cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Effect of periodic parametric excitation on an ensemble of force-coupled self-oscillators
Creators: name: Shchekinova, E. Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the synchronization behavior in a one-dimensional chain of identical limit cycle oscillators coupled to a mass-spring load via a force relation. We consider the effect of periodic parametric modulation on the final synchronization states of the system. Two types of external parametric excitations are investigated numerically: periodic modulation of the stiffness of the inertial oscillator and periodic excitation of the frequency of the self-oscillatory element. We show that the synchronization scenarios are ruled not only by the choice of parameters of the excitation force but depend on the initial collective state in the ensemble. We give detailed analysis of entrainment behavior for initially homogeneous and inhomogeneous states. Among other results, we describe a regime of partial synchronization. This regime is characterized by the frequency of collective oscillation being entrained to the stimulation frequency but different from the average individual oscillators frequency.
description: Comments and suggestions are welcome
High-level ab initio quartic force fields and spectroscopic characterization of C$_{2}$N$^{-}$
Creators: name: Rocha, C. M. R.
name: Linnartz, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: While it is now well established that large carbon chain species and radiative electron attachment (REA) are key ingredients triggering interstellar anion chemistry, the role played by smaller molecular anions, for which REA appears to be an unlikely formation pathway, is as yet elusive. Advancing this research undoubtedly requires the knowledge of their astronomical abundances which, for the case of C$_{2}$N$^{-}$, is largely hindered by a lack of accurate spectroscopic signatures. In this work, we provide such data for both ground $\ell$-CCN$^{-}$($^{3}Σ^{-}$) and low-lying $c$-CNC$^{-}$($^{1}A_{1}$) isomers by means of state-of-the-art rovibrational quantum chemical techniques. Their quartic force fields are herein calibrated using a high-level composite energy scheme that accounts for extrapolations to both one-particle and (approximate) ${N}$-particle basis set limits, in addition to relativistic effects, with the final forms being subsequently subject to nuclear motion calculations. Besides standard spectroscopic attributes, the full set of computed properties includes fine and hyperfine interaction constants and can be readily introduced as guesses in conventional experimental data reduction analyses through effective Hamiltonians. On the basis of benchmark calculations, the target accuracies are determined to be better than 0.1% of experiment for rotational constants and 0.3% for vibrational fundamentals. Apart from laboratory investigations, the results here presented are expected to also prompt future astronomical surveys on C$_{2}$N$^{-}$. Using the theoretically-predicted spectroscopic constants, the rotational spectra of both $\ell$-CCN$^{-}$($^{3}Σ^{-}$) and $c$-CNC$^{-}$($^{1}A_{1}$) are also derived and their likely detectability in the interstellar medium is further explored in connection with working frequency ranges of powerful astronomical facilities.
description: Accepted for publication in PCCP
title: Autism & Autoimmunity
Creators: name: Nelson, Clarissa
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: My research was for the Honors Capstone, and consisted of familiarizing myself with the vast amount of research in the fields of autism and autoimmunity and how the two may be connected, then going on to design a new project to help acquire more information where these two fields overlap. The official abstract I have written for this new project goes as follows: Our proposed research project is focused primarily in the fields of autism and autoimmunity, and hopes to uncover more evidence that these two fields are related. We believe that autism is an autoimmune disease, and our project is designed to provide evidence to support this theory. We will use neuroimaging techniques through the use of a PET scanner to determine the autoimmune activation in the brains of both individuals with autism and individuals with no history of autism or any other autoimmune disease. This will allow us to test our hypothesis that individuals with autism will have a greater autoimmune response than controls, therefore providing evidence to the theory that autism is a neurological disorder that leads to immune dysregulation in the brain. We are also interested in whether there is a connection between a biological family history of autoimmune disorders and an increased incidence of a diagnosis of autism in individuals. To test this theory, we have prepared a questionnaire meant to identify any and all cases of medical disorders of any biological relatives of the individual in question, to be given to all participants in this study. Information gathered from this survey can provide evidence either for or against our hypothesis, allowing us to determine whether this hypothesis is likely or not. The long-term objectives of this project are to provide more evidence for the theory that autism is an autoimmune disease, and to provide more information on how autism causes immune dysregulation in the brain, thus allowing for better innovation for treatments in the future. Autism is a highly studied disorder, as there still remains much that we do not know, so this study wants to contribute to the knowledge base we have on autism. We hope that by providing evidence that autism is an autoimmune disorder, individuals both within and outside of the health field will be better able to understand individual cases of autism, both in regards to treatment and management of symptoms, and in interpersonal relationships of individuals with autism.
On the intensity interferometry and the second-order correlation function $g^{(2)}$ in astrophysics
Creators: name: Foellmi, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Most observational techniques in astronomy can be understood as exploiting the various forms of the first-order correlation function g^(1). As however demonstrated by the Narrabri Stellar Intensity Interferometer back in the 1960's by Hanbury Brown & Twiss, and which is the first experiment to measure the second-order correlation function g^(2), light can carry more information than simply its intensity, spectrum and polarization. Since this experiment, theoretical and laboratory studies of non-classical properties of light have become a very active field of research, namely quantum optics. Despite the variety of results in this field, astrophysics remained focused essentially on first-order coherence. In this paper, we study the possibility that quantum properties of light could be observed in cosmic sources. We provide the basic mathematical ingredients about the first and the second order correlation functions, applied to the modern context of astronomical observations. The exploitation of g^(2) is certainly richer than what a modern intensity interferometer could bring and is particularly interesting for sources of non-thermal light. We conclude by briefly presenting why microquasars in our galaxy and their extragalactic parents can represent an excellent first target in the optical/near-infrared where to observe non-thermal light, and test the use of g^(2) in astrophysical sources.
description: 10 pages, accepted for publication in A&A. Vastly rewritten. Much more precise and (hopefully) accurate
SGIS v.R LIDAR Project Processing: Opening and Managing Multiple LAS Files by Defining Project Boundaries
Creators: name: Gjorgjieva, Elena
name: Gjorgjiev, Kiro
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Remote Sensing
Geographic Information System
LIDAR
LiDAR and Remote Sensing
Algorithm Development
Green Software Development
Technology
Green IT
Geodesy
Engineering and Technology
Science
Geospatial

description: Handling large-scale LIDAR datasets, like multiple LAS files, can be a challenge. By defining project boundaries, users can focus on loading only the relevant data, making the process more efficient and cutting down on unnecessary processing. This approach prevents systems from becoming overwhelmed when dealing with large datasets, as it minimizes memory usage and computational strain. By working with smaller, more targeted sections of data, users can avoid slowdowns and boost processing speed, ensuring a smoother workflow overall.

SGIS v.R offers this feature through its ‘View LiDAR Boundaries’ tool. With this tool, users can easily select the number of LIDAR files they need, and it will automatically display the boundaries of all the selected files on the graphics panel. From there, users can quickly open any LAS file within the desired boundary for further analysis, making it a highly efficient way to manage and visualize large LIDAR datasets.
title: Designing Technology for Different Scales of Irrigation Scheduling
Creators: name: Consalvo, Paolo Alexander
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: Uncertainty in water availability is a significant challenge to the agriculture industry. Farmers and irrigators depend on novel uses of sensors and data to maximize water efficiency. Documented studies have demonstrated scheduling irrigation is a straightforward, deterministic means of achieving water efficiency. Irrigation scheduling uses several parameters to determine the moment of crop water stress due to available water in the soil. However, sensors and data for soil moisture and matric potential, a parameter describing water available to plants, have the potential to train machine learning algorithms to forecast water irrigation needs based on previous measurements. Satellite remote-sensing is another developing technology that describes the environmental conditions that enable irrigation scheduling and provides data on crop health by allowing for calculations on collected field images.
This project trains a learning machine with soil moisture and home-brew tensiometer information. To create a water management system that avoids exposing crops to stress, the learning machine uses previous soil water conditions to forecast crop water demand. This machine learning model informs the farmer of the moment maximum water depletion will occur, providing the farmer opportunity to irrigate in advance of crop water stress conditions. Additionally, this research evaluates the value of soil moisture, matric potential, and trained machine learning against characteristics of the specified agricultural undertaking.  Because larger agricultural undertakings can be managed with remote-sensing of crop health, this research investigates the viability of ground-sensing against satellite remote-sensing. Sensor-improvements would be more viable for an urban agriculture system. Understanding scenarios in agriculture to tailor technological development will allow farmers to further maximize crop yield and quality with their increasingly limited water availability.
title: The Two Types of Society: Computationally Revealing Recurrent Social Formations and Their Evolutionary Trajectories
Creators: name: Miranda, Lux
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: Comparative social science has a long history of attempts to classify societies and cultures in terms of shared characteristics. However, only recently has it become feasible to conduct quantitative analysis of large historical datasets to mathematically approach the study of social complexity and classify shared societal characteristics. Such methods have the potential to identify recurrent social formations in human societies and contribute to social evolutionary theory. However, in order to achieve this potential, repeated studies are needed to assess the robustness of results to changing methods and data sets. Using an improved derivative of the Seshat: Global History Databank, we perform a clustering analysis of 271 past societies from sampling points across the globe to study plausible categorizations inherent in the data. Analysis indicates that the best fit to Seshat data is five subclusters existing as part of two clearly delineated superclusters (that is, two broad “types” of society in terms of social-ecological configuration). Our results add weight to the idea that human societies form recurrent social formations by replicating previous studies with different methods and data. Our results also contribute nuance to previously established measures of social complexity, illustrate diverse trajectories of change, and shed further light on the finite bounds of human social diversity.
Menti opache. Mad Men e la rappresentazione dell’interiorità nelle serie TV
Creators: name: Rossini, Gianluigi
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Cagliari
Year: 2014

description: Una delle caratteristiche che colpiscono immediatamente lo spettatore di Mad Men è il contrasto tra una superficie visuale lussureggiante, erotizzata, e la freddezza nella descrizione dei personaggi, con i quali è molto difficile empatizzare e la cui psicologia sembra spesso inaccessibile o inespressa, contrariamente a ciò che succede nella maggior parte delle serie televisive. Dopo aver collocato Mad Men in una tradizione seriale che mette la psicologia del personaggio al centro della narrazione cercherò, tramite esempi, di mostrare in che modo e a che scopo l’agenzia autoriale veicola un effetto di “opacità delle menti”. L’analisi dei testi sarà effettuata all’interno di due cornici teoriche: da un lato darò una definizione di “retorica della narrativa”, utilizzando in particolare la teoria di James Phelan, dall’altro il modello della narrazione filmica elaborato da Celestino Deleyto e la conseguente definizione di focalizzazione interna in film e serie TV.
description: Between, Vol 4, N° 7 (2014): Poteri della retorica
สิทธิในสุขภาวะ THE RIGHT TO HEALTH
Creators: name: ระพีพรรณ ฉลองสุข
Publisher: name: คณะเภสัชศาสตร์ ม.ศิลปากร/โรงพิมพ์ ม.ศิลปากร
Year: 2013
Subjects: สิทธิในสุขภาวะ, สิทธิผู้บริโภค, สิทธิผู้ป่วย,the right to health, consumer rights, patient rights

description: 1 (Jan-June 2013 ), 8, ไทยไภษัชยนิพนธ์ Thai Bulletin of Pharmaceutical Science (TBPS)
Gaussian Process based Stochastic Model Predictive Control for Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control
Creators: name: Mosharafian, Sahand
name: Razzaghpour, Mahdi
name: Fallah, Yaser P.
name: Velni, Javad Mohammadpour
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Cooperative driving relies on communication among vehicles to create situational awareness. One application of cooperative driving is Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC) that aims at enhancing highway transportation safety and capacity. Model-based communication (MBC) is a new paradigm with a flexible content structure for broadcasting joint vehicle-driver predictive behavioral models. The vehicle's complex dynamics and diverse driving behaviors add complexity to the modeling process. Gaussian process (GP) is a fully data-driven and non-parametric Bayesian modeling approach which can be used as a modeling component of MBC. The knowledge about the uncertainty is propagated through predictions by generating local GPs for vehicles and broadcasting their hyper-parameters as a model to the neighboring vehicles. In this research study, GP is used to model each vehicle's speed trajectory, which allows vehicles to access the future behavior of their preceding vehicle during communication loss and/or low-rate communication. Besides, to overcome the safety issues in a vehicle platoon, two operating modes for each vehicle are considered; free following and emergency braking. This paper presents a discrete hybrid stochastic model predictive control, which incorporates system modes as well as uncertainties captured by GP models. The proposed control design approach finds the optimal vehicle speed trajectory with the goal of achieving a safe and efficient platoon of vehicles with small inter-vehicle gap while reducing the reliance of the vehicles on a frequent communication. Simulation studies demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed controller considering the aforementioned communication paradigm with low-rate intermittent communication.
title: Understanding Personal Data in the World of Social Media
Creators: name: Rodgers, Nicholas Scott
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: Personal data is behind many of the online interactions that people have through social media and other online sites and services. This data allows sites to understand their users, which in turn allows them to provide better content for their users. This data is also used to determine user interests, which these online services use to target more relevant advertising to their users, and share the information that they collect about their users with third parties. It is only recently that this personal data is being regulated by lawmakers, the businesses running these sites are held accountable for managing the data that they collect on users, and that the users of these sites are given a greater degree of control over how their data is used, however these regulations are not universal. Additionally, the data that online services have collected on their users has been used by third parties for malicious purposes, such as the Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The collection of personal data allows for the development of new technologies such as facial recognition and genealogy through DNA, but without regulation, moral dilemmas surround the collection and use of such personal data.
For my capstone I built a website structured like a social media application. On this site I have written a number of posts that communicate the findings of my research to the users of this site. Additionally, on this website visitors are able to see some of the type of personal data that social media sites can collect about them while they use the service.
title: Comparison of Locational Beamforming Algorithms for Audio Targeting
Creators: name: Bradshaw, Thomas Lewis
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: In many applications it is desirable to focus on the direction a signal is coming from to isolate the signal from interfering noise coming from other directions. This is often done by focusing the receiver on a given direction. One method to accomplish this focusing is to use an array of receivers and a signal processing algorithm called beamforming. This algorithm attenuates signals coming from all other directions besides the direction of interest, which can be viewed pictorially as a beam. However, it would also benefit many applications to be able to focus on a location rather than just a direction. This can be accomplished in the nearfield using two beamforming arrays. When these two arrays are used together their beams cross in a location and focus on the signals coming from that location. However, another approach that could be taken to accomplish this locational targeting of a signal, in the nearfield, would be to take advantage of the spherical wave front coming from the signal source to identify its origin. Using the Whittaker-Shannon interpolation formula, locational beamforming can be accomplished that would require only one array of microphones. In order to understand the benefits and differences of both approaches, they were both implemented using an array of microphones and a desktop computer and then tested in a soundproof room. The goal of this experiment was to test the spatial separation capabilities of each algorithm.
THE ROLE OF INNOVATION ACTIVITIES IN TOURISM AND REGIONAL GROWTH IN EUROPE
Creators: name: Korres, George
Publisher: name: tourismos
Year: 2021

description: Tourism plays a crucial role for national economies throughout the world. In Europe, international tourism receipts were almost three times higher in the late 1990s than they were in the late 1980s. Tourism has great potential as regards contributing to the achievements of several major EU objectives, such as economic growth, employment, sustainable development and economic and social cohesion. The importance of innovation was long underestimated in service and tourism activities. Successful innovation, as for instance innovation that is also profitable to the tourism firm in a competitive market, must increase the value of the whole tourism product. The production and the dissemination of new technologies has been the subject of much research. This paper illustrates why technological innovation is considered as a major force in tourism industry. It also attempts to analyze the impact of technological innovation and the implications on regional growth of member states.
description: tourismos, Vol. 3 No. 1 (2008)
Another chance : some sociological conditions of juvenile probation in a family court
Creators: name: Darrough, William D.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Although there is an extensive professional-social scientific literature on juvenile probation, there are few empirical studies of normal work routines of probation officers. The present research was designed to examine juvenile probation in a family court bureaucracy as a practical, interactionally-based enterprise. The thesis reports on two years of field work in a Canadian family court. The field work experience itself is treated as a topic of inquiry. The perceived identity of the researcher as 'social worker' and 'ex-probation officer' are shown to have been valuable ethnographic resources. Records of naturally-occurring interaction between probation officers and juveniles, probationers, parents, judges, etc., are presented and analysed. The ideological notions of 'help and guidance and proper supervision', 'cooperation', and the 'proper understanding of the meaning of behaviour' are studied as procedural matters of pervasive and practical concern to probation officers doing probation. The problematic status of what it termed 'the ideological perspective of the juvenile court movement' in the setting is discussed. Competent probation work is shown to involve the continual and accountable accomplishing of cooperation and understandings adequate-for-the-practical-purposes of the probation officer. This on-going work is, in turn, shown to underpin and make possible the apparently routine, mundane and unproblematic processing of cases by the Court. The study presents and analyzes data which display the critical status of the 'terms of probation' as a device par excellence, with which the cooperation and proper understandings are accountably pursued. The interactional uses of the document In supervision and placement are illustrated.
ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS AND BIODIVERSITY POLICY IN TOURISM: THE CARETTA-CARETTA CASE IN GREECE
Creators: name: Psarikidou, Katerina
Publisher: name: tourismos
Year: 2021

description: The radical tourism development and its adverse environmental impacts have revived the discussion about Environmental Ethics and the emerging Biodiversity Policy. The aim of this research paper is to explore the relationship between environmental ethics, the current Biodiversity and Sustainable Tourism Development policy-making, and the tourism industry. More specifically, the conceptual analysis adopts an environmental ethics’ and environmental politics perspective. Based on the example of caretta caretta case in Greece, the EU Habitats Directive and the tourism development at the area, it is concluded that public consensus and discourse prove to be essential for a shift to a more attentive and less anthropocentic ethical approach by policy-makers and tourism actors’ in a multilevel governance society.
description: tourismos, Vol. 3 No. 1 (2008)
ISLANDS AND DESTINATION IMAGE: THE CASE OF IOS
Creators: name: Stylidis, Dimitrios
name: Terzidou, Matina
name: Terzidis, Konstantinos
Publisher: name: tourismos
Year: 2021

description: This study was conducted to identify the image of Ios as a tourist destination as perceived by the visitors, in order to contribute to the formation of an effective marketing plan. The strengths and weaknesses of the image of Ios were measured and presented, accompanied with a number of recommendations. The findings revealed that Ios has a very strong destination image as a party island, with the majority of the visitors being international young students coming to enjoy the relaxing atmosphere and the party mood of the island. As a result, Ios needs to strengthen its image compared to other islands or destinations which offer the same product, by promoting its competitive advantages, such as; the nightlife, the relatively low prices, the relaxing atmosphere and the friendliness of the locals.
description: tourismos, Vol. 3 No. 1 (2008)
title: Jefferson's Sensitivities: How Thomas Jefferson's Discussions of Race and Slavery are Influenced by Audience
Creators: name: Carlquist-Sagers, Andrea B.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: Thomas Jefferson is often presented as an enigma. He who wrote that “all men are created equal” also owned over six hundred slaves during the course of his life. Jefferson was a man of immense complexity and intelligence and, as such, his beliefs cannot be presented in simplified terms. Although his contradictory positions on race and slavery were common during his time, his hypocrisy received critique from contemporaries. Jefferson was a famously sensitive man, and in order to avoid judgement from his peers, he often either censored himself or used eloquent but empty words to satisfy his disparagers. Some historians point toward documents where he appeases his critics as proof that Jefferson did not truly believe in the morality of racism and slavery while others argue that the slaves he owned and never freed are evidence of his actual beliefs on race. I argue that Jefferson chooses to misrepresent his beliefs on race and slavery when confronted by critics rather than face judgement or political backlash from a nation divided on the subject of slavery.
This project analyzes primary sources from Jefferson (Notes on the State of Virginia and letter exchanges with Benjamin Banneker, Henri Grégoire, and Edward Coles) from a literary perspective to identify how Jefferson’s audience awareness led to a certain degree of self-censorship on matters of race and slavery. By analyzing those who challenged, asked for clarification, and criticized the Sage of Monticello in conjunction with his responses to them, we can observe the precipitous line he walked as he attempted to maintain his public image. The project also uses biographies and academic studies to better understand the political atmosphere surrounding Jefferson as he deftly worked to remain a respectable politician. By both using close readings of Jefferson’s letters and examining his political context, we can begin to detangle his complicated beliefs regarding race and slavery.
Imaging the Cool Hypergiant NML Cygni's Dusty Circumstellar Envelope with Adaptive Optics
Creators: name: Schuster, M. T.
name: Marengo, M.
name: Hora, J. L.
name: Fazio, G. G.
name: Humphreys, R. M.
name: Gehrz, R. D.
name: Hinz, P. M.
name: Kenworthy, M. A.
name: Hoffmann, W. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present sub-arcsec angular resolution, high-Strehl ratio mid-IR adaptive optics images of the powerful OH/IR source and cool hypergiant NML Cyg at 8.8, 9.8 and 11.7 um. These images reveal once more the complexity in the dusty envelope surrounding this star. We spatially resolve the physical structures (radius ~0.14", ~240 AU adopting a distance of 1.74 kpc) responsible for NML Cyg's deep 10 um silicate dust absorption feature. We also detect an asymmetric excess, at separations of ~0.3" to 0.5" (~520 to 870 AU), NW from the star. The colors of this excess are consistent with thermal emission of hot, optically thin dust. This excess is oriented in the direction of the Cyg OB2 stellar association, and is likely due to the disruption of NML Cyg's dusty wind with the near-UV radiation flux from the massive hot stars within Cyg OB2. This interaction was predicted in our previous paper (Schuster et al. 2006), to explain the geometry of an inverted photo-dissociation region observed at optical wavelengths.
description: Accepted for publication on The Astrophysical Journal
title: Get Out, Hiroki Tanaka: Asian-American Characters in Black Films and Black Activism
Creators: name: Ward, Naomi Yoko
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship Asian-Americans have with black Americans in order to determine how Asian Americans navigate their role in American racial discourse. Additionally, this study considers the causes and effects of Asian-American participation in movements like Black Lives Matter (BLM). This topic is explored through the analysis of Asian-American characters in black stories told through four films: Fruitvale Station, Get Out, The Hate U Give, and Sorry to Bother You. To narrow the scope of this research, I placed focus on characters in works that have been published since 2013, when the Black Lives Matter movement was officially formed and founded. Media functions both as a reflection of the society it is made in as well as an influence on how society perceives the world. The pervasiveness and power that media has in the world, particularly concerning social issues and social justice, makes this lens appropriate for studying race relations in the United States over the past several years. Issues concerning racial tension in the United States are often framed in a color-line binary – Black Americans versus White Americans – but Asian-Americans tend to fall in a racial position that is different from, yet relative to these two groups. This unique position gives Asian-Americans a choice to either actively combat systemic racism in solidarity with black activists or embrace the “model minority” role and avoid involvement in what is ultimately a contentious and sometimes dangerous conflict.
title: Literary Labyrinths: Reading Like a Detective
Creators: name: Hallock, Emma A.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: Studying literature is like walking through a labyrinth of interpretative possibilities. So, it is no mystery why an English major would be fascinated with detectives; they seem to show the way out of the literary labyrinth. Like detectives, literary critics look for clues in the texts they study and interpret them to find meaning. However, many critics argue that detectives make bad models, and that reading like a detective leads to interpretations that are at best boring and at worst dangerous. It is not clear whether detectives are the best literary critics or the worst. To make sense of this problem, I argue that it is necessary to pay attention to specific fictional detectives rather than talking about the figure of the detective in general. This thesis is a study in sleuths that examines how individual detectives fail and succeed as models for literary critics. I will begin in the nineteenth century with Wilkie Collins’s novel The Moonstone (1863) and Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories and then move onto the twentieth century with the hard-boiled detective novels The Big Sleep (1939) by Raymond Chandler and The Maltese Falcon (1929) by Dashiell Hammett and Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple short stories. Later in the twentieth century, detective fiction turns metaphysical, as in Jorge Luis Borges’s “Death and the Compass” (1942). None of these detectives offer satisfactory ways out of the labyrinth. However, I argue that Charles Dickens’s novel Bleak House (1853) anticipates the problems of interpretation that arise throughout the history of detective fiction and shows through Mr. Bucket, the detective, how to live in a literary labyrinth.
title: The Effectiveness of Education Aid in Kenya: Using Women's Access to Education as an Indicator of Welfare
Creators: name: Dimick, Dawn
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: The Global Journal reported an estimated 10 million NGOs worldwide and in Kenya alone, the number rose to 11,262 by June 2019 (Non-Governmental Organizations Co-ordination Board, 2019). Though committed to alleviating the same issues, the existence of so many organizations breeds vast differences in approaches. Are the issues simply too complex for a handful of organizations to fix or are the organizations themselves becoming an integral part of the problem? Most organizations fall short in evaluating their effectiveness, partly because there is no standard model by which to measure success. While it would be nearly impossible to design a perfect model for every organization in every region of the world, there are three themes that must be present in effectiveness models. These themes include: the inclusion of participatory data, the eventual removal of the donor/donee relationship, and a measurable component that allows for comparisons over time. This paper grapples with these ideas and raises other concerns, mainly through the analysis of two organizations, Compassion International, and Shining Hope for Communities (SHOFCO). My studies found that while there are many approaches to alleviating poverty and educating youth in Kenya, projects focusing on women and girls’ education can be used as a positive indicator of growth when evaluated properly.
The study begins with a discussion on Kenya as an area of developmental interest. It then transitions to a discussion on women’s education as an indicator of growth, discussing the various ways in which current evaluation methods of development fall short. Using the proposed themes as a model of gauging an organization’s effectiveness, the study then compares two prominent non-governmental organizations focused on education in Kenya. Finally, the study ends with a discussion on broadening the scope and definition of education in Kenya in order to enact widespread societal change.
EGYPT'S IMAGE AS A TOURIST DESTINATION – A PERSPECTIVE OF FOREIGN TOURISTS
Creators: name: Ghada, Abdalla Mohamed
Publisher: name: tourismos
Year: 2021

description: The influence of tourism image on consumer behaviour was studied by many researches. Others have pointed out the effect of tourism image on quality perceived by tourists and on the satisfaction of them. This study was conducted with the purpose of studying the relationship between the image of a destination and tourist's behavioural intentions, and between that same image and the postpurchase evaluation of the quality of the whole destination and the tour. This study also examined the relationship between quality and satisfaction and between quality and the tourist’s behaviour variables. In addition, the relationship between promotion tools and image were also examined. The empirical study was conducted in two cities: Hurrahed representing recreational tourism and Cairo for cultural tourism .A self field questionnaire was used to collect information. Path analysis used to study the causal relationships among variables. The findings indicated that for recreation tourism image had effective role on behavioural variables and satisfaction. Perceived quality of the destination had a positive influence on satisfaction as well as willingness to return. On the contrary, for cultural tourism image affected the quality of both the destination and the tour. Whereas, image had no effect on willingness to return, satisfaction or recommendation.
description: tourismos, Vol. 3 No. 1 (2008)
Deep Reinforcement Learning with Shallow Controllers: An Experimental Application to PID Tuning
Creators: name: Lawrence, Nathan P.
name: Forbes, Michael G.
name: Loewen, Philip D.
name: McClement, Daniel G.
name: Backstrom, Johan U.
name: Gopaluni, R. Bhushan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Deep reinforcement learning (RL) is an optimization-driven framework for producing control strategies for general dynamical systems without explicit reliance on process models. Good results have been reported in simulation. Here we demonstrate the challenges in implementing a state of the art deep RL algorithm on a real physical system. Aspects include the interplay between software and existing hardware; experiment design and sample efficiency; training subject to input constraints; and interpretability of the algorithm and control law. At the core of our approach is the use of a PID controller as the trainable RL policy. In addition to its simplicity, this approach has several appealing features: No additional hardware needs to be added to the control system, since a PID controller can easily be implemented through a standard programmable logic controller; the control law can easily be initialized in a "safe'' region of the parameter space; and the final product -- a well-tuned PID controller -- has a form that practitioners can reason about and deploy with confidence.
description: 37 pages; pre-print
title: High Dimensional Event Exploration Over Multiple Simulations
Creators: name: Scott, Steven Deron
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: In this project, we introduce a visualization technique to analyze event simulation data. In particular, we allow the user to discover families of events based on the topological evolution of discrete events across simulations. Discovering how events behave across runs of a simulation has applications in financial market analysis, military simulations, physical mechanics, and other settings. Our approach is to use established methods to produce a linearized tour through parameter space of arbitrary dimension and visualize events of interest in two dimensions, where the first dimension is the tour ordering and the second dimension is usually time. This paper presents our approach and gives examples in the context of a magnet dynamics simulation.
Letteratura migrante. Alcune considerazioni per la definizione di un genere letterario
Creators: name: Serafin, Silvana
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2014
Subjects: Migrazioni; genere; letterario; Migrations; genre; literature

description: The present study aims at establishing the taxonomy for the genre of migration literature. It first focuses on the significance of the term ‘migration’ and the motivations that lead people to migrate – be they ‘poverty’ or ‘desire’ to change. The study then proceeds to a discussion of the narratives, both of individual and of collective lives, with specific reference to their recurring themes and stylistic strategies. Finally the study will deal with an analysis of the characters, which very often stand for the authors’ own alterego narrating, in first or third person, fictional or real events, and thus transmitting direct memories of the dramatic events inherent to migration, or memories derived from retrospective narrations of relatives and countrymen.

The linearity of such scheme, when duly followed, will allow the insertion of selected texts within a specific tradition, to be defined according to rhetoric continuity, themes and references to common models.
description: Altre Modernità, 2014: NUMERO SPECIALE Migrazioni, diaspora, esilio nelle letterature e culture ispanoamericane
Multipartite entanglement control via Quantum Zeno Effect
Creators: name: Oliveira, J. G.
name: Rossi, R.
name: Nemes, M. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a protocol based on 2M pairwise interacting qubits, which through Quantum Zeno Effect controls the entanglement distribution of the system. We also show that if the coupling constants are different the QZE may be used to achieve perfect entanglement swap.
title: Boolean Rank and Isolation Number of N-Regular Tournaments
Creators: name: DeAngelo, Matthew F.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2020

description: We examine Boolean rank and isolation number of a class of matrices, the adjacency matrices of regular tournaments. Boolean rank is defined as the minimum k such that a m x n matrix can be factored into m x k and k x n matrices, using Boolean arithmetic. Isolation number is defined as the maximum number of 1’s that do not share a row, column, or 2 x 2 submatrix of 1’s. Linear programming can be applied by using the underlying structure of the tournament matrices to develop a relationship between Boolean rank and isolation number. We show possible methods for relating the two more strongly using the biclique matrix. A biclique matrix, B, is a matrix such that the rows are indexed by directed bicliques and columns are indexed by arcs such that bij = 1 if and only if arc i is contained in directed biclique j. Furthermore, we present documented code that analyzes individual cases computationally. Finally, we display specific cases generated by the code that display a Boolean rank less than the vertex count.
A LONG-RUN EQUILIBRIUM DEMAND FUNCTION: TOURISM IN MEXICO
Creators: name: Brida, Juan Gabriel
name: Risso, Wiston Adrián
name: Carrera, Edgar J. Sanchez
Publisher: name: tourismos
Year: 2021

description: Tourism demand in Mexico is around 80 percent represented by USA visitors. The goal of this paper is to explain the long-term effects of Tourism Demand in Mexico with respect to US visitors. To reach our goal the methodology of this paper follows the Johansen cointegration analysis and using annual time-series data, a single equation is estimated. With the empirical analyze, we study the tourism demand elasticities considering public investment, relative prices of tourist products, and US income per capita. Further analysis shows only one direction of a strongly positive Granger-causality going from number of tourists to the relative prices. We show that US income positively affects the Mexican tourism demand.
description: tourismos, Vol. 3 No. 1 (2008)
TOURISM DEVELOPMENT POLICY, STRATEGIC ALLIANCES AND IMPACT OF CONSUMER PRICE INDEX ON TOURIST ARRIVALS: THE CASE OF MALAYSIA
Creators: name: Loganathan, Nanthakumar
name: Yahaya, Ibrahim
name: Madzli, Harun
Publisher: name: tourismos
Year: 2021

description: Many studies have shown the importance of tourism industry in enhancing trade performance and economic development. This study examines the hypothesis of ‘economic-driven’ tourism growth in Malaysia by using econometric modelling. To generate the empirical analysis, this study used data from 1980-2007 to analyze the economic-driven tourism growth by using vector autoregressive (VAR) estimation. The long-run relationship between specific variables is considered using the Johansen and Juselius cointegration analysis. Finally, Granger-causality results implies causal relationship of economic-driven tourism growth in Malaysia. Therefore, this study suggests policies and strategies to overcome the importance of economic-driven tourism in Malaysia in the future.
description: tourismos, Vol. 3 No. 1 (2008)
THE POLITICS OF TOURISM: A PERSPECTIVE FROM THE MALDIVES
Creators: name: Henderson, Joan
Publisher: name: tourismos
Year: 2021

description: The nature of the relationship between politics and tourism, encompassing the politics of religion, is examined in this paper with particular reference to the case of the Maldives. Although marketed as a tropical island paradise, the country is experiencing political uncertainty due to challenges to the long standing government from a democratic movement and religious radicalism. These trends and their impacts on tourism, which itself is a topic of political debate, are explained and the tourism industry is seen to overlook discordant political and religious realities in its promotion. However, it is argued that a destination’s politics cannot be ignored and that there must be awareness amongst all stakeholders and appropriate responses to political events if tourism is to deal successfully with turbulent times.
description: tourismos, Vol. 3 No. 1 (2008)
L’esodo. Geografie emotive e linguistiche
Creators: name: Magnani, Ilaria
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2014
Subjects: letteratura argentina; esilio; emigrazione; varianti linguistiche diatopiche

description: Emigration and exile are increasingly topical demographic phenomena, which in contemporary world tend to lose their distinguishing features. Narrative with its structural and linguistic choices offers an enlightening overview of geographical, emotive and expressive diasporic representations.
description: Altre Modernità, 2014: NUMERO SPECIALE Migrazioni, diaspora, esilio nelle letterature e culture ispanoamericane
Biological network comparison using graphlet degree distribution
Creators: name: Przulj, Natasa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Molecular Networks (q-bio.MN)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Analogous to biological sequence comparison, comparing cellular networks is an important problem that could provide insight into biological understanding and therapeutics. For technical reasons, comparing large networks is computationally infeasible, and thus heuristics such as the degree distribution have been sought. It is easy to demonstrate that two networks are different by simply showing a short list of properties in which they differ. It is much harder to show that two networks are similar, as it requires demonstrating their similarity in all of their exponentially many properties. Clearly, it is computationally prohibitive to analyze all network properties, but the larger the number of constraints we impose in determining network similarity, the more likely it is that the networks will truly be similar. We introduce a new systematic measure of a network's local structure that imposes a large number of similarity constraints on networks being compared. In particular, we generalize the degree distribution, which measures the number of nodes 'touching' k edges, into distributions measuring the number of nodes 'touching' k graphlets, where graphlets are small connected non-isomorphic subgraphs of a large network. Our new measure of network local structure consists of 73 graphlet degree distributions (GDDs) of graphlets with 2-5 nodes, but it is easily extendible to a greater number of constraints (i.e. graphlets). Furthermore, we show a way to combine the 73 GDDs into a network 'agreement' measure. Based on this new network agreement measure, we show that almost all of the 14 eukaryotic PPI networks, including human, are better modeled by geometric random graphs than by Erdos-Reny, random scale-free, or Barabasi-Albert scale-free networks.
description: Proceedings of the 2006 European Conference on Computational Biology, ECCB'06, Eilat, Israel, January 21-24, 2007
MEASURING SOCIAL CARRYING CAPACITY: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY
Creators: name: López-Bonilla, Jesús Manuel
name: López-Bonilla, Luis Miguel
Publisher: name: tourismos
Year: 2021

description: The tourist carrying capacity commands a growing interest given that it is closely linked with sustainable tourist development. The justification of the utility of this concept is given by means of a simple and efficient methodological proposal, by analysing the social carrying capacity. To this end, an empirical application is carried out in the Western Andalusia. In some of the cases analysed, the satisfaction of the tourist is found to decline when the levels of the tourist use are higher with respect to those attributes of the tourist destination supply. This mechanism can constitute a useful alarm signal for tourism planners.
description: tourismos, Vol. 3 No. 1 (2008)