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Philosophy and Humanistic Education: J.S. Mill's Catastrophic Pedagogy
Creators: name: Vrahimis, Andreas
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2013

description: It is almost a commonplace nowadays to hear of the end of the humanities, and defens-es of the humanities against all kinds of attack abound. A diagnosis might be in place, as an aside, before we begin: though these arguments in defense of the humanities are at  the  moment  in  vogue,  the  position  of  the  attackers  is  not  a  dialogical  one.  Indeed,  the  attack  does  not  seem  to  be  founded  on  argument,  but  rather,  in  many  ways,  on  unshakeable force – the kind of force that is not able to respond to argument (or even willing to read defenses of the humanities). In short, though there appear to be numer-ous ways of defending and attempting to fortify the humanities through perfectly valid and sound argument, the onslaught against the humanities does not seem bound either to listen or to respond.
Turismo de eventos: análise profunda e atualizada do setor em São Luís – MA
Creators: name: Ferreira, Márcia Mendes
name: Ribeiro, Geyza Souza
name: Rodrigues, Rafaelle Melo
name: Marques, Karla Danielle Silva
name: Lima, Rozuila Neves
name: Santos, Saulo Ribeiro Dos
Publisher: name: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento
Year: 2010

description: Esta pesquisa tem como ponto de partida as orientações a respeito dos conceitos relacionados a turismo e eventos, incluindo gestão, histórico do desenvolvimento do processo de associação para desenvolvimento dos negócios relacionados aos eventos e captação de eventos para cidades, destacando mercado, vantagens que o setor pode proporcionar, buscando a análise mercadológica para o setor de eventos na cidade de São Luís do Maranhão (Brasil), e pesquisa sobre o planejamento e organização das atividades referentes ao setor de eventos. Tem-se por objetivo, analisar a estrutura atual do setor de eventos, a formação profissional de seus gestores e a relação existente entre os setores público, privado e associações do gênero, através de uma pesquisa bibliográfica e empírica a partir da aplicação de questionários com questões abertas e fechadas, dirigidas e diretas. Os resultados definem o posicionamento dos empresários do setor na capital e sua avaliação em relação ao mercado e órgão públicos da área de eventos em São Luís, definindo possíveis soluções ao impasses encontrados atualmente.
description: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento, vol. 2 n.º 13/14 (2010)
title: Contest behaviour and offspring investment in female northern elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris)
Creators: name: Salogni, Elena
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Year: 2024

description: Parental characteristics and environment can affect survival and future reproductive success of offspring. In pinnipeds, mothers provide maternal care by producing milk and protecting their young from threats on land, e.g., attacks from other females. Contest behaviour and dominance structure of females have been studied little in pinnipeds. I studied these subjects in breeding northern elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris). The purpose of my research was to investigate inter-female contest behaviour in relation to social and physical environments, female social organization, and maternal investment, with emphasis on sexual-size dimorphism in pups. I analysed data collected by the Elephant Seal Research Group during the 2006-07 and 2007-08 breeding seasons at Islas San Benito, Mexico, near the southern limit of the species’ breeding range; almost all past research has been conducted in California. Through behavioural observations, I investigated relationships of aggressive behaviour to female morphological characteristics and their social and physical environments. Aggressive behaviour increased with female body size, presence of offspring, and density of females. I also provide the first description of dominance relationships and hierarchical structure in female pinnipeds using measures of orderliness and steepness, which describe the transitivity of dominance hierarchies and the strength of the difference between individuals’ probability to dominate others, respectively. I found weak to moderate dominance hierarchies and intermediate values of steepness. This new information contributes to our understanding of contest behaviour and the social environment, which may affect female reproductive success. Finally, my study broadens general knowledge of breeding biology of northern elephant seals throughout the breeding range. I provide the first description of body size at birth and weaning at this colony of the species. My finding of similar body mass between the sexes at weaning contrasts with the great difference between adults and implies that maternal investment may have a positive effect on short-term survival for both sexes, but a negligible effect on adult body size or reproductive success. My research will encourage research on female social structure in comparative studies on other pinniped populations and species, leading to more balanced knowledge and understanding of social dynamics and evolution in the group.
Philosophy beyond the Peras: Thinking with/in the Periphery
Creators: name: Jenkins, Nico
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2013

description: To discuss, as we have been tasked to do, the concept of pedagogy requires that we first imagine what it is to learn, as well as what it is to be taught before we can even begin to venture forth on what it is to teach, and especially what it is to teach with/in what has been called the disaster. That the modern form of education is tightly constrained and regimented seems obvious, and therefore any thinking about thinking (any think-ing about disasters) must inevitably pass between the constraints, or under the regimes. This movement of thinking is always a call towards, and a call from. Martin Heidegger, in the two essays discussed here, asks that we attune ourselves well to venture onto this path, to listen before we begin (again) to teach; he asks us to listen to the unnecessary before we begin to discuss the necessary, to listen, perhaps, to the silence(s) which lie between thoughts, as much as to the thoughts themselves.
Geoparks as art museums for geotourists
Creators: name: Farsani, Neda Torabi
name: Coelho, Celeste
name: Costa, Carlos
Publisher: name: Journal of Tourism & Development
Year: 2010

description: Geopark as an innovation for the protection of natural and geological heritages plays an important role in geotourism development. In recent decade “geotourism” emerged as a much talked about topic that is frequently linked to the term“sustainable tourism”.Moreover, a geopark stimulates local socio-economic development by attracting increasing numbers of visitors, and promotion of a quality label linked to the local natural heritage. It encourages the creation of local products and local handicrafts involved in geotourism and geoproducts. Moreover geoparks join local artists to promote tourists attraction and local development. This paper discusses the vital role of indigenous people and innovative activities in geoparks through the analysis of sixteen geoparks strategies and art innovations around Europe and in three countries of Asia (Australia, Malaysia and Iran).
description: Journal of Tourism & Development, vol. 2 n.º 13/14 (2010)
Scalar-Tensor Anti-Cross-Correlation does not Help to Reconcile the Tension between BICEP2 and Planck
Creators: name: Emami, Razieh
name: Firouzjahi, Hassan
name: Wang, Yi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the recent proposal [1] that the anti-cross-correlation of the scalar and tensor primordial fluctuations reconciles the tension between BICEP2 and Planck observations. We show that unfortunately the contribution from the scalar-tensor correlation to the CMB temperature power spectrum vanishes once summed over the angular mode $m$ so the tension between BICEP2 and Planck can not be reconciled. The reason is that one has to use the spin-weighted spherical harmonics when projecting fields with nonzero spins into the CMB sky. These nonzero spin-weighted spherical harmonics are subject to orthogonality conditions when summed over the angular direction and thus the desired cross-correlation between the scalar and tensor perturbations in CMB map vanishes.
description: 3 pages, no figure
Cyber-Catastrophe: Towards a New Pedagogy of Entropy
Creators: name: Joque, Justin
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2013

description: One  of  the  earliest  glimpses  of  the  possible  impact  of  an  all  out  cyberwar  occurred  in June of 1997. That month a small team of hackers using publicly available tools and programs  was  supposedly  able  to  gain  access  to  the  power  grid  in  nine  United  States  cities, their emergency response systems and a number of critical Pentagon networks including  those  that  managed  military  supply  chains  and  the  command-and-control  structure. According to James Adams who has written at length about these attacks:The hackers also managed to infect the human command-and-control system with a paralyzing level of mistrust. Orders that appeared to come from a commanding general were fake, as were bogus news reports on the crisis and instructions from the civilian command authorities. As a result, nobody in the chain of command, from the president on down, could believe anything. This group of hackers using publicly available resources was able to prevent the United States from waging war effectively
title: The Broken Solipsist
title: An exploration of subjective reality in science fiction
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Croy, Alex
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2022

description: This project is an exploration of the use of subjective reality in science fiction through the writing of a novel entitled The Broken Solipsist. The novel is an expansive adventure set in a world or pure chaos and without physical laws after an advanced humanity attempted to raise itself to godhood through technology in an event known as the First Dreaming. The last survivors of the calamitous attempt became godlike beings known as Solipsists, who each rebuilt a world of their own based on their own subjective views of the world that came before, resulting in a series of worlds or “spheres”, that are each an expression of that Solipsist’s inner, subjective world. The story is split between three narrators; Sin, a non-Solipsist born after the First Dreaming as part of a race of pseudo-humans created by one of the Solipsists, the Benevolent Solipsist Cassiora, who acts both as a point of view for the Solipsists and the chief antagonist of the novel, and Reign, a mysterious young boy with no memory found by Sin, who is unbeknownst to anyone a Solipsist himself. In using this setup and separate narratives, each with their own narrative style to dramatize the differences between each of their perspectives on the world around them, I have attempted to write a novel that deeply illustrates and explores themes of subjective reality and perspective in a science fiction novel.
Faculty in Withdrawal: Not To Know and the Uncertainties of Self-Institutionalization
Creators: name: Stevanović, Tijana
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2013

description: The best “tendency” is wrong if it does not prescribe the attitude with which it ought to be pursued. These words produced some eighty years ago, still speak to us with the fresh “pedagogi-cal”  attitude  Benjamin  himself  deliberately  sought  to  inhabit  when  writing  about  the  revolutionary intellectual. No matter how finished the objects of production may seem to  appear,  what  seemed  more  urgent,  he  argued,  has  been  to  uncover  the  techniques  of  production’s  own  potentialities  for  exposing  the  organizational  complex  of  fabrica-tion within. If the institutional dimension of constructing subjectivities were acknowl-edged as a continuing existence of the bourgeois apparatus, it would be possible for the functional  distinction  between  products  and  producers  to  ultimately  crack  open  and  evaporate.  Central  to  his  project  on  the  disappearance  of  the  author  through  careful  dissemination, Benjamin praised Brecht’s Umfunktionierung as an idea of transforming actively institutions and instruments of production by radical intellectuals: “It’s not a question of being against the institution: We are the institution.”
A route with a view: the contribution of scenic landscapes to a world heritage site gateway community
Creators: name: Ellingson, Lindsey
name: Seidl, Andrew
name: Pratt, Lawrence
Publisher: name: Journal of Tourism & Development
Year: 2010

description: The route between El Calafate, a gateway community, and Glaciers National Park, a UNESCOWorld Heritage site, in the Patagonian region of Argentina is an undeveloped scenic roadway in which economic activity may fluctuate as a result of the level of physical development along the roadway. The view of this landscape along this roadway is a public good; therefore, the value of the landscape by tourists must be estimated by other than direct market signals in order to facilitate rational economic development planning. This study describes the tourists’ demographics, trip characteristics, expenditure patterns and nonconsumptive use values associated with potential development that could alter the landscape along this scenic highway and its corresponding economic impact on the gateway community.
description: Journal of Tourism & Development, vol. 2 n.º 13/14 (2010)
Compter sur l'impossible inexistant - Të Mbështetesh Mbi Të Pamundurën Joekzistuese
Creators: name: Balso, Zhydit
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2013

description: Çfarë vlere ka fjala “shkatërrim”? Kjo qe pyetja e parë që i bëra vetes kur lexova titullin e takimit tonë: “Pedagogjitë e shkatërrimit.” Padyshim që vlera e kësaj fjale lidhet me fuqinë e saj subjektive: Sot ne përjetojmë situata  të  panumërta  si  katastrofa  të  mirëfillta.  Shkatërrim  është  emri  që  ne  i  vëmë  ndjenjës  së  dhunshme  që  kemi  se  (po  të  shpreheshim  si  Marceli  tek  Hamleti)  “diçka  është kalbur”* në të tëra shtetet tona të Danimarkës. Por, megjithë radikalizmin e saj të dukshëm, fjala “shkatërrim” nuk është një fjalë sqaruese. Në fakt, shumë lehtë ajo mund të bëhet përcaktimi konsensual i një gjendje të përgjithshme të parrokshme. Për shem-bull, shumica e njerëzve reaksionarë do ta pranonin ekzistencën e shkatërrimit në arsim. Për më tepër, kur dikush flet për shkatërrimin, ai nuk mund të përcaktojë ekzaktësisht se  në  ç’kohë  ndodhet:  Pas  shkatërrimit?  Brenda  shkatërrimit?  Para  shkatërrimit?  Në  prag  të  tij?  Në  agimin  e  tij?  E  pastaj,  cila  duhet  të  jetë  detyra  jonë?  Të  parandalojmë  shkatërrimin? Ta mposhtim atë? Në fakt, “shkatërrim” më duket një emër që pezullon kohën  dhe  kësisoj  mendimin  dhe  veprimin.  Duke  cituar  Xhon  Van  Haut  [John  Van  Houdt], do të doja të theksoja hetimin e tij: “Duhet të hezitojmë para se t’i atribojmë një funksion të qartë kritik retorikës së shkatërrimit.”
title: Finanzbildung in Österreich - eine Diskursanalyse zur nationalen Finanzbildungsstrategie 2021-2026 unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der weiteren Stakeholder-Interessen
Creators: name: Grabner, Andrea
Year: 2023

description: Die vorliegende Masterarbeit zum Thema „Finanzbildung in Österreich – Eine Diskursanalyse zur Nationalen Finanzbildungsstrategie 2021-2026 unter besonderer Berücksichtigung weiterer Stakeholder-Interessen“ setzt sich mit der im September 2021 vom Österreichischen Bundesministerium für Finanzen und der OECD veröffentlichen „Nationalen Finanzbildungsstrategie für Österreich“ auseinander und analysiert dabei die dort festgeschriebenen Methoden und Strategien. Dabei wird eine Inhaltsanalyse des Strategiepapiers und eine Diskursanalyse der Interviews mit ausgewählten Stakeholdern vorgenommen. Es werden die Interessen letzterer hinterfragt, deren Schwerpunkte und methodische Ansätze analysiert und in Summe vergleichend zusammengeführt, um eine Aussage darüber treffen zu können, inwieweit die vorgestellte Finanzbildungsstrategie diese Interessenspunkte miteinschließt. Die Analyse kommt zu dem Ergebnis, dass es keine größeren Unterscheidungen gibt, an denen sich etwa Differenzen in der inhaltlichen Einbindung zwischen den Herausgebern der Finanzbildungsstrategie und den teilnehmenden Institutionen festmachen lassen würden. Es herrscht eine mehrheitlich harmonische Grundhaltung zwischen den Institutionen und der Fokus liegt auf der allgemeinen Wichtigkeit des Themas. Es zeigt sich aber auch ein gewisses Konfliktpotential, das sich anhand der Unterschiedlichkeit der Grundpositionen (Zielgruppen, allgemeiner Blick auf die Gesellschaft etc.) erklären lässt.
Time evolution of superradiant instabilities for charged black holes in a cavity
Creators: name: Degollado, Juan Carlos
name: Herdeiro, Carlos A. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Frequency domain studies have recently demonstrated that charged scalar fields exhibit fast growing superradiant instabilities when interacting with charged black holes in a cavity. Here, we present a time domain analysis of the long time evolution of test charged scalar field configurations on the Reissner-Nordström background, with or without a mirror-like boundary condition. Initial data is taken to be either a Gaussian wave packet or a regularised (near the horizon) quasi-bound state. Then, Fourier transforming the data obtained in the evolution confirms the results obtained in the frequency domain analysis, in particular for the fast growing modes. We show that spherically symmetric (l=0) modes have even faster growth rates than the l=1 modes for `small' field charge. Thus, our study confirms that this setup is particularly promising for considering the non-linear development of the superradiant instability, since the fast growth makes the signal overcome the numerical error that dominates for small growth rates, and the analysis may be completely done in spherical symmetry.
description: 9 pages, 11 figures
Percursos pedestres, levantamentos estruturados em qualidade e aptidão: modelo experimental aplicado ao Concelho do Fundão
Creators: name: Duarte, Sara Maria Monteiro
name: Figueiredo, Diogo Francisco Caeiro
name: Silva, José Ângelo Guerreiro Da
Publisher: name: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento
Year: 2010

description: O presente estudo pretende servir o propósito de dotar o concelho do Fundão de um produto ecoturístico estruturado (Rede de Percursos Pedestres Interpretativos - RPPI), demonstrando que, tal como é referido no PNTN, é possível “conciliar a preservação dos valores naturais, com uma actividade turística a eles ajustada”. Como os processos de avaliação/selecção dos elementos mais relevantes a figurarem nos PPI, implicam escolhas, estas foram realizadas com base em critérios passíveis de utilização em processos analíticos multicritério. Assim, o concelho foi dividido em 4 Zonas que, ao direccionarem o estudo, facilitaram a definição a priori de 12 percursos pedestres que foram alvo de processo de análise no que respeita aos Aspectos Qualidade e Aptidão. A exclusão de percursos que apresentassem um comportamento constraint, aconteceu em 2 casos, por razões de segurança, para além de outros dois, cuja exclusão teve por base cálculos e análises iterativas que definiram os locais onde ocorrem os elementos mais relevantes e que, desta forma, deveriam integrar a RPPI. Esta é, assim, constituída por oito percursos devidamente caracterizados, interpretados, georreferenciados e fotografados.
description: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento, vol. 2 n.º 13/14 (2010)
Os museus como atrativos turísticos nas localidades
Creators: name: Dalonso, Yoná Da Silva
Publisher: name: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento
Year: 2010

description: Objetiva-se analisar o aproveitamento dos museus como atrativo turístico, segundo a ótica de gestão dos museus, levando-se em conta as particularidades da realidade brasileira. Provoca-se discussão sobre a participação dos museus nas políticas locais de desenvolvimento turístico, haja vista que os museus compreendem um dos principais atrativos culturais de uma localidade, expressando a história e os elementos identitários de uma sociedade. Por fim, listam-se sugestões para o aproveitamento dos museus na atividade turística de uma cidade, bem como para o resgate e fortalecimento dos aspectos culturais de um povo.
description: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento, vol. 2 n.º 13/14 (2010)
Deformed Richardson-Gaudin model
Creators: name: Kulish, P.
name: Stolin, A.
name: Johannesson, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The Richardson-Gaudin model describes strong pairing correlations of fermions confined to a finite chain. The integrability of the Hamiltonian allows for its eigenstates to be constructed algebraically. In this work we show that quantum group theory provides a possibility to deform the Hamiltonian while preserving integrability. More precisely, we use the so-called Jordanian r-matrix to deform the Hamiltonian of the Richardson-Gaudin model. In order to preserve its integrability, we need to insert a special nilpotent term into the auxiliary L-operator which generates integrals of motion of the system. Moreover, the quantum inverse scattering method enables us to construct the exact eigenstates of the deformed Hamiltonian. These states have a highly complex entanglement structure which requires further investigation.
description: 7 pages, no figures
O fenómeno do turismo residencial, analisado para o caso das praias da Costa Nova e Barra
Creators: name: Cobuci, Leila De Assis
name: Kastenholz, Elisabeth
Publisher: name: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento
Year: 2010

description: Os impactos positivos e negativos que o turismo residencial pode provocar ao nível do desenvolvimento local e regional têm sido muito enfatizados no discurso político e académico, suscitando por vezes grandes expectativas para os destinos que têm vocação para este tipo de turismo. O presente artigo tem como objectivo principal contribuir para o conhecimento do fenómeno da expansão das segundas residências em Portugal, obtendo um melhor conhecimento deste mercado em termos de perfil, motivações, comportamentos, atitudes e percepções. A metodologia adoptada para dar resposta aos objectivos da investigação teve por base uma pesquisa bibliográfica centrada numa abordagem ao marketing sustentável dos destinos e no comportamento do consumidor, bem como uma recolha de dados primários através de um inquérito por questionário dirigido aos visitantes das praias da Barra e da Costa Nova. Os resultados obtidos através da análise dos questionários permitiram-nos identificar, de modo exploratório, o perfil e comportamento deste mercado, bem como, os atributos que os turistas residenciais mais valorizam num destino. Além da apresentação e análise dos resultados do estudo, foram ainda referidas algumas sugestões com vista a um melhor aproveitamento do mercado das segundas residências, que possui grande potencial para o desenvolvimento do turismo na região.
description: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento, vol. 2 n.º 13/14 (2010)
Molecular line mapping of the giant molecular cloud associated with RCW 106 - IV. Ammonia towards dust emission
Creators: name: Lowe, Vicki
name: Cunningham, Maria R.
name: Urquhart, James S.
name: Marshall, Jonathan P.
name: Horiuchi, Shinji
name: Lo, Nadia
name: Walsh, Andrew J.
name: Jordan, Christopher H.
name: Jones, Paul A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Here we report observations of the two lowest inversion transitions of ammonia with the 70-m Tidbinbilla radio telescope. They were conducted to determine the kinetic temperatures in the dense clumps of the G333 giant molecular cloud associated with RCW 106 and to examine the effect that accurate temperatures have on the calculation of derived quantities such as mass. This project is part of a larger investigation to understand the timescales and evolutionary sequence associated with high-mass star formation, particularly its earliest stages. Assuming that the initial chemical composition of a giant molecular cloud is uniform, any abundance variations within will be due to evolutionary state. We have identified 63 clumps using SIMBA 1.2-mm dust continuum maps and have calculated gas temperatures for most (78 per cent) of these dense clumps. After using Spitzer GLIMPSE 8.0 $μ$m emission to separate the sample into IR-bright and IR-faint clumps, we use statistical tests to examine whether our classification shows different populations in terms of mass and temperature. We find that clump mass and column density show no significant population difference, and that kinetic temperature is the best parameter to distinguish between the gravitationally bound state of each clump. The kinetic temperature was the only parameter found to have a significantly low probability of being drawn from the same population. This suggests that clump radii does not have a large effect on the temperature of a clump, so clumps of similar radii may have different internal heating mechanisms. We also find that while the IR-bright clumps have a higher median virial mass, both samples have a similar range for both virial mass and FWHM. There are 87 per cent (40 of 46) of the clumps with masses larger than the virial mass, suggesting that they will form stars or are already undergoing star formation.
description: 36 pages (19+appendices), 11 figures (9+appendices), 6 tables, accepted for publication in MNRAS. Appendix A = 6 pages, 63 sub-figures. Appendix B = 11 pages, 63 sub-figures
xyzzy: Contemporary Art Before and After Britain
Creators: name: Forrest, Pru
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2013

description: It has long been common curatorial practice to assume that the  international  art  world  of  the  early  21st  century  was  an exemplar of globalisation, that contemporary art was a glob-al currency, a linguafranca that knew no boundaries. Recent historical revisionism suggests, however, that the contempo-rary  art  world’s  patchwork  striation  of  space  was  a  perfect exemplar  of  geopolitical  neomedievalism  in  practice.  The global  art  system  provided  but  one  example  in  which  there were competing legitimate organising principles for the cul-tural  arena,  in  which  individuals  were  legal  members  of  a transnational community while also having legal responsibili-ties  to  the  territory  in  which  they  resided.  Indeed, fin  de siecle neomedieval theories of international relations may be pertinent  when  considering  art’s  global infrastructure  in  this period—which,  as  a  highly  opaque  unregulated  economy, was  remarkably  similar  to  the  disconnected  ungoverned spaces of medieval Europe.
O turismo e a cultura enquanto estratégias de regeneração de centros históricos: o caso de Álcacer do Sal
Creators: name: Batista, Alexandra Isabel Pereira
name: Ferreira, Ana Maria Alves Pedro
Publisher: name: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento
Year: 2010

description: As cidades sempre desempenharam um papel preponderante na história das civilizações. No entanto, estas têm sido afectadas por constrangimentos, aos quais nem sempre têm conseguido responder de forma sustentada. Procura-se olhar de forma integrada e multidisciplinar para estes espaços, em especial para os centros históricos, sendo que o estudo apresentado tem como pergunta de partida: Pode ou não o desenvolvimento cultural equilibrado com o incremento do turismo, servir de suporte à regeneração dos centros históricos? Para tal, tomou-se a cidade de Alcácer do Sal como caso de estudo e após identificação das particularidades do seu centro histórico, percebeu-se que existem condições para a produção cultural (oferta) e que o turismo pode contribuir para o seu consumo (procura). Foram assim estabelecidas as bases para o processo de regeneração urbana, conciliando estes dois conceitos. Em função dos objectivos definidos escolheu-se inquirir os responsáveis máximos das instituições privadas e públicas que se considerou possuírem interesses num processo de reabilitação do centro histórico da cidade de Alcácer. A maioria revelou que seria importante participarem numa parceria que tivesse como objectivo a revitalização da área. Percebe-se que estão criadas as condições para uma acção concertada que desenvolva e implemente uma estratégia de revitalização no centro histórico de Alcácer do Sal e que beneficie os vários intervenientes na urbe.
description: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento, vol. 2 n.º 13/14 (2010)
Vision Transformer-assisted analysis of neural Image compression and generation
Creators: name: Minchev, Kliment
name: 0000-0002-4775-5625
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2022
Subjects: Transformers
Deep learning
Image compression
Image processing
Computer vision
Machine learning
Data science

description: This work investigates a novel application of a Vision Transformer (ViT) as a quality assessment reference metric for reconstructed images after neural image compression. The Vision Transformer is a revolutionary implementation of the Transformer attention mechanism (typically used in language models) to object detection in digital images. The ViT architecture is designed to output a classification probability distribution against a set of training labels. Thus, it is a suitable candidate for a new method for quantitative assessment of generated image quality based on object-level deviations from the original pre-compression image. The metric is referred to as a ViT-Score. This approach complements other comparative measurement techniques based on per-pixel discrepancies (Mean Squared Error, MSE) or structural comparison (Structural Similarity Index, SSIM). This study proposes an original end-to-end deep learning framework for neural image compression, latent vector representation, reconstruction, and image quality analysis using state-of-the-art model architectures. Neural image compression and reconstruction is achieved using a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN). Results from this work demonstrate that a ViT-Score is capable of assessing the quality of a neurally compressed image. Moreover, this methodology provides valuable insights when measuring GAN output quality and can be used in addition to other relevant perceived quality metrics such as SSIM or Frechet Inception Distance (FID).
Disolving Minds and Bodies
Creators: name: Nakatani, Hiroko
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2013

description: In  this  short  essay,  I  willconnect  scientists  from  five  fields  through  Spinoza’s concept of mind and body in order to reveal the impor-tance of the body, especially in relation to spatial design. Spinoza’s philosophy states that body and mind exist in parallel with each oth-er. Spinoza says that without perception through the body there is no mind, and that this limited mind contained in a body, with skin as its  boundary,  is  part  of  the  infinite  intellect.  In  turn,  the  infinite  intel-lect allows individuals to explore thinking what one experiences with one’s body. Biochemist, Rudolph Schoenheimer (1889-1942) focused on the es-sential role of the body in providing input for the mind, what he called “dynamic state of body constituents.” His experiment consisted in feeding amino acid-marked food to adult mice. After three days, he found  that  the  mice’s  excretions  were  almost  entirely  non-marked  materials. The marked materials were found inside the body. What it  says  is  that,  very  quickly,  food  became  part  of  mice’s  body  and  also that some part of the body became waste. 98% of our body’s matter changes in one year. Materially, we are the same as the food we had today, as dynamic as water that travels from the body to the river, to an other animal’s body and so on. Our body is continuously changing, dissolving and taking part in the material world. Although there are different scales of time in its process, the principle of con-tinuous flow is the same in the entire living/non-living world, whether at a peak in the desert or in the chair where you are sitting right now. To see it from Spinoza’s view, perception through body is an exten-sion of mind. What if we take into account that the mind now keeps changing its components, as an infinite cycle of material recompos-es into the infinite intellect?
Espaço rural: análise integrada multissectorial e pluridimensional no território
Creators: name: Augusto, Dalila Dias
name: Pinho, Joaquim Carlos
name: Rodrigues, Carlos José
Publisher: name: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento
Year: 2010

description: Os resultados obtidos nos anteriores quadros comunitários vêm corroborar a falência de Programas de Financiamento que optaram pela visão parcial do território em detrimento da sua leitura transversal, bloqueando a integração ao nível da pluridimensionalidade (políticas territoriais) e da multissectorialidade (políticas sectoriais), panorama este agravado, quando se verifica esta orientação no espaço rural. Perante os novos desafios que se impõem ao mundo rural, são muitos os autores que defendem que o turismo pode dar um forte contributo para a sua refuncionalização, porém, e aspirando-se ao seu bom desempenho no garante de um desenvolvimento equilibrado, a programação sectorial pode-se apresentar como inadequada. Pretende-se através do Modelo de Avaliação Comparativa da Intensidade da Integração sugerir um paradigma de actuação nas áreas rurais de baixa densidade com vocação turística centrado na abordagem integrada e territorializada.
description: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento, vol. 2 n.º 13/14 (2010)
Active stabilization of a Michelson interferometer at an arbitrary phase with sub-nm resolution
Creators: name: Grassani, Davide
name: Galli, Matteo
name: Bajoni, Daniele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the active stabilization of a Michelson interferometer at an arbitrary phase angle with a precision better than one degree at $λ= 632.8$ nm, which corresponds to an optical path difference between the two arms of less than 1 nm. The stabilization method is ditherless and the error signal is computed from the spatial shift of the interference pattern of a reference laser, measured in real-time with a CCD array detector. We discuss the usefulness of this method for nanopositioning, optical interferometry and quantum optical experiments.
title: Grey divorce
Creators: name: Welles, Lea Karoline
Year: 2023

description: Das Forschungsinteresse der vorliegenden Masterarbeit liegt im subjektiven Trennungserleben von Personen im fortgeschrittenen Alter nach einer langjährigen Partnerschaft („Grey Divorce“). Während junge Paare sowie ihre Kinder im Kontext einer Partnerschaftsauflösung häufig im Fokus bisheriger Studien standen, wurde die Gruppe der älteren Trennungs- und Scheidungspaare in Österreich bislang kaum separat erforscht. Die Umstände, die zu einem solchen Beziehungsbruch führten, die Wahrnehmung des Beziehungsendes sowie erschwerende bzw. erleichternde Bedingungen hinsichtlich der Bewältigung dieses Erlebnisses bildeten die forschungsleitenden Fragestellungen der Arbeit. Dazu wurden in 19 problemzentrierten Interviews getrennte bzw. geschiedene Personen im Alter 50+ mit einer ehemaligen Beziehungsdauer von mindestens 20 Jahren zu ihren Erfahrungen in Bezug auf das Ende ihrer Beziehung befragt und das Datenmaterial mit dem sozialkonstruktivistischen Ansatz der Grounded Theory nach Kathy Charmaz analysiert. Es konnte gezeigt werden, dass sich das Trennungserleben der Befragten entlang von vier Dimensionen erstreckt, die wechselhaft in Beziehung zueinanderstehen: der emotionalen Dimension, der partnerschaftlichen Dimension, der sozialen Dimension und der ökonomischen bzw. rechtlichen Dimension. Das Datenmaterial ermöglichte zudem eine Typisierung unterschiedlicher Arten des Trennungserlebens und der damit verbundenen Bewältigungsstrategien.
description: The research interest of the present master thesis lies in the subjective experience of separation of persons at an advanced age after a long-term partnership (“grey divorce”). While young separated and divorced couples as well as their children have often been in the focus of previous studies, the group of older couples in Austria has hardly been researched separately so far. The circumstances that led to such a relationship breakdown, the perception of the end of the relationship as well as aggravating or facilitating circumstances with regard to coping with this experience formed the research guiding questions of the work. For this purpose, 19 problem-centered interviews were conducted with separated or divorced persons aged 50+ with a former relationship duration of at least 20 years about their experiences regarding the end of their relationship. The data material was analyzed using the social-constructivist approach of the Grounded Theory according to Kathy Charmaz. Results showed that the separation experience of the interviewees extends across four dimensions, which are alternatingly related to each other: the emotional dimension, the partnership dimension, the social dimension and the economic or legal dimension. The data material also allowed for a typification of different varieties of separation experience and associated coping strategies.
Efficient basis expansion for describing linear and nonlinear electron dynamics in crystalline solids
Creators: name: Sato, Shunsuke A.
name: Yabana, Kazuhiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose an efficient basis expansion for electron orbitals to describe real-time electron dynamics in crystalline solids. Although a conventional grid representation in the three-dimensional Cartesian coordinates works robustly, it requires a large amount of computational resources. To reduce computational costs, we consider an expansion using basis functions with a truncation. A simple choice employing eigenstates of the ground state Hamiltonian with a truncation turned out to be useless. We have found that adding occupied eigenstates of nearby $k$-points to the truncated basis functions composed of eigenstates of the original $k$-point is crucially important. We demonstrate the usefulness of the method for linear and nonlinear electron dynamics calculations in crystalline SiO$_2$.
Bi-Incomplete Tambara Functors as Coherent Monoids
Creators: name: Vekemans, Ivo
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2023

description: By considering arbitrary finite G-sets for a finite group G rather than just the orbits G=H for subgroups H we realise the norm functor of Hoyer and the box product of Tambara functors as instances of the same construction. Using similar constructions and a new bicategorical framework we give characterisations of incomplete Mackey functors and bi-incomplete Tambara functors as coherent monoids. A recent conjecture of Blumberg and Hill is a corollary of our characterisation of bi-incomplete Tambara functors. In particular, our characterisation of (O'a, O'm)-Tambara functors as coherent (Oa, Om)-monoids in (Oa, Om)-Tambara functors allows both additive and multiplicative structure to be added simultaneously. We also provide a notion of module category over a tight symmetric bimonoidal category and use this to relate our characterisation to work of Hill and Hopkins on equivariant symmetric monoidal structures.
Flowing along the edge: spinning up black holes in AdS spacetimes with test particles
Creators: name: Rocha, Jorge V.
name: Santarelli, Raphael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the consequences of throwing point particles into odd-dimensional Myers-Perry black holes in asymptotically anti-de Sitter (AdS) backgrounds. We restrict our attention to the case in which the angular momenta of the background geometry are all equal. This process allows us to test the generalization of the weak cosmic censorship conjecture to asymptotically AdS spacetimes in higher dimensions. We find no evidence for overspinning in D = 5, 7, 9 and 11 dimensions. Instead, test particles carrying the maximum possible angular momentum that still fall into an extremal rotating black hole generate a flow along the curve of extremal solutions.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures, uses revtex4
Thing Called Love: That Old, Substantive, Relation
Creators: name: Marovich, Beatrice
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: Into what, precisely, do we plum-met when we fall into love? What, exactly, is produced when we makeit? When we are hungry for love, what stomach is nourished by that strange food? Colloquialisms are littered with a lan-guage that objectifies love, that turns it into a thing—not just something we can feel, but something we can touch, some-thing that hits us, changes us, throws us, consumes us, drives us. Popular parlance makes the love relation into something almost tangible, concrete, autonomous: love is some thing we fall into, love is a master key, love is a war, love is a bite of heaven, love is a virus. Such language begins to suggest that the “love object” is not, exactly, the person for whom you pine. Instead, it begins to look as though the “love object” is the relation, itself. Love takes on thing-like contours, becomes its own sort of creature. It does its own little cosmic dance.
Turismo de cruzeiros: perspectivas para a Macaronesia
Creators: name: Andrade, Cyntia
name: Robertson, Margaret Hart
Publisher: name: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento
Year: 2010

description: O crescimento do turismo de cruzeiros, principalmente na década de 70, representa hoje, um importante sector do turismo mundial. Regiões como o Caribe, Mediterrâneo e o Alaska, são os destinos mais procurados e também os mais preparados para o desenvolvimento um sector, cada vez mais inovador dentro do novo conceito dos cruzeiros turísticos. O objetivo deste artigo é contextualizar o mercado de cruzeiros mundial e, em particular, as perspectivas para a região da Macaronesia. Foram utilizadas referências bibliográficas assim como dados estatísticos de órgãos oficiais do turismo na região, além de uma analise SWOT sobre as possibilidades de desenvolvimento da atividade de turismo de cruzeiros nas ilhas atlânticas.
description: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento, vol. 2 n.º 13/14 (2010)
Outward Bound: On Quentin Meillassoux's After Finitude
Creators: name: Thorne, Christian
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2012

description: ilN’yapasdehors-texte. If post-structuralism has had a motto—a proverb and quotable provocation—then surely it is this, from Derrida’s Of Grammatology.1Text has no outside. There is nothing outside the text. It is tempting to put a conventionally Kantian construction on these words—to see them, I mean, as bumping up against an old epistemo-logical barrier: Our thinking is intrinsically verbal—in that sense, textual—and it is therefore impossible for our minds to get past themselves, to leave themselves behind, to shed words and in that shedding to encounter objects as they really are, in their own skins, even when we’re not thinking them, plastering them with language, generating little mind-texts about them. But this is not, in fact, what the sentence says. Derrida’s claim would seem to be rather stronger than that: not There are unknowable objects outside of text, but There are outside of text no objects for us to know. So we reach for another gloss—There is only text...ain’t nothing but text—except the sentence isn’t really saying that either, since to say that there is nothing outside text points to the possibility that there is, in a manner yet to be explained, something inside text, and this something would not itself have to be text, any more than caramels in a carrying bag have to be made out of cellophane.
Theory of a field effect transistor based on semiconductor nanocrystal array
Creators: name: Reich, K. V.
name: Chen, Tianran
name: Shklovskii, B. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the surface conductivity of a field-effect transistor (FET) made of periodic array of spherical semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs). We show that electrons introduced to NCs by the gate voltage occupy one or two layers of the array. Computer simulations and analytical theory are used to study the array screening and corresponding evolution of electron concentrations of the first and second layers with growing gate voltage. When first layer NCs have two electrons per NC the quantization energy gap between its 1S and 1P levels induces occupation of 1S levels of second layer NCs. Only at a larger gate voltage electrons start leaving 1S levels of second layer NCs and filling 1P levels of first layer NCs. By substantially larger gate voltage, all the electrons vacate the second layer and move to 1P levels of first layer NCs. As a result of this nontrivial evolution of the two layers concentrations, the surface conductivity of FET non-monotonically depends on the gate voltage. The same evolution of electron concentrations leads to non-monotonous behaviour of the differential capacitance.
Aeroportos e turismo residencial: do conhecimento às estratégias
Creators: name: Almeida, Cláudia Margarida Brito Ribeiro De
name: Ferreira, Ana Maria Alves Pedro
name: Costa, Carlos Manuel Martins Da
Publisher: name: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento
Year: 2010

description: O presente artigo visa trazer à colação a evolução que o sector aeroportuário conheceu nos últimos anos, demonstrando as alterações que se verificaram nas diferentes áreas e no seu relacionamento com os demais stakeholders dos destinos em que se inserem. Esta alteração de posicionamento obrigou a uma atitude pró-activa onde a gestão integrada do conhecimento constitui uma peça chave e inovadora que visa uma melhor e maior adequação de estratégias. Apresenta-se neste artigo um novo modelo teórico, a matriz EGIC, cuja base assenta no disseminar de conhecimento de forma estruturada e sustentada por entre uma organização e entre esta e os demais parceiros. Como exemplo de análise apresentamos o turismo residencial, um novo segmento de mercado turístico em expansão em Portugal e em concreto no Algarve, sob o qual existem ainda poucos dados estatísticos que permitam análises mais detalhadas.
description: Revista Turismo & Desenvolvimento, vol. 2 n.º 13/14 (2010)
Observation of asymmetric solitons in waveguide arrays with refractive index gradient
Creators: name: Weimann, Steffen
name: Kartashov, Yaroslav V.
name: Vysloukh, Victor A.
name: Szameit, Alexander
name: Torner, Lluis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study light propagation in waveguide arrays made in Kerr nonlinear media with a transverse refractive index gradient, and we find that the presence of the refractive index gradient leads to the appearance of a number of new soliton families. The effective coupling between the solitons and the localized linear eigenmodes of the lattice induces a drastic asymmetry in the soliton shapes and the appearance of long tails at the soliton wings. Such unusual solitons are found to be completely stable under propagation, and we report their experimental observation in fs-laser written waveguide arrays with focusing Kerr nonlinearity.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures, to appear in Optics Letters