cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Order alpha_s^2 beta_0 Correction to the Charged Lepton Spectrum in b \to c \ell \barν_\ell decays
Creators: name: Gremm, Martin
name: Stewart, Iain
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the α_s^2β_0 part of the two-loop QCD corrections to the charged lepton spectrum in b \to c \ell \barν_\ell decays and find them to be about 50\% of the first order corrections at all lepton energies, except those close to the end point. Including these corrections we extract the central values \barΛ=0.33 GeV and λ_1=-0.17 GeV^2 for the HQET matrix elements and use them to determine the $\overline{\rm MS}$ b and c quark masses, and |V_{cb}|.
description: 15 pages, 1 Postscript figure
Canadian Women in ISIS: Deradicalization and Reintegration for Returnees
Creators: name: Mirza, Rabiyah
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018

description: In 2014, the leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, declared an Islamic Caliphate in Syria and Iraq and called on Muslim men and women to join and help build an Islamic State based on a violent and purist ideology. An unprecedented number of young Muslim women from around the world travelled to Syria and Iraq to join the terrorist group, including many women and girls from Western nations like Canada, the U.K, France and Australia. Young women disappeared from their homes unbeknownst to their parents, crossing the border of Turkey and into Syria to support the cause in their roles as wives to other Western foreign fighters and as mothers to the next generation of ISIS members. Now, both men and women are returning to their home nations, in many cases with small children who do not have any form of identification. While deradicalization and reintegration programs for men have been developed and tested through prison programs and exit programs in the West and abroad, no such model has been created or tested for returning women. Greater research and analysis on women in ISIS is needed to address the distinctive experiences and particular needs of women returning from engagement with ISIS. Given the potential threat of returning women’s continued engagement in terrorist activities and the possibility of terrorist attacks supported by returnees in their home countries, deradicalization and reintegration initiatives are imperative. Along with surveillance activities and the application of the Canadian criminal justice system, NGOs and local organizations dealing specifically with radicalization and returning ISIS members will play a critical role in providing support and assistance to low-risk returnees and their families to support successful resocialization and deradicalization.
X-ray and optical observations of three clusters of galaxies: Abell 901, Abell 1437, and Abell 3570
Creators: name: Schindler, Sabine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyse three clusters of galaxies, Abell 901 (z=0.17), Abell 1437 (z=0.13) and Abell 3570 (z=0.037). They have low to intermediate X-ray fluxes and an irregular morphology in the ROSAT All-Sky Survey (RASS). These clusters are chosen to test the abilities and limitations of the RASS in terms of cluster fluxes and cluster morphologies. Therefore some ``worst'' cases are used here. X-ray observations with the ROSAT/HRI and optical spectroscopic observations are carried out. The ROSAT/HRI observations, which have a much better spatial resolution than the RASS, reveal in two of the three cases a significantly different morphology than seen in the RASS. The reasons are point sources which could not be resolved in the RASS and were therefore confused with the cluster emission. For A3570 we could confirm the relaxed state of the cluster by the optical determination of a small velocity dispersion. In the cluster with the lowest flux (Abell 901) the countrate measurement is strongly affected by point sources, in the two other cases the countrate measurements of the RASS are reliable, i.e. they are reproduced by the ROSAT/HRI measurement. We conclude that for clusters with a flux of a few times 10^{-12} erg/cm^2/s or smaller, which show at the same time a non-relaxed morphology, the flux measurement of the RASS can be seriously affected by fore- or background sources. We point out that an all-sky survey of a second ABRIXAS mission would provide a much clearer source distinction for low-flux clusters and thus a much improved countrate determination.
description: 8 pages (incl. 6 figures), accepted for publication in A&A (Suppl.)
Photon-graviton conversion in a primordial magnetic field and the cosmic microwave background
Creators: name: Cillis, Analia N.
name: Harari, Diego D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We reconsider the effects of photon-graviton conversion in a primordial magnetic field upon the cosmic microwave background radiation. We argue that plasma effects make the photon-graviton conversion process negligible.
description: Revtex, 3 pages. To appear in Physical Review D
Accretion of clumpy cold gas onto massive black hole binaries: a possible fast route to binary coalescence
Creators: name: Goicovic, Felipe G.
name: Maureira-Fredes, Cristian
name: Sesana, Alberto
name: Amaro-Seoane, Pau
name: Cuadra, Jorge
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In currently favoured hierarchical cosmologies, the formation of massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) following galaxy mergers is unavoidable. Still, due the complex physics governing the (hydro)dynamics of the post-merger dense environment of stars and gas in galactic nuclei, the final fate of those MBHBs is still unclear. In gas-rich environments, it is plausible that turbulence and gravitational instabilities feed gas to the nucleus in the form of a series of cold incoherent clumps, thus providing a way to exchange energy and angular momentum between the MBHB and its surroundings. Within this context, we present a suite of smoothed-particle-hydrodynamical models to study the evolution of a sequence of near-radial turbulent gas clouds as they infall towards equal-mass, circular MBHBs. We focus on the dynamical response of the binary orbit to different levels of anisotropy of the incoherent accretion events. Compared to a model extrapolated from a set of individual cloud-MBHB interactions, we find that accretion increases considerably and the binary evolution is faster. This occurs because the continuous infall of clouds drags inwards circumbinary gas left behind by previous accretion events, thus promoting a more effective exchange of angular momentum between the MBHB and the gas. These results suggest that sub-parsec MBHBs efficiently evolve towards coalescence during the interaction with a sequence of individual gas pockets.
description: 18 pages, 17 figures. Accepted for publication by MNRAS. Find companion paper at arXiv:1801.06179 Animations available at http://multipleclouds.xyz/movies/
Danno da nascita indesiderata e danno da nascita malformata: la parola alle Sezioni Unite
Creators: name: Conte, Lucilla
Publisher: name: University of Trento
Year: 2015
Subjects: wrongful birth; wrongful life; self-determination; claim for damages; evidence; causation

description: This contribution is focused on the main questions involving claims for damages about wrongful birth and wrongful life. The Italian jurisprudence is divergent in drawing the most balanced solutions about evidence and causation: a decision of the Joined Chambers of the Court of Cassation is now awaited.
description: BioLaw Journal - Rivista di BioDiritto, N° 2 (2015)
Aerodynamic record of a Burmese speaker Hla Myat (03)
Creators: name: Chirkova, Katia
name: Amelot, Angélique
name: Basset, Patricia
Publisher: name: COCOON - https://cocoon.huma-num.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Burmese
subject: mya

description: Equipment: Workstation EVA2
description: Conforms to: Praat textgrid
Remembering the Algerian War: Trauma, Women, Diaspora and Aftermath in Cartouches Gauloises, Hors La Loi and The Battle of Algiers
Creators: name: Zhao, Zixuan
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2020

description: In this essay, I examine three films concerning the Algerian War: Cartouches Gauloises (2007) by Mehdi Charef, Hors La Loi (2010) by Rachid Bouchareb, and The Battle of Algiers (1966) by Gillo Pontecorvo. I argue that Charef and Bouchareb’s mixed Algerian-French background provides another perspective in representing the traumatic history of the Algerian War. The tragic fate happening both on the Algerian natives and the French-Algerians during the war reveals the permanent scar on the Algerian land by the colonization. In The Battle of Algiers, however, the cruelty of the war is reproduced in a realistic style, as both sides in the war manage to conquer the other desperately. Moreover, I argue that the female characters in the three films have awakened and no longer an appendage of their husbands since they attach their fate with their homeland and devote themselves to independence. All three films serve as a cultural connection between the younger generation and the traumatized one. Moreover, the spirit of decolonization will continue inspiring French-Algerian filmmakers in the future.
Propagation of videopulse through a thin layer of two-level atoms possessing permanent dipole moments
Creators: name: Elyutin, Sergei O.
name: Maimistov, Andrei I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The excitation of a thin layer of two-level permanent dipole moment atoms by ultimately short (less than field oscillation period) electromagnetic pulses (videopulse) is observed. The numerical analysis of matter equations free of rotating wave approximation and relaxation reveals a strong affect of local field and Stark effect on temporal behavior of transmitted field. Specifically it is demonstrated that a dense film irradiated by videopulse emits a short response with a delay much longer even than the characteristic cooperative time of atom ensemble. It is supposed that the local field in the thin layer of permanent dipole atoms is able to re-pump the atomic subsystem. The close analogy to nonlinear pendulum motion is discuused.
description: 18 pages, 13 figures, PDF only
Le nozioni di emissione deliberata, immissione in commercio e coltivazione di ogm: commento critico alla direttiva 2001/18/CE alla luce della direttiva 2015/412/UE
Creators: name: Caliceti, Eugenio
Publisher: name: University of Trento
Year: 2015
Subjects: EU Directive 2001/18; deliberate release of GMOs; placing on the market of GMOs; cultivation of GMO crops; cultivation ban on GMOs

description: The concepts of deliberate release, placing on the market and OGM cultivation: A critical comment to directive 2001/18/CE in the perspective of directive 2015/412/UE Abstract: The article aims to evaluate the directive 2001/18 concerning the deliberate release into the environment of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The analysis reveals not only the internal inconsistency of the directive, but also identifies the problems which characterize, firstly, the legal definition of «deliberate release» of GMOs, secondly the notion of «placing on the market» of GMOs and thirdly the relation between the EU authorization to place GMOs on the market and the Member State authority to ban the cultivation of GMO crops.
description: BioLaw Journal - Rivista di BioDiritto, N° 2 (2015)
Supervised Descent Method and Its Applications to Face Alignment
Creators: name: Xuehan  Xiong
name: Torre, Fernando De La
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Many computer vision problems (e.g., camera calibration, image alignment, structure from motion) are solved through a nonlinear optimization method. It is generally accepted that 2 nd order descent methods are the most robust, fast and reliable approaches for nonlinear optimization of a general smooth function. However, in the context of computer vision, 2 nd order descent methods have two main drawbacks: (1) The function might not be analytically differentiable and numerical approximations are impractical. (2) The Hessian might be large and not positive definite. To address these issues, this paper proposes a Supervised Descent Method (SDM) for minimizing a Non-linear Least Squares (NLS) function. During training, the SDM learns a sequence of descent directions that minimizes the mean of NLS functions sampled at different points. In testing, SDM minimizes the NLS objective using the learned descent directions without computing the Jacobian nor the Hessian. We illustrate the benefits of our approach in synthetic and real examples, and show how SDM achieves state-ofthe-art performance in the problem of facial feature detection. The code is available at www.humansensing.cs. cmu.edu/intraface.
Impact of Flood Meso-Insurance on Agricultural Productivity: Evidence From Bangladesh
Creators: name: Mebada, Olivier
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018

description: Between 2012 and 2015, Oxfam Bangladesh launched a unique flood mese>­ insurance program across three districts of Bangladesh. Comparing differences in quantities harvested over time between the covered districts and a few compara­ ble non-covered districts, our results suggest that there is a substantial increase in quantities harvested in the areas where the flood insurance was put into place. We were able to estimate the average increase in quantities harvested of approximately 4% after the flood insurance program was implemented in the covered districts.
Should Consent Be Required for Deceased Organ Donation?
Creators: name: Burton, Thomas
Publisher: name: University of Trento
Year: 2015
Subjects: Organ donation; Consent; Best interests; Opt-out; Posthumous interests

description: The current legal framework in the UK governing deceased organ donation has adopted the doctrine of consent as its central guiding principle. Under the Human Tissue Act 2004, appropriate consent must be given for the removal of organs from a cadaver to be lawful. However, this position requires justification; consent is not a free-standing principle, but must exist in relation to a potential right violation. In healthcare, the need for consent has been grounded on the protection of the patient’s rights to autonomy and bodily integrity. These rights are not present in the context of deceased organ donation, and therefore consent should not be required. Instead, we should adopt a system of routine retrieval with opt-out based on the best interests of the donor. This recognises the fact that both the deceased and their relatives can have strong interests regarding the use of the body after death, which, although not sufficient to ground a right, must be taken into consideration. A system of routine retrieval with opt-out would also result in more organs for potential recipients, and reduce the decision-making burden on families.
description: BioLaw Journal - Rivista di BioDiritto, N° 3 (2015)
Aerodynamic record of a Burmese speaker Hla Myat (04)
Creators: name: Chirkova, Katia
name: Amelot, Angélique
name: Basset, Patricia
Publisher: name: COCOON - https://cocoon.huma-num.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Burmese
subject: mya

description: Equipment: Workstation EVA2
description: Conforms to: Praat textgrid
ASCA and ROSAT observations of distant massive cooling flows
Creators: name: Allen, S. W.
name: Fabian, A. C.
name: Edge, A. C.
name: Bautz, M. W.
name: Furuzawa, A.
name: Tawara, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results from a detailed ASCA/ROSAT X-ray study of three distant, massive cooling flows; Zwicky 3146 (z=0.291), Abell 1835 (z=0.252) and E1455+223 (Zwicky 7160; z=0.258). Using multiphase models fitted to the ASCA spectra, we determine values for the temperature, metallicity, luminosity and cooling rates in the clusters. These results are combined with deprojection analyses of the ROSAT images to provide detailed constraints on the mass distributions in the systems, and on the properties of their cooling flows. The spectral and imaging data identify these clusters as the three most-massive cooling flows known, with mass deposition rates of ~ 1400, 2300, and 1500 solar masses per year, respectively. We highlight the need for multiphase models to consistently model the spectral and imaging X-ray data, and discuss the importance of using these models in X-ray determinations of the cluster masses. We also present results from an extensive optical study of the clusters and report the discovery of a gravitational arc in Abell 1835. The lensing data provide an indepenent constraint on the distribution of mass in the cluster, in good agreement with the results from the mutliphase (although not single-phase) X-ray analysis. We present measurements of the galaxy distributions in Abell 1835 and E1455+223 and relate these to the distributions of the total mass. The ASCA spectra place firm constraints on the column density of intrinsic X-ray absorbing material in the clusters. Abell 1835 and E1455+223 exhibit large intrinsic column densities associated with their cooling flows. These clusters also exhibit significant amounts of reddening in the optical spectra of their central galaxies. The data for Zwicky 3146 indicate lower lower levels of X-ray absorption and reddening. All three clusters exhibit excellent alignment
description: MNRAS in press. 21 pages, 14 figures in MNRAS LaTex style. Full verison with encapsulated postscript images available at http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/astro/preprint/July96.html
Dispersion of particles in an infinite-horizon Lorentz gas
Creators: name: Zarfaty, L.
name: Peletskyi, A.
name: Fouxon, I.
name: Denisov, S.
name: Barkai, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a two-dimensional Lorentz gas with infinite horizon. This paradigmatic model consists of pointlike particles undergoing elastic collisions with fixed scatterers arranged on a periodic lattice. It was rigorously shown that when $t\to\infty$, the distribution of particles is Gaussian. However, the convergence to this limit is ultraslow, hence it is practically unattainable. Here we obtain an analytical solution for the Lorentz gas' kinetics on physically relevant timescales, and find that the density in its far tails decays as a universal power law of exponent $-3$. We also show that the arrangement of scatterers is imprinted in the shape of the distribution.
description: Article with supplemental material: 10 pages, 4 figures
Politicians, Pollution and Performance in the Workplace: The Effect of PM on MPs
Creators: name: Heyes, Anthony
name: Rivers, Nicholas
name: Schaufele, Brandon
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: air pollution
analysis of speech
non-health impacts
workplace performance

description: Applying methods of textual and stylometric analysis to all 119,225 speeches made in the Canadian House of Commons between 2006 and 2011, we establish that air pollution reduces the speech quality of Canadian Members of Parliament (MPs). Exposure to fine particulate matter concentrations exceeding 15μg=m3 causes a 3.1 percent reduction in the quality of MPs speech (equivalent to a 3.6 months of education). For more difficult communication tasks the decrement in quality is equivalent to the loss of 6.5 months of schooling. Our design accounts for the potential endogeneity of exposure and controls for many potential confounders including individual fixed effects. Politicians are professional communicators and as such the analysis provides further evidence of the detrimental impact of air pollution on workplace performance, with an effect size around half that established in recent research for workers engaged in physical work tasks. Insofar as the changed speech patterns reflect diminished mental acuity the results make plausible substantial effects of air pollution on productivity not just in communication-intensive but a wider set of creative and cognitively-intensive work settings.
Unified picture of the particle and sparticle masses in SUSY GUT
Creators: name: Berezhiani, Zurab
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The horizontal symmetry $U(3)_H$ can greatly help in solving the flavor problems in the supersymmetric grand unification. We consider the $SU(5)\times U(3)_H$ model and show that it leads to the remarkable relations between the fermion mass matrices and the soft SUSY breaking terms. Dangerous supersymmetric contributions to the flavor-changing phenomena are naturally suppressed. The possible extensions to the $SO(10)\times U(3)_H$ model are also outlined.
description: Latex, 5 pages - some more discussions added
The State of Cultural Infrastructure-Policy and Issues Dialogue: Regional Roundtable Background Paper-Ontario
Creators: name: Jeannotte, M. Sharon
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2007
Subjects: Cultural infrastructure
Provincial cultural administration

description: This paper is intended to provide an overview of the state of tangible cultural infrastructure (or “bricks and mortar”) in the province of Ontario. Using an e-mail list provided by the Centre of Expertise on Culture and Communities, survey questionnaires were sent to government officials with responsibilities for cultural infrastructure at all three levels of jurisdiction, as well as to individuals from cultural organizations and cultural facilities. Since the response rate to this survey was low, additional research was carried out to identify programs, policies, plans, strategies and reports on Ontario cultural infrastructure. Contacts were also made with key individuals in organizations to seek clarification or additional information.
Vanishing of Hyperelliptic L-functions at the Central Point
Creators: name: Li, Wanlin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We obtain a lower bound on the number of quadratic Dirichlet L-functions over the rational function field which vanish at the central point $s = 1/2$. This is in contrast with the situation over the rational numbers, where a conjecture of Chowla predicts there should be no such L-functions. The approach is based on the observation that vanishing at the central point can be interpreted geometrically, as the existence of a map to a fixed abelian variety from the hyperelliptic curve associated to the character.
Subdimensional Expansion for Multirobot Path Planning
Creators: name: Wagner, Glenn
name: Choset, Howie
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Planning optimal paths for large numbers of robots is computationally expensive. In this paper, we introduce a new framework for multirobot path planning called subdimensional expansion, which initially plans for each robot individually, and then coordinates motion among the robots as needed. More specifically, subdimensional expansion initially creates a one-dimensional search space embedded in the joint configuration space of the multirobot system. When the search space is found to be blocked during planning by a robotrobot collision, the dimensionality of the search space is locally increased to ensure that an alternative path can be found. As a result, robots are only coordinated when necessary, which reduces the computational cost of finding a path. We present the M* algorithm, an implementation of subdimensional expansion that adapts the A* planner to perform efficient multirobot planning. M* is proven to be complete and to find minimal cost paths. Simulation results are presented that show that M* outperforms existing optimal multirobot path planning algorithms
Animal Experimentation and Animal Welfare in the Context of the European Union: Reflections on the Directive 2010/63/EU and Its Transposition in Italy
Creators: name: Pavone, Ilja Richard
Publisher: name: University of Trento
Year: 2015
Subjects: Directive 2010/63/EU; Animal Experimentation; Animal Welfare; Legislative Decree No. 26/2014

description: Directive 2010/63/EU on the Protection of Animals used for Scientific Purposes – which replaces the former Directive 86/609/EEC – provides a common framework on animal testing in the European Union. Its adoption raised a fierce debate in European countries and in particular in Italy between opponents and supporters to experiments on animals. This paper, after an analysis of the content of the Directive, aims to analyse issues concerning its transposition in Italy, which took place through the Legislative Decree No. 26 of 4 March 2014.
description: BioLaw Journal - Rivista di BioDiritto, N° 3 (2015)
The Dark Matter Distribution in Disk Galaxies
Creators: name: Borriello, A.
name: Salucci, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use high-quality optical rotation curves of 9 low-luminosity disk galaxies to obtain the velocity profile of the surrounding dark matter halos. We find that they increase linearly with radius at least out to the stellar disk edge, implying that, over the entire region where the stars reside, the density of the dark halo is constant. The properties of the halo mass structure found are similar to that claimed for a number of dwarf and low surface brightness galaxies, but provide a more substantial evidence of the discrepancy between the halo mass distribution predicted in standard cold dark matter scenario and those actually detected around galaxies. We find that the density profile proposed by Burkert (1995) reproduces the halo rotation curves, with halo central densities and core radii scaling as $ρ_0 \propto r_0^{-2/3}$.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures, MNRAS accepted. New section and figures added, concerning CDM mass models. Minor changes to the rest of the paper
Aerodynamic record of a Burmese speaker San San Hnin Tun (01)
Creators: name: Chirkova, Katia
name: Amelot, Angélique
name: Basset, Patricia
Publisher: name: COCOON - https://cocoon.huma-num.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Burmese
subject: mya

description: Equipment: Workstation EVA2 , notebook computer
description: Conforms to: Praat textgrid
Loschmidt echo decay from local boundary perturbations
Creators: name: Goussev, Arseni
name: Richter, Klaus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the sensitivity of the time evolution of semiclassical wave packets in two-dimensional chaotic billiards with respect to local perturbations of their boundaries. For this purpose, we address, analytically and numerically, the time decay of the Loschmidt echo (LE). We find the LE to decay exponentially in time, with the rate equal to the classical escape rate from an open billiard obtained from the original one by removing the perturbation-affected region of its boundary. Finally, we propose a principal scheme for the experimental observation of the LE decay.
description: Final version; 4 pages, 3 figures
Structured Prediction for Event Detection
Creators: name: Hoai, Minh
name: Torre, Fernando De La
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This chapter describes Segment-based SVMs (SegSVMs), a framework for event detection. SegSVMs combine energy-based structured prediction, maximum margin learning, and Bag-of-Words (BoWs) representation. Unlike traditional approaches for event detection based on Dynamic Bayesian Networks, the learning formulation of SegSVMs is convex, and the inference over multiple events can be efficiently done in linear time. Beyond detecting a single event, SegSVMs can be extended to solve two relatively unexplored problems in computer vision: early event detection and sequence labeling of multiple events. We illustrate the benefits of SegSVMs in several computer vision applications namely facial action unit detection, early recognition of hand gestures, early detection of facial expressions, and sequence labeling of human actions.
Aerodynamic record of a Burmese speaker San San Hnin Tun (02)
Creators: name: Chirkova, Katia
name: Amelot, Angélique
name: Basset, Patricia
Publisher: name: COCOON - https://cocoon.huma-num.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Burmese
subject: mya

description: Equipment: Workstation EVA2 , notebook computer
description: Conforms to: Praat textgrid
Structural and dynamical uncertainties in modeling axisymmetric elliptical galaxies
Creators: name: Romanowsky, Aaron J.
name: Kochanek, Christopher S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantitative dynamical models of galaxies require deprojecting the observed surface brightness to determine the luminosity density of the galaxy. Existing deprojection methods for axisymmetric galaxies assume that a unique deprojection exists for any given inclination, even though the projected density is known to be degenerate to the addition of "konus densities" that are invisible in projection. We develop a deprojection method based on linear regularization that can explore the range of luminosity densities statistically consistent with an observed surface brightness distribution. The luminosity density is poorly constrained at modest inclinations (i > ~30 deg), even in the limit of vanishing observational errors. In constant mass-to-light ratio, axisymmetric, two-integral dynamical models, the uncertainties in the luminosity density result in large uncertainties in the meridional plane velocities. However, the projected line-of-sight velocities show variations comparable to current typical observational uncertainties.
description: 20 pages, 8 Postscript figures, LaTeX, aaspp4.sty, submitted to MNRAS; paper w/figs (600 kb) also available at http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~romanow/ell.mn.ps.gz GIF-format figures replaced by PostScript
Inflation from High-Scale Supersymmetry Breaking
Creators: name: Domcke, Valerie
name: Schmitz, Kai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Supersymmetry breaking close to the scale of grand unification can explain cosmic inflation. As we demonstrate in this paper, this can be achieved in strongly coupled supersymmetric gauge theories, such that the energy scales of inflation and supersymmetry breaking are generated dynamically. As a consequence, both scales are related to each other and exponentially suppressed compared to the Planck scale. As an example, we consider a dynamical model in which gauging a global flavor symmetry in the supersymmetry-breaking sector gives rise to a Fayet-Iliopoulos D term. This results in successful D-term hybrid inflation in agreement with all theoretical and phenomenological constraints. The gauged flavor symmetry can be identified with U(1)_B-L, where B and L denote baryon and lepton number, respectively. In the end, we arrive at a consistent cosmological scenario that provides a unified picture of high-scale supersymmetry breaking, viable D-term hybrid inflation, spontaneous B-L breaking at the scale of grand unification, baryogenesis via leptogenesis, and standard model neutrino masses due to the type-I seesaw mechanism.
description: 61 pages + references, 5 figures. v2: minor changes, updated references, matches version published in PRD
title: Modeling Nanoparticle Formation in Reactive Flows with Quadrature-based Moment Methods
Creators: name: Schmitz, Robert Martin
Publisher: name: UNSPECIFIED
Year: 2024

description: The alternative fuel oxymethylene ether (OME) combines CO2-neutral and simultaneously almost sootless combustion under the condition of a sustainable
synthesis. A precise understanding of its mechanisms that lead to reduced soot
emissions is necessary for the efficient utilization of this valuable and limited
alternative to fossil fuels. This study examines the impact of mixing processes
between fuel and oxidator, as well as the influence of OME fuel on soot formation.
The investigation is structured into six scientific objectives, isolating influencing
factors systematically. Laminar premixed and counterflow diffusion flame configurations are numerically considered. For the soot modeling, the simulations use
direct chemistry coupled with two distinct quadrature-based moment methods.
The modeling of the physical and chemical processes enables the examination and
explanation of the impact of individual factors throughout the entire chain of
events on a mechanistic level. The validation of the soot modeling shows that
numerical results are congruent with the experimental results.
Strain has minimal quantitative influence on the soot processes, whereas fuel
dilution significantly reduces all soot sub-processes. Adding OME3 into sooting
ethylene flames causes a substantial reduction in soot aggregates and shows only
a slight influence on nanoparticles. The decrease is related to the OME3 decomposition
in the gas phase towards mainly formaldehyde (CH2O) without a direct
reaction pathway to species crucial to soot formation. Therefore, soot precursor
species such as acetylene (C2H2) are reduced leading to weakened soot growth
processes. An increase in the OME3 content within the fuel mixture results in a
linear decrease in soot volume fraction. The three OMEn variants, OME2, OME3,
and OME4, show similar qualitative and quantitative effects on the soot precursors
and formation. Closer investigations of the particle size distribution provide further
insights into the underlying processes.
Structured Design Of Microelectromechanical Systems
Creators: name: Tamal  Mukherjee
name: Fedder, Gary K.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: 80101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In order to efficiently design complex microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) having large numbers of multi-domain components, a hierarchically structured design approach that is compatible with standard IC design is needed. A graphical-based schematic, or structural, view is presented as a geometrically intuitive way to represent MEMS as a set of interconnected lumpedparameter elements. An initial library focuses on suspended- MEMS technology from which inertial sensors and other mechanical mechanisms can be designed. The schematic representation has a simulation interface enabling the designer to simulate the design at the component level. Synthesis of MEMS cells for common topologies provides the system designer with rapid, optimized component layout and associated macro-models. A synthesis module is developed for the popular folded-flexure micromechanical resonator topology. The algorithm minimizes a combination of total layout area and voltage applied to the electromechanical actuators. Synthesis results clearly show the design limits of behavioral parameters such as resonant frequency for a fixed process technology
Cosmic Microwave Background and the issue of a fundamental preferred frame
Creators: name: Consoli, M.
name: Pluchino, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Correlating ether-drift measurements in laboratory and CMB observations in space would confirm the existence of a preferred reference frame. To this end, however, the velocity of light in the interferometers cannot be the same parameter 'c' of Lorentz transformations. Thus, for the earth velocity of 370 km/s, a fundamental 10^(-15) light anisotropy, as presently observed in vacuum and in solid dielectrics, could reveal a 10^(-9) difference in the vacuum refractivity between an ideal freely-falling frame and an apparatus on the earth surface. In this perspective, the stochastic nature of the vacuum could explain the irregular character of the signal and the substantial reduction of its statistical average (10^(-18) or smaller). For the same v=370 km/s the different refractivity, about 10^(-4) and 10^(-5) for air or helium at atmospheric pressure, could also explain the observed anisotropy, respectively about 10^(-10) and 10^(-11). The mechanism enhancing the signal in gaseous matter, but ineffective in solid dielectrics, is naturally identified in a non-local, temperature gradient of a fraction of millikelvin. This is found in all classical experiments and might ultimately reflect the CMB temperature dipole or the fundamental energy flow in a Lorentz-non-invariant vacuum. Clarification requires dedicated experiments and improvements in the data analysis.
description: 43 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables; version accepted for publication in EPJ Plus
Ordinary differential equations which linearize on differentiation
Creators: name: Ferapontov, E. V.
name: Svirshchevskii, S. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this short note we discuss ordinary differential equations which linearize upon one (or more) differentiations. Although the subject is fairly elementary, equations of this type arise naturally in the context of integrable systems.
description: 9 pages
TSO e anoressia: note su un disegno di legge controverso
Creators: name: Rossi, Stefano
Publisher: name: University of Trento
Year: 2015
Subjects: Anorexia; competence to treatment; compulsory treatment; draft bill; constitution

description: Anorexia nervosa is a potentially fatal disorder with low insight unto the consequences of persisting lack of food intake. Hence, it may need sometimes involuntary hospitalisation to avoid severe medical complications and death. The draft bill, that intends to introduce a compulsory treatment in anorexia, is controversial and costly, putting constitutional rights, such as freedom and health, on the line. This paper focuses on the legal and ethical debate concerning involuntary hospitalization of treatment-resistant anorexia patients, considering this option not so much as an ultimate remedy to a chronic illness, but rather as a last resort life-saving measure. In cases as these, when we come to recognize the challenges in defining a psychiatric illness like anorexia nervosa for the purposes of deciding whether invol-untary treatment laws can be invoked, we begin to appreciate the high stakes at this intersection between law and psychiatry.
description: BioLaw Journal - Rivista di BioDiritto, N° 3 (2015)
title: ADCO, Cartulaire du prieuré Notre-Dame de Bonvaux, dépendant du Val-des-Ecoliers (XVe siècle), Dijon, Cart. 228 (27 H), 68 folios, 109 actes (1211-1356), f. 0029
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2011
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: cartulaire
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: Cartulaire du prieuré Notre-Dame de Bonvaux, dépendant du Val-des-Ecoliers (XVe siècle), Dijon, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 228 (27 H), 68 folios, 109 actes (1211-1356). Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire du prieuré Notre-Dame de Bonvaux, dépendant du Val-des-Ecoliers (XVe siècle), Dijon, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 228 (27 H), 68 folios, 109 actes (1211-1356), f. 0029, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi \[Ressource en ligne\], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb15250518p
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/02643413X/id
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/6453767
description: Provenance: Dijon
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7003
Decision Support Pipelines – Durchgängige Datenverarbeitungsinfrastrukturen für die Entscheidungen von morgen
Creators: name: Meyer, Anne
name: Zander, Stefan
name: Knapper, Rico
name: Setzer, Thomas
Publisher: name: Springer Verlag
Year: 2018

description: Für Anwendungen im Bereich der Industrie 4.0 stellt die zunehmende Flut an verfügbaren Daten ein enormes Potenzial zur verbesserten Planung und Steuerung von Geschäfts-, Produktions- und Logistikprozessen dar. Nutzbar wird dieses Potenzial jedoch nur, wenn Unternehmen den Prozess der Datentransformation – von der Gewinnung, Integration und Analyse bis hin zur Entscheidung und Bereitstellung – in gute unternehmerische Entscheidungen in seiner Ganzheit beherrschen. Idealerweise sind Business-Anwender unabhängig von IT-Experten in der Lage, ein solches System flexibel und gezielt auf sich dynamisch ändernde, oft komplexe Geschäftsumfelder anzupassen. Da aktuell verfügbare Ansätze diese Anforderungen nicht erfüllen, ist es Ziel dieses Beitrages, technologische und methodologische Ansatzpunkte für die Entwicklung einer intelligenten, auf die Anforderungen zukünftiger Fertigungs- und Logistikprozesse ausgerichteten Decision Support Pipeline im Kontext von Industrie 4.0 zu liefern. Anhand konkreter Beispiele verdeutlichen wir das Potenzial dieses integrierten, prozessorientierten Ansatzes.
Hersiliidae Thorell 1869
Creators: name: Kherbouche-Abrous, Ourida
name: Bouseksou, Samira
name: Alioua, Youcef
name: Beladjal, Lynda
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Hersiliidae

description: 15. Family Hersiliidae Thorell, 1869
Citations and papers missing
Hersiliola macullulata: Béchar (Foord & Dippenaar-Schoeman 2005). El Menia (Alioua et al. 2016, Alioua et al. 2022). El Oued (Marusik & Fet 2009). Ghardaïa (Foord & Dippenaar-Schoeman 2005). Tlemcen (Simon 1912). Hersiliola simoni: Biskra (Levy 2003).
description: Published as part of Kherbouche-Abrous, Ourida, Bouseksou, Samira, Alioua, Youcef & Beladjal, Lynda, 2025, Corrections to the Article: " Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae) ", pp. 356-374 in Zootaxa 5609 (3) on page 361, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5609.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/15215222
Les interventions sociales auprès de personnes âgées en perte d'autonomie : Un regard sur le consentement et la prise de décisions
Creators: name: Nyandwi, Amini
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2022

description: Ce mémoire de recherche se base sur la question suivante : Quels sont les enjeux liés au processus d’obtention du consentement auprès des personnes âgées en perte d’autonomie lors des interventions sociales en contexte de soins de santé ? Pour répondre à cette question, ce mémoire vise trois objectifs. Ces objectifs sont de : 1) Décrire le processus d’obtention du consentement libre et éclairé auprès des personnes âgées lors des interventions sociales ; 2) Faire une critique des interventions actuelles afin d’explorer les meilleures interventions basées sur des principes et des valeurs qui respectent le droit et la dignité des personnes âgées ; et 3) Questionner le rôle et la place des acteurs impliqués lors de ces interventions sociales. Pour analyser les objectifs ci-haut, ce mémoire de recherche mobilise un cadre conceptuel d’exclusion sociale. Ce cadre conceptuel est très pertinent pour analyser les situations vécues par les personnes âgées (Billette et coll., 2012a). En plus de ce cadre conceptuel, ce mémoire de recherche utilise l’analyse thématique comme méthode de recherche. En tant que méthode de recherche qualitative, l’analyse thématique permet de comprendre la réalité vécue par les personnes, ici les personnes âgées (Paillé & Mucchielli, 2012). Dans l’ensemble, ce mémoire a permis de donner une image actuelle relativement aux enjeux éthiques liés au processus d’obtention du consentement auprès de personnes âgées en contexte de soins de santé afin de promouvoir de bonnes pratiques basées sur le respect des valeurs et les principes éthiques. Tout au long de ce mémoire, je soutiens que la lutte contre toutes les formes d’exclusion sociale faciliterait les interventions sociales auprès de personnes âgées en général, mais aussi le processus d’obtention du consentement en particulier. Les mots clés : consentement, âgisme, vieillissement, dépendance, gériatrie, incapacité, enjeux éthiques, santé, démence, personnes âgées, prise de décisions, intervention sociale, perte d’autonomie, autonomie, exclusion, inclusion.
Scenari di neurocivilizzazione
Creators: name: Sommaggio, Paolo
Publisher: name: University of Trento
Year: 2015
Subjects: Neurolaw; Neuroethics; Normality; Involuntary treatments, Direct brain intervention

description: Neuroscience develops a “neuro-civilization” by certain strategies: definition of the role of Neuroscientists, new social paradigms (e.g. the concept of normality), substitution of traditional legal sources with neuroscientific standards. It may be a risk if a certain idea of normality imposes itself for current practices, not for theoretical reasons.
description: BioLaw Journal - Rivista di BioDiritto, N° 3 (2015)
Library of high and mid-resolution spectra in the CaII H & K, H{alpha}, H{beta}, NaI D{1}, D{2}, and HeI D{3} line regions of F, G, K and M field stars
Creators: name: Montes, D.
name: Martin, E. L.
name: Fernandez-Figueroa, M. J.
name: Cornide, M.
name: De Castro, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we present spectroscopic observations centered in the spectral lines most widely used as optical indicators of chromospheric activity (H{alpha}, H{beta}, Ca II H & K, and He I D{3}) in a sample of F, G, K and M chromospherically inactive stars. The spectra have been obtained with the aim of providing a library of high and mid-resolution spectra to be used in the application of the spectral subtraction technique to obtain the active-chromosphere contribution to these lines in chromospherically active single and binary stars. This library can also be used for spectral classification purposes. A digital version with all the spectra is available via ftp and the World Wide Web (WWW) in both ASCII and FITS formats
description: 14 pages, latex file using psfig.sty and A&AS laa-s.sty, 7 PostScript figures. Full postscript (text and figures) and the spectra in both FITS and ASCII formats available at http://www.ucm.es/OTROS/Astrof/fgkmsl/fgkmsl.html Accepted for publication in 'Astronomy and Astrophysics Suppl. Ser.'