cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A Study in Purity: Alchemy and Purity in Early Modern Europe
Creators: Lloyd, Kyla M.
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2023

The early modern European social and cultural stage emphasized obtaining and showcasing objects that conveyed messages of affluence and influence, but also purity. At the same time, alchemists had access to specialized knowledge of how to purify. Therefore, a transnationally influenced relationship formed between those who could afford purity and those who could create purity. This desire for purity manifested in specific objects such as silver and porcelain. The colour of an object, the type of material it is made of, and the person creating the object all influenced the performance of purity among royalty and nobles, the wealthy and middle ranked. Alchemists and the objects they created provided purity to early modern European culture and society. Purity was ever changing in the early modern period. It was fluid, meeting the expectations of the time, place, and audience. Purity was not something easily defined or quantified, but if some were to try, it would be through objects displayed to communicate the consumers' status of purity.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 108.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 02.06.2015, 09:00, erstellt von Sergio Cortesi
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2015

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 3.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Maximal Plurifinely Plurisubharmonic functions
Creators: name: Kadiri, Mohamed El
name: Smit, Iris Marjan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 32U05, 31C10

description: The main purpose of this paper is to introduce and study the notion of plurifinely-maximal plurifinely plurisubharmonic functions, which extends the notion of maximal plurisubharmonic functions on a Euclidean domain to a plurifine domain of C^n in a natural way. Our main result is that a finite plurifinely plurisubharmonic function u on a plurifine domain U satisfies (dd^c u)^n=0 if and only if u is plurifinely-locally plurifinely-maximal outside some pluripolar set. In particular, a finite plurifinely-maximal plurisubharmonic function u satisfies (dd^c u)^n=0.
description: 20 pages, manuscript as accepted by publisher. To appear in Potential Analysis
American Liberals and the Italian 'Communist Question' in the 1970s
Creators: name: Ciulla, Alice
Publisher: name: USAbroad – Journal of American History and Politics
Year: 2020

description: This essay analyzes the attitude of American experts and policymakers towards the Italian Communist Party during the 1970s. As the PCI promoted a moderate line at both domestic and international level, members of American think tanks and academia started looking at it as a legitimate actor of Italian and European politics. Such a shift from traditional Cold War balances could turn into actual policy under the Carter administration, whose foreign policy was inspired by a logic of interdependence and trilateralism. By taking into account often overlooked actors, this essay outlines the origins of such potential shift and its failed realization.
description: USAbroad – Journal of American History and Politics, Vol. 3 No. 1S (2020): Special Issue
Additional file 1 of Creating an online educational intervention to improve knowledge about systematic reviews among healthcare workers: mixed-methods pilot study
Creators: name: Krnic Martinic, Marina
name: Malisa, Snjezana
name: Aranza, Diana
name: Civljak, Marta
name: Marušić, Ana
name: Sapunar, Damir
name: Poklepovic Pericic, Tina
name: Buljan, Ivan
name: Tokalic, Ruzica
name: Cavic, Dalibor
name: Puljak, Livia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 89.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 11.05.2015, 09:00, erstellt von Sergio Cortesi
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2015

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 3.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Development and Application of Hydraulic Fracturing Simulation for Analysis of Fracture Interference and Distributed Acoustic Sensing Characterization
Creators: Chen, Jiahui
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2023

Low-frequency distributed acoustic sensing (LF-DAS) is one of the promising diagnostic techniques to detect and characterize hydraulic fractures. LF-DAS signals can capture fracture hits and the strain field around the hydraulic fracture and provide continuous monitoring of fracture geometry and production at each stage of the wellbore. However, the interpretation of field LF-DAS data and the relationship between fluid allocation and production can be challenging due to the complexity of the underground conditions.

This thesis develops a new workflow for coupling flow and geomechanical computations and simulating fracture propagation in the MATLAB Reservoir Simulation Toolbox (MRST) – an open-source reservoir simulation software. A new discrete fracture model (DFM) is implemented. Unstructured meshing is used to discretize the gridding domain. The matrix-to-matrix, fracture-to-fracture, and fracture-to-matrix fluxes are computed explicitly in the computational domain following the control volume formulation. The flow calculations and the geomechanical computations are solved sequentially: the governing equations for poroelasticity are incorporated, and the fixed stress splitting coupling methodology is employed. The hydraulic fracture is set to propagate along a prescribed path with a specific propagation or activation criterion. The accuracy of our model is also validated against the KGD analytical solutions for the leak-off-viscosity, storage-viscosity and leak-off-toughness dominated regimes.

This study presents a comprehensive investigation of production performance and stress evolution in hydraulically fracturing formations using the proposed coupling strategy. This model considers the effects of poroelasticity and stress or strain variation in the fractured domains and factors influencing the behaviour of fracture interference, allowing for a more accurate representation of complex fracture interference behavior. Several case studies and sensitivity analyses demonstrate the approach's utility and examine fracture interference, closure, and stress shadowing effects. The modelling work facilitates interpreting field measurement data by investigating characteristics of fracture hits from adjacent wells. Both the matrix and fractures are discretized, enabling the investigation of how different rock properties impact strain variation. Additionally, this thesis presents several case studies utilizing the proposed model and raw DAS data analysis to explore the effects of cross-well fracture hits and completion designs on fracture propagation and production conductivity. The study aims to provide new and valuable insights into the implications of fracture interference on optimal designs during hydraulic fracturing stimulation, and completion design optimization and interpretation of DAS data, which will inform decision-making, ultimately leading to improved well productivity and efficiency.
Between Pacifism and Environmentalism: The History of Greenpeace
Creators: name: Santese, Angela
Publisher: name: USAbroad – Journal of American History and Politics
Year: 2020

description: The essay focuses on the intermingling of pacifism, anti-nuclearism and political environmentalism and the interconnection between foreign and domestic policy. In particular it offers a nuanced understanding of the role played by the antinuclear movement in inducing Reagan to change his negotiating strategy on nuclear weapons reductions. Besides the article introduces a research agenda for a project that looks at the history of Greenpeace investigating it as a significant political and social phenomenon that produced a truly global conversation on environmental issues.
description: USAbroad – Journal of American History and Politics, Vol. 3 No. 1S (2020): Special Issue
People's Histories of the US Empire: A Trans-Local Approach to Study the Environment and the Cold War
Creators: name: Fazzi, Dario
Publisher: name: USAbroad – Journal of American History and Politics
Year: 2020

description: This short essay gives an overview of an academic expertise that lies at the crossroads of different historical subfields. It explains how the Department of History and Politics at the University of Bologna has introduced the author to the core tenets of classical political and international history. It also shows how other international academic environments place an emphasis on bottom-up approaches. The combination of these two approaches is ideal to explore the development of cold war's transatlantic relations through the experiences of organized social movements and assess their political effectiveness as well.
description: USAbroad – Journal of American History and Politics, Vol. 3 No. 1S (2020): Special Issue
Addressing Order Relation Issues with Constrained Radial Basis Functions and Consistent Indicator Variograms
Creators: Sanchez Villar, Sebastian
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2023

Quantifying uncertainty is a critical task of resource delineation in the mining industry. Uncertainty is used to assess risk in economic evaluation and for classification in resource reporting. The inference of local distributions from conditioning data is key to quantifying uncertainty. Multiple indicator Kriging (MIK) is a well-established non-parametric local distribution inference technique that does not assume a prior distribution. The local conditional cumulative distribution functions (CCDF) are estimated directly from indicators defined from thresholds. MIK is flexible since allows the addition of soft data and accounts for different spatial correlations related to different thresholds. These advantages can be eclipsed by the fact that MIK CCDFs almost always present order relation issues, that is, probabilities below zero, above 1 and decreasing for increasing thresholds. The aim of this work is to understand the origin of order relations issues and to find ways to reduce or eliminate them. It explores their relation with the negative weights of Kriging. It also focuses on analytical and practical techniques that help to avoid order relations issues. One technique explores the internal consistency of the indicator variograms used in MIK and its connection to order relation issues. The other proposes an interpolation methodology using Radial Basis Functions (RBF) with inequality constraints to produce CCDFs without order relation issues.

There are four main contributions of this research. First, it presents different tests and examples that show how negative weights influence order relation issues and their distributions. It also shows the relation between negative weights and indicator variograms. Second, it explains the internal consistency of indicator variograms related to a bivariate distribution and shows novel equations for the calculation of probabilities of the internal bivariate distribution. Additionally, it proposes a workflow to use the equations as a tool to aid the indicator variogram modeling process. Third, it proposes a new methodology of MIK that uses the RBF framework to add inequality constraints to the estimator. The constraints force the MIK estimates to comply with a licit CCDF. Finally, the equations to calculate bivariate probabilities and the RBF methodology are combined into a single workflow for MIK. The RBF framework is proven to work with a similar performance to classic MIK.

These contributions aid to understand the different modeling processes involved in MIK, from the intrinsic characteristics of Kriging and RBF to the internal consistency of indicator variogram models. The understanding of this helps to build more consistent models in the future.
Natural Resources, Modernity, and Security in the Progressive Era
Creators: name: Di Tommaso, Gaetano
Publisher: name: USAbroad – Journal of American History and Politics
Year: 2020

description: The essay focuses on the entanglement of natural resources, progress, and security in the United States. It argues that Progressive Era politics and culture were crucial for the process of securitization of raw materials and that geologists and natural scientists working for the Department of the Interior were the first to grasp the transformations imposed by the use of oil, thus making the case for the "control" of supply. The essay also introduces a research agenda for a project that looks at American power's environmental and human health implications by investigating oil pollution in water in the early twentieth century.
description: USAbroad – Journal of American History and Politics, Vol. 3 No. 1S (2020): Special Issue
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 253.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 29.11.2015, 11:00, erstellt von Andrea Manna
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2015

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 2.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Introducing Community Guidelines for Sharing Dataset Quality Information
Creators: name: Peng, Ge
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: FAIR Principles
Scientific Data
Data Stewardship
Data Management
Quality

description: This presentation introduces the community guidelines for sharing dataset quality information, developed by members of multiple, international groups. The guidelines follow the guiding principles of being findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR). The FAIR dataset quality information guidelines are intended to help stakeholders, such as scientific data centers, digital data repositories, and producers, publishers, stewards and managers of data, to achieve the following: i) capture, describe, and represent quality information of their datasets in a manner that is consistent with the FAIR guiding principles; ii) allow for the maximum discovery, trust, sharing, and reuse of their datasets; and iii) enable international access to and integration of dataset quality information.
description: Presented at the FAIR-Points webinar on November 30, 2022
description: {"references": ["Peng, G., Lacagnina, C., Iv\u00e1nov\u00e1, I., Downs, R. R., Ramapriyan, H., Ganske, A., and others, 2021. International Community Guidelines for Sharing and Reusing Quality Information of Individual Earth Science Datasets. OSF, https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/xsu4p. Updated: March 26, 2022", "Peng, G., Lacagnina, C., Downs, R.R., Ganske, A., Ramapriyan, H.K., Iv\u00e1nov\u00e1, I., Wyborn, L., Jones, D., Bastin, L., Shie, C.-. lin . and Moroni, D.F., 2022. Global Community Guidelines for Documenting, Sharing, and Reusing Quality Information of Individual Digital Datasets. Data Science Journal, 21, http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2022-008", "Wilkinson, M. D., Dumontier, M., Aalbersberg, I. J., Appleton, G., Axton, M., Baak, A., and others, 2016. The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship. Scientific Data, 3, https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2016.18"]}
Policy Selection for Transfer Learning in the Building Control Domain
Creators: Krishna Guruvayur Sasikumar, Aakash
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2023

The application of reinforcement learning (RL) to the optimal control of building systems has gained traction in recent years as it can reduce building energy consumption and improve human comfort, without requiring the knowledge of the building model. However, existing RL solutions for building control face challenges, such as slow convergence and suboptimal (or unsafe) actions during the training phase that may lead to high energy use or excessive discomfort. Additionally, the transferability of RL policies to different buildings remains a hurdle.

Offline policy selection is a new domain in RL that aims to efficiently select the best policies from a library of policies for a downstream task. Previous works have shown that diversity-induced RL helps generate policies that generalize to unseen environments, often surpassing baselines, even without retraining. This thesis explores various techniques to select a policy from a library of diverse policies to control the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system of a commercial building. The main contribution of this thesis is an offline policy selection algorithm that can effectively identify the most suitable policy for transfer to an unseen building environment. Furthermore, an investigation into the impact of the offline dataset utilized for evaluation is also conducted, providing valuable insights into the efficacy of the proposed evaluation technique.

The outcomes of this research hold significant implications for energy conservation in the building sector. By enabling the adoption of RL-based control strategies that overcome the limitations of traditional approaches, this work could contribute to significant reductions in energy consumption and carbon emissions. The proposed framework empowers building operators to achieve energy-efficient control of building systems while minimizing occupant discomfort and facilitating the transfer of policies across different buildings.
Improving 3D Printability and Functional Performance of Polyethylene across Visible and IR Spectrums through IR Transparent Pigmentation and Polyolefin Additives
Creators: Ali, Mehnab
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2023

Polyolefin thermoplastics form a significant fraction of the world scale production of plastics and are of high interest due to their toughness, low cost, good chemical resistance and excellent IR properties. Two grades of PE: Linear Low-Density Polyethylene (LLDPE) and High-Density Polyethylene (HDPE). LLDPE and HDPE have a huge number of applications in a diverse range of areas such as radiative passive heating and cooling, infrared (IR) and visible camouflage, additive manufacturing, defense sector and many more. However, LLDPE faces the challenge of being visibly semi-transparent, while HDPE exhibits severe warpage during 3D printing. This dissertation aims to address these challenges and enhance the performance of PE for expanded applications in IR camouflage and radiative passive heating and cooling applications. Chapter one focuses on resolving the semi-transparency issue of LLDPE by pigmenting the material using a simple and easier compounding method while making sure to maintain its highly desirable IR transparency. A comprehensive FTIR, UV-VIS, mechanical testing, and IR analysis is implemented to confirm the successful achievement of a visibly opaque LLDPE material without compromising its exceptional IR transparency. This breakthrough enables the utilization of LLDPE in various applications, including radiative passive heating and cooling, IR and visible camouflage, and IR shielding applications. Chapter two addresses the warpage challenges experienced during the 3D printing of HDPE. Incorporation of 10 wt% LLDPE into HDPE helps reduce crystallinity and mitigate stresses during 3D printing, by optimizing printing parameters and exploring different print bed options. Through this approach, this research provides a successful solution to provide significant reduction in warpage for 3D printing of HDPE leading to its expansion of potential applications in additive manufacturing. Overall, this thesis dissertation highlights the excellence of PE as a material, the challenges it faces and addresses those challenges. Through custom compounding of PE, we have successfully produced PE based metamaterials which have high visible opacity, are available in diverse range of colors and still maintain their high IR transparency properties. HDPE based grades of PE can be successfully 3D printed which pave the way for 3D printing functionality of these metamaterials which can further be drawn into fibers to make fabrics for civilian and military camouflage and radiative heating/cooling applications.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 177.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 18.08.2015, 08:15, erstellt von Marco Cagnotti
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2015

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 4.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Dominant Secondary Nuclear Photoexcitation with the X-ray Free Electron Laser
Creators: name: Gunst, Jonas
name: Litvinov, Yuri A.
name: Keitel, Christoph H.
name: Pálffy, Adriana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The new regime of resonant nuclear photoexcitation rendered possible by x-ray free electron laser beams interacting with solid state targets is investigated theoretically. Our results unexpectedly show that secondary processes coupling nuclei to the atomic shell in the created cold high-density plasma can dominate direct photoexcitation. As an example we discuss the case of $^{93m}$Mo isomer depletion for which nuclear excitation by electron capture as secondary process is shown to be orders of magnitude more efficient than the direct laser-nucleus interaction. General arguments revisiting the role of the x-ray free electron laser in nuclear experiments involving solid-state targets are further deduced.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures; v2 updated to published version; results unchanged
Computational Studies on the Non-Covalent Interactions of Asphaltene Model Compounds and Related Systems
Creators: King, Nathanael
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2023

In this thesis, the non-covalent interactions of asphaltene model compounds are explored computationally using a combination of semi-empirical methods and density functional theory. New methods and workflows are developed with which to make more accurate predictions for reduced computational expense. In Chapter 2, a new synthetic procedure for pyrene-4,5-dione is disclosed. In developing this procedure, unusual purification difficulties were encountered, which led to the computational study in Chapter 3. Here, we used the Grimme group’s conformer-rotamer ensemble sampling tool (CREST) to generate ensembles of the low-energy homodimers of pyrene, pyrene-4,5-dione, and pyrene-4,5,9,10-tetraone, and of the heterodimer of pyrene with pyrene-4,5,9,10-tetraone. These ensembles were then further refined using density functional theory (DFT) to give high-quality geometries and energies. We found that the difficulty in purification in Chapter 2 likely originated in the relatively strong interactions between pyrene and pyrene-4,5,9,10-tetraone, which could cause the formation of a cocrystal and interfere with the purification of pyrene-4,5-dione. When the same computational methodology was extended to realistic model asphaltene systems, it became apparent that CREST was providing insufficient sampling of conformational space for those systems, so Chapter 4 details the development and implementation of a new algorithm for non-covalent complexes of flexible monomers, including those involving microhydration. This new algorithm is still based on GFN2-xTB metadynamics, like CREST, but it uses modified settings, with a somewhat weaker biasing, intended to preserve important directed non-covalent interactions for longer, and starts each cycle from a diversity of structures found in the previous cycle, rather than just from the single lowest-energy structure that CREST uses. Thus, we have termed the new algorithm a Low-Energy Diversity-Enhanced variant on CREST (LEDE-CREST). Chapter 5 applies LEDE-CREST to a realistic system of asphaltene model compounds for which there is experimental data available (Org. Biomol. Chem., 2015, 13, 6984-6991). Various different stoichiometries of clusters of model compounds were tested. LEDE-CREST was used to explore the possible geometries for each stoichiometry, and the lowest-energy structure found by LEDE-CREST was then reoptimized using DFT. Unfortunately, due to computational cost of using DFT for systems of this size, we were unable to reoptimize even a portion of the ensembles. The results give insight into motifs in model compound aggregation, the relative importance of different interaction modes (π-π stacking, hydrogen bonding), and shed some doubt on the importance of microhydration. Chapter 6 discusses the results of the entire thesis, and presents directions for future work.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 85.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 07.05.2015, 08:00, erstellt von Marco Cagnotti
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2015

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 3.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Bd. 33, Nr. 3 (1955)
Creators: name: Germania : Anzeiger Der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission Des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts
Publisher: name: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts
Year: 2017

description: Zur Frage der Schnurkeramik in Griechenland...151-154
Keramik der Badener Kultur aus Ufersiedlungen des Bodensees...155-173
Zur Gürtelkette aus Raggendorf, N. Ö....174-180
Die Aula Palatina in Trier: (die sogenannte Basilika)...180-199
Der Abtsstab des heiligen Germanus zu Delsberg (Délemont)...210-235
Die Heizung der Aula Palatina in Trier. Ein Versuch ihrer Deutung und der Aufklärung ihrer Betriebsweise...200-210
Waren die neolithischen Steinkeile Pflugscharen?...236-238
Zu dem Funde von Klein Rietz, Kr. Beeskow-Storkow...239-240
Zur Zeitstellung der Hammerkopfnadeln...240-242
Eine keltische Schnabelkanne vom „Lenzburger Typus“ aus Naix-aux-Forges (Meuse)...243-244
Römisches Salbengefäß aus Bronze...244-245
Lothar Kilian, Haffküstenkultur und Ursprung der Balten...245-247
Erik Nylén, Die jüngere vorrömische Eisenzeit Gotlands...247-251
Peter La Baume, Die Wikingerzeit auf den Nordfriesischen Inseln...251-253
Fundchronik Bundesrepublik Deutschland...254-274
Zugänge der Bibliothek...275-310
6.1 Critica delle norme linguistiche e Sprachkritik in italiano
Creators: name: Radtke, Edgar
name: Larsen, Luisa
Publisher: name: Handbuch Europäische Sprachkritik Online
Year: 2017
Subjects: Sprachnormenkritik ; Educazione linguistica ; questione della lingua ; Standardizzazione ; purismo polimorfismo ; toscanizzazione ; Accademia della Crusca ; mass media

description: Traduzione: Luisa Larsen, Elisa Manca ed Edgar Radtke

 Il termine tedesco Sprachnormenkritik è sconosciuto alla tradi- zione degli studi linguistici italiani e quindi ritenuto intraducibile. Inoltre rispetto alla traduzione letterale “critica delle norme linguistiche” si ri- tiene più adatta l’espressione “riflessioni sulla lingua”. In una prospettiva diacronica, la problematica normativa dell’italiano è stata affrontata a più riprese tramite la cosiddetta questione della lingua. Domande in qualche modo legate al concetto di Sprachnormenkritik se le posero inoltre i pu- risti risorgimentali alla vigilia dell’Unità d’Italia. Un altro importante con- tributo è stato fornito recentemente dall’Accademia della Crusca con il suo bollettino “La Crusca per voi”. Le recenti “riflessioni sulla lingua” eviden- ziano una progressiva soppressione del polimorfismo nella lingua scritta che sfocia tuttavia nell’integrazione di elementi della lingua parlata nello standard (con un crescente rafforzamento dell’informalità della lingua) e nella regressione del modello monocentrico toscano. L’accettazione di nuove forme avviene dunque attraverso diversi canali: identificazione del- l’italianità in rapporto con la toscanità, un atteggiamento purista nei con- fronti dei vocaboli stranieri, il ruolo linguistico-legislativo del fascismo, il ruolo delle istituzioni scolastiche nell’educazione linguistica dal 1969 e il ruolo dei mass media nella diffusione degli usi informali.
description: Handbuch Europäische Sprachkritik Online, Bd. 1 (2017): Sprachnormierung und Sprachkritik
What Kind of Institutional Implementation for Participatory Democracy? Theories and Debate During the Long 1970s in the United States
Creators: name: Gara, Marta
Publisher: name: USAbroad – Journal of American History and Politics
Year: 2020

description: In the wake of participatory turn, when participatory democracy has been promoted in multiple sectors of society, the essay assesses the relevance of its very political origins for understanding its transformative meaning. For this purpose, the author reviews the late 1960s and 1970s political literature on participatory democracy theory and its basic findings toward the reform of liberal democracy and social change. This research is part of an ongoing PhD project on the institutional implementation of the participatory democracy during the long 1970s in United States, a topic that has still scarcely been studied.
description: USAbroad – Journal of American History and Politics, Vol. 3 No. 1S (2020): Special Issue
Jamming Percolation in Three Dimensions
Creators: name: Ghosh, Antina
name: Teomy, Eial
name: Shokef, Yair
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a three-dimensional model for jamming and glasses, and prove that the fraction of frozen particles is discontinuous at the directed-percolation critical density. In agreement with the accepted scenario for jamming- and glass-transitions, this is a mixed-order transition; the discontinuity is accompanied by diverging length- and time-scales. Because one-dimensional directed-percolation paths comprise the backbone of frozen particles, the unfrozen rattlers may use the third dimension to travel between their cages. Thus the dynamics are diffusive on long-times even above the critical density for jamming.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures
Centre-of-mass motion-induced decoherence and entanglement generation in a hybrid quantum repeater
Creators: name: Bernád, J. Z.
name: Frydrych, H.
name: Alber, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum communication over long distances relies on the ability to create entanglement between two remote quantum nodes. Recent proposals aiming at experimental realization propose a hybrid quantum repeater setup where two distant material qubits are entangled by light-matter interaction. Motivated by these developments, we investigate possible decoherence effects originating from the centre- of-mass motion of the spatially well separated trapped qubits. Within the Lamb-Dicke regime we use photon exchange involving coherent states of the radiation field to entangle the two material qubits. Optimal generalized photonic field measurements are used to achieve entangled qubit pairs with high fidelities and high success probabilities. We demonstrate that the quality of the achievable two-qubit entanglement crucially depends on the trap frequencies involved. Furthermore, dynamical decoupling schemes are proposed which are capable of suppressing centre-of-mass-motion-induced decoherence effects significantly and which involve only local operations acting on the spatially well-separated material qubits.
description: 28 pages, 14 figures
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 126.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 23.06.2015, 08:00, erstellt von Marco Cagnotti
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2015

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 2.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Sketch-conditioned Image Generation centered on Existing Artist Workflows
Creators: Loftsdottir, Dagmar
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2023

Many works of art are created through the process of an artist sketching and then incrementally increasing the fidelity of the artwork. This requires significant amounts of work and effort throughout, but not all steps require the same amount of artistic input. Certain parts only require following the logical consequences of an earlier decision. Other parts require multiple iterations to visualize the effect of a decision before it is executed. This thesis provides two contributions, each of which integrates with existing artist workflows.

Firstly, we propose SketchBetween, a VQ-VAE-based system which automates a part of the animation workflow which leaves full creative control in the hands of the artist. This system takes as input fully rendered keyframes and sketched in-between frames and returns a fully rendered animation. We evaluate the system by comparing it to a baseline and performing an ablation study. We also analyze a case study of its performance on human-generated input. The results of all evaluations demonstrate the systems effectiveness at automating the rendering of in-between frames based on sketches.

Secondly, we propose the task of generating images conditioned on sketches and palettes, and propose a preliminary system to perform this task using a VQ-VAE. We performed an error analysis in order to identify current limitations, to which we propose mitigations and future work.
Choreography In Inter-Organizational Innovation Networks
Creators: name: Ferraro, Giovanna
name: Iovanella, Antonio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper introduces the concept of choreography with respect to inter-organizational innovation networks, as they constitute an attractive environment to create innovation in different sectors. We argue that choreography governs behaviours by shaping the level of connectivity and cohesion among network members. It represents a valid organizational system able to sustain some activities and to reach effects generating innovation outcomes. This issue is tackled introducing a new framework in which we propose a network model as prerequisite for our hypothesis. The analysis is focused on inter-organizational innovation networks characterized by the presence of hubs, semi-peripheral and peripheral members lacking hierarchical authority. We sustain that the features of a network, bringing to synchronization phenomena, are extremely similar to those existing in innovation network characterized by the emergence of choreography. The effectiveness of our model is verified by providing a real case study that gives preliminary empirical hints on the network aptitude to perform choreography. Indeed, the innovation network analysed in the case study reveals characteristics causing synchronization and consequently the establishment of choreography.
Comrades in a Sacred Cause. Methodist Women, Social Gospel and the Suffrage Movement in the Early Twentieth Century
Creators: name: Cadeddu, Francesca
Publisher: name: USAbroad – Journal of American History and Politics
Year: 2020

description: Social Gospel is a product of the history of American Christianity and Methodist churches became part of it after the Civil War. Notwithstanding the predominant historiography of male historians writing about an apparently only-male movement, Social Gospel is tied to the path of female suffrage designed by American Methodist women between 1880 and 1920. The aim of this essay is to present a step in the research related to the role of Methodist women in the Social Gospel movement and to the fight for women's vote. The figure of Anna Howard Shaw is presented as a preliminary key study.
description: USAbroad – Journal of American History and Politics, Vol. 3 No. 1S (2020): Special Issue
Additional file 2 of Creating an online educational intervention to improve knowledge about systematic reviews among healthcare workers: mixed-methods pilot study
Creators: name: Krnic Martinic, Marina
name: Malisa, Snjezana
name: Aranza, Diana
name: Civljak, Marta
name: Marušić, Ana
name: Sapunar, Damir
name: Poklepovic Pericic, Tina
name: Buljan, Ivan
name: Tokalic, Ruzica
name: Cavic, Dalibor
name: Puljak, Livia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 2
State, Market and Colonization: Notes on Empire in Nineteenth-Century U.S. History
Creators: name: Rossi, Matteo
Publisher: name: USAbroad – Journal of American History and Politics
Year: 2020

description: The essay offers a critical overview of recent historiographies on the nineteenth-century United States that allows on the one hand to grasp the imperial and colonial character of U.S. nineteenth-century territorial expansion, on the other hand, it accounts for nineteenth-century U.S. industrial growth and market building both as a quest for independence on the world market and as an expansive imperial process. In this respect, an understanding of colonization and industry as the two driving forces of nineteenth-century U.S. history can prove crucial for a comprehensive interpretation of Friedrich List's and Henry Charles Carey's national project for capitalist development.
description: USAbroad – Journal of American History and Politics, Vol. 3 No. 1S (2020): Special Issue
An American in Rome during the Risorgimento: Reforms and Manifest Destiny in Margaret Fuller's Dispatches from Rome (1847-1849)
Creators: name: Mocci, Serena
Publisher: name: USAbroad – Journal of American History and Politics
Year: 2020

description: This essay aims to offer new insights into the controversial relationship between nineteenth-century women reformers and American exceptionalism by presenting the case of a pioneer of white American reformism, Margaret Fuller, and the dispatches she sent as a journalist from Italy during the 1848 revolutions and the establishment of the Roman Republic in 1849. It will illustrate how Fuller used the revolution in Italy to redefine “the contours of the nation and its shifting borders with the foreign,” and to reaffirm the same exceptionalism underlying the creation of the American “Empire of Liberty.”
description: USAbroad – Journal of American History and Politics, Vol. 3 No. 1S (2020): Special Issue
Factor Forecast of Real Economic Activity Using Yield Curves
Creators: name: Zhang, Buwen
Publisher: name: University of Chicago
Year: 2022

description: According to Estrella and Mishkin (1998), recession predictions can be made directly from financial indicators. This thesis aims to implement a new method of forecasting output growth for large economies, using information from the entire yield curve. After identifying the two common factors for the U.S. economy using a factor approach and detecting the relative power between the FAVAR model (a factor-augmented vector autoregressive model) and the basic VAR model, the predictive results of the factor model are shown to be more precise than the direct forecast of the GDP growth as expected.
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 201.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 26.09.2015, 07:45, erstellt von Marco Cagnotti
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2015

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 4.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Sonnenfleckenzeichnung Nr. 77.
Zeichnung von Flecken und Fackelflächen zur Ermittlung der Sonnenaktivität am 22.04.2015, 08:15, erstellt von Marco Cagnotti
Creators: name: Observatorium Specola Solare Ticinese Locarno (1957 bis 1980 Teil der Eidgenössischen Sternwarte der ETH Zürich)
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 2015

description: Bleistiftzeichnung mit schwarzer Farbe und Bleistift, erstellt als Projektionsbildzeichnung für die Beobachtungen in Locarno-Monti auf einem eigenen Vordruck. Instrument: Zeiss-Coudé-Refraktor mit 15 cm Öffnung und 225 cm Brennweite. Bildqualität (SIDC): 3.
Die Beobachtungen zu Einzelflecken und zu Sonnenfleckengruppen wurden auf dem Vordruck eingetragen. Zusätzlich sind zuhanden der späteren statistischen Verarbeitung die Angaben für die Bestimmung der Fleckenrelativzahl notiert.
Beobachtungstätigkeit unter eigenständiger Leitung (Associazione Specola Solare Ticinese ASST)
Search for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay of $^{100}$Mo with the NEMO-3 Detector
Creators: name: 3 Collaboration
name: Arnold, R.
name: Augier, C.
name: Baker, J. D.
name: Barabash, A. S.
name: Basharina-Freshville, A.
name: Blondel, S.
name: Blot, S.
name: Bongrand, M.
name: Brudanin, V.
name: Busto, J.
name: Caffrey, A. J.
name: Cerna, C.
name: Chapon, A.
name: Chauveau, E.
name: Duchesneau, D.
name: Durand, D.
name: Egorov, V.
name: Eurin, G.
name: Evans, J. J.
name: Flack, R.
name: Garrido, X.
name: Gómez, H.
name: Guillon, B.
name: Guzowski, P.
name: Hodák, R.
name: Hubert, P.
name: Hugon, C.
name: Jullian, S.
name: Klimenko, A.
name: Kochetov, O.
name: Konovalov, S. I.
name: Kovalenko, V.
name: Lalanne, D.
name: Lang, K.
name: Lemière, Y.
name: Liptak, Z.
name: Loaiza, P.
name: Lutter, G.
name: Mamedov, F.
name: Marquet, C.
name: Mauger, F.
name: Morgan, B.
name: Mott, J.
name: Nemchenok, I.
name: Nomachi, M.
name: Nova, F.
name: Nowacki, F.
name: Ohsumi, H.
name: Pahlka, R. B.
name: Perrot, F.
name: Piquemal, F.
name: Povinec, P.
name: Ramachers, Y. A.
name: Remoto, A.
name: Reyss, J. L.
name: Richards, B.
name: Riddle, C. L.
name: Rukhadze, E.
name: Saakyan, R.
name: Sarazin, X.
name: Shitov, Yu.
name: Simard, L.
name: Šimkovic, F.
name: Smetana, A.
name: Smolek, K.
name: Smolnikov, A.
name: Söldner-Rembold, S.
name: Soulé, B.
name: Štekl, I.
name: Suhonen, J.
name: Sutton, C. S.
name: Szklarz, G.
name: Thomas, J.
name: Timkin, V.
name: Torre, S.
name: Tretyak, Vl. I.
name: Tretyak, V. I.
name: Umatov, V. I.
name: Vanushin, I.
name: Vilela, C.
name: Vorobel, V.
name: Waters, D.
name: Žukauskas, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the results of a search for the neutrinoless double-$β$ decay (0$νββ$) of $^{100}$Mo, using the NEMO-3 detector to reconstruct the full topology of the final state events. With an exposure of 34.7 kg.y, no evidence for the 0$νββ$ signal has been found, yielding a limit for the light Majorana neutrino mass mechanism of $T_{1/2}(0νββ)>1.1 \times 10^{24}$ years (90% C.L.) once both statistical and systematic uncertainties are taken into account. Depending on the Nuclear Matrix Elements this corresponds to an upper limit on the Majorana effective neutrino mass of $< m_ν > < 0.3-0.9$ eV (90% C.L.). Constraints on other lepton number violating mechanisms of 0$νββ$ decays are also given. Searching for high-energy double electron events in all suitable sources of the detector, no event in the energy region [3.2-10] MeV is observed for an exposure of 47 kg.y.