cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Covering Giorgio Agamben's Nudities
Creators: name: Murray, Gregory Kirk
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: The most pervasive, resilient, robust, sneaky, and significant concept in all of Giorgio Agamben’s essays is that of  separation.  This  is  not  the  same  as   alienation.   Separation   is   more   nostalgic, for Agamben valorizes an ancient  world  in  which  human  soci-ety  and  its  beings  were  not  subject  to  such  separation.  He  implies  that  these  separations  are  damaging  to  human beings, crippling them at the very level of their identities.
Generic model for Cooper pair splitting
Creators: name: Soller, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A superconductor connected to normal leads allows to generate Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen pairs by Cooper pair splitting. It has been realized with quantum dots either defined in carbon nanotubes or InAs nanowires. After establishing the presence of Cooper pair splitting in such devices new works have invesigated the effects of a finite potential difference between the quantum dots to improve and characterize the efficiency of Cooper pair splitting. In this paper we present a generic model for Cooper pair splitting and develop two minimal models specifically for the two experimental realisations and compare them to experimental data. In addition we also explore the relation of nonlocal charge transfer to positive current cross correlation of currents and discuss the temperature dependence of Cooper pair splitting.
description: 12 pages, 8 figures, accepted by IJMP B
Fabricação de imagens-destino: o impacto dos estereótipos ao nível do turismo
Creators: name: Marques, Sandra Simões
Publisher: name: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento
Year: 2009

description: As imagens de lugares, cidades e nações são fortemente influenciadas pelos retratos promovidos pelos meios de divulgação e comercialização de imagens mediáticas utilizados directa ou indirectamente para propósitos de promoção e propaganda político-económica, em que se inclui a fabricação do destino turístico. Indo ao encontro da ideia de que a cognição humana se baseia na percepção inferencial pelo estabelecimento de categorias, as estratégias de comercialização exploram realidades parciais em imagens comprimidas, fabricando significantes estereotipados que direccionam as percepções e controlam comportamentos. Este artigo pretende reflectir sobre a estreita relação entre a fabricação de percepções à escala internacional pelos mass media e o seu impacto ao nível do turismo e da construção e marketing de imagens de destino. Os dois estudos de caso apresentados, referem-se a destinos no Sul da Ásia: as Ilhas Maldivas e a cidade de Kolkata (Calcutá), na Índia, representados pelos meios de comunicação massificada com imagens “fechadas” de opostos. Ainda que a sua imagem se deva também a qualidades intrínsecas, entendo ser a sua representação mediática a principal determinante para o seu posicionamento internacional ao nível da competição de recursos e implementação de estratégias de desenvolvimento ao nível do turismo.
description: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento, n.º 12 (2009)
La completezza dei rimedi giurisdizionali nell'ordinamento dell'UE e il contezioso sul cambiamento climatico
Creators: name: ROMITO, ANGELA MARIA
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Angela Maria Romito, Università degli studi di Bari Aldo Moro, La completezza dei rimedi giurisdizionali nell'ordinamento dell'UE e il contezioso sul cambiamento climatico
V Convegno Annuale AISDUE - Padova 2 e 3 Novembre 2023
Il Diritto dell'Unione europea nei rapporti tra ordinamenti: tra collaborazione, integrazione e identità
Sessione 4: L'effettività della tutela giurisdizionale nell'Unione europea
Intervento selezionato tramite call for papers - Abstract
Conference Editor: Bernardo Cortese, Università degli Studi di Padova - DiPIC
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Comitato scientifico AISDUE: Antonio Tizzano, Patrizia De Pasquale, Pietro Manzini, Paola Mori, Francesco Rossi Dal Pozzo, Lorenzo Schiano di Pepe, Fabio Spitaleri
Implicaciones de los Distintivos de Calidad: Análisis en el Contexto del Turismo Rural Español
Creators: name: Hernández-Maestro, Rosa M.
name: González-Benito, Óscar
Publisher: name: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento
Year: 2009

description: En un entorno dinámico de búsqueda de la calidad por parte de las empresas ha proliferado el desarrollo de estándares, certificaciones y distintivos. El trabajo analiza si el hecho de tener un distintivo de calidad en el turismo rural español supone consecuencias positivas en la calidad percibida por los clientes, la satisfacción derivada y los resultados empresariales. Las conclusiones empíricas revelan que para los alojamientos con distintivo de calidad existe cierta superioridad. En particular, se detectan diferencias significativas en la percepción de los elementos más tangibles del servicio y en el precio percibido por los encargados, pero no en el precio real ni en el resto de variables analizadas.
description: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento, n.º 12 (2009)
O ordenamento turístico no direito do planeamento e ordenamento do território
Creators: name: Machado, Vírgilio
name: Costa, Carlos
Publisher: name: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento
Year: 2009

description: O artigo apresenta as linhas fundamentais de um sistema jurídico de planeamento e desenvolvimento turístico e seu enquadramento e relevância no Direito do Planeamento e Ordenamento do Território português. O regime jurídico dos Planos de Ordenamento Turístico das regiões autónomas dos Açores e da Madeira é observado à luz de uma perspectiva sistemológica e política dos sistemas de turismo. São discutidas as forças e fraquezas do Direito português para a efectividade dos sistemas de turismo, por referência a uma experiência internacional seleccionada (a espanhola, enriquecida pela diversidade das suas regiões autónomas). Conclui-se pela necessidade de profundas reformas jurídicas para a melhoria do quadro organizacional do ordenamento turístico, considerado pelos decisores políticos como um sector estratégico para o desenvolvimento do país.
description: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento, n.º 12 (2009)
Closing the Loop: Dyeing and Adsorption Potential of Mulberry Wood Waste
Creators: name: Ivanovska, Aleksandra
name: Veljović, Sonja
name: Reljić, Mirjana
name: Lađarević, Jelena
name: Pavun, Leposava
name: Natić, Maja
name: Kostić, Mirjana
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: This study reports the successful transformation of mulberry wood waste into natural textile dye and adsorbent for Pb2+ ions from an aqueous solution. Fabrics of different chemical compositions were dyed using mulberry wood extract, whereas wool possessed the best appearance and color fastness to washing. Among differently dyed wool fabrics, those dyed with 15% extract for 5 h has the highest color strength (K/S = 11.24) and antioxidant activity (83.5%), and the best color and antioxidant activity fastness to washing, making it appropriate for protecting the skin from diverse damages by decelerating the effect of free radical. Moreover, it could be suggested that the binding mechanism proceeds via strong hydrogen bonds between wool surface carboxylate groups and characteristic phenolics found in the extract (dominantly taxifolin, oxyresveratrol, ellagic acid, and tannins). The mulberry wood solid parts separated after the extraction were further evaluated as adsorbents for Pb2+ ions. The highest lead removal was achieved at a solution pH of 5.5, while the equilibrium removal was reached after 4 h of contact time. At 20 mg/l initial lead concentration, the mulberry wood waste removal efficiency was 98.8%. The results of this study represent a step forward to a healthier, cleaner, and more sustainable society.
individual project on theme "Taraxacum officinale F.H. Wigg." (MOOC: CompTech in biology)
Creators: name: Bobrysheva Dasha
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Данный кейс является результатом реализации индивидуального проекта Бобрышевой Дарьи по теме "Taraxacum officinale F.H. Wigg." в рамках онлайн курса "Компьютерные технологии в биологии" (автор – А.В. Ваганов) (https://stepik.org/course/60859/promo)
Considerações sobre instrumentos de avaliação de sustentabilidade de destinos turísticos
Creators: name: Cordeiro, Itamar Dias E
name: Leite, Nathália Körössy
name: Partidário, Maria Do Rosário
Publisher: name: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento
Year: 2009

description: Colocado como o principal desafio da humanidade ao longo do século XXI, o desenvolvimento sustentável configura-se cada vez mais como um objectivo a ser perseguido pelas actividades económicas. Com o turismo, uma das principais actividades económicas a nível mundial, não é diferente. Procurando justamente assegurar a sustentabilidade da actividade surgem algumas ferramentas que se dizem preparadas para avaliar a sustentabilidade da actividade a partir de uma perspectiva objectiva. Neste artigo apresentam-se os resultados de uma investigação no âmbito da qual se procedeu à revisão destas metodologias para verificar se as mesmas cumprem com os requisitos mínimos que se espera ver presentes em instrumentos desta natureza. Faz-se uma reflexão sobre as suas respectivas virtudes e deficiências, tomando-se como referência os Princípios de Bellagio.
description: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento, n.º 12 (2009)
Prismatic Words: 'Passion of Resentment'
Creators: name: Reynolds, Matthew
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: Translation and interpretation studies
Literary studies not elsewhere classified

description: This prismatic animation presents a phrase from Jane Eyre, Chapter 4, with multiple translations researched by Eugenia Kelbert, Yousif M. Qasmiyeh, Jernej Habjan, Ida Klitgård, Ulrich Timme Kragh, Matthew Reynolds, and Kayvan Tahmasebian. Details of the translations quoted are in the PDF attached to this record. For discussion, see Matthew Reynolds et al., Prismatic Jane Eyre: Close-Reading a World Novel Across Languages (Cambridge: Open Book, 2023). https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0319
Inferring the spatiotemporal DNA replication program from noisy data
Creators: name: Baker, A.
name: Bechhoefer, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We generalize a stochastic model of DNA replication to the case where replication-origin-initiation rates vary locally along the genome and with time. Using this generalized model, we address the inverse problem of inferring initiation rates from experimental data concerning replication in cell populations. Previous work based on curve fitting depended on arbitrarily chosen functional forms for the initiation rate, with free parameters that were constrained by the data. We introduce a non-parametric method of inference that is based on Gaussian process regression. The method replaces specific assumptions about the functional form of initiation rate with more general prior expectations about the smoothness of variation of this rate, along the genome and in time. Using this inference method, we recover, with high precision, simulated replication schemes from noisy data that are typical of current experiments.
description: 14 pages, 7 figures
Root the Earth: On Peak Oil Apophenia
Creators: name: Bratton, Benjamin H.
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: After the end of the world, what is the polity of the inhuman? What is its government of energy? It is programmatic reconfigurability: a general economy of plasticity.  It  extends  around  the  anthropomorphic physiognomy of architecture and toward an acephalic geography  emerging  in the  image  of  strong  computa-tional equivalence. The prototype of an indeterminate future  government  is  positioned  by  an  encounter  be-tween  that  equivalence  and  the  numinous  decay  of ecological entropy and negentropy: oil as body of the world, and the “worlding” of the body of oil. Peak oil, and after. Reza  Negarestani’s  own  program  in  his  theoreti-cal-novel, Cyclonopedia,  is  both  geography  and geophilosophy, yes, but also geopolitics, in the specif-ic sense of a Jamesonian geopolitical aesthetic.1 I wish to instrumentalize the text and to de-metaphorize its obsessions, and to link these to those of another short text of my own: “The language of utopia has shifted. The cybernetics of scenario planning has given way to the apophenia of eschatology. Is geopolitics but a Dark Side  of  the  Rainbow  effect?  With  this  shift,  information  becomes  unmanageable,  non-linear,  associa-tive,  arbitrary.  Anything  is  enrolled  into  the  local rhetoric of conspiracy . . .”
Global existence for a class of reaction-diffusion systems with mass action kinetics and concentration-dependent diffusivities
Creators: name: Bothe, Dieter
name: Rolland, Guillaume
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35K57, 35K59, 92E20, 92D25

description: In this work we study the existence of classical solutions for a class of reaction-diffusion systems with quadratic growth naturally arising in mass action chemistry when studying networks of reactions of the type $A_i+A_j \rightleftharpoons A_k$ with Fickian diffusion, where the diffusion coefficients might depend on time, space and on all the concentrations $c_i$ of the chemical species. In the case of one single reaction, we prove global existence for space dimensions $N\leq 5$. In the more restrictive case of diffusion coefficients of the type $d_i(c_i)$, we use an $L^2$-approach to prove global existence for $N\leq 9$. In the general case of networks of such reactions we extend the previous method to get global solutions for general diffusivities if $N\leq 3$ and for diffusion of type $d_i(c_i)$ if $N\leq 5$. In the latter quasi-linear case of $d_i(c_i)$ and for space dimensions $N=2$ and $N=3$, global existence holds for more than quadratic reactions. We can actually allow for more general rate functions including fractional power terms, important in applications. We obtain global existence under appropriate growth restrictions with an explicit dependence on the space dimension $N$.
Ciclovias e turismo – uma forma de integração na europa? de Aveiro… ao Baixo Vouga… e à região centro
Creators: name: Rua, João
name: Albuquerque, Helena
Publisher: name: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento
Year: 2009

description: O turismo é visto como um factor de desenvolvimento económico, sendo um elemento estruturante da dinâmica da economia global e contribuindo para a consolidação do processo de integração económica dos países, através da criação de elos entre regiões. Para uma região se tornar atractiva e competitiva no sector turístico necessita de apostar naquilo que a distingue das outras, nas suas especificidades, valorizando os seus próprios recursos e tornando-os inovadores. As Redes de Ciclovias constituem uma excelente oportunidade para os municípios e, em especial, para as Regiões, porque podem ajudar a definir e a sustentar estratégias de desenvolvimento turístico mais competitivas e associadas ao quadro de recursos naturais disponíveis, contribuindo, desta forma, para o processo desenvolvimento sustentável. A sub-região do Baixo Vouga, cujo principal destino é a cidade de Aveiro, e a Região Centro Litoral de Portugal apresentam um quadro de Recursos Naturais que tem tanto de diversificado quanto de excelência, sendo de destacar a presença de paisagens contrastantes, como a Serra e o Mar, e a constante presença da “ria de Aveiro”. Esta diversidade permite-nos pensar que, se a este quadro de oportunidades for possível acrescentar capacidade de inovar, de pensar e de fazer diferente, provavelmente será possível a estruturação de um modelo de desenvolvimento económico regional sustentável e competitivo, numa estreita relação com o equilíbrio ambiental desejado. Estão assim reunidas as condições para reflectir sobre a oportunidade da construção de uma rede regional de ciclovias na Região Centro Litoral.
description: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento, n.º 12 (2009)
Queerness, Openness
Creators: name: Blas, Zach
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: The state of queer theory today is somewhere between death  and  life.  Since  Teresa  de  Lauretis  coined  the term  at  a  conference  at  the  University  of  California Santa  Cruz  in  1990,  this body  of  theoretical  work,  it has been claimed, has quickly peaked—or reached an impasse—within the last 15-20 years. In fact, de Lau-retis gave up on the term only after three years, claim-ing  that  “queer”  had  already  been  taken  over  by  the various mainstream institutions and establishments it was created to resist against.  Yet, if queer theory always promises an openness to its future and constantly insists on its inability to be pinned down or limited, what has happened to queer theory, when so many proclaim its usefulness is over or  pronounce  its  outright  death.  There  are  many thoughts,  suggestions,  and  disagreements  about  this: while some suggest queer theory never made good on its promise of openness, others note that queer theo-ry’s very openness and amorphousness fatally diluted it.  Perhaps  the  problem  with  the  “peaking  of  queer theory,”1 as David Ruffolo calls it, is that queer theory has not been open enough.
Prismatic Words: 'Passion of Resentment'
Creators: name: Reynolds, Matthew
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: Translation and interpretation studies
Literary studies not elsewhere classified

description: This prismatic animation presents a phrase from Jane Eyre, Chapter 4, with multiple translations researched by Eugenia Kelbert, Yousif M. Qasmiyeh, Jernej Habjan, Ida Klitgård, Ulrich Timme Kragh, Matthew Reynolds, and Kayvan Tahmasebian. Details of the translations quoted are here. For discussion, see Matthew Reynolds et al., Prismatic Jane Eyre: Close-Reading a World Novel Across Languages (Cambridge: Open Book, 2023). https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0319
Gourmandized in the Abattoir of Openness
Creators: name: Masciandaro, Nicola
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: Cyclonopedia is a book that opens Earth to the divini-ty  of  reality.  The  intoxicating  effect  of  its  theory-fiction terror is to defuse the double, mutual hostage-taking of philosophy and religion, their shared aporet-ic  stand-off  according  to  which  reality  remains  the occluded  object  of  fiction  and  divinity  the  eclipsed object of theory. Here theory-fiction is not a cool new hybrid  capable  of  synthesizing  and  rescripting  their domains  towards  an  iterable  new  science  or  disci-pline. It is not about unifying and resolving their dou-ble truth. Instead the book is a trisonic betrayal that is treacherously  against  both  via  treason  of  each  to  the other. Cyclonopedia  thus  takes  place  in  a  new  time that it instantiates and narrates: Incognitum Hactenus, or  anonymous-until-Now,  “a  double-dealing  mode  of time connecting abyssal time scales to our chronologi-cal time, thus exposing us to the horror of times be-yond.”   Anonymous-until-Now   is   the   time   of Cyclonopedic writing, the date of this symposium, an evental logic that deals with local and cosmic time as it does with fiction and theory. In this time, “things leak into each other according to a logic that does not belong to us and cannot be correlated to our chrono-logical time.”Chronos leaks into theory (the vision of aiôn), aiôn  leaks  into  fiction  (the  narration  of chronos). Inverting the messianic now wherein time is kairically suspended above chronicity as “the time we need to make time end: the time that is left us [il tem-po  che  ci  resta],”Cyclonopedia  chronically  inters kairos  into  a  time  we  no  longer  need  to  make  time begin: the time that never was ours. Now that all life is over, every moment is opportune, the time of human gods and divine demons, a present stretching far be-yond the limits of past and future. In place of the ex-pectation  of  resurrection  the  book  offers  a  funerary feast: “God turns himself into a good meal for the hu-man,  the  earth  and  the  outside.”  In  place  of  Arma-geddon  it  offers  the  terrestrial  playground  of  White War,  the  abode  of  unbounded,  as  opposed  to  final, conflict,  “at  once  the  white  of  impenetrable  fog  and the color of peace.” Incognitum Hactenus is a revolu-tionary  enthymeme  or  argument-without-assumption, applicable in all spheres, that stabs at the heart of the mutual exclusiveness of plans and peace, the wanting-to-have-it-both-ways  of  human  worry  whose  global monument is the Middle East Peace Plan.
Meridional Flow in the Solar Convection Zone I: Measurements from GONG Data
Creators: name: Kholikov, Shukur
name: Serebryanskiy, Alexander
name: Jackiewicz, Jason
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Large-scale plasma flows in the Sun's convection zone likely play a major role in solar dynamics on decadal timescales. In particular, quantifying meridional motions is a critical ingredient for understanding the solar cycle and the transport of magnetic flux. Because the signal of such features can be quite small in deep solar layers and be buried in systematics or noise, the true meridional velocity profile has remained elusive. We perform time-distance helioseismology measurements on several years worth of GONG Doppler data. A spherical harmonic decomposition technique is applied to a subset of acoustic modes to measure travel-time differences to try to obtain signatures of meridional flows throughout the solar convection zone. Center-to-limb systematics are taken into account in an intuitive, yet ad hoc manner. Travel-time differences near the surface that are consistent with a poleward flow in each hemisphere and are similar to previous work are measured. Additionally, measurements in deep layers near the base of the convection zone suggest a possible equatorward flow, as well as partial evidence of a sign change in the travel-time differences at mid-convection zone depths. This analysis on an independent data set using different measurement techniques strengthens recent conclusions that the convection zone may have multiple "cells" of meridional flow. The results may challenge the common understanding of one large conveyor belt operating in the solar convection zone. Further work with helioseismic inversions and a careful study of systematic effects are needed before firm conclusions of these large-scale flow structures can be made.
The Untimely (and Unshapely) Decomposition of Onto-Epistemological Solidity: Negarestani's Cyclonopedia as Metaphysics
Creators: name: Woodard, Ben
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: This  paper  asserts  that  Negarestani’s Cyclonopedia  is at  its  core  a  metaphysical  text,  a  claim  which  I  then force into complicity with a critique and reworking of the  philosophical  category  of  becoming.  While  not often  discussed  explicitly,  becoming  appears  in  Ne-garestani’s work as different mutations—as the mathe-sis of decay, as the cosmic liquidity of blobjectivity, of trisonomy, and of the dissected spiral. Becoming,  whether  organically  or  inorganically vitalist  (DeleuzoGuattarian  or  otherwise),  Bergsonally imagistic, or experientially Whiteheadian or Jamesian, has historically remained too wedded to the power of reason. Ratiocination, as a power, is one too grounded, as  it  purports  to  sufficiently  probe  the  meandering flows  of  becoming  without  recognizing  itself  as  a  re-sult of other powers, processes and so on. This stream-ing conundrum reaches hyper-activity in Nick Land’s work.  While  Land  rightly  molds  thought  into  a  pro-ductive process, Land’s negation of representation and total destratification of materiality, as Ray Brassier has recently noted, raises the problem of individuation in a  cosmos  of  only  schizoid  intensification.  Negaresta-ni’s  work,  while  indebted  to  Land,  contrarily  locates such  intensification  in  an  ever  exteriorized  absolute, in  the  strands  of  materiality  as  a  process  placing  Ne-garestani’s  work  between  a  mad  black  Deleuzianism and a mad black Schellingianism. In order to dissect the metaphysical core of Cyclonopedia, this paper will engage  the conceptual  couplets  ground/unground,  in-terior/exterior (spatial and temporal) and a blackened becoming via the pivotal concept of the twist.
Spatial adiabatic passage processes in sonic crystals with linear defects
Creators: name: Menchon-Enrich, Ricard
name: Mompart, Jordi
name: Ahufinger, Veronica
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate spatial adiabatic passage processes for sound waves propagation in sonic crystals, consisting of steel cylinders embedded in a water host medium, that present two linear defects. This work constitutes an extension of the well-known quantum optical rapid adiabatic passage technique to the field of sound propagation. Several spatial adiabatic passage devices are proposed, by appropriately designing the geometry of the two linear defects along the propagation direction, to work as a coherent multifrequency adiabatic splitter, a phase difference analyzer and a coherent multifrequency adiabatic coupler. These devices are robust in front of fluctuations of the geometric parameter values.
description: 11 pages, 10 figures
Prismatic Words: 'Judgment and Passion'
Creators: name: Reynolds, Matthew
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: Translation and interpretation studies
Literary studies not elsewhere classified

description: This prismatic animation presents a phrase from Jane Eyre, Chapter 15, with multiple translations researched by Eugenia Kelbert, Adriana X. Jacobs, Yousif M. Qasmiyeh, Jernej Habjan, Ida Klitgård, Ulrich Timme Kragh, Matthew Reynolds, Kayvan Tahmasebian, and Sowon S. Park. Details of the translations quoted are in the PDF attached to this record. For discussion, see Matthew Reynolds et al., Prismatic Jane Eyre: Close-Reading a World Novel Across Languages (Cambridge: Open Book, 2023). https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0319
Adhesive wear behaviour of surface modified bamboo filler reinforced polymer composite under different contact condition
Creators: name: Paul, Rajdeep
name: Bhowmik, Sumit
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: An experimental study has been conducted to evaluate the adhesive wear behavior of bamboo filler-reinforced polymer composite. Bamboo has the significant attention of investigators due to its benefits over human-made fibers. The bamboo fillers’ surface is treated by the alkali treatment process and the composite is prepared with a variation of micro bamboo particle support (i.e. 0, 2.5, 5, 7.5, 10, and 12.5%). The study of tribological characterization is explored for dry, wet, and heated sliding contact state using the pin-on-disk tribomachine counter to a stainless steel disc. Modified bamboo filler composite exhibited better interaction between filler and matrix, which improve the wear resistance capacity of the composite. From the experimental result it is found that specific wear rate and coefficient of friction is lesser in wet condition compared to dry and heated state conditions. Moreover, lower filler content offered enhanced wear performance related to the higher filler content composite. In case of dry sliding contact, debonding and plastic deformation are witnessed on the composite surfaces. However, the worn regions are minimal under wet state condition. Further, in case of the heated state, a thin layer created on the exterior of composite which safeguards the surface from further worn.
Halo Masses of MgII absorbers at z\sim 0.5 from SDSS DR7
Creators: name: Gauthier, Jean-Rene
name: Chen, Hsiao-Wen
name: Cooksey, Kathy L.
name: Simcoe, Robert A.
name: Seyffert, Eduardo N.
name: O'Meara, John M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the cross-correlation function of MgII absorbers with respect to a volume-limited sample of luminous red galaxies (LRGs) at z=0.45-0.60 using the largest MgII absorber sample and a new LRG sample from SDSS DR7. We present the clustering signal of absorbers on projected scales r_p = 0.3-35 Mpc/h in four Wr(2796) bins spanning Wr(2796)=0.4-5.6A. We found that on average MgII absorbers reside in halos < log M_h > \approx 12.1, similar to the halo mass of an L_* galaxy. We report that the weakest absorbers in our sample with W_r(2796)=0.4-1.1A reside in relatively massive halos with < log M_h > \approx 12.5^{+0.6}_{-1.3}, while stronger absorbers reside in halos of similar or lower masses < log M_h > \approx 11.6^{+0.9}. We compared our bias data points, b, and the frequency distribution function of absorbers, f_{W_r}, with a simple model incorporating an isothermal density profile to mimic the distribution of absorbing gas in halos. We also compared the bias data points with Tinker & Chen (2008) who developed halo occupation distribution models of MgII absorbers that are constrained by b and f_{W_r}. The simple isothermal model can be ruled at a \approx 2.8σlevel mostly because of its inability to reproduce f_{W_r}. However, b values are consistent with both models, including TC08. In addition, we show that the mean b of absorbers does not decrease beyond W_r(2796) \approx 1.6A. The flat or potential upturn of b for Wr(2796) \gtrsim 1.6A absorbers suggests the presence of additional cool gas in massive halos.
description: 13 pages, 6 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
La estructura de propiedad de las compañias aéreas y su efecto sobre la prestación de servicios
Creators: name: Bonilla, Jesús Manuel López
name: Bonilla, Luis Miguel López
Publisher: name: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento
Year: 2009

description: La liberalización de la economía es el principal desafío de la industria del transporte aéreo de pasajeros. Este trabajo ha investigado la relación existente entre la estructura de propiedad de las compañías aéreas y los niveles de servicios prestados. En concreto, se estudia si las compañías aéreas de propiedad pública conllevan unos menores niveles de servicios que las aerolíneas de propiedad privada. Se utilizó una muestra de aerolíneas internacionales de tamaños medio y grande. Dicho trabajo se centra sobre la satisfacción del pasajero. Se han examinados varios atributos de servicios, tales como la facturación, la información, la cortesía, el espacio de los asientos, la comodidad, el servicio de comidas, el entretenimiento en vuelo, los retrasos, el overbooking, la comunicación boca-oído positiva y la satisfacción global. Los resultados empíricos de este estudio han mostrado que las compañías aéreas públicas ofrecen unos niveles de satisfacción más reducidos que las aerolíneas de propiedad mixta y de propiedad privada. En cambio, cuando se compararon las aerolíneas mixtas y privadas no hubo una superioridad clara por parte de ninguno de estos tipos de aerolíneas.
description: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento, n.º 12 (2009)
Saturn's Darkness
Creators: name: Bryant, Brantley
name: , Alia
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: If  we’re  thinking  of  a  dark  Chaucer,  Saturn’s  speech  in  the Knight’s Tale comes quickly to mind (I.2453–2478). Although pop  culture  misguidedly  loves The  Canterbury  Tales best  for its fart jokes, the appearance of the old, pale god in the first of the  pilgrim  stories  shows  that  Chaucer  can  get  very  dark indeed. Saturn’s darkness, this essay will argue, should remind scholars  of  Chaucer  to  be  attentive  to  our  own  ineradicable darknesses. We should see our moments of collapse and chaos not  just  as  unfortunate  circumstances  to  be  acknowledged (though  that  is  needed  desperately)  but  also  as  “ways  in”  to the most vital and distinctive aspects of our discipline.
Prismatic Words: 'Judgment and Passion'
Creators: name: Reynolds, Matthew
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: Translation and interpretation studies
Literary studies not elsewhere classified

description: This prismatic animation presents a phrase from Jane Eyre, Chapter 15, with multiple translations researched by Eugenia Kelbert, Adriana X. Jacobs, Yousif M. Qasmiyeh, Jernej Habjan, Ida Klitgård, Ulrich Timme Kragh, Matthew Reynolds, Kayvan Tahmasebian, and Sowon S. Park. Details of the translations quoted are here. For discussion, see Matthew Reynolds et al., Prismatic Jane Eyre: Close-Reading a World Novel Across Languages (Cambridge: Open Book, 2023). https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0319
Um estudo à adequabilidade das brochuras direccionadas para os trilhos pedestres: o caso Genuineland, Alentejo, Portugal
Creators: name: Rodrigues, Aurea
name: Valério, Miguel Ângelo
name: Rodrigues, Apolónia
Publisher: name: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento
Year: 2009

description: Actualmente, verifica-se uma crescente procura das áreas naturais para a prática de actividades de turismo, lazer e recreio em que o pedestrianismo é uma das mais usuais. O pedestrianismo insere-se nas novas tendências do turismo que vão desde o ecoturismo, o turismo activo ao wellness entre outros, permitindo a captação de vários segmentos e nichos de mercado ou a fixação desses turistas por mais tempo numa área de destino. As actividades potenciadas pelo trilho pedestre podem assim também trazer benefícios económicos para as populações locais e fomentar a preservação do meio natural e cultural, indo desta forma de encontro aos princípios de sustentabilidade. O trilho pedestre proporciona oportunidades para os visitantes conhecerem a região no seu todo, as brochuras turísticas e a sinalética permitem que os turistas percorram os trilhos sozinhos sem o apoio de um guia de turismo (Roberts e Hall, 2001). Num estudo efectuado ao pedestrianista nacional (Rodrigues, 2004) verificou-se que estes dão muita importância à existência de informação sobre os trilhos pedestres: para este mercado estes folhetos são bastante relevantes. Neste mesmo estudo, avaliou-se o grau de leiturabilidade dos textos incluídos nas brochuras dos trilhos pedestres existentes dinamizados pela Rede Europeia de Turismo de Aldeia para as Unidades de Turismo em Espaço Rural aderentes na Região do Alentejo em Portugal. Esta análise tem como objectivo calcular os anos de escolaridade necessários para a compreensão plena dum documento escrito, sendo o cálculo realizado através de fórmulas que conjugam (entre outros aspectos) o tipo de palavras, o número de frases e parágrafos, ou seja, através duma análise que se baseia na dificuldade das palavras e das frases (Stephens, 2000). Apresentamos, neste artigo, os resultados deste estudo a nível da adequação das brochuras para o público nacional dos trilhos pedestres e fornecemos pistas estratégicas para uma maior adequação deste recurso ao mercado existente.
description: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento, n.º 12 (2009)
Logic gates at the surface code threshold: Superconducting qubits poised for fault-tolerant quantum computing
Creators: name: Barends, R.
name: Kelly, J.
name: Megrant, A.
name: Veitia, A.
name: Sank, D.
name: Jeffrey, E.
name: White, T. C.
name: Mutus, J.
name: Fowler, A. G.
name: Campbell, B.
name: Chen, Y.
name: Chen, Z.
name: Chiaro, B.
name: Dunsworth, A.
name: Neill, C.
name: O`Malley, P.
name: Roushan, P.
name: Vainsencher, A.
name: Wenner, J.
name: Korotkov, A. N.
name: Cleland, A. N.
name: Martinis, John M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A quantum computer can solve hard problems - such as prime factoring, database searching, and quantum simulation - at the cost of needing to protect fragile quantum states from error. Quantum error correction provides this protection, by distributing a logical state among many physical qubits via quantum entanglement. Superconductivity is an appealing platform, as it allows for constructing large quantum circuits, and is compatible with microfabrication. For superconducting qubits the surface code is a natural choice for error correction, as it uses only nearest-neighbour coupling and rapidly-cycled entangling gates. The gate fidelity requirements are modest: The per-step fidelity threshold is only about 99%. Here, we demonstrate a universal set of logic gates in a superconducting multi-qubit processor, achieving an average single-qubit gate fidelity of 99.92% and a two-qubit gate fidelity up to 99.4%. This places Josephson quantum computing at the fault-tolerant threshold for surface code error correction. Our quantum processor is a first step towards the surface code, using five qubits arranged in a linear array with nearest-neighbour coupling. As a further demonstration, we construct a five-qubit Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) state using the complete circuit and full set of gates. The results demonstrate that Josephson quantum computing is a high-fidelity technology, with a clear path to scaling up to large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum circuits.
description: 15 pages, 13 figures, including supplementary material
Effect of Alkalization on Physical, Chemical, Morphological and Mechanical Properties of Arial Root Ficus Amplissima Fibre
Creators: name: Rameshkannan, G.
name: Babu, S. Ramesh
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Natural fiber’s hydrophilic property leads to reduced bond strength for its incompatibility with the matrix. This problem can be sorted out by treating the surface of the fiber. In this connection, the chemical, physical, thermal, and surface morphological properties of alkali-treated Arial root Ficus Amplissima fiber (ARFAF) have been investigated. By using the TGA, the alkali treatment of ARFAF was optimized, and 5% (w/v) NaOH and 45 min of the soaking period was found to be the best. Optimally treated ARFAF improved the cellulose content from (52.64 wt. %) to (61.67 wt. %) and reduced the hemicellulose from (10.64 wt. %) to (6.22 wt. %), crystallinity index improved from (39%) to (43.33%), tensile strength improved from (250.7 ± 11.26MPa) to (278.4 ± 13.20 MPa), thermal stability improved from (200°C) to (230°C), and it improved the surface topography compared with raw ARFAF.
A Dark Stain and a Non-Encounter
Creators: name: Evans, Ruth
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: I  want  to  write  about  Alcyone’s  dream  because  it’s  fascinated me  for  so  long,  but  the  pages  of  my  Riverside  Chaucer  won’t stay open at The Book of the Duchess, so I bend back the spine and put my left palm down firmly on the gutter, but it’s as if the book  is  resisting  my  desire  to  read,  which  annoys  me  because I’m  excited  to  work  out  why  I  find  her  dream  so  dark.  I  know that the trigger will be certain enigmatic words that tease me or some other text that swims into my head as I’m reading. I don’t know  exactly  what  that  will  be,  though  I  remember  that  the word   “derk”   is   there   in   the   poem   somewhere.   Now   I’m skimming the opening lines, trying to take it in slowly, how the dark   dream   is   introduced,   but   my eye   is   racing   ahead, anticipating  “derk,”  and  although  I  want  this  experience  to  be frictionless,  I’m  stopping  and  starting,  trying  to  find  a  rhythm for my reading, seizing at words and images and dropping them or  busily  storing  them  for  future  recall,  and  then  there  it  is! Morpheus’s  cave  is  “derk  as  helle-pit.”  I  slow  down.  Here’s  the dream. It’s as odd as I remember it.
Thermal property in Brownian motion of a particle coupled to vacuum fluctuations
Creators: name: Oshita, Naritaka
name: Yamamoto, Kazuhiro
name: Zhang, Sen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate Brownian motions of a particle coupled to vacuum fluctuations of a quantum field. The Unruh effect predicts that an observer in an accelerated motion sees the Minkowski vacuum as thermally excited. This addresses the problem of whether a thermal property appears in a perturbative random motion of a particle in an accelerated motion due to the coupling or not. We revisit this problem by solving the equation of motion of a particle coupled to vacuum fluctuations including the radiation reaction force. We compute a Fourier integral for the variance of the random velocity in a rigorous manner. Similarly, we consider a particle coupled to vacuum fluctuations in de Sitter spacetime motivated by the argument that an observer in de Sitter spacetime sees the Bunch-Davies vacuum as a thermally excited state with the Gibbons-Hawking temperature. Our investigation clarifies the condition that the energy equipartition relation arises in the Brownian motions of a particle.
description: 10 pages
Realization of the open-boundary totally asymmetric simple exclusion process on a ring
Creators: name: Kanai, Masahiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a misanthrope process, defined on a ring, which realizes the totally asymmetric simple exclusion process with open boundaries. In the misanthrope process, particles have no exclusion interactions in contrast to those in the simple exclusion process, while the hop rates depend on both numbers of particles at departure and arrival sites. Arranging the hop rates, we can recover the simple exclusion property and also make a condensate, which grows at an arbitrary single site, behave as an external reservoir providing and absorbing particles. It is known that, under some condition, the misanthrope process has an exact solution for its steady-state probability. We exploit this fact to see in an analytical way that the model proposed is exactly what we expected.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Journal of Statistical Physics
Prismatic Words: 'Passions Rage Furiously'
Creators: name: Reynolds, Matthew
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: Translation and interpretation studies
Literary studies not elsewhere classified

description: This prismatic animation presents a phrase from Jane Eyre, Chapter 19, with multiple translations researched by Eugenia Kelbert, Ana Teresa Marques dos Santos, Kasia Szymanska, Matthew Reynolds, Yousif M. Qasmiyeh, Jernej Habjan, Kayvan Tahmasebian, and Ida Klitgård. Details of the translations quoted are in the PDF attached to this record. For discussion, see Matthew Reynolds et al., Prismatic Jane Eyre: Close-Reading a World Novel Across Languages (Cambridge: Open Book, 2023). https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0319
Aplicação de sondagens indirectas no turismo
Creators: name: Pereira, Luís Nobre
name: Coelho, Pedro Simões
Publisher: name: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento
Year: 2009

description: Na maioria das sondagens realizadas na área do turismo não existe uma base de amostragem da população alvo. Em seu lugar, pode existir uma base de amostragem formada por unidades de amostragem de outra população, as quais estão relacionadas, de alguma forma, com as unidades estatísticas de análise que se pretendem inquirir. Esta situação provoca um problema no que concerne à dificuldade de associar uma probabilidade de inclusão a cada unidade amostral da população alvo. Uma solução para esse problema consiste em aplicar o método de sondagem indirecta e utilizar o Método de Partilha de Pesos Generalizado (MPPG) desenvolvido por Lavallée (1995, 2002), na atribuição dos pesos de estimação a cada unidade amostral da população alvo. Este artigo é dedicado à apresentação do método de sondagem indirecta e da forma de determinação dos pesos da estimação, através do MPPG, e a sua adaptação à resolução de problemas de estimação na área do turismo em ambiente aberto.
description: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento, n.º 12 (2009)
In the Event of the Franklin's Tale
Creators: name: Mitchell, J. Allan
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: There is no truth to delimit in the event. Events come, if ever they   arrive,   to   designate   fields   of pure possibility   and emergent   futurity.    Consider   one   old   tale   of   “diverse aventures” (V.710), Chaucer’s Franklin’s Tale.1  Somewhere in Brittany, Dorigen is happily married to the knight Arveragus, having  recently  pledged  her  undying  love.  “Have  heer  my trouthe — til that myn herte breste” (V.759). Soon he goes on an  expedition  abroad.  Dorigen  watches  ships  come  to  port in the  hopes  that  one  will  return  her  husband safely,  and  she is tormented by thoughts of his foundering. Dorigen cultivates a “derke  fantasye”  (V.844),  meditating  on  the  hazards  of  a seascape  that consists  of  “grisly  rokkes blake”  (V.859)  just offshore. They   are   menacing   and   apparently   meaningless obstacles to her happiness. She cannot shake bleak thoughts of a   possible   fatality,   despite   friends’   comforting   words   and pleasant    distractions. Then    something    unexpected    does happen. At a dance, the amorous squire Aurelius propositions Dorigen, begging her mercy. She rejects his advances, tactfully couching her  reply in  terms  that  are  described  as  playful:  shesays   she will   yield to   Aurelius only   if he removes   thedangerous  rocks that  threaten  her  beloved  husband.  “Have heer my trouthe, in al that evere I kan” (V.998). It would seem impossible.  But Dorigen’s  so-called  rash  promise  to  Aureliusis   a   fateful   utterance   carried   away   by    further    events, accompanied by  a  powerful  sense  of  foreboding,  setting  in motion so   many   impossibilities. Dorigen   and   expectantreaders  of  the  tale  subsequently  drift  towards  a  future of  still more improbable events.