cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Efficacy of Bibliotherapy in Rehabilitation Context
Creators: name: Mento, Carmela
name: Pira, Francesco
name: Gueli Alletti, Valentina
name: Silvestri, Maria Catena
Publisher: name: Critical Hermeneutics
Year: 2024

description: The aim of the present study was to explore the effectiveness of bibliotherapy in rehabilitation settings. The term bibliotherapy, coined in the 1930’s by the psychiatrist William Menninger, conveys the importance of reading as a tool for cultural promotion and growth, as a means through which to acquire knowledge, enhance one's cognitive and emotional abilities, develop strategies for managing discomfort, as well as a psychoeducational and cognitive technique in the psychotherapeutic field. A study carried out on Pubmed showed that recent research on bibliotherapy, in particular experimental research, would be lacking and requires a humanistic medical approach, drawing on the knowledge and methods of psychology and cognitive literary studies, as well as clinical disciplines to broaden our understanding of how the dynamic processes of interpretation mediate between the textual and characteristic structures of mental health and illness. This narrative review was conducted on PubMed database and used two key terms “Bibliotherapy” AND “rehabilitation” AND “prison”. Studies in line with this specific issue were included. The search of PubMed database provided a total of 470 items recruited online; of these 464 studies were excluded according to inclusion and exclusion criteria. After the screening, a total of 6 studies assessing the bibliotherapy in rehabilitation setting, met the inclusion criteria and were included in the narrative review. Bibliotherapy as a self-help approach also in psychotherapeutic treatments can activate the desire to seek changes in attitudes and behaviour, to acquire knowledge of symptoms, and the value of self-care. A psychological intervention self-administered through ACT bibliotherapy with minimal therapeutic support can improve the physical and emotional functioning of adults with chronic pain. If studies report the efficacy of parent-mediated bibliotherapy in situations of childhood anxiety, nocturnal fears, specific phobias, in adolescence chatbot-delivered self-help depression intervention was proven to be superior to the minimal level of bibliotherapy in terms of reduction on depression and anxiety. Bibliotherapy interventions may be helpful to fight against weight gain and potentially facilitate smoking cessation.


 
description: Critical Hermeneutics, Vol 7 No 2, special (2023): AttraversaMenti [Crossings]: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Experience of the Former Psychiatric Hospital in Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto
Variational Parametric Models for Audio Synthesis
Creators: name: Subramani, Krishna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Generative Models, Conditional VAE, Source-Filter Model, Spectral Modeling Synthesis

description: With the advent of data-driven statistical modeling and abundant computing power, researchers are turning increasingly to deep learning for audio synthesis. These methods try to model audio signals directly in the time or frequency domain. In the interest of more flexible control over the generated sound, it could be more useful to work with a parametric representation of the signal which corresponds more directly to the musical attributes such as pitch, dynamics and timbre. These parametric representations also facilitate better musical control of the synthesized output. We present VaPar Synth - a Variational Parametric Synthesizer which utilizes a conditional variational autoencoder trained on a suitable parametric representation. We demonstrate our proposed model's capabilities via the reconstruction and generation of instrumental tones with flexible control over their pitch. We also investigate a parametric model for violin tones, in particular, the generative modeling of the residual bow noise to make for more natural tone quality. To aid in our analysis, we introduce a dataset of Carnatic Violin Recordings where bow noise is an integral part of the playing style of higher-pitched notes in specific gestural contexts. We obtain insights about each of the harmonic and residual components of the signal, as well as their interdependence, via observations on the latent space derived in the course of variational encoding of the spectral envelopes of the sustained sounds.
Remarks on flavour mixings from orbifold compactification
Creators: name: Bhattacharyya, Gautam
name: Raychaudhuri, Amitava
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider 5d SU(5) GUT models based on the orbifold $S^1/(Z_2 \times Z_2')$, and study the different possibilities of placing the SU(5) matter multiplets in three possible locations, namely, the two branes at the two orbifold fixed points and SU(5) bulk. We demonstrate that if flavour hierarchies originate solely from geometrical suppressions due to wavefunction normalisation of fields propagating in the bulk, then it is not possible to satisfy even the gross qualitative behaviour of the CKM and MNS matrices regardless of where we place the matter multiplets.
description: 4 pages, Latex
The quantum cosmological tilt and the origin of dark matter
Creators: name: Gomez, Cesar
name: Jimenez, Raul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A promising candidate for cold dark matter is primordial black holes (PBH) formed from strong primordial quantum fluctuations. A necessary condition for the formation of PBH's is a change of sign in the tilt governing the anomalous scale invariance of the power spectrum from red at large scales into blue at small scales. Non-perturbative information on the dependence of the power spectrum tilt on energy scale can be extracted from the quantum Fisher information measuring the energy dependence of the quantum phases defining the de Sitter vacua. We show that this non-perturbative quantum tilt goes from a red tilted phase, at large scales, into a blue tilted phase at small scales converging to $n_s=2$ in the UV. This allows the formation of PBH's in the range of masses $\lesssim 10^{20} gr$.
description: Matches accepted version to JCAP; results unchanged
Surface plasmon modes and the Casimir energy
Creators: name: Intravaia, F.
name: Lambrecht, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show the influence of surface plasmons on the Casimir effect between two plane parallel metallic mirrors at arbitrary distances. Using the plasma model to describe the optical response of the metal, we express the Casimir energy as a sum of contributions associated with evanescent surface plasmon modes and propagative cavity modes. In contrast to naive expectations, the plasmonic modes contribution is essential at all distances in order to ensure the correct result for the Casimir energy. One of the two plasmonic modes gives rise to a repulsive contribution, balancing out the attractive contributions from propagating cavity modes, while both contributions taken separately are much larger than the actual value of the Casimir energy. This also suggests possibilities to tailor the sign of the Casimir force via surface plasmons.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, revtex4
Non-local Non-Abelian Gauge Theory: Conformal Invariance and $β$-function
Creators: name: Ghoshal, Anish
name: Mazumdar, Anupam
name: Okada, Nobuchika
name: Villalba, Desmond
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper focuses on extending our previous discussion of an Abelian U(1) gauge theory involving infinite derivatives to a non-Abelian SU(N) case. The renormalization group equation (RGEs) of the SU(N) gauge coupling is calculated and shown to reproduce the local theory $β$-function in the limit of the non-local scale M $\rightarrow \infty$. Interestingly, the gauge coupling stops its running beyond the scale $M$, approaching an asymptotically conformal theory.
description: Version accepted for publication in PRD. Minor changes in the text only
ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF COPPER-NICKEL DEVELOPMENT IN NORTHEAST MINNESOTA
Creators: name: Maki, Wilbur R.
name: Meagher, Patrick D.
name: Laulainen, Leonard A.
name: Maki, Wilbur R.
name: Meagher, Patrick D.
name: Laulainen, Leonard A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1979
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Computer simulations of industry gross output, employment and earnings changes associated with alternative copper-nickel development scenarios are presented in this report. The direct and indirect economic effects of seven development scenarios are projected for a mining impact Study Area in St. Louis County, Minnesota.
Shock and Splash: Gas and Dark Matter Halo Boundaries around LambdaCDM Galaxy Clusters
Creators: name: Aung, Han
name: Nagai, Daisuke
name: Lau, Erwin T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent advances in simulations and observations of galaxy clusters suggest that there exists a physical outer boundary of massive cluster-size dark matter haloes. In this work, we investigate the locations of the outer boundaries of dark matter and gas around cluster-size dark matter haloes, by analyzing a sample of 65 massive dark matter halos extracted from the Omega500 zoom-in hydrodynamical cosmological simulations. We show that the location of accretion shock is offset from that of the dark matter splashback radius, contrary to the prediction of the self-similar models. The accretion shock radius is larger than all definitions of the splashback radius in the literature by 20-100%. The accretion shock radius defined using the steepest drop in the entropy pressure profiles is approximately 2 times larger than the splashback radius defined by the steepest slope in the dark matter density profile, and it is ~1.2 times larger than the edge of the dark matter phase-space structure. We discuss implications of our results for multi-wavelength studies of galaxy clusters.
description: 7 pages, 8 figures, accepted in MNRAS
Manifold Sampling for Optimizing Nonsmooth Nonconvex Compositions
Creators: name: Larson, Jeffrey
name: Menickelly, Matt
name: Zhou, Baoyu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We propose a manifold sampling algorithm for minimizing a nonsmooth composition $f= h\circ F$, where we assume $h$ is nonsmooth and may be inexpensively computed in closed form and $F$ is smooth but its Jacobian may not be available. We additionally assume that the composition $h\circ F$ defines a continuous selection. Manifold sampling algorithms can be classified as model-based derivative-free methods, in that models of $F$ are combined with particularly sampled information about $h$ to yield local models for use within a trust-region framework. We demonstrate that cluster points of the sequence of iterates generated by the manifold sampling algorithm are Clarke stationary. We consider the tractability of three particular subproblems generated by the manifold sampling algorithm and the extent to which inexact solutions to these subproblems may be tolerated. Numerical results demonstrate that manifold sampling as a derivative-free algorithm is competitive with state-of-the-art algorithms for nonsmooth optimization that utilize first-order information about $f$.
description: 29 pages, 7 figures
Neutrino-nucleus quasi-elastic scattering and strange quark effects
Creators: name: Meucci, Andrea
name: Giusti, Carlotta
name: Pacati, Franco Davide
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A relativistic distorted-wave impulse-approximation model is applied to quasi-elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering. The bound state is obtained in the framework of the relativistic mean field theory and the final state interaction is taken into account in the scattering state. Results for the charged- and neutral-current neutrino (antineutrino) reactions on $^{12}$C target nucleus are presented and the sensitivity of various quantities to the strange quark content of the nucleon weak current is discussed.
description: 18 pages, 10 figures
Many-body delocalisation as symmetry breaking
Creators: name: Garratt, S. J.
name: Chalker, J. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a framework in which the transition between a many-body localised (MBL) phase and an ergodic one is symmetry breaking. We consider random Floquet spin chains, expressing their averaged spectral form factor (SFF) as a function of time in terms of a transfer matrix that acts in the space direction. The SFF is determined by the leading eigenvalues of this transfer matrix. In the MBL phase the leading eigenvalue is unique, as in a symmetry-unbroken phase, while in the ergodic phase and at late times the leading eigenvalues are asymptotically degenerate, as in a system with degenerate symmetry-breaking phases. We identify the broken symmetry of the transfer matrix, introduce a local order parameter for the transition, and show that the associated correlation functions are long-ranged only in the ergodic phase.
description: 5+5 pages
Editoriale
Creators: name: Benelli, Caterina
name: Costanzo, Giovanna
name: Pandolfino, Roberta
Publisher: name: Critical Hermeneutics
Year: 2024

description: Il secolo scorso Goffman definiva i penitenziari come luoghi di residenza e di lavoro di gruppi di persone che condividono una situazione comune, trascorrendo parte della loro vita in un regime chiuso, la cui caratteristica totalizzante si esprimerebbe con l'impedimento allo scambio sociale e ai rapporti con il mondo esterno (Goffman 1961: 11). Delle istituzioni totali e totalizzanti dove, in ottica foucaultiana, una forte organizzazione burocratica gestisce masse di individui, esercitando su questi ultimi un forte controllo al punto da determinarne azioni, relazioni e identità; un regime disciplinare e punitivo, strutturato per produrre cittadini specifici (Foucault 1975: 135). Un’interpretazione netta e fin troppo rigida per rappresentare ancor oggi il mondo sommerso, se vogliamo oscuro, della realtà penitenziaria italiana e internazionale. Per comprendere l’esperienza della prigionia odierna, risulta invece più congruo riferirci a siti di confinamento (Pandolfino 2022), dove è necessario guardare non solo alle istituzioni o ai luoghi, ma anche alle relazioni tra siti, pratiche, relazioni sociali e soggettività (Jefferson 2014: 49)....
description: Critical Hermeneutics, Vol 7 No 2, special (2023): AttraversaMenti [Crossings]: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Experience of the Former Psychiatric Hospital in Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto
Probing Neutrino-Portal Dark Matter at the Forward Physics Facility
Creators: name: Kelly, Kevin J.
name: Kling, Felix
name: Tuckler, Douglas
name: Zhang, Yue
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 530
subject: freeze-out: thermal
subject: vertex: primary
subject: scale: TeV
subject: transverse momentum: missing-energy
subject: dark matter: hidden sector
subject: mediation
subject: new physics
subject: energy resolution
subject: dark matter: mass
subject: charged current
subject: interpretation of experiments: CERN LHC Coll
subject: signature
subject: interpretation of experiments: ATLAS
subject: dark matter: scattering

description: Physical review / D (2021).
description: The Forward Physics Facility (FPF), planned to operate near the ATLAS interaction point at the LHC, offers exciting new terrain to explore neutrino properties at TeV energy scales. It will reach an unprecedented regime for terrestrial neutrino experiments and provide the opportunity to reveal new physics of neutrinos at higher energy scales. We demonstrate that future detectors at the FPF have the potential to discover new mediators that couple predominantly to neutrinos, with masses between 0.3 and 20 GeV and small couplings not yet probed by existing searches. Such a neutrinophilic mediator is well motivated for addressing the origin of several neutrino-portal dark matter candidates, including thermal freeze-out and sterile-neutrino dark matter scenarios. Experimentally, the corresponding signatures include neutrino charged-current scattering events associated with large missing transverse momentum, and excessive apparent tau-neutrino events. We discuss the FPF detector capabilities needed for this search, most importantly the hadronic energy resolution.
description: Published by Inst., Woodbury, NY
Persistent Current of SU(N) Fermions
Creators: name: Chetcuti, Wayne J.
name: Haug, Tobias
name: Kwek, Leong-Chuan
name: Amico, Luigi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the persistent current in a system of SU($N$) fermions with repulsive interaction confined in a ring-shaped potential and pierced by an effective magnetic flux. By applying a combination of Bethe ansatz and numerical analysis, we demonstrate that, as a combined effect of spin correlations, interactions and applied flux a specific phenomenon can occur in the system: spinon creation in the ground state. As a consequence, peculiar features in the persistent current arise. The elementary flux quantum, which fixes the persistent current periodicity, is observed to evolve from a single particle one to an extreme case of fractional flux quantum, in which one quantum is shared by all the particles. We show that the persistent current depends on the number of spin components $N$, number of particles and interaction in a specific way that in certain physical regimes has universality traits. At integer filling fractions, the persistent current is suppressed above a threshold of the repulsive interaction by the Mott spectral gap. Despite its mesoscopic nature, the current displays a clear finite size scaling behavior. Specific parity effects in the persistent current landscape hold.
description: 16 revtex pages, 11 figures. Accepted for Publication in SciPost Physics
MANAGERIAL COMPENSATION IN MIDWESTERN COOPERATIVES: RESULTS FROM A FOLLOW-UP STUDY
Creators: name: King, Robert P.
name: Trechter, David D.
name: Cobia, David W.
name: King, Robert P.
name: Trechter, David D.
name: Cobia, David W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Agribusiness
Labor and Human Capital

description: In the 1995 issue of the Journal of Cooperatives, Trechter and King reported findings from a survey of managerial compensation practices in Minnesota and Wisconsin cooperatives that was conducted in 1993. The results from that study indicated that overall compensation and bonuses received by general managers of local cooperatives were more closely associated with cooperative size measures than with levels of profitability. The results also suggested that there was not a strong relationship between compensation practices and cooperative performance, measured by return on assets. A follow-up compensation survey was conducted in 1994. The study population was expanded to include local cooperatives in North Dakota, along with the Minnesota and Wisconsin cooperatives that responded to the first survey questionnaire. In addition, new questions were added to the survey to elicit information on the use of specific cooperative performance targets in settings where there were no explicit incentive clauses in the manager's contract. Finally, collecting compensation data for a second consecutive year made it possible to analyze factors associated with changes in compensation levels. Results from this follow-up survey are reported here. In the sections that follow, data collection procedures are first briefly summarized. Then findings regarding compensation levels and changes in compensation performance are presented.
Laogone cephala, new species
Creators: name: Tanasevitch, Andrei V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Linyphiidae
Laogone
Laogone cephala

description: Laogone cephala new species Figs 26–32 Types. Holotype. ♂, LAOS, Luang Prabang Prov., SE Luang Prabang, Nam Khan, Xieng Ngeun Distr., Ban Keng Koung, 372 m a.s.l., 19 ° 40 ' 963 ''N 102 ° 18 ' 442 ''E, waterfall, forest soil, pitfall trap, 21.– 28.II. 2008, leg. P. Jäger. Etymology. The specific name is a noun derived from the Greek word “cephalos” meaning “head” and refers to the elevated head region. Diagnosis. See diagnosis of genus. Description. Male holotype. Total length 1.88. Carapace 0.75 long, 0.65 wide, yellow, with a broad, grey median stripe. Cephalic part elevated and carrying large posterior median eyes (Figs 26–27), cephalic pits presence, very small. Chelicerae 0.28 long. Legs pale yellow. Leg I, 3.24 long (0.78 + 0.23 + 0.85 + 0.88 + 0.50), IV, 2.94 long (0.78 + 0.18 + 0.70 + 0.80 + 0.48). Chaetotaxy 2.2. 1.1, length of spines about 2–3 diameter of segment. All metatarsi with a trichobothrium. TmI, 0.82. Palp (Figs 28–32): Tibia elongated, with rounded proximal retrolateral lobe which latter carrying several long spines and a sharp retrolateral apophysis. Cymbium without outgrowths. Paracymbium with a long and narrow process below. Distal suprategular apophysis present, relatively large, hookshaped distally. Median membrane extremely long, narrow, stripe-like, surrounding palp. Membrosclerum hooklike, connected with a column by a short membrane. Radical part of embolic division small. Embolus very long and thin, forming two loops. Convector present, covering proximal part of embolus. Opisthosoma 1.05 long, 0.83 wide, pale, with a fish-bone dorsal pattern posteriorly. Female. Unknown. Distribution. Laos, known only from the type locality.
description: Published as part of Tanasevitch, Andrei V., 2014, New species and records of linyphiid spiders from Laos (Araneae, Linyphiidae), pp. 67-89 in Zootaxa 3841 (1) on pages 76-78, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3841.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/286780
Which type of crop insurance for Kazakhstan? -- Empirical Results
Creators: name: Heidelbach, Olaf
name: Bokusheva, Raushan
name: Kussaiynov, Talgat
name: Heidelbach, Olaf
name: Bokusheva, Raushan
name: Kussaiynov, Talgat
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Risk and Uncertainty

description: Risk plays an important role in agricultural decision-making, particularly in those regions that are remarkably exposed to natural hazards and underdeveloped input and output markets. This is especially true for crop production in CIS countries where many farms have to deal with low liquidity and sharp continental climate at the same time. The discussion paper analyses the results of expert interviews, a workshop with key-informants and a farm survey which investigated production conditions, risk attitudes and risk management techniques with respect to the requirements of a functioning crop insurance system in Kazakhstan.
GOVERNING STRUCTURAL CHANGE AND EXTERNALITIES IN AGRICULTURE: TOWARD A NORMATIVE INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Creators: name: Petrick, Martin
name: Petrick, Martin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: rural development
subject: institutional economics
subject: welfare economics
subject: social dilemma
subject: Institutionenökonomik
subject: Wohlfahrtsökonomik
subject: soziales Dilemma
subject: ländliche Entwicklung

description: The paper aims at a conceptual contribution to the normative economic analysis of rural de-velopment (RD) policies. RD is regarded as a problem of interaction between individuals; (lacking) structural change or the (missing) integration of externalities are therefore recon-structed as coordination rather than allocation problems. A social dilemma is taken as the paradigmatic core of normative institutional economics: how can potential gains from coop-eration be realised by way of institutional policy? Starting from a critique of the hitherto dominating welfare economics conception, three principles for institutional policy are de-rived: (1) the realisation of gains from cooperation as the normative, regulative idea, (2) in-centive-compatible self-regulation as the principle of individual action, and (3) institutional-ised competition as the institution-related principle. An application to rural credit markets demonstrates how these principles can be used to structure institutional policy of RD. ZUSAMMENFASSUNG STRUKTURWANDEL UND EXTERNALITÄTEN IN DER LANDWIRTSCHAFT: ANSATZPUNKTE FÜR EINE NORMATIVE INSTITUTIONENÖKONOMIK DER LÄNDLICHEN ENTWICKLUNG Dieser Aufsatz versteht sich als konzeptioneller Beitrag zur normativen ökonomischen Ana-lyse ländlicher Entwicklungspolitik. Ländliche Entwicklung wird als ein Interaktionsproblem von Individuen angesehen; (fehlender) Strukturwandel oder die (Nicht-)Integration von Ex-ternalitäten werden daher als Koordinations- und nicht als Allokationsprobleme rekonstruiert. Ein soziales Dilemma wird als paradigmatischer Kern der normativen Institutionenökonomik eingeführt: wie können durch ordnungspolitische Maßnahmen mögliche Kooperationsgewin-ne realisiert werden? Ausgehend von einer Kritik der bisher dominierenden wohlfahrtsöko-nomischen Konzeption werden drei institutionenökonomische Politikprinzipien abgeleitet: (1) die Realisierung von Kooperationsgewinnen als normative, regulative Idee, (2) anreiz-kompatible Selbststeuerung als handlungsbezogenes Prinzip und (3) institutionalisierter Wett-bewerb als institutionenbezogenes Prinzip. Eine Anwendung auf ländliche Kreditmärkte zeigt, wie diese Prinzipien zur Strukturierung von ländlicher Entwicklungspolitik eingesetzt werden können.
Editors' Introduction
Creators: name: Benelli, Caterina
name: Costanzo, Giovanna
name: Pandolfino, Roberta
Publisher: name: Critical Hermeneutics
Year: 2024

description: In the last century, Goffman defined prisons as places of residence and work for groups of people who share a common predicament, spending part of their lives under a closed regime, whose all-embracing nature is manifested in the blocking of social exchange and any relations with the outside world (Goffman 1961: 11). Comprehensive, all-encompassing institutions where, from a Foucauldian perspective, a strong bureaucratic organisation manages mass groups of individuals, exerting strict control over them to the point of shaping their actions, relationships and very identity; a disciplinary and punitive regime, structured to produce a specific kind of citizen (Foucault 1975: 135). This is a clear but far too rigid an analysis to reflect what is today the submerged, we might say hidden, reality of Italian and international prisons. In order to understand the experience of imprisonment today, it is more helpful to refer to places of confinement (Pandolfino 2022), where it is necessary to look not only at institutions or places, but also at the relations between sites, practices, social relations and subjective states of mind (Jefferson 2014: 49)...
description: Critical Hermeneutics, Vol 7 No 2, special (2023): AttraversaMenti [Crossings]: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Experience of the Former Psychiatric Hospital in Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto
Solution of the Dirac equation by separation of variables in spherical coordinates for a class of three-parameter non-central electromagnetic potential
Creators: name: Alhaidari, A. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the three-dimensional Dirac equation in spherical coordinates with coupling to static electromagnetic potential. The space components of the potential have angular (non-central) dependence such that the Dirac equation is separable in all coordinates. We obtain exact solutions for the case where the potential satisfies the Lorentz gauge fixing condition and its time component is the Coulomb potential. The relativistic energy spectrum and corresponding spinor wavefunctions are obtained. The Aharonov-Bohm and magnetic monopole potentials are included in these solutions.
description: 13 pages
Enabling Collaborative Data Science Development with the Ballet Framework
Creators: name: Smith, Micah J.
name: Cito, Jürgen
name: Lu, Kelvin
name: Veeramachaneni, Kalyan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: While the open-source software development model has led to successful large-scale collaborations in building software systems, data science projects are frequently developed by individuals or small teams. We describe challenges to scaling data science collaborations and present a conceptual framework and ML programming model to address them. We instantiate these ideas in Ballet, a lightweight framework for collaborative, open-source data science through a focus on feature engineering, and an accompanying cloud-based development environment. Using our framework, collaborators incrementally propose feature definitions to a repository which are each subjected to an ML performance evaluation and can be automatically merged into an executable feature engineering pipeline. We leverage Ballet to conduct a case study analysis of an income prediction problem with 27 collaborators, and discuss implications for future designers of collaborative projects.
Revision of the Xenacanthida (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii) from the Carboniferous of the British Isles
Creators: name: Hampe, Oliver
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Coal Measures
subject: Great Britain
subject: histology
subject: Ireland
subject: Palaeozoic
subject: phylogeny
subject: spines
subject: stratigraphy
subject: teeth
subject: 560 Paläontologie, Paläozoologie

description: Xenacanthids were a very successful group of elasmobranchs that ranged from the Lower Carboniferous to the Upper Triassic. The history of discovery of the xenacanthids, which is closely connected with the history of coal prospecting in England, began with the finding of the type specimen of Xenacanthus laevissimus in the Westphalian B of the West Midlands. In this first review of British Carboniferous xenacanthids, the number of taxa, mainly erected during Victorian times, is reduced to 14 species distributed among six genera. Determinable remains are recorded from at least 96 localities in the British Isles. Unique characteristics of the Dinantian Diplodoselache suggest that the lineage to which this taxon belongs marks a dead end in xenacanthid evolution. This investigation also shows that the Pendleian Dicentrodus, formerly described as Cladodus, belongs to the xenacanthids. The occurrence of Orthacanthus cf. kounoviensis in the Pennines, also known from the German Saar-Nahe basin, the Saale depression and from Bohemia, indicates a faunal exchange between these intramontainous basins during the Carboniferous. The genus Triodus is identified from British deposits for the first time. A cladistic analysis of the xenacanthids suggests that they evolved from phoebodontid elasmobranchs. This analysis also confirms separation of the Middle Devonian Antarctilamna from a relationship with xenacanthid sharks.
Institut für patristische Studien des ökumenischen Patriarchats: Kleronomia/das Erbe
Creators: name: Schaeder, Hildegard
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 18 Nr. 4 (1969): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 18, Heft 4
COMPARING MEASURES OF COMPETITIVENESS
Creators: name: Frohberg, Klaus
name: Hartmann, Monika
name: Frohberg, Klaus
name: Hartmann, Monika
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: In their Europe Agreements with the EU, the Central and Eastern European countries stated their intention of joining the Union. To ease the process of accession these countries must adjust their economies already prior to becoming an EU-member. Agriculture requires special attention, because it still represents a large share of the total economy in these countries. A better understanding of the competitiveness of agricultural products at domestic and EU markets is essential for providing the necessary economic framework to make the process of joining the EU as smooth as possible. Competitiveness can be analyzed at various levels of the economy: at the enterprise level, the sector level, or the level of the entire economy. Several measures exist for each of these levels. This paper focuses on those used for sector analysis. Since the measures commonly employed for this purpose do not deliver the same results, a better understanding of the underlying causes is necessary. This paper discusses the differences between the various indicators. It identifies the factors leading to disagreement in the results obtained.
The application of empowerment theory to street children of the developing world : the case of Casa Alianza (Covenant House) in HondurasThe application of empowerment theory to street children of the developing world : the case of Casa Alianza (Covenant House) in Honduras
Creators: name: Nelson, Russell Lee
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This study examines the urban street child phenomenon in the developing world. It establishes that in most developing countries Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs) have assumed the role of the state and have taken action to combat the street child "problem. They have fashioned public policy and instituted programs to address this social phenomenon. The study argues that existing development approaches and policy intervention strategies applied by NGOs are wholly inadequate to address the complex causes of children leaving home to take up residence in the urban streets. It posits that the empowerment model of alternative development, as articulated by planning and development theorists, is far more likely to: (1) prevent the migration of children to the streets; (2) improve the wellbeing of children currently living on the streets.; and (3) redress to some extent imbalances in social, economic and political power that lead children to the streets. Subsequently, a case study is undertaken of one NGO for street children, Casa Alianza, Honduras. The model of empowerment is applied to Casa Alianza, Honduras to evaluate the efficacy of the organization and to offer recommendations on adjusting their policies and programs to empower to a greater degree their target population.
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Creators: name: H, C
Publisher: name: Critical Hermeneutics
Year: 2024

description: Vol. 7, n. 2, December 2023


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description: Critical Hermeneutics, Vol 7 No 2, special (2023): AttraversaMenti [Crossings]: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Experience of the Former Psychiatric Hospital in Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto
LAND REFORM IN MOLDOVA: HOW VIABLE ARE EMERGING PEASANT FARMS? AN ASSESSMENT REFERRING TO A RECENT WORLD BANK STUDY
Creators: name: Petrick, Martin
name: Petrick, Martin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Agriculture in transition
subject: Land reform
subject: Poverty
subject: Subsistence farming
subject: Moldova

description: Based on a case study of two Moldovan regions, the paper challenges the favourable assessment of recently established peasant farms in a World Bank study by LERMAN et al. (1998). The main arguments in favour of a more critical view of the results of land privatisation and farm restructuring are that a) private farmers produce only on a minimal fraction of land with almost no machinery or purchased inputs at all, b) the income of a typical farm household is below a poverty line based on national standards, c) private farmers face substantial production and marketing risks, d) at present, it is unlikely that short- or long-term investment projects in agriculture can be credit funded. Currently, peasant farms are mainly run to produce a minimum diet for the affiliated household. The situation thus gives little reason for rosy future perspectives concerning a market-oriented, commercial private agriculture.
Effect on Dark Matter Exclusion Limits from New Silicon Photoelectric Absorption Measurements
Creators: name: von Krosigk, Belina
name: Wilson, Matthew J.
name: Stanford, Chris
name: Cabrera, Blas
name: Calkins, Robert
name: Jardin, Daniel
name: Kurinsky, Noah A.
name: Ponce, Francisco
name: Wu, Chih-Pan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent breakthroughs in cryogenic silicon detector technology allow for the observation of single electron-hole pairs released via particle interactions within the target material. This implies sensitivity to energy depositions as low as the smallest band gap, which is $\sim1.2$ eV for silicon, and therefore sensitivity to eV/$c^2$-scale bosonic dark matter and to thermal dark matter at masses below 100 MeV/$c^2$. Various interaction channels that can probe the lowest currently accessible masses in direct searches are related to standard photoelectric absorption. In any of these respective dark matter signal models any uncertainty on the photoelectric absorption cross section is propagated into the resulting exclusion limit or into the significance of a potential observation. Using first-time precision measurements of the photoelectric absorption cross section in silicon recently performed at Stanford University, this article examines the importance having accurate knowledge of this parameter at low energies and cryogenic temperatures for these dark matter searches.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures, suppl. material
Steady-State Planning in Expected Reward Multichain MDPs
Creators: name: Atia, George K.
name: Beckus, Andre
name: Alkhouri, Ismail
name: Velasquez, Alvaro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The planning domain has experienced increased interest in the formal synthesis of decision-making policies. This formal synthesis typically entails finding a policy which satisfies formal specifications in the form of some well-defined logic. While many such logics have been proposed with varying degrees of expressiveness and complexity in their capacity to capture desirable agent behavior, their value is limited when deriving decision-making policies which satisfy certain types of asymptotic behavior in general system models. In particular, we are interested in specifying constraints on the steady-state behavior of an agent, which captures the proportion of time an agent spends in each state as it interacts for an indefinite period of time with its environment. This is sometimes called the average or expected behavior of the agent and the associated planning problem is faced with significant challenges unless strong restrictions are imposed on the underlying model in terms of the connectivity of its graph structure. In this paper, we explore this steady-state planning problem that consists of deriving a decision-making policy for an agent such that constraints on its steady-state behavior are satisfied. A linear programming solution for the general case of multichain Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) is proposed and we prove that optimal solutions to the proposed programs yield stationary policies with rigorous guarantees of behavior.
On the extended resolvent of the Nonstationary Schrodingher operator for a Darboux transformed potential
Creators: name: Boiti, M.
name: Pempinelli, F.
name: Pogrebkov, A. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the framework of the resolvent approach it is introduced a so called twisting operator that is able, at the same time, to superimpose à la Darboux $N$ solitons to a generic smooth decaying potential of the Nonstationary Schrödinger operator and to generate the corresponding Jost solutions. This twisting operator is also used to construct an explicit bilinear representation in terms of the Jost solutions of the related extended resolvent. The main properties of the Jost and auxiliary Jost solutions and of the resolvent are discussed.
description: 24 pages, class files from IOP
WHAT KIND OF CROP INSURANCE FOR RUSSIA?
Creators: name: Wildermuth, Andreas
name: Wildermuth, Andreas
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: Risk and Uncertainty

description: The paper starts with an analysis of the decline of Russian state-subsidised all-risk crop insurance during the transition period, describes the reorganisation of Russian crop insurance started in 1997 and 1998, and compares the Russian experience with the Czech Republics strictly commercial approach to crop insurance reform. A discussion of the pros and cons of multiple-peril/all-risk crop insurance yields the result that there is no allocative justification for subsidised all-risk and multipleperil crop insurance. The subsequent discussion of alternative approaches to the design of crop insurance vindicates the Czech approach in so far as coverage is restricted to a limited number of perils. But this does not necessarily mean that the government should in all circumstances abstain from intervention in crop insurance markets. Under certain conditions compulsory insurance and subsidies can contribute to an increase in social welfare. The conclusion for Russia is that the present subsidised all-risk crop insurance scheme should be abolished and replaced with specific-risk crop insurance which offers coverage for a limited number of perils. A potential example would be insurance against the risk of yield losses by the hot and dry steppe wind sukhovei. The if and how of government intervention in crop insurance should be decided pragmatically, depending on the circumstances of the peril under consideration.
Journal Article (JCCP)
Creators: name: Schweer-Collins, Maria
name: Steinka-Fry, Katarzyna
name: Berny, Lauren M.
name: Trevino, Shaina
name: Golfen, Joe
name: Tanner-Smith, Emily
name: Grant, Sean
name: Day, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: OSF
Year: 2022
Subjects: depression
overview of reviews
prevention
systematic review
umbrella review

description: Preprint and Reproduction Package for: https://doi.org/10.1037/ccp0000930
The Robustness of a Collectively Encoded Rydberg Qubit
Creators: name: Spong, Nicholas L. R.
name: Jiao, Yuechun
name: Hughes, Oliver D. W.
name: Weatherill, Kevin J.
name: Lesanovsky, Igor
name: Adams, Charles S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate a collectively-encoded qubit based on a single Rydberg excitation stored in an ensemble of $N$ entangled atoms. Qubit rotations are performed by applying microwave fields that drive excitations between Rydberg states. Coherent read-out is performed by mapping the excitation into a single photon. Ramsey interferometry is used to probe the coherence of the qubit, and to test the robustness to external perturbations. We show that qubit coherence is preserved even as we lose atoms from the polariton mode, preserving Ramsey fringe visibility. We show that dephasing due to electric field noise scales as the fourth power of field amplitude. These results show that robust quantum information processing can be achieved via collective encoding using Rydberg polaritons, and hence this system could provide an attractive alternative coding strategy for quantum computation and networking.
description: Main Paper: 6 pages, 4 figures Supplementary Material: 8 pages, 3 figures
Multiple Projection Optical Diffusion Tomography with Plane Wave Illumination
Creators: name: Markel, Vadim A.
name: Schotland, John C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe a new data collection scheme for optical diffusion tomography in which plane wave illumination is combined with multiple projections in the slab imaging geometry. Multiple projection measurements are performed by rotating the slab around the sample. The advantage of the proposed method is that the measured data can be much more easily fitted into the dynamic range of most commonly used detectors. At the same time, multiple projections improve image quality by mutually interchanging the depth and transverse directions, and the scanned (detection) and integrated (illumination) surfaces. Inversion methods are derived for image reconstructions with extremely large data sets. Numerical simulations are performed for fixed and rotated slabs.
A pasting lemma and some applications for conservative systems
Creators: name: Arbieto, Alexander
name: Matheus, Carlos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove that in a compact manifold of dimension $n\geq 2$, a $C^{1+α}$ volume-preserving diffeomorphisms that are robustly transitive in the $C^1$-topology have a dominated splitting. Also we prove that for 3-dimensional compact manifolds, an isolated robustly transitive invariant set for a divergence-free vector field can not have a singularity. In particular, we prove that robustly transitive divergence-free vector fields in 3-dimensional manifolds are Anosov. For this, we prove some ``pasting'' lemma, which allows to make perturbations in conservative systems.
Cairo et al Supplementary materials : Identifying pesticide cocktails at country-wide scale
Creators: name: Cairo, Milena
name: Monnet, Anne-Christine
name: Robin, Stéphane
name: Porcher, Emmanuelle
name: Fontaine, Colin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Supplementary materials : Identifying pesticide cockatails at country-wide scale - 3 data sets - 2 R scripts - 1 text file : README
$α$-nucleus optical potentials from chiral effective field theory $NN$ interactions
Creators: name: Durant, V.
name: Capel, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a determination of optical potentials for $^4$He-target collisions using the double-folding method. We use chiral effective field theory nucleon-nucleon interactions at next-to-next-to-leading order combined with state-of-the-art nucleonic densities. The imaginary part of the optical potential is obtained from the real double-folding interaction either through a proportionality constant or applying Kramers-Kronig dispersion relations. With these potentials, we compute the elastic scattering of $^4$He off various targets, from $^4$He to $^{120}$Sn. We study the sensitivity of our predicted cross sections to the choice of nucleon-nucleon interactions and nuclear densities. Very good agreement is obtained with existing elastic-scattering data for $^4$He energies between 100 and 400 MeV.