cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Musical ability and English stress perception (Choi, 2022)
Creators: name: Choi, William
Publisher: name: ASHA journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: Speech recognition
Phonetics and speech science
Music cognition

description: Purpose: This study investigates how Cantonese language experience influences the potential effects of (a) musicianship and (b) musical ability on English stress perception. Method: The sample contained 124 participants, evenly split into Cantonese musician, Cantonese nonmusician, English musician, and English nonmusician groups. They completed the English stress discrimination task, English stress sequence recall task, Musical Ear Test, and nonverbal intelligence task. Following the musicianship-based analysis, 44 Cantonese and English listeners were reassigned to four groups based on their musical ability—Cantonese high musical ability, Cantonese low musical ability, English high musical ability, and English low musical ability groups. Results: Musicianship-based analysis on English stress perception revealed a significant interaction between musicianship and language. Specifically, musicians outperformed nonmusicians only among the English but not the Cantonese listeners. By contrast, ability-based analysis showed significant main effects of musical ability and language. For both Cantonese and English listeners, those with a high musical ability outperformed those with a low musical ability. Regardless of musical ability, Cantonese listeners outperformed English listeners. Correlational analyses yielded consistent findings. Conclusions: This study has found cross-sectional evidence that musical ability, but not musicianship, facilitates Cantonese English as a second language (ESL) listeners’ English stress perception. From a theoretical perspective, the current findings motivate two potential additions to the OPERA (Overlap, Precision, Emotion, Repetition, and Attention) hypothesis for music-to-language transfer—unsaturation and utilization. Practically, the findings cast doubt on the application of nonperceptual based instrumental music training to enhance Cantonese ESL learners’ perceptual learning of English stress. Supplemental Material S1. Two acoustically identical stimuli presented to participants. Supplemental Material S2. Supplementary analyses on musicianship and English stress perception. Choi, W. (2022). What is “music” in music-to-language transfer? Musical ability but not musicianship supports Cantonese listeners’ English stress perception. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1044/2022_JSLHR-22-00175
Testing excitation models of rapidly oscillating Ap stars with interferometry
Creators: name: Cunha, M. S.
name: Alentiev, D.
name: Brandão, I. M.
name: Perraut, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Rapidly oscillating Ap stars are unique objects in the potential they offer to study the interplay between a number of important physical phenomena, in particular, pulsations, magnetic fields, diffusion, and convection. Nevertheless, the simple understanding of how the observed pulsations are excited in these stars is still in progress. In this work we perform a test to what is possibly the most widely accepted excitation theory for this class of stellar pulsators. The test is based on the study of a subset of members of this class for which stringent data on the fundamental parameters are available thanks to interferometry. For three out of the four stars considered in this study, we find that linear, non-adiabatic models with envelope convection suppressed around the magnetic poles can reproduce well the frequency region where oscillations are observed. For the fourth star in our sample no agreement is found, indicating that a new excitation mechanism must be considered. For the three stars whose observed frequencies can be explained by the excitation models under discussion, we derive the minimum angular extent of the region where convection must be suppressed. Finally, we find that the frequency regions where modes are expected to be excited in these models is very sensitive to the stellar radius. This opens the interesting possibility of determining this quantity and related ones, such as the effective temperature or luminosity, from comparison between model predictions and observations, in other targets for which these parameters are not well determined.
description: Accepted for publication in the MNRAS
Lutherische Diakonie in Marseille im Kontakt zu muslimischen Gruppen und Gemeinden
Creators: name: Baubérot-Bretones, Caroline
Publisher: name: Lutherische Kirche in der Welt
Year: 1970

description: Lutherische Kirche in der Welt, Bd. 56 (2009): Lutherische Kirche in der Welt, Band 56
Dirt, Dust and Devilment: Uncovering Filth in the Workhouse and Casual Wards
Creators: name: Foster (Cardiff University), Laura
Publisher: name: Victorian Network
Year: 2015

description: In an era of increasing anxiety about the filth of the slums and the threat of disease, it is little wonder that ideas of dirt and cleanliness come to prominence in discussions about the nineteenth-century workhouse. Cleanliness, with its long-standing associations of health and morality, was an integral part of the disciplinary mechanism of the institution, functioning to contain and control the disorderly pauper body. Many workhouse representations, however, suggest that the ostensible cleanliness of the workhouse space is nothing more than an oppressive facade that obscures a crueller and dirtier reality. In narratives of the workhouse casual wards, descriptions of dirt intensify and the excess of filth is shown to pose a bodily and psychological threat to the poor. This article explores the representation of the workhouse and casual wards through the lens of cleanliness and dirt, and analyses the connection of filth to ideas of contagion; sexuality; the body; and social class.
description: Victorian Network, Vol. 6 No. 2: Winter 2015
Evaluation of Water-Deficit Responses in Wild-By-Cultivated Rice Introgression Lines
Creators: name: Imel, Rachel Katrina
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2022
Subjects: Agronomy

description: Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is a staple crop consumed globally. Increased variability in rainfall in much of the world is a predicted consequence of climate change and drought is predicted to be a major cause for concern for rice production. One approach to mitigating water-deficit stress is integrating beneficial (drought-tolerance) loci from wild rice donors into elite rice cultivars. Bi-parental interspecific chromosome segment substitution lines (CSSLs) and near introgression lines (NILs) are genetic resources that contain genetic introgressions from wild rice but are otherwise genetically identical to the cultivated parent, known as the recurrent parent. For this study, 12 CSSLs and NILs were selected for having wild rice introgressions on chromosomes two and five, previously shown to be beneficial under field conditions. In the current work, these lines were evaluated under water-deficit conditions for their potential of serving as future pre-breeding material. The recurrent parents, Cybonnet and Jefferson, two U.S. cultivars adapted to the Southern Rice Belt, were additionally included in this study as controls. In total, three trials took place: two at Purdue University under controlled environments (West Lafayette, Indiana) and one in the field at the Dale Bumpers Rice Research Center (Stuttgart, Arkansas). Traits such as yield components, gas exchange, leaf water content, leaf water potential and chlorophyll fluorescence were measured during predawn and midday timepoints. Results from the three trials did not show consistent genotype rankings in yield component traits, which was expected due to the different ways in which water-deficit treatments were approached (continuous water-deficit application versus transient drought and recovery). While many of the CSSLs outranked Cybonnet in mean values, none were significantly different, likely due to low replication. Despite not having identified superior genotypes, the yield component, physiology, and high-throughput phenotyping datasets published here can provide the foundation to address future questions about physiological linkages and methodology development associating high-throughput data with ground-truth measurements. All data associated with this work are publicly available through Purdue University Research Repository.
Dirty Work: Trollope and the Labour of the Artist
Creators: name: Armetta (City University Of New York), Flora C.
Publisher: name: Victorian Network
Year: 2015

description: This article considers Anthony Trollope’s emphasis on art as a form of necessarily dirty work: mental, manual, and visual labour grounded in messy, everyday real-life experience. I focus on critically neglected artist characters in several of Trollope’s novels in order to connect his ideas, especially on work and social order, to those of John Ruskin. The implications of Trollope’s interest in work become clear when read in the context of Ruskin’s argument – most fully articulated in The Stones of Venice – that artistic work such as the craftsmanship of the Gothic stone-carver, is more fully human than any apparently perfect ‘high’ art, and therefore more real. Both Trollope and Ruskin, I argue, explore this idea of “realityâ€, suggesting that artists must embrace it by engaging in a particular, art-informed process of perception that reveals to them things that seem “lowâ€ (literally and figuratively), especially things that are in fact of the earthâ€”dusty, dirty, and stony. For each author, this radical departure from the Victorian credo, ‘cleanliness is next to godliness’, paradoxically demonstrates what is of real value in even the humblest of humanity, and allows the seer to recognise the higher spiritual truths that inform every element of creation, down to its very particles of dirt. Such an approach to images of dirt enables Trollope to demand that his characters, and more importantly his readers, recognise social ills (visually marked by their presence in dirty places, filled with dirty people), and, finally, desire to do something about them. In Barchester Towers, Ayala’s Angel, and The Last Chronicle of Barset, Trollope’s narrators insist that the visual labour that makes this recognition possible is part of a thoughtful approach to the world, and attempt to prod his readers into thinking, and perceiving, for themselves, even if it means that they question his story.
description: Victorian Network, Vol. 6 No. 2: Winter 2015
Calibration of stellar and atmospheric models using the Hyades
Creators: name: Kopytova, Taisiya G.
name: Brandner, Wolfgang
name: Röser, Siegfried
name: Schilbach, Elena
name: Da Rio, Nicola
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 85-06

description: Calibration and benchmarking of evolutionary and atmospheric models is essential for the study of low-mass stars and brown dwarfs, as for isolated objects these models are the only way to determine basic parameters like mass and age. The Hyades star cluster with an age of around 625 Myr and located at the distance of ~ 45 pc, is the most accessible cluster in the solar neighborhood. Röser et al. (2011) establish a list of 724 likely Hyades members. Using available literature data (HST, HIPPARCOS, WDS, Patience et al. 1998, Mermilliod et al. 2009, Morzinski 2011) and our own lucky imaging observations with AstraLux at the 2.2m telescope in Calar Alto, we establish a single-star sequence containing 255 Hyades members spanning the mass range ~ 0.2--1.5 solar masses . This sequence is used for testing and calibration of various existing stellar and atmospheric models (PADOVA, DARTMOUTH, BCAH, BT-Settl)
description: 4 pages, 4 figures. Proceedings from "Brown dwarfs come of age" meeting in Fuerteventura 2013
Die Theologische Fakultät "Matija Vlačić Ilirik" (Matthias Flacius Illyricus) von 1976 bis in die Gegenwart
Creators: name: Šeba, Enoh
Publisher: name: Lutherische Kirche in der Welt
Year: 1970

description: Lutherische Kirche in der Welt, Bd. 56 (2009): Lutherische Kirche in der Welt, Band 56
Choice number of complete multipartite graphs $K_{3*3,2*(k-5),1*2}$ and $K_{4,3*2,2*(k-6),1*3}$
Creators: name: He, Wenjie
name: Zhang, Lingmin
name: Cranston, Daniel W.
name: Shen, Yufa
name: Zheng, Guoping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A graph $G$ is called \emph{chromatic-choosable} if its choice number is equal to its chromatic number, namely $Ch(G)=χ(G)$. Ohba has conjectured that every graph $G$ satisfying $|V(G)|\leq 2χ(G)+1$ is chromatic-choosable. Since each $k$-chromatic graph is a subgraph of a complete $k$-partite graph, we see that Ohba's conjecture is true if and only if it is true for every complete multipartite graph. However, the only complete multipartite graphs for which Ohba's conjecture has been verified are: $K_{3*2,2*(k-3),1}$, $K_{3,2*(k-1)}$, $K_{s+3,2*(k-s-1),1*s}$, $K_{4,3,2*(k-4),1*2}$, and $K_{5,3,2*(k-5),1*3}$. In this paper, we show that Ohba's conjecture is true for two new classes of complete multipartite graphs: graphs with three parts of size 3 and graphs with one part of size 4 and two parts of size 3. Namely, we prove that $Ch(K_{3*3,2*(k-5),1*2})=k$ and $Ch(K_{4,3*2,2*(k-6),1*3})=k$ (for $k\geq 5$ and $k\geq 6$, respectively).
description: 10 pages; this paper proves 2 special cases of Ohba's Conjecture, which has now been proved completely: http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.1999
Leaky Bodies: Masculinity, Narrative and Imperial Decay in Richard Marsh’s The Beetle“
Creators: name: Allin (University Of Guelph), Leslie
Publisher: name: Victorian Network
Year: 2015

description: While Richard Marsh’s fin-de-sià¨cle“ gothic novel has most frequently been read in contemporary scholarship as a work that seeks to recuperate threatened imperial masculinity, this article argues that The Beetle“ works to subvert British representations of imperial imperatives. More preoccupied with the penetration of male bodies and the instability of narratives emerging from them than with their solidification, this novel uses the register of the male body to interrogate imperial authority and the physical prowess on which it was frequently based. Written in a period of increasing doubt about imperial stability and anxiety regarding threats from the East, The Beetle“ explodes traditional conceptions of masculinity while deploying fantasies of sexual subjugation to highlight an unruly porous, and unstable British imagination, underscoring that modes of sexual desire traditionally associated with the East are actually domestic. Deploying representations of both male bodies and male narratives as leaky and grotesque, Marsh’s novel critiques both the credibility of empire writing and British governmental legitimacy.
description: Victorian Network, Vol. 6 No. 1: Summer 2015
Comment on "Extended Born-Infeld theory and the bouncing magnetic universe"
Creators: name: Garcia-Salcedo, Ricardo
name: Gonzalez, Tame
name: Quiros, Israel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a recent paper [Phys. Rev. D{\bf 85}, 023528 (2012)] the authors proposed a generalized Born-Infeld electrodynamics coupled to general relativity which produces a nonsingular bouncing universe. For a magnetic universe the resulting cosmic evolution inevitably interpolates between asymptotic de Sitter states. Here we shall show that (i) the above theory does not have the standard weak field Maxwell limit, (ii) a sudden curvature singularity -- not better than the big bang -- arises, (iii) the speed of sound squared is a negative quantity signaling instability against small perturbations of the background energy density, and that (iv) the conclusion about the inevitability of the asymptotic vacuum regime in a magnetic universe is wrong.
description: 6 pages, 6 eps figures, here we have shown that Born-Infeld magnetic universes either are singular or are unstable against small perturbations of the background energy density or both
Factoring Hate Speech: A New Annotation Framework to Study Hate Speech in Social Media
Creators: name: Ron, Gal
name: Levi, Effi
name: Oshri, Odelia
name: Shenhav, Shaul R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this work we propose a novel annotation scheme which factors hate speech into five separate discursive categories. To evaluate our scheme, we construct a corpus of over 2.9M Twitter posts containing hateful expressions directed at Jews, and annotate a sample dataset of 1,050 tweets. We present a statistical analysis of the annotated dataset as well as discuss annotation examples, and conclude by discussing promising directions for future work.
description: Accepted to the 7th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH), ACL 2023
title: Army Permit No. SAJ-2016-890 (201600890) - City of Vero Beach - Public Fishing Pier Project
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: Endangered Species Act (ESA) Section 7 Consultation on the Corps Proposed Permit (SAJ-2016-00890) to The City Of Vero Beach To Construct A Public Fishing Pier In The Indian River at Riverside Park, Vero Beach, Florida (SER-2016-18008)
Creators: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. Southeast Region
Publisher: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. Southeast Region
Year: 2017

description: SERO-2016-00809
The Farming Body in Thomas Hardy’s Far From the Madding Crowd“
Creators: name: Lee (Binghamton University, State University Of New York), Sanghee
Publisher: name: Victorian Network
Year: 2015

description: This paper discusses the state of the Victorian agricultural body as assessed and represented in Victorian literature and culture. Examining mid-nineteenth century periodical articles on English farmers and the mid- and late-century legislative reform movements in the military and agricultural sectors, I first demonstrate how Victorians re-configured the English agricultural body in juxtaposition to the military body within the discourse of Victorian heroism. Focusing on issues around the two groups’ class, gender, and socio-economic status and on their overlapping roles in national and individual protection, I argue that the Victorian agricultural body worked as a central site to address both cultural anxieties and expectations about the condition of English society in times of national insecurity, brought on by intense international military and economic rivalries. I read Thomas Hardy’s Far from the Madding Crowd“ (1874) as a novel that reflects such contemporary concerns, arguing that Hardy explores the precarious position of the English agricultural body, positioning it as superior to the military hero. I suggest that Hardy in this novel envisions the English agriculturist, despite his susceptibility to changes in his surroundings, as an important Victorian economic body and an ideal heroic model that contributes to the emotional, economic, and moral regeneration of the English nation. Through farming protagonists who take control of both monetary and emotional currencies of agrarian society, Hardy provides a forward-looking vision of English farming life that embraces both stability and progress.
description: Victorian Network, Vol. 6 No. 1: Summer 2015
The influence of an electric field on photodegradation and self healing in disperse orange 11 dye-doped PMMA thin films
Creators: name: Anderson, Benjamin
name: Hung, Sheng-Ting
name: Kuzyk, Mark G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 78A60

description: The influence of an applied electric field on reversible photodegradation of disperse orange 11 (DO11) doped into PMMA is measured using digital imaging and conductivity measurements. Correlations between optical imaging, which measures photodegradation and recovery, and photoconductivity enables an association to be made between the damaged fragments and their contribution to current, thus establishing that damaged fragments are charged species, or polarizable. Hence, the decay and recovery process should be controllable with the applications of an electric field. Indeed, we find that the dye polymer system is highly sensitive to an applied electric field, which drastically affects the decay and recovery dynamics. We demonstrate accelerated recovery when one field polarity is applied during burning, and the opposite polarity is applied during recovery. This work suggests that the damage threshold can be increased through electric field conditioning; and, the results are qualitatively consistent with the domain model of Ramini[3, 4]. The observed behavior will provide useful input into better understanding the nature of the domains in the domain model, making it possible to design more robust materials using common polymers and molecular dopants.
description: 10 pages, 14 Figures,pending review in JOSA B
Evangelische Kirche(n) und Kultur im ehemaligen Jugoslawien am Beispiel der Slowenischen Kirche A.B.
Creators: name: Frauböse, Dorothea
Publisher: name: Lutherische Kirche in der Welt
Year: 1970

description: Lutherische Kirche in der Welt, Bd. 56 (2009): Lutherische Kirche in der Welt, Band 56
title: FEMA City of Waveland Garfield Ladner Pier
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: Endangered Species Act - Section 7 Consultation Biological Opinion City of Waveland, Garfield Ladner Fishing Repair, PA-04-MS-4576-PW-00392-PN-171315, Bay St. Louis, Hancock County, Mississippi
Creators: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. Southeast Region
Publisher: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. Southeast Region
Year: 2022

description: SERO-2022-00864
Melting Bodies: The Dissolution of Bodily Boundaries in Milton and Swinburne
Creators: name: Gill (University Of Sussex), Laura Fox
Publisher: name: Victorian Network
Year: 2015

description: This paper explores connections between treatments of the body and its boundaries in the poetry of John Milton and Algernon Charles Swinburne. My aim is twofold: first, I wish to assert Milton’s direct influence on Swinburne’s poetry, rather than as a vague indirect background for Victorian poetry in general. Second, I argue for Swinburne’s importance to our understanding of Victorian sexuality and Milton’s consequent importance as a significant source for Swinburne’s conception of the sexual body. Swinburne’s poetry is immersed in the tense and conflicted discourse surrounding the sexual body in the nineteenth century, represented by medical and cultural writing of the period on the figure of the hermaphrodite, and more widely, by the increasing dissolution of bodily boundaries. Milton directly provides Swinburne with ways of rethinking and presenting these ‘melting bodies’, making the Swinburnean body, and that of Victorian culture more generally, Miltonic in fundamental ways. The two poets are related first through their mutual engagement with the figure of the hermaphrodite as the pinnacle of a metaphysics of melting: a pervasive concern with melting bodies and the dissolution of fleshy thresholds. Moving beyond the hermaphroditic, I explore a more omnipresent sense of melting, merging, cleaving-together identifiable in Milton’s metaphysics and in the poetic composition of both Milton and Swinburne. Placed in relation to the importance of Sappho and Baudelaire’s conception of the sexual body for Swinburne, Milton’s influence is significant for what it can offer to supplement and surpass that of these two noteworthy figures.
description: Victorian Network, Vol. 6 No. 1: Summer 2015
The relation between radio and X-ray luminosity of black hole binaries: affected by inner cool disks?
Creators: name: Meyer-Hofmeister, E.
name: Meyer, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Observations of the black hole X-ray binaries GX 339-4 and V404 Cygni have brought evidence of a strong correlation between radio and X-ray emission during the hard spectral state; however, now more and more sources, the so-called `outliers', are found with a radio emission noticeably below the established `standard' relation. Several explanations have already been considered, but the existence of dual tracks is not yet fully understood. We suggest that in the hard spectral state re-condensation of gas from the corona into a cool, weak inner disk can provide additional soft photons for Comptonization, leading to a higher X-ray luminosity in combination with rather unchanged radio emission, which presumably traces the mass accretion rate. As an example, we determined how much additional luminosity due to photons from an underlying disk would be needed to explain the data from the representative outlier source H1743-322. From the comparison with calculations of Compton spectra with and without the photons from an underlying disk, we find that the required additional X-ray luminosity lies well in the range obtained from theoretical models of the accretion flow. The radio/X-ray luminosity relation resulting from Comptonization of additional photons from a weak, cool inner disk during the hard spectral state can explain the observations of the outlier sources, especially the data for H1743-322, the source with the most detailed observations. The existence or non-existence of weak inner disks on the two tracks might point to a difference in the magnetic fields of the companion stars. These could affect the effective viscosity and the thermal conductivity, hence also the re-condensation process.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures. Accepted for publication in A & A
title: USFWS - Grant Applications Operation Management - Shasta Valley & Horseshoe Ranch Wildlife Areas
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: Endangered Species Act Section 7(a)(2) Biological Opinion and Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act Essential Fish Habitat Response for the Grant Applications Operation Management of the Shasta Valley and Horseshoe Ranch Wildlife Areas (SVWA and HRWA) in Siskiyou County, California
Creators: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region
Publisher: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region
Year: 2022

description: WCRO-2022-01547
“This Little Actionâ€: The Feminine Manner of Touching in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Wives and Daughters“
Creators: name: Livingstone (Georgia State University, Atlanta), Molly
Publisher: name: Victorian Network
Year: 2015

description: A close look at scenes of physical intimacy between women in nineteenth-century novels reveals much about larger Victorian concerns with affection and sensibility, femininity, and identity. Given that nineteenth-century English society propagated the belief that a woman’s nature suited her best for wife- and motherhood, and that certain “feminineâ€ traits of affection and simplicity of heart were considered essential in the domestic woman, it was necessary that women who desired to marry show themselves to possess these characteristics. Using Judith Butler’s performativity theory, which states that ‘gender is the repeated stylization of the body,’ I contend here that one powerful vehicle for presenting a woman’s femininity, and therefore desirability as a wife, was the deployment of female touch. More specifically, I argue that certain kinds of touch between close friends – specifically spontaneous, sincere and affectionate touch – signified for the Victorians a distinctly feminine identity, indicating the aptitude for sensuality and a loving, “womanlyâ€ heart. Conversely, touch between women that did not meet such standards could be read as suspicious or problematic. An examination of the female characters in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Wives and Daughters“ clearly exemplifies the ability of touch to function in these ways.
description: Victorian Network, Vol. 6 No. 1: Summer 2015
Reentrant classicality of a damped system
Creators: name: Spreng, Benjamin
name: Ingold, Gert-Ludwig
name: Weiss, Ulrich
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For a free particle, the coupling to its environment can be the relevant mechanism to induce quantum behavior as the temperature is lowered. We study general linear environments with a spectral density proportional to ω^s at low frequencies and consider in particular the specific heat of the free damped particle. For super-Ohmic baths with s>=2, a reentrant classical behavior is found. As the temperature is lowered, the specific heat decreases from the classical value of k_B/2, thereby indicating the appearence of quantum effects. However, the classical value of the specific heat is restored as the temperature approaches zero. This surprising behavior is due to the suppressed density of bath degrees of freedom at low frequencies. For s<2, the specific heat at zero temperature increases linearly with s from -k_B/2 to k_B/2. An Ohmic bath, s=1, is thus very special in the sense that it represents the only case where the specific heat vanishes at zero temperature.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures
title: Army Permit No. SAJ-2016-2145 (201602145) - Margaret Henry - Seawall Project
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: Endangered Species Act - Section 7 Consultation Biological Opinion SAJ-2016-02145 (NW-EMC), Henry Seawall, Cape Coral, Lee County, Florida
Creators: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. Southeast Region
Publisher: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. Southeast Region
Year: 2017

description: SERO-2016-00813
Now You See It: Concealing and Revealing Pregnant Bodies in Wuthering Heights“ and The Clever Woman of the Family“
Creators: name: Woods (CUNY Graduate Center), Livia Arndal
Publisher: name: Victorian Network
Year: 2015

description: This essay reads the concealment and revelation of pregnancy in Emily Brontà«’s Wuthering Heights“ (1847) and Charlotte Mary Yonge’s The Clever Woman of the Family“ (1865) in order to demonstrate Victorian textual convention for the treatment of pregnancy. These readings establish the period tendency to conceal the pregnancies of modest/moral women and to reveal (as punishment, example, and narrative necessity) the pregnancies of immodest/immoral women. I also explore the ways in which a vocabulary of illness cooperates with the concealment and revelation of pregnant bodies. Reading illness and pregnancy in Wuthering Heights“ makes particularly legible our participation in the punishing narrative treatment of reproductive bodies that transgress normative behaviours: this heightened legibility prompts my unconventional pairing of Brontà« with Yonge, a novelist invested in the novel as means of moral instruction and correction. This essay is about the gender, narration, (un)ethical modes of reading, and the specificities of bodies, about what pregnancy can tell us about these things and about what these things can tell us about pregnancy. The message in both directions is simple and important: when we see a character’s pregnant body in a Victorian novel, chances are it is because she has done something wrong.
description: Victorian Network, Vol. 6 No. 1: Summer 2015
title: Army Permit No. SAJ-2016-1654 (201601654) - Richard Malter - Shoreline Project
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: Endangered Species Act - Section 7 Consultation Biological Opinion SAJ-2016-01654 (NW-BEM), Malter Shoreline Stabilization, Cape Coral, Lee County, Florida
Creators: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. Southeast Region
Publisher: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. Southeast Region
Year: 2017

description: SERO-2016-00812
Expected number of massive galaxy relics in the present-day Universe
Creators: name: Quilis, Vicent
name: Trujillo, Ignacio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The number of present-day massive galaxies that has survived untouched since their formation at high-z is an important observational constraint to the hierarchical galaxy formation models. Using three different semianalytical models based on the Millenium simulation, we quantify the expected fraction and number densities of the massive galaxies form at z>2 which have evolved in stellar mass less than 10% and 30%. We find that only a small fraction of the massive galaxies already form at z~2 have remained almost unaltered since their formation (<2% with Delta_M*/M*<0.1 and <8% with Delta_M*/M*<0.3). These fractions correspond to the following number densities of massive relics in the present-day Universe: ~1.2x10^-6 Mpc^-3 for Delta_M*/M*<0.1 and ~5.7x10^-6 Mpc^-3 for Delta_M*/M*<0.3. The observed number of relic candidates found in the nearby Universe is today pretty uncertain (with uncertainties up to a factor of ~100) preventing to establish a firm conclusion about the goodness of current theoretical expectations to predict such important number.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters
Biopower: Bodies, Minds and Biographical Subjection in Victorian Lives of the Poets
Creators: name: Whitehead (Liverpool John Moores University), James
Publisher: name: Victorian Network
Year: 2015

description: This article discusses the diagnostic and exhibitionary character of nineteenth-century biographical discourse, with particular attention to Percy Bysshe Shelley. The article proposes that suggestive parallels between the life of the individual body and the textual materials of the written Life “were often made in the nineteenth century. These parallels can be related to Foucauldian arguments about pastoral power and the individual subject, medicine and the case history, irrationality and juvenescence. The article argues that poetic subjects discussed as eccentric or pathological ‘genius’ were the ideal subjects and exemplify the proliferation and operation of forms of ‘biopower’. With these arguments in mind, the article analyses biographical writing about Shelley up to 1860. Specifically, the article discusses how Shelley’s biography moved from the somatic diagnosis of the poet’s ‘constitution consumptive’ in sketches by William Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt, to taking his thoughts, behaviour and writing as symptomatic of psychosomatic pathology. Looking in particular at the biographical productions of Thomas Jefferson Hogg and Thomas Medwin, the article suggests how ‘biopower’ compensated for the absence of the diagnosable body by concentrating on and disciplining the embodied mind, in line with nineteenth-century “moral managementâ€, “domestic psychiatryâ€, and the construction of “the mind of the childâ€. Finally, the article considers Victorian biography’s rhetoric of rational disenchantment and disillusionment, and suggests that it was conversely highly significant in establishing a version of beautifully and ineffectually irrational Romantic poetry. Looking forward to later periods, the article also proposes a pre-history of psychoanalytic or psycho-biographical criticism, and its ‘hermeneutics of suspicion’, in nineteenth- century biography.
description: Victorian Network, Vol. 6 No. 1: Summer 2015
Impurity bound states and disorder-induced orbital and magnetic order in the s+- state of Fe-based superconductors
Creators: name: Gastiasoro, Maria N.
name: Andersen, Brian M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the presence of impurity bound states within a five-band Hubbard model relevant to iron-based superconductors. In agreement with earlier studies, we find that in the absence of Coulomb correlations there exists a range of repulsive impurity potentials where in-gap states are generated. In the presence of weak correlations, these states are generally pushed to the edges of the gap, whereas for larger correlations the onsite impurity potential induces a local magnetic region which reintroduces the low-energy bound states into the gap.
title: The Viability and Potential Consequences of IoT-Based Ransomware
Creators: name: Brierley, Calvin
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2023

description: With the increased threat of ransomware and the substantial growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) market, there is significant motivation for attackers to carry out IoT-based ransomware campaigns. In this thesis, the viability of such malware is tested. As part of this work, various techniques that could be used by ransomware developers to attack commercial IoT devices were explored. First, methods that attackers could use to communicate with the victim were examined, such that a ransom note was able to be reliably sent to a victim. Next, the viability of using "bricking" as a method of ransom was evaluated, such that devices could be remotely disabled unless the victim makes a payment to the attacker. Research was then performed to ascertain whether it was possible to remotely gain persistence on IoT devices, which would improve the efficacy of existing ransomware methods, and provide opportunities for more advanced ransomware to be created. Finally, after successfully identifying a number of persistence techniques, the viability of privacy-invasion based ransomware was analysed. For each assessed technique, proofs of concept were developed. A range of devices -- with various intended purposes, such as routers, cameras and phones -- were used to test the viability of these proofs of concept. To test communication hijacking, devices' "channels of communication" -- such as web services and embedded screens -- were identified, then hijacked to display custom ransom notes. During the analysis of bricking-based ransomware, a working proof of concept was created, which was then able to remotely brick five IoT devices. After analysing the storage design of an assortment of IoT devices, six different persistence techniques were identified, which were then successfully tested on four devices, such that malicious filesystem modifications would be retained after the device was rebooted. When researching privacy-invasion based ransomware, several methods were created to extract information from data sources that can be commonly found on IoT devices, such as nearby WiFi signals, images from cameras, or audio from microphones. These were successfully implemented in a test environment such that ransomable data could be extracted, processed, and stored for later use to blackmail the victim. Overall, IoT-based ransomware has not only been shown to be viable but also highly damaging to both IoT devices and their users. While the use of IoT-ransomware is still very uncommon "in the wild", the techniques demonstrated within this work highlight an urgent need to improve the security of IoT devices to avoid the risk of IoT-based ransomware causing havoc in our society. Finally, during the development of these proofs of concept, a number of potential countermeasures were identified, which can be used to limit the effectiveness of the attacking techniques discovered in this PhD research.
title: Maintenance Dredge (NWP-1994-462-2, Port of Kalama)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: Endangered Species Act Section 7(a)(2) Biological Opinion and Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act Essential Fish Habitat Response for the Port of Kalama Maintenance Dredging (HUC 170800030900) (NWP-1994-462-2)
Creators: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region
Publisher: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region
Year: 2022

description: WCRO-2022-01251
The Female Witness and the Melodramatic Mode in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton“
Creators: name: Moulds (Birkbeck, University Of London), Alison
Publisher: name: Victorian Network
Year: 2014

description: This essay examines Elizabeth Gaskell’s use of the ‘courtroom scene’ in her debut novel Mary Barton“ (1848), focusing on the testimony delivered by the eponymous heroine. It situates the passage in the wider context of real-life nineteenth-century court cases, and subsequent criticism about the relationship between legal proceedings and realist fiction. Countering claims that Mary’s appearance has a chiefly didactic purpose or that it is simply a leaden part of an otherwise dramatic scene, it argues that her role in the proceedings has an inherently melodramatic appeal, which Gaskell exploits. Reflecting on the way in which the courtroom is cast as a liminal space between the public and private spheres, this essay interrogates the ways in which Mary’s aims – to protect Jem Wilson and conceal the identity of the real murderer (her father) – necessitate both the discourse of emotion and an act of deceit. It examines the ways in which Mary may be seen as a ‘performer’, telling a feminised ‘love’ story cast in the melodramatic mode. Arguing that Mary uses the genre to both forestall expectation and guy it, this paper looks at the ways in which Mary’s tactics may mirror Gaskell’s own strategies as a first-time female novelist.
description: Victorian Network, Vol. 5 No. 2: Winter 2013
Slipping magnetic reconnection during an X-class solar flare observed by SDO/AIA
Creators: name: Dudík, Jaroslav
name: Janvier, Miho
name: Aulanier, Guillaume
name: Del Zanna, Giulio
name: Karlický, Marian
name: Mason, Helen
name: Schmieder, Brigitte
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present SDO/AIA observations of an eruptive X-class flare of July 12, 2012, and compare its evolution with the predictions of a 3D numerical simulation. We focus on the dynamics of flare loops that are seen to undergo slipping reconnection during the flare. In the AIA 131A observations, lower parts of 10 MK flare loops exhibit an apparent motion with velocities of several tens of km/s along the developing flare ribbons. In the early stages of the flare, flare ribbons consist of compact, localized bright transition-region emission from the footpoints of the flare loops. A DEM analysis shows that the flare loops have temperatures up to the formation of Fe XXIV. A series of very long, S-shaped loops erupt, leading to a CME observed by STEREO. The observed dynamics are compared with the evolution of magnetic structures in the "standard solar flare model in 3D". This model matches the observations well, reproducing both the apparently slipping flare loops, S-shaped erupting loops, and the evolution of flare ribbons. All of these processes are explained via 3D reconnection mechanisms resulting from the expansion of a torus-unstable flux rope. The AIA observations and the numerical model are complemented by radio observations showing a noise storm in the metric range. Dm-drifting pulsation structures occurring during the eruption indicate plasmoid ejection and enhancement of reconnection rate. The bursty nature of radio emission shows that the slipping reconnection is still intermittent, although it is observed to persist for more than an hour.
description: The Astrophysical Journal, accepted
title: City of Hoquiam Road Improvements - Broadway Avenue
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: Endangered Species Act Section 7(a)(2) Biological Opinion and Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act Essential Fish Habitat Response for the City of Hoquiam: Broadway Avenue Safety Improvement (Project HUC 171001050203)
Creators: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region
Publisher: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region
Year: 2022

description: WCRO-2022-01754
Legal Questions and Literary Answers: Poor Law Taxonomies and Realist Narrative Technique in Harriet Martineau’s The Town“
Creators: name: Willenbring (Eastern University), M. Colleen
Publisher: name: Victorian Network
Year: 2014

description: This essay examines the ways in which Harriet Martineau’s short novel The Town“, commissioned as part of the Poor Laws and Paupers Illustrated “series to popularise planned reforms that would become the New Poor Law, offered responses to the Old Poor Law’s ancient practice of legislating poor relief using subjective categories for the poor: idle, able-bodied, deserving and undeserving. Martineau (1802-1876) and her contemporaries believed that the principles of political economy could inform policies that would alleviate the problems associated with flawed judgments of character. The Town dramatises the administrative challenges of the old law by showing how the knowledge and labour of a diligent and fair-minded public servant is insufficient for producing a just distribution of poor relief. Analysis reveals the ways Martineau’s formal strategies both assist and complicate these efforts. Her construction of character responds directly to her contemporaries’ interests in political economy and the morality of the poor in order to support calls for reform on both humanistic and scientific fronts. Specifically, examples demonstrate the text’s use of a technique Martineau and later social problem writers adopt of acknowledging the limitations of individual social positions and imaginatively overcoming those limitations by employing a range of narrative focalisations. These strategies allow Martineau to engage readers’ sympathy and other emotions, bringing the experience of reading to bear on arguments about the real-world challenges of poor law administration in urban communities. In so doing, this unlikely novel testifies compellingly to the importance of literary models for discerning salient qualities of character necessary to imagine social change and ultimately justice.
description: Victorian Network, Vol. 5 No. 2: Winter 2013
The principles of humanism for MANETs
Creators: name: Akhtar, Md. Amir Khusru
name: Sahoo, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The proposed humanistic approach mapped the human character and behavior into a device to evade the bondages of implementation and surely succeed as we live. Human societies are the complex and most organized networks, in which many communities having different cultural livelihood. The formation of communities within a society and the way of associations can be mapped to MANET. In this work we have presented the principles of humanism for MANETs. The proposed approach is not only robust and secure but it certainly meets the existing challenges (such as name resolution, address allocation and authentication). Its object oriented design defines a service in terms of Arts, Culture, and Machine. An 'Art' is the smallest unit of work (defined as an interface), the 'Culture' is the integration and implementation of one or more Arts (defined as a class) and finally the 'Machine' which is an instance of a Culture that defines a running service. The grouping of all communicable Machines having the same Culture forms a 'Community'. We have used the term 'Society' for a MANET having one or more communities and modeled using the humanistic approach. The proposed approach is compared with GloMoSim and the implementation of file transfer service is presented using the said approach. Our approach is better in terms of implementation of the basic services, security, reliability, throughput, extensibility, scalability etc.
description: 14 pages, 7 figures, 10 tables
title: Volpe Bulkhead
titleType: AlternativeTitle
title: Endangered Species Act - Section 7 Consultation Biological Opinion SAJ-2021-03395(NW-SJR), Paul Volpe, Shoreline Stabilization, Port Charlotte, Charlotte County, Florida
Creators: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. Southeast Region
Publisher: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. Southeast Region
Year: 2022

description: SERO-2022-00946