cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Strategische Partnerschaften
Creators: name: Weggel, Oskar
Publisher: name: China aktuell
Year: 2020

description: „Partnerschaften“ - China eröffnet eine neue Ära des Antihegemonismus. Nachdem die Sowjetunion 1968 in Prag einmarschiert war, hielten zwei neue Begriffe Einzug in die Terminologie des VRCh-Agitprop-Apparats, nämlich „Sozialimperialismus“ und „Hegemonismus“. Während der erste Begriff bald wieder von der Bildfläche verschwand, weil er dem Sozialismusbild der KPCh allzu sehr widersprach („sozialistischer Imperialismus“ - welch ein Widerspruch!), begann sich der Ausdruck „Hegemonismus“ umso stärker in den Gehirnen, vor allem aber in der politischen Terminologie zu verfestigen. Der fan baquanzhuyi („Antihegemonismus“) wurde von da an zu einem Prinzip der Außenpolitik, das vor allem in dem von Zhou Enlai und Nixon 1972 in Shanghai unterschriebenen Kommunique groß herausgestellt wurde und das schließlich sogar in den Verfassungstext der neuen Konstitution von 1982 als ein Prinzip der chinesischen Außenpolitik einging.
description: China aktuell, China aktuell - Mai 1997
On real and observable rational realizations of input-output equations
Creators: name: Falkensteiner, Sebastian
name: Pavlov, Dmitrii
name: Sendra, Rafael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Symbolic Computation (cs.SC)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 93B15, 93B07, 14H50, 34H05

description: Given a single (differential-algebraic) input-output equation, we present a method for finding different representations of the associated system in the form of rational realizations; these are dynamical systems with rational right-hand sides. It has been shown that in the case where the input-output equation is of order one, rational realizations can be computed, if they exist. In this work, we focus first on the existence and actual computation of the so-called observable rational realizations, and secondly on rational realizations with real coefficients. The study of observable realizations allows to find every rational realization of a given first order input-output equation, and the necessary field extensions in this process. We show that for first order input-output equations the existence of a rational realization is equivalent to the existence of an observable rational realization. Moreover, we give a criterion to decide the existence of real rational realizations. The computation of observable and real realizations of first order input-output equations is fully algorithmic. We also present partial results for the case of higher order input-output equations.
title: Inventaire des titres de propriété et des actes concernant les droits de l'abbaye de Morimond, Manuscrit n° 1, Bibliothèque municipale de Bourbonne-les-Bains, f.121
Creators: name: Rouzeau, Benoît
name: Rouzeau, Benoît
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: cistercien
subject: cartulaire
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: Inventaire des titres de propriété et des actes concernant les droits de l'abbaye de Morimond, Manuscrit n° 1, Bibliothèque municipale de Bourbonne-les-Bains. Numérisation en mode image
description: Relation: https://cisterciensetressources.lamop.fr/
description: Bibliographic citation: Inventaire des titres de propriété et des actes concernant les droits de l'abbaye de Morimond, Manuscrit n° 1, Bibliothèque municipale de Bourbonne-les-Bains, f.121, in Projet Cisterciens et Ressources [Ressource en ligne], https://cisterciensetressources.lamop.fr
description: Inventaire des titres de propriété et des actes concernant les droits de l'abbaye de Morimond, Manuscrit n° 1, Bibliothèque municipale de Bourbonne-les-Bains, f. 121
Systematic error mitigation for the PIXIE Fourier transform spectrometer
Creators: name: Kogut, A.
name: Fixsen, Dale
name: Aghanim, Nabila
name: Chluba, Jens
name: Chuss, David T.
name: Delabrouille, Jacques
name: Hensley, Brandon S.
name: Hill, J. Colin
name: Maffei, Bruno
name: Pullen, Anthony R.
name: Rotti, Aditya
name: Switzer, Eric R.
name: Wollack, Edward J.
name: Zelko, Ioana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Primordial Inflation Explorer (PIXIE) is an Explorer-class mission concept to measure the spectrum and polarization of the cosmic microwave background. Cosmological signals are small compared to the instantaneous instrument noise, requiring strict control of instrumental signals. The instrument design provides multiple levels of null operation, signal modulation, and signal differences, with only few-percent systematic error suppression required at each level. Jackknife tests based on discrete instrument symmetries provide an independent means to identify, model, and remove remaining instrumental signals. We use detailed time-ordered simulations, including realistic performance and tolerance parameters, to evaluate the instrument response to broad classes of systematic errors for both spectral distortions and polarization. The largest systematic errors contribute additional white noise at the few-percent level compared to the dominant photon noise. Coherent instrumental effects which do not integrate down are smaller still, and remain several orders of magnitude below the targeted cosmological signals.
description: 37 pages including 23 figures. Matches published version
Universal Transitions between Growth and Dormancy via Intermediate Complex Formation
Creators: name: Yamagishi, Jumpei F.
name: Kaneko, Kunihiko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cell Behavior (q-bio.CB)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A simple cell model consisting of a catalytic reaction network with intermediate complex formation is numerically studied. As nutrients are depleted, the transition from the exponential growth phase to the growth-arrested dormant phase occurs along with hysteresis and a lag time for growth recovery. This transition is caused by the accumulation of intermediate complexes, leading to the jamming of reactions and the diversification of components. These properties are generic in random reaction networks, as supported by dynamical systems analyses of corresponding mean-field models.
description: 6+6 pages, 3+6 figures
GREEN EXTRACTION REVOLUTION OF PHYTOBIOTICS PIONEERING SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS FOR FISH HEALTH
Creators: name: Calinoiu, L.C.
name: Plamada, D.
name: Teleky, E.B.
name: Pascuta, M.S.
name: Stefanescu, B.E.
name: Papadaki, S.
name: Polonyfi, F.
name: Moustogianni, A.
name: Vodnar, Dan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The rapid growth of the fish farming industry leads to the growing demand for fish feeds specifically designed for the optimal growth and quality of the final products. Following the demands of modern aquaculture and consumer needs, the present research aims to improve the quality of farmed fish species by using bioactive agents from alternative raw materials of plant and marine origin as fish feed supplements. The goal of the research is to develop innovative, green extraction techniques for sustainable recovery of bioactives from lemon peels which will be used as additives in the diet of farmed fish with the ultimate goal of reducing or eliminating the use of antibiotics.
Ledoit-Wolf linear shrinkage with unknown mean
Creators: name: Oriol, Benoit
name: Miot, Alexandre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: Statistical Finance (q-fin.ST)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This work addresses large dimensional covariance matrix estimation with unknown mean. The empirical covariance estimator fails when dimension and number of samples are proportional and tend to infinity, settings known as Kolmogorov asymptotics. When the mean is known, Ledoit and Wolf (2004) proposed a linear shrinkage estimator and proved its convergence under those asymptotics. To the best of our knowledge, no formal proof has been proposed when the mean is unknown. To address this issue, we propose to extend the linear shrinkage and its convergence properties to translation-invariant estimators. We expose four estimators respecting those conditions, proving their properties. Finally, we show empirically that a new estimator we propose outperforms other standard estimators.
Macau
Creators: name: Nieh, Yu-Hsi
Publisher: name: China aktuell
Year: 2020

description: China hat seine Sicherheitstruppen in der Wirtschaftssonderzone Zhuhai um 500 Mann verstärkt, um gemeinsam mit Macau gegen die Triaden- Kriminalität vorzugehen.
description: China aktuell, China aktuell - Oktober 1998
A novel iterative time integration scheme for linear poroelasticity
Creators: name: Altmann, R.
name: Deiml, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65M12, 65M20, 65L80, 76S05

description: Within this paper, we introduce and analyze a novel time stepping scheme for linear poroelasticity. In each time frame, we iteratively solve the flow and mechanics equations with an additional damping step for the pressure variable. Depending on the coupling strength of the two equations, we explicitly quantify the needed number of inner iteration steps to guarantee first-order convergence. Within a number of numerical experiments, we confirm the theoretical results and study the dependence of inner iteration steps in terms of the coupling strength. Moreover, we compare our method to the well-known fixed-stress scheme.
SVR Hongkong
Creators: name: Heilmann, Sebastian
name: Staiger, Brunhild
name: Schüller, Margot
Publisher: name: China aktuell
Year: 2020

description: Am 7. Oktober hat der Regierungschef der SVR Hongkong, Tung Chee- hwa, seine zweite Regierungserklärung (policy address bzw. shizheng baogao) vor der Legislativversammlung abgegeben. (SCMP, 7.-23.10.1998) Tung deckte in seiner Rede ein weites Spektrum ab: Neben wirtschaftspolitischen Maßnahmen wurden auch Fragen von Bildung und Forschung, Umwelt und Lebensqualität, Sozial- und Gesundheitswesen sowie von Verfassung und Verwaltung behandelt. Der Regierungschef hob die besonderen Chancen hervor, die sich für Hongkong aus der immer dichteren Verflechtung und Kooperation mit dem chinesischen Festland ergäben.
description: China aktuell, China aktuell - Oktober 1998
Hyperon global polarization in heavy-ion collisions at NICA energies. Feed-down effects and the role of $Σ^0$ hyperons
Creators: name: Voronyuk, V.
name: Kolomeitsev, E. E.
name: Tsegelnik, N. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Global polarization of hyperons induced by the local vorticity of the medium created in heavy-ion collisions at energies 2.3\,GeV$\le\sqrt{s_{NN}}\le$11.5 GeV is calculated in the parton-hadron-string dynamic (PHSD) model. The separation of spectator nucleons and the fluidization of the generated particle distributions are performed. The polarization of all anti-hyperon species is found significantly larger than that of hyperons. The $\overlineΞ$ hyperons are found to be polarized as strong as $\overlineΛ$s but $Ξ$ hyperons have weaker polarization compared to $Λ$s. The $Ω$ and $\overlineΩ$ polarizations show the strongest dependence on the collision energy. Despite the strong polarization of the produced $Λ$s and $\overlineΛ$s induced by the vortical flows in the medium, the observed polarization signal is significantly depleted because of the feed down from weak and electromagnetic decays of heavier hyperons. Particularly strong suppression is found to be due to electromagnetic decays of $Σ^0$ hyperons, which multiplicities obtained in the transport are poorly constrained both from the microscopic input of the $Σ^0$ production reactions and from the experimental data. The final $Λ(\overlineΛ)$ polarization signal strongly depends on the $Σ^0$ multiplicity generated in the model. With all these effects we can reproduce the measured global $Λ$ polarization in collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=7.7$ and $11.5$ GeV and the global $\overlineΛ$ polarization at 11.5 GeV. For energies $< 3$ GeV, the calculated $Λ$ polarization is smaller than the observed one. The polarization of $Ξ(\overlineΞ)$ hyperons is calculated. The signal of $Ξ(\overlineΞ)$ polarization is argued to be insensitive to feed-down effects and be a more direct probe of the degree of the vorticity in the system.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures
title: A Conversation Analytic Study of Parents' Evening
Creators: name: Allistone, Simon Mark Peter
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2002

description: This research describes the interactional structures by which a teacher and parents of children in a British Junior school initiate parents' evening meetings. Utilising tape recordings of 17 parents' evening meetings, this study applies the analytic methods of conversation analysis. Working from detailed transcripts of the tape-recorded data, conversation analysis examines the way in which interactants construct their conversational activities. It seeks to highlight the accomplishment of specific tasks made relevant by the participants, as well as the way particular interactional settings are created and maintained. This research also examines several features relevant to the meetings as institutional encounters. The study focuses on the opening sequences of the parents' evening, and provides a description of a consistent structural organisation designed to deliver an initial report on the child by the teacher. The description of this structural organisation is used as a context within which to analyse several conversational features. These include the methods by which the participants enter into a state of talk, the role of written records during the meetings, the use of syllogism in the delivery of the children's results, and the formats utilised in the presentation of different results. There are three main findings. 1.The delineation of the basic actrvrties carried during the opening stages of the parents' evening meetings. The description of these activities show how, despite the asymmetrical positions of the participants in terms of access to written records and rights to initiate the meetings, the interactions are collaboratively produced by the teacher and the parents. 2. Many earlier observations regarding institutional talk are also evident during parents' evening, including participation frameworks invoked and caution displayed by professional interactants. 3. The role of intonation and the invocation of local physical resources in institutional settings are identified, whilst earlier work on news announcements is developed.
Signals of eV-scale sterile neutrino at long baseline neutrino experiments
Creators: name: Parveen, Sabila
name: Sharma, Kiran
name: Patra, Sudhanwa
name: Mehta, Poonam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: While most of the results of the neutrino oscillation experiments can be accommodated within the standard paradigm of three active flavor, there are tantalizing hints of an light eV-scale sterile neutrino from anomalous results of a few short baseline experiments. This additional light sterile neutrino is expected to leave an imprint on the physics observables pertaining to standard unknowns such as determination of the Dirac-type leptonic $CP$ phase, $δ_{13}$, the question of neutrino mass hierarchy and the octant of $θ_{23}$. The upcoming long baseline neutrino experiments such as T2HK, DUNE and P2O will be sensitive to active - sterile mixing. In the present work, we examine and assess the capability of these long baseline experiments to probe the sterile neutrino at the level of probabilities and event rates. We perform a detailed study by taking into account the values of parameters that are presently allowed and (a) study the impact on $CP$ violation by examining the role played by various appearance and disappearance channels, (b) address the question of disentangling the intrinsic effects from extrinsic effects in the standard paradigm as well as three active plus one light sterile neutrino, and finally (c) assess the ability of these long baseline experiments to distinguish between the two scenarios. Our results indicate that for the true values of sterile parameters and for all values of $δ_{13}$, the sensitivity of P2O is the lowest while the sensitivity of T2HK is modest ($<3\,σ$) and the sensitivity of DUNE is $> 3\,σ$. For larger values of the sterile mixing angles, there is an improvement in the sensitivity for all the three considered experiments.
description: v2: to appear in EPJC
BabySLM: language-acquisition-friendly benchmark of self-supervised spoken language models
Creators: name: Lavechin, Marvin
name: Sy, Yaya
name: Titeux, Hadrien
name: Blandón, María Andrea Cruz
name: Räsänen, Okko
name: Bredin, Hervé
name: Dupoux, Emmanuel
name: Cristia, Alejandrina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Self-supervised techniques for learning speech representations have been shown to develop linguistic competence from exposure to speech without the need for human labels. In order to fully realize the potential of these approaches and further our understanding of how infants learn language, simulations must closely emulate real-life situations by training on developmentally plausible corpora and benchmarking against appropriate test sets. To this end, we propose a language-acquisition-friendly benchmark to probe spoken language models at the lexical and syntactic levels, both of which are compatible with the vocabulary typical of children's language experiences. This paper introduces the benchmark and summarizes a range of experiments showing its usefulness. In addition, we highlight two exciting challenges that need to be addressed for further progress: bridging the gap between text and speech and between clean speech and in-the-wild speech.
description: Proceedings of Interspeech 2023
Not feeling the buzz: Correction study of mispricing and inefficiency in online sportsbooks
Creators: name: Clegg, Lawrence
name: Cartlidge, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: General Finance (q-fin.GN)
subject: Statistical Finance (q-fin.ST)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: We present a replication and correction of a recent article (Ramirez, P., Reade, J.J., Singleton, C., Betting on a buzz: Mispricing and inefficiency in online sportsbooks, International Journal of Forecasting, 39:3, 2023, pp. 1413-1423, doi: 10.1016/j.ijforecast.2022.07.011). RRS measure profile page views on Wikipedia to generate a "buzz factor" metric for tennis players and show that it can be used to form a profitable gambling strategy by predicting bookmaker mispricing. Here, we use the same dataset as RRS to reproduce their results exactly, thus confirming the robustness of their mispricing claim. However, we discover that the published betting results are significantly affected by a single bet (the "Hercog" bet), which returns substantial outlier profits based on erroneously long odds. When this data quality issue is resolved, the majority of reported profits disappear and only one strategy, which bets on "competitive" matches, remains significantly profitable in the original out-of-sample period. While one profitable strategy offers weaker support than the original study, it still provides an indication that market inefficiencies may exist, as originally claimed by RRS. As an extension, we continue backtesting after 2020 on a cleaned dataset. Results show that (a) the "competitive" strategy generates no further profits, potentially suggesting markets have become more efficient, and (b) model coefficients estimated over this more recent period are no longer reliable predictors of bookmaker mispricing. We present this work as a case study demonstrating the importance of replication studies in sports forecasting, and the necessity to clean data. We open-source release comprehensive datasets and code.
description: 24 pages, 2 figures. Revised argument; minor edits and funding acknowledgement; typos corrected. This paper is a replication and correction study and longer version of an accepted journal article. Replication code and data are available online: https://github.com/Faxulous/notFeelingTheBuzz
Environmental sustainability in basic research: a perspective from HECAP+
Creators: name: Initiative, Sustainable HECAP+
name: :
name: Banerjee, Shankha
name: Chen, Thomas Y.
name: David, Claire
name: Düren, Michael
name: Erbin, Harold
name: Ghiglieri, Jacopo
name: Gill, Mandeep S. S.
name: Glaser, L
name: Gütschow, Christian
name: Hall, Jack Joseph
name: Hampp, Johannes
name: Koppenburg, Patrick
name: Koschnitzke, Matthias
name: Lohwasser, Kristin
name: Mahbubani, Rakhi
name: Mehta, Viraf
name: Millington, Peter
name: Paul, Ayan
name: Poblotzki, Frauke
name: Potamianos, Karolos
name: Šarčević, Nikolina
name: Singh, Rajeev
name: Wakeling, Hannah
name: Walker, Rodney
name: van der Wild, Matthijs
name: Zurita, Pia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The climate crisis and the degradation of the world's ecosystems require humanity to take immediate action. The international scientific community has a responsibility to limit the negative environmental impacts of basic research. The HECAP+ communities (High Energy Physics, Cosmology, Astroparticle Physics, and Hadron and Nuclear Physics) make use of common and similar experimental infrastructure, such as accelerators and observatories, and rely similarly on the processing of big data. Our communities therefore face similar challenges to improving the sustainability of our research. This document aims to reflect on the environmental impacts of our work practices and research infrastructure, to highlight best practice, to make recommendations for positive changes, and to identify the opportunities and challenges that such changes present for wider aspects of social responsibility.
description: 158 pages, 21 figures; comments welcome. Revisions included in Version 2.0 are detailed on page 3 of the pdf. If you would like to endorse this document please visit: https://sustainable-hecap-plus.github.io/. An HTML version of this document is available at: https://sustainable-hecap-plus.github.io/
Improved sd shell effective interactions from Daejeon16
Creators: name: Shin, Ik Jae
name: Smirnova, Nadezda A.
name: Shirokov, Andrey M.
name: Yang, Zuxing
name: Barrett, Bruce R.
name: Li, Zhen
name: Kim, Youngman
name: Maris, Pieter
name: Vary, James P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present new microscopic effective shell-model interactions in the valence sd shell, obtained from the modern Daejeon16 nucleon-nucleon potential using no-core shell-model (NCSM) wave functions of 18F at Nmax=6 (total oscillator quanta of excitation) model space and the Okubo-Lee-Suzuki transformation. First, we explore the convergence properties of our calculations and show that the excitation energies of states in 18F, characterized by the largest valence-like configurations, are reasonably converged and the lowest states are in sensible agreement with experiment. Then, we investigate the monopole properties of that interaction in comparison with the phenomenological universal sd-shell interaction, USDB, and with the previously derived interaction at Nmax=4. Theoretical binding energies and low-energy spectra of the O isotopes, as well as low-energy spectra of a selection of $sd$-shell nuclei, are presented. We conclude that the use of larger-space NCSM wave functions leads to a noticeable improvement in the quality of the derived effective interaction. We propose monopole modifications of the Daejeon16 centroids which further improve the agreement with experiment throughout the sd shell, as demonstrated by a compilation of spectra contained in Supplemental Material.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1909.00628
A bibliographic account on entomophagy in India: past records, recent trends and future prospects (1945-2023)
Creators: name: Bhadra, P.
name: Muni, N.
name: Borah, S.
name: Chakravorty, J.
Publisher: name: Brill Online
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 309999
subject: Other agricultural, veterinary and food sciences not elsewhere classified

description: The use of insects as' food and feed' is rapidly increasing due to global population growth and rising food demands. Over the past few decades, this immediate popularity of edible insects has led to a substantial upsurge in research publications on edible insects. The present study aimed to bibliographically analyse the status of work done on edible insects throughout India and provide its comprehensive review. Articles published from 1945 to December 2023 were retrieved from Scopus and Non-Scopus databases using web search engines like Google Scholar and PubMed using keywords such as 'entomophagy,' ‘food insects,' and 'edible insects.' These were then analyzed based on publication category, leading authors and publishers, active states, and journals. Between 1945 and 2023, 219 articles on entomophagy in India were published by Indian authors. This analysis highlights the historical inclusion of insects in Indian diets, particularly among ethnic communities in the North-East Region (NER), and identifies key researchers advancing this field. The findings indicate that India has the potential to become a hub for insect supplement manufacturing. Current research shows a unidirectional focus, emphasizing the need for greater collaboration among Indian researchers to drive further progress. This study serves as a pioneering effort in bibliographically analyzing publications on edible insects in India and assessing the progress this practice has made in terms of consumer acceptance and its future development as a promising food resource.
Chinas Dissidenten formieren sich neu
Creators: name: Heilmann, Sebastian
Publisher: name: China aktuell
Year: 2020

description: Die innerchinesische politische Opposition hat seit Juni in einer Serie von landesweiten Aktivitäten auf ihre Anliegen aufmerksam gemacht. Die China-Besuche des amerikanischen Präsidenten Clinton (im Juni), der UN-Menschenrechtskommissarin Robinson und des französischen Premiers Jospin (beide im September) sowie die Unterzeichnung der UN -Konvention über bürgerliche und politische Rechte („Zivilpakt‘) durch die chinesische Regierung (Anfang Oktober)1 nutzten die Dissidenten dazu, ihrer Oppositionsbewegung neue Konturen zu verschaffen: In abgestimmten Aktionen wurden in einer Vielzahl chinesischer Städte Anträge auf die Zulassung einer Oppositionspartei gestellt, Petitionen und Denkschriften an Regierungsstellen gesandt, Kandidaturen bei lokalen Volkskongreßwahlen angekündigt, gerichtliche Klagen gegen Polizeirepressalien eingereicht sowie - mit Hilfe von Menschenrechtsorganisationen in Hongkong und in den USA - Appelle an die internationale Öffentlichkeit gerichtet.
description: China aktuell, China aktuell - September 1998
Neuroqueering Physics Literacy
Creators: name: McDermott, Liam G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Neurodivergent people experience the world, conceptualize scientific concepts, and engage with meaning-making differently than their neurotypical peers. When these differences are actualized in an institutional setting, such as higher education, conflict can arise which has a disabling effect on them. One such way this conflict can arise is through defining and subsequent assessment of scientific literacy, as we define scientific literacy through a neurotypical lens. There is much literature on how to better teach neurodivergent students to succeed in a neurotypical-normative scientific environment, however very little research exists which examines what neurodivergent differences in learning look like from these students' perspectives. I here present a case study of five neurodivergent physicists as a part of a broader study on neurodiversity in physics, explaining why it is imperative to redefine scientific literacy and reorient it to a neuroqueer standpoint.
description: 17 pages, 3 figures
antichinesischen Übergriffe in Indonesien entwickeln sich in China zur innenpolitischen Affäre
Creators: name: Weggel, Oskar
Publisher: name: China aktuell
Year: 2020

description: Bereits im Mai, und zwar zwischen dem 12. und dem 15. des Monats, war es in Indonesien zu Übergriffen gegen Auslandschinesen gekommen, bei denen rund 4.000 Läden oder Häuser von Huaren geplündert und - nach Schätzungen indonesischer Menschenrechtsgruppierungen - rund 1.200 Menschen getötet wurden, darunter zahlreiche Chinesen. Unter den Opfern waren auch 168 Fälle von Vergewaltigung und sexueller Belästigung, von denen sich wiederum 152 im Bereich von Jakarta zugetragen haben. Von diesen 152 Opfern waren 26 vergewaltigt und gefoltert, 9 vergewaltigt und anschließend mit Benzin übergossen und angezündet worden.1 Unter den letztgenannten Opfern befanden sich auch Frauen aus der Huaren-Gruppe, ohne daß ihre Zahl allerdings präzise hätte benannt werden können.
description: China aktuell, China aktuell - September 1998
Human Emergency Detection during Autonomous Hospital Transports
Creators: name: Zachariae, Andreas
name: Widera, Julia
name: Plahl, Frederik
name: Hein, Björn
name: Wurll, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Human transports in hospitals are labor-intensive and primarily performed in beds to save time. This transfer method does not promote the mobility or autonomy of the patient. To relieve the caregivers from this time-consuming task, a mobile robot is developed to autonomously transport humans around the hospital. It provides different transfer modes including walking and sitting in a wheelchair. The problem that this paper focuses on is to detect emergencies and ensure the well-being of the patient during the transport. For this purpose, the patient is tracked and monitored with a camera system. OpenPose is used for Human Pose Estimation and a trained classifier for emergency detection. We collected and published a dataset of 18,000 images in lab and hospital environments. It differs from related work because we have a moving robot with different transfer modes in a highly dynamic environment with multiple people in the scene using only RGB-D data. To improve the critical recall metric, we apply threshold moving and a time delay. We compare different models with an AutoML approach. This paper shows that emergencies while walking are best detected by a SVM with a recall of 95.8% on single frames. In the case of sitting transport, the best model achieves a recall of 62.2%. The contribution is to establish a baseline on this new dataset and to provide a proof of concept for the human emergency detection in this use case.
description: Preprint of the corresponding IAS18-2023 conference publication (Proceedings of the 18th International Conference IAS-18)
Chinas Außenpolitik am Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts
Creators: name: Weggel, Oskar
Publisher: name: China aktuell
Year: 2020

description: Dieses Idealbild ist allerdings immer wieder angekratzt worden - in den Anfangsjahren der Volksrepublik durch den damals noch vorherrschenden „Monismus,2 der zu einer Vermischung von Innen- und Außenpolitik führte und vor allem der KP zugute kam, später aber durch die Konkurrenz anderer Instanzen, die sich unter Einsatz des Ellenbogens Einfluß zu verschaffen wußten, angefangen vom Militär und den Geheimdiensten über die Regionen (Provinzen!) bis hin zu einem neuen Machtfaktor, der den Apologeten autoritärer Positionen besonders unheimlich ist, nämlich der großen Unbekannten namens „Öffentlichkeit, die einstweilen vor allem von „Kreisen der Wirtschaft1, von der Intelligenz und - etwas gene- ralistischer ausgedrückt - von den Protagonisten des neuen Mittelstands getragen wird. Ihre Chance besteht darin, zum Repräsentanten einer „kleinen Politik1 zu werden, die zur „großen Politik1 des überkommenen außenpolitischen Establishments in Konkurrenz tritt.
description: China aktuell, China aktuell - September 1998
Macau
Creators: name: Nieh, Yu-Hsi
Publisher: name: China aktuell
Year: 2020

description: Die chinesische Zentralregirung in Beijing wird nach der anstehenden Rücknahme von Macau am 20. Dezember 1999 eine „entsprechende Men- gd‘ von Elitetruppen dort stationieren. Dies hat der chinesische Vizeministerpräsident Qian Qichen am 18. September in seiner Rede auf der 3. Plenarsitzung des Vorbereitungskomitees für die Sonderverwaltungsregion (SVR) Macau erklärt.
description: China aktuell, China aktuell - September 1998
SVR Hongkong
Creators: name: Heilmann, Sebastian
name: Staiger, Brundhild
Publisher: name: China aktuell
Year: 2020

description: In der Hongkonger Legislativversammlung haben die Abgeordneten der Partei „Frontlinid‘ Ende September einen Antrag eingebracht, in dem der Regierung Tung Chee-hwa zehn grobe politische Verfehlungen angelastet werden: die Ablehung weitergehender Demokratisierungsschritte; die Demontage des Schutzes grundlegender Menschenrechte; das Streben nach einer Hegemonie der Exekutive durch Abschaffung etwa der Stadträte (mu- nicipal councils); eine Wohnungs- und Immobilienpolitik, die angestammte Interessengruppen bevorzugt; eine unzureichende Unterstützung von Arbeitslosen; politisch unverantwortliche Markt- und Börseninterventionen; eine nicht an der Qualität orientierte Bildungspolitik; mangelnde Fürsorge der Regierung für ältere Menschen; schwere Versäumnisse im Gesundheitswesen; ein inkompetentes Management im Zusammenhang mit der Bewältigung der Hühnergrippe und der Eröffnung des neuen Flughafens.
description: China aktuell, China aktuell - September 1998
Factory-based Fault-tolerant Preparation of Quantum Polar Codes Encoding One logical Qubit
Creators: name: Goswami, Ashutosh
name: Mhalla, Mehdi
name: Savin, Valentin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A fault-tolerant way to prepare logical code-states of Q1 codes, i.e., quantum polar codes encoding one qubit, has been recently proposed. The fault tolerance therein is guaranteed by an error detection gadget, where if an error is detected during the preparation, one discards entirely the preparation. Due to error detection, the preparation is probabilistic, and its success rate, referred to as the preparation rate, decreases rapidly with the code-length, preventing the preparation of code-states of large code-lengths. In this paper, to improve the preparation rate, we consider a factory preparation of Q1 code-states, where one attempts to prepare several copies of Q1 code-states in parallel. Using an extra scheduling step, we can avoid discarding the preparation entirely, every time an error is detected, hence, achieving an increased preparation rate in turn. We further provide a theoretical method to estimate preparation and logical error rates of Q1 codes, prepared using factory preparation, which is shown to tightly fit the Monte-Carlo simulation based numerical results. Therefore, our theoretical method is useful for providing estimates for large code-lengths, where Monte-Carlo simulations are practically not feasible. Our numerical results, for a circuit-level depolarizing noise model, indicate that the preparation rate increases significantly, especially for large code-length N. For example, for N = 256, it increases from 0.02\% to 27\% for a practically interesting physical error rate of p = 10^{-3}. Remarkably, a Q1 code with N = 256 achieves logical error rates around 10^{-11} and 10^{-15} for p = 10^{-3} and p = 3 x 10^{-4}, respectively. This corresponds to an improvement of about three orders of magnitude compared to a surface code with similar code-length and minimum distance, thus showing the promise of the proposed scheme for large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computing.
description: 24 pages, 11 figures
Taiwans Strategie zur Wirtschaftsglobalisierung
Creators: name: Nieh, Yu-Hsi
Publisher: name: China aktuell
Year: 2020

description: Ende der 80er und Anfang der 90er Jahre ist in der Weltgeschichte eine große Wende eingetreten, nämlich die endgültige Auflösung der Bipolarität der internationalen politischen Konstellation oder das Ende des langwierigen Kalten Krieges zwischen dem Ost- und Westblock seit dem Ende des 2. Weltkrieges. Wirtschaftlich bedeutet es den Sieg des Kapitalismus über den Sozialismus. Deregulierung, Privatisierung, offener Markt, freier Kapitalverkehr und Globalisierung sind die verbreiteten Losungen oder der neue Trend. Die wilde Strömung des „globalen Kapitalismus hat Ostasien zunächst in einen langjährigen Boom getrieben und dann im letzten Jahr in eine tiefe Krise hineingeworfen.
description: China aktuell, China aktuell - August 1998
„Eugenik“ und Verantwortung
Creators: name: Döring, Ole
Publisher: name: China aktuell
Year: 2020

description: Am 15. August ist in Beijing der 18. internationale Genetik-Kongreß zuende gegangen. Damit hat eine Veranstaltung stattgefunden, deren Durchführung international so sehr umstritten gewesen ist wie vorher wohl nur der Genetik-Kongreß von 1939. Dieser sollte seinerzeit ursprünglich in Berlin abgehalten werden und wurde schließlich, wenige Tage vor Beginn des II. Weltkrieges, in Edinburgh durchgeführt. Stein des Anstoßes gegen Beijing als Veranstaltungsort war für zahlreiche internationale Kommentatoren und Fachverbände das chinesische „Gesetz über die Gesundheitsfürsorge für Mütter und Kinder, das seit Juni 1995 in Kraft ist.
description: China aktuell, China aktuell - August 1998
Chinas Außenpolitik am Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts
Creators: name: Weggel, Oskar
Publisher: name: China aktuell
Year: 2020

description: Auf der Skala der chinesischen Außenpolitik ist es nicht nur bei den Zielsetzungen, also dem Was der Politik, sondern auch bei den Strategien, d.h. bei den langfristigen Durchführungsmodalitäten, also beim Wie, im Laufe der vergangenen fünf Jahrzehnte zu Ausschlägen gekommen, die das Extrem schon fast wieder als Normalität erscheinen ließen. Bereits zur Zeit Maos, als Außenpolitik noch durch und durch politisch - nämlich im Sinne klassenkämpferischer Instrumentalisierung - verstanden wurde, war das Spektrum der Strategien keineswegs starr, sondern umspannte einen weiten Fächer von Spielformen, dessen Filigran von der (in sich höchst variablen) Linken bis hin zur Rechten Strategie reichte (dazu unten 3.2).
description: China aktuell, China aktuell - August 1998
How (Not) to Understand Weak Measurements of Velocities
Creators: name: Fankhauser, Johannes
name: Dürr, Patrick M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: To-date, the most elaborated attempt to complete quantum mechanics by the addition of hidden variables is the de Broglie-Bohm (pilot wave) theory (dBBT). It endows particles with definite positions at all times. Their evolution is governed by a deterministic dynamics. By construction, however, the individual particle trajectories generically defy detectability in principle. Of late, this lore might seem to have been called into question in light of so-called weak measurements. Due to their characteristic weak coupling between the measurement device and the system under study, they permit the experimental probing of quantum systems without essentially disturbing them. It's natural therefore to think that weak measurements of velocity in particular offer to actually observe the particle trajectories. If true, such a claim would not only experimentally demonstrate the incompleteness of quantum mechanics: it would provide support of dBBT in its standard form, singling it out from an infinitude of empirically equivalent alternative choices for the particle dynamics. Here we examine this possibility. Our result is deflationary: weak velocity measurements constitute no new arguments, let alone empirical evidence, in favour of standard dBBT; One mustn't naïvely identify weak and actual positions. Weak velocity measurements admit of a straightforward standard quantum mechanical interpretation, independent of any commitment to particle trajectories and velocities. This is revealed by a careful reconstruction of the physical arguments on which the description of weak velocity measurements rests. It turns out that for weak velocity measurements to be reliable, one must already presuppose dBBT in its standard form: in this sense, they can provide no new argument, empirical or otherwise, for dBBT and its standard guidance equation.
description: Published version; 33 pages, 3 figures, small technical corrections
Macau
Creators: name: Nieh, Yu-Hsi
Publisher: name: China aktuell
Year: 2020

description: Im Schuljahr 1996-97 haben einem offiziellen Bericht zufolge 47.000 Personen an der Erwachsenenbildung teilgenommen. Es gibt in Macau über 80 Anstalten für Erwachsenenbildung, davon werden nur weniger als ein Drittel von der Regierung betrieben, die meisten von den Kirchen, sozialen Körperschaften, Wohlfahrts- oder individuellen Organisationen. Die Regierung gibt jährlich über eine Million Patacas (umgerechnet rd. 125.000 US$) für diesen Zweck aus.
description: China aktuell, China aktuell - August 1998
SVR Hongkong
Creators: name: Schüller, Margot
name: Heilmann, Sebastaian
name: Staiger, Brunhild
Publisher: name: China aktuell
Year: 2020

description: Tung lehnt regelmäßige Regierungserklärungen vor der Legislativversammlung ab
description: China aktuell, China aktuell - August 1998
ElasticNotebook: Enabling Live Migration for Computational Notebooks
Creators: name: Li, Zhaoheng
name: Gor, Pranav
name: Prabhu, Rahul
name: Yu, Hui
name: Mao, Yuzhou
name: Park, Yongjoo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: H.2.4

description: Computational notebooks (e.g., Jupyter, Google Colab) are widely used for interactive data science and machine learning. In those frameworks, users can start a session, then execute cells (i.e., a set of statements) to create variables, train models, visualize results, etc. Unfortunately, existing notebook systems do not offer live migration: when a notebook launches on a new machine, it loses its state, preventing users from continuing their tasks from where they had left off. This is because, unlike DBMS, the sessions directly rely on underlying kernels (e.g., Python/R interpreters) without an additional data management layer. Existing techniques for preserving states, such as copying all variables or OS-level checkpointing, are unreliable (often fail), inefficient, and platform-dependent. Also, re-running code from scratch can be highly time-consuming. In this paper, we introduce a new notebook system, ElasticNotebook, that offers live migration via checkpointing/restoration using a novel mechanism that is reliable, efficient, and platform-independent. Specifically, by observing all cell executions via transparent, lightweight monitoring, ElasticNotebook can find a reliable and efficient way (i.e., replication plan) for reconstructing the original session state, considering variable-cell dependencies, observed runtime, variable sizes, etc. To this end, our new graph-based optimization problem finds how to reconstruct all variables (efficiently) from a subset of variables that can be transferred across machines. We show that ElasticNotebook reduces end-to-end migration and restoration times by 85%-98% and 94%-99%, respectively, on a variety (i.e., Kaggle, JWST, and Tutorial) of notebooks with negligible runtime and memory overheads of <2.5% and <10%.
description: Accepted to VLDB 2024
title: Environmental factors in differential infant and child mortality decline in England and Wales, circa 1895 to 1910.
Creators: name: Watterson, PA
Publisher: name: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Year: 1987

description: The purpose of this research was to test the hypothesis that environmental factors made a greater contribution to the differential decline in infant mortality during the early Twentieth Century than did improvements in the standard of 1iving.Infant mortality levels were estimated from retrospective reports of currently married cohabiting women under 45 years of age, who were enumerated in the 1911 Census of England and Vales. They span the period from approximately 1895 to 1910. Material in the published tables are used to create two data sets, one in which the unit of disaggregation was husband's occupation and the other in which it was place of enumeration, for towns, cities and urban districts with fifty thousand or more inhabitants in 1911, and referred to both in the census reports and hereafter as the Great Towns. Two hundred occupations or occupational groupings included sufficient couples to produce robust enough estimates, and as well as their occupation, their class and the extent to which they were urban dwellers was also known. Income level for ninety-five of the occupations was obtained from the Board of Trade Hours and Earnings Survey. For the Great Towns it was possible to obtain directly from the census tables, or otherwise to estimate the type of administrative local authority of the town, its poverty level, a measure of urban development and selective occupational migration. For both major groups it was also possible to control for fertility dec1ine.Infant mortality by father's occupation underwent an average decline of 36% from a peak level of 132 deaths per 1000 births with wide variation about the mean. Analysis of this data set suggested that the removal of poor environmental conditions was particularly important. Highly urban occupations experienced steeper declines from higher peaks than did rural ones. However, income only explained variation in the decline at very high levels although it was also likely to be associated with other possible explanatory variables, such as education. In the Great Towns average decline in infantmorta1ity was 35% from a peak of 146 deaths per 1000 births. In this data set the rate of urbanisation over twenty years which was used as the index for environmental effects accounted for a significant proportion of the differential decline, while measures of poverty, of either level or change explained little additional variation. There was no evidence for concluding that selective occupational migration had distorted the urbanisation effect. There were no strong reasons for concluding from analysis of either data set that fertility decline had an important effect on infant mortality, although it was likely to have been important to the overall decline.