cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Topological Constraints in Directed Polymer Melts
Creators: name: Serna, Pablo
name: Bunin, Guy
name: Nahum, Adam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Polymers in a melt may be subject to topological constraints, as in the example of unlinked polymer rings. How to do statistical mechanics in the presence of such constraints remains a fundamental open problem. We study the effect of topological constraints on a melt of directed polymers, using simulations of a simple quasi-2D model. We find that fixing the global topology of the melt to be trivial changes the polymer conformations drastically. Polymers of length $L$ wander in the transverse direction only by a distance of order $(\ln L)^ζ$ with $ζ\simeq 1.5$. This is strongly suppressed in comparison with the Brownian $L^{1/2}$ scaling which holds in the absence of the topological constraint. It is also much smaller than the predictions of standard heuristic approaches - in particular the $L^{1/4}$ of a mean-field-like `array of obstacles' model - so our results present a sharp challenge to theory. Dynamics are also strongly affected by the constraints, and a tagged monomer in an infinite system performs logarithmically slow subdiffusion in the transverse direction. To cast light on the suppression of the strands' wandering, we analyse the topological complexity of subregions of the melt: the complexity is also logarithmically small, and is related to the wandering by a power law. We comment on insights the results give for 3D melts, directed and non-directed.
description: 4 pages + appendices, 11 figures. Published version
Architecture of Culotta & Leone for the Historic Centre of Cefalù: plan, project, execution
Creators: name: Di Benedetto, Giuseppe
name: Germanà, Maria Luisa
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2016

description: Architectural interventions in historical contexts throughout most of the 20th century were inter-linked by the two extremes of conservation and transformation. In the 1980s, in Italy, an important step forward was taken along the theoretical and operational path towards the approach as demanded by the current and future conditions of historical urban areas: long-term strategy oriented; more responsible; multi-scale and including the entire contemporary urban settlement. The experience of Culotta & Leone in the Historic Centre of Cefalù may well constitute a unicum, as a result of their particular anchoring to the social context, and yet it offers an interesting example of continuity (between plan, architectural design and execution) that gave substance to architectural solutions which may be seen as an evolving continuity of the historical remains.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 12 (2016): Architecture Memory Contemporaneity
The evaluation of the technological and functional appropriateness, regarding to the intervention in the former military and service urban heritage
Creators: name: Maspoli, Rossella
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2016

description: Architectural interventions in historical contexts throughout most of the 20th century were inter-linked by the two extremes of conservation and transformation. In the 1980s, in Italy, an important step forward was taken along the theoretical and operational path towards the approach as demanded by the current and future conditions of historical urban areas: long-term strategy oriented; more responsible; multi-scale and including the entire contemporary urban settlement. The experience of Culotta & Leone in the Historic Centre of Cefalù may well constitute a unicum, as a result of their particular anchoring to the social context, and yet it offers an interesting example of continuity (between plan, architectural design and execution) that gave substance to architectural solutions which may be seen as an evolving continuity of the historical remains.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 12 (2016): Architecture Memory Contemporaneity
Salvaging the “Modern” and the traditional city. Technologies and methodologies for intervention
Creators: name: Allegri, Davide
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2016

description: The essay examines the potential contribution of technology disciplines to the sphere of restoration, renovation and enhancement of a specific category of building in the traditional or “consolidated” city: the diffused architecture of the Italian Modern Movement. It aims to highlight how the issue of the Modern – in the various critical forms which frame the debate about it – is still open and far from resolved: on the one hand, disciplines dedicated to pure conservation often become entangled in theoretical positions which blur into each other and are not sufficiently actionable, on the other there is a long-felt, pressing need to shore up the debate surrounding the salvaging of modern diffused architecture with clear, operationally efficacious methodological approaches.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 12 (2016): Architecture Memory Contemporaneity
DEVELOPING AN ACCOUNTABLE CARE COMMUNITY TO IMPROVE THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT IN ROBESON COUNTY, NC
Creators: name: Haley, Courtney
name: Arguedas Villalobos, Nicole
name: Fetterolf, Anna
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: Social determinants of health (SDoH) are conditions that affect the places where people live, learn, work, and play, and impact a wide range of health risks and outcomes. The built environment is a SDoH that includes housing, transportation, safety, parks, playgrounds, and overall geographical setting. In Robeson County, NC the built environment around the Lumber River flood plain is a challenge that impacts the health of the Lumbee Tribe. With a goal of addressing this challenge, we analyzed the system of the built environment to form an Accountable Care Community (ACC). The goal of the ACC is to provide funding for rebuilding/repairing houses affected by hurricanes and flooding, by increasing the budget for the Lumbee Housing Department and working with the Robeson County Housing Authority’s access to disaster assistance, in order to address the community’s need to improve the built environment.
Silicon nitride resistance switching MIS cells doped with silicon atoms
Creators: name: Mavropoulis, A
name: Vasileiadis, N
name: Bonafos, C
name: Normand, P
name: Ioannou-Sougleridis, V
name: Sirakoulis, G Ch
name: Dimitrakis, P
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Stoichiometric SiNx layers (x = [N]/[Si] = 1.33) are doped with Si atoms by ultra-low energy ion implantation (ULE-II) and subsequently annealed at different temperatures in inert ambient conditions. Detailed material and memory cells characterization is performed to investigate the effect of Si dopants on the switching properties and performance of the fabricated resistive memory cells. In this context extensive dc current-voltage and impedance spectroscopy measurements are carried out systematically and the role of doping in dielectric properties of the nitride films is enlightened. The dc and ac conduction mechanisms are investigated in a comprehensive way. Room temperature retention characteristics of resistive states are also presented.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2502.01350
Small scale for large dimension. Micro-architecture systems for the temporary city of Civitanova Marche
Creators: name: Perriccioli, Massimo
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2016

description: The article presents the results of the first stages of a research, based on the issue of temporariness as a reference for small scale interventions in the urban and environmental regeneration of the “Adriatic city” (Bianchetti, 2002). The study is structured into two sections: the first section describes the cultural and scientific areas of interest in which the the theme of temporariness is outlined, in order to begin the process of innovative transformation of the living city, alternative to the prescriptive urban planning instruments. The second part describes the research methodology which aims to enable, with small scale interventions, significant changes to the urban context of the city of Civitanova Marche.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 12 (2016): Architecture Memory Contemporaneity
Generalized transport coefficients for inelastic Maxwell mixtures under shear flow
Creators: name: Garzó, Vicente
name: Trizac, Emmanuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Boltzmann equation framework for inelastic Maxwell models is considered to determine the transport coefficients associated with the mass, momentum and heat fluxes of a granular binary mixture in spatially inhomogeneous states close to the simple shear flow. The Boltzmann equation is solved by means of a Chapman-Enskog-like expansion around the (local) shear flow distributions $f_r^{(0)}$ for each species that retain all the hydrodynamic orders in the shear rate. Due to the anisotropy induced by the shear flow, tensorial quantities are required to describe the transport processes instead of the conventional scalar coefficients. These tensors are given in terms of the solutions of a set of coupled equations, which can be analytically solved as functions of the shear rate $a$, the coefficients of restitution $α_{rs}$ and the parameters of the mixture (masses, diameters and composition). Since the reference distribution functions $f_r^{(0)}$ apply for arbitrary values of the shear rate and are not restricted to weak dissipation, the corresponding generalized coefficients turn out to be nonlinear functions of both $a$ and $α_{rs}$. The dependence of the relevant elements of the three diffusion tensors on both the shear rate and dissipation is illustrated in the tracer limit case, the results showing that the deviation of the generalized transport coefficients from their forms for vanishing shear rates is in general significant. A comparison with the previous results obtained analytically for inelastic hard spheres by using Grad's moment method is carried out showing a good agreement over a wide range of values for the coefficients of restitution. Finally, as an application of the theoretical expressions derived here for the transport coefficients, thermal diffusion segregation of an intruder immersed in a granular gas is also studied.
description: 7 figures and 22 pages; to be published in Phys. Rev. E
Simplex Spline Bases on the Powell-Sabin 12-Split: Part I
Creators: name: Lyche, Tom
name: Muntingh, Georg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 41A15, 65D07, 65D17

description: We review the construction and a few properties of the S-basis, a simplex spline basis for the $C^1$ quadratic splines on the Powell-Sabin 12-split.
description: Oberwolfach report for the conference Multivariate Splines and Algebraic Geometry
Inverse problem for a differential operator on a star-shaped graph with nonlocal matching condition
Creators: name: Bondarenko, Natalia P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 34A55 34B07 34B09 34B10 34B45 34B60 34L10 34L20

description: In this paper, we develop two approaches to investigation of inverse spectral problems for a new class of nonlocal operators on metric graphs. The Laplace differential operator is considered on a star-shaped graph with nonlocal integral matching condition. This operator is adjoint to the functional-differential operator with frozen argument at the central vertex of the graph. We study the inverse problem that consists in the recovery of the integral condition coefficients from the eigenvalues. We obtain the spectrum characterization, reconstruction algorithms, and prove the uniqueness of the inverse problem solution.
THE STATE OF ADOLESCENT SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CARE ACCESS IN NORTH CAROLINA: A REVIEW OF STATE AND FEDERAL POLICY, INSIGHTS FROM KEY INFORMANT INTERVIEWS, AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE NC WOMEN’S HEALTH BRANCH FAMILY PLANNING UNIT
Creators: name: Powis, Laura
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: Adolescents aged 15-19 in North Carolina lack adequate access to the family planning (FP) services, including contraception, needed to live their fullest lives. Not using appropriate contraception during penile-vaginal sexual intercourse can lead to serious negative outcomes for the adolescent including unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs), both of which can have significant long-term social and health consequences for the adolescent and infant. To better understand the current state of adolescent sexual and reproductive health (SRH) care access in North Carolina, this paper explores differences in the scope, quality, and accessibility of adolescent FP services across four health care settings: school-based health centers, Federally Qualified Health Centers, primary care practices, and local health departments. The author conducted seven key informant interviews with experts on adolescent health care provision in these settings to learn more about the FP services available to adolescents in each setting. The author also analyzed relevant state and federal laws, polices, and guidelines that pertain to adolescent SRH care provision across settings to assess how such policies facilitate or serve as a barrier to adolescent FP service access. This paper aims to inform the North Carolina Women’s Health Branch Family Planning Unit (the Unit) about the differences in the scope, accessibility, and quality of adolescent SRH care in North Carolina across care settings, and provides recommendations regarding how the Unit can better support adolescent access to FP services to improve adolescent health. The author found that while the overall policy landscape in North Carolina is supportive of adolescent access to FP services, there are significant differences in the types of FP services available to adolescents based on where they receive care.
The diverse evolutionary paths of simulated high-z massive, compact galaxies to z=0
Creators: name: Wellons, Sarah
name: Torrey, Paul
name: Ma, Chung-Pei
name: Rodriguez-Gomez, Vicente
name: Pillepich, Annalisa
name: Nelson, Dylan
name: Genel, Shy
name: Vogelsberger, Mark
name: Hernquist, Lars
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Massive quiescent galaxies have much smaller physical sizes at high redshift than today. The strong evolution of galaxy size may be caused by progenitor bias, major and minor mergers, adiabatic expansion, and/or renewed star formation, but it is difficult to test these theories observationally. Herein, we select a sample of 35 massive, compact galaxies ($M_* = 1-3 \times 10^{11}$ M$_\odot$, $M_*/R^{1.5} > 10^{10.5}$ M$_\odot$/kpc$^{1.5}$) at $z=2$ in the cosmological hydrodynamical simulation Illustris and trace them forward to $z=0$ to uncover their evolution and identify their descendants. By $z=0$, the original factor of 3 difference in stellar mass spreads to a factor of 20. The dark matter halo masses similarly spread from a factor of 5 to 40. The galaxies' evolutionary paths are diverse: about half acquire an ex-situ envelope and are the core of a more massive descendant, a third survive undisturbed and gain very little mass, 15% are consumed in a merger with a more massive galaxy, and a small remainder are thoroughly mixed by major mergers. The galaxies grow in size as well as mass, and only $\sim$10% remain compact by $z=0$. The majority of the size growth is driven by the acquisition of ex-situ mass. The most massive galaxies at $z=0$ are the most likely to have compact progenitors, but this trend possesses significant dispersion which precludes a direct linkage to compact galaxies at $z=2$. The compact galaxies' merger rates are influenced by their $z=2$ environments, so that isolated or satellite compact galaxies (which are protected from mergers) are the most likely to survive to the present day.
description: 19 pages, 10 figures, MNRAS accepted version including 2 new figures
Contemporary architecture in historical contexts: for a system of values
Creators: name: Franco, Giovanna
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2016

description: This paper proposes a reflection on the relationship of new construction in an old context focusing on the recognition of the value of contemporary work which, historically, was introduced starting from post-war reconstructions. The article presents the methodologies and results of research that was first financed by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and later, by the Liguria Region for the purposes of cataloguing the modern and contemporary architectural heritage in the Region since the post-war period to-date, and highlighting its value for the purposes of its future protection and enhancement. Assigning values to recent and very recent architectural production is, in fact, variegated and controversial which, in many ways has established a dialogue with the old fabric.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 12 (2016): Architecture Memory Contemporaneity
GMRES using pseudoinverse for range symmetric singular systems
Creators: name: Sugihara, Kota
name: Hayami, Ken
name: Zeyu, Liao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: G.1.3
subject: 65F10, 65F20

description: Consider solving large sparse range symmetric singular linear systems $ A {\bf x}= {\bf b} $ which arise, for instance, in the discretization of convection diffusion equations with periodic boundary conditions, and partial differential equations for electromagnetic fields using the edge-based finite element method. In theory, the Generalized Minimal Residual (GMRES) method converges to the least squares solution for inconsistent systems if the coefficient matrix $A$ is range symmetric, i.e. $ {\rm R}(A)= {\rm R}(A^{ \rm T } )$, where $ {\rm R}(A)$ is the range space of $A$. We derived the necessary and sufficient conditions for GMRES to determine a least squares solution of inconsistent and consistent range symmetric systems assuming exact arithmetic except for the computation of the elements of the Hessenberg matrix. In practice, GMRES may not converge due to numerical instability. In order to improve the convergence, we propose using the pseudoinverse for the solution of the severely ill-conditioned Hessenberg systems in GMRES. Numerical experiments on inconsistent systems indicate that the method is effective and robust. Finally, we further improve the convergence of the method by reorthogonalizing the Modified Gram-Schmidt procedure.
description: Sentence at end of Section 1 when rhs contains discretization, measurement errors. Section 2 on motivation. Theorem 4.1: necessary, sufficient conditions for inconsistent, consistent cases. After Theorem 4.1, difference between theory and experiments explained. Modified Definition 2. Eliminated results for plat1919, saylr3. Modified Conclusions. References 1,2,3 on applications
V. Sîrbu, C. Schuster (eds.), Necropolele preistorice de la Brăilița, în zona Dunării de Jos. O nouă abordare, Editura Cetatea de Scaun, Editura Istros a Muzeului Brăilei ,,Carol I", Târgoviște-Brăila, 2022, 591 p.
Creators: name: Diaconu, Vasile
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: prezentare de carte

description: Revizuirea și valorificarea unor săpături arheologice mai vechi este rareori o muncă simplă, dificultățile fiind generate, în primul rând, tocmai de un anumit decalaj temporal existent între încheierea cercetărilor și momentul studierii lor, la care se adaugă și alte obstacole, cum ar fi accesul la arhiva de șantier, identificarea tuturor materialelor, organizarea acestora și starea lor de prezervare.
 Un astfel de proiect de republicare cu caracter monografic a unor săpături vechi este și cel coordonat de cercetătorii V. Sîrbu și C. Schuster, care, împreună cu o echipă complexă, au reluat și au analizat vestigiile din necropolele de la Brăilița (jud. Brăila) și au reușit editarea unui volum foarte necesar pentru înțelegerea realităților preistorice de la gurile Dunării.
Distortion in the finite determination result for embeddings of locally finite metric spaces into Banach spaces
Creators: name: Ostrovska, Sofiya
name: Ostrovskii, Mikhail I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46B85, 46B20

description: Given a Banach space $X$ and a real number $α\ge 1$, we write: (1) $D(X)\leα$ if, for any locally finite metric space $A$, all finite subsets of which admit bilipschitz embeddings into $X$ with distortions $\le C$, the space $A$ itself admits a bilipschitz embedding into $X$ with distortion $\le α\cdot C$; (2) $D(X)=α^+$ if, for every $\varepsilon>0$, the condition $D(X)\leα+\varepsilon$ holds, while $D(X)\leα$ does not; (3) $D(X)\le α^+$ if $D(X)=α^+$ or $D(X)\le α$. It is known that $D(X)$ is bounded by a universal constant, but the available estimates for this constant are rather large. The following results have been proved in this work: (1) $D((\oplus_{n=1}^\infty X_n)_p)\le 1^+$ for every nested family of finite-dimensional Banach spaces $\{X_n\}_{n=1}^\infty$ and every $1\le p\le \infty$. (2) $D((\oplus_{n=1}^\infty \ell^\infty_n)_p)=1^+$ for $1
description: This version is a significant update of version 1 since the main result of version 1 turned out to be known (Kalton-Lancien 2008)
Power-law Optical Conductivity from Unparticles: Application to the Cuprates
Creators: name: Limtragool, Kridsanaphong
name: Phillips, Philip
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the optical conductivity using several models for unparticle or scale-invariant matter. Within a Gaussian action for unparticles that is gauged with Wilson lines, we find that the conductivity computed from the Kubo formalism with vertex corrections yields no non-trivial deviation from the free-theory result. This result obtains because at the Gaussian level, unparticles are just a superposition of particle fields and hence any transport property must be consistent with free theory. Beyond the Gaussian approach, we adopt the continuous mass formulation of unparticles and calculate the Drude conductivity directly. We show that unparticles in this context can be tailored to yield an algebraic conductivity that scales as $ω^{-2/3}$ with the associated phase angle between the imaginary and real parts of $\arctan\frac{σ_2}{σ_1}=60^\circ$ as is seen in the cuprates. Given the recent results\cite{Donos2014,Rangamani2015,Langley} that gravitational crystals lack a power-law optical conductivity, this constitutes the first consistent account of the $ω^{-2/3}$ conductivity and the phase angle seen in optimally doped cuprates. Our results indicate that at each frequency in the scaling regime, excitations on all energy scales contribute. Hence, incoherence is at the heart of the power-law in the optical conductivity in strongly correlated systems such as the cuprates.
description: 22 pages, 5 figures
Application of biological growth risk models to the management of built heritage
Creators: name: Paolini, Riccardo
name: Meshkin Kiya, Maryam
name: Rosina, Elisabetta
name: Tagliabue, Lavinia C.
name: De Angelis, Enrico
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2016

description: The quality of the interior spaces is strongly related to the hygro-thermal conditions which affect the users’ comfort, and may yield to preservation risk for the built heritage. Moreover, careless management of exposition spaces with excessive occupancy may result in moisture loads that promote degradation. In this paper, as a case study, an exposition hall representative of the built heritage is considered. The microbiological growth risk is investigated at two different climate conditions, namely Milan and Barcelona, considering varying ventilation rates and number of visitors. The results outline the need of policies informed by advanced analyses to prevent hygro-thermal risk in the absence of dedicated building services, that cannot always be integrated in built heritage.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 12 (2016): Architecture Memory Contemporaneity
From cultural to environmental heritage. Design experimentations in ancient settlement
Creators: name: Monsù Scolaro, Antonello
name: Spanedda, Francesco
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2016

description: The rising awareness of human impacts on the natural environment compels researchers to steadily review the sustainability criteria for the built environment. This evolution clearly influences the research and design experiences reported in this paper, which focus on the reclamation and reuse of the historic urban fabric. These experiments help to imagine a possible future where innovation happens into the core of the city, usually considered a place devoted to tradition, rather than in its outskirts. Unexpected environmental issues consequently come to the fore, that could help in reconsidering prevailing design and building practices as well planning policies.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 12 (2016): Architecture Memory Contemporaneity
Experimentally Attainable Optimal Pulse Shapes Obtained with the Aid of Genetic Algorithms
Creators: name: Guerrero, Ruben D.
name: Arango, Carlos A.
name: Reyes, Andres
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a methodology to design optimal pulses for achieving quantum optimal control on molecular systems. Our approach constrains pulse shapes to linear combinations of a fixed number of experimentally relevant pulse functions. Quantum optimal control is obtained by maximizing a multi-target fitness function with genetic algorithms. As a first application of the methodology we generated an optimal pulse that successfully maximized the yield on a selected dissociation channel of a diatomic molecule. Our pulse is obtained as a linear combination of linearly chirped pulse functions. Data recorded along the evolution of the genetic algorithm contained important information regarding the interplay between radiative and diabatic processes. We performed a principal component analysis on these data to retrieve the most relevant processes along the optimal path. Our proposed methodology could be useful for performing quantum optimal control on more complex systems by employing a wider variety of pulse shape functions.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures
title: Conspiracy Theory Beliefs and Political Trust: The Moderating Role of Political Communication
Creators: name: Schlipphak, Bernd
name: Isani, Mujtaba
name: Back, Mitja
Publisher: name: University of Muenster, Institutional Repository MIAMI
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 320 Political science (Politics and government)
subject: 150 Psychology

description: A plentitude of research has analyzed citizens’ belief in conspiracy theories and its individual‐level correlates. Yet, the effects of (political) context factors on the causes and effects of individual belief in conspiracy theories are still neglected. However, such context should be especially relevant when it comes to the impact of one’s belief in conspiracy theories on one’s political preference. In this article, we argue that the communication of governmental actors exerts a moderating influence on the link leading from a belief in conspiracy theories to political attitudes. In a nutshell, the belief in conspiracy theories should make citizens less likely to distrust their government—and the political system in general—in contexts where these theories are shared or at least publicly represented by governmental actors. Using two original data sets with data from Germany, Poland, and Jordan (Study 1) and data from Germany, Poland, Sweden, and France (Study 2), we test our argument based on an overall sample of about 10,000 cases. Our results indicate that higher degrees of generic conspiracy theories beliefs are associated with higher levels of political distrust across countries. Yet, confirming our argument, such an effect takes place less strongly in those countries in which governmental actors use conspiracy theories as a political communication strategy.
description: Finanziert über die Cogitatio Institutional Membership.
Material culture and design effort for the recovery: Living Lab in the Park of Cilento
Creators: name: Pinto, Maria Rita
name: Viola, Serena
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2016

description: Central issue in the debate about settlements’ recovery is today, the definition of the relationships between pre-existing and new design intents, between managing transitions, on the one hand, and promoting socio-economic development dynamics, on the other. The paper describes the experience of Living Lab, activated in Sassano, in the Park of Cilento and Vallo of Diano, by the Maintenance and Recovery Laboratory, Di- ARC, part of the interdisciplinary research project Cilento LabScape (Faro Funding, 2013-2015). Within an 18-month trial, the built environment identity and the settled community values were the focal points of a meta-design arena, which brought together citizens, construction companies, administrators and researchers.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 12 (2016): Architecture Memory Contemporaneity
Deep renovation as tool for development and active protection of the consolidated city heritage
Creators: name: Clemente, Carola
name: Calice, Claudia
name: Marandola, Marzia
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2016

description: This paper is the synthesis of multi-year research activities carried out with the support of Sapienza University in collaboration with some local authorities and private entities on integrated refurbishment planning of tertiary buildings. The outcomes of research are aimed at the construction of a replicable methodology for the preliminary analysis and evaluations useful for deep renovation of tertiary building heritage. During the various steps of the study, there were selected pilot buildings throughout the country, addressed to validate theorical assumptions of research, and to check actual strategies of integrated refurbishment of buildings mainly used for directional, educational and research activities.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 12 (2016): Architecture Memory Contemporaneity
Detection of two additional circumbinary planets around Kepler-451
Creators: name: Esmer, Ekrem Murat
name: Baştürk, Özgür
name: Selam, Selim Osman
name: Aliş, Sinan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We announce the detection of two new planetary-mass companions around Kepler-451 binary system in addition to the one detected previously based on eclipse timing variation analysis. We found that an inner planet with 43 d period with a minimum mass of 1.76 Mjup and an outer one with a $\sim$ 1800 d orbital period with a minimum mass of 1.61 Mjup can explain the periodic variations in the residuals of the one-planet fit of the eclipse timings. We updated the orbital period of the middle planet as 406 d, and determined its eccentricity as 0.33. The newly discovered outer planet is also on an eccentric orbit (0.29), while the innermost planet was assumed to have a circular orbit. All three Jovian planets have similar masses, and our dynamical stability test yields that the system is stable.
Ethnicity and Reproductive Autonomy: A Study of the Relationship Between Indigenous Self-Identification and Current Use of a Modern Contraceptive Method in the Huehuetenango Department of Northwestern Guatemala
Creators: name: Schaffer, Kay
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: Objectives: Indigenous women in Guatemala have lower rates of contraceptive use than non-indigenous women. This study explores the relationship between indigenous self-identification and current use of a modern contraceptive method among women of reproductive age in the Huehuetenango Department of Guatemala.
Methods: Data from the 2014-2015 Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for Guatemala were used to examine contraceptive use among varying populations of women. Descriptive and multivariate logistic regression analyses are performed to examine the association of demographic and social factors on modern contraceptive use. 
Results: There is a negative association between indigenous self-identification and modern contraceptive use. Women who were married and those who were an older age were significantly more likely to be modern contraception users.
Conclusions: Understanding the contraceptive needs that indigenous women have throughout their lives will allow family planning programs to better serve this target population.
Dynamics of a Charged Thomas Oscillator in an External Magnetic Field
Creators: name: Vijayan, Vinesh
name: Das, Pranaya Pratik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this letter, we provide a detailed numerical examination of the dynamics of a charged Thomas oscillator in an external magnetic field. We do so by adopting and then modifying the cyclically symmetric Thomas oscillator to study the dynamics of a charged particle in an external magnetic field. These dynamical behaviours for weak and strong field strength parameters fall under two categories; conservative and dissipative. The system shows a complex quasi-periodic attractor whose topology depends on initial conditions for high field strengths in the conservative regime. There is a transition from adiabatic motion to chaos on decreasing the field strength parameter. In the dissipative regime, the system is chaotic for weak field strength and weak damping but shows a limit cycle for high field strengths. Such behaviour is due to an additional negative feedback loop that comes into action at high field strengths and forces the system dynamics to be stable in periodic oscillations. For weak damping and weak field strength, the system dynamics mimic Brownian motion via chaotic walks.
description: 9 pages, 48 figures
High statistics study of the reaction $γp\to p\;2π^0$
Creators: name: Sokhoyan, V.
name: Gutz, E.
name: Crede, V.
name: van Pee, H.
name: Anisovich, A. V.
name: Bacelar, J. C. S.
name: Bantes, B.
name: Bartholomy, O.
name: Bayadilov, D.
name: Beck, R.
name: Beloglazov, Y. A.
name: Castelijns, R.
name: Dutz, H.
name: Elsner, D.
name: Ewald, R.
name: Frommberger, F.
name: Fuchs, M.
name: Funke, Ch.
name: Gregor, R.
name: Gridnev, A. B.
name: Hillert, W.
name: Hoffmeister, Ph.
name: Horn, I.
name: Jaegle, I.
name: Junkersfeld, J.
name: Kalinowsky, H.
name: Kammer, S.
name: Kleber, V.
name: Klein, Frank
name: Klein, Friedrich
name: Klempt, E.
name: Kotulla, M.
name: Krusche, B.
name: Lang, M.
name: Löhner, H.
name: Lopatin, I. V.
name: Lugert, S.
name: Mertens, T.
name: Messchendorp, J. G.
name: Metag, V.
name: Metsch, B.
name: Nanova, M.
name: Nikonov, V. A.
name: Novinsky, D.
name: Novotny, R.
name: Ostrick, M.
name: Pant, L.
name: Pfeiffer, M.
name: Piontek, D.
name: Roy, A.
name: Sarantsev, A. V.
name: Schmidt, Ch.
name: Schmieden, H.
name: Seifen, T.
name: Shende, S.
name: Süle, A.
name: Sumachev, V. V.
name: Szczepanek, T.
name: Thiel, A.
name: Thoma, U.
name: Trnka, D.
name: Varma, R.
name: Walther, D.
name: Wendel, Ch.
name: Wilson, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The photoproduction of 2$π^0$ mesons off protons was studied with the Crystal Barrel/TAPS experiment at the electron accelerator ELSA in Bonn. The energy of photons produced in a radiator was tagged in the energy range from 600\,MeV to 2.5\,GeV. Differential and total cross sections and $pπ^0π^0$ Dalitz plots are presented. Part of the data was taken with a diamond radiator producing linearly polarized photons, and beam asymmetries were derived. Properties of nucleon and $Δ$ resonances contributing to the $pπ^0π^0$ final state were determined within the BnGa partial wave analysis. The data presented here allow us to determine branching ratios of nucleon and $Δ$ resonances for their decays into $pπ^0π^0$ via several intermediate states. Most prominent are decays proceeding via $Δ(1232)π$, $N(1440)1/2^+π$, $N(1520)3/2^-π$, $N(1680)5/2^+π$, but also $pf_0(500)$, $pf_0(980)$, and $pf_2(1270)$ contribute to the reaction.
description: 28 pages, 17 figures, 7 tables
Monmouth University Poll: October 2014 New Jersey Poll
Creators: name: Monmouth University Polling Institute
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2019

description: Registered to vote (1); likely to vote in upcoming US Senate election (1); senatorial candidate preference (4); Jeff Bell favorability (1); US Senator Cory Booker favorability (1); President Barack Obama favorability (1); US Senate favorability (1); Bell's, Booker's views in line/out of step with most New Jerseyans (2); Bell/Booker does better job of representing respondent's views on issues (5); the gold standard (4).
Performances and potential of a productive urban green infrastructure
Creators: name: Gallo, Paola
name: Casazza, Chiara
name: Sala, Marco
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2016

description: Negli ultimi anni si sta diffondendo anche nelle grandi città Europee, un fenomeno complesso che coinvolge la disciplina dell’architettura: l’agricoltura urbana, ovvero la pratica della coltivazione, di prodotti orticoli “nella città, per la città”. La produzione agricola, trasportata in un contesto urbano, diviene ad oggi una strategia concreta per la riqualificazione delle città grazie a: l’innesco di una rete di attività sociali, ricreative e commerciali, la possibilità di rifunzionalizzazione di spazi privati e pubblici (soprattutto quelli inutilizzati), di creazione di verde condiviso, la possibilità di integrazione con l’ambiente costruito, la valorizzazione di stili di vita sostenibili, l’occasione di educazione e collante sociale, il potenziamento e nuove possibilità all’infrastruttura verde (produttiva). Questo fenomeno necessita dunque di essere studiato per comprenderne e definirne le potenzialità, poiché l’architetto è chiamato a concepire spazi per rispondere a nuove esigenze ed a progettare soluzioni innovative alle diverse scale. Sulla base di tale consapevolezza è stata condotta una ricerca sul tema della riqualificazione della città in chiave sostenibile e sulle nuove tecnologie da mettere in atto finalizzata ad analizzare ed individuare le possibilità dell’agricoltura urbana come strategia innovativa per il potenziamento delle reti verdi nella città, definendo lo spettro di possibilità che questa offre al progettista, e di rimando alla pubblica amministrazione, per una nuova interpretazione della funzione sia dello spazio aperto che del patrimonio costruito.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 11 (2016): Infrastructures
Resultados Workshops Diseño de proyectos de Ciencia de Datos
Creators: name: Brussa, Virginia
name: Hermosilla, María Paz
name: Santorcuato Muñoz, Jesús
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: talleres, cienciadatos, políticaspúblicas, AI, IA, datafeminismo

description: ANEXO 3. Resultados de workshops realizados durante los días 14 y 15 de noviembre de 2022 para el Proyecto: Diseño de Proyectos de Ciencia de Datos para Políticas Públicas Inclusivas. PlusAlliance.
Infrastructures for renewable energies in landscape. Design tools and innovation trends.
Creators: name: Ginelli, Elisabetta
name: Daglio, Laura
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2016

description: Il saggio, proponendo gli esiti della ricerca Prin 2010-11 “Rapporto tra sistemi energetici e paesaggi” da poco conclusa, illustra un inedito strumento metaprogettuale che consente di governare la complessità delle relazioni fra infrastrutture (sistemi) energetiche e paesaggi, massimizzare l’eco-efficienza e l’integrazione nel contesto, nel rispetto di condizioni di accettabilità ambientale, economica, sociale e istituzionale. Effetto di un quadro critico conoscitivo dei recenti paesaggi dell’energia, il carattere innovativo dello strumento, in sintonia con l’approccio tecnologico sistemico e multiscalare al progetto, risiede nella capacità di rispondere contemporaneamente a multidimensionali esigenze, attivando processi partecipativi e di bilanciamento degli interessi pubblico e privato.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 11 (2016): Infrastructures
Curvature Wavefront Sensing for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
Creators: name: Xin, Bo
name: Claver, Chuck
name: Liang, Ming
name: Chandrasekharan, Srinivasan
name: Angeli, George
name: Shipsey, Ian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will use an active optics system (AOS) to maintain alignment and surface figure on its three large mirrors. Corrective actions fed to the LSST AOS are determined from information derived from 4 curvature wavefront sensors located at the corners of the focal plane. Each wavefront sensor is a split detector such that the halves are 1mm on either side of focus. In this paper we describe the extensions to published curvature wavefront sensing algorithms needed to address challenges presented by the LSST, namely the large central obscuration, the fast f/1.23 beam, off-axis pupil distortions, and vignetting at the sensor locations. We also describe corrections needed for the split sensors and the effects from the angular separation of different stars providing the intra- and extra-focal images. Lastly, we present simulations that demonstrate convergence, linearity, and negligible noise when compared to atmospheric effects when the algorithm extensions are applied to the LSST optical system. The algorithm extensions reported here are generic and can easily be adapted to other wide-field optical systems including similar telescopes with large central obscuration and off-axis curvature sensing.
description: 26 pages, 10 figures
Analysis of random telegraph noise in resistive memories: The case of unstable filaments
Creators: name: Vasileiadis, Nikolaos
name: Mavropoulis, Alexandros
name: Loukas, Panagiotis
name: Sirakoulis, Georgios Ch
name: Dimitrakis, Panagiotis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Through Random Telegraph Noise (RTN) analysis, valuable information can be provided about the role of defect traps in fine tuning and reading of the state of a nanoelectronic device. However, time domain analysis techniques exhibit their limitations in case where unstable RTN signals occur. These instabilities are a common issue in Multi-Level Cells (MLC) of resistive memories (ReRAM), when the tunning protocol fails to find a perfectly stable resistance state, which in turn brings fluctuations to the RTN signal especially in long time measurements and cause severe errors in the estimation of the distribution of time constants of the observed telegraphic events, i.e., capture/emission of carriers from traps. In this work, we analyze the case of the unstable filaments in silicon nitride-based ReRAM devices and propose an adaptive filter implementing a moving-average detrending method in order to flatten unstable RTN signals and increase sufficiently the accuracy of the conducted measurements. The te and tc emission/capture time constants of the traps, respectively, are then calculated and a cross-validation through frequency domain analysis (Lorentzian fitting) was performed proving that the proposed method is accurate.
Fermionic vacuum polarization induced by a non-Abelian vortex
Creators: name: de Mello, E. R. Bezerra
name: Mota, H. F. Santana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we analyze the fermionic condensate (FC) and the vacuum expectation value (VEV) of the energy-momentum tensor associated with an isospin-$1/2$ charged massive fermionic field induced by the presence of a $SU(2)$ vortex, taking into account the effect of the conical geometry produced by this object. We consider the vortex as an idealized topological defect, i.e., very thin, straight and carrying a magnetic flux running along its core. Besides the direct coupling of the fermionic field with the iso-vector gauge field, we also admit the coupling with the scalar sector of the non-Abelian vortex system, expressed as a vector in the three-dimensional isospace. Due to this interaction, the FC is expressed as the sum of two contributions associated with the two different effective masses for the $\pm 1/2$ fermionic components of the isospin operator, $τ^3/2$. The VEV of the energy-tensor also presents a similar structure. The vacuum energy density is equal to the radial and axial stresses. As to the azimuthal one, it is expressed in terms of the radial derivative of energy-density. Regarding to the magnetic flux, both, the FC and the VEV of the energy-momentum tensor, can be positive or negative. Another interesting consequence of the interaction with the bosonic sector, the FC and VEV of the energy-momentum tensor, present different intensity for different values of the ratio between the scalar coupling constant and the mass of the fermionic field. This is a new feature that the system presents.
description: 24 pages, 4 figures. Version accepted for publication in IJMPA