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Free field approach to diagonalization of boundary transfer matrix : recent advances
Creators: name: Kojima, Takeo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We diagonalize infinitely many commuting operators $T_B(z)$. We call these operators $T_B(z)$ the boundary transfer matrix associated with the quantum group and the elliptic quantum group. The boundary transfer matrix is related to the solvable model with a boundary. When we diagonalize the boundary transfer matrix, we can calculate the correlation functions for the solvable model with a boundary. We review the free field approach to diagonalization of the boundary transfer matrix $T_B(z)$ associated with $U_q(A_2^{(2)})$ and $U_{q,p}(\hat{sl_N})$. We construct the free field realizations of the eigenvectors of the boundary transfer matrix $T_B(z)$. This paper includes new unpublished formula of the eigenvector for $U_q(A_2^{(2)})$. It is thought that this diagonalization method can be extended to more general quantum group $U_q(g)$ and elliptic quantum group $U_{q,p}(g)$.
description: To appear in Group 28 : Group Theoretical Method in Physics
Marginal fit of lithium disilicate crowns : a three-dimensional analysis
Creators: name: Mostafa, Nesrine
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Objectives: To compare the marginal fit of lithium disilicate (LDS) crowns fabricated with digital impression and manufacturing (termed “DD”), digital impression and traditional pressed manufacturing (termed “DP”), and traditional impression and manufacturing (termed “TP”). Methods: Tooth #15 was prepared for all-ceramic crowns on an ivorine typodont. There were 45 LDS crowns fabricated using three techniques: DD, DP, and TP. Micro-computed tomography (micro-CT) was utilized to assess the 2D and 3D marginal fit of crowns in all three groups. The 2D vertical marginal gap (MG) measurements were done at 20 systematically selected points/crown while the 3D measurements represented the 3D volume of the gap measured circumferentially at the crown margin. Incidences of different marginal discrepancies were also recorded, including over-extension (OE), under-extension (UE), and porcelain chipping. Crowns with vertical MG>120 μm at more than five points were considered unacceptable and were rejected. The results were analyzed by one-way ANOVA with Scheffe post hoc test (α=0.05). Results: DD crowns demonstrated significantly smaller mean vertical MG (33.3±19.99 μm) compared to DP (54.08±32.34 μm) and TP (51.88±35.34 μm) crowns. Similarly, MG volume was significantly lower in DD group (3.32±0.58 mm³) compared to TP group (4.16±0.59 mm³). Interestingly, the mean MG volume for the DP group (3.55±0.78 mm³) was not significantly different from the other groups (DD and TP). The incidence of under-extension was higher in DP (6.25%) and TP (5.4%) than in DD (0.33%) group, while over-extension was more frequent in DD (37.67%) than in TP (28.85%) and DP (18.75%) groups. Overall, 4 out of 45 crowns fabricated were deemed unacceptable based on the vertical MG measurements (three in TP group and one in DP group) while all crowns in DD group were deemed acceptable. Conclusion: Digital impression and CAD/CAM manufacturing resulted in consistently better marginal fit and was associated with less manufacturing errors.
Measurement of the Energy Spectrum of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays using Hybrid Data of the Pierre Auger Observatory
Creators: name: Schüssler, Fabian
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2009
Subjects: cosmic rays
energy spectrum
Pierre Auger Observatory
ankle

description: The subject of this thesis is the measurement of the energy spectrum of ultra-high energy cosmic rays from simultaneous observation of fluorescence and surface detectors of the Pierre Auger Observatory. Extending the nominal energy range of the Pierre Auger Observatory to lower energy, the hybrid energy spectrum above 10^{18} eV is measured. It shows a significant break of the power-law behavior at 10^{18.7} eV.
I Maestri dei maestri. Scuola, società, critica in Interesting Times di Eric Hobsbawm e Out of Place di Edward Said.
Creators: name: Pala, Mauro
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Cagliari
Year: 2013

description: Due fra gli intellettuali più famosi e significativi del Novecento, il filologo e comparatista  Edward Said e lo storico Eric Hobsbawm, esponenti di una critica militante e attenta alla sfera sociale, si confrontano con il passato attraverso le rispettive autobiografie – Out of Place (Said 1999) e Interesting Times (Hobsbawm 2002) - in cui non solo tracciano un bilancio di un’esistenza privata, quanto di un intero periodo storico: siamo di fronte a opere autobiografiche, ma dotate anche di un marcato carattere metanarrativo, riflessioni introvertite sul raccontare, fare storia e sulle motivazioni alla base dell’attività critica.
Proprio su questo sfondo, non può sfuggire come i due lavori dedichino molto spazio alle esperienze scolastiche: la scuola- anzi le scuole, rigorosamente al plurale sia per Said che per Hobsbawm- corrispondono infatti a diverse forme di socialità, segnalano ambienti diversi in senso cronologico e geografico, contrassegnati da costumi e ordinamenti eterogenei; rappresentano inoltre l’incontro con l’autorità costituita al di fuori dalla famiglia, e marcano così il progresso verso una piena autocoscienza dell’individuo nel contesto materiale della sua collocazione storica e culturale. In altre parole, sono proprio le scuole a scandire in primo luogo il processo di maturazione dei due autori in questione. E poiché sia Said che Hobsbawm elaborano un proprio stile molto personale nei rispettivi campi d’azione, non siamo di fronte a una scrittura ingenua; c’è un’evidente struttura retorica che sostiene questa narrazione di sé.
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Discovery of a high-z protocluster with tunable filters: the case of 6C0140+326 at z=4.4
Creators: name: Kuiper, E.
name: Hatch, N. A.
name: Venemans, B. P.
name: Miley, G. K.
name: Rottgering, H. J. A.
name: Kurk, J. D.
name: Overzier, R. A.
name: Pentericci, L.
name: Bland-Hawthorn, J.
name: Cepa, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first results obtained using a tunable narrowband filter in the search for high-z protoclusters. Using the recently commissioned red tunable filter on the Gran Telescopio Canarias we have searched for Lya emitters in a 75 arcmin^2 field centered on the z=4.413 radio galaxy 6C0140+326. With three different wavelength tunings we find a total of 27 unique candidate Lya emitters. The availability of three different wavelength tunings allows us to make estimates of the redshifts for each of the objects. It also allows us to separate a possible protocluster from structure in the immediate foreground. This division shows that the foreground region contains significantly fewer Lya emitters. Also, the spatial distribution of the objects in the protocluster field deviates from a random distribution at the 2.5 sigma level. The observed redshift distribution of the emitters is different from the expected distribution of a blank field at the ~3 sigma level, with the Lya emitters concentrated near the radio galaxy at z>4.38. The 6C0140+326 field is denser by a factor of 9+/-5 than a blank field, and the number density of Lya emitters close to the radio galaxy is similar to that of the z~4.1 protocluster around TNJ1338-1942. We thus conclude that there is an overdensity of Lya emitters around the radio galaxy 6C0140+326. This is one of few known overdensities at such a high redshift.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
«E quell’infame sorrise». A proposito di somari scolastici e della loro rappresentazione
Creators: name: Polacco, Marina
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Cagliari
Year: 2013

description: Il somaro per eccellenza – cioè quella fascia più o meno estesa di alunni refrattari al dialogo educativo – diventa la cartina di tornasole da cui partire per interrogarsi sul valore e la legittimità dell’insegnamento e della scuola oggi. All’interno dell’enorme mole di produzione saggistica e narrativa centrata sulla scuola, in cui spesso è molto difficile identificare un genere di appartenenza e stabilire il confine tra autobiografia, fiction e riflessione critica, si indaga il corto circuito tra il Franti di Cuore, il nonstudiante Di Paola Mastrocola (Togliamo il disturbo, 2011), il somaro di (Chagrin d’école, 2007) Daniel Pennac e il ripetente di Eraldo Affinati (Elogio del ripetente, 2013).
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Criminal man, eller Lombroso revisited
Creators: name: Hansen, Kim Toft
Publisher: name: Akademisk kvarter | Academic Quarter
Year: 2010

description: Kim Toft Hansen Criminal man, eller Lombroso revisited med undertitlen "Wittgensteins og Philip Kerrs filosofiske undersøgelser" – (Criminal man or Lombroso revisited Wittgenstein's and Philip Kerr's philosophical investigations). The article describes how flesh as a physiognomic distinctive mark for criminals is not just part of the now discredited degeneration theory, but that the theory has been reborn in genetics, at least in Philip Kerr's science fiction-like crime novel, which takes place in the near future. In the analysis of the novel A Philosophical Investigation from 1992 it is demonstrated that biological determinism is criticized, and at the same time Wittgenstein's early and late philosophy are connected in a common dialectics.
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Meat, Buddhism and Salvation
Creators: name: Sørensen, Bent
Publisher: name: Akademisk kvarter | Academic Quarter
Year: 2010

description: Bent Sørensen Meat, Buddhism and Salvation. The beat-poet and novel writer Jack Kerouac sought in a period of his life and in his writings to combine and unite Buddhist cessation of the existence of the flesh through Nirvana with a Catholic-Christian inspired yearning for the cessation of sin and guilt. The form of salvation Kerouac read into Buddhism was a cessation of suffering, and his concept of Heaven is a mixture of a Christian Paradise and a Buddhist non-place of non-existence, Nirvana – a condition Kerouac sometimes seems to have envisioned he could inhabit while still living here on Earth. The article shows how Kerouac's life influenced by alcoholism influenced his poetry together with a special hybrid form of Buddhism, and the article includes examples of his poems.
description: Akademisk kvarter | Academic Quarter, Kød | Flesh, Vol 01
Des jeux pour souffler ? Game jam Breathing Games
Creators: name: Balli, Fabio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: game jam en santé
santé respiratoire
jeux pour la santé
souffle
asthme
capacité pulmonaire
communs en santé

description: Saviez-vous que nos poumons sont notre premier contact avec notre environnement ? Et si le souffle pouvait être utilisé pour valoriser les échanges et la créativité ? Saviez-vous qu’une personne sur cinq dans le monde a une maladie respiratoire chronique ? Et si les communautés dans des régions à faible infrastructure pouvaient cartographier leur capacité pulmonaire ? Saviez-vous qu’un franc investi dans la réduction du tabagisme permet d’épargner 20 francs dans les soins ? Et si nous encouragions les enfants à adopter de bonnes habitudes pour prendre soin de leur santé respiratoire au quotidien ? Saviez-vous que l’asthme est la première cause d’absence à l’école ? Et si tous les enfants asthmatiques arrivaient à bien prévenir ou gérer leurs crises d’asthme ? Breathing Games encourage chacun à prendre soin de sa santé respiratoire par le jeu. Nous repensons comment nous pouvons nous réapproprier notre santé, en co-créant des technologies, et en partageant les innovations pour qu’elles bénéficient au plus grand nombre (licences ‘copyfair’).
Supplementary Material from Determinate growth is predominant and likely ancestral in squamate reptiles
Creators: name: Frýdlová, Petra
name: Mrzílková, Jana
name: Šeremeta, Martin
name: Křemen, Jan
name: Dudák, Jan
name: Žemlička, Jan
name: Minnich, Bernd
name: Kverková, Kristina
name: Němec, Pavel
name: Zach, Petr
name: Frynta, Daniel
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary methods, results and discussion
Jüngers kødgryder
Creators: name: Schlosser, Jan T.
Publisher: name: Akademisk kvarter | Academic Quarter
Year: 2010

description: Jan T. Schlosser Jüngers kødgryder (Jüngers' fleshpots). The article analyses Ernst Jüngers use of the decay of flesh and mistreatment as critique of civilization. The focus in the article is on Der Kampf als inneres Erlebnis (1922) and Das Abenteuerliche Herz (1929), and it is demonstrated how Jüngers as a trademark stresses the dark underbelly of modernity through the use of decaying flesh in a way that can be compared with Edgar Allan Poe and Marquis de Sade. This takes Jüngers away from the enlightenment tradition and towards a more intuitive perception of civilization.
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Skærmfødsler
Creators: name: Raun, Tobias
Publisher: name: Akademisk kvarter | Academic Quarter
Year: 2010

description: Tobias Rauns Skærmfødsler – en undersøgelse af det transformative potentiale i unge transkønnedes video blogs på YouTube. (Screen births – An examination of the transformative potential in the video blogs of young transgendered people on YouTube). The point of departure of the article is the rising number of video blogs (vlogs) on YouTube, where young transgendered people document and discuss their gender transformations. The article argues that these vlogs are a tool for staging the self and the creation of personal story telling in the shape of some sort of autobiographies and diaries, which also connect to creation, communication and negotiation with a larger collective story about being transgendered. Here the vlog is a means to be seen rather than secrecy, and this challenges pathologisation of transgenderedness.
description: Akademisk kvarter | Academic Quarter, Kød | Flesh, Vol 01
A Framework for Interactive Work Design based on Digital Work Analysis and Simulation
Creators: name: Ma, Liang
name: Zhang, Wei
name: Fu, Huanzhang
name: Guo, Yang
name: Chablat, Damien
name: Bennis, Fouad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Due to the flexibility and adaptability of human, manual handling work is still very important in industry, especially for assembly and maintenance work. Well-designed work operation can improve work efficiency and quality; enhance safety, and lower cost. Most traditional methods for work system analysis need physical mock-up and are time consuming. Digital mockup (DMU) and digital human modeling (DHM) techniques have been developed to assist ergonomic design and evaluation for a specific worker population (e.g. 95 percentile); however, the operation adaptability and adjustability for a specific individual are not considered enough. In this study, a new framework based on motion tracking technique and digital human simulation technique is proposed for motion-time analysis of manual operations. A motion tracking system is used to track a worker's operation while he/she is conducting a manual handling work. The motion data is transferred to a simulation computer for real time digital human simulation. The data is also used for motion type recognition and analysis either online or offline for objective work efficiency evaluation and subjective work task evaluation. Methods for automatic motion recognition and analysis are presented. Constraints and limitations of the proposed method are discussed.
Den udkrængede krop
Creators: name: Bille, Torben Rølmer
Publisher: name: Akademisk kvarter | Academic Quarter
Year: 2010

description: Torben Rølmer Billes Den udkrængede krop – brutale excesser i et filmhistorisk perspektiv. (The body turned inside out Brutal excesses in a film historical perspective). The article discusses the mutability of the body and flesh in the form of its perishability and readiness for destruction. The article delineates the development of the horror genre with special focus on the subgenre called torture porn, which describes the destruction of human flesh. With examples from film history from the 1960s and onward and looking back into the whole history of the genre, the article offers an insight into why the subgenre has taken on its present and popular form.
description: Akademisk kvarter | Academic Quarter, Kød | Flesh, Vol 01
The White Dwarf Companion of a 2 M_sun Neutron Star
Creators: name: Bhalerao, Varun B.
name: Kulkarni, S. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the optical discovery of the companion to the 2 M_sun millisecond pulsar PSR J1614-2230. The optical colors show that the 0.5 M_sun companion is a 2.2 Gyr old He-CO white dwarf. We infer that $\dot{M}$ during the accretion phase is <10^{-2}\dot{M}_{edd}. We show that the pulsar was born with a spin close to its current value, well below the rebirth line. The spin-down parameters, the mass of the pulsar, and the age of the system challenge the simple recycling model for the formation of millisecond pulsars.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables
Francesco Fiorentino – Carla Solivetti (eds.), Letteratura e geografia.  Atlanti, modelli, letture
Creators: name: Veneri, Toni
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Cagliari
Year: 2013

description: Rispetto ad altri incroci disciplinari, meno familiari ma sempre più frequenti, il binomio ‘letteratura e geografia’ sembra a prima vista uno dei più tradizionali e non comportare grosse difficoltà. D’altronde ogni programma di formazione umanistica prevede l’acquisizione di una buona preparazione geografica, il cui ausilio aiuta talora a inscrivere in un quadro condiviso le narrazioni storiografiche e letterarie, talora permette di localizzare i centri di produzione di cultura o i luoghi cruciali delle biografie dei grandi autori. Tuttavia non di questo – ovvero non dell’aggiornamento di una collaborazione tutto sommato deterministica nelle sue varianti ideologiche – tratta il volume curato da Francesco Fiorentino e Carla Solivetti, che si propone anzi di illustrare come negli studi letterari il sempre maggiore interesse per la geografia stia contribuendo a un generale ripensamento della disciplina e delle sue categorie critiche.

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Reading The Idea of History through The Principles of Art: Collingwood on Communication and Emotions
Creators: name: Mostajir, Parysa Clare
Publisher: name: Brill
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Collingwood
subject: history
subject: art
subject: emotions
subject: thought
subject: communication

description: While Collingwood’s Idea of History (IH) is an excellent resource for defending history’s autonomy, its invocation is not without problems. If history deals only in reflective thought, how can it encompass irrational action? How can history reconcile its subjective method of imagination with its claim to objectivity? The most successful solutions to these problems, such as those proposed by D’Oro and Mink, appeal to Collingwood’s greater philosophical system, but they typically attribute him a restrictive and unintuitive view of historical inquiry. We are left with a historical practice that is less equipped to address the problems we intuitively want it to solve—those dealing with past human experience as it actually occurred. Using The Principles of Art (PA), I present an interpretation of Collingwood’s philosophy of history in which emotions are communicable between individuals. His theory of art defines artistic creation as a process in which unconscious emotions are harnessed and transformed into conscious emotions, which can then draw another individual into an imaginative experience that ‘repeats’ or ‘is identical with’ the artist’s original experience. We therefore acquire an account of historical inquiry that permits the interpretation of emotionally-driven actions. In this interpretation, the a priori imagination becomes an irreducible faculty of everyday human activity, a means of interpreting fellow agents in our social environments; and the onus is transferred to the natural sciences to justify their encroachment into this irreducible activity at the foundation of human experience and society.
Nonlinear instability of linearly unstable standing waves for nonlinear Schrödinger equations
Creators: name: Georgiev, Vladimir
name: Ohta, Masahito
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study the instability of standing waves for nonlinear Schrödinger equations. Under a general assumption on nonlinearity, we prove that linear instability implies orbital instability in any dimension. For that purpose, we establish a Strichartz type estimate for the propagator generated by the linearized operator around standing wave.
description: 16 pages
Mini radio lobes in AGNs core illumination and their hadronic gamma-ray afterlight
Creators: name: Kino, Motoki
name: Asano, Katsuaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent radio observations reveal the existence of mini radio lobes in active galaxies with their scales of $\sim 10 {\rm pc}$. The lobes are expected to be filled with shock accelerated electrons and protons. In this work, we examine the photon spectra from the mini lobes, properly taking the hadronic processes into account. We find that the resultant broadband spectra contain the two distinct hadronic bumps in $γ$-ray bands, i.e., the proton synchrotron bump at $\sim$ MeV and the synchrotron bump at $\sim$ GeV due to the secondary electrons/positrons produced via photo-pion cascade. Especially when the duration of particle injection is shorter than the lobe age, radio-dark $γ$-ray lobes are predicted. The existence of the $γ$-ray lobes could be testable with the future TeV-$γ$ telescope {\it CTA}.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS Letters
Pseudo-randomness and Learning in Quantum Computation
Creators: name: Low, Richard A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This thesis discusses the young fields of quantum pseudo-randomness and quantum learning algorithms. We present techniques for derandomising algorithms to decrease randomness resource requirements and improve efficiency. One key object in doing this is a k-design, which is a distribution on the unitary group whose kth moments match those of the unitarily invariant Haar measure. We show that for a natural model of a random quantum circuit, the distribution of random circuits quickly converges to a 2-design. We then present an efficient unitary k-design construction for any k, provided the number of qubits n satisfies k = O(n/log n). In doing this, we provide an efficient construction of a quantum tensor product expander, which is a generalisation of a quantum expander which in turn generalises classical expanders. We then discuss applications of k-designs. We show that they can be used to improve the efficiency of many existing algorithms and protocols and also find new applications to derandomising large deviation bounds. In particular, we show that many large deviation bound results for Haar random unitaries carry over to k-designs for k = poly(n). In the second part of the thesis, we present some learning and testing algorithms for the Clifford group. We find an optimal algorithm for identifying an unknown Clifford operation. We also give an algorithm to test if an unknown operation is close to a Clifford or far from every Clifford.
description: Contains results from 0802.1919 (with an alternative proof of the Markov chain mixing time bound), 0811.2597, 0903.5236 and 0907.2833. Also presents an introduction to k-designs, proving the relationships between different definitions. There is a review chapter on uses of k-designs
Luciano Canfora – Ugo Cardinale  (eds.), Disegnare il futuro con intelligenza antica. L’insegnamento del latino e del greco antico in Italia e nel mondo
Creators: name: Veglia, Andrea
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Cagliari
Year: 2013

description: Il volume edito da Luciano Canfora e Ugo Cardinale raccoglie gli atti del convegno internazionale Disegnare il futuro con intelligenza antica, tenutosi tra Torino e Ivrea dal 12 al 14 aprile 2012. È stata, questa, occasione per ridiscutere e ridefinire gli scopi e le metodologie didattiche delle discipline classiche, con uno sguardo al ruolo che lo studio dell’antico ha rivestito in passato, ricopre oggi nonostante i ripetuti tentativi di marginalizzazione, e soprattutto che è destinato a mantenere in futuro. La discussione si inserisce in un dibattito infuocato che, comprendendo e andando oltre gli studi classici, tenta di ridefinire e ribadire l’importanza degli studi umanistici. Cinque sono le articolazioni del saggio: la permanenza del classico, la tradizione degli studi classici, l’insegnamento delle lingue e civiltà classiche nel confronto internazionale, la didattica delle lingue classiche nei licei italiani, la presunta opposizione tra letteratura e scienza.
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The inner structure of very massive elliptical galaxies: implications for the inside-out formation mechanism of z~2 galaxies
Creators: name: Tiret, O.
name: Salucci, P.
name: Bernardi, M.
name: Maraston, C.
name: Pforr, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze a sample of 23 supermassive elliptical galaxies (central velocity dispersion larger than 330 km s-1), drawn from the SDSS. For each object, we estimate the dynamical mass from the light profile and central velocity dispersion, and compare it with the stellar mass derived from stellar population models. We show that these galaxies are dominated by luminous matter within the radius for which the velocity dispersion is measured. We find that the sizes and stellar masses are tightly correlated, with Re ~ M*^{1.1}$, making the mean density within the de Vaucouleurs radius a steeply declining function of M*: rho_e ~ M*^{-2.2}. These scalings are easily derived from the virial theorem if one recalls that this sample has essentially fixed (but large) sigma_0. In contrast, the mean density within 1 kpc is almost independent of M*, at a value that is in good agreement with recent studies of z ~ 2 galaxies. The fact that the mass within 1 kpc has remained approximately unchanged suggests assembly histories that were dominated by minor mergers -- but we discuss why this is not the unique way to achieve this. Moreover, the total stellar mass of the objects in our sample is typically a factor of ~ 5 larger than that in the high redshift (z ~ 2) sample, an amount which seems difficult to achieve. If our galaxies are the evolved objects of the recent high redshift studies, then we suggest that major mergers were required at z > 1.5, and that minor mergers become the dominant growth mechanism for massive galaxies at z < 1.5.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures, accepted in MNRAS
Silvana Borutti – Ute Heidmann, La Babele in cui viviamo. Traduzioni, Riscritture, Culture
Creators: name: Bernardini, Manfredi
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Cagliari
Year: 2013

description: Cosa implica l’atto di tradurre da una lingua all’altra? Come si pone la traduzione in rapporto al concetto di cultura? È possibile rintracciare un’etica della traduzione che valorizzi le differenze linguistiche, e quindi culturali, piuttosto che annullarle? Che mutazioni subisce l’identità nelle sue varie sfaccettature nel corso del processo della traduzione? Sono questi alcuni degli interrogativi cui cercano di dare risposta Silvana Borutti e Ute Heidmann in La Babele in cui viviamo. Traduzioni, Riscritture, Culture. La prima insegna Filosofia teoretica all’Università di Pavia, mentre Ute Heidmann è docente di Letterature comparate all’Università di Losanna. Prendendo le mosse da una doppia prospettiva fornita dalla filosofia del linguaggio e dalla comparatistica, le autrici offrono una lettura interdisciplinare del tema della traduzione.

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Giuseppe Tinè, Erich Auerbach.  Una teoria della letteratura
Creators: name: Castellana, Riccardo
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Cagliari
Year: 2013

description: Quello di Giuseppe Tinè è, in Italia, uno dei primi studi complessivi sull’autore di Mimesis e il suo sottotitolo, Una teoria della letteratura, non nasconde un’ambizione di completezza e di sintesi. Non si tratta qui, tuttavia, di una trattazione sistematica di quella teoria “diluita” nella pratica che ha contraddistinto l’attività di Auerbach ma piuttosto di un generoso, e per molti versi riuscito, tentativo di riconsiderare sub specie filosofica i fondamenti del suo metodo e, meglio ancora, della sua filosofia della storia.

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Carnografi
Creators: name: Krogholm, Claus
Publisher: name: Akademisk kvarter | Academic Quarter
Year: 2010

description: Claus Krogholm Carnografi – David Cronenberg og skriften på kødet. (Carnography – David Cronenberg and the writing on the flesh). Carnography is a neologism for writing, films, images, or other material that contains gratuitous amounts of bloodshed, violence and/or weaponry. The article is about the film director David Cronenberg´s use of flesh. After defining the concept of carnography and describing its very literal use in Franz Kafka the article characterizes the director´s interest in new flesh in Cronenberg´s central films. New flesh is about the fusion of man and technology, the organic and the inorganic, flesh and metal. This leads to an analysis of the recent film Eastern Promises and the use of the writing on the flesh in this film – tattoos. The conclusion is that in general Cronenberg is interested in problems of identity, which gets its own expression in tattoos that are only ’skin deep’.
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From figure to figural
Creators: name: Benavente, Fran
name: Salvadó, Gloria
Publisher: name: Akademisk kvarter | Academic Quarter
Year: 2010

description: Med udgangspunkt i film breder Fran Benavente og Gloria Salvadó blikket ud til et fokus, der også inddrager kunsthistorien. The article From figure to figural: body and incarnation in contemporary film combines an investigation of film and art history of what lies between the visual and the invisible. This investigation includes recent films by directors such as Philippe Grandrieux, Claire Denis, Bruno Dumont, Bertrand Bonello, Catherine Breillat, David Lynch, Harmony Korine and David Cronenberg. This investigation concludes that these films contain what is called amodal perceptions by Daniel N. Stern, and in art the incarnation and its mysteries is one of the motifs used. An older example is Pliny´s description of the production of a death mask in ancient Rome, where a wax impression was taken of the face of the deceased, which stresses the impossibility of making flesh visible.
description: Akademisk kvarter | Academic Quarter, Kød | Flesh, Vol 01
Lesão osteolítica na Calote Craniana – Metástase reveladora de um Carcinoma da Tiroide
Creators: name: Tavares, Vanessa
name: Trancas, C
name: Campo, M
name: Santos, S
Publisher: name: Citotech Online - Case Review
Year: 2020

description: As metástases de carcinoma da tiroide integram uma baixa percentagem do total das metástases observadas na calote craniana. Apresentamos um caso de uma utente com 72 anos, com uma lesão osteolítica na calote craniana frontal direita, submetida a punção aspirativa por agulha fina, cujo diagnóstico foi compatível com tecido tiroideu. Na ecografia à tiroide, efetuou-se punção de um nódulo detetado e novamente da lesão osteolítica, cujas características celulares eram semelhantes, classificando-se a lesão como tumor folicular. A doente foi submetida a tiroidectomia total, tendo sido atribuído o diagnóstico histológico de Carcinoma Folicular.
description: Citotech Online - Case Review, N.º 6 (2020): Citotech Online - Case Review
Glide and Superclimb of Dislocations in Solid $^4$He
Creators: name: Aleinikava, D.
name: Dedits, E.
name: Kuklov, A. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Glide and climb of quantum dislocations under finite external stress, variation of chemical potential and bias (geometrical slanting) in Peierls potential are studied by Monte Carlo simulations of the effective string model. We treat on unified ground quantum effects at finite temperatures $T$. Climb at low $T$ is assisted by superflow along dislocation core -- {\it superclimb}. Above some critical stress avalanche-type creation of kinks is found. It is characterized by hysteretic behavior at low $T$. At finite biases gliding dislocation remains rough even at lowest $T$ -- the behavior opposite to non-slanted dislocations. In contrast to glide, superclimb is characterized by quantum smooth state at low temperatures even for finite bias. In some intermediate $T$-range giant values of the compressibility as well as non-Luttinger type behavior of the core superfluid are observed.
description: Updated version submitted to JLTP as QFS2010 proceedings; 11 pages, 6 figures
The scenic beauty of streetscapes : an assessment of commuting corridors in Vancouver
Creators: name: Narukage, Miki
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: While it has been well studied that nature in urban parks provides aesthetic values in the urban landscape, limited studies on the aesthetics of streetscapes have been done. The current study aims to seek out the biophysical components that can significantly enhance the beauty of the scenery of urban streets. The target landscape is the busiest commuting corridors located in the residential area of Vancouver and Burnaby, BC. Sixty images showing the driving perspective, retrieved from Google Street View, were used as the sample stimuli. The study comprised two steps of analysis. First, the number of pixels occupied by the tested 24 environment variables that were suggested by previous literature review to have influence on scenic judgments for each image were counted using Photoshop. Second, 47 university students and staff working in the University of British Columbia took part in a perceptual survey where they judged the perceived scenic beauty of sample images on a 10-point scale. Then, the correlation between the pixel counts of the tested variables and the Scenic Beauty Estimates points calculated from the raw ratings was examined. As the result of stepwise regression analysis, 5 variables were observed to be the most prominent predictors of scenic beauty of the streetscape. The visual area of trees, green grass, hedges, and the symmetrical arrangement of trees aligned with the sides of streets, could increase the estimates of beauty, while the presence of power lines could decrease it. The finding that images with more vegetation are appreciated by the participants as more beautiful agrees with the preceding literature. The study methodology allowed us to know the magnitude of the influence of each variable on scenic judgments, and it enabled us to propose the optimal choices of vegetation types and spatial allocation of trees for better design of urban streets. These findings contribute to our understanding of urban streetscape patterns, which may be eventually used to improve the psychological and physical health of urban dwellers.
Carcinoma Neuroendócrino em Colpocitologia de rotina
Creators: name: Tavares, Vanessa
name: Trancas, C
name: Santos, S
Publisher: name: Citotech Online - Case Review
Year: 2020

description: Os Tumores Neuroendócrinos do colo uterino são muito raros, pelo que o seu diagnóstico é difícil e, por vezes, confundido com outras entidades neoplásicas. Apresentamos um caso de uma mulher de 43 anos, com miomas uterinos e queixas de metrorragias, proposta para histerectomia eletiva, tendo-se diagnosticado, na citologia de rotina pré-operatória um Adenocarcinoma sem outra especificação. Após colpocitologia com biópsia, foi diagnosticado um carcinoma neuro-endócrino do colo uterino, com recurso a técnicas complementares de imunohistoquímica. A doente foi submetida a vários tratamentos, tendo falecido cerca de um ano depois, com doença metastática.
description: Citotech Online - Case Review, N.º 6 (2020): Citotech Online - Case Review
A tool for delegative governance? : South Korea's National Security Law and delegative democracy
Creators: name: Kim, Dongwoo
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2016

description: The paper seeks to clarify the relationship between South Korea’s National Security Law (NSL) and democracy. The NSL is a special law that seeks to address the security threats from North Korea, criticized for limiting fundamental civil and political rights. However, these criticisms have shown limited effectiveness in light of the argument that South Korea has unique security needs that require some compromise. In order to demonstrate more effectively that the NSL is problematic for South Korea’s democracy, I argue that the continued use of the law makes more sense if South Korea is considered to be a “delegative democracy,” a defective subtype characterized by weaknesses in horizontal accountability and violation of civil rights, as opposed to a representative democracy that it purports to be. As such, I demonstrate that the opportunity cost of the continued use of the NSL is much greater than occasional violation of civil rights, and that it facilitates problematic behaviours by the executive that is not compatible within a representative democracy that South Korea is supposed to be. Ultimately, this paper raises the urgency to demand more information and transparency in the use of the NSL in South Korea today.
Comparison of DC and SRF Photoemission Guns For High Brightness High Average Current Beam Production
Creators: name: Bazarov, Ivan V.
name: Kim, Allen
name: Lakshmanan, Manu N.
name: Maxson, Jared M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A comparison of the two most prominent electron sources of high average current high brightness electron beams, DC and superconducting RF photoemission guns, is carried out using a large-scale multivariate genetic optimizer interfaced with space charge simulation codes. The gun geometry for each case is varied concurrently with laser pulse shape and parameters of the downstream beamline elements of the photoinjector to obtain minimum emittance as a function of bunch charge. Realistic constraints are imposed on maximum field values for the two gun types. The SRF and DC gun emittances and beam envelopes are compared for various values of photocathode thermal emittance. The performance of the two systems is found to be largely comparable provided low intrinsic emittance photocathodes can be employed.
Extended Methods ;Two new modes of torpor in a tropical bat species (examples of female bats).;Costly evaporative cooling in M. commersoni from Tropical bats counter heat by combining torpor with adaptive hyperthermia
Creators: name: Reher, Stephanie
name: Dausmann, Kathrin H.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology

description: Metabolic rate as V˙O2 (MR, ml h−1 g−1; blue) and skin temperature (Tskin, °C; red) of two female individuals of the bat Macronycteris commersoni and the bats’ ambient temperature (Ta, °C; yellow). Grey shaded blocks indicate the dark phase. Panel A shows the typical response on regular warm (rainy or cloudy) days. Under these conditions, bats alternated between regular resting MR and micro-torpor bouts (12.4 ± 10.5min) over the course of their usual inactive phase (~05:30 – 18:30 hours). Panel B shows the response of bats on hot days. When Ta exceeded euthermic body temperature, the bats extended their torpor bouts, which lasted until the beginning of their active phase in the late afternoon when Ta had decreased again (293.6 ± 101.2min). Please note the decline in MR and simultaneous increase in Tskin, which passively followed Ta, during extended torpor up to 42.9°C indicating that bats tolerated hyperthermia while torpid.;Thermal imaging video (FLIR T540, FLIR systems, Wilsonville, USA) of a male bat resting under a hot roof next to a temperature logger (Hygrochron iButton, Maxim integrated, San Jose, USA) at 36.9°C. This individual extensively licks its forearms for evaporative cooling. For scale, please note that the bat's length is ~13.6cm from head to toe.
The host galaxies of radio-loud AGN: colour structure
Creators: name: Mannering, Elizabeth J. A.
name: Worrall, Diana M.
name: Birkinshaw, Mark
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct a sample of 3,516 radio-loud host galaxies of active galactic nuclei (AGN) from the optical Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty cm (FIRST). These have 1.4 GHz luminosities in the range 10E23-1025 WHz^{-1}, span redshifts 0.022.22 mag). Optical emission line ratios (at >3 sigma) are used to remove type 1 AGN and star-forming galaxies from the radio sample using BPT diagnostics. For comparison, we select a sample of 35,160 radio-quiet galaxies with the same r*-band magnitude-redshift distribution as the radio sample. We also create comparison radio and control samples derived by adding the NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NVSS) to quantify the effect of completeness on our results. We investigate the effective radii of the surface brightness profiles in the SDSS r and u bands in order to quantify any excess of blue colour in the inner region of radio galaxies. We define a ratio R=r_{e}(r)/r_{e}(u) and use maximum likelihood analysis to compare the average value of R and its intrinsic dispersion between both samples. R is larger for the radio-loud AGN sample as compared to its control counterpart, and we conclude that the two samples are not drawn from the same population at >99% significance. Given that star formation proceeds over a longer time than radio activity, the difference suggests that a subset of galaxies has the predisposition to become radio loud. We discuss host galaxy features that cause the presence of a radio-loud AGN to increase the scale size of a galaxy in red relative to blue light, including excess central blue emission, point-like blue emission from the AGN itself, and/or diffuse red emission. We favour an explanation that arises from the stellar rather than the AGN light.
description: 14 pages, accepted to MNRAS
In vivo efficacy of artemether-lumefantrine against uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Central Ethiopia
Creators: Hwang, Jimee
Alemayehu, Bereket H
Hoos, David
Melaku, Zenebe
Tekleyohannes, Samuel G.
Teshi, Takele
Birhanu, Sintayehu G.
Demeke, Leykun
Gobena, Kedir
Jima, Daddi
Kassa, Moges
Reithinger, Richard
Nettey, Henry
Malone, Joseph L.
Green, Michael
Kachur, S. Patrick
Filler, Scott
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Malaria--Treatment
Healing
Malaria--Mortality
Biochemistry

description: Background
In vivo efficacy assessments of the first-line treatments for Plasmodium falciparum malaria are essential for ensuring effective case management. In Ethiopia, artemether-lumefantrine (AL) has been the first-line treatment for uncomplicated P. falciparum malaria since 2004.

Methods
Between October and November 2009, we conducted a 42-day, single arm, open label study of AL for P. falciparum in individuals >6 months of age at two sites in Oromia State, Ethiopia. Eligible patients who had documented P. falciparum mono-infection were enrolled and followed according to the standard 2009 World Health Organization in vivo drug efficacy monitoring protocol. The primary and secondary endpoints were PCR uncorrected and corrected cure rates, as measured by adequate clinical and parasitological response on days 28 and 42, respectively.

Results
Of 4426 patients tested, 120 with confirmed falciparum malaria were enrolled and treated with AL. Follow-up was completed for 112 patients at day 28 and 104 patients at day 42. There was one late parasitological failure, which was classified as undetermined after genotyping. Uncorrected cure rates at both day 28 and 42 for the per protocol analysis were 99.1% (95% CI 95.1-100.0); corrected cure rates at both day 28 and 42 were 100.0%. Uncorrected cure rates at day 28 and 42 for the intention to treat analysis were 93.3% (95% CI 87.2-97.1) and 86.6% (95% CI 79.1-92.1), respectively, while the corrected cure rates at day 28 and 42 were 94.1% (95% CI 88.2-97.6) and 87.3% (95% CI 79.9-92.7), respectively. Using survival analysis, the unadjusted cure rate was 99.1% and 100.0% adjusted by genotyping for day 28 and 42, respectively. Eight P. falciparum patients (6.7%) presented with Plasmodium vivax infection during follow-up and were excluded from the per protocol analysis. Only one patient had persistent parasitaemia at day 3. No serious adverse events were reported, with cough and nausea/vomiting being the most common adverse events.

Conclusions
AL remains a highly effective and well-tolerated treatment for uncomplicated falciparum malaria in the study setting after several years of universal access to AL. A high rate of parasitaemia with P. vivax possibly from relapse or new infection was observed.
Reconciling Objectivity and Accountability in Science: A Pragmatist Approach
Creators: name: Mostajir, Parysa Clare
Publisher: name: University of Chicago Press
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: science
subject: humanism
subject: values
subject: methods
subject: pragmatism
subject: objectivity

description: A humanist theory of science must satisfy two requirements which appear to be in tension. Firstly, in order to hold science accountable for its socio-political consequences, it must challenge narratives presenting science as objective and value-free. Secondly, in order to hold scientific knowledge as authoritative when deciding on public policy, it must challenge narratives presenting science as biased and unreliable, e.g. climate science denial or anti-vaccination rhetoric. I show that pragmatist philosophy can answer these apparently contradictory needs. Rather than taking science as a means of objectively representing an external world, pragmatism would hold that scientific method has evolved through human attempts to navigate their material environment, with increasingly abstract and broadly applicable practices for successful goal-achievement being honed and systematized in the process. So, while science’s proper function is to serve value-based purposes, it is nevertheless a method which carries authority in determining appropriate actions for navigating encountered problems.