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Is Freire's critical pedagogy applicable to China's higher education? a philosophical examination
Creators: name: Zhong, Yaying
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2018

description: The purpose of this study is to identify the assumptions of China’s civic education and compare these assumptions to the key concepts involved in Paulo Freire’s critical pedagogy, particularly his ideas of (1) critical consciousness, (2) humanization, and (3) dialogue. Based on the specific social and political contexts in which each of these pedagogies arose, the thesis will explore the limitations and potential of applying Freire’s critical pedagogy to enhance university students’ critical and civic consciousness in China. To this end, the thesis will present a comparative study of Freirean critical pedagogy and the Chinese culture of pedagogy in order to explore the following questions: What are the key concepts that support Freire’s conception of transformative education? What are the key concepts of China’s civic education? How do Freire’s and China’s concepts relate or compare to each other? How might Freirean ideas of critical consciousness and social transformation be informed or extended in relation to the challenges posed by China’s conception of civic education? What challenges or implications arise when attempting to use or implement Freire’s ideas of critical pedagogy within China’s higher education system (e.g., to teach for transformation)? These questions will be answered by exploring the points of commonality and difference between the worldviews framing the civic education in China’s higher education institutions and Freire’s critical pedagogy.
Testing for Jump Spillovers Without Testing for Jumps
Creators: name: Corradi, Valentina
name: Distaso, Walter
name: Fernandes, Marcelo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: This article develops statistical tools for testing conditional independence among the jump components of the daily quadratic variation, which we estimate using intraday data. To avoid sequential bias distortion, we do not pretest for the presence of jumps. If the null is true, our test statistic based on daily integrated jumps weakly converges to a Gaussian random variable if both assets have jumps. If instead at least one asset has no jumps, then the statistic approaches zero in probability. We show how to compute asymptotically valid bootstrap-based critical values that result in a consistent test with asymptotic size equal to or smaller than the nominal size. Empirically, we study jump linkages between US futures and equity index markets. We find not only strong evidence of jump cross-excitation between the SPDR exchange-traded fund and E-mini futures on the S&P 500 index, but also that integrated jumps in the E-mini futures during the overnight period carry relevant information. Supplementary materials for this article are available as an online supplement.
Damping of Electron Density Structures and Implications for Interstellar Scintillation
Creators: name: Smith, Kurt W.
name: Terry, Paul W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The forms of electron density structures in kinetic Alfven wave turbulence are studied in connection with scintillation. The focus is on small scales $L \sim 10^8-10^{10}$ cm where the Kinetic Alfvén wave (KAW) regime is active in the interstellar medium. MHD turbulence converts to a KAW cascade, starting at 10 times the ion gyroradius and continuing to smaller scales. These scales are inferred to dominate scintillation in the theory of Boldyrev et al. From numerical solutions of a decaying kinetic Alfvén wave turbulence model, structure morphology reveals two types of localized structures, filaments and sheets, and shows that they arise in different regimes of resistive and diffusive damping. Minimal resistive damping yields localized current filaments that form out of Gaussian-distributed initial conditions. When resistive damping is large relative to diffusive damping, sheet-like structures form. In the filamentary regime, each filament is associated with a non-localized magnetic and density structure, circularly symmetric in cross section. Density and magnetic fields have Gaussian statistics (as inferred from Gaussian-valued kurtosis) while density gradients are strongly non-Gaussian, more so than current. This enhancement of non-Gaussian statistics in a derivative field is expected since gradient operations enhance small-scale fluctuations. The enhancement of density gradient kurtosis over current kurtosis is not obvious, yet it suggests that modest fluctuation levels in electron density may yield large scintillation events during pulsar signal propagation in the interstellar medium. In the sheet regime the same statistical observations hold, despite the absence of localized filamentary structures. Probability density functions are constructed from statistical ensembles in both regimes, showing clear formation of long, highly non-Gaussian tails.
Mixing of CNO-cycled matter in massive stars
Creators: name: Przybilla, N.
name: Firnstein, M.
name: Nieva, M. F.
name: Meynet, G.
name: Maeder, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Aims: We test predictions of evolution models on mixing of CNO-cycled products in massive stars from a fundamental perspective. Relative changes within the theoretical C:N:O abundance ratios and the buildup of helium are compared with observational results. Methods: A sample of well-studied Galactic massive stars is presented. High-quality optical spectra are carefully analysed using improved NLTE line-formation and comprehensive analysis strategies. The results are put in the context of the existing literature data. Results: A tight trend in the observed N/C vs. N/O ratios and the buildup of helium is found from the self-consistent analysis of main-sequence to supergiant stars for the first time. The catalytic nature of the CNO-cycles is confirmed quantitatively, though further investigations are required to derive a fully consistent picture. Our observational results support the case of strong mixing, as predicted e.g. by evolution models that consider magnetic fields or by models that have gone through the first dredge-up in the case of many supergiants.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures. A&A, in press
Resonant Trapping of Stars by Merging Massive Black Hole Binaries
Creators: name: Seto, Naoki
name: Muto, Takayuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A massive black hole binary might resonantly trap a star (e.g. a white dwarf) and the gas released by its tidal disruption might emit electromagnetic wave signals around the coalescence of the binary. With post-Newtonian equations of motion including gravitational radiation reaction, we numerically studied resonant trappings by black hole binaries with mass ratio 1/100. It is found that 2:1 (and simultaneously 4:2) mean motion resonances of the binaries would be strong and could, in principle, draw small third objects deep into relativistic regimes (e.g. ~10 Schwarzschild radii). The inclinations of the trapped objects could increase significantly and, in some cases, retrograde orbits could be realized eventually.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures, to appear in MNRAS
Stellar black holes at the dawn of the universe
Creators: name: Mirabel, I. F.
name: Dijkstra, M.
name: Laurent, P.
name: Loeb, A.
name: Pritchard, J. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is well established that between 380000 and 1 billion years after the Big Bang the Inter Galactic Medium (IGM) underwent a "phase transformation" from cold and fully neutral to warm (~10^4 K) and ionized. Whether this phase transformation was fully driven and completed by photoionization by young hot stars is a question of topical interest in cosmology. AIMS. We propose here that besides the ultraviolet radiation from massive stars, feedback from accreting black holes in high-mass X-ray binaries (BH-HMXBs) was an additional, important source of heating and reionization of the IGM in regions of low gas density at large distances from star-forming galaxies. METHODS. We use current theoretical models on the formation and evolution of primitive massive stars of low metallicity, and the observations of compact stellar remnants in the near and distant universe, to infer that a significant fraction of the first generations of massive stars end up as BH-HMXBs. The total number of energetic ionizing photons from an accreting stellar black hole in an HMXB is comparable to the total number of ionizing photons of its progenitor star. However, the X-ray photons emitted by the accreting black hole are capable of producing several secondary ionizations and the ionizing power of the resulting black hole could be greater than that of its progenitor. Feedback by the large populations of BH-HMXBs heats the IGM to temperatures of ~10^4 K and maintains it ionized on large distance scales. BH-HMXBs determine the early thermal history of the universe and mantain it as ionized over large volumes of space in regions of low density. This has a direct impact on the properties of the faintest galaxies at high redshifts, the smallest dwarf galaxies in the local universe, and on the existing and future surveys at radio wavelengths of atomic hydrogen in the early universe.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures, accepted to be published in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Renormalization Group Analysis of Non-Abelian Gauge Theories
Creators: name: AbdulMajid, Basel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Particle physics
Particle and high energy physics not elsewhere classified
Quantum physics not elsewhere classified
Mathematical aspects of classical mechanics, quantum mechanics and quantum information theory

description: This paper presents a theoretical study of non-Abelian gauge theories, specifically focusing on the calculation of the beta function and anomalous dimension for a scalar field in such theories. The calculations are carried out using perturbation theory and renormalization group methods. The paper provides detailed derivations and step-by-step explanations of the mathematical formulas used in the calculations. The results presented in this paper can be useful in understanding the behavior of non-Abelian gauge theories and their predictions for various physical phenomena. No experimental data is presented in this paper, as it is purely theoretical in nature.
Studentized Sensitivity Analysis for the Sample Average Treatment Effect in Paired Observational Studies
Creators: name: B. Fogarty, Colin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: A fundamental limitation of causal inference in observational studies is that perceived evidence for an effect might instead be explained by factors not accounted for in the primary analysis. Methods for assessing the sensitivity of a study’s conclusions to unmeasured confounding have been established under the assumption that the treatment effect is constant across all individuals. In the potential presence of unmeasured confounding, it has been argued that certain patterns of effect heterogeneity may conspire with unobserved covariates to render the performed sensitivity analysis inadequate. We present a new method for conducting a sensitivity analysis for the sample average treatment effect in the presence of effect heterogeneity in paired observational studies. Our recommended procedure, called the studentized sensitivity analysis, represents an extension of recent work on studentized permutation tests to the case of observational studies, where randomizations are no longer drawn uniformly. The method naturally extends conventional tests for the sample average treatment effect in paired experiments to the case of unknown, but bounded, probabilities of assignment to treatment. In so doing, we illustrate that concerns about certain sensitivity analyses operating under the presumption of constant effects are largely unwarranted.
Ónë tengwelë : Elvish and English sound symbolism and ethnocentrism in J.R.R Tolkien’s constructed languages
Creators: name: Farrugia, Lindsay Michelle
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2018

description: J.R.R. Tolkien is most famous for the fantasy series The Lord of the Rings, but long before he began writing the trilogy and its many counterparts, Tolkien constructed a number of languages for the inhabitants of Middle-earth. Phonosemanticism is the idea that phonemes carry meaning, irrespective of their lexical value. This thesis examines the constructed languages in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, and uses philological sources contemporary to Tolkien to describe the impact of phonosemantics and “phonetic fitness” in his languages. While the emotional or expressive quality of language is relevant to any author, for conlangers the phonosemantic affective quality is given even more attention. This thesis deals with the ethnocentrism present in language construction, and particularly how Tolkien’s ideas of phonetic fitness are influenced by his subjective perception of beauty in sound and language.
32051: Locked within
Creators: name: Project, Lockdown2020 and Beyond
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 479999
subject: Other language, communication and culture not elsewhere classified

description: A typical day begins with waking up, not much of a change. However now I do not need an alarm, my body is free to wake up naturally without a loud perpertrating noise. I do my work when I want and how I want. I enjoy the company of myself and my family. I learn new skills and new things about myself. As a whole these kickdown days are teaching me more about the world and my life than I got to learn when I was out. This is the longest I've ever spent isolated from the world yet surprisingly (or possibly not) the most relaxed I've ever been. So like any other typical lock down day, it consists of me talking to my self, a lot. A bit like I am doing right now. But hey, it's a hell of a lot more fun than anyone else I've ever spoken to.
Supplementary Material for Van Dyke, et al., 2020
Creators: name: Dyke, Krisna Van
name: Lutz, Sheila
name: Gemechu Mekonnen
name: Myers, Chad L.
name: Albert, Frank W.
Publisher: name: GSA Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Computational Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60408 Genomics

description: All code, source data files, and supplementary figures associated with the work titled "Trans-acting genetic variation affects the expression of adjacent genes" can be found here. Instructions for using the code are included in the mainScript R file.
Lagrangian Topology and Enumerative Geometry
Creators: name: Biran, Paul
name: Cornea, Octav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53D12, 53D40

description: We use the "pearl" machinery in our previous work to study certain enumerative invariants associated to monotone Lagrangian submanifolds.
description: 86 pages
Modelling Nonlinear Sequence Generators in terms of Linear Cellular Automata
Creators: name: Fúster-Sabater, Amparo
name: de la Guía-Martínez, Dolores
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: E.3; F.1.1
subject: 94A60, 11T71, 14G50

description: In this work, a wide family of LFSR-based sequence generators, the so-called Clock-Controlled Shrinking Generators (CCSGs), has been analyzed and identified with a subset of linear Cellular Automata (CA). In fact, a pair of linear models describing the behavior of the CCSGs can be derived. The algorithm that converts a given CCSG into a CA-based linear model is very simple and can be applied to CCSGs in a range of practical interest. The linearity of these cellular models can be advantageously used in two different ways: (a) for the analysis and/or cryptanalysis of the CCSGs and (b) for the reconstruction of the output sequence obtained from this kind of generators.
description: 15 pages, 0 figures
Charged Higgs Boson Physics at Future Linear Colliders
Creators: name: Battaglia, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The search and study of heavy Higgs bosons is an important part of the anticipated physics program of a high energy e+e- linear collider. This paper reviews the expected sensitivity of e+e- collisions from 0.5 up to 3 TeV in the study of the physics of charged Higgs bosons in supersymmetric scenarios.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures, to appear in the Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Prospects for Charged Higgs Discovery at Colliders - CHARGED2010, September 27-30, 2010, Uppsala (Sweden)
A Likelihood Ratio Approach to Sequential Change Point Detection for a General Class of Parameters
Creators: name: Dette, Holger
name: Gösmann, Josua
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this article, we propose a new approach for sequential monitoring of a general class of parameters of a d-dimensional time series, which can be estimated by approximately linear functionals of the empirical distribution function. We consider a closed-end method, which is motivated by the likelihood ratio test principle and compare the new method with two alternative procedures. We also incorporate self-normalization such that estimation of the long-run variance is not necessary. We prove that for a large class of testing problems the new detection scheme has asymptotic level α and is consistent. The asymptotic theory is illustrated for the important cases of monitoring a change in the mean, variance, and correlation. By means of a simulation study it is demonstrated that the new test performs better than the currently available procedures for these problems. Finally, the methodology is illustrated by a small data example investigating index prices from the dot-com bubble. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.
GAP: A General Framework for Information Pooling in Two-Sample Sparse Inference
Creators: name: Xia, Yin
name: Cai, T. Tony
name: Sun, Wenguang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy

description: This article develops a general framework for exploiting the sparsity information in two-sample multiple testing problems. We propose to first construct a covariate sequence, in addition to the usual primary test statistics, to capture the sparsity structure, and then incorporate the auxiliary covariates in inference via a three-step algorithm consisting of grouping, adjusting and pooling (GAP). The GAP procedure provides a simple and effective framework for information pooling. An important advantage of GAP is its capability of handling various dependence structures such as those arise from high-dimensional linear regression, differential correlation analysis, and differential network analysis. We establish general conditions under which GAP is asymptotically valid for false discovery rate control, and show that these conditions are fulfilled in a range of settings, including testing multivariate normal means, high-dimensional linear regression, differential covariance or correlation matrices, and Gaussian graphical models. Numerical results demonstrate that existing methods can be significantly improved by the proposed framework. The GAP procedure is illustrated using a breast cancer study for identifying gene–gene interactions.
Single Frame Image super Resolution using Learned Directionlets
Creators: name: Reji, A. P.
name: Tessamma, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, a new directionally adaptive, learning based, single image super resolution method using multiple direction wavelet transform, called Directionlets is presented. This method uses directionlets to effectively capture directional features and to extract edge information along different directions of a set of available high resolution images .This information is used as the training set for super resolving a low resolution input image and the Directionlet coefficients at finer scales of its high-resolution image are learned locally from this training set and the inverse Directionlet transform recovers the super-resolved high resolution image. The simulation results showed that the proposed approach outperforms standard interpolation techniques like Cubic spline interpolation as well as standard Wavelet-based learning, both visually and in terms of the mean squared error (mse) values. This method gives good result with aliased images also.
description: 14 pages,6 figures
The Evening Tutoring Center at the United States Air Force Academy
Creators: name: Courtney, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) has opened an Evening Tutoring Center to provide after-hours tutoring every evening before class days. The center focuses on first and second year courses in challenging quantitative disciplines: mathematics, physics, chemistry, and engineering mechanics. Staffed exclusively by faculty-level instructors, the center offers extra instruction to all first and second year cadets. Early demand has been remarkable, and early indications are that cadets who visit the center for extra instruction in mathematics perform better than peers with comparable backgrounds.
Bling and How its Message Captures Our Interest
Creators: name: Christoforidou, Despina
name: Olander, Elin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: bling
identity
lifestyle

description: Diamonds and big gold jewellery, manifesting newly won financial status, are the main points of reference when bling appears in the media today. But what is bling exactly? Who are the bling users? What products are considered as bling? What are the product characteristics of bling? This article is a first attempt to shed some light to the above questions. The answers give raise to curiosity and strong emotional reactions, mainly negative ones. What the underlying reasons to these reactions are and how the clear semantic message of bling products can be transformed into other types of products will be investigated in future studies.
A Study on the Relationship between the Form Features and Image Perceptions of Signboards in Taiwan
Creators: name: Lin, Ching-li
name: Guan, Shing-Sheng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: signboard
form features
image perceptions
Taiwan

description: This study uses Taiwan’s business districts as samples, which already carried out renovation program of signboard form and had assisted by the Department of Commerce, Ministry of Economic Affairs (DOC, MOEA) of Taiwan since 1996. we adopt some methods, which are multi-stage picking-out method, focus group, method of semantic differential, and questionnaire survey to establish a database on the relationship between the form feature and image perceptions of signboards. The results of this study were as follows: First, the analysis of Quantitative Theory Type I shows that the “frame”, “top shape”, “left side shape” and “right side shape” of signboard form features have more effects on image perceptions of “modern-traditional” and “friendly-cold”, which their partial correlation coefficient (PCC) of design elements are higher than 85%. Second, the “direction” variable is the least significant one on the 2 image expressions of the signboard form. Third, according the result of this paper, which can offer a reference for someone are engaging in signboard form design in the future.
An intrinsic formulation of the rolling manifolds problem
Creators: name: Molina, Mauricio Godoy
name: Grong, Erlend
name: Markina, Irina
name: Leite, Fátima Silva
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37J60 (Primary), 53A55, 53A17 (Secondary)

description: We present an intrinsic formulation of the kinematic problem of two $n-$dimensional manifolds rolling one on another without twisting or slipping. We determine the configuration space of the system, which is an $\frac{n(n+3)}2-$dimensional manifold. The conditions of no-twisting and no-slipping are decoded by means of a distribution of rank $n$. We compare the intrinsic point of view versus the extrinsic one. We also show that the kinematic system of rolling the $n$-dimensional sphere over $\mathbb R^n$ is controllable. In contrast with this, we show that in the case of $SE(3)$ rolling over $\mathfrak{se}(3)$ the system is not controllable, since the configuration space of dimension 27 is foliated by submanifolds of dimension 12.
description: 43 pages, submitted
Apocalypse Deferred: Girard and Japan
Creators: name: Alberg, Jeremiah L.
Publisher: name: University of Notre Dame
Year: 2023

description: The thought of Ren\u00e9 Girard on violence, sacrifice, and mimetic theory has exerted a strong influence on Japanese scholars as well as around the world. In this collection of essays, originating from a Tokyo conference on violence and religion, scholars call on Girardian ideas to address apocalyptic events that have marked Japan's recent history as well as other aspects of, primarily, Japanese literature and culture. Girard's theological notion of apocalypse resonates strongly with those grappling with the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as well as events such as the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami and the Fukushima nuclear disaster. In its focus on Girard and devastating violence, the contributors raise issues of promise and peril for us all.\u000a \u000aThe essays in Part I of the volume are primarily rooted in the events of World War II. The contributors employ mimetic theory to respond to the use of nuclear weapons and the threat of absolute destruction. Essays in Part II cover a wide range of topics in Japanese cultural history from the viewpoint of mimetic theory, ranging from classic and modern Japanese literature to anime. Essays in Part III address theological questions and mimetic theory, especially from a Judeo-Christian perspective. \u000a\u000aContributors: Jeremiah L. Alberg, Jean-Pierre Dupuy, Yoko Irie Fayolle, Eric Gans, Sandor Goodhart, Shoichiro Iwakari, Mizuho Kawasaki, Kunio Nakahata, Andreas Oberprantacher, Mery Rodriguez, Thomas Ryba, Richard Schenk, OP, Roberto Solarte, Matthew Taylor, and Anthony D. Traylor.\u000a
GAP: A General Framework for Information Pooling in Two-Sample Sparse Inference
Creators: name: Xia, Yin
name: Tony Cai, T.
name: Sun, Wenguang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy

description: This article develops a general framework for exploiting the sparsity information in two-sample multiple testing problems. We propose to first construct a covariate sequence, in addition to the usual primary test statistics, to capture the sparsity structure, and then incorporate the auxiliary covariates in inference via a three-step algorithm consisting of grouping, adjusting and pooling (GAP). The GAP procedure provides a simple and effective framework for information pooling. An important advantage of GAP is its capability of handling various dependence structures such as those arise from high-dimensional linear regression, differential correlation analysis, and differential network analysis. We establish general conditions under which GAP is asymptotically valid for false discovery rate control, and show that these conditions are fulfilled in a range of settings, including testing multivariate normal means, high-dimensional linear regression, differential covariance or correlation matrices, and Gaussian graphical models. Numerical results demonstrate that existing methods can be significantly improved by the proposed framework. The GAP procedure is illustrated using a breast cancer study for identifying gene–gene interactions.
Single particle Green's functions and interacting topological insulators
Creators: name: Gurarie, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study topological insulators characterized by the integer topological invariant Z, in even and odd spacial dimensions. These are well understood in case when there are no interactions. We extend the earlier work on this subject to construct their topological invariants in terms of their Green's functions. In this form, they can be used even if there are interactions. Specializing to one and two spacial dimensions, we further show that if two topologically distinct topological insulators border each other, the difference of their topological invariants is equal to the difference between the number of zero energy boundary excitations and the number of zeroes of the Green's function at the boundary. In the absence of interactions Green's functions have no zeroes thus there are always edge states at the boundary, as is well known. In the presence of interactions, in principle Green's functions could have zeroes. In that case, there could be no edge states at the boundary of two topological insulators with different topological invariants. This may provide an alternative explanation to the recent results on one dimensional interacting topological insulators.
description: 16 pages, 2 figures
Conciones in Epistolas et Euangelia, quæ per sacram quadragesimam populo in Ecclesia proponi solent : ecclesiastis omnibus atq[ue] præsentis temporis fidelibus summoperè vtiles & perquàm necessariæ, è Tabulis D. Iacobi Veldij concinnatæ
Creators: name: Prieele, Gilles Vanden, -1579
Publisher: name: Antuerpiæ : Apud Antonium Tilenium Brechtanum
Year: 2016

description: Title vignette, ornamented initials.
The effects of salinity and photoperiod on growth and swimming performance in Atlantic and coho salmon raised in recirculating aquaculture systems from smolt to adult.
Creators: name: Chan, Victor
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2018

description: Salmon are among the most popular seafood products and their culture continues to expand with improved aquaculture technology. Typical aquaculture production rears salmon from smolt to market size in net-pens in oceans, but this practice has been criticized due to potential environmental concerns such as eutrophication and interactions between escaped cultured fish and wild populations. Rearing fish in recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) is a new technology to address some of the concerns over net-pen aquaculture, as well as enhance production of salmonids and other fish species. Salmon can inhabit a wide range of salinities with different osmoregulatory costs, but presumably these costs can be reduced if fish reside in water isosmotic to their blood plasma. Photoperiod has been shown to affect growth rates in salmon at different life stages but can also affect early maturation in salmon. To examine the effects of salinity and photoperiod on the growth of salmon, seven replicate RAS with salinities of 2.5, 5, 10 and 30ppt under 12:12 and 24:0 light:dark photoperiod were used to rear Atlantic and coho salmon from smolts onwards for 120 days. Salinity and photoperiod had an effect on Atlantic salmon growth, with those reared at 10ppt in 24:0 light showing the highest growth rates. However, neither photoperiod nor salinity affected coho salmon growth. To understand the effects of salinity and photoperiod on swimming performance and hematology, coho salmon from two separate studies underwent repeat maximum swimming speed (Umax) tests. In the first study, Umax was assessed in coho salmon that were reared for 350 days in 0 and 10ppt. In the second study, Umax was assessed in coho salmon that were reared for 60 and 150 days in 2.5, 10 and 30ppt under 12:12 and 24:0 light:dark photoperiod. In the first study, salinity had significant effects on resting plasma osmolality and chloride concentration. In the second year, salinity affected first Umax, but neither salinity nor photoperiod affected repeated Umax and recovery ratio. There were also significant effects of salinity on the hematocrit, hemoglobin concentration, MCHC and plasma osmolality and chloride concentration of exhausted salmon after repeated swimming tests.
ВИДЫ  РЕЧЕВОЙ ИЗБЫТОЧНОСТИ: ПЛЕОНАЗМА И ТАВТОЛОГИИ И ИХ УПОТРЕБЛЕНИЕ В РЕЧИ
Creators: name: Абдусаматова, Оминабону
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Настоящая статья посвящена исследованию речевой избыточности. В стремлении описать многообразие видов речевой избыточности в современном русском литературном языке автор попытался создать классификацию речевой избыточности в общем формате и характеризовал виды тавтологий и плеоназмов. Теоретической базой данной статьи послужили научные труды, посвящённые речевой избыточности и её видам. Автор пользовался методом комплексного подхода при изучении данного феномена. В конце работы даны причины и намерения употребления речевой избыточности.
Constraints on B--->pi,K transition form factors from exclusive semileptonic D-meson decays
Creators: name: Su, Fang
name: Yang, Ya-Dong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: According to the heavy-quark flavour symmetry, the $B\to π, K$ transition form factors could be related to the corresponding ones of D-meson decays near the zero recoil point. With the recent precisely measured exclusive semileptonic decays $D \to π\ell ν$ and $D\to K \ell ν$, we perform a phenomenological study of $B \to π, K$ transition form factors based on this symmetry. Using BK, BZ and Series Expansion parameterizations of the form factor slope, we extrapolate $B \to π, K$ transition form factors from $q^{2}_{max}$ to $q^{2}=0$. It is found that, although being consistent with each other within error bars, the central values of our results for $B \to π, K$ form factors at $q^2=0$, $f_+^{B\to π, K}(0)$, are much smaller than predictions of the QCD light-cone sum rules, but are in good agreements with the ones extracted from hadronic B-meson decays within the SCET framework. Moreover, smaller form factors are also favored by the QCD factorization approach for hadronic B-meson decays.
description: 19 pages, no figure, 5 tables
Superconductivity in the Honeycomb-Lattice Pnictide SrPtAs
Creators: name: Nishikubo, Yoshihiro
name: Kudo, Kazutaka
name: Nohara, Minoru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report superconductivity in the honeycomb-lattice pnictide SrPtAs with Tc = 2.4 K. To our knowledge, SrPtAs is the first superconducting pnictide with a honeycomb lattice structure. Our finding opens up new playground to develop pnictide superconductors with honeycomb lattices, in addition to square lattices known in iron-based superconductors.
description: 2 pages, 3 figures
Flauij Josephi ... Historien vnd Bücher : von alten Jüdischen Geschichten, zwentzig, sampt einem von seinem Leben : vom Jüdischen Krieg ... siben : vom alten Herkommen der Jüden wider den Apion ... zwey : von den Machabeern ... eins : Alles auss dem vrsprünglichen Griechischen Examplar ... von neuwem verteutscht ...
Creators: name: Josephus, Flavius
Publisher: name: Franckfurt am Mayn : Gedruckt ... bey George Raben vnd Weygand Hanen Erben
Year: 2017

description: Bound in leather over wooden boards.
Relativistic corrections to the axial vector and vector currents in the bar{b}c meson system at order alpha_s
Creators: name: Lee, Jungil
name: Sang, WenLong
name: Kim, Seyong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the short distance coefficients for the NRQCD factorization formulas of the meson-to-vacuum matrix elements for the axial vector and vector parts of the charged weak current in the $S$-wave spin-singlet and -triplet bar{b}c mesons, respectively. The computation is carried out to order alpha_s including relativistic corrections of all orders in vec{q}^{2n}, where vec{q} is the relative momentum of the bar{b} and c in the meson rest frame. The relativistic corrections at order alpha_s are new. The results reveal that the relativistic corrections to the leptonic decay rate of the B_c meson at order alpha_s or less converge rapidly, which shows a strong contrast to the uncomfortably large corrections of order alpha_s^2|vec{q}|^0. The short distance coefficients listed in this paper can be employed to compute the resummation of relativistic corrections to the phenomenological measurables that involve B_c and B_c^* production and decay.
description: 34 pages, no figure
Motherhood after spinal cord injury : lactation, breastfeeding, autonomic dysreflexia and postpartum considerations
Creators: name: Lee, Amanda
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2018

description: Lactation dysfunction following spinal cord injury has been previously documented. However, the extent of lactation dysfunction and influence of spinal cord injury on breastfeeding ability and behaviour is not well understood. The research aim was to identify major barriers to lactation and breastfeeding related to spinal cord injury, specifically comparing injuries above and below the T6 spinal cord segment. A retrospective survey design was used to evaluate breastfeeding barriers in an international cohort of women who gave birth following their spinal cord injury. In the pilot study, 52 women participated in two online questionnaires. The follow-up study evaluated 102 participants with one questionnaire. An expert panel of clinicians and mothers with spinal cord injury systematically developed and reviewed all questionnaires. Exclusive breastfeeding duration significantly differed between women with spinal cord injury above versus below T6. Women with cervical spinal cord injury were less likely to breastfeed for at least 6 months (as recommended by the World Health Organization). Breastfeeding difficulties rated most severe were insufficient milk production and impaired milk ejection. Breastfeeding barriers also included autonomic dysreflexia (particularly with cervical and upper thoracic injuries), impaired access to the infant and balancing breastfeeding with personal care and tasks of daily living. A considerable proportion of women did not receive education specific to breastfeeding with spinal cord injury. Postpartum depression and anxiety were self-reported by this population at a higher incidence than is reported in the general population. The prevalence of self-reported postpartum depression was greater than prevalence of clinical diagnosis, indicating a greater need for early screening and postpartum mental health support. This research provides novel insight into the breastfeeding barriers presented by spinal cord injury, which differ based on level of injury. Multidisciplinary care is recommended to address these barriers, which range from physiological (i.e. impaired milk production and autonomic dysreflexia) to psychological (i.e. postpartum depression) to fundamental functioning (i.e. functional independence and personal care) in order to improve the chance of successful breastfeeding. These findings provide the impetus for further research into motherhood after spinal cord injury to improve breastfeeding outcomes and quality of life for this population.
Brand and Packaging Design: A Design Education Case Study
Creators: name: Chan, Peter Kwok
name: Lai, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Brand Design
Packaging Design
Design Education

description: This poster presents a case study of a brand design course from a co-teaching experience

of a design educator and a brand practitioner. Undergraduate design seniors in a Visual Communication Design program were introduced to principles and case examples of branding. During the first half of the course, project teams focused on the discovery and identification of design opportunities. In the second half of the course, each student explored and developed his/ her own brand design concept, resulting in a strategic and creative packaging design application.

The exercises inspired students not only to approach a design project as an aesthetic and emotional expression but also to look to branding in a broader sense as a process for fostering innovation, unity, relevance, and clarity rather than a narrow view of persuasion, seduction, and consumption.
Conversation Pieces [Case Study B]
Creators: name: Brandt, Stephanie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Place
Writing and Architecture

description: The proposed project draws on habit, format, literature and space in order to construct an experimental representational system engaging with design and emotions.

Photography and text are utilised to provide descriptive accounts of actions through space and time, exposing the tenuous boundaries between somebody’s life and the lived through environment. Devised through a series of dialogues the study explores the material and contextual structure of issues of habit and architecture.

Trying to pervade and redefine each individual’s own daily routines and common perceptions the conversations are aiming towards both, an emotional and explanatory experience of our environment.

How is space structured? By physical architectural elements such as walls or by words that describe the quality and matter of space?

While both methods are understood as equally valid, this work chooses especially to explore how the re-contextualisation of words can lead to the development of new spatial qualities and emotional responses.

How does this new identity make the design different from how it is historically conceived, traditionally understood and most important, conventionally used? - The aim is to structure a new imaginary scene, transforming an ordinary urban space into a sensory narrative environment, and as such conveying the [e]motions of the human subjects of the place.
HiggsBounds 2.0.0: Confronting Neutral and Charged Higgs Sector Predictions with Exclusion Bounds from LEP and the Tevatron
Creators: name: Bechtle, Philip
name: Brein, Oliver
name: Heinemeyer, Sven
name: Weiglein, Georg
name: Williams, Karina E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: HiggsBounds 2.0.0 is a computer code which tests both neutral and charged Higgs sectors of arbitrary models against the current exclusion bounds from the Higgs searches at LEP and the Tevatron. As input, it requires a selection of model predictions, such as Higgs masses, branching ratios, effective couplings and total decay widths. HiggsBounds 2.0.0 then uses the expected and observed topological cross section limits from the Higgs searches to determine whether a given parameter scenario of a model is excluded at the 95% C.L. by those searches. Version 2.0.0 represents a significant extension of the code since its first release (1.0.0). It includes now 28/53 LEP/Tevatron Higgs search analyses, compared to the 11/22 in the first release, of which many of the ones from the Tevatron are replaced by updates. As a major extension, the code allows now the predictions for (singly) charged Higgs bosons to be confronted with LEP and Tevatron searches. Furthermore, the newly included analyses contain LEP searches for neutral Higgs bosons (H) decaying invisibly or into (non flavour tagged) hadrons as well as decay-mode independent searches for neutral Higgs bosons, LEP searches via the production modes tau+ tau- H and b b-bar H, and Tevatron searches via t t-bar H. Also, all Tevatron results presented at the ICHEP'10 are included in version 2.0.0. As physics applications of HiggsBounds 2.0.0 we study the allowed Higgs mass range for model scenarios with invisible Higgs decays and we obtain exclusion results for the scalar sector of the Randall-Sundrum model using up-to-date LEP and Tevatron direct search results.
description: 53 pages, 16 tables, 5 figures. The code is available at http://projects.hepforge.org/higgsbounds/
Phoneotypic modeling of human behaviors and propensities
Creators: name: Bati, Ghassan F.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2019

description: With the growth in mobile social networks, social internet of things, and cyber-physical-social systems, there is an ever growing need to model and understand human beings as they interact with other humans and socio-technical ecosystems. In this dissertation, we focus on modeling three core human concepts – trust propensity, altruism propensity, and interpersonal trust using mobile phone metadata. Traditional methods for understanding an individual’s propensities and behaviors have been surveys and lab experiments. However, the growth of “personal big data”, which includes the use of various personal ubiquitous devices, is allowing for human behaviors and propensities to be modeled via lower-cost, quick, automated methods. This dissertation proposes a new methodology to model human behaviors and propensities based on phoneotypes (phone-based observations of a combination of people’s traits) that aims to complement traditional methods like surveys with a ubiquitous data-driven automated method. The analysis and modeling employ multiple deep and shallow machine learning algorithms and are based on two datasets - Rutgers Well-being Study and MIT friends and family dataset. Overall, the findings suggest that: (1) many phone-based features are associated with participant’s altruism, trust, and interpersonal trust scores;(2) phone-based prediction models for altruism, trust propensity, and interpersonal trust performed statistically significantly better than comparable demography-based models. This dissertation paves way to study the associations between human behavioral propensities and long-term “in the wild” socio-mobile behavior, and to utilize “personal big data” with shallow and deep machine learning approaches to model altruism, trust, and interpersonal trust. A better modeling approach for human beings will have multiple applications in fields like healthcare, well-being, and urban planning.