cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
"[I]f such times came back upon us": Modes of Infidelity in the Late Romances of William Morris
Creators: name: Barrett, Benjamin
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2017

description: Between 1888 and 1896, William Morris wrote several medieval-inspired, proto-fantasy romances which have consistently threatened to fall into the doldrums of literary criticism. I am particularly interested, here, in the most complete of these compositions entitled The Story of the Glittering Plain, The Wood Beyond the World, The Well at the World’s End, The Water of the Wondrous Isles, and The Sundering Flood: texts which I call Morris’s late romances. Critics who have engaged with these texts have often taken on the difficult task of reconciling Morris’s growing political vehemence during the time of their composition and the ostensibly escapist stance these romances seem to purport. As such, critics have largely relied on Morris’s fidelity of the Middle Ages as a time that offered a more authentic, original, innocent, or natural mode of human experience, which Morris preferred over the industrial capitalism of his own Victorian period. Through various versions of this stance, critics have articulated that the late romances can offer socially progressive content through an outdated mode of literary production.
While this dissertation maintains the significance of anti-escapist readings of these late romances, it also expresses the value of alternative readings of the critical appeal to authenticity. Using critical theories from Karl Marx, Walter Benjamin, and most especially Slavoj Žižek, this dissertation suggests that any recognition of authenticity is reliant upon its own corruption and that part of the communist value of William Morris’s late romances exists not in their exemplification of a (medieval) world unblighted by modern corruption but through their demonstration of the conceptual necessity to incorporate modern corruption into any possible vision of past authenticity. That is, the late romances show that past authenticity is a product of an intellectual frame produced by modern corruption; they therefore imply that, in a similar way, communism can only become recognizable as a result of capitalist exploitation. In this way, I hope to aid in resurrecting these beautiful and valuable texts so that they can play a role in the communist struggles of the future.
Machine Learning Without a Processor: Emergent Learning in a Nonlinear Electronic Metamaterial
Creators: name: Dillavou, Sam
name: Beyer, Benjamin D
name: Stern, Menachem
name: Liu, Andrea J
name: Miskin, Marc Z
name: Durian, Douglas J
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Standard deep learning algorithms require differentiating large nonlinear networks, a process that is slow and power-hungry. Electronic learning metamaterials offer potentially fast, efficient, and fault-tolerant hardware for analog machine learning, but existing implementations are linear, severely limiting their capabilities. These systems differ significantly from artificial neural networks as well as the brain, so the feasibility and utility of incorporating nonlinear elements have not been explored. Here we introduce a nonlinear learning metamaterial -- an analog electronic network made of self-adjusting nonlinear resistive elements based on transistors. We demonstrate that the system learns tasks unachievable in linear systems, including XOR and nonlinear regression, without a computer. We find our nonlinear learning metamaterial reduces modes of training error in order (mean, slope, curvature), similar to spectral bias in artificial neural networks. The circuitry is robust to damage, retrainable in seconds, and performs learned tasks in microseconds while dissipating only picojoules of energy across each transistor. This suggests enormous potential for fast, low-power computing in edge systems like sensors, robotic controllers, and medical devices, as well as manufacturability at scale for performing and studying emergent learning.
description: 11 pages 8 figures
Electronic_supplement
Creators: name: Dusan Lorenc
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 20503 Nonlinear Optics and Spectroscopy
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A short 100fs pump pulse is interacting with a temporally matched second harmonic pulse and a weak THz signal through the four wave mixing process. The influence of incident pulse chirp, pulse duration and the role of wavelength, THz seed frequency and losses are evaluated separately.
Délocalisations et relocalisations : Qu'en est-il du Maroc ?
Creators: name: ERRADOUANI, Haniya Oumaima
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Relocalisations ; crise sanitaire ; chaînes de valeur ; Maroc ; IDE.

description: La crise sanitaire du Coronavirus a révélé les défaillances de la mondialisation des chaînes de valeur faisant ainsi germer l’idée de relocalisations. Le chamboulement économique engendré par la pandémie du Covid 19 qui s’est traduit par la baisse de l’activité des grandes entreprises, a poussé les pays du monde à penser à une reconfiguration des relations économiques internationales en vue de s’adapter aux nouvelles contraintes imposées par la Covid 19. A l’instar des autres pays, le Maroc dont l’économie repose en partie sur les IDE n’échappe pas aux épreuves de la nouvelle donne économique mondiale. Le Royaume qui a réussi à renforcer son positionnement dans les chaînes de valeur mondiales, risque aujourd’hui de faire face à des rapatriements de certaines industries à forte valeur ajoutée. Compte tenu de la conjoncture économique actuelle, l’impact de la dépendance du Maroc vis-à-vis de l’étranger, sur son économie, ne peut être anodin. Cet article vient passer en revue les orientations ainsi que les mesures prises par les pays industrialisés pour faire face aux répercussions économiques du Coronavirus, notamment en ce qui concerne les délocalisations industrielles et leurs conséquences sur les économies en développement, dans notre cas le Maroc.
Strange Visitor: The Subjective Identity of Superman
Creators: name: Anderson, Edward
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2018

description: Strange Visitor examines one of the most enduring, iconic, seemingly-unified fictional characters of the 20th century in order to understand how the seeming unity of identification is a complicated, ambiguous process, constantly in refinement. The first chapter consists of methodology, concerning the ‘narrative’ (material) and ‘linguistic’ (fictional) subjects and their common root in subjectification through language. The second chapter applies the ideas from the first in a close reading of Alan Moore’s ‘Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?’. There, I delve deeper into the question of the root of the Superman/Clark Kent identiary split while exploring how characters such as Lois Lane come to answer the question of Superman’s identity for themselves. The third chapter examines how we have discursively come to consider Superman as human the way we’re human, facilitated both by his responses to his world and our own responses to him and his adventures. The final chapter concerns how technology is allowing fictional characters to be made present more and more fully and what that will mean for those fictions that we know as we know others in our own world.
title: 01_1727
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Through the Funnel of Audiences: How Chinese Audiences Shape Media in the Context of Hegemony
Creators: name: Yu, Meng
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2019

description: The paradigm of media-audience relation study has evolved from a media-centered approach to emphasizing the interaction between the two. However, the media-audience relation in China appears to be still hierarchical due to the totalitarian political environment. The rhetoric of Chinese media is described to propagandize collectivism and nationalism while minimizing audiences’ voices. However, this situation has been changing due to marketization, innovative technology, and evolving ideology. To more fully understand the changes in Chinese media, we should build a new paradigm of Chinese media audience relation study and investigate some typical cases that illustrate this change.
This dissertation uses qualitative case studies to exemplify how audiences shape the rhetoric of media in a hegemonic context. Using the rhetoric around the topic of Rio Olympic Games as an example, this study depicts some subtle changes in Chinese media through the lenses of ideology, marketization, technology, and entertainment.Each lens is based around a central case study illustrating the ways in which the interaction between audiences and media increase and evolve. This research finds marketization is the essential factor that leads the Chinese media toward a commercialized direction. The open market also brings a shift of ideology, from merely emphasizing nationalism and collectivism to a more liberal and humanistic approach. In addition, the concept of kairos expands as a result of innovative and disruptive technologies like the Web, text messaging, video streaming services, and some new features of applications on smartphones. The changing scope of kairos broadens the ways of interaction between audiences and media. At last, marketization and the convergence of media accelerate the explosion of entertainment media contents. However, “amusing ourselves to death” should not be the only end of Chinese media. This dissertation argues for discarding the totalitarian and consumerism dichotic view on Chinese media on favor of a more nuanced paradigm that combines ideology, marketization, technology, and entertainment perspectives.
Awareness of hormone replacement therapy in medical care personnel in Jiaxing, China: a questionnaire survey
Creators: name: Gao, Lihong
name: Wu, Xiaojie
name: Liu, Xia
name: Pu, Qinglan
name: Zhang, Meiguang
name: Cai, Yingru
name: Wang, Lizhong
name: Zhao, Wei
name: Chen, Jiming
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: This study was aimed to investigate the attitudes and knowledge of medical personnel on hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in treating perimenopausal syndrome. A total of 2580 self-administered questionnaire forms were sent to medical care professionals and the responses collected were anonymous. The questionnaire included information on levels of awareness, benefits, and potential risks of HRT. A total of 2158 questionnaire forms were filled and used for statistical analysis; 61.4% of gynecologists believed that it was necessary to conduct HRT in suitable patients, 89.1% would like to recommend the therapy to patients with perimenopausal syndrome, and 83.2% of the participants were willing to take training on HRT. The mean score of awareness of HRT among the respondents was 3.14 out of 10. The main reason for them to avoid HRT was fear of cancer (43.8%), weight gain (30.4%), addiction (21.9%), and thrombus (3.9%). These results indicated that a large proportion of gynecologists are willing to recommend HRT to a woman complaining of climacteric disorders. However, awareness of HRT among the health workers (including gynecologists) is relatively low. They are also worried about the risks. A more concerted effort should be made to better disseminate information on HRT.
Quantum harmonic oscillator in a time dependent noncommutative background
Creators: name: Dutta, Manjari
name: Ganguly, Shreemoyee
name: Gangopadhyay, Sunandan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This work explores the behaviour of a noncommutative harmonic oscillator in a time-dependent background, as previously investigated in [1]. Specifically, we examine the system when expressed in terms of commutative variables, utilizing a generalized form of the standard Bopp-shift relations recently introduced in [2]. We solved the time dependent system and obtained the analytical form of the eigenfunction using the method of Lewis invariants, which is associated with the Ermakov-Pinney equation, a non-linear differential equation. We then obtain exact analytical solution set for the Ermakov-Pinney equation. With these solutions in place, we move on to compute the dynamics of the energy expectation value analytically and explore their graphical representations for various solution sets of the Ermakov-Pinney equation, associated with a particular choice of quantum number. Finally, we determined the generalized form of the uncertainty equality relations among the operators for both commutative and noncommutative cases. Expectedly, our study is consistent with the findings in [1], specifically in a particular limit where the coordinate mapping relations reduce to the standard Bopp-shift relations.
description: 19 pages Latex, To appear in International Journal of Theoretical Physics
On Vortex-Induced Vibration Mechanisms of a Flat-Closed-Box Girder via Analysis of Distributed Pressures
Creators: name: Chen, Xingyu
name: Zhu, Ledong
name: Wang, Bin
name: Li, Yongle
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2017
Subjects: classificationCode: 409999
subject: Other engineering not elsewhere classified

description: This paper was reviewed and accepted by the APCWE-IX Programme Committee for Presentation at the 9th Asia-Pacific Conference on Wind Engineering, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, held from 3-7 December 2017.
Genetic variation of MHC Class I polymorphic Alu insertions (POALINs) in three sub-populations of the East Midlands, UK
Creators: name: Mastana, Sarabjit S.
name: Bhatti, Jasvinder S.
name: Puneetpal Singh
name: Wiles, Adam
name: Holland, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Background:Alu elements are highly researched due to their useful nature as markers in the study of human population genetics. Recently discovered Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) polymorphic Alu insertions (POALINs) have not been examined extensively for genetic variation and their HLA associations. Aims: The aim of this study is to assess the genetic variation between three populations using five recently discovered POALINs. Methods and subjects: The study examined 190 healthy, unrelated subjects from three different populations in the East Midlands (UK) for the presence or absence of five Alu elements (AluHG, AluMICB, AluHJ, AluTF and AluHF) via the polymerase chain reaction followed by gel electrophoresis. Data were analysed for genetic variation and phylogenetic analyses. Results: All Alus were polymorphic in study populations. Appreciable allele frequency variation was observed at a number of loci. The British population was significantly different from both the Punjabi Jat Sikh and Gujarati Patel populations, although showing a closer genetic relationship to the Punjabi Jat Sikh population than the Gujarati Patel population (Nei’s DA = 0.0031 and 0.0064, respectively). Conclusions: MHC POALINs are useful markers in the investigation of genetic variation and the assessment of population relationships, and may have some bearing on disease associations due to their linkage disequilibrium with HLA loci; this warrants further studies.
Effects of Surface Roughness on Wake-induced Vibrations of Two Parallel Cables
Creators: name: Du, Xiaoqing
name: Zhao, Yan
name: Chen, Suren
name: Daichin
name: Jiang, Benjian
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2017
Subjects: classificationCode: 409999
subject: Other engineering not elsewhere classified

description: This paper was reviewed and accepted by the APCWE-IX Programme Committee for Presentation at the 9th Asia-Pacific Conference on Wind Engineering, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, held from 3-7 December 2017.
Complex partial synchronization patterns in networks of delay-coupled neurons
Creators: name: Nikitin, D.
name: Omelchenko, Iryna
name: Zakharova, Anna
name: Avetyan, M.
name: Fradkov, Alexander L.
name: Schöll, Eckehard
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 510 Mathematik
subject: multiplex network
subject: chimera states
subject: delay coupling
subject: neural networks

description: We study the spatio-temporal dynamics of a multiplex network of delay-coupled FitzHugh–Nagumo oscillators with non-local and fractal connectivities. Apart from chimera states, a new regime of coexistence of slow and fast oscillations is found. An analytical explanation for the emergence of such coexisting partial synchronization patterns is given. Furthermore, we propose a control scheme for the number of fast and slow neurons in each layer.
Typhoon Wind Field considering the Probabilistic Correlation among Field Parameters Modelling and Validation
Creators: name: Fang, Genshen
name: Zhao, Lin
name: Cao, Shuyang
name: Ge, Yaojun
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2017
Subjects: classificationCode: 409999
subject: Other engineering not elsewhere classified

description: This paper was reviewed and accepted by the APCWE-IX Programme Committee for Presentation at the 9th Asia-Pacific Conference on Wind Engineering, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, held from 3-7 December 2017.
Large Eddy Simulations of Blockage Ratio Effect on a Square Cylinder In a Uniform Flow
Creators: name: Gao, Yang
name: Gu, Ming
name: Quan, Yong
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2017
Subjects: classificationCode: 409999
subject: Other engineering not elsewhere classified

description: This paper was reviewed and accepted by the APCWE-IX Programme Committee for Presentation at the 9th Asia-Pacific Conference on Wind Engineering, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, held from 3-7 December 2017.
Supporting Information from Dispersing hydrophobic natural colourant β-carotene in shellac particles for enhanced stability and tunable colour.
Creators: name: Chen, Dong
name: Zhao, Chun-Xia
name: Lagoin, Camille
name: Hai, Mingtan
name: Arriaga, Laura R.
name: Koehler, Stephan
name: Abbaspourrad, Alireza
name: Weitz, David A.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017

description: Dispersing Hydrophobic Natural Colorant β-carotene in Shellac Particles for Enhanced Stability and Tunable Color
Supporting Information from Dispersing hydrophobic natural colourant β-carotene in shellac particles for enhanced stability and tunable colour
Creators: name: Chen, Dong
name: Zhao, Chun-Xia
name: Lagoin, Camille
name: Hai, Mingtan
name: Arriaga, Laura R.
name: Koehler, Stephan
name: Abbaspourrad, Alireza
name: Weitz, David A.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017

description: Dispersing Hydrophobic Natural Colorant β-carotene in Shellac Particles for Enhanced Stability and Tunable Color
Non-stationarity of extreme wind speeds in Hangzhou with time varying exposure
Creators: name: Huang, Mingfeng
name: Li, Qiang
name: Xu, Haiwei
name: Lou, Wenjuan
name: Lin, Ning
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2017
Subjects: classificationCode: 409999
subject: Other engineering not elsewhere classified

description: This paper was reviewed and accepted by the APCWE-IX Programme Committee for Presentation at the 9th Asia-Pacific Conference on Wind Engineering, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, held from 3-7 December 2017.
Teka Silang Kata Bahasa Sukuan
Creators: name: Ating, Rashid
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 390107
subject: Humanities and social sciences curriculum and pedagogy (excl. economics, business and management)
classificationCode: 460105
subject: Applications in social sciences and education
classificationCode: 500206
subject: History and philosophy of the social sciences

description: Kota Kinabalu - Dewan Bahasa & Pustaka (DBP) Cawangan Sabah akan menganjurkan Pertandingan Teka Silang Kata Bahasa Sukuan bersempena dengan program Bersahabat dengan Kamus Siri 1/2024.
Experimental methods for fabrication and characterization of TiO2 nanowire-templated hierarchical nanowire network from TiO2 nanowire-templated hierarchical nanowire network as water-repelling coating
Creators: name: Hang, Tian
name: Chen, Hui-Jiuan
name: Xiao, Shuai
name: Yang, Chengduan
name: Chen, Meiwan
name: Tao, Jun
name: Shieh, Han-ping
name: Yang, Bo-ru
name: Liu, Chuan
name: Xie, Xi
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017

description: Synthesis, surface modification, characterization and static contact angle analysis details of ZnO@TiO2 hierarchical nanowire network
A New Quasi-Steady Model for Magnus Effect of Rectangular Plate Windborne Debris
Creators: name: Lin, Huatan
name: Huang, Peng
name: Zhou, Xuanyi
name: Gu, Ming
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2017
Subjects: classificationCode: 409999
subject: Other engineering not elsewhere classified

description: This paper was reviewed and accepted by the APCWE-IX Programme Committee for Presentation at the 9th Asia-Pacific Conference on Wind Engineering, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, held from 3-7 December 2017.
Aeroelastic Model Test and Field Measurement of 40-m High Lattice Tower
Creators: name: Chen, Sheng
name: Huang, Peng
name: Zhou, Xuanyi
name: Gu, Ming
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2017
Subjects: classificationCode: 409999
subject: Other engineering not elsewhere classified

description: This paper was reviewed and accepted by the APCWE-IX Programme Committee for Presentation at the 9th Asia-Pacific Conference on Wind Engineering, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, held from 3-7 December 2017.
Generation of Higher Frequency Components for Wind Gust by Fusion Analyses of WRF and LES
Creators: name: Kawaguchi, Masaharu
name: Tamura, Tetsuro
name: Tao, Tao
name: Kawai, Hidenori
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2017
Subjects: classificationCode: 409999
subject: Other engineering not elsewhere classified

description: This paper was reviewed and accepted by the APCWE-IX Programme Committee for Presentation at the 9th Asia-Pacific Conference on Wind Engineering, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, held from 3-7 December 2017.
Impact of location of pollutant sources on air pollution dispersion around a high rise building
Creators: name: Keshavarzian, Erfan
name: Jin, Ruizhi
name: Dong, Kejun
name: Kwok, Kenny
name: Zhang, Yu
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2017
Subjects: classificationCode: 409999
subject: Other engineering not elsewhere classified

description: This paper was reviewed and accepted by the APCWE-IX Programme Committee for Presentation at the 9th Asia-Pacific Conference on Wind Engineering, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, held from 3-7 December 2017.
Experimental study on vortex-induced vibration of a cable-stayed bridge with flat box girder
Creators: name: Li, Ming
name: Sun, Yanguo
name: Li, Mingshui
name: Wu, Bo
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2017
Subjects: classificationCode: 409999
subject: Other engineering not elsewhere classified

description: This paper was reviewed and accepted by the APCWE-IX Programme Committee for Presentation at the 9th Asia-Pacific Conference on Wind Engineering, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, held from 3-7 December 2017.
DISCO-DJ I: a differentiable Einstein-Boltzmann solver for cosmology
Creators: name: Hahn, Oliver
name: List, Florian
name: Porqueres, Natalia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 83F05 (Primary), 85A40, 85-10 (Secondary)

description: We present the Einstein-Boltzmann module of the DISCO-DJ (DIfferentiable Simulations for COsmology - Done with JAX) software package. This module implements a fully differentiable solver for the linearised cosmological Einstein-Boltzmann equations in the JAX framework, and allows computing Jacobian matrices of all solver output with respect to all input parameters using automatic differentiation. This implies that along with the solution for a given set of parameters, the tangent hyperplane in parameter space is known as well, which is a key ingredient for cosmological inference and forecasting problems as well as for many other applications. We discuss our implementation and demonstrate that our solver agrees at the per-mille level with the existing non-differentiable solvers CAMB and CLASS, including massive neutrinos and a dark energy fluid with parameterised equation of state. We illustrate the dependence of various summary statistics in large-scale structure cosmology on model parameters using the differentiable solver, and finally demonstrate how it can be easily used for Fisher forecasting, with a forecast for Euclid as an example. Since the implementation is significantly shorter and more modular than existing solvers, we believe it will be more straightforward to extend our solver to include additional physics, such as additional dark energy and dark matter models, modified gravity, or other non-standard physics in the future.
description: 32 pages, 8 figures, published in JCAP: improved Fisher forecast and minor fixes improving agreement with CLASS/CAMB; DISCO-EB code is available from https://github.com/ohahn/DISCO-EB
Phytochemicals, antioxidant, and antityrosinase activities of Achillea sivasica Çelik and Akpulat
Creators: name: Yesim Haliloglu
name: Ozek, Temel
name: Tekin, Mehmet
name: Goger, Fatih
name: Baser, Kemal Husnu Can
name: Ozek, Gulmira
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
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

description: The present study is the first report on essential oil (EO) composition, phytochemicals, and biological potential of Achillea sivasica tested against free radicals, oxidative damage, and tyrosinase enzyme. Gas-Chromatography Flame Ionization Detector (GC-FID) and gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS) analyses revealed that β-pinene (11.5%, 9.3%, and 6.7%), β-pinene (7.0%, 3.0%, and 6.9%), 1,8-cineole (18.0%, 22.1%, and 6.7%), and camphor (7.6%, 4.1%, and 9.0%) were the major constituents in the EOs from the herb, flower, and leaves, respectively. Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry/mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) analysis of the extracts revealed the presence of caffeoylquinic acid derivatives, luteolin, apigenin, patuletin, isorhamnetin, cirsimaritin, and santin. The leaf extracts demonstrated strongest free radical scavenging, cupric reducing, lipid peroxidation inhibition, and antityrosinase activities.
Sexualaufklärung auf YouTube: Jugendlicher Konsum von Sexualaufklärungsvideos auf YouTube – Eine Forschungsarbeit zu Motiven und Umgang
Creators: name: Sidler, Claudio
name: Haas, Julian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Wenn bei Jugendlichen die Pubertät einsetzt, tauchen in Bezug zur Sexualität vielfach Fragen auf. Diese können von den Peers, den Eltern oder im Schulkontext beantwortet werden. Gleichzeitig gibt es auf YouTube eine grosse Anzahl von Videos, die sich dem Thema der Sexualaufklärung widmen. Die Klickzahlen und empirische Untersuchungen zeigen, dass die Videoplattform als Unterhaltungs- aber auch Informationsquelle dient und von Jugendlichen rege genutzt wird. In dieser Forschungsarbeit untersuchen Claudio Sidler und Julian Haas, mit welchen Motiven die Jugendlichen Inhalte zu Sexualität auf YouTube konsumieren und wie sie mit diesen Inhalten umgehen. Dazu wurden sechs Jugendliche im Alter zwischen 14 und 17 Jahren anhand eines Leitfadens interviewt. Alle Jugendlichen nutzen YouTube und haben in unterschiedlichem Ausmass Sexualaufklärungsvideos auf YouTube konsumiert. Das Hauptmotiv dafür ist die Neugierde der Jugendlichen, wobei YouTube aufgrund der Niederschwelligkeit attraktiv ist. Die Ergebnisse werden in Bezug zur Sexualpädagogik in der Schweiz sowie bisheriger Forschungen zur Sexualaufklärung auf YouTube diskutiert. Schlussfolgernd lässt sich festhalten, dass Sexualaufklärung auf YouTube als Ergänzung zur regulären Sexualaufklärung eine wichtige Rolle einnehmen könnte. Die professionelle Sexualpädagogik wäre jedoch gefordert, besonders bei der Beantwortung von Lebensfragen, YouTube als wichtigen Teil der Lebenswelt von Jugendlichen anzuerkennen. Von den Professionellen der Sozialen Arbeit würde verlangt werden, ihre Forschung über YouTube und ihre Präsenz auf der Webseite zu verstärken.
description: + Code Diss LU: hslusa bask 2020 + Code Diss LU: hslusa basa 2020 + Fussnote: Bachelorarbeit, Hochschule Luzern - Soziale Arbeit, Ausbildungsgang Soziokultur & Sozialarbeit 2020 + NL-Code: NLLUHSA202002
Buffeting predication of long-span bridges using two wavenumber aerodynamic admittance
Creators: name: Li, Mingshui
name: Li, Ming
name: Liao, Haili
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2017
Subjects: classificationCode: 409999
subject: Other engineering not elsewhere classified

description: This paper was reviewed and accepted by the APCWE-IX Programme Committee for Presentation at the 9th Asia-Pacific Conference on Wind Engineering, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, held from 3-7 December 2017.
Role of dual-energy computed tomography in detecting early recurrences of lung tumours treated with radiofrequency ablation
Creators: name: Izaaryene, Jean
name: Vidal, Vincent
name: Jean-Michel Bartoli
name: Loundou, Anderson
name: Jean-Yves Gaubert
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Purpose: Detecting a recurrence after lung radiofrequency ablation (RFA) is based on a group of arguments that include CT, positron emission tomography (PET-CT) at 3 months and clinical patient follow-up. There is no one examination that is absolutely reliable. Recurrences are diagnosed tardily, when the cancers are locally extended, or when the patients are metastatic. The purpose of this article is to investigate the utility of dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) in order to assess therapeutic responses to RFA for lung neoplasia. Materials and methods: This institutional review board-approved study enroled 70 patients with lung tumours who underwent DECT after RFA. All patients provided a written informed consent for the study. Results: The study included 70 consecutive patients, and 191 DECT measures were performed. We collected the enhancement values of all scars without establishing a prior threshold of positivity. The optimal threshold value areas appeared to be located between 20 and 35 Hounsfield unit (HU) with sensitivity between 70% and 82%; specificity between 72% and 90%; a negative predictive value (NPV) between 96% and 97% and a diagnostic accuracy index between 73% and 87%. At the one month follow-up, 53 nodules were analysed with DECT and four nodules had recurred, all of which were detected by DECT. The sensitivity, which was calculated at 100%, was excellent; the NPV was at 100% (CI: 91.62, 100) and the specificity was at 85.71% (CI: 73.33, 92.9). The diagnostic accuracy index was 86.79% (CI: 75.16, 93.45) and the average DECT acquisitions dosimetry was 106 mGy.cm (33mGy.cm 245mGy.cm). Conclusion: DECT could be a conceivable alternative for detecting early recurrence after lung RFA.Key pointsAfter lung RFA, a PET CT has a high rate of false positives in the initial phase;The study of enhancement in the follow-up of lung lesions treated with RFA, and especially by DECT, can be relevant;Dual Energy CT has a good efficiency for a threshold between 20 and 35 HU, especially in the first month after RFA;DECT could be a conceivable alternative for detecting early recurrence. After lung RFA, a PET CT has a high rate of false positives in the initial phase; The study of enhancement in the follow-up of lung lesions treated with RFA, and especially by DECT, can be relevant; Dual Energy CT has a good efficiency for a threshold between 20 and 35 HU, especially in the first month after RFA; DECT could be a conceivable alternative for detecting early recurrence.
Structural responses of a high-rise building during three severe typhoons
Creators: name: Li, Xiao
name: Li, Q.S.
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2017
Subjects: classificationCode: 409999
subject: Other engineering not elsewhere classified

description: This paper was reviewed and accepted by the APCWE-IX Programme Committee for Presentation at the 9th Asia-Pacific Conference on Wind Engineering, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, held from 3-7 December 2017.
Characteristics of wind pressures on L-shaped tall buildings
Creators: name: Li, Yi
name: Li, Qiu-sheng
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2017
Subjects: classificationCode: 409999
subject: Other engineering not elsewhere classified

description: This paper was reviewed and accepted by the APCWE-IX Programme Committee for Presentation at the 9th Asia-Pacific Conference on Wind Engineering, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, held from 3-7 December 2017.
Phytochemicals, Antioxidant and Antityrosinase Activities of Achillea sivasica Celik and Akpulat
Creators: name: Yesim Haliloglu
name: Ozek, Temel
name: Tekin, Mehmet
name: Goger, Fatih
name: Baser, Kemal Husnu Can
name: Ozek, Gulmira
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
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: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The present study is the first report on essential oil composition, phytochemicals and biological potential of A. sivasica tested against free radicals, oxidative damage and tyrosinase enzyme. GC-FID and GC/MS analyses revealed that α-pinene (11.5%, 9.3% and 6.7%), β-pinene (7.0%, 3.0% and 6.9%), 1,8-cineole (18.0%, 22.1% and 6.7%) and camphor (7.6%, 4.1% and 9.0%) were the major constituents in the essential oils from the herb, flower and leaves, respectively. LC-MS/MS analysis of the extracts resulted with caffeoylquinic acid derivatives, luteolin, apigenin, patuletin, isorhamnetin, cirsimaritin and santin. The leaf extracts demonstrated strongest free radical scavenging, cupric reducing, lipid peroxidation inhibition and antityrosinase activities.
Efficient computation of Lipschitz constants for MPC with symmetries
Creators: name: Teichrib, Dieter
name: Darup, Moritz Schulze
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
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: Lipschitz constants for linear MPC are useful for certifying inherent robustness against unmodeled disturbances or robustness for neural network-based approximations of the control law. In both cases, knowing the minimum Lipschitz constant leads to less conservative certifications. Computing this minimum Lipschitz constant is trivial given the explicit MPC. However, the computation of the explicit MPC may be intractable for complex systems. The paper discusses a method for efficiently computing the minimum Lipschitz constant without using the explicit control law. The proposed method simplifies a recently presented mixed-integer linear program (MILP) that computes the minimum Lipschitz constant. The simplification is obtained by exploiting saturation and symmetries of the control law and irrelevant constraints of the optimal control problem.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables, to be published in the proceedings of the 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (2023)
Flutter Analysis of Long Span Suspension Bridge Considering Aerostatic Torsional Angles
Creators: name: Liao, Haili
name: Xiong, Long
name: Wang, Qi
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2017
Subjects: classificationCode: 409999
subject: Other engineering not elsewhere classified

description: This paper was reviewed and accepted by the APCWE-IX Programme Committee for Presentation at the 9th Asia-Pacific Conference on Wind Engineering, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, held from 3-7 December 2017.
Langmuir–Blodgett films of stearic acid deposited on substrates at different orientations relative to compression direction: alignment layer for nematic liquid crystal
Creators: name: Keerti Choudhary
name: Jitendra Kumar
name: Taneja, Parul
name: R. K. Gupta
name: V. Manjuladevi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: The Langmuir monolayer at an air–water interface shows remarkably different surface pressure (π)–area (A) isotherm, when measured with the surface normal of a Wilhelmy plate parallel or perpendicular to the direction of compression of the monolayer. Such difference arises due to difference in stress exerted by the monolayer on the plate in different direction. In this article, we report the effect of changing the direction of substrate normal with respect to the compression of the monolayer during Langmuir–Blodgett (LB) film deposition on the morphology of the films. The morphology of the LB film of stearic acid is studied using an atomic force microscope. The morphology of the LB films is found to be different due to difference in the stress in different directions. The role of such surface morphology on the alignment of a nematic liquid crystal (LC) in LC cells is studied. The granular texture of LB films of stearic acid supports the homogeneous alignment of the LC whereas the uniform texture supports the homeotropic alignment of the LC.
Geological evolution of the Holocene Yarra Delta and its relationship with Port Phillip Bay
Creators: name: G. Holdgate
name: M. Norvick
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: The Holocene and pre-Holocene sediments and stratigraphy of the Yarra Delta have been examined using nearly 600 geotechnical bores. The oldest Holocene unit is the Coode Island Silt that has two depocentres, each up to 20.0–25.0 m thick, separated by a NW–SE belt of older pre-Holocene units. The northern depocentre represents estuarine infill to the Yarra and Maribyrnong, a river system, whereas the southern depocentre appears to be an offshore bay facies. The youngest unit is the Port Melbourne Sand, which is largely restricted to the area south of the present Yarra River. It is between 5.0 and 28.0 m thick, and is diachronous with the underlying Coode Island Silt. New 14C shell dates from the Coode Island Silt and Port Melbourne Sand have shown an age range between 8341 and 2760 yrs BP. These sediments infill former swamplands covering low-stand river valleys of the Yarra and Maribyrnong rivers across West Melbourne, Fishermans Bend and South Melbourne. After ca 2760 yrs BP active sedimentation in the delta ceased as base-levels fell, and Yarra and Maribyrnong river sediments bypassed the delta because of falling bay levels. The Yarra and Maribyrnong river courses also shifted progressively westwards behind growing beach barriers of the Port Melbourne Sand. A comparable stratigraphy exists between the Yarra Delta and the adjacent Port Phillip Bay, i.e. marine and lagoonal shelly sediments of the Coode Island Silt and barrier sands of the Port Melbourne Sand infill last-glacial channels cut into the middle Pleistocene Fishermans Bend Silt.
Design of multi-DOF aeroelastic model for a solar tower and its exprimental-study on wind-induced renponses
Creators: name: Liu, Min
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2017
Subjects: classificationCode: 409999
subject: Other engineering not elsewhere classified

description: This paper was reviewed and accepted by the APCWE-IX Programme Committee for Presentation at the 9th Asia-Pacific Conference on Wind Engineering, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, held from 3-7 December 2017.
Developing Educational and Vocational Aspirations through International Child Sponsorship: Evidence from Kenya, Indonesia, and Mexico
Creators: name: Ross, Phillip H.
name: Glewwe, Paul
name: Prudencio, Daniel
name: Wydick, Bruce
name: Ross, Phillip H.
name: Glewwe, Paul
name: Prudencio, Daniel
name: Wydick, Bruce
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Economic Development
subject: Child Sponsorship
subject: Aspirations
subject: Self-Esteem

description: The role of aspirations in facilitating movement out of poverty is a subject of increasing research in development economics. Previous work (Wydick, Glewwe, and Rutledge, 2013 and 2017) finds positive impacts from international child sponsorship on educational attainment, employment, and adult income. This paper seeks to ascertain whether the positive impact of child sponsorship on educational outcomes may occur through elevating aspirations among sponsored children. Using an age-eligibility rule applied during program rollout to identify causal effects, we study whether international child sponsorship increases educational and vocational aspirations among a sample of 2,022 children in Kenya, Indonesia, and Mexico. While effects are heterogeneous and strongest in Kenya, we find that over the three countries sponsorship increased indices of self-esteem (0.25σ), optimism (0.26σ), aspirations (0.29σ) and expected grade of completed education (0.43 years). We find that sponsorship increases actual grade completion by 0.56 among children at the time of the survey. Mediation analysis suggests that the impact of sponsorship on aspirations is likely to act as a channel for higher levels of grade completion.
Wind-induced Structural Force Characteristics on MWFRS of Low-rise Buildings with an Intermediate Roof Slope
Creators: name: Shao, Shuai
name: Tian, Yuji
name: Yang, Qingshan
name: Stathopoulos, Ted
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2017
Subjects: classificationCode: 409999
subject: Other engineering not elsewhere classified

description: This paper was reviewed and accepted by the APCWE-IX Programme Committee for Presentation at the 9th Asia-Pacific Conference on Wind Engineering, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, held from 3-7 December 2017.