cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Curator Takes Vacation Only to Visit More Museums: How Taking My Work With Me Changed Everything
Creators: name: Bell, Austin
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2013

description: This resource is a single blog post created as part of the Day of Archaeology initiative. The Day of Archaeology project aimed to provide a window into the daily lives of archaeologists from all over the world. The project asked people working, studying or volunteering in the archaeological world to participate in a 'Day of Archaeology' each year by recording their day and sharing it through text, images or video on the Day of Archaeology blog.
The project asked anyone with a personal, professional or voluntary interest in archaeology to get involved, and help highlight the reasons why archaeology is vital to protect the past and inform our futures. The resulting Day of Archaeology project archive demonstrates the wide variety of work the archaeological profession undertakes day-to-day across the globe, and helps to raise public awareness of the relevance and importance of archaeology to the modern world.
The first ever Day of Archaeology was held in 2011 and, since then, the project had thousands of archaeologists take part in the event, from those working in the field through to specialists working in laboratories and behind computers. The last Day of Archaeology was on Friday 28th July 2017.
A evaluating soil water drainage of a humid mountain forest site in southwestern British Columbia by two field techniques
Creators: name: Cheng, Jie-Dar
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: This study was based on the premise that watershed management on mountainous forested land generally, and in the Coast Mountains of British Columbia more specifically, will be benefitted by further knowledge of soil water drainage from the root zone of forested soils and by such development of methods of measuring soil water drainage as will make increased sampling more feasible. The study was concerned with (1) the development and application of two methods for evaluating soil water drainage; a tension lysimeter system and a method based on Darcy's equation, (2) the exploration of the relationship between rainfall, soil water drainage and streamflow. It was carried out at a forest site of Jamieson Creek Experimental Watershed in the upper Seymour River basin, southwestern B.C. near Vancouver. The tension lysimeter system incorporated a simple capability for manually regulating suction on the lysimeter plate in close conformity with the tension in surrounding soil and also a lysimeter plate that ensured satisfactory hydraulic contact between it and the soil. The application of Darcy's equation for calculating soil water drainage was based on field determinations of both soil hydraulic conductivity and hydraulic gradient at the study site. Soil water drainage rates measured by the tension lysimeter system and those calculated by Darcy's equation showed good agreement, although the former were consistently and slightly higher. It was concluded that each method can provide reasonable estimates of soil water drainage and may be particularly useful in developing countries where a cheap labor source permits extensive and frequent soil water drainage sampling within a watershed. Soil water drainage amounts obtained by these two methods during each of two drying periods were in good agreement with those estimated from a water balance equation. Possible sources of error associated with soil water drainage measurements by tension lysimeter and by the method of Darcy's equation are discussed and possible improvements suggested. This study also indicated that, in the humid coastal region of southwestern British Columbia, soil water drainage is a major component of water balance for the root zone of forested soil and deserves further study. The time trends of soil water drainage were found to be similar to that of streamflow from the small watershed containing the study site. This suggests that the geologic, edaphic, topographical, climatological conditions favor a large and direct contribution of root zone soil water drainage to streamflow.
On selecting a fraction of leaves with disjoint neighborhoods in a plane tree
Creators: name: Junginger, Kolja
name: Mantas, Ioannis
name: Papadopoulou, Evanthia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computational Geometry (cs.CG)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present a generalization of a combinatorial result by Aggarwal, Guibas, Saxe and Shor [Discrete & Computational Geometry, 1989] on a linear-time algorithm that selects a constant fraction of leaves, with pairwise disjoint neighborhoods, from a binary tree embedded in the plane. This result of Aggarwal et al. is essential to the linear-time framework, which they also introduced, that computes certain Voronoi diagrams of points with a tree structure in linear time. An example is the diagram computed while updating the Voronoi diagram of points after deletion of one site. Our generalization allows that only a fraction of the tree leaves is considered, and it is motivated by linear-time Voronoi constructions for non-point sites. We are given a plane tree $T$ of $n$ leaves, $m$ of which have been marked, and each marked leaf is associated with a neighborhood (a subtree of $T$) such that any two topologically consecutive marked leaves have disjoint neighborhoods. We show how to select in linear time a constant fraction of the marked leaves having pairwise disjoint neighborhoods.
description: 17 pages, 9 figures
Volunteering at the Grave Creek Mound
Creators: name: Klug, Jane
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2013

description: This resource is a single blog post created as part of the Day of Archaeology initiative. The Day of Archaeology project aimed to provide a window into the daily lives of archaeologists from all over the world. The project asked people working, studying or volunteering in the archaeological world to participate in a 'Day of Archaeology' each year by recording their day and sharing it through text, images or video on the Day of Archaeology blog.
The project asked anyone with a personal, professional or voluntary interest in archaeology to get involved, and help highlight the reasons why archaeology is vital to protect the past and inform our futures. The resulting Day of Archaeology project archive demonstrates the wide variety of work the archaeological profession undertakes day-to-day across the globe, and helps to raise public awareness of the relevance and importance of archaeology to the modern world.
The first ever Day of Archaeology was held in 2011 and, since then, the project had thousands of archaeologists take part in the event, from those working in the field through to specialists working in laboratories and behind computers. The last Day of Archaeology was on Friday 28th July 2017.
Implicit Modeling of Non-rigid Objects with Cross-Category Signals
Creators: name: Liu, Yuchun
name: Planche, Benjamin
name: Zheng, Meng
name: Gao, Zhongpai
name: Sibut-Bourde, Pierre
name: Yang, Fan
name: Chen, Terrence
name: Wu, Ziyan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Deep implicit functions (DIFs) have emerged as a potent and articulate means of representing 3D shapes. However, methods modeling object categories or non-rigid entities have mainly focused on single-object scenarios. In this work, we propose MODIF, a multi-object deep implicit function that jointly learns the deformation fields and instance-specific latent codes for multiple objects at once. Our emphasis is on non-rigid, non-interpenetrating entities such as organs. To effectively capture the interrelation between these entities and ensure precise, collision-free representations, our approach facilitates signaling between category-specific fields to adequately rectify shapes. We also introduce novel inter-object supervision: an attraction-repulsion loss is formulated to refine contact regions between objects. Our approach is demonstrated on various medical benchmarks, involving modeling different groups of intricate anatomical entities. Experimental results illustrate that our model can proficiently learn the shape representation of each organ and their relations to others, to the point that shapes missing from unseen instances can be consistently recovered by our method. Finally, MODIF can also propagate semantic information throughout the population via accurate point correspondences
description: Accepted at AAAI 2024. Paper + supplementary material
Day of Archaeology at Dundurn Castle National Historic Site in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Creators: name: Brooks, Meagan
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2013

description: This resource is a single blog post created as part of the Day of Archaeology initiative. The Day of Archaeology project aimed to provide a window into the daily lives of archaeologists from all over the world. The project asked people working, studying or volunteering in the archaeological world to participate in a 'Day of Archaeology' each year by recording their day and sharing it through text, images or video on the Day of Archaeology blog.
The project asked anyone with a personal, professional or voluntary interest in archaeology to get involved, and help highlight the reasons why archaeology is vital to protect the past and inform our futures. The resulting Day of Archaeology project archive demonstrates the wide variety of work the archaeological profession undertakes day-to-day across the globe, and helps to raise public awareness of the relevance and importance of archaeology to the modern world.
The first ever Day of Archaeology was held in 2011 and, since then, the project had thousands of archaeologists take part in the event, from those working in the field through to specialists working in laboratories and behind computers. The last Day of Archaeology was on Friday 28th July 2017.
Secure and Accurate Summation of Many Floating-Point Numbers
Creators: name: Blanton, Marina
name: Goodrich, Michael T.
name: Yuan, Chen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Motivated by the importance of floating-point computations, we study the problem of securely and accurately summing many floating-point numbers. Prior work has focused on security absent accuracy or accuracy absent security, whereas our approach achieves both of them. Specifically, we show how to implement floating-point superaccumulators using secure multi-party computation techniques, so that a number of participants holding secret shares of floating-point numbers can accurately compute their sum while keeping the individual values private.
description: Corrected version of the paper published at PETS 2023
A day with Macedonian archaeology - "Kokolov Rid" (VIDEO)
Creators: name: Archaeologica
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2013

description: This resource is a single blog post created as part of the Day of Archaeology initiative. The Day of Archaeology project aimed to provide a window into the daily lives of archaeologists from all over the world. The project asked people working, studying or volunteering in the archaeological world to participate in a 'Day of Archaeology' each year by recording their day and sharing it through text, images or video on the Day of Archaeology blog.
The project asked anyone with a personal, professional or voluntary interest in archaeology to get involved, and help highlight the reasons why archaeology is vital to protect the past and inform our futures. The resulting Day of Archaeology project archive demonstrates the wide variety of work the archaeological profession undertakes day-to-day across the globe, and helps to raise public awareness of the relevance and importance of archaeology to the modern world.
The first ever Day of Archaeology was held in 2011 and, since then, the project had thousands of archaeologists take part in the event, from those working in the field through to specialists working in laboratories and behind computers. The last Day of Archaeology was on Friday 28th July 2017.
How Can Renewable Energy Help Contribute to the Development of the MENA Countries?
Creators: name: Menichetti, Emanuela
name: El Gharras, Abdelghani
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: energy issues
Middle East
geopolitics
renewable energy
MENA region

description: Increasing energy demand, for electricity in particular, and energy security concerns, a sharp cost reduction in renewable energy technologies and socio-economic benefits as well as environmental issues are all considerations that have played an important role in advancing the deployment of renewable energy technologies throughout the world. The MENA region is no exception, and it could benefit significantly from a wide-scale deployment of renewable energy. The MENA region currently hosts a minor share of total global renewable electricity capacity, and its development is especially low in energy-exporting countries. In recent years, several targets have been set by MENA countries for the development of renewable energy technologies but the implementation speed has been disappointing so far, with the exception of few countries. Based on the analysis conducted in this note, real potential impact could be gained should the renewable energy national plans and objectives announced by the individual governments be achieved in a timely manner.

This publication is part of the MENARA Future Notes series which in the form of policy briefs analyse ongoing events in the SEMCs and Middle East region, emphasising the implications for the EU, suggesting the best policy options and assessing plausible and preferable future scenarios.
A day at Complutum Roman city (Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain)
Creators: name: Rascón, Sebastián
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2013

description: This resource is a single blog post created as part of the Day of Archaeology initiative. The Day of Archaeology project aimed to provide a window into the daily lives of archaeologists from all over the world. The project asked people working, studying or volunteering in the archaeological world to participate in a 'Day of Archaeology' each year by recording their day and sharing it through text, images or video on the Day of Archaeology blog.
The project asked anyone with a personal, professional or voluntary interest in archaeology to get involved, and help highlight the reasons why archaeology is vital to protect the past and inform our futures. The resulting Day of Archaeology project archive demonstrates the wide variety of work the archaeological profession undertakes day-to-day across the globe, and helps to raise public awareness of the relevance and importance of archaeology to the modern world.
The first ever Day of Archaeology was held in 2011 and, since then, the project had thousands of archaeologists take part in the event, from those working in the field through to specialists working in laboratories and behind computers. The last Day of Archaeology was on Friday 28th July 2017.
A day with Macedonian archaeology - HOARD OF BILLON TRACHEA FROM THE SKOPJE FORTRESS
Creators: name: Archaeologica
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2013

description: This resource is a single blog post created as part of the Day of Archaeology initiative. The Day of Archaeology project aimed to provide a window into the daily lives of archaeologists from all over the world. The project asked people working, studying or volunteering in the archaeological world to participate in a 'Day of Archaeology' each year by recording their day and sharing it through text, images or video on the Day of Archaeology blog.
The project asked anyone with a personal, professional or voluntary interest in archaeology to get involved, and help highlight the reasons why archaeology is vital to protect the past and inform our futures. The resulting Day of Archaeology project archive demonstrates the wide variety of work the archaeological profession undertakes day-to-day across the globe, and helps to raise public awareness of the relevance and importance of archaeology to the modern world.
The first ever Day of Archaeology was held in 2011 and, since then, the project had thousands of archaeologists take part in the event, from those working in the field through to specialists working in laboratories and behind computers. The last Day of Archaeology was on Friday 28th July 2017.
Disordered driven lattice gases with boundary reservoirs and Langmuir kinetics
Creators: name: Greulich, Philip
name: Schadschneider, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The asymmetric simple exclusion process with additional Langmuir kinetics, i.e. attachment and detachment in the bulk, is a paradigmatic model for intracellular transport. Here we study this model in the presence of randomly distributed inhomogeneities ('defects'). Using Monte Carlo simulations, we find a multitude of coexisting high- and low-density domains. The results are generic for one-dimensional driven diffusive systems with short-range interactions and can be understood in terms of a local extremal principle for the current profile. This principle is used to determine current profiles and phase diagrams as well as statistical properties of ensembles of defect samples.
description: submitted for publishing
Effective Time Reversal Symmetry Breaking and Energy Spectra of Graphene Armchair Rings
Creators: name: Luo, Tianhuan
name: Iyengar, A. P.
name: Fertig, H. A.
name: Brey, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the energy spectra and wavefunctions of graphene rings formed from metallic armchair ribbons, near zero energy, to search for properties which may be identified with "effective broken time reversal symmetry" (EBTRS). Appropriately chosen corner junctions are shown to impose phase shifts in the wavefunctions that at low energies have the same effect as effective flux tubes passing near the ribbon surface. Closing the ribbon into a ring captures this flux and yields properties that may be understood as signatures of EBTRS. These include a gap in the spectrum around zero energy, which can be removed by the application of real magnetic flux through the ring. Spectra of five and seven sided rings are also examined, and it is shown these do not have particle-hole symmetry, which may also be understood as a consequence of EBTRS, and is connected to the curvature induced in the system when such rings are formed. Effects of deviations from the ideal geometries on the spectra are also examined.
description: 11 pages, 12 figures
Inclusive Gluon Production in the QCD Reggeon Field Theory: Pomeron Loops Included
Creators: name: Altinoluk, Tolga
name: Kovner, Alex
name: Lublinsky, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We continue the study of hadronic scattering amplitudes at high energy by systematically including nonlinear effects of finite partonic density in hadronic wave function as well as the effects of multiple rescatterings in the scattering process. In this paper we derive expressions for a single inclusive gluon production amplitude and multigluon inclusive production amplitudes when the rapidities of all observed gluons are not very different. We show that at leading order these observables exhibit a semiclassical structure. Beyond the semiclassical result, we find that the gluon emission has some characteristic features different from the JIMWLK and KLWMIJ limits in that the gluons are not emitted independently in rapidity space, but have a correlated component with correlation length (in rapidity space) of order one. We demonstrate the consistency between this feature of the multigluon observables and the Hamiltonian of the QCD Reggeon Field Theory ($H_{RFT}$) derived in the companion paper \cite{rft}. We also show that the evolution of these observables with total rapidity of the process is generated by $H_{RFT}$ of \cite{rft}. We discuss whether this evolution is equivalent to evolution with $H_{JIMWLK}$ as far as this set of observables is concerned.
description: 26 pages
Vidia Naipaul - artist of the absurd.
Creators: name: Zinkhan, Elaine Joan
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: This thesis acknowledges that the philosophical basis of the novels and short stories of Vidia Naipaul bears a significant resemblance to the tenets of Absurdity set out in Albert Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus and witnessed in various other Absurdist writings. At the same time it attempts to demonstrate that Naipaul's Absurdist vision reflects a Zeitgeist fundamental to the West Indies. It in no way suggests, however, that Naipaul consciously imitated the thoughts of Camus or others, or that he deliberately set out to circumscribe West Indian feelings. Chapter One attempts to demonstrate that Naipaul's most crucial perceptions of life have been those of disorientation and futility. It then shows where awareness of an inharmonious existence has been especially prevalent in the twentieth century, and it goes on to examine in some detail the discovery of the Absurd Conjunction between the world and individual consciousness articulated by Camus in The Myth of Sisyphus. In addition it describes the alternatives which Camus and other Absurdist writers advance to counter-act the anguish of Absurd Discovery. The second chapter begins by revealing the relationship between the absurd as "ridiculous" and the Absurd as "anguish", demonstrating that while Naipaul's perception of the irreducibility of the world is more central to his later works, it begins already in his earlier ones. It then goes on to discuss various aspects of Absurd Discovery which appear in Naipaul’s fiction: discovery of the isolation of man; discovery of the hostility of the world to the desires of man; and discovery of the disparity between the possible and the actual. Chapter Three shows how Naipaul's characters respond to the challenge of meaninglessness with both negation and affirmation. Although his characters frequently submit to despondency, this is in most cases only an initial reaction. In a vein similar to that of Camus, Naipaul implies that the Absurd would best be confronted by rebellion, creativity, personal involvement or, barring all else, ironic assessment. The final chapter demonstrates that the world of Vidia Naipaul - the disorder to which he attests and the alternatives he offers - while exhibiting sentiments essential to the European Absurdists, also mirrors experiences general to the West Indies.. Rather than dissecting with dispassionate superiority a background from which he has had occasion to feel alienated, Naipaul has sensitively illuminated a geographical region which, both historically and sociologically, has come to encompass its own especial Sisyphean sphere.
Power, care and knowledge: The co-construction of 'good mothering' in interactions between low-income mothers and child and family health nurses
Creators: name: Shepherd, ML
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: In this study I explore how good mothering is negotiated and constructed between low-income mothers and child and family health (CFH) nurses. Mothers' interactions with CFH nurses are an almost universal aspect of child-raising. The institutional role of CFH nurses is to support and guide mothers in raising their children within constructions of socially acceptable practice. Thus, the interaction is a site of regulation. Grounded in caring, nurses construct their role within a humanistic approach, focusing on care and empowerment, aiming for a collaborative relationship with mothers. This care (or relational) approach, however, sits in tension with their institutional (regulatory) role, particularly when constructions of good mothering are contested. Good mother ideologies are a powerful influence on the social regulation of mothers. Medico-scientific discourses, such as those around health and risk, shape the social constructions of mothers and mothering practices. Thus, alternative constructions of mothering ‚Äö- particularly non-middle-class and lay representations of motherhood - are marginalised, with some mothering practices compared unfavourably to elements of dominant good mother ideologies. This has implications for nurse-mother interactions as mothers' knowledges can be subordinated to the expertise and knowledge of nurses. In this qualitative study I use Foucauldian concepts of power and adopt a constructionist and interpretive approach using observation and interview methods. The findings reveal firstly that nurses' professional expertise and authority formed the basis of the relationships. However, mothers and nurses understanding of the role of expertise differed. Nurses were uncomfortable with using their knowledge and authority to direct mothers' behaviours, as this may undermine the relationship, or claim to an ethic of care. Mothers, however, sought nurses primarily for their expertise rather than a personal relationship, although for some mothers the relationship was a source of interpersonal support. Mothers also resisted nurses' authority to define good mothering practices by asserting their own definitions of good practices or good mother identity. Secondly, mothers and nurses implicitly reference good mother ideologies. Good mother identity was negotiated in both uncontested and contested ways. In uncontested negotiations, good mothering was affirmed or accomplished together. Where there was not a shared understanding of good mothering practices, nurses' authority was resisted as mothers redefined good mothering practices by calling on their own authority and contextualised, experiential and child-specific knowledge. I argue that constructions of good mothering are negotiated within the encounters with both mothers and nurses calling on their own knowledges and expertise to come to a shared understanding of good mothering.
Assessment of a percutaneous iliosacral screw insertion simulator
Creators: name: Tonetti, J.
name: Vadcard, L.
name: Girard, P.
name: Dubois, M.
name: Merloz, P.
name: Troccaz, Jocelyne
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Other Computer Science (cs.OH)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: BACKGROUND: Navigational simulator use for specialized training purposes is rather uncommon in orthopaedic and trauma surgery. However, it reveals providing a valuable tool to train orthopaedic surgeons and help them to plan complex surgical procedures. PURPOSE: This work's objective was to assess educational efficiency of a path simulator under fluoroscopic guidance applied to sacroiliac joint percutaneous screw fixation. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We evaluated 23 surgeons' accuracy inserting a guide-wire in a human cadaver experiment, following a pre-established procedure. These medical trainees were defined in three prospective respects: novice or skilled; with or without theoretical knowledge; with or without surgical procedure familiarity. Analysed criteria for each tested surgeon included the number of intraoperative X-rays taken in order to achieve the surgical procedure as well as an iatrogenic index reflecting the surgeon's ability to detect any hazardous trajectory at the time of performing said procedure. RESULTS: An average number of 13 X-rays was required for wire implantation by the G1 group. G2 group, assisted by the simulator use, required an average of 10 X-rays. A substantial difference was especially observed within the novice sub-group (N), with an average of 12.75 X-rays for the G1 category and an average of 8.5 X-rays for the G2 category. As far as the iatrogenic index is concerned, we were unable to observe any significant difference between the groups.
In what ways do policy and planning deliver quality urban public open space? : perspectives from Southern Tasmania
Creators: name: Boss, Indra
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Hobart the state capital of Tasmania is sited along the Derwent Estuary surrounded by tracts of open space. Spread across several local council areas the capital requires new approaches to the planning and deployment of core infrastructures. Several Federal Government initiatives focusing on the design of Australian cities have linked federal funding to the development of integrated capital city plans. The stated objectives of these initiatives are to ensure that Australian cities are able to compete for investment by providing liveable and socially inclusive cities; cities capable of meeting future growth demands. Public open space is seen as making a significant contribution to the achievement of these objectives. The aim of this qualitative study was to gain an understanding of planning processes and policies relating to the delivery of Urban Public Open Space (UPOS) in order to assess whether the current planning reforms underway in Tasmania are likely to deliver on the stated objectives of the Southern Tasmanian Regional Land Use Strategy 2010- 1035 (STRLUS). Mixed research methodologies were employed to glean information from a variety of sources. Thematic analysis, of interviews with eighteen key stakeholders resulted in a number of themes. The first theme focused on the legislative constraints imposed on Councils as Planning Authorities including the very definition of Public Open Space. The second theme pertained to resourcing constraints both from a financial and skilled recourse perspective. The third theme focused on integration challenges, within councils, between council's as land owners at a regional level and between councils and other public land owners. The fourth theme dealt with the difficulties in identifying the direct and indirect quantifiable benefits of UPOS. All themes were found to be interrelated indicating the complexity of UPOS planning and management at various scales. In conclusion the research results indicate that the current approach to planning and management of UPOS in the Greater Hobart area is unlikely to ensure that sufficient quality public open space will be delivered and maintained during the implementation of the Southern Tasmanian Regional Land Use Strategy 2010- 2035.
Final State Interactions, T-odd PDFs & the Lensing Function
Creators: name: Gamberg, Leonard
name: Schlegel, Marc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has been suggested that under certain approximations the Sivers effect can be described in terms of factorization of final state interactions and a spatial distortion of impact parameter space parton distribution; that is a convolution of the so-called lensing function and the impact parameter GPD $E$. In this approach the lensing function is calculated in a non-perturbative eikonal model. This enables a comparison between the a priori distinct Sivers function and the GPD $E$ which goes beyond the discussion of overall signs.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures, misprints corrected: To appear in the Proceedings of the 10th Conference on the Intersection of Particle and Nuclear Physics (CIPANP 2009) San Diego, CA, 25-31 May 2009
Archaeology in London
Creators: name: James, Arwen
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2013

description: This resource is a single blog post created as part of the Day of Archaeology initiative. The Day of Archaeology project aimed to provide a window into the daily lives of archaeologists from all over the world. The project asked people working, studying or volunteering in the archaeological world to participate in a 'Day of Archaeology' each year by recording their day and sharing it through text, images or video on the Day of Archaeology blog.
The project asked anyone with a personal, professional or voluntary interest in archaeology to get involved, and help highlight the reasons why archaeology is vital to protect the past and inform our futures. The resulting Day of Archaeology project archive demonstrates the wide variety of work the archaeological profession undertakes day-to-day across the globe, and helps to raise public awareness of the relevance and importance of archaeology to the modern world.
The first ever Day of Archaeology was held in 2011 and, since then, the project had thousands of archaeologists take part in the event, from those working in the field through to specialists working in laboratories and behind computers. The last Day of Archaeology was on Friday 28th July 2017.
The school experiences of females with Asperger syndrome: The recollections of adults and perspectives of parents.
Creators: name: Jarman, BC
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: In this qualitative study, the school experiences of females with Asperger's Syndrome (AS) were examined. A total of 32 participants (24 adults with AS, 8 parents of daughters with AS) completed an anonymous online survey with 8 open-ended questions in regards to their, or their daughter's, school experiences. Participants described their, or their daughter's experiences with issues such as a lack of teacher understanding of AS, particularly in regards to females, and the social difficulties experienced by females with AS at school, such as a high incidence of bullying, feeling different from their peers, difficulties developing and maintaining friendships, and a vulnerability to mental health concerns. In addition, participants also discussed helpful and unhelpful teaching strategies, and academic experiences. Results from this study indicate there is a need for further teacher education in regards to AS and its associated characteristics and challenges, particularly in regards to females. In addition, the results have suggested that the social aspects of school are particularly challenging for many female students with AS, and that females with AS are vulnerable to developing mental health problems. Implications of these findings, as well as recommendations and suggestions for further research are discussed.
Diktaturen, Bürgerkriege und Machtteilung in fragmentierten Gesellschaften: Syrien, Bahrain, Libanon und Irak im Vergleich
Creators: name: Rosiny, Stephan
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: DDC::9** Geschichte und Geografie::95* Geschichte Asiens::956 Geschichte des Nahen Ostens (Mittleren Ostens)

description: Anfang 2011 kam es in fast allen arabischen Ländern zu Protesten und Aufständen, denen ähnliche Konfliktstrukturen zugrunde liegen: Autoritäre Regime, die sich meist säkular-nationalistisch legitimieren, verloren massiv an Legitimität, weil sie ihre Versprechen von Unabhängigkeit, Freiheit, Gleichheit und wirtschaftlichem Fortschritt nicht erfüllten.
STELLAR: Siamese Multi-Headed Attention Neural Networks for Overcoming Temporal Variations and Device Heterogeneity with Indoor Localization
Creators: name: Gufran, Danish
name: Tiku, Saideep
name: Pasricha, Sudeep
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Smartphone-based indoor localization has emerged as a cost-effective and accurate solution to localize mobile and IoT devices indoors. However, the challenges of device heterogeneity and temporal variations have hindered its widespread adoption and accuracy. Towards jointly addressing these challenges comprehensively, we propose STELLAR, a novel framework implementing a contrastive learning approach that leverages a Siamese multi-headed attention neural network. STELLAR is the first solution that simultaneously tackles device heterogeneity and temporal variations in indoor localization, without the need for retraining the model (re-calibration-free). Our evaluations across diverse indoor environments show 8-75% improvements in accuracy compared to state-of-the-art techniques, to effectively address the device heterogeneity challenge. Moreover, STELLAR outperforms existing methods by 18-165% over 2 years of temporal variations, showcasing its robustness and adaptability.
Sources of information and education used by Korean adult residents in Vancouver
Creators: name: Lee, Rimkyu
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The purpose of the study was to determine the use made of certain sources of information and education by Korean immigrants in the city of Vancouver. The analytical survey method which applies a structured interview schedule was used, and a sample consisting of eighty-two adult Koreans was interviewed. Male and female adult Koreans were compared, and factors such as socio-economic characteristics and social interaction patterns were analyzed in relation to participation and non-participation in adult education to determine whether or not any significant differences existed between participants and non-participants. The Korean residents had a median of two to three years of length of residence, a median age of 30, and an average of 16 years of school completed. The Koreans were newer residents, in the younger age category, and highly educated. The respondents had a median annual family income of $7,500. There were only two significant differences between the male and female respondents and these were age and English fluency. The males tended to be older and more fluent in English than the females. One-quarter of the respondents had attended schools or university in Canada, and the majority of those adults were graduate students. One-tenth of the sample had completed vocational training courses in Vancouver. Koreans' participation in adult education was mainly concentrated in English language classes. Some forty-six per cent of the respondents had taken adult education courses. Most of those respondents had completed a one-month course of basic adult English language training. There were no significant differences between the adult education participants and non-participants with respect to eight socio-economic status including age, sex, marital status, number of children at home, length of residence in Vancouver, employment, income, and education. There was only one statistically significant difference between the adult education participants and non-participants, and that characteristic was English fluency at the time of arrival in Canada. Approximately seventy-one per cent of the sample subscribed to newspapers, 59.8 per cent read magazines in English, 91.5 per cent regularly watched television, and 78.1 per cent reported regular monitoring of radio broadcasts. Of the social interaction characteristics studied, social participation did not differentiate between the adult education participants and non-participants. A lower degree of fluency in English was significantly related to higher participation in adult education.
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the Chinese diet: contamination characteristics, indicator screening, and health risk assessment
Creators: name: Huang, Feifei
name: Zhang, Lei
name: Zhou, Moqin
name: Li, Jianwen
name: Liu, Qing
name: Wang, Bo
name: Deng, Ke
name: Zhou, Pingping
name: Wu, Yongning
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Polycyclic aromatics hydrocarbons (PAHs) are ubiquitous in foods and environment and possess carcinogenic and mutagenic potential. Foods are the main source of exposure to PAHs in the general population. In this study, we determined the concentrations of 16 European Union priority PAHs in 1,564 foodstuffs acquired from nine provinces and commonly consumed by the Chinese population. The most predominant PAH was chrysene (16.7%), followed by benz[a]anthracene (12.4%) and benzo[b]fluoranthene (11.7%). Edible vegetable oils (17.89 μg/kg) and fruits (1.97 μg/kg) had the highest and lowest concentrations of total PAHs, respectively. Suitable indicators of PAH contamination in foods were assessed based on the occurrence of other PAHs in samples negative for benzo[a]pyrene and the correlation for the PAHs and their combinations. According to our results, PAH4 was a suitable indicator, better than PAH8 and benzo[a]pyrene alone. PAH exposure in the Chinese population was estimated by combining contamination data with national individual food consumption data, based on the middle bound approach. The overall average dietary exposures for BaP and PAH4 were 3.08 and 17.61 ng/kg bw/day, respectively. The major contributors to the total dietary exposure of PAHs were cereals (39%), edible vegetable oils (28%), and vegetables (20%). We used the margin of exposure (MOE) approach to assess health risk for consumers. MOEs of the mean estimated dietary exposures were >10,000, indicating a low concern for the health of the general population and of consumers of smoked, grilled, or barbecued foods. For high consumers and children, the MOEs were <10,000, indicating potential concerns.
Servilia familia inlustris in fastis
Creators: name: Zanin, Manfredi
Publisher: name: TYCHE – Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik
Year: 2022

description: La prosopografia dei Servilii rappresenta un tema dibattuto, indagato, da ultimi, da E. Badian e G. Alföldy. Prendendo le mosse dalla questione dell’identità del monetale C. Servilius M.f., questo contributo intende dimostrare che i Servilii noti come Vatiae non adoperavano tale cognomen tra II e I secolo a.C., almeno sistematicamente e con finalità autorappresentative. Conseguentemente, vengono ridiscussi problemi metodologici e prosopografici concernenti la discendenza dei Servilii Gemini. Die Prosopographie der Servilii wirft komplizierte, zuletzt von E. Badian und G. Alföldy erörterte Problemstellungen auf. Anhand der Identifizierung des Münzmeisters C. Servilius M.f., wird in diesem Beitrag nachgewiesen, dass die Servilii Vatiae sich zwischen dem 2. und 1. Jhd. v.Chr. des Cognomens Vatia nicht bedienten, zumindest nicht in systematischer Weise und zu Selbstdarstellungszwecken. Folglich werden methodisch-prosopographische Fragen zur Deszendenz der Servilii Gemini erneut analysiert.
description: TYCHE – Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik, Bd. 34 (2019)
Ausweg aus dem Bürgerkrieg in Syrien : Machtteilung statt regionaler Flächenbrand
Creators: name: Rosiny, Stephan
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: DDC::9** Geschichte und Geografie::95* Geschichte Asiens::956 Geschichte des Nahen Ostens (Mittleren Ostens)

description: In Syrien ist der zivile Aufstand gegen ein autoritäres Regime zu einem Bürgerkrieg und Stellvertreterkrieg geworden. Er droht zu eskalieren und die gesamte Region in Brand zu setzen. Weder eine Militärintervention von außen noch der militärische Sieg einer Seite bieten eine Lösung. Jeweils droht die regionale Ausweitung des Konflikts. Nur eine politische Lösung unter Einschluss externer Vermittler wie Russland und Iran kann einen Ausweg bieten. Ziel sollte zunächst eine Machtteilung sein. Danach ginge es um den Aufbau integrativer staatlicher Strukturen. Der Libanon bietet das Vorbild. Dort war der fünfzehnjährige Bürgerkrieg mit der Kompromissformel „Kein Sieger, kein Besiegter“ beendet worden. (Osteuropa (Berlin) / SWP)
Der jihad : historische und zeitgenössische Formen islamisch legitimierter Gewalt
Creators: name: Rosiny, Stephan
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: DDC::9** Geschichte und Geografie::95* Geschichte Asiens::956 Geschichte des Nahen Ostens (Mittleren Ostens)

description: Als Übersetzung des islamischen Terminus jihad hat sich in den Medien „Heiliger Krieg“ eingebürgert, und der Neologismus Jihadisten bezeichnet neuerdings die Kämpfer transnational operierender terroristischer Netzwerke. Eine solche Begrifflichkeit harmoniert mit dem Bestreben militanter Islamisten, ihren Glaubensbrüdern und -schwestern den jihad primär als bewaffneten Kampf nahe zu bringen, der als die „vergessene Glaubenspflicht“ eines jeden Muslims wiederbelebt werden müsse. Eine derartige reduktionistische Bedeutung lässt sich aber weder in den normativen Quellen des Islam – dem Koran und der in den Hadithen aufgezeichneten frühislamischen Praxis – und in der muslimischen Geschichte noch im Verständnis und Handeln der überwiegenden Mehrheit heutiger Muslime nachweisen.
B[e] stars at the highest angular resolution: the case of HD87643
Creators: name: Millour, Florentin
name: Chesneau, Olivier
name: Fernandes, Marcelo Borges
name: Meilland, Anthony
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: New results on the B[e] star HD87643 are presented here. They were obtained with a wide range of different instruments, from wide-field imaging with the WFI camera, high resolution spectroscopy with the FEROS instrument, high angular resolution imaging with the adaptive optics camera NACO, to the highest angular resolution available with AMBER on the VLTI. We report the detection of a companion to HD87643 with AMBER, subsequently confirmed in the NACO data. Implications of that discovery to some of the previously difficult-to-understand data-sets are then presented.
description: To be published in the proceedings of the 2009 SF2A conference
The Day of Archaeology 2014 is coming!
Creators: name: Ogden, Jessica
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2014

description: This resource is a single blog post created as part of the Day of Archaeology initiative. The Day of Archaeology project aimed to provide a window into the daily lives of archaeologists from all over the world. The project asked people working, studying or volunteering in the archaeological world to participate in a 'Day of Archaeology' each year by recording their day and sharing it through text, images or video on the Day of Archaeology blog.
The project asked anyone with a personal, professional or voluntary interest in archaeology to get involved, and help highlight the reasons why archaeology is vital to protect the past and inform our futures. The resulting Day of Archaeology project archive demonstrates the wide variety of work the archaeological profession undertakes day-to-day across the globe, and helps to raise public awareness of the relevance and importance of archaeology to the modern world.
The first ever Day of Archaeology was held in 2011 and, since then, the project had thousands of archaeologists take part in the event, from those working in the field through to specialists working in laboratories and behind computers. The last Day of Archaeology was on Friday 28th July 2017.