cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Boolean Delay Equations: A simple way of looking at complex systems
Creators: name: Ghil, Michael
name: Zaliapin, Ilya
name: Coluzzi, Barbara
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases (nlin.CG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Boolean Delay Equations (BDEs) are semi-discrete dynamical models with Boolean-valued variables that evolve in continuous time. Systems of BDEs can be classified into conservative or dissipative, in a manner that parallels the classification of ordinary or partial differential equations. Solutions to certain conservative BDEs exhibit growth of complexity in time. They represent therewith metaphors for biological evolution or human history. Dissipative BDEs are structurally stable and exhibit multiple equilibria and limit cycles, as well as more complex, fractal solution sets, such as Devil's staircases and ``fractal sunbursts``. All known solutions of dissipative BDEs have stationary variance. BDE systems of this type, both free and forced, have been used as highly idealized models of climate change on interannual, interdecadal and paleoclimatic time scales. BDEs are also being used as flexible, highly efficient models of colliding cascades in earthquake modeling and prediction, as well as in genetics. In this paper we review the theory of systems of BDEs and illustrate their applications to climatic and solid earth problems. The former have used small systems of BDEs, while the latter have used large networks of BDEs. We moreover introduce BDEs with an infinite number of variables distributed in space (``partial BDEs``) and discuss connections with other types of dynamical systems, including cellular automata and Boolean networks. This research-and-review paper concludes with a set of open questions.
description: Latex, 67 pages with 15 eps figures. Revised version, in particular the discussion on partial BDEs is updated and enlarged
“And makes us rather bear those ills we have?” L’inizio della vita e i confini della sofferenza risarcibile (Nota a Corte di Cassazione, Sezioni Unite, n. 25767/2015)
Creators: name: Conte, Lucilla
Publisher: name: University of Trento
Year: 2016
Subjects: wrongful birth; wrongful life; self-determination; claim for damages; evi-dence; causation

description: This contribution is focused on the decision of the Joined Sections of the Court of Cassation on the divergent jurisprudence on questions involving claims for damages about wrongful birth and wrongful life, evidence and causation. The J. S. don’t admit in the Italian law system wrongful life suits if the illness is not directly caused by medical malpractice.
description: BioLaw Journal - Rivista di BioDiritto, N° 2 (2016)
The Boko Haram Insurgency - Driving Factors Behind the Existence of the Boko Haram Group in Nigeria
Creators: name: Àrendàs, Qurat Ul Ain
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016

description: This paper explores the factors driving the emergence and evolution of Boko Haram, the Islamist group that has displaced some 2.2 million people and killed close to 20,000 people in Northern Nigeria. It traces the group’s emergence to multiple factors, including Nigeria’s colonial history, political instability, the role of ideology, the North-South divide, and the role of Northern political elites in contributing to the backwardness of Northern Nigeria. The paper also shows how the contemporary insurgency has historical echoes of Islamist groups of the 19th century. Finally, the paper proposes some counter-terrorism strategies to curb violent extremism in Nigeria.
Geometric classification of 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ SCFTs
Creators: name: Caorsi, Matteo
name: Cecotti, Sergio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The classification of 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ SCFTs boils down to the classification of conical special geometries with closed Reeb orbits (CSG). Under mild assumptions, one shows that the underlying complex space of a CSG is (birational to) an affine cone over a simply-connected $\mathbb{Q}$-factorial log-Fano variety with Hodge numbers $h^{p,q}=δ_{p,q}$. With some plausible restrictions, this means that the Coulomb branch chiral ring $\mathscr{R}$ is a graded polynomial ring generated by global holomorphic functions $u_i$ of dimension $Δ_i$. The coarse-grained classification of the CSG consists in listing the (finitely many) dimension $k$-tuples $\{Δ_1,Δ_2,\cdots,Δ_k\}$ which are realized as Coulomb branch dimensions of some rank-$k$ CSG: this is the problem we address in this paper. Our sheaf-theoretical analysis leads to an Universal Dimension Formula for the possible $\{Δ_1,\cdots,Δ_k\}$'s. For Lagrangian SCFTs the Universal Formula reduces to the fundamental theorem of Springer Theory. The number $\boldsymbol{N}(k)$ of dimensions allowed in rank $k$ is given by a certain sum of the Erdös-Bateman Number-Theoretic function (sequence A070243 in OEIS) so that for large $k$ $$ \boldsymbol{N}(k)=\frac{2\,ζ(2)\,ζ(3)}{ζ(6)}\,k^2+o(k^2). $$ In the special case $k=2$ our dimension formula reproduces a recent result by Argyres et al. Class Field Theory implies a subtlety: certain dimension $k$-tuples $\{Δ_1,\cdots,Δ_k\}$ are consistent only if supplemented by additional selection rules on the electro-magnetic charges, that is, for a SCFT with these Coulomb dimensions not all charges/fluxes consistent with Dirac quantization are permitted. We illustrate the various aspects with several examples and perform a number of explicit checks. We include tables of dimensions for the first few $k$'s.
description: 119 pages, 11 tables (3 of them multi-page), 52 footnotes. ADDED: a clarification in section 6.2 and example 20. ADDED v3: better presentation of the tables
Luminosities, Space Densities and Redshift Distributions of Gamma-Ray Bursts
Creators: name: Schmidt, Maarten
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use the BD2 sample of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) based on 5.9 years of BATSE DISCLA data with a variety of models of the luminosity function to derive characteristic GRB luminosities, space densities and redshift distributions. Previously published results for an open universe and modest density evolution of the GRBs showed characteristic peak luminosities around 5x10**51 erg/s in the 50-300 keV band if the emission is isotropic, and local space densities around 0.2 Gpc**-3 yr**-1. In this paper, we illustrate for several luminosity function models the predicted distributions of peak flux, luminosity and redshifts. We use the luminosity function models also to address the connection between supernovae and GRB. If all supernovae of Type Ib/c harbor a GRB, the beaming fraction would have to be 10**-5 - 10**-3.5. We find that GRB 980425, if correctly identified with SN 1998bw, has to be part of a population different from that of the bulk of GRBs.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, Latex with aipproc.sty, Proc. of the 5th Huntsville Gamma Ray Burst Symposium, Oct. 1999, ed. R.M. Kippen, AIP
The Perspective of Multipath Routing
Creators: name: Gaytri Devi
name: Shuchita Upadhyaya
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Multipath routing
single shortest path
load balancing
multiple paths
path selection
traffic distribution

description: Multipath routing means using multiple paths instead of using single path to forward the traffic, through the network between source node to destination node. Multipath routing provides better overall network performance by allowing maximum utilization of available network resources. If multiple paths are being used for the transmission of the traffic then the traffic will be redirected to the backup path if active path fails or in the case of congestion. Moreover, the multiple paths can be used simultaneously by distributing the traffic. Thus Multipath routing can be more efficient than the single path routing for improving network utilization and for providing load balancing. It can significantly reduce congestion and gives more network throughput and hence increases the reliability in the network. The two main concerns to implement multipath routing scheme are the calculation of multiple paths and traffic distribution among multiple paths. There are various algorithms presented in literature for effectively calculating the multiple paths. In this chapter, we have discussed some multipath routing approaches considering path construction and path selection to distribute the flow.
Safe and Efficient Robotic Space Exploration with Tele-Supervised Autonomous Robots
Creators: name: Elfes, Alberto
name: Dolan, John M.
name: Podnar, Gregg
name: Mau, Sandra
name: Bergerman, Marcel
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A successful plan for space exploration requires the commissioning of fleets of robots to prospect, mine, build, inspect and maintain structures, and generally assist astronauts, rendering the overall mission as safe as reasonably achievable for human beings, the most precious resource. The authors are currently developing, under the support of NASA, a Robot Supervision Architecture (RSA) which will allow a small number of human operators to safely and efficiently telesupervise a fleet of autonomous robots. This represents a significant advance over the state of the art, where currently one robot is overseen by a group of skilled professionals. In this paper we describe some aspects of this work, including the architecture itself for coordination of human and robot work, failure and contingency management, high-fidelity telepresence, and operation under limited bandwidth. We also present highlights of our first application: wide area prospecting of minerals and water in support of sustained outposts on the Moon and on Mars.
Formalization of the Artisanal and Small-scale Mining Sector in the Andean Region: A Gendered Perspective
Creators: name: Clayton, Allison
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2021

description: This paper looks at artisanal and small-scale mining through a political ecology lens to unpack formalization efforts in the Andean region of Peru and Bolivia. It assesses how governments have prioritized more formal entities such as large-scale mining and cooperatives as a result of changing power dynamics and gaining financial revenue. Consequently, this dynamic has largely led to a failure to address needs of ASM actors, which has disproportionately affected women. Multiple angles are reviewed to articulate the complexity of women’s roles working in the ASM sector, additional burdens women face as a result of gender roles and perceptions, and subsequent inequities in the ASM sector. This paper further explores the unintended consequences that ASM actors encounter, especially women, as a result of formalization efforts. This paper concludes with lessons extrapolated from the cases of Bolivia and Peru in conjunction with a set of recommendations that seek to redress obstacles that ASM actors face in the formalization process, as well as gender specific barriers faced by women.
Stigmatisations : Formes et impacts sur les hommes judiciarisés. Une exploration de parcours d’hommes judiciarisés au Québec.
Creators: name: Côté, Jérémy
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2019

description: Cette recherche porte sur les différentes formes de stigmatisation présentes dans le parcours des hommes judiciarisés. Elle porte de manière plus spécifique sur le processus de stigmatisation et son influence sur la perception de soi et de l’équilibre mental et social des hommes judiciarisés. En soi, la stigmatisation des personnes judiciarisées n’est pas un phénomène social nouveau (Wacquant, 2001). Certains chercheurs l’identifient comme la cause première de la récidive criminelle (Dandurand, Griffiths et Murdoch, 2007). Cependant, les différentes formes de stigmatisation ont des incidences sur le vécu des hommes judiciarisés, et sont d’une importance décisive dans le succès ou l’échec de leur réhabilitation sociale. Nous nous questionnons donc sur les différentes formes et expressions de cette stigmatisation dans les parcours de vie d’hommes judiciarisés. Nous nous questionnons également sur les impacts possibles de la judiciarisation sur leurs expériences de vie, sur les chances de réhabilitation de ces hommes, et sur leur santé de manière globale. Pour répondre à ces questions, nous avons adopté une méthodologie qualitative qui vise à identifier l’expérience de la stigmatisation et ses effets sur la perception que nos répondants ont d’eux-mêmes. Pour ce faire, nous avons réalisé deux entretiens semi-dirigés avec des hommes ayant un casier judiciaire. Nous avons fait une analyse thématique des entrevues qualitatives recueillies. Cette analyse démontre que les impacts de la stigmatisation vécue par les participants se situent principalement au niveau de leur santé globale, leur état émotionnel et leur fonctionnement social. Nous avons proposé et présenté un modèle de lecture de la stigmatisation basé sur les résultats de la recherche et qui se décline en trois formes. Nous avons aussi présenté différentes propositions d’intervention et de pistes de réflexion pour conclure ce travail de recherche. Mots-clés : Stigmatisation, discrimination, désaffiliation, étiquetage social, judiciarisation, prison, détention, santé mentale, santé sociale, anomie sociale, déviance, biopouvoir, racisme d’État.
Interrupted aza-Wittig reactions using iminophosphoranes to synthesize 11C-carbonyls
Creators: name: Ismailani, Uzair S
name: Munch, Maxime
name: Mair, Braeden A
name: Rotstein, Benjamin H
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2021

description: A direct CO2-fixation methodology couples structurally diverse iminophosphoranes with various nucleophiles to synthesize ureas, carbamates, thiocarbamates, and amides, and is amenable for 11C radiolabeling. This methodology is practical, as demonstrated by the synthesis of >35 products and isolation of the molecular imaging radiopharmaceuticals [11C]URB694 and [11C]glibenclamide.
Anyonic statistics of quantum impurities in two dimensions
Creators: name: Yakaboylu, Enderalp
name: Lemeshko, Mikhail
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate that identical impurities immersed in a two-dimensional many-particle bath can be viewed as flux-tube-charged-particle composites described by fractional statistics. In particular, we find that the bath manifests itself as an external magnetic flux tube with respect to the impurities, and hence the time-reversal symmetry is broken for the effective Hamiltonian describing the impurities. The emerging flux tube acts as a statistical gauge field after a certain critical coupling. This critical coupling corresponds to the intersection point between the quasiparticle state and the phonon wing, where the angular momentum is transferred from the impurity to the bath. This amounts to a novel configuration with emerging anyons. The proposed setup paves the way to realizing anyons using electrons interacting with superfluid helium or lattice phonons, as well as using atomic impurities in ultracold gases.
description: 6 pages, 2 figure
« Dans le fond j’ai 15 ans, et j’adore bouger! » L’expérience motivationnelle des adolescentes pour l'activité physique
Creators: name: Chagnon, Miche-Lyne
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2020

description: Bien que les multiples bénéfices pour la santé physique et mentale de la pratique d’une activité physique (AP) régulière ont largement été confirmés empiriquement, une majorité d’adolescents n’atteint pas le niveau d’activité physique souhaitable pour optimiser leur santé physique et psychologique. La rétention dans les sports semble également une problématique à l’adolescence puisqu’entre 40 et 65 % de ceux qui s’engagent dans un programme d’AP s’arrêtent au cours des six premiers mois (OMS 2019). Le constat est encore plus prononcé chez les filles, où on dénote une baisse plus flagrante de leur participation. C’est dans ce contexte d’une faible pratique de l’AP et d’un problème de rétention chez les adolescentes que ce mémoire a cherché à comprendre les facteurs motivationnels de la pratique d’une activité physique auprès de cette population. Utilisant le cadre théorique de la motivation, notre recherche de type qualitative a ainsi permis de mieux comprendre les facteurs facilitants et contraignants de l’engagement et de la rétention des adolescentes (n=9) qui ont participé au Grand Défi Pierre Lavoie (GDPL). Nos principaux résultats ont mis en exergue les principaux éléments qui influencent leur motivation (autodétermination) à s’engager et à rester dans l’activité physique. À savoir, l’importance de la motivation autonome pour nourrir une régulation à « tendance autodéterminée » lorsque les filles s’engagent dans une activité physique et pour y rester. Puis, que la quasi-totalité des participantes qui nous a montré une motivation à « tendance autodéterminée », avait au moins deux des trois besoins psychologiques fondamentaux bien intégrés (autonomie, compétence, affiliation sociale), chacune de façon distincte. Bref, cibler les besoins (trois besoins psychologiques fondamentaux) de manières personnalisées à chacune des filles favoriserait selon cette étude l’engagement et la rétention à long terme de celle-ci pour l’activité physique. Mots clés : Adolescentes, motivation autodéterminée, besoins fondamentaux, activité physique, sport.
RRT*-AR: Sampling-Based Alternate Routes Planning with Applications to Autonomous Emergency Landing of a Helicopter
Creators: name: Sanjiban  Choudhury
name: Scherer, Sebastian
name: Singh, Sanjiv
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Engine malfunctions during helicopter flight poses a large risk to pilot and crew. Without a quick and coordinated reaction, such situations lead to a complete loss of control. An autonomous landing system could react quicker to regain control, however current emergency landing methods only generate dynamically feasible trajectories without considering obstacles. We address the problem of autonomously landing a helicopter while considering a realistic context: multiple potential landing zones, geographical terrain, sensor limitations and pilot contextual knowledge. We designed a planning system to generate alternate routes (AR) that respect these factors till touchdown exploiting the human-in-loop to make a choice. This paper presents an algorithm, RRT*-AR, building upon the optimal sampling-based algorithm RRT* to generate AR in realtime and examines its performance for simulated failures occurring in mountainous terrain, while maintaining optimality guarantees. After over 4500 trials, RRT*-AR outperformed RRT* by providing the human 280% more options 67% faster on average. As a result, it provides a much wider safety margin for unaccounted disturbances, and a more secure environment for a pilot. Using AR, the focus can now shift on delivering safety guarantees and handling uncertainties in these situations.
Majorana bound states in hybrid 2D Josephson junctions with ferromagnetic insulators
Creators: name: Virtanen, P.
name: Bergeret, F. S.
name: Strambini, E.
name: Giazotto, F.
name: Braggio, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a Josephson junction consisting of superconductor/ferromagnetic insulator (S/FI) bilayers as electrodes which proximizes a nearby 2D electron gas. By starting from a generic Josephson hybrid planar setup we present an exhaustive analysis of the the interplay between the superconducting and magnetic proximity effects and the conditions under which the structure undergoes transitions to a non-trivial topological phase. We address the 2D bound state problem using a general transfer matrix approach that reduces the problem to an effective 1D Hamiltonian. This allows for straightforward study of topological properties in different symmetry classes. As an example we consider a narrow channel coupled with multiple ferromagnetic superconducting fingers, and discuss how the Majorana bound states can be spatially controlled by tuning the superconducting phases. Following our approach we also show the energy spectrum, the free energy and finally the multiterminal Josephson current of the setup.
description: 8 pages; 5 figures
title: ADCO, Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les domaines de Beaune (XVe siècle), Cart. 177 (11 H 289), 197 folios, f. 0389
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2015
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: cartulaire

description: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les domaines de Beaune (XVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 177 (11 H 289), 197 folios, f. 0389, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions d’Izeure (XVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 177 (11 H 289), 197 folios, f. 0389, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
Eutanasia e minori: il primo caso belga
Creators: name: Amato, Salvatore
name: Barbisan, Camillo
name: Benato, Maurizio
name: Bondolfi, Alberto
name: Chueca, Ricardo
name: Conti, Roberto
name: Crocetta, Christian
name: D'Avack, Lorenzo
name: Di Segni, Riccardo Shemuel
name: Dreifuss-Netter, Frédérique
name: Flamigni, Carlo
name: Frati, Paola
name: Neri, Demetrio
name: Pasquino, Teresa
name: Pizzetti, Federico Gustavo
name: Scaraffia, Lucetta
name: Sellaroli, Valentina
name: Toraldo Di Francia, Monica
name: Zuffa, Grazia
name: Veronesi, Paolo
Publisher: name: University of Trento
Year: 2016

description: BioLaw Journal - Rivista di BioDiritto, N° 3 (2016)
title: The Matthean split: an analysis of the Pharisees in the Gospel of Matthew
Creators: name: Young, Muir Campbell
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2018

description: This dissertation is concerned with the acerbic relationship between the Matthean community and the Pharisees as shown in the Gospel of Matthew. It is the view of this study that texts reflect the world which created them and as such this dissertation uses historical and literary criticism to analyse the setting of the Gospel of Matthew by locating it within a specific time and place. Once this has been achieved the study moves to discuss and evaluate the impact that specific events such as the First Jewish War (66-73 CE) and the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple (70 CE) had on the author and his contemporaries as he composed the text. A profile of the Pharisee will be established to base future analysis off. The dissertation will then shift focus to analyse passages of the Gospel of Matthew involving the Pharisees and through careful exegesis will aim to identify possible causes in the split between the emerging Christian group of Matthew and the more established Jewish leadership of the Pharisees.
Rover mobility on granular soil: Marrying multi-scale modeling and high fidelity experiments to infer soil stresses under the moving wheel
Creators: name: Vlahinic, Ivan
name: Andrade, Jose
name: Skonieczny, Krzysztof
name: Moreland, Scott J.
name: Wettergreen, David
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this work, we show how high resolution imaging coupled with a novel physics-based computational framework can provide a rich description of regolith-structure interactions, using the rover mobility in soft soil as a challenging canonical problem. The images of soil deformation under a rolling wheel were collected at 7 Hz resolution in time and 0.19 mm per pixel in space, with the camera approximately following the wheel motion. The soil under the wheel is a lunar simulant GRC-1. Image correlation (optical flow) was used to infer material velocities, i.e. regolith kinematics, at near-grain scale. From this data, strains can be calculated during post-processing, but stresses are beyond the reach of experimental measurements. Here we present a method to infer material stresses under the rolling wheel using a multiscale framework with a simple Drucker-Prager material description. From a purely computational standpoint, this mobility problem is extremely challenging involving wheel-regolith contact and interacting localization bands on the material scale, as indicated by the experiments. Capturing these features with the correct constitutive description is at the very cutting edge of computational research today. We bypass some of the aforementioned difficulties by inferring from experimental images a key plastic internal variable, the dilatancy, which is known to control strength and softening in dilative granular materials, and use its evolution directly in multi-scale computations. The method successfully marries experiments and computations in order to quantify material stresses under the wheel, which at present are beyond the reach of either method alone. From a practical standpoint, an understanding of the material stress state is helpful for several reasons, perhaps the chief of which is that stress distributions serve as input into reduced-order mobility models, e.g. Bekker-Wong terramechanics expressions. Read More: http://ascelibrary.org/doi/abs/10.1061/9780784412190.029
Clustering Efficiency of ACO and K-Harmonic Means Techniques: A Comparative Study
Creators: name: M. Divyavani
name: T. Amudha
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biological algorithms
data mining and clustering techniques
ant colony optimization clustering algorithm (ACOC)
K-Harmonic Means Clustering algorithm (KHM)

description: In the last two decades, many advances on the computer sciences have been based on the observation and emulation of processes of the natural world. The nature inspired methods like ant based clustering techniques have found success in solving clustering problems. They have received special attention from the research community over the recent years because these methods are particularly suitable to perform exploratory data analysis. The clustering is an important technique that has been studied in various fields with many applications such as image processing, marketing, data mining and information retrieval. Recently, the various algorithms inspired by nature are used for clustering. Data clustering is a useful process to extract meaning from sets of unlabeled data or to perform data exploration for pattern recognition. This paper focuses on the behavior of clustering procedures in two approaches, ant based clustering algorithm and K-harmonic means clustering algorithm. The two algorithms were evaluated in two of well- known benchmark data sets. Empirical results clearly show that ant clustering algorithm performs well compared to another technique called K-Harmonic means clustering algorithm.
Quantum-limited Parametric Amplification with Josephson Circuits in the Regime of Pump Depletion
Creators: name: Roy, Ananda
name: Devoret, Michel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Linear parametric amplification is a key operation in information processing. Our interest here is quantum-limited parametric amplification, $i.e.$, amplification of quantum signals while adding the minimum amount of noise allowed by quantum mechanics, which is essential for any viable implementation of quantum information processing. We describe parametric amplifiers based on the dispersive nonlinearity of Josephson junctions driven with appropriate tones playing the role of pumps. We discuss two defining characteristics in the architecture of these amplifiers: the number of modes occupied by the signal, idler and pump waves and the number of independent ports through which these waves enter into the circuit. The scattering properties of these amplifiers is also reviewed. The main focus of this work are the computations of the dynamic range and phase-space distributions of the fluctuations of the modes of the amplifiers.
description: Review of parametric amplifiers with Josephson circuits (see arXiv:1605.00539 for a shorter earlier version). Added new sections with calculations of dynamic range, Fokker-Planck equation analysis of amplifiers and appendices on quantized transmission lines and input-output theory; Published version
‘A Rose for Emily’: The Dichotomy of a Rose
Creators: name: Schweizer, Justine
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: William Faulkner
plantation
industrial age
South

description: As one of the most prominent figures of Southern literature, William Faulkner is known for his highly accurate and critical depictions of the South, most notably during its transition from the plantation era to the industrial age. His work presents all aspects of the changing South and its colourful cast of characters. Perhaps none are as emblematic and ambiguous as that of "A Rose for Emily"‘s eponymous character, Emily Grierson. Through his innovative use of narration and his portrayal of her, Faulkner represents the transitioning South as it moves from one era to the next, with all the crises and complexities it entails. Written in the prime of the feminist movement, "A Rose for Emily" portrays a character caught between identities: the masculine and the feminine, the past and the present, the passive and the active. Going from subject to object and back again throughout the narrative, Miss Emily Grierson is the embodiment of the rose her creator symbolically gifts her. She is the petals of the flower, supple and soft, and the thorns of the stem, harsh and unyielding.
Law and ‘the right to die’: Filling a reservoir with an eye-dropper
Creators: name: Barbisan, Benedetta
Publisher: name: University of Trento
Year: 2016
Subjects: Right to die; Death as a Taboo; Rights and Change of Ethos ; Individualism; Choice

description: If we considered the assortment of cases that, mainly in America and Europe, raised along the years “right to die” claims, the task would frankly not turn out as the easiest: the collection would go from a PVS patient lying for years in a hospital ward to a person diagnosed with a fatal disease requesting a prescription for barbiturates, passing through a quadriplegic affected by a neurodegenerative syndrome, a cronic depressed, an inmate sentenced for having horribly raped and murdered a few women asking for euthanasia to avoid repeating his crimes once out of prison (practically, a self-inflicted death penalty), elderly spouses scared of loneliness if one outlived the other to the point of preferring to die together when they are still reasonably healthy, deaf-born twins resoluted to die together as they lived inseparably, minors dying of an incurable disease, a woman too bothered by the natural decay of body and mind to stand the old age. What would be the core, the intrinsic nature combining all these somehow extreme, though real, calls? Our civilization is markedly determined to remove the idea of death, to obliterate it from every public forum. Death is erased – from our houses, from our discourses, from our life – and we do not have a common emotional and cultural vocabulary to cope with it. Eternity has moved back in the popular consciousness, while longevity has come to the fore. In “right to die” claims, then, law is asked to provide something for which it is fatally ill-equipped: to be a comfort to our mortality. Emptying the public, also the private impoverishes in lack of communal and political thinking. Law is asked to fill the void – which is a task as impracticable and inane as filling a reservoir with an eye-dropper.
description: BioLaw Journal - Rivista di BioDiritto, N° 3 (2016)
Rover Design for Polar Astrobiological Exploration
Creators: name: Pedersen, Liam
name: Wettergreen, David
name: Apostolopoulos, Dimitrios
name: McKay, Chris
name: DiGoia, Matthew
name: Jonak, Dominic
name: Heys, Stuart
name: Teza, James
name: Wagner, Michael
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: LORAX is a robotic mission to characterize the distribution of microbes in Antarctica’s ice sheets. Robotic platform requirements include navigational autonomy and clean, sustainable power systems to operate unattended for a month without introducing contamination that would affect the results. This paper details the LORAX investigation, the navigational autonomy development and testing, and an analysis of wind and solar power to accomplish this mission.
La sfida di una buona legge in materia di consenso informato e di volontà anticipate sulle cure
Creators: name: Borsellino, Patrizia
Publisher: name: University of Trento
Year: 2016
Subjects: Law; ethics; informed consent; advance directives; clinical decisions

description: The paper is inspired by the ‘new’ bills concerning ‘rules on informed consent and advance directives’ recently presented to the Italian Parliament. The paper aims at tracing the contours of a legislation equipped with robust legal criteria useful to make decision in the most critical health care situations whenever individuals are nearing the end of life. The paper also defines the features of such a legislation with regard to the complex interrelationship between rights, duties, and responsibilities of the actors involved. The paper marks the ideal limits within which the law ought to be framed. For this purpose, references are made to the current legal and ethical framework and to ‘secularism’, which is the supreme principle of the Italian legal order, as stated by the Constitutional Court in 1989.
description: BioLaw Journal - Rivista di BioDiritto, N° 3 (2016)
Nemesiidae Simon 1889
Creators: name: Kherbouche-Abrous, Ourida
name: Bouseksou, Samira
name: Alioua, Youcef
name: Beladjal, Lynda
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Nemesiidae

description: 22. Family Nemesiidae Simon, 1889
Wrong spelling
Nemesia taniti. Correct spelling Nemesia tanit.
Species missing
Nemesia macrocephala Ausserer, 1871.
Nemesia meridionalis (Costa, 1835).
Citations and papers missing
Amblyocarenum walckenaeri: Sidi Bel Abbès (Simon 1899). El Bayadh (Zonstein 2016). Tlemcen (Zonstein 2016). Oran (Lucas 1845).
Iberesia Barbara: El Bayadh (Zonstein 2016). Sidi Bel Abbès (Simon 1899, Zonstein 2016). Tlemcen (Zonstein 2016).
Nemesia africana: Aïn Temouchent (Strand 1907b). El Tarf (Lucas 1846).
Nemesia caementaria: Constantine (Lucas 1846).
description: Published as part of Kherbouche-Abrous, Ourida, Bouseksou, Samira, Alioua, Youcef & Beladjal, Lynda, 2025, Corrections to the Article: " Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae) ", pp. 356-374 in Zootaxa 5609 (3) on page 363, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5609.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/15215222
title: 02_1495
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Optimal measurements for quantum spatial superresolution
Creators: name: Rehacek, J.
name: Hradil, Z.
name: Koutny, D.
name: Grover, J.
name: Krzic, A.
name: Sanchez-Soto, L. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct optimal measurements, achieving the ultimate precision predicted by quantum theory, for the simultaneous estimation of centroid, separation, and relative intensities of two incoherent point sources using a linear optical system. We discuss the physical feasibility of the scheme, which could pave the way for future practical implementations of quantum inspired imaging.
description: 7 pages. 3 color figures. Title changed
Robust Tracking and Structure from Motion with Sample Based Uncertainty Representation
Creators: name: Chang, Peng
name: Hebert, Martial
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Geometric reconstruction of the environment from images is critical in autonomous mapping and robot navigation. Geometric reconstruction involves feature tracking, i.e., locating corresponding image features in consecutive images, and structure from motion (SFM), i.e., recovering the 3-D structure of the environment from a set of correspondences between images. Although algorithms for feature tracking and structure from motion are wellestablished, their use in practical robot mobile applications is still difficult because of occluded features, non-smooth motion between frames, and ambiguous patterns in images. In this paper, we show how a sampling-based representation can be used in place of the traditional Gaussian representation of uncertainty. We show how sampling can be used for both feature tracking and SFM and we show how they are combined in this framework. The approach is exercised in the context of a mobile robot navigating through an outdoor environment with an omnidirectional camera.
L’impact de la suppression des subventions aux prix des produits alimentaires et pétroliers sur la pauvreté au Maroc : Une analyse en équilibre général
Creators: name: Bchi, Khadija
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017

description: Les subventions des produits alimentaires et pétroliers pèsent de plus en plus sur le budget de l'Etat et s'avèrent inefficaces dans la réduction de la pauvreté. Toutefois leur suppression pourrait également nuire au bien-être des ménages pauvres ou vulnérables. Dans ce travail nous analysons l'impact de cette suppression sur la pauvreté en utilisant un modèle calculable d'équilibre général. Les principaux résultats de ce travail montrent que la suppression des subventions ne bénéficie pas aux ménages. Le taux de pauvreté augmente de 0,6 point en milieu urbain et 1,7 point en milieu rural suite à la suppression des subventions. Les transferts directs aux pauvres ont allégé le choc mais n'ont pas permis de réduire la pauvreté. Les autres indices de pauvreté, en l'occurrence la profondeur et la sévérité de la pauvreté ont connu les mêmes tendances. Cependant, lorsque ces mesures sont accompagnées par une amélioration des services publics en augmentant la dépense de l'Etat, les indices de la pauvreté s’améliorent ou se maintiennent à leurs niveaux de la situation de référence.
New multidimensional partially integrable generalization of S-integrable N-wave equation
Creators: name: Zenchuk, A. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper develops a modification of the dressing method based on the inhomogeneous linear integral equation with integral operator having nonempty kernel. Method allows one to construct the systems of multidimensional Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) having the differential polynomial forms in any dimension n. Associated solution space is not full, although it is parametrized by a certain number of arbitrary functions of (n-1)-variables. We consider 4-dimensional generalization of the classical (2+1)-dimensional S-integrable N-wave equation as an example.
description: 38 pages
Dilemmi del fine vita nel confronto tra approccio scientifico e prospettiva religiosa (cattolica – protestante)
Creators: name: Carobene, Germana
Publisher: name: University of Trento
Year: 2016
Subjects: Bioethics; end of life issues; scientific debate; roman catholic doctrine; protestant ethic

description: End of life bioethics includes a wide range of issues, all of them dealing with the value of human life, on human dignity, on the idea of justice and good. In the field of medical sciences, the recent technological progress has deeply changed traditional concepts such as life, death, vegetative state and imposes a rethinking and a distinction between biological and biographic life. The paper aims at comparing the doctrine of the Roman catholic church with and Protestant theology, which is more adherent to a secular ethics with regards to the safeguard of human dignity. The goal of this analysis is to underline the complex dilemmas that a modern and pluralistic society is called to deal with in a context of mutual respect and tolerance.
description: BioLaw Journal - Rivista di BioDiritto, N° 3 (2016)
Climate Change and the Distribution of Agricultural Output
Creators: name: Costa, Francisco
name: Forge, Fabien
name: Garred, Jason
name: Pessoa, João Paulo
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2020
Subjects: climate change
agriculture
India
crop yield
volatility
extreme events

description: This paper uses a multi-run climate projection model to examine the potential impact of climate change on the distribution of agricultural outcomes in India. Weather draws resulting in extremely low agricultural revenues (1-in-100-year events) are projected to become the norm, increasing by 53 to 88 percentage points by the end of the 21st century. As a result, Indian farmers will face a 16% to 33% decline in mean revenue over the course of the century, presenting a more urgent problem than changes in yield variability. Analysis using a structural general equilibrium model suggests consequences of a similar magnitude for welfare.
El derecho a la muerte digna: en defensa del suicidio asistido y de la limitación del esfuerzo terapéutico
Creators: name: Freire Dos Santos, Fernanda
name: Dias, Roberto
Publisher: name: University of Trento
Year: 2016
Subjects: The right to a dignified death; assisted suicide; limitation of therapeutic effort; human dignity; sovereign will; abdication of the fundamental right to live

description: This article upholds the right to a dignified death by the limitation of therapeutic effort and to the assisted suicide of imputable and legally mature people which are terminally ill, with minimum life expectancy – also referred as poor prognosis patients –, and those in a persistent vegetative state. Thus, we will reinforce the paradigm shift in medical ethics’ paternalism, analyze the state’s secularism and the triumph of human’s dignity in its sovereign individual protection and the possibility to abdicate the fundamental right to live as a plea to defend the right to a dignified death.
description: BioLaw Journal - Rivista di BioDiritto, N° 3 (2016)
NA62 sensitivity to heavy neutral leptons in the low scale seesaw model
Creators: name: Drewes, Marco
name: Hajer, Jan
name: Klaric, Juraj
name: Lanfranchi, Gaia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The sensitivity of beam dump experiments to heavy neutral leptons depends on the relative strength of their couplings to individual lepton flavours in the Standard Model. We study the impact of present neutrino oscillation data on these couplings in the minimal type I seesaw model and find that it significantly constrains the allowed heavy neutrino flavour mixing patterns. We estimate the effect that the DUNE experiment will have on these predictions. We then discuss implication that this has for the sensitivity of the NA62 experiment when operated in the beam dump mode and provide sensitivity estimates for different benchmark scenarios. We find that the sensitivity can vary by almost two orders of magnitude for general choices of the model parameters, but depends only weakly on the flavour mixing pattern within the parameter range that is preferred by neutrino oscillation data.
description: 29 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables, version accepted by JHEP