cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Quittung für den Rat von Erfurt
Creators: name: Jonas, Justus
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1522

description: von Justus Jonas
description: Eigenhändige Quittung mit Unterschrift und Oblate
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Deutsch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire Mai 2016 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln Rekatalogisierung nach Original, Verzeichnis von Karl Geigy-Hagenbach und Briefkatalog der UB Basel
Passion, Cinema, and the Old Materialism
Creators: name: Schwartz, Louis-Georges
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2016

description: At the end of the twentieth century, cinema underwent regime change,  not  death.  Cinema  has  become  universalized  in  the  form  of  gently  used  media.  Its  leading  edge  subordinates  both  movement and image to hostility, and articulates affect through a new set of images and signs. In the past, cinematic affect was transindividual, molecular, and social; the new regime express-es affect as a molar ready made imposed on individuals by the economy. The films themselves make it clear that these changes erupted from recent capitalist restructuring of both production and the markets. As a method for understanding the interaction of cinema and capital, I will force Gilles Deleuze’s Cinema 1 and Cinema 2 to become a draft, a draft of his lost project Grandeur de  Marx  and  analyze  affect  in  today’s  image  regime  with  Alex  Rivera’s Sleep Dealer (2008).
Zwei Quittungen für Unbekannt
Creators: name: Cruciger, Caspar
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1504

description: von Caspar Cruciger ("Creutziger")
description: Zwei eigenhändige Quittungen
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Deutsch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire Mai 2016 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln Rekatalogisierung nach Original, Verzeichnis von Karl Geigy-Hagenbach und Briefkatalog der UB Basel
Observational discrimination of Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld gravity from general relativity
Creators: name: Sotani, Hajime
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Direct observations of neutron stars could tell us an imprint of modified gravity. However, it is generally difficult to resolve the degeneracy due to the uncertainties in equation of state (EOS) of neutron star matter and in gravitational theories. In this paper, we are successful to find the observational possibility to distinguish Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld gravity (EiBI) from general relativity. We show that the radii of neutron stars with $0.5M_{sun}$ are strongly correlated with the neutron skin thickness of ${}^{208}$Pb independently of EOS, while this correlation depends on the coupling constant in EiBI. As a result, via the direct observations of radius of neutron star with $0.5M_{sun}$ and the measurements of neutron skin thickness of ${}^{208}$Pb by the terrestrial experiments, one could not only discriminate EiBI from general relativity but also estimate the coupling constant in EiBI.
description: accepted for publication in PRD
Brief an Laelius [Sozzini]
Creators: name: Bullinger, Heinrich
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1552

description: Schöner Brief über einige von Vitus Theodorus (Veit Dietrich) angeregte Religionsfragen
description: von H[einrich] B[ullinger]
description: Eigenhändiger Brief mit Unterschrift
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Lateinisch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire Mai 2016 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln Rekatalogisierung nach Original, Verzeichnis von Karl Geigy-Hagenbach und Briefkatalog der UB Basel
Death of Deleuze, Birth of Passion
Creators: name: Liu, David U.B.
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2016

description: The sound of water. What’s it like? Is it a wee blip in the stillness of the old, jaded pond? Or is it a triumphal plop that shatters the slumbering silence? What affect unfolds here? Is it the frog that jitters to the onslaught of the cold mass of water while shot put-ting itself over the pond and flails? Or is it the unwilling water that  parts  passionally,  suffering,  to  make  room  for  this  unruly  intruder?  Who  is  undergoing  whom,  how,  how  long  —  there  and here in the pond of our mind?
The Klein-Gordon equation in the spacetime of a charged and rotating black hole
Creators: name: Bezerra, V. B.
name: Vieira, H. S.
name: Costa, André A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This work deals with the influence of the gravitational field produced by a charged and rotating black hole (Kerr-Newman spacetime) on massive scalar fields. We obtain an exact solution of the Klein-Gordon equation in this spacetime, which is given in terms of the confluent Heun functions. In the particular case corresponding to an extreme Kerr-Newman black hole the solution is given by the double confluent Heun functions. We also investigate the solutions in regions near the event horizon and far from the black hole.
description: 13 pages
Backmatter
Creators: name: Meiborg, Ceciel (Ed.)
name: Van Tuinen, Sjoerd (Ed.)
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2016

description: In recent years the humanities, social sciences and neuroscience have witnessed an ‘affective turn,’ especially in discourses around post-Fordist labor, economic and ecological crises, populism and identity politics, mental health, and political struggle. This new awareness would be unthinkable without the pioneering work of Gilles Deleuze, who replaced judgment with affect as the very material movement of thought: every concept is an affective experience, a becoming. Besides entirely active affects, the highest practice of thought, there is no thought without passive affects or passions. Instead of a calm and rational philosophy of passions, Deleuzian thought is therefore inseparable from “isolated and passionate cries” that deny what everybody knows and what nobody can deny: “every true thought is an aggression.”

This inseparability of reason and passion is by no means an anti-intellectualist or irrationalist stance. Rather, it is critical, since it protects reason from its self-imposed stupidity (bêtise) by relating it to the unthought forces that condition it. And it is clinical, because thought becomes possessed by a power of selection. The purely active, i.e. free-floating, unrecorded desire, is never enough to produce a consistent relation to the future, which is why we need the passions to give us an initial orientation, to force and enable us to think. Passions are the beliefs, perceptions, representations, and opinions that attach us to the world; they make up the very material of which our lives and thoughts are composed.
Quittung
Creators: name: Bèze, Théodore de
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1576

description: von Theodor Beza ("Th. de besze")
description: Eigenhändige Quittung mit Unterschrift
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Französisch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire Mai 2016 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln Rekatalogisierung nach Original, Verzeichnis von Karl Geigy-Hagenbach und Briefkatalog der UB Basel
Brief an A[ndré] Jullien
Creators: name: Sismondi, Jean-Charles-Léonard Simonde de
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1821

description: von J[ean] Ch[arles] L[éonard] [Simonde] d[e] Sismondi
description: Eigenhändiger Brief mit Unterschrift, Adresse und schwarzem Lacksiegel
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Französisch
Disaggregated cost-benefit analysis incorporating ecosystem services and disservices: A case from SAI Sanctuary
Creators: Hounshell, Robert Tyler
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Sustainable development--Economic aspects
Natural areas
Natural areas--Economic aspects
Wildlife conservation
Wildlife conservation--Economic aspects
Sustainable development
Sustainability
Economics

description: Under private management and ownership, privately protected areas provide opportunities for in situ environmental conservation. These areas also provide ecosystem services and disservices for various stakeholders, but their impact on various stakeholders has not been comprehensively studied. To evaluate the economic impact of a privately protected area, a disaggregated cost-benefit analysis was conducted on SAI Sanctuary incorporating its ecosystem services and disservices on private, local, and global stakeholders over a 10-year period from 2010 to 2020. SAI Sanctuary is a privately protected area located in southern Kodagu, a district in the Western Ghats forests of Karnataka, India. To valuate costs and benefits, interviews were conducted with private and local stakeholders. A literature review integrating other valuation techniques was performed as well. Discount rates of 0% and 6% were selected, and sensitivity analysis yielded various tradeoffs bore by each stakeholder group. Results indicate private stakeholders bear the greatest net costs, and local stakeholders gain the greatest net benefits largely due to pollination, a regulating service valued between $546,210 and $774,810 in the year 2020. Global stakeholders remained the least affected by SAI Sanctuary with net benefits ranging from $27,900 to $39,570 in 2020. Still, the results validate stakeholder predictions that SAI Sanctuary not only sequesters carbon dioxide, it provides a range of ecosystem services while harboring biodiversity and producing natural capital. The results also indicate that environmental conservation occasionally yields unintended tradeoffs with disproportionate costs and benefits. In sum, environmental conservation can have a multiplicity of outcomes, but measuring these outcomes and bringing privately protected areas into strategies for global conservation is vital.
The cubic case of the main conjecture in Vinogradov's mean value theorem
Creators: name: Wooley, Trevor D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11L15, 11L07, 11P55

description: We apply a variant of the multigrade efficient congruencing method to estimate Vinogradov's integral of degree $3$ for moments of order $2s$, establishing strongly diagonal behaviour for $1\le s\le 6$. Consequently, the main conjecture is now known to hold for the first time in a case of degree exceeding $2$.
description: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1401.2932
QED correction for H$_3^+$
Creators: name: Lodi, Lorenzo
name: Polyansky, Oleg L.
name: Tennyson, Jonathan
name: Alijah, Alexander
name: Zobov, Nikolai F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A quantum electrodynamics (QED) correction surface for the simplest polyatomic and polyelectronic system H$_3^+$ is computed using an approximate procedure. This surface is used to calculate the shifts to vibration-rotation energy levels due to QED; such shifts have a magnitude of up to 0.25 cm$^{-1}$ for vibrational levels up to 15~000 cm$^{-1}$ and are expected to have an accuracy of about 0.02 cm$^{-1}$. Combining the new H$_3^+$ QED correction surface with existing highly accurate Born-Oppenheimer (BO), relativistic and adiabatic components suggests that deviations of the resulting {\it ab initio} energy levels from observed ones are largely due to non-adiabatic effects.
The Girl Effect: A Neoliberal Instrumentalization of Gender Equality
Creators: Boyd, Ginger Ging-Dwan
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Girls--Education
Poor children--Education
Neoliberalism
Developing countries
Sustainable development--International cooperation
Women's studies
Sustainable development
Sustainability
Education
International relations
Gender identity
Sex role

description: Over the past ten years, ‘The Girl Effect’–the discourse and practice of investing in third world girls’ education—has ascended to the top of the international development agenda as the ‘highest return investment strategy’ to end poverty. This paper interrogates the trend by investigating the genealogy of ‘The Girl Effect’ as The Nike Foundation’s flagship corporate social responsibility campaign and the theory of change it is based on. A literature analysis of The Nike Foundation’s most recent intervention projects—“The Girl Effect Accelerator” and ‘Girl Hub’ pilot projects in Ethiopia, Nigeria, and Rwanda—will elucidate the underlying investment logic and serve as a representative sample of the broader emerging practice. While claiming to advance “gender equality” and “women’s empowerment”, I argue that The Girl Effect accomplishes the opposite by reinforcing gender inequity on both the micro and macro levels. Feminist grammars are instrumentalized as window dressing to exploit third world females as prospective (1) debtors in the expansion of credit markets, (2) exploits in the expansion of consumer markets, and (3) the ‘untapped resource’ for cheap labor. An epochal look at second wave feminism will show how ‘The Girl Effect Paradigm’ is a second wave of neoliberal exploitation—a parallel of its first female-led development era (1980s-1990s). This paper warns that as this phenomenon grows in hegemony it is insidiously displacing feminism as a political project and neutralizing the need for a truly transformational agenda. Without a counterbalance of vigilant public scrutiny and debate, we risk letting it crystallize Western- patriarchal-capitalism even more deeply in an unyielding global glass ceiling.
Brief an Josephine d'Abratès
Creators: name: Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Étienne
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1837

description: von [Etienne] Geoffroy [de] S. Hilaire
description: Eigenhändiger Brief mit Unterschrift
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Französisch
Interdependency of Aid Effectiveness and Good Governance
Creators: Mubazi, John Kigongo E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Sustainable development--Economic aspects
Economic development
Developed countries
Developing countries
Sustainable development
Economic assistance
Sustainability
International relations
Economics

description: The spirit of this article is to offer a fresh perspective related to the future of aid as a way of informing the ongoing discourse on development assistance to the benefit of policy makers and key stakeholders. It suggests that aid deployment ought to change in such a way as to improve governance and has shown where and how. We explore governance’s focus as well as the World Bank dimensions. Under focus, we concentrate on the transparency of government, the simplicity of procedures, accountability and responsibility, the need to fight against corruption, individual freedom and collective expression, and independence of the legal system. For the World Bank dimensions, the concentration is on: voice and accountability, political stability and the absence of violence, government effectiveness, regulatory quality, rule of law, and control of corruption. With respect to regulation and corruption, we address whether to use market-based or regulatory measures, possible policy instruments, implementation issues, and difficulties and problems. Under possible policy instruments, mandatory policy instruments, voluntary agreements, compliance instruments, and precautionary measures are explored. Implementation issues include introductory matters, costs, free riding and voluntary agreement and compliance. In addition, we examine difficulties associated with distributional issues, compensation, regulatory capture phenomenon, and the effect on innovation. Regarding corruption, we examine its definition, state capture versus conventional corruption, corrupt acts, forms of corruption, hypothetical causes of corruption, some analytical points, theoretical consequences, unbinding bribery, incidence of corruption, fraud, and control measures.
Introduction: Clinical Encounters in Sexuality: Psychoanalytic Practice and Queer Theory
Creators: name: Giffney, Noreen
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2017

description: Clinical Encounters in Sexuality makes an intervention into the fields of clinical psychoanalysis and sexuality studies, in an ef-fort to think about a range of issues relating to sexuality2 from a clinical  psychoanalytic  perspective.  This  book  concentrates  on  a number of concepts, namely identity, desire, pleasure, perver-sion, ethics, and discourse. Eve Watson and I have chosen queer theory, a sub-field of sexuality studies, as an interlocutor for the clinical contributors, because it is at the forefront of theoretical considerations  of  sexuality,  as  well  as  being  both  reliant  upon  and suspicious of psychoanalysis as a clinical practice and dis-course.  The  book  brings  together  a  number  of  psychoanalytic  schools  of  thought  and  clinical  approaches,  which  are  some-times at odds with one another and thus tend not to engage in dialogue about divisive theoretical concepts and matters of clin-ical  technique.  Traditions  represented  here  include:  Freudian,  Kleinian,  Independent,  Lacanian,  Jungian,  and  Relational.  We  also stage, for the first time, a sustained clinical psychoanalytic engagement with queer theory. By virtue of its editorial design, this book aims to foster a self-reflective attitude in readers about sexuality which historically has tended toward reification, par-ticularly in clinical practice.
Identity: Precarious Sexualities: Queer Challenges to Psychoanalytic and Social Identity Categorization
Creators: name: Kuzniar, Alice
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2017

description: In the essay “The Theory of Seduction and the Problem of the Other”  (1997),  Jean  Laplanche  writes  of  a  concept  that  attrac-tively resonates with the term queer, insofar as queer sexuality is quintessentially defined by its inexplicability, incoherence, vola-tility, and contingency in contradistinction to a sexuality whose owner would claim is stable, fixed, and identifiable as an integral part of the self. Destabilizing claims to an abiding, undisturbed notion of the self, Laplanche speaks of das Andere—the  other-thing in us, the otherness of our unconscious—that all attempts at psychoanalytic interpretation cannot master. Laplanche pos-its  that  sexuality  is  an  enigma,  both  for  the  child  confronted  with the riddle of sexuality that the adult represents and for the adult who can never master the uncanny as first encountered in childhood. The parent in turn unconsciously transmits an aura of sexual mystery to the child, perpetuating and completing the cycle. Das Andere is hence the internal otherness that we perpet-ually carry within us and that de-centers us, but that is founded by contact with an external otherness.
Desire: Missing Something? Queer Desire
Creators: name: Farina, Lara
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2017

description: Given that a particular configuration of sexual desire is the cen-tral emphasis of terms like “queer,” “homosexual,” “heterosexu-al,” “lesbian,” and “gay,” it is a somewhat odd fact that theoriza-tion of non-normative desire(s) has been outpaced by scholarly work  on  sexual  identity.  In  the  humanities,  the  overwhelming  interest in identity has been furthered by two important influ-ences. The first is the work of Michel Foucault, whose multivol-ume History  of  Sexuality  (1990,  1990,  1988)  argued  for  the  his-torical variability of identity-categories and, in doing so, shaped a  field  of  study  devoted  to  understanding  the  various  configu-rations of sexual identity in particular historical moments and locations. The second is the challenge to lesbian and gay studies posed by scholars of race, class, and ethnicity, who have right-fully  drawn  attention  to  the  varying  intersections  of  identity  previously  obscured  by  analysis  that  assumes  but  does  not  ac-knowledge  its  own  white,  middle-class  perspective.  Still,  even  the most identity-focused work either presupposes or points to models of desire, and analysis of these models is necessary not just for understanding the sexual self but for thinking about the affective communities available to that self.
Pleasure: Jouissance: The Gash of Bliss
Creators: name: Stockton, Kathryn Bond
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2017

description: Jouissance  is  the  strangest  glistening,  a  dark  glamour  of  rap-ture and disruption. It shines and cuts and leaves its bearer not knowing  what  to  make  of  herself—or  her  pleasure.  She  is  left  beside  herself,  feeling  ecstatically  severed  from  herself,  seized  by subtleties, strange to say, even though bliss is an overwhelming  force.  (“Spiritual  joy,”  says  American  Heritage;  “paradise,”  “seventh heaven,” “cloud nine,” adds Roget’s.) Bliss is a word for impossibilities, felt and grasped as such. Something (im)possible coursing through the body, bending the mind. Then, on a dime: rapid, luminous deteriorations.If  per  chance  it  didn’t  exist,  queers  would  invent  it.  Along  with irony, bliss is a quintessential queer accouterment. It’s he-donistic and wedded to pain. It’s clearly buoyant, yet it is dark. It’s  provocatively  sexy,  intimate,  scandalous,  and  bodily,  while  it’s evasive of capture and speech. Beyond the reach of words, it’s both spiritual and material — spiritual materialist — a material-ity that is ineffable and escapes norms. It’s the perversion every-one shares, no one knows, and, with its shadows and ties to loss, society denies in favor of “pleasure.”
Comparison of UV and high-energy ion irradiation of methanol:ammonia ice
Creators: name: Caro, G. M. Munoz
name: Dartois, E.
name: Boduch, P.
name: Rothard, H.
name: Domaracka, A.
name: Jimenez-Escobar, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The main goal of this work is to compare the effects induced in ices of astrophysical relevance by high-energy ions, simulating cosmic rays, and by vacuum ultraviolet (UV) photons. This comparison relies on in situ infrared spectroscopy of irradiated CH3OH:NH3 ice. Swift heavy ions were provided by the GANIL accelerator. The source of UV was a microwave-stimulated hydrogen flow discharge lamp. The deposited energy doses were similar for ion beams and UV photons to allow a direct comparison. A variety of organic species was detected during irradiation and later during ice warm-up. These products are common to ion and UV irradiation for doses up to a few tens of eV per molecule. Only the relative abundance of the CO product, after ice irradiation, was clearly higher in the ion irradiation experiments. For some ice mixture compositions, the irradiation products formed depend only weakly on the type of irradiation, swift heavy ions, or UV photons. This simplifies the chemical modeling of energetic ice processing in space.
description: 9 pages, 9 figures, 2 tables, accepted in A&A
Brief an de Kirckhoff
Creators: name: Cuvier, Georges
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1824

description: Danktfür die übersandte dissertation über "l'air atmosphérique"
description: von G[eorges] Cuvier
description: Eigenhändiger Brief mit Unterschrift
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Französisch
Brief an Desfarges
Creators: name: La Cépède, Bernard Germain Etienne de La Ville sur Illon de
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1814

description: von [Bernard Germain Etienne] Lacepède
description: Eigenhändiger Brief mit Unterschrift, Adresse und rotem Lacksiegel
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Französisch
Brief an citoyen Rohière
Creators: name: Augereau, Pierre François Charles d'
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1799

description: von [Pierre François Charles d'] Augereau
description: Eigenhändiger Brief mit Unterschrift und rotem Lacksiegel
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Französisch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire Februar 2016 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln Rekatalogisierung nach Original, Verzeichnis von Karl Geigy-Hagenbach und Briefkatalog der UB Basel
Brief an [Jean Georges] Ozaneaux
Creators: name: Ampère, André-Marie
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1833

description: Sehr schönes Schreiben
description: von A[ndré] Ampère
description: Eigenhändiger Brief mit Unterschrift
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Französisch
Brief an Dr. Meyer in Bremen
Creators: name: Gall, Franz Joseph
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1806

description: Zeigt eine Reise nach Bremen an, wo er einen Cursus abhalten wird
description: von F[ranz] Joseph Gall
description: Eigenhändiger Brief mit Unterschrift, Adresse und Oblate
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Deutsch
Brief an Gaetano Balbino
Creators: name: Bodoni, Giambattista
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1796

description: Parle d'une carte géographique fournie pour la princesse de Parme
description: von Gio[vanni] Batt[ista] Bodoni
description: Eigenhändiger Brief mit Unterschrift, Adresse und rotem Lacksiegel
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Italienisch
Modularity and the spread of perturbations in complex dynamical systems
Creators: name: Kolchinsky, Artemy
name: Gates, Alexander J.
name: Rocha, Luis M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We propose a method to decompose dynamical systems based on the idea that modules constrain the spread of perturbations. We find partitions of system variables that maximize 'perturbation modularity', defined as the autocovariance of coarse-grained perturbed trajectories. The measure effectively separates the fast intramodular from the slow intermodular dynamics of perturbation spreading (in this respect, it is a generalization of the 'Markov stability' method of network community detection). Our approach captures variation of modular organization across different system states, time scales, and in response to different kinds of perturbations: aspects of modularity which are all relevant to real-world dynamical systems. It offers a principled alternative to detecting communities in networks of statistical dependencies between system variables (e.g., 'relevance networks' or 'functional networks'). Using coupled logistic maps, we demonstrate that the method uncovers hierarchical modular organization planted in a system's coupling matrix. Additionally, in homogeneously-coupled map lattices, it identifies the presence of self-organized modularity that depends on the initial state, dynamical parameters, and type of perturbations. Our approach offers a powerful tool for exploring the modular organization of complex dynamical systems.
Perversion: Perversion and the Problem of Fluidity and Fixity
Creators: name: Downing, Lisa
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2017

description: It is a commonplace to state that the problem of sexuality is cen-tral to the endeavors of both psychoanalysis and queer theory. Whereas for psychoanalysis, traditionally at least, sexuality has an etiological status as the nexus of f/phantasies underlying an analysand’s symptoms and behaviors, for queer theorists, espe-cially following Michel Foucault, sexuality is a constructed epis-temological category that functions to normalize the behaviors and bodies of social subjects. In the former, it is a source of truth to be tapped; in the latter it is a pervasive and power-laden lie to be exposed. Whereas psychoanalysis relies on a developmental model  of  sexuality  (Sigmund  Freud,  Melanie  Klein  and  so  on)  or a structural one (for example, Jacques Lacan), “queer” takes the theory of performativity as its explicatory model to account for  the  ways  in  which  subjects  learn  to  “do”  their  genders  and  sexualities.  Moreover,  the  category  of  “perversion”  has  central  import  for  theorizations  of  sexuality  within  both  psychoanal-ysis  and  queer  theory.  For  clinical  psychoanalysts,  perversion  is sexuality gone awry; the failure of the subject to attain adult genitality.  For  queer  theorists,  on  the  other  hand,  perversion  may be construed as a defiant performance of excess that shows up the constructedness and arbitrariness of the category of the “normal,”  and  it  is  centrally  implicated  in  queer’s  rejection  of  the  meaning  of  identity  in  favor  of  the  politics  of  practice.  In  what follows, however, I will focus on a pair of concepts that are central to both psychoanalytic and queer thinking on sexuality and  its  perverse  forms  —  namely  fixity  and  fluidity — in  order to  trouble  certain  orthodoxies  within  both  bodies  of  thought.  In this way, I will neither pathologize queer in the name of psy-choanalysis, nor accuse psychoanalysis of reactionary politics in the name of queer. Rather I shall highlight — and challenge — a logic that is surprisingly shared by both systems.
Near-infrared K corrections of Type Ia Supernovae and their errors
Creators: name: Boldt, Luis
name: Stritzinger, Maximilian
name: Burns, Chris
name: Hsiao, Eric
name: Phillips, Mark
name: Goobar, Ariel
name: Marion, Howie
name: Stanishev, Vallery
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we use near-infrared (NIR) spectral observations of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) to study the uncertainties inherent to NIR K corrections. To do so, 75 previously published NIR spectra of 33 SNe Ia are employed to determine K-correction uncertainties in the YJHK_s passbands as a function of temporal phase and redshift. The resultant K corrections are then fed into an interpolation algorithm that provides mean K corrections as a function of temporal phase and robust estimates of the associated errors. These uncertainties are both statistical and intrinsic --- i.e., due to the diversity of spectral features from object to object --- and must be included in the overall error budget of cosmological parameters constrained through the use of NIR observations of SNe Ia. Intrinsic variations are likely the dominant source of error for all four passbands at maximum light. Given the present data, the total Y-band K-correction uncertainties at maximum are smallest, amounting to +/- 0.04 mag at a redshift of z = 0.08. The J-band K-term errors are also reasonably small (+/- 0.06 mag), but intrinsic variations of spectral features and noise introduced by telluric corrections in the H band currently limit the total K-correction errors at maximum to +/- 0.10 mag at z = 0.08. Finally, uncertainties in the K_s-band K terms at maximum amount to +/- 0.07 mag at this same redshift. These results are largely constrained by the small number of published NIR spectra of SNe Ia, which do not yet allow spectral templates to be constructed as a function of the light curve decline rate.
description: To appear in PASP. 34 pages, including 5 figures and 3 tables
Brief an [Joseph Banks]
Creators: name: Herschel, William
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1799

description: Berichtet über eine Karte Cassinis, in die Herschel die Vulkane eingezeichnet hat
description: von W[illiam] Herschel
description: Eigenhändiger Brief mit Unterschrift
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Englisch
Ethics: Out of Line, On Hold: D.W. Winnicott's Queer Sensibilities
Creators: name: Snediker, Michael
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2017

description: This chapter situates its discussion of ethics in the work of the mid-twentieth   century   British   psychoanalyst,   D.W.   Winni-cott. Winnicott’s theorization of transitional objects and good-enough  mothers  has  inspired  the  scholarship  of  thinkers  such  as Mary Jacobus (2005) and Adam Phillips (1989); at the same time, Winnicott’s output figures, in Deleuzian terms, as a minor literature in the larger psychoanalytic landscape. The sympatico of Winnicott’s work with many recent queer-theoretical investi-gations of intersubjectivity alone necessitates our continued re-appraisal of what he may teach us. Unlike that of Jacques Lacan, who devoted a seminar to the ethics of psychoanalysis, Winnicott’s  contribution  to  psychoanalytic  ethics  must  be  trawled  in  pieces, and culled without prior sense of what that ethics might eventually resemble. In this sense, the very practice of returning to  Winnicott  resembles  the  non-paranoid  reading  position  of  Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, a queer theorist who taught, more than anyone I can think of, the inseparability of ethics from the sur-prise  of  not  knowing  in  advance  where  desire  might  converge  with  rigor,  gauziness,  creativity,  and  or  delight.  To  read  Win-nicott alongside Sedgwick is to aspire toward for an ethics freed from the normatively non-contingent, but no less predicated on the contingencies of availing dislocation.
Discourse: Discourse and the History of Sexuality
Creators: name: Stockton, Will
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2017

description: Following  the  French  historian  and  philosopher  Michel  Fou-cault,  contemporary  queer  scholars  frequently  maintain  that  sexuality  is  a  product  of  discourse.  At  its  most  basic,  discoursemeans  speech,  but  for  Foucault  (1972)  discourse  is  “the  gener-al  domain  of  all  statements,  sometimes  as  an  individualisable  group of statements, and sometimes as a regulated practice that accounts for a number of statements” (80). In the first volume of The History of Sexuality, Foucault (1990a) frames the relationship between  sexuality  and  discourse  in  this  way:  sexuality  is  “the  correlative  of  that  slowly  developed  discursive  practice  which  constitutes the scientia sexualis” (68)—the Western “regulated practice”  of  classifying,  monitoring,  and  disciplining  individu-als based on what Freud would call their choice of sexual objects or the directions of their sexual aims. The scientia sexualis  has  its roots in the Catholic practice of confession, which from the Middle  Ages  enjoined  people  to  speak  about  sex  in  extraordinary  detail,  to  seek  out  “all  insinuations  of  the  flesh:  thoughts,  desires,  voluptuous  imaginings,  delectations,  combined  move-ments of the body and soul” (19). In the nineteenth and twenti-eth  centuries,  psychiatry  and  psychoanalysis  contributed  to  the  secular appropriation of the church’s insistence that each person transform his or her sex into discourse. As Foucault wryly notes, “Ours  is,  after  all,  the  only  civilization  in  which  individuals  are  paid to listen to all and sundry impart the secrets of their sex: as if the urge to talk about it, and the interest one hopes to arouse by doing so, have far surpassed the possibilities of being heard, so that some individuals have even offered their ears for hire”
Burnout Among Special Educators
Creators: name: Ahmad, Wasim
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Education

description: Abstract: Burnout is a condition that continues to sustain international research interest. The burnout as a matter of research has been studied in the different field of studies. Objective: The purpose of the study was to find out the burnout among special educators. Sample: 75 special educators from different special schools of Coimbatore, Tirupur and Erode District of Tamil Nadu, were selected. Design: Survey research method using purposive sampling was employed. Tool: Maslach Burnout Inventory, a 22 items inventory grouped under 3 dimensions namely Emotional Exhaustion, Depersonalization and Personal Accomplishment were engaged for data collection. Statistical Analysis: For the analysis of data t- test, One Way Anova and Posthoc Tuckey were carried out. Results and Conclusion: Findings reveal that there were no significant differences in the levels of burnout as a whole and its components with respect to gender, age, experience, qualification, specialization and socio-economic status. However, significant difference in personal accomplishment, component of burnout with respect socio economic status was only seen.
Brief an Bruloy d'Ha[...]
Creators: name: Parmentier, Antoine Augustin
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1797

description: von [Antoine-Augustin] Parmentier
description: Eigenhändiger Brief mit Unterschrift und Adresse
description: Nachname auf dem Couvert nicht lesbar
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Französisch
Mean value estimates for odd cubic Weyl sums
Creators: name: Wooley, Trevor D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11L15, 11L07, 11P55

description: We establish an essentially optimal estimate for the ninth moment of the exponential sum having argument $αx^3+βx$. The first substantial advance in this topic for over 60 years, this leads to improvements in Heath-Brown's variant of Weyl's inequality, and other applications of Diophantine type.
On Not Thinking Straight: Comments on a Conceptual Marriage
Creators: name: Hinshelwood, R.D.
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2017

description: It  is  ironic.  Psychoanalysis  was  born  in  the  context  of  sexual  transgression—the theory of seduction, and the Oedipal theo-ry. The plethora of sexualities was suddenly open to be known, and  in  principle  to  be  known  in  all  of  us.  But,  for  normative  reasons,  powerful  a  hundred  years  ago,  in  no  time  at  all,  that  opening  door  spawned  the  “Three  Essays  on  the  Theory  of  Sexuality” (Freud 1905); it became a classic that could easily be read  as  experts  in  the  clinic  normalizing  categories  of  sexual-ity,  and  defining  the  abnormal.  No  wonder  queer  theory  has  a  thoroughly mixed reaction—but to be fair, the selection in this book is a respectful one. On being asked to add a comment on the  chapters  in  section  one,  I  looked  forward  to  the  challenge.  They amass a “report” on the progress of the two innocent suitIt  is  ironic.  Psychoanalysis  was  born  in  the  context  of  sexual  transgression—the theory of seduction, and the Oedipal theo-ry. The plethora of sexualities was suddenly open to be known, and  in  principle  to  be  known  in  all  of  us.  But,  for  normative  reasons,  powerful  a  hundred  years  ago,  in  no  time  at  all,  that  opening  door  spawned  the  “Three  Essays  on  the  Theory  of  Sexuality” (Freud 1905); it became a classic that could easily be read  as  experts  in  the  clinic  normalizing  categories  of  sexual-ity,  and  defining  the  abnormal.  No  wonder  queer  theory  has  a  thoroughly mixed reaction—but to be fair, the selection in this book is a respectful one. On being asked to add a comment on the  chapters  in  section  one,  I  looked  forward  to  the  challenge.  They amass a “report” on the progress of the two innocent suit
Brief an [Charles Louis] L'Heritier [de Brutelle]
Creators: name: Banks, Joseph
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1791

description: Zeugnis
description: von J[oseph] Banks
description: Eigenhändiger Brief mit Unterschrift und Adresse
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Englisch
Queer as a New Shelter from Castration
Creators: name: Geldhof, Abe
name: Verhaeghe, Paul
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2017

description: Somewhere  in  his  diaries,  Søren  Kierkegaard  (1998)  wonders  about  how  Jesus  Christ  would  react  when  asked  to  prove  that  he is really the son of God. If he really is, Kierkegaard says, then he would not prove it, because his existence is the proof. If Je-sus were to comply with the request to prove it, he would make himself appear not to be the son of God. Lacan (1986[1959–60]) says something similar about the perversion of Sade. In his sev-enth seminar on ethics he notes that the more Sade shouts not to be bound by any law, the more it becomes clear that the Law remains indestructible at its core (225–41).Jesus Christ doesn’t prove he is Jesus Christ because he is Je-sus  Christ:  his  existence  is  the  proof.  Sade,  on  the  other  hand,  has to prove ceaselessly that he is not bound by any law, but in producing transgression after transgression, it becomes obvious that his pleasure is only possible because of the law. Without the law no transgression is possible. The silence of being contrasts sharply with the shrieking noise of discourse.
Brief an [Pierre] Bouguer
Creators: name: Euler, Leonhard
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1755

description: Schöner Brief wissenschaftlichen Inhaltes, hauptsächlich über die Ecliptik und andere astronomische Fragen, erwähnt Arbeiten des Mondforschers Tob. Mayer in Göttingen, sowie D'Alembert und Clairaut
description: von L[eonhard] Euler
description: Eigenhändiger Brief mit Unterschrift, Adresse und rotem Lacksiegel
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Französisch
description: Briefe von und nach Basel aus fünf Jahrhunderten / ed. Joh. Oescheger. Basel, 1960, Nr. 11
The Redress of Psychoanalysis
Creators: name: Murphy, Ann
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2017

description: Seamus  Heaney’s  eloquent  apologia  on  behalf  of  poetry  cap-tures  more  accurately  than  most  psychoanalytic  texts  my  own  way of thinking about the practice of psychoanalysis. Thinking through poetry may be my antidote to some tendencies in psy-choanalytic theory, language and practice towards institutional-ized rigidity, with its focus on the adaptive and the normative, as opposed to the radical sense of the singularity and uniqueness of the individual, which is the gift of psychoanalysis at its best. Postmodern, social constructionist critiques of gender, sexu-ality,  and  identity  have  challenged  essentialist  psychoanalytic  notions  of  psychosexual  development,  fixed  gender  identity,  and stable sexual orientation. Such critiques challenge psycho-analysts to recognize and interrogate assumptions that we hold about sexuality, identity, gender, and subjectivity, and to address the  contradictions  that  have  permeated  psychoanalytic  thinking on these questions, all the way back to Freud’s radical, con-flicted, disorderly, multiply revised, and exuberantly footnoted “Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality” .
New Lower Bounds for van der Waerden Numbers Using Distributed Computing
Creators: name: Monroe, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper provides new lower bounds for van der Waerden numbers using Rabung's method, which colors based on the discrete logarithm modulo some prime. Through a distributed computing project with 500 volunteers over one year, we checked all primes up to 950 million, compared to 27 million in previous work. We point to evidence that the van der Waerden number for $r$ colors and progression length $k$ is roughly $r^k$.
description: 8 pages, 1 figure. Version as published
Shifted genus expanded $\cal{W}_{\infty}$ algebra and shifted Hurwtiz numbers
Creators: name: Zheng, Quan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 14N10, 14N35, 05E10

description: We construct the shifted genus expanded $\cal{W}_{\infty}$ algebra, which is isomorphic to the central subalgebra $\cal{A}_{\infty}$ of infinite symmetric group algebra and to the shifted Schur symmetrical function algebra $Λ^\ast$ defined by A. Y. Okounkov and G. I. Olshanskii. As an application, we get some differential equations for the generating functions of the shifted Hurwitz numbers, thus we can express the generating functions in terms of the shifted genus expanded cut-and-join operators.
description: 16 pages, no figure, any comments welcome! arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1511.00823
Queer Directions from Lacan
Creators: name: Parker, Ian
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2017

description: Queer functions at its most radical as an activity rather than as a noun, and, as many queer activists have noticed, the reduction to noun-form threatens to sediment what queer “is,” especially to sediment it in the adaptable identities that neoliberal heter-opatriarchal capitalism now works with so well. So, “to queer” as an intervention, as transformational process, already transcends the  opposition  between  noun  and  verb  while  refusing  to  rest,  refusing to accept a transcendent position that pretends to have escaped that opposition. Three moments in this transformation-al process, in a little history of queer, lead us directly to psychoa-nalysis,  perhaps  back  to  the  psychoanalysis  from  which  it  first  sprung, but with which, against which, queer has an uncannily-appropriate suspicious relationship.
Stochastic Modeling of the Fermi/LAT Gamma-ray Blazar Variability
Creators: name: Sobolewska, Malgorzata A.
name: Siemiginowska, Aneta
name: Kelly, Brandon C.
name: Nalewajko, Krzysztof
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the gamma-ray variability of 13 blazars observed with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). These blazars have the most complete light curves collected during the first 4 years of the Fermi sky survey. We model them with the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck (OU) process or a mixture of the OU processes. The OU process has power spectral density (PSD) proportional to 1/f^alpha with alpha changing at a characteristic time scale, tau_0, from 0 (tau>>tau_0) to 2 (tau<
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ, 16 pages, 11 figures. High resolution figures at http://thedata.harvard.edu/dvn/dv/blazars
Sustaining Standard of Living Amidst Volatile Oil Prices - Lessons from the Gulf Countries
Creators: Al Sabah, Khaleefah Jaber
Palliam, Ralph
Al Salem, Athmar
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Economic development
Sustainable development
Petroleum products--Prices
Oil industries--Economic aspects
Petroleum industry and trade
Sustainable development--Economic aspects
Sustainability
Power resources
Economics

description: Improving living standards amidst falling oil prices among countries relying heavily of an ample supply of oil presents numerous challenges. Therefore the relationship associated with oil price changes with identifiable metrics that explain standards of living becomes critical. The management of wealth; sustaining a standard of living; peculiarities of oil trade; oil price determination; and management and the uncharacteristic application of supply and demand are presented. Since aspects of the world oil market remain unclear and opaque, society is in need of credible research and verifiable theory. Data relating to Kuwait over a 32-year period (1983 – 2014) were obtained. Five independent variables: investment growth; inflation; percentage change in price per barrel; unemployment; and percent change in the number of incarcerations are regressed with a change in real GDP (dependent variable). Finally, to determine the robustness of the model, the Durbin-Watson test was used. The coefficient of determination (r2) suggests that 66.24% of variations in lifestyle can be explained by variations in the five independent variables (p<0.01). Standards of living can be sustained by increasing growth in investment, decreasing inflation, decreasing unemployment and incarcerations and most important increase in price of oil. This study places Kuwait as a proxy for the Gulf Countries and should ideally be extended to the other five Gulf Countries. Comparative studies over multiple periods of time ought to be undertaken to measure the robustness of differing sustainability measures.