cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Tradurre Figure / Translating Figurative Language
Creators: name: Miller, Donna Rose
name: Monti, Enrico
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2014
Subjects: L-FIL-LET/14 Critica letteraria e letterature comparate
L-LIN/01 Glottologia e linguistica
L-LIN/04 Lingua e traduzione - Lingua francese
L-LIN/07 Lingua e traduzione - Lingua spagnola
L-LIN/12 Lingua e traduzione - Lingua inglese
L-LIN/14 Lingua e traduzione - Lingua tedesca

description: Tradurre Figure / Translating Figurative Language offers 27 original contributions on the interlingual translation of figurative language. The chapters were first presented at an international conference held at the University of Bologna in December 2012 and have been selected through a double peer-reviewed process. Why figurative language in translation? Essentially because figurative language – and the contributions in this book can be seen to prove it – may often foreground the complexities of the translation process, as well as the strong link between language and culture that this process has to renegotiate. Written in either English or Italian, the different contributions of this volume investigate the topic from a wide range of approaches and through several possible language pairs. We are confident that these stimulating and wide-ranging chapters will contribute to casting new light on the practice of translators around the world when dealing with the manifold implications and challenges that figurative language cannot help but pose.
Elliptic Flow and Dissipation in Heavy-Ion Collisions at E_{lab} = (1--160)A GeV
Creators: name: Ivanov, Yu. B.
name: Mishustin, I. N.
name: Russkikh, V. N.
name: Satarov, L. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Elliptic flow in heavy-ion collisions at incident energies $E_{lab}\simeq$ (1--160)A GeV is analyzed within the model of 3-fluid dynamics (3FD). We show that a simple correction factor, taking into account dissipative affects, allows us to adjust the 3FD results to experimental data. This single-parameter fit results in a good reproduction of the elliptic flow as a function of the incident energy, centrality of the collision and rapidity. The experimental scaling of pion eccentricity-scaled elliptic flow versus charged-hadron-multiplicity density per unit transverse area turns out to be also reasonably described. Proceeding from values of the Knudsen number, deduced from this fit, we estimate the upper limit the shear viscosity-to-entropy ratio as $η/s \sim 1-2$ at the SPS incident energies. This value is of the order of minimal $η/s$ observed in water and liquid nitrogen.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures, version accepted by Phys. Rev. C
Millimagnitude Photometry for Transiting Extrasolar Planetary Candidates. V. Follow-up of 30 OGLE Transits. New Candidates
Creators: name: Pietrukowicz, P.
name: Minniti, D.
name: Diaz, R. F.
name: Fernandez, J. M.
name: Zoccali, M.
name: Gieren, W.
name: Pietrzynski, G.
name: Ruiz, M. T.
name: Udalski, A.
name: Szeifert, T.
name: Hempel, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We used VLT/VIMOS images in the V band to obtain light curves of extrasolar planetary transits OGLE-TR-111 and OGLE-TR-113, and candidate planetary transits: OGLE-TR-82, OGLE-TR-86, OGLE-TR-91, OGLE-TR-106, OGLE-TR-109, OGLE-TR-110, OGLE-TR-159, OGLE-TR-167, OGLE-TR-170, OGLE-TR-171. Using difference imaging photometry, we were able to achieve millimagnitude errors in the individual data points. We present the analysis of the data and the light curves, by measuring transit amplitudes and ephemerides, and by calculating geometrical parameters for some of the systems. We observed 9 OGLE objects at the predicted transit moments. Two other transits were shifted in time by a few hours. For another seven objects we expected to observe transits during the VIMOS run, but they were not detected. The stars OGLE-TR-111 and OGLE-TR-113 are probably the only OGLE objects in the observed sample to host planets, with the other objects being very likely eclipsing binaries or multiple systems. In this paper we also report on four new transiting candidates which we have found in the data.
description: 11 pages, 17 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
Light outputs of yttrium doped BaF$_2$ crystals irradiated with neutrons
Creators: name: Baranov, V.
name: Davydov, Yu. I.
name: Vasilyev, I. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The fast luminescence component of barium fluoride (BaF$_2$) crystals with a subnanosecond decay time can find wide application in particle physics and nuclear physics. However, the slow luminescence component with the 630~ns decay time could cause pile-up signals at a high rate environment. Doping of BaF$_2$ crystals with rare earth elements suppresses the slow emission component, but at the same time the radiation hardness of the crystals deteriorates. This work presents the results of studying crystal samples, both pure BaF$_2$ and those doped with yttrium in a proportion of 1at.\%Y, 3at.\%Y and 5at.\%Y, irradiated with a fast neutron fluence of about 2.3$\times$10$^{14}$~n/cm$^2$. Their light output and decay kinetics were measured before and after irradiation. It is found that the light output loss of a pure BaF$_2$ crystal after irradiation is about 7\%, and the light output loss of yttrium doped samples after irradiation is about two times higher. The measurement results demonstrate that after irradiation the fast component of each sample has a relative light output loss 2-3\% larger than the slow one.
The Potential of Luminescent Bacteria
Creators: name: Beh Weng Chee, Lim Yee Kheng
Publisher: name: คณะสิ่งแวดล้อมและทรัพยากรศาสตร์
Year: 2010
Subjects: Bacteria, Bioluminescence,Luminescent, Photobacterium leiognathi, Toxicity

description: 3, 8, Environment and Natural Resources Journal
Supplementary Material of "The effectiveness of the Iranian building code in mitigating climate change in Bandar Abbas"
Creators: name: Azimi Fereidani, Nazanin
name: Rodrigues, Eugénio
name: Gaspar, Adélio R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Building science, technologies and systems
Sustainable design

description: The supplementary material includes of two sections; Section 1 of the supplementary material provides information on the internal gain specifications and schedules used to validate a real building in Iran. In Section 2, graphs depict the monthly electricity consumption of buildings with varying energy levels across different scenarios and timeframes.
การประยุกต์ใช้อิเล็กโตรสปินนิ่งพอลิเมอร์นาโนไฟเบอร์ Applications of electrospinning polymer nanofibers
Creators: name: ณัฐธัญ เจริญศรีวิไลวัฒน์ และ ปราณีต โอปณะโสภิต
Publisher: name: คณะเภสัชศาสตร์ ม.ศิลปากร /โรงพิมพ์ ม.ศิลปากร
Year: 2552
Subjects: อิเล็กโตรสปินนิ่ง, นาโนไฟเบอร์, การประยุกต์ใช้

description: 2( Jan-Dec), 2551, ไทยไภษัชยนิพนธ์
Signal Acquisition from Measurements via Non-Linear Models
Creators: name: Sarig, Niv
name: Yomdin, Yosef
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 62J02, 14P10, 42C99

description: We consider the problem of reconstruction of a non-linear finite-parametric model $M=M_p(x),$ with $p=(p_1,...,p_r)$ a set of parameters, from a set of measurements $μ_j(M)$. In this paper $μ_j(M)$ are always the moments $m_j(M)=\int x^jM_p(x)dx$. This problem is a central one in Signal Processing, Statistics, and in many other applications. We concentrate on a direct (and somewhat "naive") approach to the above problem: we simply substitute the model function $M_p(x)$ into the measurements $μ_j$ and compute explicitly the resulting "symbolic" expressions of $μ_j(M_p)$ in terms of the parameters $p$. Equating these "symbolic" expressions to the actual measurement results, we produce a system of nonlinear equations on the parameters $p$, which we consequently try to solve. The aim of this paper is to review some recent results (mostly of \cite{Vet5,Mil1,Mil2,Put1,Vet4,Vet3,Mil3,Mil4,Vet2}) in this direction, stressing the algebraic structure of the arising systems and mathematical tools required for their solutions. In particular, we discuss the relation of the reconstruction problem above with the recent results of \cite{bfy,bry,chr,pak1,pak2,pak3,pry,ry} on the vanishing problem of generalized polynomial moments and on the Cauchy-type integrals of algebraic functions. The accompanying paper \cite{Kis1} (this volume) provides a solution method for a wide class of reconstruction problems as above, based on the study of linear differential equations with rational coefficient, which are satisfied by the moment generating function of the problem.
description: 23 pages
How long can a quantum memory withstand depolarizing noise?
Creators: name: Pastawski, Fernando
name: Kay, Alastair
name: Schuch, Norbert
name: Cirac, Ignacio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the possibilities and limitations of passive Hamiltonian protection of a quantum memory against depolarizing noise. Without protection, the lifetime of a single qubit is independent of N, the number of qubits composing the memory. In the presence of a protecting Hamiltonian, the lifetime increases at most logarithmically with N. We construct an explicit time-independent Hamiltonian which saturates this bound, exploiting the noise itself to achieve the protection.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures. Accepted version, Journal-Ref added
Psycho-social concomitants of motivational orientation in a group of older adult education participants
Creators: name: Riddell, Beverly Gail
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The purpose of this study was to show that, in the case of older adults, motives for participation in adult education are related to certain psycho-social characteristics associated with the later years. Following retirement, adults face the loss of a number of roles. Ways of adapting to loss or change must be sought. Planners of adult education programs for older people should be aware of changes taking place in the older person, and create learning environments which facilitate adaptation to old age. To this end, a study of motives and their concomitant needs was conducted with a population of 118 retired people residing in Greater Vancouver. The study attempted to reveal a relationship between one motive for participation in adult education (Escape/Stimulation) and participants' levels of life satisfaction, adjustment to developmental tasks of later life and social participation. Boshier's (1976a) Education Participation Scale was employed to measure motives for participation. Responses from the scale were factor analyzed and orthogonally rotated to produce four "orientations"--Escape/ Stimulation, Social Welfare, Social Contact and Cognitive Interest. Factor scores were correlated with relevant demographic data and the three measures of psycho-social characteristics. Respondents motivated to attend for Escape/Stimulation manifested low levels of life satisfaction, adjustment to developmental tasks of later life and social participation. These respondents also tended to have a lower educational background and previous job level than those who were not motivated by Escape/Stimulation motives. Boshier (1971, 1976, 1976a) and Haag (1976) analyzed motives for participation and claimed a relationship exists between these motives and Maslow's growth/deficiency model. They see the Escape/Stimulation factor as being indicative of deficiency motivation. The present study has added validity to theorizing undertaken in previous research by indicating that, amongst older adults, the Escape/Stimulation factor is related to deficiencies in life satisfaction, adjustment and social participation. It is contended that courses presently offered by institutions for the older adult are not meeting the special needs of the clientele. If motives for participation are measured, the resulting information can aid the planner in designing a compatible learning environment for the older person.
Supplementary material for the manuscript titled "The effectiveness of the Iranian building code in mitigating climate change in Bandar Abbas"_Revision1
Creators: name: Azimi Fereidani, Nazanin
name: Rodrigues, Eugénio
name: Gaspar, Adélio R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Building science, technologies and systems
Sustainable design

description: The supplementary material includes of two sections; Section 1 of the supplementary material provides information on the internal gain specifications and schedules used to validate a real building in Iran. In Section 2, graphs depict the monthly electricity consumption of buildings with varying energy levels across different scenarios and timeframes.
Investigation of the molecular mechanisms downstream of T cell receptor signalling during thymic T cell development
Creators: name: Paduraru, Alina Dana
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2020

description: The key feature of T cells is their T cell receptor (TCR), which renders them specific to antigen. Immature double positive (DP) T cells develop in the thymus into mature single positive (SP) cells. During this maturation process, developing T cells are positively selected if their receptors are able to receive a signal from self-antigen and negatively selected by the proapoptotic Bim-mediated mechanism if they bind self-antigen too strongly. Meanwhile, DP cells are lineage selected into either CD4 or CD8 SP cells. Some self-reactive cells are agonist-selected and upregulate Foxp3 to become regulatory T cells (Treg), which suppress immune responses. The temporal order of these selection processes is not well understood due to a lack of tools to investigate temporal changes of T cell development in vivo. To determine the sequence of and relationship between these events, this project used the novel technology Timer of Cell Kinetics and Activity (Tocky), which analyses the maturation of a fluorescent timer (Timer) protein to show temporal changes in transcription. Here, Tocky was developed and used to study in vivo transcriptional dynamics of Foxp3 and a gene immediately downstream TCR signalling, Nr4a3, to analyse Treg differentiation and TCR signalling downstream activities. In Nr4a3-Tocky mice, Timer+ cells were enriched with cells that undergo negative and agonist selection. Nr4a3-Tocky:BimKO/KO mice showed that Bim-mediated negative selection occurred rapidly at both DP and SP stages in the most immature Timer+ cells. Foxp3 was detected after Bim transcription was downregulated in Timer+ cells, following persistent TCR signals. Intriguingly, in Nr4a3-Tocky:BimKO/KO mice Timer+ cells were enriched with cells that escaped negative selection and highly self-reactive Foxp3+ cells were accumulated in both DP and SP fractions. Based on this work, a new model for the temporal order of thymic selection processes and T cell maturation is proposed.
J/ψpolarization in photo-production up-to the next-to-leading order of QCD
Creators: name: Chang, Chao-Hsi
name: Li, Rong
name: Wang, Jian-Xiong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the J/psi polarization in photoproduction at the Hadron Electron Ring Accelerator(HERA) up to the next-to-leading order of QCD. The results show that the transverse momentum p_t and energy fraction z distributions of J/psi production do not agree with the observed ones very well. The theoretical uncertainties for the z distributions of the J/psi polarization parameters with respect to various choices of the renormalization and factorization scales are too large to give an accurate prediction. The uncertainties for the p_t distributions of these parameters are small when p_t>3GeV and the obtained p_t distributions can not describe the experimental data even in this region.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures. Discussion on the theoretical uncertainties from the choice of renormalization scale was added
Detecting the proposed CH4-CO2 biosignature pair with the James Webb Space Telescope: TRAPPIST-1e and the effect of cloud/haze
Creators: name: Mikal-Evans, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is widely anticipated that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will be transformative for exoplanet studies. It has even been suggested that JWST could provide the first opportunity to search for biosignatures in an alien atmosphere using transmission spectroscopy. This claim is investigated, specifically for the proposed anoxic biosignature pair CH4-CO2. The most favourable known target is adopted (TRAPPIST-1e), with an assumed atmospheric composition similar to the Archean Earth. Compared to previous studies, a more systematic investigation of the effect that cloud/haze-layers have on the detectability of CH4 and CO2 is performed. In addition to a clear atmosphere scenario, cloud/haze-layers are considered at eight pressure levels between 600mbar and 1mbar. These pressures cover a plausible range for H2O cloud and photochemical haze, based on observations of solar system atmospheres and physical models of tidally-locked planets such as TRAPPIST-1e, although no assumptions regarding the cloud/haze-layer composition are made in this study. For the clear atmosphere and cloud/haze-layer pressures of 600-100mbar, strong (5-sigma) detections of both CH4 and CO2 are found to be possible with approximately 5-10 co-added transits measured using the Near Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) prism, assuming a dry stratosphere. However, approximately 30 co-added transits would be required to achieve the same result if a cloud/haze-layer is present at 10mbar. A cloud/haze-layer at 1mbar would prevent the detection of either molecule with the NIRSpec prism for observing programs up to 50 transits (>200 hours of JWST time), the maximum considered.
description: 13 pages. Accepted in MNRAS
Discrete analysis of Schwarz Waveform Relaxation for a simplified air-sea coupling problem with nonlinear transmission conditions
Creators: name: Clement, Simon
name: Lemarié, Florian
name: Blayo, Eric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this study we present a non-overlapping Schwarz waveform relaxation (SWR) method applied to a one dimensional model problem representative of the coupling between the ocean and the atmosphere. This problem includes nonlinear interface conditions analogous to a quadratic friction law. We study the convergence of the corresponding SWR at a semi-discrete level for a linear friction and for a linearized quadratic friction at the interface. Using numerical experiments we show that the convergence properties in the linearized quadratic friction case are very close to the ones obtained with the full nonlinear problem for the range of parameter values of interest. We investigate the possibility to improve the convergence speed by adding a relaxation parameter at the interface.
Additional file 4 of Individual or combined transcatheter arterial chemoembolization and radiofrequency ablation for hepatocellular carcinoma: a time-to-event meta-analysis
Creators: name: Jiang, Chuang
name: Cheng, Gong
name: Liao, Mingheng
name: Huang, Jiwei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 4: Supplementary Figure 4. The subgroup analysis of TACE+RFA vs TACE or RFA alone for HCC based on age. (A) TACE+RFA vs TACE:OS;(B)TACE+RFA vs TACE:RFS;(C)TACE+RFA vs RFA:OS;(D)TACE+RFA vs RFA: RFS.
Facilitating reflection in teletandem through automatically generated conversation metrics and playback video
Creators: name: Dey-Plissonneau, Aparajita
name: Lee, Hyowon
name: Scriney, Michael
name: Smeaton, Alan F.
name: Pradier, Vincent
name: Riaz, Hamza
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This pilot study focuses on a tool called L2L that allows second language (L2) learners to visualise and analyse their Zoom interactions with native speakers. L2L uses the Zoom transcript to automatically generate conversation metrics and its playback feature with timestamps allows students to replay any chosen portion of the conversation for post-session reflection and self-review. This exploratory study investigates a seven-week teletandem project, where undergraduate students from an Irish University learning French (B2) interacted with their peers from a French University learning English (B2+) via Zoom. The data collected from a survey (N=43) and semi-structured interviews (N=35) show that the quantitative conversation metrics and qualitative review of the synchronous content helped raise students' confidence levels while engaging with native speakers. Furthermore, it allowed them to set tangible goals to improve their participation, and be more aware of what, why and how they are learning.
description: 5 pages
Over-spinning a black hole with a test body
Creators: name: Jacobson, Ted
name: Sotiriou, Thomas P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has long been known that a maximally spinning black hole can not be over-spun by tossing in a test body. Here we show that if instead the black hole starts out with below maximal spin, then indeed over-spinning can be achieved when adding either orbital or spin angular momentum. We find that requirements on the size and internal structure of the test body can be met as well. Our analysis neglects radiative and self-force effects,which may prevent the over-spinning.
description: 4 pages; v2: reference added, incorporates the missed case of an oblate test body, which appears with the published version only as an erratum, other minor edits (with respect to v1)
Towards Interpretable and Reliable Reading Comprehension: A Pipeline Model with Unanswerability Prediction
Creators: name: Nishida, Kosuke
name: Nishida, Kyosuke
name: Saito, Itsumi
name: Yoshida, Sen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Multi-hop QA with annotated supporting facts, which is the task of reading comprehension (RC) considering the interpretability of the answer, has been extensively studied. In this study, we define an interpretable reading comprehension (IRC) model as a pipeline model with the capability of predicting unanswerable queries. The IRC model justifies the answer prediction by establishing consistency between the predicted supporting facts and the actual rationale for interpretability. The IRC model detects unanswerable questions, instead of outputting the answer forcibly based on the insufficient information, to ensure the reliability of the answer. We also propose an end-to-end training method for the pipeline RC model. To evaluate the interpretability and the reliability, we conducted the experiments considering unanswerability in a multi-hop question for a given passage. We show that our end-to-end trainable pipeline model outperformed a non-interpretable model on our modified HotpotQA dataset. Experimental results also show that the IRC model achieves comparable results to the previous non-interpretable models in spite of the trade-off between prediction performance and interpretability.
description: IJCNN 2021 (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9534370)
Thermo-dynamic and chemical properties of the Intra-Cluster Medium
Creators: name: Leccardi, Alberto
name: Rossetti, Mariachiara
name: Molendi, Silvano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Aims. We aim to provide constraints on evolutionary scenarios in clusters. One of our main goals is to understand whether, as claimed by some, the cool core/non-cool core division is established once and for all during the early history of a cluster. Methods. We employ a sample of about 60 objects to classify clusters according to different properties: we characterize cluster cores in terms of their thermo-dynamic and chemical properties and clusters as a whole in terms of their dynamical properties. Results. We find that: I) the vast majority of merging systems feature high entropy cores (HEC); II) objects with lower entropy cores feature more pronounced metallicity peaks than objects with higher entropy cores. We identify a small number of medium (MEC) and high (HEC) entropy core systems which, unlike most other such objects, feature a large central metallicity. The majority of these outliers are mergers, i.e. systems far from their equilibrium configuration. Conclusions. We surmise that medium (MEC) and high (HEC) entropy core systems with a large central metallicity recently evolved from low entropy core (LEC) clusters that have experienced a heating event associated to AGN or merger activity.
description: To appear in Astronomy & Astrophysics
The role of adult education in the adoption of innovations by cocoa growers in Ghana
Creators: name: Opare, Kwadwo Dua
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: This study was designed to analyse the adoption of recommended cocoa practices among cocoa growers in Ghana and to relate it to the correctness of their knowledge of principles underlying the recommended practices, the growers' sources of cocoa husbandry information, and selected personal and economic characteristics of the growers; and to examine the relationships discovered and to draw recommendations which will assist the Ghana Government in programmes to increase cocoa production. In. order to study these relationships, a personal interview, using a structured interview schedule, was employed to collect the data from a sample of 1,191 cocoa growers in Ghana. Statistically significant associations were found between the adoption of recommended cocoa practices and 1) the correctness of growers' knowledge of principles underlying a recommended cocoa practice; 2) adult education sources of information; and 3) individual grower's output of cocoa. The study indicated that although the possession of correct knowledge of or.i.nciples was crucial to the adoption of the innovations, the mere possession was not always sufficient motivation to effect adoption. An equally important factor was adult education sources of information. In addition, there was no indication that the adoption of recommended practices was more closely linked with correctness of knowledge than with adult education sources of information. Among the personal and economic characteristics studied, number of wives, number of children, advisory role and number of years engaged in cocoa growing were positively associated with adoption of recommended practices. Male growers were more apt to adopt innovations than female growers. Age was not related to adoption. Literacy was positively associated with adoption of recommended practices. The study shows that possession of correct knowledge of principles is crucial to adoption of recommended cocoa practices. Thus, access to formal instructional activities could contribute to the improved performance of cocoa growers in Ghana. An obvious mechanism for improvement is adult education for the growers.
Authentication of optical physical unclonable functions based on single-pixel detection
Creators: name: Wang, Pidong
name: Chen, Feiliang
name: Li, Dong
name: Sun, Song
name: Huang, Feng
name: Zhang, Taiping
name: Li, Qian
name: Chen, Kun
name: Wan, Yongbiao
name: Leng, Xiao
name: Yao, Yao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Physical unclonable function (PUF) has been proposed as a promising and trustworthy solution to a variety of cryptographic applications. Here we propose a non-imaging based authentication scheme for optical PUFs materialized by random scattering media, in which the characteristic fingerprints of optical PUFs are extracted from stochastical fluctuations of the scattered light intensity with respect to laser challenges which are detected by a single-pixel detector. The randomness, uniqueness, unpredictability, and robustness of the extracted fingerprints are validated to be qualified for real authentication applications. By increasing the key length and improving the signal to noise ratio, the false accept rate of a fake PUF can be dramatically lowered to the order of 10^-28. In comparison to the conventional laser-speckle-imaging based authentication with unique identity information obtained from textures of laser speckle patterns, this non-imaging scheme can be implemented at small speckle size bellowing the Nyquist--Shannon sampling criterion of the commonly used CCD or CMOS cameras, offering benefits in system miniaturization and immunity against reverse engineering attacks simultaneously.
description: 12 pages, 11 figures
Production of optimised steel / Ni substrates with advanced Cr aluminide/silicide coatings, coupons for WP4
Creators: name: Krista Van den bergh
name: Michael Kerbstadt
name: Ceyhun Oskay
name: Emma White
name: Mathias Galetz
name: Kan Ma
name: Thomas Blackburn
name: Sandy Knowles
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: For the targeted Cr-Si-based diffusion coatings, pack cementation is the current state-of-the art application process. Within the work of Deliverable 3.3 a new coating process was developed which utilizes a slurry technique to obtain a Cr-Si diffusion coating. This new process has the high potential to be both economically more viable and to meet the technical requirements for wear and oxidation-resistant coating for heat exchanger tubes of a concentrated solar power (CSP) plant with solid particles as heat collecting medium and supercritical CO2 on the power cycle.
Visual design intuition: Predicting dynamic properties of beams from raw cross-section images
Creators: name: Wyder, Philippe M.
name: Lipson, Hod
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: J.6; J.7
subject: 74H15, 49S99, 74S05, 74S60, 74S99, 65Z99

description: In this work we aim to mimic the human ability to acquire the intuition to estimate the performance of a design from visual inspection and experience alone. We study the ability of convolutional neural networks to predict static and dynamic properties of cantilever beams directly from their raw cross-section images. Using pixels as the only input, the resulting models learn to predict beam properties such as volume maximum deflection and eigenfrequencies with 4.54% and 1.43% Mean Average Percentage Error (MAPE) respectively, compared to the Finite Element Analysis (FEA) approach. Training these models doesn't require prior knowledge of theory or relevant geometric properties, but rather relies solely on simulated or empirical data, thereby making predictions based on "experience" as opposed to theoretical knowledge. Since this approach is over 1000 times faster than FEA, it can be adopted to create surrogate models that could speed up the preliminary optimization studies where numerous consecutive evaluations of similar geometries are required. We suggest that this modeling approach would aid in addressing challenging optimization problems involving complex structures and physical phenomena for which theoretical models are unavailable.
description: Accepted for publication in Journal Of The Royal Society Interface
Additional file 8 of Individual or combined transcatheter arterial chemoembolization and radiofrequency ablation for hepatocellular carcinoma: a time-to-event meta-analysis
Creators: name: Jiang, Chuang
name: Cheng, Gong
name: Liao, Mingheng
name: Huang, Jiwei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 8: Supplementary Table 4. The comparison of major complication of TACE+RFA vs TACE or RFA.
Casimir densities for wedge-shaped boundaries
Creators: name: Saharian, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The vacuum expectation values of the field squared and the energy-momentum tensor are investigated for a scalar field with Dirichlet boundary conditions and for the electromagnetic field inside a wedge with a coaxial cylindrical boundary. In the case of the electromagnetic field perfectly conducting boundary conditions are assumed on the bounding surfaces. By using the Abel-Plana-type formula for the series over the zeros of the Bessel function, the vacuum expectation values are presented in the form of the sum of two terms. The first one corresponds to the geometry without a cylindrical boundary and the second one is induced by the presence of the cylindrical shell. The additional vacuum forces acting on the wedge sides due the presence of the cylindrical boundary are evaluated and it is shown that these forces are attractive for both scalar and electromagnetic fields.
description: 19 pages, 2 figures, to appear in anniversary TSPU volume on occasion of 70-th birthday by Prof. I. Brevik, Editor Prof. S.D. Odintsov
Una biografia per la cittadinanza
Creators: name: Peyrot, Bruna
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2014
Subjects: soggettività; cittadinanza; biografia; intergenerazionalità; limite

description: Being able to recognize, understand and narrate one’s own biography, in its incipit, ruit and exit, which define everybody’s existential path, has become a dramatically difficult social emergency that must be addressed. In current times, in fact, it is possible to observe both a need/right to narrate one’s own autobiography and a civil right/duty of being educated at doing it. Being capable of narrating one’s own life history is not a spontaneous act anymore, because contemporary life swallows up all histories in addition to History itself. Understanding and elaborating the past, making oneself capable of narrating it and letting oneself be inspired by it to deepen the knowledge of the present as its possible outcome, is considered superfluous and useless. Why did this happen? We will try to list a series of complex, and often dramatic, factors behind it, even though we know well that they depend on endless reasons and on the perspective chosen to interpret them. Contemporary life needs new parameters to define identity and social rooting, which nowadays can neither be simply inherited, nor offered by a single territory or place. This rooting has become more like a dimension that must be “trained” inside oneself to turn into the ability of moving simultaneously in the various places of life and into the ability of opposing, in a dynamical way, one’s own inner firmness to the constant external movement: in other words, the ability of “linking” the events in one’s own life along a time continuum, while space is always changing.

All this implies cultivating what we have defined as the inner citizenship, a proposal of secular ethics based on some “pieces of consciousness” (the consciousness of the complementary difference between male and female, the consciousness of the presence of History inside an individual’s biography, the consciousness of the need of an education to democracy, etc.) that make the person ready to exercise his/her rights/duties in view of an active citizenship. In order to do this a person must first be convinced of his/her value.
description: Altre Modernità, 2014: NUMERO SPECIALE Migrazioni, diaspora, esilio nelle letterature e culture ispanoamericane
A quantum de Finetti theorem in phase space representation
Creators: name: Leverrier, Anthony
name: Cerf, Nicolas J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The quantum versions of de Finetti's theorem derived so far express the convergence of n-partite symmetric states, i.e., states that are invariant under permutations of their n parties, towards probabilistic mixtures of independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) states. Unfortunately, these theorems only hold in finite-dimensional Hilbert spaces, and their direct generalization to infinite-dimensional Hilbert spaces is known to fail. Here, we address this problem by considering invariance under orthogonal transformations in phase space instead of permutations in state space, which leads to a new type of quantum de Finetti's theorem that is particularly relevant to continuous-variable systems. Specifically, an n-mode bosonic state that is invariant with respect to this continuous symmetry in phase space is proven to converge towards a probabilistic mixture of i.i.d. Gaussian states (actually, n identical thermal states).
description: 5 pages
Destination exoplanet: Habitability conditions influenced bystellar winds properties
Creators: name: Chebly, Judy J.
name: Alvarado-Gómez, Julián D.
name: Poppenhaeger, Katja
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The cumulative effect of the magnetized stellar winds on exoplanets dominates over other forms of star-planet interactions. When combined with photoevaporation, these winds will lead to atmospheric erosion. This is directly connected with the concept of Habitable Zone (HZ) planets around late-type stars. Our knowledge of these magnetized winds is limited, making numerical models useful tools to explore them. In this preliminary study, we focus on solar-like stars exploring how different stellar wind properties scale with one another. We used one of the most detailed physics-based models, the 3D Alfvén Wave Solar Model part of the Space Weather ModelingFramework, and applied it to the stellar winds domain. Our simulations showed that the magnetic field topology on the star surface plays a fundamental role in shaping the different stellar wind properties (wind speed, mass loss rate, angular momentum loss rate). We conclude that a characterization of the Alfvén surface is crucial when studying star-planet interaction as it can serve as an inner-boundary of the HZ
description: 7 pages, 6 pictures, proceeding
(Depricated) Supplementary Material for "The effectiveness of the Iranian building code in mitigating climate change in Bandar Abbas"
Creators: name: Azimi Fereidani, Nazanin
name: Rodrigues, Eugénio
name: Gaspar, Adélio R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Building science, technologies and systems
Sustainable design

description: The supplementary material includes of two sections; Section 1 of the supplementary material provides information on the internal gain specifications used to validate a real building in Iran. In Section 2, graphs depict the monthly electricity consumption of buildings with varying energy levels across different scenarios and timeframes.
Computing on Anonymous Quantum Network
Creators: name: Kobayashi, Hirotada
name: Matsumoto, Keiji
name: Tani, Seiichiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper considers distributed computing on an anonymous quantum network, a network in which no party has a unique identifier and quantum communication and computation are available. It is proved that the leader election problem can exactly (i.e., without error in bounded time) be solved with at most the same complexity up to a constant factor as that of exactly computing symmetric functions (without intermediate measurements for a distributed and superposed input), if the number of parties is given to every party. A corollary of this result is a more efficient quantum leader election algorithm than existing ones: the new quantum algorithm runs in O(n) rounds with bit complexity O(mn^2), on an anonymous quantum network with n parties and m communication links. Another corollary is the first quantum algorithm that exactly computes any computable Boolean function with round complexity O(n) and with smaller bit complexity than that of existing classical algorithms in the worst case over all (computable) Boolean functions and network topologies. More generally, any n-qubit state can be shared with that complexity on an anonymous quantum network with n parties.
description: 25 pages
ขีดความสามารถในการรองรับและมาตรการการจัดการท่องเที่ยวแนวปะการังน้ำตื้น เกาะไข่นอก จังหวัดพังงา
   ( Carrying Capacity and Tourism Management Measures for Shallow Reef at KhaiNok Island, PhangNga Province)
Creators: name: Chaturong Kongkaew, Puwadon Butrat
Publisher: name: คณะสิ่งแวดล้อมและทรัพยากรศาสตร์
Year: 2013
Subjects: : ขีดความสามารถการรองรับ/ มาตรการการจัดการท?องเที่ยว/ ผลกระทบจากการท?องเที่ยว

description: 1, 11, Environment and Natural Resources Journal
Chiral three-nucleon interaction and the carbon-14 dating beta decay
Creators: name: Holt, J. W.
name: Kaiser, N.
name: Weise, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a shell model calculation for the beta decay of 14-C to the 14-N ground-state, treating the relevant nuclear states as two 0p-holes in an 16-O core. Employing the universal low-momentum nucleon-nucleon potential V(low-k) only, one finds that the Gamow-Teller matrix element is too large to describe the known (very long) lifetime of 14-C. As a novel approach to the problem, we invoke the chiral three-nucleon force (3NF) at leading order and derive from it a density-dependent in-medium NN interaction. Including this effective in-medium NN interaction, the Gamow-Teller matrix element vanishes for a nuclear density close to that of saturated nuclear matter. The genuine short-range part of the three-nucleon interaction plays a particularly important role in this context, since the medium modifications to the pion propagator and pion-nucleon vertex (due to the long-range 3NF) tend to cancel out in the relevant observable. We discuss also uncertainties related to the off-shell extrapolation of the in-medium NN interaction. Using the off-shell behavior of V(low-k) as a guide, we find that these uncertainties are rather small.
description: 22 pages, 11 figures
Observation Report of the Partial Solar Eclipse in Majadahonda
Creators: name: Sánchez de Miguel, Alejandro
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: eclipse

description: This report details the observations made during the partial solareclipse on March 29, 2025, in Majadahonda, Spain. It includes theobserved and predicted contact times, the sources used for the pre-dictions, and a comparison of the obtained data. Additionally, thesoftware developed for eclipse simulation and calculation is described.
THE THEME OF HOME, FAMILY IN M. BULGAKOV'S NOVELS "THE WHITE GUARD" AND "THE MASTER AND MARGARITA"
Creators: name: Goncharova, Nina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The article traces the evolution of the image of the house in the works of M. Bulgakov of the 30s in the context of the problem of distortion of the ideal of human existence in the post-revolutionary world. Home is a symbol of history, identity and belonging, uniting people around shared values and views of the world.
A Trainable Spectral-Spatial Sparse Coding Model for Hyperspectral Image Restoration
Creators: name: Bodrito, Théo
name: Zouaoui, Alexandre
name: Chanussot, Jocelyn
name: Mairal, Julien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Hyperspectral imaging offers new perspectives for diverse applications, ranging from the monitoring of the environment using airborne or satellite remote sensing, precision farming, food safety, planetary exploration, or astrophysics. Unfortunately, the spectral diversity of information comes at the expense of various sources of degradation, and the lack of accurate ground-truth "clean" hyperspectral signals acquired on the spot makes restoration tasks challenging. In particular, training deep neural networks for restoration is difficult, in contrast to traditional RGB imaging problems where deep models tend to shine. In this paper, we advocate instead for a hybrid approach based on sparse coding principles that retains the interpretability of classical techniques encoding domain knowledge with handcrafted image priors, while allowing to train model parameters end-to-end without massive amounts of data. We show on various denoising benchmarks that our method is computationally efficient and significantly outperforms the state of the art.
Testing a new view of Gamma Ray Burst Afterglows
Creators: name: Nardini, M.
name: Ghisellini, G.
name: Ghirlanda, G.
name: Celotti, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The optical and X-ray light-curves of long Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) often show a complex evolution and in most cases do not track each other. This behaviour can not be easily explained by the simplest standard afterglow models. A possible interpretation is to consider the observed optical and X-ray light-curves as the sum of two separate components. This scenario requires the presence of a spectral break between these bands. One of the aims of this work is to test whether such a break is present within the observed Swift XRT energy range. We analyse the X-ray afterglow spectra of a sample of 33 long GRBs with known redshift, good optical photometry and published estimate of the host galaxy dust absorption A_V(host). We find that indeed in 7 bright events a broken power-law provides a fit to the data that is better than a single power-law model. For 8 events, instead, the X-ray spectrum is better fitted by a single power-law. We discuss the role of these breaks in connection to the relation between the host hydrogen column density N_H(host) and A_V(host) and check the consistency of the X-ray spectral breaks with the optical bands photometry. We analyse the optical to X-ray spectral energy distributions at different times and find again consistency with two components interpretation.
description: 13 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS