cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Economic Value of Preserving Historic Interiors
Creators: name: Hankin, Lisa Bush
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Interior decoration -- Conservation and restoration
subject: Historic preservation
subject: Historic preservation -- Theses

description: This thesis examines the role of intact interiors in historic residential buildings in order to determine whether they add significant economic value in the real estate marketplace. The thesis first examines the existing body of knowledge on economics and preserving historic interiors as well as the changes that have taken place in American residential interiors over time. It next explores the concept of "intactness" in privately owned residential historic interiors and considers the various means available to encourage their protection. The thesis then presents a research method for determining whether historic homes that have their interior character-defining features intact are worth more on the market than those which do not retain their key interior elements. This research method is tested in Charleston, South Carolina, and is accompanied by results from interviews of Realtors throughout the United States specializing in the sale of historic properties. The research method includes an aggregate analysis of properties with "intact" versus "altered" interiors on a variety of measures representing value and selling time, as well as a paired-sales analysis which isolates the increment in value ascribed to intact interior features. The analysis revealed a 14% premium in the price of historic homes with intact interiors, and found that, on every measure, historic homes with interior features intact sold for more, sold more quickly, and sold for a higher percentage of their asking prices than did altered properties. The author concludes that a meaningful and positive economic value can be attributed to intact historic residential interiors.
Integrating High-Resolution Mass Spectral Data, Bioassays and Computational Models to Annotate Bioactives in Botanical Extracts: Case Study Analysis of C. asiatica Extract Associates Dicaffeoylquinic Acids with Protection against Amyloid-β Toxicity
Creators: name: Alcázar Magaña, Armando
name: Vaswani, Ashish
name: Brown, Kevin S.
name: Jiang, Yuan
name: Alam, Md Nure
name: Caruso, Maya
name: Lak, Parnian
name: Cheong, Paul
name: Gray, Nora E.
name: Quinn, Joseph F.
name: Soumyanath, Amala
name: Stevens, Jan F.
name: Maier, Claudia S.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2024

description: Rapid screening of botanical extracts for the discovery of bioactive natural products was performed using a fractionation approach in conjunction with flow-injection high-resolution mass spectrometry for obtaining chemical fingerprints of each fraction, enabling the correlation of the relative abundance of molecular features (representing individual phytochemicals) with the read-outs of bioassays. We applied this strategy for discovering and identifying constituents of Centella asiatica (C. asiatica) that protect against Aβ cytotoxicity in vitro. C. asiatica has been associated with improving mental health and cognitive function, with potential use in Alzheimer’s disease. Human neuroblastoma MC65 cells were exposed to subfractions of an aqueous extract of C. asiatica to evaluate the protective benefit derived from these subfractions against amyloid β-cytotoxicity. The % viability score of the cells exposed to each subfraction was used in conjunction with the intensity of the molecular features in two computational models, namely Elastic Net and selectivity ratio, to determine the relationship of the peak intensity of molecular features with % viability. Finally, the correlation of mass spectral features with MC65 protection and their abundance in different sub-fractions were visualized using GNPS molecular networking. Both computational methods unequivocally identified dicaffeoylquinic acids as providing strong protection against Aβ-toxicity in MC65 cells, in agreement with the protective effects observed for these compounds in previous preclinical model studies.
The Use of Railroad Economic Theory in the Design of a Highway: The Pulaski Skyway in the State of New Jersey
Creators: name: Callender, Dara
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Highway planning
subject: Roads -- Economic aspects
subject: Historic preservation -- Theses

description: The Pulaski Skyway in northern New Jersey is a striking and attractive example of the early modem "superhighway' in the United States. Its construction was critical to the reinforcement of regional industrial growth and to the flow of persons and goods into the City of New York. The design of the route followed over three decades of growth in the development of state and national motor vehicle road systems, experimentation in new roadway planning methods, and expansion of highway engineering capabilities. The viaduct is an important structural engineering accomplishment. However, it is even more significant as a pioneer example of railway economic analysis transformed for use by highway planners. This work was undertaken to determine the extent to which railway economic practice was utilized in the Pulaski Skyway design, and whether or not the project was the first in the nation based on such theory. To place the Skyway in its historic context, research was undertaken on the development of roads, road agencies and organizations, and the road design progress beginning in the late 1800s. Documentation was compiled regarding the regional and national significance of northern New Jersey industry and transportation, and state records were analyzed for information on the establishment and work of the New Jersey State Highway Department, which planned the Skyway project. Key to the compilation of information on the method of economic analysis and the definition of the Skyway's role in United States highway economic planning was the thorough review of both the railway theory, as defined in 1887 by Arthur Wellington, and the highway theory as defined by project engineers Frederick Lavis and Sigvald Johannesson. In addition, extensive review of the engineering documentation of the 1920s and early 1930s was utilized as a means of placing the project in perspective through the analysis of the writings of highway engineers of the period. The analysis and research undertaken in the preparation of this work unquestionably indicates that the Pulaski Skyway was designed using railroad economic methodology as applied to highway design. Period engineering literature indicates that the project was the first in the nation to use such theory, and that the Skyway design utilized the most extensive economic analysis in practice at the time. The Pulaski Skyway was also the largest highway project ever undertaken in the United States at the time of its planning, and served to educate and motivate members of the highway engineering profession in the use of economic analysis and the design of the modem "superhighway."
Why Does Kant Think That Moral Requirements Are Categorical Imperatives’?
Creators: name: Mejia, Maria
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2016

description: In this paper I put forth three criticisms against McDowell account of the idea that moral requirements are categorical imperatives. I argue that McDowell's account fails as a defense of Kant's doctrine for at least three reasons. First, McDowell claims that agents can appeal to experience in order to formulate and recognize categorical imperatives. However, Kant strongly disagrees with this claim, explicitly claiming that moral requirements cannot be derived from experience. Second, McDowell argues that the virtuous agent will not experience inner conflict when motivating herself to act virtuously, but inner conflict plays a central role in Kant's picture of moral motivation and virtue. Third, McDowell does not account for how the moral law serves as a necessary incentive to moral action through the a priori feeling of respect. Finally, I suggest that my criticisms cast doubt on the validity of McDowell's account, and provide insights into some criteria that an account must meet if it is to be a proper defense of Kant's doctrine of moral requirements as categorical imperatives.
Aristotle on Practical Wisdom and the End of Action
Creators: name: Sapkota, Gagan
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2016

description: In this thesis, I explore Aristotle's conception of the relation between practical wisdom (phronesis) and the end of action. Intellectualists claim that phronesis determines the end of action, whereas non-intellectualists claim that virtue as a non-rational state determines the end of action. Recently, Jessica Moss has provided a sustained defense of the non-intellectualist interpretation. I offer three arguments against Moss's interpretation: (1) the line at 1144a6-7 that is taken to provide an obvious support for the non-intellectualist interpretation does not provide an obvious support. (2) The non-intellectualist interpretation is inconsistent with the conclusion of Aristotle's function argument. (3) The non-intellectualist interpretation fails to distinguish between two distinct senses of 'goal.' After arguing against the non-intellectualist interpretation, I explore the relation between phronesis and eudaimonia.
Gender Justice and Fraser's Universal Caregiver
Creators: name: Long, Mandy
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2016

description: Philosopher Nancy Fraser thinks much of the disadvantage women face in employment has to do with gender norms that structure the labor market. Also important is that many employers reward workers who relegate their care responsibilities to family members or the market. Fraser's proposal, the Universal Caregiver model, would build institutions on the assumption that everyone has important caregiving responsibilities. Fraser provides merely a sketch of this model, and its viability depends on consideration of the concrete policy proposals that would need to be in place. My project is to fill in Fraser's sketch and consider policies from other theorists working on the issue. I argue that the Universal Caregiver model is justified because caregiving is a basic need of persons as citizens and because current arrangements are unjust along gender lines.
Moral Discourse: Categorical or Institutional?
Creators: name: Warner, Calvin
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2016

description: Error theory turns on a particular presupposition about the conceptual commitments of moral realism, namely that the moral facts posited by realists need to be categorical. True moral propositions are said to have an absolute authority in their prescriptions in the sense that an agent, regardless of her own ends, needs or desires, is categorically obligated and has reason to act in accordance with their prescriptions. But, nothing in the world has such a queer property as categoricity, and therefore we ought to be suspect of the enterprise of moral discourse. Some philosophers, like Stephen Finlay, have argued that this categoricity is not a necessary feature of moral language, and in so doing hope to have shown that the error theoretic critique is thus refuted. In this article I offer a survey of the literature on this topic and then contribute independent motivations for siding with those who think moral facts need not be categorical (and that a powerful argument for error theory is defused).
Agency and Resentment: Reinterpreting Strawson's Compatibilism
Creators: name: Bingle, Bobby
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2016

description: In his influential work, 'Freedom and Resentment,' P.F. Strawson argues that the truth of determinism would be irrelevant to our moral responsibility practices, since our commitment to these practices is somehow connected to both our reactive attitudes'e.g. resentment, gratitude, and love'and participation in interpersonal relationships. However, some of the moves made by Strawson in his work remain unclear. In this paper, I address three prominent attempts to explain these moves, and contend that none of them captures his view because they all focus too narrowly on notions of moral demands and feelings of resentment. I argue that the correct understanding of Strawson's compatibilism needs to take seriously his close connection between the proneness to feel all of the reactive attitudes and our seeing ourselves as agents (as opposed to mere objects). In light of this argument, I conclude by offering a more plausible reading of Strawson's compatibilism.
Self-Consciousness, Self-Ascription, and the Mental Self
Creators: name: Cheng, Chieh-ling
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2016

description: Galen Strawson argues that we have a sense of mental selves, which are entities that have mental features but do not have bodily features. In particular, he argues that there is a form of self-consciousness that involves a conception of the mental self. His mental self view is opposed to the embodied self view, the view that the self must be conceived of as an entity that has both mental and bodily features. In this paper, I will argue against Strawson's mental self view and for the embodied self view. I will draw on P. F. Strawson's theory of persons and Gareth Evans' Generality Constraint to argue that Galen Strawson fails to provide a satisfactory account of the mental self that can counter the embodied self view.
Beyond the State: The Early Nietzsche's Post-Political Rhetoric
Creators: name: Nichols, Keegan
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2016

description: A small subsection of the literature on Nietzsche's political philosophy focuses on a key passage that appears in the sixth section of 'Schopenhauer as Educator.' In this passage, Nietzsche claims that the individual's life attains its highest value by living for the benefit of humanity's rarest and most valuable specimens. Some philosophers, like John Rawls and Thomas Hurka, take this passage to be sufficient evidence of a larger commitment on Nietzsche's part to aristocracy. Others oppose Rawls' and Hurka's interpretations, claiming that this key passage is evidence of a commitment to democracy. However, both sides are incorrect. This particular section of 'Schopenhauer as Educator' is actually evidence of Nietzsche's commitment to divorcing cultural institutions from the influence of states in toto. I explain why Nietzsche is committed neither to aristocracy nor to democracy, and how the passage from 'Schopenhauer as Educator' commits Nietzsche to a post-political position.
Thought Experiments and the Myth of Intuitive Content
Creators: name: McGahhey, Marcus
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2016

description: Many contemporary philosophers are committed ' either implicitly or explicitly ' to Propositionalism about thought-experimental intuitions. According to this view, thought-experimental intuitions are (1) phenomenally conscious, (2) spontaneous, (3) and non-theoretical; most importantly, Propositionalists claim that intuitions (4) bear consciously accessible propositional content. The negative project of this essay is a critique of (4), the rejection of which is tantamount to rejecting Propositionalism. In addition, I propose an alternative position ' namely, Interpretationalism. According to Interpretationalism, intuitions possess the features ascribed in (1)-(3); however, they do not bear consciously accessible propositional content. Instead, intuitions acquire cognitive significance by virtue of being interpreted in light of a subject's background beliefs.
The Species at Risk Act (2002) and Transboundary Species Listings along the US–Canada Border
Creators: name: Raymond, Sarah
name: Perkins, Sarah E.
name: Garrard, Greg
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2024

description: This paper is a collaborative interdisciplinary examination of the scientific, political, and cultural determinants of the conservation status of mammal species that occur in both Canada and the USA. We read Canada’s Species at Risk Act as a document of bio-cultural nationalism circumscribed by the weak federalism and Crown–Indigenous relations of the nation’s constitution. We also provide a numerical comparison of at-risk species listings either side of the US–Canada border and examples of provincial/state listings in comparison with those at a federal level. We find 17 mammal species listed as at-risk in Canada as distinct from the USA, and only 6 transboundary species that have comparable levels of protection in both countries, and we consider several explanations for this asymmetry. We evaluate the concept of ‘jurisdictional rarity’, in which species are endangered only because a geopolitical boundary isolates a small population. The paper begins and ends with reflections on interdisciplinary collaboration, and our findings highlight the importance of considering and explicitly acknowledging political influences on science and conservation-decision making, including in the context of at-risk-species protection.
Supplementary document for Third-harmonic generation of spatially structured light in a quasi-periodically poled crystal - 5661305.pdf
Creators: name: Lou, Yan-Chao
name: Cheng, Zi-Mo
name: Liu, Zhi-Hong
name: Yang, Yu-Xiang
name: Ren, Zhi-Cheng
name: Ding, Jianping
name: Wang, Xi-Lin
name: Wang, Hui-Tian
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This document gives the design details about the quasiperiodically poled potassium titanyl phosphate (QPPKTP) and the evolutions of nonlinear optical processes in QPPKTP.
α-synuclein as an emerging pathophysiological biomarker of Alzheimer’s disease
Creators: name: Beatino, Maria Francesca
name: De Luca, Ciro
name: Campese, Nicole
name: Belli, Elisabetta
name: Piccarducci, Rebecca
name: Giampietri, Linda
name: Martini, Claudia
name: Perugi, Giulio
name: Siciliano, Gabriele
name: Ceravolo, Roberto
name: Vergallo, Andrea
name: Hampel, Harald
name: Baldacci, Filippo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: α-syn aggregates represent the pathological hallmark of synucleinopathies as well as a frequent copathology (almost 1/3 of cases) in AD. Recent research indicates a potential role of α-syn species, measured in CSF with conventional analytical techniques, in the differential diagnosis between AD and synucleinopathies (such as DLB). Pioneering studies report the detection of α-syn in blood, however, conclusive investigations are controversial. Ultrasensitive seed amplification techniques, enabling the selective quantification of α-syn seeds, may represent an effective solution to identify the α-syn component in AD and facilitate a biomarker-guided stratification. We performed a PubMed-based review of the latest findings on α-syn-related biomarkers for AD, focusing on bodily fluids. A dissertation on the role of ultrasensitive seed amplification assays, detecting α-syn seeds from different biological samples, was conducted. α-syn may contribute to progressive AD neurodegeneration through cross-seeding especially with tau protein. Ultrasensitive seed amplification techniques may support a biomarker-drug co-development pathway and may be a pathophysiological candidate biomarker for the evolving ATX(N) system to classify AD and the spectrum of primary NDDs. This would contribute to a precise approach to AD, aimed at implementing disease-modifying treatments.
A Nietzschean Diagnosis of Philosophers
Creators: name: Riggs, Jared
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2016

description: Friedrich Nietzsche thought that philosophers were deeply mistaken about the nature and sources of philosophical activity. Where others took themselves to be motivated by a desire to know the truth, Nietzsche charged that his fellow philosophers, motivated by a pathological set of psychological and physiological characteristics, did little more than sublimate and rationalize their own prejudices. In this thesis, I sketch out in further detail and defend the plausibility and significance of this Nietzschean diagnosis of philosophers. I argue that since Nietzsche's view of philosophers both offers a compelling explanation of some phenomena in contemporary philosophical practice and, were it true, would have significant upshot for how and even whether philosophy should be practiced, we philosophers ought to begin taking it seriously.
The Unity of Higher Cognition: The Case against Dual Process Theory
Creators: name: Sorensen, David
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2016

description: Dual process theorists posit the existence of two distinct types (type-1/type-2) of cognitive processing in order to explain domains of higher cognition such as reasoning and decision-making. Such theories typically allude to co-varying clusters of properties (i.e. a dual-cluster thesis) as well as an underlying mechanism or system for each processing type (i.e. a dual systems thesis). I will argue that a host of empirical findings cast doubt upon the validity of both theses, and that simpler models of higher cognition'that do not appeal to types of processing'might be preferable.
Set-Conditional Set Generation for Particle Physics
Creators: name: Di Bello, Francesco Armando
name: Dreyer, Etienne
name: Ganguly, Sanmay
name: Gross, Eilam
name: Heinrich, Lukas
name: Kado, Marumi
name: Kakati, Nilotpal
name: Shlomi, Jonathan
name: Soybelman, Nathalie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The simulation of particle physics data is a fundamental but computationally intensive ingredient for physics analysis at the Large Hadron Collider, where observational set-valued data is generated conditional on a set of incoming particles. To accelerate this task, we present a novel generative model based on a graph neural network and slot-attention components, which exceeds the performance of pre-existing baselines.
description: 10 pages, 9 figures
The False Promise of Ideal Guidance on the Target View
Creators: name: Carroll, Jeffrey
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2016

description: On one understanding of ideal theory, the optimally just social world is specified at the outset to serve as the target for nonideal theory to strive to realize subject to the constraints of implementation imposed by a world of nonideal actors. In the spirit of recent work by Gerald Gaus and Keith Hankins, I argue that certain models of the path to the target prove inadequate because they are too simplistic. Figuring out both what the target is and how to get there is a much more difficult task than defenders of the target view suggest. Contra Gaus and Hankins, I believe the problem disagreement poses to ideal targets is uniquely epistemic.
Sobolev norms of $L^2$-solutions to NLS
Creators: name: Bessonov, Roman V.
name: Denisov, Sergey A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 35Q55

description: We apply inverse spectral theory to study Sobolev norms of solutions to the nonlinear Schrodinger equation. For initial datum $q_0\in L^2(\mathbb{R})$ and $s\in [-1,0]$, we prove that there exists a conserved quantity that is equivalent to $H^s(\mathbb{R})$-norm of the solution.
Search for top-philic heavy resonances in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2024

description: A search for the associated production of a heavy resonance with a top-quark or a top-antitop-quark pair, and decaying into a tt ¯ pair is presented. The search uses the data recorded by the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider during the years 2015–2018, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb−1. Events containing exactly one electron or muon are selected. The two hadronically decaying top quarks from the resonance decay are reconstructed using jets clustered with a large radius parameter of R = 1. The invariant mass spectrum of the two top quark candidates is used to search for a resonance signal in the range of 1.0 TeV to 3.2 TeV. The presence of a signal is examined using an approach with minimal model dependence followed by a model-dependent interpretation. No significant excess is observed over the background expectation. Upper limits on the production cross section times branching ratio at 95% confidence level are provided for a heavy Z boson based on a simplified model, for Z mass between 1.0 TeV and 3.0 TeV. The observed (expected) limits range from 21 (14) fb to 119 (86) fb depending on the choice of model parameters.
Symmetric Tensor Networks for Generative Modeling and Constrained Combinatorial Optimization
Creators: name: Lopez-Piqueres, Javier
name: Chen, Jing
name: Perdomo-Ortiz, Alejandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Constrained combinatorial optimization problems abound in industry, from portfolio optimization to logistics. One of the major roadblocks in solving these problems is the presence of non-trivial hard constraints which limit the valid search space. In some heuristic solvers, these are typically addressed by introducing certain Lagrange multipliers in the cost function, by relaxing them in some way, or worse yet, by generating many samples and only keeping valid ones, which leads to very expensive and inefficient searches. In this work, we encode arbitrary integer-valued equality constraints of the form Ax=b, directly into U(1) symmetric tensor networks (TNs) and leverage their applicability as quantum-inspired generative models to assist in the search of solutions to combinatorial optimization problems. This allows us to exploit the generalization capabilities of TN generative models while constraining them so that they only output valid samples. Our constrained TN generative model efficiently captures the constraints by reducing number of parameters and computational costs. We find that at tasks with constraints given by arbitrary equalities, symmetric Matrix Product States outperform their standard unconstrained counterparts at finding novel and better solutions to combinatorial optimization problems.
description: v2. Improved version: restructured the paper; corrected complexity analysis and put more details of the encoding algorithm; added new, and improved some existing figures for clarity; added a few extra refs. v3. Shortened captions, added new table with outline of algorithm
An Investigation of Historic Conservation Districts as a Viable Option for Saint Paul, Minnesota
Creators: name: Gladhill, Elizabeth L.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Historic districts
subject: Architecture -- Conservation and restoration -- Minnesota -- St. Paul
subject: Historic preservation -- Theses

description: The theoretical question central to this thesis is whether the city of Saint Paul should introduce historic conservation districts in order to reinforce its preservation efforts. Conservation districts, as a blend of preservation and planning techniques, are controversial elements of preservation policy. This thesis seeks to define the concept, examine its application, and determine the viability of conservation districts within Saint Paul's preservation and planning efforts. The thesis is based upon two major areas of research: the conservation district concept in general, and the City of Saint Paul in specific. Research for the former began with three major studies of conservation districts conducted in the early 1990s. The work then performs a broad-based review of conservation districts nationwide, focusing on several case studies that appeared particularly applicable to Saint Paul's situation. Saint Paul's specific situation is then examined, beginning with investigation into the city's governance and its planning and preservation systems. The thesis then consid­ers the potential economic impact of conservation districts before recommending that the City of Saint Paul adopts conservation districts as part of a larger restructuring effort for both its preservation and planning efforts.
Turuptiana lacipea
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Turuptiana
Turuptiana lacipea

description: Turuptiana lacipea (Druce, 1890)
Sallaea lacipea Druce, 1890a: 215.
TYPE LOCALITY. — Guatemala, [Guatemala], in the city [Guatemala City].
TYPE SPECIMENS. — Described from 5 male syntypes (BMNH; one of the syntypes labeled TYPE).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 312, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
Adam Smith's Circle of Ambition
Creators: name: Pearsall, Zakary
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2016

description: Adam Smith is often thought to be an unequivocal advocate of capitalism based on unfettered self-interest. Against this caricature, I argue that his attitudes towards commercial society are, in fact, more ambivalent. To ground this claim, I outline Smith's account of ambition, a passion responsible for the dynamism of commercial economies but deleterious to individual happiness, and focus on the rhetoric Smith deploys in his portraits of three ambitious characters: the poor man's son, the ambitious man, and the prudent man. Next, I challenge alternative interpretations. In particular, I contest Samuel Fleischacker's view that Smith no longer sees ambition, motivated by vanity, as the driving force behind economic growth in commercial society by the time he writes the Wealth of Nations and, thus, is not meaningfully ambivalent. In the last section, I draw on recent work by Amelie Rorty to argue that Smith's ambivalence towards commercial society is both appropriate and constructive.
Balanced homogeneous harmonic maps between cones
Creators: name: Freidin, Brian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C43, 34B07

description: We study the degrees of homogeneous harmonic maps between simplicial cones. Such maps have been used to model the local behavior of harmonic maps between singular spaces, where the degrees of homogeneous approximations describe the regularity of harmonic maps. In particular the degrees of homogeneous harmonic maps are related to eigenvalues of discrete normalized graph Laplacians.
description: 31 pages, 0 figures
Supplementary document for Third-harmonic generation of spatially structured light in a quasi-periodically poled crystal - 5661305.pdf
Creators: name: Lou, Yan-Chao
name: Cheng, Zi-Mo
name: Liu, Zhi-Hong
name: Yang, Yu-Xiang
name: Ren, Zhi-Cheng
name: Ding, Jianping
name: Wang, Xi-Lin
name: Wang, Hui-Tian
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This document gives the design details about the quasiperiodically poled potassium titanyl phosphate (QPPKTP) and the evolutions of nonlinear optical processes in QPPKTP.
A Benefit Argument for Responsibilities to Rectify Injustice
Creators: name: Neefus, Suzanne
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2016

description: Daniel Butt develops an account of corrective responsibilities borne by beneficiaries of injustice. He defends the consistency model. I criticize the vagueness in this model and present two interpretations of benefit from injustice (BFI) responsibilities: obligation and natural duty. The obligation model falls prey to the involuntariness objection. I defend a natural duties model, discussing how natural duties can be circumstantially perfected into directed duties and showing how the natural duties model avoids the involuntariness objection. I also address objections from structural injustice and demandingness.
An Analytical Study for Preserving U.S. Army Barracks Constructed between 1880 and 1940
Creators: name: Phillips, David John
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Military architecture
subject: Historic preservation -- Theses

description: This thesis studies the development of the U.S. Army barracks as a major type of building constructed on military reservations from 1880 through 1940. It includes an analytical study of those structures built between 1880 and 1915 and those between 1920 and 1940 and raises the question, have they become significant enough for preserving? In order to determine the significance of these barracks, one has to study the organization of the Army, and how the barracks are designed and built and what a soldier did in the barracks. Barracks are significant buildings on every Army installation as their architectural style has usually set the tone for the design of the rest of the installation. The location of the barracks, usually along the edge of the parade field, also indicates the significance of these structures. Two economic analysis case studies show the cost benefits of preserving the structures. One analysis of a barracks at Fort McNair, Washington, DC, describes the benefits of rehabilitating a 1903 barracks into a barracks that supports the current Department of Defense design standards. The second analysis looks at a 1934 barracks at Fort Lewis, Washington. This structure was rehabilitated into administrative offices for employees of the installation staff. In preserving these barracks, they must be documented. Less than 10% of the existing structures are listed on the National Register. The Army should establish a formal program for identifying and inventorying all those barracks that remain, including those not under the Army's control. The Army should evaluate all of the identified and inventoried barracks for determination of eligibility for listing on the National Register of Historic Places. Finally, the Army should submit those barracks that are eligible for listing to the National Register of Historic Places as a thematic nomination. The National Register listing then can be used as a planning tool, along with the economic analysis models provided in this paper as a starting point to manage these barracks and make appropriate preservation decisions department wide.
High-redshift clumpy disks and bulge formation from observations
Creators: name: Wuyts, Stijn
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: In this presentation, I review a number of lessons learned from resolved multi-wavelength studies of galaxies from the peak epoch of star formation 10 billion years ago to later epochs when star formation activity in the Universe dwindled. I discuss the nature of star-forming disk galaxies from their clumpy appearance to their underlying kinematics and structure. Outstanding questions regarding where and when stars are forming (and stop forming) within these disk galaxies are addressed, with an outlook on upcoming programmes with JWST. Finally, I cover inferences of 3D intrinsic shapes for both the star-forming and quiescent population and touch on techniques adopted to reconstruct evolutionary sequences to link high-redshift galaxies to their descendants at later epochs.
The Influence of Pullman: Railroad Passenger Coach Colors, 1900-1940
Creators: name: Klobucar, Barbara J.
Publisher: name: Maryland Shared Open Access Repository
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Pullman cars
subject: Railroad cars -- Painting
subject: Historic preservation -- Theses

description: This thesis shows the influence that the Pullman Company had on the colors of passenger coaches in the first forty years of the twentieth century. The Pullman Company was the foremost manufacturer of passenger coaches in North America. The Pullman name meant quality. The dark olive green color of Pullman-made coaches became known as "Pullman Green." Passenger coaches consist of any car that was used as a commuter or day coach, business car, dining car, post office car, baggage car, sleeper, or parlor car. Railroad companies not buying coaches from Pullman requested their coach manufacturers to paint their new coaches "Pullman Green." When railroads painted coaches during normal maintenance, they were painted dark green or olive green like Pullman cars. This thesis examines both archival records and physical evidence. Documents show that the railroads wanted the color of their coaches to resemble Pullman coaches. Coaches were investigated to date their age and document their histories. Paint samples were obtained and a paint color analysis performed on coaches representing different coach manufacturers and railroad companies. Documentary and physical evidence shows that Pullman set the standard for passenger coach colors from 1900 to 1940. Evidence shows that the coach manufacturers tried to match the "Pullman Green" color but were not completely successful. Railroad companies had more difficulty matching "Pullman Green" but in turn, they each came up with their own unique green. Many of these colors were recorded in the course of this research. These colors are notated and an actual paint sample is included in this thesis.
title: Deformation modelling of quasi-isotropic aerodynamic components with life cycle predictions
Creators: name: Cushing, Alex
Publisher: name: University of Central Lancashire
Year: 2024

description: The aim of this thesis is to investigate the performance of wind turbine blades during normal operational loading cases to aid the prediction of life cycles. The main aim of this work is to critically evaluate if these devices are over-engineered to withstand extreme conditions. It is already known that these systems have a number of replacements during their whole life. The rationale for this work is to develop knowledge of the mechanical material properties used for these devices and how applying normal operating loads introduce fatigue within the materials. Using analytic theories such as Classical Lamination, bending, and Runge-Kutta techniques; along with numerical simulations via ANSYS APDL & Workbench to develop representative models and simulations to draw logical conclusions to the proposed scientific hypothesis. The key findings relating to both how wind turbine blade design, materials and behaviour responses to the loading conditions imposed. The findings will enable a deeper knowledge to the wider community, outside of engineering as well as monetary reductions unless extreme events affect the devices structure. The thesis concludes that Classical Lamination Theory can be used for orthotropic models, aerospace token test pieces can be used to determine composite material properties, layup sequencing of composites yields similar results to orthotropic equivalents, the application of twisted sections within the blade geometry increases the structural stiffness of these devices, and stress calculations can be employed irrespective of modelling software.
Knowing How You Feel: The Structure and Importance of Emotional Self-Knowledge
Creators: name: Boudreau, Robert
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2016

description: The aim of this thesis is to offer up a structure of what I call Emotional Self-Knowledge'roughly, knowledge of one's own emotions. I begin with a broad understanding of an emotion event, according to which emotion events include a set of bodily feelings in response to some object. I then argue that knowledge of the object and the feeling of the emotion are required parts of knowing one's own emotions if we expect emotional self-knowledge to be prudentially useful. I then outlining three levels of emotional self. The first requires knowledge of the feeling on is experiencing; the second requires that knowledge plus knowledge of the emotionally-salient object. The final level is knowledge of one's emotional dispositions, and as such is the most robust form of emotional self-knowledge. I conclude by examining some cases in which emotional self-knowledge can be usefully applied towards an agents own prudential goals.
Turuptiana affinis Rothschild 1909
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Turuptiana
Turuptiana affinis

description: Turuptiana affinis Rothschild, 1909
Turuptiana affinis Rothschild, 1909b: 296.
TYPE LOCALITY. — Venezuela, Merida.
TYPE SPECIMEN. — Described on 10 males and 2 females. We chose the male syntype with a white printed label “ Merida (Briceno)” / a white printed label “Rothschild Bequest B.M. 1939-1.” / a pink handwritten label “ Turuptiana affinis Type Rothsch[ild]” / a round red printed label “Type”, and designated it as lectotype. We have labeled it with a round blue label “ Lectotype ” and a white printed label “ Lectotype Turuptiana affinis ♂ by Vincent & Laguerre” (BMNH).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 312, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
Diagnosing Verbal Disputes: The Case of Ontology
Creators: name: Dahlberg, Nathan
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2016

description: According to Eli Hirsch many ontological disputes are verbal because, in these disputes, each side is most charitably interpreted as speaking the truth in its own language. In this thesis I argue that the ontological disputes Hirsch targets can't be verbal. The problem with Hirsch's proposal is that these ontological disputes are explicable in terms of ancillary disagreements about the explanatory value of intrinsic properties. If Hirsch believes that the ancillary disagreements are nonverbal, I argue, then he should interpret ontological disputes as being nonverbal as well. Alternatively, in order for Hirsch to interpret the ancillary disagreements as being verbal, he must reject an assumption implicit in ontologists' existence assertions. In this case, he ought to interpret ontologists' positive existence assertions as false. Either way, there is no plausible way to interpret the disputes Hirsch targets as being verbal.
Kant and the Ground(s) of Dignity: The Centrality of the Fact of Reason
Creators: name: Britton, William
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2016

description: Kant famously claims that autonomy is the ground of dignity. If he is correct about the grounding relationship, then doubts about our autonomy entail doubts about our dignity. Here, I attempt to show that Kant is sensitive to this problem, and invokes the 'fact of reason' (Faktum der Vernunft) as the key piece of evidence for our autonomy, and therefore our dignity. But as is well known, Kant's appeal to the Faktum is controversial. After presenting an exegetical case for the connection between dignity and the fact of reason, I respond to two prominent criticisms of Kant's strategy in the Critique of Practical Reason in attempt to defend Kant's use of the Faktum, and hence to preserve his conception of the dignity of humanity.
The Duty to Truthfulness: Why What We Care about Is a Moral Matter
Creators: name: Sakovich, Jeremy
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2016

description: In this essay, I argue that Harry Frankfurt's view of the domain of ethics is flawed. On Frankfurt's view, what we care about falls outside the proper scope of ethics because we are bound to what we care about, not by the force of moral necessities, but by non-moral 'volitional necessities'. I show, however, that being moved to care within the constraints of our volitional necessities requires meeting a moral obligation of self-honesty. Developing Kant's idea of a duty to truthfulness, I show that the duty to truthfulness is a duty to self-honesty. I then contend that self-honesty is a moral duty because self-honesty is essential for self-respect. Thus, because we fulfill a moral obligation to ourselves in the course of caring about things within the constraints of our volitional necessities, what we care about is a moral matter within the domain of ethics.
Search for pair production of squarks or gluinos decaying via sleptons or weak bosons in fnal states with two same-sign or three leptons with the ATLAS detector
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2024

description: A search for pair production of squarks or gluinos decaying via sleptons or weak bosons is reported. The search targets a fnal state with exactly two leptons with same-sign electric charge or at least three leptons without any charge requirement. The analysed data set corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 139 fb−1 of proton-proton collisions collected at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Multiple signal regions are defned, targeting several SUSY simplifed models yielding the desired fnal states. A single control region is used to constrain the normalisation of the W Z + jets background. No signifcant excess of events over the Standard Model expectation is observed. The results are interpreted in the context of several supersymmetric models featuring R-parity conservation or R-parity violation, yielding exclusion limits surpassing those from previous searches. In models considering gluino (squark) pair production, gluino (squark) masses up to 2.2 (1.7) TeV are excluded at 95% confdence level.
Surface Grafting of Graphene Flakes with Fluorescent Dyes: A Tailored Functionalization Approach
Creators: name: Vlamidis, Ylea
name: Marinelli, Carmela
name: Moscardini, Aldo
name: Faraci, Paolo
name: Heun, Stefan
name: Veronesi, Stefano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The controlled functionalization of graphene is critical for tuning and enhancing its properties, thereby expanding its potential applications. Covalent functionalization offers a deeper tuning of the geometric and electronic structure of graphene compared to non-covalent methods; however, the existing techniques involve side reactions and spatially uncontrolled functionalization, pushing research toward more selective and controlled methods. A promising approach is 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition, successfully utilized with carbon nanotubes. In the present work, this method has been extended to graphene flakes with low defect concentration. A key innovation is the use of a custom-synthesized ylide with a protected amine group (Boc), facilitating subsequent attachment of functional molecules. Indeed, after Boc cleavage, fluorescent dyes (Atto 425, 465, and 633) were covalently linked via NHS ester derivatization. This approach represents a highly selective method of minimizing structural damage. Successful functionalization was demonstrated by Raman spectroscopy, photoluminescence spectroscopy, and confocal microscopy, confirming the effectiveness of the method. This novel approach offers a versatile platform, enabling its use in biological imaging, sensing, and advanced nanodevices. The method paves the way for the development of sensors and devices capable of anchoring a wide range of molecules, including quantum dots and nanoparticles. Therefore, it represents a significant advancement in graphene-based technologies.
description: 27 pages including Supporting Information, 5 figures in main and 6 figures in SI