cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Common Proper Motion Companions to Nearby Stars: Ages and Evolution
Creators: name: Makarov, V. V.
name: Zacharias, N.
name: Hennessy, G. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A set of 41 nearby stars (closer than 25 pc) is investigated which have very wide binary and common proper motion (CPM) companions at projected separations between 1000 and $200 000$ AU. These companions are identified by astrometric positions and proper motions from the NOMAD catalog. Based mainly on measures of chromospheric and X-ray activity, age estimation is obtained for most of 85 identified companions. Color -- absolute magnitude diagrams are constructed to test if CPM companions are physically related to the primary nearby stars and have the same age. Our carefully selected sample includes three remote white dwarf companions to main sequence stars and two systems (55 Cnc and GJ 777A) of multiple planets and distant stellar companions. Ten new CPM companions, including three of extreme separations, are found. Multiple hierarchical systems are abundant; more than 25% of CPM components are spectroscopic or astrometric binaries or multiples themselves. Two new astrometric binaries are discovered among nearby CPM companions, GJ 264 and HIP 59000 and preliminary orbital solutions are presented. The Hyades kinematic group (or stream) is presented broadly in the sample, but we find few possible thick disk objects and none halo stars. It follows from our investigation that moderately young (age $\lesssim 1$ Gyr) thin disk dwarfs are the dominating species in the near CPM systems, in general agreement with the premises of the dynamical survival paradigm. Some of the multiple stellar systems with remote CPM companions probably undergo the dynamical evolution on non-coplanar orbits, known as the Kozai cycle.
description: Accepted in ApJ
A brief note on how to unify dark matter, dark energy, and inflation
Creators: name: Panotopoulos, Grigoris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A scenario in which inflation, dark energy and dark matter can be unified into a single scalar field, the inflaton field $ϕ$, is studied. The inflaton is identified with the sneutrino, the scalar partner of the heavy neutrino. We determine the conditions needed for avoiding the gravitino problem and not having negligible plasma effects and we obtain the allowed range for the sneutrino coupling.
description: To appear in Phys.Rev.D
Quadrupolar Order and Structural Phase Transition in DyB4 with Geometrical Frustration
Creators: name: Okuyama, Daisuke
name: Matsumura, Takeshi
name: Nakao, Hironori
name: Murakami, Youichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Structural phase transition accompanying with quadrupolar ordering in DyB4 with Shastry-Sutherland type geometrical frustration has been studied by X-ray diffraction. Previous study [D. Okuyama et al.: J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 74 (2005) 2434.] using resonant X-ray scattering revealed short-range ordering of the Ozx-type quadrupolar moments and the c-plane component of the magnetic moments in addition to long-range ordering of the c-axis component of the magnetic moments. The present report focuses on the lattice distortion below the quadrupolar ordering temperature at TN2=12.7 K. The (0 0 l=integer) fundamental lattice reflection splits into four peaks along the h and k directions and the (h=even 0 0) reflection becomes broad along the l direction. This indicates that a structural transition from tetragonal to monoclinic takes place below TN2 together with the ordering of the quadrupolar moments.
description: 3 pages, 4 figures, the Proceedings of ASR-WYP-2005
title: Stärkere Integration - mangelnde Legitimation? : der Einfluss des Europäischen Parlaments auf die WWU-Governance seit Beginn der Euro-Krise am Beispiel des Six-Packs und Fiskalpakts
Creators: name: Walli, Thomas
Publisher: name: Universität Innsbruck
Year: 2016

description: Im Bereich der Wirtschafts- und Währungsunion wurden seit Ausbruch der Finanz- und Eurokrise 2008/09 mehrere Veränderungen implementiert und zahlreiche Maßnahmen umgesetzt, um die engere Koordinierung der Wirtschafts- und Fiskalpolitik der europäischen Mitgliedstaaten zu gewährleisten. Die Kritik, dass es dieser neuen Art von Governance in der Wirtschafts- und Währungsunion durch mangelnde parlamentarische Beteiligung an demokratischer Legitimität fehle, übersieht die Möglichkeiten der Einflussnahme und Mitwirkung des Europäischen Parlaments in der europäischen Gesetzgebung, die auch bei den Gesetzestexten des Six-Packs und im außerhalb der EU-Gesetzgebung stattfindenden Verhandlungsprozess zum Fiskalpakt, zum Tragen kamen. Die vorliegende Arbeit analysiert die unterschiedlichen Möglichkeiten der Einflussnahme des Europäischen Parlaments in beiden Fällen. Es wird dabei angenommen, dass es sowohl auf die Governance innerhalb der Wirtschafts- und Währungsunion, bei der Implementierung des Six-Packs, großen Einfluss hat und auch im Falle des Fiskalpakts seine Kernpunkte im Großen und Ganzen durchsetzen konnte.
The kinematics, movement phasing and timing of a field hockey drive in response to varying conditions of uncertainty
Creators: name: Weicker, Dianne Louise
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: This study was designed to provide a detailed analysis of the parameters which interact to produce a field hockey drive. The drive was performed by an elite performer under two conditions of uncertainty--BLOCKED and RANDOM order of ball speed presentation. In the former condition, ball speeds were directed toward the subject until she performed ten successful drives at a single speed. This continued over three successive speed blocks (20, 30 and 40 m.p.h.). Under the RANDOM condition, the same three ball speeds were delivered to the subject in a random and unpredictable order until ten successful drives were recorded at each speed. Cine analysis (50 f.p.s.) of the subject's successful responses under the two experimental conditions permitted conclusions to be drawn pertaining to the kinematics, phasing, and timing of the stroke. Measurements were recorded for each stroke segment. All movement phases of each stroke remained consistent over the recorded temporal variables of movement duration and peak velocity. The emphasis appeared to be placed upon varying the initial phases of the stroke (i.e., backswing, preparatory phases) in order to produce a temporally consistent ballistic downswing to ball contact. It seemed likely that the subject appraised the ball's changing retinal image size to determine which ball speed was being delivered and then incorporated additional stick movement to "mark time" before initiating temporally consistent movement phases (C1, C2). As spatial uncertainty increased, the subject delayed her response initiation, but then tended to respond in intervals of one reaction time for each stroke phase. Consistency was evident for displacement and initiation point values, but to a lesser extent than existed for the other variables. However, as a result of this adjustment in spatial location and displacement of the stickend during the preliminary phases of the response, the subject was able to produce a consistent and accurate ballistic downswing.
Renormalization Reductions for Systems with Delay
Creators: name: Goto, Shin-itiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The renormalization method which is a type of perturbation method is extended to a tool to study weakly nonlinear time-delay systems. For systems with order-one delay, we show that the renormalization method leads to reduced systems without delay. For systems with order-one and large-delay, we propose an extended renormalization method which leads to reduced systems with delay. In some examples, the validities of our perturbative results are confirmed analytically and numerically. We also compare our reduced equations with reduced ones obtained by another perturbation method.
description: Submitted to Prog. Theor. Phys., 2 figures
title: Accountability vs. Autonomie - ein Widerspruch? Die Fallstudie Frontex
Creators: name: Adlassnigg, Fabio
Publisher: name: Universität Innsbruck
Year: 2016

description: Seit ihrer Gründung im Jahre 2005 ist Frontex, die Grenzschutzagentur für operative Zusammenarbeit an den Außengrenzen der EU in der Medienlandschaft allgegenwärtig. Dabei zeichnet sich in der Öffentlichkeit ein für den Beobachter negatives Bild der Arbeit von Frontex ab, das eine autoritäre Agentur darstellt, welche mit repressiven Mitteln in einem quasi-rechtsfreien Raum vorgeht. Vor diesem Hintergrund überrascht es, dass die Frage der Verantwortung in der Arbeit von Frontex, im akademischen Diskurs nur unzureichend beantwortet wird. Entgegen des weithin verwendeten Principal-Agent Ansatzes, liegt der Analyse in dieser Arbeit der Implikationsrahmen der Experimental Governance zugrunde. Die vorliegende Arbeit skizziert in einem ersten Schritt zunächst die Entstehung, die Zuständigkeit sowie die Vorgehensweise der Arbeit von Frontex. Nachfolgend gilt es in einem zweiten Schritt, gestützt auf jene Erkenntnisse, die Accountability von Frontex zu hinterfragen. Entgegen, der Annahme der Experimental Governance nimmt die Arbeit eine kritische Haltung ein und verfolgt die Annahme, dass die demokratische Legitimität in der Arbeit von Frontex nicht gegeben ist.
description: Since its founding in the year 2005, Frontex, the European Agency for the Management of the Operational Cooperation at the External Borders is ubiquity in the media environment. The agency, respectively the work of Frontex, thereby appears publicly in a poorly way, illustrating a highly authoritative agency, which is acting in a legal vacuum with repressive means. While, we are failing to seek legal liability only at the side of the member states, if the same inaccurate to claim that Frontex is acting in a extralegal way. Contrary to the broadly used Principal-Agent approach, this paper underlies the tool-kit of the Experimental Governance. Firstly the pape documents the origins, remits and practices of Frontex. Subsequently, based on this findings, the paper looks into the accountability of Frontex. Opposed to the Experimental Governance, this paper is following a sceptical stence, reasoning that democratic legitimacy is absent.
On "Ergodicity and Central Limit Theorem in Systems with Long-Range Interactions" by Figueiredo et al
Creators: name: Pluchino, A.
name: Rapisarda, A.
name: Tsallis, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the present paper we refute the criticism advanced in a recent preprint by Figueiredo et al [1] about the possible application of the $q$-generalized Central Limit Theorem (CLT) to a paradigmatic long-range-interacting many-body classical Hamiltonian system, the so-called Hamiltonian Mean Field (HMF) model. We exhibit that, contrary to what is claimed by these authors and in accordance with our previous results, $q$-Gaussian-like curves are possible and real attractors for a certain class of initial conditions, namely the one which produces nontrivial longstanding quasi-stationary states before the arrival, only for finite size, to the thermal equilibrium.
description: 2 pages, 2 figures. Short version of the paper, accepted for publication in Europhysics Letters, (2009) in press
SPINSTARS at low metallicities
Creators: name: Meynet, G.
name: Ekstrom, S.
name: Maeder, A.
name: Hirschi, R.
name: Chiappini, C.
name: Georgy, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The main effect of axial rotation on the evolution of massive PopIII stars is to trigger internal mixing processes which allow stars to produce significant amounts of primary nitrogen 14 and carbon 13. Very metal poor massive stars produce much more primary nitrogen than PopIII stars for a given initial mass and rotation velocity. The very metal poor stars undergo strong mass loss induced by rotation. One can distinguish two types of rotationnaly enhanced stellar winds: 1) Rotationally mechanical winds occurs when the surface velocity reaches the critical velocity at the equator, {\it i.e.} the velocity at which the centrifugal acceleration is equal to the gravity; 2) Rotationally radiatively line driven winds are a consequence of strong internal mixing which brings large amounts of CNO elements at the surface. This enhances the opacity and may trigger strong line driven winds. These effects are important for an initial value of $\upsilon/\upsilon_{\rm crit}$ of 0.54 for a 60 M$_\odot$ at $Z=10^{-8}$, {\it i.e.} for initial values of $\upsilon/\upsilon_{\rm crit}$ higher than the one ($\sim$0.4) corresponding to observations at solar $Z$. These two effects, strong internal mixing leading to the synthesis of large amounts of primary nitrogen and important mass losses induced by rotation, occur for $Z$ between about 10$^{-8}$ and 0.001. For metallicities above 0.001 and for reasonable choice of the rotation velocities, internal mixing is no longer efficient enough to trigger these effects.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, to be published in the conference proceedings of First Stars III, Santa Fe, 2007
Vibration-mediated resonant tunneling and shot noise through a molecular quantum dot
Creators: name: Shen, X. Y.
name: Dong, Bing
name: Lei, X. L.
name: Horing, N. J. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by a recent experiment on nonlinear tunneling in a suspended Carbon nanotube connected to two normal electrodes [S. Sapmaz, {\it et al}., Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 96}, 26801 (2006)], we investigate nonequilibrium vibration-mediated sequential tunneling through a molecular quantum dot with two electronic orbitals asymmetrically coupled to two electrodes and strongly interacting with an internal vibrational mode, which is itself weakly coupled to a dissipative phonon bath. For this purpose, we establish rate equations using a generic quantum Langevin equation approach. Based on these equations, we study in detail the current-voltage characteristics and zero-frequency shot noise, paying special attention to the advanced or postponed of the appearance of negative differential conductance and super-Poissonian current noise resulting from electron-phonon-coupling induced {\em selective unidirectional cascades of single-electron transitions}.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures
Is X(3872) a molecule?
Creators: name: Thomas, C. E.
name: Close, F. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the literature on pion exchange between charm and bottom mesons is inconsistent. We derive the formalism explicitly, expose differences between papers in the literature and clarify the implications. We show that the X(3872) can be a bound state but that results are very sensitive to a poorly constrained parameter. We confirm that bound states in the B Bbar sector are possible. The circumstances whereby exotic combinations can bind with cc or bb quantum numbers are explored.
description: 15 pages, 3 figures
Ionic control over ferroelectricity in 2D layered van der Waals capacitors
Creators: name: Neumayer, Sabine M.
name: Si, Mengwei
name: Li, Junkang
name: Liao, Pai-Ying
name: Tao, Lei
name: O'Hara, Andrew
name: Pantelides, Sokrates T.
name: Ye, Peide D.
name: Maksymovych, Petro
name: Balke, Nina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The van der Waals layered material CuInP2S6 features interesting functional behavior, including the existence of four uniaxial polarization states, polarization reversal against the electric field through Cu ion migration, a negative-capacitance regime, and reversible extraction of Cu ions. At the heart of these characteristics lies the high mobility of Cu ions, which also determines the spontaneous polarization. Therefore, Cu migration across the lattice results in unusual ferroelectric behavior. Here, we demonstrate how the interplay of polar and ionic properties provides a path to ionically controlled ferroelectric behavior, achieved by applying selected DC voltage pulses and subsequently probing ferroelectric switching during fast triangular voltage sweeps. Using current measurements and theoretical calculations, we observe that increasing DC pulse duration results in higher ionic currents, the build-up of an internal electric field that shifts polarization loops, and an increase in total switchable polarization by ~50% due to the existence of a high polarization phase which is stabilized by the internal electric field. Apart from tuning ferroelectric behavior by selected square pulses, hysteretic polarization switching can even be entirely deactivated and reactivated, resulting in three-state systems where polarization switching is either inhibited or can be performed in two different directions.
title: Do Treaties matter? Der Einfluss des Europäischen Parlaments auf die Handelsabkommen der Europäischen Union vor und nach dem Reformvertrag von Lissabon
Creators: name: Kurz, Franz
Publisher: name: Universität Innsbruck
Year: 2017

description: Die vertraglichen Außenhandelsbeziehungen gelten als „schärfste Waffe“ im außenpolitischen Arsenal der Europäischen Union und werden bisweilen kontrovers diskutiert (Stichwort: TTIP). In der Literatur wurde mehrfach prognostiziert, dass der Vertrag von Lissabon (2009) hier Veränderungen im Sinne einer „Politisierung“ von Handelsabkommen schaffen könnte; detaillierte empirische Studien fehlten aber bislang. In der vorliegenden Arbeit soll die Frage beantwortet werden, ob der Vertrag von Lissabon tatsächlich eine derart weitreichende Umgestaltung der Aushandelsbeziehungen zur Folge hatte. Die Beantwortung dieser Forschungsfrage erfolgt mittels einer qualitativen Analyse von sechs ausgewählten Freihandelsabkommen der EU, die vor und nach dem Lissabon- Vertrag verhandelt wurden. Die Unterschiede der Verträge aus den beiden Zeiträumen werden anhand der Theorie des Neo-Institutionalismus mit den institutionellen Änderungen durch den Vertrag von Lissabon in diesem Politikbereich erklärt. Durch den Nachweis eines gestiegenen Einflusses des Europäischen Parlaments auf die Inhalte der Handelsabkommen der Union kann die Frage Do Treaties matter? eindeutig bejaht werden.
Self-healing diffusion quantum Monte Carlo algorithms: methods for direct reduction of the fermion sign error in electronic structure calculations
Creators: name: Reboredo, Fernando A.
name: Hood, Randolph Q.
name: Kent, Paul R. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a formalism and present an algorithm for optimization of the trial wave-function used in fixed-node diffusion quantum Monte Carlo (DMC) methods. We take advantage of a basic property of the walker configuration distribution generated in a DMC calculation, to (i) project-out a multi-determinant expansion of the fixed-node ground-state wave function and (ii) to define a cost function that relates the fixed-node ground-state and the non-interacting trial wave functions. We show that (a) locally smoothing out the kink of the fixed-node ground-state wave function at the node generates a new trial wave-function with better nodal structure and (b) we argue that the noise in the fixed-node wave-function resulting from finite sampling plays a beneficial role, allowing the nodes to adjust towards the ones of the exact many-body ground state in a simulated annealing-like process. We propose a method to improve both single determinant and multi-determinant expansions of the trial wave-function. We test the method in a model system where benchmark configuration interaction calculations can be performed. Comparing the DMC calculations with the exact solutions, we find that the trial wave-function is systematically improved. The overlap of the optimized trial wave function and the exact ground state converges to 100% even starting from wave-functions orthogonal to the exact ground state. In the optimization process we find an optimal non-interacting nodal potential of density-functional-like form whose existence was predicted earlier[Phys.Rev. B {\bf 77}, 245110 (2008)]. We obtain the exact Kohn-Sham effective potential from the DMC data.
description: Final version of the paper accepted in Physical Review B. The review reports and replies are included in the source
No One Is At Fault: Reconstruct Fault in Fraudulent Marriages
Creators: name: Pan, Anqi
Publisher: name: University of Chicago
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: queer rights
subject: law
subject: fault divorce
subject: fraudulent marriages
subject: no-fault divorce
subject: Tongfu/Tongqi

description: This article examines the current legal situation in mainland China of gays and lesbians marrying straight spouse to conceal their sexual orientation. It takes up angles from both sides in examining the problematic consequences brought by the ‘marriage fraud’, arguing the law is unable to protect neither the unwitting spouse nor gays and lesbians. Especially through analyzing legal cases, it questions the ‘fault divorce’ norm on divorce trial, which essentially misleads both parties and the court’s judgement. The structure of the article begins by constructing the background, problem, and potential solutions for ‘marriage fraud’, then explores the current legal situation, legal reasoning, and legal cases to show that fraudulent marriages is only effective in a superficial context. It cautions that fraudulent marriages, if perceived as an attractive strategy by queer people to get away from family pressures and social prejudices, may burden queer communities with unfavorable reputations and inability to pursuit rights in marriage.
Dynamics-Controlled Truncation Scheme for Nonlinear Dynamics in Semiconductor Microcavities
Creators: name: Portolan, S.
name: Di Stefano, O.
name: Savasta, S.
name: Rossi, F.
name: Girlanda, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a systematic theory of Coulomb-induced correlation effects in the nonlinear optical processes within the strong-coupling regime. In this paper we shall set a dynamics controlled truncation scheme \cite{Axt Stahl} microscopic treatment of nonlinear parametric processes in SMCs including the electromagnetic field quantization. It represents the starting point for the microscopic approach to quantum optics experiments in the strong coupling regime without any assumption on the quantum statistics of electronic excitations (excitons) involved. We exploit a previous technique, used in the semiclassical context, which, once applied to four-wave mixing in quantum wells, allowed to understand a wide range of observed phenomena \cite{Sham PRL95}. We end up with dynamical equations for exciton and photon operators which extend the usual semiclassical description of Coulomb interaction effects, in terms of a mean-field term plus a genuine non-instantaneous four-particle correlation, to quantum optical effects.
description: preprint version, no figures an entire section added
Nilpotent symmetry invariance in the non-Abelian 1-form gauge theory: superfield formalism
Creators: name: Malik, R. P.
name: Mandal, B. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate that the nilpotent Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin (BRST) and anti-BRST symmetry invariance of the Lagrangian density of a four (3 + 1)-dimensional (4D) non-Abelian 1-form gauge theory with Dirac fields can be captured within the framework of the superfield approach to BRST formalism. The above 4D theory, where there is an explicit coupling between the non-Abelian 1-form gauge field and the Dirac fields, is considered on a (4, 2)-dimensional supermanifold, parameterized by the bosonic 4D space-time variables and a pair of Grassmannian variables. We show that the Grassmannian independence of the super Lagrangian density, expressed in terms of the (4, 2)-dimensional superfields, is a clear signature of the presence of the (anti-)BRST invariance in the original 4D theory.
description: LaTeX file, 12 pages, journal version
title: Möglichkeiten und Chancen in der internationalen Handelspolitik als Nicht‐EU‐Mitglied am Beispiel der Schweiz
Creators: name: Anderlan, Anna
Publisher: name: Universität Innsbruck
Year: 2017

description: Die Europäische Union ist im Umschwung und vielerorts erheben sich die Stimmen für den Austritt aus der Staatengemeinschaft, wie der Brexit als aktuelles Beispiel zeigt. Diese neuen Herausforderungen vor denen die EU heute steht lassen auch die Frage aufkommen, wie stark die EU in handelspolitischer Hinsicht ist, beziehungsweise welche Möglichkeiten und Verhandlungsmacht ein Staat ohne EU‐Mitgliedschaft hat. Am Beispiel der Schweiz soll versucht werden die Chancen und Schwierigkeiten dieser Staaten zu analysieren. Dabei stehen sowohl internationale Handelsabkommen, die Beziehungen zur EU und die Möglichkeiten bilateraler Abkommen im Fokus.
Landouria schepmani Nurinsiyah & Neiber & Hausdorf 2019, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Nurinsiyah, Ayu Savitri
name: Neiber, Marco T.
name: Hausdorf, Bernhard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Stylommatophora
Camaenidae
Landouria
Landouria schepmani

description: Landouria schepmani (Möllendorff, 1897) comb. nov.
Figs 54, 76; Tables 3–4
Plectotropis schepmani Möllendorff, 1897: 68 (“ Java ”, more exactly (van Benthem Jutting 1950; Zilch 1966): “Bungbulan, 1500 feet ”).
Landouria winteriana – van Benthem Jutting 1950: 463 (in part). — Zilch 1966: 294, pl. 7, fig. 7 (in part). (not Pfeiffer, 1842)
Diagnosis
Landouria schepmani is characterized by a depressed conical, sharply keeled shell with distinct incised spiral lines but no discernible scales, and a narrow umbilicus.
Material examined
Lectotype
INDONESIA • lectotype (designated by Zilch 1966); West Java, Sukapura, Gunung Bungbulang; 7°27′ S, 107°36′ E?; ca 450 m a.s.l.; SMF 8877.
Paralectotype
INDONESIA • 1 spec.; same data as for lectotype; SMF 8878.
Description
SHELL (Fig. 76; Tables 3–4). Depressed conical, with 5–5.25 slightly convex whorls; protoconch almost smooth; teleoconch with fine, irregular wrinkles and distinct incised spiral lines; no scales discernible; tuberculate around umbilicus; brownish-corneous; body whorl sharply keeled; aperture rounded rhombic; upper insertion of peristome slightly descending; peristome expanded, reflexed and slightly thickened; umbilicus slightly eccentric, wide, comprising 21% of shell diameter, hardly obscured by columellar edge.
GENITALIA. Unknown.
Remarks
Van Benthem Jutting (1950) and Zilch (1966) synonymized L. schepmani with L. winteriana. However, L. schepmani differs from L. winteriana in having a sharply keeled, more conical shell with distinct incised spiral lines and a narrower umbilicus (U/D 0.21 vs 0.29–0.51 in L. winteriana).
According to the original label, the type locality is Sukapura, Gunung Bungbulan. Van Benthem Jutting (1950: 465) listed a Bungbulan south of Gunung Papandayan (7°27′ S, 107°36′ E). It is not clear whether this is the Bungbulan of Fruhstorfer, because there are also several other localities called Bungbulan in the former Sukapura Regency. For example, there is a Gunung Bungbulang, now called Gunung Bangkuang, in West Java at 7°12′ S, 108°05′ E. Thus, the distribution area of L. schepmani remains dubious.
Distribution
Landouria schepmani is known only from “Gunung Bungbulan” in West Java (Fig. 54; see Remarks).
description: Published as part of Nurinsiyah, Ayu Savitri, Neiber, Marco T. & Hausdorf, Bernhard, 2019, Revision of the land snail genus Landouria Godwin-Austen, 1918 (Gastropoda, Camaenidae) from Java, pp. 1-73 in European Journal of Taxonomy 526 on pages 54-56, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2019.526, http://zenodo.org/record/3152217
Analyse der äußeren Wendung bei Beckenendlage an der Universitätsfrauenklinik Rostock von 2012 - 2017
Creators: name: Hagen, Arvid
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences Medicine

description: Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, die optimalen Bedingungen für das Gelingen einer äußeren Wendung bei Beckenendlage des Kindes zu identifizieren. Des Weiteren soll untersucht werden, ob sich die Methode der äußeren Wendung als komplikationsarme und relativ einfach durchzuführende Methode zur Vermeidung der Sectio caesarea bewährt hat und somit den Frauen und nicht zuletzt den Kindern die Chance auf eine vaginale Geburt aus Schädellage mit ihren Vorteilen ermöglicht.
An analysis of the abortion argument
Creators: name: Thompson, Andrew
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The purpose of this thesis is to provide an overview of the current abortion debate. The introduction argues that only three topics are relevant to abortion discussion namely personhood, potentiality and rights. There are three possible decisions on the nature of the foetus' moral status: a) it is a person b) it is not a person c) the matter is non-decidable. Chapter 1 examines the argument that personhood and humanity are equivalent concepts. It rejects this conclusion. Personhood is a normative concept whilst humanity is a biological one. Thus the foetus' humanity does not automatically entitle it to rights. Rights are ascribed to persons. What requires to be clarified is the criterion of personhood, that is, those qualities which qualify a biological entity to be ascribed moral rights and duties and thus the concomitant moral status of person. Chapter 2 details the various theories of personhood presented in both the legal and the philosophical literature, and attempts to abstract the single most convincing criterion from them. The relationship between personhood and rights is elucidated and the moral significance of the foetus' potential to be a person discussed. Chapter 3 examines the conflict between foetal and maternal rights and interests in various fact situations. The radically different conclusions on the moral permissibility of abortion when the foetus is a) accounted a person, and b) accounted a non person are delineated. Chapter 4 returns to the matter of non-decidability and considers abortion's permissibility when the criteria of (a) justifiability, and (b) pragmatism are employed as rational alternative criteria to that of personhood/non personhood.
The PLATO field selection process I. Identification and content of the long-pointing fields
Creators: name: Nascimbeni, V.
name: Piotto, G.
name: Börner, A.
name: Montalto, M.
name: Marrese, P. M.
name: Cabrera, J.
name: Marinoni, S.
name: Aerts, C.
name: Altavilla, G.
name: Benatti, S.
name: Claudi, R.
name: Deleuil, M.
name: Desidera, S.
name: Fabrizio, M.
name: Gizon, L.
name: Goupil, M. J.
name: Granata, V.
name: Heras, A. M.
name: Magrin, D.
name: Malavolta, L.
name: Mas-Hesse, J. M.
name: Ortolani, S.
name: Pagano, I.
name: Pollacco, D.
name: Prisinzano, L.
name: Ragazzoni, R.
name: Ramsay, G.
name: Rauer, H.
name: Udry, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: PLATO (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars) is an ESA M-class satellite planned for launch by end 2026 and dedicated to the wide-field search of transiting planets around bright and nearby stars, with a strong focus on discovering habitable rocky planets hosted by solar-like stars. The choice of the fields to be pointed at is a crucial task since it has a direct impact on the scientific return of the mission. In this paper we describe and discuss the formal requirements and the key scientific prioritization criteria that have to be taken into account in the Long-duration Observation Phase (LOP) field selection, and apply a quantitative metric to guide us in this complex optimization process. We identify two provisional LOP fields, one for each hemisphere (LOPS1, LOPN1), and discuss their properties and stellar content. While additional fine-tuning shall be applied to LOP selection before the definitive choice (to be made two years before launch), we expect their position will not move by more than a few degrees with respect to what is proposed in this paper.
description: 17 pages, 10 figures, 3 tables, A&A in press (accepted: October 26, 2021). Some typos corrected. Author list corrected
Multiterminal Nanowire Junctions of Silicon: A Theoretical Prediction of Atomic Structure and Electronic Properties
Creators: name: Avramov, Pavel V.
name: Chernozatonskii, Leonid A.
name: Sorokin, Pavel B.
name: Gordon, Mark S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using empirical scheme, atomic structure of a new exotic class of silicon nanoclusters was elaborated upon the central icosahedral core (Si-IC) and pentagonal petals (Si-PP) growing from Si-IC vertexes. It was shown that Si-IC/Si-PP interface formation is energetically preferable. Some experimental observations of silicon nanostructures can be explained by presence of the proposed objects. The Extended Huckel Theory electronic structure calculations demonstrate an ability of the proposed objects to act as nanoscale tunnel junctions.
description: 13 pages, 3 figures, 1 table
November - Smart Transportation
Creators: Paula Fraga-Lamas and Tiago M. Fernández-Caramés
Soheil Mohseni and Alan Brent
Richa Daga
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2021

Newsletter
This is a Special Issue on Smart Transportation featuring a foreword by Sara Paiva, "Blockchain for Automotive IoT and  IoT-connected vehicles," "Vehicle-to-Grid Demand Response Can Lead the Way for Decarbonizing City Fleets," and "Next Generation Networks for the World of Smart Transportation"
Unconventional superconductivity of NdFeAsO0.82F0.18 indicated by the low temperature dependence of the lower critical field Hc1
Creators: name: Wang, X. L.
name: Dou, S. X.
name: Ren, Zhi-An
name: Yi, Wei
name: Li, Zheng-Cai
name: Zhao, Zhong-Xian
name: Lee, Sung-IK
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We measured the initial M-H curves for a sample of the newly discovered superconductor NdFeAsO0.82Fe0.18, which had a critical temperature, Tc, of 51 K, and was fabricated at the high pressure of 6 GPa. The lower critical field, Hc1, was extracted from the deviation point of the Meissner linearity in the M-H curves, which show linear temperature dependence in the low temperature region down to 5 K. The Hc1(T) indicates no s-wave superconductivity, but rather an unconventional superconductivity with a nodal gap structure. Furthermore, the linearity of Hc1 at low temperature does not hold at high temperature, but shows other characteristics, indicating that this superconductor might have multi-gap features. Based on the low temperature nodal gap structure, we estimate that the maximum gap magnitude delta 0 = (1.6+- 0.2) kBTc.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures
Multi-Frequency Study of Spectral Indices of BL Lacertae Objects and Flat Spectrum Radio Quasars
Creators: name: Iyida, E. U.
name: Odo, F. C.
name: Chukwude, A. E.
name: Ubachukwu, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present statistical analyses of a large homogenous data sample of Fermi-detected blazars thoroughly studied in order to reassess the relationship between flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) and subclasses of BL Lacertae objects (BL Lacs) blazar populations. We discovered from the average values of gamma-ray and X-ray spectral indices that the sequence of distribution is indicative of the blazar orientation scheme. Analyses of FSRQs and BL Lacs data show difference in the shape of gamma-ray and X-ray indices: significant anti-correlation (r~ greater than - 0.79) exists between gamma-ray and X-ray spectral indices. The spectral energy distributions of the blazar subclasses show that FSRQs and BL Lacs have similar spectral properties which can be unified through an evolutionary sequence. Nevertheless, there is a significant difference between the shapes of X-ray and gamma-ray spectra of blazars suggesting that different mechanisms are responsible for spectral variations in the two energy bands. All these results suggest that there is a form of a unified scheme for all blazars.
description: 18 pages, 11 figures, 2 Tables. Accepted for Publication in New Astronomy
MilliTRACE-IR: Contact Tracing and Temperature Screening via mm-Wave and Infrared Sensing
Creators: name: Canil, Marco
name: Pegoraro, Jacopo
name: Rossi, Michele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Social distancing and temperature screening have been widely employed to counteract the COVID-19 pandemic, sparking great interest from academia, industry and public administrations worldwide. While most solutions have dealt with these aspects separately, their combination would greatly benefit the continuous monitoring of public spaces and help trigger effective countermeasures. This work presents milliTRACE-IR, a joint mmWave radar and infrared imaging sensing system performing unobtrusive and privacy preserving human body temperature screening and contact tracing in indoor spaces. milliTRACE-IR combines, via a robust sensor fusion approach, mmWave radars and infrared thermal cameras. It achieves fully automated measurement of distancing and body temperature, by jointly tracking the subjects's faces in the thermal camera image plane and the human motion in the radar reference system. Moreover, milliTRACE-IR performs contact tracing: a person with high body temperature is reliably detected by the thermal camera sensor and subsequently traced across a large indoor area in a non-invasive way by the radars. When entering a new room, a subject is re-identified among several other individuals by computing gait-related features from the radar reflections through a deep neural network and using a weighted extreme learning machine as the final re-identification tool. Experimental results, obtained from a real implementation of milliTRACE-IR, demonstrate decimeter-level accuracy in distance/trajectory estimation, inter-personal distance estimation (effective for subjects getting as close as 0.2 m), and accurate temperature monitoring (max. errors of 0.5°C). Furthermore, milliTRACE-IR provides contact tracing through highly accurate (95%) person re-identification, in less than 20 seconds.
description: 16 pages, 18 figures, 7 tables
The role of case law in Japan : a comparative study of Japanese and Canadian company law
Creators: name: Imai, Hiroshi
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The relationships between case law and statue law in Japan are quite different from that in Anglo-Canadian law. Contrary to the literal interpretation adopted by the Anglo-Canadian courts, the Japanese courts use extremely flexible interpretative techniques. There are relatively frequent changes in precedents. Therefore, case law plays an important role in the development of law in Japan. This paper is intended to introduce the role of case law in Japan to foreigners who study or work with Japanese law. First, the characteristics of the Japanese case law are discussed. Stress is put on the private law area, where the creative function of case law is the most evident. The historical background and problems of the Japanese approach are also mentioned. Then this paper compares and contrasts Canadian and Japanese approaches on five selected topics of company law, in order to show the role of the Japanese case law in actual issues in comparison to the frequency of Canadian legislative reforms. By combining the general discussion of the Japanese case law and the discussions of specific issues, it is intended to enable foreign readers to have a better understanding of the reality of Japanese case law and to facilitate their further study.
Renormalization-group analysis for low-energy scattering of charged particles
Creators: name: Ando, Shung-ichi
name: Birse, Michael C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The low-energy scattering of two charged particles is analyzed using a renormalization group approach based on dimensional regularization with power-divergence subtraction. A nontrivial solution with a marginally unstable direction is found, corresponding to a system with a bound state at zero energy. For purely energy-dependent perturbations around this solution, the power counting agrees with that from Wilsonian methods. These terms in the effective potential are in direct correspondence with the the terms in the Coulomb-distorted effective-range expansion. We also study perturbations that depend on off-shell momenta as well as energy, and we show that these affect only the off-shell form of the scattering matrix. These terms are of higher order that the corresponding energy-dependent ones and so terms in the potential that depend only on the off-shell momenta do not have definite orders in power counting.
description: 15 pages, RevTeX
Landouria monticola van Benthem Jutting 1950
Creators: name: Nurinsiyah, Ayu Savitri
name: Neiber, Marco T.
name: Hausdorf, Bernhard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Stylommatophora
Camaenidae
Landouria
Landouria monticola

description: Landouria monticola van Benthem Jutting, 1950
Figs 10, 55, 77; Tables 3–4
Landouria monticola van Benthem Jutting, 1950: 469, fig. 85 (“Mt. Tjikorai, 2500–2800 m ”).
Landouria monticola – Zilch 1966: 294.
Diagnosis
Landouria monticola is characterized by a conical, keeled shell with distinct incised spiral lines, but no discernible scales, and a narrow umbilicus.
Material examined
Type material
INDONESIA • 2 paratypes; Java; SMF 8879. – West Java • 3 paratypes; Gunung Cikuray; 7°19′ S, 107°52′ E; 2500 m a.s.l.; SMF 8880 • 1 paratype (or holotype?); Gunung Cikuray, summit; 7°19′ S, 107°52′ E; 2800 m a.s.l.; ZMA 407615.
Other material
INDONESIA • 1 spec.; West Java, Gunung Cikuray; 7°19′ S, 107°52′ E; 2400 m a.s.l.; ZMB 46038.
Description
SHELL (Figs 10, 77; Tables 3–4). Conical, with 4.5–5.25 convex whorls; protoconch almost smooth; teleoconch with irregular wrinkles and distinct incised spiral lines; no scales discernible; not tuberculate around umbilicus; yellowish or brownish-corneous; body whorl keeled; aperture oval; upper insertion of peristome hardly descending; peristome slightly expanded, not reflexed and slightly thickened; umbilicus hardly eccentric, narrow, comprising 20–25% of shell diameter, hardly obscured by columellar edge.
GENITALIA. Unknown.
Remarks
Landouria monticola resembles L. schepmani (Fig. 76), in which it was apparently included by Möllendorff (1897). It differs from that species in the smaller (D 8.5–9.5 mm vs 10.5–10.9 mm in L. schepmani), higher conical (D/H 1.49–1.60 vs 1.72–1.76 in L. schepmani), less sharply keeled shell.
The holotype of L. monticola could not be traced in the RMNH/ZMA collection. Van Benthem Jutting (1950) reported L. monticola from several regions in West, Central and East Java. We examined a juvenile paratype of L. monticola from Gunung Kawi in East Java (ZMA 137804), which differs from the paratypes from Gunung Cikuray in the smoother shell with a narrower umbilicus. We doubt that this specimen is conspecific with the paratypes of L. monticola from Gunung Cikuray. The identity of the populations from high mountain regions in Central Java with L. monticola must also be checked.
Distribution
Currently only the populations from Gunung Cikuray in West Java are included in L. monticola (Fig. 55). Records from other regions of Java (van Benthem Jutting 1950) and from Sumatra (Heryanto 2013) probably refer to other species.
description: Published as part of Nurinsiyah, Ayu Savitri, Neiber, Marco T. & Hausdorf, Bernhard, 2019, Revision of the land snail genus Landouria Godwin-Austen, 1918 (Gastropoda, Camaenidae) from Java, pp. 1-73 in European Journal of Taxonomy 526 on pages 56-57, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2019.526, http://zenodo.org/record/3152217
title: Die nachhaltige Entwicklung in Freihandelsabkommen Freihandelsabkommen der EU und der EFTA mit asiatischen Staaten im Vergleich
Creators: name: Eckl, Sophie Anna
Publisher: name: Universität Innsbruck
Year: 2017

description: Die Europäische Union gilt als die Wächterin und Verfechterin von Grundwerten wie Umweltschutz und Menschenrechten. Auch in ihren Freihandelsabkommen mit asiatischen Staaten, unter anderem Südkorea und Singapur, finden sich diese Werte in Kapiteln über nachhaltige Entwicklung wieder. Die European Freetrade Association (EFTA), bestehend aus der Schweiz, Liechtenstein, Island und Norwegen, schuf ebenfalls in ihren Freihandelsabkommen mit asiatischen Staaten Platz für die nachhaltige Entwicklung. Im Folgenden werden diese Kapitel verglichen und es wird sich bestätigen, dass die EU bisher sehr viel weitläufiger nachhaltige Entwicklung in ihren Abkommen verankert hat. Durch einen Blick auf NAFTA, das Nordamerikanische Freihandelsabkommen, wird allerdings deutlich: EU und EFTA sind sich in ihren Werten sehr ähnlich, allerdings fällt es der EU, als 28-köpfige Staatengemeinschaft, deutlich leichter Bedingungen zu stellen. Neuere Strategien der UNO, wie die Sustainable Development Goals, werden in Zukunft aber auch kleineren Gemeinschaften, wie der EFTA oder Einzelstaaten, das Verankern von nachhaltiger Entwicklung durch die Möglichkeit des Verweises auf ebendiese Dokumente in Freihandelsabkommen erleichtern. Bereits in den vergangenen Jahren zeichnete sich ein Trend zu immer ausführlicheren Nachhaltigkeitskapiteln ab.