cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Three essays on political institutions and environmental governance
Creators: Dumas, Marion Marie
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Environmental law
subject: Environmental policy
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: Sustainability

description: This dissertation analyzes how political competition and judicial institutions shape environmental governance in democratic societies. The three chapters frame environmental problems in several different ways. In the first chapter, environmental policy is framed as an ideologically contentious public good. In the second chapter, two conceptions are juxtaposed: the environment as just another policy domain subject to political haggling, or the environment as bringing about new fundamental commitments in society, prone to becoming constitutionalized through legal deliberation. In the third chapter, the dynamic properties of technological transitions toward more sustainable modes of production are emphasized.
      Different types of institutions are considered in the three chapters. The first two chapters examine how political and legal processes interact. They also consider the different ways in which they channel the inputs and wishes of civil society. Chapter one is a formal model of the institution of citizen suits – a prevalent institution in environmental governance – and its interaction with the legislature. It shows that the reshaping of laws by citizens and courts after their enactment by the legislature might improve the decision process of the legislature and the public good outcomes that ensue. Chapter two is an empirical analysis of the dynamics of environmental legal rules. It uses the network of citations to legal precedent to test whether the dynamic body of law governing the environment is driven by political shifts in power or follows a process that is autonomous from these shifts in power. The results suggest that environmental law is now constitutionalized – its main principles entrenched in democratic culture rather than subject to the ebb and flow of democratic turnover of power. Chapter three also considers the dynamic aspects of governance. It uses a computational model to examine how political parties with different ideological commitments towards renewable energy might strategically use the path-dependence of technological transitions to shape policy over the long-term. It also examines how electoral pressures might constrain or help them in this endeavor.
The architecture of belief
Creators: name: Fitzpatrick, John
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1989

description: This thesis examines the theoretical underpinnings of intentional realism-the view that cognitive science and psychology will quantify over states such as beliefs and desires. Intentional realism contains the following three elements. First, it attributes a certain type of state to a system whose behaviour it is attempting to explain. I introduce the distinction between Level One and Level Two analyses of systems. Intentional realism postulates Level Two states of the system. Second, the states intentional realism quantifies over are representational states of a certain sort. In chapter 5 I distinguish relatively coarse­ grained representational states, those that represent states of affairs, from fine­ grained ones, and it is the former which intentional realism quantifies over. Thirdly, in chapter 6, we see that these Level Two coarse-grained representational states are deemed to be the causes of, at least, non-verbal behaviour. I go on to argue that intentional realism is weak on two fronts. On the first front, I claim that it is under Level One analysis that one individuates the properties of a system that are criteria! of something's being a cognitive system, whereas The­ One-True-Cognitive-Psychology seems to postulate Level Two states of a system. I claim that the potential for the supporters of intentional realism making a Level mistake is very real. The second front has to do with whether or not there will be Level Two representational states of the sort that intentional realism requires. I argue in chapter 9 that there is a body of evidence which seems to count against intentional realism.
LACV-Net: Semantic Segmentation of Large-Scale Point Cloud Scene via Local Adaptive and Comprehensive VLAD
Creators: name: Zeng, Ziyin
name: Xu, Yongyang
name: Xie, Zhong
name: Tang, Wei
name: Wan, Jie
name: Wu, Weichao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Large-scale point cloud semantic segmentation is an important task in 3D computer vision, which is widely applied in autonomous driving, robotics, and virtual reality. Current large-scale point cloud semantic segmentation methods usually use down-sampling operations to improve computation efficiency and acquire point clouds with multi-resolution. However, this may cause the problem of missing local information. Meanwhile, it is difficult for networks to capture global information in large-scale distributed contexts. To capture local and global information effectively, we propose an end-to-end deep neural network called LACV-Net for large-scale point cloud semantic segmentation. The proposed network contains three main components: 1) a local adaptive feature augmentation module (LAFA) to adaptively learn the similarity of centroids and neighboring points to augment the local context; 2) a comprehensive VLAD module (C-VLAD) that fuses local features with multi-layer, multi-scale, and multi-resolution to represent a comprehensive global description vector; and 3) an aggregation loss function to effectively optimize the segmentation boundaries by constraining the adaptive weight from the LAFA module. Compared to state-of-the-art networks on several large-scale benchmark datasets, including S3DIS, Toronto3D, and SensatUrban, we demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed network.
A footnote to a theorem of Kawamata
Creators: name: Lopes, Margarida Mendes
name: Pardini, Rita
name: Tirabassi, Sofia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14E05, 14J10, 14K99, 14L40, 14R05

description: Kawamata has shown that the quasi-Albanese map of a quasi-projective variety with log-irregularity equal to the dimension and log-Kodaira dimension 0 is birational. In this note we show that under these hypotheses the quasi-Albanese map is proper in codimension 1 as conjectured by Iitaka.
description: Added an addendum by O. Fujino, M. Mendes Lopes, R. Pardini and S. Tirabassi that contains an alternative proof of Theorem A in the paper and explains how to avoid an unsubstantiated claim made in the original proof
A White-Box Adversarial Attack Against a Digital Twin
Creators: name: Patterson, Wilson
name: Fernandez, Ivan
name: Neupane, Subash
name: Parmar, Milan
name: Mittal, Sudip
name: Rahimi, Shahram
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recent research has shown that Machine Learning/Deep Learning (ML/DL) models are particularly vulnerable to adversarial perturbations, which are small changes made to the input data in order to fool a machine learning classifier. The Digital Twin, which is typically described as consisting of a physical entity, a virtual counterpart, and the data connections in between, is increasingly being investigated as a means of improving the performance of physical entities by leveraging computational techniques, which are enabled by the virtual counterpart. This paper explores the susceptibility of Digital Twin (DT), a virtual model designed to accurately reflect a physical object using ML/DL classifiers that operate as Cyber Physical Systems (CPS), to adversarial attacks. As a proof of concept, we first formulate a DT of a vehicular system using a deep neural network architecture and then utilize it to launch an adversarial attack. We attack the DT model by perturbing the input to the trained model and show how easily the model can be broken with white-box attacks.
Homotopy types of diffeomorphism groups of polar Morse-Bott foliations on lens spaces, 1
Creators: name: Khokhliuk, Oleksandra
name: Maksymenko, Sergiy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57R30, 57T20

description: Let $T= S^1\times D^2$ be the solid torus, $\mathcal{F}$ the Morse-Bott foliation on $T$ into $2$-tori parallel to the boundary and one singular circle $S^1\times 0$, which is the central circle of the torus $T$, and $\mathcal{D}(\mathcal{F},\partial T)$ the group of diffeomorphisms of $T$ fixed on $\partial T$ and leaving each leaf of the foliation $\mathcal{F}$ invariant. We prove that $\mathcal{D}(\mathcal{F},\partial T)$ is contractible.
 Gluing two copies of $T$ by some diffeomorphism between their boundaries, we will get a lens space $L_{p,q}$ with a Morse-Bott foliation $\mathcal{F}_{p,q}$ obtained from $\mathcal{F}$ on each copy of $T$. We also compute the homotopy type of the group $\mathcal{D}(\mathcal{F}_{p,q})$ of diffeomorphisms of $L_{p,q}$ leaving invariant each leaf of $\mathcal{F}_{p,q}$.
description: 37 pages, 2 figures, the content is essentially reworked
Non-simultaneous blow-up for a system with local and non-local diffusion
Creators: name: Del Pezzo, Leandro M.
name: Ferreira, Raul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study the possibility of non-simultaneous blow-up for positive solutions of a coupled system of two semilinear equations, $u_t = J*u-u+ u^αv^p$, $v_t =Δv^+u^qv^β$, $p, q, α, β>0$ with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions and positive initial data. We also give the blow-up rates for non-simultaneous blow-up.
description: 11 pages
The bosonic mother of fermionic D-branes
Creators: name: Chattaraputi, Auttakit
name: Englert, Francois
name: Houart, Laurent
name: Taormina, Anne
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend the search for fermionic subspaces of the bosonic string compactified on E8 X SO(16) lattices to include all fermionic D-branes. This extension constraints the truncation procedure previously proposed and relates the fermionic strings, supersymmetric or not, to the global structure of the SO(16) group. The specific properties of all the fermionic D-branes are found to be encoded in its universal covering, whose maximal toroid defines the configuration space torus of their mother bosonic theory.
description: Latex file, 4 figures, 49 pages
Additional file 1 of The application effectiveness of the “One Case to the End” teaching model based on BOPPPS in pediatric nursing: a quasi-experimental study
Creators: name: Xiao, Xuejun
name: Xie, Ying
name: Zhao, Xiangfeng
name: Dai, Xiaohong
name: Liang, Feng
name: Wang, Wanchao
name: Zhang, Xianhua
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1.
Европейская ассоциация специалистов по детской и подростковой гинекологии (EURAPAG): исторические аспекты, деятельность в настоящее время и перспективы на будущее
Creators: name: Бумбулине Жанна
name: Садаускас Евалдас
Publisher: name: Репродуктивное здоровье детей и подростков
Year: 2019
Subjects: детская и подростковая гинекология
Европейская ассоциация детской и подростковой гинекологии

description: Детская и подростковая гинекология (ДПГ) – это междисциплинарная область, сочетающая в себе гинекологию, некоторые аспекты педиатрии, эндокринологии и генетики. В данной статье представлена история Европейской ассоциации детской и подростковой гинекологии (European Association of Paediatric and Adolescent Gynecology, EURAPAG) и ДПГ в Европе, а также описаны текущее состояние и перспективы ДПГ в Европе. EURAPAG рекомендует следующие медицинские услуги ДПГ в Европе: руководство по профилактическому репродуктивному здоровью; консультирование и скрининг; общение с учетом возраста пациента; применение минимально инвазивных принципов хирургии при лечении объемных образований в яичниках и других состояний ДПГ; предоставление междисциплинарной помощи при необходимости; создание специализированных услуг ДПГ в Европе.
Towards a machine learning pipeline in reduced order modelling for inverse problems: neural networks for boundary parametrization, dimensionality reduction and solution manifold approximation
Creators: name: Ivagnes, Anna
name: Demo, Nicola
name: Rozza, Gianluigi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this work, we propose a model order reduction framework to deal with inverse problems in a non-intrusive setting. Inverse problems, especially in a partial differential equation context, require a huge computational load due to the iterative optimization process. To accelerate such a procedure, we apply a numerical pipeline that involves artificial neural networks to parametrize the boundary conditions of the problem in hand, compress the dimensionality of the (full-order) snapshots, and approximate the parametric solution manifold. It derives a general framework capable to provide an ad-hoc parametrization of the inlet boundary and quickly converges to the optimal solution thanks to model order reduction. We present in this contribution the results obtained by applying such methods to two different CFD test cases.
Generalized fixed point algebras and square-integrable group actions
Creators: name: Meyer, Ralf
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46L55, 46L08, 22D10

description: We analzye Rieffel's construction of generalized fixed point algebras in the setting of group actions on Hilbert modules. Let G be a locally compact group acting on a C*-algebra B. We construct a Hilbert module F over the reduced crossed product of G and B, using a pair (E, R), where E is an equivariant Hilbert module over B and R is a dense subspace of E with certain properties. The generalized fixed point algebra is the C*-algebra of compact operators on F. Any Hilbert module over the reduced crossed product arises by this construction for a pair (E, R) that is unique up to isomorphism. A necessary condition for the existence of R is that E be square-integrable. The consideration of square-integrable representations of Abelian groups on Hilbert space shows that this condition is not sufficient and that different choices for R may yield different generalized fixed point algebras. If B is proper in Kasparov's sense, there is a unique R with the required properties. Thus the generalized fixed point algebra only depends on E.
description: 19 pages
Three-Manifold Mutations Detected by Heegaard Floer Homology
Creators: Clarkson, Corrin
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Given a self-diffeomorphism h of a closed, orientable surface S with genus greater than one and an embedding f of S into a three-manifold M, we construct a mutant manifold by cutting M along f(S) and regluing by h. We will consider whether there exist nontrivial gluings such that for any embedding, the manifold M and its mutant have isomorphic Heegaard Floer homology. In particular, we will demonstrate that if h is not isotopic to the identity map, then there exists an embedding of S into a three-manifold M such that the rank of the non-torsion summands of HF-hat of M differs from that of its mutant. We will also show that if the gluing map is isotopic to neither the identity nor the genus-two hyperelliptic involution, then there exists an embedding of S into a three-manifold M such that the total rank of HF-hat of M differs from that of its mutant.
Laser-Assisted Self-Induced Feshbach resonance for ultracold polar molecule formation
Creators: name: Adrien, Devolder
name: Eliane, Luc-Koenig
name: Osman, Atabek
name: Michèle, Desouter-Lecomte
name: Olivier, Dulieu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a new type of Feshbach resonance occurring when two different ultracold atoms in their ground state undergo an s-wave collision in the presence of a continuous-wave laser light. The atoms collide in the dissociation continuum of the molecular electronic ground state which is coupled by the light to a rovibrational level of the same electronic ground state: we name this a Laser-Assisted Self-Induced Feshbach Resonance (LASIFR). This mechanism, valid for all polar molecules, is analyzed on the example of ultracold 87Rb and 84Sr atoms, for which the laser frequency falls in the THz range. The control of the LASIFR with the laser frequency and intensity allows for a strong increase of the pair probability density at short distances, which tremendously increases the number of atoms pairs transfered toward the absolute ground state level by STImulated Rapid Adiabatic Passage (STIRAP). The LASIFR results in the observation of a standard Fano profile in the pump transition of the STIRAP process, and is also promising for the optical control of the interspecies scattering length without atom losses.
MOESM1 of N-terminal domain replacement changes an archaeal monoacylglycerol lipase into a triacylglycerol lipase
Creators: name: Surabhi Soni
name: Sathe, Sneha
name: Rutuja Sheth
name: Tiwari, Prince
name: Rajesh-Kumar Vadgama
name: Annamma Odaneth
name: Lali, Arvind
name: Chandrayan, Sanjeev
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1. Amino acid sequence of TON-LPL, rc-TGL and TLIP.
Evaluation and implementation of practical energy savings measures for UBC’s indoor and outdoor swimming pools
Creators: name: Giffin, Jeff
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: The following is a proposal to modify the heating system of the Aquatic Center and Empire Pool such that both pools are heated with steam condensate collected from neighboring buildings. The proposed Neighborhood Condensate Heat Recovery Project will provide 100% of the heating requirements for UBC’s indoor and outdoor swimming pools and generate immediate operational savings from reductions in water, energy, and greenhouse gas emissions. The project will: • Save an estimated 10,000m3 of water per annum • Reduce steam production by 13,000 KLBS/yr (1.7% of annual production) • Reduce natural gas consumption through improved steam system efficiency of 9400 GJ/yr • Reduce campus Greenhouse gas emissions by 468 tonnes/yr (0.75%) • Provide compatible infrastructure for future hot water district energy system • Cost an estimated $428,000 CAD • Generate savings for UBC Utilities of $272,000 per annum • Payback in 1.6 years Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report”.
Dialog identitar în lumea modei și frumuseții interbelice: Paris-București / Identity Dialogue in the World of Interwar Fashion and Beauty: Paris-Bucharest
Creators: name: Andras, Sonia
Publisher: name: Hamangiu
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Fashion--Study and teaching
subject: Romania
subject: Fashion
subject: France--Paris
subject: Culture--Study and teaching

description: This paper proposes a journey between Bucharest viewed as Little Paris and the original Paris, to determine the way in which the two capitals communicated with each other, whether it was based on dynamic interactions, beyond a simplistic Parisian dialogue. I will interpret Little Paris as an identity construction, clearly mirrored in the universe created on fashionable boulevards like Calea Victoriei, integrated into the national and international contexts. Furthermore, I will analyse the women's fashion in interwar Bucharest as a reflection of economic, political and social realities within Romania in its relationship with both modernity and tradition. I will also utilize nationally and locally spread publications originating from Bucharest, through articles, ads and images offering information about the Romanian capital's social life, as well as the conceptual, stylistic and commercial influence exercised by Paris. I will present the special case of the Miss Romania beauty pageants between 1929 and the late 1930s for a clear manifestation of the way in which social selection and beauty theories were implemented through such events, yet at the same time offering a means of increasing Romania's international prestige for promoters of modernity in Bucharest, especially connected to the idea of the so-called "new woman." Moreover, I will provide relevant examples from the cultural and artistic world, dividing the French context, with Sonia Delaunay and her connection with Tristan Tzara and especially with Lizica Codreanu with her own links to Constantin Brâncuși, and for the Romanian context I will use the relationships between Romanian fashion icons and noted couturiers, namely Princess Marthe Bibesco and Coco Chanel, Alice Cocea and Cristobal Balenciaga, and Elvire Popesco and Marcelle Dormoy.
Keywords: interwar, Bucharest, fashion, gender, beauty, style, Romania
Gravitational Quantum Limit for Length Measurements
Creators: name: Jaekel, Marc-Thierry
name: Reynaud, Serge
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss a limit for sensitivity of length measurements which is due to the effect of vacuum fluctuations of gravitational field. This limit is associated with irreducible quantum fluctuations of geodesic distances and it is characterized by a noise spectrum with an order of magnitude mainly determined by Planck length. The gravitational vacuum fluctuations may (in an analysis restricted to questions of principle and when the measurement strategy is optimized) dominate fluctuations added by the measurement apparatus if macroscopic masses, i.e. masses larger than Planck mass, are used.
description: 6 pages
Topology Change and Causal Continuity
Creators: name: Dowker, Fay
name: Surya, Sumati
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The result that, for a scalar quantum field propagating on a ``trousers'' topology in 1+1 dimensions, the crotch singularity is a source for an infinite burst of energy has been used to argue against the occurrence of topology change in quantum gravity. We draw attention to a conjecture due to Sorkin that it may be the particular type of topology change involved in the trousers transition that is problematic and that other topology changes may not cause the same difficulties. The conjecture links the singular behaviour to the existence of ``causal discontinuities'' in the spacetime and relies on a classification of topology changes using Morse theory. We investigate various topology changing transitions, including the pair production of black holes and of topological geons, in the light of these ideas.
description: Latex, 28 pages, 10 figures, small changes in text (one figure removed), conclusions remain unchanged. Accepted for publication in Physical Review D
Threonine Phosphorylation Regulates Two-Component Systems Involved in Cell Wall Metabolism
Creators: Goss, Lindsie Adela
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biology

description: Bacteria must be able to respond and rapidly adapt to their environment. Historically, this has been studied in the context of two-component systems (TCS). TCS are composed of a sensor histidine kinase that upon activation autophosphorylates a conserved histidine residue and then transfers this phosphate to a response regulator at a conserved aspartate residue. This phosphorylation event leads to dimerization of the response regulator and its subsequent activation, which in many cases, is transcriptional activation. In addition to this classical signaling paradigm, bacteria also contain eukaryotic-like serine/threonine kinases (eSTK). In the past decade these kinases and their partner eukaryotic-like phosphatases have been characterized. However, their in vivo substrates still remain largely unknown. My thesis project describes how eukaryotic-like serine/threonine kinases regulate classical two-component systems involved in cell wall metabolism. In my first project, the Bacillus subtilis eSTK PrkC phosphorylates the essential response regulator WalR. This modification enhances WalR activity and has pronounced transcriptional and physiological effects. I have also shown that this mechanism of regulation is conserved in the clinically relevant pathogen Staphylococcus aureus. My second project focuses on the role of Enterococcus faecalis eSTK IreK and its phosphorylation of the VanB-type vancomycin resistance histidine kinase VanS. My evidence suggests that threonine phosphorylation of IreK is required for full induction of the VanRS regulon genes and subsequently full vancomycin resistance. Together, these projects highlight how threonine phosphorylation of classical two-component systems is an important mechanism of regulation. Finally, I have done work with eSTKs from gram-negative bacteria and optimized conditions for their expression and activity in vitro.
Measuring Oscillations with A Million Atmospheric Neutrinos
Creators: name: Argüelles, C. A.
name: Fernández, P.
name: Martínez-Soler, I.
name: Jin, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: After two decades of measurements, neutrino physics is now advancing into the precision era. Withthe long-baseline experiments designed to tackle current open questions, a new query arises: can atmospheric neutrino experiments also play a role? To that end, we analyze the expected sensitivity of current and near-future water(ice)-Cherenkov atmospheric neutrino experiments in the context of standard three-flavor neutrino oscillations. In this first in depth combined atmospheric neutrino analysis, we analyze the current shared systematic uncertainties arising from the common flux and neutrino-water interactions. We then implement the systematic uncertainties of each experiment in detail and develop the atmospheric neutrino simulations for Super-Kamiokande, with and without neutron-tagging capabilities, IceCube Upgrade, ORCA, and Hyper-Kamiokande detectors. We carefully review the synergies and features of these experiments to examine the potential of a joint analysis of these atmospheric neutrino data in resolving the $θ_{23}$ octant at 99% confidence level, and determining the neutrino mass ordering above 5$σ$ by 2030. Additionally, we assess the capability to constrain $θ_{13}$ and the CP -violating phase ($δ_{CP}$) in the leptonic sector independently from reactor and accelerator neutrino data. A combination of the atmospheric neutrino measurements will enhance the sensitivity to a greater extent than the simple sum of individual experiment results reaching more than 3$σ$ for some values of $δ_{CP}$ . These results will provide vital information for next-generation accelerator neutrino oscillation experiments such as DUNE and Hyper-Kamiokande.
description: 46 pages, 37 figures
Properties of Chromatin in Human Cells as Characteristics of the State of Human Organism: A Review
Creators: name: Shckorbatov, Yuriy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Cell Behavior (q-bio.CB)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The state of chromatin in individual cells is directly related to the state of the whole organism and may be used for assessment of the state of the whole organism. Many hereditary diseases are connected with chromatin rearrangements. Chromatin distribution in cell nucleus is an important characteristic which may be applied for determination of disease gravity. The method of determination of the quantity of heterochromatin granules in buccal epithelium cells may be applied in the assessment of the state of human organism during sportive trainings and medical treatment.
description: 5 pages
Time-dependent cosmological constant in the Jackiw-Teitelboim cosmology
Creators: name: Alves, M.
name: Barcelos-Neto, J.
name: Novello, M.
name: Salim, J. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the obtainment of a time-dependent cosmological constant at D=2 in a model based on the Jackiw-Teitelboim cosmology. We show that the cosmological term goes to zero asymptotically and can induce a nonsingular behavior at the origin.
description: 4 pages, Revtex4, twocolumn
The resource frontier strategy in peninsular Malaysia : case studies of the Pahang Tenggara and Kesedar regions
Creators: name: Wong, Tai Chee
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1989

description: The thesis examines the application of western urban-industrial growth pole theory in the frontier zones of the developing countries and, in particular, to the Malaysian regions of Pahang Tenggaran and Kesedar. The study begins by tracing the origins of the growth pole theory after the Second World War when the West urgently needed to initiate growth in the developing world as a means of countering Soviet expansion. In response to this political imperative, economists and geographers formulated concepts to guide growth across space – the basic ingredients of growth pole theory. When the theory was applied to the frontier regions of developing countries, various forms of resource frontier strategies emerged under the sponsorship of the respective national governments. The initial applications were in South America during the early 1960s, but the resource frontier strategy has been also incorporated as part of Malaysia’s New Economic Policy since 1970 to bolster Malay urbanisation and reduce regional display. Unlike South America, however, the propulsive force hinged upon oil palm and rubber. As these commodities are strongly tied to the world market and relatively little value-added is created within the producing regions, they serve the interests of national metropolitan centres rather than local settlements. Consequently, little urbanisation has been achieved in the regions such as Pahang Tenggara and Kesedar. Assessed against the twin objectives of the New Economic Policy, the two frontier regions have not boosted Malay urbanisation nor reduced regional inequality to any significant extent. Nonetheless, most settlers of the Federal Land Development Authority have improved their standards of livings since moving. Yet, the benefits have been restricted to first generation settlers because few non-agricultural jobs have been created. When they enter the labour market most youth are expected to move to metropolitan centres for jobs. Hence, industrialisation in major centres in the key to their absorption and Malaysia’s future development in the next twenty years.
Additional file 6 of Horizontal acquisition of hydrogen conversion ability and other habitat adaptations in the Hydrogenovibrio strains SP-41 and XCL-2
Creators: name: Gonnella, Giorgio
name: Adam, Nicole
name: Perner, Mirjam
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Base calling errors of previous SP-41 16S rRNA sequencing. Initial part of the chromatogram of the 16S rRNA gene sequencing of SP-41 with the 26F primer, described in [9]. The regions with a light red background contain bases which are different in one of three 16S rRNA gene copies of SP-41. The base calling was assuming that the sequence was in single copy, thus called the most common base. From 5â , this happened in 1 position in the first highlighed region, 4 positions in the second highlighed region and 2 positions in third highlighed region. (PDF 1801 kb)
Risks to Zero Trust in a Federated Mission Partner Environment
Creators: name: Strandell, Keith
name: Mittal, Sudip
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recent cybersecurity events have prompted the federal government to begin investigating strategies to transition to Zero Trust Architectures (ZTA) for federal information systems. Within federated mission networks, ZTA provides measures to minimize the potential for unauthorized release and disclosure of information outside bilateral and multilateral agreements. When federating with mission partners, there are potential risks that may undermine the benefits of Zero Trust. This paper explores risks associated with integrating multiple identity models and proposes two potential avenues to investigate in order to mitigate these risks.
Through the Eye of a Needle: Craftivism as an Emerging Mode of Civic Engagement and Cultural Participation
Creators: Markus, Sandra
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Internet
Communication
Women's studies
Women political activists
Political participation
Handicraft
Older women

description: There has been a grassroots revival of craftivism leading up to, and following the 2016 U.S. presidential election. This qualitative dissertation explores the experiences of women within three craftivist groups to facilitate a deeper understanding of their conceptions of craft, activism and feminism, the salience of older women within these communities, and how the affordances of new media are potentially reshaping craftivism. Drawing on interview data, as well as offline and online participant observation, this study found that craftivists have highly diverse personal trajectories and understandings of feminism and activism, that older women—many with a lifelong history of activism—play a significant role in craftivist groups, and that participation in craftivism, supported through extensive use of social media and online communication, provides a gateway to civic expression and engagement. Beyond deepening our understanding of craftivism in the current political climate, this research makes significant contributions to scholarship on participatory culture, activism, and civic engagement. While these bodies of research have traditionally been youth-centric, this dissertation adds value by shedding light on the participatory practices of older women in creative online sites.
Global properties of the light curves of magnetic, chemically peculiar stars as a testbed for the existence of dipole-like symmetry in surface structures
Creators: name: Jagelka, M.
name: Mikulášek, Z.
name: Hümmerich, S.
name: Paunzen, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetic, chemically peculiar stars are known for exhibiting surface abundance inhomogeneities (chemical spots) that lead to photometric and spectroscopic variability with the rotation period. It is commonly assumed that the surface structures are causally connected with the global magnetic field that dominates the photospheric and subphotospheric layers of these stars. As a rule, the observed magnetic fields show a simple dipole-like geometry, with the magnetic axis being noncollinear to the rotational one. The present study aims at detecting underlying patterns in the distribution of photometric spots in a sample of 650 magnetic, chemically peculiar stars and examines their link to the magnetic field topology. Photometric time-series observations from the ASAS-3 archive were employed to inspect the light-curve morphology of our sample stars and divide them into representative classes described using a principal component analysis. Theoretical light curves were derived from numerous simulations assuming different spot parameters and following the symmetry of a simple dipole magnetic field. These were subsequently compared with the observed light curves. The results from our simulations are in contradiction with the observations and predict a much higher percentage of doublewave light curves than is actually observed. We thereby conclude that the distribution of the chemical spots does not follow the magnetic field topology, which indicates that the role of the magnetic field in the creation and maintenance of the surface structures may be more subsidiary than what is predicted by theoretical studies.
description: 19 pages, 9 figures, 2 tables, 1 Appendix table; accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Quantum well confinement and competitive radiative pathways in the luminescence of black phosphorus layers
Creators: name: Carré, Etienne
name: Sponza, Lorenzo
name: Lusson, Alain
name: Stenger, Ingrid
name: Roux, Sébastien
name: Zatko, Victor
name: Dlubak, Bruno
name: Seneor, Pierre
name: Gaufrès, Etienne
name: Loiseau, Annick
name: Barjon, Julien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Black phosphorus (BP) stands out from other 2D materials by the wide amplitude of the band-gap energy (Delta(Eg)) that sweeps an optical window from Visible (VIS) to Infrared (IR) wavelengths, depending on the layer thickness. This singularity made the optical and excitonic properties of BP difficult to map. Specifically, the literature lacks in presenting experimental and theoretical data on the optical properties of BP on an extended thickness range. Here we report the study of an ensemble of photoluminescence spectra from 79 passivated BP flakes recorded at 4 K with thicknesses ranging from 4 nm to 700 nm, obtained by mechanical exfoliation. We observe that the exfoliation steps induce additional defects states that compete the radiative recombination from bound excitons observed in the crystal. We also show that the evolution of the photoluminescence energy versus thickness follows a quantum well confinement model appreciable from a thickness predicted and probed at 25 nm. The BP slabs placed in different 2D heterostructures show that the emission energy is not significantly modulated by the dielectric environment. Introduction Confinement effects
description: 11 pages, 3 figures - Main text 12 pages, 5 figures - Supporting information
Throwing Out the Trash: Waste to Energy in New York City an Analysis of Environmental Justice and NIMBY Concerns
Creators: McGeehan, Luke M.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Environmental justice
Waste disposal sites
City planning
Sustainability

description: New York City faces a crisis in its waste management system. Relying on expensive garbage export since the closure of Freshkills in 2001, the Department of Sanitation released a report in March 2012 documenting alternatives using biogas, as well as potential sites. What they did not include was any discussion of the complicated mix of potential Environmental Justice issues, NIMBY backlash of area residents and the decisions of businesses when the project moves through the approvals process. This paper explores concerns of the sites’ stakeholders and attempts to determine if they are rooted more in self-centered NIMBYism or a reaction over the over-reliance of siting facilities in poor communities that led to Environmental Justice. It also seeks to find a compromise that will avoid years of legal battles to force a project on a community.
High temperature spin-triplet topological superconductivity in K2Cr3As3
Creators: name: Zheng, Guo-qing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spin-triplet superconductors are novel materials capable of harboring Majorana bound states that can be used in topological quantum computing. However, such bulk materials are still rare. Here we review the results that established K2Cr3As3 as a spin-triplet superconductor with transition temperature T_c as high as 6.5 K. We focus on the multiple-phases feature, and its exquisite distance to a ferromagnetic quantum critical point which is likely responsible for the high T_c. We touch on the topological aspect of the superconducting state, and suggest that it is a new route to the technical implementation using a topological spin-triplet superconductor at the highest temperature ever.
description: Based on an invited talk given at the 35th International Symposium on Superconductivity (ISS 2022, Nov. 29-Dec.1, 2022, Nagoya, Japan)
Trope and taxonomy : an examination of the classification and treatment of illness in traditional Thai medicine
Creators: name: Bamber, Scott
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1989

description: This work is an examination of the classification and treatment of illness in traditional Thai medicine. The study is based on a nineteenth century compilation of Central Thai court medical texts, as published by the Wat Pho Traditional. Medical Association under the title Phaetsat songkhrQ. Information from this source is supplemented by a synchronic analysis of illness terms in modem Thai, partly derived from interviews conducted with Thais in several regions of Thailand, as well as studies which have been made of other Tai groups. Drawing upon recent research on cognition and categorisation, the study explores the role played by imaginative processes such as metaphor and metonymy in Thai illness classification and the selection of materia medica. It is argued that through these processes the classification of illness makes an important contribution to the therapeutic process. An examination of one representative illness category, krasai, which includes a number of illnesses recognised in modem medicine such as kidney disease and hernia, shows that imaginative processes may be involved in classification in several ways. These include numerical symbolism emphasising form rather than content, flexibility in the semantic range of illness categories, and the identification of illness with familiar aspects of the environment, in particular animals. These processes are also important in determining the treatment of illness. A brief examination of the ingredients found in prescriptions for the treatment of krasai suggests that, apart from any pharmacological value they might possess, their selection is based on various criteria including taste, analogy, and the depiction of illness as a living entity. Some of the practical implications these findings have for classification theory and the efficacy of traditional medicine are considered.
The origin of the two populations of blue stragglers in M30
Creators: name: Zwart, Simon Portegies
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the position of the two populations of blue stragglers in the globular cluster M30 in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram. Both populations of blue stragglers are brighter than the cluster's turn-off, but one population (the blue blue-stragglers) align along the zero-age main-sequence whereas the (red) population is elevated in brightness (or colour) by $\sim 0.75$ mag. Based on stellar evolution and merger simulations we argue that the red population, which composes about 40\% of the blue stragglers in M 30, is formed at a constant rate of $\sim 2.8$ blue stragglers per Gyr over the last $\sim 10$ Gyr. The blue population is formed in a burst that started $\sim 3.2$ Gyr ago at a peak rate of $30$ blue stragglers per Gyr$^{-1}$ with an e-folding time scale of $0.93$ Gyr. We speculate that the burst resulted from the core collapse of the cluster at an age of about 9.8 Gyr, whereas the constantly formed population is the result of mass transfer and mergers through binary evolution. In that case about half the binaries in the cluster effectively result in a blue straggler.
description: Accepted for publication as Letter in A&A
title: Möglichkeiten der Bestimmung der kritischen Last von Stab- und Flächentragwerken mit Hilfe ihrer Eigenfrequenz
Creators: name: Steinert, Joachim
Publisher: name: Institut für Baustoffkunde und Stahlbetonbau IBMB
Year: 1967
Subjects: subject: Forschungsbericht
subject: IBMB
subject: 620

description: Institut für Baustoffe, Massivbau und Brandschutz, IBMB, der Technischen Universität Braunschweig - Materialprüfanstalt für das Bauwesen - MPA Braunschweig, vol. 8
Triple bottom line impact of local vs. non-local procurement practices
Creators: name: Gu, Howe
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

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Collective and chaotic motion in self-bound many-body systems
Creators: name: Papenbrock, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the interplay of collective and chaotic motion in a classical self-bound N-body system with two-body interactions. This system displays a hierarchy of three well separated time scales that govern the onset of chaos, damping of collective motion and equilibration. Comparison with a mean-field problem shows that damping is mainly due to dephasing. The Lyapunov exponent, damping and equilibration rates depend mildly on the system size N.
description: 5 pages, 4 EPS-figures, uses psfig.sty, revised version