cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
‘On sovereign ground’: the politics of everyday life : Kachin at the Thai-Burma border
Creators: name: Rickson, Joseph R.
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: The movement of people and their social organisation across nation-state and cultural borders is a primary research focus of contemporary anthropology. My thesis which centres on this general concern focuses on how state control over territory and people is exercised in local settlement areas wherein specific ethnic groups are moving across real or imagined borders, and on how local and state relations are articulated and negotiated. With particular focus on the Kachin at the Thai-Burma border, the thesis entails an ethnography of mobility and settlement analysing cross-border movement from specific points of rupture. It aims to challenge the preconceived image of fixed landscapes of independent nations and autonomous local or peripheral cultures and settlements. This thesis offers a critical analysis of questions surrounding the production and reproduction of “sovereignty”, “exceptionalism” and “belonging”. This thesis shifts focus from a study of the effects of state policy on marginal people, which is basically a view from the state centre, to an ethnography concentrating on people at the margins, or periphery. The purpose of the thesis is to highlight and explore such ambiguity in the context of the historical movement and settlement of Kachin in northern Thailand. This thesis focusses on the certain aspects and process of the lives of individuals and regulatory institutions that constitute and refashion, so to speak, instances of exceptionalism. Border politics are thus the primary focus of my research that investigates institutions and practices defining and controlling social space, sovereignty and the historical trajectories of negotiation across different power regimes. In effect, the thesis explores the degree to which the sum of the above is crystallised in the history of – and everyday life within – the Kachin village of Jinghpaw Kahtawng at the Thai-Burma border. What this shows us is the complexity and ambiguities of belonging and non-belonging for cross-border populations as they attempt to integrate into larger state institutions as well as simultaneously reproduce a connection to a perceived homeland.
Molecular electrostatic potentials as a quantitative measure of hydrogen bonding preferences in solution
Creators: name: Andree, Stefan N. L.
name: Aakeröy, Christer B.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: An easily accessible methodology for estimating hydrogen-bond preferences and binding affinities in solution, based on molecular electrostatic potential surfaces (MEPS), is presented. Isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) data provide a quantitative measure of solution binding affinities between a tritopic hydrogen bond acceptor, 1,3,5-tris(imidazole-1-ylmethyl)-benzene, and a series of aromatic carboxylic acids; 3-dimethylaminobenzoic acid, benzoic acid, 3-methoxybenzoic acid and 3-nitrobenzoic acid. The experimental data is then correlated with MEPS values (calculated using DFT) for the carboxylic protons on the four acids. The plot of calculated MEPS values against experimentally determined binding constants produces a goodness-of-fit of over 0.93, and a similar positive correlation is obtained between MEPS values and binding enthalpies. These results indicate that a relatively simple electrostatic-based model of assembly and binding can provide helpful results that are consistent with experimentally derived thermodynamic data.
Thermoelectric bolometers based on ultra-thin heavily doped single-crystal silicon membranes
Creators: name: Timofeev, Andrey V.
name: Varpula, Aapo
name: Shchepetov, Andrey
name: Grigoras, Kestutis
name: Hassel, Juha
name: Ahopelto, Jouni
name: Ylilammi, Markku
name: Prunnila, Mika
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present ultra-thin silicon membrane thermocouple bolometers suitable for fast and sensitive detection of low levels of thermal power and infrared radiation at room temperature. The devices are based on 40 nm-thick strain tuned single crystalline silicon membranes shaped into heater/absorber area and narrow n- and p-doped beams, which operate as the thermocouple. The electro-thermal characterization of the devices reveal noise equivalent power of 13 pW/rtHz and thermal time constant of 2.5 ms. The high sensitivity of the devices is due to the high Seebeck coefficient of 0.39 mV/K and reduction of thermal conductivity of the Si beams from the bulk value. The bolometers operate in the Johnson-Nyquist noise limit of the thermocouple, and the performance improvement towards the operation close to the temperature fluctuation limit is discussed.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures
A construction of a $λ$- Poisson generic sequence
Creators: name: Becher, Verónica
name: Himelfarb, Gabriel Sac
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 11K16, 05A05, 60G55

description: Years ago Zeev Rudnick defined the $λ$-Poisson generic sequences as the infinite sequences of symbols in a finite alphabet where the number of occurrences of long words in the initial segments follow the Poisson distribution with parameter $λ$. Although almost all sequences, with respect to the uniform measure, are Poisson generic, no explicit instance has yet been given. In this note we give a construction of an explicit $λ$-Poisson generic sequence over any alphabet and any positive $λ$, except for the case of the two-symbol alphabet, in which it is required that $λ$ be less than or equal to the natural logarithm of $2$. Since $λ$-Poisson genericity implies Borel normality, the constructed sequences are Borel normal. The same construction provides explicit instances of Borel normal sequences that are not $λ$-Poisson generic.
description: 14 pages
Evolution models of helium white dwarf--main sequence star merger remnants
Creators: name: Zhang, Xianfei
name: Hall, Philip D.
name: Jeffery, C. Simon
name: Bi, Shaolan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is predicted that orbital decay by gravitational-wave radiation and tidal interaction will cause some close-binary stars to merge within a Hubble time. The merger of a helium-core white dwarf with a main-sequence star can produce a red giant branch star that has a low-mass hydrogen envelope when helium is ignited and thus become a hot subdwarf. Because detailed calculations have not been made, we compute post-merger models with a stellar evolution code. We find the evolutionary paths available to merger remnants and find the pre-merger conditions that lead to the formation of hot subdwarfs. We find that some such mergers result in the formation of stars with intermediate helium-rich surfaces. These stars later develop helium-poor surfaces owing to diffusion. Combining our results with a model population and comparing to observed stars, we find that some observed intermediate helium-rich hot subdwarfs can be explained as the remnants of the mergers of helium-core white dwarfs with low-mass main-sequence stars.
description: 10 pages, 13 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Accelerating off-lattice kinetic Monte Carlo simulations to predict hydrogen vacancy-cluster interactions in $α$-Fe
Creators: name: Williams, C. J.
name: Galindo-Nava, E. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an enhanced off-lattice kinetic Monte Carlo (OLKMC) model, based on a new method for tolerant classification of atomistic local-environments that is invariant under Euclidean-transformations and permutations of atoms. Our method ensures that environments within a norm-based tolerance are classified as equivalent. During OLKMC simulations, our method guarantees to elide the maximum number of redundant saddle-point searches in symmetrically equivalent local-environments. Hence, we are able to study the trapping/detrapping of hydrogen from up to five-vacancy clusters and simultaneously the effect hydrogen has on the diffusivity of these clusters. These processes occur at vastly different timescales at room temperature in body-centred cubic iron. We are able to predict the diffusion pathways of clusters/complexes without a priori assumptions of their mechanisms, not only reproducing previously reported mechanisms but also discovering new ones for larger complexes. We detail the hydrogen-induced changes in the clusters' diffusion mechanisms and find evidence that, in contrast to mono-vacancies, the introduction of hydrogen to larger clusters can increase their diffusivity. We compare the effective hydrogen diffusivity to Oriani's classical theory of trapping, finding general agreement and some evidence that hydrogen may not always be in equilibrium with traps, when the traps are mobile. Finally, we are able to compute the trapping atmosphere of meta-stable states surrounding non-point traps, opening new avenues to better understand and predict hydrogen embrittlement in complex alloys.
Some new inequalities involving Heinz operator means
Creators: name: Ghazanfari, A. G.
name: Malekinejad, S.
name: Talebi, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 15A45, 47A64

description: We give some new refinements of Heinz inequality and an improvement of the reverse Young's inequality for scalars and we use them to establish new inequalities for operators and the Hilbert-Schmidt norm of matrices. We give a uniformly and abbreviated form of the inequalities presented by Kittaneh and Mansarah, and the inequalities presented by Kai and we obtain some of their operator and matrix versions.
Handbook of People Research: Deriving Value by Asking Questions
Creators: name: Gemperle, Francine
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 330310
subject: Interaction and experience design
classificationCode: 470102
subject: Communication technology and digital media studies

description: This book is a practical guide to succeeding at People Research in creative, technical and business domains. Presented here is a basic framework for conducting research with people to inform design, in four parts: planning, engagement, analysis and reporting. The content is presented as a handbook that includes worksheets, tools and tips for people who plan to actually conduct People Research. It is a practical, hands-on guide that you will refer to again and again.
The anti-racist potential of care - political dimensions of women’s engagement in voluntary refugee support work in Germany
Creators: name: Schmid, Sophia
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Care
subject: volunteering
subject: refugees
subject: migration
subject: Germany
subject: political activism
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften

description: This article explores the role of gender in volunteering with refugees in Germany and how female volunteers, who outnumber male volunteers considerably, understand their involvement differently from men. Drawing upon quantitative data from two studies with volunteers in refugee work in Germany from 2015 and 2016, I discuss the motivations of female volunteers to engage in refugee support work, the meaning they give to their experience of working with refugees and the values they wish to demonstrate through their voluntary work. The article centrally maintains that refugee support work can be classed as a form of care work and is informed by an ethics and values of care. However, other results unveil that women interpret their care work as an expression of their political attitudes, specifically about anti-racism and anti-right-wing activism, as well, and thereby have recourse to a supposedly male political justification for engaging in volunteering. Thus, this article argues that these two forms of motivation for volunteering, care and politics, do not need to be mutually exclusive. Crucially, voluntary refugee support work represents a unique opportunity for women’s political activism for anti-racism and cultural openness.
Pre-existing diabetes mellitus and all-cause mortality in cancer patients: a register-based study in Latvia
Creators: name: Strele, Ieva
name: Pildava, Santa
name: Repsa, Ilze
name: Kojalo, Una
name: Vilmanis, Janis
name: Girts Brigis
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer

description: Background: Most studies from high income countries consistently report that preexisting diabetes reduces overall survival of cancer patients. We examined this association in a retrospective cohort study using two nation-wide population-based data sets in Latvia. Material and methods: The Cancer Register, linked with the Diabetes Register and Causes of Death Database, was the first data source used to select 22,936 men and 25,338 women with cancer diagnosed from 2009 to 2013. The follow-up period ended on 28 February 2015. The National Health Service data served as a second data source, which was used to select 10,130 men and 13,236 women with cancer as the main diagnosis, who were discharged from oncology hospitals from 2009 to 2012. Prescriptions of reimbursed antidiabetic medications indicated prior diabetes status. The follow-up period started at the date of discharge and ended on 31 December 2013. A Cox proportional hazards model was used to assess association between preexisting diabetes and all-cause mortality, adjusted for age. Results: Men with preexisting diabetes had better overall short-term survival: the age-adjusted hazard ratios (95% CI) were 0.86 (0.79–0.93) for the first year and 0.89 (0.80–0.98) for the first two years after cancer diagnosis according to the disease register and health service data, respectively. After three full follow-up years, their relative mortality increased, with an age-adjusted hazard ratio of 1.60 (1.28–1.99). Among women, preexisting diabetes was associated with slightly higher all-cause mortality during the entire follow-up period, with age-adjusted hazard ratios of 1.17 (1.10–1.24) for the disease register data and 1.11 (1.02–1.21) for the health service data. Conclusion: Interestingly, we found better overall survival of diabetic men during the first years after cancer diagnosis. We hypothesize that access to health services may be advantageous to diabetic patients who are in close contact with the healthcare system.
Integrating the self over time: memory, agency and the role of narrative distance
Creators: name: Carlton, Wendy Robyn
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: An individual’s life comprises a multiplicity of experiences, activities and projects spread out through time. Yet to function as agents we need to forge a relatively coherent self‐conception out of this multiplicity. Coherence is never a given. It is an achievement of self‐interpretation and self‐constitution. In this thesis, I seek to explain the self-interpretative processes involved in constituting oneself as a relatively integrated diachronic agent. I begin by challenging the primarily synchronic focus of contemporary agency theories, and the inadequately temporalized accounts of self‐constitution that emerge from them, focusing on the work of Harry Frankfurt, Christine Korsgaard and Michael Bratman. To explain the importance of attending to the diachronic dimensions of agency I explore the role of memory in self‐constitution. Adopting a reconstructionist account of memory, and drawing on work by Sue Campbell, I argue that memory’s importance for self-conception lies in its capacity to extract the significance and meaning of the past. I then propose that a narrative account of practical identity is best able to explicate the diachronic dimensions of self‐interpretation and to accommodate continuity despite diversity, change and difference over time. My discussion of narrative theory engages primarily with the work of Paul Ricoeur, Marya Schechtman, David Velleman and Daniel Dennett and responds to objections to the narrative approach by Galen Strawson and John Christman. Despite the advantages of a narrative account of practical identity, I identify an explanatory gap in some influential narrative theories, arguing that they do not provide an adequate explanation of just how narrative configuration enables diachronic self‐reflection and self‐constitution. In the final part of the thesis I argue that the concept of narrative distance can fill this explanatory gap. I distinguish four dimensions of narrative distance – temporal, hermeneutic, perspectival and evaluative – and explain how we use the reflective resources provided by these dimensions of narrative distance to reconstruct, read and appropriate autobiographical memories into a self‐narrative.
Society and sediment in the Mining Rivers of California and Australia
Creators: name: Davies, Peter
name: Lawrence, Susan
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 430302
subject: Australian history
classificationCode: 370509
subject: Sedimentology
classificationCode: 370599
subject: Geology not elsewhere classified

description: Abstract: People and water intersect in the movement of sediment downstream in rivers. Social processes and geomorphological processes become entangled as each system moves in ways that trigger corresponding responses from the other. Long-term dialectical relationships emerge that span multiple human generations. The power of sediment and water to change physical environments is in constant tension with the power of human actions informed by social, cultural, legal, economic and engineering imperatives. The Pacific Rim gold rushes that began in the mid-nineteenth century provide an opportunity to examine how the interplay of people, water and sediment unfolds over historic time. The mass discharge of mining sediment in California and Victoria that began over 150 years ago was a catastrophic human alteration of river systems. Subsequently, mining sediment has had a long and complex entanglement with society and rivers in both regions and continues to be an active agent in reshaping riparian environments. Mining sediments also have a toxic legacy as associated contaminants, including mercury and arsenic, that are discharged into waterways and dispersed in windblown dust. The changes to river systems caused by gold mining committed societies and rivers to new trajectories of mutual engagement. Anthropogenically induced sedimentation that resulted from mining is an issue that will continue to impact watersheds for generations to come.
MHD modeling of a DIII-D low-torque QH-mode discharge and comparison to observations
Creators: name: King, J. R.
name: Kruger, S. E.
name: Burrell, K. H.
name: Chen, X.
name: Garofalo, A. M.
name: Groebner, R. J.
name: Olofsson, K. E. J.
name: Pankin, A. Y.
name: Snyder, P. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Extended-MHD modeling of DIII-D tokamak [J. L. Luxon, Nucl. Fusion 42, 614 (2002)] quiescent H-mode (QH-mode) discharges with nonlinear NIMROD [C. R. Sovinec et al., J. Comput. Phys. 195, 355 (2004)] simulations saturates into a turbulent state but does not saturate when the steady-state flow inferred from measurements is not included. This is consistent with the experimental observations of the quiescent regime on DIII-D. The simulation with flow develops into a saturated turbulent state where the n=1 and 2 toroidal modes become dominant through an inverse cascade. Each mode in the range of n=1-5 is dominant at a different time. Consistent with experimental observations during QH-mode, the simulated state leads to large particle transport relative to the thermal transport. Analysis shows that the amplitude and phase of the density and temperature perturbations differ resulting in greater fluctuation-induced convective particle transport relative to the convective thermal transport. Comparison to magnetic-coil measurements shows that rotation frequencies differ between the simulation and experiment, which indicates that more sophisticated extended-MHD two-fluid modeling is required.
description: 11 pages, 10 figures, manuscript associated with invited talk at APS-DPP Annual Meeting, 2016, in San Jose
Proton and Helium Spectra from the CREAM-III Flight
Creators: name: Yoon, Y. S.
name: Anderson, T.
name: Barrau, A.
name: Conklin, N. B.
name: Coutu, S.
name: Derome, L.
name: Han, J. H.
name: Jeon, J. A.
name: Kim, K. C.
name: Kim, M. H.
name: Lee, H. Y.
name: Lee, J.
name: Lee, M. H.
name: Lee, S. E.
name: Link, J. T.
name: Menchaca-Rocha, A.
name: Mitchell, J. W.
name: Mognet, S. I.
name: Nutter, S.
name: Park, I. H.
name: Picot-Clemente, N.
name: Putze, A.
name: Seo, E. S.
name: Smith, J.
name: Wu, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Primary cosmic-ray elemental spectra have been measured with the balloon-borne Cosmic Ray Energetics And Mass (CREAM) experiment since 2004. The third CREAM payload (CREAM-III) flew for 29 days during the 2007-2008 Antarctic season. Energies of incident particles above 1 TeV are measured with a calorimeter. Individual elements are clearly separated with a charge resolution of ~0.12 e (in charge units) and ~0.14 e for protons and helium nuclei, respectively, using two layers of silicon charge detectors. The measured proton and helium energy spectra at the top of the atmosphere are harder than other existing measurements at a few tens of GeV. The relative abundance of protons to helium nuclei is 9.53+-0.03 for the range of 1 TeV/n to 63 TeV/n. The ratio is considerably smaller than other measurements at a few tens of GeV/n. The spectra become softer above ~20 TeV. However, our statistical uncertainties are large at these energies and more data are needed.
Well Played -- Vol. 8, No. 1
Creators: name: Davidson, Drew
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 330310
subject: Interaction and experience design
classificationCode: 470102
subject: Communication technology and digital media studies

description: The papers included in this special issue of Well Played were first presented as "well played" sessions during the 2018 Connected Learning Summit, held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in August, 2018. In addition to this special issue, short abstracts associated with each paper are also included in the Proceedings of the 2019 Connected Learning Summit (ETC Press, 2019).
- The Logical Journey of Reimagining “Zoombinis”: Adventure, Research, and Computational Thinking - Dr. Jodi Asbell-Clarke, David Libby, Sarah Ditkoff, Peter Stidwill, & Scot Osterweil
- The Architecture of Assassin’s Creed II’s Florence: An Analysis with the History-Game Relations (HGR) Framework - Gabriele Aroni
- Players as Transitional Characters: How Youth Can “Breakaway” from Gender-Based Violence - Hua Wang, Yishin Wu, Ji Hye Choi, & Ann DeMarle
- Hearthstone: Managing Randomness and Collectible Card Game Playing as Collective Cognitive Achievement - Nicholas Persa, Kurt Squire & Mike Tissenbaum
Autobiographical memory variability: individual and social factors
Creators: name: Temler, Marie Sophie
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: In the forensic setting police, lawyers and juries often assume that true memories of the past should not change over time. Contradictions, as well as omissions or new additions, across retellings are often seen as either contamination from others or a sign of deception. In my project I examined how memory accounts change across retellings under a range of conditions. Across a series of four chapters and five experiments I examined and compared the role of social and individual factors in autobiographical memory variation in the absence and presence of contagion. I manipulated aspects of the social interaction and measured different personality and other individual characteristics. I was specifically interested in whether influences from the "self" differed to influences from "others". I aimed to discern baselines and variation thresholds for changes across autobiographical memory retelling among individuals across different social settings. My goal was to better understand the pattern and nature of autobiographical memory variability across retellings and determine how many changes matter. I drew from multidisciplinary research in an attempt to clarify both conceptual and methodological issues about the meaning and the measurement of "contradictions" and other changes in forensic, cognitive and social psychology. This project is significant because it draws on and broadens current theoretical perspectives on memory, as well as considers side by side changes in retellings due to intrinsic variability and changes in retellings due to social contagion.
The cyclic open-closed map, u-connections and R-matrices
Creators: name: Hugtenburg, Kai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper considers the (negative) cyclic open-closed map $\mathcal{OC}^{-}$, which maps the cyclic homology of the Fukaya category of a symplectic manifold to its $S^1$-equivariant quantum cohomology. We prove (under simplifying technical hypotheses) that this map respects the respective natural connections in the direction of the equivariant parameter. In the monotone setting this allows us to conclude that $\mathcal{OC}^{-}$ intertwines the decomposition of the Fukaya category by eigenvalues of quantum cup product with the first Chern class, with the Hukuhara-Levelt-Turrittin decomposition of the quantum cohomology. We also explain how our results relate to the Givental-Teleman classification of semisimple cohomological field theories: in particular, how the R-matrix is related to $\mathcal{OC}^{-}$ in the semisimple case; we also consider the non-semisimple case.
description: 72 pages, 1 figure. Some minor details added after referee comments. Numbering agrees with journal version
Discretization of 3d gravity in different polarizations
Creators: name: Dupuis, Maïté
name: Freidel, Laurent
name: Girelli, Florian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the discretization of 3d gravity with $Λ=0$ following the loop quantum gravity framework. In the process, we realize that different choices of polarization are possible. This allows to introduce a new discretization based on the triad as opposed to the connection as in the standard loop quantum gravity framework. We also identify the classical non-trivial symmetries of discrete gravity, namely the Drinfeld double, given in terms of momentum maps. Another choice of polarization is given by the Chern-Simons formulation of gravity. Our framework also provides a new discretization scheme of Chern-Simons, which keeps track of the link between the continuum variables and the discrete ones. We show how the Poisson bracket we recover between the Chern-Simons holonomies allows to recover the Goldman bracket. There is also a transparent link between the discrete Chern-Simons formulation and the discretization of gravity based on the connection (loop gravity) or triad variables (dual loop gravity).
description: 29 pages, 6 figures
On Kato and Kuzumaki's properties for the Milnor $K_2$ of function fields of $p$-adic curves
Creators: name: Izquierdo, Diego
name: Arteche, Giancarlo Lucchini
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: K-Theory and Homology (math.KT)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11E76, 11G20, 12G05, 12G10, 14G05, 14G27, 14J45, 14J70, 19C99, 19F05

description: Let $K$ be the function field of a curve $C$ over a $p$-adic field $k$. We prove that, for each $n, d \geq 1$ and for each hypersurface $Z$ in $\mathbb{P}^n_{K}$ of degree $d$ with $d^2 \leq n$, the second Milnor $K$-theory group of $K$ is spanned by the images of the norms coming from finite extensions $L$ of $K$ over which $Z$ has a rational point. When the curve $C$ has a point in the maximal unramified extension of $k$, we generalize this result to hypersurfaces $Z$ in $\mathbb{P}^n_{K}$ of degree $d$ with $d \leq n$.
description: 34 pages. Final version
Analog Game Studies, Volume 3
Creators: name: Waldron, Emma Leigh
name: Trammell, Aaron
name: Torner, Evan
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 330310
subject: Interaction and experience design
classificationCode: 470102
subject: Communication technology and digital media studies

description: Analog Game Studies is a bi-monthy journal for the research and critique of analog games. We define analog games broadly and include work on tabletop and live-action role-playing games, board games, card games, pervasive games, game-like performances, carnival games, experimental games, and more. Analog Game Studies was founded to reserve a space for scholarship on analog games in the wider field of game studies.
title: ADCO, Ordre cistercien et abbaye de Cîteaux : comptes pour l'ordre (1337-1347), comptes du boursier (1377-1402) (11 H 1160), f. 00091
Creators: name: de la Côte-d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CBMA/CG21/F.PETOT/2017
name: Petot, Frédéric
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: comptes
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge

description: Ordre cistercien et abbaye de Cîteaux : comptes pour l'ordre (1337-1347), comptes du boursier (1377-1402), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, (11 H 1160). Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Ordre cistercien et abbaye de Cîteaux : comptes pour l'ordre (1337-1347), comptes du boursier (1377-1402), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, (11 H 1160), f. 00091, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi \[Ressource en ligne\], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
Challenges in implementing disaster risk reduction education: views from the frontline in Indonesia
Creators: name: Amri, Avianto
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis investigates the implementation of disaster risk reduction (DRR) education in Indonesian schools. In the last decade, DRR education programs have been promoted as one of the pillars to save lives and reduce disaster losses, based on several studies that identified positive outcomes. However, most of these studies were undertaken in developed countries. There remain a limited number of studies in developing countries investigating the opportunities and barriers to implementation of DRR education in schools. The thesis uses a case study approach to explore the scaling up and sustainibility of DRR education in schools. The thesis uses a case study approach to explore the scaling-up and sustainability of DRR education in Indonesian schools. Literature relating to DRR education with children and the participation of children in DRR is critically assessed to document the strengths and weaknesses in both fields of study. Based on the review, a new research approach was developed for evaluating the implementation of DRR education programs. This new approach is used to examine DRR education in Jakarta, Indonesia, a rapidly growing megacity that is highly prone to disasters, especially floods and fire hazards. This study captured the perspectives of children, teachers, and Non-Governmental Organisations on the challenges of scaling-up the implementation of DRR education in schools. The study revealed seven key issues and suggests several strategic recommendations to move forward. These key issues may well be apparent in many other developing and developed countries, and the suggested recommendations may be applicable beyond Indonesia.
Trauma-informed knowledge, awareness, practice, competence and confidence of rural health staff: A descriptive study
Creators: name: Ervin, Kaye
name: Reid, Carol
name: Podubinski, Tegan
name: Phillips, Jacquie
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 420306
subject: Health care administration
classificationCode: 441003
subject: Rural sociology

description: Background and objective: By adopting a trauma-informed approach to care at the organisational and clinical levels, health care systems and providers can enhance the quality of care that they deliver and improve health outcomes for individuals with a trauma history. This study aimed to explore the trauma-related knowledge, attitudes awareness, practice, competence and confidence of health service staff from three small rural health services in Victoria, Australia, and examine their self-reported capacity to respond to clients with a trauma history.Methods: Staff from each site were invited to complete a paper-based survey. The survey included demographic information and questions related to knowledge and understanding of trauma, experience of trauma-informed care and confidence engaging in, and perceived importance of, trauma-informed practices. Results: The respondents were predominately nurses. Results showed that 16% of respondents had undertaken training in trauma-informed care and 44% disagreed that they had an understanding of trauma-informed practices. There were high levels of agreement for statements related to knowledge and understanding of trauma and low levels of agreement with statements related to experience of trauma-informed care. More than 70% of respondents reported that they had little knowledge of the principals of trauma-informed care, and little experiencing with practicing trauma-informed care.Discussion and conclusions: Overall, the survey results showed that staff were trauma-aware, but supported the need for more education and training in trauma-informed practices and improved organisational approaches to support trauma-informed approaches. It is important for organisations to shift from being trauma aware to being trauma-informed, by building foundational awareness of these practices and reinforcement through continuing education.
Electronic protocol files for the automated preparation of single-stranded libraries on a Bravo NGS Workstation (Agilent Technologies)
Creators: name: Meyer, Matthias
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Provided here are electronic protocol files (vzp files) for import into VWorks (tested with version 13.1), instructions on how to perform the import (word document), exemplary input files (tab-delimited txt files) for indexing PCR setup, and an excel file detailing the plate setup in qPCR.
Using the (Modified) Matrix Element Method to constrain $L_μ- L_τ$ Interactions
Creators: name: Elahi, Fatemeh
name: Martin, Adam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we explore the discriminatory power of the matrix element method (MEM) in constraining the $L_μ-L_τ$ model at the LHC. The $Z'$ gauge boson associated with the spontaneously broken $U(1)_{L_μ-L_τ}$ symmetry only interacts with the second and third generation of leptons at tree level, and is thus difficult to produce at the LHC. We argue that the best channels for discovering this $Z'$ are in $Z \to 4μ$ and $2μ+\displaystyle{\not}E_T$. Both these channels have a large number of kinematic observables, which strongly motivates the usage of a multivariate technique. The MEM is a multivariate analysis that uses the squared matrix element to quantify the likelihood of the testing hypotheses. We find that with $300 \, \text{fb}^{-1}$ of integrated luminosity, we are sensitive to the couplings of $ g_{Z'} \gtrsim 0.002 ~ g_1$ and $M_{Z'} < 20 \text{ GeV}$, and $g_{Z'} \gtrsim 0.005 g_1$ and $20\, \text{GeV}
description: 24 pages, 9 figures
Ratatouille: A tool for Novel Recipe Generation
Creators: name: Goel, Mansi
name: Chakraborty, Pallab
name: Ponnaganti, Vijay
name: Khan, Minnet
name: Tatipamala, Sritanaya
name: Saini, Aakanksha
name: Bagler, Ganesh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Due to availability of a large amount of cooking recipes online, there is a growing interest in using this as data to create novel recipes. Novel Recipe Generation is a problem in the field of Natural Language Processing in which our main interest is to generate realistic, novel cooking recipes. To come up with such novel recipes, we trained various Deep Learning models such as LSTMs and GPT-2 with a large amount of recipe data. We present Ratatouille (https://cosylab.iiitd.edu.in/ratatouille2/), a web based application to generate novel recipes.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures, 38th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, DECOR Workshop
Avocado leaves: Influence of drying process, thermal incubation, and storage conditions on preservation of polyphenolic compounds and antioxidant activity
Creators: name: Fábio Tomio Yamassaki
name: Campestrini, Luciano Henrique
name: Zawadzki-Baggio, Selma Faria
name: Maurer, Juliana Bello Baron
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: Plant Biology

description: Total phenolic content and antioxidant activity of hydroalcoholic extract of avocado leaves (Persea americana (PA)) were determined by α,α-diphenyl-β-picrylhydrazyl, ∙NO, O2∙–, and ∙OH radical capture and reducing power test. Liquid chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry/electron spray ionization was used to identify 19 types of polyphenols, as flavan-3-ols and flavonol glycosides, in PA. Stability assays were performed to optimize conditions for preserving antioxidant activity and polyphenols during drying, thermal incubation, and storage of the extract. Extracts, obtained from leaves dried at 70°C or higher, showed lower values for total phenolic content and antioxidant activity. Compared with the values of leaves dried at 60°C or lower, these differences were statistically significant (p ≤ 0.05). Incubating PA in solution, at 40°C–100°C for up to 8 h, did not produce significant changes in total phenolic content or antioxidant activity. No statistically significant changes in the total phenolic content or antioxidant activity (p ≤ 0.05) occurred after storage at 4°C and 25°C for up to 10 months. PA was shown to possess diverse polyphenolic compounds with robust antioxidant activity. Precise control of drying temperature was an important parameter for maintaining high levels of phenolic compounds and antioxidant activity of PA.
XMD: An Expansive Hardware-telemetry based Mobile Malware Detector to enhance Endpoint Detection
Creators: name: Kumar, Harshit
name: Chakraborty, Biswadeep
name: Sharma, Sudarshan
name: Mukhopadhyay, Saibal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Hardware-based Malware Detectors (HMDs) have shown promise in detecting malicious workloads. However, the current HMDs focus solely on the CPU core of a System-on-Chip (SoC) and, therefore, do not exploit the full potential of the hardware telemetry. In this paper, we propose XMD, an HMD that uses an expansive set of telemetry channels extracted from the different subsystems of SoC. XMD exploits the thread-level profiling power of the CPU-core telemetry, and the global profiling power of non-core telemetry channels, to achieve significantly better detection performance than currently used Hardware Performance Counter (HPC) based detectors. We leverage the concept of manifold hypothesis to analytically prove that adding non-core telemetry channels improves the separability of the benign and malware classes, resulting in performance gains. We train and evaluate XMD using hardware telemetries collected from 723 benign applications and 1033 malware samples on a commodity Android Operating System (OS)-based mobile device. XMD improves over currently used HPC-based detectors by 32.91% for the in-distribution test data. XMD achieves the best detection performance of 86.54% with a false positive rate of 2.9%, compared to the detection rate of 80%, offered by the best performing signature-based Anti-Virus(AV) on VirusTotal, on the same set of malware samples.
description: Revised version based on peer review feedback. Manuscript to appear in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
The Arrow prayer in the Coptic tradition
Creators: name: St Shenouda, Anthony
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: The New Testament injunction to “pray without ceasing” (1 Thessalonians 5:16-18) was put into practice by early Christians and was further formulated by the Egyptian monks and was eventually known as the Arrow Prayer. The Arrow Prayer was practised by the continuous repetition of a formula, which consists of a bible verse, a saying of a monastic elder, the name of Jesus, or a liturgical formula. From reading key monastic, liturgical and hagiographical sources, we can appreciate the extent of the use of the Arrow Prayer across various social milieus. The aim of this thesis is to provide the social backdrop that explains the widespread use of this prayer, providing evidence from the education system, and the practice of memorisation and meditation in antiquity. I further argue that the Bible was one of the primary sources for the formulas for the Arrow Prayer and for how the practice of this prayer was prominently used to identify the Holy Man in hagiography. By providing the historical context and stipulating the use of the prayer in different milieus, it becomes clear that the Arrow Prayer was in use by monastics and laity in the Coptic Church from the early centuries of Christianity and to an erratic degree the twentieth century.
Energy-Aware Disk Storage Management: Online Approach with Application in DBMS
Creators: name: Behzadnia, Peyman
name: Tu, Yi-Cheng
name: Zeng, Bo
name: Yuan, Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: H.2.0

description: Energy consumption has become a first-class optimization goal in design and implementation of data-intensive computing systems. This is particularly true in the design of database management systems (DBMS), which was found to be the major consumer of energy in the software stack of modern data centers. Among all database components, the storage system is one of the most power-hungry elements. In previous work, dynamic power management (DPM) techniques that make real-time decisions to transition the disks to low-power modes are normally used to save energy in storage systems. In this paper, we tackle the limitations of DPM proposals in previous contributions. We introduced a DPM optimization model integrated with model predictive control (MPC) strategy to minimize power consumption of the disk-based storage system while satisfying given performance requirements. It dynamically determines the state of disks and plans for inter-disk data fragment migration to achieve desirable balance between power consumption and query response time. Via analyzing our optimization model to identify structural properties of optimal solutions, we propose a fast-solution heuristic DPM algorithm that can be integrated in large-scale disk storage systems for efficient state configuration and data migration. We evaluate our proposed ideas by running simulations using extensive set of synthetic workloads based on popular TPC benchmarks. Our results show that our solution significantly outperforms the best existing algorithm in both energy savings and response time.
description: 22 pages, 9 figures
Supersolvable descent for rational points
Creators: name: Harpaz, Yonatan
name: Wittenberg, Olivier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We construct an analogue of the classical descent theory of Colliot-Thélène and Sansuc in which algebraic tori are replaced with finite supersolvable groups. As an application, we show that rational points are dense in the Brauer-Manin set for smooth compactifications of certain quotients of homogeneous spaces by finite supersolvable groups. For suitably chosen homogeneous spaces, this implies the existence of supersolvable Galois extensions of number fields with prescribed norms, generalising work of Frei-Loughran-Newton.
description: 28 pages; minor improvements