cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Stimulated scattering in a plasma filling an optical cavity
Creators: name: Myra, James Richard
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Stimulated scattering processes in a homogeneous plasma inside an optical cavity are studied theoretically. In particular, attention is focussed on the Raman and Brillouin instabilities. The coupled equations for the wave amplitudes are solved subject to optical cavity boundary conditions and it is shown that for a wide range of plasma lengths and cavity mirror reflectivities, the threshold values for instability are approximately those for the temporal problem (waves uniform in space, growth or decay in time). Sample results are calculated numerically for the Raman instability in a typical laboratory plasma. The threshold values of incident laser intensity are easily exceeded with presently available, high powered (200 MW) CO₂ lasers. Finally, the physical significance of these results is discussed, and a generalization to the case of an inhomogeneous plasma is suggested.
The Supernova of 1054AD, the Armenian chronicle of Hetum, and Cronaca Rampona
Creators: name: Gurzadyan, V. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The rareness of nearby supernovae ensures particular value to the historic records for determination of their light curves. We provide the translation of 13th century Armenian chronicle of Hetum, which by its unexpected association to Cronaca Rampona and other chronicles can influence the debates whether there are reliable European records of the supernova of 1054 AD, as well as the analysis of the records vs the conjunction with the Moon and their role in assigning of the Type I or II to that supernova.
description: to appear in The Observatory (UK), 3 pages, includes higher quality photo of the ancient manuscript
Non-Markovian incoherent quantum dynamics of a two-state system
Creators: name: Amin, M. H. S.
name: Brito, Frederico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a detailed study of the non-Markovian two-state system dynamics for the regime of incoherent quantum tunneling. Using perturbation theory in the system tunneling amplitude $Δ$, and in the limit of strong system-bath coupling, we determine the short time evolution of the reduced density matrix and thereby find a general equation of motion for the non-Markovian evolution at longer times. We relate the nonlocality in time due to the non-Markovian effects with the environment characteristic response time. In addition, we study the incoherent evolution of a system with a double-well potential, where each well consists several quantized energy levels. We determine the crossover temperature to a regime where many energy levels in the wells participate in the tunneling process, and observe that the required temperature can be much smaller than the one associated with the system plasma frequency. We also discuss experimental implications of our theoretical analysis.
description: 10 pages, published version
Trasformazioni di un mito tra realtà e finzione. Marco Benoît Carbone, Geographies of Myth and Places of Identity: The Strait of Scylla and Charybdis in the Modern Imagination, Bloomsbury, New York 2022
Creators: name: Corradino, Anna Chiara
Publisher: name: Cinergie – Il Cinema e le altre Arti
Year: 2023

description: Cinergie – Il Cinema e le altre Arti, No. 24 (2023)
Two-qubit state recovery from amplitude damping based on weak measurement
Creators: name: Harraz, Sajede
name: Cong, Shuang
name: Li, Kezhi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the quantum control process, arbitrary pure or mixed initial states need to be protected from amplitude damping through the noise channel using measurements and quantum control. However, how to achieve it on a two-qubit quantum system remains a challenge. In this paper, we propose a feed-forward control approach to protect arbitrary two-qubit pure or mixed initial states using the weak measurement. A feed-forward operation and measurements are used before the noise channel, and afterwards a reversed operation and measurements are applied to recover the state back to its initial state. In the case of two-qubit pure states, we use the unravelling trick to describe the state of the system in each step of the control procedure. For two-qubit mixed states, a completely-positive trace-preserving (CPTP) map is implemented. Finally, the fidelity and success probability are used to evaluate the effect of protection. The complete recovery conditions for the measurement strengths are derived, under which we achieve the optimal fidelity and the success probability of recovering the initial pure or mixed states.
description: 10 pages, 10 figures
Knowledge about Pediatric Oral Health and Treatment in a University Setting
Creators: name: Misa, Krisha-Tyra
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Hypothesis and Objective: Faculty and residents will score higher than the dental students having more education and experience. Pediatric dental residents and faculty will have more pediatric oral health knowledge than those not affiliated with the program. Those with children will have better scores than those without children. The purpose was to determine whether dental students, residents and their educational faculty are knowledgeable about basic preventative and treatment recommendations based on the AAPD guidelines. Methods: A questionnaire was sent to current D3 and D4 dental students, 95 residents among the 6 specialties and current part-time and full-time clinical faculty. The questionnaire consisted of 13 questions regarding preventative practices, dietary recommendations and treatment standards that have been cited within the AAPD guidelines. The scale of correct answers was calculated by summing the dichotomized responses of correct/incorrect into an overall total score as well as 3 subdomains of preventative practices, diet and habits, and treatment-related questions. Mann-Whitney U tests were used to analyze the ordinal outcome variables of the total answers correct as well as outcomes in the subdomains. All significant correlates with the summary score were entered into a multiple logistic regression equation. Non-significant predictors were dropped from the initial model and a final model was estimated with only significant predictors. Results: 58 fully completed surveys were analyzed. These included 22 dental students, 14 residents (71% pediatrics) and 22 faculty members. Statistically significant differences in the overall scores were observed as pediatric residents/faculty scored higher than non-pediatric students/residents/faculty. Females consistently and significantly outperformed the average non-pediatric performance. Those without children scored significantly higher in the mean overall score and preventative scores (p=0.023, p<0.001). Conclusions: Our data identifies potential areas of pediatric dentistry knowledge that could be improved in both dental student and faculty education.
Peculiar features of the relations between pole and running heavy quark masses and estimates of the O(α_s^4) contributions
Creators: name: Kataev, A. L.
name: Kim, V. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Perturbative relations between pole and running heavy quark masses, defined in the Minkowski regions, are considered. Special attention is paid to the appearance of the kinematic $π^2$-effects, which exist in the coefficients of these series. The estimates of order $O(α_s^4)$ QCD corrections are presented.
description: Presented at the Conference "Problems of Theoretical and Mathematical Physics", dedicated to 100th anniversary of the birth of N.N. Bogolyubov, Dubna,August 23-27, 2009 and 9th Symposium on RADCOR-2009, October 25-30, 2009, Ascona; typos corrected,results unchanged
Shelley avec Sade: Poor Things di Yorgos Lanthimos, Leone d’oro all’80a Mostra internazionale d'arte cinematografica di Venezia
Creators: name: Brodesco, Alberto
Publisher: name: Cinergie – Il Cinema e le altre Arti
Year: 2023

description: Cinergie – Il Cinema e le altre Arti, No. 24 (2023)
On-line Quantum State Estimation Using Continuous Weak Measurement and Compressed Sensing
Creators: name: Cong, S.
name: Li, K.
name: Harraz, S.
name: Tang, 1 Y.
name: Yang, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a new protocol for on-line quantum system estimation on the basis of continuous weak-measurements with the help of compressive sensing and the optimization algorithm. By directly measuring the state of the probe system, we indirectly obtain the measurement operators of the estimated system. The continuous weak measurements for a dynamic evolution open quantum system enable us to derive the time-varying measurement operators of the estimated system. Compressed sensing is used to reduce the number of the measurements needed and to improve the efficiency of the estimation. This approach to the on-line state estimation provides a novel solution to the problem of closed-loop quantum feedback control.
description: 4 figures
Frobenius splitting of Schubert varieties of semi-infinite flag manifolds
Creators: name: Kato, Syu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We exhibit basic algebro-geometric results on the formal model of semi-infinite flag varieties and its Schubert varieties over an algebraically closed field $\mathbb K$ of characteristic $\neq 2$ from scratch. We show that the formal model of a semi-infinite flag variety admits a unique nice (ind)scheme structure, its projective coordinate ring has a $\mathbb Z$-model, and it admits a Frobenius splitting compatible with the boundaries and opposite cells in positive characteristic. This establishes the normality of the Schubert varieties of the quasi-map space with a fixed degree (instead of their limits proved in [K, Math. Ann. {\bf 371} no.2 (2018)]) when $\mathsf{char} \, \mathbb K =0$ or $\gg 0$, and the higher cohomology vanishing of their nef line bundles in arbitrary characteristic $\neq 2$. Some particular cases of these results play crucial roles in our proof [K, arXiv:1805.01718] of a conjecture by Lam-Li-Mihalcea-Shimozono [J. Algebra {\bf 513} (2018)] that describes an isomorphism between affine and quantum $K$-groups of a flag manifold.
description: 64pages, v8: post publication update, cited [69] (as an original reference), corrected a typo in Lemma 3.28 and an argument in the second paragraph of the proof of Theorem 3.33 is corrected
A Distance for Circular Heegaard Splittings
Creators: name: Lamb, Kevin
name: Weed, Patrick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: For a knot $K\subset S^3$, its exterior $E(K) = S^3\backslashη(K)$ has a singular foliation by Seifert surfaces of $K$ derived from a circle-valued Morse function $f\colon E(K)\to S^1$. When $f$ is self-indexing and has no critical points of index 0 or 3, the regular levels that separate the index-1 and index-2 critical points decompose $E(K)$ into a pair of compression bodies. We call such a decomposition a circular Heegaard splitting of $E(K)$. We define the notion of circular distance (similar to Hempel distance) for this class of Heegaard splitting and show that it can be bounded under certain circumstances. Specifically, if the circular distance of a circular Heegaard splitting is too large: (1) $E(K)$ can't contain low-genus incompressible surfaces, and (2) a minimal-genus Seifert surface for $K$ is unique up to isotopy.
description: 30 pages, 16 figures
State-space deep Gaussian processes with applications
Creators: name: Zhao, Zheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This thesis is mainly concerned with state-space approaches for solving deep (temporal) Gaussian process (DGP) regression problems. More specifically, we represent DGPs as hierarchically composed systems of stochastic differential equations (SDEs), and we consequently solve the DGP regression problem by using state-space filtering and smoothing methods. The resulting state-space DGP (SS-DGP) models generate a rich class of priors compatible with modelling a number of irregular signals/functions. Moreover, due to their Markovian structure, SS-DGPs regression problems can be solved efficiently by using Bayesian filtering and smoothing methods. The second contribution of this thesis is that we solve continuous-discrete Gaussian filtering and smoothing problems by using the Taylor moment expansion (TME) method. This induces a class of filters and smoothers that can be asymptotically exact in predicting the mean and covariance of stochastic differential equations (SDEs) solutions. Moreover, the TME method and TME filters and smoothers are compatible with simulating SS-DGPs and solving their regression problems. Lastly, this thesis features a number of applications of state-space (deep) GPs. These applications mainly include, (i) estimation of unknown drift functions of SDEs from partially observed trajectories and (ii) estimation of spectro-temporal features of signals.
description: See reproducible codes in https://github.com/zgbkdlm/dissertation. Permanent link http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-64-0603-9
A shortest-path based clustering algorithm for joint human-machine analysis of complex datasets
Creators: name: Pizzagalli, Diego Ulisse
name: Gonzalez, Santiago Fernandez
name: Krause, Rolf
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Clustering is a technique for the analysis of datasets obtained by empirical studies in several disciplines with a major application for biomedical research. Essentially, clustering algorithms are executed by machines aiming at finding groups of related points in a dataset. However, the result of grouping depends on both metrics for point-to-point similarity and rules for point-to-group association. Indeed, non-appropriate metrics and rules can lead to undesirable clustering artifacts. This is especially relevant for datasets, where groups with heterogeneous structures co-exist. In this work, we propose an algorithm that achieves clustering by exploring the paths between points. This allows both, to evaluate the properties of the path (such as gaps, density variations, etc.), and expressing the preference for certain paths. Moreover, our algorithm supports the integration of existing knowledge about admissible and non-admissible clusters by training a path classifier. We demonstrate the accuracy of the proposed method on challenging datasets including points from synthetic shapes in publicly available benchmarks and microscopy data.
Towards Canonical Quantum Gravity for Geometries Admitting Maximally Symmetric Two-dimensional Surfaces
Creators: name: Christodoulakis, T.
name: Doulis, G.
name: Terzis, Petros A.
name: Melas, E.
name: Grammenos, Th.
name: Papadopoulos, G. O.
name: Spanou, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The 3+1 (canonical) decomposition of all geometries admitting two-dimensional space-like surfaces is exhibited. A proposal consisting of a specific re-normalization {\bf Assumption} and an accompanying {\bf Requirement} is put forward, which enables the canonical quantization of these geometries. The resulting Wheeler-deWitt equation is based on a re-normalized manifold parameterized by three smooth scalar functionals. The entire space of solutions to this equation is analytically given, exploiting the freedom left by the imposition of the {\bf Requirement} and contained in the third functional.
description: 27 pages, no figures, LaTex2e source file
Converging Trends: The Industrial and Content Dynamics of Contemporary Television
Creators: name: Innocenti, Veronica
name: Pescatore, Guglielmo
Publisher: name: Cinergie – Il Cinema e le altre Arti
Year: 2023

description: This article is focused on the complexities of contemporary media scenario, considering the interplay between industrial frameworks, market dynamics, and resultant content exploitation. The paper seeks to chart the current landscape of serial production and posit potential trajectories for its future development. At its core, the research addresses two principal dimensions: the contemporary industrial structure and the relevance of library content.

Within the industrial context, the article scrutinizes the role of streaming platforms and the rise of Free Ad-supported Streaming TV (FAST) services. The concept of “neo-generalism” is also introduced as a new framework, characterized by diversified offerings within a single platform that cater to an array of consumer preferences and needs. 

With regards to the importance of library content, the article underscores how archival materials serve not only as a supplementary feature but also as a strategic asset in competitive positioning. Furthermore, the dynamics between broadcasters and platforms are investigated, highlighting the hybrid strategies that are emerging from this relationship. Lastly, new paradigms of serial content consumption are explored, specifically focusing on the recent behavioral shifts spurred by the on-demand culture.
description: Cinergie – Il Cinema e le altre Arti, No. 24 (2023)
Metal-insulator transition in CaCu$_3$Fe$_4$O$_{12}$
Creators: name: Hariki, Atsushi
name: Yamaguchi, Tatsuya
name: Winder, Mathias
name: Kuneš, Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study structurally-triggered metal-insulator transition in CaCu$_3$Fe$_4$O$_{12}$ by means of local density approximation (LDA) +$U$ and LDA+dynamical mean-field theory (DMFT). The ferrimagnetic insulating phase is essentially the same within both approaches. While LDA+$U$ describes the metal-insulator transition as a Peierls-like instability driven by Fermi surface nesting in the magnetically ordered phase, LDA+DMFT allows also the site-selective Mott transition without magnetic ordering as well as smooth crossover between the two pictures. We point out similarities and differences to rare-earth nickelates.
SU(3) mass-splittings of heavy-baryons in QCD
Creators: name: Albuquerque, R. M.
name: Narison, S.
name: Nielsen, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extract directly (for the first time) the charmed (C=1) and bottom (B=-1) heavy-baryons (spin 1/2 and 3/2) mass-splittings due to SU(3) breaking using double ratios of QCD spectral sum rules (QSSR) in full QCD, which are less sensitive to the exact value and definition of the heavy quark mass, to the perturbative radiative corrections and to the QCD continuum contributions than the simple ratios commonly used for determining the heavy baryon masses. Noticing that most of the mass-splittings are mainly controlled by the ratio kappa= / of the condensate, we extract this ratio, by allowing 1 sigma deviation from the observed masses of the Xi_{c,b} and of the Omega_c. We obtain: kappa=0.74(3), which improves the existing estimates: κ=0.70(10) from light hadrons. Using this value, we deduce M_{Omega_b}=6078.5(27.4) MeV which agrees with the recent CDF data but disagrees by 2.4 sigma with the one from D0. Predictions of the Xi'_Q and of the spectra of spin 3/2 baryons containing one or two strange quark are given in Table 2. Predictions of the hyperfine splittings Omega*_Q- Omega_Q and Xi*_Q-Xi_Q are also given in Table 3. Starting for a general choice of the interpolating currents for the spin 1/2 baryons, our analysis favours the optimal value of the mixing angle b= (-1/5 -- 0) found from light and non-strange heavy baryons.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures, 3 tables; completed and corrected version including all spin 1/2 and 3/2 heavy baryons with positive parity;new extraction of the ratio of condensate ss/dd=0.74(3) from the observed spectra and prediction for Omega_b
Metallicity, planet formation, and disc lifetimes
Creators: name: Ercolano, Barbara
name: Clarke, Cathie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The formation of planets within a disc must operate within the time frame of disc dispersal, it is thus crucial to establish what is the dominant process that disperses the gaseous component of discs around young stars. Planet formation itself as well as photoevaporation by energetic radiation from the central young stellar object have been proposed as plausible dispersal mechanisms. [abridged]. In this paper we use the different metallicity dependance of X-ray photoevaporation and planet formation to discriminate between these two processes. We study the effects of metallicity, Z, on the dispersal timescale, t_phot, in the context of a photoevaporation model, by means of detailed thermal calculations of a disc in hydrostatic equilibrium irradiated by EUV and X-ray radiation from the central source. Our models show t_phot \propto Z^0.52 for a pure photoevaporation model. By means of analytical estimates we derive instead a much stronger negative power dependance on metallicity of the disc lifetime for a dispersal model based on planet formation. A census of disc fractions in lower metallicity regions should therefore be able to distinguish between the two models. A recent study by Yasui et al. in low metallicity clusters of the extreme outer Galaxy ([O/H] ~- 0.7dex and dust to gas ratio of ~0.001) provides preliminary observational evidence for shorter disc lifetimes at lower metallicities, in agreement with the predictions of a pure photoevaporation model. [abridged] We finally develop an analytical framework to study the effects of metallicity dependent photoevaporation on the formation of gas giants in the core accretion scenario. We show that accounting for this effect strengthens the conclusion that planet formation is favoured at higher metallicity. [abridged]
description: 9 pages, 2 figures, Revised version after referee's comments, to be published in MNRAS
ZIP Code and its Impact on the Oral Health Status and BMI of Pediatric Patients
Creators: name: Patel, Dhwani
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Objectives The aims of this study were to identify associations between food deserts and caries experience in young children (age 3-4 years) receiving dental care at UIC COD and to identify associations between food deserts and BMI in the same patient population. Methods This cross-sectional chart review utilized axiUm, the UIC COD Electronic Health Record, and the patient’s age, sex, ZIP code, dmft score, height, and weight were retrieved. Food deserts were determined using the United States Department of Agriculture Food Access Research Atlas and BMI was determined using the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention BMI Percentile Calculator for Child and Teen. Results When the results were analyzed based on age, in the three-year-old population, patients that lived in a food desert were more likely to be underweight, overweight, or obese (p=0.000). Three-year-old females had significantly higher caries experience than males (p=0.008). Four-year-old patients who did not reside in a food desert had an increased dmft index score (p=0.026). Conclusions Young children living in a food desert were more likely to be underweight, overweight, or obese rather than at healthy weight. The etiology of caries is multifactorial and can be influenced by many other factors that were not examined in this study. Further work needs to be done to study this relationship.
Dinosaurs and Nazis: The Influence of the Jurassic Park Franchise on Popular and Conspiratorial Versions of History and Historical Culture
Creators: name: Woodbridge, Steven
Publisher: name: Cinergie – Il Cinema e le altre Arti
Year: 2023

description: The words ‘Dinosaurs’ and ‘Nazis’, when combined in stylistic form or placed in juxtaposition, have exerted both significant textual and powerful visual impact in popular culture since the 1990s, and especially since the creation of the Jurassic Park franchise. The words are also signifiers that can shape and embody the ‘ultimate dream’ or perfect marketing formula for the creative imagination of those engaged in a variety of media platforms within contemporary transmedia production. Utilizing a combination of textual and content analysis, the following discussion investigates and critically reflects upon two rather under-researched aspects of the cultural influence of Steven Spielberg’s dinosaur movie franchise. First of all, there was a curious, but nevertheless important, impact of Spielberg’s first Jurassic Park movie and its sequels on the study by academic historians of the ideology of the German Third Reich concerning science and, in particular, Nazi policy towards nature and the animal world. The language of Jurassic Park was increasingly employed to convey a picture of what Nazi scientists supposedly experimented with when it came to their interference with nature. Secondly, this historical dimension and associated research has, in turn, fed into and influenced wider mass entertainment media since the early 1990s, especially when it comes to ‘alternative’ and conspiratorial versions of popular history and ideas about ‘secret’ experiments, ‘lost’ worlds and the rebirth of extinct animal species. These relatively unexplored topics require further scrutiny and critical analysis.
description: Cinergie – Il Cinema e le altre Arti, No. 24 (2023)
Production of tidal-charged black holes at the Large Hadron Collider
Creators: name: Gingrich, Douglas M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Tidal-charged black hole solutions localized on a three-brane in the five-dimensional gravity scenario of Randall and Sundrum have been known for some time. The solutions have been used to study the decay, and growth, of black holes with initial mass of about 10 TeV. These studies are interesting in that certain black holes, if produced at the Large Hadron Collider, could live long enough to leave the detectors. I examine the production of tidal-charged black holes at the Large Hadron Collider and show that it is very unlikely that they will be produced during the lifetime of the accelerator.
description: addressed reviewer comments
John Sayles and the Unmade Jurassic Park IV
Creators: name: Melia, Matthew
Publisher: name: Cinergie – Il Cinema e le altre Arti
Year: 2023

description: This article offers a critical and in-depth analysis of the unmade and ultimately abandoned Jurassic Park IV. Written by script doctor and pioneering Indie director John Sayles (who had previously worked on the unmade sci fi horror Night Skies with Spielberg – a project which would many of the foundations for E.T. The Extra Terrestrial), the script would have taken the series in a very different direction. While it was never made, it did however, open the way for the Jurassic World franchise and this article will later offer a close reading and analysis of the script which was leaked online in the mid-2000s. This article will demonstrate how the script is part of the bedrock on which the Jurassic World franchise was built, but it will also examine the overlooked importance of the role of the Hollywood script doctor, and consider Spielberg’s waning attachment to the franchise. Finally, the article excavates a range of now defunct early internet forums and discussion boards in order show how the film emerged (or rather didn’t) at a time when the internet was proving itself as a new landscape for fans to speculate about cinema and for the leaking and drip feeding of information. It is through these sites that we can piece together a timeline for the unproduction of Jurassic Park IV.  
description: Cinergie – Il Cinema e le altre Arti, No. 24 (2023)
title: Endometriosis: Hallazgos en RM. ¡Lo que tienes que saber!
Creators: name: Preciado Borreguero, Diego
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cysts
subject: Haemorrhage
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Education
subject: MR
subject: Genital / Reproductive system female

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
Bibliografía
description: Objetivo docente:
El objetivo de esta presentación es mostrar e ilustrar las características radiológicas de la endometriosis profunda,
aportando consejos prácticos y dinámicos (¡¡lo que no se nos puede escapar!!) para un diagnóstico rápido y un eficaz...
Deep Learning for Medical Imaging Applications
Creators: name: Mojab, Nooshin
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Over the past decade, deep learning algorithms have been proved to excel at various medical imaging tasks ranging from disease detection to progression prediction and segmentation. One of the primary goals of medical imaging is to improve clinical translation enabling generalization across different real-world clinical settings and patient populations. However, there are some major challenges in real-world data applications pulling down the progress including lack of datasets reflecting real-world clinical data, clinical interpretability, generalization to real-world clinical settings, and learning from extremely small datasets that is inevitable in many medical. My thesis focuses on addressing these challenges in the context of ophthalmic imaging applications in four settings. My first work focuses on developing a new medical a new ophthalmic imaging dataset where the data is collected from real-world clinical data to provide an infrastructure for validation studies and improving the clinical translation. In my second work, I propose a multi-task learning model that achieves clinical interpretability for a real-world clinical application by exploiting the complementary information across related tasks. My third work presents a feature extraction network for ophthalmic imaging applications by employing a self-supervised learning framework. In this work, we also assess deep learning models and their generalization capacity in coping with real-world data versus standardized data. This works also studies the effectiveness of self-supervised contrastive learning in learning more generalizable features. In my last work, I present a model that harnesses the power of segmentation to learn from small datasets allowing us to perform classification on extremely small datasets.
Metric ultraproducts of groups -- simplicity, perfectness and torsion
Creators: name: Gismatullin, Jakub
name: Majcher, Krzysztof
name: Ziegler, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20E32, 20E45, 03C20, 12L10

description: We characterise the simplicity of metric ultraproducts of a family of metric groups. We also present several new examples of simple groups, such as metric ultraproducts of finite and infinite symmetric groups, linear groups, and interval exchange transformation groups. Using similar methods, we also examine concepts such as genericity, perfectness, and torsion.
Boring Lizards: Ludic Management, Affect and Ambivalence
Creators: name: Seller, Merlyn
Publisher: name: Cinergie – Il Cinema e le altre Arti
Year: 2023

description: This chapter utilises Game Studies, Animal Studies and Affect Studies approaches to explore how videogame adaptation Jurassic World: Evolution (Frontier 2018) mediates Jurassic World’s (2015) themes of captivity, anxiety and boredom in a time of routinised risk and perpetual crisis management (Bhattacharyya 2015; Beck 1992). Critically, the game has been denigrated as boring and repetitious (Stapleton 2018; Freeman 2018); dinosaurs sleep more than fight; and players balance variables to meet minimum thresholds of dinosaur contentment and their own enjoyment. If the film’s hybrid dinosaur signals the increasing banality of ‘terrible lizards,’ I argue that Evolution explores boredom systemically through simulations of banal park maintenance where the speculative animal might ‘respond’ to the player through shared affects and constraints. As W.J.T. Mitchell asks of the dinosaur’s ambivalent meanings of power and extinction, “Are we to scream or to yawn?” (1998:69). This is not a break with games of exploitation and manipulation of the animal, but rather an articulation of our complicity and enmeshment in loops of captivity that embrace human and animal but neither completely. Unable to see the animal itself, filled with tantalising contradictions and distance, we instead become-bored-with the animal.
description: Cinergie – Il Cinema e le altre Arti, No. 24 (2023)
Image Clustering using an Augmented Generative Adversarial Network and Information Maximization
Creators: name: Ntelemis, Foivos
name: Jin, Yaochu
name: Thomas, Spencer A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Image clustering has recently attracted significant attention due to the increased availability of unlabelled datasets. The efficiency of traditional clustering algorithms heavily depends on the distance functions used and the dimensionality of the features. Therefore, performance degradation is often observed when tackling either unprocessed images or high-dimensional features extracted from processed images. To deal with these challenges, we propose a deep clustering framework consisting of a modified generative adversarial network (GAN) and an auxiliary classifier. The modification employs Sobel operations prior to the discriminator of the GAN to enhance the separability of the learned features. The discriminator is then leveraged to generate representations as the input to an auxiliary classifier. An adaptive objective function is utilised to train the auxiliary classifier for clustering the representations, aiming to increase the robustness by minimizing the divergence of multiple representations generated by the discriminator. The auxiliary classifier is implemented with a group of multiple cluster-heads, where a tolerance hyper-parameter is used to tackle imbalanced data. Our results indicate that the proposed method significantly outperforms state-of-the-art clustering methods on CIFAR-10 and CIFAR-100, and is competitive on the STL10 and MNIST datasets.
Towards identifying critical factors in teaching behavioural sciences
Creators: name: Haridas, T. P.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The major objective of this study is to identify the critical factors in effective teaching in the IR&M Division of the Faculty of Commerce, at University of B.C. It is hoped that many of the findings of this study will also be relevant to teaching of other behavioural sciences like anthropology, psychology and sociology. The findings of this study are also hoped to throw some light- on the content validity of the S.I.R Questionnaire currently used in the faculty for teacher evaluation. Three samples, 381 students, 9 professors and 7 administrative personnel were used for the present study. Three sets of behavioural scales for measuring Faculty performance (in the IR&M Division) are constructed using the Behavi oural ly (Anchored Rating Scale technique. In a pilot study using 62 students it was found that the Behavioural Scales has high reliability. The initial examination of the instrument showed its high content validity and freedom from central tendency and leniency problems. The implications and uses of the current study with some suggestions for improving the Behaviourally Anchored scales are also discussed.
Swallow You Whole: The Jurassic Park Franchise, Eco-Horror and the Devouring Gothic
Creators: name: Pugh, Catherine
Publisher: name: Cinergie – Il Cinema e le altre Arti
Year: 2023

description: The Jurassic Park franchise is primarily thought of as an adventure series, yet the horror genre is invoked through themes of “mad science” and resurrected “monsters” alongside inevitable death and dismemberment. Although displaced genetically-altered dinosaurs are the primary antagonists, they are only agents for bigger threats of toxic Nature and environmental revolt. Much like the monsters of traditional horror films, Nature in Jurassic Park cannot be destroyed or bent to the will of civilisation. It is malicious, insidious and all-consuming; it cannot be denied or contained. Life, as Dr Malcolm infamously puts it, finds a way. This paper explores various ecohorror tropes present throughout the Jurassic Park and Jurassic World films (1993—2022), primarily Jurassic Park (1993), Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018) and Jurassic World: Dominion (2022). It argues that the films’ engagement with the Gothic restores the dinosaurs’ agency, moving them from marginalised Other to a species that humankind must respect and protect in order to survive in a shared world. Furthermore, it suggests that one of the biggest threats to the protagonists stems from the franchises’ portrayal of Nature as a devouring entity, not only in the form of dinosaurs and animal horror, but in indifferent plant-life, hazardous weather and hostile landscapes. Despite its desperate attempts to create, contain and control Nature, humankind must be de-centred and the hierarchy of human and non-human destabilised in order to promote balance and co-existence. The Jurassic films show what happens when humans harmfully interfere with Nature, and Nature—quite literally—bites back.
description: Cinergie – Il Cinema e le altre Arti, No. 24 (2023)
Operator system structures on ordered spaces
Creators: name: Paulsen, Vern
name: Todorov, Ivan
name: Tomforde, Mark
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46L07

description: Given an Archimedean order unit space (V,V^+,e), we construct a minimal operator system OMIN(V) and a maximal operator system OMAX(V), which are the analogues of the minimal and maximal operator spaces of a normed space. We develop some of the key properties of these operator systems and make some progress on characterizing when an operator system S is completely boundedly isomorphic to either OMIN(S) or to OMAX(S). We then apply these concepts to the study of entanglement breaking maps. We prove that for matrix algebras a linear map is completely positive from OMIN(M_n) to OMAX(M_m) if and only if it is entanglement breaking.
description: 30 pages; Version II Comments: A couple references added, some small changes made in Section 6
Gamified Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Play: The Jurassic Park Ludo Mix
Creators: name: Wigard, Justin
Publisher: name: Cinergie – Il Cinema e le altre Arti
Year: 2023

description: Over 30 years, the Jurassic Park franchise has spawned myriad games across several mediums, including: video game consoles; arcade cabinets; PC games; standalone handheld games; a tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG); board games; game-versions of LEGO toys; an alternate reality game; games using bar codes. By treating this games portfolio as a ludo mix, a theoretical frame that allows for connecting these disparate game forms to one another and to the larger franchise, it becomes clear that the Jurassic Park franchise historically positions dinosaurs as adversaries, hazards, and commodities to be exploited within their games, and in the process, requires players to be complicit.

 
description: Cinergie – Il Cinema e le altre Arti, No. 24 (2023)
Into Darkness: The Effects of Mycorrhizal-associated Trees on the Forest-floor Food Web
Creators: name: Henderson, Amanda L
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Belowground soil systems are among the world’s most species-rich communities. However, the belowground food web is poorly understood because of high species diversity, cryptic feeding relationships, and covarying environmental factors. Scientists have sought out ecological traits to explain, predict and ultimately simplify belowground processes. My dissertation utilizes fungal and root (mycorrhizal) tree associates as a predictive trait to evaluate how fluctuations in fungi alter the belowground food web. Using trees to estimate fungal abundances, I investigate how a change in basal resource alters soil fauna’s structure and composition. First, I test the predictive capability of a mycorrhizal tree gradient for estimating fungal abundances (the resource base) in three forested sites. The mycorrhizal tree gradient is defined as trees associated with arbuscular mycorrhizae (AM) gradually increasing to trees associated with ectomycorrhizae (ECM), here on known as the ECM Tree Index. Using amplicon sequencing, I confirmed the ECM Tree Index hosted different but predictable fungal communities along the gradient. Next, I investigated how the mycorrhizal tree index impacts faunal community structure. I found the ECM Tree Index plays a significant role in predicting most fungivore and predator abundances when paired with litter depth. Fungivore (oribatid mites) and predator (mesostigmatid mites) abundance increased by 2X as plots shifted from AM-dominated systems to ECM-dominated systems. Additionally, predator abundances were tightly correlated with fungivores, suggesting substantial bottom-up control for this predatory group. Finally, I utilized a long-term manipulative and natural field experiment examining AM and ECM forest types’ interaction with nitrogen deposition on community structure. Nitrogen weakly affected fungivores and primarily altered predator abundance. Predators exhibited a tight correlation with fungivores regardless of N concentration; however, they appear to shift their prey with forest type + N. The combined results of this dissertation and previous research suggest belowground systems are heavily bottom-up limited. Furthermore, N’s effect on faunal groups may indirectly change predator-prey interactions depending on the resource base.
title: Nucleoplastia como Tratamiento Percutáneo de la Hernia Discal
Creators: name: Puentes Bejarano, Daniel Augusto
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Hernia
subject: Chemoembolisation
subject: Percutaneous
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Musculoskeletal spine
subject: Interventional non-vascular

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
Bibliografía
description: Objetivo docente:
Describir las principales indicaciones,
contraindicaciones,
técnica,
postprocedimiento y seguimiento de la nucleoplastia como tratamiento percutáneo de la hernia...
Invariant Measures and Decay of Correlations for a Class of Ergodic Probabilistic Cellular Automata
Creators: name: Coletti, Cristian
name: Tisseur, Pierre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 28D99, 37A25, 69J05, 60K35

description: We give new sufficient ergodicity conditions for two-state probabilistic cellular automata (PCA) of any dimension and any radius. The proof of this result is based on an extended version of the duality concept. Under these assumptions, in the one dimensional case, we study some properties of the unique invariant measure and show that it is shift-mixing. Also, the decay of correlation is studied in detail. In this sense, the extended concept of duality gives exponential decay of correlation and allows to compute explicitily all the constants involved.
Information Maximization Clustering via Multi-View Self-Labelling
Creators: name: Ntelemis, Foivos
name: Jin, Yaochu
name: Thomas, Spencer A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Image clustering is a particularly challenging computer vision task, which aims to generate annotations without human supervision. Recent advances focus on the use of self-supervised learning strategies in image clustering, by first learning valuable semantics and then clustering the image representations. These multiple-phase algorithms, however, increase the computational time and their final performance is reliant on the first stage. By extending the self-supervised approach, we propose a novel single-phase clustering method that simultaneously learns meaningful representations and assigns the corresponding annotations. This is achieved by integrating a discrete representation into the self-supervised paradigm through a classifier net. Specifically, the proposed clustering objective employs mutual information, and maximizes the dependency between the integrated discrete representation and a discrete probability distribution. The discrete probability distribution is derived though the self-supervised process by comparing the learnt latent representation with a set of trainable prototypes. To enhance the learning performance of the classifier, we jointly apply the mutual information across multi-crop views. Our empirical results show that the proposed framework outperforms state-of-the-art techniques with the average accuracy of 89.1% and 49.0%, respectively, on CIFAR-10 and CIFAR-100/20 datasets. Finally, the proposed method also demonstrates attractive robustness to parameter settings, making it ready to be applicable to other datasets.