cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Playing with Virtual Reality: Early Adopters of Commercial Immersive Technology
Creators: Foxman, Maxwell Henry
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Communication
Multimedia communications
Virtual reality
Video games

description: This dissertation examines early adopters of mass-marketed Virtual Reality (VR), as well as other immersive technologies, and the playful processes by which they incorporate the devices into their lives within New York City. Starting in 2016, relatively inexpensive head-mounted displays (HMDs) began to be manufactured and distributed by leaders in the game and information technology industries. However, even before these releases, developers and content creators were testing the devices through “development kits.” These de facto early adopters, who are distinctly commercially-oriented, acted as a launching point for the dissertation to scrutinize how, why and in what ways digital technologies spread to the wider public.

      Taking a multimethod approach that combines semi-structured interviews, two years of participant observation, media discourse analysis and autoethnography, the dissertation details a moment in the diffusion of an innovation and how publicity, social forces and industry influence adoption. This includes studying the media ecosystem which promotes and sustains VR, the role of New York City in framing opportunities and barriers for new users, and a description of meetups as important communities where devotees congregate.
      With Game Studies as a backdrop for analysis, the dissertation posits that the blurry relationship between labor and play held by most enthusiasts sustains the process of VR adoption. Their “playbor” colors not only the rhetoric and the focus of meetups, but also the activities, designs, and, most importantly, the financial and personal expenditures they put forth. Ultimately, play shapes the system of production by which adopters of commercial VR are introduced to the technology and, eventually, weave it into their lives. Situating play at the center of this system highlights that the assimilation of digital media is in part an embodied and irrational experience. It also suggests new models by which future innovations will spread to the public.
Aneilema leiocaule K. Schum.
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Commelinales
Commelinaceae
Aneilema
Aneilema leiocaule

description: Aneilema leiocaule K.Schum.  —
Habit: Herb.
Habitat: LMWF, LMDF; up to 2 800 m. Distribution: II.
 Voucher: Near Castle Camp Site, Alt. 2071 m, 30 Jan. 2015, SAJIT 002982 (HIB).
References: Bussmann (1993, 1994), Bussmann & Beck (1995a), Agnew (2013).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 29, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Pyesia Clark 1865
Creators: name: Viswajyothi, Keezhpattillam
name: Clark, Shawn M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Pyesia

description: Genus Pyesia Clark, 1865
Pyesia Clark, 1865: 260 (type species Galeruca laticornis Germar, 1823, by monotypy).
Remarks
After our transferal of two species to Pyesexora gen. nov., Pyesia now contains 13 described species. See Fig. 64 for a habitus illustration. However, Pyesia continues to be a heterogeneous assemblage of species. The following key will enable some of them to be identified as this genus, but perhaps not all of them. Future taxonomic investigation will probably lead to additional species being removed from Pyesia and transferred to other genera (some likely to Uaupesia Bechyné, 1957).
description: Published as part of Viswajyothi, Keezhpattillam & Clark, Shawn M., 2022, New World genera of Galerucinae Latreille, 1802 (tribes Galerucini Latreille, 1802, Metacyclini Chapuis, 1875, and Luperini Gistel, 1848): an annotated list and identification key (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), pp. 1-102 in European Journal of Taxonomy 842 on page 17, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.842.1945, http://zenodo.org/record/7222499
title: Грузоподъемные механизмы и транспортные средства. Расчет и проектирование металлической конструкции мостового крана
title: Учебное пособие для СПО
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Глотов В.А.
Publisher: name: Профобразование, Ай Пи Ар Медиа
Year: 2020

description: В учебном пособии изложены методики расчета на прочность, устойчивость и жесткость несущей металлоконструкции мостовых кранов общего назначения, приведены основные справочные данные, необходимые для расчетов, а также рекомендации по конструированию отдельных элементов и узлов. Подготовлено в соответствии с Федеральным государственным образовательным стандартом среднего профессионального образования. Учебное пособие будет полезно при изучении дисциплины «Грузоподъемные механизмы и транспортные средства» по специальности 15.02.01 «Монтаж и техническая эксплуатация промышленного оборудования (по отраслям)».
Classes of random walks on temporal networks with competing timescales
Creators: name: Petit, Julien
name: Lambiotte, Renaud
name: Carletti, Timoteo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Random walks find applications in many areas of science and are the heart of essential network analytic tools. When defined on temporal networks, even basic random walk models may exhibit a rich spectrum of behaviours, due to the co-existence of different timescales in the system. Here, we introduce random walks on general stochastic temporal networks allowing for lasting interactions, with up to three competing timescales. We then compare the mean resting time and stationary state of different models. We also discuss the accuracy of the mathematical analysis depending on the random walk model and the structure of the underlying network, and pay particular attention to the emergence of non-Markovian behaviour, even when all dynamical entities are governed by memoryless distributions.
description: 16 pages, 5 figures
Conformal Field Theory and Doplicher-Roberts Reconstruction
Creators: name: Mueger, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81T40 (Primary), 81T05, 46L60, 18D10 (Secondary)

description: After a brief review of recent rigorous results concerning the representation theory of rational chiral conformal field theories (RCQFTs) we focus on pairs (A,F) of conformal field theories, where F has a finite group G of global symmetries and A is the fixpoint theory. The comparison of the representation categories of A and F is strongly intertwined with various issues related to braided tensor categories. We explain that, given the representation category of A, the representation category of F can be computed (up to equivalence) by a purely categorical construction. The latter is of considerable independent interest since it amounts to a Galois theory for braided tensor categories. We emphasize the characterization of modular categories as braided tensor categories with trivial center and we state a double commutant theorem for subcategories of modular categories. The latter implies that a modular category M which has a replete full modular subcategory M_1 is equivalent to M_1 x M_2 where M_2=M\cap M_1' is another modular subcategory. On the other hand, the representation category of A is not determined completely by that of F and we identify the needed additional data in terms of soliton representations. We comment on `holomorphic orbifold' theories, i.e. the case where F has trivial representation theory, and close with some open problems. We point out that our approach permits the proof of many conjectures and heuristic results on `simple current extensions' and `holomorphic orbifold models' in the physics literature on conformal field theory.
description: latex, 23 pages, documentclass fic-l, uses diagrams.tex. Final version. Relevance of Turaev's notion of braided crossed G-categories pointed out, otherwise minor changes
title: Строительная механика и металлические конструкции подъёмно-транспортных и строительно-дорожных машин. Проектирование и расчет металлической конструкции мостового крана
title: Учебное пособие
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Глотов В.А.
Publisher: name: Ай Пи Ар Медиа
Year: 2020

description: В учебном пособии по дисциплине «Строительная механика и металлические конструкции подъёмно-транспортных и строительно-дорожных машин» изложены методики расчета на прочность, устойчивость и жесткость несущей металлоконструкции мостовых кранов общего назначения, приведены основные справочные данные, необходимые для расчетов, а также рекомендации по конструированию отдельных элементов и узлов. Подготовлено в соответствии с Федеральным государственным образовательным стандартом высшего образования. Предназначено для студентов, получающих высшее образование по специальности 23.05.01 «Наземные транспортно-технологические средства» (профиль «Подъёмно-транспортные, строительные, дорожные средства и оборудование») очной и заочной форм обучения.
Robust matrix commutator conditions for stability of switched linear systems under restricted switching
Creators: name: Kundu, Atreyee
name: Chatterjee, Debasish
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This article treats global uniform exponential stability (GUES) of discrete-time switched linear systems under restricted switching. Given admissible minimum and maximum dwell times, we provide sufficient conditions on the subsystems under which they admit a set of switching signals that obeys the given restrictions on dwell times and preserves stability of the resulting switched system. Our analysis relies on combinatorial arguments applied to matrix commutators and avoids the employment of Lyapunov-like functions. The proposed set of stabilizing switching signals is characterized in terms of duration of activation of Schur stable subsystems and non-consecutive activation of distinct unstable subsystems.
Tensor Distributions in the Presence of Degenerate Metrics
Creators: name: Dray, Tevian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Tensor distributions and their derivatives are described without assuming the presence of a metric. This provides a natural framework for discussing tensor distributions on manifolds with degenerate metrics, including in particular metrics which change signature.
description: REVTeX, 19 pages; submitted to IJMPD
MOESM1 of Mental health problems both precede and follow bullying among adolescents and the effects differ by gender: a cross-lagged panel analysis of school-based longitudinal data in Vietnam
Creators: name: Le, Ha
name: Tran, Nam
name: Campbell, Marilyn
name: Gatton, Michelle
name: Nguyen, Huong
name: Dunne, Michael
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Summary cross-lagged associations between bullying victimisation and mental health problems among adolescents. Table S2. Multivariate analyses predicting those included in main analyses vs those excluded in main analyses.
Commelina africana L.
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Commelinales
Commelinaceae
Commelina
Commelina africana

description: Commelina africana L.  —
Habit: Herb.
Habitat: LMWF, LMDF; up to 2 900 m. Distribution: II.
 Voucher: Naro Moru Track, Alt. 2 432 m, 23 Jul. 2014, SAJIT 002070 (HIB).
References: Bussmann (1994), Agnew (2013).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 29, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Invasive plants : impacts, pathways and vectors, and best practices
Creators: name: Hougen, C.
name: Woods, S.
name: McCaffrey, J.
name: Romyn, J.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: The Invasive Species Council of BC (ISCBC) is focusing on the mining industry to reduce the spread and introduction of invasive species. Degraded or altered areas of land are particularly vulnerable to invasive plant establishment. The key mining activities linked to invasive plant introduction are often directly related to the reclamation of mining sites. The most effective way of avoiding the substantial costs that invasive species management can have on mining companies is to regulate the practises that introduce them. Some of these practices include the use of unclean mobile equipment, contaminated seed mixes and infested soil or gravel. With the support of current legislation, it is possible to create and implement invasive plant best management practices for the mining industry, similar to those that were created for and are being utilized by the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure. There are a variety of “Weeds and Roads” programs offered by the ISCBC to establish best practises to avoid the introduction and spread of invasive plants. Similar programs can be offered to the managers and operational workers of mining companies. By working together to understand and enforce Best Management Practices (BMPs) that minimize the threats that invasive species pose on mining companies, economic and environmental costs can be avoided.
Additional file 5: of Health status deterioration in subjects with mild to moderate airflow obstruction, a six years observational study
Creators: name: Rodrigues, Fernanda
name: Demeyer, Heleen
name: Loeckx, Matthias
name: Hornikx, Miek
name: Remoortel, Hans Van
name: Janssens, Wim
name: Troosters, Thierry
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Table S5. Spearman correlation between changes in health status and changes in functional outcomes. (DOCX 15 kb)
Sonyadora Bechyne 1958
Creators: name: Viswajyothi, Keezhpattillam
name: Clark, Shawn M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Sonyadora

description: Genus Sonyadora Bechyné, 1958
Sonyadora Bechyné, 1958: 594 (type species Malacosoma quadripustulatum Bowditch, 1925, by original designation).
Remarks
This genus currently includes eleven described species, distributed in Central and South America. See Fig. 60 for a habitus illustration. However, they are rather heterogeneous. Possibly, the following key will not identify some of them as Sonyadora. Future investigation will probably necessitate the transferal of some species to other genera.
description: Published as part of Viswajyothi, Keezhpattillam & Clark, Shawn M., 2022, New World genera of Galerucinae Latreille, 1802 (tribes Galerucini Latreille, 1802, Metacyclini Chapuis, 1875, and Luperini Gistel, 1848): an annotated list and identification key (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), pp. 1-102 in European Journal of Taxonomy 842 on page 17, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.842.1945, http://zenodo.org/record/7222499
Commelina diffusa Burm. f.
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Commelinales
Commelinaceae
Commelina
Commelina diffusa

description: Commelina diffusa Burm.f.  —
Habit: Herb.
Habitat: LMWF, LMDF; up to 2 100 m. Distribution: I.
 Voucher: Near Lake Nkunga, Alt. 1 900 m, 8 Aug. 2015, SAJIT 003846 (HIB).
References: Bussmann (1994), Agnew (2013).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 29, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Ab initio optical potentials and nucleon scattering on medium mass nuclei
Creators: name: Idini, A.
name: Barbieri, C.
name: Navrátil, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive ab initio optical potentials from self-consistent Green's function (SCGF) theory and compute the elastic scattering of neutrons off oxygen and calcium isotopes. The comparison with scattering data is satisfactory at low scattering energies. The method is benchmarked against no-core shell model with continuum (NCSMC) calculations, showing that virtual excitations of the target are crucial to predict proper fragmentation and absorption at higher energies. This is a significant step toward deriving optical potentials for medium mass nuclei and complex many-body systems in general.
Additional file 4: of Health status deterioration in subjects with mild to moderate airflow obstruction, a six years observational study
Creators: name: Rodrigues, Fernanda
name: Demeyer, Heleen
name: Loeckx, Matthias
name: Hornikx, Miek
name: Remoortel, Hans Van
name: Janssens, Wim
name: Troosters, Thierry
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Table S4. Comparison of baseline characteristics between groups with fast and slow decline in health status. (DOCX 14 kb)
Poetry's Afterthought: Kalidasa and the Experience of Reading
Creators: Subramaniam, Shiv K.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Comparative literature
Poetry
Sanskrit literature
Criticism

description: This dissertation concerns the reception of the poet Kalidasa (c. 4th century), one of the central figures in the Sanskrit literary tradition. Since the time he lived and wrote, Kalidasa’s works have provoked many responses of different kinds. I shall examine how three writers contributed to this vast tradition of reception: Kuntaka, a tenth-century rhetorician from Kashmir; Vedantadesika, a South Indian theologian who lived in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries; and Sri Aurobindo, an Indian English writer of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who started out as an anticolonial activist and later devoted his life to spiritual exercises. While these readers lived well after Kalidasa, they were all deeply invested in his poetry. I wish to understand why Kalidasa’s poetry continued to provoke extended responses in writing long after its composition. It is true that readers often use past literary texts to various ends of their own devising, just as they often fall victim to reading texts anachronistically. In contradistinction to such cases, the examples of reading I examine highlight the role that texts themselves, not just their charisma or the mental habits of their readers, can have in constituting the reading process. They therefore urge us to formulate a more robust understanding of textual reception, and to reconsider the contemporary practice of literary criticism.
Semiclassical Dynamics with Exponentially Small Error Estimates
Creators: name: Hagedorn, George A.
name: Joye, Alain
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81Q05

description: We construct approximate solutions to the time--dependent Schrödinger equation $i \hbar (\partial ψ)/(\partial t) = - (\hbar^2)/2 Δψ+ V ψ$ for small values of $\hbar$. If $V$ satisfies appropriate analyticity and growth hypotheses and $|t|\le T$, these solutions agree with exact solutions up to errors whose norms are bounded by $C \exp{-γ/\hbar}$, for some $C$ and $γ>0$. Under more restrictive hypotheses, we prove that for sufficiently small $T', |t|\le T' |\log(\hbar)|$ implies the norms of the errors are bounded by $C' \exp{-γ'/\hbar^σ}$, for some $C', γ'>0$, and $σ>0$.
Structural modification of thin Bi(1 1 1) films by passivation and native oxide model
Creators: name: König, Christian
name: Fahy, Stephen
name: Greer, James C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The structure of thin terminated Bi(1 1 1) films of approximately 1 nm thickness is investigated from first principles. Our density functional theory calculations show that covalent bonds to the surface can change the orientation of the films completely. For thicker films, the effect is limited to the surface only. Based on these observations, we further present a simple model structure for the native oxide and chemically similar oxides, which form a protective capping layer, leaving the orientation of the films unchanged. The advantages of this energetically favorable layered termination are discussed in the context of the films' technological exploitation in nanoelectronic devices.
description: final version
Point Process Models for Heterogeneous Event Time Data
Creators: Wu, Jing
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Point processes
subject: Social structure
subject: Social sciences--Data processing
subject: Online social networks

description: Interaction event times observed on a social network provide valuable information for social scientists to gain insight into complex social dynamics that are challenging to understand. However, it can be difficult to accurately represent the heterogeneity in the data and to model the dependence structure in the network system. This requires flexible models that can capture the complicated dynamics and complex patterns. Point process models offer an elegant framework for modeling event time data. This dissertation concentrates on developing point process models and related diagnostic tools, with a real data application involving an animal behavior network. In this dissertation, we first propose a Markov-modulated Hawkes process (MMHP) model to capture the sporadic and bursty patterns often observed in event time data. A Bayesian inference procedure is developed to evaluate the likelihood by using a variational approximation and the forward-backward algorithm. The validity of the proposed model and associated estimation algorithms is demonstrated using synthetic data and the animal behavior data. Facilitated by the power of the MMHP model, we construct network point process models that can capture a social hierarchy structure by embedding nodes in a latent space that can represent the underlying social ranks. Our model provides a ranking method for social hierarchy studies and describes the dynamics of social hierarchy formation from a novel perspective – taking advantage of the detailed information available in event time data. We show that the network point process models appropriately captures the temporal dynamics and heterogeneity in the network event time data, by providing meaningful inferred rankings and by calibrating the accuracy of predictions with relevant measures of uncertainty. In addition to developing a sensible and flexible model for network event time data, the last part of this dissertation provides essential tools for diagnosing lack of fit issues for such models. We develop a systematic set of diagnostic tools and visualizations for point process models fitted to data in the dynamic network setting. By inspecting the structure of the residual process and Pearson residual on the network, we can validate whether a model adequately captures the temporal and network dependence structures in the observed data.
Decidability of the isomorphism problem for stationary AF-algebras and the associated ordered simple dimension groups
Creators: name: Bratteli, Ola
name: Jorgensen, Palle E. T.
name: Kim, Ki Hang
name: Roush, Fred
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 16D70, 46L35, 58B25

description: The notion of isomorphism of stable AF-C*-algebras is considered in this paper in the case when the corresponding Bratteli diagram is stationary, i.e., is associated with a single square primitive nonsingular incidence matrix. C*-isomorphism induces an equivalence relation on these matrices, called C*-equivalence. We show that the associated isomorphism equivalence problem is decidable, i.e., there is an algorithm that can be used to check in a finite number of steps whether two given primitive nonsingular matrices are C*-equivalent or not.
description: 55 pages, LaTeX2e (amsart class). In this version the main theorem has been extended to possibly singular primitive integer matrixes, and the clarity of the presentation has been improved substantially throughout the paper
Determination of the friction coefficient of a Brownian particle by molecular-dynamics simulation
Creators: name: Kaddour, F. Ould
name: Levesque, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By using the Kirkwood formula, the friction coefficient of a solvated Brownian particle is determined from the integration on time of the autocorrelation function of the force that the solvent exerts on this particle. Extensive molecular dynamics simulations show that above a definite size of the studied systems the value of the integral defining the friction coefficient goes to a quasi constant value (a plateau) when the upper bound on time increases. The minimal value of the system size where the integral exhibits this asymptotic behavior, rises with the Brownian particle size. From the plateau, a reliable estimate of the friction coefficient is obtained.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Poetics, Performance, and Translation in Eastern Cherokee Language Revitalization
Creators: Snyder, Sara LeeAnne
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Cherokee language
Ethnomusicology
Anthropological linguistics
Sociolinguistics
Music
Ethnicity

description: This dissertation examines the creation and performance of expressive vocal practices by Eastern Cherokees as they seek to revitalize the Cherokee language in North Carolina in the Eastern part of the United States. The Eastern Band of Cherokee of Indians is facing the impending loss of its heritage language due to a community-wide shift to English. To combat this loss, the community now operates a Cherokee language immersion school, New Kituwah Academy. This dissertation is based on ethnographic and linguistic data collected during the researcher’s five years as the music and art instructor at New Kituwah. Indigenous epistemologies of language and poetics are brought into discourse with methodological and analytical approaches in ethnomusicology and linguistic anthropology.
      Performative vocal practices are processes through which Eastern Cherokee speakers negotiate what it means to be “modern Kituwah citizens.” Contemporary Cherokee voices emerge from the ambiguities of poetic “language play” in speech and song. “Voice” is both a metaphorical representation of a Cherokee sovereign and an actual materiality produced by embodied, speaking, and singing subjects. The translation of new popular song texts into Cherokee is likewise explored as “working” or “playing” with language. Translation is a poetic process imbedded within broader socio-cultural systems of meaning and perception (ontologies). Translation and vocal play destabilize semantic connections and open up the possibility for alternative interpretations and meanings; they allow for sovereignty to flourish as Cherokees reimagine and reshape themselves and their world.
Commelina eckloniana Kunth
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Commelinales
Commelinaceae
Commelina
Commelina eckloniana

description: Commelina eckloniana Kunth  —
Habit: Herb.
Habitat: LMWF, LMDF; 1 400–2 000 m. Distribution: II.
Voucher: N/A.
Reference: Agnew (2013).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 29, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Poetry and Prayer: Stotras in the Religious and Literary History of Kashmir
Creators: Stainton, Hamsa Michael
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Hindu hymns, Sanskrit
Śaivism
Sanskrit literature
Sanskrit poetry
Religion

description: This dissertation investigates the close connection between poetry and prayer in South Asia by studying the history of Sanskrit hymns of praise (stotras) in Kashmir. It offers a broad introduction to the history and general features of the stotra genre, and it charts the course of these literary hymns in Kashmir from the ninth century to the present. Historically, Kashmir was one of the most dynamic and influential centers of Sanskrit learning and literary production in South Asia. This dissertation focuses on a number of innovative texts from this region, such as Ksemaraja's eleventh-century commentaries and Sahib Kaul's seventeenth-century hymns, which have received little scholarly attention. In particular, it offers the first study in any European language of the Stutikusumanjali, a major work of religious literature dedicated to the god Siva and one of the only extant witnesses to the trajectory of Sanskrit literary culture in fourteenth-century Kashmir. This dissertation also contributes to the study of Saivism by examining the ways that Saiva poets have integrated the traditions of Sanskrit literature (kavya) and poetics (alankarasastra), theology (especially non-dualism), and Saiva worship and devotion. It argues for the diverse configurations of Saiva bhakti expressed and explored in these literary hymns and the challenges they present for standard interpretations of Hindu bhakti. More broadly, this study of stotras from Kashmir offers new perspectives on the history and vitality of prayer in South Asia and its complex relationships to poetry and poetics.
Noncommutative Torus from Fibonacci Chains via Foliation
Creators: name: Jeong, Hyeong-Chai
name: Kim, Eunsang
name: Lee, Chang-Yeong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We classify the Fibonacci chains (F-chains) by their index sequences and construct an approximately finite dimensional (AF) $C^*$-algebra on the space of F-chains as Connes did on the space of Penrose tiling. The K-theory on this AF-algebra suggests a connection between the noncommutative torus and the space of F-chains. A noncommutative torus, which can be regarded as the $C^*$-algebra of a foliation on the torus, is explicitly embedded into the AF-algebra on the space of F-chains. As a counterpart of that, we obtain a relation between the space of F-chains and the leaf space of Kronecker foliation on the torus using the cut-procedure of constructing F-chains.
Points of Contact: Reading Clarice Lispector in Contemporary Italian Feminist Philosophy
Creators: Fraga, Mariana
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Comparative literature
Gender identity
Sex role
Latin American literature
Feminism
Women authors

description: This project follows a thread of citations of the work of Brazilian author Clarice Lispector found in the philosophical feminist texts of four European thinkers: Hélène Cixous, Luisa Muraro, Adriana Cavarero, and Rosi Braidotti. I explore the intersection of material feminisms, Latin American decolonial feminism, and sexual difference theory differentially and multiply across contexts. I revisit histories of women and texts - French, Italian and Brazilian - that are multiply and differentially marginalized in the current Western feminist narrative framework - in order to create sources of alternative knowledge and create an opportunity for something new to emerge symbio-creatively from these points of contact. Chapter One covers the genesis of European feminist approaches to Lispector’s oeuvre in France, the impassioned reading by Hélène Cixous of Lispector’s work, and also provides vital counter-memory, decolonial feminist stories on Brazilian and Latin American feminisms which have been left out of the dominant Anglo-American/Western feminist historical narrative. Chapter Two will focus on the arrival in Italy of Lispector’s texts, Luisa Muraro and the Diotima women’s feminist philosophy group’s readings. Chapter Three then covers Adriana Cavarero, as well as her split from said Diotima group. Finally, Chapter Four brings us to Rosi Braidotti, from her early texts on Lispector to present theoretical horizons. My concluding discussion stems from the idea of connections as posited by Sonia Alvarez: “a translocal feminist politics of translation is crucial to the decolonial turn and a key strategy in building ‘connectant epistemologies’ in order to confront the equivocations or mistranslations that hinder feminist alliances, even among women who share the same language and culture.” I expand on my theory of points of contact and explore possibilities of symbiosis and non-deterministic evolution as a theoretical tool.
Additional file 2: of Anticonvulsants for behavioral and psychological symptoms in dementia: protocol for a systematic review
Creators: name: Sophiya Benjamin
name: Williams, John
name: Cotton, Cecilia
name: Tung, Jennifer
name: An, Howard
name: Sanger, Stephanie
name: Ho, Joanne Man-Wai
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: PRISMA-P+checklist Anticonvulsant protocol. (DOCX 30 kb)
The impact of Stellar feedback from velocity-dependent ionised gas maps. -- A MUSE view of Haro 11
Creators: name: Menacho, V.
name: Östlin, G.
name: Bik, A.
name: Della Bruna, L.
name: Melinder, J.
name: Adamo, A.
name: Hayes, M.
name: Herenz, E. C.
name: Bergvall, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have used the capability of the MUSE instrument to explore the impact of stellar feedback at large scales in Haro 11, a galaxy under extreme starburst condition and one of the first galaxies where Lyman continuum (LyC) has been detected. Using Ha, [OIII] and [OI] emission lines from deep MUSE observations, we have constructed a sequence of velocity-dependent maps of the Ha emission, the state of the ionised gas and a tracer of fast shocks. These allowed us to investigate the ionisation structure of the galaxy in 50 kms^2 bins over a velocity range of -400 to 350 kms. The ionised gas in Haro 11 is assembled by a rich arrangement of structures, such as superbubbles, filaments, arcs and galactic ionised channels, whose appearances change drastically with velocity. The central star forming knots and the star forming dusty arm are the main engines that power the strong mechanical feedback in this galaxy, although with different impact on the ionisation structure. Haro 11 appears to leak LyC radiation in many directions. We found evidence of a kpc-scale fragmented superbubble, that may have cleared galactic-scale channels in the ISM. Additionally, the southwestern hemisphere is highly ionised in all velocities, hinting at a density bound scenario. A compact kpc-scale structure of lowly ionised gas coincides with the diffuse Lya emission and the presence of fast shocks. Finally, we find evidence that a significant fraction of the ionised gas mass may escape the gravitational potential of the galaxy.
description: Pubisched version. Ionisation values were corrected after discovering a bug in a code used to generate the maps
High frequency characterization at sub-micrometer scales using on-wafer and scanning probe microscopy techniques
Creators: name: Gilles, Dambrine
name: Haddadi Kamel
name: Daffé Khadim
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Characterization, Microwave, on-wafer

description: This presentation was carried out in the frame of a workshop adjacent to the technical committees meetings at the BIPM (Bureau International des Poids et Mesures) and organized by the consultative committee for electrical metrology (CCEM https://www.bipm.org/en/committees/cc/ccem/). This presentation was related to advanced microwave on-wafer instrumentations and techniques dedicated to the characterization of nanodevices performed in the frame of teh EQUIPEX ExCELSiOR (ANR-11-EQPX-0015_ExCELSiOR, www.excelsior-ncc.eu), the EMPIR project 'PlanarCal' 2015-2018 (http://www.planarcal.ptb.de/14ind02-home.html) and the H2020 project 'MMAMA' 2017-2020 (https://www.mmama.eu/).
Commelina foliacea Chiov.
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Commelinales
Commelinaceae
Commelina
Commelina foliacea

description: Commelina foliacea Chiov.  —
Habit: Herb.
Habitat: LMWF, LMDF; up to 2 300 m. Distribution: II.
 Voucher: Lower Imenti Forest, Alt. 1 190 m, 26–28 Jun. 1974, Faden & Faden 74/881 (EA, WAG).
Reference: Agnew (2013).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 29, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Statistical Self-Similarity of One-Dimensional Growth Processes
Creators: name: Praehofer, Michael
name: Spohn, Herbert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: For one-dimensional growth processes we consider the distribution of the height above a given point of the substrate and study its scale invariance in the limit of large times. We argue that for self-similar growth from a single seed the universal distribution is the Tracy-Widom distribution from the theory of random matrices and that for growth from a flat substrate it is some other, only numerically determined distribution. In particular, for the polynuclear growth model in the droplet geometry the height maps onto the longest increasing subsequence of a random permutation, from which the height distribution is identified as the Tracy-Widom distribution.
description: 11 pages, iopart, epsf, 2 postscript figures, submitted to Physica A, in an Addendum the distribution for the flat case is identified analytically
Gaplessness is not generic for translation-invariant spin chains
Creators: name: Lemm, Marius
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The existence of a spectral gap above the ground state has far-reaching consequences for the low-energy physics of a quantum many-body system. A recent work of Movassagh [R. Movassagh, PRL 119 (2017), 220504] shows that a spatially random local quantum Hamiltonian is generically gapless. Here we observe that a gap is more common for translation-invariant quantum spin chains, more specifically, that these are gapped with a positive probability if the interaction is of small rank. This is in line with a previous analysis of the spin-$1/2$ case by Bravyi and Gosset. The Hamiltonians are constructed by selecting a single projection of sufficiently small rank at random, and then translating it across the entire chain. By the rank assumption, the resulting Hamiltonians are automatically frustration-free and this fact plays a key role in our analysis.
description: 17 pages; minor changes; comments welcome
Field protocol for assessing characteristic species thresholds in polygons on reclamation areas
Creators: name: Futoransky, Vincent
name: Fuller, Robert
name: Donald, Gillian
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: The Guidelines for Reclamation to Forest Vegetation in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region 2nd Edition defines criteria and indicators to measure reclamation success. To compare community composition of reclaimed areas with that of target communities a threshold number of characteristic species typical of the target community was developed for five site types. CEMA funded a study to assess characteristic species thresholds on reclamation areas with three objectives: 1) develop a field protocol for assessing characteristic species thresholds; 2) collect species composition and distribution data; and 3) assess the utility of characteristic species thresholds as an indicator of reclamation success. The study sampled 98 plot locations within 16 reclaimed polygons within two oil sands operations north of Fort McMurray, Alberta. The study showed that a minimum of 4 plots should be established within polygons ≤ 6 ha and a plot number equivalent to the polygon area in hectares minus 2 for polygons between 6 and 13 ha. Six of the 16 polygons evaluated achieved the threshold number. The results suggest that reclamation polygons 15-19 years of age can have sufficient species composition to be evaluated using the methods outlined in the manual and can be considered to be successfully reclaimed with respect to this indicator.
Microlocal spectrum condition and Hadamard form for vector-valued quantum fields in curved spacetime
Creators: name: Sahlmann, Hanno
name: Verch, Rainer
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Some years ago, Radzikowski has found a characterization of Hadamard states for scalar quantum fields on a four-dimensional globally hyperbolic spacetime in terms of a specific form of the wavefront set of their two-point functions (termed `wavefront set spectrum condition'), thereby initiating a major progress in the understanding of Hadamard states and the further development of quantum field theory in curved spacetime. In the present work, we extend this important result on the equivalence of the wavefront set spectrum condition with the Hadamard condition from scalar fields to vector fields (sections in a vector bundle) which are subject to a wave-equation and are quantized so as to fulfill the covariant canonical commutation relations, or which obey a Dirac equation and are quantized according to the covariant anti-commutation relations, in any globally hyperbolic spacetime having dimension three or higher. In proving this result, a gap which is present in the published proof for the scalar field case will be removed. Moreover we determine the short-distance scaling limits of Hadamard states for vector-bundle valued fields, finding them to coincide with the corresponding flat-space, massless vacuum states.
description: latex2e, 41 pages
Commelina reptans Brenan
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Commelinales
Commelinaceae
Commelina
Commelina reptans

description: Commelina reptans Brenan  —
Habit: Herb.
Habitat: LMWF, LMDF; up to 2 000 m. Distribution: IIIa.
Voucher: N/A.
References: Blundell (1987), Agnew (2013).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 30, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Understanding Paramagnetic Spin Correlations in the Spin-Liquid Pyrochlore Tb2Ti2O7
Creators: name: Kao, Ying-Jer
name: Enjalran, Matthew
name: Del Maestro, Adrian
name: Molavian, Hamid R.
name: Gingras, Michel J. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent elastic and inelastic neutron scattering studies of the highly frustrated pyrochlore antiferromagnet Tb2Ti2O7 have shown some very intriguing features that cannot be modeled by the local <111> classical Ising model, naively expected to describe this system at low temperatures. Using the random phase approximation to take into account fluctuations between the ground state doublet and the first excited doublet, we successfully describe the elastic neutron scattering pattern and dispersion relations in Tb2Ti2O7, semi-quantitatively consistent with experimental observations.
description: revtex4, 4 pages, 1 Color+ 2 BW figures
Band twisting and resilience to disorder in long-range topological superconductors
Creators: name: Puel, T. O.
name: Viyuela, O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Planar topological superconductors with power-law-decaying pairing display different kinds of topological phase transitions where quasiparticles dubbed nonlocal-massive Dirac fermions emerge. These exotic particles form through long-range interactions between distant Majorana modes at the boundary of the system. We show how these propagating-massive Dirac fermions neither mix with bulk states nor Anderson-localize up to large amounts of static disorder despite being finite energy. Analyzing the density of states (DOS) and the band spectrum of the long-range topological superconductor, we identify the formation of an edge gap and a surprising double peak structure in the DOS which can be linked to a twisting of energy bands with nontrivial topology. Our findings are amenable to experimental verification in the near future using atom arrays on conventional superconductors, planar Josephson junctions on two-dimensional electron gases, and Floquet driving of topological superconductors.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures
Additional file 1 of Computational modeling of chromatin accessibility identified important epigenomic regulators
Creators: name: Zhao, Yanding
name: Dong, Yadong
name: Hong, Wei
name: Jiang, Chongming
name: Yao, Kevin
name: Cheng, Chao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Suppl. Fig. 1. The schematic overview of the CNN model and validation of replicates chosen.