cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Antisymmetric tensor unparticle and the radiative lepton flavor violating decays
Creators: name: Iltan, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the contribution of the tensor unparticle mediation to the branching ratios of the radiative lepton flavor violating decays and predict a restriction region for free parameters of the scenario by using experimental upper limits. We observe that the branching ratios of the radiative lepton flavor violating decays are sensitive to the fundamental mass scales of the scenario and to the scale dimension of antisymmetric tensor unparticle. We obtain a more restricted set for the free parameters in the case of the μ\rightarrow e γdecay
description: 15 pages, 10 figures
Boosted saturation bound in colliding nuclei
Creators: name: Kopeliovich, B. Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Interaction with a nucleus in pA collisions enhances the higher Fock components in the projectile proton. Effectively, this corresponds to an increase of the hard scale of the process by the saturation momentum Q^2 -> Q^2+Q_{sA}^2, which leads to an increased gluon distribution function at small x (but suppressed at x -> 1) compared to that in pp collisions. In the case of AA collisions the gluon distributions of bound nucleons in both nuclei turn out to be enhanced, i.e. to be boosted to higher saturation scales compared to pA collisions. A set of bootstrap equations relating the saturation scales in the colliding nuclei is derived and solved. The boosting effect has a moderate magnitude at the energies of RHIC, but becomes significant at LHC.
description: 4 pages, 6 pictures. Talk presented at ISMD2011, 26-30 September, 2011, Miyajima-island, Hiroshima
title: "Statua femminile ammantata", arte romana, inv. CCLXII (ITA/EN)
title: Scheda catalogo digitale Borghese
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Clementi, Jessica
name: Galleria Borghese
Publisher: name: Galleria Borghese
Year: 2024

description: Pubblicazione delle schede delle opere conservate nel museo ed estratte dal catalogo digitale di

Galleria Borghese, nelle due versioni esistenti online, in italiano e inglese.

Collegamento al catalogo digitale:

ITA: https://www.collezionegalleriaborghese.it/

EN: https://www.collezionegalleriaborghese.it/en
“The Effervescence of a Moment”
Creators: name: Martinez, Carlo
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2023

description: This article suggests that the rise of the new journalism of the penny press during the antebellum America constituted an inescapable reference point and challenge for Poe and Hawthorne, for its emergence radically transformed the context and the course of the early phases of their careers and needs to be examined as a fundamental component of their literary visions. To illustrate that, the article focuses on the ways in which the penny press reverberates in Hawthorne’s and Poe’s fictional temporalities. In fact, their works seem to respond to the new regimes of time that were being introduced by the rise of daily newspaper that was booming in the 1830s, forming the framework within which the two writers’ construction of their authorial figures took shape. Centering primarily on the writings of the early phase of their careers, the article retraces the repeated and central appearances that news and the newspaper make in the writings of Hawthorne and Poe, suggesting how their responses to the manifold temporalities in which they were imbricated were key to the development of their different literary conceptions and authorial figures.
description: Iperstoria, No. 21 (2023): ICT Affordances and Higher Education: From Face-to-Face to Online Classroom-Based Activities
Translating Humorous Literature
Creators: name: Ciancitto, Salvatore M.
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2023

description: How to Live in Flat is a book written in 1936 by Kenneth R.G. Browne and illustrated by Heath W. Robinson, a well-known artist of the age, famous for having illustrated Andersen’s books but also for his sketches and drawings of fabulous machines and gadgets invented to solve every day little problems in a cumbersome and improbable manner. This book is the first of a series produced by the two artists; each volume of the series has the form of a handbook full of suggestions and advice for specific hobbies (How to Make a Garden Grow, 1938) or to deal with the problems related to marriage and married life (How to be a Perfect Husband 1937). Translating these texts tackles three types of difficulties and constraints: first, their chronological and cultural distance (England between the two World Wars); secondly, their humorous and ironical style used by Browne, as a writer, and by Robinson, as an illustrator; finally, the presence of illustrations which depict episodes of the narrative, thus creating a sort of dialogue between the written and the pictorial texts. This study stems from the translation of the first book of the series, How to Live in a Flat, and intends to discuss and explicit the translation choices made in order to recreate the equivalent humorous effect in the target text and on the target audience, which are both culturally and chronologically distant from the source text.
description: Iperstoria, No. 21 (2023): ICT Affordances and Higher Education: From Face-to-Face to Online Classroom-Based Activities
Propagation of Aberrations through Phase Induced Amplitude Apodization coronagraph
Creators: name: Pueyo, Laurent
name: Kasdin, N. Jeremy
name: Shaklan, Stuart
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The specification of polishing requirements for the optics in coronagraphs dedicated to exo-planet detection requires careful and accurate optical modelling. Numerical representations of the propagation of aberrations through the system as well as simulations of the broadband wavefront compensation system using multiple DMs are critical when one devises an error budget for such a class of instruments. In this communication we introduce an analytical tool that serves this purpose for Phase Induced Amplitude Apodisation (PIAA) coronagraphs. We first start by deriving the analytical form of the propagation of a harmonic ripple through a PIAA unit. Using this result we derive the chromaticity of the field at any plane in the optical train of a telescope equipped with such a coronagraph. Finally we study the chromatic response of a sequential DM wavefront actuator correcting such a corrugated field and thus quantify the requirements on the manufacturing of PIAA mirrors
title: Возможности лекарственного обеспечения этиотропной терапии амбулаторных больных COVID-19
Creators: name: Егорова, Евгения
name: Ершевская, Александра
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2021

description: Тема COVID-19 является одной из самых обсуждаемых в повседневной жизни и сфере здравоохранения. Это связано с высокой заболеваемостью и смертностью людей, а также быстрым распространением инфекции. Этиотропная терапия является важной составляющей лечения ковидных пациентов. В соответствии с временными методическими рекомендациями по профилактике, диагностике и лечению COVID-19 разрешена амбулаторная терапия данного заболевания. В приоритетную схему медикаментозного лечения входит фавипиравир. Препараты фавипиравира появились на российском фармацевтическом рынке относительно недавно. В настоящее время зарегистрировано 4 торговых наименования, представленных разными формами выпуска и только одной дозировкой. В данной работе проведен анализ ассортимента и ценовых характеристик фавипиравира.
Virial estimator for dark energy
Creators: name: Chernin, A. D.
name: Teerikorpi, P.
name: Valtonen, M. J.
name: Dolgachev, V. P.
name: Domozhilova, L. M.
name: Byrd, G. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new estimator of the local density of dark energy is suggested which comes from the virial theorem for non-relativistic gravitating systems embedded in the uniform dark energy background.
description: 11 pages, Gravitation and Cosmology vol.17, # 4, 2011
“It Seemed to Me It Might Be True”
Creators: name: Francesconi, Sabrina
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2023

description: This work explores formal and functional variation of the seem-verb in Alice Munro’s early stories Dance of the Happy Shades (1968) and Lives of Girls and Women (1971), predominantly first-person narratives marked by profound subjectivity. Through a manual selection of items and a quantitative and qualitative analysis, the article seeks to provide linguistic evidence for and discuss the role of seem in what Howells calls (1998, 85) Munro’s “art of indeterminacy,” that is, a style pervaded by vagueness and elusiveness. The semantics of the seem-verb class (evidentiality, modality, subjectivity, intersubjectivity) is addressed through the multiple forms it presents: seem + AdjP/NP, seem + to infinitive VP, seem that, seem like, seem as if, and parenthetical seem. Results show that the verb floats among attributive, cognitive and perceptual functions, as well as between evidential and epistemic values (e.g., Aijmer 2009; Biber et al. 1999; Johansson 2001; Johnson 2010; Usoniene and Šinkūnienė 2013). As such, it questions categories of factuality, clarity, and stability. Shaping “a grammar of point of view” (Neary 2014; Simpson 1993), seem encodes first-person accounts based on uncertain and unstable focalisers and narrators and reveals point of view as blurred.
description: Iperstoria, No. 21 (2023): ICT Affordances and Higher Education: From Face-to-Face to Online Classroom-Based Activities
Analysis of Traffic Crash Data in Kentucky (2008-2012)
Creators: name: Green, Eric R.
name: Agent, Kenneth R.
name: Pigman, Jerry G.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: This report documents an analysis of traffic crash data in Kentucky for the years of 200 8 through 201 2 . A primary objective of this study was to determine average crash statistics for Kentucky highways. Average and critical numbers and rates of crashes were calculated for various types of highways in rural and urban areas. These data can be used in Kentucky’s procedure to identify locations that have abnormal rates or numbers of crashes.  The other primary objective of this study was to provide data that can be used in the preparation of the problem identification portion of Kentucky’s Annual Highway Safety Plan. County and city crash statistics were analyzed. A summary of results and recommendations in several problem identification areas is presented. These general areas include; alcohol involvement, occupant protection, speed, teenage drivers, pedestrians, bicycles, motorcycles, trucks, and vehicle defects. Other areas included in the analysis for which specific recommendations were not made include , school bus crashes and train crashes.  The crash data are contained in the Collision Report Analysis for Safer Highways (CRASH) data base. This data base is updated daily so the number of crashes in a given calendar year will continue to change for a substantial time after the end of that year.
Comment on "Head-on collision of electron acoustic solitary waves in a plasma with nonextensive hot electrons"
Creators: name: Verheest, Frank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a recent paper "Head-on collision of electron acoustic solitary waves in a plasma with nonextensive hot electrons" [Astrophys. Space Sci. 338, 271-278 (2012)] Eslami, Mottaghizadeh and Pakzad deal with the problem of the head-on collisions between two weakly nonlinear electron-acoustic solitary waves. Unfortunately, their treatment is deficient and leads to erroneous conclusions.
description: Accepted for publication in "Astrophysics and Space Science"
Gauge mediation with heavy doublet superparticles
Creators: name: Shao, Hua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is challenging for supersymmetry if the 125 GeV Higgs boson is confirmed by the LHC. In the case of small squark mixing it is inevitable to introduce heavy top squarks to lift the Higgs mass that is hard to be produced by the LHC. Here we consider the possibility that in gauge mediation the superparticles belonging to SU(2) doublets are much heavier than those do not carry the SU(2) quantum numbers. Under the assumption not only the Higgs mass can be large enough but also there are light right handed top squarks below the TeV scale that can be observed in future.
description: 10pages, no figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D
A SCOPING REVIEW OF FRAMEWORKS EVALUATING DIGITAL HEALTH APPLICATIONS
Creators: name: Deegan, Orla
name: Ó Riain, Eoghan
name: Martin, Denis
name: Yoshitani, Mai
name: O' Donoghue, Mairead
name: Smart, Keith
name: McMahon, SINEAD
name: O'Sullivan, Trish
name: O'Sullivan, Declan J.
name: Cole, Aaron
name: Hanrahan, Ciara
name: Blake, Catherine
name: Murphy, David
name: Fullen, Brona
name: McVeigh, Joseph
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Virtual Reality
subject: Virtual reality
subject: Digital Health
subject: Evaluation Frameworks
subject: Scoping procedure
subject: Scoping Review

description: Introduction

Despite rapid technological advances, the application of digital health and virtual reality (VR)

applications in healthcare appears to be progressing slowly. This scoping review is part of the Scale-

Up4Rehab (SU4R) project, which aims to create a virtual rehabilitation clinic hosting high-quality digital

health interventions.

Aim of the investigation

To identify existing high-quality digital health evaluation frameworks and from these, extract criteria to

inform a new set of guidelines for assessing applications to be hosted on the SU4R platform.

Methods

A search strategy that included relevant keywords encompassing the domains of interest; digital health,

evaluation frameworks and digital health applications was created between January 2007 and

December 2023, across seven medical and computer science databases. Data from each study were

extracted by a team of four reviewers using a customized data extraction tool; results were analysed

narratively.

Results

The review identified 18 frameworks from 11 countries, incorporating 779 framework criteria. The

criteria were grouped into 19 categories, with the largest proportion of identified criteria grouped into the

categories 'Data Security and Privacy' and 'Validation'.

Conclusions

The criteria extracted from the reviewed frameworks will contribute to the creation of a comprehensive

evaluation framework. This new evaluation framework will form part of the approval process for the

SU4R Virtual Rehabilitation Clinic. This will facilitate a rigorous selection process for the digital health

and VR applications to be hosted on the virtual clinic.
Can We Reconcile ERT (Emergency Remote Teaching) and Best Practices in Language Learning/Teaching?
Creators: name: Poppi, Franca
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2023

description: The adoption of technological tools as an alternative to or in support of more traditional methods became pressing and inevitable in 2020, because of the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, which marked the closure of on-site face-to-face classes all over the world. All of a sudden, what had so far been considered to be ‘normal’ was destabilized or disrupted by the pandemic. Technology solutions had to be adopted to save the whole education system, as teachers reinvented themselves in a period which catalysed a new era in virtual language learning and teacher professional development (Copeland 2021). In some cases it was possible to move classes effectively to online and distance education platforms because of pre-existing experience, but in others all the involved stakeholders had to strive to cope and manage the ‘new normal’ (Trust and Whalen 2021). The present contribution explores the online practices adopted in a course attended by master students with a view to stimulating the attendees’ proactiveness, and in particular their involvement in tasks which encouraged them to develop a capability for using linguistic resources strategically and knowingly, aware of “how meaning potential encoded in English can be realised as a communicative resource” (Widdowson 2003, 177).
description: Iperstoria, No. 21 (2023): ICT Affordances and Higher Education: From Face-to-Face to Online Classroom-Based Activities
The true reinforced random walk with bias
Creators: name: Agliari, Elena
name: Burioni, Raffaella
name: Uguzzoni, Guido
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 05.40.Fb, 02.50.Cw, 02.50.Ey

description: We consider a self-attracting random walk in dimension d=1, in presence of a field of strength s, which biases the walker toward a target site. We focus on the dynamic case (true reinforced random walk), where memory effects are implemented at each time step, differently from the static case, where memory effects are accounted for globally. We analyze in details the asymptotic long-time behavior of the walker through the main statistical quantities (e.g. distinct sites visited, end-to-end distance) and we discuss a possible mapping between such dynamic self-attracting model and the trapping problem for a simple random walk, in analogy with the static model. Moreover, we find that, for any s>0, the random walk behavior switches to ballistic and that field effects always prevail on memory effects without any singularity, already in d=1; this is in contrast with the behavior observed in the static model.
description: to appear on New J. Phys
The Power of Light Zine 3 - Why do we explore the world around us? - an epistemically insightful way to explore the nature of science and research at Diamond Light Source, UK
Creators: name: Cullimore, Mina
name: Halford, Katrina
name: Day, Sarah
name: Gordon, Agnieszka J.
name: Billingsley, Berry
name: Mosselmans, Fred
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: epistemic insight
observation
nature of science
hands-on science
exploration
migration
environments
biomes
synchrotron
maps
cartographer
stars
Mars
astronomy
astronomer
scientific modelling
Babylonian Imago Mundi
sustainable
primary science
primary education
discipline
epistemic knowledge
epsitemic agency
multidisciplinary
Big Questions
curiosity
energy
magnets
gravity
physics

description: In the STFC funded Epistemic Insight Initiative project, The Power of Light, a series of resources have been designed informed by co-creation activities, pilot lessons, and workshops that involved children in schools and with their families in community spaces. Through this project with Diamond, we brought into classrooms and community spaces how light can be used to help investigate the world around us, address real-world problems and inform our thinking about Big Questions. The resources we develop support teachers' and their students' sense of agency when exploring 'how knowledge works' and how knowledge is built through different disciplines (including the natural sciences, the arts, and the humanities). This 'zine', with its focus on how scientists have been working with astronomers, geographers, and other disciplines to explore relationships between matter in environments that we cannot directly experience here on Earth, in space, and into the future through the use of scientific modelling and a synchrotron. Zine 3, with its focus on space and energy, has been developed through co-creative activities involving research scientists at Diamond Light Source (UK), academics, primary school teachers, STEM ambassadors, and Diamond's public engagement team. Zines use an appealing combination of text and images to create a concise comic-like narrative format to generate enthusiasm about a particular area of interest - the series of zines designed for this project focuses on research taking place at the Diamond facility. The Diamond Light Source facility houses a synchrotron which is used to conduct research in a variety of applied fields of science and technology. This zine is designed to be accessible to ages 8+, and works well with a short animation (available in both Zenodo and on the Epistemic Insight You Tube channel) that has been created with additional funding from STFC. Teaching notes are available for this zine, with guidance and activity sheets to support working with the Power of Light resources. This zine explores these discussion questions: 1) What do we know bout our planet Earth (and how it 'works')? 2) What can help us build knowledge about things beyond planet Earth? 3) What might help to inform our thinking when making choices and decisions?
ICT Tools in ESP Syllabus Design
Creators: name: Bagni, Marco
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2023

description: In recent years, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have become a regular part of everyday English Language Teaching (ELT) practices in higher education and are merging with face-to-face activities. A hybrid modality, defined as Blended Learning (BL) (Sharma and Barrett 2007), has become established practice in Italian universities. The advantages of BL have long been recognized, particularly in ESP instruction (Luzón, 2009; Arnó-Macía, 2012), whose overall objective is to adapt the language learning experience to the learners’ specific needs. ESP practitioners who have experimented with BL to deliver their university courses may have recognized in it an efficient way of meeting the students’ needs and offering them an original experience. Having learned the lesson of the Covid-19 pandemic, and since they will very likely continue to teach their courses in hybrid or blended modalities in the future, it is arguably essential that ESP practitioners explore the full potential of ICT tools and are brought to reflect on the issues pertaining to their use. This paper aims to contribute to a reflection on the use of ICT in English language teaching (ELT) in higher education. It draws on the author’s personal experience of designing a Blended Learning (BL) syllabus for an undergraduate English for Specific Purposes (ESP) course in Technical English at the Department of Sciences and Methods for Engineering (DISMI) of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in the academic year 2021/2022. It describes the syllabus design process, illustrating how ICT tools and particularly online resources were used to analyze target students’ needs and customize the syllabus for the Technical English course.
description: Iperstoria, No. 21 (2023): ICT Affordances and Higher Education: From Face-to-Face to Online Classroom-Based Activities
Kentucky's PRISM-Based Automated Ramp Screening System Evaluation
Creators: name: Kissick, Jerry
name: Hunsucker, David Q.
name: Martin, Andrew
name: Walton, Jennifer
name: Bell, Mark
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: In 2010, Kentucky implemented a Performance Registration Information Systems and Management (PRISM) based automated ramp screening system (PARSS) at the Boone County inspection station on southbound I-71. The purpose of the PARSS is to identify and screen every vehicle that enters the Boone County inspection station. The system provides automated screening of trucks based on the license plate number and the USDOT number displayed on the vehicle. If it is determined that the vehicle should be stopped for inspection, that decision is communicated to the truck driver via the existing directional arrows that direct drivers to the static scale for inspection.  A thorough evaluation was conducted to assess the performance of the system (i.e., does it do what it was intended to do?), the value of the system in identifying vehicles for inspection with PRISM or CVISN-related issues, and the potential for more widespread deployment of this type of screening system. In addition, the evaluation also included a side-by-side comparison of the two automated license plate reader (ALPR) systems.
Item Writing and Dyslexic Students
Creators: name: Pelleriti, Margherita
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2023

description: In language testing, item writing is an important process which can be creative, rewarding but also challenging and sometimes frustrating. Quality items are fundamental for test validity and item writers can be formally trained in order to improve what they write (Rossi and Brunfaut 2019). The present study analyses some items specifically written for dyslexic students as part of a high-stakes, Internet-based B1 English test administered to undergraduate students in an Italian university, namely the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, where the number of dyslexic students enrolled has increased exponentially in recent years. The aim was to investigate whether the accommodations suggested by the item reviewer succeeded in removing unnecessary barriers which represent an unintended bias, while preserving the test construct and consequently its validity (Pelleriti 2018; Kormos and Smith 2012). For the present investigation, a questionnaire was devised, and four certified dyslexic students were interviewed on a voluntary basis. The data collected during the semi-structured interviews confirmed that some of the suggested accommodations would be beneficial, whereas others would be detrimental to candidates with dyslexia. As a consequence, some conclusions have been drawn, with the aim of sharing best practice among the language testing community—in particular language testers, test developers, and item writers. Nevertheless, this research has also confirmed that item writing undoubtedly deserves more scholarly attention, in an attempt to shed light on this pivotal aspect, which is at times neglected despite being one of the pillars in language testing.
description: Iperstoria, No. 21 (2023): ICT Affordances and Higher Education: From Face-to-Face to Online Classroom-Based Activities
A unification of the multiple twisted Euler and Genocchi numbers and polynomials associated with p adic q integral on Zp at q=-1
Creators: name: Araci, Serkan
name: Acikgoz, Mehmet
name: Park, Kyoung Ho
name: Jolany, Hassan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The present paper deals with unification of the multiple twisted Euler and Genocchi numbers and polynomials associated with p-adic q-integral on Zp at q = 1. Some earlier results of Ozden's papers in terms of unification of the multiple twisted Euler and Genocchi numbers and polynomials associated with p-adic q-integral on Zp at q = 1 can be deduced. We apply the method of generating function and p-adic q-integral representation on Zp, which are exploited to derive further classes of Euler polynomials and Genocchi polynomials. To be more precise we summarize our results as follows, we obtain some relations between H.Ozden's generating function and fermionic p-adic q-integral on Zp at q = 1. Furthermore we derive Witt's type formula for the unification of twisted Euler and Genocchi polynomials. Also we derive distribution formula (Multiplication Theorem) for multiple twisted Euler and Genocchi numbers and polynomials associated with p-adic q-integral on Zp at q = 1 which yields a deeper insight into the effectiveness of this type of generalizations. Furthermore we define unification of multiple twisted zeta function and we obtain an interpolation formula between unification of multiple twisted zeta function and unification of the multiple twisted Euler and Genocchi numbers at negative integer. Our new generating function possess a number of interesting properties which we state in this paper.
description: 13 pages
STORMS Checklist: "Effects of Variation in Sample Storage Conditions and Swab Order on 16S Vaginal Microbiome Analyses"
Creators: name: Kumar, Tanya
name: Bryant, MacKenzie
name: Cantrell, Kalen
name: McDonald, Daniel
name: Tubb, Helena M
name: Farmer, Sawyer
name: Lewis, Amanda
name: Lukacz, Emily S
name: Brubaker, Linda
name: Knight, Rob
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: STORMS checklist for "Effects of Variation in Sample Storage Conditions and Swab Order on 16S Vaginal Microbiome Analyses" (Kumar, Bryant, Cantrell). December 2022
Determinism in RigbySpace: The Case Against Free Will
Creators: name: Veneziano, D
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: RigbySpace (RS) is a fully recursive first-principle framework that defines mass, energy, time, and information using rational structures and harmonic imbalance. While RS derives mass hierarchies, particle properties, and cosmological behavior from prime-indexed recursive modulation, it also has deep philosophical consequences, especially regarding determinism, agency, and free will. This paper aims to make a simple claim: if RS is true, then free will does not exist.
Challenges and Opportunities of Globalised English Language Education
Creators: name: Irsara, Martina
name: Lazzeretti, Cecilia
name: Gatti, Maria Cristina
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2023

description: Forcing the transition from traditional face-to-face, classroom-based methods to online teaching and learning, the Covid-19 pandemic has further expanded the challenges of contemporary education in a globalised world, characterised by increasing cultural and linguistic diversity. This paper provides a critical account of the Bolzano Meisei English Programme (BMP), a collaborative project established between the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and Meisei University of Tokyo during the SARs-Cov-2 crisis in the spring of 2020. By reflecting on this experience, characterised by intrinsic aspects of originality related to the multilingual and multicultural background of the countries involved, the study aims to discuss the challenges and opportunities of online language teaching and learning in the global digital world. The study is framed in the perspective of Globalised Language Education (GLE) and based on ethnographic approaches (Starfield 2010; Carspecken 1996) and reflective analysis (Gibbs 1988). The dataset is comprised of analogue and digital data, collected in the form of field notes, personal communications, video recordings, email exchanges, and student reflections. BMP offered participants an international collaborative learning experience, supporting the idea that English can be a window into a range of cultures that are perhaps geographically distant but accessible through digital technologies. While the programme was successful in many respects and well received by participants and stakeholders, it also faced challenges that may be useful for future projects and the advancement of teacher education.
description: Iperstoria, No. 21 (2023): ICT Affordances and Higher Education: From Face-to-Face to Online Classroom-Based Activities
STORMS Checklist: "Effects of Variation in Sample Storage Conditions and Swab Order on 16S Vaginal Microbiome Analyses"
Creators: name: Kumar, Tanya
name: Bryant, MacKenzie
name: Cantrell, Kalen
name: Song, Se Jin
name: McDonald, Daniel
name: Tubb, Helena M
name: Farmer, Sawyer
name: Lewis, Amanda
name: Lukacz, Emily S
name: Brubaker, Linda
name: Knight, Rob
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: STORMS checklist for "Effects of Variation in Sample Storage Conditions and Swab Order on 16S Vaginal Microbiome Analyses" (Kumar, Bryant, Cantrell). December 2022. v2
Na-Au intermetallic compounds formed under high pressure at room temperature
Creators: name: Takemura, K.
name: Fujihisa, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High-pressure powder x-ray diffraction experiments have revealed that sodium and gold react at room temperature and form new Na-Au intermetallic compounds under high pressure. We have identified four intermetallic phases up to 60 GPa. The first phase (phase I) is the known Na2Au with the tetragonal CuAl2-type structure. It changed to the second phase (phase II) at about 0.8 GPa, which has the composition Na3Au with the trigonal Cu3As-type or hexagonal Cu3P-type structure. Phase II further transformed to phase III at 3.6 GPa. Phase III has the same composition Na3Au with the cubic BiF3-type structure. Finally, phase III changed to phase IV at around 54 GPa. Phase IV gives broad diffraction peaks, indicating large structural disorder.
description: 15 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables. Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. B
Motor Carrier Tax Consolidation Study
Creators: name: Martin, Andrew
name: Bell, Mark
name: Walton, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: This study analyzed the tax and fee structure for Kentucky motor carriers and details a possible policy scenario for eliminating the weight-distance tax. The report starts out analyzing detailed revenue and rate information for the motor fuel tax, motor fuel surtax, weight distance tax, IRP registration fees, and intrastate registration fees. Consolidation policies in Idaho and Ohio were reviewed, as well as a previous consolidation proposal in Kentucky. A new consolidation framework was developed, where IRP and intrastate plate fees were increased by 129 percent and the weight-distance tax was eliminated. Projections for weight-distance tax and IRP fees (both current and proposed) were compared to assess the revenue impact on the Road Fund. In addition, the tax/fee burden for motor carriers was assessed to see whether the proposed changes would help or hurt firms of various sizes and operational tendencies. Interstate carriers that log a high percentage of miles in Kentucky, or interstate carriers that run a low number of overall miles per vehicle, would generally see an increased tax/fee burden. Interstate carriers that log a low percentage of miles on Kentucky roads or a high number of overall miles per vehicle would generally see a diminished tax/fee burden. Most intrastate carriers would have to pay more under the proposed policy alternative.
title: Workforce Assessment of the Inland Waterways Industry
title: A Survey of Current and Future Training and Personnel Needs
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: O'Connell, Lenahan
name: Brock, Timothy J.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: This report describes the findings of a preliminary review of the workforce needs of the inland waterways industry, which currently confronts a human resources crisis and must recruit more people who can work their way up to the skilled positions on towboats. The looming surge in retirements will present a significant hurdle—especially as its large cohort of baby boom river pilots and captains reach retirement age. The industry will need to recruit, train, and retain competent personnel for a very demanding and important set of jobs. While many people can handle the tasks of a deckhand, only a minority will have the requisite combination of spatial relations aptitude, leadership, technical and social skills that it takes to perform effectively as a pilot or captain on the inland river system. Two basic conclusions were drawn from our interviews with industry experts: (1) the rivers present a dangerous and cognitively challenging environment in which to work; and (2) the more demanding jobs on the rivers are best filled by conscientious people who can work well with others and have sufficient cognitive ability to cope with the safety and other challenges that arise with some regularity.  During research on job performance, it was found that cognitive ability is the best predictor of job performance and especially so in the more complex jobs. To be sure, piloting a barge tow is a complex task. Serving as captain is even more so. Clearly the jobs above deckhand require more cognitive ability and more capacity for leadership. Thus, only a subset of those who succeed as deckhands can move on to the more complex and difficult positions of mate, engineer, pilot or captain. We found that the military relies on a test of cognitive ability to ensure that all its recruits have measured intelligence in the normal range or above. The military also wants a high school diploma. Combined, these two screening devices improve the recruit’s odds for success in the armed forces. Thus, this study concludes that the average veteran with an honorable discharge is more likely to have the traits conducive to occupational success in the more complex occupations on the rivers. Given this reality, the industry can profit from devising new methods for reaching out to veterans, many of whom have little or no knowledge of the numerous benefits of a career on the rivers.
MoReThesisCorpus
Creators: name: Bondi, Marina
name: Di Cristofaro, Matteo
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2023

description: The article discusses the on-going process for the creation of the MoReThesisCorpus, outlining its major characteristics and offering an account of the considerations and issues involved so far. The corpus, composed of the theses submitted to the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia between 2011 and 2020, is being developed as part of the project CAP (‘Comunicazione Accademica e Professionale;’ Academic and Professional Communication), and is meant to foster research into academic language in a cross-disciplinary discourse perspective, as well as to facilitate the production of educational materials aimed at university students. It aims at supporting the acquisition of discipline-related vocabularies and styles to improve the learning of academic writing through corpus tools and resources, following a data-driven learning approach. Technical details surrounding the acquisition and subsequent processing of the data are discussed, along with considerations on a number of issues pertaining both to computer science and linguistics, directly impinging on the capability of the corpus to correctly support an investigation of academic discourse across different languages and disciplines.
description: Iperstoria, No. 21 (2023): ICT Affordances and Higher Education: From Face-to-Face to Online Classroom-Based Activities
Galaxy And Mass Assembly: Stellar Mass Estimates
Creators: name: Taylor, Edward N
name: Hopkins, Andrew M
name: Baldry, Ivan K
name: Brown, Michael J I
name: Driver, Simon P
name: Kelvin, Lee S
name: Hill, David T
name: Robotham, Aaron S G
name: Bland-Hawthorn, Joss
name: Jones, D H
name: Sharp, R G
name: Thomas, Daniel
name: Liske, Jochen
name: Loveday, Jon
name: Norberg, Peder
name: Peacock, J A
name: Bamford, Steven P
name: Brough, Sarah
name: Colless, Matthew
name: Cameron, Ewan
name: Conselice, Chistopher J
name: Croom, Scott M
name: Frenk, C S
name: Gunawardhana, Madusha
name: Kuijken, Konrad
name: Nichol, R C
name: Parkinson, H R
name: Phillipps, S
name: Pimbblet, K A
name: Popescu, C C
name: Prescott, Matthew
name: Sutherland, W J
name: Tuffs, R J
name: van Kampen, Eelco
name: Wijesinghe, D
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper describes the first catalogue of photometrically-derived stellar mass estimates for intermediate-redshift (z < 0.65) galaxies in the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) spectroscopic redshift survey. These masses, as well as the full set of ancillary stellar population parameters, will be made public as part of GAMA data release 2. Although the GAMA database does include NIR photometry, we show that the quality of our stellar population synthesis fits is significantly poorer when these NIR data are included. Further, for a large fraction of galaxies, the stellar population parameters inferred from the optical-plus-NIR photometry are formally inconsistent with those inferred from the optical data alone. This may indicate problems in our stellar population library, or NIR data issues, or both; these issues will be addressed for future versions of the catalogue. For now, we have chosen to base our stellar mass estimates on optical photometry only. In light of our decision to ignore the available NIR data, we examine how well stellar mass can be constrained based on optical data alone. We use generic properties of stellar population synthesis models to demonstrate that restframe colour alone is in principle a very good estimator of stellar mass-to-light ratio, M*/Li. Further, we use the observed relation between restframe (g-i) and M*/Li for real GAMA galaxies to argue that, modulo uncertainties in the stellar evolution models themselves, (g-i) colour can in practice be used to estimate M*/Li to an accuracy of < ~0.1 dex. This 'empirically calibrated' (g-i)-M*/Li relation offers a simple and transparent means for estimating galaxies' stellar masses based on minimal data, and so provides a solid basis for other surveys to compare their results to z < ~0.4 measurements from GAMA.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS. 35 pages; 21 figures including 6 in 2 appendices -- v2. corrected three extremely embarrassing typos in coauthors' names as they appeared in the arXiv metadata; manuscript text is unchanged
Two Squares of Opposition: for Analytic and Synthetic Propositions
Creators: name: Schumann, Andrew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Other Computer Science (cs.OH)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In the paper I prove that there are two squares of opposition. The unconventional one is built up for synthetic propositions. There a, i are contrary, a, o (resp. e, i) are contradictory, e, o are subcontrary, a, e (resp. i, o) are said to stand in the subalternation.
Mostra di Pompeo Batoni. Ausstellung in Lucca, Sommer 1967
Creators: name: Heinemann, Fritz
Publisher: name: Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege
Year: 2020

description: Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege, Bd. 20 Nr. 11 (1967): Kunstchronik. Monatsschrift für Kunstwissenschaft, Museumswesen und Denkmalpflege
Lattice Point Generating Functions and Symmetric Cones
Creators: name: Beck, Matthias
name: Bliem, Thomas
name: Braun, Benjamin
name: Savage, Carla
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05A15, 51F15, 05A17, 52B15

description: We show that a recent identity of Beck-Gessel-Lee-Savage on the generating function of symmetrically contrained compositions of integers generalizes naturally to a family of convex polyhedral cones that are invariant under the action of a finite reflection group. We obtain general expressions for the multivariate generating functions of such cones, and work out the specific cases of a symmetry group of type A (previously known) and types B and D (new). We obtain several applications of the special cases in type B, including identities involving permutation statistics and lecture hall partitions.
description: 19 pages
Occupations in Two Editions of Webster’s “Speller” as Evidence of Socio-Economic Changes in the Early Republic
Creators: name: Meirelles, Virginia
Publisher: name: Iperstoria
Year: 2023

description: This article compares the professions listed in two editions of Webster’s speller, The American Spelling Book (1829) and The Elementary Spelling Book (1832). Many occupations are recorded either in the American Spelling Book or in the Elementary Spelling Book, but not in both, which indicates that the spellers are describing different stages in the development of the country. Principally, the Elementary Spelling Book records occupations that evince the specialization and professionalization of the workers and demonstrate a reorganization of socioeconomic factors. The examination indicates that, in his desire to characterize the new nation, Webster ends up recording the socioeconomic changes that typified the industrial revolution and the bureaucratization of the state. Since Webster wanted to influence the youth and educate children to be good citizens, his spellers do not simply list words for plain linguistic reasons, but record words with social relevance. Therefore, the list of occupations that Webster presented in the spellers depicts different social circumstances and different stages in the country’s development
description: Iperstoria, No. 21 (2023): ICT Affordances and Higher Education: From Face-to-Face to Online Classroom-Based Activities
The application of green and blue infrastructure impact of city borders and ecosystem edges impact
Creators: name: Hussein, Jenan
name: Kumble, Peter
name: Salama, May
name: Hanson IV, Henry. W.A.
Publisher: name: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment
Year: 2021

description: Sustainability and resilience in cities are concepts that encapsulate the idea of improving quality of life with the aim of preventing and generating multifunctionality green infrastructure system through city development. The boundaries of the city district reflect a political decision; rarely coincide with the natural ecological boundaries that threaten biodiversity and extinction. In Czech Republic, as part of The European Union working forward to manage and protect areas relevant for achieving sustainability and resilience from urban sprawl, the Territorial System of Ecological Stability (TSES) is the core of territorial management for recovering ecosystem services. It was implemented in 1993 as a national-level policy, reflects in regional and local levels. Prague, the capital of the country, is considered one of the greenest cities in the world. Considering that, this study aims to understand the correlation between green and blue natural elements and TSES based on the quality of environmental resources and political decisions, and future strategies in creating green infrastructure applications are natural resources ownership, governance, and management, which is considered one of the most difficult difficulties that occur in creating strategies for sustainable development applications.
description: TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, Vol 14 No 2 (2121): The city challenges and external agents. Methods, tools and best practices