cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Cassels-Tate pairing on polarized abelian varieties
Creators: name: Poonen, Bjorn
name: Stoll, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let (A,λ) be a principally polarized abelian variety defined over a global field k, and let \Sha(A) be its Shafarevich-Tate group. Let \Sha(A)_\nd denote the quotient of \Sha(A) by its maximal divisible subgroup. Cassels and Tate constructed a nondegenerate pairing \Sha(A)_\nd \times \Sha(A)_\nd \rightarrow \Q/\Z. If A is an elliptic curve, then by a result of Cassels the pairing is alternating. But in general it is only antisymmetric. Using some new but equivalent definitions of the pairing, we derive general criteria deciding whether it is alternating and whether there exists some alternating nondegenerate pairing on \Sha(A)_\nd. These criteria are expressed in terms of an element c \in \Sha(A)_\nd that is canonically associated to the polarization λ. In the case that A is the Jacobian of some curve, a down-to-earth version of the result allows us to determine effectively whether \#\Sha(A) (if finite) is a square or twice a square. We then apply this to prove that a positive proportion (in some precise sense) of all hyperelliptic curves of even genus g \ge 2 over \Q have a Jacobian with nonsquare \#\Sha (if finite). For example, it appears that this density is about 13% for curves of genus 2. The proof makes use of a general result relating global and local densities; this result can be applied in other situations.
description: 41 pages, published version
Stable Noncrossing Matchings
Creators: name: Ruangwises, Suthee
name: Itoh, Toshiya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Computational Geometry (cs.CG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Given a set of $n$ men represented by $n$ points lying on a line, and $n$ women represented by $n$ points lying on another parallel line, with each person having a list that ranks some people of opposite gender as his/her acceptable partners in strict order of preference. In this problem, we want to match people of opposite genders to satisfy people's preferences as well as making the edges not crossing one another geometrically. A noncrossing blocking pair w.r.t. a matching $M$ is a pair $(m,w)$ of a man and a woman such that they are not matched with each other but prefer each other to their own partners in $M$, and the segment $(m,w)$ does not cross any edge in $M$. A weakly stable noncrossing matching (WSNM) is a noncrossing matching that does not admit any noncrossing blocking pair. In this paper, we prove the existence of a WSNM in any instance by developing an $O(n^2)$ algorithm to find one in a given instance.
description: This paper has appeared at IWOCA 2019
Shaping Urban Resilience: Whether Social Media Data Can Aid in Improving Disaster Management
Creators: Zhou, Jiacheng
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: City planning
Emergency management
Social media
Hurricane Harvey (2017)

description: In order to shape urban resilience, it is necessary to understand disaster risks to get better disaster response. Twitter allows people to collect abundant real-time or historical social media data via its API, which gradually make it a repository for disaster-related information collection. This study has two research objectives. The first is to evaluate whether Twitter data can reflect the emergency and vulnerability and thus aid in disaster response when Hurricane Harvey struck Houston in 2017. The second is to evaluate whether Twitter data can be used to perform damage assessment after Hurricane Harvey. Three new conceptions are defined to perform evaluation: tweet awareness (TAw), tweet activity (TAc) and tweet focus (TFo). By comparing with other variables such as normalized average proximity (NAP), social vulnerability index (SVI) through spatiotemporal analysis, main conclusions are drawn as the following. First, the temporal distribution of tweets is periodic: the tweets at night are much more than that in the daytime and there exists the “outbreak” time of the tweets. Second, when the hurricane is getting closer to the land, the TAw is increasing and vice versa, which reflect the emergency situation of hurricane temporally. Third, there is no statistically significant relationship between TAw and NAP based on county-level data. Fourth, the relationship between TFo and SVI is not statistically significant and thus, the twitter data could not reflect the social vulnerability. Next, there is no significant relationship between them spatially and it is not feasible to perform rapid assessment of damage loss. Last but not least, the highest clustered point (the points share the same coordinate) of hurricane-related tweets is located in the University of Houston Downtown, which indicates that main active users of Twitter might be college school students.
Additional file 1: of Video feedback intervention to enhance parental reflective functioning in primary caregivers of inpatient psychiatric children: protocol for a randomized feasibility trial
Creators: name: Leyton, Fanny
name: Olhaberry, Marcia
name: Alvarado, Rubén
name: Rojas, Graciela
name: Dueñas, Luis
name: Downing, George
name: Steele, Howard
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: SPIRIT checklist of protocol for a randomized feasibility trial: Video feedback intervention to enhance parental reflective functioning in primary caregivers of inpatient psychiatric children. (DOC 123 kb)
Coherence lengths and anisotropy in MgB2 superconductor
Creators: name: Dulcic, A.
name: Pozek, M.
name: Paar, D.
name: Choi, Eun-Mi
name: Kim, Hyun-Jung
name: Kang, W. N.
name: Lee, Sung-Ik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Field and temperature microwave measurements have been carried out on MgB2 thin film grown on Al2O3 substrate. The analysis reveals the mean field coherence length xi_{MF} in the mixed state and a temperature independent anisotropy ratio gamma_{MF} = xi_{MF}^{ab} / xi_{MF}^c approximately 2. At the superconducting transition, the scaling of the fluctuation conductivity yields the Ginzburg-Landau coherence length with a different anisotropy ratio gamma_{GL} = 2.8, also temperature independent.
description: submitted to PRL
Effective Theories of Coupled Classical and Quantum Variables from Decoherent Histories: A New Approach to the Backreaction Problem
Creators: name: Halliwell, J. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use the decoherent histories approach to quantum theory to derive the form of an effective theory describing the coupling of classical and quantum variables. The derivation is carried out for a system consisting of a large particle coupled to a small particle with the important additional feature that the large particle is also coupled to a thermal environment producing the decoherence necessary for classicality. The effective theory is obtained by tracing out both the environment and the small particle variables. It consists of a formula for the probabilities of a set of histories of the large particle, and depends on the dynamics and initial quantum state of the small particle. It has the form of an almost classical particle coupled to a stochastic variable whose probabilities are determined by a formula very similar to that given by quantum measurement theory for continuous measurements of the small particle's position. The effective theory gives intuitively sensible answers when the small particle is in a superposition of localized states.
description: 27 pages, plain Tex
Who is My Neighbor? The Collectivist Culture Behind the Story of the Good Samaritan
Creators: name: Williams, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Jesus, Good Samaritan, Neighbor, Collectivist Culture, Love, Hatred, Honor, Shame, In-groups

description: A scribe asked Jesus a seemingly innocent question, "Who is my neighbor?" And Jesus answered with the story of The Good Samaritan, arguably the most famous story of all the stories Jesus told.

 But understanding collectivist culture in the Mediterranean world reveals that the scribe's question was not so innocent. A sinister motive may have been in play, and Jesus' story was designed to turn this man's worldview upside down, change his world, and change ours as well.
description: This paper was presented as partial requirement for a PhD in Biblical Studies at Trinity Seminary, Newburgh, Indiana, USA. The author welcomes interaction and can be reached at jonathan@WGSministries.org.
Additional file 9: of Genomics-driven discovery of a biosynthetic gene cluster required for the synthesis of BII-Rafflesfungin from the fungus Phoma sp. F3723
Creators: name: Sinha, Swati
name: Choy-Eng Nge
name: Leong, Chung
name: Ng, Veronica
name: Crasta, Sharon
name: Alfatah, Mohammad
name: Falicia Goh
name: Kia-Ngee Low
name: Huibin Zhang
name: Arumugam, Prakash
name: Lezhava, Alexander
name: Swaine Chen
name: Kanagasundaram, Yoganathan
name: Siew Ng
name: Eisenhaber, Frank
name: Eisenhaber, Birgit
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Figure S11. Multiple sequence alignment of the predicted AMP-dependent ligase for BII-Rafflesfungin biosynthesis along with VlmC (AMP-dependent ligase from Verlamelin biosynthesis) and EcdI (AMP-dependent ligase from Echinocandin B biosynthesis). (PDF 353 kb)
Rumex acetosella L.
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Caryophyllales
Polygonaceae
Rumex
Rumex acetosella

description: * Rumex acetosella L.  —
Habit: Herb.
Habitat: HZ. Distribution: IV.
 Voucher: Sirimon Track, Alt. 3 351 m, 8 Jan. 2014, SAJIT 001621 (HIB).
Reference: N/A.
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 67, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Shed-DNA, Body Boundaries and Identity Rights for Argentina’s “Living Disappeared”
Creators: Bracken, Kathleen
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: DNA fingerprinting
subject: Identity (Philosophical concept)
subject: Dirty War (Argentina : 1976-1983)
subject: Human rights
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: Latin Americans

description: During Argentina’s “Dirty War,” approximately 500 infants and children were abducted by the regime and given to military families or their associates. In various court cases regarding DNA testing of the “living disappeared,” justices have considered them within the context of “crimes against humanity,” and as such, Argentina has an international obligation to pursue them. However some suspected children of the disappeared - now adults - have not wanted to have their DNA tested, creating a tension between the individual’s rights of identity and privacy, the families’ rights to justice, and the public interest for truth. When recent genetic technologies rendered a compulsory extracting of blood unnecessary, the state began collecting and testing shed-DNA to determine the identity of potential victims. Shed, or abandoned DNA, consists of DNA collected from an environment where the individual had been. By affirming the use of shed-DNA for genetic testing, the Argentine court seemingly has identified the harm of compulsory extraction to be the means (the penetration of the body barrier) rather than the ends (namely, forcing someone to confront a biologic identity.) And yet, subsequent shed-DNA cases have shown that in attempting to prevent the seizure of their biological material, what victims hope to protect is a sense of identity drawn from social relations. This calls to mind the questions of “stable identity” and the sex/gender debate that has evolved through feminist theory. Should an identity created through the unlawful action of the state and embraced/perpetuated by an innocent individual be considered a legitimate identity as recognized under human rights protections? By applying a feminist lens - specifically Toril Moi’s understanding of the “body as a situation” - to these cases I will argue the hypothesis that a state forcing an individual to confront unwanted knowledge of an identity can be seen as part of the feminist ideology of “becoming.” As such, the use of shed-DNA – genetic material – does not necessarily translate into a biologically-essentializing assertion of identity. By addressing the foundational assumptions regarding identity in these cases in this way, I aim to recalibrate the perceived tension of competing rights’ in these cases, and provide a theoretical justification for state intervention.
Permanents, Pfaffian orientations, and even directed circuits
Creators: name: Robertson, Neil
name: Seymour, P. D.
name: Thomas, Robin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Given a 0-1 square matrix A, when can some of the 1's be changed to -1's in such a way that the permanent of A equals the determinant of the modified matrix? When does a real square matrix have the property that every real matrix with the same sign pattern (that is, the corresponding entries either have the same sign or are both zero) is nonsingular? When is a hypergraph with n vertices and n hyperedges minimally nonbipartite? When does a bipartite graph have a "Pfaffian orientation"? Given a digraph, does it have no directed circuit of even length? Given a digraph, does it have a subdivision with no even directed circuit? It is known that all of the above problems are equivalent. We prove a structural characterization of the feasible instances, which implies a polynomial-time algorithm to solve all of the above problems. The structural characterization says, roughly speaking, that a bipartite graph has a Pfaffian orientation if and only if it can be obtained by piecing together (in a specified way) planar bipartite graphs and one sporadic nonplanar bipartite graph.
description: 47 pages, published version
Testing for nonlinearity in unevenly sampled time series
Creators: name: Schmitz, Andreas
name: Schreiber, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We generalize the method of surrogate data of testing for nonlinearity in time series to the case that the data are sampled with uneven time intervals. The null hypothesis will be that the data have been generated by a linear stochastic process, possibly rescaled, and sampled at times chosen independently from the generating process. The surrogate data are generated with their linear properties specified by the Lomb periodogram. The inversion problem is solved by combinatorial optimization.
description: 4 pages, 4 figues
Tools for bringing mine reclamation research to commercial implementation
Creators: name: McKenna, Gord
name: O’Kane, Mike
name: Qualizza, Clara
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Mines, universities, and research organizations worldwide spend tens to hundreds of millions of dollars annually on reclamation research, but much goes unimplemented at the commercial scale. Sometimes research results go uncommunicated, but more often, it is other impediments such as lack of understanding, insufficient opportunity to distill and assess all of the implications of the body of research, corporate and regulatory hurdles, and/or a general resistance to change that is the heart of inaction. However, there are some simple strategies and methods for development and commercial implementation of promising research technologies that can substantially multiply the investment of the initial research. One way to streamline the process is to develop a technology transfer plan within a mining company or a mining region. Research is focussed on answering specific questions, provisions are set out for upscaling the research through pilot and demonstration phases in the field, and perhaps most importantly, the results of the research are distilled and communicated to practitioners and decision makers in ways that they can use (e.g. manuals, fact sheets, R&D workshops) such that the results can ultimately be drafted onto blueprints and executed in the field at commercial scale. Examples of reclamation research technology transfer programs, screening and upscaling of tailings and reclamation technologies, and a roadmap for success are presented.[All papers were considered for technical and language appropriateness by the organizing committee.]
Shared Neural Resources for Expectancy Generation in Language and Music Processes: A fMRI and EEG Study with Actors and Violinists
Creators: Hertzog, Elizabeth Bridges
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Psychobiology

description: In terms of music and language, the underlying networks that serve both kinds of processing may not be as separate as once believed. Broca's area and premotor regions are elicited for both musical and linguistic processing. When chords are seen as following theoretical rules of syntax in chord sequences, violations of that syntax elicit P600s just as they do in linguistic syntactic violations. N400s are elicited in the context of linguistic semantics whereas N500s are elicited in the context of musical semantics. Surprisingly, P300s are elicited when examining linguistic and musical expectancies. All of the above evidence is compiled for a better understanding of the shared syntactic integration resource hypothesis as well as the general shared resources recruited in both music and linguistic processing.
A sharp Lorentz-invariant Strichartz norm expansion for the cubic wave equation in $\mathbb{R}^{1+3}$
Creators: name: Negro, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35L05, 42B37

description: We provide an asymptotic formula for the maximal Strichartz norm of small solutions to the cubic wave equation in Minkowski space. The leading coefficient is given by Foschi's sharp constant for the linear Strichartz estimate. We calculate the constant in the second term, which differs depending on whether the equation is focussing or defocussing. The sign of this coefficient also changes accordingly.
description: 30 pages, 3 figures. To appear in The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics
Coupling Classical and Quantum Variables using Continuous Quantum Measurement Theory
Creators: name: Diosi, L.
name: Halliwell, J. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a system of equations to describe the interaction of a quasiclassical variable $X$ with a set of quantum variables $x$ that goes beyond the usual mean field approximation. The idea is to regard the quantum system as continuously and imprecisely measured by the classical system. The effective equations of motion for the classical system therefore consist of treating the quantum variable $x$ as a stochastic c-number $\x (t) $ the probability distibution for which is given by the theory of continuous quantum measurements. The resulting theory is similar to the usual mean field equations (in which $x$ is replaced by its quantum expectation value) but with two differences: a noise term, and more importantly, the state of the quantum subsystem evolves according to the stochastic non-linear Schrodinger equation of a continuously measured system. In the case in which the quantum system starts out in a superposition of well-separated localized states, the classical system goes into a statistical mixture of trajectories, one trajectory for each individual localized state.
description: 11 pages, plain Tex (with revised settings for \vsize and \voffset to accommodate US paper sizes)
Shared Tastes: Economic Development, Local Food, and Kitchen Incubators in New York City
Creators: Khanduja, Jinny
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Local foods
Business incubators
Commerce
City planning

description: In the past few decades, urban innovations for local food production have begun to gain traction. From rooftop honey production on the Upper West Side to urban farms at Brooklyn Grange, nut milks in Gowanus, and chocolatiers in Bushwick, the presence of small-scale food manufacturing is gaining visibility in the city. However, there is a mismatch in infrastructure for these small producers, as much of the city’s industrial spaces and supply and distribution chains were built to accommodate conventional large scale production. As entrepreneurial food firms attempt to secure a foothold in the city’s manufacturing economy, many are resorting to new cost-sharing measures. The formal sharing of commercial kitchens is one such measure. New York City now has eight private and nonprofit kitchen incubators and two in development. The characteristics of these spaces and the goals of the firms they host vary significantly. Buoyed by a desire to drive economic growth, retain New York City’s manufacturing jobs, and promote locally produced goods, city representatives and stakeholders have extolled the benefits of kitchen incubators. This study explores the characteristics and goals of New York City’s various models of incubator kitchens and how they contribute to (or undermine) economic development and the food economy. Using the lenses of local economic development and food systems planning, it also assesses the economic, health, sustainability, and equity implications of kitchen incubators in New York City. This thesis contributes to existing planning research and theory on the benefits and challenges of supporting early development of firms in a nascent sector in the city’s economy and in creating more “local” food systems in urban environments.
Additional file 8: of Genomics-driven discovery of a biosynthetic gene cluster required for the synthesis of BII-Rafflesfungin from the fungus Phoma sp. F3723
Creators: name: Sinha, Swati
name: Choy-Eng Nge
name: Leong, Chung
name: Ng, Veronica
name: Crasta, Sharon
name: Alfatah, Mohammad
name: Falicia Goh
name: Kia-Ngee Low
name: Huibin Zhang
name: Arumugam, Prakash
name: Lezhava, Alexander
name: Swaine Chen
name: Kanagasundaram, Yoganathan
name: Siew Ng
name: Eisenhaber, Frank
name: Eisenhaber, Birgit
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Computational Biology

description: Figure S10. Results of the LCMS analysis of the absolute configuration of BII-Rafflesfungin by Marfeyâ s method. (PDF 111 kb)
Nuclear Propelled Vessels and Neutrino Oscillation Experiments
Creators: name: Detwiler, J.
name: Gratta, G.
name: Tolich, N.
name: Uchida, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effect of naval nuclear reactors on the study of neutrino oscillations. We find that the presence of naval reactors at unknown locations and times may limit the accuracy of future very long baseline reactor-based neutrino oscillation experiments. At the same time we argue that a nuclear powered surface ship such as a large Russian ice-breaker may provide an ideal source for precision experiments. While the relatively low reactor power would in this case require a larger detector, the source could be conveniently located at essentially any distance from a detector built at an underground location near a shore in a region of the world far away from other nuclear installations. The variable baseline would allow for a precise measurement of backgrounds and greatly reduced systematics from reactor flux and detector efficiency. In addition, once the oscillation measurement is completed, the detector could perform geological neutrino and astrophysical measurements with minimal reactor background.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures
Rumex nepalensis Spreng.
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Caryophyllales
Polygonaceae
Rumex
Rumex nepalensis

description: Rumex nepalensis Spreng.  —
Habit: Herb.
Habitat: LMWF, LMDF; up to 3 700 m. Distribution: II.
 Voucher: Near Ontulili Forest Station, Alt. 2 178 m, 5 Aug. 2015, SAJIT 003138 (HIB).
 References: Fries et al. (1924a), Bussmann (1993), Bussmann (1994), Agnew (2013).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 67, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Sheet Scaling in Mohegan Granite: Intrinsic & Extrinsic Factors
Creators: Stone, Karen
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Granite
subject: Building stones--Deterioration
subject: Historic preservation
subject: Architecture
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, dimension stone construction was widely popular for monumental structures in the United States. The rise of steam-powered quarry machinery, as well as expedient transportation options, increased access to building stones such as Mohegan granite, extracted from the Peekskill area of New York. The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine in New York City, the George T. Bliss Mausoleum in Woodlawn Cemetery, the Westchester County National Bank in Peekskill, and the First Church of Christ, Scientist in Reading, Massachusetts are but a few of the structures that utilized this medium-grained, yellowish-gray granite. Approximately one century later, many of these stones are consistently displaying evidence of sheet scaling deterioration. This condition not only degrades the aesthetic integrity of a structure, but it has the potential to pose safety concerns as surface layers can easily dislodge from great heights. Unimpeded, sheet scaling could cause structural instabilities as ever more material scales or is disaggregated from a receding surface. Perplexing to many in the conservation field is the fact that very little is understood about how and why sheet scaling occurs. Are intrinsic factors, such as mineralogy, the root cause of this mode of deterioration? Are extrinsic factors, such as incompatible in situ conditions, the true culprit? Even further, could the predisposition for sheet scaling be traced back to aggressive quarrying techniques? In this research, various structures composed of Mohegan granite in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New York were studied for their sheet scaling conditions, while core samples were acquired from five of these sites, including the original quarry. Thin section petrography, x-ray diffraction, and scanning electron microscopy with energy dispersive spectroscopy were utilized to research whether particular factors could be identified as contributing to the observed sheet scaling. While definitive conclusions may require further testing, data generated from this study could be used to exclude potential factors, or perhaps identify those that reoccur in other granites known to exhibit this mode of deterioration. This line of inquiry may reveal whether sheet scaling is the result of an isolated factor, or rather as a confluence of factors that consistently combine to produce the same unfortunate effect. Once the agent for this mode of deterioration is defined, better strategies for slowing, halting, or preventing this condition can be sought.
A secondary Chern-Euler class
Creators: name: Sha, Ji-Ping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let xi be a smooth oriented vector bundle, with n-dimensional fibre, over a smooth manifold M. Denote by xi-hat the fibrewise one-point compactification of xi. The main purpose of this paper is to define geometrically a canonical element Upsilon(xi) in H^n(xi-hat,Q) (H^n(xi-hat,Z) tensor 1/2, to be more precise). The element Υ(ξ) is a secondary characteristic class to the Euler class in the fashion of Chern-Simons.
description: 8 pages, published version, abstract added in migration
Compliance without Complaints
Creators: name: Mudd, Taylor
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: OR2021
Compliance
Policies
User experience
Repository
System design
Haplo

description: Historically repository managers have found supporting researchers to comply with a myriad of conflicting funder policies a challenge. In this presentation, Haplo will describe how they redesigned their repository system to make it easier for researchers to comply and easier for repository managers to ensure compliance. Working with repository managers and researchers in several institutions in the UK, they redesigned the submission process and interface researchers used to deposit. The overall affect resulted in a process which made compliance easy, appealing and, crucially, achievable without any additional effort on behalf of researchers.
MOESM3 of Quantifying bluetongue vertical transmission in French cattle from surveillance data
Creators: name: Courtejoie, Noémie
name: Bournez, Laure
name: Zanella, Gina
name: Durand, Benoît
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3. Convergence of the chains obtained for the seven estimated parameters of model one-area. In this file, we checked the convergence of the chains obtained for the seven parameters. We first provided visual indicators of the convergence of the chains obtained for the seven parameters of model one-area in the whole study area. Then, we provided two convergence statistics for these chains: Rhat, that is the potential scale reduction factor and Neff, that is the effective number of samples.
Rumex usambarensis Dammer
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Caryophyllales
Polygonaceae
Rumex
Rumex usambarensis

description: Rumex usambarensis (Dammer) Dammer  —
Habit: Herb.
Habitat: LMWF, LMDF; up to 2 400 m. Distribution: II.
 Voucher: Lake Nkunga, Alt. 1 900 m, 8 Aug. 2015, SAJIT 003841 (HIB).
 References: Fries et al. (1924a), Agnew (2013).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 67, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Shepherding the Student Lambs to the Wolves of Wall Street: The Human Rights Implications of the Privatization of the College Loan Program in the United States
Creators: Weir, Megan
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Human rights
Student loans--Government policy
Privatization
Debt

description: This paper explores the direct and indirect human rights violations resulting from the decision to privatize the student loan program in the United States. Specifically, this paper addresses the direct violation on the right to an education resulting from student loan privatization as well as the indirect impact on the right to housing and health for those burdened with student debt. This research utilized a quantitative methodological approach using data sources from College Board, National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics National Longitudinal Study of 1997. I found that the Clinton administration unequivocally changed the landscape of the student loan program, shifting the burden from the government to families. Moreover, the administration allowed for Wall Street investors and the federal government to profit off of the student loan program. My second finding was that the middle 50 percent of family incomes saw the greatest burden in borrowing rates with the introduction of privatization. My third finding suggests that, the “middle-class squeeze” – or the middle 50 percent of income earners– is actually more accurately described as the “lower 75 percent squeeze” – or all income brackets below the top 25 percent of income earners – regarding student loan financing. My findings suggest that the inequality described around the ability to finance higher education is worse than originally predicted.
Top Eigenpair Statistics for Weighted Sparse Graphs
Creators: name: Susca, Vito Antonio Rocco
name: Vivo, Pierpaolo
name: Kuehn, Reimer
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a formalism to compute the statistics of the top eigenpair of weighted sparse graphs with finite mean connectivity and bounded maximal degree. Framing the problem in terms of optimisation of a quadratic form on the sphere and introducing a fictitious temperature, we employ the cavity and replica methods to find the solution in terms of self-consistent equations for auxiliary probability density functions, which can be solved by population dynamics. This derivation allows us to identify and unpack the individual contributions to the top eigenvector's components coming from nodes of degree $k$. The analytical results are in perfect agreement with numerical diagonalisation of large (weighted) adjacency matrices, and are further cross-checked on the cases of random regular graphs and sparse Markov transition matrices for unbiased random walks.
description: 47 pages, 7 figures. Revised version, accepted for publication in J. Phys. A
LA CONJETURA DE COLLATZ Orden y armonía en los números de la secuencia
Creators: name: Bennassar, Miquel Cerdà
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Collatz conjecture
Conjetura de Collatz
Problema 3n+1
3n+1 problem
3n+1 conjecture

description: Propongo una tabla numérica en la que se demuestra visualmente que las secuencias formadas con el algoritmo de Collatz acaban siempre en el número 1.
Melnikov's approximation dominance. Some examples
Creators: name: Gallavotti, G.
name: Gentile, G.
name: Mastropietro, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We continue a previous paper to show that Mel'nikov's first order formula for part of the separatrix splitting of a pendulum under fast quasi periodic forcing holds, in special examples, as an asymptotic formula in the forcing rapidity.
description: 46 Kb; 9 pages, plain TeX
Cerastium afromontanum T. C. E. Fr. & Weim.
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Caryophyllales
Caryophyllaceae
Cerastium
Cerastium afromontanum

description: Cerastium afromontanum T.C.E.Fr. & Weim.  —
Habit: Herb.
Habitat: LMWF, LMDF, BZ, UMF, HZ, AZ, NZ; 2 000–4 700 m. Distribution: II.
 Voucher: Sirimon Track, Old Moses Camp Site, Alt. 3 351 m, 8 Jan. 2014, SAJIT 001623 (HIB).
 References: Turrill (1956), Rehder et al. (1981), Young & Peacock (1985), Bussmann (1993, 1994), Bussmann & Beck (1995a), Agnew (2013).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 67, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Singularities of the Partition Function for the Ising Model Coupled to 2d Quantum Gravity
Creators: name: Ambjorn, J.
name: Anagnostopoulos, K. N.
name: Magnea, U.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the zeros in the complex plane of the partition function for the Ising model coupled to 2d quantum gravity for complex magnetic field and real temperature, and for complex temperature and real magnetic field, respectively. We compute the zeros by using the exact solution coming from a two matrix model and by Monte Carlo simulations of Ising spins on dynamical triangulations. We present evidence that the zeros form simple one-dimensional curves in the complex plane, and that the critical behaviour of the system is governed by the scaling of the distribution of the singularities near the critical point. Despite the small size of the systems studied, we can obtain a reasonable estimate of the (known) critical exponents.
description: 22 pages, LaTeX2e, 10 figures, added discussion on antiferromagnetic transition and references
Additional file 7: of Genomics-driven discovery of a biosynthetic gene cluster required for the synthesis of BII-Rafflesfungin from the fungus Phoma sp. F3723
Creators: name: Sinha, Swati
name: Choy-Eng Nge
name: Leong, Chung
name: Ng, Veronica
name: Crasta, Sharon
name: Alfatah, Mohammad
name: Falicia Goh
name: Kia-Ngee Low
name: Huibin Zhang
name: Arumugam, Prakash
name: Lezhava, Alexander
name: Swaine Chen
name: Kanagasundaram, Yoganathan
name: Siew Ng
name: Eisenhaber, Frank
name: Eisenhaber, Birgit
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Figure S9. Multiple sequence alignment of the two epimerization domains E1 and E2 from the BIIRfg_NRPS gene. (PDF 124 kb)
Responses of wheatgrass species to composite/consolidated oil sands tailings
Creators: name: Wu, Shihong
name: Sego, Dave
name: Naeth, Anne
name: Wang, Bing
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: A greenhouse study was carried out to assess the responses of two wheatgrass species: Northern wheatgrass and Slender wheatgrass to composite/consolidated tailings (CT) discharged from Alberta oil sands mine. Plant emergence, early growth and survival of selected species directly seeded using 3 seeding techniques (6 treatments in this study) were monitored. The effect of fertilizer on seed emergence and early plant growth were assessed. Results showed that Northern wheatgrass and Slender wheatgrass survived in CT and performed well during this fifteen week experiment. Slender wheatgrass and Northern wheatgrass produced significant biomass and leaf area which could provide dewatering capacity. Slurry seeding and hydro-seeding with mulch techniques are applicable for early stage of reclamation of CT deposits.[All papers were considered for technical and language appropriateness by the organizing committee.]
Dwork's conjecture on unit root zeta functions
Creators: name: Wan, Daqing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this article, we introduce a systematic new method to investigate the conjectural p-adic meromorphic continuation of Professor Bernard Dwork's unit root zeta function attached to an ordinary family of algebraic varieties defined over a finite field of characteristic p.
description: 61 pages, published version, abstract added in migration
D6.4 Short Movie
Creators: name: Orero, Pilar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Short Movie

description: The objective of the short movie was to offer fast information regarding the project aims, at the same time as offering the different accessibility services within the ImAc project.
 Two videos have been created: Ethical considerations (https://youtu.be/0BxrhAOmV4c ) ImAc project (https://youtu.be/HuJPOUlY_EM)
 Still other videos were produced for internal use of the project.
Shepherds, Servants, and Strangers: Popular Christianity, Theology, and Mission among Tanzanian Lutheran Ministers
Creators: Christian, Elaine
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Ethnology
Chaga (African people)
Theology
Clergy
Christianity

description: This dissertation is an ethnographic description of how pastors (and other ministers) in the Northern Diocese of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Tanzania understand and carry out their ministry: How they reflect, mediate, and influence local Christian practice and identities; how theology and theologizing forms an integral part of their social worlds; and how navigating and maintaining relationships with Christian mission partnerships (including “short-term mission”) becomes an important part of their ministry. Drawing from fieldwork conducted between June 2014 and September 2015, I present an account of Christianity that adds to anthropological scholarship by emphasizing the role of theology as a grounded social practice, and considers the increasingly divergent character of Christian mission and its role in modern Tanzanian Christianity. Additionally, I offer a contribution to existing scholarship on Christianity by focusing on pastors as a central mediating figure in Christianity, showing how, in their work, Christian practice, theology, and mission are experienced in social relationships. I demonstrate how theology and theologizing directly address local negotiations of Christian identity and practice, I examine the articulation between theological debates and Tanzanian experiences of mission, and I describe how mission in Tanzania has been and continues to be contextually understood with reference to the local practice of Christianity.
Shedding My Hair: Reflections on a Cross Generational Theater Experience
Creators: Rodriguez, Ariel L.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Theater--Production and direction
Theater and society

description: For my Columbia MFA Directing Thesis Project I decided to direct a production of Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical. This document constitutes a small record of all the work that went into developing the concept and actually creating this thesis production, which premiered in New York City at the Connelly Theater on March 29th 2017, and ran for five performances. One of the most universal aspects of a theater event is its ephemerality, it pops into and out of existence very quickly and leaves a trail of effects in it's wake. In my opinion theater is uselessly judged with conventional categories like beauty, entertainment value, even intention or clarity. Theater can only ever be measured by the force and form of it's collision with our society, and by the magnitude of the ripples that this impact leaves behind.
Araştırmacıların Gözünden Araştırma Verisi
Creators: name: Ayata, Zeynep
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Araştırma Verisi
Açık Veri
UAVS2021

description: Araştırma Verisi Açık Verinin Önündeki Engeller ve Engellerin Aşılmasında Kullanılan Çözümler 25-26 Mayıs 2021 Ulusal Araştırma Verileri Sempozyumu
Shifting Terrain: Landscape, Ecology and Environmental Theater
Creators: Shafer, Michelle Christine
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Theater
subject: Natural resources—Management
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Art criticism

description: "Shifting Terrain" is about the theater's potential to offer crucial resources to resist ecological crisis. Despite the efforts of a number of theorists over the past twenty years, ecocritical theater, which draws upon ecological language and concepts, has failed to thrive in part because it lacks a cohesive, discursive framework to organize its ideas. This dissertation seeks to define the goals of this nascent ecocritical theater along topical, discursive and formal lines by establishing two distinct ecocritical genres: landscape theater and ecology theater. Theater theorists have argued that, formally and ideologically, landscape and ecology are roughly synonymous. In the first half of "Shifting Terrain," however, I argue that landscape resists ecological concerns, contributing to anthropocentric attitudes by delineating the natural world from humans and the theater they make. Using Maurice Maeterlinck's The Blind (1890), Anton Chekhov's The Seagull (1895) and Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot (1949) as examples, I argue that landscape theater performs nature as a framed, aesthetic creation in order to criticize the "ruptures" between humans and the ecosystem generated, at times, by the theater itself. Conversely, through readings of ecologically oriented plays including Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People (1882), Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard (1904) and Heiner Müller's Despoiled Shore / Medeamaterial / Landscape with Argonauts (1982/83), I argue that ecology theater seeks connections between ecosystems, their inhabitants and the theater, pointing beyond the theatrical frame, physical or conceptual, to the ecosphere. In the latter half of the dissertation, I investigate the genres of landscape theater and ecology theater in the context of environmental or, more specifically, immersive staging. I first challenge the notion that immersive staging inherently resists the aesthetic distance between theatrical worlds and the ecosphere, using productions of Maria Irene Fornes' Fefu and Her Friends (1977) and Punchdrunk Theatrical Experiences' Sleep No More (2011). Both performances surround their audiences with rich environments, but they are also insular, engaging only the synthetic spaces created by performers and designers. Then, I examine the ways in which the outdoor, immersive productions of Robert Wilson's KA MOUNTAIN AND GUARDENIA TERRACE (1972) and Big House Theater's Across (2000) apply ecological ideals by emphasizing theater's capacity to make direct contact with the ecosystems the plays present. No production entirely eliminates the theater's mimetic division from the surrounding world, but performances such as KA MOUNTAIN and Across represent significant movement toward limiting the aesthetic distance between audiences, worlds of performance and the world itself.