cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Improving Approach Noise Predictions for Aircraft Environmental Impact Models Using Deep Neural Networks and Sound-level Monitor Data
Creators: name: Shukla, Aditeya
Publisher: name: Stanford Digital Repository
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Recurrent Neural Network
subject: Airplanes--Noise
subject: Aviation Environmental Design Tool
subject: San Francisco International Airport (Calif.)
subject: Flight Trajectory
subject: Federal Aviation Administration
subject: Machine learning
subject: Aeronautics, Commercial
subject: Statistical Distributions
subject: System Wide Information Management

description: In order to minimize the impacts of noise on overflown communities by re-designing flight procedures, predictive techniques such as the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Aviation Environmental Design Tool (AEDT) have been developed and are widely used in the aviation community. Such tools are usually based on the simulation of flight trajectories and noise generation as well as propagation models of various fidelity levels. To more accurately describe the impacts of noise and changes in noise metrics that result from flight procedure redesigns, errors in the predictions must be sufficiently small so that changes to air traffic patterns do not result in unforeseen consequences. At Stanford University, we have developed the Metroplex Overflight Noise Analysis (MONA) system to measure, predict, and analyze the noise generated by aircraft overflights in complex multi-airport settings and to provide accurate and actionable data to inform consensus-building and, possibly, procedure redesigns in the context of FAA’s NextGen system. The capabilities of the MONA system include generating vast amounts of data (approximately 3,000-5,000 flights/day around Bay Area airports alone). This data contains (a) detailed flight trajectories and equipment combinations extracted from ADS-B data feeds, (b) noise levels at several locations measured by a network of sound-level monitoring (SLM) stations, and (c) predictions of the noise produced by the aircraft/engine combinations computed by automated analyses using AEDT. Over an entire year, millions of predictions and measurements are collected and indexed resulting in curated datasets for further analysis. This paper explores an application of these datasets, using machine learning (ML) techniques to create models of the noise generated by aircraft on approach trajectories to San Francisco International airport (SFO). Using deep neural net ML architectures we show that the errors in the mean for Lmax noise metrics are reduced to within the margin of measurement error of the SLMs.
The Sound of Silence: Women’s Voices in Medicine and Law
Creators: name: Spruce, Tracey E.
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 1998

description: Once upon a time, there was a young girl named Angela Stoner. Her friends and family called her Angie. When she was thirteen, she was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer in her left leg and had to undergo radiation and chemotherapy. The treatments made her sick and she lost her hair. The doctors had told her she was going to die; instead she survived. She eventually graduated from high school and took a job as a receptionist. Angie fell in love with Rick Carder when she was twenty. They moved in together a year later. One day, Angie felt a familiar pain in her left leg. She had a feeling the cancer was back and she was right. This time it was called osteogenic sarcoma and had grown into her hip. The doctors amputated her left leg and half of her pelvis. Angie felt sure that this was finally the end of the cancer. She had beat it.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 7 No. 2 (1998)
Localization in Correlated Bi-Layer Structures: From Photonic Cristals to Metamaterials and Electron Superlattices
Creators: name: Izrailev, F. M.
name: Makarov, N. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a unified approach, we study the transport properties of periodic-on-average bi-layered photonic crystals, metamaterials and electron superlattices. Our consideration is based on the analytical expression for the localization length derived for the case of weakly fluctuating widths of layers, that also takes into account possible correlations in disorder. We analyze how the correlations lead to anomalous properties of transport. In particular, we show that for quarter stack layered media specific correlations can result in a $ω^2$-dependence of the Lyapunov exponent in all spectral bands.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Lacerta australis Gu.
Creators: name: Müller, F
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1885
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Squamata
Ophidia
Lacertidae
Lacerta
Lacerta australis

description: * Brachyurophis australis Gü.
(Simotes a. Krefft.)
Süd-Australien v. F M. [1]
description: Published as part of Müller, F, 1885, Vierter Nachtrag zum Katalogder herpetologischen Sammlung des Basler Museums, pp. 668-717 in Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel. 7 (3) on page 679, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.part.2388, http://zenodo.org/record/15183591
The Illusion of Suffrage: Female Voting Rights and the Women’s Poll Tax Repeal Movement After the Nineteenth Amendment
Creators: name: Podolefsky, Ronnie L.
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 1998

description: A century of struggle preceded the 1920 passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, granting women the right to vote. Conventional wisdom holds that passage of the amendment heralded women’s right to vote and that, at the same time, it signaled the end of the women’s rights movement until the 1960s. This essay challenges both assumptions. The Southern poll tax, a charge of one or two dollars required for registering to vote,’ resulted in the disproportionate disfranchisement of millions of women. Evidence shows that women were actively fighting the effects of the poll tax by 1922. Organized repeal efforts were well underway by the 1930s and remained so until the poll tax was finally put to rest by constitutional amendment in 1964 and by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1966. The women’s movement to repeal the tax was in fact a manifestation of the women’s rights movement during an era generally hostile to feminists. Additionally, this movement evidenced women working together across racial lines, contradicting another widespread assumption about the women’s movement. The women’s rights movement didn’t end after suffrage. Instead, it survived, shaped by the relative friendliness and hostility of the political, social, and economic environment of the mid-twentieth century. Poll tax repeal through the political process was difficult since the tax disfranchised the very women who would vote for repeal. The Court remained unavailable to them for decades after a 1937 decision finding the tax constitutional. The movement directed its energies into whatever channels remained. Not readily recognized in the traditional form we have come to expect, the women’s rights movement was necessarily submerged within the identities of seemingly unrelated groups and individuals whose resources and power the women accessed.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 7 No. 2 (1998)
Lattice Landau Gauge and Algebraic Geometry
Creators: name: Mehta, Dhagash
name: Sternbeck, Andre
name: von Smekal, Lorenz
name: Williams, Anthony G
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Finding the global minimum of a multivariate function efficiently is a fundamental yet difficult problem in many branches of theoretical physics and chemistry. However, we observe that there are many physical systems for which the extremizing equations have polynomial-like non-linearity. This allows the use of Algebraic Geometry techniques to solve these equations completely. The global minimum can then straightforwardly be found by the second derivative test. As a warm-up example, here we study lattice Landau gauge for compact U(1) and propose two methods to solve the corresponding gauge-fixing equations. In a first step, we obtain all Gribov copies on one and two dimensional lattices. For simple 3x3 systems their number can already be of the order of thousands. We anticipate that the computational and numerical algebraic geometry methods employed have far-reaching implications beyond the simple but illustrating examples discussed here.
description: Talk given at International Workshop on QCD Green's Functions, Confinement, and Phenomenology - QCD-TNT09, Trento, Italy, September 07 - 11 2009
The longevity of fencing out livestock as a method of decreasing contaminant concentrations in a headwater stream
Creators: name: McDowell, Richard
Publisher: name: AgResearch
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4104
subject: Environmental management

description: Water quality can be improved by fencing off streams from livestock. However, the remedial effect of fencing can fail as livestock trample near stream areas. Water samples were taken every 3–4 wk, and flow was monitored over time in a headwater stream from 2003 to 2019. In November 2005, the stream edge and an area near the stream used for wallowing by farmed red deer was fenced off and planted in native trees, shrubs, and grasses. Contaminant (nitrogen and phosphorus species, sediment, and the fecal indicator bacteria Escherichia coli) concentrations decreased after fencing until at least 2013 (55–84%). However, nitrate concentrations more than doubled owing to the use of a portion of the catchment for a grazed winter forage crop in 2013. Most concentrations remained low after fencing, but sediment concentrations slowing increased (3% yr−1), which was attributed to animal tracking near the fence line. The presence of stock in the catchment enriched stormflow losses but prevented losses during baseflow. These data indicate that, when implemented well, fencing and planting could potentially sustain good water quality for decades in farmed red deer systems.
Domestic Violence Work at Columbia Law School
Creators: name: LaVelle, Laura
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 1998

description: The Domestic Violence Project (DVP) at Columbia Law School was founded in 1994 by a third-year law student, Maxine Rosenthal. In its early years, the Domestic Violence Project provided law students with the opportunity to advocate in Family Court for battered women through a court accompaniment program. Through this program, Victim Services Westside Office Legal Project would send an attorney every semester to train Columbia law students. Then, Victim Services would call Columbia’s DVP hotline when they needed a student to accompany an otherwise unrepresented woman seeking an Order of Protection in Family Court. Usually women whom students accompanied to court had already spent a day in court filing for and obtaining a temporary Order of Protection. In an accompaniment case, students would interview women before their upcoming adjourn dates and advocate for them in hearings for their final Orders of Protection before Family Court judges. The students’ moral support and advocacy provided women with needed assistance at a crucial point in their cases. The DVP continues today to take these accompaniment cases from Victim Services and other legal agencies.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 8 No. 1 (1998)
A geometrical model for the catalogs of galaxies
Creators: name: Zaninetti, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The 3D network originated by the faces of irregular Poissonian Voronoi Polyhedrons may represent the backbone on which the galaxies are originated. As a consequence the spatial appearance of the catalogs of galaxies can be reproduced. The selected catalogs to simulate are the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey and the Third Reference Catalog of Bright Galaxies. In order to explain the number of observed galaxies for a given flux/magnitude as a function of the redshift, the photometric properties of the galaxies should be carefully examined from both the astronomical and theoretical point of view. The statistics of the Voronoi normalized volume is modeled by two distributions and the Eridanus super-void is identified as the largest volume belonging to the Voronoi Polyhedron. The behavior of the correlation function for galaxies is simulated by adopting the framework of thick faces of Voronoi Polyhedrons on short scales, while adopting standard arguments on large scales.
description: 51 pages, 27 figures
Cartographic resistance/prefigurative world-building : the democratic implications of Indigenous participatory mapping
Creators: name: Panchanadam, Vaishnavi
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: In recent years, participatory mapping projects initiated by historically and presently marginalized groups, including those undertaken by Indigenous peoples, have been gaining prominence in scholarly discourses. Examined predominantly under the framework of counter-mapping, much of this scholarship is focussed on how Indigenous communities in various locales mobilize traditional knowledge systems to demarcate their territories in resistance to colonial and capitalist incursions. In taking these discourses as a point of departure, this thesis argues that by positing Indigenous participatory mapping initiatives solely in the form of resistance to (neo)colonial dispossessory acts, the framework of counter-mapping occludes their prefigurative and democratic potentialities. Examining Indigenous mapping projects in settler colonial contexts, this thesis proposes an alternative approach to examining these initiatives— as a process of prefigurative world-building where communities can realize their democratic potentialities by participating in decision-making regarding what is mapped and how. Not only do these initiatives serve a generative refusals to dispossessory acts, but they also disrupt coercive territorial and civic boundaries imposed by the colonial ‘democratic’ state. I begin by critically examining the role of cartography, colonial notions of space, sovereignty, and boundaries operate to create and uphold coercive settler colonial borders. I then explore existing approaches to boundaries and borders in democratic theory, revealing how the separation of the territorial and civic questions of borders obscures their interconnectedness and their implication in coercively, contingently, and destructively including Indigenous lands and bodies into the bounds of the settler state. This coercive inclusion is further reified through (neo)colonial dispossessory acts justified by invocations of democratic legitimacy and sovereignty by the colonial state. Indeed, it is these dispossessory acts that projects and scholarly discourses on counter-mapping highlight resistance towards. I then lay out a theoretical framework for examining Indigenous participatory mapping as a form of prefigurative world-building, grounding this framework in cartographic undertakings in the Amazonas and on Turtle Island. The thesis concludes with an examination of the implications of the presented arguments for the theory and practice of democracy, emphasizing the importance of untethering democracy from its dominant, Western state-centric conceptions and redefining it to include subaltern participatory initiatives.
Scientific Software Process for the Web
Creators: name: McCormick, Matthew
name: Fillion-Robin, Jean-Christophe
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Modern scientific computing is often performed in web browsers, utilizing The Web Platform. The creation of high quality scientific software that works across platforms, is maintainable, promotes developer productivity, and produces reproducible results is dependent on good software engineering processes. However, traditional scientific software process tools, often focused on platform-specific binaries that run directly on workstations, do not apply to The Web Platform. At the same time, many of the software engineering tools available for The Web Platform do not meet the compute and data-intensive needs of scientific research software.
 In this panel presentation, two developers with extensive experience developing browser-based scientific software and web-based documentation will discuss best practices and software process tools for browser-based scientific software and web-based documentation. We will discuss relevant characteristics of The Web Platform, including capability-based security, JavaScript execution environments, variations in web browsers, desktop and mobile operating systems, hardware variations, and WebAssembly, WebGL, and WebGPU execution. We will also discuss appropriate tools and approaches to regression testing, continuous integration testing, and continuous deployment. Furthermore, we will discuss best practices for the creation of web-based documentation, including documentation generation systems, deployment options, versioning, and pull request previews.
Prosecutorial Use of Expert Testimony in Domestic Violence Cases: From Recantation to Refusal to Testify
Creators: name: Rogers, Audrey
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 1998

description: Mandatory arrest laws and no-drop policies have greatly increased the number of batterers being prosecuted. Unlike conventional cases, however, where prosecutors rely on the cooperation and participation of complaining witnesses to obtain convictions, in domestic violence cases prosecutors are often faced with exceptional challenges. Such challenges include victims who refuse to testify, who recant previous statements, or whose credibility is attacked by defense questions on why they remained in a battering relationship. To explain the behavior of such victims, prosecutors rely increasingly on expert testimony on battering and its effects. While the use of expert testimony on battering and its effects has been widely used by women claiming that they have killed their abusers in self-defense, it is only in the last few years that prosecutors have made significant efforts to use experts when prosecuting batterers. Until 1990, appellate courts in only a handful of jurisdictions had considered whether prosecutors may use expert testimony on battering and its effects in a domestic violence prosecution. Between 1991 and 1997, however, appellate courts in at least thirteen more jurisdictions ruled on the admissibility of expert testimony to explain a battering victim’s puzzling behavior at or before trial. All of those jurisdictions, except Ohio, approved of prosecutorial use of expert testimony.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 8 No. 1 (1998)
Multi-Wavelength View of Flare Events on November 20, 2003
Creators: name: Kumar, P.
name: Manoharan, P. K.
name: Uddin, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze two flare events which occurred in active region NOAA 501 on November 20, 2003. The H-alpha and magnetogram measurements show interaction between two filaments which produced a slowly rising flare event, corresponding to two stages of magnetic reconnection. The relative clockwise rotation between the two sunspot systems caused filament destabilization. The cusp-shaped magnetic field in the main phase of the second flare and its evolution in correlation with ribbon separation provide evidence for the cause of the CME eruption. The propagation and orientation of the CME with respect to the ecliptic plane is illustrated by IPS images.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures; To appear in "Magnetic Coupling between the Interior and the Atmosphere of the Sun", eds. S.S. Hasan and R.J. Rutten, Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Berlin, 2009
Stability of synchronization in coupled time-delay systems using Krasovskii-Lyapunov theory
Creators: name: Senthilkumar, D. V.
name: Kurths, J.
name: Lakshmanan, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Stability of synchronization in unidirectionally coupled time-delay systems is studied using the Krasovskii-Lyapunov theory. We have shown that the same general stability condition is valid for different cases, even for the general situation (but with a constraint) where all the coefficients of the error equation corresponding to the synchronization manifold are time-dependent. These analytical results are also confirmed by numerical simulation of paradigmatic examples.
description: Accepted for Publication in Physical Review E
The lost siblings of the Sun
Creators: name: Zwart, S. Portegies
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The anomalous chemical abundances and the structure of the Edgewood-Kuiper belt observed in the solar system constrain the initial mass and radius of the star cluster in which the sun was born to $M\simeq500$ to 3000 \msun and $R\simeq 1$ to 3 pc. When the cluster dissolved the siblings of the sun dispersed through the galaxy, but they remained on a similar orbit around the Galactic center. Today these stars hide among the field stars, but 10 to 60 of them are still present within a distance of $\sim 100$ pc. These siblings of the sun can be identified by accurate measurements of their chemical abundances, positions and their velocities. Finding even a few will strongly constrain the parameters of the parental star cluster and the location in the Galaxy where we were born.
description: Submitted to ApJ Letters
Medical Image Classification Using Transfer Learning and Chaos Game Optimization on the Internet of Medical Things
Creators: name: Mabrouk, Alhassan
name: Dahou, Abdelghani
name: Elaziz, Mohamed Abd
name: Redondo, Rebeca P. Díaz
name: Kayed, Mohammed
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) has dramatically benefited medical professionals that patients and physicians can access from all regions. Although the automatic detection and prediction of diseases such as melanoma and leukemia is still being researched and studied in IoMT, existing approaches are not able to achieve a high degree of efficiency. Thus, with a new approach that provides better results, patients would access the adequate treatments earlier and the death rate would be reduced. Therefore, this paper introduces an IoMT proposal for medical images classification that may be used anywhere, i.e. it is an ubiquitous approach. It was design in two stages: first, we employ a Transfer Learning (TL)-based method for feature extraction, which is carried out using MobileNetV3; second, we use the Chaos Game Optimization (CGO) for feature selection, with the aim of excluding unnecessary features and improving the performance, which is key in IoMT. Our methodology was evaluated using ISIC-2016, PH2, and Blood-Cell datasets. The experimental results indicated that the proposed approach obtained an accuracy of 88.39% on ISIC-2016, 97.52% on PH2, and 88.79% on Blood-cell. Moreover, our approach had successful performances for the metrics employed compared to other existing methods.
description: 22 pages, 12 figures, journal
Modeling of microwave-assisted switching in micron-sized magnetic ellipsoids
Creators: name: Yanes, R.
name: Rozada, R.
name: Garcia-Sanchez, F.
name: Chubykalo-Fesenko, O.
name: Pimentel, P. Martin
name: Leven, B.
name: Hillebrands, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The microwave assisted magnetisation reversal is modelled in a permalloy micron-sized magnetic ellipsoid. Our simulations confirm that this process requires less field than magnetisation reversal under a static field. This is due to a different reversal mode which in case of the microwave-assisted process is always a ripple structure. During the magnetisation reversal two stages: nucleation and relaxation are distinguished. The nucleation process is governed by spinwave instabilities. The relaxation process is related to the domain expansion through domain wall propagation determined by the precessional motion of magnetic moments in the center of the domain walls. As a consequence, the switching time is a complex oscillating function of the microwave frequency.
Testing supersymmetry at the LHC through gluon-fusion production of a slepton pair
Creators: name: Borzumati, Francesca
name: Hagiwara, Kaoru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Renormalizable quartic couplings among new particles are typical of supersymmetric models. Their detection could provide a test for supersymmetry, discriminating it from other extensions of the Standard Model. Quartic couplings among squarks and sleptons, together with the SU(3) gauge couplings for squarks, allow a new realization of the gluon-fusion mechanism for pair-production of sleptons at the one-loop level. The corresponding production cross section, however, is at most of ${\cal O}(1) $fb for slepton and squark masses of ${\cal O}(100) $GeV. We then extend our investigation to the gluon-fusion production of sleptons through the exchange of Higgs bosons. The cross section is even smaller, of ${\cal O}(0.1) $fb, if the exchanged Higgs boson is considerably below the slepton-pair threshold, but it is enhanced when it is resonant. It can reach ${\cal O}(10) $fb for the production of sleptons of same-chirality, exceeding these values for $\widetildeτ$'s of opposite-chirality, even when chirality-mixing terms in the squark sector are vanishing. The cross section can be further enhanced if these mixing terms are nonnegligible, providing a potentially interesting probe of the Higgs sector, in particular of parameters such as $A$, $μ$, and $\tanβ$.
description: 28 pages, 11 figures
Non-monotonic thermal Casimir force from geometry-temperature interplay
Creators: name: Weber, Alexej
name: Gies, Holger
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The geometry dependence of Casimir forces is significantly more pronounced in the presence of thermal fluctuations due to a generic geometry-temperature interplay. We show that the thermal force for standard sphere-plate or cylinder-plate geometries develops a non-monotonic behavior already in the simple case of a fluctuating Dirichlet scalar. In particular, the attractive thermal force can increase for increasing distances below a critical temperature. This anomalous behavior is triggered by a reweighting of relevant fluctuations on the scale of the thermal wavelength. The essence of the phenomenon becomes transparent within the worldline picture of the Casimir effect.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Supplementary Information from Evaluating strategies for spatial allocation of vaccines based on risk and centrality
Creators: name: Singer, Benjamin J.
name: Thompson, Robin N.
name: Bonsall, Michael B.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 10202 Biological Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Derivation of random walk percolation centrality, variations on figures 3 and 4 in the main text, and preliminary results for NPIs.
Domestic Violence in Black and White: Racialized Gender Stereotypes in Gender Violence
Creators: name: Fenton, Zanita E.
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 1998

description: The media attention given to the criminal and civil trials of Orenthal James Simpson has focused the attention of mainstream society on the issues surrounding domestic violence. Unfortunately, instead of prompting greater awareness of the magnitude of the issues, the media and the actors in the legal proceedings manipulated stereotypes and obscured the issues of domestic violence. Through the lens of the media focus on the O.J. trials, the issue of domestic violence has implicitly become “black and white.” Literally, beliefs about justice in these cases were portrayed by media polls as divided by race. For example, a Los Angeles Times poll conducted near the end of the civil trial indicated that “71 % of whites said they thought Simpson committed the murders, while 70% of blacks said they thought he was innocent.” There were no polls broken down by gender. In fact, we don’t know if the polls that were done by race included proportional numbers of men and women of either race. Would it have been more or less significant if men and women (regardless of race) held the same views about the issues of domestic violence? There were also no polls broken down by income or social status. Would it have mattered if people’s belief in Simpson’s innocence or guilt correlated to their relative income? Most significantly, these polls did not reveal the basis for the responses of the pollees. Do we know if their perceptions of justice were based on race, or on gender, or on class, or on the available evidence, or on all of the above?
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 8 No. 1 (1998)
A new data driven framework for simulating mendelian randomization data
Creators: name: Tinti Tomio, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Mendelian randomization (MR) is a causal inference method that allows biostatisticians to leverage DNA measurements to study causal effects with only observed data. Recent advancements including two-sample summary-level mendelian randomization (TSSLMR) and the data source IEU OpenGWAS database have lowered the barrier for conducting MR studies and opened the opportunity to mine causal effects. In the first part of the thesis, I show that there is a mismatch between the characteristics of modern TSSLMR data and how articles that propose popular TSSLMR models conduct their simulations. Next, I propose my solution: a data driven simulation framework for MR data that aims to be realistic, interpretable and easy to use thanks to a complementary R package implementation. As for the results, I show that models perform far better in literature-based simulations compared to more realistic simulations based on my proposed framework. Lastly, I warn that the mismatch between simulated and real data along with the obtained results may lead researchers to have over optimistic expectations about models performance in real applications.
The Bernstein Conjecture, Minimal Cones, and Critical Dimensions
Creators: name: Gibbons, Gary W.
name: Maeda, Kei-ichi
name: Miyamoto, Umpei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Minimal surfaces and domain walls play important roles in various contexts of spacetime physics as well as material science. In this paper, we first review the Bernstein conjecture, which asserts that a plane is the only globally well defined solution of the minimal surface equation which is a single valued graph over a hyperplane in flat spaces, and its failure in higher dimensions. Then, we review how minimal cones in four- and higher-dimensional spacetimes, which are curved and even singular at the apex, may be used to provide counterexamples to the conjecture. The physical implications of these counterexamples in curved spacetimes are discussed from various points of view, ranging from classical general relativity, brane physics, and holographic models of fundamental interactions.
description: 19 pages, no figure; v2: comments added in footnote 1 and 2
Enicognathus punctatostriatus Jan.
Creators: name: Müller, F
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1885
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Squamata
Ophidia
Colubridae
Enicognathus
Enicognathus punctatostriatus

description: * Enicognathus punctatostriatus Jan.
(America) v. F M. [1]
description: Published as part of Müller, F, 1885, Vierter Nachtrag zum Katalogder herpetologischen Sammlung des Basler Museums, pp. 668-717 in Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel. 7 (3) on page 679, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.part.2388, http://zenodo.org/record/15183591
Closing My Eyes and Remembering My Self: Reflections of a Lesbian Law Professor
Creators: name: Miccio, G. Kristian
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 1997

description: I know that I am in the right place. The room is stuffy. The portraits of past deans line the wall reminding some of us that we are interlopers. The gaze of the dead mixes with that of the living-staring at a podium inhabited by the newest member of the law school faculty. I am here-ready to teach, to probe my students’ minds, and to allow them to probe mine, as we attempt to make sense out of cases in which rights and wrongs are inscribed on our collective consciousness. I am going to do something today that these first year students could not have anticipated. As part of their orientation class, I am going to teach Bowers v. Hardwick to begin their law school careers, and my first day, with an inquiry into the construction of the legal/political Other. And today, these students will be asked to begin this inquiry by submerging themselves into the identity of Michael Hardwick, a gay man arrested in his bedroom by two Georgia police officers. Today, these students and their teacher will attempt to make sense out of state power aimed at those who love members of their own sex. We start with a careful rendition of the facts. I ask one student, a young man, to tell us how Michael Hardwick came to the attention of the court. As he speaks, I am struck by the catalog of facts: arrested, bedroom, two men, caught, sodomitical embrace, jail term, 20 years. His words hang in the air as he completes this brief assignment. Once again, I am reminded of how tenuous the existence of the sexual outlaw is: how it is constructed by the imposition of the will of those who would relegate us to a legal wasteland, where liberty, privacy, and bodily integrity are illusory and reserved only for those who know how to love Right.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 7 No. 1 (1997)
Compelling Pregnancy at Death’s Door: Heeding Harms to Women
Creators: name: Taylor, Katherine A.
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 1997

description: In December 1995, a nurse in a Rochester nursing home noticed that a 29 year old female patient had a swollen belly. It was later discovered that the woman was pregnant, though she had been in a coma for ten years. While her rapist has since been convicted, it was not only the rape itself that caught the nation’s attention, but the decision by the comatose woman’s parents to continue her pregnancy. The following March, a baby boy was born two months premature, and the woman’s mother was awarded guardianship. Ethicists and others lined up on both sides of the controversy, some supporting the parents’ decision, and others decrying the “almost grotesque” use of the woman’s body as a fetal incubator. One ethicist observed that, “The case is beyond our imagination. Something like that would never even cross our minds. And, here it is.” But in fact, something “like that” has crossed the minds of legislators in most states. Thirty-six states mandate, through their advance directive statutes, that an incompetent pregnant woman be kept alive under certain circumstances, despite her earlier wishes expressed in a living will, or, in many states, the wishes of her designated healthcare decisionmaker.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 7 No. 1 (1997)
Éditorial
Creators: name: Le Quellec Cottier, Christine
name: Leroy, Claude
Publisher: name: Classiques Garnier
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Music kiss me
subject: 21 janvier 1961
subject: 1921
subject: 2021
subject: Tristan Tzara
subject: Musique
subject: Music kiss me
subject: January 21
subject: 1961; 1921
subject: 2021
subject: Tristan Tzara
subject: Music

description: Fêtons l’épatante présence de l’écrivain qui, décédé à Paris le 21 janvier 1961, n’a jamais disparu ! Notre dossier « Cendrars en musique » affiche la pérennité de l’œuvre par la musique, claironnée avec le « Music kiss me » dès 1916. Des artistes majeurs de la scène contemporaine se sont associés à cet élan pour rendre hommage au bourlingueur, en 2021, année qui marque aussi le centenaire d’Anthologie nègre, fascination primitiviste partagée cette fois-ci en compagnie de Tristan Tzara.
description: Let’s celebrate the stunning influence of the writer who died in Paris on January 21, 1961, but never went away! Our special report “Cendrars in music” shows the longevity of his work through music, heralded by “Music kiss me” as early as 1916. Major artists from the present day have joined the drive to pay tribute to the globetrotter in 2021, a year that also marks the centennial of Anthologie nègre, a primitivist obsession shared in this instance with Tristan Tzara.
Self-Excited Vibrations in Turning: Efforts Torsor and Average Friction Coefficient Analysis
Creators: name: Gérard, Alain
name: Cahuc, Olivier
name: Zapciu, Miron
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An experimental device in turning including, in particular, a six-component dynamometer is exploited to measure the complete torque of cutting forces in a case of self-excited vibrations. For the tests, the tool used is type TNMA 16 04 12 carbide not covered (nuance carbide-SUMITIMO ELECTRIC), without chip breeze. The machined material is an alloy of chrome molybdenum type 42 CrMo24. The test-tubes are cylindrical with a diameter of 120 mm and a length of 30 mm. The effort of analysis relates to the moments. In particular, to the tool tip point, when feed rate increases the friction coefficient of swivelling is increasing while that of bearing is decreasing. Innovative remarks on the evolution of the average friction coefficient for various depths of cut and feed rate are presented
Best Practices for Communication of Project, Resources, Governance, and Culture
Creators: name: Fillion-Robin, Jean-Christophe
name: Sullivan, Bane
name: McCormick, Matthew
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: In this panel discussion on effective communication in open-source software projects, panelists will provide insights using specific examples from the ITK & VTK community projects.
 The panelists, comprising project leaders and contributors, will share their extensive experience in communicating project resources, governance, and culture to a diverse community of developers and users. They will discuss best practices for communication strategies related to technical resources, such as code repositories and documentation. In addition, the panel will examine the importance of transparent governance structures and building an inclusive project culture.
 To facilitate communication among project participants, including forums and documentation, the panel will also explore practical tools and techniques. Attendees will leave with actionable insights to improve communication in their own projects and a deeper understanding of the critical role communication plays in open-source software projects.
The Knowledge/Power Dilemma and the Myth of the Supermother
Creators: name: Morrison, Mairi N.
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 1997

description: This article arises out of a “narcotics forfeiture defense I handled while a student attorney at the University of Baltimore Housing Law Clinic. Our forfeiture claimant, Celia Darby, was a 55-year-old black woman who had spent most of her life at 1508 North Eden Street, a tiny rowhouse in East Baltimore. She had grown up there, and raised five male children there (burying her oldest the month before we met). When she came to us, she was raising the next generation of the extended family of which she was the center. Had the forfeiture been successful, Ms. Darby ‘s house would have been the first in Baltimore to be taken under Maryland’s Asset Forfeiture Act, legislation which had recently been amended in emulation of the Federal Civil Forfeiture Statute to allow the forfeiture of real property, including the family home. The federal statute provided for the forfeiture of property “used to facilitate” the commission of a narcotics felony. Prosecution under Maryland’s Asset Forfeiture Act required that the home be “used in connection” with a violation of one offive enumerated narcotics offenses, including a crime called “Maintaining a Common Nuisance,” which is a felony in Maryland.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 7 No. 1 (1997)
Additional file 2: of Two dose levels of rabbit antithymocyte globulin as graft-versus-host disease prophylaxis in haploidentical stem cell transplantation: a multicenter randomized study
Creators: name: Lin, Ren
name: Wang, Yu
name: Huang, Fen
name: Fan, Zhiping
name: Zhang, Shen
name: Yang, Ting
name: Xu, Yajing
name: Xu, Na
name: Xuan, Li
name: Ye, Jieyu
name: Sun, Jing
name: Huang, Xiaojun
name: Liu, Qifa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Table S1. Risk factors for aGVHD and cGVHD: Including univariate and multivariate risk factors analysis for aGVHD and cGVHD. Table S2. Immune reconstitution within 1 year posttransplantation (absolute value): Including the T, B, and NK cells reconstitution within 1 year posttransplantation shown by the absolute value. Table S3. Immune reconstitution within 1 year posttransplantation (percentage): Including the T, B, and NK cells reconstitution within 1 year posttransplantation shown by the percentage. Table S4. Causes of death posttransplantation. Table S5. Risk factors for survival and relapse: Including univariate and multivariate risk factors analysis for survival and relapse. (DOCX 51 kb)
Face vectors of two-dimensional Buchsbaum complexes
Creators: name: Murai, Satoshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 13F55

description: In this paper, we characterize all possible h-vectors of 2-dimensional Buchsbaum simplicial complexes.
description: 13 pages. Improve section 4
Review and update of a Nutrient Transfer model used for estimating nitrous oxide emissions from complex grazed landscapes, and implications for nationwide accounting
Creators: name: Vibart, Ronaldo
name: Giltrap, Donna
name: Saggar, Surinder
name: Mackay, Alec
name: Betteridge, Keith
name: Costall, Des
name: Rollo, Mike
name: Draganova, Ina
Publisher: name: AgResearch
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 30
subject: Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences
classificationCode: 300202
subject: Agricultural land management
classificationCode: 4104
subject: Environmental management

description: In New Zealand, nitrous oxide emissions from grazed hill pastures are estimated using different emission factors for urine and dung deposited on different slope classes. Allocation of urine and dung to each slope class needs to consider the distribution of slope classes within a landscape and animal behavior. The Nutrient Transfer (NT) model has recently been incorporated into the New Zealand Agricultural GHG Inventory Model to account for the allocation of excretal nitrogen (N) to each slope class. In this study, the predictive ability of the transfer function within the NT model was explored using urine deposition datasets collected with urine sensor and GPS tracker technology. Data were collected from three paddocks that had areas in low (<12°), medium (12–24°), and high slopes (>24°). The NT model showed a good overall predictive ability for two of the three datasets. However, if the urine emission factors (% of urine N emitted as N2O–N) were to be further disaggregated to assess emissions from all three slope classes or slope gradients, more precise data would be required to accurately represent the range of landscapes found on farms. We have identified the need for more geospatial data on urine deposition and animal location for farms that are topographically out of the range used to develop the model. These new datasets would provide livestock urine deposition on a more continuous basis across slopes (as opposed to broad ranges), a unique opportunity to improve the performance of the NT model.
Finite size effects with variable range exchange coupling in thin-film Pd/Fe/Pd trilayers
Creators: name: Das, R. K.
name: Misra, R.
name: Tongay, S.
name: Rairigh, R.
name: Hebard, A. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The magnetic properties of thin-film Pd/Fe/Pd trilayers in which an embedded ~1.5 A-thick ultrathin layer of Fe induces ferromagnetism in the surrounding Pd have been investigated. The thickness of the ferromagnetic trilayer is controlled by varying the thickness of the top Pd layer over a range from 8 A to 56 A. As the thickness of the top Pd layer decreases, or equivalently as the embedded Fe layer moves closer to the top surface, the saturated magnetization normalized to area and the Curie temperature decrease whereas the coercivity increases. These thickness-dependent observations for proximity-polarized thin-film Pd are qualitatively consistent with finite size effects that are well known for regular thin-film ferromagnets. The critical exponent $β$ of the order parameter (magnetization) is found to approach the mean field value of 0.5 as the thickness of the top Pd layer increases. The functional forms for the thickness dependences, which are strongly modified by the nonuniform exchange interaction in the polarized Pd, provide important new insights to understanding nanomagnetism in two-dimensions.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures, submitted to JMMM
Untying the Relocation Knot: Recent Developments and a Model for Change
Creators: name: Ford, Chris
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 1997

description: Relocation jurisprudence is a critical women’s law issue. Women are awarded primary custody of their children in the vast majority of divorce cases. The post-divorce family unit, comprised of the custodial parent and children, typically faces decisions about whether to relocate. Most of these relocation decisions stem from economic necessity or a custodial parent’s remarriage. A state that makes relocation difficult forces the custodial parent to make the unenviable choice of either pursuing a new opportunity in a different location, which may result in a loss of custody, or foregoing the opportunity and staying in the same locality in order to maintain custody. States that make relocation easier, on the other hand, have come to respect the custodial parent’s decision to move and have recognized the importance of maintaining the stable custodial relationship that has developed subsequent to the initial custody determination. How a state responds to relocation through its legal apparatus thus implicates the financial and emotional well-being of the post-divorce family.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 7 No. 1 (1997)