cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Affordable Housing the Musical: A Study of Socially Engaged Art Making and Microactivism in Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Creators: name: Rachel Despard
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: This thesis paper presents a study of socially engaged art making and microactivism in Chapel Hill in 2019 and 2020. In a time of great division and social stratification, it is clear that existing approaches to public policy are not working. Although it is still unclear what the world will look like post-Covid-19, there will be a need for social healing. Artistic interventions offer creative solutions to complex problems. My collaboration with the Community Empowerment Fund to create the CD soundtrack for Affordable Housing the Musical, along with my study of existing scholarship on artistic advocacy and ethnomusicological activism, inform my argument for the significance of microactivism and socially engaged art making. This project utilizes methods of participatory action research, engaged fieldwork, interviews, literature review, and collection of government data on housing insecurity. Through reflections on the performance and collaboration in the recording of the musical, as well as reflections on citizen art making (Ndaliko), collective listening and social resonance (Frishkopf), and the engagement blueprint (Borwick), I show how microactivism through art making is a powerful tool for community collaboration and for providing visibility for vulnerable populations. In this paper, I argue that socially engaged art making and microactivism through music are viable policy options for addressing systematic inequalities. This paper consists of three parts: 1) the importance of socially engaged art making, 2) the process of creating the musical and the CD, and 3) a case for microactivism and arts for social change.
MPEC 2023-T186 : 2016 TR11
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
title: ΔΙΑ_ΔΡΟΜΟΣ
Μετατοπίσεις κλίμακας και αντιληπτική οργάνωση στην  όψιμη νεοκλασική και τη μοντέρνα μεσοπολεμική Αθήνα
title: Crossroads between corridors and roads: Perceiving Athens between Neoclassicism and Interwar Modernism
Creators: name: Λιζαρδου Ηλεκτρα
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2025

description: Η σχεδιαστική αντιμετώπιση του χώρου κίνησης σε αστική κλίμακα
φαίνεται να επηρεάζει και να επηρεάζεται αισθητά από τον σχεδιασμό του
αντίστοιχου εντός των κατοικιών. Η απόδειξη της παραπάνω υπόθεσης
εργασίας προσεγγίζεται βάσει μελέτης περιπτώσεων δύο χαρακτηριστικών
δρόμων, που ανοικοδομήθηκαν κατά τις εξεταζόμενες περιόδους, σε σύγκριση
τόσο με χαρακτηριστικές κατοικίες στην εκάστοτε εποχή, όσο και μεταξύ
τους.
Για την ερμηνεία των ευρημάτων χρησιμοποιούνται οι άξονες
που όρισε ο Κ. Δεκαβάλλας στο σύγγραμμά του Περπατώντας στην πόλη.
Η αρχιτεκτονική του χώρου των πεζών για την αστική κλίμακα και οι
αντίστοιχοί τους, όπως ορίζονται από την γράφουσα, σε αρχιτεκτονική
κλίμακα. Πιο συγκεκριμένα, εξετάζονται η λεωφόρος Βασιλίσσης Σοφίας στα
τέλη του 19ου αιώνα και η οδός Πατησίων στο αποκορύφωμα του πρώτου
κύματος μοντερνισμού στην Ελλάδα, κατά τον Μεσοπόλεμο. Στη συνέχεια,
σχολιάζονται οι ανάλογοι άξονες σε αρχιτεκτονικό επίπεδο στο εσωτερικό
των κατοικιών κατά τις αντίστοιχες περιόδους, με εμβάθυνση μέσω μελετών
περίπτωσης.
description: The design approach to movement space on an urban scale appears to both influence and be significantly influenced by its counterpart within residential buildings. The validation of this working hypothesis is explored through case studies of two characteristic streets that were constructed during the examined periods, comparing them both with representative dwellings of their respective eras and with each other.
For the interpretation of the findings, the analytical framework defined by C. Dekavalla in his book Walking in towns and cities. The architecture of pedestrian space is employed for the urban scale, along with its architectural-scale equivalents as defined by the author. Specifically, the study focuses on Vasilissis Sofias Avenue in the late 19th century and Patision Street at the peak of the first wave of Modernism in Greece during the interwar period. Subsequently, the corresponding spatial axes within residential interiors of these periods are analyzed, with further insights drawn from case studies.
Universal time-dependent control scheme for realizing arbitrary linear bosonic transformations
Creators: name: Xiang, Ze-Liang
name: Olivares, Diego González
name: García-Ripoll, Juan José
name: Rabl, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the implementation of arbitrary excitation-conserving linear transformations between two sets of $N$ stationary bosonic modes, which are connected through a photonic quantum channel. By controlling the individual couplings between the modes and the channel, an initial $N$-partite quantum state in register $A$ can be released as a multiphoton wave packet and, successively, be reabsorbed in register $B$. Here we prove that there exists a set of control pulses that implement this transfer with arbitrarily high fidelity and, simultaneously, realize a prespecified $N\times N$ unitary transformation between the two sets of modes. Moreover, we provide a numerical algorithm for constructing these control pulses and discuss the scaling and robustness of this protocol in terms of several illustrative examples. By being purely control-based and not relying on any adaptations of the underlying hardware, the presented scheme is extremely flexible and can find widespread applications, for example, for boson-sampling experiments, multiqubit state transfer protocols or in continuous-variable quantum computing architectures.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures + Supplemental Material (7 pages, 4 figure)
Anisotropic optical properties of rhombohedral and tetragonal thin film BiFeO$_3$ phases
Creators: name: Schmidt, Daniel
name: You, Lu
name: Chi, Xiao
name: Wang, Junling
name: Rusydi, Andrivo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The anisotropic optical properties of multiferroic BiFeO$_3$ thin films have been determined with Mueller matrix ellipsometry at room-temperature. The full dielectric tensors of tetragonal-like and rhombohedral-like BiFeO$_3$ phases epitaxially grown on LaAlO$_3$ and SrTiO$_3$ single crystal substrates, respectively, within the spectral range of 0.6 and 6.5 eV are reported. Strain-driven anisotropy changes and transition shifts are observed as well as evidence of sub-band gap many-particle excitations are found. The transition shifts, mostly to higher energies for the highly strained tetragonal-like BiFeO$_3$ phase on LaAlO$_3$, are indicative of band structure differences. Additionally, optical modelling, confirmed by piezoelectric force microscopy studies, revealed that the average polarization direction of bivariant BiFeO$_3$ on LaAlO$_3$ is not parallel to the crystallographic [001] direction but tilted by about $7^{\circ}$. Spectral weight analyses reveal phase-dependent differences underlining that theoretical calculations of optical spectra need further improvement to appropriately account for electronic and excitonic correlations to fully understand multiferroic BiFeO$_3$.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures
Christus medicus: teologia i metàfora de la curació espiritual. Zeitschrift für Katalanistik 35 (2022), 203–237ISSN 0932-2221 · eISSN 2199-7276. https://doi.org/10.46586/ZfK.2022.203-237
Creators: name: Peirats Navarro, Anna
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 470507
subject: Comparative and transnational literature
classificationCode: 470599
subject: Literary studies not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 470514
subject: Literary theory
classificationCode: 470520
subject: Literature in Spanish and Portuguese

description:
This article focuses on the study of the topic of Christus medicus from a theological and literary point of view in late medieval texts. It is necessary to start from the fact that this motif is not easily found in original texts, nor in the Holy Scriptures, with the same relief in which it operates in the discourses of the preachers and in literary works of the 14th and 15th centuries. The presence of the topic can take shape in three areas: recurring similarities between medical and religious terms; signs of Christ as the healer of the people, thaumaturge, and metaphorical aspect, according to which Christ is the true physician. This image becomes a leitmotif, and gives cohesion to various fragments of sermons both by Giordano Da Pisa and by St. Vincent Ferrer delivered in Europe, with success among the public who listened to them. In addition, in Jaume Roig’s Spill it is shown that authentic health requires true, divine medicine. This article will discuss how this motif acquires a very new and recurring tone in many passages of the Vita Christi of Isabel de Villena, as part of the goal of following the model of Christ and the Virgin, as a spiritual doctor of humanity, through meditation and reflection.
Pruning-aware Loss Functions for STOI-Optimized Pruned Recurrent Autoencoders for the Compression of the Stimulation Patterns of Cochlear Implants at Zero Delay
Creators: name: Hinrichs, Reemt
name: Ostermann, Jörn
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Cochlear implants (CIs) are surgically implanted hearing devices, which allow to restore a sense of hearing in people suffering from profound hearing loss. Wireless streaming of audio from external devices to CI signal processors has become common place. Specialized compression based on the stimulation patterns of a CI by deep recurrent autoencoders can decrease the power consumption in such a wireless streaming application through bit-rate reduction at zero latency.
 While previous research achieved considerable bit-rate reductions, model sizes were ignored, which can be of crucial importance in hearing-aids due to their limited computational resources. This work investigates maximizing objective speech intelligibility of the coded stimulation patterns of deep recurrent autoencoders while minimizing model size. For this purpose, a pruning-aware loss is proposed, which captures the impact of pruning during training. This training with a pruning-aware loss is compared to conventional magnitude-informed pruning and is found to yield considerable improvements in objective intelligibility, especially at higher pruning rates. After fine-tuning, little to no degradation of objective intelligibility is observed up to a pruning rate of about 55\,\%. The proposed pruning-aware loss yields substantial gains in objective speech intelligibility scores after pruning compared to the magnitude-informed baseline for pruning rates above 45\,\%.
description: Preprint of Asilomar 2024 Paper
Taming a resurgent ultra-violet renormalon
Creators: name: Borinsky, Michael
name: Broadhurst, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Perturbative expansions in quantum field theory diverge for at least two reasons: the number of Feynman diagrams increases dramatically with the loop number and the process of renormalization may make the contribution of some diagrams large. We give an example of the second problem, from an ultra-violent renormalon of $ϕ^3$ theory in 6 dimensions, where we can compute to very high loop-order. Taming this renormalon involves recent work on resurgence. This challenge is much more demanding than the corresponding problem for Yukawa theory in 4 dimensions.
description: 8 pages, conference proceedings contribution to Loops and Legs in Quantum Field Theory 2022 - version to appear in PoS-LL2022
Signs of Prior Trachoma Infection among Trichiasis Surgery Patients without Trachomatous Scarring
Creators: name: Mittendorf, Camille
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: Objectives: We seek to determine if trichiasis surgery patients without visible conjunctival scarring have other signs of prior trachoma. To do this, we will determine the proportion of eyes in the study cohort with and without visible conjunctival scarring and will characterize and compare the prevalence of other signs of trachoma that exist in these two groups.

Methods: This study analyzes data from participants’ baseline ocular examinations from the MTSS trial. We characterize and compare the prevalence and severity of various eyelid characteristics across a portion of the cohort. We will also cross-tabulate conjunctival scarring with the five key other signs of trachoma for eyelids with and without conjunctival scarring.

Results: 5,002 people participated in the MTSS trial, and 2,444 eyes had TT in the late phase. Among these, 51 eyes had no visible conjunctival scarring. Almost half the eyelids without scarring had some indication of prior TT. The proportion of eyes with conjunctival scarring was much higher for severe trichiasis than for eyes without conjunctival scarring. Eyes without conjunctival scarring present with either no signs of Herbert’s Pits or pannus or the mildest manifestation of both signs. Most eyes without conjunctival scarring do not present with corneal scarring but approximately 20% of eyes have a corneal scar grade of at least 1. Both eyes with conjunctival scarring and without conjunctival scarring reported similar proportions of eyes with lower lid TT. 

Discussion: The main finding of this study is that individuals without visible signs of conjunctival scarring in the field have other signs of trachoma, indicating that their trichiasis is trachomatous in nature. These eyes are thus eligible for TT surgery and should not be turned away, and it is thus crucial to consider other signs of trachoma as markers for the disease. These findings advocate for the continued provision of TT surgery for all who have trichiasis in trachoma-endemic areas.
Promops nasutus
Creators: name: Wilson, Don E.
name: Mittermeier, Russell A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Molossidae
Promops
Promops nasutus

description: 24. Brown Mastiff Bat Promops nasutus French: Petit Promope / German: Braune Bulldogfledermaus / Spanish: Promops pequeno Other common names: Brown Free-tailed Bat Taxonomy. Molossus nasutus Spix, 1823, “prope flumen St. Francisci [= near the Sao Francisco River],” Bana, Brazil. Five potential subspecies of P. nasutus have not been thoroughly studied, but additional research is needed. Monotypic. Distribution. NE Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad I, Guyana, Suriname, W, E & S Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, and N Argentina. Descriptive notes. Head-body 65-80 mm, tail 47-58 mm, ear 12-16 mm, hindfoot 6-12 mm, forearm 45-52 mm; weight 13-22 g. Dorsal pelage of the Brown Mastiff Bat is medium to dark brown, with whitish bases to hairs. Ventral pelage is paler. Wing membranes are blackish brown. Ears are small, rounded, and almost meet on forehead, which has ridge that extends to nose. Adult males have well-developed gular gland on throat. Braincase is wide and high, giving rounded profile. Posterior one-third of zygomatic arches are thinner that anterior portion. Only one-half of cochlea is covered by tympanic bulla. Diploid number is 2n = 40. Habitat. Seasonal semideciduous forests, savannas, thorny scrublands, and montane forests up to elevations of 2560 m. Food and Feeding. The Brown Mastiff Bat is insectivorous. Breeding. Brown Mastiff Bats were pregnant in October-November in Argentina. Activity patterns. Brown Mastiff Bats roost in tree hollows, palm trees, cracks in cliffs, rock crevices, caves, and roofs of houses. Movements, Home range and Social organization. No information. Status and Conservation. Classified as Least Concern on The IUCN Red List. Bibliography. Barquez et al. (1999), Barros et al. (2017), Eger (2008), PaQui et al. (2016).
description: Published as part of Don E. Wilson & Russell A. Mittermeier, 2019, Molossidae, pp. 598-672 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 9 Bats, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on page 629, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6418279
title: Port Visits as a Component of Soviet Naval Diplomacy in the Mediterranean Sea 1967-1986
Creators: name: Ickes, John Mark
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 1992

description: The Soviet Union used its navy as an instrument to support its political agenda, particularly after 1967. This thesis examines 1785 Soviet port visits in the Mediterranean Sea to identify characteristics of the Soviet naval port visit program, particularly the significance of the country visited, the length of the visit, and the ships selected for the visit. The results indicate that certain Mediterranean countries were visited more than others, that the length of the visit can be associated with various Soviet political intentions, and that certain warships made significantly more visits than others.
The semi-classical limit of large fermionic systems
Creators: name: Solovej, Jan Philip
name: Fournais, S{ø}ren
name: Lewin, Mathieu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study a system of $N$ fermions in the regime where the intensity of the interaction scales as $1/N$ and with an effective semi-classical parameter $\hbar=N^{-1/d}$ where $d$ is the space dimension. For a large class of interaction potentials and of external electromagnetic fields, we prove the convergence to the Thomas-Fermi minimizers in the limit $N\to\infty$. The limit is expressed using many-particle coherent states and Wigner functions. The method of proof is based on a fermionic de Finetti-Hewitt-Savage theorem in phase space and on a careful analysis of the possible lack of compactness at infinity.
description: Final version published in Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (2018)
MPEC 2023-T187 : 2016 UW41
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Excess of lensing amplitude in the Planck CMB power spectrum
Creators: name: Mokeddem, Rahima
name: Hipólito-Ricaldi, Wiliam S.
name: Bernui, Armando
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Precise measurements of the Planck cosmic microwave background (CMB) angular power spectrum (APS) at small angles have stimulated accurate statistical analyses of the lensing amplitude parameter $A_{L}$. To confirm if it satisfies the value expected by the flat-$Λ$CDM concordance model, i.e. $A_{L} = 1$, we investigate the spectrum difference obtained as: the difference of the measured Planck CMB APS and the Planck best-fit $Λ$CDM APS model. To know if this residual spectrum corresponds to statistical noise or if it has a hiden signature that can be accounted for with a larger lensing amplitude $A_{L} > 1$, we apply the Ljung-Box statistical test and find, with high statistical significance, that the spectrum difference is not statistical noise. This spectrum difference is then analysed in detail using simulated APS, based on the Planck $Λ$CDM best-fit model, where the lensing amplitude is a free parameter. We explore different binnations of the multipole order \,$\ell$\, and look for the best-fit lensing amplitude parameter that accounts for the spectrum difference in a $χ^2$ procedure. We find that there is an excess of signal that is well explained by a $Λ$CDM APS with a non-null lensing amplitude parameter $A_{lens}$, with values in the interval $[0.10,0.29]$ at 68\% confidence level. Furthermore, the lensing parameter in the Planck APS should be $1 + A_{lens} > 1$ at $\sim 3 σ$ of statistical confidence. Additionally, we perform statistical tests that confirm the robustness of this result. Important to say that this excess of lensing amplitude, not accounted in the Planck's flat-$Λ$CDM model, could have an impact on the theoretical expectation of large-scale structures formation once the scales where it was detected correspond to these matter clustering processes.
description: JCAP published version
Utilizing Macrophage-Embedded Fibrin Gels and Continuous Glucose Monitoring to Characterize Macrophage Glucose Consumption
Creators: name: Wang, Chenyang
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: Chemistry, Analytic

description: Continuous glucose monitoring via implantable glucose sensors has been considered for precise and timely measurement of the blood sugar level for diabetes regulation. The foreign body response (FBR) from the tissue to implanted objects at the insult site poses challenges in maintaining the analytical performances of sensors by either blocking or consuming local glucose around the site of implantation. Macrophages are essential immune cells and regulators in the FBR and can consume enough glucose, depending on polarization states, to interfere with glucose measurements. To provide an approach to further understand macrophages’ role and impact in FBR, a glucose consumption sensing platform composed of an in-house fabricated implantable glucose sensor and cell-embedded fibrin gels was used to provide a current signal decay that was related to the glucose concentration change in the gels. Though sensor sensitivity and dynamic ranges were acceptable, yet results from obtained macrophage-embedded gels were not significantly different among different cellular conditions. These findings were likely caused by protein-sensor interaction in the gels and potential in both gel preparation and operation on cells. Such results reveal some shortcomings of the applied platform and express the necessity in refining the platform design and in regulating the interaction between the sensor surface and substances from gels and from other parts of the sensing platform to achieve the full potential in quantification that was proposed for such design.
MPEC 2023-T188 : 2017 RO2
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Access to Credit and the Impact of Credit constraints on Agricultural Productivity in Ethiopia: Evidence from Selected Zones of Rural Amhara
Creators: name: Tilahun Dessie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015

description: An overwhelming majority of the rural population in developing countries depends on agriculture for survival. Thus, agriculture is critical for both human welfare and economic growth in the developing world including Africa. Agriculture currently contributes 30%–50% of national incomes in sub-Saharan Africa and can generate considerably greater income and stimulate economic growth (MFW4A, 2012). In this region, roughly two-thirds of the population live in rural areas and are dependent on agriculture for their livelihoods; nearly half live in extreme poverty, earning less than $1/day; and one-third are undernourished. Therefore, the low performance of agriculture in Africa is critically at the heart of its food insecurity and slow economic growth. The policy brief produced by Making Finance Work for Africa (MFW4A) Task Force on Agricultural Finance (2011) reports that agriculture is, and will continue to be, a major building block in the economic success and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in most of Africa. Furthermore, agricultural production needs to increase by 70 percent by 2050 to feed the world, while climate change and urbanization will heavily reduce the area of cultivable land (MFW4A, 2012).
Wave equations in conformally separable, accreting, rotating black holes
Creators: name: Hamilton, Andrew J. S.
name: McMaken, Tyler
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Teukolsky wave equations governing fields of spin 0, $\tfrac{1}{2}$, 1, $\tfrac{3}{2}$, and 2 are generalized to the case of conformally separable solutions for accreting, rotating black holes.
description: v1: 25 pages. v2: minor updates to agree with published version; 26 pages
Structure of the glass-forming metallic liquids by ab-initio and classical molecular dynamics, a case study: quenching the Cu60Ti20Zr20 alloy
Creators: name: Amokrane, S.
name: Ayadim, A.
name: Levrel, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the question of the amorphization of metallic alloys by melt quenching, as predicted by molecular dynamics simulations with semi-empirical potentials. The parametrization of the potentials is discussed on the example of the ternary Cu-Ti-Zr transition metals alloy, using as reference the ab-initio simulation. The pair structure in the amorphous state is computed from a potential of the Stillinger Weber form. The transferability of the parameters during the quench is investigated using two parametrizations: from solid state data, as usual, and from a new parametrization on the liquid structure. When the adjustment is made on the pair structure of the liquid, a satisfactory transferability is found between the pure components and their alloys. The liquid structure predicted in this way agrees well with experiment, in contrast with the one obtained using the adjustment on the solid. The final structure, after quenches down to the amorphous state, determined with the new set of parameters is shown to be very close to the ab-initio one, the latter being in excellent agreement with recent X-rays diffraction experiments. The corresponding critical temperature of the glass transition is estimated from the behavior of the heat capacity. Discussion of the consistency between the structures predicted using semi-empirical potentials and ab-initio simulation, and comparison of different experimental data underlines the question of the dependence of the final structure on the thermodynamic path followed to reach the amorphous state.
description: 11 pages, 11 figures; to appear in J. Appl. Phys
Iterative Thresholded Bi-Histogram Equalization for Medical Image Enhancement
Creators: name: Qadar, Muhammad Ali
name: Zhaowen, Yan
name: Hua, Li
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Enhancement of human vision to get an insight to information content is of vital importance. The traditional histogram equalization methods have been suffering from amplified contrast with the addition of artifacts and a surprising unnatural visibility of the processed images. In order to overcome these drawbacks, this paper proposes interative, mean, and multi-threshold selection criterion with plateau limits, which consist of histogram segmentation, clipping and transformation modules. The histogram partition consists of multiple thresholding processes that divide the histogram into two parts, whereas the clipping process nicely enhances the contrast by having a check on the rate of enhancement that could be tuned. Histogram equalization to each segmented sub-histogram provides the output image with preserved brightness and enhanced contrast. Results of the present study showed that the proposed method efficiently handles the noise amplification. Further, it also preserves the brightness by retaining natural look of targeted image.
description: 8 Pages, 8 Figures, International Journal of Computer Applications (IJCA)
MPEC 2023-T189 : 2021 SV2
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
title: British Foreign Policy and the Crimean War A Study in Uncoordinated Diplomacy
Creators: name: Kennedy, Ronald W.
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 1989

description: This thesis is an examination of British Crimean War diplomacy. Under analysis is the pre-war era (1844-1853) and the war years (1854-1856). Intense diplomatic negotiations were in progress during most of the period immediately preceding and during the Crimean War. The diplomatic efforts to avoid war as well as negotiations to resolve the conflict were protracted and extremely complex.

This study is designed to examine British policy by focusing on what often characterized British efforts prior to, and during, the Crimean War: uncoordinated diplomacy. Although the British clearly wanted to avoid this war and to hasten its conclusion once fighting commenced, their diplomacy was extremely inconsistent. The primary goal of this study is to shed a little more light on an aspect of Crimean War diplomacy that has not by itself been sufficiently addressed.
Behavioral Comparison of Cougars (Puma concolor) and Lions (Panthera leo) between Zoo and Sanctuary
Creators: name: Babb, Matthew
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: Maintaining captive animal populations possesses many benefits to conservation, education, and research, but at a cost of reduced animal freedom and welfare. Due to the many geographical, social, and behavioral restrictions placed on captive animals, it is important to study their welfare so that facilities can improve the lives and health of their captive populations. One reliable factor which has been used as a real-time indicator of an animal’s well-being is stereotypic behavior. Stereotypies are repetitive, unvarying behavior patterns performed with no purpose or goal that develop as a result of various negative environmental factors. They often represent animal distress when present at high rates. Currently, there are few studies that analyze the effects that exhibit design and spatial distributions (i.e. where and what animals are doing at different locations in their enclosures) have on these behaviors. We hypothesized that exhibit design and the spatial distributions of stereotypies are important factors to consider when trying to manage captive animal welfare. To test our hypothesis, we analyzed the behavior profiles, exhibit-use, and pacing routes of five individual African lions (Panthera leo) and four individual cougars (Puma concolor) housed in two different facilities. Through the use of video observation, modified ethograms, and spatial tracking we found a strong correlation between the location of stereotypic behavior and the amount of visual stimulation available at those locations. Animals performed stereotypic behaviors significantly more along guest viewing areas and at places in the exhibit where other animals were visible to each individual. We also analyzed the effects of temperature, facility type, and exhibit size and found trends that can be explored in future research. These results provide new ways to effectively manage captive felid populations and have potential implications for improving captive animal welfare in the future.
Scalability of Superconductor Electronics: Limitations Imposed by AC Clock and Flux Bias Transformers
Creators: name: Tolpygo, Sergey K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Flux transformers are the necessary component of all superconductor digital integrated circuits utilizing ac power for logic cell excitation and clocking, and flux biasing, e.g., Adiabatic Quantum Flux Parametron (AQFP), Reciprocal Quantum Logic, superconducting sensor arrays, qubits, etc. We consider limitations to the integration scale (device number density) imposed by the critical current of the ac power transmission lines and cross coupling between the adjacent transformers. The former sets the minimum line width and the mutual coupling length in the transformer, whereas the latter sets the minimum spacing between the transformers. Decreasing linewidth of superconducting (Nb) wires increases kinetic inductance of the transformer's secondary, decreasing its length and mutual coupling to the primary. This limits the minimum size of transformers. As a result, there is a minimum linewidth ~100 nm which determines the maximum achievable scale of integration. Using AQFP circuits as an example, we calculate dependence of the AQFP number density on linewidth for various types of transformers and inductors available in the SFQ5ee fabrication process developed at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and estimate the maximum circuit density as a few million AQFPs per cm^2. We propose an advanced fabrication process for a 10x increase in the density of AQFP and other ac-powered circuits. In this process, inductors are formed from a patterned bilayer of a geometrical inductance material (Nb) deposited over a layer of high kinetic inductance material (e.g., NbN). Individual pattering of the bilayer layers allows to create stripline inductors in a wide range of inductances, from the low values typical to Nb striplines to the high values typical for NbN thin films, and preserve sufficient mutual coupling in stripline transformers with extremely low crosstalk.
description: 18 pages, 18 figures, 45 references
MPEC 2023-T190 : 2021 TV2
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
"Us" Versus "Them": Jair Bolsonaro's Construction of a Populist Frame
Creators: name: Hannah Elizabeth Day
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: This thesis examines how Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro constructs and disseminates a populist frame that positions “the people” against “the others.” To answer this question, I conducted a textual analysis of Bolsonaro’s tweets from October 14, 2018 to January 2, 2020 using the qualitative analysis software ATLAS.ti. My results demonstrated three trends in Bolsonaro’s discourse. First, Bolsonaro positions himself as the defender of “the people,” an in-group defined by shared values of freedom, family and faith. Second, he articulates a sense of cultural threat, so that “the others” includes the LGBTQ community, indigenous people and women. Third, he communicates solidarity with the political right and hostility to the political left. This study emphasizes that the populist conceptualization of reality is contingent upon the construction of an in-group against an out-group.
MPEC 2023-Q136 : 2023 QO5
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 QO5

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Eumops bonariensis
Creators: name: Wilson, Don E.
name: Mittermeier, Russell A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Molossidae
Eumops
Eumops bonariensis

description: 26. Common Dwarf Bonneted Bat Eumops bonariensis French: Eumope de Peters / German: Peters-Bulldogfledermaus / Spanish: Eumops de Peters Other common names: Dwarf Bonneted Bat, Southern Bonneted Bat, Southern Dwarf Bonneted Bat Taxonomy. Promops bonariensis Peters, 1874, “Buenos-Aires,” Argentina. FEumops delticus, E. nanus, and E. patagonicus were formerly classified as subspecies of E. bonariensis but here are considered distinct species based on morphological and molecular differences. Monotypic. Distribution. Paraguay, S Brazil, N Argentina, and Uruguay. Descriptive notes. Head—body 72-87 mm, tail 33-43 mm, ear 21-24 mm, hindfoot 7-10 mm, forearm 45-49 mm; weight 15-20 g. See general characteristics of the genus under the Black Bonneted Bat (E. auripendulus). Dorsal pelage of the Common Dwarf Bonneted Batis cinnamon-brown, with hairs having whitish bases; venteris paler, with frosted tips on some hairs. Wing membranes are brown, with hair covering proximal portions, and attach at ankles. Calcar is long and almost reaches to tail. Ears do not extend beyond nose. Keel of ear extends past posterior margin of antitragus. Tragus is long and thin. Nose is broad and nostrils are separated by furrow. Upperlip is thick and wrinkled, with fine hairs on lateral margins. Basisphenoid pits are small, oval, and shallow, which distinguishes the Common Dwarf Bonneted Bat from the Delta Bonneted Bat (E. delticus); longer condylo-basal length and wider zygomatic breadth distinguishesit from the Northern Dwarf Bonneted Bat (E. nanus) and the Patagonian Dwarf Bonneted Bat (E. patagonicus). Habitat. Dry Chaco, Monte thorn scrub, and Pampas ecoregions and urban areas. Food and Feeding. The Common Dwarf Bonneted Bat is an aerial insectivore. Breeding. Common Dwarf Bonneted Bats were pregnant in October-November. A female with well-developed mammae was reported in November and lactating females in late December. Reproductively inactive females were caught in March-April, July, and October. Activity patterns. Common Dwarf Bonneted Bats roost under bridges, in roofs of houses, and in tree holes. At sunset, they emit loud shrieking calls from their roosts before flying out into the dark. It has been netted flying near water. It is preyed on by common barn-owls (7yto alba) and striped owls (Asio clamator). Movements, Home range and Social organization. No information. Status and Conservation. Classified as Least Concern on The IUCN Red List. Bibliography. Barquez et al. (1999), Baud (1981), Bernardi et al. (2009), Eger (2008), Gamboa et al. (2016), Mares et al. (1995), Medina etal. (2014).
description: Published as part of Don E. Wilson & Russell A. Mittermeier, 2019, Molossidae, pp. 598-672 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 9 Bats, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on page 630, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6418279
Early Prediction of Autism Spectrum Disorder at 12 months of Age from Brain Morphometry
Creators: name: D. Ben Knoble
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: Autism in children
Supervised learning (Machine learning)

description: Recent research established a link between the development of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and increased levels of extra-axial cerebrospinal fluid (EA-CSF) [30]. Along with morphometric measures, local measures such as EA-CSF enlargement have also been shown to be relevant in a classification model of ASD from brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images of infants aged 6 months [22]. To analyze the predictive usefulness of the 12-month MRI data as compared to the 6-month data, I extracted local EA-CSF measures from 12-month MRIs in Infant Brain Imaging Study (IBIS) subjects. I then adapted the 6-month model for use with the 12-month measurements. While I hypothesized that the 12-month features would prove more predictive than the 6-month features, my cur- rent findings are that for almost all brain morphometric measurements, the adapted classifiers performed more weakly on the 12-month data set than on the 6 month data. I explore some possible underlying reasons in this study. Further research is needed, however, to determine whether a combination of brain morphometric measurements or additional classi- fier optimization may lead to a sufficiently accurate prediction for clinical predictive use.
Fair Cake-Cutting among Families
Creators: name: Segal-Halevi, Erel
name: Nitzan, Shmuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We study the fair division of a continuous resource, such as a land-estate or a time-interval, among pre-specified groups of agents, such as families. Each family is given a piece of the resource and this piece is used simultaneously by all family members, while different members may have different value functions. Three ways to assess the fairness of such a division are examined. (a) Average Fairness means that each family's share is fair according to the "family value function", defined as the arithmetic mean of the value functions of the family members. (b) Unanimous Fairness means that all members in all families feel that their family's share is fair according to their personal value function. (c) Democratic Fairness means that in each family, at least a fixed fraction (e.g. a half) of the members feel that their family's share is fair. We compare these criteria based on the number of connected components in the resulting division and on their compatibility with Pareto-efficiency.
description: Add a cool reduction from equitable division among individuals to average-proportional division among families
ABRomics metadata referential for genomic data
Creators: name: LAO, Julie
name: RUPPE, Etienne
name: BONNET, Richard
name: BIRER, Aurélien
name: GLASER, Philippe
name: MEDIGUE, Claudine
name: ABRomics Consortium
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: metadata
bacterial genome
pathogenic strain

description: Set of genomic metadata required for the submission of pathogenic strains in ABRomics : 14 out of 22 fields are mandatory to describe the: - Biological sample - Strain - Sequencing technology
The case of HD 106906 debris disc: A binary's revenge
Creators: name: Farhat, Mohammad
name: Sefilian, Antranik
name: Touma, Jihad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Debris disc architecture presents [exo-]planetary scientists with precious clues for processes of planet formation and evolution, including constraints on planetary mass perturbers. This is particularly true of the disc in HD 106906, which in early HST, then follow up polarimetric observations, presented asymmetries and needle-like features that have been attributed to perturbations by a massive, and unusually distant external planetary companion. Here, we revisit the long-term secular dynamical evolution of the HD 106906 disc allowing for the combined gravitational action of the planetary companion and the inner stellar binary which holds the system together. We argue that the binary is strong enough to impose a dynamical break at the disc's location, resulting in distinctive observational signatures which we render via simulated surface density maps and vertical structure profiles. Within uncertainties on the planet's orbit, we show that the disc can go from being fully dominated by the inner binary to significantly so, and is hardly ever outside its reach. The extent of binary dominance impacts the disc's mean eccentricity, a metric which we map as a function of the planet's semi-major axis and orbital eccentricity, with and without radiation pressure. We can thus constrain the planet's orbit to ease the tension between evident axisymmetry in the millimeter, and apparent asymmetry in scattered light. We discuss phase space structure, then inclination distribution, arguing for the relevance of our results to a variety of hierarchical systems, as we set the stage for generalizations that allow for disc self-gravity and collisional evolution.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS; 20 pages, 14 figures, 2 Animations (See Ancillary files)
Electronic structure of CeRu4Sn6: a density functional plus dynamical mean field theory study
Creators: name: Wissgott, P.
name: Held, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Kondo system CeRu$_4$Sn$_6$ shows a strong anisotropy in its electric, optic and magnetic properties. We employ density functional theory plus dynamical mean field theory and show that the predominant Ce-$f$ state has total angular moment $J=5/2$ and $z$-component $m_J=\pm 1/2$ in agreement with recent X-ray absorption experiments. Even though CeRu$_4$Sn$_6$ has the direct gap of a Kondo insulator through most of the Brillouin zone it remains weakly metallic. This is because of (i) a band crossing in the $z$-direction and (ii) a negative indirect gap.
description: 6 pages, 9 figures