: Jungk, T.
name: Hoffmann, A.
name: Soergel, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The interpretation of ferroelectric domain images obtained with piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) is discussed. The influences of an inherent experimental background on the domain contrast in PFM images (enhancement, nulling, inversion) as well as on the shape and the location of the domain boundaries are described. We present experimental results to evidence our analysis of the influence of the background on the domain contrast in PFM images.
Public Policy and Farm-level Strategies for Coexistence in Germany – A Case Study of Bt-maize in Brandenburg
Creators: name: Consmuller, Nicola
name: Beckmann, Volker
name: Schleyer, Christian
name: Consmuller, Nicola
name: Beckmann, Volker
name: Schleyer, Christian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: coexistence
subject: ex-ante regulation and ex-post liability
subject: Germany

description: The regulatory framework for growing GM crops in Germany comprises quite liberal ex-ante regulations with very strict ex-post liability rules to protect other production forms from possible negative side effects of transgenic plants. Regulation is assumed to impose additional costs on farmers who intend to plant Bt-maize. This paper investigates the significance of these costs and the possibility of minimizing them by farm-level strategies such as coordination and cooperation between the Bt-maize growing farmer and his neighbours. A case study investigating the behaviour of Bt-maize growing farmers was carried out in the Oderbruch region in the federal state of Brandenburg, Germany. This region is leading in Bt-maize cultivation in Germany and has a high incidence of the European Corn Borer (Ostrinia nubilalis Hübner). The interviews revealed that additional costs due to ex-ante regulation and ex-post liability were only of minor importance to the Bt-maize growing farmers. All farms were large-scale and could easily manage the construction of buffer zones within their own fields and deliberately avoided the planting of Bt-maize close to their neighbours. Thus advanced inter-farm coordination and cooperation was not necessary to achieve coexistence. However, the fact that Bt-maize was only grown on large-scale farms indicates a significant threshold effect due to the regulatory framework in Germany likely to prevent small-scale farms from planting Bt-maize unless innovative farm-level strategies of coexistence will be developed.
Introduction: Religion, Mobilities and Belonging: From Postcolonial Narratives to Posthuman Worlds
Creators: name: Roupakia, Efthymia-Lydia
name: Sideri, Eleni
Publisher: name: Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media
Year: 2021

description: Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media, No 5 (2021): Religion, Mobilities and Belongings & Other Essays
Double Prioritized State Recycled Experience Replay
Creators: name: Bu, Fanchen
name: Chang, Dong Eui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Experience replay enables online reinforcement learning agents to store and reuse the previous experiences of interacting with the environment. In the original method, the experiences are sampled and replayed uniformly at random. A prior work called prioritized experience replay was developed where experiences are prioritized, so as to replay experiences seeming to be more important more frequently. In this paper, we develop a method called double-prioritized state-recycled (DPSR) experience replay, prioritizing the experiences in both training stage and storing stage, as well as replacing the experiences in the memory with state recycling to make the best of experiences that seem to have low priorities temporarily. We used this method in Deep Q-Networks (DQN), and achieved a state-of-the-art result, outperforming the original method and prioritized experience replay on many Atari games.
Detuning effects in the one-photon mazer
Creators: name: Bastin, Thierry
name: Martin, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The quantum theory of the mazer in the non-resonant case (a detuning between the cavity mode and the atomic transition frequencies is present) is written. The generalization from the resonant case is far from being direct. Interesting effects of the mazer physics are pointed out. In particular, it is shown that the cavity may slow down or speed up the atoms according to the sign of the detuning and that the induced emission process may be completely blocked by use of a positive detuning. It is also shown that the detuning adds a potential step effect not present at resonance and that the use of positive detunings defines a well-controlled cooling mechanism. In the special case of a mesa cavity mode function, generalized expressions for the reflection and transmission coefficients have been obtained. The general properties of the induced emission probability are finally discussed in the hot, intermediate and cold atom regimes. Comparison with the resonant case is given.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures
The Potential for Canadian Branded Beef Steaks in the U.S. Market: Results from an Experimental Auction
Creators: name: Feuz, Dillon M.
name: Umberger, Wendy J.
name: Calkins, Chris R.
name: Feuz, Dillon M.
name: Umberger, Wendy J.
name: Calkins, Chris R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The economic health of the Canadian beef industry is dependent upon exports. The U.S. market is the largest export market (over 70 percent of export volume) for Canadian beef. Imports of Canadian beef are equivalent to only about 4 percent of domestic U.S. production; however, many U.S. producers believe imports are having a negative impact on the market for domestic beef. They are disturbed that imported beef sold in the United States is not differentiated from domestic beef. The U.S. Congress passed legislation included in the 2002 U.S. Farm Bill creating a mandatory country-of-origin labeling (COOL) program for beef. The Canadian beef industry has viewed U.S. efforts to establish mandatory COOL as potentially having a negative effect on the market for Canadian beef and as a trade barrier; however, if some consumers preferred the taste of Canadian beef or felt that it was a superior product because of other product attributes, it could sell at a premium in the U.S. market.
Reparametrization invariance and Hamilton-Jacobi formalism
Creators: name: Baleanu, Dumitru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Systems invariant under the reparametrization of time were treated as constrained systems within Hamilton-Jacobi formalism. After imposing the integrability conditions the time-dependent Schrödinger equation was obtained. Three examples are investigated in details.
description: 7 pages, LATEX
‘This Is Our Church’: Mediating Religious Beliefs, Ceremonial Practices and Multiple Mobilities in Louise Erdrich’s The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
Creators: name: Martanovschi, Ludmila
Publisher: name: Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media
Year: 2021

description: In Louise Erdrich’s fiction, the consequences of religious conversion and the American Indian resilience in the face of this form of European colonization often emerge as central concerns, The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse (2001) being a notable case. The current study examines the relationship between Agnes/Father Damien and the Ojibwe community s/he serves, once s/he relocates to the reservation, demonstrating that the two form a profound relationship through constant mediation and that the latter determines transformations in the very nature of the former’s beliefs, this process ultimately representing a conversion to the American Indian religion. Thus, the essay explores the protagonist’s literal, religious, cultural and gender-connected mobilities, looking at the cleric’s multiple transgressions of boundaries. Born a woman, Agnes DeWitt experiences the world from the perspective of a nun, Sister Cecilia, and finally adopts the identity of a priest, Father Damien Modeste, as a way to escape tragedy. On the reservation s/he shows tolerance towards the locals’ approach to Christianity while her/his parishioners allow her/him access to ancestral ceremonial practices and give her/him a sense of belonging.
description: Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media, No 5 (2021): Religion, Mobilities and Belongings & Other Essays
Present status of controversies regarding the thermal Casimir force
Creators: name: Mostepanenko, V. M.
name: Bezerra, V. B.
name: Decca, R. S.
name: Geyer, B.
name: Fischbach, E.
name: Klimchitskaya, G. L.
name: Krause, D. E.
name: Lopez, D.
name: Romero, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is well known that, beginning in 2000, the behavior of the thermal correction to the Casimir force between real metals has been hotly debated. As was shown by several research groups, the Lifshitz theory, which provides the theoretical foundation for the calculation of both the van der Waals and Casimir forces, leads to different results depending on the model of metal conductivity used. To resolve these controversies, the theoretical considerations based on the principles of thermodynamics and new experimental tests were invoked. We analyze the present status of the problem (in particular, the advantages and disadvantages of the approaches based on the surface impedance and on the Drude model dielectric function) using rigorous analytical calculations of the entropy of a fluctuating field. We also discuss the results of a new precise experiment on the determination of the Casimir pressure between two parallel plates by means of a micromechanical torsional oscillator.
description: 14 pages, 1 figure, iopart.cls is used, to appear in J. Phys. A (special issue: Proceedings of QFEXT05, Barcelona, Sept. 5-9, 2005)
Religion, Belonging, and Social Mobility in Civil Rights Era Birmingham, Alabama
Creators: name: Manis, Andrew M.
Publisher: name: Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media
Year: 2021

description: This project narrates the story of Greek-Americans' reactions to the historic civil rights movement in perhaps its most important nerve centers, Birmingham, Alabama. In 1960 Archbishop Iakovos placed in that racial hotbed a young priest named Father Soterios “Sam” Gouvellis, who served the Holy Trinity-Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Church during the most volatile years of the black freedom struggle. Father Sam joined the ad hoc ministerial group whose letter to Martin Luther King Jr. spawned the famous Letter from Birmingham Jail. Gouvellis became involved with the black freedom struggle in Birmingham and eventually marched with King and Archbishop Iakovos in Selma. This project will tell the story of how Gouvellis and his congregation negotiated the mysteries of evangelical religion in the Bible Belt and the enigmas of race in the Jim Crow South. This article distills the argument of what will be the only biography of Gouvellis and one of a very few studies of religion, race, and Greek ethnicity in the American South.
description: Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media, No 5 (2021): Religion, Mobilities and Belongings & Other Essays
2D ferromagnetism at finite temperatures under quantum scrutiny
Creators: name: Vanherck, Joren
name: Bacaksiz, Cihan
name: Sorée, Bart
name: Milošević, Milorad V.
name: Magnus, Wim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent years have seen a tremendous rise of two-dimensional (2D) magnetic materials, several of which verified experimentally. However, most of the theoretical predictions to date rely on ab-initio methods, at zero temperature and fluctuations-free, while one certainly expects detrimental quantum fluctuations at finite temperatures. Here we present the solution of the quantum Heisenberg model for honeycomb/hexagonal lattices with anisotropic exchange interaction up to third nearest neighbors and in an applied field in arbitrary direction, that answers the question whether long-range magnetization can indeed survive in the ultrathin limit of materials, up to which temperature, and what the characteristic excitation (magnon) frequencies are, all essential to envisaged applications of magnetic 2D materials. We find that long-range magnetic order persists at finite temperature for materials with overall easy-axis anisotropy. We validate the calculations on the examples of monolayer CrI3, CrBr3 and MnSe2. Moreover, we provide an easy-to-use tool to calculate Curie temperatures of new 2D computational materials.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and AIP Publishing. This article appeared in Appl. Phys. Lett. 117, 052401 (2020) and may be found at https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0015619
Comparing Canadian and U.S. Cattle Feeding Pricing Practices and Perceptions of Pricing Issues
Creators: name: Ward, Clement E.
name: Carlberg, Jared G.
name: Brocklebank, Andrea
name: Ward, Clement E.
name: Carlberg, Jared G.
name: Brocklebank, Andrea
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Competition among beef packing firms, use of so-called captive supply, and methods of price discovery have been prolonged, contentious issues in the U.S. beef industry for two decades or more. While of lesser apparent concern in Canada for many years, these same matters rose to the forefront of beef industry issues after the Canada–U.S. border closure that resulted from Canada’s first case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in May 2003.
On Virtual Displacement and Virtual Work in Lagrangian Dynamics
Creators: name: Ray, Subhankar
name: Shamanna, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The confusion and ambiguity encountered by students, in understanding virtual displacement and virtual work, is discussed in this article. A definition of virtual displacement is presented that allows one to express them explicitly for holonomic (velocity independent), non-holonomic (velocity dependent), scleronomous (time independent) and rheonomous (time dependent) constraints. It is observed that for holonomic, scleronomous constraints, the virtual displacements are the displacements allowed by the constraints. However, this is not so for a general class of constraints. For simple physical systems, it is shown that, the work done by the constraint forces on virtual displacements is zero. This motivates Lagrange's extension of d'Alembert's principle to system of particles in constrained motion. However a similar zero work principle does not hold for the allowed displacements. It is also demonstrated that d'Alembert's principle of zero virtual work is necessary for the solvability of a constrained mechanical problem. We identify this special class of constraints, physically realized and solvable, as {\it the ideal constraints}. The concept of virtual displacement and the principle of zero virtual work by constraint forces are central to both Lagrange's method of undetermined multipliers, and Lagrange's equations in generalized coordinates.
description: 12 pages, 10 figures. This article is based on an earlier article physics/0410123. It includes new figures, equations and logical content
Das Problem der Bibelzitate in der syrischen Übersetzungsliteratur
Creators: name: Baumstark, Anton
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 30 Nr. 2 (1933): Oriens christianus, Band 30, Heft 2
Estonian identity, Estonian nationalism : impact of European Union accession
Creators: name: Saarkoppel, Kerstin
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Estonia's history, like that of many European and non-European states, has been marked by years of foreign rule, domination and occupation. These processes have had a tremendous impact on the shaping and the development of Estonian identity. It is through the process of interaction and contact with various other groups, nations and actors, that a given nation is able to define itself, both in relation and in contrast to these various other groups. Identity formation and the respective identity narratives to which the Estonian people prescribe have a great impact in the way that the Estonian nation has been constructed. By identifying these various narratives, and by situating the Estonian experience among them, we are then able to gain a clearer understanding of what 'Estonian' means to the people of the country, and how the international community may interpret it. From this starting point, we are then able to turn to the study of nations and nationalism and to then situate the Estonian experience within the literature. By drawing on the works of both Anthony Smith and Rogers Brubaker, we see how the process of nationalism in Estonia has changed over the past hundred or so years. Smiths' work on the importance of using ethnie to define a nation, and in turn develop nation-building processes has been critical to the historical development of the Estonian nation-state. Meanwhile, in the post-Soviet Union period, this model does not adequately capture the reality of the Estonian society, and thus by looking at Brubakers' triadic nexus, can we then begin to understand the complexity of nationalism in present-day Estonia. With the recent move towards enlargement of the European Union, significant changes are occurring across Europe. These changes will have a huge impact on both the applicant and the current member states. Estonia has been classified as one of the favourites for early EU accession, yet this view is held primarily among the scholars and the elite of the population. Public opinion about EU accession remains relatively low for the average citizen. It is my belief that only by understanding the process of identity formation and it's impact on Estonian nation-building can we begin to interpret what drives these fears of EU accession, and ultimately what EU membership will mean for the people of Estonia.
The Believer’s Gambit: Roman Catholicism and Mobility in Will Arbery’s Heroes of the Fourth Turning
Creators: name: Michiels, Laura
Publisher: name: Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media
Year: 2021

description: Will Arbery’s Heroes of the Fourth Turning (2019) achieved a rare consensus in that it received lavish praise from critics on both sides of the political divide. A finalist for last year’s Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the play introduces us to four young Catholic conservatives, who return to their former college in Wyoming to celebrate the inauguration of their mentor as its president. Arbery’s play is remarkably static, since it consists for the most part of the characters’ protracted arguments about a number of prickly issues, including the link between Catholicism and conservatism or the (non)sense of empathy. In my essay, I will explore the different kinds of mobility that can be found in Arbery’s play, in spite of this seeming lack of movement. I argue that it is possible to view the male characters’ trajectories in terms of retreat, whereas the women both make a problematic advance. Ultimately, what audience members and characters alike are left with is a feeling of ambivalence, which could offer a means to move beyond the political moment the play portrays. Inspired by a comment made by Jesse Green in The New York Times, I used chess terms to map the different kinds of mobility found in the text.
description: Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media, No 5 (2021): Religion, Mobilities and Belongings & Other Essays
Computational Prediction of Muon Stopping Sites: a Novel Take on the Unperturbed Electrostatic Potential Method
Creators: name: Sturniolo, Simone
name: Liborio, Leandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Finding the stopping site of the muon in a muon-spin relaxation experiment is one of the main problems of muon spectroscopy, and computational techniques that make use of quantum chemistry simulations can be of great help when looking for this stopping site. The most thorough approach would require the use of simulations - such as Density Functional Theory (DFT)- to test and optimise multiple possible sites, accounting for the effect that the added muon has on its surroundings. However, this can be computationally expensive and sometimes unnecessary. Hence, in this work we present a software implementation of the Unperturbed Electrostatic Method (UEP), which is an approach used for finding the muon stopping site in crystalline materials that calculates the minima of the electrostatic potential in the crystalline material, and estimates the stopping site of the muon relying on the approximation that the muon presence does not significantly affect its surroundings. One of the main assumptions of the UEP is that the muon stopping site will be one of the electrostatic potential minima in the crystalline material. In this regard, we also propose some symmetry-based considerations about the properties of the electrostatic potential of the crystalline material. In particular, which sites are more likely to be its minima and why the unperturbed approximation may be sufficiently robust for them. We introduce the Python software package pymuon-suite and the various utilities it provides to facilitate these calculations, and finally, we demonstrate the effectiveness of the method with some chosen example systems.
description: 26 pages manuscript and 7 figures. The supplementary information is included in Appendix D
Price Discovery and Captive Supply Implications for the Canadian Beef Industry
Creators: name: Ward, Clement E.
name: Schroeder, Ted C.
name: Ward, Clement E.
name: Schroeder, Ted C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: As cattle markets have transitioned from predominantly cash market sealed-bid or negotiated price discovery to more formula pricing, marketing agreements, forward contracts, and packer-owned cattle feeding, concerns about methods of price discovery for fed cattle have escalated. High levels of concentration in beef packing in Canada were exacerbated by cattle trade restrictions with the United States that limited market access and thus caused further unease with the price discovery process for fed cattle in Canada.