cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A Cultural Resources Reconnaissance for Range Upgrade Areas (MCA PN227) Range 6, 9, 11, 61, 65, 85 and 9300, Fort Dix, New Hanover and Plumsted Townships, Burlington and Ocean Counties, New Jersey
Creators: name: Hunter, Richard W.
name: Sandy, William
Publisher: name: Hunter Research Associates
Year: 1987
Subjects: Plumsted Township
New Hanover Township
Burlington (County)
New Jersey (State / Territory)
Ocean (County)
19th Century
20th Century
Historic
Newbold House Site
Archaeological Feature
Artifact Scatter
Post Hole / Post Mold
Shell
Wood
Ceramic
Glass
Metal
Cultural Resource Reconnaissance
Archaeological Overview
Historic Background Research
Reconnaissance / Survey
Heritage Management

description: The following report describes a cultural resources reconnaissance carried out in connection with the proposed upgrading of seven range areas at Fort Dix, New Jersey. Three of these areas (Ranges 6, 9 and 11, totalling 124 acres) are located in New Hanover Township, Burlington County. The remaining four areas (Ranges 61, 65, 85 and 9300, totalling 1026 acres) are located in Plumsted Township, Ocean County.
These cultural resource studies were carried out by Hunter Research Associates under subcontract to Tectonic, an architecture, engineering and planning firm based in Somerville, New Jersey. A cultural resources reconnaissance was requested in this instance by the Philadelphia District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in compliance with AR 420-40 (Historic Preservation).
The proposed upgrading of the seven ranges will involve various tasks, including construction of service roads, installation of new targets and associated utility lines, filling and draining of wetlands and erection of observation towers.
Rekers, Jindal and the Impressive Hypocrisy of the Far Right
Creators: name: Mitchell, Lincoln A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Bobby Jindal and George Rekers are not alone, but exemplify a willful blindness to the real world consequences of ideological extremism that has become something of the sina qua non of the far right.
Finite-temperature Drude weight within the anisotropic Heisenberg chain
Creators: name: Herbrych, Jacek
name: Prelovšek, Peter
name: Zotos, Xenophon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Finite-temperature Drude weight (spin stiffness) D(T) is evaluated within the anisotropic spin-1/2 Heisenberg model on a chain using the exact diagonalization for small systems. It is shown that odd-side chains allow for more reliable scaling and results, in particular, if one takes into account corrections due to low-frequency finite-size anomalies. At high T and zero magnetization D is shown to scale to zero approaching the isotropic point Δ=1. On the other hand, for Δ>2 at all magnetizations D is nearly exhausted with the overlap with the conserved energy current. Results for the T variation D(T) are also presented.
title: Анализ и оптимизация абонентского устройства при использовании в сетях 5G на основе модели слайсинга
title: Analysis and Optimization of User Equipment Working in 5G Networks Based on Slicing Model
Creators: name: Ахпашев, Руслан Владимирович
name: Завьялова, Дарья Васильевна
Publisher: name: Издательский центр СурГУ
Year: 2019

description: Для оценки качества радиопокрытия изначально использовалось громоздкое оборудование, которое позволяло довольно точно определить «дыры» в радиопокрытии. В настоящее время появились смартфоны, которые обладают производительностью компьютеров прошлого десятилетия и способны проводить автоматизированный сбор данных о сетях мобильной связи, в том числе о сетях следующего поколения и сетях 5G с разделением ресурсов сети путем слайсирования. В рамках исследования авторы разработали мобильное приложение на базе ОС Android, которое позволяет получать данные о качестве и уровне принятого сигнала с базовой станции. Данные привязаны к координатам GPS, что позволяет более точно определить слабые места в радиопокрытии мобильной сети. Авторы также провели анализ и оптимизацию энергоэффективности приложения, которая основана на балансе между частотой сбора и отправки данных на сервер и количеством активных абонентов в сети.
description: Initially, heavy equipment was used, which allowed highly accurate determination of “holes” inside a network, to assess the quality of radio coverage. Nowadays a smartphone has a computer performance and could be used for the purposes of checking the quality and power of a received signal from the mobile network, especially for the future 5G network based on slicing technique. The authors of the article developed an application for Android smartphones that could get the measurement data from the base station. The connection to the GPS allows determining more accurately the weak points in the coverage of the mobile network. Authors analyze and optimize the energy performance of the application based on a balance between the frequency of collecting and sending data to the server and the number of active users.
Evaluation of linear-scheduling-based 4D modeling approaches
Creators: name: Tangestani Zadeh, Amir Mohammad
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Project teams face increasing pressure to deliver projects as quickly as possible. To satisfy these demands, contractors must explore various construction strategies to meet delivery dates. Using existing tools for large-scale horizontal and vertical projects characterized by significant repetition of components, the lack of ease with which alternative strategies can be formulated and evaluated precludes meaningful exploration. To address this problem, an approach has been developed at UBC that leverages a generalized implementation of linear scheduling coordinated with a 3D building information model to produce 4D images. This approach enables a more generic mapping mechanism between product and process models that works at multiple levels of detail. In this thesis, we compare this research-based approach with a commercial 4D platform that also employs linear scheduling concept to formulate its process model. This evaluation is based on a detailed case study of an actual high-rise construction project and it compares the development, functionality, and flexibility of the two approaches based on the features required of a 4D modeling environment with linear scheduling capabilities which facilitates the speedy formulation and evaluation of alternative construction strategies and which provides insightful visual feedback.
Reflectance and Texture of Real-World Surfaces
Creators: name: Dana, Kristin J.
name: Nayar, Shree K.
name: Ginneken, Bram Van
name: Koenderink, Jan J.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1996
Subjects: Computer science

description: In this work, we investigate the visual appearance of real-world surfaces and the dependence of appearance on scale,viewing direction and illumination direction. At fine scale, surface variations cause local intensity variation or image texture. The appearance of this texture depends on both illumination and viewing direction and can be characterized by the BTF (bidirectional texture function). At sufficiently coarse scale, local image texture is not resolvable and local image intensity is uniform. The dependence of this image intensity on illumination and viewing direction is described by the BRDF (bidirectional reflectance distribution function). We simultaneously measure the BTF and BRDF of over 60different rough surfaces, each observed with over 200 different combinations of viewing and illumination direction. The resulting BTF database is comprised of over 12,000 image textures. To enable convenient use of the BRDF measurements, we fit the measurements to two recent models and obtain a BRDF parameter database. These parameters can be used directly in image analysis and synthesis of a wide variety of surfaces. The BTF, BRDF, and BRDF parameter databases have important implications for computer vision and computer graphics and each is made publicly available.
Problem driven maturity assessment of agriculture open data ecosystem: Case of pest control
Creators: name: Salamon, Dragica
name: Spajic, Nikolina
name: Varga, Filip
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: open data
maturity assessment
pest control
agriculture
Agriotes

description: The assessment of the performance and maturity of agricultural open data ecosystems worldwide as an important tool relies on different methods using mostly frameworks with focus on the status of the components of an ecosystem (e.g. the open data policy, compliment with open standards, availability…). In this work we have implemented a problem/user needs driven approach to assess openness of data as a mean to provide management advice in pest control for the agricultural producers. The focus of our case study were five species of the genus Agriotes relevant as pest in Croatia and data sets required for effective prevention and/or management of crops potentially affected by it. In order to get insight in how the agricultural open data ecosystem in Croatia is able to answer such a simple question and which steps have to be taken to improve it we have included identification of portals, search and acquisition of datasets, data inspection, qualitative and quantitative analysis based on created framework entitled “Hospital Access Framework” (Seljan et al., 2021) and examined seven different sources providing open data from different domains covering weather forecasts to nature observation and agricultural advices. The KPIs analysis for Supply and Demand side (open data user skills and end-user capabilities), Legal aspects and privacy and Impact showed the most of the found data sets are incomplete, not in formats available for download, or not of the sufficient quality and quantity.
description: pp. 78
Construction productivity improvement by worker motivation and IT based communication
Creators: name: Hewage, Kasun Neranja
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2007

description: Bibliography: p. 310-333
description: For decades, many researchers have reported the decline of construction productivity in North America. Much of this research has not been statistically validated and is over generalized. To apply the conclusions drawn from these studies to Alberta's commercial construction industry is not appropriate. Factors which distinguish Alberta's construction force include: geographical differences, constantly changing weather, the skill level of the labour force in Alberta, and the demand made on Albertan workers by the current economic situation. The research project described in this thesis is a collaborative work involving the six leading construction companies and three research organizations, which are all Canadian. Based on the recommendations of previous researchers and the suggestions of construction industry professionals, Phase A of the research focused on worker motivation, factors influencing worker skills and team spirit, and working efficiencies in the commercial construction industry of Calgary (Alberta). In Phase A of the research, 101 construction workers from the carpentry trade were observed, interviewed, and questionnaire surveyed. A theoretical model was developed in conjunction with the work of several experts in the field of motivation. A working efficiency chart has been developed as an outcome of observations of the participating construction workers. The factors which contribute to worker skills, training needs, and team spirit have been analyzed. The data analysis of Phase A of this research clearly revealed the inadequacy of communication on present construction projects; especially in the construction site environment. Hence, Phase B of the research was focused to improve on-site communication on construction projects. The researcher explored the possibility of adding an information technology (IT) based communication system for on-site operations. A thorough communication and IT needs analysis has been conducted by contacting all major stakeholders on IT based communication; construction managers, workers, and technology developers. Questionnaire surveys, interviews, workshops, and on-site observations were conducted. The research participants were receptive to the idea of establishing an Information Booth in actual site environment. The Information Booth was then pilot tested on construction sites for six weeks. Three rounds of questionnaire surveys, observations, and output measurements were conducted during this period.
Open Charm Measurement in p+p $\sqrt{s}$ = 200 GeV Collisions at STAR
Creators: name: Tlusty, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The charm production is sensitive to early dynamics of the created system in RHIC heavy ion collisions. Dominant process of charm quarks production at RHIC is believed to be initial gluon fusion which can be calculated in the perturbative QCD. Understanding both the charm production total cross section and the fragmentation in p+p collisions is a baseline to further exploring the QCD medium via open charm and charmonium in heavy ion collisions. In this paper we present the first reconstruction of open charm meson $D^{0}$ via the weak decay to K and $π$ mesons in the p+p collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 200 GeV. The analysis is based on the large p+p minimum bias sample collected in RHIC year 2009 by the STAR detector. The $D^0$ decay daughter identification was improved by using the data of the newly installed Time-Of-Flight detector with 72% of its designed coverage.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, ICPAQGP proceedings
Rapid emplacement of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province as a net sink for CO2
Creators: name: Schaller, Morgan F.
name: Wright, James D.
name: Kent, Dennis V.
name: Olsen, Paul E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Paleoclimatology

description: Recent evidence from the ~ 201.5 Ma Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP) in the Newark rift basin demonstrates that this Large Igneous Province produced a transient doubling of atmospheric pCO2, followed by a falloff to pre-eruptive concentrations over ~ 300 kyr. This paper confirms the short-term findings from the Newark basin, and tests the million-year effects of the CAMP volcanism on Early Jurassic pCO2 from strata in the corollary Hartford basin of Eastern North America (ENA) also using the pedogenic carbonate paleobarometer. We find pCO2 levels for pre-CAMP background of 2000 ± 700 ppm (at S(z) = 3000 ± 1000 ppm), increasing to ~ 5000 ± 1700 ppm immediately above the first lava flow unit, consistent with observations from the Newark. The longer post-extrusive Portland Formation of the Hartford basin records a fourth pulse of pCO2 to ~ 4500 ± 1200 ppm, about 240 kyr after the last lava recorded in the ENA section. We interpret this fourth increase as due to a major episode of volcanism, and revise the main CAMP duration to 840 ± 60 kyr. The Portland also records a post-eruptive decrease in pCO2 reaching pre-eruptive background concentrations of ~ 2000 ppm in only ~ 300 kyr, and continuing to levels below pre-CAMP background over the subsequent 1.5 Myr following the final episode of eruptions. Geochemical modeling (using modified COPSE code) demonstrates that the rapidity of the pCO2 decreases, and fall to concentrations below background can be accounted for by a 1.5-fold amplification of the continental silicate weathering response due to the presence of the CAMP basalts themselves. These results demonstrate that a continental flood basalt capable of producing a short-term perturbation of the carbon system may actually have an overall net-cooling effect on global climates due to a long-term net-decrease in pCO2 to below pre-eruptive levels, as previous models have suggested followed the emplacement of the Deccan Traps.
Vice president academic in Canadian community colleges
Creators: name: Naud, Claude
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2007

description: Bibliography: p. 202-221
description: There is mounting evidence that the role of the vice president academic in Canadian community colleges has grown in scope, complexity and influence, yet this phenomenon has yet to be studied in any substantive way. The purpose of this study is to examine the changing roles and responsibilities of the vice president academic in today's Canadian community colleges and institutes. Specifically, this research focuses on establishing the full scope of duties performed by this individual, examining how these functions are evolving, and gaining insight into the nature of change impacting this senior leader. The inquiry is based upon the premise that both interactive and interpretive perspectives are required to grasp the totality of change impacting the vice president academic. Accordingly, the study takes a mixed method approach influenced by some grounded theory methods to investigate the changing world of the vice president academic. This research study population includes I 04 senior academic leaders from which. 42 participants form the sample of participants in this national survey. The study has generated rich data about the complex and changing nature of the position within a rapidly evolving college environment. The :findings confirm that the role of the vice president academic is being transformed from one of providing academic leadership and discharging managerial responsibilities to one of playing an increasingly important role in the governance, day-to-day operations and institutional development of Canadian community colleges. The patterns of transformation captured in a conceptual model reveal four emerging roles for this senior leader: providing interpretation to external events and influences impacting colleges; acting as an institutional change agent; assuming the function of principal collaborator in the integration and coordination of academic work in major organizational plans; and overseeing and institutionalizing key management, transformational and accountability functions. In the course of this research a new classification scheme for Canadian community colleges and method for determining college identity have been developed and used in this investigation. The study also provides insights into how the vice presidents academic are preparing, acquiring, and developing their knowledge, skills and abilities to effectively fulfill their role.
ROFL: Routing as the Firewall Layer
Creators: name: Zhao, Hang
name: Chau, Chi-Kin
name: Bellovin, Steven Michael
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Computer science

description: We propose a firewall architecture that treats port numbers as part of the IP address. Hosts permit connectivity to a service by advertising the IPaddr:port/48 address; they block connectivity by ensuring that there is no route to it. This design, which is especially well-suited to MANETs, provides greater protection against insider attacks than do conventional firewalls, but drops unwanted traffic far earlier than distributed firewalls do.
Seismic embankment-abutment-structure interaction of integral abutment bridges
Creators: name: Carvajal Uribe, Juan Carlos
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: This research thesis is product of a joint study between the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure (BCMoT) and the University of British Columbia (UBC) to evaluate the effect of Embankment-Abutment-Structure Interaction (EASI) in the estimation of seismic demands of Integral Abutment Bridges (IABs). IABs consist of a continuous concrete deck integrated with abutments supported on flexible foundations. These structures have become very popular due to the elimination of costly and maintenance prone expansion joints and bearings. Analytical studies and strong-motion earthquake data have shown that the seismic response of the approach embankments in the far field affects the response of IABs. However, current seismic analysis procedures neglect the far-field embankment response because of the complexity in modeling this type of dynamic interaction. Therefore, a simple and accurate model that allows bridge designers to include EASI in the calculation of the seismic demands of IABs is needed. This thesis develops a simple dynamic model, called 3M-EASI, for calculating the seismic response of IABs taking into account EASI. The proposed model consists of two far-field embankment components connected to the bridge structure component by spring-dashpot elements that represent the near-field components. The main contribution of this thesis is the development of the far-field embankment component using equivalent-linear analysis. The 3M-EASI model was verified with time-history analyses of 2D continuum soil finite element models of full-height IABs using the computer program ABAQUS. The analyses indicated that the far-field embankment response affects the response of IABs if the following conditions act simultaneously: (a) the near-field stiffness is greater than 0.4 times the bridge stiffness, and (b) the period of the far-field embankment components is longer than 0.7 times the period of the bridge-near-field system. The 3M-EASI model is shown to be rational, accurate, computationally efficient, and easy to implement in bridge design.
On the fixed points of nonexpansive mappings in direct sums of Banach spaces
Creators: name: Wiśnicki, Andrzej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We show that if a Banach space X has the weak fixed point property for nonexpansive mappings and Y has the generalized Gossez-Lami Dozo property or is uniformly convex in every direction, then the direct sum of X and Y with a strictly monotone norm has the weak fixed point property. The result is new even if Y is finite-dimensional.
description: 9 pages. To appear, Studia Mathematica
Randomization with Asymmetric Information
Creators: name: Stiglitz, Joseph E.
name: Richard, Arnott
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1988
Subjects: Economics

description: It is by now well known that, in the presence of moral hazard or adverse selection, randomization of insurance premiums and benefits may be Pareto efficient. This article provides a typology of the various forms that randomization may take, derives necessary or sufficient conditions for the desirability of these various forms of randomization, obtains some single characterization theorems of the efficient random policies, gives some intuition behind the results, and considers why randomization appears to occur less often in practice than the theory suggests it should.
GERiT - The Database on German Research Organisations (and their PIDs)
Creators: name: Guedler, Juergen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: GRID; ROR; PID; Research Organisations; subject classification

description: The German research landscape is large and varied. The information portal GERiT – German Research Institutions – provides an overview of approximately 25,000 institutes at German universities and non-university research institutions (e.g. Max-Planck-Society), organised by subject area as well as by geographical and structural criteria. The more than 650 standardized subject areas are categorised in three levels in accordance with the classification system used by the Federal Statistical Office (DESTATIS). Every unit gets a DFG institutional ID, top-Level institutions match with GRID ID and WIKIDATA ID. Find out more at www.gerit.org.
Additional file 2: of BKCa participates in E2 inducing endometrial adenocarcinoma by activating MEK/ERK pathway
Creators: name: Wang, Fenfen
name: Chen, Qin
name: Huang, Genping
name: Guo, Xuedong
name: Li, Na
name: Li, Yang
name: Li, Baohua
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Table S2. The information of the primary antibodies used in the studies. (DOCX 15 kb)
Dissipative quantum mechanics and Kondo-like impurities on noncommutative two-tori
Creators: name: Iacomino, Patrizia
name: Marotta, Vincenzo
name: Naddeo, Adele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a recent paper, by exploiting the notion of Morita equivalence for field theories on noncommutative tori and choosing rational values of the noncommutativity parameter $θ$ (in appropriate units), a general one-to-one correspondence between the $m$-reduced conformal field theory (CFT) describing a quantum Hall fluid (QHF) at paired states fillings $ν=% \frac{m}{pm+2}$ and an Abelian noncommutative field theory (NCFT) has been established . That allowed us to add new evidence to the relationship between noncommutativity and quantum Hall fluids\cite% {ncmanybody}. On the other hand, the $m$-reduced CFT is equivalent to a system of two massless scalar bosons with a magnetic boundary interaction as introduced by Callan et al., at the so called ``magic''\ points. We are then able to describe, within such a framework, the dissipative quantum mechanics of a particle confined to a plane and subject to an external magnetic field normal to it. Here we develop such a point of view by focusing on the case $m=2$ which corresponds to a quantum Hall bilayer. The key role of a localized impurity which couples the two layers is emphasized and the effect of noncommutativity in terms of generalized magnetic translations (GMT) is fully exploited. As a result, general GMT operators are introduced, in the form of a tensor product, which act on the QHF and defect space respectively, and a comprehensive study of their rich structure is performed.
description: 18 pages, 1 figure, accepted for publication in International Journal of Modern Physics A
title: Julia Lindqvist: a novel, and writing the unhappy queer ending
Creators: name: Hitchman, B
Publisher: name: Bath Spa University
Year: 2018

description: This thesis is composed of interlocking creative and critical components. Its purpose is to understand how I, a lesbian-identified author, might approach writing an unhappy ending for lesbian characters in my novel. In recent years, academic criticism has focused on reclaiming the unhappy ending as a 'political gift'. Meanwhile, in the mainstream media and on social media networked-reading sites, we find an alternative discourse, in which LGBT readers continue to express disenchantment with the disproportionate number of unhappy endings for LGBT characters. 'Julia Lindqvist' uses practice-based research to find answers (novel as thinking-machine), whilst the critical study provides a theoretical framework for the enquiry. In 'Writing the unhappy queer ending', I focus on five key works of fiction which have influenced my own creative practice: texts by Alan Hollinghurst, Emma Donoghue, Patricia Duncker, Sarah Waters and Patricia Highsmith. Revisiting the endings of these texts, I listen to what they have to tell me about the act of writing an unhappy ending. Contrasting the first draft ending of 'Julia Lindqvist' with the final version, I discuss the ways in which this critical enquiry has influenced the ending of the novel.
Celebrating 70: An Interview with Don Berry
Creators: name: Stangl, Dalene
name: Inoue, Lurdes Y. T.
name: Irony, Telba Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Donald (Don) Arthur Berry, born May 26, 1940 in Southbridge, Massachusetts, earned his A.B. degree in mathematics from Dartmouth College and his M.A. and Ph.D. in statistics from Yale University. He served first on the faculty at the University of Minnesota and subsequently held endowed chair positions at Duke University and The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Center. At the time of the interview he served as Head of the Division of Quantitative Sciences, and Chairman and Professor of the Department of Biostatistics at UT M.D. Anderson Center.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/11-STS366 the Statistical Science (http://www.imstat.org/sts/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Rhapsodomancy
Creators: name: McPherson, Kevin C.
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2007

description: Bibliography: p. 112-115
description: When formulating my thesis project three years ago, I proposed a poetics of failure. I hoped to investigate underlying ideologies of failure, redefining it as a means of fortuitous creation. Inspired by the Swedish poet Oyvind Fahlstrom, who stated in 1953 that "it is best if form and content are one" (75), I began to seek out suitable forms for my poetry. Eventually,] found two failed writing systems: Isaac Pitman's Shorthand and John Malone's Unifon. Both alphabets have distinct graphic qualities. Shorthand consists of rudimentary, visual units-lines and dashes-whereas Unifon consists mostly of characters derived r f om the English alphabet. The poetry in Rhapsodomancy argues that these two failed writing systems strive for the magical illusion of a perfect writing able to pair each phoneme with one symbol. My manuscript contends that, while this phonocentric endeavour might have failed, these obsolete alphabets remain invaluable resources for visual poetry.
REASSURE: A Self-contained Mechanism for Healing Software Using Rescue Points
Creators: name: Portokalidis, Georgios
name: Keromytis, Angelos D.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: Computer science

description: Software errors are frequently responsible for the limited availability of Internet Services, loss of data, and many security compromises. Self-healing using rescue points (RPs) is a mechanism that can be used to recover software from unforeseen errors until a more permanent remedy, like a patch or update, is available. We present REASSURE, a self-contained mechanism for recovering from such errors using RPs. Essentially, RPs are existing code locations that handle certain anticipated errors in the target application, usually by returning an error code. REASSURE enables the use of these locations to also handle unexpected faults. This is achieved by rolling back execution to a RP when a fault occurs, returning a valid error code, and enabling the application to gracefully handle the unexpected error itself. REASSURE can be applied on already running applications, while disabling and removing it is equally facile. We tested REASSURE with various applications, including the MySQL and Apache servers, and show that it allows them to successfully recover from errors, while incurring moderate overhead between 1% and 115%. We also show that even under very adverse conditions, like their continuous bombardment with errors, REASSURE protected applications remain operational.
Implements of enlightenment: indirect instruction in the yoga vasistha
Creators: name: McGee, John
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2007

description: Bibliography: p. 68-72
description: This study starts with Northrop Frye's notion that good teaching is ironic or indirect, in the sense that it engages the student and does not simply supply him or her with answers. I take this notion and apply it to the foga Vasistha, a Hindu scripture written between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries CE. This text teaches through a combination of philosophical discourse, sto­rytelling, and dialogue, and I explore how each of these, as it operates in the text, constitutes an indirect mode of instruction, wherein there is no opportunity for a passive or uncritical accep­tance of teachings, and where the student is ultimately obligated to embark on his or her own journey of, or toward, understanding.
RAS-Models: A Building Block for Self-Healing Benchmarks
Creators: name: Griffith, Rean
name: Virmani, Ritika
name: Kaiser, Gail E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2007
Subjects: Computer science

description: To evaluate the efficacy of self-healing systems a rigorous, objective, quantitative benchmarking methodology is needed. However, developing such a benchmark is a non-trivial task given the many evaluation issues to be resolved, including but not limited to: quantifying the impacts of faults, analyzing various styles of healing (reactive, preventative, proactive), accounting for partially automated healing and accounting for incomplete/imperfect healing. We posit, however,that it is possible to realize a self-healing benchmark using a collection of analytical techniques and practical tools as building blocks. This paper highlights the flexibility of one analytical tool, the Reliability, Availability and Serviceability (RAS) model, and illustrates its power and relevance to the problem of evaluating self-healing mechanisms/systems, when combined with practical tools for fault-injection.
Brane Geometry and Dimer Models
Creators: name: He, Yang-Hui
name: Jejjala, Vishnu
name: Rodriguez-Gomez, Diego
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The field content and interactions of almost all known gauge theories in AdS_5/CFT_4 can be expressed in terms of dimer models or bipartite graphs drawn on a torus. Associated with the fundamental cell is a complex structure parameter tau_R. Based on the brane realization of these theories, we can specify a special Lagrangian (SLag) torus fibration that is the natural candidate to be identified as the torus on which the dimer lives. Using the metrics known in the literature, we compute the complex structure tau_G of this torus. For the theories on C^3 and the conifold and for orbifolds thereof tau_R = tau_G. However, for more complicated examples, we show that the two complex structures cannot be equal and yet, remarkably, differ only by a few percent. We leave the explanation for this extraordinary proximity as an open challenge.
description: 29 pages, 4 figures, LaTeX; v.2: references added
Co-digestion of agricultural, municipal and agro-industrial wastes in rural communities
Creators: name: McDonald, Tanya
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2007

description: Bibliography: p. 191-207
description: Some pages are in colour.
description: n rural communities, such as Olds, Alberta, energy may be produced though anaerobic co­digestion of municipal, agricultural and agro-industrial wastes. An inventory within a 40km radius of Olds revealed that almost 600,000 tonnes of waste are generated annually (98.4% manure) with an electrical potential of 83 GWh. Analysis of beef, hog, dairy and poultry manure, offal, food, grass and biosolids identified the potential for waste blending to optimize solids content and nutrient balance. In laborat01y tests, biogas yield increased from 0.382 m3/kg volatile solid (VS) with beef manure to 0.513 m3/kg VS with co-digestion of 30% hog manure, and 0.500 m3/kg VS with 30% offal. In pilot tests, methane content was increased from 58% to 63% through co-digestion of beef manure with beef manure. The increased yield observed in the laboratory tests was not confirmed due to process inhibition and the limited capability for process control in the pilot digesters.
A biochemical perspective on the fate of virgin olive oil phenolic compounds in vivo
Creators: name: Costa, Marlene
name: Costa, Vânia
name: Lopes, Margarida
name: Paiva-Martins, Fátima
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified

description: The chemistry of the phenolic compounds found in virgin olive oil (VOO) is very complex due, not only to the different classes of polyphenols that can be found in it, but, above all, due to the existence of a very specific phenol class found only in oleaceae plants: the secoiridoids. Searching in the Scopus data base the keywords flavonoid, phenolic acid, lignin and secoiridoid, we can find a number of 148174, 79435, 11326 and 1392 research articles respectively, showing how little is devote to the latter class of compounds. Moreover, in contrast with other classes, that include only phenolic compounds, secoiridoids may include phenolic and non-phenolic compounds, being the articles concerning phenolic secoiridoids much less than the half of the abovementioned articles. Therefore, it is important to clarify the structures of these compounds and their chemistry, as this knowledge will help understand their bioactivity and metabolism studies, usually performed by researchers with a more health science’s related background. In this review, all the structures found in many research articles concerning VOO phenolic compounds chemistry and metabolism was gathered, with a special attention devoted to the secoiridoids, the main phenolic compound class found in olives, VOO and olive leaf.
Mn local moments prevent superconductivity in iron-pnictides Ba(Fe 1-x Mn x)2As2
Creators: name: Texier, Y.
name: Laplace, Y.
name: Mendels, P.
name: Park, J. T.
name: Friemel, G.
name: Sun, D. L.
name: Inosov, D. S.
name: Lin, C. T.
name: Bobroff, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: 75As nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments were performed on Ba(Fe1-xMnx)2As2 (xMn = 2.5%, 5% and 12%) single crystals. The Fe layer magnetic susceptibility far from Mn atoms is probed by the75As NMR line shift and is found similar to that of BaFe2As2, implying that Mn does not induce charge doping. A satellite line associated with the Mn nearest neighbours (n.n.) of 75As displays a Curie-Weiss shift which demonstrates that Mn carries a local magnetic moment. This is confirmed by the main line broadening typical of a RKKY-like Mn-induced staggered spin polarization. The Mn moment is due to the localization of the additional Mn hole. These findings explain why Mn does not induce superconductivity in the pnictides contrary to other dopants such as Co, Ni, Ru or K.
description: 6 pages, 7 figures
title: Mary Dawson and Newton Park Training College: education, teacher training and expressions of citizenship in the long 1950s
Creators: name: James, K.E
Publisher: name: Bath Spa University
Year: 2019

description: Following the Second World War, revolutionary changes to national education resulted in a huge demand for teachers. It was women who stepped into this void, taking advantage of a profession which combined present opportunity and future flexibility. This thesis provides a case study of one establishment which trained such teachers. Newton Park Training College was founded in 1946, under the leadership of Mary Dawson, who served as Principal until her retirement in 1968. Dawson, as a university-educated woman herself, is part of a significant network of women who led the training colleges over this period, and she used the rhetoric and ethos of citizenship to validate the development of women’s participation throughout the teaching profession. This study argues that, as part of a widely expanding educational sector in an era of post-war reconstruction, women teachers were integral to public life and were able to demonstrate their personal agency and conduct their own lives in ways not possible for previous generations. This led to a new confidence for many women, who in turn served as conduits for change for those who followed. The period of the long 1950s presented women with a number of contrasting choices, of which the media image of the ‘lipsticked and aproned’ woman at home remains dominant. Such imagery presents much of the period as offering limited opportunity to women, yet this assumption is belied by the increasing visibility of married women engaged in public life, and the expectation of the women themselves that their contributions as active and responsible citizens were vital to national life. The thesis focuses on just one woman, one college, and a small group of students. But in doing so it unpacks the changing nature of a period of history in which women were able to exploit a public life through teaching. It adds to the knowledge of women teachers in the period and makes an original contribution through the in-depth analysis of one institution and its leader, and makes further contributions to scholarship in several areas. Specifically, these feature country house history in the post-war period, biographical and institutional history, and the contribution made by women like Dawson and her students through education in the twentieth century. The story of Newton Park College provides an assessment of the longer-term impact of women’s education and forces a reconsideration of the significance of this era. It also reinforces and complements recent scholarship which establishes the long 1950s as part of the continuity of progress towards women’s equality over the course of the twentieth century.
Anisotropic evolution of 5D Friedmann-Robertson-Walker spacetime
Creators: name: Middleton, Chad A.
name: Stanley, Ethan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the time evolution of the five-dimensional Einstein field equations subjected to a flat, anisotropic Robertson-Walker metric, where the 3D and higher-dimensional scale factors are allowed to dynamically evolve at different rates. By adopting equations of state relating the 3D and higher-dimensional pressures to the density, we obtain an exact expression relating the higher-dimensional scale factor to a function of the 3D scale factor. This relation allows us to write the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker field equations exclusively in terms of the 3D scale factor, thus yielding a set of 4D effective Friedmann-Robertson-Walker field equations. We examine the effective field equations in the general case and obtain an exact expression relating a function of the 3D scale factor to the time. This expression involves a hypergeometric function and cannot, in general, be inverted to yield an analytical expression for the 3D scale factor as a function of time. When the hypergeometric function is expanded for small and large arguments, we obtain a generalized treatment of the dynamical compactification scenario of Mohammedi [Phys.Rev.D 65, 104018 (2002)] and the 5D vacuum solution of Chodos and Detweiler [Phys.Rev.D 21, 2167 (1980)], respectively. By expanding the hypergeometric function near a branch point, we obtain the perturbative solution for the 3D scale factor in the small time regime. This solution exhibits accelerated expansion, which, remarkably, is independent of the value of the 4D equation of state parameter w. This early-time epoch of accelerated expansion arises naturally out of the anisotropic evolution of 5D spacetime when the pressure in the extra dimension is negative and offers a possible alternative to scalar field inflationary theory.
description: 20 pages, 4 figures, paper format streamlined with main results emphasized and details pushed to appendixes, current version matches that of published version
Optimizing Sequential Cycles Through Shannon Decomposition and Retiming
Creators: name: Soviani, Cristian
name: Tardieu, Olivier
name: Edwards, Stephen A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2007
Subjects: Computer science

description: Optimizing sequential cycles is essential for many types of high-performance circuits, such as pipelines for packet processing. Retiming is a powerful technique for speeding pipelines, but it is stymied by tight sequential cycles. Designers usually attack such cycles by manually combining Shannon decomposition with retiming-effectively a form of speculation-but such manual decomposition is error prone. We propose an efficient algorithm that simultaneously applies Shannon decomposition and retiming to optimize circuits with tight sequential cycles. While the algorithm is only able to improve certain circuits (roughly half of the benchmarks we tried), the performance increase can be dramatic (7%-61%) with only a modest increase in area (1%-12%). The algorithm is also fast, making it a practical addition to a synthesis flow.
Deterministic multidimensional growth model for small-world networks
Creators: name: Peng, Aoyuan
name: Zhang, Lianming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We proposed a deterministic multidimensional growth model for small-world networks. The model can characterize the distinguishing properties of many real-life networks with geometric space structure. Our results show the model possesses small-world effect: larger clustering coefficient and smaller characteristic path length. We also obtain some accurate results for its properties including degree distribution, clustering coefficient and network diameter and discuss them. It is also worth noting that we get an accurate analytical expression for calculating the characteristic path length. We verify numerically and experimentally these main features.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures
title: 'The black turnip': an invitation to Poland & "The fantasy of flight," or, escape in contemporary Jewish narrative: reading my memoir through the Jewish picaresque
Creators: name: Weinberg, D
Publisher: name: Bath Spa University
Year: 2019

description: This thesis contains two linked parts: (1) my memoir, 'The Black Turnip'; and (2) a contextualizing essay, 'The "Fantasy Of Flight," Or, Escape In Contemporary Jewish Narrative: Reading My Memoir Through The Jewish Picaresque'. The memoir, 'The Black Turnip', is narrated by a young, naive, bumbling Jewish American woman who accepts an invitation to a theatre conference in Poland. While learning more about the country from which her grandfather escaped, she becomes obsessed with Polish theatre. Improbably, she decides to become a Polish theatre artist herself. This story is my own story, drawn from memory. In the contextualizing essay, I read 'The Black Turnip' in the company of four works that influenced my writing: one critical analysis and three narratives. I consider Miriam Udel's 'Never Better! The Modern Jewish Picaresque' (2016) and novels or memoirs by Philip Roth (1979), Jonathan Safran Foer (2002), and Roz Chast (2014). I explore how features of Miriam Udel's Jewish picaresque (i.e., escapism, avoidance of adulthood, episodic narrative, etc.) manifest in my memoir and other American Jewish narratives. Throughout this thesis, I examine the literary strategies that American Jewish writers use to portray the desire to escape from some part of their family, history, culture, or circumstances. I intend for this thesis to be read by fellow writers, especially those working with Jewish narrative, writing from diaspora cultures, or exploring avoidance in the context of cultural memory. I seek to demonstrate that a writer's escapism can be productive from a literary standpoint, and generative of renewed cultural understanding. I hope this thesis will be of interest to other writers of diaspora literature, especially those who are working with the memory of a shared, complex, and sometimes troubling historic past. This thesis may shed light on the possibilities of a picaresque sensibility for such projects.