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Fibrous Assemblages and Behavioral Composites
Creators: name: Snooks, Roland
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2013

description: The emergence of complexity theory has shifted the conceptualiza-tion of form from the macro scale to a concern for the operation of the complex systems that underlie formation. It is from the micro-scale local  interactions  of  complex  systems  that  behavioral  strategies  for  the  generation  of  composite  materials  have  emerged,  strategies  where  architectural  form,  structure  and  ornament  emerge  from  the  design of material behavior, specifically the design of behavior within composite materials.The inherently organizational understanding of form offered by com-plexity  theory  has  been  the  basis  for  Kokkugia’s  development  of  behavioral  design  methodologies.  This  behavioral  approach  draws  from the logic of swarm intelligence and operates through the self-or-ganization of multi-agent systems. These methodologies operate by encoding simple architectural decisions within a distributed system of  autonomous  computational  agents.  It  is  the  interaction  of  these  local decisions that self-organizes design intention, giving rise to a form  of  collective  intelligence  and  emergent  behavior  at  the  global  scale. Behavioral design methodologies represent a shift from ‘form being imposed upon matter’ to ‘form emerging from the interaction of localized entities within a complex system.’
Cut moments and a generalization of DGLAP equations
Creators: name: Kotlorz, D.
name: Mikhailov, S. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We elaborate a cut (truncated) Mellin moments (CMM) approach that is constructed to study deep inelastic scattering in lepton-hadron collisions at the natural kinematic constraints. We show that generalized CMM obtained by multiple integrations of the original parton distribution $f(x,μ^2)$ as well as ones obtained by multiple differentiations of this $f(x,μ^2)$ also satisfy the DGLAP equations with the correspondingly transformed evolution kernel $P(z)$. Appropriate classes of CMM for the available experimental kinematic range are suggested and analyzed. Similar relations can be obtained for the structure functions $F(x)$, being the Mellin convolution $F= C \ast f$, where $C$ is the coefficient function of the process.
description: 11 pages
DIY: Biopolitics: The Deregulated Self
Creators: name: Hughes, Russel
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2013

description: Shuzaku Arakawa’s early paintings (1961-73) (many of which were produced with Madeline Gins, though she took no authorial credit for  them)  represent  what  appear  to  be  semi-finished  sketches  that  sometimes look like technical drawings against backgrounds of white and varying shades of brown. The purpose of these two-dimensional representations  is  to  signify  ‘blankness’  as  a  “neutral  positing”,  in  the  sense  that  blank  is  a  ‘holding  open’  of  the  compulsion  toward  the standard artistic practice of conceptual and cognitive coloniza-tion toward a predetermined end.1 As they state: “it is what is there but  undifferentiated,  so  it  is  nothing  ...  It  is  what  fills  emptiness.”2Another  way  of  understanding  blank  is  through  the  French  blanc, meaning white, which is, of course, the congealing of all the colors in the spectrum (as opposed to black, the absence of color). In this sense, blank (or blanc) is overabundance, the reservoir of potential-ity from which anything can come forth. The concept of blank draws our attention to the multiple points of interpretation contained within open-endedness,  as  opposed  to  the  definitive  teleological  fixity  for  which strives much (not all) creative practice. The visual argument in these  artworks  is  that  painting  as  an  activity  abstracts  from  nature,  narrowing down and essentializing experience. Abstract thought is the frame that apprehends the open-endedness of meaning, defin-ing  and  positioning  a  text  in  exclusive,  unequivocal  terms.  In  this  respect,  much  of  Arakawa’s  early  work  remains  untitled  (acting  as  the actual title of the work), which itself is an act of resistance to the etymological determinism that comes with labels that posit in explicit terms  what  it  is  we  are  meant  to  understand  and  experience  from  artistic productions
Would Have Been...An Inventory
Creators: name: Lacadée, Camille
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2013

description: a dark laterite monolith near a library thirty days / twenty-nine people of diverse nationalities and age still to be confirmedan old man collecting booksa library counting exactly seventy thousand books in thirty-six different languages / some unknown languagestwenty-nine return tickets forty chairs and twenty tables poorly made of recycled pine wood a twenty-one point one megapixels full frame complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor  digital  single-lens  reflex  camera  body  with  two  flash  cards  of  thirty-two  gigabits  and  two  batteries  /  a  lens  with  bel-lows mechanism specially customized for this body / a good tripod with film head a light-emitting diode camera yellow to white light / a cheap tripod for the lighta five in one foldable elliptic white and silver reflector    a short shotgun condenser microphone with cable and a smaller ste-reo  condenser  microphone  /  a  twenty-four  bits  uncompressed  and  built-in  stereo  microphones  sound  recorder  with  four  different  wave-form audio file format modes an acoustically transparent synthetic fur material with soft long hairs
Solving lattice density functionals close to the Mott regime
Creators: name: Ying, Zu-Jian
name: Brosco, Valentina
name: Lorenzana, José
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a lattice version of the local density approximation (LDA) based on Behte ansatz (BALDA). Contrary to what happens in Density Functional Theory (DFT) in the continuum and despite its name, BALDA displays some very non-local features and it has a discontinuous functional derivative. The same features prevent the convergence of the self-consistent Kohn-Sham cycle thus hindering the study of BALDA solutions close to a Mott phase or in the Coulomb blockade regime. Here we propose a numerical approach which, differently from previous works, does not introduce ad hoc parameters to smear out the singularity. Our results are relevant for all lattice models where BALDA is applied ranging from Kondo systems to harmonically trapped Hubbard fermions. As an example we apply the method to the study of a one-dimensional lattice model with Hubbard interaction and a staggered potential which can be driven from an ionic to a Mott insulating state. In the Mott regime the presence of a "vacuum" allows us to calculate the different contribution to the gap and to highlight an ultranonlocality of BALDA.
A Mid-infrared Study of RR Lyrae Stars with the WISE All-Sky Data Release
Creators: name: Gavrilchenko, Tatyana
name: Klein, Christopher R.
name: Bloom, Joshua S.
name: Richards, Joseph W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a group of 3740 previously identified RR Lyrae variables well-observed with the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). We explore how the shape of the generic RR Lyrae mid-infrared light curve evolves in period-space, comparing light curves in mid-infrared and optical bands. We find that optical light curves exhibit high amplitudes and a large spectrum of light curve shapes, while mid-infrared light curves have low amplitudes and uniform light curve shapes. From the period-space analysis, we hope to improve the classification methods of RR Lyrae variables and enable reliable discovery of these pulsators in the WISE catalog and future mid-infrared surveys such as the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). We provide mid-infrared templates for typical RR Lyrae stars and demonstrate how these templates can be applied to improve estimates of mid-infrared RR Lyrae mean magnitude, which is used for distance measurement. This method of template fitting is particularly beneficial for improving observational efficiency. For example, using light curves with observational noise of 0.05 mag, we obtain the same level of accuracy in mean magnitude estimates for light curves randomly sampled at 12 data points with template fitting as with light curves randomly sampled at 20 data points with harmonic modelling.
description: Submitted to MNRAS, 24 pages, 10 figures
Prefatory Note: Manifest This!
Creators: name: Joy, Eileen A
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2014

description: The  manifestos  (and  also  anti-manifestos)  collected  here are  culled  from  sessions  organized  by  the  BABEL  Work-ing Group and postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studiesat  the  2012  International  Congress  on  Medieval Studies  (Kalamazoo,  MI),  for  which  sessions  we  asked presenters  to  contemplate and  “manifest” alternative  fu-tures for a post/medieval studies, as well as what it means to “let go” of something (“fuck this”) and/or “never let go” (“fuck me”). The presentations were, alternately and sim-ultaneously,  bracing,  funny,  sad,  provocative,  hopeful, pessimistic, sexy, lyrical, polemical, playful, political, am-orous, subjunctive, sticky, frustrated, materialist, dejected, angry,  surrealist, anti-nostalgic, activist,  critical,  tender, weird, and even alchemical.
Deterministic quantum teleportation of photonic quantum bits by a hybrid technique
Creators: name: Takeda, Shuntaro
name: Mizuta, Takahiro
name: Fuwa, Maria
name: van Loock, Peter
name: Furusawa, Akira
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum teleportation allows for the transfer of arbitrary, in principle, unknown quantum states from a sender to a spatially distant receiver, who share an entangled state and can communicate classically. It is the essence of many sophisticated protocols for quantum communication and computation. In order to realize flying qubits in these schemes, photons are an optimal choice, however, teleporting a photonic qubit has been limited due to experimental inefficiencies and restrictions. Major disadvantages have been the fundamentally probabilistic nature of linear-optics Bell measurements as well as the need for either destroying the teleported qubit or attenuating the input qubit when the detectors do not resolve photon numbers. Here we experimentally realize fully deterministic, unconditional quantum teleportation of photonic qubits. The key element is to make use of a "hybrid" technique: continuous-variable (CV) teleportation of a discrete-variable, photonic qubit. By optimally tuning the receiver's feedforward gain, the CV teleporter acts as a pure loss channel, while the input dual-rail encoded qubit, based on a single photon, represents a quantum error detection code against amplitude damping and hence remains completely intact for most teleportation events. This allows for a faithful qubit transfer even with imperfect CV entangled states: the overall transfer fidelities range from 0.79 to 0.82 for four distinct qubits, all of them exceeding the classical limit of teleportation. Furthermore, even for a relatively low level of the entanglement, qubits are teleported much more efficiently than in previous experiments, albeit post-selectively (taking into account only the qubit subspaces), with a fidelity comparable to the previously reported values.
Net Worth
Creators: name: Bildhauer, Bettina
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2014

description: One  might  argue  that  we  hardly  need  another  plea  for more materiality  in  medieval  studies:it's  a  buzz  topic at medievalist  conferences;  the  first  issue  of postmedievalwas devoted to it; and prominent members of the BABEL Working  Group  have  been  thinking  with  Bruno  Latour, Jane Bennett, Bill Brown,and Graham Harman for years. And  yet,  the  idea  that  agency  is  always  an  interaction, a network  in  which  any  element—not  just  what  we  tradi-tionally  call  human  subjects,  but  also  non-human  ob-jects—can  be  alive,  active  and cognizantstill  sounds  mad to the medievalist mainstream and to most of the general public.The  subject-object  distinction  is  one  of  our  most basic patterns of thought and not easily displaced by aca-demic fashion. So I will sound hopelessly belated and to-tally  obvious  to  some,  and  crazily  airy-fairy  and  non-sensical to others, when I now point out five things that I, as  a  literary  and  cultural  historian,have  learned  so  far fromstudying materiality.
Our Feminism/ Our Activism
Creators: name: Easton, Martha
name: Williams, Maggie
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2014

description: Martha  and  I  are  mothers.  We  are  feminists.  We  are  art historians.  We  are  activists.  We  have  each  struggled  to keep those identities carefully compartmentalized to ach-ieve  some  abstract  notion  of  success.  Both  of  us  were drawn to BABEL’s“Fuck This: On Finally Letting Go” and “Fuck  Me:  On  Never  Letting  Go”sessions  out  of  a  sense of  frustration:  dissatisfaction  with  the  tactics  of  purport-edly activist groups, disillusionment with the hypocrisies of academic life, and disappointment in our own and oth-ers’  willingness  to  rock  the  boat.  Today,  we  are  finally letting  go  of  preserving  our  secret  identities.  Together, we  will  unmask  our  true  selves,  telling  our  stories  and sharing  our  hopes  for  real  change.  Rather  than  coping silently, we want to call for real progressive action among medievalists.
Die  Jahreszeiten
Creators: name: Haydn, Joseph
Publisher: name: Breitkopf & Härtel
Year: 1802

description: Erste Abtheilung Frühling/Sommer
description: Zweite Abtheilung Herbst/Winter
description: nach Thomson ; in Musik gese[t]zt von Joseph Haydn
description: Text: dt/franz. ; mit Subscribenten-Verzeichnis
description: Werkverzeichnis: Hob. XXI:3
Die  Entführung aus dem Serail : ein komisches Singspiel in drei Aufzügen...
Creators: name: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Publisher: name: Breitkopf & Härtel
Year: 1796

description: II. Vokalmusik. 1. Opern
description: im Klavierauszug von A[ugust] E[berhard] Müller
description: Frühdruck (Typendruck) ohne Verl.Nr.
Classification of quadratic Lie algebras of low dimension
Creators: name: Benayadi, Said
name: Elduque, Alberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 17B05, 17B60, 17B63

description: In this paper we give the classification of the irreducible non solvable Lie algebras of dimensions $\leq 13$ with nondegenerate, symmetric and invariant bilinear forms.
description: 23 pages
Les  Saisons
Creators: name: Haydn, Joseph
Publisher: name: Simrock
Year: 1802

description: par J. Haydn ; arr. pour le pianoforte par F. Ries
description: Text: dt./franz.
description: Werkverzeichnis: Hob. XXI:3
description: Originalbesetzung: Sopran, Tenor, Bass, Chor, Orchester
title: Adaptations in physiological and neuronal function during diet-induced obesity
Creators: name: Fang, Lisa
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Year: 2023

description: Obesity significantly increases the risk of developing chronic conditions including type II diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and some cancers. The rate of obesity has tripled globally since 1975, which is in part due to the sudden prevalence and overconsumption of palatable high-fat diets (HFDs). Obesity profoundly perturbs the neural control of energy balance, affecting diverse cell types within the hypothalamus. However, an incomplete understanding of how HFD impacts the regulation of energy balance hinders our ability to more effectively treat obesity. In this thesis, I describe the physiological and neuronal response to HFD feeding in rodents. We identified that HFD exposure elevates the body weight set point, which is initially driven by a transient hyperphagia. This hyperphagia coincides with increased excitatory transmission to lateral hypothalamic orexin (ORX) neurons, which regulate acute food intake. This suggests that ORX neurons may be involved in the initial hyperphagia, implicating them in the development of obesity. As HFD prolongs, body weight gain slows and reaches a new steady state regardless of age at the start, duration of feeding, or palatability of the diet. This sustained weight coincides with increased synaptic contacts to melanin-concentrating hormone (MCH) neurons, which promote weight gain and food intake, likely contributing to the maintenance of obesity. The molecular mechanism underlying the establishment of a new set point remains elusive. During HFD feeding, the presence of a chronic low-grade hypothalamic inflammation exacerbates weight gain, therefore we reasoned that inflammatory factors could modulate appetite-promoting neurons to maintain a new set point. We found that the inflammatory mediator prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) activate MCH neurons via its EP2 receptor (EP2R). Suppressing PGE2-EP2R on MCH neurons partially protects against excess weight gain and fat accumulation in the liver during HFD feeding. This mechanism could contribute to the maintenance of an elevated body weight set point in during diet-induced obesity. Without long-term treatment options in face of the increasing rates of obesity, we are in desperate need of novel interventions. In the future, we hope that targeting EP2R on MCH neurons can lower body weight set point and aid in combatting obesity.
Συστηματική ανασκόπηση της σχέσης της Διαταραχής Ακουστικής Επεξεργασίας με την Προσοχή σε παιδιά και ενήλικες
Creators: name: Αλεξίου, Μαρίνα Λάμπρου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2024
Subjects: Διαταραχή Ακουστικής Επεξεργασίας
Προσοχή
Ελλείμματα
Auditory Processing Disorder
Attention
Deficits

description: Σκοπός της διπλωματικής εργασίας ήταν η συστηματική ανασκόπηση της σχέσης της Διαταραχής Ακουστικής Επεξεγρασίας με την Προσοχή σε παιδιά και ενήλικες. Ορίσαμε την Διαταραχής Ακουστικής Επεξεργασίας, τα συμπτώματα και τους τύπους της, καθώς και την Προσοχή, τα ελλείμματα που εμφανίζει και τους τύπους της. Στη συνέχεια έγινε βιβλιογραφιή ανασκόπηση στην σχέση που έχει αναφερθεί ότι εμφανίζουν, καθώς δεν έχει αποδειχθεί εάν η μία είναι συνέπεια της άλλης και το αντίστροφο ή εάν η σχέση αυτή είναι αμφίδρομη. Έτσι, αναζητήθηκαν σε βάσεις δεδομένων και τελικά συμπεριλήφθηκαν 19 μελέτες σε αυτή τη συστηματική ανασκόπηση. Ακόμη παρουσιάστηκαν αναλυτικά οι 19 μελέτες και τα αποτελέσματά τους σχετικά με την ύπαρξη σύνδεσης της Διαταραχής Ακουστικής Επεξεργασίας με την προσοχή σε παιδιά και ενήλικες. Τέλος, παρουσιάστηκαν τα συμπεράσματα των μελετών αναδεικνύοντας το είδος της σύνδεσης που τελικά προκύπτει μεταξύ των ερευνητών.
description: The purpose of the thesis was the systematic review of the relationship of Auditory Processing Disorder with Attention in children and adults. We defined Auditory Processing Disorder, its symptoms and types, as well as Attention, its deficits and its types. Then a literature review was done on the relationship that has been reported to appear, as it has not been proven whether one is a consequence of the other and vice versa or if this relationship is bidirectional. Thus, databases were searched and finally 19 studies were included in this systematic review. Also, the 19 studies and their results regarding the existence of a link between Auditory Processing Disorder and attention in children and adults were presented in detail. Finally, the conclusions of the studies were presented, highlighting the type of connection that finally emerges between the researchers.
Be Critical!
Creators: name: Evans, Ruth
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2014

description: I hate manifestos. They are so yesterday.Blast the manifesto! Its revolutionary  impulse  is,  as  James  Simpson  observesabout a wholly different phenomenon and time period, to do withthe  desire  for  a  clean  break  between thenand now, a break in which the past is itself created “by being made very dark,  wholly  repellent,  and  sharply  different  from  the  bril-liant new present.”1I don’t believe in the revolutionary breakor the brilliant new present, although I’m with John Ball, that things have to change: “God doe bote, for now is time.” The manifesto is always timely.Sobless the manifesto! Whatever. I also hate the credo. I believe in things, but not in that abso-lute way.
Waging Guerrilla Warfare Against the 19th Century
Creators: name: Gabriele, Matthew
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2014

description: The idea of writing a “manifesto” for this panel was par-ticularly appealing to me for two reasons. First, I like be-ing  around  people  who  work  heavily  in  theory.  Their perspectives  and  ideas  continually  challenge  my  own, even  if,  since  I’m  but  a  simple  historian  by  training,  I don’t  always  understand  what  they’re  talking  about.  I implore my fellow panelists to therefore use small wordsso that I can follow along ...
Radical Ridicule
Creators: name: Guynn, Noah D.
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2014

description: We’ve  been  hearing  a  lot lately about  the  “descriptive turn”  in  literary  studies,  which  is as  much  a  turn  away from critical hermeneutics  and symptomatic reading as a turn toward observation and description. This isn’t a neu-tral  development  or  a  mere  change  in  direction. On  the contrary, it entails a broad-based repudiation of Marxism, psychoanalysis, and  post-structuralism  as  methodologies that  are  unconsciously  enmeshed  in  the  very  humanist ideologies  they purport  to  demystify.  It  also frequently trips over its own feet, formulating critiques of critique in order supposedly to move beyond it.
Field Change/ Discipline Change
Creators: name: Harris, Anne
name: Overbey, Karen
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2014

description: The experimental essays gathered here had their origin in performance at the 48th International Congress of Medie-val Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan (May, 2013). The idea of  this  twelve-way  collaboration  was  dreamed  through  a series  of  emails  exchanged  among  Jonathan  Hsy,  Lowell Duckert, Eileen Joy,  and Jeffrey Cohen. We set as our task imagining   collective   modes   for   contemplating   how   to shape   the   humanities,   as   well   as   the   communities   to which we belong at  many  levels,  to  bring  about  a  future more our  own,  while  wondering  all  the  while  how  that first-person  plural  comes  into  being.  Building  upon  a  se-ries  of  sessions  at  the previous  year’s  Congress  that  had focused  on  the  active  engagement  to  which  humanists must  commit  in  order  not  to  find  themselves  in  merely passive,  reactive,  protest-oriented  positions  within  their home  institutions  as  well  as  at  the  many  other  homes  we inhabit through daily acts of creation, we hoped to extend and  intensify  a  conversation  about  how  to  shape  the hu-manities, and ourselves, in the years ahead. We knew from the start that any such intervention had to be fully collab-orative.  Changing  the  world  is  not  a  solo  project.  But  the working  out  of  how  such  alliance  and  enmeshing  might proceed was left to the participants.
Paradigm Change/ Institute Change
Creators: name: Fradenburg, L.O. Aranye
name: Joy, Eileen A.
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2014

description: We  are  in  the  midst  of  paradigm  change,  brought on  by initiatives   like   biological   systems   theory,   post-structuralism, James Gibson’s  theory  of  affordances,1 and  neuroplasticity.Top-down  or  prime-mover  models  of  change  have  given way  to  principles  of  creative  interactivity  and  causal  pari-ty,  in  which  concentrations  of  forces  and  systemic ele-ments continue to play significant roles, but only as parts of turbulent, non-totalizable assemblages.  The findings of the genome  project  have  put  genetic  determinism in  doubt. Today’s  genes  do not  write  the  scripts  of  our  lives;  they  are relatively passive elements in a complex field of biochem-ical  interactions. Jesper  Hoffmeyer  summarizes  the  situation this way: “Living cells . . . use DNA to construct the organ-ism,  not  vice  versa.”2 Many  kinds  of  conjunctions  and symbioses  now  appear  to  have  significance  for  bio-his-tory; these are evolutionary events that depend neither on natural  selection  nor  mutation.  The  study  of  multi-cell-ularity  shows  that  individuation and  aggregation  are  both fundamental  to  living  process,  and  are  interdependent  ra-ther  than  mutually  exclusive  processes.  Focus  on  the  ac-tions of cells has restored the importance of the life expe-rience  of  the  organism  and  its  forms  of  relationality  to evolutionary theory; bio-history is now seen to be created by  mutually  constitutive  interactions  between  the  geno-type, the phenotype, and environmental, including social, affordances. The organism is no longer a “dead end,” and evolution turns out to be a history of ecologies rather than of  anthropomorphized  “selfish”  genes  bent  on  self-repli-cation.  Semiosis—communication—is  a  sine  qua  non  of living  process. The  brain’s  capacity  for  estimation  and signal-interpretation  is,  simply,  vital;  only  in  very  specific knowledge-ecologies  does  it  require  probability  theory  and experimental  controls  to  act  on  behalf  of  sentient  experi-ence. Living process—including artful, real-time, improvi-sational  activity—finally  plays  a  significant  role  in  bio-historiography.
Voice Change/ Language Change
Creators: name: Hsy, Jonathan
name: Piuma, Chris
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2014

description: Languages are  slippery,  and  they  don't  like  being  con-tained.We  have  already  broken  the  rules.  That  was  not  one  hun-dred words. That was far, far less than one hundred words. Each  section,  we  agreed,  should  consist  of  one  hundred words. That section could have easily been rewritten to con-sist  of  one  hundred  words.  We  have  already  broken  the rules. But. But now I am reminding you all of the rules. And now,  in  this  section,  we  are  being  mindful  of  the  rules,  the rules  that  we  have  created  and  that  we  are  breaking.  We are being mindful of how we are creating them and how we are breaking them
Backmatter
Creators: name: Joy, Eileen A. (Ed.)
name: Seaman, Myra (Ed.)
name: Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome  (Ed.)
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2014

description: Ever since the turn of the century aesthetics has steadily gained momentum as a central field of study across the disciplines. No longer sidelined, aesthetics has grown in confidence. While this recent development brings with it a return to the work of the canonical authors (most notably Baumgarten and Kant), some contemporary scholars reject the traditional focus on epistemology and theorize aesthetics in its ontological connotations. It is according to this shift that speculative realists have proclaimed aesthetics as “first philosophy” and as speculative in nature. With speculative realism aesthetics no longer necessarily implies human agents. This is in alignment with the general speculative realist framework for thinking all kinds of processes, entities, and objects as free from our all-pervasive anthropocentrism, which states, always, that everything is “for us.”
This special volume of Speculations explores the ramifications of what could be termed the new speculative aesthetics. In doing so, it stages a three-fold encounter: between aesthetics and speculation, between speculative realism and its (possible) precursors, and between speculative realism and art and literature
Love Poem: After Alphonso Lingis
Creators: name: Lasky, Dorothea
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2014

description: What I to you I loved you But you also meant nothing to me You were nothing but A box jellyfish The edges always coming out to meet the water A skin of water, not water-blue So that there was nothing we could find like ourselves And nothing like a center So that the animal was not a beak But a movement forward
Interview with Lingis
Creators: name: George, Bobby
name: Sparrow, Tom
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2014

description: BG  &  TS:  As you know, we’re planning to enter your body of work through the lens of photography and geography. We thought  we’d  start  our  conversation  there,  at  that  conjunc-tion.  What  motivated  you  to  start  to  include  photos  in  your text? AL:  In Excesses  I  thought  I  had  to  show  a  temple  at  Khaju-raho,  for  readers  who  had  never  seen  images  of  them.  I  also wanted  to  include  a  Nuba  man  photographed  by  Leni  Rief-enstahl—a photograph that, when I first came upon it, made me decide to go there (the text does not explain that)
Exercices pour le violon dans toutes les positions et 50 variations sur la gamme : supplément de la méthode du violon (Violinschule)
Creators: name: Rode, Pierre
Publisher: name: chez Ambroise Kühnel (Bureau de Musique)
Year: 1804

description: Violinschule
description: par Rode, Kreutzer et Baillot
Impacts of jellyfish presence on tourists’ holiday destination choices and their willingness to pay for mitigation measures
Creators: name: Ruiz-Frau, Ana
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Recurrent jellyfish blooms in tourist areas have negative effects on coastal and national economies. We investigate how jellyfish presence affects holiday destination choice and how the adoption of mitigation measures can reduce impacts through analyzing tourists’ preferences. A Discrete Choice Experiment approach was adopted to assess tourists’ willingness to pay for different measures. Results indicate that in scenarios of increased jellyfish numbers, 24–40% of tourists might not choose to return to a destination affected by jellyfish. Results also indicate that the adoption of measures such as jellyfish information provision, warning flags, health service presence or the deployment of jellyfish exclusion nets could reduce the proportion of non-returning tourists by 66–83%. Regarding preferences, tourists are willing to pay higher amounts for measures that provide the highest protection. We conclude that the implementation of preventive management plans should be considered by coastal administrations to promote a sense of safety among tourists and residents alike.
On Violence and Splendor
Creators: name: Harman, Graham
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2014

description: Fans of Alphonso Lingis have cause for delight in the recent appearance  of  his  new  book Violence  and Splendor.1 Lingis  is of  Lithuanian  ancestry but  native  to  the  rural  region  nearChicago, and has been well known since the 1960s in severalcapacities.  In  his  early  career  he  was  known  primarily  as  an encyclopedic authority on French phenomenology, in partic-ular as the key English translator of the philosophers Levinasand  Merleau-Ponty.  As  a professor  at  Penn  State  he  was  a popular  and  magnetic  character,  earning  the  allegiance of generations  of  students due  to  an  informal  personality  and  a startling  mid-block  household filled  with  live  tropical  birds,sharks,  octopi,  and  electric  eels,  life-sized  wooden  Buddhas,flourishing colonies of bees, specimens of colorful moths andbeetles, and a bathroom mirrored on all    horizontal and verti-cal surfaces. As an author of books he emerged relatively late, in 1983, with his debutExcesses: Eros and Culture.2 This workset the  pattern for  his  future  writings,  mixing  philosophicalerudition  with  travel  narratives  from  the  most  exotic  loca-tions.  Along  the  way  he  established  a reputation  with  manyreaders (including me) as one of the greatest living masters of English  prose.  Lingis  has  been retired  from  Penn  State  for nearly a decade and now lives near Baltimore, where he con-tinues to write in the same spirit found in his earlier books.
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Creators: name: G. Bernini, P.G. Giardina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: This document presents the final design of the 5GZORRO high-level architecture, which targets the achievement and implementation of the innovative 5G networks and services vision described above. More specifically, this deliverable is intended as a self-contained document, which merges the original content of deliverables D2.2 and D2.3 (that present the initial and the updated 5GZORRO high-level architecture respectively) and further improves them to align the 5GZORRO architecture functionalities with the feedback from the platform implementation undergoing in WP3 and WP4. With this document, the goal is to have a single source of information for the 5GZORRO high-level architecture, which includes the whole set of services offered, functionalities supported, and operational workflows implemented.
 In practice, in alignment with the original approach proposed and described in D2.2 and D2.3, the architecture follows a principle of service-based architecture, similar to the 5G Service-based architecture defined in 3GPP and in the ETSI Zero touch network and Service Management. Integrating SDN/NFV and Cloud native orchestration technologies with a Permissioned Distributed Ledger infrastructure, the 5GZORRO architecture offers services for:
 • cross-domain network slicing,
 • resource and service offering via marketplaces,
 • discovery, intelligent selection and trading of resources and Services via Smart Contracts
 • zero-touch network slice and service lifecycle management
 • cross-stakeholder e-license management
 • SLA monitoring & breach prediction
 • security and trust across multiple domains.
 The realization of these services is made possible through the interaction of various functions for slice orchestration, network intelligence and analytics, security and trust, management of virtualized resources, all executed for multi-domain and single domain scopes. Moreover, 5GZORRO leverages many state-of-the-art technologies and standards for virtualization, NFV, Cloud Native platforms and services, zero touch, SDN, distributed ledgers, data lakes, which have been extensively reviewed to summarise the specific positioning of the 5GZORRO innovative proposition.
Economic growth targets and green total factor productivity: evidence from China
Creators: name: Sun, Yanlin
name: Tang, Yuwei
name: Li, Ge
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: This study explores the impact of economic growth targets on green total factor productivity (GTFP) based on a panel Tobit model and two manual datasets of 30 Chinese provinces from 2002 to 2019. We find that economic growth targets significantly inhibit GTFP, which is more pronounced in provinces that have high incentives when setting targets, use hard constraints when announcing targets, and fulfill their targets. In addition, we find that economic growth targets inhibit GTFP by undermining economic efficiency and aggravating environmental pollution. Moreover, the command-controlled environmental regulations weaken the inhibitory effect on GTFP, while market-motivated environmental regulations aggravate this inhibitory effect. Our findings confirm that the promotion assessment system based on economic performance leads to the irrationality of local governments in establishing economic growth targets, and the local governments pursue economic growth at the cost of development quality and sustainability.
Impact of stakeholders’ pressure on green management practices of manufacturing organizations under the mediation of organizational motives
Creators: name: Shahzad, Mohsin
name: Qu, Ying
name: Rehman, Saif Ur
name: Ding, Xiangan
name: Razzaq, Asif
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Due to growing consciousness and pressure from concerned stakeholders, organizations have started to prioritize green management practices (GMP); however, little is known about the critical role of organizational motives (OM) for achieving GMP. Following the stakeholder theory, this study intends to examine the relationship between stakeholders’ pressure (STP), organizational motives (OM), and GMP in an encompassing model. Three hundred and eight responses were collected from the Pakistani manufacturing industry, and hypotheses were confirmed employing structural equation modeling (SEM). Empirical results indicate that primary and secondary stakeholders’ pressure has a substantial effect on OM. Further, each motive, such as instrumental, relational, and moral, substantially impacts GMP. Besides, OM has been found to partially mediate the relationship. Importance-performance analysis specified that the importance and performance values of STP are higher than OM for GMP. The conclusion emphasizes the essential role that STP can play in realizing GMP in manufacturing industries through OM. These novel findings suggest worthy insights for managerial staff and policymakers on enhancing GMP adoption through OM in emerging economies.
title: Experimental evaluation of cemented tailings backfill strength characteristics and acid mine drainage potential
Creators: name: Jamil, Mohammad Shafaet
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Year: 2023

description: Following the research & development of Sustainable Mining by Drilling (SMD) technique in the narrow vein mineral deposits, a conceptual framework for backfilling large-diameter drilled holes has been developed, utilizing a mixture of cemented tailings paste. In the paste mixture, the tailings constitute 75% to 85%, the binder makes up 3% to 9%, and the water content represents 15% to 25% of the total weight of dry materials. This thesis contains a comprehensive assessment of various aspects related to cemented tailings backfill (CTB), including the strength characteristics, measurement of dynamic elastic properties using the ultrasonic method, rheological analysis, and evaluation of acid mine drainage potential. To minimize the cement cost in backfill operation, comparative analysis was conducted in the laboratory for the samples of 6% and 4% cement content by weight along with the concerned proportional mixture of tailings and water to achieve the design strength of 1 MPa. The strength characteristics were evaluated following the compressive strength test, stress-strain behaviour and dynamic elastic properties measurement through ultrasonic wave velocity method. Moreover, on the collected backfilled samples from field location, strength measurement and particle size distribution were conducted to understand the effect of particle gradation on strength development. Then, comparative analysis has been described from lab experimental results to evaluate the acid mine drainage potential. From the static test of tailings, the experimental results shows that the tailings has high potential of acid generation. The long-term kinetic test of cemented tailings mixture with variable cement percentage showing the neutralization behaviour of acid generating tailings for the presence of cement components.
High-fidelity adiabatic inversion of a $^{31}\mathrm{P}$ electron spin qubit in natural silicon
Creators: name: Laucht, Arne
name: Kalra, Rachpon
name: Muhonen, Juha T.
name: Dehollain, Juan P.
name: Mohiyaddin, Fahd A.
name: Hudson, Fay
name: McCallum, Jeffrey C.
name: Jamieson, David N.
name: Dzurak, Andrew S.
name: Morello, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The main limitation to the high-fidelity quantum control of spins in semiconductors is the presence of strongly fluctuating fields arising from the nuclear spin bath of the host material. We demonstrate here a substantial improvement in single-qubit gate fidelities for an electron spin qubit bound to a $^{31}$P atom in natural silicon, by applying adiabatic inversion instead of narrow-band pulses. We achieve an inversion fidelity of 97%, and we observe signatures in the spin resonance spectra and the spin coherence time that are consistent with the presence of an additional exchange-coupled donor. This work highlights the effectiveness of adiabatic inversion techniques for spin control in fluctuating environments.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures
Sweet Dreams Are Made of This: Speculation
Creators: name: Askin, Ridvan
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2014

description: THE  aim  of  this  paper  is  to  bring  together  literary  narration  and  philosophical speculation in an attempt to show how these seemingly divergent  fields  in  fact  mutually  inform  one  another[1].  In  order  to  do  so,  I  will  use  Ana  Castillo’s  1986  novel  The  Mixquiahuala  Letters  as  my  tutor text [2].The  Mixquiahuala  Letters  recounts  its  protagonists  Teresa  and  Alicia’s  travels  to  and  adventures  in  Mexico  and  is  usually  read  in  terms  of  a  quest  for  Chicana  identity  and  independence  [3].  Against  this  estab-lished  consensus  view  I  hold  that  identity  is  merely  the  starting  point  of  the  narrative  which  in  fact  embarks  on  a  journey  of  disintegration,  differentiation  and  dissolution  both  in  terms  of  content  and  form.  This  disintegration and dissolution constitutes the novel’s speculative explo-ration of its very own constitution as narrative. This exploration is most prominently expressed in the novel’s monologic epistolarity (it consists of 40 letters), its hypertextual form (it presents three distinct possibilities of  actualisation  of  its  story  matter)  and  in  the  structural and thematic importance of sleeping and  dreaming.  For  the  present  essay,  I  will  confine  myself  to  this  third  characteristic  and  show  how  the  novel  casts  dreams  as  acts  of  speculation  while  simultaneously  presenting  itself  precisely  as  such  an  act  of  speculative  dreaming  [4].  Since  it  does  this  by  means  of  narrative this leads me to postulate the correla-tion of speculation and narration.
The role of urban planning in climate adaptation: an empirical analysis of UHI in European cities
Creators: name: Florenzio, N.
name: Guastella, G.
name: Magni, F.
name: Pareglio, S.
name: Musco, F.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: This paper empirically analyses the relationship between urban form and Urban Heat Island (UHI) in a dataset of 523 European cities that matches remotely sensed land-use and surface temperature data. A UHI anomaly is defined as an uninterrupted streak of days where the temperature differential measured at 12.00 AM between the city core and its surroundings is higher than a given threshold. From this definition, three UHI indicators are obtained: mean intensity, mean duration of the event and occurrence rate. We study the influence of urban morphology on the UHI indictors with a Heckman model. A sample selection bias is detected for mean intensity and mean duration. The estimation results also show that some urban morphological features have a mitigating effect, while some others play a role at the adaptation level.
The targum (1930:Feb. 1 - 1930:Feb. 25)
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: Targum Association
Year: 1930

description: Some University historians indicate that the Targum was first published as an annual in 1867, but of this we have no extant evidence. In January 1869, the Targum as we now know it, made its appearance as a monthly paper that concerned itself with student “literary contributions” and college news as well as serving as a vehicle for bringing news to alumni and the general public. The newspaper, which originally was for sale, varied in frequency over the years as did its title (The Targum, Rutgers Targum, Rutgers Daily Targum, and Daily Targum). The newspaper has continuously been published since 1869 with the exception of 19 months during the second world war, between February 1944 and October 1945. The Targum was published by the students of Rutgers College, and later Rutgers University—New Brunswick represented through the years as the Targum Association, Rutgers Targum Association, and Rutgers College Targum. As a student organization, the Targum operated under the oversight of the dean of students and student government but in October 1980, the Targum became an independent college paper.
Three Mode Interactions as a Precision Monitoring Tool for Advanced Laser Interferometers
Creators: name: Ju, L
name: Zhao, C
name: Blair, D G
name: Susmithan, S
name: Fang, Q
name: Blair, C D
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Three-mode opto-acoustic interactions in advanced laser interferometer gravitational wave detectors have high sensitivity to thermally excited ultrasonic modes in their test masses. Three mode interaction signal gain can change by 100% for thermally induced radius of curvature variations ~ 10-5, allowing the monitoring of thermal distortions corresponding to wavefront changes ~2 x 10-13m. We show that the three-mode gain for single cavity interactions can be monitored by observing beat signals in the transmitted or reflected light due to the thermal excitation of the many hundreds of detectable acoustic modes. We show that three mode interaction signals can be used at low optical power to predict parametric instabilities that could occur at higher power. In addition, at any power, the observed mode amplitudes can be used to control the interferometer operating point against slow environmental perturbations. We summarize data on an 80m cavity that demonstrates these effects and propose testing on full scale interferometer cavities to evaluate whether the technique has practical benefits that can be extended from single cavities to dual recycling interferometers.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures