cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
What information is necessary to assess the environmental impacts of deconstruction?
Creators: name: Kühlen, Anna
name: Drogemüller, Robin
name: Schultmann, Frank
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2013
Subjects: 4D modeling
deconstruction
demolition
environmental impact
process planning

description: 4D modeling - the simulation and visualisation of the construction process - is now a common method used during the building construction process with reasonable support from existing software.
The goal of this paper is to examine the information needs required to model the deconstruction/demolition process of a building. The motivation is the need to reduce the impacts on the local environment during the deconstruction process. The focus is on the definition and description of the activities to remove building components and on the assessment of the noise, dust and vibration implications of these activities on the surrounding environment. The outcomes of the research are (i) requirements specification for BIM models to support operational deconstruction process planning, (ii) algorithms for augmenting the BIM with the derived information necessary to automate planning of the deconstruction process with respect to impacts on the surrounding environment, (iii) algorithms to build naive deconstruction activity schedules.
Solar flare-related eruptions followed by long-lasting occultation of the emission in the He II 304 A line and in microwaves
Creators: name: Grechnev, V. V.
name: Kuzmenko, I. V.
name: Chertok, I. M.
name: Uralov, A. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Plasma with a temperature close to the chromospheric one is ejected in solar eruptions. Such plasma can occult some part of emission of compact sources in active regions as well as quiet solar areas. Absorption phenomena can be observed in the microwave range as the so-called 'negative bursts' and also in the He II 304 A line. The paper considers three eruptive events associated with rather powerful flares. Parameters of absorbing material of an eruption are estimated from multi-frequency records of a 'negative burst' in one event. 'Destruction' of an eruptive filament and its dispersion like a cloud over a huge area observed as a giant depression of the 304 A line emission has been revealed in a few events. One such event out of three ones known to us is considered in this paper. Another event is a possibility.
description: 23 pages, 8 figures, submitted for publication in Astronomy Reports
Mechanical activation of ultramafic mine waste materials for enhanced mineral carbonation
Creators: name: Li, Jiajie
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: The potential success of integrating mineral carbonation, as a pathway to CO₂ sequestration, in mining projects, is dependent on the mineralogical composition and characteristics of its waste rock and tailings. Ultramafic rocks have proven the best potential substrate for mineral carbonation and their ability to alter and to convert CO₂ into its carbonate mineral form is dependent on the original mineralogy and particle surface area. CO₂ conversion kinetics is complex and with the application of appropriate comminution technologies, its efficiency can be enhanced. The objective of this research is to evaluate mechanical activation to enhance the carbonation storage capacity of mine waste material. Three approaches were taken in this research. The first approach was to characterize the microstructure of the mechanically-activated mineral olivine, a predominant mineral constituent of ultramafic rocks, using X-ray diffraction patterns and line profile analysis methods with full pattern fitting method. The second approach was to compare the structural and chemical changes of mine waste with pure olivine, both of which were activated by various mechanical forces under both wet or dry conditions and subsequently carbonated in a direct aqueous carbonation process. Regardless of milling conditions, forsterite (Mg₂SiO₄), the olivine mineral variety in the mine waste, was found to be the main mineral being mechanically-activated and carbonated. It was determined that lizardite (Mg₃(Si₂O₅)(OH)₄), a hydrated magnesium silicate also common in ultramafic hosted mineral deposits, acted as catalyzer assisting forsterite reaching high levels of activation. This condition generated a greater CO₂ conversion to carbonate than that of pure olivine with the equal specific milling energy input. The stirred mill proved to be the most efficient form of mechanical activation vis-a-vis the direct aqueous carbonation process, followed by the planetary mill and the vibratory mill. The third approach analyzes the feasibility of mechanical activation in an integrated mineral carbonation process in a nickel mine considering the life cycle of the process. The minimum operating cost for 60% CO₂ sequestration efficiency was 105-107 $/t CO₂ avoided. At this point, the Turnagain project can potentially sequester 238 Mt/y CO₂ using its waste during the 28-year life of mine.
Collision of two spin polarized fermionic clouds
Creators: name: Goulko, Olga
name: Chevy, Frédéric
name: Lobo, Carlos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the collision of two spin polarized Fermi clouds in a harmonic trap using a simulation of the Boltzmann equation. As observed in recent experiments we find three distinct regimes of behavior. For weak interactions the clouds pass through each other. If interactions are increased they approach each other exponentially and for strong interactions they bounce off each other several times. We thereby demonstrate that all these phenomena can be reproduced using a semiclassical collisional approach and that these changes in behavior are associated with an increasing collision rate. We then show that the oscillation of the clouds in the bounce regime is an example of an unusual case in quantum gases: a nonlinear coupling between collective modes, namely the spin dipole mode and the axial breathing mode which is enforced by collisions. We also determine the frequency of the bounce as a function of the final temperature of the equilibrated system.
description: updated version, includes 3 animations as supplementary material
Berechnung von Wirkungsgradkennfeldern von Asynchronmaschinen mit Hilfe der Finite-Elemente-Methode
Creators: name: Winzer, Patrick
name: Doppelbauer, Martin
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2013

description: Ein wichtiges Optimierungsziel bei der Entwicklung von Elektromotoren ist ein möglichst guter Wirkungsgrad. Bei drehzahlvariablen Maschinen, gerade im Bereich der Elektromobilität, bei denen verschiedene Lastpunkte angefahren werden, wird dieser als stationäres Kennfeld in der Drehzahl-Drehmoment-Ebene dargestellt. Der Entwicklungsingenieur muss darauf achten, dass sowohl die Mindestanforderungen an den Wirkungsgrad in verschiedenen Betriebspunkten erfüllt sind als auch darauf, das geforderte Maximaldrehmoment zu erreichen. Zu diesem Zweck muss das Kennfeld schon während der Entwurfsphase schnell und einfach berechnet werden können.
In diesem Beitrag wird eine Möglichkeit aufgezeigt, die Asynchronmaschine durch geschickte Wahl der Parameterebene mit nur zwei unabhängigen Größen mathematisch vollständig und drehzahlunabhängig zu beschreiben. Auf die Verwendung von Ersatzschaltbildern oder auf die Manipulation des Rotorkreises in der numerischen Finite-Elemente Berechnung (FEM) kann bei Verwendung des beschriebenen Verfahrens verzichtet werden. Dadurch wird eine vergleichsweise einfache und genaue Berechnung ermöglicht.
Local Termination: theory and practice
Creators: name: Endrullis, Joerg
name: de Vrijer, Roel
name: Waldmann, Johannes
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: D.3.1, F.4.1, F.4.2, I.1.1, I.1.3

description: The characterisation of termination using well-founded monotone algebras has been a milestone on the way to automated termination techniques, of which we have seen an extensive development over the past years. Both the semantic characterisation and most known termination methods are concerned with global termination, uniformly of all the terms of a term rewriting system (TRS). In this paper we consider local termination, of specific sets of terms within a given TRS. The principal goal of this paper is generalising the semantic characterisation of global termination to local termination. This is made possible by admitting the well-founded monotone algebras to be partial. We also extend our approach to local relative termination. The interest in local termination naturally arises in program verification, where one is probably interested only in sensible inputs, or just wants to characterise the set of inputs for which a program terminates. Local termination will be also be of interest when dealing with a specific class of terms within a TRS that is known to be non-terminating, such as combinatory logic (CL) or a TRS encoding recursive program schemes or Turing machines. We show how some of the well-known techniques for proving global termination, such as stepwise removal of rewrite rules and semantic labelling, can be adapted to the local case. We also describe transformations reducing local to global termination problems. The resulting techniques for proving local termination have in some cases already been automated. One of our applications concerns the characterisation of the terminating S-terms in CL as regular language. Previously this language had already been found via a tedious analysis of the reduction behaviour of S-terms. These findings have now been vindicated by a fully automated and verified proof.
Complete systems of recursive integrals and Taylor series for solutions of Sturm-Liouville equations
Creators: name: Kravchenko, Vladislav V.
name: Morelos, Samy
name: Tremblay, Sébastien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 34B24, 41A30, 42A65

description: Consider an arbitrary complex-valued, twice continuously differentiable, nonvanishing function $ϕ$ defined on a finite segment $[a,b]\subset \mathbb{R}$. Let us introduce an infinite system of functions constructed in the following way. Each subsequent function is a primitive of the preceding one multiplied or divided by $ϕ$ alternately. The obtained system of functions is a generalization of the system of powers ${(x-x_{0}%)^{k}}_{k=0}^{\infty}$. We study its completeness as well as the completeness of its subsets in different functional spaces. This system of recursive integrals results to be closely related to so-called $L$-bases arising in the theory of transmutation operators for linear ordinary differential equations. Besides the results on the completeness of the system of recursive integrals we show a deep analogy between the expansions in terms of the recursive integrals and Taylor expansions. We prove a generalization of the Taylor theorem with the Lagrange form of the remainder term and find an explicit formula for transforming a generalized Taylor expansion of a function in terms of the recursive integrals into a usual Taylor expansion. As a direct corollary of the formula we obtain the following new result concerning solutions of the Sturm-Liouville equation. Given a regular nonvanishing complex valued solution $y_{0}$ of the equation $y^{\prime\prime}+q(x)y=0$, $x\in(a,b)$, assume that it is $n$ times differentiable at a point $x_{0}% \in\lbrack a,b]$. We present explicit formulas for calculating the first $n$ derivatives at $x_{0}$ for any solution of the equation $u^{\prime\prime}+q(x)u=λu$. That is, an explicit map transforming the Taylor expansion of $y_{0}$ into the Taylor expansion of $u$ is constructed.
description: 17 pages, 0 figure
Charakterisierung und Auslegung von fremderregten Synchronmaschinen als Traktionsantrieb mit Hilfe der normierten Parameterebene
Creators: name: Winzer, Patrick
name: Doppelbauer, Martin
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2013

description: In den neunziger Jahren haben einige Autoren gezeigt, dass sich die Drehmoment- und Leistungscharakteristik von permanentmagneterregten Synchronmaschinen durch geeignete Normierung auf nur zwei Parameter zurückführen lässt. Es wurde eine zweidimensionale Parameterebene eingeführt, in die jede permanentmagneterregte Synchronmaschine eingeordnet und so bewertet werden kann. Dadurch können insbesondere die Maximaldrehmomentkurven im Feldschwächbereich sowie der Leistungsfaktor und damit die Umrichterausnutzung anschaulich beschrieben werden. Mit diesem Hilfsmittel lassen sich Maschinenentwürfe schon im Grobentwurf schnell und einfach charakterisieren und miteinander vergleichen.
In diesem Beitrag wird das Verfahren zur Anwendung auf fremderregte Synchronmaschinen erweitert. Im Gegensatz zu permanentmagneterregten Synchronmaschinen existiert bei diesen ein Freiheitsgrad mehr – so ist die Rotorerregung veränderlich und erlaubt eine bessere Anpassung des Maschinenverhaltens an das einer idealen Maschine.
Es wird gezeigt, wie die Parameter der fremderregten Maschine ihre Lage in der Parameterebene beeinflussen und welche Drehmoment- und Leistungscharakteristik resultieren. Daraus werden grundlegende Aussagen zum Grobentwurf gewonnen. Abschließend wird gezeigt, wie die Parameter einer fremderregten Synchronmaschine als Traktionsantrieb eines Elektrofahrzeugs mit Hilfe der Parameterebene gewählt werden können.
DEVELOPING TOOLS FOR ACCELERATING THE DOMESTICATION OF TWO PROMISING BIOFUEL CROPS: ARUNDO DONAX (GIANT REED) AND PANICUM VIRGATUM (SWITCHGRASS)
Creators: name: PIGNA, GAIA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2016

description: The need for energy and the unsustainability in the long term of fossil fuels encouraged the quest for more environmental-friendly energy sources. One alternative is exploiting plants to produce biofuels. The screening of many perennial grasses suggested Miscanthus (Miscanthus spp), Arundo (Arundo donax), and reed canary grass (Phalaris arundinacea) in Europe and switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) in both Europe and US as good candidates for bioenergy production. This thesis focuses on two of these plants: Arundo and switchgrass. Both plants already show a good agronomic performance, but they underwent little domestication, so there is room for their genetic improvement. On the contrary to switchgrass, breeding, genetic transformation and in vitro cultivation of Arundo are lagging behind for the sterility and the recalcitrance of this plant. We developed a method for in vitro cultivation of Arundo that is faster and more efficient than the one previously reported in literature. Calli are induced from stem segments on an MS-based medium containing 9 ?M 2,4-D and then a suspension culture can be obtained using the same medium supplemented with 4.4 ?M BAP, leading to a 5-fold increase in cell mass over 14 days. This medium was the best in terms of growth rate and final cell density among the four tested media. Protocols for protoplast isolation from suspension cultures and electroporation were also established, allowing a transformation Tools for improving biofuel crops 4 efficiency up to 3.3�1.5 %. The use of a novel vector with two distinct fluorescent protein reporters (GFP and RFP) driven, respectively, by the Cauliflower Mosaic Virus 35S and the ubi2 promoter of switchgrass, allowed a direct comparison of the strength of the two promoters in Arundo. The switchgrass ubi2 promoter provided a much higher expression compared with the 35S promoter. Lastly, as a further methodological advancement, we developed a method to cryopreserve mesophyll protoplast of switchgrass. Both vitrification and slow-freezing methods were tested. Slow freezing is more efficient than vitrification with a percent recovery of alive protoplast of 45.8% vs. 5.2%.
Multigap superconductivity and strong electron-boson coupling in Fe-based superconductors: A point-contact Andreev-reflection study of Ba(Fe1-xCox)2As2 single crystals
Creators: name: Tortello, M.
name: Daghero, D.
name: Ummarino, G. A.
name: Stepanov, V. A.
name: Jiang, J.
name: Weiss, J. D.
name: Hellstrom, E. E.
name: Gonnelli, R. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Directional point-contact Andreev-reflection (PCAR) measurements in Ba(Fe1-xCox)2As2 single crystals (Tc=24.5 K) indicate the presence of two superconducting gaps with no line nodes on the Fermi surface. The PCAR spectra also feature additional structures related to the electron-boson interaction, from which the characteristic boson energy Omega_b(T) is obtained, very similar to the spin-resonance energy observed in neutron scattering experiments. Both the gaps and the additional structures can be reproduced within a three-band s+- Eliashberg model by using an electron-boson spectral function peaked at Omega_0 = 12 meV ~ Omega_b(0).
description: 4 pages, 4 color figures. 2 authors added; new data included (Fig.4) and discussed. Accepted in PRL
Entropy bounds for uncollapsed rotating bodies
Creators: name: Abreu, Gabriel
name: Visser, Matt
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Entropy bounds in black hole physics, based on a wide variety of different approaches, have had a long and distinguished history. Recently the current authors have turned attention to uncollapsed systems and obtained a robust entropy bound for uncollapsed static spherically symmetric configurations. In the current article we extend this bound to rotating systems. This extension is less simple than one might at first suppose. Purely classically, (using only classical general relativity and basic thermodynamics), it is possible to show that the entropy of uncollapsed matter inside a region enclosed by a surface of area A is bounded from above by S <= kappa(surface) A / (4 pi T). Here kappa(surface) is a suitably defined surface gravity. By appealing to the Unruh effect, which is our only invocation of quantum physics, we argue that for a suitable class of fiducial observers there is a lower bound on the temperature (as measured at spatial infinity): T >= max kappa(FIDOs) / (2 pi). Thus, using only classical general relativity, basic thermodynamics, and the Unruh effect, we are able to argue that for uncollapsed matter S <= {1/2} A.
description: V1:14 pages. V2: 15 pages; minor changes/additions/clarifications. This version accepted for publication in JHEP
Energy efficient compression techniques for biological signals on a sensors node
Creators: name: Mahrous, Hesham
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Compression of biological signals is rapidly gaining much attention in research especially for Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) applications. This is because of their demonstrated potential in assisting physicians and patients, and helping them achieve a more convenient lifestyle. This work focuses on some problems arising in the deployment of EEG signals in WBANs where EEG data is collected and then transmitted using devices powered by batteries. To elongate the battery life, the energy consumed by acquiring, processing and transmitting the data has to be minimized. Lots of work using Compressed Sensing (CS) have addressed this problem and have demonstrated power savings in WBANs for applications such as Seizure detection. None of these studies however, have demonstrated a high quality signal recovery at high compression ratios such as 10:1. Higher quality signal recovery results in better performance for seizure detection. The ultimate goal is to achieve high quality recovery at high compression rates so as to elongate the battery life and without degrading the performance of WBAN applications. Two frameworks have been previously proposed to solve this problem. The first is a CS framework, which has an Analog to Digital Converter (ADC), micro-controller, and a low power transmitter at the sensor node. The second framework has an under-sampling circuit, an ADC, and a transmitter. This thesis compares the results of the state of the art CS algorithms of both frameworks and demonstrates their performance in automatic seizure detection. Then it proposes two methods that achieve high quality signal recovery at high compression rates, for both frameworks. These methods are demonstrated on 3 different datasets. The first method, BSBL-LNLD is used for the CS framework. It exploits the linear and a non-linear dependency of multivariate EEG signals to recover the compressed signals. This method can achieve up to 0.06 Normalized Mean Square Error (NMSE) at 10:1 compression ratio. The second method solves the under-sampling CS framework using a Meyer wavelet over-complete dictionary by using the Analysis-Prior Formulation. This method achieves up to 0.18 NMSE at 10:1 compression ratio. The proposed methods achieve superb recovery quality and significantly decreased energy consumption.
High-pressure investigations of CaTiO3 up to 60 GPa using X-ray diffraction and Raman spectroscopy
Creators: name: Guennou, Mael
name: Bouvier, Pierre
name: Krikler, Benjamin
name: Kreisel, Jens
name: Haumont, Raphaël
name: Garbarino, Gaston
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we investigate calcium titanate (CaTiO3 - CTO) using X-ray diffraction and Raman spectroscopy up to 60 and 55 GPa respectively. Both experiments show that the orthorhombic Pnma structure remains stable up to the highest pressures measured, in contradiction to ab-initio predictions. A fit of the compression data with a second-order Birch-Murnaghan equation of state yields a bulk modulus K0 of 181.0(6) GPa. The orthorhombic distortion is found to increase slightly with pressure, in agreement with previous experiments at lower pressures and the general rules for the evolution of perovskites under pressure. High-pressure polarized Raman spectra also enable us to clarify the Raman mode assignment of CTO and identify the modes corresponding to rigid rotation of the octahedra, A-cation shifts and Ti-O bond stretching. The Raman signature is then discussed in terms of compression mechanisms.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures, 4 tables
JOURNAL HAMDIKI.pdf
Creators: name: Roziqi, Hamdiki
name: Destrity, Nia Ashton
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Rhetoric
subject: 150502 Marketing Communications
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 200101 Communication Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: This descriptive qualitative research aims to analyze the rhetoric of @NetflixID that well-known as a brand's Twitter account using Selzer's "rhetorical analysis" approach. Data collected on January 2020 through documentation and uses text analysis technique as data analysis technique. The results of this analysis found that through authorships and personal pronouns, conversational tone, and humor, we can look into some of the canons and elements of rhetoric of @NetflixID. Furthermore, @NetflixID shown the uses of rhetoric in stimulating demand, formulating audience-focused strategy, and interacting with the audience with spontaneous responds.
Non-Abelian monopole-vortex complex
Creators: name: Cipriani, Mattia
name: Dorigoni, Daniele
name: Gudnason, Sven Bjarke
name: Konishi, Kenichi
name: Michelini, Alberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the context of softly broken N=2 supersymmetric quantum chromodynamics (SQCD), with a hierarchical gauge symmetry breaking SU(N+1) -> U(N) -> 1, at scales v1 and v2, respectively, where v1 >> v2, we construct monopole-vortex complex soliton-like solutions and examine their properties. They represent the minimum of the static energy under the constraint that the monopole and antimonopole positions sitting at the extremes of the vortex are kept fixed. They interpolate the 't Hooft-Polyakov-like regular monopole solution near the monopole centers and a vortex solution far from them and in between. The main result, obtained in the theory with Nf=N equal-mass flavors, is concerned with the existence of exact orientational CP(N-1) zero modes, arising from the exact color-flavor diagonal SU(N)_{C+F} global symmetry. The "unbroken" subgroup SU(N) \subset SU(N+1) with which the naïve notion of non-Abelian monopoles and the related difficulties were associated, is explicitly broken at low energies. The monopole transforms nevertheless according to the fundamental representation of a new exact, unbroken SU(N) symmetry group, as does the vortex attached to it. We argue that this explains the origin of the dual non-Abelian gauge symmetry.
description: Latex 24 pages, 9 figures; v2: minor typos were corrected and values for the numerical calculation were specified
Object tracking in images
Creators: name: Haase, Robert
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2021

description: An introduction to Object tracking in images, in particular focused on (but not limited to) microscopy images.
 * Basic introduction
 * Application using TrackMate (Fiji plugin)

 The slides are about the TrackMate software published by Tinevez et al. 2017 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1046202316303346 and Ershov et al. 2021 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.09.03.458852v1
Naive time-reversal odd phenomena in semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering from light-cone constituent quark models
Creators: name: Pasquini, B.
name: Schweitzer, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results for leading-twist azimuthal asymmetries in semi-inclusive lepton-nucleon deep-inelastic scattering due to naively time-reversal odd transverse-momentum dependent parton distribution functions from the light-cone constituent quark model. We carefully discuss the range of applicability of the model, especially with regard to positivity constraints and evolution effects. We find good agreement with available experimental data from COMPASS and HERMES, and present predictions to be tested in forthcoming experiments at Jefferson Lab.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures, discussion of evolution effects extended, to appear in Phys.Rev.D
Leveraging your strengths towards a career in science policy
Creators: name: Bankston, Adriana
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2021

description: This talk was given during the Life Sciences Industry Day at UGA, on September 24, 2021. It covered the speaker's career path from the bench to science policy, science policy background & career advice, and discussed ways to make an impact in science policy.
The general form of gamma-family of quantum relative entropies
Creators: name: Kostecki, Ryszard Paweł
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use the Falcone-Takesaki non-commutative flow of weights and the resulting theory of non-commutative Lp spaces in order to define the family of relative entropy functionals that naturally generalise the quantum relative entropies of Jencova-Ojima and the classical relative entropies of Zhu-Rohwer, and belong to an intersection of families of Petz relative entropies with Bregman relative entropies. For the purpose of this task, we generalise the notion of Bregman entropy to the infinite-dimensional non-commutative case using the Legendre-Fenchel duality. In addition, we use the Falcone-Takesaki duality to extend the duality between coarse-grainings and Markov maps to the infinite-dimensional non-commutative case. Following the recent result of Amari for the Zhu-Rohwer entropies, we conjecture that the proposed family of relative entropies is uniquely characterised by the Markov monotonicity and the Legendre-Fenchel duality. The role of these results in the foundations and applications of quantum information theory is discussed.
Culturally-competent counselling with consensually non-monogamous clients : a narrative inquiry
Creators: name: Friederichsen, Rachel May
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Consensual non-monogamy (CNM) is a viable relationship practice, yet there is evidence for persisting stigma towards these relationship forms in society and in the disciplines of psychology and counselling. While clinical recommendations for counselling practice with CNM clients have been produced, it is not always clear how these recommendations ought to materialize in practice. This research project explored the following research question through narrative inquiry: How is culturally competent counselling practice achieved with consensually nonmonogamous clients? Three narrative accounts of counsellors who identify as being culturally competent to work with CNM clients were co-constructed through semi-structured interviews to gain insight into how these counsellors ensure their practice is ethically and culturally competent for CNM clients. Interview content was analyzed to identify salient themes, resulting in 40 categories and five major themes: knowledge, advocacy and advancement, affirmative integrative practice, minimization of judgment, and personal factors. The research findings reflected both existing literature on the subject and also illuminated new areas for consideration and research, achieving its aims of furthering understanding of culturally competent counselling with CNM clients. The findings serve to provoke further discussion regarding the enhancement of culturally competent counselling practice with CNM clients in the three areas most influential: knowledge, awareness, and skill.
Bound H-dibaryon in Flavor SU(3) Limit of Lattice QCD
Creators: name: Inoue, Takashi
name: Ishii, Noriyoshi
name: Aoki, Sinya
name: Doi, Takumi
name: Hatsuda, Tetsuo
name: Ikeda, Yoichi
name: Murano, Keiko
name: Nemura, Hidekatsu
name: Sasaki, Kenji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The flavor-singlet H-dibaryon, which has strangeness -2 and baryon number 2, is studied by the approach recently developed for the baryon-baryon interactions in lattice QCD. The flavor-singlet central potential is derived from the spatial and imaginary-time dependence of the Nambu-Bethe-Salpeter wave function measured in N_f=3 full QCD simulations with the lattice size of L = 2, 3, 4 fm. The potential is found to be insensitive to the volume, and it leads to a bound H-dibaryon with the binding energy of 30 - 40 MeV for the pseudo-scalar meson mass of 673 - 1015 MeV.
description: 5 pages, 3 figuers, add arguments, results unchanged
SIAS China-EU #10 The Chinese education system and choosing to study in Europe.
Creators: name: Gutierrez, Aldo
name: Suárez-Ojeda, María Eugenia
Publisher: name: National Teaching Repository
Year: 2023
Subjects: Education policy

description: The Erasmus+ pedagogic innovation project “Social Inclusion and Academic Success of Chinese Students in European Higher Education” (2019-2022) [2019-1-ES01-KA203-065990]​ was coordinated by Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB, Spain), and carried out in partnership with the following universities: · Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH, Germany) · Instituto Politécnico da Guarda (IPG, Portugal) · Nottingham Trent University (NTU, UK) A complete list of credits is found at the end of the document (editors, collaborators, graphic design, etc.)
Superconductivity above 10 K in Non-Cuprate Oxides
Creators: name: Johnston, David C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Beginning in 1973, several non-cuprate transition metal and non-transition metal oxides were discovered with superconducting transition temperatures between 10 and 30 K. Retrospectives about these discoveries in spinel structure LiTi2O4 and perovskite structure (Ba,K)(Bi,Pb)O3 are given.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures; invited paper submitted for a book entitled "100 Years of Superconductivity", edited by H. Rogalla and P. Kes; v2: updated references and book title, added Tc of Rb_xWO3
Two-Photon Exchange Effect Studied with Neural Networks
Creators: name: Graczyk, Krzysztof M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An approach to the extraction of the two-photon exchange (TPE) correction from elastic $ep$ scattering data is presented. The cross section, polarization transfer (PT), and charge asymmetry data are considered. It is assumed that the TPE correction to the PT data is negligible. The form factors and TPE correcting term are given by one multidimensional function approximated by the feed forward neural network (NN). To find a model-independent approximation the Bayesian framework for the NNs is adapted. A large number of different parametrizations is considered. The most optimal model is indicated by the Bayesian algorithm. The obtained fit of the TPE correction behaves linearly in epsilon but it has a nontrivial Q2 dependence. A strong dependence of the TPE fit on the choice of parametrization is observed.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures, the manuscript is divided into 4 sections, 5 appendixes are added, the text is enriched by the more detailed description of the Bayesian formalism, one new figure is also added
Well-posedness for a general class of quasilinear evolution equations - with applications to Maxwell's equations
Creators: name: Müller, Dominik
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2014

description: Our objective is to undertake a first step towards a systematic investigation of the well-posedness for a wide class of nonlinear Maxwell equations. Our tool of choice is an approach outlined by Tosio Kato (1975) for the analysis of quasi- linear evolution equations using operator semigroups. We will prove an abstract result, that can be applied to both, a wide class of non- linear Maxwell equations, as well as to their corresponding quasilinear wave equations.
SIAS China-EU #9 Chinese culture: traditions, customs, and lifestyle.
Creators: name: Gutierrez, Aldo
name: Suárez-Ojeda, María Eugenia
Publisher: name: National Teaching Repository
Year: 2023
Subjects: Education policy

description: The Erasmus+ pedagogic innovation project “Social Inclusion and Academic Success of Chinese Students in European Higher Education” (2019-2022) [2019-1-ES01-KA203-065990]​ was coordinated by Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB, Spain), and carried out in partnership with the following universities: · Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH, Germany) · Instituto Politécnico da Guarda (IPG, Portugal) · Nottingham Trent University (NTU, UK) A complete list of credits is found at the end of the document (editors, collaborators, graphic design, etc.)
Modeling Hybrid Stars with an SU(3) non-linear sigma model
Creators: name: Negreiros, Rodrigo Picanco
name: Dexheimer, V. A.
name: Schramm, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the behavior of hybrid stars using an extended hadronic and quark SU(3) non-linear sigma model. The degrees of freedom change naturally, in this model, from hadrons to quarks as the density/temperature increases. At zero temperature, we reproduce massive neutron stars containing a core of hybrid matter of 2 km for the non-rotating case and 1.18 km and 0.87 km, in the equatorial and polar directions respectively, for stars rotating at the Kepler frequency (physical cases lie in between). The cooling of such stars is also analyzed.
description: Revised version, references and figures added. Accepted for publication in Physical Review C
Finite Canonical Measure for Nonsingular Cosmologies
Creators: name: Page, Don N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The total canonical (Liouville-Henneaux-Gibbons-Hawking-Stewart) measure is finite for completely nonsingular Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker classical universes with a minimally coupled massive scalar field and a positive cosmological constant. For a cosmological constant very small in units of the square of the scalar field mass, most of the measure is for nearly de Sitter solutions with no inflation at a much more rapid rate. However, if one restricts to solutions in which the scalar field energy density is ever more than twice the equivalent energy density of the cosmological constant, then the number of e-folds of rapid inflation must be large, and the fraction of the measure is low in which the spatial curvature is comparable to the cosmological constant at the time when it is comparable to the energy density of the scalar field. The measure for such classical FRW-Lambda-phi models with both a big bang and a big crunch is also finite. Only the solutions with a big bang that expand forever, or the time-reversed ones that contract from infinity to a big crunch, have infinite measure.
description: 19 pages, LaTeX, references added
A simpler proof of the Boros-Füredi-Bárány-Pach-Gromov theorem
Creators: name: Karasev, R. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 52C35, 52C45, 60D05

description: A short and almost elementary proof of the Boros-Füredi-Bárány-Pach-Gromov theorem on the multiplicity of covering by simplices in $\mathbb R^d$ is given.
BMGF RTTC South Africa: Municipal sanitation annexure A: Municipal sample findings
Creators: name: Sandia Pillay
name: , Bill
Publisher: name: Gates Open Research
Year: 2021

description: Annexure to the main report: "SPIH RTTC South African Municipal Report For BMGF 31-01-2018"
 Description: Details the WASH data per municipality in South Africa, as per the Main Report objectives.

 Main Report Objectives:
 SPIH to assess the feasibility of Commercial Partner RTTC Technologies for practical in field user application for the South African market municipal context.
 An independent study to be undertaken. Given the uniqueness and variances with each market, there is no guarantee that a certain technology will work for a specific market with regards to costs, specifications, functionality, etc. An unbiased market view is needed to help shape these technologies into new products. Thus a technologically-agnostic approach will be used to engage South African municipalities as a potential sanitation aggregator and distributor. Market user application to be assessed in the instance of public toilets, community toilets (informal settlements), water scarce areas and other potential uses. Market needs in this context to be determined in each of these applications and to be communicated out to commercial partners.

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 Managing Director: Ms Sandia Pillay
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Improving hub-height wind forecasts in complex terrain
Creators: name: Siuta, David
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Wind-speed forecasts from numerical-weather-prediction (NWP) models are important for daily wind-resource generation planning. However, NWP models are imperfect. The ability of energy planners to efficiently manage resources is a function of the accuracy of deterministic wind forecasts and of the associated probability estimates of forecast uncertainty. As the amount of energy generated from wind increases to significant levels, improving forecast accuracy and representation of forecast uncertainty is a key area of active research. This dissertation advances wind forecasting over regions of complex topography using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. The optimal WRF-model configuration is a function of planetary-boundary-layer (PBL) physics, grid length, and initial-condition choice. The first component of this work determines which of these three factors most influences forecast accuracy over complex terrain. The two largest factors influencing forecast accuracy are the PBL-physics scheme and the grid length, with the dominant factor being a function of location, season, and time of day. The second component of the research addresses the need for probability-based forecast information, which is only recently being used within the industry. Wind forecasts from an ensemble using eight PBL schemes, three grid lengths, and two initial-conditions sources are converted into probability models that are then evaluated. Using the full, empirical ensemble distribution produces uncalibrated probabilistic forecasts. Prescribing a Gaussian probability distribution based on statistical moments of a past training dataset results in calibrated and sharp probabilistic forecasts. Such a method is also computationally cheap. The final aspect of this study evaluates the role of boundary-layer static stability on forecast performance. Traditionally, empirical surface-layer similarity theory has been used to relate surface fluxes of heat, momentum, and moisture to vertical profiles of temperature and wind. To evaluate and improve surface-layer similarity theories over mountain ridges, a year-long field campaign of temperature and wind measurements was conducted at wind farms in British Columbia. New empirical equations for complex terrain are proposed based on the field data, and found to perform well at an independent test location.
Open charm hadron measurement in p+p and Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV in STAR
Creators: name: Zhang, Yifei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the measurements of $D^0$ and $D^*$ in p+p and $D^0$ in Au+Au collisions via hadronic decays $D^{0}\rightarrow K^{-}π^{+}$, $D^{*+}\rightarrow D^{0}π^{+}\rightarrow K^{-}π^{+}π^{+}$ in mid-rapidity $|y|<1$ at $\sqrt{s_{_{\rm NN}}}$ = 200 GeV, covering $p_T$ from 0.2 to 6 GeV/$c$ in p+p and 0.4 to 5 GeV/$c$ in Au+Au, respectively. The charm pair production cross section per nucleon-nucleon collision at mid rapidity is measured to be 202 $\pm$ 56 (stat.) $\pm$ 40 (sys.) $\pm$ 20 (norm.) $μ$b in p+p and 186 $\pm$ 22 (stat.) $\pm$ 30 (sys.) $\pm$ 18 (norm.) $μ$b in Au+Au minimum bias collisions. The number of binary collisions scaling of charm cross section indicates that charm is produced via initial hard scatterings. No suppression of $D^0$ $R_{AA}$ in Au+Au 0-80% minbias collisions is observed at $p_T$ below 3 GeV/$c$. Blast-wave predictions with light-quark hadron parameters are different from data, which may indicate that $D^0$ decouples earlier from the medium than the light-quark hadrons.
description: 4 pages, Quark Matter 2011 proceedings
Two-center interference and ellipticity in high-order harmonic generation from H$_2^+$
Creators: name: van der Zwan, Elmar V.
name: Lein, Manfred
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a theoretical investigation into the two-center interference in aligned H$_2^+$. The influence of the laser field on the recombination step is investigated by comparing laser-induced harmonic generation with harmonic generation from field-free collisions of Gaussian wave packets with the core. We find that for different Gaussian wave packets colliding with the molecule, the interference minimum occurs at the same alignment angle. The same result is obtained for the laser-induced spectrum when only a single electronic trajectory per harmonic contributes. When multiple electronic trajectories contribute, we find an effect on the minimum position because the interference between short and long trajectories is alignment-dependent. The two-center interference and the influence of the Coulombic potential are clearly seen not only in the harmonic intensity and phase but also in the polarization direction and ellipticity. We observe significant ellipticity of the emitted radiation around the two-center interference minimum.
description: 10 pages, 15 figures; v2: clearer figures and other small changes; v3: small corrections
SIAS China-EU #8 Guidelines handbook for social inclusion and academic success of Chinese students at European universities (Intellectual Output 5)
Creators: name: Gutierrez, Aldo
name: Suárez-Ojeda, María Eugenia
Publisher: name: National Teaching Repository
Year: 2023
Subjects: Education policy

description: The Erasmus+ pedagogic innovation project “Social Inclusion and Academic Success of Chinese Students in European Higher Education” (2019-2022) [2019-1-ES01-KA203-065990]​ was coordinated by Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB, Spain), and carried out in partnership with the following universities: · Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH, Germany) · Instituto Politécnico da Guarda (IPG, Portugal) · Nottingham Trent University (NTU, UK) A complete list of credits is found at the end of the document (editors, collaborators, graphic design, etc.)