cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Progress towards laser cooling of BH molecules
Creators: name: Holland, Darren
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2016

description: This thesis investigates the suitability of BH molecules for laser cooling and describes progress towards the laser cooling of this molecule. We produce a molecular beam of BH and measure the branching ratios for the excited electronic state, A^{1}\Pi(v_{0}=0), to decay to the various vibrational states of the ground electronic state, X^{1}\Sigma. We verify that the branching ratio for the spin-forbidden transition to an intermediate triplet state is inconsequentially small. We measure the frequency of the lowest rotational transition of the X state, and the hyper fine structure in the relevant levels of both the X and A states, and determine the nuclear electric quadrupole and magnetic dipole coupling constants. We use a semiclassical model of the molecule-light interaction to investigate the expected cycling behaviour on the main cooling transition using light with modulated polarisation. The results of the model are compared with the effect of modulating the polarisation experimentally using an electro-optic modulator. In order to repump the population that leaks into the first vibrationally excited state, we have designed, built and tested a suitable repump laser and have demonstrated that we can drive the repump transition. We have also designed a Zeeman slower for slowing molecules to low velocity so that they can be trapped. Our results show that a relatively simple laser cooling scheme can be used to cool, slow and trap BH molecules.
Phase--space Distribution of Volatile Dark Matter
Creators: name: Ghizzardi, S.
name: Bonometto, S. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the phase--space distribution of $μ$ neutrinos if $τ$ neutrinos are unstable and decay into $ν_μ+ scalar$. If this scalar is a familon or a Majoron, in the generic case the $ν_μ$ background is NOT the straightforward overlap of neutrinos of thermal and decay origins. A delay in $ν_τ$ decay, due to the Pauli exclusion principle, can modify it in a significant way. We provide the equations to calculate the $ν_μ$ distribution and show that, in some cases, there exists a good approximate solution to them. However, even when such solution is not admitted, the equations can be numerically solved following a precise pattern. We give such a solution for a number of typical cases. If $ν_μ$ has a mass $\sim 2$ eV and the see--saw argument holds, $ν_τ$ must be unstable and the decay into $ν_μ+ scalar$ is a reasonable possibility. The picture leads to a delayed equivalence redshift, which could allow to reconcile COBE data with a bias parameter $b\ge 1$.
description: 14 pages, latex. Figures in a separated uuencoded, compressed, tarred PostScript file. Figures are also available upon request
Additional file 2: of Targeted gluteal exercise versus sham exercise on self-reported physical function for people with hip osteoarthritis (the GHOst trial â Gluteal exercise for Hip Osteoarthritis): a protocol for a randomised clinical trial
Creators: name: Semciw, Adam
name: Pizzari, Tania
name: Woodley, Stephanie
name: Zacharias, Anita
name: Kingsley, Michael
name: Green, Rod
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Flow diagram illustrating a clinical diagnosis of gluteal tendinopathy that would warrant exclusion from the proposed study [49]. Abbreviations: FABER- flexion, abduction, external rotation test, OA osteoarthritis. (DOCX 40 kb)
Ruscus hypoglossum Linnaeus 1753
Creators: name: Jarvis, Charlie
Publisher: name: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Asparagales
Asparagaceae
Ruscus
Ruscus hypoglossum

description: Ruscus hypoglossum Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 2: 1041. 1753.
"Habitat in Hungariae, Liguriae, Italiae montibus umbrosis." RCN: 7526.
Type not designated.
Original material: Herb. Clifford: 465, Ruscus 3, 2 sheets (BM); [icon] in Colonna, Ekphr.: 166, 165. 1606.
Current name: Ruscus hypoglossum L. (Liliaceae / Ruscaceae).
Note: Yeo (in Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 28: 252. 1968) indicated Clifford material as the lectotype but did not distinguish between two sheets there associated with this name. As they are evidently not part of a single gathering, Art. 9.15 does not apply.
description: Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part R), pp. 785-805 in Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London :Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum on page 805, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971
A spin dephasing mechanism mediated by the interplay between the spin-orbit coupling and the asymmetrical confining potential in semiconductor quantum dot
Creators: name: Li, Rui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Understanding the spin dephasing mechanism is of fundamental importance in all potential applications of the spin qubit. Here we demonstrate a spin dephasing mechanism in semiconductor quantum dot due to the $1/f$ charge noise. The spin-charge interaction is mediated by the interplay between the spin-orbit coupling and the asymmetrical quantum dot confining potential. The dephasing rate is proportional to both the strength of the spin-orbit coupling and the degree of the asymmetry of the confining potential. For parameters typical of the InSb, InAs, and GaAs quantum dots with a moderate well-height $V_{0}=10$ meV, we find the spin dephasing times are ${\rm T}^{*}_{2}=7$ $μ$s, $275$ $μ$s, and $55$ ms, respectively. In particular, the spin dephasing can be enhanced by lowering the well-height. When the well-height is as small as $V_{0}=5$ meV, the spin depahsing times in the InSb, InAs, and GaAs quantum dots are decreased to ${\rm T}^{*}_{2}=0.38$ $μ$s, $18$ $μ$s, and $9$ ms, respectively.
description: 14 pages, 9 figures
Additional file 1: of A randomized comparison of three data collection models for the measurement of parent experiences with diabetes outpatient care
Creators: name: Oyvind Bjertnaes
name: Iversen, Hilde
name: Skrivarhaug, Torild
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Marine Biology

description: Questionnaire. (PDF 258 kb)
title: ADCO, Cartulaire du prieuré Notre-Dame de Bonvaux, dépendant du Val-des-Ecoliers (XVe siècle), Dijon, Cart. 228 (27 H), 68 folios, 109 actes (1211-1356), f. 0063
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2011
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: cartulaire
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge

description: Cartulaire du prieuré Notre-Dame de Bonvaux, dépendant du Val-des-Ecoliers (XVe siècle), Dijon, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 228 (27 H), 68 folios, 109 actes (1211-1356). Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire du prieuré Notre-Dame de Bonvaux, dépendant du Val-des-Ecoliers (XVe siècle), Dijon, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 228 (27 H), 68 folios, 109 actes (1211-1356), f. 0063, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi \[Ressource en ligne\], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb15250518p
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/02643413X/id
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/6453767
description: Provenance: Dijon
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7003
Additional file 1 of Patients’ risk factors for periprosthetic joint infection in primary total hip arthroplasty: a meta-analysis of 40 studies
Creators: name: Ren, Xiaolei
name: Ling, Lin
name: Qi, Lin
name: Liu, Zhongyue
name: Zhang, Wenchao
name: Yang, Zhimin
name: Wang, Wanchun
name: Tu, Chao
name: Li, Zhihong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Subgroup analysis for gender with different location (A), Follow-up years (B), or confounders adjusted (C) were shown to identify the possible association between gender with PJI following THA. Sensitivity analysis (D), Begg’s funnel plot (E) of the outcome: gender. Figure S2. Subgroup analysis for diabetes mellitus (DM) with different location (A), Follow-up years (B), study design (C) or confounders adjusted (D) were shown to identify the possible association between DM with PJI after THA. Begg’s funnel plot (E) of the outcome: DM. Figure S3. Forest plots of the meta-analysis of medical history characteristics, including previous joint surgery (A), renal disease (B), hypertension (C), cancer (D), steroid use (E) and liver disease (F) as risk factors for PJI following THA.
Two Indianists and a Commission. Carlo Formichi, Oreste Nazari and the Progress of Sanskrit Studies in Italy
Creators: name: Crisanti, Alice
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2021

description:

This paper aims to retrace a piece of the history of Indian studies in Italy between the 19th and 20th centuries. Specifically, it builds on the unpublished documents from the works of the October 1905 Examination Commission – consisting of Michele Kerbaker, Emilio Teza, Fausto Gherardo Fumi, Paolo Emilio Pavolini, and Ernesto Giacomo Parodi – tasked with assessing the scientific and academics titles of Carlo Formichi and Oreste Nazari, who had held temporary Sanskrit chairs in Pisa and Palermo since 1901, in view of promoting them to tenured positions. This is a valuable case-study to understand the dynamics of the development of Indian studies in post-unification Italy, as well as the reciprocal influences between scholars and the reception of contemporary publications in the Orientalistic field.

description: Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale
New and Old Tests of Cosmological Models and Evolution of Galaxies
Creators: name: Petrosian, Vahe'
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe the classical cosmological tests, such as the Log$N$-Log$S$, redshift-magnitude and angular diameter tests, and propose some new tests of the evolution of galaxies and the universe. Most analyses of these tests treat the problem in terms of a luminosity function and its evolution which can lead to incorrect conclusions when dealing with high redshift sources. We develop a proper treatment in three parts. In the first part we describe these tests based on the isophotal values of the quantities such as flux, size or surface brightness. We show the shortcomings of the simple point source approximation based solely on the luminosity function and consideration of the flux limit. We emphasize the multivariate nature of the problem and quantify the effects of other selection biases due to the surface brightness and angular size limitations. In these considerations the surface brightness profile plays a critical role. In the second part we show that considerable simplification over the complicated isophotal scheme is achieved if these test are carried out in some sort of metric scheme, for example that suggested by Petrosian (1976). This scheme, however, is limited to well resolved sources. Finally, we describe the new tests, which use the data to a fuller extent than the isophotal or metric based tests, and amount to simply counting the pixels or adding their intensities as a function of the pixel surface brightness, instead of dealing with surface brightness, sizes and fluxes of individual galaxies. We show that the data analysis and its comparison with the theoretical models of the distributions and evolution of galaxies has the simplicity of the metric test and utilizes the data more fully than the isophotal test.
description: 29 pages including 8 figures. http://www-bigbang.stanford.edu/~vahe/papers/finals/newtest.ps. To appear in ApJ, Oct. 1998
Eider Rodríguez: Body, Disease and Narration
Creators: name: Kortazar, Jon
name: Rodriguez-Miñambres, Paloma
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2021

description: In this article we address the interpretive and narrative keys of Un corazón tan grande, a book of short stories by Eider Rodriguez, where women come into focus. The writer emphasises the importance of the body and the presence of scars, a recurring symbol. Under an apparent normality, conflicts about love, death, pain, (lack of) understanding – agreements and disagreements – beat at the heart of any relationship with family, a partner and one’s neighbours. The narrative ability of Eider Rodriguez reveals the mutable and contradictory nature of human beings, the ephemeral values of today’s society, and the visible and the invisible that underlie in human relationships, and in unsolved conflicts.
description: Rassegna iberistica
A New Window into La casa del padre
Creators: name: Colbert-Goicoa, David
name: Martin-Etxebeste, Jon
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2021

description: This article analyses the novel Aitaren etxea (lit. ‘The Father’s House’, self-translated into Castilian Spanish as La casa del padre), by Karmele Jaio. The book, which is dedicated to “all new men”, explores the gender dynamics underlying family relations, professional advancement in the cultural field, and the Basque national struggle. As a thesis novel, it calls on men to take stock of the ways in which they have perpetrated patriarchal structures so that they may be open to new attitudes.
description: Rassegna iberistica
GRAVITATIONAL LENSING OF QUASARS BY THEIR DAMPED LYMAN-ALPHA ABSORBERS
Creators: name: Bartelmann, Matthias
name: Loeb, Abraham
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Damped Lyman-alpha absorbers are believed to be associated with galactic disks. We show that gravitational lensing can therefore affect the statistics of these systems. First, the magnification bias due to lensing raises faint QSOs above a given magnitude threshold and thereby enhances the probability for observing damped absorption systems. Second, the bending of light rays from the source effectively limits the minimum impact parameter of the line-of-sight relative to the center of the absorber, thus providing an upper cut-off to the observed neutral hydrogen (HI) column density. The combination of these effects yields a pronounced peak in the observed abundance of absorbers with high column densities (>2*10^{21} cm^{-2}) and low redshifts (z<1). The inferred value of the cosmological density parameter of neutral hydrogen, Omega_{HI}, increases with increasing redshift and luminosity of the sources even if the true HI density remains constant. This trend resembles the observed evolution of Omega_{HI}(z). Damped Lyman-alpha absorbers with column densities >10^{21} cm^{-2} and redshifts 0.5
description: 20 pages, uuencoded compressed postscript file, 6 figures included
Towards real-time lighting-aware scene capture from a moving camera
Creators: name: Jachnik, Jan
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2016

description: The level of complexity of maps created by monocular SLAM is on the rise. Increases in computational power have taken us from sparse feature maps to fully dense 3D reconstructions. Still, none of these are making full use of the wealth of information available from a live, monocular video feed. Aside from geometry there are the effects of lighting, reflection and shadow which are often ignored but give us vital clues into the types of surfaces being observed. We take some steps to extend the maps generated by monocular SLAM by considering real-time acquisition of surface reflectance and lighting information. In robotics, such information could be used to help determine materials, aiding object detection and semantic under- standing, thus enabling better interaction with the environment. In augmented reality lighting and reflectance information is essential to make virtual objects blend seamlessly into the real world. In this thesis we will demonstrate real-time capture of planar surface light-fields, a convenient representation to infer lighting and reflectance information. On a tangent we then investigate how sculptors manipulate geometry to alter the effects of illumination and reflectance, changing our perception and enhancing details; a technique required to bring a piece of work to life when sculpting in a medium of constant albedo. We attempt to apply some of these sculptors techniques in a mesh editing tool we call sculptural stylisation. Finally, we investigate methods for recovering the geometry of surfaces from a monocular camera in an attempt to extend our work on planar surface light-fields to work in 3D: we present various ways to generate depth-maps from a monocular video stream and detail a system to fuse them together into a consistent 3D model.
Additional file 1: of False negative computed tomography scan due to pelvic binder in a patient with pelvic disruption: a case report and review of the literature
Creators: name: Jamme, Sharon
name: Poletti, Alexandre
name: Gamulin, Axel
name: Rutschmann, Olivier
name: Andereggen, Elisabeth
name: Grosgurin, Olivier
name: Marti, Christophe
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Timeline of patient's evolution and management. (PDF 174 kb)
Unsteadiness of shock wave boundary layer interactions across multiple interaction configurations and strengths
Creators: name: Threadgill, James
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2016

description: Shock Wave Boundary Layer Interactions (SWBLIs) represent complex flow phenomena that remain poorly understood despite their prevalence on high-speed vehicles, in part due to their complicated underlying physics. In particular, the mechanisms that drive the high-amplitude, low-frequency unsteadiness within the interaction have perplexed researchers for many years while remaining a limitation to vehicle performance and a potential danger to airframe integrity. This investigation has specifically examined the influence of interaction strength and configuration type on the characteristic unsteady behaviour that describes the flow environment. Until now, researchers have typically focused on testing a specific configuration in a given test facility. This approach can obscure meaningful conclusions that may be drawn due to the interference of the test environment. The present research effort therefore tackles this flaw by assessing flow behaviours across a range of SWBLIs, all tested within a common environment. Four strengths of oblique shock reflection interactions and two strengths of compression ramp interactions have been assessed and compared. Experiments have been conducted in the Imperial College Supersonic Wind Tunnel with a Mach 2 turbulent incoming boundary layer with momentum thickness Reynolds number of 8000. Using a combined approach of synchronised PIV and fast-response wall-pressure measurements the unsteady elements to the interactions have been investigated. The spectral evolutions of unsteady wall-pressure disturbances are assessed throughout each of the interactions. Results confirm that the high-frequency component of the separation shock spectral content is common across all interactions. Meanwhile, low-frequency amplitudes scale with the interaction length, acting to decrease the characteristic frequency used to describe such motion when the interaction strength is increased. Instantaneous shock structures have also been identified which confirm the presence of two unsteady mechanisms governing the dynamics of the separation shock: rotation and translation. Quasi-steady modelling of these mechanisms indicates how their relative dominance varies with interaction strength and configuration type. This body of work represents a unique assessment of valuable data that is crucial to the development of unsteady SWBLI understanding.
A Geometrical Test of the Cosmological Energy Contents Using the Lyman-alpha Forest
Creators: name: Hui, Lam
name: Stebbins, Albert
name: Burles, Scott
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this Letter we explore a version of the test of cosmological geometry proposed by Alcock and Paczynski (1979), using observations of the Lyman-alpha forest in the spectra of close quasar pairs. By comparing the correlations in absorption in one quasar spectrum with correlations between the spectra of neighboring quasars one can determine the relation of the redshift distance scale to the angle distance scale at the redshift of the absorbers, $z \sim 2 - 4$. Since this relationship depends on the parameters of the cosmological model, these parameters may be determined using the Lyman-alpha forest. While this test is relatively insensitive to the density parameter $Ω_m$ in a dust-dominated universe, it is more sensitive to the presence of a matter component with large negative pressure (such as a cosmological constant $Λ$) and its equation of state. With only 25 pairs of quasar spectra at angular separations $0.5' - 2'$, one can discriminate between an $Ω_m = 0.3$ open universe ($Λ=0$) and an $Ω_m = 0.3$ flat ($Λ$-dominated) universe at the $4-σ$ level. The S/N can be enhanced by considering quasar pairs at smaller angular separations, but requires proper modeling of nonlinear redshift space distortions. Here the correlations and redshift space distortions are modeled using linear theory.
description: 13 pages, 2 ps figures, submitted to ApJL
Ultrasound-assisted hydrolysis of lard for free fatty acids catalyzed by combined two lipases in aqueous medium
Creators: name: Huang, Jinjin
name: Zhao, Qingyi
name: Bu, Wei
name: Zhang, Chunmei
name: Yang, Zhen
name: Zhang, Xin
name: Zhang, Kaini
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Lard is a by-product of animal processing. It is inexpensive compared with vegetable oils; however, its use is limited due to the high calorific value and high-saturated fatty acid content. While using lard as the source of free fatty acids (FFA) can significantly increase its utilization value. This study aimed to research the method on efficient hydrolysis of lard catalyzed by combi-lipases and assisted with ultrasound pretreatment. A 1,3-specific lipase from Rhizomucor miehei (termed pRML, 1540 U/mL) and a nonspecific mono- and diacylglycerol lipase from Penicillium cyclopium (termed MDL, 2000 U/mL) were used as biocatalysts. Results showed that the maximum hydrolysis rate of lard after 6 h at 45°C by using pRML and MDL alone was, respectively, 39.9% and 8.5%. When pRML combined with MDL (combi-lipases), hydrolysis rate can reach to 78.1%. While combi-lipases were assisted with 5 min ultrasound pretreatment before the reaction, the hydrolysis rate can further increase to 97%. The combi-lipases with different specificity and assisted with ultrasound pretreatment may be a useful technology for the enzyme production of FFA from complex lipid substrates, such as lard. Abbreviations: FFA: free fatty acids; TAGs: triacylglycerols; SEs: steryl esters; WEs: wax esters; pRML: Rhizomucor miehei lipase; MDL: Penicillium cyclopium lipase; BMGY/BMMY: buffered complex glycerol/methanol medium; BSMG: base salt media with Na2GP as phosphate source; YNB: yeast nitrogen base W/O amino acids; GC: gas chromatography; TLC: thin-layer chromatography;
North of Dai: Armed Communities and Military Resources in Late Medieval China (880-936)
Creators: name: Barenghi, Maddalena
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2021

description:

This article discusses various aspects of the formation of the Shatuo as a complex constitutional process from armed mercenary community to state founders in the waning years of Tang rule and the early tenth century period (880-936). The work focuses on the territorial, economic, and military aspects of the process, such as the strategies to secure control over resources and the constitution of elite privileges through symbolic kinship ties. Even as the region north of the Yanmen Pass (Daibei) remained an important pool of recruits for the Shatuo well into the tenth century, the Shatuo leaders struggled to secure control of their core manpower, progressively moving away from their military base of support, or losing it to their competitors.

description: Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale
Probing transition form factors in the rare $B\to K^*ν\barν$ decay
Creators: name: Ahmady, Mohammad
name: Leger, Alexandre
name: McIntyre, Zoe
name: Morrison, Alexander
name: Sandapen, Ruben
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compare the Standard Model (SM) predictions for the differential branching ratio of the rare $B\to K^*ν\barν$ decays using $B \to K^*$ form factors obtained from holographic light-front QCD (hLFQCD) and Sum Rules (SR) Distribution Amplitudes. For the total branching ratio, we predict $\mathcal{BR}(\process)_{\rm hLFQCD}=(6.36^{+0.59}_{-0.74})\times 10^{-6}$ and $\mathcal{BR}(\process)_{\rm SR}=(8.14^{+0.16}_{- 0.17})\times 10^{-6}$. More interestingly, we find that the two model predictions for the differential branching ratio are sufficiently different at low momentum transfer, so that future measurements at Belle II may be able to discriminate between them. We also confirm numerically that the $K^*$ longitudinal polarization fraction $F_L$ has little sensitivity to the non-perturbative form factors and is thus an excellent observable to probe New Physics signals. We predict $F_L=0.40^{+0.02}_{-0.01}(0.41\pm 0.01)$ using hLFQCD (SR).
description: 13 pages, 5 figures and 4 tables
Leire Bilbao, the Value of Simplicity
Creators: name: Etxaniz, Xabier
name: Fernández De Gamboa Vázquez, Karla
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2021

description: This article reviews the work of Leire Bilbao, a writer belonging to a new generation of Basque authors who has managed to cross the borders of the Basque language. Since she published her first book in 2006, she has combined her poetry books for adults with children’s literature. Throughout this period, she has also made a more than interesting foray into picturebooks in collaboration with the illustrator Maite Mutuberria. Her children’s books, which range from critical realism to magical realism, are apparently simple narratives that can be read on several levels and that have a great poetic charge. Nevertheless, her two poetry books for children are, without any doubt, the most remarkable interaction between the author’s poetics and her production for children.
description: Rassegna iberistica
The Notion of bianxing 變形 in the Monkey Tales Contained in the Three Chapters "Chushou" 畜 獸 of Taiping Guangji 太平廣記
Creators: name: Ruscica, Giovanni
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2021

description:

The 10th-century leishu 類書 (encyclopaedia) by Li Fang entitled Taiping Guangji 太平廣記 (Extensive Records of the Taiping Era) is a Song period collection of miscellanea of strange persons and events divided into 500 juan 卷. The classifications of the entries about animals in this collection are from juan 418 to 479. This study examines twenty-five anomaly accounts of shape-changes within the last three juan of “Chushou” 畜獸 (Domesticated and Wild Beasts) dedicated to apes and monkeys, i.e. juan 444, 445, and 446. This paper also analyses the concept of bianxing 變形 (transmutation) related to the physique and spiritual forms of these apes and monkeys, after their clashes and contaminations with human beings. The research considers four categories of changes considering extracts from all the entries. When possible, further information on apes and monkeys is given.

description: Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale
Non-Gaussian CMBR angular power spectra
Creators: name: Magueijo, J. C. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we show how the prediction of CMBR angular power spectra $C_l$ in non-Gaussian theories is affected by a cosmic covariance problem, that is $(C_l,C_{l'})$ correlations impart features on any observed $C_l$ spectrum which are absent from the average $C^l$ spectrum. Therefore the average spectrum is rendered a bad observational prediction, and two new prediction strategies, better adjusted to these theories, are proposed. In one we search for hidden random indices conditional to which the theory is released from the correlations. Contact with experiment can then be made in the form of the conditional power spectra plus the random index distribution. In another approach we apply to the problem a principal component analysis. We discuss the effect of correlations on the predictivity of non-Gaussian theories. We finish by showing how correlations may be crucial in delineating the borderline between predictions made by non-Gaussian and Gaussian theories. In fact, in some particular theories, correlations may act as powerful non-Gaussianity indicators.
Quantitative measures for code obfuscation security
Creators: name: Mohsen, Rabih
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2016

description: In this thesis we establish a quantitative framework to measure and study the security of code obfuscation, an effective software protection method that defends software against malicious reverse engineering. Despite the recent positive result by Garg et al.[GGH+13] that shows the possibility of obfuscating using indistinguishability obfuscation definition, code obfuscation has two major challenges: firstly, the lack of theoretical foundation that is necessary to define and reason about code obfuscation security; secondly, it is an open problem whether there exists security metrics that measure and certify the current state-of-the-art of code obfuscation techniques. To address these challenges, we followed a research methodology that consists of the following main routes: a formal approach to build a theory that captures, defines and measures the security of code obfuscation, and an experimental approach that provides empirical evidence about the soundness and validity of the proposed theory and metrics. To this end, we propose Algorithmic Information Theory, known as Kolmogorov complexity, as a theoretical and practical model to define, study, and measure the security of code obfuscation. We introduce the notion of unintelligibility, an intuitive way to define code obfuscation, and argue that it is not sufficient to capture the security of code obfuscation. We then present a more powerful security definition that is based on the algorithmic mutual information, and show that is able to effectively capture code obfuscation security. We apply our proposed definition to prove the possibility of obtaining security in code obfuscation under reasonable assumptions. We model adversaries with deobfuscation capabilities that explicitly realise the required properties for a successful deobfuscation attack. We build a quantitative model that comprises a set of security metrics, which are derived from our proposed theory and based on lossless compression, aiming to measure the quality of code obfuscation security. We propose normalised information distance NID as a metric to measure code obfuscation resilience, and establish the relation between our security definition and the normalised information distance. We show that if the security conditions for code obfuscations are satisfied (the extreme case) then the NID tends to be close to one, which is the maximum value that can be achieved. Finally, we provide an experimental evaluation to provide empirical validation for the proposed metrics. Our results show that the proposed measures are positively correlated with the degree of obfuscation resilience to an attacker using decompilers, i.e. the percentage of the clear code that was not recovered by an attacker, which indicates a positive relationship with the obfuscation resilience factor.
Near-infrared and X-ray obscuration to the nucleus of the Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 3281
Creators: name: Simpson, Chris
name: Telescope, Subaru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of a near-infrared and X-ray study of the Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 3281. Emission from the Seyfert nucleus is detected in both regions of the electromagnetic spectrum, allowing us to infer both the equivalent line of sight hydrogen column density, N_H = 71.0(+11.3,-12.3)e26/m^2 and the extinction due to dust, A_V = 22+/-11 magnitudes (90% confidence intervals). We infer a ratio of N_H/A_V which is an order of magnitude larger than that determined along lines of sight in the Milky Way and discuss possible interpretations. We consider the most plausible explanation to be a dense cloud in the foreground of both the X-ray and infrared emitting regions which obscures the entire X-ray source but only a fraction of the much larger infrared source.
description: 23 pages including 9 figures
Ruscus hypophyllum Linnaeus 1753
Creators: name: Jarvis, Charlie
Publisher: name: Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Asparagales
Asparagaceae
Ruscus
Ruscus hypophyllum

description: Ruscus hypophyllum Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 2: 1041. 1753.
"Habitat in Italia ad latera collium." RCN: 7525.
Lectotype (Yeo in Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 28: 256. 1968): Herb. Clifford: 465, Ruscus 2 (BM-000647524).
Current name: Ruscus hypophyllum L. (Liliaceae / Ruscaceae).
description: Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part R), pp. 785-805 in Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London :Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum on page 805, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971
The Introduction of Naturalism in China, the Role of Mao Dun and the Debate in the Press
Creators: name: Lombardi, Rosa
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2021

description:

This article presents the introduction of Naturalism in China and its first mentions since the end of the nineteenth century. It examines the main terms of the debate on Naturalism (1920-21), after Mao Dun proposed his translation project of Naturalist and Realist works (1920), and the reflections and notes by some writers-translators on this issue. It is argued that Mao Dun’s translation proposal constitutes the first model of planned literary translation to carry out specific political-cultural projects. It is also argued that Naturalism underwent a process of localisation in China to serve as a tool for making the transition toward a modern Chinese literature.

description: Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale
Galaxy Tracers and Velocity Bias
Creators: name: Summers, F J
name: Davis, Marc
name: Evrard, August E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper examines several methods of tracing galaxies in N-body simulations and their effects on the derived galaxy statistics, especially measurements of velocity bias. Using two simulations with identical initial conditions, one following dark matter only and the other following dark matter and baryons, both collisionless and collisional methods of tracing galaxies are compared to one another and against a set of idealized criteria. None of the collisionless methods proves satisfactory, including an elaborate scheme developed here to circumvent previously known problems. The main problem is that galactic overdensities are both secularly and impulsively disrupted while orbiting in cluster potentials. With dissipation, the baryonic tracers have much higher density contrasts and much smaller cross sections, allowing them to remain distinct within the cluster potential. The question remains whether the incomplete physical model introduces systematic biases. Statistical measures determined from simulations can vary significantly based solely on the galaxy tracing method utilized. The two point correlation function differs most on sub-cluster scales with generally good agreement on larger scales. Pairwise velocity dispersions show less uniformity on all scales addressed here. All tracing methods show a velocity bias to varying degrees, but the predictions are not firm: either the tracing method is not robust or the statistical significance has not been demonstrated. Though theoretical arguments suggest that a mild velocity bias should exist, simulation results are not yet conclusive.
description: ApJ, in press, 23 pages, plain TeX, 8 of 13 figures included, all PostScript figures (4.8 MB) available via anonymous ftp from ftp://astro.princeton.edu/summers/tracers . Also available as POPe-616 on http://astro.princeton.edu/~library/prep.html
The Treatment of Misogynist Violence in the Novel L. A. A. by Maixa Zugasti
Creators: name: González Guridi, Itxaro
Publisher: name: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2021

description: This article is an analysis of (men’s) violence against women as portrayed in Maixa Zugasti’s novel L. A. A. To this end, a study of the theoretical framework – misogynist violence – has been carried out, taking into account the concept, its classification and psychological expert evaluation. Secondly, it has been addressed the analysis of the novel itself, addressing attention to the various forms of violence and to the characters’ actions, relating all this to the concept of male violence and the profiles of victims and aggressors. The purpose of this study is to observe how violence is depicted in this work written by a woman and to establish possible parallelisms between fiction and reality.
description: Rassegna iberistica
DWARF GALAXIES AND THE ORIGIN OF INTRACLUSTER MEDIUM
Creators: name: Nath, Biman B.
name: Chiba, Masashi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Following the recent suggestion that it is dwarf galaxies in clusters -- as opposed to large ellipticals -- that provide the intracluster gas, we estimate the metallicity of the intracluster medium (ICM) in such a case. We derive analytical expressions for the fraction of mass of dwarf galaxies that is ejected, and estimate the metallicity of the resulting intracluster gas. We find that the metallicity resulting from this hypothesis is adequate only for clusters with low-metallicity gas. Since galactic winds from dwarf galaxies occur much earlier than those from ellipticals, due to the smaller binding energy of the gas, we show that the gas ejected by dwarf galaxies is enriched mostly by Type II supernovae, as opposed to Type I supernovae in the case of large galaxies. We further point out that the gas in small scale structures, which never cools and forms stars due to low temperatures and, consequently, large cooling time scale, gets dispersed in the process of hierarchical clustering, and is incorporated as the diffuse intracluster gas. We show that this process can provide enough hot gas to be compatible with X-ray observations in rich clusters.
description: 16 pages (plain TeX file) with 3 postscript figures in a single uuencoded, compressed and tarred file. To be published in The Astrophysical Journal
Generalised geometry for supersymmetric flux backgrounds
Creators: name: Ashmore, Anthony
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2016

description: We present a geometric description of flux backgrounds in supergravity that preserve eight supercharges using the language of (exceptional) generalised geometry. These “exceptional Calabi–Yau” geometries generalise complex, symplectic and hyper-Kähler geometries, where integrability is equivalent to supersymmetry for the background. The integrability conditions take the form of vanishing moment maps for the “generalised diffeomorphism group”, and the moduli spaces of structures appear as hyper-Kähler and symplectic quotients. Our formalism applies to generic D=4,5,6 backgrounds preserving eight supercharges in both type II and eleven-dimensional supergravity. We include a number of examples of flux backgrounds that can be reformulated as exceptional Calabi–Yau geometries. We extend this analysis and show that generic AdS flux backgrounds in D=4,5 are also described by exceptional generalised geometry, giving what one might call “exceptional Sasaki–Einstein” geometry. These backgrounds always admit a “generalised Reeb vector” that generates a Killing symmetry of the background, corresponding to the R-symmetry of the dual field theory. We also discuss the relation between generalised structures and quantities in the dual field theory. We then consider deformations of these generalised structures. For AdS5 backgrounds in type IIB, a first-order deformation amounts to turning on three-form fluxes that preserve supersymmetry. We find the general form of these fluxes for any Sasaki–Einstein space and show that higher-order deformations are obstructed by the moment map for the symmetry group of the undeformed background. In the dual field theory, this corresponds to finding those marginal deformations that are exactly marginal. We give a number of examples and match to known expressions in the literature. We also apply our formalism to AdS5 backgrounds in M-theory, where the first-order deformation amounts to turning on a four-form flux that preserves supersymmetry.
Nanometre-scale organisation of the inhibitory human natural killer cell receptor KIR3DL1 and its HLA class I ligands
Creators: name: Barthen, Charlotte Celine
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2016

description: Natural killer (NK) cells express an array of activating and inhibitory receptors, which enable the detection of stress-induced markers and ‘self’ human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class I molecules on target cells. The distribution of these receptors at the cell surface is thought to be important for signal integration at the immune synapse. Killer-cell immunoglobulin-like receptors (KIR) and HLA class I proteins are highly polymorphic. In particular, allelic variation affecting the expression and function of the inhibitory receptor KIR3DL1 and its HLA class I ligands, can influence HIV infection outcome. It is not known, however, if genetic variation can affect the organisation of KIR and HLA proteins at the cell surface and at the NK-cell immune synapse. Here, single-molecule localisation microscopy was used to investigate the spatial distribution of KIR3DL1 and HLA class I proteins within the plasma membrane. HLA class I proteins were relatively evenly distributed at the nanometre-scale, with fewer than 5% of molecules forming clusters in unstimulated primary B cells. In contrast, over half of KIR3DL1 receptors were constitutively arranged in clusters sized 4064 ± 384 nm², at the surface of resting NK cells. Receptor ligation induced the reorganisation of KIR3DL1, resulting in the formation of larger and denser clusters. Interestingly, the extent of these changes varied for different alleles of KIR3DL1, suggesting that genetic variability may affect KIR3DL1 recruitment at the NK-cell synapse. Allelic variation did not influence the constitutive organisation of KIR and HLA proteins, when expressed at the same level. However, their nanoscale distribution was influenced by cell surface levels; at higher expression levels, HLA class I clustering decreased, whereas the number of KIR3DL1 clusters increased when expressed at higher levels. These results demonstrate the distinct nanoscale organisation of KIR3DL1 and HLA class I molecules. Moreover, factors that influence their expression, including genetic variation, may have an important impact on the distribution of KIR3DL1 and HLA class I proteins at the cell surface.
An Asymmetric TBM Texture
Creators: name: Rahat, Moinul Hossain
name: Ramond, Pierre
name: Xu, Bin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct a texture where the Seesaw matrix is diagonalized by the TriBiMaximal (TBM) matrix with a phase. All CKM and PMNS angles are within their pdg values, and the mass relations of quarks and charged leptons extrapolated to GUT scale are satisfied, including the Gatto relation. The novel ingredient is the asymmetry of the down-quark and charged lepton Yukawa matrices. Explaining the reactor angle requires a $\require{cancel} \cancel {CP}$ phase in the TBM matrix, resulting in the Jarlskog-Greenberg invariant at $|J|=0.028$, albeit with an undetermined sign. While $SO(10)$ restrains the right-handed neutrino Majorana matrix, the neutrino masses are left undetermined.
description: 23 pages
Extension of the Cosmic-Ray Energy Spectrum Beyond the Predicted Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuz'min Cutoff
Creators: name: Takeda, M.
name: Hayashida, N.
name: Honda, K.
name: Inoue, N.
name: Kadota, K.
name: Kakimoto, F.
name: Kamata, K.
name: Kawaguchi, S.
name: Kawasaki, Y.
name: Kawasumi, N.
name: Kitamura, H.
name: Kusano, E.
name: Matsubara, Y.
name: Murakami, K.
name: Nagano, M.
name: Nishikawa, D.
name: Ohoka, H.
name: Sakaki, N.
name: Sasaki, M.
name: Shinozaki, K.
name: Souma, N.
name: Teshima, M.
name: Torii, R.
name: Tsushima, I.
name: Uchihori, Y.
name: Yamamoto, T.
name: Yoshida, S.
name: Yoshii, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The cosmic-ray energy spectrum above 10^{18.5} eV is reported using the updated data set of the Akeno Giant Air Shower Array (AGASA) from February 1990 to October 1997. The energy spectrum extends beyond 10^{20} eV and the energy gap between the highest energy event and the others is being filled up with recently observed events. The spectral shape suggests the absence of the 2.7 K cutoff in the energy spectrum or a possible presence of a new component beyond the 2.7 K cutoff.
description: to be published in PRL, 3 figures, REVTEX format