cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Elaphoglossum hystrix T. Moore, Index Fil.
Creators: name: Kessler, Michael
name: Moran, Robbin C.
name: Mickel, John T.
name: Matos, Fernando B.
name: Smith, Alan R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Polypodiales
Dryopteridaceae
Elaphoglossum
Elaphoglossum hystrix

description: Elaphoglossum hystrix (Kunze) T.Moore, Index Fil. 10. 1857.
 Range: — Peru and Bolivia (LP, SC).
 Ecology: —Common; epiphytic in humid forests; 1450–2200 m.
 Notes: —Recognized by dark stem scales and linear-elliptic leaves with attenuate to less frequently cuneate laminar bases. The blade scales are very short, ca. 1.5 mm long, and distributed on costae, surfaces, and margins. Those of the margins are strongly subulate and ascending, thereby distinguishing this species from E. kessleri (with flattish marginal scales). A few capitate-glandular hairs and numerous microscales are also present among the subulate scales of sterile blades.
description: Published as part of Kessler, Michael, Moran, Robbin C., Mickel, John T., Matos, Fernando B. & Smith, Alan R., 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXV. Dryopteridaceae, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 353 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.353.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13706233
Finite vs infinite decompositions in conformal embeddings
Creators: name: Adamovic, Drazen
name: Kac, Victor G.
name: Frajria, Pierluigi Moseneder
name: Papi, Paolo
name: Perse, Ozren
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Building on work of the first and last author, we prove that an embedding of simple affine vertex algebras $V_{\mathbf{k}}(\mathfrak g^0)\subset V_{k}(\mathfrak g)$, corresponding to an embedding of a maximal equal rank reductive subalgebra $\mathfrak g^0$ into a simple Lie algebra $\mathfrak g$, is conformal if and only if the corresponding central charges are equal. We classify the equal rank conformal embeddings. Furthermore we describe, in almost all cases, when $V_{k}(\mathfrak g)$ decomposes finitely as a $V_{\mathbf{k}}(\mathfrak g^0)$-module.
description: Latex file, 31 pages, minor corrections, to appear in Communications in Mathematical Physics
Asymmetrically etched p-type silicon nanowires as geometric diodes
Creators: name: Low, Jeremy
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Geometric diodes operate, not due to potential barriers, but due to the shape of the device.  Nanowire geometric diodes have unique properties which allow them to function as long wavelength energy harvesters and ultra-high speed signal processors. Geometric diodes operate through symmetry breaking on a scale comparable to the mean-free-path length of charge carriers, generating an asymmetry which we define as the current at some positive bias V0 divided by the current at the reverse bias –V0.  Silicon nanowires, encoded with sawtooth geometries, exhibit diode-like behavior.  Current at an applied voltage is directionally asymmetric due to the geometric diode effect.  Sawtooth geometries are defined by three parameters, sawtooth length, inner diameter, and outer diameter, and a parameter, taper length that isn’t directly tunable, and all impact the overall resistance, I-V characteristics and frequency dependence.  These parameters are controlled through the growth, dopant encoding via a vapor-liquid-solid mechanism, and subsequent etching of the nanowire.  With tuning of these parameters a device with desired diode-like properties and frequency response can be developed.  To maximize the operating frequency of the diodes we develop devices with a minimized resistance, therefore minimized RC time constant.  In this project we characterize these novel devices, determining the dependence of their electronic properties on geometric parameters, mean-free-path, and surface treatments.  Better understanding these parameters will facilitate the optimization of the devices, as well as manufacturing processes, for applications in ultra-fast signal processing, and for novel long-wavelength energy harvesting.
Unbounded: Rethinking Borders with New Visualization Technologies
Creators: name: Currin, Ellen
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Western state cartography has produced the common understanding of “the border” as the
line between two sovereign areas, but this simplistic view is now being challenged by practices
of critical cartography and geography. Academics, activists, artists, and government institutions
are developing new understandings of the border as multifaceted phenomena of performance,
experience, movement, and conflict. These modern understandings require more complex
methods of representation. This thesis investigates how new cartographic and visualization
technologies can contribute to a new, more complex understanding of “the border.”
To be or not to be forgotten: a new dimension of the conflict between the right to privacy and freedom of expression
Creators: name: Moshkovska, Yuliya
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: freedom of expression
right of privacy
internet
data protection
censorship
communication technology

description: Second semester University: University of Vienna
description: Global nature of communication technologies has raised new issues concerning privacy and the extent to which freedom of expression could be exercised. The right to be forgotten, a rather new approach to privacy protection, has emerged in the heart of the conflict between the two fundamental rights. The European provision of a new right has sparked a global debate over possible dangers of the application of the right. Global censorship and erasure of historical records being some of them, the controversial right is claimed to threaten the freedom of the Internet. Supporters of the right to be forgotten disagree and see it as a tool to regain the effective control over our private data and thus protect our privacy rights in the online world. But does forgetting on the Internet pose such an imminent danger to freedom of expression or is it disregarded due to emotional responses based on misunderstanding of what is being proposed? The prospective scope of the right to be forgotten is being decided now. The direction of its development, as well as the scope and applicable jurisdiction are currently on the international agenda. The future of applying human rights in the online environment is at stake.
Elaphoglossum raywaense Alston, Bull. Soc. Brot.
Creators: name: Kessler, Michael
name: Moran, Robbin C.
name: Mickel, John T.
name: Matos, Fernando B.
name: Smith, Alan R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Polypodiales
Dryopteridaceae
Elaphoglossum
Elaphoglossum raywaense

description: Elaphoglossum raywaense (Jenman) Alston, Bull. Soc. Brot., sér, 2, 32: 20. 1958. (Fig. 19A–E)
 Range: —Guianas, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia (CO, LP), and Brazil.
 Ecology: —Fairly common; epiphytic, often on trunks, in humid forests; 200–1200 m.
description: Published as part of Kessler, Michael, Moran, Robbin C., Mickel, John T., Matos, Fernando B. & Smith, Alan R., 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXV. Dryopteridaceae, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 353 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.353.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13706233
Cooperative effects of lattice and spin-orbit coupling on the electronic structure of orthorhombic SrIrO3
Creators: name: Singh, Vijeta
name: Pulikkotil, J. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Orthorhombic SrIrO3 subjected to strain show tunable transport properties. With underlying symmetry remaining invariant, these properties are associated with IrO6 octahedral tilting. Adopting to first-principles methods, the effects of crystal field, spin-orbit coupling, and Coulomb correlations, on comparable interaction length scales, are discussed. While tilting induces a t2g-eg crystal-field splitting and band narrowing, spin-orbit coupling induces a partial splitting of the Jeff bands rendering SrIrO3 a semi-metallic ground state. The SOC enhanced hybridization of Ir-O orbitals, serve as a explanation to why the critical Hubbard correlation strength increases with increasing SOC strength in SrIrO3 to induce an insulating phase.
MS Gr. class. c. 7 1627
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 817 fr. A 2 fr. A 3. Carmen de bello Actiaco
Drawing by Carlo Orazi
The Difference in Walking Speed Between Individuals with an Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction and Healthy Individuals
Creators: name: Drews, Alyssa
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Since walking speed is one indicator of the onset and progression of OA, it would be
important to know if individuals with ACLR have a slower habitual walking speed than the
healthy population. One-third of individuals with ACLR develop knee OA within the first
decade after reconstruction, meaning that walking speed may have significant clinical
implications in the population of individuals with ACLR. Having the ability to differentiate
between walking speeds of healthy individuals and individuals with ACLR may be used
clinically to distinguish individuals with greater risk of post-traumatic OA development. The
purpose of this study is to determine the difference in self-selected walking speed measured in a
3D biomechanics laboratory between healthy individuals and ACLR participant 12 months
following ACLR. A secondary aim is to identify the association between walking speed and
self-reported function. Therefore, we hypothesize that individuals with ACLR who have slower
walking speeds will report a low self-reported function. We also hypothesize that individuals
with ACLR will demonstrate slower habitual walking speeds compared to a healthy control
group.
Chimeras in networks with purely local coupling
Creators: name: Laing, Carlo R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Chimera states in spatially extended networks of oscillators have some oscillators synchronised while the remainder are asynchronous. These states have primarily been studied in networks with nonlocal coupling, and more recently in networks with global coupling. Here we present three networks with only local coupling (diffusive, to nearest neighbours) which are numerically found to support chimera states. One of the networks is analysed using a self-consistency argument in the continuum limit, and this is used to find the boundaries of existence of a chimera state in parameter space.
description: submitted
Deep International LOFAR Telescope observations of the NEP region
Creators: name: Bondi, Marco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: During the past year the International LOFAR Telescope (ILT, aka LOFAR-VLBI) data analysis has been greatly improved and refined reaching sub-arcsec resolution imaging at 144 MHz with noise of a few tens of microJy/beam (for an 8-hr observation) on a routine basis. The improvement of about a factor of 20 in angular resolution (from 6" of LOFAR to 0".3 of ILT) is fundamental to study the bulk of radio sources detected in the deep fields which are located at redshift about or greater than 1 and, at the same time, to obtain images of the lobes and hotspots of the brightest giant radio galaxies in the field with unprecedented details at this frequency.
 The LOFAR Deep Fields are a great opportunity to exploit the sub-arcsecond resolution of the ILT since the main targets of these deep observations are galaxies at z => 1 and the longer observations allow to reach noise level around 10 microJy/beam.
 In this talk I will present the results obtained from 72 hours of observation centered on the Euclid Deep Field North (EDFN) in the
 North Ecliptic Pole (NEP) region. In particular, I will show and discuss some of the deepest ILT images (rms ~15 microJy/beam) obtained so far of high-redshift radio galaxies and bright sub-mm sources in the NEP region.
Outsourcing autocratic anti-LGTBI soft power : the case of the Russian Federation in Hungary
Creators: name: Bonny, Rémy
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Hungary
Russian Federation
sexual orientation
gender discrimination
European Union
liberalism
democracy
populism

description: Second semester University: Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
description: Autocracy and soft power - for the past three decades they did not seem to go hand in hand. Nevertheless - the last decade has proven that populist and illiberal forces in the democratic West are prone to policies undertaken by illiberal autocratic states. In the eyes of Russian policy-makers - the demographic decline in Russia and the world possesses an existential threat to the current world order. An increase in civil rights for sexual and gender minorities would only reinforce this demographic trend - in their views. This research reveals that the Russian Federation has set up a well-thought soft power strategy regarding LGBTI-rights towards the democratic West. Via outsourcing their soft power to the already existing international anti-LGBTI movement, the Kremlin was able to create a network of (financial and ideological) support for possible cooperation between Russian and European policy-makers. This network seems to fit within the Kremlin’s broader foreign policy of undermining Western liberal democracies. By taking a closer look to the Hungarian and Russian involvement within international anti-LGBTI organisations - like the World Congress of Families - the author of this research was able to prove close and structural ties between high-level Hungarian and Russian government officials and oligarchs. The Hungarian government increased the homo- and transphobic political discourse, enforced policies to foster traditional family values and vetoed every pro-LGBTI rights policy proposal in the Council of the European Union since its involvement in the international anti- LGBTI movement.
MS Gr. class. c. 7 1628
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 817 fr. A 4 fr. A 5. Carmen de bello Actiaco
Drawing by Carlo Orazi
Redemptio pro Purgatorium : right to work inside ‘forgotten’ refugee camps and the role of microfinance. The case of the Sahrawi refugee camps
Creators: name: Mouta, Joana : Da Silva
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: microfinance
poverty
refugee camps
Algeria
Sharawi
right to work

description: Second semester University: Uppsala University.
description: In the wake of some of the gravest humanitarian crises, the world witnesses a growing number of refugees. A lot of the challenges that come along with this sudden rise are still to be addressed by the globalised world. Many of these vulnerable people, in the face of no other protection, end up seeking sanctuary from violence in places where they believe it cannot penetrate: refugee camps. However, what was designed as a temporary solution, far too many times, ends up being the sole alternative in the face of postponed peace. Intractability generates a potential for lack of media and donor attention. Moreover, this sprawling phenomenon of “forgotten crises” is leaving a great number of people on limbos of legal uncertainty and no future aspirations, causing not only despair but also human rights violations. In this sense, the focal point of this research is to explore what are the bundles of rights existing for refugees and within the premises of refugee camps. The crux is to understand the link between right to work and the possible unlocking of poverty cycles endorsed through substantive access to microfinance projects. As incontestable illustration of an urgent need of a revolutionary approach on livelihood inside intractable refugee camps, the 40-year deadlock Sahrawi refugee camps, will constitute our case study.
Keenly
Creators: name: Batchelor, Chandler
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Keenly: A play in 2 acts. Act I: Dollbaby; For My Father, Who Speaks to Trees; Starbucks Sparrow; Aftermath; Anxiety; The Struggle; Krakatau; Beneath the Surface; Billy’s Pork and Beef; Dreaming Mouth; Freud’s Unconscious Quatern; Intermission: Writer’s Retreat; OR, I Read Too Much Faulkner Then Tried to Write a Poem So Sue Me; Act II: Aerial Perspectives; After Afterlife; Therapeutic Rapport; Keenly; The Princess and the San Diego Zoo; Kismet; Unspoken; Shuffle; Standing at my bedroom window after the last rain before winter; Mayfaire Cinema 16
Elaphoglossum semisubulatum Mickel & R. C. Moran, Brittonia
Creators: name: Kessler, Michael
name: Moran, Robbin C.
name: Mickel, John T.
name: Matos, Fernando B.
name: Smith, Alan R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Polypodiales
Dryopteridaceae
Elaphoglossum
Elaphoglossum semisubulatum

description: Elaphoglossum semisubulatum Mickel & R.C.Moran, Brittonia 56(3): 203. 2004. (Fig. 49A–G)
 Range: —Endemic to Bolivia (LP).
 Ecology: —Local and uncommon; epiphytic in humid forests, perhaps most common in Polylepis forests; 1700– 3500 m.
 Notes: —The sterile fronds of E. semisubulatum are ca. 50 cm long, and the fertile fronds to 35 cm long, not 9–14 cm long, as erroneously stated in the original description.
 Sect. Setosa (Christ) Mickel & Atehortúa, Amer. Fern J. 70(2): 64. 1980.
This section is characterized by having leaves with hydathodes and subulate scales.
description: Published as part of Kessler, Michael, Moran, Robbin C., Mickel, John T., Matos, Fernando B. & Smith, Alan R., 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXV. Dryopteridaceae, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 353 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.353.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13706233
Source localization and denoising: a perspective from the TDOA space
Creators: name: Compagnoni, Marco
name: Canclini, Antonio
name: Bestagini, Paolo
name: Antonacci, Fabio
name: Sarti, Augusto
name: Tubaro, Stefano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this manuscript, we formulate the problem of denoising Time Differences of Arrival (TDOAs) in the TDOA space, i.e. the Euclidean space spanned by TDOA measurements. The method consists of pre-processing the TDOAs with the purpose of reducing the measurement noise. The complete set of TDOAs (i.e., TDOAs computed at all microphone pairs) is known to form a redundant set, which lies on a linear subspace in the TDOA space. Noise, however, prevents TDOAs from lying exactly on this subspace. We therefore show that TDOA denoising can be seen as a projection operation that suppresses the component of the noise that is orthogonal to that linear subspace. We then generalize the projection operator also to the cases where the set of TDOAs is incomplete. We analytically show that this operator improves the localization accuracy, and we further confirm that via simulation.
description: 25 pages, 9 figures
The disappearance of unaccompanied migrant children in Europe : the cases of Italy and Ireland
Creators: name: Chaltogiannidou, Ermioni
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018
Subjects: unaccompained migrant children
disappeared persons
Europe
Ireland
Italy

description: Second semester University: University of Helsinki
description: The interest of a further research on the topic of missing unaccompanied migrant children has been raised by the Europol‟s announcement of losing the traces of at least 10.000 since 2015. After presenting the extent to which the phenomenon has been addressed by governing and non governing actors, the research topic examined is whether the prevention of these disappearances has been taken into consideration in the 2016 Proposals for the reform of the Common European Asylum System and, particularly, in the proposed Reception Directive and EURODAC Regulation. For their evaluation it has been followed a comparative analysis with national legal frameworks of countries that have faced the problem and adapted their legislations on its prevention. Italy and Ireland have been chosen as the cases in order to examine the prevention of the phenomenon both in the context of a frontline and a destination country. From their comparison came out the regulations that could fill the still existing gaps, if transplanted on the EU level. The gaps show that the phenomenon has been perceived as an obstacle for the effective control of the migration flows in the broader context of the discourse about the securitisation of the EU borders.
Un droit d’initiative sans limites : la revision partielle de la Constitution suisse par la voie de l’initiative populaire n’est pas soumise au respect des droits de l’homme
Creators: name: Guignard, Virginie
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2011
Subjects: constitutional law
Switzerland
democracy
human rights
international law

description: Second semester University: University of Padua
description: Switzerland possesses well-developed instruments of direct democracy and has an absolute conception of the notion of popular sovereignty. The “right of initiative” gives to the Swiss citizens the possibility to make a proposition to amend the Constitution. In order to launch a citizens’ initiative proposal, the signatures of one hundred thousand electors must be collected within eighteen months. If the majority of voters and cantons accept the constitutional project, it will come into force. However, at the moment the material limit is the respect for the peremptory norms of International Law. If a citizens’ initiative proposal is contrary to other rules of International Law, the Parliament must declare it valid and the Government puts it to a vote. According to the principle of the “volonté populaire”, a decision taken by popular vote must be put into practice. At the present time, if the Swiss authorities do not succeed in applying the new constitutional norm in conformity with International Law, they must bear the risk of being condemned by International instances such as the European Court of Human Rights. As a result, Switzerland is currently confronted with the dilemma of either rejecting the popular vote or violating its International responsibility. The time has come to reform the exercise of popular rights in order to both strengthen direct democracy and protect fundamental rights. The research will look at the different solutions, in terms of changes in procedure and content, which are currently discussed within the political and the public arenas. The resolutions include an extension of the material limit beyond the peremptory norms of International Law, the introduction of the judiciary as a controlling organ and the incorporation of a preliminary test of conformity of the proposal to International Law. However, in the final, according to the principle of amendment of the Constitution itself, only the people themselves can decide to restrain their right of initiative and they can reconsider their decision at any time. The research will be illustrated by the recent popular initiative “Against the construction of minarets”, which contradicts the freedom of religion and the principle of non-discrimination.
Ghostwritten
Creators: name: Orol, Joshua
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Table of Contents: Fancies: Adventure Fantasy; Fantasy Library; Everyone’s Flat Chested on a Computer Screen; Late Summer Planting; Carousel Trap; Ethnography: Ethnography; Conflict Resolution; Ghostwriters; My Friend The Naval Officer; PLO Offices In Ramallah; Modern Resurrections in Jerusalem; All Day Inside: Roommates’ Philosophy; Over Creation; Bad Weather; Chew; Reckoning; Succubus: Succubus; Exorcism; Civil Disobedience Arrest, June 3rd 2013; New Toaster; Endless; Family Man: Double Cross; Youth Advisor; Confessing the Worst I Did to You; Splendid Envy; 1995 Minivan; Southern Jews: Dissatisfied; The 5th Avenue Conservative Synagogue; The Last Jew of Goldsboro; Youth (I’ll Be an Old Man Here); Mongrel; Shiva at a Strangers House
Low-frequency VLBI with the International LOFAR Telescope
Creators: name: Timmerman, Roland
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Recent breakthroughs in the calibration of observations taken with the International LOFAR Telescope (ILT) have enabled imaging with an angular resolution of only 0.3 arcseconds in the low-frequency regime (~100 MHz). Compared to the previous best resolution achievable at these frequencies (6"), the ILT's resolution is a transformational twenty-fold improvement. As we are now able to study the structure of many AGN radio lobes, star-formation regions and high-redshift radio galaxies in detail at such low frequencies for the first time, the ILT has unlocked a wide variety of scientific opportunities. Thanks to its low observing frequency, ILT observations are not only particularly well suited to map steep-spectrum emission, but they also provide an excellent match to higher frequency observations for spectral index mapping purposes. For instance, the ILT at 144 MHz is able to match the resolution of the Very Large Array up to C band (5 GHz). In this talk, I present the progress we have made with the calibration of ILT observations, the science that has been enabled by this order-of-magnitude improvement in angular resolution, and the future of the ILT.
The dual relationship between truth commissions and reparations: the reparative effect of truth-telling and a comparative analysis of truth commissions’ approach to reparations
Creators: name: Vignial, Jade
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: truth commission
reparations
transitional justice
victims

description: Second semester University: Queen's University, Belfast
description: One of the many challenges faced by a newly-peaceful or a recently-democratic State is the one that consists in repairing the harm it has caused to its own population. As will be demonstrated in this paper, reparations can take various forms and be the product of the work undertaken by different entities. Indeed, in its pursuit for a better future, a country confronted with its shameful past will usually initiate actions in four areas: truth-telling, reparations, justice and institutional reforms. While these four pillars pursue different aims, they are not as hermetic as one might think: an action undertaken in one of these pillars will usually be felt across other pillars. In this way, the reparations area of transitional justice frequently interacts with other areas. This paper will demonstrate this as it will be dedicated to an examination of how truth-telling can be a form of reparation for victims and how truth commissions, usually most active in the truth-seeking dimension of transitional justice, can recommend reparations for victims. Part 1 of this paper will address the role that transitional justice can play in reshaping a country. In Part 2, the reparative effect that truth-telling can have on victims will be addressed. Finally, Part 3 will be dedicated to a comparative analysis of how various truth commissions have dealt with their reparative mandate.
Numerical solution of the time-fractional Fokker-Planck equation with general forcing
Creators: name: Le, Kim Ngan
name: McLean, William
name: Mustapha, Kassem
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65M12, 65M15, 65M60, 65Z05, 35Q84, 45K05

description: We study two schemes for a time-fractional Fokker-Planck equation with space- and time-dependent forcing in one space dimension. The first scheme is continuous in time and is discretized in space using a piecewise-linear Galerkin finite element method. The second is continuous in space and employs a time-stepping procedure similar to the classical implicit Euler method. We show that the space discretization is second-order accurate in the spatial $L_2$-norm, uniformly in time, whereas the corresponding error for the time-stepping scheme is $O(k^α)$ for a uniform time step $k$, where $α\in(1/2,1)$ is the fractional diffusion parameter. In numerical experiments using a combined, fully-discrete method, we observe convergence behaviour consistent with these results.
description: 3 Figures
The scaffold of the Wnt destruction complex, Axin, aids in transferring β-catenin to the SCF[Slimb] E3 ligase
Creators: name: Bauer, Lauren
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: The Wnt signaling pathway is necessary for development, cell fate regulation,
homeostasis, and proliferation. Mis-regulation of Wnt signaling is associated with many cancer
types, particularly colorectal carcinomas. β-catenin is the main effector of Wnt signaling. β-
catenin levels are regulated by the multi-protein β-catenin destruction complex, which consists of
the scaffolding protein Axin, the tumor suppressor Adenomatous polyposis coli (APC), glycogen
synthase kinase 3 (GSK-3), and casein kinase 1 (CK1). After the destruction complex
phosphorylates β-catenin, an E3 ubiquitin ligase recognizes phosphorylated β-catenin and targets
it for destruction by the proteasome. Despite over 30 years of research, the mechanism by which
the destruction complex transfers β-catenin to the E3 ligase remains largely unknown. We
hypothesize that interaction between Axin and Slimb (a member of the SCFF-Box E3 ligase in
Drosophila) aids in the transfer of β-catenin from the destruction complex to the E3 ligase. To
investigate the relationship between Axin and Slimb we co-expressed fluorescently tagged wildtype
and mutant forms of Drosophila Axin and Slimb in a human colon cancer cell line. We
examined co-localization and used co-immunoprecipitations (co-IPs) to investigate a close
association between Axin and Slimb. Our results suggest that the E3 ligase and the destruction
complex co-localize in cells, and that Axin recruits Slimb to the destruction
complex. Determining how Axin and Slimb interact is key for determining the mechanism by
which β-catenin is transferred from the destruction complex to the E3 ligase and subsequently
destroyed. Understanding this process will provide new insight into the role of this essential
signaling pathway.
The repression of the political opposition in Russia's courtrooms : the Russian judiciary and the European Court Human Rights: a case study
Creators: name: Lizzi, Laura
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: democratisation
European Court of Human Rights
judicial system
political opposition
rule of law
Russian Federation
Russia

description: Second semester University: Utrecht University.
description: Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Russia has made some significant steps in the implementation of the three pillars of the Council of Europe (joined by Russia in 1996). However, Russian opposition politicians seem to be systematically targeted with fabricated criminal charges and administrative harassments aimed at silencing their critics and at discouraging the public in large from engaging in opposition politics. The present research analyses the (mal)functioning of the judiciary in Russia on the basis of the European Court of Human Rights’ judgments in the cases Nemtsov v. Russia, Navalny and Yashin v. Russia and Navalny and Ofitserov v. Russia. In the light of the systematic nature of the procedural flaws detected by the Court in the proceedings brought against Boris Nemtsov, Alexei Navalny and Ilya Yashin, all prominent Russian opposition leaders and vocal Kremlin critics, the conclusion is reached that pressure and interferences continue to permeate the Russian justice system and hinder the establishment of an independent judiciary – the prerequisite for implementing the rule of law and building a truly healthy and stable democracy
Excitonic instability of three-dimensional gapless semiconductors: Large-N theory
Creators: name: Janssen, Lukas
name: Herbut, Igor F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Three-dimensional gapless semiconductors with quadratic band touching, such as HgTe, $α$-Sn, or Pr$_2$Ir$_2$O$_7$ are believed to display a non-Fermi-liquid ground state due to long-range electron-electron interaction. We argue that this state is inherently unstable towards spontaneous formation of a (topological) excitonic insulator. The instability can be parameterized by a critical fermion number $N_c$. For $N < N_c$ the rotational symmetry is spontaneously broken, the system develops a gap in the spectrum, and features a finite nematic order parameter. To leading order in the 1/N expansion and in the static approximation, the analogy with the problem of dynamical mass generation in (2+1)-dimensional quantum electrodynamics yields $N_c = 16/[3π(π-2)]$. Taking the important dynamical screening effects into account, we find that $N_c \geq 2.6(2)$ and therefore safely above the physical value of $N = 1$. Some experimental consequences of the nematic ground state are discussed.
description: 6 pages, 1 figure, v2: section on experimental implications expanded, references added, published version
Same Trailer, Different Park: Staging Small Town Life
Creators: name: Collins, Katie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: This paper takes a look at the way in which small town life is presented on stage in the following plays:  Thornton Wilder's Our Town(1938), William Inge's Come Back, Little Sheba(1950), Michael Stewart, Lee Adams, and Charles Strouse's Bye Bye Birdie(1960), Beth Henley's Crimes of the Heart(1981), and Tracy Letts' August: Osage County(2007).  The main themes of particular interest are family, society, and the outsider and the ways in which they make up the small town narrative present on the stage.
Elaphoglossum acrocarpum T. Moore, Index Fil.
Creators: name: Kessler, Michael
name: Moran, Robbin C.
name: Mickel, John T.
name: Matos, Fernando B.
name: Smith, Alan R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Polypodiales
Dryopteridaceae
Elaphoglossum
Elaphoglossum acrocarpum

description: Elaphoglossum acrocarpum (Mart.) T.Moore, Index Fil. 4. 1857, as “ acrocarpon”. (Fig. 53A–C)
 Range: — Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia (LP), and Brazil.
 Ecology: —Rare; terrestrial in humid montane yungas forest; to 1475 m.
 Notes: —This species is currently known from a single collection in Bolivia (Fuentes 17043, LPB). It can be confused with E. polyblepharum (sect. Polytrichia), which differs by the absence of hydathodes and fertile leaves that are much shorter than the sterile ones.
description: Published as part of Kessler, Michael, Moran, Robbin C., Mickel, John T., Matos, Fernando B. & Smith, Alan R., 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXV. Dryopteridaceae, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 353 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.353.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13706233
Structure and Outcomes of Innovation Tools to Solve Challenges in Public Health: An Exploratory Multiple Case Study Evaluation
Creators: name: Ferguson, Erika
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: This study will examine three recent cases in which innovation tools were used in three
different sectors of public health: healthcare/hospital, national and global in order to understand
their design, how they solicit entries, moderate the tournament, evaluate ideas, award winners
and encourage participation.
The objective of this mixed methods study is to examine existing models for innovation
through competition that have been implemented by notable health care organizations in order to
answer the following questions:
1. In what circumstance was each innovation tool used, and how did this influence how it
was conducted?
2. How was each innovation tool structured, and how did this format influence innovative
ideas produced?
3. What insights and lessons may be learned from each of the three case studies, and how
can these be applied to other health-related innovation challenges?
The Impact of Southern-Hemisphere VLBI Blazar Observations on Neutrino Astronomy
Creators: name: Roesch, Florian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The origin of high-energy cosmic neutrinos detected by the IceCube observatory is a hotly debated topic in astroparticle physics. Evidence is accumulating that some of these neutrinos can be associated with AGN and especially with blazars. Several recent studies have revealed a statistical correlation between radio-bright AGN samples and IceCube neutrino event catalogs. In addition, a growing number of individual high-energy neutrinos have been found to coincide with individual radio-flaring blazars. These observational results strongly call for high-quality, high angular-resolution radio observations of such neutrino-associated blazars to study their parsec-scale jet structures. TANAMI is the only large and long-term VLBI monitoring program that focuses on the Southern sky. Within TANAMI, we put a focus on Southern IceCube neutrino-candidate blazars at the S and X band. Here, we present first results of these S-band observations. The rapidly growing KM3NeT, located in the Mediterranean sea, is joining IceCube, located at the south pole, in yielding complementary neutrino data in both hemispheres. This further increases the importance of southern-hemisphere radio monitoring programs of neutrino-associated blazars, like TANAMI.
Syrian refugees in Morocco : facts and recommendations
Creators: name: Mraiyan, Haneen
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Syria
refugees
Morocco
Jordan

description: Second semester University: International University of Rabat
description: Defined as the “worst disaster since the end of the cold war”1, starting in the spring of 2011, the Syrian army was ordered to stop demonstrations that took place across the country. The violent response to peaceful demonstrations led to armed conflict between the government and the opposition. As a result of ongoing armed conflict, thousands of Syrians fled Syria to find safety in neighboring countries: Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan. By March 2013, UNHCR announced that the number of refugees fleeing Syria has reached one million2. Since the beginning of the Syrian civil war in 2011, approximately 5,000,000 Syrians had fled their homeland and another 6,000,000 have been displaced, almost one-third of the Syrian population. The number of Syrian refugees in the world is now higher than the entire populations of Denmark, Finland, Norway, Palestine, Ireland Kuwait or Qatar. An estimated six thousand Syrians are believed to be in Morocco by the middle of 20173. This is a study of the status of Syrian refugees in Morocco: The Moroccan governmental and political response to the crisis, facts and solutions of Syrian refugees in Morocco. The main and most important issues that Syrian refugees are facing: 1. Protection: legal, physical and psychological, 2. Adequate healthcare 3. Shelter and basic housing 4. Access to education 5. Employment 6. Food security and access to water
Hypernom: Mapping VR Headset Orientation to S^3
Creators: name: Hart, Vi
name: Hawksley, Andrea
name: Segerman, Henry
name: Bosch, Marc ten
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: History and Overview (math.HO)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 00A66 (Primary), 57M60 (Secondary)

description: Hypernom is a virtual reality game. The cells of a regular 4D polytope are radially projected to S^3, the sphere in 4D space, then stereographically projected to 3D space where they are viewed in the headset. The orientation of the headset is given by an element of the group SO(3), which is also a space that is double covered by S^3. In fact, the headset outputs a point of this double cover: a unit quaternion. The positions of the cells are multiplied by this quaternion before projection to 3D space, which moves the player through S^3. When the player is sufficiently close to a cell, they eat it. The aim of the game is to eat all of the cells of the polytope, which, roughly speaking, is achieved by moving one's head through all possible orientations, twice.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures. Published in the Proceedings of Bridges 2015: Mathematics, Music, Art, Architecture, Culture, available at http://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2015/bridges2015-387.html. Source code is available at https://github.com/vihart/hypernom. The game can be played at http://hypernom.com
Elaphoglossum cardioglossum Mickel, Brittonia
Creators: name: Kessler, Michael
name: Moran, Robbin C.
name: Mickel, John T.
name: Matos, Fernando B.
name: Smith, Alan R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Polypodiales
Dryopteridaceae
Elaphoglossum
Elaphoglossum cardioglossum

description: Elaphoglossum cardioglossum Mickel, Brittonia 37(3): 266. 1985. (Fig. 52A)
 Range: — Peru (Mellado & León 2007) and Bolivia (LP).
 Ecology: —Local, but fairly common where it is found; terrestrial and epiphytic in humid forests; 3000–3200 m.
 Notes: —The veins tend to be relatively widely spaced, about 2 mm apart. The scales on the abaxial blade surfaces are brown to dark brown, not whitish as in many other species of sect. Undulata. The rhizomes are long and creeping, but internode distances can sometimes be short, only several mm apart. Elaphoglossum cardioglossum differs from Peruvian E. pascoense R.M.Tryon only by the narrower dark brown scales on the blades abaxially (vs. broader white scales darkened only at the point of attachment).
description: Published as part of Kessler, Michael, Moran, Robbin C., Mickel, John T., Matos, Fernando B. & Smith, Alan R., 2018, Prodromus of a fern flora for Bolivia. XXXV. Dryopteridaceae, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 353 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.353.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13706233
Curvature-Sensitive Scheme for Tubular Anatomy Segmentation
Creators: name: Shrestha, Bimba
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Segmenting tubular anatomies from medical images is a difficult task. In addition to all the obstacles typically encountered in the general task of medical image segmentation (obstacles like high inter-subject variability, noise, intra-model differences, etc.), tubular anatomies also have complications which stem from their intrinsic topology. Structures like the airway, aorta, colon, and spine curve in space in unpredictable ways. While this is a challenge in its own right, the problem is perpetuated because this characteristic greatly amplifies the effects of the other difficulties already mentioned (especially anatomical variability).The state-of-the-art in medical image segmentation over the last half decade has been convolutional neural networks. They have dramatically outperformed conventional approaches like multi-atlas segmentation. However, in the context of tubular anatomy segmentation, there is still room for improvement. Our experiments with synthetic data show that the popular convolutional neural network architecture, U-Net struggles to handle the segmentation of long, highly curved tubes, often predicting fragmented segmentations even with considerable training data.In this thesis, we present a new method for handling segmentation of tubular structures that uses both deep learning and conventional techniques in a curvature-sensitive way. Specifically, our method 1) uses a recurrent neural network to unravel tubular anatomies along their centerlines, thereby simplifying the segmentation task and 2) uses classical segmentation technique, region growing in combination with convolutional neural networks to carry out segmentation while maintaining connectivity. We show the effectiveness of our method on synthetic data and on a dataset of high resolution pediatric airway CT scans.
The contribution in promotion of human rights by European countries in their former colonies : a case study Belgium - Rwanda
Creators: name: Shyaka, Damien
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2014
Subjects: colonialism
foreign policy
Belgium
European Union
human rights
Rwanda

description: Second semester University: Université de Montpellier.
description: Human rights development and protection requires national and international efforts and their protection requires that international human rights norms and standards are reflected and guaranteed by the Constitution of the country and enshrined in relevant domestic laws, ensuring the supremacy of international human rights norms and standards in the legal framework of the country. Being a third world country Rwanda needed source support to make this attainable, and different European countries have had their part of contribution to realization of different undertakings that Rwanda has made including promotion and protection of human rights so this study was undertaken to examine the contribution in promotion of human rights byEuropean countries in their former collonies taking Rwanda –Belgium as a case study.Efforts have been made by Rwanda to ratify and domesticate different legal instruments that seek to protect and promote human rights among the countries that have supported promotion and protection of human rights includes the Belgium which has had influence to Rwanda as a former colony.Rwanda has had relations with the Belgium through the Belgium technical cooperation, Belgium has intervened in terms of budgetary capacity building infrastructural development, maintaining peace and reconciliation.Belgium through Belgian Technical Cooperation’s financial support has registered considerable achievement in legal right awareness, capacity building to lawyers, working with Partners to create sustainable legal resource Programs as well as training lawyers to take part in the Maisons d’Accès à la Justice project which has made them able to create a human rights-criminal defense legal aid movement. The Belgian support has promoted human rights through initiatives like establishments of legal clinics in some locations which offer free legal Aid service to the needy. Much as post genocide period era Belgium has made considerable efforts in promoting human right through the above mentioned programs it has been noted that human rights promotion roles were not realized in the era ranging from the colonial period to 1994 genocide against the Tutsi.