cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Jet-mode feedback in NGC 5972: insights from resolved MUSE, GMRT and VLA observations
Creators: name: Ali, Arshi
name: Sebastian, Biny
name: Kakkad, Darshan
name: Silpa, Sasikumar
name: Kharb, Preeti
name: O'Dea, Christopher P.
name: Singha, Mainak
name: K
name: Rubinur
name: Baum, Stefi A.
name: Bait, Omkar
name: Vaddi, Sravani
name: Kurapati, Sushma
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: NGC 5972, a Voorwerp galaxy, features a helical-shaped extended emission-line region (EELR) with a radius > 10 kpc and a S-shaped radio structure spanning about 470 kpc. We use VLT MUSE, GMRT, and VLA to study the stellar and ionized gas kinematics and how the radio jet influences the gas in the galaxy. Our sensitive radio observations detect the southern jet for the first time, roughly coinciding with the southern EELR. The VLA images show a continuous inner jet connected to the outer E-W lobe, confirming the jet origin of the radio emission. Our kinematic analysis shows spatial correlations between the radio jet and the outflowing gas, supporting the jet-driven feedback mechanism. More interestingly, we observe enhanced velocity dispersion in the perpendicular direction along with a shell-like structure. Our BPT analysis shows that the [O III] emission overlapping with the radio jet is consistent with the shock+precursor model, whereas in the perpendicular region, a pure shock model fits well with the observations, indicating jet-induced shocks. Radio observations indicate episodic AGN activity characterized by surface brightness and spectral index discontinuities. Overall, based on our findings, we propose a jet-driven feedback mechanism as one of the key factors in the formation of the EELR in NGC 5972. Future high-resolution radio observations will be crucial to further investigate the origin of the EELR and quantify the extent to which the jet influences its formation and evolution.
description: 26 pages, 15 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication in ApJ
WiCross: Indoor Human Zone-Crossing Detection Using Commodity WiFi Devices
Creators: name: Shi, Weiyan
name: Wang, Xuanzhi
name: Niu, Kai
name: Wang, Leye
name: Zhang, Daqing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Detecting whether a target crosses the given zone (e.g., a door) can enable various practical applications in smart homes, including intelligent security and people counting. The traditional infrared-based approach only covers a line and can be easily cracked. In contrast, reusing the ubiquitous WiFi devices deployed in homes has the potential to cover a larger area of interest as WiFi signals are scattered throughout the entire space. By detecting the walking direction (i.e., approaching and moving away) with WiFi signal strength change, existing work can identify the behavior of crossing between WiFi transceiver pair. However, this method mistakenly classifies the turn-back behavior as crossing behavior, resulting in a high false alarm rate. In this paper, we propose WiCross, which can accurately distinguish the turn-back behavior with the phase statistics pattern of WiFi signals and thus robustly identify whether the target crosses the area between the WiFi transceiver pair. We implement WiCross with commercial WiFi devices and extensive experiments demonstrate that WiCross can achieve an accuracy higher than 95\% with a false alarm rate of less than 5%.
description: Accepted at UbiComp/ISWC 2023 Poster
LLPut: Investigating Large Language Models for Bug Report-Based Input Generation
Creators: name: Hasan, Alif Al
name: Saha, Subarna
name: Imran, Mia Mohammad
name: Zaman, Tarannum Shaila
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Failure-inducing inputs play a crucial role in diagnosing and analyzing software bugs. Bug reports typically contain these inputs, which developers extract to facilitate debugging. Since bug reports are written in natural language, prior research has leveraged various Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques for automated input extraction. With the advent of Large Language Models (LLMs), an important research question arises: how effectively can generative LLMs extract failure-inducing inputs from bug reports? In this paper, we propose LLPut, a technique to empirically evaluate the performance of three open-source generative LLMs -- LLaMA, Qwen, and Qwen-Coder -- in extracting relevant inputs from bug reports. We conduct an experimental evaluation on a dataset of 206 bug reports to assess the accuracy and effectiveness of these models. Our findings provide insights into the capabilities and limitations of generative LLMs in automated bug diagnosis.
The calibration of the Tully-Fisher relations and the value of Hubble Constant
Creators: name: Sakai, Shoko
name: Mould, Jeremy
name: Huchra, John
name: Hughes, Shaun
name: Macri, Lucas M.
name: Kennicutt, Robert C.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We present the calibration of BV RIH -0.5 Tully-fisher relations based on Cepheid distances to 21 galaxies within 25Mpc. These relations are then applied to four distant cluster surveys (in B, R, I and H) to derive value of Ho. Taking a weighted average of the estimates we obtain Ho = 71 + 4 (random) + (systematic) km sec^-1 Mpc^-1. We also investigate how various sytematic uncertainties affect this value.
Topological optical skyrmion transfer to matter
Creators: name: Mitra, Chirantan
name: Madasu, Chetan Sriram
name: Gabardos, Lucas
name: Kwong, Chang Chi
name: Shen, Yijie
name: Ruostekoski, Janne
name: Wilkowski, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ability of structured light to mimic exotic topological skyrmion textures, encountered in high-energy physics, cosmology, magnetic materials, and superfluids has recently received considerable attention. Despite their promise as mechanisms for data encoding and storage, there has been a lack of studies addressing the transfer and storage of the topology of optical skyrmions to matter. Here, we demonstrate a high-fidelity mapping of skyrmion topology from a laser beam onto a gas of cold atoms, where it is detected in its new non-propagating form. Within the spatial overlap of the beam and atom cloud, the skyrmion topological charge is preserved, with a reduction from $Q \simeq 0.91$ to $Q \simeq 0.84$ mainly due to the beam width exceeding the sample size. Our work potentially opens novel avenues for topological photonics state storage and the analysis of more complex structured light topologies.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures
title: Understanding form beyond form-alization : problematizing the culture of teaching [urban] form in the design studio
Creators: name: Talha Farooqi, Abu
name: Raswant, Simran
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: If we are to understand ‘urban form’, then it is paramount to first understand what is ‘form’. The word ‘form’ is invariably employed in a limited sense while making sense of a city or an urban environment, especially in the disciplines of architecture and urban design. There exists an overwhelming proclivity towards the act of ‘formalization’ – primarily the case of formalising an urban settlement or phenomenon into geometric shapes, for the purpose of analysis. The primal argument of this paper is that ‘form’ does not mean ‘formalization’. Our hunch here is not to suggest an alternate urbanform of study, but instead to deconstruct and problematise this dominant practice of ‘formalization’. The practice of formalization is a classic case where an urban phenomenon is uncritically and insufficiently studied; and instead of studying different kinds of urban ‘forms’, a particular type of ‘form’ is focussed upon and advanced. Apart from architecture and urbanism, form occupies a key importance in the history of philosophy, aesthetic theory, literary theory, as well as socio-cultural anthropology. The reality of the discipline of (architecture and) urban design superficially appropriating it, is indeed tragic and the problematization of this superficial culture is the purpose of this paper. How does the problem of form arise in the design studio? How is it intensified by the key referential texts used in architecture and urban design studios? What are the ways in which philosophy and reconceptualization of form can be figured out? These constitute the key concerns of this paper.
title: A diachronic investigation of social inequality and spatial segregation in the District of Columbia
Creators: name: Toprak, Ilgi
name: Ekdi, Fatma Pelin
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: Washington DC is one of the gravely affected urban areas by social inequality and its effects. According to the Gini Index of the Population Reference Bureau, the District of Columbia carries an income inequality of 52.8%, the highest percentage within the United States. In this inquiry, we aim to uncover the diverse patterns of inequality and their potential interrelations with the urban form in the District of Columbia in three levels. (1) Mapping inequality: We diachronically map spatial data about land value, household income, race and ethnicity, school and healthcare accessibility and rating, crime data and Covid-19 data. (2) Analysing urban change: We compare and analyse specific areas of the district according to the changes that we track in the diachronic mapping and find potential depriving and decaying areas as well as gentrifying areas. (3) Relating to urban form: We attempt to make sense of these patterns of urban change by relating them to urban form on two levels by means of street network analysis where we analyse the closeness centrality (integration) of street segments and then compare the built form characteristics and urban density measures using Nolli maps. Through this methodology, we aim to reveal how social inequality and spatial segregation issues relate to urban form in the District of Columbia case.
title: Diachronic investigation of the urban form of Qom (Iran) through morphometric approach
Creators: name: Venerandi, Alessandro
name: Zamani, Vahid
name: Porta, Sergio
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: Qom is one of the oldest cities in Iran, with a multi-millennial history dating back to the 4th millennium BC, according to archaeological excavations. Due to different dominations (from ancient Persian dynasties to Islamic ones), the city has gone through successive phases of development and decay, which stratified in its urban form. More recently, due to its advantageous geographical position, several inter-city roads were constructed to converge in Qom, creating a radial structure, whose accessibility has been constantly improved by adding ring roads and filling gaps with local gridded networks. The sum of these transformations produced over time a complex urban form, which remains largely understudied. The aim of this paper is to investigate the morphology of Qom in a systematic manner through the use of a novel method of morphometric analysis based on multiple indicators of urban form describing aspects of the urban fabric and street network, as well as clustering techniques identifying homogeneous urban types in a hierarchical structure according to similarity. The application of this method to official datasets of plots and street segments, provided by the local administration, reveals 11 urban types with distinctive morphological traits, seemingly matching main phases of urban development. This morphometric analysis provides novel insights on one of the most ancient Iranian cities and can be replicated to investigate urban types in further case studies.
title: Measuring variations in streetscape skeletons under zoning regulations of the building coverage ratio : a theoretical approach
Creators: name: Usui, Hiroyuki
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: The arrangement of buildings along roads is one of the most fundamental patterns of three-dimensional streetscape skeletons, defined as a set of building heights and setbacks in a district. Under zoning regulations, building heights and setbacks are indirectly controlled by the building coverage ratio (BCR) and the floor area ratio (FAR). In particular, variations in the BCR result in variations in building heights and setbacks. Thus, understanding the relationship among variations in the BCR, building heights and setbacks is important to harmonise streetscape skeletons. However, this relationship has yet to be theoretically investigated due to its complexity. To this end, we formulate the relationship between variations in building heights and setbacks as the function of the variance of the BCR. We show that as the variance of the BCR increases, the increase in the variance of building heights is greater than that in the variance of setbacks. This finding can contribute to controlling variations in streetscape skeletons.
title: Characterization of urban heat islands based on the treatment of the urban planning regulations of the French local urban plan
Creators: name: Técher, Magalie
name: Haddou, Hassan Ait
name: Aguejdad, Rahim
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: For over 30 years, Urban Heat Island (UHI) have been increasing in intensity, exacerbated by increasing population, urban density and by global warming. These phenomena lead to the emergence of challenges for the life of urban environments: excess mortality and deterioration of comfort conditions, vulnerability of urban networks and infrastructures. French planning policies are institutional tools intended for the governance of urban territories development. With more and more frequent heat episodes, these tools make it possible to manage the evolution of urban morphology and thus anticipate the development of Urban Heat Islands. The impact of urban form on UHI having been attested for many years. As part of a thesis PhD, a methodology is developed to map the sensitivity of urban planning regulations to UHI. This method is being tested in municipalities in the Montpellier Méditerranée metropolitan area. This method is aimed at local authorities and actors of the French territory. It aims to provide a tool and indicators to characterize and anticipate the UHI during the elaboration of French urban planning documents, define issues and guide urban planning policies. The methodology is based on the classification of the urban planning regulations of the French Local Urban Plan (PLU). This urban planning regulation is characterized by a set of articles, which determine urban morphology: land use, architectural characteristics, volume, unbuilt area, etc. Based on this classification, Landsat-8 images are used to determine the Land Surface Temperature (LST) to enrich the classification of the urban planning regulations. By associating the classification of urban planning regulations with temperature treatments, this work allows numerous territorial diagnostic supports: The expected results are relevant for French local authorities. The maps produced will support urban planning documents by making it possible to visualize the vulnerability and behavior of urban morphology and anticipate urban heat islands.
Galeatus affinis
Creators: name: Vinokurov, Nikolay N.
name: Rudoi, Valentin V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Tingidae
Galeatus
Galeatus affinis

description: Galeatus affinis (Herrrich-Schaeffer, 1835)
 Material. Kurai Mts, Teranjik and Right Kubadru Rivers, 50°21′ N, 87°55′ E, H = 2200–2600 m, 29.07– 02.08.2019, 1 ♀.
 Distribution. Holarctic. Recorded from Altai Republic (Petrova 1978).
description: Published as part of Vinokurov, Nikolay N. & Rudoi, Valentin V., 2020, New materials on heteropterans from Kurai steppe (south-west of Russian Altai), pp. 25-35 in Ecologica Montenegrina 38 on page 29, DOI: 10.37828/em.2020.38.5, http://zenodo.org/record/13231892
Prescription Opioid Use and Non-fatal Overdose in a Cohort of Injection Drug Users
Creators: name: Lake, Stephanie L.
name: Wood, Evan
name: Buxton, Jane A.
name: Dong, Huiru
name: Montaner, Julio
name: Kerr, Thomas
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Background There is growing concern regarding rising rates of prescription drug-related deaths among the general North American population as well as increasing availability of illicitly obtained prescription opioids. Concurrently among people who inject drugs (IDU), illicit prescription opioid use has increased while non-fatal overdose remains a major source of morbidity. Objectives This study aimed to evaluate whether the use of POs was associated with non-fatal overdose among IDU in Vancouver, Canada. Methods Data was obtained from two open prospective cohorts of IDU between December 2005 and May 2013. We used generalized estimating equation (GEE) logistic regression to evaluate the association between prescription opioid use and non-fatal overdose, adjusting for various social, demographic, and behavioral factors. Results There were 1,614 IDU, including 541 (33.5%) women, who were recruited and included in this analysis. At baseline, 526 (32.6%) reported using POs and 118 (7.3%) reported experiencing an overdose in the previous six months. In a multivariable analysis, prescription opioid use remained independently associated with non-fatal overdose (adjusted odds ratio: 1.61, 95% confidence interval: 1.32–1.95), after adjusting for confounders. Conclusion We observed relatively high rates of prescription opioid use among IDU in this setting, and found an independent association between prescription opioid use and non-fatal overdose. Our data is likely representative of riskier substance use associated with those who use prescription opioids within our sample. Interventions to prevent and respond to overdoses should consider the higher risk profiles of IDU who use prescription opioids.
The Theatre of Dissent in Non-aligned Slovenia and Yugoslavia from the 1950-ies till the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Creators: name: Toporišič, Tomaž
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Cagliari
Year: 2020
Subjects: dissent theatre; theatre of consensus; retro avant-garde; post-dramatic; politicised art

description: The aim of the essay is to throw some additional light on the politics of dissent in the Slovene and Yugoslav theatre of the 20th century. It focuses on the specific Central and East European area of non-aligned Yugoslavia as a Second World cultural model in the period of socialism and post-socialism. It thus outlines the alternative culture that emerged after Tito’s break with Stalin in 1948 and continued with neo-avant-gardes and movements of dissent in the postmodern era marked by a severe crisis of self-management socialism. The essay starts from the definitions of the political in the post-dramatic by Hans-Thies Lehmann, and the theatre of opposition or dissidence and theatre of consensus by Valentina Valentini. It outlines the specific character of the Slovene theatre and the ideology of mild socialism that continued to define many aspects of the political within the one-party system of the former Yugoslavia. Thus, it maps a new geography of this specific East European theatre of dissent from the experimental theatre of the 1960's and 1970's until the retro-avant-garde subversive theatre of the Neue Slowenische Kunst.
description: Between, Vol 10, No 19 (2020): The Cultures of Dissent in Europe in the second half of the Twentieth Century
Heavy Alcohol Use and Suicidal Behavior Among People Who Use Illicit Drugs : A Cohort Study
Creators: name: Kennedy, Mary Clare
name: Marshall, Brandon David Lewis
name: Hayashi, Kanna
name: Nguyen, Paul
name: Wood, Evan
name: Kerr, Thomas
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Background People who use illicit drugs (PWUD) are known to experience high rates of suicidal behavior. While heavy alcohol use has been associated with suicide risk, its impact on the suicidal behavior of PWUD has not been well characterized. Therefore, we examined the relationship between heavy alcohol use and suicidal behavior among PWUD in Vancouver, Canada. Methods Data are derived from two prospective cohort studies of PWUD in Vancouver, Canada, from 2005 to 2013. Participants completed questionnaires that elicited information regarding sociodemographics, drug use patterns, and mental health problems, including suicidal behavior. We used recurrent event survival analyses to estimate the independent association between at-risk/heavy drinking (based on National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism [NIAAA] criteria) and risk of incident, self-reported suicide attempts. Results Of 1,757 participants, 162 participants (9.2%) reported 227 suicide attempts over the 8-year study period, resulting in an incidence rate of 2.5 cases per 100 person-years. After adjusting for potential confounders, including intensive illicit drug use patterns, heavy alcohol use (adjusted hazard ratio [AHR] = 1.97; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.39, 2.78) was positively associated with an increased risk of suicidal behavior. Conclusions We observed a high burden of suicidal behavior among a community-recruited sample of PWUD. Heavy alcohol use predicted a higher risk of suicide attempt, independent of other drug use patterns. These findings demonstrate the need for evidence-based interventions to address suicide risk among PWUD, particularly those who are heavy consumers of alcohol.
title: Integrating energy and wind performance reasoning in urban form type design for an educational district in Singapore
Creators: name: Vititneva, Ekaterina
name: Shi, Zhongming
name: Herthogs, Pieter
name: König, Reinhard
name: von Richthofen, Aurel
name: Schneider, Sven
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: Climate emergency urges the reduction of CO2 emissions. Energy is the major contributor to climate change, and the building sector accounts for a large share of rising global energy consumption. Previous research has shown a strong interplay between urban form and energy consumption. The transition towards net-zero cities is challenged by the space required for renewable energy production, especially in a dense urban context such as Singapore. This study investigates the relationships between the urban morphology characteristics and the energy performance of educational districts in the tropical climate of Singapore, using simulation-based parametric geometric modelling as a method. We based morphological properties on an analysis of existing educational urban quarters in Singapore and related literature on energy-driven urban design in tropical climates. Based on that, a parametric model for a new hybrid typology was created to evaluate different configurations of it using urban energy and wind simulations to inform the design process. The scenario with the best performance was developed further and applied to a case study site in Singapore. The findings of this study could inform planning processes where design decisions can influence, or are driven by, energy performance and energy-driven design concepts.
title: Earth observation + morphometrics : towards a systematic understanding of cities in challenging contexts
Creators: name: Wang, Jiong
name: Fleischmann, Martin
name: Venerandi, Alessandro
name: Kuffer, Monika
name: Porta, Sergio
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: The ongoing fast and unprecedented urbanisation, strongly affecting cities in the Global South, is casting urban development into challenging dynamics, involving, for example, the construction of new or expansion of existing informal settlements lacking the most basic services. This informal urban development is insufficiently understood due to limited resources, leading to an absence of data to support its urban analysis and, consequently, obstacles to address social equity, sustainability, and resilience through urban planning and design practices. Although the potential of Earth Observation (EO) has widely been recognized for mapping different urban patterns, the surge of big data and data science, along with usually costly high resolution datasets are marginalizing the open science of interpretable urban morphology with the abstract relationship between mapped socioeconomic patterns and image features. In this work, an "EO + Morphometrics" framework is proposed to combine open EO data with open tools for explicit, reliable and consistent measurements of urban form and thus to understand development patterns based on urban morphology. More specifically, a reengineered convolutional neural network is applied to freely available Google Earth imagery to extract building footprints for entire cities. Morphometrics then uses this information to measure hundreds of metrics of the built environment and output homogenous urban form types. This two-step method is applied to a few fast-growing sub-Saharan cities. To test whether specific urban types correspond to socioeconomic patterns, we compare the outcomes with local delineations of informal settlements. Morphological types, characterised by a compact/organic urban fabric, seem to be predominantly contained in the boundaries of informal settlements. We argue that "EO + Morphometrics" paves the way for deriving a generalizable understanding of urban form in challenging contexts. This information can, in turn, be used for further analysis (for example, with socioeconomic data) and inform local planning and interventions.
Neides propinquus Horvath 1901
Creators: name: Vinokurov, Nikolay N.
name: Rudoi, Valentin V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Berytidae
Neides
Neides propinquus

description: Neides propinquus Horváth, 1901
 Material. Kurai steppe, 50°15′ N, 87°54′ E, H = 1600–1650 m, 8.08.2019, 1 ♀.
 Distribution. Dauro-Mongolian steppe. First record from Altai Republic.
description: Published as part of Vinokurov, Nikolay N. & Rudoi, Valentin V., 2020, New materials on heteropterans from Kurai steppe (south-west of Russian Altai), pp. 25-35 in Ecologica Montenegrina 38 on page 29, DOI: 10.37828/em.2020.38.5, http://zenodo.org/record/13231892
Reviving Andrei Bely’s heritage: Metricalization in Vladimir Gubin’s Illarion i Karlik
Creators: name: Albanese, Noemi
Publisher: name: Università degli Studi di Cagliari
Year: 2020
Subjects: Metricalization; Silver Age; Underground; Andrei Bely; Vladimir Gubin

description: The heritage left by the literary experiments of the Silver Age and of the avant-garde was almost forgotten until the 1960s, when dissent towards the socialist realism’s guidelines became stronger and the cultural underground started to take shape. In this context, some authors re-discovered the achievements of the 1920s’ literature and mixed them with the feelings and perceptions of the Soviet man. One of them was V. Gubin, whose povest’ Illarion i Karlik is a clear sample of this attempt of recreating the connection, previously abruptly broken, between the underground culture of the 1960s and the Silver Age. The aim of this paper is to focus on Illarion i Karlik, underlining the connection between his artistic sensibility and the explorations of Andrei Bely, who started to pursuit the complete metricalization of the prosaic text. This rhetorical device indeed constitutes the basis of the novel and offers a sample of how aesthetics became the main way of resistance against the regime.
description: Between, Vol 10, No 19 (2020): The Cultures of Dissent in Europe in the second half of the Twentieth Century
title: Public service facilities implantation mode research for existing communities based on ArcGIS analysis
Creators: name: Wang, Xiaoyang
name: Li, Xiaomu
name: Li, Wenzhu
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: China's urban construction has come to the stage of refined regeneration after a period of decades of rapid urbanization. While the existing communities' regeneration is facing more competitions. As one of the most important subjects in city regeneration, to perfect public service facilities' distribution and to improve its quality are two main jobs. However, there is no surplus land to construct big facilities' buildings, besides, inhabitants' needs tend to be diversified. The discrepancy between these two aspects has become one important problem in existing communities' regeneration. Based on it, this paper proposes a mode of implanting public service facilities into the existing communities which mainly contains two aspects. In terms of function, filter and classify the public facilities which can activate communities' vitality, then analysis different kinds of current facilities' deficiency by ArcGIS to make a decision of facilities' types. In terms of space, there mainly contains three parts. First of all, do typological analysis of existing communities' space, then, design corresponding implantation strategy for each type, taking facilities' function, such as restaurant and retail business, beauty salon, small theatre, tea house, etc. into consideration. At last, combing the existing communities' structure, make sure these public facilities open to the city rather than the residents only, and open to all ages. As result, create a public place shared by the whole city. This study's final goal is to try to offer a new mode of existing communities' regeneration and to provide a reference for making and revising related norms.
title: Integrated design strategy of building water-green environment based on urban form
Creators: name: Wen, Lin
name: Liu, Quan
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: The urban morphology research usually focuses on the city of the past, which is mostly consisted of the artificial elements. However, today’s design of urban space is not only to fulfil the living, transportation, aesthetics need, but more and more to think about the ecological sustainability and to comprehensively use the natural elements such as water and plants. It is also changing the relationship between the buildings and other physical elements in the urban space to a large extent, and will eventually bring about the new urban form. However, existing design generally focuses only on specific technique or physical element such as green roof, and lacks on exploring the integration value of them and its potential impact on generating a new urban form. This article collects 34 well-known water-green utilization design cases, and explores the possibility of integrated design and future forms on the basis of form analysis and summary. Firstly, based on Karl Kropf and Paul Osmond 's discussion of the elements of urban form, the water-green elements of the cases are classified on three levels: vertical interface, horizontal interface, internal and external space. Secondly, the evaluation of ecology, landscape, and engineering of the form of elements in the cases is made, and evaluate the integrability of the relationship between the water-green elements and their impact on urban form. Finally, structure a prototype, to explore feasible integrated design strategies and analyses their potential impact on the future urban form.
Phase Separation in Active Binary Mixtures With Chemical Reaction
Creators: name: Mondal, Sayantan
name: Das, Prasenjit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study motility-induced phase separation~(MIPS) in active AB binary mixtures undergoing the chemical reaction $A \rightleftharpoons B$. Starting from the evolution equations for the density fields $ρ_i(\vec r, t)$ describing MIPS, we phenomenologically incorporate the effects of the reaction through the reaction rate $Γ$ into the equations. The steady-state domain morphologies depend on $Γ$ and the relative activity of the species, $Δ$. For a sufficiently large $Γ$ and $Δ\ne 1$, the more active component of the mixture forms a droplet morphology. We characterize the morphology of domains by calculating the equal-time correlation function $C(r, t)$ and the structure factor $S(k, t)$, exhibiting scaling violation. The average domain size, $L(t)$, follows a diffusive growth as $L(t)\sim t^{1/3}$ before reaching the steady state domain size, $L_{\rm ss}$. Additionally, $L_{\rm ss}$ shows the scaling relation $L_{\rm ss}\simΓ^{-1/4}$, independent of $Δ$.
description: 16 Pages, 7 Figures, Accepted to Soft Matter
title: Three-dimensional morphological research on the alley space of Lilong Housing — A comparative study of Japanese and French Concession in Tianjin, China
Creators: name: Wang, Xinrui
name: Zheng, Ying
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: Lilong housing as a kind of dwelling housing was born during the modernization process of Chinese housing from 1840s. Large amounts of Lilong Housing were constructed in Tianjin from 1860s to 1940s, which formed the basic city fabric till now. Many researches focus on alley space which is very typical in Lilong housing, and some achieves are of classification by typological methods. However, most of them are based on planar analysis, though the space of alleys is three-dimensional, and the difference between different Concessions are rarely mentioned. This paper focused on the alleys' three-dimensional morphological characteristics, especially on the aspect ratio and the interface changing in different alleys in the sequence from the city to the house. Meanwhile this study is based on the previous classification of alley's structure: line-type, fishbone-type and loop-type. Firstly, the typology depth of planar structure is studied base on the previous classification. Secondly, the redefined Alley Aspect Ratio is calculated, clear differences between Japanese Concession and French Concession are shown. Finally, typology depth was connected to the section according to the planar structure to reveal the prototype of alley space in different Concessions. According the research, it is found that 3D characteristics have remarkable differences in the same planar type. Further, the spatial characteristic of alleys has different tendency between two Concessions. Therefore, this paper suggests that in the colonial period, the planning concepts of different colonial countries guided the construction of Concessions, and ultimately acted on the alley spaces of the residence. This paper provides new perspective to explain the forming reasons of the complex urban fabric of Tianjin in modern times.
title: Morphology development of Chinese danwei under marketization process : the case of Wuhan iron and steel company
Creators: name: Zhan, Zixin
name: Shu, Yeshuo
name: Song, Feng
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: Danwei, a dual entity both in urban space and social institution, used to be an important way to organize urban construction and social production in socialistic China. In light of the Conzenian tradition of urban morphology, this article has taken Wuhan Iron and Steel Plant as an example to study the development of the spatial form of Chinese modern industrial danwei in different historic periods. Sources as local gazetteers, other local writings, historical photographs and existing historical buildings have been adopted to meet the research aims. By analyzing its plan, land utilization and building fabric, this article reveals the changes in the internal structure of this urban space unit with Chinese characteristics and summarizes its development process. A large danwei like Wuhan Iron and Steel Plant is often influenced more by macro policies than by specific operating methods. With the demise of danwei institution and the socialization of its facilities including schools and hospitals, the isolation was broken and the whole factory has gradually homogenized with other regional areas. Meanwhile, cities require extensive changes in order to meet new challenges of sustainability and adapt to new institutional characteristics of urban growth. A large number of traditional workers' residential areas have been gradually replaced by modern communities, commercial squares and public buildings, and the urban building fabric has been constantly mixed and reorganized. Industrial heritages provide "raw materials" for the construction of urban commercial space. The vitality and public services along the main roads have been greatly enhanced. Interaction between large industrial danwei and other urban units is also discussed, which is potentially valuable in exploring the reasonable layout of Chinese urban industry as well as preserving built heritage as asset for future prosperity.
title: Vulnerability and resilience : a framework of development for poor urban communities
Creators: name: Zaiter, Hassan
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: Due to the rapid urbanisation in the last century and the lack of provision of housing by the State, informal construction spread all over the city of Beirut creating low-income neighbourhoods. Today, informal settlements became a part of the city, however, distinguished by their old buildings, weak provision of services and facilities, and poverty. The explosion of Lebanon’s capital destroyed more than 6,000 buildings in the city, displacing around 300,000 people. With its buildings dating from the 1930s and 1940s, the neighbourhood of Karantina was highly affected by the blast that damaged most of the houses, displacing the majority of the residents. This paper focuses on the inclusion of professionals and architects in the upgrade of buildings in the most vulnerable urban neighbourhoods to become resilient to disasters and emergencies. The situation of the buildings and apartments poses many questions in terms of architectural quality, safety, health, and privacy, among others. This study proposes a strategy for the development of the neighbourhood’s resiliency to external factors. Action tools are given based on the needs of the users, while the priority follows the criticality of the problems that are found in the neighbourhood following a survey on the urban and building levels. Finally, the resilience of poor and vulnerable urban communities to emergencies and disasters takes another form in Beirut with the presence of old buildings together with a long history of negligence from the State. Up to date, those densely populated and poor residential neighbourhoods are not recognised as informal.
title: Application framework of urban morphology in planning practice : a case study of Beijing
Creators: name: Yu, Wencheng
name: Sun, Ziyun
name: Gao, Na
name: Zhang, Xiaodong
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: Although it is generally recognized that a connection exists between urban form and urban planning practice, there is still a long way to go before the theories, concepts and methods of urban morphology can be widely applied to daily planning practice. Firstly, the paper makes a theoretical thinking. It is concluded that: 1. Urban form and urban planning practice are dynamic processes of space-time interaction; 2. Urban morphology research and urban planning are the relationship between knowledge and practice;3. Urban morphology research needs to be combined with urban planning business. Secondly, the paper puts forward an application framework of urban morphology in planning practice, including four aspects: knowledge base, analytical dimension, technical support and planning practice. The framework focuses on the space geometry, industrial economy, traffic organization, residential space, urban design, land use and policies in the research of urban morphology under different scales, more closely related to the main focuses in the discipline and practice of urban planning. Thirdly, this paper describes the application of the framework in Beijing planning practice in recent years and illustrates it plays a role and value in the actual planning business.
Application of fringe counting interferometry to MEMS micropump characterisation
Creators: name: Wheeler, Katherine
name: Davis, Claire
name: Mazzolini, Alexander
name: Booth, David
name: Harvey, Erol
name: Cadusch, Peter
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: fibre optic intelferometric technique for non-contact dynamic displacement measurements of a micropump membrane smface is reported. The interferometer operates at 1500 nm, has a bandwidth of 200KHz, a focussed spot size of 20 J.tm and a noise equivalent displacement of 0.35 nm. The advantage of this intelferometric technique is that it is fibre optic based and hence can be used in inaccessible areas which would be generally considered inapprop1iate for conventional intelferomettic measurement techniques. Membrane displacement profiles have been obtained while pumping different gases and liquids using custom designed automated f1inge counting and interpolation software to interpret the digitised ftinge pattems from the inte1ferometer. Measurements show significant differences in membrane velocity, displacement and settling time between the different pumping media. In addition, transient underdamped vibration of the membrane smface was detected dming the rapid excursion and recursion phases of the pump movement while pumping air. The damping ratio and resonant frequency of the structure were determined from analysis of these transients in the displacement waveform. The amplitude of the membrane displacement was observed to be dependent on the pumping frequency when pumping air. This behaviour was caused partly by frequency-dependent effects in the pump dtive circuitry and partly by insufficient settling time between pump cycles, pariicularly at high pumping frequencies.
Supplementary Material from Stepwise evolution of a butterfly supergene via duplication and inversion
Creators: name: Kim, Kang-Wook
name: De-Kayne, Rishi
name: Gordon, Ian J.
name: Omufwoko, Kennedy Saitoti
name: Martins, Dino J.
name: ffrench-Constant, Richard
name: Martin, Simon H.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60408 Genomics

description: Tables S2 and S3, Figures S1-S10
High prevalence of syringe lending among HIV-positive people who inject drugs in Bangkok, Thailand
Creators: name: Voon, Pauline
name: Hayashi, Kanna
name: Ti, Lianping
name: Kaplan, Karyn
name: Suwannawong, Paisan
name: Wood, Evan
name: Kerr, Thomas
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Background: Syringe sharing continues to be a major driver of the HIV pandemic. In light of efforts to enhance access to sterile syringes and promote secondary prevention among HIV-positive individuals, we sought to identify the prevalence and correlates of used syringe lending among self-reported HIV-positive people who inject drugs (PWID) in Bangkok, Thailand. Findings: We used bivariable statistics to examine factors associated with self-reported syringe lending among self-reported HIV-positive PWID participating in the Mitsampan Community Research Project, a serial cross-sectional study of PWID in Bangkok, between June 2009 and October 2011. In total, 127 individuals were eligible for this analysis, including 25 (19.7 %) women. Twenty-one (16.5 %) participants reported syringe lending in the prior 6 months. Factors significantly associated with syringe lending included daily methamphetamine injection (odds ratio (OR) = 10.2, 95 % CI, 2.1–53.6), daily midazolam injection (OR = 3.1, 95 % CI, 1.1–8.7), use of drugs in combination (OR = 4.5, 95 % CI, 1.0–41.6), injecting with others on a frequent basis (OR = 4.25, 95 % CI, 1.3–18.3), and not receiving antiretroviral therapy (OR = 2.9, 95 % CI, 1.1–7.9). Conclusions: A high prevalence of syringe lending was observed among self-reported HIV-positive PWID in Bangkok, which was associated with high intensity drug use, polysubstance use, and frequently injecting with others. It is particularly concerning that individuals who lent syringes were more likely to be untreated for HIV disease given the known benefits of antiretroviral provision on the prevention of HIV transmission. These findings underscore the need to expand access to sterile syringes and HIV treatment among HIV-positive PWID in Thailand.
title: A study on the urban form of landmark buildings in Shanghai based on visual preference evaluation
Creators: name: Zhao, Mengmeng
name: Zhang, Jian
name: Cai, Jun
Publisher: name: University of Strathclyde Publishing
Year: 2022

description: The urban form dominated by landmark is of great significance to the cityscape, and also affects people's environmental psychology. With the rapid development of urban construction in China, the large number of high-rise buildings makes the urban form dominated by landmark change greatly in a short time. In order to research the people's visual preference evaluation for this rapidly changing in terms of urban morphology, this study conducted two experiments on the Lujiazui Financial District of Shanghai, China, which is dominated by the two landmarks, the Oriental Pearl TV Tower and the Shanghai Tower. One of the experiments was to study people's evaluation of the changes in the spatial form of the new and old landmarks by using pictures from multiple viewpoints at the similar time as experimental materials; another experiment was to study people's evaluation of the change of urban form dominated by landmark by taking the pictures of 23 years from the same viewpoint as the experimental materials. In this study, the height ratio, volume ratio, density and relative distance ratio of the buildings were taken as physical properties, and photo stimulation experiments were conducted with participants of different demographic characteristics. The analysis of the experimental results indicate that some physical properties are the main factors that affect people's visual preference evaluation of the landmark spatial form, when the physical properties are in certain numerical ranges, higher visual preference evaluation results can be obtained; people with different demographic characteristics have different evaluation on the rapid changes of landmarks and their environment. The results would provide a reference value range for the physical properties of urban form from some specific perspectives, help planners and architects to understand people's varied views on the rapid development of urban construction in terms of urban morphology.
Nithecus jacobaeae
Creators: name: Vinokurov, Nikolay N.
name: Rudoi, Valentin V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Lygaeidae
Nithecus
Nithecus jacobaeae

description: Nithecus jacobaeae (Schilling, 1829)
 Material. Kurai Mts, Kuraika River: 50°19′19′′ N, 87°58′23′′ E, H = 2150–2200 m, 26– 27.07.2019, 1 ♀; 50°16′44′′ N, 87°57′12′′ E, H = 1750–1800 m, 4– 7.08.2019, 1 ♀.
 Distribution. Transpalaearctic. Recorded from Altai Republic (Kiritshenko 1910b; Vinokurov 2007).
description: Published as part of Vinokurov, Nikolay N. & Rudoi, Valentin V., 2020, New materials on heteropterans from Kurai steppe (south-west of Russian Altai), pp. 25-35 in Ecologica Montenegrina 38 on page 30, DOI: 10.37828/em.2020.38.5, http://zenodo.org/record/13231892