cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Neroplatonism
Creators: name: Wilson, Scott
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2013

description: In a 2008 Times Literary Supplement review of Quentin Meil-lassoux’s After  Finitude,  the  founding  text  of  Speculative  Ma-terialism,   Simon   Critchley   takes   Georges   Bataille   as   an example  of  the  worst  excesses  of  “correlationism.”  Critchley mentions a notorious late night conversation between Bataille and  A.J.  Ayer  at  which  Merleau-Ponty  and  Giorgio  Am-brosini,  the  physicist  who  influenced  Bataille’s The  Accursed Share,  were  also  present.  This  conversation,  which  went  on until  3 am,  involved  an  argument  as  to  whether  or  not  you could say that the “sun existed before man.” Commenting on “the  abyss  that  separates  French  and  English  philosophy,” Critchley writes: The  thesis  under  discussion  was  very  simple:  did  the sun  exist  before  the  appearance  of  humans?  Ayer  saw no reason to doubt that it did, whereas Bataille thought the  whole  proposition  meaningless.  For  a  philosopher committed to scientific realism, like Ayer, it makes ev-ident  sense  to  utter  ancestral  statements  such  as  “The sun   existed   prior   to   the   appearance   of   humans,” whereas,  for  a  correlationist  like  Bataille,  more  versed in Hegel and phenomenology, physical objects must be perceived by an observer in order to be said to exist.
Prismatic Words: 'Plain, Too Plain'
Creators: name: Reynolds, Matthew
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: Translation and interpretation studies
Literary studies not elsewhere classified

description: This prismatic animation presents two appearances of ‘plain’ in Jane Eyre, Chapter 14, with multiple translations researched by Caterina Cappelli, Mary Frank, Jernej Habjan, Abhishek Jain, Eugenia Kelbert, Ida Klitgård, and Madli Kütt. Details of the translations quoted are here. For discussion, see Matthew Reynolds et al., Prismatic Jane Eyre: Close-Reading a World Novel Across Languages (Cambridge: Open Book, 2023). https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0319
Defect-Mediated Relaxation in the Random Tiling Phase of a Binary Mixture: Birth, Death and Mobility of an Atomic Zipper
Creators: name: Tondl, Elisabeth
name: Ramsay, Malcolm
name: Harrowell, Peter
name: Widmer-Cooper, Asaph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper describes the mechanism of defect-mediated relaxation in a dodecagonal square-triangle random tiling phase exhibited by a simulated binary mixture of soft discs in 2D. We examine the internal transitions within the elementary mobile defect (christened the 'zipper') that allow it to move, as well as the mechanisms by which the zipper is created and annihilated. The structural relaxation of the random tiling phase is quantified and we show that this relaxation is well described by a model based on the distribution of waiting times for each atom to be visited by the diffusing zipper. This system, representing one of the few instances where a well defined mobile defect is capable of structural relaxation, can provide a valuable test case for general theories of relaxation in complex and disordered materials.
description: 30 pages, 16 figures, to appear in J. Chem. Phys
Património cultural e turismo: uma relação simbiótica. Análise de dois percursos turístico-culturais: James Joyce e Fernando Pessoa
Creators: name: Henriques, Cláudia
Publisher: name: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento
Year: 2008

description: Turismo Cultural é uma realidade em ascensão. Apesar da multiplicidade de definições que se podem encontrar e da diversidade de tipos de turismo cultural que se podem enunciar, a relação entre turismo e cultura pode ser questionada, enquanto simbiótica, nomeadamente no contexto de processos de turistificação da cultura e dos espaços. A consideração de dois percursos turísticos associados a James Joyce e Fernando Pessoa, nas cidades de Dublin e Lisboa, respectivamente, constituem-se como exemplos a que o presente artigo recorre para reflectir sobre a relação entre turismo e património cultural, nomeadamente património literário e estatuário.
description: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento, n.º 10 (2008)
title: Role of lipidomics in assessing the functional lipid composition in maternal breast milk lipidome and influences on infant health outcomes during the first year of life
Creators: name: Ganeshalingam, Moganatharsa
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Year: 2025

description: Breast milk lipids are complex molecules mediating infant structural and functional activities. Bioinformatics tools help to increase the understanding of potential mechanisms behind normal physiological function, disease phenotypes, and find novel biomarkers. Among other techniques, we found that redundancy analysis and nonnegative matrix factorization were the best multivariate approaches to reduce the data dimension and demonstrated a clear distinction between maternal group and lipid profiles. The analysis conducted shows that sphingomyelin (SM), triglyceride (TG), ceramide (Cer), and phosphatidylinositol (PI) enriched saturated fatty acid molecular species and TG containing long-chain fatty acids, as well as monoglyceride (MG) enriched with omega 6 fatty acids was significantly higher in the obese mother’s breast milk. The SM, diglyceride, and MG containing oleic acid, TG containing short-chain fatty acid, and plasmalogen containing phosphatidylethanolamine PE, as well as the following oxylipins: 12(13)-epoxy octadecenoic acid (12(13)-EPOME), 9(10)-dihydroxy octadecenoic acid (9(10)-DiHOME), 5(S)-hydroxy eicosa pentanoic acid (5(S)HEPE), and oxidized TG were significantly higher in the lean mother’s breast milk. SM (d16:0/18:1), PE (18:0p/18:1), SM (d22:0/18:1), SM (d20:1/18:1), PE (18:0p/18:1), PE (18:0p/20:1) and PE (18:0p/18:2) were identified as good biomarkers to predict Fat-Free Mass Index. Similarly, phosphatidylcholine (PC) PC (18:0/16:0), PC (16:0/16:0), PS (18:0/20:3), phosphatidylserine (PS) (18:0/18:1), PE (18:0/16:0), Cer (16:0/16:0), PI (16:0/16:0), PI (18:0/16:0), and MG (18:2) were identified as good biomarkers to predict eczema.15- hydroxy-eicosatetraenoic acid (15-HETE), 15-hydroperoxy-eicosatetraenoic acid (15-HpETE), 19(20)-epoxy-docosapentaenoic acid (19(20)-EpDPE), and Ox-TG are good biomarkers to predict diarrhea in infants during the first year of life. 15-HpETE and 19(20)-EpDPE are good biomarkers to predict wheezing in infants during the first year of life. The glycerophospholipid and sphingolipid metabolism were the pivotal pathways associated with the altered breast milk lipidome observed in infants during the first year of life. These findings help to understand better how possibly augmentation of maternal nutritional intake could potentially enhance the breast milk lipid profile, which could help improve infant growth and disease outcome during early life.
Prismatic Words: 'Plain, Unvarnished, Poor and Plain'
Creators: name: Reynolds, Matthew
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: Translation and interpretation studies
Literary studies not elsewhere classified

description: This prismatic animation presents two appearances of ‘plain’ in Jane Eyre, Chapter 16, with multiple translations researched by Caterina Cappelli, Mary Frank, Jernej Habjan, Abhishek Jain, Eugenia Kelbert, Ida Klitgård, and Madli Kütt. Details of the translations quoted are in the PDF attached to this record. For discussion, see Matthew Reynolds et al., Prismatic Jane Eyre: Close-Reading a World Novel Across Languages (Cambridge: Open Book, 2023). https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0319
Diversidade no mercado turístico da região centro de Portugal: identificação dos segmentos de maior valor económico em termos de actividades turísticas praticadas
Creators: name: Eusébio, Celeste Aguiar
name: Castro, Eduardo Anselmo
name: Costa, Carlos
Publisher: name: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento
Year: 2008

description: O objectivo deste estudo consiste em segmentar os visitantes da Região Centro de Portugal tendo como base as actividades turísticas que praticam durante a sua estada neste destino turístico e identificar as diferenças existentes entre os segmentos identificados em termos de perfil sócio-demográfico, comportamentos de viagem e de consumo. Para concretizar este objectivo aplicou-se uma análise de cluster hierárquica a uma amostra de 2.876 questionários aplicados aos visitantes da Região Centro, durante o ano de 2003 e, posteriormente, testes do Qui-quadrado e Análise de Variância (ANOVA) para identificar as diferenças entre os segmentos identificados. Os resultados obtidos permitem identificar cinco segmentos com características distintas (visitantes de recreio e de desporto, visitantes de natureza, visitantes de saúde, visitantes de negócios e visitantes culturais). Estes segmentos apresentam diferenças estatisticamente significativas em termos de perfil sócio-demográfico, comportamento de viagem e comportamento de consumo. Estes resultados revelam-se de grande utilidade para os responsáveis pelo planeamento e desenvolvimento turístico identificarem os segmentos de maior valor económico para o destino Região Centro.
description: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento, n.º 10 (2008)
Low-lying zeros of elliptic curve L-functions: Beyond the ratios conjecture
Creators: name: Fiorilli, Daniel
name: Parks, James
name: Södergren, Anders
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11G40, 11M41, 11M50

description: We study the low-lying zeros of L-functions attached to quadratic twists of a given elliptic curve E defined over $\mathbb Q$. We are primarily interested in the family of all twists coprime to the conductor of E and compute a very precise expression for the corresponding 1-level density. In particular, for test functions whose Fourier transforms have sufficiently restricted support, we are able to compute the 1-level density up to an error term that is significantly sharper than the square-root error term predicted by the L-functions Ratios Conjecture.
description: 33 pages
Dispersionless DKP hierarchy and elliptic Lowner equation
Creators: name: Akhmedova, V.
name: Zabrodin, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the dispersionless DKP hierarchy (the dispersionless limit of the Pfaff lattice) admits a suggestive reformulation through elliptic functions. We also consider one-variable reductions of the dispersionless DKP hierarchy and show that they are described by an elliptic version of the Lowner equation. With a particular choice of the driving function, the latter appears to be closely related to the Painleve VI equation with special choice of parameters.
description: 15 pages
Modeling Interactions in Product Reviews: Utilizing Formal Argumentation to Assess Strengths and Weaknesses of Products Across Different Aspects
Creators: name: Qi, Ji
name: Ceolin, Davide
name: Keshavarzi Zafarghandi, Atefeh
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Product reviews serve as critical sources of information for potential buyers and valuable feedback for reviewed entities. Recognizing their pivotal role, companies increasingly appreciate the efficacy of helpful reviews as a marketing tool. Extensive interdisciplinary research, ranging from philosophy to artificial intelligence, has investigated factors influencing the prediction of helpful reviews.
This study focuses on the creation of a valuable resource for new users by effectively analyzing product reviews and highlighting the strengths and weaknesses associated with different aspects of a product. To achieve this, we employ a multi-step approach. Firstly, we adopt a review segregation technique, dividing each review into discrete chunks, typically clauses, wherein each chunk represents a specific aspect of the product. Next, we apply a modified version of the Textrank algorithm to assign a numerical rank to each chunk, reflecting its relative importance within the overall review. We further employ topic modeling using BERT-based transformers to group chunks into aspects. By merging the chunks back into reviews, we ascertain the aspects covered in each review. Subsequently, we analyze the attacking relationships between reviews pertaining to specific aspects of the product. Leveraging argument mining approaches, we identify more reliable reviews based on the attack network of reviews, enabling us to discern the strengths and weaknesses of the product across different aspects through these reliable reviews.
To evaluate the proposed approach, we have developed a series of GUI software tools within the scientific workflow platform, Orange3, and applied them to the Amazon Product Review dataset. The implementation in Orange3 offers intuitive graphical interfaces, tunable components, and visualization tools, enhancing user understanding of the underlying mechanisms and the significance of the output. The proposed framework contributes to enhancing the understanding of product interactions in reviews, aiding both consumers and businesses in making informed decisions.
Prismatic Words: 'Plain, Unvarnished, Poor and Plain'
Creators: name: Reynolds, Matthew
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: Translation and interpretation studies
Literary studies not elsewhere classified

description: This prismatic animation presents two appearances of ‘plain’ in Jane Eyre, Chapter 16, with multiple translations researched by Caterina Cappelli, Mary Frank, Jernej Habjan, Abhishek Jain, Eugenia Kelbert, Ida Klitgård, and Madli Kütt. Details of the translations quoted are here. For discussion, see Matthew Reynolds et al., Prismatic Jane Eyre: Close-Reading a World Novel Across Languages (Cambridge: Open Book, 2023). https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0319
Fully Gapped s-wave-like Superconducting State and Electronic Structures in the Ir0.95Pd0.05Te2 Single Crystals with Strong Spin-orbital Coupling
Creators: name: Yu, D. J.
name: Yang, F.
name: Miao, Lin
name: Han, C. Q.
name: Yao, Meng-Yu
name: Zhu, Fengfeng
name: Song, Y. R.
name: Zhang, K. F.
name: Ge, J. F.
name: Yao, X.
name: Zou, Z. Q.
name: Li, Z. J.
name: Gao, B.
name: Guan, D. D.
name: Liu, Canhua
name: Gao, C. L.
name: Qian, Dong
name: Jia, Jin-feng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Due to the large spin-orbital coupling in the layered 5d-transition metal chalcogenides compound, the occurrence of superconductivity in Ir2-xPdxTe2 offers a good chance to search for possible topological superconducting states in this system. We did comprehensive studies on the superconducting properties and electronic structures of single crystalline Ir0.95Pd0.05Te2 samples. The superconducting gap size, critical fields and coherence length along different directions were experimentally determined. Macroscopic bulk measurements and microscopic low temperature scanning tunneling spectroscopy results suggest that Ir0.95Pd0.05Te2 possesses a BCS-like s-wave state. No sign of zero bias conductance peak were found in the vortex core at 0.4K.
Cosmic Eggs, or Events Before Anything
Creators: name: Mitchell, J. Allan
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2013

description: If it is a question of where to begin, medieval embryology and cosmogony  answer  speculatively,  starting  at  the very begin-ning: they return the human to the site of so many primordial, intestinal involvements in the world—or rather, the very con-ception  of worlds  from  “mere  seeds  and  hopes,”  as  Ovid  puts it in the Metamorphoses.1 At one end of the spectrum, embry-ological  narratives  effectively  reverse  engineer  the  organism, tracing  back  through  time  a  fluid  and  concatenating  series  of molecular events, topological movements, and intensities that may be missed only because they result in such solid-seeming entities.  In  the  fourteenth  century,  Nicole  Oresme marvels  at the contingencies involved in the process, expressing surprise that  a  human  being  comes  about  at  all,  since  “error  can  hap-pen from many causes but only in one way can it complete all things  successfully—and  for  this  one  way  many  things  are required.” Even when things pan out, the wrenching epigenet-ic  change  undergone  by  the  embryo  is  extreme:  “between [Socrates] at his birth and at his maturity . . . there is surely a greater  difference,  if  you  consider  it  well,  than  there  is  be-tween a pig and a dog at birth, or between an ass and a horse or mule, or a crow and an eagle, or between a wolf and a dog, all  of  which  are  of  different  species.”2  It  is  as  if the  human were  originally  constituted  as  some  kind  of  menagerie,  espe-cially in light of the Aristotelian thesis that the embryo moves through  successive  stages  of  micro-speciation  (vegetal,  ani-mal,  human).  At  the  other  end  of  the  spectrum,  medieval cosmogony  regularly  describes  a  cosmic  birth  that  is  equally fraught:  an  account  of  everything  originally  abandoned  to chaotic flux before being resolved into the developed Ptolema-ism that we all associate with the Middle Ages. The methodo-logical challenge of beginning is the same, tarrying with semi-nal,  gestational  moments  anterior  to  being.  It  is  to  speculate about what is not yet, rather than what is
Solanum scabrum IN
Creators: name: Olet, Eunice Apio
name: Heun, Manfred
name: Lye, Kåre A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Solanales
Solanaceae
Solanum
Solanum scabrum

description: KEY TO THE SUBSPECIES OF  SOLANUM SCABRUM IN AFRICA 1a. Stems angled, winged, ridge teeth prominent; leaf apices obtuse to acute; inflorescence often branching, peduncle at right angles with branch, not ascending, flowers purple in Ugandan collections, white in the gene bank accessions, anthers brown, purplish brown, or yellow; mature fruits large, 10– 15(16–17) mm broad, fruiting pedicel erect, fruit persistent........... S. scabrum subsp. scabrum 1b. Stems terete, wings and ridge teeth absent; leaf apices acuminate to almost aristate; inflorescence without branching, peduncle at less than 90 ° with branch and ascending, flowers white, anthers yellow; mature fruits smaller, 8–10 mm broad, fruiting pedicel reflexed, fruit persistent or deciduous.................. S. scabrum subsp. laevis
description: Published as part of Olet, Eunice Apio, Heun, Manfred & Lye, Kåre A., 2006, A New Subspecies of Solanum scabrum Miller Found in Uganda, pp. 508-511 in Novon: A Journal for Botanical Nomenclature 16 (4) on page 509, DOI: 10.3417/1055-3177(2006)16[508:ansoss]2.0.co;2, http://zenodo.org/record/6325807
Crystal growth from a supersaturated melt: relaxation of the solid-liquid dynamic stiffness
Creators: name: Turci, Francesco
name: Schilling, Tanja
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the growth process of a crystalline phase out of a metastable over-compressed liquid that is brought into contact with a crystalline substrate. The process is modeled by means of molecular dynamics. The particles interact via the Lennard-Jones potential and their motion is locally thermalized by Langevin dynamics. We characterize the relaxation process of the solid-liquid interface, showing that the growth speed is maximal for liquid densities above the solid coexistence density, and that the structural properties of the interface rapidly converge to equilibrium-like properties. In particular, we show that the off-equilibrium dynamic stiffness can be extracted using capillary wave theory arguments, even if the growth front moves fast compared to the typical diffusion time of the compressed liquid, and that the dynamic stiffness converges to the equilibrium stiffness in times much shorter than the diffusion time.
Abusing Aristotle
Creators: name: Robertson, Kellie
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2013

description: ‘Speculative’  in  contemporary  usage often denotes  something that  is  not  grounded  in  fact,  not  based  in  the  “actual  world.” This is a term of suspicion for some (as in the phrase “merely speculative”)  and  of approval  for  others  (as  in  the  introduc-tion  to Towards  Speculative  Realism,  where the  philosopher Graham Harman asserts that “speculative” serves as a kind of homeopathic  inoculation  of  realism,  ensuring  that  realism  is not  equated  with  an  interest  in  “a  dull  commonsense  realism of  genuine  trees  and  billiard  balls  existing  outside  the  mind, but a darker form of ‘weird realism’ bearing little resemblance to  the  presuppositions  of  everyday  life”).1  Yet  in  medieval scholastic  usage,  this  term  was  frequently  used  to  denote  the very  material  science  of  physics,  a  science  whose  goal  was  to describe  and  analyze  everyday  experience,  the  “dull  com-monsense  realism”  of  things.  Ockham,  in  the  prologue  to  his commentary  on  Aristotle’s Physics,  describes  the  overlap  be-tween  physics  and  metaphysics,  asserting  that  physics  is  also “primarily  speculative.”2  Thus,  for  Ockham  and  his  contem-poraries,  looking at a rock was just as speculative an endeavor as imagining how that rock was transformed by your looking into  a  mental  or  intentional  object.  What  I  find  useful  about the  recent  turn  to  speculative  realism  is  that  it  reminds  us  of the speculative nature of both the physical sciences and moral philosophy. This paper  is  in  part  a  meditation  on  how  the “specters of Aristotle” (pace Derrida) haunt the modern intel-lectual  divide  that  seeks  to  partition  off  the  “dull”  physical world from our metaphysical engagement with it.
title: Effect of crop rotation and different nitrogen sources on soil water retention and silage corn forage yield and quality in boreal climate
Creators: name: Salman
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Year: 2025

description: By implementing crop rotation and different nitrogen (N) sources, farmers can improve soil properties, leading to increased soil water retention (SWR) and ultimately enhancing crop yield and quality. This thesis research aimed to examine the impact of crop rotation and N sources on SWR, silage corn yield, and quality in boreal climates. A field trial was established in 2019 – 2021. Treatments were arranged in a split-plot design with four replicates. Rotation sequences were the main plots, and N sources were the subplots. Three models (van Genuchten, Brooks & Corey, and Durner) were applied to predict SWR curves (SWRC). The van Genuchten and Durner models provided more accurate predictions of SWRC than the Brooks & Corey model. Corn-corn-corn*agrotain (AG) showed superior agronomic performance and produced 17.75 Mg h-1 of forage yield compared to all others intreactions. SuperUTM produced higher non-fibrous carbohydrates, whereas AG produced higher forage energies (net energy of laction, net enery of gain, net enery of maintenance) and total digestible nutrient (TDN), than control. These findings suggest that AG and SU could be suitable choices to attain high forage yield and quality for dairy livestock under boreal climate.
Lynx-Eyed Aristotle: Response to Kellie Robertson
Creators: name: Daniel, Drew
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2013

description: And now for some catty remarks. In the Prologue to the Expo-sitio  super  viii  (octo)  libros  Physicorum,  William  of  Ockham pounces  upon  a  particularly  jarring  image  with  which  to praise Aristotle’s exceptional status among the philosophers:The  most  accomplished  man  to  have  appeared  among them is Aristotle, outstanding as a man of no slight or insignificant  learning.  With  the  eyes  of  a  lynx,  as  it were,  he  explored  the  deep  secrets  of  nature  and  re-vealed to posterity the hidden truths of natural philos-ophy.1I’m placing this image of the lynx-eyed Aristotle beside Kellie Robertson’s  learned  and  capacious  essay  because  Ockham’s queer  construction  of  a  nocturnal,  feline  Aristotle  further supplements  her  archive  of  medieval  Aristotles:  the  infidel, the  physicist,  the  S&M  bottom  engaged  in  a  brisk  session  of pony-play  with  a  rampant  Phyllis,  but  more  importantly,  the thinker of a hylomorphic metaphysics whose enduring alterity might help to pry us out of present predicaments. Joining this company,  scenting  the  air  with  paws  extended  and  pupils  di-lated  wide,  Ockham’s  lynx-eyed  Aristotle  stands  poised  to forage  for  what  lies  hidden  within  the  dark  world  of  physical nature that Graham Harman’s project has plumbed so fierce-ly. Since Kellie’s paper is both historical in its exposition of the past  archive  of  these  medieval  Aristotles  and  proleptic  in  its sense of how that history might reinforce and prepare the way for  Graham’s  own  paper  today,  I  want  to  cut  left  and  simply flag  some  key,  portable  points  in  Kellie’s  paper  that  I  found most  generative.  These  points—hers not  mine—potentially help  to  anchor  a  particularly  life-saving  rope  bridge  that  we might throw across some wide gaps in philosophical history.
Abiotic oxygen-dominated atmospheres on terrestrial habitable zone planets
Creators: name: Wordsworth, Robin
name: Pierrehumbert, Raymond
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Detection of life on other planets requires identification of biosignatures, i.e., observable planetary properties that robustly indicate the presence of a biosphere. One of the most widely accepted biosignatures for an Earth-like planet is an atmosphere where oxygen is a major constituent. Here we show that lifeless habitable zone terrestrial planets around any star type may develop oxygen-dominated atmospheres as a result of water photolysis, because the cold trap mechanism that protects H2O on Earth is ineffective when the atmospheric inventory of non-condensing gases (e.g., N2, Ar) is low. Hence the spectral features of O2 and O3 alone cannot be regarded as robust signs of extraterrestrial life.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ Letters. Minor changes from previous version
Prismatic Words: 'Plain, and Little'
Creators: name: Reynolds, Matthew
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: Translation and interpretation studies
Literary studies not elsewhere classified

description: This prismatic animation presents a phrase from Jane Eyre, Chapter 23, with multiple translations researched by Caterina Cappelli, Andrés Claro, Mary Frank, Abhishek Jain, Eugenia Kelbert, Ida Klitgård, Madli Kütt, and Céline Sabiron. Details of the translations quoted are in the PDF attached to this record. For discussion, see Matthew Reynolds et al., Prismatic Jane Eyre: Close-Reading a World Novel Across Languages (Cambridge: Open Book, 2023). https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0319
THE MATERIAL REVOLUTION IN 3D PRINTING: REDEFINING ADVANCED MANUFACTURING PROCESSES
Creators: name: Victoria, I. Nkanang
Publisher: name: AYDEN JOURNAL
Year: 2024
Subjects: Advance manufacturing, 3D printing; Materials; Evolution; Computer; Application; and virtual reality

description: In this work a comprehensive study has been carried out on advance manufacturing engineering in the 21st Century and the evolution of 3D printing materials. These are the materials that have made it possible to print different types of products and even specialized components in the 21st Century. The paper has clearly highlighted that the 3D printing technology is a part of advance manufacturing technology a technology that uses computers, microcomputers, microcontrollers, software, to make manufacturing faster, flexible, more accurate and precise, cheaper and economical. The work has taken time to discuss different advance manufacturing technologies and concepts before zeroing down on 3D printing because these technologies are interwoven. The work has mentioned how 3D print was first used to print a cylinder. It all started several years ago perhaps; sparked by Rep-Rap project at the University of Bath (that gave the basics of many of today’s desktop 3D printing devices) and the rise of Brooklyn’s Maker-bot (now part of the Stratasys empire). 3 D printing has since then developed very fast, and keeping pace with materials development. There are different types of 3 D printers today with each type having its own printing materials. This study has shown that over the years there has been a great evolution of 3 D printing materials that has covered a wide variety of materials. Melting point of the material is no longer a limiting factor in the use of materials for 3D printing.  This work has clearly discussed the use of innovative materials like plastics, resins, HAP, powders, metals, composites and many others with application in the medical field, household, aerospace, automobile, construction, recreation and many others too numerous to mention here
High-order compact finite difference schemes for option pricing in stochastic volatility models on non-uniform grids
Creators: name: Düring, Bertram
name: Fournié, Michel
name: Heuer, Christof
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Computational Finance (q-fin.CP)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65M06, 91G60

description: We derive high-order compact finite difference schemes for option pricing in stochastic volatility models on non-uniform grids. The schemes are fourth-order accurate in space and second-order accurate in time for vanishing correlation. In our numerical study we obtain high-order numerical convergence also for non-zero correlation and non-smooth payoffs which are typical in option pricing. In all numerical experiments a comparative standard second-order discretisation is significantly outperformed. We conduct a numerical stability study which indicates unconditional stability of the scheme.
description: 21 pages, to appear in J. Comput. Appl. Math
Shakespeare's Kitchen Archives
Creators: name: Yates, Julian
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2013

description: These words you are reading, some of which I read aloud once upon  a  speculatively  medieval  afternoon  in  New  York  City—and  which  I  find myself  compelled  now  to  rewrite—what arethey?  What  were  they?  And  what  have  they  become  by  their translation  and  so  transformation  from  paper  to  essay,  from colloquium to whichever media now hosts them? Perhaps, by their end, they will have the flavor of a manifesto. But if so, it will not be in the arch/modern sense that Bruno Latour sets to one  side  even  as  he  attempts  his  own “Compositionist  Mani-festo.” There  will  be  no “war  cries  intended  to  speed  up  the movement,  ridicule  the  Philistines,  castigate  the  reactionar-ies.”1 Like his, the words I wrote and now rewrite “have some-thing in common”   with such rallying calls, “namely the search for the Common.” “The thirst for the Common World is what there  is  of  communism  in  compositionism,” he  observes, “with this small but crucial difference: that it has to be slowly composed.”    The  compositionist  has  to  entertain  competing and  divergent,  wandering  agencies.  Her  manifestos  remain therefore  subject  to  failure,  deformation,  and  transformation by  the “discontinuous  pieces” they  attempt  to  host,  by  the overflow  of  entities  and  agencies  they  register.  What  then  do they  produce?  To  what  do  they  amount? “Prospects,”   merely, boasts Latour—projections, speculative possibilities. Compos-ing “carries  with  it  the  pungent  but  ecologically  correct  smell of ‘compost’,” a scene of slow cooking, of fermentation, perco-lation,” the active ‘de-composition’  of many invisible actors.”
Prismatic Words: 'Plain, and Little'
Creators: name: Reynolds, Matthew
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: Translation and interpretation studies
Literary studies not elsewhere classified

description: This prismatic animation presents a phrase from Jane Eyre, Chapter 23, with multiple translations researched by Caterina Cappelli, Andrés Claro, Mary Frank, Abhishek Jain, Eugenia Kelbert, Ida Klitgård, Madli Kütt, and Céline Sabiron. Details of the translations quoted are here. For discussion, see Matthew Reynolds et al., Prismatic Jane Eyre: Close-Reading a World Novel Across Languages (Cambridge: Open Book, 2023). https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0319
Supplemental Material for "Secondary School Students observe Venus with NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF)"
Creators: name: Peralta, Javier
name: Prieto, Juan A.
name: Orozco-Sáenz, Pilar
name: González, Jesús
name: Sánchez, Alberto
name: Trujillo, Gonzalo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: astronomy
astrophysics
secondary education
Venus
NASA
IRTF
SpeX

description: This is the Supplemental Material for the article "Secondary School Students observe Venus with NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF)". It contains the following files: log_2022-03-11_2022A038: this is the log file for the IRTF observations of Venus during 11 of March 2022. It contains detailed information about all the operations performed with SpeX guide camera (guidedog) and spectrometer (bigdog). The aim of this file is showing the typical complexity of professional observations. trabajo_venus: this is the work (in Spanish) submitted by the students to the congress Ciencia en Acción XXIII, held in 2022 in Viledecans (Spain).
description: JP thanks funding by the program EMERGIA, Junta de Andalucía (Spain), Grant Reference EMERGIA20_00414. JAP and PO-S acknowledge the support from Asociación Amigos de la Ciencia, Diverciencia.
Sublunary
Creators: name: Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2013

description: “Between  the  moon  and  the  earth  there  live  spirits  whom  we call  incubus-demons.”1  So  declares  Maugantius,  summoned before  the  king  to  explain  how  a  boy  named  Merlin  could have  been  born  without  a father. Inter  lunam  et  terram, be-tween  a  celestial  globe  in  ceaseless  circulation  and  the  dull earth: in this intermedial space dwell creaturesat once human and  angelic.  Incubus-demons  can  assume  mortal  forms  and descend to visit earthly women. “Many people have been born this  way,”  Maugantius  asserts.  Among  the  progeny  of  such intercourse  is  Merlin,  destined  to  become  our  iconic  wizard. This  genesis  narrative  marks  Merlin’s  advent  into  the  literary tradition.  The  story  yields  no  evidence  of  his  future  as a  be-spectacled and senescent figure, cloaked in robes and wielding a wand. Dumbledore is a diminished and modern avatar. The primordial Merlin is much more difficult to emplace. Between moon  and  earth  is  a  gap  that  opens  because  the  two  realms cannot touch. Merlin arrives from a kind of heavenly lacuna, a suspended  and  disjunctive  space created  because  two  bodies that are  two  worlds  endlessly  withdrawn from  each  other. Aerial  and  moonlit,  this  middle  realm  is  knowable  only  at se  cond  hand.  Maugantius  makes  clear  that  his  knowledge  of what dwells between lunar possibility and the cold earth’s heft ar  rives vicariously, through books of history and philosophy.
title: Elimination at Work: Towards an Anthropology of Trachoma in Malawi
Creators: name: Gupta-Wright, M
Publisher: name: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Year: 2019

description: The concept of elimination continues to shape many global health policies for infectious diseases. Trachoma, the leading infectious cause of global blindness is no exception. The WHO’s Global Elimination of Trachoma by 2020 policy, foregrounds ‘SAFE’ - Surgery, Antibiotics, Facial cleanliness and Environmental improvement – a public health strategy celebrated for its perceived holism. In common with other strategies for neglected tropical diseases, it is touted as one of the more convincing ways to ‘make poverty history’. Despite these bold claims, there is insufficient research documenting how SAFE works in practice. Multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork in Malawi with strategy implementers, policymakers, health care workers, and a Yao village population, reveals mistaken assumptions embedded in SAFE: it has been designed to intervene at discrete stages along a narrow biomedical understanding of trachoma pathology, with little attention to the social, political, economic, and historical issues shaping delivery. Consequently, biomedical assumptions of universal disease experience, discrete, linear pathological processes, and rational human responses are made. The thesis focuses on two dimensions of the elimination programme: diagnostics and surgical camps; and demonstrates how on-going social, political and ophthalmological complexities are persistently set aside in pursuit of the elimination goals. Tools, technologies, and metaphors do political work which is strategically ignored by the multi-million-pound global elimination assemblage. The SAFE strategy undermines the effectiveness of the existing health system, and resistance to interventions is explained by projecting ignorance and pathologising culture. Pressure to sustain international funding by preserving the reputation of the policy drives a steadfast but false optimism, counterproductive for tackling other important health concerns in Malawi. In light of these findings, this thesis calls for a more humble, and ‘slow’ public health practice for trachoma and beyond. Such modesty could help shape public health to not only be more responsive to context and complexity, but also locally meaningful and sustainable.
D5.6 Final business case implementation report
Creators: name: Coppens, Tuna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The structure of D5.6 is based on D5.2 "BC action plan". D5.2 has been developed as a tool to collect detailed information on the execution of each BC, in line with the roles and activities established in the D5.1 guidance. It also provides a BC Gantt Chart with information on the milestones and timely execution of each activity. The contents of the document act as a roadmap for implementation and is used to monitor the progress of each BC. D5.6 focuses on reporting the BC's progress, challenges, mitigation measures, lessons learned, achievements, and milestones.
Feedback from Winds and Supernovae in Massive Stellar Clusters - II. X-Ray Emission
Creators: name: Rogers, H.
name: Pittard, J. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The X-ray emission from a simulated massive stellar cluster is investigated. The emission is calculated from a 3D hydrodynamical model which incorporates the mechanical feedback from the stellar winds of 3 O-stars embedded in a giant molecular cloud clump containing 3240 M$_{\odot}$ of molecular material within a 4 pc radius. A simple prescription for the evolution of the stars is used, with the first supernova explosion at t=4.4 Myrs. We find that the presence of the GMC clump causes short-lived attenuation effects on the X-ray emission of the cluster. However, once most of the material has been ablated away by the winds the remaining dense clumps do not have a noticable effect on the attenuation compared with the assumed interstellar medium column. We determine the evolution of the cluster X-ray luminosity, L$_X$, and spectra, and generate synthetic images. The intrinsic X-ray luminosity drops from nearly 10$^{34}$ ergs s$^{-1}$ while the winds are `bottled up', to a near constant value of 1.7$\times 10^{32}\rm ergs s^{-1}$ between t=1-4 Myrs. L$_X$ reduces slightly during each star's red supergiant stage due to the depressurization of the hot gas. However, L$_X$ increases to $\approx 10^{34}\rm\,ergs s^{-1}$ during each star's Wolf-Rayet stage. The X-ray luminosity is enhanced by 2-3 orders of magnitude to $\sim 10^{37}\rm ergs s^{-1}$ for at least 4600 yrs after each supernova, at which time the blast wave leaves the grid and the X-ray luminosity drops. The X-ray luminosity of our simulation is generally considerably fainter than predicted from spherically-symmetric bubble models, due to the leakage of hot gas material through gaps in the outer shell. This process reduces the pressure within our simulation and thus the X-ray emission. However, the X-ray luminosities and temperatures which we obtain are comparable to similarly powerful massive young clusters.
de Sitter Supersymmetry Revisited
Creators: name: Anous, Tarek
name: Freedman, Daniel Z.
name: Maloney, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the basic $\mathcal{N} =1$ superconformal field theories in four-dimensional de Sitter space-time, namely the non-abelian super Yang-Mills theory and the chiral multiplet theory with gauge interactions or cubic superpotential. These theories have eight supercharges and are invariant under the full $SO(4,2)$ group of conformal symmetries, which includes the de Sitter isometry group $SO(4,1)$ as a subgroup. The theories are ghost-free and the anti-commutator $\sum_α\{Q_α, Q^{α\dagger}\}$ is positive. SUSY Ward identities uniquely select the Bunch-Davies vacuum state. This vacuum state is invariant under superconformal transformations, despite the fact that de Sitter space has non-zero Hawking temperature. The $\mathcal{N}=1$ theories are classically invariant under the $SU(2,2|1)$ superconformal group, but this symmetry is broken by radiative corrections. However, no such difficulty is expected in the $\mathcal{N}=4$ theory, which is presented in appendix B.
description: 21 pages, 2 figures
Editorial Introduction
Creators: name: Austin, Michael (Ed.)
name: Ennis, Paul J. (Ed.)
name: Gironi, Fabio (Ed.)
name: Gokey, Thomas (Ed.)
name: Jackson, Robert (Ed.)
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2013

description: With this special issue of Speculations we wanted to challenge the contested term “speculative realism,” offering scholars who have some involvement with it a space to voice their opinions of the network of ideas commonly associated with the name. Whilst undoubtedly born under speculative realist auspices, Speculations has never tried to be the gospel of a dogmatic speculative realist church, but rather instead to cultivate the best theoretical lines sprouting from the resurgence, in the last few years, of those speculative and realist concerns attempting to break free from some of the most stringent constraints of critique. Sociologist Randall Collins observed that, unlike other fields of intel-lectual inquiry, “[p]hilosophy has the peculiarity of periodically shifting its own grounds, but always in the direction of claiming or at least seeking the standpoint of greatest generality and importance.”1If this is the case, to deny that a shift of grounds hasindeed become manifest in these early decades of the twenty-first century would be, at best, a sign of a severe lack of philosophical sensitivity. On the other hand, whether or not this shift has been towards greater importance (and in respect to what?) is not only a legitimate but a necessary question to ask.
A Dangerous Supplement: Speculative Realism, Academic Blogging, and the Future of Philosophy
Creators: name: Kotsko, Adam
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2013

description: In many ways, the rise of Speculative Realism has been one of the most promising developments in contemporary continental philosophy. It has brought to the fore many concerns—above all the philosophy of science—that have been neglected by Anglophone continentalists, and it has introduced the English-speaking world to a range of new or previously neglected thinkers (such as Quentin Meillassoux and François Laruelle, respectively). In a field that has always had a tendency toward commentary, the movement has also emboldened Anglophone continentalists to begin writing “primary sources,” developing their own concepts and systems. The excitement surrounding these new developments has been so great that John D. Caputo, a dyed-in-the-wool Derridean, went so far as to devote his final graduate seminar to thinkers associated with this new push toward realism.
Top gating of epitaxial (Bi_{1-x}Sb_x)2Te3 topological insulator thin films
Creators: name: Yang, Fan
name: Taskin, A. A.
name: Sasaki, Satoshi
name: Segawa, Kouji
name: Ohno, Yasuhide
name: Matsumoto, Kazuhiko
name: Ando, Yoichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The tunability of the chemical potential for a wide range encompassing the Dirac point is important for many future devices based on topological insulators. Here we report a method to fabricate highly efficient top gates on epitaxially grown (Bi_{1-x}Sb_x)2Te3 topological insulator thin films without degrading the film quality. By combining an in situ deposited Al2O3 capping layer and a SiN_x dielectric layer deposited at low temperature, we were able to protect the films from degradation during the fabrication processes. We demonstrate that by using this top gate, the carriers in the top surface can be efficiently tuned from n- to p-type. We also show that magnetotransport properties give evidence for decoupled transport through top and bottom surfaces for the entire range of gate voltage, which is only possible in truly bulk-insulating samples.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures; accepted for publication in Appl. Phys. Lett
Low Cost Lock in Thermoelastic Stress Analysis (TSA)
Creators: name: Peter, Lambert
name: Furrer Roman
name: Patterson Eann
name: Erwin, Hack
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Thermoelastic Stress Analysis
low-cost camera
TSA

description: In this work, we introduce a low-cost Thermoelastic Stress Analysis (TSA) system for structural health
 monitoring. We show that the system is capable of generating TSA signal magnitude maps using a lock
 in reference signal provided by either RSG (resistance strain gauges) or FBG (Fibre Bragg Grating)
 point measurements.
Realism and the Infinite
Creators: name: Livingston, Paul M.
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2013

description: In his 1951 Gibbs lecture, drawing out some of the “philosophical consequences” of his two in-completeness theorems and related results, Kurt Gödel outlines a disjunctive alternative which, as I shall try to show, captures in a precise way the contemporary situation of reflective thought in its ongoing consideration of the relationship of formalism to the real:Either mathematics is incompletable in [the] sense that its evident axioms can never be comprised in a finite rule, i.e. to say the human mind (even within the  realm  of  pure  mathematics)  infinitely  surpass-es  the  powers  of  any  finite  machine,  or  else  there  exist  absolutely  unsolvable  Diophantine  problems  of the type specified...2A consequence of this aporeatic situation of con-temporary thought, as I shall try to show, is that the longstanding philosophical debate over the relative priority of thought and being that finds expres-sion in discussions of “realism” and “anti-realism” (whether of idealist, positivist, or conventionalist forms) can only be assayed from the position of a metaformal reflection on the relationship of the forms of thought to the real of being. Moreover, if Gödel’s argument is correct and can be generalized beyond the epistemology of mathematics itself, it is also not neutral on this question of relative priority, but rather suggests a new kind of realism—what I shall call “metaformal” realism—that differs markedly both from “metaphysical realism” and from the newer varieties of “speculative realism” on offer today.