cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Magnetic monopole search with the full MoEDAL trapping detector in 13 TeV $pp$ collisions interpreted in photon-fusion and Drell-Yan production
Creators: name: MoEDAL Collaboration
name: Acharya, B.
name: Alexandre, J.
name: Baines, S.
name: Benes, P.
name: Bergmann, B.
name: Bernabéu, J.
name: Bevan, A.
name: Branzas, H.
name: Campbell, M.
name: Cecchini, S.
name: Cho, Y. M.
name: de Montigny, M.
name: De Roeck, A.
name: Ellis, J. R.
name: Sawy, M. El
name: Fairbairn, M.
name: Felea, D.
name: Frank, M.
name: Hays, J.
name: Hirt, A. M.
name: Janecek, J.
name: Kim, D. -W.
name: Korzenev, A.
name: Lacarrère, D. H.
name: Lee, S. C.
name: Leroy, C.
name: Levi, G.
name: Lionti, A.
name: Mamuzic, J.
name: Margiotta, A.
name: Mauri, N.
name: Mavromatos, N. E.
name: Mermod, P.
name: Mieskolainen, M.
name: Millward, L.
name: Mitsou, V. A.
name: Orava, R.
name: Ostrovskiy, I.
name: Papavassiliou, J.
name: Parker, B.
name: Patrizii, L.
name: Păvălaş, G. E.
name: Pinfold, J. L.
name: Popa, V.
name: Pozzato, M.
name: Pospisil, S.
name: Rajantie, A.
name: de Austri, R. Ruiz
name: Sahnoun, Z.
name: Sakellariadou, M.
name: Santra, A.
name: Sarkar, S.
name: Semenoff, G.
name: Shaa, A.
name: Sirri, G.
name: Sliwa, K.
name: Soluk, R.
name: Spurio, M.
name: Staelens, M.
name: Suk, M.
name: Tenti, M.
name: Togo, V.
name: Tuszyński, J. A.
name: Vento, V.
name: Vives, O.
name: Vykydal, Z.
name: Wall, A.
name: Zgura, I. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: MoEDAL is designed to identify new physics in the form of stable or pseudostable highly ionizing particles produced in high-energy Large Hadron Collider (LHC) collisions. Here we update our previous search for magnetic monopoles in Run 2 using the full trapping detector with almost four times more material and almost twice more integrated luminosity. For the first time at the LHC, the data were interpreted in terms of photon-fusion monopole direct production in addition to the Drell-Yan-like mechanism. The MoEDAL trapping detector, consisting of 794 kg of aluminum samples installed in the forward and lateral regions, was exposed to 4.0 fb$^{-1}$ of 13 TeV proton-proton collisions at the LHCb interaction point and analyzed by searching for induced persistent currents after passage through a superconducting magnetometer. Magnetic charges equal to or above the Dirac charge are excluded in all samples. Monopole spins 0, 1/2 and 1 are considered and both velocity-independent and -dependent couplings are assumed. This search provides the best current laboratory constraints for monopoles with magnetic charges ranging from two to five times the Dirac charge.
description: 7 pages REVTeX 4, 11 figures, 1 table, matches published version in Physical Review Letters
title: Rhododendron japonicum Valchen cv. 'Blaaw´s Pink'
Creators: name: :None
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Digitale Pflanzenbilder: Sammlung Dietmar Brandes
subject: 58

description: Digitale Pflanzenbilder: Sammlung Dietmar Brandes
Gravity and Random Surfaces on the Lattice - A Review
Creators: name: Johnston, D. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review recent work in the lattice approach to random surfaces and quantum gravity. Our task is made somewhat easier by some very interesting results, particularly in four dimensions, that have appeared recently and which are reported elsewhere in these proceedings. Inevitably, given the scope of the review and the limitations of space, the presentation will omit work of importance and be telegraphic in discussing work that is included, for which apologies are offered in advance. After the customary brief historical introduction we work our way in dimensional order from one up to four dimensions before closing with some remarks on the relation, if any, between the various lattice models and ``real'' 4D gravity.
description: 13 pages with 8 embedded eps figures, Latex+espcrc2.sty (included). Plenary review talk at Lattice96 rendered, more or less, into written English. Now with a minor typo in last section fixed
Additional file 2 of Computational modeling of chromatin accessibility identified important epigenomic regulators
Creators: name: Zhao, Yanding
name: Dong, Yadong
name: Hong, Wei
name: Jiang, Chongming
name: Yao, Kevin
name: Cheng, Chao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Suppl. Fig. 2. H2AZ.1 presents distinctive signals in proximal and distal regions. (A) and (B). Boxplots indicating the H2AZ.1 signal difference in Proximal ACRs and non-ACRs in GM12878 (A) and HepG2 (B) cell lines. (C) and (D). Boxplots indicating the H2AZ.1 signal difference in Distal ACRs and non-ACRs in GM12878 (C) and HepG2 (D) cell lines. P value was calculated by Wilcoxon rank sum test. ACRs and non-ACRs were 2000 randomly chosen bins from the total ACRs and non-ACRs.
Representations of the Schrodinger algebra and Appell systems
Creators: name: Feinsilver, Ph.
name: Kocik, J.
name: Schott, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 81R05, 17B81, 60BXX

description: We investigate the structure of the Schrodinger algebra and its representations in a Fock space realized in terms of canonical Appell systems. Generalized coherent states are used in the construction of a Hilbert space of functions on which certain commuting elements act as self-adjoint operators. This yields a probabilistic interpretation of these operators as random variables. An interesting feature is how the structure of the Lie algebra is reflected in the probability density function. A Leibniz function and orthogonal basis for the Hilbert space is found. Then Appell systems connected with certain evolution equations, analogs of the classical heat equation, on this algebra are computed.
description: 23 pages, LaTeX
Political Participation of Older Americans
Creators: Guagenti-Tax, Elena
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1988
Subjects: subject: Social service
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: Aging

description: This study addressed the political participation of Older Americans. Political participation was defined as all behavior through which people directly expressed their political opinions and ideologies. This definition was broad enough to cover all expressions of political opinions--from discussing politics to contacting public officials.

The main concern of this study was to distinguish between the social roles and status of the 'Young Old' (ages 55-74) and the 'Old Old' (ages 75 and over) and their effect on political participation. Little is known about the precise political behavior of these two age groups. This research examined the level of their political activity through multiple regression and factor analysis. A secondary analysis of University of Michigan 1984 pre- and post- National Election Study data provided the evidence for this study.

The principal findings of this study were the social characteristics that differentiate those 'Young Old' and 'Old Old' who were more likely to participate in political activities. For the 'Young Old' they were: being married, educated, paying attention to the political campaign of 1984, community residence, "feeling closest" to blacks, belonging to interest groups, and having a strong feeling of political efficacy. For the 'Old Old' also being married, educated, belonging to interest groups, "feeling closest" to environmentalists were significant.

Identification with the elderly as a group, was not a significant predictor of participation for the 'Young Old' and the 'Old Old'. This relationship held for all types of participation. No evidence existed to indicate that strictly age-based interests were prevalent among the 1984 elderly respondents.
From The Zagros Mountains
Creators: name: RODRIGUES, TENSING CARLOS
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: History
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Archaeology
subject: Geography
subject: Sociology

description: Some broad inferences have been drawn by the authors : “In South Asia, our dataset provides insight into the sources of Ancestral North Indians … However, it can be modelled as a mix of ancestry related to both early farmers of western Iran and to people of the Bronze Age Eurasian steppe.” [Lazaridis et al, 2016 : Genomic insights into the origin of farming in the ancient Near East, in Nature, No. 536, 6] The ‘mix of ancestry’, however, is not an issue. We have already distinguished between the two ancestral communities that constitute the Ancestral North Indians : the kṣatrīya and the brāmhaṇ; the ‘early farmers of western Iran’ of Lazardi or the ‘farmers from southwestern Iran’ of Quintana-Murci are the ancestors of the kṣatrīya; and the ‘people of the Bronze Age Eurasian steppe’ of Lazardi or the ‘pastoral nomads from western and central Asia’ of Quintana-Murci are the ancestors of the brāmhaṇ; at the moment we are interested in the former only; that leaves us with no doubt that the farmers of Mēhrgaḍh did indeed migrate from the Zagros mountainside.
Building flat space-time from information exchange between quantum fluctuations
Creators: name: Karlsson, Anna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a hypothesis in which classical space-time emerges from information exchange (interactions) between quantum fluctuations in the gravity theory. In this picture, a line element would arise as a statistical average of how frequently particles interact, through an individual rate $dt\sim 1/f_t$ and spatially interconnecting rates $dl\sim c/f$. The question is if space-time can be modelled consistently in this way. The ansatz would be opposite to the standard treatment of space-time as insensitive to altered physics at event horizons (disrupted propagation of information) but by extension relate to the connection of space-time to entanglement (interactions) through the gauge/gravity duality. We make a first, rough analysis of the implications this type of quantization would have on the classical structure of flat space-time, and of what would be required of the interactions. Seeing no obvious reason for why the origin would be unrealistic, we comment on expected effects in the presence of curvature.
description: 22 pages. v3: extended introduction
Commelina purpurea C. B. Clarke
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Commelinales
Commelinaceae
Commelina
Commelina purpurea

description: Commelina purpurea C.B.Clarke  —
Habit: Herb.
Habitat: LMWF, LMDF; up to 2 600 m. Distribution: IIIa.
Voucher: N/A.
References: Bussmann (1994), Agnew (2013).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 30, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Political Pity: A Sentimental Account of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Moral and Political System
Creators: Koffer, Brittany A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: Equality
subject: Individuality
subject: Ethics
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: Sympathy

description: My dissertation seeks to restore the sentiment of pity to Rousseau’s moral and political system. Rousseau scholarship tends to offer a proto-Kantian interpretation of Rousseau’s concepts of moral liberty and the general will. I argue that these readings neglect Rousseau’s own definition of virtue as the product of an individual’s pity moderating rational self-interest (amour de soi). I offer an account of Rousseau’s moral liberty dependent on this concept of virtue that incorporates the sentiments. I then argue that pity must perform a similar role in the general will because it is through the general will that people express their moral agency. To do so, I explore how Rousseau’s account of pity as a social sentiment is more expansive and active than standard interpretations allow, and thus it is better described as expanded pity or sympathy. Understanding pity’s role in the general will also affects Rousseau’s accounts of equality and individuality. Because virtue demands that pity moderate impulses to excess, the general will that arises from a virtuous citizenry will tend toward distributive equality. A state then best achieves equality by cultivating virtue through private institutions like education and public institutions like civil religion. Finally, I argue that Rousseau’s account of pity alleviates the perceived conflict, first posed by Judith Shklar, between the individual life of man and the homogenized life of citizen. In its expanded form, pity motivates individuals to care about others’ pursuits of their own personal interests while also maintaining a separation between self and other. Exploration into Rousseau’s pity thus has important implications for the kind of political emotions we should look to revitalize in modern democratic society.
Luzula abyssinica Parl.
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Poales
Juncaceae
Luzula
Luzula abyssinica

description: Luzula abyssinica Parl.  —
Habit: Herb.
Habitat: LMWF, LMDF, BZ, UMF, HZ, AZ, NZ; 1 900–5 000 m. Distribution: II.
 Voucher: Shimton’s Camp Site to Lake Michaelson, Alt. 4 231 m, 23 Jan. 2015, SAJIT 002793 (HIB).
 References: Carter (1966), Rehder et al. (1981), Young & Peacock (1985), Bussmann (1993, 1994), Bussmann & Beck (1995a), Abdi (2013), Agnew (2013).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 31, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
The flooded tailings impoundment at the Equity Silver mine
Creators: name: Price, W.A.
name: Aziz, M.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: The Equity Silver Mine operated between 1980 and 1994, producing silver, gold, and copper from three open pits and a small underground operation. Mine components include a flooded tailings impoundment constructed from till, and waste and quarried rock. This paper describes the initial design and subsequent performance of the flooded tailings impoundment. Materials disposed in the tailings impoundment include tailings, lime treatment sludge, cyanide and acidic drainage.
How Wrinkled is the Surface of a Black Hole?
Creators: name: Sorkin, Rafael D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present evidence that, below a certain threshold scale, the horizon of a black hole is strongly wrinkled, with its shape manifesting a self-similar (``fractal'') spectrum of fluctuations on all scales below the threshold. This threshold scale is small compared to the radius of the black hole, but still much larger than the Planck scale. If present, such fluctuations might account for a large part of the horizon entropy.
description: 16 pages, plainTeX, no figures
Political Petrarchism: The Rhetorical Fashioning of Community in Early Modern Italy
Creators: Baker, Steve J.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Romance literature
Comparative literature

description: Engaging with a variety of literary and historical sources, in both prose and verse, including letters, chronicles, treaties and the neo-Latin epic, this dissertation examines the centrality of the classically-informed, philosophical idea of friendship (amicitia) in the community-building discourse of Francesco Petrarca's Italy. The first chapter examines Petrarch's treatment of Scipio Africanus as humanistic leader and idealized friend in the Africa. The second chapter proposes a reading of Cola di Rienzo as the first "political Petrarchist" and contextualizes his epistolary campaign to unify mid-fourteenth century Italy. The third chapter explores Petrarch's politics of familiaritas in the letters he addressed to leaders of prominent Italian city-states attempting to reconcile old friends. This study presents an analysis of the rhetorical strategies underlying Petrarch's career as public intellectual, diplomat and poet.
Aframomum angustifolium K. Schum.
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Zingiberales
Zingiberaceae
Aframomum
Aframomum angustifolium

description: Aframomum angustifolium (Sonn.) K.Schum.  —
Habit: Herb.
Habitat: LMWF; up to 1 300 m. Distribution: II.
Voucher: N/A.
Reference: Fries & Fries (1924).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 30, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Persistent current in superconducting nanorings
Creators: name: Matveev, K. A.
name: Larkin, A. I.
name: Glazman, L. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The superconductivity in very thin rings is suppressed by quantum phase slips. As a result the amplitude of the persistent current oscillations with flux becomes exponentially small, and their shape changes from sawtooth to a sinusoidal one. We reduce the problem of low-energy properties of a superconducting nanoring to that of a quantum particle in a sinusoidal potential and show that the dependence of the current on the flux belongs to a one-parameter family of functions obtained by solving the respective Schrodinger equation with twisted boundary conditions.
description: 5 pages, 1 figure
Protection of groundwater and surface water at a Bulk Explosives facility using calculated risk-based soil guidelines
Creators: name: Bright, Doug
name: Flemming, Liza
name: Choi, Michael
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: The Kemess South Mine in northeast British Columbia operated between 1998 and 2011.The former Bulk Explosives Fabrication (BX) facility within the mine area produced ammonium nitrate based explosives to support mining operations. Production and handling caused significant accumulation of ammonia and nitrate (AN) in shallow soils surrounding the BX facility, and groundwater contamination of AN was identified beneath the site. Given that soil-based environmental quality guidelines/standards for ammonia and nitrate do not exist federally or provincially, site-specific remedial objectives (SSROs) were developed to allow appropriate remediation, in order to facilitate protection of groundwater for drinking water purposes, and to protect aquatic life in the adjacent Kemess Creek. The SSROs were calculated based on threshold leaching concentrations of ammonia and nitrate in soil below which soil concentrations would not cause future potential risks for humans drinking groundwater beneath the site, or for aquatic life in Kemess Creek. Calculations of SSROs were conservative considering attenuation biological and chemical attenuation will occur in the subsurface. Targeted areas of AN impacted soil were removed from the site, based on the SSROs, with post-remedial confirmatory sampling. Rather than bulk removal of soil impacted with AN (>1,200m³), a targeted removal of <400m³ was completed to meet acceptable site management objectives for groundwater and surface water protection.
Supplemental Material.pdf
Creators: name: Su-Ju Lin
name: Tien-Hsing Chen
name: Liang-Tseng Kuo
name: Pei-An Yu
name: Chi-Lung Chen
name: Wei-Hsiu Hsu
name: Yao-Hung Tsai
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 110107 Metabolic Medicine
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental fie
Juncus oxycarpus Kunth
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Poales
Juncaceae
Juncus
Juncus oxycarpus

description: Juncus oxycarpus E.Mey. ex Kunth  —
Habit: Herb.
Habitat: LMWF, LMDF, BZ, UMF; 1 300–3 000 m. Distribution: II.
 Voucher: Near Meru Mount Kenya Lodge,Alt. 2 958 m, 26 Jan. 2015, SAJIT 002867 (HIB).
References: Carter (1966), Bussmann (1994), Agnew (2013).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 31, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Cosmological Experiments in Condensed Matter Systems
Creators: name: Zurek, Wojciech Hubert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Topological defects are thought to be left behind by the cosmological phase transitions which occur as the universe expands and cools. Similar processes can be studied in the phase transitions which take place in the laboratory: ``Cosmological'' experiments in superfluid He$^4$ and in liquid crystals were carried out within the past few years, and their results shed a new light on the dynamics of the defect-formation process. The aim of this paper is to review the key ideas behind this cosmology - condensed matter connection and to propose new experiments which could probe heretofore unaddressed aspects of the topological defects formation process.
description: 64 pages (TeX), figures not included, in press Phys.Rep
X-ray analysis of the accreting supermassive black hole in the radio galaxy PKS 2251+11
Creators: name: Ronchini, Samuele
name: Tombesi, Francesco
name: Vagnetti, Fausto
name: Panessa, Francesca
name: Bruni, Gabriele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the dichotomy between jetted and non-jetted Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs), focusing on the fundamental differences of these two classes in the accretion physics onto the central supermassive black hole (SMBH). Our aim is to study and constrain the structure, kinematics and physical state of the nuclear environment in the Broad Line Radio Galaxy (BLRG) PKS 2251+11. The high X-ray luminosity and the relative proximity make such AGN an ideal candidate for a detailed analysis of the accretion regions in radio galaxies. We performed a spectral and timing analysis of a $\sim$64 ks observation of PKS 2251+11 in the X-ray band with XMM-Newton. We modeled the spectrum considering an absorbed power law superimposed to a reflection component. We performed a time-resolved spectral analysis to search for variability of the X-ray flux and of the individual spectral components. We found that the power law has a photon index $Γ=1.8\pm 0.1$, absorbed by an ionized partial covering medium with a column density $N_H=(10.1\pm 0.8) \times 10^{23}$ cm$^{-2}$, a ionization parameter $\logξ=1.3\pm 0.1$ erg s$^{-1}$ cm and a covering factor $f\simeq90\%$. Considering a density of the absorber typical of the Broad Line Region (BLR), its distance from the central SMBH is of the order of $r\sim 0.1$ pc. An Fe K$α$ emission line is found at 6.4 keV, whose intensity shows variability on time scales of hours. We derived that the reflecting material is located at a distance $r\gtrsim600r_s$, where $r_s$ is the Schwarzschild radius. Concerning the X-ray properties, we found that PKS 2251+11 does not differ significantly from the non-jetted AGNs, confirming the validity of the unified model in describing the inner regions around the central SMBH, but the lack of information regarding the state of the very innermost disk and SMBH spin still leave unconstrained the origin of the jet.
On the Spectrum and Spacetime Supersymmetry of Heterotic Ambitwistor String
Creators: name: Flores, Henrique
name: Lize, Matheus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyse the BRST cohomology of the Ramond sector of heterotic ambitwistor theory. We also write the free string field theory action and compute the supersymmetry transformations.
description: 13 pages ( Submission to JHEP and minor typos fixed )
Politicians or Parties? Assessing the Effects of Intraparty Conflict in the United States
Creators: McClellan, Oliver Ahlstrom
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: Political parties
subject: Intra-party disagreements (Political parties)
subject: Presidents--Election

description: This dissertation presents the results of a series of large-N, demographically representative survey experiments conducted at different stages of the 2020 presidential election cycle, designed to test the effects of highlighting intraparty policy conflict on subjects’ political beliefs. I find politicians of both major political parties are able to persuade followers to take on counter-party policy positions with limited electoral risk, and that these persuasive effects are enduring, still detectable nine months after treatment. While subjects updated their own policy positions in response to treatment, they did not update the policy positions they prefer when selecting among hypothetical candidates, in contrast to issue voting theorists predictions. While politicians appear to be far more effective opinion leaders than parties, therefore, their persuasive abilities may not significantly alter the shape of the partisan electorate as faced by other candidates. These findings refine our scholarly understanding of individual politicians as opinion leaders in the contemporary United States, and demonstrates the challenges political parties face in checking their popular politicians.
Effects of Stochastic Parametrization on Extreme Value Statistics
Creators: name: Hu, Guannan
name: Bódai, Tamás
name: Lucarini, Valerio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Other Statistics (stat.OT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Extreme geophysical events are of crucial relevance to our daily life: they threaten human lives and cause property damage. To assess the risk and reduce losses, we need to model and probabilistically predict these events. Parametrizations are computational tools used in Earth system models, which are aimed at reproducing the impact of unresolved scales on resolved scales. The performance of parametrizations has usually been examined on typical events rather than on extreme events. In this paper we consider a modified version of the two-level Lorenz'96 model and investigate how two parametrizations of the fast degrees of freedom perform in terms of the representation of extreme events. One parametrization is constructed following Wilks (2005) and is constructed through an empirical fitting procedure; the other parametrization is constructed through the statistical mechanical approach proposed by Wouters and Lucarini (2012, 2013). The two strategies show different advantages and disadvantages. We discover that the agreement between parametrized models and true model is in general worse when looking at extremes rather than at the bulk of the statistics. The results suggest that stochastic parametrizations should be accurately and specifically tested against their performance on extreme events, as usual optimization procedures might neglect them.
description: 21 pages and 17 figures
Political Satire and Political News: Entertaining, Accidentally Reporting or Both? The Case of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (TDS)
Creators: Neacsu, Dana
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Political satire
subject: Press
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: Mass media--Law and legislation
subject: Mass media

description: For the last decade, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (TDS), a (Comedy Central) cable comedy show, has been increasingly seen as an informative, new, even revolutionary, form of journalism. A substantial body of literature appeared, adopting this view. On closer inspection, it became clear that this view was tenable only in specific circumstances. It assumed that the comedic structure of the show, TDS' primary text, promoted cognitive polysemy, a textual ambiguity which encouraged critical inquiry, and that TDS' audiences perceived it accordingly. As a result I analyzed, through a dual - encoding/decoding - analytical approach, whether TDS' comedic discourse educates and informs its audiences in a manner which encourages independent or critical reading of the news. Through a multilayered textual analysis of the primary and tertiary texts of the show, the research presented here asked, "How does TDS' comedic narrative (primary text) work as a vehicle of televised political news?" and "How does TDS' audience decode its text?"  The research identified flaws in the existing literature and the limits inherent to any similar endeavors. It became apparent that, due to TDS' comedic discourse and its host's political transparency, the primary text does not promote cognitive polysemy, because it offers one dominant reading that is easily deciphered. Furthermore, due to its specific comedic structure, the primary text does not encourage dissenting or critical reading of the show's presentation of the news. Close reading of specific audience-authored tertiary texts indicated that TDS offered a dominant encoded reading which was either easily accepted or slightly negotiated, according to the views of the news outlet presenting the TDS excerpt.
Supplemental Material.pdf
Creators: name: Tien-Hsing Chen
name: Liang-Tseng Kuo
name: Pei-An Yu
name: Chi-Lung Chen
name: Wei-Hsiu Hsu
name: Yao-Hung Tsai
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 110107 Metabolic Medicine
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplemental fie
Commelina benghalensis L.
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Commelinales
Commelinaceae
Commelina
Commelina benghalensis

description: Commelina benghalensis L.  —
Habit: Herb.
Habitat: LMWF, LMDF; up to 2 400 m. Distribution: I.
Voucher: N/A.
Reference: Bussmann (1994).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 29, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
title: Rhododendron wardii W. W. Sm. Cv. 'Stadt Westerstede'
Creators: name: :None
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Digitale Pflanzenbilder: Sammlung Dietmar Brandes
subject: 58

description: Digitale Pflanzenbilder: Sammlung Dietmar Brandes
Amphelasma Barber 1947
Creators: name: Viswajyothi, Keezhpattillam
name: Clark, Shawn M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Amphelasma

description: Genus Amphelasma Barber, 1947
Amphelasma Barber, 1947a: 158 (type species Galeruca cava Say, 1835, by original designation).
Remarks
This genus currently contains only eleven described species, distributed from the United States to northern South America. However, some species currently placed in other genera may properly belong here. On the other hand, A. nigrolineata (Jacoby, 1878), a species from Mexico and Central America, might more properly belong in Diabrotica Chevrolat, 1836. See Figs 73 and 181 for illustrations of Amphelasma.
description: Published as part of Viswajyothi, Keezhpattillam & Clark, Shawn M., 2022, New World genera of Galerucinae Latreille, 1802 (tribes Galerucini Latreille, 1802, Metacyclini Chapuis, 1875, and Luperini Gistel, 1848): an annotated list and identification key (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), pp. 1-102 in European Journal of Taxonomy 842 on page 18, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.842.1945, http://zenodo.org/record/7222499
Riemann Normal Coordinates, Smooth Lattices and Numerical Relativity
Creators: name: Brewin, Leo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new lattice based scheme for numerical relativity will be presented. The scheme uses the same data as would be used in the Regge calculus (eg. a set of leg lengths on a simplicial lattice) but it differs significantly in the way that the field equations are computed. In the new method the standard Einstein field equations are applied directly to the lattice. This is done by using locally defined Riemann normal coordinates to interpolate a smooth metric over local groups of cells of the lattice. Results for the time symmetric initial data for the Schwarzschild spacetime will be presented. It will be shown that the scheme yields second order accurate estimates (in the lattice spacing) for the metric and the curvature. It will also be shown that the Bianchi identities play an essential role in the construction of the Schwarzschild initial data.
description: 49 pages, 18 epsf figures, plain tex
Co-Contagion Diffusion on Multilayer Networks
Creators: name: Chang, Ho-Chun Herbert
name: Fu, Feng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This study examines the interface of three elements during co-contagion diffusion: the \textbf{synergy} between contagions, the \textbf{dormancy} rate of each individual contagion, and the \textbf{multiplex network topology}. Dormancy is defined as a weaker form of "immunity," where dormant nodes no longer actively participate in diffusion, but are still susceptible to infection. The proposed model extends the literature on threshold models, and demonstrates intricate interdependencies between different graph structures. Our simulations show that first, the faster contagion induces branching on the slower contagion; second, shorter characteristic path lengths diminish the impact of dormancy in lowering diffusion. Third, when two long-range graphs are paired, the faster contagion depends on both dormancy rates, whereas the slower contagion depends only on its own; fourth, synergistic contagions are less sensitive to dormancy, and have a wider window to diffuse. Furthermore, when long-range and spatially constrained graphs are paired, ring vaccination occurs on the spatial graph and produces partial diffusion, due to dormant, surrounding nodes. The spatial contagion depends on both dormancy rates whereas the long-range contagion depends on only its own.
Compilation of Cuffdiff gene-level differential expression analysis produced by analysis of experiment 2
Creators: name: Honghu Quan
name: Arsala, Deanna
name: Lynch, Jeremy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 60803 Animal Developmental and Reproductive Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60403 Developmental Genetics (incl. Sex Determination)
subject: 60305 Evolution of Developmental Systems

description: This file includes all of the results of expression quantification and differential expression detection produced by Cuffdiff, following the parameters given in "Command jobs used to generate differential expression data in experiment 1". The names of the tabs correspond to the section titles in "Command jobs used to generate differential expression data in experiment 1". An additional tab compiles all of the results using genome annotation 2.1 with color coding to illustrate where the different conditions produced different results.
Definable sets, motives and p-adic integrals
Creators: name: Denef, J.
name: Loeser, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 03C10;12L12;14G15;14G20;14G27

description: We associate canonical virtual motives to definable sets over a field of characteristic zero. We use this construction to show that very general p-adic integrals are canonically interpolated by motivic ones.
description: 45 pages
Eriocaulon schimperi Ruhland
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Poales
Eriocaulaceae
Eriocaulon
Eriocaulon schimperi

description: Eriocaulon schimperi Körn. ex Ruhland  —
Habit: Herb.
Habitat: BZ, UMF, HZ; 1 900–3 500 m. Distribution: II.
 Voucher: Kamweti Track, Alt. 2 961 m, 1 Feb. 2015, SAJIT 003065 (HIB).
References: Blundell (1987), Bussmann (1993, 1994), Agnew (2013).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 30, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Enriching mine reclamation : highlights of the Brenda Mine biodiversity enhancement program
Creators: name: Peatt, A. J.
name: Peatt, A. D.
name: Polster, D. F.
name: Lister, D.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: Historically, restoration and reclamation science has focused on returning disturbed sites to some past condition. Finding this difficult, later efforts have focused on restoring habitat elements like vegetative cover, even when the species added are not native. Consistent with Xstrata Copper Canada’s corporate focus on biodiversity, this presentation describes a way of responding to these challenges highlighting a biodiversity enhancement project at Xstrata Copper Canada’s Brenda Mine, a closed site located near Peachland. Operations at Brenda ceased in 1990, and substantial reclamation was completed by 2000. Seeking a better understanding and protection for long term health, function and viability of the natural environment, a biodiversity assessment and conservation plan for the Brenda site was completed in 2009. This plan identified priorities for enhancement, and also described the species that might benefit from actions on the mine site. Moving to implement these recommendations and establish site monitoring approaches, this presentation reports on planting, site treatments, and direct wildlife enhancement techniques that have been initiated in the first year of this three year project. It also describes planned future actions including monitoring and other site enhancements designed to define benefits and challenges associated with site restoration and management of biodiversity at Brenda Mine.
On the Uniqueness of the Papapetrou--Majumdar Metric
Creators: name: Heusler, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We establish the equality of the ADM mass and the total electric charge for asymptotically flat, static electrovac black hole spacetimes with completely degenerate, not necessarily connected horizon.
description: 9 pages, latex, no figures, to appear in Class. Quantum Grav
Politics & Aesthetics of Ripristino: A Select Study of the Preservation Work of Antonio Muñoz in Rome
Creators: Jaramillo, Aura Maria
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Historic preservation
Mausoleum of Augustus (Rome, Italy)
Aesthetics--Political aspects
Historic sites
Historic sites--Preservation

description: When we think about the architectural and urban construction and dismantling that took place in Rome in the first four decades of the twentieth century, the canon includes the likes of Marcello Piacentini, Adalberto Libera, and Gustavo Giovannoni. Yet some of the period’s most important and iconic projects — the master plan of Rome of 1931, the excavations of the Via dell'Impero, the restoration of the Mausoleum of Augustus, and the establishment of the Via Appia as an open-air museum, among others — owe much to the often overlooked Antonio Muñoz. An extensive writer, he published books on Baroque, Medieval, and fascist Rome, as well as Gothic architecture in the Lazio region, Piranesi, and he was an exhaustive chronicler of his own restoration campaigns.

In addition to being a prolific writer, Antonio Muñoz was an official speaker at the First Congress of Architects and Technicians of Historic Monuments in Athens in 1931, which resulted in the seminal Athens Charter for the Restoration of Historic Monuments. He was instrumental to the excavation and restoration efforts of countless projects and was an important consultant to Mussolini on matters of historic preservation, Muñoz was an art historian, amateur architect, and archeologist who served as Superintendent of Monuments of Lazio from 1914 to 1928, Inspector General of Antiquities and Fine Arts of the Governorship of Rome between 1928 and 1944, and finally founder and director of the Museum of Rome.

This thesis — in addition to re-introducing Antonio Muñoz to the English-language preservation community —investigates whether his preservation practice changed methodologically and aesthetically during the fascist regime in order to better understand the complex relationship between political ideology and preservation aesthetics. Muñoz will be considered in this thesis as a conduit for broadening the understanding of the range of preservation modalities through the fascist ventennio.

To achieve these ends, this investigation examines the “liberation” of the Mausoleum of Augustus and the restoration of the fifth-century basilica of Santa Sabina as case studies that represent seemingly opposing poles in the spectrum of Muñoz’s aesthetic legacy. Through a close reading and analysis of these projects, this analysis will juxtapose the idea of preservation as an act of ripristino (to remake pristine) versus preservation as an act of isolation as complementary and opposing concepts employed for political ends under the fascist regime.

Unless otherwise noted, all translations are my own.
title: Security Improvements for the Automatic Identification System
Creators: name: Litts, Robert E.
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: The Automatic Identification System (AIS) is used aboard the vast majority of sea-going vessels in the world as a collision avoidance tool. Currently, the AIS operates without any security features, which make it vulnerable to exploits such as spoofing, hijacking, and replay attacks by malicious parties. This paper examines the work that has been done so far to improve AIS security, as well as the approaches taken on similar problems in the aircraft and vehicular mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) industries. The first major contribution of this paper is the implementation of a Software Defined Radio (SDR) AIS transmitter and receiver which can be used to conduct vulnerability analysis and test the implementation of new security features. The second contribution is the design of a novel authentication protocol which overcomes the existing vulnerabilities in the AIS system. The proposed protocol uses time-delayed hash-chain key disclosures as part of a message authentication code (MAC) appended to automatic position reports to verify the authenticity of a user. This method requires only one additional time slot for broadcast authentication compared to the existing standard and is a significant reduction in message overhead requirements compared to alternative approaches that solely rely on public key infrastructure (PKI). Additionally, there is an embedded time stamp, a feature lacking in the existing system, which makes this protocol resistant to replay attacks. A test implementation of the proposed protocol indicates that it can be deployed as a link layer software update to existing AIS transceivers and can be deployed within the current AIS technical standards as an expanded message set.
Probing the Protosolar Disk Using Dust Filtering at Gaps in the Early Solar System
Creators: name: Haugbølle, Troels
name: Weber, Philipp
name: Wielandt, Daniel P.
name: Benítez-Llambay, Pablo
name: Bizzarro, Martin
name: Gressel, Oliver
name: Pessah, Martin E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Jupiter and Saturn formed early, before the gas disk dispersed. The presence of gap-opening planets affects the dynamics of the gas and embedded solids and halts the inward drift of grains above a certain size. A drift barrier can explain the absence of calcium aluminium rich inclusions (CAIs) in chondrites originating from parent bodies that accreted in the inner solar system. Employing an interdisciplinary approach, we use a $μ$-X-Ray-fluorescence scanner to search for large CAIs and a scanning electron microscope to search for small CAIs in the ordinary chondrite NWA 5697. We carry out long-term, two-dimensional simulations including gas, dust, and planets to characterize the transport of grains within the viscous $α$-disk framework exploring the scenarios of a stand-alone Jupiter, Jupiter and Saturn \textit{in situ}, or Jupiter and Saturn in a 3:2 resonance. In each case, we find a critical grain size above which drift is halted as a function of the physical conditions in the disk. From the laboratory search we find four CAIs with a largest size of $\approx$200$\,μ$m. \Combining models and data, we provide an estimate for the upper limit of the $α$-viscosity and the surface density at the location of Jupiter, using reasonable assumptions about the stellar accretion rate during inward transport of CAIs, and assuming angular momentum transport to happen exclusively through viscous effects. Moreover, we find that the compound gap structure in the presence of Saturn in a 3:2 resonance favors inward transport of grains larger than CAIs currently detected in ordinary chondrites.
description: 16 pages, 10 figures, updated to match published version in Astrophysical Journal
title: The stochastic primitive equations with transport noise and turbulent pressure
Creators: name: Agresti, Antonio
name: Hieber, Matthias
name: Hussein, Amru
name: Saal, Martin
Publisher: name: Springer US
Year: 2025

description: In this paper we consider the stochastic primitive equation for geophysical flows subject to transport noise and turbulent pressure. Admitting very rough noise terms, the global existence and uniqueness of solutions to this stochastic partial differential equation are proven using stochastic maximal L²-regularity, the theory of critical spaces for stochastic evolution equations, and global a priori bounds. Compared to other results in this direction, we do not need any smallness assumption on the transport noise which acts directly on the velocity field and we also allow rougher noise terms. The adaptation to Stratonovich type noise and, more generally, to variable viscosity and/or conductivity are discussed as well.