cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Motivational and Self-Regulatory Predictors of Academic Retention and Graduation in First-Year College Students
Creators: name: Deutsch, William
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Retention
subject: College students
subject: Motivation
subject: Self-regulation

description: High rates of college dropout are an ever-growing concern for educators and students alike. The most widely used predictors of college achievement, which heavily influence retention, are prior ability measurements, such as students’ high school grade point average and SAT scores. It is possible that other, less commonly examined, variables exist that better explain retention. Survey data were collected from 589 first-year college students to examine predictors of 4-, 5- and 7- year college retention and graduation rates. Variables included the use of learning strategies, aspects of motivation (task value, self efficacy, test anxiety), adherence to goal orientation (mastery, performance approach, performance avoidance), prior achievement measures (high school GPA and SAT scores), first-semester college GPA, and demographic variables (gender, race, on-campus living situation). Students completed the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ; Pintrich et al., 1993) and the Patterns of Adaptive Learning Scales (PALS; Midgley et al., 1998). Results of multiple hierarchical logistic regressions indicated that the strongest predictors of college graduation include race, high school GPA, having a mastery goal orientation, and first-semester college GPA. Implications for high stakes college admissions decisions are discussed.
Thermodynamic analysis and large-eddy simulations of LOx-CH4 and LOx-H2 flames at high pressure
Creators: name: Traxinger, Christoph
name: Zips, Julian
name: Pfitzner, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Under rocket-relevant conditions, real-gas effects and thermodynamic non-idealities are prominent features of the flow field. Experimental investigations indicate that phase separation can occur depending on the operating conditions and on the involved species in the multicomponent flow. During the past decades, several research groups in the rocket combustion community have addressed this topic. In this contribution we employ a high-fidelity thermodynamic framework comprising real-gas and multicomponent phase separation effects to investigate liquid oxygen-methane and liquid oxygen-hydrogen flames at high pressure. A thorough introduction and discussion on multicomponent phase separation is conducted. The model is validated with experimental data and incorporated in a reacting flow CFD code. Thermodynamic effects are presented using one-dimensional counterflow diffusion flames. Both real-gas and phase separation effects are present and quantified in terms of derived properties. Finally, the method is applied in a three-dimensional large eddy simulation of a single-element reference test case and the results are compared to experimental data.
description: Perprint submitted to the 2018 Joint Propulsion Conference, Cincinatti, Ohio
Programmable quantum gate arrays
Creators: name: Nielsen, M. A.
name: Chuang, Isaac L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show how to construct quantum gate arrays that can be programmed to perform different unitary operations on a data register, depending on the input to some program register. It is shown that a universal quantum gate array - a gate array which can be programmed to perform any unitary operation - exists only if one allows the gate array to operate in a probabilistic fashion. The universal quantum gate array we construct requires an exponentially smaller number of gates than a classical universal gate array.
description: 3 pages, REVTEX. Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett
Contact Adaption during Epidemics: A Multilayer Network Formulation Approach
Creators: name: Sahneh, Faryad Darabi
name: Vajdi, Aram
name: Melander, Joshua
name: Scoglio, Caterina M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: People change their physical contacts as a preventive response to infectious disease propagations. Yet, only a few mathematical models consider the coupled dynamics of the disease propagation and the contact adaptation process. This paper presents a model where each agent has a default contact neighborhood set, and switches to a different contact set once she becomes alert about infection among her default contacts. Since each agent can adopt either of two possible neighborhood sets, the overall contact network switches among 2^N possible configurations. Notably, a two-layer network representation can fully model the underlying adaptive, state-dependent contact network. Contact adaptation influences the size of the disease prevalence and the epidemic threshold---a characteristic measure of a contact network robustness against epidemics---in a nonlinear fashion. Particularly, the epidemic threshold for the presented adaptive contact network belongs to the solution of a nonlinear Perron-Frobenius (NPF) problem, which does not depend on the contact adaptation rate monotonically. Furthermore, the network adaptation model predicts a counter-intuitive scenario where adaptively changing contacts may adversely lead to lower network robustness against epidemic spreading if the contact adaptation is not fast enough. An original result for a class of NPF problems facilitate the analytical developments in this paper.
description: Published in the IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, 2018
title: Women’s Professional Sports and Title IX: An Anthropological Analysis
Creators: name: Sims, Kathleen M
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Title IX
subject: Nike
subject: Women's soccer
subject: Postfeminism
subject: Professional sports

description: This thesis investigates the extent to which the enactment of Title IX in 1972 directly permitted the emergence of women’s professional sports organizations. I note the initial ambiguity as to Title IX’s applicability to women’s participation in organized athletics and the resistance leveled against Title IX’s enactment. I then analyze the establishment of women’s professional sports: women’s professional athletic organizations resulted not from Title IX but from the expansion of the neoliberal market. Women’s sports were positioned as advantageous to corporate investment via the confluence of the advent of the postfeminist era, the sociopolitical signification of hard bodies as representative of proper American citizenship, and the marketization of the women’s fitness market. The convergence of such developments served to discursively articulate women’s elite sports as financially profitable to corporate investors. I also reflect on the dominant scripts utilized to generate demand for women’s professional sports.
title: The Monument
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Fiction
subject: Apocalyptic
subject: Post-apocalyptic
subject: Dystopia

description: This thesis is an excerpt of a novel in progress titled The Monument. The central narrative follows three characters on a quest for sanctuary at the southern border in a post-collapse United States. As these characters make their way across a hostile, unforgiving landscape, they must be wary of other Americans and ever vigilant of a species of dangerous creatures that has emerged from beneath the earth. They also must contend with tensions between each other because necessity and desperation have forced this trio of incompatibles together. Along the way, their group grows as they explore the nature of cruelty and kindness and they encounter horrors that seem both nascent consequence of circumstances and fundamentally American. In the process of researching this thesis, with the generous support of the Alan Cheuse International Writers Center, the author traveled the route these characters take. The author intends this thesis to become a novel, which he hopes to publish in the near future.
A Measurement of the Branching Ratio of $K_L \to e^+e^-γγ$
Creators: name: The KTeV Collaboration
name: Alavi-Harati, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on a study of the decay $K_L \to e^+e^-γγ$ carried out as a part of the KTeV/E799 experiment at Fermilab. The 1997 data yielded a sample of 1543 events, including an expected background of $56 \pm 8$ events. An effective form factor was determined from the observed distribution of the $e^+e^-$ invariant mass. Using this form factor in the calculation of the detector acceptance, the branching ratio was measured to be ${\mathcal B}(K_L \to e^+ e^- γγ, E^*_γ> 5 {MeV}) = (5.84 \pm 0.15 {\rm ~(stat)} \pm 0.32 {\rm ~(sys)})\times 10^{-7}$.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
“Today I Tell” A Comics and Story Creation App for People with Autism Spectrum Condition
Creators: name: Martin, Estefania
name: Cupeiro, Carlos
name: Pizarro, Laura
name: Roldán-Álvarez, David
name: Montero-De-Espinosa, Guadalupe
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology
subject: Plant Biology

description: This article describes the design, development, and evaluation of an application to help people with autism spectrum condition (ASC) express themselves through the creation of stories and comics. The intended platform of the application is touchscreen devices. The design process follows a human-centered design approach involving caregivers, teachers, usability experts, primary school students, and people with ASC. The characteristics considered are explained to design and implement the application, as well as the different evaluation steps. The prototype design was evaluated with 36 experts (teachers, caregivers, and usability experts). Next, 14 primary school students and 10 participants from a special education institution tested the application. Among all the participants, five students of the primary school institution have attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and five students of the special education institution had ASC. The feedback gathered shows the importance of multidisciplinary teams in developing an application aimed at people with special needs. Non-functional features such as usability and accessibility can be bypassed by developers and this is the point at which teachers, caregivers, usability experts, and even the end users of the application can provide their insights in order to improve the product during its development phase. This also reduces the costs that would be incurred if the final product had to be changed after its development.
title: ADCO, Huitième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661-1667), Cart. 31 (G 135), 549 folios, f. 0420
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: cartulaire

description: Huitième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661-1667), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 31 (G 135), 549 folios, f. 0420, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Huitième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661-1667), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 31 (G 135), 549 folios, f. 0420, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https://manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye Saint-Étienne de Dijon
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15945019
Solid-to-solid isostructural transition in the hard sphere/attractive Yukawa system
Creators: name: Rascon, C.
name: Mederos, L.
name: Navascues, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A thermodynamically consistent density functional-perturbation theory is used to study the isostructural solid-to-solid transition which takes place in the hard sphere/attractive Yukawa system when the Yukawa tail is sufficiently short-ranged. A comparison with results for the square well potential allows us to study the effect of the attractive potential form on the solid-solid transition. Reasonable agreement with simulations is found for the main transition properties as well as for the phase diagram evolution with the the range of the attractive potential.
description: 14 pages, latex, 5 figures available upon request: (rascon@fluid1.fmc.uam.es)
Performance of Angle of Arrival Detection Using MUSIC Algorithm in Inter-Satellite Link
Creators: name: Muhammad, Cahya Budi
name: Wijanto, Heroe
name: Setiawan, Antonius Darma
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: An attitude of satellite is not always static, sometimes it moves randomly and the antenna pointing of satellite is harder to achieve line of sight communication to other satellite when it is outage by tumbling effect. In order to determine an appropriate direction of satellite antenna in inter-satellite link, this paper analyze estimation performance of the direction of arrival (DoA) using MUSIC algorithm from connected satellite signal source. It differs from optical measurement, magnetic field measurement, inertial measurement, and global positioning system (GPS) attitude determination. The proposed method is characterized by taking signal source from connected satellites, after that the main satellite processed the information to obtain connected satellites antenna direction. The simulation runs only on the direction of azimuth. The simulation result shows that MUSIC algorithm processing time is faster than satellite movement time in orbit on altitude of 830 km with the period of 101 minutes. With the use of a 50 elements array antenna in spacing of 0.5 wavelength, the total of 20 angle of arrival (AoA) can be detected in 0.98 seconds of processing time when using MUSIC algorithm.
Wikiproyecto Bases de Batos de Biociencias
Creators: name: Romero Pérez, Minerva
name: Galicia Pérez, Yessica
name: Castañeda Covarrubias, Paola
name: Michán, Layla
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Póster Wikiproyecto Bases de Batos de Biociencias realizado por el Laboratorio de Bioinformación del departamento de Biología Comparada de la Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM, muestra el Wikiproyecto bases de datos en biociencias, es te es un proyecto colaborativo para localizar, reunir y curar las bases de datos de biociencias en Wikidata con información vigente, completa y ligada.
description: Wikiproyecto Bases de Batos de Biociencias poster carried out by the Bioinformation Laboratory of the Department of Comparative Biology of the Faculty of Sciences, UNAM, shows the Wikiproyecto databases in biosciences, this is a collaborative project to locate, gather and curate the bases of bioscience data on Wikidata with current, complete and linked information.
Editorial
Creators: name: Kendal, Zachary
name: Smith, Aisling
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Editorial for special issue 35/36, discussing the 2017 (Un)Ethical Futures: Utopia, Dystopia and Science Fiction Conference and the resulting special issue in 2018.
title: Memo: Victor J. Pettit to John A. Bell, "Proposal for Combining New Community Obligations," November 21, 1969
Creators: name: Pettit, Victor J.
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: New communities

description: Textual: Memo, copy; 11” x 8.5” (27.9 cm x 21.6 cm)
description: Memo from Victor J. Pettit to John A. Bell entitled "Proposal for Combining New Community Obligations" dated November 21, 1969. In this memo, Pettit discusses a proposal concerning the financing of new communities from First Boston Corporation dated September 16, 1969. Pettit is in favor of this proposal with a few changes. He also puts forth other items to be considered such as the marketing of financial obligations. Planned Community Archives Collection, 483.06
Charm and bottom production in two-photon collisions with OPAL
Creators: name: Csilling, Akos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A preliminary update of the previous OPAL measurement of the inclusive production of D* mesons in anti-tagged photon-photon collisions is presented together with the first preliminary OPAL measurement of bottom production in photon-photon collisions.
description: 7 pages, Talk given at the PHOTON 2000 Conference, Ambleside, UK, August 26-31,2000
Neoprotoparmelia sexdecimspora L. A. Santos, M. Caceres & Aptroot
Creators: name: R, Jeanne dos
name: Silva, eis
name: Aptroot, André
name: E, Marcela
name: S, ugenia da
name: Cáceres, ilva
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Ascomycota
Lecanoromycetes
Lecanorales
Parmeliaceae
Neoprotoparmelia
Neoprotoparmelia sexdecimspora

description: Neoprotoparmelia sexdecimspora L.A.Santos, M.Cáceres & Aptroot
 NEW REPORT. — Chapada do Céu, Parque Nacional das Emas, on bark, leg. A. Aptroot s.n. New to Goiás.
description: Published as part of R, Jeanne dos, Silva, eis, Aptroot, André, E, Marcela, S, ugenia da & Cáceres, ilva, 2023, Lichens from dry central Brazil: a checklist of lichenized fungi from Distríto Federal and Goiás, pp. 117-133 in Cryptogamie, Mycologie 20 (9) on page 129, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-mycologie2023v44a9, http://zenodo.org/record/8434271
Extending the PSLQ Algorithm to Algebraic Integer Relations
Creators: name: Skerritt, Matthew P.
name: Vrbik, Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11Y99

description: The PSLQ algorithm computes integer relations for real numbers and Gaussian integer relations for complex numbers. We endeavour to extend PSLQ to find integer relations consisting of algebraic integers from some quadratic extension fields (in both the real and complex cases). We outline the algorithm, discuss the required modifications for handling algebraic integers, problems that have arisen, experimental results, and challenges to further work.
title: Silence
Creators: name: Heiden, Emily
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Women
subject: Storytelling
subject: Family
subject: Dating
subject: Rape
subject: Abortion

description: This work was embargoed by the author and will not be publicly available until April 2030.
description: This thesis is a collection of eight personal essays that the author crafted over the course of three years at George Mason University’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction Program. The essays follow a chronological order. Essay 1, Origin Story, is meant to delve into earlier years; Essay 2, The Iowa Story, jumps to the author’s 22nd year of life; Essay 3, Oxygen, took place two years later. Darien, Connecticut, Essay 4, describes teaching high school in an especially singular environment. Essays 5 and 6 both took place during the Darien years, and are meant to serve as reminders to both the author and the reader that life is made up of no one tone or mood. Essays 7 and 8, Before You Decide and A Kindness, took place in Virginia, where I currently reside. The collection is entitled Silence because to tell many of these stories involves breaking a socially imposed muteness and set of cultural codes. It is my aim to tell the stories that need telling, regardless of such pre-existing constructions, which limit us and keep us alone in our emotions and experience, and thus perpetuate a cycle of stigma and shame.
Nigrovothelium inspersotropicum Aptroot & Diederich
Creators: name: R, Jeanne dos
name: Silva, eis
name: Aptroot, André
name: E, Marcela
name: S, ugenia da
name: Cáceres, ilva
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Ascomycota
Dothideomycetes
Trypetheliales
Trypetheliaceae
Nigrovothelium
Nigrovothelium inspersotropicum

description: Nigrovothelium inspersotropicum Aptroot & Diederich
 NEW REPORT. — Chapada do Céu, Parque Nacional das Emas, on bark, leg. A. Aptroot s.n. New to Goiás.
description: Published as part of R, Jeanne dos, Silva, eis, Aptroot, André, E, Marcela, S, ugenia da & Cáceres, ilva, 2023, Lichens from dry central Brazil: a checklist of lichenized fungi from Distríto Federal and Goiás, pp. 117-133 in Cryptogamie, Mycologie 20 (9) on page 129, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-mycologie2023v44a9, http://zenodo.org/record/8434271
Dynamic imaging of an antiferromagnetic domain wall via quantum-impurity relaxometry
Creators: name: Flebus, B.
name: Ochoa, H.
name: Upadhyaya, P.
name: Tserkovnyak, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: While spin textures in materials exhibiting zero net magnetization, such as antiferromagnetic domain walls (DWs), have attracted much interest lately due to their robustness against external magnetic noise, their generic detection via conventional magnetometry remains a challenging task. Here, we propose quantum relaxometry as a new route to image spin textures by probing the collective spin modes harbored by them. We investigate the Goldstone modes hosted by an antiferromagnetic domain wall and assess the relaxation rate of a quantum-spin sensor interacting with them. We show that such modes can be detected via relaxometry in some common antiferromagnets. Moreover, based on symmetry considerations, we propose a simple protocol to probe the individual dynamics of each mode.
Is there a renormalization of the 1D conductance in Luttinger Liquid model?
Creators: name: Ponomarenko, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Properties of 1D transport strongly depend on the proper choice of boundary conditions. It has been frequently stated that the Luttinger Liquid (LL) conductance is renormalized by the interaction as $g \frac{e^2} {h} $. To contest this result I develop a model of 1D LL wire with the interaction switching off at the infinities. Its solution shows that there is no renormalization of the universal conductance while the electrons have a free behavior in the source and drain reservoirs.
description: 5 pages, RevTex 2.0, attempted repair of tex errors
title: The Organization and Financing of Health Services for Persons with Disabilities
Creators: name: DeJong, Gerben
name: Palsbo, Susan E.
name: Beatty, Philip W.
name: Jones, Gwyn C.
name: Kroll, Thilo
name: Neri, Melinda T.
Publisher: name: Milbank Memorial Quarterly
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Disability

description: Over the past 30 years, the nation has witnessed a material change in the status of Americans with disabilities: no longer are they at the periphery of American politcal and social life but now are increasingly represented in the mainstream of American community life. Despite successes, people with disabilities lag behind in many areas of American life, especially employment and health care.
Ocellularia polydiscus Redinger
Creators: name: R, Jeanne dos
name: Silva, eis
name: Aptroot, André
name: E, Marcela
name: S, ugenia da
name: Cáceres, ilva
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Ascomycota
Lecanoromycetes
Ostropales
Graphidaceae
Ocellularia
Ocellularia polydiscus

description: Ocellularia polydiscus Redinger
NEW REPORT. — Mineiros, Parque Nacional das Emas, on bark, leg. J.A.R. Silva, ISE 52633. New to Goiás.
description: Published as part of R, Jeanne dos, Silva, eis, Aptroot, André, E, Marcela, S, ugenia da & Cáceres, ilva, 2023, Lichens from dry central Brazil: a checklist of lichenized fungi from Distríto Federal and Goiás, pp. 117-133 in Cryptogamie, Mycologie 20 (9) on page 129, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-mycologie2023v44a9, http://zenodo.org/record/8434271
title: Newspaper Column: Business Seats on RCC's Board?
Creators: name: Nicoson, William J.
Publisher: name: Reston Times
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Reston (Va.)
subject: Reston (VA) Community Center (RCC)
subject: Greater Reston (VA) Chamber of Commerce
subject: Board of Governors (Reston Community Center)

description: PDF file distilled from original WordPerfect document. Original size 11" x 8.5".
description: The Greater Reston Chamber of Commerce has formally sought from the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors dedicated seats on the Board of Governors of the Reston Community Center in a number proportionate to the share of property taxes collected for RCC’s benefit from Reston businesses. The RCC board now consists of nine adult members and two youth members. Since the percentage of the RCC tax borne by businesses is currently about 43%, the Chamber’s proposal would add 9 new members to the RCC board to be selected by the supervisors presumably upon recommendation of the Chamber board or of a Chamber-organized committee of all business entities owning real estate within the RCC district. Another solution involving reshuffling of existing seats would require the supervisors to ignore some of the uncontested winners of October’s preference poll.
Energy cost for controlling complex networks
Creators: name: Duan, Gaopeng
name: Li, Aming
name: Meng, Tao
name: Zhang, Guofeng
name: Wang, Long
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The controllability of complex networks has received much attention recently, which tells whether we can steer a system from an initial state to any final state within finite time with admissible external inputs. In order to accomplish the control in practice at the minimum cost, we must study how much control energy is needed to reach the desired final state. At a given control distance between the initial and final states, existing results present the scaling behavior of lower bounds of the minimum energy in terms of the control time analytically. However, to reach an arbitrary final state at a given control distance, the minimum energy is actually dominated by the upper bound, whose analytic expression still remains elusive. Here we theoretically show the scaling behavior of the upper bound of the minimum energy in terms of the time required to achieve control. Apart from validating the analytical results with numerical simulations, our findings are feasible to the scenario with any number of nodes that receive inputs directly and any types of networks. Moreover, more precise analytical results for the lower bound of the minimum energy are derived in the proposed framework. Our results pave the way to implement realistic control over various complex networks with the minimum control cost.
Of Lost Kingdoms and Strange Moments: Subjective Utopianism in Michel Houellebecq’s Les Particules élémentaires
Creators: name: Campbell, Françoise
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: 200511 Literature in French

description: The novels of contemporary French author Michel Houellebecq are notorious for their critique of late capitalist society, offering a vitriolic portrayal of humanity that at times borders on the pornographic, the racist and the nihilistic. However, beyond the depiction of Western decline, one of the driving themes of Houellebecq’s writing is the question of how to imagine a way out of our current bind. This paper investigates the subjectivity of utopian desire in Houellebecq’s 1998 novel Les Particules élémentaires. Focusing on the representation of a futuristic neo-human species in the prologue and the epilogue of the novel, it examines how Houellebecq’s writing uses the portrayal of scientific progress to highlight the ethical dilemmas of our social world and, moreover, of our own utopian imagination.
title: ADCO, Cartulaire de Cîteaux dit Cartularium Vetus (milieu XIIIe siècle) et Notices du XIIe siècle, Cart. 169 (11 H 63), f. 0022v
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2011
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: cartulaire
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge

description: Cartulaire de Cîteaux dit Cartularium Vetus (milieu XIIIe siècle) et Notices du XIIe siècle, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 169 (11 H 63), f. 0022v, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire de Cîteaux dit Cartularium Vetus (milieu XIIIe siècle) et Notices du XIIe siècle, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 169 (11 H 63), f. 0022v, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
The Point of View of the Animal: An Ontology and Ethics of Alterity in Emma Geen’s The Many Selves of Katherine North
Creators: name: Faustino, João Vicente
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: 200503 British and Irish Literature

description: This article discusses how Emma Geen’s The Many Selves of Katherine North (2016), a contemporary work of science fiction, represents the construction of human and animal consciousness and selfhood, and the ways in which it adapts and subverts phenomenological principles (Levinas) in order to create the conditions for an ethics of alterity which includes the animal. In this context, this essay considers the ideas of language and communication presented in the work, as well as the limitations and the (mis)uses of the technology described. This article furthermore examines the manner in which Geen’s novel promotes the disruption of the human versus animal apparatus (Agamben) and, lastly, it considers the concept of subjectivity defined in the novel and how it allows for a new kind of human-animal relationship to be conceived.
Comparing Price and Performance of Three Cloud-Based Data-Storage Architectures To Optimize Use of S3 in AWS
Creators: name: Gallagher, James
name: Jelenak, Aleksandar
name: Potter, Nathan
name: Fulker, David
name: Habermann, Ted
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017

description: Comparing Costs and Performance of Cloud-Based Data Storage for S3 Optimization

This presentation compares three architectures for storing and accessing data in Amazon S3, aiming to optimize costs and performance.

Methodology:

Analyzed NASA data access logs to create use cases.

Selected and uploaded representative datasets to S3.

Designed and implemented three architectures:

Baseline: Retrieves entire files from S3.

Range-GET: Accesses specific parts of files using HTTP Range-GET.

Shredded HDF5: Accesses individual parts of HDF5 files as separate objects in S3.

Evaluated architectures against the use cases.

Findings:

Cost reduction strategies:

Minimize data duplication.

Minimize data transferred out of the cloud.

Minimize waiting time for data access.

Latency reduction strategies:

Minimize data accesses and volumes transferred.

Minimize waiting time for data access.

Optimizations for S3 access time:

Parallel transfers: Improve performance for larger objects.

HTTP connection reuse: Significantly reduces overhead for sharded data access.

HTTP vs. HTTPS: Minimal impact on performance for large objects, but using HTTP can be beneficial with sharding due to reduced connection setup time.

Key takeaways:

Breaking objects into smaller pieces can improve performance, especially with parallel transfers and connection reuse.

HTTP connection reuse is crucial for efficient sharded data access.

Using HTTP instead of HTTPS can provide slight performance benefits, especially with sharding and minimal connection reuse.

Overall, the study provides valuable insights for optimizing cloud-based data storage architectures using S3, considering both cost and performance factors.
Clopper-Pearson Bounds from HEP Data Cuts
Creators: name: Berg, Bernd A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For the measurement of $N_s$ signals in $N$ events rigorous confidence bounds on the true signal probability $p_{\rm exact}$ were established in a classical paper by Clopper and Pearson [Biometrica 26, 404 (1934)]. Here, their bounds are generalized to the HEP situation where cuts on the data tag signals with probability $P_s$ and background data with likelihood $P_b
Ochrolechia africana Vain.
Creators: name: R, Jeanne dos
name: Silva, eis
name: Aptroot, André
name: E, Marcela
name: S, ugenia da
name: Cáceres, ilva
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Ascomycota
Lecanoromycetes
Pertusariales
Ochrolechiaceae
Ochrolechia
Ochrolechia africana

description: Ochrolechia africana Vain.
NEW REPORT. — Mineiros, Parque Nacional das Emas, on bark, leg. J.A.R. Silva, ISE 53170. New to Goiás.
description: Published as part of R, Jeanne dos, Silva, eis, Aptroot, André, E, Marcela, S, ugenia da & Cáceres, ilva, 2023, Lichens from dry central Brazil: a checklist of lichenized fungi from Distríto Federal and Goiás, pp. 117-133 in Cryptogamie, Mycologie 20 (9) on page 129, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-mycologie2023v44a9, http://zenodo.org/record/8434271
Origin of high energy enhancement of photoelectron spectra in tunneling ionization
Creators: name: He, Pei-Lun
name: Klaiber, Michael
name: Hatsagortsyan, Karen Z.
name: Keitel, Christoph H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, in a strong Coulomb field regime of tunneling ionization an unexpected large enhancement of photoelectron spectra due to the Coulomb field of the atomic core has been identified by numerical solution of time-dependent Schrödinger equation [Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{117}, 243003 (2016)] in the upper energy range of the tunnel-ionized direct electrons. We investigate the origin of the enhancement employing a classical theory with Monte Carlo simulations of trajectories, and a quantum theory of Coulomb-corrected strong field approximation based on the generalized eikonal approximation for the continuum electron. Although the quantum effects at recollisions with a small impact parameter yield an overall enhancement of the spectrum relative to the classical prediction, the high energy enhancement itself is shown to have a classical nature and is due to momentum space bunching of photoelectrons released not far from the peak of the laser field. The bunching is caused by a large and nonuniform, with respect to the ionization time, Coulomb momentum transfer at the ionization tunnel exit.
“Wealth Is the Only Reality”: Blake’s 7 and Thatcherism
Creators: name: Braithwaite, Philip
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 190299 Film, Television and Digital Media not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)
subject: 190204 Film and Television

description: At the time of Margaret Thatcher’s election in 1979, British science fiction television changed its focus and style. It replaced the traditional moral standards and collectivism of the consensus era with individualism, Machiavellian behaviour and moral relativity. In this paper I look at one of the series of this era, Blake’s 7 (1978–1981), alongside the rise of Thatcherism. Using Darko Suvin’s notion of “cognitive estrangement,” I analyse how the series engages with its political milieu and investigate how it anticipated the tropes of Thatcherism. Blake’s 7 ultimately presents a strong critique of many aspects of Thatcherism, from Thatcher’s stated belief in individualism and independence to her authoritarian style of leadership, and reflects on some of the failings of the neoliberal economic system in its early stages.
title: The Survival Complex
Creators: name: Wolff, Anna-Rose G
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Survival complex
subject: Isolated point
subject: Fibre product
subject: Gorenstein
subject: Monomial algebra

description: We introduce a new way to associate a simplicial complex called the survival complex to a commutative semigroup with zero. Restricting our attention to the semigroup of monomials arising from an Artinian monomial ring, we determine that any such complex has an isolated point. Indeed, we show that there is exactly one isolated point essentially only in the case where the monomial ideal is generated purely by powers of the variables. This allows us to recover Beintema's result that an Artinian monomial ring is Gorenstein if and only if it is a complete intersection. A key ingredient of the translation between the pure power result and Beintema's result is given by the one-to-one correspondence we show between the so-called truly isolated points of our complex and the generators of the socle of the defining ideal. In another relation between the geometry of the complex and the algebra of the ring, we essentially give a correspondence between the nontrivial connected components of the complex and the factors of a fibre product representation of the ring. Finally, we explore algorithms for building survival complexes from specified isolated points. That is, we work to build the ring out of a description of the socle.
Zero-energy states for a class of quasi-exactly solvable rational potentials
Creators: name: Bagchi, B.
name: Quesne, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quasi-exactly solvable rational potentials with known zero-energy solutions of the Schro\" odinger equation are constructed by starting from exactly solvable potentials for which the Schr\" odinger equation admits an so(2,1) potential algebra. For some of them, the zero-energy wave function is shown to be normalizable and to describe a bound state.
description: LaTeX, 13 pages, 2 figures on request, to appear in Phys. Lett. A
Resolvent near zero energy on Riemannian scattering (asymptotically conic) spaces
Creators: name: Vasy, András
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 58J40 (Primary), 58J50, 35P25, 35L05, 58J47 (Secondary)

description: We give resolvent estimates near zero energy on Riemannian scattering, i.e. asymptotically conic, spaces, and their generalizations, using a uniform microlocal Fredholm analysis framework.
description: 69 pages, 5 figures
The Poetics of Size: Rendering Apocalyptic Scale in Nevil Shute’s On the Beach and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road
Creators: name: Smith, Eleanor
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 200502 Australian Literature (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Literature)
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: 200506 North American Literature

description: This article examines the textual rendering of space in Nevil Shute’s On the Beach (1957) and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2006), two novels depicting the ancient trope of apocalypse. Contributing to the study of geography in literature, it argues that these authors manipulate perspective, language and content to distort the familiar shape of spatial units, creating story worlds that resonate with a crisis of scale. Inverting the spatial enlargement produced by globalisation, they depict societies ruined by a global network they cannot “cognitively map.” The consideration of scale is crucial to fully understanding the sense of crisis apparent in contemporary apocalyptic fiction, which manifests, in our era of global connectedness, as an anxiety about the extent of human activity.
Messianic Nihilism in Gothic Horror: Walter Benjamin with Shelley and Poe
Creators: name: Leeuw, Ursula De
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 200503 British and Irish Literature
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: This essay considers Walter Benjamin’s model of messianic time alongside the powers of horror in the Gothic tradition. This configuration illustrates a messianic nihilism; a profane relation in which teleological meaning is eternally derailed. I begin with a delineation of Benjamin’s theoretical framework, moving forward to its application in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) and Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Man of the Crowd” (1840). Benjamin’s messianic time counters the notion of history-as-progress, instead proposing the perpetual destruction of present conditions in the pursuit of unknown possibilities. In the Gothic, the messianic takes form in the dialectical image of horror; an image that at once contains and subverts history, thus emerging as unnameable. In Frankenstein, the monster embodies and enacts a messianic rhythm as a symptom of his alienation. In “The Man of the Crowd,” an unnameable figure disrupts the historical typology of the modern city, while simultaneously resurrecting the radical possibilities of the past. Ultimately, Gothic messianism evokes a profane illumination that promotes annihilation as a means to the infinite possibilities of the new.
Searches for neutral Higgs bosons in e+e- collisions at centre-of-mass energies from 192 to 202GeV
Creators: name: ALEPH Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Searches for neutral Higgs bosons are performed with the 237 pb-1 of data collected in 1999 by the ALEPH detector at LEP, for centre-of-mass energies between 191.6 and 201.6 GeV. These searches apply to Higgs bosons within the context of the Standard Model and its minimal supersymmetric extension (MSSM) as well as to invisibly decaying Higgs bosons. No evidence of a signal is seen. A lower limit on the mass of the Standard Model Higgs boson of 107.7 GeV/c2 at 95% confidence level is set. In the MSSM, lower limits of 91.2 and 91.6 GeV/c2 are derived for the masses of the neutral Higgs bosons h and A, respectively. For a Higgs boson decaying invisibly and produced with the Standard Model cross section, masses below 106.4 GeV/c2 are excluded.
description: 13 pages, 8 figures
title: The Cosmopolitan Warrior? Views of Patriotism and Citizenship from Private Military Company Contractors with Implications for Nationality
Creators: name: Lohmann, Jessica S.
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Private Military Company
subject: Citizenship
subject: Private Security Company
subject: Contractor
subject: Patriotism
subject: Nationality

description: The increased use of private military company (PMC) contractors brings to light important questions of the possible dangers and advantages of their use. While many researchers have debated the topic when it comes to public policy, legal issues, and efficiency, there remains a dearth of information regarding who these contractors are. In an increasingly globalized world these contractors are choosing to work for private companies in times of war instead of their own state militaries. This leads to questions surrounding issues of national identity and citizenships. Using existing theories of national identity, cognitive dissonance and existing information on PMCs this study looks at the views of PMC contractors. In an attempt to research the effects of PMC contractors on traditional views of nationality and sovereignty, this study drew upon interviews of twelve PMC contractors, conducted a media content analysis on the PMC Blackwater and researched existing data and logistics on the use of PMCs. The findings point to negative perceptions and misinterpretations of PMC contractors by mass media yet a strong sense of national identity felt by nearly all contractors interviewed. All those interviewed were former military personnel or police officers and all but one was found to be very patriotic. PMC contractors were guided in who they would work for and what they would do by their national identities along with personal ethical and moral standards. The dangers that come with the increased use of PMC contractors include a lack of regulation, yet the contractors themselves do not pose a strong risk to national security as most take contracts as a result of their strong allegiance to their nation.
An Analytical Design Optimization Method for Electric Propulsion Systems of Multicopter UAVs with Desired Hovering Endurance
Creators: name: Dai, Xunhua
name: Quan, Quan
name: Ren, Jinrui
name: Cai, Kai-Yuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Multicopters are becoming increasingly important in both civil and military fields. Currently, most multicopter propulsion systems are designed by experience and trial-and-error experiments, which are costly and ineffective. This paper proposes a simple and practical method to help designers find the optimal propulsion system according to the given design requirements. First, the modeling methods for four basic components of the propulsion system including propellers, motors, electric speed controls, and batteries are studied respectively. Secondly, the whole optimization design problem is simplified and decoupled into several sub-problems. By solving these sub-problems, the optimal parameters of each component can be obtained respectively. Finally, based on the obtained optimal component parameters, the optimal product of each component can be quickly located and determined from the corresponding database. Experiments and statistical analyses demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.