cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Sisters at arms : female same-sex conflict at work
Creators: name: Sheppard, Leah D.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: I propose and test portions of a two-stage model that investigates the pervasive belief that women have more dysfunctional same-sex workplace relationships than men. In the first stage of this model, I assume that female same-sex conflict transpires more frequently than male same-sex conflict and make a series of propositions about why this might be the case. For example, I propose that perhaps women react worse than men to non-communal women in workplace contexts, which then sets the stage for enhanced conflict. In the second stage, I set aside consideration of gender differences in same-sex conflict frequency and discuss why female same-sex conflict might simply be problematized by third parties relative to male same-sex conflict. I conducted five studies to determine which of these two explanations best accounts for the belief that women have more dysfunctional same-sex workplace relationships than men. In Chapter 1, I present the entirety of the model, and associated propositions, that I have developed as the basis for my dissertation and future research. In Chapter 2, I present the results of two scenario studies, which, taken together suggest that third parties view female same-sex conflict as more person-related (e.g., caused by interpersonal disliking) (Study 1) and more disruptive to relationship quality and work-related attitudes (Study 2) than male same-sex conflict. In Chapter 3, I turn to first parties’ perceptions in order to test the first stage of my model. Study 3 provides support for my proposition that women react worse than men to non-communal women, and that this leads to greater collective threat. Study 4, however, demonstrated that men and women did not experience different frequencies of same-sex conflict, nor did their same-sex conflict differ in meaningful ways. Finally, Study 5 demonstrated that individuals did not generally report more or less negative outcomes of workplace conflict as a function of their gender and the gender of their co-party in conflict. Overall, the results of my dissertation are more suggestive of a generalized problematization of female same-sex workplace conflict (relative to male same-sex conflict) than they are of a generalized dysfunction within women’s same-sex workplace relationships.
Egalitarianism. An evolutionary perspective
Creators: name: Bagnoli, Lindia
name: Negroni, Giorgio
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2013
Subjects: SECS-P/01 Economia politica

description: Two parties bargaining over a pie, the size of which is determined by their previous investment decisions. Investment costs are heterogeneous.
The bargaining rule is sensitive to investment behavior. Two games are studied which differ for the considered sociopolitical structure: communal property in one case and private property in the other. We hereby show that in both games when a unique stochastically stable outcome exists a norm of investment and a norm of surplus division must coevolve. While the investment norm always supports the efficient investment profile, the surplus division norm may differ among these games depending on the size of investment cost gap. Under private property only the egalitarian surplus division evolves. Under communal property instead two different surplus division norms may evolve: the egalitarian one and an inegalitarian norm. We show that no cap to payoffs inequality emerges under private property while an inequality payoff cap endogenously evolves under communal property. The games have been proposed to explain the social norms used in modern hunter-gatherer societies.
Additional file 1 of Pnpla5-knockout rats exhibit reduced expression levels of proteins involved in steroid metabolism and wound healing compared to wild-type rats
Creators: name: Liu, Zhi-Guo
name: Hu, Yan-Qing
name: Li, Kui
name: Mu, Yu-Lian
name: Wu, Tian-Wen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health

description: Additionalfile 1: Figure S1. The original western blotting gels of Figure 2C. Figure S2. Triglyceride content of Pnpla5+/+ and Pnpla5-/-rat testes. Figure S3. The Nlrp3 expression level in testes.
Take the money and run: making profits by paying borrowers to stay home
Creators: name: Coco, Giuseppe
name: De Meza, David
name: Pignataro, Giuseppe
name: Reito, Francesco
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2013
Subjects: SECS-P/02 Politica economica

description: Can a bank increase its profit by subsidizing inactivity? This paper suggests this may occur, due to the presence of hidden information, in a monopolistic credit market. Rather than offering credit in a pooling contract, a monopolist bank can sort borrowers through an appropriate subsidy to inactivity. Under some conditions, sorting may avoid the collapse of the market and increases the welfare of everybody. The bank increases its profits, good borrowers benefit from lower interest rates and bad potential borrowers from the subsidy. The subsidy policy however implies a cross subsidy between contracts and this is possible only under monopoly.
Inequality of credit opportunities
Creators: name: Coco, Giuseppe
name: Pignataro, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2012
Subjects: SECS-P/02 Politica economica

description: This paper investigates the impact of credit allocation on heterogeneous wealth entrepreneurs from an egalitarian opportunity point of
view. We show that in a model with hidden information about both entrepreneurial wealth and e¤ort aversion, and moral hazard, collateral proves ineffective in sorting good entrepreneurs from bad ones. Due to DARA, poor entrepreneurs, other things equal realize better projects. This notwithstanding, they may be rationed out or obtain a loan only at the cost of cross subsidizing bad projects realized by rich entrepreneurs.
Refinement of a previous hypothesis of the Lyapunov analysis of isotropic turbulence
Creators: name: de Divitiis, Nicola
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The purpose of this brief comunication is to improve a hypothesis of the previous work of the author (de Divitiis, Theor Comput Fluid Dyn, doi:10.1007/s00162-010-0211-9) dealing with the finite--scale Lyapunov analysis of isotropic turbulence. There, the analytical expression of the structure function of the longitudinal velocity difference $Δu_r$ is derived through a statistical analysis of the Fourier transformed Navier-Stokes equations, and by means of considerations regarding the scales of the velocity fluctuations, which arise from the Kolmogorov theory. Due to these latter considerations, this Lyapunov analysis seems to need some of the results of the Kolmogorov theory. This work proposes a more rigorous demonstration which leads to the same structure function, without using the Kolmogorov scale. This proof assumes that pair and triple longitudinal correlations are sufficient to determine the statistics of $Δu_r$, and adopts a reasonable canonical decomposition of the velocity difference in terms of proper stochastic variables which are adequate to describe the mechanism of kinetic energy cascade.
description: 6 pages
Dense flag triangulations of 3-manifolds via extremal graph theory
Creators: name: Adamaszek, Michal
name: Hladky, Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We characterize f-vectors of sufficiently large three-dimensional flag Gorenstein* complexes, essentially confirming a conjecture of Gal [Discrete Comput. Geom., 34 (2), 269--284, 2005]. In particular, this characterizes f-vectors of large flag triangulations of the 3-sphere. Actually, our main result is more general and describes the structure of closed flag 3-manifolds which have many edges. Looking at the 1-skeleta of these manifolds we reduce the problem to a certain question in extremal graph theory. We then resolve this question by employing the Supersaturation Theorem of Erdos and Simonovits.
description: Trans. AMS, to appear
The Fermi Bubbles. II. The Potential Roles of Viscosity and Cosmic Ray Diffusion in Jet Models
Creators: name: Guo, Fulai
name: Mathews, William G.
name: Dobler, Gregory
name: Oh, S. Peng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The origin of the Fermi bubbles recently detected by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope in the inner Galaxy is mysterious. In the companion paper Guo & Mathews (Paper I), we use hydrodynamic simulations to show that they could be produced by a recent powerful AGN jet event. Here we further explore this scenario to study the potential roles of shear viscosity and cosmic ray (CR) diffusion on the morphology and CR distribution of the bubbles. We show that even a relatively low level of viscosity (μ_{visc} >~ 3 g cm^{-1} s^{-1}, or ~0.1% - 1% of Braginskii viscosity in this context) could effectively suppress the development of Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities at the bubble surface, resulting in smooth bubble edges as observed. Furthermore, viscosity reduces circulating motions within the bubbles, which would otherwise mix the CR-carrying jet backflow near bubble edges with the bubble interior. Thus viscosity naturally produces an edge-favored CR distribution, an important ingredient to produce the observed flat gamma-ray surface brightness distribution. Generically, such a CR distribution often produces a limb-brightened gamma-ray intensity distribution. However, we show that by incorporating CR diffusion which is strongly suppressed across the bubble surface (as inferred from sharp bubble edges) but is close to canonical values in the bubble interior, we obtain a reasonably flat gamma-ray intensity profile. The similarity of the resulting CR bubble with the observed Fermi bubbles strengthens our previous result in Paper I that the Fermi bubbles were produced by a recent AGN jet event. Studies of the nearby Fermi bubbles may provide a unique opportunity to study the potential roles of plasma viscosity and CR diffusion on the evolution of AGN jets and bubbles.
description: Revised version, accepted for publication in ApJ. 14 pages, 9 figures
Feedback equilibria in a dynamic renewable resource oligopoly:
pre-emption, voracity and exhaustion
Creators: name: Lambertini, Luca
name: Mantovani, Andrea
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2013
Subjects: SECS-P/01 Economia politica

description: We extend Fujiwara’s (2008) model to describe a differential oligopoly game of resource extraction under static, linear feedback and nonlinear feedback strategies, generalising his result that steady state feedback outputs are lower than monopoly and static oligopoly equilibrium outputs for any number of firms. Additionally, we show that (i) feedback rules entail resource exhaustion for a finite number of firms; and (ii) feedback strategies are more aggressive than static ones as long as the resource stock is large enough, in accordance with the acquired view based on the traditional pre-emption argument associated with feedback information.
They Played the Merger Game: A Retrospective Analysis in the UK Videogames Market
Creators: name: Aguzzoni, Luca
name: Argentesi, Elena
name: Buccirossi, Paolo
name: Ciari, Lorenzo
name: Duso, Tomaso
name: Tognoni, Massimo
name: Vitale, Cristiana
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2013
Subjects: SECS-P/01 Economia politica

description: We study the effect of a merger in a dynamic high-technology industry–the videogame market– which is characterized by frequent introduction of new products. To assess the impact of the merger between two large specialist retailers in the UK, we perform a difference-in-differences analysis comparing the price evolution of the merging parties to that of their 7 major competitors on an original sample of 196 videogames belonging to six different consoles. The results of our econometric analyses suggest that there has been a reduction in the general level of prices of both new and pre-owned games after the merger.
This decline has been more marked for the merging parties, which suggests that the merger between Game and Gamestation did not lead to a substantial lessening of competition; rather it is consistent with the existence of efficiency gains.
Pareto Boundary of the Rate Region for Single-Stream MIMO Interference Channels: Linear Transceiver Design
Creators: name: Cao, Pan
name: Jorswieck, Eduard A.
name: Shi, Shuying
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We consider a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) interference channel (IC), where a single data stream per user is transmitted and each receiver treats interference as noise. The paper focuses on the open problem of computing the outermost boundary (so-called Pareto boundary-PB) of the achievable rate region under linear transceiver design. The Pareto boundary consists of the strict PB and non-strict PB. For the two user case, we compute the non-strict PB and the two ending points of the strict PB exactly. For the strict PB, we formulate the problem to maximize one rate while the other rate is fixed such that a strict PB point is reached. To solve this non-convex optimization problem which results from the hard-coupled two transmit beamformers, we propose an alternating optimization algorithm. Furthermore, we extend the algorithm to the multi-user scenario and show convergence. Numerical simulations illustrate that the proposed algorithm computes a sequence of well-distributed operating points that serve as a reasonable and complete inner bound of the strict PB compared with existing methods.
description: 16 pages, 9 figures. Accepted for publication in IEEE Tans. Signal Process. June. 2013
Macroscopicity of Mechanical Quantum Superposition States
Creators: name: Nimmrichter, Stefan
name: Hornberger, Klaus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose an experimentally accessible, objective measure for the macroscopicity of superposition states in mechanical quantum systems. Based on the observable consequences of a minimal, macrorealist extension of quantum mechanics, it allows one to quantify the degree of macroscopicity achieved in different experiments.
description: 11 pages, 2 figures. v2: Corresponds to the published version, except for a different numbering of the references. The published "Supplemental Material" is included as an appendix
Practical Ply-Based Appearance Modeling for Knitted Fabrics
Creators: name: Montazeri, Zahra
name: Gammelmark, Søren
name: Jensen, Henrik Wann
name: Zhao, Shuang
Publisher: name: The Eurographics Association
Year: 2021

description: Abstract Modeling the geometry and the appearance of knitted fabrics has been challenging due to their complex geometries and interactions with light. Previous surface-based models have difficulties capturing fine-grained knit geometries; Micro-appearance models, on the other hands, typically store individual cloth fibers explicitly and are expensive to be generated and rendered. Further, neither of the models offers the flexibility to accurately capture both the reflection and the transmission of light simultaneously. In this paper, we introduce an efficient technique to generate knit models with user-specified knitting patterns. Our model stores individual knit plies with fiber-level detailed depicted using normal and tangent mapping. We evaluate our generated models using a wide array of knitting patterns. Further, we compare qualitatively renderings to our models to photos of real samples.
description: Eurographics Symposium on Rendering - DL-only Track
description: Material Models
description: 133
description: 140
description: Zahra Montazeri, Søren Gammelmark, Henrik Wann Jensen, and Shuang Zhao
Epidemic centrality - is there an underestimated epidemic impact of network peripheral nodes?
Creators: name: Sikic, Mile
name: Lancic, Alen
name: Antulov-Fantulin, Nino
name: Stefancic, Hrvoje
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: In the study of disease spreading on empirical complex networks in SIR model, initially infected nodes can be ranked according to some measure of their epidemic impact. The highest ranked nodes, also referred to as "superspreaders", are associated to dominant epidemic risks and therefore deserve special attention. In simulations on studied empirical complex networks, it is shown that the ranking depends on the dynamical regime of the disease spreading. A possible mechanism leading to this dependence is illustrated in an analytically tractable example. In systems where the allocation of resources to counter disease spreading to individual nodes is based on their ranking, the dynamical regime of disease spreading is frequently not known before the outbreak of the disease. Therefore, we introduce a quantity called epidemic centrality as an average over all relevant regimes of disease spreading as a basis of the ranking. A recently introduced concept of phase diagram of epidemic spreading is used as a framework in which several types of averaging are studied. The epidemic centrality is compared to structural properties of nodes such as node degree, k-cores and betweenness. There is a growing trend of epidemic centrality with degree and k-cores values, but the variation of epidemic centrality is much smaller than the variation of degree or k-cores value. It is found that the epidemic centrality of the structurally peripheral nodes is of the same order of magnitude as the epidemic centrality of the structurally central nodes. The implications of these findings for the distributions of resources to counter disease spreading are discussed.
The non-existence of stable Schottky forms
Creators: name: Codogni, G.
name: Shepherd-Barron, N. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14H22

description: Let $A_g^S$ be the Satake compactification of the moduli space $A_g$ of principally polarized abelian $g$-folds and $M_g^S$ the closure of the image of the moduli space $M_g$ of genus $g$ curves in $A_g$ under the Jacobian morphism. Then $A_g^S$ lies in the boundary of $A_{g+m}^S$ for any $m$. We prove that $M_{g+m}^S$ and $A_g^S$ do not meet transversely in $A_{g+m}^S$, but rather that their intersection contains the $m$th order infinitesimal neighbourhood of $M_g^S$ in $A_g^S$. We deduce that there is no non-trivial stable Siegel modular form that vanishes on $M_g$ for every $g$. In particular, given two inequivalent positive even unimodular quadratic forms $P$ and $Q$, there is a curve whose period matrix distinguishes between the theta series of $P$ and $Q$.
description: Corrected version, using Yamada's correct version of Fay's formula for the period matrix of a certain degenerating family of curves. To appear in Compositio Mathematica
Elga Mark-Kuriku välipäevik nr 25
Creators: name: Mark-Kurik, Elga
Publisher: name: Tallinna Tehnikaülikooli Geoloogia Instituut
Year: 1975
Subjects: Estonia
Pskov Oblast
Belarus
Devonian
outcrops

description: Field notebook with descriptions of Devonian outcrops in Estonia, Pskov Oblast and Belarus.
Regionalbanken und räumlicher Wettbewerb
Creators: name: Melcher, Patrick-Paul
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Räumlicher Wettbewerb
subject: Regionalbanken
subject: Versicherungen
subject: 332.3

description: Untersuchungsgegenstand dieser Dissertation ist eine modelltheoretische Analyse regional orientierter Bankensysteme. Geprägt durch die persönliche Beratung (Relationship Banking) erhalten Regionalbanken individuelle, weiche Informationen über den Kreditnehmer. Innerhalb ihrer räumlich begrenzten Geschäftsgebiete verschaffen sich diese regionalen Kreditinstitute einen Vorteil gegenüber überregional agierenden Großbanken, deren Kreditvergabe auf standardisierten Verfahren basiert. Existiert ein positiver Zusammenhang zwischen der Entfernung zum Kreditnehmer und dessen Ausfall-wahrscheinlichkeit, lässt sich die optimale räumliche Ausdehnung des Geschäftsgebiets konkret berechnen. Neben der Ausfallwahrscheinlichkeit bestimmen weitere Kostenkomponenten die räumlichen Grenzen des Marktes. Ein Anstieg der variablen Kosten führt im vorgestellten Modell (ceteris paribus) zwangsweise zu einer Verkleinerung des Geschäftsgebiets der Regionalbank. Dahingegen muss aufgrund fixer Kosten-bestandteile die räumliche Ausdehnung ein gewisses Mindestmaß aufweisen, um einen wirtschaftlichen Betrieb des Instituts zu gewährleisten. In diesem Zuge üben regulatorisch bedingte Kosteneffekte Druck auf Banken mit regionalen Geschäftsmodellen aus. Der in diesem Zusammenhang beobachtbare Konsolidierungsprozess im Regionalbankensektor lässt eine Transformation des Geschäftsmodells – weg von der Akquise weicher Informationen, hin zu standardisierten Methoden – vermuten.
High efficiency 10Gb/s optical modulator driver amplifier using a power pHEMT technology
Creators: name: Shohat Nightingale, J.
name: Robertson, I. D.
name: Nightingale, S. J.
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2005
Subjects: ING-INF/01 Elettronica

description: This paper presents the design and performance of a high efficiency GaAs MMIC distributed amplifier for 10Gb/s optical driver applications. The power consumption is only 550mW, approximately 40% lower than typical reported results for this application. It is shown that while the commonly-used cascode topology gives higher gain-BW performance, the ordinary common-source design gives better efficiency and stability performance. This makes it a better choice for 10Gb/s applications when a suitable high power pHEMT process is used.
A 2 GHz CMOS dB-linear programmable-gain amplifier with 51 dB dynamic range
Creators: name: Wu, L.
name: Basaran, U.
name: Tao, R.
name: Berroth, M.
name: Boos, Z.
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2005
Subjects: ING-INF/01 Elettronica

description: A 2 GHz programmable-gain amplifier (PGA) using 0.12-µm CMOS technology is presented in this paper, which has a 51 dB gain control range with 3 dB gain control steps. The maximum output power of this PGA achieves 9 dBm while the 1-dB compression point is located at 8 dBm. A high linearity denoted by the oIP3 of 22 dBm at the maximum gain has been achieved. A new configuration to digitally implement a dB-linear gain characteristic is demonstrated in this paper, which simultaneously enables an adaptive power consumption.
MatMorpher: A Morphing Operator for SVBRDFs
Creators: name: Gauthier, Alban
name: Thiery, Jean-Marc
name: Boubekeur, Tamy
Publisher: name: The Eurographics Association
Year: 2021
Subjects: Computing methodologies
Texturing
Reflectance modeling

description: We present a novel morphing operator for spatially-varying bidirectional reflectance distribution functions. Our operator takes as input digital materials modeled using a set of 2D texture maps which control the typical parameters of a standard BRDF model. It also takes an interpolation map, defined over the same texture domain, which modulates the interpolation at each texel of the material. Our algorithm is based on a transport mechanism which continuously transforms the individual source maps into their destination counterparts in a feature-sensitive manner. The underlying non-rigid deformation is computed using an energy minimization over a transport grid and accounts for the user-selected dominant features present in the input materials. During this process, we carefully preserve details by mixing the material channels using a histogram-aware color blending combined with a normal reorientation. As a result, our method allows to explore large regions of the space of possible materials using exemplars as anchors and our interpolation scheme as a navigation mean. We also give details about our real time implementation, designed to map faithfully to the standard physically-based rendering workflow and letting users rule interactively the morphing process.
description: Eurographics Symposium on Rendering - DL-only Track
description: Material Models
description: 141
description: 153
description: Alban Gauthier, Jean-Marc Thiery, and Tamy Boubekeur
description: CCS Concepts: Computing methodologies --> Texturing; Reflectance modeling
Additional file 1 of Prognostic value of ambulation ability with albumin and C-reactive protein to predict 28-day mortality in elderly sepsis patients: a retrospective multicentre registry-based study
Creators: name: Cha, Kyungman
name: Choi, Seung Pill
name: Kim, Soo Hyun
name: Oh, Sang Hoon
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1. The area under the curve, sensitivity, and specificity of the best cut-off value of each predictive model related to 28-day mortality. Supplementary Table 2. Comparison of area under the curve between predictive models related to 28-day mortality.
Thermal characterisation and analysis of two tone intermodulation distortion in InGaP/GaAs DHBT
Creators: name: Khan, A.
name: Dharmasiri, C. N.
name: Miura, T.
name: Rezazadeh, A. A.
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2005
Subjects: ING-INF/01 Elettronica

description: The effect of temperature (-25 to1000C) on two-tone Intermodulation Distortion (IMD) characteristics of InGaP/GaAs microwave DHBTs is studied. This is carried out through measurement with the results being compared to a simple analytical technique. The results indicated that varying the temperature has a significantimpact on the IMD characteristics. The variations of small signal parameters with temperature, extracted from S-parameter measurements,are then used to carefully analysethe IMD characteristics and identify the physical origin of the change in the non-linearity. In addition, theeffectsofvarying input power on the non-linearities has been studied.This analysis has been reported for the first time and is important in understanding the non-linear characteristics of the microwave device.
NeLF: Neural Light-transport Field for Portrait View Synthesis and Relighting
Creators: name: Sun, Tiancheng
name: Lin, Kai-En
name: Bi, Sai
name: Xu, Zexiang
name: Ramamoorthi, Ravi
Publisher: name: The Eurographics Association
Year: 2021
Subjects: Computing methodologies
Image
based rendering
Computational photography

description: Human portraits exhibit various appearances when observed from different views under different lighting conditions. We can easily imagine how the face will look like in another setup, but computer algorithms still fail on this problem given limited observations. To this end, we present a system for portrait view synthesis and relighting: given multiple portraits, we use a neural network to predict the light-transport field in 3D space, and from the predicted Neural Light-transport Field (NeLF) produce a portrait from a new camera view under a new environmental lighting. Our system is trained on a large number of synthetic models, and can generalize to different synthetic and real portraits under various lighting conditions. Our method achieves simultaneous view synthesis and relighting given multi-view portraits as the input, and achieves state-of-the-art results.
description: Eurographics Symposium on Rendering - DL-only Track
description: Faces and Body
description: 155
description: 166
description: Tiancheng Sun, Kai-En Lin, Sai Bi, Zexiang Xu, and Ravi Ramamoorthi
description: CCS Concepts: Computing methodologies --> Image-based rendering; Computational photography
13C NMR study of superconductivity near charge instability realized in beta"-(BEDT-TTF)4[(H3O)Ga(C2O4)3]C6H5NO2
Creators: name: Ihara, Yoshihiko
name: Seki, Harumi
name: Kawamoto, Atsushi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: To investigate the superconducting (SC) state near a charge instability, we performed ^{13}C NMR experiments on the molecular superconductor beta"-(BEDT-TTF)_{4}[(H_{3}O)Ga(C_{2}O_{4})_{3}]C_{6}H_{5}NO_{2}, which exhibits a charge anomaly at 100 K. The Knight shift which we measured in the SC state down to 1.5 K demonstrates that Cooper pairs are in spin-singlet state. Measurements of the nuclear spin-lattice relaxation time reveal strong electron-electron correlations in the normal state. The resistivity increase observed below 10 K indicates that the enhanced fluctuation has an electric origin. We discuss the possibility of charge-fluctuation-induced superconductivity.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Discrimination against the rich
Creators: name: Chae, Bo Youn
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: Do people punish rich individuals more harshly than middle class individuals? In this dissertation, I investigate whether and how people discriminate against the rich in terms of the punishment of everyday offenses. I propose that people punish a small-time offender more severely when the offender is perceived to be wealthy rather than non-wealthy. Given that people hold a higher behavioral standard for the wealthy, a wealthy (vs. non-wealthy) individual violates a rule, people perceive a greater degree of a fall from the behavioral standard and administer a more severe punishment to the offender. A set of six empirical studies substantiates the proposed discrimination-against-the-rich effect and validates the underlying mechanism. Furthermore, the findings show that people do not discriminate against the rich when no rule violation is observed. The findings also indicate a secondary effect whereby observing the delivery of punishment to a wealthy (vs. non-wealthy) offender increases the observer’s fairness perception. Finally, the generalizability of the discrimination-against-the-rich effect is tested, and the results show that the effect is moderated by the observer’s income level.
Human Hair Inverse Rendering using Multi-View Photometric data
Creators: name: Sun, Tiancheng
name: Nam, Giljoo
name: Aliaga, Carlos
name: Hery, Christophe
name: Ramamoorthi, Ravi
Publisher: name: The Eurographics Association
Year: 2021

description: We introduce a hair inverse rendering framework to reconstruct high-fidelity 3D geometry of human hair, as well as its reflectance, which can be readily used for photorealistic rendering of hair. We take multi-view photometric data as input, i.e., a set of images taken from various viewpoints and different lighting conditions. Our method consists of two stages. First, we propose a novel solution for line-based multi-view stereo that yields accurate hair geometry from multi-view photometric data. Specifically, a per-pixel lightcode is proposed to efficiently solve the hair correspondence matching problem. Our new solution enables accurate and dense strand reconstruction from a smaller number of cameras compared to the state-of-the-art work. In the second stage, we estimate hair reflectance properties using multi-view photometric data. A simplified BSDF model of hair strands is used for realistic appearance reproduction. Based on the 3D geometry of hair strands, we fit the longitudinal roughness and find the single strand color. We show that our method can faithfully reproduce the appearance of human hair and provide realism for digital humans. We demonstrate the accuracy and efficiency of our method using photorealistic synthetic hair rendering data.
description: Eurographics Symposium on Rendering - DL-only Track
description: Faces and Body
description: 179
description: 190
description: Tiancheng Sun, Giljoo Nam, Carlos Aliaga, Christophe Hery, and Ravi Ramamoorthi
Modeling Surround-aware Contrast Sensitivity
Creators: name: Yi, Shinyoung
name: Jeon, Daniel S.
name: Serrano, Ana
name: Jeong, Se-Yoon
name: Kim, Hui-Yong
name: Gutierrez, Diego
name: Kim, Min H.
Publisher: name: The Eurographics Association
Year: 2021
Subjects: Computing methodologies
Perception
Image compression

description: Despite advances in display technology, many existing applications rely on psychophysical datasets of human perception gathered using older, sometimes outdated displays. As a result, there exists the underlying assumption that such measurements can be carried over to the new viewing conditions of more modern technology. We have conducted a series of psychophysical experiments to explore contrast sensitivity using a state-of-the-art HDR display, taking into account not only the spatial frequency and luminance of the stimuli but also their surrounding luminance levels. From our data, we have derived a novel surroundaware contrast sensitivity function (CSF), which predicts human contrast sensitivity more accurately. We additionally provide a practical version that retains the benefits of our full model, while enabling easy backward compatibility and consistently producing good results across many existing applications that make use of CSF models. We show examples of effective HDR video compression using a transfer function derived from our CSF, tone-mapping, and improved accuracy in visual difference prediction.
description: Eurographics Symposium on Rendering - DL-only Track
description: Perception
description: 205
description: 214
description: Shinyoung Yi, Daniel S. Jeon, Ana Serrano, Se-Yoon Jeong, Hui-Yong Kim, Diego Gutierrez, and Min H. Kim
description: CCS Concepts: Computing methodologies --> Perception; Image compression
Characterization of low-temperature ultrananocrystalline TM diamond RF MEMS resonators
Creators: name: Pacheco, Sergio P.
name: Zurcher, Peter
name: Young, Steven R.
name: Weston, Don
name: Dauksher, William J.
name: Auciello, Orlando
name: Carlisle, John A.
name: Kane, Neil
name: Birrell, James P.
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2005
Subjects: ING-INF/01 Elettronica

description: For the first time working MEMS resonators have been produced using low-temperature deposited (550◦C)ultrananocrystalline TM diamond (UNCDTM) films. Using a lumped-element model to fit experimental data, UNCD materials properties such as a Young’s modulus of 710 GPa and an acoustic velocity of 14,243 m/s have been deduced. This is the highest acoustic velocity measured to date for a diamond MEMS structural layer deposited at low temperatures. A 10 MHz resonator shows a DC-tunability of the resonance frequency of 15%bet ween 15 and 25 V and the break down voltage behavior shows electrostatic break-down rather than electro-mechanical pull-down for higher frequency devices. Good resonant frequency reproducibility is observed when cycling the resonators over bias voltages from 15 to 25 V and over RF power levels of-10 to 10 dBm. 
Keywords— MEMS resonator, resonant frequency, diamond, UNCD, acoustic velocity
Asymptotic bahavior for systems of nonlinear wave equations with multiple propagation speeds in three space dimensions
Creators: name: Katayama, Soichiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 35L70, Secondary 35L05, 35L15, 35B40

description: We consider the Cauchy problem for systems of nonlinear wave equations with multiple propagation speeds in three space dimensions. Under the null condition for such systems, the global existence of small amplitude solutions is known. In this paper, we will show that the global solution is asymptotically free in the energy sense, by obtaining the asymptotic pointwise behavior of the derivatives of the solution. Nonetheless we can also show that the pointwise behavior of the solution itself may be quite different from that of the free solution. In connection with the above results, a theorem is also developed to characterize asymptotically free solutions for wave equations in arbitrary space dimensions.
description: The final version. 30 pages
D-Dimer-Plasmaspiegel und Thromboembolie-Risiko nach Operationen an intrakraniellen Tumoren unter intraoperativer Anwendung einer intermittierenden pneumatischen Kompression der Beine
Creators: name: Schenk, Grit
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 610

description: Venöse Thromboembolie (VTE) umfasst die tiefe Venenthrombose (TVT) und die Lungenarterienembolie (LAE). Die postoperative Inzidenz von TVT ist bei neurochirurgischen Patienten mit bis zu 50% beschrieben. Die meisten TVT sind asymptomatisch und somit schwer zu diagnostizieren. Die Operationszeit ist ein wesentlicher Risikofaktor für die Entstehung einer VTE, was die Vermutung naheliegen lässt, dass die VTE intraoperativ entsteht. Das Ziel dieser randomisierten, monozentrischen Studie ist es zu zeigen, dass die alleinige intraoperative Anwendung der intermittierenden pneumatischen Kompression (IPK) der Beine die VTE-Rate reduziert. Die intraoperative IPK führte zu einer signifikanten Reduktion der VTE-Rate (p=0,029). Die Operationsdauer korreliert mit der VTE-Inzidenz (p<0,01), jede Stunde erhöht das Risiko um den Faktor 1,56. Die intraoperative Anwendung der IPK ist eine nebenwirkungsarme effiziente Methode zur Thromboseprophylaxe.
description: Venous thrombembolism (VTE) subsumes pulmonary embolism(PE) and deep venous thrombosis (DVT). The incidence of DVT after craniotomy was reported to be as high as 50%. Mostly DVT appears asymptomatic and is often underdiagnosed. The risk of VTE is correlated with duration of surgery, and it appears likely that it develops during surgery. The present study aimed to evaluate intraoperative use of intermittent pneumatic compression (IPC) of the lower extremity for prevention of VTE in patients undergoing craniotomy. Intraoperative use of IPC led to a significant reduction of VTE (p = 0.029). Duration of surgery was confirmed to be correlated with VTE incidence (p < 0.01); every hour of surgery increased the risk by a factor of 1.56. Intraoperative use of IPC significantly lowers the incidence of potentially fatal VTE in patients undergoing craniotomy. The method is easy to use and carries no additional risks.
Tephritis Latreille 1804
Creators: name: Singh, Maneesh Pal
name: Daroch, Rakesh
name: Korneyev, Severyn V.
name: Sharma, Isha
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tephritidae
Tephritis

description: Keys to species of genus Tephritis in Indian subcontinent
1. Posterior notopleural seta black or brown.................................................................. 2
- Posterior notopleural seta stubby white.................................................................... 3
 2. Posterior notopleural seta light brown (almost stubby); lobe of lateral surstylus pointed and black at apex and aculeus tip sharp without incision (Swat, NW Pakistan, reared from Carduus nutans [= edelbergii])...................  T. cardualis Hardy
 - Posterior notopleural seta black or dark brown (almost black); lobe of lateral surstylus blunt or rounded at apex and aculeus needle-like, the tip with a notch or incision (Narkanda, Himachal Pradesh, India; reared from Cirsium falconeri)................................................................................................  T. himalayae sp.n.
3. Wing pattern reticulate and developed all over the wing....................................................... 4
 - Wing pattern reticulation present on only part of the wing, with cells c, bc, bcu, bm and anal lobe hyaline without any spots; aculeus tip papillate or nipple like (Jammu and Kashmir, India)...................................  T. maccus Hering
4. Pterostigma brown or dark without a hyaline spot............................................................ 5
 - Pterostigma witha circular hyaline spot (Jammu and Kashmir and West Bengal, India)....  T. atocoptera Agarwal & Kapoor
 5. Wing with an apical black fork between veins R 4+5 and M (Punjab, India).................  T. umbrosa Dirlbek & Dirlbek
 - Wing with an apical black spot between veins R 4+5 and M (Jammu and Kashmir, India)................  T. admissa Hering
description: Published as part of Singh, Maneesh Pal, Daroch, Rakesh, Korneyev, Severyn V. & Sharma, Isha, 2023, A new species of genus Tephritis Latreille and a new distribution record of genus Urophora Robineau-Desvoidy, from India, pp. 336-348 in Zootaxa 5375 (3) on page 337, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5375.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/10199917
A design of K-band predistortion linearizer using reflective schottky diode for satellite TWTAs
Creators: name: Jeong, Hee-Young
name: Park, Sang-Keun
name: Ryu, Nam-Sik
name: Jeong, Yong-Chae
name: Yom, In-Bok
name: Kim, Young
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2005
Subjects: ING-INF/01 Elettronica

description: In this paper, a new predistortion method to reduce nonlinearity of a traveling wave tube amplifiers (TWTAs) is proposed. Nonlinear transfer characteristics of TWTA are analyzed using a Carrier Complex Power Series (CCPS). An inverse complex power series of a predistortion linearizer to linearize TWTA are also proposed. The inverse nonlinear distortion characteristics of predistorter can be realized with reflective structure that is composed of schottky diode and resistor-terminated transmission line. The AM-to-AM and the AM-to-PM characteristics of TWTA on K-band were improved from -5.8dB and -37.3° to 0.8dB and 6.7° by proposed predistortion linearizer, respectively.
Supplementary document for Structural Design of an Improved SPIDER Optical System Based on Multimode Interference Coupler - 6615999.pdf
Creators: name: Zuo, Yong
name: Song, Xiaohan
name: Zeng, Tianjie
name: Si, Bohan
name: Hong, Xiaobin
name: Wu, Jian
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Regarding the derivation of formulas (9) and (10)
Multifractals Competing with Solitons on Fibonacci Optical Lattice
Creators: name: Takahashi, M.
name: Katsura, H.
name: Kohmoto, M.
name: Koma, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the stationary states for the nonlinear Schrödinger equation on the Fibonacci lattice which is expected to be realized by Bose-Einstein condensates loaded into an optical lattice. When the model does not have a nonlinear term, the wavefunctions and the spectrum are known to show fractal structures. Such wavefunctions are called critical. We present a phase diagram of the energy spectrum for varying the nonlinearity. It consists of three portions, a forbidden region, the spectrum of critical states, and the spectrum of stationary solitons. We show that the energy spectrum of critical states remains intact irrespective of the nonlinearity in the sea of a large number of stationary solitons.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, major revision, references added
Victims, perpetrators and professionals: the representation of women and violence in Chinese crime films
Creators: name: Hu, Tingting
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 399999
subject: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis examines the representation of women and violence in award-winning Chinese language crime films. It introduces a new trajectory in the investigation of the cinematic representation of female figures in relation to gender issues by interweaving Western feminist and postfeminist critiques with traditional Chinese sociocultural discourses that maintain salience in contemporary society. Through an in-depth narrative and critical multimodal analysis, it identifies and examines three major representations of women in relation to violence - the female victim, the female perpetrator of violence and the female professional. In doing so, the study demonstrates the various ways in which Chinese crime films depict female victims, passive and active female perpetrators of violence and female professionals, all of which reinforce a sense of male dominance and patriarchal power. It bridges the gap in the field of the representation of females in Chinese culture and in Chinese film studies by being one of the first studies to systematically examine Chinese crime films as a genre. This thesis argues that while the depiction of female victimisation at the hands of men consolidates the notion of women's vulnerability and inferiority in Chinese society, the representation of female perpetrators of violence and as professional working women presents what may be seen as a postfeminist masquerade - a cultural strategy that presents an impression of female empowerment all the while reinforcing traditional gender hierarchies. While graphic female victimisation is commonly presented, female perpetrators of violence and females in professional roles in crime films are shown to remain under the control of male authorities, implying that Chinese crime films are produced in a context of heavy patriarchal power and misogyny.
Moment-based Constrained Spectral Uplifting
Creators: name: Tódová, Lucia
name: Wilkie, Alexander
name: Fascione, Luca
Publisher: name: The Eurographics Association
Year: 2021
Subjects: Computing methodologies
Reflectance modeling

description: Spectral rendering is increasingly used in appearance-critical rendering workflows due to its ability to predict colour values under varying illuminants. However, directly modelling assets via input of spectral data is a tedious process: and if asset appearance is defined via artist-created textures, these are drawn in colour space, i.e. RGB. Converting these RGB values to equivalent spectral representations is an ambiguous problem, for which robust techniques have been proposed only comparatively recently. However, other than the resulting RGB values matching under the illuminant the RGB space is defined for (usually D65), these uplifting techniques do not provide the user with further control over the resulting spectral shape. We propose a method for constraining the spectral uplifting process so that for a finite number of input spectra that need to be preserved, it always yields the correct uplifted spectrum for the corresponding RGB value. Due to constraints placed on the uplifting process, target RGB values that are in close proximity to one another uplift to spectra within the same metameric family, so that textures with colour variations can be meaningfully uplifted. Renderings uplifted via our method show minimal discrepancies when compared to the original objects.
description: Eurographics Symposium on Rendering - DL-only Track
description: Spectral Rendering
description: 215
description: 224
description: Lucia Tódová, Alexander Wilkie, and Luca Fascione
description: CCS Concepts: Computing methodologies --> Reflectance modeling