cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The quest for an autonomous ASKAP: automating the next-generation of survey telescopes
Creators: name: Moss, Vanessa A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: astronomy
radio astronomy
telescope operations
autonomy
automation
scheduling
collaborative intelligence
csiro

description: The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder is an array of 36 x 12m dishes, and is the newest radio telescope owned and operated by CSIRO, Australia's national science agency. As a telescope designed to carry out large all-sky surveys, it necessitated a significant divergence from the existing astronomer-operated ATNF telescopes. This presented the observatory with a unique opportunity to redefine what science operations look like from the foundations up, rather than inheriting existing structures and systems. Since the start of Pilot Surveys Phase I in mid 2019, we have aimed to increase automation of ASKAP as much as possible, with the end goal of carrying out science operations in a way which maximises the autonomy of the system and minimises the reliance on human-centric decision making. Alongside a number of changes to the way the telescope is operated and monitored, a key ongoing development has been SAURON (Scheduling Autonomously Under Reactive Observational Needs), which has been primarily responsible for science observation scheduling since late 2020. I will present an overview of our progress so far towards full survey operations starting in 2022, especially with respect to the critical role of automation, autonomy and AI in paving the path to the next generation of complex telescope systems.
Hodge loci associated with linear subspaces intersecting in codimension one
Creators: name: Kloosterman, Remke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $X\subset \mathbb{P}^{2k+1}$ be a smooth hypersurface containing two k-dimensional linear spaces $Π_1,Π_2$ intersecting in codimension one. In this paper we study the question whether the Hodge loci $NL([Π_1]+λ[Π_2])$ and $NL([Π_1],[Π_2])$ coincide. This turns out to be the case in a neighborhood of $X$ if $X$ is very general on $NL([Π_1],[Π_2])$, $k>1$ and $λ\neq 0,1$. However, there exists a hypersurface $X$ for which $NL([Π_1],[Π_2])$ is smooth at $X$, but $NL([Π_1]+λ[Π_2])$ is singular for all $λ\neq0,1$. We expect that this is due to an embedded component of $NL([Π_1]+λ[Π_2])$.
 The case $k=1$ was treated before by Dan, in that case $NL([Π_1]+λ[Π_2])$ is nonreduced.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2312.12363
title: Intertidal wetland sediment carbon budgets along eroding and prograding coasts
Creators: name: Stolpmann, Lea Marlene Merle
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2024

description: Coastal ecosystems are vital in providing ecosystem services such as coastal protection, habitat provision and increasing biodiversity. With increasing global atmospheric CO2 concentrations and a warming climate, their ability to sequester large amounts of carbon within their biomass and soil, relative to their occupied area, has been of increased interest. The soil carbon salt marshes and mangroves sequestered is however under threat due to anthropogenic impacts and processes changing the formation and development condition of these ecosystems. Insufficient sediment supply and rising sea levels are threatening to drown these systems and turn a healthy ecosystem into an erosional stage. In particular the effect of erosion on soil characteristics and processes has to be understood to determine the emission of carbon to the atmosphere and thus their carbon storage capacity. This thesis aims to determine 1) the effect of geomorphic condition on the soil to atmosphere emission of CO2 within salt marshes and mangroves, 2) the hydrodynamic influences on soil processes such as soil temperature within salt marshes, 3) the difference between carbon fluxes at salt marsh sites of differing geomorphic conditions. Geomorphic condition was found to significantly influence CO2 emissions at salt marsh sites, with eroding sites having a greater emission rate. The emission rate of CO2 was further influenced by the tidal cycle as well as the interaction of groundwater level and soil temperature. The effect of geomorphic condition on CO2 emissions was also studied within mangrove forests, showing however no significant relationship. Soil processes driving the remineralization of carbon to CO2, such as soil temperature was found to be influenced by tidal driven hydrodynamics (i.e., current velocity and groundwater levels) and to be seasonal dependent. Geomorphic different coastal ecosystems were further expected to receive carbon sources of different origins. Within the mangrove ecosystems these differences were observed within the soil cores at depth, indicating a change in carbon origin, although with site specific variations. Sediment deposited on a salt marsh flat was however only significantly different between geomorphic conditions in the percentage of inorganic carbon. The results emphasise the connectivity of coastal hydrology and wetland soil processes, not only driving the carbon delivery to the wetlands but also the processes influencing its storage and emission. The conservation and restoration of vegetated coastal habitats does therefore need to address this connectivity in order to maintain and preserve the immense carbon storage capacity of these ecosystems.
Deep Learning-Based Super-Resolution and De-Noising for XMM-Newton Images
Creators: name: Sweere, Sam F.
name: Valtchanov, Ivan
name: Lieu, Maggie
name: Vojtekova, Antonia
name: Verdugo, Eva
name: Santos-Lleo, Maria
name: Pacaud, Florian
name: Briassouli, Alexia
name: Pérez, Daniel Cámpora
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: techniques: image processing
techniques: high angular resolution
X-rays: general

description: The field of artificial intelligence based image enhancement has been rapidly evolving over the last few years and is able to produce impressive results on non-astronomical images. In this work we present the first application of Machine Learning based super-resolution (SR) and de-noising (DN) to enhance X-ray images from the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton telescope. Using XMM-Newton images in band [0.5,2] keV from the European Photon Imaging Camera pn detector (EPIC-pn), we develop XMM-SuperRes and XMM-DeNoise deep learning-based models that can generate enhanced SR and DN images from real observations. The models are trained on realistic XMM-Newton simulations such that XMM-SuperRes will output images with two times smaller point-spread function and with improved noise characteristics. The XMM-DeNoise model is trained to produce images with 2.5x the input exposure time from 20 to 50 ks. When tested on real images, DN improves the image quality by 8.2%, as quantified by the global peak-signal-to-noise ratio. These enhanced images allow identification of features that are otherwise hard or impossible to perceive in the original or in filtered/smoothed images with traditional methods. We demonstrate the feasibility of using our deep learning models to enhance XMM-Newton X-ray images to increase their scientific value in a way that could benefit the legacy of the XMM-Newton archive.
Searching for different AGN populations in massive datasets with Machine Learning
Creators: name: Sanchez Saez, Paula
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Active galaxies
Astronomy data analysis;
Variable stars
Supernovae
Surveys
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Anomaly Detection

description: Brightness variations of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) offer key insights into their physical emission mechanisms and related phenomena. These variations also provide us an alternative way to identify AGN candidates that could be missed by more traditional selection techniques. In this talk I will first introduce the ALeRCE light curve classifier, that uses a hierarchical imbalanced Random Forest and variability features computed from ZTF light curves, to classify each source into more than 15 subclasses, including three classes of AGNs (host-dominated, core-dominated, and Blazar). Then, I will present an anomaly detection (AD) technique designed to identify AGN light curves with anomalous behaviours in massive datasets, like the ZTF data releases. The main aim of this technique is to identify changing-state AGNs (CSAGNs) at different stages of the transition, but it can also be used for more general purposes, such as cleaning massive datasets for AGN variability analyses.
description: On behalf of the ALeRCE team (http://alerce.science)
description: {"references": ["Sanchez-Saez et al. 2021, The Astronomical Journal, 161, 141", "Sanchez-Saez et al. 2021, The Astronomical Journal, 162, 206"]}
Comparitive Analysis of Tree Canada’s Afforestation and Reforestation Standard and BC’s draft Forest Offset Protocol
Creators: name: Doyon, Erika
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: If the future of the forest industry lies partially in taking advantage of the emerging carbon market, the creation of credible forest-offsets must be guaranteed. As a biological sink and source, BC forests are subject to high variability. Success in generating real, additional, permanent and verifiable credits is largely dependent on the robustness of the protocol to address forest variability issues. Two recent protocols in Canada include the Tree Canada Afforestation and Reforestation Standard and the BC draft Forest Offset Protocol. The ease in which these protocols direct project implementation is determined by the methodologies adopted to address the key elements, such as permanence, leakage and quantification. The level to which the two protocols satisfy widely recognized ISO principles determines the level of fair GHG accounting achieved. BC’s draft Protocol lacks comprehensiveness compared to Tree Canada’s protocol, which has fulfilled the ISO principles to a greater degree.
On The Axioms Of $\mathcal{M},\mathcal{N}$-Adhesive Categories
Creators: name: Castelnovo, Davide
name: Miculan, Marino
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Adhesive and quasiadhesive categories provide a general framework for the study of algebraic graph rewriting systems. In a quasiadhesive category any two regular subobjects have a join which is again a regular subobject. Vice versa, if regular monos are adhesive, then the existence of a regular join for any pair of regular subobjects entails quasiadhesivity. It is also known (quasi)adhesive categories can be embedded in a Grothendieck topos via a functor preserving pullbacks and pushouts along (regular) monomorphisms. In this paper we extend these results to $\mathcal{M}, \mathcal{N}$-adhesive categories, a concept recently introduced to generalize the notion of (quasi)adhesivity. We introduce the notion of $\mathcal{N}$-adhesive morphism, which allows us to express $\mathcal{M}, \mathcal{N}$-adhesivity as a condition on the subobjects' posets. Moreover, $\mathcal{N}$-adhesive morphisms allows us to show how an $\mathcal{M},\mathcal{N}$-adhesive category can be embedded into a Grothendieck topos, preserving pullbacks and $\mathcal{M}, \mathcal{N}$-pushouts.
Mechanical strength of Anhydrite and its Role in the Seismicity of the Duke River Fault, Yukon Territory
Creators: name: Sampaleanu, Christian
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Anhydrite rich fault zones are known to act as zones of weakness and the source of earthquakes in seismically active areas. One of the best known examples is the Apennine Mountains in Italy, which contain neo-tectonic extensional faults hosted in carbonate and evaporite sequences. For this study, anhydrite from the Duke River fault in the Yukon was sampled and triaxial stress tests were conducted to determine the mechanical strength of the anhydrite. Both pure shear experiments and friction experiments were performed. These tests show that anhydrite will begin to undergo brittle-ductile deformation at confining pressures as low as 25 MPa. At atmospheric conditions, anhydrite behaves elastically until brittle failure results in the formation of a shear fracture with associated stress drop. At confining pressures greater than 75 MPa, anhydrite will deform by cataclastic flow, and no longer produce a stress drop. The data indicate that the anhydrite-rich locations in the Duke River fault likely could not be responsible for a stress drop and therefore it is unlikely that the anhydrite-rich portions of the Duke River Fault are the sources of the seismicity. It is proposed that high fluid pressure would be required to promote brittle failure that could cause the seismicity.
Real-time Detection of Anomalies in Transient Surveys
Creators: name: Muthukrishna, Daniel
name: Lochner, Michelle
name: Mandel, Kaisey
name: Webb, Sara
name: Narayan, Gautham
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: supernova
anomaly detection
deep learning
neural networks
bayesian
transients
time-series
temporal convolutional neural networks

description: Time-domain astronomy has reached an incredible new era where unprecedented amounts of data are becoming available with new surveys such as LSST expected to observe over 10 million transient alerts every night. In this talk, I'll discuss the issue that with such large data volumes, the astronomical community will struggle to identify rare and interesting anomalous transients that have previously been found serendipitously. I'll present two methods of automatically detecting anomalous transient light curves in real time. The first modelling approach is a probabilistic neural network built using Temporal Convolutional Networks (TCNs) and the second is an interpretable Bayesian parametric model of a transient. We demonstrate our methods' ability to provide anomaly scores as a function of time on light curves from the Zwicky Transient Facility. We show that the flexibility of neural networks, the attribute that makes them such a powerful tool for many regression tasks, is what makes them less suitable for anomaly detection when compared with our parametric model. The parametric model is able to identify anomalies with respect to common supernova classes with high precision and recall for most rare classes such as kilonovae and tidal disruption events. Our ability to identify anomalies improves over the lifetime of the light curves. Our framework, used in conjunction with transient classifiers, will enable fast and prioritised follow-up of unusual transients from new surveys.
Dark Sector Showers and Hadronisation in Herwig 7
Creators: name: Kulkarni, Suchita
name: Massoumina, M. R.
name: Plätzer, Simon
name: Stafford, Dominic
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2024

description: We present a novel simulation of a strongly interacting dark sector also known as the Hidden Valley scenarios using angular ordered showers and the cluster hadronisation model in Herwig 7. We discuss the basics of this implementation and the scale hierarchies underpinning the simulation. With the help of a few benchmarks, we show the effect of variation of dark sector parameters on thrust and angularities within the dark sector, and study correlation functions, which can be helpful for understanding the angular structure of these events. Finally we comment on the uncertainties introduced due to lack of knowledge of hadronisation parameters within the dark sectors.
Segmentation of the Galactic ISM Filaments using Deep Learning and Hi-GAL Catalogue
Creators: name: BENSAID Siouar
name: ZAVAGNO Annie
name: DUPÉ François Xavier
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: ISM, filaments segmentation, Hi-GAL catalogue, AI, UNet, Deep Learning

description: Understanding star formation is key to understand galaxy evolution. Observations collected in the Herschel Infrared Galactic plane Survey (Hi-GAL) revealed the ubiquitous presence of filamentary structures in the Galactic Plane. Filaments host star formation. Therefore, it is very interesting to study them and analyze the environment effect on their life cycle. A first step in understanding filaments consists in detecting them in the Galactic Plane. Detection algorithms based on standard image processing techniques present several limitations. Taking into consideration the drastic progress in Artificial Intelligence (AI), along with the data abundance about filaments, we propose to explore filament segmentation using Deep Learning (DL) framework. In this paper, we use state-of-the-art image segmentation in DL, U-Net, to segment filaments in all the Galactic Plane, in H2 column density images of the Galactic Plane obtained with Herschel Hi-GAL data. The used ground truth consists in the Hi-GAL filament catalogue provided by Schisano et al. Obtained results reveal more structures than provided in the catalogue, which makes AI-based methods very promising for such application. 
Soziale Arbeit, soziale Nachhaltigkeit und die Frage nach der Rolle von Bildung
Creators: name: Portmann Robin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Social work
Sustainable Development Goals
Education
Sustainable Education

description: Ein Paper, das die Frage diskutiert, welche Rolle Bildung im professionellen Selbstverständnis einer sozialen Arbeit, die sich als Akteurin auf dem Weg zur Schaffung sozialer Nachhaltigkeit sieht.
Influences of the Pan-Maya Movement: Education and Literacy Development of the Maya in Guatemala, 1940-2000
Creators: name: Van Der Lely, Gustaaf
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Guatemala over the past sixty years has experienced three dramatic political and cultural transformations: the military coup of 1954, the guerilla rebellion and the horrific counterinsurgency in the late 1970s and 1980s, and the recent incorporation of the indigenous issues within the national government political arena. The Maya people have been most affected by these changes as the struggle for indigenous rights and self-determination have been marked by violence and racial backlash by both Guatemalan society and the government. Mayan intellectuals have fought back, with the help of anthropologists and sociolinguists through cultural means to create a new identity in the form of a pan-Mayan movement. Through an examination of how education and literacy development has impacted rural Mayan communities and the response of those communities to revitalization of Mayan cultural traditions and languages, this thesis addresses the question of what is indigeneity. Influences of the Pan-Maya Movement: Education and Literacy Development contends that the development of educational programs has enabled Mayan intellectuals to create a sense of what it is to be indigenous in the contemporary Guatemalan state.
Bergson, la tecnica, la guerra. Una rilettura delle Due fonti
Creators: name: Zanfi, Caterina
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2009
Subjects: M-FIL/03 Filosofia morale
M-FIL/06 Storia della filosofia

description: Le protesi tecnologiche che estendono il corpo dell'umanità sono strumenti di liberazione oppure ostacoli? La risposta di Bergson nelle due fonti della morale e della religione non è univoca e rivela tanto le aspettative quanto le inquietudini sollevate dalla frenesia industriale alla vigilia della seconda guerra mondiale. Per evitare che l'umanità sia schiacciata dal peso del progresso materiale, egli affida al misticismo la missione di orientare la meccanica. Rintracciare l'origine dell'accostamento tra meccanica e mistica, in particolare attraverso la rilettura dei discorsi politici degli anni Dieci e Venti, permette di leggere le due fonti da una nuova prospettiva. L'opera matura di Bergson, considerata a lungo come la più spiritualista e conservatrice, si rivela motivata da interrogativi antropologici, sociali e storici che orientano nuovamente la sua filosofia verso la vita.
AMPEL: A framework for reproducible time-domain astronomy
Creators: name: Nordin, Jakob
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Reproducibility, a core principle of science, is close to impossible to achieve in its strict sense in time-domain astronomy - we cannot redo an observation of a transient event once it is gone. Related features such as provenance and analysis reproducibility is further challenged by fractured software development, heterogeneous data sources and an emphasis on real-time decisions.
 The AMPEL data processing framework has been designed to allow processing of high throughput heterogeneous data streams while guaranteeing that all decisions are traced and every analysis can be reproduced. AMPEL is built on three main concepts that will be introduced here: a modular structure which introduces code-to-data in time-domain science, a flexible NoSQL database backend and a formalism for specifying/defining an entire real-time analysis in a compact and sharable format ("recipes"). The structure of AMPEL furthermore encourages shared software development and makes it easy to make data and pipelines open source.
Supplementary document for Nanosecond gating of superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors using cryogenic bias circuitry - 6123510.pdf
Creators: name: Hummel, Thomas
name: Widhalm, Alex
name: Hoepker, Jan Philipp
name: Jöns, Klaus
name: Chang, Jin
name: Fognini, Andreas
name: Steinhauer, Stephan
name: Zwiller, Val
name: Zrenner, Artur
name: Bartley, Tim
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: MODEL OF THE CURRENT LOADING TIME
Can AI help users find data? The experience with the ESO Science Archives
Creators: name: Romaniello, Martino
name: Stoehr, Felix
name: Cvrcek, Vojtech
name: Freudling, Wolfram
name: Ballester, Pascal
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Science archives
Astronomy
Variational Autoencoders
Deep Learning
Artificial Intelligence

description: The ESO Science Archive offers millions of data files to its science community. It is, then, crucial to its success that it also provides advanced query capabilities to guide the researchers to identify which of those data are of interest for their specific use. The broad hypothesis behind the work presented here is that letting the abundant real astrophysical data speak for itself, with minimal supervision and no labels, can reveal interesting patterns and distil information in ways that may facilitate data discovery. The need for supervision to be minimal is a must, given the sheer size and diversity of the archive contents. To this end, we have applied Deep Learning techniques to large datasets in the ESO Science Archive, most notably the entire data history of the HARPS high-resolution spectrograph. In our first round of experiments, we have obtained promising results in two directions. On the one side, the networks have learned to infer physical parameters of the celestial sources, such as radial velocity and effective temperature, just by being exposed to a large number of stellar spectra, without being explicitly asked to do so. On the other side, networks with the same basic architecture have shown an inclination to separate stellar and telluric spectral components, again without being instructed to do so. The lessons learned from the exercise and prospects will be presented.
Quantum collapse as undecidable proposition in an Everettian multiverse
Creators: name: Tamburini, Fabrizio
name: Licata, Ignazio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Our representation of the Universe is built with sequences of symbols, numbers, operators, rules and undecidable propositions defining our mathematical truths, represented either by classical, quantum and probabilistic Turing Machines containing intrinsic randomness. Each representation is at all effects a physical subset of the Universe, a metastructure of events in space and time, which actively participate to the evolution of the Universe as we are internal observers. The evolution is a deterministic sequence of local events, quantum measurements, originated from the local wavefunction collapse of the complementary set of the observers that generate the local events in the Universe. With these assumptions, the Universe and its evolution are described in terms of a semantically closed structure without a global object-environment loss of decoherence as a von Neumann's universal constructor with a semantical abstract whose structure cannot be decided deterministically a-priori from an internal observer. In a semantically closed structure the realization of a specific event writing the semantical abstract of the constructor is a problem that finds a "which way" for the evolution of the Universe in terms of a choice of the constructor's state in a metastructure, the many-world Everett scenario from the specific result of a quantum measurement, a classical Gödel undecidable proposition for an internal observer, exposing the limits of our description and possible simulation of the Universe.
description: 27 pages
Blackbody radiation and thermal effects on chemical reactions and phase transitions in cavities
Creators: name: Pannir-Sivajothi, Sindhana
name: Yuen-Zhou, Joel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An important question in polariton chemistry is whether reacting molecules are in thermal equilibrium with their surroundings. If not, can experimental changes observed in reaction rates of molecules in a cavity (even without optical pumping) be attributed to a higher/lower temperature inside the cavity? In this work, we address this question by computing temperature differences between reacting molecules inside a cavity and the air outside. We find this temperature difference to be negligible for most reactions. On the other hand, for phase transitions inside cavities, as the temperature of the material is actively maintained by a heating/cooling source in experiments, we show cavities can modify observed transition temperatures when mirrors and cavity windows are ideal (non-absorbing); however, this modification vanishes when real mirrors and windows are used. Finally, we find substantial differences in blackbody spectral energy density between free space and infrared cavities, which reveal resonance effects and could potentially play a role in explaining changes in chemical reactivity in the dark.
TreeFam and Ensembl: Phylogenetic resources
Creators: name: Patricio, Mateus
name: Muffato, Matthieu
name: Aken, Bronwen
name: Flicek, Paul
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: The Ensembl and Ensembl Genomes projects create and distribute genome annotations for a wide range of genomes, including model organisms. The number of publicly available genomes is increasingly rapidly, providing an opportunity for new insights via comparative genomics. TreeFam produces phylogenetic trees and orthology predictions, though previously only for metazoans. Here we describe advances in TreeFam, targeted to achieve scalability to all Ensembl eukaryotes.

The key component is a new library of HMM (Hidden Markov Model) profiles (Figure 2) that was created from Panther and TreeFam, with custom profiles to fill gaps in gene coverage. The library represents gene families across all eukaryotes.
Using Galaxy with Jetstream
Creators: name: Fischer, Jeremy
name: Afgan, Enis
name: Doak, Tom
name: Ganote, Carrie
name: Hancock, David Y.
name: Vaughn, Matthew
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Jetstream is a new cloud computing resource funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). As a fully configurable cloud resource, Jetstream adds significantly to the NSF-funded resources available to the Galaxy user community. Jetstream has a total computing capability of 0.5 petaflops, and supports interactive users. Jetstream hosts persistent Science Gateways (specifically, Galaxy) and Virtual Machines (VMs) useable by individual researchers within the cloud environment.

Galaxy users will have the option of preserving their workflow through persistent storage of VMs. Persistent VM storage for use on Jetstream can be stored in the Indiana University persistent digital repository, IUScholarWorks (scholarworks.iu.edu) and obtain a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) that is associated with the stored VM. Overall, we anticipate that Jetstream will improve Galaxy usability by reducing job wait times and increasing job throughput.
The 1536 Dissolution of the Lesser Monasteries: Same Suppression, Different Century
Creators: name: Saini, Raminder K.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: A case study of the priories of Boxgrove, Folkestone and Horsham shows how the 1536 closures under Henry VIII were not vindictive and followed from precedent. His closures were neither more substantial than the suppression of the alien priories during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, nor significantly different from Wolsey‘s closures in the 1520s. During periods of war with France, monarchs from Edward I to Henry V confiscated alien priories and made use of their revenues, eventually suppressing all aliens by 1414. Wolsey too closed several monasteries, with permission from the Pope, and redirected their revenues towards funding colleges. Tied into these closures was an aspect of reform, which was the grounds for Henry VIII‘s closures. The priories under evaluation began as alien priories, escaped the suppression of aliens in 1414, and were dissolved in 1536. Henry‘s suppressions were less an attack on monasteries for financial benefits though, and more an exercise or continuation of previous suppression policies. Ultimately, the main difference between Henry‘s closures and those of previous ones was scale alone.
Shippers' Costs of Assembling and Distributing Southwestern Cotton, by Types, Market Trading Areas, and Sales Outlets, Season 1964-65
Creators: name: Cooper, Maurice R.
name: Harris, William F.
name: Cooper, Maurice R.
name: Harris, William F.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1965
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The study covered in part by this report was largely designed to provide current detailed estimates of the major costs of marketing American lint cotton. These and the related data are needed for measuring changes in marketing costs, to help find ways of increasing cotton marketing efficiencies, and for evaluating existing and proposed policies and programs affecting cotton. Information was obtained from a sample of the cotton shipping firms and marketing associations located in the 15 markets designated for establishing official price quotations for U.S. cotton. Within reasonable limits, the resulting cost estimates reflect variations in the kind, amount, rates, and efficiencies of the services performed by and at the request of shippers in assembling cotton, in each of 4 regions and 13 market trading areas of the Cotton Belt, and delivering it to customers throughout the world. This summary includes estimates for upland cotton purchased in each of the 3 trading areas within the Southwestern region and shipped to 9 specified outlets. These estimates are based largely on data from shippers in the Dallas, Houston, Galveston, and Lubbock markets.
description: Economic Research Service/ U.S. Department of Agriculture in cooperation with Cotton Economic Research/ University of Texas
A review of the effects of silviculture on wood quality
Creators: name: Hart, James Foster
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: This paper reviews the effects of silviculture on wood quality. The term silviculture is employed to encompass a broad range of forest management practices which may alter a forest’s composition, growth, and environment. Generally, the main components for assessing wood quality for structural purposes are strength, stiffness, and dimensional stability; while pulp and paper quality requirements include strength, tracheid dimensions, and chemical composition. The quality of wood is determined through various wood characteristics such as: density, microfibril angle, proportion of juvenile wood, fibre length, compression wood, and knots. The following sections will discuss how these wood properties affect end use quality of raw materials. The quality can be affected by various silvicultural techniques both at the microscopic and macroscopic levels. Silviculture treatments are most often implemented with the goal of manipulating tree growth to enhance vigor or crown size. Common treatments include spacing, respacing/thinning, pruning, and fertilization. Techniques following this approach are ultimately linked to the resulting wood characteristics. The review is separated into three major sections. The first section concerns properties and their effect on wood quality. Next, the effects of silvicultural on wood properties and characteristics will be discussed. The report concludes with considerations and recommendations in regards implementing each silvicultural technique are and how they can be applied to best meet the end-user requirements of wood quality. Finally, several recommendations are provided for where further research should be focused.
Are batteries fit for hybrid-electric regional aircraft?
Creators: name: Kühnelt, Helmut
name: Mastropierro, Francesco
name: Zhang, Ningxin
name: Toghyani, Somayeh
name: Krewer, Ulrike
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Presentation at the 12th EASN International Conference on "Innovation in aviation & space for opening new horizons", 18-21 Oct 2022, Barcelona, Spain

Hybrid electric propulsion is likely to play a more prominent role for regional aircraft with 40+ passengers in the future air transport system with reduced climatic impact. In IMOTHEP, two hybrid-electric regional (HER) aircraft concepts, a conservative and a radical, are developed. Energy dense battery technologies are needed to enable hybrid-electric propulsion of regional aircraft. Furthermore, these batteries need to become commercially available within in the planned development time of the new aircraft, i.e. until 2030. This paper will discuss general requirements for the HER battery and aims at providing an overview on the most promising industrial approaches for energy dense battery cell technologies – from advanced Li-ion to all-solid-state – with view of their application in air transport and forecasted availability on the market. Furthermore, results will be presented from the study preformed in IMOTHEP on hybrid polymer-ceramic all-solid-state battery electrochemistry that combines lab trials with electrochemical numerical simulation.
Marketing Farm Products--Recent Developments and Outlook
Creators: name: Marketing Economics Division, Economic Research Service
name: Marketing Economics Division, Economic Research Service
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1965
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Change has been widespread in the marketing of farm products in recent years, as it has in other economic activities. Innovations have been frequent, and increased expenditures for research and development are likely to accelerate the introduction of new technology, new products, and new marketing practices. Widespread adoption of an innovation, however, takes time. In the year ahead, new innovations may be expected; yet the greatest change will come from wider application of earlier innovations.
description: Reprinted from the Marketing and Transportation Situation November 1965
Entwicklung einer THz-Multireflexionsoptik und hochauflösende Rotationsspektroskopie von Eisenmonoxid
Creators: name: Waßmuth, Björn
Publisher: name: Universität Kassel
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Rotationsspektroskopie
subject: Molekülspektroskopie
subject: Eisenmonoxid
subject: Multireflexionsoptik
subject: Terahertz-Strahlung
subject: 530
subject: 620
subject: Rotationsspektrum
subject: Terahertzbereich
subject: Molekülspektroskopie
subject: Optik

description: Zugleich: Dissertation, Universität Kassel, 2021
2. Direito de comunicação ao público Interpretação uniforme dos direitos de autor e direitos conexos – Ato de comunicação (não)
Creators: name: Lucas-Schloetter, A.
Publisher: name: Propriedades Intelectuais
Year: 2025

description: O aluguer de veículos equipados com aparelhos de rádio não constitui uma comunicação ao público na aceção do artigo 3.º da Diretiva 2001/29 e do artigo 8.º da Diretiva 2006/115.
description: Propriedades Intelectuais, n. 17-18 (2022)
Texture properties bias ensemble size judgments
Creators: name: Sasen Cain
name: Dobkins, Karen
name: Vul, Edward
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Ensemble statistic representations (Ariely, 2001) are said to explain crucial aspects of vision (Alvarez, 2011), from saccade planning to scene understanding and perceptual stability (Whitney, Haberman, Sweeny, 2014). Numerous studies suggest that ensemble perception is a “parallel preattentive process” (Chong and Treisman, 2003) that skirts working memory limits, survives crowding, and accommodates high-level object features like facial emotion or biological motion. We raise two concerns—first, that classic ensemble 2AFC tasks may simply tap low-level cues, and second, that observers cannot compute ensemble statistics veridically.

Our approach hinges on the observation that most ensemble tasks involve comparing sets containing the same number of items (equal set-size). This scenario cannot ever distinguish between computing a mean and measuring “total” evidence.  E.g., in mean diameter judgments across equal set-sizes, luminance becomes a sufficient cue to total area. This low-level confound demonstrates that equal set-size displays obviate the need for ensemble representations, or for any scene parsing at all. Thus, we hope to instigate discussion about improving task designs to elucidate ensemble and gist perception.

Indeed, comparing unequal set-sizes biases observers’ judgments, shifting their point of subjective equality (PSEs) toward the more numerous set. This aligns with accuracy decreases reported in Sweeny, et al. (2014) and Chong & Treisman (2005, experiment 1), but our psychophysical work reveals judgments driven by some other computation—not ensemble mean. Instead, our account invokes texture representations (Balas, et al., 2009), whose far richer set of summary statistics (Portilla and Simoncelli, 2000) might more parsimoniously explain all these phenomena.
RRWNet: Recursive Refinement Network for effective retinal artery/vein segmentation and classification
Creators: name: Morano, José
name: Aresta, Guilherme
name: Bogunović, Hrvoje
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The caliber and configuration of retinal blood vessels serve as important biomarkers for various diseases and medical conditions. A thorough analysis of the retinal vasculature requires the segmentation of the blood vessels and their classification into arteries and veins, typically performed on color fundus images obtained by retinography. However, manually performing these tasks is labor-intensive and prone to human error. While several automated methods have been proposed to address this task, the current state of art faces challenges due to manifest classification errors affecting the topological consistency of segmentation maps. In this work, we introduce RRWNet, a novel end-to-end deep learning framework that addresses this limitation. The framework consists of a fully convolutional neural network that recursively refines semantic segmentation maps, correcting manifest classification errors and thus improving topological consistency. In particular, RRWNet is composed of two specialized subnetworks: a Base subnetwork that generates base segmentation maps from the input images, and a Recursive Refinement subnetwork that iteratively and recursively improves these maps. Evaluation on three different public datasets demonstrates the state-of-the-art performance of the proposed method, yielding more topologically consistent segmentation maps with fewer manifest classification errors than existing approaches. In addition, the Recursive Refinement module within RRWNet proves effective in post-processing segmentation maps from other methods, further demonstrating its potential. The model code, weights, and predictions will be publicly available at https://github.com/j-morano/rrwnet.
Quantum teleportation based on the elegant joint measurement
Creators: name: Ding, Dong
name: Yu, Ming-Xing
name: He, Ying-Qiu
name: Ji, Hao-Sen
name: Gao, Ting
name: Yan, Feng-Li
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As a generalization of the well-known Bell state measurement (BSM), the elegant joint measurement (EJM) is a kind of novel two-qubit joint measurement, parameterized by a subtle phase factor $θ\in [0,π/2]$. We explore quantum teleportation based on the EJM, inspired by Gisin's idea that quantum entanglement not only provides quantum channel and also quantum joint measurement for quantum teleportation. It is a probabilistic teleportation caused by undesired nonunitary quantum evolution. There are two interesting features in the present scenario. First, it goes beyond the conventional teleportation scenario, which can be included in the present scenario. Second, different from the BSM being single input and four outcomes, it can provide an adjustable input setting or even multiple measurement settings for the sender (or the controller). Moreover, we show in detail the feasible quantum circuits to realize the present scenario, where a few unitary operations and a nonunitary quantum gate are being utilized.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures
Regular homomorphisms of minimal sets
Creators: name: Shoenfeld, Peter
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 1974
Subjects: Topological dynamics
Set theory
Homomorphisms

description: The classification of minimal sets is a central theme in
abstract topological dynamics. Recently this work has been
strengthened and extended by consideration of homomorphisms.
Background material is presented in Chapter I. Given a
flow on a compact Hausdorff space, the action extends naturally
to the space of closed subsets, taken with the Hausdorff
topology. These hyperspaces are discussed and used to give a
new characterization of almost periodic homomorphisms.
Regular minimal sets may be described as minimal subsets
of enveloping semigroups. Regular homomorphisms are defined
in Chapter II by extending this notion to homomorphisms with
minimal range. Several characterizations are obtained.
In Chapter III, some additional results on homomorphisms
are obtained by relativizing enveloping semigroup notions.
In Veech's paper on point distal flows, hyperspaces are
used to associate an almost one-to-one homomorphism with a
given homomorphism of metric minimal sets. In Chapter IV, a
non-metric generalization of this construction is studied in
detail using the new notion of a highly proximal homomorphism.
An abstract characterization is obtained, involving only the
abstract properties of homomorphisms. A strengthened version
of the Veech Structure Theorem for point distal flows is
proved.
In Chapter V, the work in the earlier chapters is
applied to the study of homomorphisms for which the almost
periodic elements of the associated hyperspace are all
finite. In the metric case, this is equivalent to having
at least one fiber finite. Strong results are obtained by
first assuming regularity, and then assuming that the relative
proximal relation is closed as well.
Direito de autor/direitos conexos: Pelham GmbH, Moses Pelham e Martin Haas v. Ralf Hütter e Florian Schneider-Esleben
Creators: name: Lucas, A.
Publisher: name: Propriedades Intelectuais
Year: 2025

description: Um Estado-Membro não pode prever na sua legislação nacional uma exceção ou limitação aos direitos de autor ou direitos conexos, como a resultante do artigo 24.1 da lei alemã, para além das previstas no artigo 5.º da Diretiva 2001/29.
description: Propriedades Intelectuais, n. 13-14 (2020)
Slope Stability Analysis of Fly Ash Containment Dyke
Creators: name: Brisbin, Aaron
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: This study was conducted in order to assess the existing stability of an impoundment dyke and provide analysis for long term stability, following construction of a buttress. Engineering analysis were conducted using three computer modeling programs: SEEP/ W, SLIOPE/ W and Settle 3D. Initially the study consisted of modeling seepage and induced pore water conditions through the Dyke using SEEP/ W and Settle 3D. The analysis results were then incorporated into a SLOPE/ W model, which was used to analyze the slope stability at various stages of Buttress Construction. The results of this study concluded that the construction sequence required for the Buttress structure would temporarily lower the stability of the Dyke, but that the Dyke would remain structurally sound. Furthermore, the construction of the Buttress would significantly increase the, post construction, long-term stability of the Dyke.
Direitos patrimoniais 1. Retransmissão por cabo – Diretiva 93/83, conhecida como “CabSat 1” – Direito exclusivo dos organismos de radiodifusão (não) – Estatuto do hoteleiro como distribuidor por cabo (não
Creators: name: Lucas-Schloetter, A.
Publisher: name: Propriedades Intelectuais
Year: 2024

description: Nos termos da Diretiva 93/83, os organismos de radiodifusão não gozam de um direito exclusivo de retransmissão de programas por cabo. Quando essa prerrogativa lhes é conferida pelo direito nacional, só pode ser exercida em relação aos operadores de redes de cabo tradicionais. A comunicação dos seus programas pelos hoteleiros aos seus hóspedes insere-se no âmbito do direito de comunicação ao público previsto no n.º 3 do artigo 8.º da Diretiva 2006/115, que se limita às comunicações efetuadas em locais acessíveis ao público mediante pagamento de uma taxa de entrada.
description: Propriedades Intelectuais, n. 17-18 (2022)
title: ElFe XX-XXI. 2015, n° 5
title: Études de littérature de langue française des XXe et XXIe siècles. Approches de l'animal
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Unap)
Publisher: name: Classiques Garnier
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Littérature du XXe siècle
subject: Littérature contemporaine
subject: Littérature du XXIe siècle
subject: Animalité
subject: Études animales
subject: Zoopoétique
subject: Éthologie

description: Contributeurs : Esra Aykin, Romain Bionda, Françoise Bombard, Pierre Citti, Chantal Dhennin, Zoé Marty, Nicolas Picard, Alain Romestaing, Alain Schaffner, Anne Simon, Isabelle Sorente et Yuna Visentin.
La Lettre clandestine. 2016, n° 24
Creators: name: (:Unap)
Publisher: name: Classiques Garnier
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Littérature
subject: Philosophie
subject: Histoire
subject: Clandestinité
subject: Ancien régime
subject: Âge classique
subject: Lumières

description: Contributeurs : Jacopo Agnesina, Geneviève Artigas-Menant, Silvia Berti, Lorenzo Bianchi, Michèle Bokobza Kahan, Emmanuel Boussuge, Yves Citton, Germana Ernst, Mami Fujiwara, Nicole Gengoux, Blanche Gramusset Piquois, François de Graux, Thomas Grüber, Françoise Launay, Mogens Lærke, Pierre-François Moreau, Alain Mothu, Elena Muceni, Gianni Paganini, Francesco Ronco, Winfried Schroëder, Maria Susana Seguin, Manuel Tizziani et Alexandra Torero-Ibad.