cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Contemporary Art and Virtual Reality: New Conditions of Viewership
Creators: name: Spampinato, Francesco Maria
name: Catricalà, Valentino
Publisher: name: Cinergie – Il Cinema e le altre Arti
Year: 2021

description: The article aims to respond to the lack of studies on the relationships between contemporary visual arts and VR, focusing on the role of “storytelling” and identifying what distinguishes VR art projects from other contemporary VR uses, namely their criticism of the VR medium itself. VR has developed a new language in the last five years, based on specific visual grammar and allowing new narration forms. Visual artists have been attracted to VR in search of new modes of production and expose the negative impact of technology in our perception of reality, or else the new mediated ways of seeing and distanced interaction with the world around us. The first part is dedicated to the discussion of Canadian artist Jon Rafman’s View of Pariser Platz (2016) and American artist Jordan Wolfson’s Real Violence (2017), two of the first Oculus Rift-based art installations to develop a metalinguistic commentary on how VR, although promising immersion, produces, in fact, alienation, homogenization, brutalization and the loss of empathy. The article continues with a discussion on the recent rise of tech companies aimed at the production of contemporary artworks based on VR technology: Acute Art (London), Khora Contemporary (Copenhagen), and VIVE Arts (Taiwan). This is a new expanding field that is changing the ontology of artmaking and redefining the artist's role, mainly in light of the cooperation with technicians and programmers.
description: Cinergie – Il Cinema e le altre Arti, No. 19 (2021)
Détecter automatiquement des airs de vaudeville
Creators: name: Schneider, Alexia
name: Nugues, Lara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Communication lors de la journée d'étude "Données de théâtre, petit et grand jeu : Le bon, le brut et le futé" organisée dans le cadre du projet Thealtres .
Coulomb correlation effects in zinc monochalcogenides
Creators: name: Karazhanov, S. Zh.
name: Ravindran, P.
name: Grossner, U.
name: Kjekshus, A.
name: Fjellvag, H.
name: Svensson, B. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Electronic structure and band characteristics for zinc monochalcogenides with zinc-blende- and wurtzite-type structures are studied by first-principles density-functional-theory calculations with different approximations. It is shown that the local-density approximation underestimates the band gap and energy splitting between the states at the top of the valence band, misplaces the energy levels of the Zn-3d states, and overestimates the crystal-field-splitting energy. Regardless of the structure type considered, the spin-orbit-coupling energy is found to be overestimated for ZnO and underestimated for ZnS with wurtzite-type structure, and more or less correct for ZnSe and ZnTe with zinc-blende-type structure. The order of the states at the top of the valence band is found to be anomalous for ZnO in both zinc-blende- and wurtzite-type structure, but is normal for the other zinc monochalcogenides considered. It is shown that the Zn-3d electrons and their interference with the O-2p electrons are responsible for the anomalous order. The typical errors in the calculated band gaps and related parameters for ZnO originate from strong Coulomb correlations, which are found to be highly significant for this compound. The LDA+U approach is by and large found to correct the strong correlation of the Zn-3d electrons, and thus to improve the agreement with the experimentally established location of the Zn-3d levels compared with that derived from pure LDA calculations.
The (restricted) Inomata-McKinley spinor representation and the underlying topology
Creators: name: Beghetto, D.
name: da Silva, J. M. Hoff
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The so called Inomata-McKinley spinors are a particular solution of the non-linear Heisenberg equation. In fact, free linear massive (or mass-less) Dirac fields are well known to be represented as a combination of Inomata-McKinley spinors. More recently, a subclass of Inomata-McKinley spinors were used to describe neutrino physics. In this paper we show that Dirac spinors undergoing this restricted Inomata-McKinley decomposition are necessarily of the first type, according to the Lounesto classification. Moreover, we also show that this type one subclass spinors has not an exotic counterpart. Finally, implications of these results are discussed, regarding the understanding of the spacetime background topology.
description: 7 pages, to appear in EPL
Osp(1|2) and Sl(2) Reductions in Generalised Super-Toda Models and Factorization of Spin 1/2 Fields
Creators: name: Ragoucy, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I show that the classical Toda models built on superalgebras, and obtained from a reduction with respect to an $Sl(2)$ algebra, are "linearly supersymmetrizable" (by adding spin 1/2 fields) if and only if the $Sl(2)$ is the bosonic part of an $OSp(1|2)$ algebra. In that case, the model is equivalent to the one constructed from a reduction with respect to the $OSp(1|2)$ algebra, up to spin 1/2 fields. The corresponding $W$ algebras are related through a factorization of spin 1/2 fields (bosons and fermions). I illustrate this factorization on an example: the superconformal algebra built on $Sl(n+1|2)$.
description: 22 pages, Latex, NORDITA-93/39 P
Stage Magic as a Performative Design Principle for VR Storytelling
Creators: name: Maraffi, Christopher
Publisher: name: Cinergie – Il Cinema e le altre Arti
Year: 2021

description: This article examines The VOID’s Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire (2017) VR arcade attraction, and analyzes the intermedial magic principles employed by co-founder and magician Curtis Hickman to create the illusion of a fictive world with impossible space and liveness. I argue that The VOID (Vision of Infinite Dimensions) functioned like nineteenth century magic theaters run by Georges Méliès and others, by employing magic principles of misdirection that directed player attention towards the aesthetics of an illusion, and away from the mechanics of the effects generating technology. Narrative framing and performative role play transported multiple players into a believable Star Wars immersive experience, creating an aesthetics of the impossible that reflected the goal of many stage magic tricks, and was foundational to trick films in the cinema of attractions of the early twentieth century. Using game studies concepts like Huizinga’s magic circle and theatre arts concepts like Craig’s über-marionette, this article suggests that The VOID and other stage magic approaches to VR, like Derren Brown’s Ghost Train (2017), are a new medium for participatory theatre that incorporate immersive features from both cinema and games.
description: Cinergie – Il Cinema e le altre Arti, No. 19 (2021)
Standards for Official Statistics on Climate-Health Interactions (SOSCHI): Malnutrition (stunting): introduction
Creators: name: Christian, Aaron Kobina
name: Klu, Desmond
name: Afful-Dadzie, Eric
name: Dovie, Benjamin DK
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Topic introduction
subject: Environmental sciences
subject: Public health
subject: Epidemiology
subject: Statistics and probability
subject: Malnutrition
subject: Stunting

description: Climate change is leading to more extreme temperatures, precipitation, and other weather events. These changes exacerbate conditions which lead to malnutrition, a health condition resulting from an imbalance in dietary intake, where nutrients are either insufficiently or overly consumed, leading to adverse health effects. Conditions which impact malnutrition include soil fertility, crop and livestock production and diversity, food and water security, and sanitation. This topic area aims to quantify the health impacts of malnutrition attributable to extreme temperatures, precipitation, and drought.

This is the Topic Introduction document.
Absorption line systems on the line of sight from SN 1987A to SN 1993J and the intergalactic cloud in front of M81
Creators: name: Marggraf, Ole
name: de Boer, Klaas S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an extended analysis of the high dispersion IUE spectra of SN 1993J in M81, based on the improved data in the IUE final archive. Eight interstellar absorption components can be identified in the velocity range from -200 km/s to +200 km/s. Column densities are determined for Fe II, Mg I, Mg II, O I, S II, Si II, and Zn II. From the ion ratios, we estimate electron densities and temperatures of the gas in these components. In addition, we rederive column density profiles for the higher ionisation stages Al III, Si IV, and C IV for the entire line of sight. Of special interest are the absorption components at positive velocities, which are associated with the intergalactic medium (IGM) in the foreground of M81. The medium has many gas components, as known from radio measurements, probably released in dynamical interactions by galaxies in the M81 group. The IUE spectra contain the only UV absorption information on such gas. We find neutral and ionised gas absorption at the same velocity, having a metal content similar to a galactic disk. We combine the spectra towards SN 1993J in M81 with those towards SN 1987A in the LMC, the directions being essentially antipodes on the celestical sphere. Comparing the total profile with QSO spectra, we conclude that most absorption in QSO spectra occurs in diffuse clouds on those sight lines and is not similar to absorption by galactic disk gas. However, one absorption component towards SN 1993J is clearly very similar to some of the absorption components in QSO spectra.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures; accepted for publication in A&A main journal
Standards for Official Statistics on Climate-Health Interactions (SOSCHI): The incidence of stunting linked to extreme temperature: methods review
Creators: name: Christian, Aaron Kobina
name: KLU, DESMOND
name: Afful-Dadzie, Eric
name: Dovie, Delali Benjamin K
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Undernutrition
Methods review
Stunting
Environmental sciences
Public health
Epidemiology
Statistics and probability

description: Climate change is leading to more extreme temperatures, precipitation, and other weather events. These changes exacerbate conditions which lead to undernutrition, a health condition resulting from an imbalance in dietary intake, where nutrients are either insufficiently or overly consumed, leading to adverse health effects. Conditions which impact undernutrition include soil fertility, crop and livestock production and diversity, food and water security, and sanitation. This topic area aims to quantify the health impacts of undernutrition attributable to extreme temperatures, precipitation, and drought.  

Methods for this topic are still in development, therefore a preliminary “Methods Review” document has been published at this stage. This document may be updated to a “Methodology” document depending on the feasibility of ongoing developments and decisions on the final scope of proposed indicators and methods.
A case study of three-steps strengths-based model
Creators: name: Frank, Kiwanuka
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 111099 Nursing not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111005 Mental Health Nursing
subject: 130209 Medicine, Nursing and Health Curriculum and Pedagogy
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: 111001 Aged Care Nursing
subject: 111003 Clinical Nursing: Secondary (Acute Care)
subject: 111004 Clinical Nursing: Tertiary (Rehabilitative)
subject: 111002 Clinical Nursing: Primary (Preventative)

description: We illustrate an advanced, practical, easy to remember yet novel pragmatic model applying family strengths in a highly appreciated model of patient and family-centered care.
Traversing the Boundary of the Screen: Contextualizing the Influence of Cinema and Virtual Reality in Artificial Environments
Creators: name: Fischer, Joseph
Publisher: name: Cinergie – Il Cinema e le altre Arti
Year: 2021

description: Within the last decade, the entertainment industry has witnessed an exponential growth in the production of immersive theme park lands based on popular movie franchises. The diegetic worlds that these environments produce not only endeavor to immerse guests into their favorite films but also to actively involve the spectator and position them as if they are the frame of a camera exploring and creating their own stories within the multi-acre diegesis. These groundbreaking and innovative forms of immersive storytelling have received little attention from scholars in film and media theory and necessitate a thorough contextualization in terms of post-cinematic storytelling. Notably, the hybridity and interdisciplinary nature of the aesthetics and technologies espoused and repurposed for constructing these areas and their respective rides parallel that of conventional filmmaking and post-cinematic media. This paper examines Pandora—The World of Avatar and Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge — two of the most popular immersive lands located at Disney World in Orlando, Florida — in terms of the cinematic aesthetics and technologies that are employed to guide a spectator while allowing them to experience their own subjective story. Notably, unlike many previous theme park attractions and themed “lands,” these immersive environments are rooted in an underlying conceptual narrative. These forms of “real-time storytelling” parallel the concurrent advent of VR experiences as a means of personal post-cinematic storytelling. However, this paper considers these immersive environments to be a form of a physical, tactile alternative reality—a virtual reality that is multi-sensorial and requires no headset.
description: Cinergie – Il Cinema e le altre Arti, No. 19 (2021)
An Anisotropic Interaction Model for Simulating Fingerprints
Creators: name: Düring, Bertram
name: Gottschlich, Carsten
name: Huckemann, Stephan
name: Kreusser, Lisa Maria
name: Schönlieb, Carola-Bibiane
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Tissues and Organs (q-bio.TO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 35B36, 70F10, 82C22, 92C15, 92C17

description: Evidence suggests that both the interaction of so-called Merkel cells and the epidermal stress distribution play an important role in the formation of fingerprint patterns during pregnancy. To model the formation of fingerprint patterns in a biologically meaningful way these patterns have to become stationary. For the creation of synthetic fingerprints it is also very desirable that rescaling the model parameters leads to rescaled distances between the stationary fingerprint ridges. Based on these observations, as well as the model introduced by Kücken and Champod we propose a new model for the formation of fingerprint patterns during pregnancy. In this anisotropic interaction model the interaction forces not only depend on the distance vector between the cells and the model parameters, but additionally on an underlying tensor field, representing a stress field. This dependence on the tensor field leads to complex, anisotropic patterns. We study the resulting stationary patterns both analytically and numerically. In particular, we show that fingerprint patterns can be modeled as stationary solutions by choosing the underlying tensor field appropriately.
A Journey into Artworks: Storytelling in Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality
Creators: name: Pirandello, Sofia
Publisher: name: Cinergie – Il Cinema e le altre Arti
Year: 2021

description: The paper aims to show Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR) artworks are increasingly taking the form of walking tours across the city. These installations in urban space transform the viewer into an experiencer. Indeed such artworks consist in perceptual environments, which give new menanings to known places thanks to virtual objects. They can elicit a strong sense of presence into the visitor, who is free to build different paths related to the artwork both in time and space, using her own mobile devices. AR an MR artworks use immersive, multimedia, and interactive storytelling, which modifies everyday context affordances. The actual environment results from the intertwining of the physical and the digital. Artists like Keiichi Matsuda, in HYPER-REALITY (2016), and Magali Barbé, in Strange Beasts (2017), have imagined the most dystopian and alarming aspects that could emerge from new virtual technologies. However, AR and MR artworks reveal potentialities impossible to obtain through any other medium. The article will discuss some relevant examples such as the [AR]T project (2019), organized by the New Museum of New York and Apple, Actual Reality (2019) by Hito Steyerl and MNEMOSCOPIO (2020), by Emilio Vavarella.
description: Cinergie – Il Cinema e le altre Arti, No. 19 (2021)
Solar Neutrinos as Background to Neutrinoless Double-beta Decay Experiments
Creators: name: Elliott, S. R.
name: Ejiri, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Solar neutrinos interact within double-beta decay (\BB) detectors and contribute to backgrounds for \BB\ experiments. Background contributions due to charge-current solar neutrino interactions with \BB\ nuclei of $^{76}$Ge, $^{82}$Se, $^{100}$Mo, $^{130}$Te, $^{136}$Xe, and $^{150}$Nd are evaluated. They are shown to be significant for future high-sensitivity \BB\ experiments that may search for Majorana neutrino masses in the inverted-hierarchy mass region. The impact of solar neutrino backgrounds and their reduction are discussed for future \BB\ experiments.
description: proceedings submission for MEDEX 2017
Standards for Official Statistics on Climate-Health Interactions (SOSCHI): Waterborne disease and water-related illnesses: introduction
Creators: name: Dzakpa, Etse Yawo
name: Sylla, Mouhamadou Bamba
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Topic introduction
subject: Waterborne disease
subject: Water-related illness
subject: Environmental sciences
subject: Public health
subject: Epidemiology
subject: Statistics and probability

description: Climate change is leading to more extreme temperatures and precipitation. These changes promote the spread of certain waterborne diseases which are impacted by extreme temperatures, contamination of waterbodies through runoff, dry conditions, water scarcity, and poor sanitation. Diarrheal disease is one of the most prevalent waterborne diseases and is highly impacted by these climatic conditions. Diarrheal disease is a public health concern particularly among young children and in Sub-Saharan Africa. This topic area aims to quantify the health impacts of diarrheal disease attributable to extreme temperatures and precipitation.

This is the Topic Introduction document.
Topological Sigma-Models in Four Dimensions and Triholomorphic Maps
Creators: name: Anselmi, Damiano
name: Fre', Pietro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is well-known that topological sigma-models in 2 dimensions constitute a path-integral approach to the study of holomorphic maps from a Riemann surface S to an almost complex manifold K, the most interesting case being that where K is a Kahler manifold. We show that, in the same way, topological sigma-models in 4 dimensions introduce a path integral approach to the study of triholomorphic maps q:M-->N from a 4dimensional Riemannian manifold M to an almost quaternionic manifold N. The most interesting cases are those where M, N are hyperKahler or quaternionic Kahler. BRST-cohomology translates into intersection theory in the moduli-space of this new class of instantonic maps, named by us hyperinstantons. The definition of triholomorphicity that we propose is expressed by the equation q_*-J_u q_* j_u = 0, u=1,2,3, where {j_u} is an almost quaternionic structure on M and {J_u} is an almost quaternionic structure on N. This is a generalization of the Cauchy-Fueter equations. For M, N hyperKahler, this generalization naturally arises by obtaining the topological sigma-model as a twisted version of the N=2 globally supersymmetric sigma-model. We discuss various examples of hyperinstantons, in particular on the torus and the K3 surface. We also analyse the coupling of the topological sigma-model to topological gravity. The study of
description: 43 pages, LaTeX file, SISSA/ISAS 73/93/EP. (reference [32] corrected)
The Problems and Potentials of VR for Documentary Storytelling
Creators: name: Eitzen, Dirk
Publisher: name: Cinergie – Il Cinema e le altre Arti
Year: 2021

description: A primary goal of many VR documentaries is to foster empathy with others. Unfortunately, some of the very qualities that make viewers’ experiences in the new medium unique and compelling, including the freedom to look around, also compromise its effectiveness as a means of genuinely understanding the experiences of others. This essay explores the question of whether the VR medium may have other compensatory advantages for documentary storytelling. It does this by considering social and psychological differences between third-person storytelling, which includes popular movies, first-person storytelling, as in many video games, and second-person storytelling, which is a common feature of documentaries. A key conclusion is that, even though VR is never likely to be a particularly effective instrument for creating empathy with others, through special forms of second-person storytelling, it does have some unique and effective means of engendering caring for others.
description: Cinergie – Il Cinema e le altre Arti, No. 19 (2021)
Obsolescence, Forgotten: “Survivor Holograms”, Virtual Reality, and the Future of Holocaust Commemoration
Creators: name: Alexander, Neta
Publisher: name: Cinergie – Il Cinema e le altre Arti
Year: 2021

description: “Survivor holograms” and a VR rendition of the Majdanek concentration camp are two recent examples of the urgent effort to preserve the experience of Holocaust survivors in the “post-witness era.” These innovations, however, deny the tension between the premise of immortality associated with immersive technologies and their inherent planned obsolescence. By closely studying the USC Shoah Foundation’s Dimensions in Testimony, this essay explores how 3D digital projections and room-scale VR construct new regimes of mediation and immersion. This is achieved by developing an understanding of obsolescence as physical (the fragile body of the survivor), technological (non-compatible hardware, software, and algorithms), and narratological (turning testimonies into fragmented soundbites). Taken together, these categories demonstrate that technological solutionism cannot prevent embodied testimonies from sinking into oblivion, and force us to ask what form of memorialization might resist entropy.
description: Cinergie – Il Cinema e le altre Arti, No. 19 (2021)
title: Interpretation of the dual program for optimal groundwater hydraulic control
Creators: name: Ahlfeld, DP
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: groundwater hydrology, modeling, groundwater management, systems analysis, optimization,

description: Optimization formulations for hydraulic control that take the form of linear programs possess a corresponding dual linear program. The economic and physical interpretations of the dual linear program are examined for formulations in which hydraulic head in groundwater systems is constiained. In each case it is shown that the dual linear program has a physically meaningful interpretation. For a hydraulic gradient control formulation used for remedial analysis it is shown that the dual variable can be interpreted as the remedial benefit due to each gradient control constraint. The dual linear program maximizes the remedial benefit. The value of the dual variable can be used to compute such useful properties as the total remedial benefit of pumping at a specific location. For a formulation that optimizes aquifer yield while constraining drawdown the dual variable can be used to measure the total cost of drawdown capacity consumption per unit of pumping at a specific location. The dual program minimizes the cost of drawdown capacity consumption. By examining the meaning of the dual linear program an alternate statement of the problem under study is revealed. Quantities arising from the dual program add to the value of the optimization approach. Significant new information can be derived from existing linear optimization formulations with minimal additional computational effort.
Chandra Imaging of the Outer Accretion Flow onto the Black Hole at the Center of the Perseus Cluster
Creators: name: Miller, J. M.
name: Bautz, M. W.
name: McNamara, B. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nowhere is black hole feedback seen in sharper relief than in the Perseus cluster of galaxies. Owing to a combination of astrophysical and instrumental challenges, however, it can be difficult to study the black hole accretion that powers feedback into clusters of galaxies. Recent observations with Hitomi have resolved the narrow Fe K-alpha line associated with accretion onto the black hole in NGC 1275 (3C 84), the active galaxy at the center of Perseus. The width of that line indicates the fluorescing material is located 6-45 pc from the black hole. Here, we report on a specialized Chandra imaging observation of NGC 1275 that offers a complementary angle. Using a sub-array, sub-pixel event repositioning, and an X-ray "lucky imaging" technique, Chandra imaging suggests an upper limit of about 0.3 arc seconds on the size of the Fe K-alpha emission region, corresponding to 98 pc. Both spectroscopy and direct imaging now point to an emission region consistent with an extended molecular torus or disk, potentially available to fuel the black hole. A low X-ray continuum flux was likely measured from NGC 1275; contemporaneously, radio flaring and record-high GeV fluxes were measured. This may be an example of the correlation between X-ray flux dips and jet activity that is observed in other classes of accreting black holes across the mass scale.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ
Superconducting gap nodes in PrOs_4Sb_12
Creators: name: Curnoe, S. H.
name: Alrub, T. R. Abu
name: Sergienko, I. A.
name: Vekhter, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the superconducting gap nodes in crystals with tetrahedral (T_h) symmetry. The (0,0,1) phase of the three dimensional order parameter in the triplet channel has nodes in the [001] directions. Following a second order phase transition to the state (0,i|eta_2|,|eta_1|), each node lifts away from the Fermi surface and splits into two deep dips. We discuss this scenario in the context of multiple superconducting phases in PrOs4Sb12.
description: 2 pages, 1 figure, ICM2006, manuscript with higher quality figure may be obtained at http://www.physics.mun.ca/~curnoe/papers/PrOs4Sb12.pdf
Studies of the Gold-Sulphur Bonding in Nanotechnology
Creators: name: Bard, Amanda
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2019
Subjects: Nanoparticles
Gold

description: This thesis explores the kinetics of gold nanoparticle surface modification with thiols and its potential applications in nanotechnologies. In chapter 3 the ideal functionalization time for thiols to bind to the surface of the AuNP was found to take more than one hour for completion. 7-mercapto-4-methylcoumarin was used to follow the process by fluorescence spectroscopy and serves as a convenient molecular probe to determine relative kinetics. Fluorescence spectroscopy studies with various thiols, such as aliphatic and aromatics, further support the slow surface modification kinetics observed by fluorescence spectroscopy. The formation of thiolate bonds is a relatively slow process; we recommend one to two hour wait for thiol binding to be essentially complete, while for disulfides, overnight incubation is suggested. The application of gold nanoparticle surface modification was further investigated with its application in a Nanopore Assay as an amplification method for low concentration target proteins. Gold sulphur binding was utilised as a method to attach DNA on the surface of a AuNP in order to increase signalling 100 fold or more. Following low signal results, testing involving the loss of DNA to plastic tubing was investigated and it was noted that interactions with plastic can cause significant loss of sample to the surface of plastic non binding materials.
Standards for Official Statistics on Climate-Health Interactions (SOSCHI): Diarrheal disease incidence attributable to extreme precipitation and extreme temperature: metadata
Creators: name: DZAKPA, ETSE YAWO
name: Sylla, Mouhamadou Bamba
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Metadata
Waterborne disease
Environmental sciences
Public health
Epidemiology
Statistics and probability

description: Climate change is leading to more extreme temperatures and precipitation. These changes promote the spread of certain waterborne diseases which are impacted by extreme temperatures, contamination of waterbodies through runoff, dry conditions, water scarcity, and poor sanitation. Diarrheal disease is one of the most prevalent waterborne diseases and is highly impacted by these climatic conditions. Diarrheal disease is a public health concern particularly among young children and in Sub-Saharan Africa. This topic area aims to quantify the health impacts of diarrheal disease attributable to extreme temperatures and precipitation.

This is the Metadata document for indicator: Diarrheal disease incidence attributable to extreme precipitation
Turn Your Head and Listen: 360° Audio Between Old Utopias and Market Strategies
Creators: name: Pavoni, Raffaele
Publisher: name: Cinergie – Il Cinema e le altre Arti
Year: 2021

description: Many scientific publications directly concern VR, often conceived as a battlefield for rethinking our relationship with the moving image, and our frameworks on topics such as the cinematographic language or the spectator perception. And yet, although for some time film studies have re-evaluated the role of sound in cinematic production and spectatorship, in the field of VR the theoretical reflection on concepts such as stereoscopic audio and binaural recording has remained confined to the technological-engineering aspect. This essay aims to explore the most common audio techniques and their real impact in terms of consumption and affordances, on the basis of some software studies and sound studies reflections and within a media-archaeological perspective. The results of these innovations go beyond the technological features, suggesting a further rethinking of the cinematographic form and calling into question, even from an audio-only perspective, the issue of audience perception and interaction. The case studies taken into account might be an impulse, heuristically, for new studies on these topics.
description: Cinergie – Il Cinema e le altre Arti, No. 19 (2021)
The "Building Blocks" of Stellar Halos
Creators: name: Oman, Kyle A.
name: Starkenburg, Else
name: Navarro, Julio F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The stellar halos of galaxies encode their accretion histories. In particular, the median metallicity of a halo is determined primarily by the mass of the most massive accreted object. We use hydrodynamical cosmological simulations from the APOSTLE project to study the connection between the stellar mass, the metallicity distribution, and the stellar age distribution of a halo and the identity of its most massive progenitor. We find that the stellar populations in an accreted halo typically resemble the old stellar populations in a present-day dwarf galaxy with a stellar mass $\sim 0.2-0.5$ dex greater than that of the stellar halo. This suggest that had they not been accreted, the primary progenitors of stellar halos would have evolved to resemble typical nearby dwarf irregulars.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures, published in the proceedings of "On the Origin (and Evolution) of Baryonic Galaxy Halos", Puerto Ayora, Ecuador, March 13-17 2017, Eds. Duncan A. Forbes and Ericson D. Lopez
Exact Partial Wave Expansion of Optical Beams with Respect to an Arbitrary Origin
Creators: name: Neves, Antonio Alvaro Ranha
name: Fontes, Adriana
name: Padilha, Lazaro Aurelio
name: Rodriguez, Eugenio
name: Cruz, Carlos Henrique Brito
name: Barbosa, Luiz Carlos
name: Cesar, Carlos Lenz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using an analytical expression for an integral involving Bessel and Legendre functions we succeeded to obtain the partial wave decomposition of a general optical beam at an arbitrary location from the origin. We also showed that the solid angle integration will eliminate the radial dependence of the expansion coefficients. The beam shape coefficients obtained are given by an exact expression in terms of single or double integrals. These integrals can be evaluated numerically in a short time scale. We presented the results for the case of linear polarized Gaussian beam.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures
The Role of Neuronal Dystonin in Sensory Neuron Survival
Creators: name: Lynch-Godrei, Anisha
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2019
Subjects: Dystonin
Cytoskeleton
Neuroscience
HSAN-VI
bpag1

description: The mouse dystonin gene (Dst; previously Bpag1) yields three tissue specific isoforms of a giant cytoskeletal linker protein, namely the skin isoform dystonin-e, neuronal isoform dystonin-a, and muscle isoform dystonin-b. Through alternative splicing events at the 5’ end of neuronal and muscle transcripts, three further isoforms with unique N-termini are produced (dystonin-a/b1, -a/b2, and -a/b3). Though dystonin-e has long since been known to be the autoantigen responsible for the human skin blistering disease bullous pemphigoid, mutations affecting the neuronal isoforms have emerged as the major determinant in the murine sensory neuropathy dystonia musculorum (Dstdt), and more recently the human disease Hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy type VI (HSAN-VI). Here we report an upregulation in autophagy within sensory neurons from two Dstdt alleles: Dstdt-27J mice that are dystonin-a null, and Dstdt-Tg4 mice that lack dystonin-a1 and -a2 but retain dystonin-a3. Whether this upregulation is protective or pathogenic has yet to be determined. It was initially believed that insufficient trafficking of autophagic vesicles to their final site of degradation in lysosomes was impaired, however extensive evaluation of the levels of motor proteins responsible for autophagosome and lysosome trafficking were found to be in appropriate quantities. Interestingly, investigation of microtubule stability as a possible cause for these changes in autophagy showed that defective microtubule stability is not a common pathology of the Dstdt disorder. Only Dstdt-27J mice have reduced microtubule acetylation, which may help explain their shorter lifespan and symptom severity. In Dstdt-Tg4 sensory neurons, the maintenance of microtubule stability was associated with a 3-4 fold increase in dystonin-a3 transcript expression. Subsequent knockdown of this isoform in Dstdt-Tg4 sensory neurons produced a reduction in microtubule acetylation, suggesting that dystonin isoforms may be capable of taking on novel roles to compensate for the loss of other isoforms. Additionally, we also identify gastrointestinal abnormalities including gas accumulation, slowed motility, and reduced microbial richness/evenness in Dstdt mice, which occur independently of enteric nervous system defects. Rather, these gastrointestinal symptoms are most likely linked to an imbalance in sympathetic and parasympathetic input onto the gut. Collectively these findings help shed light on the heterogeneity of the human HSAN-VI disorder, and identify potential targets for therapeutics and symptom relief.
Educación cívica y política para las elecciones
Creators: name: Suing, Abel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: comunicación
cívica
valores
Ecuador
Elecciones
ciudadanos
formación

description: Publicación presentada en la sección de opinión del diario digital hora 32 https://hora32.com.ec/ que se edita en Loja (Ecuador)
Parsec-Scale Blazar Monitoring: Proper Motions
Creators: name: Homan, D. C.
name: Ojha, R.
name: Wardle, J. F. C.
name: Roberts, D. H.
name: Aller, M. F.
name: Aller, H. D.
name: Hughes, P. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present proper motions obtained from a dual frequency, six-epoch, VLBA polarization experiment monitoring a sample of 12 blazars. The observations were made at 15 GHz and 22 GHz at bi-monthly intervals over 1996. Ten of the eleven sources for which proper motion could be reliably determined are superluminal. Only J2005+77 has no superluminal components. Three sources (OJ287, J1224+21, and J1512-09) show motion faster than 10h^{-1}c, requiring $γ_{pattern}$ of at least 10h^{-1}c (H_0 = 100h km/s/Mpc). We compare our results to those in the literature and find motions outside the previously observed range for four sources. While some jet components exhibit significant non-radial motion, most motion is radial. In at least two sources there are components moving radially at significantly different structural position angles. In five of six sources (3C120, J1224+21, 3C273, 3C279, J1512-09, and J1927+73) that have multiple components with measurable proper motion, the innermost component is significantly slower than the others, suggesting that acceleration occurs in the jet. In the motions of individual components we observe at least one decelerating motion and two ``bending'' accelerations which tend to align their motions with larger scale structure. We also discuss in detail our procedures for obtaining robust kinematical results from multi-frequency VLBI data spanning several epochs.
description: 27 pages, 37 figures, uses emulateapj5.sty (included), ApJ in Press; very minor revisions to original version
On the thermal expansion in MgSiN$_{2}$
Creators: name: Råsander, Mikael
name: Moram, Michelle A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The thermal expansion of the wide band gap semiconductor MgSiN$_{2}$ has been determined using density functional calculations in combination with the quasi-harmonic approximation. We find that the thermal expansion is rather small in good agreement with previous experimental studies. However, the present calculations suggest that the thermal expansion of the system is more isotropic. Additional thermodynamic properties such as the Gr{ü}neisen parameter and the heat capacity at constant pressure have also been determined and found to be in good agreement with available experiments.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures
Relation Between Near-Fault Ground Motion Impulsive Signals and Source Parameters
Creators: name: Scala, Antonio
name: Festa, Gaetano
name: Gaudi, Sergio Del
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 40407 Seismology and Seismic Exploration
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Geophysics
subject: Solid Earth Sciences

description: Dataset from the paper "Relation Between Near-Fault Ground Motion Impulsive Signals and Source Parameters" - Scala et al. 2018 (in review)
Directorial Style for Interactive Storytelling and the Fallacy of Ownership: The Case of Resident Evil 7
Creators: name: Bilchi, Nicolas
Publisher: name: Cinergie – Il Cinema e le altre Arti
Year: 2021

description: This article discusses some of the issues affecting storytelling in an immersive and interactive medium such as Virtual Reality. Interactive works which reconfigure their images as three-dimensional environments bearing affordances seems able to convey a proper sense of “spatial presence” – that is, the perceptive and cognitive illusion of being physically immersed in a digital environment, rather than in the material one which actually surrounds the body. However, I will show that VR technology is doomed to produce “breaks in presence”: moments which rise awareness of the mediated nature of the experience, shattering the illusion of presence, and which represent undesirable side-effects for the aesthetics of immersion generally promoted by VR works. In order to do so, I will use the VR game Resident Evil 7 as a case study. First, I will analyse the sophisticated formal solutions employed by the game to create a terrifying illusion of presence, highlighting their connection with cinematic strategies common to the horror genre; then, I will focus on sections of the interactive experience which nonetheless devaluate the effects of these stylistic gears by bringing consciousness about the impalpable and disembodied nature of the virtual body during the (simulated) physical interaction with the environment.
description: Cinergie – Il Cinema e le altre Arti, No. 19 (2021)
title: 01_1024
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Aligned and Non-Aligned Double JPEG Detection Using Convolutional Neural Networks
Creators: name: Barni, Mauro
name: Bondi, Luca
name: Bonettini, Nicolò
name: Bestagini, Paolo
name: Costanzo, Andrea
name: Maggini, Marco
name: Tondi, Benedetta
name: Tubaro, Stefano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Due to the wide diffusion of JPEG coding standard, the image forensic community has devoted significant attention to the development of double JPEG (DJPEG) compression detectors through the years. The ability of detecting whether an image has been compressed twice provides paramount information toward image authenticity assessment. Given the trend recently gained by convolutional neural networks (CNN) in many computer vision tasks, in this paper we propose to use CNNs for aligned and non-aligned double JPEG compression detection. In particular, we explore the capability of CNNs to capture DJPEG artifacts directly from images. Results show that the proposed CNN-based detectors achieve good performance even with small size images (i.e., 64x64), outperforming state-of-the-art solutions, especially in the non-aligned case. Besides, good results are also achieved in the commonly-recognized challenging case in which the first quality factor is larger than the second one.
description: Submitted to Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (first submission: March 20, 2017; second submission: August 2, 2017)
Matrix Models and Integrable C<1 Open String Theories
Creators: name: Houart, Laurent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: No change at all but this time is possible to typset it!.
description: 4 pages(LaTex),ULB-TH-06/93
Standards for Official Statistics on Climate-Health Interactions (SOSCHI): Extreme weather events: Flooding: introduction
Creators: name: Byukusenge, Béatrice
name: Nyagahakwa, Venutse
name: Habyarima, Cassien
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Topic introduction
Extreme weather events
Flooding
Environmental sciences
Public health
Epidemiology
Statistics and probability

description: Flooding is a significant global health hazard, with far-reaching implications for public health, infrastructure, and socioeconomic stability. Climate change has significantly increased the frequency and severity of flooding events through more intense precipitation, elevated sea levels and accelerated snowmelt. This topic area focuses on quantifying the short-term health impacts associated with flash and fluvial floods. 

This is the Topic Introduction document.
Regime of Validity of the Pairing Hamiltonian in the Study of Fermi Gases
Creators: name: Chang, S. Y.
name: Pandharipande, V. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ground state energy and pairing gap of the interacting Fermi gases calculated by the {\it ab initio} stochastic method are compared with those estimated from the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer pairing Hamiltonian. We discuss the ingredients of this Hamiltonian in various regimes of interaction strength. In the weakly interacting ($1/ak_F <<0$) regime the BCS Hamiltonian should describe Landau quasi-particle energies and interactions, on the other hand in the strongly pairing regime, that is $1/ak_F \gtrsim 0$, it becomes part of the bare Hamiltonian. However, the bare BCS Hamiltonian is not adequate for describing atomic gases in the regime of weak to moderate interaction strength $-\infty < 1/ak_F <0$ such as $ak_F \sim -1$. PACS: 05.30.Fk, 03.75.Ss, 21.65.+f
description: 2 figures, 1 table