cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Shunpon: Intertextuality, Humour, and Sexual Education in Early-modern Japan
Creators: name: Bugno, Maria Lucia
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Shunpon
Early-modern Japanese Literature
Edo Period Literature
Sex and Humour
Sexual Education
Shunga

description: Shunpon: Intertextuality, Humour, and Sexual Education in Early-modern Japan This dissertation explores the sexually explicit rewritings of earlier literature in early-modern shunpon production. The term shunpon is used today by scholars to refer to books containing shunga (images displaying explicit sexual content), which were produced in Japan throughout the Edo period (1600-1868). Despite the remarkable output of shunpon, until recently the textual part of this corpus has seldom been the object of academic study, which has focused mostly on pictures. By analysing the texts in shunpon, I examine the characteristics of these early-modern writings, their aims, readership, and connection with the whole literary panorama of the time. Besides the sexual and satirical uses that have been put forward so far, this study emphasises other aims for these works, namely humour and sexual education. In particular, the focus on shunpon rewritings of earlier literature reveals how our own perception of these works, considered canonical today, differs from how they were read at the time. The introduction gives an outline of the theoretical framework. Chapter One analyses the shunpon rewritings of the 17th-century Meijo nasake kurabe (Famous Women: Comparisons of Affection), a collection of stories which has so far been considered a minor work. Chapter Two takes up the 18th-century rewritings of Makura no sōshi (The Pillow Book), a work that is considered canonical today. Chapter Three examines the re-adaptations of another Heian-period classic, Ise monogatari (Tales of Ise), which cover a vast range of works, such as narrative prose texts, sex manuals and miscellaneous illustrated books. Chapter Four turns to the erotic rewritings of Genji monogatari (The Tale of Genji), which were published between the 17th and the 19th century. Bringing together the main arguments of the discussion, the conclusion points out how this research on the texts in shunpon offers new insight into the study of parody, intertextuality, pornography, and the erotic.
Two RICH Detectors as Velocity Spectrometers in the CKM Experiment
Creators: name: Engelfried, J.
name: Cooper, P. S.
name: Morelos, A.
name: Torres, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the design of two velocity spectrometers, to be used in the recently approved CKM experiment. CKM's main goal is the measurement of the branching ratio of K+ -> pi+ nu nu with a precision of 10%, via decays in flight of the K+. The design of both RICH detectors is based on the SELEX Phototube RICH. We will discuss the design and the expected performance, based on studies with SELEX data and Monte Carlo Simulations.
description: Contributed talk at the Fourth Workshop on RICH Detectors, June 5-10, 2002, Pylos, Greece. Accepted for publication in NIMA
Modelling Beam-Column Joints for Progressive Collapse Analysis
Creators: name: Salgado, Rafael
name: Guner, Serhan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 90506 Structural Engineering
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: When a reinforced concrete frame is subjected to progressive collapse due to the loss of a structural column, the surrounding elements typically experience a significant overload that may lead to their collapse. The rotational capacity of beams and, consequently, the beam-column connections is a critical factor determining the structural resiliency. Numerical models developed to assess the structural response under a progressive collapse situation must incorporate the beam-column joint response. In this study, a review of the beam-column joint modelling approaches, constitutive models, and the ease of their numerical implementation are presented. Some of these models are utilized to simulate the response of a previously-tested reinforced concrete frame. The calculated structural response parameters are compared to the experimental results, and the accuracy of each constitutive model is discussed.
title: Documentation Paper: Representative Survey on Attitudes and Knowledge About Inflation and Monetary Policy in Germany Conducted in December 2021
title: MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics
Creators: name: Hayo, Bernd
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2022
Subjects: Economics
Wirtschaft
Inflation expectation
Inflation perception
ECB’s monetary policy reform in 2021
Germany
Monetary policy
Public opinion survey
Attitudes

description: This paper provides background information on, and basic descriptive statistics for, a representative survey of the German population conducted on my behalf by GfK in December 2021. The survey covers various topics having to do with inflation and monetary policy, including: 1) inflation perceptions and expectations, 2) interest in and subjective, as well as objective, knowledge about monetary policy, 3) attitude to and knowledge about the ECB’s monetary policy reform in 2021, 4) trust in the ECB and perception of its independence, 5) importance of climate-change-related measures, and 6) an experiment evaluating whether information about the ECB’s monetary policy reform in 2021 reduces people’s trust in the ECB and their perception of its independence. A broad range of socio-demographic and economic indicators are collected too.
title: Davin Heckman Netprov Interview
Creators: name: Heckman, Davin
name: Wittig, Rob
Publisher: name: Electronic Book Review
Year: 2024

description: Davin Heckman on how his penchant for pranks got him to appreciate netprov and how he turned it into a versatile pedagogic tool that helps to broaden his students’ social sensibilities.
Formation of Massive Protostellar Clusters -- Observations of Massive 70 $μ$m Dark Molecular Clouds
Creators: name: Li, Shanghuo
name: Zhang, Qizhou
name: Pillai, Thushara
name: Stephens, Ian W.
name: Wang, Junzhi
name: Li, Fei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present Submillimeter Array (SMA) observations of seven massive molecular clumps which are dark in the far-infrared for wavelengths up to 70 $μ$m. Our 1.3 mm continuum images reveal 44 dense cores, with gas masses ranging from 1.4 to 77.1 M$_{\odot}$. Twenty-nine dense cores have masses greater than 8 M$_{\odot}$ and the other fifteen dense cores have masses between 1.4 and 7.5 M$_{\odot}$. Assuming the core density follows a power-law in radius $ρ\propto r^{-b}$, the index $b$ is found to be between 0.6 and 2.1 with a mean value of 1.3. The virial analysis reveals that the dense cores are not in virial equilibrium. CO outflow emission was detected toward 6 out of 7 molecular clumps and associated with 17 dense cores. For five of these cores, CO emissions appear to have line-wings at velocities of greater than 30 km s$^{-1}$ with respect to the source systemic velocity, which indicates that most of the clumps harbor protostars and thus are not quiescent in star formation. The estimated outflow timescale increase with core mass, which likely indicates that massive cores have longer accretion timescale than that of the less massive ones. The fragmentation analysis shows that the mass of low-mass and massive cores are roughly consistent with thermal and turbulent Jeans masses, respectively.
description: 24 pages, 7 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ
Translational diffusion of a fluorescent tracer molecule in nanoconfined water
Creators: name: Patil, Shivprasad
name: Ajith, V. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Diffusion of tracer dye molecules in water confined to nanoscale is an important subject with a direct bearing on many technological applications. It is not yet clear however, if the dynamics of water in hydrophilic as well as hydrophobic nanochannels remains bulk-like. Here, we present diffusion measurement of a fluorescent dye molecule in water confined to nanoscale between two hydrophilic surfaces whose separation can be controlled with a precision of less than a nm. We observe that the fluorescence intensities correlate over a fast($\sim$ 30 $μ$s) and slow ($\sim$ 1000 $μ$s) time components. The slow timescale is due to adsorption of fluorophores to the confining walls and it disappears in presence of 1 M salt. The fast component is attributed to diffusion of dye molecules in the gap and is found to be bulk-like for sub-10 nm separations and indicates that viscosity of water under confinement remains unaltered up to confinement gap as small as $\sim$ 5 nm. Our findings contradict some of the recent measurements of diffusion under nanoconfinement, however they are consistent with many estimates of self-diffusion using molecular dynamics simulations and measurements using neutron scattering experiments.
Climate simulations of early Mars with estimated precipitation, runoff, and erosion rates
Creators: name: Ramirez, Ramses M.
name: Craddock, Robert A.
name: Usui, Tomohiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The debate over the early Martian climate is among the most intriguing in planetary science. Although the geologic evidence generally supports a warmer and wetter climate, climate models have had difficulty simulating such a scenario, leading some to suggest that the observed fluvial geology (e.g. valley networks, modified landscapes) on the Martian surface, could have formed in a cold climate instead. However, as we have originally predicted using a single-column radiative-convective climate model [Ramirez et al. 2014a], warming from CO2-H2 collision-induced absorption (CIA) on a volcanically active early Mars could have raised mean surface temperatures above the freezing point, with later calculations showing that this is achievable with hydrogen concentrations as low as ~1%. Nevertheless, these predictions should be tested against more complex models. Here, we use an advanced energy balance model that includes a northern lowlands ocean to show that mean surface temperatures near or slightly above the freezing point of water were necessary to carve the valley networks. Our scenario is consistent with a relatively large ocean as has been suggested. Valley network distributions would have been global prior to subsequent removal processes. At lower mean surface temperatures and smaller ocean sizes, precipitation and surface erosion efficiency diminish. The warm period may have been ~< 10 million years, perhaps suggesting that episodic warming mechanisms were not needed. Atmospheric collapse and permanently glaciated conditions occur once surface ice coverage exceeds a threshold depending on CIA assumptions. Our results support an early warm and semi-arid climate consistent with many geologic observations.
description: Published in JGR:Planets (61 pages, 12 Figures, 2 Tables; Supp Info: 7 pages, 5 figures)
Integration of Local Food Programs in Salt Lake County to Benefit Prisoners, Juvenile Delinquents and Meals on Wheels Clients
Creators: name: Wagner, Katie M.
name: Wagner, Katie M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: local produce
subject: food assistance program

description: Horticulture Extension faculty in Salt Lake County was presented a challenge in spring of 2014 to identify sources of local produce to benefit homebound Meals on Wheels clients through the newly developed Meals Plus Program (MPP). Although the delivery of produce to clients was not a problem since the Salt Lake County Meals on Wheels Program regularly distributed cooked meals to approximately 1,500 clients in 2014, the budget for the MPP did not include money to purchase produce from a local grocer or farmer. USU Extension horticulture faculty was tasked with sourcing local produce through community partnerships; three partnerships were developed in 2014 to supply approximately 130 seniors with weekly shares of fresh produce.
title: Tracking the German Business Cycle
title: MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics
Creators: name: Berger, Tino
name: Ochsner, Christian
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2022
Subjects: nowcast
vector-autoregression
output gap
Economics
Wirtschaft
Germany
mixed frequency

description: The German economy is an important economic driver in the Euro-area in terms of gross domestic product, labour force and international integration. We provide a state of the art estimate of the German output gap between 1995 and 2021 and present a nowcasting scheme that accurately predicts the Germany output gap up to three months prior to a gross domestic product data release. To this end, we elicit a mixed-frequency vector-autoregressive model in the spirit of Berger, Morley, and Wong (forthcoming) who propose to use monthly information to form an expectation about the current-quarter output gap. The mean absolute error of our nowcast is very small (0.25 percentage points) after only one month of observed data. Moreover, we show that international trade and labour market aggregates consistently explain large shares of variation in the German output gap.
DEFER: Distributed Edge Inference for Deep Neural Networks
Creators: name: Parthasarathy, Arjun
name: Krishnamachari, Bhaskar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Modern machine learning tools such as deep neural networks (DNNs) are playing a revolutionary role in many fields such as natural language processing, computer vision, and the internet of things. Once they are trained, deep learning models can be deployed on edge computers to perform classification and prediction on real-time data for these applications. Particularly for large models, the limited computational and memory resources on a single edge device can become the throughput bottleneck for an inference pipeline. To increase throughput and decrease per-device compute load, we present DEFER (Distributed Edge inFERence), a framework for distributed edge inference, which partitions deep neural networks into layers that can be spread across multiple compute nodes. The architecture consists of a single "dispatcher" node to distribute DNN partitions and inference data to respective compute nodes. The compute nodes are connected in a series pattern where each node's computed result is relayed to the subsequent node. The result is then returned to the Dispatcher. We quantify the throughput, energy consumption, network payload, and overhead for our framework under realistic network conditions using the CORE network emulator. We find that for the ResNet50 model, the inference throughput of DEFER with 8 compute nodes is 53% higher and per node energy consumption is 63% lower than single device inference. We further reduce network communication demands and energy consumption using the ZFP serialization and LZ4 compression algorithms. We have implemented DEFER in Python using the TensorFlow and Keras ML libraries, and have released DEFER as an open-source framework to benefit the research community.
description: Received the Best Paper Award at the COMSNETS 2022 MINDS Workshop
TreePlanter v1.0 tutorial and tool description
Creators: name: Wallenberg, Nils
name: Lindberg, Fredrik
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Contains two pdf files, one tutorial and one tool description, to be used together with TreePlanter v1.0 (see doi below). TreePlanter v1.0 can be found as part of the Urban Multi-scale Environmental Predictor tool (https://umep-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4616760 A tutorial dataset (also linked in the tutorial) can be found here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4616769
title: Preferences for Dynamic Electricity Tariffs: A Comparison of Households in Germany and Japan
title: MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics
Creators: name: Nakai, Miwa
name: von Loessl, Victor
name: Wetzel, Heike
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2022
Subjects: Tariff design
Household acceptance barriers
Stated choice experiment
Economics
Wirtschaft
Dynamic electricity tariffs

description: We evaluate a stated choice experiment on dynamic electricity tariffs based on two representative household surveys from Germany and Japan. Our results indicate significant differences between German and Japanese respondents’ preferences towards dynamic tariffs, with the latter generally being more open to dynamic pricing. Furthermore, our unique experimental design allows to disentangle preferences for inter- and intraday price changes, which are two essential tariff characteristics. In this respect, our results suggest that households need significant compensation in order to accept frequently changing price patters. In contrast, they are mostly indifferent with respect to the number of price changes per day. Besides the implementation of an environmental treatment message, we additionally investigate tariff characteristics, which aim at overcoming household acceptance barriers. To this end, a restrictive use of households’ consumption data, price caps, as well as highlighting the environmental benefits associated to dynamic tariffs present themselves as suitable tools to reduce households’ aversion to dynamic electricity tariffs.
Thick brane world model from perfect fluid
Creators: name: Ivashchuk, V. D.
name: Melnikov, V. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A (1 + d)-dimensional thick "brane world" model with varying Lambda-term is considered. The model is generalized to the case of a chain of Ricci-flat internal spaces when the matter source is an anisotropic perfect fluid. The "horizontal" part of potential is obtained in the Newtonian approximation. In the multitemporal case (with a Lambda-term) a set of equations for potentials is presented.
description: 11 pages, Latex, to be published in Grav. Cosmol. 7, 241-245 (2001)
Literary Praxis and Pedagogic Philosophy in British Educative Fiction after Rousseau
Creators: name: Melvill, Oliver
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Eighteenth-Century Literature
Rousseau
Philosophy of Education
Educative Fiction
Literary Praxis
Pedagogic Philosophy
Mary Hays
Maria Edgeworth
William Godwin

description: Finding its origin in the educational philosophy forwarded by Jean-Jacques Rousseau in the 1760s, this thesis examines how the experimental system of education proposed in Emile or On Education (1762) was received and adapted in the educative writing of Maria Edgeworth, Mary Hays and William Godwin. Focusing primarily on Edgeworth’s Belinda (1801), Hays’s Memoirs of Emma Courtney (1798), and Godwin’s Fleetwood (1805), this thesis examines how Rousseau’s educational model was adapted towards the end of the 1790s as a philosophy of literary reception that was grounded in active, practical experimentation and literary praxis. Drawing a line between didacticism and education, Rousseau opened up the possibility for an educational philosophy that shifted the focus away from didactic pedagogy towards an understanding of education that focused on the act of reception rather than the imparting of ideas. While many critics have, like Godwin, focused on the implications that this shift in perspective has had for the relationship between the teacher and pupil, less apparent is how Rousseau’s experiential educational model was revised towards the end of the eighteenth century in ways that reframed the role that literature could play in education. What Maria Edgeworth, Mary Hays and William Godwin recognise in the 1790s is that the interaction between the reader and the novel has the potential to function in a fundamentally similar fashion to the relationship Rousseau theorises in Emile between his student and the physical world. Focusing on how each of these writers envisions the act of reading, this thesis demonstrates how, within the Rousseauvean educational framework, reading is reconstituted by Edgeworth, Hays and Godwin as a practical, empirically justifiable educational act. Through an examination of this experiential approach to literary reception, this thesis explores how the growing emphasis on the practical nature of the interaction between readers and literary texts functions to involve readers in the educational process. Through this conception of active readerly reception, works like Belinda, Memoirs of Emma Courtney and Fleetwood open up the possibility for a form of auto-education that, I argue, enables a movement towards a democratisation of education that could be situated outside of the bounds of institutionalised educational systems.
description: This thesis would not have been possible without the generous financial support that I received from the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission, the Cambridge International Trust and the Oppenheimer Memorial Trust.
OH-selected AGB and post-AGB stellar objects II.Blue versus red evolution off the AGB
Creators: name: Sevenster, Maartje
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using objects found in a systematic survey of the galactic Plane in the 1612-MHz OH line, we discuss in detail two ``sequences'' of post-AGB evolution, a red and a blue. We argue that the red and the blue groups separate by initial mass at 4Msun, based on evolutionary-sequence turn-off colours, spectral energy distributions, outflow velocities and scaleheight. The higher-mass (blue) objects may have earlier AGB termination. The lower-mass (red) objects undergo very sudden reddening for IRAS colour R21\sim1.2; these sources must all undergo a very similar process at AGB termination. The transition colour corresponds to average initial masses of 1.7Msun. A combined IRAS-MSX colour proves a very sensitive tool to distinguish lower-mass, early post-AGB objects from sources still on the AGB and also to distinguish more evolved post-AGB objects from star-forming regions. The high-mass blue objects are the likely precursors of bipolar planetary nebulae, whereas the low-mass red objects will evolve into elliptical planetary nebulae.
description: 12 pages, LaTex, 7 figures (1 colour), AJ (accepted)
Making Communities Show Respect for Order
Creators: name: Vasiliauskaite, Vaiva
name: Evans, Tim S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this work we give a community detection algorithm in which the communities both respects the intrinsic order of a directed acyclic graph and also finds similar nodes. We take inspiration from classic similarity measures of bibliometrics, used to assess how similar two publications are, based on their relative citation patterns. We study the algorithm's performance and antichain properties in artificial models and in real networks, such as citation graphs and food webs. We show how well this partitioning algorithm distinguishes and groups together nodes of the same origin (in a citation network, the origin is a topic or a research field). We make the comparison between our partitioning algorithm and standard hierarchical layering tools as well as community detection methods. We show that our algorithm produces different communities from standard layering algorithms.
Cosmological Weak Lensing
Creators: name: Mellier, Y.
name: van Waerbeke, L.
name: Bernardeau, F.
name: Tereno, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the current status of cosmic shear studies and their implications on cosmological models. Theoretical expectations and observational results are discussed in the framework of standard cosmology and CDM scenarios. The potentials of the next generation cosmic shear surveys are discussed.
description: Latex, 10 pages. To appear in ``Astronomy, Cosmology and Fundamental Physics'', ESO-CERN-ESA Symposium. P. A. Shaver, L. Di Lella, and A. Gimenez Eds
Overview and Economic Impact of the Mississippi Blueberry Industry
Creators: name: Collart, Alba J.
name: Hood, Ken
name: Barnes, James
name: Collart, Alba J.
name: Hood, Ken
name: Barnes, James
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: impact analysis
subject: economic multipliers
subject: IMPLAN

description: U.S. per capita consumption of blueberries has risen in the past decade, fueled in part by the industry’s efforts to promote the health benefits associated with blueberry consumption. As a response to increased consumer demand, blueberry acreage in Mississippi has significantly increased, from about 80 acres in 1981 to 2,700 acres in 2012. Production in the state consists mainly of Rabbiteye or Southern Highbush varieties, 50% of which is sold wholesale through marketing cooperatives (MDAC 2013). This study estimates the economic impact of this industry on Mississippi’s agricultural economy.
title: Analysing Gender Equality at the Firm Level
title: MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics
Creators: name: Eugenidis, Dania
name: Kinne, Jan
name: Lenz, David
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2022
Subjects: Gender
Germany
Gender Equality Index
Firm level studies
Web Minig
Economics
Wirtschaft

description: The role of gender in the labour force and potential inequalities between men and women have been widely discussed. Despite efforts to align gender roles in recent decades, high levels of inequality are not an exception but rather the standard. These inequalities can lead to the respective minorities’ general dissatisfaction, which affects the working atmosphere and ultimately a firm’s economic success (Hoogendoorn et al., 2013).
Recent quantitative studies confirm this dissatisfaction exists. However, analyses only take place at a country or regional level. Therefore, conclusions can be drawn on an aggregated level, whereas underlying structural differences between individual firms remain undetected. Alternative ways to measure inequalities include qualitative studies for individual companies. However, no generalized inference can be made.
Our proposed framework, the Gender Equality Firm Index (GEFI), allows for quantitative gender equality analysis at the company level. GEFI aims to explore the latent and the concrete implementation of gender equality in firms. Specifically, we derive firm-level measurements from large-scale data extraction of firm websites and combine them with official data. We consequently derive a gender equality score for each company, making it possible to draw conclusions at any given level of granularity. We demonstrate the applicability of our framework in a case study including nearly 1 million firms throughout Germany. Thereby, we find that mainly urban and western German firms in sectors such as health and social services comparably enforce gender equality the most, which is in line with the existing literature.
Coexistence of ferro- and antiferromagnetic order in Mn-doped Ni$_2$MnGa
Creators: name: Enkovaara, J.
name: Heczko, O.
name: Ayuela, A.
name: Nieminen, R. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ni-Mn-Ga is interesting as a prototype of a magnetic shape-memory alloy showing large magnetic field induced strains. We present here results for the magnetic ordering of Mn-rich Ni-Mn-Ga alloys based on both experiments and theory. Experimental trends for the composition dependence of the magnetization are measured by a vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM) in magnetic fields of up to several tesla and at low temperatures. The saturation magnetization has a maximum near the stoichiometric composition and it decreases with increasing Mn content. This unexpected behaviour is interpreted via first-principles calculations within the density-functional theory. We show that extra Mn atoms are antiferromagnetically aligned to the other moments, which explains the dependence of the magnetization on composition. In addition, the effect of Mn doping on the stabilization of the structural phases and on the magnetic anisotropy energy is demonstrated.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Exact solutions in multidimensional gravity with antisymmetric forms
Creators: name: Ivashchuk, V. D.
name: Melnikov, V. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This topical review deals with a multidimensional gravitational model containing dilatonic scalar fields and antisymmetric forms. The manifold is chosen in the form M = M_0 x M_1 x ...x M_n, where M_i are Einstein spaces (i >0). The sigma-model approach and exact solutions in the model are reviewed and the solutions with p-branes (e.g. Majumdar-Papapetrou-type, cosmological, spherically symmetric, black-brane and Freund-Rubin-type ones) are considered.
description: 63 pages, Latex, topical review, few typos are eliminated
title: Lockdown Spillovers
title: MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics
Creators: name: Chen, Hongyi
name: Tillmann, Peter
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2022
Subjects: panel local projections
Covid-19
lockdown shocks
spillovers
Economics
Wirtschaft
pandemic

description: Lockdowns imposed to fight the Covid-19 pandemic have cross-border effects. In this paper, we estimate the empirical magnitude of lockdown spillovers in a set of panel local projections. We use daily indicators of economic activity such as stock returns, effective exchange rates, NO2 emissions, mobility and maritime container trade. Lockdown shocks originating in the most important trading partners have a strong and significant adverse effect on economic activity in the home economy. For stock prices and exports, the spillovers can even be larger than the effect of domestic lockdown shocks. The results are robust with respect to alternative country weights used to construct foreign shocks, i.e. weights based on foreign direct investment or the connectedness through value chains. We find that lockdown spillovers have been par-ticularly strong during the first wave of the pandemic. Countries with a higher export share are particularly exposed to lockdown spillovers.
Provenance tracking in the LHCb software
Creators: name: Trisovic, Ana
name: Jones, Chris R.
name: Couturier, Ben
name: Clemencic, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Even though computational reproducibility is widely accepted as necessary for research validation and reuse, it is often not considered during the research process. This is because reproducibility tools are typically stand-alone and require additional training to be employed. In this article, we present a solution to foster reproducibility, which is integrated within existing scientific software that is actively used in the LHCb collaboration. Our provenance tracking service captures metadata of a dataset, which is then saved inside the output data file on the disk. The captured information allows a complete understanding of how the file was produced and enables a user to reproduce the dataset, even when the original input code (that was used to initially produce the dataset) is altered or lost. This article describes the implementation of the service and gives examples of its application.
Label Dependent Attention Model for Disease Risk Prediction Using Multimodal Electronic Health Records
Creators: name: Niu, Shuai
name: Yin, Qing
name: Song, Yunya
name: Guo, Yike
name: Yang, Xian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Disease risk prediction has attracted increasing attention in the field of modern healthcare, especially with the latest advances in artificial intelligence (AI). Electronic health records (EHRs), which contain heterogeneous patient information, are widely used in disease risk prediction tasks. One challenge of applying AI models for risk prediction lies in generating interpretable evidence to support the prediction results while retaining the prediction ability. In order to address this problem, we propose the method of jointly embedding words and labels whereby attention modules learn the weights of words from medical notes according to their relevance to the names of risk prediction labels. This approach boosts interpretability by employing an attention mechanism and including the names of prediction tasks in the model. However, its application is only limited to the handling of textual inputs such as medical notes. In this paper, we propose a label dependent attention model LDAM to 1) improve the interpretability by exploiting Clinical-BERT (a biomedical language model pre-trained on a large clinical corpus) to encode biomedically meaningful features and labels jointly; 2) extend the idea of joint embedding to the processing of time-series data, and develop a multi-modal learning framework for integrating heterogeneous information from medical notes and time-series health status indicators. To demonstrate our method, we apply LDAM to the MIMIC-III dataset to predict different disease risks. We evaluate our method both quantitatively and qualitatively. Specifically, the predictive power of LDAM will be shown, and case studies will be carried out to illustrate its interpretability.
QZ Serpentis: A Dwarf Nova with a 2-Hour Orbital Period and an Anomalously Hot, Bright Secondary Star
Creators: name: Thorstensen, J. R.
name: Fenton, W. H.
name: Patterson, J. O.
name: Kemp, J.
name: Halpern, J.
name: Baraffe, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present spectroscopy and time-series photometry of the dwarf nova QZ Ser. The spectrum shows a rich absorption line spectrum of type K4 +- 2. K-type secondary stars are generally seen in dwarf novae with orbital periods P-orb around 6 h, but in QZ Ser the absorption radial velocities show an obvious modulation (semi-amplitude 207(5) km/s) at P-orb = 119.752(2) min, much shorter than typical for such a relatively warm and prominent secondary spectrum. The H-alpha emission-line velocity is modulated at the same period and roughly opposite phase. Time-series photometry shows flickering superposed on a modulation with two humps per orbit, consistent with ellipsoidal variation of the secondary's light. QZ Ser is a second example of a relatively short-period dwarf nova with a surprisingly warm secondary. Model calculations suggest that the secondary is strongly enhanced in helium, and had already undergone significant nuclear evolution when mass transfer began. Several sodium absorption features in the secondary spectrum are unusually strong, which may indicate that the present-day surface was the site of CNO-cycle hydrogen burning in the past.
description: 11 pages, 3 postscript figures, 1 jpeg greyscale figure. Accepted for publication in PASP
A novel ratiometric fluorescent probe for the detection of bilirubin based on the copper nanoclusters-metal organic frameworks hybrids
Creators: name: Lu, Jingyi
name: Yuan, Yunru
name: Zhang, Qi
name: Wang, Yilin
name: Liu, Siyu
name: Wu, Jiazhen
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Virology

description: Bilirubin is a key biomarker in the diagnosis of jaundice. Herein, we proposed a simple and convenient quantitative method for the fluorescent detection of bilirubin. We developed a copper nanoclusters coated by zinc-based metal-organic frameworks (Cu NCs@MOF). The prepared Cu NCs@MOF exhibited bright blue fluorescence excited with ultra-violet light and well stability at various environments. More importantly, Cu NCs@MOF was used for bilirubin detection based on the emerging red fluorescence emission peak induced by bilirubin. Furthermore, Cu NCs@MOF were made into test strip for the visual detection of bilirubin by the fluorescence color variation.
SIMBA: Scalable Inversion in Optical Tomography using Deep Denoising Priors
Creators: name: Wu, Zihui
name: Sun, Yu
name: Matlock, Alex
name: Liu, Jiaming
name: Tian, Lei
name: Kamilov, Ulugbek S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Two features desired in a three-dimensional (3D) optical tomographic image reconstruction algorithm are the ability to reduce imaging artifacts and to do fast processing of large data volumes. Traditional iterative inversion algorithms are impractical in this context due to their heavy computational and memory requirements. We propose and experimentally validate a novel scalable iterative mini-batch algorithm (SIMBA) for fast and high-quality optical tomographic imaging. SIMBA enables high-quality imaging by combining two complementary information sources: the physics of the imaging system characterized by its forward model and the imaging prior characterized by a denoising deep neural net. SIMBA easily scales to very large 3D tomographic datasets by processing only a small subset of measurements at each iteration. We establish the theoretical fixed-point convergence of SIMBA under nonexpansive denoisers for convex data-fidelity terms. We validate SIMBA on both simulated and experimentally collected intensity diffraction tomography (IDT) datasets. Our results show that SIMBA can significantly reduce the computational burden of 3D image formation without sacrificing the imaging quality.
description: In press for IEEE Journal Selected Topics in Signal Processing
title: Who Supports War for Justice and Why? Evidence from Russia and Ukraine
title: MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics
Creators: name: Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza
name: Fischer, Sven
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2020
Subjects: Economics
Wirtschaft

description: We study the acceptability of war as a necessary tool to obtain justice under certain conditions across individuals from Russia and Ukraine in 2011. We discuss which socio-economic, political and individual characteristics shape the support for using destructive military force to achieve justice. Overall, the acceptance of war for justice is relatively low in both countries. Using logistic regressions, we found that there are characteristics that significantly reduce the support for war for justice in both countries, such as gender and level of happiness. Support in both countries is also significantly larger among respondents who are interested in politics and are married. Additionally, there are conditions which produce different results between the countries, such as religiosity, country aims, employment, confidence in the government, concern over possible war and political orientation.
Deep learning for fully-automatic quantification of avascular necrosis of the femoral head on 3D hip MRI in young patients eligible for joint preserving hip surgery: A pilot study
Creators: name: Ruckli, Adrian
name: Schmaranzer, Florian
name: Lerch, Till
name: Boschung, Adam
name: Steppacher, Simon
name: Burger, Juergen
name: Tannast, Moritz
name: Siebenrock, Klaus
name: Gerber, Kate
name: Gerber, Nicolas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Poster: Deep learning for fully-automatic quantification of avascular necrosis of the femoral head on 3D hip MRI in young patients eligible for joint preserving hip surgery: A pilot study
title: Ukraine Invasion and Votes in favour of Russia in the UN General Assembly
title: MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics
Creators: name: Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza
name: Gholipour, Hassan F.
Publisher: name: Philipps-Universität Marburg
Year: 2022
Subjects: Economics
Wirtschaft

description: Why did some countries vote not to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine at the United National General Assembly’s first emergency session since 1997? Our study examines different economic, political, geographic and historical reasons behind the voting behaviour of several countries in favour of Russia. Probit regressions show that higher dependence on military exports from Russia, years ruled by leftists, access to Russian markets for exports, being a major recipient of Russian aid, being former members of Soviet Union and sharing borders with Russia are positively associated with the probability of voting in favour of Russia. Factors which reduce the probability of support for Russia over the Ukraine invasion are higher levels of civil and political freedom within a country and percentage of exports from Russia to partners in total Russia exports.
Challenges of Return-Oriented-Programming on the Xtensa Hardware Architecture
Creators: name: Lehniger, Kai
name: Aftowicz, Marcin J.
name: Langendörfer, Peter
name: Dyka, Zoya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper shows how the Xtensa architecture can be attacked with Return-Oriented-Programming (ROP). The presented techniques include possibilities for both supported Application Binary Interfaces (ABIs). Especially for the windowed ABI a powerful mechanism is presented that not only allows to jump to gadgets but also to manipulate registers without relying on specific gadgets. This paper purely focuses on how the properties of the architecture itself can be exploited to chain gadgets and not on specific attacks or a gadget catalog.
Why should wild nature be preserved? A dialogue between biblical theology and biodiversity conservation.
Creators: name: Bookless, David John Charles
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: biodiversity
conservation
biblical theology
theocentric
anthropocentric
ecocentric
wildlife
theology
virtue ethics
value
Theo-eco-centric
creation theology
ecotheology
intrinsic value
instrumental value
ecosystems
Christocentric
nonhuman

description: The past century has seen a rapid acceleration in global anthropogenic biodiversity loss, despite massively increased conservation effort and knowledge. Consequently, there are wide-ranging debates around whether economic and instrumental valuations of wild nature assist in its preservation, or whether they commodify entities that possess intrinsic or inherent value. This thesis seeks to bring insights from biblical theology into dialogue with conservation biology concerning the value of wild nature and the place of humanity in relation to it. Through a theological overview of four major biblical themes expressing God’s initiative towards all that exists (creation, covenant, reconciliation in Christ, and eschatological consummation), it is proposed that God’s relationship with nonhuman creation provides a useful conceptual structure in addressing contemporary conservation dilemmas. In particular, it is suggested that debates regarding anthropocentric or ecocentric, and instrumental (including economic) or intrinsic valuations of wild nature, and similarly between ‘conservation’ and ‘preservation’, may constructively be placed within a wider context regarding humanity’s place with regard to its fellow creatures. Within a Christian worldview it is proposed that this is ultimately a Theo-eco-centric context wherein all value, nonhuman and human, is contingent upon God’s purposes from creation to consummation. The conclusion of the thesis brings the theological insights of the four central chapters into dialogue again with contemporary conservation debates. Moving beyond ecocentric (nature for itself) and anthropocentric (nature for people) motivations for conserving wild nature, it proposes a concept of ‘people within nature’ that is theologically coherent but expressed in language that brings biblical theology into debate both with secular conservationists and those of other faith traditions. It recognises both humanity’s total dependence on thriving ecosystems and the particular role humans play in nature’s protection. The language of virtue ethics is posited as being particularly valuable in this regard. It is hoped that this thesis will be a useful contribution to current conservation debates surrounding how nature should be valued, and will also encourage deeper theological reflection on the place and value of nonhuman animals.
description: No contractual arrangements, but received funding from the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion
Near, far, wherever you are: simulations on the dose efficiency of holographic and ptychographic coherent imaging
Creators: name: Du, Ming
name: Gursoy, Doga
name: Jacobsen, Chris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Different studies in x-ray microscopy have arrived at conflicting conclusions about the dose efficiency of imaging modes involving the recording of intensity distributions in the near (Fresnel regime) or far (Fraunhofer regime) field downstream of a specimen. We present here a numerical study on the dose efficiency of near-field holography (NFH), near-field ptychography (NFP), and far-field ptychography (FFP), where ptychography involves multiple overlapping finite-sized illumination positions. Unlike what has been reported for coherent diffraction imaging (CDI), which involves recording a single far-field diffraction pattern, we find that all three methods offer similar image quality when using the same fluence on the specimen, with far-field ptychography offering slightly better spatial resolution and lower mean error. These results support the concept that (if the experiment and image reconstruction are done properly) the sample can be near, or far; wherever you are, photon fluence on the specimen sets one limit to spatial resolution.