cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Possibility of Mutual Benefit from Exchange between the Philosophy of Language and Second Language Acquisition Research and Pedagogy
Creators: Ingram, Harold B.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: This dissertation has three parts. The first part is an ESL textbook that is based on a grammar which I call term and predicate grammar. This name reflects the view that all simple and complex sentences of English consist of one predicate and one or more terms, or are simple transforms of such sentences. There are four predicate types and seven term types, all of which can be specified precisely. The term and predicate grammar itself is based on the syntactic component of a semiotic system I developed, which standardly includes as well a semantic component and a pragmatic component. The second part of the dissertation establishes a connection between the philosophy of language and second language acquisition research and pedagogy by presenting two cases in which an analysis of a feature of English in the one discipline is juxtaposed with an analysis of the same feature in the other discipline. On the basis of these two cases, it is proposed that a merger of interests and lines of work between the two disciplines would be mutually beneficial, and that an ESL text book that is based in the philosophy of language should foster such a merger. The third and final part of the dissertation has a general aspect and a specific aspect. On its general aspect, it is a philosophical examination of the relationship between the implicit knowledge of language vs. explicit knowledge of language distinction in second language acquisition research and pedagogy and the knowing-how vs. knowing-that distinction in the philosophy of language. The two distinctions are found to align and it is claimed on this basis that the second language acquisition distinction has an antecedent in the earlier philosophical distinction. On its specific aspect, the third part of the dissertation is an analysis of what is called the interface issue in second language acquisition research. This issue addresses the question of how implicit knowledge and explicit knowledge contribute to the acquisition of a second language. Three positions have been taken on the issue, viz. the strong position, the no position and the weak position. On the strong position the explicit knowledge of language developed by instruction and practice plays a major role in acquisition, on the no position such knowledge plays no role in acquisition while on the weak position such knowledge plays a facilitating role in acquisition. But there is a consensus in the second language acquisition research community that the strong position should be rejected and yet it is this position that accords with the views of traditional language pedagogists, and with thoughtful common sense generally. This poses a dilemma that I claim can be resolved by making a philosophical interpretation of ideas and information that can be found in recent second language acquisition theory and research.
Graphene Induced Large Shift of Surface Plasmon Resonances of Gold Films: Effective Medium Theory for Atomically Thin Materials
Creators: name: Alam, Md Kamrul
name: Niu, Chao
name: Wang, Yanan
name: Wang, Wei
name: Li, Yang
name: Dai, Chong
name: Tong, Tian
name: Shan, Xiaonan
name: Charlson, Earl
name: Pei, Steven
name: Kong, Xiang-Tian
name: Hu, Yandi
name: Belyanin, Alexey
name: Stein, Gila
name: Liu, Zhaoping
name: Hu, Jonathan
name: Wang, Zhiming
name: Bao, Jiming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Despite successful modeling of graphene as a 0.34-nm thick optical film synthesized by exfoliation or chemical vapor deposition (CVD), graphene induced shift of surface plasmon resonance (SPR) of gold films has remained controversial. Here we report the resolution of this controversy by developing a clean CVD graphene transfer method and extending Maxwell-Garnet effective medium theory (EMT) to 2D materials. A SPR shift of 0.24 is obtained and it agrees well with 2D EMT in which wrinkled graphene is treated as a 3-nm graphene/air layered composite, in agreement with the average roughness measured by atomic force microscope. Because the anisotropic built-in boundary condition of 2D EMT is compatible with graphene's optical anisotropy, graphene can be modelled as a film thicker than 0.34-nm without changing its optical property; however, its actual roughness, i.e., effective thickness will significantly alter its response to strong out-of-plane fields, leading to a larger SPR shift.
description: 18 pages, 5 figures
The Possibility of Philosophy in Schools: Jacques Rancière and Community of Philosophical Inquiry
Creators: Davis, Jessica Jean
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: Education
subject: Educational philosophy
subject: Philosophy--Study and teaching

description: Responding to growing efforts to bring philosophy into K-12 schools in the U.S., this dissertation takes up pedagogical and political concepts used by Jacques Rancière in order to reflect on the motivating principles and limitations of bringing philosophy to schools. Rancière critiques schooling as a mechanism by which socio-economic inequality is justified and argues that academic philosophy, following the rationalist tradition attributed to Plato, is in fact complicit in this justificatory process. Given his staunch position, it might seem that it is impossible to implement philosophy in schools using Rancièrian principles. I argue that there is a practice of philosophy in schools to which Rancière may be sympathetic on a theoretical level. In order to support my position, the principle aim of this work is to provide evidence that Rancière’s works reflect specific critiques and alternative values of both schooling and philosophy that are also represented in the principled pedagogical practice of community of philosophical inquiry (CPI). I begin to think through the possibility of CPI in new and existing schools, as well the way that the notion of possibility itself figures into this line of inquiry. My thesis is that CPI is the philosophical practice most appropriate for schools given the critiques and alternative values of schooling and philosophy shared by Rancière and CPI, but that Rancière may help to inform the way the practice is implemented.
On the planetary interpretation of multiple gaps and rings in protoplanetary disks seen by ALMA
Creators: name: Miranda, Ryan
name: Rafikov, Roman R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has been recently suggested that the multiple concentric rings and gaps discovered by ALMA in many protoplanetary disks may be produced by a single planet, as a result of the complex propagation and dissipation of the multiple spiral density waves it excites in the disk. Numerical efforts to verify this idea have largely utilized the so-called locally isothermal approximation with a prescribed disk temperature profile. However, in protoplanetary disks this approximation does not provide an accurate description of the density wave dynamics on scales of tens of au. Moreover, we show that locally isothermal simulations tend to overestimate the contrast of ring and gap features, as well as misrepresent their positions, when compared to simulations in which the energy equation is evolved explicitly. This outcome is caused by the non-conservation of the angular momentum flux of linear perturbations in locally isothermal disks. We demonstrate this effect using simulations of locally isothermal and adiabatic disks (with essentially identical temperature profiles) and show how the dust distributions, probed by mm wavelength observations, differ between the two cases. Locally isothermal simulations may thus underestimate the masses of planets responsible for the formation of multiple gaps and rings on scales of tens of au observed by ALMA. We suggest that caution should be exercised in using the locally isothermal simulations to explore planet-disk interaction, as well as in other studies of wave-like phenomena in astrophysical disks.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ Letters
Consistency of Orbifold Conformal Field Theories on K3
Creators: name: Wendland, Katrin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explicitly determine the locations of G orbifold conformal field theories, G=Z_M, M=2,3,4,6, G=\hat D_n, n=4,5, or G the binary tetrahedral group \hat T, within the moduli space M^{K3} of N=(4,4) superconformal field theories associated to K3. This is achieved purely from the known description of the moduli space [AM94] and the requirement of a consistent embedding of orbifold conformal field theories within M^{K3}. We calculate the Kummer type lattices for all these orbifold limits. Our method allows an elementary derivation of the B-field values in direction of the exceptional divisors that arise from the orbifold procedure [Asp95,Dou97,BI97], without recourse to D-geometry. We show that our consistency requirement fixes these values uniquely and determine them explicitly. The relation of our results to the classical McKay correspondence is discussed.
description: adapted to atmp.sty: 28 pages; final version to be published in Adv. Theor. Math. Phys
Influence of phase space localization on the energy diffusion in a quantum chaotic billiard
Creators: name: Wisniacki, D. A.
name: Vergini, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The quantum dynamics of a chaotic billiard with moving boundary is considered in this work. We found a shape parameter Hamiltonian expansion which enables us to obtain the spectrum of the deformed billiard for deformations so large as the characteristic wave length. Then, for a specified time dependent shape variation, the quantum dynamics of a particle inside the billiard is integrated directly. In particular, the dispersion of the energy is studied in the Bunimovich stadium billiard with oscillating boundary. The results showed that the distribution of energy spreads diffusively for the first oscillations of the boundary (${< Δ^2 E}> =2 D t$). We studied the diffusion contant $D$ as a function of the boundary velocity and found differences with theoretical predictions based on random matrix theory. By extracting highly phase space localized structures from the spectrum, previous differences were reduced significantly. This fact provides the first numerical evidence of the influence of phase space localization on the quantum diffusion of a chaotic system.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
The Practice of Learning-Oriented Teacher Leadership: A Qualitative 360-Degree Interview Study of Teacher Leaders and Their Colleagues
Creators: Kanarek, Derek D.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Educational leadership
Teachers--Training of
Developmental psychology
Constructivism (Education)
Leadership

description: My dissertation is a qualitative 360-degree interview study that explores the leadership experiences of four teacher leaders in formal roles who received research-based training in constructive-developmental theory and learning-oriented leadership, which has four pillar practices of teaming, collegial inquiry, providing leadership roles, and mentoring. After identifying the teacher leaders using purposeful sampling seeking exemplar cases, I conducted three interviews with each teacher leader and 360-degree interviews with each teacher leader’s principal and teacher colleagues. I found that all four teacher leaders transferred their learning about constructive-developmental theory and learning-oriented leadership to make changes to how they led in their various roles that resulted in what they, their principals, and the teachers under their leadership said was effective coaching, teaming, and professional learning in interpersonal holding environments infused with high trust. I learned that the common learning-oriented leadership practices of building a strong holding environment (4/4) and developmental reflective practice (3/4) formed the foundation upon which each teacher leader also built a specialized implementation of learning-oriented leadership. Finally, I found that that there were five types of challenges to learning-oriented teacher leadership – challenges related to (a) the role of administration, (b) scarcity of time, (c) teacher resistance, (d) conflict management, and (e) the transitory nature of teacher leadership – and identified at least one strategy that one or more teacher leaders told me was helpful in addressing each challenge. My findings have implications for school leaders, education leadership theorists and researchers, and education leadership preparation programs.
Global monopole in scalar tensor theory
Creators: name: Banerjee, A.
name: Beesham, A.
name: Chatterjee, S.
name: Sen, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The well known monopole solution of Barriola and Vilenkin (BV) resulting from the breaking of a global SO(3) symmetry is extended in general relativity along with a zero mass scalar field and also in Brans-Dicke(BD) theory of gravity.In the case of BD theory, the behaviour of spacetime and other variables such as BD scalar field and the monopole energy density have been studied numerically.For monopole along with a zero mass scalar field, exact solutions are obtained and depending upon the choice of arbitary parameters, the solutions either reduce to the BV case or to a pure scalar field solution as special cases.It is interesting to note that unlike the BV case the global monopole in the BD theory does exert gravitational pull on a test particle moving in its spacetime.
description: 12 pages LaTex, 3 postscript figures, Communicated to Class.Quant.Grav
The Postapocalyptic American Frontier: Uncanny Historicism in the Nineteenth Century
Creators: Hay, John Andrew
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life in literature
Apocalyptic literature
Indigenous peoples in literature
American literature
Nineteenth century
Historicism in literature

description: This dissertation reveals a hitherto unrecognized thread of speculative postapocalyptic fantasies underlying nineteenth-century accounts of the American frontier. Many critics have exposed the latent imperialism behind popular myths of primeval wilderness and virgin land; bringing together fictional tales, travel writings, and scientific texts, I show that U.S. authors who enthusiastically celebrated these myths distorted rather than escaped the bounds of history. Their literature results in an uncanny historicism that unsettles narratives of material progress by conflating ancient territorial rupture with a potentially disastrous future. The Illinois prairie of the 1840s thus appeared to Margaret Fuller as a country that has been carefully cultivated by a civilized people, who had been suddenly removed from the earth, with all the works of their hands, and the land given again into nature's keeping. Fuller's notion of hidden destruction behind a vision of natural tranquility was not uncommon. Striving to reconcile their projection of an empty continent with the myriad traces of both Native Americans and prior European settlers, writers such as William Cullen Bryant, James Fenimore Cooper, Henry David Thoreau, and Jack London crafted historical narratives that imagined the swift annihilation of entire populations. For them, the blank slate of the American continent was simultaneously a ruined wasteland, and the mythical American Adam was really an American Noah - a patriarch of a new world built on the violent dissolution of the old. U.S. frontier literature between the War of 1812 and the First World War contains postapocalyptic themes like the last man on earth, the lapse into barbarism, and ruin-strewn landscapes. As a key example, I read Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans (1826) as a narrative of biological extinction that foreshadows his later national apocalyptic allegory The Crater (1847). Similarly, I contend that the industrial ruins a young Thoreau discovered in the Maine woods spurred him to imagine a suddenly depopulated Massachusetts in his journal. These postapocalyptic fantasies often attempted to deny the ongoing presence and property claims of Native Americans by relegating the original inhabitants of American soil to a separate past, yet they also suggested that the United States itself might be subject to imminent catastrophe.
Excitation Thresholds for Nonlinear Localized Modes on Lattices
Creators: name: Weinstein, Michael I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Breathers are spatially localized and time periodic solutions of extended Hamiltonian dynamical systems. In this paper we study excitation thresholds for (nonlinearly dynamically stable) ground state breather or standing wave solutions for networks of coupled nonlinear oscillators and wave equations of nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) type. Excitation thresholds are rigorously characterized by variational methods. The excitation threshold is related to the optimal (best) constant in a class of discr ete interpolation inequalities related to the Hamiltonian energy. We establish a precise connection among $d$, the dimensionality of the lattice, $2σ+1$, the degree of the nonlinearity and the existence of an excitation threshold for discrete nonlinear Schrödinger systems (DNLS). We prove that if $σ\ge 2/d$, then ground state standing waves exist if and only if the total power is larger than some strictly positive threshold, $ν_{thresh}(σ, d)$. This proves a conjecture of Flach, Kaldko& MacKay in the context of DNLS. We also discuss upper and lower bounds for excitation thresholds for ground states of coupled systems of NLS equations, which arise in the modeling of pulse propagation in coupled arrays of optical fibers.
description: To appear in Nonlinearity
Additional file 10: of Histone H3 lysine 4 methyltransferase is required for facultative heterochromatin at specific loci
Creators: name: Qiaoqiao Zhu
name: Mukund Ramakrishnan
name: Jinhee Park
name: Belden, William
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional loci that have KMT2/SET-1-dependent heterochromatin. Gene-level diagram of H3K9me3 ChIP-seq (DD Blue and LP30 Navy) in WT and ∆kmt2/∆set-1, and H3K4me3 ChIP-seq (DD Grey and LP30 black) in WT and ∆kmt1/∆dim-5 for a presumptive lincRNA, (a) MSTRG.11857 and (b) NCU03747. It is clear from the traces that both have a significant decrease in H3K9me3 (p
The Power of Agency
Creators: Brent, Michael
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: My dissertation addresses a foundational problem in the philosophy of action, that of explaining the distinction between actions and mere events. Actions, I argue, have a uniquely active component that distinguishes them from mere events and which can be explained in terms of effort. Effort has several features: it is attributed directly to agents; it is a causal power that each agent alone possesses and employs; it enables agents causally to activate, sustain, and control their capacities during the performance of an action; and its presence comes in varying degrees of strength. After defending an effort-based account of action and criticizing what is known as the standard story of action, I apply my account to situations in which an agent displays strength of will, such as when one struggles to perform an action while overcoming a persistent urge to do otherwise. I conclude by offering an explanation of mental action that demonstrates the extent of our powers of agency within the domain of the mental.
Vertex Algebras, Mirror Symmetry, And D-Branes: The Case Of Complex Tori
Creators: name: Kapustin, Anton
name: Orlov, Dmitri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A vertex algebra is an algebraic counterpart of a two-dimensional conformal field theory. We give a new definition of a vertex algebra which includes chiral algebras as a special case, but allows for fields which are neither meromorphic nor anti-meromorphic. To any complex torus equipped with a flat Kahler metric and a closed 2-form we associate an N=2 superconformal vertex algebra (N=2 SCVA) in the sense of our definition. We find a criterion for two different tori to produce isomorphic N=2 SCVA's. We show that for algebraic tori isomorphism of N=2 SCVA's implies the equivalence of the derived categories of coherent sheaves corresponding to the tori or their noncommutative generalizations (Azumaya algebras over tori). We also find a criterion for two different tori to produce N=2 SCVA's related by a mirror morphism. If the 2-form is of type (1,1), this condition is identical to the one proposed by Golyshev, Lunts, and Orlov, who used an entirely different approach inspired by the Homological Mirror Symmetry Conjecture of Kontsevich. Our results suggest that Kontsevich's conjecture must be modified: coherent sheaves must be replaced with modules over Azumaya algebras, and the Fukaya category must be ``twisted'' by a closed 2-form. We also describe the implications of our results for BPS D-branes on Calabi-Yau manifolds.
description: 70 pages, AMS Latex. v2: a gap in the reasoning of Appendix B has been filled, and a proof of the "Borcherds formulas" has been added
Joule meets van der Waals: Mechanical dissipation via image potential states on a topological insulator surface
Creators: name: Yildiz, Dilek
name: Kisiel, Marcin
name: Gysin, Urs
name: Gürlü, Oguzhan
name: Meyer, Ernst
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dissipation mechanisms are experimentally studied on topological insulator surfaces of Bi2Te3, where common Joule dissipation was observed to be suppressed due to topologically protected surface states. Thus, a novel type of dissipation mechanism is observed by pendulum AFM, which is related to single electron tunneling resonances into image potential states that are slightly above the Bi2Te3 surface. The application of a magnetic field leads to the break down of the topological protection of the surface states and restores the expected Joule dissipation process. Nanomechanical energy dissipation experienced by the cantilever of pendulum AFM provides a novel source of information on the dissipative nature of the quantum-tunneling phenomena on the topological insulator surface.
Promecidia bonthainensis
Creators: name: Brothers, Denis J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Mutillidae
Promecidia
Promecidia bonthainensis

description: Promecidia bonthainensis (André, 1896); Indonesia (Sulawesi)
 Mutilla Bonthainensis André, 1896: 14; ♂.
 Promecidia bonthainensis (André, 1896); Lelej 2005.
description: Published as part of Brothers, Denis J., 2022, Critical analysis of the type material of Mutillidae described from the Australasian Region (Hymenoptera), pp. 1-215 in Zootaxa 5140 (1) on page 211, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5140.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6572181
DR 1.5: Design, ontology and evaluation of PAL prototype supporting shared child-caregiver responsibility
Creators: name: Henkemans, Olivier Blanson
name: Neerincx, Mark
name: Vught, Willeke Van Der
name: Baranzini, Daniele
name: Oleari, Elettra
name: Sacchitelli, Francesca
name: Pozzi, Clara
name: Sardu, Francesco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: protype
usability
experiment
educational content
gamification
Socio-Cognitive Engineering
T1DM
Diabetes
Robot

description: In the third design-test cycle of PAL, we refined the prototype based on the outcomes of the previous cycles and additional user feedback sessions. The new protype was improved on its overall usability, goal setting & achievements framework, personalised child-agent interactions, educational content, gamification and the dashboards for parents (PAL Inform). The underpinning knowledge and rationale was recorded in the ontologies and Socio-Cognitive Engineering Tool (SCET; see PAL deliverable D6.13). In an experiment, care with PAL was compared with care as usual for the diabetes self-management of children with T1DM (age 7-14), focusing on (1) determinants of behaviour knowledge, awareness and skills), (2) the actual self-management behaviour (i.e., performing self-management activities and adhering to personalised diabetes goals), and (3) the treatment outcomes (i.e., glycaemic control). PAL showed to improve children’s knowledge, where time of PAL usage correlated positively with this knowledge. In addition, PAL proved to increase the self-care score (particularly for the younger children), and enhanced the diabetes related quality of life score of children. Compared to this PAL prototype version (3.0), children spent their time more efficiently with an improved version (3.5).
Protrogaspidia Lelej 1996
Creators: name: Brothers, Denis J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Mutillidae
Protrogaspidia

description: Protrogaspidia Lelej, 1996
 Protrogaspidia Lelej, 1996: 18; ♂.
 Type species: Mutilla volatilis Smith, 1859.
description: Published as part of Brothers, Denis J., 2022, Critical analysis of the type material of Mutillidae described from the Australasian Region (Hymenoptera), pp. 1-215 in Zootaxa 5140 (1) on page 211, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5140.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6572181
The Practice of Theory in Vincenzo Scamozzi's Annotated Architecture Books
Creators: Isard, Katherine Graham
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Art

description: "The Practice of Theory in Vincenzo Scamozzi's Annotated Architecture Books" provides an examination of the architecture books owned and annotated by the Vicentine architect and architectural writer Vincenzo Scamozzi (1548-1616).  It is an established historiographical conviction that printed treatises fundamentally changed the practice and reception of architecture in sixteenth-century Italy.  Surprisingly little is known, however,  about the ways these treatises were received and employed at the time they were made.  The traces of Scamozzi's reading reveal how a major architect and theorist processed and applied bookish knowledge.  Taken together, they provide important new insights into the contemporary significance of printed books within the architectural culture of late sixteenth-century Venice.
      Scamozzi is unusual in that a substantial number of his annotated books survive.  This study considers this archive of response as a corpus for the first time.  His annotations indicate the wide range of disciplines pertinent to early modern architecture, from mathematics to philology; indeed, his library is characteristic of the scholarly interests and practices of his day.  For Scamozzi, architecture was a scienza rooted in universal principles, and architectural writing was essential to promote the utility of the profession.  Reading itself, however, was not a straightforward activity.  Scamozzi's reading depended on multiple factors, ranging from the nature of the material object to the probative methods of the author, and it was contingent upon his own interests and goals.  Using Scamozzi's copies of Vitruvius (1550, 1556, 1567), Sebastiano Serlio (1551) and Pietro Cataneo (1567) as case studies, this study shows that Scamozzi used his books as instruments for literary and observational study, architectural practice, contemporary criticism, and as a platform to manufacture and control his public image.  Scamozzi operated within an intellectual culture at once entrenched in the classical past and concerned with the advancement of present and future knowledge.  His reading archive demonstrates how books shaped his understanding of each.
      This account argues that our historical understanding of the Renaissance architecture treatise has been overdetermined by its text, treated in isolation.  Scamozzi's books and reading notes challenge the notion that print had a prescriptive effect on architectural thinking, showing that our evolutionary narrative about the treatise has not taken sufficient account of the historical circumstances that conditioned its forms.
COSMOGRAIL XVIII: time delays of the quadruply lensed quasar WFI2033-4723
Creators: name: Bonvin, V.
name: Millon, M.
name: Chan, J. H. H.
name: Courbin, F.
name: Rusu, C. E.
name: Sluse, D.
name: Suyu, S. H.
name: Wong, K. C.
name: Fassnacht, C. D.
name: Marshall, P. J.
name: Treu, T.
name: Buckley-Geer, E.
name: Frieman, J.
name: Hempel, A.
name: Kim, S.
name: Lachaume, R.
name: Rabus, M.
name: Chao, D. C. -Y.
name: Chijani, M.
name: Gilman, D.
name: Gilmore, K.
name: Rojas, K.
name: Williams, P.
name: Anguita, T.
name: Kochanek, C. S.
name: Meylan, G.
name: Morgan, C.
name: Motta, V.
name: Tewes, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present new measurements of the time delays of WFI2033-4723. The data sets used in this work include 14 years of data taken at the 1.2m Leonhard Euler Swiss telescope, 13 years of data from the SMARTS 1.3m telescope at Las Campanas Observatory and a single year of high-cadence and high-precision monitoring at the MPIA 2.2m telescope. The time delays measured from these different data sets, all taken in the R-band, are in good agreement with each other and with previous measurements from the literature. Combining all the time-delay estimates from our data sets results in Dt_AB = 36.2-0.8+0.7 days (2.1% precision), Dt_AC = -23.3-1.4+1.2 days (5.6%) and Dt_BC = -59.4-1.3+1.3 days (2.2%). In addition, the close image pair A1-A2 of the lensed quasars can be resolved in the MPIA 2.2m data. We measure a time delay consistent with zero in this pair of images. We also explore the prior distributions of microlensing time-delay potentially affecting the cosmological time-delay measurements of WFI2033-4723. There is however no strong indication in our measurements that microlensing time delay is neither present nor absent. This work is part of a H0LiCOW series focusing on measuring the Hubble constant from WFI2033-4723.
description: Submitted to Astronomy and Astrophysics
A scaling hypothesis for matrix product states
Creators: name: Vanhecke, Bram
name: Haegeman, Jutho
name: Van Acoleyen, Karel
name: Vanderstraeten, Laurens
name: Verstraete, Frank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We revisit the question of describing critical spin systems and field theories using matrix product states, and formulate a scaling hypothesis in terms of operators, eigenvalues of the transfer matrix, and lattice spacing in the case of field theories. Critical exponents and central charge are determined by optimizing the exponents such as to obtain a data collapse. We benchmark this method by studying critical Ising and Potts models, where we also obtain a scaling ansatz for the correlation length and entanglement entropy. The formulation of those scaling functions turns out to be crucial for studying critical quantum field theories on the lattice. For the case of $λϕ^4$ with mass $μ^2$ and lattice spacing $a$, we demonstrate a double data collapse for the correlation length $ δξ(μ,λ,D)=\tildeξ \left((α-α_c)(δ/a)^{-1/ν}\right)$ with $D$ the bond dimension, $δ$ the gap between eigenvalues of the transfer matrix, and $α_c=μ_R^2/λ$ the parameter which fixes the critical quantum field theory.
The Pragmatic-Discursive Structure of Chinese Compliments in Naturally Occurring Conversation
Creators: Le, Rong Rong
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: Sociolinguistics
subject: Pragmatics
subject: Chinese language
subject: Conversation analysis
subject: Applied linguistics
subject: Speech acts (Linguistics)
subject: Discourse analysis
subject: Compliments

description: Studies across different languages over the past three decades have claimed that compliments are formulaic in nature, realized by only a few syntactic and semantic formulae.  Much of the research employs elicitation or ethnographic field notes data, which biases the analysis to single utterance, explicit and formulaic compliments.  However, my observations of Chinese compliments in naturally occurring conversation paint a different, much more sophisticated, picture.
              The current study investigates the realization of spontaneous Chinese complimenting behavior in the speech communities of Shanghai and other cities in China.  Over 200 speakers from different walks of life were audio-recorded in a vast array of natural settings.  Three hundred compliment-response sequences were selected for analysis.  Adopting a combination of the pragmatic speech act analytic approach and the discursive pragmatic analytic approach, the current study examines the pragmatic-discursive structure of Chinese complimenting in conversation sequences over multiple turns involving two or more parties.
      	Results of the study reveal that Chinese compliments and compliment responses are not isolated, single utterance acts, but rather multi-turn discursive events.  Chinese compliments operate as pragmatic-discursive strategies working together over the discourse in a core and support relationship.  Among the 3,835 compliment strategies identified, 525 are core strategies and 3,310 are support strategies.  The core compliment strategy is normally the first general summative statement initiating a compliment topic.  Seven major support compliment strategies—agreement, comment, example, repetition, intensification, quote, and comparison—fulfill three major pragmatic-discursive functions: to align with, to elaborate, or to emphasize the core or another support strategy.  The seven major support compliment strategies are further realized by a wide variety of substrategies and linguistic forms with no formulaicity and predictability in lexical or syntactic distribution.  The different pragmatic-discursive strategies interact such that the participants negotiate and “co-construct” the compliment event.  The analysis indicates that context, both interaction-external and interaction-internal, is crucial in the construction and interpretation of a compliment action.
Additional file 1: of Responses to persuasive messages encouraging professional help seeking for depression: comparison between individuals with and without psychological distress
Creators: name: Suka, Machi
name: Yamauchi, Takashi
name: Yanagisawa, Hiroyuki
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Persuasive messages encouraging help-seeking for depression. (DOC 280 kb)
Branes and the Swampland
Creators: name: Kim, Hee-Cheol
name: Shiu, Gary
name: Vafa, Cumrun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Completeness of the spectrum of charged branes in a quantum theory of gravity naturally motivates the question of whether consistency of what lives on the branes can be used to explain some of the Swampland conditions. In this paper we focus on consistency of what lives on string probes, to show some of the theories with ${\cal N}=(1,0)$ supersymmetry in 10d and 6d, which are otherwise consistent looking, belong to the Swampland. Gravitational and gauge group anomaly inflow on these probes can be used to compute the gravitational central charges $(c_L,c_R)$ as well as the level of the group's current algebra $k_L$. The fact that the left-moving central charge on the string probes should be large enough to allow {\it unitary} representations of the current algebra with a given level, can be used to rule out some theories. This in particular explains why it has not been possible to construct the corresponding theories from string theory.
description: 9 pages
The impact of relativistic corrections and component separation in the measurement of the SZ effect and on the small angular scale non-Gaussianity of the CMB
Creators: name: Diego, J. M.
name: Hansen, S. H.
name: Silk, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effect of imperfect subtraction of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (SZE) using a robust and non-parametric method to estimate the SZE residual in the Planck channels. We include relativistic corrections to the SZE, and present a simple fitting formula for the SZE temperature dependence for the Planck channels. We show how the relativistic corrections constitute a serious problem for the estimation of the kinematic SZE component from Planck data, since the key channel to estimate the kinematic component of the SZE, at 217 GHz, will be contaminated by a non-negligible thermal SZE component. The imperfect subtraction of the SZE will have an effect on both the Planck cluster catalogue and the recovered CMB map. In the cluster catalogue, the relativistic corrections are not a major worry for the estimation of the total cluster flux of the thermal SZE component, however, they must be included in the SZE simulation when calculating the selection function and completeness level. The power spectrum of the residual at 353 GHz, where the intensity of the thermal SZE is maximum, does not contribute significantly to the power spectrum of the CMB. We calculate the non-Gaussian signal due to the SZE residual in the 353 GHz CMB map using a simple Gaussianity estimator, and this estimator detects a 4.25-sigma non-Gaussian signal at small scales, which could be mistaken for a primordial non-Gaussian signature. The other channels do not show any significant departure from Gaussianity with our estimator.
description: 11 pages, 9 figures. MNRAS in press. A mistake was found in the estimation of the noise level
Additional file 1 of Validation and minimum important difference of the UCSD Shortness of Breath Questionnaire in fibrotic interstitial lung disease
Creators: name: Chen, Tao
name: Tsai, Amy Po Yu
name: Hur, Seo Am
name: Wong, Alyson W.
name: Sadatsafavi, Mohsen
name: Fisher, Jolene H.
name: Johannson, Kerri A.
name: Assayag, Deborah
name: Morisset, Julie
name: Shapera, Shane
name: Khalil, Nasreen
name: Fell, Charlene D.
name: Manganas, Helene
name: Cox, Gerard
name: To, Teresa
name: Gershon, Andrea S.
name: Hambly, Nathan
name: Halayko, Andrew J.
name: Wilcox, Pearce G.
name: Kolb, Martin
name: Ryerson, Christopher J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 1: Table E1. Baseline characteristics of patients with and without 6-month follow-up. Table E2. Baseline characteristics across ILD subtypes. Table E3. Change in anchors across tertiles of change in UCSDSOBQ over 12 months. Table E4. IPF and non-IPF subgroup analysis of anchor- and distribution-based estimates of MID for UCSDSOBQ. Table E5. CTD-ILD and non-CTD-ILD subgroup analysis of anchor- and distribution-based estimates of MID for UCSDSOBQ. Table E6. Female and male subgroup analysis of anchor- and distribution-based estimates of MID for the UCSDSOBQ. Table E7. Older and younger subgroup analysis of anchor- and distribution-based estimates of MID for the UCSDSOBQ.
Cosmological Information Contents on the Light-Cone
Creators: name: Yoo, Jaiyul
name: Mitsou, Ermis
name: Grimm, Nastassia
name: Durrer, Ruth
name: Refregier, Alexandre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a theoretical framework to describe the cosmological observables on the past light cone such as the luminosity distance, weak lensing, galaxy clustering, and the cosmic microwave background anisotropies. We consider that all the cosmological observables include not only the background quantity, but also the perturbation quantity, and they are subject to cosmic variance, which sets the fundamental limits on the cosmological information that can be derived from such observables, even in an idealized survey with an infinite number of observations. To quantify the maximum cosmological information content, we apply the Fisher information matrix formalism and spherical harmonic analysis to cosmological observations, in which the angular and the radial positions of the observables on the light cone carry different information. We discuss the maximum cosmological information that can be derived from five different observables: (1) type Ia supernovae, (2) cosmic microwave background anisotropies, (3) weak gravitational lensing, (4) local baryon density, and (5) galaxy clustering. We compare our results with the cosmic variance obtained in the standard approaches, which treat the light cone volume as a cubic box of simultaneity. We discuss implications of our formalism and ways to overcome the fundamental limit.
description: 39 pages, no figures, submitted to JCAP
Knowledge exchange in the context of harm reduction for crack cocaine smoking: Learning from cross Canadian experience
Creators: name: Buxton, Jane A.
name: Malchy, Syd
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: To address the need for sustainable safer crack cocaine use initiatives, we brought together 35 people from across Canada to collaborate, network, and share their experiences in order to identify challenges, gaps, and potential solutions. Our specific knowledge exchange goals for this workshop were: 1) to provide a knowledge exchange venue in which to share recent research evidence as well as information about program initiatives regarding safer crack use, 2) to generate discussion and begin to develop national "best practices" guidelines for safer crack use including gender-sensitive and culturally appropriate services, and 3) to promote and build national research, policy and programming networks and to move forward a policy agenda towards sustainable harm reduction measures for safer smoking of crack cocaine. Participants at the meeting were from diverse sectors including academic, policy, legal, public health, and frontline services including both service providers and users. CIHR requires synthesis, dissemination, and exchange of information to provide health services to be “ethically sound”, which in part calls for consistency with “legal and other regulatory frameworks”. Yet, the current Canadian legal and policy understandings of safer crack use (i.e., misapprehensions about the legal status of safer use items and lack of funding for programs) do not reflect research-based evidence (i.e., research confirming the possibility of disease transmission from unsafe crack use practices). This tension poses serious challenges to knowledge exchange in this area. While some safer crack initiatives have stayed “under the radar” others have been impacted by negative media and municipal and enforcement policies. It is in this conflictual context that we discuss the complexities and results of a cross Canadian endeavour to generate knowledge exchange on safer crack use.
The Predicament of Illegality: Undocumented Aliens in Contemporary American Immigration Fiction
Creators: Llobrera, Kairos
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: American literature
Emigration and immigration in literature
Emigration and immigration

description: This dissertation examines representations of undocumented aliens and explores the issue of illegality in contemporary American immigration fiction. It takes as a fundamental premise that in immigration, status matters. The importance of immigration status in the "real world" is evident not only in ongoing national debates but also in the daily experiences of immigrants, whose inclusion in or exclusion from America's social, economic and political spheres is largely dependent on their status as documented or undocumented persons. This dissertation proposes that status likewise matters in literary representations of immigration. As this project demonstrates, immigration narratives often rely on conventional structures, themes and tropes that privilege the legal immigrant subject. Indeed, the legality of protagonists is often taken for granted in many novels about immigration. Thus, by foregrounding fundamental questions concerning legal status in the study of immigration literature, this dissertation aims to show the ways in which status informs, influences and directly shapes immigration novels. While this project broadly proposes the concept of status as an analytical lens, I approach this literary inquiry primarily by critically examining the "illegal alien" as the subject of immigration novels. Focusing on three novels that feature an undocumented immigrant protagonist - Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine, Gish Jen's Typical American, and Mario Bencastro's Odyssey to the North - this dissertation argues that, like its real-world counterpart who poses social, political and legal problems for the nation state, the figure of the illegal alien poses problems for the genre of immigration fiction, challenging its narrative conventions and calling into question the ideology of American exceptionalism that underpins it. By exploring the relationship between law and literature, this dissertation seeks to bring insight into the ways in which stories about immigration participate in the broader political discourse on U.S. immigration. On the one hand, it demonstrates how conventional immigration narratives perform cultural labor for the dominant legal regime by reaffirming normative modes of inclusion into the nation. On the other, it shows how literature, by wrestling with the question of illegality, can serve as means to critique the exclusionary practices of American law and society.