cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Optical Proximity Sensor Systems for Intelligent Robot Hands
Creators: name: Ersü, Enis
name: Kegel, Gunther
Publisher: name: IFAC - International Federation of Automatic Control
Year: 2023

description: Optical proximity sensors are low-level vision sensors delivering low- and mid-range multidimensional information about the robots end-effector environment. Due to the fast signal processing they can be easily integrated in real-time robot control tasks. The paper presents the basic mechanical, hardware and software design principles of such a sensor, which uses distance measurement via optical triangulation as the basic method. For special robot tasks, special mechanical and hardware arrangements of the basic sensor type are needed. Two examples are shown for demonstration purposes. Possible applications are simple distance sensor devices, two-dimensional orientation sensors and optical robot teach-in units. Accuracy and efficiency of the sensor system are documented by using the sensor for recognizing holes and following arbitrary unknown contours.
Observations of Fallout from the Fukushima Reactor Accident in San Francisco Bay Area Rainwater
Creators: name: Norman, Eric B.
name: Angell, Christopher T.
name: Chodash, Perry A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have observed fallout from the recent Fukushima Dai-ichi reactor accident in samples of rainwater collected in the San Francisco Bay area. Gamma ray spectra measured from these samples show clear evidence of fission products - 131,132I, 132Te, and 134,137Cs. The activity levels we have measured for these isotopes are very low and pose no health risk to the public.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures
Enhancing interfaces for scholarly peer review
Creators: name: Cormier, Derek M.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: The academic peer review process is the primary means by which papers become a part of established science. For such an important process, the technology we use today to conduct peer review only partially supports the reviewing process and has stagnated behind advances in collaborative document work. In this thesis, we present an overview of the current state of Peer Review Management Software (PRMS) and outline areas where better user support is needed. We then present our broad vision for interactive, web-based manuscript reviewing tools that can be integrated into existing PRMS. Through a controlled study, we demonstrate that providing reviewers with a simple annotation interface is sufficient for identifying 80% of all low-level writing errors in a manuscript before the manuscript makes it through to publication, without proofreading and with minimal additional effort on the part of reviewers. Finally, we present prototypical and conceptual designs for a single-reviewer web interface to address the current lack of manuscript reviewing support by improving the user experience for and efficiency of reviewers.
Chemical Doping and Enhanced Solar Energy Conversion of Graphene/Silicon Junctions
Creators: name: Li, Xinming
name: Zhu, Hongwei
name: Wang, Kunlin
name: Wei, Jinquan
name: Fan, Guifeng
name: Li, Xiao
name: Wu, Dehai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effect of chemical doping of graphene films on the photovoltaic properties of the graphene/silicon Schottky junction solar cells was investigated. Thionyl chloride modification greatly enhanced the conductivity of graphene film, resulting in a significant improvement in cell performance with a 3-fold increase in conversion efficiency (up to 3.9%) and good short-term stability.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
STAR experiment results from the beam energy scan program at RHIC
Creators: name: Mohanty, Bedangadas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first results using the STAR detector from the Beam Energy Scan (BES) program at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC). In this program, Au ion collisions at center of mass energies (\sqrt{s_{NN}}) of 7.7, 11.5 and 39 GeV allowed RHIC to extend the study of the QCD phase diagram from baryonic chemical potential values of 20 MeV to about 400 MeV. For the high net-baryon density matter at midrapidity, formed in these collisions, we report several interesting measurements. These include the observation of difference between anti-particle and particle elliptic flow, disappearance of the difference in dynamical azimuthal correlations with respect to event plane between same and opposite signed charged particles, change in slope of eccentricity at freeze-out and directed flow of protons as a function of \sqrt{s_{NN}} and the deviation of higher order fluctuations from hadron resonance gas and Poissonian expectations. Possible interpretations of these observations are also discussed.
description: To appear in the proceedings for the XXII International Conference on Ultrarelativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions - Quark Matter 2011, Annecy, France, May 23-28, 2011
Financial markets anomalies: a research review from the perspective of rational and irrational arguments
Creators: name: Yassire Elotmani
name: Omar Hniche
name: Nabil Sifouh
name: Khadija Oubal
name: Ismail Benslimane
name: Sanae Benjelloun
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The purpose of this paper is to analyze, through a theoretical synthesis, the various arguments provided by the financial literature in order to comprehend the nature of the irregularities observed in financial centers that contradict the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH). Our findings reveal differences of opinion regarding the nature of these anomalies; however, two groups of arguments can be identified. The first group concerns the rational explanations embraced by the proponents of the efficiency hypothesis, while the second group of arguments relates to the insights of behavioral finance, which support the notion of irrational behavior in order to explain the divergence of financial market dynamics from the rationality predicted by traditional finance.
The Economic Importance of Cotton Insects and Mites
Creators: name: Suguiyama, Luis
name: Osteen, Craig
name: Suguiyama, Luis
name: Osteen, Craig
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1988
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Economic importance
subject: cotton insects and mites
subject: incidence
subject: control costs
subject: yield losses
subject: value of damage
subject: impact simulation
subject: pounds of active ingredients
subject: potential hazards

description: Insects and mites cost cotton producers $645 million a year in yield losses and control costs (direct damage) during 1981-84, over half of which went for chemical controls. Bollworms and tobacco budworms caused the most ($216 million) in direct damage. But the total economic cost of cotton insects and mites may approach $1.3 billion after considering changes in cotton production, prices, processing, and use of other commodities. Extensive chemical use to control insects and mites potentially adds to the cost because, if not properly applied, the treatments may harm farmworkers and the environment. This report uses expert opinions and a model that simulates the absence of direct damage to estimate cotton yield losses, control costs, and the potential hazards of chemically controlling these cotton pests.
Frontier estimation via kernel regression on high power-transformed data
Creators: name: Girard, Stéphane
name: Jacob, Pierre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We present a new method for estimating the frontier of a multidimensional sample. The estimator is based on a kernel regression on the power-transformed data. We assume that the exponent of the transformation goes to infinity while the bandwidth of the kernel goes to zero. We give conditions on these two parameters to obtain complete convergence and asymptotic normality. The good performance of the estimator is illustrated on some finite sample situations.
Araecerus fasciculatus
Creators: name: Zimmerman, Elwood C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1942
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Anthribidae
Araecerus
Araecerus fasciculatus

description: 6.Araecerus fasciculatus (De Geer), (fig. 1, d). Curculio fasciculatus De Geer, Mem. Ins. 5: 276, table 15, fig. 2, 1775. (See Coleopterorum Catalogus for detailed synonymy.) This species has been distributed to such an extent by commerce that it is now almost cosmopolitan. It is a pest of coffee, cocoa, nutmeg, and other products. It is approximately equally represented with A. vieillardi in Guam, where the following specimens were collected: four specimens collected by Usinger: one at Yona, May 12, 1936, one at Barrigada from Crotalaria, June 12, two on Mount Alifan, from breadfruit, May 21; 14 specimens collected by Swezey: one from Dededo, May 19, one from a cornfield at the same locality, Aug. 11, one at Inarajan from rice, July 25, one from Piti, July 31, one at Barrigada, from sunflower, Nov. 25, and nine from the seed cluster of a palm (Coccothrinax ?);and four specimens collected by D. T. Fullaway.
description: Published as part of Zimmerman, Elwood C., 1942, Anthribidae Of Guam, pp. 65-72 in Insects of Guam I, Honolulu, Hawaii :Bernice P. Bishop Museum on page 71, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5159835
Automatic Determination of Stellar Parameters via Asteroseismology of Stochastically Oscillating Stars: Comparison with Direct Measurements
Creators: name: Quirion, P. -O.
name: Christensen-Dalsgaard, J.
name: Arentoft, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Space-based projects are providing a wealth of high-quality asteroseismic data, including frequencies for a large number of stars showing solar-like oscillations. These data open the prospect for precise determinations of key stellar parameters, of particular value to the study of extra-solar planetary systems. Given the quantity of the available and expected data it is important to develop efficient and reliable techniques for analyzing them, including the determination of stellar parameters from the observed frequencies. Here we present the SEEK package developed for the analysis of asteroseismic data from the Kepler mission. A central goal of the package is to obtain a fast and automatic determination of the stellar radius and other parameters, in a form that is statistically well-defined. The algorithms are tested by comparing the results of the analysis with independent measurements of stellar radius and mass, for a sample of well-observed stars. We conclude that the SEEK package fixes stellar parameters with accuracy and precision.
description: 43 pages, 7 figures
Germany's workshop : expellee craft and postwar national rebranding
Creators: name: Cairns, Kelly Lynn
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: This work explores the use of culture to rebrand national identity in postwar West Germany from 1945-1955. It employs the story of Sudeten expellee craftspeople and their resettlement in the American Occupation Zone to demonstrate forced migrant agency, and to address national rebranding from a migrant perspective. It reveals how American and German governments employed the expellee story and their Selbsthilfe (self-help) initiative to bridge the recent Nazi past and sell German goods to global consumers. Rebranding emphasized tradition, Heimat and an idyllic handcraft lifestyle while also promising a future of innovation. Sudeten expellee communities proved exemplary for the task, as symbols of both “tradition” and innovation. In addition, their story of resilience from their lost Heimat to eventual economic prosperity proved useful in both advancing a German victimhood narrative and boasting a successful integration narrative. The American Military Government in occupation sought to manage, resettle and market expellees through export buyer tours, exchange visits and trade fair exhibitions, justifying the allocation of Marshall Plan funds and fostering a strong trade relationship. The expellee craft story became a powerful tool in making a tarnished “Made in Germany” label sellable once again. This study traces expellee musical instrument makers, toy makers and glass blowers, from the loss of their workshops to their conflict with local German communities, to the construction of new homes and the reconstruction of businesses. Taking small-scale craft industry and material culture as its focus, this work adds to and complicates an already rich literature on heavy industry and the German Wirtschaftswunder. As occupation governments dismantled heavy industries, they subsequently promoted skilled handcraft and small-scale manufacturing, granting expellees an opportunity to rebuild and advance their new workshops in enclave settlements. This study links scholarship in the fields of postwar German history, forced migration, and material culture to reveal the power of objects and forced migrant groups to alter the story and even identity of their new West German context.
Ultrafast Dynamics of Gold Nanorods: Tuning between Photo-Bleaching and Photo-Induced Absorption
Creators: name: Anija, M.
name: Kumar, Sunil
name: Kamaraju, N.
name: Tiwari, Neha
name: Kulkarni, S. K.
name: Sood, A. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report ultrafast electron dynamics in gold nanorods investigated using 80 fs laser pulses centered at 1.57 eV. Five types of nanorod colloidal suspensions in water having their longitudinal surface plasmon peak (ELSP) on either side of the laser photon energy (EL) have been studied. For ELSP>EL, photo-induced absorption with single decay time constant is observed. On the other hand, for ELSP
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, To appear in International Journal of Nanoscience, 2011
title: An Associative Memory Based Learning Control Scheme with PI-Controller for SISO-Nonlinear Processes
Creators: name: Ersü, Enis
name: Wienand, S.
Publisher: name: IFAC - International Federation of Automatic Control
Year: 2023

description: The paper discusses the real-time implementation of an associative-memory-based learning control scheme with PI-controllers for nonlinear processes. Starting with a pre-assumed PI-controller which only has to stabilize the process the controller parameters are optimized on-line by a predictive optimization. This optimization uses for prediction the model of the process stored in an associative memory which is also learned on-line. The situation-dependent optimized controller parameters are also stored in an associative memory. The concept is a modification of the LERNAS-system (Ersü,1984), which is also shortly described and compared to the system described here. Some experimental results with a nonlinear pH-control demonstrate the performance of the system.
title: ParaSIM: a Hybrid Technology-Enhanced Framework to Learning Energy Modelling in Architectural Design Education
Creators: name: Nasar, Zuhair A Abbas
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2025

description: This thesis explores the use of parametric design as a pedagogic tool to enhance architecture students’ understanding of environmental aspects of their studio design projects. Since the widespread introduction of digital tools in architectural education, practice and research, their implementation within architectural education have yet to change significantly in many educational institutions. Consequently, architectural pedagogy must be enhanced to adapt to the development of advanced digital skills, along with technical knowledge including structure, energy, and climate. These factors emphasise the need for a more comprehensive understanding and knowledge of the impacts and roles of parametric design and digital simulation technologies in architecture pedagogy and design studio education. Therefore, the main research aim was to examine these tools and propose a flexible functional pedagogical, as well as conceptual framework in architectural education. Building on existing work on digital tools and technologies, this thesis asks: to what extent do current digital tools support architectural students’ design knowledge, thinking and modelling in their decision-making, and how can advanced digital tools advance these processes? The use of advanced parametric simulation tools is phrased as ‘ParaSIM’ for the research, which represents the main study contribution. ParaSIM can be considered an interactive descriptive approach, by enhancing the interaction between architecture students and digital design and simulation tools to support students' design decision-making, mainly building-performance assessment, to assist in acquiring accurate and rapid feedback. These tools are employed to generate optimal environmental designs for students considering the 3D massing of their studio design projects using parametric tools, such as Grasshopper3D, combined with energy simulation tools, such as Ladybug. Many approaches were conducted to test and assess ParaSIM in architecture pedagogy. Experimental works were commenced, including two sets of workshops, with students, and interviews with architectural experts from academia and practice. The final research output is a ParaSIM pedagogical framework. This framework aims to support students' design decision-making by improving their interaction with digital design and simulation tools. This process reduces the time and effort required to complete computable design tasks. Accordingly, the students themselves can make most of the design decision activities within the ParaSIM framework regarding the measurable design aspects of energy simulation, consequently requiring less interaction from design studio tutors in this area. Students still need to discuss more subjective design decisions such as aesthetics, narrative, function, and culture, however, the introduction of the ParaSIM framework creates more capacity for these areas.
title: Strain rate dependent characterisation of glass fibre reinforced composites for a constitutive material model in LS-DYNA
Creators: name: Varbenov, Konstantin
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: GFK
subject: Split Hopkinson bar
subject: Dehnratenabhängigkeit
subject: Digital Image Correlation
subject: Explizite Finite Elemente Methode
subject: GFRP
subject: Split Hopkinson bar
subject: Strain rate dependence
subject: Digital Image Correlation
subject: Explicit Finite Element Method

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Ποσοτική Ανάλυση Εικόνας Μαγνητικής Τομογραφίας Για Εύρεση Υπερσιδήρωσης Ήπατος Και Μυοκαρδίου Σε Ασθενείς Με Θαλασσαιμία
Creators: name: Constantinou, K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012

description: Η αιµοσιδήρωση είναι ο κυριότερος λόγος θανάτου σε ασθενείς που πάσχουν από θαλασσαιµία. Η πάθηση αυτή εµφανίζεται σε ζωτικά όργανα, όπως στην καρδία και το ήπαρ, και οφείλεται στις συχνές και επανειληµµένες µεταγγίσεις αίµατος που υποβάλλονται οι ασθενείς αυτοί. Ακολουθούνται διάφορες θεραπευτικές αγωγές για την αποβολή της περίσσειας σιδήρου από τον οργανισµό που αυξάνουν τη βιωσιµότητα των ασθενών. Ο έλεγχος βαθµού αιµοσιδήρωσης µπορεί να γίνει µε µη επεµβατικό τρόπο, µέσω της µέτρησης του χρόνου χαλάρωσης Τ2 και Τ2* εικόνων µαγνητικής τοµογραφίας. Στην εργασία αυτή, υλοποιήσαµε ένα δικό µας εργαλείο, το MR Relaxometry Tool, µε το οποίο ο ειδικός ακτινολόγος µπορεί να µετρήσει ποσοτικά τους χρόνους χαλάρωσης Τ2 και Τ2*. Οι εν λόγω χρόνοι υπολογίζονται, µετά από µέτρηση της έντασης σήµατος (Signal Intesity (SI)) στην περιοχή ενδιαφέροντος, σε ακολουθία εικόνων µαγνητικής τοµογραφίας, και µε επίλυση των εξισώσεων χαλάρωσης, χρησιµοποιώντας µη γραµµική προσαρµογή καµπύλης µε τη µέθοδο των ελαχίστων τετραγώνων και τον αλγόριθµο των Levenberg – Marquardt. Η εξίσωση, που περιγράφει το χρόνο χαλάρωσης, προκύπτει από τη θεωρία του Πυρηνικού Μαγνητικού Συντονισµού και στη βιβλιογραφία συναντάται µε τις οι εξής παραλλαγές: �� = �. � !!" !!(∗), �� = �. � !!" !!(∗) + � και Τ2(∗) = −ΔΤΕ log SI!"# SI!"# . Οι µετρήσεις αφορούν σε έντεκα ασθενείς, για τους οποίους είχαµε αποτελέσµατα από τον ειδικό ακτινολόγο, καθώς επίσης και σε δύο ασθενείς µε βαριάς µορφής αιµοσιδήρωσης στο ήπαρ, για τους οποίους λήφθηκαν µετρήσεις, µε την εµπορική εφαρµογή CMRTools. Από τη σύγκριση των αποτελεσµάτων, διαφαίνεται ότι το µικρότερο µέσο απόλυτο σφάλµα, όσον αφορά στη στάθµιση Τ2, εµφανίζεται µε την εφαρµογή της εξίσωσης �� = �. � !!" !!(∗) + �, ενώ για στάθµιση Τ2* µε την εξίσωση �� = �. � !!" !!(∗). Αυτό όµως δεν ανταποκρίνεται στις περιπτώσεις βαριάς αιµοσιδήρωσης, όπου αποδίδει καλύτερα η εφαρµογή των εξισώσεων �� = �. � !!" !!(∗) + � και Τ2(∗) = −ΔΤΕ log SI!"# SI!"# . Επίσης έγιναν µελέτες περίπτωσης για δύο ασθενείς µε βαριά αιµοσιδήρωση στο ήπαρ, µελετήθηκε η χρήση της εξίσωσης Τ2∗ = −ΔΤΕ log SI!"# SI!"# και έγινε χρωµατική απεικόνιση στο χώρο του χρόνου χαλάρωσης, µε την πιο πάνω εξίσωση. Για µελλοντική εργασία, αναφέρουµε επιγραµµατικά την αξιολόγηση µεγαλύτερου αριθµού ασθενών από ειδικό ακτινολόγο, την αυτοµατοποίηση, ως προς την κατάτµηση της περιοχής ενδιαφέροντος, την εγγραφή (registration) των εικόνων που παρουσιάζουν κίνηση, την επιλογή του καταλληλότερου αλγόριθµου, την ανατροφοδότηση του ακτινολόγου για περιοχές, που παρουσιάζουν αιµοσιδήρωση, τη βελτίωση του θορύβου στις εικόνες, τον έλεγχο ακολουθιών για εύρεση εικόνων εκτός φάσης και εικόνων κακής λήψης, καθώς και την εκπαίδευση του συστήµατος στην αναγνώριση των περιπτώσεων αιµοσιδήρωσης, συγκρίνοντας το χρόνο ηχού (ΤΕ) και την ένταση σήµατος (SI).
description: Master Theses
Role of interleukin-10 in lung repair during influenza infection
Creators: name: Dockstader, Kristy
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: The mammalian lung is intricately designed for effective gas exchange. However, infections such as influenza can damage the lung tissue and can cause a critical decrease in lung performance. Influenza is a single stranded RNA virus from the Orthomyxoviridae family. Seasonal influenza outbreaks cause up to 600 deaths in Canada each year, with increased death tolls during years with pandemic strains. Influenza A virus primarily infects the epithelial cells of the respiratory system and leads to acute respiratory infections. Tissue destruction occurs both as a result of viral-mediated apoptotic pathways, and as a consequence of the cytolytic immune response that is essential to bring the infection under control. The immune system attempts to minimize damage by producing key anti-inflammatory molecules, of which Interleukin-10 (IL-10) is a particularly potent example. IL-10 is a pleotropic cytokine that not only functions as an anti-inflammatory cytokine, but has been shown to have a role in immune stimulation, increase cytoskeletal repair and aid in the recovery of epithelial integrity. We hypothesized that IL-10 may have an effect on the remodeling and repair of lung epithelium during and after influenza A virus infection. We determined that IL-10 is up-regulated in response to infection. The timing of increased IL-10 also coincided with the height of damage, inflammation and onset of repair during an influenza infection. We used a human bronchial epithelial cell line (16HBE) to develop a model to assess if IL-10 had a direct effect on epithelial repair. Preliminary data suggested that IL-10 may inhibit epithelial cell proliferation, but further research is required. Our data suggest that IL-10 does not appear to have a role in direct epithelial proliferation but could still have a role in repair. A better understanding of the signals involved in epithelial cell repair could lead to the development of novel therapies that will minimize/mitigate lung damage caused by influenza, as well as other lung diseases.
Dynamics for a 2-vertex Quantum Gravity Model
Creators: name: Borja, Enrique F.
name: Diaz-Polo, Jacobo
name: Garay, Iñaki
name: Livine, Etera R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use the recently introduced U(N) framework for loop quantum gravity to study the dynamics of spin network states on the simplest class of graphs: two vertices linked with an arbitrary number N of edges. Such graphs represent two regions, in and out, separated by a boundary surface. We study the algebraic structure of the Hilbert space of spin networks from the U(N) perspective. In particular, we describe the algebra of operators acting on that space and discuss their relation to the standard holonomy operator of loop quantum gravity. Furthermore, we show that it is possible to make the restriction to the isotropic/homogeneous sector of the model by imposing the invariance under a global U(N) symmetry. We then propose a U(N) invariant Hamiltonian operator and study the induced dynamics. Finally, we explore the analogies between this model and loop quantum cosmology and sketch some possible generalizations of it.
description: 28 pages, v2: typos corrected
Noise-induced dynamical phase transitions in long-range systems
Creators: name: Chavanis, Pierre-Henri
name: Baldovin, Fulvio
name: Orlandini, Enzo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the thermodynamic limit, the time evolution of isolated long-range interacting systems is properly described by the Vlasov equation. This equation admits non-equilibrium dynamically stable stationary solutions characterized by a zero order parameter. We show that the presence of external noise sources, like for instance a heat bath, can induce at a specific time a dynamical phase transition marked by a non-zero order parameter. This transition corresponds to a restoring of the full ergodic properties of the system and may be used as a distinctive experimental signature of the existence of non-equilibrium Vlasov-stable states. In particular, we evidence for the first time a regime characterized by an order parameter pulse. Our analytical results are corroborated by numerical simulations of a paradigmatic long-range model.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Prospects for Amicus Curiae Under the Annex to the 1997 Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses
Creators: name: Vangh, Andrew Vajhuabmuas
Publisher: name: สำนักวิชานิติศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยแม่ฟ้าหลวง
Year: 2563
Subjects: Amicus Curiae
Dispute
International
Public Participation
Water

description: วารสารนิติศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยแม่ฟ้าหลวง, 3, 1, 49-85
Characteristics of Burley Tobacco Farms
Creators: name: Clauson, Annette L.
name: Clauson, Annette L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1988
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Production Economics
subject: Burley tobacco
subject: quota
subject: costs
subject: income
subject: debt
subject: assets
subject: net worth

description: Burley tobacco farms surveyed produced an average of 2.3 acres of tobacco in 1984, the most recent data available, on an average of 122 acres of farmland operated. A labor-intensive crop, burley tobacco (a cigarette tobacco) required an average of 240 hours of labor per acre or 13 hours per 100 pounds to produce the 1984 crop. Most farms relied on nonfarm sources to supplement their income. Net worth for burley tobacco producers averaged $130,715 in 1984, substantially below the $322,732 for all U.S. farm producers. Their average farm debt was about a third less than for all U.S. farm producers. The data analyzed in this report are from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's 1984 Farm Costs and Returns Survey.
Ontwerp van strokenteelt
Creators: name: Apeldoorn, Dirk van
name: Norén, Isabella Selin
name: Ditzler, Lenora
name: Rossing, Walter
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: DiverIMPACTSPA
Mengteelt
Strokenteelt

description: Probleem Agrarisch gebied wordt gekenmerkt door monoculturen welke kwetsbaar zijn voor ziekten en plagen. Dit komt onder andere door het verlies van biodiversiteit op de akker.
 Oplossing Met strokenteelt wordt een kleinschalig landschap gecreëerd binnen een perceel, dit helpt om biodiversiteit en andere ecosysteemdiensten te herstellen (zoals natuurlijke beheersing van ziekten en plagen).
Improved squark and gluino mass limits from searches for supersymmetry at hadron colliders
Creators: name: Beenakker, Wim
name: Brensing, Silja
name: D'Onofrio, Monica
name: Krämer, Michael
name: Kulesza, Anna
name: Laenen, Eric
name: Martinez, Mario
name: Niessen, Irene
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Squarks and gluinos have been searched for at hadron colliders in events with multiple jets and missing transverse energy. No excess has been observed to date, and from a comparison of experimental cross section limits and theoretical cross section predictions one can deduce lower bounds on the squark and gluino masses. We present an improved analysis of squark and gluino mass bounds which is based on state-of-the-art cross section calculations including the summation of large threshold corrections. For illustration, we consider experimental data obtained by the CDF collaboration at the Fermilab Tevatron and discuss the impact of the improved cross section predictions on the squark and gluino mass limits.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures; removed redundant figures
แนวทางและมาตรการการลงโทษทางอาญาตามพระราชบัญญัติว่าด้วยความผิดอันเกิดจากการใช้เช็ค พ.ศ. 2534
Creators: name: อัครพล ทองหลาง
Publisher: name: สำนักวิชานิติศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยแม่ฟ้าหลวง
Year: 2563
Subjects: มาตรการลงโทษทางอาญา
เช็ค
พระราชบัญญัติว่าด้วยความผิดอันเกิดจากการ ใช้เช็ค พ.ศ. 2534

description: วารสารนิติศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยแม่ฟ้าหลวง, 3, 1, 87-108
MCdevelop - the universal framework for Stochastic Simulations
Creators: name: Slawinska, M.
name: Jadach, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present MCdevelop, a universal computer framework for developing and exploiting the wide class of Stochastic Simulations (SS) software. This powerful universal SS software development tool has been derived from a series of scientific projects for precision calculations in high energy physics (HEP), which feature a wide range of functionality in the SS software needed for advanced precision Quantum Field Theory calculations for the past LEP experiments and for the ongoing LHC experiments at CERN, Geneva. MCdevelop is a "spin-off" product of HEP to be exploited in other areas, while it will still serve to develop new SS software for HEP experiments. Typically SS involve independent generation of large sets of random "events", often requiring considerable CPU power. Since SS jobs usually do not share memory it makes them easy to parallelize. The efficient development, testing and running in parallel SS software requires a convenient framework to develop software source code, deploy and monitor batch jobs, merge and analyse results from multiple parallel jobs, even before the production runs are terminated. Throughout the years of development of stochastic simulations for HEP, a sophisticated framework featuring all the above mentioned functionality has been implemented. MCdevelop represents its latest version, written mostly in C++ (GNU compiler gcc). It uses Autotools to build binaries (optionally managed within the KDevelop 3.5.3 Integrated Development Environment (IDE) ). It uses the open-source ROOT package for histogramming, graphics and the mechanism of persistency for the C++ objects. MCdevelop helps to run multiple parallel jobs on any computer cluster with NQS-type batch system.
description: To be submitted to Computer Physics Communications
title: Multi-Microcomputer Robot Control System Using a Special Robot-Arithmetic-Processor for Advanced Applications of Robot Manipulators
Creators: name: Rathgeber, K.
name: Schnell, Michael
Publisher: name: IFAC - International Federation of Automatic Control
Year: 2023

description: The performance of complex and advanced applications of industrial reports requires large computational power. The control system presented in this paper is designed as a multi-microcomputer system. The main purpose of this system is to create a pleasant environment for present and further studies in robotic research. The Advanced Robot Control System (ARC) uses multiple microcomputers based on iAPX 8086 processors. A local bus of each processor allows additional memory and Input/output expansions for increased throughput. Nevertheless, the rising calculation effort for the kinematic and dynamic relations shows the insufficient computing power of standard microprocessors. Therefore a fast floating-point processor has been developed. This Robot Arithmetic Processor (RAP) is built up with bipolar bit-slice components, special arithmetic modules and hardware control mechanisms for on- and off-line diagnostic functions.
Das Philippeion von Olympia. Ein partieller Wiederaufbau
Creators: name: Löcht, Hajo Van De
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2008
Subjects: Olympia
Philippeion
Bauforschung
archäologische
Wiederaufbau

description: Die grundlegenden Forschungsergebnisse von H. Schleif (1944) und die aufgefundenen Bauglieder ließen eine "beinahe lückenlose" Rekonstruktion des Philippeion erwarten, so daß eine partielle Wiederherstellung desselben angestrebt wurde. Bei der Überprüfung der Forschungsergebnisse zeigten sich einige Unstimmigkeiten und bei der Vermessung der Bauglieder ergaben sich neue Ergebnisse, welche die bisherige Rekonstruktion in wesentlichen Punkten korrigieren und ergänzen.
Advanced Virtual Footwear Desibn, by Rendering Shoe Models, Instead of Drawing
Creators: name: Alex, Antemie; Aurel, Popp; Florentina, Harnagea
Publisher: name: Editura Universitara
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 0 Social sciences
subject: 37 Education
subject: 371 Instructional design
subject: 004:37 Elearning

description: Taking one step further in specialized footwear CAD applications, is generating the base shoe model, instead of interactive drawing. This original technique, treats a shoe design as a parametrical form, by associating modelling mathematical laws with each classical design step from the theory. By implementing this concept in computer programming, the research finalized with an innovative and powerful software for education, just reliable for eLearning, but research goal now has changed, and tries to develop the practical side of design, more oriented to eSupport.
Reconstructing directed networks for better synchronization
Creators: name: Zeng, An
name: Lü, Linyuan
name: Zhou, Tao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we studied the strategies to enhance synchronization on directed networks by manipulating a fixed number of links. We proposed a centrality-based reconstructing (CBR) method, where the node centrality is measured by the well-known PageRank algorithm. Extensive numerical simulation on many modeled networks demonstrated that the CBR method is more effective in facilitating synchronization than the degree-based reconstructing method and random reconstructing method for adding or removing links. The reason is that CBR method can effectively narrow the incoming degree distribution and reinforce the hierarchical structure of the network. Furthermore, we apply the CBR method to links rewiring procedure where at each step one link is removed and one new link is added. The CBR method helps to decide which links should be removed or added. After several steps, the resulted networks are very close to the optimal structure from the evolutionary optimization algorithm. The numerical simulations on the Kuramoto model further demonstrate that our method has advantage in shortening the convergence time to synchronization on directed networks.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures
Investments in Soil Conservation and Land Improvements: Factors Explaining Farmers' Decisions
Creators: name: Nielsen, Elizabeth G.
name: Miranowski, John A.
name: Morehart, Mitchell J
name: Nielsen, Elizabeth G.
name: Miranowski, John A.
name: Morehart, Mitchell J
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1989
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Farm Management
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Agricultural investment
subject: drainage
subject: land clearing
subject: soil conservation

description: Expected income and real interest rates are among economic factors that influence farmers' decisions to invest in land improvements, including soil conservation, drainage, and land clearing. Programs that remove land from production, higher farmland prices relative to land improvement costs. Government cost-sharing of conservation expenditures, and specific land characteristics (such as slope) also encourage investments in conservation and other improvements. This study is the first to use national data to examine the role of economic and related factors in explaining farmers' investments in conservation and other land improvement projects.
Ingenieurgeologische Untersuchungen zur Hinterfüllung von Geothermie-Bohrungen mit Erdwärmesonden
Creators: name: Herrmann, Verena Johanna
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2008
Subjects: oberflächennahe Geothermie
Erdwärmesonden
Hinterfüllung
Zementation

description: Im Rahmen der Arbeit wurden Untersuchungen an Baustoffen, die zur Verfüllung von Erdwärmesonden-Bohrungen im Bereich der oberflächennahen Geothermie eingesetzt werden, durchgeführt. Die Langzeitbeständigkeit sowie der sichere Betrieb der Erdwärmesonden sind Voraussetzungen für die Genehmigung und den Schutz der Ressourcen Boden und Grundwasser. Dazu muss eine gute Qualitätskontrolle mit definierten Kennwerten zur Überwachung der eingesetzten Hinterfüllkonzepte in der Praxis eingesetzt werden.
Better Student s Learning Achievment Evaluation by using Dedicated Freeware E-Assessment Tools
Creators: name: Armand Florin, Bertea
Publisher: name: Editura Universitara
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 0 Social sciences
subject: 37 Education
subject: 371 Instructional design
subject: 004:37 Elearning

description: The objective of this paper is to evaluate ten of the most significant programs of this kind by means of assessment tools, topics covered, ease of use, help and support. After revealing the most important features of the studied software, we have tested them on a group of junior students enrolled in computer science and environmental protection courses, and the results are commented. Not only the software performance, but the quality of the questions in the e-assessment has been evaluated by the subjects.
Properties of scalar perturbations generated by conformal scalar field
Creators: name: Libanov, M.
name: Mironov, S.
name: Rubakov, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Primordial scalar perturbations may be generated when complex conformal scalar field rolls down its negative quartic potential. We begin with the discussion of peculiar infrared properties of this scenario. We then consider the statistical anisotropy inherent in the model. Finally, we discuss the non-Gaussianity of scalar perturbations. Because of symmetries, the bispectrum vanishes identically. We present a general expression for the trispectrum and give its explicit form in the folded limit.
description: Prepared for "Gravity and Cosmology (GC2010)" workshop, Kyoto, Japan, May,24-July,16, 2010; 15 pages, 1 figure
Additional file 1 of Characterization of a pathogenic variant in GBA for Parkinson’s disease with mild cognitive impairment patients
Creators: name: Jiang, Zhiqiang
name: Huang, Yilin
name: Zhang, Piao
name: Han, Chongyin
name: Lu, Yueer
name: Mo, Zongchao
name: Zhang, Zhanyu
name: Li, Xin
name: Zhao, Sisi
name: Cai, Fuqiang
name: Huang, Lizhen
name: Chen, Chunbo
name: Shi, Zhihong
name: Zhang, Yuhu
name: Ling, Fei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1.
Ice-ocean interactions in Milne Fiord
Creators: name: Hamilton, Andrew Kent
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: Widespread break up of ice shelves, glacier tongues, and the loss of ice-dammed epishelf lakes on the northern coast of Ellesmere Island has motivated a need to understand fjord dynamics, yet the oceanography of fjords here is not well studied. Here, we present ocean profiling and mooring data collected from 2011 to 2015 in Milne Fiord, the last ice shelf-epishelf lake-glacier tongue fjord in the Arctic. The data reveal that seasonal and interannual variations of fjord water properties and circulation are strongly impacted by the presence of the Milne Ice Shelf. The ice shelf forms a floating dam that traps surface runoff resulting in strong stratification and an elevated fjord heat content. Water exchange below the ice shelf is restricted to a narrow basal channel, prolonging the export of fjord-modified water, including subglacial runoff, by several months. In contrast, intermediate waters that penetrate to the Milne Glacier grounding line are freely exchanged and respond to offshore variations, with implications for submarine melting. Unexpectedly, the depth of the halocline between the epishelf lake and seawater, often used to infer the thickness of the ice shelf, varied by several meters each year. This variability resulted from rapid inflow of surface runoff during summer followed by slow drainage under the ice shelf over winter, which is well modelled as hydraulically-controlled flow through a channel. A mixing event also abruptly changed the depth of the halocline by 1.5 m in less than 24 hours, indicating caution must be used when inferring ice shelf mass balance from halocline depth. Submarine melt rates, estimated by two independent approaches, are strongly dependent on the vertical distribution of heat in the fjord. Spatial variation of ice thickness resulted in a heterogeneous distribution of melt. The highest estimated melt rate (4 m/a) occurred where the glacier was in contact with warm AtlanticWater at the grounding line, and enhanced near-surface melting is driven by the elevated heat content of the upper water column. Estimated melt rates are limited by weak currents ( 1 cm/s) in the fjord imposed by the presence of the ice shelf.
Phenomenology from the Lattice
Creators: name: Sachrajda, Christopher
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In recent years the precision of lattice calculations has improved hugely, and the results are making a very significant impact in particle physics phenomenology. Indeed there is no alternative general method which can be used in the evaluation of nonperturbative strong interaction effects for a wide variety of physical processes. In this talk I discuss a selection of topics in flavour physics, including \textit{mature} quantities for which lattice calculations have been performed for a long time (e.g. the determination of the $V_{us}$ CKM matrix element and $B_K$), quantities which we are now learning to study (e.g. $K\toππ$ decays amplitudes and the spectrum and mixing of $η-η^\prime$ mesons) and important phenomenological quantities for which a large amount of experimental data is available but which we do not yet understand how to approach in lattice simulations (e.g. nonleptonic B-decays). The improvement in precision and the extension of the range of processes which can be studied using lattice QCD has to be continued vigorously if precision flavour physics is to play a complementary role to large $p_\perp$ discovery experiments at the LHC in unravelling the next level of fundamental physics.
description: Invited plenary talk presented at the XXVIII International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, Lattice2010, June 14-19, 2010, Villasimius, Italy
Technische und wirtschaftliche Analyse von horizontalen Fresnel-Kollektoren
Creators: name: Mertins, Max
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2008
Subjects: linear fresnel
solar thermal powerplants
csp
fresnel collector
solar steam

description: Fresnel-collectors are linefocusing concentrating solar collectors for the production of process steam at temperatures up to 450°C, which can be used in solar thermal powerplants  or for any industrial application.
This thesis shows a systematical aproach to evaluate different design-possibilities in respect of achieving lowest levelized electricity costs by combining optical simulations of collector design, annual yield calculations with different power block designs and a cost model.
Hybrid-parallel sparse matrix-vector multiplication with explicit communication overlap on current multicore-based systems
Creators: name: Schubert, Gerald
name: Fehske, Holger
name: Hager, Georg
name: Wellein, Gerhard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We evaluate optimized parallel sparse matrix-vector operations for several representative application areas on widespread multicore-based cluster configurations. First the single-socket baseline performance is analyzed and modeled with respect to basic architectural properties of standard multicore chips. Beyond the single node, the performance of parallel sparse matrix-vector operations is often limited by communication overhead. Starting from the observation that nonblocking MPI is not able to hide communication cost using standard MPI implementations, we demonstrate that explicit overlap of communication and computation can be achieved by using a dedicated communication thread, which may run on a virtual core. Moreover we identify performance benefits of hybrid MPI/OpenMP programming due to improved load balancing even without explicit communication overlap. We compare performance results for pure MPI, the widely used "vector-like" hybrid programming strategies, and explicit overlap on a modern multicore-based cluster and a Cray XE6 system.
description: 16 pages, 10 figures