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Gli incipit nelle opere francesi di d’Annunzio
Creators: name: Martinuzzi, Paola
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2021

description:

This paper focuses on the incipit of d’Annunzio’s plays written in French and first staged on French theatres. It analyses on one hand the thematic and structural link between the first scene of the play and the dramatic development and, on the other, the correspondences with French theatrical poetics.

description: Archivio d’Annunzio
Quasicrystalline structure of the Smith monotile tilings
Creators: name: Socolar, Joshua E. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Tiling models can reveal unexpected ways in which local constraints give rise to exotic long-range spatial structure. The recently discovered Hat monotile (and its mirror image) has been shown to be aperiodic~[Smith et al., arXiv:2303.10798 (2023)]; it can tile the plane with no holes or overlaps, but cannot do so periodically. We show that the structure enforced by the local space-filling constraints is quasiperiodic with hexagonal (C6) rotational symmetry. Although this symmetry is compatible with periodicity, the incommensurate ratio characterizing the quasiperiodicity stays locked to the golden mean as the tile parameters are continuously varied. We analyze a modification of the metatiles introduced by Smith et al. that yields a set of ``Key tiles'' that can be constructed as projections of a subset of six-dimensional hypercubic lattice points onto the two-dimensional tiling plane. We analytically compute the diffraction pattern of a set of unit masses placed at the tiling vertices, establishing the quasiperiodic nature of the tiling. We point out several unusual features of the family of Key tilings and associated Hat tilings, including the tile rearrangements associated with the phason degree of freedom associated with incommensurate density waves, which exhibit novel features that may influence the elastic properties of a material in which atoms or larger particles spontaneously exhibit the symmetries of the Hat tiling.
description: Modifications to text and figures to improve clarity, precision of presentation, and notation
Catching Disruption
Creators: name: Fan, Jennifer S.
Publisher: name: Columbia Business Law Review
Year: 2019

description: Sesame Street, Walgreens, 7-Eleven, General Motors, Campbell Soup—these are not the names of companies that come to mind when thinking about the startup world. Yet, each of these companies started its own corporate venture capital arm in the last eight years. Corporate venture capital (“CVC”)—equity investments in external startups made by corporations or investment entities designated by corporations—no longer play a minor role in venture capital; they have become an influential force in the field. Business scholars have been at the forefront of studying this newly powerful phenomenon. Thus far, however, legal scholars have overlooked CVCs. Legal scholars—and many in the venture capital community—see only two players: traditional venture capital firms and entrepreneurs. The failure to appreciate the significance of CVCs as a third major player impoverishes theoretical and practical accounts of venture capital. This Article reframes the legal discussion of venture capital to incorporate key shifts wrought by CVCs in areas from corporate governance to risk allocation.
description: Columbia Business Law Review, Vol. 2018 No. 2
Panel: A View from the Front Lines
Creators: name: Law Review, Columbia Business
Publisher: name: Columbia Business Law Review
Year: 2019

description: Excerpts taken from panel discussion at the Columbia Law School Symposium: The Past, Present, and Future of Insider Trading: A 50th Anniversary Re-Examination of Cady, Roberts and the Revolution It Began (Nov. 16, 2012). The editors of the Columbia Business Law Review have added explanatory footnotes where deemed appropriate.
description: Columbia Business Law Review, Vol. 2013 No. 2
Emission Corrections for Hydrogen Features of the Graves et. al 2007 Sloan Digital Sky Survey Averages of Early Type, Non-liner Galaxies
Creators: name: Serven, Jedidiah
name: Worthey, Guy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For purposes of stellar population analysis, emission corrections for Balmer series indices on the Lick index system in Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) stacked quiescent galaxy spectra are derived, along with corrections for continuum shape and gross stellar content, as a function of the Mg $b$ Lick index strength. These corrections are obtained by comparing the observed Lick index measurements of the SDSS with new observed measurements of 13 Virgo Cluster galaxies, and checked with model grids. From the H$α$ Mg $b$ diagram a linear correction for the observed measurement is constructed using best fit trend lines. Corrections for H$β$, H$γ$ and H$δ$ are constructed using stellar population models to predict continuum shape changes as a function of Mg $b$ and Balmer series emission intensities typical of H{\sc II} regions. The corrections themselves are fairly secure, but the interpretation for H$δ$ and H$γ$ indices is complicated by the fact that the H$δ$ and H$γ$ indices are sensitive to elemental abundances other than hydrogen.
L’anomalia incipitaria del Giovanni Episcopo
Creators: name: Crotti, Ilaria
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2021

description:

The essay examines the peculiarities, both formal and of content, of Giovanni Episcopo (1891), considering its incipit – a mimetically connoted space, compared to those of d’Annunzio’s novels that frame him. Particular attention was paid to the debate that was dedicated to the genre of the novel, in its various formulations, also related to the writings of the self (confession, memory, autobiography). This happens in a season marked by restless research, measuring itself against theoretical and aesthetic horizons determined to reread in dialectical terms the lesson already imparted by French Naturalism.

description: Archivio d’Annunzio
Quantum pumping in deformable quantum dots
Creators: name: Romeo, F.
name: Citro, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The charge current pumped adiabatically through a deformable quantum dot is studied within the Green's function approach. Differently from the non-deformable case, the current shows an undefined parity with respect to the pumping phase ϕ. The unconventional current-phase relation, analyzed in the weak pumping regime, is due to a dynamical phase shift ϕ_D caused by the elastic deformations of the central region (classical phonons). The role of the quality factor Q of the oscillator, the effects induced by a mechanical resonance and the implications for current experiments on molecular systems are also discussed.
Money Market Funds Run Risk
Creators: name: Gordon, Jeffrey N.
name: Gandia, Christopher M.
Publisher: name: Columbia Business Law Review
Year: 2019

description: The instability of money market mutual funds (“MMF”), a relatively new form of financial intermediary that connects short-term debt issuers with funders who want daily liquidity, became manifest in the financial crisis of 2007–2009. The bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, a major issuer of money market debt, led one large fund to “break the buck” (that is, violate the $1 net asset valuation convention (“NAV”)) and triggered a run on other funds that was staunched only by major interventions from the U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve. One common reform proposal has been to substitute “floating NAV” for “fixed NAV,” on the view that MMF run risk was strongly affected by the potential to arbitrage between the “true” value of MMF assets and the $1 fixed NAV. It turns out that European MMFs are issued in two forms, “stable NAV” and “accumulating NAV,” which offer a reasonable proxy for the distinction between fixed and floating NAV. Thus, the comparative run rate of these two MMF types during “Lehman week” offers a natural experiment of the effect of NAV “fixedness.” We find that the stable/accumulating distinction explains none of the cross-sectional variation in the run rate among these funds. Instead, two other variables are explanatory: yield in the period immediately prior to Lehman week, which we take as a proxy for the fund’s portfolio risk, and whether the fund’s sponsor is an investment bank, which we take as proxy for sponsor capacity to support the fund. We then argue that these findings indicate that other stability-enhancing reforms are necessary.
description: Columbia Business Law Review, Vol. 2014 No. 2
Granting Standing in Data Breach Cases
Creators: name: Kim, Clara
Publisher: name: Columbia Business Law Review
Year: 2019

description: Data breaches at private companies have occurred with increasing regularity in recent years, causing the exposure and theft of confidential consumer data, such as credit card numbers. Despite these alarming patterns, the current state of the law does not fully regulate the complicated issues that arise from data breach incidents. The existing regulations operate in a piecemeal manner and do not adequately address the situation. They give inadequate protections to consumers and insufficient guidance to private companies that experience breaches and other institutions affected by data breaches, such as credit card companies and banks. This is the data breach problem: the increasing frequency of data breaches in recent years coupled with the lack of appropriate legal response. Given the current situation, consumers are fighting back by filing class action lawsuits against private companies that have experienced data breaches. They have generally been unsuccessful, however, because many courts are reluctant to grant standing due to the lack of an identifiable injury, especially in cases where plaintiffs allege increased risk of future harm from misuse of their stolen personal information. This has especially been true after Clapper v. Amnesty International USA, one of the most recent U.S. Supreme Court cases on Article III standing. Despite frequent dismissals and confusion about Clapper’s implications in the district courts, the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit granted standing based on victims’ reasonable allegations of increased risk of future harms in Remijas v. Neiman Marcus Group, LLC. This Note aims to demonstrate why the Seventh Circuit’s approach is the best among the current decisions of the courts of appeals. Lessening the burden of standing requirements for consumer plaintiffs in data breach cases gives plaintiffs a potential avenue for relief, which is especially appropriate since there are inadequate regulatory and legislative mechanisms protecting consumers in data breach situations. In addition, the Seventh Circuit’s approach is a step towards an ultimate solution, which this Note suggests should be in the form of comprehensive federal regulatory framework. The Seventh Circuit’s approach allows for more cases to proceed to trial, and presumably for more companies to be held responsible for the consumer harm resulting from data breaches. This will allow for the responsibility for data security to be shifted to companies, which will hopefully shatter the current status quo and lead to a better solution. Though the Seventh Circuit’s approach is appropriate given the current context, this Note recognizes that there are nonetheless a variety of complications in its practical application. These complications reveal the complexity of the data breach problem and lend further support to the proposition that the solution to the data breach problem will likely be regulatory, not judicial, in nature.
description: Columbia Business Law Review, Vol. 2016 No. 2
Emergent U(1) symmetry in non-particle-conserving one-dimensional models
Creators: name: Jouini, Zakaria
name: Chepiga, Natalia
name: Herviou, Loic
name: Mila, Frédéric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The properties of stable Luttinger liquid phases in models with a non-conserved number of particles are investigated. We study the Luttinger liquid phases in one-dimensional models of hard-core boson and spinless fermion chains where particles can be created and annihilated three by three on adjacent sites. We provide an intuitive and systematic method based on flow equations approach, which accounts for additional terms in the correlations generated by the $\mathbb{Z}_3$-symmetric interactions. We find that despite the emergence of U(1) symmetry under renormalization, the observables are still affected by its breaking in the bare Hamiltonian. In particular, the standard bosonization mapping becomes insufficient to capture the full behavior of correlation functions.
Task instructions and validation analysis results from Validated measures of semantic knowledge and semantic control: normative data from young and older adults for more than 300 semantic judgements
Creators: name: Wu, Wei
name: Hoffman, Paul
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: 170299 Cognitive Science not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 179999 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: The Supplementary Information file includes full text of the instructions in all tasks and validation analysis for a specific section of our paper
Scattering in graphene with impurities : A low energy effective theory
Creators: name: Gupta, Kumar S.
name: Samsarov, Andjelo
name: Sen, Siddhartha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the scattering sector of the Hamiltonians for both gapless and gapped graphene in the presence of a charge impurity using the 2D Dirac equation, which is applicable in the long wavelength limit. We show that for certain range of the system parameters, the combined effect of the short range interactions due to the charge impurity can be modelled using a single real parameter appearing in the boundary conditions. The phase shifts and the scattering matrix depend explicitly on this parameter. We argue that this parameter for graphene can be fixed empirically, through measurements of observables that depend on the scattering data.
description: Latex file, 14 pages
Live and Let Die
Creators: name: Miki, Heita
Publisher: name: Columbia Business Law Review
Year: 2019

description: Municipal bonds have traditionally been considered, rightly or wrongly, mundane assets that require little regulation. However, the most recent financial crisis did not leave municipal bonds untouched. The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 and liquidity requirements for banks, enacted in response to the 2008 financial crisis, have had far-reaching effects in the banking industry as well as the municipal bond market. While the registration requirements for municipal advisors have garnered much attention, other provisions may negatively impact the liquidity of the municipal bond market and raise the costs of raising capital for municipalities. This Note focuses on three provisions, all of which increase the cost of raising capital for municipalities without a meaningful improvement in the safety of the banking system: the Liquidity Coverage Ratio, the Volcker Rule, and the Risk Retention Rule. Secondarily, this Note makes mitigating suggestions. This Note concludes that the most liquid municipal bonds should qualify as eligible for high-quality liquid asset status, which would be consistent with international standards. Additionally, exemptions should be granted under the Volcker Rule and the risk retention provisions for tender option bonds.
description: Columbia Business Law Review, Vol. 2016 No. 1
Logiche della diffrazione: le soglie testuali del Giovanni Episcopo
Creators: name: Carmello, Marco
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2021

description:

The short novel Giovanni Episcopo represents an exception in d’Annunzio’s fictional production. The beginning and the end of this work are particularly relevant for their innovative technique that points out a deep authorial engagement in literary experimentation. Critics discussed the innovative attitude of Giovanni Episcopo and its importance for a complete understanding of d’Annunzio’s production. In this article we are going to discuss this work analysing its textual thresholds to demonstrate its relevance for the authorial searching of new expressive ways.

description: Archivio d’Annunzio
The Public Morals Exception After the WTO Seal Products Dispute
Creators: name: Serpin, Pelin
Publisher: name: Columbia Business Law Review
Year: 2019

description: The public morals exception to the World Trade Organization (“WTO”) trade rules was explicitly invoked for the third time in the trade regime’s history in the WTO dispute over seal products. While shedding further light on the public morals exception, the WTO Appellate Body’s decision in this dispute has raised concerns about an overbroad public morals doctrine that could provide a cloak for protectionism. Some commentators argue that the decision has left the exception with no boundaries, leaving the door open for validation of otherwise illegal trade-restrictive measures disguised as measures intended to protect a public moral. This Note addresses such concerns about the unforeseen but far-reaching implications of the European Communities—Measures Prohibiting the Importation and Marketing of Seal Products (“EC—Seal Products”) decision, and argues that the Appellate Body properly and necessarily left the definition and scope of what constitutes a public moral to the discretion of individual WTO member countries. In discussing the WTO’s treatment of the public morals exception in the context of the trade-morality conflict, this Note argues that the implications of the EC—Seal Products decision are not as severe as they may seem. Given the increasingly diverse values, beliefs, and morals that exist among WTO member countries, as well as the crucial role of the WTO as adjudicator among them all, this Note argues that the decision necessarily protects member countries’ sovereignty as well as the trade regime’s legitimacy and resilience.
description: Columbia Business Law Review, Vol. 2016 No. 1
A study of the possibility of sprites in the atmospheres of other planets
Creators: name: Yair, Yoav
name: Takahashi, Yukihiro
name: Yaniv, Roy
name: Ebert, Ute
name: Goto, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Sprites are a spectacular type of transient luminous events (TLE) which occur above thunderstorms immediately after lightning. They have shapes of giant jellyfish, carrots or columns and last tens of milliseconds. In Earth's atmosphere, sprites mostly emit in red and blue wavelengths from excited N2 and N2+ and span a vertical range between 50 and 90 km above the surface. The emission spectra, morphology and occurrence heights of sprites reflect the properties of the planetary atmosphere they inhabit and are related to the intensity of the initiating parent lightning.. This paper presents results of theoretical calculations of the expected occurrence heights of sprites above lightning discharges in the CO2 atmosphere of Venus, the N2 atmosphere of Titan and the H2-He atmosphere of Jupiter. The expected emission features are presented and the potential of detecting sprites in planetary atmospheres by orbiting spacecraft is discussed.
description: 26 pages, 4 figures, to appear in J. Geophys. Res. - Planets
Oltrepassare la soglia della morale: delitto, giustizia, suicidio
Creators: name: Borin, Fabrizio
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2021

description:

The essay is about the film L’innocente by Luchino Visconti based on the novel by Gabriele d’Annunzio (1892). Accused of immorality, the literary text, decisive for the work of the Italian writer and dramatist, narrates – in the movie – the story of Tullio Hermil, a refined but restless man with a marked sensuality, and his infidelity towards his submissive wife Giuliana who, after a short love story with the writer Arborio, gets pregnant and decides to keep the baby. After the baptism, the jealous and upset Tullio kills the baby exposing him to the elements of Christmas night. Oppressed by the remorse, he commits suicide by gunshot. This essay intends to compare the two texts according to the poetic horizon of the director Luchino Visconti in the light of his contradictory attraction/rejection relationship with the Vate.

description: Archivio d’Annunzio
Lobsters, Hot Air Balloons, and the Hometown Tax
Creators: name: Kanzawa, Janet W.
Publisher: name: Columbia Business Law Review
Year: 2019

description: Many municipalities in the United States are short of the tax revenue they need and have had to cut spending on public goods, which has lowered the quality of life for their residents. Municipalities in Japan face the same problem. Japan has developed an effective method for raising tax revenue for local governments and revitalizing languishing economies. Japan’s “Hometown Tax” system empowers taxpayers to divert tax revenue from affluent urban governments to struggling rural governments, stimulates small businesses and enables rural governments to be more autonomous and financially independent. Under the Hometown Tax, a taxpayer that makes a charitable contribution to a local government receives a tax deduction and credit amounting to almost the entire value of the charitable contribution. At almost no extra cost, the taxpayer can select a Return Gift to receive from a local business in the region. Return Gifts range from deliveries of fresh locally-caught lobsters to vouchers for hot air balloon rides, and are listed on online portals that connect taxpayers to municipal and prefectural governments throughout Japan. The online portals have also become donation channels for regions experiencing natural disasters. Implementing a Hometown Tax system in the United States would require the addition of state and municipal tax credits, and allowing for Return Gift selection would require the modification of U.S. quid pro quo contribution law. A Hometown Tax has risks, and could result in an excessive diversion of tax revenue from urban to rural governments. This Note concludes that, given its potential to enable struggling municipalities to prosper, increase the demand for goods produced by small businesses, and further the financial independence of local governments, the United States should consider instituting some variation of a Hometown Tax system.
description: Columbia Business Law Review, Vol. 2017 No. 3
Garvey-Kelson Relations for Nuclear Charge Radii
Creators: name: Piekarewicz, Jorge
name: Centelles, Mario
name: Roca-Maza, Xavier
name: Vinas, Xavier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Garvey-Kelson relations (GKRs) are algebraic expressions originally developed to predict nuclear masses. In this letter we show that the GKRs provide a fruitful framework for the prediction of other physical observables that also display a slowly-varying dynamics. Based on this concept, we extend the GKRs to the study of nuclear charge radii. The GKRs are tested on 455 out of the approximately 800 nuclei whose charge radius is experimentally known. We find a rms deviation between the GK predictions and the experimental values of only 0.01 fm. This should be contrasted against some of the most successful microscopic models that yield rms deviations almost three times as large. Predictions - with reliable uncertainties - are provided for 116 nuclei whose charge radius is presently unknown.
description: 4 pages and 3 figures
The Crowdfund Act’s Impact on Women-Owned Businesses’ Access to Capital
Creators: name: Brandt, Elizabeth N.
Publisher: name: Columbia Business Law Review
Year: 2019

description: Women-owned businesses make up a significant portion of businesses in the United States and provide one of the most important growth opportunities for the United States’ economy today. However, female entrepreneurs face on-going challenges in gaining access to capital through traditional capital-raising mechanisms such as venture capital or bank loans. The Obama administration heralded the CROWDFUND Act as a boon for women-owned businesses. Many believed that regulation crowdfunding, enabled through the Act, would democratize potential investors in small businesses, thereby increasing the number of investors willing to provide capital to female entrepreneurs and their businesses. This Note provides the first quantified examination of the results of the first nearly eight months of regulation crowdfunding with respect to women-owned businesses. This Note additionally explores the results of regulation crowdfunding as reported by others. Ultimately, this Note determines that, at least in the first months of regulation crowdfunding, women-owned businesses did not take advantage of regulation crowdfunding in any meaningfully increased way compared to traditional capital-raising mechanisms. This Note proposes several ways in which the government could further support women-owned businesses, such as implementing a simple reporting mechanism to better track the capital-raising efforts of women-owned businesses and developing a pilot program of financial advisors available to founders and management of women-owned businesses seeking capital.
description: Columbia Business Law Review, Vol. 2017 No. 2
Cynophis helena Gü. R. b. J.
Creators: name: Müller, F
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1885
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Squamata
Ophidia
Colubridae
Cynophis
Cynophis helena

description: Cynophis helena Gü. R. b. J.
Peradenia. v. d. Hh. Dr. Sarasin. [1]
description: Published as part of Müller, F, 1885, Vierter Nachtrag zum Katalogder herpetologischen Sammlung des Basler Museums, pp. 668-717 in Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel. 7 (3) on page 681, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.part.2388, http://zenodo.org/record/15183591
The effects of tributary sediment pulses on mainstem channel dynamics in mountain streams
Creators: name: Lowe, Emma Kathryn
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: In the mountainous regions of British Columbia, debris flows are common, resulting in masses of coarse sediment entering larger streams in upland valleys. Relatively wide valleys form distinctive debris flow fans that partially fill the valley bottom. Where valleys are narrower and the streams in the valley bottom are confined, debris flows interact with the main stem stream in more complicated ways. This thesis presents eight experiments documenting the interactions between steep tributaries capable of generating debris flows and the main stem streams into which the debris flows enter. Using imagery that provides a 2D comparison model of the channel bed and video photography, experiments reveal the role of tributary sediment inputs (TSI) in controlling the behavior of mainstem stream profiles and defining features. The first set of experiments focuses on the natural channel and morphology changes with no influence of tributary sediment pulse events. The second set observes the change in morphological behavior as a function of the tributary confluence angle. A third set focuses on how debris flow sediment texture influences the effects of these pulses. The investigations consider the effect of changing the angle of tributary and effects on geomorphology of the main channel. The experiment iterations considered entrance angles of 90°, 75°, 60° and 45°. The second experiment involved adding coarse sediment to the bed material used for TSI in the first set, representing boulders found in step pool streams. Boulders are common in most debris flow materials but most mainstem streams are typically incompetent in their transportation; this experiment investigates the degree to which sediment alters behaviour at the confluence. The 90° and 75° junction angles formed less stable stream blockages which eroded rapidly and had lower elevation. The 60° and 45° angles posed a greater threat to up and downstream areas. These angles caused blockages with higher elevation and persistence. Their stability within streams meant their elevation grew following consistent debris flow activity creating greater geohazard threats downstream. Boulders (large grains) in the debris flows caused a larger magnitude of risk because of higher dam elevations and stream blockages posing potential outburst flood occurrence.
«Amore su la ruina»: strategie del desiderio mimetico nel primo libro del Forse che sì forse che no
Creators: name: Gialloreto, Andrea
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2021

description:

The aim of this paper is to investigate the first chapter of Forse che sì forse che no (1910). D’Annunzio’s last novel brings together the myths of the technical age, celebrated by Futurism, and the conflicting forces of forbidden desire, debilitating eros, madness and fascination with the past. The structure of the chapter, after the beginning dedicated to the challenge of speed and the taste for danger, finds its centre of gravity in the long sequence of the visit to Palazzo Gonzaga, a scene from which variations on the themes of the double, incest, the decline of humanistic civilisation and a dense network of intertextual references unfold. Particular prominence is given to the comparison with Vernon Lee’s writings dedicated to Mantua and the labyrinth.

description: Archivio d’Annunzio
Three-Dimensional Magnetic Reconnection
Creators: name: Parnell, Clare E.
name: Haynes, Andrew L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The importance of magnetic reconnection as an energy release mechanism in many solar, stellar, magnetospheric and astrophysical phenomena has long been recognised. Reconnection is the only mechanism by which magnetic fields can globally restructure, enabling them to access a lower energy state. Over the past decade, there have been some major advances in our understanding of three-dimensional reconnection. In particular, the key characteristics of 3D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) reconnection have been determined. For instance, 3D reconnection (i) occurs with or without nulls, (ii) occurs continuously and continually throughout a diffusion region and (iii) is driven by counter rotating flows. Furthermore, analysis of resistive 3D MHD magnetic experiments have revealed some intriguing effects relating to where and how reconnection occurs. To illustrate these new features, a series of constant-resistivity experiments, involving the interaction of two opposite-polarity magnetic sources in an overlying field, are considered. Such a simple interaction represents a typical building block of the Sun's magnetic atmosphere. By following the evolution of the magnetic topology, we are able to explain where, how and at what rate the reconnection occurs. Remarkably there can be up to five energy release sites at anyone time (compared to one in the potential case) and the duration of the interaction increases (more than doubles) as the resistivity decreases (by a factor of 16). The decreased resistivity also leads to a higher peak ohmic dissipation and more energy being released in total, as a result of a greater injection of Poynting flux.
description: To appear in "Magnetic Coupling between the Interior and the Atmosphere of the Sun", eds. S.S. Hasan and R.J. Rutten, Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Berlin, 2009
District-scale surface temperatures generated from high-resolution longitudinal thermal infrared images
Creators: name: Lin, Subin
name: Ramani, Vasantha
name: Martin, Miguel
name: Arjunan, Pandarasamy
name: Chong, Adrian
name: Biljecki, Filip
name: Ignatius, Marcel
name: Poolla, Kameshwar
name: Miller, Clayton
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The paper describes a dataset that was collected by infrared thermography, which is a non-contact, non-intrusive technique to collect data and analyze the built environment in various aspects. While most studies focus on the city and building scales, the rooftop observatory provides high temporal and spatial resolution observations with dynamic interactions on the district scale. The rooftop infrared thermography observatory with a multi-modal platform that is capable of assessing a wide range of dynamic processes in urban systems was deployed in Singapore. It was placed on the top of two buildings that overlook the outdoor context of the campus of the National University of Singapore. The platform collects remote sensing data from tropical areas on a temporal scale, allowing users to determine the temperature trend of individual features such as buildings, roads, and vegetation. The dataset includes 1,365,921 thermal images collected on average at approximately 10 seconds intervals from two locations during ten months.
Teleparallel bigravity
Creators: name: Blixt, Daniel
name: Hohmann, Manuel
name: Koivisto, Tomi
name: Marzola, Luca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We write down the teleparallel equivalent to Hassan-Rosen bigravity, which is written using a torsionful but curvature-free connection. The theories only differ by a boundary term. The equivalence was proven, both by using perturbation theory and Hamiltonian analysis. It is further shown how one can construct novel bigravity theories within the teleparallel framework. Some of those are analyzed through perturbation theory, and it is found that all of the considered novel bigravity theories suffer from pathologies. In particular, it is found that a construction with two copies of new general relativity leads to ghostly degrees of freedom which are not present in the single tetrad teleparallel corresponding theory. We demonstrate how the teleparallel framework allows to easily create theories with derivative interaction. However, it is shown through perturbation theory that the simplest model is not viable. Furthermore, we demonstrate some steps in the Hamiltonian analysis of teleparallel bigravity with two copies of new general relativity and some toy models. The results rule out some of the novel teleparallel bigravity theories, but also demonstrate techniques in perturbation theory and Hamiltonian analysis which could be further used for more profound theories in the future.
description: 32 pages, 1 figure, matches published version
Extraterritoriality of Securities Law Redux
Creators: name: Guseva, Yuliya
Publisher: name: Columbia Business Law Review
Year: 2019

description: In the famous Morrison v. National Australia Bank case, Justice Scalia mounted an attack on plaintiffs with tenuous connection to U.S. capital markets and attempted to rein in class actions against international corporations. Despite Morrison’s broad implications, there is no consensus on its ultimate impact. This Article contributes to this discussion by examining the risk of litigation faced by foreign firms before and after Morrison. The research reviews securities class actions between 2005 and 2015. The timeframe of the reported filings is from January 2005 through December 2015, i.e., about five years before and five years after Morrison. The Article reports data obtained from the filings and related court decisions, updated as of November 30, Extraterritoriality of Securities Law Redux: Litigation Five Years After Morrison v. National Australia Bank 2016. The Article concludes that, first, the actual risk of litigation has become more ascertainable and slightly lower than before Morrison. Second, Morrison affected the composition of the plaintiffs’ class. Based on mean and median settlement values, Morrison may be associated with lower litigation costs. Third, the results suggest that when firms select a cross-listing mode (i.e., an exchange listing or OTC trading), they effectively choose their level of commitment to U.S. markets through not only the ex-ante known reporting costs, but also projected litigation costs. Fourth, the research reviews the timing of settlements and dismissals vis-à-vis the types of cross-listing programs. Although more research is needed in this area, Morrison may have enabled foreign firms to rule out inflated assessments of the risk of litigation and to more precisely determine the expected value of their cross-listing programs net of litigation.
description: Columbia Business Law Review, Vol. 2017 No. 1
Grounding Innovation
Creators: name: Ravich, Timothy M.
Publisher: name: Columbia Business Law Review
Year: 2019

description: Unmanned aerial vehicles—”UAVs” or “drones”—are increasingly becoming a mainstream commercial phenomenon and tool for a vast range of commercial consumer, prosumer, and professional activities. Given advances in automation and miniaturization generally—and flight control stability and autopilot systems specifically—anyone can now fly in any airspace at any time by operating hand-held fixed-wing aircraft or quadcopters with little more than an ordinary smartphone or tablet. As such, sales of store-bought drones number in the millions, corresponding to the wide range of civil applications and value propositions that UAVs offer. Though civil drones are an attractive business investment, substantial regulatory headwinds confront the drone industry as startups endeavor to get to market and scale quickly. This is so notwithstanding—or perhaps even because of—the celebrated abilities of most small UAVs to fly boundlessly and collect and record information from nearly any vantage point. Drones are a classically disruptive technology of social, economic, and legal norms. Their operations raise novel and valid concerns in many of these areas, particularly in terms of safety and privacy. Consequently, regulators have responded—and they should. But federal, state, and local lawmakers alike have responded with policy interventions that are too often premature (or untimely) and overly rigid, discouraging the many beneficial uses of UAV technology. In fact, on the basis of ephemeral fears rather than data, regulators initially put in place overbroad and permission-based restraints that were tantamount to a de facto ban on all drone operations. This Article critiques the underlying thinking and approach that federal regulators have taken with respect to civil drones and argues that commercial UAVs should be a “permissionless innovation.” This Article posits that a better alternative to a top-down, ex-anteregulatory scheme is to broadly allow commercial UAVs and to deal with careless or reckless or nefarious operators and operations on a case-by-case, ex-postbasis. In doing so, this Article aims to present lessons learned in the context of commercial UAVs so that inefficiencies and paternalistic rulemaking can be avoided in the regulation of other innovations associated with the Internet of Things, including urban air mobility and electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing technologies—otherwise known as flying cars—that are just around the corner.
description: Columbia Business Law Review, Vol. 2018 No. 2
Compsosoma melanurum DB.
Creators: name: Müller, F
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1885
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Ophidia
Cerambycidae
Compsosoma
Compsosoma melanurum

description: Compsosoma melanurum DB.
juven.
aus Java v. F M. [1]
Der vortreﬁlichen Abbildung des jungen Tieres bei Jan vollkommen entsprechend.
description: Published as part of Müller, F, 1885, Vierter Nachtrag zum Katalogder herpetologischen Sammlung des Basler Museums, pp. 668-717 in Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel. 7 (3) on page 681, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.part.2388, http://zenodo.org/record/15183591
Delay-Optimal Power and Precoder Adaptation for Multi-stream MIMO Systems
Creators: name: Lau, Vincent K. N.
name: Chen, Yan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we consider delay-optimal MIMO precoder and power allocation design for a MIMO Link in wireless fading channels. There are $L$ data streams spatially multiplexed onto the MIMO link with heterogeneous packet arrivals and delay requirements. The transmitter is assumed to have knowledge of the channel state information (CSI) as well as the joint queue state information (QSI) of the $L$ buffers. Using $L$-dimensional Markov Decision Process (MDP), we obtain optimal precoding and power allocation policies for general delay regime, which consists of an online solution and an offline solution. The online solution has negligible complexity but the offline solution has worst case complexity ${\cal O}((N+1)^L)$ where $N$ is the buffer size. Using {\em static sorting} of the $L$ eigenchannels, we decompose the MDP into $L$ independent 1-dimensional subproblems and obtained low complexity offline solution with linear complexity order ${\cal O}(NL)$ and close-to-optimal performance.
Going Public Secretly
Creators: name: Gallagher, Patrick J.
Publisher: name: Columbia Business Law Review
Year: 2019

description: In an effort to reverse the declining number of IPOs seen over the past two decades, newly-appointed SEC Chairman Jay Clayton announced in mid-2017 that any company seeking to go public could now initially file its registration statement confidentially rather than publicly. This announcement effectively extended a policy that had originally only applied to emerging growth companies—firms with less than $1.07 billion in revenue during their last fiscal year—to larger companies. Because there are advantages to confidentially filing a registration statement, this new policy was meant to encourage more large firms to go public and, as a result, increase the overall number of IPOs. This Note empirically examines the effect of this policy change over the course of its first year to analyze whether it has succeeded in effectuating more IPOs in the marketplace. The data suggest that this new policy has failed. And because it affects a relatively small number of firms, it will likely continue to fail to meaningfully increase the number of IPOs. This Note argues that in order to encourage more companies to go public, the SEC and Congress must stop focusing on changes to the process of going public and instead make being a public company more attractive to both smaller firms, which have the potential to increase the number of IPOs, and larger firms, which can drastically increase the amount of overall public capital raised—another necessary metric in evaluating the success of the IPO market. In recent years, benefits granted to private capital markets have enabled them to flourish as viable alternatives to the public markets. This has led to greater societal inequality since average investors are often shut out from private investments, such as venture capital and private equity. Therefore, this Note argues that in order to save the public markets, benefits awarded to private capital must be reduced. In addition, this Note presents new proposals to further mitigate the structural realities that incentivize companies to remain private and, instead, encourage them to go public: (1) award firms that go public temporary exemptions from burdensome regulations that apply to public companies, such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act; and (2) offer tax credits to companies that conduct IPOs. Enacting such policies would help ensure more of today’s companies see the public markets as attractive sources of capital once again.
description: Columbia Business Law Review, Vol. 2019 No. 1
Il frammento tra dissoluzione e rinascita: d’Annunzio nel Notturno
Creators: name: Patrizi, Giorgio
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2021

description:

Through a path of analysis on the Notturno and its creation process, d’Annunzio’s artistic ability is highlighted in the management of fundamental details relating to the very structure of the text. This essay offers a reading that can refer to the practice of the fragment, which characterises the early twentieth century, in a dialectical tension between the pole of lyric prose – which manages the fragment as a privileged material of a refined stylistic preciousness – and the pole of worship of the word as an announcement of truth, the esoteric and the sapiential.

description: Archivio d’Annunzio
The Perfect Storm
Creators: name: Meng, Tina
Publisher: name: Columbia Business Law Review
Year: 2019

description: In 2015, domestic and international creditors were bracing for a historic financial event as the United States territory Puerto Rico teetered on the brink of catastrophic default. After almost a decade of economic headwinds, substantial money-borrowing, and poor fiscal management, Puerto Rico’s financial condition was quickly deteriorating. However, the island’s legal status as a territory made it impossible for the government to take advantage of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code to renegotiate its debt with institutional investors. After the Supreme Court denied the island’s own attempt to construct a restructuring process, Congress finally stepped in and enacted the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act in the summer of 2016. The Act, commonly referred to as PROMESA, creates a novel framework under which Puerto Rico can renegotiate its credit commitments and hopefully regain access to the credit market sometime in the future. In particular, PROMESA creates the Financial Oversight and Management Board (FOMB), which is an independent organization with oversight and approval authority over much of the Puerto Rico bankruptcy process. However, because PROMESA as a legislative act is new and untested, several interesting questions arise as to the law’s infrastructure around accountability of entities such as the FOMB. These questions are especially salient as Puerto Rico is the first U.S. territory to become insolvent; therefore, how these bankruptcy proceedings unfold will serve as important precedent for other territories or municipalities that may find themselves bankrupt. This Note focuses on the FOMB and whether stakeholders, such as creditors or Puerto Rican citizens, can judicially challenge the fiscal decisions made by the FOMB throughout this restructuring process. While this Note ultimately concludes that stakeholders may not have a strong legal argument to reverse the FOMB’s financial determinations in court, it also proposes that stakeholders may be more successful in appealing to congressional representatives to ensure that their voices are heard and their interests are accounted for throughout these unprecedented proceedings.
description: Columbia Business Law Review, Vol. 2019 No. 1