cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Thermal radiation in non-static curved spacetimes: quantum mechanical path integrals and configuration space topology
Creators: name: Ortiz, M. E.
name: Vendrell, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A quantum mechanical path integral derivation is given of a thermal propagator in non-static Gui spacetime. The thermal nature of the propagator is understood in terms of homotopically non-trivial paths in the configuration space appropriate to tortoise coordinates. The connection to thermal emission from collapsing black holes is discussed.
description: 20 pages, major revised version, 9 figures, new title
A local fluctuation theorem
Creators: name: Gallavotti, Giovanni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A mechanism for the validity of a local version of the fluctuation theorem, uniform in the system size, is discussed for a reversible chain of weakly coupled Anosov systems.
description: plain TeX, 1 figure
Process Safety Approach for Reviewing Critical Controls on Tailings Storage Facilities
Creators: name: Afriyie, George
name: Morrison, Kimberly Finke
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Forensic studies from notable tailings storage facility (TSF) failures reveal lack of recognition of defects, and also failure to identify issues in operational practices, performance monitoring, and managing change, and a lack of review by subject matter experts. The company employs a process safety approach to manage tailings management risks. Within this overarching framework, corporate standards, guidelines and procedures are followed, a line-of-defense governance model has been implemented, and sites report monthly on critical control performance of their TSFs. This paper discusses the critical control report (CCR) process developed as part of the process safety framework to help identify deviations from normal conditions in a proactive manner, while ensuring that other elements of the governance framework are in effect to support risk management. Initially, the CCR process was established with four categories of control which, through continuous improvement, have been expanded to six categories, with reporting levels clearly defined to support understanding of the state of the facility from a risk perspective, and with reporting conducted on a monthly snapshot basis. Lessons learned from initial implementation and use of the process are also provided.
TIME MAPS PROJECT 3D VISUALIZATION OF TARNOVGRAD BY MINIATURE FROM BRASHOV MINEI (Text and Animation)
Creators: name: Sabev, Plamen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Brashov minei, ilustration, Veliko Tarnovo, 14 Century, 3D reconstruction, animation

description: In this text I present the results of the development of a 3D visualization project of Turnovgrad according to the illustration of sheet 79b from the medieval Bulgarian manuscript Ms. Slav № 34 from the library of the "St. Nikolay" church in Brasov, Romania. In the context of modern museology, through multimedia, I direct to attend of various Internet users to be correct solution of some issues related to the construction and architecture of the medieval capital from the last period before the fall under Ottoman rule. At the same time, readers can learn about the technical features of the virtual scene, ways of structures, symbolic images, and the dynamics of animation projection. The final product, footage and animation clip took part in the exhibition "Image, Icon, Iconic Creation", which was opened at the Bulgarian Cultural Institute of Paris in the Summer of 2017.
description: TIME MAPS International Project: Virtual presentation of the Metropolitan Church exterior at the St. Peter and Paul Monastery – Veliko Tarnovo (Bulgaria). Contributors Professor Dragoș Gheorghiu (Experiments, NUA Romania) Professor Mariana Garmidolova (Moynova) Dr.Habil. St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo; Assistant Professor Plamen Sabev PhD; Associate Professor Svetoslav Kosev PhD; Associate Professor Marina Teofilova PhD; Assistant Professor Atanas Markov PhD; Assistant Professor Ekaterina Ivanova; Iliyan Petrakiev (Archaeologist, Regional Museum); Natalia Borisova (Professional photographer, Regional Museum Veliko Tarnovo). Project Registration Code: PN-II-ID-PCE-2011-3-0245 (No. 138 from 31.10.2011) http://timemaps.net/timemap/veliko/?page_id=18
Anthemis tigreensis A. Rich.
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Asterales
Asteraceae
Anthemis
Anthemis tigreensis

description: Anthemis tigreensis J.Gay ex A.Rich.  —
Habit: Herb.
Habitat: LMWF, LMDF, BZ, UMF, HZ, AZ; 1 900–4 400 m. Distribution: II.
 Voucher: Sirimon Track, Alt. 3 245 m, 8 Jan. 2014, SAJIT 001626 (HIB).
References: Young & Peacock (1985), Bussmann (1993, 1994), Beentje (2002), Agnew (2013).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 90, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Special Algebraic Structures
Creators: name: Smarandache, Florentin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: General Mathematics (math.GM)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 06A99

description: New notions are introduced in algebra in order to better study the congruences in number theory. For example, the makes an important such contribution.
description: 4 pages, 1 table
Team rules: how city officials tweak urban futures through 'gray institutions' in daily practice in land use, permitting and enforcement
Creators: Baird-Zars, Bernadette Virginia
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2021
Subjects: City planning
Land use--Planning
Latin Americans
Zoning
Social institutions
Building permits
Municipal government

description: Peri-urban expansion patterns typically aggravate inequality and environmental precarity. Planners attempt to improve the quality and location of development by employing new tools that connect semi-private entities, national policies and non-governmental coalitions. Along the way, they overlook how action in the ongoing operations of local government offices employing the ‘old tools’ of land use regulation, zoning and the issuance of building permits often fosters the very patterns they are seeking to change. Using a sociological-institutional lens, this collection of essays examines how municipal land use staff create and sustain practices that interact with the growth pressures driving expansion, and the related spaces of possibility to improve outcomes. The information and data for these essays was drawn from field work undertaken in municipalities across metropolitan Guadalajara, as well as a review of official and other documents. The results are presented in a series of four essays that explore varying aspects of the institutional threads driving ongoing land use planning action. The first essay, "Ground rules: When daily practices among land use officials repeat to become 'gray institutions' of planning" examines the role of review by municipal employees and the presence of institutions. The second essay, "Making the ropes: How daily practices in a booming peri-urban municipality become durable 'gray' institutions shaping land use" analyzes the way prior experience creates precedent. The third essay "From archive to checklist: An ethnographic study of a municipal land use office in peri-urban Guadalajara" identifies an array of everyday collective practices in use. These include checklists, shared spreadsheets, rules of thumb, ways of talking, and archive creation. These 'gray institutions' strategically create and sustain power inside the municipality and with developers, as well as transmit and communicate values around municipal permitting and approvals of land use development. The last essay, “Play before the rules change: Building permit issuance and administrative transitions in municipalities in metropolitan Guadalajara, 2004-2020” identifies how local election-related changes and turnover generates uncertainty and can shift regulatory application. Taken together, the essays suggest that institutional analysis can be a powerful way to foreground action in planning – and that the day to day operations inside local government matter to the immediate and long-term implementation of regulations, plans and pressures on urban land use.
Lunar Laser Ranging constraints on nonminimally coupled dark energy and standard sirens
Creators: name: Tsujikawa, Shinji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In dark energy models where a scalar field $ϕ$ is coupled to the Ricci scalar $R$ of the form $e^{-2Q (ϕ-ϕ_0)/M_{\rm pl}}R$, where $Q$ is a coupling constant, $ϕ_0$ is today's value of $ϕ$, and $M_{\rm pl}$ is the reduced Planck mass, we study how the recent Lunar Laser Ranging (LLR) experiment places constraints on the nonminimal coupling from the time variation of gravitational coupling. Besides a potential of the light scalar responsible for cosmic acceleration, we take a cubic Galileon term into account to suppress fifth forces in over-density regions of the Universe. Even if the scalar-matter interaction is screened by the Vainshtein mechanism, the time variation of gravitational coupling induced by the cosmological background field $ϕ$ survives in the solar system. For a small Galileon coupling constant $β_3$, there exists a kinetically driven $ϕ$-matter-dominated-epoch ($ϕ$MDE) prior to cosmic acceleration. In this case, we obtain the stringent upper limit $Q \le 3.4 \times 10^{-3}$ from the LLR constraint. For a large $β_3$ without the $ϕ$MDE, the coupling $Q$ is not particularly bounded from above, but the cosmological Vainshtein screening strongly suppresses the time variation of $ϕ$ such that the dark energy equation of state $w_{\rm DE}$ reaches the value close to $-1$ at high redshifts. We study the modified gravitational wave propagation induced by the nonminimal coupling to gravity and show that, under the LLR bound, the difference between the gravitational wave and luminosity distances does not exceed the order $10^{-5}$ over the redshift range $0
description: 18 pages, 9 figures
MOESM2 of The GMC superfamily of oxidoreductases revisited: analysis and evolution of fungal GMC oxidoreductases
Creators: name: Sützl, Leander
name: Foley, Gabriel
name: Gillam, Elizabeth
name: Bodén, Mikael
name: Haltrich, Dietmar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Figure S2A. Taxonomic distribution of fungal AAO–PDH. B. Taxonomic distribution of fungal AOx. C. Taxonomic distribution of fungal CDH. D. Taxonomic distribution of fungal GOx-GDH. E. Taxonomic distribution of fungal POx.
Future developments in standardisation of cyber risk in the Internet of Things (IoT)
Creators: name: Radanliev, Petar
name: De Roure, David C
name: Nurse, Jason RC
name: Montalvo, Rafael Mantilla
name: Cannady, Stacy
name: Santos, Omar
name: Burnap, Peter
name: Maple, Carsten
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this research article, we explore the use of a design process for adapting existing cyber risk assessment standards to allow the calculation of economic impact from IoT cyber risk. The paper presents a new model that includes a design process with new risk assessment vectors, specific for IoT cyber risk. To design new risk assessment vectors for IoT, the study applied a range of methodologies, including literature review, empirical study and comparative study, followed by theoretical analysis and grounded theory. An epistemological framework emerges from applying the constructivist grounded theory methodology to draw on knowledge from existing cyber risk frameworks, models and methodologies. This framework presents the current gaps in cyber risk standards and policies, and defines the design principles of future cyber risk impact assessment. The core contribution of the article therefore, being the presentation of a new model for impact assessment of IoT cyber risk.
Artemisia afra Willd.
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Asterales
Asteraceae
Artemisia
Artemisia afra

description: Artemisia afra Jacq. ex Willd.  —
Habit: Herb.
Habitat: LMWF, LMDF, BZ, UMF, HZ, AZ; 1 400–4 100 m. Distribution: II.
 Voucher: Ca. 2 km from Meru Mount Kenya Lodge, Alt. 2 950 m, 4 Jan. 1986, Beentje 2687 (EA, WAG).
 References: Young & Peacock (1985), Bussmann (1993, 1994), Lange et al. (1997), Beentje (2002), Abdi (2013), Agnew (2013).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 90, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
MOESM1 of The GMC superfamily of oxidoreductases revisited: analysis and evolution of fungal GMC oxidoreductases
Creators: name: Sützl, Leander
name: Foley, Gabriel
name: Gillam, Elizabeth
name: Bodén, Mikael
name: Haltrich, Dietmar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1A. Sequence similarity network at an alignment score cut-off of 10−105. B. Sequence similarity network at an alignment score cut-off of 10−135.
Predicted electric field induced surface magnetization of vortex phase of superconductors
Creators: name: Mishonov, T. M.
name: Danchev, V. I.
name: Varonov, A. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We predict a new effect in condensed matter surface magnetization of the vortex phase of a superconductor induced by electric field. The magnetized superconductor should be one of the plates of a plane capacitor on which a voltage has to be applied. Applying alternating voltage to the capacitor, electrostatic induction leads to oscillations of the magnetic moment which has to be measured by electromotive force inducted in a detector coil. The derived explicit formula for the magnetization contains the effective mass of Cooper pairs and a systematic investigation of the predicted magnetization will lead to a creation of an effective Cooper pair mass spectroscopy. For cleaved superconductors this effective mass is a property of the bulk material.
description: 4 pages, 1 enhanced figure, changes in abstract, final journal version, to see discussions with referees delete %-sign before first \end{document}
Extensive Scaling and Nonuniformity of the Karhunen-Loève Decomposition for the Spiral-Defect Chaos State
Creators: name: Zoldi, Scott M.
name: Liu, Jun
name: Bajaj, Kapil M. S.
name: Greenside, Henry S.
name: Ahlers, Guenter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By analyzing large-aspect-ratio spiral-defect-chaos (SDC) convection images, we show that the Karhunen-Loève decomposition (KLD) scales extensively for subsystem-sizes larger than 4d (d is the fluid depth), which strongly suggests that SDC is extensively chaotic. From this extensive scaling, the intensive length ξ_KLD is computed and found to have a different dependence on the Rayleigh number than the two-point correlation length ξ_2. Local computations of ξ_KLD reveal a substantial spatial nonuniformity of SDC that extends over radii 18d< r < 45d in a Γ=109 aspect-ratio cell.
description: 10 pages single-spaced (total), 3 figues, 2 tables
Tears in the Fabric: Tracing Social Trauma in the Golden Age Teleplay
Creators: Sekoff, Hallie Carmichael
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Television plays, American
Storytelling--Social aspects
Live television programs
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

description: Every technology (from the Greek techne, meaning art or craft) brings with it modes of storytelling. From Paleolithic cave walls, to Greek amphitheaters, to the Elizabethan stage, and onward towards radio, movies, television, and now a plethora of screens; it is my contention that storytelling and dramatic narrative are (among many other things) guiding forms of a culture’s historical memory and collective mourning. In this thesis I explore what happened when televised drama first took up this bardic and memorializing function. Turning to a number of live teleplays from the early 1950s that focused on social issues and cultural traumas, I propose and identify a dramatic genre of response—the “social trauma narrative”--emergent within the nascent television landscape. These teleplays were powerful, innovative, and represented the bare beginning of a movement stemming from a television built on strictly theatrical forms of presentation to a distinct and definable televisual style.
Seismic Safety of Upstream Tailings Dams : A Risk-Informed Case
Creators: name: Monroy, Manuel
name: Li, Yuan
name: Cordero, Alfonso
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Emerging global standards such as the GISTM (Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management) center around risk management practices to protect people and the environment. However, many questions remain on how to address zero risk, how to quantify risk, and how compliance with the standards will be achieved and audited. This is particularly true for tailings facilities built by the method of upstream construction in high seismic regions and in a time when an accepted standard was not available, or the upstream construction was not prohibited in some countries. This paper presents the seismic safety evaluation results of a representative existing upstream tailings facility in the closure phase and some of the existing methods for retrofitting it. The paper introduces the annual probability of occurrence of extreme seismic ground motions and how these influence the current prediction of tailings dam instability. Uncertainties to consider in the choice of a seismic design value are presented, as well as criteria for selecting acceleration time histories compatible with a seismic hazard level. In addition, the paper comments on the use of a log-normal probability density function for selecting a range of liquefied shear strength ratios in a transparent way for analysis and retrofitting of upstream tailings deposits. The paper covers in an integrated approach the performance of a typical upstream tailings facility from the component to the tailings system-wide level to illustrate the propagation of seismic liquefaction and failure. Results of a quantitative stability risk assessment, with and without retrofitting, are described to highlight its use as a decision-making tool to manage residual risks.
Aspilia mossambicensis Wild
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Asterales
Asteraceae
Aspilia
Aspilia mossambicensis

description: Aspilia mossambicensis (Oliv.) Wild  —
Habit: Woody herb or shrub.
Habitat: LMWF, LMDF; up to 2 300 m. Distribution: II.
 Voucher: Meru, Jun. 1934, Porter 760 (EA).
Reference: Agnew (2013).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 90, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
MOESM1 of Anatomic outcomes of laser indirect ophthalmoscopy for retinopathy of prematurity in a tertiary referral center in the Philippines
Creators: name: Chan, David
name: Herrera-Arroyo, Milagros
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 1. The additional file contains all Additional Tables S1 to S5, of which the latter 4 are on landscape-oriented pages due to width. They contain datasets on individual patients that may be useful for further scrutiny both by reviewers and readers.
title: Braunschweigisches Adreßbuch für das Jahr 1913
Creators: name: :None
Publisher: name: Meyer
Year: 1913
Subjects: subject: Brunsvicensien der Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
subject: Stadt Braunschweig
subject: 902

description: Braunschweigisches Adreßbuch, vol. 1913
Interview with a Psychologist Speaker Biographies
Creators: name: BLINDED (For Peer Review)
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: ***NOT FOR REDISTRIBUTING OR ADAPTING***

Example of Speaker biographies for psychologists featured in the Interview with a Psychologist project.
Null Strings in Kerr Spacetime
Creators: name: Porfyriadis, P. I.
name: Papadopoulos, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The null string's equations of motion and constraints in the Kerr spacetime are given. We assume a generic ansatz for the null strings in the Kerr spacetime and we present the resulting solutions in quadratures. Some specific string configurations, that follow from the generic one, are considered separately. In each case we also extract the corresponding solutions in the Schwarzschild spacetime.
description: 11 pages, LaTex, no figures, final version to be published in Phys.Lett.B, references added
Robust Lane Detection from Continuous Driving Scenes Using Deep Neural Networks
Creators: name: Zou, Qin
name: Jiang, Hanwen
name: Dai, Qiyu
name: Yue, Yuanhao
name: Chen, Long
name: Wang, Qian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Lane detection in driving scenes is an important module for autonomous vehicles and advanced driver assistance systems. In recent years, many sophisticated lane detection methods have been proposed. However, most methods focus on detecting the lane from one single image, and often lead to unsatisfactory performance in handling some extremely-bad situations such as heavy shadow, severe mark degradation, serious vehicle occlusion, and so on. In fact, lanes are continuous line structures on the road. Consequently, the lane that cannot be accurately detected in one current frame may potentially be inferred out by incorporating information of previous frames. To this end, we investigate lane detection by using multiple frames of a continuous driving scene, and propose a hybrid deep architecture by combining the convolutional neural network (CNN) and the recurrent neural network (RNN). Specifically, information of each frame is abstracted by a CNN block, and the CNN features of multiple continuous frames, holding the property of time-series, are then fed into the RNN block for feature learning and lane prediction. Extensive experiments on two large-scale datasets demonstrate that, the proposed method outperforms the competing methods in lane detection, especially in handling difficult situations.
description: IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 69(1), 2020
Second-quantization picture of the edge currents in the fractional quantum Hall effect
Creators: name: Ilieva, Nevena
name: Thirring, Walter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the quantum theory of two-dimensional electrons in a magnetic field and an electric field generated by a homogeneous background. The dynamics separates into a microscopic and macroscopic mode. The latter is a circular Hall current which is described by a chiral quantum field theory. It is shown how in this second quantized picture a Laughlin-type wave function emerges.
description: 12 pages, 1 figure, LaTeX; comments on the particle density and the charge added, the figure improved
Aspilia pluriseta Schweinf.
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Asterales
Asteraceae
Aspilia
Aspilia pluriseta

description: Aspilia pluriseta Schweinf. ex Schweinf.  —
Habit: Woody herb or shrub.
Habitat: LMDF; up to 2 200 m. Distribution: II.
 Voucher: Lower Imenti Forest, Alt. 1 520 m, 8 Aug. 2015, SAJIT 003858 (HIB).
Reference: N/A.
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 90, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Delayed feedback control of periodic orbits in autonomous systems
Creators: name: Just, Wolfram
name: Reckwerth, Dirk
name: Möckel, Johannes
name: Reibold, Ekkehard
name: Benner, Hartmut
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For controlling periodic orbits with delayed feedback methods the periodicity has to be known a priori. We propose a simple scheme, how to detect the period of orbits from properties of the control signal, at least if a periodic but nonvanishing signal is observed. We analytically derive a simple expression relating the delay, the control amplitude, and the unknown period. Thus, the latter can be computed from experimentally accessible quantities. Our findings are confirmed by numerical simulations and electronic circuit experiments
description: 4 pages, Revtex, manuscript also available at ftp://athene.fkp.physik.th-darmstadt.de/pub/publications/wolfram/prl_98a/ or at http://athene.fkp.physik.th-darmstadt.de/public/wolfram_publ.html
Additional file 2: of Perceptions and experiences of skilled birth attendants on using a newly developed strap-on electronic fetal heart rate monitor in Tanzania
Creators: name: Lafontan, Sara Rivenes
name: Kidanto, Hussein
name: Ersdal, Hege
name: Mbekenga, Columba
name: Sundby, Johanne
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology

description: Interview guide semi-structured interviews. (PDF 292 kb)
Scattering amplitudes at finite temperature
Creators: name: Carrington, M. E.
name: Defu, Hou
name: Kobes, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a simple set of rules for obtaining the imaginary part of a self energy diagram at finite temperature in terms of diagrams that correspond to physical scattering amplitudes.
description: 23 pages in Revtex, with 33 eps-figures
Athrixia rosmarinifolia Oliv. & Hiern
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Asterales
Asteraceae
Athrixia
Athrixia rosmarinifolia

description: Athrixia rosmarinifolia (Sch.Bip. ex Walp.) Oliv. & Hiern  —
Habit: Woody herb or shrub.
Habitat: LMWF, LMDF, BZ, UMF, HZ; 1 600–3 500 m. Distribution: II.
 Voucher: Chogoria Track, Alt. 3 453 m, 10 Mar. 2009, Kirika et al. 26 (EA).
Reference: Beentje (2002).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 90, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Complex Stiffness Model of Physical Human-Robot Interaction: Implications for Control of Performance Augmentation Exoskeletons
Creators: name: He, Binghan
name: Huang, Huang
name: Thomas, Gray C.
name: Sentis, Luis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Human joint dynamic stiffness plays an important role in the stability of performance augmentation exoskeletons. In this paper, we consider a new frequency domain model of the human joint dynamics which features a complex value stiffness. This complex stiffness consists of a real stiffness and a hysteretic damping. We use it to explain the dynamic behaviors of the human connected to the exoskeleton, in particular the observed non-zero low frequency phase shift and the near constant damping ratio of the resonant as stiffness and inertia vary. We validate this concept by experimenting with an elbow-joint exoskeleton testbed on a subject while modifying joint stiffness behavior, exoskeleton inertia, and strength augmentation gains. We compare three different models of elbow-joint dynamic stiffness: a model with real stiffness, viscous damping and inertia, a model with complex stiffness and inertia, and a model combining the previous two models. Our results show that the hysteretic damping term improves modeling accuracy, using a statistical F-test. Moreover this improvement is statistically more significant than using classical viscous damping term. In addition, we experimentally observe a linear relationship between the hysteretic damping and the real part of the stiffness which allows us to simplify the complex stiffness model as a 1-parameter system. Ultimately, we design a fractional order controller to demonstrate how human hysteretic damping behavior can be exploited to improve strength amplification performance while maintaining stability.
description: Accepted for publication in IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) Copyright 2019 IEEE
Kinematics and uncertainty relations of a quantum test particle in a curved space-time
Creators: name: Kuusk, P.
name: Ord, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A possible model for quantum kinematics of a test particle in a curved space-time is proposed. Every reasonable neighbourhood V_e of a curved space-time can be equipped with a nonassociative binary operation called the geodesic multiplication of space-time points. In the case of the Minkowski space-time, left and right translations of the geodesic multiplication coincide and amount to a rigid shift of the space-time x->x+a. In a curved space-time infinitesimal geodesic right translations can be used to define the (geodesic) momentum operators. The commutation relations of position and momentum operators are taken as the quantum kinematic algebra. As an example, detailed calculations are performed for the space-time of a weak plane gravitational wave. The uncertainty relations following from the commutation rules are derived and their physical meaning is discussed.
description: 6 pages, LaTeX, talk given in the session ``Quantum Fields in Curved Space'' at the VIII Marcel Grossmann Conference in Jerusalem, Israel, June 1997
Techniques for Efficient and Effective Mobile Testing
Creators: Hu, Gang
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Computer science
Mobile apps
Application software--Testing
Application software--Development

description: The booming mobile app market attracts a large number of developers. As a result, the competition is extremely tough. This fierce competition leads to high standards required for mobile apps, which mandates efficient and effective testing. Efficient testing requires little effort to use, while effective testing checks that the app under test behaves as expected. Manual testing is highly effective, but it is costly. Automatic testing should come to the rescue, but current automatic methods are either ineffective or inefficient. Methods using implicit specifications – for instance, “an app should not crash” for catching fail-stop errors – are ineffective because they cannot find semantic problems. Methods using explicit specifications such as test scripts are inefficient because they require huge developer effort to create and maintain specifications. In this thesis, we present our two approaches for solving these challenges. We first built the AppDoctor system which efficiently tests mobile apps. It quickly explores an app then slowly but accurately verifies the potential problems to identify bugs without introducing false positives. It uses dependencies discovered between actions to simplify its reports. Our second approach, implemented in the AppFlow system, leverages the ample opportunity of reusing test cases between apps to gain efficiency without losing effectiveness. It allows common UI elements to be used in test scripts then recognizes these UI elements in real apps using a machine learning approach. The system also allows tests to be specified in reusable pieces, and provides a system to synthesize complete test cases from these reusable pieces. It enables robust tests to be created and reused across apps in the same category. The combination of these two approaches enables a developer to quickly test an app on a great number of combinations of actions for fail-stop problems, and effortlessly and efficiently test the app on most common scenarios for semantic problems. This combination covers most of her test requirements and greatly reduces her burden in testing the app.
Baccharoides lasiopus H. Rob.
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Asterales
Asteraceae
Baccharoides
Baccharoides lasiopus

description: Baccharoides lasiopus (O.Hoffm.) H.Rob.  —
Habit: Shrub.
Habitat: LMWF, LMDF; up to 2 700 m. Distribution: II.
 Voucher: Near Ontulili Forest Station, Alt. 2 181 m, 5 Aug. 2015, SAJIT 003151 (HIB).
References: Blundell (1987), Bussmann (1994), Agnew (2013).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 90, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Technical and Vocational Education in China: The Characteristics of Participants and Their Labor Market Returns
Creators: Wang, Anyi
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Vocational education
Economics
Education and state
School management and organization
Women--Vocational education

description: This dissertation study focuses on upper secondary technical and vocational education (TVE) in China. It empirically examines the characteristics of TVE participants and the labor market impacts of participating in upper secondary TVE relative to attending general high schools. Using nationally representative datasets from China, this study has found that compared with individuals who attended general high schools, participants of upper secondary TVE tend to be from relatively disadvantaged family background. The negative association between family background and TVE participation is more pronounced for female TVE students. There is some evidence that girls are more likely to attend vocational education, especially the elite secondary specialized schools. Students of secondary specialized schools are from relatively selective family backgrounds compared with students of the other types of upper secondary TVE. In terms of labor market impacts, the study has found positive effects of attending upper secondary TVE on earnings, employment rate, and the likelihood of working full-time and working under formal contract. The effects are concentrated among females and students of secondary specialized schools. Considering that females are more likely to attend TVE, and that female TVE participants are more likely to come from less selective family background, the larger positive effects of attending TVE relative to general high schools among females may indicate improvement in equality both across genders and within females.
Additional file 1: of Perceptions and experiences of skilled birth attendants on using a newly developed strap-on electronic fetal heart rate monitor in Tanzania
Creators: name: Lafontan, Sara Rivenes
name: Kidanto, Hussein
name: Ersdal, Hege
name: Mbekenga, Columba
name: Sundby, Johanne
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Interview guide focus group discussions. (PDF 84 kb)
Colliding Axion-Dilaton Plane Waves from Black Holes
Creators: name: Schwarz, Patricia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The colliding plane wave metric discovered by Ferrari and Ibañez to be locally isometric to the interior of a Schwarzschild black hole is extended to the case of general axion-dilaton black holes. Because the transformation maps either black hole horizon to the focal plane of the colliding waves, this entire class of colliding plane wave spacetimes only suffers from the formation of spacetime singularities in the limits where the inner horizon itself is singular, which occur in the Schwarzschild and dilaton black hole limits. The supersymmetric limit corresponding to the extreme axion-dilaton black hole yields the Bertotti-Robinson metric with the axion and dilaton fields flowing to fixed constant values. The maximal analytic extension of this metric across the Cauchy horizon yields a spacetime in which two sandwich waves in a cylindrical universe collide to produce a semi-infinite chain of Reissner-Nordstrom-like wormholes. The focussing of particle and string geodesics in this spacetime is explored.
description: 19 pages, 6 figures
Techniques of Carceral Reproduction: Architecture and the Prison System in the United States, 1799-1978
Creators: Niedbala, Steven Alexander
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Imprisonment
subject: Prisons--Design and construction
subject: Architecture
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: Criminals--Rehabilitation--U.S. states
subject: Architectural design--Social aspects

description: This dissertation describes the role of architects in the development of the prison system in the United States. In the late eighteenth century, penologists sought to standardize conditions in penal institutions and to develop reliable methods for the social conditioning of inmates. Architects designed prisons that embodied the standards of penal theory, arguing that the form of an institution could serve as a powerful means of assuring that prison routine adhered to the dictates of modern penology. While early prison architects focused upon the development of a standard institutional type, the growth of the penal bureaucracy in the twentieth century forced them to develop a structural vocabulary commensurate with the scale of the modern prison system. They broke the prison down into a series of flexible components, each of which could function effectively in diverse institutional contexts. As criminologists sought to address the ostensible urban crisis in the 1960s, moreover, architects envisioned the extension of the new carceral infrastructure to the city. These techniques served the standardization of the prison system in the twentieth century. Like the early prison architects, modern designers sought to make each element of their structural vocabulary determinative of the activities of inmates and guards in penal institutions. By freeing these elements from the compositional order of early penal institutions, moreover, architects facilitated the rapid expansion of the prison system and the extension of carceral space into new contexts. By the 1970s, the refinement of advanced techniques for the construction of prisons meant that architects no longer played a pivotal role in shaping the prison system. As legal policymakers abandoned rehabilitative penology and emphasized the punitive function of confinement, the techniques of efficient prison construction developed by architects served a massive institutional building campaign whose sole justification was the incapacitation and segregation of the inmate population.
Berkheya spekeana Oliv.
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Asterales
Asteraceae
Berkheya
Berkheya spekeana

description: Berkheya spekeana Oliv.  —
Habit: Herb.
Habitat: LMWF, LMDF, BZ, UMF; up to 3 400 m. Distribution: II.
 Voucher: Chogoria Track, Alt. 3 269 m, 25 Jan. 2015, SAJIT 002839 (HIB).
References: Bussmann (1994), Agnew (2013).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 90, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Constructing symplectomorphisms between symplectic torus quotients
Creators: name: Herbig, Hans-Christian
name: Lawler, Ethan
name: Seaton, Christopher
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 53D20, Secondary 13A50, 14L30

description: We identify a family of torus representations such that the corresponding singular symplectic quotients at the $0$-level of the moment map are graded regularly symplectomorphic to symplectic quotients associated to representations of the circle. For a subfamily of these torus representations, we give an explicit description of each symplectic quotient as a Poisson differential space with global chart as well as a complete classification of the graded regular diffeomorphism and symplectomorphism classes. Finally, we give explicit examples to indicate that symplectic quotients in this class may have graded isomorphic algebras of real regular functions and graded Poisson isomorphic complex symplectic quotients yet not be graded regularly diffeomorphic nor graded regularly symplectomorphic.
description: 19 pages. This is a pre-print of an article published in Beitr\"age zur Algebra und Geometrie / Contributions to Algebra and Geometry. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13366-020-00486-8
Technoethics and Human Rights: The Metaethical Implications of Crisismapping and the Right to Privacy in Post-Disaster, Post-Conflict Scenarios
Creators: Rodgers, Nicole
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Human rights
Emergency management
Emergency management--Data processing
Privacy, Right of
Computer security

description: Do invasive digital approaches to disaster response come at too high of a cost to privacy, such that we should seek alternative methods or regulations? This paper examines the tension between the right to privacy and crisismapping, a new technological advancement in emergency response. After mapping the critical international institutions and stakeholders, the paper grounds interests to effective triage and to digital privacy in international human rights law. A thought experiment is offered to show our conflicting intuitions when privacy is weighed against critical safety interests, and multiple procedures are evaluated as means to reconcile these interests and determine the extent of the right to privacy. Ultimately, the paper calls for an expanded inquiry by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy, who has the power to engage multiple stakeholders for a fair and inclusive new approach. Privacy costs are too fundamental for emergency response to proceed without proper scrutiny.
Brittleness of Iron Ore Tailings : Fact or Artifact, a Case Study
Creators: name: Vermeulen, N. J.
name: Archer, A.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: This paper presents a case study on the assessment of brittleness of an iron ore tailings facility. The assessment focusses on the interpretation of cone penetration test (CPT) data from two test campaigns by two independent contractors. Different conclusions regarding brittleness were obtained. Apart from the various differences between the bespoke cones used, focus is placed on the piezocone saturation fluid, i.e., glycerin versus silicon oil, and the impact on the dynamic pore pressure response and equilibrium pore pressure regime. A unique feature of this assessment is the impact the results have on the brittleness classification. It is shown that differences in dynamic pore pressure response and tip resistance in the two datasets result in completely different brittleness classifications on this particular tailings facility. Based on the findings of this case study, it is recommended that future CPT campaigns allow for dual probes at each test position, the first using silicon oil as saturation fluid and the second using glycerin. This approach is likely to result in more reliable measurements of dynamic and equilibrium pore pressures, which will lead to improved assessments of tailings facilities.
Technologies and Urban Traffic -How New Technologies Impact a Conventional Intersection
Creators: Li, Lingyu (Simon)
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: City planning--Transportation
City traffic--Planning
Traffic signs and signals--Lighting
Traffic congestion--Prevention
Roads--Interchanges and intersections

description: Urban population swelling and the expansion of people’s need for transportation make traffic congestions an important urban deficiency faced by cities over the globe. Fortunately, emerging information technologies grant us many possible ways to improve the situation. This research built intersection traffic models in PTV Vissim platform to test the performance of Fluctuated Traffic Light technology, Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I) technology, and Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V) technology under both peak and bottom volumes. The results indicate that these emerging technologies have the potential to boost traffic performance. V2I method functions the best under higher traffic volumes, while V2V tested to be the best under lower traffic volumes. Take a step back, from urban planning perspective, these technologies are still in their early stages and seems far from reality, however, planners should be prepared for the challenges it may pose.