cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
CITIZENS OF THE FUTURE: AFFECT, POSTMODERN CITIZENSHIP, AND PROSTHESIS
Creators: name: Papazoglakis, Sarah
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This project explores representations of subjectivity, technology, and citizenship in Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents. These novels portray a not-so-distant future in which current social trends like privatization and increasing drug abuse have led to apocalyptic conditions. Accelerating these changes is the fact that the more advanced society becomes technologically, the more technology affects the characters' biology, and the more it mediates their personal experiences and relationships. These conditions lead to questions of how subjectivity and citizenship are deeply transformed by technology in apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic America. I examine technology as a form of prosthesis because it both integrates into the self and extends the self in these works. Theorists of culture have given an increasing amount of attention to tropes and metaphors of prosthesis that explore the general relationships between the body and technology in modernity and postmodernity, and I pursue this trend by framing the question of subjectivity and citizenship through the lens of prosthesis because it captures the material and metaphorical aspects of one's position within the state in the future. In order to examine this relationship, I use a combination of affect theory in tandem with concepts of "prosthetic emotions" and "necro citizenship" in order to extrapolate Butler's portrayal of how life is fundamentally changed by technological advances. I interpret this type citizenship as what I call prosthetic citizenship because it acknowledges a form of interconnectedness in which people reflexively affect and are affected by each other both conceptually and materially through relationships and biological conditions such as hyperempathy. Butler's protagonist, Lauren Olamina, represents a rare type of person who adapts and thrives in the chaos and uncertainty of the apocalypse and post-apocalypse and thus, represents a radical new way of being and serves as a model for how we can understand the postmodern subject and the question of citizenship.
Incomplete Symmetric Orthogonal Polynomials of Finite Type Generated by a Generalized Sturm-Liouville Theorem
Creators: name: Masjed-Jamei, Mohammad
name: Moalemi, Zahra
name: Saad, Nasser
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a classical case, orthogonal polynomial sequences are in such a way that the $ n $th polynomial has the exact degree $n$. Such sequences are complete and form a basis of the space for any arbitrary polynomial. In this paper, we introduce some incomplete sets of finite orthogonal polynomials that do not contain all degrees but they are solutions of some symmetric generalized Sturm-Liouville problems. Although such polynomials do not possess all properties as in classical cases, they can be applied to functions approximation theory as we will compute their explicit norm square values.
description: 17 pages
Sociology of knowledge: military suicide
Creators: name: Parris, Cynthia A.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This study examines the United States Army and the bureaucracy involved as they address their most recent increase in suicide. Suicide is not a new problem in the military, but increased numbers have caused significant concern at all levels, which have extended to those outside the military as well. This report is one of Sociology of Knowledge in that I attempted to understand how the United States Army is processing and understanding themselves while addressing an increase in suicide deaths. Utilizing publicly available data to conduct a secondary analysis, this study specifically examined a 2010 report release from the Army which looked at Health Promotion, Risk Reduction and Suicide Prevention. This study is not a comparison study between the various branches of the armed services; nor does it attempt to explain the "why" associated with the rise in suicide rates. Instead this study looked at how a tightly-integrated formal organization, such as the United States Army, cognitively and bureaucratically developed an understanding of suicide. Theoretical perspectives associated with labeling theory, deviance, as well as race and gender helped to frame this study. These concepts were also used to develop coding practices and conclusions and recommendations based on the Army 2010 Army report. This study was aimed at identifying the effectiveness of findings and interpreting the Army's effort at understanding itself. This study is particularly timely since suicide rates in the Army continue to increase--but conclusive answers to this intolerable trend have yet to be uncovered.
Emergence of bimodal motility in active droplets
Creators: name: Hokmabad, Babak Vajdi
name: Dey, Ranabir
name: Jalaal, Maziyar
name: Mohanty, Devaditya
name: Almukambetova, Madina
name: Baldwin, Kyle A
name: Lohse, Detlef
name: Maass, Corinna C
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: To explore and react to their environment, living micro-swimmers have developed sophisticated strategies for locomotion - in particular, motility with multiple gaits. To understand the physical principles associated with such a behavioural variability,synthetic model systems capable of mimicking it are needed. Here, we demonstrate bimodal gait switching in autophoretic droplet swimmers. This minimal experimental system is isotropic at rest, a symmetry that can be spontaneously broken due to the nonlinear coupling between hydrodynamic and chemical fields, inducing a variety of flow patterns that lead to different propulsive modes. We report a dynamical transition from quasi-ballistic to bimodal chaotic motion, controlled by the viscosity of the swimming medium. By simultaneous visualisation of the chemical and hydrodynamic fields, supported quantitatively by an advection-diffusion model, we show that higher hydrodynamic modes become excitable with increasing viscosity, while the recurrent mode-switching is driven by the droplet's interaction with self-generated chemical gradients. We further demonstrate that this gradient interaction results in anomalous diffusive swimming akin to self-avoiding spatial exploration strategies observed in nature.
Discosoma Ruppell & Leuckart 1828
Creators: name: Oh, Ren Min
name: Neo, Mei Lin
name: Yap, Nicholas Wei Liang
name: Jain, Sudhanshi Sanjeev
name: Tan, Ria
name: Chen, Chaolun Allen
name: Huang, Danwei
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Anthozoa
Corallimorpharia
Discosomatidae
Discosoma

description: Discosoma sp.
(Fig. 4)
 Material examined. 4 specimens, ZRC.CNI.1355 (IP444), Sisters’ Islands, Singapore, coll. Y. C. A. Ip, January 2016.
 Description. Body column smooth, uniform in colour. Discal tentacles short, radially extending towards the disc margin. Marginal tentacles smaller, more delicate. Both discal and marginal tentacles of similar colour to the disc. Distinct white ridges present on disc extending from the center to the disc margin. Larger tentacles appear to be present on these ridges. Specimens typically found clustered in groups of three or more.
 Remarks. This may represent an undescribed species, but more extensive collections in the region will help ascertain its status in relation to other nominal species. Locally, it is commonly known as the ‘striped’ corallimorpharian and have only been found on Singapore’s southern shores (Table 2). No intertidal specimens were observed during our collection work. All specimens examined are of subtidal origin.
 Remarks. Description follows Carlgren (1943). This species has been recorded in Vietnam and the South China Sea (Fautin, 2009, 2016). Locally, the species is known as the ‘frilled’ corallimorpharian. Specimens only found on the southern shores of Singapore (Table 2). Both intertidal and subtidal specimens are usually attached to coral rock. On the intertidal they are often observed close to one another in dense groups, sometimes with 10 or more individuals. Morphological identification is incongruent with molecular phylogenetic placement for two specimens collected, REL179 and REL344, which have distinct innermost discal tentacles as star-shaped bumps but are placed within the Rhodactis indosinensis clade.
description: Published as part of Oh, Ren Min, Neo, Mei Lin, Yap, Nicholas Wei Liang, Jain, Sudhanshi Sanjeev, Tan, Ria, Chen, Chaolun Allen & Huang, Danwei, 2019, Citizen science meets integrated taxonomy to uncover the diversity and distribution of Corallimorpharia in Singapore, pp. 306-321 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 67 on page 313, DOI: 10.26107/RBZ-2019-0022, http://zenodo.org/record/4576116
Additional file 1 of Effects of self-assessed chewing ability, tooth loss and serum albumin on mortality in 80-year-old individuals: a 20-year follow-up study
Creators: name: Nomura, Yoshiaki
name: Kakuta, Erika
name: Okada, Ayako
name: Otsuka, Ryoko
name: Shimada, Mieko
name: Tomizawa, Yasuko
name: Taguchi, Chieko
name: Kazumune Arikawa
name: Daikoku, Hideki
name: Sato, Tamotsu
name: Hanada, Nobuhiro
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Frequency of subjects who cannot chew each food (A) Frequency of subjects who cannot chew each food.
High-Precision Entropy Values for Spanning Trees in Lattices
Creators: name: Felker, Jessica L.
name: Lyons, Russell
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C05; 82B20

description: Shrock and Wu have given numerical values for the exponential growth rate of the number of spanning trees in Euclidean lattices. We give a new technique for numerical evaluation that gives much more precise values, together with rigorous bounds on the accuracy. In particular, the new values resolve one of their questions.
description: 7 pages. Revision mentions alternative approach. Title changed slightly. 2nd revision corrects first displayed equation
Exploiting Rays in Blind Localization of Distributed Sensor Arrays
Creators: name: Woźniak, Szymon
name: Kowalczyk, Konrad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Many signal processing algorithms for distributed sensors are capable of improving their performance if the positions of sensors are known. In this paper, we focus on estimators for inferring the relative geometry of distributed arrays and sources, i.e. the setup geometry up to a scaling factor. Firstly, we present the Maximum Likelihood estimator derived under the assumption that the Direction of Arrival measurements follow the von Mises-Fisher distribution. Secondly, using unified notation, we show the relations between the cost functions of a number of state-of-the-art relative geometry estimators. Thirdly, we derive a novel estimator that exploits the concept of rays between the arrays and source event positions. Finally, we show the evaluation results for the presented estimators in various conditions, which indicate that major improvements in the probability of convergence to the optimum solution over the existing approaches can be achieved by using the proposed ray-based estimator.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, Accepted to ICASSP 2020
Additional file 1 of Effects of audio and visual distraction on patients’ vital signs and tolerance during esophagogastroduodenoscopy: a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Sogabe, Masahiro
name: Okahisa, Toshiya
name: Fukuya, Akira
name: Kaizo Kagemoto
name: Okada, Yasuyuki
name: Adachi, Yuka
name: Kurihara, Takeshi
name: Nii, Toru
name: Teramae, Satoshi
name: Tanaka, Hironori
name: Tomonari, Tetsu
name: Okamoto, Koichi
name: Miyamoto, Hiroshi
name: Nakasono, Masahiko
name: Takayama, Tetsuji
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figure 1. This study protocol. BP, blood pressure; EGD, esophagogastroduodenoscopy; HF, high-frequency; HRV, heart rate variability; LF, low-frequency; POMS, profile of mood states; PR, pulse rate.
Sociology of knowledge: military suicide
Creators: name: Parris, Cynthia A.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4410
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: This study examines the United States Army and the bureaucracy involved as they address their most recent increase in suicide. Suicide is not a new problem in the military, but increased numbers have caused significant concern at all levels, which have extended to those outside the military as well. This report is one of Sociology of Knowledge in that I attempted to understand how the United States Army is processing and understanding themselves while addressing an increase in suicide deaths. Utilizing publicly available data to conduct a secondary analysis, this study specifically examined a 2010 report release from the Army which looked at Health Promotion, Risk Reduction and Suicide Prevention. This study is not a comparison study between the various branches of the armed services; nor does it attempt to explain the "why" associated with the rise in suicide rates. Instead this study looked at how a tightly-integrated formal organization, such as the United States Army, cognitively and bureaucratically developed an understanding of suicide. Theoretical perspectives associated with labeling theory, deviance, as well as race and gender helped to frame this study. These concepts were also used to develop coding practices and conclusions and recommendations based on the Army 2010 Army report. This study was aimed at identifying the effectiveness of findings and interpreting the Army's effort at understanding itself. This study is particularly timely since suicide rates in the Army continue to increase--but conclusive answers to this intolerable trend have yet to be uncovered.
Mathematical conquerors, Unguru polarity, and the task of history
Creators: name: Katz, Mikhail G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: History and Overview (math.HO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 01A20, 01A45, 01A50, 01A55, 01A60, 01A61, 01A85

description: We compare several approaches to the history of mathematics recently proposed by Blasjo, Fraser--Schroter, Fried, and others. We argue that tools from both mathematics and history are essential for a meaningful history of the discipline. In an extension of the Unguru-Weil controversy over the concept of geometric algebra, Michael Fried presents a case against both Andre Weil the "privileged observer" and Pierre de Fermat the "mathematical conqueror." We analyze Fried's version of Unguru's alleged polarity between a historian's and a mathematician's history. We identify some axioms of Friedian historiographic ideology, and propose a thought experiment to gauge its pertinence. Unguru and his disciples Corry, Fried, and Rowe have described Freudenthal, van der Waerden, and Weil as Platonists but provided no evidence; we provide evidence to the contrary. We analyze how the various historiographic approaches play themselves out in the study of the pioneers of mathematical analysis including Fermat, Leibniz, Euler, and Cauchy.
description: 37 pages, 1 figure
The Sierra Bender Empowerment Method(R) and its Effects on a Female Population
Creators: name: Rizakos, Eleni
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: The objective of this study, which replicated pilot study findings, was to evaluate the effectiveness of the Sierra Bender Empowerment Method® (SBEM®) and its effects on a female population. To test the SBEM®'s effectiveness a nonrandomized control group pretest-posttest design was used. The treatment group included fifty women who participated for the SBEM® and fourteen women who participated for the R&R Retreat program at Kripalu Institute for Yoga and Health over the same period of time. Results of a two-way analysis of variance for repeated measures indicated the SBEM® was effective in increasing empowerment and mindfulness as measured by the Empowerment Scale (1997) and Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (2002) and these increases were greater than those seen in the control group. All five-subscales of the Empowerment Scale increased significantly, which include self-esteem, power, autonomy, optimism, and righteous anger.
Findling Trissow
Creators: name: Altenburg, Hans-Jörg
Publisher: name: Geozon Science Media
Year: 2012

description: Der große Findling von Trissow wird mittels petrographischer Untersuchungen und Vergleichen als granatführender Cordieritgneis aus der Sörmlandmulde bestimmt und beschrieben. Weitere Funde des Gesteins in der Umgebung im Zusammenhang mit typischem Stockholmgranit weisen für die Region ein mögliches gehäuftes Auftreten der Geschiebegemeinschaft aus der Sörmlandregion südlich Stockholms hin.
description: research
title: British-Muslim Family Law as a Site of Citizenship
Creators: name: Pilgram, Lisa
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2018

description: The Archbishop of Canterbury’s speech on ‘Civil and Religious Law in England’, delivered a decade ago, attracted considerable public and academic attention. In the years that followed a ‘Sharia debate’ emerged, where traces of (legal) orientalism became especially visible in an essentialist portrayal of ‘Sharia’ as being in opposition to ‘the West’. What was absent in this debate, which was conducted at the abstract level of compatibility–incompatibility, East–West, law–religion, is an analysis of the actual practices of family law of Muslims in contemporary Britain. People marry, divorce, bring up their children and deal with inheritance by resorting to a variety of norms such as Muslim law, English family law and customary law. Drawing on legal pluralism scholarship and elements of Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of the field, this thesis investigates the emergence of British-Muslim family law as a site of citizenship. It is based on research focusing on solicitors offering Islamic legal services and advice in the UK and clients of such services. By focusing on the creative capacities of legal professionals as well as clients in navigating between English and Muslim family law, the thesis is an attempt to present an alternative narrative of British-Muslim family law, which may inform a different understanding to what is commonly perceived as ‘informal’ legal practices threatening the cohesion of citizens in a the nation-state. The thesis argues that private practice in Islamic legal services is a particularly pertinent case for analysis. This is because solicitors’ day-to-day practice in dealing with cases in between Muslim and English law challenges the presumed incompatibility of ‘Muslim and English’ family law, ‘the foreign and the native’, or ‘the oriental and the occidental’.
The Sierra Bender Empowerment Method(R) and its Effects on a Female Population
Creators: name: Rizakos, Eleni
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The objective of this study, which replicated pilot study findings, was to evaluate the effectiveness of the Sierra Bender Empowerment Method® (SBEM®) and its effects on a female population. To test the SBEM®'s effectiveness a nonrandomized control group pretest-posttest design was used. The treatment group included fifty women who participated for the SBEM® and fourteen women who participated for the R&R Retreat program at Kripalu Institute for Yoga and Health over the same period of time. Results of a two-way analysis of variance for repeated measures indicated the SBEM® was effective in increasing empowerment and mindfulness as measured by the Empowerment Scale (1997) and Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (2002) and these increases were greater than those seen in the control group. All five-subscales of the Empowerment Scale increased significantly, which include self-esteem, power, autonomy, optimism, and righteous anger.
Creating Synthetic Cheese Futures: A Method for Matching Cash and Futures Prices in Dairy
Creators: name: Bozic, Marin
name: Fortenbery, T. Randall
name: Bozic, Marin
name: Fortenbery, T. Randall
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: cheese futures
subject: Federal Milk Marketing Orders

description: A critical issue in understanding relationships between cash and futures markets is identifying the relevant and comparable cash and futures prices used in the analysis. In dairy markets, a problem arises from the simple fact that there exists no daily cash market for milk. The focal dairy cash market is the spot market for cheddar cheese at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, while cheese futures contracts were only recently developed. In this article, we use a deterministic relationship between regulated prices for Class III milk and wholesale prices for cheese, dry whey, and butter to develop synthetic cheese futures that approximate cheese futures prices since 2000. Based on the measured accuracy of the synthetic cheese futures, we suggest this series can be paired with cash cheese prices and used in analysis of price dynamics between cash and futures dairy markets.
Maßnahmen zur Minderung der Treibhausgasfreisetzung aus Mooren im Mittleren Mecklenburg
Measures for the mitigation of greenhouse gas release from peatlands in Central Mecklenburg
Creators: name: Glatzel, Stephan
name: Koebsch, Franziska
name: Beetz, Sascha
name: Hahn, Juliane
name: Richter, Patricia
name: Jurasinski, Gerald
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 2011

description: Abstract: In Central Mecklenburg (NE Germany), various measures are taken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions on a variety of peatland types. In a laboratory experiment we examined methane release of plant litter from fresh and brackish water species. In addition, we measured in-situ-methane fluxes in mono-dominant vegetation stands in a coastal fen before and after rewetting. Finally, we determined nitrous oxide exchange in high and low intensity grasslands on shallow histosols. Our results show that flooding with Baltic Sea water would at least in the short-term decrease methane release substantially, independent of vegetation composition. In contrast, flooding with fresh water leads to a vegetation-specific hundredfold increase of methane emissions of about 1 t CH4 ha-1 yr-1 on average. On the grassland sites we detected no significant net nitrous oxide release on either the high or the low intensity grassland. Our examinations highlight the necessity of long-term investigations to assess the effectiveness of peatland rewetting as a climate mitigation measure.
description: Zusammenfassung: In der Region Mittleres Mecklenburg existiert eine Vielzahl von Moortypen, an denen unterschiedliche Maßnahmen zur Absenkung von Treibhausgasemissionen erprobt werden. Wir untersuchten in einem Laborexperiment die Methanfreisetzung der Streu unterschiedlicher Bestandsbildner in Süß- und Salzwasser und die in-situ-Methanemission von Dominanzbeständen in einem Küstenversumpfungsmoor vor und nach der Wiedervernässung mit Süßwasser. Weiterhin haben wir Lachgasflüsse von Intensivgrünland und Extensivgrünland über Anmoor gemessen. Die Laborergebnisse zeigen, dass die Überflutung mit Ostseewasser die Methanfreisetzung der Streu unabhängig von der Ausprägung der Pflanzenbestände zumindest kurzfristig stark herabsetzen würde. Die Überflutung mit Süßwasser dagegen führt in situ zunächst zu einer vegetationsabhängigen Verhundertfachung der Methanfreisetzung auf im Mittel ca. 0,75 t CH4–C ha-1 a-1. Im ersten Jahr der Extensivierung von Wirtschaftsgrünland stellten wir weder auf der intensiv bewirtschafteten Variante noch auf der Extensivierungsvariante nennenswerte Lachgasflüsse fest. Unsere Untersuchungen belegen die Notwendigkeit von Langzeituntersuchungen, um Maßnahmen zum Moorschutz auf Basis tragfähiger Daten hinsichtlich ihrer Klimawirkung besser abschätzen zu können.
description: DFG, SUB Göttingen, DGMT
description: research
Additional file 1 of Synthesis of the character impact compound raspberry ketone and additional flavoring phenylbutanoids of biotechnological interest with Corynebacterium glutamicum
Creators: name: Milke, Lars
name: Mutz, Mario
name: Marienhagen, Jan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. Additional information containing a list of oligonucleotides used in this study, the chemical structure of curcumin with highlighted pHBA structure and additional cultivation results.
Finite-range spin glasses in the Kac limit: free energy and local observables
Creators: name: Franz, Silvio
name: Toninelli, Fabio Lucio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a finite range spin glass model in arbitrary dimension, where the intensity of the coupling between spins decays to zero over some distance $γ^{-1}$. We prove that, under a positivity condition for the interaction potential, the infinite-volume free energy of the system converges to that of the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model, in the Kac limit $γ\to0$. We study the implication of this convergence for the local order parameter, i.e., the local overlap distribution function and a family of susceptibilities to it associated, and we show that locally the system behaves like its mean field analogue. Similar results are obtained for models with $p$-spin interactions. Finally, we discuss a possible approach to the problem of the existence of long range order for finite $γ$, based on a large deviation functional for overlap profiles. This will be developed in future work.
description: 19 pages, revtex4
Two Active Nuclei in 3C294
Creators: name: Stockton, Alan
name: Canalizo, Gabriela
name: Nelan, E. P.
name: Ridgway, Susan E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The z=1.786 radio galaxy 3C294 lies <10 arsec from a 12th mag star and has been the target of at least three previous investigations using adaptive-optics imaging. A major problem in interpreting these results is the uncertainty in the precise alignment of the radio structure with the H or K-band AO imaging. Here we report observations of the position of the AO guide star with the HST Fine Guidance Sensor, which, together with positions from the U. S. Naval Observatory's UCAC2 catalog, allow us to register the infrared and radio frames to an accuracy of better than 0.1 arcsec. The result is that the nuclear compact radio source is not coincident with the brightest discrete object in the AO image, an essentially unresolved source on the eastern side of the light distribution, as Quirrenbach et al. (2001) had suggested. Instead, the radio source is centered about 0.9 arcsec to the west of this object, on one of the two apparently real peaks in a region of diffuse emission. Nevertheless, the conclusion of Quirrenbach et al. that 3C294 involves an ongoing merger appears to be correct: analysis of a recent deep Chandra image of 3C294 obtained from the archive shows that the nucleus comprises two X-ray sources, which are coincident with the radio nucleus and the eastern stellar object. The X-ray/optical flux ratio of the latter makes it extremely unlikely that it is a foreground Galactic star.
description: 16 pages, including 4 figures. To appear in ApJ, vol. 600
Platyzoanthus mussoides Saville-Kent 1893
Creators: name: Oh, Ren Min
name: Neo, Mei Lin
name: Yap, Nicholas Wei Liang
name: Jain, Sudhanshi Sanjeev
name: Tan, Ria
name: Chen, Chaolun Allen
name: Huang, Danwei
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Anthozoa
Corallimorpharia
Discosomatidae
Platyzoanthus
Platyzoanthus mussoides

description: Platyzoanthus mussoides Saville-Kent, 1893
(Fig. 7)
 Material examined. 1 specimen, ZRC.CNI.1359 (REL203), Raffles Lighthouse, Singapore, coll. S.S. Jain, August 2017 – October 2017.
 Description. Body column low, disc shape highly irregular. Individuals may have more than one oral centre. Tentacles usually exceptionally short, slightly lobate, covering most of the oral disc. Colour of the disc light to reddish brown. Tentacles similar colour as oral disc. Species grows in clusters of overlapping individuals, usually spread across the surface of coral rock.
 Remarks. Description follows Saville-Kent (1893). This species was recorded in Queensland, Australia (Fautin, 2009, 2016). Locally, one variant is known as the ‘ridged’ corallimorpharian and previously found on the southern shores (Table 2). The other variant with invaginations on the disc has never been observed prior to this study. Specimens collected in this study are of subtidal origin, and no intertidal specimens have been encountered.
description: Published as part of Oh, Ren Min, Neo, Mei Lin, Yap, Nicholas Wei Liang, Jain, Sudhanshi Sanjeev, Tan, Ria, Chen, Chaolun Allen & Huang, Danwei, 2019, Citizen science meets integrated taxonomy to uncover the diversity and distribution of Corallimorpharia in Singapore, pp. 306-321 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 67 on page 314, DOI: 10.26107/RBZ-2019-0022, http://zenodo.org/record/4576116
Foreground object segmentation in RGB-D data implemented on GPU
Creators: name: Janus, Piotr
name: Kryjak, Tomasz
name: Gorgon, Marek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This paper presents a GPU implementation of two foreground object segmentation algorithms: Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) and Pixel Based Adaptive Segmenter (PBAS) modified for RGB-D data support. The simultaneous use of colour (RGB) and depth (D) data allows to improve segmentation accuracy, especially in case of colour camouflage, illumination changes and occurrence of shadows. Three GPUs were used to accelerate calculations: embedded NVIDIA Jetson TX2 (Maxwell architecture), mobile NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050m (Pascal architecture) and efficient NVIDIA RTX 2070 (Turing architecture). Segmentation accuracy comparable to previously published works was obtained. Moreover, the use of a GPU platform allowed to get real-time image processing. In addition, the system has been adapted to work with two RGB-D sensors: RealSense D415 and D435 from Intel.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures, submitted to KKA 2020 conference
On position angle errors in the Tremaine-Weinberg method
Creators: name: Debattista, Victor P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I show that Tremaine-Weinberg (TW) measurements of bar pattern speeds are sensitive to errors in the position angle of the disc, PA_disc. I use an $N$-body experiment to measure these errors; for typical random PA_disc errors, the resulting scatter in the measured values of the dimensionless bar speed parameter $R$ (defined as the ratio of the corotation radius to the bar semi-major axis) is of order the observational. I also consider how the systematic PA_disc errors produced by disc ellipticities affect TW measurements. The scatter produced by these errors may be significant, depending on the ellipticity distribution. Conversely, by using the sample of TW observations, I find that an upper limit of the typical disc (density) ellipticity is 0.07 at the 90 per cent confidence level, which is in good agreement with previous measurements. Taken together, the random and systematic scatter suggest that the intrinsic distribution of $R$ of gas-poor early-type barred galaxies may be as narrow as that of the gas-rich later-types.
description: 12 pages, 13 figures. Appeared in July 2003 issue of MNRAS
Skintight
Creators: name: Zerance, Stephen
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3602
subject: Creative and professional writing

description: "My flesh keeps the soul hostage," the speaker announces in the poem, "The Bathed One." This Aztec philosophy is what Skintight revolves around: the idea that the flesh was a mold, a simple barrier that holds the soul back from joining the gods that traveled with the sun. Identity plays a crucial role in this book--each poem representing change and personal growth. The self, much like putty, can be turned into myth. Skintight creates a world where the self can be redefined, transformed, and at the end, free.
Moorböden in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern: Verbreitung, Zustand und Funktion
Peatland soils in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern: Quantity, quality and their soil functions
Creators: name: Zeitz, Jutta
name: Fell, Holger
name: Roßkopf, Niko
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 2011

description: Abstract: Soils in peatlands differ a lot from mineral soils. In Mecklenburg-Vorpommern peatland soils cover an area of 280.000 ha, thereof 4.000 ha are bog soils. In the present article the soil functions according to the German Soil Protection Law are evaluated and the German and international def initions of peatland soils are compared. It is shown to what extent the peatland soils fullf ill their proper functions. Although the renaturation of peatlands is examplary in Mecklenburg Western-Pomerania, there is little information about soil changes after rewetting. Additionally, with regard to the ongoing soil change caused by drainage and intensive land use during the last 50 years, an up to date and area wide soil mapping is missing. The „Programme for the protection of peatlands“, passed 2009, gives us the opportunity to protect the peatland soils in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and to restore their functions. A monitoring is needed to reach the aims.
description: Zusammenfassung: Die Böden der Moore unterscheiden sich ganz erheblich von den Mineralböden. Dies spiegelt sich auch in ihrer Sonderstellung innerhalb der deutschen Bodensystematik wider. Der vorliegende Artikel bewertet die Bodenfunktionen von Moorböden des deutschen Bundes-Bodenschutzgesetzes, vergleicht deutsche und internationale Definitionen für Moorböden und zeigt beispielhaft für die natürlichen Funktionen und Nutzungsfunktionen der Moorböden in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern den Grad der Erfüllung bzw. der Gefährdung. Die Moorböden in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern bedecken eine Fläche von ca. 280.000 ha, davon ca. 4.000 ha Hochmoorböden. Obwohl im Land vorbildhaft Moore renaturiert wurden, sind kaum Untersuchungen zu Bodenveränderungen als wissenschaftliche Begleitforschung initiiert worden. Ebenfalls kritisch gesehen wird das Fehlen einer aktuellen umfangreichen Moorbodenkartierung, da sich durch Entwässerung und intensive Landnutzung die Moorböden in den letzten 50 Jahren erheblich verändert haben. Durch das 2009 verabschiedete Moorschutzkonzept von Mecklenburg-Vorpommern können die Moorböden geschützt und ihre Funktionen wieder hergestellt werden. Ein begleitendes Monitoring wäre wünschenswert.
description: DFG, SUB Göttingen, DGMT
description: research
Risk management strategies for intercultural factors in global software development
Creators: name: MacGregor, Eve
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: More and more development effort is spread across the globe in a variety of project configurations. In order to effectively manage these projects software project risk analysis must be expanded to include factors that are unique to projects that span distances, time zones and national and organizational cultures. This thesis describes a qualitative exploratory case study within a company that was initially outsourcing to a software house in India and later moved that development to an offshore office in China. This case is one of several that were part of a multi-pronged research effort exploring the effects of culture in a Global Software Development (GSD) environment. The interview questions explored the day-to-day work process of project personnel through a detailed conversation about their daily work life and their opinions about how the project went or was going. The analysis of participant interviews took a Grounded Theory approach. This thesis explores the issue of risks related to culture from two perspectives; a top-down approach wherein the literature in sociology and anthropology give insight into the concept of culture and into socio-cultural models and a bottom-up approach whereby the case study results are synthesized into practical recommendations. The results are two-fold. The first is a set of propositions that are useful for the identification and planning phases of risk management. The second is a summary of the risks encountered in the case under study along with associated strategies and the sociocultural model concepts and indices that are related.
Empirical models for Dark Matter Halos. I. Nonparametric Construction of Density Profiles and Comparison with Parametric Models
Creators: name: Merritt, David
name: Graham, Alister W.
name: Moore, Ben
name: Diemand, Juerg
name: Terzic, Balsa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use techniques from nonparametric function estimation theory to extract the density profiles, and their derivatives, from a set of N-body dark matter halos. We consider halos generated from LCDM simulations of gravitational clustering, as well as isolated, spherical collapses. The logarithmic density slopes gamma = d(log rho)/d(log r) of the LCDM halos are found to vary as power-laws in radius, reaching values of gamma ~ -1 at the innermost resolved radii (~0.01 r_virial). This behavior is significantly different from that of broken power-law models like the NFW profile, but similar to that of models like de Vaucouleurs'. Accordingly, we compare the N-body density profiles with various parametric models to find which provide the best fit. We consider an NFW-like model with arbitrary inner slope; Dehnen & McLaughlin's anisotropic model; Einasto's model (identical in functional form to Sersic's model but fit to the space density); and the density model of Prugniel & Simien that was designed to match the deprojected form of Sersic's R^{1/n} law. Overall, the best-fitting model to the LCDM halos is Einasto's, although the Prugniel-Simien and Dehnen-McLaughlin models also perform well. With regard to the spherical collapse halos, both the Prugniel-Simien and Einasto models describe the density profiles well, with an rms scatter some four times smaller than that obtained with either the NFW-like model or the 3-parameter Dehnen-McLaughlin model. Finally, we confirm recent claims of a systematic variation in profile shape with halo mass.
description: AJ in press
Digitale Datenerfassung zur Flächenverwaltung von Mooren mit Georadar und Photogrammetrie
Digital Data Collection for Peat Surface Administration with Ground Penetration Radar and Photogrammetry
Creators: name: Hofer, Bernd
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 2007

description: Abstract: The methods of Ground Penetrating Radar and Photogrammetry are both excellent instruments for digital data collection. Ground Penetrating Radar in use on site with GPS-measurement delivers high definition digital cross sections, which can be used to construct three dimensional models of the peat body. The high definition aerial photos taken from an ultralight aircraft are evaluated with photogrammetric methods resulting in more defined information of the surface.
description: Zusammenfassung: Es werden Methoden der digitalen Datenerfassung von Mooren vorgestellt. Der Einsatz von Georadar in Verbindung mit GPS-Vermessung liefert digitale Geländeschnitte in einer hohen Auflösung und Präzision. Hochauflösende, digitale Luftbilder, von einem Ultraleichtflugzeug aufgenommen, werden photogrammetrisch ausgewertet. Im Ergebnis stehen dreidimensionale Geländemodelle als Planungsgrundlage zur Verfügung.
description: DFG, SUB Göttingen, DGMT
description: research
The Role of Long Memory in Hedging Strategies for Canadian Commodity Futures
Creators: name: Mann, Janelle M.
name: Mann, Janelle M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: fractional integration
subject: GARCH hedge ratio
subject: long memory
subject: risk management

description: This paper investigates whether InterContenental Exchange (ICE) futures contracts are an effective and affordable method of managing price risk for Canadian commodity producers. Long memory in volatility is found to be present in cash and futures prices for canola and western barley. Long memory is incorporated into the hedging strategy by estimating hedge ratios using a FIAPARCH model. Findings indicate that ICE futures contracts for canola are an effective and affordable means of reducing price risk while western barley producers should consider alternative means of managing price risk.
Skintight
Creators: name: Zerance, Stephen
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: "My flesh keeps the soul hostage," the speaker announces in the poem, "The Bathed One." This Aztec philosophy is what Skintight revolves around: the idea that the flesh was a mold, a simple barrier that holds the soul back from joining the gods that traveled with the sun. Identity plays a crucial role in this book--each poem representing change and personal growth. The self, much like putty, can be turned into myth. Skintight creates a world where the self can be redefined, transformed, and at the end, free.
Moore mit Stern - Ein Modellprojekt für Moor- und Klimaschutz
Bogs with a star - A pilot project for peatland conservation and climate protection
Creators: name: Kutter, Thomas
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 2018

description: Im Rahmen des Projektes „Moore mit Stern“ in Trägerschaft des NABU-Landesverbandes Baden-Württemberg konnten von 2012 bis 2017 in Kooperation mit lokalen Partnern aus Forstwirtschaft, Naturschutz und Verwaltung Maßnahmen zur ökologischen Aufwertung von Mooren im NSG Hinterzartener Moor im Schwarzwald sowie im NSG Bodenmöser bei Isny im Allgäu durchgeführt werden. Die Finanzierung des Vorhabens erfolgte durch eine zweckgebundene Spende der Daimler AG in Höhe von 920.000 €. Durch Einbau von über 1.000 Kleinbauwerken konnten in sieben Teilﬂächen über 70 ha Moorﬂäche wiedervernässt werden. Auf rund 30 ha ehemals tief entwässerter Fichtenwälder konnte so der Anstoß zur Bildung feuchter Moorwälder gegeben werden.
description: Within the project „Bogs with a star“ lead by the regional association Baden-Württemberg of the Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU) bogs in the protected areas Hinterzartener Moor in the Black Forest and Bodenmöser close to Isny im Allgäu were ecologically improved from 2012 to 2017 in cooperation with local partners from forestry, administration and nature conservation. The project was funded by an earmarked donation of Daimler AG to the amount of 920.000 4€. In seven subareas more than 1.000 small dams were built to rewet more than 70 ha of bog. About 30 ha of drained spruce forest were converted to bog forest.
description: DFG, SUB Göttingen, DGMT
description: research
Fisher matrix for multiple tracers: all you can learn from large-scale structure without assuming a model
Creators: name: Boschetti, Renan
name: Abramo, L. Raul
name: Amendola, Luca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The galaxy power spectrum is one of the central quantities in cosmology. It contains information about the primordial inflationary process, the matter clustering, the baryon-photon interaction, the effects of gravity, the galaxy-matter bias, the cosmic expansion, the peculiar velocity field, etc.. Most of this information is however difficult to extract without assuming a specific cosmological model, for instance $Λ$CDM and standard gravity. In this paper we explore instead how much information can be obtained that is independent of the cosmological model, both at background and linear perturbation level. We determine the full set of model-independent statistics that can be constructed by combining two redshift bins and two distinct tracers. We focus in particular on the statistics $r(k,z_1,z_2)$, defined as the ratio of $fσ_8(z)$ at two redshift shells, and we show how to estimate it with a Fisher matrix approach. Finally, we forecast the constraints on $r$ that can be achieved by future galaxy surveys, and compare it with the standard single-tracer result. We find that $r$ can be measured with a precision from 3 to 11%, depending on the survey. Using two tracers, we find improvements in the constraints up to a factor of two.
description: 14 pages, 4 figures
Strings on pp-waves and Hadrons in (softly broken) N=1 gauge theories
Creators: name: Apreda, R.
name: Bigazzi, F.
name: Cotrone, A. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the Penrose limit of Type IIB duals of softly broken N=1 SU(N) gauge theories in four dimensions, obtained as deformations of the Maldacena-Nunez and Klebanov-Strassler backgrounds. We extract the string spectrum on the resulting pp-wave backgrounds and discuss some properties of the conjectured dual gauge theory hadrons, the so called "Annulons". The string zero-point energy on the light-cone is nontrivial, due to the loss of linearly realized worldsheet supersymmetry, and negative, even in the unbroken supersymmetric case. This causes the appearance of non-perturbative corrections to the hadronic mass spectrum. We briefly discuss the thermodynamic behavior of these string models, calculating the corresponding Hagedorn temperatures.
description: 20 pages