cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
DECARBONIZING SCHOOLS: A SPATIAL ANALYTIC FRAMEWORK TO PRIORITIZE SCHOOL-BASED SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC INSTALLATIONS IN DURHAM COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA
Creators: name: Moodliar, Kira Francesca
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: Public schools play a crucial role in renewable energy investment as they can serve as emergency spaces during extreme weather events due to climate change and offer an avenue for decarbonizing the building sector, which accounts for 10% of US public building electricity consumption. Recent legislation like the Inflation Reduction Act and CHIPS & Science Act will boost renewable energy technology and infrastructure investment in the US. Public schools, especially those eligible under the DOE Office of Legacy Management’s Environmental Justice Initiative and the Justice 40 Initiative, stand to benefit significantly. Focusing on Durham County, North Carolina, this study develops a spatial analytic decision-support tool to prioritize solar installations on schools based on various criteria, including solar potential and social vulnerability indicators. Using a GIS-based framework and linear optimization, the tool guides investment decisions by considering solar insolation, financial benefits, energy demand reduction, and Justice40 criteria. The approach is tested in Durham County and can be scaled up for larger regions. The study estimates that each school in Durham County could potentially host 216 kW of solar PV generation per roof, resulting in substantial financial savings based on building energy load profiles.
Εκτίμηση εδαφικών παραμέτρων με τη χρήση συστημάτων παρατήρησης γης
Creators: name: Σάββα, Βασιλική Παναγιώτη
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2023
Subjects: Αισθητήρες Φάσματος
Εδαφική Ανάλυση
Παράμετροι Ποιότητας Εδάφους
Spectral Sensors
Soil Analysis
Soil Quality Parameters

description: Ένα υγιές έδαφος έχει οριστεί ως η συνεχής ικανότητα του εδάφους να λειτουργεί ως ζωτικό σύστημα διαβίωσης. Για να αξιολογηθεί η βιωσιμότητα ενός παραγωγικού συστήματος, πρέπει να παρακολουθούνται οι αλλαγές στις χημικές, φυσικές και βιολογικές ιδιότητες μέσω των παραμέτρων ποιότητας εδάφους που περιλαμβάνουν την υφή του εδάφους, την παρουσία ρύπων περίσσεια θρεπτικών ουσιών και αλάτων, τα αποθέματα οργανικού άνθρακα, τα θρεπτικά συστατικά και την οξύτητα, τη βιοποικιλότητα, την βλάστηση και την ετερογένεια του εδάφους καθώς και τις μεταβλητές όλων αυτών. Η φασματοσκοπία εδάφους είναι μια μέθοδος με πολλές εφαρμογές στην εδαφολογία, αποτελεί ένα ευέλικτο και αναλυτικό εργαλείο για την χημική ή θρεπτική ανάλυση του εδάφους όπου οι αισθητήρες ανιχνεύουν τις αλλαγές και τις παρατηρούν με συστήματα ελέγχου. Η περιοχή μελέτης περιλαμβάνει δύο διαφορετικά αγροτεμάχια στην περιοχή του Ν. Ημαθίας όπου έγιναν μετρήσεις στο πεδίο του pH, EC και υγρασίας και δειγματοληψίες ώστε να γίνουν εργαστηριακές αναλύσεις για την κοκκομετρική σύσταση εδάφους, τον οργανικό άνθρακα, CaCO3, ολικό άζωτο, pH και EC. Ακόμη, έγινε απογείωση 2 διαφορετικών μη επανδρωμένων αεροσκαφών. Επίσης, στο εργαστήριο πραγματοποιήθηκαν μετρήσεις με την χρήση φασματοφωτόμετρου PSR +3500 και στο πεδίο με αισθητήρες καταγραφής φάσματος MEMS. Τέλος, με την στατιστική γλώσσα προγραμματισμού R αξιολογήθηκε η ακρίβεια των μοντέλων πρόβλεψης των εδαφικών παραμέτρων.
description: A healthy soil has been defined as the continued ability of the soil to function as a vital living system. To assess the sustainability of a productive system, changes in chemical, physical and biological properties must be monitored soil quality parameters that include soil texture, the presence of more nutrients and salts, organic plant stocks, nutrients and acidity, biodiversity, vegetation and soil heterogeneity and the variables of all these. Soil spectroscopy is a method with many applications in soil science, it is a versatile and analytical tool for chemical or nutrient analysis of soil where sensors detect changes and observe them with control systems. The study area includes two different land parcels in the region of Imathia where in-situ measurements were made of pH, EC and humidity and samplings were carried out to make laboratory analyzes for soil texture, organic carbon, CaCO3, total nitrogen, pH, and EC. Also, 2 different drones took off. Also, measurements were made in the laboratory using a PSR +3500 spectrophotometer and in the field MEMS spectral recording sensors. Finally, with the statistical programming language R, the accuracy of the prediction models of the soil parameters was evaluated.
Il riflesso della scenografia: eredità novecentesche e prospettive contemporanee
Creators: name: Mazzaglia, Rossella
Publisher: name: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies
Year: 2020

description: The reflex of scenography: XIX century heritage and contemporary perspectives) focuses on scenography since the 1980s, with a special interest in Italian theatre. It articulates an opening of the theoretical framework of scenography accounting for the transformation theatre has undergone since the second half of the Twentieth Century. In so doing, it shows some continuity with the past while also accounting for new tendencies in the construction of the performative space, which appear to be informed by a dialectics between the scene as sensorial stimulus and the scene as sign. This tension is engaged according to its present forms as a reflection of the artists’ contemporary sensibility towards life and society.
description: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies, Vol 4 (2014): Custodire l’orizzonte
On a mass functional for initial data in 4+1 dimensional spacetime
Creators: name: Alaee, Aghil
name: Kunduri, Hari K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a broad class of asymptotically flat, maximal initial data sets satisfying the vacuum constraint equations, admitting two commuting rotational symmetries. We construct a mass functional for `$t-ϕ^i$' symmetric data which evaluates to the ADM mass. We then show that $\mathbb{R} \times U(1)^2$-invariant solutions of the vacuum Einstein equations are critical points of this functional amongst this class of data. We demonstrate positivity of this functional for a class of rod structures which include the Myers-Perry initial data. The construction is a natural extension of Dain's mass functional to $D=5$, although several new features arise.
description: V2: 31 pages-Section 2.2 revised and lengthened (differs from published version); minor typos corrected
Evaluating Methods for Cyanide Analysis: a Field Sampling Study in Badin, North Carolina
Creators: name: Rice, Cassidy
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: Badin Lake was created by the damming of the Yadkin Pee Dee River to provide
hydroelectric power to an aluminum smelter that would operate on its shores. Alcoa Inc., the
global aluminum producer that owned and operated the smelter until it’s closing, still owns the
building and surrounding land and is required to perform intermittent monitoring of certain
environmental contaminants, namely cyanide and fluoride, to ensure that the remaining waste is
not harming Badin Lake or surrounding surface waters. This study sought to gain insight into the
precision and accuracy of analytical methods for total, available, and free cyanide. The ability to
accurately measure low levels of cyanide in environmental waters is imperative to convey
messaging to impacted communities about potential exposures, but the analytical methods for
cyanide remain imprecise at their lower limits and create complications for drawing conclusions
about how cyanide within the lake may impact health.
Surrogate-model-based, particle swarm optimization, and genetic algorithm techniques applied to the multiobjective operational problem of the fluid catalytic cracking process
Creators: name: Bohorquez, José F. Cuadros
name: Tovar, Laura Plazas
name: Maciel, Maria Regina Wolf
name: Delba C. Melo
name: Filho, Rubens Maciel
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: This article provides a concise multiobjective optimization methodology for an industrial fluid catalytic cracking unit (FCCU) considering stochastic optimization techniques, genetic algorithms (GA) and particle swarm optimization (PSO), based on surrogates or meta-models in order to approximate the objective function. A FCCU was considered and simulated in an AspenONE process simulator. In addition the article examines the claim that PSO has the same effectiveness (finding the optimal global solution) as GA, but with significantly better computational efficiency (fewer function evaluations). The optimization results obtained with the PSO technique, based on the evaluation of less functions and adjustment of less parameters, showed a 3% increase in yield of naphtha as compared to results obtained with the GA technique. Finally, the results of the optimization obtained with the stochastic optimization techniques were compared and analyzed with a deterministic one. The performance targets of the multiobjective operational optimization supported the FCCU design and production planning to ensure refinery profitability and a regulatory environment.
Affective temporalities in Gob Squad's Kitchen (You've never had it so good)
Creators: name: Pais, Ana
Publisher: name: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies
Year: 2020

description: In this article I will be drawing upon affect theory to unpack issues of authenticity, mediation, participation in the production Gob Squads’s Kitchen, by Gob Squad. English/German collective reconstructed Andy Warhol’s early film Kitchen, shot 47 years before, in the flamboyant Factory, starring ephemeral celebrities such as Eve Sedgwick. Alongside Eat (1964), Sleep (1963) and Screen Test (1964-66). Although it premièred in Berlin, in 2007, the show has been touring in several countries and, in 2012, it received the New York Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience.I will be examining how the production’s spatial dispositive creates a mediated intimacy that generates affective temporalities and how their performativity allows us to think of the audience as actively engaged in an affective resonance with the stage. Intimacy creates worlds (Berlant 2000). It brings audience and performer closer not only to each other but also to the shifting moment of Performance Art’s capture by institutional discourses and market value. Unleashing affective temporalities allows the audience to embody its potency, to be, again, “at the beginning”.Drawing upon André Lepecki’s notion of reenactments as activations of creative possibilities, I will be suggesting that Gob Squads’s Kitchen merges past and present by disclosing accumulated affects, promises and deceptions attached to the thrilling period of the sixties in order to reperform a possibility of a new beginning at the heart of a nowthen time. In conclusion, this article will shed new light on the performative possibilities of affect to surmount theatrical separation and weave intensive attachments.
description: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies, Vol 4 (2014): Custodire l’orizzonte
Sante folli e cretine da Bene
Creators: name: Di Vita, Vincenza
Publisher: name: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies
Year: 2020

description: The “holy fools” are suffering from “cretinism”, it is not intended as a physiological disease but it is rather a state of mind that allows them to be included in a certain category of artist. Then cretinism in this special meaning it is said to derive from the same etymological root as “Christian”, as a follower of Christianity, or that is from the French “Chrétien”. In this specific sense is therefore also includes a person so pure and naive to adhere to holiness and spiritual promise of eternal salvation by the religious profession of Christianity. An artist who believes deeply in his search for truth through art is for this reason identified as “holy”, in the same way a person who professed Christianity could be identified in a Christian artist, stupid and insane. About this concept of cretinism has been talk of holy fools in the case of artists such as Jerzy Grotowski and Carmelo Bene. The figure of the simpleton like an artist suffering from cretinism, in the sense that we have given here, then, is the topic of this paper. In particular here the artistic legacy of Carmelo Bene is discussed about his female heirs. The performer Lady Gaga will be analyzed as the most representative of the heirs of Bene, by the way of the song and video titled Judas; and by the entire album titled Born this way. Can be found in it figures as the Christ and his apostles and the chorus sings: “I'm just a holy fool.” Apart from that the poetic imagination and artistic vision are undoubtedly close to those of Bene.
description: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies, Vol 4 (2014): Custodire l’orizzonte
Multibin correlations in a superposition approach to relativistic heavy-ion collisions
Creators: name: Olszewski, Adam
name: Broniowski, Wojciech
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Analysis of correlation of multiplicities between various rapidity bins is carried out in the framework of a superposition approach consisting of three phases of the ultra-relativistic nuclear collision: early partonic phase, intermediate collective evolution, and statistical hadronization. Simple relations between the moments of produced hadrons and the moments of the sources produced in the initial partonic phase are presented. They involve only a few effective parameters describing the of microscopic dynamics of the system. We illustrate the practicality of the approach with the Glauber model simulations. Our study carries direct relevance for the interpretation of the upcoming results for the multibin multiplicity correlations from the LHC, which will help in an assessment of the correlation features of the state formed in the earliest stage of the reaction.
description: version accepted in Phys. Rev. C
Crossing the borders of performative moments: Conversation with André Lepecki
Creators: name: Cutugno, Carmela
Publisher: name: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies
Year: 2020

description: In this interview taken in May 2012 at New York University, André Lepecki offers a unique perspective on the development of Performance Studies at NYU. Being in fact the only current member of the department who has been first a Master and a PhD student, and later a professor in the same department, Lepecki has a first-hand and multifaceted view of the hallmarks of the New York tradition of Performance Studies, and of the changes that have characterized them during the past twenty years. Arrived at New York University in the early nineties, with a background primarily in anthropology and dance, here Lepecki familiarized with philosophy, performing art and “critical theory”. Analyzing the history of Performance Studies at NYU, Lepecki identifies three key stages or moments: the “epic” moment, the moment of the “signature”, and the moment of the “corporations”. Furthermore he recognizes in the present leanings a greater focus on “critical theory”, but also on “American Studies”, which, with the exception of the work done by Diana Taylor with her Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, leaves little room for the global opening that characterized NYU during the past decades. In his view, today the department favors two main strands of studies: “everyday life performances” and “performing art”. Finally, reflecting on the ontology of performance, Lepecki sees in its “disappearing” the rich potential for its various forms of “reappearing”.
description: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies, Vol 4 (2014): Custodire l’orizzonte
Embodying an Hemispheric Political Perspective: Diana Taylor’s Cultural Practices
Creators: name: Cutugno, Carmela
Publisher: name: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies
Year: 2020

description: This interview with Diana Taylor, which took place at the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics in August 2012, touches upon several issues. First Diana Taylor focuses on the innovative nature of Performance Studies, having as its object of study an object of analysis that is never given “a priori”, but that, instead, has to be created and circumscribed from time to time. In this sense she emphasizes the methodological effectiveness of Performance Studies in stepping forward as an analytical lens aiming at investigating various forms of behavior and “embodied” cultural practices, understood as forms of transmission of meaning. Secondly, turning the attention to the work done with her Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, Diana Taylor highlights the political value inherent in the performative expressions and examines both the important connection between theory and practice in the field of Performance Studies, and the transdisciplinary or postdisciplinary dimension that characterizes it. Finally, reflecting on the ontology of performance, she affirms that, resulting from a mix of codes and conventions, performance never “happens” for the first time, and that any attempt to “save” or “preserve” it is intended to fail.
description: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies, Vol 4 (2014): Custodire l’orizzonte
Antioxidative oxygenated terpenoids with bioactivities against pro-inflammatory inducible enzymes from Indian squid, Uroteuthis (Photololigo) duvaucelii
Creators: name: Chakraborty, Kajal
name: Soumya Krishnan
name: Minju Joy
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Cephalopod squid, Uroteuthis (Photololigo) duvaucelii is consumed as culinary delicacy along the southwest part of Asian continent. Ethyl acetate:methanol extract of U. duvaucelii was chromatographically fractionated to yield C19 furano-norditerpenoid (1) along with irregular C15 sesquiterpenoid (2) and C20 diterpenoid compounds (3). In vitro anti-inflammatory and antioxidant analyses were utilised to evaluate their bio-potentials. The C19 furano-norditerpenoid was reported for significantly effective 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl radical inhibition (IC50 0.60 mg/mL) than other compounds and α-tocopherol (IC50 ≥ 0.64 mg/mL). The 2,2’-azino-bis-3-ethylbenzothiozoline-6-sulfonic acid inhibition and ferrous ion chelating potentials were higher for compounds 1 and 2 (IC50 ∼ 0.69 and ∼0.84 mg/mL, respectively) compared to α-tocopherol (IC50 0.76–0.95 mg/mL). The studied compounds displayed comparable inhibitory activities with synthetic ibuprofen against pro-inflammatory inducible 5-lipoxygenase (IC50 ∼ 0.92 mg/mL). The lower hydrophobicity and steric variables were directly correlated with their antioxidative and anti-inflammatory properties. The studied compounds could be utilised as natural antioxidants and anti-inflammatory functional food ingredients.
Performance Studies’ External Relations: Marvin Carl- son’s “Alternative Voice”
Creators: name: Cutugno, Carmela
Publisher: name: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies
Year: 2020

description: This long conversation with Marvin Carlson took place in March 2012 at CUNY (City University of New York), where Carlson is professor of Theater, Comparative Literature and Middle-East Studies. His deep knowledge of the topic “performance” makes him one of the most authoritative voices in the field; yet, at the same time, the fact that he is not a Performance Studies professor, allows him to be a conscious and informed “alternative voice”. In this way he can provide a different perspective from another angle, but still deeply aware and expert in the subject matter. The first substantial part of the conversation focuses on issues concerning the ontological definition of “performance”, while the second part is dedicated to the analysis of Performance Studies, of the contributions that this new discipline has generated in the field of Theatre Studies, and of its possible interdisciplinary or postdisciplinary connotation, here challenged by Carlson. Thirdly, the attention focuses on the intertwining of theory and practice in the field of Performance Studies, an intersection that was coveted and sought in the early eighties, but that never quite materialized according to Marvin Carlson. Furthermore, regarding the possible lack of importance given to the historiographical component among performance scholars, Carlson considers it as a quite common matter within Performance Studies.
description: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies, Vol 4 (2014): Custodire l’orizzonte
"Archiving" Performance: "Reenacting" Creativity
Creators: name: Cutugno, Carmela
Publisher: name: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies
Year: 2020

description: The ephemeral material which constitutes performance certainly does not make it neither an easy object of study, nor even a subject that offers itself for an immediate dialogic treatment or one aimed at ‘saving’ it. Several attempts try to ensure that performance ‘remains’, that does not ‘disappear’, that does not vanish consuming itself in the very act of its manifestation. Among the most successful experiments that have played with the many facets of the ontology of performance there is certainly the reenactment, which can be considered as a valid form of ‘archiving’ performance. In fact, precisely because it is able to respect, perhaps more than other ‘saving’ attempts, the ontological characteristics of performance itself, its specific codes and its particular structures, the reenactment results at the same time also a smart and innovative way to try to do historiography in the field of performance. From the reenactments done by Marina Abramović to the performative anthology by Clifford Owens, performance has been able to ‘save itself’ by ‘self-archiving’, meaning by giving the re-performance and its aware differential variance, the task of doing so.
description: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies, Vol 4 (2014): Custodire l’orizzonte
L'ordito del bello. Trame bio-etologiche dell'evoluzione del senso estetico
Creators: name: Anastasi, Alessandra
Publisher: name: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies
Year: 2020

description: One of the most admired characteristics of bird behavior is song but there are many examples of discrimination of aesthetic stimuli by animals. A wide range of animals, from fish to primates, successfully learn discrimination of music, while preference for particular music is rather rare in animals, although songbirds prefer some musical stimuli to others. Some animals, such as chimpanzees and elephants, draw and paint, however the animals do not “enjoy” their products and the products do not have a reinforcing property to other conspecifics. This constitutes the clear difference between human art and the art-like behavior of animals.
description: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies, Vol 3 (2013): Il "Tra"
Torus action on quaternionic projective plane and related spaces
Creators: name: Ayzenberg, Anton
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 55R91, 57S15, 57S25, 22F30 Secondary 57R91, 57S17, 20G20, 57M60, 20G41

description: For an action of a compact torus $T$ on a smooth compact manifold~$X$ with isolated fixed points the number $\frac{1}{2}\dim X-\dim T$ is called the complexity of the action. In this paper we study certain examples of torus actions of complexity one and describe their orbit spaces. We prove that $\mathbb{H}P^2/T^3\cong S^5$ and $S^6/T^2\cong S^4$, for the homogeneous spaces $\mathbb{H}P^2=Sp(3)/(Sp(2)\times Sp(1))$ and $S^6=G_2/SU(3)$. Here the maximal tori of the corresponding Lie groups $Sp(3)$ and $G_2$ act on the homogeneous spaces by the left multiplication. Next we consider the quaternionic analogues of smooth toric surfaces: they give a class of 8-dimensional manifolds with the action of $T^3$, generalizing $\mathbb{H}P^2$. We prove that their orbit spaces are homeomorphic to $S^5$ as well. We link this result to Kuiper--Massey theorem and some of its generalizations.
description: 22 pages, 6 figures
Spitzer Secondary Eclipses of the Dense, Modestly-irradiated, Giant Exoplanet HAT-P-20b Using Pixel-Level Decorrelation
Creators: name: Deming, Drake
name: Knutson, Heather
name: Kammer, Joshua
name: Fulton, Benjamin J.
name: Ingalls, James
name: Carey, Sean
name: Burrows, Adam
name: Fortney, Jonathan J.
name: Todorov, Kamen
name: Agol, Eric
name: Cowan, Nicolas
name: Desert, Jean-Michel
name: Fraine, Jonathan
name: Langton, Jonathan
name: Morley, Caroline
name: Showman, Adam P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: HAT-P-20b is a giant exoplanet that orbits a metal-rich star. The planet itself has a high total density, suggesting that it may also have a high metallicity in its atmosphere. We analyze two eclipses of the planet in each of the 3.6- and 4.5 micron bands of Warm Spitzer. These data exhibit intra-pixel detector sensitivity fluctuations that were resistant to traditional decorrelation methods. We have developed a simple, powerful, and radically different method to correct the intra-pixel effect for Warm Spitzer data, which we call pixel-level decorrelation (PLD). PLD corrects the intra-pixel effect very effectively, but without explicitly using - or even measuring - the fluctuations in the apparent position of the stellar image. We illustrate and validate PLD using synthetic and real data, and comparing the results to previous analyses. PLD can significantly reduce or eliminate red noise in Spitzer secondary eclipse photometry, even for eclipses that have proven to be intractable using other methods. Our successful PLD analysis of four HAT-P-20b eclipses shows a best-fit blackbody temperature of 1134 +/-29K, indicating inefficient longitudinal transfer of heat, but lacking evidence for strong molecular absorption. We find sufficient evidence for variability in the 4.5 micron band that the eclipses should be monitored at that wavelength by Spitzer, and this planet should be a high priority for JWST spectroscopy. All four eclipses occur about 35 minutes after orbital phase 0.5, indicating a slightly eccentric orbit. A joint fit of the eclipse and transit times with extant RV data yields e(cos{omega}) = 0.01352 (+0.00054, -0.00057), and establishes the small eccentricity of the orbit to high statistical confidence. Given the existence of a bound stellar companion, HAT-P-20b is another excellent candidate for orbital evolution via Kozai migration or other three-body mechanism.
description: version published in ApJ, minor text and figure revisions
Performance dell'abitare: Rom a Mazara del Vallo (un'etnografia)
Creators: name: Saitta, Pietro
Publisher: name: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies
Year: 2020

description: The present essay investigates the settlement process of a Roma community in the Sicilian Town of Mazara del Vallo. It suggests that, in spite of the high levels of discrimination, the Roma community became part of the national underclass, and that the integration within this class takes place through a set of informal practices involving the community and the State. The author describes the trajectory followed by this community in the aftermath of the Kosovo war of the 1990s, and reflects on some elements apt to generate a theory of action concerning the relation between individuals and the State.
description: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies, Vol 3 (2013): Il "Tra"
Constraints on the broad line region from regularized linear inversion: Velocity-delay maps for five nearby active galactic nuclei
Creators: name: Skielboe, Andreas
name: Pancoast, Anna
name: Treu, Tommaso
name: Park, Daeseong
name: Barth, Aaron J.
name: Bentz, Misty C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Reverberation mapping probes the structure of the broad emission-line region (BLR) in active galactic nuclei (AGN). The kinematics of the BLR gas can be used to measure the mass of the central supermassive black hole. The main uncertainty affecting black hole mass determinations is the structure of the BLR. We present a new method for reverberation mapping based on regularized linear inversion (RLI) that includes modelling of the AGN continuum light curves. This enables fast calculation of velocity-resolved response maps to constrain BLR structure. RLI allows for negative response, such as when some areas of the BLR respond in inverse proportion to a change in ionizing continuum luminosity. We present time delays, integrated response functions, and velocity-delay maps for the $\rm{H}\,β$ broad emission line in five nearby AGN, as well as for $\rm{H}\,α$ and $\rm{H}\,γ$ in Arp 151, using data from the Lick AGN Monitoring Project 2008. We find indications of prompt response in three of the objects (Arp 151, NGC 5548 and SBS 1116+583A) with additional prompt response in the red wing of $\rm{H}\,β$. In SBS 1116+583A we find evidence for a multimodal broad prompt response followed by a second narrow response at 10 days. We find no clear indications of negative response. The results are complementary to, and consistent with, other methods such as cross correlation, maximum entropy and dynamical modelling. Regularized linear inversion with continuum light curve modelling provides a fast, complementary method for velocity-resolved reverberation mapping and is suitable for use on large datasets.
description: 20 pages, 13 figures, accepted to MNRAS
Weave as a method of sandal design: innovation through a hands-on approach
Creators: name: Pinski, Jenny
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Uncategorized
subject: 120399 Design Practice and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: This research investigated the application of a hands-on woven textile approach to sandal design. It identified and assessed the creative design potential, the practical considerations, and the relevance of positioning it within the ready-to-wear footwear market. A design process model was produced in relation to the findings to develop an industry relevant framework. The aim of this was to provide an approach to enhancing competitive advantage through design innovation. Through a critical discussion and analysis of design approaches the research also aimed to contribute to knowledge within the academic field of design process theory. A critical literature review was carried out which focused on current and state-of-the-art practices and products in footwear and woven textiles; the commercial contexts in which they sit; and academic theory of design approaches and hands-on making to support innovation. This contextualised and provided a reference point for the empirical research. Data was collected via a series of practice-based case studies in the form of design projects, in-depth semi-structured interviews and a focus group with design professionals. The design process model was developed in response to the findings and it depicts a collaborative approach between woven textile and footwear designers that is relevant within a commercial design context. The hands-on woven textile approach under investigation consisted of the integration of hand weaving and other associated processes into the sandal design. Materials and constructions were considered at the early, explorative stages of the design process in parallel with form giving. The research findings indicated that the in-depth knowledge of materials and constructions gained through hands-on making could enhance creativity by informing design concepts. Weaving by hand was found to provide heightened levels of control for design development, allowing for technical and subjective decision making to take place in parallel. In these respects, the hand weaving process was most applicable to carrying out in-depth research into materials and constructions and in supporting design development through a process of sampling and review. Quick methods of 3D modelling supported idea generation and digital processes aided visualisation and the presentation of design proposals. Additionally, the research provides an example of a practice-based methodology for design process research. Methods of data collection, analysis and dissemination are presented and discussed throughout.
Conformal Gauss Map Geometry and Application to Willmore Surfaces in Model Spaces
Creators: name: Marque, Nicolas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we make a detailed and self-contained study of the conformalGauss map. Then, starting from the seminal work of R. Bryant and the notion of conformal Gauss map, we recover many fundamental properties of Willmore surfaces. We also get new results like some characterizations of minimal and constant meancurvature (CMC) surfaces in term of their conformal Gauss map behavior.
Outstanding properties of epitaxial graphene grown from silicon carbide substrate
Creators: name: Ben-Gouider-Trabelsi, Amira
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Uncategorized
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this thesis a study of outstanding properties of epitaxial graphene on SiC were carried out involving Raman spectroscopy, AFM, UFM, XPS, Photoelectric effect and electrical resistivity. Epitaxial graphene was grown from a semi-insulating on-axis 6H (000-1) or 4H-SiC (000-1) substrate. Epitaxial growth is based on Si atoms sublimation from the SiC substrate bulk. We used the basics of epitaxial graphene growth; however small details were changed. This allowed the growth of various layers, new features and new properties. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy XPS was used to identify the different components forming within the graphene substrate system. The graphene layer number is evidenced by XPS. Atoms percentages in the grown graphene layer were determined. Furthermore, the oxidation of the graphene layers was clearly distinguished. Atomic force microscopy AFM was carried out to study the topography response of the graphene sample. This distinguishes any morphological changes of the graphene layer. The size, orientation and regularity of the layers terraces were determined. For the first time, new features such as: island, bubbles and domes of graphene layers were identified. The nature of these features was determined using ultra force microscopy UFM . High-resolution micro-Raman (Jobin Yvon HR LabRAM) was employed to illustrate all the revealed properties. Nonetheless, it illustrates the doping, defects, disorder, number of layers and phonon-plasmon coupling of epitaxial graphene. These properties were carefully demonstrated based on local Raman mapping. The findings of these investigations indicate the formation of various types of epitaxial graphene layers. These latest could have various forms with new electrical properties. This was illustrated using a comparative study to mechanical properties of epitaxial graphene island. In fact, new charge distribution was found across these features. These findings also differs from other electrical properties found in flat graphene layers. These latest shows electroneutrality of charge distribution between graphene SiC substrate. Here, Phonons- plasmons coupling in epitaxial graphene SiC substrate system were illustrated. On other hand, epitaxial graphene properties were not limited to the graphene layers flatness. In fact, new photoresponse of epitaxial graphene under violet light was revealed. Here, photo resistance increase during to epitaxial graphene morphology.
An $\varepsilon$-regularity result with mean curvature control for Willmore immersions and application to minimal bubbling
Creators: name: Marque, Nicolas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we prove a convergence result for sequences of Willmore immersions with simple minimal bubbles. To this end we replace the total curvature control in T. Rivière's proof of the $\varepsilon$-regularity for Willmore immersions by a control of the local Willmore energy.
description: 42 pages, 2 figures, new version after reviewer's comments for publication
TDR, The Drama Review: a script for the "gestation" of Performance Studies
Creators: name: Cutugno, Carmela
Publisher: name: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies
Year: 2020

description: TDR, The Drama Review, is the first and most important Performance Studies journal. It has existed for more than half a decade, it testifies to the birth of this field of research and its following main developments. By going through the history of the journal, this short overview shows how TDR is engaged in a genuine mutual osmosis between what appears on its pages and what is happening in the world of performance practice, studies, and research.
description: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies, Vol 3 (2013): Il "Tra"
Late Quaternary variations in paleoerosion rates in the northern Qilian Shan revealed by 10Be in fluvial terraces
Creators: name: Xu, B.
name: Wang, W.
name: Liang, H.
name: Zhang, P.
name: Zhang, H.
name: Zheng, W.
name: Li, T.
name: Li, Z.
name: Tian, Q.
name: Zhang, Y.
name: Kirby, E.
Publisher: name: Elsevier B.V.
Year: 2021

description: Understanding the pace of erosion through space and time may provide insight into how tectonic and climatic processes conspire to drive landscape evolution. However, determining whether erosion rates in a given locality have varied with past climate change remains challenging, and the mechanisms invoked to explain variations in past erosion rates are not well understood. In this study, we evaluate past rates of erosion during the late Quaternary along the northern Qilian Shan, the range bounding the northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau. We measured the concentrations of cosmogenic 10Be from fluvial deposits atop 5 terraces along the Hongshuiba River and average 10Be concentrations at the time of terrace formation. We also determined terrace ages by combining 5 10Be depth profiles and 15 OSL samples of overlying loess. Our results confirm previous dating of this terrace sequence using cosmogenic exposure ages of boulders and depth profiles in terrace gravels and indicate that terrace treads span glacial-interglacial cycles over the past ~200 ka. We exploit this exceptionally dense sampling of 10Be to evaluate differences in cosmogenic 10Be concentrations at the time of terrace formation along the Hongshuiba River. Analysis of 48 individual determinations of “inherited” 10Be concentrations reveal that fluvial sediment in terraces abandoned during the last glacial and penultimate glacial periods are 3–4 times greater than concentrations in sediment atop terraces formed during interglacial times. Paleoerosion rates within the Hongshuiba watershed appear to have been ~200 m/Myr during glacial episodes but increased to ~500–700 m/Myr during interglacial times, similar to recent erosion rates inferred from 10Be in modern sediment. These results point to likely changes in the mean residence time of sediment with the watershed that fluctuate in association with 100-ka glacial-interglacial cycles. We suggest that reductions in erosion rates associated with glacial conditions may have been driven by changes in catchment hydrology during cold and dry periods.
Phases of SU(3) Gauge Theories with Fundamental Quarks via Dirac Spectral Density
Creators: name: Alexandru, Andrei
name: Horváth, Ivan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose that, in SU(3) gauge theories with fundamental quarks, confinement can be inferred from spectral density of the Dirac operator. This stems from the proposition that its possible behaviors are exhausted by three distinct types (Fig.1). The monotonic cases are standard and entail confinement with valence chiral symmetry breaking (A) or the lack of both (C,C'). The bimodal (anomalous) option (B) was frequently regarded as an artifact (lattice or other) in previous studies, but we show for the first time that it persists in the continuum limit, and conclude that it informs of a non-confining phase with broken valence chiral symmetry. This generalization rests on the following. $(α)$ We show that bimodality in $N_f$=0 theory past deconfinement temperature $T_c$ is stable with respect to removal of both infrared and ultraviolet cutoffs, indicating that anomalous phase is not an artifact. $(β)$ We demonstrate that transition to bimodality in $N_f$=0 is simultaneous with the loss of confinement: anomalous phase occurs for $T_c < T < T_{ch}$, where $T_{ch}$ is the valence chiral restoration temperature. $(γ)$ Evidence is presented for thermal anomalous phase in $N_f$=2+1 QCD at physical quark masses, whose onset too coincides with the conventional "crossover $T_c$''. We conclude that the anomalous regime $T_c < T < T_{ch}$ is very likely a feature of nature's strong interactions. $(δ)$ Our past studies of zero-temperature $N_f$=12 theories revealed that bimodality also arises via purely light-quark effects. As a result, we expect to encounter anomalous phase on generic paths to valence chiral restoration. We predict its existence also for $N_f$ massless flavors ($T=0$) in the range $N_f^c < N_f < N_f^{ch}$, where $N_f^c$ could be quite low. Conventional arguments would associate $N_f^{ch}$ with the onset of conformal window.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures; v2: PRD version, few remarks/references added and minor reformulations made, 11 pages, 6 figures
The great refusal: mirrored semblances in Vatican
Creators: name: Calantropo, Josella
name: Lateana, Francesca
name: Menchicchi, Carlotta
name: Salutato, Anna
Publisher: name: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies
Year: 2020

description: This paper is the result of a thirty hour seminar on Performance Studies, taught by Dr. Carmela Cutugno at the University of Bologna, as part of a Master course in Theories and Cultures of Representation held by Professor Marco De Marinis. The idea for the chosen topic, as well as part of the readings were suggested during the seminar by Dr. Cutugno, who assisted us for the entire process of thinking and writing about this issues. The seminar was conceived and realized as a performance studies analysis workshop and the final paper was presented and performed as the result of the course. This essay is a synopsis of that work, and its object deals with Pope Benedetto XVI's resignation, in particular with his transformation from Pope to Emeritus Pope. We investigated such phenomenon through five different perspectives: ethical-psychological, media, theological, moral, economic. Finally, we inserted a survey concerning the reaction that this event has aroused in Brazil.
description: Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies, Vol 3 (2013): Il "Tra"
Kirche und Staat in Österreich 1945-1980
Creators: name: Weinzierl, Erika
Publisher: name: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio
Year: 2022

description: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Bd. 9 Nr. 5 (1980): Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Band 9, Heft 5
Sociodemographic Disparities in Tobacco Retailer Density in the United States, 2000-2017
Creators: name: Baggett, C.D.
name: Reimold, A.E.
name: Kong, A.Y.
name: Wiesen, C.A.
name: Golden, S.D.
name: Mills, S.D.
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press
Year: 2022

description: Introduction: Studies find differences in tobacco retailer density according to neighborhood sociodemographic characteristics, raising issues of social justice, but not all research is consistent. Aims and Methods: This study examined associations between tobacco retailer density and neighborhood sociodemographic characteristics in the United States at four timepoints (2000, 2007, 2012, and 2017) and investigated if associations remained stable over time. Data on tobacco retailers came from the National Establishment Time-Series Database. Adjusted log-linear models examined the relationship between retailer density and census tract sociodemographic characteristics (% non-Hispanic Black [Black], % Hispanic, % vacant housing units, median household income), controlling for percentage of youth, urbanicity, and US region. To examine whether the relationship between density and sociodemographic characteristics changed over time, additional models were estimated with interaction terms between each sociodemographic characteristic and year. Results: Tobacco retailer density ranged from 1.22 to 1.44 retailers/1000 persons from 2000 to 2017. There were significant, positive relationships between tobacco retailer density and the percentage of Black (standardized exp(b) = 1.05 [95% CI: 1.04% to 1.07%]) and Hispanic (standardized exp(b) = 1.06 [95% CI: 1.05% to 1.08%]) residents and the percentage of vacant housing units (standardized exp(b) =1.08 [95% CI: 1.07% to 1.10%]) in a census tract. Retailer density was negatively associated with income (standardized exp(b) = 0.84 [95% CI: 0.82% to 0.86%]). From 2000 to 2017, the relationship between retailer density and income and vacant housing units became weaker. Conclusions: Despite the weakening of some associations, there are sociodemographic disparities in tobacco retailer density from 2000 to 2017, which research has shown may contribute to inequities in smoking. Implications: This study examines associations between tobacco retailer density and neighborhood sociodemographic characteristics in the United States at four timepoints from 2000 to 2017. Although some associations weakened, there are sociodemographic disparities in tobacco retailer density over the study period. Research suggests that sociodemographic disparities in retailer density may contribute to inequities in smoking. Findings from this study may help identify which communities should be prioritized for policy intervention and regulation.