cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Literature and the Moral Imagination: Smithean Sympathy and the Construction of Experience through Readership
Creators: name: Sund, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2010

description: In this thesis I argue literary readership allows us to gain imagined experiences necessary to sympathize with people whose experiences are different from our own. I begin with a discussion of Adam Smithƒ''s conception of sympathy and moral education. Although sympathy is a process we take part in naturally as members of a society, we can only be skilled spectators if we practice taking the position of the impartial spectator and critically reflect on our judgments. As I will argue in this thesis, literature provides a way for us to practice spectatorship without the consequences that come along with making mistakes when judging real people. Literature also provides a way to build up a stock of experiences, which can be applied together with our personal life histories to create the most informed judgments possible.
Kant's Use of Transcendental Arguments
Creators: name: Cudney, Thomas
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2010

description: Kant is famous for his use of transcendental arguments in the transcendental deduction. This thesis examines how such a transcendental argument is used within Kant's methodological framework. Following the work of Henrich and Walker, the paper asks whether transcendental arguments in the Critique of Pure Reason are compatible with Kant's methodology in general. We find that these arguments and Kant's methodology are compatible, and that transcendental arguments are indeed very weak arguments by Walker's standards. However, the entire transcendental deduction should be understood as a deduction writing that uses transcendental arguments particularly effectively according to Kant's own methodological standards.
Drug Addiction and Personal Responsibility
Creators: name: Reagan, Andrew
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2009

description: This project examines drug addiction and personal responsibility from the perspective of three different types of theories of addiction: full responsibility, diminished responsibility, and no responsibility. The rational theory of addiction is the fully responsibility theory. The philosophical insights by R. Jay Wallace and George Graham are the diminished responsibility theories. Berridge and Robinson's Incentive Salience theory of drug addiction is the no responsibility theory examined. My conclusion is that diminished responsibility frameworks are the most suitable in a therapeutic context because they are most sensitive to relevant normative aspects.
The Justificatory Role of Habit in Hegel's Theory of Ethical Life
Creators: name: Glazer, Walter
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2010

description: Recent scholarship on Hegel has employed the Wittgensteinian concept of a "form of life" in order to explain how sociality shapes and determines the reflective practices of self-conscious individuals. However, few of these scholars have considered how the non-reflective aspects of inhabiting a form of life- especially the abilities to form habits and to have feelings- contribute to the reflective aspects. In this thesis I argue that this oversight leads to serious exegetical and philosophical problems for making sense of Hegel's theory of ethical life. Not only does Hegel regard habit and feeling as playing a necessary role in the justification of our reflective practices, but he is right to do so, since, were he not to consider these factors, he could not account for how any of our moral claims could be justified.
The Dyer-Lashof algebra in bordism (extended abstract)
Creators: name: Bisson, Terrence
name: Joyal, André
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 55N22 (Primary)

description: We present a theory of Dyer-Lashof operations in unoriented bordism (the canonical splitting $N_*(X)\simeq N_*\otimes H_*(X)$, where $N_*( )$ is unoriented bordism and $H_*( )$ is homology mod 2, does not respect these operations). For any finite covering space we define a ``polynomial functor'' from the category of topological spaces to itself. If the covering space is a closed manifold we obtain an operation defined on the bordism of any $E_\infty$-space. A certain sequence of operations called squaring operations are defined from two-fold coverings; they satisfy the Cartan formula and also a generalization of the Adem relations that is formulated by using Lubin's theory of isogenies of formal group laws. We call a ring equipped with such a sequence of squaring operations a D-ring, and observe that the bordism ring of any free $E_\infty$-space is free as a D-ring. In particular, the bordism ring of finite covering manifolds is the free D-ring on one generator. In a second compte-rendu we discuss the (Nishida) relations between the Landweber-Novikov and the Dyer-Lashof operations, and show how to represent the Dyer-Lashof operations in terms of their actions on the characteristic numbers of manifolds.
description: 6 pages, preprint of 1995 publication, unchanged
Optimal regularity & Liouville property for stable solutions to semilinear elliptic equations in $\mathbb R^n$ with $n\ge10$
Creators: name: Peng, Fa
name: Zhang, Yi Ru-Ya
name: Zhou, Yuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35J61

description: Let $ 0\le f\in C^{0,1}(\mathbb R^n)$. Given a domain $Ω\subset \mathbb R^n$, we prove that any stable solution to the equation $-Δu=f(u)$ in $Ω$ satisfies a BMO interior regularity when $n=10$, and an Morrey $M^{p_n,4+2/(p_n-2)}$ interior regularity when $n\ge 11$, where $$p_n=\frac{2(n-2\sqrt{n-1}-2)}{n-2\sqrt{n-1}-4}. $$
 This result is optimal as hinted by earlier results, and answers an open question raised by Cabré, Figalli, Ros-Oton and Serra. As an application, we show a sharp Liouville property: Any stable solution $u \in C^2(\mathbb R^n)$ to $-Δu=f(u)$ in $\mathbb R^n$ satisfying the growth condition, i.e.\ $|u(x)|= o\left( \log|x| \right)$ as $|x|\to+\infty$ when $n=10$; or $|u(x)|= o\left( |x| ^{ -\frac n2+\sqrt{n-1}+2 }\right)$ as $x|\to+\infty$ when $n\ge 11$, must be a constant. This extends the well-known Liouville property for radial stable solutions obtained by Villegas.
description: 21 pages
Hypocrisias lisoma Dyar 1912
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Hypocrisias
Hypocrisias lisoma

description: Hypocrisias lisoma Dyar, 1912
Hypocrisias lisoma Dyar, 1912: 53.
TYPE LOCALITY. — Mexico, [Distrito Federal], Mexico City.
TYPE SPECIMEN. — Holotype male no. 13 845 (USNM).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 311, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
Application of the Adams-Bashfort-Mowlton Method to the Numerical Study of Linear Fractional Oscillators Models
Creators: name: Parovik, Roman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: G.1.7
subject: 65L05 (Primary), 34A08 (Secondary)

description: The paper presents a numerical analysis of the class of mathematical models of linear fractional oscillators, which is the Cauchy problem for a differential equation with derivatives of fractional orders in the sense of Gerasimov-Caputo. A method based on an explicit nonlocal finite-difference scheme (ENFDS) and the Adams-Bashfort-Moulton (ABM) method is considered a numerical analysis tool. An analysis of the errors of the methods is carried out, and it is shown that the ABM method is more accurate and converges faster to an exact solution than the ENFDS method.
Can Consciousness be Taken Seriously When it Comes to Personal Identity?
Creators: name: Duncan, Stephen
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2009

description: Certain contemporary philosophers (e.g. Dainton, 2008; Strawson, 1999; Foster, 2008) have thought that the first-person, qualitative aspect of conscious experience should be taken seriously when it comes to our thinking about personal identity through time. These philosophers have thus argued that experiential continuity is essential to a person's ability to persist identically through time. This is what I will call 'the phenomenological theory'. In this thesis I describe the phenomenological theory and then discuss three problems that have plagued the history of this theory: the bridge problem, the token problem, and the ontological problem. I will argue that a recent version of the phenomenological theory proposed by Barry Dainton and Timothy Bayne (2005) provides satisfactory answers to two of these problems, but not the third. I will conclude this thesis by proposing a superior version of the phenomenological theory'one that can handle all three problems.
Moral Injury and the Puzzle of Immunity-Violation
Creators: name: Gero, Jesse
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2010

description: The First Amendment gives U.S. citizens a Hohfeldian legal immunity that disables Congress from removing citizens' legal liberty to criticize the government. Any attempt by Congress to remove this liberty would fail, but such an attempt would still wrong citizens. The familiar concept of claim-violation does not fully account for this wrong. Claims name actions that ought not be performed and are violated when those actions are performed. Immunities names actions that cannot be performed. Congress would wrong citizens not by doing something it ought not do but by attempting and failing to do something it cannot do. Using elements of Jean Hampton's expressive theory of punishment, I analyze Congress' attempt (and other similar acts) as an expressive act that denies the existence of immunities. Congress' immunity-'contradiction' would wrong U.S. citizens by denying the value that generates the immunity, by causing damage to the acknowledgement of the citizens' value, and by threatening the existence of the immunity.
Boucksom-Zariski and Weyl chambers on irreducible holomorphic symplectic manifolds
Creators: name: Denisi, Francesco Antonio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Inspired by the work of Bauer, Küronya, and Szemberg, we provide for the big cone of a projective irreducible holomorphic symplectic (IHS) manifold a decomposition into chambers (which we describe in detail), in each of which the support of the negative part of the divisorial Zariski decomposition is constant. We see how the obtained decomposition of the big cone allows us to describe the volume function. Moreover, similarly to the case of surfaces, we see that the big cone of a projective IHS manifold admits a decomposition into simple Weyl chambers, which we compare to that induced by the divisorial Zariski decomposition. To conclude, we determine the structure of the pseudo-effective cone.
description: Final version: minor changes
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Seeking Natural Kinds in a Controversial Diagnosis
Creators: name: Pfeilschiefter, Paul
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2009

description: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a debilitating condition that results from the experience of a traumatic event. Natural kinds are mind-independent entities found in nature and are the objects of scientific inquiry. It is common to deny that PTSD is a natural kind, but extant denials assume a thesis of natural kinds that can be called 'essentialism'. According to essentialism, many entities are not natural kinds that one would expect should be natural kinds. The homeostatic cluster view of natural kinds offers an alternative that accommodates these cases, including, superficially, the claim that PTSD is a natural kind. I introduce two novel objections to this claim and recommend a distinction aimed to resolve the newly introduced problems.
Subjectivity and Fallibility in the Instrumental and Epistemic Defenses of a "Right to Do Wrong"
Creators: name: Wright, Thomas
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2010

description: An instrumental defense of a right to do wrong is plausible because we cannot directly intervene in an individual's choices so as to effectively promote that individual's moral good, if her moral good is conceived as being some form of individual autonomy. An epistemic defense is also plausible if we reorient J.S. Mill's epistemological argument for his Harm Principle in "On Liberty" to center on the agent's knowledge, rather than on the interfering observer's knowledge. Restrictions on harmless acts that are imposed because the acts are wrong are only justifiable to that individual if she herself knows that her acts are wrong. Both approaches depend upon the limited subjectivity and fallibility of the agent or interfering observer. Moreover, both approaches make the justification for a right to knowingly do wrong problematic.
Supplementary document for Vector light field display based on an intertwined flat lens with large depth of focus - 5658255.pdf
Creators: name: Zhou, Fengbin
name: Zhou, Feng
name: Chen, Yang
name: Hua, Jianyu
name: Qiao, Wen
name: Chen, Linsen
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Optical Technology

description: the supplement of data and measurement method
Dworkinian Liberalism & Gay Rights: A Defense of Same-Sex Relations
Creators: name: Bui, Ngoc
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2010

description: Recent changes in the politics of gay rights have led to a gay rights demand for liberal governments: i) decriminalization of sodomy and ii) full governmental recognition of civil, same-sex marriages. Challengers to liberalism argue that a neutral liberalism cannot satisfy the gay rights demand. I argue that the liberal political framework put forth by Ronald Dworkin can adequately fulfill the gay rights demand. Dworkinian liberalism, which is neutral with respect to the ethical life, need not be neutral with respect to moral and non-ethical values. I argue for the more modest claim that Dworkinian liberalism has the conceptual tools and principles for satisfying the gay rights demand. In arguing for my claim, I discuss the internal criticisms of Carlos Ball and Michael Sandel and the external criticism of John Finnis. I argue that these concerns are surmountable. Dworkinian liberalism is capable of offering a robust defense of same-sex relations.
Mindreading, Language and Simulation
Creators: name: DeChant, Ryan
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2010

description: Mindreading is the capacity to attribute psychological states to others and to use those attributions to explain, predict, and understand others' behaviors. In the past thirty years, mindreading has become the topic of substantial interdisciplinary research and theorizing, with philosophers, psychologists and, more recently, neuroscientists, all contributing to the debate
about the nature of the neuropsychological mechanisms that constitute the capacity for mindreading. In this thesis I push this debate forward by using recent results from developmental psychology as the basis for critiques of two prominent views of mindreading. First, I argue that the developmental studies provide evidence of infant mindreading and therefore expose a flaw in Jos‚ Berm£dez's view that certain forms of mindreading require language possession. Second, I argue that the evidence of infant mindreading can also be used to undermine Alvin Goldman's version of Simulation Theory.
Botulinum Toxin Injections to the Obliquus Capitis Inferioris Muscle for Dynamic Cervical Dystonia Improves Subjective Patient Outcomes
Creators: name: Bessemer, Robin Anne
name: Jog, Mandar
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2024

description: The obliquus capitis inferioris (OCI) muscle is a significant driver of cervical dystonia with torticaput movements and a no–no head tremor. Limited data are available on the efficacy of OCI injections on patient outcomes. Our study aims to determine whether the botulinum toxin injection into OCI improves subjective patient quality of life in those with dystonic head tremors. A retrospective chart review was performed for 25 patients receiving injections into the OCI for a dystonic head tremor at the London Movement Disorders Clinic between January 2020 and January 2022. Toronto Western Spasmodic Torticollis Scale-2 (TWSTRS-2) subscale scores for disability and pain, TWSTRS-PSYCH scores, and the global impression of severity were extracted. The average TWSTRS-2 disability subscale change was −2.8 points (p < 0.003). The average TWSTRS-2 pain subscale change was −4.6 points (p < 0.003). The average TWSTRS-PSYCH score prior to injection was 5.6. After injection, the average score was 3.7 (p < 0.004). The patient self-reported average global impression of severity before injection was 7.0; after this, it was 4.2 (p < 0.0003). The OCI injection showed significant improvement in retrospective patient self-reported outcomes; it should be considered early in the treatment plan for cervical dystonia with a no–no head tremor.
Special Problems for Democratic Government in Leveraging Cognitive Bias: Ethical, Political, and Policy Considerations for Implementing Libertarian Paternalism
Creators: name: Brown, J.
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2010

description: Humans have now amassed a sizable knowledge of widespread, nonconscious cognitive biases which affect our behavior, especially in social and economic contexts.  I contend that a democratic government is uniquely justified in using knowledge of cognitive biases to promote pro-democratic behavior, conditionally justified in using it to accomplish ends traditionally within the scope of government authority, and unjustified in using it for any other purpose.  I also contend that the government ought to redesign institutional infrastructure to avoid triggering cognitive biases where it is not permitted intentionally to manipulate such biases and to optimize the effects of such biases where permissible.  I shall use the United States of America as an example throughout, but my conclusions apply equally to any democracy which values the political autonomy of its populace.
A Fregean Response to Moore and Altman
Creators: name: Martin, Sean
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: In this paper I give a thorough account of the history of the open question argument. I have provide Moore's original impetus for it and its traditional formulation. I then examine the Cornell Realists' objection to that original formulation and showed that their objection does indeed show the open question argument to be incorrect in its conclusions. Having presented the history of the open question argument and having assessed the most challenging objections to it, I turn to Andrew Altman's powerful reconstruction of the open question argument in order to see how well, if at all, it sidesteps the objections leveled against the classical formulation. I then argue that while Altman does present the most coherent defense of the open question argument available, I conclude that insofar as he has rested upon a commitment to Carnap's philosophy of language over a Fregean semantic and an untenable rendering of post-Kripkean philosophy of language as it concerns rigid designation, we must reject his reformulation. Given that rigid designation itself undermines Altman's position, I conclude that the open question is still in need of a defense before it can regain its position as a major player in the discipline of ethics.
Hypocrisias punctatus
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Hypocrisias
Hypocrisias punctatus

description: Hypocrisias punctatus (Druce, 1884)
Purius punctatus Druce, 1884a: 100.
TYPE LOCALITY. — Guatemala, [Quetzaltenango], Las Mercedes.
TYPE SPECIMENS. — Described from 2 syntypes (BMNH).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 311, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
Self-Ownership, Freedom and Eudaimonia
Creators: name: Fox, Keith
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: In this thesis I will explore the relationship between Nozick's self-ownership principle and freedom.  I will defend G.A. Cohen's critique of self-ownership and try to show how his argument that self-ownership is hostile to genuine freedom presents a problem for Nozick.  I think it is clear that Nozick's self-ownership does little to protect a meaningful sort of freedom; and a meaningful sort of freedom is exactly what Nozick aims to protect.  This is true because eudaimonistic moral beliefs ought to undergird Nozick's self-ownership thesis, and self-ownership can therefore be assessed in light of whether it actually promotes human flourishing in the relevant ways.  This undergirding eudaimonism becomes clear when we see that self-ownership is intended to protect the ability of each individual to pursue and act upon her own conception of the good.
Providing Assurance on Scanlon's Account of Promises
Creators: name: Thomsen, Hunter
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: Thomas Scanlon provides a theory of why we ought to keep our promises according to which theÿwrong of breaking a promise is a moral wrong that does not depend on any social practice.ÿInstead a promise provides a recipient with assurance and the value of assurance establishes a moral obligation to keep our promises.ÿ However, it is often charged that theories like Scanlon'sÿare untenable because they are subject to a vicious circularity.ÿ I address some recent critics ofÿScanlon's theory, all of whom maintain that his account does not adequately show how aÿpromise provides assurance and therefore does not overcome the charge of circularity inÿexplaining why we are obligated to keep our promises.ÿ I revise Scanlon's theory and show howÿa promise can provide a recipient with assurance, demonstrating that Scanlon's account is aÿtenable theory of why we have an obligation to keep our promises.ÿ
Autonomy, De Facto And De Jure
Creators: name: Tulipana, Paul
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: On a standard philosophical conception, being autonomous is roughly equivalent to having some particular natural capacity. This paper provides argues that this conception is incorrect, or at least incomplete. The first chapter suggests that adopting an alternative conception of autonomy promises to resolve to several objections to the metaethical constitutivism, and so promises to provide highly desirable theory of moral reasons. The second chapter first motivates a broadly Kantian account of autonomous action, and then gives reasons to think that Kant's own development of this theory runs into damaging action-theoretic problems. The way to address these problems, I argue, is to modify Kant's account of autonomy in a way that leaves no room for the standard conception of autonomy to do any work.
A Low-Power, 65 nm 24.6-to-30.1 GHz Trusted LC Voltage-Controlled Oscillator Achieving 191.7 dBc/Hz FoM at 1 MHz
Creators: name: Kurtoglu, Abdullah
name: Shirazi, Amir H. M.
name: Mirabbasi, Shahriar
name: Miri Lavasani, Hossein
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2024

description: This work presents a novel trusted LC voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) with an embedded compact analog Physically Unclonable Function (PUF) used for authentication. The trusted VCO is implemented in a 1P9M 65 nm standard CMOS process and consumes 1.75 mW. It exhibits a measured phase noise (PN) of −104.8 dBc/Hz @ 1 MHz and −132.2 dBc/Hz @ 10 MHz offset, resulting in Figures of Merit (FoMs) of 191.7 dBc/Hz and 199.1 dBc/Hz, respectively. With the measured frequency tuning range (TR) of ~5.5 GHz, the FoM with tuning (FoMT) reaches 197.6 dBc/Hz and 205.0 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz and 10 MHz offset, respectively. The analog PUF consists of CMOS cross-coupled pairs in the main VCO to change analog characteristics. Benefiting from the impedance change and parasitic capacitance of the cross-coupled pairs, the AC and DC responses of the VCO are utilized for multiple responses for each input. The PUF consumes 0.83 pJ/bit when operating at 1.5 Gbps. The proposed PUF exhibits a measured Inter-Hamming Distance (HD) of 0.5058b and 0.4978b, with Intra-HD reaching 0.0055b and 0.0053b for the current consumption and fosc, respectively. The autocorrelation function (ACF) of 0.0111 and 0.0110 is obtained for the current consumption and fosc, respectively, at a 95% confidence level.
Rescuing Inclusive Legal Positivism from the Charge of Inconsistency
Creators: name: Phillips, Cindy
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: Scott Shapiro, an exclusive legal positivist, argues that inclusive legal positivism is inconsistent with the view that legal norms must conceptually provide reasons for agents of a legal system to act in specified ways. I defend inclusive legal positivism from Shapiro's charge of inconsistency.
The Promise and Limits of Natural Normativity in a Neo-Aristotelian Virtue Ethics
Creators: name: Clewell, Timothy
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: In this thesis I distinguish between two conceptions of naturalism that have been offered as possible starting points for a virtue based ethics.ÿ The first version of naturalism is characterized by Philippa Foot's project in Natural Goodness.ÿ The second version of naturalism can be found, in various forms, among the works of John McDowell, Martha Nussbaum, and Rosalind Hursthouse.ÿ I argue that neither naturalistic approach is entirely successful on its own, but that we can fruitfully carve a path between both approaches that points the way to a positive ethical account.ÿ I then conclude with a brief sketch of what such a positive account of a virtue ethics may look like.
Hypocrisias minima
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Hypocrisias
Hypocrisias minima

description: Hypocrisias minima (Neumoegen, 1883)
Halesidota minima Neumoegen, 1883b: 138.
Halisidota armillata Edwards, 1884c: 76. — Type locality: Mexico, [Veracruz], [Jalapa]. — Type specimen: Holotype male no. 33 694 (USNM).
Euhalisidota agelia Druce, 1890a: 214. — Type locality: Mexico, Jalisco. — Type specimens: Undisclosed number of syntypes (BMNH; one male syntype labeled TYPE).
TYPE LOCALITY. — [USA], Arizona, Fort Huachuca.
TYPE SPECIMENS. — Undisclosed number of male syntypes (USNM; one of the syntypes labeled TYPE).
REMARK
Reported from Mexico by Beutelspacher (1995: 397) and Ferguson et al. (2000).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 311, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
Adaptive stiffness in lattice structures through passive topology morphing
Creators: name: Sundararaman, Venkatesh
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 40
subject: Engineering

description: Structures with adaptive stiffness characteristics present an opportunity to meet competing design requirements. One approach to achieve this stiffness adaptivity is through topology reconfiguration. Here, the potential of using passive topology changes to achieve desired adaptivity is explored in three lattice structure designs. The first investigation involves a planar sinusoidal lattice with rectangle-like unit cells. Under sufficient compression, the cell walls bend and contact neighbouring cells. This self-contact establishes new load paths, thus resulting in kagome-like unit cells that exhibit an approximate four-fold increase in compressive and shear stiffness. The role of key geometric and stiffness parameters in critical regions of the design space is explored through a parametric study. Second investigation explores the bilinear elastic behaviour in cylindrical sinusoidal lattices. The topology transformation leads to an approximately four-fold in-crease in stiffness under compression. The lattice exhibits negative Poisson’s ratio with a step-change from ≈ −0.66 to ≈ −0.23 prior to and during contact formation, respectively. After contact formation, it displays a nonlinear Poisson’s ratio behaviour. A comparison with planar lattices reveals that cylindrical lattices exhibit bilinear behaviour for a wider range of geometric parameters. The third lattice utilizes simultaneous tensile buckling of unit cells to induce topology change. Under tension, the lattice transitions from a rectangle-like to a triangle-/pentagon-like unit cells with a seven-fold increase in stiffness. The initial and the new topologies are dominated by membrane effects. During the transformation phase, negative stiffness accounts for approximately 82% of the total elastic deformation. Experimental observations of prototypes, either 3D-printed or fabricated, show excellent correlation with finite element analysis. The analytical results provide valuable insights into the observed behaviours. The non-linear responses demonstrated by these proposed concepts may offer designers a new approach to tailor elastic characteristics
Nietzsche on Copernicus
Creators: name: Callahan, Shane
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: I show that we have reason to believe a view on scientific theory change can be discerned in what I call the 'Copernicus passages' of Nietzsche's published work'specifically, the incommensurability thesis.ÿ Since this view denies what Maudemarie Clark calls the 'equivalence principle,' she claims incommensurability cannot reasonably be attributed to Nietzsche.ÿ I argue, however, that we can reasonably attribute incommensurability to Nietzsche in the Copernicus passages, so my reading should not be ruled out. The first upshot to this project is that I provide a reading of passages that have received no scholarly attention to date. The second upshot is that we can understand Copernicus in light of the broader, better-known themes in Nietzsche's published work: Nietzsche's moral skepticism about the value of self-denial motivates his opposition to the ascetic ideal and to the emerging dogmas of scientists.
Graph Laplacian Diffusion Localization of Connected and Automated Vehicles
Creators: name: Piperigkos, Nikos
name: Lalos, Aris S.
name: Berberidis, Kostas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: In this paper, we design distributed multi-modal localization approaches for Connected and Automated vehicles. We utilize information diffusion on graphs formed by moving vehicles, based on Adapt-then-Combine strategies combined with the Least-Mean-Squares and the Conjugate Gradient algorithms. We treat the vehicular network as an undirected graph, where vehicles communicate with each other by means of Vehicle-to- Vehicle communication protocols. Connected vehicles perform cooperative fusion of different measurement modalities, including location and range measurements, in order to estimate both their positions and the positions of all other networked vehicles, by interacting only with their local neighborhood. The trajectories of vehicles were generated either by a well-known kinematic model, or by using the CARLA autonomous driving simulator. The various proposed distributed and diffusion localization schemes significantly reduce the GPS error and do not only converge to the global solution, but they even outperformed it. Extensive simulation studies highlight the benefits of the various approaches, outperforming the accuracy of the state of the art approaches. The impact of the network connections and the network latency are also investigated.
IMPACTS DES DIMENSIONS DU RISQUE PERÇU SUR L'ACHAT EN LIGNE : UNE APPLICATION DANS LE CONTEXTE CAMEROUNAIS
Creators: name: ANOUAZI NGUIMKENG Joly Benjamine
name: MOHAMMADOU HAMIDOU BELLO
name: ADAM BOUKAR TCHARI
name: GOUANLONG KAMGANG Nadège Ingrid
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: L'achat à partir de l'Internet représente une des plus importantes tendances du temps contemporain. Cette recherche aborde les risques perçus relatifs à l’achat en ligne dans le contexte Camerounais non, par le concept de confiance déjà largement mobilisé dans la littérature, mais par celui des facettes du risque perçu. Il s’agit du risque financier perçu, du risque de performance perçu et du risque psychologique perçu. Le modèle choisi au niveau de cette étude pour expliquer la nature de cette influence est inspiré du Modèle de l’Acceptation de la Technologie (MAT). La validation empirique du modèle a été réalisée à l’aide des méthodes de régression linéaire simple sur un échantillon de 216 adultes camerounais. Une analyse descriptive de l’échantillon a été réalisée avant tout. Nos résultats montrent que le frein à l’achat en ligne est expliqué en grande partie par le risque financier perçu, et le risque de performance perçu. Quant au risque psychologique perçu, ce dernier n’empêche pas l’achat car les consommateurs sont conscients que les avis en ligne peuvent être biaisés ou faux. Par conséquent, il ne constitue pas un véritable frein à l’achat en ligne.
The Fundamental Naturalistic Impulse: Extending the Reach of Methodological Naturalism
Creators: name: Summers, James
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: While naturalistic theories have come to dominate the philosophical landscape, there is still little consensus on what 'naturalism' means. I trace the origins of contemporary naturalism to a view, called the 'fundamental naturalistic impulse,' that originates in Quine's turn against Carnap and which I take to be necessary for naturalism. In light of this impulse, some 'substantively naturalistic' theories are examined: a weak version of non-supernaturalism, Railton's a posteriori reduction of moral terms, and 'Canberra plan' conceptual analyses of moral property terms. I suggest that if we take the fundamental naturalistic impulse seriously, then there is no need to differentiate substantive versions of naturalism over and above methodological versions. Substantive thesis in ontology or semantics can be had

on account of one's methodological commitments. This not only cuts against the distinction between methodological and substantive naturalisms, but also demonstrates just how far method can reach.
Normative Judgments, 'Deep Self' Judgments, and Intentional Action
Creators: name: Shepard, Jason
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: Sripada and Konrath (forthcoming) use Structural Equation Modeling techniques to provide empirical evidence for the claim that implicit and automatic inferences about people's dispositions, and not normative judgments, are the driving cause behind the pattern of folk judgments of intentional action in Knobe's (2003a) chairman case. However, I will argue that their evidence is not as strong as they claim due to the potential of methodological and statistical problems with the way they tested their model. After correcting for these problems, I show that even after accounting for the role of dispositional inferences, normative judgments are still playing a significant role in folk judgments of intentional action.
Considering a Human Right to Democracy
Creators: name: Geever-Ostrowsky, Jodi
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: Human rights are commonly taken to include both behavioral freedoms, such as a right to express opinions, and safeguards against the behaviors of others, such as a right not to be tortured. I examine the claim by Allen Buchanan and others that democracy should be considered a human right. I discuss what human rights are, what they do, and what they obligate moral agents to do, comparing this framework to attributes of democracy. I conclude that while democracy itself is both too nebulous and too specific to be the subject of a human right, it may be proper to speak of a human right to state self-determination.
Binary Cyclotomic Polynomials: Representation via Words and Algorithms
Creators: name: Cafure, Antonio
name: Cesaratto, Eda
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11C08, 11Y16, 05A05

description: Cyclotomic polynomials are basic objects in Number Theory. Their properties depend on the number of distinct primes that intervene in the factorization of their order, and the binary case is thus the first nontrivial case. This paper sees the vector of coefficients of the polynomial as a word on a ternary alphabet $\{-1,0 ,+1\}$. It designs an efficient algorithm that computes a compact representation of this word. This algorithm is of linear time with respect to the size of the output, and, thus, optimal. This approach allows to recover known properties of coefficients of binary cyclotomic polynomials, and extends to the case of polynomials associated with numerical semi-groups of dimension 2.
But What Kind of Badness?: An Inquiry into the Ethical Significance of Pain
Creators: name: Hookom, Andrew
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: In this thesis, I argue against a claim about pain which I call the "Minimization Thesis" or MT. According to MT, pain is objectively unconditionally intrinsically bad. Using the case of grief, I argue that although MT may be true of pain as such, it is not true of particular pains. I then turn to an examination of the justification provided by Thomas Nagle for offering the MT and find that his argument is inadequate because it depends on an implausible phenomenology of pain experience. I argue it is more plausible to claim, as Kant does, that pain has desire-conditional badness. Finally, I present a Nietzschean argument for the irreducible complexity of badness. I suggest we may be willing to concede pain's badness so readily only because it has not been specified what kind of badness it actually has.
Supplementary document for The inner mechanism of Pr³+ luminescence thermometers based on intervalence charge transfer state - 5658389.pdf
Creators: name: Tang, Wei
name: Zuo, Chuandong
name: Li, Yingkui
name: Ma, Chaoyang
name: yuan, xuanyi
name: Cao, Yongge
name: Wen, Zicheng
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document
Nietzsche's Causally Efficacious Account of Consciousness
Creators: name: Wissmueller, Bradley
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description:  Many interpreters read Nietzsche as an epiphenomenalist.ÿ This means that, contrary to everyday 'felt' experience, consciousness has no causal influence on our actions.ÿ In the first half of this paper I show that an epiphenomenalist interpretation proposed by Brian Leiter is unsupported by Nietzsche's texts.ÿ Further, contemporary research does not conclusively support epiphenomenalism, as Leiter claims.ÿ In the second half of the paper I present the novel, causally efficacious view of consciousness that is supported by Nietzsche's texts.ÿ This view of consciousness does not present consciousness as a self-caused faculty that is in some way separate from the rest of our mind and body, but rather views consciousness as a non-essential property of certain mental states. I trace the development of this idea through two key passages and show that, in the danger it presents as well as in the promise, consciousness is clearly causally efficacious.
Dignified Animals: How "Non-Kantian" is Nussbaum's Conception of Dignity?
Creators: name: Leukam, Mary
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: Martha Nussbaum's conception of dignity is integral to her capabilities approach. She argues that dignity is rooted in the flourishing and striving of animals. ÿHer view is distinct from Kant's, as Kant claims that persons have dignity in virtue of their rational nature. ÿThough Nussbaum's conception of dignity is important to her approach, its exact content and its relation to her thought is not clearly stated in her work, and I will attempt to provide an overview of Nussbaum's conception of dignity. ÿAlso I will compare and contrast Nussbaum's dignity with Kant's (and contemporary Kantians'). ÿNussbaum provides four reasons for why her approach is superior to the Kantian split between rationality and animality, all of which I will examine. ÿFinally, I will look at three areas of Nussbaum's theory which require further exploration.
Hypocrisias lua
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Hypocrisias
Hypocrisias lua

description: Hypocrisias lua (Dyar, 1910)
Halesidota lua Dyar, 1910b: 234.
TYPE LOCALITY. — Mexico, [Mexico], Zacualpan.
TYPE SPECIMEN. — Holotype male no. 12 829 (USNM).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 311, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
Characterising Topic Familiarity and Query Specificity Using Eye-Tracking Data
Creators: name: He, Jiaman
name: Leng, Zikang
name: McKay, Dana
name: Trippas, Johanne R.
name: Spina, Damiano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Eye-tracking data has been shown to correlate with a user's knowledge level and query formulation behaviour. While previous work has focused primarily on eye gaze fixations for attention analysis, often requiring additional contextual information, our study investigates the memory-related cognitive dimension by relying solely on pupil dilation and gaze velocity to infer users' topic familiarity and query specificity without needing any contextual information. Using eye-tracking data collected via a lab user study (N=18), we achieved a Macro F1 score of 71.25% for predicting topic familiarity with a Gradient Boosting classifier, and a Macro F1 score of 60.54% with a k-nearest neighbours (KNN) classifier for query specificity. Furthermore, we developed a novel annotation guideline -- specifically tailored for question answering -- to manually classify queries as Specific or Non-specific. This study demonstrates the feasibility of eye-tracking to better understand topic familiarity and query specificity in search.
The Role of Poetry and Language in Hegel's Philosophy of Art
Creators: name: Griffin, Daniel
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: Hegel's view of poetry clarifies the overall role of language in his system and allows him to makes sense of a difficult linguistic issue: how to distinguish between poetry and prose.ÿ For Hegel, this distinction is crucial because it illuminates the different ways poetry and prose allow us to understand ourselves as members of an ethical community.ÿ In this paper, I argue, using Hegel, that the distinction between poetry and prose can only properly be understood in terms of their fundamentally different kinds of content instead of in terms of any formal differences between the two.ÿ Then, I address an objection to Hegel by Paul de Man which uses Hegel's concept of memory to collapse the distinction between poetry and philosophical prose.ÿ Finally, I argue that Hegel can respond to this objection by showing how de Man misunderstands how philosophical thought conceptually develops from memory.
The Many Faces of Besire Theory
Creators: name: Edwards, Gary
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: In this paper, I analyze the concept of a besire.ÿ I argue that distinguishing between different types and interpretations of besires is a critical tool for adequately assessing besire theories of moral judgment. ÿI argue for this by applying the results of this conceptual analysis of a besire to David Brink's version of the moral problem and to objections against besire theories made by Michael Smith, Simon Blackburn, and Nick Zangwill.ÿ
Relative heat content asymptotics for sub-Riemannian manifolds
Creators: name: Agrachev, Andrei
name: Rizzi, Luca
name: Rossi, Tommaso
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35R01, 53C17, 58J60

description: The relative heat content associated with a subset $Ω\subset M$ of a sub-Riemannian manifold, is defined as the total amount of heat contained in $Ω$ at time $t$, with uniform initial condition on $Ω$, allowing the heat to flow outside the domain. In this work, we obtain a fourth-order asymptotic expansion in square root of $t$ of the relative heat content associated with relatively compact non-characteristic domains. Compared to the classical heat content that we studied in [Rizzi, Rossi - J. Math. Pur. Appl., 2021], several difficulties emerge due to the absence of Dirichlet conditions at the boundary of the domain. To overcome this lack of information, we combine a rough asymptotic for the temperature function at the boundary, coupled with stochastic completeness of the heat semi-group. Our technique applies to any (possibly rank-varying) sub-Riemannian manifold that is globally doubling and satisfies a global weak Poincaré inequality, including in particular sub-Riemannian structures on compact manifolds and Carnot groups.
description: 44 pages, v2: final version to appear in Anal. PDE
Non-Cooperative Communication and the Origins of Human Language
Creators: name: Beighley, Steven
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2011

description: Grice (1982) and Bar-On and Green (2010) each provide 'continuity stories' which attempt to explain how a human-like language could emerge from the primitive communication practices of non-human animals.  I offer desiderata for a proper account of linguistic continuity in order to argue that these previous accounts fall short in important ways.  I then introduce the recent evolutionary literature on non-cooperative communication in order to construct a continuity story which better satisfies the proposed desiderata while retaining the positive aspects of the proposals of Grice and Bar-On and Green.  The outcome of this project is a more tenable and empirically investigable framework chronicling the evolution of human-like language from communicative abilities currently found in non-human animals.