cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Il gioco e l’erotismo: David Foster Wallace, Michel Houellebecq e Walter Siti
Creators: name: Carrara, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: ENTHYMEMA
Year: 2019
Subjects: David Foster Wallace; Michel Houellebecq; Walter Siti; Erotismo; Sesso; Gioco; bdsm; Eroticism; Sex; Play; BDSM

description: L’obiettivo di questo articolo è analizzare le modalità in cui la dimensione del gioco incontra quella del sesso nelle rappresentazioni letterarie dell’erotismo in alcune opere di David Foster Wallace, Michel Houellebecq e Walter Siti. Nello specifico si sottolineerà come la rappresentazione dei giochi sessuali e, in particolare, del sesso sadomaso sia utilizzata dai tre autori per condurre un discorso parallelo sulla volontà di potenza e di possesso come risposta a una diffusa incapacità di amare dei loro personaggi. The aim of this paper is to analyze the ways in which sex and games interplay in the literary works of David Foster Wallace, Michel Houellebecq and Walter Siti. In particular I will focus on the representation of sexual games highlighting the discourse on the desire for power and control through which the characters try to cope with the loss of love and meaning in the contemporary world.
description: ENTHYMEMA, No 23 (2019)
Drift capacity models for modern URM walls for EC8 Part 1
Creators: name: Beyer, Katrin
name: Wilding, Bastian
name: Rezaie, Amir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: This objective of this report was to put forward drift capacity models for the revised Eurocode 8, Part 1 (EC8-Part 1). For this purpose, it reviews the data available on quasi-static cyclic tests on masonry walls in the recently assembled European database for URM walls. Based on this review, it proposes two simple drift capacity models. Both models account for the unit typology. In addition, Model 1 accounts for the failure mode and follows therefore the traditional form for URM drift capacity models. Unlike the current drift capacity model in the current EC8-Part 3 [2], it introduces an axial load ratio limit of 0.3. Walls subjected to higher ALR should be avoided; if this is not possible, it should be assumed that they have only one third of the drift capacity of walls with ALR ≤ 0.3. Note that the idea of an ALR-limit is already included in the German national annex to Eurocode 8 [38] for walls failing in shear. It limits the SD drift capacity of 0.4%, which is specified in the current EC8-Part 3, to walls with an ALR ≤ 0.15. For walls with a larger ALR, the drift capacity is reduced to 0.3%. All files, from the extraction of the data from the data bases to the files for plotting the figures are publicly shared. A file register describing the content of the files is included at the end of each chapter of the report.
description: Changes with regard to V1: (1) DOI and link to Zenodo repository added on first page of report; (2) watermark "Draft" removed; (3) no changes to database and Matlab files
La trottola cosmica: da Manilio (Astronomica 3, 356-61) a Roger Caillois
Creators: name: Torre, Chiara
Publisher: name: ENTHYMEMA
Year: 2019
Subjects: Marco Manilio; Roger Caillois; Trottola; Cosmologia antica (immaginario); Marcus Manilius; Spinning Top; Ancient Cosmology (Imagery)

description: In un passo del terzo libro degli Astronomica il poeta latino Manilio (I sec. d.C.) introduce una breve similitudine con la trottola (turbo) per descrivere il fenomeno di rotazione della sfera celeste dal punto di vista di un osservatore che si trovi al polo nord. Il presente articolo esplora gli antecedenti culturali di questa immagine curiosa e, al tempo stesso, feconda di significati letterari, tentando di restituirle una funzione ludica secondo la classificazione dei giochi proposta dall’antropologo Roger Caillois. A brief simile with a spinning top (turbo) occurs in a passage of Manilius’ Astronomicathird book (I a. D.) to describe the cosmic rotation of the celestial sphere as it appears to a viewer staying at the North Pole. This article investigates some cultural antecedents of such an odd but meaningful image. Furthermore, a ludic role for this simile may be imagined, using the main categories which Roger Caillois adopted in classifying ludic activities of humankind.
description: ENTHYMEMA, No 23 (2019)
Introduzione
Creators: name: Floridi, Lucia
name: Neri, Laura
name: Torre, Chiara
Publisher: name: ENTHYMEMA
Year: 2019
Subjects: Gioco; Giocattolo; Ludicità; Parole; Oggetti; Immaginario; Game; Toy; Ludicity; Words; Objects; Imagery

description: Introduzione al volume. Introduction to the volume.
description: ENTHYMEMA, No 23 (2019)
$η$-weak-Pseudo-Hermiticity generators and exact solvability
Creators: name: Mustafa, Omar
name: Mazharimousavi, S. Habib
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Exact solvability of some non-Hermitian $η$-weak-pseudo-Hermitian Hamiltonians is explored as a byproduct of $η$-weak-pseudo-Hermiticity generators. A class of V_{eff}(x)=V(x)+iW(x) potentials is considered, where the imaginary part W(x) is used as an $η$-weak-pseudo-Hermiticity generator to obtain exactly solvable $η$-weak-pseudo-Hermitian Hamiltonian models.
description: 8 pages, no figures, to appear in Phys. Lett. A
Laboratory characterization of FIRSTv2 photonic chip for the study of substellar companions
Creators: name: Barjot, K.
name: Huby, E.
name: Vievard, S.
name: Cvetojevic, N.
name: Lacour, S.
name: Martin, G.
name: Deo, V.
name: Lapeyrere, V.
name: Rouan, D.
name: Guyon, O.
name: Lozi, J.
name: Jovanovic, N.
name: Cassagenettes, C.
name: Perrin, G.
name: Marchis, F.
name: Duchêne, G.
name: Kotani, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: FIRST (Fibered Imager foR a Single Telescope instrument) is a post-AO instrument that enables high contrast imaging and spectroscopy at spatial scales below the diffraction limit. FIRST achieves sensitivity and accuracy by a unique combination of sparse aperture masking, spatial filtering by single-mode fibers and cross-dispersion in the visible. The telescope pupil is divided into sub-pupils by an array of microlenses, coupling the light into single-mode fibers. The output of the fibers are rearranged in a non redundant configuration, allowing the measurement of the complex visibility for every baseline over the 600-900 nm spectral range. A first version of this instrument is currently integrated to the Subaru Extreme AO bench (SCExAO). This paper focuses on the on-going instrument upgrades and testings, which aim at increasing the instrument's stability and sensitivity, thus improving the dynamic range. FIRSTv2's interferometric scheme is based on a photonic chip beam combiner. We report on the laboratory characterization of two different types of 5-input beam combiner with enhanced throughput. The interferometric recombination of each pair of sub-pupils is encoded on a single output. Thus, to sample the fringes we implemented a temporal phase modulation by pistoning the segmented mirrors of a Micro-ElectroMechanical System (MEMS). By coupling high angular resolution and spectral resolution in the visible, FIRST offers unique capabilities in the context of the detection and spectral characterization of close companions, especially on 30m-class telescopes.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures, SPIE proceeding: Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2020
Efficient importance sampling for Monte Carlo evaluation of exceedance probabilities
Creators: name: Chan, Hock Peng
name: Lai, Tze Leung
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60F10, 65C05 (Primary) 60J05, 65C40 (Secondary)

description: Large deviation theory has provided important clues for the choice of importance sampling measures for Monte Carlo evaluation of exceedance probabilities. However, Glasserman and Wang [Ann. Appl. Probab. 7 (1997) 731--746] have given examples in which importance sampling measures that are consistent with large deviations can perform much worse than direct Monte Carlo. We address this problem by using certain mixtures of exponentially twisted measures for importance sampling. Their asymptotic optimality is established by using a new class of likelihood ratio martingales and renewal theory.
description: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/105051606000000664 in the Annals of Applied Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aap/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Una breve riflessione preliminare
Creators: name: Bologna, Maria Patrizia
Publisher: name: ENTHYMEMA
Year: 2019
Subjects: Gioco; Parole; Oggetti; Immagini; Words; Objects; Imagery

description: Parole di apertura dei lavori delle Giornate di Studio su “Giochi e giocattoli: parole, oggetti e immaginario”. Opening words of the Study Days on “Games and toys: words, things, and imagery.”
description: ENTHYMEMA, No 23 (2019)
A new type of solution of the Schrödinger equation on a self-similar fractal potential
Creators: name: Chuprikov, N L
name: Spiridonova, O V
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Scattering a quantum particle by a self-similar fractal potential on a Cantor set is investigated. We present a new type of solution of the functional equation for the transfer matrix of this potential, which was derived earlier from the Schrödinger equation.
description: Latex, 4 pages, 7 eps-figures; the old figures are renewed and new ones are added
Ground State Properties of Charmed Hypernuclei with Mean Field Approach
Creators: name: Güven, H.
name: Bozkurt, K.
name: Khan, E.
name: Margueron, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Closed shell charmed hypernuclei $^5_{Λ_c}$Li, $^{17}_{Λ_c}$F, $^{41}_{Λ_c}$Sc, $^{57}_{Λ_c}$Cu, $^{133}_{Λ_c}$Sb and $^{209}_{Λ_c}$Bi are calculated within Hartree-Fock approach by using three different force sets derived from microscopic Brueckner-Hartree-Fock calculations of $Λ$ hypernuclei. Ground state properties (binding energies, $Λ_c$ separation energies, $Λ_c$ single particle energies and $Λ_c$ densities) of charmed nuclei are examined. Due to the Coulomb repulsion between protons and the $Λ_c$ baryon, charmed hypernuclei are most bound for $16\leq$A$\leq 41$, where $^{17}_{Λ_c}$F can be considered as an excellent candidate to measure charmed hypernuclei. The competition between the attractive nucleon-$Λ_c$ interaction and the Coulomb repulsion is discussed, and we compare $Λ$ and $Λ_c$ hypernuclei properties.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures
On the Thermodynamical Relation between Rotating Charged BTZ Black Holes and Effective String Theory
Creators: name: Larranaga, Alexis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we study the first law of thermodynamics for the (2+1) dimensional rotating charged BTZ black hole considering a pair of thermodinamical systems constructed with the two horizons of this solution. We show that these two systems are similar to the right and left movers of string theory and that the temperature associated with the black hole is the harmonic mean of the temperatures associated with these two systems.
description: 9 pages
Elicitation of "Cut and Break" videos
Creators: name: Parker, Verdena
name: Escamilla, Ramón
name: Spence, Justin
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: hup

description: Audio file VP-140309-07: Elicitation of the Max Planck Institute's "Cut and Break" videos. Verdena describes video clips in Hupa, from CB12 up to CB19, plus CB22 (mis-identified in the recording as CB20). Reference: Bohnemeyer, J., Bowerman, M., & Brown, P. (2001). Cut and break clips. In S. C. Levinson, & N. J. Enfield (Eds.), Manual for the field season 2001 (pp. 90-96). Nijmegen: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. doi:10.17617/2.874626.
Story about Verdena's grandparents
Creators: name: Parker, Verdena
name: Escamilla, Ramón
name: Spence, Justin
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: hup

description: Audio file VP-140309-06: A story about Verdena's grandmother and grandfather's life together, toid in Hupa alternating with English. This recording was previously deposited with the Endangered Language Archive (ELAR) with identifier "0186-20140318 - Verdena's grandmother and grandfather," part of the collection "Expanding the Documentation and Description of Hupa (Athabaskan)" (collection ID hupa-campbell-0186).
Production of light flavor and single-charmed hadrons in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=5.02$ TeV in an equal-velocity quark combination model
Creators: name: Li, Hai-hong
name: Shao, Feng-lan
name: Song, Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We apply an equal-velocity quark combination model to study the production of light-flavor hadrons and single-charmed hadrons at midrapidity in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=5.02$ TeV. We find experimental data for $p_{T}$ spectra of $Ω$ and $ϕ$ exhibit a quark number scaling property, which is a clear signal of quark combination mechanism at hadronization. Experimental data for $p_T$ spectra of $p$, $Λ$, $Ξ$, $Ω$, $ϕ$ and $K^{*0}$ are systematically described by the model. The non-monotonic $p_{T}$ dependence of $Ω/ϕ$ ratio is naturally explained and we find it is closely related to the shape of the logarithm of strange quark $p_{T}$ distribution. Using $p_{T}$ spectra of light-flavor quarks obtained from light-flavor hadrons and a $p_T$ spectrum of charm quarks which is consistent with perturbative QCD calculations, the experimental data for differential cross-sections of $D^{0,+}$, $D_{s}^{+}$ and $Λ_{c}^{+}$ as the function of $p_{T}$ are systematically described. We predict the differential cross-sections of $Ξ_{c}^{0,+}$ and $Ω_{c}^{0}$. The ratio $Ξ_{c}^{0,+}/D^{0}$ in our model is about 0.16 and $Ω_{c}^{0}/D^{0}$ is about 0.012 due to the cascade suppression of strangeness. In addition, the predicted $Ξ_{c}^{0,+}/D^{0}$ and $Ω_{c}^{0}/D^{0}$ ratios exhibit the non-monotonic dependence on $p_{T}$ in the low $p_{T}$ range.
description: 11 pages, 9 figures
Modelling mid-Z element atmospheres for strongly-magnetized neutron stars
Creators: name: Mori, Kaya
name: Ho, Wynn C. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct models for strongly-magnetized neutron star atmospheres composed of mid-Z elements (carbon, oxygen and neon) with magnetic fields B=10^{12}-10^{13} G and effective temperatures Teff=(1-5)*10^6 K; this is done by first addressing the physics relevant to strongly-magnetized plasmas and calculating the equation of state and polarization-dependent opacities. We then obtain the atmosphere structure and spectrum by solving the radiative transfer equations in hydrostatic and radiative equilibrium. In contrast to hydrogen opacities at the relevant temperatures, mid-Z element opacities are dominated by numerous bound-bound and bound-free transitions. Consequently, temperature profiles are closer to grey profiles, and photosphere densities are lower than in the hydrogen case. Mid-Z element atmosphere spectra are significantly softer than hydrogen atmosphere spectra and show numerous absorption lines and edges. The atmosphere spectra depend strongly on surface composition and magnetic field but weakly on surface gravity. Absorption lines are primarily broadened by motional Stark effects and the (unknown) surface magnetic field distribution. Given the multiple absorption features observed from several isolated neutron stars, it is possible to determine, with existing X-ray data, the surface composition, magnetic field, temperature, and gravitational redshift; we present qualitative comparisons between our model spectra and the neutron stars 1E1207.4-5209 and RX J1605.3+3249. Future high-resolution X-ray missions such as Constellation-X will measure the gravitational redshift with high accuracy by resolving narrow absorption features, and when combined with radius measurements, it will be possible to uniquely determine the mass and radius of isolated neutron stars. (Abridged)
description: 16 pages, 22 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Scacchi, dame, ladruncoli e latrunculi nell’antica Roma. La traduzione di un ludonimo con referente incerto
Creators: name: Manco, Alberto
Publisher: name: ENTHYMEMA
Year: 2019
Subjects: Ludonimi; Linguistica storica; Etimologia; Latrunculi; Ludonyms; Historical Linguistics; Etymology

description: L’articolo propone una riflessione sul ludonimo ludus latrunculorum, che, stando alle fonti letterarie, fu uno dei più diffusi ‘giochi da tavolo’ dell’antichità latina. Nel corso del tempo la memoria di tale gioco si è in parte smarrita ed esso è diventato una sorta di oggetto misterioso. Tale situazione si riflette nelle traduzioni italiane, che spesso, poco cautamente, lo interpretano come scacchio dama. The article proposes a reflexion on the ludonym ludus latrunculorum, which has been proven in literary sources to be one of the most widespread “board games” in Latin antiquity. Over time we have partly lost its memory and it has become a sort of mysterious object. This situation is reflected by Italian translations, which often, recklessly, interpret the ludus latrunculorumas “chess”or “draughts.”
description: ENTHYMEMA, No 23 (2019)
title: «Ο αντίκτυπος της πανδημίας του κορονοϊού (COVID-19) στις πολιτιστικές και αθλητικές δραστηριότητες ενός Δήμου του Κεντρικού Τομέα Αθηνών κατά την περίοδο 2020-2021»
title: "The impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Cultural and Athletic Activities of a Central Athens Municipality during the period 2020-2021"
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Αντωνόπουλος, Παναγιώτης
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Πελοποννήσου
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: COVID 19 Πανδημία, 2020--Ελλάδα
subject: Τοπική Αυτοδιοίκηση--Ελλάδα
subject: codiv19
subject: Δήμος Αθηναίων

description: Στην παρούσα εργασία ερευνήθηκε ο αντίκτυπος της πανδημίας του κορονοϊού (COVID-19) στις πολιτιστικές και αθλητικές δραστηριότητες ενός Δήμου του Κεντρικού Τομέα Αθηνών κατά την περίοδο 2020-2021. Στόχος της εργασίας αυτής ήταν να μελετηθεί το πώς επηρέασε η πανδημία (COVID-19) αυτόν τον Δήμο ως προς τις αθλητικές και πολιτιστικές δραστηριότητες. Είναι ευρέως γνωστή η παράδοση της Ελλάδας σε θέματα πολιτισμού και αθλητισμού, όπως άλλωστε μαρτυρούν και οι Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες. Όπως διαπιστώθηκε στην έρευνα, η πανδημία τελικά επηρέασε σε μεγάλο βαθμό τον πλανήτη σε όλους τους τομείς, ανάμεσα σε αυτούς βρίσκεται ο τομέας του αθλητισμού αλλά και ο πολιτισμός μας. Επόμενο λοιπόν ήταν να επηρεαστεί από την πρωτόγνωρη σε όλους πανδημία και ο εν λόγω Δήμος, πράγμα που αναδεικνύει η συγκεκριμένη έρευνα. Ωστόσο, παρουσιάστηκαν ορισμένοι τρόποι αντιμετώπισης αυτού του φαινομένου προς όφελος του πολίτη.
Cyclic Defense GAN Against Speech Adversarial Attacks
Creators: name: Esmaeilpour, Mohammad
name: Cardinal, Patrick
name: Koerich, Alessandro Lameiras
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This paper proposes a new defense approach for counteracting state-of-the-art white and black-box adversarial attack algorithms. Our approach fits into the implicit reactive defense algorithm category since it does not directly manipulate the potentially malicious input signals. Instead, it reconstructs a similar signal with a synthesized spectrogram using a cyclic generative adversarial network. This cyclic framework helps to yield a stable generative model. Finally, we feed the reconstructed signal into the speech-to-text model for transcription. The conducted experiments on targeted and non-targeted adversarial attacks developed for attacking DeepSpeech, Kaldi, and Lingvo models demonstrate the proposed defense's effectiveness in adverse scenarios.
description: 5
A network model to investigate structural and electrical properties of proteins
Creators: name: Alfinito, E.
name: Pennetta, C.
name: Reggiani, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the main trend in to date research and development is the miniaturization of electronic devices. In this perspective, integrated nanodevices based on proteins or biomolecules are attracting a major interest. In fact, it has been shown that proteins like bacteriorhodopsin and azurin, manifest electrical properties which are promising for the development of active components in the field of molecular electronics. Here we focus on two relevant kinds of proteins: The bovine rhodopsin, prototype of GPCR protein, and the enzyme acetylcholinesterase (AChE), whose inhibition is one of the most qualified treatments of Alzheimer disease. Both these proteins exert their functioning starting with a conformational change of their native structure. Our guess is that such a change should be accompanied with a detectable variation of their electrical properties. To investigate this conjecture, we present an impedance network model of proteins, able to estimate the different electrical response associated with the different configurations. The model resolution of the electrical response is found able to monitor the structure and the conformational change of the given protein. In this respect, rhodopsin exhibits a better differential response than AChE. This result gives room to different interpretations of the degree of conformational change and in particular supports a recent hypothesis on the existence of a mixed state already in the native configuration of the protein.
description: 25 pages, 12 figures
The Most Ancient “Puzzle Magazines”: Miscellanies of Intellectual Games from Ahiqar to Aristophanes
Creators: name: Konstantakos, Ioannis
Publisher: name: ENTHYMEMA
Year: 2019
Subjects: Riddles; Riddle Contest; Narrative; Wisdom Literature; Symposion

description: Intellectual puzzles have a tendency to intermix and accumulate in miscellaneous collections, as happens in present-day puzzle magazines. This phenomenon may already be observed in old compilations (cf. Palatine Anthology, book 14, which draws on earlier sources) and theoretical treatises of antiquity (Clearchus’ On riddles, Athenaeus’ Deipnosophistaebook 10). Long before such works, fictional and legendary narratives provided a framework for stringing together multifarious types of mental games. The Near-Eastern Story of Ahiqarand the Greek Contest of Homer and Hesioduse the old theme of the competition between two great sages as a plot structure to accommodate a veritable anthology of genres of riddles. The Greek legend of Homer and Hesiod may have influenced Aristophanic comedies such as the Frogsand the Wasps. But while in the East the narrative form of the miscellaneous riddle contest was a fantastic outgrowth of the mixed compilations of wisdom literature, the corresponding Greek narratives were fictionalizations of the multifaceted entertainments of the symposion.
description: ENTHYMEMA, No 23 (2019)
Tanaka Theorem for Inelastic Maxwell Models
Creators: name: Bolley, François
name: Carrillo, José Antonio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We show that the Euclidean Wasserstein distance is contractive for inelastic homogeneous Boltzmann kinetic equations in the Maxwellian approximation and its associated Kac-like caricature. This property is as a generalization of the Tanaka theorem to inelastic interactions. Consequences are drawn on the asymptotic behavior of solutions in terms only of the Euclidean Wasserstein distance.
Incidents hindering or facilitating the adjustment process: a study of Hong Kong students
Creators: name: Bolton, Sandra A.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2008

description: The purpose of this study was to investigate the question: What events facilitated or hindered the adjustment process of Hong Kong students in Canada? This task was completed by utilizing Flanagan's (1954) Critical Incident Technique. Sixteen students, eight male and eight female, between the ages of sixteen and eighteen were interviewed. All the participants had lived in Canada for one and half to three years, and were enrolled in regular classes. Students were asked to identify specific incidents which hindered or facilitated their adjustment process in Canada. A total of 308 incidents were reported, 121 facilitating and 187 hindering. The average number of incidents reported per student was 19. Overall, this research revealed seven basic categories which facilitated or hindered the students' adjustment in Canada. From an examination of findings, several conclusions were drawn regarding emotional, societal and environmental factors. Foremost, language acquisition ranked firstamong all the categories, and tended to be a very difficult obstacle for all the students. Over fifty-six hindering incidents were reported in this category. Likewise, a lack of family support and a negative sense of identity hindered the process of adjustment for a majority of the students. In contrast, a helpful school environment and positive peer interaction, lessened the stresses of acculturation for many students. Based on these conclusions, several recommendations were listed to assist counsellors, teachers and administrators in establishing various programs to encourage the successful adjustment of immigrant students. Moreover, areas for future research and the implications of the study were highlighted.
Cometary diversity and cometary families
Creators: name: Crovisier, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Comets are classified from their orbital characteristics into two separate classes: nearly-isotropic, mainly long-period comets and ecliptic, short-period comets. Members from the former class are coming from the Oort cloud. Those of the latter class were first believed to have migrated from the Kuiper belt where they could have been accreted in situ, but recent orbital evolution simulations showed that they rather come from the trans-Neptunian scattered disc. These two reservoirs are not where the comets formed: they were expelled from the inner Solar System following interaction with the giant planets. If comets formed at different places in the Solar System, one would expect they show different chemical and physical properties. In the present paper, I review which differences are effectively observed: chemical and isotopic compositions, spin temperatures, dust particle properties, nucleus properties... and investigate whether these differences are correlated with the different dynamical classes. The difficulty of such a study is that long-period, nearly-isotropic comets from the Oort cloud are better known, from Earth-based observations, than the weak nearly-isotropic, short-period comets. On the other hand, only the latter are easily accessed by space missions.
description: Proceedings of the XVIIIemes Rencontres de Blois: Planetary Science: Challenges and Discoveries, 28th May - 2nd June 2006, Blois, France
A Study of background for IXPE
Creators: name: Xie, Fei
name: Ferrazzoli, Riccardo
name: Soffitta, Paolo
name: Fabiani, Sergio
name: Costa, Enrico
name: Muleri, Fabio
name: Di Marco, Alessandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Focal plane X-ray polarimetry is intended for relatively bright sources with a negligible impact of background. However this might not be always possible for IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) when observing faint extended sources like supernova remnants. We present for the first time the expected background of IXPE by Monte Carlo simulation and its impact on real observations of point and extended X-ray sources. The simulation of background has been performed by Monte Carlo based on GEANT4 framework. The spacecraft and the detector units have been modeled, and the expected background components in IXPE orbital environment have been evaluated. We studied different background rejection techniques based on the analysis of the tracks collected by the Gas Pixel Detectors on board IXPE. The estimated background is about 2.9 times larger than the requirement, yet it is still negligible when observing point like sources. Albeit small, the impact on supernova remnants indicates the need for a background subtraction for the observation of the extended sources.
description: 16 pages, 16 figures
Translational neuroimaging of cerebral perfusion after acute ischemic stroke
Creators: name: Franx, Bart
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: v0.1

Supplementary material belonging to the dissertation "Translational neuroimaging of cerebral perfusion after acute ischemic stroke".

[updates will follow]

v2

Supplementary material: corrected the title of chapter 7

Added the monograph (franx.pdf)
Bi-partite entanglement entropy in massive two-dimensional quantum field theory
Creators: name: Doyon, Benjamin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, Cardy, Castro Alvaredo and the author obtained the first exponential correction to saturation of the bi-partite entanglement entropy at large region length, in massive two-dimensional integrable quantum field theory. It only depends on the particle content of the model, and not on the way particles scatter. Based on general analyticity arguments for form factors, we propose that this result is universal, and holds for any massive two-dimensional model (also out of integrability). We suggest a link of this result with counting pair creations far in the past.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures. v2: improved presentation of result and calculations, section "discussion" adjusted, references adjusted
The contribution of plastic sink-in to the static friction of single asperity microscopic contacts
Creators: name: Brazil, Owen
name: Pethica, John B.
name: Pharr, George M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report microscale friction experiments for diamond/metal and diamond/silica contacts under gigapascal contact pressures. Using a new nanoprobe technique which has sufficient dynamic range of force and stiffness, we demonstrate the processes involved in the transition from purely interface sliding at the nanoscale to the situation where at least one of the sliding bodies undergoes some plastic deformation. For sliding of micrometer-scale diamond spherical tips on metallic substrates, additional local plastic yielding of the substrate resulting from tangential tractions causes the tip to sink into the surface, increasing the contact area in the direction of loading and resulting in a static friction coefficient higher than the kinetic during ploughing. This sink-in is largely absent in fused silica, and no friction drop is observed, along with lower friction in general. The transition from sinking in within the static friction regime to ploughing in the sliding friction regime is mediated by failure of the contact interface, indicated by a sharp increase in energy dissipation. At lower contact pressures, the elastic interfacial sliding behaviour characteristic of scanning probe or surface force apparatus experiments is recovered, bridging the gap between the exotic realm of nanotribology and plasticity dominated macroscale friction. We delineate the material and geometric factors which determine the transition. We also find that some unexpected light is cast on the origins of the difference between static and dynamic friction.
description: 26 pages, 7 figures
Bayesian inference for gravitational waves from binary neutron star mergers in third-generation observatories
Creators: name: Smith, Rory
name: Borhanian, Ssohrab
name: Sathyaprakash, Bangalore
name: Vivanco, Francisco Hernandez
name: Field, Scott
name: Lasky, Paul
name: Mandel, Ilya
name: Morisaki, Soichiro
name: Ottaway, David
name: Slagmolen, Bram
name: Thrane, Eric
name: Töyrä, Daniel
name: Vitale, Salvatore
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Third-generation (3G) gravitational-wave detectors will observe thousands of coalescing neutron star binaries with unprecedented fidelity. Extracting the highest precision science from these signals is expected to be challenging owing to both high signal-to-noise ratios and long-duration signals. We demonstrate that current Bayesian inference paradigms can be extended to the analysis of binary neutron star signals without breaking the computational bank. We construct reduced order models for $\sim 90\,\mathrm{minute}$ long gravitational-wave signals, covering the observing band ($5-2048\,\mathrm{Hz}$), speeding up inference by a factor of $\sim 1.3\times 10^4$ compared to the calculation times without reduced order models. The reduced order models incorporate key physics including the effects of tidal deformability, amplitude modulation due to the Earth's rotation, and spin-induced orbital precession. We show how reduced order modeling can accelerate inference on data containing multiple, overlapping gravitational-wave signals, and determine the speedup as a function of the number of overlapping signals. Thus, we conclude that Bayesian inference is computationally tractable for the long-lived, overlapping, high signal-to-noise-ratio events present in 3G observatories.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures. Published in Physical Review Letters
Neutrino Oscillations Induced by Chiral Phase Transition in a Compact Star
Creators: name: Mu, Chengfu
name: Sun, Gaofeng
name: Zhuang, Pengfei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Electric charge neutrality in a compact star provides an important relation- ship between the chiral dynamics and neutrino propagation in the star. Since the sudden drop of the electron density at the critical point of the first-order chiral phase transition, the oscillation for low energy neutrinos is significant and can be regarded as a signature of chiral symmetry restoration in the core of the star.
description: 11 pages,4 figures
Additional file 2 of Nuclear factor-kappaB regulates the transcription of NADPH oxidase 1 in human alveolar epithelial cells
Creators: name: Wu, Weijing
name: Li, Li
name: Su, Xiaoshan
name: Zhu, Zhixing
name: Lin, Xiaoping
name: Zhang, Jiamin
name: Zhuang, Zesen
name: Cai, Hongyi
name: Huang, Wenjie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2. Supplementary Table 1. The concentration of ROS and MDA of different groups. Supplementary Table 2. The concentration of TAOS, SOD and TGSH of different groups.
Ordinal and cardinal solution concepts for two-sided matching
Creators: name: Echenique, Federico
name: Galichon, Alfred
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: General Economics (econ.GN)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: We characterize solutions for two-sided matching, both in the transferable and in the nontransferable-utility frameworks, using a cardinal formulation. Our approach makes the comparison of the matching models with and without transfers particularly transparent. We introduce the concept of a no-trade matching to study the role of transfers in matching. A no-trade matching is one in which the availability of transfers do not affect the outcome.
description: 29 pages, 2 figures
Transcription of a story about Verdena's grandmother working as a nanny
Creators: name: Parker, Verdena
name: Escamilla, Ramón
name: Spence, Justin
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: hup

description: Audio file VP-140309-05: Transcription of a story about Verdena's grandmother working as a nanny (file VP-131007-08), from 16:15 to the end of the story.
Photoluminescence and spectral switching of single CdSe/ZnS colloidal nanocrystals in poly(methyl methacrylate)
Creators: name: Shen, Y. M.
name: Pang, L.
name: Fainman, Y.
name: Griswold, M.
name: Yang, Sen
name: Butov, L. V.
name: Sham, L. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Emission from single CdSe nanocrystals in PMMA was investigated. A fraction of the nanocrystals exhibiting switching between two energy states, which have similar total intensities, but distinctly different spectra were observed. We found that the spectral shift characteristic frequency increases with the pump power. By using the dynamic shift in the spectral position of emission peaks, we were able to correlate peaks from the same nanocrystal. The measured correlation is consistent with assignment of low energy lines to phonon replicas.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Ανάλυση οστέινης εργαλειοτεχνίας (Η Νεολιθική θέση στα Παλιάμπελα Κολινδρού)
Creators: name: Κουτσοπούλου, Ελένη Αντωνίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2019
Subjects: Οστέινα εργαλεία
Νεολιθική Περίοδος
Παλιάμπελα Κολινδρού
Bone tools
Neolithic Period
Paliampela Kolindros

description: Η παρούσα εργασία μελετάει μια όψη του υλικού πολιτισμού, τα οστέινα εργαλεία από τη προϊστορική θέση των Παλιαμπέλων Κολινδρού στην Πιερία και καλύπτει χρονολογικά την περίοδο της Αρχαιότερης Νεολιθικής έως και την Νεότερη Νεολιθική. Εξετάζεται όλο το οστέινο υλικό της ανασκαφής. Μελετήθηκαν η τυπολογία των αντικειμένων, η επιλογή της πρώτης ύλης, οι τεχνικές κατασκευής των αντικειμένων, η χωρική και χρονική κατανομή τους. Σκοπός είναι η ανάλυση όλων των δεδομένων να βοηθήσει στην ερμηνεία κάποιων εργασιών σε συνάρτηση με τον χρόνο και τον χώρο στην προϊστορική κοινότητα των Παλιαμπέλων Κολινδρού, καθώς και η σχέση τους με τις υπόλοιπες παραδόσεις των οστέινων εργαλείων στην ευρύτερη περιοχή της Μακεδονίας, της Θεσσαλίας και των Βαλκανίων. Έγινε μια προσπάθεια ανασύστασης της chaîne opératoire και ακολουθήθηκε στην καταγραφή το πρότυπο της γαλλικής σχολής
description: he present thesis is a study of the material culture, bone tools from the prehistoric settlement of Paliampela Kolindros in Pieria, chronologically it covers from the Ancient Neolithic to Final Neolithic Era. Here all the bone material is being examined from the excavation. The typology of artifacts, the selection of raw material, techniques of construction of the artifacts, their spatial and temporal distribution has been studied. Aim of this analysis is to help explain of some of these works in correspondence of time and space of the prehistoric society of Paliampela Kolindros. Also the examination of the relation with the bone tools of other cultures in the area of Macedonia, Thessaly and Balcan. An attempt was made to rebuild chaîne opératoire and was followed with the recording the template of french school
Combinatorics of $A_2$-crystals
Creators: name: Danilov, V. I.
name: Karzanov, A. V.
name: Koshevoy, G. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 17B37, 05C75, 05E99

description: We show that a connected regular $A_2$-crystal (the crystal graph of an irreducible representation of $sl_3$) can be produced from two half-grids by replicating them and glying together in a certain way. Also some extensions and related aspects are discussed.
description: 21 pages, 7 fugures, 8 bibl
Temperature evolution of the phonon dynamics in the Kitaev spin liquid
Creators: name: Feng, Kexin
name: Ye, Mengxing
name: Perkins, Natalia B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Here we present a study of the phonon dynamics in the honeycomb Kitaev spin model at finite temperatures. We show that the fractionalized spin excitations of the Kitaev spin liquid, the itinerant Majorana fermions and static $Z_2$ fluxes, have distinct effects on the phonon dynamics, which makes the phonon dynamics a promising tool for exploring the Kitaev spin liquid candidate materials. In particular, we will focus on the signature of the fractionalized excitations in the thermodynamic behaviour of the sound attenuation and the phonon Hall viscosity: The former describes the phonon decay into the fractionalized excitations, and the later is the leading order time reversal symmetry breaking effect on the acoustic phonon. We find that the angular dependence of the attenuation coefficient and its magnitude are modified by the thermal excitation of the $Z_2$ fluxes. The strength of this effect strongly depends on the relative magnitude of the sound velocity and the Fermi velocity characterizing the low-energy Majorana fermions. We also show that the Hall viscosity is strongly suppressed by the increase of the density of the $Z_2$ fluxes at finite temperatures. All these observations reflect the effects of the emergent disorder on the Majorana fermions introduced by the $Z_2$ fluxes. Our analysis is based on the complementary analytical calculations in the low-temperature zero-flux sector, and numerical calculations in the inhomogeneous flux sectors at intermediate and high temperatures with stratified Monte Carlo (strMC) method.
description: 26 pages, 21 figures
Acceleration of Bayesian model based data analysis
Creators: name: Trimiño Mora, Humberto
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 004 Data processing Computer sciences
subject: 310 General statistics
subject: 621.3 Electrical Engineering, Electronics

description: Inverse problems for parameter estimation often face a choice between the use of a real-time scheme with strong approximations or rigorous post-processing with explicit uncertainty handling. Plasma physics experiments set a particularly high demand of both and a solution that meets all of these requirements is missing. Standard Bayesian analysis is an excellent tool for the case at hand, with the disadvantage of extensive processing times. This work therefore presents a solution that satisfies the scientific requirements while reducing the need for a speed vs. rigorosity trade-off.
CARGO design and guide selection
Creators: name: Jensen, Christina Loreen
name: Wysocka, Joanna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Chimeric array of gRNA oligonucleotides, or CARGO, originally reported in Gu, B. et al., Science, 2018, is a cloning strategy to multiplex an array of CRISPR guides into a single plasmid. CARGO-VPR is an adaptation of CARGO that utilizes arrays of closely spaced guides to achieve detectable binding of dCas9-VPR to arbitrary genomic sites.

Choose_guides.py is a Python script to optimize CRISPR guide selection for applications such as CARGO-VPR used in Jensen, C. et al., 2024. Given numerous guides tiling a region, Choose_guides.py selects guides that optimize a score based on individual guide score, desired guide spacing, and guide strand.

CARGO_design.py is a Python script to help with designing CARGO oligos to be ordered given a list of provided guides. 

Detailed usage of both scripts is provided in the associated README files.
Temporal variability of the telluric sodium layer
Creators: name: Davis, D. S.
name: Hickson, P.
name: Herriot, G.
name: She, C. Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The temporal variability of the telluric sodium layer is investigated by analyzing 28 nights of data obtained with the Colorado State University LIDAR experiment. The mean height power spectrum of the sodium layer was found to be well fit by a power law over the observed range of frequencies, 10 microhertz to 4 millhertz. The best fitting power law was found to be 10^βν^α, with α= -1.79 +/- 0.02 and β= 1.12 +/- 0.40. Applications to wavefront sensing require knowledge of the behavior of the sodium layer at kHz frequencies. Direct measurements at these frequencies do not exist. Extrapolation from low-frequency behavior to high frequencies suggests that this variability may be a significant source of error for laser-guide-star adaptive optics on large-aperture telescopes.
description: 3 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in Optics Letters
Conceptions of intimacy: men in relationships
Creators: name: Grobman, Grant A.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2008

description: The purpose of this study was to investigate the conceptions of intimacy held by men in on-going heterosexual relationships. Existing conceptions and theories of intimacy have traditionally focused on behaviors isolated from the context of the person. Furthermore, the principles guiding existing theory have not been substantiated. This study attempted to present the concept of intimacy within a natural context. To this end, a phenomenographical approach was employed to generate possible conceptions through the collection of statements and experiences of intimacy. Eight men were gathered through a network of contacts to participate in semi-structured interviews. Statements and experiences, which described their conceptions of intimacy, were extracted from the interviews and validated by independent reviewers. The data was analyzed and categorized into dimensions and manifestations of intimacy. Six dimensions emerged from the statements and experiences. Attunement, collaboration, distinctiveness, trust, empathy, and rootedness were found woven through the fabric of the conceptualizations of intimacy. Shared experience, acceptance/support, and specialness were three manifestations or ways in which intimacy was experienced. The manifestations provided a holistic context for the concept of intimacy. Important aspects of intimacy were validated in this study. Intimacy was not characterized by one or more specific features, but rather involved a set of rich and complex elements. There appeared to be different facets of expression for these elements. Lastly, there appeared to bean interconnection between the state and process of intimacy. The findings of this study provided a more comprehensive and in-depth understanding of the concept of intimacy and validated the importance of understanding a phenomenon within a natural context.