cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Word
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Slavic literature
Slavs
International relations

description: This paper will focus on contemporary bilingual Russian-American poets, the Russophone children of the Third Wave — poets who (in print and in performance) rehearse or confront American notions of accent, of “Russianness,” of bilingual experience, and bring up questions about the representations and marketing of Russian-American identity in post-Cold War America. Thus, special attention will be paid to the cultural framing of these poets in the context of American poetic discourse and the manner in which they are published and presented. The complicated relationship between Russian and English poetic principles, tropes, and modes comes to light most perceptibly in the English-language works of these poets born in the Soviet Union but living in the United States: Ilya Bernstein, Ilya Kaminsky, Natalie Lyalin, Philip Nikolayev, Eugene Ostashevsky, and Genya Turovskaya. The close readings of their poems presented here intend to shed light on the complex relationship of Russian-Americans of this generation to their Russian (and Soviet) backgrounds, and their anxious position in regard to previous waves and generations of Russian émigrés.
title: Das Flüchtlingsrecht steht einer Änderung der Asylpolitik nicht entgegen
Creators: name: Talmon, Stefan
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2018

description: Die Forderung der CSU, Migranten, die bereits in einem anderen EU-Mitgliedsstaat als Asylsuchende registriert wurden, direkt an der Grenze zurückzuweisen, ist zum Teil auf scharfe Kritik gestoßen. Dana Schmalz schreibt in ihrem Beitrag „Weshalb man Asylsuchende nicht an der Grenze abweisen kann“ unter anderem, dass der Zurückweisung von Flüchtlingen an der Grenze auch die Genfer Flüchtlingskonvention (GFK) entgegenstehe. Insbesondere solle sich aufgrund der rein deklaratorischen Natur der Anerkennung als Flüchtling und dem Refoulement-Verbot aus der GFK eine Verpflichtung ergeben, selbst solche Personen vorläufig aufzunehmen, bei denen sich später herausstellt, dass sie keinen Schutzanspruch als Flüchtling haben. Dieser Ansicht soll im Folgenden eine etwas andere – mehr positivistische – Lesart der Konvention gegenübergestellt werden.
A Part of a Whole
Creators: name: Straathof, Gerry
Publisher: name: Arts
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Fine Arts

description: A Part of a Whole is a distillation of insights gained through creative research that examines my relationship to abandoned locations in Western Canada. I have discovered an empathy for the past inhabitants, a curiosity for the sites themselves, and a desire to imagine these locations as they once were. This artwork is produced to instill that empathy and curiosity within others. I have been interested the leftover built environment from the homestead era in Western Canada since childhood, watching farm buildings and industrial sites slowly disappear over the years while on family trips and school outings. A Part of a Whole examines my relationship with the exploration of a landscape that was once inhabited, a busy place of industry, small homestead or bustling town. For this thesis project I have considered Bankhead, Alberta, a mining site within Banff National Park as a case study. My creative research has involved allowing myself to follow a path of curiosity while recording the progress for later introspection and analysis, the synthesis of an insight into elements of artworks and the reflection upon the results. Each work completed in the context of my MFA has brought me a step closer to understanding my relationship to the past inhabitants of these abandoned locations, and what compels me to imagine the way their environments once looked and felt. Each individual living in these absent buildings were a once part of the whole community. A Part of a Whole shares my empathy for these people through the use of suitcases which contain briefly imagined buildings I can only see while exploring the landscape that contained an industry, town or homestead. The connected line of progressing light is my progress through the site, while displaying my imagined recreation of the buildings that were once part of the whole foundations that are all that remain of this community.
Distributed Randomized Algorithms for the PageRank Computation
Creators: name: Ishii, Hideaki
name: Tempo, Roberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In the search engine of Google, the PageRank algorithm plays a crucial role in ranking the search results. The algorithm quantifies the importance of each web page based on the link structure of the web. We first provide an overview of the original problem setup. Then, we propose several distributed randomized schemes for the computation of the PageRank, where the pages can locally update their values by communicating to those connected by links. The main objective of the paper is to show that these schemes asymptotically converge in the mean-square sense to the true PageRank values. A detailed discussion on the close relations to the multi-agent consensus problems is also given.
LDC Arabic Treebanks and Associated Corpora: Data Divisions Manual
Creators: name: Diab, Mona T.
name: Habash, Nizar Y.
name: Rambow, Owen C.
name: Roth, Ryan M.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Computer science
Information science

description: The Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) has developed hundreds of data corpora for natural language processing (NLP) research. Among these are a number of annotated treebank corpora for Arabic. Typically, these corpora consist of a single collection of annotated documents. NLP research, however, usually requires multiple data sets for the purposes of training models, developing techniques, and final evaluation. Therefore it becomes necessary to divide the corpora used into the required data sets (divisions). Unfortunately, there is no universally accepted convention or standard for dividing bulk corpora. This caused different research groups to either define their own divisions (which makes comparison to similar research results difficult) or adopt existing published divisions (which do not adapt as new corpora versions are released). When a new treebank is released, a new division needs to be developed, which may or may not be consistent with the other treebank divisions. This document details a set of rules that have been defined to enable consistent divisions for old and new Arabic treebanks (ATB) and related corpora. These rules have been applied to the currently available LDC Modern Standard Arabic Treebanks (ATB1 - ATB12), the Egyptian Arabic Treebanks (ARZ1 - ARZ8) and the spoken Levantine ATB, and the exact divisions are listed in tables.
Sieben Positionen zu institutionellen Publikationsinfrastrukturen und Universitätsverlagen
Creators: name: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Universitätsverlage
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: university presses
institutional publishing
library publishing
Humanities and Social Sciences
Open Access
Europe

description: Die Association of European University Presses (AEUP) veröffentlichte im März 2018 erstmals Positionen zur Bedeutung europäischer Universitätsverlage. Die Arbeitsgemeinschaft Universitätsverlage und ihre Mitglieder unterstützen die genannten Positionen nachdrücklich und stimmen ihnen zu. Die Arbeitsgemeinschaft legt hiermit eine modifizierte Fassung der von AEUP formulierten Positionen in deutscher Sprache vor. Originalfassung (englische Fassung): http://www.aeup.eu/aeup/resources/seven-statements-oneuropean- university-presses/, Stand: März 2018.
description: {"references": ["Association of European University Presses: Seven Statements on European University Presses"]}
Knowing versus liking : separating normative knowledge from evaluation in impressions
Creators: name: Rogers, Katherine Helen
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Accurately perceiving the personality of the average person corresponds broadly with stereotype accuracy – the generalizability of one’s impressions to other individuals. Previous research has demonstrated that the normative personality profile is highly socially desirable (Borkenau & Zaltauskas, 2009; Wood, Gosling & Potter, 2007). Due to the highly evaluative nature of the normative personality profile, individual differences in perceiving others either more or less positively – the halo effect – is often considered an evaluative artifact that is either statistically removed or minimized through item selection. However, what if individual differences in normative judgments reflect not just evaluative tendencies but also individual differences in generalized knowledge? In Study 1, 1027 participants watched video clips and rated the personality of targets using the Big Five Inventory (BFI; John & Srivastava, 1999) and also completed personality self reports. Using the average self-reports and the social desirability of the personality items (Paulhus, 2009) to predict impressions, we find that despite a high correlation between the normative profile and social desirability, the two independently predict ratings of others. Further, in Study 2 using a modified Q-sort, perceivers (Sample 1 N = 77, Sample 2 N = 88, Sample 3 N = 62) sorted an abbreviated 24-item version of the BFI (John & Srivastava, 1999) describing the average person’s personality. On average, perceivers had accurate knowledge of the average individual’s personality. Additionally, perceivers with greater accuracy in describing the average person rated the personality of ten videotaped targets or the personality of other participants in the round-robin more normatively. This strongly suggests that individual differences in normative judgments are not simply evaluative, but also include a component of knowledge regarding the average personality. Further, consistent with these effects representing separate constructs, well-adjusted individuals achieve greater levels of normative accuracy by having greater normative knowledge, while perceivers who explicitly evaluate others more positively achieve greater normative accuracy by rating others in a more socially desirable manner.
Research of the active reflector antenna using laser angle metrology system
Creators: name: Zhang, Yong
name: Zhang, Jie
name: Yang, Dehua
name: Zhou, Guohua
name: Li, Aihua
name: Li, Guoping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Active reflector is one of the key technologies for constructing large telescopes, especially for the millimeter/sub-millimeter radio telescopes. This article introduces a new efficient laser angle metrology system for the active reflector antenna of the large radio telescopes, with a plenty of active reflector experiments mainly about the detecting precisions and the maintaining of the surface shape in real time, on the 65-meter radio telescope prototype constructed by Nanjing Institute of Astronomical Optics and Technology (NIAOT). The test results indicate that the accuracy of the surface shape segmenting and maintaining is up to micron dimension, and the time-response can be of the order of minutes. Therefore, it is proved to be workable for the sub-millimeter radio telescopes.
description: 10 pages, 15 figures
title: Disentangling the cyber security debate
Creators: name: Kreuzer, Leonhard
Publisher: name: Fachinformationsdienst für internationale und interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung
Year: 2018

description: In his insightful LJIL article Kubo Mačák discusses the under-developed state of international cyber security law. He assesses that the absence of cyber security law-making has created a power vacuum that has been filled by non-state actor initiatives, such as the Tallinn Manual. He calls on states that now is the time to reclaim their central role in international lawmaking, in the short-term by articulating their opinio iuris more clearly, in the mid-term by overcoming their treaty aversion, and in the long-term by moving towards the adoption of a multilateral cyber security treaty. While I fully agree with Mačák’s central argument for more state engagement I would like to highlight a problem that states seem well-advised to address in their future engagement with international law in cyberspace.
Colloids in active fluids: Anomalous micro-rheology and negative drag
Creators: name: Foffano, G.
name: Lintuvuori, J. S.
name: Stratford, K.
name: Cates, M. E.
name: Marenduzzo, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We simulate an experiment in which a colloidal probe is pulled through an active nematic fluid. We find that the drag on the particle is non-Stokesian (not proportional to its radius). Strikingly, a large enough particle in contractile fluid (such as an actomyosin gel) can show negative viscous drag in steady state: the particle moves in the opposite direction to the externally applied force. We explain this, and the qualitative trends seen in our simulations, in terms of the disruption of orientational order around the probe particle and the resulting modifications to the active stress.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
A simultaneous dual-site technosignature search using international LOFAR stations
Creators: name: A. Johnson, Owen
name: Gajja, Vishal
name: Keane, Evan F.
name: J. McKenna, David
name: Giese, Charles
name: McKeon, Ben
name: D. Carozzi, Tobia
name: Alcaria, Cloe
name: Brennan, Aoife
name: Brzycki, Bryan
name: Croft, Steve
name: Drew, Jamie
name: Elkins, Richard
name: Gallagher, Peter T.
name: Kelly, Ruth
name: Lebofsky, Matt
name: H. E. MacMahon, Dave
name: McCauley, Joseph
name: de Pater, Imke
name: Rose Raeside, Shauna
name: Siemion, Andrew P. V.
name: Worden, S. Pete
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 51
subject: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence aims to find evidence of technosignatures, which can point toward the possible existence of technologically advanced extraterrestrial life. Radio signals similar to those engineered on Earth may be transmitted by other civilizations, motivating technosignature searches across the entire radio spectrum. In this endeavor, the low-frequency radio band has remained largely unexplored; with prior radio searches primarily above 1 GHz. In this survey at 110–190 MHz, observations of 1,631,198 targets from TESS and Gaia are reported. Observations took place simultaneously with two international stations (noninterferometric) of the Low Frequency Array in Ireland and Sweden. We can reject the presence of any Doppler drifting narrowband transmissions in the barycentric frame of reference, with equivalent isotropic radiated power of 1017 W, for 0.4 million (or 1.3 million) stellar systems at 110 (or 190) MHz. This work demonstrates the effectiveness of using multisite simultaneous observations for rejecting anthropogenic signals in the search for technosignatures
Legal issues facing adjudication in the Irish construction industry: a discussion
Creators: name: Ryan, Cathal
name: Spillane, John
name: Bradley, Jim
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 40
subject: Engineering

description: The Construction Contracts Act 2013 (hereafter referred to as “the Act”) was enacted a decade ago. However, the resolution method is yet to be widely adopted within the Irish context. This research aims to discuss the legal problems that the Act has faced to date. The way these issues are handled by the Irish legal system influences how the Act may be utilised in future. Adjudication cases that progressed to litigation, post the introduction of the Act, are the primary source for the discussion. Seven legal problems make up the basis of this discussion. Misinterpretation of the legislation is a recurring cause of legal problems. However, the adoption of court rules is gradually resolving this issue. Five of the seven problems were resolved, however one resolution resulted in the emergence of another legal issue. This study's essential contribution is to discuss the legal developments that have occurred since the Act has been in practice, in hopes that this information will assist contract parties in protecting their rights to payment security.
The Submm and mm Excess of the SMC: Magnetic Dipole Emission from Magnetic Nanoparticles?
Creators: name: Draine, B. T.
name: Hensley, Brandon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) has surprisingly strong submm and mm-wavelength emission that is inconsistent with standard dust models, including those with emission from spinning dust. Here we show that the emission from the SMC may be understood if the interstellar dust mixture includes magnetic nanoparticles, emitting magnetic dipole radiation resulting from thermal fluctuations in the magnetization. The magnetic grains can be metallic iron, magnetite Fe3O4, or maghemite gamma-Fe2O3. The required mass of iron is consistent with elemental abundance constraints. The magnetic dipole emission is predicted to be polarized orthogonally to the normal electric dipole radiation if the nanoparticles are inclusions in larger grains. We speculate that other low-metallicity galaxies may also have a large fraction of the interstellar Fe in magnetic materials.
description: submitted to ApJ
Russophone Emigrants in the Performing and Visual Arts
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Slavs
Music
Theater
History

description: American culture of the twentieth century benefited enormously from emigration from Russia and the USSR; theater, film and music were imbued with an unexpected wealth of creative energy. In New York and Hollywood, Russian actors, directors, composers and musicians transformed the American conception of entertainment. Stanislavsky's Moscow Art Theater immensely successful tour of Europe and New York in 1922-1923, which was organized by Otto Kahn and Morris Gest, the impresario who also brought Russian ballet companies to the West in the 1920s as well as Nikita Balieff's "Chauve Souris," inspired generations of actors to participate in workshops of theatrical innovation such as the American Laboratory Theater under the direction of MKhAT alumnus, Richard Boleslawsky and Maria Ouspenskaia, as well as Mikhail Chekhov's schools in New York and Hollywood. The American stage and screen benefited enormously from the performance methods taught by Lee Strasberg ("Hyman Roth" in "The Godfather"), Stella Adler, and director Elia Kazan, and continued by the still active Actor's Studio and students such as Brando, Hoffman, and DeNiro which had a powerful influence on the shaping of American performing arts. Entrepreneurs like Gest, Boris Romanoff and Sergei Balk brought a new and exciting presence to New York theater in the 1920s, and later to Hollywood. The unexpected blend of vaudeville and high art in Russian cabaret and adaptations of "Crime and Punishment" done by Theodore Komisarjevsky in 1947-48 and Yury Liubimov in 1987 are illustrative of the great influence of Russian theater in America. In the arena of choral music, the famed Don Cossack Choir conducted by Serge Zharoff found a home in the USA in the late 1930s. Among other luminaries who immigrated to America during this period were Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and famed conductor Serge Koussevitzky. The later fourth wave of emigration from the USSR during the Brezhnev era brought several well-established Russian musical luminaries to America, notably cellist/conductor Mstislav Rostropovich, who was appointed as conductor of the National Philharmonic in Washington, D.C., and pianist Vladimir Feltsman.
A Mathematical model for Astrocytes mediated LTP at Single Hippocampal Synapses
Creators: name: Tewari, Shivendra
name: Majumdar, Kaushik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Cell Behavior (q-bio.CB)
subject: Subcellular Processes (q-bio.SC)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65C20, 65C40, 92C05, 92C20, 92C37

description: Many contemporary studies have shown that astrocytes play a significant role in modulating both short and long form of synaptic plasticity. There are very few experimental models which elucidate the role of astrocyte over Long-term Potentiation (LTP). Recently, Perea & Araque (2007) demonstrated a role of astrocytes in induction of LTP at single hippocampal synapses. They suggested a purely pre-synaptic basis for induction of this N-methyl-D- Aspartate (NMDA) Receptor-independent LTP. Also, the mechanisms underlying this pre-synaptic induction were not investigated. Here, in this article, we propose a mathematical model for astrocyte modulated LTP which successfully emulates the experimental findings of Perea & Araque (2007). Our study suggests the role of retrograde messengers, possibly Nitric Oxide (NO), for this pre-synaptically modulated LTP.
description: 51 pages, 15 figures, Journal of Computational Neuroscience (to appear)
Mobile Video Is Inefficient: A Traffic Analysis
Creators: name: Nam, Hyunwoo
name: Kim, Bong Ho
name: Calin, Doru
name: Schulzrinne, Henning G.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Computer science

description: Video streaming on mobile devices is on the rise. According to recent reports, mobile video streaming traffic accounted for 52.8% of total mobile data traffic in 2011, and it is forecast to reach 66.4% in 2015. We analyzed the network traffic behaviors of the two most popular HTTP-based video streaming services: YouTube and Netflix. Our research indicates that the network traffic behavior depends on factors such as the type of device, multimedia applications in use and network conditions. Furthermore, we found that a large part of the downloaded video content can be unaccepted by a video player even though it is successfully delivered to a client. This unwanted behavior often occurs when the video player changes the resolution in a fluctuating network condition and the playout buffer is full while downloading a video. Some of the measurements show that the discarded data may exceed 35% of the total video content.
Dark matter and LHC phenomenology in a left-right supersymmetric model
Creators: name: Esteves, J. N.
name: Hirsch, M.
name: Porod, W.
name: Romao, J. C.
name: Staub, F.
name: Vicente, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Left-right symmetric extensions of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model can explain neutrino data and have potentially interesting phenomenology beyond that found in minimal SUSY seesaw models. Here we study a SUSY model in which the left-right symmetry is broken by triplets at a high scale, but significantly below the GUT scale. Sparticle spectra in this model differ from the usual constrained MSSM expectations and these changes affect the relic abundance of the lightest neutralino. We discuss changes for the standard stau (and stop) co-annihilation, the Higgs funnel and the focus point regions. The model has potentially large lepton flavour violation in both, left and right, scalar leptons and thus allows, in principle, also for flavoured co-annihilation. We also discuss lepton flavour signals due to violating decays of the second lightest neutralino at the LHC, which can be as large as 20 fb$^{-1}$ at $\sqrt{s}=14$ TeV.
description: 32 pages; 18 figures; v2: discussion of Focus point included
The Word
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Slavic literature
Slavs
International relations

description: This presentation explores the principal historical, sociopolitical, cultural, linguistic, and religious parameters that shaped Russian émigré literature of the Third Wave. The history of the Jewish emigration from the former Soviet Union to the US in the 1970s and 1980s will be briefly considered in connection with the origins and cultural pedigree of the Third Wave. The interactions between the predominantly Jewish “Soviet” Diaspora and the representatives of the First and Second Waves of Russian Emigration will not be overlooked. However, the main emphasis will be placed on the prevalent themes, styles, literary forms and genres, and also on the literary publications and forums to which Third Wave authors contributed in America. The decline of the Third Wave in the early 1990s will be placed not only in the apparent context of the fall of the Soviet Union, but will also be linked to the growing detachment of America ’s Jewish-Russian readers from the Russian cultural mainstream. Finally, preliminary observations will be made about the state of bilingualism among Third Wave writers and about the rise of the so-called new stage of Russian-American literature. Among the authors considered will be Philip Isaac Berman, Joseph Brodsky, Sergei Dovlatov, Igor Mikhalevich-Kaplan, Mikhail Kreps, Arkady Lvov, David Shrayer-Petrov, Marina Temkina, Felix Roziner and others.
Entwicklung eines energieeffizienten Verfahrens für die Synthesekautschukherstellung
Creators: name: Vater, Marcus
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Massepolymerisation
subject: Butadien
subject: Kautschukproduktion
subject: 620

description: Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit sind verfahrenstechnische Grundlagen für die Massepolymerisation von Butadien als lösemittelfreie Alternative für die Herstellung von Synthesekautschuk untersucht worden. Für die Synthesen wurden ein Multireaktorsystem bestehend aus fünf gerührten Autoklaven und ein diskontinuierlich betriebener Hochviskos-Knetreaktor entwickelt und gebaut. Mit dem ausgewählten Neodym-Katalysator sind detaillierte Untersuchungen zur Massepolymerisation von Butadien durchgeführt worden. Im Gegensatz zu Literaturangaben wurde kein per se quasi-lebendes Polymerisationsverhalten, sondern nahezu konstante Molmassen mit dem Umsatz beobachtet. Dieses Verhalten konnte durch detailliertere Untersuchungen aufgeklärt werden. Die Massepolymerisation ist nicht auf den Einsatz des Neodym basierten Systems begrenzt. Prinzipversuche zur anionischen Polymerisation von Butadien-Homopolymeren sowie Butadien-Styrol-Copolymeren wurden erfolgreich durchgeführt.
description: In the frame of this work, process basics for the bulk phase polymerization of butadiene as an solvent-free alternative for production of synthetic rubber have been studied. For the experimental work, both a multi reactor system with five stirred tank reactors, as well as a batch-wise operated, high-viscosity kneader reactor, have been developed and build up. Based on a catalyst system, based on Neodymium, a detailed analysis of bulk phase polymerization of butadiene followed. In contrast to statements in existing literature, the studied catalyst system does not exhibit a quasi-living polymerization nature as such. Detailed studies showed, that this behavior could be attributed to an excess of co-katalysat Bulk phase polymerization is not limited to coordinative polymerization with Neodymium catalyst, as shown by successful feasibility experiments for anionic polymerization of both butadiene homopolymers and butadiene-styrene copolymers.
Formulae for partial widths derived from the Lindblad equation
Creators: name: Selstø, Sølve
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A method for calculating partial widths of auto-ionizing states is proposed. It combines either a complex absorbing potential or exterior complex scaling with the Lindblad equation. The corresponding classical rate equations are reproduced, and the trace conservation inherent in the Lindblad equation ensures that the partial widths sums up to the total width of the initial auto-ionizing state.
“Obstacles for Self-Management Practices Among Diabetes Patients - A Facility-based Study from Coastal South India.”
Creators: name: Kumar, Nithin
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Public Health
subject: Community Health and Preventive Medicine
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: The purpose of the study was to assess the obstacles faced by diabetes patients in their self-care and to determine the factors associated with these obstacles. The management of DM extends beyond the clinician’s efforts, with the responsibility of the care also being shared by the patient to achieve better treatment outcomes and prevent complications. Self-care management is the most important part of DM treatment, which includes diet, regular exercise, blood glucose monitoring, medication and foot care.
Anisotropic k-Nearest Neighbor Search Using Covariance Quadtree
Creators: name: Marinho, Eraldo Pereira
name: Andreazza, Carmen Maria
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Computational Geometry (cs.CG)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.4.5; I.4.6; I.4.7; H.3.3

description: We present a variant of the hyper-quadtree that divides a multidimensional space according to the hyperplanes associated to the principal components of the data in each hyperquadrant. Each of the $2^λ$ hyper-quadrants is a data partition in a $λ$-dimension subspace, whose intrinsic dimensionality $λ\leq d$ is reduced from the root dimensionality $d$ by the principal components analysis, which discards the irrelevant eigenvalues of the local covariance matrix. In the present method a component is irrelevant if its length is smaller than, or comparable to, the local inter-data spacing. Thus, the covariance hyper-quadtree is fully adaptive to the local dimensionality. The proposed data-structure is used to compute the anisotropic K nearest neighbors (kNN), supported by the Mahalanobis metric. As an application, we used the present k nearest neighbors method to perform density estimation over a noisy data distribution. Such estimation method can be further incorporated to the smoothed particle hydrodynamics, allowing computer simulations of anisotropic fluid flows.
description: Work presented at the Minisymposia of Computational Geometry in the joint events IX Argentinian Congress on Computational Mechanics, XXXI Iberian-Latin-American Congress on Computational Methods in Engineering, II South American Congress on Computational Mechanics, held in Buenos Aires in 15-18 November 2010; Mec\'anica Computacional (Computational Mechanics) Vol. XXIX, 2010, ISSN 1666-6070
Dark Radiation from Particle Decays during Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
Creators: name: Menestrina, Justin L.
name: Scherrer, Robert J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cosmic microwave background (CMB) observations suggest the possibility of an extra dark radiation component, while the current evidence from big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) is more ambiguous. Dark radiation from a decaying particle can affect these two processes differently. Early decays add an additional radiation component to both the CMB and BBN, while late decays can alter the radiation content seen in the CMB while having a negligible effect on BBN. Here we quantify this difference and explore the intermediate regime by examining particles decaying during BBN, i.e., particle lifetimes τ_X satisfying 0.1 sec < τ_X < 1000 sec. We calculate the change in the effective number of neutrino species, N_{eff}, as measured by the CMB, ΔN_{CMB}, and the change in the effective number of neutrino species as measured by BBN, ΔN_{BBN}, as a function of the decaying particle initial energy density and lifetime, where ΔN_{BBN} is defined in terms of the number of additional two-component neutrinos needed to produce the same change in the primordial helium-4 abundance as our decaying particle. As expected, for short lifetimes (τ_X < 0.1 sec), the particles decay before the onset of BBN, and ΔN_{CMB} = ΔN_{BBN}, while for long lifetimes (τ_X > 1000 sec), ΔN_{BBN} is dominated by the energy density of the nonrelativistic particles before they decay, so that ΔN_{BBN} remains nonzero and becomes independent of the particle lifetime. By varying both the particle energy density and lifetime, one can obtain any desired combination of ΔN_{BBN} and ΔN_{CMB}, subject to the constraint that ΔN_{CMB} >= ΔN_{BBN}. We present limits on the decaying particle parameters derived from observational constraints on ΔN_{CMB} and ΔN_{BBN}.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, added figure and discussion of observational constraints, to appear in Phys. Rev. D
title: Effects of emotion and interoception on memory
Creators: name: Kandaleft, Dona
Publisher: name: University of Reading
Year: 2022

description: Emotional events are usually remembered better than neutral events. For example, people usually remember instances of own success or failure better than mundane events. Despite the abundant literature on the interaction between emotion and memory, there are still some unanswered questions with regards to the effects of emotion on memory and moderators of emotional memory. One of these questions concerns whether and how emotion affects memory for neutral information encountered later. The second question concerns the sources of individual differences in emotional memory. There are individual differences in emotional memory; such that some individuals may be predisposed to remember negative information more than positive or vice versa. Such differences in emotional memory may be rooted in individual differences in the bodily responses (interoception) as well as brain’s functional organisation. In the present thesis, each of these questions was addressed across three studies. The first study examined how experiencing emotional arousal affects memory of neutral information encountered minutes later; and whether the goal-relevance of the information modulates the effects of emotional arousal. Using a public speech task combined with false heart rate feedback, the study found that emotional arousal does not affect memory of neutral items viewed minutes later, irrespective of their goal-relevance. The second study examined the effects of interoception on emotional memory by presenting heartbeat biofeedback while presenting emotional images. The study revealed that attending to heartbeat biofeedback leads to increased negativity bias in memory, suggesting that interoception may play key roles in individual differences in memory for emotional items concurrently presented. The third study investigated the association between resting-state functional connectivity and emotional memory in a large dataset, utilising machine learning algorithms. Yet resting-state functional connectivity was not associated with individual differences in emotional memory. In sum, the studies reported in the thesis cast doubts on some of the previous literature’s claims that a) emotional arousal affects memory for other information individuals encounter subsequently and b) resting-state connectivity is useful to predict individual differences in emotional memory or cognitive processing in general. The findings also showed the effect of attention to heartbeats on emotional memory, suggesting that interoception may be associated with individual differences in emotional memory. The research has practical implications and theoretical implications leading to better understanding of the effects and moderators of emotional memory.
The Word
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Slavic literature
Slavs
International relations

description: This presentation offers an overview of the problems of studying the Russian emigration with special attention to the question of which issues remain constant for all four waves of emigration and which are specific to one or more of the four waves. The organizing questions of the presentation will be: 1) why Russian émigré literature remains understudied and 2) how it might effectively be studied and integrated into academic curricula and faculty research agendas in the twenty-first century. In addressing these questions, particular attention will be devoted to the importance of émigré publishing outlets and audience, the career of the renowned author Vladimir Nabokov as a particularly rich case study, problems of source materials, the relationship between émigré and Soviet literature, and the possibility and/or desirability of deploying diaspora theory and comparison with exiled writers from other parts of the globe to illuminate the Russian émigré writer ’s situation in the United States. Particular attention will be paid to Nabokov ’s transnational significance as a source of inspiration for writers as diverse as Orhan Pamuk and Azar Nafisi.
The "pretty art" of detecting pregnancy in The Duchess of Malfi
Creators: name: Duncan, Claire McEwen
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Why is the pregnant body constructed as a secret to cover up and to uncover in the early modern period, and why, in Webster’s Duchess of Malfi, do apricots uncover this secret? This thesis addresses the odd moment from Webster’s play when the Duchess’s brothers uncover her secret pregnancy by feeding her grafted apricots, causing her premature labour. By examining early modern obstetrical texts, this thesis argues that early modern patriarchal culture appropriated the secrets of the female body in order to control women. In keeping her pregnancy a secret, the Duchess unwittingly produces her brothers’ desire to penetrate that secret. In order to do so, her brothers – particularly Ferdinand – feed her apricots, metaphorically transforming her body into a fruit tree. Early modern botanical texts show that the Duchess’s botanical body legitimates her brothers’ desire to control her. While apricots were not used as a pregnancy test according to early modern obstetrical texts, they could cause premature labour. This thesis sheds new light on the question of incest in Webster’s play, arguing the centrality of a phallic pun that appears in early versions of the play – “apricot” was “apricock.” This pun highlights the penetrative characteristics of the fruit, adding to the evidence of Ferdinand’s incestuous desire: his grafted apricocks penetrate the Duchess’s body and produce (figuratively, at least) her apricock child. Early in the play, Ferdinand is described as a plum tree, and this thesis finds – in the early modern gardening manuals – that apricot trees were most often grafted to plum trees in order to produce fruit. The fruit of the Duchess’s womb, revealed by her brother’s grafted apricocks, is figuratively the fruit of the apricot tree – the Duchess – and the plum tree – her brother Ferdinand.
At the Crossroads of Long-Term Recovery: Joplin, Missouri Six Months after the May 22, 2011 Tornado
Creators: name: Abramson, David M.
name: Culp, Derrin
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Emergency management
Emergency management--Decision making
Disaster relief

description: In December 2011, researchers from Columbia University’s National Center for Disaster Preparedness (NCDP) interviewed key officials and community leaders in Joplin, Missouri in order to document the major themes of the recovery effort approximately six months after the May 22 tornado. Researchers interviewed individuals in Joplin, Missouri to document recovery efforts six months after the tornado that displaced one third of the city’s population.  They observed a favorable foundation for recovery, including limited physical damage to critical infrastructure or the city government’s fiscal base, minimal political conflict over the direction and control of recovery, a history of prior collaborative efforts across diverse sectors, and a highly involved and visible governor. The study documents several quick critical decisions that set a positive recovery trajectory and a FEMA-supported long-term recovery planning process.  It notes that six months after the tornado, Joplin’s leadership faced hard decisions about how to apply federal and state redevelopment support and private philanthropic donations, deal with long-term community mental health issues, maintain a high level of citizen involvement, and sustain the cooperative atmosphere that had defined the first six months of recovery.
Induktiv beheizte Wirbelschichten und deren Anwendungsmöglichkeiten
Creators: name: Idakiev, Vesselin Vaskov
Publisher: name: Otto von Guericke University Library, Magdeburg, Germany
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Thermische Verfahrenstechnik
subject: 660

description: Diese Arbeit beinhaltet eine detaillierte Untersuchung der Wärmeübergänge und der Prozesse sowie der Produktqualitäten bei der Trocknung von Lösungen, Suspensionen und feuchten Granulaten in induktiv beheizten Wirbelschichten. Es wird auch gezeigt wie sich die Eigenschaften bei der Behandlung von einem biologischen Produkt (Kaffee) in induktiv beheizten Wirbelschichten ändern. Im Rahmen dieser Dissertation wird zusammengefasst, dass der Einsatz dieses neuartigen Verfahrens zum Energieeintrag keinen signifikanten negativen Einfluss auf die Eigenschaften der thermisch behandelnden Produkte ausübt. Um die oben genannten Behauptungen zu validieren, wurden im Rahmen dieser Arbeit die gleichen Prozesse und die gleichen Experimente auch mit konvektiver Beheizung der Wirbelschichten untersucht, analysiert und miteinander verglichen.
description: This work includes a detailed investigation on the heat exchanges and on the processes as product qualities in the drying of solutions, suspensions and wet granules in inductively heated fluidized beds. It also shows how properties of a biological product (coffee) change by treatment in inductively heated fluidized beds. In this PhD thesis it is also summarized that the use of this novel method for energy input has no significant negative influence on the properties of the thermally treated products. In order to validate the above claims, the same processes and experiments are studied, analyzed and compared with convective heating of the fluidized beds.
The threshold region for Higgs production in gluon fusion
Creators: name: Bonvini, Marco
name: Forte, Stefano
name: Ridolfi, Giovanni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide a quantitative determination of the effective partonic kinematics for Higgs production in gluon fusion in terms of the collider energy at the LHC. We use the result to assess, as a function of the Higgs mass, whether the large top mass approximation is adequate and whether Sudakov resummation is advantageous. We argue that our results hold to all perturbative orders. Based on it, we conclude that the full inclusion of finite top mass corrections is likely to be important for accurate phenomenology for a light Higgs with m_H ~ 125 GeV at the LHC with sqrt{s} = 14 TeV.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures. Refs 9 and 15 added, several small textual improvements. Final version, to be published in Physical Review Letters
Hochauflösende LIF-Methode zur Messung von Sauerstoffkonzentrationsprofilen in der wasserseitigen Grenzschicht
Creators: name: Warken, Pius
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Laser-induced fluorescence
Air-sea gas transfer

description: A laser induced fluorescence (LIF) method for the visualization of the water-sided boundary layer with high spatial and temporal resolution is presented in this work. A new linear wind-wave flume has been designed and built to test the method. This flume provides optimized optical access from all directions and thus the possibility to study the influence of wind-driven, small-scale turbulence with imaging methods. Using a focused laser beam and phosphorescent dye, one dimensional vertical concentration profiles for oxygen invasion into water could be visualized. The laser is penetrating the water from below, a camera is observing the phosphorescence from the side and can precisely detect the water surface and determine the local concentration of solved oxygen quantitavely. By making use of the Scheimpflug principle, it is possible to measure also at a wavy surface. The active area on the camera image sensor is confined to the focused laser, increasing its frame rate to 973 Hz. Time series of concentration profiles were measured under smooth and wavy surface conditions. The vertical spatial resolution is 11.4 μm. The friction velocity can be determined from the logarithmic wind profile in the linear wind-wave flume. The average boundary layer thickness is extracted from the concentration profiles, the resulting transfer velocities for O2 are presented as a function of the friction velocity.
The Socialization and Accommodation of the Russophone Immigrants
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Slavs
Jews
International relations

description: This presentation will focus on the experience of Russian-speaking Jews who entered the US between the late 1960s and the present. It will use a sociological perspective to describe their social characteristics, pre-migration life, motives for exit and experience of adaptation, community formation, economic adjustment, context of reception, (including Cold-War refugee policies), and identity-reconstruction in the US. It uses historical, demographic, and ethnographic data and documentary photography to describe the groups: general trajectory, while also identifying unique patterns of subgroups characterized by region of origin, age, gender, levels of skill, religious outlook, sub-cultural factors, period of arrival and locations of settlement in the US. The presentation will compare the experiences of recent Russian-speaking Jewish migrants with that of the large population of Russian Jews who entered the US between 1880-1920, and will examine the relationship between these two groups. Finally, the presentation will explore similarities and differences in the experience of recent Russian-speaking Jewish migrants in the US and that of other contemporary migrant groups, including Asians, Latin Americans, and Caribbeans.