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Sulla soglia del visibile sentire: Appunti di ermetismo arabo
Creators: name: Albrile, Ezio
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies
Year: 2023

description: Ostanes is a legendary Persian sage of the Magi priestly circle, who figures frequently in a wide variety of texts on magical and alchemical subjects from Antiquity. The name Ostanes (Old Persian huštāna “of good standing”) is well attested in sources from the Achaemenid period. One person bearing this name, a Magus who accompanied the armies of Xerxes in the early         fifth century BCE, was claimed by some Greek and Roman authors to be the ‘historical’ Ostanes, who would have produced these writings (Plin. Nat. hist. 30.8). His renown depended chiefly on the fact that he was believed to have been the teacher of Democritus of Abdera. Although these traditions about Ostanes mainly emerge around the beginning of the Common Era or even later, they seem to be presupposed already in the works of Bolos of Mendes, in the second century BCE. It is in fragments of Bolos’ writings that the connections between Democritus and Ostanes on the one hand, and between both authorities and the beginnings of Alchemy on the other, find their earliest expression and, probably, their origin. In the Book of Ostanes or “Book of the twelve chapters of Ostanes the Wise on the science of the renowned Stone,” the Persian Magus is the protagonist of a visionary experience in which he will obtain the secrets of the alchemical practice. This would explain the relative paucity of texts actually ascribed to Ostanes—as opposed to passages in which he is invoked as authority, chiefly spells and recipes—as well as the fact that fragments invoking Ostanes as an authority show little to nothing that can be recognized as Iranian. On the contrary, they seem to be very much at home in Hellenistic Egypt.
description: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies, V. 27 N. 2 (2023): Liber Amicorum Fabricio A. Pennacchietti Dicatus
Microwave resonator investigation of electric field effects on mercury surfaces.
Creators: name: Ionides, George Nicos
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The microwave resonator method for studying small amplitude surface waves in liquids has been improved by making the time measurement more accurate and much more convenient. It was used to measure the oscillation frequency of the surface as a function of liquid depth. Discrepancies between the experimentally obtained results and theoretical predictions due to the rigidity of the mercury meniscus where contact is made with the walls of a cylindrical resonator were found. From these an accurate value for the effective reduction in radius of the resonator because of the meniscus effect was obtained. A method was developed for applying strong electrostatic fields (about 20 kV/cm) onto the fluid surface without interfering with the measuring technique. An interesting result of this was the observation that the field cleans the surface from contamination. This phenomenon manifests itself in a marked reduction in the damping of surface waves just after a large field is applied. A resonator of square cross-section was used to demonstrate the Fourier analyzing property of rectangular resonators.
All-sky LIGO Search for Periodic Gravitational Waves in the Early S5 Data
Creators: name: LIGO Scientific Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on an all-sky search with the LIGO detectors for periodic gravitational waves in the frequency range 50--1100 Hz and with the frequency's time derivative in the range -5.0E-9 Hz/s to zero. Data from the first eight months of the fifth LIGO science run (S5) have been used in this search, which is based on a semi-coherent method (PowerFlux) of summing strain power. Observing no evidence of periodic gravitational radiation, we report 95% confidence-level upper limits on radiation emitted by any unknown isolated rotating neutron stars within the search range. Strain limits below 1.E-24 are obtained over a 200-Hz band, and the sensitivity improvement over previous searches increases the spatial volume sampled by an average factor of about 100 over the entire search band. For a neutron star with nominal equatorial ellipticity of 1.0E-6, the search is sensitive to distances as great as 500 pc--a range that could encompass many undiscovered neutron stars, albeit only a tiny fraction of which would likely be rotating fast enough to be accessible to LIGO. This ellipticity is at the upper range thought to be sustainable by conventional neutron stars and well below the maximum sustainable by a strange quark star.
description: 6 pages, 1 figure
Childhood, mystery and the idea of a self in Uday Prakash’s memoirs
Creators: name: Consolaro, Alessandra
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies
Year: 2023

description: This article focuses on some very short stories by Uday Prakash published as ‘autobiographies.’ Three of them are in the short story collection Tirich (“The poisonous lizard”) first published in 1989; five autobiographical sketches are found in the collection Aur ant meṃ prārthnā (“And, finally, a prayer”) first published in 1994. The focalization on the child character produces an indeterminacy that engages in a delightful game with the final ratiocinations of the first-person adult narrator, especially when the child faces traumatic experiences. In these micro stories, time, space and emotions scroll like a film, moving from within the memory and shaping the self in very mysterious ways. At a metanarrative level, writing appears as a journey on the path of memory, from the past towards the present and perhaps even leaping into the future.
description: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies, V. 27 N. 2 (2023): Liber Amicorum Fabricio A. Pennacchietti Dicatus
Una lettera inedita di Eugenio Griffini nel Fondo Angela Codazzi presso la Biblioteca Sormani di Milano
Creators: name: Faraj, Ali
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies
Year: 2023

description: This paper aims to present an unedited original autograph letter by the orientalist Eugenio Griffini preserved in the Angela Codazzi Collection at the Central Municipal Library in Milan, known as Sormani Library. The letter, dated January 5, 1922, was written by Eugenio Griffini during his stay in Egypt as librarian and archivist at the court of King Aḥmad Fuʾād I and was addressed to Angela Codazzi.


The study focuses on the translation of the text of the letter from Arabic into Italian and on the analysis of some of the most significant terms and expressions contained therein.
description: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies, V. 27 N. 2 (2023): Liber Amicorum Fabricio A. Pennacchietti Dicatus
Oni studu pli profunde la arabajn pruntojn en la moderna okcidenta aramea
Creators: name: Häberl, Charles G.
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies
Year: 2023

description: Modern Western Aramaic is presently spoken in two villages in the Syrian Arab Republic, as well as a small but growing diaspora. All its speakers are bilingual in Arabic, and its phonology, morphology, syntax, and lexicon bear the hallmarks of this longstanding contact situation. These characteristics distinguish Modern Western Aramaic from all other surviving Aramaic languages, most of which evolved to their present forms in a similarly bilingual situation with Iranian languages such as Kurdish and Persian. Scholars have characterized these hallmarks as “corrupt,” “deep,” and even so numerous as to be “pointless to list,” but the degree of their influence has never truly been quantified. While no scholar has yet understated the degree of Arabic influence upon Modern Western Aramaic, evidence suggests that prior scholarship may have overstated it.
description: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies, V. 27 N. 2 (2023): Liber Amicorum Fabricio A. Pennacchietti Dicatus
Additional file 1: of Species delimitation based on mtDNA genes suggests the occurrence of new species of Mesocestoides in the Mediterranean region
Creators: name: Varcasia, Antonio
name: Sanna, Daria
name: Casu, Marco
name: Lahmar, Samia
name: DessĂŹ, Giorgia
name: Pipia, Anna
name: Tamponi, Claudia
name: Gaglio, Gabriella
name: HrÄkovĂĄ, Gabriela
name: Otranto, Domenico
name: Scala, Antonio
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Table S1. Distribution (absolute frequencies) of cox1 haplotypes in 21 specimens from five Mediterranean sites. Sample codes are listed in TableÂ 1. (DOCX 15 kb)
Two-Loop Polygon Wilson Loops in N=4 SYM
Creators: name: Anastasiou, Charalampos
name: Brandhuber, Andreas
name: Heslop, Paul
name: Khoze, Valentin V.
name: Spence, Bill
name: Travaglini, Gabriele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute for the first time the two-loop corrections to arbitrary n-gon lightlike Wilson loops in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, using efficient numerical methods. The calculation is motivated by the remarkable agreement between the finite part of planar six-point MHV amplitudes and hexagon Wilson loops which has been observed at two loops. At n=6 we confirm that the ABDK/BDS ansatz must be corrected by adding a remainder function, which depends only on conformally invariant ratios of kinematic variables. We numerically compute remainder functions for n=7,8 and verify dual conformal invariance. Furthermore, we study simple and multiple collinear limits of the Wilson loop remainder functions and demonstrate that they have precisely the form required by the collinear factorisation of the corresponding two-loop n-point amplitudes. The number of distinct diagram topologies contributing to the n-gon Wilson loops does not increase with n, and there is a fixed number of "master integrals", which we have computed. Thus we have essentially computed general polygon Wilson loops, and if the correspondence with amplitudes continues to hold, all planar n-point two-loop MHV amplitudes in the N=4 theory.
description: 54 pages, 13 figures. v4: minor typo in the definition of the hard integral corrected v3: references added, minor corrections. v2: typos corrected, one reference added
Islamic traits and motifs in Jewish and Christian North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic languages and literatures
Creators: name: Mengozzi, Alessandro
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies
Year: 2023

description: The North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic dialects, historically spoken by Christian and Jewish minorities in the vast territory that includes southeastern Turkey, northern Iraq and northwestern Iran, belong to a region of linguistic convergence which includes varieties of Arabic, Kurdish and Turkish, spoken by the Muslim majority of the population, and in which prestigious literary—then national—Islamic languages (Arabic, Persian, Turkish) have exerted considerable influence. The results of these contacts have received much attention from scholars, and in some cases Islamic features have been isolated in the lexicon of Modern Aramaic varieties. An apparently paradoxical integration of terms with strong Islamic connotations into the religious language of Christians and Jews has also been observed. From a cultural and literary point of view, the minorities share with the Islamic majority much of the material culture, folklore, literary genres and, in some cases, stories and motifs, the ultimate origin of which may also have been Christian or Jewish.
description: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies, V. 27 N. 2 (2023): Liber Amicorum Fabricio A. Pennacchietti Dicatus
Effective theories of electroweak symmetry breaking
Creators: name: Isidori, Gino
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a brief review of recent attempts to construct effective theories to describe the breaking of the electroweak symmetry in extensions of the Standard Model with new strongly interacting dynamics around the TeV scale. Particular attention is devoted to the analogies of Higgsless models with Chiral Perturbation Theory (the low-energy limit of QCD).
description: 12 pages, invited talk at the 6th International Workshop on Chiral Dynamics, CD09, July 6-10, 2009, Bern, Switzerland (v2: minor typos corrected).
Two Aramaic incantation bowls and their relationship with the history of Late-Antique Mesopotamia
Creators: name: Moriggi, Marco
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies
Year: 2023

description: Beyond the paramount importance of their texts for the study of Eastern Aramaic grammar in Late Antiquity, incantation bowls are relevant evidence for the study of Mesopotamian history. In this short note, incantation bowls from Hatra and Biǧān island (Middle Euphrates) will be addressed in relation to both historical sources and archaeological finds.
description: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies, V. 27 N. 2 (2023): Liber Amicorum Fabricio A. Pennacchietti Dicatus
La scienza della pesca a tavola
Creators: name: Vitale, Sergio
name: Falco, Francesca
name: Falsone, Fabio
name: Geraci, Michele Luca
name: Scannella, Danilo
name: Gancitano, Vita
name: Ragonese, Sergio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Divulgazione scientifica
Biologia marina
Scienza della pesca

description: Il documento "La scienza della pesca a tavola: ovvero perché il commissario Salvo Montalbano non troverà mai l’insalata verde di Posidonia nel menù della trattoria di Punta Secca" è stato presentato presso il Civic Center di Mazara del Vallo (TP,) il 6 dicembre 2019 in occasione dell’evento "Isola del Gusto". Questo lavoro nasce dall'idea degli autori di illustrare una serie di esempi di relazione fra scienza e prodotti del mare, procedendo dalle forme di vita più semplici a quelle più complesse.
Prospects for the Detection of the Deep Solar Meridional Circulation
Creators: name: Braun, D. C.
name: Birch, A. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform helioseismic holography to assess the noise in p-mode travel-time shifts which would form the basis of inferences of large-scale flows throughout the solar convection zone. We also derive the expected travel times from a parameterized return (equatorward) flow component of the meridional circulation at the base of the convection zone from forward models under the assumption of the ray and Born approximations. From estimates of the signal-to-noise ratio for measurements focused near the base of the convection zone, we conclude that the helioseismic detection of the deep meridional flow including the return component may not be possible using data spanning an interval less than a solar cycle.
Interdental consonants in North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic dialects
Creators: name: Khan, Geoffrey
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies
Year: 2023

description: The North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic (NENA) dialects exhibit a wide range of reflexes of the historical interdental consonants *θ and *ð. These were originally post-vocalic fricative allophones *[θ] and *[ð] of the stops */t/ and */d/ respectively in earlier Aramaic. In NENA these fricative allophones have become phonemicized. The interdental realization of the consonants has been preserved mainly in dialects in the western sector of NENA. In the eastern sector the interdentals have been replaced by various other consonants or debuccalized under the influences of contact languages.
description: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies, V. 27 N. 2 (2023): Liber Amicorum Fabricio A. Pennacchietti Dicatus
Yahia Bihram’s narrative colophons: Part 2: DC47
Creators: name: Morgenstern, Matthew
Publisher: name: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies
Year: 2023

description: This article presents an editio princeps and translation of a narrative colophon authored in 1249 AH (= 1833–4 CE) by the renowned Mandaean communal leader Yahia Bihram. The text describes events in his life in the period leading up to the great cholera epidemic of 1831–1832 and in its immediate aftermath. The narrative is composed in the idiom that is characteristic of this genre, i.e., a mixed literary language that combines classicising features with elements drawn from the vernacular. The accompanying notes examine particularly the post-classical elements and their relationship to contemporary Neo-Mandaic.
description: Kervan. International Journal of African and Asian Studies, V. 27 N. 2 (2023): Liber Amicorum Fabricio A. Pennacchietti Dicatus
Additional file 1 of Access to care for childhood cancers in India: perspectives of health care providers and the implications for universal health coverage
Creators: name: Faruqui, Neha
name: Bernays, Sarah
name: Martiniuk, Alexandra
name: Abimbola, Seye
name: Arora, Ramandeep
name: Lowe, Jennifer
name: Denburg, Avram
name: Joshi, Rohina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table 1. Topic guide used for the semi-structured interviews. Topic guide used for the semi-structured interviews.
Upcycled ingredients for improving the nutritional value of orange juice assessed by a randomized controlled nutritional intervention
Creators: name: Talens, Clara
name: Alvarez-Sabatel, Saioa
name: Bald, Carlos
name: Bosch-Sierra, Neus
name: Bañuls, Celia
name: Marqués-Cardete, Roger
name: Gurrea-Martínez, Aránzazu
name: Grau-Del Valle, Carmen
name: Morillas, Carlos
name: Hernández-Mijares, Antonio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: upcycled ingredients
upcycled food
dietary fiber
nutritional intervention
orange juice
ultra high pressure homogenisation
byproducts

description: The region of Valencia (Spain) is considered the largest producer of citrus fruit in all of Europe. In that region, juice producers generate a large amount of nutrient-rich by-products that are underutilised. This work represents and innovative circular approach to obtain a new fibre ingredient from these local raw materials. By adjusting processes and formulas, the upcycling of nutrients back into the production line was possible. As a result, a new orange juice fortified with fibre coming from the same fruit was obtained by ultra-high pressure homogenization (UHPH). After fibre dispersion, 1.4 g /100 mL, a homogenization cycle was applied at 100, 200 and 300 MPa. Colour, stability and viscosity were analysed. The sensory tests determined that 100 MPa was most suitable for this application since higher pressures excessively increased output temperature and viscosity. Furthermore, the short-term effects of this fibre-enriched orange juice on postprandial metabolism and satiety in a healthy adult population was assessed. A double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled, crossover study was carried out with 10 healthy subjects over 120 min after intake. Postprandial glucose, insulin, gut hormones (GLP1, GIP and ghrelin), leptin and qualitative appetite/satiety assessment were measured. The fibre-enriched orange juice decreased postprandial serum glucose and circulating insulin levels. In addition, after intake of the fibre-enriched juice, a significant effect on qualitative feelings of satiety and fullness was observed. In healthy individuals, a single acute consumption of fibre-enriched orange juice had short-term beneficial effects on postprandial glycaemia, circulating insulin levels and satiety. In conclusion, a nutritionally improved orange juice was obtained by upcycling ingredients from the production process, supporting the development of more circular solutions of low cost and high nutritional value.
description: This study was financed by CER-20191010 grant and IDI-20180045 grant from "Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology"(CDTI, Spain), PI18/00932 from Fund for Health Research (FIS) and co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund of the European Union (ERDF "A way to build Europe"). This work was presented by Clara Talens at 35th EFFOST Conference, 1-4 November, 2021, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Critical comparison of some theories of classical irreversible statistical mechanics
Creators: name: Seagraves, Paul Henry
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The infinite order perturbation theory of Prigogine and coworkers is used, with some modifications, to discuss the theories of classical irreversible processes due to Bogoliubov, Sandri & Frieman, and Mazur & Biel. The latter authors use the BBKGY hierarchy of equations as a starting point. Accordingly, to discuss these theories the infinite order perturbation theory is written out in such a way that it relates easily to the BBKGY hierarchy. The nature of the assumptions involved in the theories of Bogoliubov and Sandri & Frieman become particularly clear when compared with the infinite order perturbation expansion. The relation of the theory of Mazur & Biel with the cluster expansion of Green is also elucidated.
A trapped single ion inside a Bose-Einstein condensate
Creators: name: Zipkes, Christoph
name: Palzer, Stefan
name: Sias, Carlo
name: Köhl, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Improved control of the motional and internal quantum states of ultracold neutral atoms and ions has opened intriguing possibilities for quantum simulation and quantum computation. Many-body effects have been explored with hundreds of thousands of quantum-degenerate neutral atoms and coherent light-matter interfaces have been built. Systems of single or a few trapped ions have been used to demonstrate universal quantum computing algorithms and to detect variations of fundamental constants in precision atomic clocks. Until now, atomic quantum gases and single trapped ions have been treated separately in experiments. Here we investigate whether they can be advantageously combined into one hybrid system, by exploring the immersion of a single trapped ion into a Bose-Einstein condensate of neutral atoms. We demonstrate independent control over the two components within the hybrid system, study the fundamental interaction processes and observe sympathetic cooling of the single ion by the condensate. Our experiment calls for further research into the possibility of using this technique for the continuous cooling of quantum computers. We also anticipate that it will lead to explorations of entanglement in hybrid quantum systems and to fundamental studies of the decoherence of a single, locally controlled impurity particle coupled to a quantum environment.
Faulkner's “War Birds / A Ghost Story”
Creators: name: Fantini, Graziella
Publisher: name: RSAJournal
Year: 2001

description: This brief essay analyzes the relations between Faulkner's film work and his fiction, in the script War Birds, which Faulkner wrote in 1932 for Howard Hawks during his first period in Hollywood, when he worked at MGM. The story is based on a diary kept by an aviator who died in World War I in France. Faulkner draws on his fictional world, on the Yoknapatawpha myth revisiting the Sartoris Clan, but something new happens. He renews the myth.
description: RSAJournal, V. 12 (2001): Untitled
Woyzeck : a record and analysis of a production
Creators: name: Rapsey, John C.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: "Woyzeck", an unfinished play from the year 1837 by the German playwright Georg Büchner, was produced and directed by John Rapsey, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for a Master of Arts degree in the Department of Theatre of the University of British Columbia, at the Dorothy Somerset Studio from October 16 - 19, 1968. The following is a detailed record of that production along with the director's analysis and interpretation of the script. "Woyzeck" was produced on a budget of $350.00 and was performed four times by a predominantly student cast in a theatre seating approximately ninety people. Settings, costumes and seating arrangement were designed by Irene Rapsey. This record is divided into three main sections. The first is an essay which starts with a biographical note on the author and goes on to discuss briefly his other works and his position in literary tradition. This is followed by a brief note on the text used for this production and then a detailed director's analysis of the play with reference to the significant critical interpretations available in English. This section concludes with a discussion of the origin and basis of the directorial concept adopted for this production. This section is followed by a short bibliography which includes the major books and articles available in English on Büchner and "Woyzeck" which were taken into consideration in the preparation of this production. Some books are also listed which had a significant influence on the forming of the director's production concept. The second section begins with a brief statement of the directorial concept in relation to the particular production conditions involved. Then comes the actual script showing cuts, blocking, significant divisions and indicating light and sound cues. Each scene is accompanied by a brief analysis which indicates the major units within the scene and the directorial approach taken in terms of purpose, action, dominant emotions, character dominance and particular difficulties involved. The third section is made up of various tables, records and illustrations relating directly to the production. Included are lists of light cues, sound cues, properties, costumes, cost lists and box office reports. Also included is a sample of the programme and copies of press reviews. The illustrations include colour renderings of sets and costumes as well as colour and black-and-white photographs of the production, and finally, blueprints of the floor plan and working drawings.
Marianne Moore's “Granite and Steel”
Creators: name: Nardi, Paola
Publisher: name: RSAJournal
Year: 2001

description: Marianne Moore lived in New York for over 50 years, uninterruptedly, taking part in the city's intense social life, particularly since the '50s. Some of the poet's most beatiful poems are located in New York, centered on some aspects or activities of the city's daily life or on the city itself as a specific kind of space different from other spaces such as the sea, the wilderness or Europe. The goal of my essay is to show that "Granite and Steel", published in 1966, is the result of the poet's life-long relationship with New York and that it is one of the most powerful poems Moore has written about this city. Reminiscent in its structure and in its organizing principle of her early, and more famous, poems on the subject, "Granite and Steel" testifies also the evolution of her perceptions in relation to this city. This poem is the poet's best example, among her later works, of her response to the city, a response started during her college years and present in all her oeuvre, although to different degrees.
description: RSAJournal, V. 12 (2001): Untitled
Matching the Bare and MSbar Charm Quark Masses Using Weak Coupling Simulations
Creators: name: Allison, I. F.
name: Wong, K. Y.
name: Davies, C. T. H.
name: McNeile, C.
name: Trottier, H. D.
name: Dalgic, E.
name: Wu, J.
name: Follana, E.
name: Horgan, R. R.
name: Lepage, G. P.
name: Shigemitsu, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide a new determination of the charm quark mass using the Highly Improved Staggered Quark (HISQ) action, finding m_c(3 GeV) = 0.983(23) GeV. Our determination makes extensive use of second order lattice perturbation theory in matching the bare lattice mass to the MSbar scheme. This matching utilises both traditional diagrammatic perturbation theory and weak coupling simulations. The second of these techniques allows us to extract perturbative coefficients from Monte-Carlo simulations and the process of doing this is laid out in some detail here.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures, talk presented at the XXVI International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, July 14-19, 2008, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA
Dorothy Parker and Italian Women's Magazines
Creators: name: Coslovi, Marina
Publisher: name: RSAJournal
Year: 2001

description: In the postwar period, in Italy, Dorothy Parker enjoyed a moment of popularity with two women's magazines, Grazia and Annabella, which published six of her short stories between 1946 and 1950. This essay analyzes the Italian translations in order to show how they both reflected and influenced the kind of reading of Parker's stories that was expected from the audience of these magazines as opposed to the original American audience, the readers of Cosmopolitan, The New Republic and The New Yorker.
description: RSAJournal, V. 12 (2001): Untitled
Claude McKay's “Banana Bottom”
Creators: name: Balestra, Gianfranca
Publisher: name: RSAJournal
Year: 2001

description: To consider Claude McKay exclusively as a Harlem Renaissance figure limits appreciation of the variety and complexity of this work. After his emigration to the United States in 1912, he never went back to his native Jamaica, but returned to it imaginatively in 1933 with Banana Bottom, a novel which stages the cultural clash at the center of his personal and poetic world. This essay focuses on matters of race and class that were McKay's concerns throughout his career as well as on gender issues dramatized by the choice of a female protagonist. Banana Bottom is especially representative of the Caribbean experience of hybridism, migration, displacement, colonization, and slavery, but also of the sometimes neglected multicultural layers of American literature. By highlighting McKay's roots and background, this novel serves as a useful counterpoint to his participation in the Harlem Renaissance, "a long way from home".
description: RSAJournal, V. 12 (2001): Untitled
Avalanches and clusters in planar crack front propagation
Creators: name: Laurson, Lasse
name: Santucci, Stephane
name: Zapperi, Stefano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study avalanches in a model for a planar crack propagating in a disordered medium. Due to long-range interactions, avalanches are formed by a set of spatially disconnected local clusters, the sizes of which are distributed according to a power law with an exponent $τ_{a}=1.5$. We derive a scaling relation $τ_a=2τ-1$ between the local cluster exponent $τ_a$ and the global avalanche exponent $τ$. For length scales longer than a cross-over length proportional to the Larkin length, the aspect ratio of the local clusters scales with the roughness exponent of the line model. Our analysis provides an explanation for experimental results on planar crack avalanches in Plexiglas plates, but the results are applicable also to other systems with long-range interactions.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in Physical Review E
Multiscale cosmology and structure-emerging Dark Energy: A plausibility analysis
Creators: name: Wiegand, Alexander
name: Buchert, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cosmological backreaction suggests a link between structure formation and the expansion history of the Universe. In order to quantitatively examine this connection, we dynamically investigate a volume partition of the Universe into over-- and underdense regions. This allows us to trace structure formation using the volume fraction of the overdense regions $λ_{\CM}$ as its characterizing parameter. Employing results from cosmological perturbation theory and extrapolating the leading mode into the nonlinear regime, we construct a three--parameter model for the effective cosmic expansion history, involving $λ_{\CM_{0}}$, the matter density $Ω_{m}^{\CD_{0}}$, and the Hubble rate $H_{\CD_{0}}$ of today's Universe. Taking standard values for $Ω_{m}^{\CD_{0}}$ and $H_{\CD_{0}}$ as well as a reasonable value for $λ_{\CM_{0}}$, that we derive from $N$--body simulations, we determine the corresponding amounts of backreaction and spatial curvature. We find that the obtained values that are sufficient to generate today's structure also lead to a $Λ$CDM--like behavior of the scale factor, parametrized by the same parameters $Ω_{m}^{\CD_{0}}$ and $H_{\CD_{0}}$, but without a cosmological constant. However, the temporal behavior of $λ_{\CM}$ does not faithfully reproduce the structure formation history. Surprisingly, however, the model matches with structure formation with the assumption of a low matter content, $Ω_{m}^{\CD_{0}}\approx3\%$, a result that hints to a different interpretation of part of the backreaction effect as kinematical Dark Matter. (truncated)
description: 25 pages, 10 figures, includes calculation of luminosity distances, matches published version in Phys. Rev. D
KOLORADO QO'NG'IZI (COLEOPTERA, CHRYSOMELIDAE)NING AYRIM BIOLOGIK HUSUSIYATLARI
Creators: name: Аxmadjonova, S.Sh.
name: Ismoilova, O.I.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: 2020-2023 yillar davomida bargho‘r qo‘ng‘izlar (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) oilasiga kiruvchi, Kolorado qo‘ng‘izi-Leptinotarsa decemlineata Say turining xatti-harakatlari va rivojlanish bosqichlari o‘rganildi. Maqolada kolorado qo‘ng‘izining tashqi muhit sharoitida rivojlanish jarayonlarinig o‘zgarishi, noqulay ta`sirlarga javob reaksiyalarining hilma-xilligi keltirilgan.
IoT and Deep Learning on Sensor Data
Creators: name: Sivaraman, Arun Kumar
name: Md, Abdul Quadir
name: AN, Siva
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Computer Engineering
subject: 170203 Knowledge Representation and Machine Learning
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Internet of things (IoT) combined with machine learning algorithms has several applications in various fields. Extensive research and projects are available in Intrusion detection systems (IDS). This paper focuses on collecting data from various sensors and storing them efficiently in various database systems and applying machine learning algorithms to extract useful information from raw sensor data. We propose a 3-tier system that consists of sensor nodes, a sensor database, combined with machine learning algorithm for predicting the activity performed by the human at that point in time. The dataset used to train the Machine learning algorithm has been collected and stored in a NoSQL database which is non-relational and easily scalable. This work compares the reliability and accuracy of the existing algorithms in the field of IoT in sensor data.
Non-Archimedean Normal Operators
Creators: name: Kochubei, Anatoly N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 47S10 (Primary) 11S80, 81Q99 (Secondary)

description: We describe some classes of linear operators on Banach spaces over non-Archimedean fields, which admit orthogonal spectral decompositions. Several examples are given.
description: This paper has been withdrawn by the author. See comments in arXiv: 1206.2751
Reconstructing nonlinearities with intermodulation spectroscopy
Creators: name: Hutter, Carsten
name: Platz, Daniel
name: Tholen, E. A.
name: Hansson, T. H.
name: Haviland, D. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe a method of analysis which allows for reconstructing the nonlinear disturbance of a high Q harmonic oscillator. When the oscillator is driven with two or more frequencies, the nonlinearity causes intermodulation of the drives, resulting in a complicated spectral response. Analysis of this spectrum allows one to approximate the nonlinearity. The method, which is generally applicable to measurements based on resonant detection, increases the information content of the measurement without requiring large detection bandwidth, and optimally uses the enhanced sensitivity near resonance to extract information and minimize error due to detector noise.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
STIS Imaging of the HR 4796A Circumstellar Debris Ring
Creators: name: Schneider, G.
name: Weinberger, A. J.
name: Becklin, E. E.
name: Debes, J. H.
name: Smith, B. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have obtained high spatial resolution imaging observations of the HR 4796A circumstellar debris dust ring using the broad optical response of the Hubble Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph in coronagraphic mode. We use our visual wavelength observations to improve upon the earlier measured geometrical parameters of the ring-like disk. Two significant flux density asymmetries are noted: (1) preferential forward scattering by the disk grains and (2) an azimuthal surface brightness anisotropy about the morphological minor axis of the disk with corresponding differential ansal brightness. We find the debris ring offset from the location of the star by ~1.4 AU, a shift insufficient to explain the differing brightnesses of the NE and SW ansae simply by the 1/$r^2$ dimmunition of starlight. The STIS data also better quantify the radial confinement of the starlight-scattering circumstellar debris, to a characteristic region <14 AU in photometric half-width, with a significantly steeper inner truncation than outward falloff in radial surface brightness. The inferred spatial distribution of the disk grains is consistent with the possibility of one or more unseen co-orbital planetary-mass perturbers, and the colors of the disk grains are consistent with a collisionally evolved population of debris, possibly including ices reddened by radiation exposure to the central star.
description: Accepted to AJ; 3 of 8 figures in color
Classification of U_q(sl_2)-module algebra structures on the quantum plane
Creators: name: Duplij, Steven
name: Sinel'shchikov, Sergey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81R50, 81Q99, 33A15, 33B15, 33D05

description: A complete list of Uq(sl2)-module algebra structures on the quantum plane is produced and the (uncountable family of) isomorphism classes of these structures are described. The composition series of representations in question are computed. The classical limits of the Uq(sl2)-module algebra structures are discussed.
description: 21 pages, amsart. The assumption 0
Approach to marginal analysis
Creators: name: McLean, William Robert
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: This thesis developed a pragmatic approach to the optimization of business decisions in the chloralkali industry utilizing basic marginal analysis concepts. It attempted to meld accounting principles and techniques with economic concepts for the purpose of establishing a rationale and a workable model for guiding and evaluating everyday business decisions. The approach concentrated on short run decision making and did not get involved with capital and other variables which were fixed in the short run. Many attempts to apply marginal analysis to the real world have had only limited success. The concepts as outlined in this thesis used a particular empirical example to circumvent some of the inherent difficulties associated with marginal analysis. The emphasis in this study was to develop a useful business tool and not to fit theoretical economic concepts into the real world. The special requirements for this model were a capital intensive multiproduct company with a vertically integrated production line. Each product manufactured should have two outlets; a) to be used as raw materials to upgrade the product by further processing, or b) to be sold in the market place. Consequently, the product lines will be developed from relatively few raw materials. This is the situation in most petrochemical and inorganic chemical plants, oil refineries, and could even be applied to entire industries such as forest products, and pulp and paper. Although the chloralkali model's construction were discussed, the model itself was not included in the thesis. The particular model used was large and complex, specially adapted for the firm, and as a result contained confidential information and relationships which were difficult to disguise. The empirical example assisted in the development of the essential concepts but did little to contribute to the proving of the hypothesis.
IoT and Deep Learning on Sensor Data
Creators: name: Sivaraman, Arun Kumar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Computer Engineering
subject: 170203 Knowledge Representation and Machine Learning
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Internet of things (IoT) combined with machine learning algorithms has several applications in various fields. Extensive research and projects are available in Intrusion detection systems (IDS). This paper focuses on collecting data from various sensors and storing them efficiently in various database systems and applying machine learning algorithms to extract useful information from raw sensor data. We propose a 3-tier system that consists of sensor nodes, a sensor database, combined with machine learning algorithm for predicting the activity performed by the human at that point in time. The dataset used to train the Machine learning algorithm has been collected and stored in a NoSQL database which is non-relational and easily scalable. This work compares the reliability and accuracy of the existing algorithms in the field of IoT in sensor data.
Asymptotic self-similar solutions with a characteristic time-scale
Creators: name: Waxman, Eli
name: Shvarts, Dov
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For a wide variety of initial and boundary conditions, adiabatic one dimensional flows of an ideal gas approach self-similar behavior when the characteristic length scale over which the flow takes place, $R$, diverges or tends to zero. It is commonly assumed that self-similarity is approached since in the $R\to\infty(0)$ limit the flow becomes independent of any characteristic length or time scales. In this case the flow fields $f(r,t)$ must be of the form $f(r,t)=t^{α_f}F(r/R)$ with $R\propto(\pm t)^α$. We show that requiring the asymptotic flow to be independent only of characteristic length scales imply a more general form of self-similar solutions, $f(r,t)=R^{δ_f}F(r/R)$ with $\dot{R}\propto R^δ$, which includes the exponential ($δ=1$) solutions, $R\propto e^{t/τ}$. We demonstrate that the latter, less restrictive, requirement is the physically relevant one by showing that the asymptotic behavior of accelerating blast-waves, driven by the release of energy at the center of a cold gas sphere of initial density $ρ\propto r^{-ω}$, changes its character at large $ω$: The flow is described by $0\leδ<1$, $R\propto t^{1/(1-δ)}$, solutions for $ω1$ solutions with $R\propto (-t)^{1/(δ-1)}$ diverging at finite time ($t=0$) for $ω>ω_c$, and by exponential solutions for $ω=ω_c$ ($ω_c$ depends on the adiabatic index of the gas, $ω_c\sim8$ for $4/30$ behavior for $ω>ω_c$ are also derived.
description: Minor corrections, Accepted to ApJ
Sharp heat kernel estimates for relativistic stable processes in open sets
Creators: name: Chen, Zhen-Qing
name: Kim, Panki
name: Song, Renming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we establish sharp two-sided estimates for the transition densities of relativistic stable processes [i.e., for the heat kernels of the operators $m-(m^{2/α}-Δ)^{α/2}$] in $C^{1,1}$ open sets. Here $m>0$ and $α\in(0,2)$. The estimates are uniform in $m\in(0,M]$ for each fixed $M>0$. Letting $m\downarrow0$, we recover the Dirichlet heat kernel estimates for $Δ^{α/2}:=-(-Δ)^{α/2}$ in $C^{1,1}$ open sets obtained in [14]. Sharp two-sided estimates are also obtained for Green functions of relativistic stable processes in bounded $C^{1,1}$ open sets.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/10-AOP611 the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Pressure effects on the electron-doped high Tc superconductor BaFe(2-x)Co(x)As(2)
Creators: name: Ahilan, K.
name: Balasubramaniam, J.
name: Ning, F. L.
name: Imai, T.
name: Sefat, A. S.
name: Jin, R.
name: McGuire, M. A.
name: Sales, B. C.
name: Mandrus, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Application of pressures or electron-doping through Co substitution into Fe sites transforms the itinerant antiferromagnet BaFe(2)As(2) into a superconductor with the Tc exceeding 20K. We carried out systematic transport measurements of BaFe(2-x)Co(x)As(2) superconductors in pressures up to 2.5GPa, and elucidate the interplay between the effects of electron-doping and pressures. For the underdoped sample with nominal composition x = 0.08, application of pressure strongly suppresses a magnetic instability while enhancing Tc by nearly a factor of two from 11K to 21K. In contrast, the optimally doped x=0.20 sample shows very little enhancement of Tc=22K under applied pressure. Our results strongly suggest that the proximity to a magnetic instability is the key to the mechanism of superconductivity in iron-pnictides.
description: 5 figures