cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Halffterinetis Moron & Nogueira 2007
Creators: name: Ratcliffe, Brett
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cetoniidae
Halffterinetis

description: Key to the species of adult Male Halffterinetis (females of H. violetae are unknown) 1. Frontoclypeal region with transverse carina. Clypeal apex weakly emarginate. Cretaceous marking present on lateral margins of pronotum and pygidium. Parameres as in Fig. 10...................................  gonzaloi Morón & Nogueira 1´. Frontoclypeal region without transverse carina. Clypeal apex strongly emarginate. Cretaceous markings absent. Parameres as in Fig. 11...............................................................................................  violetae Morón & Nogueira
description: Published as part of Ratcliffe, Brett, 2010, A review of the Blaesiina (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Cetoniinae, Gymnetini), pp. 105-128 in ZooKeys 34 (34) on page 114, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.34.289, http://zenodo.org/record/576607
Die letzte Fluchtwelle aus der DDR im Jahr 1989. Aus den Berichten der westdeutschen Botschaften in Budapest, Prag und Warschau
Creators: name: Stokłosa, Katarzyna
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung
Year: 2015

description: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, Bd. 64 Nr. 1 (2015)
Effects of forest harvesting on snowmelt during rainfall in coastal British Columbia
Creators: name: Beaudry, Pierre Guy
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Rain-on-snow has been recognized as an event with potential for increasing flood and debris torrent hazards. However the effects of deforestation on increasing this hazard are not well understood. To better understand this phenomena a study was conducted in the Jamieson Creek experimental watershed near Vancouver B.C. Its primary objective was to determine the effects of forest harvesting on snow melt rates and subsequent runoff during rain-on-snow events. The energy balance of a snowcover and the theory of snowmelt are reviewed to better understand the processes involved during rain-on-snow. Techniques and instrumentation required to compute the energy budget are discussed, with the aerodynamic technique receiving greater attention. Also reviewed are the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (1956) snowmelt equations and their applicability for rain-on-snow situations. The experimental set-up consisted of two study plots, one located in a recent cutover and a second in an adjacent Coastal Western Hemlock old-growth forest. Each plot was equipped with a large (22m[sup 2]) plastic sheet lysimeter recording through a tipping bucket arrangement, allowing comparison of snowmelt and runoff rates between sites. Direct measurement of snowmelt was also achieved using snow survey techniques. The USACE(1956) snowmelt equations were verified by comparing the computed melt with the lysimeter and snow survey results. Wind speed, relative humidity and air temperatures were measured at 0.6 and 1.5 meters above the snowpack to evaluate latent and sensible heat fluxes. Snowpack and ground heat exchanges were measured with a profile of five thermistors, and radiation was monitored with net all-wave radiometers. Three winters of data were collected (1981-82, 1982-83, 1983-84), with several storms being analysed from each of the last two years. Peak runoff intensities and total runoff amounts, during rain-on-snow were found to be greater at the forest site when there was presence of snow in the canopy. When there was no snow in the canopy runoff was always greater at the open site. The reasons for the greater runoff at either of the sites are discussed. The use of the USACE (1956) snowmelt equations generally compared favorably with the snow survey and lysimeter data, at the open site. However under certain specific conditions these snowmelt equations were shown to be inadequate for use at the forest site. The role of the forest canopy on snow and rainfall interception played a major role in explaining the differences in snowmelt and runoff rates encountered between the two sites.
Fingerpad Contact Evolution Under Electrovibration
Creators: name: Sirin, Omer
name: Barrea, Allan
name: Lefèvre, Philippe
name: Thonnard, Jean-Louis
name: Basdogan, Cagatay
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Displaying tactile feedback through a touchscreen via electrovibration has many potential applications in mobile devices, consumer electronics, home appliances, and automotive industry though our knowledge and understanding on the underlying contact mechanics is very limited. An experimental study was conducted to investigate the contact evolution between the human finger and a touchscreen under electrovibration using a robotic set-up and an imaging system. The results show that the effect of electrovibration is only present during full slip but not before slip. Hence, coefficient of friction increases under electrovibration as expected during full slip, but the apparent contact area is significantly smaller during full slip when compared to that of no electrovibration condition. It is suggested that the main cause of the increase in friction during full slip is due to an increase in real contact area and the reduction in apparent area is due to stiffening of the finger skin in tangential direction.
Investigating the Impact of Human Capital Development on Brazil's Economic Growth
Creators: name: Louis-Jacques, Pierre Richard
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 380302
subject: Macroeconomic theory

description: This study contributes to the existing literature by exploring the relationship between human capital development and economic growth in Brazil. The study employs the Johansen Cointegration approach, the Granger causality test according to Toda and Yamamoto (1995), and the Fully Modified Ordinary Least Square (FMOLS) method. The analysis is based on time series data extracted from the World Development Indicator (WDI) and the Pen World Table 9.1 database, covering the period from 1980 to 2017. The findings suggest that, in the long term, economic growth in Brazil is primarily influenced by human and physical capital as well as trade openness. Furthermore, both human and physical capital exhibit a positive and significant impact on short-term growth.
Jaroslav Šebek, Sudetendeutscher Katholizismus auf dem Kreuzweg. Politische Aktivitäten der sudetendeutschen Katholiken in der Ersten Tschechoslowakischen Republik in den 30er Jahren
Creators: name: Repa, Milan
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung
Year: 2013

description: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, Bd. 62 Nr. 1 (2013)
Membrane tension lowering induced by protein activity
Creators: name: Faris, M. D. El Alaoui
name: Lacoste, D.
name: Pecreaux, J.
name: Joanny, J-F.
name: Prost, J.
name: Bassereau, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present measurements of the fluctuation spectrum of giant vesicles containing bacteriorhodopsin (BR) pumps using video-microscopy. When the pumps are activated, we observe a significant increase of the fluctuations in the low wavevector region, which we interpret as due to a lowering of the effective tension of the membrane.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures
Andrzej A. Zięba, Lobbing dla Ukrainy w Europie międzywojennej. Ukraińskie Biuro Prasowe w Londynie oraz jego konkurenci polityczni (do roku 1932)
Creators: name: Dyroff, Stefan
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung
Year: 2013

description: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, Bd. 62 Nr. 1 (2013)
Investigating the Impact of Human Capital Development on Brazil's EconomicGrowth
Creators: name: Louis-Jacques, Pierre Richard
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 380302
subject: Macroeconomic theory

description: This study contributes to the existing literature by exploring the relationship between human capital development and economic growth in Brazil. The study employs the Johansen Cointegration approach, the Granger causality test according to Toda and Yamamoto (1995), and the Fully Modified Ordinary Least Square (FMOLS) method. The analysis is based on time series data extracted from the World Development Indicator (WDI) and the Pen World Table 9.1 database, covering the period from 1980 to 2017. The findings suggest that, in the long term, economic growth in Brazil is primarily influenced by human and physical capital as well as trade openness. Furthermore, both human and physical capital exhibit a positive and significant impact on short-term growth.
Timonius esherianus W. W. Smith 1915
Creators: name: Chen, Junhao
name: Wong, Khoon Meng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Gentianales
Rubiaceae
Timonius
Timonius esherianus

description: Timonius esherianus W.W. Smith (1915: 327)
Type: — BORNEO. Malaysia, Sarawak, Mount Santubong, 14 Mar 1914 (♀), Native Collector D 200 (lectotype E [E00143855], designated here; isolectotypes E [E00438196], K [K000763577]).
Notes: —Smith cited a single collection (Native Collector D200) in his protologue and stated that “there is in the type specimen only one corolla, which I have not dissected”. There is indeed an E sheet [E00143855] with a single corolla in the packet that was annotated “only one flower that [was] not dissected” by Smith, but a K duplicate [K000763577] also has a single intact corolla. Another E duplicate [E00438196] is a sterile specimen with Smith’s annotation: “further material of this new sp. is much needed, flowers and ripe fruits especially”. We assume that the two sheets at E correspond to two separate specimens rather than a two-part specimen as there is no indication of “sheet1” and “sheet2” on them. Since Smith worked in E since 1911, the material annotated by him are likely to be his types. However, it is possible that Smith examined the K sheet prior to distribution and/or used multiple sheets when preparing his description; therefore, we here designate E00143855 as lectotype.
The inclusion of T. esherianus in the flora of Mount Kinabalu (Beaman & Anderson 2004) is based on the misidentification of a single cited specimen that corresponds to T. pannosus (Chen et al. 2015). The specimens recognised as T. esherianus in Coode et al. (1996) are also misidentified and actually correspond to T. hirsutus Merrill (1917b: 242).
description: Published as part of Chen, Junhao & Wong, Khoon Meng, 2020, Typification and nomenclatural notes on Bornean Timonius (Rubiaceae: Guettardeae), pp. 114-120 in Phytotaxa 446 (2) on pages 115-116, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.446.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/13877877
Parallel TREE code for two-component ultracold plasma analysis
Creators: name: Jeon, Byoungseon
name: Kress, Joel D.
name: Collins, Lee A.
name: Grønbech-Jensen, Niels
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The TREE method has been widely used for long-range interaction {\it N}-body problems. We have developed a parallel TREE code for two-component classical plasmas with open boundary conditions and highly non-uniform charge distributions. The program efficiently handles millions of particles evolved over long relaxation times requiring millions of time steps. Appropriate domain decomposition and dynamic data management were employed, and large-scale parallel processing was achieved using an intermediate level of granularity of domain decomposition and ghost TREE communication. Even though the computational load is not fully distributed in fine grains, high parallel efficiency was achieved for ultracold plasma systems of charged particles. As an application, we performed simulations of an ultracold neutral plasma with a half million particles and a half million time steps. For the long temporal trajectories of relaxation between heavy ions and light electrons, large configurations of ultracold plasmas can now be investigated, which was not possible in past studies.
Justiz und Propaganda. „Polengreuel“-Prozesse in den eingegliederten Ostgebieten in Presse und Publizistik 1939-1945
Creators: name: Becker, Maximilian
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung
Year: 2015

description: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, Bd. 64 Nr. 1 (2015)
Extracting the Maxwell charge from the Wheeler-DeWitt equation
Creators: name: Garattini, Remo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the Wheeler-De Witt equation as a device for finding eigenvalues of a Sturm-Liouville problem. In particular, we will focus our attention on the electric (magnetic) Maxwell charge. In this context, we interpret the Maxwell charge as an eigenvalue of the Wheeler-De Witt equation generated by the gravitational field fluctuations. A variational approach with Gaussian trial wave functionals is used as a method to study the existence of such an eigenvalue. We restrict the analysis to the graviton sector of the perturbation. We approximate the equation to one loop in a Schwarzschild background and a zeta function regularization is involved to handle with divergences. The regularization is closely related to the subtraction procedure appearing in the computation of Casimir energy in a curved background. A renormalization procedure is introduced to remove the infinities together with a renormalization group equation.
description: 6 pages. Accepted for publication in Physics Letters B
The operator scheduling for Singapore mass transit system
Creators: name: Goh, Lek-Oon
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: This paper presents a mathematical formulation of the train operator scheduling problem in a Mass Rapid Transit System. Integer programs (IP) with 0-1 constraints matrices arise frequently in scheduling and staffing methods. The formulation of the train operator scheduling problem a asset-partitioning or set-covering integer program gives rise to IP problems with excessive size and computational complexity. Subproblems of the original problem can however be solved by relaxing the integer program to an LP and introducing some heuristics to round off the fractional parts of the solution. Near optimal solutions to these problems can be found and can be easily implemented using reasonable computing resources. The method is demonstrated on the original data given by the Provisional Mass Rapid Transit Authority of Singapore and on several other variations of the data set The results compare favorably with other methods in computational efficiency.
Delving Deep into Engagement Prediction of Short Videos
Creators: name: Li, Dasong
name: Li, Wenjie
name: Lu, Baili
name: Li, Hongsheng
name: Ma, Sizhuo
name: Krishnan, Gurunandan
name: Wang, Jian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Understanding and modeling the popularity of User Generated Content (UGC) short videos on social media platforms presents a critical challenge with broad implications for content creators and recommendation systems. This study delves deep into the intricacies of predicting engagement for newly published videos with limited user interactions. Surprisingly, our findings reveal that Mean Opinion Scores from previous video quality assessment datasets do not strongly correlate with video engagement levels. To address this, we introduce a substantial dataset comprising 90,000 real-world UGC short videos from Snapchat. Rather than relying on view count, average watch time, or rate of likes, we propose two metrics: normalized average watch percentage (NAWP) and engagement continuation rate (ECR) to describe the engagement levels of short videos. Comprehensive multi-modal features, including visual content, background music, and text data, are investigated to enhance engagement prediction. With the proposed dataset and two key metrics, our method demonstrates its ability to predict engagements of short videos purely from video content.
description: Accepted to ECCV 2024. Project page: https://github.com/dasongli1/SnapUGC_Engagement
Probing the Efficiency of Electron-Proton Coupling in Relativistic Collisionless Shocks through the Radio Polarimetry of Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows
Creators: name: Toma, Kenji
name: Ioka, Kunihito
name: Nakamura, Takashi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The late-time optical/radio afterglows of $γ$-ray bursts (GRBs) are believed to be synchrotron emission of electrons accelerated in relativistic collisionless shocks propagating in the ambient medium of the sources. However, the fraction $f$ of electrons that are coupled to protons and accelerated remains unclear and a large number of thermal electrons that are not coupled to protons may be left behind. If $f<1$, the true explosion energies of GRBs are $f^{-1}$ times larger than those commonly estimated with $f=1$. Thus the value of $f$ gives an important constraint on the nature of the central engine of GRBs and the physics of collisionless shocks. Although early-time radio observations can probe the thermal electrons, they are difficult at present. We show that the Faraday rotation effects of the thermal electrons may suppress the linear polarization of the afterglow at frequencies higher than the absorption frequency in the late time, if the magnetic field is ordered at least in parts, and that $f$ can be constrained through the observation of the effects. We find that those effects may be detected with late-time, > 1 day, polarimetry with ALMA for a burst occurring within 1 Gpc (i.e., z ~ 0.2), if $f \sim 10^{-1}$.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, title revised, discussions of section 3 and 5 expanded. Accepted for publication in ApJL. Replaced with the accepted version
Theoretical studies of high-harmonic generation: Effects of symmetry, degeneracy and orientation
Creators: name: Madsen, C. B.
name: Madsen, L. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using a quantum mechanical three-step model we present numerical calculations on the high-harmonic generation from four polyatomic molecules. Ethylene (C$_2$H$_4$) serves as an example where orbital symmetry directly affects the harmonic yield. We treat the case of methane (CH$_4$) to address the high-harmonic generation resulting from a molecule with degenerate orbitals. To this end we illustrate how the single orbital contributions show up in the total high-harmonic signal. This example illustrates the importance of adding coherently amplitude contributions from the individual degenerate orbitals. Finally, we study the high-harmonic generation from propane (C$_3$H$_8$) and butane (C$_4$H$_{10}$). These two molecules, being extended and far from spherical in structure, produce harmonics with non-trivial orientational dependencies. In particular, propane can be oriented so that very high-frequency harmonics are favorized, and thus the molecule contains prospects for the generation of UV attosecond pulses.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures, 1 table
Dynamical programming of continuously observed quantum systems
Creators: name: Belavkin, Viacheslav P.
name: Negretti, Antonio
name: Molmer, Klaus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop dynamical programming methods for the purpose of optimal control of quantum states with convex constraints and concave cost and bequest functions of the quantum state. We consider both open loop and feedback control schemes, which correspond respectively to deterministic and stochastic Master Equation dynamics. For the quantum feedback control scheme with continuous non-demolition observations we exploit the separation theorem of filtering and control aspects for quantum stochastic dynamics to derive a generalized Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation. If the control is restricted to only Hamiltonian terms this is equivalent to a Hamilton-Jacobi equation with an extra linear dissipative term. In this work, we consider, in particular, the case when control is restricted to only observation. A controlled qubit is considered as an example throughout the development of the formalism. Finally, we discuss optimum observation strategies to obtain a pure state from a mixed state of a quantum two-level system.
description: 11 pages, no figures, published version
Recruitment of long short-term memory for envisaging the higher heating value of valorized lignocellulosic solid biofuel: A new approach
Creators: name: Al-Sadek, Ahmed F.
name: Gad, Beshoy K.
name: Nassar, Hussein N.
name: El-Gendy, Nour Sh.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The valorization of lignocellulosic wastes via the concept of bio-based circular economy to achieve the sustainable development goals of clean energy, safe life on land, and climate change mitigation is a worldwide scope nowadays. Lignocellulosic wastes are considered sustainable energy resources; consequently, it is crucial to find a cost-effective and time-saving method for predicting its higher heating value (HHV) to qualify its feasibility as a solid biofuel. In this study, the long short-term memory (LSTM) algorithm as a deep-learning (DL) approach has been applied in a pioneering step to calculate the HHV from 623 proximate analyses of various lignocellulosic biomasses. The relatively high value of the correlation coefficent of determination (R2 0.8567) and low values of mean square error (MSE 0.67), root-mean-square error (RMSE 0.819), mean absolute error (MAE 0.597), and average absolute error (AAE 0.0319) confirmed the exceptional accuracy of the suggested LSTM model. Thus, recommending applying DL-LSTM as a new approach for building models since it provides an accurate prediction of HHV without the need for time-consuming and complicated experimental measurements or the conventional regression analysis and statistical modeling.
Timonius hirsutus Merrill 1917
Creators: name: Chen, Junhao
name: Wong, Khoon Meng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Gentianales
Rubiaceae
Timonius
Timonius hirsutus

description: Timonius hirsutus Merrill (1917b: 242)
Type: — BORNEO. Malaysia, Sarawak, Baram, Miri, 20 Apr 1895 (♂), Hose 651 (lectotype A [A00312908], designated here; isolectotype L [L0001476]).
Notes: —Although Merrill mentioned a single collection (Hose 651) in his protologue, a few duplicates of this collection exist, and apparently there was also a PNH specimen that must have been destroyed during the war. The holotype of Merrill’s Bornean species was deposited in PNH (Merrill 1917a). Chen et al. (2015) stated that the holotype in PNH was destroyed, but did not select a lectotype among the extant type material. Therefore, we here designate a well-preserved A sheet as lectotype.
The name “ Timonius hirsutus ” has been used three times. The name was first used by Merrill (1917b) for the Bornean species above. The second name Timonius hirsutus Ridley (1918: 81) postdates the Bornean name and is a synonym of the Malayan species Antirhea atropurpurea (Craib 1932: 132) Chaw in Wong (1988: 493). Subsequently, Merrill (1921b: 480) transferred Greenea hirsuta Elmer (1913: 1857) into Timonius, generating the illegitimate combination Timonius hirsutus (Elmer) Merr. for a species from the Philippines. Therefore, Timonius hirsutus Merr. as used for the Bornean species takes precedence.
description: Published as part of Chen, Junhao & Wong, Khoon Meng, 2020, Typification and nomenclatural notes on Bornean Timonius (Rubiaceae: Guettardeae), pp. 114-120 in Phytotaxa 446 (2) on page 117, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.446.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/13877877
Elena Dagrada Le varianti trasparenti. I film con Ingrid Bergman di Roberto Rossellini. Milano. LED - Edizioni Universitarie Lettere Economia Diritto. 2005. pp. 478. ISBN -88-7916-281-4
Creators: name: Boschi, Alberto
Publisher: name: Annali Online  Lettere - Ferrara
Year: 2012

description: Annali Online  Lettere - Ferrara, I 2 (2006)
On the Common but Problematic Specification of Conflated Random Slopes in Multilevel Models
Creators: name: Rights, Jason D.
name: Sterba, Sonya K.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Plant Biology

description: For multilevel models (MLMs) with fixed slopes, it has been widely recognized that a level-1 variable can have distinct between-cluster and within-cluster fixed effects, and that failing to disaggregate these effects yields a conflated, uninterpretable fixed effect. For MLMs with random slopes, however, we clarify that two different types of slope conflation can occur: that of the fixed component (termed fixed conflation) and that of the random component (termed random conflation). The latter is rarely recognized and not well understood. Here we explain that a model commonly used to disaggregate the fixed component—the contextual effect model with random slopes—troublingly still yields a conflated random component. Negative consequences of such random conflation have not been demonstrated. Here we show that they include erroneous interpretation and inferences about the substantively important extent of between-cluster differences in slopes, including either underestimating or overestimating such slope heterogeneity. Furthermore, we show that this random conflation can yield inappropriate standard errors for fixed effects. To aid researchers in practice, we delineate which types of random slope specifications yield an unconflated random component. We demonstrate the advantages of these unconflated models in terms of estimating and testing random slope variance (i.e., improved power, Type I error, and bias) and in terms of standard error estimation for fixed effects (i.e., more accurate standard errors), and make recommendations for which specifications to use for particular research purposes.
Tiziana de Rogatis, Elena Ferrnate. Parole chiave
Creators: name: Pinto, Isabella
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Cagliari
Year: 2019

description: Il volume di Tiziana de Rogatis, Elena Ferrante. Parole chiave, costituisce una novità nel panorama editoriale italiano per molteplici motivi, a partire dall’attribuzione di valore critico-letterario all’intera opera di Elena Ferrante, spesso derubricata – soprattutto in Italia – come letteratura di consumo e fenomeno di marketing.
description: Between, Vol 9, No 17 (2019): Imagining the Impossible: Crossings of Creativity Between Literature and Science
Consumer automobile choice and gasoline consumption
Creators: name: Kanetkar, Vinay
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The increasing emphasis on gasoline conservation programs indicates the importance of understanding consumer gasoline consumption patterns. Consumers may reduce gasoline consumption by reducing automobile weight, payload, distance travelled, and frictional losses. It is argued that understanding consumer decisions about the size of household automobile fleet and car weight will improve the current understanding of gasoline consumption and possibly lead to conservation programs which will reduce gasoline demand. A review of econometric literature at the consumer level indicated that income, family composition, price of gasoline, central city residency, and employment status are important determinants of the number of cars owned by consumers. A review of marketing studies indicated that attitudes and personality factors provide additional understanding regarding consumer automobile choices. Finally, a conceptual model was used to integrate these approaches, suggesting that the choice of automobiles is determined by situational, market related factors, consumer needs as well as consumer characteristics. The conceptual model implies several empirical hypotheses. For example, it was postulated that income, family size, and employment status will have a positive impact on the number of cars owned by a family, while size of urban centre and gasoline prices will have a negative impact. It was also expected that income and family size would positively affect automobile size. The age, size of urban centre and energy consciousness of the head of the household will negatively affect this variable. Logit models constructed to predict the number of cars owned by a Canadian family gave significant results for the above factors. In addition, the life-cycle stage and the proxy variables for gasoline prices had non-linear effects on this variable. Models predicting the average car weight, however, suggested that attitudes towards conservation, and participation in gasoline conservation efforts were also strong predictors. Thus, this research concluded that demographic and situational factors are linked to the number of cars owned, while travel needs and attitudinal factors are linked to car weight.
On the influence of ram-pressure stripping on interacting galaxies in clusters
Creators: name: Kapferer, W.
name: Kronberger, T.
name: Ferrari, C.
name: Riser, T.
name: Schindler, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the influence of ram pressure on the star-formation rate and the distribution of gas and stellar matter in interacting model galaxies in clusters. To simulate the baryonic and non-baryonic components of interacting disc galaxies moving through a hot, thin medium we use a combined N-body/hydrodynamic code GADGET2 with a description for star formation based on density thresholds. Two identical model spiral galaxies on a collision trajectory with three different configurations were investigated in detail. In the first configuration the galaxies collide without the presence of an ambient medium, in the second configurations the ram pressure acts face on on the interacting galaxies and in the third configuration the ram pressure acts edge on. The ambient medium is thin ($10^{-28}$ g/cm$^3$), hot (3 keV $\approx 3.6\times10^7$K) and has a relative velocity of 1000 km/s, to mimic an average low ram pressure in the outskirts of galaxy clusters. The interaction velocities are comparable to galaxy interactions in groups, falling along filaments into galaxy clusters. The global star formation rate of the interacting system is enhanced in the presence of ram pressure by a factor of three in comparison to the same interaction without the presence of an ambient medium. The tidal tails and the gaseous bridge of the interacting system are almost completely destroyed by the ram pressure. The amount of gas in the wake of the interacting system is $\sim50$% of the total gas of the colliding galaxies after 500 Myr the galaxies start to feel the ram pressure. Nearly $\sim10-15%$ in mass of all newly formed stars are formed in the wake of the interacting system at distances larger than 20 kpc behind the stellar discs. (abrigded)
description: 11 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Compact Q-balls and Q-shells in a multi-component $\mathbb{C}P^N$ model
Creators: name: Klimas, P.
name: Kubaski, L. C.
name: Sawado, N.
name: Yanai, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Coupled multi-component $\mathbb{C}P^N$ models with V-shaped potentials are analyzed. It is shown that the model has solutions being combinations of compact Q-balls and Q-shells. The compact nature of solutions permits the existence of novel harbor-type solutions having the form of Q-balls sheltered by Q-shells. The relation between the energy $E$ and Noether charge $Q$ is discussed both analytically and numerically. The energy of the solutions behaves as $E\sim |Q|^α,~α<1$, i.e., as for the standard Q-ball. Furthermore, the ratio $E/Q$ for various configurations in the multi-component model suggests that the solutions are at least classically stable.
description: 27 pages, 13 figures v2: typos corrected, references updated; expanded discussions on V-shaped potentials and also comment on analytical solutions
Autadelphos nell' Antigone di Sofocle
Creators: name: Greco, Giovanni
Publisher: name: Annali Online  Lettere - Ferrara
Year: 2012

description: he article proposes a new interpretation of the first line of Sophocles’ Antigone,  by showing that from the beginning of the play Antigone underlines the  complex relationship between the members of the family of Labdacus. The  analysis of autadelphon confirms the paradoxical doubleness of  each brother and sister, morbidly connected through incest. In this  sense, ‘o volto d’Ismene che è il mio, lo stesso del fratello’  translates the line not only in terms of an invocation, but of a  concrete stage direction, revealing the deep meaning of the action.
description: Annali Online  Lettere - Ferrara, VI 1-2 (2011)
HeFDI Data Infosnacks - Love Data Week 2025: "OpenRefine: Ein Tor zur effizienten Datenverwaltung und Qualitätsverbesserung"
Creators: name: Meiners, Hanna-Lena
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: HeFDI
Deutsches Dokumentationszentrum für Kunstgeschichte - Bildarchiv Foto Marburg
DDK-BFM
HeFDI Data Infosnacks
Love Data Week
Forschungsdatenmanagement
Forschungsdaten
OpenRefine
Datenanalyse
Datenbereinigung
research data management
research data
data analysis
data cleaning

description: "Die HeFDI Data Infosnacks sind kurze 15- bis 20-minütige Vorträge, in denen verschiedene HeFDI-Partnerhochschulen und Partnereinrichtungen Angebote und Dienstleistungen rund um das Forschungsdatenmagagement und Codemanagement vorstellen. Angeboten werden die HeFDI Data Infosnacks von der Landesinitiative HeFDI Hessische Forschungsdateninfrastrukturen (https://www.hefdi.de/), welche vom Hessisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung, Kunst und Kultur (HMWK) finanziert wird. The HeFDI Data Infosnacks are short 15- to 20-minute presentations in which various HeFDI partner universities and institutions present offers and services relating to research data and code management. The HeFDI Data Infosnacks are offered by the federal state initiative HeFDI Hessian Research Data Infrastructures (https://www.hefdi.de/), which is funded by the Hessian Ministry of Science and Research, Arts and Culture (HMWK)."
Petr Lozoviuk, Grenzland als Lebenswelt. Grenzkonstruktionen, Grenzwahrnehmungen und Grenzdiskurse in sächsisch-tschechischer Perspektive
Creators: name: Munke, Martin
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung
Year: 2014

description: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, Bd. 63 Nr. 4 (2014)
Graviweak Unification
Creators: name: Nesti, F.
name: Percacci, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The coupling of chiral fermions to gravity makes use only of the selfdual SU(2) subalgebra of the (complexified) SO(3,1) algebra. It is possible to identify the antiselfdual subalgebra with the SU(2)_L isospin group that appears in the Standard Model, or with its right-handed counterpart SU(2)_R that appears in some extensions. Based on this observation, we describe a form of unification of the gravitational and weak interactions. We also discuss models with fermions of both chiralities, the inclusion strong interactions, and the way in which these unified models of gravitational and gauge interactions avoid conflict with the Coleman-Mandula theorem.
description: 18 pages, typos corrected and improved wording
Kandinskij in Italia: tra ricordo e visione, alla ricerca di una "nuova qualità" del colore
Creators: name: Bignardi, Massimo
Publisher: name: Annali Online  Lettere - Ferrara
Year: 2012

description: This essay reconstructs Vasilij Kandisnkij’s journey accompanied by  Gabriele Münter, on the Ligurian Riviera between December 1905 and April  1906. The reconstruction focuses on the role that Kandinskij gives to  the memory and to the power of imagination to acquire and to "represent"  solicitations by the vast repertory of art. Furthermore it takes into  consideration testimonies, documents, few notes written by the artist  and the paintings and drawings of the notebooks, works which are largely  preserved at the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus of Monaco of  Bavaria. The memory of the trip to Italy, the first performed in 1869 at  the age of three years old with his parents, has similarity with a Carl  Blechen’s painting that the Russian artist could see on his arrival in  Monaco or through publications at the end of the nineteenth century. The  texture of the painting (Schlucht bei Amalfi, 1831), showing a foreshortening of the Italian landscape, will be resumed in 1900 by Kandinskij in his painting Landscape,  among the earliest evidence of the gallery of small paintings that will  mark the first decade of the entire production of the twentieth century  and that will lead to the season of Murnau. Italy and the Ligurian  coast will provide to the artist an additional solicitation to look to a  new color quality, starting a process of recognition of the spirit.
description: Annali Online  Lettere - Ferrara, VI 1-2 (2011)
La scrittura di Esiodo
Creators: name: Aloni, Antonio
Publisher: name: Annali Online  Lettere - Ferrara
Year: 2013

description: Studying a particular performance, which we could define "writing performance", is my paper's aim. In which way, with which constraints and aims does an oral singer give to writing a part of the poetic tradition he belongs to? My analysis will be focused on Hesiod poems which, due to the fact they are so different among each other, could be considered a good base on which to build case histories
description: Annali Online  Lettere - Ferrara, VIII 1 (2013)
Fabio Tutrone, Filosofi e animali in Roma antica. Modelli di animalità e umanità in Lucrezio e in Seneca, Pisa, Edizioni ETS 2012, pp. 388, ISBN 978-884673233-0
Creators: name: Guasparri, Andrea
Publisher: name: Annali Online  Lettere - Ferrara
Year: 2013

description: Annali Online  Lettere - Ferrara, VIII 1 (2013)
The Variable Warm Absorber in Circinus X-1
Creators: name: Schulz, N. S.
name: Kallman, T. E.
name: Galloway, D. K.
name: Brandt, W. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We observed Circinus X-1 twice during a newly reached low-flux phase near zero orbital phase using the High-Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer (HETGS) onboard Chandra. In both observations the source did not show the P Cygni lines we observed during the high-flux phases of the source in 2000 and 2001. During pre-zero phase the source did not exhibit significant variability and exhibited an emission-line spectrum rich in H- and He-like lines from high Z elements such as Si, S, Ar, and Ca. We analyzed all high resolution X-ray spectra by fitting photoionization and absorption models from the most recent version of the XSTAR code. The pre-zero phase spectrum could be fully modeled with a very hot photoionized plasma with an ionization parameter of log xi = 3.0. Post-zero phase episodes feature absorbers with variable high columns, ionization parameter, and luminosity. While cold absorption remains at levels quite similar to the one observed in previous years, the new observations show unprecedented levels of variable warm absorption. The line emissivities also indicate that the observed low source luminosity is inconsistent with a static hot accretion disk corona (ADC), an effect that seems common to other near edge-on ADC sources as well. We conclude that unless there exists some means of coronal heating other than X-rays, the true source luminosity is likely much higher and we observe obscuration in analogy to the extragalactic Seyfert II sources. We discuss possible consequences and relate cold, luke-warm, warm, and hot absorbers to dynamic accretion scenarios.
description: 14 pages, 8 figures, accepted by the Astrophysical Journal
La percezione dello spazio nell' Éducation sentimentale
Creators: name: Martinuzzi, Paola
Publisher: name: Annali Online  Lettere - Ferrara
Year: 2012

description: This study intends to show some features in Flaubert's novel  anticipating twentieth century narrative literature developments, in  regard to space representations. Balzac's realistic novel, characterized  by a perceptive attention, individuated every thing and its elements in  their specific function, instrumentally related to the "horizon" where  they were fit, and it weaved significant nets linking objects, places,  people, social and historical events. In the work of Flaubert, on the  contrary, a paradox takes place, involving objectivity and attention to  inner dimension of characters, which upset the rules of realistic  writing. That appears through the "reading" of some significative pages  of the novel where realistic space mingles in imagined space.
description: Annali Online  Lettere - Ferrara, I 2 (2006)
Nonequilibrium phase transition in the sedimentation of reproducing particles
Creators: name: Barrett-Freeman, C.
name: Evans, M. R.
name: Marenduzzo, D.
name: Poon, W. C. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study numerically and analytically the dynamics of a sedimenting suspension of active, reproducing particles, such as growing bacteria in a gravitational field. In steady state we find a non-equilibrium phase transition between a `sedimentation' regime, analogous to the sedimentation equilibrium of passive colloids, and a `uniform' regime, in which the particle density is constant in all but the top and bottom of the sample. We discuss the importance of fluctuations in particle density in locating the phase transition point, and report the kinetics of sedimentation at early times.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Timonius involucratus Merrill 1917
Creators: name: Chen, Junhao
name: Wong, Khoon Meng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Gentianales
Rubiaceae
Timonius
Timonius involucratus

description: Timonius involucratus Merrill (1917b: 241)
Type: — BORNEO. Sarawak, sin. dat. (♀), Native Collector 1252 (lectotype K [K000763574], designated here; isolectotypes A [A00312909], US [US 00138422]).
Notes: —Merrill specified that the original material was deposited in “Bur. Sci.”, referring to the PNH herbarium that was destroyed during World War II. Although A was actually Merrill’s main herbarium apart from PNH, the best-preserved specimen is from K, with intact fruits and associated calyx lobes and peduncular bracts. We therefore designate the well-preserved K specimen as lectotype.
Timonius involucratus Valeton (1927: 41) is an illegitimate name as it postdates the Bornean name above. Valeton’s later homonym refers to a New Guinea species and has been appropriately replaced by Timonius papuanus Merrill (1937: 132).
description: Published as part of Chen, Junhao & Wong, Khoon Meng, 2020, Typification and nomenclatural notes on Bornean Timonius (Rubiaceae: Guettardeae), pp. 114-120 in Phytotaxa 446 (2) on page 117, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.446.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/13877877
Simulating the formation and evolution of galaxies: Multi-phase description of the interstellar medium, star formation, and energy feedback
Creators: name: Merlin, Emiliano
name: Chiosi, Cesare
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a multi-phase representation of the ISM in NB-TSPH simulations of galaxy formation and evolution with particular attention to the case of early-type galaxies. Cold gas clouds are described by the so-called sticky particles algorithm. They can freely move throughout the hot ISM medium; stars form within these clouds and the mass exchange among the three baryonic phases (hot gas, cold clouds, stars) is governed by radiative and Compton cooling and energy feedback by supernova (SN) explosions, stellar winds, and UV radiation. We also consider thermal conduction, cloud-cloud collisions, and chemical enrichment. Our model agrees with and improves upon previous studies on the same subject. The results for the star formation rate are very promising and agree with recent observational data on early-type galaxies. These models lend further support to the revised monolithic scheme of galaxy formation, which has recently been also strengthened by high redshift data leading to the so-called downsizing and top-down scenarios.
description: 17 pages, 17 figures
Marek Kornat, Polen zwischen Hitler und Stalin. Studien zur polnischen Außenpolitik in der Zwischenkriegszeit
Creators: name: Schattkowsky, Ralph
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung
Year: 2014

description: Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, Bd. 63 Nr. 4 (2014)
Polynomial Fusion Rings of Logarithmic Minimal Models
Creators: name: Rasmussen, Jorgen
name: Pearce, Paul A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We identify quotient polynomial rings isomorphic to the recently found fundamental fusion algebras of logarithmic minimal models.
description: 18 pages
1001 meanings of democracy.pdf
Creators: name: Ballardini, Federica
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 160603 Comparative Government and Politics
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: 160699 Political Science not elsewhere classified
subject: 160609 Political Theory and Political Philosophy

description: The short paper analyses the modern concept of democracy and the main challenges that democracy faces in our world today.
The Degasperis-Procesi equation with self-consistent sources
Creators: name: Huang, Yehui
name: Zeng, Yunbo
name: Ragnisco, Orlando
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Degasperis-Procesi equation with self-consistent sources(DPESCS) is derived. The Lax representation and the conservation laws for DPESCS are constructed. The peakon solution of DPESCS is obtained.
description: 15 pages