cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Bericht zum 6. Kubanischen Kongress zur sexuellen Erziehung, Orientierung und Therapie: "Die Sexualerziehung innerhalb der Prozesse sozialer Veränderung"
Creators: name: Borrego, Britta
Publisher: name: KULT_online
Year: 2012

description: KULT_online, Nr. 32 (2012): KULT_online 32 (2012)
Generalized optical theorem for Rayleigh scattering approximation
Creators: name: Rondon, Irving
name: Lee, Jooyoung
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A general expression for the optical theorem for probe sources given in terms of propagation invariant beams is derived. This expression is obtained using the far field approximation for Rayleigh regime. In order to illustrate this results is revisited the classical and standard scattering elastic problem of a dielectric sphere for which the incident field can be any propagation invariant beam.
description: 7 pages, 5 Figures
iFishIENCi Comprehensive Analysis about the Business Enablers
Creators: name: Borgogno, Camilo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Business Enablers
Aquaculture
stakeholders
KERs
Products

description: This deliverable D5.3 (Comprehensive analysis about the Business Enablers 2nd Version) aims to conduct the analysis on the identification of the different business enablers of the iFishIENCi project, who will facilitate the implementation of KERs throughout the project. Consequently, business enablers will also contribute indirectly to the future post-project activities and achievements. The different actions carried out by the selected business enablers will be aligned with the exploitation route and intellectual property protection strategy of the iFishIENCi project. In this second and last version of the deliverable (M52), results on a stakeholders’ survey and the gathering of other primary sources were analysed to complete the analysis carried out on this report.This document will follow support the development of the key exploitable results and D5.6 (Exploitation strategy). On this deliverable, a complete list of selected business enablers has been produced, as well as a detailed analysis on the competitive advantage for each one of the main KERs (“products”).
Cluster Expansion Method for Evolving Weighted Networks Having Vector-like Nodes
Creators: name: Ausloos, Marcel
name: Gligor, Mircea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Cluster Variation Method known in statistical mechanics and condensed matter is revived for weighted bipartite networks. The decomposition of a Hamiltonian through a finite number of components, whence serving to define variable clusters, is recalled. As an illustration the network built from data representing correlations between (4) macro-economic features, i.e. the so called $vector$ $components$, of 15 EU countries, as (function) nodes, is discussed. We show that statistical physics principles, like the maximum entropy criterion points to clusters, here in a (4) variable phase space: Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Final Consumption Expenditure (FCE), Gross Capital Formation (GCF) and Net Exports (NEX). It is observed that the $maximum$ entropy corresponds to a cluster which does $not$ explicitly include the GDP but only the other (3) ''axes'', i.e. consumption, investment and trade components. On the other hand, the $minimal$ entropy clustering scheme is obtained from a coupling necessarily including GDP and FCE. The results confirm intuitive economic theory and practice expectations at least as regards geographical connexions. The technique can of course be applied to many other cases in the physics of socio-economy networks.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures, 20 references, 3 tables, submitted to FENS 07 Proceedings
Workshop day 1: Discussion of Susie Little's basket
Creators: name: Parker, Verdena
name: Ammon, Danny
name: Begay, Kayla
name: Escamilla, Ramón
name: George-Moore, Melodie
name: Newbold, Lindsey
name: Lincoln, Perry
name: Parker, Otis
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: hup

description: Audio files VP-250311-20, VP-250311-21, and VP-250311-22; video files VP-250311-20-1, VP-250311-20-2, VP-250311-20-3, VP-250311-21-1, VP-250311-21-2, VP-250311-22-1, and VP-250311-22-2: Discussion of a basket made by Susie Little, a well-known basket maker, in English (VP-250311-20 and VP-250311-21) and then in Hupa (VP-250311-22). Video files VP-250311-20-1, VP-250311-21-1, and VP-250311-22-1 were made on one device, and VP-250311-20-2/3, VP-250311-21-2, and VP-250311-22-2 more or less simultaneously on another. The first few seconds of video file VP-250311-21-2 correspond to the last few seconds of audio file VP-250311-20. Recorded at the Hoopa Valley Tribal Museum as part of a language workshop. The participants identified here were present at most sessions during the workshop; additional people were also present, some of whom participate in the conversation.
The blue economy 3.0: innovation for a sustainable ocean economy in Morocco
Creators: name: Sanae Hanine
name: Brahim Dinar
name: Said Meftah
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Purpose- Given the importance and role of the ocean for food security, economic growth, as well as the maintenance of life and climate balance. This research deals with the role of innovation in the blue economy and its challenges in Morocco. Research and innovation are strong levers for growing this economic segment. Indeed, innovative solutions are able to enable better knowledge and development of Moroccan coastal and marine ecosystems.

Design/methodology/approach - we based ourselves on primary sources of information specialized in the field of innovation in the maritime environment. Günter Pauli's thoughts on “The Blue Economy 3.0” constituted the essential vulgate of the framework of our research.

Findings - The research has brought out clusters of innovations that we consider priority and promising to the blue economy in Morocco.
High dynamic range imaging with a single-mode pupil remapping system : a self-calibration algorithm for redundant interferometric arrays
Creators: name: Lacour, S.
name: Thiébaut, E.
name: Perrin, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The correction of the influence of phase corrugation in the pupil plane is a fundamental issue in achieving high dynamic range imaging. In this paper, we investigate an instrumental setup which consists in applying interferometric techniques on a single telescope, by filtering and dividing the pupil with an array of single-mode fibers. We developed a new algorithm, which makes use of the fact that we have a redundant interferometric array, to completely disentangle the astronomical object from the atmospheric perturbations (phase and scintillation). This self-calibrating algorithm can also be applied to any - diluted or not - redundant interferometric setup. On an 8 meter telescope observing at a wavelength of 630 nm, our simulations show that a single mode pupil remapping system could achieve, at a few resolution elements from the central star, a raw dynamic range up to 10^6; depending on the brightness of the source. The self calibration algorithm proved to be very efficient, allowing image reconstruction of faint sources (mag = 15) even though the signal-to-noise ratio of individual spatial frequencies are of the order of 0.1. We finally note that the instrument could be more sensitive by combining this setup with an adaptive optics system. The dynamic range would however be limited by the noise of the small, high frequency, displacements of the deformable mirror.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Learning to Localize Using a LiDAR Intensity Map
Creators: name: Bârsan, Ioan Andrei
name: Wang, Shenlong
name: Pokrovsky, Andrei
name: Urtasun, Raquel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper we propose a real-time, calibration-agnostic and effective localization system for self-driving cars. Our method learns to embed the online LiDAR sweeps and intensity map into a joint deep embedding space. Localization is then conducted through an efficient convolutional matching between the embeddings. Our full system can operate in real-time at 15Hz while achieving centimeter level accuracy across different LiDAR sensors and environments. Our experiments illustrate the performance of the proposed approach over a large-scale dataset consisting of over 4000km of driving.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures, 5 tables; Presented at the 2nd Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2018
Pseudovorticella bromelicola Foissner, Blake, Wolf, Breiner & Stoeck 2009
Creators: name: Durán-Ramírez, Carlos Alberto
name: Dias, Roberto Júnio Pedroso
name: Estrada, Rosaura Mayén-
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Chromista
Ciliophora
Oligohymenophorea
Peritrichida
Vorticellidae
Pseudovorticella
Pseudovorticella bromelicola

description: Pseudovorticella bromelicola 1 Foissner, Blake, Wolf, Breiner & Stoeck, 2009
Distribution. BRAZIL: Parque Estadual do Ibitipoca, Minas Gerais (Costa-Muniz 2019), (Af, Nf, Ni, Nm, No, Vb, Vf, Vh, Vp, Wg). COSTA RICA: Tropic station La Gamba (Foissner et al. 2009), (Gz).
description: Published as part of Durán-Ramírez, Carlos Alberto, Dias, Roberto Júnio Pedroso & Estrada, Rosaura Mayén-, 2020, Checklist of ciliates (Alveolata: Ciliophora) that inhabit in bromeliads from the Neotropical Region, pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 4895 (1) on page 31, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4895.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4321437
Theoretical simulation of the anisotropic phases of antiferromagnetic thin films
Creators: name: Alonso, J. J.
name: Fernandez, J. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We simulate antiferromagnetic thin films. Dipole-dipole and antiferromagnetic exchange interactions as well as uniaxial and quadrupolar anisotropies are taken into account. Various phases unfold as the corresponding parameters, J, D and C, as well as the temperature T and the number n of film layers vary. We find (1) how the strength Delta_m of the anisotropy arising from dipole-dipole interactions varies with the number of layers m away from the film's surface, with J and with n; (2) a unified phase diagram for all n-layer films and bulk systems; (3) a layer dependent spin reorientation (SR) phase in which spins rotate continuously as T, D, C and n vary; (4) that the ratio of the SR to the ordering temperature depends (approximately) on n only through (D+Delta/n)/C, and hardly on J; (5) a phase transformation between two different magnetic orderings, in which spin orientations may or may not change, for some values of J, by varying n.
description: 10 LaTeX pages, 13 eps figures. Submitted to PRB on 30 June 2006. Accepted on 10 October 2006
Transition to the ultimate regime in a radiatively driven convection experiment
Creators: name: Bouillaut, V.
name: Lepot, S.
name: Aumaître, S.
name: Gallet, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the transition between two regimes of heat transport in a radiatively driven convection experiment, where a fluid gets heated up within a tunable heating length $\ell$ in the vicinity of the bottom of the tank. The first regime is similar to the one observed in standard Rayleigh-Bénard experiments, the Nusselt number $Nu$ being related to the Rayleigh number $Ra$ through the power-law $Nu \sim Ra^{1/3}$. The second regime corresponds to the "ultimate" or mixing-length scaling regime of thermal convection, where $Nu$ varies as the square-root of $Ra$. Evidence for these two scaling regimes have been reported in Lepot et al. (Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. U S A, {\bf 115}, 36, 2018), and we now study in detail how the system transitions from one to the other. We propose a simple model describing radiatively driven convection in the mixing-length regime. \corr{It leads to the scaling relation $Nu \sim \frac{\ell}{H} Pr^{1/2} Ra^{1/2}$,} where $H$ is the height of the cell, thereby allowing us to deduce the values of $Ra$ and $Nu$ at which the system transitions from one regime to the other. These predictions are confirmed by the experimental data gathered at various $Ra$ and $\ell$. \corr{We conclude by showing that boundary layer corrections can persistently modify the Prandtl number dependence of $Nu$ at large $Ra$, for $Pr \gtrsim 1$.
The coproduction model of service delivery : a case study of integrated service delivery in the city of Vancouver
Creators: name: Chua, Karen Brigid
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: In attempts to improve municipal services, a number of cities in North America have begun moving away from the traditional bureaucratic methods of service delivery towards alternative approaches. The coproduction model, a system in which the consumers of a service also assist to produce this service, has become increasingly favoured by municipalities as an alternative. In 1995, the City of Vancouver adopted a coproduction approach to service delivery. This new program of Integrated Service Delivery (ISD) involves the reorganization of City staff into multidepartmental teams assigned to specific geographic neighbourhoods. This paper sought to assess the prospects for improved service delivery under a coproduction approach. It examined the City of Vancouver's experience with Integrated Service Delivery in order to identify the features which are critical to the success of a coproduction model. The study encompassed a qualitative analysis of the program based on a review of the academic literature and relevant City documents, as well as key informant interviews with City management, ISD team members, and residents and agency representatives from two Vancouver neighbourhoods. The Vancouver experience illustrates that moving to a coproduction model of service delivery will not by itself ensure that significant gains in service delivery are achieved. Rather, careful attention must be paid to the structure of the proposed model. Specifically, the Vancouver experience demonstrates: effective co-production efforts require a shift in focus of service delivery to those service producers (staff) who have greater contact with consumers/users of the services (public); any new lines of authority resulting from this shift must be clearly delineated and understood by all service producers; flattening of hierarchical structures works well when adopted in tandem with the integration of staff across departments; formal mechanisms for public consultation must be established. Adhoc approaches to public consultation minimizes public awareness and militates against effective problem identification and problem solving; where the approach encompasses the use of multi-disciplinary teams, consideration must be given to establishing the appropriate environment for team-based work; base line measurements for service delivery and team operations are critical to program success and identifying future refinements.
Swimming through parameter subspaces of a simple anguilliform swimmer
Creators: name: Battista, Nicholas A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Computational scientists have investigated swimming performance across a multitude of different systems for decades. Most models depend on numerous model parameters and performance is sensitive to those parameters. In this paper, parameter subspaces are qualitatively identified in which there exists enhanced swimming performance for an idealized, simple swimming model that resembles a C. elegans, an organism that exhibits an anguilliform mode of locomotion. The computational model uses the immersed boundary method to solve the fluid-interaction system. The 1D swimmer propagates itself forward by dynamically changing its preferred body curvature. Observations indicate that the swimmer's performance appears more sensitive to fluid scale and stroke frequency, rather than variations in the velocity and acceleration of either its upstroke or downstroke as a whole. Pareto-like optimal fronts were also identified within the data for the cost of transport and swimming speed. While this methodology allows one to locate robust parameter subspaces for desired performance in a straight-forward manner, it comes at the cost of simulating orders of magnitude more simulations than traditional fluid-structure interaction studies.
description: 25 pages; 12 figures
Memory effects in a Markov chain dephasing channel
Creators: name: D'Arrigo, Antonio
name: De Leo, Elena
name: Benenti, Giuliano
name: Falci, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a dephasing channel with memory, modelled by a Markov chain. We show that even weak memory effects have a detrimental impact on the performance of quantum error correcting schemes designed for uncorrelated errors. We also discuss an alternative scheme that takes advantage of memory effects to protect quantum information.
description: 5 pages, 1 figure, NIC@QS proceedings
Workshop day 1: Discussion of arrows, baskets, and pipes
Creators: name: Parker, Verdena
name: Ammon, Danny
name: Begay, Kayla
name: Escamilla, Ramón
name: George-Moore, Melodie
name: Newbold, Lindsey
name: Lincoln, Perry
name: Parker, Otis
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: hup

description: Audio file VP-250311-19: Discussion of arrows, baskets, and ceremonial pipes, mostly in English with some Hupa vocabulary interspersed. Includes a brief discussion of a filmmaker who visited in the 1940s and items related to the Jump Dance. Recorded at the Hoopa Valley Tribal Museum as part of a language workshop. The participants identified here were present at most sessions during the workshop; additional people were also present, some of whom participate in the conversation.
Quantum tunneling through vacuum-multiparticle induced potentials
Creators: name: Macovei, Mihai A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The vacuum cavity mode induces a potential barrier and a well when an ultra-slow excited atom enters the interaction region so that it can be reflected or transmitted with a certain probability. We demonstrate here that a slow-velocity excited particle tunnels freely through a vacuum electromagnetic field mode filled with $N-1$ ground state atoms. The reason for this is the trapping of the moving atom into its upper state due to multiparticle influences and the corresponding decoupling from the interaction with the environment such that the emitter does not {\it see} the induced potentials.
description: Multiparticle samples, quantum tunneling, vacuum induced potentials
Probability distributions for analog-to-target distances
Creators: name: Platzer, Paul
name: Yiou, Pascal
name: Naveau, Philippe
name: Filipot, Jean-François
name: Thiebaut, Maxime
name: Tandeo, Pierre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Some properties of chaotic dynamical systems can be probed through features of recurrences, also called analogs. In practice, analogs are nearest neighbours of the state of a system, taken from a large database called the catalog. Analogs have been used in many atmospheric applications including forecasts, downscaling, predictability estimation, and attribution of extreme events. The distances of the analogs to the target state condition the performances of analog applications. These distances can be viewed as random variables, and their probability distributions can be related to the catalog size and properties of the system at stake. A few studies have focused on the first moments of return time statistics for the best analog, fixing an objective of maximum distance from this analog to the target state. However, for practical use and to reduce estimation variance, applications usually require not just one, but many analogs. In this paper, we evaluate from a theoretical standpoint and with numerical experiments the probability distributions of the $K$-best analog-to-target distances. We show that dimensionality plays a role on the size of the catalog needed to find good analogs, and also on the relative means and variances of the $K$-best analogs. Our results are based on recently developed tools from dynamical systems theory. These findings are illustrated with numerical simulations of a well-known chaotic dynamical system and on 10m-wind reanalysis data in north-west France. A practical application of our derivations for the purpose of objective-based dimension reduction is shown using the same reanalysis data.
KSM++: Using I/O-based hints to make memory-deduplication scanners more efficient
Creators: name: Miller, Konrad
name: Franz, Fabian
name: Groeninger, Thorsten
name: Rittinghaus, Marc
name: Hillenbrand, Marius
name: Bellosa, Frank
Publisher: name: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Year: 2012

description: Memory scanning deduplication techniques, as implemented in Linux' Kernel Samepage Merging (KSM), work very well for deduplicating fairly static, anonymous pages with equal content across different virtual machines. However, scanners need very aggressive scan rates when it comes to identifying sharing opportunities with a short life span of up to about 5 min. Otherwise, the scan process is not fast enough to catch those short-lived pages. Our approach generates I/O-based hints in the host to make the memory scanning process more efficient, thus enabling it to find and exploit short-lived sharing opportunities without raising the scan rate. Experiences with similar techniques for paravirtualized guests have shown that pages in a guest’s unified buffer cache are good sharing candidates. We already identify such pages in the host when carrying out I/O-operations on behalf of the guest. The target/source pages in the guest can safely be assumed to be part of the guest’s unified buffer cache. That way, we can determine good sharing hints for the memory scanner. A modification of the guest is not required. We have implemented our approach in Linux. By modifying the KSM scanning mechanism to process these hints preferentially, we move the associated sharing opportunities earlier into the merging stage. Thereby, we deduplicate more pages than the baseline system. In our evaluation, we identify sharing opportunities faster and with less overhead than the traditional linear scanning policy. KSM needs to follow about seven times as many pages as we do, to find a sharing opportunity.
Where to start? Improving, Implementing and Assessing institutional policies with the UniSAFE toolkit
Creators: name: Polykarpou, Panagiota
name: Madesi, Vasia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Session at UniSAFE's Final Conference; Namur, 22 November 2023.

The session highlighted the key components of the UniSAFE Toolkit to address gender-based violence in higher education instiutions and research organisations, including an Action plan, a Guide to create awareness-raising campaigns, and a guidance for protocol development.

This session was presented by Panagiota Polykarpou and Vasia Madesi, Yellow Window.
The top quark jet-function at two loops
Creators: name: Jain, Ambar
name: Scimemi, Ignazio
name: Stewart, Iain W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Far above threshold the production process e^+e^-to t t-bar can be analyzed using effective field theories. In this talk we consider the invariant mass distribution of top-jets and report about our computation of the two-loop heavy quark jet-function. This is a key part of a next-to-next-to-leading order analysis, and already allows for a resummation of all large logs which effect the shape of the top-invariant mass distribution at next-to-next-to-leading log order. A top-mass scheme is defined which is suitable for measurements involving jets, and whose anomalous dimension is determined by the cusp-anomalous dimension to all orders in perturbation theory.
description: Talk presented at RADCOR07, October 1-5 2007, Florence, Italy
Superconductivity at 40 K in lithiation-processed [(Fe,Al)(OH)2][FeSe]1.2 with a layered structure
Creators: name: Hu, Guobing
name: Shi, Mengzhu
name: Wang, Wenxiang
name: Zhu, Changsheng
name: Sun, Zeliang
name: Cui, Jianhua
name: Zhuo, Weizhuang
name: Yu, Fanghang
name: Luo, Xigang
name: Chen, Xianhui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Exploration of new superconductors has always been one of the research directions in condensed matter physics. We report here a new layered heterostructure of [(Fe,Al)(OH)2][FeSe]1.2, which is synthesized by the hydrothermal ion-exchange technique. The structure is suggested by a combination of X-ray powder diffraction and the electron diffraction (ED). [(Fe,Al)(OH)2][FeSe]1.2 is composed of the alternating stacking of tetragonal FeSe layer and hexagonal (Fe,Al)(OH)2 layer. In [(Fe,Al)(OH)2][FeSe]1.2, there exists mismatch between the FeSe sub-layer and (Fe,Al)(OH)2 sub-layer, and the lattice of the layered heterostructure is quasi-commensurate. The as-synthesized [(Fe,Al)(OH)2][FeSe]1.2 is non-superconducting due to the Fe vacancies in the FeSe layer. The superconductivity with a Tc of 40 K can be achieved after a lithiation process, which is due to the elimination of the Fe vacancies in the FeSe layer. The Tc is nearly the same as that of (Li,Fe)OHFeSe although the structure of [(Fe,Al)(OH)2][FeSe]1.2 is quite different from that of (Li,Fe)OHFeSe. The new layered heterostructure of [(Fe,Al)(OH)2][FeSe]1.2 contains an iron selenium tetragonal lattice interleaved with a hexagonal metal hydroxide lattice. These results indicate that the superconductivity is very robust for FeSe-based superconductors. It opens a path for exploring super-conductivity in iron-base superconductors.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures, published in Inorg. Chem
Readout Electronics Tests and Integration of the ATLAS Semiconductor Tracker
Creators: name: Mitsou, Vasiliki A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The SemiConductor Tracker (SCT) together with the Pixel detector and the Transition Radiation Tracker (TRT) form the central tracking system of the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. It consists of single-sided microstrip silicon sensors, which are read out via binary ASICs based on the DMILL technology, and the data are transmitted via radiation-hard optical fibres. After an overview of the SCT detector layout and readout system, the final-stage assembly of large-scale structures and the integration with the TRT is presented. The focus is on the electrical performance of the overall SCT detector system through the different integration stages, including the detector control and data acquisition system.
description: 5 pages, 12 figures, Contributed to 12th Workshop On Electronics For LHC And Future Experiments (LECC 2006), 25-29 September 2006, Valencia, Spain
Workshop day 1: Discussion of wolf skins
Creators: name: Parker, Verdena
name: Ammon, Danny
name: Begay, Kayla
name: Escamilla, Ramón
name: George-Moore, Melodie
name: Newbold, Lindsey
name: Lincoln, Perry
name: Parker, Otis
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: hup

description: Audio file VP-250311-18; video files VP-250311-18-1 and VP-250311-18-2: Discussion of wolf skins, in Hupa. Video files VP-250311-18-1 and VP-250311-18-2 were recorded on separate devices more or less simultaneously. Recorded at the Hoopa Valley Tribal Museum as part of a language workshop. The participants identified here were present at most sessions during the workshop; additional people were also present, some of whom participate in the conversation.
BALANCING INVESTMENT PROTECTION AND STATE’S REGULATORY SPACE IN THE LIGHT OF INVESTMENT TREATY REGIME ABSTRACT
Creators: name: Akhtamova Yulduz
Publisher: name: Review of law sciences
Year: 2020
Subjects: international investment agreements
investment protection
sources of law governing investment behaviour
state’s regulatory space
protection of public policy objectives.

description: The asymmetric character of the investment treaty regime, which traditionally emphasizes state responsibility while omitting corporate accountability, has given rise to controversial debate among scholars as well as the international community. Some scholars argue that various obligations are already imposed on investors since the sources of foreign investment law are not limited to investment treaties, and there is a wide range of sources governing investor behavior such as national laws of host states, investor-state contracts, and other international norms concerning human rights, corruption, environmental protection and social rights.1 This article argues that responsible business conduct provisions should be part and parcel of investment treaties, thereby imposing obligations directly on investors rather than on states. This is due to the fact that although arbitral tribunals can employ different applicable laws to establish investor responsibility by interpreting investment treaties in an innovative way, they frequently make inconsistent decisions owing to the lack of binding precedent. Moreover, national laws of host states are not necessarily an effective tool to ensure responsible business conduct since laws of developing states can be weak, and powerful TNCs can influence their governmental decision-making. Regarding international instruments, which consist of soft norms and hard laws, the former does not impose any binding obligations on investors, while the latter is addressed to states.
Inelastic quantum transport: the self-consistent Born approximation and correlated electron-ion dynamics
Creators: name: McEniry, Eunan J.
name: Frederiksen, Thomas
name: Todorov, Tchavdar N.
name: Dundas, Daniel
name: Horsfield, Andrew P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A dynamical method for inelastic transport simulations in nanostructures is compared with a steady-state method based on non-equilibrium Green's functions. A simplified form of the dynamical method produces, in the steady state in the weak-coupling limit, effective self-energies analogous to those in the Born Approximation due to electron-phonon coupling. The two methods are then compared numerically on a resonant system consisting of a linear trimer weakly embedded between metal electrodes. This system exhibits enhanced heating at high biases and long phonon equilibration times. Despite the differences in their formulation, the static and dynamical methods capture local current-induced heating and inelastic corrections to the current with good agreement over a wide range of conditions, except in the limit of very high vibrational excitations, where differences begin to emerge.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures
Mind the gap : psychological jurisprudence and the professional regulation of lawyer dishonesty
Creators: name: Hall, Katherine Helen
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: KL82.H35 2011
subject: Legal ethics Australia New South Wales
subject: Lawyers Australia
subject: Practice of law Australia

description: This thesis considers the role of professional regulation in disciplining lawyer dishonesty. It defines dishonesty as acts done, whether at the suggestion of a partner, a client or another lawyer, that enable a client to act dishonestly. In particular, it focuses upon the professional norms, practices and rules that regulate large firm lawyer misconduct in Australia. As the size and sophistication of law firms has grown, so too has evidence of lawyers being complicit in the dishonest actions of their clients. This thesis examines how lawyers working within these environments navigate the practical and psychological challenges of acting honestly for their clients. It undertakes a theoretical inquiry into both the importance of lawyer honesty and the often conflicting norms and pressures of large firm practice . It also draws upon research in cognitive and social psychology to develop an empirically-grounded framework for lawyers' decisions to act dishonestly. In particular, it focuses upon the role of rationalisations in encouraging a pragmatic approach to clients' dishonest acts, especially in the context of the complexities and ambiguities of commercial legal practice. In the continuing absence of a national regulatory scheme governing the legal profession in Australia, the thesis focuses upon the disciplinary system operating in New South Wales and undertakes a theoretical inquiry into the importance of regulating lawyer dishonesty and an empirical study of NSW disciplinary cases to understand how lawyer dishonesty is dealt with by the professional and regulatory bodies in that state. It shows that significant gaps exist in the current regulatory scheme, particularly in the context of "who" disciplinary actions are brought against, "what" misconduct actions are for and "how" practitioners are dealt with. It argues that these gaps undermine the legitimacy of the regulatory anddisciplinary systems, which have as their goal providing a consistent scheme for the regulation of lawyers and the enforcement of standards of competence and honesty across the legal professlon. Finally, the thesis considers whether the regulatory regime governing professional misconduct in NSW can be effectively used to improve the standard of large firm lawyer honesty. It argues "yes" and suggests that three regulatory responses are required: firstly, normative issues need to remain at the centre of the regulation of professional misconduct; secondly, all law firms should be subject to the requirement to implement appropriate management systems and finally, specific provisions should be introduced to impose liability on large firm lawyers who assist their clients to act dishonestly.
Adaptive Debanding Filter
Creators: name: Tu, Zhengzhong
name: Lin, Jessie
name: Wang, Yilin
name: Adsumilli, Balu
name: Bovik, Alan C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Banding artifacts, which manifest as staircase-like color bands on pictures or video frames, is a common distortion caused by compression of low-textured smooth regions. These false contours can be very noticeable even on high-quality videos, especially when displayed on high-definition screens. Yet, relatively little attention has been applied to this problem. Here we consider banding artifact removal as a visual enhancement problem, and accordingly, we solve it by applying a form of content-adaptive smoothing filtering followed by dithered quantization, as a post-processing module. The proposed debanding filter is able to adaptively smooth banded regions while preserving image edges and details, yielding perceptually enhanced gradient rendering with limited bit-depths. Experimental results show that our proposed debanding filter outperforms state-of-the-art false contour removing algorithms both visually and quantitatively.
description: 4 pages, 7 figures, 1 table. Accepted to IEEE Signal Processing Letters
iFishIENCi Overview on Stakeholder Engagement Actions (Policy Makers)
Creators: name: Shrestha, Marie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Policy
Aquaculture
Water Framework Directive
RRI
Stakeholder

description: Aquaculture in Europe is regulated by different directives and strategic plans. iFishIENCi aims to contribute to implementation of ongoing regulations such as the Multiannual National Strategic Plan for the development of aquaculture activities, the Water Framework Directive by reducing freshwater use and discharge (nutrient and suspended solid discharge) of EU aquaculture, the Marine Strategy Framework Directive and the Blue Growth Strategy.In order to do so, it was of utmost importance to identify and engage policy makers all along the project according to Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) principles. The methodology of engagement actions relied on engaging stakeholders at events, with Digital Interactions and with Virtual Platforms and to Demonstrate iFishIENCi systems to answer the needs of the stakeholders at the European and international levels. In addition, we aimed for a worldwide know-how transfer of iFishIENCi technology innovations in the long-term.
A Large Massive Quiescent Galaxy Sample at z~1.2
Creators: name: Xu, Hai
name: Dai, Y. Sophia
name: Huang, Jia-Sheng
name: Wang, Zhaoyu
name: Cheng, Cheng
name: Shao, Xu
name: Wu, Shumei
name: Yang, Xiaohu
name: Jing, Yipeng
name: Sawicki, Marcin
name: Liu, Feng-Yuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we present a simple color-magnitude selection and obtain a large sample of 33,893 massive quiescent galaxies at intermediate redshifts (110.5, with a median of log(M*/M_sun)=11.0. A small fraction of our galaxies is also covered by the HST CANDELS. Morphological analysis in the observed H band shows that the majority of this subsample are early-type galaxies. As massive early-type galaxies trace the high density regions in the large scale structure in the universe, our study provides a quick and simple way to obtain a statistical significant sample of massive galaxies in a relative narrow redshift range. Our sample is 7-20 times larger at the massive end (log(M*/M_sun)>10.5) than any existing samples obtained in previous surveys. This is a pioneer study, and the technique introduced here can be applied to future wide-field survey to study large scale structure, and to identify high density region and clusters.
description: 16 pages, 16 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Detailed Description of Verbal –s Marking in Child AAE and SWE (Cleveland & Oetting, 2013)
Creators: name: Cleveland, Lesli H.
name: Oetting, Janna B.
Publisher: name: ASHA journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 170204 Linguistic Processes (incl. Speech Production and Comprehension)
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Language

description: Purpose: Children’s marking of verbal –s was examined by their dialect (African American English [AAE] vs. Southern White English [SWE]) and clinical status (specific language impairment [SLI] vs. typically developing [TD]) and as a function of 4 linguistic variables (verb regularity, negation, expression of a habitual activity, and expression of historical present tense).Method: The data were language samples from 57 six-year-olds who varied by their dialect and clinical status (AAE: SLI = 14, TD = 12; SWE: SLI = 12, TD = 19).Results: The AAE groups produced lower rates of marking than did the SWE groups, and the SWE SLI group produced lower rates of marking than did the SWE TD group. Although low numbers of verb contexts made it difficult to evaluate the linguistic variables, there was evidence of their influence, especially for verb regularity and negation. The direction and magnitude of the effects were often (but not always) consistent with what has been described in the adult dialect literature.Conclusion: Verbal –s can be used to help distinguish children with and without SLI in SWE but not in AAE. Clinicians can apply these findings to other varieties of AAE and SWE and other dialects by considering rates of marking and the effects of linguistic variables on marking.
Race as a cluster concept: a new social realism about race
Creators: name: Msimang, Phila Mfundo
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 500399
subject: Philosophy not elsewhere classified

description: Race talk is talk about groups whose nature is presently under debate. This thesis deals with the question of whether the concept of race can account for the nature of the groups race talk is about. I argue that these groups are properly accounted for and understood as social races (rather than biological races or racialized groups) through specifying the meaning of race as a cluster concept. The method of specification that I develop using the cluster concept is an approach that draws inspiration from Wittgenstein’s notion of family resemblance. My argument is that the concept of race is constituted by a heterogenous set of ideas about human group divisions that is held together as a concept by the similarities or resemblances that conceptions of race share with one another. I argue that formulating race as a cluster concept has numerous benefits over competing accounts and stipulations of the concept of race. The case that I make is that the cluster concept best accounts for the groups of race talk on a number of fronts. I argue that it provides us with the most compelling metaphysical account of races and what race talk is about, and it provides the best framework for—and account of—the heterogeneity of race’s ontological schemata (and the diversity of their context-specific formulations). Overall, I argue that the cluster concept of race outcompetes rival accounts of race in achieving the normative and theoretical goals set for the concept of race.
Rank-smoothed Pairwise Learning In Perceptual Quality Assessment
Creators: name: Talebi, Hossein
name: Amid, Ehsan
name: Milanfar, Peyman
name: Warmuth, Manfred K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Conducting pairwise comparisons is a widely used approach in curating human perceptual preference data. Typically raters are instructed to make their choices according to a specific set of rules that address certain dimensions of image quality and aesthetics. The outcome of this process is a dataset of sampled image pairs with their associated empirical preference probabilities. Training a model on these pairwise preferences is a common deep learning approach. However, optimizing by gradient descent through mini-batch learning means that the "global" ranking of the images is not explicitly taken into account. In other words, each step of the gradient descent relies only on a limited number of pairwise comparisons. In this work, we demonstrate that regularizing the pairwise empirical probabilities with aggregated rankwise probabilities leads to a more reliable training loss. We show that training a deep image quality assessment model with our rank-smoothed loss consistently improves the accuracy of predicting human preferences.
The Hagedorn Temperature and Open QCD-String Tachyons in Pure N=1 Super Yang-Mills
Creators: name: Armoni, Adi
name: Hollowood, Timothy J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider large-N confining gauge theories with a Hagedorn density of states. In such theories the potential between a pair of colour-singlet sources may diverge at a critical distance r_c = 1/ T_H. We consider, in particular, pure N=1 super Yang-Mills theory and argue that when a domain-wall and an anti domain-wall are brought to a distance near r_c the interaction potential is better described by an ``open QCD-string channel''. We interpret the divergence of the potential in terms of a tachyonic mode and relate its mass to the Hagedorn temperature. Finally we relate our result to a theorem of Kutasov and Seiberg and argue that the presence of an open string tachyonic mode in the annulus amplitude implies an exponential density of states in the UV of the closed string channel.
description: 9 pages, LaTex. v2: a paragraph about the couplings between the glueballs and the source is added. To appear in Phys.Lett.B
Supplementary document for Multifunctional-hierarchical flexible metasurface: simultaneously with low infrared emissivity, broadband microwave absorption, and dynamic visible camouflage - 7222768.pdf
Creators: name: junyi, yang
name: zhao, jiancun
name: Li, Xinting
name: Guo, Yuhao
name: Wang, Xiaodong
name: Qiu, Ye
name: Li, Ben
name: wang, zhenyu
name: Li, Wenli
name: Yu, Yiting
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2024
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Explanation of frequency selective surfaces and impedance matching principles, photolithography and laser etching processes, and supplementary information on infrared emissivity.
The Response of Atmospheric Chemistry on Earthlike Planets around F, G and K Stars to Small Variations in Orbital Distance
Creators: name: Grenfell, John Lee
name: Stracke, Barbara
name: von Paris, Philip
name: Patzer, Beate
name: Titz, Ruth
name: Segura, Antigona
name: Rauer, Heike
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the prime goals of future investigations of extrasolar planets is to search for life as we know it. The Earth's biosphere is adapted to current conditions. How would the atmospheric chemistry of the Earth respond if we moved it to different orbital distances or changed its host star? This question is central to astrobiology and aids our understanding of how the atmospheres of terrestrial planets develop. To help address this question, we have performed a sensitivity study using a coupled radiative-convective photochemical column model to calculate changes in atmospheric chemistry on a planet having Earth's atmospheric composition, which we subjected to small changes in orbital position, of the order of 5-10 per cent for a solar-type G2V, F2V, and K2V star. We then applied a chemical source-sink analysis to the biomarkers in order to understand how chemical processes affect biomarker concentrations. We start with the composition of the present Earth, since this is the only example we know for which a spectrum of biomarker molecules has been measured. We then investigate the response of the biomarkers to changes in the input stellar flux. Computing the thermal profile for atmospheres rich in H2 O, CO2 and CH4 is however a major challenge for current radiative schemes, due, among other things, to lacking spectroscopic data. Therefore, as a first step, we employ a more moderate approach, by investigating small shifts in planet-star distance and assuming an earthlike biosphere. To calculate this shift we assumed a criteria for complex life based on the Earth, i.e. the earthlike planetary surface temperature varied between zero to thirty degrees Centigrade which led to a narrow HZ width of (0.94-1.08)