cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
On Sapir's notion of form/pattern and its aesthetic background
Creators: name: Jean-Michel Fortis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: On Sapir’s view, units of cultural behaviour (such as linguistic units) can only be

identified through the relations they maintain to other elements of the same kind.

This set of interrelations is what Sapir calls a “pattern”, or refers to simply as “form”.

The chapter begins by examining Sapir’s notion of pattern in his analysis of phono-

logical systems. It is shown that, to a certain extent, Sapir conflated the notion of

pattern with that of Gestalt, yet his own conception was idiosyncratic insofar as

it placed much emphasis on the purely formal potency of patterns, understood as

aesthetic configurations existing for form’s sake and independent from functional

motivations.

The second part of the chapter is devoted to Sapir’s description of how patterns are formed and grasped. Complex interrelations are not laid bare in ordinary conscious thinking; they can only be accessed through an intuition that Sapir characterizes

as a “form-feeling”. Form-feeling, as Sapir himself tells us, takes its origin from art

theory. It is argued that the source of this notion is to be found in German-speaking

art theory, specifically the notion of Formgefühl. In the course of the discussion, the

hypothesis is set forth that Sapir’s “form drive”, which underlies the elaboration of

patterns for form’s sake, might also have its source in German thought, notably in

Humboldt and Schiller.
Verpackungssemiotik
Creators: name: Kerschensteiner, Klaus
Publisher: name: Schriften zur Kultur- und Mediensemiotik | Online
Year: 2018

description: Damit Verkaufsverpackungen beim Kunden den gewünschten Eindruck hinterlassen, studieren Verpackungsdesigner in ihrer Ausbildung, mit welchen textuellen Strategien sie die Packungskommunikation vereinfachen, den Seh- und Suchgewohnheiten von Konsumenten nachkommen und wie sie Packungen mit emotionalen Werten aufladen können. Für Produkt- oder Markenmanager ist das Packungsdesign wichtiger Bestandteil des Marketingmixes. Mancherorts wird sogar der gängige Marketingmix aus Preis-, Produkt-, Kommunikations- und Vertriebspolitik, um den Wert Verpackungspolitik erweitert. Damit Produktmanager mit den auf ihrer Verpackung deutbaren Aussagen keine unbeabsichtigten Reaktionen beim Konsumenten hervorrufen, schalten sie während des Entwicklungsprozesses einer Packung Agenturen zwischen, die sich auf semiotische Werbe- und Produktanalysen spezialisiert haben. Semiotische Packungsanalysen helfen dabei, Schwachstellen in der Packungskommunikation aufzudecken und unfertige Entwürfe, beziehungsweise Dummys, vor der endgültigen Produktion zu optimieren.
description: Schriften zur Kultur- und Mediensemiotik | Online, Nr. 3 (2017)
Sivunitsatinnut ilinniapunga (For our future, I go to school): A Description of anArchaeology Field School and Photo Exhibit Project in Nunavik, Northern Quebec
Creators: name: Rahm, Jrene
name: Desrosiers, Pierre
name: Kotierk, Kessica
name: Weetaluktuk, Tommy
Publisher: name: Canadian Journal of Native Education
Year: 2021

description: This article offers a description of a case study, an archealogical field school, and photoexhibit project with youth in Nunavik, Quebec, Canada, aimed at the valorisation and preservation of Inuit cultural heritage.
description: Canadian Journal of Native Education, Vol. 41 No. 1 (2019)
title: Feathers and thorns : the politics of participation in mental health services.
Creators: name: Parkes, Tessa
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2022

description: A key development in mental health service planning and delivery in the UK over the last fifteen years has been the introduction of user participation. Alongside this development has been the growth and expansion of the service user/survivor movement. Research in Canada and Australia has documented the 'unsettling relations' created by these demands for participation and power sharing. Research in the UK has also raised questions about the ability of user participation to create the cultural change some believe is required to prevent services from being disempowering. Feathers and Thorns explores the 'unsettling relations' and the conflict and power dynamics of user participation in mental health services, in a UK context, to address the lack of systematic research in this area. The study uses qualitative methods to investigate user participation in two statutory mental health settings in England, between 1997 and 1999. Feathers and Thorns found that the uncritical adoption of the consumerist approach has led to a 'business as usual' model of participation and a consequent lack of discernible organisational and cultural change. The influence of user groups within statutory mental health services rarely extends to setting agendas, with the 'rules of the game' of participation still firmly controlled by statutory partners. There was evidence of professional and organisational resistance, as user participation destabilised the roles of both users and professionals and boundaries became increasingly blurred. It is suggested that this destabilising of traditional roles provides evidence of a shift in power relations, despite continued organisational and professional resilience to change. Although user participation was considered to be an effective strategy to legitimate existing power relationships and give the illusion of change: there was evidence that user groups and individuals have also gained from these processes, particularly in terms of raised consciousness, increased activism and self-assurance.
The blazar OJ 287 jet from parsec- to kiloparsec-scales
Creators: name: Butuzova, Marina S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The curved shape of the kiloparsec-scale jet of the blazar OJ 287 is analyzed in the framework of the precession of the central engine, on the existence on which a large number of studies over the past decades are based. The data necessary for the analysis of the kiloparsec-scale jet velocity and angle with the line of sight are obtained based on two competing assumptions about the X-ray emission mechanism of the OJ 287 jet. Namely, there were both the inverse Compton scattering of the microwave background under the assumption of relativistic kiloparsec-scale jet and the inverse Compton scattering of the central source radiation. For the latter one, we showed that the expected flux from the kiloparsec-scale jet in the gamma range does not exceed the limit set for it according to Fermi-LAT data. We found that only the period of the kiloparsec-scale jet helix, estimated in the framework of the inverse Compton scattering of the central source radiation, agrees with the precession period of the central engine, determined from the modulation of the peak values of 12-year optical flares.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables
Entwicklung der amtlichen Flächenerhebung und Berechnung der Flächenneuinanspruchnahme
Creators: name: Scheerer, Georg
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Präsentation des Statistischen Bundesamtes anlässlich des ersten Begleitkreises des UBA-Projektes "Konsistenz und Aussagefähigkeit von Flächendaten".
German "volkstümliche Musik" of the Early Nineties and "Modern Society": Strategies of De-Individualisation as a Contribution to a Collective Re-Organisation
Creators: name: Krah, Hans
Publisher: name: Schriften zur Kultur- und Mediensemiotik | Online
Year: 2015

description: "Volkstümliche Musik" is a significant phenomenon (at least) of the early 1990s. The analysis of this phenomenon can paradigmatically represent the discursive practices and sub-thought systems of large parts of the population of the Federal Republic of Germany at this time. "Volkstümliche Musik" depends on the political situation and indirectly deals with the needs and problems of individuals which result from such a situation and which lie in the deep structure of their mentalities. It thus takes on a cultural function.
description: Schriften zur Kultur- und Mediensemiotik | Online, Nr. 1 (2015)
Sukeroku’s double identity : a study in Kabuki dramatic structure
Creators: name: Thornbury, Barbara Ellen
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Using the seemingly illogical, double identity of the townsman, Sukeroku, and the samurai, Soga Goro, in the play Sukeroku as the focal point, this thesis shows that the drama tic structure of Edo kabuki was based on an annual play cycle The cycle consisted of several production periods, beginning with the kao-mise, or "face-showing," production in the eleventh month of the lunar year and ending with the o-nagori or "farewell," production in the ninth month. Each period lasted for a month or more and was repeated annually throughout the Tokugawa period. To show how the annual cycle functioned as the framework of kabuki dramatic structure and what Sukeroku's double identity signifies, the thesis is divided into two parts. Part One, "The Structure of Edo Kabuki," has two chapters. The first, which is based mainly on writings of the Tokugawa period, outlines the annual play cycle and the dramatic struc ture it contained. The second then analyzes the concepts of sekai ("tradition") and shukō ("innovation"), which were the underlying principles of that structure. In sum, kabuki was the product of material that had become a familiar part of Japanese culture by repeated use and dramatization over long periods of time (starting even before kabuki began) and material that was relatively new and was used to transform the older, set material. The double identity in Sukeroku came about as a result of this interplay within the annual cycle of what was received by way of traditional sekai and what was added by way of innovative shukō. Part Two, "The Significance of Sukeroku's Double Identity, also has two chapters. The first traces the development of the Soga sekai which gave rise to Sukeroku's' samurai identity, from its origins in the early dramatic forms of nō, kōwaka, and ko-jōruri, to the representation of Soga Gorō in kabuki by Ichikawa Danjūrō I. The second then looks at the shukō which transformed Soga Gorō into Sukeroku by discussing the origins of Sukeroku and its introduction to Edo kabuki by Ichikawa- Danjūrō II. The conclusion is that within the annual cycle Sukeroku's double identity gave Edo audiences a hero, who was an idealization of the contemporary Tokugawa townsman and at the same time a transformation of a samurai god-hero of the past. In Part Two, the discussions on kabuki are limited to Ichikawa Danjūrō I and his son, Danjūrō II, since their work was the basis of all later developments.
History of the city beautiful movement in Canada, 1890-1930
Creators: name: Meek, Margaret Anne
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: This thesis looks at the history of the City Beautiful movement in Canada. Literature pertaining to the American City Beautiful was reviewed first in order to arrive at a definition of the movement and, in particular, to ascertain its design principles. In order to investigate Canadian City Beautiful philosophy, the content of several professional journals was examined for the period 1890-1930. For a case study of early planning in the Prairies, archival material was consulted, including City Council minutes, Parks Commission and City Planning Commission files, newspaper, reports and actual plans. The American City Beautiful movement was most popular between 1900 and 1915. While the term "city beautiful" implied a range of civic improvement efforts, most planning historians have emphasized the so-called "comprehensive schemes of city beautification" which focussed on the treatment of streets, parks and/or civic centres. Design principles included-axial arrangements, vistas and focal points, classical touches, and a tendency towards order and symmetry. While never denying the importance of aesthetics, utilitarian considerations took on greater importance as years passed until the City Beautiful was eventually supplanted by an era in planning that has since been labelled the City Efficient. In Canada, several major plans and civic improvement projects were prepared before World War I with almost all being clearly derived from American City Beautiful efforts. A case study of early planning in Prairie cities revealed that City Councils' involvement in planning was probably viewed as a form of publicity. Failure to implement the plans was due largely to the fact that Canada entered a major economic depression in 1913, while in 1914, energies turned towards World War I. Between 1910 and 1913, the journals published numerous articles devoted to planning, and while they displayed varying emphases and levels of detail, writers supported the need for beauty and usually discussed planning in terms of streets, parks and/or civic centres. However, arguments were often vague, and Canada lacked an articulate spokesman for the City Beautiful. The arrival in 1914 of a British planner, Thomas Adams, served to give planning in Canada both a focus and a new direction. Emphasis turned towards the need for legislation, urban development plans, and adequate housing. At the same time, writers began to issue harsh criticisms of the American City Beautiful. With the founding of the Town Planning Institute of Canada in 1919, planning began to be thought of as a profession'. Emphasis was now on zoning and the claim that planning implied economy and efficiency. The American City Beautiful continued to be the object of severe criticism until the mid-1920's when the country experienced a return to prosperity. At that time, civic beauty began once again to be promoted, while planners made detailed proposals for civic improvement schemes which were rooted in the design principles of the City Beautiful.
Integral equation for gauge invariant quark Green's function
Creators: name: Sazdjian, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider gauge invariant quark two-point Green's functions in which the gluonic phase factor follows a skew-polygonal line. Using a particular representation for the quark propagator in the presence of an external gluon field, functional relations between Green's functions with different numbers of segments of the polygonal lines are established. An integral equation is obtained for the Green's function having a phase factor along a single straight line. The related kernels involve Wilson loops with skew-polygonal contours and with functional derivatives along the sides of the contours.
description: 7 pages; talk given at the Joint Meeting Heidelberg-Liege-Paris-Wroclaw, Spa, 6-8 March 2008; to appear in the Proceedings (AIP)
Social inequalities in nuptiality during marriage bust and boom in Hungary
Creators: name: Murinkó, Lívia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: marriage
cohabitation
social inequalities
Great Recesssion
Hungary

description: Due to profound changes in partnership formation and marital behaviour during the past decades, the meaning of marriage and its place in the life course have transformed all over the developed world, including Hungary. While early and almost universal marriage characterized Hungary in the 1970s and very few young couples cohabited, now only a small minority chooses direct marriage, cohabiting couples get married laterand at a lower rate, and many couples live together and raise children without being married. After decades of decreasing marriage propensity, the number of weddings started to boom in the 2010s and continues to do so. Most theoretical approaches seek explanation for the retreat from marriage but only few concentrates on why would marriage rates increase and who any why gets married amidst the popularity of unmarried unions. After reviewing theoretical arguments for decreasing and increasing marriage rates and the relationship between marital behaviour and social standing, I formulate hypotheses regarding the changing social background of first marriages in Hungary. For the empirical analysis I use data on all marriages contracted between 1980 and 2020 in Hungary (vital statistics by the Hungarian Central Statistical Office) and longitudinal data from five waves of the Hungarian Generations and Gender Survey (2001–2016/17). I compare direct marriages to the marriage of already cohabiting couples and changes during different nuptiality periods, including the recent marriage boom.
On Grizzlies and Gratitude: Nuxalk College Reflection
Creators: name: La Flamme, Michelle
Publisher: name: Canadian Journal of Native Education
Year: 2021

description: This educational moment in one Indigenous community suggests the dynamic and reciprocal possibilities inherent in such transformative learning environments. This anecdote suggests the pedagogical value of faculty self-reflection, highlights the importance of observation, and encourages openness to new narrative forms by presenting the notion of the classroom as ceremony and the faculty as witness.
description: Canadian Journal of Native Education, Vol. 41 No. 1 (2019)
On the quantum tunneling time: Instantaneous, finite or probabilistic?
Creators: name: Yusofsani, Seyedmohammad
name: Kolesik, Miroslav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum particles interacting with potential barriers are ubiquitous in physics, and the question of how much time they spend inside classically forbidden regions has attracted interest for many decades. Recent developments of new experimental techniques revived the issue and ignited a debate with often contradictory results. This motivates the present study of an exactly solvable model for quantum tunneling induced by a strong field. We show that the tunneling dynamics can depart significantly from the scenario in which the barrier-traversal time is zero or very small. However, our findings do not support the idea of a well-defined tunneling time either. Our numerically exact results should help in finding a consensus about this fundamental problem.
Knowledge Making: Indigenous Undergraduate Research as Cultural and Language Revitalization
Creators: name: Naepi, Sereana
Publisher: name: Canadian Journal of Native Education
Year: 2021

description: The Knowledge Makers program provides one example of how it is possible to contribute to the Indigenization of the academy through an Indigenous undergraduate research program that values Indigenous languages and cultures.
description: Canadian Journal of Native Education, Vol. 41 No. 1 (2019)
Equilibrium of disordered systems : constructing the appropriate valleys in each sample via strong disorder renormalization in configuration space
Creators: name: Monthus, Cecile
name: Garel, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: To describe the equilibrium properties of disordered systems and the possible emergence of various 'phases' at low temperature, we adopt here the 'broken ergodicity' point of view advocated in particular by Palmer [Adv. Phys. 31, 669 (1982)] : the aim is then to construct the valleys of configurations that become separated by diverging barriers and to study their relative weights, as well as their internal properties. To characterize the slow non-equilibrium dynamics of disordered systems, we have recently introduced in [C. Monthus and T. Garel, J. Phys. A 41, 255002 (2008) and arxiv:0804.1847] a strong disorder renormalization procedure in configuration space, based on the iterative elimination of the smallest barrier remaining in the system. In the present paper, we show how this renormalization procedure allows to construct the longest-lived valleys in each disordered sample, and to obtain their free-energies, energies and entropies. This explicit RG formulation is very general since it can be defined for any master equation, and it gives new insights into the main ingredients of the droplet scaling picture. As an application, we have followed numerically the RG flow for the case of a directed polymer in a two-dimensional random medium to obtain histograms of the free-energy, entropy and energy differences between the two longest-lived valleys in each sample.
description: 17 pages, 10 figures
From Reconciliation towards Indigenous Cultural Resurgence: A Metissage on the Co-Imagining of Sta?alnamat and Stelnumut
Creators: name: Kelly, Vicki
name: Rosehart, Paula
name: George, Gabriel
name: George, Angela
name: Villeneuve, Lori
name: Elke, Ramona
Publisher: name: Canadian Journal of Native Education
Year: 2021

description: In this article, we speak of our experiences with Indigenous participatory pedagogies, interdisciplinary and intergenerational learning, and also discuss our co-creating of a community of Indigenous Inquiry.
description: Canadian Journal of Native Education, Vol. 41 No. 1 (2019)
Decolonizing Framework for Land-based Pedagogies
Creators: name: Young Leon, Alannah
name: Mendes, Wilson
name: Jovel, Eduardo
Publisher: name: Canadian Journal of Native Education
Year: 2021

description: This article examines a practice of decolonizing pedagogy used by a group of Indige­nous Elders and community Knowledge Holders in the unceded xwm3dkw3t/3m(Musqueam) Coast Salish territories of British Columbia.
description: Canadian Journal of Native Education, Vol. 41 No. 1 (2019)
ОСОБЕННОСТИ ТЕЧЕНИЯ СЕПСИСА У НОВОРОЖДЕННЫХ
Creators: name: Турдиева, Зарина
name: Мидхатова, Гузаль
name: Каратаева, Лола
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Неонатальный сепсис — серьезное заболевание, при котором возбудители проникают в кровоток, размножаются и производят токсины, оказывая вредное воздействие на здоровье новорожденных. В зависимости от времени возникновения его делят на два типа. Сепсис с ранним началом возникает в течение 72 часов после рождения, а сепсис с поздним началом начинается через 72 часа после родов.
Pulling Together in an Indigenous Cultural Revitalization Canoe: Indigenous Women's Water and Land-based Research Methodologies in Action
Creators: name: Johnson, Mukwa Musayett
name: Sparrow, Corrina
Publisher: name: Canadian Journal of Native Education
Year: 2021

description: This article tells the story o f a four-year (2013-2017) canoe revitalization researchstudy enacted between Musqueam First Nation and three Indigenous women facultymembers working in two universities in British Columbia. This Indigenist researchproject resulted in the first canoe carved and launched in M usqueam in over 30 years.It identifies the Musqueam theoretical fram ew ork and role o f the Musqueam AdvisoryCouncil that guides the awakening o f ancient carving practices and research method­ologies fo r the benefit o f future generations. It explores and considers traditional CoastSalish protocol and practices o f calling witnesses to community-based work, and itsadaption and relevance in research with university partners. Finally, it makes fundingpolicy recommendations to better support fu tu re Indigenous community-universityresearch partnerships.
description: Canadian Journal of Native Education, Vol. 41 No. 1 (2019)
Interacting Swarm Sensing and Stabilization
Creators: name: Schwartz, Ira B.
name: Edwards, Victoria
name: Hindes, Jason
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Swarming behavior, where coherent motion emerges from the interactions of many mobile agents, is ubiquitous in physics and biology. Moreover, there are many efforts to replicate swarming dynamics in mobile robotic systems which take inspiration from natural swarms. In particular, understanding how swarms come apart, change their behavior, and interact with other swarms is a research direction of special interest to the robotics and defense communities. Here we develop a theoretical approach that can be used to predict the parameters under which colliding swarms form a stable milling state. Our analytical methods rely on the assumption that, upon collision, two swarms oscillate near a limit-cycle, where each swarm rotates around the other while maintaining an approximately constant density. Using our methods, we are able to predict the critical swarm-swarm interaction coupling (below which two colliding swarms merely scatter) for nearly aligned collisions as a function of physical swarm parameters. We show that the critical coupling corresponds to a saddle-node bifurcation of a limit-cycle in the constant-density approximation. Finally, we show preliminary results from experiments in which two swarms of micro UAVs collide and form a milling state, which is in general agreement with our theory.
description: 13 pages, 9 figures
Dual backgrounds and their stability during $χ^{(2)}$ comb generation in microresonators
Creators: name: Sturman, Boris
name: Podivilov, Evgeny
name: Szabados, Jan
name: Breunig, Ingo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Light states relevant to the $χ^{(2)}$ comb generation in optical microresonators possess typically dual backgrounds for coupled first-harmonic (FH) and second-harmonic (SH) envelopes. Stability and/or instability of these backgrounds is crucial for realization of stable $χ^{(2)}$ combs and also for an efficient SH generation. We explore the properties of the dual backgrounds and their instability for the cases of FH and SH pumping of the resonator. In contrast to the optical parameteric oscillation, the instability is controlled by a 4th-degree characteristic equation for the increment. Coefficients of this equation depend not only on wavenumbers of the perturbations, the pump power, and dispersion parameters, but also on FH-SH group velocity difference (temporal walk-off). Our results include characterization of the regions and conditions of stability for the FH- and SH-pumping cases and different spectral ranges.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures
A recommender system for basket items
Creators: name: Das, Nilanjan
Publisher: name: Universität Paderborn
Year: 2020

description: A recommender system provides personalized recommendations to theuser in a large space of possible options. Most of the existing recommender systemsutilize users profile data for recommending an item. However, these conventionalrecommender systems are under scrutiny due to strict personal data protection lawsaround the world. Additionally, we investigated the performance of a graph-basedapproach for the recommendation systems. In this thesis, we present a graph-basedscalable and novel approach for the recommendation which doesnt depend on the profiledata for predictions. We evaluate our method on an extensive transaction datasetfrom the retail domain (700k transactions with 150k different items) and compare itto a baseline. The proposed approach relies on knowledge graph embeddings. Duringour evaluation, we have used two knowledge graph embedding algorithms. Thesuggested method first applies Pyke, a knowledge graph embedding algorithm with aclose to linear runtime complexity. Later Pyke was replaced by a convolutional complexknowledge graph embedding algorithm, Conex. The evaluation results suggestthat Conex fits better than Pyke to the approach. Our implementation is open-source,and it is available at https://github.com/nil9/Master-Thesis.
Test beam Characterizations of 3D Silicon Pixel detectors
Creators: name: Mathes, M.
name: Cristinziani, M.
name: Da Via', C.
name: Garcia-Sciveres, M.
name: Einsweiler, K.
name: Hasi, J.
name: Kenney, C.
name: Parker, Sherwood
name: Reuen, L.
name: Ruspa, M.
name: Velthuis, J.
name: Watts, S.
name: Wermes, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: 3D silicon detectors are characterized by cylindrical electrodes perpendicular to the surface and penetrating into the bulk material in contrast to standard Si detectors with planar electrodes on its top and bottom. This geometry renders them particularly interesting to be used in environments where standard silicon detectors have limitations, such as for example the radiation environment expected in an LHC upgrade. For the first time, several 3D sensors were assembled as hybrid pixel detectors using the ATLAS-pixel front-end chip and readout electronics. Devices with different electrode configurations have been characterized in a 100 GeV pion beam at the CERN SPS. Here we report results on unirradiated devices with three 3D electrodes per 50 x 400 um2 pixel area. Full charge collection is obtained already with comparatively low bias voltages around 10 V. Spatial resolution with binary readout is obtained as expected from the cell dimensions. Efficiencies of 95.9% +- 0.1 % for tracks parallel to the electrodes and of 99.9% +- 0.1 % at 15 degrees are measured. The homogeneity of the efficiency over the pixel area and charge sharing are characterized.
description: 5 pages, 7 figures
Government bureaucracy in action : a history of cinema in Canada 1896-1941
Creators: name: Pollard, Juliet Thelma
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: If film is seen as a powerful cultural agent which has transformed society from the outside, it would be a mistake to underplay the counter-valent influences in which social, political, and cultural concerns, the very fabric of human reality, have shaped the history of film. "Government Bureaucracy in Action: A History of Cinema in Canada," examines those forces, especially that of government, which shaped the film industry from its initiation in Canada to the creation of the National Film Board. Little consideration has been given to the aesthetic qualities of Canadian film since proportionately few films have ever been shot for artistic purposes and this is particularly true in the Canadian context. While the history of film in Canada is a unique record of government involvement in what has traditionally been regarded as. free enterprise in other democratic nations, from the outset film was an international communications media and as such, Canadian film development was shaped not only by internal considerations, but also by the external forces of the world-wide film industry. Since very little has been written about film in Canada, a heavy reliance has been placed upon studying the evolution of cinema outside the nation, especially in Britain and the United States, the two countries which exercised the greatest degree of influence over the development of Canadian film, and examining through primary Canadian sources whether or not the patterns of cinematic growth established elsewhere held true in the Canadian setting. The findings which are presented here in five essays, each of which explores one aspect of cinema in Canada, indicate that while Canadian attitudes and concerns about the film media mirrored those of other countries, such sentiments were modified by other uniquely Canadian considerations. The most pressing of these factors, that of safeguarding the Canadian identity from the bombardment of American cultural values permeating the country via the Hollywood movie, coupled with other considerations, allowed the nation's governments to assume responsibility for film development in the country. This alliance of politics and art was from the outset fraught with problems, not the least of which was the incompatability of the short term results desired by politicians and the long term process necessary for the development of a viable motion picture industry. Under the circumstances, the bureaucrats with cameras who worked within the poorly conceived, piecemeal, government film operations, could neither enrich the fabric of Canadian culture nor stem the tide of American entertainment movies which flooded the screens across the country.
Sturm auf die Zeichen: Was die Semiotik von ihren Kritikern lernen kann
Creators: name: Siefkes, Martin
Publisher: name: Schriften zur Kultur- und Mediensemiotik | Online
Year: 2015

description: In den letzten Jahren hat sich in der Philosophie, Ästhetik, Kunst- und Bildwissenschaft eine Reihe von Denkern zu Wort gemeldet, die die Semiotik grundlegend kritisieren. Es kann mittlerweile von einer antisemiotischen Bewegung gesprochen werden, die sich mit Namen wie Dieter Mersch, Hans Belting, Gernot Böhme, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht oder Lambert Wiesing verbindet. Dabei wird mit Begriffen wie "Materialität", "Präsenz", "Aura", "Ereignis" und "hermeneutischer Widerständigkeit" argumentiert, um Aspekte zu benennen, die die Semiotik nicht berücksichtigt habe und die in Zukunft anstelle von Zeichenphänomenen verstärkt beachtet werden sollten. Dieser Beitrag setzt sich mit der Kritik auseinander, zeigt die Leistungsfähigkeit und Grenzen semiotischer Theoriebildung auf und diskutiert Konsequenzen für die Semiotik und die Einzelwissenschaften, in denen die Kritik geäußert wird.
description: Schriften zur Kultur- und Mediensemiotik | Online, Nr. 1 (2015)
Stringy Instantons as Strong Dynamics
Creators: name: Amariti, Antonio
name: Girardello, Luciano
name: Mariotti, Alberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the relation between stringy instantons and strong dynamics effects in type IIB toric quiver gauge theories. By exploiting the involutive property of Seiberg duality we relate the classical constraint on the moduli space of the gauge theory with the stringy instanton contribution to the superpotential. The result holds for unitary, orthogonal and symplectic gauge groups.
description: Minor corrections, reference added, published in JHEP
Beyond Fowler-Nordheim model: Harmonic generation from metallic nano-structures
Creators: name: Yusofsani, Seyedmohammad
name: Kolesik, Miroslav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Metallic structures interacting with electromagnetic fields are known to exhibit properties similar to those found in atoms and molecules, such as multi-photon and tunnel ionization. Developing this similarity beyond the electron emission current, we generalize the wellknown Fowler-Nordheim model, and predict heretofore unrecognized source of nonlinear optical response from nano-structures exposed to illumination with intense optical pulses.
description: Eur. Phys. J. Spec. Top. (2021)
Editorial: Awakening the Spirit: Indigenous Culture and Language Revitalization through Land, Water, and Sky
Creators: name: Archibald, Q'um Q'um Xiiem
name: Johnson, Mukzva Musayett
name: Sparrow, Corrina
name: Lyall, Tlalillogwa
Publisher: name: Canadian Journal of Native Education
Year: 2021

description: This volume of the Canadian Journal of Native Education (CJNE) is co-edited by the research team of the four-year research project Awakening the Spirit:Revitalization o f Canoeing in Musqueam. A conference, Awakening the Spirit:Indigenous Culture and Language Revitalization through Land, Water, and Sky,was held on the unceded and occupied territory of the xwma0kwa^am (Musqueam) People in Vancouver, British Columbia in October 2017, which served as a culminating project activity for this research project. The xwma0kwa^am community and research team hosted 200 participants from across Canada, the United States, Europe, and New Zealand.
description: Canadian Journal of Native Education, Vol. 41 No. 1 (2019)
Vorwort zur ersten Ausgabe
Creators: name: Nies, Martin
Publisher: name: Schriften zur Kultur- und Mediensemiotik | Online
Year: 2015

description: Mit der ersten Ausgabe der Schriften zur Kultur- und Mediensemiotik | Online begründet das auf www.kultursemiotik.com beheimatete Virtuelle Zentrum für kultursemiotische Forschung ein neues Open Access Journal, das sich Beiträgen mit einem kulturwissenschaftlichen Schwerpunkt insbesondere aus den Literatur- und Medienwissenschaften widmet und die Sichtbarkeit kultursemiotischer Forschungsarbeiten international und transinstitutionell fördert. Die Zeitschrift wird auf der Webseite des VZKF und in Open Journal Systems veröffentlicht.
description: Schriften zur Kultur- und Mediensemiotik | Online, Nr. 1 (2015)
Schriften zur Kultur- und Mediensemiotik | Online
Creators: name: Nies, Martin
Publisher: name: Schriften zur Kultur- und Mediensemiotik | Online
Year: 2015

description: Schriften zur Kultur- und Mediensemiotik | Online ist ein Open Access Journal des Virtuellen Zentrums für kultursemiotische Forschung / Virtual Centre for Cultural Semiotics (www.kultursemiotik.com) und wird herausgegeben von Martin Nies.
description: Schriften zur Kultur- und Mediensemiotik | Online, Nr. 1 (2015)
Including Keyword Position in Image-based Models for Act Segmentation of Historical Registers
Creators: name: Boillet, Mélodie
name: Maarand, Martin
name: Paquet, Thierry
name: Kermorvant, Christopher
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The segmentation of complex images into semantic regions has seen a growing interest these last years with the advent of Deep Learning. Until recently, most existing methods for Historical Document Analysis focused on the visual appearance of documents, ignoring the rich information that textual content can offer. However, the segmentation of complex documents into semantic regions is sometimes impossible relying only on visual features and recent models embed both visual and textual information. In this paper, we focus on the use of both visual and textual information for segmenting historical registers into structured and meaningful units such as acts. An act is a text recording containing valuable knowledge such as demographic information (baptism, marriage or death) or royal decisions (donation or pardon). We propose a simple pipeline to enrich document images with the position of text lines containing key-phrases and show that running a standard image-based layout analysis system on these images can lead to significant gains. Our experiments show that the detection of acts increases from 38 % of mAP to 74 % when adding textual information, in real use-case conditions where text lines positions and content are extracted with an automatic recognition system.
Post-Newtonian limitations on measurement of the PPN parameters caused by motion of gravitating bodies
Creators: name: Kopeikin, Sergei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive explicit Lorentz-invariant solution of the Einstein and null geodesic equations for data processing of the time delay and ranging experiments in gravitational field of moving gravitating bodies of the solar system - the Sun and major planets. We discuss general-relativistic interpretation of these experiments and the limitations imposed by motion of the massive bodies on measurement of the parameters gamma_{PPN}, beta_{PPN} and delta_{PPN} of the parameterized post-Newtonian formalism.
description: 17 pages, 1 figure; accepted for publication to MNRAS
Discoxenus Wasmann 1904
Creators: name: Kanao, Taisuke
name: Maruyama, Munetoshi
name: Sakchoowong, Watana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Discoxenus

description: Genus Discoxenus Wasmann Wasmann 1904: 655 (original description); Kistner 1982: 165 (revision). Comments. This genus is similar to Compactopedia Kistner, 1970, associated with termites of the genus Longipeditermes Haviland, 1898 in Malaysia, from which Discoxenus is distinguished by the body being smaller, the antennae being thicker and the tarsal formula 4-4-5 (Kistner 1982). It is new record from Thailand.
description: Published as part of Kanao, Taisuke, Maruyama, Munetoshi & Sakchoowong, Watana, 2010, Two new species of Aleocharinae (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) found in fungus gardens of Odontotermes termites (Isoptera, Termitidae, Macrotermitinae) in Khao Yai National Park, Thailand, pp. 77-86 in ZooKeys 49 (49) on page 79, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.49.468, http://zenodo.org/record/576677
description: {"references": ["Wasmann E (1904) Zur Kenntnis der Gaste der Treiberameisen und ihrer Wirthe am obern Congo nach den Sammlungen und Beobachyungen von P. Herm. Kohl, C. S. S. C. bearbeitet. Zoologische Jahrbucher 7: 611 - 682.", "Kistner DH (1982) A revision of the termitophilous genus Discoxenus with a study of the relationships of the genus and notes on its behavior (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae). Sociobiology 7: 165 - 186.", "Kistner DH (1970) New termitophiles associated with Longipeditermes longipes (Haviland) II. The genera Compactopedia, Emersonilla, Hirsitilla, and Limulodia. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 78 (1): 17 - 32.", "Haviland GD (1898). Observations on termites; with descriptions of new species. of the Linnean Society (Zoology) 26: 358 - 442."]}
The softening phenomenon due to the curvature effect: in the case of extremely short intrinsic emission
Creators: name: Qin, Y. -P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The curvature effect is explored in the case of extremely short intrinsic emission. Assuming a $δ$ function emission we get formulas that get rid of the impacts from the intrinsic emission duration, which are applicable to any forms of continuum. The formulas predict that the same form of spectrum could be observed at different times, with the peak energy of the spectrum shifting from higher energy bands to lower bands following $E_{peak}\propto t^{-1}$. When the emission is early enough the light curve in the form $f_{ν}(t)t^{2}$ will possess exactly the intrinsic spectral form, for which the temporal power law index and the spectral power law index will be related by $α=2+β$. The analysis shows that there do exist a temporal steep decay phase and a spectral softening which occur simultaneously, and both are caused by the shifting of the Band function spectrum. According to the analysis, we predict that the softening due to the curvature effect will appear at different frequencies; it occurs earlier for higher frequencies and later for lower frequencies; the maximum spectral index time follows the $t_{b,max}\propto ν^{-1}$ law. We also find: the softening duration would be linearly correlated with the maximum spectral index time; the observed $β_{min}$ and $β_{max}$ are determined by the low and high energy indexes of the observed Band function spectrum. We propose to check the curvature effect with the $\log f_ν(t)t^{3}$ vs. $log t$ curve which would be in agreement with the $\log νf_ν$ vs. $log ν$ curve. Applying this to GRB 060614 shows that the peak energy of its observed spectrum is expected to pass through the observation band at $\sim $175 s.
description: 33 pages, 11 figures, accepted by ApJ
Indigenous People-Forest Relationships, Cultural Continuity, and Remobilization Using Indigenous Knowledge Systems: A Case Study of Kenya and Canada
Creators: name: Lyall, Andrea
name: Borona, Kendia
Publisher: name: Canadian Journal of Native Education
Year: 2021

description: This article shares two cases studies in Kenya and Canada that considers people-forest relationships through the lens of Indigenous Knowledge Systems.
description: Canadian Journal of Native Education, Vol. 41 No. 1 (2019)
A family of Schrödinger operators whose spectrum is an interval
Creators: name: Krueger, Helge
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81Q10; 47B36

description: By approximation, I show that the spectrum of the Schrödinger operator with potential $V(n) = f(nρ\pmod 1)$ for f continuous and $ρ> 0$, $ρ\notin \N$ is an interval.
description: Comm. Math. Phys. (to appear)
A Comparative Analysis of PHP and Python Programming Languages for Optimal Software Development
Creators: name: Islam, Nawroze
name: Chowdhury, Md Rubel
name: Islam, Sefatul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 461204
subject: Programming languages
classificationCode: 461201
subject: Automated software engineering
classificationCode: 460607
subject: High performance computing
classificationCode: 460611
subject: Performance evaluation

description: As the field of software development changes quickly and is always changing, choosing a computer language is a very important step that has a big impact on how the project turns out in the end. PHP and Python are two popular programming languages that have become an important part of modern software engineering. This in-depth study starts with a thorough and enlightening comparison analysis of these two languages. The main goal of this study is to find out more about the performance features of PHP and Python. This information will be very useful for both decision-makers and coders. The final goal is to provide participants with a well-informed guide for navigating the complex decision-making process so that they can wisely select the programming language that best fits the needs of their specific project environments.In this study, performance is looked at in more depth than just the surface level. Both the quantitative and qualitative factors that affect the overall effectiveness of software development are carefully considered. This study tries to give people who make decisions the tools they need to make choices that go beyond the needs of the current project. This will help with scalability, adaptation, and long-term success.This comparison study helps people find their way through the maze of programming language choices as software ecosystems continue to change. The study results go beyond just technical details; they also include a strategic understanding of how PHP and Python fit into the bigger picture of software development landscapes. Through this investigation, decision-makers and developers will gain a deep knowledge of the strengths, weaknesses, and best uses of PHP and Python. This will lead to a more thoughtful and selective choice of programming language.
New Mechanics of Spinal Injury
Creators: name: Ivancevic, Vladimir G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Tissues and Organs (q-bio.TO)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The prediction and prevention of spinal injury is an important aspect of preventive health science. The spine, or vertebral column, represents a chain of 26 movable vertebral bodies, joint together by transversal viscoelastic intervertebral discs and longitudinal elastic tendons. This paper proposes a new locally-coupled loading-rate hypothesis}, which states that the main cause of both soft- and hard-tissue spinal injury is a localized Euclidean jolt, or SE(3)-jolt, an impulsive loading that strikes a localized spine in several coupled degrees-of-freedom simultaneously. To show this, based on the previously defined covariant force law, we formulate the coupled Newton-Euler dynamics of the local spinal motions and derive from it the corresponding coupled SE(3)-jolt dynamics. The SE(3)-jolt is the main cause of two basic forms of spinal injury: (i) hard-tissue injury of local translational dislocations; and (ii) soft-tissue injury of local rotational disclinations. Both the spinal dislocations and disclinations, as caused by the SE(3)-jolt, are described using the Cosserat multipolar viscoelastic continuum model. Keywords: localized spinal injury, coupled loading-rate hypothesis, coupled Newton-Euler dynamics, Euclidean jolt dynamics, spinal dislocations and disclinations
description: 14 pages, 1 figure, Latex