cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Modelling biomolecules through atomistic graphs: theory, implementation, and applications
Creators: name: Song, Florian J
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2022

description: Describing biological molecules through computational models enjoys ever-growing popularity. Never before has access to computational resources been easier for scientists across the natural sciences. The need for accurate, efficient, and robust modelling tools is therefore irrefutable. This, in turn, calls for highly interdisciplinary research, which the thesis presented here is a product of. Through the successful marriage of techniques from mathematical graph theory, theoretical insights from chemistry and biology, and the tools of modern computer science, we are able to computationally construct accurate depictions of biomolecules as atomistic graphs, in which individual atoms become nodes and chemical bonds/interactions are represented by weighted edges. When combined with methods from graph theory and network science, this approach has previously been shown to successfully reveal various properties of proteins, such as dynamics, rigidity, multi-scale organisation, allostery, and protein-protein interactions, and is well poised to set new standards in terms of computational feasibility, multi-scale resolution (from atoms to domains) and time-scales (from nanoseconds to milliseconds). Therefore, building on previous work in our research group spanning over 15 years and to further encourage and facilitate research into this growing field, this thesis's main contribution is to provide a formalised foundation for the construction of atomistic graphs. The most crucial aspect of constructing atomistic graphs of large biomolecules compared to small molecules is the necessity to include a variety of different types of bonds and interactions, because larger biomolecules attain their unique structural layout mainly through weaker interactions, e.g. hydrogen bonds, the hydrophobic effect or π-π interactions. Whilst most interaction types are well-studied and have readily available methodology which can be used to construct atomistic graphs, this is not the case for hydrophobic interactions. To fill this gap, the work presented herein includes novel methodology for encoding the hydrophobic effect in atomistic graphs, that accounts for the many-body effect and non-additivity. Then, a standalone software package for constructing atomistic graphs from structural data is presented. Herein lies the heart of this thesis: the combination of a variety of methodologies for a range of bond/interaction types, as well as an implementation that is deterministic, easy-to-use and efficient. Finally, some promising avenues for utilising atomistic graphs in combination with graph theoretical tools such as Markov Stability as well as other approaches such as Multilayer Networks to study various properties of biomolecules are presented.
Measurement of Single Electron Events in MicroBooNE
Creators: name: Caro, Ivan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: MicroBooNE is a Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) detector designed to address the excess of low energy electromagnetic events observed by the MiniBooNE experiment. Electron neutrinos can create a wide variety of topologies when interacting in liquid argon, and this analysis measures events both with (1eNp0π) and without (1e0p0π) visible protons. This poster presents the measurement of single electron events in the MicroBooNE detector, which includes events at low energies. The single electron selection is orthogonal to the 1eNp0π selection which makes it possible to allow migrations between the two channels in a joint fit, and constrain uncertainties associated with low energy protons such as those related to reconstruction, multiplicity and their kinematics.
Large-scale quantum networks based on graphs
Creators: name: Epping, Michael
name: Kampermann, Hermann
name: Bruß, Dagmar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Society relies and depends increasingly on information exchange and communication. In the quantum world, security and privacy is a built-in feature for information processing. The essential ingredient for exploiting these quantum advantages is the resource of entanglement, which can be shared between two or more parties. The distribution of entanglement over large distances constitutes a key challenge for current research and development. Due to losses of the transmitted quantum particles, which typically scale exponentially with the distance, intermediate quantum repeater stations are needed. Here we show how to generalise the quantum repeater concept to the multipartite case, by fully describing large-scale quantum networks, i.e. network nodes and their long-distance links, in the language of graphs and graph states. This unifying approach comprises both the distribution of multipartite entanglement across the network, and the protection against errors via encoding. The correspondence to graph states also provides a tool for optimising the architecture of quantum networks.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables, revised text and new results regarding the optimisation of quantum networks
Announcing the new Member API
Creators: name: Fenner, Martin
Publisher: name: DataCite
Year: 2020
Subjects: feature
api

description: When we launched the new version of the OAI-PMH service in November (Hallett (2019)), and retired Solr (used by the old OAI-PMH service) in December, we completed the transition to Elasticsearch as our search index, and the REST API as our main API...
Neural-network-aided automatic modulation classification
Creators: name: Triantaris, Pavlos
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2021

description: Automatic modulation classification (AMC) is a pattern matching problem which significantly impacts divers telecommunication systems, with significant applications in military and civilian contexts alike. Although its appearance in the literature is far from novel, recent developments in machine learning technologies have triggered an increased interest in this area of research. In the first part of this thesis, an AMC system is studied where, in addition to the typical point-to-point setup of one receiver and one transmitter, a second transmitter is also present, which is considered an interfering device. A convolutional neural network (CNN) is used for classification. In addition to studying the effect of interference strength, we propose a modification attempting to leverage some of the debilitating results of interference, and also study the effect of signal quantisation upon classification performance. Consequently, we assess a cooperative setting of AMC, namely one where the receiver features multiple antennas, and receives different versions of the same signal from the single-antenna transmitter. Through the combination of data from different antennas, it is evidenced that this cooperative approach leads to notable performance improvements over the established baseline. Finally, the cooperative scenario is expanded to a more complicated setting, where a realistic geographic distribution of four receiving nodes is modelled, and furthermore, the decision-making mechanism with regard to the identity of a signal resides in a fusion centre independent of the receivers, connected to them over finite-bandwidth backhaul links. In addition to the common concerns over classification accuracy and inference time, data reduction methods of various types (including “trained” lossy compression) are implemented with the objective of minimising the data load placed upon the backhaul links.
A comprehensive algorithmic dissection yields biomarker discovery and insights into the discrete stage-wise progression of colorectal cancer
Creators: name: Palaniappan, Ashok
name: Sarathi, Arjun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology
subject: 60408 Genomics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60114 Systems Biology

description: Supplementary Information to accompany the manuscript, "A comprehensive computational dissection yields biomarker discovery and insights into the discrete stage-wise progression of colorectal cancer." The files are: S1 -- dataset S2 -- linear modell top genes S3 -- stage-specific DEGs S4 -- top 200 from numeric model S5 - significant MEGs S6 - Overlap between the top numeric model genes and sig. MEGs
Developing empirical management procedures to meet management objectives for data-limited fisheries
Creators: name: Fischer, Simon Helmut
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2022

description: Most of the world’s fish stocks are considered data-limited and there are insufficient data for complex stock assessment models; nevertheless, scientifically sound management advice is required. Empirical management procedures rely on empirical data and can guide management decisions. The main goals of this project were to develop and test empirical management procedures to improve data-limited fisheries management. Candidate management procedures can be evaluated using management strategy evaluation, which simulates the managed system and management in a feedback loop. Here, many generic operating models were generated covering a wide range of life histories. First, a trend-based empirical management procedure was explored. Simulations revealed that the management performance depended on the individual growth rate of the species, and the method delivered poor performance with high risk of stock depletion for faster-growing species. However, management performance could be improved by applying a genetic algorithm and optimisation towards specified management objectives such as long-term sustainable exploitation and risk limits demanded by stakeholders. An alternative empirical method (harvest rates) was found to be applicable to faster-growing species. Optimised parameterisations of the empirical methods from generic simulations were confirmed for several case study stocks with more available data. These analyses suggested that the generic methods lead to precautionary management, but management performance can be improved through case-specific optimisation. The outcomes of this project showed that the current management practices of data-limited fisheries resources applied by the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea in Europe are insufficient and do not ensure sustainable and precautionary exploitation, even though this is required through international treaties. However, the management procedures evaluated in this study show a way to overcome current management deficiencies and indicate that simple empirical management procedures are a scientifically sound alternative to expensive model-based management approaches.
Nonlinear mobility continuity equations and generalized displacement convexity
Creators: name: Carrillo, Jose A.
name: Lisini, Stefano
name: Savare, Giuseppe
name: Slepcev, Dejan
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider the geometry of the space of Borel measures endowed with a distance that is defined by generalizing the dynamical formulation of the Wasserstein distance to concave, nonlinear mobilities. We investigate the energy landscape of internal, potential, and interaction energies. For the internal energy, we give an explicit sufficient condition for geodesic convexity which generalizes the condition of McCann. We take an eulerian approach that does not require global information on the geodesics. As by-product, we obtain existence, stability, and contraction results for the semigroup obtained by solving the homogeneous Neumann boundary value problem for a nonlinear diffusion equation in a convex bounded domain. For the potential energy and the interaction energy, we present a nonrigorous argument indicating that they are not displacement semiconvex.
Data-Driven cross checks for $\nu_e$ selection efficiency in NOvA
Creators: name: Hall, Anna
name: Kolupaeva, Liudmila
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: NOvA is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment that consists of two functionally equivalent detectors and utilizes Fermilab's NuMI beam. NOvA uses a convolutional neural network for particle identification with a validation process that includes several data-driven techniques. Muon-Removed Electron-Added studies involve selecting $\nu_\mu$ charged current candidates from data and simulation and replacing the muon with a simulated electron of similar energy. For Muon-Removed Bremsstrahlung and Muon-Removed Decay-in-Flight studies we remove muonic hits from cosmic muons that have either experienced Bremsstrahlung radiation or decayed in flight, producing samples of pure electromagnetic showers. Each sample is then evaluated by our classifier to obtain selection efficiencies. Our previous analysis showed good agreement in the $\nu_e$ selection efficiency using these techniques. We present here the same techniques applied to the latest results which include improvements to the simulation and reconstruction algorithms.
MPEC 2023-F46 : 2023 EY2
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 EY2

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Understanding and enabling nutrition and agriculture linkages: development and implementation of home-grown school feeding in Nepal
Creators: name: Singh, Samrat
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2022

description: Providing nutritionally balanced diets through ecologically sustainable and equitable food systems is the most profound challenge facing us today. The current state of food and nutrition security is in many ways is a legacy of the green revolution and neoliberal market based political economy. Technocratic and market- based approaches have contributed to creating a highly homogenised food system at the expense of diversity, ecological sustainability and nutrition quality. The origin of agriculture around 10000 years ago and the processes of domestication provide useful insights on the key drivers of food production that influence policy and programmes even today. More importantly there is compelling evidence which shows how the transition to agriculture adversely impacted human health in a wide range of contexts. The study is an action research project primarily based on design, implementation and evaluation of ‘Home Grown School Feeding’ in eight districts across the three main agroecological zones of Nepal. It provides important policy and programmatic evidence on enabling decentralized food systems which are nutritionally and ecologically sensitive, as part of a government led universal food-based safety net project. Based on action research inquiry process, the thesis develops concepts and theories through the different chapters to contribute to our understanding of food systems and programme design. The intervention creates an effective platform for food system mediation through different pathways. Evidence on intervention governance through ‘food sovereignty’ lens demonstrates how HSGF interventions can also promote equity in food systems in terms of policies, funding and knowledge. COVID-19 pandemic control measures have contributed to undermining food and nutrition security, with the poorest being hit the hardest and young children potentially facing life-long consequences. Overall evidence from the thesis including the recent Covid crisis highlights the importance of resilient and context sensitive food production and it is an emphatic reminder of the need to have integrated public health-nutrition-ecology approach to food systems.
SURESOFT:Nachhaltige Entwicklung und Einsatz von Forschungssoftware
Creators: name: Peters, Sören
name: Marcus, Sven
name: Linxweiler, Jan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Vortrag Im Kontext des 11. LUH-internen Erfahrungsaustausch zum Forschungsdatenmanagement in Verbundprojekten und Instituten über das SURESOFT Projekt der TU Braunschweig über Nachhaltige Entwicklung und Einsatz von Forschungssoftware.
What is the probability of a thermodynamical transition?
Creators: name: Alhambra, Álvaro M.
name: Oppenheim, Jonathan
name: Perry, Christopher
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: If the second law of thermodynamics forbids a transition from one state to another, then it is still possible to make the transition happen by using a sufficient amount of work. But if we do not have access to this amount of work, can the transition happen probabilistically? In the thermodynamic limit, this probability tends to zero, but here we find that for finite-sized systems, it can be finite. We compute the maximum probability of a transition or a thermodynamical fluctuation from any initial state to any final state, and show that this maximum can be achieved for any final state which is block-diagonal in the energy eigenbasis. We also find upper and lower bounds on this transition probability, in terms of the work of transition. As a bi-product, we introduce a finite set of thermodynamical monotones related to the thermo-majorization criteria which governs state transitions, and compute the work of transition in terms of them. The trade-off between the probability of a transition, and any partial work added to aid in that transition is also considered. Our results have applications in entanglement theory, and we find the amount of entanglement required (or gained) when transforming one pure entangled state into any other.
description: 15+6 pages, 7+1 figures V3: Added discussion on heralded probability and relation to fluctuation theorems. V2: Emphasized that X can be any state and that the achievability of our result in the full thermodynamics case, holds only when the target state is block-diagonal in the energy eigenbasis
Background of the KATRIN experiment
Creators: name: Drexlin, Guido
name: Hinz, Dominic
name: Fränkle, Florian
name: Glück, Ferenc
name: Wolf, Joachim
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: The objective of the KATRIN experiment is the measurement of the effective electron neutrino mass with an unprecedented sensitivity of 0.2 eV/c$^2$. In the ultra-precise measurement of beta-electrons from tritium-decays, a non-zero neutrino mass would be indicated by a minute deviation of the beta-spectrum close to the endpoint at 18.6keV. This is measured with a 24m long electrostatic spectrometer with eV-resolution. Since the last eV of the spectrum contains only $2\cdot10^{-13}$ of all beta-electrons, a low background rate is necessary. This poster describes the main background sources and the effectiveness of counter measures. The most prominent background sources are electrons produced by thermal ionization of highly excited Rydberg atoms and by magnetically trapped electrons from radioactive decays (e.g. radon) in the ultra-high vacuum of the spectrometer. Supported by the HGF and the German BMBF (05A17VK2).
Re-visioning Shakespeare through Jewels: the Case of Marla Aaron
Creators: name: Paravano, Cristina
Publisher: name: Linguæ & - Journal of Modern Languages and Cultures
Year: 2024
Subjects: Shakespeare
women
Sonnet 130
jewellery
The Two Gentlemen of Verona

description: This essay looks at Shakespeare through the eyes of an American contemporary designer, Marla Aaron, one of the most original voices in the field of luxury jewellery. Since 2012, when she started her namesake brand, she has been redefining what fine jewellery means thanks to her transformative and fanciful pieces. Shakespeare surfaces several times in Aaron’s artistic output, from her business card featuring a quote from The Two Gentlemen of Verona to Sonnet 130, engraved on one of her creations. The essay sheds light on the way a contemporary artist re-visions Shakespeare and his works to resonate her message of love, self-acceptance and inclusion. The analysis of Aaron’s engagement with Shakespeare may contribute to defining the playwright’s status as an icon in the 21st century and to answering the question of what Shakespeare really is and how a female artist may determine it.
description: Linguæ & - Journal of Modern Languages and Cultures, Vol. 24 No. 2 (2023)
We'll be rocking your world again at PIDapalooza 2020
Creators: name: Cousijn, Helena
name: Gould, Maria
name: Hendricks, Ginny
name: Meadows, Alice
Publisher: name: DataCite
Year: 2019
Subjects: featured
PIDapalooza

description: The official countdown to PIDapalooza 2020 begins here! It's 162 days to go until our flame-lighting opening ceremony at the fabulous Belem Cultural Center in Lisbon, Portugal. Your friendly neighborhood PIDapalooza Planning Committee—Helena Cousijn...
On a Greedy 2-Matching Algorithm and Hamilton Cycles in Random Graphs with Minimum Degree at Least Three
Creators: name: Frieze, Alan
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We describe and analyse a simple greedy algorithm 2greedy that finds a good 2-matching M in the random graph  when . A 2-matching is a spanning subgraph of maximum degree two and G is drawn uniformly from graphs with vertex set , cn edges and minimum degree at least three. By good we mean that M has  components. We then use this 2-matching to build a Hamilton cycle in  time w.h.p.
MetaDIG recommendations for FAIR DataCite metadata
Creators: name: Habermann, Ted
Publisher: name: DataCite
Year: 2019
Subjects: DataCite
metadata
featured

description: This is a guest blog post written by Ted Habermann. In this blog post, Dr Habermann introduces the MetaDIG project and how the project recommendations can be applied to DataCite metadata. Since Wilkenson et al. (Wilkinson et al. (2016)) introduced...
Non-linear radial spinwave modes in thin magnetic disks
Creators: name: Helsen, M.
name: Gangwar, A.
name: De Clercq, J.
name: Vansteenkiste, A.
name: Van Waeyenberge, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an experimental investigation of radial spin-wave modes in magnetic nano-disks with a vortex ground state. The spin-wave amplitude was measured using a frequency-resolved magneto optical network analyzer, allowing for high-resolution resonance curves to be recorded. It was found that with increasing excitation amplitude up to about 10 mT, the lowest-order mode behaves strongly non-linearly as the mode frequency redshifts and the resonance peak strongly deforms. This behavior was quantitatively reproduced by micromagnetic simulations. At higher excitation the spinwaves are transformed into a soliton by self-focusing, and collapse onto the vortex core, dispersing the energy in short-wavelength spinwaves. Additionally, this process can lead to switching of the vortex polarization through the injection of a Bloch point.
A Farewell Post for Trisha
Creators: name: DataCite
Publisher: name: DataCite
Year: 2019

description: Today is Trisha Cruse’s last day at DataCite. There will be many memories, but this being DataCite, we wanted to preserve some of those under a DOI. Below you’ll find some final words from current staff and board members. Goodbye Trisha, you will be missed!
Electricity: powering vehicles & reducing pollution
Creators: name: Mehlig, Daniel
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2022

description: There is growing promise that electric vehicles (EVs) may lead to a reduction in the pollution caused by road transport. This thesis begins by assessing the current link between EVs and the electricity system; how EVs are charged. The emissions produced in power plants for charging EVs have significantly decreased over the past decade due to the decarbonation of the electricity system, reaching 41 g CO2, 27 mg NOx and 0.7 mg PM2.5 per kilometre in 2019. But as marginal demand is still met by natural gas power plants there is a small emission increase for NO¬x and CO2 of up to 25%, for new EVs entering the system. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted how additional decarbonisation of the electricity system should continue and will bring additional emission reductions for EVs in the future. This thesis then looks to the future, illustrating a path towards a fully electric fleet and decarbonised electricity system. Emissions from road transport will approach net zero in the 2040s if the current government road transport and power generation targets are met. Under this scenario, air quality may significantly improve over the next decade with exposure to NOx and PM2.5 reducing by 6.7 µgm-3 and 0.5 µgm-3, respectively, but this is only marginally better than without EVs due to the improvements in conventional vehicles. Beyond 2030, a fleet of EVs with a decarbonised electricity system may further reduce NOx and PM2.5 exposure by 1.6 µgm-3 and 0.1 µgm-3 compared to a conventional fleet by 2050. The long-term barrier for improving air quality for EVs is now non-exhaust emissions where exposure to PM2.5 may remain at a significant level (0.4 µgm-3) until 2050. Non-exhaust emissions are highly uncertain and may increase in the future with heavier and cheaper to run EVs.
MoU between DataCite and FAIRsharing: improving criteria for the recommendation of data repositories
Creators: name: Cousijn, Helena
name: McQuilton, Peter
name: Sansone, Susanna
Publisher: name: DataCite
Year: 2019
Subjects: datacite

description: We’re delighted to announce a joint effort between DataCite and FAIRsharing to improve, in collaboration with several leading publishers, the criteria used by journal publishers for the recommendation of research data repositories for the benefit of...
title: After 10 years of DataCite, Adam Farquhar says goodbye
Creators: name: Farquhar, Adam
Publisher: name: DataCite
Year: 2019
Subjects: anniversary
featured
datacite

description: This is a guest blog post by Adam Farquhar, Deputy President of the DataCite Board. With this blog post, I wanted to let you know that, after a full decade, I will be stepping down from the DataCite Board. I’ve served as President or Deputy President...
MADMAX - Prototype Developments and Characterization Studies
Creators: name: Strom, Derek
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: MADMAX (the MAgnetized Disk And Mirror Axion eXperiment) is a novel approach to search for Axion Dark Matter in the mass range 40-400 $\mu$eV/c$^2$. It utilizes the principle of the dielectric haloscope, a system composed of several parallel dielectric disks, a mirror, and a receiver. This so-called booster system is placed within a magnetic field and a cryogenic environment. We investigate the electromagnetic properties, systematic effects, and the thermal noise of several small prototype versions of the MADMAX experiment, including a proof of principle booster setup, and small (~10 cm) diameter tube designs. Measurement of electromagnetic signal reflection, dielectric disk placement precision, antenna designs, and thermal background signals are studied and the results are presented.
Multi-messenger and Low-threshold Trigger System at JUNO
Creators: name: Ziping Ye
name: Donglian Xu
name: Feiyang Zhang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: With 20-kiloton liquid scintillator as detection medium, the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) will have highly competitive sensitivity to MeV-scale neutrino, and will play an important role in the emerging field of multi-messenger astronomy, especially for the transient events where high radioactivity background can be easily bypassed. We will present a multi-messenger trigger system, which is built on novel hardware/firmware and lowers the detector trigger threshold by an order of magnitude -- to as low as 20 keV. This trigger system will enable the widest broadband real-time monitoring of the transient neutrino sky and possibly steady signal searches at the sub-MeV to GeV energies, and can communicate with other multi-messenger facilities around the world on the millisecond time scale.
On numerical approximation of non-convex variational problems using stochastic optimization algorithm
Creators: name: Trgo, Aurelija
name: Walkington, Noel
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Abstract: "An implementation of the stochastic gradient minimization method is proposed as a viable approach for the solution of non-convex variational problems. In order to numerically characterize the highly oscillatory properties of minimizing sequences of non-convex energies, the approximation of an associated Young measure on a macroscopic mesh is used. However, the presence of a large number of undesired local minima is generic for such problems; consequently, the classical algorithms of descent are inadequate for minimization of these energies. Once a local minimizer is reached, further improvement may be sought through random restart(s). An adaptive filtering is proposed as an ad-hoc step that may be implemented in conjunction with the probabilistic search of feasible directions. Application of this method to the solution of the variational problem corresponding to the Ericksen-James energy density in two dimensions is demonstrated."
title: Essays on counter strategies against mistakes in information processing with various applications
Creators: name: Mosenhauer, Moritz
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2020

description: This thesis consists of three chapters, dealing with mistakes in information processing and how smart information design may improve upon it. Chapter 1 studies a firm's organisational responses if its agents misevaluate information. If a manager overreacts to unusual events, it may be desirable for the firm to adopt the management practice management-by-exception. I develop a theoretical framework to study this technique and derive conditions under parsimonious assumptions for when it should be adopted. Moreover, I show how further assumptions can refine the model's predictions, establishing a direct link between the manager's over-responsiveness and organisational rigidity. The strategy is implemented by controlling the information that the manager receives. In fact, in the absence of information transmission and processing costs, it may be optimal to not send inherently valuable signals concerning the economy's state to the manager. Chapter 2 investigates tools to counter excessive stock trading and increase profits for private households participating in the stock market. Creating a stylised hold or trade-scenario in a computer laboratory experiment, I find that by solely changing the information the participants receive, trading activity can be reduced by roughly 30%, increasing trading profits by more than 0.55 percentage points on monthly net returns. In particular, I consider two information treatments. First, I provide the participants with additional information by giving detailed feedback on their actions and outcomes at every turn. Second, when considering whether to hold a given stock or trade it for another one, I restrict participants' information on the recent performance of their allocated stock. Both interventions lead to significant changes in behaviour. Additionally, the 2x2 experimental design reveals that the effects stack. Chapter 3 deals with growth diagnostics. Growth diagnostics is an influential policy framework that, in second-best settings, has been used to identify the priorities of policy reform in different countries. With limited information about the nature of interaction between different second-best distortions, mistakes (situations where realized social welfare losses overwhelm any intended gains) could occur in the implementation of growth diagnostics. Even allowing for the possibility of mistakes, would an adaptive implementation of growth diagnostics converge to a socially optimal outcome? This paper sets out the conditions under which such convergence occurs. A number of different historical examples are discussed to illustrate how such a process could play out in practice.
“But leaving Shakespear’s Works to their own Defence, and his Detractors to their Envy”. Women’s Early Defence of Shakespeare and their Role in the Rise of Shakespearean Criticism: the Case of Margaret Cavendish
Creators: name: Golinelli, Gilberta
Publisher: name: Linguæ & - Journal of Modern Languages and Cultures
Year: 2024
Subjects: Gender, performance, reading, authorship, Margaret Cavendish

description: Moving from the debates within women’s and gender studies and Shakespeare studies, and in dialogue with the studies dedicated to the analysis of the relationship between the plays of Shakespeare and the writing of Margaret Cavendish, the essay investigates Cavendish’s reading of Shakespeare’s plays and its role within the rise of Shakespeare criticism at a time when Shakespeare’s plays started to be adapted for the stage but only few people encountered them as texts. The aim is to show how Cavendish’s reading of Shakespeare’s plays not only focuses on aspects that would be at the core of Eighteenth-century Shakespeare criticism, but also on issues crucial for future feminist readings of Shakespeare which, since the 1980ies have been unpacking the plays of Shakespeare, exploring the representation of gender, class, race, sexuality, and their hold on women in Shakespeare’s time and beyond.
description: Linguæ & - Journal of Modern Languages and Cultures, Vol. 24 No. 2 (2023)
First Measurement of Electron Neutrino Scattering Cross Section on Argon
Creators: name: Fitzpatrick, Rory
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: ArgoNeuT has reported the first fully-automated reconstruction and selection of GeV-scale neutrinos using data from the NuMI beam line, yielding a measurement of the $\nu_e + \overline{\nu}_e$ scattering cross section on argon. Electromagnetic shower classification tools were developed for identifying GeV-scale $\nu_e$-like interactions among complex backgrounds in LArTPCs. These techniques expand upon traditional $\nu_e$ classification methods that rely on topological and calorimetric information local to the neutrino interaction vertex. We will discuss how these results inform calorimetry-based $\nu_e$ selection in current and future LArTPCs and strategies for further development.
DataCite welcomes Matt Buys as Executive Director
Creators: name: Chodacki, John
Publisher: name: DataCite
Year: 2019
Subjects: DataCite
featured

description: Earlier this year, we announced the retirement of our Executive Director, Trisha Cruse. After an extensive search, led by DataCite’s Executive Board, we are proud to announce that Matt Buys will join DataCite as Executive Director beginning October...
Finite-temperature effective boundary theory of the quantized thermal Hall effect
Creators: name: Nakai, Ryota
name: Ryu, Shinsei
name: Nomura, Kentaro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A finite-temperature effective free energy of the boundary of a quantized thermal Hall system is derived microscopically from the bulk two-dimensional Dirac fermion coupled with a gravitational field. In two spatial dimensions, the thermal Hall conductivity of fully gapped insulators and superconductors is quantized and given by the bulk Chern number, in analogy to the quantized electric Hall conductivity in quantum Hall systems. From the perspective of effective action functionals, two distinct types of the field theory have been proposed to describe the quantized thermal Hall effect. One of these, known as the gravitational Chern-Simons action, is a kind of topological field theory, and the other is a phenomenological theory relevant to the Středa formula. In order to solve this problem, we derive microscopically an effective theory that accounts for the quantized thermal Hall effect. In this paper, the two-dimensional Dirac fermion under a static background gravitational field is considered in equilibrium at a finite temperature, from which an effective boundary free energy functional of the gravitational field is derived. This boundary theory is shown to explain the quantized thermal Hall conductivity and thermal Hall current in the bulk by assuming the Lorentz symmetry. The bulk effective theory is consistently determined via the boundary effective theory
description: 18 pages
Fashioning and Negotiating Women’s Rights: The Shakespearean Paradigm
Creators: name: Laghi, Simona
Publisher: name: Linguæ & - Journal of Modern Languages and Cultures
Year: 2024
Subjects: Shakespeare
Theatre
Womanhood
Appearance
Discrimination

description: This paper aims to investigate how Shakespeare theatricalized the early modern patriarchal discourse on femininity and challenged gender stereotypes interwoven with outward appearance and demeanour. Rosaline in Love’s Labour’s Lost, Katherina in The Taming of the Shrew, and the Egyptian queen Cleopatra, far from fitting the female model that was being propagandized, seem to mirror the diversity among Renaissance women and the complexity of their roles as active and independent legal subjects able to negotiate their rights in the family and society. Considering that numerous women were in the theatre audience, they might have been the addressees of Shakespeare’s critique of the attempt to crystalize an old-fashioned idea of femininity by dismissing the transformation occurring in the early modern period. This analysis spurs us to reflect on whether such questions concerning the construction of womanhood that originated in the Renaissance still affect the achievement of gender equality in the twenty-first century.
description: Linguæ & - Journal of Modern Languages and Cultures, Vol. 24 No. 2 (2023)
An Analysis on Determinants of Agricultural Production Cost Gaps between Korea and China
Creators: name: Moon, Hanpil
name: Moon, Hanpil
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Korea-China FTA
subject: gap of production cost
subject: price competitiveness

description: The FTA negotiation between Korea and China was formally launched in May 2012. Agriculture in two countries has similar production structure and development path, but also has distinctive resource endowments and growth stages, which lead to the current price competitiveness of Chinese agricultural products in the Korean market. Recently, however, production costs in Chinese agriculture are continuously increasing so that the gaps of production costs and retail prices in most agricultural products between Korea and China are gradually narrowing. The sharp rises of input prices including agricultural wage and land rent in China are likely to threaten the price competitiveness of Chinese agricultural export. The appreciation of the Chinese currency is another driving factor bridging these gaps. In the long run, this pattern could contribute to competitiveness enhancements of Korean agricultural products over Chinese ones. Negotiation strategies taking this pattern into consideration are required to acquire more favorable concessions in the Korea-China FTA.
Chinese Consumption Patterns and Marketing Strategy for Korea's Agro-Food Export
Creators: name: Shon, Changsoo
name: Shon, Changsoo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: consumers' behavior
subject: chinese market
subject: market segmentation and target market

description: After starting the negotiation for FTA between Korea and China, Korean efforts to promote exportation of Korean agro-food for Chinese consumers have been intensified. However, few papers tried to analyze Chinese consumers’ behavior about Korean food in Chinese market, which is the initial point to discuss about export promotion of Korean agro-food. The purpose of this paper is to analyze consumers' behavior about Korean food in China. This research conducted a survey in 4 major cities (Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Tsingtao) and presented suitable market segmentation and target market for Korean agro-food in Chinese market through a factor analysis and a cluster analysis. The study results present the possibility of increasing consumers’ preference in Chinese market. Korean agro-food is preferred by the consumer group with higher income and education level. Consumers in Beijing, in particular, might be the first target market for Korean agro-food.
Philomel’s Silence in Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
Creators: name: Tesei, Virginia
Publisher: name: Linguæ & - Journal of Modern Languages and Cultures
Year: 2024
Subjects: Philomel
Nightingale
imposed silence
poetic censorship
rape

description: The myth of Philomel narrated in Ovid’s Metamorphoses constitutes one of the most frequent classical references in Renaissance literature and theatre. This study analyses the effects the myth produces in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream to demonstrate how Philomel’s disquieting appearance in the text overlaps with a meta-poetic reflection linking the silence of the mutilated heroine to that of the poet oppressed by Elizabethan censorship. Specifically, the study focuses on analyzing the events of Hermia, Titania, and Bottom to clarify their connection to sexual violence, speech loss, and poetic censorship. Finally, the study illustrates how Bottom, portraying a Shakespearean Philomel, becomes a caricature of the poet himself. Considering the valuable contribution of critics, the essay proposes an analysis of the play to reveal its nuances and ambiguities.
description: Linguæ & - Journal of Modern Languages and Cultures, Vol. 24 No. 2 (2023)
Comparison of optical potential for nucleons and $\Delta$ resonances for electron and neutrino scattering on nuclear targets
Creators: name: Bodek, Arie
name: Tejin Cai
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Precise modeling of neutrino interactions on nuclear targets is essential for neutrino oscillations experiments. The modeling of the energy of final state particles in quasielastic (QE) scattering and resonance production on bound nucleons requires knowledge of both the removal energy of the initial state bound nucleon as well as the Coulomb and nuclear optical potentials for final state leptons and hadrons. We extract the values of the nuclear optical potential for final state nucleons ($U_{opt}^{QE}$) from inclusive electron scattering data on nuclear targets in the QE region and compare to theoretical calculations by Cooper eta. al. We also extract for the first time values of the nuclear optical potential for a $\Delta(1232)$ resonance in the final state ($U^\Delta_{opt}$). We find that $U^\Delta_{opt}$ is more negative than $U_{opt}^{QE}$.
Datenprojekt Canvas
Creators: name: Ottmann, Sebastian
Publisher: name: Institut für Praxisforschung und Evaluation der Evangelischen Hochschule Nürnberg
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Data science
subject: Data processing
subject: Data project
subject: Data
subject: Datenprojekt

description: Das Datenprojekt Canvas kann in Workshops eingesetzt werden, um Datenprojekte zu planen. Hierfür werden im Canvas verschiedene Themengebiete aufgeführt, die in einem Workshop diskutiert und bearbeitet werden können. 

The data project canvas can be used in workshops to plan data projects. For this purpose, the canvas lists various topics that can be discussed and worked on in a workshop.
Torsion of rational elliptic curves over quadratic fields
Creators: name: Gonzalez-Jimenez, Enrique
name: Tornero, Jose M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let E be an elliptic curve defined over Q. We study the relationship between the torsion subgroup E(Q)_tors and the torsion subgroup E(K)_tors, where K is a quadratic number field.
“Better a Shrew than a Sheep?”: Disobedience through Reticence in Shakespeare’s Contrasting Models of Femininity
Creators: name: Righetti, Beatrice
Publisher: name: Linguæ & - Journal of Modern Languages and Cultures
Year: 2024
Subjects: Early modern drama
Shakespeare
Gender studies
Silence
Rhetoric

description: Shakespeare’s production has depicted female characters according to a dichotomic model of femininity which distinguishes between a talkative, often shrewish, woman and her silent counterpart (Friedman 1990; Boose 1994; Allen Brown 2003; Rackin 2005; Kamaralli 2012). Still, little attention has been given to female silence and reticence as a site of resistance and potential subversiveness of patriarchal control (Luckyj 2002).


The present paper analyses two couples of opposite models of female linguistic attitudes – Kate and Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew (1593) and Portia and Jessica in The Merchant of Venice (1595) – to show how silent unruliness may provide women with a safer means to disrupt the patriarchal notion of obedience while avoiding the threatful label of ‘shrew’.
description: Linguæ & - Journal of Modern Languages and Cultures, Vol. 24 No. 2 (2023)
The DataCite Membership model: consortia, repositories, and more
Creators: name: Cousijn, Helena
Publisher: name: DataCite
Year: 2019
Subjects: DataCite
featured

description: As a membership organization, members are at the core of everything we do. Understanding our members and ensuring good 2-way communication is therefore extremely important. Over the last year, we have been working on clarifying and aligning DataCite...
title: Identify your affiliation with Metadata Schema 4.3
Creators: name: Dasler, Robin
name: de Smaele, Madeleine
Publisher: name: DataCite
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: DataCite
subject: metadata
subject: featured
subject: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The DataCite Metadata Schema is the basis for the metadata you submit to DataCite. It tells you the available fields and structure for your metadata records. Many of our members have told us that they’d really like to be able to include affiliation...
A Superintroduction to Google Matrices for Undergraduates
Creators: name: Fujii, Kazuyuki
name: Oike, Hiroshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we consider so-called Google matrices and show that all eigenvalues ($λ$) of them have a fundamental property $|λ|\leq 1$. The stochastic eigenvector corresponding to $λ=1$ called the PageRank vector plays a central role in the Google's software. We study it in detail and present some important problems. The purpose of the paper is to make {\bf the heart of Google} clearer for undergraduates.
description: Latex; 12 pages; 2 figures