cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Multifunctional meta-optic azimuthal shear interferometer
Creators: name: Yu, Linzhi
name: Shevtsov, Sergei
name: Singh, Haobijam Johnson
name: Kazansky, Peter G.
name: Caglayan, Humeyra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Azimuthal shear interferometry is a versatile tool for analyzing wavefront asymmetries. However, conventional systems are bulky, alignment-sensitive, and prone to nonuniform shear. We present a broadband, compact, and robust meta-optics-based azimuthal shear interferometer in a common-path configuration, reducing the system size to the millimeter scale. Unlike conventional designs, the meta-optic azimuthal shear interferometer utilizes the localized wavefront modulation capabilities of meta-optics to achieve uniform azimuthal shear displacement independent of radial position, significantly enhancing accuracy and stability. Our approach eliminates the need for bulky optical components and precise multi-path alignment, making it more resilient to environmental disturbances. Its multifunctionality is demonstrated through applications in all-optical edge detection, differential interference contrast microscopy, and aberrated wavefront sensing. These results underscore its potential for real-time analog image processing, advanced optical imaging, and optical testing.
Improving Musculoskeletal Health by Identifying Preventive and Therapeutic Approaches for Back Pain and Hand Osteoarthritis
Creators: name: ESTEE, MAHNUMA MAHFUZ
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 420699
subject: Public health not elsewhere classified

description: Back pain and hand osteoarthritis, two common conditions, affect almost half of the population during their lifetime. Neither condition has effective treatment: most people have uncontrolled pain and disability. This thesis shows that it is possible to identify people who are more likely to develop severe diseases and respond to specific treatments. This information may help to develop more effective personalised strategies to prevent and treat these conditions, reduce their impact, and improve pain control.
title: A parametric urban design model to optimize life cycle carbon footprint of green open spaces
Creators: name: Leung, T.M.
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: More people live in cities nowadays. In fact, urbanization can pose ecological burdens to our planet. Human activities in urban areas constitute 71 to 76% of global carbon emissions, which is one of the causes of climate change. Research results also suggested that land use patterns and urban morphology can affect carbon emission in cities. Consequently, there is an urgent call to designing cities which can reduce carbon emission. To this end, studies have shown that trees in urban green spaces could help offset carbon emission in cities by carbon sequestration. Although there have been studies on the carbon balance of urban green spaces, few attempts have been made to investigate the optimization of green space design to reduce carbon emissions from cities. In parallel, there is a recent trend to utilizing parametric design models for urban design tasks. Efforts have been put on examining the use of parametric urban design models in optimizing urban design options. Moreover, previous studies suggested it is possible to adopt performance values as parameter input to generate design options. Accordingly, the primary aim of the current study is to develop a parametric urban design model which takes life cycle CO2 sequestration of trees as the parameter input to generate urban green space design options in the early design stage. A case study will be conducted to illustrate how the model can be developed. The Rhino3D plugin Grasshopper will be used to develop the parametric design model. Space Syntax measure intelligibility will also be included in the model. Life cycle CO2 sequestration of the open space can be optimized against the intelligibility of the space by using the model.
title: Tourism-boosting rebuilding of historic buildings and urban form : the case study of Yanghe Tower and its urban morphology in Zhengding, China
Creators: name: Liu, Qian
name: Pezzetti, Laura
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: Tourism has recently been viewed as an economic growth engine for Chinese small historic cities, including Zhengding in Northern China. However, the intensive tourism-boosting projects have far more impacts on these cities than merely economic development. Yanghe Tower was first built in Zhengding in the Tang Dynasty, renovated many times, and demolished in the 1960s, although it had been included in Liang- Sicheng's surveys in 1933. The local government rebuilt the Tower in 2017 to make it a tourist attraction through an uncritical rebuilding that formed an urban unit with a texture and meaning that never existed in the city. The result is a standalone monument disjointed from its historic and morphological layering, which is crucial for the Tower's urban role and memory narrative. This paper instead reads the primary element of Yanghe Tower in its historical evolution and its relationship with the overall urban form. By reading the mutual relationship between the Tower and the urban development in both permanence and modification, the paper brings evidence of the deep structure and meanings of urban form that should guide any strategy of intervention and reconstruction beyond musealization and commodification.
title: The influence of water form on urban fabric - A case study in Nanjing Baguazhou
Creators: name: Liang, Ying
name: Liu, Quan
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: The classical urban morphology focused on artificial elements, while the ignored natural factors, especially water system, have a very important impact on the formation of urban form. We took Baguazhou, Nanjing, China as a study case, to discuss the intimate relationship between the evolution of the river system, road system and building fabric of Baguazhou. Through geography study and historical maps analysis, this paper figures out the formation process of the river system of Baguazhou in Yangtze River. Then, this paper represents the water system transformation, residential developing process by literature reviews. Finally, with the typology study of series of slices of typical river, we analyse the layout relationship between river, roads and buildings, so that proving the influence of river shape on the formation of urban fabric.
title: Urban transformation of Fotang town in the recent 20 years - a sample in small city fostering program of Zhejiang Province, China
Creators: name: Li, Jia
name: Dai, Xiaoling
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: This paper studies the recent twenty years' morphological change of a small city Fotang in China. Although many cities are shrinking at present, the coastal metropolitan areas in China are experiencing a continuing growth, both in terms of population and built-up area. Comply with such a trend, Zhejiang Province launched a "Small City Fostering program" starting from 2010, by which to cultivate certain qualified but low administration level "Zhen" (town) into small city. There were annual evaluations for these towns and Fotang always gain outstanding rating. By a description of the town's morphological transformation process in the past 20 years, this paper analyses the influence and process of different agents to its morphological changes. The researchers collected historical satellite maps, and historical urban planning documents. Interviews to government officials and local residents were carried out, and on-site investigation are done to confirm the information. The changes of urban form in the recent 20 years are sorted out in chronological order. The growth and densification of the street network, the construction on plots, and the replacement of land use, are the main focuses of the analysis. By Space Syntax method, the structures of street network in four phases are depicted, namely 2006, 2010, 2016, and 2020. This paper compares the real urban changes with the urban planning documents; and then reflects the spatial relation between the core of spatial structure and the functional live centres. It provided a vivid illustration for the urban transformation of Chinese small cities, which are rare in the current literature. The study shows how the top-down and bottom-up forces work together to shape the urban form of this small but vibrant historical city.
Deviations from the von Laue condition: Implications for the on-shell Lagrangian of particles and fluids
Creators: name: Pinto, S. R.
name: Avelino, P. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: According to the von Laue condition, the volume integral of the proper pressure inside isolated particles with a fixed structure and finite mass vanishes in the Minkowski limit of general relativity. In this work, we consider a simple illustrative example: nonstandard static global monopoles with finite energy, for which the von Laue condition is satisfied when the proper pressure is integrated over the whole space. We demonstrate, however, that the absolute value of this integral, when calculated up to a finite distance from the center of the global monopole, generally deviates from zero by no more than the energy located outside the specified volume (under the assumption of the dominant energy condition). Furthermore, we find that the maximum deviation from unity of the ratio between the volume averages of the on-shell Lagrangian and the trace of the energy-momentum tensor cannot exceed three times the outer energy fraction. Extending these results to real particles, we demonstrate that these constraints generally hold for finite-mass systems with fixed structure, including stable atomic nuclei, provided the dominant energy condition is satisfied. Specifically, we show that, except in extremely dense environments with energy densities comparable to that of the particles themselves, the volume average of the aforementioned ratio must be extremely close to unity. Finally, we discuss the broader implications of our findings for the form of the on-shell Lagrangian of real fluids, which is often a crucial element for accurately modeling the dynamics of the gravity and matter, especially in scenarios involving nonminimal couplings to other matter fields or gravity. We find that, in general, the ideal gas on-shell Lagrangian provides an accurate approximation of the true on-shell Lagrangian, even for nonideal gases with significant interparticle interactions.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures
title: Analysis and classification of open public spaces, a method using perception and measurable indexes
Creators: name: Maia, Hortênsia
name: Cardoso, Daniel
name: Brasil, Aléxia
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: This paper addresses the complexity of contemporary public space types. We suggest a method of urban analysis that systematizes ways of identifying sensitive and spatial characteristics present in open public spaces, in the urban landscape of the city of Fortaleza, Brazil. The morphology and organization of these spaces implies a social structure and relationships that infer affection, and a possible measure of spatial quality. The morphological analysis is supported both by Spatial Syntax research and information technologies such as Geographic Information System platform, bringing 3D tools for urban analysis through information modeling. To analyze the dimensions of the space quality that improve everyday usage, authors like Lynch, Cullen, Gehl and Jacobs are inspirational for the creation of parameters and variables of life in the city. In addition, we suggest a more attentive format of perception of urban poiesis using sketchbooks, a tool explored by Salavisa. As a result of this investigation, starting from the phenomenological study, we seek to present a model of space analysis. Said model connects sensitive aspects of human perception and the abstract and rational approach, formalized in indicators that can be quantified.
Density-dependent spin susceptibility and effective mass in monolayer MoSe2
Creators: name: Liu, Chang
name: Jia, Tongtong
name: Sun, Zheng
name: Gu, Yu
name: Xu, Fan
name: Watanabe, Kenji
name: Taniguchi, Takashi
name: Jia, Jinfeng
name: Wang, Shiyong
name: Liu, Xiaoxue
name: Li, Tingxin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Atomically thin MoSe2 is a promising platform for investigating quantum phenomena due to its large effective mass, high crystal quality, and strong spin-orbit coupling. In this work, we demonstrate a triple-gate device design with bismuth contacts, enabling reliable ohmic contact down to low electron densities, with a maximum Hall mobility of approximately 22,000 cm2/Vs. Low-temperature transport measurements illustrate metal-insulator transitions, and density-dependent quantum oscillation sequences. Enhanced spin susceptibility and density-dependent effective mass are observed, attributed to interaction effects and valley polarization. These findings establish monolayer MoSe2 as a versatile platform for further exploring interaction-driven quantum states.
Gender differences in adults with ADHD : a narrative review
Creators: name: Williamson, David Kenneth
name: Johnston, Charlotte
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Certain characteristics of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children have long been known to differ by gender. What has not been as widely studied is whether gender is similarly associated with ADHD differences in adults. In this review, the relation between gender and adult ADHD prevalence, persistence, impairment, comorbidity, cognitive functioning, and treatment response was examined across 73 studies. Although gender was related to several characteristics and correlates of adult ADHD, it appeared that many of these gender differences may be at least be partially attributed to methodological artifacts or social and cultural influences, rather than fundamental differences in the expression of ADHD in men and women. We highlight how understanding the nature of the relation between gender and ADHD across the lifespan is complicated by a number of methodological difficulties, and offer recommendations for how emerging research and clinical practice can better incorporate gender into the conceptualization of ADHD in adulthood.
title: The microclimate performance of urban form : a quantitative morphological approach
Creators: name: Maiullari, Daniela
name: Pijpers-van Esch, Marjolein
name: Aldakheelallah, Abdullah
name: Cannatella, Daniele
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: Understanding how urban form influences the urban microclimate is crucial to inform urban planning and design in the challenge of adapting cities to climate change. The complex relation between the spatial and the thermal performance of the urban environment has been proven in previous climatological studies. However, the understanding of the interaction between morphological characteristics and the thermal behaviour of urban spaces has been limited by the systemic differences between the disciplines involved, such as the use of spatial units, scale systems and classification methods. Climatological studies mainly employ morphological approaches based on qualitative classification of 'generic' urban patterns or supervised classification of homogeneous zones with course resolution. Both approaches have limited applicability to analyse heterogeneous urban environments, which can be overcome by using multi-variable and interscalar characterization approaches from the field of urban morphology. This paper addresses this potential by developing a quantitative method to identify morphological types based on climate-related form attributes of buildings and their immediate context. Application of the method in the case of Rotterdam allows to identify 5 buildings and 5 context types. Finally, a microclimate performance assessment on the resulting 25 archetypes is carried out, by using the ENVI-met microclimate model.
ToRR Use Case: Coherent Electrolysis: "Dynamic Sponge Electrode"
Creators: name: Schwemler, Alexander
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

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The past, present and future of observations of externally irradiated disks
Creators: name: Planet Formation Environments Collaboration
name: Allen, Megan
name: Anania, Rossella
name: Andersen, Morten
name: Aru, Mari-Liis
name: Ballabio, Giulia
name: Ballering, Nicholas P.
name: Beccari, Giacomo
name: Berné, Olivier
name: Bik, Arjan
name: Boyden, Ryan
name: Coleman, Gavin
name: Díaz-Berrios, Javiera
name: Eatson, Joseph W.
name: Frediani, Jenny
name: Forbrich, Jan
name: Gkimisi, Katia
name: Goicoechea, Javier R.
name: Gupta, Saumya
name: Guarcello, Mario G.
name: Haworth, Thomas J.
name: Henney, William J.
name: Isella, Andrea
name: Itrich, Dominika
name: Keyte, Luke
name: Kim, Jinyoung Serena
name: Kuhn, Michael
name: Petit, Franck Le
name: Luo, Lilian
name: Manara, Carlo
name: Maucó, Karina
name: Meshaka, Raphaël
name: Millstone, Samuel
name: Owen, James E.
name: Paine, Sébastien
name: Parker, Richard J.
name: Peake, Tyger
name: Peatt, Megan
name: Pinilla, Paola
name: Qiao, Lin
name: Ramírez-Tannus, María Claudia
name: Ramsay, Suzanne
name: Reiter, Megan
name: Rogers, Ciarán
name: Rosotti, Giovanni
name: Schroetter, Ilane
name: Sellek, Andrew
name: Testi, Leonardo
name: van Terwisga, Sierk
name: Vicente, Silvia
name: Walsh, Catherine
name: Winter, Andrew
name: Wright, Nicholas J.
name: Zeidler, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent years have seen a surge of interest in the community studying the effect of ultraviolet radiation environment, predominantly set by OB stars, on protoplanetary disc evolution and planet formation. This is important because a significant fraction of planetary systems, potentially including our own, formed in close proximity to OB stars. This is a rapidly developing field, with a broad range of observations across many regions recently obtained or recently scheduled. In this paper, stimulated by a series of workshops on the topic, we take stock of the current and upcoming observations. We discuss how the community can build on this recent success with future observations to make progress in answering the big questions of the field, with the broad goal of disentangling how external photoevaporation contributes to shaping the observed (exo)planet population. Both existing and future instruments offer numerous opportunities to make progress towards this goal.
description: Published in the Open Journal of Astrophysics. Corresponding author Thomas Haworth
Hyoidea kerzhneri Hoberlandt 1963
Creators: name: Vinokurov, Nikolay N.
name: Rudoi, Valentin V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Hyoidea
Hyoidea kerzhneri

description: Hyoidea kerzhneri Hoberlandt, 1963
 Material. Kurai Mts, Teranjik and Right Kubadru Rivers, 50°21′ N, 87°55′ E, H = 2200–2600 m, 29.07– 02.08.2019, 1 ♀.
 Distribution. Steppe and semidesert zones of Palaearctic. Recorded from Altai Republic (Hoberlandt 1963; Vinokurov & Golub 2007; Knyshov & Konstantinov 2013).
description: Published as part of Vinokurov, Nikolay N. & Rudoi, Valentin V., 2020, New materials on heteropterans from Kurai steppe (south-west of Russian Altai), pp. 25-35 in Ecologica Montenegrina 38 on page 29, DOI: 10.37828/em.2020.38.5, http://zenodo.org/record/13231892
No gauge cancellation at high energy in the five-vector $R_ξ$ gauge
Creators: name: Jeong, Jaehoon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a novel $R_ξ$ gauge in the five-vector (5V) framework within the Abelian Higgs model. In the Cartesian basis of the complex Higgs field, the 5V $R_ξ$ gauge ensures non-divergent tree-level amplitudes for each Feynman diagram in the high-energy limit. This framework pinpoints the origin of high-energy divergences in tree-level amplitudes for each diagram, providing a criterion for quantifying the degree of divergences from other gauges. The 5V description necessitates treating the Goldstone field as the fifth gauge-field component, offering deeper insight into the dynamics of massive gauge bosons, particularly its longitudinal mode. The impact of this framework is demonstrated by rigorously comparing tree-level amplitudes from the 5V $R_ξ$ gauge with those from the conventional 4V $R_ξ$ gauge and the Feynman diagram gauge, the latter of which exhibits no gauge cancellation, similar to the 5V $R_ξ$ gauge.
description: 25 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables
title: Billy's Sailortown stories : unpacking the dense and compact city through graphic anthropology
Creators: name: Martire, Augustina
name: Madden, Aisling
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: Since the 1960s, Belfast has suffered from the predominance of car centred planning. Sailortown, one of its most diverse, active and dense neighbourhoods was destroyed by the urban motorway in the 1970s. The neighbourhood suffered mass demolition and the displacement of over one thousand families and 300 businesses over 5 years. The dense, mixed-use, plot-based urban form disappeared, but the fabric of Sailortown survives in the stories of its old and new residents, recreating the urban forms of the past. Through the StreetSpace project we investigate the fabric of streets and the people that inhabit them. We carefully engage with the physical and spatial form, as well as with the experiences of local residents. We value different approaches to urban morphology and are especially interested in the value of the plot and block. Our contribution to the discussion about urban form and the value of the plot is methodological. By introducing graphic anthropology (Ingold, Lucas, Ramos, Kuchnir) we bring the experiences of people in place to the forefront, exploring the value of the urban fabric in everyday life. In this paper we will present studies of urban form and space, combined with graphic anthropology, of a series of blocks in Sailortown, understood through former resident Billy McIlroy’s stories. We would like to present this as a conversation about how the memories of a place can be redrawn to highlight the value of the dense, diverse and compact urban fabric of an erased past.
Drug Use Patterns Predict Risk of Non-Fatal Overdose Among Street-Involved Youth in a Canadian Setting
Creators: name: Mitra, Goldis
name: Wood, Evan
name: Nguyen, Paul
name: Kerr, Thomas
name: DeBeck, Kora
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Background Non-fatal drug overdose is a major cause of morbidity among people who use drugs, although few studies have examined this risk among street-involved youth. We sought to determine the risk factors associated with non-fatal overdose among Canadian street-involved youth who reported illicit drug use. Methods Using data from a prospective cohort of street-involved youth in Vancouver, Canada, we identified youth without a history of overdose and employed Cox regression analyses to determine factors associated with time to non-fatal overdose between September 2005 and May 2012. Results Among 615 participants, 98 (15.9%) reported a non-fatal overdose event during follow-up, resulting in an incidence density of 7.67 cases per 100 person-years. In multivariate Cox regression analyses, binge drug use (adjusted hazard ratio [AHR] = 1.85; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.20 – 2.84), non-injection crystal methamphetamine use (AHR = 1.70; 95% CI = 1.12 – 2.58), non-injection prescription opiate use (AHR = 2.56; 95% CI = 1.36 – 4.82), injection prescription opiate use (AHR = 2.49; 95% CI = 1.40 – 4.45) and injection heroin use (AHR = 1.85; 95% CI = 1.14 – 3.00) were positively associated with time to non-fatal overdose. Social, behavioural and demographic factors were not significantly associated with time to non-fatal overdose event. Conclusions Rates of non-fatal overdose were high among street-involved youth. Drug use patterns, in particular prescription opiate use, were associated with overdose. These findings underscore the importance of addiction treatment and prevention efforts aimed at reducing the risk of overdose among youth.
Which Attention Heads Matter for In-Context Learning?
Creators: name: Yin, Kayo
name: Steinhardt, Jacob
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Large language models (LLMs) exhibit impressive in-context learning (ICL) capability, enabling them to perform new tasks using only a few demonstrations in the prompt. Two different mechanisms have been proposed to explain ICL: induction heads that find and copy relevant tokens, and function vector (FV) heads whose activations compute a latent encoding of the ICL task. To better understand which of the two distinct mechanisms drives ICL, we study and compare induction heads and FV heads in 12 language models.
 Through detailed ablations, we discover that few-shot ICL performance depends primarily on FV heads, especially in larger models. In addition, we uncover that FV and induction heads are connected: many FV heads start as induction heads during training before transitioning to the FV mechanism. This leads us to speculate that induction facilitates learning the more complex FV mechanism that ultimately drives ICL.
title: Regenerative design processes in urban morphology
Creators: name: Maretto, Marco
name: Finizza, Chiara
name: Monacelli, Alice
name: Gherri, Barbara
name: Naboni, Emanuele
name: Maiullari, Daniela
name: Iannantuono, Marco
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: A city is an organism made of "fabrics". Social, economic, cultural, smart and environmental fabrics, on whose interaction depends the form, the functioning and the very life of a city, its urban fabrics, its public spaces. Reading and designing the city of the 21st century is therefore a complex process that involves very different needs, interests and disciplines. The aim of this research is to develop an analysis and design methodology capable of acting as a catalyst for all the main players involved in the strategies of Sustainable Urban Design. At the basis of the methodological approach lies the concept of Public Space as the preferential place for reading, designing and living a city. Operationally, the proposed methodology rests on three main disciplinary areas (and three con-sequents working toolkits): Urban Surveying, Environmental Analysis, Urban Morphology. Through the first, conducted with graphic rendering softwares and laser scanner, it is possible to detect the physical forms of the city, to read its historical and material consistency. The second focuses its attention mainly on the microclimatic analysis of public spaces and outdoor comfort, using sophisticated environmental softwares such as Envi-met, LadyBug etc. Finally, the third area is particularly important. Urban Morphology, due to its multilayer character is the discipline capable of keeping all the others together, allowing them to interact. The tools adopted for this purpose are the Morphological Map, the Geographic Information System_QGIS, the Global Positioning System_GPS. The synergistic union of these three areas allows the development of a dynamic, multilayer and transdisciplinary methodology for urban analysis, very useful for guiding the regeneration and transformation processes of the contemporary city.
title: Urban strata interpretation : Xi'an's fragile urban form inside the Ming City Wall
Creators: name: Malabarba, Alberto
name: Pezzetti, Laura A.
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: Within a troublesome notion of historicity, any attempt to deal with the fast re-development of Chinese historic cities needs to confront with a different concept of integrity, permanence, and memory of the historic space. The end of the 20th century and the beginning of 21st century, moreover, were particularly disruptive for historic cities where an unprecedented development took place on the ‘tabula rasa’ of all pre-existing typo-morphological orders. Despite its early preservation plan in the 1980s, the historic Ming City in Xi’an has retained only its major cultural symbols while continuing the erasure of historic urban textures, which fragments are now mostly traceable in the topography of the fabric patterns. Around the Ming City Wall, nonetheless, a composite tissue has grown onto old traces and fabrics, defining an assemblage of typo-morphological forms and topographical traces that should be considered historicised as well. If understood as a ‘tabula plena’, this miscellaneous text could be regenerated and enhanced to support complexity and the restoration of a local identity rather than being indistinctively demolished in the name of a homogeneous stylistic coordination for touristic exploitation. The multiple times and memories absorbed in this composite layering of traces reveal the essential cultural meaning of urban form and the continuous need of interpretative tools to support a coevolutionary sustainable development. The paper focuses its analysis on both structure and morphology of Xi’an Ming City’s urban forms and characters, deepening the understanding of the urban substrata in the Jiangguo District.
title: Urban morphology and temporary uses : exploring the relation between reading and designing
Creators: name: Migliorisi, Ambra
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: Since the financial and economic crisis of 2008, the interaction between the increase in urban vacancy and the crisis of financial protocols of development is offering the chance to restore the centrality of the architectural project within the issue of urban regeneration since, as never before, we find ourselves in the position of having to reflect on the state of a widely distributed abandoned building heritage, de-objectified from any functional and cultural meaning, which claims to be transformed with priority over new building expectations and forecasts. The paper investigates the practice of temporary use of vacant areas and abandoned buildings in the region of Emilia-Romagna (Italy) that, although with different degrees of maturation, are certifying an experimental and operative level feeding, through tests and verification phases with reality and its changes, a strategic design path able to really address current challenges. The acknowledgement of this practice's value has been stated ex-post by Regional law n.24/2017 "Regional regulation on spatial planning, management and land-use", which constitutes the partial effect of one of the most advanced experiments concerning the design culture in conditions of structural crisis. The present contribution aims at recognizing in the Italian urban morphology's legacy the features to read and intercept the on-going urban transformation, negotiating the position of the architectural project as stages of adaptation to the urban changing conditions. The methodology is summarized in two main collaborating moments: the "mapping" or rather the criteria for comparing the on-going experiences and the "governance" which refers to the set of principles and procedures concerning the management of the projects. The paper demonstrates how the phase of reading the experimental practices converges with the one of designing the urban project, making explicit the relationship on which urban morphology and building typology are based.
Volkswagen (VW) group emission scandal: implications on corporate social responsibility and the environment
Creators: name: Tan-Kantor, Angela
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The purpose of this paper to illustrate how a multi-national corporate culture affects a company's values with respect to corporate social responsibility and the environment. The research method is a case study used to provide an up-close and an in-depth understanding of a single case that is set in real world contexts. In 2014, an independent body in Europe discovered emissions discrepancies for the diesel models. In the United States (US), a group of scientists discovered that the emissions far exceeded the legal limits set by standards and confirmed the findings in Europe. When a VW vehicle is on the road, the emission control is switched off. The installation of the 'defeat device' software caused VW's vehicles to emit up to 40 times more nitrogen oxide (a pollutant) than the US legal limit in real world driving. Nitrogen oxides emitted from the defeat device cause respiratory problems and is a form of air pollution causing premature death. In May 2014, the US findings resulted in a notice of violation of the Clean Air Act by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued to the company on 18 September 2015. My findings found that VW Group's legitimacy and continued survival can be assured when the implied corporate social responsibility and social contract between the company and society are fulfilled through the activities of the company that is consistent with the community's values. Legitimacy theory is used to predict that VW Group's management will implement policies to maintain and restore corporate legitimacy.
Ο ασπασμός των εικόνων ως δομικό στοιχείο των Ιερών Ακολουθιών. Οι τυπικές διατάξεις και το θεολογικό υπόβαθρο
Creators: name: CHATZIGRIGORIOU, Stylianos
Publisher: name: ΚΟΣΜΟΣ - Επιστημονικό Περιοδικό του Τμήματος Ποιμαντικής και Κοινωνικής Θεολογίας
Year: 2022
Subjects: Εικόνες; θεολογία; ασπασμός; Ιερές Ακολουθίες; Τυπικά

description: ΚΟΣΜΟΣ - Επιστημονικό Περιοδικό του Τμήματος Ποιμαντικής και Κοινωνικής Θεολογίας, Vol 7 (2020)
Ανέκδοτο σημείωμα του μητροπολίτη Σάρδεων Γερμανού για την κατάσταση της Ορθόδοξης Εκκλησίας της Πολωνίας το 1930
Creators: name: TZOUMERKAS, Panagiotis
Publisher: name: ΚΟΣΜΟΣ - Επιστημονικό Περιοδικό του Τμήματος Ποιμαντικής και Κοινωνικής Θεολογίας
Year: 2022
Subjects: Σάρδεων Γερμανός; Jan Strzembosz; Οικουμενικό Πατριαρχείο; Ορθόδοξη Εκκλησία Πολωνίας; Βαρσοβίας Διονύσιος; I. Mościcki; Ουκρανοί; Ρωμαιοκαθολική Εκκλησία; πολωνική κυβέρνηση; σχέσεις κράτους και εκκλησίας; εθνοτικές διαμάχες; ζήτημα ορθοδόξων περιουσιών

description: ΚΟΣΜΟΣ - Επιστημονικό Περιοδικό του Τμήματος Ποιμαντικής και Κοινωνικής Θεολογίας, Vol 7 (2020)
title: The morphology of placemaking – from urban guerrilla and formal street experiments to mobility and metropolitan regions
Creators: name: Natividade, Verônica
name: Rivas, Ana
name: Büttner, Benjamin
name: Stojanovski, Todor
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: Placemaking is becoming a mainstreaming paradigm in planning. It arises from urbanist advocacy for small-scale, incremental, “do-it-yourself” (DIY) urban improvements referred to as guerrilla, pop-up, tactical, DIY or everyday urbanism. It is defined as any act of citizens to change their urban environment. It involves collectively creating, transforming, maintaining and renovating the places in which they live. It includes daily actions and everyday routines and special, celebratory one-time events. This paper looks at placemaking interventions and street experiments in Brazil, Mexico, Sweden and Germany from a morphological perspective. It creates a quadrant of placemaking where it pins various projects on the axes formal-informal, designed-not designed, expert initiatives or local community engagement to classify placemaking acts from informal beatifications such as painting and graffiti, arty insertions, celebratory events as well as more formalised interventions, like parking replacement, repurposing street sections and transforming entire streets. It argues that the bureaucratic planners did not thwart the very vibrancy and spirit of the bottom-up everyday urbanism. Instead, we see gradual urbanists institutionalising placemaking as a planning paradigm. However, placemakers have remained on the smallest scale in cities, restricted to the street scale in particular, not concerned with the neighbourhood or regional scale where cities are experienced on the move. For urban morphologists, one question emerges: how placemaking fits at various morphological scales and how planners and urban designers who work with neighbourhoods can harness the rise of placemaking to work on multiple resolutions, from the street to the metropolitan region?
Notions of Stack-manipulating Computation and Relative Monads (Extended Version)
Creators: name: Jiang, Yuchen
name: Xue, Runze
name: New, Max S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Monads provide a simple and concise interface to user-defined computational effects in functional programming languages. This enables equational reasoning about effects, abstraction over monadic interfaces and the development of monad transformer stacks to combine different effects. Compiler implementors and assembly code programmers similarly virtualize effects, and would benefit from similar abstractions if possible. However, the implementation details of effects seem disconnected from the high-level monad interface: at this lower level much of the design is in the layout of the runtime stack, which is not accessible in a high-level programming language.
 We demonstrate that the monadic interface can be faithfully adapted from high-level functional programming to a lower level setting with explicit stack manipulation. We use a polymorphic call-by-push-value (CBPV) calculus as a setting that captures the essence of stack-manipulation, with a type system that allows programs to define domain-specific stack structures. Within this setting, we show that the existing category-theoretic notion of a relative monad can be used to model the stack-based implementation of computational effects. To demonstrate generality, we adapt a variety of standard monads to relative monads. Additionally, we show that stack-manipulating programs can benefit from a generalization of do-notation we call "monadic blocks" that allow all CBPV code to be reinterpreted to work with an arbitrary relative monad. As an application, we show that all relative monads extend automatically to relative monad transformers, a process which is not automatic for monads in pure languages.
MPd5 kagome superconductors studied by density functional calculations
Creators: name: Li, Dan
name: Wang, Zhengxuan
name: Jing, Panshi
name: Shiri, Mehrdad
name: Wang, Kun
name: Ma, Chunlan
name: Gong, Shijing
name: Zhao, Chuanxi
name: Wang, Tianxing
name: Dong, Xiao
name: Zhuang, Lin
name: Liu, Wuming
name: An, Yipeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.111.144511

description: Kagome materials, which are composed of hexagons tiled with a shared triangle, have inspired enormous interest due to their unique structures and rich physical properties; exploring superconducting material systems with new kagome structures is still an important research direction. Here, we predict a type of kagome superconductor, MPd5 (M is a group-IIA metal element), and identify that it exhibits coexistence of superconductivity and nontrivial topological properties. We uncover its phonon-mediated superconductivity by the density functional theory for superconductors, predicting the superconducting transition temperatures (Tc) of 2.64, 2.03, and 1.50 K for CaPd5, SrPd5, and BaPd5, respectively. These Tc can be effectively tuned through the application of external pressure and electron doping. The present results also demonstrate that MPd5 have topological properties; e.g., CaPd5 shows topological nontrivial intersection near the Fermi level (EF). Our results indicate that MPd5 materials can be an emerging material platform with rich exotic physics in their kagome structures, and render themselves excellent candidates for superconducting and advanced functional materials that could be utilized in topological quantum computing and information technology.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures
Towards Multimodal Large-Language Models for Parent-Child Interaction: A Focus on Joint Attention
Creators: name: Shi, Weiyan
name: Le, Viet Hai
name: Choo, Kenny Tsu Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Joint attention is a critical component of early speech-language development and a key indicator of effective parent-child interaction. However, research on detecting and analysing joint attention remains limited, particularly for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). This study evaluates MLLMs' ability to comprehend joint attention by analysing 26 parent-child interaction videos annotated by two speech-language pathologists. These annotations identify strong and poor joint attention segments, serving as benchmarks for evaluating the models' interpretive capabilities. Our findings reveal that current MLLMs struggle to accurately interpret joint attention due to a lack of nuanced understanding of child-initiated eye contact, a crucial component of joint attention dynamics. This study highlights the importance of incorporating detailed eye contact to enhance MLLMs' multimodal reasoning. Addressing these gaps is essential for future research to advance the use of MLLMs in analysing and supporting parent-child interactions.
description: Accepted at CHI 2025 Late Breaking Work
title: The sustainable Mediterranean city : perspectives for prosperous urban landscapes
Creators: name: Neglia, Giulia Annalinda
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: Sustainable, fair and respectful are terms often connected to landscape design, while they can also be regarded to urban design practices, especially when landscape meets interstices or peripheral urban areas, and correlates to sustainable processes of change in cities' social, economic and environmental evolution (SDG 11). When associated to urban form, these terms open avenues of research as well as promising areas of growth in the ability of landscape design to further inform urban morphology design. In particular, when design is connected to urban-territory form analysis, it can reveal patterns of change that can actively contribute to the wider adaptability of cities. This is particularly relevant in the case of many medium-sized Mediterranean city, set in direct connection to natural / territorial structure and pieces of agricultural lands. In this case, landscape analysis and design can help in adopting and implementing integrated strategic plans for sustainable development, resource efficiency, social inclusion, mitigation, safety, accessibility and finally the so-called "resilience". This paper aims at dealing with the role of landscape design in defining a consistent sustainability for the Mediterranean urban landscape, which has often been lost during the last decades, due to natural and anthropic changes, and where the recovery is needed, in a consistent connection with the urban morphology and the territorial structure, to give also answers to climate change related issues. Spanning from analysis to design, it aims at presenting some landscape design proposals for the urban regeneration, through the reconstruction of the continuity between countryside and city. Territorial and environmental analysis will lead design at transforming interstices and boundaries areas into multifunctional public spaces able to re-knitting the agriculture landscape to the peripheral urban forms, strongly linked to the identity of the places.
Topological phase transitions in superconductors with chiral symmetry
Creators: name: Svalland, Kristian Løvås
name: Mercaldo, Maria Teresa
name: Cuoco, Mario
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study topological transitions in one dimensional superconductors that can harbor multiple edge Majorana bound states protected by chiral symmetry. The chiral symmetry arises due to the structure of the internal spin degrees of freedom of the superconductor and it can be guided by the coupling of the superconductor with sources of time-reversal symmetry breaking. We then consider distinct regions of the phase diagram in the parameters space that are marked by gapless excitations in the spectrum and evaluate the conditions for inducing a topological transition. We show that for gapless chiral symmetric superconductors one can identify a class of physical perturbations that enable a gap opening in the spectrum, without breaking chirality, and turn the system into a topological state. This type of superconductor is dubbed marginal topological superconductor because an infinitesimally small perturbation is able to induce a transition into a topological nontrivial phase. To explicitly demonstrate and evaluate the character of the transitions from gapless to topological gapfull phases we explore different physical cases including p-wave superconductor in the presence of an applied magnetic field or proximity-coupled to a ferromagnet, and s-wave superconductor in a noncollinear magnetic ordering.
description: 15 pages; 13 figures