cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Hypersonic attachment-line instabilities with large sweep Mach numbers
Creators: name: Xi, Youcheng
name: Ren, Jie
name: Fu, Song
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This study aims to shed light on hypersonic attachment-line instabilities with large sweep Mach numbers. Highly swept flows over a cold cylinder that give rise to large sweep Mach numbers are studied. High fidelity base flows are obtained by solving full Navier-Stokes equations with a high-order shock-fitting method. Using local and global stability theories, an attachment-line mode is found to be dominant for the laminar-turbulent transition along the leading edge that agrees well with experimental observations Gaillard1999. The behavior of this mode explains the reason why the transition occurs earlier as the sweep Mach number is above 5. Also, this attachment-line mode is absent if the base flow is calculated with boundary-layer assumptions, indicating that the influence of inviscid flow outside the boundary layer can not be ignored as is normally done. It is clearly demonstrated that the global modes display the features of both attachment-line modes, as in sweep Hiemenz flow, and cross-flow-like modes further downstream along the surface. In contrast to incompressible flows, the mode is shown to be of inviscid nature. Moreover, the leading-edge curvature has a destabilizing effect on the attachment-line mode for large spanwise wave numbers but a stabilizing effect for small spanwise wave numbers.
description: 26 pages, 23 figures
Comment on "Feshbach resonances in an optical lattice" by D. B. M. Dickerscheid, U. Al Khawaja, D. van Oosten, and H. T. C. Stoof, Phys. Rev. A 71, 043604 (2005)
Creators: name: Diener, Roberto B.
name: Ho, Tin-Lun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We point out some logical inconsistencies in the model proposed in [Phys. Rev. A 71, 043604 (2005)] as well as in the calculations performed on it. The proposed model is not able to describe Feshbach resonances in optical lattices.
Stellungnahme einer Arbeitsgruppe europäischer reformierter und lutherischer Theologen zu den Arnoldshainer Abendmahlsthesen
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 9 Nr. 3 (1960): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 9, Heft 3
783: Autograph book from 1916 (Gunner R W Lloyd)
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: The autograph book was my grandmother's. At the time I believe she was a cook at Holly Trees in Colchester. She collected a number of autographs from family, friends and soldiers who were in Colchester in 1916. I have over the years tried to trace the soldiers without much luck.
MARKETING INEFFICIENCIES IN OKLAHOMA'S PRODUCE INDUSTRY: GROWER AND BUYER PERCEPTIONS
Creators: name: Henneberry, Shida Rastegari
name: Willoughby, Charles V.
name: Henneberry, Shida Rastegari
name: Willoughby, Charles V.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1989
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Fruit and vegetable production is relatively new for many Oklahoma producers. A major concern for growers is marketing. Responses from a survey of growers and buyers were used to identify structural characteristics and marketing activities in the Oklahoma produce industry. The survey results suggest that direct marketing outlets are the most often used. However, the majority of respondents are interested in using new outlets. Oklahoma producers can meet the demands of quality in indirect marketing channels, but some of the required post-harvest service can be very costly for many of the small volume producers.
Examples of symplectic 4-manifolds with positive signature
Creators: name: Niepel, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57R17, 57R57 (Primary) 53D35, 57N13 (Secondary)

description: We construct a new family {K_n} of simply connected symplectic 4-manifolds with the property c_1^2(K_n)/chi(K_n) -> 9 (as n goes to infinity).
description: 8 pages
CONSUMER POTATO DEMAND
Creators: name: McCracken, Vicki A.
name: Marotz, Craig C.
name: McCracken, Vicki A.
name: Marotz, Craig C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1989
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis

description: Changes in consumer demographics, socioeconomic conditions, lifestyles, food tastes, and health and nutrition concerns have been associated with shifting food purchase patterns. This article focuses on potato purchase decisions and consumption, using a sample of Washington households. The results suggest that potato purchases are affected by factors such as product quality and price but not availability of point-of-purchase information. Reported changes in fresh and processed potato consumption appeared to be related to concerns with health and nutrition and demand for convenience. These findings have implications for the potato industry in developing new products and marketing strategies.
Origin of the Joint Distribution of Structural Parameters in Disc Galaxies
Creators: name: Dutton, Aaron A.
name: Bosch, Frank C. van den
name: Courteau, Stephane
name: Dekel, Avishai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use a simple model of disc-galaxy formation in the LCDM cosmology to simultaneously reproduce the slopes, zero-points, scatter and uncorrelated residuals in the observed velocity-luminosity (VL) and radius-luminosity (RL) relations. Observed I-band luminosities are converted to stellar masses using the IMF-dependent relation between stellar mass-to-light ratio, M/L, and color. The model treats halo concentration, spin parameter, and disc mass fraction as independent log-normal random variables. Our main conclusion is that the VL and RL zero-points and the uncorrelated residuals can only be reproduced simultaneously if adiabatic contraction is avoided. One or the other could be fixed by appealing to unrealistic values for M/L, halo concentration c, and spin parameter lambda, but not all together. The small VL scatter is naturally determined by the predicted scatter in c and in M/L, quite independent of the large scatter in lambda. However, the RL scatter, driven by the scatter in lambda, can be as low as observed only if sigma_lambda simeq 0.25, about half the value predicted for CDM haloes. This may indicate that discs form in a special subset of haloes. The VL slope is reproduced once star formation occurs only above a threshold surface density, and the RL slope implies that the disc mass fraction is increasing with halo mass, consistent with feedback effects. A model that incorporates the above ingredients provides a simultaneous fit to all the observed features. In particular, the elimination of adiabatic contraction allows 80% disc contribution to the observed rotation velocity of bright discs at 2.2 disc scale lengths. The lack of halo contraction may indicate that disc formation is not as smooth as typically envisioned, but instead may involve clumpy, cold streams.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures, to appear in proceedings of 'Baryons in Dark Matter Halos', Novigrad, Croatia, October 5-9, 2004, Eds R-J., Dettmar, U. Klein, P. Salucci, PoS, SISSA
A MARKET EXAMPLE AND ECONOMIC EVALUATION OF INFORMATION AND PRICE UNCERTAINTY
Creators: name: Nakamoto, Stuart T.
name: Halloran, John M.
name: Yanagida, John F.
name: Leung, PingSun
name: Nakamoto, Stuart T.
name: Halloran, John M.
name: Yanagida, John F.
name: Leung, PingSun
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1989
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis

description: In Hawaii, marketing and production conditions have led to shrinking market shares for local farm produce. The primary limiting factor to maintaining and expanding the market share of Hawaii-grown produce is inconsistent and unreliable supply, compounded by inadequate market coordination.
Liberal Arts Football: Athletics, Academics, and American Higher Education, 1906-1948
Creators: name: Koerber, Bennett
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2022
Subjects: History

description: This dissertation argues that from 1906-1948, a group of reform-minded educators attempted to reshape intercollegiate athletics by implementing an ideal that I call liberal arts football – a restructured version of the sport that was intracurricular rather than extracurricular, inclusive rather than exclusive, and scholastic rather than ritualistic. Reformers aimed to reposition the sport so that it became part of their physical education department curriculums. With the extracurricular label removed, they promoted intercollegiate football as an inclusive campus sport for all male students, linking it with an “athletics for all” approach that encouraged broad participation. These administrators contended that once football became curricular and inclusive, it could enhance students’ physical and moral development; it would possess scholastic value rather than function as a commercial spectacle. Liberal arts football emerged as a collection of ideas that reformers used to create an academic-minded alternative to bigtime football. Using state and university archives, personal papers, private correspondence, and a vast array of newspapers and published primary sources, I engage with sport, education, and intellectual histories to demonstrate how these educators linked their philosophies about modern liberal arts education with sport. My research reveals viii that when educators engaged with athletic reform, higher education conversations extended well beyond academia to include students, alumni, the broader public, and even W.E.B. Du Bois. My dissertation analyzes five colleges and universities (Oberlin College, Swarthmore College, Sewanee: The University of the South, Fisk University, and the University of Pittsburgh) to demonstrate the long and contested development of liberal arts football ideas. Reform efforts on each campus differed because these institutions were geographically, socially, and racially diverse. Additionally, administrators C.W. Savage, Ernest Hatch Wilkins, Frank Aydelotte, Alexander Guerry, Fayette Avery McKenzie, and John Gabbert Bowman not only competed with the broad public appeal of early-twentieth-century college football, but they had to respect their schools’ distinctive educational traditions and aspirations. By emphasizing each administrator’s successes and failures, my research helps us reconsider current concerns about the role of intercollegiate athletics on college campuses; Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) legislation; the treatment of student-athletes; and the role higher education plays in American life.
Neutral pion polarizabilities from four-point functions in lattice QCD
Creators: name: Lee, Frank X.
name: Wilcox, Walter
name: Alexandru, Andrei
name: Culver, Chris
name: Nadeem, Shayan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a proof-of-principle lattice QCD simulation of the electric and magnetic polarizabilities for a neutral pion in the four-point function method. The results are based on the same quenched Wilson ensembles on a $24^3\times 48$ lattice at $β=6.0$ with pion mass from 1100 to 370 MeV previously used for a charged pion. For electric polarizability, the results are largely consistent with those from the background field method and ChPT. In contrast, there are significant differences for magnetic polarizability among the four-point function method, the background field method, and ChPT. The situation points to the potentially important role of disconnected diagrams for a neutral pion. We elucidate a transparent quark decomposition in the four-point function method that can be used to shed light on the issue.
description: 11 pages, 9 figures, 1 table. This version matches the one published in NPB in content. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2307.08620
381: George Finlayson (photograph; postcards)
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: My name is Norma McGovern, maiden name Ward. My grandfather, Thomas Ward, received several postcards from his step grandson, George Finlayson, Royal Field Artillery No 45793 C/107th Brigade (photo of George attached) and is postmarked 11th November 1918 (the day the guns fell silent) and is marked with the Field Post Office stamp from the Western Front. The card reads "Dear Tom, Rather busy. Am quite well. Shall write you a letter soon. Cheer up, it will soon be over". He was also mentioned in a despatch and the certificate is signed by Winston Churchill. On the 1901 census George is listed as living at 48 Hilltown, Dundee, with his mother Elizabeth Finlayson and my great grandfather and great grandmother, Michael and Ann Ward. George's mother died when George was 6 yrs old. When my great grandparents passed away, it appears George then went to live with my grandparents at 71 Balgay Street, Lochee, to where the postcard was sent. George survived the war, married and had three children, several grandchildren and made a life for himself in Edinburgh. George passed away in Edinburgh in 1969.
ReCon: Reconfiguring Analog Rydberg Atom Quantum Computers for Quantum Generative Adversarial Networks
Creators: name: DiBrita, Nicholas S.
name: Leeds, Daniel
name: Huo, Yuqian
name: Ludmir, Jason
name: Patel, Tirthak
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Quantum computing has shown theoretical promise of speedup in several machine learning tasks, including generative tasks using generative adversarial networks (GANs). While quantum computers have been implemented with different types of technologies, recently, analog Rydberg atom quantum computers have been demonstrated to have desirable properties such as reconfigurable qubit (quantum bit) positions and multi-qubit operations. To leverage the properties of this technology, we propose ReCon, the first work to implement quantum GANs on analog Rydberg atom quantum computers. Our evaluation using simulations and real-computer executions shows 33% better quality (measured using Frechet Inception Distance (FID)) in generated images than the state-of-the-art technique implemented on superconducting-qubit technology.
description: ReCon will appear in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), 2024
Judicial Discretion and the Minimum Statutory Sentence for Migrant Smuggling through Indonesia
Creators: name: Palmer, Wayne
name: Missbach, Antje
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160303 Migration
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 160606 Government and Politics of Asia and the Pacific
subject: FOS: Political science

description: The general, but false, perception of migrant smuggling through Indonesia, a large, archipelagic country, is that smugglers operate entirely on their own. In fact, the more complex smuggling operations rely on broad networks of foreign organizers as well as local intermediaries and ground staff. In 2011, the Indonesian legislature introduced a severe minimum sentence for any involvement in migrant smuggling with the expectation that the judiciary would apply the sentence in all future cases. However, some judges proceeded to hand down sentences below the statutory minimum, arguing that the punishment is not commensurate to the relatively minor roles played by locals. This article examines how judges at all levels of the judiciary did so in ten related cases. In conclusion, it argues that statutory sentences are not mandatory in Indonesia and that, by applying below-minimum sentences, judges not only maintain judicial independence; they also effectively exercise a judicial review function.
Back Pay for Trafficked Migrant Workers: An Indonesian Case Study
Creators: name: Palmer, Wayne
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160303 Migration
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 160606 Government and Politics of Asia and the Pacific
subject: FOS: Political science

description: In 2015 the International Organization for Migration (IOM) identified almost 1,200 trafficked migrants working in slave-like conditions on fishing boats in East Indonesia. The IOM helped the migrants and offered to cover the cost of repatriation to their countries of citizenship. The Indonesian government appreciated the financial support, not least because the victims’ embassies refused to pay. But most victims in one location refused to return to their home country without the wages owed to them by their trafficker-cum-employers. IOM policy states that migrants are eligible to use the Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration (AVRR) service if they are unable or unwilling to remain in the host country. But another condition is that migrants must use the services voluntarily. The IOM could not force the migrants to leave the country, and national law prevented the Indonesian government from deporting the migrants because the IOM had identified them as victims of trafficking.
750: Autograph book (Michael Hennon)
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: Michael Hennon of the 6th Connaught Rangers was wounded in Loos (I think) in 1915 and returned to Galway to hospital, This little book contains verses, drawings and jokes from fellow patients in the hospital.
Improving compliance with the law prohibiting genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity : recalling the human factor
Creators: name: Reddy, Venita-Sherryl
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: International humanitarian law, international criminal law and international human rights law all share the common goal of seeking to regulate the behavior of international actors in relation to the three most serious offences under international law - genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. International legal rules, processes and institutions within these three areas of law represent the international community's ongoing quest to address and prevent the commission of these crimes - to create "a more humane world under law." International law has therefore been relied upon as the primary - arguably exclusive - mechanism for prescribing rules of conduct and for enforcing prescribed rules. It is clear, however, that the legal framework alone has not been able to bridge the gap between internationally agreed standards and substantive practice on the part of international actors. That international law comprises only a partial solution to the problem of human rights atrocities is well recognized. It is argued here that the international community's preoccupation with international law as the means for regulating State and individual behavior in this area has in fact contributed to continuing problems of non-compliance as much as it has assisted in engendering compliance with the law. In other words, law is as much a part of the problem as it is a part of the solution. It is argued that the international community must look beyond the law, to non-traditional, informal influences operating alongside the law, in order to move towards the goal of effective enforcement of the law prohibiting genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Based on Constructivist thinking, four key strategies - departures from traditional Positivist-Realist conceptions of the international legal system - are suggested as focal points for enhancing compliance with the laws in this area, these being: active differentiation between the target subjects of the law; utilization of the dual power of international humanitarian law; employing social norms and ethical values as motivations for compliance with the law; and embracing the informal compliance-inducing activities and powers of non-state actors. Applying these strategies to the humanitarian law enforcement project, a reversal of traditional perceptions of the influence of ethics and law in relation to individual and State target subjects respectively, is proposed as a future direction for enhancing compliance and furthering the prevention project in relation to genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Aandelige Tids-Fordriv, eller Bibelske Viise-Bog
Creators: name: DAss, Petter
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1720

description: Utgivelsesår er ikke verifisert, men kan være en tidlig utgave, da senere utgaver kalles Aandelig Tids-Fordriv
description: Defekt. Mgl. tittelbl., flere blad før s.61 og etter s. 138
Self-Supervised Drivable Area and Road Anomaly Segmentation using RGB-D Data for Robotic Wheelchairs
Creators: name: Wang, Hengli
name: Sun, Yuxiang
name: Liu, Ming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The segmentation of drivable areas and road anomalies are critical capabilities to achieve autonomous navigation for robotic wheelchairs. The recent progress of semantic segmentation using deep learning techniques has presented effective results. However, the acquisition of large-scale datasets with hand-labeled ground truth is time-consuming and labor-intensive, making the deep learning-based methods often hard to implement in practice. We contribute to the solution of this problem for the task of drivable area and road anomaly segmentation by proposing a self-supervised learning approach. We develop a pipeline that can automatically generate segmentation labels for drivable areas and road anomalies. Then, we train RGB-D data-based semantic segmentation neural networks and get predicted labels. Experimental results show that our proposed automatic labeling pipeline achieves an impressive speed-up compared to manual labeling. In addition, our proposed self-supervised approach exhibits more robust and accurate results than the state-of-the-art traditional algorithms as well as the state-of-the-art self-supervised algorithms.
description: Published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L); 8 pages, 8 figures and 3 tables
Spin physics with antiprotons
Creators: name: Maggiora, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: New possibilities arising from the availability at GSI of antiproton beams, possibly polarised, are discussed. The investigation of the nucleon structure can be boosted by accessing in Drell-Yan processes experimental asymmetries related to cross-sections in which the parton distribution functions (PDF) only appear, without any contribution from fragmentation functions; such processes are not affected by the chiral suppression of the transversity function $h_1(x)$. Spin asymmetries in hyperon production and Single Spin Asymmetries are discussed as well, together with further items like electric and magnetic nucleonic form factors and open charm production. Counting rates estimations are provided for each physical case. The sketch of a possible experimental apparatus is proposed.
description: Presented for the proceedings of ASI "Spin and Symmetry", Prague, July 5-10, 2004, to be published in Czech. J. Phys. 55 (2005)
Trafficking within migrant smuggling operations: are underage transporters 'victims' or 'perpetrators'?
Creators: name: Palmer, Wayne
name: Missbach, Antje
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160303 Migration
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 160606 Government and Politics of Asia and the Pacific
subject: FOS: Political science

description: This article looks at a case of a juvenile transporter, who ferried asylum seekers from Indonesia to Australia on several occasions, but was arrested and sentenced for his involvement on the last attempt. The reasons for exploring this case in detail are twofold. First, the use of Indonesian child labor in migrant smuggling operations is a prevalent practice. Evidence of this is particularly obvious in the large number of Indonesian children imprisoned or otherwise detained in Australia for their involvement in migrant smuggling. Second, we consider how these people fit into the smuggling-trafficking nexus before discussing the concepts of "victim" and "perpetrator" in a case where justice officials do not agree whether a juvenile transporter should be treated as an active perpetrator, and therefore punishable for migrant smuggling, or whether to treat him as a passive victim of trafficking who was deceived into carrying out the crime.
Public–private partnerships in the administration and control of Indonesian temporary migrant labour in Hong Kong
Creators: name: Palmer, Wayne
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160303 Migration
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 160606 Government and Politics of Asia and the Pacific
subject: FOS: Political science

description: International legal understandings of sovereignty assume that states see the exercise of power within their territory by other states as a violation of exclusive rights. However, they may make exceptions, allowing other states to perform limited regulatory functions within their territory. For example, Hong Kong, which is a special administrative region in China with autonomy to administer international migration, has a policy that requires foreign states to endorse their citizens' application for legal employment as domestic workers there. This policy enables consular offices to develop public–private partnerships with local migrant labour employment companies and through those arrangements extend their regulatory function into an extraterritorial setting. Using an Indonesian case study, this article shows how one consulate has harnessed the policy for the purpose of compelling Hong Kong recruiters to apply for a licence to provide job-matching services for its citizens. The power that Indonesia gains through the system has enabled a variety of extraterritorial interventions, which have had mixed results and particularly negative consequences for Indonesian migrant labour. Nevertheless, the arrangements reveal more about the subfield of world politics in which states demonstrate a clear preference for engaging with private individuals over other states concerning transnational governance matters in their own territory.
Large magnetic anisotropy energy and robust half-metallic ferromagnetism in 2D MnXSe$_4$ (X = As, Sb)
Creators: name: Hu, Tengfei
name: Wan, Wenhui
name: Li, Yingmei
name: Ge, Yanfeng
name: Liu, Yong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In recent years, intrinsic two-dimensional (2D) magnetism aroused great interest because of its potential application in spintronic devices. However, low Curie temperature (\emph{T}$_c$) and magnetic anisotropy energy (MAE) limit its application prospects. Here, using first-principles calculations based on density-functional theory (DFT), we predicted a series of stable MnXSe$_4$ (X=As, Sb) single-layer. The MAE of single-layer MnAsSe$_4$ and MnSbSe$_4$ was 648.76 and 808.95 $μ$eV per Mn atom, respectively. Monte Carlo (MC) simulations suggested the \emph{T}$_c$ of single-layer MnAsSe$_4$ and MnSbSe$_4$ was 174 and 250 K, respectively. The energy band calculation with hybrid Heyd-Scuseria-Ernzerhof (HSE06) function indicated the MnXSe$_4$ (X = As, Sb) were ferromagnetic (FM) half-metallic. Also it had 100\% spin-polarization ratio at the Fermi level. For MnAsSe$_4$ and MnSbSe$_4$, the spin-gap were 1.59 and 1.48 eV, respectively. These excellent magnetic properties render MnXSe$_4$ (X = As, Sb) promising candidate materials for 2D spintronic applications.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures
369: Pte Cecil Morris (photograph)
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: Private Cecil Herbert Morris was the contributor's grandfather. He enlisted in 1914 into the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and served for two years, until he was killed by shelling on the 19th November 1916; this was the last day of the Battle of the Somme. He was on his third day on the front line of the trench because the shelling was so heavy and they didn't have enough soldiers to move to safer trenches further behind the lines. He was killed at Le Sars but was buried at a farm. His name is on the Thiepval monument. His grandson saw that Cecil's name was not on the plaque in Cuddesdon church, so he appealed, and a monument was built with Cecil's name on it. His grandson was the guest of honour at the unveiling.
Stopping the hordes: a critical account of the Labor government’s regional approach to the management of asylum seekers
Creators: name: Ford, Michele
name: Palmer, Wayne
name: Lyons, Lenore
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160303 Migration
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 160606 Government and Politics of Asia and the Pacific
subject: FOS: Political science

description: In October 2009 an Australian customs boat, the Oceanic Viking, sat in an Indonesian port for three weeks waiting for a decision to be made about the fate of the 78 Sri Lankans on board. The Australian Prime Minister had asked, and the Indonesian President had agreed, that the asylum seekers be processed in Indonesia. Neither side anticipated the response of local authorities, who vehemently opposed the arrangement, accusing their own and the Australian governments of using their province as a dumping ground. This development added an extra level of complexity to an already complicated situation in which senior Indonesian bureaucrats had obstructed the implementation of the agreement and asylum seekers refused to disembark. This paper chronicles the unfolding of the crisis, arguing that its resolution depended on interplay of both Australian and Indonesian processes and exploring the implications of the crisis for the regional elements of the Rudd government’s policy on asylum seekers, which relied on the co-operation of countries where asylum seekers transit en route to Australia. Highlighting the limitations of bilateral co-operation in this area, this essay reveals the pressure on Australia’s political leadership to find for alternative solutions in the region.
Concept Study of a Storage Ring-based Gravitational Wave Observatory: Gravitational Wave Strain and Synchrotron Radiation Noise
Creators: name: Schmirander, Thorben
name: Miltchev, Velizar
name: Rao, Suvrat
name: Brüggen, Marcus
name: Grüner, Florian
name: Hillert, Wolfgang
name: Liske, Jochen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This work for the first time addresses the feasibility of measuring millihertz gravitational waves (mHz GWs) with a storage ring-based detector. While this overall challenge consists of several partial problems, here we focus solely on quantifying design limitations imposed by the kinetic energy and radiated power of circulating ions at relativistic velocities. We propose an experiment based on the measurement of the time-of-flight signal of an ion chain. One of the dominant noise sources inherent to the measurement principle for such a GW detector is the shot noise of the emitted synchrotron radiation. We compute the noise amplitude of arrival time signals obtained by analytical estimates and simulations of ions with different masses and velocities circulating in a storage ring with the circumference of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Thereby, we show that our experiment design could reduce the noise amplitude due to the synchrotron radiation in the frequency range $10^{-4} - 10^{-2}$ Hz to one or two orders of magnitude below the expected GW signals from of astrophysical sources, such as super-massive binary black holes or extreme mass-ratio inspirals. Other key requirements for building a working storage ring-based GW detector include the generation and acceleration of heavy ion chains with the required energy resolution, their injection and continued storage, as well as the detection method to be used for the determination of the particle arrival time. However, these are not the focus of the work presented here, in which we instead concentrate on the definition of a working principle in terms of ion type, kinetic energy, and ring design, which will later serve as a starting point when addressing a more complete experimental setup.
description: 19 pages, 11 figures
Bose - Einstein Condensate Superfluid-Mott Insulator Transition in an Optical Lattice
Creators: name: Calzetta, Esteban
name: Hu, Bei-Lok
name: Rey, Ana Maria
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present in this paper an analytical model for a cold bosonic gas on an optical lattice (with densities of the order of 1 particle per site) targeting the critical regime of the Bose - Einstein Condensate superfluid - Mott insulator transition. We focus on the computation of the one - body density matrix and its Fourier transform, the momentum distribution which is directly obtainable from `time of flight'' measurements. The expected number of particles with zero momentum may be identified with the condensate population, if it is close to the total number of particles. Our main result is an analytic expression for this observable, interpolating between the known results valid for the two regimes separately: the standard Bogoliubov approximation valid in the superfluid regime and the strong coupling perturbation theory valid in the Mott regime.
description: 40 pages, 6 figures
Pioneering Online Lesson Supplement for Carpentries Instructor Training: Increasing Instructor Participation and Certification Numbers in Africa
Creators: name: Mias, Erika
name: Walt, Anelda Van Der
name: Mesfin Diro
name: Lactatia Motsuku
name: Adjilogba, Caroline Fadeke
name: Tirok, Katrin
name: Steyn, Juan
name: Lino, Kayleigh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Poster submission for Carpentry Conference 2018 by the African Task Force members.
Allocation of Land at the Rural-Urban Fringe Using a Spatially-Realistic Ecosystem Constraint
Creators: name: Bauer, Dana Marie
name: Swallow, Stephen K.
name: Bauer, Dana Marie
name: Swallow, Stephen K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Land Economics/Use

description: Development in rural-urban fringe communities is increasing with the potential to damage healthy ecosystems and endanger the long-term persistence of resident flora and fauna. The environmental impacts of development include loss, degradation, and fragmentation of wildlife habitat, increased air and water pollution, increased soil erosion, and decreased aesthetic appeal of the landscape. Current land use policies rarely incorporate features of landscape-scale ecosystem health. This paper develops a model that combines ecological and economic constructs to determine the optimal allocation of development across a spatially-realistic landscape. The land allocation model establishes links between long-term metapopulation persistence and development through an ecosystem constraint. A social planner seeks to maximize the benefits of development while guaranteeing a certain likelihood of long-term metapopulation persistence across the landscape that accounts for the changes to habitat patches and species dispersal success brought about by development. It is shown that in an economically homogeneous environment, the allocation of land to developed uses is determined solely by ecological elements (landscape structure and species parameters). The amount of land remaining in each habitat patch is the same regardless of their initial sizes or initial levels of development. The cost to society of meeting the ecological objective for metapopulation persistence depends on the land rent, the level of the safe-minimum-standard, the area of the landscape management unit, the distance between habitat patches, the dispersal ability of the focal species, and the species-specific area scaling parameter. Cost is not affected by the initial conditions of the habitat patches or the amount of development that has already taken place in the landscape management unit. When heterogeneity is introduced, the allocation of land is also determined by the differential land rents. More development occurs in habitat patches and landscape management units with higher land rents compared with the homogeneous case. In the heterogeneous land use case, where different land uses have different intensities of damages, the development intensity parameters are factors in the solution with more development occurring in areas zoned for less intensive land uses and the cost to society of achieving the ecological objective is a function of initial habitat patch sizes.
385: John Arthur Wilson MM (log book)
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: Having enlisted at the very end of 1915 John Arthur Wilson (known as 'Jack'), then 19, joined the Durham Light Infantry. A few weeks into training at Mortimer Road School, South Shields he was picked out for the 'Suicide Squad' and was sent to Grantham to train as a Machine Gunner. In April 1916 he was sent to France and with his Machine Gun Company took part in the Battle of the Somme. A year later, by now a Corporal, and based outside Poperinge, he found himself taking over recently captured German pillboxes one by one during the advance of 'Third Ypres'. It was for holding such a pill-box for over a week without relief on the edge of Houthoulst Forest that led to his being awarded the Military Medal. His younger brother having joined the RFC, Jack often heard about what it would be like to be a pilot so he applied for transfer. By April 1918 he was back at Grantham on his way for training with then RAF and by September 1918 he found himself at RAF Crail on the northern shore of the Firth of Forth. He kept his logbook and often described his adventures learning to fly, going solo, near crashes and doing a 'loop the loop'. Disappointed not to get back to France he was finally demobbed in May 1919. A huge group photograph of some 360 personnel from RAF Crail hangs up in the Crail Museum. To date he is the only one to have been identified and named.
Disaggregate Productivity Growth in Livestock Production: A Directional Malmquist Index Approach
Creators: name: Ludena, Carlos E.
name: Hertel, Thomas W.
name: Preckel, Paul V.
name: Foster, Kenneth A.
name: Nin Pratt, Alejandro
name: Ludena, Carlos E.
name: Hertel, Thomas W.
name: Preckel, Paul V.
name: Foster, Kenneth A.
name: Nin Pratt, Alejandro
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: total factor productivity
subject: Malmquist index
subject: livestock
subject: ruminants
subject: non-ruminants

description: Limited data on the allocation of inputs to different activities has limited agricultural economists' attempts to measure sub-sector productivity growth in agriculture. However, recent developments have enabled us to estimate total factor productivity (TFP) growth for crops and livestock accounting for input-output allocation. This paper extends previous work on TFP measurement for livestock into ruminants and non-ruminant productivity measurement, given the differences in productivity growth rates among these species. The results show that the non-ruminant sector is more dynamic than the ruminant sector, driving most of the productivity growth within the livestock sector. Given the rapid rates of productivity growth observed recently, non-ruminant productivity in developing countries may soon be converging to the productivity levels of developed countries.
Unambiguous evidence of three coexisting ferroelectric phases in a lead-free Li$_{x}$Na$_{1-x}$NbO$_{3}$ system
Creators: name: Singh, Abhinav Kumar
name: Dubey, Digvijay Nath
name: Singh, Gurvinderjit
name: Tripathi, Saurabh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report here the presence of three coexisting ferroelectric phases in a lead-free lithium sodium niobate (Li$_{x}$Na$_{1-x}$NbO$_{3}$; LNNx) system stable for $0.15 \leq x \leq 0.80$, which contrasts the review report of Dixon and Lightfoot [Phys. Rev. B $\textbf{97}$, 224105 (2018)]. More importantly, we have identified LNN20 as an important composition for technological applications due to its high dielectric permittivity, low loss, and high ferroelectric response. The anomalous dielectric and ferroelectric responses in LNN20 have been attributed to the morphotropic phase boundary like nature around this composition.
description: This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and AIP Publishing. This article appeared in Appl. Phys. Lett. 116, 232902 (2020) and may be found at https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/5.0003111
Abstract: Poster CarpentryCon 2018
Creators: name: Mias, Erika
name: Walt, Anelda Van Der
name: Mesfin Diro
name: Lactatia Motsuku
name: Adjilogba, Caroline Fadeke
name: Tirok, Katrin
name: Steyn, Juan
name: Lino, Kayleigh
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Abstract of poster submission for Carpentry Conference 2018 by the African Task Force members.
CONDA: Condensed Deep Association Learning for Co-Salient Object Detection
Creators: name: Li, Long
name: Liu, Nian
name: Zhang, Dingwen
name: Li, Zhongyu
name: Khan, Salman
name: Anwer, Rao
name: Cholakkal, Hisham
name: Han, Junwei
name: Khan, Fahad Shahbaz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Inter-image association modeling is crucial for co-salient object detection. Despite satisfactory performance, previous methods still have limitations on sufficient inter-image association modeling. Because most of them focus on image feature optimization under the guidance of heuristically calculated raw inter-image associations. They directly rely on raw associations which are not reliable in complex scenarios, and their image feature optimization approach is not explicit for inter-image association modeling. To alleviate these limitations, this paper proposes a deep association learning strategy that deploys deep networks on raw associations to explicitly transform them into deep association features. Specifically, we first create hyperassociations to collect dense pixel-pair-wise raw associations and then deploys deep aggregation networks on them. We design a progressive association generation module for this purpose with additional enhancement of the hyperassociation calculation. More importantly, we propose a correspondence-induced association condensation module that introduces a pretext task, i.e. semantic correspondence estimation, to condense the hyperassociations for computational burden reduction and noise elimination. We also design an object-aware cycle consistency loss for high-quality correspondence estimations. Experimental results in three benchmark datasets demonstrate the remarkable effectiveness of our proposed method with various training settings.
description: There is an error. In Sec 4.1, the number of images in some dataset is incorrect and needs to be revised
Neutral Cr and V in the atmosphere of ultra hot jupiter WASP-121 b
Creators: name: Ben-Yami, Maya
name: Madhusudhan, Nikku
name: Cabot, Samuel H. C.
name: Constantinou, Savvas
name: Piette, Anjali
name: Gandhi, Siddharth
name: Welbanks, Luis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ultra hot jupiters (UHJs), giant exoplanets with equilibrium temperatures above 2000 K, are ideal laboratories for studying metal compositions of planetary atmospheres. At these temperatures the thermal dissociation of metal-rich molecules into their constituent elements makes these atmospheres conducive for elemental characterisation. Several elements, mostly ionized metals, have been detected in UHJs recently using high resolution transit spectroscopy. Even though a number of neutral transition metals (e.g., Fe, Ti, V, Cr) are expected to be strong sources of optical/NUV opacity and, hence, influence radiative processes in the lower atmospheres of UHJs, only Fe I has been detected to date. We conduct a systematic search for atomic species in the UHJ WASP-121 b. Using theoretical models we present a metric to predict the atomic species likely to be detectable in such planets with high resolution transmission spectroscopy. We search for the predicted species in observations of WASP-121 b and report the first detections of neutral transition metals Cr I and V I in an exoplanet at 3.6 $σ$ and 4.5 $σ$, respectively. We confirm previous detections of Fe I and Fe II. Whereas Fe II was detected previously in the NUV, we detect it in the optical. We infer that the neutral elements Fe I, V I, and Cr I are present in the lower atmosphere, as predicted by thermochemical equilibrium, while Fe II is a result of photoionisation in the upper atmosphere. Our study highlights the rich chemical diversity of UHJs.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJL
Farmers' Subjective Yield Distributions: Calibration and Implications for Crop Insurance Valuation
Creators: name: Umarov, Alisher
name: Sherrick, Bruce J.
name: Umarov, Alisher
name: Sherrick, Bruce J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Risk and Uncertainty

description: This paper examines the role of overconfidence in explaining farmer crop insurance purchasing decisions. The authors hypothesize that overconfidence could influence the participation decision and test this hypothesis. The preliminary results indicate that farmers are overconfident; however, the relationship between overconfidence and the insurance use remains uncertain.