cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Rumors of War: History, Representation, and the Context of Installation
Creators: name: Oh, Serina
Publisher: name: CAP - Public Art Journal
Year: 2021

description: Kehinde Wiley’s Rumors of War—a towering bronze equestrian statue—was spirited into New York’s Times Square on September 27, 2019. Wiley’s 25 feet long and 15 feet wide statue takes inspiration from Richmond’s statue of General James Ewell Brown Stuart, emulating both the stance of the older statue’s rider and the horse, as well as its 16 feet wide limestone base. After its unveiling in Times Square, Rumors of War was permanently moved to the entrance of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts—which commissioned it in December 2019—standing in place of Confederate statues that had been the subject of protests. By placing an anonymous Black subject in the same venue as celebrated, white confederate soldiers, Virginian residents and other visitors of the museum are prompted to consider Wiley’s statue through a historical lens and debate on why Black soldiers—and Black culture—are often erased from American history, including military history. By comparing studies of Confederate statues and the unjust representation of history between hegemonic and minoritarian cultures, in addition to veiled visuality, Rumors of War can be seen as a success as it reappropriates tropes of white heroism for the representation of Black history. In his pointed, public representation of previously marginalized Black heroism, Wiley extends his critique of the European canon’s habitual erasure of Black cultural experience. This paper argues that Wiley compels viewers to think beyond strictly formal elements, raising fundamental questions of equality in varied contexts of representation.
description: CAP - Public Art Journal, Vol 3 No 1 (2021): Remote: Geographies
On the theory of plateau-plateau transitions in Quantum Hall Effect
Creators: name: Sedrakyan, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Lagrangian (action) formulation of the Chalker-Coddington network model for plateau-plateau transitions in quantum Hall effect is presented based on a model of fermions hopping on Manhattan Lattice ($ML$). The dimensionless Landauer resistance is considered and its average is calculated over the random U(1) phases with constant distribution on the circle. The Lagrangian of the resultant model on $ML$ is found and the corresponding $R$-matrix is written down. It appeared, that this model is integrable, rising hope to investigate physics of plateau- plateau transitions by the exact method of powerful Algebraic Bethe Ansatz $(ABA)$.
description: 10 pages, Latex, 3 figures
Additional file 3 of Commercial app use linked with sustained physical activity in two Canadian provinces: a 12-month quasi-experimental study
Creators: name: Mitchell, Marc
name: Lau, Erica
name: White, Lauren
name: Faulkner, Guy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3: App Behavior Change Scale (ABACUS) and self-score.
Additional file 1 of Crime reporting and victim satisfaction with the police: a large-scale study among victims of crime in the Netherlands
Creators: name: Jansen, Roselle P.
name: Ruiter, Stijn
name: van Steden, Ronald
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 1
Comment on "Real-space renormalization-group methods for hierarchical spin glasses"
Creators: name: Angelini, Maria Chiara
name: Parisi, Giorgio
name: Ricci-Tersenghi, Federico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the paper [Angelini M C, Parisi G, and Ricci-Tersenghi F, Ensemble renormalization group for disordered systems, Phys. Rev. B 87 134201 (2013)] we introduced a real-space renormalization group called Ensemble Renormalization Group (ERG) and we applied it to the Edwards-Anderson model, obtaining estimates for the critical exponents in good agreement with those from Monte Carlo simulations. Recently the paper [Castellana M, Real-space renormalization-group methods for hierarchical spin glasses, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 52 445002 (2019)] re-examined the ERG method from a different perspective, concluding that the previous results were wrong, and claiming that the ERG method predicts trivially wrong critical exponents. In this comment we explain why the conclusions reached by Castellana are wrong, as they are based on a misinterpretation of finite-size effects. We conclude that the ERG method remains a good RG method to obtain critical exponents in strongly disordered models (if properly used).
description: Comment on arXiv:1910.04521
A model of vulnerability to food insecurity
Creators: name: Capaldo, Jeronim
name: Karfakis, Panagiotis
name: Knowles, Marco
name: Smulders, Mark
name: Capaldo, Jeronim
name: Karfakis, Panagiotis
name: Knowles, Marco
name: Smulders, Mark
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Food Security and Poverty
Agricultural and Food Policy

description: Empirical findings show that access to adequate and sufficient food in developing countries is unstable, suggesting that whether a household or individual is food secure at any point in time is best thought of in a dynamic sense. The more widely used food security analysis methods mainly consider current access to food, failing to provide policy makers with forward-looking information. While drawing on household survey data, the vulnerability analysis model presented here provides estimates of the probability that a given household will lose or gain access to sufficient food in the near future. We propose a model of vulnerability analysis that can improve policy design and targeting. We test the model with data from a survey of Nicaraguan households.
description: FAO Document Repository: http://www.fao.org/3/a-al318e.pdf
Additional file 2 of Commercial app use linked with sustained physical activity in two Canadian provinces: a 12-month quasi-experimental study
Creators: name: Mitchell, Marc
name: Lau, Erica
name: White, Lauren
name: Faulkner, Guy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Mobile Application Rating Scale (MARS) and self-score.
Hi-C 2.1 Observations of Small-Scale Miniature-Filament-Eruption-Like Cool Ejections in Active Region Plage
Creators: name: Sterling, Alphonse C.
name: Moore, Ronald L.
name: Panesar, Navdeep K.
name: Reardon, Kevin P.
name: Molnar, Momchil
name: Rachmeler, Laurel A.
name: Savage, Sabrina L.
name: Winebarger, Amy R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine 172 Ang ultra-high-resolution images of a solar plage region from the Hi-C 2.1 ("Hi-C") rocket flight of 2018 May 29. Over its five-minute flight, Hi-C resolves a plethora of small-scale dynamic features that appear near noise level in concurrent Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) 171 Ang images. For ten selected events, comparisons with AIA images at other wavelengths and with the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) images indicate that these features are cool (compared to the corona) ejections. Combining Hi-C 172 Ang, AIA 171 Ang, IRIS 1400 Ang, and H$α$, we see that these ten cool ejections are similar to the H$α$ "dynamic fibrils" and Ca ii "anemone jets" found in earlier studies. The front of some of our cool ejections are likely heated, showing emission in IRIS 1400 Ang. On average, these cool ejections have approximate widths: $3''.2 \pm 2''.1$, (projected) maximum heights and velocities: $4''.3 \pm 2''.5$ and $23 \pm 6$ km/s, and lifetimes: $6.5 \pm 2.4$ min. We consider whether these Hi-C features might result from eruptions of sub-minifilaments (smaller than the minifilaments that erupt to produce coronal jets). Comparisons with SDO's Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) magnetograms do not show magnetic mixed-polarity neutral lines at these events' bases, as would be expected for true scaled-down versions of solar filaments/minifilaments. But the features' bases are all close to single-polarity strong-flux-edge locations, suggesting possible local opposite-polarity flux unresolved by HMI. Or, it may be that our Hi-C ejections instead operate via the shock-wave mechanism that is suggested to drive dynamic fibrils and the so-called type I spicules.
Measuring dietary energy deficiency and the impact of food price variations at the household level: A methodological note on the micro-analysis of undernourishment
Creators: name: Anríquez, Gustavo
name: Karfakis, Panagiotis
name: Daidone, Silvio
name: Mane, Erdgin
name: Anríquez, Gustavo
name: Karfakis, Panagiotis
name: Daidone, Silvio
name: Mane, Erdgin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: FAO is the main provider of country-level estimates of undernourishment covering the whole world. Its methodology has the main advantage of facilitating comparisons across countries and over time, but also has a limited capacity to understand the causes of food insecurity within countries (FAO, 2003; Barret, 2010). The upward trends in global food prices, concerning many staple commodities between 2005 and 2008, stimulated us to extend the principles of the FAO methodology in order to assess the impact of rising food prices on household-level food security. The objective of this methodological note is to provide a detailed description of the methodology applied in Anriquez et al. (2010), providing guidelines for measuring undernourishment, and more specifically dietary energy deficiency at the household level; and suggestions for the implementation of micro-simulations of food price variations. Additionally this note provides guidelines to construct household specific dietary energy requirements, instead of using a single threshold (generally, 2100 kilocalories per person per day) for all households.
description: FAO Document Repository: http://www.fao.org/3/a-al299e.pdf
From Street Art to Murals
Creators: name: Prvanov, Sinisa
Publisher: name: CAP - Public Art Journal
Year: 2021

description: The main topic of my research of the Greek street art scene was its synergies with the reactions expressed by anti-capitalist and anti-globalization movements. In this pattern, its most vocal proponent, INO, an anonymous muralist from Athens, coined the provocative term "brandalism" to initiate a new artistic practice aimed at cause antipathy towards the corporate branding of modern metropolises. If graffiti writers in the 1970s in New York City tried to "spray-bomb" public infrastructure with a single interpretation of symbols[1], contemporary Athenian street artists wanted to directly attack commercial urban media by subversively processing images, slogans and icons. However, despite the efforts of the street artist to be declared an undesirable participant in urban vandalism, many street artists have become recognized as a kind of urban brands. INO is certainly one of the most important and most creative actors of this artistic and cultural phenomenon.


In this research, I used detailed examples of aesthetic form and individual practice in the work of this Athenian street artist to examine the creative tensions between branding and the use of urban space. Through personal views, I have tried to determine whether permanent theorizing and research should be much more deeply respected and whether newly improved forms of design can play an important role in the production and consumption of this street art. The methods used in this research relied on the use of available literature, internet sources, a review of the history of wall painting, and a comparison of the works of other artists in the field of muralism.


 


 


 
description: CAP - Public Art Journal, Vol 3 No 1 (2021): Remote: Geographies
Additional file 1 of Commercial app use linked with sustained physical activity in two Canadian provinces: a 12-month quasi-experimental study
Creators: name: Mitchell, Marc
name: Lau, Erica
name: White, Lauren
name: Faulkner, Guy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: STROBE Checklist.
Editorial
Creators: name: Vicente, Sergio
Publisher: name: CAP - Cadernos de Arte Pública / Public Art Journal
Year: 2021

description: Neste número dos Cadernos de Arte Pública, discute-se a Escultura a partir de um campo de práticas e reflexões que tendem a assumir a dimensão pública da obra como uma ampliação da experiência social.

Posicionamo-nos num campo aberto de discussão, o qual subentende uma estreita relação da presença e, ou, materialidade da obra na organização de sentido do Lugar. Desde meados do século passado, a prática escultórica vem questionando insistentemente a natureza das formas e processos que lhe dão sentido urbano. A materialidade foi-se diluindo no abandono de lógicas convencionadas pela categorização histórica, substituindo-a pela lógica da corporalização da experiência no espaço.

Por um lado, apontamos que a escultura implantada na cidade constitui um elemento estável e definidor de lugar; ou seja, percebida como desenho, estrutura orgânica, permite o desenvolvimento volumétrico e expansivo da matéria no território. Por outro lado, é um corpo identitário, mas sobrevivente nas transformações e esquecimentos que foram alterando o corpus do território planificado. Tais transformações estão a provocar um défice narrativo, uma impossibilidade discursiva, ou um lugar dessimbolizado.

A relação do indivíduo na paisagem construída é cada vez mais parcelar, uma captação limitada: a narrativa fica presa no encadeamento unidirecional de referências registadas nos modos virtuais de comunicação. A relação do indivíduo com a paisagem urbana tem-se convertido numa relação solitária com a envolvente.

 
description: CAP - Cadernos de Arte Pública / Public Art Journal, Vol 2 No 1 (2020): Sculpture: Studies
title: Zwischen Anpassung und rechter Hetze. Eine Untersuchung der Mitglieder der „Identitären Bewegung“ auf der Gaming-Plattform Steam
Creators: name: Gruber, Manuel
Publisher: name: University of Salzburg
Year: 2020

description: Die voranschreitende Digitalisierung und der Wandel hin zu fragmentierten digital-vernetzten Öffentlichkeiten bedingt, dass auch rechte Akteur*innen und Gruppierungen zunehmend Online-Plattformen für sich nutzen. Gesellschaftlich und in Bezug auf die mediale Berichterstattung stellt sich die Frage, wie rechte Akteur*innen auf Gaming-Plattformen agieren. In dieser Studie wurden die Profile der Mitglieder der rechtsorientierten „Identitären Bewegung“(IB) hinsichtlich ihrer Darstellung auf der Gaming-Plattform Steammit einer qualitativen Inhaltsanalyse untersucht. Theoretisch umrissen wurde die Analyse mit Ausführungen zu digital-vernetztenÖffentlichkeiten, „Mini-Publics“ und Gamification. Dabei zeigte sich, dass in unscheinbaren Profilen zum Teil ganz offen rechte, konservative, exkludierende und nationalsozialistische Einstellungen kommuniziert werden. Darüber hinaus wurde festgestellt, dass der Charakter des Spiels im Sinne der Gamification auf die reale Welt übertragen wird. Da in Online-Gaming-Plattformen ein offener Austausch über rechte Ideen stattfindet, ist zu vermuten, dass sich Mitglieder auf der Gaming-Plattform radikalisieren können.
Additional file 1 of The effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of attachment-based family therapy for young adults with high suicidal ideation: protocol of a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Bockting, Claudi
name: Bosmans, Guy
name: Bergers, Nele
name: Gavan, Luana
name: Hiligsmann, Mickaël
name: de Beurs, Derek
name: Molenberghs, Geert
name: Wijnen, Ben
name: Lokkerbol, Joran
name: van der Spek, Nadia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 1.
Rising food prices and undernourishment: A cross-country inquiry
Creators: name: Anríquez, Gustavo
name: Daidone, Silvio
name: Mane, Erdgin
name: Anríquez, Gustavo
name: Daidone, Silvio
name: Mane, Erdgin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Food Security and Poverty
Agricultural Finance

description: Households' welfare in developing countries has been hit by dramatic food prices increases which occurred between 2005 and 2008. In this paper, we adopt a partial equilibrium approach to analyze the short-time effects of a staple food price increase on nutritional attainments, as a measure of welfare. The analysis consists of first approximating complete food-demand systems and then performing household level micro-simulations. Instead of focusing on a single country profile, we provide a more complete snapshot, by comparing the evidence through a cross-country assessment made possible by use of nationally representative household surveys. Comparability is assured by the adoption of the same methodological choices in the treatment of the micro data. We find that food price increase not only reduces the mean consumption of dietary energy, but also worsen the distribution of food calories further deteriorating the nutritional status of populations. We also discovered that access to agricultural land, plays a big role in assuring adequate nutritional attainments in rural areas, and surprisingly, even in urban areas.
description: FAO Document Repository: http://www.fao.org/3/a-al054e.pdf
Superconductivity in three-layer Na0.3CoO2*1.3H2O
Creators: name: Foo, M. L.
name: Klimczuk, T.
name: Li, Lu
name: Ong, N. P.
name: Cava, R. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The observation of superconductivity at 4.3 K in a new crystalline form of Na0.3CoO2*1.3H2O is reported. The new superconductor has three layers of CoO6 octahedra per crystallographic unit cell, in contrast to the previously reported two-layer superconductor. The three-layer cell occurs because the relative orientations of neighboring CoO2 layers are distinctly different from what is seen in the two-layer superconducting phase. This type of structural difference in materials that are otherwise chemically and structurally identical is not possible to attain on the layered copper oxide superconductors. The synthesis and stability of the new phase are described.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures. Submitted to Physical Review Letters
Additional file 1 of Epidemic of multiple Treponema pallidum strains in men who have sex with men in Japan: efficient multi-locus sequence typing scheme and indicator biomarkers
Creators: name: Sato, Wakana
name: Sedohara, Ayako
name: Koga, Michiko
name: Nakagama, Yu
name: Yotsuyanagi, Hiroshi
name: Kido, Yasutoshi
name: Adachi, Eisuke
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Supplementary Material 1
Leptogenesis and Dark Matter from Low Scale Seesaw
Creators: name: Liu, Ang
name: Han, Zhi-Long
name: Jin, Yi
name: Yang, Fa-Xin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we perform a detail analysis on leptogenesis and dark matter form low scale seesaw. In the framework of $ν$2HDM, we further introduce one scalar singlet $ϕ$ and one Dirac fermion singlet $χ$, which are charged under a $Z_2$ symmetry. Assuming the coupling of $χ$ is extremely small, it serves as a FIMP dark matter. The heavy right hand neutrinos $N$ provide a common origin for tiny neutrino mass (via seesaw mechanism), leptogenesis (via $N\to \ell_L Φ_ν^*,\bar{\ell}_L Φ_ν$) and dark matter (via $N\to χϕ$). With hierarchical right hand neutrino masses, the explicit calculation shows that success thermal leptogenesis is viable even for TeV scale $N_1$ with $0.4 \lesssim v_ν\lesssim1$ GeV and lightest neutrino mass $m_1\lesssim 10^{-11}$ eV. In such scenario, light FIMP dark matter in the keV to MeV range is naturally expected. The common parameter space for neutrino mass, natural leptogenesis and FIMP DM is also obtained in this paper.
description: 17 pages, 6 figures
Single-cell protein analysis by mass-spectrometry
Creators: name: Slavov, Nikolai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Human physiology and pathology arise from the coordinated interactions of diverse single cells. However, analyzing single cells has been limited by the low sensitivity and throughput of analytical methods. DNA sequencing has recently made such analysis feasible for nucleic acids, but single-cell protein analysis remains limited. Mass-spectrometry is the most powerful method for protein analysis, but its application to single cells faces three major challenges: Efficiently delivering proteins/peptides to MS detectors, identifying their sequences, and scaling the analysis to many thousands of single cells. These challenges have motivated corresponding solutions, including SCoPE-design multiplexing and clean, automated, and miniaturized sample preparation. Synergistically applied, these solutions enable quantifying thousands of proteins across many single cells and establish a solid foundation for further advances. Building upon this foundation, the SCoPE concept will enable analyzing subcellular organelles and post-translational modifications while increases in multiplexing capabilities will increase the throughput and decrease cost.
description: keywords: single-cell analysis; single-cell proteomics; mass-spectrometry; isobaric carrier; sample preparation; systems biology
New tools for old problems: can payments for watershed services support sustainable agricultural development in Africa?
Creators: name: Branca, Giacomo
name: Lipper, Leslie
name: Neves, Bernardete
name: Lopa, Dosteus
name: Mwanyoka, Iddi
name: Branca, Giacomo
name: Lipper, Leslie
name: Neves, Bernardete
name: Lopa, Dosteus
name: Mwanyoka, Iddi
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Food Security and Poverty
Agricultural Finance

description: Agriculture affects both the quantity and quality of water available for other uses, and under current production systems the impact is often negative. Adopting sustainable land management (SLM) practices can foster a more efficient water use and increase agricultural productivity, while reducing environmental risk from water pollution and regulating flows serving downstream communities. One of the key barriers to adoption of such practices is the high upfront cost associated with SLM implementation, which are a disincentive to their practice by poor landowners. This paper discusses how an emerging policy tool- Payments for Environmental Services (PES)- can bridge this gap by financing initial SLM investment costs, thereby lowering the cost barriers to SLM implementation. Drawing on ongoing experience in Tanzania, we discuss the main constraints to be addressed in order to realize this potential.
description: FAO Document Repository: http://www.fao.org/3/a-ak597e.pdf
A profile of the rural poor
Creators: name: Valdés, Alberto
name: Foster, William
name: Anríquez, Gustavo
name: Azzarri, Carlo
name: Covarrubias, Katia
name: Davis, Benjamin
name: DiGiuseppe, Stefania
name: Essam, Tim
name: Hertz, Tom
name: De La O, Ana Paula
name: Quiñones, Esteban
name: Stamoulis, Kostas
name: Winters, Paul
name: Zezza, Alberto
name: Valdés, Alberto
name: Foster, William
name: Anríquez, Gustavo
name: Azzarri, Carlo
name: Covarrubias, Katia
name: Davis, Benjamin
name: DiGiuseppe, Stefania
name: Essam, Tim
name: Hertz, Tom
name: De La O, Ana Paula
name: Quiñones, Esteban
name: Stamoulis, Kostas
name: Winters, Paul
name: Zezza, Alberto
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Food Security and Poverty

description: This paper has two main objectives. Firstly, it provides an overview of trends in the magnitude, location and nature of rural poverty, with emphasis on least developed countries. Secondly, it offers new evidence that advances our understanding of rural poverty, by presenting quantitative analyses of the determinants both of rural activities and of income from farm- and non-farm sources drawing on data from FAO's Rural Income Generating Activities (RIGA) data base of 15 countries, complemented by demographic, health, production and income data from other sources. In order to reduce rural poverty, policies should concentrate both on improving household activities already available ' most prominently farming ' and on expanding the range of potential activities of family members. The lesson from experience and much of the rural development literature is that the income generating potential ' the ability to access and take advantage of activities ' depends crucially on access to assets, such as education, land, and infrastructure.
description: FAO Document Repository: http://www.fao.org/3/a-ak423e.pdf
Extreme gas properties in the most distant quasars
Creators: name: Maiolino, R.
name: Oliva, E.
name: Ghinassi, F.
name: Pedani, M.
name: Mannucci, F.
name: Mujica, R.
name: Juarez, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present near-IR, low resolution spectra of eight of the most distant quasars known, with redshifts in the range 4.9
description: 9 pages, replaced with accepted version (A&A in press)
State Violence: The Frontier, Torture and the Camp in Waiting for the Barbarians
Creators: name: Γερονίκου, Αγορίτσα Θωμά
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: κρατική βία
σύνορα
βασανιστήρια
στρατόπεδο
Αγκάμπεν
Κούτσι
Περιμένοντας τους Βαρβάρους homo sacer (Ιερός άνθρωπος) «Μουσουλμάνοι»
θέαμα
θεϊκή βία
βιοπολιτική
ένταξη μέσω αποκλεισμού
κατάσταση εξαίρεσης
state violence
frontier
torture
camp
Agamben
Coetzee
Waiting for the Barbarians homo sacer
Muselmanner
spectacle
divine violence
biopolitics
inclusion by exclusion
state of exception

description: Who is responsible for the existence of violence? Is it an always-already inherent part of civilization or is there a perpetrator to be named? Why is there even need for violence and what is its connection to law and sovereign state? Ultimately, can we do without violence? Since these questions -let alone their answers- are perplexing and rather abstract, I use them as a prompt to examine the concept of violence in a concrete ground, namely J. M. Coetzee’s 1980 novel Waiting for the Barbarians. The purpose of this MA thesis is to use Giorgio Agamben’s theory, mainly from his works Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (1998), State of Exception (2005) and Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive (1999), to shed light on the mechanisms of state violence -that is, violence deployed by the sovereign rule- as they are represented in J. M. Coetzee’s novel with an aim to conclude whether Waiting for the Barbarians can offer a closure to the perdurable question of the ending of all violence. In doing so, I focus on three main concepts prevalent in Coetzee’s novel that are examined as manifestations of violence: the frontier, torture and the camp
description: Ποιος είναι υπεύθυνος για την ύπαρξη βίας; Ήταν και θα είναι πάντα αναπόσπαστο κομμάτι του πολιτισμού μας ή μήπως υπάρχει κάποιος υπεύθυνος που με σαφήνεια μπορούμε να καταδείξουμε; Γιατί, εν τέλει, υπάρχει ανάγκη για βία και ποια είναι η σχέση της με το νόμο και το κυρίαρχο κράτος; Τελικά, μπορούμε να ζήσουμε χωρίς βία; Δεδομένου ότι αυτά τα ερωτήματα –πόσο μάλλον οι απαντήσεις τους– είναι περίπλοκα και μάλλον αφηρημένα, τα χρησιμοποιώ ως έναυσμα για να εξετάσω την έννοια της βίας σε συγκεκριμένο πλαίσιο. Αυτό είναι το μυθιστόρημα του J. M. Coetzee «Περιμένοντας τους Βαρβάρους» (1980). Ο σκοπός αυτής της διατριβής είναι να χρησιμοποιήσει τη θεωρία του Giorgio Agamben, κυρίως από τα έργα του Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (1998), State of Exception (2005) και Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive (1999) για να ρίξει φως στους μηχανισμούς της κρατικής βίας –δηλαδή, της βίας που εκπορεύεται από το κυρίαρχο κράτος– όπως αυτοί απεικονίζονται στο μυθιστόρημα του J.M. Coetzee, με σκοπό να καταλήξει στο συμπέρασμα εάν το «Περιμένοντας τους Βαρβάρους» μπορεί να δώσει μια απάντηση στο θέμα του καθολικού τέλους της βίας. Η διατριβή επικεντρώνεται σε τρεις βασικές έννοιες του μυθιστορήματος του Coetzee που εξετάζονται ως εκδηλώσεις βίας: τα σύνορα, τα βασανιστήρια και την έννοια του στρατοπέδου
Erratum_BoundaryLayerMeteorology_2022
Creators: name: Guo, Xiao–Feng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Atmospheric Sciences
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Erratum to the original publication of one article Reference 1 links to: Katabatic flow structures indicative of the flux dissimilarity for stable stratification
ControlVAE: Controllable Variational Autoencoder
Creators: name: Shao, Huajie
name: Yao, Shuochao
name: Sun, Dachun
name: Zhang, Aston
name: Liu, Shengzhong
name: Liu, Dongxin
name: Wang, Jun
name: Abdelzaher, Tarek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Variational Autoencoders (VAE) and their variants have been widely used in a variety of applications, such as dialog generation, image generation and disentangled representation learning. However, the existing VAE models have some limitations in different applications. For example, a VAE easily suffers from KL vanishing in language modeling and low reconstruction quality for disentangling. To address these issues, we propose a novel controllable variational autoencoder framework, ControlVAE, that combines a controller, inspired by automatic control theory, with the basic VAE to improve the performance of resulting generative models. Specifically, we design a new non-linear PI controller, a variant of the proportional-integral-derivative (PID) control, to automatically tune the hyperparameter (weight) added in the VAE objective using the output KL-divergence as feedback during model training. The framework is evaluated using three applications; namely, language modeling, disentangled representation learning, and image generation. The results show that ControlVAE can achieve better disentangling and reconstruction quality than the existing methods. For language modelling, it not only averts the KL-vanishing, but also improves the diversity of generated text. Finally, we also demonstrate that ControlVAE improves the reconstruction quality of generated images compared to the original VAE.
description: accepted by ICML2020
Linear versus nonlinear electro-optic effects in materials
Creators: name: Jiang, Zhijun
name: Paillard, Charles
name: Xiang, Hongjun
name: Bellaiche, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two schemes are proposed to compute the nonlinear electro-optic (EO) tensor for the first time. In the first scheme, we compute the linear EO tensor of the structure under a finite electric field, while we compute the refractive index of the structure under a finite electric field in the second scheme. Such schemes are applied to Pb(Zr,Ti)O$_{3}$ and BaTiO$_{3}$ ferroelectric oxides. It is found to reproduce a recently observed feature, namely why Pb(Zr$_{0.52}$Ti$_{0.48}$)O$_{3}$ adopts a mostly linear EO response while BaTiO$_{3}$ exhibits a strongly nonlinear conversion between electric and optical properties. Furthermore, the atomistic insight provided by the proposed ab-initio scheme reveals the origin of such qualitatively different responses, in terms of the field-induced behavior of the frequencies of some phonon modes and of some force constants.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Black strings in asymptotically plane wave geometries
Creators: name: Gimon, Eric G.
name: Hashimoto, Akikazu
name: Hubeny, Veronika E.
name: Lunin, Oleg
name: Rangamani, Mukund
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a class of black string spacetimes which asymptote to maximally symmetric plane wave geometries. Our construction will rely on a solution generating technique, the null Melvin twist, which deforms an asymptotically flat black string spacetime to an asymptotically plane wave black string spacetime while preserving the event horizon.
description: 15 pages; references added
Single-Band Model for Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors: Dynamical and Transport Properties and Relevance of Clustered States
Creators: name: Alvarez, G.
name: Dagotto, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dynamical and transport properties of a simple single-band spin-fermion lattice model for (III,Mn)V diluted magnetic semiconductors (DMS) is here discussed using Monte Carlo simulations. This effort is a continuation of previous work (G. Alvarez, Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 277202 (2002)) where the static properties of the model were studied. The present results support the view that the relevant regime of J/t (standard notation) is that of intermediate coupling, where carriers are only partially trapped near Mn spins, and locally ordered regions (clusters) are present above the Curie temperature T_C. This conclusion is based on the calculation of the resistivity vs. temperature, that shows a soft metal to insulator transition near T_C, as well on the analysis of the density-of-states and optical conductivity. In addition, in the clustered regime a large magnetoresistance is observed in simulations. Formal analogies between DMS and manganites are also discussed.
description: Revtex4, 20 figures. References updated, minor changes to figures and text
Additional file 1 of Metabolically healthy obese and metabolic syndrome of the lean: the importance of diet quality. Analysis of MAGNETIC cohort
Creators: name: Osadnik, Kamila
name: Osadnik, Tadeusz
name: Lonnie, Marta
name: Lejawa, Mateusz
name: Rafał Reguła
name: Fronczek, Martyna
name: Gawlita, Marcin
name: Wądołowska, Lidia
name: Gąsior, Mariusz
name: Pawlas, Natalia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1:Table S1. Food frequency questionnaire food and food groups included in PCA-driven dietary patterns analysis (FFQ-6). Table S2. Food frequency questionnaire food and food groups included in diet quality scores analysis (KomPAN questionnaire). Table S3. Missing data.
O que é o design? : a dimensão cognitiva da actividade de design : os designers nas organizações portuguesas de Design Industrial
Creators: name: , Manuela
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: design, cognition, visual thinking, sustainability, capitalism, consumption, dematerializatio

description: The proposed theory about cognition in design aims to contribute to the understanding of the operating mode of designers, considering the model of thought behind it that holds characteristics of a particular nature. This knowledge is extrapolated to cases of incomplete problems resolution inherent to reality complexity, consider the model of technical rationality which based the current operating conditions of capitalism. The sustainability of current lifestyles based on consumption is placed on analysis, with design thinking to solve problems where there is a visual literacy along with a verbal literacy. The potential of the visual mode, close to the sensory experience without loss of original meaning, let us point to the possibility of imaterial transactions with symbolic-analytic products. Advocating a dematerialization of consumption it is proposed to develop solutions for sustainability in different contexts of human activity, based on cognitive processes broader and with better achievements
Perceptions of Safety in UBC Campus Public Spaces: The Case of the University Neighbourhoods Association
Creators: name: Ngo, Victor D.
name: Lefrançois, Camille B.
name: Keating, Jeremy
name: Fineblit, Emma
name: Herod, Megan
name: De Sousa, Steven
name: Diamond, Grant
name: Fox, Eric
name: Kohlhardt, Regan
name: Mill, Sian
name: Olajide, Alex Oladapo
name: Pritchard, Jamie
name: Wong, Bryan
name: James, Ryanne
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: This study examines University Neighbourhoods Association (UNA) residents' perception of safety of campus public spaces at the University of British Columbia (UBC) Point Grey Campus. A series of sexual assaults were reported at UBC in 2013, which prompted a number of responses from the university. Both the series of sexual assaults and UBC’s responses to the events have generated campus-wide conversations regarding the complexities and challenges of campus safety for students, faculty, and staff. However, perceptions of safety from the perspective of long-term, permanent residents at UBC are not well examined. This study addresses the research gap by using a community safety audit to understand UNA residents’ perceptions of safety of campus public spaces and how these perceptions are influenced by built and natural environment characteristics. Several recommendations are made to the UNA, UBC campus planning staff, and UBC regarding lighting, traffic, transportation, wayfinding, community connections, campus blue phones, CPTED, and safety messaging.
Additional file 2 of Perspectives on the prospective development of stroke-specific lower extremity wearable monitoring technology: a qualitative focus group study with physical therapists and individuals with stroke
Creators: name: Louie, Dennis
name: Marie-Louise Bird
name: Menon, Carlo
name: Eng, Janice
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2. Focus group guide for individuals with stroke.
A Kernel Based Unconditionally Stable Scheme for Nonlinear Parabolic Partial Differential Equations
Creators: name: Wang, Kaipeng
name: Christlieb, Andrew
name: Jiang, Yan
name: Zhang, Mengping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, a class of high order numerical schemes is proposed to solve the nonlinear parabolic equations with variable coefficients. This method is based on our previous work [10] for convection-diffusion equations, which relies on a special kernel-based formulation of the solutions and successive convolution. However, disadvantages appear when we extend the previous method to our equations, such as inefficient choice of parameters and unprovable stability for high-dimensional problems. To overcome these difficulties, a new kernel-based formulation is designed to approach the spatial derivatives. It maintains the good properties of the original one, including the high order accuracy and unconditionally stable for one-dimensional problems, hence allowing much larger time step evolution compared with other explicit schemes. In additional, without extra computational cost, the proposed scheme can enlarge the available interval of the special parameter in the formulation, leading to less errors and higher efficiency. Moreover, theoretical investigations indicate that it is unconditionally stable for multi-dimensional problems as well. We present numerical tests for one- and two-dimensional scalar and system, demonstrating the designed high order accuracy and unconditionally stable property of the scheme.
Experimental Upper Bound on Superradiance Emission from Mn12 Acetate
Creators: name: Bal, M.
name: Friedman, Jonathan R.
name: Mertes, K.
name: Chen, W.
name: Rumberger, E. M.
name: Hendrickson, D. N.
name: Avraham, N.
name: Myasoedov, Y.
name: Shtrikman, H.
name: Zeldov, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We used a Josephson junction as a radiation detector to look for evidence of the emission of electromagnetic radiation during magnetization avalanches in a crystal assembly of Mn_12-Acetate. The crystal assembly exhibits avalanches at several magnetic fields in the temperature range from 1.8 to 2.6 K with durations of the order of 1 ms. Although a recent study shows evidence of electromagnetic radiation bursts during these avalanches [J. Tejada, et al., Appl. Phys. Lett. {\bf 84}, 2373 (2004)], we were unable to detect any significant radiation at well-defined frequencies. A control experiment with external radiation pulses allows us to determine that the energy released as radiation during an avalanche is less than 1 part in 10^4 of the total energy released. In addition, our avalanche data indicates that the magnetization reversal process does not occur uniformly throughout the sample.
description: 4 RevTeX pages, 3 eps figures
Measurements of Absolute Branching Fractions of Fourteen Exclusive Hadronic $D$ Decays to $η$
Creators: name: BESIII Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using $2.93\,\rm fb^{-1}$ of $e^+e^-$ collision data taken at a center-of-mass energy of 3.773\,GeV with the BESIII detector, we report the first measurements of the absolute branching fractions of fourteen hadronic $D^{0(+)}$ decays to exclusive final states with an $η$, e.g., $D^0\to K^-π^+η$, $K^0_Sπ^0η$, $K^+K^-η$, $K^0_SK^0_Sη$, $K^-π^+π^0η$, $K^0_Sπ^+π^-η$, $K^0_Sπ^0π^0η$, and $π^+π^-π^0η$; $D^+\to K^0_Sπ^+η$, $K^0_SK^+η$, $K^-π^+π^+η$, $K^0_Sπ^+π^0η$, $π^+π^+π^-η$, and $π^+π^0π^0η$. Among these decays, the $D^0\to K^-π^+η$ and $D^+\to K^0_Sπ^+η$ decays have the largest branching fractions, which are $\mathcal{B} (D^0\to K^-π^+η)=(1.853\pm0.025_{\rm stat}\pm0.031_{\rm syst})\%$ and $\mathcal{B}(D^+\to K^0_Sπ^+η)=(1.309\pm0.037_{\rm stat}\pm0.031_{\rm syst})\%$, respectively. We also determine the $CP$ asymmetries for the six decays with highest event yields. No evidence of $CP$ violation is found.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures
Additional file 1 of The activity of hydrolytic enzymes and antibiotics against biofilms of bacteria isolated from industrial-scale cooling towers
Creators: name: Dias-Souza, Marcus Vinícius
name: Alves, Andrea Lima
name: Pagnin, Sérgio
name: Veiga, Andrea Azevedo
name: Haq, Ihtisham Ul
name: Alonazi, Wadi B.
name: dos Santos, Vera Lúcia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1
Nature of excited 0+ states in 158Gd described by the projected shell model
Creators: name: Sun, Yang
name: Aprahamian, Ani
name: Zhang, Jing-ye
name: Lee, Ching-Tsai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Excited 0+ states are studied in the framework of the projected shell model, aiming at understanding the nature of these states in deformed nuclei in general, and the recently observed 13 excited 0+ states in 158Gd in particular. The model, which contains projected two- and four-quasiparticle states as building blocks in the basis, is able to reproduce reasonably well the energies for all the observed 0+ states. The obtained B(E2) values however tend to suggest that these 0+ states might have a mixed nature of quasiparticle excitations coupled to collective vibrations.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, and 1 table, revised with new title
Additional file 1 of Redeveloping a global MOOC to be more locally relevant: design-based research
Creators: name: Ken-Zen Chen
name: Oakley, Barbara
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Research Information Protocol (translated from Chinese).
Additional file 1 of Perspectives on the prospective development of stroke-specific lower extremity wearable monitoring technology: a qualitative focus group study with physical therapists and individuals with stroke
Creators: name: Louie, Dennis
name: Marie-Louise Bird
name: Menon, Carlo
name: Eng, Janice
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Focus group guide for healthcare professionals.
Additional file 1 of Comprehensive discovery of subsample gene expression components by information explanation: therapeutic implications in cancer
Creators: name: Pepke, Shirley
name: Steeg, Greg Ver
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary methods details and text including a description of the Bayes prior and reproducibility across runs. (PDF 7511 kb)