cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Advanced control strategies for tilting trains
Creators: name: Zolotas, Argyrios
Publisher: name: University of Lincoln
Year: 2023
Subjects: H100 - General engineering
H332 - Rail vehicle engineering
H660 - Control systems

description: The use of tilting bodies on railway vehicles is becoming increasingly widespread: a number of well-established services using tilt technology already exist around the world, and will appear again in the UK over the next year or so. The motivation for tilting railway vehicles is that they give a cost-effective means of achieving a substantial reduction in journey time by increasing the vehicle speed during curves. Early tilt controller designs were based upon local vehicle measurements, however at that time this approach did not prove very successful. Nowadays most European manufacturers use the so called 'precedence' control scheme, utilising measurements from precedent vehicles to achieve 'precedence' information. However, achieving a satisfactory local tilt control strategy is still an important research target because of the system simplifications and more straightforward failure detection. The thesis describes a comprehensive study of tilt control, and its aim is to employ advanced control techniques - based upon practical sensors - with the particular objective of identifying effective strategies which can be applied to each vehicle independently, i.e. without using precedence control. The sensors employed for control design are in particular mounted on the vehicle passenger coach. Most of the work has been undertaken using Matlab, and this has included a proper assessment of the ride quality issues.
High flux coherent supercontinuum soft X-ray source driven by a single-stage 10 mJ, kHz, Ti:sapphire laser amplifier
Creators: name: Ding, Chengyuan
name: Xiong, Wei
name: Fan, Tingting
name: Hickstein, Daniel D.
name: Popmintchev, Tenio
name: Zhang, Xiaoshi
name: Walls, Mike
name: Murnane, Margaret M.
name: Kapteyn, Henry C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate the highest flux tabletop source of coherent soft X-rays to date, driven by a single-stage 10 mJ Ti:sapphire regenerative amplifier at 1 kHz. We first down-convert the laser to 1.3 um using a parametric amplifier, before up-converting it to soft X-rays using high harmonic generation in a high-pressure, phase matched, hollow waveguide geometry. The resulting optimally phase matched broadband spectrum extends to 200 eV, with a soft X-ray photon flux of > 10^6 photons/pulse/1% bandwidth at 1 kHz, corresponding to > 10^9 photons/s/1% bandwidth, or approximately a three order-of-magnitude increase compared with past work. Finally, using this broad bandwidth X-ray source, we demonstrate X-ray absorption spectroscopy of multiple elements and transitions in molecules in a single spectrum, with a spectral resolution of 0.25 eV, and with the ability to resolve the near edge fine structure.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures, under Optics Express peer review
Mapping of interstellar clouds with infrared light scattered from dust: TMC-1N
Creators: name: Malinen, J.
name: Juvela, M.
name: Pelkonen, V. -M.
name: Rawlings, M. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Mapping of near-infrared (NIR) scattered light is a recent method for the study of interstellar clouds, complementing other, more commonly used methods, like dust emission and extinction. Our goal is to study the usability of this method on larger scale, and compare the properties of a filament using NIR scattering and other methods. We also study the radiation field and differences in grain emissivity between diffuse and dense areas. We have used scattered J, H, and K band surface brightness WFCAM-observations to map filament TMC-1N in Taurus, covering an area of 1dx1d corresponding to ~(2.44 pc)^2. We have converted the data into optical depth and compared the results with NIR extinction and Herschel observations of submm dust emission. We see the filament in scattered light in all three NIR bands. We note that our WFCAM observations in TMC-1N show notably lower intensity than previous results in Corona Australis using the same method. We show that 3D radiative transfer simulations predict similar scattered surface brightness levels as seen in the observations. However, changing the assumptions about the background can change the results of simulations notably. We derive emissivity by using optical depth in the J band as an independent tracer of column density. We obtain opacity sigma(250um) values 1.7-2.4x10^-25 cm^2/H, depending on assumptions of the extinction curve, which can change the results by over 40%. These values are twice as high as obtained for diffuse areas, at the lower limit of earlier results for denser areas. We show that NIR scattering can be a valuable tool in making high resolution maps. We conclude, however, that NIR scattering observations can be complicated, as the data can show relatively low-level artefacts. This suggests caution when planning and interpreting the observations.
description: abstract shortened and figures reduced for astroph
Novel architecture for ultra-stable micro-ring resonator based optical frequency combs
Creators: name: Pasquazi, Alessia
name: Caspani, Lucia
name: Peccianti, Marco
name: Clerici, Matteo
name: Ferrera, Marcello
name: Razzari, Luca
name: Duchesne, David
name: Little, Brent E.
name: Chu, Sai T.
name: Moss, David J.
name: Morandotti, Roberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a novel geometry for OPOs based on nonlinear microcavity resonators. This approach relies on a self-locked scheme that enables OPO emission without the need for thermal locking of the pump laser to the microcavity resonance. By exploiting a CMOS-compatible microring resonator, we achieve oscillation with a complete absence of shutting down, or self-terminating behavior, a very common occurrence in externally pumped OPOs. Further, this scheme consistently produces very wide bandwidth (>300nm, limited by our experimental set-up) combs that oscillate at a spacing of the FSR of the micro cavity resonance.
description: 9 pages 32 references 5 figures
Population genomics analyses on pangenome graphs
Creators: name: Villani, Flavia
name: Porto, Francesco
name: Guarracino, Andrea
name: Williams, Robert W
name: Prins, Pjotr
name: Vedova, Gianluca Della
name: Garrison, Erik
name: Colonna, Vincenza
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2020

description: Studies of genomes typically assume a single linear reference genome. This can make it difficult to observe sequences in other genomes that are divergent from the reference, which in turn can limit the accuracy and completeness of our analyses.
 To address this limitation, we can work with pangenome reference systems that represent the mutual relationships between many complete genomes without using a single one as a point of reference. These models often encode genomes and their mutual alignment in a compact graphical structure. Here, we begin the development of a software library for the statistical analysis of population genetic parameters of genomes stored in these graphical pangenomic data models.
Distinguishing noise from chaos: objective versus subjective criteria using Horizontal Visibility Graph
Creators: name: Ravetti, Martín Gómez
name: Carpi, Laura C.
name: Gonçalves, Bruna Amin
name: Frery, Alejandro C.
name: Rosso, Osvaldo A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A recently proposed methodology called the Horizontal Visibility Graph (HVG) [Luque {\it et al.}, Phys. Rev. E., 80, 046103 (2009)] that constitutes a geometrical simplification of the well known Visibility Graph algorithm [Lacasa {\it et al.\/}, Proc. Natl. Sci. U.S.A. 105, 4972 (2008)], has been used to study the distinction between deterministic and stochastic components in time series [L. Lacasa and R. Toral, Phys. Rev. E., 82, 036120 (2010)]. Specifically, the authors propose that the node degree distribution of these processes follows an exponential functional of the form $P(κ)\sim \exp(-λ~κ)$, in which $κ$ is the node degree and $λ$ is a positive parameter able to distinguish between deterministic (chaotic) and stochastic (uncorrelated and correlated) dynamics. In this work, we investigate the characteristics of the node degree distributions constructed by using HVG, for time series corresponding to $28$ chaotic maps and $3$ different stochastic processes. We thoroughly study the methodology proposed by Lacasa and Toral finding several cases for which their hypothesis is not valid. We propose a methodology that uses the HVG together with Information Theory quantifiers. An extensive and careful analysis of the node degree distributions obtained by applying HVG allow us to conclude that the Fisher-Shannon information plane is a remarkable tool able to graphically represent the different nature, deterministic or stochastic, of the systems under study.
description: Submitted to PLOS One
Economic valuation of farm animal genetic resources: methods and applications to indigenous cattle in Kenya
Creators: name: Ruto, Eric
Publisher: name: University of Lincoln
Year: 2023
Subjects: L112 - Agricultural economics

description: There is increasing global concern about the potential long term consequences of loss of domestic animal diversity. International agreements such as the Convention on Biological Diversity encourage the design of policies that convey economic incentives for conservation of genetic resources employed in agriculture. Of particular interest is the situation in developing countries where on one hand, livestock make the greatest contribution to human livelihoods and food security while on the other, genetic erosion has placed many adapted breeds that survive well in low input agriculture and extreme environments, typical of these countries, at risk of loss. An important goal is the development of policies and strategies for conservation and sustainable utilisation of these resources. Economic valuation tools for farm animal genetic resources (AGR) would contribute to this goal by providing information for decision making. It is from this background that this study, with special reference to indigenous cattle in Kenya, focuses on the nature of values associated with AGR and the methodological approaches that can be used to assign value, as a prerequisite to improved understanding of some of the forces that are driving their decline and designing well targeted economic incentives for their conservation and sustainable management. The empirical approach involves a systematic investigation of preferences over cattle traits and breeds in Kenyan livestock markets. Revealed preference (market transactions) and stated preference (choice experiment) surveys were conducted concurrently amongst the same population of respondents. The results of the two approaches are first compared with the aim of assessing the performance of the stated preference approach in valuing cattle traits through an external test of preference consistency. The choice experiment data is subsequently employed to estimate a series of discrete choice models aimed at characterising heterogeneity in valuations across and within various segments of buyers. The study demonstrates the potential usefulness of choice experiments in valuing genetic traits expressed by livestock and provides empirical evidence to suggest that breed preferences are generally not in favour of indigenous cattle in Kenya. The implications for conservation and breeding policies are drawn.
Modification of Starches with Different Amylose/Amylopectin‐Ratios Using the Dual Approach with Hydroxypropylation and Subsequent Acid‐Thinning—Impacts on Morphological and Molecular Characteristics
Creators: name: Ulbrich, Marco
name: Flöter, Eckhard
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 660 Chemische Verfahrenstechnik
subject: acid‐thinning
subject: dual modification
subject: hydroxypropylation
subject: size exclusion chromatography

description: Commercial starches with different amylose (AM)/amylopectin (AP)‐ratios (waxy potato: WxPS, regular potato: PS, high AM corn: HACS) are hydroxypropylated (HP, pilot plant scale, two levels) and subsequently acid‐thinned (AT, laboratory scale) to produce dual‐modified samples. The gradation of the molar substitution (MS) obtained is significant for each starch basis. Investigation by means of scanning electron microscopy reveals a basically intact granular structure with surface defects. The molecular properties are comprehensively characterized using size exclusion chromatography‐multi angle laser light scattering‐differential refractive index detection (SEC‐MALS‐DRI) and corresponding conventional calibration (SEC‐cal‐DRI). The evaluation of the molecular data (MS and weight average molar mass, Mw) by means of statistical analysis (ANOVA) identifies statistically significant impacts with respect to the starch type, the substitution level, and the AT treatment.
Baselining Wireless Internet Service Development: An Experience Report
Creators: name: Bella, Fabio
name: Münch, Jürgen
name: Ocampo, Alexis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: New, emerging domains such as the engineering of wireless Internet services are characterized by a lack of experience based on quantitative data. Systematic tracking and observation of representative pilot projects can be seen as one means to capture experience, get valuable insight into a new domain, and build initial baselines. This helps to improve the planning of real development projects in business units. This article describes an approach to capture software development experience for the wireless Internet services domain by conducting and observing a series of case studies in the field. Initial baselines concerning effort distribution from the development of two wireless Internet pilot services are presented. Furthermore, major domain-specific risk factors are discussed based on the results of project retrospectives conducted with the developers of the services.
description: 9 pages
title: Phytophthora on Juglans spp. (walnuts)
Creators: name: Belisario, Alessandra
name: Galli, Massimo
Publisher: name: Julius Kühn-Institut, Bundesforschungsinstitut für Kulturpflanzen, Quedlinburg
Year: 2012

description: JKI Data Sheets Plant Pests and Diagnosis; 2012/7
Discovery of a Very Large Structure at Z=3.78
Creators: name: Lee, Kyoung-Soo
name: Dey, Arjun
name: Hong, Sungryong
name: Reddy, Naveen
name: Wilson, Christian
name: Jannuzi, Buell T.
name: Inami, Hanae
name: Gonzalez, Anthony H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the discovery of a large-scale structure containing multiple protoclusters at z=3.78 in the Boötes field. The spectroscopic discovery of five galaxies at z=3.783+/-0.002 lying within 1 Mpc of one another led us to undertake a deep narrow- and broad-band imaging survey of the surrounding field. Within a comoving volume of 72x72x25 Mpc^3, we have identified 65 Lyman alpha emitter (LAE) candidates at z=3.795+/-0.015, and four additional galaxies at z_spec=3.730,3.753,3.780,3.835. The galaxy distribution within the field is highly non-uniform, exhibiting three large (~3-5x) overdensities separated by 8-14 Mpc (physical) and possibly connected by filamentary structures traced by LAEs. The observed number of LAEs in the entire field is nearly twice the average expected in field environments, based on estimates of the Lya luminosity function at these redshifts. We estimate that by z=0 the largest overdensity will grow into a cluster of mass 10^15 Msun; the two smaller overdensities will grow into clusters of mass (2-6)x10^14 Msun. The highest concentration of galaxies is located at the southern end of the image, suggesting that the current imaging may not map the true extent of the large scale structure. Finding three large protocluster candidates within a single 0.3 deg^2 field is highly unusual; expectations from theory suggest that such alignments should occur less than 2% of the time. Searching for and characterizing such structures and accurately measuring their volume space density can therefore place constraints on the theory of structure formation. Such regions can also serve as laboratories for the study of galaxy formation in dense environments.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Astrophysical Journal
Structure of Leavitt path algebras of polynomial growth
Creators: name: Alahmedi, Adel
name: Alsulami, Hamed
name: Jain, Surender
name: Zelmanov, Efim I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We determine the structure of Leavitt path algebras of polynomial growth and discuss their automorphisms and involutions.
description: 3 pages
Museum.design.organization: an exploration of spatialities and a project in modelling museum design activity
Creators: name: Matthews, Geoff
Publisher: name: University of Lincoln
Year: 2023
Subjects: N215 - Organisational development
P131 - Museum studies
V590 - Philosophy not elsewhere classified
W200 - Design studies

description: The metaphorization of space creates possibilities for modelling (epistemologically) ‘complex’ phenomena. Four generic spatialities are explored - physical, social, documentary and paradigmatic.There are four irreducible constructions of physical space - realist, dualist, idealist and pluralist. The generic conception of social space plays off the static (pure relations) against the dynamic (contests of interests and concerns). Documentary space is the product of contingently defined formal and informational qualities. Paradigmatic space is divided into discreet regions, each defined in incommensurable terms, with the proviso that an ironic, reflexive position may exist beyond the dissolution of metaphysics.Organization is the differentiation of space and its subsequent narrative/visual reconstruction embodied in a temporal blur. ‘Design’ has an ontologically focussed meaning - designed objects, designs as objects - and an epistemologically focussed one - design processes, design as knowledge. The museum comprises an archaeology of instit-utional forms, has an uncertain material/social boundary and is a reflexive organization.The organization of design presents a constellation of four complex objects - product (designed object, object as design), programme (object of design), process (ideal and experienced processes of designing), and philosophy (ideology of design, design rationale). The design of museum design involves a reconstruction of ideolo-gically-charged, multidisciplinary, reflexive practice. Organizations display conserva-tive, ‘museographical’ qualities and radically-creative, ‘new-museological’ qualities.The museum-design-organization complex places the practitioner at the ‘moment’ of forward-projecting (designerly) and backward-projecting (museal) processes of material culture. This promotes productive processes of organizational perversion, subversion and inversion. Design is an organizational virus, the museum radically adaptive because multiply infected. Through consideration of organizational and museological objects, design research may find its centre.
Persuasive interactive non-verbal behaviour in embodied conversational agents
Creators: name: Shearer, John
Publisher: name: University of Lincoln
Year: 2023
Subjects: I140 - Human-computer interaction

description: Realism for embodied conversational agents (ECAs) requires both visual and behavioural fidelity. One significant area of ECA behaviour, that has to date received little attention, is non-verbal behaviour. Non-verbal behaviour occurs continually in all human-human interactions, and has been shown to be highly important in those interactions. Previous research has demonstrated that people treat media (and therefore ECAs) as real people, and so non-verbal behaviour is also important in the development of ECAs. ECAs that use non-verbal behaviour when interacting with humans or other ECAs will be more realistic, more engaging, and have higher social influence.This thesis gives an in-depth view of non-verbal behaviour in humans followed by an exploration of the potential social influence of ECAs using a novel Wizard of Oz style approach of synthetic ECAs. It is shown that ECAs have the potential to have no less social influence (as measured using a direct measure of behaviour change) than real people and also that it is important that ECAs have visual feedback on their interactants for this social influence to maximised. Throughout this thesis there is a focus on empirical evaluation of ECAs, both as a validation tool and also to provide directions for future research and development.Present ECAs frequently incorporate some form of non-verbal behaviour, but this is quite limited and more importantly not connected strongly to the behaviour of a human interactant. This interactional aspect of non-verbal behaviour is important in human-human interactions and results from the study of the persuasive potential of ECAs support this fact mapping onto human-ECA interactions. The challenges in creating non-verbally interactive ECAs are introduced and by drawing corollaries with robotics control systems development behaviour-based architectures are presented as a solution towards these challenges, and implemented in a prototypical ECA. Evaluation of this ECA using the methodology used previously in this thesis demonstrates that an ECA with non-verbal behaviour that responds to its interactant is rated more positively than an ECA that does not, indicating that directly measurable social influences will be possible with further development.
Critical groups of generalized de Bruijn and Kautz graphs and circulant matrices over finite fields: an extended abstract
Creators: name: Chan, Swee Hong
name: Hollmann, Henk D. L.
name: Pasechnik, Dmitrii V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C25, 05C20

description: We determine the critical groups of the generalized de Bruijn graphs DB$(n,d)$ and generalized Kautz graphs Kautz$(n,d)$, thus extending and completing earlier results for the classical de Bruijn and Kautz graphs. Moreover, for a prime $p$ the critical groups of DB$(n,p)$ are shown to be in close correspondence with groups of $n\times n$ circulant matrices over $\mathbb{F}_p$, which explains numerical data in [OEIS:A027362], and suggests the possibility to construct normal bases in $\mathbb{F}_{p^n}$ from spanning trees in DB$(n,p)$.
title: Phytophthora on Castanea sativa Mill. (sweet chestnut)
Creators: name: Prospero, Simone
name: Vannini, Andrea
name: Vettraino, Anna Maria
Publisher: name: Julius Kühn-Institut, Bundesforschungsinstitut für Kulturpflanzen, Quedlinburg
Year: 2012

description: JKI Data Sheets Plant Pests and Diagnosis; 2012/6
Cross-dressing comedies: performativity of gender(s) in Tootsie and Mrs Doubtfire
Creators: name: Palmieri, Antonella
Publisher: name: University of Lincoln
Year: 2023
Subjects: P303 - Film studies

description: Through an analysis of Tootsie (Sidney Pollack, 1982, USA) and Mrs Doubtfire (Chris Columbus, 1993, USA), this dissertation will attempt to explore the cultural notions of gender(s) representation within the framework of male cross-dressing in mainstream cinema. In Chapter 1, after a brief overview of the notion of gender, attention will be given to the functions and characteristics of transvestism in popular cinema and to the reasons why, for being potentially threatening of ideological fixity, cross-dressing has been contained within the safe borders of the comedy genre. The issue of male heterosexuality as never completely repressed in mainstream male cross-dressing cinema will be also addressed. Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 will be devoted to an analysis of the film texts on which the argument of this dissertation is located. It will be argued that a reading of the films’ (sub)text reveals the endurance of ideologically informed notions of gender(s) in that they propose stereotypical representations of femininity and masculinity. In Chapter 2, an investigation of Tootsie will help illustrate the extent to which Hollywood imitated feminist models with mockery and derision at a time when women were seeking self-definition outside the traditional contexts of marriage and family. In Chapter 3, it will be suggested that in Mrs. Doubtfire a notion of gendered family roles comes to be constructed that reifies traditionalist discourses of femininity and masculinity in order to reassert patriarchal conceptualisation of genders. To conclude, it will be argued that popular cinema as a cultural product is a major site for articulating cultural fantasies of a society in a specific time and place. It will be proposed that in this respect, successful male-to-female cross-dressing comedies Tootsie and Mrs. Doubtfire can be regarded as exemplary texts, in that they exemplify the1980s and the1990s culture’s fascination for genders and gender roles.
Modeling Increased Metal Production in Galaxy Clusters with Pair-Instability Supernovae
Creators: name: Morsony, Brian J.
name: Heath, Caitlin
name: Workman, Jared C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Galaxy clusters contain much more metal per star, typically 3 times as much, than is produced in normal galaxies. We set out to determine what changes are needed to the stellar mass function and supernovae rates to account for this excess metal. In particular, we vary the Type Ia supernovae rate, IMF slope, upper and lower mass cutoffs, and the merger rate of massive stars. We then use existing simulation results for metal production from AGB stars, Type Ia SNe and core-collapse SNe to calculate the total amount of each element produced per solar mass of star formation. For models with very massive stars, we also include metal production from pair-instability supernovae (PISNe).We find that including PISNe makes it much easier to increase the amount of metal produced per stellar mass. Therefore a separate population of high-mass stars is not needed to produce the high amounts of metal found in galaxy clusters. We also find that including at least some PISNe increases the abundance of intermediate-mass elements relative to both oxygen and iron, consistent with observations of ICM abundances.
description: 16 pages, 16 figures, submitted to MNRAS
The reinvention of the femme fatale in Hollywood neo noir films: post-feminist versions of a classic icon
Creators: name: Palmieri, Antonella
Publisher: name: University of Lincoln
Year: 2023
Subjects: P303 - Film studies

description: The dissertation focuses on how the character of the femme fatale has been reworked in the new noir films of the late 1980s and 1990s, and explores the extent to which such a rendition reproduces the politics of gender representation in post-feminist media culture of the time. For the purpose of my discussion, I restrict my study of the new femme fatale to those postclassical noir films made and set in the present that reflect a noir sensibility and that allude to classic film noir in terms of narrative, character types and/or style. The key texts that form the base of my dissertation are Fatal Attraction (Adrian Lyne, 1987, USA), Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven, 1992, USA/France), Body of Evidence (Uli Edel, 1993, Germany/USA) and Disclosure (Barry Levinson, 1994, USA).
PARAMETERS OF ROAD TRANSPORT SERVICE COMPANIES AT TERMINAL LOGISTICS CENTERS.pdf
Creators: name: Tsyganov, Aleksandr
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 90407 Process Control and Simulation
subject: FOS: Chemical engineering

description: Аннотация. Fпостроение цепочек поставок, реализующих технологии интермодальных перевозок грузов, является одним из приоритетных направлений развития транспортной системы. Для организации эффективных контрейлерных перевозок в России необходимо определить параметры терминальных логистических центров. Эти центры обеспечивают технологическое взаимодействие автомобильного и железнодорожного подвижного состава. Настоящее исследование посвящено выбору и расчету параметров автотранспортных сервисных компаний в терминальных логистических центрах. Эти компании обеспечивают техническую подготовку автомобильного подвижного состава для контрейлерных перевозок. С учетом новых условий эксплуатации автомобильного подвижного состава определены основные виды работ, структура производственных зон и параметры автотранспортных сервисных предприятий. По разработанной методике рассчитаны значения параметров автотранспортных сервисных компаний для терминального логистического центра Краснодара. Кроме того, разработан план производственной зоны и ее технического оснащения. Разработанный набор параметров позволяет осуществлять инженерно-технологическую подготовку производства, а также может быть использован для гармонизации автотранспортных сервисных компаний в терминальных логистических центрах и систематизации их услуг.
Numerical Evidence for Robustness of Environment-Assisted Quantum Transport
Creators: name: Shabani, A.
name: Mohseni, M.
name: Rabitz., H.
name: Lloyd, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent theoretical studies show that decoherence process can enhance transport efficiency in quantum systems. This effect is known as environment-assisted quantum transport (ENAQT). The role of ENAQT in optimal quantum transport is well investigated, however, it is less known how robust ENAQT is with respect to variations in the system or its environment characteristic. Toward answering this question, we simulated excitonic energy transfer in Fenna-Matthews-Olson (FMO) photosynthetic complex. We found that ENAQT is robust with respect to many relevant parameters of environmental interactions and Frenkel-exciton Hamiltonian including reorganization energy, bath frequency cutoff, temperature, and initial excitations, dissipation rate, trapping rate, disorders, and dipole moments orientations. Our study suggests that the ENAQT phenomenon can be exploited in robust design of highly efficient quantum transport systems.
description: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1104.4812
Passport to the dream factory: Hollywood and the exotic allure of female Italian ethnicity
Creators: name: Palmieri, Antonella
Publisher: name: University of Lincoln
Year: 2023
Subjects: P303 - Film studies

description: ‘Passport to the Dream Factory: Hollywood and the Exotic Allure of Female Italian Ethnicity’ is a feminist-inflected star study which explores articulations of ethnic femininity within Hollywood cinema. It does this via a case study approach, focussing on Italian female stars whose careers took them to the US in successive decades and who each illustrate different aspects of the perception of Italian femininity in American society. Organised chronologically, the case studies explore the work of four Italian stars – Isa Miranda in the late 1930s, Alida Valli in the late 1940s, Anna Magnani in the mid-1950s and Virna Lisi in the mid-1960s. Taken together, these case studies demonstrate the complex ways in which Hollywood made use of Italian female stars, adapting their images and in some cases remodelling them for the purposes of the period in question. I use the work of Richard Dyer in White (1997) and Stars (1998) and Diane Negra in Off-White Hollywood: American Culture and Ethnic Female Stardom (2001), drawing on a number of scholarly disciplines and methods, including star studies, feminist film studies, cultural studies, and critical race and whiteness studies. The thesis relates the narrativisations of female Italianness in popular American cinema to the expression and negotiation of gender and ethnic identities in American culture at a given time in American history and argues that Hollywood makes ideological use of ethnic femininity in a manner which responds to the particular historical context. I conclude that Hollywood’s construction of the personae of the Italian film stars I discuss was ideologically fraught. Located within specific historical, political and social conditions and circumstances in which they acquired significance and meaning, the American personae of Miranda, Valli, Magnani and Lisi articulated cultural fantasies around female Italianness that were supportive of patriarchal hegemony and whiteness as the norm.
Central force problem in space with SU(2) Poisson structure
Creators: name: Andalib, Taraneh
name: Fatollahi, Amir H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The central force problem is considered in a three dimensional space in which the Poisson bracket among the spatial coordinates is the one by the SU(2) Lie algebra. It is shown that among attractive power-law potentials it is only the Kepler one that all of its bound-states make closed orbits. The analytic solution of the path equation under the Kepler potential is presented. It is shown that except the Kepler potential, in contrast to ordinary space, all of the potentials for which all of the almost circular orbits are closed are non-power-law ones. For the non-power-law potentials examples of the numerical solutions of the path equations are presented.
description: 18 pages, 6 figs
Hyper-extensions in metric fixed point theory
Creators: name: Wiśnicki, Andrzej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We apply a modern axiomatic system of nonstandard analysis in metric fixed point theory. In particular, we formulate a nonstandard iteration scheme for nonexpansive mappings and present a nonstandard approach to fixed-point problems in direct sums of Banach spaces.
description: 12 pages
Damping of a nanocantilever by paramagnetic spins
Creators: name: Chudnovsky, E. M.
name: Garanin, D. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute damping of mechanical oscillations of a cantilever that contains flipping paramagnetic spins. This kind of damping is mandated by the dynamics of the total angular momentum, spin + mechanical. Rigorous expression for the damping rate is derived in terms of measurable parameters. The effect of spins on the quality factor of the cantilever can be significant in cantilevers of small length that have large concentration of paramagnetic spins of atomic and/or nuclear origin.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Towards an understanding of career progression for female professors of nursing: a small scale study
Creators: name: Joyce, Maria
Publisher: name: University of Lincoln
Year: 2023
Subjects: B740 - Adult nursing

description: The aim of this study was to generate knowledge of career progression for women professors of nursing, an under researched topic, in order to understand how their professional and personal experiences may have influenced their aspirations and opportunities for career success. This qualitative study gave voice to a small group of women professors of nursing through individual narrative semi-structured interviews, a relatively under-used methodology. The findings are anticipated to have currency in providing new perspectives on women professors of nursing and are presented as professional influences and social capital factors. This study introduces individual participant narratives, examining and considering these to explore if the career progression may have been affected by professional influences and social capital. The data is analysed using narrative analysis, a method examining both form and content and the findings are interpreted thematically as barriers or opportunities and categorised as adverse and advantageous factors to career success. From this a relationship map is developed with these factors drawn together and the resulting knowledge illustrated through a framework towards career progression for women professors of nursing. In generating theory about key factors in career progression, current discourses gain some illumination, such as mentoring, social change and equal opportunities in the workplace. The multiple roles of a nurse academic are expounded upon, with focus on the functions of teaching, research and administration. Opportunities for revisiting strategy and reinforcing equal opportunities in the workplace are identified. There are also implications for the redevelopment of formal role modelling and mentorship schemes. The study makes tentative claims to the development of new knowledge in the area of women professors of nursing, contributing to the broader discourse around recruitment and career development in higher education. The study illustrates the interplay between professional influences and social capital in achieving career success for these women professors of nursing.
A Dusty M5 Binary in the beta Pictoris Moving Group
Creators: name: Rodriguez, David R.
name: Zuckerman, B.
name: Faherty, Jacqueline K.
name: Vican, Laura
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the identification of a new wide separation binary (LDS 5606) in the ~20 Myr-old beta Pic moving group. This M5+M5 pair has a projected separation of 26'', or ~1700 AU at a distance of 65 pc. Both stars host warm circumstellar disks and many strong hydrogen and helium emission lines. Spectroscopic observations reveal signatures of youth for both stars and on-going mass accretion in the primary. The properties of LDS 5606 make it an older analog to the ~8 Myr TWA 30 system, which is also composed of a pair of widely separated mid-M dwarfs, each hosting their own warm circumstellar disks. LDS 5606 joins a rather exclusive club of only 3 other known stellar systems where both members of a binary, far from any molecular cloud, are orbited by detected circumstellar disks.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures; Accepted for publication in A&A
B -> K* mu+ mu- optimised observables in the MSSM
Creators: name: Mahmoudi, F.
name: Neshatpour, S.
name: Virto, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide a detailed analysis of the impact of the newly measured optimised observables in the B -> K* mu+ mu- decay by the LHCb experiment. The analysis is performed in the MSSM, both in the context of the usual constrained scenarios, and in the context of a more general set-up where the SUSY partner masses are independent. We show that the global agreement of the MSSM solutions with the data is still very good. Nevertheless, especially in the constrained scenarios, the limits from B -> K* mu+ mu- are now very strong, and are at the same level as the well-known b -> s gamma constraints. We describe the implications of the B -> K* mu+ mu- measurements both on the Wilson coefficients and on the SUSY parameters.
description: 20 pages, 6 figures
Academic labour and the capitalist university: a critique of higher education through the law of value
Creators: name: Winn, Joss
Publisher: name: University of Lincoln
Year: 2023
Subjects: L370 - Social theory
X342 - Academic studies in higher education

description: The work submitted for examination consists of ten items, with the key sole-authored components comprising a book chapter (Winn, 2012) and four peer-reviewed journal articles (Winn, 2013; 2014; 2015a; 2015b). Other, joint-authored work is intended to be supplementary and to provide further evidence of the two persistent themes of inquiry which my work has been concerned with over the last six years: the role and character of labour and property in higher education, or rather, ‘academic labour’ and the ‘academic commons’. Six of the ten publications discuss these themes through a critique of the role of technology in higher education, in particular the way networked technology forms the practical, ideological and legal premise for the idea and forms of ‘openness’ in higher education. Throughout my work, I treat ‘technology’ as a reified and fetishized concept which masks the more fundamental categories of labour, value and the commodity-form that are concealed in the idea and form of the ‘public university’. I start from the observation that advocates of ‘open education’ tend to envision an alternative form of higher education that is based on a novel form of academic commons but neglect to go further and critically consider the underlying form of academic labour. As such, the product is set free but not the producer. In response, through my publications I develop the theoretical basis for an alternative social and institutional form of co-operative higher education; one in which openness is constituted through a categorial critique aimed at the existing commodity-form of knowledge production.
Adiabatic shear banding in single crystals
Creators: name: Phalke, Vikram
name: Forest, Samuel
name: Ammar, Kais
name: Chang, Hyung-Jun
name: Roos, Arjen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: This poster is presented on the day for second-year doctoral students of the ISMME Doctoral School at MINES ParisTech.
A new paradigm for petascale Monte Carlo simulation: Replica exchange Wang-Landau sampling
Creators: name: Li, Ying Wai
name: Vogel, Thomas
name: Wüst, Thomas
name: Landau, David P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a generic, parallel Wang-Landau method that is naturally suited to implementation on massively parallel, petaflop supercomputers. The approach introduces a replica-exchange framework in which densities of states for overlapping sub-windows in energy space are determined iteratively by traditional Wang-Landau sampling. The advantages and general applicability of the method are demonstrated for several distinct systems that possess discrete or continuous degrees of freedom, including those with complex free energy landscapes and topological constraints.
description: Conference on Computational Physics 2013 - CCP 2013
The Spanish National Bioinformatics Institute (INB/ELIXIR-ES). Renovating its portfolio in its 20th anniversary.
Creators: name: Alloza, Eva
name: INB/ELIXIR-ES Members
name: Valencia, Alfonso
name: Capella-Gutierrez, Salvador
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2023

description: The Spanish National Bioinformatics Institute (INB), founded in 2003 as a distributed network, is the ELIXIR Node in Spain (ELIXIR-ES) and currently has two objectives: 1) deepen its alignment with ELIXIR with a focus on human data-related activities, 2) increase its translational medicine impact within the Spanish National Health System. At the national level, it leads the Translational Bioinformatics Network (TransBioNet) and coordinates the Data Science pillar of IMPaCT, the national infrastructure for Precision Medicine. IMPaCT-Data is closely related to major European efforts, like the European Genomic Data Infrastructure (GDI) and the EUropean Federation for CAncer IMages (EUCAIM), while implementing GA4GH standards in its products. As for ELIXIR, INB/ELIXIR-ES introduces the new Service Delivery Plan (SDP) in its 20th anniversary, increasing its capacity in resources, groups, and institutions.

 The node has a strong ELIXIR engagement with active leadership and contributions to all Platforms, 13 Communities and 6 FocusGroups, including the co-leadership of the Tools and Training platforms; Rare Diseases, Federated Human Data and Biodiversity communities; and the Cancer Data focus group. The European Genome-phenome Archive (EGA), an ELIXIR CDR, is co-developed and maintained by CRG with BSC’s infrastructure support. The Spanish FEGA node has been established, and the node leads the FEGA Maturity Model efforts. Two resources are ELIXIR RIR: 3D-Bionotes and FAIRtracks. ELIXIR-ES develops the benchmarking platform OpenEBench adopted by various ELIXIR Communities and beyond. The new SDP increases the scope of the node’s activities and participation in other areas, i.e. Plant Sciences, Toxicology.

 INB/ELIXIR-ES https://inb-elixir.es
MALVIRUS: an integrated web application for viral variant calling
Creators: name: Ciccolella, Simone
name: Denti, Luca
name: Bonizzoni, Paola
name: Vedova, Gianluca Della
name: Pirola, Yuri
name: Previtali, Marco
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2020

description: Being able to efficiently call variants from the increasing amount of sequencing data daily produced from multiple viral strains is of the utmost importance, as demonstrated during the COVID-19 pandemic, in order to track the spread of the viral strains across the globe.
 We present MALVIRUS, an accurate, easy-to-install, and easy-to-use web application that assists users in (1) computing a variant catalog consisting in a set of population SNP loci from the population sequences and (2) efficiently calling variants of the catalog from a read sample.
 Tests on Illumina and Nanopore samples prove the efficiency and the effectiveness of MALVIRUS in genotyping SARS-CoV-2 strain samples with respect to GISAID data.
Pyroelectric and dielectric properties of calcium-barium niobate single crystals
Creators: name: Malyshkina, O. V.
name: Lisitsin, V. S.
name: Dec, J.
name: Łukasiewicz, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Influence of the calcium concentration on the pyroelectric and dielectric properties of CaxBa1-xNb2O6 (CBN) crystals in a wide temperature range was studied. It is shown that calcium content (x) has an influence on the Curie point position but has no effect on the dielectric hysteresis loop shape and the appearance of temperature variations of dielectric permittivity, coercive field and remanent polarization. At the same time, it is found that x affects the polarization profile.