cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Axions 05
Creators: name: Sikivie, Pierre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Strong CP Problem and its resolution through the existence of an axion are briefly reviewed. The combined constraints from accelerator searches, the evolution of red giants and the duration of the SN 1987a neutrino pulse require the axion mass $m_a$ to be less than $3 \cdot 10^{-3}$ eV. On the other hand, the requirement that the axion does not overclose the universe implies a lower bound on $m_a$ of order $10^{-6}$ eV. This lower bound can, however, be relaxed in a number of ways. If $m_a$ is near the lower bound, axions are an important contribution to the energy density of the universe in the form of (very) cold dark matter. Dark matter axions can be searched for on Earth by stimulating their conversion to microwave photons in an electromagnetic cavity permeated by a magnetic field. Using this technique, limits on the local halo density have been placed by the Axion Dark Matter eXperiment. I'll give a status report on ADMX and its upgrade presently under construction. I'll also report on recent results from solar axion searches and laser experiments.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures, invited talk at the PASCOS 05 conference in Gyeongju, Korea, May 30 to June 4, 2005. A reference and brief comment were added
a1v1n1_26032020_05_art.pdf
Creators: name: Buendia, Enrique
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110601 Biomechanics
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The psychological and other effects on the person in recreational sports depend to a greater extent on the training program: whether it is appropriate to the person's individual abilities. The real situation in recreational sports in Mexico is that there are few coaches with the capacity to work in sports, many coaches being former high-performance athletes without the necessary preparation. Therefore, the objective is to describe some factor or variable of healthy subjects when performing standardized physical activity. It is concluded that two healthy participating subjects perform standardized activity for one minute with different heart intensity zones (80% and 90%), and significantly different heart rates before activity p-value = 0.009624, at the end of activity p- value = 0.001782 and 5 minutes after the second measurement p-value = 9.283e-05.
A dialog on quantum gravity
Creators: name: Rovelli, Carlo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The debate between loop quantum gravity and string theory is sometimes lively, and it is hard to present an impartial view on the issue. Leaving any attempt to impartiality aside, I report here, instead, a conversation on this issue, overheard in the cafeteria of a Major American University.
description: 20 pages
STUDENT WELL-BEING: IDENTIFYING THE CONTRIBUTION OF OPTIMISM AND LOCUS OF CONTROL
Creators: name: Cuze, Anita
name: Aleksic, Ana
Publisher: name: Hellenic Journal of Psychology
Year: 2021
Subjects: Locus of control; Optimism; Student well-being

description: Studies have shown that personality characteristics play a significant role in explaining the differences in well-being. To better understand this effect of personality traits, the study explored the role of locus of control and optimism for student college-related well-being. In a sample of 187 university students in Croatia, who responded to a set of personality questionnaires, it was found that both locus of control and optimism correlated with well-being. Moreover, results also revealed that optimism moderated the relationship between external locus of control and well-being. Our findings suggest that positive thinking may buffer the adverse effects of external locus of control on student well-being.
description: Hellenic Journal of Psychology, Vol 18, No 1 (2021)
Manifold for Machine Learning Assurance
Creators: name: Byun, Taejoon
name: Rayadurgam, Sanjai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The increasing use of machine-learning (ML) enabled systems in critical tasks fuels the quest for novel verification and validation techniques yet grounded in accepted system assurance principles. In traditional system development, model-based techniques have been widely adopted, where the central premise is that abstract models of the required system provide a sound basis for judging its implementation. We posit an analogous approach for ML systems using an ML technique that extracts from the high-dimensional training data implicitly describing the required system, a low-dimensional underlying structure--a manifold. It is then harnessed for a range of quality assurance tasks such as test adequacy measurement, test input generation, and runtime monitoring of the target ML system. The approach is built on variational autoencoder, an unsupervised method for learning a pair of mutually near-inverse functions between a given high-dimensional dataset and a low-dimensional representation. Preliminary experiments establish that the proposed manifold-based approach, for test adequacy drives diversity in test data, for test generation yields fault-revealing yet realistic test cases, and for runtime monitoring provides an independent means to assess trustability of the target system's output.
31474: Thomas Milne Runcie - Sergeant in the Royal Engineers
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: Sergeant Thomas Milne Runcie was my late husband's grandfather. He was born about 1870 and married Mary Hutcheon Wilson on 04/09/1891 at St Nicholas, Aberdeen. One of their children was also called Thomas Milne Runcie. He was born in 1894 and served as a sapper in the First World War. He is the subject of a separate story on Lest We Forget.Sergeant Thomas Milne Runcie had considerable experience in the Territorial Force before the war. He was awarded the Volunteer Long Service Medal. We have a Discharge Certificate for him dated 14th April 1912. It says that he enlisted on 15th April 1908. However, he had earlier service: there is note added that he served in the 1st A. R. E. (V.) 20 years 100 days We have another Discharge Certificate for him dated 20/03/07. He says he was on the Muster Roll of the "A" Coy 1st Battn Gordon Highrs Volunteer Corps from 29th November 1886 to 14th January 1888.We have a photograph of him and several group photos that include him from his days in war service 1914-18. We have his medals that includes the 1914-15 Star. The medal card index indicates that he had service numbers 593, 1461 and 402918.
APPRAISAL OF FAMILIARITY WITH CONTENT: ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH DIMENSIONS OF EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE
Creators: name: Milošević, Miloš
name: Ristić, Irena J.
Publisher: name: Hellenic Journal of Psychology
Year: 2021
Subjects: Appraisal; Arousal; Emotional experience; Familiarity; Valence;

description: The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between the dimensions of the emotional experience (valence and arousal), the quality of emotions (happiness, sadness, fear, anger, surprise, and disgust), and the appraisal of familiarity with content. Ninety-two participants assessed how familiar the content of the 40 photographs were to them. The photographs were selected from the NAPS database and systematically varied along the dimensions and qualities of the emotional experience. Statistically significant correlations were obtained between the appraisal of familiarity and the dimensions of the emotional experience. The correlation of familiarity appraisal with arousal was negative, unlike findings from earlier studies. Significant positive correlation with happiness and negative correlations with sadness, fear, surprise, anger, and disgust were also found.
description: Hellenic Journal of Psychology, Vol 18, No 1 (2021)
Supplemental material.docx
Creators: name: Rosas-Flota, Ximena
name: Castillo-Martínez, Lilia
name: Reyes-Ramírez, Ana L.
name: Martínez-Soto, Martha
name: Serralde-Zúñiga, Aurora
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111199 Nutrition and Dietetics not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110323 Surgery
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110307 Gastroenterology and Hepatology

description: Intestinal Failure (IF) is a complex disease with huge impacts on our society due to complications. Therefore, in a developing country like ours without specialized IF clinics, health care professionals must provide evidence-based interventions for the IF patient. A three-round modified Delphi process was used to build consensus on the most important interventions for our IF patients. For each round, data was collected and consensus was defined as ≥80% of agreement for each item. Methods: A literature search was performed and the evidence-based data obtained from this search, was used to develop the questionnaires about the management of IF during hospitalization, the ambulatory care management, and the use of drug therapy, resulting in a 47-item survey.For each round, data was collected and a consensus was established as ≥80% of agreement for each item. The level of agreement was measured using a five-answer Likert Scale.For this type of study, formal consent was not required since no patients participated in the study.
Simulations of Noise in Disordered Systems
Creators: name: Reichhardt, C. J. Olson
name: Reichhardt, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use particle dynamics simulations to probe the correlations between noise and dynamics in a variety of disordered systems, including superconducting vortices, 2D electron liquid crystals, colloids, domain walls, and granular media. The noise measurements offer an experimentally accessible link to the microscopic dynamics, such as plastic versus elastic flow during transport, and can provide a signature of dynamical reordering transitions in the system. We consider broad and narrow band noise in transport systems, as well as the fluctuations of dislocation density in a system near the melting transition.
description: 12 pages, 9 postscript figures, requires spie.cls. SPIE Conference on Fluctuations and Noise 2003, invited contribution
CHILD ABUSE DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC ̶ PROSPECT, RISK AND FACTORS: A NARRATIVE REVIEW
Creators: name: Ahad, Md Abdul
name: Kakyo, Tracy
name: Willis, Eileen
name: Parry, Yvonne K.
name: Yang, Wen
Publisher: name: Hellenic Journal of Psychology
Year: 2021
Subjects: Maltreatment; Children; Covid-19; Pandemic; Psycho-social

description: This narrative review focuses on the risk of child abuse, the determinants of child maltreatment during the Covid-19 outbreak, and conceivable psycho-social impact of child abuse. Literature was retrieved from Scopus, PubMed, PsycINFO, Web of Science along with Google Scholar with no time and context restrictions. The narrative analysis of all pertinent records shows that the risk of abuse towards children has spiked during the Covid-19 outbreak, especially sexual abuse and neglect. Prolonged living inside of homes, school closures, limited contact, unemployment, domestic violence, poor access to health care, and related social stressors have impacted on the rates of child abuse during the Covid-19 outbreak. These maltreated children may experience poor interpersonal relationships, problematic coping behaviours, and depressive disorders across their life span. These findings point to context-specific outcomes and protective measures that could assist prospective researches and guide policies.
description: Hellenic Journal of Psychology, Vol 18, No 1 (2021)
Moving and staying together without a leader
Creators: name: Gregoire, Guillaume
name: Chate, Hugues
name: Tu, Yuhai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: A microscopic, stochastic, minimal model for collective and cohesive motion of identical self-propelled particles is introduced. Even though the particles interact strictly locally in a very noisy manner, we show that cohesion can be maintained, even in the zero-density limit of an arbitrarily large flock in an infinite space. The phase diagram spanned by the two main parameters of our model, which encode the tendencies for particles to align and to stay together, contains non-moving "gas", "liquid"' and "solid" phases separated from their moving counterparts by the onset of collective motion. The "gas/liquid" and "liquid/solid" are shown to be first-order phase transitions in all cases. In the cohesive phases, we study also the diffusive properties of individuals and their relation to the macroscopic motion and to the shape of the flock.
Lettuce Provides Indication of Pesticide Use and Residues
Creators: name: Vandeman, Ann
name: Shank, David
name: Chandran, Ram
name: Vasavada, Utpal
name: Vandeman, Ann
name: Shank, David
name: Chandran, Ram
name: Vasavada, Utpal
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: Pesticides make an important contribution to high U.S. farm productivity and a lowcost, plentiful food supply. Some scientific evidence shows that pesticide residues are not a serious risk to the safety of the food supply. Yet there are widespread concerns based on contrary evidence about pesticide use and toxicity to humans, chronic health effects, food safety, water pollution, and threats to wildlife. Consumers frequently rank pesticide residues on food as the number one food safety risk. These concerns, together with pressures to regulate and restrict agrichemical use in U.S. agriculture, are stimulating the search for alternative farming methods. Improved pesticide-application methods and techniques such as the close monitoring of pest populations, crop rotation, and developing a plant's genetic resistance to specific pests offer the possibility of limiting pesticide use while preserving the productivity and economic viability of U.S. farms. USDA's Pesticide Data Program (see box) gathers information on pesticide residues remaining on produce and on growers' use of pesticides. These data offer an opportunity to study the relationships between pesticide use on the farm and the residues found on produce. They will also help in examining the evolution of production practices in agriculture.
An attempt to observe economy globalization: the cross correlation distance evolution of the top 19 GDP's
Creators: name: Miskiewicz, Janusz
name: Ausloos, Marcel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Economy correlations between the 19 richest countries are investigated through their Gross Domestic Product increments. A distance is defined between increment correlation matrix elements and their evolution studied as a function of time and time window size. Unidirectional and Bidirectional Minimal Length Paths are generated and analyzed for different time windows. A sort of critical correlation time window is found indicating a transition for best observations. The mean length path decreases with time, indicating stronger correlations. A new method for estimating a realistic minimal time window to observe correlations and deduce macroeconomy conclusions from such features is thus suggested.
description: to be published in the Dyses05 proceedings, in Int. J. Mod Phys C 15 pages, 5 figures, 1 table
Assessment of High Purity Mesenchymal Stromal Cells Derived Extracellular Vesicles Presenting NRP1 Show Functional Suppression of Activated Immune Cells
Creators: name: Gobin, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2022
Subjects: Extracellular Vesicles (EVs)
NRP1
Mesenchymal Stromal Cells (MSCs)
Bioreactor
Tangential Flow Filtration (TFF)
Fast Protein Liquid Chromatography (FPLC)
Nanoparticle Trackning Analysis (NTA)
Immune Suppression
Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells (PBMC)
Characterization
Isolation
ISEV
ISCT
cGMP
Pre-clinical
Cell based therapy

description: Background: The focus of this study was to investigate how producing human bone marrow (hBM) derived mesenchymal stromal cell (MSC) extracellular vehicles (EVs) in a high purity isolation system would affect their established characterization criteria and address the validity of these methods of EV production. Additionally, we set out to functionally characterize the hBM-MSC-EVs for their identified immunomodulatory ability while also assessing the presence of novel MSC-EV marker NRP1 identified by our group to further affirm its validity as a functional MSC-EV identity marker. Methods: Each hBM-MSC-EV donor was cultured in a hollow-fiber bioreactor system in non-stimulating serum/xeno-free conditions for 25 days to produce EVs persistently under quiescent conditions to characterize the hBM-MSC-EVs in their native form. EVs were isolated by traditional PEG-based precipitation for preliminary characterization to monitor bioreactor production wherein they were characterized using multimodal tangential flow filtration coupled with fast protein liquid chromatograph (FPLC) size exclusion/high-affinity purifications to obtain the final highly purified EV sample. Additionally, functional analysis of their immunomodulatory ability, EVs and MSCs were incubated with activated peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) as an in-vitro model to evaluate their potency. Results: The hBM-MSC-EVs produced from the bioreactor system showed consistent characterization in accordance with the MISEV2018 establish criteria. We were also able to demonstrate their functional ability by observing statistically significantly immunomodulatory ability of activated PBMCs equivalent to native MSC ability. We were also able to validate the present of NRP1 on all hBM-MSC-EV samples produced confirming its validity as a MSC-EV marker. Conclusion: The significance of the results obtained from this study confirms the production of MSC-EV using a bioreactor and high purity isolation for obtaining consistent MSC-EVs for downstream investigation. Additionally, we were able to demonstrate the significance of MSC-EVs on MSC signaling for immunomodulation by showing equivalent functional potency when tested in-vitro. These results contribute to further understanding the biological attributes of MSC-EVs and contribute to the validation of currently established characterization guidelines.
Dark matter haloes in the multicomponent model. III. From dwarfs to galaxy clusters
Creators: name: Todoroki, Keita
name: Medvedev, Mikhail V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A possibility of DM being multicomponent has a strong implication on resolving decades-long known cosmological problems on small scale. In addition to elastic scattering, the model allows for inelastic interactions, which can be characterized by a 'velocity kick' parameter. The simplest 2cDM model with cross section $0.01\lesssimσ/m<1\textrm{ cm}^{2}{ \rm g}^{-1}$ and the kick velocity $V_{k}\simeq 100\textrm{ km s}^{-1}$ has been shown to robustly resolve the missing satellites, core-cusp, and too-big-to-fail problems in $N$-body cosmological simulations tested on MW-like haloes of a virial mass $\sim5 \times 10^{11}$ M$_{\odot}$ (Paper I $\&$ II). With the aim of further constraining the parameter space available for the 2cDM model, we extend our analysis to dwarf and galaxy cluster haloes with their virial mass of $\sim 10^7 - 10^8$ and $\sim 10^{13} - 10^{14}$ M$_{\odot}$, respectively. We find $σ_{0} / m \gtrsim 0.1 \textrm{ cm}^{2}{\rm g}^{-1}$ is preferentially disfavored for both dwarfs and galaxy cluster haloes in comparison with observations, while $σ_{0} / m = 0.001 \textrm{ cm}^{2}{\rm g}^{-1}$ causes little perceptible difference from that of the CDM counterpart for most of the cross section's velocity dependence studied in this work. Our main result is that within the reasonable set of parameters the 2cDM model can successfully explain the observational trends seen in dwarf galaxy and galaxy cluster haloes and the model leaves us an open window for other possible alternative DM models.
description: 17 pages, 11 figures
title: Poverty politics. Reconceptualising economic growth in Durban, South Africa
Creators: name: Marx, Colin Edward
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2007

description: In this thesis I show how narrow representations of 'the economy' in urban poverty discourses and practices have channelled the attention of academics and policy makers in particular ways as they have attempted to address urban poverty. I explore representations of the relationship between poverty and economic growth by these groups to show how dominant urban poverty discourses and practices tend, at best, to place poor people in the informal economy or at worst, outside of the economies of cities. One reason for this is traced to poverty studies' understanding of poor people as independent units undertaking survivalist activities or livelihoods. However, thinking of poor people as making up dispersed sets of networks connected into a diverse economy opens up new spatial imaginations of the city and new possibilities for policies aimed at achieving social justice. Drawing on the example of the city of Durban, South Africa, I explore how thinking about poor people's activities in different ways makes it possible to move beyond formal/informal economy dichotomies which dominate scholarly and policy analysis. I demonstrate that poor people are already connected to, and are part of, economic growth processes and that these growth processes would not be possible without including poor people. The 'poverty politics' to which this research refers relates to ways in which it is possible to see and write poor peoples' economic activities into a broader story of economic growth.
Epitaxial bulk acoustic wave resonators as highly coherent multi-phonon sources for quantum acoustodynamics
Creators: name: Gokhale, Vikrant J.
name: Downey, Brian P.
name: Katzer, D. Scott
name: Nepal, Neeraj
name: Lang, Andrew C.
name: Stroud, Rhonda M.
name: Meyer, David J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Solid-state quantum acoustodynamic (QAD) systems provide a compact platform for quantum information storage and processing by coupling acoustic phonon sources with superconducting or spin qubits. The multi-mode composite high-overtone bulk acoustic wave resonator (HBAR) is a popular phonon source well suited for QAD. However, scattering from defects, grain boundaries, and interfacial/surface roughness in the composite transducer severely limits the phonon relaxation time in sputter-deposited devices. Here, we grow an epitaxial-HBAR, consisting of a metallic NbN bottom electrode and a piezoelectric GaN film on a SiC substrate. The acoustic impedance-matched epi-HBAR has a power injection efficiency > 99% from transducer to phonon cavity. The smooth interfaces and low defect density reduce phonon losses, yielding fxQ products and phonon lifetimes up to 1.36 x 10^17 Hz and 500 microseconds respectively. The GaN/NbN/SiC epi-HBAR is an electrically actuated, multi-mode phonon source that can be directly interfaced with NbN-based superconducting qubits or SiC-based spin qubits.
SUPERVISION IN COUNSELING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY: A QUALITATIVE STUDY OF GREEK SUPERVISORS’ EXPERIENCES AND PRACTICES
Creators: name: Vassara, Maro
name: Papavassiliou-Alexiou, Ioanna
Publisher: name: Hellenic Journal of Psychology
Year: 2021
Subjects: Clinical practice; Counseling training; Psychotherapy; Supervision of clinical practice

description: Clinical practice supervision is a major means for supporting the development of trainees in counseling and psychotherapy, improving professional competence and ensuring accountability to the client and the public. In Greece, there is no official accreditation for supervisors nor systematic training. The present study investigated the state of the art concerning supervision, supervisors’ experiences and practices. In a qualitative study 18 experienced supervisors were interviewed. They expressed their views on the practice of supervision, the benefits of supervision, and their personal experience with it. The analysis indicated that, although supervision is not officially institutionalized, it is practiced and valued in psychotherapy training and clinical practice. Moreover, it is a “psychotherapy-bound” practice that has identifiable benefits for all parties involved.
description: Hellenic Journal of Psychology, Vol 18, No 1 (2021)
ABILITY TO DISTINGUISH GENUINE FROM NON-GENUINE SMILES IN CHILDREN AGED 10- TO 12-YEARS: ASSOCIATIONS WITH PEER STATUS, GENDER, SOCIAL ANXIETY AND LEVEL OF EMPATHY
Creators: name: Vassilopoulos, Stephanos
name: Vlachou, Elisavet
name: Brouzos, Andreas
name: Moberly, Nicholas
name: Misailidi, Plousia
name: Diakogiorgi, Kleopatra
Publisher: name: Hellenic Journal of Psychology
Year: 2021
Subjects: Children; Duchenne smiles; Non-genuine smiles; Peer status

description: Associations between children’s ability to distinguish genuine (Duchenne) from non-genuine smiles and peer status, gender, social anxiety or level of empathy were examined in a sample of 10- to 12-year-old children (N = 80). Children were presented with genuine and non-genuine smiles in a dynamic (videos) or a static (photos) mode of presentation and were asked to rate the genuineness of each. Children’s peer status was tested with a sociometric measure, whereas social anxiety and level of empathy were measured via self-report measures. There was no evidence that peer status was associated with children’s ability to distinguish genuine from fake smiles in either mode of stimuli presentation. However, gender appeared to predict children’s performance. Compared to boys, girls were better at distinguishing genuine from fake smiles, but only when the stimuli were presented in a dynamic mode. In addition, empathy was associated with children’s perception of genuine smiles but only in the static stimuli. The results are discussed in the light of recent evidence indicating that socially excluded adults are more competent at distinguishing genuine from non-genuine smiles.
description: Hellenic Journal of Psychology, Vol 18, No 1 (2021)
7550: Douglas George McLennan from Banchory, Scotland
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: Douglas George McLennan was my great uncle. He was born on 29/05/1895 at Banchory Ternan, Kincardineshire, Scotland, the son of William McLennan and Mary Black McLennan née McGillivray. They lived at Rosebank Cottage, Banchory Ternan.Douglas George McLennan was in the Gordon Highlanders with service numbers 3505 and 290867. He went to France on 04/12/1915 and was discharged on 31/04/1919.His brothers Sidney Charles, William and James Alexander also served in the war. William died but the others survived.
Exclusion and Legitimacy: A Critical Examination of Alasdair MacIntyre's Concept of Practices Applied to Philosophy
Creators: name: Kazakov, Alan
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2022
Subjects: Alasdair MacIntyre
Virtue ethics
Metaphilosophy

description: This thesis aims to provide a new definition for philosophy rooted in MacIntyre’s account of a “practice”. In the first chapter, I explain MacIntyre’s concept of a practice as it appears in After Virtue—including its critical components, namely, internal goods, standards of excellence, and the historical dimension of practices—through a consideration of the practice of guitar lutherie. I then use this account to build up an initial definition of philosophy as a practice, and briefly clarify two minor confusions that could easily arise regarding such an account. In my second chapter, I take up MacIntyre’s view that practices are always spatiotemporally situated in order to question whether or not my definition from Chapter One could include non-Western philosophy within it. I argue that this is possible within the peculiar epistemic conditions of modernity, based on a reading of MacIntyre’s paper “Relativism, Power and Philosophy”. In Chapter Three, I consider another key component of MacIntyre’s account—namely, that of institutions—and arrive at some extra qualifications regarding the concepts of both “external goods” and “corruption” to deepen the account, and then introduce my own concept of “institutional hegemony” to account for academia’s present status with regards to the practice of philosophy, which I use to explain a discordance between the present reality of philosophy as a discipline and the conclusions I draw in Chapter Two. I then extend this line of thought in the fourth chapter to look at some objections that could be made against a MacIntyrean view of philosophy-as-a-practice from a feminist and postcolonial lens. These objections are then addressed in the fifth chapter, where I show that the MacIntyrean ought to be in agreement with the feminist and postcolonial projects, and that the MacIntyrean framework can indeed accommodate them.
Consumers Respond to Information About Pesticide Residues
Creators: name: Eom, Young Sook
name: Eom, Young Sook
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
Public Economics

description: Food safety experts rank foodborne disease due to microorganisms as the greatest health risk from the food supply. Yet for consumers, pesticide residues on fresh produce are a major food safety concern. The Packer trade magazine re-- ported that some consumers altered their buying habits between 1989 and 1990 because of concerns about pesticide residues on fresh produce, although changes were not dramatic. On the other hand, more than half of consumers responding to a 1989 University of Georgia survey said they maintained their purchase patterns for fresh produce, even though they perceived high risks from pesticide residues and desired some assurance of the produce's safety. The apparent contrast between attitudes and behaviors concerning pesticide residues gives confusing signals to food marketers and regulatory policymakers. Researchers at North Carolina State University conducted a consumer survey to gain information on how consumers trade off health risks with price. The researchers found that many consumers were willing to shift to produce that had been tested for residues after they received information about pesticide residues. But their willingness to shift depended on the price difference between the tested and untested produce and their education level.
Wigner crystalization about $ν$=3
Creators: name: Lewis, R. M.
name: Chen, Yong
name: Engel, L. W.
name: Tsui, D. C.
name: Ye, P. D.
name: Pfeiffer, L. N.
name: West, K. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We measure a resonance in the frequency dependence of the real diagonal conductivity, Re[$σ_{xx}$], near integer filling factor, $ν=3$. This resonance depends strongly on $ν$, with peak frequency $f_{pk} \approx 1.7$ GHz at $ν=3.04$ or 2.92 close to integer $ν$, but $f_{pk} \approx$ 600 MHz at $ν=3.19$ or 2.82, the extremes of where the resonance is visible. The dependence of $f_{pk}$ upon $n^*$, the density of electrons in the partially filled level, is discussed and compared with similar measurments by Chen {\it et al.}\cite{yong} about $ν=1$ and 2. We interpret the resonance as due to a pinned Wigner crystal phase with density $n^*$ about the $ν=3$ state.
description: for proceedings of EP2DS-15 (Nara) to appear in Physica E
An information theoretic framework for classifying exoplanetary system architectures
Creators: name: Gilbert, Gregory J.
name: Fabrycky, Daniel C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose several descriptive measures to characterize the arrangements of planetary masses, periods, and mutual inclinations within exoplanetary systems. These measures are based in complexity theory and capture the global, system-level trends of each architecture. Our approach considers all planets in a system simultaneously, facilitating both intra-system and inter-system analysis. We find that based on these measures, Kepler's high-multiplicity ($N\geq3$) systems can be explained if most systems belong to a single intrinsic population, with a subset of high-multiplicity systems ($\sim20\%$) hosting additional, undetected planets intermediate in period between the known planets. We confirm prior findings that planets within a system tend to be roughly the same size and approximately coplanar. We find that forward modeling has not yet reproduced the high degree of spacing similarity (in log-period) actually seen in the Kepler data. Although our classification scheme was developed using compact Kepler multis as a test sample, our methods can be immediately applied to any other population of exoplanetary systems. We apply this classification scheme to (1) quantify the similarity between systems, (2) resolve observational biases from physical trends, and (3) identify which systems to search for additional planets and where to look for these planets.
description: 18 pages, submitted to AJ. Comments welcome
7552: John Emanuel Beveridge, Gordon Highlanders and Labour Corps
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: John Emanuel (Jack) Beveridge was my husband's grandfather. He was born in 1886 and married Ethel Innes Pirie in 1910. He served in the Territorial Force from the date of his attestation, 20/04/1908, until 04/08/1914. From 05/08/1914 he was in the Gordon Highlanders until 22/06/1917 and then from 23/06/1917 to 24/11/1917 in the Labour Corps. He was on foreign service with the British Expeditional Force from 09/09/1914. On 16/05/1915 he was in the 4th Stationary Hospital with Gastritis. He was wounded in action at Mametz Wood, France, on 05/08/1916 with a gunshot wound in the abdomen. He was laid out in the open for two days before going to the Casualty Clearing Station where he was operated on. From there he went via Rouen to Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow and then the Convalescent Home, Johnstone. I have a card, dated, 12/09/1916, from his wife Ethel, addressed to him at Stobhill Hospital. I have a Lord Roberts of Kandahar Medallion that belonged to Jack. This indicates that he was a member of one of the miniature rifle clubs that Lord Roberts set up. I have a Pensions Appeal Tribunal (Assessment) for John Emanuel Beveridge dated 04/02/1924. This gives some details of what happened to him.

I have a Certificate of discharge from the Territorial Army for Sergeant Jack Beveridge. He had enlisted at Bucksburn on 15 February 1921. He was discharged on 14 February 1936 on the termination of engagement.
Food Irradiation Still Faces Hurdles
Creators: name: Morrison, Rosanna Mentzer
name: Morrison, Rosanna Mentzer
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: The 1991 opening of an irradiation plant in Mulberry, Florida, has sparked renewed interest in food irradiation. Unlike the 40 or so existing gamma-irradiation plants in the United States used to sterilize disposable medical supplies and for other industrial uses, the Florida irradiator is the first to specialize in treating food. In January 1992, Vindicator, Inc., shipped an initial 1,000 pints of irradiated strawberries to a Florida grocery store. Packaging the straw-- berries in a high carbon-dioxide atmosphere and irradiating them extended their shelf-life. According to the store owner, the strawberries maintained their fresh appearance and market quality for 22 days instead of the usual 3 to 5 days. The grocery store owner said most customers were indifferent about the irradiation treatment. Most purchased the strawberries labeled "Treated by Irradiation" when the nonirradiated strawberries were more expensive. He said a small number of shoppers refused to buy the irradiated strawberries, while an equal number praised the store for offering irradiated produce. That store, and two others in Ohio and Illinios, sold ir- radiated strawberries and other fruit and vegetables in 1992. As of 1991, 37 countries, including the United States, allow irradiation of specific foods. However, in only about 20 of these countries is food irradiated on a commercial basis— mostly to decontaminate small quantities of spices. Companies in a few countries also irradiate potatoes, onions, poultry, seafood, or grain. According to the American Spice Trade Association, less than 1 percent of U.S. spices are irradiated and used in processed foods. Irradiation has also been used to sterilize food for U.S. cancer patients and astronauts.
title: Hot Compression Behaviour of Two-Phase Ti-6A1-4V: Experiments and State-Variable Modelling
Creators: name: Mulyadi,
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2007

description: The flow stress behaviour of two-phase Ti-6A1-4V and its individual α and β phases has been characterised during isothermal forging at temperatures of 850-1050°C and strain rates of 0.3-0.003/s. The influence of initial pre-form microstructure has also been investigated by heat-treating the as-received globular microstructure to produce an acicular β-transformed microstructure. It is found that flow stress behaviour exhibits a strong dependence on working temperature and imposed strain rate for the two-phase globular, two-phase acicular and single α-phase materials. However, for the single β-phase, steady state stress is found to be relatively constant with increasing temperature for the range of 925-975°C and strain rates of 0.3-0.003/s.

A pronounced discontinuous yielding phenomenon has been observed for globular Ti-6A1-4V at high temperature (≥900°C) and high strain rates (≥0.01/s). On the other hand, for acicular Ti-6A1-4V, flow stress curves reveal a broad peak stress level at low strains followed by moderate to extensive flow softening until a steady-state stress is reached. For the individual phases in Ti-6A1-4V, flow stresses of the single β-phase is found to be much lower than for the α-phase and most of flow stress curves of the β-phase are of a steady-state type with negligible flow softening. There is an indication of initial work hardening behaviour after the onset of plastic deformation at low strains for deformation of single α-phase at 925-950°C and 0.3/s, whilst a pronounced flow softening is exhibited particularly at 975°C and strain rates of 0.03-0.3/s.

A semi-empirical, history-dependent constitutive model for the prediction of the flow behaviour of Ti-6A1-4V which incorporates the temperature-dependent volume fraction and flow properties of the individual α and β phases is presented. It is found that a modified iso-strain approach can be employed in order to better predict the entire flow stress curve of acicular Ti-6Al-4V including the post-peak softening behaviour. This is achieved by introducing structural variable to represent the strain accumulation resulting from gross interaction mechanisms between the α and β phases during deformation.

The structural interaction variable has been linked with microstructure information from deformed cylindrical work-pieces, allowing derivation of a set of microstructure relationships. To provide the basis for more general process simulations, the modified iso-strain model has been implemented as a user-routine in DEFORM-2D finite element software and validated for an isothermal forging of a complex-shape double-truncated cone specimen. Excellent agreement was observed between the predicted forging load and the measured load-displacement data and trends in the evolved microstructure were also well-predicted.
Correlation between characteristic energies in non-s-wave pairing superconductors
Creators: name: Angilella, G. G. N.
name: Leys, F. E.
name: March, N. H.
name: Pucci, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By solution of the Bethe-Goldstone equation for the Cooper pairing problem, an approximate analytic relation is derived between coherence length xi and the binding energy of the Cooper pair. This relation is then qualitatively confirmed by numerically solving the corresponding self-consistent gap equations, following the crossover from weak to strong coupling, in non-s-wave superconductors. The relation applies to non-conventional superconductors, and in particular to heavy Fermions and to high-Tc cuprates. Utilizing in addition a phenomenological link between kB*Tc and a characteristic energy epsilon_c = hbar^2 / 2m^* xi^2, with m^* the effective mass, major differences are exposed in the functional relation between kB*Tc and epsilon_c for s-wave materials and for non-conventional superconductors. The relation between critical temperature and epsilon_c thereby proposed correctly reflects the qualitative properties of heavy Fermion superconductors.
description: Phys. Lett. A (accepted)
Learning to Play Soccer by Reinforcement and Applying Sim-to-Real to Compete in the Real World
Creators: name: Bassani, Hansenclever F.
name: Delgado, Renie A.
name: Junior, Jose Nilton de O. Lima
name: Medeiros, Heitor R.
name: Braga, Pedro H. M.
name: Tapp, Alain
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This work presents an application of Reinforcement Learning (RL) for the complete control of real soccer robots of the IEEE Very Small Size Soccer (VSSS), a traditional league in the Latin American Robotics Competition (LARC). In the VSSS league, two teams of three small robots play against each other. We propose a simulated environment in which continuous or discrete control policies can be trained, and a Sim-to-Real method to allow using the obtained policies to control a robot in the real world. The results show that the learned policies display a broad repertoire of behaviors that are difficult to specify by hand. This approach, called VSSS-RL, was able to beat the human-designed policy for the striker of the team ranked 3rd place in the 2018 LARC, in 1-vs-1 matches.
Measuring Dark Matter at Colliders
Creators: name: Birkedal, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the need and prospects for measuring dark matter properties at particle collider experiments. We discuss the connections between the inferred properties of particle dark matter and the physics that is expected to be uncovered by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the International Linear Collider (ILC) and motivate the necessity of measuring detailed dark matter properties at a collider. We then investigate a model-independent signature of dark matter at a collider and discuss its observability. We next examine the prospects for making precise measurements of dark matter properties using two example points in minimal supergravity (mSUGRA) parameter space. One of the primary difficulties encountered in such measurements is lack of constraint on the masses of unobservable heavy states. We discuss a new method for experimentally deriving estimates for such heavy masses and then conclude.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures; Plenary talk given at PASCOS 05, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea, June 2005
Irradiation of U.S. Poultry Benefits, Costs, and Export Potential
Creators: name: Morrison, Rosanna Mentzer
name: Roberts, Tanya
name: Witucki, Lawrence
name: Morrison, Rosanna Mentzer
name: Roberts, Tanya
name: Witucki, Lawrence
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
Livestock Production/Industries
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: Along with the potential to give perishable food products a longer shelf-life and to substitute for chemical fumigants, irradiation may offer consumers safer poultry by destroying microbial pathogens which cause foodborne illnesses. Last fall, USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) approved irradiation of uncooked poultry to control bacteria that cause diseases, such as salmonellosis and campylobacteriosis. Each year, about 4 million Americans contract these diseases primarily from foods, and suffer a variety of symptoms ranging from diarrhea and vomiting to blood poisoning. These diseases can be especially serious for the very young, the elderly, and people with compromised immune systems. Although irradiation of poultry could reduce the number of foodborne illnesses caused by eating undercooked or improperly handled chicken or turkey, producers will not use the technology until they believe that consumers will buy irradiated poultry. But, poultry producers' interest in irradiation is mixed. The Na- tional Broiler Council says it is neutral toward irradiation—that commercial viability depends on consumer acceptance. The National Turkey Federation favors experimentation with irradiation to determine public acceptance. The USA Poultry and Egg Export Council favors offering irradiated poultry products in export markets.
Critical properties of a continuous family of XY noncollinear magnets
Creators: name: Peles, A.
name: Southern, B. W.
name: Delamotte, B.
name: Mouhanna, D.
name: Tissier, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Monte Carlo methods are used to study a family of three dimensional XY frustrated models interpolating continuously between the stacked triangular antiferromagnets and a variant of this model for which a local rigidity constraint is imposed. Our study leads us to conclude that generically weak first order behavior occurs in this family of models in agreement with a recent nonperturbative renormalization group description of frustrated magnets.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, minor changes, published version