cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
On the performance of downlink NOMA in underlay spectrum sharing
Creators: name: Kumar, Vaibhav
name: Ding, Zhiguo
name: Flanagan, Mark F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and spectrum sharing are two potential technologies for providing massive connectivity in beyond fifth-generation (B5G) networks. In this paper, we present the performance analysis of a multi-antenna-assisted two-user downlink NOMA system in an underlay spectrum sharing system. We derive closed-form expressions for the average achievable sum-rate and outage probability of the secondary network under a peak interference constraint and/or peak power constraint, depending on the availability of channel state information (CSI) of the interference link between secondary transmitter (ST) and primary receiver (PR). For the case where the ST has a fixed power budget, we show that performance can be divided into two specific regimes, where either the interference constraint or the power constraint primarily dictates the performance. Our results confirm that the NOMA-based underlay spectrum sharing system significantly outperforms its orthogonal multiple access (OMA) based counterpart, by achieving higher average sum-rate and lower outage probability. We also show the effect of information loss at the ST in terms of CSI of the link between the ST and PR on the system performance. Moreover, we also present closed-form expressions for the optimal power allocation coefficient that minimizes the outage probability of the NOMA system for the special case where the secondary users are each equipped with a single antenna. A close agreement between the simulation and analytical results confirms the correctness of the presented analysis.
Dynamical systems defining Jacobi's theta-constants
Creators: name: Brezhnev, Yu.
name: Lyakhovich, S.
name: Sharapov, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a system of equations that defines Weierstrass--Jacobi's eta- and theta-constant series in a differentially closed way. This system is shown to have a direct relationship to a little-known dynamical system obtained by Jacobi. The classically known differential equations by Darboux--Halphen, Chazy, and Ramanujan are the differential consequences or reductions of these systems. The proposed system is shown to admit the Lagrangian, Hamiltonian, and Nambu formulations. We explicitly construct a pencil of nonlinear Poisson brackets and complete set of involutive conserved quantities. As byproducts of the theory, we exemplify conserved quantities for the Ramamani dynamical system and quadratic system of Halphen--Brioschi.
description: Final version. Major changes; LaTeX, 23 pages (was 17), no figures
Il mito di Berlino nella scrittura di Judith Hermann, Norman Ohler e Inka Parei
Creators: name: PETRELLA, GIULIA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Bergamo
Year: 2012

description: The purpose of this study was to investigate contemporary German literature, represented by the young generation of authors who, after the fall of the Wall and German reunification, chose the capital Berlin as main Leitmotiv of their works as well as their new cultural homeland, so much so that critics haven?t hesitated to define them Generation Berlin.
The study focuses on the literary representation of the Berlin myth that today expresses the political, economical and social contradictions of globalization that invested Germany after 1989 and contributed to changing the image of Berlin radically modifying its urban palimpsest.
The thesis examines the novels Mitte and Die Schattenboxerin respectively written by Norman Ohler and Inka Parei as well as the tale Sommerhaus, sp�ter by Judith Hermann, where Berlin becomes the symbol of the problematic relationship with the past and of the existential conditions experienced by young generations nowadays, steadily looking for a new identity that could make them feel secure in the present precarious world.
The analysis of the above mentioned texts reveals that the literature of the Generation Berlin is an important way of understanding contemporary Germany and the literary trends of our time, thanks to its ability to describe daily reality in detail and at the same time to conceive an alternative one. To this end, the narrations offer themselves as experimental field to criticize globalised Germany and to envision a different future, where history, finally released from its unsolved conflicts, could effectively take part in the planning of a new German Heimat.
Ibridi d'Ophrys (Orchidaceae) di Sicilia (Italia). Prima parte. Hybrids of Ophrys (Orchidaceae) from Sicily (Italy)
Creators: name: Romieg Soca
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Ophrys
Sicilia

description: Soca R., 2017. Ibridi d'Ophrys (Orchidaceae) di Sicilia (Italia). Prima parte. Hybrids of Ophrys (Orchidaceae) from Sicily (Italy). First part. Caesiana 23(47): 40-57.
STUDENT ENGAGEMENT IN AN ONLINE STEM CAMP: WHERE HAVE YOU PEOPLE BEEN ALL MY LIFE?
Creators: name: Pictor, Noah J
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2023
Subjects: Secondary education

description: This thesis investigates an online STEM camp called Techie Times and observes its ability to engage rural and urban students in Indiana after the initial COVID-19 outbreak. Students from both locales are found to engage with the camp but only from a few counties across Indiana. Techie Times observed high skills and performance engagement and moderate participation and emotional engagement. The guardians of students appreciated the online camp’s structure, ease of access, and hands-on activities, but thought that the students needed more opportunities to interact with each other and present ideas.
STATE-BASED ANALYSIS OF GENERAL AVIATION LOSS OF CONTROL ACCIDENTS USING HISTORICAL DATA AND PILOTS’ PERSPECTIVES
Creators: name: Majumdar, Neelakshi
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2023
Subjects: Aerospace engineering not elsewhere classified
Systems engineering
Industrial and organisational psychology (incl. human factors)
Deep learning
Natural language processing

description: General Aviation (GA) encompasses all aircraft operations, excluding scheduled, military, and commercial operations. GA accidents comprise approximately 94% of all aviation accidents in the United States annually. 75% of these accidents involve pilot-related factors (pilot actions or conditions). Inflight loss of control means that the flight crew was unable to maintain control of the aircraft in flight. With almost 50% of loss of control accidents being fatal yearly, it continues to be the deadliest cause of GA accidents.
 The most common approach to understanding accident causation is analyzing historical data from sources such as the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) database. The NTSB database has abundant rich information. In contrast to the extensive investigations into and detailed reports on commercial aviation accidents, GA accident investigations tend to be shorter, and the resulting reports tend to be brief and limited—especially regarding human factors’ role in accidents. Only relying on historical data cannot provide a complete understanding of accident causation.
 There is a clear need to better understand the role of human factors involved in GA accidents to prevent such accidents and thus improve aviation safety. In my research, I focus on a specific type of accidents, inflight loss of control (LOC-I), the deadliest cause of GA accidents. I use historical data analysis and human-subjects research with pilots to investigate the role of human factors in loss of control accidents. Building on previous work, I created a state-based modeling framework that maximizes data extraction and insight formation from the NTSB accident reports by (1) developing a structured modeling language to represent accident causation in the form of states and triggers; (2) populating the language lexicon of states and triggers using insights from accident reports and pilots perspectives via surveys and interviews; and (3) applying Natural Language Processing (NLP) and machine learning techniques to automatically translate accident narratives into the language lexicon. The framework is focused on LOC-I but can be extended to other types of accidents. Findings from my study may help in consistent accident analysis, better accident reporting, and improving training methods and operating procedures for GA pilots.
Descolonizaci�n educativa en el Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia: Desaf�os y dilemas
Creators: name: LENZA, CHIARA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Bergamo
Year: 2017

description: In the wider framework of State�s transformation started by the Evo Morales, first indigenous Government in Bolivia, the research project analyses the new Education Law ?Avelino Si�ani- Elizardo P�rez? promulgated in 2010. In particular, the research project aims at understanding the role of Education within the process of decolonization and the transformation of no egalitarian societies, in terms of system of power, rights and socio-economic conditions. The Bolivian Education Reform is considered as an instrument to de-colonize the education apparatus from the western-colonial pattern of knowledge and to promote an intra-intercultural and bilingual approach to education, inspired by the indigenous notion of ?Vivir Bien?. To this end, the study analyses the challenges in its implementation in the field, and its relations and contradictions with the other state policies to understand coherence and incoherence of the global decolonization?s process.
High resolution x-ray scattering studies of structural phase transitions in Cr-doped BaFe2As2
Creators: name: Clancy, J. P.
name: Gaulin, B. D.
name: Sefat, A. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have performed high resolution x-ray scattering measurements on single crystal samples of Ba(Fe(1-x)Cr(x))2As2 (x = 0 to 0.335). These measurements examine the effect of Cr-doping on the high temperature tetragonal (I4/mmm) to low temperature orthorhombic (Fmmm) structural phase transition of the parent compound BaFe2As2. Increasing Cr concentration is found to suppress the structural transition temperature (Ts), and reduce the magnitude of the orthorhombic strain (delta). The doping dependence of the orthorhombic strain, combined with complementary measurements of the high temperature magnetic susceptibility, suggests the presence of a magnetostructural crossover at x ~ 0.05. In particular, this crossover appears to mark a shift from strong to weak orthorhombicity and from predominantly itinerant to localized magnetic behavior.
description: Revised Version. 10 pages, 7 Figures
The brick polytope of a sorting network
Creators: name: Pilaud, Vincent
name: Santos, Francisco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 52B05, 52B11, 52C30

description: The associahedron is a polytope whose graph is the graph of flips on triangulations of a convex polygon. Pseudotriangulations and multitriangulations generalize triangulations in two different ways, which have been unified by Pilaud and Pocchiola in their study of flip graphs on pseudoline arrangements with contacts supported by a given sorting network. In this paper, we construct the brick polytope of a sorting network, obtained as the convex hull of the brick vectors associated to each pseudoline arrangement supported by the network. We combinatorially characterize the vertices of this polytope, describe its faces, and decompose it as a Minkowski sum of matroid polytopes. Our brick polytopes include Hohlweg and Lange's many realizations of the associahedron, which arise as brick polytopes for certain well-chosen sorting networks. We furthermore discuss the brick polytopes of sorting networks supporting pseudoline arrangements which correspond to multitriangulations of convex polygons: our polytopes only realize subgraphs of the flip graphs on multitriangulations and they cannot appear as projections of a hypothetical multiassociahedron.
description: 36 pages, 25 figures; Version 2 refers to the recent generalization of our results to spherical subword complexes on finite Coxeter groups (http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.3349)
Additional file 1 of Single-cell RNA sequencing reveals markers of disease progression in primary cutaneous T-cell lymphoma
Creators: name: Rindler, Katharina
name: Jonak, Constanze
name: Alkon, Natalia
name: Thaler, Felix M.
name: Kurz, Harald
name: Shaw, Lisa E.
name: Stingl, Georg
name: Weninger, Wolfgang
name: Halbritter, Florian
name: Bauer, Wolfgang M.
name: Farlik, Matthias
name: Brunner, Patrick M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Methods.
Radical-ion-pair reactions are the biochemical equivalent of the optical double slit experiment
Creators: name: Kominis, I. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Radical-ion-pair reactions were recently shown to represent a rich biophysical laboratory for the application of quantum measurement theory methods and concepts. We here show that radical-ion-pair reactions essentially form a non-linear biochemical double slit interferometer. Quantum coherence effects are visible when "which-path" information is limited, and the incoherent limit is approached when measurement-induced decoherence sets in. Based on this analogy with the optical double slit experiment we derive and elaborate on the fundamental master equation of spin-selective radical-ion-pair reactions that covers the continuous range from complete incoherence to maximum singlet-triplet coherence.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures, published version
Skyrmions in a Doped Antiferromagnet
Creators: name: Raicevic, I.
name: Popovic, Dragana
name: Panagopoulos, C.
name: Benfatto, L.
name: Neto, M. B. Silva
name: Choi, E. S.
name: Sasagawa, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetization and magnetoresistance have been measured in insulating antiferromagnetic La_{2}Cu_{0.97}Li_{0.03}O_{4} over a wide range of temperatures, magnetic fields, and field orientations. The magnetoresistance step associated with a weak ferromagnetic transition exhibits a striking nonmonotonic temperature dependence, consistent with the presence of skyrmions.
description: 4+ pages, 3 figures (some low resolution), supplementary material (3 pages); discussion expanded, references added; as published
Additional file 6 of GC-MS-based metabolite profiling of key differential metabolites between superior and inferior spikelets of rice during the grain filling stage
Creators: name: Min, Xiumei
name: Xu, Hailong
name: Huang, Fenglian
name: Wei, Yidong
name: Lin, Wenxiong
name: Zhang, Zhixing
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 6: Table S5. Primer sequences of genes related to trehalose synthesis.
Inventory of Ophrys (Orchidaceae) hybrids of Italy
Creators: name: Romieg Soca
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Ophrys
Italy

description: Soca R., 2017. Inventory of Ophrys (Orchidaceae) hybrids of Italy. Journal Europäischer Orchideen 49(3-4): 565-642.
Understanding ETS transcription factors : from ordered domains to disordered sequences
Creators: name: Lau, Desmond Ka Wing
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: ETS (E26 transformation specific) transcription factors play critical roles in regulating cellular growth, development and differentiation. They share a conserved ETS domain that interacts with specific DNA sequences and a subset of ETS proteins also contain a PNT domain responsible for protein partnerships. My research initially focused on the PNT domain of Drosophila Pointed-P2, with the goal of understanding the impact of phosphorylation on the activation of gene expression. Using a battery of NMR spectroscopic approaches, I demonstrated that the Pointed-P2 PNT domain contains a dynamic N-terminal helix H0 appended to a core conserved five-helix bundle. This helix must be displaced to allow docking of the PNT domain with the ERK2 MAP kinase Rolled, which in turn phosphorylates three N-terminal phosphoacceptor sites. The second part of my thesis focuses on three members of the ETS family called the ETV1/4/5 sub-group: ETV1 (Er81), ETV5 (Erm), and ETV4 (PEA3 (polyoma enhancer activator 3)). Using an extensive set of ETV4 deletion fragments, the DNA binding autoinhibitory sequences at both N- and C-terminal to the ETS domain were identified. Through detailed NMR spectroscopic studies, I confirmed that the inhibitory sequences are predominantly disordered and transiently interact with a coarsely defined surface on the ETS domain. This surface overlaps the DNA-recognition interface, thus indicating a steric mechanism of autoinhibition. Overall, my studies help define the molecular mechanisms underlying ETV1/4/5 factors autoinhibition, and may inspire new anti-cancer strategies. Finally, I also investigated the stability and dynamics of several uninhibited ETS domains, including ETV4, PU.1, Ets1, and ETV6. Using NMR spectroscopy, I determined the structure of the PU.1 ETS domain and identified an appended, C-terminal helix. Similar to Ets1 and ETV6, the DNA-recognition helix H3 of ETV4 and PU.1 are dynamic as evidenced by amide hydrogen exchange (HX). I also utilized molecular dynamics simulations to map the motions of the four ETS domains and identified several critical pathways that may impact their stabilities and possibly, the DNA-binding abilities. Overall, the data presented in my thesis will provide further understanding of the structure and regulation of the ETS transcription factors.
“…BY THE AUTHOR OF THE WHOLE DUTY OF MAN.” AN ANALYSIS OF THE LIFE, LEGACY, AND MEMORY OF RICHARD ALLESTREE, 1619-1714.
Creators: name: Moore, Tanner J
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2023
Subjects: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
British history
History of religion
Theology

description: This dissertation is the first comprehensive biography and study of Richard Allestree. Allestree was a soldier, spy, professor, theologian, a survivor of the plague (1665) and Great Fire (1666) of London, and supposed author of the best-selling Protestant classic, The Whole Duty of Man (1658). Throughout his life, Allestree attempted to protect those institutions through his voice, vocation, and violence. His work contributes to our understanding of the dilemmas faced by the late seventeenth-century clergy, caught between the secular rationalism of the Enlightenment and the wild enthusiasm of Protestant dissenting groups. Using his positions of power and influence, he sought to make Christianity accessible to “the meanest of reader,” moving away from perceptions of a rigid faith and seeking to make Christianity a vibrant, active belief in the lives of everyday people. This work presents a finalized canon of the works of Richard Allestree using new tools in digital humanities. Implementing statistical analysis from data gathered from his personal library at Christ Church, Oxford, clerical records, and marginalia, this dissertation settles the three hundred- and sixty-five-year dilemma of Allestree’s uncertain authorship.
Il mito del duale nell'et� goethiana: la prospettiva di Wilhelm von Humboldt
Creators: name: GABBIADINI, Guglielmo
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Bergamo
Year: 2013

description: The dual is a grammatical number used in some languages to denote pairs of entities that belong together and form a unity. Traditionally dismissed in ancient treatises as a category of peculiar marginality, the dual became a central issue in Wilhelm von Humboldt?s (1767-1835) philosophy of language in the first decades of the 19th century. Especially in his essay Ueber den Dualis (1827), Humboldt set out to chart - for the first time ever - the empirical occurences of this grammatical form in the languages of the world and to bring into sharper focus the concept of duality and the traditional imagery linked to it. Rejecting the belief that the dual is simply a pleasant and yet redundant form of embellishment, Humboldt claimed that the study of the dual could grant access to the ?ultimate foundations? of language and human community. According to Humboldt, the dual proves therefore crucial not only to understand the grammar system of a language, but also to investigate the mindset and the cultural negotiations thereby informed. To be sure, Humboldt?s text has been examined in a number of studies stating the seminal influence of its insights on the future development of modern linguistics. Yet much less attention has been paid to the historical contingency and the specific context in which Humboldt conceived the vision of a myth of duality in the Age of Goethe. The present research sets out to outline the cultural history of Humboldt?s ideas and tries to catch sight of the manifold connections in which Humboldt?s enquiry on the dual crosses the boundaries of linguistic antiquarianism and goes along with literary practices, anthropological reflexions and politial speculations of his own time.
Deriving global structure of the Galactic Magnetic Field from Faraday Rotation Measures of extragalactic sources
Creators: name: Pshirkov, M. S.
name: Tinyakov, P. G.
name: Kronberg, P. P.
name: Newton-McGee, K. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We made use of the two latest sets of Rotational Measures (RMs) of extra-galactic radio sources, namely the NRAO VLA Sky Survey otation Measures Catalogue, and a compilation by Kronberg&Newton-McGee(2011), to infer the global structure of the Galactic Magnetic Field (GMF). We have checked that these two data sets are consistent with each other. Motivated by clear patterns in the observed distribution of RMs over the sky, we considered GMF models consisting of the two components: disk (spiral or ring) and halo. The parameters of these components were determined by fitting different model field geometries to the observed RMs. We found that the model consisting of a symmetric (with respect to the Galactic plane) spiral disk and anti-symmetric halo fits the data best, and reproduces the observed distribution of RMs over the sky very well. We confirm that ring disk models are disfavored. Our results favor small pitch angles around -5 degrees and an increased vertical scale of electron distribution, in agreement with some previous studies. Based on our fits, we identify two benchmark models suitable for studies of cosmic ray propagation, including the ultra-high energies.
description: 15 pages, 14 figures, 4 tables misprints corrected, presentation improved generally matches the published version
Stable Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov pairing states in 2D and 3D optical lattices
Creators: name: Cai, Zi
name: Wang, Yupeng
name: Wu, Congjun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the study of the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) pairing states in the $p$-orbital bands in both two and three-dimensional optical lattices. Due to the quasi one-dimensional band structure which arises from the unidirectional hopping of the orthogonal $p$-orbitals, the pairing phase space is not affected by spin imbalance. Furthermore, interactions build up high dimensional phase coherence which stabilizes the FFLO states in 2D and 3D optical lattices in a large parameter regime in phase diagram. These FFLO phases are stable with imposing the inhomogeneous trapping potential. Their entropies are comparable to those of the normal states at finite temperatures.
description: 5 pages
?I think, therefore I connect?. Database, connessionismo ed esopoiesi nel romanzo anglo-americano (1995-2011)
Creators: name: PANZANI, Ugo Francesco Mauriz
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Bergamo
Year: 2012

description: The aim of this doctoral thesis is to analyse how the contents and the structures of the Anglo-American novel have been influenced by the emergence of digital and telematic media during the last two decades. One of the primary targets is to identify the common strategies adopted by electronic and printed novels to analyze the complexity and to try, at the same time, to escape from the ?trap? of language. In my introduction I argue about the increasing relevance of the pattern/randomness dialectic into the narrative field. In the first chapter, while analysing the two novels Galatea 2.2 (1995) by Richard Powers and Exegesis (1997) by Astro Teller, I try to show how computational practices are affecting the literary fruition and authorship along with the role that the novel might play as an instrument of knowledge and cultural interaction. In the subsequent chapters I bring together literary analysis and network culture, focusing on different notions such as the database as a symbolic form, the properties of connectionist networks, the idea of transliteracy and the concepts of autopoiesis and exopoiesis. For this very reason, I examined five different works: David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest (1996), William Gibson's Pattern Recognition (2003), Mark Z. Danielewski's Only Revolutions (2006), Kate Pullinger and Chris Joseph's Flight Paths (2007) and The Unknown (1998), developed by Scott Rettberg, William Gillespie, Dirk Stratton and Frank Marquardt. These literary texts propose different strategies to assimilate the structures and the dynamics proper to the networks in order to create new cognitive paradigms. It would seem that, through specific narrative structures and topics, some of the novelists of the last fifteen years are abandoning the self-reflexivity typical of the previous postmodern tradition in order to suggest an idea of fiction as an instrument to connect individual and contingency, reader and text, text and media ecology.
Models of quantum computation and quantum programming languages
Creators: name: Miszczak, J. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The goal of the presented paper is to provide an introduction to the basic computational models used in quantum information theory. We review various models of quantum Turing machine, quantum circuits and quantum random access machine (QRAM) along with their classical counterparts. We also provide an introduction to quantum programming languages, which are developed using the QRAM model. We review the syntax of several existing quantum programming languages and discuss their features and limitations.
description: 23 pages, 10 figures, 9 listings
Twinning Literature and Anthropology: A Proposed Theoretical Framework for Litero-Anthropological Research via “Exemplary Person”, “Value Formation” and “the Good Life”
Publisher: name: University of kurdistan
Year: 2023

description: Although literature and anthropology might seem an unlikely pair, their collaboration has been the subject of debate. As a theoretical endeavor, the present study aims to propose the fruitful collaboration between these two domains through the framework of litero-anthropological research. The results of such research disclose how fictional works once analyzed by means of anthropological criteria can be assigned to three levels of reading that are not only relevant to anthropology but also uncover the layers of meaning in literary narratives. For this purpose, a theoretical framework is formed that draws on Max Scheler’s exemplary person, Clyde Kluckhohn’s value and Edward Fischer’s the good life, the combination of which has not been analyzed collectively before. It was concluded that the analysis of a literary work by means of this framework opens a new gate to character analysis whereby literary critics can reveal how protagonists are portrayed as exemplary persons who promote a set of values through their discourse. Finally, the theory of the good life revealed if the set of values the protagonist upholds is conducive to attaining the good life. These values aim to reach beyond the world of fiction and meet the actual world of the readers.
Postilla per Barque qui vas flottant di Philippe Du Plessis-Mornay
Creators: name: BENSI, Mario
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Bergamo
Year: 2002

description: Il sonetto Barque qui vas flottant � gi� stato da me preso in esame in un articolo del 1986; si trattava allora di intervenire sul testo e di illustrare le peculiari caratteristiche formali della lirica in questione; si tratta ora invece di indicare come, dietro il testo poetico, si lasci leggere, quasi in filigrana, l?apporto di una ?fonte?, a testimonianza della cultura biblica e del fervore cristiano di Philippe Du Plessis-Mornay, ?papa degli Ugonotti?.
Planet-disk interaction in highly inclined systems
Creators: name: Rein, Hanno
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the interaction of a proto-planetary disk and a planet on a highly inclined orbit in the linear regime. The evolution of the planet is dominated by dynamical friction for planet masses above several Earth-masses. Smaller planets are dominated by aerodynamic drag, especially for very high inclinations and retrograde orbits. The time-scales associated with migration and inclination damping are calculated. For certain values of the inclination, the inclination damping time-scale is longer than the migration time-scale and the disk lifetime. This result shows that highly inclined planets can not (re-)align with the proto-planetary disk. We discuss the dependence of numerical simulations on the gravitational softening parameter. We find only a logarithmic dependence, making global three dimensional simulations of this process computationally feasible. A large fraction of Hot Jupiters is on highly inclined orbits with respect to the rotation axis of the star. On the other hand small-mass planetary systems discovered by the Kepler mission have low mutual inclinations. This shows that there are two distinct formation mechanisms at work. The process that creates inclined Hot Jupiters does not operate on small mass planets because the damping timescales are so long that these systems would still be inclined today.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Writer Identity in the Introduction Section of Academic Law Research Articles: Exploring Metadiscourse Strategies
Creators: name: Tessuto, Girolamo
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Bergamo
Year: 2008

description: L?indagine delle categorie metadiscorsive cos� osservate sembra riflettere le tensioni
che sono alla base dell?identit� autoriale rappresentata all?interno del genere testuale
che, tuttavia, consente ai singoli autori di realizzare la loro appartenenza alla
comunit� di discorso, negoziando in maniera co-operativa la promozione del sapere
scientifico ad un ampio uditorio internazionale nella lingua della comunicazione globale.
Eco-critical Praxis: Unravelling and Recuperating Eco-trauma in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Gardens in the Dunes
Publisher: name: University of kurdistan
Year: 2023

description: This article unravels the concept of eco-trauma in American Indians’ lifestyle in Gardens in the Dunes (2000), a novel portraying eco-concerns of Leslie Marmon Silko (1948). Silko’s novel is preoccupied with ecological concerns of American Indians who depend on nature to continue their existence. Being detached from their ancestral lands, Indians encountered several psychological problems due to their indispensable loyalty to nature. This article focuses on the significance of environment and ‘place’ according to Lawrence Buell (1939), and traces ‘place’ as the center of feeling for a person. Cheryll Glotfelty’s connection between nature and culture, and Cathy Caruth’s perspective on trauma have been utilized to explain Indians’ psychological problems due to loss of ancestral lands. Eco-traumatic approach illustrates the interrelation of Native American’s identity and culture with their living place. Indeed, Indians return to their land to eliminate their environmental concerns. Their ceaseless effort to reverse eco-trauma by adhering to their ancestral ritual is also examined in this article. Silko re-emphasizes and stipulates that the notion of nature can consolidate Indians’ identity; hence, loyalty to natural environment ensures how Native Americans’ loss of land and nature opens up the experience of eco-loss or eco-trauma and diminishes Native Americans’ culture.
Mankind’s Relationship with the Environment in Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation
Publisher: name: University of kurdistan
Year: 2023

description: In Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation (2014), a unique relationship is established between a fecund and futuristic environment called Area X and a group of scientists commissioned to probe this area. While the scientists’ initial response toward this area is human-centered and Anthropocenic, the conventional expectations of this initial response are severely shattered later in the novel. The present study believes that the various aspects of this shattering gives us a glimpse of the kind of relationship we could have with the environment in the Anthropocene, the human epoch. By utilizing the theoretical concepts in key secondary sources – such as Pieter Vermeulen’s Literature and the Anthropocene (2020) and Benjamin Robertson’s None of This Is Normal: The Fiction of Jeff VanderMeer (2018) – the study identifies that various demarcational means fail to fulfill their binary making function due to the vastness and unmappable nature of environments such as Area X. Accordingly, this failure constitutes the study’s purpose in that it shows conventional paradigms of mankind’s knowledge bodies could not delve into the cognizance and intentions of an amoral and un-registrable environment. This failure also shows recalcitrant areas such as Area X are already present and all encompassing around us.
A Study of Radicalism in Hare's Fanshen and Foucault's Dynamics of Power: Irrationalism and the Absence of Possibilities
Publisher: name: University of kurdistan
Year: 2023

description: This study pursues a study of radicalism in Hare’s most radical play, Fanshen, and in Foucault’s mode of radicalism within his theory of power relations. From a specific perspective, this study borrows from the new wave of reevaluating and reinterpreting Foucault, which is concerned with irrationalism in his mode of radicalism. This analysis helps us comprehend the changes in the social trends and the specific pattern of radicalism in both Hare and Foucault. What concerns this study gravely, is the absence of the other side of reality or possibility in Hare’s Fanshen and in Foucault’s claims on power relations. The aim of the study is to depict how adopting radicalism and revolution by Hare and Foucault results in the justification of malfunctioned experiments. Furthermore, the way political tendencies are manifested to the audience is proved to be a key factor in the analysis of British political theater and in the shaping of British society. Finally, it is found that a Foucauldian reading of Fanshen results in the recognition of Hare’s specific pattern of radicalism which is in line with Foucault’s.
Survey of Morphologies Formed in the Wake of an Enslaved Phase-Separation Front in Two Dimensions
Creators: name: Foard, E. M.
name: Wagner, A. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A phase-separation front will leave in its wake a phase-separated morphology that differs markedly from homogeneous phase-separation morphologies. For a purely diffusive system such a front, moving with constant velocity, will generate very regular, non-equilibrium structures. We present here a numerical study of these fronts using a lattice Boltzmann method. In two dimensions these structures are regular stripes or droplet arrays. In general the kind and orientation of the selected morphology and the size of the domains depends on the speed of the front as well as the composition of the material overtaken by the phase-separation front. We present a survey of morphologies as a function of these two parameters. We show that the resulting morphologies are initial condition dependent. We then examine which of the potential morphologies is the most stable. An analytical analysis for symmetrical compositions predicts the transition point from orthogonal to parallel stripes.
A New Method for Resolving Combinatorial Ambiguities at Hadron Colliders
Creators: name: Rajaraman, Arvind
name: Yu, Felix
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new method for resolving combinatorial ambiguities that arise in multi-particle decay chains at hadron colliders where the assignment of visible particles to the different decay chains has ambiguities. Our method, based on selection cuts favoring high transverse momentum and low invariant mass pairings, is shown to be significantly superior to the more traditional hemisphere method for a large class of decay chains, producing an increase in signal retention of up to a factor of 2. This new method can thus greatly reduce the combinatorial ambiguities of decay chain assignments.
description: 17 pages, 3 figures; v2, introduction, discussion, and conclusions edited for clarity, figures condensed, published version
Dialectics of Space and Place in the Australian Novels, Indelible Ink and Five Bells
Publisher: name: University of kurdistan
Year: 2023

description: Through the lens of spatial studies expounded in human geography, this paper aims to investigate the dynamics of space and place in the metropolitan context of two twentieth-century novels set in contemporary Sydney titled Indelible Ink (2010) by Fiona McGregor and Five Bells (2011) by Gail Jones. The characters' interactions with city spaces and places will be studied to examine the effects of spatial experience on their lives. Inter-related notions of sense of place, place identity, and topophilia are analyzed in the light of theories expounded by thinkers including Yi-Fu Tuan and John Agnew. This is complemented by an examination of the impacts of landmarks as iconic public spaces on the characters employing ideas put forth by Christophe Den Tandt. One of the conclusions the paper reaches is that characters of both novels fail to establish or maintain stable bonds with places of their dwelling and cityspaces, as a result of which, their sense of place as well as their inner peace and security are disturbed. When place identity is undermined, they suffer from a sense of dislocatedness and placelessness.
Mappe semantiche tra sincronia e diacronia: l?evoluzione delle strategie congiuntive e avversative nelle lingue slave
Creators: name: MAURI, CATERINA
name: MANZELLI, GIANGUIDO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli studi di Bergamo
Year: 2008

description: This paper takes a twofold perspective in examining the semantics of the conjunctive and adversative markers attested in the Slavic languages. First, it gives a unified picture of the synchronic variation by means of semantic maps, that highlight the regularity underlying the attested polysemy patterns. Then, it goes back to data from Old Church Slavonic, trying to outline the diachronic processes that led to the actual semantics of the attested markers. The identified semantic changes are not random, but appear to develop along the conceptual space identified on a synchronic basis. Finally, the theoretical implications of the correspondence between synchronic and diachronic data are discussed.
Designing technotheologies : ethics, pedagogies, and spiritualities in maker actor-networks
Creators: name: Lee, Yu-Ling
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: The purpose of this study was to understand how religion and spirituality matter in the consumer use, design, and engineering of media and technology. Specifically, the research questions were: 1) What role do ethics and values perform in maker and hacker networks? 2) How are ethics and values integrated and manifested throughout the design process in maker or hacker networks? 3) What are the routines, rituals, and subjective well-being of participants in the maker or hacker design process? The research setting was the designers in the maker community in Vancouver and technologists associated with Code for the Kingdom in Seattle. All designers and technologists in Vancouver and Seattle have independent projects at various levels of collaboration. I recruited seven participants affiliated with the Vancouver maker community for in-depth analysis of their design process. In Seattle, I recruited two hackers who participated in Code for the Kingdom, a Christian organization that hosts hackathons for altruistic and religious purposes. Their focus on innovation, design methodologies, and critical making allowed me to discern their values and ethics through their design process. These participants have different perspectives on religion and spirituality, which make their technotheological networks complex. Case studies facilitated in-depth examination of makers and hackers as the main actors of our inquiry. The use of video in dialogue with ethnographic inquiry allowed for nuance, discerning complexities, and giving form to expression in designing technotheologies. Conceptually, the research is framed by actor-network theory (ANT) and value sensitive design (VSD), enabling the study of how participants discover, design artifacts, make meaning, develop values, and maintain a sense of the good life and well-being, emotional and spiritual. Findings indicate that among the makers and hackers, technotheological networks articulate specific values alongside technological creations, practices, and personal ways of being. In their own unique ways, these makers and hackers inquire into the materialized morality and design phases of ethically responsible decision making processes. Conversely, the non-human actors express their own values within technotheological networks. My role as a techno-theologian helped facilitate competing value claims by positing a normative focus and by temporarily opening black boxes.
Additional file 1 of Opioid legislation and narcotic filling in total hip arthroplasty: descriptive study of time and state-level trends in the United States
Creators: name: Cunningham, Daniel J.
name: Ryan, Sean P.
name: George, Steven Z.
name: Lewis, Brian D.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. CPT, ICD-9, and ICD-10 code ranges used to identify patient cohorts.
John Barth’s “Menelaiad” and Quantum Mechanics:The Sacrifice of Common Sense
Publisher: name: University of kurdistan
Year: 2023

description: In the annals of the Greek myth, there has been a lacuna surrounding Menelaus and Helen’s relationship following the sack of Troy. What distinguishes Barth’s retelling of the Greek myth is filling this void through constructing a posthistory to the relationship the couple bear to each other and his giving voice to the concerns of Menelaus, a character who has always been in the recess of the canon. While a large body of research has approached Barth’s “Menelaiad” in light of literature of the absurd, this study, through adopting the stance of quantum mechanics on the nature of reality, will demonstrate that Barth’s work is anything but absurd. Establishing the framework of the article based on the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics, the present study argues how the adoption of the subatomic reality, implied in Proteus’ advice, allows Menelaus to jettison his festering obsession with the causality behind Helen’s choice and re-embrace her.
Regular atomic narrowing of Ni, Fe and V nanowires resolved by 2D correlation analysis
Creators: name: Halbritter, A.
name: Makk, P.
name: Mackowiak, Sz.
name: Csonka, Sz.
name: Wawrzyniak, M.
name: Martinek, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a novel statistical method for the study of stable atomic configurations in breaking nanowires based on the 2D cross-correlation analysis of conductance versus electrode separation traces. Applying this method, we can clearly resolve the typical evolutions of the conductance staircase in some transition metal nanojunctions (Ni, Fe, V) up to high conductance values. In these metals our analysis demonstrates a very well ordered atomic narrowing of the nanowire, indicating a very regular, stepwise decrease of the number of atoms in the minimal cross section of the junction, in contrast to the majority of the metals. All these features are hidden in traditional conductance histograms.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Thermodynamics: Entropy and Violation in George Martin’s A Game of Thrones
Publisher: name: University of kurdistan
Year: 2023

description: This research applies an interdisciplinary method of discussion to read George Martin’s A Game of Thrones, an epic fantasy, under the light of Nancy Katherine Hayles’ theories concerning modern laws of physics and literature. The plot of the novel has prominent intricacy with vulnerability and flightiness of its storyline and characters which remains open to abundant literary interpretations. This article uses thermodynamics to refer to a type of physics concerned with temperature and heat, and their link to energy, entropy and the physical qualities of radiation and matter. The conduct of these quantities is ruled by thermodynamic laws that transfer a perceptible description utilizing quantifiable macroscopic physical features. This research traces them within the system of Westeros, a fictitious continent enduring countless tensions and wars, in which entropy is manifested metaphorically. Martin shows how thermodynamics and entropy function and bring chaos, and bases his fantasy on the violation of scientific laws to epitomize the ontology of physics and give meaning to his imaginary world. Regarding this, the researchers show and conclude how Martin interplays physics and literature to decipher the reality of this chaotic world and propose a realistic framework to see the mechanism of universe in fantasy and reality.