cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Squared width and profile of the confining flux tube in the U(1) LGT in 3D
Creators: name: Caselle, Michele
name: Panero, Marco
name: Vadacchino, Davide
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dual formulation of the compact U(1) lattice gauge theory in three spacetime dimensions allows to finely study the squared width and the profile of the confining flux tube on a wide range of physical interquark distances. The results obtained in Monte Carlo simulations are compared with the predictions of the effective bosonic-string model and with the dual superconductor model. While the former fails at describing the data from a quantitative point of view, the latter is in good agreement with it. An interpretation of these results is proposed in light of the particular features of the U(1) lattice gauge theory in 3D and a comparison with non-Abelian gauge theories in four spacetime dimensions is discussed.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures,Talk presented at the 34th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (Lattice 2016), 24-30 July 2016, Southampton, UK
Atmospheric drying and disposal of sewage sludge in Australia
Creators: name: Sturdy, John George.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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ByzRev 02.2020.010: Marcel Frederik Schwarze, Römische Militärgeschichte. Band 2. Studie zur römischen Armee und ihrer Organisation im sechsten Jahrhundert n. Chr.
Creators: name: Wahlbring, Jennifer
Publisher: name: The Byzantine Review
Year: 2020

description: Marcel Frederik Schwarze, Römische Militärgeschichte. Band 2. Studie zur römischen Armee und ihrer Organisation im sechsten Jahrhundert n. Chr. Pfungstadt: Books on Demand 2008. 607 S. – ISBN: 978-3-746047645 (€ 49,99)
description: The Byzantine Review, Bd. 2 (2020)
MPEC 2024-B164 : 2024 BP3
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 BP3

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
title: Einfluss von Ibuprofen auf das Immunsystem nach einer intensiven Ausdauerbelastung
Creators: name: Peer, Florian
Year: 2022

description: Hintergrund: Schmerzmittel, wie nichtsteroidale Antirheumatika (NSAR) werden im Sportbereich häufig angewendet. Ibuprofen zählt zu diesen Medikamenten und es ist eines der am meisten verkauften weltweit. Die Auswirkung von Ibuprofen auf das Immunsystem, während und nach dem Sport, wurde bisher nur wenig untersucht. Ziel dieser Studie war es festzustellen, ob die orale Einnahme von Ibuprofen, Einfluss auf das Immusystem während einer Ausdauerbelastung hat. Material und Methoden: Die Studie erfolgte unter doppelblinden randomisierten Cross-over Bedingungen. Es fanden 2 Untersuchungen am Laufband bei einer Intensität von 75% VO2max für 45 Minuten mit anschließender Ausbelastung statt. 12 sportliche Männer nahmen 1h vor der Belastung Ibuprofen 400 mg oder das Placebo ein. Blutabnahmen fanden 1h vor der Belastung, direkt nachher, 1h nachher, 3h nachher und 24h nachher statt. Die Blutanalyse umfasste die Anzahl der Leukozyten (WBK), Monozyten (MON), Lymphozyten (LYM) und Granulozyten (GRAN). Die statistische Auswertung wurde mittels ANOVA mit Messwiederholung mit den Bedingungen Zeit und Gruppe durchgeführt. Resultate: Es gab keinen Interaktionseffekt zwischen Kontroll- und Ibuprofengruppe bei den WBK (P > 0,05), GRA (P > 0,05), LYM (P > 0,05) und MON (P > 0,05). Alle Konzentrationen stiegen signifikant im Zeitverlauf. Die WBK von 1h vor der Belastung (4,61 ± 0,56 10^9/L) auf direkt nach der Belastung (6,60 ± 1,17 10^9/L) (P < 0,005). 1h nachher auf (7,41 ± 1,54 10^9/L) (P < 0,005), nach 3h auf (9,56 ± 2,00 10^9/L) (P < 0,005). Die GRA von 1h prä (2,48 ± 0,27 10^9/L) auf 0h post (3,43 ± 0,60 10^9/L) (P = 0,003). 1h post (5,07± 1,87 10^9/L) (P < 0,005), 3h post (6,53 ± 2,36 10^9/L) (P < 0,005). Die LYM von 1h prä (1,76 ± 0,31 10^9/L) auf 0h post (2,73 ± 0,70 10^9/L) (P = 0,005). Die Werte normalisierten sich bei den WBK (P = 1,0), GRAN (P = 0,732), LYM (P = 1,0) und MON (P = 1,0) nach 24h post. Zusammenfassung: Die orale Einnahme von Ibuprofen 400 mg vor einer intensiven Ausbelastung von 45 Minuten, scheint keine Auswirkung auf die Zellzahl der WBK und deren Subpopulationen zu haben. Ob die Dosis und Häufigkeit der Einnahme in Verbindung mit verschiedenen Traininsprotokollen unterschiedliche Wirkungen zeigen, muss in weiteren Studien ermittelt werden.
Grant proposal: Exploring Hidden Costs of Open Infrastructure
Creators: name: Thaney, Kaitlin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: grant proposals
scholarly communication
open science
open infrastructure

description: Grant proposal submitted by Invest in Open Infrastructure to the Mellon Foundation in 2021-01. From the proposal summary: "...We request $135,125 USD for a 15-month initial exploration of the costs associated with ongoing maintenance, sustainability, and resourcing of the technology, tools, and systems that scholarship and research depend on. Funding will be dedicated in large part to bringing on a Research Data Analyst, whose work will be centered around building out a funding data prototype for the sector and further interrogating and analyzing the costs associated with running and maintaining key open infrastructures, building on initial findings from our Future of Open Scholarship research." Pages 27-30 (budget narrative) of the original submitted proposal have been removed from this public version per IOI's privacy policy.
Estimating the average duration of employment through predictive modeling to increase retention
Creators: name: Gargee Jagtap
name: Tatev Kyosababyan
name: Samper, Bella
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Survival Analysis
Retention
Human Resources
data analysis
UVA MSDS 2023

description: Employee retention has become increasingly popular as the costs of turnover and competition for top talent continue to grow. This capstone project aims to analyze employee retention at an organization through a data-driven approach. We are investigating the factors influencing the retention and turnover of both full-time and part-time employees. For the purposes of this project, the word termination refers to an employee quitting their job voluntarily or getting fired. The objective of this project is two-fold: estimating the typical duration of employment for an individual based on other factors, and implementing techniques of survival analysis so the Human Resources department can take a more proactive approach to retaining employees. This study specifically utilizes data from the past three years containing information on demographics, job-related attributes, and eval- uation metrics. The project conducts exploratory data analysis along with identifying different interactions among the existing variables to gain valuable insights and examine patterns. By predicting the average lifespan of an employee and identifying the variables that have the most influence on survival probability, the organization can enhance employee retention, therefore reducing possible costs associated with turnover, and maintaining a skilled and stable workforce.
Towards MRI-Based Autonomous Robotic US Acquisitions: A First Feasibility Study
Creators: name: Hennersperger, Christoph
name: Fuerst, Bernhard
name: Virga, Salvatore
name: Zettinig, Oliver
name: Frisch, Benjamin
name: Neff, Thomas
name: Navab, Nassir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Robotic ultrasound has the potential to assist and guide physicians during interventions. In this work, we present a set of methods and a workflow to enable autonomous MRI-guided ultrasound acquisitions. Our approach uses a structured-light 3D scanner for patient-to-robot and image-to-patient calibration, which in turn is used to plan 3D ultrasound trajectories. These MRI-based trajectories are followed autonomously by the robot and are further refined online using automatic MRI/US registration. Despite the low spatial resolution of structured light scanners, the initial planned acquisition path can be followed with an accuracy of 2.46 +/- 0.96 mm. This leads to a good initialization of the MRI/US registration: the 3D-scan-based alignment for planning and acquisition shows an accuracy (distance between planned ultrasound and MRI) of 4.47 mm, and 0.97 mm after an online-update of the calibration based on a closed loop registration.
description: 14 pages, 7 figures, journal
Coupling ideality of integrated planar high-Q microresonators
Creators: name: Pfeiffer, Martin H. P.
name: Liu, Junqiu
name: Geiselmann, Michael
name: Kippenberg, Tobias J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Chipscale microresonators with integrated planar optical waveguides are useful building blocks for linear, nonlinear and quantum optical devices. Loss reduction through improving fabrication processes has resulted in several integrated micro resonator platforms attaining quality (Q) factors of several millions. However only few studies have investigated design-dependent losses, especially with regard to the resonator coupling section. Here we investigate design-dependent parasitic losses, described by the coupling ideality, of the commonly employed microresonator design consisting of a microring resonator waveguide side-coupled to a straight bus waveguide. By systematic characterization of multi-mode high-Q silicon nitride microresonator devices, we show that this design can suffer from low coupling ideality. By performing full 3D simulations to numerically investigate the resonator to bus waveguide coupling, we identify the coupling to higher-order bus waveguide modes as the dominant origin of parasitic losses which lead to the low coupling ideality. Using suitably designed bus waveguides, parasitic losses are mitigated, and a nearly unity ideality and strong overcoupling (i.e. a ratio of external coupling to internal resonator loss rate > 9) are demonstrated. Moreover we find that different resonator modes can exchange power through the coupler, which therefore constitutes a mechanism that induces modal coupling, a phenomenon known to distort resonator dispersion properties. Our results demonstrate the potential for significant performance improvements of integrated planar microresonators, achievable by optimized coupler designs.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures, 1 table
Vertical midscale ionospheric disturbances caused by surface seismic waves based on Irkutsk chirp ionosonde data in 2011-2016
Creators: name: Berngardt, O. I.
name: Perevalova, N. P.
name: Podlesnyi, A. V.
name: Kurkin, V. I.
name: Zherebtsov, G. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on the Irkutsk fast monostatic chirp ionosonde data we made a statistical analysis of ionospheric effects for 28 earthquakes which appeared in 2011-2016 years. These effects are related with surface (Rayleigh) seismic waves far from epicenter. The analysis has shown that nine of these earthquakes were accompanied by vertical midscale ionospheric irregularities (multicusp). To estimate the ionospheric efficiency of the seismic waves we proposed new index $K_{W}$. The index estimates the maximal amplitude of the acoustic shock wave generated by given spatial distribution of seismic vibrations and related with maximal spectral power of seismic oscillations. Based on the analysis of experimental data we have shown that earthquake-related multicusp is observed mostly at daytime [07:00-17:00]LST for $K_{W}\ge4.7$. The observations of intrinsic gravity waves by GPS technique in the epicenter vicinity do not show such a daytime dependence. Based on 24/05/2013 Okhotsk Sea earthquake example, we demonstrated that deep-focus earthquakes can produce strong multicusp far from the epicenter, although do not produce significant GPS ionospheric response in the epicenter vicinity. Three cases of sporadic E bifurcation in far epicentral zone were also detected and discussed.
description: 33 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables, Submitted to JGR:Space Physics
Fenomenologia dell'educazione post COVID-19: un dialogo sull'uso e la funzione degli sfondi nella DaD
Creators: name: Barbuti, Nicola
name: De Maurissens, Isabel
Publisher: name: Umanistica Digitale
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: DaD; Didattica a Distanza; Euristica dell'Immagine; Sfondi digitali
subject: Didattica a Distanza; Sfondi digitali

description: La Didattica a Distanza (DaD) tramite tecnologie digitali, che il sistema scolastico nazionale ha dovuto adottare con la massima urgenza in seguito al blocco totale di tutte le attività formative e all’isolamento preventivo necessari per arginare la drammatica diffusione del COVID-19, ha attivato dibattiti, confronti, riflessioni quanto mai stimolanti sul potenziale che queste tecnologie potrebbero avere nel non molto distante futuro post-pandemia. In seguito ad alcune sollecitazioni emerse da un webinar dal titolo “Approcci digitali per la didattica della storia: interazione, creazione, riuso di risorse online”, tenutosi il 20 aprile 2020 nell’ambito del progetto dell’INDIRE Le reti Avanguardie educative, Piccole Scuole e eTwinning a supporto dell’emergenza sanitaria, si è avuto uno spontaneo scambio di mail sulla funzione e sul potenziale degli sfondi nell’ambito della DaD tra il relatore Nicola Barbuti e Isabel de Maurissens, ricercatrice dell’INDIRE che ha maturato una rilevante esperienza sulla funzione euristica dell’immagine in quanto docente esperta in Educazione allo sviluppo sostenibile. Le suggestioni emerse hanno generato nei due ricercatori un interesse ad approfondire l’argomento, inducendoli ad avere un confronto più diretto e, poi, ad avviare una ricerca congiunta su un tema che, a loro parere, non sarà secondario negli scenari della didattica post-pandemia, a quanto pare indirizzata verso un impiego delle metodologie e tecnologie digitali come parte integrante e sistematizzata della didattica nell’intero sistema educativo e, forse, anche nella formazione universitaria. Il presente contributo riporta integralmente le considerazioni scambiate dai due ricercatori nella loro corrispondenza. Il testo è stato mantenuto volutamente fedele a quello delle mail, inclusi i riferimenti estemporanei sia ad autori e persone esistenti che a tematiche scientifiche connesse con quella discussa. Ove possibile, per alcuni riferimenti sono state inserite note esplicative utili a favorirne la contestualizzazione.
description: Umanistica Digitale, No 8 (2020): Pedagogy, teaching, and research in the age of Digital Humanities
On the nature of the magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor instability in Astrophysical Plasma: The case of uniform magnetic field strength
Creators: name: Hillier, Andrew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor instability has been shown to play a key role in many astrophysical systems. The equation for the growth rate of this instability in the incompressible limit, and the most-unstable mode that can be derived from it, are often used to estimate the strength of the magnetic field that is associated with the observed dynamics. However, there are some issues with the interpretations given. Here we show that the class of most unstable modes $k_u$ for a given $θ$, the class of modes often used to estimate the strength of the magnetic field from observations, for the system leads to the instability growing as $σ^2=1/2 A g k_u$, a growth rate which is independent of the strength of the magnetic field and which highlights that small scales are preferred by the system, but not does not give the fastest growing mode for that given $k$. We also highlight that outside of the interchange ($\mathbf{k}\cdot\mathbf{B}=0$) and undular ($\mathbf{k}$ parallel to $\mathbf{B}$) modes, all the other modes have a perturbation pair of the same wavenumber and growth rate that when excited in the linear regime can result in an interference pattern that gives field aligned filamentary structure often seen in 3D simulations. The analysis was extended to a sheared magnetic field, where it was found that it was possible to extend the results for a non-sheared field to this case. We suggest that without magnetic shear it is too simplistic to be used to infer magnetic field strengths in astrophysical systems.
description: 11 pages, 2 figures, published in MNRAS
Investigation of thermal loads applied to a desuperheater vessel steam inlet nozzle using the finite element method
Creators: name: Trauner, P. U.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Proplyds around a B1 star - 42 Orionis in NGC 1977
Creators: name: Kim, Jinyoung Serena
name: Clarke, Cathie J.
name: Fang, Min
name: Facchini, Stefano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the discovery of seven new proplyds (i.e. sources surrounded by cometary Halpha emission characteristic of offset ionization fronts) in NGC 1977, located about 30' north of the Orion Nebula Cluster at a distance of ~400 pc. Each of these proplyds are situated at projected distances 0.04-0.27 pc from the B1V star 42 Orionis (c Ori), which is the main source of UV photons in the region. In all cases the ionization fronts of the proplyds are clearly pointing toward the common ionizing source, 42 Ori, and 6 of the 7 proplyds clearly show tails pointing away from it. These are the first proplyds to be found around a B star, with previously known examples instead being located around O stars, including those in the Orion Nebula Cluster around $θ^1$ Ori C. The radii of the offset ionization fronts in our proplyds are between ~200 and 550 AU; two objects also contain clearly resolved central sources that we associate with disks of radii 50-70 AU. The estimated strength of the FUV radiation field impinging on the proplyds is around 10-30 times less than that incident on the classic proplyds in the Orion Nebula Cluster. We show that the observed proplyd sizes are however consistent with recent models for FUV photoevaporation in relatively weak FUV radiation fields.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters
On Natural Deduction for Herbrand Constructive Logics I: Curry-Howard Correspondence for Dummett's Logic LC
Creators: name: Aschieri, Federico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Dummett's logic LC is intuitionistic logic extended with Dummett's axiom: for every two statements the first implies the second or the second implies the first. We present a natural deduction and a Curry-Howard correspondence for first-order and second-order Dummett's logic. We add to the lambda calculus an operator which represents, from the viewpoint of programming, a mechanism for representing parallel computations and communication between them, and from the viewpoint of logic, Dummett's axiom. We prove that our typed calculus is normalizing and show that proof terms for existentially quantified formulas reduce to a list of individual terms forming an Herbrand disjunction.
title: The Conceptual Practices of Children and Family Social Work: Protection, Risk and Partnership
Creators: name: Radcliffe, Polly
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2001

description: In this thesis I examine the contemporary social work gaze and social work knowledge as a practice of government. The data for this thesis is derived from qualitative analysis of interviews with children and social workers from two local authority social services departments in which they described their practices. In addition I have carried out analyses of social work guidance and regulation. The professionalisation of social work, and legislation to mandate its activities coincided with, and was intimately linked with a post-war politics of consensus. It was part of a more general governmental strategy of alleviating problems, which were understood as social in character by supporting the family through a blend of welfarist measures and a therapeutics of the family. Analysis of policy and legislation over the last five decades reveals that the conceptual currency of social work, the focus and subject of its gaze have been transformed. It is the priority of protection, which dominates contemporary social work practices. Contemporary social work and its problematisation of intervention into the private space of the family has become characterised by, on one hand, a concern to render visible the `at risk' population through multi-disciplinary strategies of risk management and surveillance, and on the other hand, by discourses of `partnership', in which parents are enjoined to work with social workers in the interests of the welfare of their children. I argue that partnership represents a new imagining of the social worker in terms of a reflexivity vis a vis his/her power and a tentativeness vis a vis the legitimacy of her intervention in the family. Attempts to scientise and systematise the social work gaze do not recognise the extent to which social workers' techniques of knowing both make possible at the same time as they limit the subject of social work practices.
Cost effective design of a sewerage system using network modelling and economic evaluation techniques
Creators: name: Morris, G.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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New Quantum Transition in Weyl Semimetals with Correlated Disorder
Creators: name: Louvet, Thibaud
name: Carpentier, David
name: Fedorenko, Andrei A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A Weyl semimetal denotes an electronic phase of solids in which two bands cross linearly. In this paper we study the effect of a spatially correlated disorder on such a phase. Using a renormalization group analysis, we show that in three dimensions, three scenarios are possible depending on the disorder correlations. A standard transition is recovered for short range correlations. For disorder decaying slower than $1/r^{2}$, the Weyl semimetal is unstable to any weak disorder and no transition persists. In between, a new phase transition occurs. This transition still separates a disordered metal from a semi-metal, but with a new critical behavior that we analyze to two-loop order.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
A NON-CRIMINAL PIRATE IN ARCHEAGE: CREATING AMBIVALENCE IN THE TRIBE BY PLAYING OUTSIDE OF THE DETERMINED SOCIAL PRACTICES
Creators: name: Vasileuskaya, Viktoryia
Publisher: name: Философско-культурологический журнал Topos
Year: 2022
Subjects: Mimicry
hybridity
ambivalence
determined social practices
MMORPG
criminal pirate
non-criminal pirate

description: The research was conducted in the world of ArcheAge MMORPG to explain why and how some players mimic pirates’ behaviour in ArcheAge, and what their mimicking practices lead to. There was the investigation of the mechanics of social fields functioning in ArcheAge held, identification of the social practices of pirate faction in the social space of the game, identification of the typology of pirates, exploration of the ways of their interaction between each other, and the research of how the interaction between two categories of pirates’ social practices affects the essence of piracy in ArcheAge. Using such methods as digital ethnography, critical, comparison, content analysis, and a questionnaire it was concluded that players of the pirate faction can be divided into two categories: ‘criminal’ and ‘non-criminal’. Playing in a tribal form of online community both types of pirates tend to mimicry. The process of mimicry leads to the hybridity of the pirate faction, and the emergence of an ambivalent faction image because of the combination in one image of two opposite characteristics of social practices in the space of ArcheAge. The research states the interdisciplinary nature of research in the field of game studies, and the importance of combinations of several points of view for studying video games to understand their natural multifaceted form.
CRUDELY, A MACHINE. THE DREAM MACHINE THROUGH THE LENS OF RUSSIAN FORMALISM
Creators: name: Serada, Alesha
Publisher: name: Философско-культурологический журнал Topos
Year: 2022
Subjects: estrangement
Uncanny
horror
indie games
animation
scary matter

description: This article explains how specific aesthetic decisions work in the game The Dream Machine. I analyze it through the lens of Russian Formalism: particular techniques of making a video game are judged through Shklovsky’s Art as a Technique, and the problem of the game genre is presented through Tynianov’s The Literary Fact. Theoretically, I aspire to reclaim the original context for these ideas, which is surprisingly relevant to contemporary horror media. Digital games as an artistic form re-introduce the effect of estrangement into the ongoing experiments with their medium; in The Dream Machine, this effect is created by replacing a digital simulacrum of computer generated imagery with high resolution scans of real life objects, made of modeling clay, cardboard and found objects. I label this technique “scary matter”, and it can be found both in games, animation films and pop music videos, such as Peter Gabriel’s Sledgehammer. The medium of a digital game suggests it is timeless and infinitely replayable, which intensifies the effect of estrangement in the case of always-already dead ‘scary matter’.
GaLactic and Extragalactic All-sky Murchison Widefield Array (GLEAM) survey I: A low-frequency extragalactic catalogue
Creators: name: Hurley-Walker, Natasha
name: Callingham, Joseph R.
name: Hancock, Paul J.
name: Franzen, Thomas M. O.
name: Hindson, Luke
name: Kapinska, Anna D.
name: Morgan, John
name: Offringa, Andre R.
name: Wayth, Randall B.
name: Wu, Chen
name: Zheng, Q.
name: Murphy, Tara
name: Bell, Martin E.
name: Dwarakanath, K. S.
name: For, Bi-Qing
name: Gaensler, Bryan M.
name: Johnston-Hollitt, Melanie
name: Lenc, Emil
name: Procopio, Pietro
name: Staveley-Smith, Lister
name: Ekers, Ron
name: Bowman, Judd D.
name: Briggs, Frank
name: Cappallo, R. J.
name: Deshpande, Avinash A.
name: Greenhill, Lincoln
name: Hazelton, Brynah J.
name: Kaplan, David L.
name: Lonsdale, Colin J.
name: McWhirter, S. R.
name: Mitchell, Daniel A.
name: Morales, Miguel F.
name: Morgan, Edward
name: Oberoi, Divya
name: Ord, Stephen M.
name: Prabu, T.
name: Shankar, N. Udaya
name: Srivani, K. S.
name: Subrahmanyan, Ravi
name: Tingay, Steven J.
name: Webster, Rachel L.
name: Williams, Andrew
name: Williams, Christopher L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), the low-frequency Square Kilometre Array (SKA1 LOW) precursor located in Western Australia, we have completed the GaLactic and Extragalactic All-sky MWA (GLEAM) survey, and present the resulting extragalactic catalogue, utilising the first year of observations. The catalogue covers 24,831 square degrees, over declinations south of $+30^\circ$ and Galactic latitudes outside $10^\circ$ of the Galactic plane, excluding some areas such as the Magellanic Clouds. It contains 307,455 radio sources with 20 separate flux density measurements across 72--231MHz, selected from a time- and frequency- integrated image centred at 200MHz, with a resolution of $\approx 2$'. Over the catalogued region, we estimate that the catalogue is 90% complete at 170mJy, and 50% complete at 55mJy, and large areas are complete at even lower flux density levels. Its reliability is 99.97% above the detection threshold of $5σ$, which itself is typically 50mJy. These observations constitute the widest fractional bandwidth and largest sky area survey at radio frequencies to date, and calibrate the low frequency flux density scale of the southern sky to better than 10%. This paper presents details of the flagging, imaging, mosaicking, and source extraction/characterisation, as well as estimates of the completeness and reliability. All source measurements and images are available online (http://www.mwatelescope.org/science/gleam-survey). This is the first in a series of publications describing the GLEAM survey results.
description: 30 pages, 18 figures, 6 tables, published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
I WASN´T LOOKING AT HIS NICE ASS: HOW TO PLAY THE “FEMALE WAY”
Creators: name: Krobová, Tereza
Publisher: name: Философско-культурологический журнал Topos
Year: 2022
Subjects: Male gaze
female gaze
female player
objectification
identification
avatar
gender
doing gender

description: This article explores the strategies used by female video game players within the masculine and heteronormative culture of video games and asks whether there is a “female way of playing”. With knowledge of the fact that most avatars are still male, I revisit the concept of the male gaze (Mulvey, 1989) and argue that female players objectify male characters and yet try to identify with them. I will support my claims with empirical evidence from interviews and participant observations of the fourth instalment of the Uncharted adventure game series, Uncharted: A Thief´s End (2016). I have identified multiple levels of objectification, including comments about the look of the male avatar, explicitly sexist remarks, emphasis on romantic narratives and the “maternal” frame. In the context of identification, it has shown how female players can choose heterogeneous approaches; some interviewees have problems with the male figure to identify with, some have opted for a non-gendered approach and the rest performed stereotypically male characteristics. These findings prove not only the complexity of the relationship between the player and avatar but also the various (potentially queer) strategies that all players (not just women) can choose to achieve the same level of gameplay experience.
WHEN REPRESENTATIONS BECOME ACTS: GAMEPAD VIBRATION AS PHYSICAL VIOLENCE IN DEUS EX: MANKIND DIVIDED
Creators: name: Stewart, Damian
Publisher: name: Философско-культурологический журнал Topos
Year: 2022
Subjects: haptics
hermeneutics
violence
close reading
embodiment
ludic subjectivity

description: This essay performs a close reading of a 30-second sequence taken from Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (Eidos Montreal 2016), in which haptic feedback (gamepad vibration) is used to extraordinary representational and beyond-representational effect, and ultimately performs an act of physical violence against the player. Responding to Brendan Keogh’s challenge to “start with the embodied and sensorial engagement with the videogame as an audiovisual medium” (Keogh 2018, “Introduction”), the close reading pays special attention to the various points of connection between the videogame hardware and the player, considering their relevance and contribution to the hermeneutic process as a whole. Drawing on Rikke Toft Nørgård’s work with bodily memory in the player-avatar connection, Paul Martin’s elaboration of the processes of carnal hermeneutics, and Brendan Keogh’s articulation of videogame play as a “messy, fleshy engagement with an audiovisual-haptic form” (Keogh, 2018, ch. 4), along with Daniel Vella’s work to articulate the ludic subject position and the ludic self, this essay examines the various relationships and interactions between player, videogame, and hermeneutic processes. In the jumble of cyborg bodies shown to be present during gameplay, the vibration event under analysis transforms into a violent act. Vibration-as-representation becomes vibration-as-violence, as the videogame mounts an attack upon its player: an attack which strikes where they are most vulnerable, at the precise point where their body fuses with the cyborg circuit of videogame play.
Essentials Transcriptomics
Creators: name: Sánchez, Rebeca Campos
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2020

description: This document is a theory course on transcriptomics based on literature and online revision. It includes concepts about experimental design, sequencing technologies, data processing and statistical analysis. It is focused mostly on RNA-Seq experiments and it was designed to be the foundation for the next series of practical courses. These will guide users through the computational analysis and interpretation of transcriptomes using real dataset examples from Latinamerican organisms.

The goal of the CABANA eLearning series is to reach broadly the Latinamerican bioinformatics community, from undergraduate level to professors and scientists, with courses manually translated into multiple languages (currently Spanish and English). These courses are also suited for teaching or self-learners, considering that most bioinformatics material is published in English, limiting the access to those with language barriers.

All eLearning materials will be available on https://www.cabana.online/elearning for a more interactive experience through a platform designed to keep track of progress and open forums for discussions.
Application of the three-dimensional telegraph equation to cosmic-ray transport
Creators: name: Tautz, R. C.
name: Lerche, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An analytical solution to the the three-dimensional telegraph equation is presented. This equation has recently received some attention but so far the treatment has been one-dimensional. By using the structural similarity to the Klein-Gordon equation, the telegraph equation can be solved in closed form. Illustrative examples are used to discuss the qualitative differences to the diffusion solution. The comparison with a numerical test-particle simulation reveals that some features of an intensity profile can be better explained using the telegraph approach.
description: 13 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in "Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics"
Isobaric first-principles molecular dynamics of liquid water with nonlocal van der Waals interactions
Creators: name: Miceli, Giacomo
name: de Gironcoli, Stefano
name: Pasquarello, Alfredo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the structural properties of liquid water at near ambient conditions using first-principles molecular dynamics simulations based on a semilocal density functional augmented with nonlocal van der Waals interactions. The adopted scheme offers the advantage of simulating liquid water at essentially the same computational cost of standard semilocal functionals. Applied to the water dimer and to ice Ih, we find that the hydrogen-bond energy is only slightly enhanced compared to a standard semilocal functional. We simulate liquid water through molecular dynamics in the NpH statistical ensemble allowing for fluctuations of the system density. The structure of the liquid departs from that found with a semilocal functional leading to more compact structural arrangements. This indicates that the directionality of the hydrogen-bond interaction has a diminished role as compared to the overall attractions, as expected when dispersion interactions are accounted for. This is substantiated through a detailed analysis comprising the study of the partial radial distribution functions, various local order indices, the hydrogen-bond network, and the selfdiffusion coefficient. The explicit treatment of the van der Waals interactions leads to an overall improved description of liquid water.
THE VIOLENT BECOMING: THE COMPLICATIONS OF VIDEO GAMES IN THE ORDER OF CAPITAL
Creators: name: Boichanka, Dzmitry
Publisher: name: Философско-культурологический журнал Topos
Year: 2022
Subjects: violent games
ideological apparatus
subordination
becoming
cyborg

description: This article examines the status of video games in the context of relations between the subject, technology, and capital. The premise of this exploration is the re-actualization of the critical trend that represents video games as the cause of violence in real life. In response, we suggest that the scope of inquiry should be broader and more complex. Most im-portantly, we need to understand the medium of a video game not as a de-structive singularity but as a human extension that provides the upgrade to the current development modes of the subject. In Deleuzian terms, this medium creates ‘dividuals’, strengthening subordination to the ideologi-cal apparatuses by technological control. In addition, video games provide a simulation of the becoming process that can lead to the creation of the autonomous subject — the cyborg. This allows us to reframe the status of violence in video games, presenting it as problematic, but differently. In particular, we consider the following issues: (a) systematic acts of violence as basic structural elements of the simulation processes, in which the main problem is the glorification of gore; (b) the surge of violence as the direct consequence of the attempt to make the becoming process more realistic, and the problematic state of military video games, which used to support the controversies of modern neoliberal warfare.
User behaviour on rapid exit taxiways
Creators: name: Grigg, Warwick L.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
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WHO IS POSSIBLE ONLINE? TECHNOLOGICAL AFFORDANCES AND SOCIAL NORMS SHAPING VISUAL AGENCY AND IN-GAME IDENTITIES
Creators: name: Ståhl, Matilda
Publisher: name: Философско-культурологический журнал Topos
Year: 2022
Subjects: in-game identity
identity (co)construction
visual player customization
affordances

description: The article researches how identities are constructed online, highlights what frames identity (co)construction; what identities are possible, and thereby, who is possible online. In multiplayer online games, identities are shaped by (at least) two frames; the technological affordances of the game as well as the social norms of that particular platform (Ståhl and Rusk, 2020; Ståhl, 2021a). Here, this discussion is exemplified through empirical data from the multiplayer game Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) from 2017–2018. The research project had a player-centred design and is positioned as an ethno-case study (Parker-Jenkins, 2018). The data was collected in collaboration with a vocational school with an esports programme in Finland that the participants (17–18 years old, all identifying as men) attended. In a previous analysis of the material, we (Ståhl and Rusk, 2020) noted five tools for identity (co)construction. One of these, player customization, will be the focus of this short paper. The aim is to discuss visual player customization as in-game identity (co)construction concerning technological affordances as well as social norms through the lens of technomasculinity. Additionally, based on this discussion, the chapter provides some implications for future studies on visual agency in online gaming.
Bioinformatics: Food Detective – a Practical Guide
Creators: name: Bain, Stevie A.
name: Barker, Daniel
name: Attwood, Teresa K.
name: Foundation, The GOBLET
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2020

description: This Practical Guide in the Bringing Bioinformatics into the Classroom series introduces the idea of computers as tools to help understand aspects of biology. In particular, it looks at how DNA sequences can be used to identify specific organisms, why this is important in the food industry, and how this can be used to help detect food fraud. Analyses are run online using sequence data from the 4273pi project website: 4273pi.org.

Specifically, this Guide introduces a popular Web-based tool for searching biological sequence databases, and shows how to identify different species based on their specific DNA sequences – their ‘barcodes’. On reading the Guide and completing the exercises, you will be able to: explain what is meant by DNA barcoding; search biological sequence databases using the online program BLAST; judge the reliability of database-search results in terms of their statistical significance; and evaluate the biological implications of search results with reference to food safety.
Variational perturbation and extended Plefka approaches to dynamics on random networks: the case of the kinetic Ising model
Creators: name: Bachschmid-Romano, Ludovica
name: Battistin, Claudia
name: Opper, Manfred
name: Roudi, Yasser
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We describe and analyze some novel approaches for studying the dynamics of Ising spin glass models. We first briefly consider the variational approach based on minimizing the Kullback-Leibler divergence between independent trajectories and the real ones and note that this approach only coincides with the mean field equations from the saddle point approximation to the generating functional when the dynamics is defined through a logistic link function, which is the case for the kinetic Ising model with parallel update. We then spend the rest of the paper developing two ways of going beyond the saddle point approximation to the generating functional. In the first one, we develop a variational perturbative approximation to the generating functional by expanding the action around a quadratic function of the local fields and conjugate local fields whose parameters are optimized. We derive analytical expressions for the optimal parameters and show that when the optimization is suitably restricted, we recover the mean field equations that are exact for the fully asymmetric random couplings (Mézard and Sakellariou, 2011). However, without this restriction the results are different. We also describe an extended Plefka expansion in which in addition to the magnetization, we also fix the correlation and response functions. Finally, we numerically study the performance of these approximations for Sherrington-Kirkpatrick type couplings for various coupling strengths, degrees of coupling symmetry and external fields. We show that the dynamical equations derived from the extended Plefka expansion outperform the others in all regimes, although it is computationally more demanding. The unconstrained variational approach does not perform well in the small coupling regime, while it approaches dynamical TAP equations of (Roudi and Hertz, 2011) for strong couplings.
title: Named entity recognition in government domain with reports from the city of Vienna court of audit
Creators: name: Jang, Soojeong
Year: 2023

description: Heutzutage ist eine riesige Menge an unstrukturierten Daten aus verschiedenen Quellen verfügbar. Techniken zur Verarbeitung natural language processing (NLP), die solche Daten verwenden, werden auf verschiedene Aufgaben angewendet, wie z. B. die ‘Named Enity Recognition’ (NER). Diese Studie soll die Anwendbarkeit der NER-Aufgabe auf den deutschsprachigen Regierungsbereich untersuchen. Heutzutage werden verschiedene Regierungsdokumente digitalisiert, wodurch Möglichkeiten geschaffen werden, die Informationen im Text zu nutzen. Als Datenquelle haben wir Dokumente ausgewählt, die vom Rechnungshof der Stadt Wien erstellt wurden. Wir extrahieren Text aus Dokumenten, indem wir zwei Methoden verwenden: Handbeschriftung und schwache Beschriftung mit der Skweak-Bibliothek. Anhand der Daten passen wir fünf SpaCy- und BERT-Modelle an und optimieren sie, die hohe F1-Werte mit deutschen CoNLL03-Datensätzen erzielen. Dann vergleichen wir die Ergebnisse nach Modellen und nach Datentyp, d. h. die Daten, die durch Hand-Labeling oder Weak-Labeling generiert wurden. Die höchste F1-Punktzahl war 95,57 %, die vom SpaCy-Transformator-xlm-Roberta-Basismodell erzielt wurde, indem handbeschriftete Daten und schwach beschriftete Daten zusammen als Trainingsdatensatz verwendet wurden. Darüber hinaus diskutieren wir den Fall, dass dieses Modell an die realen Geschäftsprobleme angepasst werden kann.
description: Today, a huge amount of unstructured data from various sources is available. Natural language processing (NLP) techniques using such data are applied to several tasks such as named entity recognition (NER). This study is designed to investigate the applicability of the NER task to the German language government domain. Nowadays, various government documents are digitized, creating opportunities to utilize the information in the text. We selected documents created by the City of Vienna Court of Audit as a data resource. We extract text from documents by using two methods hand-labelling and weak-labelling with skweak library. Using the data, we customize and fine-tune five SpaCy and BERT models that achieve high F1-scores with CoNLL03 German datasets. Then, we compare results by models and by data type which means the data generated by hand-labelling or weak-labelling. The highest F1-score was a 95.57% achieved by the SpaCy transformer xlm-roberta-base model by using hand-labelled data and weakly-labelled data together as a training dataset. Furthermore, we discuss the case that this model can be adapted to the real-world business problems.