cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Floral Product Marketing in Greater Los Angeles
Creators: name: Blyn, Martin R.
name: Kindya, William G.
name: Mills, R. Bryant
name: Yavas, Burhan F.
name: Blyn, Martin R.
name: Kindya, William G.
name: Mills, R. Bryant
name: Yavas, Burhan F.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Excerpts from the report: The floral products industry in the greater Los Angeles area was surveyed to determine the nature and direction of changes in floral product marketing in Southern California. Researchers focused on the impact changes might have on the retail and wholesale segments of the industry. They also considered the relocation of the wholesale floral markets on Wall Street, in downtown Los Angeles, to another, more suitable site. These two objectives are related since structural changes within the industry affect decisions regarding relocation. Information presented is based on extensive interviews with floral product producers, wholesalers, retailers, and importers. More than 100 individuals were interviewed. Information gathered from the interviews was used in preparing this report. Additional information was gathered from four surveys, two targeting retail florists in the Los Angeles five-county area, one directed at wholesalers located in the Wall Street markets in downtown Los Angeles, and one targeted to all growers of floral products in California and selected growers in neighboring States.
'Fast Exchange' model visualized with 3He confined in aerogel: a Fermi liquid in contact with a Ferromagnetic solid
Creators: name: Collin, Eddy
name: Triqueneaux, Sebastien
name: Bunkov, Yuriy M.
name: Godfrin, Henri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: 3He confined in aerogel in the millikelvin temperature domain exemplifies a Fermi liquid in the presence of disorder. In confined 3He systems, a solid layer of 3He atoms forms on the confining medium. This system can then be viewed as a model system for the study of the (strongly interacting) Fermi liquid in contact with a (ferromagnetic) "2D-like" adsorbed solid. This interaction, studied experimentally through NMR T2 experiments, is described in the framework of the "fast exchange" model. A complete analytical descripion of the model is given, explaining our measurements as well as related normal-state confined 3He NMR literature.
The chemistry of the pedoderm – part 1: grasslands and savannas in the central Kruger National Park, South Africa
Creators: name: Mills, Anthony J
name: Strydom, Tercia
name: Allen, Jessica L
name: Baum, Julia
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Treeless grasslands occur within landscapes that are predominantly wooded savannas in the central Kruger National Park, South Africa. As a first step in identifying soil properties potentially underpinning differences in vegetation structure in these landscapes, we analysed the soil chemistry of the pedoderm (0–2 cm) in a grassland and two adjacent savanna types (Senegalia savanna and Delagoa Lowveld). The grassland was significantly enriched in P, Ca, Mg and Cu relative to both the savannas (1.8- and 5.8-fold for the Senegalia and Delagoa Lowveld savannas, respectively, for P; 1.8- and 5.7-fold for Ca; 1.7- and 6.0-fold for Mg; and 1.3- and 9.4-fold for Cu). It was also richer in Na (4.7-fold), Mn (6.3-fold) and Zn (1.6-fold) than the Delagoa Lowveld savanna. The competitive strength and nutritive value of the herbaceous layer in the grassland is likely to be greater than in the savannas because of the relative nutrient richness of the grassland’s pedoderm. Herbivory pressure is also likely to be greater in the grassland because of the greater nutritive value of the herbaceous layer. These effects provide a plausible mechanism for the constraint of trees in the grassland.
Quality Assurance & Risk Management Plan - M31 Update
Creators: name: Kakaletris, Konstantinos
name: Kakaletris, Georgios
name: Petra, Eleni
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: EOSC
Risk Management
Quality Assurance
Planning
H2020

description: This document is D1.3 “Quality Assurance & Risk Management Plan” of NEANIAS project and its purpose is to present the overall strategy, the tools and the procedures regarding Quality Assurance and Risk Management for NEANIAS. In particular, the aim of this deliverable is to describe the mechanisms that will be employed throughout the project in order to ensure the quality level of project deliverables and outcomes.
 Regarding quality assurance it defines specific policies and moreover it defines separate policies for a number of activities referring to project deliverables, milestones, research publications, meetings’ organization, events’ participation, press releases, dissemination and other outreach material, training, KPIs training etc. To be effective, on one hand it assigns nominated reviewers for contractual outcomes, such as deliverables, while on the other, it adopts minimum overhead approaches, such as open flow of information and “silent approval” policy, in areas where less critical issues may reside.
 Regarding risk management, it defines the methodology to be followed, which allows risk management to be supported by non-experts, minimizing the learning curve and the risk for neglecting issues. It also defines the instruments and timeline for executing the methodology, in order to provide sufficient risk assurance for the project assets.
 In the updated version of the document the list of risk is adapted to the risks that threaten the project and the sustainability of its services for the last period of the project and beyond.
Animals and the Medieval Culture of Empire
Creators: name: Kinoshita, Sharon
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: In  the  opening  scene  of  the Chanson  de  Roland,  the pagan king Marsile sends Charlemagne an offer of gifts, tribute,  and  loyalty  if  the  Franks  will  lift  their  siege  of Saragossa   and   go   home.   The   suggestion   originally comes from Blancandrin, Marsile’s respected and most trusted advisor: Mandez Carlun, a l’orguillus, al fier,Fedeilz servises e mult granz amistez:Vos li durrez urs e leons e chens,Set cenz camelz e mil hosturs müers,D’or e d’argent quatre cenz muls cargez,Cinquante carre qu’en ferat carïer. (ll. 28–33)1[To the proud and haughty Charles, send your loyal   (feudal)   service   and   great   friendship. [Say]  you  will  give  him  bears,  lions,  and  dogs, 700   camels   and   1000   molted   hawks,   400 mules  loaded  with  gold  and  silver,  50  carts  to haul it all away.]
Mass Generation in QCD -- Oscillating Quarks and Gluons
Creators: name: Minkowski, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The present lecture is devoted to embedding the approximate genuine harmonic oscillator structure of valence q qbar mesons and in more detail the q q q configurations for up,down,strange - flavored baryons in Q C D for three light flavors of quark.
description: 58 pages, 11 figures, Conference: Workshop on Flavour, N T U, Singapore, 10.-14. February 2014
The Floral and the Human
Creators: name: McCracken, Peggy
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: In  twelfth-century  versions  of  the Roman  d’Alexandre, among  the  many  curious  beings  Alexander  the  Great encounters  during  his  exploration  of  India,  we  find  a group  of  floral-human  beings.1 After  many  days  in  the  desert,  Alexander  and  his  men  come  to  a  forest  and they see there a maiden sitting at the base of every tree. The  forest  provides  for  the  maidens—whatever  they might wish for in the morning, they receive by evening. The   flower   maidens   are   somehow   bonded   to   the sheltering  wood.  They  will  die  if  they  leave  the  shadow of its trees. When winter comes, they disappear into the ground,   and   when   the   summer   returns   with   warm weather,  they  are  reborn  as  white  flowers.  The  flowers hold  the  maidens’  human  form  and  the  petals  become dresses for the women. When  Alexander  and  his  men  arrive  in  the  forest, the  flower  maidens  welcome  them  eagerly.  There  is nothing  these  maidens  love  more  than  men,  the  text tells  us,  and  Alexander’s  men  have  never  seen  more beautiful   women.2 Indeed,   Alexander   is “troubled” (effreés,  l.  3367)  by  the  sight  of  such  beautiful  creaturesand  he  declares  that  he  and  his  army  will  stay  with them  for  four  days.  When  his  men  enter  the  forest,  the maidens receive them without hesitation. Each chooses a soldier, and encourages him to pursue his desires.
Exemplary Rocks
Creators: name: Roberston, Kellie
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: Rocks  are  usually  synonymous  with  insentience:  to  say that  so-and-so  has “a  heart  of  stone”  or  is “dumber than  a  box  of  rocks”  is  to  give  insult  by  degrading  the dynamic  into  the  inert.  In  such  comparisons,  the  rock contaminates the human to the extent that the latter is drained   of   all   sensation   and   vitality.   Such   popular wisdom is codified into metaphysical precept in Heide-gger’s attempt to define “world” by parsing it according to levels of perceived sentience and a capacity for active engagement  with  the  environment.  Heidegger’s  theses have  been  much  discussed  by  critics  interested  in “the animal”  and “the  human:”  both  Derrida  and  Agamben lament how these rigid categories obscure the common ground   of   animality   and   humanity   especially   with respect  to  language.  Despite  this  desire  to  resist  the singularity  of  the  human,  it  is  only  recently  that  critics such  as  Graham  Harman,  Jane  Bennett,  and  (within Medieval  Studies)  Jeffrey  J.  Cohen  have  challenged  the third leg of Heidegger’s ontological stool: the poverty of the inanimate world.
A strict error bound with separated contributions of the discretization and of the iterative solver in non-overlapping domain decomposition methods
Creators: name: Rey, Valentine
name: Rey, Christian
name: Gosselet, Pierre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper deals with the estimation of the distance between the solution of a static linear mechanic problem and its approximation by the finite element method solved with a non-overlapping domain decomposition method (FETI or BDD). We propose a new strict upper bound of the error which separates the contribution of the iterative solver and the contribution of the discretization. Numerical assessments show that the bound is sharp and enables us to define an objective stopping criterion for the iterative solver
description: Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (2013) online
Powers of the Hoard: Further Notes on Material Agency
Creators: name: Bennett, Jane
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: There  exists  a  rich  metaphysical  tradition  in the  West that  engages  stuff—animal,  vegetable,  and  mineral—as lively   intensity,   as   vital   force. Take,   for   example, Spinoza’s  belief  that  every  body  (person,  fly,  stone) comes  with  a conatus or  impetus  to  seek  alliances  that enhance its vitality; or Diderot’s materialist depiction of the  universe  as  a  spiderweb  of  vibrating  threads;  or Thoreau’s   account   of   The   Wild   within   human   and nonhuman nature; or Lucretius’s physics of atoms that swerve,  which  Michel  Serres  spun  into  an  ontology  of fluctuating ado or noise. I wrote a book called Vibrant  Matter that position-ed  itself  within  this  tradition,  which  Althusser  termed “aleatory  materialism.”2 But  my  book  was  not  just  a response  to  other  books.  It  was  also,  quite  literally,  a reply  to  a  call  from  matter  that  had  congealing  into “things.”    In    particular,    some    items    of    trash    had collected  in  the  gutter  of  a  street  in  Baltimore—one large black workglove, one dense mat of oak pollen, one unblemished dead rat, one white plastic bottle cap, one smooth  stick  of  wood—and  one  sunny  day  as  I  walked by,  they  called  me  over  to  them.  I  stood  enchanted  by the tableau they formed, and for a few surreal moments thought  I  caught  a  glimpse  into  a  parallel  world  of vibrant,    powerful    things.    Sullen objects    revealed themselves  to  be expressive “actants,”  to  use  Latour’s term, or, to quote one hoarder attempting to justify his collecting, “The things speak out.”
The chemistry of the pedoderm – part 3: Colophospermum mopane shrublands and woodlands in the central Kruger National Park, South Africa
Creators: name: Mills, Anthony J
name: Strydom, Tercia
name: Allen, Jessica L
name: Baum, Julia
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: The woody plant, Colophospermum mopane, occurs as either a shrub or tree in shrublands and woodlands, respectively, in the central Kruger National Park, South Africa. As a first step in identifying which soil properties potentially influence the structure of C. mopane in these landscapes, we investigated the soil chemistry of the pedoderm in shrublands and woodlands. A total of 39 composite pedoderm samples (0–2 cm) were analysed. Relative to the woodlands, the pedoderm of the shrublands had significantly lower mean concentrations of P, K, Ca, Mg, S, Mn, Cu, Na, B and C. Of the nutrients analysed, only B had a mean concentration likely to be constraining the growth of plants (0.16 ± 0.01 vs 0.69 ± 0.05 mg B kg−1 in shrublands and woodlands, respectively). We suggest that the C. mopane shrubs do not establish as trees in the shrublands because deficiency of B limits their growth and increases the competitive strength of the grass sward relative to eudicot plants in the landscape.
Transmittance of a subwavelength aperture flanked by a finite groove array \\ placed near the focus of a conventional lens
Creators: name: Villate-Guío, F.
name: de León-Pérez, F.
name: Martín-Moreno, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One-dimensional light harvesting structures illuminated by a conventional lens are studied in this paper. Our theoretical study shows that high transmission efficiencies are obtained when the structure is placed near the focal plane of the lens. The considered structure is a finite slit-groove array (SGA) with a given number of grooves that are symmetrically distributed with respect to a central slit. The SGA is nano-patterned on an opaque metallic film. It is found that a total transmittance of 80% is achieved even for a single slit when (i) Fabry-Perot like modes are excited inside the slit and (ii) the effective cross section of the aperture becomes of the order of the full width at half maximum of the incident beam. A further enhancement of 8% is produced by the groove array. The optimal geometry for the groove array consists of a moderate number of grooves ($ \geq 4$) at either side of the slit, separated by a distance of half the incident wavelength $λ$. Grooves should be deeper (with depth $\geq λ/4$) than those typically reported for plane wave illumination in order to increase their individual scattering cross section.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures
Call-by-value non-determinism in a linear logic type discipline
Creators: name: Díaz-Caro, Alejandro
name: Manzonetto, Giulio
name: Pagani, Michele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We consider the call-by-value lambda-calculus extended with a may-convergent non-deterministic choice and a must-convergent parallel composition. Inspired by recent works on the relational semantics of linear logic and non-idempotent intersection types, we endow this calculus with a type system based on the so-called Girard's second translation of intuitionistic logic into linear logic. We prove that a term is typable if and only if it is converging, and that its typing tree carries enough information to give a bound on the length of its lazy call-by-value reduction. Moreover, when the typing tree is minimal, such a bound becomes the exact length of the reduction.
Crowd Flow Modeling of Athletes in Mass Sports Events -- a Macroscopic Approach
Creators: name: Treiber, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a macroscopic model in form of a dispersion-transport equation for non-congested flow of the athletes which is coupled to a kinematic-wave model for congested flow. The model takes into account the performance (i.e., free-flow speed distributions) of the athletes in the different starting groups. The model is calibrated and validated on data of the German $\textit{Rennsteig Half Marathon 2012}$ and the Swedish $\textit{Vasaloppet 2012}$ cross-country ski race. Simulations of the model allow the event managers to improve the organization by determining the optimum number of starting groups, the maximum size of each group, whether a wave start with a certain starting delay between the groups is necessary, or what will be the effects of changing the course. We apply the model to simulate a planned course change for the Rennsteig Half Marathon 2013, and determine whether critical congestions are likely to occur.
description: Presented at the Conference Traffic and Graranular Flow '13 (Juelich). Will appear in the proceedings (Springer)
Zusammenarbeit und Vernetzung von Fördergebern auf nationaler und internationaler Ebene
Creators: name: Geuenich, Michael
name: Sänger, Astrid
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Präsentation der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft e.V. (DFG) bei den Open-Access-Tagen 2022 in Bern. Session 9 "Kollaboration unter Förderorganisationen", 20.09.2022. Die Ausgestaltung einer wissenschaftsdienlichen Open-Access-Landschaft erfordert nicht nur organisatorische Anpassungen, etwa auf Einrichtungs- und Institutionsebene, sondern unter anderem auch Änderungen in der Mentalität und im Publikationsverhalten bei Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern sowie wissenschaftspolitische Aushandlungsprozesse und Rahmenbedingungen, die auch auf politischer Ebene mitgestaltet werden können. Dazu sind die Zusammenarbeit und die Vernetzung von verschiedenen Akteurinnen und Akteuren notwendig. Förderorganisationen können durch ihr Förderhandeln sowie durch die Gestaltung von Standards und Förderbedingungen auf die Entwicklung der Open-Access-Landschaft einwirken. Wesentlich sind auch Abstimmungen zwischen Förderern auf europäischer und internationaler Ebene. Dieser Beitrag beleuchtet die aktuelle Zusammenarbeit und Vernetzung von Förderern aus Sicht der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft e.V. und stellt wichtige Themen und Akteure vor, zu und mit denen die DFG gegenwärtig auf nationaler und internationaler Ebene kooperiert.
Notes on the Chameleon Brans-Dicke Gravity
Creators: name: Bisabr, Yousef
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a generalized Brans-Dicke model in which the scalar field has a potential function and is also allowed to couple non-minimally with the matter sector. This anomalous gravitational coupling can in principle avoid the model to pass local gravity experiments. One then usually assumes that the scalar field has a chameleon behavior in the sense that it acquires a density-dependent effective mass. While it can take a small effective mass in cosmological (low-density environment) scale, it has a sufficiently heavy mass in Solar System (large-density environment) and then hides gravity tests. We will argue that such a chameleon behavior can not be generally realized and depends significantly on the forms attributed to the potential and the coupling functions.
description: 9 pages, no figure. To appear in Astrophysics and Space Science. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:0907.3838, arXiv:1005.5670, arXiv:1212.2709
Speaking Stones, John Muir, and a Slower (Non)Humanities
Creators: name: Duckert, Lowell
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: By  the  time  you  arrive  at  this  point  in  the  collection, you  will  have  realized  that  the  essays  herein  demand  a slow   reading.   Perfect:   the   practice   of   tracing   con-nections  between  actors,  slowly,  as  Bruno  Latour’s  ant (or ANT, short for Actor Network Theory) would tell us, is  the  way  to  go.  According  to  Latour’s  self-defined “slowciology,” we are to follow the actors themselves—examining  the  relationships  they  assemble,  interrupt, or  disturb.  Latour’s  process  is “agonizingly  slow”  by necessity.2 Yet  in  writing  my  response,  I  find  myself running down a fast lane. The time when these authors first  presented  their  work  at  the  conference,  “Animal, Vegetable,  Mineral:  Ethics  and  Objects  in  the  Medieval and  Early  Modern  Periods,”  coincided  with  one  of  the most accelerated points in my doctoral career. Then as now,   I   was   deep   in   my   dissertation   topic   of   eco-materialism: reconceiving early modern waterscapes as vibrant,  living,  actor-networks  of  (non)human  desires and  assemblages.  Ecocriticism  is  a  vast  road  to  travel. And six months later, I was  racing onto the job market. Do  academics  move  too  hastily?  So  let  us slow  down. My  response  will  pick  up  on  Eileen  Joy’s  idea  of  the humanist as a “slow recording device,” a being involved in a world of complication who also describes a world of co-implication,  of  sentience,  becomings,  and  desires shared  between  actors  inanimate  and  animate.  What happens when we slow down, when we take the time to take these ethical steps seriously?
Diagonals: Truth-Procedures in Derrida and Badiou
Creators: name: Norris, Christopher
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: Badiou’s relationship to Derrida is complex, ambivalent, at times distinctly fraught, and often—despite an impeccable politeness of phrasing—somewhat impatient in tone. All the same it doesn’t exhibit anything like the pattern of routine inter-generational conflict that has characterised so many episodes of post-war French in-tellectual history. Thus it bears no resemblance to those acts of barely concealed parricidal intent by which Sartre ousted the dominant currencies of pre-war (whether rationalist or Bergson-influenced) thought, or the structuralism of Lévi-Strauss, Althusser and company purported to consign Sartrean existentialism to the dustbin of outworn humanist ideas, or structuralism in turn gave way to the combined assaults of post-structuralists, postmodernists and other such reactive movements. Indeed there is something decidedly majestic about the way that Badiou rises above such manifestations of the short-term Zeitgeist or sad displays of the odium scholasticumthat all too often substitutes for serious debate. His attitude toward Derrida—as evidenced by the brief but revealing encomium collected in the volume Pocket Pantheon—is one of admiration mixed with a certain ironic reserve and some shrewdly aimed though far from hostile remarks about the lack of any direct activist involvement on Derrida’s part in the events of May 1968. Even here Badiou is keen to make allowance for the highly mediated character of “deconstruc-tive politics” or the need to approach that topic with a due regard for Derrida’s immensely patient, meticulous and painstaking way with texts, among them (if belatedly) the texts of Marx. More than that: he puts the case for Derrida as a political thinker of the first importance, just so long as we read his work with the kind of extreme attentiveness and rigour that he brings to the work of others.
The Noumenon's New Clothes (Part 1)
Creators: name: Wolfendale, Peter
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: A spectre is haunting conti-nental philosophy—the spectre of Object-Oriented Ontology(OOO). All the disciplines and groupings that have traditionally allied themselves with continental theory in the anglophone world are poised to greet its manifestation: aesthetic theory and artistic practice, political philosophy and heterodox ge-ography, Francophile post-post-structuralists and Germanist neo-romantics. Who among them has not heard the siren song of OOO’s litanies of inhuman objects (menageries of stock markets and stock cubes, quarks and clerks, etc.)? Who among them has not begun to shrug off the oppressive, anthropocentric legacy of Post-Kantian philosophy, bravely railing against the tyrannical correlationists of the continental academy, the dreary technicians of the analytic mainstream, and even the scientistic fury of its Neo-Kantian heirs?
Pinned modes in two-dimensional lossy lattices with local gain and nonlinearity
Creators: name: Ding, Edwin
name: Tang, A. Y. S.
name: Chow, K. W.
name: Malomed, Boris A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a system with one or two amplified nonlinear sites ("hot spots", HSs) embedded into a two-dimensional linear lossy lattice. The system describes an array of evanescently coupled optical or plasmonic waveguides, with gain applied at selected HS cores. The subject of the analysis is discrete solitons pinned to the HSs. The shape of the localized modes is found in quasi-analytical and numerical forms, using a truncated lattice for the analytical consideration. Stability eigenvalues are computed numerically, and the results are supplemented by direct numerical simulations. In the case of self-focusing nonlinearity, the modes pinned to a single HS are stable or unstable when the nonlinearity includes the cubic loss or gain, respectively. If the nonlinearity is self-defocusing, the unsaturated cubic gain acting at the HS supports stable modes in a small parametric area, while weak cubic loss gives rise to a bistability of the discrete solitons. Symmetric and antisymmetric modes pinned to a symmetric set of two HSs are considered too.
description: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, in press (a special issue on "Localized structures in dissipative media")
A silicon single-crystal cryogenic optical resonator
Creators: name: Wiens, Eugen
name: Chen, Qun-Feng
name: Ernsting, Ingo
name: Luckmann, Heiko
name: Rosowski, Ulrich
name: Nevsky, Alexander
name: Schiller, Stephan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the demonstration and characterization of a silicon optical resonator for laser frequency stabilization, operating in the deep cryogenic regime at temperatures as low as 1.5 K. Robust operation was achieved, with absolute frequency drift less than 20 Hz over 1 hour. This stability allowed sensitive measurements of the resonator thermal expansion coefficient ($α$). We found $α=4.6\times10^{-13}$ ${\rm K^{-1}}$ at 1.6 K. At 16.8 K $α$ vanishes, with a derivative equal to $-6\times10^{-10}$ ${\rm K}^{-2}$. The temperature of the resonator was stabilized to a level below 10 $μ$K for averaging times longer than 20 s. The sensitivity of the resonator frequency to a variation of the laser power was also studied. The corresponding sensitivities and the expected Brownian noise indicate that this system should enable frequency stabilization of lasers at the low-$10^{-17}$ level.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
Assessing the French Atheistic Turn
Creators: name: Gironi, Fabio
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: In under a decade we have witnessed a proliferation of texts on “atheism,” so much so that the term “New Atheism”1 has become a widely employed label to describe the discourse of this intellectual current, and books propounding or opposing it compete on the shelves of bookstores. Mostly, unfortunately, the tone of this discourse ranges from the patronisingly sarcastic to the irresponsibly uninformed (in the case of atheism-friendly authors) and from the wisely condescending to the virulently obscurantist (in the case of religious apologists). Most commonly associ-ated with this movement are the naturalising reductions of religion by Daniel Dennett, the militant, neo-positivist Dar-winism of Richard Dawkins, the pedantically cultured work of Christopher Hitchens and the populist, mouth-foaming Islamophobia and self-righteous outbursts of Sam Harris (these four authors are often grouped together as the “Four Horsemen” of atheism) and—to quote at least one author from the other side of the intellectual barricade—the natural theology redux of Alister McGrath. With the exception of the best moments of Dennett’s work these publications usually suffer from a deficit of philosophically informed argumenta-tion and (even in Dennett’s work) of actual engagement with the historico-theological heritage that is part and parcel of our conceptual toolbox.
Fight and Flight
Creators: name: Mesing, Dave
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: “Together, we might be able to do dangerous subversive things, mischievous things.”1 Such is Andy Merrifield’s opening promise in his recent book Magi-cal Marxism: Subversive Politics and the Imagination. Merrifield situates the work between two poles of people: those who are more or less orthodox Marxists and those who are Marxists but don’t know it. Thus, despite the fact that Merrifield toys with central Marxist tenets, he avoids any notion of third-way rhetoric; Merrifield’s arguments are unapologetically Marxist, and his attempt to shake the tradition from within requires some working knowledge of Marx’s texts. This is not because Merrifield’s arguments are obscure. On the contrary, he is to be commended for how deftly he has condensed a wide range of difficult source material. Magical Marxism is a joy for the reader, and Merrifield’s broad attempt to inject some affirmation into the critical negativity of Marxism is reflected in his prose.
Indización temática de documentos según la Metodología LILACS 2021 - 07 - Tema: Indización de estudios sobre asociación de enfermedades
Creators: name: BIREME/OPS/OMS
name: Caamaño, Adriana C.J
name: Ragacini, Leonardo
name: Micco, Lucilena M. B. de
name: Conceição, Maria Anália da
name: Vidili, Ana Lucia
name: Suga, Sueli Mitiko Yano
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Indizacion de documentos
subject: Metodologia LILACS
subject: https://decs.bvsalud.org/ths/resource/?id=56243
subject: https://decs.bvsalud.org/ths/resource/?id=46

description: Indización de documento sobre asociación de enfermedades Data: 23 de septiembre 2021 Vea cómo utilizar los descriptores más adecuados para representar el contenido de las publicaciones registradas en las bases de datos en salud según la Metodologia LILACS 07 DE 09) Capacitación sobre indización de documentos según la Metodología LILACS (2021) Ponente: Adriana C.J Caamaño- Brasil Revisión: Luci Bragion Leonardo Ragacini Maria Anália Conceição Ana Lucia Vidili Sueli Suga Principios de la indización Quiz Presentación do documento a ser analizado Paso a paso de la indización del documento Tipos de Publicación y Tipos de Estudios Vista previa de la indización Definición de los calificadores indizados Comentários sobre la indización de la tarea 7 Divulgación del proximo tema- tarea 8 Deja aquí tu opinión o sugerencia sobre el curso, deja tu me gusta Visite la página con toda la información y grabación: https://lilacs.bvsalud.org/es/sesione... Sigue nuestro twitter: https://twitter.com/redelilacs #indizadoreslilacs #indizaciondedocumentos #metodologialilacs
The chemistry of the pedoderm – part 2: Dichrostachys cinerea patches and adjacent grassland in the southern Kruger National Park, South Africa
Creators: name: Mills, Anthony J
name: Strydom, Tercia
name: Allen, Jessica L
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: The small tree, Dichrostachys cinerea, occurs in dense patches within grasslands on gabbro-derived soils in the southern Kruger National Park. It is not known whether soil properties in the grasslands affect tree establishment. As a first step in identifying soil properties potentially underpinning differences in vegetation structure, we analysed the soil chemistry of the pedoderm (0–2 cm) in Dichrostachys patches and adjacent open grassland. Relative to the Dichrostachys patches, the pedoderm of the grassland was significantly richer in K (1.4-fold), Ca (2.6-fold), Mg (3.4-fold), Mn (1.7-fold), B (1.2-fold) and Na (1.6-fold). The pH of the grassland was also higher than in the Dichrostachys patches (6.45 ± 0.14 vs 5.53 ± 0.09). It is unlikely that the vigour of tree seedlings, tree ramets or grasses in the Dichrostachys patches would be constrained by the concentrations of K, Ca, Mg, Mn, B and Na, or the pH, at the study site. Greater concentrations of K, Ca, Mg, Mn, B and Na in the pedoderm of the grassland are, however, likely to be linked to relatively greater nutritive value of the grass sward and in turn greater herbivory pressure. This effect is a potential cause of the greater constraint of D. cinerea seedlings and/or ramets in the grassland than in the Dichrostachys patches.
Joseph Nechvatal's nOise anusmOs Installation
Creators: name: Zou, Yuting
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: Black is the “color” of undivided nothingness and simplicity that has yet been penetrated by light. Black is immanent to itself. Entering the Galerie Richard, black was arguably my instant impression of Joseph Nechvatal’s nOise anusmOs installation, for most of this new series of paintings are unified by a black background. Against the black backdrop are complicated webs of alternating red and white, they suggest many ambiguous and provocative images of corporeal surfaces. Here, sfumato plays a role in slightly reducing the contrast of colors by adding a smoky and subtle layer to the otherwise pixelated images. The entire room is filled with immersive noise, from the visual noise (digital virus) inside the pictorial frame to its audial extension into the ambient space through the “viral symphony.” Bathed in a continuity of noise, it appeared to me that the overall composition of this body of work was more sparse and plural than before, and more speculative.
Speckle interferometry at SOAR in 2012 and 2013
Creators: name: Tokovinin, Andrei
name: Mason, Brian D.
name: Hartkopf, William I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the results of speckle runs at the 4.1-m Southern Astronomical Research (SOAR) telescope in 2012 and 2013. A total of 586 objects were observed. We give 699 measurements of 487 resolved binaries and upper detection limits for 112 unresolved stars. Eleven pairs (including one triple) were resolved for the first time. Orbital elements have been determined for the first time for 13 pairs; orbits of another 45 binaries are revised or updated.
description: Accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal. 31 pages, 18 figures
Electrodynamic phenomena induced by a dark fluid: Analogs of pyromagnetic, piezoelectric, and striction effects
Creators: name: Balakin, Alexander B.
name: Dolbilova, Nadejda N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
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: We establish a new model of coupling between a cosmic dark fluid and electrodynamic systems, based on an analogy with effects of electric and magnetic striction, piezo-electricity and piezo-magnetism, pyro-electricity and pyro-magnetism, which appear in classical electrodynamics of continuous media. Extended master equations for electromagnetic and gravitational fields are derived using Lagrange formalism. A cosmological application of the model is considered, and it is shown that a striction-type interaction between the dark energy (the main constituent of the dark fluid) and electrodynamic system provides the universe history to include the so-called unlighted epochs, during which electromagnetic waves can not propagate and thus can not scan the universe interior.
description: 14 pages, 1 Figure, accepted for publication in Phys.Rev.D
G400_HotMPS_PE150demo (WGS_NA12878_PCRfree)
Creators: name: 王静静(Jingjing Wang)
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2023
Subjects: Raw sequence reads
Multiisolate
Industrial

description: DNBSEQ-G400_HotMPS_PE150 sequencing raw data, WGS_PCR-free(NA12878)
Cache-aware static scheduling for hard real-time multicore systems based on communication affinities
Creators: name: Zaourar, Lilia
name: Jan, Mathieu
name: Pitel, Maurice
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Operating Systems (cs.OS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The growing need for continuous processing capabilities has led to the development of multicore systems with a complex cache hierarchy. Such multicore systems are generally designed for improving the performance in average case, while hard real-time systems must consider worst-case scenarios. An open challenge is therefore to efficiently schedule hard real-time tasks on a multicore architecture. In this work, we propose a mathematical formulation for computing a static scheduling that minimize L1 data cache misses between hard real-time tasks on a multicore architecture using communication affinities.
High-efficiency light-wave control with all-dielectric optical Huygens' metasurfaces
Creators: name: Decker, Manuel
name: Staude, Isabelle
name: Falkner, Matthias
name: Dominguez, Jason
name: Neshev, Dragomir N.
name: Brener, Igal
name: Pertsch, Thomas
name: Kivshar, Yuri S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Optical metasurfaces have developed as a breakthrough concept for advanced wave-front engineering enabled by subwavelength resonant nanostructures. However, reflection and/or absorption losses as well as low polarisation-conversion efficiencies pose a fundamental obstacle for achieving high transmission efficiencies that are required for practical applications. Here we demonstrate, for the first time to our knowledge, highly efficient all-dielectric metasurfaces for near-infrared frequencies using arrays of silicon nanodisks as meta-atoms. We employ the main features of Huygens' sources, namely spectrally overlapping electric and magnetic dipole resonances of equal strength, to demonstrate Huygens' metasurfaces with a full transmission-phase coverage of 360 degrees and near-unity transmission, and we confirm experimentally full phase coverage combined with high efficiency in transmission. Based on these key properties, we show that all-dielectric Huygens' metasurfaces could become a new paradigm for flat optical devices, including beam-steering, beam-shaping, and focusing, as well as holography and dispersion control.
description: 17 pages, 5 figures
Modeling Collaborative Practices in the Anthropocene
Creators: name: Gilber, Bill
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: In 1999, the University of New Mexico embarked on an extended experiment in art practice. Over the ensuing twelve years we have developed the Land Arts of the American West program as a model for a place-based education in the arts to prepare our students for the rapidly chang-ing environmental and social context they will enter upon graduation. Our program has developed in a period marked by a dawning awareness that the collective activities  of  our  species  have  impacted  the  planet  over  a  sufficient  time  period  to  qualify  as  a  geologic  epoch,  the  Anthropocene.  With  this  realization  comes  a  daunting  responsibility.  The  arts  must  now  participate  in  our  collective  response  and  contribute  to  a  change  in  our  narrative as a nation and species if the Anthropocene is to extend for thousands of years into the future. To be successful we are going to need a perspective that encompasses the expanse of plan-etary time, not the fleeting moments of pop culture. In our effort to confront the problems we face, the arts can model a new cooperative/collaborative approach that will supplant the current individualistic paradigm. Our attempts to address the implications of an Anthropo-cene Epoch will require a shared multicultural and interdisciplinary perspective that is based in direct engagement with the physical planet.
Is Higgs Inflation Dead?
Creators: name: Cook, Jessica L.
name: Krauss, Lawrence M.
name: Long, Andrew J.
name: Sabharwal, Subir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the status of Higgs Inflation in light of the recently announced detection of B-modes in the polarization of the cosmic microwave background radiation by the BICEP2 collaboration. In order for the primordial B-mode signal to be observable by BICEP2, the energy scale of inflation must be high, $V_{\rm inf} \approx 2 \times 10^{16} \GeV$. Higgs Inflation generally predicts a small amplitude of tensor perturbations, and therefore it is natural to ask if Higgs Inflation might accommodate this new measurement. We find the answer is essentially no, unless one considers either extreme fine tuning, or possibly adding new beyond the standard model fields, which remove some of the more attractive features of the original idea. We also explore the possible importance of a factor that has not previously been explicitly incorporated, namely the gauge dependence of the effective potential used in calculating inflationary observables, e.g. $n_S$ and $r$, to see if this might provide additional wiggle room. Such gauge effects are comparable to effects of Higgs mass uncertainties and other observables already considered in the analysis, and therefore they are relevant for constraining models. But, they are therefore too small to remove the apparent incompatibility between the BICEP2 observation and the predictions of Higgs Inflation.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures
Inner-City Glaciers
Creators: name: MilNeil, Chris Neal
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: There is a sediment that hangs in a haze above city streets: a low-dose toxic dust of lead and chromates  from  tire  wear,  clouds  of  carbon  soot  mixed  with  hydrocarbon  gases  and  fine  particles of nitrates, sulfates, and other metals from exhaust pipes. At every stoplight, worn brake linings leave behind microscopic flakes of copper, zinc, and lead.These automotive disjecta membra are rarely visible; you might find them as a dirty streak on a handkerchief after wiping your brow on a humid day, or in the accumulated dust of an a/c unit’s intake. In most situations, these particles either disperse in the winds, or wash away into storm drains during rain showers. But for a few months each year in cities of the upper latitudes, when precipitation falls as snow  and  remains  above-ground  in  snowbanks  for  weeks  at  a  time,  these  sediments  have  a  chance  to  accumulate  in  impressive  and  highly-visible  roadside  deposits.  Many  of  these  cities collect and stockpile their snow in massive municipal “snow dumps” in order to keep city streets and sidewalks clear, thus consolidating the roadside’s silt even further
Imagining the Geologic
Creators: name: Larsen, Janike Kampevold
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: In The Tertiary History of the Grand Cañon District (1882), US surveyor Clarence E. Dutton writes: “Great innovations, whether in art, literature, in science or in nature, seldom take the world by storm. They must be understood before they can be estimated, and must be cultivated before they can be understood.”1Dutton  himself  cultivates  his  experience  of  the  Grand  Canyon  by  making  imagination  a  tool for fascination. He describes the impression of geologic forces upon himself. In order to explain how he perceives the magnificence of the rock faces he sets them in motion to encour-age  an  understanding  both  of  their  making  and  their  aesthetic  impression:  “the  Vermillion  Cliffs send off buttes,” “the entablature [...] breaks into lofty truncated towers,” “the towers of Short Creek burst into view” (53, 54). The vocabulary is architectural. The canyon is abundant with columns, buttes, terraces, promontories, bays, towers, churches, temples, theaters, and avenues:  “As  we  move  outwards  towards  the  center  of  the  grand  avenue  the  immensity  and  beautiful proportions of the walls develop”
Investigating CXOU J163802.6-471358: a new pulsar wind nebula in the Norma region?
Creators: name: Jakobsen, Simone J.
name: Tomsick, John A.
name: Watson, Darach
name: Gotthelf, Eric V.
name: Kaspi, Victoria M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first analysis of the extended source CXOU J163802.6--471358, which was discovered serendipitously during the {\em Chandra} X-ray survey of the Norma region of the Galactic spiral arms. The X-ray source exhibits a cometary appearance with a point source and an extended tail region. The complete source spectrum is fitted well with an absorbed power law model and jointly fitting the {\em Chandra} spectrum of the full source with one obtained from an archived {\em XMM-Newton} observation results in best fit parameters $N_{\rm H}$ $=1.5^{+0.7}_{-0.5}\times10^{23} \text{cm}{^{-2}}$ and $Γ=1.1^{+0.7}_{-0.6}$ (90$%$ confidence uncertainties). The unabsorbed luminosity of the full source is then $L_X\sim 4.8\times10^{33}d_{10}^2$ergs s$^{-1}$ with $d_{10}=d/10$kpc, where a distance of 10 kpc is a lower bound inferred from the large column density. The radio counterpart found for the source using data from the Molonglo Galactic Plane Survey epoch-2 (MGPS-2) shows an elongated tail offset from the X-ray emission. No infrared counterpart was found. The results are consistent with the source being a previously unknown pulsar driving a bow shock through the ambient medium.