cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Generalized balanced power diagrams for 3D representations of polycrystals
Creators: name: Alpers, Andreas
name: Brieden, Andreas
name: Gritzmann, Peter
name: Lyckegaard, Allan
name: Poulsen, Henning Friis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Characterizing the grain structure of polycrystalline material is an important task in material science. The present paper introduces the concept of generalized balanced power diagrams as a concise alternative to voxelated mappings. Here, each grain is represented by (measured approximations of) its center-of-mass position, its volume and, if available, by its second-order moments (in the non-equiaxed case). Such parameters may be obtained from 3D x-ray diffraction. As the exact global optimum of our model results from the solution of a suitable linear program it can be computed quite efficiently. Based on verified real-world measurements we show that from the few parameters per grain (3, respectively 6 in 2D and 4, respectively 10 in 3D) we obtain excellent representations of both equiaxed and non-equiaxed structures. Hence our approach seems to capture the physical principles governing the forming of such polycrystals in the underlying process quite well.
Crop choices in micro-econometric multi-crop models: modelling corners, kinks and jumps
Creators: name: Koutchadé, Obafèmi Philippe
name: Carpentier, Alain
name: Féménia, Fabienne
name: Koutchadé, Obafèmi Philippe
name: Carpentier, Alain
name: Féménia, Fabienne
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: acreage choice
subject: crop choice
subject: endogenous regime switching
subject: random parameter models

description: Null crop acreages raise pervasive issues when modelling acreage choices with farm data. We revisit these issues and emphasize that null acreage choices arise not only due to binding non-negativity constraints but also due to crop production fixed costs. Based on this micro-economic background, we present a micro-econometric multi-crop model that consistently handles null acreages and accounts for crop production fixed costs. This multivariate endogenous regime switching model allows for specific crop acreage patterns, such as multiple kinks and jumps in crop acreage responses to economic incentives, that are due to changes in produced crop sets. Currently available micro-econometric multi-crop models, which handle null acreages based on a censored regression approach, cannot represent these patterns. We illustrate the empirical tractability of our modelling framework by estimating a random parameter version of the proposed endogenous regime switching micro-econometric multi-crop model with a panel dataset of French farmers. Our estimation and simulation results support our theoretical analysis, the effects of crop fixed costs and crop set choices on crop acreage choices in particular. More generally, these results suggest that the micro-econometric multi-crop model presented in this article can significantly improves empirical analyses of crop supply based on farm data.
Ensuring Universal and Equitable Access to the COVID-19 Vaccine
Creators: name: Vo, Vianna
Publisher: name: Stanford Digital Repository
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: COVID-19 vaccines
subject: Health and human rights
subject: Intellectual property (International law)

description: Vianna Vo’s capstone project centered on the issues of human rights and global health related to COVID-19 vaccine distribution and access. More specifically, Vianna examined how a temporary suspension of intellectual property rights pertaining to the development of the COVID-19 vaccine is necessary to protect the human right to health. Through an analysis of human rights law in the 20th century, UN guidelines on health as a human right, and intellectual property practices, Vianna demonstrates how a human rights lens can positively create equitable and universal vaccine distributions.
Journalism as Transitional Justice: Generating the Bosnia War Crimes and Genocide Media Archive
Creators: name: Smith, Emma
Publisher: name: Stanford Digital Repository
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Bosnia and Herzegovina
subject: Mass media
subject: Transitional justice

description: Emma Smith’s capstone project consisted of building a media archive documenting human rights violations during the Bosnian War from 1992-1995, often considered the deadliest conflict in Europe since WWII. Her project centered around highlighting the critical role journalism played in alerting the global public of the crisis, with war reporters and photojournalists broadcasting live –– for the first time in history –– war crimes in Europe. She worked with the Srebrenica Memorial Center (MC) and the Post-Conflict Research Center (PCRC) to propose a project that would document, collect, digitize, recognize, and celebrate the work of international journalists who brought vast awareness to the suffering of Bosnian citizens from 1992 to 1995. For her final deliverable, Emma submitted a preliminary database of the digitized “archive,” annotated with comments and personal reflections on trends identified while collecting research materials. She hopes this project will inform historical narratives of the past and help engage citizens in discussions relating to transitional justice, memorialization, and genocide prevention in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the region at large.
Edge states of periodically kicked quantum rotors
Creators: name: Floß, Johannes
name: Averbukh, Ilya Sh.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a quantum localization phenomenon that exists in periodically kicked 3D rotors, but is absent in the commonly studied 2D ones: edge localization. We show that under the condition of a fractional quantum resonance there are states of the kicked rotor that are strongly localized near the edge of the angular momentum space at $J=0$. These states are analogs of surface states in crystalline solids, and they significantly affect resonant excitation of molecular rotation by laser pulse trains.
description: 9 pages, 11 figures
Teachers, Headscarves, and German Integration Policies: An Argument for Neutrality through Diversity
Creators: name: Walley, Natassia
Publisher: name: Stanford Digital Repository
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Neutrality Law
subject: Germany
subject: Emigration and immigration law

description: Natassia Walley’s capstone project examined the impact of German state-by-state Neutralitätsgesetzes (neutrality laws) on public schools. To varying degrees, these laws prohibit employees in offices of the court, the police force and in state-funded educational institutes from displaying their religious affiliation through accessories and clothing. Utilizing a 2003 German Federal Constitutional Court ruling on individual freedom of religion and a 2015 case of a Muslim elementary school teacher in the state of Rheinland-Westfallen who was denied employment because she wore a headscarf, Natassia took a closer look at how neutrality laws and headscarf bans are applied differently across German states. Contextualizing these differences within the religious history of Germany, and the history of immigration in Germany in the 20th century, Natassia explored the contemporary implication of these laws for immigrant and refugee empowerment and integration.
ПОНЯТИЕ ЛОГИЧЕСКОГО МЫШЛЕНИЯ И ЕГО ПОНЯТИЕ.
Creators: name: Зикирьяева, Манзура
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Данная статья посвящена изучению понятия логического мышления, а также анализу его содержания и сущности. В статье рассматриваются философские, психологические и педагогические аспекты логического мышления, его значение в повседневной жизни и роль в системе образования. Кроме того, освещается развитие логического мышления и его роль в социальной и жизненной деятельности. Статья предлагает научно обоснованные рекомендации по методам и способам развития логического мышления для учащихся и студентов.
"Eine 'Abbildung' des an sich unräumlichen im Raume"
Creators: name: Bieberstein, Klaus
Publisher: name: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio
Year: 2022

description: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Bd. 41 Nr. 5 (2012): Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Band 41, Heft 5
Literature, Dialogue and Action: Curating a Human Rights-oriented Book and Resource Guide
Creators: name: Beyer, Brooke
Publisher: name: Stanford Digital Repository
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Literature
subject: Human Rights

description: For her capstone project, Brooke Beyer created a book discussion resource guide for student groups centered around human rights issues with the intention of galvanizing action and direct service. Inspired by her time facilitating a VSO Stanford Women in Law book discussion, she decided to expand this project by creating an anthology and curating lists of literary works based on thematic exploration of different human rights areas. Her capstone project also features a discussion guide for various texts and anthologies, as well as a guide on how to move beyond dialogue and get involved in direct service and community advocacy. She hopes this human rights and literature resource guide serves as a way to engage the chosen texts through a human rights lens and focus on exploring the ways in which literature can serve as a form of advocacy, prompt collective action and contribute to social change.
Dynamic Motifs of Strategies in Prisoner's Dilemma Games
Creators: name: Kim, Young Jin
name: Roh, Myungkyoon
name: Jeong, Seon-Young
name: Son, Seung-Woo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the win-lose relations between strategies of iterated prisoner's dilemma games by using a directed network concept to display the replicator dynamics results. In the giant strongly-connected component of the win/lose network, we find win-lose circulations similar to rock-paper-scissors and analyze the fixed point and its stability. Applying the network motif concept, we introduce dynamic motifs, which describe the population dynamics relations among the three strategies. Through exact enumeration, we find 22 dynamic motifs and display their phase portraits. Visualization using directed networks and motif analysis is a useful method to make complex dynamic behavior simple in order to understand it more intuitively. Dynamic motifs can be building blocks for dynamic behavior among strategies when they are applied to other types of games.
description: 16 pages, 3 tables, and 5 figures
The Serpentine Muse: Duality of Snake Depictions in Myth and Folklore
Creators: name: Skidmore, Wesley
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: Folklore
Mythology
Storytelling
Snakes

description: 
Snakes have played a major role in folklore and myth for as long as humans have been telling stories. This study examines depictions of snakes in folktales and myths from three different geographical areas that have been home to numerous cultures and peoples throughout history. This research codifies snake depictions in folk literature from Aboriginal Australian Cultures, Southwest North American Indigenous Cultures, and Northern European Cultures. This research uses qualitative content analysis to code differing depictions of snakes in written myth and folklore. In doing so, this work aims to expand the deficient body of work on the place of snakes in folklore and storytelling. Throughout all three storytelling traditions, readers find duality among snake depictions; snakes are creators, destroyers, healers, murders, male, female, and many things in between. Water and religion wend their way through serpent folklore, showing snakes as both in and out of balance with nature depending on their social status within a storytelling culture. This serpentine study examines a mere ten tales out of the millions that have been told. It is one study of many that can begin to create a language for snake depictions in folklore. As storytellers find the vocabulary to describe the place of snakes in storytelling, they begin to understand the historically fraught relationship between humans and their serpentine muses.
Exploiting the Structure of Bipartite Graphs for Algebraic and Spectral Graph Theory Applications
Creators: name: Kunegis, Jérôme
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this article, we extend several algebraic graph analysis methods to bipartite networks. In various areas of science, engineering and commerce, many types of information can be represented as networks, and thus the discipline of network analysis plays an important role in these domains. A powerful and widespread class of network analysis methods is based on algebraic graph theory, i.e., representing graphs as square adjacency matrices. However, many networks are of a very specific form that clashes with that representation: They are bipartite. That is, they consist of two node types, with each edge connecting a node of one type with a node of the other type. Examples of bipartite networks (also called \emph{two-mode networks}) are persons and the social groups they belong to, musical artists and the musical genres they play, and text documents and the words they contain. In fact, any type of feature that can be represented by a categorical variable can be interpreted as a bipartite network. Although bipartite networks are widespread, most literature in the area of network analysis focuses on unipartite networks, i.e., those networks with only a single type of node. The purpose of this article is to extend a selection of important algebraic network analysis methods to bipartite networks, showing that many methods from algebraic graph theory can be applied to bipartite networks with only minor modifications. We show methods for clustering, visualization and link prediction. Additionally, we introduce new algebraic methods for measuring the bipartivity in near-bipartite graphs.
description: 37 pages; fixed references
Contemporary Developments in Feminist Scholarship
Creators: name: Sanchez, Gina
Publisher: name: Stanford Digital Repository
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Feminist literature
subject: Guidebooks

description: For her capstone project, Gina Sanchez curated an academic guide based on her interests in international womxn’s rights. She focused on engaging critically with landmark and recent texts in this academic field, as well as examining a variety of feminist discourses around racial/ethnic/gender identity. She diligently read bi-weekly texts covering topics such as intersectional feminism, sex-trafficking & prostitution, SGBV, international reproductive rights, and more. Her guide outlined her textual analysis and reflections of each piece of literature. Gina hopes this project will serve to inform her future graduate studies as well as be a useful resource for community-based organizations advocating for womxn’s rights.
Entwicklung der Fallzahlen von Legionärskrankheit vor dem Hintergrund der COVID-19-Pandemie, Januar bis Juli 2020
Creators: name: Brodhun, Bonita
name: Buchholz, Udo
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: COVID-19
subject: Legionärskrankheit
subject: reiseassoziierte Erkrankung
subject: Expositionsquelle Wasser
subject: Lockdown
subject: 610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Vor dem Hintergrund des Lockdowns im Rahmen der COVID-19-Pandemie stellt sich die Frage, ob sich die Einschränkungen auf die Fallzahlen der Legionärskrankheit ausgewirkt haben. Mit den Beschränkungen sind relevante Expositionen weggefallen. Umgekehrt können nach der Lockerung auch wieder Expositionsquellen, (Wasserquellen) mit einer infolge der geänderten Nutzungsbedingungen relevanten Legionellenkontamination, hinzugekommen sein. Wie im Epidemiologischen Bulletin 44/2020 dargestellt, konnte zwischen Januar und Juli 2020 hauptsächlich ein Einfluss auf die Entwicklung der reiseassoziierten Fälle registriert werden: Die deutliche Abnahme der Fallzahlen konnte auf die internationalen Reiseeinschränkungen zurückgeführt werden. Mit Beginn der Reiselockerungen wurden wieder steigende Fallzahlen registriert, die jedoch – vermutlich aufgrund des veränderten Reiseverhaltens – in den meisten Fällen mit Reisen innerhalb Deutschlands verbunden waren.
REJISSYORLIK TARIXI
Creators: name: Sultonov, Dostonbek
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Maqolada rejissorlik tarixi, uning rivojlanish bosqichlari, antik teatrlarda rejissorlik vazifalarini bajaruvchi shaxslar, rejissorning hozirgi kunda sahna xayotida tutgan o'rni va ahamiyati, haqida so'z boradi.
SOXS mechanical integration and verification in Italy
Creators: name: Aliverti, M.
name: Battaini, F.
name: Radhakrishnan, K.
name: Genoni, M.
name: Pariani, G.
name: Oggioni, L.
name: Hershko, O.
name: Colapietro, M.
name: D'Orsi, S.
name: Brucalassi, A .
name: Pignata, G.
name: Kuncarayakti, H.
name: Campana, S .
name: Claudi, R.
name: Schipani, P.
name: Achrén, J .
name: Duranm, J. A. Araiza
name: Arcavi, I.
name: Baruffolo, A.
name: Ami, S. Ben
name: Bruch, R .
name: Capasso, G.
name: Cappellaro, E.
name: Cosentino, R.
name: D'Alessio, F.
name: D'Avanzo, P.
name: Della Valle, M .
name: De Pascale, M .
name: Di Benedetto, R.
name: Yam, A . Gal
name: Hernandez, M.
name: Kotilainen, J.
name: Landoni, M.
name: Causi, G . Li
name: Mattila, S.
name: Munari, M.
name: Rappaport, M.
name: Redaelli, K. E. M. A.
name: Ricci, D.
name: Riva, M.
name: Rubin, A.
name: Salasnich, B .
name: Smartt, S.
name: Sanchez, R. Zanmar
name: Scuderi, S.
name: Stritzinger, M .
name: Ventura, E.
name: Vitali, F.
name: Young, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: SOXS (SOn of X-Shooter) is a medium resolution (~4500) wide-band (0.35 - 2.0 μm) spectrograph which passed the Final Design Review in 2018. The instrument is in the final integration phase and it is planned to be installed at the NTT in La Silla by next year. It is mainly composed of five different optomechanical subsystems (Common Path, NIR spectrograph, UV-VIS spectrograph, Camera, and Calibration) and other mechanical subsystems (Interface flange, Platform, cable corotator, and cooling system). A brief overview of the optomechanical subsystems is presented here as more details can be found in the specific proceedings while a more comprehensive discussion is dedicated to the other mechanical subsystems and the tools needed for the integration of the instrument. Moreover, the results obtained during the acceptance of the various mechanical elements are presented together with the experiments performed to validate the functionality of the subsystems. Finally, the mechanical integration procedure is shown here, along with all the modifications applied to correct the typical problems happening in this phase.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2012.12693
Signs of the Time: Collective Identity Framing the 2017 Women’s March at Home and Abroad
Creators: name: Kresica, Kimberly M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: Content analysis (Communication)
Feminism
United States
England
Poland
Demonstrations

description: To begin to address an international gap in scholarship around the sister marches of the 2017 Women’s March, this master’s paper performed content analysis on a corpus of protest posters from three countries: the United States, England and Poland.  Concerns, characters, symbols and text from each march were compared to one other and to previous Women’s March research.  This study revealed that all three sister marches framed at least half of their posters toward an American context but also negotiated their content with a local identity.  Warning: This paper contains uncensored language and images of protest.
Newton constant, contact terms and entropy
Creators: name: Solodukhin, Sergey N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the renormalization of the Newton constant due to fields of various spin $s$. We first briefly review the cases of $s=0, \, 1/2, \, 1,\, 3/2$ already discussed in the literature and notice the appearance of the well-known contact terms for the vector bosons. We then extend this discussion of the contact terms to massive vector fields, $p$-forms and to the case of spin $s=2$ particles (gravitons). We observe that, in general, the contact terms originate from the fields which mediate the interactions (such as vector gauge bosons and gravitons). We then discuss entanglement entropy and the conical entropy and their relation to the renormalized Newton constant. We address the puzzle of the non-analytic terms due to fields of spin $s=2$ and suggest that the resolution of this puzzle comes from the non-equivalence of the orbifold and $n$-fold cover constructions which are used in the entropy calculations. Finally, we propose a mechanism by which the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy is identified with entanglement entropy in any theory which includes both matter fields and the mediators of interactions (vector gauge bosons and gravitons).
description: 31 pages; new ref. added
Jerusalem - Stadt christlicher Konfessionen - Stadt dreier Weltreligionen
Creators: name: Wohlmuth, Josef
Publisher: name: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio
Year: 2022

description: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Bd. 41 Nr. 5 (2012): Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Band 41, Heft 5
Physical properties of z>4 submillimeter galaxies in the COSMOS field
Creators: name: Smolcic, V.
name: Karim, A.
name: Miettinen, O.
name: Novak, M.
name: Magnelli, B.
name: Riechers, D. A.
name: Schinnerer, E.
name: Capak, P.
name: Bondi, M.
name: Ciliegi, P.
name: Aravena, M.
name: Bertoldi, F.
name: Bourke, S.
name: Banfield, J.
name: Carilli, C. L.
name: Civano, F.
name: Ilbert, O.
name: Intema, H. T.
name: Fevre, O. Le
name: Finoguenov, A.
name: Hallinan, G.
name: Kloeckner, H. -R.
name: Laigle, C.
name: Masters, D.
name: McCracken, H. J.
name: Mooley, K.
name: Murphy, E.
name: Navarette, F.
name: Salvato, M.
name: Sargent, M.
name: Sheth, K.
name: Toft, S.
name: Zamorani, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the physical properties of a sample of 6 SMGs in the COSMOS field, spectroscopically confirmed to lie at z>4. We use new GMRT 325 MHz and 3 GHz JVLA data to probe the rest-frame 1.4 GHz emission at z=4, and to estimate the sizes of the star-forming (SF) regions of these sources, resp. Combining our size estimates with those available in the literature for AzTEC1 and AzTEC3 we infer a median radio-emitting size for our z>4 SMGs of (0.63"+/-0.12")x(0.35"+/-0.05") or 4.1x2.3 kpc^2 (major times minor axis; assuming z=4.5) or lower if we take the two marginally resolved SMGs as unresolved. This is consistent with the sizes of SF regions in lower-redshift SMGs, and local normal galaxies, yet higher than the sizes of SF regions of local ULIRGs. Our SMG sample consists of a fair mix of compact and more clumpy systems with multiple, perhaps merging, components. With an average formation time of ~280 Myr, derived through modeling of the UV-IR SEDs, the studied SMGs are young systems. The average stellar mass, dust temperature, and IR luminosity we derive are M*~1.4x10^11 M_sun, T_dust~43 K, and L_IR~1.3x10^13L_sun, resp. The average L_IR is up to an order of magnitude higher than for SMGs at lower redshifts. Our SMGs follow the correlation between dust temperature and IR luminosity as derived for Herschel-selected 0.1=1.95+/-0.26 for our sample, compared to q~2.6 for IR luminous galaxies at z<2). In summary, we find that the physical properties derived for our z>4 SMGs put them at the high end of the L_IR-T_dust distribution of SMGs, and that our SMGs form a morphologically heterogeneous sample. Thus, further in-depth analyses of large, statistical samples of high-redshift SMGs are needed to fully understand their role in galaxy formation and evolution.
description: 16 pages, 8 figures, 6 tables; to appear in A&A
Progress on the SOXS transients chaser for the ESO-NTT
Creators: name: Schipani, P.
name: Campana, S.
name: Claudi, R.
name: Aliverti, M.
name: Baruffolo, A.
name: Ben-Ami, S.
name: Capasso, G.
name: Cosentino, R.
name: D'Alessio, F.
name: D'Avanzo, P.
name: Hershko, O.
name: Kuncarayakti, H.
name: Landoni, M.
name: Munari, M.
name: Pignata, G.
name: Radhakrishnan, K.
name: Rubin, A.
name: Scuderi, S.
name: Vitali, F.
name: Young, D.
name: Achrén, J.
name: Araiza-Durán, J. A.
name: Arcavi, I.
name: Battaini, F.
name: Brucalassi, A.
name: Bruch, R.
name: Cappellaro, E.
name: Colapietro, M.
name: Della Valle, M.
name: Di Benedetto, R.
name: D'Orsi, S.
name: Gal-Yam, A.
name: Genoni, M.
name: Díaz, M. Hernandez
name: Kotilainen, J.
name: Causi, G. Li
name: Lessio, L.
name: Marty, L.
name: Mattila, S.
name: Rappaport, M.
name: Ricci, D.
name: Riva, M.
name: Salasnich, B.
name: Savarese, S.
name: Smartt, S.
name: Sanchez, R. Zanmar
name: Stritzinger, M.
name: Umbriaco, G.
name: Ventura, H. Pérez
name: Pasquini, L.
name: Schöller, M.
name: Kaüfl, H. -U.
name: Accardo, M.
name: Mehrgan, L.
name: Pompei, E.
name: Saviane, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: SOXS (Son Of X-Shooter) is a single object spectrograph offering a simultaneous spectral coverage from U- to H-band, built by an international consortium for the 3.58-m ESO New Technology Telescope at the La Silla Observatory. It is designed to observe all kind of transients and variable sources discovered by different surveys with a highly flexible schedule maintained by the consortium, based on the Target of Opportunity concept. SOXS is going to be a fundamental spectroscopic partner for any kind of imaging survey, becoming one of the premier transient follow-up instruments in the Southern hemisphere. This paper gives an updated status of the project, when the instrument is in the advanced phase of integration and testing in Europe, prior to the activities in Chile.
description: Proc. SPIE 12184, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX, 121840O (2022)
Zehn Prinzipien für den Humanismus des 21. Jahrhunderts
Creators: name: Kristeva, Julia
Publisher: name: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio
Year: 2022

description: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Bd. 41 Nr. 4 (2012): Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Band 41, Heft 4
The Son-Of-X-shooter (SOXS) Data-Reduction Pipeline
Creators: name: Young, David R.
name: Landoni, Marco
name: Smartt, Stephen J.
name: Campana, Sergio
name: D'Avanzo, Paolo
name: Claudi, Riccardo
name: Schipani, Pietro
name: Aliverti, Matteo
name: Baruffolo, Andrea
name: Ben-Ami, Sagi
name: Capasso, Giulio
name: Cosentino, Rosario
name: D'Alessio, Francesco
name: Hershko, Ofir
name: Kuncarayakti, Hanindyo
name: Munari, Matteo
name: Pignata, Giuliano
name: Radhakrishnan, Kalyan
name: Rubin, Adam
name: Scuderi, Salvatore
name: Vitali, Fabrizio
name: Achrén, Jani
name: Araiza-Duran, José Antonio
name: Arcavi, Iair
name: Battaini, Federico
name: Brucalassi, Anna
name: Bruch, Rachel
name: Cappellaro, Enrico
name: Colapietro, Mirko
name: Della Valle, Massimo
name: Di Benedetto, Rosario
name: D'Orsi, Sergio
name: Gal-Yam, Avishay
name: Genoni, Matteo
name: Hernandez, Marcos
name: Kotilainen, Jari
name: Causi, Gianluca Li
name: Marty, Laurent
name: Mattila, Seppo
name: Rappaport, Michael
name: Ricci, Davide
name: Riva, Marco
name: Salasnich, Bernardo
name: Sanchez, Ricardo Zanmar
name: Stritzinger, Maximilian
name: Ventura, Hector
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Son-Of-XShooter (SOXS) is a single object spectrograph (UV-VIS & NIR) and acquisition camera scheduled to be mounted on the ESO 3.58-m New Technology Telescope at the La Silla Observatory. Although the underlying data reduction processes to convert raw detector data to fully-reduced science ready data are complex and multi-stepped, we have designed the SOXS Data Reduction pipeline with the core aims of providing end-users with a simple-to-use, well-documented command-line interface while also allowing the pipeline to be run in a fully automated state; streaming reduced data into the ESO Science Archive Facility without need for human intervention. To keep up with the stream of data coming from the instrument, there is the requirement to optimise the software to reduce each observation block of data well within the typical observation exposure time. The pipeline is written in Python 3 and has been built with an agile development philosophy that includes CI and adaptive planning.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures, published in SPIE proceedings volume 12189. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2012.12678
Digital Humanities Techniques for Asylum Studies in the Archive
Creators: name: Nihart, Nathanael
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: Digital humanities
Data Analysis
Data Modeling

description: This project explores the utilization of digital humanities techniques and tools for the purposes of transcription, data analysis, visualization and presentation of archival data pertaining to asylums in the 19th and 20th centuries. Since 2017, the Community Histories Workshop’s Asylum in the Archive initiative has been digitizing and transcribing records relating to the admission and the assessment of people in the Dorothea Dix asylum from 1856 through 1922. My project builds off this work by developing machine learning models to increase transcription efficiency for future records as they become available, and working with the dataset to analyze, visualize and present the data to tell the history of the asylum and psychiatry. The result demonstrates the value of the work already done, leaves examples and models for future scholarship utilizing this dataset and contributes to broader understanding of the emergence of psychiatry and the asylum in the South.
On Topological Homotopy Groups and Relation to Hawaiian Groups
Creators: name: Babaee, Ameneh
name: Mashayekhy, Behrooz
name: Mirebrahimi, Hanieh
name: Torabi, Hamid
name: Pashaei, Mahdi Abdullahi Rashid nad Seyyed Zeynal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 55Q05, 55Q20, 55P65, 55Q52

description: By generalizing the whisker topology on the $n$th homotopy group of pointed space $(X, x_0)$, denoted by $π_n^{wh}(X, x_0)$, we show that $π_n^{wh}(X, x_0)$ is a topological group if $n \ge 2$. Also, we present some necessary and sufficient conditions for $π_n^{wh}(X,x_0)$ to be discrete, Hausdorff and indiscrete. Then we prove that $L_n(X,x_0)$ the natural epimorphic image of the Hawaiian group $\mathcal{H}_n(X, x_0)$ is equal to the set of all classes of convergent sequences to the identity in $π_n^{wh}(X, x_0)$. As a consequence, we show that $L_n(X, x_0) \cong L_n(Y, y_0)$ if $π_n^{wh}(X, x_0) \cong π_n^{wh}(Y, y_0)$, but the converse does not hold in general, except for some conditions. Also, we show that on some classes of spaces such as semilocally $n$-simply connected spaces and $n$-Hawaiian like spaces, the whisker topology and the topology induced by the compact-open topology of $n$-loop space coincide. Finally, we show that $n$-SLT paths can transfer $π_n^{wh}$ and hence $L_n$ isomorphically along its points.
Methods to Evaluate Changes in Mitochondrial Structure and Function in Cancer
Creators: name: Sinawang, Prima Dewi
name: Fenton, Suzanne E.
name: Overchuk, Marta
name: Santos, Janine H.
name: Nguyen Hoang, Tina Thuy
name: Demirci, Utkan
name: Rickard, Brittany P.
name: Chappell, Vesna A.
name: Rizvi, Imran
name: Akin, Demir
name: Franco, Walfre
name: Kemal Ruhi, Mustafa
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2023

description: Mitochondria are regulators of key cellular processes, including energy production and redox homeostasis. Mitochondrial dysfunction is associated with various human diseases, including cancer. Importantly, both structural and functional changes can alter mitochondrial function. Morphologic and quantifiable changes in mitochondria can affect their function and contribute to disease. Structural mitochondrial changes include alterations in cristae morphology, mitochondrial DNA integrity and quantity, and dynamics, such as fission and fusion. Functional parameters related to mitochondrial biology include the production of reactive oxygen species, bioenergetic capacity, calcium retention, and membrane potential. Although these parameters can occur independently of one another, changes in mitochondrial structure and function are often interrelated. Thus, evaluating changes in both mitochondrial structure and function is crucial to understanding the molecular events involved in disease onset and progression. This review focuses on the relationship between alterations in mitochondrial structure and function and cancer, with a particular emphasis on gynecologic malignancies. Selecting methods with tractable parameters may be critical to identifying and targeting mitochondria-related therapeutic options. Methods to measure changes in mitochondrial structure and function, with the associated benefits and limitations, are summarized.
Matrices of Native and Oxidized Pectin and Ferrous Bisglycinate and Their In Vitro Behavior through Gastrointestinal Conditions
Creators: name: Alvarez-Barreto, Jose F.
name: Jimenez, Martin
name: Ochoa-Herrera, Valeria
name: Carpintero, Natalia
name: Viteri, Daniela
name: Oña, Daniela
name: Leon, Marco
name: Sepulcre, Francesc
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2023

description: Colloidal matrices of native and oxidized pectin were developed to improve iron bioavailability through the digestive tract. Ferrous bisglycinate (Gly-Fe), obtained by precipitation of glycine chelation to Fe2+, was mixed with native and peroxide-oxidized citrus pectin, and subsequently lyophilized. Controls included matrices with iron and glycine without chelation. The resulting samples were characterized through FTIR, SEM, and TGA/DSC before and after in vitro digestion, which was performed in simulated salivary, gastric, and intestinal fluids. During these digestions, swelling capacity and iron release were assessed. All matrix formulations were porous, and while pectin oxidation did not alter architecture, it changed their properties, increasing thermal stability, likely due to greater number of interaction possibilities through carbonyl groups generated during oxidation. This also resulted in lower swelling capacity, with greater stability observed when using the chelated complex. Higher swelling was found in gastric and intestinal fluids. Pectin oxidation also increased retention of the chelated form, contrary to what was observed with unchelated iron. Thus, there is an important effect of pectin oxidation combined with iron in the form of ferrous biglyscinate on matrix stability and iron release through the digestive tract. These matrices could potentially improve iron bioavailability, diminishing organoleptic changes in fortified iron foods.
Editorial: The next generation of tools and technologies for studying human neurons in a dish
Creators: name: Durcan, Thomas M.
name: Axtman, Alison D.
Publisher: name: Frontiers Media S.A.
Year: 2023

description: Despite their prevalence, disorders of the brain, including neurodevelopmental, neurodegenerative, and other mental illnesses, have historically been some of the most challenging to treat. The enormous economic burden coupled with a paucity of curative therapies highlights an urgent need for new approaches and targets to tackle these diseases. One biologically relevant and transformative method that has been employed is the use of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) to generate neurons that closely mimic those found within the human brain (Mohamed et al., 2019). Advances in this area have enabled investigators to readily grow many of the cell types found within the human brain on a dish, increasing our understanding of mechanisms and targets that are implicated in these diseases and helping to facilitate translational efforts (Fermini et al., 2018).
Bringing the Galaxy's dark halo to life
Creators: name: Piffl, T.
name: Penoyre, Z.
name: Binney, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new method to construct fully self-consistent equilibrium models of multi-component disc galaxies similar to the Milky Way. We define distribution functions for the stellar disc and dark halo that depend on phase space position only through action coordinates. We then use an iterative approach to find the corresponding gravitational potential. We study the adiabatic response of the initially spherical dark halo to the introduction of the baryonic component and find that the halo flattens in its inner regions with final minor-major axis ratios $q$ = 0.75 - 0.95. The extent of the flattening depends on the velocity structure of the halo particles with radially biased models exhibiting a stronger response. In this latter case, which is according to cosmological simulations the most likely one, the new density structure resembles a "dark disc" superimposed on a spherical halo. We discuss the implications of these results for our recent estimate of the local dark matter density. The velocity distribution of the dark-matter particles near the Sun is very non-Gaussian. All three principal velocity dispersions are boosted as the halo contracts, and at low velocities a plateau develops in the distribution of $v_z$. For models similar to a state-of-the-art Galaxy model we find velocity dispersions around 155 km s$^{-1}$ for $v_z$ and the tangential velocity, $v_φ$, and 140 - 175 km s$^{-1}$ for the in-plane radial velocity, $v_R$, depending on the anisotropy of the model.
description: 13 pages, accepted for publication in MNRAS after moderate revisions
From Assembly to the Complete Integration and Verification of the SOXS Common Path
Creators: name: Santhakumari, Kalyan Kumar Radhakrishnan
name: Battaini, Federico
name: Claudi, Riccardo
name: Slemer, Alessandra
name: Biondi, F.
name: Munari, M.
name: Sanchez, R. Z.
name: Aliverti, M.
name: Oggioni, L.
name: Colapietro, M.
name: Ricci, D.
name: Lessio, L.
name: Dima, M.
name: Marafatto, L.
name: Farinato, J.
name: Campana, S.
name: Schipani, P.
name: DOrsi, S.
name: Salasnich, B.
name: Baruffolo, A.
name: Ami, S. Ben
name: Capasso, G.
name: Cosentino, R.
name: Alessio, F. D
name: DAvanzo, P.
name: Hershko, O.
name: Kuncarayakti, H.
name: Landoni, M.
name: Pignata, G.
name: Rubin, A.
name: Scuderi, S.
name: Vitali, F.
name: Young, D.
name: Achrn, J.
name: Durn, Jos Antonio Araiza
name: Arcavi, I.
name: Brucalassi, Anna
name: Bruch, R.
name: Cappellaro, Enrico
name: Della Valle, M.
name: Di Benedetto, R.
name: Yam, A. Gal
name: Genoni, Matteo
name: Hernandez, M.
name: Kotilainen, J.
name: Causi, G. Li
name: Marty, L.
name: Mattila, S.
name: Rappaport, Michael
name: Riva, M.
name: Smartt, S.
name: Stritzingerv, M.
name: Venturae, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Son Of X-Shooter (SOXS) is a single object spectrograph offering simultaneous spectral coverage in UV-VIS (350-850 nm) and NIR (800-2000 nm) wavelength regimes with an average of R close to 4500 for a 1 slit. SOXS also has imaging capabilities in the visible wavelength regime. It is designed and optimized to observe all kinds of transients and variable sources. The final destination of SOXS is the Nasmyth platform of the ESO NTT at La Silla, Chile. The SOXS consortium has a relatively large geographic spread, and therefore the Assembly Integration and Verification (AIV) of this medium-class instrument follows a modular approach. Each of the five main sub-systems of SOXS, namely the Common Path, the Calibration Unit, the Acquisition Camera, the UV-VIS Spectrograph, and the NIR Spectrograph, are undergoing (or undergone) internal alignment and testing in the respective consortium institutes. INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova delivers the Common Path sub-system, the backbone of the entire instrument. We report the Common Path internal alignment starting from the assembly of the individual components to the final testing of the optical quality, and the efficiency of the complete sub-system.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures, SPIE conference proceeding
Measuring a Charge-Coupled Device Point Spread Function: Euclid Visible Instrument CCD273-84 PSF Performance
Creators: name: Niemi, Sami-Matias
name: Cropper, Mark
name: Szafraniec, Magdalena
name: Kitching, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we present the testing of a back-illuminated development Euclid Visible Instrument (VIS) Charge-Coupled Device (CCD) to measure the intrinsic CCD Point Spread Function (PSF) characteristics using a novel modelling technique. We model the optical spot projection system and the CCD273-84 PSF jointly. We fit a model using Bayesian posterior probability density function, sampling to all available data simultaneously. The generative model fitting is shown, using simulated data, to allow good parameter estimations even when these data are not well sampled. Using available spot data we characterise a CCD273-84 PSF as a function of wavelength and intensity. The CCD PSF kernel size was found to increase with increasing intensity and decreasing wavelength.
description: Accepted for publication in Experimental Astronomy. Comments are welcome
The internal alignment and validation of a powered ADC for SOXS
Creators: name: Battaini, F.
name: Radhakrishnan, K.
name: Claudi, R.
name: Munari, M.
name: Sànchez, R. Z.
name: Aliverti, M.
name: Colapietro, M.
name: Ricci, D.
name: Lessio, L.
name: Dima, M.
name: Biondi, F.
name: Campana, S.
name: Schipani, P.
name: Baruffolo, A.
name: Ben-Ami, S.
name: Capasso, G.
name: Cosentino, R.
name: D'Alessio, F.
name: D'Avanzo, P.
name: Hershkod, O.
name: Kuncarayakti, H.
name: Landoni, M.
name: Pignata, G.
name: Rubin, A.
name: Scuderi, S.
name: Vitali, F.
name: Young, D.
name: Achrén, J.
name: Araiza-Duran, J. A.
name: Arcavi, I.
name: Brucalassi, A.
name: Bruch, R.
name: Cappellaro, E.
name: Della Valle, M.
name: De Pascale, M.
name: Di Benedetto, R.
name: D'Orsi, S.
name: Gal-Yam, A.
name: Genoni, M.
name: Hernandez, M.
name: Kotilainen, J.
name: Causi, G. Li
name: Marty, L.
name: Mattila, S.
name: Rappaportd, M.
name: Riva, M.
name: Salasnich, B.
name: Smartt, S.
name: Stritzingerv, M.
name: Venturae, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Son Of X-Shooter (SOXS) is a two-channel spectrograph along with imaging capabilities, characterized by a wide spectral coverage (350nm to 2000nm), designed for the NTT telescope at the La Silla Observatory. Its main scientific goal is the spectroscopic follow-up of transients and variable objects. The UV-VIS arm, of the Common Path sub-system, is characterized by the presence of a powered Atmospheric Dispersion Corrector composed (ADC) by two counter-rotating quadruplets, two prisms, and two lenses each. The presence of powered optics in both the optical groups represents an additional challenge in the alignment procedures. We present the characteristics of the ADC, the analysis after receiving the optics from the manufacturer, the emerging issues, the alignment strategies we followed, and the final results of the ADC in dispersion and optical quality.
Финансово—экономический журнал,Выпуск 17 МНКАВ 2023
Creators: name: ООО "Институт развития образования и консалтинга"
Publisher: name: ООО "Институт развития образования и консалтинга"
Year: 2023

description: Финансово—экономический журнал,Выпуск 17 МНКАВ 2023
Driven Holographic CFTs
Creators: name: Rangamani, Mukund
name: Rozali, Moshe
name: Wong, Anson
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the dynamical evolution of strongly coupled field theories, initially in thermal equilibrium, under the influence of an external driving force. We model the field theory holographically using classical gravitational dynamics in an asymptotically AdS spacetime. The system is driven by a source for a (composite) scalar operator. We focus on a scenario where the external source is periodic in time and chart out the response of several observables. We find an interesting phase structure in the response as a function of the amplitude of the source and driving frequency. Specifically the system transitions from a dissipation dominated phase, via a dynamical crossover to a highly resonant amplification phase. The diagnostics of these phases include the response of the operator in question, entropy production, energy fluctuations, and the temporal change of entanglement entropy for small subsystems. We comment on evidence for a potential phase transition in the energy fluctuations of the system.
description: 42 pages, 39 pdf figures. v2: minor changes. published version
Frequency histograms, condition parameters and size-depending metal accumulation in two species belonging to Phorcus genus
Creators: name: BOULAJFENE, Wafa
name: TLIG-ZOUARI, Sabiha
Publisher: name: INSTM Bulletin : Marine and Freshwater Sciences
Year: 2024

description: This work is a biological and ecotoxicological investigation in two Trochidae species Phorcus turbinatus and Phorcus articulatus taken from four stations, monthly for biological study and seasonally for size-depending metal monitoring. Our results related to biological characterization suggested mostly polymodal frequency histograms associated with a continual renewal of juveniles indicating a laying period spread over several months.
The condition index revealed similar values slightly decreasing during hot seasons probably due to the coincidence of the spawning period with the spring and the summer. As for the condition factor, it also presented close values with a slight increase during the periods of March-April, June-July and even September-November probably resulting from algal proliferation and trophic availability during those months.
The estimation of metal pollution indicators proposed an increasing classification of contamination related to the amounts of waste ejections at each locality coming from industrial activity, large fishing ports and mooring areas. Size-depending metal analyses revealed that despite the strong contamination, a moderate concentration decrease was associated with size growth. This life strategy would allow these species to counteract unfavorable conditions and ensure their persistence and thus justify their frequent use as bio-indicators of the state of health in coastal ecosystems.
description: INSTM Bulletin : Marine and Freshwater Sciences, Vol. 49 (2024)