cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Remarks by Professor Robert Solow: Bhagwati Festschrift
Creators: name: Solow, Robert M.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2005
Subjects: Economics

description: You, most of you here, think of Jagdish as a sage- a chirpy sort of sage – but nevertheless a sage.  As a young man, I have to tell you, he struck us as a cross between a mad geometer and Peter Sellers.  And it was a remarkable education to teach Jagdish Bhagwati.  Seen from my perspective, as an outsider in international economics and trade theory and commercial policy, I think of Jagdish, professionally, as having been an important methodological influence on his branch of economics and economic theory – and a very good methodological influence.  For a subject so complex and so general equilibrium in character, trade theory has been relatively free of technical fireworks for their own sake, and more particularly, trade theory – international trade economics – has not been vulnerable to a bad kid of malformation that is common in Economics.  And what I have in mind is a sort of uncritical adoption of foolish special assumptions for no other reason than that they lead, by a difficult technical path, to strong conclusions that are then defended on the ground that anything that is arrived at in such a difficult way just has to be true.  The feeling of that kind of excess has been absent from trade theory, and I think that a lot of that is due to the kind of economist Jagdish has been – and is.  He has stuck to plausible but simple assumptions tailored for models that matter, and has aimed at results that are defended in the only really convincing way, namely, that they follow, logically, by steps you can actually understand, from fairly transparent assumptions that you can actually mostly believe, and they lead to results that don’t make you feel like an ass when you state them.
Disentangling the influence of local and remote anthropogenic aerosols on South Asian monsoon daily rainfall characteristics
Creators: name: Singh, Deepti
name: Bollasina, Massimo
name: Ting, Mingfang
name: Diffenbaugh, Noah S.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Monsoons--Research
Climatic changes
Monsoons--Mathematical models
Aerosols--Environmental aspects

description: Wet and dry periods within the South Asian summer monsoon season can have acute societal impacts. Recent studies have identified changes in daily rainfall characteristics of the monsoon, but the underlying causes are poorly understood. In particular, although the dominant role of anthropogenic aerosols in shaping historical changes in seasonal-mean monsoon rainfall has been documented, their influence on daily-scale rainfall remains unconstrained. Using an ensemble of single-forcing climate simulations, we find that anthropogenic aerosols have a stronger influence on late-twentieth century changes in the frequency of wet events, dry events and rainless days, compared with other climate forcings. We also investigate the role of aerosol-cloud interactions (“indirect effects”) in the total aerosol response, and the contribution of aerosols emitted from South Asia versus from remote sources. Based on additional simulations with the GFDL-CM3 climate model, we find that the simulated aerosol response over South Asia is largely associated with aerosol-indirect effects. In addition, local aerosols suppress wet-event frequency and enhance dry-event frequency over eastern-central India, where increases in aerosol loading are the largest. Remote aerosols cause a north–south dipole pattern of change in mean rainfall over India and fewer rainless days over western India. However, the overall spatial response of South Asian rainfall characteristics to total aerosol forcing is substantially influenced by the combined non-linear climate response to local and remote aerosols. Together, our results suggest that understanding the influence of different aerosol emissions trajectories on the regional climate dynamics is critical for effective climate-risk management in this populated, vulnerable region.
Symmetry-Enhanced Performance of Dynamical Decoupling
Creators: name: Pasini, S.
name: Uhrig, G. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a system with general decoherence and a quadratic dynamical decoupling sequence (QDD) for the coherence control of a qubit coupled to a bath of spins. We investigate the influence of the geometry and of the initial conditions of the bath on the performance of the sequence. The overall performance is quantified by a distance norm $d$. It is expected that $d$ scales with $T$, the total duration of the sequence, as $T^{\min \{N_x,N_z\}+1}$, where $N_x$ and $N_z$ are the number of pulses of the outer and of the inner sequence, respectively. We show both numerically and analytically that the state of the bath can boost the performance of QDD under certain conditions: The scaling of QDD for a given number of pulses can be enhanced by a factor of 2 if the bath is prepared in a highly symmetric state and if the system Hamiltonian is SU(2) invariant.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures, published version
A simple anisotropic bounding surface plasticity model for cyclic response of clays
Creators: name: Seidalinov, Gaziz
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Natural clays are anisotropic in their in-situ state and have an undisturbed shear strength in excess of the remoulded strength. In addition, most of the structures founded on clay deposits must be designed to withstand cyclic loads such as seismic ground motions or ocean waves. When subjected to earthquake or wind induced cyclic loadings, clay exhibits complex response. A realistic modeling of clay response under irregular cyclic loading requires an appropriate description of the stress{strain relationship. This thesis extends the formulation of a Simple ANIsotropic CLAY plasticity (SANICLAY) model by incorporation of a bounding surface formulation for successful simulations of clay response under cyclic loading. The most important aspects of the proposed formulation are the position of a projection center and the ability to capture continuous sti ness degradation. The proposed projection center is established in the instant of any stress reversal and it realistically re ects the experimentally observed plastic strains. A damage parameter is also adopted to better simulate the continuous sti ness reduction during the course of applied cyclic loading. The proposed model is developed with the aim of maintaining the simplicity and yet including an adequate level of sophistication for successful modeling of the key features of clay response. The model formulation is presented in detail followed by its qualitative and quantitative comparison with experimentally observed clay response. The presented model validation demonstrates the capabilities of the model in capturing a number of important characteristic features of clay response in both monotonic and cyclic loadings. Limitations and recommendations for future work are discussed as well. ii
Do You Believe in Fairies? Cabbages, Victorian Memes, and the Birth of Cinema: Seeing Sapphic Sexuality in the Silent Era
Creators: name: Loveday, Kiki
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Women in the motion picture industry
Motion pictures
Silent films
Lesbianism in motion pictures

description: Famed early filmmaker Alice Guy is back in the news in the wake of the #MeToo movement. Guy inaugurated the cinematic century with her early work La fée aux choux/The Cabbage Fairy (1896), which many scholars have argued was the first film to tell a story, with others dissenting. Recent attention to Guy runs the gamut from a significant new documentary narrated by Jodie Foster, Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché (2018), which is currently in theaters and streaming, to a novelized version of Guy’s life that imagines a secret love affair between her and the engineer of the Eiffel Tower. On the scholarly front, the award-winning box set Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers, curated by Shelley Stamp, includes eleven newly restored films by Guy, while Jane Gaines’s latest book, Pink Slipped: What Happened to Women in the Silent Film Industries? returns to the scene of The Cabbage Fairy with the intensity of a serial crime drama. Taken together, this flurry of interest in Guy, her love life, and her famous first film reignite critical questions, not only about her place in film history, but also about the relationships between history, biography, and sexuality onscreen.
Blueprint of Shopping Center Parking and Traffic Diagram Sketch J, October 25, 1939
Creators: name: Smythe, Richard Haviland
name: Melville, Ward, 1887-1977
name: Organization, Ward Melville Heritage
name: Stony Brook Community Fund
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: Stony Brook
Sketches
Blueprints
Plans
Architects
Shopping centers
Architectural drawings
Stores & shops

description: This blueprint shows sketch "J" for a proposed shopping center located in Stony Brook, L. I. This plan was completed by architect Richard Haviland Smythe, located at 681 fifth avenue, New York.
Parallel Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication and Indexing: Implementation and Experiments
Creators: name: Buluc, Aydin
name: Gilbert, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Mathematical Software (cs.MS)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Performance (cs.PF)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C50, 05C85, 65F50, 68W10

description: Generalized sparse matrix-matrix multiplication (or SpGEMM) is a key primitive for many high performance graph algorithms as well as for some linear solvers, such as algebraic multigrid. Here we show that SpGEMM also yields efficient algorithms for general sparse-matrix indexing in distributed memory, provided that the underlying SpGEMM implementation is sufficiently flexible and scalable. We demonstrate that our parallel SpGEMM methods, which use two-dimensional block data distributions with serial hypersparse kernels, are indeed highly flexible, scalable, and memory-efficient in the general case. This algorithm is the first to yield increasing speedup on an unbounded number of processors; our experiments show scaling up to thousands of processors in a variety of test scenarios.
Features and heterogeneities in growing network models
Creators: name: Ferretti, Luca
name: Cortelezzi, Michele
name: Yang, Bin
name: Marmorini, Giacomo
name: Bianconi, Ginestra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Molecular Networks (q-bio.MN)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Many complex networks from the World-Wide-Web to biological networks are growing taking into account the heterogeneous features of the nodes. The feature of a node might be a discrete quantity such as a classification of a URL document as personal page, thematic website, news, blog, search engine, social network, ect. or the classification of a gene in a functional module. Moreover the feature of a node can be a continuous variable such as the position of a node in the embedding space. In order to account for these properties, in this paper we provide a generalization of growing network models with preferential attachment that includes the effect of heterogeneous features of the nodes. The main effect of heterogeneity is the emergence of an "effective fitness" for each class of nodes, determining the rate at which nodes acquire new links. The degree distribution exhibits a multiscaling behaviour analogous to the the fitness model. This property is robust with respect to variations in the model, as long as links are assigned through effective preferential attachment. Beyond the degree distribution, in this paper we give a full characterization of the other relevant properties of the model. We evaluate the clustering coefficient and show that it disappears for large network size, a property shared with the Barabási-Albert model. Negative degree correlations are also present in the studied class of models, along with non-trivial mixing patterns among features. We therefore conclude that both small clustering coefficients and disassortative mixing are outcomes of the preferential attachment mechanism in general growing networks.
description: 16 pages, 6 figures, revtex
Critical impact of vegetation physiology on the continental hydrologic cycle in response to increasing CO2
Creators: name: Lemordant, Léo
name: Gentine, Pierre
name: Swann, Abigail S.
name: Cook, Benjamin I.
name: Scheff, Jacob
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Plant physiology
Hydrologic cycle
Climatic changes
Atmospheric carbon dioxide
Hydrologic models

description: Predicting how increasing atmospheric CO2 will affect the hydrologic cycle is of utmost importance for a range of applications ranging from ecological services to human life and activities. A typical perspective is that hydrologic change is driven by precipitation and radiation changes due to climate change, and that the land surface will adjust. Using Earth system models with decoupled surface (vegetation physiology) and atmospheric (radiative) CO2 responses, we here show that the CO2 physiological response has a dominant role in evapotranspiration and evaporative fraction changes and has a major effect on long-term runoff compared with radiative or precipitation changes due to increased atmospheric CO2. This major effect is true for most hydrological stress variables over the largest fraction of the globe, except for soil moisture, which exhibits a more nonlinear response. This highlights the key role of vegetation in controlling future terrestrial hydrologic response and emphasizes that the carbon and water cycles are intimately coupled over land.
title: Active fluttering net panel or rope array inside cod-end to increase selectivity
Creators: name: Yonghae, Kim
name: Daesung, Whang
Publisher: name: ASC 2009 - Theme session M
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture
Technologies and data

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Selectivity of the fishing gear can be controlled by mesh size, mesh shape, grid etc as physical elements in relation to the fish behavior as biological factors. Fish escapements were revealed higher at more approach to mesh net as an erratic reactions rather than keeping positions as an optomotor response (Kim et al., 2008).
Blueprint of Shopping Center Second Floor, Stony Brook, c. 1940
Creators: name: Smythe, Richard Haviland
name: Melville, Ward, 1887-1977
name: Organization, Ward Melville Heritage
name: Stony Brook Community Fund
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: Stony Brook
Sketches
Blueprints
Plans
Architects
Shopping centers
Architectural drawings
Stores & shops

description: This blueprint shows the second floor plans for a proposed shopping center located in Stony Brook, L. I. This plan was completed by architect Richard Haviland Smythe, located at 681 fifth avenue, New York. Building for D.T. Bayles & Son.
Global Monsoon Precipitation: Trends, Leading Modes, and Associated Drought and Heat Wave in the Northern Hemisphere
Creators: name: Deng, Kaiqiang
name: Yang, Song
name: Ting, Mingfang
name: Tan, Yaheng
name: He, Shan
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Climatology
Monsoons
Droughts
Precipitation forecasting

description: Global monsoon precipitation (GMP) brings the majority of water for the local agriculture and ecosystem. The Northern Hemisphere (NH) GMP shows an upward trend over the past decades, while the trend in the Southern Hemisphere (SH) GMP is weak and insignificant. The first three singular value decomposition modes between NH GMP and global SST during boreal summer reflect, in order, the Atlantic multidecadal oscillation (AMO), eastern Pacific (EP) El Niño, and central Pacific (CP) El Niño, when the AMO dominates the NH climate and contributes to the increased trend. However, the first three modes between SHGMP and global SST during boreal winter are revealed as EP El Niño, the AMO, and CP El Niño, when the EP El Niño becomes the most significant driver of the SHGMP, and the AMO-induced rainfall anomalies may cancel out each other within the SH global monsoon domain and thus result in a weak trend. The intensification of NH GMP is proposed to favor the occurrences of droughts and heat waves (HWs) in the midlatitudes through a monsoon–desert-like mechanism. That is, the diabatic heating associated with the monsoonal rainfall may drive large-scale circulation anomalies and trigger intensified subsidence in remote regions. The anomalous descending motions over the midlatitudes are usually accompanied by clear skies, which result in less precipitation and more downward solar radiation, and thus drier and hotter soil conditions that favor the occurrences of droughts and HWs. In comparison, the SH GMP may exert much smaller impacts on the NH extremes in spring and summer, probably because the winter signals associated with SHGMP cannot sufficiently persist into the following seasons.
Dark Energy and Fate of the Universe
Creators: name: Li, Xiao-Dong
name: Wang, Shuang
name: Huang, Qing-Guo
name: Zhang, Xin
name: Li, Miao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the ultimate fate of the Universe by using a divergence-free parametrization for dark energy $w(z)=w_0+w_a({\ln (2+z)\over 1+z}-\ln2)$. Unlike the CPL parametrization, this parametrization has well behaved, bounded behavior for both high redshifts and negative redshifts, and thus can genuinely cover many theoretical dark energy models. After constraining the parameter space of this parametrization by using the current cosmological observations, we find that, at the 95.4% confidence level, our Universe can still exist at least 16.7 Gyr before it ends in a big rip. Moreover, for the phantom energy dominated Universe, we find that a gravitationally bound system will be destroyed at a time $t \simeq P\sqrt{2|1+3w(-1)|}/[6π|1+w(-1)|]$, where $P$ is the period of a circular orbit around this system, before the big rip.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures; typos corrected, publication version, Sci China-Phys Mech Astron, doi: 10.1007/s11433-012-4748-z
Non-intersecting squared Bessel paths at a hard-edge tacnode
Creators: name: Delvaux, Steven
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The squared Bessel process is a 1-dimensional diffusion process related to the squared norm of a higher dimensional Brownian motion. We study a model of $n$ non-intersecting squared Bessel paths, with all paths starting at the same point $a>0$ at time $t=0$ and ending at the same point $b>0$ at time $t=1$. Our interest lies in the critical regime $ab=1/4$, for which the paths are tangent to the hard edge at the origin at a critical time $t^*\in (0,1)$. The critical behavior of the paths for $n\to\infty$ is studied in a scaling limit with time $t=t^*+O(n^{-1/3})$ and temperature $T=1+O(n^{-2/3})$. This leads to a critical correlation kernel that is defined via a new Riemann-Hilbert problem of size $4\times 4$. The Riemann-Hilbert problem gives rise to a new Lax pair representation for the Hastings-McLeod solution to the inhomogeneous Painlevé II equation $q"(x) = xq(x)+2q^3(x)-ν,$ where $ν=α+1/2$ with $α>-1$ the parameter of the squared Bessel process. These results extend our recent work with Kuijlaars and Zhang \cite{DKZ} for the homogeneous case $ν= 0$.
description: 54 pages, 13 figures. Corrected error in Theorem 2.4
Stenus kamtschaticus MOTSCHULSKY 1845
Creators: name: Puthz, V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Stenus
Stenus kamtschaticus

description: Stenus (s.str.) kamtschaticus MOTSCHULSKY 1845 Stenus kamtschaticus MOTSCHULSKY 1845: 355; HERMAN 2001: 2244. Stenus affinisecretus ZHAO & ZHOU 2007: 12 f. figs syn.nov. Stenus guandiensis ZHAO & ZHOU 2007: 13 ff. figs syn.nov. M a t e r i a l (nur China): 2: Beijing: Donglingshan, 1.VII.1993, Rougemont (cRougemont); -PT von S. affinisecretus: ebenfalls vom Donglingshan (cP); 1: Jilin: Quang Bai Shan, 42 o 01.733 N, 128 o 03.100 E, under stones, river crater, ca. 2195 m, 7.VI.2994, Cooter (Zool.Inst. Beijing); 1: Gansu: Dalijia Shan, 46 km W Linxia, 2980 m, 10.VII.1994, Smetana (cSmetana). Von S. affinisecretus liegt mir ein freundlich überlassener - Paratypus vor: es handelt sich um den weit verbreiteten S. kamtschaticus. Und auch S. guandiensis muss in die Variationsbreite des S. kamtschaticus gestellt werden: Vergleicht man die Aedoeagusabbildungen beider neuen Taxa, so fällt ein Unterschied in der Paramerenbeborstung auf: dieser wäre wesentlich, wenn er zuträfe. Der Paratypus des S. affinisecretus zeigt jedoch ebenfalls Borsten in der proximalen Paramerenhälfte. Die von den Autoren zwischen ihren Taxa angeführten Unterschiede gehören in die Variationsbreite der Art bzw. liegen an Präparationsunterschieden. Ich kenne mehr als 80 Exemplare dieser Art aus Sibirien, der Mongolei, dem Fernen Osten Russlands und dem nördlichen Nordamerika. Die Art ist übrigens von mir in LÖBL & SMETANA (2004) bereits aus China gemeldet worden!
description: Published as part of Puthz, V., 2008, Stenus LATREILLE und die segenreiche Himmelstochter (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), pp. 137-230 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 40 (1) on page 148, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5426801
Bell's Theorem from Moore's Theorem
Creators: name: Fields, Chris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that the restrictions of what can be inferred from classically-recorded observational outcomes that are imposed by the no-cloning theorem, the Kochen-Specker theorem and Bell's theorem also follow from restrictions on inferences from observations formulated within classical automata theory. Similarities between the assumptions underlying classical automata theory and those underlying universally-unitary quantum theory are discussed.
description: 12 pages; to appear in Int. J. General Systems
Blueprint of Shopping Center Cellar Plan, Stony Brook January 23, 1940
Creators: name: Smythe, Richard Haviland
name: Melville, Ward, 1887-1977
name: Organization, Ward Melville Heritage
name: Stony Brook Community Fund
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: Stony Brook
Sketches
Blueprints
Plans
Architects
Shopping centers
Architectural drawings
Stores & shops

description: This blueprint shows the cellar plans for a shopping center located in Stony Brook, L. I. This plan was completed by architect Richard Haviland Smythe, located at 681 fifth avenue, New York. Building for D.T. Bayles & Son.
Cora Johnstone Best and Audrey Forfar Shippam
Creators: name: Waller, Gregory
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Women in the motion picture industry
Motion pictures
Silent films
Lectures and lecturing

description: Through most of the 1920s, Cora Johnstone Best and Audrey Forfar Shippam engaged in what seems to have been in this period a rare if not unique form of professional collaboration, with Best delivering lectures illustrated with lantern slides and motion pictures that had been shot by Shippam during the pair’s adventures in the remote Canadian Rockies. Best, a medical doctor who became widely known for her mountaineering exploits, had been a public speaker since at least 1918. Her active career as a lecturer lasted from 1922, when she was hired as a representative of the Bureau of Commercial Economics (BCE), until her death in 1930. During these years the film lecture was a widely popular nontheatrical exhibition format, and Best was possibly the most successful woman in the United States working in what was an overwhelmingly male-dominated field. After Best’s death, there is no record of Shippam (who lived until 1975) continuing to shoot film or to create hand-colored lantern slides. Unfortunately, none of the motion pictures shot by Shippam for use in the lectures seem to have survived.
title: Basis for a Bayesian Approach to Fisheries Discards
Creators: name: Viana, M.
name: Wilson, J.G.
name: Graham, N.
name: Jackson, A.L.
Publisher: name: ASC 2009 - Theme session M
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture
Technologies and data

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.A substantial fraction of world’s fisheries catch is discarded. This is a source of conservation concern not only because many of the discarded species are unassessed but also because discards of target species are often not included in assessments (Borges et al 2005). The way discards are included in assessments needs to reflect the nature of how discarding occurs. In the present poster we aim to show some of the benefits/advantages of using a Bayesian approach for analysing fisheries discards data
title: Bisphenol A Blood and Saliva Levels Prior to and After Dental Sealant Placement in Adults
Creators: name: Downs, Joyce Marie
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: Placement of pit and fissure dental sealants is an effective therapy for tooth decay prevention and is widely accepted as a standard of care throughout the United States. Pit and fissure dental sealants (sealants) are manufactured using the resin component of composite dental materials, formed by reacting glycidyl methacrylate with bisphenol A. Bisphenol A (BPA) is a hormonally active, synthetic chemical that is part of a broad group of chemicals known as endocrine disrupting compounds, xenoestrogens, which mimic bioactivity of estrogen. This study measured BP A in saliva and blood after the placement of a widely used, pit and fissure sealant material in 30 subjects using a directcompetitive bisphenol A Enzyme Linked ImmunoSorbent Assay (ELISA). Subjects ranged in age from 18-40 years of age and were of mixed gender and ethnicity. Differences in bisphenol A comparing low-dose (I-sealant) and high-dose ( 4-sealants) groups were examined one hour prior, one hour post, three hour post and 24 hours after sealant placement. Data were analyzed using a parametric, two-way analysis of variance for repeated measures. Bisphenol A was detected in the saliva of all participants prior to a sealant placement and ranged from 0.07-6.00 ng/ml. Salivary BPA concentration levels peaked over a 3-hour period following sealant placement and returned to baseline levels within 24-hours. BP A was significantly elevated at all post sealant placement time periods for both the low-dose and high-dose sealant groups with peak levels of 3.98 ng/ml and 9.08 ng/ml, respectively. The blood serum did not contain BPA at any point in this study.
Towards the string dual of tumbling and cascading gauge theories
Creators: name: Conde, Eduardo
name: Gaillard, Jerome
name: Nunez, Carlos
name: Piai, Maurizio
name: Ramallo, Alfonso V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We build type IIB backgrounds that can be interpreted as the dual description of field theories in which the dynamics shows many non-trivial phenomena, generalizing the baryonic branch of the Klebanov-Strassler system. We illustrate the steps of the explicit construction with a particularly interesting example. The dual field theory exhibits the expected behavior of an N=1 supersymmetric gauge theory which, over different ranges of the radial direction, is undergoing a cascade of Seiberg dualities, a period of running, a cascade of Higgsings (tumbling) and finally gaugino condensation.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures ; v2. minor changes included
Extended Thermal Bremsstrahlung in AGN Hosts as a Probe of Negative Feedback
Creators: name: Komugi, Shinya
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Our current understanding of galaxy evolution requires galaxies to quench star formation efficiently after the cosmic noon, before they quickly evolve into "red and dead" ellipticals.  One of the promising ways to realize this is by negative feedback from AGN.  Observations of gas outflow from the AGN have been found to expel gas from the galaxy, but simulations have shown that gas could eventually return to the disk and subsequently form stars.  Alternatively, Extended Emission Line Regions (EELRs) observed in optical lines around QSOs and extending tens of kpc, are evidence of preventive feedback, where the QSO directly ionizes gas in the host and inhibits the formation of cold molecular gas.  Estimating the mass of ionized gas (and thus the amount of feedback) in EELR have been difficult, however, because line excitation and dust extinction need to be assumed, and the diffuse emission suffer from the overwhelmingly bright central core.
Using ALMA, we have detected diffuse and extended millimeter continuum in the host galaxy of the prototypical QSO 3C273.  The emission is cospatial with the optical EELR, could not be explained by star formation or synchrotron emission, and consistent with theoretical calculations of thermal free-free emission from host gas directly ionized by the QSO.  This is the first detection of a radio counterpart to the EELR.  The virtue of millimeter detection of the EELR is that no dust extinction need to be assumed, emission mechanism are simple compared to the optical, and that ALMA enables precision self-calibration reaching an image dynamic range of >50000, so that the contamination from the core can be overcome.  The ionized gas mass in 3C273 is easily estimated to be 10^10-11 solar mass.  This method of probing negative feedback can be applied to other QSO as well, providing a new avenue to revealing the interaction between AGN and the host galaxy.
Dialectics of Debate: Reflections on Three Pedagogical Scenes in Chinese Music History
Creators: name: Lee, Gavin
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Music--Instruction and study
Music and history
Education and state
Education--Study and teaching
Self-actualization (Psychology)

description: Abraham Maslow’s theory of the hierarchy of needs with self-actualization at the pinnacle has been influential in educational philosophy, but pedagogy solely in this Western liberal sense does not fully account for delimited global contexts in which pedagogy may at certain times equate indoctrination, as when Chinese students are taught about the supremacy of the Communist Party of China. In this latter context, what applies is a different form of “pedagogy,” defined and critiqued by postcolonial theorist Homi Bhabha as the propagation of the ideology of a homogeneous nation void of the heterogeneity of differences. Through my deployment of various teaching materials related to Chinese music history, I demonstrate how the discursive space in my classroom can embody Bhabha’s central theory of ambivalence, as nationalist pedagogy is countered by students’s performative acts of self-actualization. Rather than regarding heterogeneity as an ethical anchor to be preferred over homogeneity, however, I end this essay by arguing that what we need is a dialectical pedagogy of both heterogeneity and homogeneity. Dialectics begins with a simple classroom debate.
title: Strategic Spanish Project relating responsible fishing on discard reduction (REDES)
Creators: name: Pérez, Nélida
name: Fernández, Rosa
name: Fernández, Carmen
Publisher: name: ASC 2009 - Theme session M
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture
Technologies and data

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.A description of a recently designed strategic Spanish proposal relating responsible fishing on discard reduction (REDES) is presented. A gap on research on fishing gear technology has been identified in spain during last years. REDES, is a multidisciplinary proposal aimed to fill that gap involving fishermen's associations, ship-owners, technology industries, research institutes and university departments, collaborating towards a selectivity improvement by introducing technological innovations in fishing gears.
Superluminal Neutrinos from Gauge Field
Creators: name: Oda, Ichiro
name: Taira, Hajime
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a possibility that the recent OPERA results on neutrinos' superluminality could be caused by a local effect of a new gauge field sourced by the earth. If neutrinos couple to this gauge field via a gauge-invariant but non-renormalizable interaction, the coupling effectively changes a background metric, thereby leading to superluminality of neutrinos. This possibility naturally might explain why neutrinos from CERN CNGS beam to Gran Sasso Laboratory become superluminal while those from SN1987A to Earth become subluminal.
description: Published version
X-ray emission from high-redshift miniquasars: self-regulating the population of massive black holes through global warming
Creators: name: Tanaka, Takamitsu
name: Perna, Rosalba
name: Haiman, Zoltán
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Observations of high-redshift quasars at z>6 imply that supermassive black holes (SMBHs) with masses over a billion solar masses were in place less than 1 Gyr after the Big Bang. If these SMBHs assembled from "seed" BHs left behind by the first stars, then they must have accreted gas at close to the Eddington limit during a large fraction (>50%) of the time. A generic problem with this scenario, however, is that the mass density in million-solar-mass SMBHs at z=6 already exceeds the locally observed SMBH mass density by several orders of magnitude; in order to avoid this overproduction, BH seed formation and growth must become significantly less efficient in less massive protogalaxies, while proceeding uninterrupted in the most massive galaxies that formed first. Using Monte-Carlo realizations of the merger and growth history of BHs, we show that X-rays from the earliest accreting BHs can provide such a feedback mechanism. Our calculations paint a self-consistent picture of black-hole-made climate change, in which the first miniquasars---among them the ancestors of the z>6 quasar SMBHs---globally warm the IGM and suppress the formation and growth of subsequent generations of BHs. We present two specific models with global miniquasar feedback that provide excellent agreement with recent estimates of the z=6 SMBH mass function. For each of these models, we estimate the rate of BH mergers at z>6 that could be detected by the proposed gravitational-wave observatory eLISA/NGO.
description: 15 pages, 6 figures, accepted to MNRAS; v2 includes minor changes, mostly to references, to match version to be published
Gitxaała marine use planning : making indigenous jurisdiction in contemporary aboriginal-state relations
Creators: name: Moffitt, Morgan Elizabeth
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: This thesis examines Gitxaała First Nation’s marine planning activities at the local and regional level as a part of the PNCIMA process. I focus on the process of creating a regional marine plan for the North Coast through an aggregate First Nations organization, the North Coast Skeena First Nations Stewardship Society (NCSFNSS). In this context, I ask how marine planning addresses Gitxaała peoples beliefs, knowledge, and approaches to marine governance, and how this process is related to contemporary aboriginal-state relations in Canada. The PNCIMA planning process involves a multi-level collaborative governance agreement that commits First Nations and the federal government to creating and implementing local marine use plans that outline community goals and strategies for implementing their aboriginal rights and managing their marine resources. Gitxaała marine planning is an effort to institute indigenous jurisdiction in their territory and manage their resources in a culturally and politically significant manner. However, at the regional level, Gitxaała marine planning – and marine planning for all North Coast First Nations more generally – is challenged and limited by state power and control over ocean and fisheries. This power shapes the way in which First Nations can participate in oceans governance and management, the PNCIMA process, and impacts the relationship between local First Nations communities. The result is the imposition and reification of Euro-American political structures and knowledge – such as aggregated political organization and scaled planning processes – on indigenous peoples who have for centuries organized themselves socially and politically in culturally meaningful ways and have fostered and maintained healthy marine ecosystems in their territories.
Study of the relation between kVp and X-ray tube output of general X-ray machine at Hua Hin Hospital, Prachuap Khiri Khan
Creators: name: Chawee Bunkloy
Publisher: name: Faculty of Associated Medical Sciences, Chiang Mai University
Year: 2017
Subjects: X-ray tube output
kVp
ESAK

description: Journal of Associated Medical Sciences, 50, 3, 450-460
Blueprint of Shopping Center Elevation and Sections, Stony Brook, October 31, 1939
Creators: name: Smythe, Richard Haviland
name: Melville, Ward, 1887-1977
name: Organization, Ward Melville Heritage
name: Stony Brook Community Fund
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: Stony Brook
Sketches
Blueprints
Plans
Architects
Shopping centers
Architectural drawings
Stores & shops

description: This blueprint shows the elevation and sections of the front of a shopping center located in Stony Brook, L. I. This plan was completed by architect Richard Haviland Smythe, located at 681 fifth avenue, New York. Building for D.T. Bayles & Son. Blueprint is dated for October 31, 1939.
Ricardo Lorenz: A Post-Colonial/Modern Latin(o) American Composer
Creators: name: Hudde, Hermann
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Cross-cultural studies
Emigration and immigration--Songs and music
Musicology
Hispanic Americans--Music
Composers

description: European art music was brought into the Euro-baptized American continent by the Spaniards and Portuguese as an art discipline that supported the conversion to Catholicism, and, in general, its colonization. Nevertheless, Latin American composers—using agency, creativity and the process of transculturation—appropriated and transformed this music tradition to produce their innovative and hybrid art music works according to their culture and history. The article examines a selection of composer Ricardo Lorenz (Venezuela, 1961) musical works, philosophy, and artistic persona. In order to understand how and why postcolonial/modern theories opened up new paths for Lorenz’ musical works, this article introduces Ricardo Lorenz as composer and cultural agent related to Latin American and Latino communities in the United States with his positions of Interim Director of the Latin American Music Center at Indiana University (1987-1992), Chicago Symphony Orchestra Composer-in-Residence, Armonía Musicians Residency Program (1998-2002) and Latin IS American (2013-?) at Michigan State University’s College of Music. Then it discusses some of the ideas, such as the cultural monopoly of constructing an art music canon; building a racial/cultural division of the “Self” and the “Others,” the global music industry’s imposition of marketing tastes and distribution channels, and the representation of Latin American art music works and composers as exotics, within Lorenz text “Voices in Limbo: Identity, Representation and Realities of Latin American Composers” (1999). This methodology prepares us to engage with a conceptual analysis of two works by Lorenz—Mambozart for piano (1995) and the Pataruco Concerto for maracas and orchestra (1999)—to demonstrate Lorenz’s musical language and aesthetic, which reflects his fluency in cultural diversity and political philosophy in addition to reminding us what the process of transculturation stands for in Western art music composition and sounds.
Anomalous Currents on Closed Surfaces: Extended Proximity, Partial Quantization, and Qubits
Creators: name: Selem, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by the surface of topological insulators, the Dirac anomaly's discontinuous dependence on sign of the mass, $m/|m|$, is investigated on closed topologies when mass terms are weak or only partially cover the surface. It is found that, unlike the massive Dirac theory on an infinite plane, there is a smoothly decreasing current when the mass region is not infinite; also, a massive finite region fails to exhibit a Hall current edge--exerting an extended proximity effect, which can, however, be uniformly small--and oppositely orientated Hall phases are fully quantized while accompanied by diffuse chiral modes. Examples are computed using Dirac energy eigenstates on a flat torus (genus one topology) and closed cap cylinder (genus zero topology) for various mass-term geometries. Finally, from the resulting the properties of the surface spectra, a potential application for a flux-charge qubit is presented.
description: 22 pages, 13 figures. References and focus updated. Added effective action arguments. Same text as published version
title: Developing a Discard Index for the Englishand Welsh fishing fleet
Creators: name: Catchpole, T.L.
name: R.Enever
name: Revill, A
name: Reese, A.
name: Maxwell, D.
Publisher: name: ASC 2009 - Theme session M
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture
Technologies and data

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Developing a Discard Index for the Englishand Welsh fishing fleet.
“It’s Awfully Important to Listen”: Ella Jenkins and Musical Multiculturalism
Creators: name: Wald, Gayle
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Music and children
Music--Effect of multiculturalism on
Feminism and music
African American women musicians
Music--Study and teaching (Early childhood)

description: The 1995 release of Multicultural Children’s Songs (Smithsonian-Folkways) solidified the reputation of Ella Jenkins (b. 1924) as the most prolific and influential U.S. children’s musician of the late 20th century. Yet while the album brought Jenkins’s music to new audiences, the compilation of her work under the “multicultural” moniker threatened to obscure the radicalism of her repertoire and pedagogical method. Focusing on her 1957 Folkways debut, Call-and-Response Rhythmic Group Singing, I argue that Jenkins models a black feminist approach to early childhood musical education that assails cultural hierarchies, imagines “difference” outside of essentializing representation, and recognizes song as a vehicle of cultural memory and subjugated knowledge, even for very young audiences.
Remote community electrification using woody biomass
Creators: name: Wilson, Sonja
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: In British Columbia (BC) there are approximately 60 communities not connected to the regional electricity grid, these communities are classified as “remote”. The prevailing technology for generating electricity in these remote communities is the diesel generator. Diesel generators are polluting, noisy, costly and unsustainable; yet communities rely on them for lack of a suitable alternative. However, many remote communities in BC are surrounded by forests, and may have access to a wood supply sufficient to meet community power requirements. In addition to displacing diesel for electricity generation, biomass power plants may also displace fuels for space and hot water heating. Co-generation with woody biomass in grid-connected applications at large-scale is well established. However, remote community electrification with woody biomass is an emerging field requiring a different approach to risk/benefit analysis, technology selection, sizing and demand management. This thesis examines the benefits, risks, and techno-economic feasibility of generating electricity from woody biomass in the context of off-grid communities in BC. Technology options were reviewed for their suitability to remote community applications. The finding of the review is that a Thermal Oil boiler coupled with an Organic Rankine Cycle turbine is the best choice for remote community power plants. Specifications and pricing for these technologies were applied in the techno-economic assessment and optimization study for Tsay Keh Village in British Columbia. The results of the analysis suggest that a bioenergy plant in Tsay Keh Village would significantly reduce air pollution, soil contamination due to spills, and noise, while also reducing the 25-year net present value (NPV) of energy expenditures. Provided that the many forms of risk are recognized and managed effectively, a Band-owned bioenergy power plant at Tsay Keh Village could result in many benefits to the community; including improved respiratory health, employment, protection from escalating fossil fuel costs, revenue and energy self sufficiency. However, in light of recent BCHydro Zone II electricity price increases, the stepped rate price structure and a trend of falling populations in remote communities, the economic risk of a community owned bioenergy plant in Tsay Keh Village appears to outweigh the potential benefits.
From Curatorial Files to Linked Open Data: Cataloging the Art Collection at Columbia University
Creators: name: Ferrari, Roberto C.
name: Wacker, Melanie
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Metadata
Cataloging of art
Linked data
Art--Private collections

description: Columbia University is relatively unique among American educational institutions with regard to its art collection. Rather than being housed in a traditional museum environment, artwork instead is organized as a special collection within Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library. Overseen by the Art Properties department, the collection of over 12,000 works of art encompasses all time periods, cultures, and media. This paper presents a case study in which item-level records for the collection were exposed in the library’s online catalog and, in just five years, evolved from being an unsearchable resource to becoming an international model of linked open data for records for works of art. The first part of this presentation describes the original museum-style documentation used for organizing the collection, and the library cataloging standards implemented in recent years.