cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
M4.3 CoreTrustSeal+FAIRenabling, Capability and Maturity
Creators: name: L'Hours, Hervé
name: Von Stein, Ilona
name: DeVries, Jerry
name: Cepinskas, Linas
name: Davidson, Joy
name: Herterich, Patricia
name: Huber, Robert
name: Mathers, Benjamin Jacob
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: This milestone (M4.3) document updates the previous CoreTrustSeal+FAIR Overview and the Draft Maturity Model Based on Extensions and-or Additions to CoreTrustSeal Requirements (M4.2). The latter document provides extensive context and references component documents that provide the foundation for this work. The authors would like to thank the CoreTrustSeal Board for their valuable feedback on a pre-publication version of this text including alignments and target capabilities. The authors acknowledge that while recommending that repositories adopt this approach, no formal adoption and integration into the CoreTrustSeal requirements or processes can take place outside the scheduled, periodic community review process.
Love and Rage, Vol. 1 No. 7, Nov 1990
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Social movements
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1122657
subject: Anarchism--Periodicals
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/808394
subject: Anarchist Black Cross
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/661189
subject: Anarchism
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/808387
subject: Civil rights
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/862627
subject: Anarchists
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/808401
subject: Prisoners--Social conditions
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1077200
subject: Civil disobedience
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/862481

description: An anarchist periodical with articles, images, and other writings in English and some in Spanish focused on anarchist activities around the world, the Anarchist Black Cross, Mayday, war resistance, and anarchist organization among other topics.
Single and two-mode mechanical squeezing of an optically levitated nanodiamond via dressed-state coherence
Creators: name: Ge, Wenchao
name: Bhattacharya, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nonclassical states of macroscopic objects are promising for ultrasensitive metrology as well as testing quantum mechanics. In this work, we investigate dissipative mechanical quantum state engineering in an optically levitated nanodiamond. First, we study single-mode mechanical squeezed states by magnetically coupling the mechanical motion to a dressed three-level system provided by a Nitrogen-vacancy center in the nanoparticle. Quantum coherence between the dressed levels is created via microwave fields to induce a two-phonon transition, which results in mechanical squeezing. Remarkably, we find that in ultrahigh vacuum quantum squeezing is achievable at room temperature with feedback cooling. For moderate vacuum, quantum squeezing is possible with cryogenic temperature. Second, we present a setup for two mechanical modes coupled to the dressed three levels, which results in two-mode squeezing analogous to the mechanism of the single-mode case. In contrast to previous works, our study provides a deterministic method for engineering macroscopic squeezed states without the requirement for a cavity.
description: 13 pages, 11 figures. Comments are welcome!
Selection of gamma events from IACT images with deep learning methods
Creators: name: Gres, E. O.
name: Kryukov, A. P.
name: Demichev, A. P.
name: Dubenskaya, J. J.
name: Polyakov, S. P.
name: Vlaskina, A. A.
name: Zhurov, D. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) of gamma ray observatory TAIGA detect the Extesnive Air Showers (EASs) originating from the cosmic or gamma rays interactions with the atmosphere. Thereby, telescopes obtain images of the EASs. The ability to segregate gamma rays images from the hadronic cosmic ray background is one of the main features of this type of detectors. However, in actual IACT observations simultaneous observation of the background and the source of gamma ray is needed. This observation mode (called wobbling) modifies images of events, which affects the quality of selection by neural networks.
 Thus, in this work, the results of the application of neural networks (NN) for image classification task on Monte Carlo (MC) images of TAIGA-IACTs are presented. The wobbling mode is considered together with the image adaptation for adequate analysis by NNs. Simultaneously, we explore several neural network structures that classify events both directly from images or through Hillas parameters extracted from images. In addition, by employing NNs, MC simulation data are used to evaluate the quality of the segregation of rare gamma events with the account of all necessary image modifications.
description: Version of article, submitted to journal
Book Review: Yamahata, C., & Anderson, B. (2022). Demystifying Myanmar’s Transition and Political Crisis
Creators: name: Einzenberger, Rainer
Publisher: name: Advances in Southeast Asian Studies
Year: 2022

description: -
description: Advances in Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 15 No. 2 (2022): Challenging Stereotypes in Europe-Thailand Transnational Migration
Cluster Monte Carlo and dynamical scaling for long-range interactions
Creators: name: Flores-Sola, Emilio
name: Weigel, Martin
name: Kenna, Ralph
name: Berche, Bertrand
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Many spin systems affected by critical slowing down can be efficiently simulated using cluster algorithms. Where such systems have long-range interactions, suitable formulations can additionally bring down the computational effort for each update from O($N^2$) to O($N\ln N$) or even O($N$), thus promising an even more dramatic computational speed-up. Here, we review the available algorithms and propose a new and particularly efficient single-cluster variant. The efficiency and dynamical scaling of the available algorithms are investigated for the Ising model with power-law decaying interactions.
description: submitted to Eur. Phys. J Spec. Topics
Reality Now - Issue 5
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Anarchism--Periodicals
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/808394
subject: Prisoners
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1077103
subject: Prisons
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1077326
subject: Anarchists
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/808401
subject: Anarchism
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/808387
subject: Political prisoners
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1069636
subject: Prisoners--Legal status, laws, etc.
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1077155
subject: Imprisonment
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/968277
subject: Direct Action (Organization)
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/639919
subject: Prisoners--Social conditions
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1077200

description: An issue of a Canadian anarchist periodical with articles, images, poems, and other writings focused on political prisoners and prisoners of war in North America.
Book Review: Lapanun, P. (2019). Love, Money and Obligation. Transnational Marriage in a Northeastern Thai Village
Creators: name: Keomanichanh, Mimy
Publisher: name: Advances in Southeast Asian Studies
Year: 2022

description: -
description: Advances in Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 15 No. 2 (2022): Challenging Stereotypes in Europe-Thailand Transnational Migration
Hyperfine phononic frequency comb
Creators: name: Ganesan, Adarsh
name: Do, Cuong
name: Seshia, Ashwin A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Optical frequency combs [1-8] have resulted in significant advances in optical frequency metrology and found wide application to precise physical measurements [1-4, 9] and molecular fingerprinting [8]. A direct analogue of frequency combs in the phononic or acoustic domain has not been reported to date. In this letter, we report the first clear experimental evidence for a phononic frequency comb. In contrast to the Kerr nonlinearity [10] in optical frequency comb formation, the phononic frequency comb is generated through the intrinsic coupling of a driven phonon mode with an auto-parametrically excited sub-harmonic mode [16]. Through systematic experiments at different drive frequencies and amplitudes, we portray the well-connected process of phononic frequency comb formation and define attributes to control the features [17-18] associated with comb formation in such a system. Further, the interplay between these nonlinear resonances and the well-known Duffing phenomenon [12-14] is also observed. The presented pathway for phononic frequency comb formation finds general relevance to other nonlinear systems in both classical and quantum domains.
description: 14 pages, 6 figures
Up From The Ashes
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Social movements
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1122657
subject: Technocracy
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1144990
subject: Dissenters
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/895401
subject: Anarchists
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/808401
subject: Anarchism
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/808387
subject: Technology
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1145078
subject: Ecology
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/901476
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Anarchism--Periodicals
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/808394
subject: Technology--Social aspects
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1145202
subject: Sustainable development
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1139731

description: A journal with articles focusing on building a green movement in an urban environment, grassroots organizing, technocracy, and politics.
Proposal for a town hall - Toronto
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Forums (Discussion and debate)
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/933115
subject: Anarchism
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/808387
subject: Anarchists
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/808401
subject: Meetings
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1015496

description: A typewritten paper discussing the purpose and reasons for the Toronto anarchist community having regular town hall meetings.
title: Using the 2023 NYTS data to examine e-cigarette use and perception of harm by race/ethnicity.
Creators: name: Pyron, Azizi
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2025

description:
The use of e-cigarettes among youth is associated with believing that e-cigarettes are safer than cigarettes, help people quit smoking, and dont have any or just limited amounts of nicotine. The landscape of the e-cigarette market, prevalence of use among youth, and risk awareness have changed significantly. This project will use the latest available nationally representative data (from 2023) to give an up-to-date look at what U.S. middle school and high school students think about e-cigarette harm. This study will describe the current relationship between perceived harm of e-cigarette use and reported use among U.S. adolescents and young adults (AYAs). This project will also assess whether this relationship differs by race to add to evidence on the racial disparities in e-cigarette use among U.S. youth.
Dumbbell Defects in FeSe Films: A Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and First-Principles Investigation
Creators: name: Huang, Dennis
name: Webb, Tatiana A.
name: Song, Can-Li
name: Chang, Cui-Zu
name: Moodera, Jagadeesh S.
name: Kaxiras, Efthimios
name: Hoffman, Jennifer E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The properties of iron-based superconductors (Fe-SCs) can be varied dramatically with the introduction of dopants and atomic defects. As a pressing example, FeSe, parent phase of the highest-$T_c$ Fe-SC, exhibits prevalent defects with atomic-scale "dumbbell" signatures as imaged by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). These defects spoil superconductivity when their concentration exceeds 2.5%. Resolving their chemical identity is prerequisite to applications such as nanoscale patterning of superconducting/nonsuperconducting regions in FeSe, as well as fundamental questions such as the mechanism of superconductivity and the path by which the defects destroy it. We use STM and density functional theory to characterize and identify the dumbbell defects. In contrast to previous speculations about Se adsorbates or substitutions, we find that an Fe-site vacancy is the most energetically favorable defect in Se-rich conditions, and reproduces our observed STM signature. Our calculations shed light more generally on the nature of Se capping, the removal of Fe vacancies via annealing, and their ordering into a $\sqrt{5}$$\times$$\sqrt{5}$ superstructure in FeSe and related alkali-doped compounds.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures
Population estimation from mobile network traffic metadata
Creators: name: Khodabandelou, Ghazaleh
name: Gauthier, Vincent
name: El-Yacoubi, Mounim A.
name: Fiore, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Smartphones and other mobile devices are today pervasive across the globe. As an interesting side effect of the surge in mobile communications, mobile network operators can now easily collect a wealth of high-resolution data on the habits of large user populations. The information extracted from mobile network traffic data is very relevant in the context of population mapping: it provides a tool for the automatic and live estimation of population densities, overcoming the limitations of traditional data sources such as censuses and surveys. In this paper, we propose a new approach to infer population densities at urban scales, based on aggregated mobile network traffic metadata. Our approach allows estimating both static and dynamic populations, achieves a significant improvement in terms of accuracy with respect to state-of-the-art solutions in the literature, and is validated on different city scenarios.
description: in proc of the 17th International Symposium on A World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), 2016
The quantum 1/2 BPS Wilson loop in ${\cal N}=4$ Chern-Simons-matter theories
Creators: name: Bianchi, Marco S.
name: Griguolo, Luca
name: Leoni, Matias
name: Mauri, Andrea
name: Penati, Silvia
name: Seminara, Domenico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In three dimensional ${\cal N}=4$ Chern-Simons-matter theories two independent fermionic Wilson loop operators can be defined, which preserve half of the supersymmetry charges and are cohomologically equivalent at classical level. We compute their three-loop expectation value in a convenient color sector and prove that the degeneracy is uplifted by quantum corrections. We expand the matrix model prediction in the same regime and by comparison we conclude that the quantum 1/2 BPS Wilson loop is the average of the two operators. We provide an all-loop argument to support this claim at any order. As a by-product, we identify the localization result at three loops as a correction to the framing factor induced by matter interactions. Finally, we comment on the quantum properties of the non-1/2 BPS Wilson loop operator defined as the difference of the two fermionic ones.
description: 22 pages + appendixes, 4 figures, 1 Table
Abundance stratification in Type Ia supernovae - V. SN 1986G bridging the gap between normal and subluminous SNe Ia
Creators: name: Ashall, C.
name: Mazzali, P. A.
name: Pian, E.
name: James, P. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A detailed spectroscopic analysis of SN 1986G has been performed. SN 1986G `bridges the gap' between normal and sub luminous type Ia supernova (SNe Ia). The abundance tomography technique is used to determine the abundance distribution of the elements in the ejecta. SN 1986G was found to be a low energy Chandrasekhar mass explosion. Its kinetic energy was 70% of the standard W7 model (0.9x10$^{51}$erg). Oxygen dominates the ejecta from the outermost layers down to $\sim$9000kms$^{-1}$ , intermediate mass elements (IME) dominate from $\sim$ 9000kms$^{-1}$ to $\sim$ 3500kms$^{-1}$ with Ni and Fe dominating the inner layers $
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS, updated
Colossal enhancement of electrical conductivity in Y2Ir2O7 nanoparticles
Creators: name: Dwivedi, Vinod Kumar
name: Juyal, Abhishek
name: Mukhopadhyay, Soumik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a comparative study of the magnetic and electrical properties of polycrystalline and nanocrystalline Y2Ir2O7, the latter prepared using a new chemical route. We find that reduction in particle size leads to enhanced ferromagnetism and orders of magnitude enhancement of electrical conductivity in the nanocrystalline sample. Based on x ray photoelectron spectroscopy and x ray absorption near edge structure spectroscopy results, the phenomenon is attributed to the increased fraction of pentavalent oxidation state of Iridium and the resulting increase in double exchange interaction along with the weakening of spin orbit coupling strength in the nanocrystalline sample compared to the bulk.
description: 14 pages, 9 figures
title: Investigation of the Role of the Campylobacter jejuni Type VI Secretion System in Bacterial Secretion of Virulence Factors and Interactions with Host Cells
Creators: name: Liaw, J
Publisher: name: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Year: 2020

description: Campylobacter jejuni is a leading cause of bacterial gastroenteritis worldwide. An increasing number of C. jejuni strains possess a Type VI Secretion System (T6SS) capable of delivering bacterial effector proteins across a bacterial or host membrane. Despite this increasing prevalence of T6SS-positive C. jejuni isolates, the role of the T6SS is still not well understood. Phenotypic comparisons were performed between 488 (a T6SS-positive human clinical isolate from Brazil), a number of 488 isogenic defined mutants in genes encoding essential T6SS components and also 81-176 (a laboratory reference T6SS-negative strain). The T6SS serves a major role in bacterial competition in some bacteria. However in this study, competition assays performed with T6SS-positive against either T6SS-negative C. jejuni or E. coli did not reveal any significant differences. Expression of T6SS genes in the 488 strain by RT-PCR and secretion of the TssD needle-like component into the culture supernatant were indicative that the T6SS is functional. qRT-PCR analysis of T6SS gene expression demonstrated that tssD expression is up-regulated in the presence of 0.1% (w/v) sodium deoxycholate, a secondary bile salt. The 488 wild-type strain was significantly more resistant to the effects of oxidative stress, more interactive and invasive in a chicken cell line, more cytotoxic in the Galleria mellonella infection model and was able to colonise chickens in higher numbers compared to a 488 tssD mutant and the T6SS-negative 81-176 strain. Whole genome sequencing of the 488 strain was performed to analyse the T6SS cluster. Comparisons with previously sequenced strains identified a highly conserved T6SS cluster in strains isolated from humans and chickens. In order to identify potential T6SS effectors in C. jejuni, mass spectrometry was performed to compare the secretome of the 488 strain with that of a 488 tssBC contractile sheath double mutant. Bioinformatic analyses revealed the presence of multiple VgrGs in C. jejuni strains and identified a putative effector-immunity module associated with the C. jejuni T6SS. This study expanded on the knowledge of the function of the C. jejuni T6SS and highlighted the importance of the T6SS during in vivo survival of T6SS-positive C. jejuni strains.
Transnational Intimacies and Marriages: Gender and Social Class Complexities in two Northeastern Thai Villages
Creators: name: Lapanun, Patacharin
Publisher: name: Advances in Southeast Asian Studies
Year: 2022

description: Studies of transnational intimacies and marriages thus far reveal how these intimate relationships are simulated and constrained by global and local circumstances, cultures, ideas, and practices relating to gender, marriage, and family as well as class and ethnicity. This paper provides insights into the other side of the global process by exploring how these intimate relations generate tensions and challenge cultural ideas and practices regarding gender and social class at the ‘local end’ of the transnational connections. Drawn on three ethnographic studies in two northeastern Thai villages, my research argues that these marital relationships present a form of women’s agency and bring new challenges to masculine identities and subjectivities, placing local men in vulnerable positions. Women with Western partners also constitute a new class determined by both their consumption and their lifestyle – which set them apart from other villagers – and their increased ownership of both farm and residential land. Thus, these women form a new class in both Bourdieusian and Marxist senses, although land in this case has less to do with production but rather wellbeing, security, and prosperity. In this light, transnational marriages/intimacies induce the reconfiguring of gender and class in women’s natal villages.
description: Advances in Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 15 No. 2 (2022): Challenging Stereotypes in Europe-Thailand Transnational Migration
Bubble rising near a vertical wall: experimental characterization of paths and velocity
Creators: name: Estepa-Cantero, Cecilia
name: Martínez-Bazán, Carlos
name: Bolaños-Jiménez, Rocío
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 76T10

description: The trajectories of a single bubble rising in the vicinity of a vertical solid wall are experimentally investigated. Distinct initial wall-bubble distances are considered for three different bubble rising regimes, i.e. rectilinear, planar zigzag, and spiral. The problem is defined by three control parameters, namely the Galilei number, $Ga$, the Bond number, $Bo$, and the initial dimensionless distance between the bubble centroid and the wall, $L$. We focus on high-Bond numbers, varying $L$ from 1 to 4, and compare the results with the corresponding unbounded case, $L \rightarrow \infty$. In all cases, the bubble deviates from the expected unbounded trajectory and migrates away from the wall as it rises due to the overpressure generated in the gap between the bubble and the wall. This repulsion is more evident as the initial wall-bubble distance decreases. Moreover, in the planar zigzagging regime, the wall is found to impose a preferential zigzagging plane perpendicular to it when $L$ is small enough. Only slight wall effects are observed in the velocity or the oscillation amplitude and frequency. The wall migration effect is more evident for the planar zigzagging case and less relevant for the rectilinear one. Finally, the influence of the vertical position of the wall is also investigated. When the wall is not present upon release, the bubbles have the expected behavior for the unbounded case and experience the migration only instants before reaching the wall edge. This repulsion is, in general, more substantial than in the initially-present-wall case.
The role of pebble fragmentation in planetesimal formation I. Experimental study
Creators: name: Syed, M. Bukhari
name: Blum, J.
name: Jansson, K. Wahlberg
name: Johansen, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Previous work on protoplanetary dust growth shows halt at centimeter sizes owing to the occurrence of bouncing at velocities of $\geq$ 0.1 $ms^{-1}$ and fragmentation at velocities $\geq$ 1 $ms^{-1}$. To overcome these barriers, spatial concentration of cm-sized dust pebbles and subsequent gravitational collapse have been proposed. However, numerical investigations have shown that dust aggregates may undergo fragmentation during the gravitational collapse phase. This fragmentation in turn changes the size distribution of the solids and thus must be taken into account in order to understand the properties of the planetesimals that form. To explore the fate of dust pebbles undergoing fragmenting collisions, we conducted laboratory experiments on dust-aggregate collisions with a focus on establishing a collision model for this stage of planetesimal formation. In our experiments, we analysed collisions of dust aggregates with masses between 1.4 g and 180 g, mass ratios between target and projectile from 125 to 1 at a fixed porosity of 65%, within the velocity range of 1.5 $-$ 8.7 $ms^{-1}$ , at low atmospheric pressure of $\sim 10^{-3}$ mbar and in free-fall conditions. We derived the mass of the largest fragment, the fragment size/mass distribution, and the efficiency of mass transfer as a function of collision velocity and projectile/target aggregate size. Moreover, we give recipes for an easy-to-use fragmentation and mass-transfer model for further use in modeling work. In a companion paper, we utilize the experimental findings and the derived dust-aggregate collision model to investigate the fate of dust pebbles during gravitational collapse.
Informal leadership (draft version 1)
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Anarchism
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/808387
subject: Anarchists
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/808401
subject: Authority
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821653
subject: Leadership
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/994701

description: A one page typewritten paper about how informal leadership structures function to get work done.
Merging WW and WW+jet with MINLO
Creators: name: Hamilton, Keith
name: Melia, Tom
name: Monni, Pier Francesco
name: Re, Emanuele
name: Zanderighi, Giulia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a simulation program for the production of a pair of W bosons in association with a jet, that can be used in conjunction with general-purpose shower Monte Carlo generators, according to the POWHEG method. We have further adapted and implemented the MINLO' method on top of the NLO calculation underlying our WW+jet generator. Thus, the resulting simulation achieves NLO accuracy not only for inclusive distributions in WW+jet production but also WW production, i.e. when the associated jet is not resolved, without the introduction of any unphysical merging scale. This work represents the first extension of the MINLO' method, in its original form, to the case of a genuine underlying 2->2 process, with non-trivial virtual corrections.
description: 22 pages, 9 figures
Transgender Kathoey Socially Imagining Relationships with Western Men in Thailand: Aspirations for Gender Affirmation, Upward Social Mobility, and Family Acceptance
Creators: name: Scuzzarello, Sarah
name: Statham, Paul
Publisher: name: Advances in Southeast Asian Studies
Year: 2022

description: This article studies the aspirations and experiences of kathoey (Thai male-to-female trans* people) from poor rural Isan in enduring cross-border relationships with Western men. Drawing from biographical life stories, we try to unpack the cultural script through which partnering a Western man is seen as a plausible pathway for a better kathoey life in Thailand. We study the opportunities such partnering presents for achieving goals of gender affirmation, social advancement, and re-gaining merit within family relations. In the face of significant discriminatory barriers, kathoey in our study managed to build lives that they saw as self-validating, materially successful, and significantly conferring gender recognition. They understood their relationships as socially and personally much more than access to financial resources and drew important sources of emotional support, especially for gender validation from them. Western men were seen as more dedicated to partnering, caring, and being publicly seen in social settings (including family), compared to Thai.
description: Advances in Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 15 No. 2 (2022): Challenging Stereotypes in Europe-Thailand Transnational Migration
No Picnic - Spring 88
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Authority
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821653
subject: Anarchist Black Cross
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/661189
subject: Anarchists
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/808401
subject: Indigenous peoples
subject: Demonstrations
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/890222
subject: Anarchism--Periodicals
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/808394
subject: Prisoners--Social conditions
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1077200
subject: Prisoners--Legal status, laws, etc.
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1077155
subject: Dissenters
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/895401
subject: Anarchism
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/808387
subject: Prisons
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1077326
subject: Prisoners
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1077103

description: An anarchist periodical featuring articles, poems, images, comics, and other writings focused the Gitksan Wet'Suwet'en land claim trial, prisoners, the Vancouver Black Cross, issues with the Canadian legal system, community resistance, and ecomedia among other anarchist topics.
Cross-diffusion systems with excluded volume effects and asymptotic gradient flows
Creators: name: Bruna, Maria
name: Burger, Martin
name: Ranetbauer, Helene
name: Wolfram, Marie-Therese
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we discuss the analysis of a cross-diffusion PDE system for a mixture of hard spheres, which was derived by Bruna and Chapman from a stochastic system of interacting Brownian particles using the method of matched asymptotic expansions. The resulting cross-diffusion system is valid in the limit of small volume fraction of particles. While the system has a gradient flow structure in the symmetric case of all particles having the same size and diffusivity, this is not valid in general. We discuss local stability and global existence for the symmetric case using the gradient flow structure and entropy variable techniques. For the general case, we introduce the concept of an asymptotic gradient flow structure and show how it can be used to study the behavior close to equilibrium. Finally we illustrate the behavior of the model with various numerical simulations.
Influence of climate change communication on cognitive, emotional and behavioural engagement with adaptation among forest owners in Sweden
Creators: name: Vulturius, Gregor
Publisher: name: The University of Edinburgh
Year: 2020
Subjects: climate change
climate change adaptation
forestry
communication
behavioural change
risk management

description: This thesis examines if, and how, climate change communication can promote individual engagement with adaptation. It tests if communication can affect intrapsychic conditions, behavioural intentions and individual action related to adaptation. To assess the effect of communication on individual engagement with adaptation, the thesis examines two different communication approaches: transmission-orientated and deliberation-orientated. To test the first approach, the thesis compares survey responses from 2014 of two different groups of forest owners from Sweden: Forest owners who participated in two climate change communication projects by the Swedish Forest Agency; and a group of randomly selected forest owners. To examine the second approach, the thesis evaluates results from a fourand-a-half-year long panel survey of 45 forest owners that participated in a communication project based on the concept of science-based stakeholder dialogues. The panel survey took place between 2013 and 2018. The thesis also uses qualitative data to complement the statistical analysis of the panel survey. Key findings include: First, intrapsychic conditions – personal appraisal of climate change risk, concern, trust in climate science, belief in personal knowledge, experience of extreme events and attribution of these experiences to climate change – can help explain individual engagement with adaptation. Second, both approaches to climate change communication have only a small effect on intrapsychic conditions, intentions and personal behaviour. Third, the potential of communication to promote engagement with climate change hinges on its perceived credibility, legitimacy and practical value. Fourth, the thesis highlights the limits of the psychological approach to research about individual adaptation and the need to understand climate change communication in its socioeconomic context. The thesis offers boundary organisations insights into how to create credible, science-based and actionable knowledge. More long-term, mixed-method research is needed to better understand the influence of social norms and personal values on people’s engagement with adaptation, and how communication can be combined with structural incentives to foster individual and collective action.
Communication, Leadership, and Community-based Tourism Empowerment in Brunei Darussalam
Creators: name: Chin, Wei Lee
name: Noorashid, Najib
Publisher: name: Advances in Southeast Asian Studies
Year: 2022

description: Effective communication plays a part in the success and the sustainability of tourism and hospitality management, including community-based tourism (CBT). In Brunei Darussalam, communication barriers have affected the growth of the CBT industry at both local and national levels. By analysing responses from 16 local CBT operators, this investigation focuses on aspects of communication and its channels in securing sustainability and empowerment of the CBT industry. This study found that the CBT ventures in Brunei include: (1) horizontal/lateral communication between CBT operators and sur-rounding communities; and (2) top-down communication and bottom-up accessibility between authorities, community leaders, and CBT owners. This paper further discusses how bureaucracy can impede the success of CBT operations, and how a collaborative approach between stakeholders has inspired the formulation of a new Interactional Model of Leadership and Empowerment among CBT stakeholders, which can be used to measure the efficacy of communication among stakeholders in the CBT industry.
description: Advances in Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 15 No. 2 (2022): Challenging Stereotypes in Europe-Thailand Transnational Migration
Quintessential Inflation, Unified Dark Energy and Dark Matter, and Higgs Mechanism
Creators: name: Guendelman, Eduardo
name: Nissimov, Emil
name: Pacheva, Svetlana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe a new type of gravity-matter models where gravity couples in a non-conventional way to two distinct scalar fields providing a unified Lagrangian action principle description of: (a) the evolution of both "early" and "late" Universe - by the "inflaton" scalar field; (b) dark energy and dark matter as a unified manifestation of a single material entity - the "darkon" scalar field. The essential non-standard feature of our models is employing the formalism of non-Riemannian space-time volume forms - alternative generally covariant integration measure densities (volume elements) defined in terms of auxiliary antisymmetric tensor gauge fields. Although being (almost) pure-gauge degrees of freedom, the non-Riemannian space-time volume forms trigger a series of important features unavailable in ordinary gravity-matter models. When including in addition interactions with the electro-weak model bosonic sector we obtain a gravity-assisted generation of electro-weak spontaneous gauge symmetry breaking in the post-inflationary "late" Universe, while the Higgs-like scalar remains massless in the "early" Universe.
description: 15 pages, to appear in the Proc. of 3rd Bulgarian National Congress on Physical Sciences (Sept-Oct 2016), Bulgarian Journal of Physics, vol.43 (2016)
Challenging Stereotypes in Europe-Thailand Transnational Migration: Non-conventional Unions, Mobilities, and (Re)productive Labor
Creators: name: Fresnoza-Flot, Asuncion
name: Sunanta, Sirijit
Publisher: name: Advances in Southeast Asian Studies
Year: 2022

description: The migration flows connecting Thailand and Europe have constructed social spaces in which different stereotypes regarding Thais and Europeans emerge, perpetuate, and circulate, thereby affecting to various extents the lives of these individuals. To challenge these stereotypes, the present Special Issue takes into account the mechanisms of social categorization at transnational and local dimensions in three critical steps. First, it adopts an inclusive stance by not limiting itself to heterosexual relationships involving Thais and Europeans. Second, it shifts the scholarly gaze from marriage and family issues to Thai migrants’ mobilities in spatial, social, and intergenerational terms. And third, it highlights Thai migrants’ engagement in the labor market as intimate workers and entrepreneurs to uncover the factors shaping their (re)productive labor and social incorporation in their receiving countries. Using an intersectional approach, this Special Issue presents six empirically grounded case studies to unveil often-neglected dimensions and complexities of Europe-Thailand transnational migration.
description: Advances in Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 15 No. 2 (2022): Challenging Stereotypes in Europe-Thailand Transnational Migration
Femininity in Transition: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Experiences of Thai Transgender Migrants in Europe
Creators: name: Thongkrajai, Cheera
Publisher: name: Advances in Southeast Asian Studies
Year: 2022

description: Many queer foreigners perceive Thailand as a gay paradise. They have an image of the country as having a tolerant attitude towards LGBTIQ+. However, for Thai LGBTIQ+, Western countries evoke wealth, progress, and acceptance where people with a different gender identity or sexual orientation can fully enjoy their rights. Thai LGBTIQ+, like men and women, strive to go abroad seeking a life they dream of. This article aims to give an account of one of these marginalized groups’ experience that is often neglected by both Thai and Western transnational scholars. Based on an ethnographic study in four European countries with 26 Thai transgender informants, this article argues that migration needs to be considered as a search for one’s well-being, not only in terms of economic aspects, but also in terms of sentimental or emotional needs – that is, the possibility of living their gender and being socially and legally accepted. In this transcultural context, not only do people move across borders, but they also export with them perceptions and understandings about sex, gender, and sexuality from their home country. These aspects are renegotiated and rearticulated in the new socio-cultural milieu of the host countries in order to maximize these new conditions for their own interest. They may or may not reveal their transgender identity, depending on contexts, social interactions, and whom they are dealing with. Their transgender identity can offer them advantages, particularly in the realm of sex.
description: Advances in Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 15 No. 2 (2022): Challenging Stereotypes in Europe-Thailand Transnational Migration
Thai Immigrant Service-based Entrepreneurship in the UK: Mixed Embeddedness, Superdiversity, and Combined Ethnic and Non-Ethnic Capital
Creators: name: Sunanta, Sirijit
Publisher: name: Advances in Southeast Asian Studies
Year: 2022

description: This paper examines Thai immigrant entrepreneurship in the UK, drawing on 17 inter-views with Thai migrants in Brighton, East Sussex. It explores how Thai immigrants from different socioeconomic backgrounds and migration pathways mobilize ethnic and non-ethnic forms of capital in their entrepreneurial activities. Thai immigrants constitute a relatively new, small, but internally diverse migrant population in the UK, with female marriage migrants dominating the Thai migrant population in the past two decades. The findings of this study reveal that Thai migrants tend to own small-scale businesses or provide personal services in three sectors: cleaning and care work, beauty and massage, and food and catering. In their interaction with opportunity structures in the UK, Thai restaurant and massage entrepreneurs mobilize the exotic notion of “Thai-ness” to add value to their services catering to local British customers.
description: Advances in Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 15 No. 2 (2022): Challenging Stereotypes in Europe-Thailand Transnational Migration
Portable fixed dynamometry enables home-based, reliable assessment of muscle strength in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a pilot study
Creators: name: Van Unnik, Jordi W. J.
name: Bakers, Jaap N.E.
name: Kokx, Steure
name: Van Den Berg, Leonard H.
name: Visser-Meily, Johanna M.A.
name: Beelen, Anita
name: Van Eijk, Ruben P.A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 69999
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: To determine the feasibility, reliability, and sensitivity of remotely monitoring muscle strength loss of knee extensors using a novel portable fixed dynamometer (PFD) in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). We conducted a pilot study with a newly developed device to measure knee extension strength. Patients performed unsupervised PFD measurements, biweekly, for 6 months at home. We evaluated feasibility using adherence and a device-specific questionnaire. Reliability was assessed by (1) comparing unsupervised and supervised measurements to identify systematic bias, and (2) comparing consecutive unsupervised measurements to determine test-retest reliability expressed as intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) and standard error of measurement (SEM). Sensitivity to detect longitudinal change was described using linear mixed-effects models. We enrolled 18 patients with ALS. Adherence was 86%, where all patients found that the device suitable to measure muscle strength at home; 4 patients (24%) found the measurements burdensome. The correlation between (un)supervised measurements was excellent (Pearson’s r 0.97, 95%CI; 0.94 − 0.99) and no systematic bias was present (mean difference 0.13, 95%CI; −2.22 − 2.48, p = 0.91). Unsupervised measurements had excellent test-retest reliability with an average ICC of 0.97 (95%CI: 0.94 − 0.99) and SEM of 5.8% (95%CI: 4.8 − 7.0). Muscle strength declined monthly by 1.9 %predicted points (95%CI; −3.0 to −0.9, p = 0.001). Using the PFD, it proved feasible to perform knee extension strength measurements at home which were reliable and sensitive for detecting muscle strength loss. Larger studies are warranted to compare the device with conventional outcomes.
Multiform Transmission and Belonging: Buddhist Social Spaces of Thai Migrant Women in Belgium
Creators: name: Fresnoza-Flot, Asuncion
Publisher: name: Advances in Southeast Asian Studies
Year: 2022

description: The Thai migration to Belgium is numerically a woman-led phenomenon, which has captured social attention for the last decades. This attention entails stereotypes about Thai migrant women as ‘workers’ in the intimate industry and/or ‘exotic wives’ of Belgian men. To challenge these stereotypes, the present paper explores the often-ignored dimension of Thai women’s sociality. Specifically, it examines the transmission dynamics occurring in their Buddhist social spaces, which shape and reinforce their sense of belonging. To do so, it draws from ethnographic fieldwork with Thai migrant women and key social actors within the Thai population in the country. Data analysis unveils that these women engage in multiform modes of transmission in their Buddhist social spaces. First, they transmit good deeds from the material world to the spiritual realm through merit-making practices and by seeking spiritual guidance in the temple. Second, they pass their socio-cultural ways of belonging to their children by engaging in different socializing activities. And third, they involve themselves in sharing religious faith, material symbols, and tastes described as part of Thai culture. Through this multiform transmission, Thai migrant women confront in subtle ways the common-held views about them at the intersection of their various identities as spouses, mothers, citizens, and Buddhist devotees.
description: Advances in Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 15 No. 2 (2022): Challenging Stereotypes in Europe-Thailand Transnational Migration
Gas absorption and dust extinction towards the Orion Nebula Cluster
Creators: name: Hasenberger, Birgit
name: Forbrich, Jan
name: Alves, Joao
name: Wolk, Scott
name: Meingast, Stefan
name: Getman, Konstantin
name: Pillitteri, Ignazio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We characterise the relation between the gas and dust content of the interstellar medium towards young stellar objects in the Orion Nebula Cluster. X-ray observations provide estimates of the absorbing equivalent hydrogen column density N_H based on spectral fits. Near-infrared extinction values are calculated from intrinsic and observed colour magnitudes (J-H) and (H-K_s) as given by the VISTA Orion A survey. A linear fit of the correlation between column density and extinction values A_V yields an estimate of the N_H/A_V ratio. We investigate systematic uncertainties of the results by describing and (if possible) quantifying the influence of circumstellar material and the adopted extinction law, X-ray models, and elemental abundances on the N_H/A_V ratio. Assuming a Galactic extinction law with R_V=3.1 and solar abundances by Anders & Grevesse (1989), we deduce an N_H/A_V ratio of (1.39 +- 0.14) x 10^21 cm^-2 mag^-1 for Class III sources in the Orion Nebula Cluster where the given error does not include systematic uncertainties. This ratio is consistent with similar studies in other star-forming regions and approximately 31% lower than the Galactic value. We find no obvious trends in the spatial distribution of N_H/A_V ratios. Changes in the assumed extinction law and elemental abundances are demonstrated to have a relevant impact on deduced A_V and N_H values, respectively. Large systematic uncertainties associated with metal abundances in the Orion Nebula Cluster represent the primary limitation for the deduction of a definitive N_H/A_V ratio and the physical interpretation of these results.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in A&A