cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Il simbolo della finestra nel Melkij Bes di F. Sologub
Creators: name: Torresin, Linda
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2015
Subjects: Fëdor Sologub; Melkij bes; Peredonov; finestra; simbolo; simbolismo russo

description: This article explores the symbolic image of the “window” in Fyodor Sologub’s novel The Petty Demon (Melky bes), with a particular focus on the connections between literature, semiotics, and psychopathology. Windows can be thought of as thin and transparent frameworks which divide the external world (“the others”) from the internal one (“the self”), but, at the same time, they allow interactions between the two as well. Peaceful interactions are seldom contemplated; in most cases, the individual ego clashes with the collectivity. This is what happens in Sologub’s Petty Demon. Here, windows represent the struggle of the novel’s anti-hero Peredonov against the world; they stand as a symbol of his alienation from Russian society and life. Windows appear several times in the novel to signify Peredonov’s troublesome relationship with other people. In particular, broken windows and glasses suggest a growing gap between “the self” and “the others”, Peredonov and reality. Imagery drawn from the visual field helps the author to describe the protagonist’s fall into madness. On one hand, Peredonov sees the world through his paranoid eyes, and considers “the others” as a threat to his own identity. Even though, on the other hand, it is Peredonov himself, who suffering from persecution mania, fears that he is spied on by enemies. At the end, alterity will triumph over him. Thus, the novel also portrays Peredonov’s tragedy: the loss of his own “self”.
description: Altre Modernità, 2015: NUMERO SPECIALE Finestre: sguardi e riflessi, trasparenze e opacità
Could the European Court of Justice be a Decisive Player in Climate Justice?
Creators: name: Bouveresse, Aude
Publisher: name: Athena – Critical Inquiries in Law, Philosophy and Globalization
Year: 2023

description: The article aims to assess to which extent the European Court of Justice (ECJ) is able to play an effective role in climate change justice. While some national courts are trying to respond to one of the greatest challenges of our time, which is requiring them to reinvent their role, the ECJ is maintaining a very for-malistic approach that raises questions about its capacity to respond to these new challenges. The key question is whether, although the ECJ faces both procedural and substantive limitations, it has legal in-struments available to overcome them as well as the legitimacy. To that end, the article analyses the limits of individual access in environmental disputes in front of ECJ and tests the justifications ad-vanced. On the one hand, the European judge would appear to be best placed to take action on such an issue, in accordance with functionalist theories of integration: a transnational problem (climate change) must be resolved at the transnational level. Notably, in the past, when the will of Member States has been defective, the ECJ could be relied upon to advance action on a Europe-wide scale. Therefore, when it comes to climate change, its authority could be undermined if it maintains a formalistic approach to such a major societal issue. On the other hand, a less formalistic approach would require the European judge to accept, more broadly, private, and even transgenerational, claimants into its courtroom, so that it can become a new space for activist dialogue. Should, and can it be the guardian of agonistic democracy without doing judicial activism? As a result, the article suggests that by applying a climate justice lens, European judges could push the boundaries of existing law to address climate change more comprehensively, by exploring the potential of the European values, enshrined in Article 2 of TEU which could give substance to a subjective right of a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment.
description: Athena – Critical Inquiries in Law, Philosophy and Globalization, Vol. 3 No. 2 (2023): New Order or World Disorder?
J. Ahrens e A. Meteling (eds.), Comics and the City: Urban Space in Print, Picture and Sequence
Creators: name: Croci, Daniele
Publisher: name: Università degli  Studi di Milano
Year: 2015

description: J. Ahrens e A. Meteling (eds.), Comics and the City: Urban Space in Print, Picture and Sequence
description: Altre Modernità, 2015: NUMERO SPECIALE Finestre: sguardi e riflessi, trasparenze e opacità
Transnational European Public Spaces and EU Democracy
Creators: name: Martines, Francesca
Publisher: name: Athena – Critical Inquiries in Law, Philosophy and Globalization
Year: 2023

description: This paper aims to develop some considerations on transnational European public spaces and their contribution to the refinement and development of democratic principles within the European supranational legal order. The notion of transnational European public space adopted in this paper, which it is distinguished from the idea of a European Public sphere, is that of a mainly virtual space (although EU Panels have been included) created by EU Commission and Parliament where citizens from all EU Member States have the opportunity to engage in activities that are mostly related to EU decision-making. These spaces are of particular interest when they give EU citizens the opportunity to make their voices heard and publicly exchange views on all areas of EU action, and when they contribute, albeit in a limited way, to strengthening principles such as transparency, participation and control that are crucial in the democratic life of a polity.
description: Athena – Critical Inquiries in Law, Philosophy and Globalization, Vol. 3 No. 2 (2023): New Order or World Disorder?
Search for magnetic accretion in SW Sextantis systems
Creators: name: Lima, I. J.
name: Rodrigues, C. V.
name: Lopes, C. E. Ferreira
name: Szkody, P.
name: Jablonski, F. J.
name: Oliveira, A. S.
name: Silva, K. M. G.
name: Belloni, D.
name: Palhares, M. S.
name: Shugarov, S.
name: Baptista, R.
name: Almeida, L. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: SW Sextantis systems are nova-like cataclysmic variables that have unusual spectroscopic properties, which are thought to be caused by an accretion geometry having part of the mass flux trajectory out of the orbital plane. Accretion onto a magnetic white dwarf is one of the proposed scenarios for these systems. To verify this possibility, we analysed photometric and polarimetric time-series data for a sample of six SW Sex stars. We report possible modulated circular polarization in BO Cet, SW Sex, and UU Aqr with periods of 11.1, 41.2 and 25.7 min, respectively, and less significant periodicities for V380 Oph at 22 min and V442 Oph at 19.4 min. We confirm previous results that LS Peg shows variable circular polarization. However, we determine a period of 18.8 min, which is different from the earlier reported value. We interpret these periods as the spin periods of the white dwarfs. Our polarimetric results indicate that 15% of the SW Sex systems have direct evidence of magnetic accretion. We also discuss SW Sex objects within the perspective of being magnetic systems, considering the latest findings about cataclysmic variables demography, formation and evolution.
description: 29 pages, 17 figures
title: Chronic psychosocial stress in mice is associated with increased acid sphingomyelinase activity in liver and serum and with hepatic C16:0-ceramide accumulation
Creators: name: Reichel, Martin
name: Rhein, Cosima
name: Hofmann, Lena M.
name: Monti, Juliana
name: Japtok, Lukasz
name: Langgartner, Dominik
name: Füchsl, Andrea M.
name: Kleuser, Burkhard
name: Gulbins, Erich
name: Hellerbrand, Claus
name: Reber, Stefan O.
name: Kornhuber, Johannes
Publisher: name: Universität Potsdam
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Chronic psychosocial stress adversely affects human morbidity and is a risk factor for inflammatory disorders, liver diseases, obesity, metabolic syndrome, and major depressive disorder (MDD). In recent studies, we found an association of MDD with an increase of acid sphingomyelinase (ASM) activity. Thus, we asked whether chronic psychosocial stress as a detrimental factor contributing to the emergence of MDD would also affect ASM activity and sphingolipid (SL) metabolism. To induce chronic psychosocial stress in male mice we employed the chronic subordinate colony housing (CSC) paradigm and compared them to non-stressed single housed control (SHC) mice. We determined Asm activity in liver and serum, hepatic SL concentrations as well as hepatic mRNA expression of genes involved in SL metabolism. We found that hepatic Asm activity was increased by 28% (P = 0.006) and secretory Asm activity by 47% (P = 0.002) in stressed mice. C16:0-Cer was increased by 40% (P = 0.008). Gene expression analysis further revealed an increased expression of tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha (P = 0.009) and of several genes involved in SL metabolism (Cers5, P = 0.028; Cers6, P = 0.045; Gba, P = 0.049; Gba2, P = 0.030; Ormdl2, P = 0.034; Smpdl3B; P = 0.013). Our data thus provides first evidence that chronic psychosocial stress, at least in mice, induces alterations in SL metabolism, which in turn might be involved in mediating the adverse health effects of chronic psychosocial stress and peripheral changes occurring in mood disorders.
description: Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe; 1120
Calibrating an adaptive Farmer-Joshi agent-based model for financial markets
Creators: name: Jericevich, Ivan
name: McKechnie, Murray
name: Gebbie, Tim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computational Finance (q-fin.CP)
subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We replicate the contested calibration of the Farmer and Joshi agent based model of financial markets using a genetic algorithm and a Nelder-Mead with threshold accepting algorithm following Fabretti. The novelty of the Farmer-Joshi model is that the dynamics are driven by trade entry and exit thresholds alone. We recover the known claim that some important stylized facts observed in financial markets cannot be easily found under calibration -- in particular those relating to the auto-correlations in the absolute values of the price fluctuations, and sufficient kurtosis. However, rather than concerns relating to the calibration method, what is novel here is that we extended the Farmer-Joshi model to include agent adaptation using an Brock and Hommes approach to strategy fitness based on trading strategy profitability. We call this an adaptive Farmer-Joshi model: the model allows trading agents to switch between strategies by favouring strategies that have been more profitable over some period of time determined by a free-parameter fixing the profit monitoring time-horizon. In the adaptive model we are able to calibrate and recover additional stylized facts, despite apparent degeneracy's. This is achieved by combining the interactions of trade entry levels with trade strategy switching. We use this to argue that for low-frequency trading across days, as calibrated to daily sampled data, feed-backs can be accounted for by strategy die-out based on intermediate term profitability; we find that the average trade monitoring horizon is approximately two to three months (or 40 to 60 days) of trading.
description: 9 pages, 13 figures
Non-Gaussianity in Island Cosmology
Creators: name: Piao, Yun-Song
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we fully calculate the non-Gaussianity of primordial curvature perturbation of island universe by using the second order perturbation equation. We find that for the spectral index $n_s\simeq 0.96$, which is favored by current observations, the non-Gaussianity level $f_{NL}$ seen in island will generally lie between 30 $\sim$ 60, which may be tested by the coming observations. In the landscape, the island universe is one of anthropically acceptable cosmological histories. Thus the results obtained in some sense means the coming observations, especially the measurement of non-Gaussianity, will be significant to make clear how our position in the landscape is populated.
description: 5 pages, 1 eps figure, some discussions added, published version
Potentialities and Margins for Improvement of the European AI Alliance, an Example of Participatory Democracy in the Field of AI at EU Level
Creators: name: Rugani, Gabriele
Publisher: name: Athena – Critical Inquiries in Law, Philosophy and Globalization
Year: 2023

description: This contribution focuses on the dialogue with stakeholders in drafting EU acts in the field of AI, with particular reference to the so-called “European AI Alliance”, which can be defined as the best example of “participatory democracy in the field of AI on European level”. After understanding what the AI Alliance is and how it works, and after making some considerations on its nature, the paper focuses on its role in the context of the drafting of EU acts, such as the Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI and the AI Act Proposal. In the end, it will be possible to make some conclusive remarks and to formulate some suggestions, concerning the future of the AI Alliance and the need to exploit and improve it also, and especially, after the (eventual) adoption of the AI Act and of the other legislative proposals currently under discussion.
description: Athena – Critical Inquiries in Law, Philosophy and Globalization, Vol. 3 No. 2 (2023): New Order or World Disorder?
title: Sediment Transit Time and Floodplain Storage Dynamics in Alluvial Rivers Revealed by Meteoric 10Be
Creators: name: Repasch, Marisa
name: Wittmann, Hella
name: Scheingross, Joel S.
name: Sachse, Dirk
name: Szupiany, Ricardo
name: Orfeo, Oscar
name: Fuchs, Margret
name: Hovius, Niels
Publisher: name: Universität Potsdam
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 550 Geowissenschaften

description: Quantifying the time scales of sediment transport and storage through river systems is fundamental for understanding weathering processes, biogeochemical cycling, and improving watershed management, but measuring sediment transit time is challenging. Here we provide the first systematic test of measuring cosmogenic meteoric Beryllium-10 (10Bem) in the sediment load of a large alluvial river to quantify sediment transit times. We take advantage of a natural experiment in the Rio Bermejo, a lowland alluvial river traversing the east Andean foreland basin in northern Argentina. This river has no tributaries along its trunk channel for nearly 1,300 km downstream from the mountain front. We sampled suspended sediment depth profiles along the channel and measured the concentrations of 10Bem in the chemically extracted grain coatings. We calculated depth-integrated 10Bem concentrations using sediment flux data and found that 10Bem concentrations increase 230% from upstream to downstream, indicating a mean total sediment transit time of 8.4 ± 2.2 kyr. Bulk sediment budget-based estimates of channel belt and fan storage times suggest that the 10Bem tracer records mixing of old and young sediment reservoirs. On a reach scale, 10Bem transit times are shorter where the channel is braided and superelevated above the floodplain, and longer where the channel is incised and meandering, suggesting that transit time is controlled by channel morphodynamics. This is the first systematic application of 10Bem as a sediment transit time tracer and highlights the method's potential for inferring sediment routing and storage dynamics in large river systems.
description: Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe; 1119
The Proposed EU Directive on SLAPPs: A (First) Tool for Preserving, Strengthening and Advancing Democracy
Creators: name: Pasqua, Marco
Publisher: name: Athena – Critical Inquiries in Law, Philosophy and Globalization
Year: 2023

description: The proposed EU Directive on protecting persons who engage in public participation from manifestly unfounded or abusive court proceedings (“anti-SLAPPs Directive”) is the European Union response to fight strategic lawsuits against public participation (“SLAPPs”). The latter are proceedings where the lawsuit legal instrument is misused to silence activists regarding information activities carried out by them in relation to facts of public interest and, finally, to achieve a chilling effect on the entire society. As a result, SLAPPs represent an obstacle to freedom of expression, participation, activism, and ultimately to democracy. Indeed, democracy is the foundation the EU is based on and can only thrive in a climate where freedom of expression is upheld, in line with the European Convention on Human Rights, including its positive obligations under Article 10, and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, highlighting the horizontal (and questionable direct effect) dimension of its Article 11. And for a healthy and prosperous democracy, people need to be able to actively participate in public debate without undue interference and to have access to reliable information. Therefore, the proposed anti-SLAPPs Directive aims to safeguard SLAPPs targets and, in so doing, strengthen democracy. The anti-SLAPPs Directive is tested practically to SLAPPs cases which have interested Daphne Caruana Galizia, a blog editor in Malta whose activism led to her being killed in 2017, as well as tested to other SLAPPs affected story lives. A broader comparative/multidisciplinary look at other human rights protection systems and anti-SLAPPs legislations in the world is offered. At the end, from the overall analysis carried out, it emerges that the anti-SLAPPs Directive has a significant potential for the objectives it aims to achieve, but that is not enough: Member States should consider also to address SLAPPs in domestic cases and to decriminalise defamation.
description: Athena – Critical Inquiries in Law, Philosophy and Globalization, Vol. 3 No. 2 (2023): New Order or World Disorder?
Dynamics of a lattice 2-group gauge theory model
Creators: name: Bochniak, Arkadiusz
name: Hadasz, Leszek
name: Korcyl, Piotr
name: Ruba, Błażej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a simple lattice model with local symmetry, whose construction is based on a crossed module of finite groups. Its dynamical degrees of freedom are associated both to links and faces of a four-dimensional lattice. In special limits the discussed model reduces to certain known topological quantum field theories. In this work we focus on its dynamics, which we study both analytically and using Monte Carlo simulations. We prove a factorization theorem which reduces computation of correlation functions of local observables to known, simpler models. This, combined with standard Krammers-Wannier type dualities, allows us to propose a detailed phase diagram, which form is then confirmed in numerical simulations. We describe also topological charges present in the model, its symmetries and symmetry breaking patterns. The corresponding order parameters are the Polyakov loop and its generalization, which we call a Polyakov surface. The latter is particularly interesting, as it is beyond the scope of the factorization theorem. As shown by the numerical results, expectation value of Polyakov surface may serve to detects all phase transitions and is sensitive to a value of the topological charge.
description: Small revision before journal submission
Anisotropic spin splitting of the electron ground state in InAs quantum dots
Creators: name: Aubry, E.
name: Testelin, C.
name: Bernardot, F.
name: Chamarro, M.
name: Lemaitre, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Photoinduced circular dichroism experiments in an oblique magnetic field allow measurements of Larmor precession frequencies, and so give a precise determination of the electron Lande g factor and its anisotropy in self-assembled InAs/GaAs quantum dots emitting at 1.32 eV. In good agreement with recent theoretical results, we measure g perp= 0.397 +_ 0.003 and g par = 0.18 +- 0.02.
description: 13 pages, 3 figures
title: Recht im Ausnahmezustand
title: Wie sich die Corona-Krise auf die Menschenrechte auswirkt
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Zimmermann, Matthias
Publisher: name: Universitätsverlag Potsdam
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 341 Völkerrecht

description: Viele Länder weltweit haben im Bemühen, die Ausbreitung des Corona-Virus zu stoppen oder wenigstens zu verlangsamen, drastische Maßnahmen ergriffen: Schulen, Universitäten und kulturelle Einrichtungen sind geschlossen, öffentliche Plätze dürfen nicht betreten und das Zuhause nur in dringenden Fällen verlassen werden. Damit schränken einige der Maßnahmen sogar fundamentale Menschenrechte ein. Matthias Zimmermann sprach mit Prof. Dr. Andreas Zimmermann, dem Direktor des Potsdamer MenschenRechtsZentrums (MRZ), und Prof. Dr. Norman Weiß, der seit vielen Jahren am MRZ tätig ist, über die Menschenrechte im Ausnahmezustand.
Global Governance: Adjustment or Reform of the International Monetary System?
Creators: name: Masini, Fabio
Publisher: name: Athena – Critical Inquiries in Law, Philosophy and Globalization
Year: 2023

description: Global public goods and the contrast to global public bads require a dramatic change in the international monetary system, enforcement capacity, democratic legitimation, the return to regionalism and multilateralism. Pending the emergence of a more equitable global reserve and payments system, an increased use of the Special Drawing Rights, channeled through Multilateral Development Banks, may help managing the transition towards the provision of such global public goods. This would also provide a guidance for the reduction of Central Banks’ balance sheets, the financialization of the economy and an increase of real investment, thus anchoring the whole international economy to a less vulnerable and volatile monetary structure.
description: Athena – Critical Inquiries in Law, Philosophy and Globalization, Vol. 3 No. 2 (2023): New Order or World Disorder?
The Palgrave Handbook of the Public Servant
Creators: name: Yi, Ran
Publisher: name: Athena – Critical Inquiries in Law, Philosophy and Globalization
Year: 2023

description: In an increasingly globalised world, the essential roles and functions that public servants perform are constantly evolving at various levels across different geographical and cultural contexts. This Handbook intends to foster an up-to-date understanding of the evolution of the public servant in different traditions and waves of reform. In particular, it navigates through the emerging actors and new terrains that public servants operate and translate public value into practice. This Handbook contributes to a closer understanding of identities, motivations, values, roles, skills, and positions. It also serves to chart the future courses of development for the public servant with practice-informed and evidence-based research with synthesised insights from practitioners and scholars.
description: Athena – Critical Inquiries in Law, Philosophy and Globalization, Vol. 3 No. 2 (2023): New Order or World Disorder?
Globalization and AI Data Gathering in/from Outer Space: Building upon Lessons Learned at the European Level
Creators: name: Koskina, Anthi
name: Galinas, Konstantinos
Publisher: name: Athena – Critical Inquiries in Law, Philosophy and Globalization
Year: 2023

description: Based on the growing use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) ‒capable of gathering an unlimited (in amount and content) number of data, improving its functioning and simplifying tasks‒, humanity appears to be in the midst of a fourth technological revolution. When such activity is conducted in outer space i.e., by fifth generation observation satellites (Fu W. et al. 2020) using AI, capabilities are strongly optimized; however, the activity also seems to pose serious threats to privacy and to industrial or national secrets. As a response to this challenge, AI data gathering on Earth is subject to specific frameworks protecting privacy, both at the upstream and downstream ends, such as in the case of the EU. Unfortunately, the rules established therein do not seem to be wholly applicable to AI data gathering in/from space, mainly due to the fundamental freedom to conduct space activity. As a choice must be made between competing interests, this article aims at discussing some of the elements that should be considered, when debating on a legal framework potentially applying to space AI data gathering; to avoid conduct of said activity only to the benefit of a few stakeholders against the background of an emerging regime of techno-feudalism.
description: Athena – Critical Inquiries in Law, Philosophy and Globalization, Vol. 3 No. 2 (2023): New Order or World Disorder?
Global Human Rights Sanctions and State Sovereignty: Does the New Tool Challenge the Old Order?
Creators: name: Jia, Yifan
Publisher: name: Athena – Critical Inquiries in Law, Philosophy and Globalization
Year: 2023

description: Global human rights sanctions (also known as Magnitsky sanctions) regimes target individuals and entities involved in gross human rights abuses. The sanctions measures, including visa bans, transaction restrictions, and asset freezes, are implemented through executive decision-making processes. This article critically analyses the legality of Magnitsky sanctions in relation to the principle of state sovereignty, exploring whether these new transnational legal regimes disrupt the existing international legal order. Given that global human rights sanctions can be employed to address both individual responsibility and state responsibility for human rights violations, this paper scrutinizes the legitimacy of the jurisdiction of these sanctions and evaluates whether they can be justified as countermeasures, respectively. This paper argues that the jurisdiction of sanctions is not in violation of international law. As unilateral measures against states for violating human rights law, Magnitsky sanctions can significantly contribute to the formation of customary international law on third-party countermeasures.
description: Athena – Critical Inquiries in Law, Philosophy and Globalization, Vol. 3 No. 2 (2023): New Order or World Disorder?
title: Athena – Critical Inquiries in Law, Philosophy and Globalization, Vol. 3 No. 2 (2023): New Order or World Disorder?
title: New Order or World Disorder?
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Athena – Critical Inquiries In Law, Philosophy And Globalization
Publisher: name: Athena – Critical Inquiries in Law, Philosophy and Globalization
Year: 2023

description: Introduction: Looking Forward...92-98
New Order or World Disorder? Research Project...I-VII
Litigating Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation in Investment Dispute Resolution...187-208
Could the European Court of Justice be a Decisive Player in Climate Justice?...157-186
Transnational European Public Spaces and EU Democracy...99-134
Potentialities and Margins for Improvement of the European AI Alliance, an Example of Participatory Democracy in the Field of AI at EU Level...135-156
The Proposed EU Directive on SLAPPs: A (First) Tool for Preserving, Strengthening and Advancing Democracy...209-256
Global Governance: Adjustment or Reform of the International Monetary System?...80-91
The Palgrave Handbook of the Public Servant ...257-262
Globalization and AI Data Gathering in/from Outer Space: Building upon Lessons Learned at the European Level...37-79
Global Human Rights Sanctions and State Sovereignty: Does the New Tool Challenge the Old Order?...1-36
The Impact of a Supernova Explosion in a Very Massive Binary
Creators: name: Sato, Jun'ichi
name: Umemura, Masayuki
name: Sawada, Keisuke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the effect of a supernova (SN) explosion in a very massive binary that is expected to form in a portion of Population III stars with the mass higher than 100$M_\odot$. In a Population III binary system, a more massive star can result in the formation of a BH and a surrounding accretion disc. Such BH accretion could be a significant source of the cosmic reionization in the early universe. However, a less massive companion star evolves belatedly and eventually undergoes a SN explosion, so that the accretion disc around a BH might be blown off in a lifetime of companion star. In this paper, we explore the dynamical impact of a SN explosion on an accretion disc around a massive BH, and elucidate whether the BH accretion disc is totally demolished or not. For the purpose, we perform three-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations of a very massive binary system, where we assume a BH of $10^3 M_{\odot}$ that results from a direct collapse of a very massive star and a companion star of $100 M_{\odot}$ that undergoes a SN explosion. We calculate the remaining mass of a BH accretion disc as a function of time. As a result, it is found that a significant portion of gas disc can survive through three-dimensional geometrical effects even after the SN explosion of a companion star. Even if the SN explosion energy is higher by two orders of magnitude than the binding energy of gas disc, about a half of disc can be left over. The results imply that the Population III BH accretion disc can be a long-lived luminous source, and therefore could be an important ionizing source in the early universe.
description: 12 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS, for high resolution figures, see http://www.rccp.tsukuba.ac.jp/Astro/Members/junichi/sus2008.pdf
Controlled recirculation of exhaust ventilation in Canadian mines
Creators: name: Saindon, Jean-Paul
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Uncontrolled recirculation of mine air is considered a hazard because it can result in excessive dust and objectionable gas levels. Smoke and gas from a mine fire can also be carried back into the fresh intake air. Recirculation is prohibited by most mining legislations and there is prejudice against its use. Recent experiments in Britain and South Africa have shown that recirculation of mine air can be safely implemented using suitable monitoring instruments. Controlled recirculation of air offers several advantages and shows potential for maintaining the quality of the mine air whilst also reducing heating and ventilation costs in many Canadian mines. The thesis reviews the work to date and outlines proposals for future applications of controlled recirculation in Canada. Particular problems of gas pollutants dilution, removal mechanisms and dust sedimentation and filtration are explained. A field survey at Sherritt Gordon Ruttan operation to study pollutant concentrations and trends is presented. Finally, monitoring and instrumentation requirements as well as economics of recirculation are examined.
Detection of an energetic flare from the M5V secondary star in the Polar MQ Dra
Creators: name: Ramsay, Gavin
name: Hakala, Pasi
name: Wood, Matt
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: MQ Dra is a strongly magnetic Cataclysmic Variable whose white dwarf accretes material from its secondary star through a stellar wind at a low rate. TESS observations were made of MQ Dra in four sectors in Cycle 2 and show a short duration, high energy flare (~10^35 erg) which has a profile characteristic of a flare from the M5V secondary star. This is one of the few occasions where an energetic flare has been seen from a Polar. We find no evidence that the flare caused a change in the light curve following the event and consider whether a coronal mass ejection was associated with the flare. We compare the frequency of energetic flares from the secondary star in MQ Dra with M dwarf stars and discuss the overall flare rate of stars with rotation periods shorter than 0.2 d and how such fast rotators can generate magnetic fields with low differential rotation rates.
description: Accepted by MNRAS
Additional file 1 of The genomic basis of the Streptococcus thermophilus health-promoting properties
Creators: name: Roux, Emeline
name: Nicolas, Aurélie
name: Valence, Florence
name: Siekaniec, Grégoire
name: Chuat, Victoria
name: Nicolas, Jacques
name: Le Loir, Yves
name: Guédon, Eric
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Figures.
Permeation of polystyrene nanoparticles across model lipid bilayer membranes
Creators: name: Nash, Anthony
name: Notman, Rebecca
name: Rappoport, Joshua Z.
name: Thake, Thomas HF
name: Webb, Jennifer R
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 30402 Biomolecular Modelling and Design
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 30301 Chemical Characterisation of Materials
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 30602 Chemical Thermodynamics and Energetics
subject: Computational Chemistry
subject: Molecular Physics
subject: 30302 Nanochemistry and Supramolecular Chemistry
subject: 30799 Theoretical and Computational Chemistry not elsewhere classified

description: An understanding of the relationship between the physiochemical properties of nanoparticles and their uptake into cells is crucial for realising the potential of nanoparticles for biomedical applications and for developing strategies to minimise human and environmental nanotoxicity. In this work we studied the permeation of lipid bilayer membranes by uncharged hydrophobic polystyrene nanoparticles (PSNPs) as a function of nanoparticle size by means of coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations. We also investigated the effect of changing the membrane environment by adding cholesterol to the bilayer. Free energy calculations reveal that overall it is energetically favourable for PSNPs to insert into the hydrocarbon interior of dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) bilayers; however PSNPs with a diameter greater than the bilayer thickness are less readily accommodated than smaller PSNPs. As a PSNP approaches the bilayer there is an increase in the curvature of the bilayer as it bends and partially engulfs the PSNP. The energetic cost of bending is compensated for by the removal of unfavourable PSNP–water contacts. Despite cholesterol increasing the order and rigidity of the bilayer, the interior of the DPPC–cholesterol bilayer appears to be a more favourable environment for PSNPs, possibly due to stronger intermolecular interactions between polystyrene and the model cholesterol molecule than between polystyrene and DPPC.
Interdisciplinarity in Socio-economics, mathematical analysis and predictability of complex systems
Creators: name: Sornette, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: General Finance (q-fin.GN)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: In this essay, I attempt to provide supporting evidence as well as some balance for the thesis on `Transforming socio-economics with a new epistemology' presented by Hollingworth and Mueller (2008). First, I review a personal highlight of my own scientific path that illustrates the power of interdisciplinarity as well as unity of the mathematical description of natural and social processes. I also argue against the claim that complex systems are in general `not susceptible to mathematical analysis, but must be understood by letting them evolve over time or with simulation analysis'. Moreover, I present evidence of the limits of the claim that scientists working within Science II do not make predictions about the future because it is too complex. I stress the potentials for a third `Quantum Science' and its associated conceptual and philosophical revolutions, and finally point out some limits of the `new' theory of networks.
description: 15 pages, reflections on the nature of interdisciplinarity and the contribution of physics to socio-economics
History of the Solar Nebula from Meteorite Paleomagnetism
Creators: name: Weiss, Benjamin P.
name: Bai, Xue-Ning
name: Fu, Roger R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review recent advances in our understanding of magnetism in the solar nebular and protoplanetary disks (PPDs). We discuss the implications of theory, meteorite measurements, and astronomical observations for planetary formation and nebular evolution. Paleomagnetic measurements indicate the presence of fields of 0.54$\pm$0.21 G at $\sim$1 to 3 astronomical units (AU) from the Sun and $\gtrsim$0.06 G at 3 to 7 AU until >1.22 and >2.51 million years (Ma) after solar system formation, respectively. These intensities are consistent with those predicted to enable typical astronomically-observed protostellar accretion rates of $\sim$10$^{-8}$ M$_\odot$ yr$^{-1}$, suggesting that magnetism played a central role in mass and angular momentum transport in PPDs. Paleomagnetic studies also indicate fields <0.006 G and <0.003 G in the inner and outer solar system by 3.94 and 4.89 Ma, respectively, consistent with the nebular gas having dispersed by this time. This is similar to the observed lifetimes of extrasolar protoplanetary disks.
description: Revised version published in Science Advances
On the possibility of a bimodal solar dynamo
Creators: name: Petrovay, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A simple way to couple an interface dynamo model to a fast tachocline model is presented, under the assumption that the dynamo saturation is due to a quadratic process and that the effect of finite shear layer thickness on the dynamo wave frequency is analoguous to the effect of finite water depth on surface gravity waves. The model contains one free parameter which is fixed by the requirement that a solution should reproduce the helioseismically determined thickness of the tachocline. In this case it is found that, in addition to this solution, another steady solution exists, characterized by a four times thicker tachocline and 4-5 times weaker magnetic fields. It is tempting to relate the existence of this second solution to the occurrence of grand minima in solar activity.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure; Astr. Nachr., in press
Additional file 1 of The impact of organisational characteristics of staff and facility on infectious disease outbreaks in care homes: a systematic review
Creators: name: AEM, Liljas
name: Morath, L. P.
name: Burström, B.
name: Schön, P.
name: Agerholm, J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Appendix 1. Search terms used
DECREASING ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR THROUGH THE ACQUISITION OF ENTREPRENEURIAL SKILL IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN RIVERS STATE.
Creators: name: Samuel Aleruchi Ph.D, Egbuchu
name: Ezevunwo, Obinachi Wori Ph.D
Publisher: name: ZAP Journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: Decreasing
Anti-social
Entrepreneurial
Skill
Behaviour

description: This study explored the decreasing of anti-social behaviour through the acquisition of entrepreneurial skill in senior secondary schools in Rivers State. It adopted a descriptive survey design. The population of the study consisted of 3000 teachers with a sample size of 300 respondents drawn through stratified random sampling technique. A self-developed instrument was validated by management educators and the reliability yielded a coefficient of 0.70. A modified 4-point Likert rating scale was adopted. The data was analyzed using descriptive statistics mean and standard deviation. A z-test statistic was used in testing the hypotheses at 0,05 level of significance. The findings showed that the acquisition of entrepreneurial skill decreases antisocial behaviour in secondary school. Based on the findings, it was then recommended that Government should provide adequate fund for the procurement of the necessary materials needed in the teaching and learning of the technical and vocational based subjects in order to meet the set goal of the National Policy on Education. Students’ interest should be tailored towards appreciating vocational subjects to enable them acquire skills for self-reliance as diversion of attention will facilitate the eradication of antisocial behaviours
White Eve in the "petrified garden" : the colonial African heroine in the writing of Olive Schreiner, Isak Dinesen, Doris Lessing and Nadine Gordimer
Creators: name: Visel, Robin Ellen
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Olive Schreiner, writing in the tradition of George Eliot and the Brontës, was an isolated yet original figure who opened up new directions in women's fiction. In her novels, The Story of an African Farm (1883) and From Man to Man (1926) she developed a feminist critique of colonialism that was based on her own coming-of-age as a writer in South Africa. Schreiner's work inspired and influenced Isak Dinesen, Doris Lessing and Nadine Gordimer, who have pursued their visions of the colonial African heroine in changing forms which nevertheless consciously hark back to the "mother novel." Dinesen's Out of Africa (1937), Lessing's Martha Quest (1952) and Gordimer's The Lying Days (1953) are in a sense revisions of Schreiner's Story of an African Farm. These texts, together with later novels by Lessing and Gordimer (such as Shikasta and Burger's Daughter, 1979) and key short stories by the four writers, form a body of writing I call the "African Farm" texts. Written in different colonial countries—South Africa, Kenya and Rhodesia—in response to different historical circumstances, from different ideological and aesthetic stances, the "African Farm" fictions depict the problematic situation of the white African heroine who is alienated both from white colonial society and from black Africa. Through her own rebellion against patriarchal mores as she struggles to define herself as an artistic, intellectual woman in a hostile environment, she uncovers the connections between patriarchy and racism under colonialism. She begins to identify with the black Africans in their oppression and their incipient struggle for independence; however she cannot shed her white inheritance of privilege and guilt. Just as colonial society (the white "African Farm") becomes for her a desert, a cemetery, a false, barren, "petrified garden," so black Africa becomes its idealized counterpart: a fertile realm of harmony and possibility, the true Garden of Eden from which she, as White Eve, is exiled. I trace the "African Farm" theme and imagery through the work of other white Southern African writers, such as J.M. Coetzee, whose stark, poetic, postmodernist novels can be read as a coda to the realistic fiction of the four women writers. Finally, I look at the post-"African Farm" texts of such transitional writers as Bessie Head, whose novels of black Africa preserve a suggestive link with Schreiner.
Phase resolved measurements of stimulated emission
Creators: name: Kröll, Josef
name: Darmo, Juraj
name: Dhillon, Sukhdeep S.
name: Sirtori, Carlo
name: Unterrainer, Karl
name: Marcadet, Xavier
name: Calligaro, Michel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The development of the semiconductor quantum cascade laser (QCL) [1] has enabled bright coherent sources operating at frequencies between the optical (>100 THz) and electronic (<0.5 THz) ranges opening this frequency region for fundamental science investigations [2-5] as well as for applications [6]. However, detailed information about the internal processes in QCLs and their ultrafast dynamics are needed for their further development towards high output power, longer wavelengths and stable pulsed operation. We introduce a novel approach to study the gain and dynamics of a terahertz (THz) QCL [7] using phase resolved measurements of the stimulated emission. This is enabled by direct recording of the emitted electric field with <100 fs time resolution. For the case of the THz QCL we demonstrate the validity of the quantum mechanical description of the laser. We show for the first time the real bandwidth of the terahertz gain medium, the current dependence of this gain, and the losses associated with the wave propagation in the laser waveguide.
description: PDF file format, 16 pages, 5 figures
Study on triple-hadron bound states with Gaussian expansion method
Creators: name: Wu, Tian-Wei
name: Geng, Li-Sheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In recent years, more and more exotic hadronic states have been discovered successively. Many of them can be explained as hadronic molecules, such as $D_{s0}^*(2317)$, $X(3872)$, and $P_c$ pentaquark states. Analogous to the formation of nuclei, we study three-body hadronic molecules with the Gaussian expansion method and predict the existence of the $DDK$, $Ξ_{cc}Ξ_{cc}\bar{K}$, and $BB\bar{K}$ bound states, which are likely to be found in the current and updated facilities.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures, contribution to APFB2020
Additional file 2 of The impact of organisational characteristics of staff and facility on infectious disease outbreaks in care homes: a systematic review
Creators: name: AEM, Liljas
name: Morath, L. P.
name: Burström, B.
name: Schön, P.
name: Agerholm, J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Appendix 2. Results from the CASP quality assessment of the non-included studies presented question by question.