cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Search for Gamma Ray Bursts with the ARGO-YBJ Detector in Shower Mode
Creators: name: Bartoli, B.
name: Bernardini, P.
name: Bi, X. J.
name: Cao, Z.
name: Catalanotti, S.
name: Chen, S. Z.
name: Chen, T. L.
name: Cui, S. W.
name: Dai, B. Z.
name: Amone, A. D
name: Luobu, Danzeng
name: De Mitri, I.
name: Piazzoli, B. D Ettorre
name: Di Girolamo, T.
name: Di Sciascio, G.
name: Feng, C. F.
name: Feng, Zhaoyang
name: Feng, Zhenyong
name: Gao, W.
name: Gou, Q. B.
name: Guo, Y. Q.
name: He, H. H.
name: Hu, Haibing
name: Hu, Hongbo
name: Iacovacci, M.
name: Iuppa, R.
name: Jia, H. Y.
name: Ren, Labaci
name: Li, H. J.
name: Liu, C.
name: Liu, J.
name: Liu, M. Y.
name: Lu, H.
name: Ma, L. L.
name: Ma, X. H.
name: Mancarella, G.
name: Mari, S. M.
name: Marsella, G.
name: Mastroianni, S.
name: Montini, P.
name: Ning, C. C.
name: Perrone, L.
name: Pistilli, P.
name: Salvini, P.
name: Santonico, R.
name: Shen, P. R.
name: Sheng, X. D.
name: Shi, F.
name: Surdo, A.
name: Tan, Y. H.
name: Vallania, P.
name: Vernetto, S.
name: Vigorito, C.
name: Wang, H.
name: Wu, C. Y.
name: Wu, H. R.
name: Xue, L.
name: Yang, Q. Y.
name: Yang, X. C.
name: Yao, Z. G.
name: Yuan, A. F.
name: Zha, M.
name: Zhang, H. M.
name: Zhang, L.
name: Zhang, X. Y.
name: Zhang, Y.
name: Zhao, J.
name: Ren, Zhaxici
name: Zhu, Zhaxisang
name: Zhou, X. X.
name: Zhu, F. R.
name: Zhu, Q. Q.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ARGO-YBJ detector, located at the Yangbajing Cosmic Ray Laboratory (4300 m a. s. l., Tibet, China), was a full coverage air shower array dedicated to gamma ray astronomy and cosmic ray studies. The wide field of view (~ 2 sr) and high duty cycle (> 86%), made ARGO-YBJ suitable to search for short and unexpected gamma ray emissions like gamma ray bursts (GRBs). Between 2007 November 6 and 2013 February 7, 156 satellite-triggered GRBs (24 of them with known redshift) occurred within the ARGO-YBJ field of view. A search for possible emission associated to these GRBs has been made in the two energy ranges 10-100 GeV and 10-1000 GeV. No significant excess has been found in time coincidence with the satellite detections nor in a time window of one hour after the bursts. Taking into account the EBL absorption, upper limits to the energy fluence at 99% of confidence level have been evaluated,with values ranging from ~ 10-5 erg cm-2 to ~10-1 erg cm-2.
description: 24pages and 12 figures
A dynamic game approach to distributionally robust safety specifications for stochastic systems
Creators: name: Yang, Insoon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This paper presents a new safety specification method that is robust against errors in the probability distribution of disturbances. Our proposed distributionally robust safe policy maximizes the probability of a system remaining in a desired set for all times, subject to the worst possible disturbance distribution in an ambiguity set. We propose a dynamic game formulation of constructing such policies and identify conditions under which a non-randomized Markov policy is optimal. Based on this existence result, we develop a practical design approach to safety-oriented stochastic controllers with limited information about disturbance distributions. This control method can be used to minimize another cost function while ensuring safety in a probabilistic way. However, an associated Bellman equation involves infinite-dimensional minimax optimization problems since the disturbance distribution may have a continuous density. To resolve computational issues, we propose a duality-based reformulation method that converts the infinite-dimensional minimax problem into a semi-infinite program that can be solved using existing convergent algorithms. We prove that there is no duality gap, and that this approach thus preserves optimality. The results of numerical tests confirm that the proposed method is robust against distributional errors in disturbances, while a standard stochastic safety specification tool is not.
Meat consumption and risk of ischemic heart disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Papier, Keren
name: Knuppel, Anika
name: Syam, Nandana
name: Jebb, Susan A.
name: Key, Tim J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: There is uncertainty regarding the association between unprocessed red and processed meat consumption and the risk of ischemic heart disease (IHD), and little is known regarding the association with poultry intake. The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to quantitatively assess the associations of unprocessed red, processed meat, and poultry intake and risk of IHD in published prospective studies. We systematically searched CAB Abstract, MEDLINE, EMBASE, Web of Science, bioRxiv and medRxiv, and reference lists of selected studies and previous systematic reviews up to June 4, 2021. All prospective cohort studies that assessed associations between 1(+) meat types and IHD risk (incidence and/or death) were selected. The meta-analysis was conducted using fixed-effects models. Thirteen published articles were included (ntotal = 1,427,989; ncases = 32,630). Higher consumption of unprocessed red meat was associated with a 9% (relative risk (RR) per 50 g/day higher intake, 1.09; 95% confidence intervals (CI), 1.06 to 1.12; nstudies = 12) and processed meat intake with an 18% higher risk of IHD (1.18; 95% CI, 1.12 to 1.25; nstudies = 10). There was no association with poultry intake (nstudies = 10). This study provides substantial evidence that unprocessed red and processed meat, though not poultry, might be risk factors for IHD.
MPEC 2023-R97 : 2023 RU2
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 RU2

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Protecting entanglement by adjusting the velocities of moving qubits inside non-Markovian environments
Creators: name: Mortezapour, Ali
name: Borji, Mahdi Ahmadi
name: Franco, Rosario Lo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Efficient entanglement preservation in open quantum systems is a crucial scope towards a reliable exploitation of quantum resources. We address this issue by studying how two-qubit entanglement dynamically behaves when two atom qubits move inside two separated identical cavities. The moving qubits independently interact with their respective cavity. As a main general result, we find that under resonant qubit-cavity interaction the initial entanglement between two moving qubits remains closer to its initial value as time passes compared to the case of stationary qubits. In particular, we show that the initial entanglement can be strongly protected from decay by suitably adjusting the velocities of the qubits according to the non-Markovian features of the cavities. Our results supply a further way of preserving quantum correlations against noise with a natural implementation in cavity-QED scenarios and are straightforwardly extendable to many qubits for scalability.
description: To be published in Laser Physics Letters
War Diary of 1st Battalion Canadian Scottish Regiment, Vol. 44, April 1, 1943 to April 30, 1943
Creators: name: Canada. Canadian Army. Canadian Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary's)
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Canada. Canadian Army
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/531187
subject: Canada. Canadian Army. Canadian Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary's)
subject: World War (1939-1945)
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1180924
subject: War diaries
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1745536

description: The war diaries are official records kept by the Battalions during a one month period. They contain the daily orders, correspondence, newsletters, and an intelligence log detailing troop activities, locations, and weather conditions. The war diaries detail the activities and movement of the 1st Battalion from training in Canada and England to active duty on the Western Front and their return to Victoria in January 1946. This diary was kept while at Monk's Gate Common, England. It has entries about a volleyball competition, getting told about the need for more intense training particularly about battle drills, platoon movements, camouflage, and the removal of mines, a lecture from a Hindu officer of the British Army about India, a lecture about the importance of security and that laxity in security is always most evident when victory is in view, lecture and demonstration about mines where they set off one with a carrier track on top of it, a Captain returning to the unit after being attached to a battalion in North Africa, a competition where the best shot would get two days leave, a lecture about the North African Campaign, watching a captured German propaganda film at the Legion called "Victory in the West", a demonstration of German tactics, a wedding for one of the officers, and prepping for a rapid move to an as of yet unknown location, among other activities and information. Includes appendices covering orders, strength returns (daily & weekly), training syllabi, administrative memos, report on First Army in North Africa, schedule of lectures, newspaper clipping about giving a totem pole as a gift, and exercises.
On-grating graphene surface plasmons enabling spatial differentiation in terahertz region
Creators: name: Fang, Yisheng
name: Lou, Yijie
name: Ruan, Zhichao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a graphene-on-grating nanostructure to enable second-order spatial differentiation computation in terahertz (THz) region. The differentiation operation is based on the interference between the direct reflected field and the leakage of two excited surface plasmon polaritons counter-propagating along the graphene sheet. With the spatial coupled-mode theory, we derive out that the requirement for the second-order spatial differentiation is the critical coupling condition. We numerically demonstrate such an analog computation with Gaussian beams. It shows that the spatial bandwidth of the proposed differentiator is large enough such that even when the waist radius of the Gaussian beam is as narrow as ${{w}_{0}}=0.68λ$ ($λ$ is the free-space wavelength), the accuracy of the differentiator is higher than 95\%. The proposed differentiator is ultra-compact, with a thickness less than $0.1λ$, and useful for real-time imaging applications in THz security detections.
Supply chain design during product development: a systematic literature review
Creators: name: Reitsma, Ewout
name: Hilletofth, Per
name: Johansson, Eva
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: Space Science
Medicine
Developmental Biology
Science Policy

description: This paper explores how supply chains can be designed during product development (PD) through systematically reviewing 143 peer-reviewed journal articles written in English. The findings indicate that practitioners can perform 14 supply chain design (SCD) activities during PD. These activities are grouped into levels and areas, and a model is developed that interrelates SCD with nine product characteristics. Therewith, scholars are given a deep insight into the literature on SCD during PD. The paper also provides a framework for developing company- and project-specific checklists that can be used for multiple purposes, including planning, performing, or evaluating SCD activities before, during, or after PD projects. The implementation of the framework, according to the characteristics of a manufacturer and its PD projects, constitutes an opportunity for the creation of resilient supply chains.
Ultra-thin Acoustic Metasurface-Based Schroeder Diffuser
Creators: name: Zhu, Yifan
name: Fan, Xudong
name: Liang, Bin
name: Cheng, Jianchun
name: Jing, Yun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Schroeder diffuser is a classical design, proposed over 40 years ago, for artificially creating optimal and predictable sound diffuse reflection. It has been widely adopted in architectural acoustics and it has also shown substantial potential in noise control, ultrasound imaging, microparticle manipulation, among others. The conventional Schroeder diffuser, however, has a considerable thickness on the order of one wavelength, severely impeding its applications for low frequency sound. In this paper, a new class of ultra-thin and planar Schroeder diffusers are proposed based on the concept of acoustic metasurface. Both numerical and experimental results demonstrate satisfactory sound diffuse reflection produced from the metasurface-based Schroeder diffuser despite it being one order of magnitude thinner than the conventional one. The proposed design not only offer promising building blocks with great potential to profoundly impact architectural acoustics and related fields, but also constitutes a major step towards real-world applications of acoustic metasurfaces.
description: 23 pages, 6 figures
A precise optical transmission spectrum of the inflated exoplanet WASP-52b
Creators: name: Louden, Tom
name: Wheatley, Peter J.
name: Irwin, Patrick G. J.
name: Kirk, James
name: Skillen, Ian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have measured a precise optical transmission spectrum for WASP-52b, a highly inflated hot Jupiter with an equilibrium temperature of 1300 K. Two transits of the planet were observed spectroscopically at low resolution with the auxiliary-port camera (ACAM) on the William Herschel Telescope (WHT), covering a wide range of 4000-8750 Å. We use a Gaussian process approach to model the correlated noise in the multi-wavelength light curves, resulting in a high precision relative transmission spectrum with errors on the order of a pressure scale height. We attempted to fit a variety of different representative model atmospheres to the transmission spectrum, but did not find a satisfactory match to the entire spectral range. For the majority of the covered wavelength range (4000-7750 Å) the spectrum is flat, and can be explained by an optically thick and grey cloud layer at 0.1 mbar, but this is inconsistent with a slightly deeper transit at wavelengths $> 7750$ Å. We were not able to find an obvious systematic source for this feature, so this opacity may be the result of an additional unknown absorber.
description: Submitted to MNRAS 17 Jan 2017, revised version after comments from reviewer, 12 pages, 10 figures
中华民国驻加总领事(周啟濂)就华童分校一事回复维多利亚华侨抗争分校团体的信
Creators: name: Zhou, Qilian
name: 周啟濂
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: History
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411628
subject: Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (Victoria, B.C.)
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/2009873
subject: Race discrimination
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1086465
subject: School boards
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1107008
subject: Chinese students
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/857722
subject: Segregation in education
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1111221

description: A letter from the Chinese Consul General to Canada in response to a report sent by the association protesting against the segregation of Chinese children in public schools stating that he is taking up the issue with the Canadian Foreign Minister and the Mayor of Victoria. September 13, 1922 （中华民国十一年九月十三日）
MPEC 2023-R98 : 2023 RV2
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 RV2

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Elliptic boundary-value problems in Hörmander spaces
Creators: name: Anop, Anna
name: Kasirenko, Tetiana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35J40, 46E35

description: We investigate general elliptic boundary-value problems in Hörmander inner product spaces that form the extended Sobolev scale. The latter consists of all Hilbert spaces that are interpolation spaces with respect to the Sobolev Hilbert scale. We prove that the operator corresponding to an arbitrary elliptic problem is Fredholm in appropriate couples of the Hörmander spaces and induces a collection of isomorphisms on the extended Sobolev scale. We obtain a local a priory estimate for generalized solutions to this problem and prove a theorem on their local regularity in the Hörmander spaces. We find new sufficient conditions under which generalized derivatives (of a given order) of the solutions are continuous.
description: Published in Methods of Functional Analysis and Topology (MFAT), available at http://mfat.imath.kiev.ua/article/?id=911
Arrangements of homothets of a convex body II
Creators: name: Naszódi, Márton
name: Swanepoel, Konrad J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 52A37

description: A family of homothets of an o-symmetric convex body K in d-dimensional Euclidean space is called a Minkowski arrangement if no homothet contains the center of any other homothet in its interior. We show that any pairwise intersecting Minkowski arrangement of a d-dimensional convex body has at most $2\cdot 3^d$ members. This improves a result of Polyanskii (arXiv:1610.04400). Using similar ideas, we also give a proof the following result of Polyanskii: Let $K_1,\dots,K_n$ be a sequence of homothets of the o-symmetric convex body $K$, such that for any $i
description: 9 pages
Controlling charge transport mechanisms in molecular junctions: Distilling thermally-induced hopping from coherent-resonant conduction
Creators: name: Kim, Hyehwang
name: Segal, Dvira
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The electrical conductance of molecular junctions may strongly depend on the temperature, and weakly on molecular length, under two distinct mechanisms: phase-coherent resonant conduction, with charges proceeding via delocalized molecular orbitals, and incoherent thermally-assisted multi-step hopping. While in the case of coherent conduction the temperature dependence arises from the broadening of the Fermi distribution in the metal electrodes, in the latter case it corresponds to electron-vibration interaction effects on the junction. With the objective to distill the thermally-activated hopping component, thus expose intrinsic electron-vibration interaction phenomena on the junction, we suggest the design of molecular junctions with "spacers", extended anchoring groups that act to filter out phase-coherent resonant electrons. Specifically, we study the electrical conductance of fixed-gap and variable-gap junctions that include a tunneling block, with spacers at the boundaries. Using numerical simulations and analytical considerations, we demonstrate that in our design, resonant conduction is suppressed. As a result, the electrical conductance is dominated by two (rather than three) mechanisms: superexchange (deep tunneling), and multi-step thermally-induced hopping. We further exemplify our analysis on DNA junctions with an A:T block serving as a tunneling barrier. Here, we show that the electrical conductance is insensitive to the number of G:C base-pairs at the boundaries. This indicates that the tunneling-to-hopping crossover revealed in such sequences truly corresponds to the properties of the A:T barrier.
Is the Cosmological Constant Problem Properly Posed?
Creators: name: Mannheim, Philip D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In applications of Einstein gravity one replaces the quantum-mechanical energy-momentum tensor of sources such as the degenerate electrons in a white dwarf or the black-body photons in the microwave background by c-number matrix elements. And not only that, one ignores the zero-point fluctuations in these sources by only retaining the normal-ordered parts of those matrix elements. There is no apparent justification for this procedure, and we show that it is precisely this procedure that leads to the cosmological constant problem. We suggest that solving the problem requires that gravity be treated just as quantum-mechanically as the sources to which it couples, and show that one can then solve the cosmological constant problem if one replaces Einstein gravity by the fully quantum-mechanically consistent conformal gravity theory.
description: 7 pages. Essay written for the Gravity Research Foundation 2017 Awards for Essays on Gravitation
Record of legal action taken by Barristers Peters & Wilson
Creators: name: Peters, Frederick
name: Wilson, C.E.
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: History
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411628
subject: Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (Victoria, B.C.)
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/2009873
subject: Race discrimination
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1086465
subject: School boards
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1107008
subject: Chinese students
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/857722
subject: Segregation in education
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1111221

description: A record of legal action taken by Barristers Peters & Wilson on behalf of the Victoria CCBA towards the school board regarding discrimination against Chinese students.
MPEC 2023-R99 : 2023 RW2
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 RW2

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Source-Sensitive Belief Change
Creators: name: Ebrahimi, Shahab
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The AGM model is the most remarkable framework for modeling belief revision. However, it is not perfect in all aspects. Paraconsistent belief revision, multi-agent belief revision and non-prioritized belief revision are three different extensions to AGM to address three important criticisms applied to it. In this article, we propose a framework based on AGM that takes a position in each of these categories. Also, we discuss some features of our framework and study the satisfiability of AGM postulates in this new context.
description: 13 pages
GIVE HER SOME SPACE: QUEST MAIDENS, SPATIALITY, AND MOBILITY IN MEDIEVAL ARTHURIAN LITERATURE
Creators: name: Myers, Maggie R
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470504
subject: British and Irish literature
classificationCode: 440501
subject: Feminist and queer theory

description: My dissertation proves that movement for both women and men is tantamount to power. The choice for a quest maiden (that is, a woman who takes part in a quest) to move between places and spaces is a choice for them to be able to change both their social and spatial positionalities. Focusing on high- and late medieval English chronicles and romance, I divide medieval Arthurian quest maidens into one of four categories based upon their movement: the static “in” and “out” groups that either remain inside a court or outside in the forest, and the mobile “inwards” and “outwards” groups that either enter into a court from outside it or who leave a court for the outside world. This diversity of categories is a novel contribution to spatial studies within Arthurian literature, as quest maidens are found everywhere across the Arthurian landscape. Such women dwell in the most intimate castle chambers as well as within the most remote forest copse. These placements are significant, as I argue that spaces are defined by the people who exist within them. As communal space is shaped and created by the multiple identities that inhabit that space, the ability to exist and shape that space becomes itself a demonstration of power. This power is expressed both by individuals, such as a knight in the woods or a queen in her castle, and by collectives, such as the Knights of the Round Table. A space gains its reputation by the deeds of its inhabitants, and those inhabitants either benefit or suffer by their space(s)’s reputation. This extends to the movement that occurs between such spaces. A maiden who enters Camelot to ask for help changes the identity of the court: it becomes a place that succors maidens. A maiden who conversely stops a knight in the Forest of Adventure helps shape that forest into a space for quests. As the Arthurian world is founded upon the questing process that these quest maidens both support and enable, their very existence shapes the form of the world. The space of the quest cannot be unlinked from the maidens who occupy and enable it.
title: A study of the effects of ageing on the characteristics of handwriting and signatures
Creators: name: Ujam, Chukwuemeka
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2022

description: The work presented in this thesis is focused on the understanding of factors that are unique to the elderly and their use of biometric systems. In particular, an investigation is carried out with a focus on the handwritten signature as the biometric modality of choice. This followed on from an in-depth analysis of various biometric modalities such as voice, fingerprint and face. This analysis aimed at investigating the inclusivity of and the policy guiding the use of biometrics by the elderly. Knowledge gained from extracted features of the handwritten signatures of the elderly shed more light on and exposed the uniqueness of some of these features in their ability to separate the elderly from the young. Consideration is also given to a comparative analysis of another handwriting task, that of copying text both in cursive and block capitals. It was discovered that there are features that are unique to each task. Insight into the human perceptual capability in inspecting signatures, in assessing complexity and in judging imitations was gained by analysing responses to practical scenarios that applied human perceptual judgement. Features extracted from a newly created database containing handwritten signatures donated by elderly subjects allowed the possibility of analysing the intra-class variations that exist within the elderly population.
Hidden isometry of "T-duality without isometry"
Creators: name: Bouwknegt, Peter
name: Bugden, Mark
name: Klimcik, Ctirad
name: Wright, Kyle
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the T-dualisability criteria of Chatzistavrakidis, Deser and Jonke [3] who recently used Lie algebroid gauge theories to obtain sigma models exhibiting a "T-duality without isometry". We point out that those T-dualisability criteria are not written invariantly in [3] and depend on the choice of the algebroid framing. We then show that there always exists an isometric framing for which the Lie algebroid gauging boils down to standard Yang-Mills gauging. The "T-duality without isometry" of Chatzistavrakidis, Deser and Jonke is therefore nothing but traditional isometric non-Abelian T-duality in disguise.
description: 15 pages
Jet-hadron correlations relative to the event plane at the LHC with ALICE
Creators: name: Mazer, Joel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The hot, dense and strongly interacting medium known as the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) is produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Early in the collisions, quarks and gluons from the incoming nuclei collide to produce high momentum partons which fragment into collimated sprays of hadrons called "jets". In pp collisions, jet production is well understood within the framework of perturbative QCD and acts as a rigorous baseline measurement for jet quenching measurements. Using pp as a reference, we can compare to heavy-ion collision systems, and study the modification of the $p_{T}$ or angular distributions of jet fragments. A recently developed background subtraction method to remove the complex, flow dominated, heavy-ion background will be used in this analysis. Azimuthal angular correlations of charged hadrons with respect to the axis of a full (charged + neutral) reconstructed 'trigger' jet in Pb--Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=2.76$ TeV in ALICE will be presented here. The analysis of angular correlations for different orientations of the trigger relative to the event plane allows for the study of the path length dependence of medium modifications to jets. The status of studies of the event plane dependence of angular correlations will be presented.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, Hot Quarks 2016 conference
War Diary of 1st Battalion Canadian Scottish Regiment, Vol. 42, February 1, 1943 to February 28, 1943
Creators: name: Canada. Canadian Army. Canadian Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary's)
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Canada. Canadian Army
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/531187
subject: Canada. Canadian Army. Canadian Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary's)
subject: World War (1939-1945)
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1180924
subject: War diaries
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1745536

description: The war diaries are official records kept by the Battalions during a one month period. They contain the daily orders, correspondence, newsletters, and an intelligence log detailing troop activities, locations, and weather conditions. The war diaries detail the activities and movement of the 1st Battalion from training in Canada and England to active duty on the Western Front and their return to Victoria in January 1946. This diary was kept while at Monk's Gate Common, England. It has entries about the battalion being put through a mobile gas chamber to test their respirators, lectures about the German army, prisoner of war procedures, map marking, and general training of intelligence personnel, attending courses at Brighton technical college about typing, German language, and shorthand, participating in various exercises and training programs, troop movements, and spending a good deal of time cleaning up the camp, among other activities and information. Includes appendices covering orders, strength returns (daily & weekly), training syllabi, administrative memos, exercises, and march routes.
Does the evolution of the radio luminosity function of star-forming galaxies match that of the star-formation rate function?
Creators: name: Bonato, Matteo
name: Negrello, Mattia
name: Mancuso, Claudia
name: De Zotti, Gianfranco
name: Ciliegi, Paolo
name: Cai, Zhen-Yi
name: Lapi, Andrea
name: Massardi, Marcella
name: Bonaldi, Anna
name: Sajina, Anna
name: Smolcic, Vernesa
name: Schinnerer, Eva
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The assessment of the relationship between radio continuum luminosity and star formation rate (SFR) is of crucial importance to make reliable predictions for the forthcoming ultra-deep radio surveys and to allow a full exploitation of their results to measure the cosmic star formation history. We have addressed this issue by matching recent accurate determinations of the SFR function up to high redshifts with literature estimates of the 1.4 GHz luminosity functions of star forming galaxies (SFGs). This was done considering two options, proposed in the literature, for the relationship between the synchrotron emission ($L_{\rm synch}$), that dominates at 1.4 GHz, and the SFR: a linear relation with a decline of the $L_{\rm synch}$/SFR ratio at low luminosities or a mildly non-linear relation at all luminosities. In both cases we get good agreement with the observed radio luminosity functions but, in the non-linear case, the deviation from linearity must be small. The luminosity function data are consistent with a moderate increase of the $L_{\rm synch}$/SFR ratio with increasing redshift, indicated by other data sets, although a constant ratio cannot be ruled out. A stronger indication of such increase is provided by recent deep 1.4 GHz counts, down to $μ$Jy levels. This is in contradiction with models predicting a decrease of that ratio due to inverse Compton cooling of relativistic electrons at high redshifts. Synchrotron losses appear to dominate up to $z\simeq 5$. We have also updated the Massardi et al. (2010) evolutionary model for radio loud AGNs.
description: 12 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
The magnetic Hamiltonian and phase diagram of the quantum spin liquid Ca10Cr7O28
Creators: name: Balz, Christian
name: Lake, Bella
name: Islam, A. T. M. Nazmul
name: Singh, Yogesh
name: Rodriguez-Rivera, Jose A.
name: Guidi, Tatiana
name: Wheeler, Elisa M.
name: Simeoni, Giovanna G.
name: Ryll, Hanjo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A spin liquid is a new state of matter with topological order where the spin moments continue to fluctuate coherently down to the lowest temperatures rather than develop static long-range magnetic order as found in conventional magnets. For spin liquid behavior to arise in a material the magnetic Hamiltonian must be "frustrated" where the combination of lattice geometry, interactions and anisotropies gives rise to competing spin arrangements in the ground state. Theoretical Hamiltonians which produce spin liquids are spin ice, the Kitaev honeycomb model and the Heisenberg kagome antiferromagnet. Spin liquid behavior however in real materials is rare because they can only approximate these Hamiltonians and often have weak higher order terms that destroy the spin liquid state. Ca10Cr7O28 is a new quantum spin liquid with magnetic Cr5+ ions that possess quantum spin number S=1/2. The spins are entirely dynamic in the ground state and the excitation spectrum is broad and diffuse as is typical of spinons which are the excitations of a spin liquid. In this paper we determine the Hamiltonian of Ca10Cr7O28 using inelastic neutron scattering under high magnetic field to induce a ferromagnetic ground state and spin-wave excitations that can be fitted to extract the interactions. We further explore the phase diagram by using inelastic neutron scattering and heat capacity measurements and establish the boundaries of the spin liquid phase as a function of magnetic field and temperature. Our results show that Ca10Cr7O28 consists of distorted kagome bilayers with several isotropic ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic interactions where unexpectedly the ferromagnetic interactions are stronger than the antiferromagnetic ones. This complex Hamiltonian does not correspond to any known spin liquid model and points to new directions in the search for quantum spin liquid behavior.
Policy of segregation adopted by the School Board
Creators: name: Victoria (B.C.). Board Of School Trustees
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: History
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411628
subject: Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (Victoria, B.C.)
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/2009873
subject: Race discrimination
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1086465
subject: School boards
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1107008
subject: Chinese students
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/857722
subject: Segregation in education
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1111221
subject: English language
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/910920

description: A typewritten list of resolutions from the Board of School Trustees in Victoria focused on students who do not speak English and how they will be treated differently and segregated within the school system.
MPEC 2023-R100 : 2023 RX2
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 RX2

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Exzerpte aus "Lehrbuch der Physiologie des Menschen" von N. Zuntz und A. Loewy
Creators: name: Schenck, Friedrich
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1940

description: 1 Heft mit Exzerpten von der Hand Johannes Ittens zum farbigen Sehen (9 beschriebene Seiten) aus dem 8. Kapitel "Gesichtssinn" von Prof. F. Schenck, enthalten in: "Lehrbuch der Physiologie des Menschen", hrsg. von N. Zuntz und A. Loewy / 3 Beilagen: 1) Typoskript: S. Aeschbacher, "Ueber Farbuntersuchungen in der Papierindustrie. Vortrag gehalten in der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft Solothurn am 13. Februar 1939" (10 Seiten) mit handschriftlichen Anmerkungen von Johannes Itten; 2) Fotokopien von "Selected References Relating to the Field of Color Science" von Dorothy Nickerson, aus: Textile Research Journal (Februar 1946), S. 76-79 und 82-83; 3) Sonderdruck: A. V. Blom, "Über die Farben in Technologie und Kunst", aus "Farbe und Lack", Bd. 67, Seiten 419-425 (Juli 1961) mit handschriftlichen Anstreichungen und handschriftlichem Gruss des Verfassers
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title: Ð²ÑÐ¿ÑÑÐºÐ½Ð°Ñ ÐºÐ²Ð°Ð»Ð¸ÑÐ¸ÐºÐ°ÑÐ¸Ð¾Ð½Ð½Ð°Ñ ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÐ° Ð¼Ð°Ð³Ð¸ÑÑÑÐ°
titleType: Subtitle
title: Parallel inverse method
Creators: name: Ð¨Ð»ÑÐ³Ð°, ÐÑÑÐµÑÐ»Ð°Ð²
Publisher: name: Ð¡Ð°Ð½ÐºÑ-ÐÐµÑÐµÑÐ±ÑÑÐ³ÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ Ð¿Ð¾Ð»Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐ½Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ ÑÐ½Ð¸Ð²ÐµÑÑÐ¸ÑÐµÑ ÐÐµÑÑÐ° ÐÐµÐ»Ð¸ÐºÐ¾Ð³Ð¾
Year: 2024
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inverse proving method
automated theorem proving
parallel algorithms

description: ÐÐ°Ð½Ð½Ð°Ñ ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÐ° Ð¿Ð¾ÑÐ²ÑÑÐµÐ½Ð° ÑÐ»ÑÑÑÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ Ð¿ÑÐ¾Ð¸Ð·Ð²Ð¾Ð´Ð¸ÑÐµÐ»ÑÐ½Ð¾ÑÑÐ¸ Ð°Ð»Ð³Ð¾ÑÐ¸ÑÐ¼Ð° Ð¾Ð±ÑÐ°ÑÂ­Ð½Ð¾Ð³Ð¾ Ð¼ÐµÑÐ¾Ð´Ð° ÐÐ°ÑÐ»Ð¾Ð²Ð° Ñ Ð¿Ð¾Ð¼Ð¾ÑÑÑ ÑÑÐ¸Ð»Ð¸Ð·Ð°ÑÐ¸Ð¸ Ð¼Ð½Ð¾Ð³Ð¾Ð¿Ð¾ÑÐ¾ÑÐ½Ð¾Ð¹ ÑÑÐµÐ´Ñ. ÐÑÐµÐ´Ð»Ð°Ð³Ð°ÐµÐ¼Ð°Ñ Ð¼Ð¾Ð´ÐµÐ»Ñ Ð¸ÑÐ¿Ð¾Ð»ÑÐ·ÑÐµÑ Ð½ÐµÑÐºÐ¾Ð»ÑÐºÐ¾ Ð·Ð°Ð¿ÑÑÐµÐ½Ð½ÑÑ Ð¿ÑÐ¾Ð³ÑÐ°Ð¼Ð¼, ÐºÐ°Ð¶Ð´Ð°Ñ Ð¸Ð· ÐºÐ¾ÑÐ¾ÑÑÑ ÑÐ²Ð»ÑÐµÑÑÑ Ð¾ÑÐ´ÐµÐ»ÑÐ½ÑÐ¼ Ð¿ÑÑÐ²ÐµÑÐ¾Ð¼, Ð·Ð°Ð¿ÑÑÐµÐ½Ð½ÑÐ¼ Ñ ÑÐ½Ð¸ÐºÐ°Ð»ÑÐ½Ð¾Ð¹ Ð½Ð°ÑÑÑÐ¾Ð¹ÐºÐ¾Ð¹ ÑÐ²ÑÐ¸ÑÑÐ¸Ðº. ÐÐ»Ñ Ð¿Ð¾Ð²ÑÑÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ Ð¿ÑÐ¾Ð¸Ð·Ð²Ð¾Ð´Ð¸ÑÐµÐ»ÑÐ½Ð¾ÑÑÐ¸ Ð¾Ð½Ð¸ Ð¾Ð±Ð¼ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ð²Ð°ÑÑÑÑ Ð¿ÑÐ¾Ð¼ÐµÐ¶ÑÑÐ¾ÑÐ½ÑÐ¼Ð¸ Ð´Ð°Ð½Ð½ÑÐ¼Ð¸ Ð¼ÐµÐ¶Ð´Ñ Ð´ÑÑÐ³ Ð´ÑÑÐ³Ð¾Ð¼.
description: This article introduces a novel multiprocessing methodology tailored for the Inverse Method, a critical component of Automated Theorem Provers (ATPs), aimed at optimizing theorem proving efficiency. Our approach utilizes multiple running units, each operating as a distinct prover equipped with specific heuristic options, collaborating to explore conjectures and verify theorems. Central to our methodology is the integration of shared memory, enabling seamless communication and data exchange among the processing units, facilitating collaborative problem-solving. We delve into the implementation details of our multiprocessing prover, highlighting the incorporation of heuristic options customized to diverse problem domains and efficient memory sharing mechanisms for formulas. Through rigorous experimentation and benchmarking across various theorem proving tasks, we evaluate the performance and scalability of our approach.
Letter from the Board of School Trustees, Victoria B.C. in reply to petitions
Creators: name: Victoria (B.C.). Board Of School Trustees
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: History
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411628
subject: Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (Victoria, B.C.)
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/2009873
subject: Race discrimination
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1086465
subject: School boards
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1107008
subject: Chinese students
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/857722
subject: Segregation in education
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1111221
subject: English language
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/910920

description: A letter from the Victoria Board of School Trustees in reply to a petition from the Chinese Canadian Club, the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, and the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association protesting the segregation of Chinese children in public schools saying that segregation is in the best educational interest of the Chinese students.
Farbanalysen von Meisterwerken 4
Creators: name: Itten, Johannes
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1950

description: Enthält: Blätter mit handschriftlichen und maschinenschriftlichen Farbanalysen Johannes Ittens von Meisterwerken, u.a. zu "Doris mit der Halskrause" von E. L. Kirchner und zu einem Stillleben von Zurbarán; Beilagen: von der Hand Anneliese Ittens beschriftete Post-It-Zettel und Mappe, in denen sich die Dokumente zum Übergabezeitpunkt befanden
Farbanalysen von Meisterwerken 2
Creators: name: Itten, Johannes
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1950

description: 2 Buntstiftzeichnungen von der Hand Johannes Ittens mit Darstellungen der charakteristischen Farbigkeit von 1) der Deckplatte vom Grab des Gottfried Plantagenet (spätes 12. Jh.) und 2) Duccios "Die drei Marien am Grabe"
Mean-Field Theory of Water-Water Correlations in Electrolyte Solutions
Creators: name: Wilkins, David M.
name: Manolopoulos, David E.
name: Roke, Sylvie
name: Ceriotti, Michele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Long-range ion induced water-water correlations were recently observed in femtosecond elastic second harmonic scattering experiments of electrolyte solutions. To further the qualitative understanding of these correlations, we derive an analytical expression that quantifies ion induced dipole-dipole correlations in a non-interacting gas of dipoles. This model is a logical extension of Debye-Hückel theory that can be used to qualitatively understand how the combined electric field of the ions induces correlations in the orientational distributions of the water molecules in an aqueous solution. The model agrees with results from molecular dynamics simulations and provides an important starting point for further theoretical work.
Exzerpte aus einem Werk von E. Hering
Creators: name: Itten, Johannes
name: Hering, Ewald
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1930

description: 2 Blätter, aus einem Notizblock herausgetrennt, auf ein DIN A4-Blatt geklebt; das DIN A4-Blatt ist überschrieben mit "Harmonie Hering" / Die Blätter enthalten auch Aufzeichnungen Johannes Ittens.
[Johannes Itten]: Farbkurs für Textilfachschülerinnen und -schüler
Creators: name: Itten, Johannes
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1940

description: Enthält Aufzeichnungen von der Hand Johannes Ittens zur Farbenlehre: Einleitung; physikalische Farbenlehre; Farbenspirale/Farbkreis; Hinweise für den Textil-Kaufmann und -Disponent; temperierter Farbkreis; pigmentäre Farbmischungen u.a. / Wahrscheinlich handelt es sich um das Konzept für einen Farbkurs an einer Textilfachschule.
Graviton fluctuations erase the cosmological constant
Creators: name: Wetterich, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Graviton fluctuations induce strong non-perturbative infrared renormalization effects for the cosmological constant. The functional renormalization flow drives a positive cosmological constant towards zero, solving the cosmological constant problem without the need to tune parameters. We propose a simple computation of the graviton contribution to the flow of the effective potential for scalar fields. Within variable gravity we find that the potential increases asymptotically at most quadratically with the scalar field. With effective Planck mass proportional to the scalar field, the solutions of the derived cosmological equations lead to an asymptotically vanishing cosmological "constant" in the infinite future, providing for dynamical dark energy in the present cosmological epoch. Beyond a solution of the cosmological constant problem, our simplified computation also entails a sizeable positive graviton-induced anomalous dimension for the quartic Higgs coupling in the ultraviolet regime, substantiating the successful prediction of the Higgs boson mass within the asymptotic safety scenario for quantum gravity.
description: extended discussion, new references, 14 pages, 2 figures
Letter from the Board of School Trustees, Victoria BC
Creators: name: Victoria (B.C.). Board Of School Trustees
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: History
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411628
subject: Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (Victoria, B.C.)
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/2009873
subject: Race discrimination
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1086465
subject: School boards
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1107008
subject: Chinese students
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/857722
subject: Segregation in education
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1111221
subject: English language
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/910920

description: A letter from the Victoria Board of School Trustees in response to a letter from the Victoria Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association about the segregation of Chinese students based on their ability to speak English within public schools.