cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Potamogeton friesii Ruprecht 1845
Creators: name: Abbasi, Shabnam
name: Afsharzadeh, Saeed
name: Dinarvand, Mehri
name: Wiegleb, Gerhard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Alismatales
Potamogetonaceae
Potamogeton
Potamogeton friesii

description: Potamogeton friesii Ruprecht (1845: 43), Fig. 3
Annual, rhizome filiform, stem filiform, slightly compressed. Leaves submersed, linear, green, often with reddish or brownish tinge, 30–50 mm long, 1–2.5 mm wide, (3–)5–7-veined, margins entire, acuminate at apex; stipules not fused, connate, 7–9 mm long, fibrous, splitting into two parts when mature. Spike 7–9 mm long, peduncle 15–20 mm long, as thick as the stem. Tepals 1 mm long, anthers 0.8–0.9 mm long. Carpels 4, fruits 2 mm long. Stele of circular type, endodermis of O-type, interlacunar bundles absent, subepidermal bundles present.
 The species is distinguished from morphologically similar Potamogeton pusillus Linnaeus (1753: 127) by having broader, often reddish, 5–7-veined leaves and by the splitting stipules.
 Worldwide distribution: —Circumpolar, boreal and temperate regions throughout the northern hemisphere.
 Distribution in Iran:—West, Central.
 Flowering time: —From spring to autumn.
 Specimen examined:— IRAN. Gilan: Astara, Plasi village, - 84 m, 11 Aug 2014, Dinarvand 8230 (Herbarium of the Research Center of Agriculture & Natural Resources of Khuzestan!); Isfahan: Deemeh spring, 2133 m, 18 Sep 2014, Abbasi & Afsharzadeh 19635 (HUI!); Bahadoran garden (Zarrin Shahr), 1681 m, 26 Sep 2014, Abbasi & Afsharzadeh 19636 (HUI!), Chaharmal and Bakhtiari: Gandoman wetland, 2254 m, 27 Aug 2014, Abbasi & Afsharzadeh 19637 (HUI!), Kurdistan: Kamyaran river, 1000 m, 7 June 2015, Abbasi & Afsharzadeh 20216 (HUI!).
description: Published as part of Abbasi, Shabnam, Afsharzadeh, Saeed, Dinarvand, Mehri & Wiegleb, Gerhard, 2017, Synopsis of Potamogetonaceae in Iran with supplements to the Flora Iranica and a new identification key, pp. 1-21 in Phytotaxa 311 (1) on page 5, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.311.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13686054
Basis for solutions of the Benoit & Saint-Aubin PDEs with particular asymptotic properties
Creators: name: Peltola, Eveliina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60D05, 81T40, 82B27, 16T05, 35C15, 33C70

description: Applying the quantum group method developed in [KP20], we construct solutions to the Benoit & Saint-Aubin partial differential equations with boundary conditions given by specific recursive asymptotics properties. Our results generalize solutions constructed in [KP16, PW19], known as the pure partition functions of multiple Schramm-Loewner evolutions. The generalization is reminiscent of fusion in conformal field theory, and our solutions can be thought of as partition functions of systems of random curves, where many curves may emerge from the same point.
description: 46 pages, 17 figures. v4(final, published)
Flatness-Aware Minimization for Domain Generalization
Creators: name: Zhang, Xingxuan
name: Xu, Renzhe
name: Yu, Han
name: Dong, Yancheng
name: Tian, Pengfei
name: Cu, Peng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Domain generalization (DG) seeks to learn robust models that generalize well under unknown distribution shifts. As a critical aspect of DG, optimizer selection has not been explored in depth. Currently, most DG methods follow the widely used benchmark, DomainBed, and utilize Adam as the default optimizer for all datasets. However, we reveal that Adam is not necessarily the optimal choice for the majority of current DG methods and datasets. Based on the perspective of loss landscape flatness, we propose a novel approach, Flatness-Aware Minimization for Domain Generalization (FAD), which can efficiently optimize both zeroth-order and first-order flatness simultaneously for DG. We provide theoretical analyses of the FAD's out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization error and convergence. Our experimental results demonstrate the superiority of FAD on various DG datasets. Additionally, we confirm that FAD is capable of discovering flatter optima in comparison to other zeroth-order and first-order flatness-aware optimization methods.
description: Accepted by ICCV2023
The Temperament of a City: A Postscript to Post-Olympic Beijing
Creators: name: Ruan, Xing
Publisher: name: FOOTPRINT
Year: 2013

description: There are two kinds of amazement in art and architecture: one relies on the ingenuity of artifice to arouse a feeling of enchantment, while the other causes an awe-inspiring ecstasy through the shock of the new. Beijing may have won the race in the latter, with spectacles such as the Olympic Games, but does this prove that a new Beijing has been reinvented? This paper examines the two kinds of amazement to examine two pairs of showcase Olympic buildings: 1) Beijing International Airport’s Terminal 3 and the Olympic Tennis Centre and 2) the Olympic Stadium and the CCTV Tower – to ask what they say about Beijing, and its temperament. It also questions whether or not it is possible to reinvent a new city once its temperament has been formed, and in what way this temperament may be related to the creation of public space, or place.
description: FOOTPRINT, Issue # 12 | Spring 2013 | Future Publics: Politics and Space in East Asia’s Cities
[Re]Forming Public Space: A Critique of Hong Kong’s Park Governance through Architectural Intervention
Creators: name: Carlow, Jason
Publisher: name: FOOTPRINT
Year: 2013

description: This paper’s point of departure is a critique of the Hong Kong government’s somewhat rigid approach to regulating the public spaces of its parks. As an antidote to a rule-bound and somewhat restrictive set of policies, four groups of architecture students at the University of Hong Kong have designed various interventions for a public park in Hong Kong. The projects, entitled Pixel Wall, Fence Off, Border Mender, and Rocky present alternative ways of activating public space through architectural design.
description: FOOTPRINT, Issue # 12 | Spring 2013 | Future Publics: Politics and Space in East Asia’s Cities
Four-wave mixing in perovskite photovoltaic materials reveals long dephasing times and weaker many-body interactions than GaAs
Creators: name: March, Samuel A.
name: Riley, Drew B.
name: Clegg, Charlotte
name: Webber, Daniel
name: Liu, Xinyu
name: Dobrowolska, Margaret
name: Furdyna, Jacek K.
name: Hill, Ian G.
name: Hall, Kimberley C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Perovksite semiconductors have shown promise for low-cost solar cells, lasers and photodetectors, yet their fundamental photophysical properties are not well understood. Recent observations of a low ($\sim$few meV) exciton binding energy and evidence of hot phonon effects in the room temperature phase suggest that perovskites are much closer to inorganic semiconductors than the absorber layers in traditional organic photovoltaics, signaling the need for experiments that shed light on the placement of perovskite materials within the spectrum of semiconductors used in optoelectronics and photovoltaics. Here we use four-wave mixing (FWM) to contrast the coherent optical response of CH$_3$NH$_3$PbI$_3$ thin films and crystalline GaAs. At carrier densities relevant for solar cell operation, our results show that carriers interact surprisingly weakly via the Coulomb interaction in perovskite, much weaker than in inorganic semiconductors. These weak many-body effects lead to a dephasing time in CH$_3$NH$_3$PbI$_3$ $\sim$3 times longer than in GaAs. Our results also show that the strong enhancement of the exciton FWM signal tied to excitation-induced dephasing in GaAs and other III-V semiconductors does not occur in perovskite due to weak exciton-carrier scattering interactions.
description: Added 10 K results to previous version (Feb 16, 2016)
title: FOOTPRINT, Issue # 13 | Autumn 2013 | The Participatory Turn in Urbanism
title: Issue # 13 | Autumn 2013 | The Participatory Turn in Urbanism
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: FOOTPRINT
Publisher: name: FOOTPRINT
Year: 2014

description: This issue of Footprint examines the recent participatory turn in urban planning and urban design. It discusses the co-opting of participatory processes by planning departments, the systematic disregard of inequalities, and the empowering of the market resulting from the ‘anti-statism’ present in many participatory schemes. What is the relationship between the institutionalisation of participation and the practices of autonomy, self-organisation, and inclusion? When and how does genuine empowerment of collectives take place? Does the demand for the empowerment of local organisations and communities strengthen the market forces at the expense of central government? This issue attempts to problematise ‘participation’, to call attentions to some of its shortcomings, deficits, and limitations, not in order to necessarily bypass the demand for the democratisation of the urban, but in order to rectify and strengthen it. Issue's editors: Maroš Krivý and Tahl Kaminer
description: Participation, Housing, and the Question of ‘Good Architecture’...163-172 Generative and Participatory Parametric Frameworks for Multi-player Design Games...153-162 Learning from Failures: Architectures of Emergency in Contested Spaces (Pyla, Cyprus)...143-152 Citizens as Knowledge Producers in Urban Change: Can Participation Change Procedures and Systems...131-142 Mainstreaming Urban Interventionist Practices: the Case of the BMW Guggenheim Lab in Berlin...123-130 Infrastructural Critique. The Upside-Down of the Bottom-Up: A Case Study on the IBA Berlin 84/87...115-122 Cooperatives, Control or Compromise? The Changing Role of Participation in Norwegian Housing...99-114 The Importance of Recognition for Equal Representation in Participatory Processes: Lessons from Husby...81-98 The ʽDiverse Economies’ of Participation...63-80 Toward an Architecture of Dissensus: Participatory Urbanism in South-East Asia...41-62 An Anthropology of Urbanism: How People Make Places (and What Designers and Planners Might Learn from It) ...21-40 Aporia of Participatory Planning: Framing Local Action in the Entrepreneurial City...7-20 Introduction: The Participatory Turn in Urbanism...1-6
Introduction: The Participatory Turn in Urbanism
Creators: name: Krivý, Maroš
name: Kaminer, Tahl
Publisher: name: FOOTPRINT
Year: 2013

description: This issue of Footprint examines the recent participatory turn in urban planning and urban design. It discusses the co-opting of participatory processes by planning departments, the systematic disregard of inequalities, and the empowering of the market resulting from the ‘anti-statism’ present in many participatory schemes. What is the relationship between the institutionalisation of participation and the practices of autonomy, self-organisation, and inclusion? When and how does genuine empowerment of collectives take place? Does the demand for the empowerment of local organisations and communities strengthen the market forces at the expense of central government? This issue attempts to problematise ‘participation’, to call attentions to some of its shortcomings, deficits, and limitations, not in order to necessarily bypass the demand for the democratisation of the urban, but in order to rectify and strengthen it.
description: FOOTPRINT, Issue # 13 | Autumn 2013 | The Participatory Turn in Urbanism
Aporia of Participatory Planning: Framing Local Action in the Entrepreneurial City
Creators: name: Love, Ryan
Publisher: name: FOOTPRINT
Year: 2013

description: This essay examines the hegemonic-discursive barriers facing local action in cities today, first, by revisiting the New Left/Frankfurt School critique of modern institutions, which not incidentally proved a key inspirational source for the original grassroots movements of the 1960s and 1970s. In this first section of the essay, Adorno's analysis of the Culture Industry is reconsidered alongside Berger’s and Bourdieu's critical sociology. Second, it is argued that the institutional recuperation of localism since the 1970s has resulted in a paradoxical abandoning or overturning of its earlier revolutionary-utopian motives, which has subsequently sowed the seeds for a new counterrevolutionary trend in local politics (so-called NIMBYism). This trend is seen as attendant to still larger city-transformative processes of gentrification and neoliberalisation, or ‘urban entrepreneurialism.’ The essay concludes, finally, with an exposition of the central challenges at hand, and presents an alternative envisioning of participation as a mode of nonintegrative or counterhegemonic praxis.
description: FOOTPRINT, Issue # 13 | Autumn 2013 | The Participatory Turn in Urbanism
Numerical simulation of forerunning fracture in saturated porous solids with hybrid FEM/Peridynamic model
Creators: name: Ni, Tao
name: Pesavento, Francesco
name: Zaccariotto, Mirco
name: Galvanetto, Ugo
name: Schrefler, Bernhard A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, a novel hybrid FEM and Peridynamic modeling approach proposed in Ni et al. (2020) is used to predict the dynamic solution of hydro-mechanical coupled problems. A modified staggered solution algorithm is adopted to solve the coupled system. A one-dimensional dynamic consolidation problem is solved first to validate the hybrid modeling approach, and both -convergence and -convergence studies are carried out to determine appropriate discretization parameters for the hybrid model. Thereafter, dynamic fracturing in a rectangular dry/fully saturated structure with a central initial crack is simulated both under mechanical loading and fluid-driven conditions. In the mechanical loading fracture case, fixed surface pressure is applied on the upper and lower surfaces of the initial crack near the central position to force its opening. In the fluid-driven fracture case, the fluid injection is operated at the centre of the initial crack with a fixed rate. Under the action of the applied external force and fluid injection, forerunning fracture behavior is observed both in the dry and saturated conditions.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2307.10929
Violating Bell inequality using weak coherent states
Creators: name: Mahdavifar, Moslem
name: Rafsanjani, S. M. Hashemi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an experimental investigation of two-photon interference using a continuous-wave laser. We demonstrate the violation of the CHSH inequality using the phase randomized weak coherent states from a continuous wave laser. Our implementation serves as an approach to reveal the quantum nature of a source that is considered to be a classical source.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures
An Anthropology of Urbanism: How People Make Places (and What Designers and Planners Might Learn from It)
Creators: name: Wortham-Galvin, Brooke D.
Publisher: name: FOOTPRINT
Year: 2013

description: In their word play on what design praxis might succeed the New Urbanism movement in the United States, the July 2013 article “Newest Urbanism” in the Architect introduced to the uninitiated the concept of tactical urbanism. Defining tactical urbanism as “temporary, cheap, and usually grassroots interventions – including so-called guerrilla gardens, pop-up parks, food carts, and ‘open streets’ projects – that are designed to improve city life on a block-by-block, street-by-street basis,” the article claims that it took this approach to shaping the city less than a decade to mainstream into the practices of US cities and firms alike. While Architect used the term tactical urbanism, to characterize this effort, this essay will use the term participatory urbanism to discuss how ordinary people are engaged in making place. This discussion of participatory urbanism will: describe the context from which it emerged in the United States, define the term and its current manifestations, and describe an early example of participatory urbanism seeded by digital tools in order to raise questions about participatory urbanism role in the making of place in the twenty-first century.
description: FOOTPRINT, Issue # 13 | Autumn 2013 | The Participatory Turn in Urbanism
Toward an Architecture of Dissensus: Participatory Urbanism in South-East Asia
Creators: name: Boano, Camillo
name: Kelling, Emily
Publisher: name: FOOTPRINT
Year: 2013

description: Adopting Rancière’s principles of equality, his concepts of aesthetics and le partage du sensible as an intellectual toolbox, this paper examines how practices of participation in informal settlement development might encourage one to think differently about the relationship between politics, design and the city – contributing thus to the debate about participatory urbanism. A critical reflection of the Thai programme Baan Mankong (secure housing) and its regional counterpart Asian Coalition for Community Action (ACCA) – an entity aimed at creating an alternative development process in which people that were previously ignored and marginalized are engaged at the centre of a process of transforming their lives, spaces and position in the city – sheds light on such relationship in order to promote a re-conceptualisation of the role of architecture and design in the process of socially just urban development, participatory urbanism and the struggle for democracy.
description: FOOTPRINT, Issue # 13 | Autumn 2013 | The Participatory Turn in Urbanism
A Markov Chain Model for Identifying Changes in Daily Activity Patterns of People Living with Dementia
Creators: name: Fletcher-Lloyd, Nan
name: Serban, Alina-Irina
name: Kolanko, Magdalena
name: Wingfield, David
name: Wilson, Danielle
name: Nilforooshan, Ramin
name: Barnaghi, Payam
name: Soreq, Eyal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Malnutrition and dehydration are strongly associated with increased cognitive and functional decline in people living with dementia (PLWD), as well as an increased rate of hospitalisations in comparison to their healthy counterparts. Extreme changes in eating and drinking behaviours can often lead to malnutrition and dehydration, accelerating the progression of cognitive and functional decline and resulting in a marked reduction in quality of life. Unfortunately, there are currently no established methods by which to objectively detect such changes. Here, we present the findings of an extensive quantitative analysis conducted on in-home monitoring data collected from 73 households of PLWD using Internet of Things technologies. The Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has previously been shown to have dramatically altered the behavioural habits, particularly the eating and drinking habits, of PLWD. Using the COVID-19 pandemic as a natural experiment, we conducted linear mixed-effects modelling to examine changes in mean kitchen activity within a subset of 21 households of PLWD that were continuously monitored for 499 days. We report an observable increase in day-time kitchen activity and a significant decrease in night-time kitchen activity (t(147) = -2.90, p < 0.001). We further propose a novel analytical approach to detecting changes in behaviours of PLWD using Markov modelling applied to remote monitoring data as a proxy for behaviours that cannot be directly measured. Together, these results pave the way to introduce improvements into the monitoring of PLWD in naturalistic settings and for shifting from reactive to proactive care.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures, journal
Migration and Health Outcomes in Purepecha Sending Communities
Creators: name: Godinez, Isaura
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: This pilot study explores the effects of remittances on health outcomes, dietary and physical activity patterns, and inequality among the Purepecha, an indigenous group of Michoacán, Mexico. Data were collected from 37 men and women in 5 Purepecha communities in Michoacán during July 2015. Data consisted of anthropometric variables, components of diet, levels of physical activity and key socioeconomic variables. Overweight and obesity are high; 74.4% of participants have a BMI above 25 kg/m2. Receiving remittances is not significantly associated with an elevated blood pressure, elevated BMI, or with higher consumption of soft drinks or meat. As for socioeconomic status, receiving remittances is negatively and significantly associated with income, occupation type, and ownership of key consumer goods. Further study with a larger sample size is necessary to further explore the influencing factors on high levels of overweight and obesity and on high levels of elevated blood pressure.
Duality between Ahlfors-Liouville and Khas'minskii properties for nonlinear equations
Creators: name: Mari, Luciano
name: Pessoa, Leandro F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 31C12, 35B50 (Primary) 35B53, 58J65, 58J05, 53C42 (Secondary)

description: In recent years, the study of the interplay between (fully) non-linear potential theory and geometry received important new impulse. The purpose of this work is to move a step further in this direction by investigating appropriate versions of parabolicity and maximum principles at infinity for large classes of non-linear (sub)equations $F$ on manifolds. The main goal is to show a unifying duality between such properties and the existence of suitable $F$-subharmonic exhaustions, called Khas'minskii potentials, which is new even for most of the "standard" operators arising from geometry, and improves on partial results in the literature. Applications include new characterizations of the classical maximum principles at infinity (Ekeland, Omori-Yau and their weak versions by Pigola-Rigoli-Setti) and of conservation properties for stochastic processes (martingale completeness). Applications to the theory of submanifolds and Riemannian submersions are also discussed.
description: 67 pages. Final version
Twistor spinors and extended conformal superalgebras
Creators: name: Ertem, Ümit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We show that the first-order symmetry operators of twistor spinors can be constructed from conformal Killing-Yano forms in conformally-flat backgrounds. We express the conditions on conformal Killing-Yano forms to obtain mutually commuting symmetry operators of twistor spinors. Conformal superalgebras which consist of conformal Killing vectors and twistor spinors and play important roles in supersymmetric field theories in conformal backgrounds are extended to more general superalgebras by using the graded Lie algebra structure of conformal Killing-Yano forms and the symmetry operators of twistor spinors. The even part of the extended conformal superalgebra corresponds to conformal Killing-Yano forms and the odd part consists of twistor spinors.
description: 16 pages, published version
Application of Frenet Geometry and Recorded Motion Trajectories to Railroad Vehicle System Dynamics
Creators: name: Ling, Hao
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2023

description: Geometry description plays a central role in many engineering applications and directly influences the quality of the computer simulation results. This thesis is focused on developing and applying a procedure for quantifying the forces of railroad vehicle dynamics during curve negotiation with the goal of identifying the root-causes of derailments based on Frenet geometry and recorded-motion trajectory analysis (RMT). One of the goals of this thesis is to demonstrate the noncommutativity of finite rotations when Euler angles are used as geometry field variables to define curve geometric properties, curvature and torsion, when different rotation sequences are considered. Therefore, a systematic approach for developing the relationships between Euler angles and the curvature and torsion of a space curve will be developed. Adopting the sequence used in practice, the Euler-angle numerical representation of the railroad track geometry can be developed in terms of the horizontal curvature, vertical development, and track bank angles. These equations will help explain the relationships between the track input parameters and introduce a new definition, Frenet bank angle, to better understand the difference from the track bank angle, used to describe track geometry in railroad vehicle algorithms. It is demonstrated in this thesis that Frenet bank angle defines the actual direction of the centrifugal force and defines the actual balance speed, which is not a priori known. This thesis will contribute to developing a data-driven science (DDS) solution framework for characterization and interpretation of railroad vehicle oscillations and inertia forces. An approach based on the Frenet geometry and RMT will be introduced in this thesis to examine forward-kinematics effect on the motion geometry and inertia forces and to obtain a general expression for the ratio between the amplitudes of the centrifugal and gravity forces. The new concepts of instantaneous motion plane (IMP) and instantaneous zero-force axis (IZFA) are used to convert three-dimensional Cartesian forces into two-dimensional Frenet forces, based on the Frenet-Newton equations. To this end, a new spatial L/V formulation based on nonlinear dynamics and the assumptions of Nadal’s limit will be introduced, which employs non-generalized coordinates. The single-degree-of-freedom wheel-slide model developed accounts for curving behavior can be used to develop an inverse problem to study different wheel slide patterns. It is shown that the spatial L/V limit can approach four if the direction of the friction force is properly accounted for, highlighting the need for accurate measurement of the components of the relative velocity at the wheel/rail contact point. The application of the RMT and Frenet force analyses can have a significant impact on enhancing positive train control algorithms (PTC).
The ʽDiverse Economies’ of Participation
Creators: name: Udall, Julia
name: Holder, Anna
Publisher: name: FOOTPRINT
Year: 2013

description: This article begins to construct a theory of participation in architecture, urban design and urban planning as a range of practices undertaken across a landscape of economies that largely exists outside of the capitalist economy. These practices themselves overlap in terms of their material forms, bodily and mental activities with the practices undertaken by labour employed to produce the built environment within the capitalist marketplace. With respect to participation, our aim in articulating practices is to move away from a discussion of levels of participation and legitimacy within individual projects and towards an understanding of the organising, productive and reproductive work that is done in participating in the production of the built environment as part of an ongoing process of social change. They proliferate through multiple instances of performance and those who undertake them act as carriers of these practices, including forms of knowhow, understanding, motivational and emotional knowledge, creating resources through these acts of performance. The article contends that participatory practices are liable to be exploited re-presented or co-opted as commodified resources and this fragility limits the socially transformative potential of participation. Drawing on J.K Gibson-Graham’s conception of ‘diverse economies’, an alternative representation is developed to recognize the landscape of practices constructing alternative economic systems, and exploring means and methods of resistance to co-option or enclosure.
description: FOOTPRINT, Issue # 13 | Autumn 2013 | The Participatory Turn in Urbanism
Best Laid Plans: The Impact of Power Sharing and External Support on Separatist Violence
Creators: name: Bird, Lucia
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: International relations

description: Secessionist movements, when they resort to violence, can undermine the stability and threaten the security of states. Institutional designs, like power sharing, that mitigate issues associated with secessionism may be instrumental for states that contain potentially violent separatist groups. Strategies to share power include regional autonomy, which diffuses power to local levels, and complex power sharing, which centralizes power among elites at the national level. Support from external actors may prompt or further enable violent rebellious activity from separatist groups, thus derailing the potentially pacifying effects of these power sharing institutions. While past work has considered the impact of secessionist activity on governance and foreign actors' roles in intrastate conflict, this paper considers how these internal and external factors converge to influence rebellion. I contend that secessionist activity is incited by both regional autonomy and complex power sharing, especially when foreign support is involved. To test these propositions, I employ quantitative methods, specifically logistic regression. I find a positive and statistically significant relationship between the interactions of political institutions with outside aid and secession, which provides evidence for my theoretical propositions.
Thesis-Building: Architecture, Alchemy and the Constructive Moment(s) of a Doctoral Dissertation
Creators: name: De Bruijn, Willem
Publisher: name: FOOTPRINT
Year: 2012

description: This paper looks back at the long and sometimes difficult process of doing a ‘PhD’. It asks how certain ‘moments’ in the building of a doctoral thesis – moments of conception, of discovery, of despair, of truth, of revelation and of jouissance – inform the building of a thesis. By revisiting these moments, the paper traces the genesis of the author’s thesis on Architecture and Alchemy and explores the metaphor of construction encountered in the work of cultural theorist Walter Benjamin. Drawing on some of the historical sources of the thesis, in particular the emblem books of seventeenth-century alchemist Michael Maier (1568-1622), the paper argues that the above-named ‘moments’ in a PhD constitute an ensemble of impassioned investment, which can be known as the PhD-pathos. This paper, then, can be read as no more, or less, than a pathological guide to the PhD, where architecture and alchemy come into play as polar opposites in the process of construction and change that thesis-building is.
description: FOOTPRINT, Issue # 10/11 | Spring 2012 | Architecture Culture and the Question of Knowledge: Doctoral Research Today
Polynomial Diffusion Models for Life Insurance Liabilities
Creators: name: Biagini, Francesca
name: Zhang, Yinglin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Finance (q-fin.MF)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: In this paper we study the pricing and hedging problem of a portfolio of life insurance products under the benchmark approach, where the reference market is modelled as driven by a state variable following a polynomial diffusion on a compact state space. Such a model guarantees not only the positivity of the OIS short rate and the mortality intensity, but also the possibility of approximating both pricing formula and hedging strategy of a large class of life insurance products by explicit formulas.
Perceptions of European identity among EU citizens: an empirical study
Creators: name: Austin, Margaret R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: EU citizens' perceptions of European identity say much about the process of European integration and the development of EU institutions. This study explores European identity as it is described by EU citizens who positively identify themselves with Europe and the EU. This objective is approached through the following research questions: in which contexts are individuals aware of feeling "European" and in which contexts are they aware of feeling their respective national identities? How does European identity relate to national identity? To what extent is European identity developed by EU policy and to what extent does it emerge through individuals themselves? What kinds of communicative actions stimulate European identity? And how does foreign language proficiency affect sense of European identity? This research is significant for the reason that understanding how individuals identify with others influences how they perceive their own interests and therefore influences how they act and organize politically.
title: FOOTPRINT, Issue # 12 | Spring 2013 | Future Publics: Politics and Space in East Asia’s Cities
title: Issue # 12 | Spring 2013 | Future Publics: Politics and Space in East Asia’s Cities
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: FOOTPRINT
Publisher: name: FOOTPRINT
Year: 2014

description: This special issue of Footprint began life in Shanghai, with the third Annual Delft School of Design (DSD) and International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) workshop, which was organized in conjunction with the Architecture Department of Hong Kong University (HKU) and took place in their Shanghai Study Centre in April 2011. The seven papers presented here look at issues of public space in East-Asian cities, beginning with an overview since 1945 and thereafter concentrating on cities in China, such as Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong and Nanjing, as well as a realm that is not often considered public space: urban rivers. The issue also considers the city of Bangkok, where urban design is examined as a counter public sphere. Issue's editors: Gregory Bracken and Jonathan D. Solomon
description: A Tentative Approach to Mapping Street Space: A Case Study of Chinese Central Urban Districts...91-105 War, Trade and Desire: Urban Design and the Counter Public Spheres of Bangkok...75-90 [Re]Forming Public Space: A Critique of Hong Kong’s Park Governance through Architectural Intervention...67-74 The Temperament of a City: A Postscript to Post-Olympic Beijing...55-66 The Shanghai Alleyway House: A Threatened Typology...45-54 (Recovering) China’s Urban Rivers as Public Space...27-44 Asian Public Space since 1945: From Mao to the Mall and Beyond...7-26 Future Publics: Politics and Space in East Asia’s Cities: Introduction...1-6
title: Формирование конкурентного преимущества субъектов предпринимательства в строительстве
Creators: name: Асаул А.Н.
name:  Мамедов Ш.М.
name:  Рыбнов Е.И.
name:  Чепаченко Н.В.
Publisher: name: Институт проблем экономического возрождения
Year: 2014

description: Рассматриваются вопросы, касающиеся теоретических основ и проблем формирования конкурентного преимущества субъектов предпринимательской деятельности в строительстве. Сформирована концепция производственно-экономического потенциала, приведены ограничивающие его факторы и основы эффективного управления процессом его использования. Предлагается метод оценки конкурентного статуса строительной организации, отражающий степень ее превосходства над конкурентами по продуктивности применяемых ресурсов в наращивании конкурентного потенциала. Приводятся рекомендации по ускорению обновления и модернизации материально-технической базы строительных организаций в целях развития их конкурентного преимущества, включающие предложения по использованию комплекса организационно-экономических механизмов. Даны методики оценки конкурентных позиций субъектов предпринимательской деятельности регионального ИСК. Монография предназначена для аспирантов, слушателей системы переподготовки и повышения квалификации специалистов, может представлять интерес для ученых-экономистов и руководителей высшего звена управления организаций строительного профиля.
description: Discusses issues concerning the theoretical foundations and problems of formation of competitive advantages of business entities in construction. Formed the concept of industrial-economic potential, given the limiting factors and principles for effective management use. A method is proposed for assessing the competitive status of a construction company, reflecting the degree of its superiority over competitors in the productivity of resources used in increasing the competitive potential. Provides guidance to accelerate the upgrade and modernization of material-technical base of building organizations to develop their competitive advantages, including proposals for the use of the complex of organizational-economic mechanisms. This method of evaluation of competitive positions of business entities of regional ACTION. This monograph is intended for graduate students, listeners of system of retraining and advanced training of specialists, may be of interest to academic economists and senior executives of management of the organizations of building profile.
Potamogeton berchtoldii Fieber 1838
Creators: name: Abbasi, Shabnam
name: Afsharzadeh, Saeed
name: Dinarvand, Mehri
name: Wiegleb, Gerhard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Alismatales
Potamogetonaceae
Potamogeton
Potamogeton berchtoldii

description: Potamogeton berchtoldii Fieber (1838: 277), Fig. 4
Annual or biennial, rhizome filiform, stem filiform, terete, with two distinct glands at leaf base. Leaves monomorphic; submersed leaves sessile, 15–45 mm long, 1.5–2 mm wide, margins entire, 3-veined with at least 2 rows of lacunar cells along the shiny yellow midrib, acuminate at apex, cuneate at base; floating leaves absent. Stipules not fused, convolute at base, 5–9 mm long, membranous. Spike 4–5 mm long, peduncle <1cm long, as thick as the stem. Tepals 2 mm long, anthers 0.5 mm long. Carpels 4, fruits 2 mm long. Stele of circular type, endodermis of O-type, interlacunar bundles absent, subepidermal bundles present.
 Worldwide distribution: —W Asia (Turkey, Iraq), circumpolar, boreal and temperate regions throughout the northern hemisphere.
 Distribution in Iran: —North, West, South.
 Flowering time: —From spring to autumn.
 Specimen examined:— IRAN. Gilan: Astaneh, under Sefidrood bridge, 94 m, 12 July 2009 Dinarvand 8156 (Herbarium of the Research Center of Agriculture & Natural Resources of Khuzestan!); Mazandaran: Shoormast river, 916 m, 13 Aug 2014, Abbasi & Afsharzadeh 20214 (HUI!); Kurdistan: Ravansar, 1430 m, 10 Aug 2008, Dinarvand 27447 (Herbarium of the Research Center of Agriculture & Natural Resources of Khuzestan!); Khuzestan: Khoramshahr, 500 m, 10 June 2010 Dinarvand 8059 (Herbarium of the Research Center of Agriculture & Natural Resources of Khuzestan!); Lorestan: Pole dokhtar: Lefone wetland, 730 m, 12 July 2010, Dinarvand 8713 (Herbarium of the Research Center of Agriculture & Natural Resources of Khuzestan!); Lorestan: Gahar lake, 2350 m, 12 July 2010, Dinarvand 8755 (Herbarium of the Research Center of Agriculture & Natural Resources of Khuzestan!); Yazd: Afshar vale, wetland, 2100 m, 1 July 1998, Edmonson & Miller 1494 (TARI!); Fars: Tangeboragh dam, 1230 m, 2 July 2010, Dinarvand 866 (Herbarium of the Research Center of Agriculture & Natural Resources of Khuzestan!); Semnan: Touran conserved area, 1300 m, 6 Aug 2011, Dinarvand 13804 (Herbarium of the Research Center of Agriculture & Natural Resources of Khuzestan!).
description: Published as part of Abbasi, Shabnam, Afsharzadeh, Saeed, Dinarvand, Mehri & Wiegleb, Gerhard, 2017, Synopsis of Potamogetonaceae in Iran with supplements to the Flora Iranica and a new identification key, pp. 1-21 in Phytotaxa 311 (1) on page 6, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.311.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13686054
Functional relations of solutions of q-difference equations
Creators: name: Dreyfus, Thomas
name: Hardouin, Charlotte
name: Roques, Julien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 39A06, 12H10

description: In this paper, we study the algebraic relations satisfied by the solutions of $q$-difference equations and their transforms with respect to an auxiliary operator. Our main tool is the parametrized Galois theories developed in two papers. The first part of this paper is concerned with the case where the auxiliary operator is a derivation, whereas the second part deals a $\mathbf{q'}$-difference operator. In both cases, we give criteria to guaranty the algebraic independence of a series, solution of a $q$-difference equation, with either its successive derivatives or its $\mathbf{q'}$-transforms. We apply our results to $q$-hypergeometric series.
Highly Sensitive Proteomic Methods to Probe Protein Interactions
Creators: name: Zhang, Ziwei
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2023

description: Bottom-up proteomics has increasingly assumed a critical role in drug discovery due to its ability to provide a comprehensive analysis of the proteome. Throughout various stages in drug discovery, bottom-up proteomics has shown immense utility in drug target identification, biomarker discovery, drug effect profiling, and precise medicine. However, advancements in proteomics could further enable more comprehensive analyses, thereby aiding the development of new or more effective drugs. This thesis delineates our efforts towards the development of proteomic methods to probe protein interactions. Chapter one provides a general review of three aspects. The first part focuses on methods used for small molecule target identification in the proteomics field. The second part examines HR+/HER2- breast cancer therapies and discusses the emerging diagnostic and prognostic roles of exosomes in cancer disease. The third part discusses challenges in nanoproteomics or single-cell proteomics, encompassing issues such as sample loss in the containers and the utilization time of mass spectrometry instruments. Chapter two describes our efforts to develop high-throughput methods for LC-MS/MS analysis. The first half of this chapter evaluates the non-negligible sample loss from microtubes in nanoproteomics. The second half describes our development of a dual column system to maximize the instrument utilization of LC-MS/MS for high-throughput analysis. Chapter three presents a prediction model based on the exosome proteome of HR+/HER2- patients to predict their responses to combination therapy. We evaluated several exosome isolation methods and employed six machine learning methods to xiii ABSTRACT (continued) construct the prediction model. This approach could predict the treatment outcomes for patients, which contributes to the advancement of precision medicine. Chapter four describes two strategies we employed to identify small molecule binding targets. It is well established that upon binding to a small molecule, a protein undergoes an energy change and experiences an induced conformational change. By employing the energy-based method DiffPOP and the conformation-based method SETI, we can assess binding events from two different perspectives, thereby gaining a comprehensive understanding of small molecule binding targets. DiffPOP detects changes in protein chemical resistance upon binding to identify targets. The SETI method, when supplementing small molecules in the mobile phase, could combine the conformational change and affinity method advantages to enhance the identification of binding targets.
title: Французский язык
title: Учебное пособие
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Воронкова И.С.
name:  Витрук Л.Ю.
name:  Ковалевская Я.А.
Publisher: name: Воронежский государственный университет инженерных технологий
Year: 2016

description: Учебное пособие разработано в соответствии с требованиями ФГОС ВО подготовки выпускников по направлениям 38.03.01 – «Экономика», 38.03.02 – «Менеджмент», 38.03.03 – «Управление персоналом», 38.03.06 – «Торговое дело», 38.03.07 – «Товароведение». Оно предназначено для закрепления и контроля теоретических знаний по иностранному языку. Пособие может быть использовано студентами заочной формы обучения.
description: The tutorial is designed in accordance with the requirements of the GEF IN the preparation of graduates in areas 38.03.01 "Economics", 38.03.02 "Management", 38.03.03 – "personnel Management", 38.03.06 – "trading business" 38.03.07 – "commodity". It is designed to consolidate and control the theoretical knowledge in a foreign language. The manual can be used by students of the correspondence form of training.
Future Publics: Politics and Space in East Asia’s Cities: Introduction
Creators: name: Bracken, Gregory
name: Solomon, Jonathan D.
Publisher: name: FOOTPRINT
Year: 2013

description: This special issue of Footprint began life in Shanghai, with the third Annual Delft School of Design (DSD) and International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) workshop, which was organized in conjunction with the Architecture Department of Hong Kong University (HKU) and took place in their Shanghai Study Centre in April 2011. The seven papers presented here look at issues of public space in East-Asian cities, beginning with an overview since 1945 and thereafter concentrating on cities in China, such as Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong and Nanjing, as well as a realm that is not often considered public space: urban rivers. The issue also considers the city of Bangkok, where urban design is examined as a counter public sphere.
description: FOOTPRINT, Issue # 12 | Spring 2013 | Future Publics: Politics and Space in East Asia’s Cities