cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
ความชุกของโรคไฟโบรมัยอัลเจียในผู้ป่วยนอกที่มารับบริการตรวจรักษา ณ กองเวชศาสตร์ฟื้นฟู โรงพยาบาลพระมงกุฎเกล้า
Creators: name: ณัฏฐวุฒิ อิทธิพงศธร, ธง พงษ์หาญยุทธ, พีระกรณ์ นิธิกรอธิวัฒน์
Publisher: name: ราชวิทยาลัยแพทย์เวชศาสตร์ฟื้นฟู แห่งประเทศไทย
Year: 2559
Subjects: โรคไฟโบรมัยอัลเจีย, ความชุก, อาการปวด, คุณภาพชีวิต

description: 1, 26, เวชศาสตร์ฟื้นฟูสาร
การศึกษาระบาดวิทยาในผู้ป่วยเด็ก ที่มารับการรักษาที่ภาควิชาเวชศาสตร์ฟื้นฟู คณะแพทยศาสตร์ศิริราชพยาบาล
Creators: name: พรชัย งามธนวัฒน์ และ ศรีนวล ชวศิร
Publisher: name: ราชวิทยาลัยแพทย์เวชศาสตร์ฟื้นฟู แห่งประเทศไทย
Year: 2559
Subjects: ระบาดวิทยา, เวชศาสตร์ฟื้นฟูเด็ก, สมองพิการ

description: 1, 26, เวชศาสตร์ฟื้นฟูสาร
Experimental demonstration of the dynamics of quantum coherence evolving under a PT-symmetric Hamiltonian on an NMR quantum processor
Creators: name: Gautam, Akanksha
name: Dorai, Kavita
name: Arvind
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we study the dynamics of quantum coherence (total coherence, global coherence and local coherence) evolving under a local PT-symmetric Hamiltonian in maximally entangled bipartite and tripartite states. Our results indicate that quantum coherence in the bipartite state oscillates in the unbroken phase regime of the PT-symmetric Hamiltonian. Interestingly, in the broken phase regime, while the global coherence decays exponentially, the local and total coherences enter a 'freezing' regime where they attain a stable value over time. A similar pattern is observed for the dynamics of total and local coherences in the maximally entangled tripartite state, while the dynamics of global coherence in this state differs from that of the bipartite state. These results were experimentally validated for a maximally entangled bipartite state on a three-qubit nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) quantum processor, with one of the qubits acting as an ancilla. The experimental results match well with the theoretical predictions, upto experimental errors.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures
Supplementary document for Versatile, do-it-yourself, low-cost spinning disk confocal microscope - 5659629.pdf
Creators: name: Halpern, Aaron
name: Lee, Min Yen
name: Howard, Marco
name: Woodworth, Marcus
name: Nicovich, Philip
name: Vaughan, Joshua
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document
Simulating open quantum dynamics on an NMR quantum processor using the Sz.-Nagy dilation algorithm
Creators: name: Gaikwad, Akshay
name: Arvind
name: Dorai, Kavita
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We experimentally implement the Sz.-Nagy dilation algorithm to simulate open quantum dynamics on an nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) quantum processor. The Sz.-Nagy algorithm enables the simulation of the dynamics of arbitrary-dimensional open quantum systems, using only a single ancilla qubit. We experimentally simulate the action of two non-unitary processes, namely, a phase damping channel acting independently on two qubits and a magnetic field gradient pulse (MFGP) acting on an ensemble of two coupled nuclear spin-1/2 particles. To evaluate the quality of the experimentally simulated quantum process, we perform convex optimization-based full quantum process tomography to reconstruct the quantum process from the experimental data and compare it with the target quantum process to be simulated.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures
title: Technical Operations Research (TOR) - Algorithms, not Engineers, Design Optimal Energy Efficient and Resilient Cooling Systems
Creators: name: Leise, Philipp
name: Altherr, Lena C.
name: Pelz, Peter F.
Publisher: name: UNSPECIFIED
Year: 2022

description: By considering not only single components, but also their interplay, the overall energy efficiency of a ventilation system can be considerably improved. A design method from this system point of view, the method TOR ("Technical Operations Research"), is presented in this work. With TOR, we can algorithmically search and evaluate the energy efficiency of all possible system layouts of different fans, and find the global optimal system design. Therefore, we employ mathematical methods from the field of discrete optimization. We show the possibilities of this systematic design approach, and design a ventilation system for buildings that is energy efficient and resilient.
Moral Responsibility "Expressivism," Luck, and Revision
Creators: name: Walker, Kyle
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2012

description: In his 1962 paper 'Freedom and Resentment," Peter Strawson attempts to reconcile incompatibilism and compatibilism about moral responsibility and determinism. First, I present the error committed by the proponents of both these traditional views, which Strawson diagnoses as the source of their standoff, and the remedy Strawson offers to avoid the conflict. Second, I reconstruct the two arguments Strawson offers for a theory of moral responsibility that is based on his proposed remedy. Third, I present and respond to two proposed problems for the Strawsonian theory: moral luck and revisionism. I conclude with a summary of my defense of Strawsonian 'expressivism' about moral responsibility, and offer suggestions for further research.
String diagrams for Strictification and Coherence
Creators: name: Wilson, Paul
name: Ghica, Dan
name: Zanasi, Fabio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Whereas string diagrams for strict monoidal categories are well understood, and have found application in several fields of Computer Science, graphical formalisms for non-strict monoidal categories are far less studied. In this paper, we provide a presentation by generators and relations of string diagrams for non-strict monoidal categories, and show how this construction can handle applications in domains such as digital circuits and programming languages. We prove the correctness of our construction, which yields a novel proof of Mac Lane's strictness theorem. This in turn leads to an elementary graphical proof of Mac Lane's coherence theorem, and in particular allows for the inductive construction of the canonical isomorphisms in a monoidal category.
The Effects of Learning on Moral Education for Rousseau
Creators: name: Cox, Patrick
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2012

description: Rousseau notoriously praises ignorance and censures learning for the moral corruption that it has inflicted upon his age, yet he admits that the arts and the sciences are good in themselves. I consider the effects of learning and knowledge on moral education, in an effort to answer the following question: What is the role of ignorance in moral education for Rousseau' While some interpreters have acknowledged his sensitivity to various groups in society with regard to moral education, none has properly systematized the different types of ignorance that Rousseau praises or identified the benefits of those types of ignorance to various individuals and societies. I distinguish the savage's ignorance from that of Socrates and identify another important type of ignorance, the benefits of which stem from our natural sentiment and innate curiosity.
Betrayal of Love and Volitional Necessity
Creators: name: Murphy, Shawn
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2012

description: In his early work, Frankfurt conceives of the will as a set of hierarchically organized desires. I argue that the hierarchical model fails to provide an adequate account of free will because it does not render the will determinate. In Frankfurt's later work, he contends that love establishes the boundaries of the will by giving rise to a volitional necessity. I take this to suggest that the notion of love is introduced, in part, to eliminate the problematic indeterminacy implied by the hierarchical model. However, I argue that the necessities of love may be understood in two importantly different ways, and on either interpretation of Frankfurt's considered view, love does not provide the resources to account for the phenomenon of betrayal of love. I conclude that the introduction of love does not render the will determinate, and therefore fails to resolve a problem that beset the hierarchical model of the will.
The Practical Impossibility of Cohen's Rescuing Justice & Equality
Creators: name: Wallace, Kevin
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2013

description: In Rescuing Justice and Equality, G. A. Cohen argues that a state of affairs which is equality preserving and Pareto-optimal is possible. In doing so, Cohen adopts an incorrect view of practical possibility. For Cohen, a person (A) being able to realize a given state of affairs is evidence that most persons can realize that same state of affairs. In contrast, I contend that an example of person A being able to realize a state of affairs only evidences the fact that persons who possess similar talents to A can realize that same state of affairs. That is to say, on my view, a state of affairs is practically possible if and only if it is logically, nomologically, and psychologically possible for nearly all persons. As a result, I contend that an equality preserving and Pareto-optimal state of affairs is practically impossible.
Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy on dry Poly(vinyl alcohol)/Poly(vinylidene fluoride) blends reinforced with Nano-Graphene Platelets at combined pressure and temperature
Creators: name: Kolonelou, Eirini
name: Papathanassiou, Anthony N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Poly(vinyl alcohol)/Poly(vinylidene fluoride) blends at mass ratio 3:1 with Nano - Graphene Platelet fillers constitute mechanically and thermally stable systems, which are used for developing piezoelectric devices. Blends host a fraction of water molecules absorbed by the poly(vinyl alcohol) phase. Dc conductivity and dielectric relaxation occur via fluctuation induced tunneling of electrons. Electric charge transport is affected by the glass transition of the polymer matrix and the rotational and translational dynamics of absorbed water molecules. In the present work, absorbed water was subtracted by annealing and pumping and, subsequently, dry blends were characterized by employing Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy at combined temperature and pressure states. Conductivity and relaxation obey fluctuation induced tunneling temperature dependencies. The corresponding activation energies and activation volumes reveal the role of absorbed polar water molecules on the tunneling current for macroscopic or localized electron transport.
Resolving Conflicts within the Mind: Internal Warfare in Non-Human Primates
Creators: name: Huddleson, Michael
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2012

description: This thesis explores the implications of non-human primates' propensity to hyperbolically discount the future. Hyperbolic discounting occurs when small, near-term rewards are preferred over larger rewards that are realized at a future point in time, but these preferences do not hold when the choice between long term and short term rewards is made at a time far removed from when the choice produces rewards-- i.e., at a time when the payoff of the choice is distant. I discuss two mutually exclusive models that attempt to explain why non-human primates hyperbolically discount: the cognitivist and the behaviorist model. I then present evidence that supports the cognitivist model and undermines the behaviorist model. I then argue that a 'War of Interests' (WOI) occurs within the non-human primate mind. I explain this WOI model, discuss its philosophical implications, and then conclude with a general theory of the non-human primate mind.
Trace anomaly of Weyl fermions in the Breitenlohner--Maison scheme for $γ_*$
Creators: name: Abdallah, S.
name: Franchino-Viñas, S. A
name: Fröb, M. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We revisit the conformal anomaly for a Weyl fermion in four dimensions that has generated some debate recently. We employ a perturbative expansion for the metric around Minkowski space, dimensional regularization and a Breitenlohner--Maison prescription for the chiral $γ$ matrix. We obtain a vanishing odd-parity contribution for Weyl fermions in four dimensions, while the even-parity contribution is exactly half the one for a Dirac fermion.
description: v2 contains a note with additional references/comments added after the publication of the proceedings. 8 pages, 2 figures, contribution to The European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP2021)
Extending Tomas Kulka's Aesthetic Dualism: Value, Not Meaning, in the Case of Absolute Music
Creators: name: Bittrich, Tyson
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2012

description: Within the past few decades the topic of musical meaning in the case of absolute music has received increasingly greater attention in the philosophical communities. One discussion is a debate between Constantijn Koopman and Stephen Davies, on the one side, and Peter Kivy, on the other. In this paper, I argue that many of the features of the musical encounter captured in terms of meaning by Koopman & Davies' position are better addressed in terms of value. On Kivy's suggestions, I contend we avoid use of the term 'meaning'. To wit, I extend a conceptual framework for aesthetic value, advocated elsewhere by Thomas Kulka, to make the case that absolute music has the kinds of value that explain our tendency to ascribe 'meaning' to it, and that absolute music is valuable in multiple philosophically relevant ways, even if not meaningful in any.
The Failure of Desire: A Critique of Kantian Cognitive Autonomy in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
Creators: name: Harrison, Rebecca
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2013

description: In the Critique of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant offers a revolutionary approach to cognition, wherein cognition can be understood as an action carried out by a cognitive agent.  But giving the subject such an active role raises questions about Kant's ability to account for objective cognition.  In this paper, I will argue that the cognitive autonomy thesis central to Kant's model renders it unable to account for the normativity required for objective cognition, and that G.W.F. Hegel makes just this criticism in the Desire section of his Phenomenology of Spirit.  Hegel proposes an alternative: some basic intersubjective structure must be built into cognition on a fundamental level.  For Hegel, the possibility of disagreement is an a priori requirement for objective cognition in general.
Adversarial attacks on neural networks through canonical Riemannian foliations
Creators: name: Tron, Eliot
name: Couellan, Nicolas
name: Puechmorel, Stéphane
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Deep learning models are known to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Adversarial learning is therefore becoming a crucial task. We propose a new vision on neural network robustness using Riemannian geometry and foliation theory. The idea is illustrated by creating a new adversarial attack that takes into account the curvature of the data space. This new adversarial attack, called the two-step spectral attack is a piece-wise linear approximation of a geodesic in the data space. The data space is treated as a (degenerate) Riemannian manifold equipped with the pullback of the Fisher Information Metric (FIM) of the neural network. In most cases, this metric is only semi-definite and its kernel becomes a central object to study. A canonical foliation is derived from this kernel. The curvature of transverse leaves gives the appropriate correction to get a two-step approximation of the geodesic and hence a new efficient adversarial attack. The method is first illustrated on a 2D toy example in order to visualize the neural network foliation and the corresponding attacks. Next, we report numerical results on the MNIST and CIFAR10 datasets with the proposed technique and state of the art attacks presented in Zhao et al. (2019) (OSSA) and Croce et al. (2020) (AutoAttack). The result show that the proposed attack is more efficient at all levels of available budget for the attack (norm of the attack), confirming that the curvature of the transverse neural network FIM foliation plays an important role in the robustness of neural networks. The main objective and interest of this study is to provide a mathematical understanding of the geometrical issues at play in the data space when constructing efficient attacks on neural networks.
Adam Smith: A Relational Egalitarian Interpretation
Creators: name: Joyce, Kathryn
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2012

description: In this thesis I argue that Adam Smith is committed to moral egalitarianism, which extends to his theory of political economy. While Smith's work is often used to justify economic inequality in society, I show that his political theory is best understood as a kind of relational egalitarianism. Using Elizabeth Anderson's Democratic Equality as a model, I examine Smith's commitment to equality in the space of social relationships. In particular, I argue that Smith's focus on eliminating inequalities that cause oppression in society in conjunction with his efforts to design a political and economic system that will yield social conditions of freedom for individuals make him a relational egalitarian.
Kant's Humanity Formula in the Groundwork
Creators: name: Chi, Zeyu
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2013

description: In this paper I argue for an alternative reading of the humanity formula that Kant presents in the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals. The standard reading takes 'humanity' to mean the capacity for setting ends. I suggest this reading is problematic for it does not offer a satisfactory explanation for what it means to use humanity as mere means. My reading considers 'humanity' as the capacity for appraising one's maxims from the perspective of pure practical reason. On this reading, to use humanity as mere means is to look at one's maxims from the wrong perspective, i.e., the perspective of happiness. Further, I argue that it is mistaken to take Kant's claim about an end in itself as a claim about any ultimate value. Instead, the claim should be construed as a claim about the role of pure practical reason in moral appraisal, which should be understood in terms of Kant's metaphysics of the mind.
The Visual Experience of Kinds
Creators: name: Marasoiu, Andrei
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2013

description: Do perceiving subjects represent kind properties in the content of their conscious visual experience when they see and recognize instances of those natural kinds' In Part 1 of my thesis I clarify this question, in Part 2 I answer it, and in Part 3 I raise a problem for previous answers. Part 1 conceives of conscious experience in an internalist way, and the unified conscious episode does not exclude having beliefs about what one sees. Following Siegel (2006) and Bayne (2011), Part 2 formulates two arguments in support of representing kind properties in the content of experience. In Part 3, I argue that attempts to distinguish visual experiences from visual beliefs might fail to account for the interplay of sensory and cognitive elements in visual object recognition. I conclude by suggesting it has not been established that visual experiences can be distinguished from visual beliefs.
Search for non-resonant Higgs boson pair production in the 2b + 2ℓ + Emiss T fnal state in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2024

description: A search for non-resonant Higgs boson pair (HH) production is presented, in which one of the Higgs bosons decays to a b-quark pair (b ¯b) and the other decays to WW∗ , ZZ∗ , or τ +τ −, with in each case a fnal state with ℓ +ℓ −+ neutrinos (ℓ = e, µ). The analysis targets separately the gluon-gluon fusion and vector boson fusion production modes. Data recorded by the ATLAS detector in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 140 fb−1 , are used in this analysis. Events are selected to have exactly two b-tagged jets and two leptons with opposite electric charge and missing transverse momentum in the fnal state. These events are classifed using multivariate analysis algorithms to separate the HH events from other Standard Model processes. No evidence of the signal is found. The observed (expected) upper limit on the cross-section for non-resonant Higgs boson pair production is determined to be 9.7 (16.2) times the Standard Model prediction at 95% confdence level. The Higgs boson self-interaction coupling parameter κλ and the quadrilinear coupling parameter κ2V are each separately constrained by this analysis to be within the ranges [−6.2, 13.3] and [−0.17, 2.4], respectively, at 95% confdence level, when all other parameters are fixed.
Can Adam Smith Answer the Normative Question?
Creators: name: Richards, Samuel
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2013

description: In The Sources of Normativity, Christine Korsgaard argues that in order to avoid the threat of moral skepticism, our moral theories must show how the claims they make about the nature of our actions obligate us to act morally. A theory that can justify the normativity of morality in this way answers what Korsgaard calls 'the normative question.' Although Korsgaard claims that only Kantian theories of morality, such as her own, can answer the normative question, I argue that Adam Smith's sentimentalist moral theory, as presented in The Theory of Moral Sentiments, can answer the normative question as well. As a result, it is possible to respond to the moral skeptic in the way Korsgaard outlines without accepting some of the theoretical drawbacks of Korsgaard's own moral theory.
Libertarian Paternalism and the Authority Of The Autonomous Person
Creators: name: Koepke, Cami
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2013

description: Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler (2003, 2006, 2009) contend that the government is justified in shaping certain choices of individuals to advance their well-being.  In this paper, I argue that those who are committed to a robust notion of autonomy, which I call autonomy as authority, have good reason to reject the Sunstein-Thaler (S/T) argument for libertarian paternalism.  I draw from Joseph Raz's (1990) idea of exclusionary reasons and Daniel Groll's (2012) conception of autonomy to argue that the S/T argument for libertarian paternalism fails to respect autonomy.  I consider if soft paternalism could be called upon as a foundation for libertarian paternalism, but argue against this possibility.  I conclude that an adequate defense of libertarian paternalism would need to directly attack the notion of autonomy as authority, but such an attack has yet to be mounted by the defenders of libertarian paternalism.
Supplementary document for Investigating spray flames for nanoparticle synthesis via tomographic imaging using multi-simultaneous measurements (TIMes) of emission - 5660294.pdf
Creators: name: Foo, Cheau Tyan
name: Unterberger, Andreas
name: Martins, Fabio
name: Prenting, Markus
name: Schulz, Christof
name: Mohri, Khadijeh
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Turbulent Flows
Flow Analysis

description: 3D angle rotation calculation.
Generalized Lagrange Coded Computing: A Flexible Computation-Communication Tradeoff for Resilient, Secure, and Private Computation
Creators: name: Zhu, Jinbao
name: Tang, Hengxuan
name: Li, Songze
name: Chang, Yijia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We consider the problem of evaluating arbitrary multivariate polynomials over a massive dataset containing multiple inputs, on a distributed computing system with a master node and multiple worker nodes. Generalized Lagrange Coded Computing (GLCC) codes are proposed to simultaneously provide resiliency against stragglers who do not return computation results in time, security against adversarial workers who deliberately modify results for their benefit, and information-theoretic privacy of the dataset amidst possible collusion of workers. GLCC codes are constructed by first partitioning the dataset into multiple groups, then encoding the dataset using carefully designed interpolating polynomials, and sharing multiple encoded data points to each worker, such that interference computation results across groups can be eliminated at the master. Particularly, GLCC codes include the state-of-the-art Lagrange Coded Computing (LCC) codes as a special case, and exhibit a more flexible tradeoff between communication and computation overheads in optimizing system efficiency. Furthermore, we apply GLCC to distributed training of machine learning models, and demonstrate that GLCC codes achieve a speedup of up to $2.5\text{--}3.9\times$ over LCC codes in training time, across experiments for training image classifiers on different datasets, model architectures, and straggler patterns.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures, and 2 tables
Synthesis and Preclinical Evaluation of Two Novel ⁶⁸Ga-Labeled Bispecific PSMA/FAP-Targeted Tracers with 2-Nal-Containing PSMA-Targeted Pharmacophore and Pyridine-Based FAP-Targeted Pharmacophore
Creators: name: Verena, Arsyangela
name: Merkens, Helen
name: Chen, Chao-Cheng
name: Chapple, Devon E.
name: Wang, Lei
name: Bendre, Shreya
name: Wong, Antonio A. W. L.
name: Bénard, François
name: Lin, Kuo-Shyan
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2024

description: Some bispecific radiotracers have been developed to overcome the limitations of monospecific tracers and improve detection sensitivity for heterogeneous tumor lesions. Here, we aim to synthesize two bispecific tracers targeting prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) and fibroblast activation protein (FAP), which are key markers expressed in prostate cancer. A pyridine-based FAP-targeted ligand was synthesized through multi-step organic synthesis and then connected to the 2-Nal-containing PSMA-targeted motif. The Ki(PSMA) values of Ga-complexed bispecific ligands, Ga-AV01084 and Ga-AV01088, were 11.6 ± 3.25 and 28.7 ± 6.05 nM, respectively, and the IC50(FAP) values of Ga-AV01084 and Ga-AV01088 were 10.9 ± 0.67 and 16.7 ± 1.53 nM, respectively. Both [⁶⁸Ga]Ga-AV01084 and [⁶⁸Ga]Ga-AV01088 enabled the visualization of PSMA-expressing LNCaP tumor xenografts and FAP-expressing HEK293T:hFAP tumor xenografts in PET images acquired at 1 h post-injection. However, the tumor uptake values from the bispecific tracers were still lower than those obtained from the monospecific tracers, PSMA-targeted [⁶⁸Ga]Ga-PSMA-617 and FAP-targeted [⁶⁸Ga]Ga-AV02070. Further investigations are needed to optimize the selection of linkers and targeted pharmacophores to improve the tumor uptake of bispecific PSMA/FAP tracers for prostate cancer imaging.
Wavefield gradiometry: comparing conventional f-k techniques to local spa-tial gradiometry for site characterization
Creators: name: Häusler, Mauro
name: Bergamo, Paolo
name: Hobiger, Manuel
name: Sollberger, David
name: Wassermann, Joachim
name: Fäh, Donat
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2018
Subjects: Seismology
Wavefield gradiometry
Rotational seismology
site characterization
Engineering seismology

description: Book of Abstracts of the 36th General Assembly of the European Seismological Commission
description: ISBN:978-88-98161-12-6
Kant and the Priority of Self-Knowledge
Creators: name: Messina, James
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2013

description: In The Metaphysics of Morals, Kant claims that 'the first command' of all self-regarding duties is to know our 'heart.' Kant ostensibly identifies our heart with our moral disposition. Strangely, this appears to be precisely the sort of knowledge that, elsewhere, Kant claims is epistemically inaccessible to us. While the more sophisticated attempts to resolve this difficulty succeed in situating an injunction to know the quality of one's disposition within a Kantian epistemic framework, no account is wholly successful in explaining why Kant takes self-knowledge to be a necessary condition of virtue. To make sense of the priority Kant assigns to the pursuit of self-knowledge, I argue that it is essential to understand the role of what has been called 'generic' self-knowledge in Kant's moral philosophy. I proceed to defend the place Kant grants moral self-knowledge in his moral philosophy, primarily by developing a Kantian account of such 'generic' self-knowledge.
Nonlocal operators related to nonsymmetric forms II: Harnack inequalities
Creators: name: Kassmann, Moritz
name: Weidner, Marvin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 47G20, 35B65, 31B05, 60J75, 35K90

description: Local boundedness and Harnack inequalities are studied for solutions to parabolic and elliptic integro-differential equations whose governing nonlocal operators are associated with nonsymmetric forms. We present two independent proofs, one being based on the De Giorgi iteration and the other one on the Moser iteration technique. This article is a continuation of a recent work by the same authors, where Hölder regularity and a weak Harnack inequality are proved in a similar setup.
Thomas Pogge And The Two Types Of Libertarian
Creators: name: Hopper, Zachary
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2013

description: Thomas Pogge proposes the Health Impact Fund (HIF) as a realistic, feasible reform to the pharmaceutical patent regime that would incentivize pharmaceutical research and reward innovation for medicines based on their impact on the global burden of disease. Pogge advances a human rights-based argument to show that the HIF is a morally required addition to the current pharmaceutical patent regime. One objection to his human rights argument comes from a libertarian appeal to property rights. Pogge's response to the libertarian leads to the counterintuitive conclusion that libertarianism is incompatible with any system of intellectual property rights. This paper will show how Pogge fails to distinguish between what I call status quo and revisionist libertarian positions on intellectual property. Making this distinction, I maintain, would strengthen the human rights argument and allow Pogge to avoid the counterintuitive conclusion of his response to the libertarian.
Smith on Self-Command and Moral Judgment
Creators: name: Papiernik, Lauren
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2013

description: In A Treatise of Human Nature, David Hume argues that moral judgments are the product of sentiment. The mechanism of sympathy allows individuals to enter into a common point of view in order to produce judgments that are truly moral, and not merely self-interested. Hume argues that the common point of view is the standard that moral judgments are subjected to. I argue that the common point of view is an inadequate standard for distinguishing between proper and improper moral judgments. The common point of view is inadequate because it is subjective and unreflective. In The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Adam Smith offers an account of moral judgment that has an adequate standard for distinguishing between proper and improper moral judgments. Smith avoids the problems with Hume's account due to his distinction between partial and impartial spectators and the role that self-command plays in his theory of moral judgment.
Mellamastus nero
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Mellamastus
Mellamastus nero

description: Mellamastus nero (Weymer, 1907)
Amastus nero Weymer, 1907: 27.
TYPE LOCALITY. — Brazil, [Santa Catarina], Joinville.
TYPE SPECIMENS. — Described from 3 male syntypes (ZMHB; two male specimens from collection Weymer).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 311, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
Don’t Lose Heart: Preliminary Engagement Results in an Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) Study Evaluating Digital Biomarkers for Asthma
Creators: name: Tinschert, Peter
name: Barata, Filipe
name: Kramer, Jan-Niklas
name: Rassouli, Frank
name: Steurer-Stey, Claudia
name: Puhan, Milo A.
name: Brutsche, Martin
name: Kowatsch, Tobias
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2019

description: Context: In situ patient data over multiple weeks are needed to explore the potential of nocturnal cough and sleep quality as digital biomarkers for asthma. Methods: Ninety-four asthmatics need to complete a 29-day EMA study in which nocturnal smartphone sensor data is recorded and daily questionnaires of 13 to 45 items are delivered by an adapted version of the MobileCoach app. Patients are withdrawn from the study in case of non-adherence on more than five days. Adherence is not financially incentivized. Appointments with health professionals take place on the first and last day. Intervention: Engagement, operationalized as response rates to the questionnaires, is promoted using the following strategies: first, patients discuss with health professionals how they will integrate the study app tasks in their daily routine. Second, working alliance is established through the chat-based interaction with the app’s virtual study nurse. Third, non-adherence is illustrated as lost hearts to elicit loss aversion. Finally, in case of non-adherence (on consecutive days) a notification system sends out reminder SMS to patients (prompts calls from health professionals). Results: The first 29 patients successfully completed 791 of the 810 daily questionnaires (97.65%). 58 reminder SMS were sent to patients and 13 calls by health professionals were triggered. One patient lost all hearts and was withdrawn from the study. The remaining patients completed the study with an average of 4.61/5 hearts (SD = 0.83). Conclusion: The preliminary results suggest that the employed strategies successfully promoted engagement in a population known for non-adherence in clinical practice.
Stoic Moral Psychology: The Implications Of Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex Damage
Creators: name: Roberson, Nicholas
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2013

description: In his book, A New Stoicism, Lawrence A. Becker sides with Posidonius, and against Chrysippus and others, on the issue of whether the sage will experience passions. The Posidonian position is that the sage will experience conflicting passions but will, nevertheless, overcome those passions through his or her perfected agency. In opposition, Chrysippus and others assert that the sage will have extirpated all his or her passions as a necessary precondition for achieving sagehood. I will argue that a body of neuroscientific evidence chiefly concerned with the effects of lesions to the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) supports Becker's assertion that Chrysippus' call for the extirpation of the passions is neither plausible nor desirable. Recent empirical discoveries support Posidonius' view of the role of the passions in the virtuous life.
Causal Compatibilism: A Nonreductive Physicalist Solution to the Exclusion Problem
Creators: name: Thompson, Morgan
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2013

description: Jaegwon Kim's Exclusion Problem holds that the nonreductive physicalist position is untenable. If the mental and the physical are distinct and both cause their effects, then it seems that their effects were caused twice over. I argue that the nonreductive physicalist should reject the Exclusion principle'a position called Causal Compatibilism. I appeal to our concepts of causal sufficiency and difference making in order to distinguish cases of mental causation, epiphenomenalism, and overdetermination. I appeal to James Woodward's Interventionist framework to individuate causal difference-makers. Mental causation involves two sufficient causes but only one difference-maker. Given that overdetermination involves two sufficient causes and two difference-makers, the Exclusion principle fails to distinguish between overdetermination and mental causation and so, it is false. I conclude that by rejecting the Exclusion principle, the nonreductive physicalist can get out of the Exclusion Problem.
Do Political Liberals Need the Truth?
Creators: name: Randall, Pierce
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2013

description: In this thesis, I defend John Rawls's assertion that political liberalism does not use the concept of truth. I respond to objections from Joshua Cohen and David Estlund. I argue that Cohen fails to show that public reason needs a minimalist conception of truth, since individuals with a range of conceptions of moral truth can meet the requirements of public reason. I dispute Estlund's argument that the liberal principle of legitimacy is merely insular. Estlund assumes that the claim that the liberal principle of legitimacy is reasonable is no different than the claim that the principle is acceptable to reasonable persons. I argue that this assumption is incorrect, and that therefore the liberal principle of legitimacy is justifiable on the grounds that it is reasonable. I argue that political liberals need not worry that doing without the concept of truth will undermine the semantic coherence or objectivity of political liberalism.
Supplementary document for Investigating spray flames for nanoparticle synthesis via tomographic imaging using multi-simultaneous measurements (TIMes) of emission - 5660294.pdf
Creators: name: Foo, Cheau Tyan
name: Unterberger, Andreas
name: Martins, Fabio
name: Prenting, Markus
name: Schulz, Christof
name: Mohri, Khadijeh
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Turbulent Flows
Flow Analysis

description: 3D angle rotation calculation.
In Defense of Dynamical Explanation
Creators: name: Nolen, Shannon
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2013

description: Proponents of mechanistic explanation have argued that dynamical models are mere phenomenal models, in that they describe rather than explain the scientific phenomena produced by complex systems. I argue instead that dynamical models can, in fact, be explanatory.  Using an example from neuroscientific research on epilepsy, I show that dynamical models can meet the explanatory demands met by mechanistic models, and as such occupy their own unique place within the space of explanatory scientific models.
Ammann Bars for Octagonal Tilings
Creators: name: Fernique, Thomas
name: Porrier, Carole
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37B52, 52C23

description: Ammann bars are formed by segments (decorations) on the tiles of a tiling such that forming straight lines with them while tiling forces non-periodicity. Only a few cases are known, starting with Robert Ammann's observations on Penrose tiles, but there is no general explanation or construction. In this article we propose a general method for cut and project tilings based on the notion of subperiods and we illustrate it with an aperiodic set of 36 decorated prototiles related to what we called Cyrenaic tilings.
description: sagemath code as an ancillary file
From Negative Rights to Positive Law: Natural Law in Hegel's Outlines of the Philosophy of Right
Creators: name: Gonzalez, Marcos
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2013

description: In this paper I attempt to address an interpretive difficulty that surrounds Hegel's position in the history of jurisprudence.  After a brief overview of Hegel's project, I outline the first two sections of the Outlines of the Philosophy of Right in order to support my argument that Hegel advocates a natural law theory of legal validity.  I then show that confusions regarding Hegel's place in the history of jurisprudence arise from his view that the ethical evaluation of laws is limited (with some exceptions) to procedural laws that govern the enactment and recognition of laws in the administration of justice.  I end by providing Hegel's distinctive argument for legal publicity, which he takes to be essential for the enactment and recognition of valid law.
The Thought Experiments are Rigged: Mechanistic Understanding Inhibits Mentalistic Understanding
Creators: name: Adleberg, Toni
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2013

description: Many well-known arguments in the philosophy of mind use thought experiments to elicit intuitions about consciousness. Often, these thought experiments include mechanistic explanations of a systems' behavior.  I argue that when we understand a system as a mechanism, we are not likely to understand it as an agent.  According to Arico, Fiala, Goldberg, and Nichols' (2011) AGENCY Model, understanding a system as an agent is necessary for generating the intuition that it is conscious.  Thus, if we are presented with a mechanistic description of a system, we will be very unlikely to understand that system as conscious.  Many of the thought experiments in the philosophy of mind describe systems mechanistically.  I argue that my account of consciousness attributions is preferable to the 'Simplicity Intuition' account proposed by David Barnett (2008) because it is more explanatory and more consistent with our intuitions.  Still, the same conclusion follows from Barnett's 'Simplicity' account and from my own account: we should reassess the conclusions that have been drawn from many famous thought experiments.
Willpower and Ego-Depletion: How I Do What I Don't Want to Do, and Why It's Not (Completely) My Fault When I Don't
Creators: name: Sims, Samuel
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2013

description: Experimental studies on willpower confirm the Strength Model of Self-Control, which claims that willpower depends on limited physiological resources.  Exercising willpower depletes these resources, which impairs further exercises of willpower.  This phenomenon is called 'ego-depletion.'  As a result, depleting these resources impairs further exercises of executive control. My thesis argues that this phenomenon has two important philosophical consequences: First, ego-depletion provides evidence against the Humean approach to motivation, according to which people always act according to their strongest desires. Second, people suffering from ego-depletion are not fully responsible for failures of self-control.
Global Egalitarianism and The State: On the Justice of Borders and Justice Beyond Borders
Creators: name: Fox, Adam
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2013

description: One of the most active areas of debate in liberal theories of global justice regards the proper application of domestic egalitarian theories of distributive justice, such as that posed by John Rawls, at the scale of global considerations of need, remediation, and ultimately the development of a just order. This paper considers three popularly-referenced theories (that of Michael Blake, Andrea Sangiovanni, and Thomas Nagel) that each advance a variant of a more general thesis, sometimes referred to as 'anti-cosmpolitan' or 'internationalist' '  that liberal egalitarian theories do not presently entail a uniform global principle of distribution that mandates material equality between all individuals, irrespective of their socio-political affiliations. Each theory is described in detail and representatives of major objections are evaluated along with potential responses, concluding with a finding that one interpretation of Blake's theory appears to be the most promising avenue in developing the internationalist thesis.
Proximity Induced Non-collinear Magnetic States in Planar Superconductor/Ferromagnet Hybrids
Creators: name: Kopasov, A. A.
name: Mironov, S. V.
name: Mel'nikov, A. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The proximity induced superconducting (S) correlations in ferromagnetic (F) layers of planar S/F hybrids are shown to be responsible for the appearance of a nonlinear interaction between the magnetic moments of the F layers. This interaction originates from the combined influence of the orbital and exchange phenomena and can result in the spontaneous formation of non-collinear magnetic states in these systems. The proposed nonlinear coupling mechanism and resulting changes of magnetic textures are crucial for the design of the superconducting spintronics devices exploiting the long-range spin triplet proximity effect.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures
How The Cognitive Penetrability Of Emotions Undermines Rational Sentimentalism
Creators: name: Stanford, Benjamin
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2013

description: In this thesis I argue that a leading sentimentalist theory, Rational Sentimentalism, faces the Problem of Superfluity because the evaluative properties to which certain emotions are responses can be defined independently of examining those emotional responses. In other words, the connection to value that Rational Sentimentalism aims for fails to obtain. I show that at least one such emotion, disgust, is influenced by higher cognition to a degree incompatible with Rational Sentimentalism avoiding the Problem of Superfluity. I conclude by suggesting ways in which other emotions are structurally similar to disgust, and therefore face the same problem in being incorporated into Rational Sentimentalism.
Targeted Killing: Modern Solution or Modern Problem?
Creators: name: Sikkema, Paul
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2014

description: Modern warfare in general, and targeted killing (TK) in particular, challenge conventional legal paradigms. While some contend that targeted killing is a clear violation of law, others argue that it is the law that should adapt to its modern context. In this thesis, I argue in favor of the latter. I will first explain the two dominant paradigms through which one can interpret TK: law enforcement versus armed conflict, going on to argue that an armed conflict paradigm can be legitimately invoked. In sections IV and V, I examine the rights and status of targeted individuals in modern conflict. I will then explore Jeremy Waldron's objection to TK'that its potential for abuse outweighs its utility. I conclude by arguing that TK, like all warfare, is justified only by the unacceptability of its alternative, and that the justification of all warfare abides under the same pragmatic presumption.
Supplementary document for Transport properties of optically thin solid dielectrics from frequency correlations of randomly scattered light - 5660447.pdf
Creators: name: Aubry, Geoffroy
name: Fuchs, Nathan
name: Skipetrov, Sergey
name: Scheffold, Frank
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This document contains the detailed calculations presented in the main text.