cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
L'arbitrato tra Samo e Priene per il possesso della Batinetide
Creators: name: Nicolino, Irene
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2019

description:

The stele, found in Samos in 1750, bears the official letter with which Lysimachus I communicated to Samos the verdict of his arbitration to settle the conflict arisen between this city and Priene for the control over the Batinetis. The inscription, dating back to 283-282 BC, illustrates one stage of the territorial disputes between the rival cities that continued until the Roman age, and fits in the rich epigraphic context gathered on the temple walls of Athena Polias in Priene. The reasons that led the king to award the Batinetis to Samos date back to the distant past of the poleis of Asia, up to the Meliac war, when a coalition of twelve Ionic cities destroyed Melie and split up its territory.

description: Axon
GRB 070306: A Highly Extinguished Afterglow
Creators: name: Jaunsen, A. O.
name: Rol, E.
name: Watson, D. J.
name: Malesani, D.
name: Fynbo, J. P. U.
name: Milvang-Jensen, B.
name: Hjorth, J.
name: Vreeswijk, P. M.
name: Ovaldsen, J. -E.
name: Wiersema, K.
name: Tanvir, N. R.
name: Gorosabel, J.
name: Levan, A. J.
name: Schirmer, M.
name: Castro-Tirado, A. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the highly extinguished afterglow of GRB 070306 and the properties of the host galaxy. An optical afterglow was not detected at the location of the burst, but in near-infrared a doubling in brightness during the first night and later power-law decay in the K band provided a clear detection of the afterglow. The host galaxy is relatively bright, R ~ 22.8. An optical low resolution spectrum revealed a largely featureless host galaxy continuum with a single emission line. Higher resolution follow-up spectroscopy shows this emission to be resolved and consisting of two peaks separated by 7 AA, suggesting it to be [O II] at a redshift of z = 1.49594 +- 0.00006. The infrared color H-K = 2 directly reveals significant reddening. By modeling the optical/X-ray spectral energy distribution at t = 1.38 days with an extinguished synchrotron spectrum, we derive A_V = 5.5 +- 0.6 mag. This is among the largest values ever measured for a GRB afterglow and visual extinctions exceeding unity are rare. The importance of early NIR observations is obvious and may soon provide a clearer view into the once elusive 'dark bursts'.
description: 28 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Macrogynoplax sp.
Creators: name: Zúñiga, Maria del Carmen
name: Stark, Bill P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Plecoptera
Perlidae
Macrogynoplax
Macrogynoplax sp.

description: Macrogynoplax sp. CO ‐ 1 (Figs. 1‐3) Material examined. Colombia: Caquetá, Amazonia, Parque National Natural Chiribiquete, Quebrada La Piscina, Cuenca Rio Mesay, Estacion Puerto Abeja, 0° 04’ 16” N, 72° 26’ 48” W, 310 m, light trap, December 2001, A. Currea‐ Dereser, 1 ♀ (MEUV). Adult habitus. General color pale white in alcohol. Head and pronotum without distinctive dark areas except lappets of head pale brown. Eyes with large area of unpigmented ommatidia on inner margins (Fig. 1). Wing membrane transparent, veins brown. Legs entirely pale, no dark apical band on femora. Female. Forewing length 13 mm. Subgenital plate large and bulging mesally, posterior margin reaches beyond posterior margin of sternum 9; posterior margin almost truncate but with a small mesal notch; marginal area of plate hairless (Fig. 3). Sternum 9 under plate bearing a pair of lightly sclerotized, hairy, bar‐ like structures. Sternum 10 with a large anterior membranous zone. Egg. Outline oval, collar small and nipple like (Fig. 2). Chorion smooth. 1 2 3 Comments. Two currently known Macrogynoplax species have a female subgenital plate which extends beyond the posterior margin of sternum 9. Macrogynoplax pulchra Ribeiro‐ Ferreira & Froehlich is known from the Brazilian Amazonas, Reserva Florestal Adolpho Ducke (Ribeiro‐ Ferreira & Froehlich 1999), whereas M. guyanensis Enderlein is known from Guyana (Zwick 1973). Females of the latter species have a broadly rounded subgenital plate and appear to be distinct from this specimen, but females of the former species have a subgenital plate that is quite similar to this species (see Fig. 12 in Ribeiro‐ Ferreira & Froehlich 1999). In addition, because there are several species whose females are unknown, male specimens are needed to confirm the status of the Colombian population.
description: Published as part of Zúñiga, Maria del Carmen & Stark, Bill P., 2007, The First Record Of Macrogynoplax Enderlein (Plecoptera: Perlidae) From The Colombian Amazonas, pp. 102-103 in Illiesia 3 (11) on pages 102-103, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4754623
description: {"references": ["Ribeiro- Ferreira, A. C. & C. G. Froehlich. 1999. New species of Macrogynoplax Enderlein 1909 from North Brazil (Plecoptera, Perlidae, Acroneuriinae). Aquatic Insects, 21: 133 - 140.", "Zwick, P. 1973. Die Plecopteren- Arten Enderleins (Insecta); Revision der Typen. Annales Zoologici, 30: 471 - 507."]}
Aspects of image reshaping
Creators: name: Romanzin, Christopher Anthony
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Old images are often used in the creation of new images, either to enhance the appearance of the result or to achieve a manual or computational savings. Without ample care this practice can lead to missing or conflicting visual cues in the result, since an old image may exhibit shading artifacts that are inconsistent with the scene it is incorporated into. Therefore there is a need to process a source image so that it is consistent with the way it is to be used. Current methods for altering the shading artifacts found in an image are largely ad hoc , pixel based and are somewhat unintuitive. This work explores methods for enabling a user to manipulate 3D shading artifacts in an image, that is, performing image editing operations that relate to physical processes such as moving and dimming a light source, or changing the reflectance properties of objects in an image-without having full knowledge of the scene properties. We call this goal one of image reshading, and it is closely tied between the disciplines of computer graphics and computational vision as it involves generating images and inferring properties of the scene that give rise to an image. Image reshading is an enormous problem of its own, and this work explores only a few aspects of it. The first is the detection and removal of specular highlights from image data alone. Current techniques are explored and applied to textured images that are commonly used in computer graphics. The second image reshading task examined is to solve for the geometry of a light source illuminating a scene given an image of the scene and the geometry of the visible objects. A series of constraints formed by the shading of Lambertian and Phong reflectors is presented and a strategy for determining the position, orientation, and size of a rectangular source is demonstrated. Finally, given an image, a geometric model of the objects in the image, and the light source distribution, a method for solving for the relative emissive strengths and the reflectance parameters of surfaces in the image is given. This final reshading operation allows a large number of useful image editing operations to be performed.
Growing networks under geographical constraints
Creators: name: Xulvi-Brunet, R.
name: Sokolov, I. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Inspired by the structure of technological networks, we discuss network evolution mechanisms which give rise to topological properties found in real spatial networks. Thus, the peculiar structure of transport and distribution networks is fundamentally determined by two factors. These are the dependence of the spatial interaction range of vertices on the vertex attractiveness (or importance within the network) and on the inhomogeneous distribution of vertices in space. We propose and analyse numerically a simple model based on these generating mechanisms which seems, for instance, to be able to reproduce known structural features of the Internet.
Suprasegmental Characteristics of Spontaneous Speech (Hazan et al., 2016)
Creators: name: Hazan, Valerie
name: Tuomainen, Outi
name: Pettinato, Michèle
Publisher: name: ASHA journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: Speech production
Phonetics and speech science

description: Purpose: This study investigated the acoustic characteristics of spontaneous speech by talkers aged 9–14 years and their ability to adapt these characteristics to maintain effective communication when intelligibility was artificially degraded for their interlocutor. Method: Recordings were made for 96 children (50 female participants, 46 male participants) engaged in a problem-solving task with a same-sex friend; recordings for 20 adults were used as reference. The task was carried out in good listening conditions (normal transmission) and in degraded transmission conditions. Articulation rate, median fundamental frequency (f0), f0 range, and relative energy in the 1- to 3-kHz range were analyzed. Results: With increasing age, children significantly reduced their median f0 and f0 range, became faster talkers, and reduced their mid-frequency energy in spontaneous speech. Children produced similar clear speech adaptations (in degraded transmission conditions) as adults, but only children aged 11–14 years increased their f0 range, an unhelpful strategy not transmitted via the vocoder. Changes made by children were consistent with a general increase in vocal effort. Conclusion: Further developments in speech production take place during later childhood. Children use clear speech strategies to benefit an interlocutor facing intelligibility problems but may not be able to attune these strategies to the same degree as adults.
Κυπριακό Ζήτημα, 1960 – 1974: Στροφή στο Κίνημα των Αδεσμεύτων.:
Creators: name: Λουδοβίκου, Μαρία-Ελένη Νικολάου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2014
Subjects: Κύπρος
Αδέσμευτοι
Μακάριος
Cyprus
Non-Aligned
Makarios

description: Σκοπός της μεταπτυχιακής εργασίας ήταν η περιγραφή της εμπλοκής της νεοσύστατης Κυπριακής Δημοκρατίας στο Κίνημα των Αδεσμεύτων και η αναζήτηση των αιτίων και των αποτελεσμάτων αυτής κατά την χρονική περίοδο 1960-1974. Κατά την περίοδο που εξετάστηκε δόθηκε έμφαση στα γεγονότα εκείνα όπου εντοπίστηκε ανάμειξη των Αδεσμεύτων Χωρών, καθώς και σε όσα εντοπίστηκαν ενέργειες της κυπριακής ηγεσίας που πήγαζαν από την αδέσμευτη πολιτική της στάση. Επιπλέον, αναλύθηκαν οι σχέσεις του Προέδρου της Κύπρου Μακαρίου με το Ανατολικό Μπλοκ, την Δυτική Συμμαχία και τον Οργανισμό Ηνωμένων Εθνών. Ιδιαίτερη σημασία δόθηκε στις Συνόδους Κορυφής των Αδεσμεύτων Χωρών και στην συμμετοχή της Κύπρου σε αυτά. Μέσα από την εργασία αναδύθηκαν ερωτήματα σχετικά με την σκοπιμότητα της συμμετοχής της Κύπρου στο Κίνημα των Αδεσμεύτων καθώς και με τα οφέλη που αυτή αποκόμισε. Κατά τις αλλεπάλληλες κρίσεις της περιόδου, με αποκορύφωμα την κρίση του 1974, εξετάζεται η υποστήριξη, ή μη, των Αδεσμεύτων καθώς έπαιξε σημαντικό ρόλο στην έκβασή τους.
description: The aim of the thesis was the analysis of the participation of the newly established Republic of Cyprus in the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) and the scrutiny of its causes and consequences during the years 1960-1974. Emphasis was given to events where the Non-Aligned Movement attempted to vigorously support the Cyprus Issue. In addition, the strategic movements of the Republic of Cyprus that emanated from its participation in the NAM are examined. Makarios, the Republic’s democratically elected President, as well as his relations with the Eastern Block, the West and the United Nations, form the core of this thesis, something that provides a more comprehensive understanding of the subject. The questions that arise are related to the purposefulness of the Republic’s participation in NAM as well as to the benefits that this participation yielded. During the multiple crises of the period 1960-1974, the support of NAM towards the Republic of Cyprus is examined as many times it played a major role in their outcome.
Radial Velocities and Kinematic Ages of Nearby T Dwarfs from Keck/NIRSPEC High-Resolution Spectroscopy
Creators: name: Hsu, Chih-Chun
name: Burgasser, Adam
name: Theissen, Christopher
name: Gelino, Christopher
name: Birky, Jessica
name: Diamant, Sharon
name: Aganze, Christian
name: Blake, Cullen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Very low mass stars

description: Precise measurements of radial (RV) and rotational (vsini) velocities of stars are essential for studying stellar kinematics (space velocities and dispersions), binary orbits (mass measurements and formation), and rotational dynamics (angular momentum evolution). The high-resolution spectroscopic observations necessary to make these measurements are challenging for the intrinsically faint and low-temperature ultracool dwarfs (UCDs), stellar and sub-stellar objects with masses below 0.1 MSun. Previous local UCD kinematic studies indicated conflicting L dwarf kinematic ages, with little constraints on the T dwarf kinematic due to the small sample size. We present a radial and rotational velocity survey of 37 nearby (d ≤ 20 pc) T dwarfs based on forward-modeling analysis of nearly twenty years of high-resolution spectra obtained with Keck/NIRSPEC. We present the distributions of our RV and vsini measurements, and statistically analyze kinematic ages of the local ultracool dwarf population-based on RV and astrometric measurements of 173 late-M, L, and T dwarfs within 20 pc, and show that the L dwarfs as a population are significantly more dispersed and hence older than expected from population simulations. However, the local L dwarf sample has a higher fraction of thick disk sources, and removing them brings the L dwarf age into alignment, resolving a decade-old mystery. A kinematic dispersion break is found around the L4–L6 subtypes, which likely reflects the terminus of the stellar Main Sequence.
The fractional Keller-Segel model
Creators: name: Escudero, Carlos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 35K45, 35K55, 92C15, 92C17

description: The Keller-Segel model is a system of partial differential equations modelling chemotactic aggregation in cellular systems. This model has blowing up solutions for large enough initial conditions in dimensions d >= 2, but all the solutions are regular in one dimension; a mathematical fact that crucially affects the patterns that can form in the biological system. One of the strongest assumptions of the Keller-Segel model is the diffusive character of the cellular motion, known to be false in many situations. We extend this model to such situations in which the cellular dispersal is better modelled by a fractional operator. We analyze this fractional Keller-Segel model and find that all solutions are again globally bounded in time in one dimension. This fact shows the robustness of the main biological conclusions obtained from the Keller-Segel model.
Εκτίμηση και πρόβλεψη αυτοπαλίνδρομου μοντέλου σε χρονοσειρές με χάσματα:
Creators: name: Μπουμάκης, Ιωάννης Μιχαήλ
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2014
Subjects: χάσματα
χρονοσειρές
αυτοπαλίνδρομο μοντέλο
missing data
timeseries
autoregressive model

description: Στην παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία προτείνεται και μελετάται μια νέα μέθοδος εκτίμησης ενός αυτοπαλινδρούμενου γραμμικού μοντέλου (Autoregressive, AR) και πρόβλεψης με τη χρήση αυτού σε χρονοσειρές που παρουσιάζουν χάσματα (gaps), δηλαδή απώλεια δεδομένων. Σε αντίθεση με τη συνήθη πρακτική διαχείρισης των χρονοσειρών με χάσματα, όπου είτε αναπληρώνονται (gap filling) είτε αγνοούνται τα χάσματα (gap closure), επιλέγουμε να απομακρύνουμε όχι μόνο τα χάσματα αλλά και όλες τις τιμές της χρονοσειράς που συσχετίζονται με το χάσμα. Η μέθοδος αυτή που ονομάζεται προσαρμοσμένη απομάκρυνση χασμάτων (gap adapted removal), συγκρίνεται με μια σειρά γνωστών τεχνικών συμπλήρωσης των χασμάτων καθώς και με τη μέθοδο του εγκλεισμού των χασμάτων (gap closure). Οι προσομοιώσεις σε χρονοσειρές διαφορετικών χαρακτηριστικών, τάξη αυτοπαλινδρούμενου μοντέλου, μήκος χρονοσειράς, και χρονοσειρές με απλά χάσματα ή μπλοκ χασμάτων, οδηγούν στο συμπέρασμα ότι η εκτίμηση με την προσαρμοσμένη απομάκρυνση χασμάτων είναι παρόμοια με την εκτίμηση που γίνεται στην χρονοσειρά χωρίς τα χάσματα, σε αντίθεση με τις υπόλοιπες συγκρινόμενες μεθόδους όπου αποκλίνουν με την αύξηση του ποσοστού των χασμάτων. Στη συνέχεια εκτιμάται η καταλληλότητα του εκτιμώμενου μοντέλου μέσω της πρόβλεψης στις χρονοσειρές με χάσματα, ενώ γίνεται η εφαρμογή της μεθόδου σε πραγματικές χρονοσειρές με χάσματα. Η μέθοδος αυτή μπορεί εύκολα να επεκταθεί για την εκτίμηση και άλλων γραμμικών μοντέλων σε χρονοσειρές με χάσματα όπως, Κινούμενου Μέσου (Moving Average), Αυτοπαλινδρούμενα Κινούμενου Μέσου (Autoregressive Moving Average).
description: In this work a new method is presented for the estimation of an autoregressive model and prediction in stationary time series with missing values. Rather than removing or filling the gaps in each time series, the rows of the linear data matrix from time series that contain empty entries are removed and the calculations are done on the remainder matrix. The method, called gap adapted removal (GA), is compared to a number of known gap-filling techniques, as well as the gap closure. The simulations on various time series at different settings (order of AR process, long and short time series, single gaps or block gaps) showed that estimates with GA are the same as for the non –“gappy” time series, while the gap – filling methods and gaps closure diverge by an amount increasing with the number of gaps. In addition the effectiveness of the estimated model is tested by forecasting in gappy time series, while the method is applied in real gappy time series. The GA method can be easily extended to other time series models such as Moving Average (MA), Autoregressive Moving Average (ARMA) and Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA).
Ipsos Understanding Society: Wave 21 September 2021
Creators: name: Ipsos Public Affairs
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2022

description: Frequency of coffee consumption (1); using lack of coffee as an excuse for mood/inattentiveness/tiredness (6); identify as a fan of Major League Baseball (1); team most likely to win World Series this year (1); favorite sport (1); sports played in the past or now (10).
DNA Subway – An Educational Bioinformatics Platform for Gene and Genome Analysis: DNA Barcoding, and RNA-Seq
Creators: name: Williams, Jason
name: McKay, Sheldon
name: Khalfan, Mohammed
name: Ghiban, Cornel
name: Hilgert, Uwe
name: Lauter, Susan
name: Micklos, David
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2015

description: DNA Subway is an educational bioinformatics platform developed by the iPlant Collaborative (NSF #DBI–0735191). It bundles research-grade bioinformatics tools, high-performance computing, and databases into workflows with an easy-to-use interface. “Riding” DNA Subway lines, students can predict and annotate genes in up to 150kb of DNA (Red Line), identify homologs in sequenced genomes (Yellow Line), identify species using DNA barcodes and phylogenetic trees (Blue Line), and examine RNA-Seq datasets for differential transcript abundance (Green Line). By combining bioinformatics with a wet-lab ‘hook,’ we are able to offer educators a path to supporting a variety of inquiry-based learning experiences using student-generated data. Products of student research can be exported, published, and utilized in follow-up experiments. Examples from The Urban Barcode project (http://www.urbanbarcodeproject.org/) and RNA-Seq for the Next Generation project (http://www.rnaseqforthenextgeneration.org/) highlight how DNA Subway can be leveraged for distributed science and course-based research experiences. DNA Subway is freely accessible online at dnasubway.iplantcollaborative.org.
Ο Σλαβικός κόσμος στην προοπτική του Κ. Παπαρρηγόπουλου.:
Creators: name: Τσαβδάρης, Σωτήριος Δημητρίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2014
Subjects: Σλάβοι
Φαλμεράυερ
Παπαρρηγόπουλος
Slavic people
Fallmerayer
Paparrigopoulos

description: Οι επιδρομές και εγκαταστάσεις των Σλάβων στην βαλκανική χερσόνησο κατά τον μεσαίωνα καθώς και οι ιστορικές συνέπειες αποτελούν ένα από τα πιο ενδιαφέροντα και ταυτόχρονα περίπλοκα και αμφιλεγόμενα ζητήματα που απασχόλησαν τον επιστημονικό κόσμο τον 19ο αιώνα. Οι ποικίλες απόψεις που εκφράστηκαν εκείνη την εποχή για το συνολικό ζήτημα είχαν σκοπό να εξερευνήσουν τις διάφορες πτυχές του προβλήματος αλλά δυστυχώς ήταν σε μεγάλο βαθμό αντιφατικές. Στο πνεύμα της εποχής του, ο Κωνσταντίνος Παπαρρηγόπουλος προσπάθησε να δώσει ενοποιητικό χαρακτήρα στην ιστορία του ελληνικού έθνους και να προσεγγίσει τον σλαβικό κόσμο (ειδικά τις ιδεολογίες του γερμανικού ιστορικού Φαλμεράυερ) με γενναιότητα. Ο Παπαρρηγόπουλος βασίστηκε σε διάφορες πηγές επειδή ήταν απαραίτητο να επαναπροσδιορίσει το αδιαίρετο του ελληνικού έθνους και του παρελθόντος του χωρίς κενά και παρανοήσεις που εμποδίζουν την επικράτηση της νέας ιδεολογίας, του τριπλού σχήματος της ελληνικής ιστορίας. Επιδιώκοντας της απόδειξης αυτής της συνέχειας του ελληνισμού, έπρεπε αναγκαία να αναζητήσει την καταγωγή και τον ρόλο των Σλάβων γειτόνων. Με τα δύο έργα «Η εποίκηση σλαβικών φυλών στην Πελοπόννησο» (1843) και «Η ιστορία του ελληνικού έθνους (1860 έως 1872) αποδεικνύεται (με ιστορικά και όχι μόνο στοιχεία) η αναμφισβήτητη εισβολή και εγκατάσταση των Σλάβων στην Ελλάδα στην αρχή του μεσαίωνα και η αυτοχθονία των Ελλήνων.
description: The medieval Slavic invasions and facilities in the Balkan Peninsula and the historical consequences constitute one of the most interesting but also complex and controversial problems that preoccupied the research since the 19th century. The various views expressed at that time in the overall assessment and to investigate various aspects of the problem but there were very conflicting. In the spirit of his time, Constantinos Paparrigopoulos started giving shape hyphen in Greek history and approach the Slavic world ( on the occasion of the ideologies of German historian J.F. Fallmerafer ) with true bravery and intelligence, based on frequent reference to primary sources , because it was necessary redefine indivisible thousand year then the Greek nation and traceable past , without gaps and misconceptions that bring resistance to the new ideology , the " triplet shape" of Greek history. In pursuit of this continuity of Hellenism , necessarily had to look for the origins and role of Slavic neighbors in the configuration section. And this ball through the two monumental treatises : the work On epoikiseos Certain Slavic tribes in the Peloponnese ( 1843 ) and also monumental until today History of the Greek Nation ( 1860 to 1872 ). Within these projects accept unquestioned invasion and installation of Slavs in Greece during the early Middle Ages , after historical and other evidence to prove it, but by pointing out that not corrupted the indigenous Greek population.
Ipsos Understanding Society: Wave 22 October 2021
Creators: name: Ipsos Public Affairs
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2022

description: Mental/emotional health within the past week (1); frequency of thinking about physical and mental well-being (2); attitudes toward mental illness (4); change in physical and mental well-being since coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic (3); who should be cast as the new James Bond (1).
Can quantum-mechanical description of physical reality be considered incomplete?
Creators: name: Brassard, Gilles
name: Methot, Andre Allan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In loving memory of Asher Peres, we discuss a most important and influential paper written in 1935 by his thesis supervisor and mentor Nathan Rosen, together with Albert Einstein and Boris Podolsky. In that paper, the trio known as EPR questioned the completeness of quantum mechanics. The authors argued that the then-new theory should not be considered final because they believed it incapable of describing physical reality. The epic battle between Einstein and Bohr intensified following the latter's response later the same year. Three decades elapsed before John S. Bell gave a devastating proof that the EPR argument was fatally flawed. The modest purpose of our paper is to give a critical analysis of the original EPR paper and point out its logical shortcomings in a way that could have been done 70 years ago, with no need to wait for Bell's theorem. We also present an overview of Bohr's response in the interest of showing how it failed to address the gist of the EPR argument.
description: 12 pages, no figures, dedicated to the memory of Asher Peres
Voice Quality and Gender Stereotypes (Matar et al., 2016)
Creators: name: Matar, Nayla
name: Portes, Cristel
name: Lancia, Leonardo
name: Legou, Thierry
name: Baider, Fabienne
Publisher: name: ASHA journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: Speech pathology
Speech recognition
Sociology of gender

description: Purpose: Women with Reinke’s edema (RW) report being mistaken for men during telephone conversations. For this reason, their masculine-sounding voices are interesting for the study of gender stereotypes. The study’s objective is to verify their complaint and to understand the cues used in gender identification. Method: Using a self-evaluation study, we verified RW’s perception of their own voices. We compared the acoustic parameters of vowels produced by 10 RW to those produced by 10 men and 10 women with healthy voices (hereafter referred to as NW) in Lebanese Arabic. We conducted a perception study for the evaluation of RW, healthy men’s, and NW voices by naïve listeners. Results: RW self-evaluated their voices as masculine and their gender identities as feminine. The acoustic parameters that distinguish RW from NW voices concern fundamental frequency, spectral slope, harmonicity of the voicing signal, and complexity of the spectral envelope. Naïve listeners very often rate RW as surely masculine. Conclusions: Listeners may rate RW’s gender incorrectly. These incorrect gender ratings are correlated with acoustic measures of fundamental frequency and voice quality. Further investigations will reveal the contribution of each of these parameters to gender perception and guide the treatment plan of patients complaining of a gender ambiguous voice.
On the water-bag model of dispersionless KP hierarchy
Creators: name: Chang, Jen-Hsu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the bi-Hamiltonian structure of the waterbag model of dKP for two component case. One can establish the third-order and first-order Hamiltonian operator associated with the waterbag model. Also, the dispersive corrections are discussed.
description: 19 pages
Properties of robot forward dynamics algorithms with applications to simulation
Creators: name: Cloutier, Benoit P.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This thesis presents issues related to the dynamic simulation of robot manipulators. The numerical simulation problem is usually treated as two separate problems: the forward dynamics problem for computing system accelerations, and the numerical integration problem for advancing the state in time. Using a compact and. unifying notation, existing methods for computing robot forward dynamics are presented and compared. It is shown that the articulated-body method [19, 20] (ABM) is better suited to deal with certain types of numerical problems than the composite rigid-body method [58] (CRBM). Simulation results are presented and the practical implications of these results are considered. In particular, it is shown that the fastest forward dynamics methods are not necessarily best when considered in conjunction with the popular adaptive step-size integration methods. Finally, this thesis also reviews issues related to the difficult task of incorporating contact simulation in the robot simulation process.
Human dynamics revealed through Web analytics
Creators: name: Goncalves, Bruno
name: Ramasco, Jose J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: When the World Wide Web was first conceived as a way to facilitate the sharing of scientific information at the CERN (European Center for Nuclear Research) few could have imagined the role it would come to play in the following decades. Since then, the increasing ubiquity of Internet access and the frequency with which people interact with it raise the possibility of using the Web to better observe, understand, and monitor several aspects of human social behavior. Web sites with large numbers of frequently returning users are ideal for this task. If these sites belong to companies or universities, their usage patterns can furnish information about the working habits of entire populations. In this work, we analyze the properly anonymized logs detailing the access history to Emory University's Web site. Emory is a medium size university located in Atlanta, Georgia. We find interesting structure in the activity patterns of the domain and study in a systematic way the main forces behind the dynamics of the traffic. In particular, we show that both linear preferential linking and priority based queuing are essential ingredients to understand the way users navigate the Web.
description: 7 pages, 8 figures
Low relaxation rate in a low-Z alloy of iron
Creators: name: Scheck, C.
name: Cheng, L.
name: Barsukov, I.
name: Frait, Z.
name: Bailey, W. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The longest relaxation time and sharpest frequency content in ferromagnetic precession is determined by the intrinsic (Gilbert) relaxation rate \emph{$G$}. For many years, pure iron (Fe) has had the lowest known value of $G=\textrm{57 Mhz}$ for all pure ferromagnetic metals or binary alloys. We show that an epitaxial iron alloy with vanadium (V) possesses values of $G$ which are significantly reduced, to 35$\pm$5 Mhz at 27% V. The result can be understood as the role of spin-orbit coupling in generating relaxation, reduced through the atomic number $Z$.
description: 14 pages, 4 figures
Indirect detection of light neutralino dark matter in the NMSSM
Creators: name: Ferrer, Francesc
name: Krauss, Lawrence M.
name: Profumo, Stefano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the prospects for indirect detection of neutralino dark matter in supersymmetric models with an extended Higgs sector (NMSSM). We compute, for the first time, one-loop amplitudes for NMSSM neutralino pair annihilation into two photons and two gluons, and point out that extra diagrams (with respect to the MSSM), featuring a potentially light CP-odd Higgs boson exchange, can strongly enhance these radiative modes. Expected signals in neutrino telescopes due to the annihilation of relic neutralinos in the Sun and in the Earth are evaluated, as well as the prospects of detection of a neutralino annihilation signal in space-based gamma-ray, antiproton and positron search experiments, and at low-energy antideuteron searches. We find that in the low mass regime the signals from capture in the Earth are enhanced compared to the MSSM, and that NMSSM neutralinos have a remote possibility of affecting solar dynamics. Also, antimatter experiments are an excellent probe of galactic NMSSM dark matter. We also find enhanced two photon decay modes that make the possibility of the detection of a monochromatic gamma-ray line within the NMSSM more promising than in the MSSM.
description: 26 pages, 12 figures. Updated references and corrected discussion of Upsilon decays
Output-sensitive construction of convex hulls
Creators: name: Chan, Timothy Moon-Yew
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The construction of the convex hull of a finite point set in a low-dimensional Euclidean space is a fundamental problem in computational geometry. This thesis investigates efficient algorithms for the convex hull problem, where complexity is measured as a function of both the size of the input point set and the size of the output polytope. Two new, simple, optimal, output-sensitive algorithms are presented in two dimensions and a simple, optimal, output-sensitive algorithm is presented in three dimensions. In four dimensions, we give the first output-sensitive algorithm that is within a poly logarithmic factor of optimal. In higher fixed dimensions, we obtain an algorithm that is optimal for sufficiently small output sizes and is faster than previous methods for sublinear output sizes; this result is further improved in even dimensions. Although the focus of the thesis is on the convex hull problem, applications of our techniques to many related problems in computational geometry are also explored, including the computation of Voronoi diagrams, extreme points, convex layers, levels in arrangements, and envelopes of line segments, as well as problems relating to ray shooting and linear programming.
Hypergeometric solutions to the q-Painlevé equation of type $A_4^{(1)}$
Creators: name: Hamamoto, Taro
name: Kajiwara, Kenji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider the q-Painlevé equation of type $A_4^{(1)}$ (a version of q-Painlevé V equation) and construct a family of solutions expressible in terms of certain basic hypergeometric series. We also present the determinant formula for the solutions.
description: 16 pages, IOP style
Language Skills of Youth Offenders (Lount et al., 2017)
Creators: name: Lount, Sarah A.
name: Purdy, Suzanne C.
name: Hand, Linda
Publisher: name: ASHA journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: Child language acquisition
Natural language processing
Audiology
Audio processing

description: Purpose: International evidence suggests youth offenders have greater difficulties with oral language than their nonoffending peers. This study examined the hearing, auditory processing, and language skills of male youth offenders and remandees (YORs) in New Zealand. Method: Thirty-three male YORs, aged 14–17 years, were recruited from 2 youth justice residences, plus 39 similarly aged male students from local schools for comparison. Testing comprised tympanometry, self-reported hearing, pure-tone audiometry, 4 auditory processing tests, 2 standardized language tests, and a nonverbal intelligence test. Results: Twenty-one (64%) of the YORs were identified as language impaired (LI), compared with 4 (10%) of the controls. Performance on all language measures was significantly worse in the YOR group, as were their hearing thresholds. Nine (27%) of the YOR group versus 7 (18%) of the control group fulfilled criteria for auditory processing disorder. Only 1 YOR versus 5 controls had an auditory processing disorder without LI. Conclusions: Language was an area of significant difficulty for YORs. Difficulties with auditory processing were more likely to be accompanied by LI in this group, compared with the controls. Provision of speech-language therapy services and awareness of auditory and language difficulties should be addressed in youth justice systems.
Exploring the chiral singularities of two color lattice QCD at strong coupling
Creators: name: Jiang, Fu-Jiun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use a modified directed path algorithm to study the finite temperature chiral singularities of two color lattice QCD with staggered fermions at strong coupling. Our lattice calculations are done at a fixed finite temperature in the broken phase with a variety of different quark masses. We find that to the lowest order, the behavior of our observables, namely the condensates and the decay constants are all consistent with the predictions of the low energy effective theory of our model. We further notice that in order to see consistency, the quark masses used in our lattice calculations need to be quite small than typically used.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures, talked presented at lattice 2006
Self-consistent computation of gamma-ray spectra due to proton-proton interactions in black hole systems
Creators: name: Bhattacharyya, S.
name: Bhatt, N.
name: Misra, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the inner regions of an accretion disk around a black hole, relativistic protons can interact with ambient matter to produce electrons, positrons and $γ$-rays. The resultant steady state electron and positron particle distributions are self-consistently computed taking into account Coulomb and Compton cooling, $e^-e^+$ pair production (due to $γ-γ$ annihilation) and pair annihilation. While earlier works used the diffusion approximation to obtain the particle distributions, here we solve a more general integro-differential equation that correctly takes into account the large change in particle energy that occur when the leptons Compton scatter off hard X-rays. Thus this formalism can also be applied to the hard state of black hole systems, where the dominant ambient photons are hard X-rays. The corresponding photon energy spectrum is calculated and compared with broadband data of black hole binaries in different spectral states. The results indicate that the $γ$-ray spectra ($E > 0.8$ MeV) of both the soft and hard spectral states and the entire hard X-ray/$γ$-ray spectrum of the ultra-soft state, could be due to $p-p$ interactions. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that there always exists in these systems a $γ$-ray spectral component due to $p-p$ interactions which can contribute between 0.5 to 10% of the total bolometric luminosty. The model predicts that {\it GLAST} would be able to detect black hole binaries and provide evidence for the presence of non-thermal protons which in turn would give insight into the energy dissipation process and jet formation in these systems.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Trattato tra Farnace I del Ponto e i Greci di Chersoneso
Creators: name: Ferraioli, Ferdinando
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2019

description:

The inscription contains a treaty of alliance between King Pharnakes I of Pontus and the inhabitants of Chersonesos. The king promises to respect the institutions and the security of the city, the inhabitants of the city promise to maintain an alliance with the king if he remains on good terms with them and with the Romans.

description: Axon
Non-equilibrium intermixing and phase transformation in severely deformed Al/Ni multilayers
Creators: name: Sauvage, Xavier
name: Dinda, G. P.
name: Wilde, Gerhard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Al/Ni multilayers have been prepared by repeated folding and cold rolling (F&R) of elemental foils. The thickness of Al and Ni foils is reduced down to less than 50 nm after fifty F&R cycles. Three-dimensional atom probe analyses clearly reveal the presence of supersaturated solid solutions and give the evidence of deformation-induced intermixing. The formation of the solid solutions and their transformation into the Al3Ni phase upon annealing is discussed.
description: 4 pages
Catalogo dei vincitori dei Charitesia e degli Homoloia di Orcomeno
Creators: name: Saccomanno, Michele
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2019

description:

The stele, found immured in a wall near the entrance of the Church of Mary in the Monastery of Skripù, close to the site of the ancient temple of the Graces at Orchomenus, preserves the names of the victors of two poetic-musical festivals, Charitesia and Homoloia. The date based on prosopography in the first half of the first century B.C. and the mention of the competition ‘for the epinicians’ allow to postulate a relationship between the institution of the two festivals and the policy of Sulla after the First Mithridatic war, when the roman general sought to gain the support of the Boeotians through the establishment of musical contests in many towns.

description: Axon
Sanatio di Publius Granius Rufus da Lebena
Creators: name: Rivoli, Matteo
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2019

description:

Account of a sanatio (miraculous healing) carved on a fragmentary marble slab coming from the sanctuary of Asclepius in Leben, Crete. The inscription, conceived as a dedication to the god, was made by the Roman Publius Granius Rufus, who appears to have been an influent personality in the nearby town of Gortyn. He applied to the sanctuary in order to cure a form of pulmonary tuberculosis that had been affecting him for almost two years, and that maybe the ʻnewʼ Hippocratic medicine had not been able to handle. The therapy, probably inspired by the mystic sleep of the incubatio, was quite elaborate, implying the consumption of herbs, spicy wine, a bread bun, sacred ash, an egg, resins, a vegetable decoction and figs. The existence itself of the epigraph makes sure that this treatment was successful, and allowed Publius Granius to honour the deity and to ʻpubliciseʼ its ability. Basing on the other known records of the gens Grania, the stone may be approximately dated between the 1st century BC and the 1st century AD.

description: Axon
Description of the inelastic collision of two solitary waves for the BBM equation
Creators: name: Martel, Y.
name: Merle, F.
name: Mizumachi, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35Q53; 35Q51; 35B40

description: We prove that the collision of two solitary waves of the BBM equation is inelastic but almost elastic in the case where one solitary wave is small in the energy space. We show precise estimates of the nonzero residue due to the collision. Moreover, we give a precise description of the collision phenomenon (change of size of the solitary waves).
description: submitted for publication. Corrected typo in Theorem 1.1
Συμβολή Επ. Αθανασίου (Γιέφτιτς) στη λειτουργική αναγέννηση στη Σερβία:
Creators: name: Kostic, Ljubisa Dragan (Λιούμπισα Κόστιτς, Αγάπιος)
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2014
Subjects: Επίσκοπος Αθανάσιος
Λειτουργία
Αναγέννηση
Bishop Athanasios
Liturgy
Revevai

description: Η εργασία μας έχει ως θέμα το φαινόμενο «της λειτουργικής αναγέννησης» στην Ορθόδοξη Εκκλησία της Σερβίας. Πολύ σημαντική προσωπικότητα, συνώνυμη με τη «λειτουργική αναγέννηση» στην Εκκλησία της Σερβίας, χωρίς αμφιβολία, είναι ο εφησυχάζων Επίσκοπος Ζαχούμλιε και Ερζεγοβίνης, Σεβασμιότατος Αθανάσιος Γιέβτιτς. Η διπλωματική μας εργασία διαιρείται σε τρία κεφάλαια. Στο πρώτο και συντομότερο κεφάλαιο παρουσιάζονται τα βιογραφικά στοιχεία του Επ. Αθανασίου (Γιέβτιτς) αλλά και η μεγάλη του συμβολή στη λειτουργική αναγέννηση στην Εκκλησία της Σερβίας.Το δεύτερο κεφάλαιο έχει περισσότερο χαρακτήρα θεωρητικό, και σε αυτό παρουσιάζουμε τις απόψεις του επισκόπου Αθανασίου σχετικά με τη λειτουργική θεολογία. Από τη θεολογικο-θεωρητική άποψη προσπαθήσαμε να εξετάσουμε όλες τις τριαδολογικές, χριστολογικές, πνευματολογικές, εκκλησιολογικές, ανθρωπολογικές, κοσμολογικές και εσχατολογικές βάσεις και διαστάσεις της Θείας Λειτουργίας, τις οποίες βρίσκουμε στα λειτουργικά έργα του επισκόπου Αθανασίου. Το τρίτο κεφάλαιο της διπλωματικής μας εργασίας αφορά τις αναλύσεις του επισκόπου Αθανασίου σχετικά με ορισμένα τρέχοντα λειτουργικά προβλήματα καθώς και τις πρακτικές λύσεις που προτείνει ο ίδιος. Σε αυτό πρώτα απ’ όλα περιγράφονται την παρούσα κατάσταση που περνάει η Εκκλησία της Σερβίας, όσον αφορά το θέμα της λειτουργικής αναγέννησης.
description: Our thesis deals with the phenomenon of the "liturgical renewal" in the Serbian orthodox church. A person who is very important when it comes to this renewal and also the synonym for the liturgical renewal itself, is beyond doubt, retired bishop of Zahumlje and Herzegovina, dr Atanasije (Jevtic). The master's thesis is divided into three parts. In the first and the shortest part of the paper I exposed the biography of bishop Atanasije, and here, among other things, I analyze his significance and contribution to the liturgical renewal in Serbia. The second part has the theological and theoretical character. It presents the ideas, thoughts and opinions of bishop Atanasije concerning the liturgical theology. Here we present all the trinitarian, christological, pneumatological, ecclesiological, eschatological and cosmological bases, dimension and perspective of the Divine Liturgy, which are found in the works of bishop Atanasije. The third and the final part presents the analysis of the bishop Atanasije regarding the current liturgical questions and provides the solutions that bishop offers in accordance with the orthodox liturgical tradition. The current state through which the liturgical renewal in Serbia is going through is particularly exposed in this section.
The origin of the lead-rich stars in Galactic halo: investigation of the model parameters for the s-process
Creators: name: Cui, Wenyuan
name: Zhang, Bo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Several stars at the low-metallicity extreme of the Galactic halo show large spreads of [Pb/hs]. Theoretically, a s-process pattern should be obtained from an AGB star with fixed metallicity and initial mass. For the third dredge-up and the s-process model, several important properties depend primarily on the core mass of AGB stars. Zijlstra (2004) reported that the initial-final-mass relation steepens at low metallicity, due to low mass-loss efficiency. This perhaps affects the model parameters of the AGB stars, e.g. the overlap factor and the neutron irradiation time, in particular at low metallicity. The calculated results show indeed that the overlap factor and the neutron irradiation time are significantly small at low metallicities, especially for 3.0Msun AGB stars. The scatter of [Pb/hs] found in low metallicities can therefore be explained naturally when varying the initial mass of the low-mass AGB stars.
description: 5 pages, 7 EPS figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS