cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Cryogenic spectroscopy of ultra-low density colloidal lead chalcogenide quantum dots on chip-scale optical cavities towards single quantum dot near-infrared cavity QED
Creators: name: Bose, Ranojoy
name: Gao, Jie
name: McMillan, James F.
name: Williams, Alex D.
name: Wong, Chee Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present evidence of cavity quantum electrodynamics from a sparse density of strongly quantum-confined Pb-chalcogenide nanocrystals (between 1 and 10) approaching single-dot levels on moderately high-Q mesoscopic silicon optical cavities. Operating at important near-infrared (1500-nm) wavelengths, large enhancements are observed from devices and strong modifications of the QD emission are achieved. Saturation spectroscopy of coupled QDs is observed at 77K, highlighting the modified nanocrystal dynamics for quantum information processing.
description: * new additional figures and text * 10 pages, 5 figures
p53 Missense Mutation is Associated with Immune Cell PD-L1 Expression in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
Creators: name: Xing, Ai-Yan
name: Liu, Long
name: Liang, Ke
name: Wang, Bin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: The programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1) is a pivotal biomarker of immunotherapy in triple negative breast cancer (TNBC). TP53 is reported as a positive regulatory predictor of immune efficacy. The correlation of p53 expression or mutation and PD-L1 expression is explored. By immunohistochemistry, PD-L1 expression between p53 mutation (missense and nonsense) and wild type; p53 no-expression/loss vs. expression were compared. There was a significant association between p53 mutation, especially missense mutation with higher histological grade, and PD-L1 expression in immune cells (ICs). Both p53 missense mutation and PD-L1 expression may be potential targets for improving immunotherapy response in TNBC.
Calamaria coronella brevis Gü.
Creators: name: Müller, F
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1885
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Squamata
Ophidia
Colubridae
Calamaria
Calamaria coronella

description: Coronella brevis Gü.
(Macroprotodon mauret.Guich.) Marocco v. F M. [1]
description: Published as part of Müller, F, 1885, Vierter Nachtrag zum Katalogder herpetologischen Sammlung des Basler Museums, pp. 668-717 in Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel. 7 (3) on page 679, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.part.2388, http://zenodo.org/record/15183591
Bandwidth-controlled Mott transition in kappa-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu[N(CN)2]Br{x}Cl{1-x}: Optical studies of correlated carriers
Creators: name: Dumm, Michael
name: Faltermeier, Daniel
name: Drichko, Natalia
name: Dressel, Martin
name: Meziere, Cecile
name: Batail, Patrick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the two-dimensional organic charge-transfer salts kappa-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu[N(CN)2]Br{x}Cl{1-x} a systematic variation of the Br content from x = 0 to 0.9 allows us to tune the Mott transition by increasing the bandwidth. At temperatures below 50 K, an energy gap develops in the Cl-rich samples and grows to approximately 1000 cm-1 for T -> 0. With increasing Br concentration spectral weight shifts into the gap region and eventually fills it up completely. As the samples with x = 0.73, 0.85 and 0.9 become metallic at low temperatures, a Drude-like response develops due to the coherent quasiparticles. Here, the quasiparticle scattering rate shows a omega^2 dependence and the effective mass of the carriers is enhanced in agreement with the predictions for a Fermi liquid. These typical signatures of strong electron-electron interactions are more pronounced for compositions close to the critical value x_c \approx 0.7 where the metal-to-insulator transition occurs.
description: 11 pages, 12 figures
Representation of period doubling by digraphs and characteristic polynomials
Creators: name: Takenouchi, Yoshifumi
name: Celeste, Richell
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 39A12

description: A general procedure which defines a partial ordering of cyclic permutations induced by continuous maps is known for constructing immediate successors to a cycle. We expound on this procedure in terms of labelled digraphs and characteristic polynomials then apply this study to period doubling, the most common route to chaos for a nonlinear dynamical system.
description: 16 pages, 3 figures
Factors controlling the effects of mutualistic bacteria on plants associated with fungi
Creators: name: Bastías Campos, Daniel A.
name: Applegate, Emma
name: Johnson, Linda
name: Card, Stuart
Publisher: name: AgResearch
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3103
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 3108
subject: Plant biology

description: Plants interacting with mutualistic fungi (MF) or antagonistic fungi (AF) can form associations with bacteria. We assessed whether the performance gain conferred by mutualistic bacteria to fungal-associated plants is affected by the interaction between symbiont traits, type of bacterial-protective traits against AF and abiotic/biotic stresses. Results showed that (A) performance gain conferred by bacteria to MF-associated plants was greater when symbionts promoted distinct rather than similar plant functions, (B) bacterial-based alleviation of the AF's negative effect on plants was independent of the type of protective trait, (C) bacteria promoted a greater performance of symbiotic plants in presence of biotic, but not abiotic, stress compared to stress-free situations. The plant performance gain was not affected by any fungal-bacterial trait combination but optimised when bacteria conferred resistance traits in biotic stress situations. The effects of bacteria on fungal-associated plants were controlled by the interaction between the symbionts' functional traits and the relationship between bacterial traits and abiotic/biotic stresses.
Comparative Legal Research: Implementation of the Stockholm Programme Roadmap in Terror-Related Cases
Creators: name: Legato, Mitch
name: Novossiolova, Tatyana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Counter-terrorism, crime, justice, fundamental rights, EU, radicalisation

description: This report highlights the need for developing and implementing effective mechanisms for addressing the root causes of radicalisation, in order to prevent its violent manifestations. The report reviews terror-related cases to illustrate key aspects pertaining to the complexity of upholding criminal procedural rights safeguards and the need for striking a balance between national security considerations and the importance of protecting fundamental rights.
Chaos in temperature in generic 2p-spin models
Creators: name: Panchenko, Dmitry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 60K35, 60G09, 82B44

description: We prove chaos in temperature for even $p$-spin models which include sufficiently many $p$-spin interaction terms. Our approach is based on a new invariance property for coupled asymptotic Gibbs measures, similar in spirit to the invariance property that appeared in the proof of ultrametricity in arXiv:1112.1003, used in combination with Talagrand's analogue of Guerra's replica symmetry breaking bound for coupled systems.
Gauge field localization on brane worlds
Creators: name: Guerrero, Rommel
name: Melfo, Alejandra
name: Pantoja, Nelson
name: Rodriguez, R. Omar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the effects of spacetime curvature and brane thickness on the localization of gauge fields on a brane via kinetic terms induced by localized fermions. We find that in a warped geometry with and infinitely thin brane, both the infrared and the ultraviolet behavior of the electromagnetic propagator are affected, providing a more stringent bound on the brane's tension than that coming from the requirement of four-dimensional gravity on the brane. On the other hand, for a thick wall in a flat spacetime, where the fermions are localized by means of a Yukawa coupling, we find that 4-dimensional electromagnetism is recovered in a region bounded from above by the same critical distance appearing in the thin case, but also from below by a new scale related to the brane's thickness and the electromagnetic couplings.
description: 7 pages
Weighted azimuthal asymmetries in a diquark spectator model
Creators: name: Bacchetta, Alessandro
name: Radici, Marco
name: Conti, Francesco
name: Guagnelli, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analytically calculate weighted azimuthal asymmetries in semi-inclusive lepton-nucleon deep-inelastic scattering and Drell-Yan processes, using transverse-momentum-dependent partonic densities obtained in a diquark spectator model. We compare the asymmetries with available preliminary experimental data, in particular for the Collins and the Sivers effect. We make predictions for other cases of interest in running and planned experiments.
description: 21 pages, 13 (multiple) figures in eps format, RevTeX4
Supplementary document for Photoacoustic Laser Streaming with Non-Plasmonic Metal Ion Implantation in Transparent Substrates - 5280539.pdf
Creators: name: Bao, Jiming
name: Ai, Xin
name: Lin, Feng
name: Tong, Tian
name: Chen, Di
name: Mohebinia, mohammadjavad
name: Napagoda, Jayahansa
name: Qiu, Yunao
name: Yue, Shuai
name: Tong, Xin
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Method
The Effect of Sentencing on Women, Men, the Family, and the Community
Creators: name: Weinstein, Jack B.
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 1996

description: There are two provisions in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines (“Guidelines”) that make no sense in the real world: one dictates that sex-along with race, national origin, and other factors-is not relevant to sentencing. The other asserts the “general inappropriateness” of considering “family ties and responsibilities” in determining the term of imprisonment. The first provision is merely inappropriately worded. Of course these factors may be relevant. In my opinion, what the Sentencing Commission means is that sex and such factors should not be used in a biased way. The second provision is so cruelly delusive as to make those who have to apply the guidelines to human beings, families, and the community want to weep. Family ties and responsibilities must be considered. The effect of removing a single caretaker-nurturer from dependent family members needs to be seriously considered. Even with respect to two-parent families, the harmful effects of destroying a stable family, particularly now that the widespread prevalence of dysfunctional families threatens to tear apart our social fabric, must be taken into account.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 5 No. 2 (1996)
Exact modeling method for discrete finite metamaterial lens
Creators: name: Lapine, M.
name: Jelinek, L.
name: Marques, R.
name: Freire, M. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe an efficient rigorous model suitable for calculating the properties of finite metamaterial samples, which takes into account the discrete structure of metamaterials based on capacitively loaded ring resonators. We illustrate how this model applies specifically to a metamaterial lens employed in magnetic resonant imaging. We show that the discrete model reveals the effects which can be missed by a continuous model based on effective parameters, and that the results are in close agreement with the experimental data.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures
On regular rotating black holes
Creators: name: Torres, Ramon
name: Fayos, Francesc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Different proposals for regular rotating black hole spacetimes have appeared recently in the literature. However, a rigorous analysis and proof of the regularity of this kind of spacetimes is still lacking. In this note we analyze rotating Kerr-like black hole spacetimes and find the necessary and sufficient conditions for the regularity of all their second order scalar invariants polynomial in the Riemann tensor. We also show that the regularity is linked to a violation of the weak energy conditions around the core of the rotating black hole.
description: 10 p
Registered Reports funding partnerships: a feasibility study
Creators: name: Drax, Katie
name: Chambers, Christopher
name: Clark, Robbie
name: Munafo, Marcus
name: Thompson, Jacqueline
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Life Sciences
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: feasibility study
subject: meta-research
subject: pilot study
subject: qualitative
subject: registered reports
subject: replicability
subject: reproducibility
subject: thematic analysis

description: This is time-stamped version of our "Extended Data" for our submitted manuscripts.
Approximating Turaev-Viro 3-manifold invariants is universal for quantum computation
Creators: name: Alagic, Gorjan
name: Jordan, Stephen P.
name: Koenig, Robert
name: Reichardt, Ben W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Turaev-Viro invariants are scalar topological invariants of compact, orientable 3-manifolds. We give a quantum algorithm for additively approximating Turaev-Viro invariants of a manifold presented by a Heegaard splitting. The algorithm is motivated by the relationship between topological quantum computers and (2+1)-D topological quantum field theories. Its accuracy is shown to be nontrivial, as the same algorithm, after efficient classical preprocessing, can solve any problem efficiently decidable by a quantum computer. Thus approximating certain Turaev-Viro invariants of manifolds presented by Heegaard splittings is a universal problem for quantum computation. This establishes a novel relation between the task of distinguishing non-homeomorphic 3-manifolds and the power of a general quantum computer.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
title: Η επίδραση της ψηφιακής διαφήμισης στην αξία του εμπορικού σήματος
title: On the effect of digital advertising on brand value
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Μαθιουδάκη, Στυλιανή
name: Mathioudaki, Styliani
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Πειραιώς
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Digital advertising
subject: Social media advertising
subject: Brand equity

description: Ο σκοπός αυτής της διπλωματικής είναι να εξεταστεί εάν η αξία των εμπορικών σημάτων διατηρείται μέσω της ψηφιακής διαφήμισης. Πρέπει να σημειωθεί ότι δίνεται έμφαση στη διαφήμιση μέσω των μέσων κοινωνικής δικτύωσης, ως θεμελιώδες στοιχείο της ψηφιακής διαφήμισης. Για το σκοπό αυτό, πραγματοποιήθηκε μία πρωτογενής έρευνα ερωτηματολογίου, στην οποία συμμετείχαν συνολικά 200 Έλληνες συμμετέχοντες, που προέρχονταν από διαφορετικές περιοχές της χώρας. Το ερωτηματολόγιο επικεντρώνεται σε γενικές ερωτήσεις σχετικά με τη ψηφιακή διαφήμιση και τη διαφήμιση μέσω των μέσων κοινωνικής δικτύωσης, καθώς και στην επίδρασή του στις τέσσερις διαστάσεις (αναγνωρισιμότητα εμπορικού σήματος, συσχετισμοί εμπορικού σήματος, πιστότητα στο εμπορικό σήμα και αντιληπτή ποιότητα εμπορικού σήματος) που καθορίζουν την αξία του εμπορικού σήματος. Τα αποτελέσματα της έρευνας δείχνουν ότι οι συμμετέχοντες, ως ενεργοί χρήστες του διαδικτύου και των μέσων κοινωνικής δικτύωσης, προσέχουν στην πλειοψηφία τους τις διαφημίσεις που τους παρουσιάζονται όταν είναι ενεργοί στο διαδίκτυο και στα μέσα κοινωνικής δικτύωσης. Αυτό οδηγεί την πλειονότητα αυτών να ενδιαφέρονται για κάποιο συγκεκριμένο εμπορικό σήμα, το οποίο σε πολλές περιπτώσεις επιλέγουν να ακολουθήσουν ή ακόμη και μερικές φορές προχωρήσουν στην αγορά προϊόντων από το εμπορικό σήμα. Ωστόσο, οι συμμετέχοντες φαίνονται να εκφράζουν γενικά μία ουδέτερη θέση σε ότι αφορά την επίδραση της ψηφιακής διαφήμισης και της διαφήμισης μέσω των μέσων κοινωνικής δικτύωσης στην αξία του εμπορικού σήματος. Φαίνονται ειδικότερα απρόθυμοι να συμφωνήσουν ότι η ψηφιακή διαφήμιση και η διαφήμιση μέσω των μέσων κοινωνικής δικτύωσης όντως συμβάλλει στην ανάπτυξη μίας υψηλού επιπέδου αξίας εμπορικού σήματος.
Supplementary document for Ultra-broadband 3-dB power splitter using thin-film lithium niobite from 1.2 to 2 µm waveband - 6572265.pdf
Creators: name: Yi, Qiyuan
name: pan, An
name: Xia, Jinsong
name: Zeng, Cheng
name: Shen, Li
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document
Behavior Revealed in Mobile Phone Usage Predicts Loan Repayment
Creators: name: Björkegren, Daniel
name: Grissen, Darrell
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Risk Management (q-fin.RM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Many households in developing countries lack formal financial histories, making it difficult for firms to extend credit, and for potential borrowers to receive it. However, many of these households have mobile phones, which generate rich data about behavior. This article shows that behavioral signatures in mobile phone data predict default, using call records matched to repayment outcomes for credit extended by a South American telecom. On a sample of individuals with (thin) financial histories, our method actually outperforms models using credit bureau information, both within time and when tested on a different time period. But our method also attains similar performance on those without financial histories, who cannot be scored using traditional methods. Individuals in the highest quintile of risk by our measure are 2.8 times more likely to default than those in the lowest quintile. The method forms the basis for new forms of credit that reach the unbanked.
Enhancing post-disaster waste management and debris removal : a case study of the 2021 atmospheric river event in the City of Merritt, BC
Creators: name: Wong, Brittney
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: As disasters such as floods increase in severity and frequency across Canada, more waste will be generated, posing a challenge for waste management and disaster management practitioners. The 2021 atmospheric river event in British Columbia (BC) was a large-scale event that demonstrated how communities can still face long-term challenges associated with debris removal. This thesis addresses three main research questions: (1) What are the existing waste removal processes for flooded communities in BC? (2) What gaps or limitations exist in these processes? For example, within the context of these processes, what socio-economic or other factors might impede a household’s ability to effectively remove their flood waste? and (3) How can the post-flood waste removal process and disaster debris management be improved? These questions are examined through a case study of the City of Merritt, BC, which was severely impacted by the 2021 atmospheric river event. The entire city was evacuated due to the failure of its wastewater treatment plant and the inundation of homes. This thesis draws on 14 interviews with city staff, government officials, contractors, and non-profit organizations to characterize the debris removal process and examine its challenges. Some gaps in this process include support for vulnerable groups such as seniors and renters in the community. Lastly, recommendations and lessons learned from the City of Merritt are explored to support better preparation for future disasters. The City piloted a curbside debris collection program, which was one of the successes that other communities can learn from to help their debris removal and recovery efforts.
title: Ο ρόλος και ο αντίκτυπος της διαχείρισης ανθρώπινου δυναμικού: μια διερεύνηση των παραγόντων που επηρεάζουν την εμπλοκή των εργαζομένων στην εργασία (work engagement)
title: The role and the impact of human resource management: an investigation of the factors that affect employees’ work engagement
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Μανώλης, Αλέξανδρος
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Πειραιώς
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Εμπλοκή των εργαζόμενων
subject: Διαχείριση ανθρώπινου δυναμικού
subject: Ιδιωτικές τράπεζες

description: Αυτή η μελέτη προσπάθησε να αξιολογήσει τις επιπτώσεις επιλεγμένων πρακτικών διαχείρισης ανθρώπινου δυναμικού (αξιολόγηση απόδοσης, εκπαίδευση και ανάπτυξη, ανταμοιβές και αναγνώριση και εργασιακή επικοινωνία) στην εργασιακή εμπλοκή των εργαζομένων των ελληνικών ιδιωτικών τραπεζών. Η μελέτη υιοθέτησε μία πρωτογενή έρευνα ερωτηματολόγιου, στην οποία συμμετείχαν 335 συνολικά εργαζόμενοι ελληνικών ιδιωτικών τραπεζών. Τα αποτελέσματα έδειξαν ότι οι συμμετέχοντες αισθάνονται καλά σε ότι αφορά την εμπλοκή τους στον τραπεζικό οργανισμό, στον οποίο εργάζονται. Επιπλέον έδειξαν ότι οι πρακτικές διαχείρισης ανθρώπινου δυναμικού (ανταμοιβές και αναγνώριση, αξιολόγηση απόδοσης, εργασιακή επικοινωνία και εκπαίδευση και ανάπτυξη) έχουν θετική επίδραση στην εμπλοκή των εργαζομένων των ελληνικών ιδιωτικών τραπεζών. Ωστόσο μόνο η πρακτική ανταμοιβές και αναγνώριση έχει σημαντική επίδραση στην εμπλοκή των εργαζομένων. Για το λόγο αυτό η μελέτη προτείνει οι ελληνικές ιδιωτικές τράπεζες να δώσουν ιδιαίτερη προσοχή σε πρακτικές ανταμοιβών και αναγνώρισης, που προάγουν την εμπλοκή των εργαζομένων.
Puerto Rico’s Domestic Violence Prevention and Intervention Law and the United States’ Violence Against Women Act of 1994
Creators: name: Rivera, Jenny
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 1995

description: Annually, three to four million women are targets of violence by their intimate partners or spouses. The women who survive this violence endure physical, verbal, emotional, and psychological abuse that threatens their health, and often their lives. The daily incidences of violence include severe physical abuse. Even more alarming is the number of women who die at the hands of their intimate partners: violence against women by spouses or intimate male companions accounts for thirty percent of all homicides of women. In 1990 alone, over 800 women were killed by their husbands and another 400 were killed by their male companions. There is no avoiding or denying the prevalence and nondiscriminative nature of this violence, for it “cuts across all racial, ethnic, religious, educational and socio-economic lines.” Violence against women by their former and current male partners is commonly referred to as domestic violence, partially because it involves the personal dynamics of intimate relationships. The effects of this violence, nevertheless, extend beyond the confines of the domestic sphere. First, because family, neighbors, and law enforcement officials may have direct or direct knowledge of this violence, it cannot be summarily categorized as strictly private. Second, because of its detrimental impact on women’s lives and on the social and human services which bind society, it has larger social and political implications. Indeed, in 1991, the United States Surgeon General announced that domestic violence is the second leading cause of injury to women. Although the cost of the violence in dollars and cents is of secondary importance, and pales in comparison to the numerous lives lost or shattered as a direct consequence of this violence, it is, nonetheless, notable. In economic terms, this violence has had devastating cost implications for public and private medical and legal services and has drained already scarce resources.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 5 No. 1 (1995)
Faeries, Marimachas, Queens, and Lezzies: The Construction of Homosexuality Before the 1969 Stonewall Riots
Creators: name: Arriola, Elvia R.
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 1995

description: The Stonewall Riots erupted on a hot night in June 1969 in New York City, when an unlikely group of revolutionaries, a few Black and Puerto Rican drag queens and butch lesbians, turned a routine bar raid into a street fight with the local police. The latter had just taken a payoff from the unlicensed bar owners and arrested the most obvious looking homosexuals. A motley crew of effeminate queers resisted what would otherwise have been a routine raid on a bar that catered to gay people. The conflict attracted an angry crowd of onlookers and supporters who fought into the night with coins, beer bottles, and sticks, and whose struggle ultimately came to symbolize the overthrow of decades of official harassment, repression, and degradation. A simple street fight on June 27th, 1969, changed history and breathed life into the then dormant and internally conflicted homophile movement. In recent years, gays and lesbians have staked out their deserved place in the annals of American legal, social, and political history with a growing body of social and historical accounts of the Stonewall Riots’ and of the pre-Stonewall gay world. Typically, these revisionist histories briefly mention the constant threat of raids and harassment that dictated the closeted lifestyle of most gays and lesbians before the riots. References to the police raids, or to the Riots themselves, however, do not often examine the various social forces converging on that moment when a seedy working-class bar in Manhattan’s West Village, which openly served homosexuals and outrageously dressed Black and ethnic drag queens, became the focal point of a conflict that instigated a national gay civil rights movement.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 5 No. 1 (1995)
Hasse--Schmidt derivations, divided powers and differential smoothness
Creators: name: Narvaez-Macarro, Luis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 13N15, 13N10

description: Let $k$ be a commutative ring, $A$ a commutative $k$-algebra and $D$ the filtered ring of $k$-linear differential operators of $A$. We prove that: (1) The graded ring $\gr D$ admits a canonical embedding $θ$ into the graded dual of the symmetric algebra of the module $Ω_{A/k}$ of differentials of $A$ over $k$, which has a canonical divided power structure. (2) There is a canonical morphism $\vartheta$ from the divided power algebra of the module of $k$-linear Hasse-Schmidt integrable derivations of $A$ to $\gr D$. (3) Morphisms $θ$ and $\vartheta$ fit into a canonical commutative diagram.
Επιχειρησιακό πλάνο και τουριστικές επενδύσεις: μια εμπειρική εφαρμογή
Creators: name: Υφαντή, Γεωργία
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Πειραιώς
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Επιχειρησιακό πλάνο
subject: Τουριστικές επενδύσεις

description: Στην παρούσα εργασία έγινε αρχικά μια θεωρητική προσέγγιση του θέματος. Αναλύθηκαν ορισμένες βασικές έννοιες και ορισμοί σχετικά με το επιχειρησιακό πλάνο , καθώς και τα πλεονεκτήματα του. Στην συνέχεια, αναλύθηκε η έννοια του τουρισμού και γενικότερα της τάσης του κλάδου στο νησί της Σκιάθου. Έπειτα, γίνεται παρουσίαση του Επιχειρησιακού Πλάνου της ξενοδοχειακής μονάδας Ανδρικόπουλος Α.Ε. για τα έτη 2016 – 2020. Σκοπός του παρόντος Επιχειρησιακού πλάνου είναι η παρουσίαση των προοπτικών και δυνατοτήτων της εταιρείας σε επίπεδο εμπορικού σχεδιασμού και νέων επενδύσεων. Η εργασία έχει βασιστεί σε: στοιχεία και πληροφορίες που παρασχέθηκαν από τη Διοίκηση της εταιρείας, δευτερογενή δημοσιευμένα στοιχεία της αγοράς – κλάδου δραστηριοποίησης της εταιρείας, εκτιμήσεις, παραδοχές και προβλέψεις που παρείχε η Διοίκηση αναφορικά με τη μελλοντική εξέλιξη διαφόρων μεγεθών της εταιρείας, οικονομικές καταστάσεις της χρήσης 2014 καθώς και προσωρινός ισολογισμός & αποτελέσματα χρήσης 2015, οριστικά ισοζύγια 12-μήνου 2014 και 12-μήνου 2015. Λόγω της πρόσφατης παγκόσμιας υγειονομικής κρίσης, η οποία έπληξε σημαντικούς οικονομικούς κλάδους, όπως τον τουρισμό, η εργασία θέτει ως έτος αναφοράς το 2016, καθώς οι τωρινές συγκυρίες που διέπουν τον συγκεκριμένο κλάδο βρίσκονται σε εξέλιξη και επικρατεί ένα κλίμα έντονης αβεβαιότητας για τις οποιεσδήποτε μελλοντικές εκτιμήσεις.
Local Function Complexity for Active Learning via Mixture of Gaussian Processes
Creators: name: Panknin, Danny
name: Chmiela, Stefan
name: Müller, Klaus-Robert
name: Nakajima, Shinichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Inhomogeneities in real-world data, e.g., due to changes in the observation noise level or variations in the structural complexity of the source function, pose a unique set of challenges for statistical inference. Accounting for them can greatly improve predictive power when physical resources or computation time is limited. In this paper, we draw on recent theoretical results on the estimation of local function complexity (LFC), derived from the domain of local polynomial smoothing (LPS), to establish a notion of local structural complexity, which is used to develop a model-agnostic active learning (AL) framework. Due to its reliance on pointwise estimates, the LPS model class is not robust and scalable concerning large input space dimensions that typically come along with real-world problems. Here, we derive and estimate the Gaussian process regression (GPR)-based analog of the LPS-based LFC and use it as a substitute in the above framework to make it robust and scalable. We assess the effectiveness of our LFC estimate in an AL application on a prototypical low-dimensional synthetic dataset, before taking on the challenging real-world task of reconstructing a quantum chemical force field for a small organic molecule and demonstrating state-of-the-art performance with a significantly reduced training demand.
description: 30 pages (+18 pages of references and appendices), 20 figures
The Effect of Network Adoption Subsidies: Evidence from Digital Traces in Rwanda
Creators: name: Björkegren, Daniel
name: Karaca, Burak Ceyhun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Economics (econ.GN)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Governments spend billions of dollars subsidizing the adoption of different goods. However, it is difficult to gauge whether those goods are resold, or are valued by their ultimate recipients. This project studies a program to subsidize the adoption of mobile phones in one of the poorest countries in the world. Rwanda subsidized the equivalent of 8% of the stock of mobile phones for select rural areas. We analyze the program using 5.3 billion transaction records from the dominant mobile phone network. Transaction records reveal where and how much subsidized handsets were ultimately used, and indicators of resale. Some subsidized handsets drifted from the rural areas where they were allocated to urban centers, but the subsidized handsets were used as much as handsets purchased at retail prices, suggesting they were valued. Recipients are similar to those who paid for phones, but are highly connected to each other. We then simulate welfare effects using a network demand system that accounts for how each person's adoption affects the rest of the network. Spillovers are substantial: 73-76% of the operator revenue generated by the subsidy comes from nonrecipients. We compare the enacted subsidy program to counterfactual targeting based on different network heuristics.
The dissipative quantum Duffing oscillator: a comparison of Floquet-based approaches
Creators: name: Vierheilig, Carmen
name: Grifoni, Milena
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the dissipative quantum Duffing oscillator in the deep quantum regime with two different approaches: The first is based on the exact Floquet states of the linear oscillator and the nonlinearity is treated perturbatively. It well describes the nonlinear oscillator dynamics away from resonance. The second, in contrast, is applicable at and in the vicinity of a N-photon resonance and it exploits quasi-degenerate perturbation theory for the nonlinear oscillator in Floquet space. It is perturbative both in driving and nonlinearity. A combination of both approaches yields the possibility to cover the whole range of driving frequencies. As an example we discuss the dissipative dynamics of the Duffing oscillator near and at the one-photon resonance.
description: 38 pages, 4 figures
title: The transformation of squatter settlements into authorised apartment blocks: a case study of Ankara, Turkey
Creators: name: Ozdemir, Nihan
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2022

description: In a city where more than half the population lives in squatter housing, the transformation of squatter housing into apartment blocks has important consequences on the socio-spatial structure of the city. This thesis aims to provide an account of the recent transformation of squatter settlements in Ankara into apartment blocks, with special reference to the political, economic, cultural as well as spatial consequences of this transformation. The theoretical part of the thesis has shown that existing theories on the formation and transformation of squatter settlements fail to provide an adequate account of their formation. While the articulation approach seems to be the most adequate for illustrating the formation of squatter settlements, it too remains silent in the face of transformation processes of squatter housing into apartment blocks on such a massive scale. In order to explain this process, rent gap theory. which was developed for the study of gentrification, is applied to the case of squatter transformation. Along with these structural dynamics, the political and ideological motives behind this policy shift on squatter settlements are also emphasised. In order to provide a holistic view of the development of squatter housing in Turkey, and particularly in Ankara, a brief review of the trajectory of squatter development in Turkey and in Ankara is provided with reference to state policies in this area. It is revealed that state strategies towards the squatter have undergone dramatic changes, from complete denial to covert acceptance, and then to overt support partly due to the increasing negotiation power of the squatter dwellers. In this context, the recent transformation of the squatter settlements needs to be understood with reference to this negotiation process as well as to the strategic location of the land occupied by the squatter settlements for redevelopment. Regarding the repercussions of this massive scale transformation on the city as a whole, and the different groups involved in this process, the case studies has shown that despite the considerable difference between the public and private sector-led transformation schemes, the main losers were the tenants, as they were forced to leave the areas that were subjected to redevelopment. Ironically, although the squatter owners received flats and in some cases cash for their land plot at the end of redevelopment process, this return is far from meeting their initial expectations. The main winner seems to be developers, public or private, in the redevelopment process. Yet, in the long term, the main loser seems to be the city population on the whole, as the newly emerging environments, as a result of redevelopment, reduced the environmental standards of the city and created a city that was intended to be avoided by the original development plan.
A Strategy For Advocacy on Behalf of Women Offenders
Creators: name: Seldin, Stephanie Fleischer
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 1995

description: Julia’ is a thirty-six-year-old African-American woman incarcerated at the minimum security facility in Lorton, Virginia. She is serving a six-to eighteen-year sentence for writing bad checks. This is her second offense; Julia spent six months in a halfway house for picking up her boyfriend after he robbed a bank. Julia has two boys, ages seven and thirteen. She has not seen them in two months. They are staying with Julia’s mother. Julia has little work experience. Her father raped her when she was in the sixth grade, so Julia left home and worked as a nude dancer to support herself. Julia works in the garment shop, an integrated prison industry. Julia would like to participate in work training, which permits prisoners to work in the community and return to prison in the evening. Julia complains that women are not told that they are eligible for work training; she learned about work training from a male prisoner in the garment shop.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 5 No. 1 (1995)
A Legal (And Otherwise) Realist Response to “Sex as Contract”
Creators: name: Fineman, Martha Albertson
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 1994

description: The serious suggestion made in the article “Sex as Contract: Abortion and Expanded Choice” that society use the legal coercion of “contract” to give definition to the social and emotional experience of “sex” provides evidence for the feminist assertion that there are often explicit but unconsidered gendered consequences attached to the implementation of so- called “neutral” legal concepts and doctrine. “Contract” may be a neutral term, but, given the different social and cultural “realities” women and men experience in our society, sex and reproduction are very gendered acts. The assertion that law all too typically has been oblivious to gendered consequences is related to the empirical observation that the law, both institutionally and doctrinally, systemically favors men and male experiences. Perhaps this bias is not surprising given the fact that women are relatively new to the legal profession and still are not found in large numbers among those who create and define policy and law. However, one area where male bias has been at least restrained by limited but explicit considerations of gendered experience is in the area of reproductive choices. The Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade and Danforth recognized that pregnancy and the social consequences of reproduction are unequally gendered experiences and consequentially it allocated the abortion decision to women. As the Danforth court noted: Inasmuch as it is the woman who physically bears the child and who is the more directly and immediately affected by the pregnancy, as between [the woman and her male partner], the balance weighs in her favor. These initial observations are relevant because the authors of “Sex as Contract” are particularly concerned with which partner to a reproductive event will ultimately control the abortion decision. The authors do not explicitly discuss gender as affecting either abortion or the “economics of contract law”—the method they designate as appropriate for allocation of decision-making. But a consideration of the gendered implications of a contract analysis is essential for an assessment of its fairness because ultimately this article seems little more than a thinly disguised attempt to reassert male-biased rules under the cloak of so-called “neutral” principles.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 4 No. 1 (1994)
Online Monaural Speech Enhancement Using Delayed Subband LSTM
Creators: name: Li, Xiaofei
name: Horaud, Radu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This paper proposes a delayed subband LSTM network for online monaural (single-channel) speech enhancement. The proposed method is developed in the short time Fourier transform (STFT) domain. Online processing requires frame-by-frame signal reception and processing. A paramount feature of the proposed method is that the same LSTM is used across frequencies, which drastically reduces the number of network parameters, the amount of training data and the computational burden. Training is performed in a subband manner: the input consists of one frequency, together with a few context frequencies. The network learns a speech-to-noise discriminative function relying on the signal stationarity and on the local spectral pattern, based on which it predicts a clean-speech mask at each frequency. To exploit future information, i.e. look-ahead, we propose an output-delayed subband architecture, which allows the unidirectional forward network to process a few future frames in addition to the current frame. We leverage the proposed method to participate to the DNS real-time speech enhancement challenge. Experiments with the DNS dataset show that the proposed method achieves better performance-measuring scores than the DNS baseline method, which learns the full-band spectra using a gated recurrent unit network.
description: Paper submitted to Interspeech 2020
Ο ρόλος και η συμβολή του ψηφιακού μάρκετινγκ στην ανάπτυξη μιας επιχείρησης
Creators: name: Παληού, Αικατερίνη
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Πειραιώς
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Παραδοσιακό μάρκετινγκ
subject: Ψηφιακό μάρκετινγκ
subject: Ανάπτυξη επιχειρήσεων

description: Τα μέσα κοινωνικής δικτύωσης διαδραματίζουν σημαντικό ρόλο στη ζωή των ανθρώπων. Με τη βοήθεια του διαδικτύου οι χρήστες έχουν τη δυνατότητα να ανταλλάζουν πληροφορίες και να επικοινωνούν. Η τεχνολογική αυτή εξέλιξη επηρέασε και τις επιχειρήσεις. Στη σημερινή εποχή, το ψηφιακό μάρκετινγκ αποτελεί βασικό πυλώνα για την ανάπτυξη των επιχειρήσεων. Στο παρελθόν, οι πωλήσεις των προϊόντων ή των υπηρεσιών γίνονταν μόνο μέσω της αλληλεπίδρασης των ανθρώπων καθώς η προώθηση με κάποιο οπτικό μέσο φάνταζε σενάριο εξωπραγματικό. Η ανάπτυξη της τεχνολογίας ώθησε όλο και περισσότερες επιχειρήσεις να δραστηριοποιηθούν στον τομέα του ψηφιακού μάρκετινγκ. Η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία έχει στόχο να παρουσιάσει το ρόλο και τη συμβολή του ψηφιακού μάρκετινγκ στην ανάπτυξη μιας επιχείρησης. Στο πρώτο μέρος παρουσιάζεται η θεωρητική ανάλυση της μελέτης σύμφωνα με τις βιβλιογραφικές πηγές. Στο δεύτερο μέρος γίνεται μια λεπτομερής παρουσίαση της επιχείρησης Κυριάκος Παληός & ΣΙΑ ΑΕΒΕ, η οποία κάνει χρήση των ψηφιακών μέσων ώστε να προωθήσει τα προϊόντα της. Στο τρίτο μέρος παρουσιάζεται η ποσοτική έρευνα που πραγματοποιήθηκε σχετικά με τη χρήση του ψηφιακού μάρκετινγκ. Η έρευνα αυτή, βασίστηκε σε ηλεκτρονικό ερωτηματολόγιο το οποίο στάλθηκε στους χρήστες μέσω των ψηφιακών μέσων. Σύμφωνα με τα ευρήματα της έρευνας το ψηφιακό μάρκετινγκ αποτελεί σημαντικό εργαλείο για τις επιχειρήσεις , καθώς είναι ποικίλα τα πλεονεκτήματα που απορρέουν από τη χρήση του. Τέλος, είναι αναγκαίο οι επιχειρήσεις να κατανοήσουν τη σημαντικότητα αυτών των εργαλείων και να τα εφαρμόζουν.
Feedback Gains modulate with Motor Memory Uncertainty
Creators: name: Franklin, Sae
name: Franklin, David W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: A sudden change in dynamics produces large errors leading to increases in muscle co-contraction and feedback gains during early adaptation. We previously proposed that internal model uncertainty drives these changes, whereby the sensorimotor system reacts to the change in dynamics by up regulating stiffness and feedback gains to reduce the effect of model errors. However, these feedback gain increases have also been suggested to represent part of the adaptation mechanism. Here, we investigate this by examining changes in visuomotor feedback gains during gradual or abrupt force field adaptation. Participants grasped a robotic manipulandum and reached while a curl force field was introduced gradually or abruptly. Abrupt introduction of dynamics elicited large initial increases in kinematic error, muscle co-contraction and visuomotor feedback gains, while gradual introduction showed little initial change in these measures despite evidence of adaptation. After adaptation had plateaued,there was a change in the co-contraction and visuomotor feedback gains relative to null field movements, but no differences (apart from the final muscle activation pattern) between the abrupt and gradual introduction of dynamics. This suggests that the initial increase in feedback gains is not part of the adaptation process, but instead an automatic reactive response to internal model uncertainty. In contrast, the final level of feedback gains is a predictive tuning of the feedback gains to the external dynamics as part of the internal model adaptation. Together, the reactive and predictive feedback gains explain the wide variety of previous experimental results of feedback changes during adaptation.
A comment on $p$-branes of ($p+3$)$\rm{d}$ string theory
Creators: name: Park, Eun Kyung
name: Kwon, Pyung Seong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We argue that in ($p+3$)d string theory the existence of NS-NS type $p$-brane with negative tension is essential to obtain background geometry $R_2$ or $R_2 / Z_n$ on the transverse dimensions, and the usual codimension-2 brane solutions with these background geometries already contain the negative tension NS-brane implicity in their ansatz. Such an argument leads us, in the context of brane world scenarios, to a conjecture that true background $p$-brane immanent in our spacetime may perhaps be NS-NS type brane, rather than D-brane.
description: 16 pages. Version to appear in JHEP
Naughty By Nurture: Black Male Joyriding—Is Everything Gonna Be Alright?
Creators: name: Greene, Dwight L.
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 1994

description: This Article is the final work of Professor Greene’s extensive contribution to the study of the intersection of law and race. Professor Greene was still in the process of developing this work when he was murdered on July 5, 1993. The Journal collaborated with Professor Greene’s friend and colleague, Professor Twyla Tharp of Rutgers University, and made only minimal editorial changes in this Article to preserve the integrity of the author’s voice.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 4 No. 1 (1994)
Three Stories of Prostitution in the West: Prostitutes’ Groups, Law and Feminist “Truth”
Creators: name: Fechner, Holly B.
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 1994

description: Prostitution is a paradigmatic feminist issue with substantial legal ramifications, yet it is largely ignored in legal and feminist literature. This Article attempts to lessen that problem by considering prostitutes’ own strategies to improve the lives of women in prostitution. It considers how women in prostitution have organized into groups to represent their interests to wider society. By discussing these arguments within the broader context of feminism, I hope to pique further discussions about prostitution and its relationship to feminist theories and practices.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 4 No. 1 (1994)