cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
TOI-220 $b$: a warm sub-Neptune discovered by TESS
Creators: name: Hoyer, S.
name: Gandolfi, D.
name: Armstrong, D. J.
name: Deleuil, M.
name: Acuña, L.
name: de Medeiros, J. R.
name: Goffo, E.
name: Lillo-Box, J.
name: Mena, E. Delgado
name: Lopez, T. A.
name: Santerne, A.
name: Sousa, S.
name: Fridlund, M.
name: Adibekyan, V.
name: Collins, K. A.
name: Serrano, L. M.
name: Cortés-Zuleta, P.
name: Howell, S. B.
name: Deeg, H.
name: Aguichine, A.
name: Barragán, O.
name: Bryant, E. M.
name: Martins, B. L. Canto
name: Collins, K. I.
name: Cooke, B. F.
name: Díaz, R. F.
name: Esposito, M.
name: Furlan, E.
name: Hojjatpanah, S.
name: Jackman, J.
name: Jenkins, J. M.
name: Jensen, E. L. N.
name: Latham, D. W.
name: Leão, I. C.
name: Matson, R. A.
name: Nielsen, L. D.
name: Osborn, A.
name: Otegi, J. F.
name: Rodler, F.
name: Sabotta, S.
name: Scott, N. J.
name: Seager, S.
name: Stockdale, C.
name: Strøm, P. A.
name: Vanderspek, R.
name: Van Eylen, V.
name: Wheatley, P. J.
name: Winn, J. N.
name: Almenara, J. M.
name: Barrado, D.
name: Barros, S. C. C.
name: Bayliss, D.
name: Bouchy, F.
name: Boyd, P. T.
name: Cabrera, J.
name: Cochran, W. D.
name: Demangeon, O.
name: Doty, J. P.
name: Dumusque, X.
name: Figueira, P.
name: Fong, W.
name: Grziwa, S.
name: Hatzes, A. P.
name: Kabáth, P.
name: Knudstrup, E.
name: Korth, J.
name: Livingston, J. H.
name: Luque, R.
name: Mousis, O.
name: Mullally, S. E.
name: Osborn, H. P.
name: Pallé, E.
name: Persson, C. M.
name: Redfield, S.
name: Santos, N. C.
name: Smith, J.
name: Šubjak, J.
name: Twicken, J. D.
name: Udry, S.
name: Yahalomi, D. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we report the discovery of TOI-220 $b$, a new sub-Neptune detected by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and confirmed by radial velocity follow-up observations with the HARPS spectrograph. Based on the combined analysis of TESS transit photometry and high precision radial velocity measurements we estimate a planetary mass of 13.8 $\pm$ 1.0 M$_{Earth}$ and radius of 3.03 $\pm$ 0.15 R$_{Earth}$, implying a bulk density of 2.73 $\pm$ 0.47 $\textrm{g cm}^{-3}$. TOI-220 $b$ orbits a relative bright (V=10.4) and old (10.1$\pm$1.4 Gyr) K dwarf star with a period of $\sim$10.69 d. Thus, TOI-220 $b$ is a new warm sub-Neptune with very precise mass and radius determinations. A Bayesian analysis of the TOI-220 $b$ internal structure indicates that due to the strong irradiation it receives, the low density of this planet could be explained with a steam atmosphere in radiative-convective equilibrium and a supercritical water layer on top of a differentiated interior made of a silicate mantle and a small iron core.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Daniel Defoe as a colonial propagandist
Creators: name: Alam, Fakrul
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: This thesis considers different aspects of Defoe's colonial propaganda: its ideological implications, its links to a discursive tradition, and its polemical strategy. Unlike previous contributions to the subject, it analyzes fully the nonfictional works as well as the fiction to give a comprehensive account of Defoe's contribution to colonial discourse. Chapters I to IV examine four of Defoe's tracts as colonial propaganda. The first chapter scrutinizes An Historical Account of the Voyages and Adventures of Sir Walter Raleigh, a work designed to attract the South Sea Company to one of Defoe's favorite projects. The second studies the History of the Principal Discoveries, a tract which links up knowledge, trade, and empire to argue for the extension of Western man's dominion over the extra-European world. The next chapter considers Defoe's Plan of the English Commerce as a work composed to convince readers that colonization was essential for England's prosperity and power. Chapter IV treats Defoe as an expert on overseas affairs and notes his links to colonial circles. It focuses attention on his contribution to Atlas Maritimus, sees him as a "geographer" in the Hakluyt tradition, reviews his colonial schemes, and discusses his views on other races and places. The final four chapters investigate Defoe's fiction as colonial propaganda. Because the colonial aspects of the fiction have not gone unnoticed, Chapter V surveys the work that has been done and suggests the approaches that can still be taken to further illuminate Defoe's narratives as imperialist propaganda. Chapter VI examines in greater detail than has been attempted before how Defoe's settings reflect his colonial concerns. The next two chapters analyze Defoe's protagonists as prototypical colonizers. Both their rational, empire-building attributes as well as their unpleasant aspects are considered. This study concludes with an assessment of Defoe's success as a colonial propagandist. It suggests that the tracts can be seen as significant as part of a body of writing which persistently upheld the cause of empire; it notes that Defoe's narratives have merited a distinctive place because of the appeal of their images of success and their influence on subsequent writers who have promoted colonial enterprise through fiction.
Schwinger-Keldysh effective action for relativistic Brownian particle in AdS-CFT
Creators: name: Bu, Yanyan
name: Zhang, Biye
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute Schwinger-Keldysh effective action for a relativistic heavy quark (with constant background velocity) in strongly coupled N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills plasma. The holographic dual description involves a noisy trailing string moving in Schwarzschild-AdS5 black brane. The noise is caused by Hawking radiation emitted from string worldsheet horizon. Besides quadractic terms, the effective action contains cubic interactions, which are entirely induced by the constant background velocity. The nonlinear fluctuation-dissipation relations for three-point functions are discussed based on holographic results.
description: 32 pages, 5 figures
Andrzej Krzysztof Kunert, Ilustrowany przewodnik po Polsce Podziemnej 1939—1945
Creators: name: Friedrich, Klaus-Peter
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung
Year: 1999

description: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, Bd. 48 Nr. 2 (1999)
Nacionalismus, společnost a kultura ve střední Evropě. Pocta Jiřímu Kořalkovi k 75. narozeninám / Nationalismus, Gesellschaft und Kultur in Mitteleuropa im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Festschrift für Jiří Kořalka zum 75. Geburtstag
Creators: name: Lemberg, Hans
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung
Year: 2009

description: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, Bd. 58 Nr. 1-2 (2009): Bilder vieler Ausstellungen. Großexpositionen in Ostmitteleuropa als nationale, mediale und soziale Ereignisse
Kommunistische Identitäten im Streit Politisierung und Herrschaftslegitimation in den kommunistischen Parteien in Ostmitteleuropa nach dem Stalinismus
Creators: name: Kolář, Pavel
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung
Year: 2011

description: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, Bd. 60 Nr. 2 (2011)
Eva Tenzer, Nation - Kunst - Zensur. Nationalstaatsbildung und Kunstzensur in Polen (1918-1939)
Creators: name: Hein-Kircher, Heidi
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung
Year: 1999

description: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, Bd. 48 Nr. 2 (1999)
Fertility, sex, and reproductive health dynamics after Typhoon Yolanda in Tacloban North, Philippines
Creators: name: Cuaton, Ginbert
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Geography

description: This exploratory research aims to contribute to the growing body of critical literature investigating the 2013 Typhoon Yolanda disaster as a social phenomenon. Anchored on a convergent mixed methods research design, we gathered official government statistical data and primary data obtained through qualitative interviews with 20 couple-informants in two permanent resettlement sites in Tacloban North from 2016–2018. We also collected inputs from other stakeholders, such as local government workers, public physicians, and community and humanitarian workers, to explore the impacts of Yolanda on couples’ sexual experiences and women’s reproductive health (RH). The first section examined fertility rates in Tacloban City using demographic data, i.e., vital registry data and official population census data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) for 1990–2019. Results indicate no evidence of a “fertility spike” or peculiar and irregular fertility increase a few years after Typhoon Yolanda. The second and third sections respectively analyzed the sexual experiences of couples and women’s experiences related to reproductive healthcare products and services during and after the typhoon in Tacloban North. We argue that understanding and addressing the sources of challenges related to sexual and reproductive health (SRH)—along with the other social, physical, psychological, and economic aspirations and needs of resettled residents in Tacloban North—is the first step to improve their overall standard of living. We encourage other social science researchers in and beyond Eastern Visayas to expound on the narratives and analyses offered in this exploratory paper to better document and interrogate the specific dynamics among and beyond the identified themes of couples’ sexual experiences and women’s RH in the communities affected by Typhoon Yolanda.
Die galizische Grenze 1772-1867. Kommunikation oder Isolation? Hrsg. von Christoph Augustynowic z und Andreas Kappeler
Creators: name: Struve, Kai
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung
Year: 2009

description: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, Bd. 58 Nr. 1-2 (2009): Bilder vieler Ausstellungen. Großexpositionen in Ostmitteleuropa als nationale, mediale und soziale Ereignisse
Similarity Measures for Location-Dependent MMIMO, 5G Base Stations On/Off Switching Using Radio Environment Map
Creators: name: Hoffmann, Marcin
name: Kryszkiewicz, Paweł
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The Massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MMIMO) technique together with Heterogeneous Network (Het-Net) deployment enables high throughput of 5G and beyond networks. However, a high number of antennas and a high number of Base Stations (BSs) can result in significant power consumption. Previous studies have shown that the energy efficiency (EE) of such a network can be effectively increased by turning off some BSs depending on User Equipments (UEs) positions. Such mapping is obtained by using Reinforcement Learning. Its results are stored in a so-called Radio Environment Map (REM). However, in a real network, the number of UEs' positions patterns would go to infinity. This paper aims to determine how to match the current set of UEs' positions to the most similar pattern, i.e., providing the same optimal active BSs set, saved in REM. We compare several state-of-the-art distance metrics using a computer simulator: an accurate 3D-Ray-Tracing model of the radio channel and an advanced system-level simulator of MMIMO Het-Net. The results have shown that the so-called Sum of Minimums Distance provides the best matching between REM data and UEs' positions, enabling up to 56% EE improvement over the scenario without EE optimization.
Anisotropic constant-roll inflation for the Dirac-Born-Infeld model
Creators: name: Nguyen, Duy H.
name: Pham, Tuyen M.
name: Do, Tuan Q.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we study a non-canonical extension of a supergravity-motivated model acting as a vivid counterexample to the cosmic no-hair conjecture due to its unusual coupling between scalar and electromagnetic fields. In particular, a canonical scalar field is replaced by the string-inspired Dirac-Born-Infeld one in this extension. As a result, exact anisotropic inflationary solutions for this Dirac-Born-Infeld model are figured out under a constant-roll condition. Furthermore, numerical calculations are performed to verify that these anisotropic constant-roll solutions are indeed attractive during their inflationary phase.
description: 14 pages, 14 figures. Matches the published version. All results are not changed. Comments are welcome
Revised instability domains of SPB and beta Cephei stars
Creators: name: Miglio, Andrea
name: Montalban, Josefina
name: Dupret, Marc-Antoine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The excitation of pulsation modes in beta Cephei and Slowly Pulsating B stars is known to be very sensitive to opacity changes in the stellar interior where T~2 10^5 K. In this region differences in opacity up to ~50% can be induced by the choice between OPAL and OP opacity tables, and between two different metal mixtures (Grevesse and Noels 1993 and Asplund et al. 2005). We have extended the non-adiabatic computations presented in Miglio et al. (2007) towards models of higher mass and pulsation modes of degree l=3, and we present here the instability domains in the HR- and log(P)-log(Teff) diagrams resulting from different choices of opacity tables, and for three different metallicities.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in Communications in Asteroseismology
A simple construction of fermion measure term in U(1) chiral lattice gauge theories with exact gauge invariance
Creators: name: Kadoh, Daisuke
name: Kikukawa, Yoshio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the gauge invariant formulation of U(1) chiral lattice gauge theories based on the Ginsparg-Wilson relation, the gauge field dependence of the fermion measure is determined through the so-called measure term. We derive a closed formula of the measure term on the finite volume lattice. The Wilson line degrees of freedom (torons) of the link field are treated separately to take care of the global integrability. The local counter term is explicitly constructed with the local current associated with the cohomologically trivial part of the gauge anomaly in a finite volume. The resulted formula is very close to the known expression of the measure term in the infinite volume with a single parameter integration, and would be useful in practical implementations.
description: 25 pages, uses JHEP3.cls, the version to appear in JHEP
Influence of ripening stages on phytochemical composition and bioavailability of ginseng berry (Panax ginseng C.A. Meyer)
Creators: name: Jin, Sora
name: Eom, Seung Hee
name: Kim, Ju-Sung
name: Jo, Ick Hyun
name: Hyun, Tae Kyung
Publisher: name: Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality
Year: 2019

description: The presence of large amounts of bioactive compounds such as saponins and flavonoids in ginseng (Panax ginseng) berry suggests its potential as a functional resource for the food and medical industries, despite the fact that been considered a useless by-products of P. ginseng. In this study, we examined the variations in the antioxidant and anti-melanogenic potential of ginseng berry during the ripening process. We found that fully ripe berry extracts (Go-S3) contained the highest level of antioxidant and anti-melanogenic activities. Phytochemical screening suggested that alterations in polyphenol contents correlated with the variation in bioactive principles of ginseng berry during the ripening process. Furthermore, results obtained by quantitative real-time PCR, western blot, tyrosinase inhibition assay and molecular docking analysis suggested that Go-S3 probably inhibits tyrosinase activity by interacting with copper-coordinating histidines and second shell residues of tyrosinase, resulting in the reduction of melanin production in α-MSH-stimulated B16F10 cells. Taken together, these finding suggest the potential of ginseng berry as a resource for functional applications in the cosmetic industries and demonstrate that fruit ripening stages have profound effects on the pharmaceutical value of ginseng berry.
description: Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality, Vol 92 (2019): Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality
Constraints on light dark sector particles from lifetime difference of heavy neutral mesons
Creators: name: Kumar, Girish
name: Petrov, Alexey A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Heavy meson decays with missing energy in the final state offer interesting avenues to search for light invisible new physics such as dark matter (DM). In this context, we show that such new physics (NP) interactions also affect lifetime difference in neutral meson-antimeson mixing. We consider general dimension-six effective quark interactions involving a pair of DM particles and calculate their contributions to lifetime difference in beauty and charm meson systems. We use the latest data on mixing observables to constrain the relevant effective operators. We find that lifetime differences provide novel and complementary flavor constraints compared to those obtained from heavy meson decays.
description: 19 pages, 5 captioned figures, 1 table; v2: added Bs -> invisible constraint, matches published version
Different response to 1-methylcyclopropene in two cultivars of Chinese pear fruit with contrasting softening characteristics
Creators: name: Wei, Jianmei
name: Cheng, Yudou
name: Feng, Yunxiao
name: Qi, Xiudong
name: He, Jingang
name: Guan, Junfeng
Publisher: name: Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality
Year: 2019

description: In this study, the change in softening and its related genes expression under influence of 500 nl L-1 1-methylcyclopropene (1-MCP) was assessed in the two Chinese pear fruit, ‘Jingbaili’ (Pyrus ussuriensis Maxim) and ‘Yali’ (Pyrus bretschneideri Rehd), which exhibit different softening characteristics. ‘Jingbaili’ pear fruit softened rapidly after harvest, and was strongly inhibited by 1-MCP. In contrast, there was no obvious change of firmness compared to the control after 1-MCP treatment in ‘Yali’ pear fruit. The respiration and ethylene production rates were reduced by 1-MCP at early storage in both two cultivars. ‘Jingbaili’ pear fruit exhibited dramatically increased expression levels of the softening-related genes, i.e., polygalacturonase1 (PG1), polygalacturonase2 (PG2), β-Galactosidase4 (GAL4), α-arabinofuranosidase1 (ARF1) and α-arabinofuranosidase2 (ARF2), and these genes’ expression levels were significantly decreased by 1-MCP treatment. In contrast, ‘Yali’ pear fruit showed lower expression levels of the above-mentioned genes, as well as a relatively smaller inhibition effect by 1-MCP treatment before day 27. These results suggest that ‘Jingbaili’ pear fruit are more sensitive to 1-MCP/ethylene than ‘Yali’ pear fruit during ripening.
description: Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality, Vol 92 (2019): Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality
Theorising machine learning as an alternative pathway for higher education in Africa.
Creators: name: Fomunyam, Dr. Kehdinga George
Publisher: name: Mangosuthu University of Technology (MUT)
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Mechanical Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering

description: Machine learning technology is currently a new frontier for higher education globally, and the African higher education system needs to change in tandem with this technological trend in order to combat challenges faced by the system. These challenges include lack of institutional research to discover new knowledge, unfavorable methods of instruction, especially the language conflict, access to education for marginalized and isolated communities, high dropout rates, depleted infrastructure and unavailability of resources, overpopulated classrooms, and a biased grading system. This paper discusses alternative machine learning solutions to these challenges faced by the African higher education system, in order to ensure that students develop the skills needed to thrive in this digital era. Findings reveal three key technological solutions that can provide alternative solutions to these challenges, and they include customized/personalized learning, predictive analytics and digital administrative management, and virtual assistance. This paper concludes that for Africa, Catching up with the world goes beyond adopting these new innovations to facilitate learning. Recommendations include rethinking the content of the African curriculum, developing an unbiased education system, and adopting a suitable medium of instruction.
SS-SFR: Synthetic Scenes Spatial Frequency Response on Virtual KITTI and Degraded Automotive Simulations for Object Detection
Creators: name: Jakab, Daniel
name: Braun, Alexander
name: Agnew, Cathaoir
name: Mohandas, Reenu
name: Deegan, Brian Michael
name: Molloy, Dara
name: Ward, Enda
name: Scanlan, Tony
name: Eising, Ciarán
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Automotive simulation can potentially compensate for a lack of training data in computer vision applications. However, there has been little to no image quality evaluation of automotive simulation and the impact of optical degradations on simulation is little explored. In this work, we investigate Virtual KITTI and the impact of applying variations of Gaussian blur on image sharpness. Furthermore, we consider object detection, a common computer vision application on three different state-of-the-art models, thus allowing us to characterize the relationship between object detection and sharpness. It was found that while image sharpness (MTF50) degrades from an average of 0.245cy/px to approximately 0.119cy/px; object detection performance stays largely robust within 0.58\%(Faster RCNN), 1.45\%(YOLOF) and 1.93\%(DETR) across all respective held-out test sets.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables. This paper is a preprint of a paper submitted to the 26th Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference (IMVIP 2024). If accepted, the copy of record will be available at IET Digital Library
Alt-Livland zwischen römischen Kolonisten und jüdischen Exilanten. Genealogische Fiktionen in der Historiografie des 17. Jahrhunderts
Creators: name: Donecker, Stefan
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung
Year: 2011

description: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, Bd. 60 Nr. 2 (2011)
Manipulating strong electromagnetic fields with the average transverse momentum of relativistic nuclear collisions
Creators: name: Giacalone, Giuliano
name: Shen, Chun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that an event-shape engineering based on the mean transverse momentum of charged hadrons, $[p_t]$, provides an optimal handle on the strength of the magnetic field created in central heavy-ion collisions at high energy. This is established through quantitative evaluations of the correlation existing between the event-by-event magnetic field produced by the spectator protons in 5.02 TeV Pb+Pb collisions and the event-by-event $[p_t]$ at a given collision centrality. We argue that the event selection based on $[p_t]$ provides a better handle on the magnetic field than the more traditional selection based on the event ellipticities. Advantages brought by this new method for the experimental search of the chiral magnetic effect are discussed.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures
2D skew scattering in the vicinity and away from resonant scattering condition
Creators: name: Mkhitaryan, V. V.
name: Raikh, M. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We studied the energy dependence of the 2D skew scattering from strong potential, for which the Born approximation is not applicable. Since the skew scattering cross section is zero both at low and at high energies, it exhibits a maximum as a function of energy of incident electron. We found analytically the shape of the maximum for an exactly solvable model of circular-barrier potential. Within a rescaling factor, this shape is universal for strong potentials. If the repulsive potential has an attractive core, the discrete levels of the core become quasilocal due to degeneracy with continuum. For energy of incident electron close to the quasilocal state with zero angular momentum, the enhancement of the net cross section is accompanied by resonant enhancement of the skew scattering. By contrast, near the resonance with quasilocal states having momenta $\pm 1$, the skew scattering cross section is an odd function of energy deviation from the resonance, and passes through zero, i.e., it exhibits a sign reversal. In the latter case, in the presence of the Fermi sea, the Kondo resonance manifests itself in strong temperature dependence of the skew scattering.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures
Raimo Pullat, Suomi ja Puola. Suhteita yli Itämeren 1917—1941
Creators: name: Schweitzer, Robert
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung
Year: 1999

description: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, Bd. 48 Nr. 2 (1999)
Creating the foundations of a comprehensive junior concert band program
Creators: name: Balanuik, John Alexander
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The Curriculum Development Branch of the Ministry of Education of the Province of British Columbia issued Secondary Music (8-12) A Curriculum/Resource Guide during the 1980-81 academic year. The Guide contains the learning outcomes and content for band with sample outlines and units intended to guide band instruction through the introductory, intermediate and senior levels. Specific, sequential and comprehensive lesson plans, exercises and examinations designed to accomplish and evaluate each of the learning outcomes and content are not provided. The Guide has not created consistent standards throughout the province. My observations of numerous classroom situations and discussions of the problem with my collegues and supervisor lead me to speculate that an inadequate or incomplete distribution of resource materials made band directors unwilling or unprepared to supplement the Guide. A review of the literature showed that many books pertaining to the stated learning outcomes and content of the Guide exist however the information has not been compiled and organized into complete, self-contained lesson plans, exercises and examinations. After ten months of research, I had gathered thousands of pages of material relevant to each of the stated band skills and objectives in the Guide. I recognized that the dimensions were beyond my immediate resources so I contained my planning to the first three learning outcomes (technical competency, articulation and theory) and further reduced the scope by limiting instruction to the first three years (8-10). Preliminary and revised instructional materials and evaluation devices contained in this thesis were prepared based on the long-term learning outcomes of the Guide and the medium- and short-term learning outcomes from various sources in the literature. The process of developing the foundations of a comprehensive junior concert band program involves teaching students how to read and understand music (chapter 1), how to recognize and perform melodic and rhythmic patterns (chapters 2-3), and how to develop musicianship by correctly applying articulation and dynamic techniques to the scales and drills that are the rudiments of performance (chapters 4-5). The Guide has outlined the goals of a Secondary Band Program. This thesis provides possible methods for the accomplishment and evaluation of selected goals within the program. Subsequent coverage of the goals could provide a textbook for band instruction throughout the province which would permit students to move from district to district and be as prepared musically as they are academically.
Multi-scale Image Decomposition using a Local Statistical Edge Model
Creators: name: Wong, Kin-Ming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present a progressive image decomposition method based on a novel non-linear filter named Sub-window Variance filter. Our method is specifically designed for image detail enhancement purpose; this application requires extraction of image details which are small in terms of both spatial and variation scales. We propose a local statistical edge model which develops its edge awareness using spatially defined image statistics. Our decomposition method is controlled by two intuitive parameters which allow the users to define what image details to suppress or enhance. By using the summed-area table acceleration method, our decomposition pipeline is highly parallel. The proposed filter is gradient preserving and this allows our enhancement results free from the gradient-reversal artefact. In our evaluations, we compare our method in various multi-scale image detail manipulation applications with other mainstream solutions.
description: 9 pages and 13 figures. To be published in the Proceedings of IEEE 7th International Conference on Virtual Reality, 2021
Spin 3/2 fermions with attractive interactions in a one-dimensional optical lattice: phase diagrams, entanglement entropy, and the effect of the trap
Creators: name: Roux, G.
name: Capponi, S.
name: Lecheminant, P.
name: Azaria, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study spin 3/2 fermionic cold atoms with attractive interactions confined in a one-dimensional optical lattice. Using numerical techniques, we determine the phase diagram for a generic density. For the chosen parameters, one-particle excitations are gapped and the phase diagram is separated into two regions: one where the two-particle excitation gap is zero, and one where it is finite. In the first region, the two-body pairing fluctuations (BCS) compete with the density ones. In the other one, a molecular superfluid (MS) phase, in which bound-states of four particles form, competes with the density fluctuations. The properties of the transition line between these two regions is studied through the behavior of the entanglement entropy. The physical features of the various phases, comprising leading correlations, Friedel oscillations, and excitation spectra, are presented. To make the connection with experiments, the effect of a harmonic trap is taken into account. In particular, we emphasize the conditions under which the appealing MS phase can be realized, and how the phases could be probed by using the density profiles and the associated structure factor. Lastly, the consequences on the flux quantization of the different nature of the pairing in the BCS and MS phases are studied in a situation where the condensate is in a ring geometry.
description: 15 pages, 21 figures
Mezira insularis Hoberlandt 1957
Creators: name: Heiss, Ernst
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Aradidae
Mezira
Mezira insularis

description: Mezira insularis Hoberlandt, 1957
Mezira insularis Hoberlandt, 1957: 53. HT 3: Madagascar (Ambanja); NMPC. Distr.: Madagascar; (Andrahomana: Hoberlandt, 1957; Ambohitsitondroina – Maroantsetra, Soga- Raharizonina, Ambodivoangy: Hoberlandt, 1963)
Ref.: Hoberlandt, 1957 (key,fig.)¸1963 (key,distr.); Kormilev & Froeschner, 1987: 152 (cat.)
description: Published as part of Heiss, Ernst, 2012, Annotated catalogue of the flat bug family Aradidae Brullé, 1836 of Madagascar and adjacent islands (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), pp. 45-63 in Zootaxa 3426 (1) on page 55, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3426.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/214110
Phase Diffusion in Quantum Dissipative Systems
Creators: name: Banerjee, Subhashish
name: Srikanth, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the dynamics of the quantum phase distribution associated with the reduced density matrix of a system for a number of situations of practical importance, as the system evolves under the influence of its environment, interacting via a quantum nondemoliton type of coupling, such that there is decoherence without dissipation, as well as when it interacts via a dissipative interaction, resulting in decoherence as well as dissipation. The system is taken to be either a two-level atom (or equivalently, a spin-1/2 system) or a harmonic oscillator, and the environment is modeled as a bath of harmonic oscillators, starting out in a squeezed thermal state. The impact of the different environmental parameters on the dynamics of the quantum phase distribution for the system starting out in various initial states, is explicitly brought out. An interesting feature that emerges from our work is that the relationship between squeezing and temperature effects depends on the type of system-bath interaction. In the case of quantum nondemolition type of interaction, squeezing and temperature work in tandem, producing a diffusive effect on the phase distribution. In contrast, in case of a dissipative interaction, the influence of temperature can be counteracted by squeezing, which manifests as a resistence to randomization of phase. We make use of the phase distributions to bring out a notion of complementarity in atomic systems. We also study the dispersion of the phase using the phase distributions conditioned on particular initial states of the system.
description: Accepted for publication in Physical Review A; changes in section V; 20 pages, 12 figures
Hole superconductivity in Arsenic-Iron compounds
Creators: name: Marsiglio, F.
name: Hirsch, J. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Superconductivity above 25K, and possibly above 40K, has recently been discovered in $LaO_{1-x}F_xFeAs$ and related compounds. We propose that this is another example of the mechanism of hole superconductivity at play. This requires the existence of hole carriers at the Fermi energy, which appears to contradict current observations. We propose that two-band conduction is taking place in these materials, that the negative ion $As^{-3}$ plays a key role, and that superconductivity is non-phononic and driven by pairing and undressing of heavily dressed hole carriers to lower their kinetic energy. We make several predictions of future observations based on our theory.
Velocity Driven Vision: Asynchronous Sensor Fusion Birds Eye View Models for Autonomous Vehicles
Creators: name: Hayes, Seamie
name: Sharma, Sushil
name: Eising, Ciarán
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Fusing different sensor modalities can be a difficult task, particularly if they are asynchronous. Asynchronisation may arise due to long processing times or improper synchronisation during calibration, and there must exist a way to still utilise this previous information for the purpose of safe driving, and object detection in ego vehicle/ multi-agent trajectory prediction. Difficulties arise in the fact that the sensor modalities have captured information at different times and also at different positions in space. Therefore, they are not spatially nor temporally aligned. This paper will investigate the challenge of radar and LiDAR sensors being asynchronous relative to the camera sensors, for various time latencies. The spatial alignment will be resolved before lifting into BEV space via the transformation of the radar/LiDAR point clouds into the new ego frame coordinate system. Only after this can we concatenate the radar/LiDAR point cloud and lifted camera features. Temporal alignment will be remedied for radar data only, we will implement a novel method of inferring the future radar point positions using the velocity information. Our approach to resolving the issue of sensor asynchrony yields promising results. We demonstrate velocity information can drastically improve IoU for asynchronous datasets, as for a time latency of 360 milliseconds (ms), IoU improves from 49.54 to 53.63. Additionally, for a time latency of 550ms, the camera+radar (C+R) model outperforms the camera+LiDAR (C+L) model by 0.18 IoU. This is an advancement in utilising the often-neglected radar sensor modality, which is less favoured than LiDAR for autonomous driving purposes.
description: This paper is a preprint of a paper submitted to the 26th Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference (IMVIP 2024). If accepted, the copy of record will be available at IET Digital Library
Städtische Selbstpräsentation auf der Allgemeinen Landesausstellung in Lemberg 1894 am Beispiel der Stadt Krakau
Creators: name: Kozińska-Witt, Hanna
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung
Year: 2009

description: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, Bd. 58 Nr. 1-2 (2009): Bilder vieler Ausstellungen. Großexpositionen in Ostmitteleuropa als nationale, mediale und soziale Ereignisse
Frauen und Memoria in der Dynastie der Piasten im 11. und 12. Jahrhundert. Drei Beispiele
Creators: name: Pac, Grzegorz
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung
Year: 2011

description: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, Bd. 60 Nr. 2 (2011)
Deformable Convolution Based Road Scene Semantic Segmentation of Fisheye Images in Autonomous Driving
Creators: name: Manzoor, Anam
name: Singh, Aryan
name: Sistu, Ganesh
name: Mohandas, Reenu
name: Grua, Eoin
name: Scanlan, Anthony
name: Eising, Ciarán
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This study investigates the effectiveness of modern Deformable Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) for semantic segmentation tasks, particularly in autonomous driving scenarios with fisheye images. These images, providing a wide field of view, pose unique challenges for extracting spatial and geometric information due to dynamic changes in object attributes. Our experiments focus on segmenting the WoodScape fisheye image dataset into ten distinct classes, assessing the Deformable Networks' ability to capture intricate spatial relationships and improve segmentation accuracy. Additionally, we explore different loss functions to address class imbalance issues and compare the performance of conventional CNN architectures with Deformable Convolution-based CNNs, including Vanilla U-Net and Residual U-Net architectures. The significant improvement in mIoU score resulting from integrating Deformable CNNs demonstrates their effectiveness in handling the geometric distortions present in fisheye imagery, exceeding the performance of traditional CNN architectures. This underscores the significant role of Deformable convolution in enhancing semantic segmentation performance for fisheye imagery.
description: This paper is a preprint of a paper submitted to the 26th Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference (IMVIP 2024). If accepted, the copy of record will be available at IET Digital Library
การศึกษาจีโนมไมโทคอนเดรียของปลากัดป่าภาคกลาง Betta splendens (Mitochondrial Genome Analysis of Siamese Fighting Fish Betta splendens)
Creators: name: อรจิรา ประคองชีพ
Publisher: name: Genetics Society of Thailand
Year: 2013
Subjects: Betta splendens, start codon, mitochondrial genome

description: S1 (Special Issue 1), S.1, Thai Journal of Genetics
La figlia del pirata. Idee per un commento a Senenca, Controversiae  I,6
Creators: name: Lentano, Mario
Publisher: name: Annali Online  Lettere - Ferrara
Year: 2012

description: The declamation I 6 of the Elder Seneca deals with such a common topic  as pirates capturing young men who uselessly ask their fathers for  ransom. In this case, the intervention of the daughter of the pirate  chief leads to the release of the captive, who marries the girl but is  disinherited by his father when he refuses to divorce her and marry a  rich orphan. The paper analyses this theme, its relationship with other  controversies about pirates and with myths and legends (Jason's,  Theseus' and so on) in which a man is helped escaping a severe danger by  a woman who has fallen in love with him.
description: Annali Online  Lettere - Ferrara, V 2 (2010)
Gravitational Energy in Van Stockum Space-Time
Creators: name: Gad, Ragab M
name: Alharbi, H. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 83C40

description: The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the problem of energy and momentum distributions of Van Stockum space-time within the framework of two different theories of gravity, general relativity and teleparallel gravity. We have shown that for all homogeneous space-times with metric components $g_{μν}$ being functions of time variable, $t$, alone and independent of space variables the total gravitational energy for any finite volume is identically zero. By working with general relativity, we have calculated the energy-momentum density for Van Stockum space-time using double index complexes and in the framework teleparallel gravity, we used the energy-momentum complexes of Einstein, Bergmann-Thomson and Landau-Lifshitz. In our analysis, we sustained that general relativity and teleparallel gravity are equivalent theories of space-time under consideration. For space-time under consideration, we have shown that different complexes of energy-momentum density do not provide the same results neither in general relativity nor in teleparallel gravity.
description: 16 pages No figures, Accepted for publication in Indian journal of physics (2021)
Albio Cesare Cassio (a cura di),  Storia delle lingue letterarie greche . Firenze. Le Monnier Università / Lingue e Letterature. 2008. pp. 396.
Creators: name: Fiorentini, Leonardo
Publisher: name: Annali Online  Lettere - Ferrara
Year: 2012

description: Annali Online  Lettere - Ferrara, V 2 (2010)
Erreichbarkeitsanalyse Mobilitätsberichterstattung. Methodische Vorgehensweise in Berlin Pankow
Creators: name: Glock, Jan Peter
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Erreichbarkeit
accessibility

description: Der Bericht beschreibt die Datenbasis und das methodische Vorgehen bei der Durchführung der Erreichbarkeitsanalyse im Forschungsprojekt MobilBericht.

description: Das diesem Bericht zugrundeliegende Projekt MobilBericht wurde mit Mitteln des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung im Förderschwerpunkt Sozial-ökologische Forschung unter dem Förderkennzeichen 01UR1703 gefördert. Die Verantwortung für den Inhalt dieser Veröffentlichung liegt bei den Autorinnen und Autoren.
Validation of Gaia DR3 orbital and acceleration solutions with hierarchical triples
Creators: name: Nagarajan, Pranav
name: El-Badry, Kareem
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using data from Gaia DR3, we construct a sample of 14,791 gravitationally bound wide pairs in which one of the components is an unresolved binary with an astrometric orbital or acceleration solution. These systems are hierarchical triples, with inner binary separations of order $1$ au, and outer separations of $100$-$100,000$ au. Leveraging the fact that the inner binary and outer tertiary should have nearly identical parallaxes, we use the sample to calibrate the parallax uncertainties for orbital and acceleration binary solutions. We find that the parallax uncertainties of orbital solutions are typically underestimated by a factor of $1.3$ at $G>14$, and by a factor of $1.7$ at $G = 8$-$14$. The true parallax uncertainties are nevertheless a factor of $\sim 10$ smaller than those of the single-star astrometric solutions for the same sources. The parallax uncertainties of acceleration solutions are underestimated by larger factors of $2$-$3$ but still represent a significant improvement compared to the sources' single-star solutions. We provide tabulated uncertainty inflation factors for astrometric binary solutions and make the catalog of hierarchical triples publicly available.
description: 15 pages, 8 figures, Accepted to PASP. Github repository at https://github.com/pranav-nagarajan/Astrometric-Binaries-Validation . Catalog of hierarchical triples available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12791391
Eindeutige Bilder, komplexe Identitäten. Imperiale, nationale, regionale Identitätskonzepte und ihre Visualisierung auf der galizischen Allgemeinen Landesausstellung in Lemberg 1894
Creators: name: Wendland, Anna Veronika
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung
Year: 2009

description: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, Bd. 58 Nr. 1-2 (2009): Bilder vieler Ausstellungen. Großexpositionen in Ostmitteleuropa als nationale, mediale und soziale Ereignisse
Notiophilus aquaticus
Creators: name: Barševskis, Arvīds
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Notiophilus
Notiophilus aquaticus

description: NAR: CO (W Boulder Co., Science Lodge, 10.06.1940., U.N.Lanham leg., 1; Elwood Pass., 26.07.1967., B.Rotger C.R. leg., 1; Mineral Co., Wolf Creek Pass., 13.06.1961. B.Rotger C.R. leg., 2; San Jua, 12.05.1971., B.Rotger C.R. leg., 1).
description: Published as part of Barševskis, Arvīds, 2009, Ground Beetles Of Genus Notiophilus Dumeril, 1806 (Coleoptera: Carabidae) In The World Entomological Collections 2. University Of Colorado Museum, pp. 137-138 in Acta Biologica Universitatis Daugavpiliensis 9 (1) on page 138, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10602161
Rudolf von Thadden, Trieglaff. Eine pommersche Lebenswelt zwischen Kirche und Politik 1807-1948
Creators: name: Holste, Karsten
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung
Year: 2011

description: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, Bd. 60 Nr. 1 (2011)
Ausstellung, Stadt und Land: Die Architektur der Posener Ausstellungen 1911 und 1929
Creators: name: Grzeszczuk-Brendel, Hanna
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung
Year: 2009

description: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, Bd. 58 Nr. 1-2 (2009): Bilder vieler Ausstellungen. Großexpositionen in Ostmitteleuropa als nationale, mediale und soziale Ereignisse
Ernst Eichler (Hrsg.), Slawische Ortsnamen zwischen Saale und Neiße. Ein Kompendium. Bd. 4: T-Z, Nachträge
Creators: name: Udolph, Jürgen
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung
Year: 2011

description: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, Bd. 60 Nr. 1 (2011)
Nationsbildung durch symbolische Interaktion. Der Besuch von Prager Ausstellungen um 1900 als Praxis nationaler Anerkennung
Creators: name: Stübner, Jos
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung
Year: 2009

description: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, Bd. 58 Nr. 1-2 (2009): Bilder vieler Ausstellungen. Großexpositionen in Ostmitteleuropa als nationale, mediale und soziale Ereignisse