cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Free to Play: An Analysis in Aesthetic, Ethical, and Religious Movements
Creators: Ohaneson, Heather C.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Religion--Philosophy
Theology

description: In this dissertation, I investigate five forms of play with reference to freedom and constraint in order first to ascertain what relationship holds between play and liberty and then to see how the activity of play - and the attitude of playfulness - might contribute to a full and flourishing human life. To do so, I turn to an interdisciplinary set of figures, including Erik Erikson, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Blaise Pascal, Plato, and the contemporary scholars of improvisation Gary Peters and Danielle Goldman. It is my contention that the dialectical interrelation of liberty and limitation constitutes the essence of play and that the free engagement of constraints is a proper feature of eudaimonistic ethics. Instead of being regarded as a dispensable disposition, then, playfulness should be upheld alongside traditional virtues as a trait worthy of deliberate cultivation in adulthood. Seeking to enact the claim that boundaries give rise to expansive possibility, I provide a firm structure for this study and organize my analysis according to Søren Kierkegaard's conceptions of the aesthetic, ethical, and religious spheres of existence. Liberty and limitation appear differently under each of these categories. Further, their forms change depending on whether they are viewed in light of children's play, videogames, gambling, puppetry, or improvisation, the iterations of play and playful identity under consideration in this study. Learning about the apprehension, negotiation, and appreciation of boundaries that occurs in play grants us a more nuanced understanding of play as a fundamental component of a good life. At the same time, this project affords the chance to reconsider the nature of freedom and constraint, and to reimagine what it means to be at liberty.
Kaluza--Klein gravity & cosmology emerging from G. Perelman's entropy functionals and quantum geometric information flows
Creators: name: Bubuianu, Iuliana
name: Vacaru, Sergiu I.
name: Veliev, Elsen Veli
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 53C44, 53C50, 53C80, 81P45, 83C15, 83C55, 83C99, 83D99, 35Q75, 37J60, 37D35

description: We elaborate on quantum geometric information flows, QGIFs, and emergent (modified) Einstein-Maxwell and Kaluza-Klein, KK, theories formulated in Lagrange-Hamilton and general covariant variables. There are considered nonholonomic deformations of Grigory Perelman's F- and W-functionals (originally postulated for Riemannian metrics) for describing relativistic geometric flows, gravity and matter field interactions, and associated statistical thermodynamic systems. We argue that the concept of Perelman W-entropy presents more general and alternative possibilities to characterize geometric flow evolution, GIF, and gravity models than the Bekenstein-Hawking and another area-holographic type entropies. Formulating the theory of QGIFs, a set of fundamental geometric, probability, and quantum concepts, and methods of computation, are reconsidered for curved spacetime and (relativistic) phase spaces. Such generalized metric-affine spaces are modeled as nonholonomic Lorentz manifolds, (co) tangent Lorentz bundles, and associated vector bundles. Using geometric and entropic and thermodynamic values, we define QGIF versions of the von Neumann entropy, relative and conditional entropy, mutual information, etc. There are analyzed certain important inequalities and possible applications of G. Perelman and related entanglement and Rényi entropies to theories of KK QGIFs and emergent gravitational and electromagnetic interactions. New classes of exact cosmological solutions for GIFs and respective quasiperiodic evolution scenarios are elaborated. We show how classical and quantum thermodynamic values can be computed for cosmological quasiperiodic solutions and speculate how such constructions can be used for explaining structure formation in dark energy and dark matter physics.
description: latex2e 11pt, v4 on 43 pages, with minor modifications requested by the referee, version accepted by EPJP
Freedom From Domination: A Foucauldian Account of Power, Subject Formation, and the Need for Recognition
Creators: McIntyre, Katharine Mangano
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Power (Philosophy)
subject: Political ethics
subject: Power (Social sciences)--Philosophy
subject: Political science--Philosophy
subject: Social sciences--Philosophy
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: This dissertation seeks a concept of freedom that is compatible with Michel Foucault’s descriptions of power and its role in the constitution of the subject. Discovering the concept of freedom that properly opposes the Foucauldian concept of domination reveals the possibilities and limitations of the usefulness of Foucault’s account of power for social criticism. The first step in this endeavor is therefore to distinguish between Foucault's own use of the terms 'power' and 'domination' – the conflation of which is a source of criticism of his social theory. With this distinction in hand, I argue that Foucault’s genealogical period with its diagnosis of subjection is wholly compatible with, and indeed inseparable from, his ethical period with its emphasis on self-transformation. Read as two sides of a coin, these periods of Foucault’s work establish the terms in which we must understand the ethico-political struggle in which we constantly find ourselves as subjects of self-transformation embedded in identity-constituting relations of power. I then explore Foucault’s criticism of the modern concept of autonomy, which he believes to be inherited from the Enlightenment and, more specifically, Kant. In spite of these criticisms, Foucault does not dispense with the concept of freedom as autonomy altogether, but instead must embrace a concept of social freedom, similar to that which is found in contemporary recognition theory. Therefore, we should characterize Foucault’s normative stance as that of a coupling of a general concept of social freedom with what I call a "metaethico-political openness principle" committing us to acts of resistance that would attempt to push the boundaries of recognition so that we may affirm previously unimagined ways of life.
title: The effects of a motivational interview intervention on people with Type II Diabetes in Taiwan - A randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Chen, Shu-Ming
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: type II diabetes
subject: type 2 diabetes
subject: Taiwan
subject: diabetes self-management
subject: Motivational Interview
subject: MI
subject: diabetes control

description: Type II diabetes is a serious problem in Taiwan. The prevalence of Type II diabetes in the whole population is between 5 to 10% and 11% in people over 45 years of age. Diabetes is the fifth leading cause of death, and care costs are 4.3 times higher than for people without diabetes. Self-management is the cornerstone of diabetes control. Failure to motivate or empower people to self-manage their diabetic condition has been identified as an important issue in research literature. Developing effective and efficient strategies to promote self-management of diabetes is important in order to prevent serious complications. The aim of the present study was to determine whether participation in a Motivational Interview (MI) by Taiwanese people with Type II diabetes would improve their self-management and well being. This three phase RCT included a small qualitative component. The sample was made up of 286 people from a large tertiary teaching hospital in Southern Taiwan. Participants were randomly allocated into either the MI group or the usual care group. Phase I provided baseline measures, phase II the intervention and phase III involved re-testing to establish the effectiveness of the intervention at three months follow-up. Content of the interview was modified according to an assessment of participant’s Stage of Change; an approach underpinned by the Transtheoretical Model (TTM). The Motivational Interview (MI) encompassed a variety of interviewing and counselling techniques and information sharing. The control group was provided with usual care that included diabetes educational sessions and attendance at a Diabetes Club provided by hospital nursing staff...
title: Der Tag, an dem ich Engels begegnete
Creators: name: Uhl, Katja
name: Rhefus, Reiner
name: Schulz, Hermann
name: Gibiec, Christiane
name: Fülberth, Georg
Publisher: name: Bergische Universität Wuppertal
Year: 2021

description: Ein Projekt kreativen Schreibens zum 200. Geburtstag von Friedrich Engels. – Texte, Theorien, Methoden –
Freedom From Domestic Violence as a Human Right: Evaluation of the use of the Due Diligence Standard within Local Contexts across the United States
Creators: Houchins, Kristina B.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Family violence--Law and legislation
subject: Criminal investigation
subject: Human rights
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: Following the Inter-American Commission’s decision against the United States in the case Gonzales v. U.S. and the issuance of the Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women’s country report on the United States detailing systemic faults in the way the country treats victims of domestic violence, localities across the country sought to alter their own approach towards domestic violence by issuing local resolutions that proclaim freedom from domestic violence as a human right. As the due diligence standard has reached the standing of customary international law, these resolutions should detail specific means of abiding by the due diligence framework and fully encompass the core principles of the standard. Upon analysis, while the majority of the resolutions adequately address means of preventing incidences of domestic violence from occurring and ways localities are protecting victims, they do not consistently provide specific guidelines detailing local commitments for the standards of investigation and punishment for incidences of domestic violence, accountability mechanisms for perpetrators and state officials, or appropriate remedies for victims. In order to fully encompass the due diligence standard, localities could potentially look to utilize model language contained in the Council of Europe’s Istanbul Convention on the Action Against Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence which clearly covers each of the core areas of the due diligence standard thoroughly.
Additional file 1: of Label-free and washing-free alkaline phosphatase assay using a personal glucose meter
Creators: name: Ahn, Jun Ki
name: Kim, Hyo Yong
name: Lee, Chang Yeol
name: Park, Ki Soo
name: Park, Hyun Gyu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Table S1. Summary of the previously reported ALP assay methods. Figure S1. Optimization of (a) ATP concentration and (b) ALP reaction time. P0 and P are defined as PGM signals in the absence and presence of ALP (200â U/L), respectively. (DOCX 191 kb)
title: Heavy Metal Bioremediation by Anaerobic-Thermophilic Bacteria from the Great Artesian Basin
Creators: name: Alonaizi, Thnayan
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Bioremediation
subject: Great Artesian Basin
subject: Heavy metals
subject: Bacteria

description: Bioremediation is considered an effective environmental remedial strategy when compared with physical and chemical techniques. Microorganisms can remove and detoxify pollutants by transforming or degrading them. A large portion of these toxic pollutants are heavy metals that are present naturally or due to anthropogenic activities. Bacteria inhabiting areas that have high levels of heavy metals have adapted to resist and reduce these pollutants. In the current, study heavy metal transforming bacteria have been isolated, characterised and investigated for bioremediation and biodegradation capabilities. The Great Artesian Basin (GAB) in Australia is a unique thermal site that harbours diverse microbial communities. Anaerobic and facultative anaerobic, thermophilic and thermotolerant bacteria were isolated from groundwaters and run-off waters from the GAB region. A total of 6 bacteria were isolated and identified as belonging to Anoxybacillus, Thermobrachium, Caloramator, and Virgibacillus genera using the 16S rRNA. Heavy metal reduction capacity was tested on all of the isolates. Strain VY was best at reducing vanadium(V), up to 10mM. Strain COY reduced up to 8 mM of cobalt(III). Strain SEY showed the most significant reduction of selenium(III). Strain FEY had the highest extent of iron(III) reduction. Strains CRG and CRL could reduce chromium(VI) most efficiently. Additional tests were done to fortify the selection of an optimal candidate for heavy metal bioremediation. These tests included biosurfactant production, for which all strains exhibited at least a 32% reduction in surface tension after 24 hours. The second test was biofilm formation where strains SEY and CRG performed best forming a medium rated biofilm under aerobic conditions but a poor biofilm under anaerobic conditions. A third test was to measure the chemotactic ability of the strains and strain SEY demonstrated the ability to possess a chemical attraction towards iron(III). From the characterisation tests and regarding bioremediation potential, strain SEY, an Anoxybacillus sp., was the most promising. This isolate had improved vanadium(V) and iron(III) reduction rates of over 50% in co-cultivation symbiosis tests with strains CRL and FEY, respectively.
On the descriptive power of Neural-Networks as constrained Tensor Networks with exponentially large bond dimension
Creators: name: Collura, Mario
name: Dell'Anna, Luca
name: Felser, Timo
name: Montangero, Simone
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In many cases, Neural networks can be mapped into tensor networks with an exponentially large bond dimension. Here, we compare different sub-classes of neural network states, with their mapped tensor network counterpart for studying the ground state of short-range Hamiltonians. We show that when mapping a neural network, the resulting tensor network is highly constrained and thus the neural network states do in general not deliver the naive expected drastic improvement against the state-of-the-art tensor network methods. We explicitly show this result in two paradigmatic examples, the 1D ferromagnetic Ising model and the 2D antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model, addressing the lack of a detailed comparison of the expressiveness of these increasingly popular, variational ansätze.
description: 18 pages, 8 figures
MOESM1 of Role of iPSC-derived pericytes on barrier function of iPSC-derived brain microvascular endothelial cells in 2D and 3D
Creators: name: Jamieson, John
name: Linville, Raleigh
name: Ding, Yuan
name: Gerecht, Sharon
name: Searson, Peter
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Antibodies used in this study. Figure S1. Comparison of dhPC to primary human pericytes. Figure S2. Effect of ROCK inhibitor on dhBMEC seeding. Figure S3. Barrier function of dhBMEC monolayers on transwells in non-contact co-culture with dhPCs or dhPC-conditioned media. Figure S4. Effect of conditioned media on dhBMEC barrier function and TJs. Figure S5. RT-qPCR analysis of tight junction gene expression in 2D direct contact co-cultures. Figure S6. Immunofluorescent staining of dhPC derived from the C12-RFP line for established pericyte and mural cell markers. Figure S7. Baseline TEER for transwell membrane, transwell membrane with collagen I gel, or transwell membrane with PC-embedded collagen I gel. Figure S8. Viability of dhPC embedded in collagen-1 gels.
Diffusion and localization in chaotic billiards
Creators: name: Borgonovi, Fausto
name: Casati, Giulio
name: Li, Baowen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study analytically and numerically the classical diffusive process which takes place in a chaotic billiard. This allows to estimate the conditions under which the statistical properties of eigenvalues and eigenfunctions can be described by Random Matrix Theory. In particular the phenomenon of quantum dynamical localization should be observable in real experiments.
description: 5 latex pages + 5 ps figures, accepted by PRL
Freeing the Invisible Hand: The Unexpected Consequences of Land Deregulation in Querétaro, Mexico
Creators: Casar Rodriguez, Jorge
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Deregulation--Economic aspects
Land use, Urban--Government policy
City planning
Land use--Planning
Public policy (Law)

description: The purpose of this thesis is to study the relationship between the evolution and sudden shifts in broader political economy, and the physical transformation of cities in Mexico. This research relies on the city of Querétaro, a case study of uneven urban expansion. The research design consists of an in-depth analysis of historical land use data, as well as municipal documentation and Federal census data, to study the effects that land use deregulation has had on the form of the city. The findings show that, in recent years, the city has seen the proliferation of  both informal settlements and private, gated subdivisions on formerly regulated land.
Plane curves and their fundamental groups: Generalizations of Uludag's construction
Creators: name: Garber, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14H30, 20E22,20F16,20F18

description: In this paper we investigate Uludag's method for constructing new curves whose fundamental groups are central extensions of the fundamental group of the original curve by finite cyclic groups. In the first part, we give some generalizations to his method in order to get new families of curves with controlled fundamental groups. In the second part, we discuss some properties of groups which are preserved by these methods. Afterwards, we describe precisely the families of curves which can be obtained by applying the generalized methods to several types of plane curves. We also give an application of the general methods for constructing new Zariski pairs.
description: Published by Algebraic and Geometric Topology at http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/agt/AGTVol3/agt-3-21.abs.html
MOESM1 of Cardiovascular risk reduction with once-weekly semaglutide in subjects with type 2 diabetes: a post hoc analysis of gender, age, and baseline CV risk profile in the SUSTAIN 6 trial
Creators: name: Leiter, Lawrence
name: Bain, Stephen
name: Hramiak, Irene
name: Jรณdar, Esteban
name: Madsbad, Sten
name: Gondolf, Theis
name: Hansen, Thomas
name: Holst, Ingrid
name: Lingvay, Ildiko
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1. Age regression analyses.
Spin-chirality-driven second-harmonic generation in two-dimensional magnet CrSBr
Creators: name: Wu, Dezhao
name: Xu, Yong
name: Ye, Meng
name: Duan, Wenhui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The interplay between magnetism and light can create abundant optical phenomena. Here, we demonstrate the emergence of an unconventional magnetization-induced second-harmonic generation (MSHG) stemming from vector spin chirality, denoted as chiral second-harmonic generation (SHG). Taking the antiferromagnetic (AFM) CrSBr bilayer as a prototype, we theoretically show that, via spin canting, the chiral SHG can be continuously tuned from zero to a value one order of magnitude larger than its intrinsic MSHG. Chiral SHG is found to be proportional to spin chirality and spin-canting-induced electric polarization, while intrinsic MSHG is proportional to the Néel vector, demonstrating their different physical mechanisms. Additionally, we reveal a unique interference effect between these two types of MSHG under the reversal of spin-canting direction, generating a giant modulation of SHG signals. Our work not only uncovers a unique SHG with exceptional tunability but also promotes the applications of AFM optical devices and magnetoelectric detection techniques.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures
Fusionize++: Improving Serverless Application Performance Using Dynamic Task Inlining and Infrastructure Optimization
Creators: name: Schirmer, Trever
name: Scheuner, Joel
name: Pfandzelter, Tobias
name: Bermbach, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) execution model increases developer productivity by removing operational concerns such as managing hardware or software runtimes. Developers, however, still need to partition their applications into FaaS functions, which is error-prone and complex: Encapsulating only the smallest logical unit of an application as a FaaS function maximizes flexibility and reusability. Yet, it also leads to invocation overheads, additional cold starts, and may increase cost due to double billing during synchronous invocations. Conversely, deploying an entire application as a single FaaS function avoids these overheads but decreases flexibility. In this paper we present Fusionize, a framework that automates optimizing for this trade-off by automatically fusing application code into an optimized multi-function composition. Developers only need to write fine-grained application code following the serverless model, while Fusionize automatically fuses different parts of the application into FaaS functions, manages their interactions, and configures the underlying infrastructure. At runtime, it monitors application performance and adapts it to minimize request-response latency and costs. Real-world use cases show that Fusionize can improve the deployment artifacts of the application, reducing both median request-response latency and cost of an example IoT application by more than 35%.
description: Author copy of article accepted in IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing with DOI 10.1109/TCC.2024.3451108
Integrable and proper actions on C*-algebras, and square-integrable representations of groups
Creators: name: Rieffel, Marc A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 22D10, 46L55 (Primary), 54H20 (Secondary)

description: We propose a definition of what should be meant by a {\it proper} action of a locally compact group on a C*-algebra. We show that when the C*-algebra is commutative this definition exactly captures the usual notion of a proper action on a locally compact space. We then discuss how one might define a {\it generalized fixed-point algebra}. The goal is to show that the generalized fixed-point algebra is strongly Morita equivalent to an ideal in the crossed product algebra, as happens in the commutative case. We show that one candidate gives the desired algebra when the C*-algebra is commutative. But very recently Exel has shown that this candidate is too big in general. Finally, we consider in detail the application of these ideas to actions of a locally compact group on the algebra of compact operators (necessarily coming from unitary representations), and show that this gives an attractive view of the subject of square-integrable representations.
description: 49 pages, AMSTEX. Major changes made to the discussion of generalized fixed-point algebras, to reflect discoveries by Exel described in math.OA/9904094
Experimental demonstration of a gravitational wave detector configuration below the shot noise limit
Creators: name: McKenzie, K
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2002
Subjects: Gravitational wave detection
Interferometry.

description: Unprecedented sensitivity of measurement is required to detect gravitational waves. Although the first generation of interferometric gravitational wave detectors are the most sensitive devices ever built, it is expected they will not be sensitive enough to regularly detect gravitational waves. The precision of the optical measurement used in gravitational wave detectors is ultimately limited by the quantum mechanical fluctuations of the light, called quantumnoise. The first generation of interferometric gravitational wave detectors have reached the quantum noise limit at some frequencies. Second generation interferometric gravitational wave detectors are expected to be limited by quantum noise across most of the detection frequency band. This thesis presents the first experimental demonstration of a gravitational wave detector configuration with sensitivity below the quantum noise limit. The configuration demonstrated is a power recycled Michelson interferometer with the addition of squeezed light. The control of the configuration and the method for injection of squeezed light are compatible with current gravitational wave detectors. A model for the configuration is derived using linearized operators for the optical fields. The results obtained demonstrate the improvement below the shot noise limit using squeezed light, and the interaction of power recycling with squeezed light is investigated. The predictions made using the model show excellent agrement with the experimental results. The entire system maintains stable lock for long periods.
All-electron quantum Monte Carlo with Jastrow single determinant Ansatz: application to the sodium dimer
Creators: name: Nakano, Kousuke
name: Maezono, Ryo
name: Sorella, Sandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we report potential energy surfaces (PESs) of the sodium dimer calculated by variational (VMC) and lattice regularized diffusion Monte Carlo (LRDMC). The VMC calculation is accurate for determining the equilibrium distance and the qualitative shape of the experimental PES. Remarkably, after the application of the LRDMC projection to this single determinant ansatz, namely the Jastrow Antisymmetrized Geminal Product (JAGP), chemical accuracy (~ 1kcal/mol) is reached, and the obtained dissociation energy, equilibrium internuclear distance, and harmonic vibrational frequency are in very good agreement with the experimental ones. This outcome crucially depends on the quality of the optimization used to determine the best possible trial function within the chosen ansatz. The strategy adopted in this work is to minimize the variational energy by initializing the trial function with the DFT single determinant ansatz expanded exactly in the same atomic basis used for the corresponding VMC and LRDMC calculations. This atomic basis is ad-hoc reshaped for QMC calculations. Indeed, we multiply the standard Gaussian type atomic orbitals by a one-body Jastrow factor, satisfying in this way the electron-ion cusp conditions. This allows us to use a very small basis almost converged in the complete basis set limit, by reducing the computational effort as well as the statistical fluctuations on the total energy. In order to achieve these important advantages, we have defined a very efficient DFT algorithm in the mentioned basis, by estimating the corresponding matrix elements on a mesh, and by using a much finer mesh grid in the vicinity of nuclei.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures, 5 tables
Freedom of Expression in Israel and the Place of Different Narratives in the Israeli Discourse
Creators: Levy, Yoni
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Freedom of expression
subject: Arab-Israeli conflict
subject: Civil society
subject: Human rights
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: International relations
subject: Peace

description: Free speech is intrinsically important as a human right, but it also works as an umbrella to protect all other rights. Every democratic state must respect freedom of expression, while simultaneously establishing appropriate limitations. In Israel, free speech has become essential and a fundamental right. Its limitations are legitimated only in a tangible danger to national security or direct incitement to racism. However, despite the parliamentary and judiciary defense of freedom of expression, the government has found ways to limit free speech. It is often unclear how governments do that; a deeper analysis indicates that the Israeli government uses laws and sanctions to limit certain narratives related to the Israel-Palestine conflict. In this thesis, evidence and case studies demonstrate how freedom of expression is limited in Israel, in both written law and its practice. The national policy related to free speech consists of restrictions to different narratives related to the conflict, including the Palestinian narrative and the collective memory, known as “Nakba”. This research shows the difficulty in the promotion of understanding and peace when the national discourse omits other such perspectives. At the core of the Israel-Palestine conflict are differences between two extreme and opposing views. There is not only a physical wall dividing the two societies, but also a mindset that prevents them from engaging in negotiations with each other. Recognizing each of the other's opposing narratives and demands is therefore the first step towards peace, reiterating the necessity of freedom of expression.
Additional file 2: of A computational method to aid the design and analysis of single cell RNA-seq experiments for cell type identification
Creators: name: Abrams, Douglas
name: Kumar, Parveen
name: R. Karuturi
name: Joshy George
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Performance of different single cell algorithms at different cell proportions. F1score was calculated at cell rarity proportions of 0.02, 0.05 and 0.1 containing 8 foldchange upregulated marker genes for 1000, 2000 and 3000 single cells datasets. X-axis represents the cell rarity proportions while y-axis represents F1score. (PDF 5 kb)
Geometry of dynamics, Lyapunov exponents and phase transitions
Creators: name: Caiani, Lando
name: Casetti, Lapo
name: Clementi, Cecilia
name: Pettini, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Hamiltonian dynamics of classical planar Heisenberg model is numerically investigated in two and three dimensions. By considering the dynamics as a geodesic flow on a suitable Riemannian manifold, it is possible to analytically estimate the largest Lyapunov exponent in terms of some curvature fluctuations. The agreement between numerical and analytical values for Lyapunov exponents is very good in a wide range of temperatures. Moreover, in the three dimensional case, in correspondence with the second order phase transition, the curvature fluctuations exibit a singular behaviour which is reproduced in an abstract geometric model suggesting that the phase transition might correspond to a change in the topology of the manifold whose geodesics are the motions of the system.
description: REVTeX, 10 pages, 5 PostScript figures, published version
Nonstatic Reissner-Nordström metric in the perturbative $f(R)$ theory: Embedding in the background of the FLRW cosmology, uniqueness of solutions, the TOV equation
Creators: name: Van Ky, Pham
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This article introduces a nonstatic Reissner-Nordström metric, a metric that does not emit electromagnetic waves but can emit gravitational waves. We first use the GR theory to study a charged spherically symmetric gravitational source (CSSGS), the obtained results are further improved in comparison with the previous studies. In particular, this article considers that the field is not necessarily static. The metric tensors $ g_{μν} $ are considered both outside and inside the gravitational source (the results show that in the first case $ g_{μν} $ are time independent, in the latter case they are time dependent). The gravitational acceleration and the event horizon of a charged black hole are investigated. The results prove that the gravitational field is always attractive. We then use the perturbative $ f(R) $ theory to consider CSSGS. The obtained results not only correct the solution of Einstein's equation in magnitude (this will describe astronomical and cosmological quantities more accurately than Einstein's equation), but also reveal new effects. Outside the gravitational source, the metric tensors can depend on time, this makes it possible for a spherically symmetric gravitational source to emit gravitational waves (Einstein's equation cannot give this effect). However, a spherically symmetric field still does not emit electromagnetic waves. Next we present a new method for embedding the spherically symmetric metrics of a star (or a black hole) in the background of the FLRW cosmological. Finally, we discuss the uniqueness of the solutions of the f(R) theory. The perturbative TOV equation is also found.
A Monte Carlo Renormalization Group Approach to the Bak-Sneppen model
Creators: name: Mikeska, Bernhard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A recent renormalization group approach to a modified Bak-Sneppen model is discussed. We propose a self-consistency condition for the blocking scheme to be essential for a successful RG-method applied to self-organized criticality. A new method realizing the RG-approach to the Bak-Sneppen model is presented. It is based on the Monte-Carlo importance sampling idea. The new technique performs much faster than the original proposal. Using this technique we cross-check and improve previous results.
description: 11 pages, REVTex, 2 Postscript figures included
Effect of discrete breathers on the specific heat of a nonlinear chain
Creators: name: Singh, Mohit
name: Morkina, Alina Y.
name: Korznikova, Elena A.
name: Dubinko, Volodymyr I.
name: Terentiev, Dmitry A.
name: Xiong, Daxing
name: Naimark, Oleg B.
name: Gani, Vakhid A.
name: Dmitriev, Sergey V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 37Mxx, 65P10, 65P40

description: A nonlinear chain with six-order polynomial on-site potential is used to analyze the evolution of the total to kinetic energy ratio during development of modulational instability of extended nonlinear vibrational modes. For the on-site potential of hard-type (soft-type) anharmonicity, the instability of $q=π$ mode ($q=0$ mode) results in the appearance of long-living discrete breathers (DBs) that gradually radiate their energy and eventually the system approaches thermal equilibrium with spatially uniform and temporally constant temperature. In the hard-type (soft-type) anharmonicity case, the total to kinetic energy ratio is minimal (maximal) in the regime of maximal energy localization by DBs. It is concluded that DBs affect specific heat of the nonlinear chain and for the case of hard-type (soft-type) anharmonicity they reduce (increase) the specific heat.
description: 32 pages, 11 figures; v2: major revision; matches the published version
Additional file 1 of Staphylococcus aureus mediates pyroptosis in bovine mammary epithelial cell via activation of NLRP3 inflammasome
Creators: name: Wang, Xiaozhou
name: Liu, Mingchao
name: Geng, Na
name: Du, Yongzhen
name: Li, Zhaoming
name: Gao, Xin
name: Han, Bo
name: Liu, Jianzhu
name: Liu, Yongxia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1. Peptide sequence used for antibody preparation.
On Multi-color partitions and the generalized Rogers-Ramanujan identities
Creators: name: Jing, Naihuan
name: Misra, Kailash
name: Savage, Carla
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Basil Gordon, in the sixties, and George Andrews, in the seventies, generalized the Rogers-Ramanujan identities to higher moduli. These identities arise in many areas of mathematics and mathematical physics. One of these areas is representation theory of infinite dimensional Lie algebras, where various known interpretations of these identities have led to interesting applications. Motivated by their connections with Lie algebra representation theory, we give a new interpretation of a sum related to generalized Rogers-Ramanujan identities in terms of multi-color partitions.
description: Latex, expanded revision
FORMATION AND CHARACTERISATION OF NANOCRYSTALLINE COPPER IN AMORPHOUS SILICA
Creators: name: Johannessen, Bernt
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2003
Subjects: Materials science
Nanocrystalline copper

description: Samples were prepared by high-energy implantation of Cu ions into a SiO_2 (5μm)/Si (substrate) matrix. Cu ions were implanted to a nominal dose of 1×10^16 - 3×10^17 /cm^2 at a sequential beam energy of 5000 - 800 keV and at a current density of ~5 μA/cm2. Implantation was carried out at LN2 temperature in a vacuum of < 10^-7 Torr. Nucleation and growth was induced by subsequential anneals in 5%H_2+95%N_2 (forming gas) for one hour at 500, 800, and 1100C. Determination of the nanocrystal structure and morphology within the silica film was accomplished by correlating results from X-Ray Diffraction (XRD), Rutherford Backscattering Spectroscopy (RBS), Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) and Extended X-ray Absorption Fine Structure (EXAFS). Results show that a mean dose of 1×10^16 /cm2 tends to form a significant fraction of Cu-O bonds at all annealing temperatures, except 1100C at which most Cu evaporates from the SiO_2 film. Oxides are also apparent in the as-implanted and 500C annealed sample of dose 3×10^16 /cm2. All higher anneals and doses readily formed Cu nanocrystals. In particular a dose of 3×10^17 /cm^2 showed similar EXAFS to that of a bulk Cu standard largely independent of temperature, while 1×10^17 cm^2 exhibited a crystalline size growth with increasing temperature. TEM displayed the nanocrystal size distribution, while XRD and in particular EXAFS data verified a mean nanocrystal size growth with dose as well as annealing temperature. The latter exemplified by an increase in co-ordination number. Further, EXAFS showed the bond length remained constant for all samples, except 1×10^16 /cm2 possibly due to oxides, at all annealing temperatures. The bond length was found to be distinctively longer than that for a bulk Cu standard.
title: Novel Local Search Methods for Satisfiability
Creators: name: Cai, Shaowei
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Boolean Satisfiability Problem (SAT)
subject: Stochastic Local Search (SLS)
subject: Configuration checking (CC) for SAT

description: The Boolean Satisfiability Problem (SAT) is a prototypical NP-complete problem, and is central in computer science and artificial intelligence. Given a formula over a set of Boolean variables, the SAT problem tests whether an interpretation that satisfies the formula exists. Stochastic Local Search (SLS) is a simple but effective approach to SAT. In this thesis, we proposed new SLS techniques for SAT solving and developed new SLS algorithms. Using empirical evaluations, we showed that at the time they were designed our algorithms performed better than the existing state-of-the-art solvers. Moreover, our algorithms have been established as the latest state-of-the-art algorithms for several types of instances. The first idea is configuration checking (CC) for SAT. A typical CC technique is to forbid flipping a variable if since the last time it was flipped, none of its neighbouring variables has been flipped. Based on this strategy, we developed several solvers, including Swcca and CCAnr. In particular, CCAnr performed very well on crafted instances, and a hybrid solver CCAnr+glucose won the silver prize of Hard-combinatorial track in SAT Competition 2014. The second idea is the notion of multilevel properties which consider the satisfaction degree of clauses. Using the CC strategy and the second level score, we developed the CCASat solver, which won the 2012 SAT Challenge random track. We also proposed several new scoring functions, which were used to design CScoreSAT and HScoreSAT. These two solvers are particularly efficient in solving random SAT instances with long clauses, and show one to two orders of magnitude improvement than previous solvers. Thirdly, we proposed a linear make function for tie-breaking in the famous algorithm WalkSAT, leading to the WalkSATlm algorithm. Our experiments demonstrate that WalkSATlm improves WalkSAT by orders of magnitudes on random k-SAT instances with k > 3.
Additional file 1: of A computational method to aid the design and analysis of single cell RNA-seq experiments for cell type identification
Creators: name: Abrams, Douglas
name: Kumar, Parveen
name: R. Karuturi
name: Joshy George
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Performance of different single cell algorithms at different cell proportions. F1score was calculated at cell rarity proportions of 0.02, 0.05 and 0.1 containing 4 foldchange upregulated marker genes for 1000, 2000 and 3000 single cells datasets. X-axis represents the cell rarity proportions while y-axis represents F1score. (PDF 5 kb)
The atomic waveplate
Creators: name: Kuffner, Peter
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2003
Subjects: Atom optics
Bose-Einstein condensation
Atom laser

description: In this thesis, we theoretically model the behaviour of atoms outcoupled from an atom laser passing through an RF resonance. Within the Landau-Zener formalism, we find a range for the Rabi frequency of the RF field, inside of which dynamical spin transitions occur. We find that atoms exiting the resonance region exhibit symmetric transition into trapped and untrapped spin states. A further numerical model, within the mean field approximation, is performed for an atomic pulse from an atom laser passing through the resonance. The extra coupling between states introduced by the spatial extent of the pulse causes a spread in the momentum of trapped and anti-trapped states that atoms are coupled into within the resonance. An experimental setup for the manipulation of the atomic spin states with an RF field is investigated and designed. The implications of these results is discussed regarding the design of a pumped atom laser using continuous RF evaporation.
Experimental verification of time-order-dependent correlations in three-qubit Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger-class states
Creators: name: Barasiński, Artur
name: Černoch, Antonín
name: Lemr, Karel
name: Soubusta, Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we investigate the genuine three-way nonlocality which is recognized as the strongest form of tripartite correlations. We consider theoretically and experimentally a series of suitable Bell-type inequalities a violation of which is sufficient for the detection of three-way nonlocality. For the generalized GHZ (gGHZ) states, it is demonstrated that they do violate tripartite Bell-type inequalities for any degree of tripartite entanglement even if they do not violate Svetlichny inequality. It implies that three-way entangled gGHZ can always exhibit genuine three-way nonlocality under the requirement of time-order-dependent principle. Furthermore, we have determined the maximal amount of noise admissible for the gGHZ states to still remain genuine three-way nonlocal.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures
On the existence of a new type of periodic and quasi-periodic orbits for twist maps of the torus
Creators: name: Zanata, S Addas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37E40, 37E45

description: We prove that for a large and important class of $C^1$ twist maps of the torus periodic and quasi-periodic orbits of a new type exist, provided that there are no rotational invariant circles (R.I.C's). These orbits have a non-zero ''vertical rotation number'' (V.R.N.), in contrast to what happens to Birkhoff periodic orbits and Aubry-Mather sets. The V.R.N. is rational for a periodic orbit and irrational for a quasi-periodic. We also prove that the existence of an orbit with a $V.R.N=a>0,$ implies the existence of orbits with $V.R.N=b,$ for all $0
description: 20 pages. to appear in Nonlinearity 15(5) 1399-1416