cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Emergence of non-twisted magnetic fields in the Sun: Jets and atmospheric response
Creators: name: Syntelis, Petros
name: Archontis, Vasilis
name: Gontikakis, Costis
name: Tsinganos, Kanaris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Aims. We study the emergence of a non-twisted flux tube from the solar interior into the solar atmosphere. We investigate whether the length of the buoyant part of the flux tube (i.e. λ) affects the emergence of the field and the dynamics of the evolving magnetic flux system. Methods. We perform three-dimensional (3D), time-dependent, resistive, compressible MHD simulations using the Lare3D code. Results. We find that there are considerable differences in the dynamics of the emergence of a magnetic flux tube when λ is varied. In the solar interior, for larger values of λ, the rising magnetic field emerges faster and expands more due to its lower magnetic tension. As a result, its field strength decreases and its emergence above the photosphere occurs later than in the smaller λ case. However, in both cases, the emerging field at the photosphere becomes unstable in two places, forming two magnetic bipoles that interact dynamically during the evolution of the system. Most of the dynamic phenomena occur at the current layer, which is formed at the interface between the interacting bipoles. We find the formation and ejection of plasmoids, the onset of successive jets from the interface, and the impulsive heating of the plasma in the solar atmosphere. We discuss the triggering mechanism of the jets and the atmospheric response to the emergence of magnetic flux in the two cases.
description: 16 pages, 15 figures
Machine Learning Framework for High-Resolution Air Temperature Downscaling Using LiDAR-Derived Urban Morphological Features
Creators: name: Chajaei, Fatemeh
name: Bagheri, Hossein
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Climate models lack the necessary resolution for urban climate studies, requiring computationally intensive processes to estimate high resolution air temperatures. In contrast, Data-driven approaches offer faster and more accurate air temperature downscaling. This study presents a data-driven framework for downscaling air temperature using publicly available outputs from urban climate models, specifically datasets generated by UrbClim. The proposed framework utilized morphological features extracted from LiDAR data. To extract urban morphological features, first a three-dimensional building model was created using LiDAR data and deep learning models. Then, these features were integrated with meteorological parameters such as wind, humidity, etc., to downscale air temperature using machine learning algorithms. The results demonstrated that the developed framework effectively extracted urban morphological features from LiDAR data. Deep learning algorithms played a crucial role in generating three-dimensional models for extracting the aforementioned features. Also, the evaluation of air temperature downscaling results using various machine learning models indicated that the LightGBM model had the best performance with an RMSE of 0.352°K and MAE of 0.215°K. Furthermore, the examination of final air temperature maps derived from downscaling showed that the developed framework successfully estimated air temperatures at higher resolutions, enabling the identification of local air temperature patterns at street level. The corresponding source codes are available on GitHub: https://github.com/FatemehCh97/Air-Temperature-Downscaling.
Radical innovation in the transatlantic economy: is a Silicon Valley possible in Europe?
Creators: name: Vela, Jorge L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: In this paper I will discuss the role of institutional frameworks and public policy in spurring technological, radical innovation in Coordinated Market Economies (CMEs) such as France. The main question asked is whether high-technology start-ups can be successful in Europe. This study will start by first explaining in detail the elements of the successful Silicon Valley model of technological innovation. I will then examine institutional frameworks in both CMEs and in Liberal Market Economies (LMEs) such as the U.S. and analyze the factors that are relevant to technological innovation. Building on this information, the third section will provide an analysis of the possibilities for radical innovation in Europe. Finally, this study will examine these possibilities through a case study of France. Public policy starting in the 1990s to the present will be given special attention, and examples will be drawn to prove that radical innovation is possible in Europe.
Superconducting Bi2Te: pressure-induced universality in the (Bi2)m(Bi2Te3)n series
Creators: name: Stillwell, Ryan L.
name: Jenei, Zsolt
name: Weir, Samuel T.
name: Vohra, Yogesh K.
name: Jeffries, Jason R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using high-pressure magnetotransport techniques we have discovered superconductivity in Bi2Te, a member of the infinitely adaptive (Bi2)m(Bi2Te3)n series, whose end members, Bi and Bi2Te3, can be tuned to display topological surface states or superconductivity. Bi2Te has a maximum Tc= 8.6 K at P= 14.5 GPa and goes through multiple high pressure phase transitions, ultimately collapsing into a bcc structure that suggests a universal behavior across the series. High-pressure magnetoresistance and Hall measurements suggest a semi-metal to metal transition near 5.4 GPa, which accompanies the hexagonal to intermediate phase transition seen via x-ray diffraction measurements. In addition, the linearity of Hc2(T) exceeds the Werthamer-Helfand-Hohenberg limit, even in the extreme spin-orbit scattering limit, yet is consistent with other strong spin-orbit materials. Considering these results in combination with similar reports on strong spin-orbit scattering materials seen in the literature, we suggest the need for a new theory that can address the unconventional nature of their superconducting states.
description: 23 pages, 8 figures
Purchasing preferences and attitudes towards local food and farmers' markets: a case study of the Carrboro Farmers' Market credit, debit and EBT Truck Bucks marketing campaign
Creators: name: López, Sabrina Dora
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 2010

description: Markets have historically been places for the intersection of goods, agriculture, immigration patterns, and urban growth. Today, farmers' markets embody many different interests: curiosity about different kinds of foods, small-scale farming, sustainable agriculture, affordable and accessible food, and meeting places where communities build interpersonal relationships. The purpose of this master's thesis is three-fold: (1) to review literature on perceptions and purchasing behavior as they relate to local food and farmers' markets, (2) to provide an overview of the 2010 communications campaign marketing for the Credit, Debit and EBT program for the Carrboro Farmers' Market and (3) to provide a set of communications-based marketing recommendations and lessons-learned from the campaign. This Case Study of the 2010 Carrboro Farmers' Market Credit, Debit and Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT)/SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) Program examines literature on consumer motivations and interests of customers who purchase local or regional food, and will identify potential drivers behind purchasing behaviors of present and potential new customers for the Carrboro Farmers' Market. Communications and public relations recommendations are provided for future iterations of marketing efforts for the Credit, Debit and EBT program at the Carrboro Farmers' Market.
PERSISTENCE OF NODULE BACTERIA IN SOIL UNDER LONG-TERM CEREAL CULTIVATION, Rothamsted Experimental Station Report for 1979 Part 2
Creators: name: P. S. NUTMAN And ROSEMARY HEARNE
Publisher: name: Lawes Agricultural Trust
Year: 1980
Subjects: subject: rothamsted research
subject: soil cultivation

description: Scanned PDF of PERSISTENCE OF NODULE BACTERIA IN SOIL UNDER LONG-TERM CEREAL CULTIVATION, part of Rothamsted Experimental Station Report for 1979 Part 2
The Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous. Ed. by Asa Simon Mittman / Peter J. Dendle 2012. Farnham, Ashgate. (598 pages)
Creators: name: Mikosch, Gunnar
Publisher: name: FKW // Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur
Year: 2013

description: -
description: FKW // Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur, No. 54 (2013): VISUAL OTHERING. 1100-1200
Enabling Trustworthy Federated Learning in Industrial IoT: Bridging the Gap Between Interpretability and Robustness
Creators: name: Jagatheesaperumal, Senthil Kumar
name: Rahouti, Mohamed
name: Alfatemi, Ali
name: Ghani, Nasir
name: Quy, Vu Khanh
name: Chehri, Abdellah
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.6
subject: 68Txx

description: Federated Learning (FL) represents a paradigm shift in machine learning, allowing collaborative model training while keeping data localized. This approach is particularly pertinent in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) context, where data privacy, security, and efficient utilization of distributed resources are paramount. The essence of FL in IIoT lies in its ability to learn from diverse, distributed data sources without requiring central data storage, thus enhancing privacy and reducing communication overheads. However, despite its potential, several challenges impede the widespread adoption of FL in IIoT, notably in ensuring interpretability and robustness. This article focuses on enabling trustworthy FL in IIoT by bridging the gap between interpretability and robustness, which is crucial for enhancing trust, improving decision-making, and ensuring compliance with regulations. Moreover, the design strategies summarized in this article ensure that FL systems in IIoT are transparent and reliable, vital in industrial settings where decisions have significant safety and economic impacts. The case studies in the IIoT environment driven by trustworthy FL models are provided, wherein the practical insights of trustworthy communications between IIoT systems and their end users are highlighted.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures
Inhibitory mechanisms for visual learning in the human brain
Creators: name: Frangou, Polytimi
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2018
Subjects: brain imaging
brain plasticity
GABA
inhibition
MRI
Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
MRS
fMRI
transcranial direct current stimulation
tDCs
visual perceptual learning

description: Identifying targets in cluttered scenes is critical for our interactions in complex environments. Our visual system is challenged to both detect elusive targets that we may want to avoid or chase and discriminate between targets that are highly similar. These tasks require our visual system to become an expert at detecting distinctive features that help us differentiate between indistinguishable targets. As the human brain is trained on this type of visual tasks, we observe changes in its function that correspond to improved performance. We use functional brain imaging, to measure learning-dependent modulations of brain activation and investigate the processes that mediate functional brain plasticity. I propose that dissociable brain mechanisms are engaged when detecting targets in clutter vs. discriminating between highly similar targets: for the former, background clutter needs to be suppressed for the target to be recognised, whereas for the latter, neurons are tuned to respond to fine differences. Although GABAergic inhibition is known to suppress redundant neuronal populations and tune neuronal representations, its role in visual learning remains largely unexplored. Here, I propose that GABAergic inhibition plays an important role in visual plasticity through training on these tasks. The purpose of my PhD is to investigate the inhibitory mechanisms that mediate visual perceptual learning; in particular, learning to detect patterns in visual clutter and discriminate between highly similar patterns. I show that BOLD signals as measured by functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) do not differentiate between the two proposed mechanisms. In contrast, Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS) provides strong evidence for the distinct involvement of GABAergic inhibition in visual plasticity. Further, my findings show GABA changes during the time-course of learning providing evidence for a distinct role of GABA in learning-dependent plasticity across different brain regions involved in visual learning. Finally, I test the causal link between inhibitory contributions and visual plasticity using a brain stimulation intervention that perturbs the excitation-inhibition balance in the visual cortex and facilitates learning.
The Application of Artificial Neural Network Model to Predicting the Acid Mine Drainage from Long-Term Lab Scale Kinetic Test
Creators: name: Abfertiawan, Muhammad Sonny
name: Kautsar, Muchammad Daniyal
name: Hasan, Faiz
name: Palinggi, Yoseph
name: Pranoto, Kris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Acid mine drainage (AMD) is one of the common environmental problems in the coal mining industry that was formed by the oxidation of sulfide minerals in the overburden or waste rock. The prediction of acid generation through AMD is important to do in overburden management and planning the post-mining land use. One of the methods used to predict AMD is a lab-scale kinetic test to determine the rate of acid formation over time using representative samples in the field. However, this test requires a long-time procedure and large amount of chemical reagents lead to inefficient cost. On the other hand, there is potential for machine learning to learn the pattern behind the lab-scale kinetic test data. This study describes an approach to use artificial neural network (ANN) modeling to predict the result from lab-scale kinetic tests. Various ANN model is used based on 83 weeks experiments of lab-scale kinetic tests with 100\% potential acid-forming rock. The model approaches the monitoring of pH, ORP, conductivity, TDS, sulfate, and heavy metals (Fe and Mn). The overall Nash-Sutcliffe Efficiency (NSE) obtained in this study was 0.99 on training and validation data, indicating a strong correlation and accurate prediction compared to the actual lab-scale kinetic tests data. This show the ANN ability to learn patterns, trends, and seasonality from past data for accurate forecasting, thereby highlighting its significant contribution to solving AMD problems. This research is also expected to establish the foundation for a new approach to predict AMD, with time efficient, accurate, and cost-effectiveness in future applications.
description: The 7th Environmental Technology and Management Conference (ETMC 2023)
Hexagonal-boron nitride substrates for electroburnt graphene nanojunctions
Creators: name: Sadeghi, Hatef
name: Sangtarash, Sara
name: Lambert, Colin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the effect of a hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) substrate on electron transport through graphene nanojunctions just before gap formation. Junctions in vacuum and on hBN are formed using classical molecular dynamics to create initial structures, followed by relaxation using density functional theory. We find that the hBN only slightly reduces the current through the junctions at low biases. Furthermore due to quantum interference at the last moments of breaking, the current though a single carbon filament spanning the gap is found to be higher than the current through two filaments spanning the gap in parallel. This feature is present both in the presence of absence of hBN.
desire
Creators: name: Sandmann, Sigrid
Publisher: name: FKW // Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur
Year: 2013

description: Künstlerische Edition
description: FKW // Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur, No. 54 (2013): VISUAL OTHERING. 1100-1200
Slugs in Agriculture, Rothamsted Experimental Station Report for 1976, Part 2
Creators: name: J. W. Stephenson And R. Bardner
Publisher: name: Lawes Agricultural Trust
Year: 1977
Subjects: subject: rothamsted research
subject: slugs

description: Scanned PDF of Slugs in Agriculture, part of Rothamsted Experimental Station Report for 1976, Part 2
Efficient particle continuation model predictive control
Creators: name: Knyazev, Andrew
name: Malyshev, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: 93B40, 93C30

description: Continuation model predictive control (MPC), introduced by T. Ohtsuka in 2004, uses Krylov-Newton approaches to solve MPC optimization and is suitable for nonlinear and minimum time problems. We suggest particle continuation MPC in the case, where the system dynamics or constraints can discretely change on-line. We propose an algorithm for on-line controller implementation of continuation MPC for ensembles of predictions corresponding to various anticipated changes and demonstrate its numerical effectiveness for a test minimum time problem arriving to a destination. Simultaneous on-line particle computation of ensembles of controls, for several dynamically changing system dynamics, allows choosing the optimal destination on-line and adapt it as needed.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures. Accepted to the 16th IFAC Workshop on Control Applications of Optimization (CAO'2015), Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, October 6--9, 2015
THE BEHAVIOUR OF K REMAINING IN SOILS FROM THE AGDELL EXPERIMENT AT ROTHAMSTED, THE RESULTS OF INTENSIVE CROPPING IN POT EXPERIMENTS AND THEIR RELATION TO SOIL ANALYSIS AND THE RESULTS OF FIELD EXPERIMENTS, Rothamsted Experimental Station Report for 1973 Part 2
Creators: name: A. E. JOHNSTON And J. D. D. MITCHELL
Publisher: name: Lawes Agricultural Trust
Year: 1974
Subjects: subject: rothamsted research
subject: potassium

description: Scanned PDF of THE BEHAVIOUR OF K REMAINING IN SOILS FROM THE AGDELL EXPERIMENT AT ROTHAMSTED, THE RESULTS OF INTENSIVE CROPPING IN POT EXPERIMENTS AND THEIR RELATION TO SOIL ANALYSIS AND THE RESULTS OF FIELD EXPERIMENTS, part of Rothamsted Experimental Station Report for 1973 Part 2
Analogies between random matrix ensembles and the one-component plasma in two-dimensions
Creators: name: Forrester, Peter J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The eigenvalue PDF for some well known classes of non-Hermitian random matrices --- the complex Ginibre ensemble for example --- can be interpreted as the Boltzmann factor for one-component plasma systems in two-dimensional domains. We address this theme in a systematic fashion, identifying the plasma system for the Ginibre ensemble of non-Hermitian Gaussian random matrices $G$, the spherical ensemble of the product of an inverse Ginibre matrix and a Ginibre matrix $G_1^{-1} G_2$, and the ensemble formed by truncating unitary matrices, as well as for products of such matrices. We do this when each has either real, complex or real quaternion elements. One consequence of this analogy is that the leading form of the eigenvalue density follows as a corollary. Another is that the eigenvalue correlations must obey sum rules known to characterise the plasma system, and this leads us to a exhibit an integral identity satisfied by the two-particle correlation for real quaternion matrices in the neighbourhood of the real axis. Further random matrix ensembles investigated from this viewpoint are self dual non-Hermitian matrices, in which a previous study has related to the one-component plasma system in a disk at inverse temperature $β= 4$, and the ensemble formed by the single row and column of quaternion elements from a member of the circular symplectic ensemble.
description: 25 pages
Burge, Quine, and Initial One-word Sentences
Creators: name: Lošonský, Miroslav Kneller
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 2011

description: In Chapter 7 of Origins of Objectivity, Tyler Burge argues, contra Quine, that initial one-word sentences, if they have truth conditions, must have structure. In this paper, I argue that Burge's argument is unsuccessful. I proceed by first clarifying the sense in which Quine denies that initial one-word sentences are structured. I then argue that Burge's argument fails to establish that one-word sentences must be structured in a sense that is incompatible with the sense in which Quine denies that they are structured. I also offer and reject a charitable revision of Burge's argument.
Nachruf auf Viktoria Schmidt-Linsenhoff
Creators: name: Förschler, Silke
name: Schankweiler, Kerstin
name: Ulz, Melanie
name: Wienand, Kea
Publisher: name: FKW // Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur
Year: 2013

description: -
description: FKW // Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur, No. 54 (2013): VISUAL OTHERING. 1100-1200
Model-Independent Measurement of the e+e- -> HZ Cross Section at a Future e+e- Linear Collider using Hadronic Z Decays
Creators: name: Thomson, Mark
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A future e+e- collider, such as the ILC or CLIC, would allow the Higgs sector to be probed with a precision significantly beyond that achievable at the High-Luminosity LHC. A central part of the Higgs programme at an e+e- collider is the model-independent determination of the absolute Higgs couplings to fermions and to gauge bosons. Here the measurement of the e+e-->HZ Higgsstrahlung cross section, using the recoil mass technique, sets the absolute scale for all Higgs coupling measurements. Previous studies have considered e+e- ->ZH with Z->l+l-, where l = electron or muon. In this paper it is shown for the first time that a near model-independent recoil mass technique can be extended to the hadronic decays of the Z boson. Because the branching ratio for Z->qq is approximately ten times greater than for Z->l+l-, this method is statistically more powerful than using the leptonic decays. For an integrated luminosity of 500 fb-1 at a centre-of-mass energy of 350 GeV at CLIC, the e+e-->HZ cross section can be measured to 1.8 % using the hadronic recoil mass technique. A similar precision is found for the ILC operating at 350 GeV. The centre-of-mass dependence of this measurement technique is discussed, arguing for the initial operation of a future linear collider at just above the top-pair production threshold.
description: 14 pages, 10 figures
Reward Augmentation in Reinforcement Learning for Testing Distributed Systems
Creators: name: Borgarelli, Andrea
name: Enea, Constantin
name: Majumdar, Rupak
name: Nagendra, Srinidhi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Bugs in popular distributed protocol implementations have been the source of many downtimes in popular internet services. We describe a randomized testing approach for distributed protocol implementations based on reinforcement learning. Since the natural reward structure is very sparse, the key to successful exploration in reinforcement learning is reward augmentation. We show two different techniques that build on one another. First, we provide a decaying exploration bonus based on the discovery of new states -- the reward decays as the same state is visited multiple times. The exploration bonus captures the intuition from coverage-guided fuzzing of prioritizing new coverage points; in contrast to other schemes, we show that taking the maximum of the bonus and the Q-value leads to more effective exploration. Second, we provide waypoints to the algorithm as a sequence of predicates that capture interesting semantic scenarios. Waypoints exploit designer insight about the protocol and guide the exploration to ``interesting'' parts of the state space. Our reward structure ensures that new episodes can reliably get to deep interesting states even without execution caching. We have implemented our algorithm in Go. Our evaluation on three large benchmarks (RedisRaft, Etcd, and RSL) shows that our algorithm can significantly outperform baseline approaches in terms of coverage and bug finding.
THE WOBURN ORGANIC MANURING EXPERIMENT II. SOIL ANALYSES, 1964-72, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO CHANGES IN CARBON AND NITROGEN , Rothamsted Experimental Station Report for 1973 Part 2
Creators: name: G. E. G. MATTINGLY, MARGARET CHATER
Publisher: name: Lawes Agricultural Trust
Year: 1974
Subjects: subject: rothamsted research
subject: woburn experimental farm
subject: Woburn organic manuring experiment
subject: nitrogen

description: Scanned PDF of THE WOBURN ORGANIC MANURING EXPERIMENT II. SOIL ANALYSES, 1964-72, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO CHANGES IN CARBON AND NITROGEN , part of Rothamsted Experimental Station Report for 1973 Part 2
MPEC 2023-O66 : 2023 NW2
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 NW2

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Representing Medieval Genders and Sexualities in Europe. Construction, Transforma-tion, and Subversion, 600-1530. Ed. by Elizabeth L’Estrange/ Alison More 2011. Farnham, Ashgate. (210 pages)
Creators: name: Rathmann-Lutz, Anja
Publisher: name: FKW // Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur
Year: 2013

description: -
description: FKW // Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur, No. 54 (2013): VISUAL OTHERING. 1100-1200
EFFECTS OF MANAGEMENT AND MANURING ON PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF SOME ROTHAMSTED AND WOBURN SOILS , Rothamsted Experimental Station Report for 1977 Part 2
Creators: name: R. J. B. WILLIAMS
Publisher: name: Lawes Agricultural Trust
Year: 1978
Subjects: subject: rothamsted research
subject: woburn experimental farm

description: Scanned PDF of EFFECTS OF MANAGEMENT AND MANURING ON PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF SOME ROTHAMSTED AND WOBURN SOILS , part of Rothamsted Experimental Station Report for 1977 Part 2
The distinctiveness of the European Union's influence on Latin America: European values, governance, and integration
Creators: name: Kosny, Barbara
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: The European Union's priorities and capabilities in international relations and security have changed considerably since the end of communism. They did not only develop as a consequence of internal policy developments but also from external opportunities and expectations. Overtime, it has become evident that the EU exerts substantial influence over world politics even though it has limited military power at its disposal. Instead, it relies on other tools that help build the attractiveness and success of its norms and values. By examining the case studies of Honduras and Cuba I argue that the European Union has a new opportunity to be a leading political player in Latin America and to promote itself as a more imperative actor in world politics. The EU's normative power, gives it sufficient leverage to positively influence Latin America through: European norms and values, good governance, and regional integration.
Absolute continuity of Bernoulli convolutions for algebraic parameters
Creators: name: Varjú, Péter P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove that Bernoulli convolutions are absolutely continuous provided the parameter lambda is an algebraic number sufficiently close to 1 depending on the Mahler measure of lambda.
description: 58 pages; version accepted for publication in J. Amer. Math. Soc.; minor corrections based on referees' reports; results and proofs are not changed
Auf der Suche nach Selbstbestimmtheit. Zum Auflagenobjekt Desire von Sigrid Sandmann
Creators: name: Grosser, Sabine
Publisher: name: FKW // Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur
Year: 2013

description: -
description: FKW // Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur, No. 54 (2013): VISUAL OTHERING. 1100-1200
French audiovisual policy and international trade: Reaction and deception
Creators: name: Mills, Edward Shorney
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2006

description: The cultural industries and policies of France are undergoing major changes due to increased globalization and Americanization of markets since the end of World War II. The trade related audiovisual policies France acribes can be seen as ineffective. What causes this I asserts is a combination cultural path dependancy and the growing need to react to global pressures. As it turns out the policies of France are motivated by both stated and unstated goals, rendering the policies unable to meet expectations. It is expected that until an alteration of goals or policies is made France will continue to experience poor performance regarding its trade related audiovisual policies.
Psychometric properties of questionnaires assessing Evidence-based practice implementation-level and attitudes among therapeutic health professionals – A Systematic Review Protocol
Creators: name: Jung, Andres
name: Balzer, Julia
name: Reinecke, Sarah
name: Eggert, Marieke
name: Fichtmueller, Andrea
name: Jahjah, Akram
name: Gerhard, Janina
name: Ernst, Kathrin
name: Mijic, Marko
name: Koch, Maren
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: EBP
subject: Evidence-Based Practice
subject: Measurement Properties
subject: Occupational Therapy
subject: Physical Therapy
subject: Psychometric Properties
subject: Speech Therapy
subject: Systematic Review

description: Goal: To identify and evaluate studies investigating psychometric properties of questionnaires, measuring the level of implementation and the attitude towards Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) in therapeutic health professionals. Accordingly, the following research questions have been formulated: What are the psychometric properties of questionnaires, aiming to measure the level of implementation and attitudes towards EBP among occupational-, speech- and physiotherapists? What is the most valid and reliable questionnaire aiming to measure the level of implementation and/or attitudes towards EBP among these three health professionals?
AutoEncoder Convolutional Neural Network for Pneumonia Detection
Creators: name: Nosa-Omoruyi, Michael
name: Oghenekaro, Linda U.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This study presents an innovative approach utilising Autoencoder Convolutional Neural Networks (AECNNs) for pneumonia detection in paediatric chest x-rays. The research addresses the complexity of pneumonia, considering diverse causative agents, including bacteria, viruses, and aspiration. Autoencoder Convolutional Neural Networks are employed to enhance anomaly detection by revealing hidden patterns in the data. The evaluation process involves meticulous analysis of the histogram reconstruction error, leading to the establishment of a threshold for anomaly identification. The results demonstrate distinct differences in error magnitudes during testing and training periods, with a threshold providing a tangible criterion for anomaly detection. The study contributes valuable insights into the discriminative capability of Autoencoder Convolutional Neural Networks, with a threshold of 0.0127, in detecting pneumonia in paediatric chest x-rays, emphasising their potential for improving diagnostic precision.
Gamma-ray flare activity from PSR B1259-63 during 2014 periastron passage and comparison to its 2010 passage
Creators: name: Caliandro, G. A.
name: Cheung, C. C.
name: Li, J.
name: Scargle, J. D.
name: Torres, D. F.
name: Wood, K. S.
name: Chernyakova, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: PSR B1259-63/LS 2883 is a gamma-ray binary system containing a radio pulsar in a highly elliptical ~3.4-year orbit around a Be star. In its 2010 periastron passage, multiwavelength emission from radio to TeV was observed, as well as an unexpected GeV flare measured by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). Here, we report the results of LAT monitoring of PSR B1259-63 during its most recent 2014 periastron passage. We compare the gamma-ray behavior in this periastron with the former in 2010 and find that PSR B1259-63 shows a recurrent GeV flare. The similarities and differences in the phenomenology of both periastron passages are discussed.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures, ApJ, in press. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1504.06343
Perception and experience of the patient with cervical pain: a systematic review of qualitative studies with meta-summary and meta-synthesis
Creators: name: Falsiroli Maistrello, Luca
name: Rossettini, Giacomo
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Physiotherapy
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Rehabilitation and Therapy
subject: Physical Therapy
subject: experience
subject: meta-summary
subject: meta-synthesis
subject: neck pain
subject: perception
subject: qualitative

description: Neck Pain (NP) is a widespread and disabling condition with high prevalence and incidence worldwide (Safiri et al. 2020). The impact of NP on patients is high, with important repercussions on a psychological level due to its multifactorial nature (Haldeman, Carroll, and Cassidy 2010; Henschke, Kamper, and Maher 2015). Attention to the patient's experience represents a milestone in the transition from a purely biomedical to a biopsychosocial approach, which considers the patient's beliefs and expectations as a fundamental elements of the care process (Brouwer et al. 2020). The lack of attention to the patient's point of view could result in poor adherence to the care process because of the negative experience previously lived (Dikkers et al. 2016) or because the treatments received were not congruent with their beliefs and expectations (Evans et al. 2014). This discrepancy represents an important condition that negatively affect the perception of positive change (Evans et al. 2014; Rossettini et al. 2020), causing dissatisfaction in the patient (Bowling et al. 2012) and making difficult to reach an effective therapeutic alliance. In order to reduce this distance, it becomes essential to thoroughly investigate the patient's point of view (Ritchie, Ehrlich, and Sterling 2017). Despite many qualitative primary studies have been produced in recent years involving patients with pain experience, the literature is still scarce of studies attempting to summarize these results. Meta-summary and meta-syntheses represents a suitable method to interpret the results of qualitative primary studies (Korhonen et al. 2013; VanderKaay et al. 2018). This approach allows to collect the different experiences and perspectives of the patients reported in various contexts and to reinterpret those results in a new theoretical models. Moreover, this method makes possible to provide important indications for clinical practice.
Gates, Hats, and Naked Jews: Sorting out the Nubian Guards on the Ebstorf Map
Creators: name: Mittman, Asa Simon
Publisher: name: FKW // Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur
Year: 2013

description: Medieval Christian mapmakers represented a range of peoples, animals and monsters against which they defined their place what they believed to be God’s divine plan. Rooted in earlier anti-Semitic tropes, the detailed world maps of the thirteenth/early fourteenth centuries contain multiple problematic representations of Jews, perceived at once as distant in time and space, and also eminently current and local. While some of these images are expected – Biblical characters appear frequently – others are harder to explain. This essay attempts to grapple with the Ebstorf Map’s peculiar image of the guards of the Nubian Gate, presented as giant, armed, naked Jewish men. Rather than offer a clear-cut explanation for these curious figures, the essay places them in a context where such representations become at least possible. It then considers some differences in anti-Semitic tropes between then and now, to further clarify how these figures might have been viewed by their original audience.
description: FKW // Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur, No. 54 (2013): VISUAL OTHERING. 1100-1200
Spectroscopic studies of the mechanism of reversible photodegradation of 1-substituted aminoanthraquinone-doped polymers
Creators: name: Hung, Sheng-Ting
name: Bhuyan, Ankita
name: Schademan, Kyle
name: Steverlynck, Joost
name: McCluskey, Matthew D.
name: Koeckelberghs, Guy
name: Clays, Koen
name: Kuzyk, Mark G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The mechanism of reversible photodegradation of 1-substituted aminoanthraquinones doped into poly(methyl methacrylate) and polystyrene is investigated. Time-dependent density functional theory is employed to predict the transition energies and corresponding oscillator strengths of the proposed reversibly- and irreversibly-damaged dye species. Ultraviolet-visible and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy are used to characterize which species are present. FTIR spectroscopy indicates that both dye and polymer undergo reversible photodegradation when irradiated with a visible laser. These findings suggest that photodegradation of 1-substituted aminoanthraquinones doped in polymers originates from interactions between dyes and photoinduced thermally-degraded polymers, and the metastable product may recover or further degrade irreversibly.
description: 19 pages, 15 figures, 3 tables
Queer/Posthuman in Marie de France's Eliduc: Sanctuaires à Répit, Female Couples, and Human/Animal/Bare Life
Creators: name: Klosowska, Anna
Publisher: name: FKW // Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur
Year: 2013

description: In Eliduc, two female weasels show the heroine how to resurrect her rival using a plant pharmacon, implying an essential identity between animal and human life. This indistinction is frequent in Marie de France's Lais, where the plot turns on human/animal hybrids (Bisclavret and Yonec) and things (a knot, a bird/martyr/relic of love). I also place Eliducin the context of sanctuaires à répit (respite shrines) where infants were returned to life long enough to be baptized. Respite miracles testify to the deeply felt need for indistinction between bare life and human life and they, along with Eliduc, show that posthumanism can be grounds for ethics, against Agamben and Aristotle who ground rights in exception and hierarchy.
description: FKW // Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur, No. 54 (2013): VISUAL OTHERING. 1100-1200
Anisotropic pressure effect on central EOS of PSR J0740+6620 in the light of dimensionless TOV equation
Creators: name: Yang, Zhihao
name: Wen, Dehua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is generally agreed upon that the pressure inside a neutron star is isotropic. However, a strong magnetic field or superfluidity suggests that the pressure anisotropy may be a more realistic model. We derived the dimensionless TOV equation for anisotropic neutron stars based on two popular models, namely the BL model and the H model, to investigate the effect of anisotropy. Similar to the isotropic case, the maximum mass $M_{max}$ and its corresponding radius $R_{Mmax}$ can also be expressed linearly by a combination of radial central pressure $p_{rc}$ and central energy density $\varepsilon_{c}$, which is insensitive to the equation of state (EOS). We also found that the obtained central EOS would change with different values of $λ_{BL}$ ($λ_{H}$), which controls the magnitude of the difference between the transverse pressure and the radial pressure. Combining with observational data of PSR J0740+6620 and comparing to the extracted EOS based on isotropic neutron star, it is shown that in the BL model, for $λ_{BL}$ = 0.4, the extracted central energy density $\varepsilon_{c}$ changed from 546 -- 1056 MeV/fm$^{3}$ to 510 -- 1005 MeV/fm$^{3}$, and the extracted radial central pressure $p_{rc}$ changed from 87 -- 310 MeV/fm$^{3}$ to 76 -- 271 MeV/fm$^{3}$. For $λ_{BL}$ = 2, the extracted $\varepsilon_{c}$ and $p_{rc}$ changed to 412 -- 822 MeV/fm$^{3}$ and 50 -- 165 MeV/fm$^{3}$, respectively. In the H model, for $λ_{H}$ = 0.4, the extracted $\varepsilon_{c}$ changed to 626 -- 1164 MeV/fm$^{3}$, and the extracted $p_{rc}$ changed to 104 -- 409 MeV/fm$^{3}$. For $λ_{H}$ = 2, the extracted $\varepsilon_{c}$ decreased to 894 -- 995 MeV/fm$^{3}$, and the extracted $p_{rc}$ changed to 220 -- 301 MeV/fm$^{3}$.
description: 19 pages, 8 figures
Hybrid teleportation via entangled coherent states in circuit quantum electrodynamics
Creators: name: Joo, Jaewoo
name: Ginossar, Eran
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a deterministic scheme for teleporting an unknown qubit through continuous-variable entangled states in superconducting circuits. The qubit is a superconducting two-level system and the bipartite quantum channel is a photonic entangled coherent state between two cavities. A Bell-type measurement performed on the hybrid state of solid and photonic states brings a discrete-variable unknown electronic state to a continuous-variable photonic cat state in a cavity mode. This scheme further enables applications for quantum information processing in the same architecture of circuit-QED such as verification and error-detection schemes for entangled coherent states. Finally, a dynamical method of a self-Kerr tunability in a cavity state has been investigated for minimizing self-Kerr distortion and all essential ingredients are shown to be experimentally feasible with the state of the art superconducting circuits.
description: 9 pages and 5 figures
Of Arms and the Woman in Medieval Europe: fact. fiction. fantasy.
Creators: name: Caviness, Madeline
Publisher: name: FKW // Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur
Year: 2013

description: The complex relationship between women and arms in Europe, from Roman times to about 1200, is reexamined in light of literary traditions, historical records, and the modern preoccupation with women warriors that inevitably inflects historical judgments. Overall, the issue has suffered from a scarcity of hard evidence and an abundant politics of interpretation. Some historical examples indicate an acceptance of female hereditary governance in Europe during the early middle ages, including the command of troops. Yet many historians have greeted the idea of a woman wielding a sword in battle with skepticism. Figures such as Boudicca who led a revolt against the Romans in Britain, the Anglo-Saxon queen Aethelflaed, and the later women who fought in the crusades, or defended their own property, have been politicized. Narratives like that of the Old Testament Judith and the Nibelungenlied became ideological tools to raise the alarm about phallic women. By the thirteenth century, Saxon law declared that a widow must immediately surrender her husband’s sword to the male heir. Female fighters were increasingly vilified, culminating in the accusation of heresy against Joan of Arc, and her execution.
description: FKW // Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur, No. 54 (2013): VISUAL OTHERING. 1100-1200