cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
O–D matrix estimation based on data-driven network assignment
Creators: name: Tsanakas, Nikolaos
name: Gundlegård, David
name: Rydergren, Clas
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Time-dependent Origin-Destination (OD) matrices are an essential input to transportation models. A cost-efficient and widely used approach for estimating OD matrices involves the exploitation of flow counts from stationary traffic detectors. This estimation approach is also referred to as assignment-based OD matrix estimation because, typically, Dynamic Traffic Assignment (DTA) models are used to map the OD matrix to the link flows. The conventional DTA establish a complex non-linear relationship between the demand, and the link flows, adding an inherent complexity to the OD matrix estimation problem. In this paper, attempting to exploit the growing availability of Floating-Car Data (FCD), we suggest a solution approach that is based on a Data-Driven Network Assignment (DDNA) mechanism. The DDNA utilises the FCD from probe vehicles to capture congestion effects, providing a linear mapping of the OD matrix to the link flow observations. We present the results of two synthetic-data experiments that serve as proof of concept, indicating that if FCD are available, the computationally costly DTA may not be necessary for solving the OD matrix estimation problem. Abbreviations APR: average penetration rate; DDNA: data driven network assignment; DDNL: data driven network loading; DODME: dynamic OD matrix estimation; DTA:dynamic traffic assignment; FCD: floating-car data; ITS: intelligent transportationsystems; NNLSQ: non-negative least squares; OD: origin destination; ODME: ODmatrix estimation; PV: probe vehicle; RUM: random utility model
Simultaneous Exoplanet Characterization and deep wide-field imaging with a diffractive pupil telescope
Creators: name: Guyon, Olivier
name: Eisner, Josh A.
name: Angel, Roger
name: Woolf, Neville J.
name: Bendek, Eduardo A.
name: Milster, Thomas D.
name: Ammons, Stephen M.
name: Shao, Michael
name: Shaklan, Stuart
name: Levine, Marie
name: Nemati, Bijan
name: Martinache, Frantz
name: Pitman, Joe
name: Woodruff, Robert A.
name: Belikov, Ruslan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High-precision astrometry can identify exoplanets and measure their orbits and masses, while coronagraphic imaging enables detailed characterization of their physical properties and atmospheric compositions through spectroscopy. In a previous paper, we showed that a diffractive pupil telescope (DPT) in space can enable sub-microarcsecond accuracy astrometric measurements from wide-field images by creating faint but sharp diffraction spikes around the bright target star. The DPT allows simultaneous astrometric measurement and coronagraphic imaging, and we discuss and quantify in this paper the scientific benefits of this combination for exoplanet science investigations: identification of exoplanets with increased sensitivity and robustness, and ability to measure planetary masses to high accuracy. We show how using both measurements to identify planets and measure their masses offers greater sensitivity and provides more reliable measurements than possible with separate missions, and therefore results in a large gain in mission efficiency. The combined measurements reliably identify potentially habitable planets in multiple systems with a few observations, while astrometry or imaging alone would require many measurements over a long time baseline. In addition, the combined measurement allows direct determination of stellar masses to percent-level accuracy, using planets as test particles. We also show that the DPT maintains the full sensitivity of the telescope for deep wide-field imaging, and is therefore compatible with simultaneous scientific observations unrelated to exoplanets. We conclude that astrometry, coronagraphy, and deep wide-field imaging can be performed simultaneously on a single telescope without significant negative impact on the performance of any of the three techniques.
description: 15 pages, 6 figures. This second paper, following the paper describing the diffractive pupil telescope (DPT) astrometric technique, shows how simultaneous astrometry and coronagraphy observations, enabled by the DPT concept, constrain the orbital parameters and mass of exoplanets
Fisheye Lens Geometric Calibration
Creators: name: CORAN, GIACOMO
name: SIMIONI, EMANUELE
name: PERNECHELE, Claudio
name: LESSIO, Luigi
Publisher: name: O.A. Padova
Year: 2022

description: In this report we will show the calibration procedure and the obtained results for the definition of the intrinsic parameters of a wide-angle system through the use of a set of acquisitions of a well-known calibration target. In this case the method is applied to a Fujinon fish-eye camera hereafter called FEL (Fish-Eye Lens).
Far-Ultraviolet Observations of Outflows from IR-Luminous Galaxies
Creators: name: Leitherer, Claus
name: Chandar, Rupali
name: Tremonti, Christy
name: Wofford, Aida
name: Schaerer, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We obtained medium-resolution ultraviolet (UV) spectra between 1150 and 1450 Angstroms of the four UV-bright, infrared (IR)-luminous starburst galaxies IRAS F08339+6517, NGC 3256, NGC 6090, and NGC 7552 using the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph onboard the Hubble Space Telescope. The selected sightlines towards the starburst nuclei probe the properties of the recently formed massive stars and the physical conditions in the starburst-driven galactic superwinds. Despite being metal-rich and dusty, all four galaxies are strong Lyman-alpha emitters with equivalent widths ranging between 2 and 13 Angstroms. The UV spectra show strong P Cygni-type high-ionization features indicative of stellar winds and blueshifted low-ionization lines formed in the interstellar and circumgalactic medium. We detect outflowing gas with bulk velocities of about 400 km/s and maximum velocities of almost 900 km/s. These are among the highest values found in the local universe and comparable to outflow velocities found in luminous Lyman-break galaxies at intermediate and high redshift. The outflow velocities are unlikely to be high enough to cause escape of material from the galactic gravitational potential. However, the winds are significant for the evolution of the galaxies by transporting heavy elements from the starburst nuclei and enriching the galaxy halos. The derived mass outflow rates of ~100 Msol/yr are comparable to, or even higher than the star-formation rates. The outflows can quench star formation and ultimately regulate the starburst as has been suggested for high-redshift galaxies.
description: 71 pages, 26 figures, accepted by ApJ. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:astro-ph/0502022 by other authors
A Forensic Linguistic Analysis of Modality on Prosecutors’ Resolutions
Creators: name: FRIEdr, Jerson S. Catoto, PhD,
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 180119 Law and Society
subject: FOS: Law

description: Prosecutors are individuals assigned to resolve cases filed on courts. Their abilities to make keenly decisions provided a wide spectrum on the world of forensic linguistics. This study aimed at identifying the types of modals used and their functions in the prosecutors’ resolutions of different cases. Further, this forensic linguistic analysis determined the frequency of overused and misused modals. Anchored on the premise of Palmer (2001) on the types and functions of modals, this study found that the common speculative modality is -may. Deductive modality included modals such as -shall, -must, -would, -may, and -could. As appeared, modal -could was categorized under the reported modality. Permissives were -can, -cannot, -will, -would, and -must. Modals were used to predict, give the possibility, capability, and permission, necessity, requirement, and prescription. The modal -would appeared 14 times among the prosecutors’ resolutions. Implications for legal parlance and educational milieu were presented.
Bayesian Quadratic Network Game Filters
Creators: name: Eksin, Ceyhun
name: Molavi, Pooya
name: Ribeiro, Alejandro
name: Jadbabaie, Ali
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A repeated network game where agents have quadratic utilities that depend on information externalities -- an unknown underlying state -- as well as payoff externalities -- the actions of all other agents in the network -- is considered. Agents play Bayesian Nash Equilibrium strategies with respect to their beliefs on the state of the world and the actions of all other nodes in the network. These beliefs are refined over subsequent stages based on the observed actions of neighboring peers. This paper introduces the Quadratic Network Game (QNG) filter that agents can run locally to update their beliefs, select corresponding optimal actions, and eventually learn a sufficient statistic of the network's state. The QNG filter is demonstrated on a Cournot market competition game and a coordination game to implement navigation of an autonomous team.
title: Use of Modern Software Systems for Design and Realization of Prototype of Three-dimensional Model
Creators: name: Daneshjo, Naqib
name: Dudáš Pajerská, Erika
name: Hajduova, Zuzana
name: Cristian Dan, Stratyinski
name: Mirwais, Danishjoo
Publisher: name: TEM Journal
Year: 2019

description: The work includes an overview of modern software systems suitable for prototype design of complex technical field products as well as serial production support. The introductory part of the thesis includes a research of computer-aided systems for engineering designs, control system designs, electronics as well as the chip itself with a control algorithm. Greater attention is paid to the more detailed analysis of the electronically switched engine, its mechanical design, its electronic engagement as well as its control. Brushless DC Electric Motor (BLDC) motors are most commonly used in small unmanned aircrafts, helicopters and n-clovers. In the practical part of the thesis is described the own design of equipment for testing and calibration of BLDC engines. Own methods of controlling and scanning BLDCs are described through Field-programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) and Multipoint Control Units (MCUs). The proposed system offers parallel control and testing of two BLDC engines.
Flight rescheduling of an airline under the ground delay program considering delay propagation in multiple airports
Creators: name: Lee, Jiyeon
name: Moon, Ilkyeong
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: The purpose of this study is to reschedule flights for an airline's profit to correspond to the airport’s changed capacity. In the event of a ground delay program (GDP), the number of flights the airport can accommodate is reduced. We formulated a mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) model to reschedule flights. The MILP models were divided into two versions to handle the uncertainty of the future. In scenarios in which the GDP is changed again, an optimal model obtains solutions for each scenario. The stochastic model solution obtains a minimizing expectation cost of all scenarios. All flights are connected to both the origin and destination airports, and one aircraft may be used for more than one flight. Therefore, we considered delay propagation not only within the same airport but from other airports by extending the setup to include several airports at once. Because the objective of this study is to minimize the operation cost of airline, we also considered costs associated with airline resources such as aircrafts and crews. Related experiments were conducted including comparison between two suggested versions.
Metadata Extraction Tool and Schema Mapper for Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) images
Creators: name: Vitali, Elias Giulio Georg
name: Joseph, Reetu E.
name: Aversa, Rossella
Publisher: name: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Year: 2023
Subjects: TA-MDI
MatWerk
Data Management Infrastructure
Tools

description: Standardized metadata and the proper storage of it are critical components of scientific research. However, manually extracting metadata is time-consuming and error-prone. The KIT-developed Mapping Service solves this problem by automating the process of metadata extraction and mapping as per published schema, making it easier for researchers to manage large datasets for improved accessibility and collaboration. At its core, the Mapping Service is an automated tool for researchers in materials science to easily extract metadata from research images generated by various imaging instruments, namely Scanning Electron Microscopes (SEM), and map them according to published metadata schemas. The tool comprises two key components: a reader and a mapper. The reader reads all the metadata embedded within the images, which can contain hundreds of pieces of metadata. The mapper takes the relevant schema and cherry-picks all the key variables that the schema says should be included; it then maps these variables to their appropriate standardized name, resulting in a nicely formatted metadata document in JSON format. Researchers in materials science who generate research images with metadata requiring efficient and consistent processing can easily adopt the Mapping Service. This tool is a valuable asset for efficient and standardized metadata handling in materials science research, particularly for SEM Focused Ion Beam tomography. With this poster, we succinctly highlight the Mapping Service’s automatic metadata extraction process, and the necessary considerations and prerequisites for its implementation into a research environment.
title: A New Technique for Utility-Class Detection in Object-Oriented Software
Creators: name: Al-Rousan, Thamer
name: Abualese, Hasan
Publisher: name: TEM Journal
Year: 2019

description: Understanding a very large execution trace is not a simple task due to the complexity of typical traces. Detecting and removing utilities is beneficial in that it decreases the size and complexity of the trace and will make the software comprehension process easier. This study concentrates on detecting utility classes from an execution trace of object-oriented software and removing them. To achieve this goal, two novel utility detection class metricsare proposed to determine the extent that a certain class can be counted as a utility class. These detection metrics mainly depend on dynamic coupling analysis to address object-oriented features such as polymorphism and late binding. A case study was conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed technique where the results in this case study conform to the results in earlier studies. In addition, the case study demonstrates the practical usefulness of proposed technique which shows that, when 10%, 20% and 30% of total classes are excluded, the final execution trace size is reduced by 41%, 63% and 90% of its original size respectively.
Braess's Paradox in Epidemic Game: Better Condition Results in Less Payoff
Creators: name: Zhang, Hai-Feng
name: Yang, Zimo
name: Wu, Zhi-Xi
name: Wang, Bing-Hong
name: Zhou, Tao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Facing the threats of infectious diseases, we take various actions to protect ourselves, but few studies considered an evolving system with competing strategies. In view of that, we propose an evolutionary epidemic model coupled with human behaviors, where individuals have three strategies: vaccination, self-protection and laissez faire, and could adjust their strategies according to their neighbors' strategies and payoffs at the beginning of each new season of epidemic spreading. We found a counter-intuitive phenomenon analogous to the well-known \emph{Braess's Paradox}, namely a better condition may lead to worse performance. Specifically speaking, increasing the successful rate of self-protection does not necessarily reduce the epidemic size or improve the system payoff. This phenomenon is insensitive to the network topologies, and can be well explained by a mean-field approximation. Our study demonstrates an important fact that a better condition for individuals may yield a worse outcome for the society.
description: 17 pages, 5 figures
Report EduINAF anno 2021/2022
Creators: name: GIACOMINI, LIVIA
name: BOCCATO, Caterina
name: CASU, Silvia
name: FILIPPELLI, GIANLUIGI
name: LA BARBERA, ANTONINO
name: SANDRELLI, Stefano
name: BARBALINI, Laura
name: BARDELLI, Sandro
name: CASTELLANI, Marco
name: D'ALESSIO, Francesco
name: DARICELLO, Laura
name: DI GIACOMO, FEDERICO
name: DURAS, FEDERICA
name: FALCO, MARIACHIARA
name: FULCO, Maria Teresa
name: MAGGIO, Antonio
name: MANTOVANI, GIULIA
name: MIGNONE, CLAUDIA
name: PAIZIS, ADAMANTIA
name: RICCIARDI, SARA
name: RIFATTO, Agatino
name: VARANO, STEFANIA
name: WOLTER, Anna Luisa Maria
name: ZANAZZI, Alessandra
Publisher: name: IAPS Roma
Year: 2022

description: Il periodo a cui fa riferimento questo Report (Anno scolastico 2021/2022: Settembre 2021-Agosto 2022) è stato caratterizzato dal protrarsi dell’emergenza COVID in Italia con conseguenti difficoltà delle scuole e periodi di ricorso alla Didattica a Distanza (DaD). Il 2021/2022 è stato anche il terzo anno di attività della testata registrata EduINAF, il magazine di Didattica e Divulgazione dell’Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica. In questo periodo, la redazione di EduINAF, oltre a pubblicare risorse didattiche e contenuti informativi sul mondo della Didattica e Divulgazione della scienza, ha organizzato e contribuito a organizzare numerose iniziative a sostegno della scuola e della società, come le dirette osservative della Serie “Il Cielo in Salotto”, i concorsi per le scuole e altre campagne di engagement. In questo Report si presentano le attività svolte nell’arco di tempo indicato e si analizzano i risultati ottenuti in termini di audience, di comportamento e di gradimento del pubblico. L’obiettivo è quello di fornire il contesto per strutturare il Piano Editoriale 2022/2023 che conterrà le linee guida per la programmazione del prossimo anno scolastico.
Flight rescheduling of an airline underground delay program considering delay propagation in multiple airports
Creators: name: Lee, Jiyeon
name: Moon, Ilkyeong
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: The purpose of this study is to reschedule flights for an airline's profit to correspond to the airport’s changed capacity. In the event of a ground delay program (GDP), the number of flights the airport can accommodate is reduced. We formulated a mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) model to reschedule flights. The MILP models were divided into two versions to handle the uncertainty of the future. In scenarios in which the GDP is changed again, an optimal model obtains solutions for each scenario. The stochastic model solution obtains a minimizing expectation cost of all scenarios. All flights are connected to both the origin and destination airports, and one aircraft may be used for more than one flight. Therefore, we considered delay propagation not only within the same airport but from other airports by extending the setup to include several airports at once. Because the objective of this study is to minimize the operation cost of airline, we also considered costs associated with airline resources such as aircrafts and crews. Related experiments were conducted including comparison between two suggested versions.
title: Prediction Process in Multi-Agent System Online Monitoring: Centralized and Distributed Approaches
Creators: name: Houhamdi, Zina
Publisher: name: TEM Journal
Year: 2019

description: This paper discusses the prediction process, which is the main step of the online monitoring process for a multi-agent plan. The monitoring process uses a relational model to estimate the internal status of the system, which is dynamic (changes over time). Unfortunately, the agents have partial observability of the environment; thus, the monitoring process cannot accurately determine the system status (known in the literature as belief state) at any instant. The prediction process is composed of two stages: a simulation stage (prediction of all possible system states at the succeeding time) and a clipping stage (elimination of states that are incompatible with the observations or with the constraints from predicted system states).
title: Visual Domain Ontology using OWL Lite for Semantic Image Processing
Creators: name: Adel Abu-Shareha, Ahmad
name: Alshahrani, Ali
Publisher: name: TEM Journal
Year: 2019

description: In this paper, a visual domain ontology (VDO) is constructed using OWL-Lite Language. The VDO passes through two execution phases, namely, construction and inferring phases. In the construction phase, OWL classes are initialized, with reference to annotated scenes, and connected by hierarchical, spatial, and content-based relationships (presence/absence of some objects depends on other objects). In the inferring phase, the VDO is used to infer knowledge about an unknown scene. This paper aims to use a standard language, namely, OWL, to represent non-standard visual knowledge; facilitate straightforward ontology enrichment; and define the rules for inferring based on the constructed ontology. The OWL standardizes the constructed knowledge and facilitates advanced inferring because it is built on top of the first-order logic and description logic. The VDO then allows an efficient representation and reasoning of complex visual knowledge. In addition to representation, the VDO enables easy extension, sharing, and reuse of the represented visual knowledge.
Unidentified Bob Fass radio show
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Tiananmen Square Incident (China : 1989)
Students--Political activity
Photographers
Counterculture

description: China, Nat Finkelstein, Judith Malina, Steve Cohen, Bill Propp, Sam Fass, Hanon Reznikov; The Living Theatre
The Allegory of the Triple Goddess in Hereditary and Relic
Creators: name: Miquel Baldellou, Marta
Publisher: name:  JAm It! (Journal of American Studies in Italy)
Year: 2023

description: Ari Arister’s Hereditary (2018) and Natalie Erika James’s Relic (2020) are contemporary films which present significant intertextualities revolving around triads of female characters and draw particular attention to the figure of the older woman. This article aims to provide an analysis of aging femininities in these two films taking into consideration Robert Graves’s mythical archetype of the Triple Goddess, which refers to three distinct mythical figures—the Maiden, the Woman, and the Crone—that join in one single entity. Since the archetype of the Triple Goddess is paradigmatic of different mythical triads, from the Charites to the Gorgons, it will be taken as an allegory in order to interpret images of aging in these two films, as their female characters are portrayed as members of a triad as well as they also represent the same woman at different life stages along her aging process.
description: JAm It! (Journal of American Studies in Italy), No. 8 (2023)
Using XFELs for Probing of Complex Interaction Dynamics of Ultra-Intense Lasers with Solid Matter
Creators: name: Kluge, Thomas
name: Gutt, Christian
name: Huang, Lingen
name: Metzkes, Josefine
name: Schramm, Ulrich
name: Bussmann, Michael
name: Cowan, Thomas E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate the potential of X-ray free-electron lasers (XFEL) to advancethe understanding of complex plasma dynamics by allowing for the first time nanometer and femtosecond resolution at the same time in plasma diagnostics. Plasma phenomena on such short timescales are of high relevance for many fields of physics, in particular in the ultra-intense ultra-short laser interaction with matter. Highly relevant yet only partially understood phenomena may become directly accessible in experiment. These include relativistic laser absorption at solid targets, creation of energetic electrons and electron transport in warm dense matter, including the seeding and development of surface and beam instabilities, ambipolar expansion, shock formation, and dynamics at the surfaces or at buried layers. We demonstrate the potentials of XFEL plasma probing for high power laser matter interactions using exemplary the small angle X-ray scattering technique, focusing on general considerations for XFEL probing.
Visualizing Atomic-Scale Negative Differential Resistance in Bilayer Graphene
Creators: name: Kim, Keun Su
name: Kim, Tae-Hwan
name: Walter, Andrew L.
name: Seyller, Thomas
name: Yeom, Han Woong
name: Rotenberg, Eli
name: Bostwick, Aaron
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the atomic-scale tunneling characteristics of bilayer graphene on silicon carbide using the scanning tunneling microscopy. The high-resolution tunneling spectroscopy reveals an unexpected negative differential resistance (NDR) at the Dirac energy, which spatially varies within the single unit cell of bilayer graphene. The origin of NDR is explained by two near-gap van Hove singularities emerging in the electronic spectrum of bilayer graphene under a transverse electric field, which are strongly localized on two sublattices in different layers. Furthermore, defects near the tunneling contact are found to strongly impact on NDR through the electron interference. Our result provides an atomic-level understanding of quantum tunneling in bilayer graphene, and constitutes a useful step towards graphene-based tunneling devices.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters
Two Prophecies
Creators: name: Anker, Peder
Publisher: name:  JAm It! (Journal of American Studies in Italy)
Year: 2023

description: Pending whose knowledge you seek and which rationality you chose, the history of uranium mining in Canada entails both pessimistic and optimistic perspectives. The miners believed in a rationality of prosperity at the expense of the existing First Nation lifestyles and beliefs. It’s a history of settler colonialism in which the process of conquer generated counter claims of defeat. The ongoing clash between claims and counter-claims, prophecies and counter-prophecies, traditional and scientific knowledge, mark the history of Canadian mining along with the larger history of nuclear industries and weaponry. And these stories are rarely resolved.
description: JAm It! (Journal of American Studies in Italy), No. 8 (2023)
Women of the Western Desert: life in the oases villages of Egypt from Late Antiquity and the Byzantine period
Creators: name: Mair, Christine
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: The women who resided in the oases villages of the Western Desert of Egypt during the third to seventh centuries have a story to tell. Their story can be reconstructed from the footprints they have left in the desert, remnants that offer precious glimpses into their lives while living and working in those remote areas and harsh conditions. This thesis explores these imprints with the aim of compiling a comprehensive picture of the everyday roles allotted to these women within the home and community. Seldom are the voices of women in antiquity heard, their existence rarely acknowledged in the historical record before the 20th century. Since then, interest in the role of women in the public and private spheres, and their contribution to society as a whole, has substantially increased. In a similar vein, I have undertaken to investigate the oasite women in terms of their family life, socio-economic participation and religious involvement. Consequently, the evidence presented in this cumulative study will not only contribute to the history of women in general, but will also promote a more nuanced history of Roman and Byzantine Egypt. This study gathers and assesses for the first time the archaeological and literary sources pertinent to the women of the Western Desert. The evidence used mirrors the activity of several multidisciplinary research projects carried out in this area over the last decades. The varied and diverse data, collected through a thorough survey of archaeological reports, provides a comprehensive record of the women's lives in the oases west of the Nile during Late Antiquity. Paramount to this investigation is the vast array of textual material, the major proportion originating from Kellis. Documents written by women are few, the majority being penned by males to their female counterparts. Their letters home are, for the most part, personal and affectionate, and while not directly echoing the 'female voice', their substance sheds light on many aspects of the women's lives. To my knowledge, there has been no research to date that focuses on the everyday lives of the female inhabitants of the oasite villages. To fill this lacuna, my study encompasses the manifold facets of their lives from infancy to death, as revealed in the textual and material evidence. I present my findings here so that these women can claim their place in that society and plant their footprint firmly in the historical record.
The metric dimension of strong product graphs
Creators: name: Rodriguez-Velazquez, Juan A.
name: Kuziak, Dorota
name: Yero, Ismael G.
name: Sigarreta, Jose M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C12, 05C38, 05C69, 05C76

description: For an ordered subset $S = \{s_1, s_2,\dots s_k\}$ of vertices and a vertex $u$ in a connected graph $G$, the metric representation of $u$ with respect to $S$ is the ordered $k$-tuple $ r(u|S)=(d_G(v,s_1), d_G(v,s_2),\dots,$ $d_G(v,s_k))$, where $d_G(x,y)$ represents the distance between the vertices $x$ and $y$. The set $S$ is a metric generator for $G$ if every two different vertices of $G$ have distinct metric representations. A minimum metric generator is called a metric basis for $G$ and its cardinality, $dim(G)$, the metric dimension of $G$. It is well known that the problem of finding the metric dimension of a graph is NP-Hard. In this paper we obtain closed formulae and tight bounds for the metric dimension of strong product graphs.
From Harlem with Love
Creators: name: Cascão, Leonardo
Publisher: name:  JAm It! (Journal of American Studies in Italy)
Year: 2023

description: The Sweet Flypaper of Life (1955) is the result of the collaboration between the photographer Roy DeCarava and writer Langston Hughes. Both authors were Harlemites, DeCarava was born in Harlem and Langston Hughes made Harlem his home after moving from Missouri to New York City. This essay intends to explore the ways in which The Sweet Flypaper of Life depicts a representation of the neighbourhood of Harlem at a time when the Civil Rights Movement was just beginning. It will look at the power that DeCarava’s photographs and Hughes’ text have on creating a specific visuality of African American life, based on the Harlem community, rendering itself to be seen as a family album. The essay will firstly focus on contextualizing the creation and publication of The Sweet Flypaper of Life and afterwards offer a reading of the book using the family album metaphor as a form of agency in the acknowledgment of the African American community, focusing its representation in the aestheticization of beauty, thus distancing itself from the social and racial issues that were usually exposed.
description: JAm It! (Journal of American Studies in Italy), No. 8 (2023)
Anisotropic effective higher-order response of heterogeneous Cauchy elastic materials
Creators: name: Bacca, Mattia
name: Corso, Francesco Dal
name: Veber, Daniele
name: Bigoni, Davide
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The homogenization results obtained by Bacca et al. (Homogenization of heterogeneous Cauchy-elastic materials leads to Mindlin second-gradient elasticity. Part I: Closed form expression for the effective higher-order constitutive tensor. arXiv:1305.2365 Submitted, 2013), to define effective second-gradient elastic materials from heterogeneous Cauchy elastic solids, are extended here to the case of phases having non-isotropic tensors of inertia. It is shown that the nonlocal constitutive tensor for the homogenized material depends on both the inertia properties of the RVE and the difference between the effective and the matrix local elastic tensors. Results show that: (i.) a composite material can be designed to result locally isotropic but nonlocally orthotropic; (ii.) orthotropic nonlocal effects are introduced when a dilute distribution of aligned elliptical holes and, in the limit case, of cracks is homogenized.
description: 13 pages, 3 figures
‘The American Non-Dream’
Creators: name: Sabbadin, Elisa
Publisher: name:  JAm It! (Journal of American Studies in Italy)
Year: 2023

description: This paper discusses the tropes of addiction and the grotesque body as William S. Burroughs’ paradigms for social control and subversion, further illustrating how they refer to the social, political, and economic context of the United States in the post-war decades. To do this, it highlights dynamics and images in Burroughs’ works which concern invasion, predation, and control. The author’s conceptions of the ‘junk pyramid,’ the ‘naked lunch,’ and the ‘soft machine’ illuminate his theories on oppression and parasitism. The author bases his discussions on models of production and consumption which characterize post-war capitalism and all power systems and hierarchies. Opioids, or ‘junk,’ emerge as both mechanisms of social control and positive metaphors of free exchanges between the (grotesque) body, or the national body, and the Other, or the ‘non-American’ as they open the body to external infiltration. As a mechanism of disruption, junk represents the threat of subversion and transformation. Burroughs’ narrative of resistance comes to include a struggle against the control of the human consciousness as well, as his ‘American non-dream’ theorizes a conspiracy of the media and language as control mechanisms. The concrete counter-cultural solutions proposed by Burroughs include spontaneity and experimentation in consciousness with such techniques as cut-ups, fold-ins, and collaborations. His proposition is to liberate consciousness and to eschew the predatory nature of social structures and hierarchies.
description: JAm It! (Journal of American Studies in Italy), No. 8 (2023)
The NGC 5253 star cluster system. I. Standard modelling and infrared-excess sources
Creators: name: de Grijs, Richard
name: Anders, Peter
name: Zackrisson, Erik
name: Östlin, Göran
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using high-resolution Hubble Space Telescope data, we reexamine the fundamental properties (ages, masses and extinction values) of the rich star cluster population in the dwarf starburst galaxy NGC 5253. The gain in resolution compared to previous studies is of order a factor of two in both spatial dimensions, while our accessible wavelength range transcends previous studies by incorporation of both near-ultraviolet and near-infrared (IR) passbands. We apply spectral synthesis treatments based on two different simple stellar population model suites to our set of medium-, broad-band and H-alpha images to gain an improved physical understanding of the IR-excess flux found for a subset of young clusters (30 of 149). With the caveat that our models are based on fully sampled stellar mass functions, the NGC 5253 cluster population is dominated by a significant number of relatively low-mass (M_cl <= a few 10^4 Msun) objects with ages ranging from a few x 10^6 to a few x 10^7 yr, which is in excellent agreement with the starburst age of the host galaxy. The IR-excess clusters are almost all found in this young age range and have masses of up to a few x 10^4 Msun. The IR excess in the relatively low-mass NGC 5253 clusters is most likely caused by a combination of stochastic sampling effects and colour variations due to the presence of either luminous red or pre-main-sequence stars. We also find a small number of intermediate-age (~ 1 Gyr-old), ~10^5 Msun clusters, as well as up to a dozen massive, ~10 Gyr-old globular clusters. Their presence supports the notion that NGC 5253 is a very active galaxy that has undergone multiple episodes of star cluster formation.
description: 18 pages, 13 figures, MNRAS, in press
Central Density Dependent Anisotropic Compact Stars
Creators: name: Kalam, Mehedi
name: Rahaman, Farook
name: Hossein, Sk. Monowar
name: Ray, Saibal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Stars can be treated as self-gravitating fluid. In this connection, we propose a model for an anisotropic star under the relativistic framework of Krori-Barua (1975) spacetime. It is shown that the solutions are regular and singularity free. The uniqueness of the model is that interior physical properties of the star solely depend on the central density of the matter distribution.
Unidentified Bob Fass radio show
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Experimental theater

description: Bob in WBAI Studio speaking with members of Squat Theatre. Bob proposes doing a scene, Bob pitches, Steve Cohen is there, Marci arrives after Cindy's wedding, Lynne is there. Bob talks about his mathophobia due to his accountant father's nudging, people confusing Abbie Hoffman with Jerry Rubin, and the famous Wall Street/dollar bills story. Tape of Tally Room. Bob talks about David Susskind and Herbert Huncke
Response to comments by NMFS on reference point estimation for Gulf of Maine cod by Butterworth and Rademeyer.
Creators: name: Butterworth, Doug
Publisher: name: University of Cape Town
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biological mathematics
Biostatistics
Applied statistics

description: In a letter dated 17 January 2012 to the Executive Director of the New England Fisheries Management Council, scientists from the NMFS NEFSC at Woods Hole offer commentary on reference point estimation analyses for the Gulf of Maine cod in Butterworth and Rademeyer (2011). While some of these points are well made, they have in the main already been addressed by subsequent analyses reported in Butterworth and Rademeyer (2012). Specific responses are provided below. For ease of cross-reference, the original NMFS comments are copied below, with the responses entered in italics at appropriate points.
The Bishop-Phelps-Bollobás moduli of a Banach space
Creators: name: Chica, Mario
name: Kadets, Vladimir
name: Martin, Miguel
name: Moreno, Soledad
name: Rambla, Fernando
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46B04

description: We introduce two Bishop-Phelps-Bollobás moduli which measure, for a given Banach space, what is the best possible Bishop-Phelps-Bollobás theorem in this space. We show that there is a common upper bound for these moduli for all Banach spaces and we present an example showing that this bound is sharp. We prove the continuity of these moduli and an inequality with respect to duality. We calculate the two moduli for Hilbert spaces and also present many examples for which the moduli have the maximum possible value (among them, there are $C(K)$ spaces and $L_1(μ)$ spaces). Finally, we show that if a Banach space has the maximum possible value of any of the moduli, then it contains almost isometric copies of the real space $\ell_\infty^{(2)}$ and present an example showing that this condition is not sufficient.
description: 26 pages, 5 figures
First detection of c-C3H2 in a circumstellar disk
Creators: name: Qi, Chunhua
name: Oberg, Karin
name: Wilner, David
name: Rosenfeld, Katherine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the first detection of c-C3H2 in a circumstellar disk. The c-C3H2 J=6-5 line (217.882 GHz) is detected and imaged through Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) Science Verification observations toward the disk around the Herbig Ae star HD 163296 at 0.8" resolution. The emission is consistent with that arising from a Keplerian rotating disk. Two additional c-C3H2 transitions are also tentatively detected, bolstering the identification of this species, but with insufficient signal-to-noise ratio to constrain the spatial distribution. Using a previously developed model for the physical structure of this disk, we fit a radial power-law distribution model to the c-C3H2 6-5 emission and find that c-C3H2 is present in a ring structure from an inner radius of about 30 AU to an outer radius of about 165 AU. The column density is estimated to be 1e12-1e13 cm-2. The clear detection and intriguing ring structure suggest that c-C3H2 has the potential to become a useful probe of radiation penetration in disks.
description: 15 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication in ApJL
Structural parameters for globular clusters in M31
Creators: name: Wang, Song
name: Ma, Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we present surface brightness profiles for 79 globular clusters in M31, using images observed with {\it Hubble Space Telescope}, some of which are from new observations. The structural and dynamical parameters are derived from fitting the profiles to several different models for the first time. The results show that in the majority of cases, King models fit the M31 clusters as well as Wilson models, and better than Sérsic models. However, there are 11 clusters best fitted by Sérsic models with the Sérsic index $n>2$, meaning that they have cuspy central density profiles. These clusters may be the well-known core-collapsed candidates. There is a bimodality in the size distribution of M31 clusters at large radii, which is different from their Galactic counterparts. In general, the properties of clusters in M31 and the Milky Way fall in the same regions of parameter spaces. The tight correlations of cluster properties indicate a "fundamental plane" for clusters, which reflects some universal physical conditions and processes operating at the epoch of cluster formation.
description: Accepted for Publication in AJ, 17 pages, 15 figures and 7 tables
Compilation of Sharia Economic Law (KHES): Mapping Research Topics using VOSviewer Bibliometric and Library Research
Creators: name: Aini, Adinda Putri Nur
name: Salsabilla, Lathifah Zaina
name: Budianto, Eka Wahyu Hestya
name: Dewi, Nindi Dwi Tetria
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This research aims to map research topics around the Compilation of Sharia Economic Law (KHES) using a qualitative approach, which is in the nature of a library research. The data collection technique is: first, open the Perish/Harzing software, then search for journals based on the title words category with the key word " Compilation of Sharia Economic Law (KHES) " within the entire year period. Second, collect journal title data in Microsoft Excel, and identify duplicate journal titles. Third, download files in RIS (Research Information Systems) and PDF (Portable Document Format) format from all journals for which data has been collected. Fourth, enter the RIS data file into Mendeley software Desktop. Data analysis techniques by mapping research topics around the Compilation of Sharia Economic Law (KHES) based on journals that have been collected. The research results show that there are 57 research topic mappings using literature studies regarding the Compilation of Sharia Economic Law (KHES). The implication and contribution of this research is the mapping of research topics surrounding the Compilation of Sharia Economic Law (KHES), both those that are often or rarely researched by researchers, so that other researchers can find out the gaps in research on this topic.
Unidentified Bob Fass Radio Show
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Intelligence service
Espionage
Political crimes and offenses
Political persecution

description: Two lawyers discuss Red File, implications, and what to do. Guests are Anne Marie [Botrago?], FOIA (Fund for Open Information and Accountability) and Franklin Siegel, COPS (Committee Opposed to Police Spying)
On Integro-Differential Algebras
Creators: name: Guo, Li
name: Regensburger, Georg
name: Rosenkranz, Markus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 16W99, 12H05, 12H20, 47G20, 68W30, 34M15

description: The concept of integro-differential algebra has been introduced recently in the study of boundary problems of differential equations. We generalize this concept to that of integro-differential algebra with a weight, in analogy to the differential Rota-Baxter algebra. We construct free commutative integro-differential algebras with weight generated by a base differential algebra. This in particular gives an explicit construction of the integro-differential algebra on one generator. Properties of these free objects are studied.
description: 26 pages