cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Non-smoothable homeomorphisms of 4-manifolds
Creators: name: Galvin, Daniel A.P.
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2024

description: We say that a homeomorphism f: X → X′ between two smooth manifolds is nonsmoothable if it is not isotopic to any diffeomorphism. We produce many different examples of non-smoothable homeomorphisms of various subtleties, and discuss their properties. We show that there is a one-to-one correspondence between such nonsmoothable homeomorphisms and diffeomorphic but not isotopic smooth structures on 4-manifolds, and we give an explicit construction of an infinite family of diffeomorphic but not isotopic smooth structures on the K3-surface.

In joint work with Roberto Ladu, we produce the first examples of non-smoothable homeomorphisms of simply-connected 4-manifolds such that the homeomorphism acts trivially on the homology of the manifold. The non-smoothability of these homeomorphisms is detected using gauge theory, and is unstable in the sense that these homeomorphisms become smoothable after sufficiently connected-summing with S² × S². We use this fact to create interesting diffeomorphisms of simply-connected 4-manifolds with boundary which act trivially on the homology of the manifold, but do not arise by inserting a loop of diffeomorphisms into the collar of the boundary. This ends the joint work.

A key focus of this work is on the Casson-Sullivan invariant cs(f) ∈ H³(X;Z/2) of a homeomorphism f: X → X′, which is the obstruction to a homeomorphism being stably pseudo-isotopic to a diffeomorphism. In particular, if a homeomorphism has non-trivial Casson-Sullivan invariant then it is non-smoothable, even after connectedsumming with S² × S². This invariant has a distinctly different flavour to that of gauge-theoretic invariants, and is more in-line with high-dimensional smoothing theory. Using surgery theory, we realise this invariant in a number of contexts. Firstly, we realise it for any orientable 4-manifold after a single connected-sum with S² × S². Secondly, we realise it unstably for many examples of 4-manifolds, including those with f inite cyclic fundamental group.

We also discuss two applications of our work on the Casson-Sullivan invariant. The f irst application is to embedded surfaces, and we prove that any two topologically isotopic, smoothly embedded surfaces in a simply-connected 4-manifold become smoothly isotopic after externally connected-summing with S² × S² away from the surfaces.

The second application is to 3-manifolds. Let Y be a smooth 3-manifold. We consider the inclusion induced map Diff(Y ) → Homeo(Y) between the block diffeomorphism and block homeomorphism spaces, which are defined as geometric realisations of simplicial spaces and whose connected components correspond to the smooth and topological pseudo-mapping class groups, respectively. These spaces contain the classical spaces Diff(Y ) and Homeo(Y ) as subspaces. We show that for certain types of elliptic 3-manifolds, the inclusion induced maps Diff(Y ) → Homeo(Y ) and Homeo(Y) → Homeo(Y) are not 1-connected.
Multi-tasking archaeology! Teaching, fieldwork and medieval poop
Creators: name: Shillito, Lisa-Marie
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2014

description: This resource is a single blog post created as part of the Day of Archaeology initiative. The Day of Archaeology project aimed to provide a window into the daily lives of archaeologists from all over the world. The project asked people working, studying or volunteering in the archaeological world to participate in a 'Day of Archaeology' each year by recording their day and sharing it through text, images or video on the Day of Archaeology blog.
The project asked anyone with a personal, professional or voluntary interest in archaeology to get involved, and help highlight the reasons why archaeology is vital to protect the past and inform our futures. The resulting Day of Archaeology project archive demonstrates the wide variety of work the archaeological profession undertakes day-to-day across the globe, and helps to raise public awareness of the relevance and importance of archaeology to the modern world.
The first ever Day of Archaeology was held in 2011 and, since then, the project had thousands of archaeologists take part in the event, from those working in the field through to specialists working in laboratories and behind computers. The last Day of Archaeology was on Friday 28th July 2017.
Mapping the Archaeology of Scotland
Creators: name: Historic Environment Scotland
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2014

description: This resource is a single blog post created as part of the Day of Archaeology initiative. The Day of Archaeology project aimed to provide a window into the daily lives of archaeologists from all over the world. The project asked people working, studying or volunteering in the archaeological world to participate in a 'Day of Archaeology' each year by recording their day and sharing it through text, images or video on the Day of Archaeology blog.
The project asked anyone with a personal, professional or voluntary interest in archaeology to get involved, and help highlight the reasons why archaeology is vital to protect the past and inform our futures. The resulting Day of Archaeology project archive demonstrates the wide variety of work the archaeological profession undertakes day-to-day across the globe, and helps to raise public awareness of the relevance and importance of archaeology to the modern world.
The first ever Day of Archaeology was held in 2011 and, since then, the project had thousands of archaeologists take part in the event, from those working in the field through to specialists working in laboratories and behind computers. The last Day of Archaeology was on Friday 28th July 2017.
Charmed mesons in nuclear matter
Creators: name: Tolos, L.
name: Gamermann, D.
name: Garcia-Recio, C.
name: Oset, E.
name: Molina, R.
name: Nieves, J.
name: Ramos, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We obtain the properties of charmed mesons in dense matter using a coupled-channel approach which accounts for Pauli blocking effects and meson self-energies in a self-consistent manner. We study the behaviour of dynamically-generated baryonic resonances together with the open-charm meson spectral functions in this dense nuclear environment. We discuss the implications of the in-medium properties of open-charm mesons on the $D_{s0}(2317)$ and the predicted X(3700) scalar resonances, and on the formation of $D$-mesic nuclei.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures, 1 table, to appear in Proceedings of XIII International Conference on Hadron Spectroscopy, November 29 - December 4, 2009, Florida State University
Behavioural and neural correlates of orienting and executive control in high and low spider fear groups
Creators: name: Flynn, SF
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Research suggests that attentional bias to threat in specific fear can be demonstrated as facilitated orienting effects such as the rapid automatic detection and processing of threat-related information, and/or interference effects thought to be associated with impaired executive control processes such as the inhibition of task-irrelevant information. This study examined the influence of spider fear on the behavioural (RT and accuracy) and electrophysiological correlates (P1 and N1) of facilitated orienting and executive control. Twenty-six female participants (15 high-fear, 11 low-fear) completed a novel attentional networks test consisting of an alerting condition (present/absent), a pictorial (spider/cow) orienting cue (valid/invalid), and a central target flanked by distractors (congruent/incongruent). In relation to facilitated orienting, no between-group differences were observed, suggesting that greater levels of cognitive load increased interference effects, thus masking the facilitation effect for high-fear participants. Partial support for predictions of behavioural interference effects were observed. This finding was further supported by evidence of attenuated P1 and enhanced N1 amplitude for high-fear participants for incongruent targets preceded by spider images, however these effects were modulated by interactions between the attentional networks. This is a novel finding but is consistent with a complex and interactive attentional networks model.
I m no David Hockney...
Creators: name: Winters, Judith
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2014

description: This resource is a single blog post created as part of the Day of Archaeology initiative. The Day of Archaeology project aimed to provide a window into the daily lives of archaeologists from all over the world. The project asked people working, studying or volunteering in the archaeological world to participate in a 'Day of Archaeology' each year by recording their day and sharing it through text, images or video on the Day of Archaeology blog.
The project asked anyone with a personal, professional or voluntary interest in archaeology to get involved, and help highlight the reasons why archaeology is vital to protect the past and inform our futures. The resulting Day of Archaeology project archive demonstrates the wide variety of work the archaeological profession undertakes day-to-day across the globe, and helps to raise public awareness of the relevance and importance of archaeology to the modern world.
The first ever Day of Archaeology was held in 2011 and, since then, the project had thousands of archaeologists take part in the event, from those working in the field through to specialists working in laboratories and behind computers. The last Day of Archaeology was on Friday 28th July 2017.
Figure S1 from The oriental armyworm (Mythimna separata) feeding induces systemic defence responses within and between maize leaves
Creators: name: Malook, Saif ul
name: Qi, Jinfeng
name: Hettenhausen, Christian
name: Xu, Yuxing
name: Zhang, Cuiping
name: Zhang, Jingxiong
name: Lu, Chengkai
name: Li, Jing
name: Wang, Lei
name: Wu, Jianqiang
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018

description: Expression profiles of up- and down-regulated maize transcripts in local and systemic leaves.
One Day Among Creativity and Archaeology
Creators: name: De Felice, Giuliano
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2014

description: This resource is a single blog post created as part of the Day of Archaeology initiative. The Day of Archaeology project aimed to provide a window into the daily lives of archaeologists from all over the world. The project asked people working, studying or volunteering in the archaeological world to participate in a 'Day of Archaeology' each year by recording their day and sharing it through text, images or video on the Day of Archaeology blog.
The project asked anyone with a personal, professional or voluntary interest in archaeology to get involved, and help highlight the reasons why archaeology is vital to protect the past and inform our futures. The resulting Day of Archaeology project archive demonstrates the wide variety of work the archaeological profession undertakes day-to-day across the globe, and helps to raise public awareness of the relevance and importance of archaeology to the modern world.
The first ever Day of Archaeology was held in 2011 and, since then, the project had thousands of archaeologists take part in the event, from those working in the field through to specialists working in laboratories and behind computers. The last Day of Archaeology was on Friday 28th July 2017.
Gambling under unknown probabilities as a proxy for real world decisions under uncertainty
Creators: name: Aldous, David J.
name: Bruss, F. Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We give elementary examples within a framework for studying decisions under uncertainty where probabilities are only roughly known. The framework, in gambling terms, is that the size of a bet is proportional to the gambler's perceived advantage based on their perceived probability, and their accuracy in estimating true probabilities is measured by mean squared-error. Within this framework one can study the cost of estimation errors, and seek to formalize the ``obvious" notion that in competitive interactions between agents whose actions depend on their perceived probabilities, those who are more accurate at estimating probabilities will generally be more successful than those who are less accurate.
Predictors of academic achievement, motivation and student disengagement in university students
Creators: name: Howlett, A
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The aim of this study was to expand the work on academic achievement and motivation by examining the relationships among success-orientation, fear-of-failure and academic disengagement in university students. Further, the cognitive-behavioural Quadripolar and Motivation and Engagement theories were included to determine whether the models independently contribute to the prediction of self-handicapping and defensive pessimism. Participants were 110 university students enrolled at the University of Tasmania who completed a standardised questionnaire assessing achievement orientation. The hypothesis that fear-of-failure would positively correlate with self-handicapping and defensive pessimism in university students was partially supported. A strong positive correlation was found between fear-of-failure and self-handicapping, however a non-significant correlation was found between fear-of-failure and defensive pessimism. Secondly, the hypothesis that success-orientation would be negatively associated with self-handicapping however positively associated with defensive pessimism was refuted as a non-significant correlation was found for both relationships. The hypothesis that there would be an interaction between success-orientation and fear-of-failure on self-handicapping was also refuted. Lastly, due to the substantially small sample it was not possible test the hypothesis that the dimensions of the Quadripolar Model of Need Achievement would be positively associated with theoretically similar dimensions of the Motivation and Engagement Wheel. Instead, the dimensions of each model were compared for predictive utility regarding self-handicapping and defensive pessimism. It was concluded that fear-of-failure in university students is a significant predictor of self-handicapping. However further research is required with a larger sample size to determine if the two theories are independent from each other.
Environmental dependence of AGN activity. I.: the effects of host galaxy
Creators: name: Choi, Yun-Young
name: Woo, Jong-Hak
name: Park, Changbum
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using a large sample of local galaxies (144,940) with -17.5< Mr 6. We find that the fraction of galaxies hosting an AGN (f_AGN) depends strongly on morphology together with color, and very weakly on luminosity or velocity dispersion of host galaxies. In particular, f_AGN of early-type galaxies is almost independent of luminosity nor velocity dispersion when color is fixed. The host galaxy color preferred by AGNs is u-r ~2.0 for early-type hosts and u-r=2.0-2.4 for late-type hosts. This trend suggests that AGNs are dominantly hosted by intermediate-mass late-type galaxies. We also investigate how the accretion power varies with galaxy properties. While the Eddington ratio ([OIII] line luminosity normalized by black hole mass) ranges over three orders of magnitude for both morphological types, late-type galaxies are the dominant hosts over all AGN power. Among late-type galaxies, bluer color galaxies host higher power AGNs. These results are consistent with a scenario that more massive and redder galaxies are harder to host AGNs since these galaxiesalready consumed gas at the center or do not have sufficient gas supply to feed the black hole. In contrast, intermediate-mass, intermediate-color, and more concentrated late-type galaxies are more likely to host AGNs, implying that perhaps some fraction of low-mass, blue, and less concentrated lat e-type galaxiesmay not host massive black holes or may host very low-power AGNs.
description: ApJ accepted,12 pages, 12 figures. A high resolution version can be found at http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~woo/choietal.pdf
The United Tasmania Group
Creators: name: Walker, PF
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: This thesis argues that the impact of the United Tasmania Group (UTG) on Tasmanian politics cannot be measured by its limited electoral success; rather its achievement is properly measured by the party's contribution to the growth of the environmental movement in Tasmania. The argument presented here demonstrates that the UTG has to be credited with making a major contribution to the development of \one of the most highly skilled and politically advanced environmental movements in the world.\" The UTG was the first political party based on an environmental platform to contest elections within any parliamentary system in the world and was formed to contest the Tasmanian House of Assembly election during the Lake Fedder controversy. The party marked an important milestone in Tasmania's political history in that it challenged for the first time the traditional orthodoxy of successive governments and the ossified policy of hydro-industrialisation. However concerned citizens who formed the membership of the party were politically inexperienced and were reluctantly forced to directly challenge the Government's decision to flood Lake Fedder in the political arena. This unprecedented action was a direct result of conservationists' experience with the decision-making processes which they claimed excluded any form of public participation and represented only one set of values- namely the technocratic and economic values entrenched in hydro-industrialisation. For the first time the UTG exposed the close relationship between the Hydro-Electric Commission (HEC) and the governing parties in Tasmania. The thesis will establish that the UTG was a political party inextricably linked to an emerging environmental movement which simply by virtue of its size and growth can be classified as a social movement. Similar to most social movements the environmental movement arose from discontent with many of the customary values of society. The UTG like other environmental groups represented a concerted effort to institutionalise alternative values. The UTG will be analysed from a perspective which relates the party to the political system accounts for its political efficacy and assesses it impact on the environmental movement and the political system in Tasmania."
Indianahannah and the Desk Based Adventure
Creators: name: Historic Environment Scotland
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2014

description: This resource is a single blog post created as part of the Day of Archaeology initiative. The Day of Archaeology project aimed to provide a window into the daily lives of archaeologists from all over the world. The project asked people working, studying or volunteering in the archaeological world to participate in a 'Day of Archaeology' each year by recording their day and sharing it through text, images or video on the Day of Archaeology blog.
The project asked anyone with a personal, professional or voluntary interest in archaeology to get involved, and help highlight the reasons why archaeology is vital to protect the past and inform our futures. The resulting Day of Archaeology project archive demonstrates the wide variety of work the archaeological profession undertakes day-to-day across the globe, and helps to raise public awareness of the relevance and importance of archaeology to the modern world.
The first ever Day of Archaeology was held in 2011 and, since then, the project had thousands of archaeologists take part in the event, from those working in the field through to specialists working in laboratories and behind computers. The last Day of Archaeology was on Friday 28th July 2017.
Scoparia undetermined
Creators: name: Léger, Théo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Crambidae
Scoparia
Scoparia undetermined

description: Scoparia spp.
MATERIAL
Scoparia cf. spadix (Fig. 130): 1 ♀ (specimen identifier coll.mfn-berlin.de_u_2667b0, DNA voucher MFNLEP-PYRALPHIL01-F07, genitalia on slide TL961F). PHILIPPINES: Mindoro, Mount Halcon, 1300 m, 15-17.01.1998 (W. Mey, V. Samarita).
Scoparia cf. mindanaoensis (Fig. 131): 1 ♀ (specimen identifier coll.mfn-berlin.de_u_822d89, DNA voucher MFNLEP-PYRALPHIL01-D01, genitalia on slide TL901F). PHILIPPINES: Mindoro, Mount Halcon, 1300 m, 15-17.01.1998 (W. Mey, V. Samarita).
Scoparia cf. tenuispina (Fig. 132): 1 ♀ (specimen identifier coll.mfn-berlin.de_u_dddbd5, DNA voucher MFNLEP-PYRALPHIL01-F06 F, genitalia on slide TL952F). PHILIPPINES: Luzon, Mountain Province, Barlig, 1650 m, 14-15.11.1997 (K. Ebert, W. Mey, M. Nuss).
REMARKS
These specimens could not be confidently associated to known species as they belong to a MOTU containing exclusively female specimens.
description: Published as part of Léger, Théo, 2024, Half of the Diversity Undescribed: Integrative Taxonomy Reveals 32 New Species and a High Cryptic Diversity in the Scopariinae and Crambinae of the Philippines (Lepidoptera: Crambidae), pp. 1-93 in Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists 3 (2) on pages 16-17, DOI: 10.18061/bssb.v3i2.9527, http://zenodo.org/record/15116964
Extended xThreat: an explainable quality assessment method for actions in football using game context
Creators: name: van Arem, Koen W
name: Bruinsma, Mirjam
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2024

description: Engineering of Sport 15 - Proceedings from the 15th International Conference on the Engineering of Sport (ISEA 2024)
In the last decade, systematic collection of data is increasingly being used in the world of football which enables the use of mathematics to improve the performance of individual players and teams. Mathematical models allow for quality assessment for in-game actions by estimating the probability that a goal is scored. These models must be explainable, as they should be reducible to a few clear instructions that a coach can give to a player. Therefore, there is a need for explainable quantification methods for actions in football. Most models for action quality assessment can be described using either the Valuing Actions by Estimating Probabilities (VAEP) or Expected Threat (xThreat) frameworks. VAEP models typically use machine learning methods, which comes at the expense of explainability. On the other hand, the xThreat framework is explainable but it uses only the position of the player in possession of the ball as input. This means football data analysts using state-of-the-art techniques face a trade-off between an explainable but simplified xThreat model or a VAEP model that takes contextual variables into account. The main goal of this paper is to create an extended xThreat model that can include game context, thus aiming for explainability while taking into account contextual variables.
High-resolution gas chromatography for analysis of plant extracts
Creators: name: Savareear, B
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: This thesis focuses on new high-resolution gas chromatography (GC) techniques to separate complex mixtures, especially plant extracts. First, serially-coupled high-resolution capillary columns are investigated for single-dimensional GC separation of plant extracts. The first research chapter highlights the potential and indicates the limitations of high-resolution one-dimensional analysis of complex plant extracts. Comprehensive two-dimensional GC (GC ‚àöv= GC) is an extended version of single-dimensional GC that offers exceptionally high peak capacity. This thesis employs a commercially available dual stage GC ‚àöv= GC modulator as a platform for exploring new high-resolution GC techniques. To this end, a multiplexed dual-secondary column comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography approach (GC ‚àöv= 2GC) designed for analysis of complex mixtures is introduced. GC ‚àöv= 2GC with a single detector and two second-dimension columns is made possible by the development of contra-directional modulation. Contra-directional modulation leads to two single two-dimensional chromatograms in a single window for each injection. A selection of different classes of compounds is analysed to demonstrate the approach. The chromatogram from this single detector system provides complementary information due to the unique selectivity of the three separation columns and the result is similar to GC ‚àöv= 2GC with multiple detectors previously described in the literature. Next, a new multiplexed dual first-dimension comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography approach (2GC ‚àöv= GC) is introduced. 2GC ‚àöv= GC is achieved by installing the two first-dimension columns contra-directionally through a dual-stage modulator. This study is divided into two parts: the first part discusses the benefits of 2GC ‚àöv= GC analysis compared to normal GC ‚àöv= GC and GC ‚àöv= 2GC analysis with a similar column configuration. In the second part, 2GC ‚àöv= GC is coupled to mass spectrometry for the characterisation of Australian tea tree (M. alternifolia) essential oil. The concept of dual channel GC is also explored. A multiplexed dual channel GC using a single detector system (2GC- MS) is introduced. This study utilises polar and non-polar columns for the analysis of parsley essential oil. A comprehensive analysis strategy using mass spectrometry and multiple linear retention indices using 2GC-MS is discussed. Finally, an ultra-dimensional separation technique called multiplexed dual first and second-dimensions column comprehensive GC ‚àöv= GC (2GC ‚àöv= 2GC) or 2(GC ‚àöv= GC)‚ÄövÑvp with a single detector system is introduced. A combination of non-polar ‚àöv= polar and polar ‚àöv= non-polar separation columns is utilised for separation of parsley and hop essential oils to demonstrate the approach. The dual two-dimensional chromatograms from this single detector system provide complementary information due to the selectivity differences of the four separation columns.
Estimate Residual Strength of Degraded Bonded Joints by Combining Analytical Models with Non-Destructive Evaluations (updated)
Creators: name: Garcia Momm, guilherme
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Aerospace Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering
subject: 90103 Aerospace Structures

description: Material supplemental to the manuscript 'Estimate Residual Strength of Degraded Bonded Joints by Combining Analytical Models with Non-Destructive Evaluations ' by Momm, G.G. and Fleming, D. submitted to 'The Journal of Adhesion'.This material includes outputs from mechanical tests (load vs displacement curves), forensic analysis of the failed surfaces (magnifying images, stereomicroscopy), and non-destructive evaluation (ultrasound pulsed-echo and pulsed thermography).Codes updated.
A Grand Day Out
Creators: name: Historic Environment Scotland
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2014

description: This resource is a single blog post created as part of the Day of Archaeology initiative. The Day of Archaeology project aimed to provide a window into the daily lives of archaeologists from all over the world. The project asked people working, studying or volunteering in the archaeological world to participate in a 'Day of Archaeology' each year by recording their day and sharing it through text, images or video on the Day of Archaeology blog.
The project asked anyone with a personal, professional or voluntary interest in archaeology to get involved, and help highlight the reasons why archaeology is vital to protect the past and inform our futures. The resulting Day of Archaeology project archive demonstrates the wide variety of work the archaeological profession undertakes day-to-day across the globe, and helps to raise public awareness of the relevance and importance of archaeology to the modern world.
The first ever Day of Archaeology was held in 2011 and, since then, the project had thousands of archaeologists take part in the event, from those working in the field through to specialists working in laboratories and behind computers. The last Day of Archaeology was on Friday 28th July 2017.
Chuang Tzu's untrammelled wandering and the Hsiang-Kuo commentary
Creators: name: Liu, Bernard Tien-Chun
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The primary concern of my thesis is the translation of the first chapter, Untrammelled Wandering, in Chuang Tzu, and the Hsiang-Kuo commentary on this chapter into English. Understandably the main onus has been the deciphering and transcribing of arcane and abstruse passages. In the seminars my professors, a few kindred souls and myself have tried assiduously to unearth the meanings lodged in the Chinese sentences, sometimes quite forbidding sentences. The simpler parts were, with the guidance of the professors, quite easily dispensed with. But we have had difficulties negotiating with the really recondite portions. Textual corruption, of course, was the Ariadne's thread we on a few occasions resorted to. We finished about half of the reconnaissance in the seminars. I consummated the task in my subterranean cell. I have read all the available English translations of Chuang Tzu and depart significantly on certain key points from all the translators. Translations of ancient Chinese texts are, indeed, ofttimes interpretations and are ineluctably coloured by the translator's particular leanings. The Hsiang-Kuo commentary has only been attempted in partibus. It is decidedly more difficult to understand than Chuang Tzu proper. The commentators have injected, naturally, their own ideas and biases into their writing. At times they elaborate and expand rather freely what is only hinted at in the text. In the prologue I have tried to present Chuang Tzu's philosophy as succinctly as I could. An analysis of Untrammelled Wandering ensues. Since the Hsiang-Kuo commentary is a classic in its own right, I have attempted a study of the commentators and their milieu. I must say available works on the commentary in English do not abound. I relied, in the main, on secondary sources in Chinese. The chasm between ancient Chinese and English is really difficult to bridge. Furthermore Chuang Tzu's language is unique and poetic. It is doubly hard to capture his spirit and suggestiveness in English. I hope my translation does not entirely miss him. As to the Hsiang-Kuo commentary, it is more difficult to understand but easier to do justice to. It has been said, by a Ch'an monk, that it was Ghuang Tzu who wrote a commentary on Hsiang-Kuo. I do find, however, that from time to time the commentators' ideas do not entirely correspond with Chuang Tzu's original import. The definiteness and articulateness of the commentators, on the other hand, are quite meritorious and command praise.
World-sheet Instanton Superpotentials in Heterotic String theory and their Moduli Dependence
Creators: name: Curio, Gottfried
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: To understand in detail the contribution of a world-sheet instanton to the superpotential in a heterotic string compactification, one has to understand the moduli dependence (bundle and complex structure moduli) of the one-loop determinants from the fluctuations, which accompany the classical exponential contribution (involving Kähler moduli) when evaluating the world-volume partition function. Here we use techniques to describe geometrically these Pfaffians for spectral bundles over rational base curves in elliptically fibered Calabi-Yau threefolds, and provide a (partially exhaustive) list of cases involving {\em factorising} (or vanishing) superpotential. This gives a conceptual explanation and generalisation of the few previously known cases which were obtained just experimentally by a numerical computation.
description: 57 pages; minor changes, discussion section 1.3 added
#ArchiveLottery - Intro
Creators: name: Corsini, Adam
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2014

description: This resource is a single blog post created as part of the Day of Archaeology initiative. The Day of Archaeology project aimed to provide a window into the daily lives of archaeologists from all over the world. The project asked people working, studying or volunteering in the archaeological world to participate in a 'Day of Archaeology' each year by recording their day and sharing it through text, images or video on the Day of Archaeology blog.
The project asked anyone with a personal, professional or voluntary interest in archaeology to get involved, and help highlight the reasons why archaeology is vital to protect the past and inform our futures. The resulting Day of Archaeology project archive demonstrates the wide variety of work the archaeological profession undertakes day-to-day across the globe, and helps to raise public awareness of the relevance and importance of archaeology to the modern world.
The first ever Day of Archaeology was held in 2011 and, since then, the project had thousands of archaeologists take part in the event, from those working in the field through to specialists working in laboratories and behind computers. The last Day of Archaeology was on Friday 28th July 2017.
Cosmic Chronometers: Constraining the Equation of State of Dark Energy. II. A Spectroscopic Catalog of Red Galaxies in Galaxy Clusters
Creators: name: Stern, Daniel
name: Jimenez, Raul
name: Verde, Licia
name: Stanford, S. Adam
name: Kamionkowski, Marc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a spectroscopic catalog of (mostly) red galaxies in 24 galaxy clusters in the redshift range 0.17 < z < 0.92 obtained with the LRIS instrument on the Keck I telescope. Here we describe the observations and the galaxy spectra, including the discovery of three cD galaxies with LINER emission spectra, and the spectroscopic discovery of four new galaxy-galaxy lenses in cluster environments.
description: Submitted to ApJS
The ecology and biology of nemobius Bivittatus in Tasmania
Creators: name: Uddin, Noor
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The ecology and biology of Nemobius bivittatus Walker was studied both in the laboratory and in the field. This species exhibits a univoltine and a semivoltine life-cycle, the semivoltine cycle lasting 19 to 20 months. N. bivittatus shows considerable adaptation to varying climatic conditions. Females lay pigmented, diapausing eggs in summer and autumn; and unpigmented non-diapausing eggs in the spring. Day-length and temperature influence the types of eggs layed. High temperatures intensify diapause during summer and autumn, and low temperatures weaken or terminate diapause during winter. In the laboratory, high initial temperatures intensify egg diapause and low initial temperatures weaken or terminate diapause. Absorption of water occurs before diapause commences. Diapausing and non-diapausing eggs both hatch in the field during summer and autumn, but hatching nymphs show great variation in their development with periods ranging from 8 weeks to 1.5 years. In the laboratory, nymphs develop over a period of 8 to 35 weeks. The eggs, nymphs and adults all show cold-hardiness during winter, with increased levels of glycerol allowing supercooling. The adults survive for 2 to 3 months. The food comprises mainly plants, with some animal material. There is a seasonal variation in the composition of food eaten. The consumption, digestion and utilisation of food by 6th, 7th and 8th instars and adults were also determined These factors vary with the different stages of development. Gross efficiency of food utilization is higher in the nymphs, but the net efficiency is higher in the adult. Calorific values of food plants were determined in different seasons. Food plants measured were grasses, forbes, rushes and mosses. Calorific values were also determined for eggs, nymphs and adults. Oxygen consumption of 7th and 8th instar nymphs and adults was determined at different temperatures. Oxygen consumption of 7th and 8th instars and adults was also determined in the field from the density biomass of these categories in the population. In addition, secondary production of 7th and 8th instar nymphs and adults was determined. Energy budgets at the individual and population levels were calculated from the equation: I = R+P+E Where I represents incoming energy; R the respiratory loss of energy; P energy stored as secondary production; and E energy egested as faeces. Sexual and aggressive behaviour and hierarchical relationships were also studied as was analysis of various kinds of song. The orientation and location of sound signals by females were also completed in this study of behaviour. Circadian locomotory rythms were determined the major activity occurring during daytime. This cricket also exhibits rythms in feeding, mating and oviposition. A redescription of the species is also given, including a study of chromosome numbers and genitalia.
#ArchiveLottery - Part 1: General Finds
Creators: name: Corsini, Adam
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2014

description: This resource is a single blog post created as part of the Day of Archaeology initiative. The Day of Archaeology project aimed to provide a window into the daily lives of archaeologists from all over the world. The project asked people working, studying or volunteering in the archaeological world to participate in a 'Day of Archaeology' each year by recording their day and sharing it through text, images or video on the Day of Archaeology blog.
The project asked anyone with a personal, professional or voluntary interest in archaeology to get involved, and help highlight the reasons why archaeology is vital to protect the past and inform our futures. The resulting Day of Archaeology project archive demonstrates the wide variety of work the archaeological profession undertakes day-to-day across the globe, and helps to raise public awareness of the relevance and importance of archaeology to the modern world.
The first ever Day of Archaeology was held in 2011 and, since then, the project had thousands of archaeologists take part in the event, from those working in the field through to specialists working in laboratories and behind computers. The last Day of Archaeology was on Friday 28th July 2017.
On the Sets of Real Numbers Recognized by Finite Automata in Multiple Bases
Creators: name: Boigelot, Bernard
name: Brusten, Julien
name: Bruyere, Veronique
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Formal Languages and Automata Theory (cs.FL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: F.1.1; F.4.1; F.4.3

description: This article studies the expressive power of finite automata recognizing sets of real numbers encoded in positional notation. We consider Muller automata as well as the restricted class of weak deterministic automata, used as symbolic set representations in actual applications. In previous work, it has been established that the sets of numbers that are recognizable by weak deterministic automata in two bases that do not share the same set of prime factors are exactly those that are definable in the first order additive theory of real and integer numbers. This result extends Cobham's theorem, which characterizes the sets of integer numbers that are recognizable by finite automata in multiple bases. In this article, we first generalize this result to multiplicatively independent bases, which brings it closer to the original statement of Cobham's theorem. Then, we study the sets of reals recognizable by Muller automata in two bases. We show with a counterexample that, in this setting, Cobham's theorem does not generalize to multiplicatively independent bases. Finally, we prove that the sets of reals that are recognizable by Muller automata in two bases that do not share the same set of prime factors are exactly those definable in the first order additive theory of real and integer numbers. These sets are thus also recognizable by weak deterministic automata. This result leads to a precise characterization of the sets of real numbers that are recognizable in multiple bases, and provides a theoretical justification to the use of weak automata as symbolic representations of sets.
description: 17 pages
#ArchiveLottery - Part 2: Registered Finds
Creators: name: Corsini, Adam
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2014

description: This resource is a single blog post created as part of the Day of Archaeology initiative. The Day of Archaeology project aimed to provide a window into the daily lives of archaeologists from all over the world. The project asked people working, studying or volunteering in the archaeological world to participate in a 'Day of Archaeology' each year by recording their day and sharing it through text, images or video on the Day of Archaeology blog.
The project asked anyone with a personal, professional or voluntary interest in archaeology to get involved, and help highlight the reasons why archaeology is vital to protect the past and inform our futures. The resulting Day of Archaeology project archive demonstrates the wide variety of work the archaeological profession undertakes day-to-day across the globe, and helps to raise public awareness of the relevance and importance of archaeology to the modern world.
The first ever Day of Archaeology was held in 2011 and, since then, the project had thousands of archaeologists take part in the event, from those working in the field through to specialists working in laboratories and behind computers. The last Day of Archaeology was on Friday 28th July 2017.
Antiferromagnetism in the magnetoelectric effect single crystal LiMnPO$_4$
Creators: name: Li, Jiying
name: Tian, Wei
name: Chen, Ying
name: Zarestky, Jerel L.
name: Lynn, Jeffrey W.
name: Vaknin, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Elastic and inelastic neutron scattering studies reveal details of the antiferromagnetic tansition and intriguing spin-dynamics in the magneto-electric effect single crystal LiMnPO$_4$. The elastic scattering studies confirm the system is antiferromagnetic (AFM) below $T_N$=33.75 K with local magnetic moments (Mn$^{2+}$; $S = 5/2$) that are aligned along the crystallographic a-axis. The spin-wave dispersion curves propagating along the three principal axes, determined by inelastic scattering, are adequately modeled in the linear spin-wave framework assuming a spin-Hamiltonian that is parameterized by inter- and in-plane nearest- and next-nearest-neighbor interactions, and by easy-plane anisotropy. The temperature dependence of the spin dynamics makes this an excellent model many-body spin system to address the question of the relationship between spin-wave excitations and the order parameter.
Multiple magnetic transitions, metamagnetism and large magnetoresistance in GdAuGe single crystals
Creators: name: Ram, D.
name: Singh, J.
name: Hooda, M. K.
name: Singh, K.
name: Kanchana, V.
name: Kaczorowski, D.
name: Hossain, Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the physical properties of GdAuGe single crystals, which were grown using Bi flux. The powder x-ray diffraction data shows that the compound crystallizes in hexagonal NdPtSb-type structure (space group P63mc). Magnetization measurements performed for field configuration H||c and H||ab show that GdAuGe orders antiferromagnetically at the Neel temperature, TN = 17.2 K. Around this temperature, heat capacity and electrical resistivity data exhibit prominent anomaly due to the antiferromagnetic (AFM) transition. In addition to an AFM phase transition, the magnetization data for H||c display the signature of field-induced metamagnetic (MM) transitions below TN. The critical field range for these transitions vary from 0.2 to 6.2 T. The critical fields for the MM transitions decrease with increasing temperature and approach zero value for temperature approaching TN. Interestingly, the magnetoresistance (MR) data (for H||c) record a sharp increase in values at the critical fields that coincide with those seen in magnetization data, tracking the presence of MM transitions. MR is positive and large (169% at 9 T and 2 K) at low temperatures. Above TN, MR becomes small and switches to negative values. Hall resistivity data reveal the predominance of hole charge carriers in the system. In addition, we observe an emergence of step-like feature in the Hall resistivity data within the field range of second MM, and a significantly large anomalous Hall conductivity of 1270 Ω-1 cm-1 at 2 K. The H-T phase diagram constructed from our detailed magnetization and magnetotransport measurements reveals multiple intricate magnetic phase transitions. The electronic and magnetic structure of GdAuGe are also thoroughly investigated using first-principles methods. The electronic band structure calculations reveal that GdAuGe is a Dirac nodal-line semimetal.
description: 11 pages, 12 figures
#ArchiveLottery - Part 3: Environmental
Creators: name: Corsini, Adam
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2014

description: This resource is a single blog post created as part of the Day of Archaeology initiative. The Day of Archaeology project aimed to provide a window into the daily lives of archaeologists from all over the world. The project asked people working, studying or volunteering in the archaeological world to participate in a 'Day of Archaeology' each year by recording their day and sharing it through text, images or video on the Day of Archaeology blog.
The project asked anyone with a personal, professional or voluntary interest in archaeology to get involved, and help highlight the reasons why archaeology is vital to protect the past and inform our futures. The resulting Day of Archaeology project archive demonstrates the wide variety of work the archaeological profession undertakes day-to-day across the globe, and helps to raise public awareness of the relevance and importance of archaeology to the modern world.
The first ever Day of Archaeology was held in 2011 and, since then, the project had thousands of archaeologists take part in the event, from those working in the field through to specialists working in laboratories and behind computers. The last Day of Archaeology was on Friday 28th July 2017.