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Study on Properties Analysis of Knitwear After Acid Wash.pdf
Creators: name: Khalil, Elias
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 91012 Textile Technology
subject: FOS: Materials engineering

description: This article deals with the investigation on the effect of the acid washing (with thermocol balls and potassium permanganate) on different properties of three knitted garments (Single Jersey 100% Cotton T-shirt, Single Jersey 95% Cotton 5% Spandex T-Shirt and 1×1 Rib100% Cotton T- Shirt). Typical washing procedures and techniques were followed and then physical properties were analyzed under standard condition. It is observed that fabric weight, CPI, WPI, spirality and shrinkage increase while bursting strength, stitch length absorbency decrease after washing treatment. PH of all the samples is under controlled and lies between 7 – 8. There is no change in pilling, colorfastness to wash, water and dry rubbing while a little bit decrease in wet rubbing.
Joint fleet size and charging station location planning for integrated demand responsive transport service using electric vehicles
Creators: name: Simin, Xie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Electric vehicles have gained popularity over past decades as they are more environmentally friendly than conventional gasoline vehicles. This thesis studies the optimization of joint fleet size and number and location of charging stations location problem for integrated demand responsive transport (DRT) service using electric vehicles. We propose a simulation-optimization framework to model the problem and solve it approximately using a two-stage approach. Under the given framework we firstly determine the minimum fleet size which satisfies a predefined level of service (LOS) criterion, and then optimize the charging infrastructure using a surrogate-based approach. The proposed method is tested using both a generated dataset and a Luxembourg dataset. The result shows that installing 18 new DC Fast chargers in optimal locations in Luxembourg can decrease the average charging operation time of EVs (electric vehicles) by 45.1%. A comparison with another charging station allocation method k-means also proves the efficiency of the proposed method.

description: {"references": ["Ma & Xie (2020), arXiv:2008.05949"]}
Cosmological forecasts for future galaxy surveys with the linear point standard ruler: Toward consistent BAO analyses far from a fiducial cosmology
Creators: name: Anselmi, Stefano
name: Starkman, Glenn D.
name: Renzi, Alessandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The linear point (LP) standard ruler was identified as the basis of a purely geometric method for exploiting the Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO). The LP exploits the BAO feature imprinted in the galaxy two-point correlation function to measure cosmological distances independent of any specific cosmological model. We forecast the expected precision of future and ongoing spectroscopic galaxy surveys to measure distances leveraging the linear point. We investigate the cosmological implications of our forecasted results. We focus in particular on a relevant working example: the detection of the late-time cosmic acceleration independent of other cosmological probes. Our findings show that, even within the LCDM standard cosmological paradigm, estimated distances need to be reliable over a very wide parameter range in order to realize their maximum utility. This is particularly relevant if we aim to properly characterize cosmological tensions. The LP is a promising candidate approach to achieve this reliability. In contrast, widely employed procedures in BAO analysis estimate distances keeping fixed cosmological parameters to fiducial values close to cosmic-microwave-background constraints in flat-LCDM. It is unclear whether they are purely geometric methods. Moreover, they rely on untested extrapolations to explore the parameter space away from those fiducial flat-LCDM values. We recommend that all BAO methodologies be validated across the full range of models and parameters over which their results are quoted, first by means of linear predictions and then N-body simulations.
description: 17 pages, 2 figures, 6 tables. Revised to match version published by PRD
Megachile (Pseudomegachile) rubripes Morawitz 1875
Creators: name: Samin, Najmeh
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Bagriacik, Nil
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Megachilidae
Megachile
Megachile rubripes

description: Megachile (Pseudomegachile) rubripes Morawitz, 1875
 Material examined: Province of Lorestan: Dorud, 33°30′N 49°05′E, 1 ♂, 2 ♀♀, VII.2010 . Province of Hamadan: MAlAYer, 34°20′N 48°45′E, 1 ♂, ix.2010 .
  Distribution in Iran: Alborz (Talebi et al. 1995, as Chalicodoma rubripes (Morawitz, 1875), Fars (Izadi et al. 1998, 1999 as Chalicodoma rubripes; Khodaparast & Monfared 2012), Kerman (Salehi Sarbijan et al. 2012).
  Plant association: Echinops sp. (Asteraceae), Vitex agnus-castus Linnaeus (Lamiaceae) (Khodaparast & Monfared 2012).
description: Published as part of Samin, Najmeh, Ghahari, Hassan & Bagriacik, Nil, 2015, A faunistic study on leafcutting bees (Hymenoptera ¡ Apoidea ¡ Megachilidae) from some regions of Iran., pp. 193-200 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 14 on page 196, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12715753
Supersymmetric Massive Gravity
Creators: name: Engelbrecht, Laura
name: Jones, Callum R. T.
name: Paranjape, Shruti
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We initiate a systematic study of the self-interactions of a massive spin-2 "graviton" consistent with up to $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetry. Using a recently developed massive on-shell superspace formalism, we construct the most general set of cubic massive graviton amplitudes in a form with all supersymmetry and Lorentz invariance manifest. We find that for $\mathcal{N}\geq 3$ supersymmetry, the family of consistent interactions coincide with those of the ghost-free dRGT model. For $\mathcal{N}=4$ (maximal) supersymmetry there is a single consistent cubic interaction which coincides with the unique structure required for the absence of asymptotic superluminality. Additionally, we discuss the structure of interactions in the high-energy limit, connections to supersymmetric Galileons and the possibility of a supersymmetric massive double copy.
description: 61 pages, 5 tables
Hoplitis acuticornis
Creators: name: Samin, Najmeh
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Bagriacik, Nil
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Megachilidae
Hoplitis
Hoplitis acuticornis

description: Hoplitis acuticornis (Dufour & Perris, 1840)
 Material examined: Province of Semnan: Shahrood, 35°30′N 55°30′E, 1 ♀, IV.2012 .
  Distribution in Iran: Kuhguiloyeh & Boyerahmad (Monfared et al. 2012).
description: Published as part of Samin, Najmeh, Ghahari, Hassan & Bagriacik, Nil, 2015, A faunistic study on leafcutting bees (Hymenoptera ¡ Apoidea ¡ Megachilidae) from some regions of Iran., pp. 193-200 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 14 on page 196, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12715753
Life Soundtrack Recovery for Alzheimer's disease patients
Creators: name: Navarro, Felipe
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013

description: Music conveys emotion and is connected to personal memories. Personal memories are linked to social and emotional relations with peers, family and friends. Music memory has been shown in several studies as a spared condition by the neurodegenerative effects of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Other studies have suggested the enhancing effect of music in autobiographical memory recall in AD. Moreover, music listening is currently a widespread practice in therapeutic sessions for dementia treatment. However, the selection of music is generally manual and lacks of user-oriented approach, being difficult to match patient’s musical taste as a result.
 In this work, biographical data from the subjects is combined with musical preferences data in order to generate music playlists made of songs that can be considered part of their life soundtrack. For this purpose, we have built a music database of songs from a specific range of years, based on the age of our target group. The algorithm developed uses metadata generated through questionnaires and searches in last.fm for music that is similar to the preferred songs and artists of the subject. The goal is to generate a final playlist that is close to be the life soundtrack of the subject. This is evaluated by the subjects and its performance is discussed identifying the main challenges for future improvements.
Architecture Theory in Graphic Narrative: The Strange Case of Mister X
Creators: name: Biln, John
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 120103 Architectural History and Theory
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: This is a pre-print version of the following article, published in print form and available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13264826.2010.524164. Biln, John. “Architecture Theory in Graphic Narrative.” Architectural Theory Review 15:3 (2010): 350-376. This essay begins with a review of Mister X, a comic serial taking architectural modernism as its point of departure. The graphic narrative renders a dystopian view of architecture and urbanism, as well as a biting critique of the architect as theorist. Rather than demonstrating that architecture is mute and impotent, however, the Mister X story theorizes architecture as unpredictably powerful and effective, albeit malicious. The essay examines four architectural failures suggested by the Mister X text, identifying how these limitations of the formal, material object of architecture, are, paradoxically, its very possibilities for social effect.
Hoplitis (Pentadentosmia) rufopicta
Creators: name: Samin, Najmeh
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Bagriacik, Nil
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Megachilidae
Hoplitis
Hoplitis rufopicta

description: Hoplitis (Pentadentosmia) rufopicta (Morawitz, 1875)
 Material examined: Province of Northern Khorasan: Bojnord, 37°35′N 57°20′E, 2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀, IX.2011 .
  Distribution in Iran: Fars (Khodaparast et al. 2011; Khodaparast & Monfared 2012, 2013), Kerman (Salehi Sarbijan et al. 2012).
  Plant association: Centaurea sp. (Asteraceae) (Khodaparast & Monfared 2012, 2013).
description: Published as part of Samin, Najmeh, Ghahari, Hassan & Bagriacik, Nil, 2015, A faunistic study on leafcutting bees (Hymenoptera ¡ Apoidea ¡ Megachilidae) from some regions of Iran., pp. 193-200 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 14 on page 196, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12715753
Sharjah’s Islamic Urban Identity and the Living City
Creators: name: El-Amrousi, Mohamed
name: Biln, John
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 120102 Architectural Heritage and Conservation
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: This is a pre-print version of the following article, published in print form and available online: http://ejournal.uin-malang.ac.id/index.php/JIA/article/view/1781. El-Amrousi, Mohamed and John Biln. “Sharjah’s Islamic Urban Identity and the Living City.” Journal of Islamic Architecture 1:4 (2011): 190-198. Prominently placed amidst open gardens and along the waterfront of the Sharjah Corniche, several recent monumental buildings collectively suggest a new urban image and socio-cultural space for the Arab city. Along with a series of restaurants, entertainment spaces, and office building, Masjid al-Noor, Masjid al-Maghfira, Al-Qasbah, and the Museum of Islamic Civilization house important cultural institutions, combining eclectic references to the history of Islam into a new urban order. Neither entirely the conservative vernacularism of whole-scale historical mimicry, nor altogether the neo-vernacularism of fragmentary pastiche, this urban assemblage embraces these two distinct design approaches at the level of the individual buildings, but unifies them at the urban scale in what could be called neo-regional urbanism. The stylistic clarity of Masjid al-Noor, which consistently integrates the stylistic elements of Ottoman styled mosques, contrasts with the isolated fragments of Moorish/Hispanic lattice work that adorn the otherwise modern Masjid al-Maghfira. Al-Qasbah’s neo-Islamic horse-shoe arches contrast with the Syrian-Ottoman styled facades of the Museum of Islamic Civilization. Although these buildings individually address the problems of built form and the application of Islamic ornaments disparate ways, taken together this group of new monuments forms a complex urban whole that serves to reflect and deepen an emerging sense of identity that is built upon a similarly complex mix of multicultural non-western ethnicities that make up the fluid and mobile population of Sharjah. This urban assemblage has become such a popular space of gathering that it has begun to shift the centre of gravity of Sharjah’s urban social space towards the Corniche, and in so doing has produced an authentic alternative to the introverted malls and isolated dreamscapes of Dubai. This paper studies the strategies and effects of this assemblage of neo-Islamic monuments in Sharjah, and considers how it effectively rethinks the possibilities of the contemporary Arab city.
Osmia (Helicosmia) fasciata Latreille 1811
Creators: name: Samin, Najmeh
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Bagriacik, Nil
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Megachilidae
Osmia
Osmia fasciata

description: Osmia (Helicosmia) fasciata Latreille, 1811
 Material examined: Province of Kurdistan: Qorveh, 35°15′N 47°40′E, 1 ♀, VIII.2013 .
  Distribution in Iran: Fars (Khodaparast & Monfared 2012, 2013), Kerman (Salehi Sarbijan et al. 2012).
  Plant association: Astragalus sp. (Fabaceae), Amygdalus eburnean Linnaeus, Amygdalus sp. (Rosaceae) (Khodaparast & Monfared 2012, 2013).
description: Published as part of Samin, Najmeh, Ghahari, Hassan & Bagriacik, Nil, 2015, A faunistic study on leafcutting bees (Hymenoptera ¡ Apoidea ¡ Megachilidae) from some regions of Iran., pp. 193-200 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 14 on page 197, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12715753
Osmia rufa
Creators: name: Samin, Najmeh
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Bagriacik, Nil
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Megachilidae
Osmia
Osmia rufa

description: Osmia rufa (Linnaeus, 1758)
 Material examined: Province of Kurdistan: Bijar, 35°52′N 47°36′E, 2 ♂♂, VIII.2013 .
  Distribution in Iran: Guilan (Tavakkoli et al. 2010), Mazandaran (Esmaili & Rastegar 1974).
description: Published as part of Samin, Najmeh, Ghahari, Hassan & Bagriacik, Nil, 2015, A faunistic study on leafcutting bees (Hymenoptera ¡ Apoidea ¡ Megachilidae) from some regions of Iran., pp. 193-200 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 14 on page 197, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12715753
Muscat Emerging: Tourism and Cultural Space
Creators: name: El-Amrousi, Mohamed
name: Biln, John
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 120102 Architectural Heritage and Conservation
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: 160402 Recreation, Leisure and Tourism Geography
subject: FOS: Social and economic geography
subject: 160513 Tourism Policy
subject: FOS: Political science

description: This is a pre-print version of the following article, published in print form and available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14766825.2010.521246. El-Amrousi, Mohamed and John Biln. “Muscat Emerging: Tourism and Cultural Space.” Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, 8:4 (2010): 254-266. Muscat’s development into a modern city has been of an entirely different order from that experienced elsewhere in the Gulf. The Muscat of the 1970s and 1980s was a complex urban environment, and the Muscat of today remains complex in ways not typical of cites such as Dubai and Abu Dhabi. The novel Warda by Sanallah Ibarahim and the memoir Arabia by Jonathan Raban, provide insights into the ground conditions of Muscat at a time before present economic pressures propelled a new round of changes in the physical fabric of the city and tourist resorts nearby. Under pressure to accomplish agendas both of heritage preservation and economic development, recent urban transformations in Muscat comprise three basic strategies, each organically linked to the Muscat of previous decades: Re-Covering the Past, evident in Muscat’s historic core; Phasing Space, seen in the Grand Mosque of Sultan Qaboos; and Forging Reality, present in a new wave of tourist enclaves along the Oman coast. Taken together, these strategies can be understood as original attempts to harness Muscat’s complex urban and cultural pasts in order to construct a robust framework for the development of everyday life, national identity, tourist engagement and a uniquely Omani modernity for the future.
Smart delivery of epirubicin to cancer cells using aptamer-modified ferritin nanoparticles
Creators: name: Yazdian-Robati, Rezvan
name: Bayat, Payam
name: Dehestani, Sina
name: Hashemi, Maryam
name: Taghdisi, Seyed Mohammad
name: Abnous, Khalil
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Epirubicin (Epi) is a chemotherapy agent which is commonly used in treatment of cancers. However, despite being efficient, the tendency to use this drug is declining mostly due to its myocardiopathy and drug-resistance of tumour cells. Such side effects could be prevented using targeted nanocarriers. This study aims to evaluate targeted delivery of Epi to colon cancer cells using ferritin nanoparticles (Ft NPs) and mucin 1 (MUC1) aptamer (Apt) and formation of Apt-Epi Ft NPs. In the current study, Apt-Epi Ft NPs were prepared. Then, physicochemical properties of nanoparticles, including size and zeta potential, morphology, drug loading, drug release from nanoparticles, drug uptake of cancer cells, cytotoxicity and in vivo results were collected. The results showed that the nanoparticles were synthesised with a mean size of 37.9 nm and encapsulation efficiency of 67%. The drug release from these nanoparticles was about 90% within 4 h in acidic medium. Also, targeted delivery of Epi enhanced its anticancer effects in both in vitro and in vivo. In this study, targeted delivery of Epi using Apt-modified Ft NPs improved in vitro and in vivo results which indicates that it could be useful as a successful drug delivery system against cancer cells.
title: LabexMed_ATED_Affiche_Repenser_la_Mediterranee_7_11_2015
Creators: name: MUCEM
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2017

description: Affiche de candidature de l'ATED Repenser la Méditerranée, du 7 au 11 septembre 2015
description: Relation: http://labexmed.hypotheses.org/1523
The effect of smooth parametrizations on nonconvex optimization landscapes
Creators: name: Levin, Eitan
name: Kileel, Joe
name: Boumal, Nicolas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53Z50, 49J53, 90C26, 90C46

description: We develop new tools to study landscapes in nonconvex optimization. Given one optimization problem, we pair it with another by smoothly parametrizing the domain. This is either for practical purposes (e.g., to use smooth optimization algorithms with good guarantees) or for theoretical purposes (e.g., to reveal that the landscape satisfies a strict saddle property). In both cases, the central question is: how do the landscapes of the two problems relate? More precisely: how do desirable points such as local minima and critical points in one problem relate to those in the other problem? A key finding in this paper is that these relations are often determined by the parametrization itself, and are almost entirely independent of the cost function. Accordingly, we introduce a general framework to study parametrizations by their effect on landscapes. The framework enables us to obtain new guarantees for an array of problems, some of which were previously treated on a case-by-case basis in the literature. Applications include: optimizing low-rank matrices and tensors through factorizations; solving semidefinite programs via the Burer-Monteiro approach; training neural networks by optimizing their weights and biases; and quotienting out symmetries.
Osmia subcornuta Morawitz 1875
Creators: name: Samin, Najmeh
name: Ghahari, Hassan
name: Bagriacik, Nil
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Megachilidae
Osmia
Osmia subcornuta

description: Osmia subcornuta Morawitz, 1875
 Material examined: Province of Lorestan: Dorud, 33°30′N 49°05′E, 1 ♀, VII.2010 .
  Distribution in Iran: Kerman (Salehi Sarbijan et al. 2012).
description: Published as part of Samin, Najmeh, Ghahari, Hassan & Bagriacik, Nil, 2015, A faunistic study on leafcutting bees (Hymenoptera ¡ Apoidea ¡ Megachilidae) from some regions of Iran., pp. 193-200 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 14 on page 197, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12715753
Event Collapse in Contrast Maximization Frameworks
Creators: name: Shiba, Shintaro
name: Aoki, Yoshimitsu
name: Gallego, Guillermo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Contrast maximization (CMax) is a framework that provides state-of-the-art results on several event-based computer vision tasks, such as ego-motion or optical flow estimation. However, it may suffer from a problem called event collapse, which is an undesired solution where events are warped into too few pixels. As prior works have largely ignored the issue or proposed workarounds, it is imperative to analyze this phenomenon in detail. Our work demonstrates event collapse in its simplest form and proposes collapse metrics by using first principles of space-time deformation based on differential geometry and physics. We experimentally show on publicly available datasets that the proposed metrics mitigate event collapse and do not harm well-posed warps. To the best of our knowledge, regularizers based on the proposed metrics are the only effective solution against event collapse in the experimental settings considered, compared with other methods. We hope that this work inspires further research to tackle more complex warp models.
description: 19 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables
Mathematical Proof Between Generations
Creators: name: Bayer, Jonas
name: Benzmüller, Christoph
name: Buzzard, Kevin
name: David, Marco
name: Lamport, Leslie
name: Matiyasevich, Yuri
name: Paulson, Lawrence
name: Schleicher, Dierk
name: Stock, Benedikt
name: Zelmanov, Efim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: History and Overview (math.HO)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A proof is one of the most important concepts of mathematics. However, there is a striking difference between how a proof is defined in theory and how it is used in practice. This puts the unique status of mathematics as exact science into peril. Now may be the time to reconcile theory and practice, i.e. precision and intuition, through the advent of computer proof assistants. For the most time this has been a topic for experts in specialized communities. However, mathematical proofs have become increasingly sophisticated, stretching the boundaries of what is humanly comprehensible, so that leading mathematicians have asked for formal verification of their proofs. At the same time, major theorems in mathematics have recently been computer-verified by people from outside of these communities, even by beginning students. This article investigates the gap between the different definitions of a proof and possibilities to build bridges. It is written as a polemic or a collage by different members of the communities in mathematics and computer science at different stages of their careers, challenging well-known preconceptions and exploring new perspectives.
description: 17 pages, 1 figure
Perverse Coupling: On Lars Lerup's Love/House
Creators: name: Biln, John
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 120103 Architectural History and Theory
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: This is a pre-print version of the following article, published in print form and available online: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3171416. Biln, John. "Perverse Coupling.” Assemblage 26: 38-69.
 This essay examines Lars Lerup’s Love/House project of the early 1980s. This drawing and text project combined a clear critical agenda with a subtle and highly suggestive approach to bringing architecture and occupant into transformative dialogue. Lerup’s Love/House work is grounded in a critique of the single family house and its narratives of occupation.Lerup’s project attempts to deconstruct the notion of home by re-marking and intensifying the largely un-noticed chains of ideology binding the social subject ever more firmly into the spaces of a particular, and particularly constraining, architectural form. The Love/House project suggests that desire and investment, along with postponement and deferral, are intimately linked to our bodily occupation of space and ultimately to the ‘tragedy’ of contemporary dwelling.This essay argues that no broadly adequate understanding of architectural form can be developed without reference to an intrinsically human mark of spatiality at the core of the self. Lerup’s project is understood here as a powerfully unconscious theorization of the link between self and space, and thus as an important guidepost in the present effort to radically re-think the effective possibilities of architectural form.
Lines of Encounter: On the Work of Van Berkel and Bos
Creators: name: Biln, John
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 120103 Architectural History and Theory
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: This is an unpublished combination of two articles which appeared separately in print form. Biln, John. "Translating Tactility.” Azero 1, 1998; Biln, John. "Lines of Encounter.” In Ben van Berkel: Mobile Forces, edited by Kristin Feireiss. Berlin: Ernst and Sohn, 1994.This essay considers the significance of a body of early work by the Dutch architectural firm of Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos, known now as UN Studio. Their design program is positioned squarely within the complex and shifting field of contemporary urban culture. Here, the architectural work is subject to conflicting and mutable economic, social, regulatory, technical, and programmatic demands.Van Berkel and Bos acknowledge that architectural works can no longer claim any sweeping powers to enact social change. Although architects cannot be entirely sure of the social effects their works may produce, Van Berkel and Bos neither despair over lost visions of social effect, nor appear willing to abandon a direct engagement with the various human uses, activities and practices that situate the architectural object. In part, their design program derives from a critique of the apparent unwillingness within architectural culture to seriously address human activity and lived experience.The work of Van Berkel and Bos suggests that the power of architecture lies in very real, but perhaps necessarily unstable, social impacts of the architectural object. The investigative agenda set out by Van Berkel and Bos – firmly rooted in form-making – begins to open a space for reconcieving the relationships, and related design strategies, by which architectural forms and social practices may once again be linked.
The expected sum of edge lengths in planar linearizations of trees. Theory and applications
Creators: name: Alemany-Puig, Lluís
name: Ferrer-i-Cancho, Ramon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Dependency trees have proven to be a very successful model to represent the syntactic structure of sentences of human languages. In these structures, vertices are words and edges connect syntactically-dependent words. The tendency of these dependencies to be short has been demonstrated using random baselines for the sum of the lengths of the edges or its variants. A ubiquitous baseline is the expected sum in projective orderings (wherein edges do not cross and the root word of the sentence is not covered by any edge), that can be computed in time $O(n)$. Here we focus on a weaker formal constraint, namely planarity. In the theoretical domain, we present a characterization of planarity that, given a sentence, yields either the number of planar permutations or an efficient algorithm to generate uniformly random planar permutations of the words. We also show the relationship between the expected sum in planar arrangements and the expected sum in projective arrangements. In the domain of applications, we derive a $O(n)$-time algorithm to calculate the expected value of the sum of edge lengths. We also apply this research to a parallel corpus and find that the gap between actual dependency distance and the random baseline reduces as the strength of the formal constraint on dependency structures increases, suggesting that formal constraints absorb part of the dependency distance minimization effect. Our research paves the way for replicating past research on dependency distance minimization using random planar linearizations as random baseline.
description: New version updated
Given Domain: Mockbee-Coker-Howorth, Breaking the Cycle of Poverty
Creators: name: Biln, John
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 120103 Architectural History and Theory
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: 120101 Architectural Design
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: This is a pre-print version of the following article, published in print form and available online, http://www.jstor.org/stable/3171164. Biln, John. "Given Domain: Mockbee-Coker-Howorth, Breaking the Cycle of Poverty.” Assemblage 16: 72-97. This essay examines three houses by the architects Mockbee-Coker-Howorth, published in a special awards issue of Progressive Architecture. The houses were part of the architects’ ongoing participation in a social program intended to provide appropriate housing for disadvantaged families in rural Mississippi. The essay examines the forms of the houses, with additional reference to their text and graphic representations, and suggests that if realized these dwellings could not help but produce for their users a range of undesirable and counter-intentional effects. Much of the explicit social program authorizing the designs is effectively overturned as the houses are understood to be spatially marked by gender, class, race, and age-related ideologies that are in no way apparent if the formal configurations of the works are not seriously considered.
On the distribution of Iwasawa invariants associated to multigraphs
Creators: name: Dion, Cédric
name: Lei, Antonio
name: Ray, Anwesh
name: Vallières, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C25, 11R23 (primary), 11R18, 11Z05 (secondary)

description: Let $\ell$ be a prime number. The Iwasawa theory of multigraphs is the systematic study of growth patterns in the number of spanning trees in abelian $\ell$-towers of multigraphs. In this context, growth patterns are realized by certain analogues of Iwasawa invariants, which depend on the prime $\ell$ and the abelian $\ell$-tower of multigraphs. We formulate and study statistical questions about the behaviour of the Iwasawa $μ$ and $λ$ invariants.
description: Incorporated referee's suggestions. Accepted for publication in the Nagoya Math J
Dubai’s Museum Types: A Structural Analytic
Creators: name: Biln, John
name: El-Amrousi, Mohamed
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 120102 Architectural Heritage and Conservation
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: 120103 Architectural History and Theory

description: This is a pre-print version of the following article, published in print form and available online: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/berghahn/armw/2014/00000002/00000001/art00007. Biln, John, and Mohamed El-Amrousi. “Dubai’s Museum Types: A Structural Analytic.” Museum Worlds: Advances in Research 2 (2014): 99-112.
 Dubai is often characterized as a city of artificiality and repackaged public spaces – a city without a past. The old historic Dubai has essentially disappeared, lost in the shadows of iconic resort projects and popular shopping malls. This article asks the following question: how do Dubai’s museums function in relation to an urban field for the most part bereft of historical fabric, and in which the history that is made visible within the public realm is largely fictional or highly sanitized? We argue that to make sense of the ways history is represented and circulated in Dubai’s public spaces, the traditional categories of ‘museum’ should be extended to include both large-scale history-themed malls and small heritage houses. Taken altogether, Dubai’s museums and museum-like institutions constitute a conceptually complete and closed system that manages to ‘resolve’ the apparent paradox of an urban context characterized by absence and historical loss, in which, paradoxically, expressions of historical fullness are everywhere.
Dubai’s Heritage House Museums: A Semiosis of Melancholy
Creators: name: Biln, John
name: El-Amrousi, Mohamed
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 120103 Architectural History and Theory
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: 120102 Architectural Heritage and Conservation

description: This is a pre-print version of the following article, published in print form and available online: http://iaste.berkeley.edu/iaste/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/2014/08/25.2-TDSR-BILN.pdf. Biln, John and Mohamed El-Amrousi. “Dubai’s Heritage House Museums: A Semiosis of Melancholy.” Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review 25:2 (2014): 23-38.
 Although spectacular resorts and high profile shopping venues have recently come to symbolize Dubai, the city has an important heritage of residential buildings, many of which have now been reconstructed as small museums. This article analyzes the Sheikh Saeed bin Maktoum Museum, the Al-Siraaj gallery in the Obaid and Jumaa bin Thani house, the Majlis Gallery in the Mir Abdullah Amiri house, and the Dubai National museum, arguing that together these heritage museums register a profound sense of melancholy in the face of an urban fabric relentlessly developed under forces largely unresponsive to history, heritage and cultural continuity.
Reconsidering Agency in Architecture: A Late Review of Richard Serra’s Turnbridge
Creators: name: Biln, John
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 120103 Architectural History and Theory
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: This is a pre-print version of the following article, published in print form and available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13264821003629212. Biln, John. “Reconsidering Agency in Architecture.” Architectural Theory Review 15:1 (2010): 1-8.
 This essay proposes that works which are often only tangentially architectural might help us formulate a contemporary idea of intrinsic effect, or ‘agency’, in architecture. A reconsideration of Richard Serra’s early film, Railroad Turnbridge, suggests that we should begin by attending to the often forgotten gulf between human times, rhythms, natures and agendas, on the one hand, and those proper to sites, objects, artifacts and representations, on the other. Serra’s film suggests a redeployment of some of the insights of the often disparaged ‘turn to theory’ of the late twentieth century, as well as a renovation of the classically modern project of thinking about contexts and things ‘for themselves’.
Amphicerus (Caenophrada) bimaculata A. G. Olivier 1790
Creators: name: Samin, Najmeh
name: Jędryczkowski, Wojciech B.
name: Galini, Neda
name: Sakenin, Hamid
name: Naderian, Hamid
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Bostrichidae
Amphicerus
Amphicerus bimaculata

description: Amphicerus (Caenophrada) bimaculata A.G. Olivier, 1790
 Material examined: Province of Golestan: Gorgan, 36°50′N 54°30′E, (2), April 2010.
 Distribution outside Iran: Afghanistan, Algeria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, France, Hungary, Greece, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Syria, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, UK, former Yugoslavia.
description: Published as part of Samin, Najmeh, Jędryczkowski, Wojciech B., Galini, Neda, Sakenin, Hamid & Naderian, Hamid, 2015, A faunistic study on some families of Coleoptera from Iran., pp. 253-260 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 14 on page 254, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12715936
Secrets of Event-Based Optical Flow
Creators: name: Shiba, Shintaro
name: Aoki, Yoshimitsu
name: Gallego, Guillermo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Event cameras respond to scene dynamics and offer advantages to estimate motion. Following recent image-based deep-learning achievements, optical flow estimation methods for event cameras have rushed to combine those image-based methods with event data. However, it requires several adaptations (data conversion, loss function, etc.) as they have very different properties. We develop a principled method to extend the Contrast Maximization framework to estimate optical flow from events alone. We investigate key elements: how to design the objective function to prevent overfitting, how to warp events to deal better with occlusions, and how to improve convergence with multi-scale raw events. With these key elements, our method ranks first among unsupervised methods on the MVSEC benchmark, and is competitive on the DSEC benchmark. Moreover, our method allows us to expose the issues of the ground truth flow in those benchmarks, and produces remarkable results when it is transferred to unsupervised learning settings. Our code is available at https://github.com/tub-rip/event_based_optical_flow
description: 23 pages, 11 figures, 7 tables, https://github.com/tub-rip/event_based_optical_flow
Untitled (For an Affective Poetics)
Creators: name: Biln, John
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 120103 Architectural History and Theory
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: This is a pre-print version of the following article, published in print form and available online: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3171273. Biln, John. (Untitled). Assemblage 41 (2000): 13.
 While so much recent architecture writing has been consumed with intra- and inter-discourse analysis and critique, the question of an object poetics in architecture has been largely absent from discussion. Although architecture theory can hardly afford to ignore its own discursivity and the manifold play of cultural texts in its own constitution, emphasis on these concerns has left untended important questions about the raw materiality of the architectural object and its implications in circuits of lived ‘reception’.
Neurosafety and Oncotropism of the Oncolytic Farmington Virus in the Treatment of Glioblastoma Multiforme
Creators: name: Skillings, Robyn
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2020
Subjects: Oncolytic virus
Glioblastoma
Virology
Viral glycoprotein
Neurosafety
Interferon
Oncotropism
Rhabdovirus

description: Glioblastoma multiforme is the most common and malignant form of brain cancer in humans. The current prognosis for glioblastoma patients undergoing standard treatment is extremely low, with a median patient survival of 1 to 2 years. Oncolytic viruses are currently being evaluated as promising novel therapies for the treatment of glioblastoma. Our laboratory’s preliminary data has demonstrated that the oncolytic rhabdovirus Farmington effectively eliminates brain tumours, but is also neurosafe. However, the biological mechanisms underlying Farmington’s neurosafety and oncotropism were unknown. Through studying Farmington infection in normal brain cells and brain cancer cells in vitro, we determined that Farmington’s distinct tropism is dependent on the Farmington glycoprotein and the type 1 interferon response.
Lyctus (Lyctus) pubescens Panzer 1792
Creators: name: Samin, Najmeh
name: Jędryczkowski, Wojciech B.
name: Galini, Neda
name: Sakenin, Hamid
name: Naderian, Hamid
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Bostrichidae
Lyctus
Lyctus pubescens

description: Lyctus (Lyctus) pubescens Panzer, 1792
 Material examined: Province of West Azarbaijan: Piranshahr, 36°42′N 45°10′E, (1), June 2012.
 Distribution outside Iran: Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Kazakhstan, Moldavia, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, UK, former Yugoslavia.
description: Published as part of Samin, Najmeh, Jędryczkowski, Wojciech B., Galini, Neda, Sakenin, Hamid & Naderian, Hamid, 2015, A faunistic study on some families of Coleoptera from Iran., pp. 253-260 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 14 on page 254, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12715936
Saturating the one-axis twisting quantum Cramér-Rao bound with a total spin readout
Creators: name: Volkoff, T. J.
name: Martin, Michael J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the lowest quantum Cramér-Rao bound achievable in interferometry with a one-axis twisted spin coherent state is saturated by the asymptotic method of moments error of a protocol that uses one call to the one-axis twisting, one call to time-reversed one-axis twisting, and a final total spin measurement (i.e., a twist-untwist protocol). The result is derived by first showing that the metrological phase diagram for one-axis twisting is asymptotically characterized by a single quantum Fisher information value $N(N+1)/2$ for all times, then constructing a twist-untwist protocol having a method of moments error that saturates this value. The case of finite-range one-axis twisting is similarly analyzed, and a simple functional form for the metrological phase diagram is found in both the short-range and long-range interaction regimes. Numerical evidence suggests that the finite-range analogues of twist-untwist protocols can exhibit a method of moments error that asymptotically saturates the lowest quantum Cramér-Rao bound achievable in interferometry with finite-range one-axis twisted spin coherent states for all interaction times.
description: 17 pages, 4 figures
Developments in Thermophotovoltaics (TPV)
Creators: name: Esther López
name: Alejandro Datas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Thermophotovoltaic (TPV) cells are solid-state devices capable of converting the heat radiated by incandescent bodies (named emitters) into electricity using low bandgap semiconductor materials. The characteristics of this technology are very appealing in different applications, such as waste heat recovery, energy storage and portable generators, where high conversion efficiencies can be achieved due to the fact that the emitter and the cells can see each other with high view factors, so it is possible to reflect back to the emitter the low energy photons that do not contribute to photogeneration in the cell. Then, the energy associated to those photons is not considered an energy loss since it can be recycled in the heat source. This recycling process establishes a net radiative heat flux from the emitter to the cells that need to be quantified to determine the TPV conversion efficiency. An overview on the characterization of this efficiency will be presented, together with the record values obtained and the future prospects in the TPV field.
Seafloor integrity of the Mar Piccolo Basin (Southern Italy): quantifying anthropogenic impact
Creators: name: Bracchi, Valentina A.
name: Marchese, Fabio
name: Savini, Alessandra
name: Chimienti, Giovanni
name: Mastrototaro, Francesco
name: Tessarolo, Chiara
name: Cardone, Frine
name: Tursi, Angelo
name: Corselli, Cesare
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: The Mar Piccolo Basin is a coastal brackish marine ecosystem located along the northern coast of the Gulf of Taranto (Southern Italy). Despite the ecological relevance of the area (Site of Community Importance IT9130004, Regional Reserve ‘Palude La Vela’ EUAP1189), the entire basin is subjected to intensive human usage. The main activities include extensive mussel farming, important industrial activities, a military harbor and densely populated shores. The goal of our study was to spatially quantify human pressure within the basin and its relationship with biocoenoses. A broad set of data was integrated including acoustic remote data (obtained using a multibeam echosounder and side scan sonar devices), direct observations obtained by SCUBA diving and from a trawled camera, an orthophoto and ESRI® Imagery Basemap. At least eight categories of anthropogenic infrastructure and marks of past and present-day human activities were identified within the Mar Piccolo Basin water column and on the seafloor. These included line farms, pole farms, breeding frame structures, anchoring scars, excavations, buoys, wrecks and undefined traces. Each category was mapped and described using morphometric characterization. The integration of all available data allowed the production of an original map providing the Mar Piccolo seafloor disturbance by anthropogenic impact and an updated distribution of benthic communities, showing their spatial relation. Through the production of a specific thematic map, our work provides the first quantitative assessment of the extent and density of the identified human impact in order to evaluate seafloor integrity.