cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
THREE SOUTHERN VIEWS OF RECONCILIATION, ECONOMIC RECOVERY AND RACE IN THE NEW SOUTH, 1865-1900: AS SEEN IN THE LIFE AND WORK OF THOMAS NELSON PAGE, JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS AND GEORGE WASHINGTON CABLE (GEORGIA; VIRGINIA)
Creators: name: Richardson, Emily Stenhouse
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Thomas Nelson Page (1853-1923) of Richmond, Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1923) of Atlanta, and George Washington Cable (1844-1925) of New Orleans--three Southern writers of the post-bellum period--had different views of reconciliation with the North, economic recovery and above all, race relations in the post-Civil War South. The essays and fiction of these three writers mirror conflicts within the postwar Southern intellectual community and confirm Allen Tate's theory that intellectuals provided insight into history. This study moves beyond Tate's theory. It reveals how personal experience, including very different social backgrounds and regional milieux molded each writer's attitudes towards Blacks and each writer's expectations of the South's future. Page's ideal for a racially segregated South came from his conservative Virginia heritage; Harris's ambiguous position on Blacks echoed his middle-class Georgia environment; and Cable's liberalism reflected the unusual social structure of New Orleans. Page and Harris envisioned a rural economy dominated by whites, while Cable advocated an urban society with opportunities for Blacks. For these writers, as for many Southerners, identity with the past produced ambivalence. In their fiction, these writers depicted the Old South, while their essays addressed problems, hopes and fears of a new and different South. Page's docile slave of the Old South in his fiction contrasted with a fear of universal suffrage in his essays. Folklore, humor, and animals allow Harris to express his doubts about the advisability of white supremacy and the morality of slavery. In contrast, his essays, attacked racial equality, a notion attractive to many champions of the New South. There was no such ambiguity in Cable's prose. Cable's fiction denounced racism, while extolling the beauty of prewar New Orleans. His essays called for racial equality. These writers portray a South that was suspicious of change--and confused over its future. Page and Harris typify Southerners who, because of their conflicts and preoccupation with racial tensions, often failed to see the possibilities perceived by Cable for a freer and more prosperous society.
THREE SOUTHERN VIEWS OF RECONCILIATION, ECONOMIC RECOVERY AND RACE IN THE NEW SOUTH, 1865-1900: AS SEEN IN THE LIFE AND WORK OF THOMAS NELSON PAGE, JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS AND GEORGE WASHINGTON CABLE (GEORGIA; VIRGINIA)
Creators: name: Richardson, Emily Stenhouse
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 43
subject: History, heritage and archaeology
classificationCode: 4303
subject: Historical studies

description: Thomas Nelson Page (1853-1923) of Richmond, Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1923) of Atlanta, and George Washington Cable (1844-1925) of New Orleans--three Southern writers of the post-bellum period--had different views of reconciliation with the North, economic recovery and above all, race relations in the post-Civil War South. The essays and fiction of these three writers mirror conflicts within the postwar Southern intellectual community and confirm Allen Tate's theory that intellectuals provided insight into history. This study moves beyond Tate's theory. It reveals how personal experience, including very different social backgrounds and regional milieux molded each writer's attitudes towards Blacks and each writer's expectations of the South's future. Page's ideal for a racially segregated South came from his conservative Virginia heritage; Harris's ambiguous position on Blacks echoed his middle-class Georgia environment; and Cable's liberalism reflected the unusual social structure of New Orleans. Page and Harris envisioned a rural economy dominated by whites, while Cable advocated an urban society with opportunities for Blacks. For these writers, as for many Southerners, identity with the past produced ambivalence. In their fiction, these writers depicted the Old South, while their essays addressed problems, hopes and fears of a new and different South. Page's docile slave of the Old South in his fiction contrasted with a fear of universal suffrage in his essays. Folklore, humor, and animals allow Harris to express his doubts about the advisability of white supremacy and the morality of slavery. In contrast, his essays, attacked racial equality, a notion attractive to many champions of the New South. There was no such ambiguity in Cable's prose. Cable's fiction denounced racism, while extolling the beauty of prewar New Orleans. His essays called for racial equality. These writers portray a South that was suspicious of change--and confused over its future. Page and Harris typify Southerners who, because of their conflicts and preoccupation with racial tensions, often failed to see the possibilities perceived by Cable for a freer and more prosperous society.
TRADE AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: ECONOMETRIC CROSS-NATIONAL TESTS OF NEOCLASSICAL AND DEPENDENCY THEORY
Creators: name: Sprout, Ronald V.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics
classificationCode: 3803
subject: Economic theory

description: There are two independently coexisting bodies of econometric cross-national tests of the relationship between international trade and economic growth in the LDCs. The conclusions of the two sets are directly contradictory. This study assesses the discrepancies in the conclusions by analysing the research designs and results, and by conducting new tests (non-parametric and econometric). A simultaneous equations model is tested, utilizing a data set of seventy-eight LDCs over a period of fifteen years (1970-1984). The trade-growth relationships were found to vary widely in groups of LDCs differentiated by the level of development, geographic region, and composition of exports. While a growing export sector was positively associated with economic growth in the full sample of LDCs, this relationship was negative among certain LDC subsamples--in particular, low-income LDCs, Latin American countries, and LDCs with a large percentage of exports in minerals. Furthermore, the results were compatible with the contention that the composition of exports and the concentration of export commodities play a large role, relative to other trade structure characteristics, in influencing economic growth. Greater concentration in the leading export commodities (particularly for those LDCs whose exports are predominantly mineral and/or agricultural goods), and greater reliance on primary exports (excluding oil) were associated with lower economic growth. Although the fundamental conclusions of the neoclassical and dependency tests are directly contradictory, the results are not. To a great extent, this is because the two sets of tests are principally analysing different aspects of the trade-growth relationship. The total sum of results from this study and from the existing trade-growth studies seem to indicate that, while there may be gains to be realized from export-oriented policies for some LDCs, the depiction of trade as an "engine of growth" is largely unfounded. Moreover, these benefits from trade are asymmetrically distributed, favoring the more developed countries.
Anomalous Threshold Laws in Quantum Sticking
Creators: name: Clougherty, Dennis P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has been stated that for a short-ranged surface interaction, the probability of a low-energy particle sticking to a surface always vanishes as $s\sim k$ with $k\to 0$ where $k=\sqrt{E}$. Deviations from this so-called universal threshold law are derived using a linear model of particle-surface scattering. The Fredholm theory of integral equations is used to find the global conditions necessary for a convergent solution. The exceptional case of a zero-energy resonance is considered in detail. Anomalous threshold laws, where $s\sim k^{1+α}, α> 0$ as $k\to 0$, are shown to arise from a soft gap in the weighted density of states of excitations; $α$ is determined by the behavior of the weighted density of states near the binding energy.
description: 9 pages, to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett
title: 01_0141
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
TRADE AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: ECONOMETRIC CROSS-NATIONAL TESTS OF NEOCLASSICAL AND DEPENDENCY THEORY
Creators: name: Sprout, Ronald V.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: There are two independently coexisting bodies of econometric cross-national tests of the relationship between international trade and economic growth in the LDCs. The conclusions of the two sets are directly contradictory. This study assesses the discrepancies in the conclusions by analysing the research designs and results, and by conducting new tests (non-parametric and econometric). A simultaneous equations model is tested, utilizing a data set of seventy-eight LDCs over a period of fifteen years (1970-1984). The trade-growth relationships were found to vary widely in groups of LDCs differentiated by the level of development, geographic region, and composition of exports. While a growing export sector was positively associated with economic growth in the full sample of LDCs, this relationship was negative among certain LDC subsamples--in particular, low-income LDCs, Latin American countries, and LDCs with a large percentage of exports in minerals. Furthermore, the results were compatible with the contention that the composition of exports and the concentration of export commodities play a large role, relative to other trade structure characteristics, in influencing economic growth. Greater concentration in the leading export commodities (particularly for those LDCs whose exports are predominantly mineral and/or agricultural goods), and greater reliance on primary exports (excluding oil) were associated with lower economic growth. Although the fundamental conclusions of the neoclassical and dependency tests are directly contradictory, the results are not. To a great extent, this is because the two sets of tests are principally analysing different aspects of the trade-growth relationship. The total sum of results from this study and from the existing trade-growth studies seem to indicate that, while there may be gains to be realized from export-oriented policies for some LDCs, the depiction of trade as an "engine of growth" is largely unfounded. Moreover, these benefits from trade are asymmetrically distributed, favoring the more developed countries.
Tunable nonlinear spectra of anti-directional couplers
Creators: name: Govindarajan, A.
name: Malomed, Boris A.
name: Lakshmanan, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We produce transmission and reflection spectra of the anti-directional coupler (ADC) composed of linearly-coupled positive- and negative-refractive-index arms, with intrinsic Kerr nonlinearity. Both reflection and transmission feature two highly amplified peaks at two distinct wavelengths in a certain range of values of the gain, making it possible to design a wavelength-selective mode-amplification system. We also predict that a blend of gain and loss in suitable proportions can robustly enhance reflection spectra which are detrimentally affected by the attenuation, in addition to causing red and blue shifts owing to the Kerr effect. In particular, ADC with equal gain and loss coefficients, is considered in necessary detail.
description: To appear in Optics Letters
Pulsar Recoil by Large-Scale Anisotropies in Supernova Explosions
Creators: name: Scheck, L.
name: Plewa, T.
name: Janka, H. -T.
name: Kifonidis, K.
name: Mueller, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Assuming that the neutrino luminosity from the neutron star core is sufficiently high to drive supernova explosions by the neutrino-heating mechanism, we show that low-mode (l = 1, 2) convection can develop from random seed perturbations behind the shock. A slow onset of the explosion is crucial, requiring the core luminosity to vary slowly with time, in contrast to the burst-like exponential decay assumed in previous work. Gravitational and hydrodynamic forces by the globally asymmetric supernova ejecta were found to accelerate the remnant neutron star on a timescale of more than a second to velocities above 500 km/s, in agreement with observed pulsar proper motions.
description: 4 ps figures, 2 colored, high-quality available upon request; revised version, accepted by PRL
Black holes in Godel universes and pp-waves
Creators: name: Gimon, Eric G.
name: Hashimoto, Akikazu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We find exact rotating and non-rotating neutral black hole solutions in the Godel universe of the five dimensional minimal supergravity theory. We also describe the embedding of this solution in M-theory. After dimensional reduction and T-duality, we obtain a supergravity solution corresponding to placing a black string in a pp-wave background.
description: 9 pages, 1 figure
1914-01-30 G.V. Black to McKay
Creators: name: Black, G. V. (Greene Vardiman), 1836-1915.
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 1914
Subjects: Dental Fluorosis
Tooth Abnormalities
Fluoridation
Colorado

description: Title: G.V. Black to McKay Container: c02 id: level:
Saudi Arabia's and the United States' strategic partnership in an era of turmoil: A study of Saudi-American political, economic, and military relationship, 1973-1983--dependence or interdependence?
Creators: name: Al-Nowaiser, Salem Khalid
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: The purpose of this study is to analyze both Saudi foreign policy and Saudi-American relations (1973-1983). As an approach to the study of Saudi foreign policy, we have developed a foreign policy framework called the new "major determinants of foreign policy" approach. In applying this approach to our subject, we have derived the following determinants for Saudi Arabia: They are dynastic interests (that is, preservation of the dynastic character of the state), military and strategic imperatives, religious legacy, ideological motives, and economic considerations. In addition to making us realize that both tangible and intangible factors shape foreign policy, the new "major determinants of foreign policy" approach also makes us realize that we can put Saudi Arabia's relations with the United States in a broader setting, and, as a result, determine whether this relationship conforms to the "Interdependence" model, the "Limited Interdependence" or "Dependence" model that we have devised. (However, because this study has focused on Saudi-American political, military, and economic relations, we have developed nine corresponding models). The constitutive elements of these models have been derived from the five determinants influencing Saudi foreign policy and from attendant factors. The study demonstrates that Saudi-American political, economic, and military relations fit the criteria of the "Limited Interdependence" model.
title: Spectroscopy and chemical synthesis of interstellar ice analogues
Creators: name: Nair, Binukumar Gopalakrishnan
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2014

description: Molecular synthesis and chemical evolution in the interstellar medium has been studied under laboratory conditions. The method of preparation and energetic processing of interstellar ice analogues on surfaces, spectroscopic principles for monitoring chemistry and morphology of these ice analogues and analysis methodologies are discussed in detail. The modification of a portable, ultrahigh vacuum (UHV) system for electron irradiation, vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) spectroscopy and temperature programmed desorption (TPD) of interstellar ice analogues are described in this thesis. Experimental procedures to grow interstellar ice analogues of pure molecules and mixtures are described. The results from the various experiments discussed in this thesis are classified into four main parts: VUV spectroscopy, electron irradiation of interstellar (IS) ice analogues, simultaneous irradiation and generation of IS ice analogues and temperature programmed desorption of interstellar ice analogues. Temperature dependent vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) photo-absorption spectra of pure molecular ices such as HCONH2, HCOOH, HCOOCH3, CH2CHCH2OH CH3COOCH3, CH3CH2COOH, C6H6 and O3 have been measured on the UV1 beamline of the ASTRID Synchrotron at the University of Aarhus in Denmark and UV A1 beamline at NSRRC, Taiwan. These spectra and photo-absorption cross-sections in the condensed phase are also presented. In particular, temperature dependent VUV photoabsorption characteristics of condensed ice films of O3 are measured for the first time. Electron induced molecular synthesis in pure organic ice films of HCONH2, HCOOCH3, CH3COOH, NO and binary ice mixtures of CH3OH+NO (1:1) are also reported. Newly identified pathways of molecular synthesis are discussed. Molecular synthesis during simultaneous electron irradiation and physisorption of a binary mixture of CH3OH+NH3 (1:1) is studied for the first time. Simultaneous irradiation-deposition has shown very interesting behaviour in terms of efficiency of formation of radical species such as OCN-, NH4+ etc and biologically important complex organic species such as HCONH2, HCOOCH3, CH3COOH, CH3OCH3, CH2CHCHO etc. Simultaneous irradiation deposition closely simulate the effect of cosmic ray irradiation in a dense molecular cloud and reveal new pathways of formation with higher efficiencies even at lower column densities of reactants. Finally preliminary results of a temperature programmed desorption study of pure NO ice films are also presented along with the future challenges and strategies.
Saudi Arabia's and the United States' strategic partnership in an era of turmoil: A study of Saudi-American political, economic, and military relationship, 1973-1983--dependence or interdependence?
Creators: name: Al-Nowaiser, Salem Khalid
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The purpose of this study is to analyze both Saudi foreign policy and Saudi-American relations (1973-1983). As an approach to the study of Saudi foreign policy, we have developed a foreign policy framework called the new "major determinants of foreign policy" approach. In applying this approach to our subject, we have derived the following determinants for Saudi Arabia: They are dynastic interests (that is, preservation of the dynastic character of the state), military and strategic imperatives, religious legacy, ideological motives, and economic considerations. In addition to making us realize that both tangible and intangible factors shape foreign policy, the new "major determinants of foreign policy" approach also makes us realize that we can put Saudi Arabia's relations with the United States in a broader setting, and, as a result, determine whether this relationship conforms to the "Interdependence" model, the "Limited Interdependence" or "Dependence" model that we have devised. (However, because this study has focused on Saudi-American political, military, and economic relations, we have developed nine corresponding models). The constitutive elements of these models have been derived from the five determinants influencing Saudi foreign policy and from attendant factors. The study demonstrates that Saudi-American political, economic, and military relations fit the criteria of the "Limited Interdependence" model.
Microscopic derivation of the Fröhlich Hamiltonian for the Bose polaron in the mean-field limit
Creators: name: Myśliwy, Krzysztof
name: Seiringer, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the quantum mechanical many-body problem of a single impurity particle immersed in a weakly interacting Bose gas. The impurity interacts with the bosons via a two-body potential. We study the Hamiltonian of this system in the mean-field limit and rigorously show that, at low energies, the problem is well described by the Fröhlich polaron model.
description: LaTeX, 20 pages, final version to appear in Annales Henri Poincare
An investigation into optimal modes of campus food delivery
Creators: name: Jacob, David
name: Kim, Isaiah
name: Tang, Vincent
name: Wang, Qian Yu
name: McNicol, Mac
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2015

description: The construction of the new UBC Student Union Building (SUB), expected to be completed by 2015 offers an opportunity for AMS Food and Beverage to introduce changes to various aspects of food services offered to UBC students. One of these many changes has to do with the introduction of a campus-wide food delivery system. This research aims to investigate optimal modes of campus food delivery and offer recommendations. Focusing mainly on a sustainable vehicle to use for delivery, a few requirements were made clear from the start. A suitable delivery vehicle should: have 100 cubic feet of cargo space, be able to withstand Vancouver’s weather conditions and seasons, and have an operational range that can cover the whole of UBC’s point grey campus. This research cites both primary and secondary sources for information on vehicles currently available in North America as well as existing research into the environmental and economic aspects of various vehicle types. With the aim to evaluate the environmental, economic, and social implications of a potential delivery vehicle, this investigation begins by looking into existing research to compare the environmental impacts of vehicles that run on various fuels, full electric vehicles (EV), and hybrids. Following this, the search for a suitable vehicle can be narrowed down to just one class of vehicle – In this case, a full EV by Canadian Electric Vehicles Ltd – the Might-E Truck. The cost effectiveness of the candidate vehicle is then analyzed with initial costs, maintenance and energy costs among the parameters taken into account. A logistics analysis follows, making sure the vehicle fits the physical and range requirements followed finally by an investigation into the social implications of the chosen vehicle on members of the UBC campus community. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
The explanation of the crisis of social theory
Creators: name: Bettayeb, Abdelaziz
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: In this paper, I explain a commonly held view that social science suffers from a crisis. While this crisis has generally been taken by a tradition in the philosophy of science (which I call interpretationism) to be an effect of the application of the concepts of natural science to social science, this paper argues, contrary to this view, that its real causes are to be found in a particular camp in the naturalist tradition in the philosophy of science (positivism). Accordingly, I recognize a second camp within the naturalist tradition (realism). By distinguishing the interpretations of natural science advocated by these two camps, the paper gives a causal account of the mistakes of positivism in social science and their misperception by interpretationism. The paper then presents a realist view of social science based on the realist interpretation of natural science which it defends as a solution to social science's crisis. After criticizing what I call the dialectical synthesis of positivism and interpretationism, I develop a realist naturalist theory of the social. Central to this theory, is the view that society or social structure is a real spacio-temporal physical object, like any other physical object existing in the world. Social structure, thus defined, behaves by virtue of its own causal physical mechanism. On this view, social is neither an empirical nor a mental object, but, rather, a theoretical entity. I substantiate this by Marx's theory of value. The latter is interpreted as involving the idea that social structure, capitalism, is a physical object with value being the physical mechanism that explains its behavior (the tendency to both expand and undergo crises). I also discuss critical theory as a science of society, focusing on Habermas's criticism of Marx. While Habermas accuses Marx of being a positivist, I show that Habermas himself holds a positivist view of science. Also, I show how Habermas's attempt to found social science on the idea of communication, rather than Marx's concept of production, is unnecessary. In conclusion, Marx's theory is viewed as a realist natural science of society that does not require any revision.
Scalar field and electromagnetic perturbations on Locally Rotationally Symmetric spacetimes
Creators: name: Betschart, Gerold
name: Clarkson, Chris A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study scalar field and electromagnetic perturbations on Locally Rotationally Symmetric (LRS) class II spacetimes, exploiting a recently developed covariant and gauge-invariant perturbation formalism. From the Klein-Gordon equation and Maxwell's equations, respectively, we derive covariant and gauge-invariant wave equations for the perturbation variables and thereby find the generalised Regge-Wheeler equations for these LRS class II spacetime perturbations. As illustrative examples, the results are discussed in detail for the Schwarzschild and Vaidya spacetime, and briefly for some classes of dust Universes.
description: 22 pages; v3 has minor changes to match published version
Robust Robotic Pouring using Audition and Haptics
Creators: name: Liang, Hongzhuo
name: Zhou, Chuangchuang
name: Li, Shuang
name: Ma, Xiaojian
name: Hendrich, Norman
name: Gerkmann, Timo
name: Sun, Fuchun
name: Stoffel, Marcus
name: Zhang, Jianwei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Robust and accurate estimation of liquid height lies as an essential part of pouring tasks for service robots. However, vision-based methods often fail in occluded conditions while audio-based methods cannot work well in a noisy environment. We instead propose a multimodal pouring network (MP-Net) that is able to robustly predict liquid height by conditioning on both audition and haptics input. MP-Net is trained on a self-collected multimodal pouring dataset. This dataset contains 300 robot pouring recordings with audio and force/torque measurements for three types of target containers. We also augment the audio data by inserting robot noise. We evaluated MP-Net on our collected dataset and a wide variety of robot experiments. Both network training results and robot experiments demonstrate that MP-Net is robust against noise and changes to the task and environment. Moreover, we further combine the predicted height and force data to estimate the shape of the target container.
description: accepted by IROS2020
Accretion of helium and metal-rich gas onto neutron stars and black holes at high luminosities
Creators: name: Dunkel, J.
name: Chluba, J.
name: Sunyaev, R. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ultraluminous X-ray sources fed by Wolf-Rayet star winds and X-ray bursters in ultracompact binaries with He or C white dwarfs have accretion disks, whose properties may significantly differ from those of pure H alpha-accretion disks. We have therefore included the dependence on charge number Z and mean molecular weights mu_{e/I} into the Shakura and Sunyaev (1973) scaling relations for the key parameters of the disk. Furthermore, we also consider the case of the pseudo-Newtonian potential of Paczynsky and Wiita (1980). These scaling relations might become useful, e.g., when estimating the illumination efficiency of the external parts of the disk. We also address the changes in the structure of the boundary (spreading) layer on the surface of neutron stars, occurring in the case of H depleted accretion disks.
description: 10 pages
Leuctra sibleyi Claassen 1923
Creators: name: Grubbs, Scott A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Plecoptera
Leuctridae
Leuctra
Leuctra sibleyi

description: Leuctra sibleyi Claassen
is distributed broadly across the eastern Nearctic region (DeWalt et al. 2010). This headwater species was collected recently in northwestern Alabama, representing a new state record and a southwestern range extension.
 Material examined. U.S.A., Alabama, Colbert Co., tributary to Ross Branch, CR 1, 6 km SE Waterloo, 4 May 2008, S.A. Grubbs, 1♂ (WKU); Lauderdale Co., Second Creek, CR 126 at CR 1, 9 km NE Waterloo, 4 May 2008, S.A. Grubbs, 1♂ (WKU).
description: Published as part of Grubbs, Scott A., 2011, A Review Of Stonefly (Insecta; Plecoptera) Taxonomic Research In Alabama, With New State Records And An Updated Checklist, pp. 24-30 in Illiesia 7 (2) on page 26, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4760293
title: Enabling disruptive technologies for higher education
Creators: name: Flavin, Michael
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2014

description: Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in the UK have invested significantly in technologies for learning and teaching, especially technologies designed to support learning and teaching such as Virtual Learning Environments, which are more or less universal. However, technologies provided by HEIs have not been universally successful in terms of adoption and usage. Meanwhile, academic community members use non-institutional technologies, or “disruptive technologies,” to support their learning and teaching. A number of researchers anticipated that the use of technology in learning and teaching would transform higher education. However, and to date, this has not happened. There is therefore a need to understand how non-institutional, disruptive technologies can be effectively incorporated into formal structures for supporting learning and teaching. In order to address this issue, this thesis set out to understand how HEIs in the UK can engage constructively with non-institutional technologies, using the concept of disruptive technologies as the primary analytical framework. The underlying aim was to establish whether non-institutional technologies can be effectively incorporated into HEIs systems for supporting learning and teaching. The thesis investigates these issues by carrying out a detailed analysis of practices of academic community members with non-institutional technologies used to support learning and teaching, over a period of two years. Data is gathered via surveys, interviews and observations. Study findings indicate that non-institutional technologies are used frequently to support learning and teaching in higher education, often in preference to institutional technologies. Study findings also indicate that non-institutional technologies can be effectively incorporated into learning and teaching if social and cultural practices around usage are clearly understood prior to incorporation.
Zealeuctra claasseni
Creators: name: Grubbs, Scott A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Plecoptera
Leuctridae
Zealeuctra
Zealeuctra claasseni

description: Zealeuctra claasseni (Frison)
has been recorded from Kansas east to West Virginia and south to Texas (Ricker & Ross 1969; DeWalt et al. 2010). This upland stream species has been collected recently from northwestern Alabama, representing a new state record.
 Material examined. U.S.A., Alabama, Lauderdale Co., CR 14, Gravelly Springs, ca. 0.5 mi W Natchez Trace Parkway, 15 March 2010, B.P. Stark, 1♂ (BPS).
description: Published as part of Grubbs, Scott A., 2011, A Review Of Stonefly (Insecta; Plecoptera) Taxonomic Research In Alabama, With New State Records And An Updated Checklist, pp. 24-30 in Illiesia 7 (2) on page 26, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4760293
Relativistic center-vortex dynamics of a confining area law
Creators: name: Cornwall, John M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We offer a physicists' proof that center-vortex theory requires the area in the Wilson-loop area law to involve an extremal area. Area-law dynamics is determined by integrating over Wilson loops only, not over surface fluctuations for a fixed loop. Fluctuations leading to to perimeter-law corrections come from loop fluctuations as well as integration over finite -thickness center-vortex collective coordinates. In d=3 (or d=2+1) we exploit a contour form of the extremal area in isothermal which is similar to d=2 (or d=1+1) QCD in many respects, except that there are both quartic and quadratic terms in the action. One major result is that at large angular momentum \ell in d=3+1 the center-vortex extremal-area picture yields a linear Regge trajectory with Regge slope--string tension product α'(0)K_F of 1/(2π), which is the canonical Veneziano/string value. In a curious effect traceable to retardation, the quark kinetic terms in the action vanish relative to area-law terms in the large-\ell limit, in which light-quark masses \sim K_F^{1/2} are negligible. This corresponds to string-theoretic expectations, even though we emphasize that the extremal-area law is not a string theory quantum-mechanically. We show how some quantum trajectory fluctuations as well as non-leading classical terms for finite mass yield corrections scaling with \ell^{-1/2}. We compare to old semiclassical calculations of relativistic q\bar{q} bound states at large \ell, which also yield asymptotically-linear Regge trajectories, finding agreement with a naive string picture (classically, not quantum-mechanically) and disagreement with an effective-propagator model. We show that contour forms of the area law can be expressed in terms of Abelian gauge potentials, and relate this to old work of Comtet.
description: 20 pages RevTeX4 with 3 .eps figures
Feasibility studies of conserved charge fluctuations in Au-Au collisions with CBM
Creators: name: Samanta, Subhasis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the CBM physics performance study for measurements of the higher order cumulants of the net-proton multiplicity distributions. These observables are proxy for net-baryon fluctuations and are commonly used to study the phase structure of QCD phase diagram. The simulation is done for $Au+Au$ collision at beam kinetic energy $E_{lab} = 10$ AGeV. The cumulants of net-proton distributions have been calculated at midrapidity ($|Δy| =1$) for the transverse momentum range $0.2 < p_T < 2.0$ GeV/c. The centrality dependence of cumulants of net-proton upto order four is presented. The efficiency and detector effects are corrected using unfolding techniques. This work shows that the higher order cumulants of net-proton can be measured using the CBM detector.
description: Proceedings of the XXVIII th International Conference on Ultrarelativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (Quark Matter 2019), Wuhan, China, November 3-9 2019
Chiral field theories, Konishi anomalies and matrix models
Creators: name: Landsteiner, K.
name: Lazaroiu, C. I.
name: Tatar, Radu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a chiral N=1, U(N) field theory in the context of the Dijkgraaf-Vafa correspondence. Our model contains one adjoint, one conjugate symmetric and one antisymmetric chiral multiplet, as well as eight fundamentals. We compute the generalized Konishi anomalies and compare the chiral ring relations they induce with the loop equations of the (intrinsically holomorphic) matrix model defined by the tree-level superpotential of the field theory. Surprisingly, we find that the matrix model is well-defined only if the number of flavors equals two! Despite this mismatch, we show that the 1/N expansion of the loop equations agrees with the generalized Konishi constraints. This indicates that the matrix model - gauge theory correspondence should generally be modified when applied to theories with net chirality. We also show that this chiral theory produces the same gaugino superpotential as a nonchiral SO(N) model with a single symmetric multiplet and a polynomial superpotential.
description: 43 pages
Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspirals in LIGO data
Creators: name: LIGO Scientific Collaboration
name: al, B. Abbott et.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on a search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspirals in the data from the second science run of the LIGO interferometers. The search focused on binary systems with component masses between 3 and 20 solar masses. Optimally oriented binaries with distances up to 1 Mpc could be detected with efficiency of at least 90%. We found no events that could be identified as gravitational waves in the 385.6 hours of data that we searched.
description: 18 pages, 8 figures
Nonrelativistic strings on $ R \times S^2 $ and integrable systems
Creators: name: Roychowdhury, Dibakar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the (torsional) nonrelativistic string sigma models on $ R\times S^2 $ can be mapped into \emph{deformed} Rosochatius like integrable models in one dimension. We also explore the associated Hamiltonian constrained structure by introducing appropriate Dirac brackets. These results show some solid evidence of the underlying integrable structure in the nonrelativistic sector of the gauge/string duality.
description: Latex, 8 pages, Revised version, Accepted for publication in Nucl. Phys. B
The explanation of the crisis of social theory
Creators: name: Bettayeb, Abdelaziz
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 50
subject: Philosophy and religious studies
classificationCode: 5003
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: In this paper, I explain a commonly held view that social science suffers from a crisis. While this crisis has generally been taken by a tradition in the philosophy of science (which I call interpretationism) to be an effect of the application of the concepts of natural science to social science, this paper argues, contrary to this view, that its real causes are to be found in a particular camp in the naturalist tradition in the philosophy of science (positivism). Accordingly, I recognize a second camp within the naturalist tradition (realism). By distinguishing the interpretations of natural science advocated by these two camps, the paper gives a causal account of the mistakes of positivism in social science and their misperception by interpretationism. The paper then presents a realist view of social science based on the realist interpretation of natural science which it defends as a solution to social science's crisis. After criticizing what I call the dialectical synthesis of positivism and interpretationism, I develop a realist naturalist theory of the social. Central to this theory, is the view that society or social structure is a real spacio-temporal physical object, like any other physical object existing in the world. Social structure, thus defined, behaves by virtue of its own causal physical mechanism. On this view, social is neither an empirical nor a mental object, but, rather, a theoretical entity. I substantiate this by Marx's theory of value. The latter is interpreted as involving the idea that social structure, capitalism, is a physical object with value being the physical mechanism that explains its behavior (the tendency to both expand and undergo crises). I also discuss critical theory as a science of society, focusing on Habermas's criticism of Marx. While Habermas accuses Marx of being a positivist, I show that Habermas himself holds a positivist view of science. Also, I show how Habermas's attempt to found social science on the idea of communication, rather than Marx's concept of production, is unnecessary. In conclusion, Marx's theory is viewed as a realist natural science of society that does not require any revision.
Perlesta decipiens
Creators: name: Grubbs, Scott A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Plecoptera
Perlidae
Perlesta
Perlesta decipiens

description: Perlesta decipiens (Walsh)
is a variable species that is widely distributed across the central and eastern U.S. (Stark 2004; DeWalt et al. 2010). This species is common in large streams and small rivers in the Talladega National Forest region in east-central Alabama, and is likely distributed broadly across the northern and central portions of the state.
 Material examined. U.S.A., Alabama, Calhoun Co., Terrapin Creek, U.S. 278 at CR 33, 4 km NE Piedmont, 17 May 2008, S.A. Grubbs, 2♂, 3♀ (WKU); Clay Co., Enitachopco Creek, CR 35, 9 km ESE Millersville, 17 May 2008, S.A. Grubbs, 3♂, 6♀ (WKU); Talladega Co., Smelley Creek, CR 234 26 May 2006, A.L. Sheldon, 4♂, 8♀ (WKU).
description: Published as part of Grubbs, Scott A., 2011, A Review Of Stonefly (Insecta; Plecoptera) Taxonomic Research In Alabama, With New State Records And An Updated Checklist, pp. 24-30 in Illiesia 7 (2) on page 26, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4760293
Educating rural Maryland: A historical and anecdotal record of Hagerstown Junior College, 1946-1987
Creators: name: Crowl, Vaughn Dana
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3904
subject: Specialist studies in education

description: The historical record of Hagerstown Junior College is presented in the context of a pioneering effort in rural Maryland's venture into community college education. The study begins with an examination of National, State and local philosophical and attitudinal underpinnings in the founding of the College. A "systems" analysis of the Washington County Board of Education's mode of operation, from which the Junior College emerged, is presented as a theoretical construct through which political and sociological events in the College's history may be viewed for interpretation. Within this framework, a detailed account of the systematic evolution of Hagerstown Junior College from 1940 to its founding in 1946 is presented. This account takes direction from living historical resources as primary components in revealing the story of the College. It uses the personal interview as the primary analytical device for determining the causal factors preceding historical events. From these individual accounts, the theme of trial and struggle pervade the initial ten years of the College operation from 1946-1956. The identity of the College takes form from 1956-1966 as the College relocates to separate facilities on a high school campus. The "family" atmosphere of the College environment assumes prominence as a thematic role of the Junior College experience during this decade. This attribute was threaded through the fabric of the institution for the entirety of its forty-one year history. In 1966, the College reaches a turning point in its historical development as it moves onto its own separate campus. It achieves regional accreditation while expanding its traditional university parallel functions to include occupational programs. The predominate feature of keeping the College's traditions intact through a period of rapid change surfaces in the examination of governance and funding structures of the College. Student life and student services identify new student populations to be served. The changing mission of the College is interpreted through its historical development, as new goals and ideals are assimilated into the patterns of human experience which built and sustained the College through the fortieth graduating class.