cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The role of language and sensorimotor information in memory for concepts
Creators: name: Dymarska, Agata
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2022

description: The linguistic-simulation approach to conceptual representations has been investigated for some time, but the role of language and sensorimotor information in memory for objects and words, both short- and long-term, has not been examined in detail. In the present thesis, I look at the interplay of sensorimotor and linguistic information in conceptual knowledge and examine which aspects of concepts are represented in memory tasks. I also aim to establish the role of consciously accessing conceptual information in word recognition and memory. The thesis includes three self-contained papers which show that the conceptual system relies on linguistic or sensorimotor information according to task demands. In the paper in Chapter 4, I examined the linguistic bootstrapping hypothesis, which postulates that linguistic labels can serve as placeholders for complex sensorimotor representations. I tested the capacity of working memory for object concepts using an articulatory suppression task to block access to language. I found that working memory capacity for contextually related object concepts when relying on sensorimotor information is higher than the traditionally reported capacity of 3-4 for simple shapes or colours. Additionally, when linguistic labels are available to deputise for complex sensorimotor information, the capacity further increases by up to two object concepts. In Chapters 5 and 6, I examined the content of conceptual information stored in long-term memory, and the role of sensorimotor simulation and consciously available information in word recognition and word memory. The studies revealed that consciously generated imagery is not reliably measured, and moreover, it does not contribute to word recognition in a consistent manner. Some of the effects of imageability found in the literature can be explained or subsumed by sensorimotor information, which is not fully available through conscious awareness. However, conscious imagery may be a useful strategy to support word memory when trying to explicitly remember words. The thesis demonstrates that both linguistic labels and sensorimotor information contribute to memory for concepts. The way a concept is represented in different tasks varies depending on task demands. Linguistic information is used to circumvent resource capacity limits, while sensorimotor information guides behaviour by providing more detailed information about the meaning of concepts, and our previous experience with them.
The Future of Fashion: How the Quest for Digitization and the Use of Artificial Intelligence and Extended Reality Will Reshape the Fashion Industry After COVID-19
Creators: name: Silvestri, Barbara
Publisher: name: ZoneModa Journal
Year: 2020

description: The aim of this paper is to analyze how extended reality (formed by virtual and augmented reality), and artificial intelligence are influencing the fashion field. During and after the Covid19 pandemic, a radical shift happened: most activities, from shopping to showrooms and fashion weeks had to move online. While e-commerce was already a consolidated pillar of fashion shopping, it recently started to evolve to achieve through AR (augmented reality) and VR (virtual reality) what customers could before find in physical stores: interesting experiences and sensory stimuli. Online traffic peaked, creating even more room for technology based on artificial intelligence. With its disrupting powers, AI (artificial intelligence) has all the potentialities to take over each step of the fashion value chain. Furthermore, with the quarantine the production of fashion was slowed down by the absence of workers in production sites. Artificial intelligence and automation could be an answer. In this paper AR, VR and AI technologies are analyzed with practical examples on what has happened and is happening in the industry, from a perspective based on the challenges imposed by Covid-19. Results indicate that AR, VR and AI have the potential to become in the near future the norm in the fashion media and technology ecosystem, reinforcing the digitization process of the industry.
description: ZoneModa Journal, V. 10 N. 2 (2020): Moda, Tecnologia e Distanziamento Sociale
Fashion, Digital Technologies, and AI. Is the 2020 Pandemic Really Driving a Paradigm Shift?
Creators: name: Casini, Luca
name: Roccetti, Marco
Publisher: name: ZoneModa Journal
Year: 2020

description: Is the COVID-19 pandemic going to force the fashion industry to rethink herself and push it to embrace digital technologies more massively than before? The answer is most likely “yes”, but the question is somewhat ill-posed. In fact, the fashion world, especially haute couture, has always been very keen to innovation and to digital technology. Even before the current situation, there have been experiments that encompass every part of the fashion ecosystem, including smarter supply chain and manufacturing, design of new materials, new ways of presenting fashion with digitally augmented shows. While other businesses are hardly learning that digital is the way to go, the fashion world seems to have found this insight a long time ago and has been a fertile field for digital applications for a long time. For example, the commercial model has already shifted from being centered around retailers to being heavily reliant on online shopping. Not only this, but we are also seeing an increasing number of so-called digital native fashion brands, that is brands designed from the ground up to be entities of the digital world. This new way of selling fashion has been leveraging big data for some years now. Nonetheless, the abrupt change in our life dictated by the global advent of COVID-19, with the measures taken to mitigate it, like quarantine for example, is most certainly having an further effect on this industry, at all levels, from haute couture to fast fashion, from big brands to small ones. Some few examples include big fashion shows,where dazzling set pieces and parties are no longer possible, replaced by internet live streams. Even big fairs are now hosted as online events,with many brands launching digital applications that allow customers to try clothes virtually. All this considered, while it is certainly true that what happened in 2020 has had the primary effect ofrelegating retail stores almost to mere warehouses,with the catastrophic possibility they can even disappear in the foreseeable future, yet we believe thatthe correct question to ask is whether this phenomenon has just started now or has simply accelerated with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.In this paper, we favor this second hypothesis,and maintain that the current shift in the fashion industry practices and prioritiesfollow a trend started may years ago, that the spread of the virus has only emphasized.
description: ZoneModa Journal, V. 10 N. 2 (2020): Moda, Tecnologia e Distanziamento Sociale
Full Groups and Orbit Equivalence in Cantor Dynamics
Creators: name: Medynets, Konstantin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37B05

description: In this note we consider dynamical systems $(X,G)$ on a Cantor set $X$ satisfying some mild technical conditions. The considered class includes, in particular, minimal and transitive aperiodic systems. We prove that two such systems $(X_1,G_1)$ and $(X_2,G_2)$ are orbit equivalent if and only if their full groups are isomorphic as abstract groups. This result is a topological version of the well-known Dye's theorem established originally for ergodic measure-preserving actions.
description: 8 pages, references added
title: Secondary acquired syphilis: A rare case of long bone findings in an adult
Creators: name: Ward, Daniel J.
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal system
subject: Lung
subject: Musculoskeletal bone
subject: Musculoskeletal system
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Infection
subject: Clinical Cases

description: Clinical History: A 39-year-old male presented with bilateral painful shin swellings, flu-like symptoms, weight loss, drenching night sweats, diffuse alopecia and an erythematous maculopapular rash with slight desquamation to the face, arms and upper trunk. During further work-up, he presented acutely to the local emergency eye clinic with erythematous and painful eyes.

description: 39 years, male
Archivi digitali della moda e patrimonio culturale tra descrizione e integrazione
Creators: name: Calanca, Daniela
Publisher: name: ZoneModa Journal
Year: 2020

description: Il distanziamento fisico, consequenziale alla pandemia sanitaria che stiamo vivendo, ha contribuito a enfatizzare una serie di problemi relativi agli archivi digitali sul web, su cui si discute da circa 20 anni. Peculiarmente, ha enfatizzato in che modo, di fronte all’esigenza culturale di aggregare diversi dati nel campo della ricerca e dello studio, l’integrazione del patrimonio culturale in ambito digitale non sia ancora stata conseguita. In questo senso, il problema non è tanto e non solo tecnologico, quanto e soprattutto di natura concettuale storiografica e metodologica. Sicché, a partire dalla costatazione in base alla quale lo strumento tecnologico è la risposta e non la domanda, in questo saggio si presentano alcune riflessioni su questioni fondanti, tutt’ora in discussione, relative al patrimonio culturale della moda, in particolare agli archivi della moda. E ciò allo scopo di proporre un’ipotesi storiografica più che tecnologica, per una possibile integrazione nel web degli archivi digitali della moda, quale perno fondante del sistema interculturale del patrimonio nazionale.
description: ZoneModa Journal, V. 10 N. 2 (2020): Moda, Tecnologia e Distanziamento Sociale
Phase diagram of a generalized ABC model on the interval
Creators: name: Barton, John
name: Lebowitz, Joel L.
name: Speer, Eugene R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the equilibrium phase diagram of a generalized ABC model on an interval of the one-dimensional lattice: each site $i=1,...,N$ is occupied by a particle of type $\a=A,B,C,$ with the average density of each particle species $N_\a/N=r_\a$ fixed. These particles interact via a mean field non-reflection-symmetric pair interaction. The interaction need not be invariant under cyclic permutation of the particle species as in the standard ABC model studied earlier. We prove in some cases and conjecture in others that the scaled infinite system $N\rw\infty$, $i/N\rw x\in[0,1]$ has a unique density profile $\p_\a(x)$ except for some special values of the $r_\a$ for which the system undergoes a second order phase transition from a uniform to a nonuniform periodic profile at a critical temperature $T_c=3\sqrt{r_A r_B r_C}/2π$.
description: 25 pages, 6 figures
Raman spectroscopy of transfusable red blood cells
Creators: name: Atkins, Chad Garry
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Blood banking is an essential aspect of modern healthcare. When red blood cells (RBCs) are stored, they degrade over time as a result of various chemical and biological processes leading to an accumulation of waste products and oxidative damage, among others. Significant growth in the application of Raman spectroscopy (RS) to biomedical problems has made it a feasible tool for investigating biochemical changes associated with storage of RBCs. It was hypothesized that RS could be used to monitor in situ, non-destructively and non-invasively, certain structural and compositional changes associated with these ageing effects as they occur in storage bags. The presence of a relationship between these changes and the viability of RBCs would have substantial implications for the health care industry. Preliminary results demonstrated the oxygenation state of hemoglobin in stored RBCs changed in a manner that was donor-dependent and that closely tracked the morphological index, a qualitative metric for evaluating cell quality. Investigations of the storage-solution supernatant revealed that lactate, a metabolic waste product, accumulated at different rates in stored bags and displayed more rapid accumulation in units from male donors than units from female donors. It was shown that spatially offset Raman spectroscopy (SORS) could measure stored RBC biochemistry through the plastic bag. Spectra collected with SORS compared well with previously-obtained conventional Raman spectra. Thus, information about the contents of a stored unit could be obtained without breaching its sterility. These outcomes provided proof-of-concept for the development of a SORS-based instrument to measure storage bag contents in a rapid and non-invasive manner. The results reported in this thesis fall into two distinct categories. Regarding the observed data, the substantial inter-donor variability and gender and age effects have significant implications for the design of clinical trials, the collection and administration of donated blood, and clinical use. Regarding instrumentation, obtaining chemical information from stored RBCs using RS will enable new research directions for the field of transfusion medicine and obtaining this information in situ from storage bags will have utility for quality control in a blood bank or hospital setting.
Alberto Fabio Ambrosio, Dio tre volte sarto. Moda, chiesa e teologia. Prefazione del Cardinale Gianfranco Ravasi, Vestire l’indicibile. Moda e religioni, Mimesis, 2020
Creators: name: Segre Reinach, Simona
Publisher: name: ZoneModa Journal
Year: 2020

description: ZoneModa Journal, V. 10 N. 2 (2020): Moda, Tecnologia e Distanziamento Sociale
Antenna Splitting Functions for Massive Particles
Creators: name: Larkoski, Andrew J.
name: Peskin, Michael E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An antenna shower is a parton shower in which the basic move is a color-coherent 2-to-3 parton splitting process. In this paper, we give compact forms for the spin-dependent antenna splitting functions involving massive partons of spin 0 and spin 1/2.
description: 33 pages, 2 figures
title: The experiences of black foreign national women prisoners in England: A qualitative study
Creators: name: Kremer, Tres-Ann Alicia
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2022

description: The thesis explores the experiences of the disproportionately high percentage of black foreign national women in prisons in England by paying special attention to their narratives. It provides a case study of the way in which the voice of the black foreign national prisoner can and should be located, in order to increase awareness of the high rates of imprisonment of foreign national women in England and to influence how the Prison Service develops and alters its policies towards this group. Through in-depth interview schedules and focus groups, the harrowing circumstances of these women prisoners before they entered prison, during their sentences and after deportation, have been collected and analysed in this thesis. The lengthy and uninhibited narratives of the women illuminate their unenviable experiences: in their own countries before their imprisonment, within the English prison estate, and upon returning home after deportation. Various factors are examined, including: the socio-economic as well as the political conditions in the home countries of the women, the matrifocal system in their countries of origin and its impact on driving them towards crime, the various reasons for committing the offence, the presence and rationalisation of guilt or shame in the minds of the women prisoners, the probable instances of discrimination and racism within the UK prison system, the rupture in family relationships, the viability of the rehabilitation schemes designed by the prison system, and the predicament of the women deported after their prison terms. The thesis also considers the role that non-governmental organisations can play in lobbying home governments to create awareness of the conditions and circumstances of imprisonment in England. The thesis concludes that policies for foreign national women prisoners in England should take into greater consideration the voice of the black foreign national female prisoner and its histo-racial nuances, particularly as the women account for a sizable portion of the foreign national prison population in England.
How bloggers and influencers created the pandemic narrative: a new stage representing the (fake) everyday life
Creators: name: Rossi, Giulia
Publisher: name: ZoneModa Journal
Year: 2020

description: As the Washington Post fashion critic Robin Givhan stated, the fashion narrative changed during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially for bloggers, influencers, digital ambassadors and all those professional figures focusing their work on the digital representation of self in their everyday life. Their stage has always been the online platform of publishing (Instagram, YouTube, TikTok) on which they built a new form of storytelling. They plan their life to represent the brands they made commercial agreements with. This representation is not staged in real life, it is, the representation of a fake, virtual life. The COVID-19 pandemic abruptly interrupted this storytelling and gave rise to a new way of representing all of us, especially influencers and bloggers, forced at home in our pajamas and comfort clothes. All forms of live storytelling on social networks reached a record peak during the COVID-19 pandemic. A pause and an objective reflection on this phenomenon are necessary since it is characterising a movement going in the opposite direction of the acceleration of fashion that characterized the last decades. The need to find a new rhythm for the fashion universe is now evident and it is to be interpreted as a call to action for all the persons involved.
description: ZoneModa Journal, V. 10 N. 2 (2020): Moda, Tecnologia e Distanziamento Sociale
title: The Fifth Horse Manifesto
title: The Fifth Horse Manifesto
titleType: Other
Creators: name: Bolandeh
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Philosophy, Religion, Human Consciousness, Manifesto, Fifth Horse

description: نامه رسمی به سفارت ژاپن

A philosophical exploration of humanity's journey from the origins of belief to the pursuit of knowledge. 

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To: The Japanese Foundation for Philosophy

 

Subject: Presentation and Request for Registration of “The Fifth Horse” Manifesto Dear Esteemed Members of the Japanese Foundation for Philosophy,

 

With deepest respect and admiration for the profound contributions of Japan to the world of wisdom, spiritual reflection, and philosophical inquiry, I, Bahman Bolandeh, humbly submit for your consideration a philosophical manifesto titled:

 

“The Fifth Horse: A Manifesto of Sacred Doubt.”

 

For many years, I have pursued the history of thought — from Eastern contemplative traditions such as Zen and Stoicism to the inquiries of Western rationalism and Epicureanism. This journey has been rooted in a deep fascination with the origins of belief, the birth of religion, and the trials of consciousness in the face of mystery.

 

In the course of this quest, I discovered a forgotten symbol — an idea that stands quietly in the shadow of myth and scripture. Beyond the Four Noble Truths of the Buddha, beyond the Four Horses of John’s Revelation, there stood a fifth figure:

 

A horse embodying the suffering of inquiry — the agony of asking “why.”

 

This Fifth Horse does not bring war or famine or pestilence or death. It brings doubt. And with it, the sacred burden of knowing.

 

Through this manifesto, I explore the ancient moment when the question challenged worship, when early humans — cast out from the comforts of obedient paradise — bore the first wounds of thinking freely. This horse, exiled and long forgotten, is now summoned again to remind us: The future of humanity depends not on obedience, but on conscious, responsible asking.

 

I write to you not merely as a writer or researcher, but as a witness of this symbolic horse. In this era of noise, fear, and retreat into dogma, I believe that Japan — with its respect for silence, nuance, and spiritual perseverance — is uniquely positioned to receive and reflect this message.

 

I respectfully request that you consider reviewing this work for possible recognition or registration within your esteemed institution.

 

Your guidance, criticism, or collaboration would be a profound honor.

 

Please find attached the official English version of the manifesto, accompanied by a brief biography and contact information. A Japanese translation is also being prepared with equal care and fidelity.

 

With gratitude and sincerity,

 

Bahman Bolandeh

 

Researcher in History of Religion and Philosophy bolandeh41@gmail.com

 

+98 938 286 5607 April 2025

 

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Traveling plateaus for a hyperbolic Keller-Segel system with attraction and repulsion: existence and branching instabilities
Creators: name: Perthame, Benoit
name: Schmeiser, Christian
name: Tang, Min
name: Vauchelet, Nicolas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: How can repulsive and attractive forces, acting on a conservative system, create stable traveling patterns or branching instabilities? We have proposed to study this question in the framework of the hyperbolic Keller-Segel system with logistic sensitivity. This is a model system motivated by experiments on cell communities auto-organization, a field which is also called socio-biology. We continue earlier modeling work, where we have shown numerically that branching patterns arise for this system and we have analyzed this instability by formal asymptotics for small diffusivity of the chemo-repellent. Here we are interested in the more general situation, where the diffusivities of both the chemo-attractant and the chemo-repellent are positive. To do so, we develop an appropriate functional analysis framework. We apply our method to two cases. Firstly we analyze steady states. Secondly we analyze traveling waves when neglecting the degradation coefficient of the chemo-repellent; the unique wave speed appears through a singularity cancelation which is the main theoretical difficulty. This shows that in different situations the cell density takes the shape of a plateau. The existence of steady states and traveling plateaus are a symptom of how rich the system is and why branching instabilities can occur. Numerical tests show that large plateaus may split into smaller ones, which remain stable.
Can we talk? : examining willingness and facilitating deliberative capital
Creators: name: Afsahi, Afsoun
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: The question guiding this dissertation is: are people willing and capable of engaging in deliberations with those with whom they disagree on topics that touch upon and challenge their cultural and religious identities as well as the values and practices attached to those identities? Willingness for deliberation—the first key step in deliberative processes—has been taken for granted by deliberative democratic scholars. I remedy this by offering a theoretical account of the importance of willingness—especially under conditions of diversity. This is supplemented with an empirical examination of willingness through a survey of the students at the University of British Columbia. While there is an overall willingness for participation in a deliberation, there are differences in specific demographic groups and across particular issues. In other words, there seems to be evidence that there is some unwillingness to engage in deliberations with those with whom one disagrees on topics that touch upon and challenge one’s identity. Moreover, in examining capacity, I developed at the concept of deliberative capital—the by-product of investments (i.e. instances of respect or attempts at empathy) and easily threatened by divestments (i.e. instances of disrespect or ignoring/attacking others). Early, self-interested, investments contribute to the establishment of an expectation of reciprocity within deliberation. I further developed and, through deliberative experiments and pre/post deliberation surveys, tested the potency of facilitative treatments aimed at encouraging investments and discouraging divestments under conditions of cultural and religious diversity. Deliberative worth exercises (getting participants to rate each other based their investments/divestments choosing the best deliberators of each round) were shown to be successful at increasing investments in empathy, respect, productive dialogue, and sincerity. Simulated representation (getting participants to switch places literally by learning, presenting, defending each other’s views for a portion of deliberation) was shown to be effective in increasing investments in reason-giving, productive dialogue, reflection on and incorporation of the views of others, and respect. Facilitative treatments were also able to reduce the divestments made by men and non-visible minorities who were responsible for a significant majority of divestments under control conditions.
Lessons from Classical Gravity about the Quantum Structure of Spacetime
Creators: name: Padmanabhan, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I present the theoretical evidence which suggests that gravity is an emergent phenomenon like gas dynamics or elasticity with the gravitational field equations having the same status as, say, the equations of fluid dynamics/elasticity. This paradigm views a wide class of gravitational theories - including Einstein's theory - as describing the thermodynamic limit of the statistical mechanics of "atoms of spacetime". The evidence for this paradigm is hidden in several classical features of the gravitational theories and depends on just one quantum mechanical input, viz. the existence of Davies-Unruh temperature of horizons. I discuss several conceptual ingredients of this approach.
description: Expanded version of the lectures given on several occasions including (i) Plenary talk at ERE 2010, Granada, September 2010; (ii) Keynote address at DICE 2010, Castiglioncello, September 2010; (iii) Special Lecture at the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, July 2010; ver2: Sec 6 made clearer
Shifting Paradigms Impact of Technology on the diffusion of trends
Creators: name: D’Aura, Giuppy
Publisher: name: ZoneModa Journal
Year: 2020

description: Since the very first studies on fashion and consumption, fashion has been conceived as a very specific pattern of imitation imbricated with Modern societies, bourgeoisie and the new models of conspicuous consumption ignited by the industrial revolution. Fashion was perceived as a trickle-down system originated by the elites and subsequently adopted by the lower classes. It is only in the second half of the XX Century that intellectuals such as Ted Polhemus, suggest alternative models in order to explain the diffusion of trends such as the bubble-up model. This essay aims to update the theory of the trickle-down diffusion of trends and re-consider it as the most suitable model hitherto. Moreover, it will be analysed a fundamental question: what is happening to the diffusion of trends in the era of mechanisation, over-production and increased speed? And what will it happen in the near future? The impact of such innovations is not to be overlooked as they exert considerable pressure over the fashion business by re-directing the individual choices of contemporary clients. The aim of this essay is precisely to get closer to try an explanation of these evolutions.
description: ZoneModa Journal, V. 10 N. 2 (2020): Moda, Tecnologia e Distanziamento Sociale
Luisa Ciuni and Marina Spadafora, La rivoluzione comincia dal tuo armadio. Tutto quello che dovreste sapere sulla moda sostenibile, Solferino, 2020
Creators: name: Maksimova, Nadica
Publisher: name: ZoneModa Journal
Year: 2020

description: ZoneModa Journal, V. 10 N. 2 (2020): Moda, Tecnologia e Distanziamento Sociale
title: Ceram_K_3
Creators: name: Yasmine Saidi
name: Trajectoires UMR 8215
Publisher: name: Archeovision
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: poterie
subject: Kabyle

description: Tabuqalt (Pichet berbère)
description: 1 fichier 3D (ply), 1 fichier image (jpg)
Seeking Evolution of Dark Energy
Creators: name: Frampton, Paul H.
name: Ludwick, Kevin J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study how observationally to distinguish between a cosmological constant (CC) and an evolving dark energy with equation of state $ω(Z)$. We focus on the value of redshift Z* at which the cosmic late time acceleration begins and $\ddot{a}(Z^{*}) = 0$. Four $ω(Z)$ are studied, including the well-known CPL model and a new model that has advantages when describing the entire expansion era. If dark energy is represented by a CC model with $ω\equiv -1$, the present ranges for $Ω_Λ(t_0)$ and $Ω_m(t_0)$ imply that Z* = 0.743 with 4% error. We discuss the possible implications of a model independent measurement of Z* with better accuracy.
description: 9 pages, LaTeX, 5 figures
Sterictiphora furcata Villers, pollinisateur d'Ophrys subinsectifera Hermosilla & Sabando
Creators: name: Romieg Soca, Romieg
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1999

description: Hermosilla C. E., Amardeilh J.P. & Soca R., 1999. Sterictiphora furcata Villers, pollinisateur d'Ophrys subinsectifera Hermosilla & Sabando. L'Orchidophile 30(139): 247-254.
Editor’s choice 2018: Non-coding RNAs in hepatocellular cancer
Creators: name: Ghallab, Ahmed
Publisher: name: IfADo - Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Dortmund
Year: 2020
Subjects: Non-coding RNAs
hepatocellular cancer

description: EXCLI Journal; 19:Doc1615; ISSN 1611-2156
Cosmic Optical Background: the View from Pioneer 10/11
Creators: name: Matsuoka, Y.
name: Ienaka, N.
name: Kawara, K.
name: Oyabu, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the new constraints on the cosmic optical background (COB) obtained from an analysis of the Pioneer 10/11 Imaging Photopolarimeter (IPP) data. After careful examination of data quality, the usable measurements free from the zodiacal light are integrated into sky maps at the blue (~0.44 um) and red (~0.64 um) bands. Accurate starlight subtraction is achieved by referring to all-sky star catalogs and a Galactic stellar population synthesis model down to 32.0 mag. We find that the residual light is separated into two components: one component shows a clear correlation with thermal 100 um brightness, while another betrays a constant level in the lowest 100 um brightness region. Presence of the second component is significant after all the uncertainties and possible residual light in the Galaxy are taken into account, thus it most likely has the extragalactic origin (i.e., the COB). The derived COB brightness is (1.8 +/- 0.9) x 10^(-9) and (1.2 +/- 0.9) x 10^(-9) erg/s/cm2/sr/A at the blue and red band, respectively, or 7.9 +/- 4.0 and 7.7 +/- 5.8 nW/m2/sr. Based on a comparison with the integrated brightness of galaxies, we conclude that the bulk of the COB is comprised of normal galaxies which have already been resolved by the current deepest observations. There seems to be little room for contributions of other populations including "first stars" at these wavelengths. On the other hand, the first component of the IPP residual light represents the diffuse Galactic light (DGL) - scattered starlight by the interstellar dust. We derive the mean DGL-to-100 um brightness ratios of 2.1 x 10^(-3) and 4.6 x 10^(-3) at the two bands, which are roughly consistent with the previous observations toward denser dust regions. Extended red emission in the diffuse interstellar medium is also confirmed.
description: Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal; Typos corrected
The roman limes east of Damascus - defense de Damas
Creators: name: Kleb, Jens
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 210105 Archaeology of Europe, the Mediterranean and the Levant
subject: FOS: History and archaeology

description: A contribution about the roman limes east of Damask. A. Poidebard call this the "defense de Damas". Within this script/ research paper new and already known Locations at the former Limes Barrier between Dumayr and the Hauran Mountains will be shown with the assistance and analysis of old Maps and geographical name Resources. (german language version)
Nuclear Double Beta Decay, Fundamental Particle Physics, Hot Dark Matter, And Dark Energy
Creators: name: Klapdor-Kleingrothaus, Hans V.
name: Krivosheina, Irina V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nuclear double beta decay, an extremely rare radioactive decay process, is - in one of its variants - one of the most exciting means of research into particle physics beyond the standard model. The large progress in sensitivity of experiments searching for neutrinoless double beta decay in the last two decades - based largely on the use of large amounts of enriched source material in "active source experiments" - has lead to the observation of the occurrence of this process in nature (on a 6.4 sigma level), with the largest half-life ever observed for a nuclear decay process (2.2 x 10^{25} y). This has fundamental consequences for particle physics - violation of lepton number, Majorana nature of the neutrino. These results are independent of any information on nuclear matrix elements (NME)*. It further leads to sharp restrictions for SUSY theories, sneutrino mass, right-handed W-boson mass, superheavy neutrino masses, compositeness, leptoquarks, violation of Lorentz invariance and equivalence principle in the neutrino sector. The masses of light-neutrinos are found to be degenerate, and to be at least 0.22 +- 0.02 eV. This fixes the contribution of neutrinos as hot dark matter to >=4.7% of the total observed dark matter. The neutrino mass determined might solve also the dark energy puzzle. *(It is briefly discussed how important NME for 0nubb decay really are.)
description: This paper has been withdrawn by the authors since we want to add another figure
An exploratory study examining different attitudes toward online advertising and video games
Creators: name: Longnecker, Beth Anne
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2003
Subjects: Video game interactivity
Online advertising
Consumer perception

description: The purpose of this research is to assess the different attitudes various segments have toward online advertising and video games. It is theorized that varying attitudes toward online advertising and video games exist between segments due to each group's point of reference. The segments analyzed in this study were Consumers of online advertising and video games, Producers of advertising, and Producers of video games. Data was collected and analyzed within and between the three above-mentioned groups in an attempt to discover statistically significant trends and patterns validating the hypotheses driving this research
Separating binary gaseous mixtures of ethene + ethyne using cement hydrate: a multiscale computational study
Creators: name: Lasich, Matthew
Publisher: name: Mangosuthu University of Technology (MUT)
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 90403 Chemical Engineering Design
subject: FOS: Chemical engineering
subject: 90499 Chemical Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Organic Chemistry
subject: 30699 Physical Chemistry not elsewhere classified
subject: 30304 Physical Chemistry of Materials

description: Cement production is a carbon intensive industry and is responsible for large quantities of greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere. Due to the significant embedded carbon costs of cement, it might be promising to investigate waste cement for alternative uses so as to maximize utility of this material. Recent computational work on the sorption of natural gas constitutions in cement hydrate suggested that it might be worthwhile examining its usefulness in separating mixtures of C2 hydrocarbons. In light of this and the ongoing challenges of separating ethene and ethyne in industry, this study employed a multiscale approach to assess the feasibility of pressure swing adsorption to separate mixtures of ethene + ethyne. By combining stochastic atomistic simulations with macroscale batch equilibrium modeling, ethene recovery, product gas composition, and the separation power were computed over a range of temperatures (from 273 to 323 K), pressures (100 to 2000 kPa), and adsorbent masses (10 to 40 g per mole of feed gas). The results of this study include a look at the intermolecular interactions in the system and their relationship to the adsorption behavior as described by well-known adsorption isotherm models. This can help point the way to selecting materials that are promising for gas separations.
A Fair and Efficient Packet Scheduling Scheme for IEEE 802.16 Broadband Wireless Access Systems
Creators: name: Chowdhury, Prasun
name: Misra, Iti Saha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper proposes a fair and efficient QoS scheduling scheme for IEEE 802.16 BWA systems that satisfies both throughput and delay guarantee to various real and non-real time applications. The proposed QoS scheduling scheme is compared with an existing QoS scheduling scheme proposed in literature in recent past. Simulation results show that the proposed scheduling scheme can provide a tight QoS guarantee in terms of delay, delay violation rate and throughput for all types of traffic as defined in the WiMAX standard, thereby maintaining the fairness and helps to eliminate starvation of lower priority class services. Bandwidth utilization of the system and fairness index of the resources are also encountered to validate the QoS provided by our proposed scheduling scheme.
Oral cancer and dysplasia trends among South Asians in British Columbia : lesion sites, risk habits, and access to care.
Creators: name: Lavallee, Jade
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Objectives: While oral cancer is one of the most common malignancies across the globe, the vast majority of cases arise in South Asian countries. Currently in British Columbia, nearly 10% of the population is of South Asian ethnicity. Evidence suggests that risk factors within this population play a significant role in oral cancer incidence and clinical presentation. As a significant subgroup, it is crucial to gain insight into the trends of oral precancerous and cancerous lesions in this population. This thesis aims to explore differences in oral cancer, dysplasia and hyperplasia between South Asians and the general population, as well as differences in anatomical lesion sites and access to care. This thesis also examines biopsy activity by dental practitioners across the province. Methods: Data from the British Columbia Oral Biopsy Service (OBS) and the British Columbia Cancer Registry (BCCR) were used to identify cases of squamous cell carcinoma, carcinoma in situ, dysplasia, and hyperplasia in the oral cavity in British Columbia in 2007 and 2013. Name recognition software programs were utilized to determine ethnicity. Results: Oral cancer, dysplasia, and hyperplasia trends vary between South Asians and the general population. There are more cases among South Asian males than males in the general population. South Asian cases are diagnosed at younger ages than in the general population, with a mean age at diagnosis below the age of sixty years. While common lesion sites among South Asians include the gingiva and buccal mucosa, these lesion sites are common within the general population as well. The number of biopsies received by the OBS increased by 36% from 2007 to 2013. The number of dental practitioners performing biopsies also increased, as well as the overall number of South Asian cases seen in the OBS. Conclusion: Results from this thesis provide current information regarding trends and risk factors for hyperplasias, dysplasias, and oral cancers in the South Asian population in BC. These findings, along with spatial analysis of biopsy trends, provide a basis for tailored screening programs and oral cancer prevention initiatives in British Columbia.
Feature Recommender : a large-scale in-situ study of proactive software feature recommendations
Creators: name: Ardekani, Kamyar
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: In this thesis, we describe our design of Feature Recommender, a Mozilla Firefox browser extension, which proactively recommends features that it predicts will benefit users based on their individual usage behaviors. The goal of these pop-up notifications is to help users discover new features. How to maximize the effectiveness of such notifications while minimizing user interruptions remains a difficult open problem. One approach is to carefully time when the notifications are delivered. In our deployment of Feature Recommender, we study the effect of two delivery timing parameters: delivery rate and the user's context at the moment of delivery. We also investigate the effect of prediction algorithm sensitivity. We conducted three field studies, each about 4 weeks: (1) A preliminary study (N=10) to determine reasonable interruptible-moments; (2) A qualitative study (N=20) to assess the design and effectiveness of our extension; and (3) A near-identical study (N= ~3K) to assess quantitatively the effect of the timing parameters. Across all conditions Feature Recommender helped users adopt on average 18% of the features they were recommended, and as many as 24% when they were delivered at random times with a 1-per-day delivery rate limit. We show that lack of trust in recommendations is a key factor in hindering their effectiveness.
Public exhibit for demonstrating the quantum of electrical conductance
Creators: name: Huisman, E. H.
name: Bakker, F. L.
name: van der Pal, J. P.
name: de Jonge, R. M.
name: van der Wal, C. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Popular Physics (physics.pop-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new robust setup that explains and demonstrates the quantum of electrical conductance for a general audience and which is continuously available in a public space. The setup allows users to manually thin a gold wire of several atoms in diameter while monitoring its conductance in real time. During the experiment, a characteristic step-like conductance decrease due to rearrangements of atoms in the cross-section of the wire is observed. Just before the wire breaks, a contact consisting of a single atom with a characteristic conductance close to the quantum of conductance can be maintained up to several seconds. The setup is operated full-time, needs practically no maintenance and is used on different educational levels.
Dirac-Born-Infeld-Einstein theory with Weyl invariance
Creators: name: Maki, Takuya
name: Kan, Nahomi
name: Shiraishi, Kiyoshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Weyl invariant gravity has been investigated as the fundamental theory of the vector inflation. Accordingly, we consider a Weyl invariant extension of Dirac-Born-Infeld type gravity. We find that an appropriate choice of the metric removes the scalar degree of freedom which is at the first sight required by the local scale invariance of the action, and then a vector field acquires mass. Then nonminimal couplings of the vector field and curvatures are induced. We find that the Dirac-Born-Infeld type gravity is a suitable theory to the vector inflation scenario.
description: 11pages, note added, references added
VIRTUAL MULOQOT JARAYONIDA LISONIY SHAXS FENOMENINING NAMOYON BO'LISHI
Creators: name: Isroilova, B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Mazkur maqolada virtual muloqot maydonida lisoniy shaxs  tushunchasi va uning  ayni nutqiy jarayonda o'zini namoyon qilishi bilan bog'liq jihatlar xususida fikr yuritiladi.
Mode signature and stability for a Hamiltonian model of electron temperature gradient turbulence
Creators: name: Tassi, Emanuele
name: Morrison, Philip J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Stability properties and mode signature for equilibria of a model of electron temperature gradient (ETG) driven turbulence are investigated by Hamiltonian techniques. After deriving the infinite families of Casimir invariants, associated with the noncanonical Poisson bracket of the model, a sufficient condition for stability is obtained by means of the Energy-Casimir method. Mode signature is then investigated for linear motions about homogeneous equilibria. Depending on the sign of the equilibrium "translated" pressure gradient, stable equilibria can either be energy stable, i.e.\ possess definite linearized perturbation energy (Hamiltonian), or spectrally stable with the existence of negative energy modes (NEMs). The ETG instability is then shown to arise through a Kre\uın-type bifurcation, due to the merging of a positive and a negative energy mode, corresponding to two modified drift waves admitted by the system. The Hamiltonian of the linearized system is then explicitly transformed into normal form, which unambiguously defines mode signature. In particular, the fast mode turns out to always be a positive energy mode (PEM), whereas the energy of the slow mode can have either positive or negative sign.