cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Regional design
Creators: name: Balz, Verena
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2019

description: In recent decades the Netherlands has seen an increase in the use of regional design-led practices in national indicative planning. Despite this, the interrelations between design and planning decision making are not well understood and attempts to involve the expertise and ambition of designers in planning have had unclear outcomes. This paper elaborates on the role and position of regional design in indicative planning. It is argued that design in this realm resembles discretionary action, implying that design both influences, and is influenced by, prevailing planning rationales. An analytical framework is developed on these grounds and applied to a set of regional design initiatives that evolved in the context of Dutch national plans between 1988 and 2012. Significantly, the analysis reveals forms of discretional control that shape the creative design practice, of particular importance being the flexibility of planning guidance and the resulting room for interpretation. In theoretical terms, the article contributes to the discussion of how design – as an explorative search for solutions to problems in a particular spatial context – and design theory can contribute to an understanding of the multiple planning experiments emerging in this post-regulative era.
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 6 (2019): Regional Design
Transformations of planning rationales
Creators: name: Balz, Verena
name: Zonneveld, Wil
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2019

description: Dutch national planning has acquired an international reputation because it provides strong planning guidance while simultaneously being responsive to the particular spatial and political circumstances of different regions and areas. Spatial concepts, like the Randstad, are important vehicles for sustaining this approach. Such concepts incorporate select spatial planning rationales that justify operational decisions. Concepts can, however, also be ambiguous, and this can allow for different interpretations and deliberations about how guidance should take effect in different situations. In this paper we assess the degree of ambiguity contained in concepts outlined in Dutch national plans between 1988 and 2012. By focusing on the dimensions of spatial concepts, and the room for interpretation these create, we demonstrate how concepts were modified to accommodate a shifting appreciation of deliberation and, as a result, collaboration and governance. On a theoretical level, we propose a method that analyses in detail the ambiguity (“fuzzyness” or “softness”) of spatial concepts. We argue that such sophisticated understandings contribute to explaining the variety of governance responses that these geographies produce in practice. On an empirical level we seek to increase understanding of change in recent Dutch national planning.
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 6 (2019): Regional Design
Regional design in the context of fragmented territorial governance
Creators: name: Balz, Verena
name: Zonneveld, Wil
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2019

description: In the Netherlands, the formation of governance arrangements around planning issues that cross administrative boundaries has been assisted frequently by a design approach that is often referred to as “regional design”. This is a distinctive method of policy argumentation that makes use of spatial representations of the plausible future of regions. Such representations are intended not only to indicate physical changes, but also to stimulate debate on sharing responsibilities and resources for planning tasks among planning actors. This paper contributes to a better understanding of the performance of regional design in the context of fragmented regional governance through a case study in the southern part of the Randstad in the Netherlands. We argue that regional design has contributed to institutional capacity in a complex polycentric and, looking at the governance structure, pluricentric region like the Randstad South Wing, largely by allowing for multiple interpretations.
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 6 (2019): Regional Design
From concept to projects
Creators: name: Balz, Verena
name: Schrijnen, Joost
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2019

description: As cities tend to spread and coalesce into lower density urban regions, public transport systems are evolving from mono-centric hierarchical structures into multinodal horizontal networks. This evolution of metropolitan regions with a multitude of relations and dependencies require not only new forms of transport but also new methods of spatial planning. The biggest danger to an emerging metropolitan area is that of fragmented development and consequently missed opportunities. The project Stedenbaan strives to establish a planning context within which cities are not competitors but partners that work on diverse and complementary developments.
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 6 (2019): Regional Design
Lattice-pseudospin and spin-valley polarizations in dual ferromagnetic-gated silicene junction
Creators: name: Chantngarm, Peerasak
name: Yamada, Kou
name: Soodchomshom, Bumned
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study spin-valley and lattice-pseudo spin currents in a dual ferromagnetic-gated silicene-based junction. Silicene has buckled atomic structure which allows us to take sublattice-dependent ferromagnetism into account in the investigation. One of the study results show that transmission at the junctions exhibits anisotropic property only in anti-parallel cases. Interestingly, the studied junctions can be switched from a pure spin-polarizer to a pure valley-polarizer by reversing directions of exchange fields in the parallel junctions. The perfect control of spin-valley currents can be done only in the parallel cases and its resolution can be enhanced by increasing gate potential between the ferromagnetic barriers. The asymmetric barriers of anti-parallel junction is found to destroy both spin and valley filtering effects and yield a novel result, pure sub-lattice pseudo-spin polarization. The current in the anti-parallel junctions can be controlled to flow solely in either A or B sub-lattice, saying that the controllable lattice current in silicene is created in double ferromagnetic-gated junction. Our work reveals the potential of dual ferromagnetic-gated silicene junction which may be possible for applications in spin-valleytronics and lattice-pseudospintronics.
description: 24 pages, 9 figures
Richtungsaufgelöste Kanalmodellierung und Systemstudien für Mehrantennensysteme in urbanen Gebieten
Creators: name: Fügen, Thomas
Publisher: name: Universitätsverlag Karlsruhe
Year: 2009
Subjects: MIMO
Kanalmodellierung
Mobilkommunikation
intelligente Antennen
geometrisch-stochastisch

description: Das vorliegende Buch bietet eine umfassende Analyse des urbanen Mehrnutzer-MIMO-Funkkanals und stellt ein neuartiges geometrisch-stochastisches Kanalmodell für diesen Kanal vor. Besonderes Augenmerk liegt dabei auf der realistischen Modellierung der Zeitvarianz, Frequenz- und Richtungsselektivität sowie der Nutz- und Interferenzsignale im Netz. Zur Parametrierung und Verifikation des Modells werden Ray Tracing Simulationen sowie beidseitig richtungsaufgelöste Funkkanalmessungen eingesetzt.
Research approach
Creators: name: Balz, Verena
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2019

description: Regional design is a collaborative and interactive social practice that includes a broad array of actors with a multiplicity of different interests. It is concerned with the built environment, which is itself a complex system. As noted in the Introduction, regional design triggers multiple expectations but its performances have rarely been evaluated. There are only a few scholarly writings that are dedicated to the topic; these elaborate upon a multitude of theoretically founded interrelations among regional design and spatial planning but draw on a narrow empirical evidence base. In such a context it is important to first detail and stabilise propositions; and exploratory case-study research is an appropriate research methodology to do so (Yin, 2013). Conditions that qualify such research include a well-motivated selection of consistent cases, suited to explore a proposition internally, and to generalise outcomes. These cases should be ones that exist prior to any exploration, be well-documented through a variety of (preferably) publicly accessible sources, and be spread over time. How these conditions were met in this research will be explained briefly below.
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 6 (2019): Regional Design
Mittelalterliche Migrationen als Gegenstand der ‚Genetic History‘
Creators: name: Feuchter, Jörg
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Genetik
subject: DNA
subject: Mittelalter
subject: Angelsachsen
subject: Langobarden
subject: Völkerwanderung
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Middle Ages
subject: Anglo-Saxons
subject: Lombards
subject: Migration Period
subject: 930 Geschichte des Altertums bis ca. 499, Archäologie

description: Genetic History untersucht historische Fragen mit der Quelle DNA. Migrationen sind ihr Hauptgegenstand, woraus sich eine große Bedeutung für die Mediävistik ergibt. Doch bis vor kurzem waren Historiker nicht beteiligt. Der Beitrag gibt eine Definition der neuen Disziplin (1), untersucht die Rolle des Konzeptes Migration in der Populationsgenetik (2) und beschreibt den Stand der Migrationsforschung in der Mediävistik (3). Anschließend gibt er einen kurzen Überblick über die von der Genetic History untersuchten Migrationsräume (4), betrachtet exemplarisch zunächst eine Studie zur angelsächsischen Migration nach Britannien (5) und dann ein aktuelles Projekt, in dem erstmals ein Mediävist die Leitung innehat (6). Der Beitrag endet mit einigen allgemeinen Beobachtungen und Postulaten (7).
description: Genetic History is the study of historical questions with DNA as a source. Migrations are its main subject. It is thus very relevant to Medieval Studies. Yet until recently historians have not been involved. The contribution provides a definition of the new discipline (1), explores the role of migration as a concept in Population Genetics (2) and describes the state of migration studies in Medieval History (3). It then sets out for an overview of medieval migratory areas studied by Genetic History (4) and takes an exemplary look first (5) at a study on Anglo-Saxon migration to Britain and later (6) at a current project where for the first time a medieval historian has taken the lead. The contribution ends (7) with some general observations and stipulations.
Auswirkungen von Energieeffizienzzertifikaten auf Investitionsentscheidungen im Wohnungsbau
Creators: name: Cypra, Sonja
Publisher: name: Universitätsverlag Karlsruhe
Year: 2009
Subjects: Energieeffizienzzertifikat
Investitionsplanung
Lebenszykluskosten
Weiße-Zertifikate
energetische Gebäudesanierung

description: Ein gemeinschaftliches Weiße-Zertifikate-System wirkt sich auf Investitionsentscheidungen in der Gebäudesanierung aus und steht in Wechselbeziehung zu bestehenden Anreizinstrumenten. In dieser Arbeit wird ein mögliches Weiße-Zertifikate-System für Deutschland erarbeitet, das in ein Investitionsplanungsmodell inkl. ökologischer Bewertung einfließt. Es wird exemplarisch auf die energetische Wohngebäudesanierung angewandt und enthält einen Vergleich mit bestehenden Anreizinstrumenten.
Extension of Lorenz Unpredictability
Creators: name: Akhmet, Marat
name: Fen, Mehmet Onur
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is found that Lorenz systems can be unidirectionally coupled such that the chaos expands from the drive system. This is true if the response system is not chaotic, but admits a global attractor, an equilibrium or a cycle. The extension of sensitivity and period-doubling cascade are theoretically proved, and the appearance of cyclic chaos as well as intermittency in interconnected Lorenz systems are demonstrated. A possible connection of our results with the global weather unpredictability is provided.
description: 32 pages, 13 figures
Griechische Wanderungsnarrative und ihre Wirkung
Creators: name: Gehrke, Hans-Joachim
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Dorische Wanderung
subject: Gründung
subject: Intentionale Geschichte
subject: Ionische Wanderung
subject: Kolonisation
subject: Mythos
subject: Dorian migration
subject: foundation
subject: intentional history
subject: Ionian migration
subject: colonization
subject: myth
subject: 930 Geschichte des Altertums bis ca. 499, Archäologie

description: Eines der Hauptcharakteristika der intentionalen Geschichte der Griechen, also der Geschichte in ihrer eigenen Sicht, war die wesentliche Rolle, die Geschichten von Wanderungen, Kolonisation, Vertreibungen und Rückwanderungen spielten. Diese Narrative dienten als Elemente zur Organisierung und Strukturierung der Vergangenheit, zur Bestimmung von Nähe und Differenz, zur Erklärung von Freundschaft und Feindschaft. Durch den Einsatz solcher Geschichten und der ihnen innewohnenden Prinzipien konnten die Griechen auch ihnen fremden Gruppen, den ‚Barbaren‘, einen Platz in ihrem eigenen Vergangenheitsraum geben. Da manche dieser Gruppen (das prominenteste Beispiel sind die Römer) diese ‚Geschichten‘ als Teil ihrer eigenen Tradition übernahmen, blieben diese ein Modell zur Erklärung und historischen Strukturierung von Veränderungs- und Entwicklungsprozessen. Sogar die moderne historische Forschung, die doch viele dieser Geschichte durch Quellenkritik dekonstruiert hat, steht sehr häufig noch unter dem Einfluss dieser Modelle und Konzepte.
description: One of the main characteristics of Greek history in the eyes of the Greeks themselves, their intentional history, was the eminent role played by stories of migrations, colonization, expulsions, and remigrations. These narratives served as elements in order to structure the past, to constitute familiarity and difference, to explain relations of friendship or enmity. By using these stories and their inherent principles, the Greeks were also able to give foreign groups, the ‘barbaroi’, a place in their own horizon of the past. Since many of these groups (and most prominently the Romans) made these ‘histories’ part of their own tradition, these histories continued to exist as a model of explaining and historically ordering processes of change and development. Even modern historical research – albeit deconstructing many of these stories by means of Quellenkritik – is still very often influenced by these models and concepts.
Cross-phase modulation of a probe stored in a waveguide for non-destructive detection of photonic qubits
Creators: name: Sinclair, Neil
name: Heshami, Khabat
name: Deshmukh, Chetan
name: Oblak, Daniel
name: Simon, Christoph
name: Tittel, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Non-destructive detection of photonic qubits is an enabling technology for quantum information processing and quantum communication. For practical applications such as quantum repeaters and networks, it is desirable to implement such detection in a way that allows some form of multiplexing as well as easy integration with other components such as solid-state quantum memories. Here we propose an approach to non-destructive photonic qubit detection that promises to have all the mentioned features. Mediated by an impurity-doped crystal, a signal photon in an arbitrary time-bin qubit state modulates the phase of an intense probe pulse that is stored during the interaction. Using a thulium-doped waveguide in LiNbO$_3$, we perform a proof-of-principle experiment with macroscopic signal pulses, demonstrating the expected cross-phase modulation as well as the ability to preserve the coherence between temporal modes. Our findings open the path to a new key component of quantum photonics based on rare-earth-ion doped crystals.
description: 6+5 pages, 4 figures
FAIR-by-design approach: the Scanning Tunneling Microscopy case
Creators: name: Panighel, Mirco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: FAIR data
FAIR-by-design
Open Science
Scanning tunneling microscopy

description: FAIR-by-design NFFA case study within Module 3 of the course "News and insights from Open Science, and how to exploit them in your scientific work" held for MSCA-ITN SMART-X, held on 11 July 2023. This presentation focus on the implementation of Open Science and FAIR principles in a Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) laboratory at CNR-IOM.
ACCELERATED INVISALIGN® IN CONJUNCTION WITH ACCELEDENT AURA®: A RANDOMIZED CLINCAL TRIAL
Creators: name: Bragassa, Brian
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Introduction: The objective of our study was to determine if vibration therapy increases the efficiency and accuracy of incisor alignment, accuracy of overbite correction as well as decreases discomfort associated with accelerated (4-day) Invisalign®. Methods: 33 patients were enrolled in a double-blinded parallel, randomized prospective clinical trial at the UNC Department of Orthodontics. Participants were randomly allocated into one of 3 groups: 2-week aligner wear (G1, n=10), 4-day aligner wear without vibration (G2, n=12) and 4-day aligner wear with vibration (G3, n=11). 3-D virtual models of maxillary and mandibular dentition were captured at 2 different time points: Baseline (To) and following 12-weeks of treatment (Tfinal). Efficiency and accuracy of incisor alignment for 63 pre/ post-treatment dental arches was determined by using the percent reduction and percent accuracy of reduction in Proximal Contact Point Discrepancy Index (PCPDI). The accuracy of OB correction was determined for 29 pot-treatment models by measuring the percent accuracy of overbite correction (OB). Finally, discomfort and the need for analgesic medication was investigated for each subject at 4 time points (T4-days, T2-weeks, T6-weeks, Tfinal) using a Visual Analog Scale (VAS) and a survey, respectively. Results: There was a significant increase in the efficiency of incisor alignment between groups G1 (18.9%) and G3 (29.12%) (P= 0.003). However, there was also a significant decrease in the percent accuracy of incisor alignment between group G1 (48%) and G2 (36%)/G3 subjects (37%)(P= 0.023, .047). There was no significant difference in the percent accuracy of overall OB correction between the 3 groups (P= 0.331, .0664). However, the percent accuracy of simple OB correction was statistically greater than complex OB correction in within each group (P= 0.039,  <0.001, .047). Pain scores tended to be higher for G2 subjects but the difference was only significant at one time point (T2-weeks) (P= 0.03). Vibration therapy did not significantly increase the efficiency/accuracy of incisor alignment (P= 0.089, 0.774) or the accuracy of OB correction (P= 0.33, 0.064) and decrease the pain associated with accelerated (4-day) Invisalign®(P= 0.59, 0.85). Conclusion: Accelerated (4-day) Invisalign® increases the efficiency but decreased the accuracy of incisor alignment when compared to a 2-week control group. Simple OB correction is significantly more accurate than complex OB correction when using Invisalign therapy. Vibration therapy has no effect on the efficiency and accuracy of incisor alignment, accuracy of OB correction nor the discomfort associated with accelerated (4-day) Invisalign®.
Does Parental Bonding and Its Interaction with Child Temperament Influence Facial Affect Recognition in High-Risk Offspring for Developing Anxiety Disorders?
Creators: name: Ruci, Lorena
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: Parental bonding
Facial affect recognition
Anxiety disorders
High risk offspring

description: Purpose: This thesis investigated whether perceived parental care and overprotection predicted accuracy of face emotion recognition in psychiatrically healthy youth. The study also examined whether child gender and having a parent with a history of anxiety moderated the relationship between parental bonding and facial emotion recognition, and whether behavioural inhibition mediated this relationship. Methods: The sample comprised 176 males and females aged 7-18 years. Participants completed the Parental Bonding Instrument, Childhood Self-Report of Inhibition, and the Ekman emotion recognition task. Results: Child gender and parental history of anxiety moderated the relationship between perceived parenting style and affect recognition. In boys, overprotection by father predicted deficits in recognizing fearful faces; in children with parental anxiety, low paternal care predicted deficits in recognizing angry faces; and in boys with parental anxiety, negative maternal bonding predicted deficits in recognizing expressions of surprise. Also, maternal overprotection predicted intensity of subjective anxiety while viewing expressions of surprise and happiness for all offspring, and behaviour inhibition mediated these relationships. Implications: The present study provides preliminary evidence that parental bonding interacts with risk group and gender in predicting accuracy of facial affect recognition in healthy youth. Further research is needed to confirm these findings and determine whether the interaction between gender, risk group and deficits in social cognition increase risk for developing pathological anxiety.
On $5$-manifolds with free fundamental group and simple boundary links in $S^5$
Creators: name: Kreck, Matthias
name: Su, Yang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57R65, 57R40

description: We classify compact oriented $5$-manifolds with free fundamental group and $π_{2}$ a torsion free abelian group in terms of the second homotopy group considered as $π_1$-module, the cup product on the second cohomology of the universal covering, and the second Stiefel-Whitney class of the universal covering. We apply this to the classification of simple boundary links of $3$-spheres in $S^5$. Using this we give a complete algebraic picture of closed $5$-manifolds with free fundamental group and trivial second homology group.
description: 20 pages
Adolescents issus de l’immigration : mobilisation de ressources scolaires et communautaires en vue d’une meilleure insertion sociale
Creators: name: LKenfack, Josiane
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: Ressources scolaires et communautaires
Adolescents issus de l'immigration
Rapport des jeunes à la langue française et à leur langue d'origine
Partenariats école-communauté-familles
Inclusion scolaire et communautaire
Stratégies d'adaptation personnelles
Institutions communautaires

description: Peu de recherches sur l'immigration francophone en Ontario traitent des ressources disponibles aux adolescents issus de l’immigration francophone dans le but d’explorer comment de telles ressources facilitent leur insertion sociale. Ce volet de la question migratoire fait toute la pertinence de cette étude qui est une enquête de petite envergure menée auprès de tels adolescents. Les adolescents ayant participé à ce projet vivent à Ottawa et y sont scolarisés. Les résultats de cette recherche permettent de connaître leur point de vue sur l’importance d’avoir des ressources disponibles pour eux en français. Par ailleurs, cette étude met également en exergue les changements que ces jeunes voudraient voir s’opérer aux niveaux scolaire et communautaire dans le but de contribuer à une meilleure inclusion de tous leurs pairs impliqués.
title: José Sanches
Creators: name: Cabeleira, João
Publisher: name: CHAM, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
Year: 2022

description: Entrada histórica sobre José Sanches na plataforma eViterbo
description: Cabeleira, João. 2022. José Sanches in eViterbo. CHAM, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. eISBN: 978-989-8492-77-7
RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE COMPOSITION OF SOILS AND PHYSICAL MEASUREMENTS MADE ON THEM, Rothamsted Experimental Station Report for 1970 - Part 2
Creators: name: R. J. B. WILLIAMS
Publisher: name: Lawes Agricultural Trust
Year: 1971
Subjects: subject: rothamsted research
subject: botanical composition

description: Scanned PDF of RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE COMPOSITION OF SOILS AND PHYSICAL MEASUREMENTS MADE ON THEM, part of Rothamsted Experimental Station Report for 1970 - Part 2
Fluctuations in an aging system: absence of effective temperature in the sol-gel transition of a quenched gelatin sample
Creators: name: Bérut, Antoine
name: Petrosyan, Artyom
name: Gomez-Solano, Juan Ruben
name: Ciliberto, Sergio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the fluctuations of a Brownian micro particle trapped with optical tweezers in a gelatin solution undergoing a fast local temperature quench below the sol-gel transition. Contrary to what was previously reported, we observe no anomalous fluctuations in the particle's position that could be interpreted in terms of an effective temperature. A careful analysis with ensemble averages shows only equilibrium-like properties for the fluctuations, even though the system is clearly aging. We also provide a detailed discussion on possible artifacts that could have been interpreted as an effective temperature, such as the presence of a drift or a mixing in time and ensemble averages in data analysis. These considerations are of general interest when dealing with non-ergodic or non-stationary systems.
On existence of a possible Lorentz invariant modified gravity in Weitzenböck spacetime
Creators: name: Momeni, Davood
name: Myrzakulov, Ratbay
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Modified gravity which was constructed by torsion scalar $T$, namely $f(T)$ doesn't respect Lorentz symmetry. As an attempt to make a new torsion based modified gravity with Lorentz invarianve, recently $f(T,\mathcal{B})$ introduced where $B=2\nabla_μT^μ$ \citep{Bahamonde:2015zma}. We would argue, even when all is constructed and done in a self-consistent form, if you handle them properly,we observe that there is no Lorentz invariant teleparallel equivalent of $f(R)$ gravity. All we found is that the $f(R)$ gravity in which $R$ must be computed in Weitzenböck spacetime, using Weitzenböck's connection, nor Levi-Civita connections is the only possible Lorentz invariant type of modified gravity. Consequently, $f(T)$ gravity can not obey Lorentz symmetry not only in its orthodoxica form but even in this new framework $f(T,\mathcal{B})$.
description: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10509-015-2546-6
Perceived Liberal Bias of College Professors
Creators: name: Woodzicka, Julie A.
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Political bias

description: This study uses the same method as in Hayne and Boudreau's (2022) preregistration (https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/67GXJ). However, instead of asking college professors to make judgements regarding student political orientation, logic, and likeability based on student appearance, we ask MTurk participants to imagine how a hypothetical professor would the student. In short, we are collecting perceptions of professor bias, which we would like to compare with actual bias collected in the Hayne & Boudreau study. We will recruit 400 MTurk participants and ask them to view a photo of a student with pink hair and a nose ring OR a photo of the same students with brown hair in a bun. We will ask them to rate the student as they believe a liberal or conservative professor would rate the student on logic, likeability, and political orientation (using the same stimuli and measures as Hayne & Boudreau, https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/67GXJ). We predict that participants will think that professors use appearance as a cue to student orientation, saying that the pink haired student would be rated as more liberal than the brown haired student by both conservative and liberal professors. We predict that professors will NOT show bias on logic or likeability based on student appearance regardless of their political orientation.
Pentagonal Monolayer Crystals of Carbon, Boron Nitride, and Silver Azide
Creators: name: Yagmurcukardes, M.
name: Sahin, H.
name: Kang, J.
name: Torun, E.
name: Peeters, F. M.
name: Senger, R. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this study we present a theoretical investigation of structural, electronic and mechanical properties of pentagonal monolayers of carbon (p-graphene), boron nitride (p-B$_{2}$N$_{4}$ and p-B$_{4}$N$_{2}$) and silver azide (p-AgN$_{3}$) by performing state-of-the-art first principles calculations. Our total energy calculations suggest feasible formation of monolayer crystal structures composed entirely of pentagons. In addition, electronic band dispersion calculations indicate that while p-graphene and p-AgN$_{3}$ are semiconductors with indirect bandgaps, p-BN structures display metallic behavior. We also investigate the mechanical properties (in-plane stiffness and the Poisson's ratio) of four different pentagonal structures under uniaxial strain. p-graphene is found to have the highest stiffness value and the corresponding Poisson's ratio is found to be negative. Similarly, p-B$_{2}$N$_{4}$ and p-B$_{4}$N$_{2}$ have negative Poisson's ratio values. On the other hand, the p-AgN$_{3}$ has a large and positive Poisson's ratio. In dynamical stability tests based on calculated phonon spectra of these pentagonal monolayers, we find that only p-graphene and p-B$_{2}$N$_{4}$ are stable, but p-AgN$_{3}$ and p-B$_{4}$N$_{2}$ are vulnerable against vibrational excitations.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures, J. Appl. Phys. 118, 104303 (2015)
Exact simulation of the jump times of a class of Piecewise Deterministic Markov Processes
Creators: name: Lemaire, Vincent
name: Thieullen, Michèle
name: Thomas, Nicolas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60J25, 65C20 (Primary), 92C20, 92C45 (Secondary)

description: In this paper, we are interested in the exact simulation of a class of Piecewise Deterministic Markov Processes (PDMP). We show how to perform efficient thinning algorithms depending on the jump rate bound. For different types of jump rate bounds, we compare theoretically the mean number of generated (total) jump times and we compare numerically the simulation times. We use thinning algorithms on Hodgkin-Huxley models with Markovian ion channels dynamic to illustrate the results.
description: 32 pages, 6 figures
title: De Christi Anima: the knowledge and suffering of Christ’s soul in Robert Bellarmine and Francis Turretin
Creators: name: Johnston, Matthew Brooks
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2023

description: The incarnation of the Word is the central Christian mystery—a mystery that cannot be properly understood without a grasp of the nature of Christ’s human soul. A soulless Christ is unable to save those who are embodied souls. However, how is the human soul of the Son of God different from that of any other man? How does it learn? Can it really suffer? These questions about the psychology of the God-man were foundational to the development of Christology in the Ancient church. They later resurfaced in the early modern period as Reformed theologians like John Calvin spoke of Christ’s ignorance and inner torment in a way that Roman Catholics deemed heretical. Although often overlooked, the doctrine of the Christ’s soul is an important exemplar of the methodological and systemic differences between Roman Catholic Theology and Reformed Theology. This thesis expounds and offers a comparative analysis of the doctrine of the knowledge and suffering of Christ’s soul in Bellarmine and Turretin. Chapter one outlines their individual importance and the legitimacy of points of contact between their work. Chapter two is a biographical introduction and shows that both Bellarmine and Turretin were eager to further entrench their theological systems in contrast to those of their opponents. Chapter three deals with the knowledge of Christ’s soul. It demonstrates that Bellarmine, emphasizing Christ’s infused knowledge, taught that he already knew everything he learned and that Turretin, emphasizing Christ’s acquired knowledge, taught that he actually learned things of which he was previously ignorant. Chapter four treats the suffering of Christ’s soul. Bellarmine rejects Calvin’s doctrine of the descensus as attributing desperation to Christ’s soul and follows Aquinas in segregating his suffering to the lower part of his soul. Turretin makes use of a different scholastic distinction (the affectio commodi and the affectio iustitiae) to protect Christ from disordered passions so that he can emphasize the reality of what Christ felt in the entirety of his soul, most importantly a sense of divine wrath. Finally, chapter five shows some of the ways that the discrepancies in the doctrine of Christ’s soul in Bellarmine and Turretin are the product of more foundational differences in their Christology as well as their soteriology and ecclesiology. Might the doctrine of Christ’s soul be considered a secondary material cause of the Reformation?
Deconstructing the narrow-line region of the nearest obscured quasar
Creators: name: Martin, M. Villar
name: Bellocchi, E.
name: Stern, J.
name: Almeida, C. Ramos
name: Tadhunter, C.
name: Delgado, R. Gonzalez
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the physical and kinematic properties of the narrow line region (NLR) of the nearest obscured quasar MRK 477 (z=0.037), using optical and near-infrared spectroscopy. We explore a diversity of aspects that provide a more complete understanding of the nature of this object, example of a type 2 quasar in the nearby Universe, as well as a starburst-AGN hybrid system [abridged].
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS. 20 pages, 15 figures
Overlapping functions of MUS81 endonuclease and DmBlm helicase in DNA repair in Drosophila melanogaster
Creators: name: Trowbridge, Kirsten Elise
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: Mus81-Mms4 is a DNA structure-specific endonuclease that has been implicated in meiotic recombination and processing of damaged replication forks in fungi. This work describes the generation and characterization of mus81 and mms4 mutations in Drosophila and investigation of the relationship of the MUS81-MMS4 endonuclease to the DmBlm helicase. Although Mus81 is involved in meiotic recombination in fungi, this role does not appear to be conserved in Drosophila. My finding that mus81 mutants are hypersensitive to agents that block or damage replication forks supports a role for MUS81-MMS4 in replication-fork repair. I found that null mutations in mus81 and mus309 exhibit synthetic lethality, which is associated with elevated apoptosis in proliferating tissues. Lethality and elevated apoptosis were partially suppressed by mutation in spn-A, which encodes DmRad51. I hypothesize that inability to repair endogenous DNA damage in the absence of MUS81 and DmBlm causes cell death ultimately leading to organismal death.
Multiple folding pathways of proteins with shallow knots and co-translational folding
Creators: name: Chwastyk, Mateusz
name: Cieplak, Marek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We study the folding process in the shallowly knotted protein MJ0366 within two variants of a structure-based model. We observe that the resulting topological pathways are much richer than identified in previous studies. In addition to the single knot-loop events, we find novel, and dominant, two-loop mechanisms. We demonstrate that folding takes place in a range of temperatures and the conditions of most successful folding are at temperatures which are higher than those required for the fastest folding. We also demonstrate that nascent conditions are more favorable to knotting than off-ribosome folding.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures
Zeitabhängige, multimodale Modellierung und Analyse von Herzdaten
Creators: name: Bernhardt, Dominik
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2009
Subjects: statistische Formmodelle
medizinische Bildverarbeitung
Computer-Tomographie

description: Kardiovaskuläre Erkrankungen stellen in den westlichen Industrienationen eine der Haupttodesursachen dar. Für die Diagnostik steht inzwischen mit der Computer-Tomographie ein leistungsfähiges bildgebendes Verfahren zur Verfügung. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wurden Verfahren entwickelt, um dem Radiologen durch eine weitgehend automatische und umfassende Analyse von 4D-CTA-Daten und der automatischen Berechnung wichtiger diagnostischer Parameter zu unterstützen.
MASIVULE I-ANTIEKE STUDIES: From trauma to change.
Creators: name: Warren, Lunette
name: Van den Brink, Jessica
name: Sekowe, Cliff
name: Ribeiro, Luiz
name: Asante, Michael Kwadwo Okyere
name: Andrason, Alexander
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Social justice
Decolonization
Feminism
Higher education
Masivule i-Antieke Studies

description: MASIVULE I-ANTIEKE STUDIES: From trauma to change. A transformative research- and discussion-group of students, staff, and alumni from the Department of Ancient Studies (Stellenbosch University)
A Union of Euclidean Metric Spaces is Euclidean
Creators: name: Makarychev, Konstantin
name: Makarychev, Yury
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Suppose that a metric space $X$ is the union of two metric subspaces $A$ and $B$ that embed into Euclidean space with distortions $D_A$ and $D_B$, respectively. We prove that then $X$ embeds into Euclidean space with a bounded distortion (namely, with distortion at most $7D_A D_B + 2(D_A+D_B)$). Our result settles an open problem posed by Naor. Additionally, we present some corollaries and extensions of this result. In particular, we introduce and study a new concept of an "external bi-Lipschitz extension". In the end of the paper, we list a few related open problems.
description: Reformatted for Discrete Analysis, updated metadata, and edited the title. This version is otherwise identical to the previous one
Cross-Device Tracking: Matching Devices and Cookies
Creators: name: Díaz-Morales, Roberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The number of computers, tablets and smartphones is increasing rapidly, which entails the ownership and use of multiple devices to perform online tasks. As people move across devices to complete these tasks, their identities becomes fragmented. Understanding the usage and transition between those devices is essential to develop efficient applications in a multi-device world. In this paper we present a solution to deal with the cross-device identification of users based on semi-supervised machine learning methods to identify which cookies belong to an individual using a device. The method proposed in this paper scored third in the ICDM 2015 Drawbridge Cross-Device Connections challenge proving its good performance.
Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for High-Dimensional Posterior Consistency under $g$-Priors
Creators: name: Sparks, Douglas K.
name: Khare, Kshitij
name: Ghosh, Malay
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We examine necessary and sufficient conditions for posterior consistency under $g$-priors, including extensions to hierarchical and empirical Bayesian models. The key features of this article are that we allow the number of regressors to grow at the same rate as the sample size and define posterior consistency under the sup vector norm instead of the more conventional Euclidean norm. We consider in particular the empirical Bayesian model of George and Foster (2000), the hyper-$g$-prior of Liang et al. (2008), and the prior considered by Zellner and Siow (1980).
description: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/14-BA893 in the Bayesian Analysis (http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ba) by the International Society of Bayesian Analysis (http://bayesian.org/)
On (conditional) positive semidefiniteness in a matrix-valued context
Creators: name: Gesztesy, Fritz
name: Pang, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 42A82, 42B15, 43A35 (Primary), 43A15, 46E40, 46G10 (Secondary)

description: In a nutshell, we intend to extend Schoenberg's classical theorem connecting conditionally positive semidefinite functions $F\colon \mathbb{R}^n \to \mathbb{C}$, $n \in \mathbb{N}$, and their positive semidefinite exponentials $\exp(tF)$, $t > 0$, to the case of matrix-valued functions $F \colon \mathbb{R}^n \to \mathbb{C}^{m \times m}$, $m \in \mathbb{N}$. Moreover, we study the closely associated property that $\exp(t F(- i \nabla))$, $t>0$, is positivity preserving and its failure to extend directly in the matrix-valued context.
description: 43 pages, replaced Example 4.19 (i) (the original version contained a mistake); journal reference added
Household-Level Relationships between Out-Migration and Monetization of Rice Harvest Labor In Nang Rong District, Thailand
Creators: name: Hull, James
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2006

description: There is an ongoing paucity of attention from researchers to the consequences of migration for households in villages of origin. The relationship between migration and remittance behavior on the one hand and the monetization of rice harvest labor on the other are explored in the context of Nang Rong District, Northeast Thailand. Theoretical linkages between migration and use of paid labor are explored. Results demonstrate that the prevalence of wage labor use during the rice harvest doubled between 1994 and 2000 across the region, while reliance solely upon unpaid household labor fell substantially. Despite differences in growing conditions, macroeconomic conditions, household demographics and other phenomenon, a relationship between remittance behavior and use of paid labor was found in both time periods. Migration behavior by itself was related to paid labor use only when labor was scarce.
title: Lourenço da Cunha
Creators: name: Cabeleira, João
Publisher: name: CHAM, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade ÑOVA de Lisboa
Year: 2022

description: Entrada histórica sobre Lourenço da Cunha na plataforma eViterbo
description: Cabeleira, João. 2022. Lourenço da Cunha in eViterbo. CHAM, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. eISBN: 978-989-8492-77-10
Energieeffiziente Auswerteelektronik für kapazitive mikromechanische Drehratensensoren
Creators: name: Oshinubi, Dayo
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2010
Subjects: Mikromechanik
Inertialsensor
energieeffizient
Gyro
MEMS

description: Der Bedarf an mikromechanischen Inertialsensoren zur Messung von Drehgeschwindigkeiten und Beschleunigungen ist stark ansteigend. Die Technologie für mikroelektromechanische Systeme (MEMS) bietet hierbei den Vorteil einer hohen Packungsdichte. In dieser Arbeit werden Ansätze auf Systemebene zur Reduktion der Stromaufnahme der Auswerteelektronik eines kapazitiven mikromechanischen Drehratensensors vorgestellt und so ein leistungsoptimierter Betrieb in mobilen Endanwendung ermöglicht.
Intelligent Business Process Optimization for the Service Industry
Creators: name: Kress, Markus
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2010
Subjects: Business Process Modeling
Process Flexibility
Optimization
Relational Reinforcement Learning
Particle Swarm Optimization

description: The company's sustainable competitive advantage derives from its capacity to create value for customers and to adapt the operational practices to changing situations. Business processes are the heart of each company. Therefore process excellence has become a key issue. This book introduces a novel approach focusing on the autonomous optimization of business processes by applying sophisticated machine learning techniques such as Relational Reinforcement Learning and Particle Swarm Optimization.
Sulfur-tolerant natural gas reforming for fuel-cell applications
Creators: name: Hennings, Ulrich
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2010
Subjects: fuel cells
hydrogen
sulfur
natural gas
reforming

description: An attractive simplification of PEM-FC systems operated with natural gas would be the use of a sulfur tolerant reforming catalyst, but such a catalyst has not been available thus far. In this work it is demonstrated that a tailor made rhodium catalyst retains useful activity for typical sulfur levels in the feed. A brief economic comparison showed however that this alternative process is still less economical than the traditional process employing removal of sulfur components by adsorption.
Cotranslational folding of deeply knotted proteins
Creators: name: Chwastyk, Mateusz
name: Cieplak, Marek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Proper folding of deeply knotted proteins has a very low success rate even in structure-based models which favor formation of the native contacts but have no topological bias. By employing a structure-based model, we demonstrate that cotranslational folding on a model ribosome may enhance the odds to form trefoil knots for protein YibK without any need to introduce any non-native contacts. The ribosome is represented by a repulsive wall that keeps elongating the protein. On-ribosome folding proceeds through a a slipknot conformation. We elucidate the mechanics and energetics of its formation. We show that the knotting probability in on-ribosome folding is a function of temperature and that there is an optimal temperature for the process. Our model often leads to the establishment of the native contacts without formation of the knot.
description: 15 pages, 9 figures
The semantics of Χρή in Aeschylus
Creators: name: Wiltshire, David Christian Anderson
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: In this thesis I examine all uses of the word χρή in the six certainly genuine plays of Aeschylus as well as in the Prometheus Bound. I argue that they fall naturally into two distinct groups: Type I, whose examples exhibit timelessly true proprieties and obligations, commonly known, and affecting all mortals equally; and Type II, which include specific truths about the future, affecting a particular, named person and known only to those with the relevant prophetic knowledge; these instances also assume a conception of the gods acting independently of (if not in fact at odds with) the source of necessity involved in the χρή-statement. Examples of Type I can be found in all seven of these plays, but Type II uses are found almost solely in the Prometheus Bound.