cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Cognitively deconstructing musical free improvisation to inform on performance and applied improvisation
Creators: name: Chang, Sabrina M.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: Musical free improvisation (FI) is a technique or style of performance where conventional musical elements such as tonal centers, melodies, and harmonies are largely forsaken. Instead, FI concerns the unbound exploration and expression of sounds, timbres, textures, and rhythms as per the moment-to-moment desires of the performers. The main research presented in this dissertation centers around understanding the subjective experiences and cognitive dynamics of musicians engaged in this unplanned form of improvisation. This was achieved by asking participants to engage in musical free improvisations that were video-recorded for subsequent viewing and segmentation by the performers. These segmentations provided the framework from which the musicians provided text commentaries and engaged in in-depth discussions with me, the researcher. In a second, smaller project I then explored the impacts of applied improvisational training in a non-performance domain by developing and facilitating theatre-based business improvisation training sessions. With these two studies, I addressed the following questions: (1) what are the predominant themes that emerge as FI performers negotiate the cognitive and social-cognitive dynamics of FI? (2) what are the individual and interpersonal impacts of business improvisation training, and do the findings in this regard support and validate the many anecdotal reports given by others in this domain? (3) how do the cognitive and social-cognitive dynamics found in FI parallel and complement those found in theatre improvisation? and (4) how might the findings regarding free improvisation provide support for the inclusion of FI as a complementary or alternative training method to the more well-known area of applied theatre improvisation? Overall, my findings support two important insights: First, the musical FI findings reveal a novel way to understand how improvisers navigate their performances, as captured by four emergent themes that I ultimately discuss through the lens of enactive cognition. Second, the significance in examining the similarities and differences between the two improvisational domains lies in the potential for the application of musical FI in therapeutic settings where theatre improvisation training is more often used as a treatment intervention.
Logical Modelling of Physarum Polycephalum
Creators: name: Schumann, Andrew
name: Adamatzky, Andrew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We propose a novel model of unconventional computing where a structural part of computation is presented by dynamics of plasmodium of Physarum polycephalum, a large single cell. We sketch a new logical approach combining conventional logic with process calculus to demonstrate how to employ formal methods in design of unconventional computing media presented by Physarum polycephalum.
The Revelation: The earliest known use of ʿajamī as a label
Creators: name: Bondarev, Dmitry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Borno Qur'ans
Old Kanembu
Soninke Ajami
Hausa Ajami
Sūrat al-Ahqāf (Q.46)
Revelaton (tanzīl)

description: The interlinear glosses written in African languages of West Africa often have a descriptive metalinguistic marker, asserting the presence of an Ajami segment. The earliest dated use of such a marker has been found in one Borno Qur'an manuscript.

Blog: ajami.hypotheses.org/

Project: www.manuscript-cultures.uni-hamburg.de/ajami/index_e.html
description: Research supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Projektnummer 344888349
Umberto Eco onomaturgo
Creators: name: D'Agostino, Alfonso
Publisher: name: Carte Romanze. Rivista di Filologia e Linguistica Romanze dalle Origini al Rinascimento
Year: 2020

description: Nel XX secolo letterario Umberto Eco è tra i piú fecondi inventori di parole, quasi sempre giocose, soprattutto nei suoi brillanti pastiches letterarî. In questo studio, che si limita a esaminare i due Diari minimi di Eco, si descrivono alcune strategie linguistiche e strutturali e si studiano alcune parole nuove nella loro genesi e nella loro composizione.
description: Carte Romanze. Rivista di Filologia e Linguistica Romanze dalle Origini al Rinascimento, V. 8 N. 2 (2020)
The B*Bpi Coupling in the Static Limit
Creators: name: Bulava, J.
name: Donnellan, M. A.
name: Sommer, Rainer
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study an accurate method for the lattice calculation of the B*Bpi Coupling in the static limit, paying particular attention to excited state contamination. As this coupling is a parameter of the heavy meson chiral Lagrangian, it is useful for constraining the chiral behaviour of various observables in B-physics. We present a precise study of the continuum limit in the quenched approximation and preliminary results with 2 flavours of improved Wilson quarks (using CLS lattices) for pion masses down to around 250 MeV. With dynamical quarks both the lattice spacing and the light quark mass dependences are found to be very weak. We can quote g = 0.51(2) for the continuum value in the chiral limit, where the error will be reduced when a more complete analysis has been performed.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures. Talk given at the XXVIII International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (Lattice 2010), Villasimius, Italy, June 2010
Incontri arturiani. La famiglia di 'acoint' da Chrétien de Troyes alla Mort Artu
Creators: name: Morato, Nicola
Publisher: name: Carte Romanze. Rivista di Filologia e Linguistica Romanze dalle Origini al Rinascimento
Year: 2020

description: La famiglia lessicale di acoint è ben attestata in anticofrancese e da qui il suo impiego si è diffuso nelle altre lingue romanze e in quelle germaniche. Nella narrativa medievale, e in particolare nei romanzi arturiani tanto in versi che in prosa, essa ricorre nella rappresentazione della società di corte con le sue relazioni e con i suoi incontri tanto quotidiani che eccezionali. Tra Chrétien de Troyes e il Lancelot en prose, è in effetti possibile riconoscere alcune tendenze condivise e per esempio isolare, tra gli impieghi dei lemmi della famiglia come parole-tema, alcuni casi di impiego come parola-chiave. Si constata tuttavia una differenza nel modo in cui l’impiego come parola-chiave si realizza nei testi in versi e in quelli in prosa. Mentre nei primi sono soprattutto i procedimenti di tipo retorico-stilistico, in particolare figure di parola, a determinare lo scarto rispetto all’impiego come parola-tema, nei secondi la marcatura avviene invece per mezzo di figure di pensiero e meccanismi narrativi, dal gioco di riprese a distanza all’alternanza dei piani percettivi e cognitivi.
description: Carte Romanze. Rivista di Filologia e Linguistica Romanze dalle Origini al Rinascimento, V. 8 N. 2 (2020)
ctrl alt delete - Memory And Experience in The Design Process
Creators: name: Trevitt, Brooke
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: ‘ctrl alt delete’ addresses the design process and presents a new approach to qualitative research methodologies which incorporates memory. It suggests a shutting down of computer systems ‘not responding’ during the design process and a movement towards human interaction, connection and empathy. It aims to enable designers to become more personally and emotionally informed in subjects out of their personal experience.

Through research and experiment the benefits of utilising memory in qualitative research methodologies such as questionnaires, interviews and focus groups are evident. Subsequently I have created a model for the design process which specifically aims to connect the designer and participant through memory and experience, uniting the designer's creative ability with the participant's passion for the subject.

The model is applied to an 11 step iterative process and tested using four separate design briefs. The first brief is used to test the validity of the model, each step being completed and carefully considered over a period of two months. Three live briefs are then used to test the model under more realistic time frames (1-3 weeks). Alterations are made to the model accommodating each separate brief showing its flexibility and ability to be implemented in the professional design industry.
L'«Estoire del Saint Graal»: problemi testuali e interpretativi
Creators: name: Lagomarsini, Claudio
Publisher: name: Carte Romanze. Rivista di Filologia e Linguistica Romanze dalle Origini al Rinascimento
Year: 2020

description: La traduzione italiana dell’Estoire del Saint Graal ha offerto l’occasione per una ricognizione del testo critico e delle sue varianti nei manoscritti, da cui sono emersi numerosi problemi testuali e interpretativi. Un controllo sistematico dell’apparato offerto dall’edizione di Jean-Paul Ponceau (1997) mostra che alcuni snodi della storia testuale sono nebulosi (ad esempio la consistenza della famiglia α, a cui appartiene uno dei manoscritti di base); al contempo l’apparato offre materiali per mettere a fuoco questioni cruciali, quali l’esistenza dell’archetipo, le relazioni tra versione breve e lunga e i rapporti con la tradizione della Queste del Saint Graal. Nella conclusione si argomenta come verifiche micro-testuali di questa natura sarebbero da estendere a tutti i romanzi del Lancelot-Graal se si volesse reimpostare su basi più solide la discussione sulla stratigrafia del ciclo.
description: Carte Romanze. Rivista di Filologia e Linguistica Romanze dalle Origini al Rinascimento, V. 8 N. 2 (2020)
Scheduling Packets with Values and Deadlines in Size-bounded Buffers
Creators: name: Li, Fei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Motivated by providing quality-of-service differentiated services in the Internet, we consider buffer management algorithms for network switches. We study a multi-buffer model. A network switch consists of multiple size-bounded buffers such that at any time, the number of packets residing in each individual buffer cannot exceed its capacity. Packets arrive at the network switch over time; they have values, deadlines, and designated buffers. In each time step, at most one pending packet is allowed to be sent and this packet can be from any buffer. The objective is to maximize the total value of the packets sent by their respective deadlines. A 9.82-competitive online algorithm has been provided for this model (Azar and Levy. SWAT 2006), but no offline algorithms have been known yet. In this paper, We study the offline setting of the multi-buffer model. Our contributions include a few optimal offline algorithms for some variants of the model. Each variant has its unique and interesting algorithmic feature. These offline algorithms help us understand the model better in designing online algorithms.
description: 7 pages
Orchestina mancocapac Izquierdo 2017, new species
Creators: name: Izquierdo, Matías Andrés
name: Ramírez, Martín J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Oonopidae
Orchestina
Orchestina mancocapac

description: Orchestina mancocapac Izquierdo, new species   Figures 102M, N, 105E, F, 109, map 21
TYPE: Male holotype from Peru: Cusco: Armihuari: Rio Camisea, 560 m, -11.85000°, -72.76666°, Oct. 16, 1997, S. Cordova, deposited in MUSM 0501455, PBI_OON 43305.
ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a noun in apposition taken from Manco Cápac, the first governor and founder of the Inca culture in Cusco.
DIAGNOSIS: Males can be distinguished by the presence of two strong toothlike projections on the mesal margin of the chelicerae (fig. 105F) and by a serrated apophysis on the copulatory bulb (figs. 102M, N, 109).
MALE (PBI_OON 43305): CEPHALOTHO- RAX: Carapace length 0.74; orange, with sclerotized stripes at lateral margins of cephalic area, almost squared in dorsal view (fig. 105E). Clypeus almost vertical in lateral view. Sternum as long as wide, setae densest laterally. Anterior face of chelicerae with basal blunt projections, mesal margin with two strong toothlike projections (fig. 105F). Labium rectangular. ABDOMEN: Collapsed, pale white. LEGS: Spination, metatarsi: I d0-0-1; r0-0- 1; II p0-0-1; r0-0-1; III d0-0-1; r0-0-1; IV d0-0-1; p0-0-1; r0-0-1. GENITALIA: Embolus short; bulb prolateral margin with strong, serrated apophysis; sperm duct slightly coiled (figs. 102M, N, 109).
FEMALE: Unknown.
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality in Peru (Cusco, map 21).
OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: None.
description: Published as part of Izquierdo, Matías Andrés & Ramírez, Martín J., 2017, Taxonomic Revision Of The Jumping Goblin Spiders Of The Genus Orchestina Simon, 1882, In The Americas (Araneae: Oonopidae), pp. 1 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2017 (410) on page 1, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090-410.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5405613
High-throughput Phenotyping of Pea  Genotypes under Drought Stress
Creators: name: Bagheri, Maryam
name: Silva, Marta N.
name: Santos, Carla
name: Moreira, Diana
name: Vasconcelos, Marta W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Pea
Drought
Phenotyping

description: The plant-to-sensor conveyor system can be used to evaluate drought tolerance differences among pea (Pisum sativum) accessions by assessing contrasting genotypes.
Le ricette per gli occhi nel ms. 1408 della Biblioteca Statale di Lucca
Creators: name: Lacanale, Marcella
Publisher: name: Carte Romanze. Rivista di Filologia e Linguistica Romanze dalle Origini al Rinascimento
Year: 2020

description: Il contributo presenta un caso di studio esplorativo sui ricettari medici. A partire dalle tipologie principali dei ricettari medici individuate dagli studiosi, si proverà a inserire, se possibile, il gruppetto di ricette per gli occhi contenuto alle cc. 67r-80v del ms. 1408 della Biblioteca Municipale di Lucca in una delle categorie già individuate e studiate. Si propone, a seguito della descrizione del nostro ricettario, una nuova tipologia di ricettario medico, nato in ambito monastico e volto al soddisfacimento delle esigenze sanitarie e di conservazione della salute all’interno di piccole comunità monastiche.
description: Carte Romanze. Rivista di Filologia e Linguistica Romanze dalle Origini al Rinascimento, V. 8 N. 2 (2020)
Chemical evolution of protoplanetary disks - the effects of viscous accretion, turbulent mixing and disk winds
Creators: name: Heinzeller, Dominikus
name: Nomura, Hideko
name: Walsh, Catherine
name: Millar, Tom J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the chemical evolution of protoplanetary disks considering radial viscous accretion, vertical turbulent mixing and vertical disk winds. We study the effects on the disk chemical structure when different models for the formation of molecular hydrogen on dust grains are adopted. Our gas-phase chemistry is extracted from the UMIST Database for Astrochemistry (Rate06) to which we have added detailed gas-grain interactions. We use our chemical model results to generate synthetic near- and mid-infrared LTE line emission spectra and compare these with recent Spitzer observations. Our results show that if H2 formation on warm grains is taken into consideration, the H2O and OH abundances in the disk surface increase significantly. We find the radial accretion flow strongly influences the molecular abundances, with those in the cold midplane layers particularly affected. On the other hand, we show that diffusive turbulent mixing affects the disk chemistry in the warm molecular layers, influencing the line emission from the disk and subsequently improving agreement with observations. We find that NH3, CH3OH, C2H2 and sulphur-containing species are greatly enhanced by the inclusion of turbulent mixing. We demonstrate that disk winds potentially affect the disk chemistry and the resulting molecular line emission in a similar manner to that found when mixing is included.
description: 24 pages, 11 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in ApJ
A measure of tripartite entanglement in bosonic and fermionic systems
Creators: name: Buscemi, Fabrizio
name: Bordone, Paolo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe an efficient theoretical criterion suitable for the evaluation of the tripartite entanglement of any mixed three-boson or -fermion state, based on the notion of the entanglement of particles for bipartite systems of identical particles. Our approach allows one to quantify the accessible amount of quantum correlations in the systems without any violation of the local particle number superselection rule. A generalization of the tripartite negativity is here applied to some correlated systems including the continuous-time quantum walks of identical particles (both for bosons and fermions) and compared with other criteria recently proposed in the literature. Our results show the dependence of the entanglement dynamics upon the quantum statistics: the bosonic bunching results into a low amount of quantum correlations while Fermi-Dirac statistics allows for higher values of the entanglement.
description: 19 pages, 3 figures
Barrierefreie App-Entwicklung - Native, plattformübergreifende und Web-Apps im Vergleich
Creators: name: Keus, Alexandra
Publisher: name: RWTH Aachen University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 004

description: Bachelorarbeit, RWTH Aachen University, 2019; Aachen (2019). = Bachelorarbeit, RWTH Aachen University, 2019
description: Published by Aachen
Plasmons and Interband Transitions of Ca$_{11}$Sr$_3$Cu$_{24}$O$_{41}$ investigated by Electron Energy-Loss Spectroscopy
Creators: name: Roth, Friedrich
name: Hess, Christian
name: Büchner, Bernd
name: Ammerahl, Udo
name: Revcolevschi, Alexandre
name: Knupfer, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Electron energy-loss spectroscopy studies have been performed in order to get a deeper insight into the electronic structure and elementary excitations of the two-leg ladder system Ca$_{11}$Sr$_3$Cu$_{24}$O$_{41}$. We find a strong anisotropy of the loss function for momentum transfers along the a and c-crystallographic axis, and a remarkable linear plasmon dispersion for a momentum transfer parallel to the legs of the ladders. The investigated spectral features are attributed to localized and delocalized charge-transfer excitations and the charge carrier plasmon. The charge carrier plasmon position and dispersion in the long wave-length limit agree well with expectations based upon the band structure of the two-leg ladder, while the observed quasi-linear plasmon dispersion might be related to the peculiar properties of underdoped cuprates in general.
description: 16 pages, 8 figures
Orchestina bonaldoi Izquierdo 2017, new species
Creators: name: Izquierdo, Matías Andrés
name: Ramírez, Martín J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Oonopidae
Orchestina
Orchestina bonaldoi

description: Orchestina bonaldoi Izquierdo, new species   Figures 124A–C, 135E, 138D, 143B, map 23
TYPE: Female holotype from Brazil: Bahía: Salvador, Jardim Botânico (-12.97083°, -38.51083°), Nov. 01, 2002, to Apr. 01, 2006, A.O. Alves, deposited in IBSP 3358, PBI_OON 30778.
ETYMOLOGY: The specific name is a patronym in honor of the Brazilian arachnologist Alexadre Bonaldo with whom we are shared a field trip to Ecuador collecting oonopids and other spiders.
DIAGNOSIS: Females can be distinguished by the shape of the internal genitalia, with anterior receptaculum widened anteriorly and anterior apodemes long, curved posteriorly, and internal pockets well developed and oriented parallel to the body axis (figs. 135E, 138E, 143B).
MALE: Unknown.
FEMALE (PBI_OON 30778): Total length 1.32. Habitus as in figure 124A–C. CEPHALOTHO- RAX: Labium rectangular. LEGS: Yellow. GENI-
TALIA: As in diagnosis, external pockets absent; posterior receptaculum absent, posterior apodeme formed by entire plate (figs. 135E, 138E, 143B).
DISTRIBUTION: Known from Amazonas and Bahía, Brazil (map 23).
 OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED: BRAZIL: Amazonas: Manaus: Reserva Adolpho Ducke, -2.92638°, -59.94027°, June 27, 1995, J.C.H. Guerrero, 2♀ (MPEG 19005, PBI _OON 42175); same data, 1♀ (MPEG, PBI _ OON 51115). Presidente Figueiredo: UHE Balbina, -1.78333°, -59.26666°, Sep. 27, 2006, R. Saturnino, 1♀ (MPEG 010659, PBI _OON 40475). Bahia: Parque Metropolitano de Pituaçu (-12.95750°, -38.42056°), Jan. 19, 2008, to Feb. 26, 2008, D.U. Sena et al., 1♀ (IBSP 126008, PBI _OON 42224).
description: Published as part of Izquierdo, Matías Andrés & Ramírez, Martín J., 2017, Taxonomic Revision Of The Jumping Goblin Spiders Of The Genus Orchestina Simon, 1882, In The Americas (Araneae: Oonopidae), pp. 1 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2017 (410) on page 1, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090-410.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5405613
Le ricette tecniche per l'arte negli autografi di Leonardo da Vinci: raccolta e edizione dei testi
Creators: name: Del Savio, Michela
Publisher: name: Carte Romanze. Rivista di Filologia e Linguistica Romanze dalle Origini al Rinascimento
Year: 2020

description: Il presente contributo offre agli studiosi la raccolta delle ricette tecniche per l’arte che si trovano disseminate tra i numerosi autografi leonardiani. Le ricette sono edite a partire dagli autografi, e per alcune di esse si è potuta delineare una tradizione testuale che mostra legami anche con la vasta tradizione coeva dei testi tecnici in area romanza.
description: Carte Romanze. Rivista di Filologia e Linguistica Romanze dalle Origini al Rinascimento, V. 8 N. 2 (2020)
Addressing Parameter Choice Issues in Unsupervised Domain Adaptation by Aggregation
Creators: name: Dinu, Marius-Constantin
name: Holzleitner, Markus
name: Beck, Maximilian
name: Nguyen, Hoan Duc
name: Huber, Andrea
name: Eghbal-zadeh, Hamid
name: Moser, Bernhard A.
name: Pereverzyev, Sergei
name: Hochreiter, Sepp
name: Zellinger, Werner
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study the problem of choosing algorithm hyper-parameters in unsupervised domain adaptation, i.e., with labeled data in a source domain and unlabeled data in a target domain, drawn from a different input distribution. We follow the strategy to compute several models using different hyper-parameters, and, to subsequently compute a linear aggregation of the models. While several heuristics exist that follow this strategy, methods are still missing that rely on thorough theories for bounding the target error. In this turn, we propose a method that extends weighted least squares to vector-valued functions, e.g., deep neural networks. We show that the target error of the proposed algorithm is asymptotically not worse than twice the error of the unknown optimal aggregation. We also perform a large scale empirical comparative study on several datasets, including text, images, electroencephalogram, body sensor signals and signals from mobile phones. Our method outperforms deep embedded validation (DEV) and importance weighted validation (IWV) on all datasets, setting a new state-of-the-art performance for solving parameter choice issues in unsupervised domain adaptation with theoretical error guarantees. We further study several competitive heuristics, all outperforming IWV and DEV on at least five datasets. However, our method outperforms each heuristic on at least five of seven datasets.
description: Oral talk (notable-top-5%) at International Conference On Learning Representations (ICLR), 2023
No Evidence for Evolution in the Far-Infrared-Radio Correlation out to z ~ 2 in the eCDFS
Creators: name: Mao, Minnie Y.
name: Huynh, Minh
name: Norris, Ray P.
name: Dickinson, Mark
name: Frayer, David
name: Helou, George
name: Monkiewicz, Jacqueline
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the 70 um Far-Infrared Radio Correlation (FRC) of star-forming galaxies in the Extended Chandra Deep Field South (ECDFS) out to z > 2. We use 70 um data from the Far-Infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (FIDEL), which comprises the most sensitive (~0.8 mJy rms) and extensive far-infrared deep field observations using MIPS on the Spitzer Space Telescope, and 1.4 GHz radio data (~8 uJy/beam rms) from the VLA. In order to quantify the evolution of the FRC we use both survival analysis and stacking techniques which we find give similar results. We also calculate the FRC using total infrared luminosity and rest-frame radio luminosity, qTIR, and find that qTIR is constant (within 0.22) over the redshift range 0 - 2. We see no evidence for evolution in the FRC at 70 um which is surprising given the many factors that are expected to change this ratio at high redshifts.
description: 18 pages, 13 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ
Cubature rules from Hall-Littlewood polynomials
Creators: name: van Diejen, Jan Felipe
name: Emsiz, Erdal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65D32, 05E05, 15B52, 28C10, 33C52, 33D52, 43A75

description: Discrete orthogonality relations for Hall-Littlewood polynomials are employed, so as to derive cubature rules for the integration of homogeneous symmetric functions with respect to the density of the circular unitary ensemble (which originates from the Haar measure on the special unitary group $SU(n;\mathbb{C})$). By passing to Macdonald's hyperoctahedral Hall-Littlewood polynomials, we moreover find analogous cubature rules for the integration with respect to the density of the circular quaternion ensemble (which originates in turn from the Haar measure on the compact symplectic group $Sp (n;\mathbb{H})$). The cubature formulas under consideration are exact for a class of rational symmetric functions with simple poles supported on a prescribed complex hyperplane arrangement. In the planar situations (corresponding to $SU(3;\mathbb{C})$ and $Sp (2;\mathbb{H})$), a determinantal expression for the Christoffel weights enables us to write down compact cubature rules for the integration over the equilateral triangle and the isosceles right triangle, respectively.
description: 30 pages, 7 tables
Increased attenuation but decreased immunogenicity by deletion of multiple vaccinia virus immunomodulators
Creators: name: Sumner, Rebecca P
name: Ren, Hongwei
name: Ferguson, Brian
name: Smith, Geoffrey
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2016
Subjects: vaccinia virus
immunogenicity
NF-$\kappa$B inhibitor
IRF3 inhibitor
vaccine efficacy

description: Vaccinia virus (VACV)-derived vectors are popular candidates for vaccination against diseases such as HIV-1, malaria and tuberculosis. However, their genomes encode a multitude of proteins with immunomodulatory functions, several of which reduce the immunogenicity of these vectors. Hitherto only limited studies have investigated whether the removal of these immunomodulatory genes in combination can increase vaccine efficacy further. To this end we constructed viruses based on VACV strain Western Reserve (WR) lacking up to three intracellular innate immunomodulators (N1, C6 and K7). These genes were selected because the encoded proteins had known functions in innate immunity and the deletion of each gene individually had caused a decrease in virus virulence in the murine intranasal and intradermal models of infection and an increase in immunogenicity. Data presented here demonstrate that deletion of two, or three of these genes in combination attenuated the virus further in an incremental manner. However, when vaccinated mice were challenged with VACV WR the double and triple gene deletion viruses provided weaker protection against challenge. This was accompanied by inferior memory CD8$^+$T cell responses and lower neutralising antibody titres. This study indicates that, at least for the three genes studied in the context of VACV WR, the single gene deletion viruses are the best vaccine vectors, and that increased attenuation induced by deletion of additional genes decreased immunogenicity. These data highlight the fine balance and complex relationship between viral attenuation and immunogenicity. Given that the proteins encoded by the genes examined in this study are known to affect specific aspects of innate immunity, the set of viruses constructed here are interesting tools to probe the role of the innate immune response in influencing immune memory and vaccine efficacy.
description: Medical Research Council, Wellcome Trust
description: This is the final version of the article. It first appeared from Elsevier via http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2016.08.002
title: DEPRECATED: UTMOST GOOD FAITH IN MARINE INSURANCE: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ENGLISH AND CHINESE LAW
Creators: name: Shi, Feng
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2013
Subjects: Marine insurance
Utmost good faith, duty of
Comparative study
Law, English and Chinese

description: Publications: Feng Shi, ‘Utmost Good Faith in Marine Insurance: A Comparative Study of English and Chinese Maritime Law’, (2008) 1Plymouth Law Review, University of Plymouth, pp. 154-160, available at http://www.pbs.plymouth.ac.uk/PLR/ Issue%201_conten ts.html, accessed in January 2013. Presentation and Conferences Attended: Feng Shi, ‘Utmost Good Faith in Marine Insurance Law – The Quest for Reform’, 1st International Conference on Marine and Maritime Affairs (ICMMA), April, 2011; Feng Shi, ‘Utmost Good Faith and Disclosure’, Staff Seminar, Plymouth Law School, Plymouth University, UK, 21st May, 2009.
description: As one of the most distinctive characteristics of English insurance law, the duty of utmost good faith is essentially stated in sections 17-20 of the Marine Insurance Act 1906. According to the statutory rules, both of the insurance parties must observe utmost good faith before the conclusion of an insurance contract. After one century of its application, both the judiciary and academics expressed their concerns in terms of its legislative defects and complexity in practice. Some developments have been made in recent judicial decisions and in statutory reform, e.g. the English Consumer Insurance (Disclosure and Representations) Act 2012, and Recommendations, Statutes and Explanations on the Amendments of Chinese Maritime Code of the People’s Republic of China. Therefore, debatable issues and law reform programs in both English and Chinese law are considered in the main body of this thesis. The examination is essentially based upon, (1) the materiality test of the concealed/misrepresented circumstances which can empower the injured party to rescind the insurance abinitio; (2) the duration of utmost good faith and specific issues; (3) the protective measures related to innocent misconduct; (4) the legal status of good faith and its application to fraudulent behaviour; and (5) whether the classic English utmost good faith doctrine can be extended to Chinese law. Therefore, the main objective of this thesis is to provide a comprehensive study of the current status and developments of the duty of utmost good faith in both English and Chinese law, which is of fundamental importance, not only at the negotiation stage, but also throughout the performance and at the claiming stage of an insurance contract. After identifying and analysing these crucial issues, this thesis concludes with some possible solutions.
Separation between coherent and turbulent fluctuations. What can we learn from the Empirical Mode Decomposition?
Creators: name: Mazellier, Nicolas
name: Foucher, Fabrice
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The performances of a new data processing technique, namely the Empirical Mode Decomposition, are evaluated on a fully developed turbulent velocity signal perturbed by a numerical forcing which mimics a long-period flapping. First, we introduce a "resemblance" criterion to discriminate between the polluted and the unpolluted modes extracted from the perturbed velocity signal by means of the Empirical Mode Decomposition algorithm. A rejection procedure, playing, somehow, the role of a high-pass filter, is then designed in order to infer the original velocity signal from the perturbed one. The quality of this recovering procedure is extensively evaluated in the case of a "mono-component" perturbation (sine wave) by varying both the amplitude and the frequency of the perturbation. An excellent agreement between the recovered and the reference velocity signals is found, even though some discrepancies are observed when the perturbation frequency overlaps the frequency range corresponding to the energy-containing eddies as emphasized by both the energy spectrum and the structure functions. Finally, our recovering procedure is successfully performed on a time-dependent perturbation (linear chirp) covering a broad range of frequencies.
description: 23 pages, 13 figures, submitted to Experiments in Fluids
Traduire les proverbes en moyen français: petite enquête dans deux versions du «Dialogue des Creatures« (1482)
Creators: name: Colombo Timelli, Maria
Publisher: name: Carte Romanze
Year: 2020

description: Résumé: Succès européen, le Dialogus creaturarum (XIVe siècle) a connu deux traductions en français, datées l’une et l’autre 1482; cependant les deux traducteurs ont réagi différemment face aux distiques proverbiaux latins qui marquent dans chaque Dialogue le passage de la fable à sa moralisation. L’analyse de ces deux pratiques peut contribuer en corollaire à une définition de ce qu’était un «proverbe» en moyen français.
description: Carte Romanze, V. 8 N. 2 (2020)
Cubature rules for unitary Jacobi ensembles
Creators: name: van Diejen, Jan Felipe
name: Emsiz, Erdal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65D32, 15B52, 28C10, 43A75

description: We present Chebyshev type cubature rules for the exact integration of rational symmetric functions with poles on prescribed coordinate hyperplanes. Here the integration is with respect to the densities of unitary Jacobi ensembles stemming from the Haar measures of the orthogonal and the compact symplectic Lie groups.
description: 10 pages, 1 table
Synthesis of 3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane-modified Phoenix dactylifera date stone combined with natural clay for adsorption of mercury ions from aqueous solution
Creators: name: Mouden, Abdelaziz El
name: Aasli, Brahim
name: Messaoudi, Noureddine El
name: Guerraf, Abdelqader El
name: Miyah, Youssef
name: Erraji, Fatima Zahra
name: Almehizia, Abdulrahman A.
name: Jada, Amane
name: Lacherai, Abdellah
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biophysics
Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Medicine
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: In this study, natural clay (NC) was composited with 3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane (APTES)-modified Phoenix dactylifera date stone (DS) for the development of an efficient adsorbent, named APTES-DS@NC, capable of removing mercury ions from aqueous solution. At optimal conditions (pH 5.1 ± 0.01, DS-APTES@NC dosage: 2.4 ± 0.0001 g L−1, Hg(II) ion concentration: 175 mg L−1 ± 1, and temperature: 25 ± 1 °C), the removal efficiency at 120 ± 0.1 min was 81.60%. The experimental results of Hg(II) adsorption by APTES-DS@NC agree with the Langmuir and PSO models. The maximum adsorption capacity was found to be 59.88 mg g−1. The thermodynamic calculations confirmed that adsorption is exothermic and a feasible process. These may be explained by the high affinity of the Hg(II) ions due to electrostatic interactions with the APTES-DS@NC surface and ion exchange mechanisms. After 5 cycles, the Hg(II) removal efficiency was 41.32%. The study also emphasizes how the synthesis method and environmental conditions enhance the adsorption capabilities of APTES-DS@NC, demonstrating their effectiveness in removing heavy metals such as mercury from water.
T₁ relaxation and inhomogeneous magnetization transfer in brain : physics and applications
Creators: name: Manning, Alan Patrick
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: A major goal of the Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) community is quantifying myelin in white matter. MRI contrast depends on tissue microstructure, so quantitative models require detailed understanding of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) physics in white matter's complex, heterogeneous environment. In this thesis, we study the underlying physics behind two different ¹H contrast mechanisms in white and grey matter tissue: T₁ relaxation and the recently developed inhomogeneous Magnetization Transfer (ihMT). Using ex-vivo white and grey matter samples of bovine brain, we performed a comprehensive solid-state NMR study of T₁ relaxation under six diverse initial conditions. For the first time, we used lineshape fitting to quantify the non-aqueous magnetization during relaxation. A four pool model describes our data well, matching with earlier studies. We also show examples of how the observed T₁ relaxation behaviour depends upon the initial conditions. ihMT's sensitivity to lipid bilayers, like those in myelin, was originally thought to rely upon hole-burning in the supposedly inhomogeneously-broadened lipid lineshape. Our work shows that this is incorrect and that ihMT only requires the presence of dipolar couplings, not a specific kind of line broadening. We developed a simple explanation of ihMT using a spin-1 system. Using solid-state NMR, we then performed measurements of ihMT and T₁D (dipolar order relaxation time) on four samples: a multilamellar lipid system (Prolipid-161), wood, hair, and bovine tendon. ihMT was observed in all samples, even those with homogeneous broadening (wood and hair). Moreover, we saw no evidence of hole-burning. Lastly, we present results from ihMT experiments with CPMG acquisition on the bovine brain samples. We show that myelin water has a higher ihMT signal than water outside the myelin. It was determined that this was due to the unique thermal motion in myelin lipids. In doing so, we developed a useful metric for determining the relative contributions from magnetization transfer and dipolar coupling to ihMT. Also, we applied a qualitative four pool model with dipolar reservoirs. Together, our results are consistent with myelin lipids having a T₁D which is appreciably longer than the T₁D of non-myelin lipids, despite recent measurements to the contrary.
An Improved Yaw Control Algorithm for Wind Turbines via Reinforcement Learning
Creators: name: Puech, Alban
name: Read, Jesse
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Yaw misalignment, measured as the difference between the wind direction and the nacelle position of a wind turbine, has consequences on the power output, the safety and the lifetime of the turbine and its wind park as a whole. We use reinforcement learning to develop a yaw control agent to minimise yaw misalignment and optimally reallocate yaw resources, prioritising high-speed segments, while keeping yaw usage low. To achieve this, we carefully crafted and tested the reward metric to trade-off yaw usage versus yaw alignment (as proportional to power production), and created a novel simulator (environment) based on real-world wind logs obtained from a REpower MM82 2MW turbine. The resulting algorithm decreased the yaw misalignment by 5.5% and 11.2% on two simulations of 2.7 hours each, compared to the conventional active yaw control algorithm. The average net energy gain obtained was 0.31% and 0.33% respectively, compared to the traditional yaw control algorithm. On a single 2MW turbine, this amounts to a 1.5k-2.5k euros annual gain, which sums up to very significant profits over an entire wind park.
Memoranda: dettagli dimenticati intorno ad Airas Paez (RM 15) e nuova edizione di una cantiga d’amor atipica
Creators: name: Rettore, Carlo
Publisher: name: Carte Romanze. Rivista di Filologia e Linguistica Romanze dalle Origini al Rinascimento
Year: 2020

description: L’articolo torna, attraverso una rilettura delle fonti meno note e la trascrizione di quelle mai pubblicate, sulla vita del rimatore galego-portoghese conosciuto come Airas Paez, evidenziando quanto la sua origine paia essere navarra (per quanto, probabilmente, di discendenza galega) e la sua attività, che fu pressoché sempre al servizio di Giacomo II di Aragona (malgrado momentanei periodi in altre corti), sia proseguita piú a lungo di quanto generalmente noto. L’edizione della sua cantiga d’amor migliore, Dizen pela terra, senhor, ca vos amei chiude l’intervento per ricordare un autore piú brillante di quanto non traspaia dalla sua (ben piú nota) produzione d’amigo.
description: Carte Romanze. Rivista di Filologia e Linguistica Romanze dalle Origini al Rinascimento, V. 8 N. 2 (2020)
Ultra-fast treatment plan optimization for volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT)
Creators: name: Men, Chunhua
name: Romeijn, H. Edwin
name: Jia, Xun
name: Jiang, Steve B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Purpose: To develop a novel aperture-based algorithm for volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) treatment plan optimization with high quality and high efficiency. Methods: The VMAT optimization problem is formulated as a large-scale convex programming problem solved by a column generation approach. We consider a cost function consisting two terms, the first which enforces a desired dose distribution while the second guarantees a smooth dose rate variation between successive gantry angles. At each iteration of the column generation method, a subproblem is first solved to generate one more deliverable MLC aperture which potentially decreases the cost function most effectively. A subsequent master problem is then solved to determine the dose rate at all currently generated apertures by minimizing the cost function. The iteration of such an algorithm yields a set of deliverable apertures, as well as dose rates, at all gantry angles. Results: The algorithm was preliminarily tested on five prostate and five head-and-neck clinical cases, each with one full gantry rotation and without any couch/collimator rotations. Compared to corresponding co-planar IMRT treatment plans (9 fields for prostate cases and 5 fields for head-and-neck cases), the VMAT plans delivered much lower doses to critical structures and more conformal doses to targets. Moreover, extremely high efficiency has been achieved in our algorithm. It takes only 5~8 minutes on CPU (MATLAB code on an Intel Xeon 2.27 GHz CPU) and 18~31 seconds on GPU (CUDA code on an NVIDIA Tesla C1060 GPU card) to generate such a plan. Conclusions: We have developed an aperture-based VMAT optimization algorithm which can generate clinically deliverable and high quality treatment plans at very high efficiency.
Recensione a Lorenzo Tomasin, Il caos e l’ordine. Le lingue romanze nella storia della cultura europea, Torino, Einaudi, 2019
Creators: name: Tagliani, Roberto
Publisher: name: Carte Romanze. Rivista di Filologia e Linguistica Romanze dalle Origini al Rinascimento
Year: 2020

description: Recensione a Lorenzo Tomasin, Il caos e l’ordine. Le lingue romanze nella storia della cultura europea, Torino, Einaudi, 2019, XI+207 pp. («Piccola Biblioteca Einaudi. Nuova serie. Saggistica letteraria e linguistica», 721)
description: Carte Romanze. Rivista di Filologia e Linguistica Romanze dalle Origini al Rinascimento, V. 8 N. 2 (2020)
title: Integration of livestock into irrigated agricultural systems in semi-arid tropics with particular reference to Gezira
title: The integration of livestock into irrigated agricultural systems in semi-arid tropics with particular reference to Gezira
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Khuele, M. E.
Publisher: name: The University of Edinburgh
Year: 1983
Subjects: subject: Annexe MSc Digitisation Project 2022 Block 51
subject: Irrigation
subject: Semi-arid
subject: Livestock
subject: Gezira Scheme
subject: Productivity

description: The role of large-scale irrigation as an agricultural strategy to improve productivity in developing countries is gaining acceptance. This is particularly the case in semi-arid tropical regions of the world where mainly due to scarcity and infrequency of rainfall there is very little growth potential in traditional agriculture and similarly difficult to maximize animal production. This paper examines the various prospects for livestock integration with irrigated cropping systems in semi-arid areas,- and this is analysed for the case of the Sudan Gezira Scheme. Within the limits presented by the existing conditions in the Scheme as regards the organizational structure, environmental and other internal and external constraints in the Gezira, the paper, while appreciating the risks involved in total dependence on cotton as the major source of income, cautions against the introduction of livestock into the Scheme simply on economic or social grounds. Rather efforts should first be made to ensure that productivity is improved within the present system in which cotton remains the vital component of the Sudanese economy.
Baryon-Baryon Interactions from Lattice QCD
Creators: name: Aoki, Sinya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on new attempt to investigate baryon-baryon interactions in lattice QCD. From the Bethe-Salpeter (BS) wave function, we have successfully extracted the nucleon-nucleon ($NN$) potentials in quenched QCD simulations, which reproduce qualitative features of modern $NN$ potentials. The method has been extended to obtain the tensor potential as well as the central potential and also applied to the hyperon-nucleon ($YN$) interactions, in both quenched and full QCD.
description: 6 pages, 10 figures, A plenary talk given at the 5-th International Conference on Quark and Nuclear Physics, Beijing, September 21-26, 2009
DEP Bulletin: Volume 41 Issue 9
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2017

description: The DEP bulletin is a semi-monthly publication of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. It contains a list of construction permit applications recently filed or acted upon by the Department along with a calendar of events of interest, a schedule of public hearings, and Environmental Impact Statements acted upon during the period.