cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Review of Emptiness in the Mind-Only School of Buddhism: Dynamic Responses to Dzong-ka-ba's The Essence of Eloquence: I, by Jeffrey Hopkins
Creators: name: Hackett, Paul G.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1999
Subjects: Religion

description: Hopkins's latest book is the first of a planned threevolume set of contributions to research in the Cittamàtra (MindOnly") School of Tibetan Buddhism complementing his previous work on the Màdhyamika ("Middle Way") School. Although drawing on numerous sources both within and outside of the dGe lugs ("Geluk") tradition both written and oral, Hopkins restricts the content of this first volume to an annotated and detailed translation of the prologue and first chapter of Tsong kha paÕs ("Dzongkaba") Legs bshad snying po ("The Essence of Eloquence"), an exegesis of the hermeneutics of the Cittamàtra School; intra and intersectarian differences and specific philosophical disputes Hopkins reserves for discussion in future volumes."
title: The EU Elections 2024:  How to build resilience against disinformation campaigns on social platforms
Creators: name: Berger, Cathleen
name: Freihse, Charlotte
name: Hofmann, Vincent
name: Kettemann, Matthias C.
name: Mosene, Katharina
Publisher: name: Bertelsmann Stiftung
Year: 2023
Subjects: Elections
Democracy
Disinformation
Social Media
European Union

description: The upcoming 2024 EU elections present an important moment for digital campaigning, the governance of online discourses – and the overall future of Europe. A key challenge will come in the form of disinformation campaigns, hate speech and attempts to manipulate public debates. The risk is that citizens may turn skeptical and distrusting towards democratic processes, public discourses and Europe‘s political institutions. And this risk is real: Recent forsa surveys, commissioned by the Media Authority of North Rhine-Westphalia, delved into the influence of digital disinformation, especially in the context of elections. They found that 54 % of internet users encounter politically-driven disinformation at least occasionally. 

A staggering 85 % believe that such disinformation can jeopardise democratic processes. There is good news however: Contrary to popular belief, research shows that disinformation is not swaying opinions in large numbers and that users are growing increasingly successful at spotting such misleading or false content, even if they could be encouraged to report it more regularly and actively.
Temperature-dependent compressibility in graphene and two-dimensional systems
Creators: name: Li, Qiuzi
name: Hwang, E. H.
name: Sarma, S. Das
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the finite temperature compressibility for two-dimensional semiconductor systems, monolayer graphene, and bilayer graphene within the Hartree-Fock approximation. We find that the calculated temperature dependent compressibility including exchange energy is non-monotonic. In 2D systems at low temperatures the inverse compressibility decreases first with increasing temperature, but after reaching a minimum it increases as temperature is raised further. At high enough temperatures the negative compressibility of low density systems induced by the exchange energy becomes positive due to the dominance of the finite temperature kinetic energy. The inverse compressibility in monolayer graphene is always positive and its temperature dependence appears to be reverse of the 2D semiconductor systems, i.e., it increases first with temperature and then decreases at high temperatures. The inverse compressibility of bilayer graphene shows the same non-monotonic behavior as ordinary 2D systems, but at high temperatures it approaches a constant which is smaller than the value of the non-interacting bilayer graphene. We find the leading order temperature correction to the compressibility within Hartree-Fock approximation to be $T^2 \ln T$ at low temperatures for all three systems.
description: 19 pages, 9 figures
title: Need for standardization and systematization of test data for job-shop scheduling
Creators: name: Weber, Edzard
name: Tiefenbacher, Anselm
name: Gronau, Norbert
Publisher: name: Universität Potsdam
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 004 Datenverarbeitung; Informatik
subject: 600 Technik, Technologie

description: The development of new and better optimization and approximation methods for Job Shop Scheduling Problems (JSP) uses simulations to compare their performance. The test data required for this has an uncertain influence on the simulation results, because the feasable search space can be changed drastically by small variations of the initial problem model. Methods could benefit from this to varying degrees. This speaks in favor of defining standardized and reusable test data for JSP problem classes, which in turn requires a systematic describability of the test data in order to be able to compile problem adequate data sets. This article looks at the test data used for comparing methods by literature review. It also shows how and why the differences in test data have to be taken into account. From this, corresponding challenges are derived which the management of test data must face in the context of JSP research. Keywords
description: Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe; 134
On determination of the geometric cosmological constant from the OPERA experiment of superluminal neutrinos
Creators: name: Yan, Mu-Lin
name: Hu, Sen
name: Huang, Wei
name: Xiao, Neng-Chao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recent OPERA experiment of superluminal neutrinos has deep consequences in cosmology. In cosmology a fundamental constant is the cosmological constant. From observations one can estimate the effective cosmological constant $Λ_{eff}$ which is the sum of the quantum zero point energy $Λ_{dark energy}$ and the geometric cosmological constant $Λ$. The OPERA experiment can be applied to determine the geometric cosmological constant $Λ$. It is the first time to distinguish the contributions of $Λ$ and $Λ_{dark energy}$ from each other by experiment. The determination is based on an explanation of the OPERA experiment in the framework of Special Relativity with de Sitter space-time symmetry.
description: 7 pages, no figures
The Teaching Game: Integrating HCI and SoTL By Adapting Video Game Research Methods
Creators: name: Norman, D'Arcy
Publisher: name: Science
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction
subject: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
subject: Video Games
subject: Computer Science

description: This dissertation proposes and systematically explores the potential for integrating the distinct but overlapping disciplines of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). This work of integration is approached through a series of research projects from different perspectives, demonstrating the potential for adapting concepts from the design and formal analysis of video games to enrich the study of course designs and of understanding the varied experiences of instructors and students. Video games provide a useful point of integration between HCI and SoTL, specifically through concepts and principles employed in the design of video games, and through the adaptation of research methods that have been developed to enable formal analysis of video games. It is our hope that integrating HCI and SoTL helps to address limitations in each discipline -- to move HCI away from technical evaluation within contrived or laboratory contexts, and to move SoTL toward more deeply understanding the roles of technology, design, and performance. The dissertation is organized into three parts. Part 1 introduces the reader to the dissertation, situates it within existing scholarship, and describes the research methods that will be utilized. Part 2 presents the findings of a series of research projects that explore aspects of HCI/SoTL integration. Part 3 synthesizes these findings into a novel framework that has the potential to extend our ability to design and describe teaching and learning, and to add meaningful context to research into the design of and interactions with technology.
title: Let’s open the Pandora’s box of liver infections
Creators: name: HASSAN, ROSMI
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Abdominal Viscera
subject: Abdomen
subject: Liver
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Infection
subject: Retrospective
subject: Not applicable

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To illustrate and characterise the different types of liver infections and their aetiologies. To demonstrate the common differential diagnosis and pitfalls in diagnosing liver...
Investigating Social Identity from Harappan Terracotta Artifacts in sites of Ghaggar Basin in Northwestern India
Creators: name: Lahiri, Sutapa
Publisher: name: Arts
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Indus Civilization
subject: Terracotta
subject: Chaîne Opératoire
subject: Social Identity
subject: Archaeology

description: This dissertation examines the Indus terracotta industry based on an analysis of a sample of terracotta from Rakhigarhi and Farmana, two Indus settlements in the Ghaggar Basin in Northwestern India dating to the Mature Harappan phase (2600-1900 BCE). Archaeologists suggest that during the Mature phase of the Indus civilization, there was a greater diversity of material culture and standardization in the appearance of Indus material culture. Material culture diversity is particularly visible in ceramics from this period and demonstrates regional and local differences in manufacturing styles potentially representing different social identities of the producers. However, diversity in other forms of material culture is less explored including within the Indus terracottas. This dissertation uses the chaîne opératoire approach to compare technical choices in the technological styles evident in a small collection of Indus terracottas from Rakhigarhi and Farmana. Technological styles are the material identities of terracotta-making groups. Analyses include an examination of morphological variability and a preliminary but exploratory compositional analysis of personal adornments, game objects, figurines, and terracotta cakes. These analyses are based on very small numbers of specimens, but the major contribution of the study is that it demonstrates the potential that Indus terracottas hold in determining variation in the social identities of terracotta-making groups, and a greater understanding of craft production across the Indus region. The study further suggests possible differences in the uses of certain terracottas in the daily lives of the Indus people of Rakhigarhi and Farmana.
title: A step-by-step guide for bladder cancer imaging: from MRI diagnosis based on VI-RADS to post-operative assessment
Creators: name: Pavone, Alice
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Not applicable
subject: Multidisciplinary cancer care
subject: Cancer
subject: Structured reporting
subject: Staging
subject: MR
subject: Urinary Tract / Bladder
subject: Oncologic Imaging

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: The Vesical Imaging-Reporting and Data System (VI-RADS) scoring system was elaborated in 2018 to standardize MRI acquisition and reporting for bladder cancer (BC) staging [1]. The aim of this educational review is to illustrate standard MRI...
title: Rarest of the rare: renal ectopia and their uncommon associations
Creators: name: papalkar, Amber
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Not applicable
subject: Congenital
subject: Cystography / Uretrography
subject: CT
subject: Urinary Tract / Bladder
subject: Kidney
subject: Anatomy
subject: Genitourinary

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To review the imaging findings of not so common associations of renal...
6 Tenets of Postplagiarism: Writing in the Age of Artificial Intelligence [Infographic]
Creators: name: Eaton, Sarah Elaine Eaton
Publisher: name: Werklund School of Education
Year: 2023
Subjects: artificial intelligence
academic dishonesty
academic integrity
plagiarism
academic misconduct
academic writing
large language models
ChatGPT
higher education

description: In this infographic, sections of the final chapter of Plagiarism in Higher Education: Tackling Tough Topics in Academic Integrity (ABC Clio, 2021) are summarized. The concept of post-plagiarism is explained in world where artificial intelligence (e.g., ChatGPT, Large Language Models (LLMs), GPT-3, etc.) are becoming commonplace. The connections between artificial intelligence, plagiarism, and academic misconduct are explored. Keywords: artificial intelligence, academic integrity, plagiarism, academic dishonesty, academic misconduct, academic writing, ChatGPT, GPT-3, Large Language Models, higher education
title: The use of hyaluronic acid to facilitate the percutaneous removal of retroareolar papillomas. Going beyond aesthetics
Creators: name: PATERNAIN NUIN, ALBERTO
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: Breast
subject: Soft tissues / Skin
subject: Percutaneous
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Instrumentation
subject: Removal
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Outcomes
subject: Not applicable
subject: Performed at one institution

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To describe a new technique that facilitates the percutaneous removal of small retroareolar papillomas by increasing the subcutaneous space. To show the properties of the hyaluronic acid to increase the safety of the...
title: Cerebral venous thrombosis: practical guide to correct diagnosis
Creators: name: De Martino, Sara
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Not applicable
subject: Not applicable
subject: Ischaemia / Infarction
subject: Embolism / Thrombosis
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: CNS
subject: Neuro

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To show theusual and unusualimaging findings in cerebral venous thrombosis, a clinical conditionwhose diagnosis can be...
The Impact of the Health Care Bill on Foreign Policy
Creators: name: Mitchell, Lincoln A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Public policy (Law)
International relations

description: Passage of the health care bill is obviously of primary import inside the U.S., but it will also have an impact on U.S. foreign policy. The impact of the bill on foreign policy will be felt primarily in two ways. First, the passage of the bill will probably make Obama more popular internationally, particularly in Europe. Second, and probably more significantly, Obama had been focusing a great deal of time on this bill in recent months. During this time foreign policy, while not quite on the back burner, was less of a priority. This was not, as some have suggested, negligent on the part of the president, but a reflection of political realities in the U.S.  Except for in the most extreme circumstances domestic issues are always more important to Americans, and thus to their presidents.  While jobs and the economy, not health care specifically, had been, and remains, the most pressing domestic political issue facing the U.S., Obama‘s success on health care will allow him to focus more on foreign policy, and to do so from a position of strength.
title: Cerebral amyloid angiopathy related inflammation (CAA-I): what radiologists have to know
Creators: name: Castorani, Giulia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neuro
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Vascular
subject: MR
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Education and training
subject: Not applicable

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: - To recognize and identify the clinical aspect of cerebral amyloid angiopathy-related inflammation (CAA-I) - To define CT and MRI imaging findings of CAA-I. - To disclose the underlying pathophysiology, suggest differential diagnosis and propose an...
Investigating the Feasibility of Using Mesoporous Silica Particles to Deliver Glucose During Anaerobic Fermentation
Creators: name: Walz, Megan E.
Publisher: name: University of Kentucky Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Abstract:
The study presented herein investigated a potential low-energy method to separate and concentrate glucose from a lignocellulosic hydrolysate. The motivation for this method was twofold: 1) to provide the fermentation microorganism an optimal glucose concentration and 2) to supply a fermentation media free of inhibitory compounds. Two sizes of porous silica particles (with 7 nm and 2.3 nm pores) were synthesized and their ability to adsorb glucose from solution confirmed. Next, the ability of two different microorganisms, Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Streptococcus bovis, to utilize sugars adsorbed to the porous silica particles was investigated.
Both the 7 nm and 2.3 nm pore-size particles were capable of adsorbing glucose from solution. Fermentations with glucose provided adsorbed to nanoparticles were compared to fermentations with glucose dissolved in media. The success of the fermentation was assessed by using high performance liquid chromatography to compare the concentration of fermentation products at harvest time. Results indicated that although the fermentation with soluble glucose produced significantly more end-products, S. bovis demonstrated some ability to metabolize the glucose adsorbed to the 7 nm pore silica particles. No evidence was detected that S. cerevisiae could metabolize glucose adsorbed to silica particles of either pore size.
Copyright: © Megan E Walz 2018
Scaling laws for weakly interacting cosmic (super)string and p-brane networks
Creators: name: Avelino, P. P.
name: Sousa, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we find new scaling laws for the evolution of $p$-brane networks in $N+1$-dimensional Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universes in the weakly-interacting limit, giving particular emphasis to the case of cosmic superstrings ($p=1$) living in a universe with three spatial dimensions (N=3). In particular, we show that, during the radiation era, the root-mean-square velocity is ${\bar v} =1/{\sqrt 2}$ and the characteristic length of non-interacting cosmic string networks scales as $L \propto a^{3/2}$ ($a$ is the scale factor), thus leading to string domination even when gravitational backreaction is taken into account. We demonstrate, however, that a small non-vanishing constant loop chopping efficiency parameter $\tilde c$ leads to a linear scaling solution with constant $L H \ll 1$ ($H$ is the Hubble parameter) and ${\bar v} \sim 1/{\sqrt 2}$ in the radiation era, which may allow for a cosmologically relevant cosmic string role even in the case of light strings. We also determine the impact that the radiation-matter transition has on the dynamics of weakly interacting cosmic superstring networks.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures
Making the New Relationship work : Crown-First Nation shared decision-making in the Great Bear Rainforest
Creators: name: Bird, Laura Marie
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Many of the First Nations of British Columbia, and the Province itself through the vision of the New Relationship, are seeking institutions for shared decision-making regarding land and resources. Efforts have faced numerous setbacks, including the cancellation of the proposed Recognition and Reconciliation Act in 2009. These setbacks, mirrored by slow progress in British Columbia’s treaty negotiations, leave the Province and First Nations of British Columbia still in search of an agreeable approach to planning and governing land and resource use. The framework developed between the Crown and the Coastal First Nations in the Great Bear Rainforest since 2001 is among the most advanced cases of Crown-First Nations shared decision-making and provides insight into some of the principles of First Nations consultation, accommodation and land use planning for British Columbia and Canada. The objectives of this thesis are two-fold. First, this thesis assesses whether the Coastal First Nations have acquired a share of governmental decision-making authority for three types of decisions: land use zones, ecosystem-based management (EBM) operating rules, and approval of operational plans. Second, this thesis provides an overview of the unique government-to-government process that evolved for the resource management for British Columbia’s North and Central Coast, and the framework for shared decision-making that has been established between the Crown and the Coastal First Nations regarding the three land use planning decision functions under investigation. This thesis concludes that, due to the nature of the agreements under Canadian law, the Province ultimately retains decision-making authority on all three decision functions, but the Parties have committed to making decisions by consensus for each of the three functions. To date, the Province and the Coastal First Nations have succeeded in reaching consensus on the designation of land use zones and EBM operating rules, and are now beginning engagement on operational plan approval. Using parallel agreements by the Haida Nation for comparison, this thesis concludes that the Haida Nation, a member of the Coastal First Nations, has acquired a share of governmental decision-making authority that will stand as a closely watched case of Crown-First Nation shared decision-making in British Columbia.
Operationalizing environmental justice through tools and approaches of the Climate Change Response Framework
Creators: name: Swanston, Christopher W.
name: Handler, Stephen D.
name: Janowaik, Maria K.
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2017
Subjects: CCRF
forestry
climate change
resource management
partnerships

description: Presented at the Environmental justice in the Anthropocene symposium held on April 24-25, 2017 at the Lory Student Center, Colorado State University, Fort Collins Colorado. This symposium aims to bring together academics (faculty and graduate students), independent researchers, community and movement activists, and regulatory and policy practitioners from across disciplines, research areas, perspectives, and different countries. Our overarching goal is to build on several decades of EJ research and practice to address the seemingly intractable environmental and ecological problems of this unfolding era. How can we explore EJ amongst humans and between nature and humans, within and across generations, in an age when humans dominate the landscape? How can we better understand collective human dominance without obscuring continuing power differentials and inequities within and between human societies? What institutional and governance innovations can we adopt to address existing challenges and to promote just transitions and futures?
description: Includes bibliographical references.
description: The Forest Service recognizes that climate change poses a multi-generational challenge that spans borders, transcends unilateral solutions, and demands shared learning and resources (USDA Forest Service 2011). The Climate Change Response Framework (CCRF, www.forestadaptation.org) grew from this recognition, and was formally launched in 2009 to address the major challenges that land managers face when considering how to integrate climate change into their planning and management. Practitioners whose livelihoods and communities depend on healthy forests face daunting challenges when responding to rapid forest decline or preparing for future change, particularly tribal natural resources professionals and tribal communities (Vogesser et al. 2013). Emphasizing climate services support for these rural communities can help them build adaptive capacity in their cultural and economic systems, often considered fundamental to environmental justice. Supporting climate-informed decision-making by these practitioners and communities requires climate service organizations to show up, listen, and then creatively work with practitioners to meet their own goals on the lands they manage. The emphasis of the CCRF on stewardship goals, as opposed to climate change and its effects, represents a subtle but important shift in focus to people and their values.
title: Extent of effective dose reduction in segmental PET / CT compared to a WB scan.
Creators: name: Rossetti, Filippo
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Medicine
subject: Anatomy
subject: Lung
subject: Nuclear medicine
subject: PET-CT
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Dosimetry
subject: Dosimetric comparison
subject: Epidemiology
subject: Prospective
subject: Observational
subject: Performed at one institution

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: Recent publications speculate that a segmental scan (s-PET / CT) of the chest can be used in selected patients with single lung nodule (SPN), with a significant reduction in the effective dose (ED) and associated risk of cancer compared to a scan...
Script for "Testing FBOE and AE for homosexual men: power comparison of various methods"
Creators: name: Raymond, Michel
name: Turek, Daniel
name: Crochet, Pierre-André
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: R script

description: Description of the 3 files. 1) Script_generating_population_samples.R : R script generating populations samples with FBOE (using function f7 or f5), and/or with AE. 2) Appendix1.html: a detailed explanation (with an R script) for Appendix 1. 3) Appendix2.html: a detailed explanation (with an R script) for Appendix 2.
Review of Recognizing Reality, by Georges Dreyfus
Creators: name: Hackett, Paul G.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1996
Subjects: Religion

description: The two possible objects of a valid cognition ( pramana; tshad
ma) is the launching point for Georges Dreyfus's Recognizing Reality, an exploration of
fifteen hundred years of Buddhist epistemology beginning in India with the writings of
Dignaga and Dharmakirti, and continuing on in Tibetan intellectual circles up until the
present day. A revised presentation of what was originally written as his doctoral
dissertation, Dreyfus lays out the fundamental issues central to the Buddhist theory of
knowledge. He draws comparisons with non-Buddhist categories of thought subsumed
under the rubrics of "idealism" and "realism" and an assessment of their applicability to a
Buddhist context.
A Spectroscopic Study of Type Ibc Supernova Host Galaxies from Untargeted Surveys
Creators: name: Sanders, Nathan E.
name: Soderberg, Alicia M.
name: Levesque, Emily M.
name: Foley, Ryan J.
name: Chornock, Ryan
name: Milisavljevic, Dan
name: Margutti, Raffaella
name: Berger, Edo
name: Drout, Maria R.
name: Czekala, Ian
name: Dittmann, Jason A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the largest spectroscopic study of the host environments of Type Ibc supernovae (SN Ibc) discovered exclusively by untargeted SN searches. Past studies of SN Ibc host environments have been biased towards high-mass, high-metallicity galaxies by focusing on SNe discovered in galaxy-targeted SN searches. Our new observations more than double the total number of spectroscopic stellar population age and metallicity measurements published for untargeted SN Ibc host environments, and extend to a median redshift about twice as large as previous statistical studies (z = 0.04). For the 12 SNe Ib and 21 SNe Ic in our metallicity sample, we find median metallicities of log(O/H)+12 = 8.48 and 8.61, respectively, but determine that the discrepancy in the full distribution of metallicities is not statistically significant. This median difference would correspond to only a small difference in the mass loss via metal-line driven winds (<30%), suggesting this does not play the dominant role in distinguishing SN Ib and Ic progenitors. However, the median metallicity of the 7 broad-lined SN Ic (SN Ic-BL) in our sample is significantly lower, log(O/H)+12 = 8.34. The age of the young stellar population of SN Ic-BL host environments also seems to be lower than for SN Ib and Ic, but our age sample is small. A synthesis of SN Ibc host environment spectroscopy to date does not reveal a significant difference in SN Ib and Ic metallicities, but reinforces the significance of the lower metallicities for SN Ic-BL. This combined sample demonstrates that galaxy-targeted SN searches introduce a significant bias for studies seeking to infer the metallicity distribution of SN progenitors, and we identify and discuss other systematic effects that play smaller roles. We discuss the path forward for making progress on SN Ibc progenitor studies in the LSST era.
description: 27 pages, 12 Figures, V2 as accepted by ApJ, more information at http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~nsanders/papers/Ibchosts/summary.html
A Grim Report on Democracy
Creators: name: Mitchell, Lincoln A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: This week Freedom House released its annual Freedom in the World report. This in depth report is particularly useful because it makes comparisons over time and identifies trends in democracy and freedom both globally and within different regions. The central findings of the report, that "Global freedom suffered its fifth consecutive year of decline in 2010" and "(T)he increasing truculence of the world's most powerful authoritarian regimes has coincided with a growing inability or unwillingness on the part of the world's democracies to meet the authoritarian challenge, with important consequences for the state of global freedom," are grim. The report goes on to detail the decline of democracy and freedom throughout the world.
The QE numerical simulation of PEA semiconductor photocathode
Creators: name: Li, Xudong
name: Gu, Qiang
name: Zhang, Meng
name: Zhao, Minghua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Several kinds of models have already been proposed for explaining the photoemission process. The exact photoemission theory of semiconductor photocathode was not well established after decades of research. In this paper an integral equation of quantum efficiency (QE) is constructed to describe the photoemission of positive electron affinity (PEA) semiconductor photocathode based on three-step photoemission model. The influences of forbidden gap, electron affinity, photon energy, incident angle, degree of polarization, refractive index, extinction coefficient, initial/final electron energy, relaxation time and external electric field on the QE of PEA semiconductor photocathode are taken into account. In addition, a computer code is also programmed to calculate the QE of K2CsSb photocathode theoretically at 532nm wavelength, the result is in line with the experimental value by and large. What are the reasons caused to the distinction between the experimental measuring and theoretical QE are discussed.
description: 12 pages,3 figures,2 tables,submitted to Chinese Physics C
The START Treaty and Partisan Politics
Creators: name: Mitchell, Lincoln A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Public policy (Law)
International relations

description: For many years the notion that partisan politics ended at America's shores contained a smattering of accuracy with a healthy overlay of propaganda. There have been too many exceptions over history for that phrase to contain more than a kernel of truth. Two Republican opposition to the proposed new START treaty highlights the evolving and significant relationship between partisan politics and foreign policy in the U.S. and suggests that partisanship is beginning to play a new role in foreign policy.
Antiferromagnetic Spin Fluctuation above the Superconducting Dome and the Full-Gaps Superconducting State in LaFeAsO1-xFx Revealed by 75As-Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance
Creators: name: Oka, T.
name: Li, Z.
name: Kawasaki, S.
name: Chen, G. F.
name: Wang, N. L.
name: Zheng, Guo-qing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a systematic study by 75As nuclear-quadrupole resonance in LaFeAsO1-xFx. The antiferromagnetic spin fluctuation (AFSF) found above the magnetic ordering temperature TN = 58 K for x = 0.03 persists in the regime 0.04 < x < 0.08 where superconductivity sets in. A dome-shaped x-dependence of the superconducting transition temperature Tc is found, with the highest Tc = 27 K at x = 0.06 which is realized under significant AFSF. With increasing x further, the AFSF decreases, and so does Tc. These features resemble closely the cuprates La2-xSrxCuO4. In x = 0.06, the spin-lattice relaxation rate (1/T1) below Tc decreases exponentially down to 0.13 Tc, which unambiguously indicates that the energy gaps are fully-opened. The temperature variation of 1/T1 below Tc is rendered nonexponential for other x by impurity scattering.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures, more references added
Flavour and Collider Interplay for SUSY at LHC7
Creators: name: Calibbi, L.
name: Hodgkinson, R. N.
name: Jones-Perez, J.
name: Masiero, A.
name: Vives, O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The current 7 TeV run of the LHC experiment shall be able to probe gluino and squark masses up to values larger than 1 TeV. Assuming that hints for SUSY are found in the jets plus missing energy channel by the end of a 5 fb$^{-1}$ run, we explore the flavour constraints on three models with a CMSSM-like spectrum: the CMSSM itself, a Seesaw extension of the CMSSM, and Flavoured CMSSM. In particular, we focus on decays that might have been measured by the time the run is concluded, such as $B_s\toμμ$ and $μ\to eγ$. We also analyse constraints imposed by neutral meson bounds and electric dipole moments. The interplay between collider and flavour experiments is explored through the use of three benchmark scenarios, finding the flavour feedback useful in order to determine the model parameters and to test the consistency of the different models.
description: 44 pages, 15 figures; v3: minor corrections, added references, updated figures. Version accepted for publication
ПЕДАГОГИЧЕСКОЕ СОТРУДНИЧЕСТВО УЧИТЕЛЕЙ ТОЧНЫХ И ЕСТЕСТВЕННЫХ С УЧИТЕЛЕМ ЧЕРЧЕНИЯ.
Creators: name: Исаков, Жасурбек
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: В статье освещены вопросы интеграции и педагогического сотрудничества учителя черчения с учителями геометрии, алгебры, физики, химии, информатики и географии, способствующие повышению качества и эффективности обучения, в общеобразовательных школах.
SPHERES, Jülich's High-Flux Neutron Backscattering Spectrometer at FRM II
Creators: name: Wuttke, Joachim
name: Budwig, Alfred
name: Drochner, Matthias
name: Kämmerling, Hans
name: Kayser, Franz-Joseph
name: Kleines, Harald
name: Ossovyi, Vladimir
name: Pardo, Luis Carlos
name: Prager, Michael
name: Richter, Dieter
name: Schneider, Gerald J.
name: Schneider, Harald
name: Staringer, Simon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: SPHERES (SPectrometer with High Energy RESolution) is a third-generation neutron backscattering spectrometer, located at the 20 MW German neutron source FRM II and operated by the Juelich Centre for Neutron Science. It offers an energy resolution (fwhm) better than 0.65 micro-eV, a dynamic range of +-31 micro-eV, and a signal-to-noise ratio of up to 1750:1.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables. Supplemental material consists of 3 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables
Search for Continuous Gravitational Waves: Optimal StackSlide method at fixed computing cost
Creators: name: Prix, Reinhard
name: Shaltev, Miroslav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Coherent wide parameter-space searches for continuous gravitational waves are typically limited in sensitivity by their prohibitive computing cost. Therefore semi-coherent methods (such as StackSlide) can often achieve a better sensitivity. We develop an analytical method for finding optimal StackSlide parameters at fixed computing cost under ideal conditions of gapless data with Gaussian stationary noise. This solution separates two regimes: an unbounded regime, where it is always optimal to use all the data, and a bounded regime with a finite optimal observation time. Our analysis of the sensitivity scaling reveals that both the fine- and coarse-grid mismatches contribute equally to the average StackSlide mismatch, an effect that had been overlooked in previous studies. We discuss various practical examples for the application of this optimization framework, illustrating the potential gains in sensitivity compared to previous searches.
description: 18 pages, 3 figures, RevTeX4. Final version, equivalent to that published in PRD
Comment on "Geometrothermodynamics of a Charged Black Hole of String Theory"
Creators: name: Lopez-Monsalvo, C. S.
name: Nettel, F.
name: Sanchez, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We comment on the conclusions found by Larrañaga and Mojica regarding the consistency of the Geoemtrothermodynamics programme to describe the critical behaviour of a Gibbons-Maeda-Garfinkle-Horowitz-Strominger charged black hole. We argue that making the appropriate choice of metric for the thermodynamic phase space and, most importantly, considering the homogeneity of the thermodynamic potential we obtain consistent results for such a black hole.
description: Comment on arXiv:1012.2070
Valuing nature equitably: beyond monetary values
Creators: name: Britto Dos Santos, Natália
Publisher: name: Mountain Scholar
Year: 2017
Subjects: environmental values
socio-ecological systems
ecosystem services
well-being
humans and nature

description: Presented at the Environmental justice in the Anthropocene symposium held on April 24-25, 2017 at the Lory Student Center, Colorado State University, Fort Collins Colorado. This symposium aims to bring together academics (faculty and graduate students), independent researchers, community and movement activists, and regulatory and policy practitioners from across disciplines, research areas, perspectives, and different countries. Our overarching goal is to build on several decades of EJ research and practice to address the seemingly intractable environmental and ecological problems of this unfolding era. How can we explore EJ amongst humans and between nature and humans, within and across generations, in an age when humans dominate the landscape? How can we better understand collective human dominance without obscuring continuing power differentials and inequities within and between human societies? What institutional and governance innovations can we adopt to address existing challenges and to promote just transitions and futures?
description: Includes bibliographical references.
description: Nature is essential to human well-being, providing material and non-material benefits. Interest in ecosystem valuation has increased steadily, initially focused on providing monetary valuation of nature and its services, raising debates regarding the appropriateness of these measures in different circumstances. However, monetary valuation alone cannot capture the full range of nature's benefits, and relying only on monetary values can lead to underestimation as well as environmental and social injustice. As we face the Anthropocene, the planetary crisis calls for urgent changes in how we perceive and value nature. This paper explores the idea that nature's values are understood by people not only as instrumental values (people's satisfaction) or intrinsic values (nature per se), but also as relational values arising from nontangible relationships. Further, I discuss the need to incorporate a plurality of valuation languages and knowledge sources to better understand ecological, socio-cultural and monetary values, considering specific conditions under which particular approaches may or not be appropriate. Otherwise, we might disregard important values, especially those which are less tangible and/or difficult to measure. This conversation is of utmost importance since all values are relevant to understand nature's benefits for humans and should be considered in order to make wise, social, environmental and climate just decisions regarding urgent planetary challenges.
Nonparametric tests for change-point detection à la Gombay and Horváth
Creators: name: Holmes, Mark
name: Kojadinovic, Ivan
name: Quessy, Jean-François
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The nonparametric test for change-point detection proposed by Gombay and Horváth is revisited and extended in the broader setting of empirical process theory. The resulting testing procedure for potentially multivariate observations is based on a sequential generalization of the functional multiplier central limit theorem and on modifications of Gombay and Horváth's seminal approach that appears to improve the finite-sample behavior of the tests. A large number of candidate test statistics based on processes indexed by lower-left orthants and half-spaces are considered and their performance is studied through extensive Monte Carlo experiments involving univariate, bivariate and trivariate data sets. Finally, practical recommendations are provided and the tests are illustrated on trivariate hydrological data.
description: 30 pages, 6 tables
Holographic equations of state and astrophysical compact objects
Creators: name: Kim, Youngman
name: Lee, Chang-Hwan
name: Shin, Ik Jae
name: Wan, Mew-Bing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We solve the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff equation using an equation of state (EoS) calculated in holographic QCD. The aim is to use compact astrophysical objects like neutron stars as an indicator to test holographic equations of state. We first try an EoS from a dense D4/D8/\textoverline {D8} model. In this case, however, we could not find a stable compact star, a star satisfying pressure-zero condition with a radius $R$, $p(R)=0$, within a reasonable value of the radius. This means that the EoS from the D4/D8/\textoverline {D8} model may not support any stable compact stars or may support one whose radius is very large. This might be due to a deficit of attractive force from a scalar field or two-pion exchange in the D4/D8/\textoverline {D8} model. Then, we consider D4/D6 type models with different number of quark flavors, $N_f=1,2,3$. Though the mass and radius of a holographic star is larger than those of normal neutron stars, the D4/D6 type EoS renders a stable compact star.
description: 12 pages, 9 figures
Power Anisotropy in the Magnetic Field Power Spectral Tensor of Solar Wind Turbulence
Creators: name: Wicks, Robert T.
name: Forman, Miriam A.
name: Horbury, Timothy S.
name: Oughton, Sean
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We observe the anisotropy of the power spectral tensor of magnetic field fluctuations in the fast solar wind for the first time. In heliocentric RTN coordinates the power in each element of the tensor has a unique dependence on the angle between the magnetic field and velocity of the solar wind (θ) and the angle of the vector in the plane perpendicular to the velocity (ϕ). We derive the geometrical effect of the high speed flow of the solar wind past the spacecraft on the power spectrum in the frame of the plasma P(k) to arrive at the observed power spectrum P(f,θ,ϕ) based on a scalar field description of turbulence theory. This allows us to predict the variation in the ϕdirection and compare it to the data. We then transform the observations from RTN coordinates to magnetic-field-aligned coordinates. The observed reduced power spectral tensor matches the theoretical predictions we derive in both RTN and field-aligned coordinates which means that the local magnetic field we calculate with wavelet envelope functions is an accurate representation of the physical axis of symmetry for the turbulence and implies that on average the turbulence is axi-symmetric. We also show that we can separate the dominant toroidal component of the turbulence from the smaller but significant poloidal component and that these have different power anisotropy. We also conclude that the magnetic helicity is anisotropic and mostly two-dimensional, arising from wavevectors largely confined to the plane perpendicular to B.
description: 21 pages, 8 figures, 1 table