cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The treasure of the commons: valuing and managing natural capital in Costa Rica
Creators: name: Hernandez, Marcello
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2019

description: While Costa Rica has been a world leader in ecosystem services research and policy, the value of natural capital and ecosystem services is still often ignored or underestimated. The overarching goal of this dissertation is to address this knowledge gap and to formulate economic incentives and institutions that can adequately incorporate ecosystem services. First, I summarize the state of the art of natural capital and ecosystem services. I describe concepts, how they have evolved in the last two decades, and the most appropriate methods for ecosystem services valuation. Second, I estimate the present and future value of ecosystem services in Latin America and the Caribbean, with a focus on Costa Rica. I estimate that the current ecosystem services value (ESV) of the 33 countries that make up this region to be $US15.3 trillion/year. Modelling four future scenarios, I estimated that there is a potential for ESV to decrease to $8 trillion/year (for the "Fortress World" scenario) or to increase to $19 trillion/year (for the "Great Transition" scenario), a difference of a 47% decrease or a 25% increase. Third, I explore the economic value of wetlands at a national level, estimating the value of ecosystem services of 7 Ramsar Sites. Our results show that the total economic value of ecosystem services from these Ramsar Sites is $3.2 billion/year for 2015, which represents 6% of the country's GDP. Fourth, I focus on the value of ecosystem services of mangroves in the Gulf of Nicoya. A hybrid approach was used, including traditional benefit transfer and expert modified benefit transfer for 11 ecosystem services, and primary studies for 3 ecosystem services (fisheries, climate regulation and coastal protection). Using traditional benefit transfer, the economic value of 11 ecosystem services was estimated at $812 million per year (median=$88 million/year), and the total mean value of the ecosystem services provided by the total extent of mangroves in Costa Rica at $1.5 billion per year (median=$160 million/year). Combining the values of the expert modified benefit transfer with the estimates from the primary studies, the mean total value of the ecosystem services was estimated at $408 million per year (median $86 million/year). Considering the median total value of ecosystem services from mangroves, this represents 0.16% of the GDP in Costa Rica in 2015. Finally, I propose a research and policy agenda to establish a payment for ecosystem services scheme in Costa Rica for marine and coastal ecosystems. I recommend a six-step approach to create this new PES scheme, called the Blue Fund: 1) Ecosystem assessment, 2) ecosystem services selection and valuation, 3) threats identification and prioritization, 4) creation of funding sources and investment, 5) implementation, and 6) evaluation and adaptation. I illustrate each step with a focus on mangroves and coral reefs.
Waiting for Supertrain: Trains, Technocracy, and the Great Society
Creators: name: Leach, Colin P.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2014
Subjects: Amtrak
Claiborne Pell
High speed rail
Lyndon Johnson
Metroliner
Technocracy

description: The High Speed Ground Transportation Act of 1965 was the first federal legislation to support the construction of a high-speed passenger railroad network. Historians and public policy scholars tend to dismiss this act as a half-measure that did not achieve its intended goals. This thesis re-examines the 1965 law in light of the career of Rhode Island Senator Claiborne Pell, who had sparked the debate with the introduction of his own passenger railroad service plan in 1962. This thesis also contends that technocratic thinking profoundly influenced federal policymakers' embrace of high-speed rail over conventional solutions. Traditionally studied with respect to defense and space projects, institutionalized technocracy was also, as witnessed by the present treatment of federal high-speed rail initiatives, an integral part of domestic policymaking. Technocracy was thus a leitmotif of both the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations' policy initiatives, promising to deliver a better life to Americans through technology and thus underscoring the New Frontier and the Great Society.
The Writing on the Walls and Other Places: American Civil War Graffiti
Creators: name: Brown, Christopher B.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2014
Subjects: Civil War
Graffiti
Virginia

description: The American Civil War was fought for four bloody years and left its mark on the country. What usually comes to mind when one thinks of what soldiers of this conflict left behind are monuments, the many scarred buildings and trees, and even diaries. Until recently one aspect of the war that has been lost and forgotten was the graffiti that soldiers left behind on buildings across the South. Graffiti is a valuable resource to historians if only they tap into it. This study  strives to not only identify graffiti in seven locations in Northern Virginia but also interpret that graffiti. The following written work is also paired with an online exhibit that highlights the graffiti and can be found at civilwargraffiti.omeka.net.
Stellar Orbit Constraints on Neutralino Annihilation at the Galactic Center
Creators: name: Hall, Jeter
name: Gondolo, Paolo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dark matter annihilation has been proposed to explain the TeV gamma rays observed from the Galactic Center. We study constraints on this hypothesis coming from the mass profile around the Galactic Center measured by observing stellar dynamics. We show that for current particle models, the constraints on the dark matter density profile from measurements of mass by infrared observations are comparable to the constraints from the measurements of the TeV source extension.
description: replaced with accepted version, improved presentation, some figures corrected, results unchanged
Josephson effect of superconductors with $J=3/2$ electrons
Creators: name: Kim, Dakyeong
name: Kobayashi, Shingo
name: Asano, Yasuhiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The angular momentum of an electron is characterized well by pseudospin with $J=3/2$ in the presence of strong spin-orbit interactions. We study theoretically the Josephson effect of superconductors in which such two $J=3/2$ electrons form a Cooper pair. Within even-parity symmetry class, pseudospin-quintet pairing states with $J=2$ can exist as well as pseudospin-singlet state with $J=0$. We focus especially on the Josephson selection rule among these even-parity superconductors. We find that the selection rule between quintet states is severer than that between spin-triplet states formed by two $S=1/2$ electrons. The effects of a pseudospin-active interface on the selection rule are discussed as well as those of odd-frequency Cooper pairs generated by pseudospin dependent band structures.
description: 10 pages, 2 figures
Structure of pair winds from compact objects with application to emission from bare strange stars
Creators: name: Aksenov, A. G.
name: Milgrom, M.
name: Usov, V. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of numerical simulations of stationary, spherically outflowing, electron-positron pair winds, with total luminosities in the range 10^{34}- 10^{42} ergs/s. In the concrete example described here, the wind injection source is a hot, bare, strange star, predicted to be a powerful source of electron-positron pairs created by the Coulomb barrier at the quark surface. We find that photons dominate in the emerging emission, and the emerging photon spectrum is rather hard and differs substantially from the thermal spectrum expected from a neutron star with the same luminosity. This might help distinguish the putative bare strange stars from neutron stars.
description: 4 pages, 6 figures, 1 table, added references, to appear in the proceedings of the conference "Isolated Neutron Stars: from the Surface to the Interior", London, UK, 24-28 April 2006
Absorption-line Environments of High-redshift BOSS Quasars
Creators: name: Chen, Chen
name: Hamann, Fred
name: Ma, Bo
name: Lundgren, Britt
name: York, Donald
name: Nestor, Daniel
name: Alsayyad, Yusra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The early stage of massive galaxy evolution often involves outflows driven by a starburst or a central quasar plus cold mode accretion (infall), which adds to the mass build-up in the galaxies. To study the nature of these infall and outflows in the quasar environments, we have examined the correlation of narrow absorption lines (NALs) at positive and negative velocity shifts to other quasar properties, such as their broad absorption-line (BAL) outflows and radio-loudness, using spectral data from SDSS-BOSS DR12. Our results show that the incidence of associated absorption lines (AALs) and outflow AALs is strongly correlated with BALs, which indicates most AALs form in quasar-driven outflows. Multiple AALs are also strongly correlated with BALs, demonstrating quasar outflows tend to be highly structured and can create multiple gas components with different velocity shifts along our line of sight. Infall AALs appear less often in quasars with BALs than quasars without BALs. This suggests that BAL outflows act on large scale in host galaxies and inhibit the infall of gas from the IGM, supporting theoretical models in which quasar outflow plays an important role in the feedback to host galaxies. Despite having larger distances, infall AALs are more highly ionized than outflow AALs, which can be attributed to the lower densities in the infall absorbers.
description: 8 pages, 3 tables, 8 figures
Sudden Birth Versus Sudden Death of Entanglement in Multipartite Systems
Creators: name: Lopez, C. E.
name: Romero, G.
name: Lastra, F.
name: Solano, E.
name: Retamal, J. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the entanglement dynamics of two cavities interacting with independent reservoirs. Expectedly, we observe that, as the cavity entanglement is depleted, it is transferred to the reservoir degrees of freedom. We find that when the cavity entanglement suddenly disappear, the reservoir entanglement suddenly and necessarily appears. Surprisingly, we show that this {\it entanglement sudden birth} can manifest before, simultaneously, or even after {\it entanglement sudden death}. Finally, we present an explanatory study of other entanglement partitions and of higher dimensional systems.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters
A tunable magneto-acoustic oscillator with low phase noise
Creators: name: Litvinenko, A.
name: Khymyn, R.
name: Tyberkevych, V.
name: Tikhonov, V.
name: Slavin, A.
name: Nikitov, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A frequency-tunable low phase noise magneto-acoustic resonator is developed on the base of a parallel-plate straight-edge bilayer consisting of a yttrium-iron garnet (YIG) layer grown on a substrate of a gallium-gadolinium garnet(GGG). When a YIG/GGG sample forms an ideal parallel plate, it supports a series of high-quality-factor acoustic modes standing along the plate thickness. Due to the magnetostriction of the YIG layer the ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) mode of the YIG layer can strongly interact with the acoustic thickness modes of the YIG/GGG structure, when the modes' frequencies match. A particular acoustic thickness mode used for the resonance excitations of the hybrid magneto-acoustic oscillations in a YIG/GGG bilayer is chosen by the YIG layer FMR frequency, which can be tuned by the variation of the external bias magnetic field. A composite magneto-acoustic oscillator, which includes an FMR-based resonance pre-selector, is developed to guarantee satisfaction of the Barkhausen criteria for a single-acoustic-mode oscillation regime. The developed low phase noise composite magneto-acoustic oscillator can be tuned from 0.84 GHz to 1 GHz with an increment of about 4.8 MHz (frequency distance between the adjacent acoustic thickness modes in a YIG/GGG parallel plate), and demonstrates the phase noise of -116 dBc/Hz at the offset frequency of 10 kHz.
Gravitational spin-orbit and aligned spin$_1$-spin$_2$ couplings through third-subleading post-Newtonian orders
Creators: name: Antonelli, Andrea
name: Kavanagh, Chris
name: Khalil, Mohammed
name: Steinhoff, Jan
name: Vines, Justin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The study of scattering encounters continues to provide new insights into the general relativistic two-body problem. The local-in-time conservative dynamics of an aligned-spin binary, for both unbound and bound orbits, is fully encoded in the gauge-invariant scattering-angle function, which is most naturally expressed in a post-Minkowskian (PM) expansion, and which exhibits a remarkably simple dependence on the masses of the two bodies (in terms of appropriate geometric variables). This dependence links the PM and small-mass-ratio approximations, allowing gravitational self-force results to determine new post-Newtonian (PN) information to all orders in the mass ratio. In this paper, we exploit this interplay between relativistic scattering and self-force theory to obtain the third-subleading (4.5PN) spin-orbit dynamics for generic spins, and the third-subleading (5PN) spin$_1$-spin$_2$ dynamics for aligned spins. We further implement these novel PN results in an effective-one-body framework, and demonstrate the improvement in accuracy by comparing against numerical-relativity simulations.
description: 29 pages, 2 figures, supplemental material; v2: added references
On the Kertész line: Some rigorous bounds
Creators: name: Ruiz, Jean
name: Wouts, Marc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study the Kertész line of the $q$--state Potts model at (inverse) temperature $β$, in presence of an external magnetic field $h$. This line separates two regions of the phase diagram according to the existence or not of an infinite cluster in the Fortuin-Kasteleyn representation of the model. It is known that the Kertész line $h_K (β)$ coincides with the line of first order phase transition for small fields when $q$ is large enough. Here we prove that the first order phase transition implies a jump in the density of the infinite cluster, hence the Kertész line remains below the line of first order phase transition. We also analyze the region of large fields and prove, using techniques of stochastic comparisons, that $h_K (β)$ equals $\log (q - 1) - \log (β- β_p)$ to the leading order, as $β$ goes to $β_p = - \log (1 - p_c)$ where $p_c$ is the threshold for bond percolation.
description: 11 pages, 1 figure
Fragmented Continuity: an investigation into autobiographical time
Creators: name: Huf, Caroline
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2019

description: My practice-led research project explores alternative autobiographical modes of digital video art to examine the fragmented continuity of a personal experience of time. This has culminated in the development of 'video weaving' for the final work entitled "Threadbare" which is a digital video installation. This work draws on my investigations into temporal studies such as neuroscience, neuro-cognitive film theory, Buddhist philosophy and meditation. My practice has also been informed by experimental filmmakers such as Marie Menken, Arthur and Corinne Cantrill, Andy Warhol and Rose Lowder. Developing a unique editing process to combine multiple digital files into a single framework, "Threadbare", incorporates my reading into ideas of time and digital medium to convey the embodied experience of time as a reflection of self-portraiture.
Representations and uses of light distribution functions
Creators: name: Lalonde, Paul
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: At their lowest level, all rendering algorithms depend on models of local illumination to define the interplay of light with the surfaces being rendered. These models depend both on the representations of light scattering at a surface due to reflection and to an equal extent on the representation of light sources and light fields. Both emission and reflection have in common that they describe how light leaves a surface as a function of direction. Reflection also depends on an incident light direction. Emission can depend on the position on the light source. We call the functions representing emission and reflection light distribution functions (LDF's). There are some difficulties to using measured light distribution functions. The data sets are very large - the size of the data grows with the fourth power of the sampling resolution. For example, a bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) sampled at five degrees angular resolution, which is arguably insufficient to capture highlights and other high frequency effects in the reflection, can easily require one and a half million samples. Once acquired this data requires some form of interpolation to use them. Any compression method used must be efficient, both in space and in the time required to evaluate the function at a point or over a range of points. This dissertation examines a wavelet representation of light distribution functions that addresses these issues. A data structure is presented that allows efficient reconstruction of LDFs for a given set of parameters, making the wavelet representation feasible for rendering tasks. Texture mapping methods that take advantage of our LDF representations are examined, as well as techniques for filtering LDFs, and methods for using wavelet compressed bidirection reflectance distribution functions (BRDFs) and light sources with Monte Carlo path tracing algorithms. The wavelet representation effectively compresses BRDF and emission data while inducing only a small error in the reconstructed signal. The representation can be used to evaluate efficiently some integrals that appear in shading computation which allows fast, accurate computation of local shading. The representation can be used to represent light fields and is used to reconstruct views of environments interactively from a precomputed set of views. The representation of the BRDF also allows the efficient generation of reflected directions for Monte Carlo ray tracing applications. The method can be integrated into many different global illumination algorithms, including ray tracers and wavelet radiosity systems.
The Vietnam War: Communist Mass Mobilization at the National and Provincial Level in the Mekong Delta
Creators: name: Flint, Steve Michael
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2014
Subjects: Communist
Mass Mobilization
National Liberation Front
United States
Viet Cong
Vietnam War

description: The following study is an examination of Communist and Nationalist mass mobilization tactics during the Second Indochina Conflict.  How did the use of violent and non-violent methods of mass mobilization and population control vary from region to reion in the context of local and national events, and what effect did these patterns have on communist and revolutionary efforts to gain popular support?  How did these local practices influence the outcome of the conflict?  The present study examines macro-level political trends and local case studies to investigate the development of communist mass mobilization strategy.  The present study argues that Communist and Nationalist revolutionary leaders adapted mass mobilization techniques to the particular geographic and political realities of different regions, thereby enhancing the effectiveness of their efforts amongst the peasantry.  The role of the Central Committee, the National Liberation Front, and the Southern Communist will be analyzed against the backdrop of national and local circumstances facilitated by the Republic of South Vietnam and the United States of America.
Entanglement-Assisted Communication Surpassing the Ultimate Classical Capacity
Creators: name: Hao, Shuhong
name: Shi, Haowei
name: Li, Wei
name: Zhuang, Quntao
name: Zhang, Zheshen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Entanglement underpins a variety of quantum-enhanced communication, sensing, and computing capabilities. Entanglement-assisted communication (EACOMM) leverages entanglement pre-shared by communication parties to boost the rate of classical information transmission. Pioneering theory works showed that EACOMM can enable a communication rate well beyond the ultimate classical capacity of optical communications, but an experimental demonstration of any EACOMM advantage remains elusive. Here, we report the implementation of EACOMM surpassing the classical capacity over lossy and noisy bosonic channels. We construct a high-efficiency entanglement source and a phase-conjugate quantum receiver to reap the benefit of pre-shared entanglement, despite entanglement being broken by channel loss and noise. We show that EACOMM beats the Holevo-Schumacher-Westmoreland capacity of classical communication by up to 14.6%, when both protocols are subject to the same power constraint at the transmitter. As a practical performance benchmark, a classical communication protocol without entanglement assistance is implemented, showing that EACOMM can reduce the bit-error rate by up to 69% over the same bosonic channel. Our work opens a route to provable quantum advantages in a wide range of quantum information processing tasks.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures. Comments are welcome
Field dependence of the magnetic spectrum in anisotropic and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya antiferromagnets: I. Theory
Creators: name: Benfatto, L.
name: Neto, M. B. Silva
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider theoretically the effects of an applied uniform magnetic field on the magnetic spectrum of anisotropic two-dimensional and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya layered quantum Heisenberg antiferromagnets. The first case is relevant for systems such as the two-dimensional square lattice antiferromagnet Sr(2)CuO(2)Cl(2), while the later is known to be relevant to the physics of the layered orthorhombic antiferromagnet La(2)CuO(4). We first establish the correspondence betwenn the low-energy spectrum obtained within the anisotropic non-linear sigma model and by means of the spin-wave approximation for a standard easy-axis antiferromagent. Then, we focus on the field-theory approach to calculate the magnetic field dependence of the magnon gaps and spectral intensities for magnetic fields applied along the three possible crystallographic directions. We discuss the various possible ground states and their evolution with temperature for the different field orientations, and the occurrence of spin-flop transitions for fields perpendicular to the layers (transverse fields) as well as for fields along the easy axis (longitudinal fields). Measurements of the one-magnon Raman spectrum in Sr(2)CuO(2)Cl(2) and La(2)CuO(4) and a comparison between the experimental results and the predictions of the present theory will be reported in part II of this research work [L. Benfatto et al., cond-mat/0602664].
description: 21 pages, 11 figures, final version. Part II of the present work is presented in cond-mat/0602664
Volume stabilization in a warped flux compactification model
Creators: name: Minamitsuji, Masato
name: Naylor, Wade
name: Sasaki, Misao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the stability of the extra dimensions in a warped, codimension two braneworld that is based upon an Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton theory with a non-vanishing scalar field potential. The braneworld solution has two 3-branes, which are located at the positions of the conical singularities. For this type of brane solution the relative positions of the branes (the shape modulus) is determined via the tension-deficit relations, if the brane tensions are fixed. However, the volume of the extra dimensions (the volume modulus) is not fixed in the context of the classical theory, implying we should take quantum corrections into account. Hence, we discuss the one-loop effective potential of the volume modulus for a massless, minimally coupled scalar field.
description: 25 pages, 8 figures, typos corrected
Please See Other One Called "Three Elementary Proofs of Goldbach's Conjecture"
Creators: name: Chavez, Danilo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 490401
subject: Algebra and number theory
classificationCode: 490501
subject: Applied statistics
classificationCode: 490506
subject: Probability theory

description: Please See Other One Called "Three Elementary Proofs of Goldbach's Conjecture" in this same author's profile, thats Correct. https://figshare.com/articles/preprint/An_Elementary_Proof_of_Goldbach_s_Conjecture_v_3_10/24185760?file=49234648
This are only the first sketches of the final result: "Three Elementary Proofs of Goldbach's Conjecture".Thank you for your attention.
Stress-controlled zero-field spin splitting in silicon carbide
Creators: name: Breev, I. D.
name: Poshakinskiy, A. V.
name: Yakovleva, V. V.
name: Nagalyuk, S. S.
name: Mokhov, E. N.
name: Hübner, R.
name: Astakhov, G. V.
name: Baranov, P. G.
name: Anisimov, A. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the influence of static mechanical deformation on the zero-field splitting of silicon vacancies in silicon carbide at room temperature. We use AlN/6H-SiC heterostructures deformed by growth conditions and monitor the stress distribution as a function of distance from the heterointerface with spatially-resolved confocal Raman spectroscopy. The zero-field splitting of the V1/V3 and V2 centers in 6H-SiC, measured by optically-detected magnetic resonance, reveal significant changes at the heterointerface compared to the bulk value. This approach allows unambiguous determination of the spin-deformation interaction constant, which turns out to be $0.75 \, \mathrm{GHz}$ for the V1/V3 centers and $0.5 \, \mathrm{GHz}$ for the V2 centers. Provided piezoelectricity of AlN, our results offer a strategy to realize the on-demand fine tuning of spin transition energies in SiC by deformation.
description: 13 pages, 3 figures
The spectral measure on non-trapping asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds
Creators: name: Chen, Xi
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2015

description: In this thesis we systematically discuss the spectral measure on non-trapping asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds and related applications in spectral multipliers and Schrodinger equations. Spectral measure is a notion from spectral theory and can be studied via resolvent by Stone's formula. Following the works, due to Mazzeo and Melrose, Melrose, Sa Barreto and Vasy, we construct high energy resolvent by techniques such as the 0-calculus, semiclassical Fourier integral operators, semiclassical intersecting Lagrangian distributions. Borrowing the pseudo differential operator microlocalization tricks, formulated by Guillarmou, Hassell and Sikora, we then prove the spectral measure estimates for large spectral parameters. From the perspective of harmonic analysis, spectral measure is also tied to restriction theorem, which plays a key role in the theory of spectral multipliers. This trilateral relationship is formulated by Guillarmou, Hassell and Sikora. We apply their theory and get restriction theorem for high energy and weak restriction theorem for low energy, together with a crude Lp + L2 boundedness of spectral multipliers, though the spectral measure on asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds is not so ideal as it requires. From dispersive equations' point of view, spectral measure is a cornerstone of Schrodinger propagator. Our spectral measure estimates apply to dispersive estimates for microlocalized high energy truncated propagators for short time as in the work of Hassell and Zhang. Noting the discrepancy of the spectral measure between low and high energy, we also prove the long time dispersive estimates and low energy truncated estimates for short time. By modified Keel-Tao bilinear arguments, due to Anker and Pierfelice, we obtain Strichartz estimates.
The Use of Gender During the E.G. Wharton Trial
Creators: name: Steven, Heather Marie
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2014
Subjects: Gender
Media
Poison
Wharton

description: In 1871, in Baltimore, Maryland, Mrs. Elizabeth Wharton was accused of poisoning General Ketchum and arrested. The trial became a sensation in the national press, with newspapers across the country publishing daily updates on the trial. The primary reason for the attention surrounding the case was Mrs. Wharton's social status. She was extremely wealthy and well-connected in Baltimore society. After her arrest, rumors surrounding other potential victims began to surface, and many suspected her to be guilty. An examination of Wharton's trial proceedings and the surrounding press coverage reveals a defense built primarily upon Victorian notions of femininity, and ultimately the literal power of true womanhood in nineteenth century American jurisprudence. Despite overwhelming evidence of her guilt, Wharton's acquittal as an upper class white woman whose virtue was seen as beyond reproach differs significantly from contemporaneous cases of black or lower class women who were convicted of similar crimes, and largely lived beyond the definitions and protections of true womanhood.
Energy scales of Lu(1-x)Yb(x)Rh2Si2 by means of thermopower investigations
Creators: name: Köhler, U.
name: Oeschler, N.
name: Steglich, F.
name: Maquilon, S.
name: Fisk, Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the thermopower S(T) and the resistivity rho(T) of Lu(1-x)Yb(x)Rh2Si2 in the temperature range 3 K < T < 300 K. S(T) is found to change from two minima for dilute systems (x < 0.5) to a single large minimum in pure YbRh2Si2. A similar behavior has also been found for the magnetic contribution to the resistivity rho_mag(T). The appearance of the low-T extrema in S(T) and rho_mag(T) is attributed to the lowering of the Kondo scale with decreasing x. The evolution of the characteristic energy scales for both the Kondo effect and the crystal electric field splitting are deduced. An extrapolation allows to estimate the Kondo temperature of YbRh2Si2 to 29 K.
description: 15 pages, 4 figures, accepted in Phys. Rev. B
The United States Air Force Band: Musical Ambassadors on a Cold War Stage
Creators: name: Chumley, Susan Page
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2014
Subjects: Cold War
Jazz Diplomacy
Military Bands
Military History
Musical Diplomacy
United States Air Force Band

description: From 1950 to 1960, the United States Air Force Band in Washington, DC participated in one of the most aggressive and widespread diplomatic campaigns in United States History. They completed ten international tours through Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and South America as part of the U.S. State Department's cultural diplomacy program. Conceived as a way to thwart the spread of Soviet Communism in vulnerable countries worldwide, cultural diplomacy's purpose was to promote democracy and American ideas of freedom and individuality as a way to gain global influence and contain Soviet infiltration.  In researching this project, I discovered that the USAF Band exemplified U.S. cultural ambassadorship. Their performances were met with large and enthusiastic audiences. Through their musical mission, the band cultivated some extraordinary relationships within some very tenuous environments, strengthening US goodwill efforts abroad and perpetuating democratic ideals.
U-Net with Graph Based Smoothing Regularizer for Small Vessel Segmentation on Fundus Image
Creators: name: Hakim, Lukman
name: Yudistira, Novanto
name: Kavitha, Muthusubash
name: Kurita, Takio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The detection of retinal blood vessels, especially the changes of small vessel condition is the most important indicator to identify the vascular network of the human body. Existing techniques focused mainly on shape of the large vessels, which is not appropriate for the disconnected small and isolated vessels. Paying attention to the low contrast small blood vessel in fundus region, first time we proposed to combine graph based smoothing regularizer with the loss function in the U-net framework. The proposed regularizer treated the image as two graphs by calculating the graph laplacians on vessel regions and the background regions on the image. The potential of the proposed graph based smoothing regularizer in reconstructing small vessel is compared over the classical U-net with or without regularizer. Numerical and visual results shows that our developed regularizer proved its effectiveness in segmenting the small vessels and reconnecting the fragmented retinal blood vessels.
Observation of a Near-threshold $D^0\bar{D}^0π^0$ Enhancement in $B \to D^0\bar{D}^0π^0 K$ Decay
Creators: name: Gokhroo, G.
name: Majumder, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the first observation of a near-threshold enhancement in the $D^0\bar{D}^0π^0$ system from $B \to D^0\bar{D}^0π^0 K$ decays using a 414 $\mathrm{fb}^{-1}$ data sample collected at the $Υ(4S)$ resonance. The enhancement peaks at a mass $M=3875.4 \pm 0.7_{-2.0}^{+1.2}$ MeV/$c^2$ and the branching fraction for events in the peak is \Br ($B \to D^0\bar{D}^0π^0 K$)=(1.27 $\pm$ 0.31 $_{-0.39}^{+0.22})$ $\times$ $10^{-4}$. The data were collected with the Belle detector at the KEKB energy-asymmetric $e^+e^-$ collider.
description: Comments: 9 pages, 2 figures, KEK Preprint 2006-16, Belle Prerpint 2006-19, submitted to PRL
Real and Virtual Nucleon Compton Scattering in the Perturbative Limit
Creators: name: Thomson, Richard
name: Pang, Alex
name: Ji, Chueng-Ryong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of calculations analyzing nucleon Compton scattering to lowest order using perturbative QCD (pQCD) methods. Two scenarios are considered: (1) the incoming photon is real; and (2) the incoming photon is virtual. The case of a real photon has been previously analyzed at least 5 times using pQCD, but no two results are in agreement. Here it is shown that our result agrees with that of Brooks and Dixon published in 2000. The case of a virtual photon has been previously analyzed only once using pQCD. However, doubt has been cast on the validity of that result. The results presented here for virtual photon are believed to be more reliable. Some consideration is given of how to compare these results with experiment. Following the lead of Brooks and Dixon, for the proton, this involves normalizing the cross section using the Dirac proton form factor, which we also calculate. Finally, there is a comparison of our results with recent experiments.
description: 36 pages, 11 figures
The Other Side of the Riot: White Baltimoreans' Experiences During the 1968 Riot
Creators: name: Hutton, Jacob Alexander
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2014
Subjects: 1968
Baltimore
Riots
Whites

description: Following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King on April 4th cities across America descended into rioting as blacks vented their frustration with a repressive society. Baltimore City initially seemed to escape the rioting, but after a few tense days it also descended into destructive chaos. The disturbance has been assigned a place of infamy in the memory of many white residents, which are commonly believed to have relatively similar experiences and reactions. Using oral histories of white Baltimoreans from Northern Baltimore County, Highlandtown, and Park Heights I argue that the white experience was not that simple. Due to influences such as geographic location, class, and religion all three neighborhoods had very different experiences and reactions to the riot.
Proper Weyl Collineations in Kantowski-Sachs and Bianchi Type III Space-Times
Creators: name: Shabbir, Ghulam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A study of proper Weyl collineations in Kantowski-Sachs and Bianchi type III space-times is given by using the rank of the 6X6 Weyl matrix and direct integration techniques. Studying proper Weyl collineations in each of the above space-times, it is shown that there exists no such possibility when the above space-times admit proper Weyl collineations.
description: 5 pages
Quantum teleportation and entanglement swapping with long baseline in outer space
Creators: name: Lin, Shih-Yuin
name: Hu, B. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum information experiments applying quantum optics in outer space with a very long baseline may have advantages over the current earth-bound experiments or the earth-to-satellite experiments because they can minimize the loss in light transmission and maximize the gain in time resolution. This future class of experiments, amongst them quantum teleportation and entanglement swapping, can shed light on many fundamental theoretical issues in gravitational quantum physics and relativistic quantum information. Regarding relativity theory, these experiments in an outer-space setting can involve observers at spacelike and timelike separations and explicate intriguing phenomena from different choices of time-slicing. Regarding quantum information, they may be able to ensure the causal independence of the expectation values in the Bell test. These issues are addressed in this paper with analysis and explanations.
description: 21 pages, 4 figures
Modeling of rocks and ornamental garden stones
Creators: name: Ellefson, Christopher J.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Objects in nature are irregular in shape and the human eye is good at identifying regularities and symmetries when it does not expect them. Modeling these natural objects to make them look realistic can often be difficult and time-consuming. An example of these objects are rocks from a Chinese garden. These rocks have many large holes in them. Traditional modeling techniques do not lend themselves well to creating objects with complex and irregular shape. The holes in these rocks are also too large to be handled with bump or displacement maps. This thesis discusses a technique to model ornamental rocks and objects with many large holes in them. A 3D material comprised of holes is made using an appropriate distribution for the holes. A stochastic process is used in creating the holes. Information gathered from pictures of real ornamental rocks is used for the distributions of the random variables used to create the holes This is combined with the base shape of the object using constructive solid geometry. The result is a new object resembling the base shape but with many holes in it. The new shape created is converted to a format which is usable by most rendering systems, in this case a series of triangles. This is done using a three-dimensional grid as an intermediate structure and then outputting triangles.The new object can than be imported into a rendering program. We produced models and images from an implementation and they show that the method results in realistic looking images. These models are used in a virtual reconstruction of the Yuan Ming Yuan, a former imperial garden in China.
How to Measure the Performance of a Collaborative Research Center
Creators: name: Zharova, Alona
name: Tellinger-Rice, Janine
name: Härdle, Wolfgang Karl
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: New Public Management helps universities and research institutions to perform in a highly competitive research environment. Evaluating publicly financed research improves transparency, helps in reflection and self-assessment, and provides information for strategic decision making. In this paper we provide empirical evidence using data from a Collaborative Research Center (CRC) on financial inputs and research output from 2005 to 2016. After selecting performance indicators suitable for a CRC, we describe main properties of the data using visualization techniques. To study the relationship between the dimensions of research performance, we use a time fixed effects panel data model and fixed effects Poisson model. With the help of year dummy variables, we show how the pattern of research productivity changes over time after controlling for staff and travel costs. The joint depiction of the time fixed effects and the research project's life cycle allows a better understanding of the development of the number of discussion papers over time.
Towards Imposing Dayparted Restrictions on Tokenised Energy within Peer-to-Peer Markets
Creators: name: Cuffe, Paul
name: Almero De Villiers
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 90699 Electrical and Electronic Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: The manuscript and video presentation from IET Renewable Power Generation 2021
Characterising and tracking Australian desert dust and its sources
Creators: name: Munday, Christopher Ian
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Dust Australia Eyre, Lake, Region (S. Aust.)
subject: Dust Microbiology Australia Eyre, Lake, Region (S. Aust.)
subject: Microbial ecology Australia Eyre, Lake, Region (S. Aust.)
subject: Deserts Australia
subject: Dust Storms Australia

description: The Lake Eyre Region (LER) in Australia is the primary source of dust in the southern hemisphere. Little is known about the microbial ecology of this area, and its relationship if any to the bacteria found in dust and aerosols. Initially, sediment and adjacent aerosol samples were collected from a small lake in Victoria which routinely deflated. Bacterial populations in both samples were compared by culturing followed by Rep-PCR, and 16S rRNA high throughput sequencing (HTS). Bacillus subtilis isolates of the same Rep type, and sequences representing the same OTUs of Salinomicrobium and Delftia were present in both aerosols and sediment. These results indicated that bacteria could be tracked through the environment regardless of the vast microbial diversity observed using both techniques. Subsequently, bacterial communities in aerosols collected off the coast of Australia were characterised and two different sampling methods compared; filtration and a high volume swirling liquid sampler (OMNI 3000). The weather conditions were calm during both voyages. The microflora of the OMNI samples showed less diversity than the filter samples. Delftia, Methylobacterium, and Stenotrophomonas were present in samples from both voyages. HTS was then used to compare the microbiology of LER sediment, aerosols, and samples collected from major dust storms which affected eastern Australia in September 2009. There was vast microbial diversity within and among LER sediments of different types, desert crusts, salt lake crusts and fluff, collected in the same location, collected over time, and collected in different locations. Comparison of the microflora of dust to LER sediments revealed similarities to samples collected from specific locations that broadly correlated to the proposed source of the dust storm determined by multidisciplinary analyses. Dominant OTUs, representing Delftia, Stenotrophomonas, Acidovorax, and other taxa, were present in dust and source samples, with many of these genera also found in aerosols collected from different locations. Our results highlight the vast microbial diversity across the different samples collected, and has identified some of the dominant taxa in the Australian environment.
Morita equivalence classes of principal blocks with elementary abelian defect groups of order 64
Creators: name: Ardito, Cesare Giulio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 20C20. Secondary 16D90, 20C05

description: We classify the Morita equivalence classes of principal blocks with elementary abelian defect groups of order 64 with respect to a complete discrete valuation ring with an algebraically closed residue field of characteristic two.
description: 20 pages, 1 figure. Presented at the 2020 Ural Workshop on Group Theory and Combinatorics
D5.1 Presentation of the Training Programme
Creators: name: Boersma, Karla
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Training
Schools
Courses
Special Documents
Digital Humanities
Religious Studies

description: Texts on the six schools and six courses offered by ReIReS Studying the doctrinal features of religious beliefs or examining the relation between a religious community and a social, economic, cultural and political framework at a specific historical moment in fact requires an acquaintance with a plural and highly diversified set of sources. The study of these sources requires the use of cross-disciplinary methodologies that make it possible to account for the specific features of each individual historical document. Through its access policy, ReIReS provides young scholars with a programme of training activities that enables them to become acquainted with the skills required for historical-religious studies in terms of methodological, historical and linguistic knowledge, as well as scholarly contributions from other disciplines.
 ReIReS makes it possible to train a new generation of scholars and to prepare them to develop groundbreaking research via an innovative training programme.