cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Ratio $R=F_L/F_T$ in DIS as a Probe of the Charm Content of the Proton
Creators: name: Ivanov, N. Ya.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the Callan-Gross ratio $R(x,Q^2)=F_L/F_T$ in heavy-quark leptoproduction as a probe of the charm content of the proton. To estimate the charm-initiated contributions, we use the ACOT($χ$) variable-flavor-number scheme. Our analysis shows that charm densities of the recent CTEQ sets of parton distributions have sizeable impact on the Callan-Gross ratio in a wide region of $x$ and $Q^2$. In particular, the ACOT($χ$) predictions for the quantity $R(x,Q^2)$ are about half as large as the corresponding expectations of the photon-gluon fusion mechanism for $x\sim 10^{-2}-10^{-1}$ and $Q^2\gg m^2$. This is because the structure functions $F_T (x,Q^2)$ and $F_L (x,Q^2)$ have different dependences on the mass logarithms of the type $α_{s}\ln(Q^{2}/m^{2})$. On the other hand, our recent studies indicate that, contrary to the production cross sections, the Callan-Gross ratio is sufficiently stable under radiative corrections to the photon-gluon fusion component for $x\gtrsim 10^{-4}$. We conclude that the quantity $R(x,Q^2)$ in heavy-quark leptoproduction is perturbatively stable but sensitive to resummation of the mass logarithms. For this reason, in contrast to the structure functions, the ratio $R(x,Q^2)=F_L/F_T$ could be good probe of the charm density in the proton.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures, revtex4
Alice in the Chinese Language Wonderland: A study of connections between the first Chinese translation of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and the development of the modern Chinese language in the twentieth century
Creators: name: Pan, Weizhen
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2019

description: This study explores connections between the first Chinese translation of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (hereafter Alice in Wonderland or Alice) and the development of modern Chinese language in the 20th century, especially in the 1920s. It discusses how Alice, the endearing little girl from Oxford, became a literary witness to changes in the Chinese language and literature. In the 20th century, China experienced a momentous sequence of events: the abolition of the imperial examination system in 1905, the collapse of the Qing Dynasty in 1911 and the establishment of the new Republic in early 1912, the founding of the Communist Party of China in 1921, the Japanese invasion in the 1930s and the subsequent Civil War, which ended with the defeat of the Nationalist government in 1949--to name a few. These events precipitated drastic social and political changes and were accompanied by changes to the Chinese language, and moreover, efforts were made to introduce a unified National Language and to promote vernacular written Chinese. The interconnections among these events are important factors in the development of modern Chinese. The first Chinese translation of Alice in Wonderland was published at a transitional point for the Chinese language: a time when scholars, linguists and writers were passionately debating various aspects of the Chinese language and suggesting changes. This thesis discusses why and how translator Chao Yuen Ren used his translation to trial different ideas raised during these debates. It investigates the context of a number of Chao's translation decisions, as his experimentation was directly related to issues raised during the language debates, not only about written Chinese, but also about spoken Chinese--an area that is yet to be fully explored in the study of Chao's translation of Carroll's works. It argues that the legacy of the first Chinese translation of Alice goes beyond its literary brilliance because it was (in Chao's words) a 'philological document' of the development of modern Chinese language. In addition, this thesis discusses how Chao's translation influenced other Chinese writers and editors who were enthusiastically experimenting with vernacular written Chinese as a preferred literary medium. Through the prism of social and political changes and different personal circumstances of these writers, Alice travelled different literary journeys. However, this thesis argues that the combined effect delivered by these Alice variations underscores the legacy of the first Chinese translation of Alice, making it an important piece of the bigger picture of the development of modern Chinese literature as well as translation and the cultural history that awaits further investigation.
Measurement of the Transmission Phase through a Quantum Dot Embedded in One Arm of an Electronic Mach-Zehnder Interferometer
Creators: name: Litvin, L. V.
name: Helzel, A.
name: Tranitz, H. -P.
name: Wegscheider, W.
name: Strunk, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate an electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer with high visibility in the quantum Hall regime. The superposition of the electrostatic potentials from a quantum point contact (QPC) and the residual disorder potential from doping impurities frequently results in the formation of inadvertent quantum dots (QD) in one arm of the interferometer. This gives rise to resonances in the QPC transmission characteristics. While crossing the QD resonance in energy, the interferometer gains a phase shift of $π$ in the interference pattern.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Fluctuation induced attraction between adhesion sites of supported membranes
Creators: name: Farago, Oded
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use scaling arguments and coarse grained Monte Carlo simulations to study the fluctuation mediated interactions between a pair of adhesion sites of a bilayer membrane and a supporting surface. We find that the potential of mean force is an infinitely long range attractive potential that grows logarithmically with the pair distance $r$: $ϕ(\vec{r})/k_BT=c\ln r$, where the constant $c=2$ and $c=1$ for non-stressed and stressed membranes, respectively. When, in addition to excluded volume repulsion, the membrane also interacts with the underlying surface through a height-dependent attractive potential, the potential $ϕ(\vec{r})$ is screened at large pair distances.
On Viviani's Theorem and its Extensions
Creators: name: Abboud, Elias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 51N20, 51F99, 90C05

description: Viviani's theorem states that the sum of distances from any point inside an equilateral triangle to its sides is constant. We consider extensions of the theorem and show that any convex polygon can be divided into parallel segments such that the sum of the distances of the points to the sides on each segment is constant. A polygon possesses the CVS property if the sum of the distances from any inner point to its sides is constant. An amazing result, concerning the converse of Viviani's theorem is deduced; Three non-collinear points which have equal sum of distances to the sides inside a convex polygon, is sufficient for possessing the CVS property. For concave polygons the situation is quite different, while for polyhedra analogous results are deduced.
description: 16 pages, 6 figures
Additional file 1 of Prenatal exposure to fine particulate matter and newborn anogenital distance: a prospective cohort study
Creators: name: Shen, Xiaoli
name: Meng, Xia
name: Wang, Cuiping
name: Chen, Xiangfeng
name: Chen, Qian
name: Cai, Jing
name: Zhang, Jun
name: Zhang, Qianlong
name: Fan, Lichun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Characteristics of included and excluded mother-infant pairs in the Shanghai Birth Cohort. Table S2. Relationship between maternal exposure to PM2.5 (μg/m3) (in quartiles) and offspring’s anogenital distances (mm). Table S3. Sensitivity analysis for the relationship between maternal exposure to PM2.5 per 10 μg/m3 and offspring’s anogenital distances (mm) additionally adjusted for gestational age and birth weight. Table S4. Sensitivity analysis for the relationship between maternal exposure to PM2.5 per 10 μg/m3 and offspring’s anogenital distances (mm) based on the data with multiple imputation. Table S5. Sensitivity analysis for the relationship between maternal exposure to PM2.5 per 10 μg/m3 and offspring’s anogenital distances (mm) based on the data excluding low birth weight and high birth weight.
Steuerung und Regelung des Lenkradmoments durch Nutzung radselektiver Frontantriebe
Creators: name: Römer, Jürgen
Publisher: name: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Year: 2021
Subjects: Steuerung
Regelung
Lenkkraftunterstützung
Fahrdynamik
Energiebedarf
elektrische Antriebe

description: Der Energiebedarf von Fahrzeugen ist neben dem Antriebssystem auch durch zahlreiche Unterstützungssysteme beeinflusst. Um den Energiebedarf zu senken, bietet sich daher eine funktionale Integration verschiedener Systemkomponenten an. So ermöglicht der Einsatz radselektiver Antriebe an der gelenkten Achse neben dem Vortrieb gleichzeitig die Umsetzung einer Lenkkraftunterstützung. Die vorliegende Arbeit stellt hierfür eine an Steuerungsverfahren konventioneller Lenkkraftunterstützungssysteme angelehnte Methode zur Steuerung radselektiver Antriebe mit dem Ziel einer Reduktion des Lenkradmoments vor. Des Weiteren wird ein geregeltes Verfahren zur Lenkkraftunterstützung mittels radselektiver Antriebe unter Berücksichtigung der Fahrdynamik und des Energiebedarfs dargelegt. Der entwickelte optimale linear-quadratisch-integrale Regler erreicht eine hohe Regelgüte für das Lenkradmoment bei gleichzeitiger Gewährleistung der Fahrsicherheit. Darüber hinaus kann der Energiebedarf des Fahrzeugs auch im Vergleich zu einem Fahrzeug ohne Lenkkraftunterstützung gesenkt werden. Die Validierung erfolgt hierbei sowohl simulationsbasiert als auch in der Praxis mit einem Demonstratorfahrzeug im Maßstab 1:1,5.
Green MLOps to Green GenOps: An Empirical Study of Energy Consumption in Discriminative and Generative AI Operations
Creators: name: Sánchez-Mompó, Adrián
name: Mavromatis, Ioannis
name: Li, Peizheng
name: Katsaros, Konstantinos
name: Khan, Aftab
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This study presents an empirical investigation into the energy consumption of Discriminative and Generative AI models within real-world MLOps pipelines. For Discriminative models, we examine various architectures and hyperparameters during training and inference and identify energy-efficient practices. For Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs) are assessed, focusing primarily on energy consumption across different model sizes and varying service requests. Our study employs software-based power measurements, ensuring ease of replication across diverse configurations, models, and datasets. We analyse multiple models and hardware setups to uncover correlations among various metrics, identifying key contributors to energy consumption. The results indicate that for Discriminative models, optimising architectures, hyperparameters, and hardware can significantly reduce energy consumption without sacrificing performance. For LLMs, energy efficiency depends on balancing model size, reasoning complexity, and request-handling capacity, as larger models do not necessarily consume more energy when utilisation remains low. This analysis provides practical guidelines for designing green and sustainable ML operations, emphasising energy consumption and carbon footprint reductions while maintaining performance. This paper can serve as a benchmark for accurately estimating total energy use across different types of AI models.
description: Published to MDPI Information - Artificial Intelligence Section
title: From Ecological Epitome to Medical Model: An investigation into Applications for the use of Daphnia in Heart Science.
Creators: name: Angus-Whiteoak, A
Publisher: name: Liverpool John Moores University
Year: 2019

description: The primary aim of this research was to determine whether Daphnia might become a model for cardiovascular concentration-response trials. This would provide a high throughput means of testing cardiac therapeutics without resort to small mammal trials. We found Daphnia are inappropriate in this context due to high population variance and sensitivity to small, subtle, environmental changes. A new aim was developed to determine whether beat-to-beat variation could be correlated with an individual’s response to toxic insult. Further, to develop more accurate and efficient means of gathering heart rhythm data by recording heart movement from whole live Daphnia. This opens the way to individualising cardio therapeutics; by correlating the stability of individual hearts with response to cardiac insult, regression analysis provides a means of finding a prediction tool. Daphnia are a convenient example here, but successful scoring systems might also be applied to the human heart via analysis of ECG readouts. Collecting signals from whole live Daphnia did not fulfil the goal of gathering heart data as this instead recorded limb movement. However, this provides a means of improving toxicology testing in aquatic ecology. This thesis offers three contributions to knowledge: 1. Daphnia are an inappropriate model for cardiovascular therapeutic dose-response trials due to extreme environmental sensitivities. 2. Baseline heart rhythm can be correlated with paired response to cardiac insult, with significance at the 0.01 alpha level, using an adjusted version of the Lyapnov equation; Finite Time Growth (Wessel, 2010). However, this is only if population variation is adequate. It is better applied to a natural in situ population than a homegenic lab population. 3. A novel technique for measuring Daphnia electromechanical movement records feeding limbs rather than the heart. This offers a novel and more efficient technique for aquatic ecotoxicology, where visual observation or films of the same are currently used.
Ontology Based Query Expansion Using Word Sense Disambiguation
Creators: name: Barathi, M.
name: Valli, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The existing information retrieval techniques do not consider the context of the keywords present in the user's queries. Therefore, the search engines sometimes do not provide sufficient information to the users. New methods based on the semantics of user keywords must be developed to search in the vast web space without incurring loss of information. The semantic based information retrieval techniques need to understand the meaning of the concepts in the user queries. This will improve the precision-recall of the search results. Therefore, this approach focuses on the concept based semantic information retrieval. This work is based on Word sense disambiguation, thesaurus WordNet and ontology of any domain for retrieving information in order to capture the context of particular concept(s) and discover semantic relationships between them.
description: Pages IEEE format, International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security, IJCSIS February 2010, ISSN 1947 5500, http://sites.google.com/site/ijcsis/
The role of uncertainty in the vestibular control of balance during locomotion
Creators: name: Foulger, Liam Harrison
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Uncertainty is always present in the sensory information that we receive, worsening confidence in our self-motion estimates. This includes information from the vestibular system, which detects head motion in space and evokes whole-body balance responses during locomotion. These responses are attenuated with increasing step cadence and gait speed, but the neural mechanisms behind this modulation are not clear. One model suggests that the ratio (Vres) between the motor command variability and vestibular noise drives these changes. However, there is contradictory evidence concerning the physiological underpinnings of this model and its alignment with human behaviour. Twelve participants walked outside at step cadences 40-140% of their preferred cadence. We calculated coherence between electrical vestibular stimuli and mediolateral linear accelerations from inertial measurement units (IMUs) on the back, right ankle, and left ankle to infer the vestibular control of balance during locomotion. We also calculated Vres using the linear accelerations and angular velocities from an IMU on the head. We extracted peak coherences and mean Vres measures. To compare how these changed at faster step cadences, we performed paired t-tests between the 100, 120, and 140% cadence conditions and fitted exponential decay and 2nd degree polynomial functions to the data. Peak coherences decreased between the 100% and 140% cadence conditions (p < 0.025) while most linear acceleration Vres measures increased at cadences faster than 100% (multiple p values < 0.025). There were no significant changes to the angular velocity Vres measures (all p values > 0.025). Furthermore, the changes in peak coherence as a function of step cadence were best fitted to an exponential decay function (adjusted R²= 0.682-0.711) while the changes to the Vres were all best fitted to a polynomial (adjusted R² = 0.359-0.891), with minima near the preferred step cadence (91-123 steps/min). These results demonstrate that Vres does not predict vestibular control at faster step cadences and suggest that head kinematic variability may be optimized at the preferred cadence. This understanding has key implications for sensorimotor processing, which can inform computational modelling and how sensory information is impaired in clinical conditions.
Mass spectrum of the vector hidden charm and bottom tetraquark states
Creators: name: Wang, Zhi-Gang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article, we perform a systematic study of the mass spectrum of the vector hidden charmed and bottomed tetraquark states using the QCD sum rules.
description: 19 pages, 42 figures, slight revision
Uta graciosa BGir.
Creators: name: Müller, F
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1885
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Squamata
Sauria
Phrynosomatidae
Uta
Uta graciosa

description: * Uta graciosa BGir.
S. Bernardino-Tal v. H. Miescher. [1]
description: Published as part of Müller, F, 1885, Vierter Nachtrag zum Katalogder herpetologischen Sammlung des Basler Museums, pp. 668-717 in Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel. 7 (3) on page 712, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.part.2388, http://zenodo.org/record/15183591
New results about aggregation functions of quasi-pseudometric modulars
Creators: name: Fructuoso-Bonet, Alejandro
name: Rodríguez-López, Jesús
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: General Topology (math.GN)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 54E99, 18D20, 18F75, 46A80

description: In recent studies, Bibiloni-Femenias, Miñana and Valero characterized the functions that aggregate a family of (quasi-)(pseudo)metric modulars defined over a fixed set $X$ into a single one. In this paper, we adopt a related but different approach to examine those functions that allow us to define a (quasi-)(pseudo)metric modular in the Cartesian product of (quasi-)(pseudo)metric modular spaces. We base our research on the recent development of a general theory of aggregation functions between quantales. This enables to shed light between the two different ways of aggregation (quasi-)(pseudo)metric modulars.
In search of fulfilment : Japan's lost generation and the Australian working holiday
Creators: name: Kawashima, Kumiko
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: HQ799.J3 K38 2012
subject: Youth Social conditionsJapan
subject: Visitors, Foreign Australia
subject: Japan Emigration and immigration Australia
subject: Australia Emigration and immigration Japan
subject: Japan Social life and customs

description: Temporary migration has seen tremendous growth in recent years, and a variety of forms and trends have emerged. The Working Holiday (WH) is a new and novel form of temporary, international youth migration, increasingly popular among people from developed countries. The Australian WH scheme invites young people to temporarily live, study, work and holiday in the country for up to two years. It has steadily grown to accommodate tens of thousands of youths every year. Since the reciprocal agreement was established in 1980, Japan has become one of the major source countries of Working Holiday Makers (WHMs) in Australia, which in turn has consistently maintained its status as the top destination for the young Japanese. This thesis understands the mobility of Japanese WHMs to be a form of youth sojourn, and explores the role it plays in young people's self-making. My focus is on the particular period called the 'lost decade' (ushinawareta junen), involving the gradual collapse of the 'bubble' economy since the market crash of late 1989, from which the country has never fully recovered. The Japanese WHMs in this study belong to what has been termed the 'lost generation' (rosuto jenereshon, or rosujene), those whose life trajectories have been heavily influenced by the massive socio-economic changes associated with this era. My discussion draws on fieldwork conducted in Japan and Australia, where I engaged in participant observation and gathered interview narratives from people at various stages of their mobility, including prior to departure, sojourn in Australia, and return migration. My analysis ventures into several under-researched, yet fascinating areas: The WH as an exemplar of contemporary international mobility, which challenges the dichotomy between work-as-toil and leisure-as-pleasure; youth temporary migrants from a post-industrial society as occupying classed , gendered and ethnicised subject positions; intersection of economic and non-economic factors in migratory decision-making and experience; and the treatment of different phases of migration as a cumulative whole, as well as part of a wider life trajectory. In particular, I bring to the fore the issue of labour in an unlikely context of youth mobility between develop ed economies . Through a micro-level study of motivations, desires and agency, this thesis highlights the ways in which certain discourses and socio-economic practices are shaped by global forces, and how individual WHMs reproduce, conform to and resist such forces. My case study is a portrayal of how young people proactively and continuously seek to explore and develop their selves, as they search for an elusive sense of fulfilment in the late modern neoliberal world.
title: The Influence of Obesity on Melanoma and Sentinel Lymph Node Diagnosis: A Retrospective Monocentric Study in 1001 Patients
Creators: name: Oliveira, Filipa Almeida
name: Klose, Julie
name: Schulze, Hans-Joachim
name: Teixeira, Marta Ribeiro
name: Dermietzel, Alexander Frederik
name: Wellenbrock, Sascha Veiz Christian
name: Herter-Sprie, Grit Sophie
name: Hirsch, Tobias
name: Kückelhaus, Maximilian
Publisher: name: University of Muenster, Institutional Repository MIAMI
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 610 Medicine and health

description: (1) Background: While obesity is a known independent risk factor in the development of melanoma, there is no consensus on its influence on melanoma prognosis. (2) Methods: In a monocentric retrospective study, data was collected from patients who underwent sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy for stage IB-IIC melanoma between 2013 and 2018. Patients were divided into groups according to their body mass index (BMI). The association between BMI and melanoma features, as well as the risk factors for metastases in SLN were examined. (3) Results: Of the 1001 patients, 336 had normal weight (BMI < 25), 402 were overweight (BMI >= 25 and <30), 173 obese (BMI >= 30 and <35) and 90 extremely obese (BMI >= 35). Overweightness and obesity were associated with higher tumor thicknesses at time of diagnosis. Ulceration was not influenced by the patient’s weight. Metastases in sentinel lymph node was almost twice more likely in extremely obese patients than in normal weight patients. Independent risk factors for metastases in SLN in our study were tumor thickness, ulceration, and BMI > 35. (4) Conclusions: This is the first study to show higher metastases rates in high-BMI patients with melanoma, raising important questions regarding the screening and treatment of this specific patient population.
description: Finanziert durch den Open-Access-Publikationsfonds der Universität Münster.
Building critical mass of tree growers for bioenergy: The case of Central West New South Wales, Australia
Creators: name: Velarde Pajares, Sandra Judith
Publisher: name: Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University
Year: 2016
Subjects: critical mass
bioenergy
adoption of innovation
new value chains
tree planting
tree growers

description: The progression of the bioenergy industry needs to address concerns regarding the security of feedstock supply and the related environmental sustainability. Traditional first-generation biofuel feedstocks (e.g. maize, soybeans) are being questioned in favour of more environmentally-sound second-generation biofuel feedstocks (e.g. trees, perennial grasses). However, as an emerging industry, the commercial use of second-generation biofuel feedstock sources has several challenges to overcome. One of these challenges is landholders’ willingness to plant second-generation crops on their farms. To understand the landholders’ perspectives, this thesis used a conceptual framework based on adoption of innovation and diffusion theory, and applied this framework to a case study in the Central West region of New South Wales, Australia. The research questions addressed were: 1) what factors underlie landholders’ willingness to plant bioenergy tree crops, 2) what are the landholders’ preferences in the design of contracts for planting these trees, and 3) what are the potential pathways to build a critical mass of tree growers for bioenergy. A mixed methods approach was used involving quantitative analytical tools (e.g. tobit and logit regressions, choice modelling, and break even analysis) and qualitative analytical tools (e.g. integrated analysis). Tobit and logit regression models estimates revealed three key traits that positively influence the decision to plant second-generation biofuel feedstocks: 1) the landholder’s proportion of unproductive land, 2) the landholder’s membership in farming related organisations, and 3) the landholder’s experience with planting blocks of trees. Conversely, the landholder’s older age-squared would negatively influence their decision to plant second-generation biofuel feedstocks. The choice model estimates revealed that landholders who had already planted blocks of trees would be less likely to need a flexible contract for planting trees as energy crops, while landholders with larger proportions of unproductive land would prefer higher returns. This thesis concludes that for a second-generation bioenergy industry to emerge, a critical mass of biomass growers needs to be secured; this can be achieved by developing interlinked pathways that include: 1) supportive policies, 2) local support and an innovation champion, and 3) corporate support and/or a potential biomass buyer or investor. This research has identified critical pathways that can be developed to progress the bioenergy industry in Australia. The proposed pathways can be used to explore actors’ participation and their potential roles in scaling up, and to better understand the process of building critical mass for a second-generation bioenergy industry.
Additional file 1 of Early management of isolated severe traumatic brain injury patients in a hospital without neurosurgical capabilities: a consensus and clinical recommendations of the World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES)
Creators: name: Picetti, Edoardo
name: Catena, Fausto
name: Abu-Zidan, Fikri
name: Ansaloni, Luca
name: Armonda, Rocco A.
name: Bala, Miklosh
name: Balogh, Zsolt J.
name: Bertuccio, Alessandro
name: Biffl, Walt L.
name: Bouzat, Pierre
name: Buki, Andras
name: Cerasti, Davide
name: Chesnut, Randall M.
name: Citerio, Giuseppe
name: Coccolini, Federico
name: Coimbra, Raul
name: Coniglio, Carlo
name: Fainardi, Enrico
name: Gupta, Deepak
name: Gurney, Jennifer M.
name: Hawrylux, Gregory W. J.
name: Helbok, Raimund
name: Hutchinson, Peter J. A.
name: Iaccarino, Corrado
name: Kolias, Angelos
name: Maier, Ronald W.
name: Martin, Matthew J.
name: Meyfroidt, Geert
name: Okonkwo, David O.
name: Rasulo, Frank
name: Rizoli, Sandro
name: Rubiano, Andres
name: Sahuquillo, Juan
name: Sams, Valerie G.
name: Servadei, Franco
name: Sharma, Deepak
name: Shutter, Lori
name: Stahel, Philip F.
name: Taccone, Fabio S.
name: Udy, Andrew
name: Zoerle, Tommaso
name: Agnoletti, Vanni
name: Bravi, Francesca
name: De Simone, Belinda
name: Kluger, Yoram
name: Martino, Costanza
name: Moore, Ernest E.
name: Sartelli, Massimo
name: Weber, Dieter
name: Robba, Chiara
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Appendix 1. Consensus participants.
Holomorphic Extension of Eigenfunctions
Creators: name: Kroetz, Bernhard
name: Schlichtkrull, Henrik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 22Exx

description: Let X be a Riemannian symmetric space of non-compact type. We prove a theorem of holomorphic extension for eigenfunctions of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on X, by techniques from the theory of partial differential equations.
description: 8p, no figures
In the Waiting Room of Humanity: Rupturing Cosmopolitan Ethics, Revisiting Kant, Refracting (In)Human Rights
Creators: name: Nursoo, Ida
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2012
Subjects: cosmopolitanism
humanity
human rights
ethics
Immanuel Kant

description: By asking the question “who is the subject of humanity upon whom human rights are attached?” this thesis poses to cosmopolitan ethics an ontological question of how the being of the human of human rights is formulated. It inquires into the conditions of possibility of the anomaly of the cosmopolitan appeal to a universal right to humanity. This is an anomaly exposed by the aporias of war fought in the name of humanitarianism, dispossession of land as the consequence of an entitlement to hospitality and detention for an “unauthorized” assertion of the right to asylum. The thesis argues that the anomaly of universal human rights can be explained by the diagram of (in)humanity that has, like an abstract machine, circulated alongside the history of cosmopolitanism, constituting humanity as a human-inhuman complex that makes possible its denial. Rather than extending outwards, the boundary that divides inside from outside (human from inhuman) so as to make humanity a more encompassing and inclusive category for its legal-political mobilization, this thesis seeks to make sense of the boundary as a liminal space-time where human and inhuman come into conflict as the (in)human condition underlying the human rights conundrum. I describe this diagram as the “Anthropocentric Waiting Room” in order to designate how it is that humanity can be a condition for which some must wait. My central aim is to advance, in four phases, its theoretical importance to cosmopolitan studies. The first involves rupturing cosmopolitan ethics to highlight the space the (in)human occupies within contemporary discourses of cosmopolitan ethics. The second concerns recovering the archive to give the (in)human a history alongside cosmopolitanism’s humanity. The third engages in revisiting Kantian cosmopolitanism to establish its contribution to the intellectual history of the (in)human via a racist anthropology concerned with the production of the subject “Man” as “citizen of the world.” The fourth returns to the question of human rights through the problem of the anomaly by way of refracting this (in)human presence onto our contemporary dilemma.
Committee for an Independent Canada and its promotion of Canadian independence in the 1970s
Creators: name: Wawrejko, Adrian
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: This thesis analyses the Committee for an Independent Canada and its role in promoting Canadian independence during the 1970s. Following the Second World War, a concern arose about the independence of Canada from the growing economic and cultural Americanization of Canada. This led to a number of criticisms from several politicians, intellectuals, and outside groups from the late 1950s. However, these objections tended to be largely partisan and there was an absence of a unified and comprehensive approach to tackle the issues of Americanisation and the impact it had on Canadian sovereignty at both the federal and provincial levels. The formation of the CIC in 1970 would change that. This thesis argues that the Committee actively engaged in the discourse surrounding independence by engaging with a wide spectrum of actors and organizations at both the federal and provincial levels. It had both a national executive and local chapters throughout the nation, which helped the CIC in promoting independence. Nationally, it formulated policies for economic and cultural independence, engaged with federal politicians, and participated in the Royal Commission on the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline. Locally, the CIC formulated alliances, engaged with provincial governments, and launched campaigns for independence. The Committee’s efforts aimed to establish a pan-Canadian coalition, garnering greatest support from Ontario and Western Canada.
The stellar content of low redshift radio galaxies from near-infrared spectroscopy
Creators: name: Hyvonen, T.
name: Kotilainen, J. K.
name: Reunanen, J.
name: Falomo, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present medium spectral resolution near-infrared (NIR) HK-band spectra for 8 low redshift (z<0.06) radio galaxies to study the NIR stellar properties of their host galaxies. As a homogeneous comparison sample, we used 9 inactive elliptical galaxies that were observed with similar resolution and wavelength range. The aim of the study is to compare the NIR spectral properties of radio galaxies to those of inactive early-type galaxies and, furthermore, produce the first NIR HK-band spectra for low redshift radio galaxies. For both samples spectral indices of several diagnostic absorption features, SiI(1.589microns), CO(1.619microns), NaI(2.207microns), CaI(2.263microns), CO(>2.29microns), were measured. To characterize the age of the populations, the measured EWs of the absorption features were fitted with the corresponding theoretical evolutionary curves of the EWs calculated by the stellar synthesis model. On average, EW(CO 2.29) of radio galaxies is somewhat greater than that of inactive ellipticals. Most likely, EW(CO 2.29) is not significantly affected by dilution, and thus indicating that elliptical galaxies containing AGN are in a different stage in their evolution than inactive ellipticals. This is also supported by comparing other NIR features, such as CaI and NaI, with each other. Absorption features are consistent with the intermediate age stellar population, suggesting that host galaxies contain both an old and intermediate age components. It is consistent with previous optical spectroscopy studies which have shown evidence on the intermediate age (~2 Gyr) stellar population of radio galaxies, and also in some of the early-type galaxies. The existence of intermediate age population is a link between the star formation episode, possibly induced by interaction or merging event, and the triggering of the nuclear activity.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures
title: Founder and successor CEOs’ perceptions and experiences of leadership development and succession in Multi Academy Trusts
Creators: name: Gilson, Timothy
Publisher: name: University of Reading
Year: 2023

description: The English education system is at a moment of significant structural change. Over 
40% of schools are academy trusts and these now educate more than half of the 
children in English state schools. In 2022 the government set a clear policy direction 
in The Schools Bill for all schools to be in a ‘strong trust’ that either serves a minimum 
of 7,500 pupils or runs at least 10 schools; while the actual Bill has now been 
abandoned the ambition appears to remain. This is going to require existing trusts to 
grow and non-academy schools to convert. Many trusts are still led by their founding 
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and many of those founders are at or near the point of 
retirement. 
While there is a growing body of research into Multi Academy Trusts (MATs), there is 
very little on MAT-founding CEOs and the impact of their succession on the system. 
Therefore, this study addresses this knowledge gap by considering CEO perceptions 
of succession planning, leadership development and MAT culture. 
This study focusses on the perceptions of 14 academy trust CEOs about founding 
CEOs, succession planning, their professional development and culture in trusts. The 
study is rooted in a constructivist, interpretive approach and adopts a qualitative 
methodology. It is based on detailed semi-structured interviews. 
The study reveals that many trust CEOs have not considered succession planning for 
their post in detail with their trust boards. The CEOs in this sample are divided on 
whether their successor should be a qualified teacher and experienced headteacher. 
The CEOs reflect on their professional development and the study makes a number of 
recommendations about how prospective trust CEOs should be prepared for the role;
these include, time in a role that operates across more than one school or outside the 
mainstream school system, a focus on developing and supporting strong professional 
and personal networks, the inclusion of coaching and/or mentoring and the need for 
consideration of how organisational culture develops in academy trusts as they grow 
and move away from the founder.
Implementing New-age Authentication Techniques using OpenID for Security Automation
Creators: name: Choukse, Dharmendra
name: Singh, Umesh Kumar
name: Sukheja, Deepak
name: Shahapurkar, Rekha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Security of any software can be enhanced manifolds if multiple factors for authorization and authentication are used .The main aim of this work was to design and implement an Academy Automation Software for IPS Academy which uses OpenID and Windows CardSpace as Authentication Techniques in addition to Role Based Authentication (RBA) System to ensure that only authentic users can access the predefined roles as per their Authorization level. The Automation covers different computing hardware and software that can be used to digitally create, manipulate, collect, store, and relay Academy information needed for accomplishing basic Operation like admissions and registration, student and faculty interaction, online library, medical and business development. Raw data storage, electronic transfer, and the management of electronic business information comprise the basic activities of the Academy automation system. Further Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol has been implemented to provide security and data integrity for communications over networks. TLS encrypts the segments of network connections at the Transport
description: Pages IEEE format, International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security, IJCSIS February 2010, ISSN 1947 5500, http://sites.google.com/site/ijcsis/
Fluxonium: single Cooper pair circuit free of charge offsets
Creators: name: Manucharyan, Vladimir E.
name: Koch, Jens
name: Glazman, Leonid
name: Devoret, Michel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The promise of single Cooper pair quantum circuits based on tunnel junctions for metrology and quantum information applications is severely limited by the influence of "offset" charges - random, slowly drifting microscopic charges inherent to many solid-state systems. By shunting a small junction with the Josephson kinetic inductance of a series array of large capacitance tunnel junctions, thereby ensuring that all superconducting islands are connected to the circuit by at least one large junction, we have realized a new superconducting artificial atom which is totally insensitive to offset charges. Yet, its energy levels manifest the anharmonic structure associated with single Cooper pair effects, a useful component for solid state quantum computation.
description: Introduction and title updated
Additional file 1 of Relationship of sleep duration with incident cardiovascular outcomes: a prospective study of 33,883 adults in a general population
Creators: name: Cui, Hui
name: Xu, Rong
name: Wan, Yiming
name: Ling, Yong
name: Jiang, Yonggen
name: Wu, Yiling
name: Guan, Ying
name: Zhao, Qi
name: Zhao, Genming
name: Zaid, Maryam
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 1. A flow chart of the study participants included in the present study who were originally recruited from Songjiang District, Shanghai, China as part of the Shanghai Suburban Adult Cohort and Biobank (SSACB). * Inconsistent number is due to overlapped number of participants between data sources.
Choco-Q: Commute Hamiltonian-based QAOA for Constrained Binary Optimization
Creators: name: Xiang, Debin
name: Jiang, Qifan
name: Lu, Liqiang
name: Tan, Siwei
name: Yin, Jianwei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Constrained binary optimization aims to find an optimal assignment to minimize or maximize the objective meanwhile satisfying the constraints, which is a representative NP problem in various domains, including transportation, scheduling, and economy. Quantum approximate optimization algorithms (QAOA) provide a promising methodology for solving this problem by exploiting the parallelism of quantum entanglement. However, existing QAOA approaches based on penalty-term or Hamiltonian simulation fail to thoroughly encode the constraints, leading to extremely low success rate and long searching latency.
 This paper proposes Choco-Q, a formal and universal framework for constrained binary optimization problems, which comprehensively covers all constraints and exhibits high deployability for current quantum devices. The main innovation of Choco-Q is to embed the commute Hamiltonian as the driver Hamiltonian, resulting in a much more general encoding formulation that can deal with arbitrary linear constraints. Leveraging the arithmetic features of commute Hamiltonian, we propose three optimization techniques to squeeze the overall circuit complexity, including Hamiltonian serialization, equivalent decomposition, and variable elimination. The serialization mechanism transforms the original Hamiltonian into smaller ones. Our decomposition methods only take linear time complexity, achieving end-to-end acceleration. Experiments demonstrate that Choco-Q shows more than 235$\times$ algorithmic improvement in successfully finding the optimal solution, and achieves 4.69$\times$ end-to-end acceleration, compared to prior QAOA designs.
description: 14 pages, 14 figures, conference
Under Development: Stories of Children and NGOs in Delhi, India
Creators: name: McCarthy, Annie
Publisher: name: Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Childhood
Development
India
Narrative
NGOs
Ethnography

description: Stories of and by marginalised children in development programs circulate widely in contemporary mediascapes. Beyond these stories and images, which typically depict narratives of victimisation, or of agency against the odds, very little can be gleaned of these children’s lives or their relationship to the evelopment programs they attend. This thesis, based on fieldwork among children who live in four slums in Delhi, India, explores the way children engaged with the programs of a media NGO (non-government organisation). The main focus of this organisation was the training of children in the production of certain kinds of developmental messages and methods of self-expression, and it is this focus that I examine in this thesis. Alongside my ethnographic observations of children’s participation in these NGO classes and campaigns, the ethnography is enriched with a careful reading of children’s performances, stories and drawings produced in the course of these classes. Rather than view such activities as instrumental or demonstrative of children’s participation in NGO schemes, I argue that our understanding of children’s lived experience of development can be ‘thickened’ through a reading of texts and performances that these children produce in NGO spaces. Such considerations allow for a much richer appreciation of the development discourse and the way it is deployed in the NGO space, by children and NGO workers. The children I worked with entered the NGO spaces already tagged as ‘underdeveloped’ slum children. It was expected that in the space of these NGO’s and ‘under’ the principles and theories of development, the children could improve their futures and those of their communities. While frequently performing or enacting this category of the 'underdeveloped child', the children also displayed a keen sense of the development discourse. As such, they were able to skilfully and instrumentally employ a range of positions, from innocent victims to conscious agents, to subvert, disrupt or co-opt the development categories that framed their lives. The kinds of performances and narratives children produced in NGO spaces that I discuss in this thesis cover a range of key issues such as hygiene, marriage and gender violence. They all point to a pragmatic, playful, opportunistic and ultimately personal approach to development. I have tried to represent this in this thesis both textually and visually, using images and photoessays to compliment my written material.