cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Robust dynamical decoupling
Creators: name: Souza, Alexandre M.
name: Álvarez, Gonzalo A.
name: Suter, Dieter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum computers, which process information encoded in quantum mechanical systems, hold the potential to solve some of the hardest computational problems. A substantial obstacle for the further development of quantum computers is the fact that the life time of quantum information is usually too short to allow practical computation. A promising method to increase the life time, known as dynamical decoupling, consists of applying a periodic series of inversion pulses to the quantum bits. In the present review, we give an overview of this technique and compare different pulse sequences proposed earlier. We show that pulse imperfections, which are always present in experimental implementations, limit the performance of dynamical decoupling. The loss of coherence due to the accumulation of pulse errors can even exceed the perturbation from the environment. This effect can be largely eliminated by a judicious design of pulses and sequences. The corresponding sequences are largely immune to pulse imperfections and provide an increase of the coherence time of the system by several orders of magnitude.
Genetic flow directionality and geographical segregation in a Cymodocea nodosa genetic diversity network
Creators: name: Masucci, Paolo
name: Arnaud-Haond, Sophie
name: Eguíluz, Víctor M.
name: Hernández-García, Emilio
name: Serrão, Ester A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyse a large data set of genetic markers obtained from populations of Cymodocea nodosa, a marine plant occurring from the East Mediterranean to the Iberian-African coasts in the Atlantic Ocean. We fully develop and test a recently introduced methodology to infer the directionality of gene flow based on the concept of geographical segregation. Using the Jensen-Shannon divergence, we are able to extract a directed network of gene flow describing the evolutionary patterns of Cymodocea nodosa. In particular we recover the genetic segregation that the marine plant underwent during its evolution. The results are confirmed by natural evidence and are consistent with an independent cross analysis.
title: Novel Si-based alloying routes for enhancing the oxidation resistance of TiBx coatings
Creators: name: Beck, Oskar
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Transtion Metal borides
subject: Oxidation resistance

description: Arbeit an der Bibliothek noch nicht eingelangt - Daten nicht geprueft - gesperrte Arbeit (bis 2025-04-13+02:00)
description: Abweichender Titel nach Übersetzung der Verfasserin/des Verfassers
Transcriptional regulation of defence gene expression by a VQ-motif containing protein
Creators: name: Weyhe, Martin
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 572

description: Pflanzen reagieren auf Pathogene mit Abwehrreaktionen, die massive transkriptionelle Veränderungen behinhalten. Proteine mit VQ-motiv (VQs) interagieren mit Transkriptionsfaktoren (z.B. WRKYs), um die Genexpression zu modulieren. Zehn VQs aus Arabidopsis thaliana, die MVQs genannt werden, stellen Substrate der Pathogen-responsiven MAPKs MPK3/6 dar und sind möglicherweise an der transkriptionellen Regulation von Abwehrgenen beteiligt. In dieser Arbeit wurden durch Microarray-Analysen Gene und zelluläre Prozesse identifiziert, die potenziell durch MVQ1 kontrolliert werden und auf eine Rolle von MVQ1 als negativer Regulator der Pflanzenabwehr hindeuten.Die Entdeckung von MVQ1-WRKY-DNA Komplexen führte zur Identifizierung von mehr als 200 direkten Zielgenen von MVQ1 mittels ChIP-seq. Laut eines in dieser Arbeit entwickelten Modells liegt MVQ1 möglicherweise mit WRKYs in Repressorkomplexen vor, um die Expression von Abwehrgenen zu inhibieren.
description: Plants respond to pathogen attacks with defence responses that involve transcriptional reprogramming. VQ-motif containing proteins (VQs) interact with transcription factors (e.g. WRKYs) and are thus implicated in the regulation of gene expression. Members of a subgroup of Arabidopsis thaliana VQs, termed MVQs, are substrates of the pathogen-responsive MAPKs MPK3/6 and might contribute to the transcriptional regulation of defence responses. Here, a microarray analysis of MVQ1 misexpression lines uncovered genes and pathways that are controlled by MVQ1, establishing MVQ1 as a novel negative transcriptional regulator of immunity. Furthermore, the existence of MVQ1-WRKY-DNA complexes was discovered and led to to the identification of more than 200 direct MVQ1 target genes by ChIP-seq analysis. According to a model proposed in this work, MVQ1 engages with WRKYs in repressor complexes to inhibit defence gene expression.
Dialect and Accent Recognition using Phonetic-Segmentation Supervectors
Creators: name: Biadsy, Fadi
name: Hirschberg, Julia Bell
name: Ellis, Daniel P. W.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Computer science
subject: Information technology
subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: We describe a new approach to automatic dialect and accent recognition which exceeds state-of-the-art performance in three recognition tasks. This approach improves the accuracy and substantially lower the time complexity of our earlier phonetic based kernel approach for dialect recognition. In contrast to state-of-the-art acoustic-based systems, our approach employs phone labels and segmentation to constrain the acoustic models. Given a speaker’s utterance, we first obtain phone hypotheses using a phone recognizer and then extract GMM-supervectors for each phone type, effectively summarizing the speaker’s phonetic characteristics in a single vector of phone-type supervectors. Using these vectors, we design a kernel function that computes the phonetic similarities between pairs of utterances to train SVM classifiers to identify dialects. Comparing this approach to the state-of-the-art, we obtain a 12.9% relative improvement in EER on Arabic dialects, and a 17.9% relative improvement for American vs. Indian English dialects. We also see a 53.5% relative improvement over a GMM-UBM on American Southern vs. Non-Southern English.
Intoxication Detection using Phonetic, Phonotactic and Prosodic Cues
Creators: name: Biadsy, Fadi
name: Wang, William Yang
name: Rosenberg, Andrew
name: Hirschberg, Julia Bell
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Computer science
subject: Information technology
subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: In this paper, we investigate multiple approaches for automatically detecting intoxicated speakers given samples of their speech. Intoxicated speech in a given language can be viewed simply as a different accent of this language; therefore we adopt our recent approach to dialect and accent recognition to detect intoxication. The system models phonetic structural differences across sober and intoxicated speakers. This approach employs SVM with a kernel function that computes similarities between adapted phone GMMs which summarize speakers’ phonetic characteristics in their utterances. We also investigate additional cues, such as prosodic events, phonotactics and phonetic durations under intoxicated and sober conditions. We find that our phonetic-based system when combined with phonotactic features provides us with our best result on the official development set, an accuracy of 73% and an equal error rate of 26.3%, significantly higher than the official baseline.
title: The Covid-19 Crisis as an Ideological Armory for the Populist Right in Spain and Italy
Creators: name: Jaques-Apke, Amélie
Publisher: name: Forum Transregionale Studien e.V.
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Spanien
subject: Italien
subject: Demokratie
subject: Populismus
subject: Soziale Situation
subject: 946
subject: 945
subject: 32
subject: 300.9

description: As Europe begins to emerge from a troublesome part of the pandemic, we begin to evaluate emerging political damages. Now more than ever, we must understand how radical right populist parties design their message toward vulnerable, crisis-shaken populations. Disentangling common denominators of the various political strands subscribed to an approximate heterogeneous radical right-wing populist tradition, this interdisciplinary research project purports to explore the new populist radical right discourse triggered by the crisis in Spain and Italy, and to what extent its rhetoric can be substantiated by analysing how right-wing populist parties can corrode liberal democracies in times of crisis. The objective of this study is to reflect critically on the interplay between democracy and populism, exploring recent discursive developments of the parties Vox and The League and its power relations, which are linked to the exogenous shocks provoked by the pandemic. The author used qualitative techniques of content analysis, and conducted interviews with scholars and political actors, and group discussions with local actors for several months.
description: Working Papers, Forum Transregionale Studien, vol. 16/2023
การวิเคราะห์แบ่งกลุ่มและการค้นหาโมดูลการทำงานของยีนจากข้อมูลการแสดงออกของยีนในรากมันสำปะหลัง
Creators: name: พรทิพย์ เดชพิชัย
Publisher: name: King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi
Year: 2021
Subjects: Gene Clustering Analysis
Gene Expression
Cassava

description: KMUTT Research and Development Journal, 44, 3, 485-499
On the Decay of Massive Fields in de Sitter
Creators: name: Jatkar, Dileep P.
name: Leblond, Louis
name: Rajaraman, Arvind
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Interacting massive fields with m > d H/2 in d+1 dimensional de Sitter space are fundamentally unstable. Scalar fields in this mass range can decay to themselves. This process (which is kinematically forbidden in Minkowski space) can lead to an important change to the propagator and the physics of these fields. We compute this decay rate by doing a 1-loop computation for a massive scalar field with a cubic interaction. We resum the 1-loop result by consistently solving the Schwinger-Dyson equations. We also perform an explicit resummation of all chain graphs in the case of the retarded propagator. The decay rate is exponentially suppressed for large m/H and the flat space answer (vanishing decay rate) is reproduced in that limit.
description: 23 pages, 7 figures; v2 corrected the discussion for the F propagator. Final results are unchanged
What is the Future of Libraries in Academic Research
Creators: name: Hickerson, H. Thomas
name: Brosz, John
name: Goopy, Suzanne E.
Publisher: name: Libraries and Cultural Resources
Year: 2018
Subjects: Academic Research and University Libraries: Creating a New Model for Collaboration
Multidisciplinary Research Infrastructure: The Role of 21st Century Libraries
research platform
academic libraries
multidisciplinary research
research
research administration
Empathic Cultural Mapping
knowledge translation and exchange
Urban Healthscapes: Empathic Cultural Mapping

description: Project Briefing at the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Fall Meeting 2018. Video of presentation is online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue_8_FRhQdk&feature=youtu.be.
description: Research has changed, have libraries? Research at the University of Calgary has identified a constellation of services necessary to enable today's multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research. This session will address the nature of evolving challenges and explore steps critical to the future of research libraries. With support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Libraries and Cultural Resources is seeking to instantiate a combination of services, expertise, and infrastructure through direct partnerships between library staff and scholars in a diversity of research endeavors. This research, enabled by competitive sub-grants, has ranged from providing real-time public access to arctic sensors to digitization and textual analysis of early science fiction writings to a repository for 3D scans of cultural heritage sites. This process will be examined from the perspective of the Project Coordinator, John Brosz, detailing the nature and results of direct participation by library staff in the various research projects and in the re-envisioning of library space as a constantly changing research lab. Suzanne Goopy, a social anthropologist and lead investigator in one of the funded projects, will illustrate her team's introduction of empathetic cultural mapping -- an approach that blends personal stories with population-level data. She will provide a researcher's perspective on how this experience has produced for her and her team a new understanding of the scope of library services and the opportunities for substantive collaboration. Tom Hickerson will address the critical importance of implementing a functional infrastructure and adopting a new model for the role of the library in campus research. He will describe the potential impact of this redefinition on libraries and on their continuing relevance in the research enterprise.
Born Rule and Noncontextual Probability
Creators: name: Logiurato, Fabrizio
name: Smerzi, Augusto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The probabilistic rule that links the formalism of Quantum Mechanics (QM) to the real world was stated by Born in 1926. Since then, there were many attempts to derive the Born postulate as a theorem, Gleason's being the most prominent. The Gleason derivation, however, is generally considered rather intricate and its physical meaning, in particular in relation with the noncontextuality of probability (NP), is not quite evident. More recently, we are witnessing a revival of interest in possible demonstrations of the Born rule, like Zurek's and Deutsch's based on the decoherence and on the theory of decisions, respectively. Despite an ongoing debate about the presence of hidden assumptions and circular reasonings, these have the merit of prompting more physically oriented approaches to the problem. Here we suggest a new proof of the Born rule based on the noncontextuality of probability. Within the theorem we also demonstrate the continuity of probability with respect to the amplitudes, which has been suggested to be a gap in Zurek's and Deutsch's approaches, and we show that NP is implicitly postulated also in their demonstrations. Finally, physical motivations of NP are given based on an invariance principle with respect to a resolution change of measurements and with respect to the principle of no-faster-than-light signalling.
description: 10 pages
Next Generation Design: The Taylor Family Digital Library
Creators: name: Hickerson, H. Thomas
Publisher: name: Libraries and Cultural Resources
Year: 2019
Subjects: Taylor Family Digital Library
library design
high density library storage
student learning space
future of libraries
library technology infrastructure
library technologies
designing permeable spaces
collaborative learning
visualization display wall
Lab NEXT
Nickle Galleries
raised flooring
permeable space

description: Presentation at the Society for Society for College and University Planners (SCUP) 2019 National Conference, Workshop on Permeability: A Driver of Change and Cutting-edge Learning Spaces, Seattle, USA
Ultra Steep Spectrum radio sources in the Lockman Hole: SERVS identifications and redshift distribution at the faintest radio fluxes
Creators: name: Afonso, J.
name: Bizzocchi, L.
name: Ibar, E.
name: Grossi, M.
name: Simpson, C.
name: Chapman, S.
name: Jarvis, M. J.
name: Rottgering, H.
name: Norris, R. P.
name: Dunlop, J.
name: Ivison, R. J.
name: Messias, H.
name: Pforr, J.
name: Vaccari, M.
name: Seymour, N.
name: Best, P.
name: González-Solares, E.
name: Farrah, D.
name: Fernandes, C. A. C.
name: Huang, J. -S.
name: Lacy, M.
name: Maraston, C.
name: Marchetti, L.
name: Mauduit, J. -C.
name: Oliver, S.
name: Rigopoulou, D.
name: Stanford, S. A.
name: Surace, J.
name: Zeimann, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ultra Steep Spectrum (USS) radio sources have been successfully used to select powerful radio sources at high redshifts (z>~2). Typically restricted to large-sky surveys and relatively bright radio flux densities, it has gradually become possible to extend the USS search to sub-mJy levels, thanks to the recent appearance of sensitive low-frequency radio facilities. Here a first detailed analysis of the nature of the faintest USS sources is presented. By using Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope and Very Large Array radio observations of the Lockman Hole at 610 MHz and 1.4 GHz, a sample of 58 USS sources, with 610 MHz integrated fluxes above 100 microJy, is assembled. Deep infrared data at 3.6 and 4.5 micron from the Spitzer Extragalactic Representative Volume Survey (SERVS) is used to reliably identify counterparts for 48 (83%) of these sources, showing an average total magnitude of [3.6](AB)=19.8 mag. Spectroscopic redshifts for 14 USS sources, together with photometric redshift estimates, improved by the use of the deep SERVS data, for a further 19 objects, show redshifts ranging from z=0.1 to z=2.8, peaking at z~0.6 and tailing off at high redshifts. The remaining 25 USS sources, with no redshift estimate, include the faintest [3.6] magnitudes, with 10 sources undetected at 3.6 and 4.5 micron (typically [3.6]>22-23 mag, from local measurements), which suggests the likely existence of higher redshifts among the sub-mJy USS population. The comparison with the Square Kilometre Array Design Studies Simulated Skies models indicate that Fanaroff-Riley type I radio sources and radio-quiet Active Galactic Nuclei may constitute the bulk of the faintest USS population, and raises the possibility that the high efficiency of the USS technique for the selection of high redshift sources remains even at the sub-mJy level.
description: Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal. 33 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables. v2: Corrected typos
Citizen Science in Earth Observation
Creators: name: Piera, Jaume
name: Soacha, Karen
name: Rodero, Carlos
name: Liñan, Sonia
name: Salvador, Xavier
name: Álvarez, Ana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Citizen Science, Citizen Observatories, Data Quality, Volunteer based observations, Marine Citizen Observatories, EuroGeo

description: Citizen Science is a potentially valuable source of data for Earth Observation. In this poster, presented in the EuroeGeo 2022 Workshop, we introduce two examples in different monitoring domains: (1) Monitoring water quality with low-cost (& DIY) sensors (2) Monitoring urban biodiversity with volunteers
การพัฒนาต้นแบบอุปกรณ์ตรวจวัดชนิดเคลื่อนที่สำหรับวัดความขนานของรางรถไฟ
Creators: name: มนูศักดิ์ จานทอง
Publisher: name: King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi
Year: 2021
Subjects: Train
Parallel
Rail
Measurement

description: KMUTT Research and Development Journal, 44, 3, 501-513
Frame Semantics in Text-to-Scene Generation
Creators: name: Coyne, Robert Eric
name: Rambow, Owen C.
name: Hirschberg, Julia Bell
name: Sproat, Richard
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Computer science
subject: Information technology
subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: 3D graphics scenes are difficult to create, requiring users to learn and utilize a series of complex menus, dialog boxes, and often tedious direct manipulation techniques. By giving up some amount of control afforded by such interfaces we have found that users can use natural language to quickly and easily create a wide variety of 3D scenes. Natural language offers an interface that is intuitive and immediately accessible by anyone, without requiring any special skill or training. The WordsEye system (http://www.wordseye.com) has been used by several thousand users on the web to create over 10,000 scenes. The system relies on a large database of 3D models and poses to depict entities and actions. We describe how the current version of the system incorporates the type of lexical and real-world knowledge needed to depict scenes from language.
New Flavor U(1)_F Symmetry for SUSY SU(5)
Creators: name: Tavartkiladze, Zurab
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Within supersymmetric SU(5) Grand Unified Theory, we present several new scenarios with anomaly free flavor symmetry U(1)_F. Within each scenario, a variety of cases offer many possibilities for phenomenologically interesting model building. We present three concrete and economical models with anomaly free U(1)_F leading to natural understanding of observed hierarchies between charged fermion masses and CKM mixing angles.
description: As appear in PLB
Collecting Semantic Data by Mechanical Turk for the Lexical Knowledge Resource of a Text-to-Picture Generating System
Creators: name: Rouhizadeh, Masoud
name: Bowler, Margit
name: Sproat, Richard
name: Coyne, Robert Eric
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Computer science
Information technology

description: WordsEye is a system for automatically converting natural language text into 3D scenes representing the meaning of that text. At the core of WordsEye is the Scenario-Based Lexical Knowledge Resource (SBLR), a unified knowledge base and representational system for expressing lexical and real-world knowledge needed to depict scenes from text. To enrich a portion of the SBLR, we need to fill out some contextual information about its objects, including information about their typical parts, typical locations and typical objects located near them. This paper explores our proposed methodology to achieve this goal. First we try to collect some semantic information by using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (AMT). Then, we manually filter and classify the collected data and finally, we compare the manual results with the output of some automatic filtration techniques which use several WordNet similarity and corpus association measures.
Correction to the Chiral Magnetic Effect from axial-vector interaction
Creators: name: Zhang, Zhao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recent lattice calculation at finite axial chemical potential suggests that the induced current density of the chiral magnetic effect (CME) is somehow suppressed comparing with the standard analytical formula. We show in a NJL-type model of QCD that such a suppression is a natural result when considering the influence of the attractive axial-vector interaction. We point out that the lattice result doesn't need to be quantitatively consistent with the analytical formula due to the chirality density-density correlation. We also investigate the nonperturbative effect of instanton molecules on the CME. Since an unconventional repulsive axial-vector interaction is induced, the CME will be enhanced significantly by the instanton-anti-instanton pairings. Such a prediction needs to be tested by more improved lattice simulations. We further demonstrate that the axial-vector interaction plays an important role on the $T-μ_A$ phase diagram.
description: 9 pages,5 figures, references added, some comments modified. Final version for PRD
title: Рентгеновские методы анализа
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Северо-Кавказский федеральный университет
Year: 2022

description: Пособие включает лабораторные работы, в которых изложены основные теоретические вопросы по всем разделам, приведено теоретическое обоснование методов, использованных в лабораторных работах, приведены схемы установок с описанием принципа их действия и указаниями по технике безопасности, подробно описан порядок выполнения работ. Предназначено для студентов направления подготовки 28.03.02 Наноинженерия и составлено в соответствии с требованиями ФГОС ВО.
Data Collection and Normalization for Building the Scenario-Based Lexical Knowledge Resource of a Text-to-Scene Conversion System
Creators: name: Rouhizadeh, Masoud
name: Bowler, Margit
name: Sproat, Richard
name: Coyne, Robert Eric
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Computer science
subject: Information technology
subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: WordsEye is a system for converting from English text into three-dimensional graphical scenes that represent that text. It works by performing syntactic and semantic analyses on the input text, producing a description of the arrangement of objects in a scene. At the core of WordsEye is the Scenario-Based Lexical Knowledge Resource (SBLR), a unified knowledge base and representational system for expressing lexical
and real-world knowledge needed to depict scenes from text. This paper explores information collection methods for building the SBLR, using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (AMT) and manual normalization of raw AMT data. The paper follows with manual review of existing relations in the SBLR and classification of the AMT data into existing and new semantic relations. Since manual annotation is a time-consuming and expensive approach, we also explored the use of automatic normalization of AMT data through log-odds and log-likelihood ratios extracted from the English Gigaword corpus, as well as through WordNet similarity measures.
DIVINE BALANCE: STUDY OF SACRED MEANINGS ACROSS RELIGIONS
Creators: name: Tanuj Namboodri,
name: Vikas Kumar Jha
name: Maroof Khan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This article explores the concept of androgyny and its representation in various religions and belief systems. The idea of energy balance between male and female is depicted in numerous religious symbols, such as Shivling, the Yin Yang symbol in Taoism, and the Hexagram in multiple religions. The article delves into the beliefs of different religions, including Islam, Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, and how they emphasize the importance of balance between masculine and feminine energies. Ultimately, the article highlights the importance of divine balance of energy which is important to bring balance and harmony.
FDI Perspectives: Issues in International Investment, 2nd Edition
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Finance
Commerce

description: Foreign direct investment by multinational enterprises continues to be a key mechanism integrating the production systems of individual countries. Not surprisingly, this process -- which, in many ways, represents the productive core of the world economy and is more intrusive than trade -- gives rise to a range of issues. The purpose of the Columbia FDI Perspectives is to address these issues in a concise, easily understandable and policy-oriented
manner. The Perspectives are distributed widely. In January 2011, the Perspectives issued until then were brought together in the first edition of FDI Perspectives: Issues in International Investment, edited by Karl P. Sauvant, Lisa Sachs, Ken Davies, and Ruben Zandvliet, published by the Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment. Since then, nearly 50 Perspectives have been issued, covering a wide range of topics; they are all brought together (in addition to those contained in the first edition) in the present volume.
title: Prüfbericht G 2159 : Flachstrahldüse Hypro ULDM 130-08, baugleich mit John Deere PSULDM3008 (Kunststoff, weiß) ; Anerkannt für das Spritzen im Ackerbau
Creators: name: JKI-Institut Für Anwendungstechnik Im Pflanzenschutz
Publisher: name: Bundesbehörden und Einrichtungen im Geschäftsbereich des Bundesministeriums für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft (BMEL)
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 630

description: Geräteprüfberichte des JKI
Creating a New Collaborative Future: The Evolving Role of Libraries in Today's Academic Research
Creators: name: Hickerson, H. Thomas
Publisher: name: Libraries and Cultural Resources
Year: 2018
Subjects: Multidisciplinary Research Infrastructure: The Role of 21st Century Libraries
Academic Research and University Libraries: Creating a New Model for Collaboration
academic libraries
research
multidisciplinary research
research administration
research platform

description: Presentation at Jisc and CNI Leadership Conference 2018, Oxford, UK.
Natural Quintessence in String Theory
Creators: name: Cicoli, Michele
name: Pedro, Francisco G.
name: Tasinato, Gianmassimo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a natural model of quintessence in string theory where the light rolling scalar is radiatively stable and couples to Standard Model matter with weaker-than- Planckian strength. The model is embedded in an anisotropic type IIB compactification with two exponentially large extra dimensions and TeV-scale gravity. The bulk turns out to be nearly supersymmetric since the scale of the gravitino mass is of the order of the observed value of the cosmological constant. The quintessence field is a modulus parameterising the size of an internal four-cycle which naturally develops a potential of the order (gravitino mass)^4, leading to a small dark energy scale without tunings. The mass of the quintessence field is also radiatively stable since it is protected by supersymmetry in the bulk. Moreover, this light scalar couples to ordinary matter via its mixing with the volume mode. Due to the fact that the quintessence field is a flat direction at leading order, this mixing is very small, resulting in a suppressed coupling to Standard Model particles which avoids stringent fifth-force constraints. On the other hand, if dark matter is realised in terms of Kaluza-Klein states, unsuppressed couplings between dark energy and dark matter can emerge, leading to a scenario of coupled quintessence within string theory. We study the dynamics of quintessence in our set-up, showing that its main features make it compatible with observations.
description: 26 pages
Guiding Principles, Evolving Change, Footprint for the Future
Creators: name: Hickerson, H. Thomas
Publisher: name: Libraries and Cultural Resources
Year: 2018
Subjects: Taylor Family Digital Library
library design
student learning space
new synthesis for library collections
metadata services
high density library storage
future of libraries

description: Presentation at Designing Libraries VII Preconference: Organizational Change, Facilities, and Workflow. Calgary.
Finite-temperature mutual information in a simple phase transition
Creators: name: Wilms, J.
name: Vidal, J.
name: Verstraete, F.
name: Dusuel, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the finite-temperature behavior of the Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick model, with a focus on correlation properties as measured by the mutual information. The latter, which quantifies the amount of both classical and quantum correlations, is computed exactly in the two limiting cases of vanishing magnetic field and vanishing temperature. For all other situations, numerical results provide evidence of a finite mutual information at all temperatures except at criticality. There, it diverges as the logarithm of the system size, with a prefactor that can take only two values, depending on whether the critical temperature vanishes or not. Our work provides a simple example in which the mutual information appears as a powerful tool to detect finite-temperature phase transitions, contrary to entanglement measures such as the concurrence.
description: 12 pages, 9 figures, published version
Developing Research Platforms: New Roles for New Libraries
Creators: name: Hickerson, H. Thomas
Publisher: name: Libraries and Cultural Resources
Year: 2015
Subjects: academic libraries
research platform
multidisciplinary research
visualization display wall
Taylor Family Digital Library
library technology infrastructure
LCR Next Strategic Plan
Multidisciplinary Research Infrastructure: The Role of 21st Century Libraries

description: Designing Libraries IV. Raleigh, USA.
Professional Leadership and Realizing 21st Century Convergence at the University of Calgary
Creators: name: Hickerson, Thomas
name: Hickerson, H. Thomas
Publisher: name: Libraries and Cultural Resources
Year: 2010
Subjects: Taylor Family Digital Library
management strategy
academic libraries
libraries
special collections
library administration
campus planning
high density library storage
library technology infrastructure
raised flooring
Nickle Galleries
library design
architectural design
student learning space
library interior design

description: Calgary Public Library Leadership Series
“Ingenuous Investigators”: Antonio Vallisneri’s Correspondents and the
Making of Natural Knowledge in 18th-century Italy
Creators: name: Dal Prete, Ivano
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Science--Philosophy
Science
History

description: In the last two centuries, science has been regarded as the most important agent of change and progress in our society. The narrative of how and why it came to be such a commanding force contributed powerfully to this perception. The rise of modern science has long been portrayed as the triumph of human reason over superstition and authority; its history, a gallery adorned with the images of heroes like Copernicus, Galileo or Darwin who upheld self-evident facts against the prejudices of their times; experimental results and the laws of nature, the only objective “truths” that human beings could attain and agree upon. This narrative still largely informs popular views of the scientific enterprise; yet, the image of science as a disinterested pursuit of truth has come increasingly under question during the last decades, to the point that mistrust of science as a source of objectivie knowledge is considered a defining feature of postmodernity. The history of science as an academic discipline has long participated in this trend,1 but it was not until the 1980s that it ceased to identify with the development of ideas and theories, as formulated by the most illustrious scientists. In their influential 1985 book Leviathan and the Air Pump, Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer argued that experimental results ultimately represent no more than social constructions, negotiated according to the conventions that regulate the acknowledgement of authority and credibility.2 A few years later, Mario Biagioli sought to explain part of Galileo’s scientific activity (and even his trial) in terms of the courtly culture and values of his time.3
Redesigning the Researcher-Library Experience
Creators: name: Hickerson, H. Thomas
name: Brosz, John
Publisher: name: Libraries and Cultural Resources
Year: 2019
Subjects: research
academic libraries
research experience
multidisciplinary research
Academic Research and University Libraries: Creating a New Model for Collaboration

description: Project Briefing at the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Fall Meeting 2019
description: Libraries have developed ways of designing their online user experience and student experience. What is our design method for research? Researchers no longer depend on libraries for “search” and the resources purchased and licensed are of diminishing centrality. Providing new functional services, infrastructure, and expertise is essential. Services such as data curation, visualization, and geospatial analytics are now core capabilities. Capacities such as metadata, digitization, and copyright are being deployed in new ways. Library expertise and collaborative spaces are of critical importance. Yet, these often remain hidden by traditional image of libraries, or by organizational models obscuring vital points of intersection for both researchers and library staff. In this session, we will identify essential elements derived from case studies and offer recommendations and checklists for assessing, redesigning, and repositioning the library’s presence in campus research.
Kinetic Wave Turbulence
Creators: name: Eyink, Gregory L.
name: Shi, Yi-Kang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a general model of Hamiltonian wave systems with triple resonances, in the standard kinetic limit of a continuum of weakly interacting dispersive waves with random phases. In this asymptotic limit we show that the correct dynamical equation for multimode amplitude distributions is not the well-known equation of Peierls but is instead a reduced equation with only a subset of the terms in that equation. The equations that we derive are the direct analogue of the Boltzmann hierarchy obtained from the BBGKY hierarchy in the low-density limit for gases. We show that the asymptotic multimode equations possess factorized solutions for factorized initial data, which correspond to preservation in time of the property of "random phases & amplitudes". The factors satisfy the equations for the 1-mode probability density functions previously derived by Jakobsen & Newell and Choi et al. We show that the factorization of the hierarchy equations implies that these quantities are self-averaging: they satisfy the wave-kinetic closure equations of the spectrum and 1-mode PDF for almost any selection of phases and amplitudes from the initial ensemble. We show that both of these closure equations satisfy an H-theorem for an entropy defined by Boltzmann's prescription. We also characterize the general solutions of our multimode distribution equations, for initial conditions with random phases but with no assumptions on the amplitudes. Analogous to a result of Spohn for the Boltzmann hierarchy, these are "super-statistical solutions" that correspond to ensembles of solutions of the wave-kinetic closure equations with random initial conditions or random forces. On the basis of our results, we discuss possible kinetic explanations of intermittency and non-Gaussian statistics in wave turbulence.
description: 38 pages, 21 figures
title: Test Report G 2159 : Flatfan nozzle Hypro ULDM130-08 (Plastic, white), identical to John Deere PSULDM3008 ; Approved for spraying field crops
Creators: name: JKI- Institut Für Anwendungstechnik Im Pflanzenschutz
Publisher: name: Bundesbehörden und Einrichtungen im Geschäftsbereich des Bundesministeriums für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft (BMEL)
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 600

description: Geräteprüfberichte des JKI
Probabilistic models, methods, and software for evaluating risk to civil infrastructure
Creators: name: Mahsuli, Mojtaba
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: The fundamental objective in this thesis is to advance the state-of-the-art in the field of infrastructure risk analysis. To meet this objective, probabilistic models, methods, and software are developed and applied. The work is conducted within a new reliability-based approach, in which reliability methods are employed to compute risk. Risk, in this context, means the probability of exceeding monetary loss. Evaluating such probabilities requires probabilistic models for hazards, response, damage, and loss. This motivates the contributions in this thesis, which are summarized as follows: First, a new computer program, called Rt, is developed. It is tailored to conduct reliability analysis with many probabilistic models. It orchestrates the interaction of models by means of a new object-oriented software design. Each model and analysis algorithm is represented by an object. As a result, new models and algorithms are easily implemented without modifying existing code. Another novelty is the parameterization of uncertainties, decisions, and model responses. This has several implications; one being that, in each step of an analysis, only the models affected by new parameter realizations are evaluated. Another novelty is the computation of “direct differentiation” response sensitivities in a multi-model analysis. Second, a library of new probabilistic models are developed and implemented in Rt. The models are intended for use in regional seismic risk analysis. The library includes new models for location and magnitude of earthquakes, and response, damage, and loss of building. The library also features damage and loss models for entire regions. Third, the models are applied in a risk analysis for the Vancouver metropolitan region in Canada. The primary results are “loss curves” and “hazard curves,” which show the probability of exceeding loss and spectral acceleration, respectively. As another example of results, it is found that Richmond is the most vulnerable municipality. Finally, new sensitivity measures are developed to prioritize the allocation of resources to mitigate risk and to reduce model uncertainty. In particular, these measures identify the buildings whose retrofit yields the most reduction in regional risk. They also identify the models whose improvement yields the most reduction in uncertainty.
Character expansion for HOMFLY polynomials. III. All 3-Strand braids in the first symmetric representation
Creators: name: Itoyama, H.
name: Mironov, A.
name: Morozov, A.
name: Morozov, An.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We continue the program of systematic study of extended HOMFLY polynomials. Extended polynomials depend on infinitely many time variables, are close relatives of integrable tau-functions, and depend on the choice of the braid representation of the knot. They possess natural character decompositions, with coefficients which can be defined by exhaustively general formula for any particular number m of strands in the braid and any particular representation R of the Lie algebra GL(\infty). Being restricted to "the topological locus" in the space of time variables, the extended HOMFLY polynomials reproduce the ordinary knot invariants. We derive such a general formula, for m=3, when the braid is parameterized by a sequence of integers (a_1,b_1,a_2,b_2,...), and for the first non-fundamental representation R=[2]. Instead of calculating the mixing matrices directly, we deduce them from comparison with the known answers for torus and composite knots. A simple reflection symmetry converts the answer for the symmetric representation [2] into that for the antisymmetric one [1,1]. The result applies, in particular, to the figure eight knot 4_1, and was further extended to superpolynomials in arbitrary symmetric and antisymmetric representations in arXiv:1203.5978.
description: 22 pages + Tables of knot polynomials
Effects of peripartal energy supply and nicotinic acid supplementation on functional activity and gene expression of blood leukocytes and on serum antioxidant variables of periparturient dairy cows : [kumulative Dissertation]
Creators: name: Bühler, Susanne
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 630

description: Während der Transitperiode durchleben Milchkühe eine negative Energiebilanz, die sie durch erhöhte Lipolyse im Fettgewebe zu überwinden versuchen. Die daraus folgenden erhöhten Blutkonzentrationen an nicht veresterten Fettsäuren (NEFA) und ß-Hydroxybutyrat (BHB) beeinträchtigen die Funktion von Immunzellen des Blutes und tragen zur Immunsuppression während der Transitperiode bei. Niacin hat bekanntlich sowohl anti-lipolytische als auch entzündungshemmende und antioxidative Wirkungen, die für den Immunstatus der Kuh vorteilhaft sein könnten. Mit einem Fütterungsversuch, der darauf abzielte, Unterschiede im Grad der Lipolyse bei periparturienten Milchkühen hervorzurufen, wurden die Auswirkungen der peripartalen Energieversorgung und einer Nikotinsäure (NA) Supplementierung auf die funktionelle Aktivität von Blutleukozyten, deren Genexpression von mit Apoptose und oxidativem Stress assoziierten Genen sowie antioxidative Blutparameter untersucht. Zusammenfassend beeinflussten die Energieversorgung sowie die NA-Supplementierung die funktionelle Aktivität und die Genexpression von Blutleukozyten und antioxidative Serumparameter.
description: During the transition period, dairy cows experience a negative energy balance that they try to overcome by increased lipolysis in adipose tissue. The subsequently increased blood concentrations of non-esterified fatty acids (NEFA) and ß-hydroxybutyrate (BHB) are known to impair blood immune cell functions and contribute to the immune suppression in the transition period. Niacin is known to have anti-lipolytic as well as anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidative effects that may be beneficial to the immune status of the cow. With a feeding trial aimed at inducing differences in the degree of lipolysis in periparturient dairy cows, the effects of peripartal energy supply and nicotinic acid (NA) supplementation on the functional activity of blood leukocytes, their gene expression of apoptosis- and oxidative stress-related genes as well as on antioxidant blood parameters were evaluated. In summary, energy supply as well as NA supplementation affected the functional activity and gene expression of blood leukocytes and antioxidant serum parameters.
Spatial Relations in Text-to-Scene Conversion
Creators: name: Sproat, Richard
name: Coyne, Robert Eric
name: Hirschberg, Julia Bell
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Computer science
Information technology

description: Spatial relations play an important role in our understanding of language. In particular, they are a crucial component in descriptions of scenes in the world. WordsEye (www.wordseye.com) is a system for automatically converting natural language text into 3D scenes representing the meaning of that text. Natural language offers an interface to scene generation that is intuitive and immediately approachable by anyone, without any special skill or training. WordsEye has been used by several thousand users on the web to create approximately 15,000 fully rendered scenes. We describe how the system incorporates geometric and semantic knowledge about objects and their parts and the spatial relations that hold among these in order to depict spatial relations in 3D scenes.