cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Analogia e omologia: la questione della filogenesi delle emozioni
Creators: name: Tedesco, Salvatore
Publisher: name: Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico
Year: 2013

description: Aim of this paper is to outline a new evolutionary interpretation of aesthetic emotions, in the light of the most recent developments in Evolutionary Biology, in particular the so-called “Extended Synthesis of Evolution” (Pigliucci-Müller 2010). Focussing on the biological concept of homology, the Author argues that, in order to effectively understand role and evolutionary value of aesthetic emotions, it should be asked not “what aesthetic emotions are for?”, rather “what kind of constraints and homologies influence the specific “shape” of human aesthetic emotions?”. In a few words, we should move from a functionalist approach to human aesthetic emotions towards a morphological one.
description: Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico, Vol. 6 No. 2 (2013): Aesthetics and Evolutionism: Requirements, Perspectives, Issues
Modeling Bioterrorism in the Livestock Sectors of NAFTA Members
Creators: name: Huff, Karen
name: Meilke, Karl D.
name: Turvey, Calum G.
name: Cranfield, John A.L.
name: Huff, Karen
name: Meilke, Karl D.
name: Turvey, Calum G.
name: Cranfield, John A.L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
International Relations/Trade

description: Until two years ago, most citizens of Canada, the United States and Mexico experienced terrorism as a distant reality viewed from the safety of their living rooms. Today, North Americans encounter constant reminders of the aggravation and economic costs imposed on them by the now real threat of terrorism. The United States, the most obvious target for new terrorist activity, has responded by tightening its border security with all countries including its NAFTA partners.(2) Canada and Mexico joined the NAFTA to obtain preferred and more secure access to the United States market. The increased threat of terrorist activity in North America raises three crucial questions for NAFTA members. First, how real is a bioterrorism threat? Second, how can the United States maintain access to its market for its NAFTA partners and at the same time meet its legitimate security concerns? Third, what are the potential economic effects of a bioterrorism attack on North America? While it is generally assumed that the United States would be the primary target of a terrorist attack, Canada, Mexico or all three NAFTA countries could be targeted.
Irrigation Management Research Needs in an Era of Changing Water Use Priorities
Creators: name: Supalla, Raymond J.
name: Supalla, Raymond J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: With growing competition for water, increased environmental constraints and a weak economic picture for agriculture, there has been growing concern about the future of the irrigation industry in both the western United States and the prairie provinces of Canada. In this paper I argue that irrigation research is a major reason the industry has successfully weathered troubled times in the past and that a properly focused research program can also be very helpful in addressing future challenges. I further argue, however, that the research programs in both the United States and Canada must be refocused if we are to effectively and efficiently meet these challenges.
Multilateral Environmental Agreements and Agriculture: Commitments, Cooperation and Conflicts
Creators: name: Kerr, William A.
name: Hall, Shannon L.
name: Kerr, William A.
name: Hall, Shannon L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
International Relations/Trade

description: With regard to international organisations, agricultural economists have tended to focus their attention on the World Trade Organisation. There is a good reason for this – WTO negotiations determine, to a considerable degree, the international constraints on the imposition of barriers to market access, the subsidisation of exports and the subsidisation of domestic production. Most governments, however, have made a wide range of additional international commitments that have implications for trade and domestic policy making in agriculture through the negotiation of a large number of multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) such as the Kyoto Protocol, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Biosafety Protocol (BSP). These have received much less attention from agricultural economists, yet may considerably influence the direction of agricultural policy development and, at times, fundamentally conflict with WTO commitments. This article provides a brief examination of the current international commitments contained in MEAs, how this international cooperation will influence the development of agricultural policies and where conflicts with the WTO are likely to arise.
Comparison of measured and simulated lateral distributions for electrons and muons with KASCADE
Creators: name: KASCADE Collaboration
name: Apel, W. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Lateral distributions for electrons and muons in extensive air showers measured with the array of the KASCADE experiment are compared to results of simulations based on the high-energy hadronic interaction models QGSJet and SIBYLL. It is shown, that the muon distributions are well described by both models. Deviations are found for the electromagnetic component, where both models predict a steeper lateral shape than observed in the data. For both models the observed lateral shapes of the electron component indicate a transition from a light to a more heavy composition of the cosmic ray spectrum above the knee.
description: 27 pages, accepted for publication in Astropart. Phys
The Convention on Biological Diversity: Opportunities and Constraints for Agricultural Systems in Canada
Creators: name: Belcher, Kenneth W.
name: Belcher, Kenneth W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: Biological diversity, or biodiversity, refers to the diversity of life at all levels and the linkages between these different levels (Wilson, 1992). Biodiversity is commonly interpreted at three levels: 1) genetic diversity – the genetic variation provided by species; 2) species diversity – the variety of species within a given area; and 3) ecosystem diversity – the variety of biotic communities and habitats and the diversity within ecosystems at the landscape or regional level. An extensive body of research has shown that biodiversity has intrinsic, ecological, genetic, social, economic, scientific, educational, cultural, recreational and aesthetic value, and that it is essential for the adaptation and evolution of systems and species and for maintaining the life-sustaining systems of the biosphere (Holling et al., 1995). Concerns over biodiversity loss stimulated the initiation of a formal global response, namely the Convention on Biological Diversity(CBD), in 1992. In December of that year, Canada became the first industrialized country to ratify the CBD, which entered into force on December 29th, 1993. It should be noted that while, to date, 187 countries are parties to the CBD, the United States has not ratified and is not a party to the convention. Subsequent to ratifying the CBD, Canada has developed, and continues to develop, a policy framework to help it meet its goals within the CBD. This article evaluates the potential for opportunity and/or constraints for Canadian agricultural systems as parties to the CBD develop programs and policies to meet their biodiversity objectives. The article begins by introducing those parts of the CBD that are relevant for agricultural systems and discusses, in general terms, the Canadian response to the CBD. The article then presents the specific biodiversity initiatives that have been developed by the Canadian government and discusses the potential impact of these initiatives on Canadian agriculture.
Corrosion of Titanium and its alloys at high temperatures and pressures
Creators: name: Vaughan, James W.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Selected Ti alloys (ASTM Grades 1, 12, and 18) were tested in sulfate media, simulating typical Ni laterite leach liquor. The investigation involved a thermodynamic analysis of the Ti-FbO, T1-S-H2O, and T i - C l - H20 systems. Long-term immersion (ASTM G31), potentiodynamic polarization (ASTM G5), cyclic polarization, and potentiostatic tests were administered to investigate and quantify the corrosion. XRD, SEM, XPS, and AES were used to characterize the uncorroded and corroded surfaces and the nature of the corrosion products. Long-term immersion tests provided real time corrosion rates. Two week moderate temperature immersion tests were implemented to compliment the long-term results. Ti corrosion increased with more acid and higher temperatures. The addition of chlorides led to higher corrosion rates while the addition of Fe, Cu and the presence of Ti ions inhibited the corrosion. Polarization experiments were performed at intermediate temperatures (50-70 °C, 323-343 K) using a water bath and at elevated temperatures (150-250 °C, 423-523 K) using a 2L autoclave. Results from the polarization tests complement the immersion results. Corrosion rates calculated from the polarization tests exaggerated the rate of Ti-18 and underestimated the rate of Ti-12. The Ti-18 accelerated corrosion rates were inflated because there was insufficient time for Pd to become enriched on the surface. Characterization of the samples exposed the different corrosion behaviour of the alloys and provided chemical and depth profile information regarding the thermally induced oxides at simulated HPAL conditions.
Chiral gauge theory and gravity from unconventional supersymmetry
Creators: name: Alvarez, Pedro D.
name: Valenzuela, Mauricio
name: Zanelli, Jorge
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: From a gauge $SU(2,2|2)$ model with broken supersymmetry, we construct an action for $SU(2)\times U(1)$ Yang-Mills theory coupled to gravity and matter. The connection components for AdS boosts and special conformal translations are auxiliary fields and their fixing reduces the theory to two distintive sectors: a vector-like gauge theory with general relativity and a chiral gauge theory where gravity drops out. We discuss some of the main classical features of the model such as the predicted tree level gauge couplings, cosmological constant value, mass-like terms and the Einstein equations.
description: 31 pages
Corpo, tecnologia, ambiente. Nuove tendenze naturalistiche dell’esperienza estetica
Creators: name: Pennisi, Antonino
name: Parisi, Francesco
Publisher: name: Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico
Year: 2013

description: In this article we propose to overlap aesthetic experience with medial experience, starting from the assumption that every aesthetic experience is always a medial experience. Adopting a naturalistic approach, in which we explain what we mean with the term naturalization, we suggest a partial review of the issue. First, we state that human natural language is a kind of technology, made possible by certain physical, cognitive and social features; this sort of biological technology must be considered as an underlying condition for aesthetic experience. Secondly, we suggest the importance of social relationships among various species, demonstrating the role played by this relationships in natural selection: a new perspective will emerge. Thirdly, we explain in more detail why aesthetic experience can be likened to medial experience; in doing so, we offer an epistemological comparison between evolutionary theory and Marshall McLuhan’s approach to media studies. Resulting comparison will offer an original definition of aesthetic experience which rises through the interaction engaged by our natural technologies interacting prosthetically with environment.
description: Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico, Vol. 6 No. 2 (2013): Aesthetics and Evolutionism: Requirements, Perspectives, Issues
title: Codes amoureux et criminalité dans les Desengaños amorosos de María de Zayas
Creators: name: Dumora, Florence
Publisher: name: Savoirs en prisme
Year: 2020

description: Le second livre de nouvelles de María de Zayas (Desengaños amorosos, publié en 1647) nous intéresse pour le discours qu’il offre, au fil des traitements violents et sanglants auxquels les femmes sont soumises par leurs conjoints. Outre l’aspect spectaculaire qui relève d’une dimension de l’esthétique baroque, sont évoquées les structures sociales de repli ou de solidarité et, par ce biais, la mise en relation avec le discours juridique contemporain sur le traitement conjugal et le droit du mari nous a paru possible. Il autorise, à notre avis, une interprétation du texte de Zayas qui sort de la ligne strictement féministe que certains lui prêtent aussi bien que d’une lecture clairement religieuse menée par d’autres. María de Zayas pourrait fort bien suggérer à travers le discours sur les abus que l’état matrimonial doit être réformé de sorte à garantir protection et solidarité aux époux, et en particulier à la femme.
description: Savoirs en prisme, No. 03 (2014): La vie des normes
Photon emissivity of the electrosphere of bare strange stars
Creators: name: Harko, T.
name: Cheng, K. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the spectrum, emissivity and flux of the electromagnetic radiation emitted by the thin electron layer (the electrosphere) at the surface of a bare strange star. In particular, we carefully consider the effect of the multiple and uncorrelated scattering on the radiation spectrum (the Landau-Pomeranchuk-Migdal effect), together with the effect of the strong electric field at the surface of the star. The presence of the electric field strongly influences the radiation spectrum emitted by the electrosphere. All the radiation properties of the electrons in the electrosphere essentially depend on the value of the electric potential at the quark star surface. The effect of the multiple scattering, which strongly suppresses radiation emission, is important only for the dense layer of the electrosphere situated near the star's surface and only for high values of the surface electric potential of the star. Hence a typical bremsstrahlung radiation spectrum, which could extend to very low frequencies, could be one of the main observational signatures even for low temperature quark stars.
description: 29 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Profiling Consumer Trend-setters in the Canadian Healthy-foods Market
Creators: name: West, Gale E.
name: Larue, Bruno
name: West, Gale E.
name: Larue, Bruno
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The agri-food industry faces new challenges as consumer demand for new, healthier foods increases. Media headlines frequently mention health benefits from certain foods and food components, and consumers are more health conscious because they are aging. They realize their food choices can reduce their risk of developing chronic illnesses such as cancer and heart disease. The competitive advantages for firms who are the first to bring their food innovations to market will depend in part on the efficacy of their marketing strategies. Firms that can identify and target those consumers who are most interested in trying new foods with enhanced functional health properties will likely be the most successful. This paper identifies attitudinal and sociodemographic characteristics that influence a consumer’s desire to be among the first to try innovative functional foods.
Chern Numbers in Discretized Brillouin Zone: Efficient Method of Computing (Spin) Hall Conductances
Creators: name: Fukui, Takahiro
name: Hatsugai, Yasuhiro
name: Suzuki, Hiroshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a manifestly gauge-invariant description of Chern numbers associated with the Berry connection defined on a discretized Brillouin zone. It provides an efficient method of computing (spin) Hall conductances without specifying gauge-fixing conditions. We demonstrate that it correctly reproduces quantized Hall conductances even on a coarsely discretized Brillouin zone. A gauge-dependent integer-valued field, which plays a key role in the formulation, is evaluated in several gauges. An extension to the non-Abelian Berry connection is also given.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, to appear in JPSJ
ALMA [N ıı] 205 μm Imaging Spectroscopy of the Lensed Submillimeter galaxy ID 141 at redshift 4.24
Creators: name: Cheng, Cheng
name: Cao, Xiaoyue
name: Lu, Nanyao
name: Li, Ran
name: Yang, Chentao
name: Rigopoulou, Dimitra
name: Charmandaris, Vassilis
name: Gao, Yu
name: Xu, Cong Kevin
name: van der Werf, Paul
name: Santos, Tanio Diaz
name: Privon, George C.
name: Zhao, Yinghe
name: Cao, Tianwen
name: Dai, Y. Sophia
name: Huang, Jia-Sheng
name: Sanders, David
name: Wang, Chunxiang
name: Wang, Zhong
name: Zhu, Lei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observation of the Sub-millimeter galaxy (SMG) ID 141 at z=4.24 in the [N II] 205 $μ$m line (hereafter [N II]) and the underlying continuum at (rest-frame) 197.6 $μ$m. Benefiting from lensing magnification by a galaxy pair at z=0.595, ID 141 is one of the brightest z$>4$ SMGs. At the angular resolutions of $\sim1.2"$ to $1.5"$ ($1" \sim6.9$ kpc), our observation clearly separates, and moderately resolves the two lensed images in both continuum and line emission at $\rm S/N>5$ . Our continuum-based lensing model implies an averaged amplification factor of $\sim5.8$ and reveals that the de-lensed continuum image has the Sérsic index $\simeq 0.95$ and the Sérsic radius of $\sim0.18" (\sim 1.24$ kpc). Furthermore, the reconstructed [N II] velocity field in the source plane is dominated by a rotation component with a maximum velocity of $\sim 300$ km/s at large radii, indicating a dark matter halo mass of $\sim 10^{12}M_{\odot}$. This, together with the reconstructed velocity dispersion field being smooth and modest in value ($<100$ km/s) over much of the outer parts of the galaxy, favours the interpretation of ID 141 being a disk galaxy dynamically supported by rotation. The observed [N II]/CO (7-6) and [N II]/[C II] 158 $μ$m line luminosity ratios, which are consistent with the corresponding line ratio vs. far-infrared color correlation from local luminous infrared galaxies, imply a de-lensed star formation rate of ($1.8\pm 0.6)\times10^3M_\odot$/yr and provide an independent estimate on the size of the star-forming region $0.7^{+0.3}_{-0.3}$ kpc in radius.
description: 13 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables. Lensing model code can be found here https://gitlab.com/cxylzlx/tiny_lens
Additional file 5 of Simulating ComBat: how batch correction can lead to the systematic introduction of false positive results in DNA methylation microarray studies
Creators: name: Zindler, Tristan
name: Frieling, Helge
name: Neyazi, Alexandra
name: Bleich, Stefan
name: Friedel, Eva
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 5: Supplementary Table 2. Full report of the simulation results with n = 48 with simulated batch effects.
Observation by an Air-Shower Array in Tibet of the Multi-TeV Cosmic-Ray Anisotropy due to Terrestrial Orbital Motion Around the Sun
Creators: name: Amenomori, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the solar diurnal variation of the galactic cosmic-ray intensity observed by the Tibet III air shower array during the period from 1999 to 2003. In the higher-energy event samples (12 TeV and 6.2 TeV), the variations are fairly consistent with the Compton-Getting anisotropy due to the terrestrial orbital motion around the sun, while the variation in the lower-energy event sample (4.0 TeV) is inconsistent with this anisotropy. This suggests an additional anisotropy superposed at the multi-TeV energies, e.g. the solar modulation effect. This is the highest-precision measurement of the Compton-Getting anisotropy ever made.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, includes .bbl file
Evoluzionismo e gestaltismo. La psicologia della forma e il problema della genesi
Creators: name: Gardini, Michele
Publisher: name: Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico
Year: 2013

description: This article carries out a critique of the abstract and disembodied character owned by the structures of the Psychology of Form. The Psychology of Form ignores and removes the genesis of forms, thus remaining trapped in the "dialectic of enlightenment" as described by Adorno and Horkheimer. Through the critical contribution of the works of Piaget and Eibl-Eibesfeldt, is brought to light that history of the relations between the individual and the environment which the Gestaltpsychologie finds only in his final static result.
description: Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico, Vol. 6 No. 2 (2013): Aesthetics and Evolutionism: Requirements, Perspectives, Issues
Additional file 4 of Identification and characterisation of endogenous Avian Leukosis Virus subgroup E (ALVE) insertions in chicken whole genome sequencing data
Creators: name: Mason, Andrew S.
name: Lund, Ashlee R.
name: Hocking, Paul M.
name: Fulton, Janet E.
name: Burt, David W.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 4: AF4. Supplementary tables. This file includes seven additional tables which support the manuscript, including lists of primers. These are referred to in the text as Table S1 etc. Full titles and legends are given for each table.
Differences in Canadian and U.S. Farm Structure: What the Canadian Farm Typology Shows
Creators: name: Hoppe, Robert A.
name: Niekamp, Deborah
name: Banker, David E.
name: Nakagawa, Ken
name: Hoppe, Robert A.
name: Niekamp, Deborah
name: Banker, David E.
name: Nakagawa, Ken
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Farm Management

description: Canadian and U.S. farms vary widely in size and other characteristics, ranging from very small retirement and residential farms to firms with sales in the millions. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) and the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Economic Research Service (ERS) have each developed a farm typology to classify farms into more homogeneous groups. These typologies provide useful insights into farm structure in each country. It is difficult, however, to use the typologies to compare farm structure in Canada and the United States, because the definitions within the two typologies differ. To make direct comparisons of farm structure in the two countries the Canadian typology was applied to the farms in both nations.
Additional file 1 of Neutralization-based seroprevalence of Toscana virus and sandfly fever Sicilian virus in dogs in the Republic of Kosovo
Creators: name: Xhekaj, Betim
name: Kurum, Elif
name: Stefanovska, Jovana
name: Cvetkovikj, Aleksandar
name: Sherifi, Kurtesh
name: Rexhepi, Agim
name: Charrel, Remi
name: Kniha, Edwin
name: Ayhan, Nazli
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Phlebovirus seroprevalence by municipality in the Republic of Kosovo.
Towards Understanding Barriers and Mitigation Strategies of Software Engineers with Non-traditional Educational and Occupational Backgrounds
Creators: name: Barnes, Tavian
name: Lee, Ken Jen
name: Tavares, Cristina
name: Rodríguez-Pérez, Gema
name: Nagappan, Meiyappan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The uploaded documents include i) a copy of the Qualtrics survey used for the follow-up survey, andii) a supplementary material regarding the educational backgrounds of survey participants

The first three authors contributed equally and were listed by alphabetical order according to their last name.
A Unified Deep Transfer Learning Model for Accurate IoT Localization in Diverse Environments
Creators: name: Ahmed, Abdullahi Isa
name: Etiabi, Yaya
name: Azim, Ali Waqar
name: Amhoud, El Mehdi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Internet of Things (IoT) is an ever-evolving technological paradigm that is reshaping industries and societies globally. Real-time data collection, analysis, and decision-making facilitated by localization solutions form the foundation for location-based services, enabling them to support critical functions within diverse IoT ecosystems. However, most existing works on localization focus on single environment, resulting in the development of multiple models to support multiple environments. In the context of smart cities, these raise costs and complexity due to the dynamicity of such environments. To address these challenges, this paper presents a unified indoor-outdoor localization solution that leverages transfer learning (TL) schemes to build a single deep learning model. The model accurately predicts the localization of IoT devices in diverse environments. The performance evaluation shows that by adopting an encoder-based TL scheme, we can improve the baseline model by about 17.18% in indoor environments and 9.79% in outdoor environments.
description: 6 pages, 8 figures, IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2024)
On the logical structure of Bell theorems without inequalities
Creators: name: Broadbent, Anne
name: Carteret, Hilary A.
name: Methot, Andre Allan
name: Walgate, Jonathan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Bell theorems show how to experimentally falsify local realism. Conclusive falsification is highly desirable as it would provide support for the most profoundly counterintuitive feature of quantum theory - nonlocality. Despite the preponderance of evidence for quantum mechanics, practical limits on detector efficiency and the difficulty of coordinating space-like separated measurements have provided loopholes for a classical worldview; these loopholes have never been simultaneously closed. A number of new experiments have recently been proposed to close both loopholes at once. We show some of these novel designs fail in the most basic way, by not ruling out local hidden variable models, and we provide an explicit classical model to demonstrate this. They share a common flaw, which reveals a basic misunderstanding of how nonlocality proofs work. Given the time and resources now being devoted to such experiments, theoretical clarity is essential. Our explanation is presented in terms of simple logic and should serve to correct misconceptions and avoid future mistakes. We also show a nonlocality proof involving four participants which has interesting theoretical properties.
description: 8 pages, text clarified, explicit LHV model provided for flawed nonlocality test
Data Minimization for GDPR Compliance in Machine Learning Models
Creators: name: Goldsteen, Abigail
name: Ezov, Gilad
name: Shmelkin, Ron
name: Moffie, Micha
name: Farkash, Ariel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.6; K.6.5

description: The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) mandates the principle of data minimization, which requires that only data necessary to fulfill a certain purpose be collected. However, it can often be difficult to determine the minimal amount of data required, especially in complex machine learning models such as neural networks. We present a first-of-a-kind method to reduce the amount of personal data needed to perform predictions with a machine learning model, by removing or generalizing some of the input features. Our method makes use of the knowledge encoded within the model to produce a generalization that has little to no impact on its accuracy. This enables the creators and users of machine learning models to acheive data minimization, in a provable manner.
Additional file 4 of Simulating ComBat: how batch correction can lead to the systematic introduction of false positive results in DNA methylation microarray studies
Creators: name: Zindler, Tristan
name: Frieling, Helge
name: Neyazi, Alexandra
name: Bleich, Stefan
name: Friedel, Eva
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 4: Supplementary Table S1. Full report of the simulation results with n = 48 without simulated batch effects
On the behavior of micro-spheres in a hydrogen pellet target
Creators: name: Nordhage, O.
name: Li, Z. -K.
name: Friden, C. -J.
name: Norman, G.
name: Wiedner, U.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A pellet target produces micro-spheres of different materials, which are used as an internal target for nuclear and particle physics studies. We will describe the pellet hydrogen behavior by means of fluid dynamics and thermodynamics. In particular one aim is to theoretically understand the cooling effect in order to find an effective method to optimize the working conditions of a pellet target. During the droplet formation the evaporative cooling is best described by a multi-droplet diffusion-controlled model, while in vacuum, the evaporation follows the (revised) Hertz-Knudsen formula. Experimental observations compared with calculations clearly indicated the presence of supercooling, the effect of which is discussed as well.
description: 22 pages, 8 figures (of which two are significantly compressed for easier download)
Man and Animal. The Evolutionary Aesthetics of Tito Vignoli (1824-1914)
Creators: name: Canadelli, Elena
Publisher: name: Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico
Year: 2013

description: The essay focuses on the Italian evolutionist Tito Vignoli, whose work is the result of a fruitful contamination between philosophy, history of religion, linguistics, ethnography, anthropology, psychology, zoology and physiology. His most regarded book, Mito e scienza (1879), and some of his minor writings deal with the theory of myth, art and aesthetics in the new framework of Darwin's ideas.
description: Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico, Vol. 6 No. 2 (2013): Aesthetics and Evolutionism: Requirements, Perspectives, Issues
Deformation behaviour of a model aluminum-brass two phase material
Creators: name: Bathla, Rajat
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The present work is primarily concerned with investigating the relationship between the mechanical properties and the volume fraction and the geometrical distribution of a second phase a two-phase model material where plasticity occurs in both phases. The deformation behaviour of two-phase materials with elastic reinforcements has been widely studied in the literature. However, relatively few studies have examined two-phase materials where both phases have elastic-plastic properties and deform plastically under an applied far field strain. The mechanical response for such a two-phase material has been studied experimentally and with a finite element model for an aluminum/brass model composite. In this model composite, AA6061 age hardening alloy is used as a matrix phase and C3600- brass fibres are used as reinforcement phase. Samples were made by extrusion at room temperature followed by a variety of heat treatments. The heat treatments were carefully controlled to vary the relative properties of the fibres and matrix. Fibre volume fractions of 20 % with square or triangular arrangements and 35 % with a square arrangement were tested using plane strain deformation experiments where the fibre axis was transverse to the loading axis. The results indicate that strain partitioning between the two phases is very sensitive to the yield stress and work hardening characteristics of the different phases. The geometric arrangement of the second phase had little influence on the macroscopic stress-strain response but significantly affected the pattern of local deformation in the matrix.
Inference of the chromospheric magnetic field configuration of solar plage using the Ca II 8542 Å line
Creators: name: Pietrow, A. G. M.
name: Kiselman, D.
name: Rodríguez, J. de la Cruz
name: Baso, C. J. Díaz
name: Yabar, A. Pastor
name: Yadav, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has so far proven impossible to reproduce all aspects of the solar plage chromosphere in quasi-realistic numerical models. The magnetic field configuration in the lower atmosphere is one of the few free parameters in such simulations. The literature only offers proxy-based estimates of the field strength, as it is difficult to obtain observational constraints in this region. Sufficiently sensitive spectro-polarimetric measurements require a high signal-to-noise ratio, spectral resolution, and cadence, which are at the limit of current capabilities. We use critically sampled spectro-polarimetric observations of the \cair line obtained with the CRISP instrument of the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope to study the strength and inclination of the chromospheric magnetic field of a plage region. This will provide direct physics-based estimates of these values, which could aid modelers to put constraints on plage models. We increased the signal-to-noise ratio of the data by applying several methods including deep learning and PCA. We estimated the noise level to be $1\cdot10^{-3} I_c$. We then used STiC, a non-local thermodynamic equilibrium (NLTE) inversion code to infer the atmospheric structure and magnetic field pixel by pixel. We are able to infer the magnetic field strength and inclination for a plage region and for fibrils in the surrounding canopy. In the plage we report an absolute field strength of $|B| =440 \pm 90$ G, with an inclination of $10^\circ \pm 16^\circ$ with respect to the local vertical. This value for $|B|$ is roughly double of what was reported previously, while the inclination matches previous studies done in the photosphere. In the fibrillar region we found $|B| = 300 \pm 50$ G, with an inclination of $50^\circ \pm 13^\circ$.
description: Accepted September 22th
Arte e percezione. Alla ricerca della zona di evoluzione prossimale
Creators: name: Consoli, Gianluca
Publisher: name: Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico
Year: 2013

description: The evolutionary and comparative perspective represents a persuasive view to naturalize aesthetics - however, only if we avoid one of the most common prejudice. Precisely, the preliminary reduction of the aesthetic experience to the mere sensory perception. The paper falsifies this reductive framework reconstructing the zone of proximal evolution concerning the aesthetic and artistic dimension. In particular, we take as reference point the mind of the chimpanzee, at the same time unable to make art and limited to inescapable sensory and perceptual constrains.
description: Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico, Vol. 6 No. 2 (2013): Aesthetics and Evolutionism: Requirements, Perspectives, Issues
Temperature dependence of the superconducting gap in high-Tc cuprates
Creators: name: Fine, Boris V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is proposed that (i) the temperature dependence of the superconducting gap Delta(T) in high-Tc cuprates can be predicted just from the knowledge of Delta(0) and the critical temperature Tc; and, in particular, (ii) Delta(0)/Tc > 4 implies that Delta(Tc) is not equal to zero, while Delta(0)/Tc < 4 corresponds to Delta(Tc) = 0. A number of tunneling experiments appear to support the above proposition, and, furthermore, show reasonable quantitative agreement with a model (cond-mat/0308428), which is based on the two-dimensional stripe hypothesis.
description: Text close to the published version. Minor textual corrections in comparison to the previous version
Crossmodal Language Grounding in an Embodied Neurocognitive Model
Creators: name: Heinrich, Stefan
name: Yao, Yuan
name: Hinz, Tobias
name: Liu, Zhiyuan
name: Hummel, Thomas
name: Kerzel, Matthias
name: Weber, Cornelius
name: Wermter, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Human infants are able to acquire natural language seemingly easily at an early age. Their language learning seems to occur simultaneously with learning other cognitive functions as well as with playful interactions with the environment and caregivers. From a neuroscientific perspective, natural language is embodied, grounded in most, if not all, sensory and sensorimotor modalities, and acquired by means of crossmodal integration. However, characterising the underlying mechanisms in the brain is difficult and explaining the grounding of language in crossmodal perception and action remains challenging. In this paper, we present a neurocognitive model for language grounding which reflects bio-inspired mechanisms such as an implicit adaptation of timescales as well as end-to-end multimodal abstraction. It addresses developmental robotic interaction and extends its learning capabilities using larger-scale knowledge-based data. In our scenario, we utilise the humanoid robot NICO in obtaining the EMIL data collection, in which the cognitive robot interacts with objects in a children's playground environment while receiving linguistic labels from a caregiver. The model analysis shows that crossmodally integrated representations are sufficient for acquiring language merely from sensory input through interaction with objects in an environment. The representations self-organise hierarchically and embed temporal and spatial information through composition and decomposition. This model can also provide the basis for further crossmodal integration of perceptually grounded cognitive representations.
Towards Understanding Barriers and Mitigation Strategies of Software Engineers with Non-traditional Educational and Occupational Backgrounds
Creators: name: Barnes, Tavian
name: Lee, Ken Jen
name: Tavares, Cristina
name: Rodríguez-Pérez, Gema
name: Nagappan, Meiyappan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Uploaded is a copy of the Qualtrics survey used for the research titled "Towards Understanding Barriers and Mitigation Strategies of Software Engineers with Non-traditional Educational and Occupational Backgrounds" The first three authors contributed equally and were listed by alphabetical order according to their last name.
Can Science Lead Us to a Definition of Art?
Creators: name: Coe, Kathryn
Publisher: name: Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico
Year: 2013

description: For approximately two thousand years, human thinkers have been attempting to define a behaviour, referred to as art, that humans have been practicing for tens of thousands of years. Defining this term has proved to be so difficult that Munro (1949: 5) to claim that the arts “are too intangible and changing to be defined or classified.” In this paper a 12-property cluster theory proposed by Denis Dutton is critically evaluated not in light of how well it fits with current thinking in aesthetics, but in light of its scientific strength and its usefulness for examining art across cultures.
description: Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico, Vol. 6 No. 2 (2013): Aesthetics and Evolutionism: Requirements, Perspectives, Issues
Dispersion relations applied to double-folding potentials from chiral EFT
Creators: name: Durant, Victoria
name: Capel, Pierre
name: Schwenk, Achim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a determination of optical potentials using the double-folding method based on chiral effective field theory nucleon-nucleon interactions at next-to-next-to-leading order combined with dispersion relations to constrain the imaginary part. This approach is benchmarked on $^{16}$O--$^{16}$O collisions, and extended to the $^{12}$C--$^{12}$C and $^{12}$C--$^{16}$O cases. Predictions derived from these potentials are compared to data for elastic scattering at energies up to 1000 MeV, as well as for fusion at low energy. Without adjusting parameters, excellent agreement with experiment is found. In addition, we study the sensitivity of the corresponding cross sections to the nucleon-nucleon interactions and nuclear densities used.
Additional file 3 of Identification and characterisation of endogenous Avian Leukosis Virus subgroup E (ALVE) insertions in chicken whole genome sequencing data
Creators: name: Mason, Andrew S.
name: Lund, Ashlee R.
name: Hocking, Paul M.
name: Fulton, Janet E.
name: Burt, David W.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3: AF3. Supplementary figures. This file includes seven additional figures which support the manuscript. These are referred to in the text as Fig. S1 etc. Full titles and legends are given for each figure.
Detecting Parkinsonian Tremor from IMU Data Collected In-The-Wild using Deep Multiple-Instance Learning
Creators: name: Papadopoulos, Alexandros
name: Kyritsis, Konstantinos
name: Klingelhoefer, Lisa
name: Bostanjopoulou, Sevasti
name: Chaudhuri, K. Ray
name: Delopoulos, Anastasios
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Parkinson's Disease (PD) is a slowly evolving neuro-logical disease that affects about 1% of the population above 60 years old, causing symptoms that are subtle at first, but whose intensity increases as the disease progresses. Automated detection of these symptoms could offer clues as to the early onset of the disease, thus improving the expected clinical outcomes of the patients via appropriately targeted interventions. This potential has led many researchers to develop methods that use widely available sensors to measure and quantify the presence of PD symptoms such as tremor, rigidity and braykinesia. However, most of these approaches operate under controlled settings, such as in lab or at home, thus limiting their applicability under free-living conditions. In this work, we present a method for automatically identifying tremorous episodes related to PD, based on IMU signals captured via a smartphone device. We propose a Multiple-Instance Learning approach, wherein a subject is represented as an unordered bag of accelerometer signal segments and a single, expert-provided, tremor annotation. Our method combines deep feature learning with a learnable pooling stage that is able to identify key instances within the subject bag, while still being trainable end-to-end. We validate our algorithm on a newly introduced dataset of 45 subjects, containing accelerometer signals collected entirely in-the-wild. The good classification performance obtained in the conducted experiments suggests that the proposed method can efficiently navigate the noisy environment of in-the-wild recordings.
Single Electron Elliptic Flow Measurements in Au+Au Collisions from STAR
Creators: name: Laue, Frank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent measurements of elliptic flow (v_2) and the nuclear modification factor (R_{CP}) of strange mesons and baryons in the intermediate p_T domain in Au+Au collisions demonstrate a scaling with the number of constituent-quarks. This suggests hadron production via quark coalescence from a thermalized parton system. Measuring the elliptic flow of charmed hadrons, which are believed to originate rather from fragmentation than from coalescence processes, might therefore change our view of hadron production in heavy ion collisions. While direct v_2 measurements of charmed hadrons are currently not available, single electron v_2 at sufficiently high transverse momenta can serve as a substitute. At transverse momenta above 2 GeV/c, the production of single electrons from non-photonic sources is expected to be dominated by the decay of charmed hadrons. Simulations show a strong correlation between the flow of the charmed hadrons and the flow of their decay electrons for p_T > 2 GeV/c. We will present preliminary STAR results from our single electron v_2 measurements from Au+Au collisions at RHIC energies.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures Proceedings of the Hot Quarks 2004 Conference, July 18-24 2004, Taos Valley, New Mexico, USA to be published in Journal of Physics G
A Survey of Artistic Value: From Analytic Philosophy to Neurobiology
Creators: name: Norwood, Zachary P.
Publisher: name: Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico
Year: 2013

description: Analytic philosophers have disputed the nature of “artistic value” for over six decades, bringing much needed clarity and rigor to a subject discussed with fashionable obscurity in other disciplines. This essay frames debates between analytic philosophers on artistic value and suggests new directions for future research. In particular, the problem of “intrinsic value” is considered, that is, whether a work’s value derives from its experienced properties, as a work of art, or from cultural trends outside the work’s properties. It is argued that neurobiological research helps resolve perceived differences between a work’s intrinsic and extrinsic values. A work can be both rewarding and punishing on its own, “intrinsic” merit—as a percipient, real thing in the world evoking predictable kinds of emotion—and with respect to ever shifting, “extrinsic” cultural norms.
description: Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico, Vol. 6 No. 2 (2013): Aesthetics and Evolutionism: Requirements, Perspectives, Issues