cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Joint one-sided synthetic unpaired image translation and segmentation for colorectal cancer prevention
Creators: name: Moreu, Enric
name: Arazo, Eric
name: McGuinness, Kevin
name: O'Connor, Noel E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Deep learning has shown excellent performance in analysing medical images. However, datasets are difficult to obtain due privacy issues, standardization problems, and lack of annotations. We address these problems by producing realistic synthetic images using a combination of 3D technologies and generative adversarial networks. We propose CUT-seg, a joint training where a segmentation model and a generative model are jointly trained to produce realistic images while learning to segment polyps. We take advantage of recent one-sided translation models because they use significantly less memory, allowing us to add a segmentation model in the training loop. CUT-seg performs better, is computationally less expensive, and requires less real images than other memory-intensive image translation approaches that require two stage training. Promising results are achieved on five real polyp segmentation datasets using only one real image and zero real annotations. As a part of this study we release Synth-Colon, an entirely synthetic dataset that includes 20000 realistic colon images and additional details about depth and 3D geometry: https://enric1994.github.io/synth-colon
description: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2202.08680
Optimizing the Learning Order of Chinese Characters Using a Novel Topological Sort Algorithm
Creators: name: Loach, James C.
name: Wang, Jinzhao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a novel algorithm for optimizing the order in which Chinese characters are learned, one that incorporates the benefits of learning them in order of usage frequency and in order of their hierarchal structural relationships. We show that our work outperforms previously published orders and algorithms. Our algorithm is applicable to any scheduling task where nodes have intrinsic differences in importance and must be visited in topological order.
Bright and photostable single-photon emitter in silicon carbide
Creators: name: Lienhard, Benjamin
name: Schröder, Tim
name: Mouradian, Sara
name: Dolde, Florian
name: Tran, Toan Trong
name: Aharonovich, Igor
name: Englund, Dirk R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Single-photon sources are of paramount importance in quantum communication, quantum computation, and quantum metrology. In particular, there is great interest in realizing scalable solid-state platforms that can emit triggered photons on demand to achieve scalable nanophotonic networks. We report on a visible-spectrum single-photon emitter in 4H silicon carbide (SiC). The emitter is photostable at room and low temperatures, enabling photon counts per second in excess of 2$\times$10$^6$ from unpatterned bulk SiC. It exists in two orthogonally polarized states, which have parallel absorption and emission dipole orientations. Low-temperature measurements reveal a narrow zero phonon line (linewidth $<0.1~$nm) that accounts for $>30$% of the total photoluminescence spectrum.
The acute effect of a myofascial release intervention on resting scapular position
Creators: name: McLeod, Michelle M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: This study examined the acute effect of utilizing a self myofascial release technique (MRT) intervention on resting scapular position. Resting postural and kinematic data were collected using an electromagnetic motion analysis system on twenty-nine subjects (15 experimental, 14 control) using a pretest-posttest design. Posture was determined through measures of scapular upward/downward rotation, scapular internal/external rotation, and scapular anterior/posterior tipping. Measures were compared between groups prior to and immediately following the MRT intervention using a foam roller or rest period lasting the duration required to complete the MRT. Statistical analyses revealed no significant differences in posture for group, or for test by group interaction. A main effect was observed for test in anterior/posterior tipping, suggesting the scapula was more posteriorly tipped in posttest measures.
You are Hungry: Flâneuring, Edible Mapping and Feeding Imaginations
Creators: name: Tomkins, Mikey
Publisher: name: FOOTPRINT
Year: 2012

description: The idea of growing food in cities, often termed urban agriculture (UA), is rapidly becoming a popular concept linked to ideas of sustainable cities. However, for most residents it is a difficult concept to visualize due to the complexity of the built environment. This research uses 32 participatory walks with 150 local residents around a 25-hectare site within east London to explore reactions to the idea of potential UA landscapes. The starting point for walks was the ‘edible map’. The edible map is a hand-drawn A2 map of the site that filled the many vacant and grassed areas, common to cities, with food growing suggestions. The map was presented to walkers as a provocation to stimulate discussion. The 32 participatory walks produce an initial engagement with the concept of UA and the need for local food systems but also produced a strong critique of urban spatial design and the desire to place-make. Exploring how these desires interact needs to be further understood because potentially the latter could dominate the former. Therefore, institutions that advocate UA need to be mindful of the interactions between spatial engagements and food-growing practices that may compromise the vital need for local food production at the core of the UA concept.
description: FOOTPRINT, Issue # 10/11 | Spring 2012 | Architecture Culture and the Question of Knowledge: Doctoral Research Today
title: Управление организационной эффективностью строительной компании
Creators: name: Асаул А.Н.
name:  Шишлов Г.И.
Publisher: name: Институт проблем экономического возрождения, Санкт-Петербургский государственный архитектурно-строительный университет
Year: 2008

description: В монографии исследуется сущность терминов «эффективность» и организационная эффективность. На основе анализа различных подходов к проблемам измерения, оценивания и анализа организационной эффективности строительных компаний, разработаны методические рекомендации по оценке управления организационной эффективности строительной компании. Исследования выполнены в соответствии с программой научных исследований научной школы: «Методологические проблемы эффективности региональных инвестиционно-строительных комплексов как самоорганизующихся и саморегулирующихся систем». Книга предназначена для аспирантов, студентов, а также слушателям системы переподготовки и повышения квалификации, а также широкому кругу читателей, интересующихся современными проблемами инновационного развития страны.
description: The monograph explores the essence of the terms "effectiveness" and organizational effectiveness. Based on the analysis of various approaches to problems of measurement, evaluation and assessment of organizational effectiveness in construction companies, has developed guidelines for the management assessment of organizational effectiveness of construction company. The studies were performed in accordance with the program of scientific researches of scientific school "Methodological problems of efficiency of regional investment-construction complexes as self-organizing and self-regulating systems." The book is intended for graduate students and listeners of system of retraining and advanced training, and a wide circle of readers interested in modern problems of innovative development of the country.
Multiple target tracking based on sets of trajectories
Creators: name: García-Fernández, Ángel F.
name: Svensson, Lennart
name: Morelande, Mark R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: We propose a solution of the multiple target tracking (MTT) problem based on sets of trajectories and the random finite set framework. A full Bayesian approach to MTT should characterise the distribution of the trajectories given the measurements, as it contains all information about the trajectories. We attain this by considering multi-object density functions in which objects are trajectories. For the standard tracking models, we also describe a conjugate family of multitrajectory density functions.
description: MATLAB implementations of algorithms based on sets of trajectories can be found at https://github.com/Agarciafernandez
Conflict and the City: How Newspapers Deal with Local Political Conflict
Creators: name: Chamberlain, Adam Sander
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: While the study of the media and politics has become important to the discipline, little is know about how local political issues are depicted by newspapers. Building a theory derived from the communications and political science literature, the political and demographic environment of a city should shape the reporting of local political conflict in newspapers. Using an original data set, the results empirically confirm some aspects of the existing literature while offering new insights into the exact mechanisms behind the reporting of local political conflict.
Underwater 3D positioning on smart devices
Creators: name: Chen, Tuochao
name: Chan, Justin
name: Gollakota, Shyamnath
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: The emergence of water-proof mobile and wearable devices (e.g., Garmin Descent and Apple Watch Ultra) designed for underwater activities like professional scuba diving, opens up opportunities for underwater networking and localization capabilities on these devices. Here, we present the first underwater acoustic positioning system for smart devices. Unlike conventional systems that use floating buoys as anchors at known locations, we design a system where a dive leader can compute the relative positions of all other divers, without any external infrastructure. Our intuition is that in a well-connected network of devices, if we compute the pairwise distances, we can determine the shape of the network topology. By incorporating orientation information about a single diver who is in the visual range of the leader device, we can then estimate the positions of all the remaining divers, even if they are not within sight. We address various practical problems including detecting erroneous distance estimates, addressing rotational and flipping ambiguities as well as designing a distributed timestamp protocol that scales linearly with the number of devices. Our evaluations show that our distributed system running on underwater deployments of 4-5 commodity smart devices can perform pairwise ranging and localization with median errors of 0.5-0.9 m and 0.9-1.6 m
Potamogeton perfoliatus Linnaeus 1753
Creators: name: Abbasi, Shabnam
name: Afsharzadeh, Saeed
name: Dinarvand, Mehri
name: Wiegleb, Gerhard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Alismatales
Potamogetonaceae
Potamogeton
Potamogeton perfoliatus

description: Potamogeton perfoliatus Linnaeus (1753:126), Fig 7
Perennial, rhizome slender to robust, stem slender to robust, terete, strongly branched.Leaves monomorphic; submersed leaves ovate sessile, cordate at base, clasping the stem, minutely denticulate at margin, at least in juvenile state, 16–100 mm long, 10–50 mm wide, 7–15 veined, obtuse to acute at apex; stipules not fused, 6–7 mm long, membranaceous, not persistent and easily eroding to fibrous remnants. Spike 5–15 mm long, peduncle 10–45 mm long, slightly thicker than the stem. Tepals 1 mm long, anthers 1 mm long. Carpels 4, fruits 2.5–3 mm long. Stele of atypical trio type (with two central bundles of unequal size), endodermis of O-type, interlacunar bundles absent, subepidermal bundles absent.
 Worldwide distribution: —Europe, N and C Africa, W Asia (Turkey, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Palestine), East Asia, Australia, E North and C America.
 Distribution in Iran: —North, Northeast, South, Southeast.
 Flowering time: —From spring to autumn.
 Specimen examined:— IRAN. Mazandaran: Valasht lake, 983 m, 14 Aug 2014, Abbasi & Afsharzadeh 20181 (HUI!); Tajan river, 1000 m, 29 Aug 2015, Abbasi & Afsharzadeh 20187(HUI!); Isfahan: Vimcheh, river, 1705 m, 26 Sep 2014, Abbasi & Afsharzadeh 20163 (HUI!); Mashhad: Kardeh Dam, 1295 m, 20 Sep 2014, Basiri 20184 (HUI!); West Azerbaijan: Dalamper fall, 2000 m, 11 Sep 2013, Bagheri 20185 (HUI!); Miandoab wetland, 1000 m, 8 Aug 2015, Abbasi & Afsharzadeh 20186 (HUI!); Khuzestan: Shushtar, Bandemizan bridge, 127 m, 27 June 2014, Abbasi & Afsharzadeh 20188 (HUI!); Bostan to Chazaeh under metal bridge, 700 m, 3 May 2008, Dinarvand 8271 (Herbarium of the Research Center of Agriculture & Natural Resources of Khuzestan!); Ahvaz between Albagi and Pole Rudkhane shachour, 80 m, 20 June 2008, Dinarvand 72238 (Herbarium of the Research Center of Agriculture & Natural Resources of Khuzestan!); Fars: Dashte Arjan wetland, 1800 m, 10 July 1998, Zehzad & Taheri 67053 (TARI!); Sistan: Zabol, Hamoon lake, 480 m, 25 May 1984, Mozaffarian 63455 (TARI!).
description: Published as part of Abbasi, Shabnam, Afsharzadeh, Saeed, Dinarvand, Mehri & Wiegleb, Gerhard, 2017, Synopsis of Potamogetonaceae in Iran with supplements to the Flora Iranica and a new identification key, pp. 1-21 in Phytotaxa 311 (1) on page 8, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.311.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13686054
Speed of Sound in Hadronic matter using Non-extensive Tsallis Statistics
Creators: name: Khuntia, Arvind
name: Sahoo, Pragati
name: Garg, Prakhar
name: Sahoo, Raghunath
name: Cleymans, Jean
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The speed of sound ($c_s$) is studied to understand the hydrodynamical evolution of the matter created in heavy-ion collisions. The quark-gluon plasma (QGP) formed in heavy-ion collisions evolves from an initial QGP to the hadronic phase via a possible mixed phase. Due to the system expansion in a first order phase transition scenario, the speed of sound reduces to zero as the specific heat diverges. We study the speed of sound for systems, which deviate from a thermalized Boltzmann distribution using non-extensive Tsallis statistics. In the present work, we calculate the speed of sound as a function of temperature for different $q$-values for a hadron resonance gas. We observe a similar mass cut-off behaviour in non-extensive case for $c^{2}_s$ by including heavier particles, as is observed in the case of a hadron resonance gas following equilibrium statistics. Also, we explicitly present that the temperature where the mass cut-off starts, varies with the $q$-parameter which hints at a relation between the degree of non-equilibrium and the limiting temperature of the system. It is shown that for values of $q$ above approximately 1.13 all criticality disappear in the speed of sound, i.e. the decrease in the value of the speed of sound, observed at lower values of $q$, disappears completely.
description: Same as published version in EPJA
Final Report for Integrated Network Planning in Europe
Creators: name: Brandstätt, Christine
name: Lüth, Alexandra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This report sums up the findings of the STEERS project, which aims at aiding the implementation of system integration, the energy efficiency first principle, as well as the improvement of transparency and openness in the planning of energy networks in the European Union, and specifically in the Ten-Year Network Development Plan (TYNDP) process.
 In the project, the Copenhagen School of Energy Infrastructure (CSEI) has first assessed the planning of cross-border network infrastructure in Europe against the current state of knowledge. Subsequently, with the STEERS methodology (Brandstätt et al., 2023) the project team has proposed incremental changes to the TYNDP process in view of the requirements from the TEN-E regulation recast. Lastly, the feasibility of the altered methodology is assessed in this report. The suggestions and findings have been discussed throughout the project with and among stakeholders from the modelling community, the European network industry, policy makers and societal actors, to ensure their relevance and viability in practice.
description: Funded by the European Union via the STEERS project.
Haecceity, Drawing and Mapping
Creators: name: Hougaard, Anne Katrine
Publisher: name: FOOTPRINT
Year: 2012

description: Haecceity or ‘thisness’ is a philosophical concept that relates to architectural drawing in the sense that a haecceity is something that becomes individual from having been undifferentiated. Haecceities lie at the heart of many interlinking, dynamic processes of ethics, art, instinct, intelligence and life. Haecceities open up for an understanding of architectural drawing distinct from ‘merely’ representing built or buildable architectural space, being rather a method of both acting and thinking. That the architectural drawing represents building and space is inherent, but, for the same reason, the architectural drawing’s power to produce space and buildings is sometimes diminished. This capacity of drawing, along with analogue and digital drawing tools and analogue and digital notational systems, is discussed in the paper, aiming to break down the usual ideas of architectural drawing, the digital and the analogue, and to build up a research method to create thoughts and worlds.
description: FOOTPRINT, Issue # 10/11 | Spring 2012 | Architecture Culture and the Question of Knowledge: Doctoral Research Today
A Convex Primal Formulation for Convex Hull Pricing
Creators: name: Hua, Bowen
name: Baldick, Ross
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In certain electricity markets, because of non-convexities that arise from their operating characteristics, generators that follow the independent system operator's (ISO's) decisions may fail to recover their cost through sales of energy at locational marginal prices. Discriminatory side payments are made by the ISO to incentivize the compliance of generators. Convex hull pricing is a uniform pricing scheme that minimizes these side payments. The Lagrangian dual problem of the unit commitment problem has been used to determine convex hull prices. However, this approach is computationally expensive. In this paper, we propose a polynomially-solvable primal formulation for the Lagrangian dual problem. This formulation explicitly describes for each generating unit the convex hull of its feasible set and the convex envelope of its cost function. We cast our formulation as a second-order cone program when the cost functions are quadratic, and a linear program when the cost functions are piecewise linear. A 96-period 76-unit transmission-constrained example is solved in less than fifteen seconds on a personal computer.
Bridging: The Spatial Construction of Knowledge in Architectural Research
Creators: name: Havik, Klaske
Publisher: name: FOOTPRINT
Year: 2012

description: This contribution proposes an interdisciplinary approach to architectural research, and states that composition is a methodological act of research. It will first argue that architectural research and practice can gain from a multi-perspectival approach, bringing in knowledge from different fields – in this case the field of literature. Referring to the author’s recently finished dissertation, it proposes a literary approach to architecture and the city, and explains how the ambiguities of architecture (subject-object, author-user and reality-fiction) can be addressed by literary means. Then, it makes clear that bringing together knowledge from different fields requires an act of composition. It argues that knowledge can be seen as a spatial construction rather than a linear one, and that the mediating capacity of the architect offers researchers with a background in architecture the possibility to develop such spatial research compositions.
description: FOOTPRINT, Issue # 10/11 | Spring 2012 | Architecture Culture and the Question of Knowledge: Doctoral Research Today
An Antipodean Imaginary for Architecture+Philosophy: Ficto-Critical Approaches to Design Practice Research
Creators: name: Frichot, Hélène
name: Preston, Julieanna
name: Spooner, Michael
name: Pickersgill, Sean
name: Kovar, Zuzana
name: Hann, Ceri
name: Evans, Megg
Publisher: name: FOOTPRINT
Year: 2012

description: This is a collaborative essay that presents the design practice research of six postgraduate researchers (past and present), who have been working within the Architecture+Philosophy research stream at the School of Architecture, RMIT University, Melbourne. What unites the projects is an aspiration to maintain a creative relationship between architectural design project research and critical theory, with an emphasis on transdisciplinary potentialities. While the design research introduced here is diverse, the researchers all share an engagement in how to construct imaginary worlds using what can be identified as a ficto-critical approach that draws on the productive intersection of architecture and philosophy. Hélène Frichot, who will situate this research from her position as their primary doctoral advisor, argues that by pursuing a productive relay between theory and practice a novel Antipodean design imaginary can be seen to emerge across the collected projects.
description: FOOTPRINT, Issue # 10/11 | Spring 2012 | Architecture Culture and the Question of Knowledge: Doctoral Research Today
If We Are, Indeed, All ‘Embedded’, Then What to Do Next? A Review of BAVO’s Too Active to Act
Creators: name: Doucet, Isabelle
Publisher: name: FOOTPRINT
Year: 2011

description: This article reviews BAVO’s recent publication, Too Active to Act, Cultureel Activisme na het Einde van de Geschiedenis, which forms a critical analysis of cultural production and activism in The Netherlands. This publication is then used as an occasion to question, in more general terms, the possibility of a form of social engagement that is situated and embedded in the real, that is within the system [rather than processed through theory, ideology or oppositional critique]. It argues that, in order to address this question, one needs not just to question what practice can or should do (in order to guarantee criticality, for example), but one also needs to revise the meaning of being ‘marginal’ once we are within the system, and the role of theory in the ‘anti-theory setting’ described by BAVO.
description: FOOTPRINT, Issue # 8 | Spring 2011 | Defying the Avant-Garde Logic: Architecture, Populism, and Mass Culture
Curating the Urban Utopia of Fun
Creators: name: Krivý, Maroš
Publisher: name: FOOTPRINT
Year: 2011

description: The article reviews the exhibition Dreamlands, staged in Centre Pompidou, Paris in summer 2010. The exhibition's main theme is described as urban 'utopia of fun'. In relation to this utopia, the article suggests a field of contradictory positions within which the presented exhibits can be distributed. Curating of the exhibition is discussed in the next step. The inability to bring forward and map these contradictory positions is analysed as a main shortcoming of the exhibition.
description: FOOTPRINT, Issue # 8 | Spring 2011 | Defying the Avant-Garde Logic: Architecture, Populism, and Mass Culture
title: FOOTPRINT, Issue # 9 | Autumn 2011 | The European Welfare State Project: Ideals, Politics, Cities and Buildings
title: Issue # 9 | Autumn 2011 | The European Welfare State Project: Ideals, Politics, Cities and Buildings
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: FOOTPRINT
Publisher: name: FOOTPRINT
Year: 2014

description: This issue of Footprint is based on the conference session ‘The European Welfare State Project – Ideals, Politics, Cities and Buildings’ as organized by the editors at the first EAHN Conference in Guimarães, Portugal in 2010, and as elaborated in the second EAHN Conference in Brussels, Belgium in 2012 (together with Mark Swenarton). These sessions were proposed as part of the research programme ‘Changing Ideals – Shifting Realities’ at the TU Delft, which aims to further disclose, map and question the architectural culture of the second half of the twentieth century. It focuses on how the welfare state in Western Europe represents a unique time frame in which manifold shifts within the modernist discourse in architecture and planning were paired with societal changes that established new assemblages between producers, designers, governments, clients, builders and users. It is part of the editors’ assumption that the current crisis of capitalism puts the politics of redistribution back on the agenda. In re-investigating the vast legacy of the welfare state, it seems only natural to look for new models for collectivity, not to dwell in nostalgia, but indeed to find alternatives to suit the new situation. At the intersections of building practice, architectural viewpoints, national and local cultural contexts, a nuanced image of welfare state architecture emerges. Issue's editors: Tom Avermaete and Dirk van den Heuvel
description: The Ruins of the British Welfare State...95-101 The Multiple Modernities of Sweden...91-94 The Odd One Out? Revisiting the Belgian Welfare State...87-90 La Défense / Zone B (1953-91): Light and Shadows of the French Welfare State...71-86 Appropriating Modernism: From the Reception of Team 10 in Portuguese Architectural Culture to the SAAL Programme (1959-74)...49-70 Reforming the Welfare State: Camden 1965-73...41-48 Architecture and the Ideology of Productivity: Four Public Housing Projects by Groupe Structures in Brussels (1950-65)...25-40 From acceptera to Vällingby: The Discourse on Individuality and Community in Sweden (1931-54) ...5-24 ‘Obama, Please Tax Me!’: Architecture and the Politics of Redistribution...1-4
‘Obama, Please Tax Me!’: Architecture and the Politics of Redistribution
Creators: name: Avermaete, Tom
name: Van Den Heuvel, Dirk
Publisher: name: FOOTPRINT
Year: 2011

description: This issue of Footprint is based on the conference session ‘The European Welfare State Project – Ideals, Politics, Cities and Buildings’ as organized by the editors at the first EAHN Conference in Guimarães, Portugal in 2010, and as elaborated in the second EAHN Conference in Brussels, Belgium in 2012 (together with Mark Swenarton). These sessions were proposed as part of the research programme ‘Changing Ideals – Shifting Realities’ at the TU Delft, which aims to further disclose, map and question the architectural culture of the second half of the twentieth century. It focuses on how the welfare state in Western Europe represents a unique time frame in which manifold shifts within the modernist discourse in architecture and planning were paired with societal changes that established new assemblages between producers, designers, governments, clients, builders and users. It is part of the editors’ assumption that the current crisis of capitalism puts the politics of redistribution back on the agenda. In re-investigating the vast legacy of the welfare state, it seems only natural to look for new models for collectivity, not to dwell in nostalgia, but indeed to find alternatives to suit the new situation. At the intersections of building practice, architectural viewpoints, national and local cultural contexts, a nuanced image of welfare state architecture emerges.
description: FOOTPRINT, Issue # 9 | Autumn 2011 | The European Welfare State Project: Ideals, Politics, Cities and Buildings
From acceptera to Vällingby: The Discourse on Individuality and Community in Sweden (1931-54)
Creators: name: Creagh, Lucy
Publisher: name: FOOTPRINT
Year: 2011

description: The Swedish suburb of Vällingby, completed in 1954, culminated an investigation into the housing problem which can be traced back to the functionalist manifesto acceptera of 1931, where the issue of finding a ‘Middle Way’ between the individual and the mass, the personal and the universal was presented as being as central to the project of modern architecture as it was to Social Democracy as a whole. The ebb and flow of discourse on housing and policy during the 30s and early 40s engaged directly with the binary of private individualism/public collectivism, drawing on the thinking of figures such as Ellen Key, Torgny T. Segerstedt and Lewis Mumford to arrive at neighbourhood planning as a suitable foil to both the laissez-faire of the capitalist system and the monotonous and alienating results of early attempts at mass social housing. While Vällingby provided improved dwellings and amenity, setting new standards in terms of efficiency, economy and convenience, these very qualities, it is suggested in conclusion, also mask the ‘unfreedoms’ of the modern welfare state, which in the case of Vällingby might be seen as the Social Democratic bias towards a ‘group society’ at the expense of true self-determination.
description: FOOTPRINT, Issue # 9 | Autumn 2011 | The European Welfare State Project: Ideals, Politics, Cities and Buildings
Architecture and the Ideology of Productivity: Four Public Housing Projects by Groupe Structures in Brussels (1950-65)
Creators: name: Sterken, Sven
Publisher: name: FOOTPRINT
Year: 2011

description: The field of public housing in Belgium formed the backdrop for two crucial phenomena in the shaping of the welfare state: first, the general compartmentalization along ideological lines of all aspects of society, including housing policy and town planning; second, the adaptation of the nation’s industry, and the building trade in particular, to postwar economic conditions. In the study of welfare state housing policies in Belgium, the latter aspect has so far been overlooked. This paper therefore proposes to look into a couple of public housing projects by Groupe Structures, the largest architectural firm in the country in the postwar period. As it will be argued, the stylistic and typological evolution of these schemes reveals the growing impact of a ‘productivist ideology’ on public housing in the 1950s. Paralyzed by the steeply rising building costs, the central buzzwords became standardization, industrialization and prefabrication. However, as the paper argues, the productivity doctrine failed to live up to its expectations as the sector’s turnover remained too marginal to put sufficient pressure on the construction industry.
description: FOOTPRINT, Issue # 9 | Autumn 2011 | The European Welfare State Project: Ideals, Politics, Cities and Buildings
Reforming the Welfare State: Camden 1965-73
Creators: name: Swenarton, Mark
Publisher: name: FOOTPRINT
Year: 2011

description: The housing projects built by the London Borough of Camden in the years 1965-73 belong arguably to the most substantial investigations into the architecture of social housing undertaken in the past half-century. Under borough architect Sydney Cook, Camden aimed to establish a new kind of housing architecture based, not on the Corbusian tabula rasa, but on a radical reinterpretation of traditional English urbanism. The outcome was a series of projects, including Fleet Road, Alexandra Road, Highgate New Town, Branch Hill and Maiden Lane, designed by members of Cook’s team, including Neave Brown, Peter Tábori and Gordon Benson and Alan Forsyth, as well as projects designed by up-and-coming private architects like Colquhoun & Miller, Edward Cullinan and Farrell Grimshaw. While it began in what Hobsbawm called the ‘golden age’ of postwar capitalism, the Cook years (1965-73) saw the onset of the crisis of the 1970s and with it the rise of the New Right and the Hard Left, both of which viewed the Camden housing projects as a legitimate target for attack. Based on archival research and interviews, the paper explores the ways in which the Cook projects both mediated and articulated the emergence of these fissures within the British welfare state.
description: FOOTPRINT, Issue # 9 | Autumn 2011 | The European Welfare State Project: Ideals, Politics, Cities and Buildings
$\aleph_0$-categorical Banach spaces contain $\ell_p$ or $c_0$
Creators: name: Khanaki, Karim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46B04, 46B25, 03C45, 03C98

description: This paper has three parts. First, we establish some of the basic model theoretic facts about $M_{\mathcal{T}}$, the Tsirelson space of Figiel and Johnson \cite{FJ}. Second, using the results of the first part, we give some facts about general Banach spaces. Third, we study model-theoretic dividing lines in some Banach spaces and their theories. In~particular, we show: (1) $M_{\mathcal{T}}$ has the \emph{non independence property} (NIP); (2) every Banach space that is $\aleph_0$-categorical up to small perturbations embeds $c_0$ or $\ell_p$ ($1\leqslant p
description: In the new version, many changes have been made: (1) there are some necessary functional analysis background, (2) several results have been improved, (3) there are many rearrangements, (4) this version is probably more readable. There were some incomplete ideas in the previous version that were removed in this version
Visualizing the islands of Napoleon: Napoleonic lieux de mémoire in nineteenth-century Britain
Creators: name: You, Ji Eun
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Between Napoleon's exile to St. Helena in 1815 and his reburial in 1840, a vast repository of Napoleonic imagery appeared in Britain, where the political of national identity brought about an intense reflection on how to articulate the national past. Informed by Pierre Nora's notion of the intersection of memory, history and nation in sites of memory, or the lieux de mémoire, I examine how the memory of Napoleon was simultaneously crystallized and concealed through a popular motif of the three Napoleonic islands- Corsica, Elba and St. Helena. A close visual analysis on the representational space of the island images reveals the illusory masking of the vicariousness and elusiveness of British Napoleonic memories through strategic use of pictorial devices. Thus, through Napoleonic images of the mid-nineteenth century, this thesis explores the play of memory and history and their visualization in the in real and represented island spaces.
Effective Sample Size for Importance Sampling based on discrepancy measures
Creators: name: Martino, L.
name: Elvira, V.
name: Louzada, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The Effective Sample Size (ESS) is an important measure of efficiency of Monte Carlo methods such as Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) and Importance Sampling (IS) techniques. In the IS context, an approximation $\widehat{ESS}$ of the theoretical ESS definition is widely applied, involving the inverse of the sum of the squares of the normalized importance weights. This formula, $\widehat{ESS}$, has become an essential piece within Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) methods, to assess the convenience of a resampling step. From another perspective, the expression $\widehat{ESS}$ is related to the Euclidean distance between the probability mass described by the normalized weights and the discrete uniform probability mass function (pmf). In this work, we derive other possible ESS functions based on different discrepancy measures between these two pmfs. Several examples are provided involving, for instance, the geometric mean of the weights, the discrete entropy (including theperplexity measure, already proposed in literature) and the Gini coefficient among others. We list five theoretical requirements which a generic ESS function should satisfy, allowing us to classify different ESS measures. We also compare the most promising ones by means of numerical simulations.
Appropriating Modernism: From the Reception of Team 10 in Portuguese Architectural Culture to the SAAL Programme (1959-74)
Creators: name: Baía, Pedro
Publisher: name: FOOTPRINT
Year: 2011

description: This paper aims to map the relations between the Portuguese appropriation of Team 10’s architectural ideas and the housing policies launched by the state, especially through the SAAL programme, which stood for Ambulatory Support to Local Residents Programme and ran for a brief period between 1974 and 1976. Through an intellectual speculation based on an analysis of the historical discourse, this paper seeks to demonstrate how the critical and interpretative reception of Team 10’s ideas by the Portuguese architectural culture played an important role in the process leading up to the SAAL programme. The aim of this approach is to open up a hypothesis for reflection on this reception in its various senses, even if it is mixed with other narratives, in an attempt to understand the way in which Team 10 was critically interpreted, disseminated and assimilated. One could say that the relation between the Portuguese context and Team 10 is an oblique one. However, it is possible to identify some resonances that confirm the importance and pertinence of Team 10’s presence.
description: FOOTPRINT, Issue # 9 | Autumn 2011 | The European Welfare State Project: Ideals, Politics, Cities and Buildings
Curtis homomorphisms and the integral Bernstein center for GL_n
Creators: name: Helm, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11F33, 11F70, 11F80

description: We describe two conjectures, one strictly stronger than the other, that give descriptions of the integral Bernstein center for GL_n(F) (that is, the center of the category of smooth W(k)[GL_n(F)]-modules, for F a p-adic field and k an algebraically closed field of characteristic l different from p) in terms of Galois theory. Moreover, we show that the weak version of the conjecture (for m at most n) implies the strong version of the conjecture. In a companion paper [HM] we show that the strong conjecture for n-1 implies the weak conjecture for n; thus the two papers together give an inductive proof of both conjectures. The upshot is a description of the integral Bernstein center for GL_n in purely Galois-theoretic terms; previous work of the author shows that such a description implies the conjectural "local Langlands correspondence in families" of Emerton and the author.
description: Final accepted version. 36 pages. Note that the published version of Helm-Moss, "Converse theorems and the local Langlands correspondence in families" references an earlier version of this paper, and the section numbering has changed; in particular sections 9,10, and 11 of the referenced version correspond to sections 8,9, and 10 of the current version, respectively
Walking Around Chapel Hill (WACH): A Pilot Exercise Program for Individuals with Serious Mental Illness
Creators: name: Browne, Julia
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: The health benefits of exercise are well documented, yet annual health care costs related to physical inactivity within the billions. Previous exercise research in individuals with serious mental illness (SMI) has been encouraging yet limited in accessibility and sustainability of interventions. The current study developed and evaluated the impact of a group, pedometer-based walking program on the health of individuals with SMI. To achieve these goals, we first conducted focus groups to obtain input from clients and clinicians regarding implementation and adoption of a walking program. Upon incorporating findings from focus groups, we developed and pilot tested a group, pedometer-based walking program in 16 individuals with SMI, Walking Around Chapel Hill (WACH). Results indicated feasibility and acceptability as well as improvements in physical health, activity level, social support, and mental health. Future research should examine group, pedometer-based walking programs in larger samples and with the inclusion of a comparison condition.
The Effect of Estradiol on Insulin Concentration in Response to an Acute Bout of Exercise
Creators: name: Lehman, Cecily
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 2012

description: The purpose of this study was to determine the influence of changes in circulating estradiol levels on the insulin response to an acute bout of exercise, in college age women who were not using hormonal contraceptives. Ten eumenorrheic women completed exercise sessions (60 minutes, 65% of VO2max) in the mid-follicular (days 3 - 7; low estradiol levels) and mid-luteal (days 20 - 25; high estradiol levels) phases of their menstrual cycle. Blood samples were taken pre-exercise, immediately post-exercise, and 30 minutes into recovery. Results indicate that there is not a significant change in resting or exercise insulin levels during the low and high estradiol phases of the menstrual cycle (p = 0.415). In addition, the added stress of exercise does not cause a significantly different percentage change (i.e., level of decrease) in insulin between the low and high estradiol phases of the menstrual cycle (p = 0.494).
David vs Goliath (You against the Markets), A Dynamic Programming Approach to Separate the Impact and Timing of Trading Costs
Creators: name: Kashyap, Ravi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Trading and Market Microstructure (q-fin.TR)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 68T37 Reasoning under uncertainty, 49L20 Dynamic programming method, 91A10 Noncooperative games

description: We develop a fundamentally different stochastic dynamic programming model of trading costs. Built on a strong theoretical foundation, our model provides insights to market participants by splitting the overall move of the security price during the duration of an order into the Market Impact (price move caused by their actions) and Market Timing (price move caused by everyone else) components. We derive formulations of this model under different laws of motion of the security prices, starting with a simple benchmark scenario and extending this to include multiple sources of uncertainty, liquidity constraints due to volume curve shifts and relating trading costs to the spread. We develop a numerical framework that can be used to obtain optimal executions under any law of motion of prices and demonstrate the tremendous practical applicability of our theoretical methodology including the powerful numerical techniques to implement them. Our decomposition of trading costs into Market Impact and Market Timing allows us to deduce the zero sum game nature of trading costs. It holds numerous lessons for dealing with complex systems, wherein reducing the complexity by splitting the many sources of uncertainty can lead to better insights in the decision process.
title: FOOTPRINT, Issue # 10/11 | Spring 2012 | Architecture Culture and the Question of Knowledge: Doctoral Research Today
title: Issue # 10/11 | Spring 2012 | Architecture Culture and the Question of Knowledge: Doctoral Research Today
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: FOOTPRINT
Publisher: name: FOOTPRINT
Year: 2014

description: Over the past fifteen years most advanced education programmes within Schools of Architecture have been questioning the parameters and requirements of doctoral research both in terms of content and form. This double issue of Footprint was motivated by the question of where the field stands today. Footprint 10|11 presents nine contributions from both recently defended and developing PhD candidates from a variety of institutions. The diversity of their work, as well as the similarities found in the submissions, offers a partial view into research topics currently addressed in PhD programmes within Schools of Architecture. In addition to the nine papers by PhD researchers, we have included a paper by Andrew Leach that we believe provides an overview of the general state of contemporary architecture research. Leach makes an appeal to refrain from making all research operational. At a time when the application of research and its economic value seem to form the primary criteria for judging value, this appeal should not be taken lightly. Issue's editors: Deborah Hauptmann and Lara Schrijver
description: Thesis-Building: Architecture, Alchemy and the Constructive Moment(s) of a Doctoral Dissertation...165-181 The Tradition of Spatial Writing: The Case of the Palindrome in between Literature and Architecture...143-164 Architecture’s Awaking from Correlationist Slumber: On Transdisciplinarity and Disciplinary Specificity...129-142 John Hejduk’s Pursuit of an Architectural Ethos...113-128 Science for Architecture: Designing Architectural Research in Post-War Sweden...97-112 An Antipodean Imaginary for Architecture+Philosophy: Ficto-Critical Approaches to Design Practice Research...69-96 Bridging: The Spatial Construction of Knowledge in Architectural Research...59-68 Haecceity, Drawing and Mapping...37-58 You are Hungry: Flâneuring, Edible Mapping and Feeding Imaginations...15-36 Inventory...5-14 Introduction...1-4
Descartes' Philosophical Grounds for Algebra and Geometry
Creators: name: Liu, Cathay Ming Lih
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: Though neither Descartes nor Fermat developed analytic geometry as we understand the mathematical discipline today, they each developed a different central feature of it. But history of mathematics has not explained their differences in mathematical aims and practice in terms of philosophical commitments. Generally, Descartes' metaphysics has not played a role in the explication of his mathematical emphasis. While it is undisputed that Descartes placed a lot of emphasis on the geometrical aspect of analytic geometry over the algebraic component, I explain his mathematical practice by appealing to his philosophical views. I argue that Descartes views geometry to be more basic than algebra. Algebra, and its significance, depended on geometrical objects. I have defend this view by appealing to Descartes metaphysical and epistemological commitments, but I also defend this view against a possible alternative interpretation of Descartes' philosophy that would allow algebra not to depend on geometry.