cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Controlling carbon nanotube photoluminescence using silicon microring resonators
Creators: name: Noury, Adrien
name: Roux, Xavier Le
name: Vivien, Laurent
name: Izard, Nicolas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on coupling between semiconducting single-wall carbon nanotubes (s-SWNT) photoluminescence and silicon microring resonators. Polyfluorene extracted s-SWNT deposited on such resonators exhibit sharp emission peaks, due to interaction with the cavity modes of the microring resonators. Ring resonators with radius of 5 μm and 10 μm were used, reaching quality factors up to 4000 in emission. These are among the highest values reported for carbon nanotubes coupled with an integrated cavity on silicon platform, which open up the possibility to build s-SWNT based efficient light source on silicon.
title: East African Journal of Sciences, Vol. 16 No. 2 (2022): East African Journal of Sciences
title: East African Journal of Sciences
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: East African Journal Of Sciences
Publisher: name: East African Journal of Sciences
Year: 2023

description: The East African Journal of Sciences (EAJS) publishes original scientific papers and disseminates scientific and technological information to the users in Eastern Africa and elsewhere in the world. It also enhances exchange of ideas among scientists engaged in research and development activities and accepts papers from anywhere else in the world.
description: Registration of “Takusa” Tef [Eragrostis tef (Zucc) Trotter] Variety...225-232 Effect of Substituting Maize with Different Levels of Sweet Potato Tuber Meal on Feed Intake, Feed Conversion Efficiency, and Growth Performance of Broiler Chicks...213-224 In Vitro Evaluation of the Probiotic Potential of Lactic Acid Bacterial Strains Retrieved from Raw and Traditionally Fermented Cow Milk...199-212 Inequality in Consumption Expenditures Prevailing among Displaced and Non-displaced Peri-urban Farm Households in Metropolitan Towns of Amhara National Regional State, Ethiopia...187-198 Knowledge, Attitude, and Management Practices of Stakeholders towards Fungal Invasion and Mycotoxin Contamination of Wheat and Maize in Ethiopia...171-186 Genetic Gain in Yield Potential and Related Traits of Finger millet [Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn] in Ethiopia...155-170 Reliability of NASA NEX-GDDP Dataset in Reproducing Climatological Mean Temperature and Precipitation over the Gibe III Watershed, Omo-Gibe Basin, Ethiopia...133-154 Diversity of Okra [Abelmoschus esculentus (L.) Moench] Genotypes in Ethiopia ...115-132 Estimating Surface Water Inflow into Lake Lego, a Closed Basin in Northeastern Ethiopia...101-114
Ville-santé à travers l'histoire en Tunisie
Creators: name: Saâda, Mokhtar
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: City planning--Tunisia
subject: Quality of life--Tunisia
subject: Urbanization--Tunisia
subject: Rural-urban migration--Tunisia
subject: Tunisia--History
subject: Aménagement de la ville--Tunisie
subject: Qualité de la vie--Tunisie
subject: Urbanisation--Tunisie
subject: Migration rurale-urbaine--Tunisie
subject: Tunisie--Histoire

description: La problématique ville-santé pour des agglomérations comme celle de Tunis, ne se pose plus en terme d'hygiène et de lutte contre les maladies infectieuses ou parasitaires, mais plutôt en terme d'amélioration du confort de vie. Cette problématique n'est abordable que dans sa globalité. C'est dans la dialectique ville-campagne qu'il faudra trouver une issue, car quels que soient les moyens et les outils mis en oeuvre pour optimiser le contort de vie, aucune ville ne pourra résister à l'arrivée massive de ruraux sans terre et sans travail. Peut être faudrait-il trouver le moyen de transférer le contort de vie de la cité vers le monde rural sans compromettre son intégrite ? Pour le moment, l'action la plus réaliste pour la Tunisie semble être la mise en pratique des agendas 21 locaux. C'est donc le défi a relever dans les années à venir.
description: The "healthy community" problem in cities like Tunis is no longer a matter of hygiene and the struggle against parasitic or infectious diseases, but is rather to do with improving quality of life. This problem is approachable only in an overall sense. It's in the urban-rural dialectic that a solution must be found, for whatever resources or tools are used to optimize quality of life, no town or city will be able to resist the massive influx of rural populations without land or work. Perhaps it will be necessary to find a means of transferring quality of life from the city to the rural regions without compromising its integrity. For the moment, the most realistic action for Tunisia seems to be the implementation of the local «Agenda 21» model. Working on this basis will be the main challenge in the coming years.
description: Abstract in French and English; text in French.
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/5530/Article010.pdf?sequence=3
Building a town centre in London's Royal Docks
Creators: name: Trocmé, Michel
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Docks--Remodeling for other use--Great Britain--London
subject: Waterfronts--Great Britain--London
subject: Regional planning--Great Britain--London
subject: Urban renewal--Great Britain--London
subject: London Development Agency (LDA)
subject: Silvertown Quays (London, England)
subject: Urban Strategies Inc. (Toronto, Ont.)

description: In January 2001, the London Development Agency issued an international call for a partner to redevelop the Silvertown Docks at the heart of London's Royal Docks. Silvertown Quays Ltd., a consortium of developers, hired Urban Strategies to lead a consultant team responsible for producing a master plan for the competition. This article describes the rapid transformation of the Docklands within an evolving planning regime and describes Urban Strategies' winning submission for a new town center in the Royal Docks.
description: En janvier 2001, la London Development Agency recherchait un partenaire pour aménager le Silvertown Docks, au coeur du Royal Docks de la ville de Landres. Le consortium Silvertown Quays Ltd a choisi la société Urban Strategies (USI) pour diriger une équipe de consultants et établir les paramètres du concours. Le présent article traite de la transformation rapide du site dans le cadre d'une stratégie d'aménagement et décrit le projet gagnant de USI pour un nouveau centre-ville à l'intérieur du Royal Docks.
description: Abstract in English and French; text in English.
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/5531/Article009.pdf?sequence=3
The photospheric solar oxygen project: III. Investigation of the centre-to-limb variation of the 630nm [OI]-NiI blend
Creators: name: Caffau, E.
name: Ludwig, H. -G.
name: Steffen, M.
name: Livingston, W.
name: Bonifacio, P.
name: Malherbe, J. -M.
name: Doerr, H. -P.
name: Schmidt, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The solar photospheric abundance of oxygen is still a matter of debate. For about ten years some determinations have favoured a low oxygen abundance which is at variance with the value inferred by helioseismology. Among the oxygen abundance indicators, the forbidden line at 630nm has often been considered the most reliable even though it is blended with a NiI line. In Papers I and Paper II of this series we reported a discrepancy in the oxygen abundance derived from the 630nm and the subordinate [OI] line at 636nm in dwarf stars, including the Sun. Here we analyse several, in part new, solar observations of the the centre-to-limb variation of the spectral region including the blend at 630nm in order to separate the individual contributions of oxygen and nickel. We analyse intensity spectra observed at different limb angles in comparison with line formation computations performed on a CO5BOLD 3D hydrodynamical simulation of the solar atmosphere. The oxygen abundances obtained from the forbidden line at different limb angles are inconsistent if the commonly adopted nickel abundance of 6.25 is assumed in our local thermodynamic equilibrium computations. With a slightly lower nickel abundance, A(Ni)~6.1, we obtain consistent fits indicating an oxygen abundance of A(O)=8.73+/-0.05. At this value the discrepancy with the subordinate oxygen line remains. The derived value of the oxygen abundance supports the notion of a rather low oxygen abundance in the solar hotosphere. However, it is disconcerting that the forbidden oxygen lines at 630 and 636nm give noticeably different results, and that the nickel abundance derived here from the 630nm blend is lower than expected from other nickel lines.
description: to appear in A&A
Tailor the functionalities of metasurfaces: From perfect absorption to phase modulation
Creators: name: Qu, Che
name: Ma, Shaojie
name: Hao, Jiaming
name: Qiu, Meng
name: Li, Xin
name: Xiao, Shiyi
name: Miao, Ziqi
name: Dai, Ning
name: He, Qiong
name: Sun, Shulin
name: Zhou, Lei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Metasurfaces in metal/insulator/metal configuration have recently been widely used in photonics research, with applications ranging from perfect absorption to phase modulation, but why and when such structures can realize what kind of functionalities are not yet fully understood. Here, based on a coupled-mode theory analysis, we establish a complete phase diagram in which the optical properties of such systems are fully controlled by two simple parameters (i.e., the intrinsic and radiation losses), which are in turn dictated by the geometrical/material parameters of the underlying structures. Such a phase diagram can greatly facilitate the design of appropriate metasurfaces with tailored functionalities (e.g., perfect absorption, phase modulator, electric/magnetic reflector, etc.), demonstrated by our experiments and simulations in the Terahertz regime. In particular, our experiments show that, through appropriate structural/material tuning, the device can be switched across the functionality phase boundaries yielding dramatic changes in optical responses. Our discoveries lay a solid basis for realizing functional and tunable photonic devices with such structures.
title: War Crimes in Belgium 1914: An Interview with Gerd Krumeich
Creators: name: Krumeich, Gerd
Publisher: name: Arbeitskreis Militärgeschichte
Year: 2018

description: The First World War centenary has offered, with the exception of Christopher Clark’s The Sleepwalkers, few surprises. Pretty much everything has been said and there is clearly agreement on many subjects. Last year, however, the question of German war crimes during the march into Belgium and France in the summer of 1914 re-emerged – albeit well after its hundredth anniversary, although with much greater intensity than many of the other debates.
description: Portal Militärgeschichte
The role of causal attributions in observational conditioning
Creators: name: Kasran, Sarah
name: Hughes, Sean
name: De Houwer, Jan
name: Beckers, Tom
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Time-stamped, non-editable version of the project, including materials, raw and processed data, and all R code used for processing and analysis.
Climate change adaptation planning under uncertainty in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: a case study on institutional vulnerability, adaptive capacity and climate change governance
Creators: name: Phung, Phu
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2016

description: Climate change is expected to have wide-ranging impacts on urban areas and creates additional challenges for sustainable development. Urban areas are inextricably linked with climate change, as they are major contributors to it, while also being particularly vulnerable to its impacts. Climate change presents a new challenge to urban areas, not only because of the expected rises in temperature and sea-level, but also the current context of failure to fully address the institutional barriers preventing action to prepare for climate change, or feedbacks between urban systems and agents. Despite the importance of climate change, there are few cities in developing countries that are attempting to address these issues systematically as part of their governance and planning processes. While there is a growing literature on the risks and vulnerabilities related to climate change, as yet there is limited research on the development of institutional responses, the dissemination of relevant knowledge and evaluation of tools for practical planning responses by decision makers at the city level. This thesis questions the dominant assumptions about the capacity of institutions and potential of adaptive planning. It argues that achieving a balance between climate change impacts and local government decision-making capacity is a vital for successful adaptation to the impacts of climate change. Urban spatial planning and wider environmental planning not only play a major role in reducing/mitigating risks but also have a key role in adapting to uncertainty in over future risk. The research focuses on a single province - the biggest city in Vietnam - Ho Chi Minh City - as the principal case study to explore this argument, by examining the linkages between urban planning systems, the structures of governance, and climate change adaptation planning. In conclusion it proposes a specific framework to offer insights into some of the more practical considerations, and the approach emphasises the importance of vertical and horizontal coordination in governance and urban planning.
An Essay On Interactive Investigations Of The Zeeman Effect In The Interstellar Medium
Creators: name: Woolsey, Lauren N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The paper presents an interactive module created through the Wolfram Demonstrations Project that visualizes the Zeeman effect for the small magnetic field strengths present in the interstellar medium. The paper provides an overview of spectral lines and a few examples of strong and weak Zeeman splitting before discussing the module in depth. Student discovery is aided with example situations to investigate using the interactive module, which is targeted at the upper undergraduate or early graduate level. This module (http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/TheZeemanEffectInTheInterstellarMedium), which uses free software, can be used in classroom activities or as a means of introducing students to the Wolfram Demonstrations Project as a learning resource.
description: 6 pages, published in JAESE
ACC/AHA guidelines for the management of patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Committee to Revise the 1999 Guidelines for the Management of Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction).
Creators: name: Fuster, Valentin
name: Smith, Sidney C., Jr.
name: Alpert, Joseph S.
name: Hochman, Judith S.
name: Lamas, Gervasio A.
name: Halperin, Jonathan L.
name: Antman, Elliott M.
name: Bates, Eric R.
name: Armstrong, Paul Wayne
name: Mullany, Charles J.
name: Gibbons, Raymond J.
name: Hiratzka, Loren F.
name: Anbe, Daniel T.
name: Jacobs, Alice K.
name: Faxon, David P.
name: Hunt, Sharon Ann
name: Anderson, Jeffrey L.
name: Krumholz, Harlan M.
name: Gregoratos, Gabriel
name: Kushner, Frederick G.
name: Ornato, Joseph P.
name: Green, Lee A.
name: Pearle, David L.
name: Sloan, Michael A.
name: Hand, Mary
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2004

description: "The process of guideline development for management of patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) has undergone substantial evolution since the inaugural publication entitled “Guidelines for the Early Management of Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction” in 1990 under the auspices of the ACC/AHA Task Force on Assessment of Diagnostic and Therapeutic Cardiovascular Procedures (Chairman, Dr. Rolf Gunnar; Figure 1) (1). Subsequently, the ACC/AHA Task Force on Practice Guidelines convened a committee (Chairman, Dr. Thomas J. Ryan) in 1994 to revise the 1990 guidelines. In the 1996 guideline publication, “ACC/AHA Guidelines for the Management of Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction,” the term acute coronary syndrome was used, reflecting the emerging overarching concept that disruption of a vulnerable or high-risk plaque causes an episode of ischemic discomfort (2). Emphasis was placed on the 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) that was used to categorize patients into 2 broad cohorts: those presenting with ST elevation and those presenting without ST elevation (ultimately diagnosed as unstable angina or non–Q-wave myocardial infarction (MI) depending on whether a biomarker of necrosis was detected in the patient’s blood). The 1996 guidelines discussed the management of both the ST-elevation and non–ST-elevation presentations of the acute coronary syndromes. The same approach was taken in the 1999 update of the guideline (also chaired by Dr. Ryan) that was posted as an electronic update on the ACC and AHAWorld Wide Web sites (3)."
Understanding the Databases of Premodern China: Harnessing the Potential of Textual Corpora as Digital Data Sources
Creators: name: Tharsen, Jeffrey R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: digital lexicography
subject: premodern Chinese
subject: databases
subject: textual corpora

description: Much of my work over the past dozen years or so has focused on harnessing digital methods and resources to the study of premodern Chinese phonology and philology. Those of you who are familiar with my online dictionary system for mapping the sounds of early Chinese texts, the Digital Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese, or who have seen some of my studies of phonorhetorical patterns in early Chinese texts will perhaps be well aware of the new types of research that have emerged from harnessing textual databases and digital corpora to advanced analytical algorithms and computational methodologies. I’ll begin with the work I’ve been doing to convert premodern Chinese dictionaries, prognostication manuals and ritual materials, and commentaries on the classics to modern data structures, and then in Part II, turn to how these techniques might be applied to literary works and historiographies, finishing up with a review of a couple of new digital analytical toolkits I’ve been developing, along with a new type of visualization interface. As I see it, the real key to much of this work is understanding the formulaic and systemic nature of these texts, from the level of the single text up to the collection or anthology and even at the large-scale archival level. Modern computing systems are excellent tools for systematization and quantification; while they may have difficulties with nuance and deeper literary or humanistic analyses, highly organized systems of knowledge play to their strengths, and I think we can be grateful that so many outstanding varieties of complex and advanced systematized knowledge in China have been preserved in written form over the millennia, and passed down to us.
Ferromagnetic Spin Fluctuation and Unconventional Superconductivity in Rb$_{2}$Cr$_{3}$As$_{3}$ revealed by $^{75}$As NMR and NQR
Creators: name: Yang, J.
name: Tang, Z. T.
name: Cao, G. H.
name: Zheng, Guo-qing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report $^{75}$As nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR) studies on the superconductor Rb$_{2}$Cr$_{3}$As$_{3}$ with a quasi one-dimensional crystal structure. Below $T\sim$ 100 K, the spin-lattice relaxation rate (1/$T_{1}$) divided by temperature, 1/$T_{1}T$, increases upon cooling down to $T_{\rm c}$ = 4.8 K, showing a Curie-Weiss-like temperature dependence. The Knight shift also increases with decreasing temperature. These results suggest ferromagnetic spin fluctuation. In the superconducting state, 1/$T_{1}$ decreases rapidly below $T_{\text{c}}$ without a Hebel-Slichter peak, and follows a $T^5$ variation below $T\sim$ 3 K, which point to unconventional superconductivity with point nodes in the gap function.
description: submitted for publication on June 22, 2015
Time series of high resolution spectra of SN 2014J observed with the TIGRE telescope
Creators: name: Jack, D.
name: Mittag, M.
name: Schroder, K. -P.
name: Schmitt, J. H. M. M.
name: Hempelmann, A.
name: Gonzalez-Perez, J. N.
name: Trinidad, M. A.
name: Rauw, G.
name: Sixto, J. M. Cabrera
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a time series of high resolution spectra of the Type Ia supernova 2014J, which exploded in the nearby galaxy M82. The spectra were obtained with the HEROS echelle spectrograph installed at the 1.2 m TIGRE telescope. We present a series of 33 spectra with a resolution of R = 20, 000, which covers the important bright phases in the evolution of SN 2014J during the period from January 24 to April 1 of 2014. The spectral evolution of SN 2014J is derived empirically. The expansion velocities of the Si II P-Cygni features were measured and show the expected decreasing behaviour, beginning with a high velocity of 14,000 km/s on January 24. The Ca II infrared triplet feature shows a high velocity component with expansion velocities of > 20, 000 km/s during the early evolution apart from the normal component showing similar velocities as Si II. Further broad P-Cygni profiles are exhibited by the principal lines of Ca II, Mg II and Fe II. The TIGRE SN 2014J spectra also resolve several very sharp Na I D doublet absorption components. Our analysis suggests interesting substructures in the interstellar medium of the host galaxy M82, as well as in our Milky Way, confirming other work on this SN. We were able to identify the interstellar absorption of M82 in the lines of Ca II H & K at 3933 and 3968 A as well as K I at 7664 and 7698 A. Furthermore, we confirm several Diffuse Interstellar Bands, at wavelengths of 6196, 6283, 6376, 6379 and 6613 A and give their measured equivalent widths.
description: 11 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Engine of Innovation: Building the High-Performance Catalog
Creators: name: Owen, Will
name: Michalak, Sarah
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Numerous studies have indicated that sophisticated web-­based search engines have eclipsed the primary importance of the library catalog as the premier tool for researchers in higher education. We submit that the catalog remains central to the research process. Through a series of strategic enhancements, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in partnership with the other members of
the Triangle Research Libraries Network (TRLN), has made the catalog a carrier of services in addition to bibliographic data, facilitating not simply discovery, but also delivery of the information researchers seek.
Double-soft behavior for scalars and gluons from string theory
Creators: name: Di Vecchia, Paolo
name: Marotta, Raffaele
name: Mojaza, Matin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the leading double-soft behavior for gluons and for the scalars obtained by dimensional reduction of a higher dimensional pure gauge theory, from the scattering amplitudes of gluons and scalars living in the world-volume of a Dp-brane of the bosonic string. In the case of gluons, we compute both the double-soft behavior when the two soft gluons are contiguous as well as when they are not contiguous. From our results, that are valid in string theory, one can easily get the double-soft limit in gauge field theory by sending the string tension to infinity.
description: 25 pages, 1 figure
Next-kmer-prediction fine-tuning to compare DNA language models, a tutorial.
Creators: name: Sanabria Melissa
name: Hirsch Jonas
name: R, Poetsch Anna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: DNA language models
NLP
transparent AI
GROVER

description: Tutorial for the use of next-token-prediction as a fine-tuning task for neutral comparison of foundation DNA language models. More information on the study can be found at https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.07.11.548593. Links in the tutorial point to Google Collab, but are also uploaded at Zenodo.
Understanding corrosion inhibition with van der Waals DFT methods: the case of benzotriazole
Creators: name: Gattinoni, Chiara
name: Michaelides, Angelos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The corrosion of materials is an undesirable and costly process affecting many areas of technology and everyday life. As such, considerable effort has gone into understanding and preventing it. Organic molecule based coatings can in certain circumstances act as effective corrosion inhibitors. Although they have been used to great effect for more than sixty years, how they function at the atomic-level is still a matter of debate. In this work, computer simulation approaches based on density functional theory are used to investigate benzotriazole (BTAH), one of the most widely used and studied corrosion inhibitors for copper. In particular, the structures formed by protonated and deprotonated BTAH molecules on Cu(111) have been determined and linked to their inhibiting properties. It is found that hydrogen bonding, van der Waals interactions and steric repulsions all contribute in shaping how BTAH molecules adsorb, with flat-lying structures preferred at low coverage and upright configurations preferred at high coverage. The interaction of the dehydrogenated benzotriazole molecule (BTA) with the copper surface is instead dominated by strong chemisorption via the azole moiety with the aid of copper adatoms. Structures of dimers or chains are found to be the most stable structures at all coverages, in good agreement with scanning tunnelling microscopy results. Benzotriazole thus shows a complex phase behaviour in which van der Waals forces play an important role and which depends on coverage and on its protonation state and all of these factors feasibly contribute to its effectiveness as a corrosion inhibitor.
description: 20 pages, 7 figures
Image presentation in digital radiology: perspectives on the emerging DICOM display function standard and its application
Creators: name: Hemminger, Bradley M.
name: Blume, Hartwig
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1997

description: DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) Working Group XI, formerly called ACR/NEMA (American College of Radiology/National Electrical Manufacturers' Association) Working Group XI, is currently developing a display function standard. The main objective of the standard is to define mathematically a display function for all image presentation systems. As a secondary objective, the standard aims at providing similarity in gray-scale perception for a given image between display systems of different luminance and at facilitating efficient utilization of the available digital input levels of a display system. The design of the display function incorporates the concept of perceptual linearization. The proposed standard applies to monochrome image presentation devices such as cathode ray tube monitor-display controller systems and digital laser image printers. The standard does not eliminate the use of application-specific display functions but rather ensures their effectiveness. Neither does the standard guarantee equal information transfer between image presentation devices with different physical properties; it does, however, from the basis for applying image processing to compensate for such differences.
title: Zwischen Logik und Gefühl
title: Zwischen Logik und Gefühl
title: Der Einfluss von Wertekonflikten auf das Framing in Moralpolitiken
titleType: Subtitle
title: Der Einfluss von Wertekonflikten auf das Framing in Moralpolitiken
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Fakdani, Ferzaneh
Publisher: name: UD-E - Institute of Sociology at the University of Duisburg-Essen
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 10504 Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture

description: Prostitution gilt, neben der gleichgeschlechtlichen Ehe, als typisches Thema mit Sexualitätsbezug in Moralpolitiken. Diese zeichnen sich dadurch aus, dass der gesamte Gesetzgebungsprozess moralisch geframet ist. Es stellt sich die Frage, inwieweit in der politischen Debatte um Prostitution moralische Bewertungen und Frames eine Rolle spielen. Zudem ist von Interesse, ob Cleavages existieren, die Parteien zu einem spezifischen Frameverhalten verleiten und ob diese im Zeitverlauf konstant bleiben oder Lerneffekte zu beobachten sind. Hierzu wurden insgesamt 30 Reden aus den Hauptdebatten im Bundestag kurz vor dem Prostitutionsgesetz (2001/2002) und dem Prostituiertenschutzgesetz (2016/2017) inhaltsanalytisch untersucht. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass sich die Akteure auf unterschiedliche Rechtfertigungsordnungen beziehen und dass ihr Framing dynamisch ist. So hat das moralische Framing in den Argumenten der Redner zwischen 2001 und 2016 an Popularität verloren. Schlüsselwörter: Moralpolitik, Framing, politischer Wandel, Cleavage Theorie, Prostitution, Sexarbeit
description: Prostitution is, apart from same-sex marriage, a typical sex related topic in moral politics, which is characterised by moral framing throughout the whole legislative process. Hence, a key question that need to be explored is to what extent moral judgements and frames play a role in the prostitution debates. Furthermore, it is of great interest whether cleavages do exist, which lead parties to a specific behaviour and if these remain steady or if learning effects are noticed. Concerning this matter 30 speeches of the German Bundestag, made right before the Prostitutionsgesetz (2001/2002) and the Prostituiertenschutzgesetz (2016/2017), were examined in order to conduct a content analysis. The results show that policymakers use different justification orders and use framing dynamically. Thus, moral framing has declined in popularity speaking of public political speeches. Keywords: Moral policies, framing, policy change, cleavage theory, prostitution, sex work
description: Duisburger Beiträge zur soziologischen Forschung - DBsF
description: Duisburger Beiträge zur soziologischen Forschung - DBsF
A multi-disciplinary team-based classroom exercise for small molecule drug discovery
Creators: name: Dodson, Charlotte
name: Flower, Steve
name: Thomas, Mark
Publisher: name: National Teaching Repository
Year: 2023
Subjects: Medicinal and biomolecular chemistry not elsewhere classified
Biochemistry and cell biology not elsewhere classified

description: Industrial drug discovery teams require participants to communicate effectively across disciplinary boundaries and encompass scientists from multiple specialties. In this resource we present an undergraduate or graduate classroom simulation of this environment. Over a series of five workshops, student teams of mixed scientific backgrounds perform five iterations of the chemistry cycle of small molecule drug discovery. Students analyze physicochemical, structural and (fictional) assay data, and use these to design new compounds for testing. Simulated assay results are returned to students who use the information in the design of subsequent compounds. After workshop 5, each team submits a single lead compound, supported by a potential synthetic route, a portfolio of assay data and logical scientific decision-making. Our exercise provides students with opportunities for hands-on student-responsive data handing, team-building, and technical knowledge acquisition – all within an industrially relevant scientific scenario.
Localization in chaotic systems with a single-channel opening
Creators: name: Lippolis, Domenico
name: Ryu, Jung-Wan
name: Kim, Sang Wook
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a single-channel opening in a random Hamiltonian and a quantized chaotic map: localization on the opening occurs as a sensible deviation of the wavefunction statistics from the predictions of random matrix theory, even in the semiclassical limit. Increasing the coupling to the open channel in the quantum model, we observe a similar picture to resonance trapping, made of few fast-decaying states, whose left (right) eigenfunctions are entirely localized on the (preimage of the) opening, and plentiful long-lived states, whose probability density is instead suppressed at the opening. For the latter we derive and test a linear relation between the wavefunction intensities and the decay rates, similar to Breit-Wigner law. We then analyze the statistics of the eigenfunctions of the corresponding (discretized) classical propagator, finding a similar behavior to the quantum system only in the weak-coupling regime.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. E
Homicide Waiting to Happen: Sacrifice and Corporate Manslaughter Law in the UK
Creators: name: Hebert, Jasmine
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2018
Subjects: Corporate Crime
Corporate Violence
Sacrifice
Occupational Health and Safety

description: The original purpose or motive of the sacrifice, rooted in ceremonious or religious acts, was as a gift to a centralized power that ensured a common good or prosperity. In modern capitalist society, sacrifice is about “a willingness to sacrifice short-term gains for long-term gains” (Keenan 2005: 11) of freedom and fortune. What is concealed in this propaganda is that true freedom and prosperity is mostly restricted to a few exceedingly privileged and powerful individuals – and every year, these ‘short-term’ sacrifices include the millions of lives of the disciplined and altruistic workers that the system supposedly admires. Within this context, in recent years a growing recognition of the social and economic harms that corporations are capable of causing, specifically against workers and members of the public, led to the development of laws in several countries aimed at corporate manslaughter and corporate criminal liability. However, despite these legal advancements, the law continues to fail at protecting the victims of corporate harm and wrongdoing, and to adequately hold corporations and their actors accountable for their crimes. This research asks the following question: what role does corporate manslaughter law play in the reproduction of sacrifice and, in the process, violence and capitalist hegemony? This is done by interrogating the introduction and enforcement of corporate manslaughter law in the United Kingdom and the struggle for corporate criminal accountability from the socio-historical perspective of advanced neoliberal capitalism. Employing a theoretical lens that draws together literatures on sacrifice, law, and violence, this research shows that the law (re)produces particular understandings of sacrifice and violence that benefit the powerful, therein normalizing death and dying at work as the natural and largely unavoidable costs of modern employment relations. The research concludes that, to better address the systemic violence faced by workers, we must consider a restructuring of the legal enterprise and the ‘common sense’ understandings of sacrifice, violence, and harm that accompany it.
AnnotationOne: A global annotation system
Creators: name: Hemminger, Bradley M.
name: Xu, Shenmeng
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Our study presents a web‐based annotation tool, AnnotationOne, developed to facilitate the easier creation and global sharing of annotations. Our aim is to create conversations around scholarly content benefitting everyone and forging new connections between scholars. Using this tool, users can read and make globally accessible annotations shared with a large scale of users. User studies were conducted to investigate the utility of this universal annotations system. Subjects completed tasks including making annotations, initial reading with annotations and re‐reading with annotations on our prototype system. Both observations and interviews were conducted to explore whether and how this annotation tool would be beneficial for scholarly communication. Moreover, we also collected subjects' suggestions to improve this tool's usability.
Advice From The Experts: How many qualitative interviews is enough
Creators: name: Baker, Sarah
name: Edwards, Rosalind
Publisher: name: Media Design School
Year: 2023
Subjects: Human society

description: This working paper was commissioned by the ESRC and explores ‘how many qualitative interviews is enough?’ In this NCRM Methods Review paper we gather and review responses to the question of ‘how many’ from 14 renowned social scientists and 5 early career researchers. The riposte to the question of ‘how many’ from most contributors is ‘it depends’. In considering what ‘it depends upon’ however, the responses offer guidance on the epistemological, methodological and practical issues to take into account when conducting research projects. This includes advice about assessing research aims and objectives, validity within epistemic communities and available time and resources.
 The first of its kind to address the question of ‘how many interviews is enough?’ head-on, it has been cited more than 3223 times to date. This includes citations in leading textbooks on qualitative research, and in journal articles across disciplines such as sociology, business, medical research and education. It continues to prove to be a useful resource for academics and students alike. In 2012 it won the NCRM (National Centre for Research Methods, UK) prize for the most downloaded paper.
title: Content is king: An analysis of how the Twitter discourse surrounding open education unfolded from 2009 to 2016
Creators: name: Paskevicius, Michael
name: Veletsianos, George
name: Kimmons, Royce
Publisher: name: Athabasca University Press
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Social media
subject: Education
subject: Discourse analysis
subject: Open educational resources (OER)
subject: Twitter
subject: Open pedagogy
subject: Open educational practices (OEP)

description: Inspired by open educational resources, open pedagogy, and open source software, the openness movement in education has different meanings for different people. In this study, we use Twitter data to examine the discourses surrounding openness as well as the people who participate in discourse around openness. By targeting hashtags related to open education, we gathered the most extensive dataset of historical open education tweets to date (n = 178,304 tweets and 23,061 users) and conducted a mixed methods analysis of openness from 2009 to 2016. Findings show that the diversity of participants has varied somewhat over time and that the discourse has predominantly revolved around open resources, although there are signs that an increase in interest around pedagogy, teaching, and learning is emerging.
BRST invariance in Coulomb gauge QCD
Creators: name: Andrasi, A.
name: Taylor, J. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the Coulomb gauge, the Hamiltonian of QCD contains terms of order h^2, identified by Christ and Lee, which are non-local but instantaneous. The question is addressed how these terms fit in with BRST invariance. Our discussion is confined to the simplest, O(g^4), example.
Light Emission in Silicon from Carbon Nanotubes
Creators: name: Gaufrès, Etienne
name: Izard, Nicolas
name: Noury, Adrien
name: Roux, Xavier Le
name: Rasigade, Gilles
name: Beck, Alexandre
name: Vivien, Laurent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The use of optics in microelectronic circuits to overcome the limitation of metallic interconnects is more and more considered as a viable solution. Among future silicon compatible materials, carbon nanotubes are promising candidates thanks to their ability to emit, modulate and detect light in the wavelength range of silicon transparency. We report the first integration of carbon nanotubes with silicon waveguides, successfully coupling their emission and absorption properties. A complete study of this coupling between carbon nanotubes and silicon waveguides was carried out, which led to the demonstration of the temperature-independent emission from carbon nanotubes in silicon at a wavelength of 1.3 μm. This represents the first milestone in the development of photonics based on carbon nanotubes on silicon.
What is sustainable housing?
Creators: name: Ramsay, Karen
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Housing--Research--Canada
subject: Housing--Canada
subject: Sustainable architecture--Canada
subject: Sustainable buildings--Canada

description: A recent master's thesis used data from a comprehensive national survey in order to develop a clear method to define and measure sustainable housing in Canada. Five components were argued to be essential to this definition. As a way to make results tangible, a comparison of three popular housing types-apartments, row housing and single detached-were examined on the basis of their relative sustainability. Row housing was found to be the most sustainable form of housing overall.
description: Utilisant des données tirées d'une enquête nationale, un mémoire de maîtrise trace une méthodologie d'identification et d'évaluation du logement viable au Canada. La méthodologie repose sur cinq composantes. Une comparaison de la viabilité relative de trois types de logement, appartement, maison en rangée et maison isolée, a permis d'identifier la maison en rangée comme étant la forme d'habitation la plus généralement viable. Ce type de logement a en effet accumulé le plus de points pour l'adaptablilité et l'accessibilité, autant de points que les appartements pour le rendement énergétique et la même cote que les deux autres types d'habitation pour la logeabilité.
description: Abstract in English and French; text in English.
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/5534/Article008.pdf?sequence=3
Social cognition in schizophrenia: An NIMH workshop on definitions, assessment, and research opportunities
Creators: name: Penn, David L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: Social cognition has become a high priority area for the study of schizophrenia. However, despite developments in this area, progress remains limited by inconsistent terminology and differences in the way social cognition is measured. To address these obstacles, a consensus-building meeting on social cognition in schizophrenia was held at the National Institute of Mental Health in March 2006. Agreement was reached on several points, including definitions of terms, the significance of social cognition for schizophrenia research, and suggestions for future research directions. The importance of translational interdisciplinary research teams was emphasized. The current article presents a summary of these discussions.
Putting the trans* into design for transition: reflections on gender, technology and natureculture
Creators: name: Baker, Sarah
Publisher: name: Media Design School
Year: 2023
Subjects: Built environment and design

description: Over the last five years, design for transition has emerged as a prominent critical paradigm in designing for sustainable futures. Transition design approaches are united in their aim of reorienting design practices to address global environmental catastrophe and societal inequality. Nevertheless, the discussion of gender and sexuality is notable for its absence. One exception is Arturo Escobar’s (2018) Designs for the Pluriverse. In this paper, I take Escobar’s discussion of gender as my starting point. I suggest that by utilising the concept of “Mother Earth” Escobar risks essentializing gender and biology and limiting the transformative potential of technology. I argue that transition design would benefit from queer feminist and queer indigenous perspectives that advocate for a non-binary approach. I go on to consider what it would mean to put the “trans*” into transition design.
What can liberal education provide for citizens of liberal democracy?
Creators: name: Livingstone, David
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Education, Humanistic
subject: Education, Higher--Canada
subject: Political culture--Canada

description: When one looks at the history of higher education in Canada and the United States it is striking to note that at one time every university regarded liberal education as its central purpose. Moreover, that purpose was connected to, though not entirely limited to, citizenship broadly conceived. With some notable exceptions, most of our contemporary publicly-funded universities have drifted from these original goals. I would argue that unless this purpose is recovered by our institutions of higher education, our society and the individuals who make it up will be culturally, politically, and spiritually malnourished, citizenship will be compromised, and debate about difficult issues will continue to become intellectually thinner and simultaneously shriller.
description: This article was originally published as: Livingstone, D. (2017, November 06). What can liberal education provide for citizens of liberal democracy? VoegelinView. Retrieved from https://voegelinview.com/can-liberal-educationprovide- citizens-liberal-democracy/ VoegelinView, an interdisciplinary and international website published by The Eric Voegelin Society, is dedicated to the thought of Eric Voegelin as well as to political philosophy as public commentary that includes all aspects of culture, including philosophy, religion, politics, society, science, education, and literature.
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/5535/Livingstone.11.6.2017.pdf?sequence=3