cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Naturalism and Moral Realism
Creators: name: Sias, James
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2007

description: My aim is to challenge recent attempts at reconciling moral realism and naturalism by pushing ethical naturalists into a dilemma. According to one horn of the dilemma, ethical naturalists must either (a) build unique facts and properties about divergent social structures (or varying moral belief systems) into their subvenient sets of natural facts and properties, and so jeopardize the objectivity of moral truths, or (b) insist, in the face of all possible worlds in which people have different moral beliefs than ours, that they are all mistaken'this despite the fact that the belief-forming mechanism responsible for their moral beliefs was never concerned with the truth of those beliefs in the first place. This will bring me to suggest that moral properties might only weakly supervene upon natural phenomena. But, according to the other horn of the dilemma, weak supervenience is a defeater for moral knowledge.
Seismic Design of a Typical Mid-Rise Residential Building in Serbia Using Confined Masonry and Reinforced Concrete Frame Systems
Creators: name: Cvetković, Radovan
name: Blagojević, Predrag
name: Brzev, Svetlana, 1959-
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2024

description: Masonry has been widely used for the construction of residential buildings in Serbia and the majority of European countries. Confined masonry (CM) is a contemporary masonry technology that consists of load-bearing masonry walls enclosed in lightly reinforced horizontal and vertical reinforced concrete (RC) confining elements. CM has been widely used for the construction of low-rise and mid-rise residential buildings in Serbia and the region (Yugoslavia) since the 1960s. The design case study of a typical multi-family residential building located in Niš, Serbia (the third-largest urban center in the country), is discussed in this paper. This building was initially designed as a five-story CM structure in accordance with the 1981 Yugoslav seismic design code PTN-S, which was enforced in Serbia until 2019, when the Eurocode was adopted for official seismic design codes. Due to architectural constraints, the original design solution involving the CM system was not compliant with the code; hence, an alternative design using an RC-frame system with masonry infills was adopted. A comparison of two different design solutions provides insight into the different requirements of seismic design codes that have been used in the region. It is important to observe that seismic forces for RC structures determined in accordance with the PTN-S code are considerably lower compared to the ones determined according to EC 8-1, with the ratio ranging from 0.37 to 0.69. The seismic shear force according to Eurocode 8 is 1.46 times higher than the force that was used for seismic design according to the PTN-S code in the case of RC-frame structures. The results of an analysis of CM structures show that the seismic shear force in accordance with Eurocode 8 is almost 2.6 times higher than the force that was used for seismic design in accordance with the PTN-S code. The findings of this study are believed to be useful for understanding the difference in seismic design solutions for previous seismic design codes (which were used in the region for more than 40 years) and the present codes (Eurocodes).
Contextualist Responses to Skepticism
Creators: name: Gutherie, Luanne
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2007

description: External world skeptics argue that we have no knowledge of the external world.  Contextualist theories of knowledge attempt to address the skeptical problem by maintaining that arguments for skepticism are effective only in certain contexts in which the standards for knowledge are so high that we cannot reach them.  In ordinary contexts, however, the standards for knowledge fall back down to reachable levels and we again are able to have knowledge of the external world.  In order to address the objection that contextualists confuse the standards for knowledge with the standards for warranted assertion, Keith DeRose appeals to the knowledge account of warranted assertion to argue that if one is warranted in asserting p, one also knows p.  A skeptic, however, can maintain a context-invariant view of the knowledge account of assertion, in which case such an account would not provide my help to contextualism.
Supplementary document for Tunable radiation enhancement and suppression using a pair of photonically doped epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) slabs - 5657912.pdf
Creators: name: Nahvi, Ehsan
name: Mencagli, Mario Junior
name: Engheta, Nader
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary materials
Virtue Ethics and Moore's Criticisms of Naturalism
Creators: name: Byrd, Brandon
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2007

description: Several contemporary virtue ethicists have provided systematic presentations of normative virtue ethics. The virtue ethical literature, however, does not contain much information on the meta-ethical roots of virtue theories. The present paper seeks to address this deficiency by examining the neo-Aristotelianism of Rosalind Hursthouse in an effort to ascertain what meta-ethical commitments are most consistent with her theory; these commitments are shown to be cognitivism, objectivism, and (in some form) naturalism. These positions are then put into dialogue with Moore's seminal metaethical arguments against naturalism and agent-relative value. Ultimately I show that the literature on normative virtue ethics is rich enough to provide powerful responses to Moorean criticisms.
Heavy Quark Jet Fragmentation
Creators: name: Dai, Lin
name: Kim, Chul
name: Leibovich, Adam K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we study the fragmentation of a parton into a jet containing a heavy quark. When heavy quarks are involved in a jet, the quark mass can lead to a numerically significant correction to the jet cross section and its substructure. With this motivation, we calculated the heavy quark mass effects to next-to-leading order in $α_s$ on the fragmentation functions to a jet (FFJs) and the jet fragmentation functions (JFFs), where the former describes fragmentation of parton into a jet and the latter describes fragmenting processes inside a jet. The finite size of the heavy quark mass does not change the ultraviolet behaviors, but it can give significant corrections to the finite contributions. When we take the zero mass limit, we find that the FFJs and the JFFs reproduce established results for massless partons. If we define the heavy quark jet as one that include at least one heavy (anti-)quark, the tagged heavy quark jet production is sensitive to the heavy quark mass and produces large logarithms of the mass. Taking advantage of the FFJs and JFFs, we formulate a factorization theorem for heavy quark jet production in order to resum these large logarithms systematically. As an application, we study inclusive $b$-jet production and show phenomenological implications due to keeping a non-zero quark mass.
description: 24 pages, 5 figures; matches published version; Typos in eqs. (2.6), (2.7) and (2.26) are fixed (v3)
Property without Government
Creators: name: Ridley III, Knox
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2007

description: This thesis presents a two part criticism to Liam Murphy and Thomas Nagel's book, The Myth of Ownership, in which they attempt to argue that it is logically impossible that one can have any entitlement to their pretax income. The first criticism addresses their claim that based on a politically charged understanding of human nature you cannot have property without government. Through the fields of psychology, biology and anthropology, an overlap is found that presents human nature in such a way that presents a serious hurdle to the Murphy and Nagel position. The second criticism addresses their failure to define the scope of government in their book. In light of cultures that have a strong conception of property, Murphy and Nagel are charged with equivocating on the definition of government in order to make their argument hold. The conclusion reached is that based on current research pertaining to human nature and a brief anthropological study, the existence of government is not needed in order to have property within a community.
Including Bloom Filters in Bottom-up Optimization
Creators: name: Zeyl, Tim
name: Cheng, Qi
name: Pournaghi, Reza
name: Lam, Jason
name: Wang, Weicheng
name: Wong, Calvin
name: Chen, Chong
name: Larson, Per-Ake
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Bloom filters are used in query processing to perform early data reduction and improve query performance. The optimal query plan may be different when Bloom filters are used, indicating the need for Bloom filter-aware query optimization. To date, Bloom filter-aware query optimization has only been incorporated in a top-down query optimizer and limited to snowflake queries. In this paper, we show how Bloom filters can be incorporated in a bottom-up cost-based query optimizer. We highlight the challenges in limiting optimizer search space expansion, and offer an efficient solution. We show that including Bloom filters in cost-based optimization can lead to better join orders with effective predicate transfer between operators. On a 100 GB instance of the TPC-H database, our approach achieved a 32.8% further reduction in latency for queries involving Bloom filters, compared to the traditional approach of adding Bloom filters in a separate post-optimization step. Our method applies to all query types, and we provide several heuristics to balance limited increases in optimization time against improved query latency.
Natural Organic Matter Character in Drinking Water Distribution Systems: A Review of Impacts on Water Quality and Characterization Techniques
Creators: name: Riyadh, Ammar
name: Peleato, Nicolas M.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2024

description: Natural Organic Matter (NOM) in water arises from decomposed plant and animal matter and is ubiquitous in drinking water sources. The variation in NOM concentrations and characteristics, influenced by events like floods and droughts, plays a crucial role in water treatment efficiency and water quality received by the public. For example, increased NOM concentrations necessitate higher levels of coagulants and disinfectants, leads to the formation of disinfection by-products (DBPs), and plays a key role in biofilm development. When considering impacts of NOM, it is not only the presence or concentration but the makeup or proportion of varying sub-groups which can impact water quality. Formation of DBPs, corrosion and scaling, pollutant transport, aesthetic deterioration, and biofilm growth are dependent on the relative composition of NOM within the distribution system. Although the role of NOM concentration and characteristics is well studied during treatment, the impacts of residual NOM in water distribution systems have received less attention. In particular, it is clear, due to the varying roles of NOM sub-groups, that greater consideration of NOM characteristics in distribution systems is needed. This paper reviews the broad implications of NOM characteristics for water distribution systems and explores challenges and opportunities in NOM characterization within distribution systems. Furthermore, the influence of NOM characteristics in premise plumbing is examined. The review highlights the necessity for precise NOM characterization and real-time monitoring, aiming to strengthen water distribution system resilience.
Mathematical modeling of HIV viral dynamics and immune response during Antiretroviral treatment interruptions
Creators: name: Nargesalsadat  Dorratoltaj
name: Bassaganya-Riera, Josep
name: Ciupe, Stanca
name: Eubank, Stephen
name: O’Dell, Margaret
name: Hazhir Rahmandad
name: Abbas, Kaja
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: The objective of this study is to understand HIV viral dynamics and immune response at the individual level, and analyze the impact of antiretroviral treatment interruptions on HIV prognosis to improve HIV treatment regimens.
Perspectives on Perspectivism: Nietzsche and His Commentators
Creators: name: Hudgens, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2007

description: There is little consensus among scholars as to what Nietzsche's 'perspectivism' is or what it entails. I will focus on a limited number of Nietzsche's commentators, describing and commenting upon the writings of Brian Leiter, R. Lanier Anderson, Maudemarie Clark, Christoph Cox, and John Wilcox. Each commentator provides insight into the problems generated by the interpretations previous commentators have given, while simultaneously generating different problems within these newer interpretations. I hope to draw together the salvageable elements of each of these five interpretations in order to alleviate some general interpretive problems. My own interpretation is as follows: perspectivism entails the two positions 'knowledge coherentism' and 'truth constructivism.' 'Knowledge coherentism' is the need for coherence within a system of knowledge. This position saves perspectivism from relativism. 'Truth constructivism' is the claim that we humans intersubjectively create truth; this entails a rejection of the dichotomy of the real and the apparent.
Hospital based surveillance for radiological pneumonia in children under 5 years of age in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar: project protocol and preliminary results
Creators: name: Shally Awasthi
name: J.V. Singh
name: C.M. Pandey
name: Kohli, Neera
name: Agarwal, Monika
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Background and rationale: Pneumonia is responsible for about 2 million deaths in children <5 years, mostly in developing countries like India and within India in the states of Uttar Pradesh (UP) and Bihar. Hence dedicated efforts are required to focus on strategies to reduce pneumonia specific mortality.

Results : Preliminary results will be shared.

Implications: Baseline incidence of radiological pneumonia in high infant mortality states will be estimated which could form the basis of taking evidence based informed decisions for instituting control measures.
Resting in the Court of Reason: Kant's Resolution to the Antinomy of Pure Reason
Creators: name: Alexander, Sarah
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2007

description: Kant attributes the power to awaken one from dogmatic slumber to skepticism and to the antinomy of pure reason; in his accounts of his own awakening and the origin of the critical philosophy, he credits the antinomy and his memory of David Hume. This essay suggests that Kant's primary aim in the first Critique was to find a resolution to the antinomy; an examination of this resolution shows Kant's memory of Hume critical to Kant's enterprise. Kant's resolution to the antinomy exploits metaphors of war, jurisprudence, slumber, and historical development, as well as his Transcendental Deduction and explanation of transcendental illusion, to unravel the riddle of metaphysics and provide for both the possibility of objective knowledge and the possibility of freedom.
Under Pressure from the Empirical Data: Does Externalism Rest on a Mistaken Psychological Theory?
Creators: name: Miller, Bryan
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2007

description: The tradition of semantic externalism that follows Kripke (1972) and Putnam (1975) is built on the assumption that the folk have essentialist commitments about natural kinds.  Externalists commonly take the body of empirical data concerning psychological essentialism as support for this claim.  However, recent empirical findings (Malt, 1994; Kalish, 2002) call the psychological theory of essentialism into question.  This thesis examines the relevance of these findings to both essentialism and semantic externalism.  I argue that these findings suggest that these theories fail to reflect folk beliefs about natural kinds and folk natural kind term usage.  This leads me to propose an alternative thesis-- the Ambiguity Thesis-- that is better able to accommodate the existing body of empirical data.
Manipulation and Hard Compatibilism
Creators: name: Coates, Daniel
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2007

description: In this paper I consider a recent objection to compatibilism'the manipulation argument. This argument relies on two plausible principles: a manipulation principle that holds that manipulation precludes free will and moral responsibility, and a 'no difference principle' that holds that manipulation is relevantly similar to determinism. To respond to this argument, the compatibilist must reject either the manipulation principle or the 'no difference principle.' I argue that rejecting the manipulation principle offers the compatibilist the most compelling response to the manipulation argument. Incompatibilists claim that this strategy is implausible because it requires that some victims of manipulation are free and responsible. I aim to show that this consequence is not as implausible as it might initially appear.
Irony, Finitude and the Good Life
Creators: name: Cecconi, Nicole
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2007

description: Irony, Finitude and The Good Life,' examines the notion that Socrates, as he is portrayed in the Platonic dialogues, ought to be viewed and interpreted as a teacher.  If this assertion is correct, then it is both appropriate and useful to look to the dialogues for instruction on how to live a philosophical life. This thesis will argue that to look at Socrates as a teacher, a figure who imparts knowledge to those around him on how to live a philosophical life, misses the very conception of the good life that Plato sought to personify when he created the character of Socrates. The proceeding discussion draws upon the work of Alexander Nehamas and Drew Hyland, offering an alternate interpretation of the Symposium.  This interpretation argues that viewing Socrates as a teacher falsely idealizes the philosophical life, in turn neglecting Plato's greater legacy for his character'a legacy in which true virtue lies in exposing the creative possibility inherent in living a philosophical life and prompting one's own expression of a life inspired by the legacy of Socrates.
Supplementary document for Tunable radiation enhancement and suppression using a pair of photonically doped epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) slabs - 5657912.pdf
Creators: name: Nahvi, Ehsan
name: Mencagli, Mario Junior
name: Engheta, Nader
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary materials
Nietzsche on Naturalism, Egoism and Altruism
Creators: name: Nantz, Derrick
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2007

description: In this thesis I provide an overview of Nietzsche's ethics with an emphasis on showing how his naturalistic approach to ethics leads him to advance an egoistic moral code.  I argue that this, though radical in the light of conventional morality, is not irrational, unprincipled, or proscriptive of other-regarding moral considerations.  On the contrary, it demands the highest degree of foresight and integrity.  While Nietzsche's writings are meant for a select group of people, namely "higher men," whose flourishing may be undercut by their unwitting acceptance of a self-destructive morality.  I explain that Nietzsche places the highest degree of value on the life of these individuals, the development of their character, and their flourishing.  Further, I explain that Nietzsche extols as a great virtue "bestowing" or "gift-giving," and that he takes generosity to be more frequently practiced under an ethics of egoism.
GIF: Generative Inspiration for Face Recognition at Scale
Creators: name: Ebrahimi, Saeed
name: Rahimi, Sahar
name: Dabouei, Ali
name: Das, Srinjoy
name: Dawson, Jeremy M.
name: Nasrabadi, Nasser M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Aiming to reduce the computational cost of Softmax in massive label space of Face Recognition (FR) benchmarks, recent studies estimate the output using a subset of identities. Although promising, the association between the computation cost and the number of identities in the dataset remains linear only with a reduced ratio. A shared characteristic among available FR methods is the employment of atomic scalar labels during training. Consequently, the input to label matching is through a dot product between the feature vector of the input and the Softmax centroids. Inspired by generative modeling, we present a simple yet effective method that substitutes scalar labels with structured identity code, i.e., a sequence of integers. Specifically, we propose a tokenization scheme that transforms atomic scalar labels into structured identity codes. Then, we train an FR backbone to predict the code for each input instead of its scalar label. As a result, the associated computational cost becomes logarithmic w.r.t. number of identities. We demonstrate the benefits of the proposed method by conducting experiments. In particular, our method outperforms its competitors by 1.52%, and 0.6% at TAR@FAR$=1e-4$ on IJB-B and IJB-C, respectively, while transforming the association between computational cost and the number of identities from linear to logarithmic. See code at https://github.com/msed-Ebrahimi/GIF
Transference of scale-invariant estimates from Lipschitz to Non-tangentially accessible to Uniformly rectifiable domains
Creators: name: Hofmann, Steve
name: Martell, José María
name: Mayboroda, Svitlana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 28A75, 28A78, 31B05, 42B20, 42B25, 42B37

description: In relatively nice geometric settings, in particular, on Lipschitz domains, absolute continuity of elliptic measure with respect to the surface measure is equivalent to Carleson measure estimates, to square function estimates, and to $\varepsilon$-approximability, for solutions to the second order divergence form elliptic partial differential equations $ Lu= -{\rm div\,} (A \nabla u)=0$. In more general situations, notably, in an open set $Ω$ with a uniformly rectifiable boundary, absolute continuity of elliptic measure with respect to the surface measure may fail, already for the Laplacian. In the present paper, the authors demonstrate that nonetheless, Carleson measure estimates, square function estimates, and $\varepsilon$-approximability remain valid in such $Ω$, for solutions of $Lu=0$, provided that such solutions enjoy these properties in Lipschitz subdomains of $Ω$.
 Moreover, we establish a general real-variable transference principle, from Lipschitz to chord-arc domains, and from chord-arc to open sets with uniformly rectifiable boundary, that is not restricted to harmonic functions or even to solutions of elliptic equations. In particular, this allows one to deduce the first Carleson measure estimates and square function bounds for higher order systems on open sets with uniformly rectifiable boundaries and to treat subsolutions and subharmonic functions.
Novel Magnetic Resonance Imaging Tools for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Risk Stratification
Creators: name: Alajmi, Fahad
name: Kang, Mehima
name: Dundas, James
name: Haenel, Alexander
name: Parker, Jeremy
name: Blanke, Philipp
name: Coghlan, Fionn
name: Khoo, John King
name: Bin Zaid, Abdulaziz A.
name: Singh, Amrit
name: Heydari, Bobby
name: Yeung, Darwin
name: Roston, Thomas
name: Ong, Kevin
name: Leipsic, Jonathon
name: Laksman, Zachary
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2024

description: Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a common genetic disorder with a well described risk of sudden cardiac death; however, risk stratification has remained a challenge. Recently, novel parameters in cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) have shown promise in helping to improve upon current risk stratification paradigms. In this manuscript, we have reviewed novel CMR risk markers and their utility in HCM. The results of the review showed that T1, extracellular volume, CMR feature tracking, and other miscellaneous novel CMR variables have the potential to improve sudden death risk stratification and may have additional roles in diagnosis and prognosis. The strengths and weaknesses of these imaging techniques, and their potential utility and implementation in HCM risk stratification are discussed.
Apriority in Naturalized Epistemology: Investigation into a Modern Defense
Creators: name: Christiansen, Jesse
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2007

description: Versions of naturalized epistemology that overlook or reject apriority ignore innate belief-forming processes that provide much of the grounding for epistemic warrant. A rigorous analysis reveals that non-experiential ways of viewing apriority, such as innateness, establish the domain for a plausible naturalistic theory of a priori warrant. A moderate version of naturalistic epistemology that embraces the non-experiential feature of apriority and motivates future cognitive scientific research is the preferred account.
Supplementary document for Picosecond-resolution single-photon time lens for temporal mode quantum processing - 5657976.pdf
Creators: name: Joshi, Chaitali
name: Sparkes, Ben
name: Farsi, Alessandro
name: Gerrits, Thomas
name: Verma, Varun
name: Ramelow, Sven
name: Nam, Sae Woo
name: Gaeta, Alexander
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary Section
Between Being and Nothingness: The Metaphysical Foundations Underlying Augustine's Solution to the Problem of Evil
Creators: name: Kooy, Brian
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2007

description: Several commentators make the claim that Augustine is not a systematic thinker. The purpose of this thesis is to refute that claim in one specific area of Augustine's thought, the metaphysical foundations underlying his solutions to the problem of evil. Through an exegetical examination of various works in which Augustine writes on evil, I show that his solutions for both natural and moral evil rely on a coherent metaphysical system, conceived of and expounded upon within a Platonically influenced Christian context.
PROJECT FRACTESUS: FRACTURE TOUGHNESS ROUND ROBIN ON A HIGH COPPER WELD USING MINIATURE C(T) SPECIMENS – RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
Creators: name: Obermeier, Florian
name: Uytdenhouwen, Inge
name: Bonny, Giovanny
name: Altstadt, Eberhard
name: Cicero, Sergio
name: Sanchez, Marcos
name: Echols, John
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The present FRACTESUS project aims to determine the effect of specimen size on the fracture toughness properties. Finite element models (FEM) are used to investigate the difference between large-size and miniature compact tension (MC(T)) specimens and quantitatively assess the resulting loss of constraint due to size reduction. The optimal range of usability of MC(T) specimens can therefore be determined and evidenced with experimental results. Large inter-laboratory testing is included in the FRACTESUS project to prove the repeatability and reproducibility of the small-scale testing of fracture toughness properties. Various materials relevant for most of the available reactor materials and irradiation conditions are investigated.The experimental round robin on unirradiated materials has been completed by 13 different laboratories. The reference temperatures T0 obtained from MC(T) specimens by the different laboratories are compared to the one obtained from larger (mostly 1T-C(T)) specimens for six different materials. The considered materials are relevant for the nuclear industry and consist of four base (15Kh2MFAA, A533B LUS, A533B JRQ, A508 Cl.3) and two weld (ANP-5 and 73W) materials.In this regard, the present publication will elaborate on the investigations and the results achieved during the round robin of the material ANP-5. The ANP-5 weld metal is a modified NiCrMo1 UP weld belonging to a 6-meter (236 inch) reactor pressure vessel (RPV) test weldment. This test weldment was manufactured and post weld heat. treated by Klöckner Werke AG and is supposed to be representative for RPV weldments of 1st generation pressurized water reactors (PWR). The special feature of this material is the high copper content, which makes it particularly susceptible to irradiation-induced embrittlement.In the framework of the FRACTESUS project the material was investigated according to the ASTM E1921 standard by five partners: SCK CEN, University of Cantabria, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority and the Framatome GmbH. Nearly 100 miniature C(T) specimens were tested to determine the transition temperature T0 and to compare it with the results of standard sized specimen. Within this ANP-5 test program two test series performed different than expected. A sharp transition from brittle to ductile without a distinct transition range was observed. The results of the test program and reasons for the unexpected material behavior will be discussed hereinafter.
Carlo Michelstaedter: Persuasion and Rhetoric
Creators: name: Moschetta, Massimiliano
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2007

description: Carlo Michelstaedter's Persuasion and Rhetoric (1910) is one of best examples of what Massimo Cacciari calls the early twentieth century "metaphysics of youth." Persuasion and Rhetoric is the result of Michelstaedter's academic investigation on the concepts of "persuasion" and "rhetoric" in Plato and Aristotle. Michelstaedter saw in Plato's corpus the gradual abandonment of Parmenidean "being" and Socrates' dialogical philosophy. He reinterpreted the notions of "persuasion" and "rhetoric" terms of a radical dichotomy, using them to represent two opposed ontological modalities, two epistemological attitudes, and two existential alternatives. If "rhetoric" comprehends language, institutional knowledge, and all manifestations of empirical life, then "persuasion" is defined as the unity of the individual with Parmenidean being. Persuasion is an impossible choice: "lifeless life." Being a decisive alternative to rhetoric, persuasion - much like Platonic mania - can neither be articulated nor communicated. Nevertheless, Michelstaedter speaks, aware of his inevitable failure: he will not persuade anyone.
Supplementary document for Picosecond-resolution single-photon time lens for temporal mode quantum processing - 5657976.pdf
Creators: name: Joshi, Chaitali
name: Sparkes, Ben
name: Farsi, Alessandro
name: Gerrits, Thomas
name: Verma, Varun
name: Ramelow, Sven
name: Nam, Sae Woo
name: Gaeta, Alexander
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary Section
Aristotelian Liberal Virtues
Creators: name: Slade, IV, Joseph
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2008

description: I analyze the potentially self-destructive tension inherent in liberalism between conceptions of negative liberty and positive liberty. In doing so, I utilize Aristotle's theory of virtue to show that virtue is the best method of resolving this tension. In addition, I demonstrate that liberal virtues are best construed as virtues of intellect to be exercised in the public sphere. In particular, I show the importance of not construing liberal virtues as virtues of character (often referred to as moral virtues), because advocating such virtues is, in fact, contrary to the central tenets of liberalism. That is, I argue that it is illiberal to ask liberal citizens to develop a certain moral character, and that it is, instead, essential for said citizens to develop intellectual virtues as a method of resolving this tension within liberalism between the virtues needed to sustain liberalism and liberalism's resistance towards promoting those virtues.
Retribution Requires Rehabilitation
Creators: name: Adams, Joseph
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2008

description: Herbert Morris argues in his influential retributivist paper, "Persons and Punishment," that criminals deserve punishment because their actions represent an unfair distribution of benefits and burdens in society.  The proper distribution of benefits and burdens is important, in part, to restore law abiding citizens' confidence that others will follow the law.  In this paper I show that Morris's argument for why criminals deserve punishment morally requires us to set up an institution of rehabilitation in addition to the institution of punishment.  Such an institution is morally required because neither pure punishment systems nor punishment systems that incorporate quasi-rehabilitative aspects have ever worked to uphold the necessary confidence that Morris tells us law abiding citizens must have in order to protect the social order.  Moreover, we cannot abandon Morris's appeal to the duty to maintain social order without also abandoning a plausibly Morrisian framework.
Metacrisia schausi Dognin 1911
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Metacrisia
Metacrisia schausi

description: Metacrisia schausi Dognin, 1911
Metacrisia schausi Dognin, 1911c: 13.
TYPE LOCALITY. — Colombia, [Quindin], Paramo del Quindin.
TYPE SPECIMEN. — Holotype male no. 30 376 (USNM).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 310, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
Molecular identification of extended spectrum beta lactamase producing gram-negative bacteria in water samples collected from River Yamuna in Agra region
Creators: name: Avnish Kumar
name: Asthana, Monika
name: Sharma, Rajendra
name: Amdekar, Sarika
name: Raghav, Preeti
name: Katoch, Meenu
name: Vishwa Mohan  Katoch
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Introduction:
River Yamuna is recorded to have microbial pollution including drug resistance pathogens. Pathogens that produce extended spectrum-β-lactamase (ESBL) enzyme has the ability to hydrolyze the beta-lactam ring of cephalosporins and other drugs. It is to be noted that ESBL enzymes are derivative of β- lactamases and ESBL producing bacteria can simply be pronounced as esbls.
Extended spectrum-β-lactamase producing Klebsiella pneumoniae and Escherichia coli are arising as a multi-national threat that could become multi-drug resistant infections. The presence of reference genes blaCTX-M, blaSHV and blaTEM coding for the β-lactamases enzymes are an important marker to identify ESBL producing Klebsiella pneumoniae and Escherichia coli.
This study investigated the presence of ESBL antibiotic resistance genes in Gram-negative bacteria isolated from the water of the river Yamuna.

Conclusions:
The present study indicated that Yamuna water is appeared to be a reservoir of ESBLs that could be an endemic threat to the population. The higher number of environmental samples (soil and water) and blood samples could be screened to establish the linkage between environmental sources and clinical cases.
The Concept of "Woman": Feminism after the Essentialism Critique
Creators: name: Fulfer, Katherine
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2008

description: Although feminists resist accounts that define women as having certain features that are essential to their being women, feminists are also guilty of giving essentialist definitions. Because women are extremely diverse in their experiences, the essentialist critics question whether a universal (non-essentialist) account of women can be given. I argue that it is possible to formulate a valuable category of woman, despite potential essentialist challenges. Even with diversity among women, women are oppressed as women by patriarchal structures such as rape, pornography, and sexual harassment that regulate women's sexuality and construct women as beings whose main role is to service men's sexual needs.
The use of inert bulking agents to reduce pig bladder spontaneous contractions
Creators: name: Kitney, Darryl
name: Jabr, Rita
name: Fry, Christopher
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Spontaneous contractions of the bladder wall, enhanced in patients with overactive bladder (OAB), are abolished by removal of mucosa that overlies detrusor smooth muscle and a potential source of diffusible contractile mediators. Minimising communication between bladder layers may therefore reduce spontaneous activity and one approach is to inject inert bulking agents below the mucosa. We tested the hypothesis that ‘inert injectables reduced spontaneous bladder contractions’.

Pig bladders from a local abattoir were stored in fresh Tyrode’s solution. Intact bladder wall segments (1 × 2 cm) were dissected and superfused with Tyrode’s solution (37oC). One end of the preparation was clamped to an anchor and the other to an isometric force transducer. Strips were exposed to 1 µM carbachol (CCh, muscarinic agonist) or 0.3 µM α,β-methylene ATP (ABMA, purinergic desensitiser) for 10 min. Spontaneous contractions were measured before and during drug interventions. Preparations were then injected below the mucosa with polyethylene glycol (PEG) or coaptite (CA, 0.2 ml), or no material (null injectate) and drug exposure repeated. Data were analysed with a purpose-made algorithm and normalised to values before injections (control). For CCh and ABMA responses, contraction amplitude was measured. For spontaneous contractions, amplitude, force integral, and frequency, were all measured over a 10 min period. Data sets are medians [25, 75% interquartiles] and compared using Mann-Whitney U-tests against the control. The null hypothesis was rejected at p<0.05.

Time-dependent increases of CCh and ABMA contractions were recorded – null injection vs control (CCh: 156.2 [126.2, 250.8],n=11; ABMA: 142.3 [133.9, 224.9], n=11). This increase was abolished with PEG but not by CA injection.  For CCh contractions: PEG 119.6 [102.6, 130.0],n=11; CA, 133.2 [118.1, 216.6],n=10.  For ABMA contractions: PEG 99.4 [66.1, 109.0]; CA, 139.7 [89.2, 228.7].
Spontaneous contractions also changed in a time-dependent way (null injection vs control): Contraction amplitude increased significantly (172.3 [79.5, 304.5]) as did force integral (128.6 [65.2, 228.4]), but frequency was unchanged (106.7 [83.7, 134.0])(n=10). With PEG injection time-dependent changes were abolished: amplitude (109.4 [47.5, 115.4]); frequency (113.7 [92.3, 150.2]); force integral (68.6 [41.9, 127.2])(n=9). CA even reduced spontaneous contraction amplitude (77.0 [21.2, 112.5]) and force integral (55.7 [17.7, 92.9]), although frequency was slightly increased (133.3 [123.9, 161.3]%, n=9).

Bladder spontaneous contractions are reduced by inert bulking agents, with coaptite more successful that PEG. This approach offers an alternative approach to pharmacological therapeutics in reducing symptoms of OAB.
Economics in Marine Spatial Planning: A Review of Issues in British Columbia and Similar Jurisdictions
Creators: name: Issifu, Ibrahim
name: Dahmouni, Ilyass
name: García-Lorenzo, Iria
name: Sumaila, Ussif Rashid
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2024

description: Recently, there has been a rapid increase in the use of Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) worldwide, partly due to the continued loss of marine biodiversity and habitat. The sustainability of marine resources is threatened in all regions of the world by major events such as climate change, marine pollution, and overfishing, as well as illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing both on the high seas and in country waters. Here, we present a comprehensive review and analysis of how economic information has been applied and used to inform decisions about MSP in British Columbia (BC), Canada, and other similar jurisdictions around the world. This focus for the paper was selected because important gaps remain in the literature in terms of incorporating economic questions into MSP. We first present different definitions of MSP, and then we extract useful lessons from MSP regimes with well-tested decision support tools (DSTs) and use this to guide MSP implementation in BC. Finally, we present and discuss case studies from Australia, South Africa, and Belgium. Our review suggests that applying economic information to support the design and implementation of MSPs would lead to better decisions. This in turn would foster livelihoods, attract finance, increase buy-in, and advance United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 14: Life Below Water, thereby achieving Infinity Fish, i.e., ensuring that ocean benefits flow to humanity forever.
A Description of the Natural Place of Magic in Philosophy and Religious Studies
Creators: name: Williams, Damien
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2008

description: The concept of magic is most often considered as a foil by scholars in the fields of philosophy and religious studies, or it is discussed as part of the investigation of 'primitive' systems of belief and ritual. In this essay, magic is investigated as a system of inquiry and explanation unto itself, connected to but distinct from both philosophy and religious studies, and an argument is presented for understanding systems of magic as both natural and rational outgrowths of a particular perspective on reality.
Facing the Problems of Feminism: Working Toward Resolution
Creators: name: Salvatore, Joy
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2008

description: In this thesis, I demonstrate how the numerous forms of oppression are grounded in a hierarchical and binary thinking that permeates racism and sexism and that is present throughout the feminist movement.  It is this biased thinking that creates further divide among diverse social groups resulting in a foundation for justifying oppressive practices.  I argue that the human rights framework is the best by which to defeat this problematic thinking, fostering a collectivity among disparate people and establishing a more appropriate footing upon which to face the problems of feminism.  In the end, I claim that there must be a global commitment to end oppression that begins with educating people as to the unjustified harm created by biased and binary thinking and to the effectiveness of a human rights approach in eliminating any validation of oppression.
Novel Approaches in Pursuit of a Stem Cell Therapy for Perinatal Stroke
Creators: name: Jithoo, Arya
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 320606
subject: Regenerative medicine (incl. stem cells)
classificationCode: 320999
subject: Neurosciences not elsewhere classified

description: Perinatal stroke is a devastating condition that can lead to a lifetime burden of neurological deficits, such as cerebral palsy. This thesis investigated novel models of perinatal stroke to examine the therapeutic potential of mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs). A novel technology MRI-guided focused ultrasound (MRIgFUS) was developed as a method to deliver therapies non-invasively into the neonatal brain. We showed that MSCs are neuroprotective, can reduce brain injury and that MRIgFUS has potential to deliver therapies non-invasively to the brain, but further research is needed. Together, the results present promising approaches for future therapies for perinatal stroke.
Freedom and the Ideal Republican State:  Kant, Jefferson, and the Place of Individual Freedom in the Republican Constitutional State
Creators: name: Creighton, Theresa
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2008

description: Of the questions concerning the many great minds of the European Enlightenment, the question of what constitutes right and proper government perhaps had the most enduring influence on the world stage. Both Thomas Jefferson and Immanuel Kant attempted to answer the question of what constitutes right government, in particular by basing the system upon the idea of human freedom as an inalienable right. This project is an attempt to compare the systems proposed by these two authors, as well as to critique each on its ability to protect and foster individual freedom. It is my opinion that neither manages to do what it is constructed to do, as each fails to fully protect individual freedom, and each has as part of it a component which conflicts with individual freedom.
Bladder warming: a future therapeutic treatment for the overactive bladder?
Creators: name: Kitney, Darryl
name: Vahabi, Bahareh
name: Jabr, Rita
name: Fry, Christopher
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Introduction.  Overactive bladder (OAB) syndrome is a highly prevalent disorder severely affecting patient quality of life, and is associated with up-regulation of TRPV1 receptors (heat-sensitive channels) and increased contractile activity (spontaneous contractions), potentially mediated by ATP release from the bladder wall. Therefore, reducing the spontaneity of the bladder offers a means to alleviate the symptoms of OAB.  One approach under investigation is through mild heating of the bladder.

Hypothesis. ‘Heating the bladder wall from 37 up to 50oC leads to a progressive reduction of spontaneous contractions.’

Conclusions. These experiments show a profound reduction in spontaneous contractions and an increase of ATP release with heating to 42°C, and up to 50oC. This phenomenon was repeated in whole perfused bladders at 42oC. This heating effect was not mediated by TRPV1 channel activity. Therefore, the use of mild heating offers a new approach in clinical practice to treat the symptoms of OAB.
The Willmore Flow of Tori of Revolution
Creators: name: Dall'Acqua, Anna
name: Müller, Marius
name: Schätzle, Reiner
name: Spener, Adrian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53E40

description: We study long-time existence and asymptotic behavior for the $L^2$-gradient flow of the Willmore energy, under the condition that the initial datum is a torus of revolution. We show that if an initial datum has Willmore energy below $8π$ then the solution of the Willmore flow converges for $t \rightarrow \infty$ to the Clifford Torus, possibly rescaled and translated. The energy threshold of $8π$ turns out to be optimal for such a convergence result. We give an application to the conformally constrained Willmore minimization problem.
description: 43 pages, To appear in Analysis & PDE
Sextus was no Eudaimonist
Creators: name: Bullock, Joseph
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2008

description: Ancient Greek philosophical schools are said to share a common structure in their ethical theories which is characterized by a eudaimonistic teleology based in an understanding of human nature. At first glance, the skepticism of Sextus Empiricus as described in the Outlines of Pyrrhonism seems to fit into this model insofar as he describes the end of the skeptic as ataraxia, a common account of the expression of human happiness. I argue that this is a misunderstanding of Sextus's philosophy for several reasons. 'The end of skepticism' cannot be eudaimonistic or teleological in the way that other ancient ethical theories are typically understood; moreover, ataraxia is not an end derived from a theory about human nature. For these reasons, the skeptical way of life is radically different than the ethical theories proposed by other schools. I argue that this difference is a result of the character of the skeptical enterprise which involves the implicit rejection of norms in both the epistemological and the ethical spheres.