cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Pathfinder first light: alignment, calibration, and commissioning of the LINC-NIRVANA ground-layer adaptive optics subsystem
Creators: name: Kopon, Derek
name: Conrad, Al
name: Arcidiacono, Carmelo
name: Herbst, Tom
name: Viotto, Valentina
name: Farinato, Jacopo
name: Bergomi, Maria
name: Ragazzoni, Roberto
name: Marafatto, Luca
name: Baumeister, Harald
name: Bertram, Thomas
name: Berwein, Jürgen
name: Briegel, Florian
name: Hofferbert, Ralph
name: Kittmann, Frank
name: Kürster, Martin
name: Mohr, Lars
name: Radhakrishnan, Kalyan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present descriptions of the alignment and calibration tests of the Pathfinder, which achieved first light during our 2013 commissioning campaign at the LBT. The full LINC-NIRVANA instrument is a Fizeau interferometric imager with fringe tracking and 2-layer natural guide star multi-conjugate adaptive optics (MCAO) systems on each eye of the LBT. The MCAO correction for each side is achieved using a ground layer wavefront sensor that drives the LBT adaptive secondary mirror and a mid-high layer wavefront sensor that drives a Xinetics 349 actuator DM conjugated to an altitude of 7.1 km. When the LINC-NIRVANA MCAO system is commissioned, it will be one of only two such systems on an 8-meter telescope and the only such system in the northern hemisphere. In order to mitigate risk, we take a modular approach to commissioning by decoupling and testing the LINC-NIRVANA subsystems individually. The Pathfinder is the ground-layer wavefront sensor for the DX eye of the LBT. It uses 12 pyramid wavefront sensors to optically co-add light from natural guide stars in order to make four pupil images that sense ground layer turbulence. Pathfinder is now the first LINC-NIRVANA subsystem to be fully integrated with the telescope and commissioned on sky. Our 2013 commissioning campaign consisted of 7 runs at the LBT with the tasks of assembly, integration and communication with the LBT telescope control system, alignment to the telescope optical axis, off-sky closed loop AO calibration, and finally closed loop on-sky AO. We present the programmatics of this campaign, along with the novel designs of our alignment scheme and our off-sky calibration test, which lead to the Pathfinder's first on-sky closed loop images.
title: Senso e immagine
Creators: name: D’Oriano , Pietro
Publisher: name: Roma Tre-Press
Year: 2011

description: Frege, in Das Gedanke, scrive che la «la parola "vero" indica alla logica la direzione, così come "bello" la indica all'estetica e "buono" all'etica». Tuttavia questa affermazione pone il problema, affrontato nel presente contributo, della precomprensione della parola "vero". Si vedrà come l'analisi di questa parola renda possibile stare contemporaneamente dentro e fuori il linguaggio.

description: B@belonline vol. 10/11 Pensare con Jean-Luc Nancy
Community Building Concept
Creators: name: Bye, Bente
name: Kolitzus, David
name: Charvat, Karel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: The Community building concept gives guidance to the different stakeholder groups and offers ideas on how-to connect the various communities within the EO4AGRI stakeholder groups. Creating continuity and sustainability of the many communities within agriculture is a challenge. A particular challenge is to create a space for communication across the stakeholder groups so that unnecessary overlaps can be avoided, and synergies made fruitful. The Community building concept document contains descriptions of the stakeholder groups, identifies their challenges and interests as well as describe the different actors within the stakeholder communities. Existing communities within the stakeholder groups typically have well established activities. The concept takes this information as a starting point in order to be relevant and to engage the right actor addressing the pain point and interests at the highest granularity. The INSPIRE hackathon concept is a useful already established strategy to ensure continuity and sustainability of the results made by the participants and organizers prior to a hackathon event, but also the results from each of the events. It can be said that the INSPIRE hackathon is not an event, it is a movement. In addition to this feature of the INSPIRE hackathon concept, the hackathons are particularly well suited for cross-disciplinary collaboration and exchange of information. This is true also for cross regional collaboration. Some stakeholder communities will not identify or thrive in a hackathon, and this Community building concept contains descriptions or suggestions for how to create interesting meetings or activities for these communities, with a view to expand their interaction with other stakeholder groups/sub communities. This document concludes with a simple guidance for hackathons, it contains information about the main challenges and the areas of interest for the stakeholder groups so that the chosen format of engagement is made relevant to address the concerns of the community. It is through engagement one builds communities. This document will be updated to include the learnt experiences along the way.
OAHP Inventory, Building 2062 General Storehouse, Fort Sam Houston, Texas
Creators: name: Walter, Chelsea
Publisher: name: Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation, Department of the Interior
Year: 1978
Subjects: subject: Fort Sam Houston
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/83681/fort-sam-houston
subject: San Antonio
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/4149/san-antonio
subject: Bexar (County)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/4150/bexar-county
subject: Texas
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/6923/texas
subject: Historic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/25/historic
subject: Governmental Structure
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/318/governmental-structure
subject: Historic Governmental Structure
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/320/historic-governmental-structure
subject: Non-Domestic Structures
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/309/non-domestic-structures
subject: OAHP
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/138292/oahp
subject: General Storehouse
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/153718/general-storehouse
subject: Building 2062
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/146524/building-2062
subject: Architectural Documentation
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/16/architectural-documentation
subject: Historic Background Research
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/18/historic-background-research
subject: Architectural Survey
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/2/architectural-survey
subject: Heritage Management
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/24/heritage-management

description: An inventory form by the Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation for Building 2062 at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. The structure was built in 1944 and now serves as a general storehouse.
Stochastic Operator Variance: an observable to diagnose noise and scrambling
Creators: name: Martinez-Azcona, Pablo
name: Kundu, Aritra
name: del Campo, Adolfo
name: Chenu, Aurelia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Noise is ubiquitous in nature, so it is essential to characterize its effects. Considering a fluctuating Hamiltonian, we introduce an observable, the stochastic operator variance (SOV), which measures the spread of different stochastic trajectories in the space of operators. The SOV obeys an uncertainty relation and allows finding the initial state that minimizes the spread of these trajectories. We show that the dynamics of the SOV is intimately linked to that of out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs), which define the quantum Lyapunov exponent $λ$. Our findings are illustrated analytically and numerically in a stochastic Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick (sLMG) Hamiltonian undergoing energy dephasing.
description: 5+8 pages, 3+4 figures. v2: version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett
Writhe-induced knotting in a lattice polymer
Creators: name: Dagrosa, E
name: Owczarek, A L
name: Prellberg, T
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a simple lattice model of a topological phase transition in open polymers. To be precise, we study a model of self-avoiding walks on the simple cubic lattice tethered to a surface and weighted by an appropriately defined writhe. We also consider the effect of pulling the untethered end of the polymer from the surface. Regardless of the force we find a first-order phase transition which we argue is a consequence of increased knotting in the lattice polymer, rather than due to other effects such as the formation of plectonemes.
description: 16 pages, 9 figures
Cancer and other causes of death among a cohort of dry cleaners.
Creators: name: Vaught, J.
name: Tolbert, P. E.
name: Rayner, J.
name: Moran, F. X.
name: Stewart, P. A.
name: Blair, A.
name: Grauman, D.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1990

description: Mortality among 5365 members of a dry cleaning union in St Louis, Missouri, was less than expected for all causes combined (SMR = 0·9) but slightly raised for cancer (SMR = 1·2). Among the cancers, statistically significant excesses occurred for oesophagus (SMR = 2·1) and cervix (SMR = 1·7) and non-significant excesses for larynx (SMR = 1·6), lung (SMR = 1·3), bladder (SMR = 1·7), thyroid (SMR = 3·3), lymphosarcoma and reticulosarcoma (SMR = 1·7), and Hodgkin's disease (SMR = 2·1). Mortality from emphysema was also significantly raised (SMR = 2·0). Eleven of the 13 deaths from oesophageal cancer occurred among black men. The risk of this cancer showed a significant association with estimated cumulative exposure to dry cleaning solvents (rising to 2·8-fold in the highest category) but not with level or duration of exposure. Mortality from kidney cancer was not excessive as reported in other studies. Excesses for emphysema and cancers of the larynx, lung, oesophagus, bladder, and cervix may be related to socioeconomic status, tobacco, or alcohol use. Although the number of deaths was small, the greatest risk for cancers of the lymphatic and haematopoietic system (fourfold) occurred among workers likely to have held jobs where exposures were the heaviest. Small numbers and limited information on exposure to specific substances complicates interpretation of this association but is unlikely to be due to confounding by tobacco use. It was not possible to identify workers exposed to specific dry cleaning solvents but mortality among those entering the union after 1960, when use of perchloroethylene was predominant, was similar to those entering before 1960.
Magneto-exciton limit of quantum Hall breakdown in graphene
Creators: name: Schmitt, A.
name: Rosticher, M.
name: Taniguchi, T.
name: Watanabe, K.
name: Fève, G.
name: Berroir, J-M.
name: Ménard, G.
name: Voisin, C.
name: Goerbig, M. O.
name: Plaçais, B.
name: Baudin, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the intrinsic drift velocity limit of the quantum Hall effect is the collective magneto-exciton (ME) instability. It has been demonstrated in bilayer graphene (BLG) using noise measurements. We reproduce this experiment in monolayer graphene (MLG), and show that the same mechanism carries a direct relativistic signature on the breakdown velocity. Based on theoretical calculations of MLG- and BLG-ME spectra, we show that Doppler-induced instabilities manifest for a ME phase velocity determined by a universal value of the ME conductivity, set by the Hall conductance.
description: 27 pages, 11 figures including supplementary information (14 pages and 3 figures for the main text alone)
Numerical simulation of moving rigid body in rarefied gases
Creators: name: Shrestha, Samir
name: Tiwari, Sudarshan
name: Klar, Axel
name: Hardt, Steffen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65C05, 65C30, 74F10

description: In this paper we present a numerical scheme to simulate a moving rigid body with arbitrary shape suspended in a rarefied gas. The rarefied gas is simulated by solving the Boltzmann equation using a DSMC particle method. The motion of the rigid body is governed by the Newton-Euler equations, where the force and the torque on the rigid body is computed from the momentum transfer of the gas molecules colliding with the body. On the other hand, the motion of the rigid body influences the gas flow in its surroundings. We validate the numerical results by testing the Einstein relation for Brownian motion of the suspended particle. The translational as well as the rotational degrees of freedom are taken into account. It is shown that the numerically computed translational and rotational diffusion coefficients converge to the theoretical values.
description: 16 pages, 8 figures
Residual cognitive deficits 50 years after lead poisoning during childhood.
Creators: name: Morey, C.
name: Diamond, R.
name: White, R. F.
name: Proctor, S.
name: Hu, H.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1993

description: The long term neurobehavioural consequences of childhood lead poisoning are not known. In this study adult subjects with a documented history of lead poisoning before age 4 and matched controls were examined with an abbreviated battery of neuropsychological tests including measures of attention, reasoning, memory, motor speed, and current mood. The subjects exposed to lead were inferior to controls on almost all of the cognitive tasks. This pattern of widespread deficits resembles that found in children evaluated at the time of acute exposure to lead rather than the more circumscribed pattern typically seen in adults exposed to lead. Despite having completed as many years of schooling as controls, the subjects exposed to lead were lower in lifetime occupational status. Within the exposed group, performance on the neuropsychological battery and occupational status were related, consistent with the presumed impact of limitations in neuropsychological functioning on everyday life. The results suggest that many subjects exposed to lead suffered acute encephalopathy in childhood which resolved into a chronic subclinical encephalopathy with associated cognitive dysfunction still evident in adulthood. These findings lend support to efforts to limit exposure to lead in childhood.
Supporting healthy outcomes in individuals with FASD: How do professional psychology programs across Canada support FASD-related learning?
Creators: Heath, Devon S.
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2022

Psychologists have a unique role in diagnosing, assessing, and providing intervention for a variety of disorders, including fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD), a complex disorder that affects individuals prenatally exposed to alcohol. Each individual with FASD is unique. Thus, it is imperative that psychologists are well-equipped with FASD-related knowledge, so that they can provide the best evidence-based care. Previous research has found that psychologists around the world feel unprepared to support individuals with FASD, and that they did not receive FASD-related training in graduate school. Therefore, the current study aimed to get a first look into the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of faculty members in professional psychology programs across Canada using a Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices survey. The results demonstrated unbalanced FASD-related knowledge; participants answered fact-based questions accurately but had difficulties with more nuanced questions about clinical outcomes and prevalence. Most participants endorsed the importance of teaching students about FASD, but they did not feel adequately prepared to teach it or that they have enough time. Additionally, FASD was the least taught disorder compared to other disorders in the same diagnostic category (e.g., autism, ADHD, learning disorders). It is imperative to support faculty members in their FASD-related knowledge and attitudes so that professional psychology students receive high quality training for clinical practice with this complex and systematically marginalized population.
Visualizing near-coexistence of massless Dirac electrons and ultra-massive saddle point electrons
Creators: name: Nayak, Abhay Kumar
name: Reiner, Jonathan
name: Tan, Hengxin
name: Fu, Huixia
name: Ling, Henry
name: Shekhar, Chandra
name: Felser, Claudia
name: Pereg-Barnea, Tami
name: Yan, Binghai
name: Beidenkopf, Haim
name: Avraham, Nurit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Strong singularities in the electronic density of states amplify correlation effects and play a key role in determining the ordering instabilities in various materials. Recently high order van Hove singularities (VHSs) with diverging power-law scaling have been classified in single-band electron models. We show that the 110 surface of Bismuth exhibits high order VHS with an usually high density of states divergence $\sim (E)^{-0.7}$. Detailed mapping of the surface band structure using scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy combined with first-principles calculations show that this singularity occurs in close proximity to Dirac bands located at the center of the surface Brillouin zone. The enhanced power-law divergence is shown to originate from the anisotropic flattening of the Dirac band just above the Dirac node. Such near-coexistence of massless Dirac electrons and ultra-massive saddle points enables to study the interplay of high order VHS and Dirac fermions.
BioPreDyn-bench: benchmark problems for kinetic modelling in systems biology
Creators: name: Villaverde, Alejandro F
name: Henriques, David
name: Smallbone, Kieran
name: Bongard, Sophia
name: Schmid, Joachim
name: Cicin-Sain, Damjan
name: Crombach, Anton
name: Saez-Rodriguez, Julio
name: Mauch, Klaus
name: Balsa-Canto, Eva
name: Mendes, Pedro
name: Jaeger, Johannes
name: Banga, Julio R
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: Molecular Networks (q-bio.MN)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: G.1.6; J.3
subject: 92-08

description: Dynamic modelling is one of the cornerstones of systems biology. Many research efforts are currently being invested in the development and exploitation of large-scale kinetic models. The associated problems of parameter estimation (model calibration) and optimal experimental design are particularly challenging. The community has already developed many methods and software packages which aim to facilitate these tasks. However, there is a lack of suitable benchmark problems which allow a fair and systematic evaluation and comparison of these contributions. Here we present BioPreDyn-bench, a set of challenging parameter estimation problems which aspire to serve as reference test cases in this area. This set comprises six problems including medium and large-scale kinetic models of the bacterium E. coli, baker's yeast S. cerevisiae, the vinegar fly D. melanogaster, Chinese Hamster Ovary cells, and a generic signal transduction network. The level of description includes metabolism, transcription, signal transduction, and development. For each problem we provide (i) a basic description and formulation, (ii) implementations ready-to-run in several formats, (iii) computational results obtained with specific solvers, (iv) a basic analysis and interpretation. This suite of benchmark problems can be readily used to evaluate and compare parameter estimation methods. Further, it can also be used to build test problems for sensitivity and identifiability analysis, model reduction and optimal experimental design methods. The suite, including codes and documentation, can be freely downloaded from http://www.iim.csic.es/%7egingproc/biopredynbench/.
Towards Reconstructing Non-rigidity from Single Camera
Creators: name: Wang, Chaoyang
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Computer Vision

description: In this document, we study how to infer 3D from images captured by a single camera, without assuming the target scenes / objects being static. The non-static setting makes our problem ill-posed and challenging to solve, but is vital in practical applications where target-of-interest is non-static. To solve ill-posed problems, the current trend in the field is to learn inference models e.g. neural networks on datasets with labeled groundtruth. Instead, we attempt a data-less approach without requiring datasets with 3D annotations. This poor man’s approach is beneficial to tasks which lack well annotated datasets. Our works are grouped into two parts. (i) We first introduce our series of works on non-rigid structure from motion (NR-SfM) and its application to learn 3D landmark detectors with only 2D landmark annotations. Our general framework is a two stage approach – we design a novel NR-SfM module to reconstruct shape and camera poses from input 2D landmarks, and then these are used to teach a neural network to detect 3D landmarks from image inputs. We propose techniques to make the NR-SfM module scalable to large datasets and robust to missing data. We also propose a new loss to let the 3D landmark detector learn more efficiently from the NR-SfM module. (ii) We then present works on reconstructing dense dynamic scenes. Dense reconstruction is challenging for NR-SfM algorithms mainly due to the difficulty in getting reliable long-term correspondences for every pixel. On the other hand, being able to reconstruct every pixel of the scene is necessary for applications like novel view synthesis. Therefore, we investigate solutions without the need for long-term correspondences. As a preliminary exploration, we first take a data-driven approach, by collecting videos from Internet and train a depth estimation network. Despite the simplicity of this approach, it lacks geometric reasoning and consequently limited in its generalizability. We then explore an analysis-by-synthesis approach, where we leverage recent advances in differentiable neural rendering and represent dynamic scenes using deformable neural radiance fields (D-NeRF). Prior D-NeRF-based methods only use photometric loss for optimization, which we find is not sufficient to recover rapid object motions. We present a new method for D-NeRFs that can directly use optical flow as supervision. We overcome the major challenge with respect to the computational inefficiency of enforcing the flow constraints to the deformation field used by D-NeRFs. We present results on novel view synthesis with rapid object motion, and demonstrate significant improvements over baselines without flow supervision.
BRST-BV approach for interacting higher spin fields
Creators: name: Reshetnyak, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: G.0
subject: 81T11, 37J05, 37J15, 46L65, 46L60, 47L55, 70G60, 81T10, 70S05, 37K05, 70S15, 81T13, 81T18

description: We develop the BRST-BV approach to construct the general off-shell Lorentz covariant cubic, quartic, $e$-tic interaction vertices for irreducible higher spin fields on $d$-dimensional Minkowski space. We consider two different cases for interacting integer higher spin fields both with massless and with massive fields. The deformation procedure to find minimal (determined with help of generalized Hilbert space) BRST-BV action for interacting higher spin fields is based on the preservation of master equation validity in each power of coupling constant $g$ starting from the Lagrangian formulation for free gauge theory. As examples we consider the construction of local cubic vertices for $k$ irreducible massless fields of integer helicities, and $k-1$ massless with one massive fields of spins $s_1, ,..., s_{k-1}, s_k$. For triple of two massless scalars and tensor field of integer spin the BRST-BV action with cubic interaction is explicitly found. Unlike the previous results on cubic vertices we follow our result for BRST approach [arXiv:2105.12030[hep-th]] for massless fields, but for the unique BRST-BV action instead of classical action with reducible gauge transformations. The procedure is based on the complete BRST operator, including the trace constraints that is used to formulate an irreducible representation with definite integer spin.
description: 26 pages, 2 references, acknowledgments added, comments on single vertex added, contribution for Proceedings of the VII Conference "Models in Quantum Field Theory" (MQFT-2022), Saint Petersburg, Russia (10-14 October 2022), accepted for publication in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2212.07097
Implementation of Tic-Tac-Toe Game in LabVIEW
Creators: name: Thota, Lalitha Saroja
name: Elsayeed, Manal
name: Shaik, Naseema
name: Ghawa, Tayf Abdullah
name: Rashed, Ahlam
name: Refdan, Mona
name: Mohammed, Wejdan
name: Ali, Rawan
name: Changalasetty, Suresh Babu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Other Computer Science (cs.OH)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Tic-Tac-Toe game can be played by two players where the square block (3 x 3) can be filled with a cross (X) or a circle (O). The game will toggle between the players by giving the chance for each player to mark their move. When one of the players make a combination of 3 same markers in a horizontal, vertical or diagonal line the program will display which player has won, whether X or O. In this paper, we implement a 3x3 tic-tac-toe game in LabVIEW. The game is designed so that two players can play tic-tac-toe using LabVIEW software. The program will contain a display function and a select function to place the symbol as well as toggle between the symbols allowing each player a turn to play the game. The program will update after each player makes their move and check for the conditions of game as it goes on. Overall program works without any bugs and is able to use
description: 7 pages, 17 figures, Published with International Journal of Computer Trends and Technology (IJCTT)"
Two-dimensional carrier gas at a polar interface without surface band gap states: A first-principles perspective
Creators: name: Brivio, Federico
name: Rappe, Andrew
name: Kronik, Leeor
name: Ritter, Dan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present first-principles calculations of the interface between GaN and strained AlN, using a slab model in which polarization is compensated via surface fractional-charge pseudo-hydrogen atoms. We show that an interface two-dimensional carrier electron or hole gas emerges naturally in response to different compensating surface charges, but that this need not involve in-gap surface states.
Rediscovering Agency: A Feminist Perspective of Alice Munro’s Writing in Translation
Creators: Antonova, Anna
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2022

This study focuses on the scope, limits, and implications of literary translators’ agency, exploring the gendered aspects of the translators’ creative projects and their impact on the cultural transfer outcomes in the context of Alice Munro’s writing translated into Russian, Ukrainian, and German. The corpus consists of six short stories from the writer’s two collections Too Much Happiness (“Child’s Play” and “Too Much Happiness,” 2009) and Dear Life (“The Eye,” “Night,” “Voices,” and “Dear Life,” 2013), representing the work of four translators: Heidi Zerning (German), Ievheniia Kononenko (Ukrainian), Andrei Stepanov (Russian), and Tat’iana Borovikova (Russian).

The theoretical approach underlying this study builds on Itamar Even-Zohar’s and Gideon Toury’s polysystem theory, feminist translation theories (Barbara Godard; Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood; Luise von Flotow; Sherry Simon), and Antoine Berman’s positive criticism model to address the issues of intercultural power dynamics in literary translation and the concepts of translators’ agency and visibility, with their potentialities and constraints, for the purpose of foregrounding the existing gaps between contemporary translation scholarship and real-life translating practices. On the basis of this theoretical position, the study proposes a translator-centred analytical methodology, grounded in Berman’s model and combining textual and extratextual aspects. Within this framework, the overview of Munro’s source texts, which suggests their feminist reading as an analytical benchmark, is followed by the contrastive analysis of the target texts, with primary emphasis on the translators’ positions, cultural horizons, and creative projects—particularly as regards their treatment of gender and textual representations of femininity. The last methodological stage examines the available translation paratexts, including peritextual framing, translator-authored and related epitexts, the translators’ first-hand comments, and literary reviews to establish the interconnections between the translating projects and their critical reception.

Above all, the study highlights multiple contextual constraints faced by the translators, as well as both transformative and problematic implications of their agency, resulting in diverging representations of gender, culture-specific tensions between the translation projects, and their various impacts on the cultural transfer processes. At the same time, the study argues for wider institutional support and visibility of translators as a way towards their greater empowerment, accountability, and authority.
The Experiences of Camouflaging in Canadian Autistic Women
Creators: Denomey, Nicholas
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2022

The phenomena of quality of life and camouflaging of autistic individuals have garnered significant attention from academic researchers over the past decade; however, the impact of

camouflaging on the quality of life of Canadian autistic women has seldom been assessed. Camouflaging, also referred to as masking, is often used by autistic and non-autistic individuals

in an attempt to blend into their social environments, such as by mimicking the behaviours or appearance of others (Hull et al., 2017). Despite literature highlighting the benefits of including the female autistic voice in research, research acknowledging autistic lived experience as expertise is rare (Howard et al., 2019). The present qualitative study aims to understand further the experiences of camouflaging and the implications camouflaging may have on the quality of life of autistic women. Five cis-gendered Canadian autistic women were purposely sampled and interviewed about their camouflaging experiences and the perceived impact of those experiences on their quality of life. Responses were recorded, transcribed, and analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis to develop themes that address the study's research purpose. The participants described their camouflaging experiences as adaptive, variable, and dependent on degrees of external and internal acceptance of autism. Additionally, the decision to camouflage or not has both benefits and challenges that impact the participants' social, physical, psychological, and environmental quality of life. The findings provide an enhanced understanding of the complexity associated with individual experiences of camouflaging and its impacts on various domains of quality of life. These results inform new understandings of the lived experiences of autistic women highlighting potential avenues for re-allocated supports and more autistic-female-focused programs that address low quality of life.
Nonlinear Dispersion Relation and Out-of-Plane Second Harmonic Generation in MoSSe and WSSe Janus Monolayers
Creators: name: Petrić, Marko M.
name: Villafañe, Viviana
name: Herrmann, Paul
name: Mhenni, Amine Ben
name: Qin, Ying
name: Sayyad, Yasir
name: Shen, Yuxia
name: Tongay, Sefaattin
name: Müller, Kai
name: Soavi, Giancarlo
name: Finley, Jonathan J.
name: Barbone, Matteo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Janus transition metal dichalcogenides are an emerging class of atomically thin materials with engineered broken mirror symmetry that gives rise to long-lived dipolar excitons, Rashba splitting, and topologically protected solitons. They hold great promise as a versatile nonlinear optical platform due to their broadband harmonic generation tunability, ease of integration on photonic structures, and nonlinearities beyond the basal crystal plane. Here, we study second and third harmonic generation in MoSSe and WSSe Janus monolayers. We use polarization-resolved spectroscopy to map the full second-order susceptibility tensor of MoSSe, including its out-of-plane components. In addition, we measure the effective third-order susceptibility, and the second-order nonlinear dispersion close to exciton resonances for both MoSSe and WSSe at room and cryogenic temperatures. Our work sets a bedrock for understanding the nonlinear optical properties of Janus transition metal dichalcogenides and probing their use in the next-generation on-chip multifaceted photonic devices.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures. SI: 8 pages, 5 figures
Vulnerability of Cyber-Physical Systems to Optimal Stealthy Deterministic Attack Strategies
Creators: Cheng, Ziyi
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2022

Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) are an emerging technology with the potential to be transformational in the field of systems and control. They combine wireless and virtual components with physical infrastructure to create systems that are more adaptable, scalable, and resilient than their traditional counterparts. Unfortunately, the connections in these wireless networks may be vulnerable to attacks from hostile adversaries that seek to impair the system. This is why the security of CPSs has become a popular area of research in the past decade. Development of effective countermeasures requires a solid understanding of potential vulnerabilities, so it is necessary to study how attackers could successfully degrade system performance while remaining undetected.

Two deterministic attack models with different stealthiness conditions are considered. First of all, we study the properties and optimization of strictly stealthy attacks that cannot be detected by output and innovation-based detectors on CPSs. These attacks may target both actuator and sensor communication channels with the goal of impairing system performance. We provide a necessary and sufficient condition for a system to be susceptible to a strictly stealthy attack of any given time length. Furthermore, we analytically derive the optimal attack out of all possible strictly stealthy attacks with a particular length based on an energy constraint and a summation-based quadratic objective function.

Secondly, we examine optimal stealthy attacks that utilize a relaxed stealthiness condition. This condition ensures that the attacks are difficult for any innovation-based detectors to perceive. In order to determine the maximum performance degradation that the attacks may cause, a general optimization problem that can be solved numerically is formulated for a finite attack length. For non-divergent systems over an infinite horizon, the optimal constant and alternating attacks are derived analytically for any system configuration. Characteristics of a novel low-dimensional sinusoidal class of attacks are investigated and procedures for optimization are given. Furthermore, a condition is provided for constant and alternating attacks to be superior to most or all sinusoidal attacks. A mechanism to compare deterministic and stochastic attacks is also presented.

Finally, we illustrate the theoretical results using several numerical examples to demonstrate the effectiveness of the designed attacks.
title: Pensare con Nancy. Un “Essere-in-comune” tra singolarità
Creators: name: Dovolich , Claudia
Publisher: name: Roma Tre-Press
Year: 2011

description: Le note contenute in questo contributo vogliono mettere a fuoco alcuni dei nodi centrali della congiunzione/disgiunzione tra alcune delle nozioni che nel recente passato Nancy ha donato alla filosofia, offrendo spunti per un ripensamento radicale della nostra tradizione, rendendo incandescenti alcune delle parole-chiave del dibattito attuale. Muovendo dalla decostruzione della nozione di soggetto, all'interno del contesto più vasto e articolato del pensiero della differenza, Nancy colloca immediatamente la sua riflessione sul margine tra l'etico e il politico, risvegliando l'interesse per la comunità, per il corpo e per la libertà.

description: B@belonline vol. 10/11 Pensare con Jean-Luc Nancy
Does the Jet Production Efficiency of Radio Galaxies Control Their Optical AGN Types?
Creators: name: Trippe, Sascha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The jet production efficiency of radio galaxies can be quantified by comparison of their kinetic jet powers P_jet and Bondi accretion powers P_B. These two parameters are known to be related linearly, with the jet power resulting from the Bondi power by multiplication with an efficiency factor of order 1%. Using a recently published (Nemmen + Tchekhovskoy 2014) high-quality sample of 27 radio galaxies, I construct a P_B-P_jet diagram that includes information on optical AGN types as far as available. This diagram indicates that the jet production efficiency is a function of AGN type: Seyfert 2 galaxies seem to be systematically (with a false alarm probability of 0.043%) less efficient, by about one order of magnitude, in powering jets than Seyfert 1 galaxies, LINERs, or the remaining radio galaxies. This suggests an evolutionary sequence from Sy2s to Sy1s and LINERs, controlled by an interplay of jets on the one hand and dust and gas in galactic nuclei on the other hand. When taking this effect into account, the P_B-P_jet relation is probably much tighter intrinsically than currently assumed.
description: 3 pages, 1 figure, 1 table. JKAS Rapid Communication, in press (received: 2014 August 11; accepted: 2014 August 22; to appear in 2014 August 31 issue)
Letter from Richard Trevino to Mark Wolfe, Documentation for Proposed Additions to Building 500, Randolph Air Force Base, Texas
Creators: name: Trevino, Richard
Publisher: name: Department of the Air Force, Air Education and Training Command
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Randolph Field Historic Landmark District
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/83364/randolph-field-historic-landmark-district
subject: San Antonio
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/4149/san-antonio
subject: Texas
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/6923/texas
subject: Randolph Air Force Base
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/78971/randolph-air-force-base
subject: Historic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/25/historic
subject: Governmental Structure
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/318/governmental-structure
subject: Historic Governmental Structure
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/320/historic-governmental-structure
subject: Non-Domestic Structures
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/309/non-domestic-structures
subject: Building 500
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/158786/building-500
subject: Officer's Club
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/156757/officers-club
subject: Architectural Documentation
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/16/architectural-documentation
subject: Heritage Management
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/24/heritage-management

description: This memorandum provides documentation for two proposed additions to Building 500, Randolph Air Force Base, Texas.
3D wind field profiles from hyperspectral sounders: revisiting optic-flow from a meteorological perspective
Creators: name: Héas, P.
name: Hautecoeur, O.
name: Borde, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: In this work, we present an efficient optic flow algorithm for the extraction of vertically resolved 3D atmospheric motion vector (AMV) fields from incomplete hyperspectral image data measures by infrared sounders. The model at the heart of the energy to be minimized is consistent with atmospheric dynamics, incorporating ingredients of thermodynamics, hydrostatic equilibrium and statistical turbulence. Modern optimization techniques are deployed to design a low-complexity solver for the energy minimization problem, which is non-convex, non-differentiable, high-dimensional and subject to physical constraints. In particular, taking advantage of the alternate direction of multipliers methods (ADMM), we show how to split the original high-dimensional problem into a recursion involving a set of standard and tractable optic-flow sub-problems. By comparing with the ground truth provided by the operational numerical simulation of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), we show that the performance of the proposed method is superior to state-of-the-art optical flow algorithms in the context of real infrared atmospheric sounding interferometer (IASI) observations.
Spectrum of the three dimensional fuzzy well
Creators: name: Chandra, N
name: Groenewald, H W
name: Kriel, J N
name: Scholtz, F G
name: Vaidya, S
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop the formalism of quantum mechanics on three dimensional fuzzy space and solve the Schrödinger equation for a free particle, finite and infinite fuzzy wells. We show that all results reduce to the appropriate commutative limits. A high energy cut-off is found for the free particle spectrum, which also results in the modification of the high energy dispersion relation. An ultra-violet/infra-red duality is manifest in the free particle spectrum. The finite well also has an upper bound on the possible energy eigenvalues. The phase shifts due to scattering around the finite fuzzy potential well have been calculated.
Interprofessional Collaboration: An Interpretive Descriptive Study into the Experiences of Entry Level Nurses
Creators: MacQuarrie, Cynthia L.
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2022

In Nova Scotia (NS), within their first year of professional practice newly graduated registered nurses are considered Entry Level Nurses (ELN) (NSCN, 2013, 2020). Until now, little was known about how ELNs experience interprofessional collaboration (IPC) in interprofessional (IP) teams in Nova Scotia. This Interpretive Descriptive (ID) study sought to advance nursing knowledge and greater understanding of ELN experiences. The overarching research question guiding this study was: what are the experiences of ELNs in relation to IPC in IP teams in Nova Scotia? Subsumed under this overarching question was a set of subsidiary questions that reflected the inquiry and analysis required to develop a more comprehensive understanding of IPC across ELN and aggregate perspectives.

Fifteen participants were interviewed and thematic analysis (Braun & Clarke, 2006) was conducted. Four main themes surfaced from the interview data. They are described as: (1) emotions linked to IPC, (2) team characteristics, (3) development of IPC competency, and (4) contextual influences on IPC. Several sub-themes were noticed and are discussed in this paper. As Nova Scotia continues to overcome the COVID 19 pandemic, the experiences shared by the participants highlight the importance of further discovery and research. More studies are needed to explore the extent to which these themes are prevalent in healthcare teams.

Today’s healthcare milieu of multiple care providers and complex treatment regimens demand the active participation from nurses and all members of the interprofessional (IP) team including the patient and family (Accreditation Canada, 2019). Interprofessional collaboration (IPC) is an essential component in the delivery of nursing care. The State of the World’s Nursing 2020 report (WHO, 2020) proclaims the healthcare system needs RNs working to the full extent of their education and the maximization of their roles within IP teams (WHO, 2020). Similarly, the Nova Scotia College of Nursing (NSCN, 2020) defines the RN as a collaborator required for optimal IPC.

New trends and issues are documented in nursing (ICN, 2020; WHO, 2020). The World Health Organization (2020) suggests that newly graduated registered nurses play a key role in resolving nurse burnout, current workload issues, and recruitment and retention challenges. The COVID 19 pandemic has highlighted the urgent need to address these issues in nursing, especially from the viewpoint of ELNs in unpredictable team circumstances while attempting to achieve IPC.
title: Belgium Report. Sustainable Governance Indicators 2022
Creators: name: Castanheira, Micael
name: Périlleux, Guillaume
name: Rihoux, Benoit
name: Bandelow, Nils C.
Publisher: name: Bertelsmann Stiftung
Year: 2022
Subjects: Governance
Democracy
Regierungshandeln
Demokratie

description: Belgium is a country of 31,000 km² located at the heart of northwestern Europe. It is densely populated (11.6 million inhabitants) and very open to the rest of the world. This is a strong asset that the country normally exploits very well, but which turned into a weakness when the COVID-19 pandemic hit.