cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Ionisation Structure in Accretion Shocks with a Composite Cooling Function
Creators: name: Wu, Kinwah
name: Cropper, Mark
name: Ramsay, Gavin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have investigated the ionisation structure of the post-shock regions of magnetic cataclysmic variables using an analytic density and temperature structure model in which effects due to bremsstrahlung and cyclotron cooling are considered. We find that in the majority of the shock-heated region where H- and He-like lines of the heavy elements are emitted, the collisional-ionisation and corona-condition approximations are justified. We have calculated the line emissivity and ionisation profiles for Iron as a function of height within the post-shock flow. For low-mass white dwarfs, line emission takes place near the shock. For high-mass white dwarfs, most of the line emission takes place in regions well below the shock and hence it is less sensitive to the shock temperature. Thus, the line ratios are useful to determine the white-dwarf masses for the low-mass white dwarfs, but the method is less reliable when the white dwarfs are massive. Line spectra can, however, be used to map the hydrodynamic structure of the post-shock accretion flow.
description: 10 pages, accepted MNRAS
An explainable spatial interpolation method considering spatial stratified heterogeneity
Creators: name: Cheng, Shifen
name: Zhang, Wenhui
name: Luo, Peng
name: Wang, Lizeng
name: Lu, Feng
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Information Systems not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Spatial interpolation is essential for handling sparsity and missing spatial data. Current machine learning-based spatial interpolation methods are subject to the statistical constraints of spatial stratified heterogeneity (SSH), normally involving separate modeling of each stratum and simple weighted averaging to integrate intra-stratum and inter-strata features. However, these models overlook the different contributions of inter-strata features to different locations within a stratum (heterogeneous inter-strata associations, HIA) and the explanation of spatial effects on the interpolation process, leading to suboptimal and unreliable interpolation outcomes. This article proposes a novel explainable spatial interpolation method considering SSH (X-SSHM). Spatial and environmental features are utilized to describe intra-stratum and inter-strata information, which are fed into random forest-based learners to achieve high-level semantic feature mapping. Geographically weighted regression is employed to integrate intra-stratum and inter-strata features to achieve a unified expression of SSH and HIA, obtaining the final interpolation result. Geographically weighted Shapley (GSHAP) is proposed to decompose the marginal contributions of intra-stratum and inter-strata features. Model performance is evaluated on simulated and soil organic matter datasets. X-SSHM outperformed five baselines regarding interpolation accuracy. Moreover, statistical methods validated X-SSHM’s ability to elucidate the mechanisms by which SSH, spatial autocorrelation and HIA affect the model interpolation process.
Scrobipalpa proclivella
Creators: name: Junnilainen, Jari
name: Karsholt, Ole
name: Nupponen, Kari
name: Kaitila, Jari-Pekka
name: Nupponen, Timo
name: Olschwang, Vladimir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Gelechiidae
Scrobipalpa
Scrobipalpa proclivella

description: Scrobipalpa proclivella (Fuchs, 1886)
Ajat River 4–5. VII.1997; Arkaim 8. VII.1998; Burannoe 07.VIII.2005; Moskovo 10. VII.1997. A total of 10 exx. Genitalia slides: Hendriksen: 2883, 2884, 3060, 5474.
 Distribution. Locally through Europe, apart from north-westernmost parts, eastwards to the S Urals. Also recorded from Siberia.
 Remarks. Specimens from S Ural (wingspan 8–10 mm) are smaller than specimens from rest of Europe (10–13 mm).
description: Published as part of Junnilainen, Jari, Karsholt, Ole, Nupponen, Kari, Kaitila, Jari-Pekka, Nupponen, Timo & Olschwang, Vladimir, 2010, The gelechiid fauna of the southern Ural Mountains, part II: list of recorded species with taxonomic notes (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) 2367, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 2367 (1) on page 49, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2367.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10093655
Farmers’ Valuation of Incentives to Produce GMO-free Milk: A Discrete Choice Experiment
Creators: name: Schreiner, Julia A.
name: Schreiner, Julia A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Production Economics
subject: GMO-free milk production
subject: choice experiments
subject: incentive instruments

description: This paper investigates farmers’ willingness to adopt a Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO)-free milk production scheme introduced by the dairy. Incentives like a price premium, advice, quality control and feed procurement are set to encourage the conversion. The analysis is based upon Discrete Choice Experiments with 151 dairy farmers in Germany. Alternative-specific conditional logit estimation reveals the marginal effects of incentives and the amount of compensation. The results indicate that attributes like the price premium, takeover of feed procurement and an external audit affect the likelihood of adoption. Farmer, farm characteristics and attitudes concerning GMO as well as expectations on feed prices were found to be significant determinants of adoption. Moreover the findings demonstrate variation in the values of attributes across regions.
First direct measurement of isotopic fission-fragment yields of $^{239}$U
Creators: name: Ramos, D.
name: Caamano, M.
name: Lemasson, A.
name: Rejmund, M.
name: Audouin, L.
name: Alvarez-Pol, H.
name: Frankland, J. D.
name: Fernandez-Dominguez, B.
name: Galiana-Baldo, E.
name: Piot, J.
name: Ackermann, D.
name: Biswas, S.
name: Clement, E.
name: Durand, D.
name: Farget, F.
name: Fregeau, M. O.
name: Galaviz, D.
name: Heinz, A.
name: Henriques, A. I.
name: Jacquot, B.
name: Jurado, B.
name: Kim, Y. H.
name: Morfouace, P.
name: Ralet, D.
name: Roger, T.
name: Schmitt, C.
name: Teubig, P.
name: Tsekhanovich, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A direct and complete measurement of isotopic fission-fragment yields of $^{239}$U has been performed for the first time. The $^{239}$U fissioning system was produced with an average excitation energy of 8.3 MeV in one-neutron transfer reactions between a $^{238}$U beam and a $^{9}$Be target at Coulomb barrier energies. The fission fragments were detected and isotopically identified using the VAMOS++ spectrometer at the GANIL facility. This measurement allows to directly evaluate the fission models at excitation energies of fast neutrons, relevant for next-generation nuclear reactors. The present data, in agreement with model calculations, do not support the recently reported anomaly in the fission-fragment yields of $^{239}$U and confirm the persistence of spherical shell effects in the Sn region at excitation energies exceeding the fission barrier by few MeV.
Wasserstoff Netzwerk OÖ (Technology Talk)
Creators: name: Oberreiter, Klaus
name: NEFI New Energy for Industry
Publisher: name: NEFI New Energy for Industry
Year: 2025
Subjects: NEFI
Innovationsnetzwerk
Energie
Industrie
New Energy for Industry
Klima- und Energiefonds
Vorzeigeregion
Wasserstoffoffensive Oberösterreich 2030
Hydrogen Valley

description: Am 12. September 2023 fand der NEFI Technology Talk zum Thema "Wasserstoff für Österreichs Industrie – Herausforderungen und Lösungen am Weg zur Dekarbonisierung" mit 120 Teilnehmer*innen statt. Diese Veranstaltung bot eine Gelegenheit für Expert*innen, Fachleute und Interessierte die aktuellen Herausforderungen und Chancen im Zusammenhang mit der Integration von Wasserstoff als Schlüsselkomponente in die österreichische Industrie zu diskutieren.

Die österreichische Industrie sieht sich mit enormen Herausforderungen konfrontiert, da sie bis 2040 Klimaneutralität und Dekarbonisierung anstrebt. Wasserstoff wird oft als der entscheidende Treiber für diese Transformation betrachtet. Während der Veranstaltung wurden wichtige Fragen erörtert:

Voraussetzungen für den Einsatz von Wasserstoff

Aktuelle Technologien und Innovationen

CO₂-neutrale Energieversorgung

Rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen

Aktivitäten für den Hochlauf eines Wasserstoffmarkts

Wasserstoffkosten

Die Diskussionsrunde mit allen Vortragenden bot eine Plattform für Fragen aus dem Publikum und den Austausch von Ideen zur Zukunft der Wasserstoffnutzung in Österreich.
Crafting, Conjuring, and the Aesthetic of Making: Towards a Materialistic Understanding of Fantasy
Creators: name: Pandey, Siddharth
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: taskscapes
tasks
magic
doing
making
fantasy
aesthetic
hand
artefacts
wonder
taskness
British

description: This dissertation provides a fresh understanding of the fantasy genre by studying its propensity for the concept of ‘making’. ‘Making’ here broadly encompasses the various practices and performances that generate the sense of the magical. These practices and performances can be collectively viewed as ‘tasks’, whose taskness taps into a heightened regard for materiality in embodied, dynamic terms. A study of the making of magic therefore becomes a study of such taskness, whose sources are both human and non-human. Thus, after providing a long introduction to the concept of making and explicitly linking it to taskness, the thesis divides into two main chapters to study human and non-human taskness by concentrating on five principal British fantasy series: Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy, Terry Pratchett’s Tiffany Aching quintet, William Horwood’s Hyddenworld quartet, Charlie Fletcher’s Stoneheart trilogy, and J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter heptalogy. Leaning on a widely interdisciplinary framework and in particular the theories of making and craftsmanship given by the contemporary Anglophone philosophers Tim Ingold and Richard Sennett, I illustrate the various ways in which fantasy’s sense of the magical springs from its rootedness in the tasks that undergird making. In Chapter 1, I assess human tasks by focusing on the hand and handwork, that contribute to the distinct moods of the fantasy narrative: positive, negative, ambiguous, and the various shades in-between. In Chapter 2, non-human tasks are assessed by plumbing the materialistic dimensions of magical artefacts such as jewels and tools, paintings, sculptures, and lines. I conclude that fantasy’s ‘aesthetic of making’ relies on two core elements: skill and growth. A materialistic understanding of fantasy based on a study of making thus creates a vocabulary that can account for both of these. If, as Brian Attebery observes, wonder is the ‘key’ to fantasy’s impact, then this wonder itself gets constituted by skill and growth which intensify the aliveness of alternative universes in a deeply interiorized manner. Ultimately then, this thesis is an exercise in understanding the ‘form’ of fantasy from within.
description: Cambridge International Scholarship (2014-17)
Super-Eddington Black-Hole Models for SS 433
Creators: name: Okuda, Toru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine highly super-Eddington black-hole models for SS 433, based on two-dimensional hydrodynamical calculations coupled with radiation transport. The super-Eddington accretion flow with a small viscosity parameter, $α= 10^{-3}$, results in a geometrically and optically thick disk with a large opening angle of $\sim 60^{\circ}$ to the equatorial plane and a very rarefied, hot, and optically thin high-velocity jets region around the disk. The thick accretion flow consists of two different zones: an inner advection-dominated zone and an outer convection-dominated zone. The high-velocity region around the disk is divided into two characteristic regions, a very rarefied funnel region along the rotational axis and a moderately rarefied high-velocity region outside of the disk. The temperatures of $\sim 10^7$ K and the densities of $\sim 10^{-7}$ g cm$^{-3}$ in the upper disk vary sharply to $\sim 10^8$ K and $10^{-8}$ g cm$^{-3}$, respectively, across the disk boundary between the disk and the high-velocity region. The X-ray emission of iron lines would be generated only in a confined region between the funnel wall and the photospheric disk boundary, where flows are accelerated to relativistic velocities of $\sim$ 0.2 $c$ due to the dominant radiation-pressure force. The results are discussed regarding the collimation angle of the jets, the large mass-outflow rate obserevd in SS 433, and the ADAFs and the CDAFs models.
description: 19 pages, 11 figures, to be published in Publ. Astron. Soc. Japan, 2002
Digital Humanities Literacy Guidebook
Creators: name: Weingart, Scott
name: Grunewald, Susan
name: Lincoln, Matthew
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Digital Humanities

description: The Digital Humanities Literacy Guidebook (DHLG) was first developed in the summer of 2019 as part of a 5-year A.W. Mellon Foundation grant to Carnegie Mellon University for the advancement of digital humanities and technology-enhanced learning on campus. Its goal is to offer its audience, newcomers to DH, a broad sense of the landscape of digital humanities, and a map to chart their course through it.
 The DHLG is inspired by a series of five week-long summer workshops offered at CMU in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019. Lessons learned in these workshops helped shape the site into its current structure.
This deposit includes a locally-viewable version of the site in dhlg.tar.gz, including all the video assets, and this can be used to view the site on your own machine without needing an internet connection.
This deposit also includes a WARC snapshot taken of the live site on 2019-11-04.
The meson $B_c$ annihilation to leptons and inclusive light hadrons
Creators: name: Wu, Xing-Gang
name: Chang, Chao-Hsi
name: Chen, Yu-Qi
name: Fang, Zheng-Yun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The annihilation of the $B_c$ meson to leptons and inclusive light hadrons is analyzed in the framework of nonrelativistic QCD (NRQCD) factorization. We find that the decay mode, which escapes from the helicity suppression, contributes a sizable fraction width. According to the analysis, the branching ratio due to the contribution from the color-singlet component of the meson $B_c$ can be of order (10^{-2}). We also estimate the contributions from the color-octet components. With the velocity scaling rule of NRQCD, we find that the color-octet contributions are sizable too, especially, in certain phase space of the annihilation they are greater than (or comparative to) the color-singlet component. A few observables relevant to the spectrum of charged lepton are suggested, that may be used as measurements on the color-octet and color-singlet components in the future $B_c$ experiments. A typical long distance contribution in the annihilation is estimated too.
description: 26 pages, 5 figures (6 eps-files), submitted to Phys. Rev. D
Penalized functional regression using R package PFLR
Creators: name: Cameron, Rob
name: Guan, Tianyu
name: Shi, Haolun
name: Lin, Zhenhua
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Penalized functional regression is a useful tool to estimate models for applications where the effect/coefficient function is assumed to be truncated. The truncated coefficient function occurs when the functional predictor does not influence the response after a certain cutoff point on the time domain. The R package PFLR offers an extensive suite of methods for advanced functional regression techniques with penalization. The package implements four distinct methods, each tailored to different models, effectively addressing a range of scenarios. This is demonstrated through simulations as well as an application to particulate matter emissions data. Generic S3 methods are also implemented for each model to help with summary, visualization and interpretation.
Scrobipalpa punctata, comb. n.
Creators: name: Junnilainen, Jari
name: Karsholt, Ole
name: Nupponen, Kari
name: Kaitila, Jari-Pekka
name: Nupponen, Timo
name: Olschwang, Vladimir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Gelechiidae
Scrobipalpa
Scrobipalpa punctata

description: Scrobipalpa punctata ( Povolný, 1996) comb. n.
Arkaim 14.VI.1996, Chalk Hills 29. VI –1. VII.3003; Sakmara river 20–21.VI.1996; Verbljushka 28.VI.2003, 31.V.2004; A total of 11 exx. Genitalia slides: Hendriksen 2863, 2864, 5473; Huemer: 01/1091, 03/1192; Kaitila 97026.
 Distribution. Russia (S Ural) and Kirghizia.
 Remarks. This species is new to Russia.
description: Published as part of Junnilainen, Jari, Karsholt, Ole, Nupponen, Kari, Kaitila, Jari-Pekka, Nupponen, Timo & Olschwang, Vladimir, 2010, The gelechiid fauna of the southern Ural Mountains, part II: list of recorded species with taxonomic notes (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) 2367, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 2367 (1) on page 50, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2367.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10093655
The immortal life of poorly managed data: technical debt in registry-based research
Creators: name: Tsuruda, Kaitlyn M
name: Babigumira, Ronnie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Data Management
subject: Data Management/statistics & numerical data
subject: Data Curation/statistics & numerical data
subject: Data Visualization
subject: Data Curation

description: Technical debt refers to inefficiencies caused by prioritizing quick fixes over best practices in data management and processing. 

This poster highlights the negative consequences of technical debt in registry-based, medical research and outlines key points that data managers and researchers can use avoid technical debt in their own projects.

This poster was created for researchers at the Norwegian Institute of Public health. However, our guidance is applicable to many research disciplines.

A curated list of resources to help you avoid technical debt and improve your data management skills can be found at https://github.com/tsurudak/technical-debt
Probing Tissue Microarchitecture of the Baby Brain via Spherical Mean Spectrum Imaging
Creators: name: Huynh, Khoi Minh
name: Xu, Tiantian
name: Wu, Ye
name: Chen, Geng
name: Wang, Xifeng
name: Thung, Kim-Han
name: Wu, Haiyong
name: Lin, Weili
name: Shen, Dinggang
name: Yap, Pew-Thian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: During the first years of life, the human brain undergoes dynamic spatially-heterogeneous changes, involving differentiation of neuronal types, dendritic arborization, axonal ingrowth, outgrowth and retraction, synaptogenesis, and myelination. To better quantify these changes, this article presents a method for probing tissue microarchitecture by characterizing water diffusion in a spectrum of length scales, factoring out the effects of intra-voxel orientation heterogeneity. Our method is based on the spherical means of the diffusion signal, computed over gradient directions for a fixed set of diffusion weightings (i.e., b-values). We decompose the spherical mean series at each voxel into a spherical mean spectrum (SMS), which essentially encodes the fractions of spin packets undergoing fine- to coarse-scale diffusion processes, characterizing hindered and restricted diffusion stemming respectively from extra- and intra-neurite water compartments. From the SMS, multiple orientation distribution invariant indices can be computed, allowing for example the quantification of neurite density, microscopic fractional anisotropy ($μ$FA), per-axon axial/radial diffusivity, and free/restricted isotropic diffusivity. We show maps of these indices for baby brains, demonstrating that microscopic tissue features can be extracted from the developing brain for greater sensitivity and specificity to development related changes. Also, we demonstrate that our method, called spherical mean spectrum imaging (SMSI), is fast, accurate, and can overcome the biases associated with other state-of-the-art microstructure models.
High-Resolution X-ray Spectroscopy of Hercules X-1 with the XMM-Newton RGS: CNO Element Abundance Measurements and Density Diagnostics of a Photoionized Plasma
Creators: name: Jimenez-Garate, M. A.
name: Hailey, C. J.
name: Herder, J. W. den
name: Zane, S.
name: Ramsay, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the high-resolution X-ray spectrum of Hercules X-1, an intermediate-mass X-ray binary, which was observed with the XMM-Newton Reflection Grating Spectrometer. We measure the elemental abundance ratios by use of spectral models, and we detect material processed through the CNO-cycle. The CNO abundances, and in particular the ratio N/O > 4.0 times solar, provide stringent constraints on the evolution of the binary system. The low and short-on flux states of Her X-1 exhibit narrow line emission from C VI, N VI, N VII, O VII, O VIII, Ne IX, and Ne X ions. The spectra show signatures of photoionization. We measure the electron temperature, quantify photoexcitation in the He alpha lines, and set limits on the location and density of the gas. The recombination lines may originate in the accretion disk atmosphere and corona, or on the X-ray illuminated face of the mass donor (HZ Her). The spectral variation over the course of the 35 d period provides additional evidence for the precession of the disk. During the main-on state, the narrow line emission is absent, but we detect excesses of emission at ~10--15 A, and also near the O VII intercombination line wavelength.
description: 23 pages, 10 figures; accepted for publication in ApJ
Voluntary Pollution Abatement and Regulation
Creators: name: Delgado, Michael S.
name: Khanna, Neha
name: Delgado, Michael S.
name: Khanna, Neha
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Public Economics
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: consumer demand
subject: environmental regulation
subject: optimal regulation
subject: public goods
subject: voluntary abatement

description: We consider private provision of an environmental public good and the link between voluntary pollution-abatement markets and the optimal level of mandatory environmental regulation. We show that voluntary abatement markets react to the level of mandatory abatement imposed and that an optimal regulatory policy must account for that reaction. We consider several assumptions about consumer behavior and find that the voluntary market’s reaction to regulation depends on the motivating behavior of consumers. Whether the optimal level of mandatory abatement is higher than the level provided by traditional settings depends on the direction and magnitude of the voluntary market’s reaction to changes in mandatory abatement.
Comment on "Atomic jumps in quasiperiodic Al$_{72.6}$Ni$_{10.5}$Co$_{16.9}$ and related crystalline material"
Creators: name: Coddens, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We disagree with a number of statements by Dolinsek et al. about the specificity of phason dynamics in quasicrystals (QCs).
description: 2 pages, 0 figures, submitted to Physical Review B
On the Properties of Time-Dependent, Force-Free, Degenerate Electrodynamics
Creators: name: Komissarov, S. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper formulates time-dependent, force-free, degenerate electrodynamics as a hyperbolic system of conservation laws. It is shown that this system has four characteristic modes, a pair of fast waves propagating with the speed of light and a pair of Alfven waves. All these modes are linearly degenerate. The results of this analytic study can be used in developing upwind numerical schemes for the electrodynamics of black holes and pulsar magnetospheres. As an example, this paper describes a simple one-dimensional numerical scheme based on linear and exact Riemann solvers.
description: MNRAS, in press
Implementation of quantum search algorithm using classical Fourier optics
Creators: name: Bhattacharya, N.
name: Heuvell, H. B. van Linden van den
name: Spreeuw, R. J. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on an experiment on Grover's quantum search algorithm showing that {\em classical waves} can search a $N$-item database as efficiently as quantum mechanics can. The transverse beam profile of a short laser pulse is processed iteratively as the pulse bounces back and forth between two mirrors. We directly observe the sought item being found in $\sim\sqrt{N}$ iterations, in the form of a growing intensity peak on this profile. Although the lack of quantum entanglement limits the {\em size} of our database, our results show that entanglement is neither necessary for the algorithm itself, nor for its efficiency.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures; minor revisions plus extra reference
Early Christianity and Greek Philosophy: The Argument of Acts 17:16-34 in Light of the Philosophical and Religious Debates of Early Post-Hellenistic Times
Creators: name: Cuany, Monique
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Acts 17
Paul in Athens
Speeches in Acts
Paul in Acts

description: The speech in Athens (Acts 17:16–34) is a key text to assess the relationship between the early Christian movement and the Graeco-Roman world in Acts, but its interpretation has led to diametrically opposed conclusions, some seeing it as a rapprochement with Graeco-Roman wisdom, and others as incompatible with, and condemnatory of, Gentile religiosity and philosophy. For both sides, however, the Christological conclusion of the speech has remained a puzzle, both in terms of its connection with the rest of the argument, and its accessibility to the Greek audience of Acts’ narrative. This dissertation suggests that the speech must be interpreted in the context of the religious grammar and the philosophical debates between Hellenistic schools in early post-Hellenistic times. It argues that this approach sheds light on the argument of the speech and its Christological conclusion, and leads to a new evaluation of the relationship between the Christian message and Hellenistic philosophy, and the way Acts pictures the kerygmatic proclamation in a Gentile context.
A Comparison of Rendering Techniques for Large 3D Line Sets with Transparency
Creators: name: Kern, Michael
name: Neuhauser, Christoph
name: Maack, Torben
name: Han, Mengjiao
name: Usher, Will
name: Westermann, Rüdiger
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents a comprehensive study of interactive rendering techniques for large 3D line sets with transparency. The rendering of transparent lines is widely used for visualizing trajectories of tracer particles in flow fields. Transparency is then used to fade out lines deemed unimportant, based on, for instance, geometric properties or attributes defined along them. Since accurate blending of transparent lines requires rendering the lines in back-to-front or front-to-back order, enforcing this order for 3D line sets with tens or even hundreds of thousands of elements becomes challenging. In this paper, we study CPU and GPU rendering techniques for large transparent 3D line sets. We compare accurate and approximate techniques using optimized implementations and a number of benchmark data sets. We discuss the effects of data size and transparency on quality, performance and memory consumption. Based on our study, we propose two improvements to per-pixel fragment lists and multi-layer alpha blending. The first improves the rendering speed via an improved GPU sorting operation, and the second improves rendering quality via a transparency-based bucketing.
description: 16 pages, 8 pages appendix
Analysis of two-point statistics of cosmic shear: I. Estimators and covariances
Creators: name: Schneider, Peter
name: van Waerbeke, Ludovic
name: Kilbinger, Martin
name: Mellier, Yannick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive in this paper expressions for the covariance matrix of the cosmic shear two-point correlation functions which are readily applied to any survey geometry. Furthermore, we consider the more special case of a simple survey geometry which allows us to obtain approximations for the covariance matrix in terms of integrals which are readily evaluated numerically. These results are then used to study the covariance of the aperture mass dispersion which has been employed earlier in quantitative cosmic shear analyses. We show that the aperture mass dispersion, measured at two different angular scales, quickly decorrelates with the ratio of the scales. Inverting the relation between the shear two-point correlation functions and the power spectrum of the underlying projected matter distribution, we construct estimators for the power spectrum and for the band powers, and show that they yields accurate approximations; in particular, the correlation between band powers at different wave numbers is quite weak. The covariance matrix of the shear correlation function is then used to investigate the expected accuracy of cosmological parameter estimates from cosmic shear surveys. Depending on the use of prior information, e.g. from CMB measurements, cosmic shear can yield very accurate determinations of several cosmological parameters, in particular the normalization $σ_8$ of the power spectrum of the matter distribution, the matter density parameter $Ω_{\rm m}$, and the shape parameter $Γ$.
description: 20 pages, including 8 figures; submitted to A&A
Scrobipalpa rebeli
Creators: name: Junnilainen, Jari
name: Karsholt, Ole
name: Nupponen, Kari
name: Kaitila, Jari-Pekka
name: Nupponen, Timo
name: Olschwang, Vladimir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Gelechiidae
Scrobipalpa
Scrobipalpa rebeli

description: Scrobipalpa rebeli (Preissecker, 1914)
Burannoe 30.V.2004; Chalk Hills 11.V.2005, Moskovo 25.V.1998. A total of 5 exx. Genitalia slides: Hendriksen: 5458, 6344, 6345; Huemer 03/1189.
 Distribution. In Europe known from Austria, Italy and Ukraine. Also known from the Krasnoyarsk region in S Siberia.
description: Published as part of Junnilainen, Jari, Karsholt, Ole, Nupponen, Kari, Kaitila, Jari-Pekka, Nupponen, Timo & Olschwang, Vladimir, 2010, The gelechiid fauna of the southern Ural Mountains, part II: list of recorded species with taxonomic notes (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) 2367, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 2367 (1) on page 50, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2367.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10093655
Teaching Italian Film and Television and Videographic Criticism
Creators: name: O’Leary, Alan
name: Renga, Dana
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Teaching Italian Film and Television and Videographic Criticism
Anisotropic Optic Conductivities due to Spin and Orbital Orderings in LaVO3 and YVO3: First-Principles Studies
Creators: name: Fang, Zhong
name: Nagaosa, Naoto
name: Terakura, Kiyoyuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The anisotropy of low energy (0$\sim$5eV) optical excitations in strongly correlated transition-metal oxides is closely related to the spin and orbital orderings. The recent successes of LDA+$U$ method in describing the magnetic and electronic structures enable us to calculate the optical conductivity from first-principles. The LaVO$_3$ and YVO$_3$, both of which have $3d^2$ configuration and have various spin and orbital ordered phases at low temperature, show distinct anisotropy in the optical spectra. The effects of spin and orbital ordering on the anisotropy are studied in detail based on our first-principles calculations. The experimental spectra of both compounds at low temperature phases can be qualitatively explained with our calculations, while the studies for the intermediate temperature phase of YVO$_3$ suggest the substantial persistence of the low temperature phase at elevated temperature.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, accepted by PRB
Scrobipalpa salinella
Creators: name: Junnilainen, Jari
name: Karsholt, Ole
name: Nupponen, Kari
name: Kaitila, Jari-Pekka
name: Nupponen, Timo
name: Olschwang, Vladimir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Gelechiidae
Scrobipalpa
Scrobipalpa salinella

description: Scrobipalpa salinella (Zeller, 1847)
Ajat River 4.VII.1997, 24.VII.1998; Arkaim 14–19.VI.1996, 23.VII.1998; Bajmak 17. VI.1998; Berlin 30.VI– 2.VI.1997; Burannoe 3.VII.2003, 29.V.2004; Chalk Hills 3–7. VI., 17–18.VII.1998, 11.VI.2001, 29.VI.2003, 25–27.V.2004, 3–5.VIII.2005; Guberlja 9. VIII.2005; Kuvandyk 20. VII.1998; Miass 26–27. VI.1997; Moskovo 18. VI.1998; Novoiletzk 9. VI.1998; Sanarskii bor 26. VII.1998; Stepnoe 30. VII.2005; Tavatui 29. VII.1998; Verbljushka 30. V –2. VI., 14.VII.1998, 28.VII.2000, 27.VII.2002, 27–28.VI.2003, 31.VII.2005. A total of 145 exx. Genitalia slides: Hendriksen:2931, 2932, 2934, 2935, 5452, 5453.
 Distribution. Locally distributed in Europe along coast and inland halophytic habitats, eastwards through C Asia to Mongolia; N Africa (Povolný 2002). A male labled “ Russia, Altaisky Kray, 53°20’N 84°10’E, 30 km E Barnaul, Losiha river, 17.VII.2001, K. Nupponen leg.” represents the first record of S. salinella from Siberia.
 Remarks. The population in the southern Urals belong to spp. salicorniae (E. Hering, 1889), which is otherwise distributed along coasts of northern Europe and in halophytic inland localities in Central Europe.
description: Published as part of Junnilainen, Jari, Karsholt, Ole, Nupponen, Kari, Kaitila, Jari-Pekka, Nupponen, Timo & Olschwang, Vladimir, 2010, The gelechiid fauna of the southern Ural Mountains, part II: list of recorded species with taxonomic notes (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) 2367, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 2367 (1) on page 50, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2367.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10093655
Cost-effectiveness of ranibizumab and aflibercept to treat diabetic macular edema from a US perspective: analysis of 2-year Protocol T data
Creators: name: Holekamp, Nancy
name: Duff, Steven B.
name: Rajput, Yamina
name: Garmo, Vincent
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Aims: Protocol T (NCT01627249) was a head-to-head study conducted by the Diabetic Retinopathy Clinical Research Network that compared intravitreal aflibercept, bevacizumab, and ranibizumab for the treatment of diabetic macular edema (DME). A cost-effectiveness analysis accompanying the 1-year data of Protocol T revealed that aflibercept was not cost-effective vs ranibizumab for all patients, but could have been cost-effective in certain patient sub-groups if the 1-year results were extrapolated out to 10 years. The present study evaluated the cost-effectiveness of US Food and Drug Administration-approved anti-vascular endothelial growth factor agents (ranibizumab, aflibercept) for treatment of DME using the 2-year data from Protocol T. Methods: Costs of aflibercept 2.0 mg or ranibizumab 0.3 mg, visual acuity (VA)-related medical costs, and quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) were simulated for eight VA health states. Treatment, adverse event management, and VA-related healthcare resource costs (2016 US dollars) were based on Medicare reimbursement and published literature. VA-related health utilities were determined using a published algorithm. Patients were stratified by baseline VA: 20/40 or better; 20/50 or worse. Results: Total 2-year costs were higher, and QALYs similar, for aflibercept vs ranibizumab in the full cohort ($44,423 vs $34,529; 1.476 vs 1.466), 20/40 or better VA sub-group ($40,854 vs $31,897; 1.517 vs 1.519), and 20/50 or worse VA sub-group ($48,214 vs $37,246; 1.433 vs 1.412), respectively. Incremental cost-effectiveness ratios in the full cohort and 20/50 or worse VA sub-group were $986,159/QALY and $523,377/QALY, respectively. These decreased to $711,301 and $246,978 when analyses were extrapolated to 10 years. Limitations: Key potential limitations include the fact that VA was the only QALY parameter analyzed and the uncertainty surrounding the role of better- and worse-seeing eye VA in overall functional impairment. Conclusions: This analysis suggests that aflibercept is not cost-effective vs ranibizumab for patients with DME, regardless of baseline vision.
Conscience, ethics and politics: beyond beautiful souls
Creators: name: Greene, Rachel Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: conscience
Schöne Seele
politics
ethics

description: This thesis examines the conceptual and practical difficulties posed by the use of conscience. In order to address those difficulties, it looks at the figure of the beautiful soul in romantic literature as an important resource with which to re-assess the problem of conscience. To show how this thesis stages a conversation between three thinkers: Charles Taylor, Gillian Rose and Rowan Williams. I offer a critical survey of efforts to respond to the difficulties that conscience presents, before examining Taylor’s work on moral inarticulacy and secularity, so as to contextualize the problem of conscience and show why people are pressured to rely on conscience as a moral principle despite the problem. Then I introduce the beautiful soul as a compelling depiction of what it feels like to organize your life by following your conscience. I focus first on the story of the beautiful soul in Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, in order to build up a picture of the key movements in the beautiful soul’s understanding of conscience as an expression of individuality and to see why cultivating a beautiful soul might be a modern temptation. Then I consider the story of the beautiful soul in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, which interrogates individuality as a justified norm and indicates how we might avoid the temptation to cultivate a beautiful soul. Next I examine Gillian Rose’s claim that Hannah Arendt succumbed to that temptation. I argue that Rose’s claim has its basis in Arendt’s struggle to rework the concept of conscience after the trial of Eichmann. I return to Taylor’s proposal that we take a theological approach in this secular age and set out the distinctive features of conscience, drawing up the insights of Rowan Williams. This thesis argues that the beautiful soul issues two important warnings about conscience. With regards to efforts to theorize conscience, the beautiful soul offers a salient reminder that conscience is formal and that its formalism always has the potential to undermine its purported morality. With regards to the use of conscience in practice, the beautiful soul warns of serious pitfalls associated with responding to ethical and political issues as if they were personal matters that could be addressed by curating your life according to conscience. It is still possible to make public appeal to your conscience and avoid the fate of the beautiful soul, but only if we heed these two warnings. That means we must not assume conscience to be a self-explanatory moral principle, and we must resist treating it as a single, weighty decision for or against institutional life without considering the virtues, social practices, and institutions shaping it.
Scrobipalpa samadensis
Creators: name: Junnilainen, Jari
name: Karsholt, Ole
name: Nupponen, Kari
name: Kaitila, Jari-Pekka
name: Nupponen, Timo
name: Olschwang, Vladimir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Gelechiidae
Scrobipalpa
Scrobipalpa samadensis

description: Scrobipalpa samadensis (Paffenzeller, 1870)
Burannoe 20.VI.1999, 29.VIII.2000, 3.VII.2003, 29.V.2004; 6.VIII.2005; Chalk Hills 3–7.VI.1998, 1.VII.2003; Novoiletzk 9.VI.1998; Stepnoe 30.VII.2005. A total of 23 exx. Genitalia slides: Hendriksen: 2861.
 Distribution. Widely distributed in large parts of Europe. In Russia only recorded from the S Urals (Ponomarenko 2008). Povolný (2002) recorded S. samadensis from Orenburg, but wrongly stated it to be in the Caucasus instead of in the Urals.
 Remarks. Most of the examined specimens from the Urals belong to the form with rather plain coloured light brown forewings.
description: Published as part of Junnilainen, Jari, Karsholt, Ole, Nupponen, Kari, Kaitila, Jari-Pekka, Nupponen, Timo & Olschwang, Vladimir, 2010, The gelechiid fauna of the southern Ural Mountains, part II: list of recorded species with taxonomic notes (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) 2367, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 2367 (1) on page 50, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2367.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10093655
Consumer Perceptions of Eco-friendly and Sustainable Terms
Creators: name: Campbell, Benjamin
name: Khachatryan, Hayk
name: Behe, Bridget
name: Dennis, Jennifer
name: Hall, Charles
name: Campbell, Benjamin
name: Khachatryan, Hayk
name: Behe, Bridget
name: Dennis, Jennifer
name: Hall, Charles
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: choice behavior
subject: environmental attributes
subject: labels
subject: perceptions
subject: survey

description: Common marketing strategies include emphasizing products’ “green” or environmentally friendly at-tributes and characteristics to appeal to a growing market of environmentally conscious consumers. While previous studies have used product labels such as “eco-friendly,” “environmentally friendly,” and “sustainable” to investigate consumer preferences, relatively little is known about how consumer perceptions as a pre-decision mechanism impact their preferences and choice behaviors. Using data collected through an online survey of U.S. and Canadian consumers, we investigate systematic differ-ences in individuals’ perceptions of the terms “eco-friendly” and “sustainable.” Marketing implications for the food and green (i.e., greenhouse/nursery producers, suppliers, and retailers) industries are discussed.
Additional file 7 of H3K27ac mediated SS18/BAFs relocation regulates JUN induced pluripotent-somatic transition
Creators: name: Lin, Runxia
name: Zhai, Ziwei
name: Kuang, Junqi
name: Wu, Chuman
name: Yao, Yuxiang
name: Shi, Ruona
name: He, Jiangping
name: Xu, Shuyang
name: Li, Pengli
name: Fan, Yixin
name: Li, Wei
name: Wu, Zichao
name: Li, Xiaoxi
name: Ming, Jin
name: Guo, Jing
name: Wang, Bo
name: Li, Dongwei
name: Cao, Shangtao
name: Zhang, Xiaofei
name: Li, Yi
name: Pei, Duanqing
name: Liu, Jing
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 7. The BAFs’ bromodomain inhibitors impede PST.
Shape of Deconstruction
Creators: name: Shiraishi, Kiyoshi
name: Sakamoto, Kenji
name: Kan, Nahomi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct a six-dimensional Maxwell theory using a latticized extra space, the continuum limit of which is a shifted torus recently discussed by Dienes. This toy model exhibits the correspondence between continuum theory and discrete theory, and give a geometrical insight to theory-space model building.
description: 10 pages, 2 figures, RevTeX4. a citation added
Scrobipalpula diffluella
Creators: name: Junnilainen, Jari
name: Karsholt, Ole
name: Nupponen, Kari
name: Kaitila, Jari-Pekka
name: Nupponen, Timo
name: Olschwang, Vladimir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Gelechiidae
Scrobipalpula
Scrobipalpula diffluella

description: Scrobipalpula diffluella (Frey, 1870)
Moskovo 10.VII.1997 (1♂). Genitalia slide: Hendriksen: 3059.
 Distribution. In northern Europe from Norway to Latvia and Finland, and in central Europe from the Alps. Scattered records also from Great Britain and the Balkans.
 Remarks. This species is new to Russia.
description: Published as part of Junnilainen, Jari, Karsholt, Ole, Nupponen, Kari, Kaitila, Jari-Pekka, Nupponen, Timo & Olschwang, Vladimir, 2010, The gelechiid fauna of the southern Ural Mountains, part II: list of recorded species with taxonomic notes (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) 2367, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 2367 (1) on page 51, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2367.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10093655