cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Transrectal ultrasound-guided biopsy of the prostate: technique and role in the diagnosis of prostate cancer
Creators: name: Santos, Sofia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: Genital / Reproductive system male
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Biopsy
subject: Cancer

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: - To review the technique of transrectal ultrasound (TRUS)-guided biopsy, including patient preparation and possible complications; - To understand the indications for TRUS-guided biopsy in the diagnosis of prostate...
Anaphora, Possible Worlds, and Temporal Schemas: Locating the Future in Public and Religious Discourses
Creators: name: Kohn, Liberty Lee
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2013
Subjects: Cognitive poetics; text world theory; religious discourse; public rhetoric

description: Cognitive poetics has often investigated only literary reading practices. This article examines how one particular method of cognitive poetics, text world theory, can be used to understand the cognitive reading practices based upon Christian hermeneutic systems of temporality. To differentiate religious rhetoric from persuasive public rhetoric, the article examines text and discourse worlds in 1980s British Labour Party rhetoric, in the rhetoric of the Sermon on the Mount, and in Catholic social activist rhetoric.
description: ENTHYMEMA, No 8 (2013)
Homoclinic, Subharmonic and Superharmonic Bifurcations for a Pendulum with Periodically Varying Length
Creators: name: Belyakov, Anton O.
name: Seyranian, Alexander P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 34E10

description: Dynamic behavior of a weightless rod with a point mass sliding along the rod axis according to periodic law is studied. This is the simplest model of child's swing. Melnikov's analysis is carried out to find bifurcations of homoclinic, subharmonic oscillatory, and subharmonic rotational orbits. For the analysis of superharmonic rotational orbits the averaging method is used and stability of obtained approximate solution is checked. The analytical results are compared with numerical simulation results.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures
Dal ricordo al racconto. Origine e alterazione della memoria in Tristano muore
Creators: name: Ceteroni, Alessandro
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2013
Subjects: Tristano muore; memoria; allucinazione; déjà vu

description: Quando in un romanzo il materiale narrativo coincide interamente con la memoria del personaggio, diviene necessario chiedersi come si stabilisca il grado di verità della sua testimonianza. In questo articolo cercheremo di ricostruire i processi psichici che determinano la percezione e la rielaborazione dell’esperienza da parte di Tristano, cercando di spiegare in che modo i ricordi si originino, si alterino e si organizzino in quel racconto orale, che lo scrittore/testimone avrà il compito di tradurre in forma scritta.
description: ENTHYMEMA, No 8 (2013)
Soft Continuum Actuator Tip Position and Contact Force Prediction, Using Electrical Impedance Tomography and Recurrent Neural Networks
Creators: name: Avery, James
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Medical robotics

description: Material Presented at 6th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft 2023) Also available at https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.06456
Theoretical analysis of oxygen vacancies in layered sodium cobaltate Na_xCoO_{2-δ}
Creators: name: Casolo, Simone
name: Løvvik, Ole Martin
name: Fjeld, Harald
name: Norby, Truls
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Sodium cobaltate with high Na content is a promising thermoelectric material. It has recently been reported that oxygen vacancies can alter the material properties, reducing its figure of merit. However, experimental data concerning the oxygen stoichiometry are contradictory. We therefore studied the formation of oxygen vacancies in Na_xCoO_2 with first principles calculations, focusing on x = 0.75. We show that a very low oxygen vacancy concentration is expected at the temperatures and partial pressures relevant for applications.
description: 4 pages
Unified study of glass and jamming rheology in soft particle systems
Creators: name: Ikeda, Atsushi
name: Berthier, Ludovic
name: Sollich, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore numerically the shear rheology of soft repulsive particles at large volume fraction. The interplay between viscous dissipation and thermal motion results in multiple rheological regimes encompassing Newtonian, shear-thinning and yield stress regimes near the `colloidal' glass transition when thermal fluctuations are important, crossing over to qualitatively similar regimes near the `jamming' transition when dissipation dominates. In the crossover regime, glass and jamming sectors coexist and give complex flow curves. Although glass and jamming limits are characterized by similar macroscopic flow curves, we show that they occur over distinct time and stress scales and correspond to distinct microscopic dynamics. We propose a simple rheological model describing the glass to jamming crossover in the flow curves, and discuss the experimental implications of our results.
description: 5 pages, 3 figs; v2 accepted to publication to Phys. Rev. Lett
Cognitive Poetics: Blending Narrative Mental Spaces.  Self-Construal and Identity in Short Literary Fiction
Creators: name: Tucan, Gabriela
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2013
Subjects: Blending; cognitive poetics; character identity; narrative mental spaces; short story

description: The present study seeks to explore some of the major assumptions made by cognitive linguists regarding language in an attempt to see how various language processes can participate in the emergence of literary meaning. Also, this is an attempt to bridge the gap between linguistics and literary studies. For that purpose, linguistic work with a cognitive orientation can open the floor to one highly debatable question in critical literary theory: the question of interpretation. The primary step in order to meet my objectives is the presentation of a model of analysis that investigates the processes of meaning formation in literary texts – the theory of blending seems to be extremely suitable for an account of meaning formation. I believe that my article can profit substantially from the wide array of instruments provided by the blending theory in order to understand the nature of the reader’s mind while reading literary (short) stories. The study of the basic mental operation of blending is motivated by the general relationship of cognitive poetics and narrative theories. To this end, I will be extensively making use of the blending framework in order to address its narrative implications in two of Hemingway’s already canonical short stories – Big Two-Hearted River and Soldier’s Home. What I hope to demonstrate is that the conceptualization of the narrative mental spaces in these two short stories always has counterfactuality available and uses it as a valuable mental resource. Also, I will try to show that conceptual integration/ blending plays a central role in the self-construal of characters’ identity.
description: ENTHYMEMA, No 8 (2013)
Heat Transfer During the Formation of Solid Oil
Creators: name: Sim, Kellie
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Heat Transfer
subject: Bitumen
subject: Heavy Oil
subject: Solid Oil
subject: Solid Oil Formation
subject: Oil Solidification
subject: Solid Oil Heat Transfer
subject: Engineering--Chemical
subject: Engineering--Petroleum

description: Over the past decade, the transportation of heavy oil and bitumen has experienced constraints due to insufficient pipeline capacity. An alternative is transportation via rail, but this presents safety and logistical challenges due to the heat required to reduce the viscosity of the bitumen and heavy oil for loading. A novel approach is transporting bitumen as solid phase oil, which can be treated as a cold solid similar to grain or sulfur pellets, requiring no heating or special containment. One solid oil formation process extrudes a fixed-length cylinder of molten oil which is then cooled to the point that it becomes solid. The key unknown is the behaviour of the cylinder with respect to heat transfer and the time required to reach a target temperature within the cylinder where it would be considered solid enough for material handling and transport. A heat transfer model for bitumen cylinder cooling surrounded by an outer cylinder of a cooling medium was solved using CMG STARS™. The diameter of the bitumen cylinder (2 mm, 5 mm, 10 mm), the cooling fluid (air, water), the cooling fluid temperature (air at 5°C, air at 21°C, water at 21°C), and the cooling fluid flow rates (11.6 ml/s, 23.2 ml/s) were varied to determine the fastest cooling rate. The 2 mm diameter bitumen in water at 23.2 ml/s resulted in the fastest cooling. It is recommended to update the model to solve for the cooling of multiple bitumen cylinders.
Fiaba e cognitivismo
Creators: name: Uboldi, Sara
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2013
Subjects: Fiaba; neuroscienze cognitive; schema theory

description: La relazione tra uomo e narrazione è molto stretta e affonda le sue radici nelle basi biologiche e nei processi neurologici più profondi del cervello. In particolare, la fiaba si configura come un genere cognitivamente connaturato, in grado di corrispondere alle esigenze e alle strutture della mente umana. Questa convergenza tra l’architettura testuale del fiabesco e le strutture cognitive può, almeno in parte, spiegare il carattere di universalità del genere e la sua diffusione come dispositivo mnemonico, in grado di convogliare significati individuali e collettivi, e come ‘microsceneggiatura’ utile per agire nel mondo reale.
description: ENTHYMEMA, No 8 (2013)
Measurement Validity of the Seattle Angina Questionnaire in Coronary Artery Disease
Creators: name: Lawal, Oluwaseyi Adetutu
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Measurement Invariance
subject: Response shift
subject: Longitudinal Measurement Invariance
subject: Differential item functioning
subject: Coronary artery disease
subject: Seattle Angina Questionnaire
subject: Measurement Validity
subject: Patient reported outcome measures
subject: patient reported outcomes
subject: Psychometric Evaluation
subject: Exploratory factor analysis
subject: confirmatory factor analysis
subject: History--Canadian
subject: Education--Tests and Measurements
subject: Literature--Comparative
subject: Biostatistics
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs), such as the Seattle angina questionnaire (SAQ), are widely used to directly elicit perceptions of health status and quality of life (QOL) in individuals with coronary artery disease (CAD). The SAQ has been used in clinical and epidemiological studies to evaluate the effectiveness of treatment interventions, compare population groups, and inform quality improvement for CAD management. However, there is limited investigation of its measurement validity between groups and over time. The overarching goal of this research is to evaluate the validity of the SAQ in individuals with CAD between groups and over time. Specifically, the objectives are to (1) examine the factorial validity of the SAQ in a Canadian population of patients with CAD, (2) assess if the SAQ construct is equivalent across subgroups and over time and (3) test and adjust for response shift (RS) effect in the SAQ subscales over time. Data for this research were obtained from the Alberta Provincial Project on Outcome Assessment in Coronary Heart Disease (APPROACH) registry, a comprehensive, longitudinal inception cohort of all adult Canadians who received cardiac catheterization in Alberta, Canada. Exploratory and Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was used to investigate the underlying factor structure of the SAQ. CFA revealed that the factorial structure of the original 19-item SAQ, with five subscales, was inconsistent in this cohort. Instead, a 16-item Canadian version of this SAQ (SAQ-CAN), which includes four subscales, was found to be a better fit for the data and was a more valid and reliable instrument to measure QOL in CAD patients. Multigroup-CFA of the SAQ-CAN provides evidence supporting the equivalence of the underlying latent construct across sex, age, angina type, and treatment groups cross-sectionally and longitudinally in a sample of patients with CAD. Finally, the longitudinal structural equation model revealed the presence of small RS effects in the treatment-related experience subscale of the SAQ-CAN, which attenuated longitudinal changes on the SAQ-CAN subscales when not accounted for. In conclusion, this study proposes the use of SAQ-CAN as a valid and reliable instrument for assessing differences and temporal measures of QOL in individuals with CAD.
Dignity, free will, emergence, and illusion
Creators: name: Bartlomiej A. Lenart
Publisher: name: Philosophical Readings
Year: 2023

description: This paper argues that although emergentism does not appear to provide the libertarian with the tools she requires for metaphysical freedom, this does not actually matter for the grounding of a robust notion of moral responsibility. Moreover, illusionism about metaphysical freedom offers some consolation to those who see metaphysical freedom as a source of human dignity and value. This paper argues that emergentism, even in its weak form, when buttressed by both philosophical and psychological considerations regarding the illusory nature of the phenomenal experience of metaphysical freedom, as well as the Strawsonian notion of reactive attitudes, serves as a source not only of value and dignity, but also of a robustly grounded conception of moral responsibility.
Spectral gaps of random graphs and applications
Creators: name: Hoffman, Christopher
name: Kahle, Matthew
name: Paquette, Elliot
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20F65, 05C80

description: We study the spectral gap of the Erdős--Rényi random graph through the connectivity threshold. In particular, we show that for any fixed $δ> 0$ if $$p \ge \frac{(1/2 + δ) \log n}{n},$$ then the normalized graph Laplacian of an Erdős--Rényi graph has all of its nonzero eigenvalues tightly concentrated around $1$. We estimate both the decay rate of the spectral gap to $1$ and the failure probability, up to a constant factor. We also show that the $1/2$ in the above is optimal, and that if $p = \frac{c \log n}{n}$ for $c < 1/2,$ then there are eigenvalues of the Laplacian restricted to the giant component that are separated from $1.$ We then describe several applications of our spectral gap results to stochastic topology and geometric group theory. These all depend on Garland's "p-adic curvature" method, a kind of spectral geometry for simplicial complexes. These can all be considered to be high-dimensional expander properties.
description: final version, 38 pages
Neuroscienze e lettura
Creators: name: Fioroni, Federica
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2013
Subjects: Neuroscienze cognitive; teoria della lettura; neuroni della lettura; neuroimaging; riciclaggio neuronale

description: La cosiddetta neurolettura, ossia l'indagine dell'attività del leggere alla luce delle neuroscienze, può dirsi iniziata già alla fine dell'Ottocento, tuttavia solo in tempi recenti si sono compiute importanti scoperte grazie alle tecniche di neuroimaging. Esaminando alcune ricerche neuroscientifiche, da una parte emerge con forza l'estrema complessità dell'atto del leggere, che dal punto di vista filogenetico parrebbe il frutto di una sorta di riciclaggio neuronale (il nostro cervello non è fatto per la lettura, ma in un modo o nell'altro vi si riconverte grazie alla sua innata plasticità); dall'altra si delinea un'universalità delle basi cerebrali della lettura per cui, qualunque sia la lingua in cui si legge, una sola e medesima area cerebrale viene coinvolta, la regione occipito-temporale sinistra. Tale universalità non pare essere messa in discussione neppure dalla rivoluzione digitale in atto: se è vero che la lettura digitale apre nuove prospettive e nuove frontiere, offrendo vantaggi soprattutto in sede di apprendimento, essa non pare al momento avere una significativa incidenza sui meccanismi cerebrali sottesi alla prima fase del leggere (quella della decodifica), mentre potrebbe avere delle ricadute maggiori sui due momenti successivi, la comprensione di un testo e la nostra risposta ad esso, per quanto in quest'ambito le ricerche siano solo all'inizio.
description: ENTHYMEMA, No 8 (2013)
Studies on the Degradation of Desiccants in Temperature Swing Adsorption Processes and the Adsorptive Separation of Sulfur Compounds from Industrial Fluids
Creators: name: Jacobs, John Henry
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Adsorption
subject: Zeolites
subject: Silica gel
subject: Activated carbon
subject: Sour gas
subject: Chemistry--Physical

description: Adsorptive technologies are essential to the natural gas industry and environmental protection. In natural gas systems, adsorbents remove water, carbon dioxide (CO2), and hydrogen sulfide (H2S) from natural gas through dehydration and sweetening processes. Adsorptive separation also can remove CO2 and sulfur dioxide (SO2) from industrial flue gases. The dehydration of natural gas by adsorption is a standard technology used worldwide. For natural gas wells in remote locations or offshore, adsorptive dehydration is the technology of choice. When the natural gas is to be liquified, dehydration technologies, such as glycol absorption, cannot reduce the water concentrations sufficiently, and adsorptive dehydration must be used. The dehydration units used industrially must operate continuously for several years. The study on desiccant degradation is an essential addition to the field. Nevertheless, little research is available investigating what factors influence desiccant degradation. The most common technology for removing H2S and CO2 from industrial fluids is aqueous alkanolamine absorption. This process is often expensive as the regeneration is energy intensive. Thus, alternative technologies are sought after, such as adsorbents. One of the most promising adsorbents is activated carbon for removing CO2, H2S, and SO2. A custom-built rapid cycling adsorption apparatus was used to test zeolites 4A and 13X, and three different pore-size silica gels to elucidate what factors of industrial dehydration systems would promote or mitigate desiccant degradation. Pure component H2O, methane (CH4), CO2, and H2S adsorption were measured on silica gels and activated carbon. The results from the silica gel adsorption demonstrated that the adsorption of H2O and H2S increased when the concentration of surface silanol groups increased. The adsorption of multi component CH4/CO2/H2S, N2/CO2/SO2, and N2/CO2/SO2/H2O mixtures on activated carbons derived from petroleum coke were collected. It was concluded that the selectivity of H2S/CH4 increased when the surface area decreased, and the H2S/CO2 selectivity increased with the oxygen fraction of the activated carbons. The SO2 adsorption experiments demonstrated a high affinity for SO2 on all of the tested carbons, and the adsorption capacity did not change after wet SO2 exposure for any of the carbons.
The cross helicity at the solar surface by simulations and observations
Creators: name: Ruediger, G.
name: Kueker, M.
name: Schnerr, R. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The quasilinear mean-field theory for driven MHD turbulence leads to the result that the observed cross helicity may directly yield the magnetic eddy diffusivity η_{T} of the quiet Sun. In order to model the cross helicity at the solar surface, magnetoconvection under the presence of a vertical large-scale magnetic field is simulated with the nonlinear MHD code NIRVANA. The very robust result of the calculations is that < u_z b_z >\simeq 2 < u\cdot b> independent of the applied magnetic field amplitude. The correlation coefficient for the cross helicity is about 10%. Of similar robustness is the finding that the rms value of the magnetic perturbations exceeds the mean-field amplitude (only) by a factor of five. The characteristic helicity speed u_η as the ratio of the eddy diffusivity and the density scale height for an isothermal sound velocity of 6.6 km/s proves to be 1 km/s for weak fields. This value well coincides with empirical results obtained from the data of the HINODE satellite and the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope (SST) providing the cross helicity component < u_z b_z >. Both simulations and observations thus lead to a numerical value of η_{T} \simeq 10^12 cm^2 /s as characteristic for the surface of the quiet Sun.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures
Kafkaesque Absurdity in the Aesthetics of Beckett and Giacometti
Creators: name: Sollars, Michael David
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2013
Subjects: Kafka; Giacometti; Beckett; aesthetics; absurd

description: The complex zone of what I refer to as the aesthetical absurd is examined in the works of Modernists Kafka, Giacometti, and Beckett. This aesthetic zone, addressed through cognitive poetics, exists between artistic notion, the artist’s ideal cognitive image, and the actual performance or resulting image born in reality. Artistic ideal is evaluated as the aesthetic image or notion that exists in a tentative nascent and emotive state, but one that the artist strives to produce in the world—to reconstruct from the cognitive zone of creativity—but at times fails to bring to completion or fruition. This ever present bifurcation between these two conflictive states leads to a new view of the Sisyphean absurd. Kafka stands as the beginning point of the discussion. His fragmented, at times incomplete, writing serves as a touchstone to position the aesthetics of the later Beckett and Giacometti, a sculptor. Beckett mirrors Kafka’s sensibility, and relates his negative aesthetic, one lacking or hiding any visible scaffolding for the artistic process. Beckett and Giacometti were friends and collaborated on crafting props for a staging of his signature play Waiting for Godot, a failed attempt. An assessment of the aesthetics of these three artists advances the understanding of their works in terms of the aesthetical absurd.
description: ENTHYMEMA, No 8 (2013)
Raubgrabungen in Deutschland. Eine Deliktsanalyse: Recht, Formen, Umfang, Ursachen und Bekämpfungsstrategien
Creators: name: Heinzlmeier, Michael
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Raubgrabungen
subject: Sondengänger
subject: Denkmalschutz
subject: Kulturgutschutz
subject: 060 Allgemeine Organisationen und Museumswissenschaft

description: Nahezu ungehindert hat sich in den letzten Jahrzehnten in Deutschland eine stetig wachsende Szene von Raubgräber:innen und illegalen Sondengänger:innen etabliert, der schätzungsweise mittlerweile mehrere 10.000 Personen angehören. Insbesondere durch den flächendeckenden Einsatz von Metalldetektoren werden tagtäglich unzählige archäologische Fundobjekte undokumentiert ihrem Befundkontext entrissen, wodurch sie ihre wissenschaftliche Aussagekraft verlieren und der Forschung für immer verloren gehen. Dadurch entsteht neben dem materiellen Schaden für die rechtmäßigen Eigentümer:innen ein immenser Schaden für das kulturelle Erbe der gesamten Menschheit. Trotz existierender Rechtsnormen und eines langsam wachsenden Problembewusstseins in der Öffentlichkeit haben die Täter:innen kaum abschreckende Sanktionen zu befürchten. Eine fehlende statistische Erfassung von Raubgrabungsdelikten bei den Behörden verhindert zudem die Erstellung eines umfassenden Lagebildes, was die Entwicklung nachhaltiger Bekämpfungsstrategien bislang erschwert. Bei dem vorliegenden Beitrag handelt es sich um einen Werkstattbericht, der sich auf die bisher durchgeführten Untersuchungen meiner Dissertation stützt und einige wichtige Aspekte zusammenfasst. Er möchte auch fachunkundigen Lesern ein aktuelles Lagebild zum Problem von Raubgrabungen auf nationaler Ebene vermitteln und das Deliktsfeld sowohl rechtswissenschaftlich als auch kriminalistisch erläutern. Als Methode wurden hierzu Elemente der kriminalistischen Deliktsanalyse genutzt. Aus den Ergebnissen sollen Lösungsansätze aufgezeigt und entwickelt werden, wie die Raubgräberproblematik in Deutschland nachhaltig bekämpft werden kann.
Entanglement Entropy of Quantum Wire Junctions
Creators: name: Calabrese, Pasquale
name: Mintchev, Mihail
name: Vicari, Ettore
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a fermion gas on a star graph modeling a quantum wire junction and derive the entanglement entropy of one edge with respect to the rest of the junction. The gas is free in the bulk of the graph, the interaction being localized in its vertex and described by a non-trivial scattering matrix. We discuss all point-like interactions, which lead to unitary time evolution of the system. We show that for a finite number of particles N, the Renyi entanglement entropies of one edge grow as ln N with a calculable prefactor, which depends not only on the central charge, but also on the total transmission probability from the considered edge to the rest of the graph. This result is extended to the case with an harmonic potential in the bulk.
description: LaTex, 1+23 pages, 5 figures, typos corrected, analytic derivation of the integer Renyi entaglement entropies added in section 3, references added, final version to appear in J. Phys. A
What is Data?
Creators: name: Chattoraj, Ananya
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: data
subject: technology
subject: philosophy of science
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: Philosophers of science researching data-intensive scientific practices have largely converged on the idea that data are relational artifacts, where data are defined through their relations to scientific practices. I use the relationality of data as a starting point to construct a schema that highlights three relata of data. My aim is to foreground relata that I believe have largely been pushed to the background in the current literature. My schema is: Communities use technologies to create data for a purpose. Beginning with a survey of philosophical literature, I show the development of data as a relational artifact. I first present the accounts of Patrick Suppes and of James Bogen and James Woodward. The relevant works of these philosophers focus on how data relates to theories, expanding it to proposing that data provides evidence toward claims for phenomena, which in turn provide evidence for claims of theories. Then, I present the relevant works of Ian Hacking and Sabina Leonelli. Here, data are considered in relation to laboratory practices and the content and form of data are investigated in more detail. I move on to constructing my schema of data. I argue that philosophers ought to foreground communities, technologies, and purposes when analyzing data practices. I do so by analyzing a historical case of thermometry before inspecting communities, technologies, and purposes in greater detail. Communities influence data practices through their complex interactions, done between individuals, groups, and groups of groups. Choices in technology affect the pace of data practices since tools directly influence the content of data that are created. Furthermore, technological choices are determined through community interactions, and often influenced by practical limitations of financial and resource limitations of a lab. Lastly, much of philosophical literature has focused on data's use as evidence, but I argue that there are multiple uses for data. In particular, data may be used as representation without abandoning relationality, and that data may be used to train algorithms. Evidence, representation, and training are distinctly important uses of data. My schema may be used a starting point for further philosophical investigation into data practices.
Carbon Nanotube-PEDOT PSS Composite-based Flexible Temperature Sensor with Enhanced Response and Recovery Time
Creators: name: Wahlbom, Anders
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 170112 Sensory Processes, Perception and Performance
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Conference paper: Carbon Nanotube-PEDOT PSS Composite-based Flexible Temperature Sensor with Enhanced Response and Recovery Time
Postkoloniale Sammlungsforschung. Zur Dekolonisation von ethnographischen Sammlungen durch kollaborative Wissensproduktion
Creators: name: Nowak, Katharina
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Postkoloniale Provenienzforschung
subject: Kollaborative Wissensproduktion
subject: Ozeanien
subject: Dekolonisation
subject: 060 Allgemeine Organisationen und Museumswissenschaft

description: Der gegenwärtige, öffentliche und kritische Diskurs über den Umgang mit Objekten aus kolonialen Kontexten thematisiert Fragen zur Notwendigkeit der Aufarbeitung, zur Methodik und Systematik sowie zu den ethischen und rechtlichen Dimensionen von Restitutionen und Repatriierung der Bestände seitens der europäischen Museen. Neben einer Rekonstruktion der Objektbiographien sind weitere Perspektiven, etwa durch eine kollaborative Forschung mit Menschen aus den Gebieten, aus denen die Objekte ursprünglich stammen, für die betroffenen Sammlungen von Relevanz. Ein Erwerb im kolonialen Kontext verweist auf verschiedene Wertesysteme und Weltanschauungen. Ethnographische Objekte wurden häufig aus ihren Herkunftsländern geraubt und nicht erworben. Nicht nur der unfaire Handel, sondern auch ethische Bedenken in Bezug auf menschliche Überreste sowie sakrale Objekte sind beim Umgang mit ethnographischen Sammlungen zu berücksichtigen. Dieser Beitrag stellt unterschiedliche epistemologische Praktiken vor und fragt exemplarisch, in welcher Art und Weise diese miteinander in häufig durch Macht und asymmetrische Wissensordnungen geprägten Beziehungen stehen. Zudem wird der Fokus auf innovative und symmetrische Repräsentationen von differenten Praktiken im Umgang mit Objekten, ihrer Artikulation in Ausstellungsprojekten und in der Museumsarbeit gerichtet. Hiermit sollen epistemologische Voraussetzungen der Ethnologie und Museologie – beides Disziplinen des Globalen Nordens – offengelegt und zukünftig andere, neue Formen der Objektforschung entwickelt werden. Welche Auswirkungen hat das Anerkennen anderer Ontologien auf die museale Arbeit und den Umgang mit Dingen (wie etwa Kuratieren, Anordnen, Beschreiben, Klassifizieren, Digitalisieren, Sammeln, Ausstellen, Lagern, Restaurieren)? Fragen wie diese sollen zur Diskussion gestellt werden.
Spin Liquid Ground State of the Spin-1/2 Square $J_1$-$J_2$ Heisenberg Model
Creators: name: Jiang, Hong-Chen
name: Yao, Hong
name: Balents, Leon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform highly accurate density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) simulations to investigate the ground state properties of the spin-1/2 antiferromagnetic square lattice Heisenberg $J_1$-$J_2$ model. Based on studies of numerous long cylinders with circumferences of up to 14 lattice spacings, we obtain strong evidence for a topological quantum spin liquid state in the region $0.41\leq J_2/J_1\leq 0.62$, separating conventional Néel and striped antiferromagnetic states for smaller and larger $J_2/J_1$, respectively. The quantum spin liquid is characterized numerically by the absence of magnetic or valence bond solid order, and non-zero singlet and triplet energy gaps. Furthermore, we positively identify its topological nature by measuring a non-zero topological entanglement entropy $γ=0.70\pm 0.02$, extremely close to $γ=\ln(2) \approx 0.69$ (expected for a $Z_2$ quantum spin liquid) and a non-trivial finite size dimerization effect depending upon the parity of the circumference of the cylinder. We also point out that a valence bond solid, and indeed any discrete symmetry breaking state, would be expected to show a constant correction to the entanglement entropy of {\sl opposite} sign to the topological entanglement entropy.
description: 14 pages, 6 figures in the main text. Accuracy improved and missing references added
Lodgepole pine linkage map reveals patterns of genomic clustering of locally adaptive loci
Creators: name: McDonald, Tegan Krista
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Genetics
subject: Local Adaptation
subject: Forestry
subject: Linkage Mapping
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Adaptation to heterogeneous local conditions is near ubiquitous throughout the tree of life. Climate adaption requires a complex system of trade-offs and multifaceted responses, and while the evolutionary theory is reasonably well developed and empirical evidence abundant, the genetic basis of local adaptation is poorly understood for complex traits outside of model organisms. Conifers demonstrate an immense capacity for local adaptation over a wide range of climatic and ecological conditions, and although they are ecologically and economically important, the size and complexities of conifer genomes have limited our ability to study the genetic basis of such adaptation as reference resources are scarce. Here, I have constructed a linkage map for lodgepole pine to examine the patterns of linkage disequilibrium and physical linkage amongst putative adaptive loci identified by Genotype-Environment Associations (GEAs) to 19 climate related variables. We find the high amounts of linkage disequilibrium (LD) observed amongst top-candidate genes are largely attributable to physical linkage, yet are generally distinct loci with some cases potentially indicative of neutral genetic hitchhikers. The context provided by the linkage map to signals of adaptation reveals an intriguing pattern of clustering of loci and reuse of genomic regions in response to distinct, but related, environment factors. These patterns suggest evolution of both clustered and diffuse architectures underlying climate adaptation in lodgepole pine.
An Improved Upper Bound for Bootstrap Percolation in All Dimensions
Creators: name: Uzzell, Andrew J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60K35, 60C05

description: In $r$-neighbor bootstrap percolation on the vertex set of a graph $G$, a set $A$ of initially infected vertices spreads by infecting, at each time step, all uninfected vertices with at least $r$ previously infected neighbors. When the elements of $A$ are chosen independently with some probability $p$, it is natural to study the critical probability $p_c(G,r)$ at which it becomes likely that all of $V(G)$ will eventually become infected. Improving a result of Balogh, Bollobás, and Morris, we give a bound on the second term in the expansion of the critical probability when $G = [n]^d$ and $d \geq r \geq 2$. We show that for all $d \geq r \geq 2$ there exists a constant $c_{d,r} > 0$ such that if $n$ is sufficiently large, then \[ p_c([n]^d, r) \leq \Biggl(\dfrac{λ(d,r)}{\log_{(r-1)}(n)} - \dfrac{c_{d,r}}{\bigl(\log_{(r-1)}(n)\bigr)^{3/2}}\Biggr)^{d-r+1}, \] where $λ(d,r)$ is an exact constant and $\log_{(k)}(n)$ denotes the $k$-times iterated natural logarithm of $n$.
description: 30 pages, 3 figures. Substantially revised
Gas pile-up, gap overflow, and Type 1.5 migration in circumbinary disks: general theory
Creators: name: Kocsis, Bence
name: Haiman, Zoltan
name: Loeb, Abraham
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Many astrophysical binaries, from planets to black holes, exert strong torques on their circumbinary accretion disks, and are expected to significantly modify the disk structure. Despite the several decade long history of the subject, the joint evolution of the binary + disk system has not been modeled with self-consistent assumptions for arbitrary mass ratios and accretion rates. Here we solve the coupled binary-disk evolution equations analytically in the strongly perturbed limit, treating the azimuthally-averaged angular momentum exchange between the disk and the binary and the modifications to the density, scale-height, and viscosity self-consistently, including viscous and tidal heating, diffusion limited cooling, radiation pressure, and the orbital decay of the binary. We find a solution with a central cavity and a migration rate similar to those previously obtained for Type-II migration, applicable for large masses and binary separations, and near-equal mass ratios. However, we identify a distinct new regime, applicable at smaller separations and masses, and mass ratio in the range 0.001< q < 0.1. For these systems, gas piles up outside the binary's orbit, but rather than creating a cavity, it continuously overflows as in a porous dam. The disk profile is intermediate between a weakly perturbed disk (producing Type-I migration) and a disk with a gap (with Type-II migration). However, the migration rate of the secondary is typically slower than both Type-I and Type-II rates. We term this new regime "Type-1.5" migration.
description: 21 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Enabling comprehensive optogenetic studies of mouse hearts by simultaneous opto-electrical panoramic mapping and stimulation
Creators: name: Rieger, Michael
name: Dellenbach, Christian
name: vom Berg, Johannes
name: Beil-Wagner, Jane
name: Maguy, Ange
name: Rohr, Stephan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: POEMS system
Langendorff

description: Supplementary data for publication: Enabling comprehensive optogenetic studies of mouse hearts by simultaneous opto-electrical panoramic mapping and stimulation Michael Rieger1, Christian Dellenbach1, Johannes vom Berg2, Jane Beil-Wagner2, Ange Maguy1, Stephan Rohr1* 1Department of Physiology, University of Bern, Bühlplatz 5, Bern, Switzerland 2Institute of Laboratory Animal Science, University of Zurich, Wagistrasse 12, Schlieren, Switzerland *Correspondence
Forest carbon offset projects in coastal British Columbia : Aboriginal criteria, awareness and preferences
Creators: name: Sparrow, Lori
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Aboriginal groups are still developing recognition of their rights, title and capacity to co-manage their forestland. Provincially there are a number of changes in legislation and regulation that affect Aboriginal groups, particularly in the area of climate change. Aboriginal groups that are actively negotiating their legal rights need to integrate the discussion of climate change, particularly in the area of forests with their evolving legal rights. Aboriginal groups have been proactive in British Columbia but there are many critical gaps that should be explored. My objectives are to identify the key cultural, social, environmental and economic criteria of five selected Aboriginal groups in British Columbia for forest carbon offset projects, to assess their awareness and to identify their key preferences in forest carbon agreements. I travelled to five Aboriginal communities where I conducted twenty individual interviews in total to collect the qualitative data to support my research objectives. Results showed all five selected Aboriginal groups are struggling with balancing economic and environmental values for managing their forests. Cultural, social, and environmental values were closely related to each other and were preferred over economic values. However, there was recognition of the importance of generating revenue and creating employment from forest resources. The five selected Aboriginal groups in this study are at different stages of looking at carbon offsets as a new, potential forestry activity to add to their economic development portfolios. Approximately half of the Aboriginal groups in this study have a low awareness of basic carbon terminology. There was no consensus across the five Aboriginal groups for preferences for carbon project types, acceptable forest stand tending techniques and contractual arrangements, except for a high group-to-group consensus across the five Aboriginal groups on a renewable type of carbon contractual arrangement.
Active Rotman Lens Retro-Reflector
Creators: name: Kiani Amiri, Hanieh
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Rotman lens
subject: radar cross section (RCS)
subject: retrodirective
subject: reflection amplifier
subject: Education--Sciences

description: A major challenge for automotive radar sensors is establishing a secure connection in inclement weather conditions. This study presents further progress in developing an active-loaded Rotman lens retro-reflector that is designed to alleviate this problem by enhancing the radar cross section (RCS). In this novel structure, a Rotman lens is outfitted with low-power reflection amplifiers to enable overall system gain amplification and modulation. The lens antenna has been equipped with an array of printed Yagi antennas, and its monostatic RCS pattern has been measured. The lens antenna exhibits a nearly uniform RCS pattern between ±35 degrees at 5.15 GHz in both active and passive modes. The active lens structure demonstrates a 7.5 dB increase in RCS while loaded with amplifiers with 8 dB gain. With its high gain, broad angular coverage, and low power consumption, this structure is ideal for low-power RCS enhancement applications, such as mm-wave automotive radar sensors.
Model of the bremsstrahlung emission accompanying interactions between protons and nuclei from low up to intermediate energies: role of magnetic emission
Creators: name: Maydanyuk, Sergei P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new model of the bremsstrahlung emission which accompanies proton decay and collisions of protons off nuclei in the energy region from the lowest up to intermediate, has been developed. This model includes spin formalism, potential approach for description of interaction between protons and nuclei, and operator of emission includes component of the magnetic emission (defined on the basis of Pauli equation). In the problem of the bremsstrahlung during the proton decay in the first time a role of the magnetic emission is studied using such a model. For the studied $^{146}{\rm Tm}$ nucleus it has been studied the following: (1) How much does the magnetic emission change the full bremsstrahlung spectrum? (2) At which angle is the magnetic emission the most intensive relatively electric one? (3) Is there some space region where the magnetic emission increases strongly relatively electric one? (4) How intensive is the magnetic emission in the tunneling region? (5) Which values has the probability at its maximum and at zero energy limit of the emitted photons? It is demonstrated that the model is able to describe enough well experimental data of the bremsstrahlung emission which accompanies collisions of protons off the $^{9}{\rm Be}$, $^{12}{\rm C}$ and $^{208}{\rm Pb}$ nuclei at the incident energy $T_{\rm lab}=140$ MeV (at the photon energy up to 120 MeV).
description: 25 pages, 23 figures. The following changes are included: (1) comments on why model does not describe well experimental data for 64-Cu (than data for 12-C, 107-Ag obtained by the same group of experimentalists) at 72 MeV; (2) analysis of multipolar components, their role in angular analysis; (3) minor corrections of definitions of photons quantum numbers and bremsstrahlung probability
Mémoire sur l´état de la province de Lorraine relativement aux impôts ; et sur la possibilité de porter aucune augmentation sur la somme de l´abonnemet des vingtièmes, comme étant dans une juste proportion avec le produit des fonds assujettis à cette imposition ; présenté au roi, à l´appui des itératives remontrances arrêtées par le Parlement de Nancy, le 22 février 1788...
Creators: name: Parlement De Nancy
Publisher: name: [S. l. n.n.]
Year: 1788

description: Broché
description: La page de faux-titre porte : "Mémoire présenté au roi par le Parlement de Nancy"
description: Date de publication incertaine
Multiperspektivische Kontextualisierung deutscher Kolonialgeschichte anhand der Ethnographischen Sammlung des Oberhessischen Museums Gießen
Creators: name: Rochholl, Manuela
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Ethnographische Sammlungen
subject: Kolonialismus
subject: Raubgut
subject: Wissensproduktion
subject: 060 Allgemeine Organisationen und Museumswissenschaft

description: Die 1910 gegründete Ethnographische Sammlung des Oberhessischen Museums in Gießen ist eine von vielen ethnographischen Sammlungen in Deutschland, die während der deutschen Kolonialzeit entstanden. In ihrem Bestand sind Objekte, die in Verbindung zu diversen kolonialen Kontexten stehen: Gewalt, geopolitische Expansion, Expeditionen, wissenschaftliche Forschung und Widerstand gegen die deutsche Kolonialherrschaft. Hier stellt sich die Frage, welches Wissen wie und durch wen über die deutsche Kolonialvergangenheit aus der Ethnographischen Sammlung des Oberhessischen Museums auf lokaler, nationaler und internationaler Ebene erarbeitet werden kann. In meiner Dissertation ermittle ich Biographien verschiedener Personen, die ganz unterschiedliche Verbindungen zur Sammlung und den Objekten haben sowie die dazugehörigen Narrative. Ich möchte außerdem historische und gegenwärtige Netzwerke der Sammlung sichtbar machen. Im Fokus stehen die Objekte an sich und hierbei insbesondere Geschichten, die nicht ausschließlich durch Archivrecherchen in Deutschland rekonstruiert werden können. Es sind Geschichten über Begegnungen zwischen Menschen in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart, Gewalt und Widerstand, Wissenschaft und Forschung sowie vergessene und verdrängte, aber auch neue Geschichten, die durch die Objekte der Sammlung erzählt werden können. In meiner Arbeit versuche ich anhand der Gießener Sammlung zu verdeutlichen, dass ein zentraler Bestandteil der Provenienzforschung nicht nur das Erzählen von Geschichte(n) aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven ist, sondern auch das Zuhören, um Verständnis gegenüber diversen Erwartungen, Interessen und Formen von Wissen zu entwickeln. Mein regionaler Fokus liegt auf den ehemaligen deutschen Kolonien in Afrika, insbesondere auf den Staaten Ruanda, Burundi und Tansania.