cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Mutant - Infiltration of the Hallucinated Mountain
Creators: name: Murphy, Rob
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2014

description: A mutant subsists within contemporary continental theory. It endures on ridicule, horror, skepticism, comedy, excess, and groundless specula-tion.  Conspiracy  and  contingency  are  at  once  its  detraction  and  tactic.  This  mutant  tricks  unconditionally  as  an  interpreter  and  paradoxical  maker of meaning. It is what I call here: Optimistic Absurdity.Absurdist philosophy has been haunted by its ancestral considerations as nihilist, meaningless, and devastatingly regressive. My responsibility and  intention  here  is  not  to  deny  any  of  those  potent  conditions  –  it  is  rather  to  reveal  how  it  can  operate  as  a  form  of  metaphysical  infiltra-tion  when  contemplated  under  object  orientated  ontology,  continental  realism,  post-secular  occasionalism,  and  aesthetics.  This  is  what  Ray  Brassier may define as a ‘speculative opportunity’.
Cosmology of the proxy theory to massive gravity
Creators: name: Heisenberg, Lavinia
name: Kimura, Rampei
name: Yamamoto, Kazuhiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we scrutinize very closely the cosmology in the proxy theory to massive gravity obtained in Phys. Rev. D84 (2011) 043503. This proxy theory was constructed by covariantizing the decoupling limit Lagrangian of massive gravity and represents a subclass of Horndeski scalar-tensor theory. Thus, this covariantization unifies two important classes of modified gravity theories, namely massive gravity and Horndeski theories. We go beyond the regime which was studied in Phys. Rev. D84 (2011) 043503 and show that the theory does not admit any homogeneous and isotropic self-accelerated solutions. We illustrate that the only attractor solution is flat Minkowski solution, hence this theory is less appealing as a dark energy model. We also show that the absence of de Sitter solutions is tightly related to the presence of shift symmetry breaking interactions.
description: 23 pages, 5 figures, references added
Normas
Creators: name: Ayra Sousa De Aguiar Teixeira
name: Pereira, Ana Luiza Ferreira
name: De Almeida, Ana Beatriz Santana Ramos
name: Andressa Martins Alves De Oliveira
name: Da Cruz Ulhoa Tenorio, Clara Perez
name: Scatolini, Eleonora Silveira
name: Santos, Isabelle Pereira Dos
name: De Mello, Juliana Garcia
name: Galvão, Karen Callegário
name: Monteiro, Letícia D'Lucca Félix
name: Cabral, Mariana Ferraz
name: Nassar, Pedro Ruiz Barbosa
name: Sanches, Maritza Consuelo Ortiz
name: Chrizóstimo, Miriam Marinho
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Gerência, Normas, Administração, Acessibilidade, Organização

description: As normas visam a padronização de uma execução para alcançar um fim comum, sendo elas administrativas, o que deverá ser feito, e
 técnicas, que é como dever ser feito.
House of Sheaves: The Asymptotic Horror of Nested Nature
Creators: name: Woodard, Ben
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2014

description: BRACKETING  the  taxonomic  controversies  surrounding  Speculative  Realism (is it a species of thought, how many subclasses are there, does it  cohere  at  all?)  one  can  assert  that  the  rhetorical  if  not  argumenta-tive  core  of  Quentin  Meillassoux’s  reopening  of  the  ‘great  outdoors’  has been, and continues to be, a pervasive trajectory in contemporary thinking.  This  wilderness  is  differently  carved  according  to  varying  rubrics: the proliferation of entities (Harman), the unbinding of the tran-scendental  power  of  thought  (Brassier),  the  absolutisation  of  facticity  (Meillassoux),  and  the  precedence  of  being-as-nature  prior  to  thinking  (Grant).  I  wish  to  argue,  unsurprisingly,  for  the  importance  of  Grant’s  model for speculatively navigating the spaces of nature. Grant’s position is fortified, I would argue, by the utilisation of Peirce’s continuum and the numerous  thinkers  of  the  geometric-cognitive  (geo-cog)  turn  who  cast  alliances,  however  obliquely  at  times,  with  Schelling  and  the  project  of  Naturphilosophie.
Understanding the role of ions and water molecules in the NaCl dissolution process
Creators: name: Klimeš, Jiří
name: Bowler, David R.
name: Michaelides, Angelos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dissolution of NaCl in water is one of the most common everyday processes, yet it remains poorly understood at the molecular level. Here we report the results of an extensive density functional theory study in which the initial stages of NaCl dissolution have been examined at low water coverages. Our specific approach is to study how the energetic cost of moving an ion or a pair of ions to a less coordinated site at the surface of various NaCl crystals varies with the number of water molecules adsorbed on the surface. This "microsolvation" approach allows us to study the dependence of the defect energies on the number of water molecules in the cluster and thus to establish when and where dissolution becomes favorable. Moreover, this approach allows us to understand the roles of the individual ions and water molecules in the dissolution process. Consistent with previous work we identify a clear preference for dissolution of Cl ions over Na ions. However, the detailed information obtained here leads to the conclusion that the process is governed by the higher affinity of the water molecules to Na ions than to Cl ions. The Cl ions are released first as this exposes more Na ions at the surface creating favorable adsorption sites for water. We discuss how this mechanism is likely to be effective for other alkali halides.
Brief an Unbekannt
Creators: name: Guericke, Otto von
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1602

description: von Otto von G[u]ericke
description: Eigenhändiger Brief mit Unterschrift und Prägesiegel
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Deutsch
description: Digitalisierung=Digitization=Numérisation April 2022 TIFF
Inequity aversion and the evolution of cooperation
Creators: name: Ahmed, Asrar
name: Karlapalem, Kamalakar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Evolution of cooperation is a widely studied problem in biology, social science, economics, and artificial intelligence. Most of the existing approaches that explain cooperation rely on some notion of direct or indirect reciprocity. These reciprocity based models assume agents recognize their partner and know their previous interactions, which requires advanced cognitive abilities. In this paper we are interested in developing a model that produces cooperation without requiring any explicit memory of previous game plays. Our model is based on the notion of, a concept introduced within behavioral economics, whereby individuals care about payoff equality in outcomes. Here we explore the effect of using income inequality to guide partner selection and interaction. We study our model by considering both the well-mixed and the spatially structured population and present the conditions under which cooperation becomes dominant. Our results support the hypothesis that inequity aversion promotes cooperative relationship among nonkin.
Brief an Pféfet de la Seine
Creators: name: Chevreul, Michel E.
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1854

description: von E[ugène] Chevreul
description: Eigenhändiger Brief mit Unterschrift
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Französisch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire August 2016 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln Rekatalogisierung nach Original, Verzeichnis von Karl Geigy-Hagenbach und Briefkatalog der UB Basel
Brief an [madame]
Creators: name: Arago, François
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1786

description: Il lui observe qu'une éclipse ne se voit pas mieux dans leurs lunettes qu'à l'oeil nu à travers un verre fumé, mais il lui promet de lui montrer la Lune, Vénus et Jupiter, c'est à dire toutes les merveilles du firmament
description: von [Dominique-]F[rançois] Arago
description: Eigenhändiger Brief mit Unterschrift
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Französisch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire August 2016 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln Rekatalogisierung nach Original, Verzeichnis von Karl Geigy-Hagenbach und Briefkatalog der UB Basel
Ankündigung seiner "Anleitung zur deutschen Rede - Zeichenkunst oder Stenographie"
Creators: name: Gabelsberger, Franz Xaver
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1834

description: von Fr[anz] Xav[er] Gabelsberger
description: Eigenhändiges Schriftstück mit Unterschrift
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Deutsch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire August 2016 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln Rekatalogisierung nach Original, Verzeichnis von Karl Geigy-Hagenbach und Briefkatalog der UB Basel
Brief an Littrow
Creators: name: Fraunhofer, Joseph von
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1824

description: Bedauert Fernröhren nicht in Kommission senden zu können. "Seit mehreren Jahren wird in dem optischen Institut nicht nach Vorräten, sondern nur auf Bestellung gearbeitet
description: von Jos[eph] Fraunhofer
description: Eigenhändiger Brief mit Unterschrift, Adresse und Oblate
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Deutsch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire August 2016 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln Rekatalogisierung nach Original, Verzeichnis von Karl Geigy-Hagenbach und Briefkatalog der UB Basel
Brief an Lommatzsch
Creators: name: Neander, August
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1832

description: von [August] Neander
description: Eigenhändiger Brief mit Unterschrift
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Deutsch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire August 2016 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln Rekatalogisierung nach Original, Verzeichnis von Karl Geigy-Hagenbach und Briefkatalog der UB Basel
Brief an Carl v. Rothschild
Creators: name: Ludwig
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1865

description: Dank für Neujahrswünsche
description: von Ludwig II., König von Bayern
description: Brief von fremder Hand mit eigenh. Unterschrift
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Deutsch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire März 2015 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln Rekatalogisierung nach Original, Verzeichnis von Karl Geigy-Hagenbach und Briefkatalog der UB Basel
A Tutorial on Dual Decomposition and Lagrangian Relaxation for Inference in Natural Language Processing
Creators: name: Rush, Alexander M.
name: Collins, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Dual decomposition, and more generally Lagrangian relaxation, is a classical method for combinatorial optimization; it has recently been applied to several inference problems in natural language processing (NLP). This tutorial gives an overview of the technique. We describe example algorithms, describe formal guarantees for the method, and describe practical issues in implementing the algorithms. While our examples are predominantly drawn from the NLP literature, the material should be of general relevance to inference problems in machine learning. A central theme of this tutorial is that Lagrangian relaxation is naturally applied in conjunction with a broad class of combinatorial algorithms, allowing inference in models that go significantly beyond previous work on Lagrangian relaxation for inference in graphical models.
Fictional Narratives, Archeologist's Notes, Primary Sources Found in the Future
Creators: name: Bradbury, Carlee A.
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2014

description: Big  day!    N’s  team  has  been  working  at  the  old  South  Station  site  for  months.  The  citywide  destruction  from  the  summer  2012  reactor  blast  at  MIT  has  been  mostly  excavated  but  we’ve  just  now  reached the lower levels of the station. So much work has  continuously  yielded  nothing,  but  not  today!!Bank of lockers found in a sealed off bathroom on one  of  the  lower  concourses.  Just  now  looking  at  the  pictures  N  just  e-mailed  ....  He  called  earlier,  breathless  “You  won’t  believe  it!    Phones,  jewelry,  luxe objects from circa 2000!  All mint, just dusty from all  the  debris!    Book  your  ticket  NOW!”    I’m  set  to  fly to Boston tomorrow but I can’t stop studying the preliminary images from the site – it’s a locker filled with  glittering  objects.    Never  seen  so  many  shades  of pink, all twinkling despite the dust.  One by one the objects emerge from the locker – looks like at least a couple of communication devices, hard to make out the  rest,  looks  like  lots  of  beads  and  perhaps  some  dolls?  Can’t tell, need to get my hands on this stuff.  Will have to miss J’s birthday party tomorrow, but this should be worth it!
title: Generative Machine Listener
Creators: name: Guanxin Jiang
name: Lars Villemoes
name: Arijit Biswas
Publisher: name: IEEE Signal Processing Society
Year: 2023

description: We show how a neural network can be trained on individual intrusive listening test scores to predict a distribution of scores for each pair of reference and coded input stereo or binaural signals. We nickname this method the Generative Machine Listener (GML), as it is capable of generating an arbitrary amount of simulated listening test data. Compared to a baseline system using regression over mean scores, we observe lower outlier ratios (OR) for the mean score predictions, and obtain easy access to the prediction of confidence intervals (CI). The introduction of data augmentation techniques from the image domain results in a significant increase in CI prediction accuracy as well as Pearson and Spearman rank correlation of mean scores.
Brief an [Monsieur le Grand ballif]
Creators: name: Friedrich
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1707

description: Er erteilt genaue Bestimmungen über verschiedene Angelegenheiten, die während seiner Abwesenheit von Homburg, wo er sich "über 30 Tage nicht aufhalte", zu erledigen seien
description: von Friedrich II., Landgraf von Hessen-Homburg
description: Eigenhändiger Brief mit Unterschrift
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Deutsch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire März 2015 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln Rekatalogisierung nach Original, Verzeichnis von Karl Geigy-Hagenbach und Briefkatalog der UB Basel
The First Hacker Bible
Creators: name: Kennedy, Kathleen E.
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2015

description: Like  literature  and  law,  the  Bible  was  part  of  the  medieval information  commons,  and  therefore  part  of  the  bedrock  of our  current  media  culture.  As  did  so  many  Europeans,  the medieval  English  enjoyed  a  long  tradition  of  bible  transla-tion.  In  medieval  England,  the  Bible’s  text  functioned  as  an information  commons  and  anyone  could  borrow  from  it. Yet, it was bible translation that proved to be the firing point for   the   beginnings   of   a   proprietary   information   culture. Archbishop   Thomas   Arundel   attempted   to   outlaw   bible translation  in  England  in  1409.  Named  for  John  Wyclif,  an Oxford  theologian  and  posthumously  declared  heretic,  the collaborative  bible  translation  known  as  the  Wycliffite  Bible was the first complete Bible in English and drew the balance of  Arundel’s  ire.  At  least  one  of  the  translators  and  editors who  worked  on  the  Wycliffite  Bible  was  concerned  enough about the larger implications of Arundel’s rights grab that he penned  a  work  that  today  stands  as  the  first  statement  of hacker   values.   This   author   argued   for   the   commonness, openness,  and  freedom  of  biblical  text  in  the  face  of  Arun-del’s attempt to render it proprietary. Nevertheless, the threat against  this  portion  of  the  information  commons  was  not realized  effectively  in  the  fifteenth  century  and  instead  the Wycliffite  Bible  “went  viral,”  laying  down  a  thick  layer  of media  sediment  and  stifling  all  previous  translations.  Todaythe Wycliffite Bible remains by far the most plentiful Middle English  text.1 The  Wycliffite  Bible  may  have  been  an  open source project that elicited the first expression of hacker ide-als  but  the  translation  turned  out  to  be  so  popular  that  this defensive posture was unnecessary.
Tyndale and the Joye of Piracy
Creators: name: Kennedy, Kathleen E.
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2015

description: The  defensive  statement  of  hacker  values  in  the  Wycliffite Bible  General  Prologue  turned  out  to  be  unnecessary.  The Wycliffite  Bible  continued  to  surface  as  the  main English biblical translation  through  the  early  sixteenth  century,  and overlaps  in  use  with  a  new group  of  English  biblical  transla-tions  being  produced  by  self-conscious  hackers,  some  of whom   were   influenced   methodologically   by   humanism. While  the  Wycliffites  had  been  content  to  hack  the  Latin Vulgate  (if  carefully  compiling  a  best-text  before  doing  so), the sixteenth-century translators were informed by humanist methods  of  textual  scholarship.  They  labored  to  master  the biblical  languages  of  Hebrew  and  Greek  (and  eventually  Ar-amaic),  and  made  use  of  the  best  humanist  editions  and translations  available.  Thanks  in  large  part  to  his  linguistic facility,   William   Tyndale   overshadowed   other   early   six-teenth-century English bible translators. As we will see in this chapter, Tyndale was unique in other ways as well, and broke from medieval tradition in the intellectual property claims he made  over  his  translations.  The  tradition  of  bible  hacking that  we  saw  in  Chapter  3  persisted  into  the  1530s  before  be-ing  brought  under  Tudor  control,  and  Tyndale’s  death  as  a martyr  led  his  translations  to  become  part  of  the  base  code Miles   Coverdale   used   when   compiling   the   authorized 1539/40 Great Bible, whether Tyndale wished it or not. Tyn-dale’s  translations  and  the  Great  Bible  together  laid  down new cultural strata of enormous significance.
Improving the conductance of carbon nanotube networks through resonant momentum exchange
Creators: name: Bell, Robert A.
name: Payne, Michael C.
name: Mostofi, Arash A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a mechanism to improve the conductivity of carbon nanotube (CNT) networks by improving the conductance between CNTs of different chirality. We argue generally that a weak perturbation can greatly improve the inter-tube conductance by allowing momentum-conserving tunnelling. The mechanism is verified with a tight-binding model, allowing an investigation of its impact for a network containing a range of chiralities. We discuss practical implementations, and conclude that it may be effected by weak physical interactions, and therefore does not require chemical bonding to the CNTs.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
title: A comparison of behavioural procedures for measuring Vernier acuity and grating acuity
Creators: name: Rideout, Rebecca
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Year: 2023

description: I evaluated a novel 4/4 vision testing procedure recently implemented by our laboratory in a larger study to estimate the maturation ages of three visual functions. This rigorous procedure requires participants to locate a stimulus on four consecutive presentations before progressing to more difficult stimuli. I determined the time-efficiency of the procedure and whether children are affected differently than adults by the procedure, which would suggest that maturation age estimates from the larger study are inaccurate. Fifty-five adults and 52 children were tested on grating acuity and vernier acuity using the Teller acuity cards (TAC) and vernier acuity cards, respectively. I hypothesized that the 4/4 procedure would agree with the widely-used staircase and TAC procedures for both visual functions and across age groups, and that the 4/4 procedure would be more time-efficient than the staircase procedure. The 4/4 procedure showed strong to acceptable agreement with the staircase and TAC procedures for grating acuity, while levels of agreement for vernier acuity were poorer due to the misalignment step sizes. For both visual functions, levels of agreement were stable across age indicating that the measurement of children’s acuity was not affected differently than the measurement of adults’ acuity when tested with the 4/4 procedure. Although for both visual functions, the 4/4 procedure had longer completion times than the TAC procedure, it was more time-efficient than the staircase procedure. Thus, this procedure is sufficiently accurate and practical to measure visual maturation.
Isovector proton-neutron pairing and Wigner energy in Hartree-Fock mean field calculations
Creators: name: Negrea, D.
name: Sandulescu, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a new approach for the treatment of isovector pairing in self-consistent mean field calculations which conserves exactly the isospin and the particle number in the pairing channel. The mean field is generated by a Skyrme-HF functional while the isovector pairing correlations are described in terms of quartets formed by two neutrons and two protons coupled to the total isospin T=0. In this framework we analyse the contribution of isovector pairing to the symmetry and Wigner energies. It is shown that the isovector pairing provides a good description of the Wigner energy, which is not the case for the mean field calculations in which the isovector pairing is treated by BCS-like models.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures
Brief an den Grafen Kollowrat
Creators: name: Joseph
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1758

description: Bezieht sich auf die Beerdigung armer Leute in Säcken, statt in Särgen, um Holz zu sparen
description: von Joseph II
description: Eigenhändiger Brief mit Unterschrift
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Französisch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire März 2015 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln Rekatalogisierung nach Original und Verzeichnis von Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
Machine learning for precision medicine and health economics: a novel model for survival analysis and subgroup identification
Creators: name: Chen, Meimei
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Background: The emergence of precision medicine, which is described as an approach that tailors health interventions to a group of patients based on their characteristics, brings challenges to Health Technology Assessment (HTA). HTA seeks to provide policymakers with the necessary information to better understand the benefits of health technologies and make better funding decisions, and ultimately improve resource allocation. Precision medicine differs from traditional medicine in that it is based on patient subsets, whereas traditional medicine is based on the entire patient population. Therefore, identifying appropriate patient subgroups is an important part of the evaluation of precision medicines. Objective: This research aims to develop Machine Learning tools to address the subgroup identification problem in precision medicine. Methodology: A novel Machine Learning model is proposed in this research using Multi-Task Learning and Support Vector Machine. The survival analysis problem is decomposed into a series of classification problems, and Support Vector Machine is applied to improve the classification accuracy. Moreover, a ℓ₂,₁ norm is used for feature selection. This model has two functions: (1) predict event times based on censored data; (2) select important covariates. Results: The prediction accuracy of the proposed model is compared with two benchmark statistical methods, Cox-LASSO and Cox-EN, and three state-of-the-art Machine Learning methods. The proposed model outperforms the other methods. The proposed model significantly outperforms the Cox models in terms of feature selection. In the simulation study, the proposed model outperforms the other methods in selecting patient subgroups with enhanced treatment effects Conclusion: The model proposed in this research outperforms several other state-of-the-art methods in time-to-event prediction and feature selection. Therefore, the proposed model can be used for precision medicine to select high-risk patients or patient subgroups with enhanced treatment effects and has potential applications in other fields involving survival analysis.
Brief an den Pfalzgrafen von Zweibrücken
Creators: name: Maria Theresia
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1717

description: An den Pfalzgrafen von Zweibrücken, den sie zur Befreiung Dresdens beglückwünscht und von der Notwendigkeit spricht, Torgau zu erobern, um sich in Sachsen festzusetzen. "La prise de Torgau me parait nécessaire dans ces circonstances, il faudroit mettre une forte et bonne garnison à Dresde."
description: von Maria Theresia
description: Eigenhändiger Brief mit Unterschrift
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Französisch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire März 2015 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln Rekatalogisierung nach Original und Verzeichnis von Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
Bounds on Herman's algorithm
Creators: name: Haslegrave, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Herman's self-stabilisation algorithm allows a ring of $N$ processors having any odd number of tokens to reach a stable state where exactly one token remains. McIver and Morgan conjecture that the expected time taken for stabilisation is maximised when there are three equally-spaced tokens. We prove exact results on a related cost function, and obtain a bound on expected time which is very close to the conjectured bound.
description: 9 pages
Natural and Cultural Monuments during the Years of Socialism
Creators: name: Xhafa, Muharrem
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2015

description: During  the  years  of  socialism,  the  popular  government  in Albania, even all ofAlbanian society, gave special im-portance to the issue and values of cultural monuments and  as  such  held  them  in  high  regard.  Certainly  this  is  not  something  accidental,  but  the  result  of  a  realistic  politics followed by the Labor Party of Albania in power, which  always  showed  itself  concerned  toward  the  sec-tor,  life,  and  problems  of  cultural  monuments,  and  ap-preciated  this  activity  with  value  and  great  importance  for society and Albanian history, in the broadest sense of the word. It did not limit the content, meaning, and role of monuments to the framework of cultural monuments alone.  So  for  the  party,  state,  institutions,  and  public  opinion   the   concept   “monument”   included   cultural   monuments,  but  also  an  old  artisanal  house,  a  bridge,  a  building,  or  something  else  with  artistic,  cultural  and  historical,  archeological,  or  architectural  value,  as  well  as  works,  documents,  evidence,  and  early  monuments  of the writing of the Albanian language, etc. Also a writ-ten work of outstanding historical, cultural, or scientific value for the past or present of country, was understood to  be  part  of  this.  The  Albanian  state  and  population  valued all riches inherited throughout the centuries and created during the years of the National Antifascist Lib-eration War and in the decades of the country’s building of  socialism  –  erected  monumental  works,  completed  monumental   studies,   created   monumental   composi-tions,  buildings,  bridges,  and  monumental  ensembles,  pictures,  sculptures,  monumental  tableaus,  monumen-tal  centers  in  cities,  inhabited  zones,  and  villages.  In  its  endeavors  to  create  grand,  monumental  works,  which  left  deep  impressions  with  their  large  dimensions  and  thoroughly  popular–national  content,  with  the  great-ness they expressed and incredible generalizing features, rising  up  high,  spreading  glory  to  the  heroism  of  the  people, its outstanding sons.
Brief an den Duc de Lorraine
Creators: name: Ludwig
name: Rose, Toussaint
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1698

description: Gratuliert ihm zu seiner Heirat mit einer Nichte
description: von Louis XIV, König von Frankreich
description: Mit rotem Lacksiegel
description: Brief mit eigenhändiger Unterschrift. Text wohl von Toussaint Rose geschrieben
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Französisch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire März 2015 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln Rekatalogisierung nach Original, Verzeichnis von Karl Geigy-Hagenbach und Briefkatalog der UB Basel
ALICE Measurements in p-Pb Collisions: Charged Particle Multiplicity, Centrality Determination and implications for Binary Scaling
Creators: name: Toia, Alberica
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Measurements of particle production in proton-nucleus collisions provide a reference to disentangle final state effects, i.e. signatures of the formation of a deconfined hot medium, from initial state effects, already present in cold nuclear matter. Since many initial state effects are expected to vary as a function of the number of collisions suffered by the incoming proton, it is crucial to estimate the centrality of the collision. In p-Pb collisions categorization of events into different centrality classes using a particle multiplicity distribution is complicated by the low particle multiplicities and the large multiplicity fluctuations. We present ALICE measurements of particle production in p-Pb collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 5.02$ TeV, including the pseudo-rapidity and transverse momentum dependence, we discuss the event classification in centrality classes and its implications for the measurements of nuclear modification factors.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures, to be published in NPA. Proceedings of IS2013
The Thanatology of Hope
Creators: name: Qëndro, Gëzim
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2015

description: When confronted with an oxymoron like the title “The Thanatology  of  Hope,”  the  reader  will  probably  think  that  it  suffers  from  a  referential  uncertainty:  the  words  seem to work separately, creating an ambiguous and un-convincing  fusion  of  the  two.  Furthermore,  in  our  cul-ture death and hope seem to exclude each other (hope dies  last!).  This  is  why  the  cemetery  is  perceived  as  a  place of sorrow and loss which annihilates any discourse of  hope,  a  topos  where  one  thinks  that  Death  was  the  end  of  the  hopes  of  the  unfortunate  inhabitants  of  the  necropolis.
INSHO YOZISH VA TAHRIRLASHNI MUXOKAMA QILISH
Creators: name: Yuldosheva, Nigora
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Ushbu maqolada adabiyot darslarida  qanday tartibda insho yozilishi va inshoni yozishdan ko'zlangan maqsadni  amalga oshirish to'g'risida bo'ladi.
Brief an die Duchesse de Parma
Creators: name: Elisabeth
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1564

description: von Elizabeth I, Königin von England
description: Schreiben von fremder Hand mit eigenhändiger Unterschrift und Gruss: "Vostre tres bonne Cousine"
description: Mit Papiersiegel
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Französisch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire März 2015 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln Rekatalogisierung nach Original, Verzeichnis von Karl Geigy-Hagenbach und Briefkatalog der UB Basel
Development and Investigation of a Biodegradable Mesh for the Treatment of Stress Urinary Incontinence
Creators: name: Maccraith, Eoin
Publisher: name: Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 320214
subject: Nephrology and urology

description: Stress urinary incontinence (SUI) is the involuntary loss of urine that occurs during increased intra-abdominal pressure and it is a common condition which often requires surgical correction. The most effective and popular surgical procedure to treat SUI was the mid-urethral sling (MUS) which involves insertion of nondegradable synthetic polypropylene (PP) beneath the urethra. MUS surgery has declined in recent years due to PP-related complications such as erosion and chronic pain. In this thesis, I present a body of work investigating reasons for PPrelated complications, evaluation of recent trends in SUI surgery and present a novel material for MUS surgery. 
We conducted a systematic review to compare rates of erosion and chronic pain after mesh insertion for pelvic organ prolapse (POP) and SUI. We hypothesised that a higher proportion of PP-related complications were occurring after POP surgery due to a high volume of material inserted. In this study we showed that the risk of mesh erosion and chronic pain is significantly higher after surgery for POP compared to SUI and that these significant complications occur within the first year after surgery. 
Secondly, we conducted a study to evaluate the trends in SUI surgery since the 2018 pause on use of the PP MUS in Ireland and to quantify the effect this has had on surgical training. We demonstrated a decline in the rate of SUI surgery reported by consultant surgeons which is worrying for undertreatment of females with SUI. The second finding is a downward trend from 2013 to 2020 in the exposure of surgical trainees to SUI procedures with a resultant decreased interest in the Female Urology subspecialty which will lead to challenges in meeting staffing targets in future. 
The third study aimed to develop a novel biodegradable material for SUI surgery. We developed and evaluated a biodegradable polycaprolactone (PCL) mesh and a PCL composite mesh tissue-engineered with human uterine fibroblasts (HUFs) for SUI surgery by comparing mechanical properties and in vitro biocompatibility to commercially available PP and porcine dermis (PD). Cells on the PCL and 8 composite mesh showed greater viability and produced a greater amount of collagen compared to PP and PD implants. The PCL mesh also showed mechanical properties closest to that of healthy pelvic floor tissue. The results of the studies in this thesis show that PP is unsuitable for SUI surgery and results in significant complications. The decline in the use of PP has led to a decline in SUI surgery which is concerning for undertreatment of females with this condition. We have designed two biodegradable mesh materials for SUI surgery which show superior biocompatibility and mechanical properties than PP and should be evaluated in animal and human trials.
Comparison of one-dimensional and quasi-one-dimensional Hubbard models from the variational two-electron reduced-density-matrix method
Creators: name: Rubin, Nicholas C.
name: Mazziotti, David A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Minimizing the energy of an $N$-electron system as a functional of a two-electron reduced density matrix (2-RDM), constrained by necessary $N$-representability conditions (conditions for the 2-RDM to represent an ensemble $N$-electron quantum system), yields a rigorous lower bound to the ground-state energy in contrast to variational wavefunction methods. We characterize the performance of two sets of approximate constraints, (2,2)-positivity (DQG) and approximate (2,3)-positivity (DQGT) conditions, at capturing correlation in one-dimensional and quasi-one-dimensional (ladder) Hubbard models. We find that, while both the DQG and DQGT conditions capture both the weak and strong correlation limits, the more stringent DQGT conditions improve the ground-state energies, the natural occupation numbers, the pair correlation function, the effective hopping, and the connected (cumulant) part of the 2-RDM. We observe that the DQGT conditions are effective at capturing strong electron correlation effects in both one- and quasi-one-dimensional lattices for both half filling and less-than-half filling.
Thanatologjia e shpresës
Creators: name: Qëndro, Gëzim
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2015

description: Kur  përballet  me  një  togfjalësh  kundërthënës  si  titul-li  “Thanatologjia  e  shpresës”  lexuesi  ka  të  ngjarë  të  mendojë  se  ai  vuan  nga  njëfarë  paqartësie  ndaj  refe-rentit:  fjalët  duken  sikur  veprojnë  veçmas  duke  kri-juar  një  shkrirje  dykuptimëshe  aspak  bindëse.  Për  më  tepër,  në  kulturën  tonë  vdekja  dhe  shpresa  duket  sikur  përjashtojnë njëra-tjetrën (shpresa vdes e fundit!), pra-ndaj varreza perceptohet si vend pikëllimi dhe humbjeje ku asgjësohet çfarëdo diskuri rreth shpresës, një topos që na shtyn të mendojmë se Vdekja ishte fundi i shpresave për banorët fatkeqë të nekropolit.
"We Raise Our Eyes and Feel as if She Rules the Sky": The Mother Albania Monument and the Visualization of National History
Creators: name: Isto, Raino
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2015

description: On  the  morning  of  May  5,  1972,  Enver  Hoxha  and  the  party  leadership,  together  with  hundreds  of  citizens  of  the People’s Socialist Republic of Albania, gathered on a hill overlooking Tirana from the southeast, in the Cem-etery  of  the  Martyrs  of  the  Nation.1  This  Martyrs’  Day  celebration  was  the  first  to  be  held  in  the  new  martyrs’  cemetery, a complex that – in a more modest manifesta-tion – had previously occupied the hill of St. Procopius in Tirana’s Great Park [als–8]. Those assembled stood on an open platform before the centerpiece of the new cemetery  complex,  the  imposing  figure  of  the  Mother Albania monument [als–12], which rose 22 meters over the crowds below (fig. 1).2 Reporting on the commemo-ration for the newspaper Zëri i Popullit, Agim Shehu de-scribed,  in  particular,  those  mothers  who  had  come  to  honor the dead who had given their lives in the struggle against fascist occupation and in support of the Popular Revolution
Negative drag in nonequilibrium polariton quantum fluids
Creators: name: Van Regemortel, Mathias
name: Wouters, Michiel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The possibility of a negative drag force on a defect in nonequilibrium polariton quantum fluids is presented. We relate this phenomenon to the selective parametric amplification of the waves scattered by the defect. This leads to the prediction that mobile defects acquire a non-zero velocity with respect to the polariton nonequilibrium fluid. We derive a direct relation between the drag force and the momentum distribution of the fluid, that allows for the experimental verification of our predictions.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures
Brief an Carl V
Creators: name: Henry
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1491

description: Henry VIII sendet Carl V. einige Schreiben durch einen Gesandten: "Mons. mon bon frère et cousin l'empereur"
description: von Henry VIII, König von England
description: Brief von fremder Hand mit eigenhändiger Unterschrift "Henry R."
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Französisch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire März 2015 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln Rekatalogisierung nach Original, Verzeichnis von Karl Geigy-Hagenbach und Briefkatalog der UB Basel
Strong polarization mode coupling in microresonators
Creators: name: Ramelow, Sven
name: Farsi, Alessandro
name: Clemmen, Stéphane
name: Levy, Jacob S.
name: Johnson, Adrea R.
name: Okawachi, Yoshitomo
name: Lamont, Michael. R. E.
name: Lipson, Michal
name: Gaeta, Alexander L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We observe strong modal coupling between the TE00 and TM00 modes in Si3N4 ring resonators revealed by avoided crossings of the corresponding resonances. Such couplings result in significant shifts of the resonance frequencies over a wide range around the crossing points. This leads to an effective dispersion that is one order of magnitude larger than the intrinsic dispersion and creates broad windows of anomalous dispersion. We also observe the changes to frequency comb spectra generated in Si3N4 microresonators due polarization mode and higher-order mode crossings and suggest approaches to avoid these effects. Alternatively, such polarization mode-crossings can be used as a novel tool for dispersion engineering in microresonators.
description: Comments are very welcome (send to corresponding author)
Brief an [Cristoforo] Saliceti
Creators: name: Bonaparte, Maria Letizia
name: Faesch, Joseph
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1800

description: von L[a]etitia [Ramolino] Bonaparte
description: Text geschrieben von Kardinal Joseph Faesch
description: Brief von fremder Hand mit eigenhändiger Unterschrift
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Italienisch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire April 2015 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln Rekatalogisierung nach Original, Verzeichnis von Karl Geigy-Hagenbach und Briefkatalog der UB Basel
Equation for the superfluid gap obtained by coarse graining the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations throughout the BCS-BEC crossover
Creators: name: Simonucci, S.
name: Strinati, G. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive a nonlinear differential equation for the gap parameter of a superfluid Fermi system by performing a suitable coarse graining of the Bogoliubov-de Gennes (BdG) equations throughout the BCS-BEC crossover, with the aim of replacing the time-consuming solution of the original BdG equations by the simpler solution of this novel equation. We perform a favorable numerical test on the validity of this new equation over most of the temperature-coupling phase diagram, by an explicit comparison with the full solution of the original BdG equations for an isolated vortex. We also show that the new equation reduces both to the Ginzburg-Landau equation for Cooper pairs in weak coupling close to the critical temperature and to the Gross-Pitaevskii equation for composite bosons in strong coupling at low temperature.
description: 12 pages, 8 figures
title: The scale insect (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha) collection of the entomological museum “Universidad Nacional Agronomía Bogotá”, and its impact on Colombian coccidology
Creators: name: Caballero, Alejandro
name: Ramos-Portilla, Andrea Amalia
name: Rueda-Ramírez, Diana
name: Vergara-Navarro, Erika Valentina
name: Serna, Francisco
Publisher: name: Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig
Year: 2020
Subjects: Alpha taxonomy
biodiversity conservation
Neotropical
South America
Sternorrhyncha

description: Acquisition of local and global biodiversity knowledge demands immediate and long-term efforts, both tutoring new generations of taxonomists and establishing, maintaining and improving research collections. Through biodiversity studies, the entomological museum “Universidad Nacional Agronomía Bogotá” (Bogotá, Colombia) has been developed and has built up a substantial collection of scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha), with 7,052 slide-mounted specimens and close to 800 alcohol-preserved samples representing 115 species belonging to 59 genera and nine families. This insect group is exclusively phytophagous, and many species are pests on economically important crops in Colombia. Curation of scale insect specimens includes slide mounting, identification, cataloging and databasing. Ecological and geospatial analyses of field data have identified insect-host interactions, and areas of the country where new field collections should be made. Host-insect interaction analysis has shown that coffee is the host-plant with the largest number of associated scales, Rhizoecus cacticans (Hambleton, 1946) and Rh. colombiensis Ramos Caballero, 2016 are the scale species with the largest host-plant range; and Geococcus coffeae Green, 1933 and Puto barberi (Cockerell, 1895) are the commonest scale species. Altitudinal and geographic distribution analysis have shown that sampling efforts have been concentrated in the central region, while the northern and southeastern regions of Colombia have been poorly collected. These ana-lyses provide a guideline for future studies, such as which zones should be sampled and which host-plant species have information gaps in their documented distributions and scale insect-host interactions. The museum’s large number of spe-cimens, species diversity representation and rich associated biological data indicate that the scale insect collection of the “Universidad Nacional Agronomía Bogotá” entomological museum is the most important in Colombia.
DAUN SINDROMI — SABABLARI, KASALLIK BELGILARI, TASHXISLASH, ISTIQBOLLAR
Creators: name: Po'latova, Zarina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Daun sindromi (21-xromosoma trisomiyasi) — genom patologiyalarning bir shakli bo'lib, unda kariotip ko'pincha normal 46 o'rniga 47 xromosoma bilan ifodalanadi, chunki 21-juft xromosomalar normal ikkita o'rniga uch nusxada bo'ladi. Mazkur sindromning yana ikkita shakli mavjud:
Monte Carlo Simulations of the Unitary Bose Gas
Creators: name: Rossi, Maurizio
name: Salasnich, Luca
name: Ancilotto, Francesco
name: Toigo, Flavio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the zero-temperature properties of a diluted homogeneous Bose gas made of $N$ particles interacting via a two-body square-well potential by perfor ming Monte Carlo simulations. We tune the interaction strength to achieve arbitrary positive values of the scattering length and compute by Monte Carlo quadrature the energy per particle $E/N$ and the condensate fraction $N_0/N$ of this system by using a Jastrow ansatz for the many-body wave function which avoids the formation of the self-bound ground-state and describes instead a (metastable) gaseous state with uniform den sity. In the unitarity limit, where the scattering length diverges while the range of the inter-atomic potential is much smaller than the average distance between atoms, we find a finite energy per particle ($E/N=0.70\ \hbar^2(6π^2n)^{2/3}/2m$, with $n$ th e number density) and a quite large condensate fraction ($N_0/N=0.83$).
description: 5 pages, 2 figures (submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett.)