cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A Philosopher's Approach to Being a Lone Medievalist
Creators: name: Oliva, Pilar Herráiz
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2018

description: First  of  all,  I  should  say  that  I  am  a  philosopher.  If  medieval-ists  have  a  bad  reputation  anywhere,  that  is  in  philosophy.  At  least, that is how I felt in the beginning. That is how I have been feeling  up  to  this  point.  The  problem  lies  mostly  with  people’s  conceptions regarding the Middle Ages: a sort of dark, historical parentheses  whose  content  remains  mostly  unknown.  No  sur-prises here. Anyway, my intention here is not to complain about other people’s thoughts, but most importantly to share my own. Thus, I will start by what it was or what it is to be a medievalist within my academic environment, that is, in my experience, but I will also try to briefly provide our field with some constructive ideas in order to face the “I am a lone medievalist” issue.
The QCD phase transition with physical-mass, chiral quarks
Creators: name: Bhattacharya, Tanmoy
name: Buchoff, Michael I.
name: Christ, Norman H.
name: Ding, H. -T.
name: Gupta, Rajan
name: Jung, Chulwoo
name: Karsch, F.
name: Lin, Zhongjie
name: Mawhinney, R. D.
name: McGlynn, Greg
name: Mukherjee, Swagato
name: Murphy, David
name: Petreczky, P.
name: Schroeder, Chris
name: Soltz, R A.
name: Vranas, P. M.
name: Yin, Hantao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the first lattice calculation of the QCD phase transition using chiral fermions at physical values of the quark masses. This calculation uses 2+1 quark flavors, spatial volumes between (4 fm$)^3$ and (11 fm$)^3$ and temperatures between 139 and 196 MeV . Each temperature was calculated using a single lattice spacing corresponding to a temporal Euclidean extent of $N_t=8$. The disconnected chiral susceptibility, $χ_{\rm disc}$ shows a pronounced peak whose position and height depend sensitively on the quark mass. We find no metastability in the region of the peak and a peak height which does not change when a 5 fm spatial extent is increased to 10 fm. Each result is strong evidence that the QCD ``phase transition'' is not first order but a continuous cross-over for $m_π=135$ MeV. The peak location determines a pseudo-critical temperature $T_c = 155(1)(8)$ MeV. Chiral $SU(2)_L\times SU(2)_R$ symmetry is fully restored above 164 MeV, but anomalous $U(1)_A$ symmetry breaking is non-zero above $T_c$ and vanishes as $T$ is increased to 196 MeV.
description: 6 pages and 4 figures
A Lone Medievalist on the Island
Creators: name: Kozikowski, Christine E.
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2018

description: Discovering a medieval French cloister in the Bahamas was one of the most surprising moments of my first semester of working at  The  College  of  the  Bahamas  (COB),  where  I  thought  I  cor-nered  the  market  on  the  Middle  Ages.  This  fourteenth-centu-ry  re-formed  cloister  and  the  talk  given  by  William  Whobrey  from  Yale  was  a  reminder  that  the  medievalist  world  is  not  so  small.  This  closeness  was  also  reminder  of  my  scholarly  iden-tity in the midst of the complete and utter difference of my new situation at a college where I am the first and only medievalist. Transitioning  from  a  large  R1  university  with  active  medieval  programs in history, literature, Spanish, and French to a college whose programs focus on postcolonial Caribbean development was, while not unexpected, still a bit of a shock to my senses. My employment at COB has provided not only a number of unique experiences  as  faculty  but  it  has  also  given  me  a  new  perspec-tive  on  teaching  medieval  literature,  as  well  as  opportunities  for research and development that would have never arisen if I weren’t a lone medievalist.
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Creators: name: Царев, Владимир Петрович
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: универсальные коэффициенты важности критериев
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Interaction of a Long Alkyl Chain Protic Ionic Liquid and Water
Creators: name: Bodo, Enrico
name: Mangialardo, Sara
name: Capitani, Francesco
name: Gontrani, Lorenzo
name: Leonelli, Francesca
name: Postorino, Paolo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A combined experimental/theoretical approach has been used to investigate the role of water in modifying the microscopic interactions characterizing the optical response of butyl-ammonium nitrate (BAN) water solutions. Raman spectra, dominated by the signal from the protic ionic liquid, were collected as a function of the water content, and the corresponding spatial organization of the ionic couples, as well as their local arrangement with water molecules, was studied exploiting classical molecular dynamics calculations. High quality spectroscopic data, combined with a careful analysis, revealed that water affects the vibrational spectrum BAN in solution: as the water concentration is increased, peaks assigned to stretching modes show a frequency hardening together with a shape narrowing, whereas the opposite behavior is observed for peaks assigned to bending modes. Calculation results clearly show a nanometric spatial organization of the ionic couples that is not destroyed on increasing the water content at least within an intermediate range. Our combined results show indeed that small water concentrations even increase the local order. Water molecules are located among ionic couples and are closer to the anion than the cation, as confirmed by the computation of the number of H-bonds which is greater for water-anion than for water-cation. The whole results set thus clarifies the microscopic scenario of the BAN-water interaction and underlines the main role of the extended hydrogen bond network among water molecules and nitrate anions.
description: 27 pages, 10 figures
Brief an [Gustav Friedrich] Waagen
Creators: name: Kugler, Franz
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1857

description: von F[ranz] Kugler
description: Eigenhändiger Brief mit Unterschrift, Adresse und rotem Lacksiegel
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Deutsch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire August 2016 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln Rekatalogisierung nach Original, Verzeichnis von Karl Geigy-Hagenbach und Briefkatalog der UB Basel
Quantum thermal field fluctuation induced corrections to the interaction between two ground-state atoms
Creators: name: Cheng, Shijing
name: Zhou, Wenting
name: Yu, Hongwei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We generalize the formalism proposed by Dalibard, Dupont-Roc, and Cohen-Tannoudji [the DDC formalism] in the fourth order for two atoms in interaction with scalar fields in vacuum to a thermal bath at finite temperature $T$, and then calculate the interatomic interaction energy of two ground-state atoms separately in terms of the contributions of thermal fluctuations and the radiation reaction of the atoms and analyze in detail the thermal corrections to the van der Waals and Casimir-Polder interactions. We discover a particular region, i.e., $\sqrt[4]{λ^3β}\ll L\ll λ$ with $L$, $β$ and $λ$ denoting the interatomic separation, the wavelength of thermal photons and the transition wavelength of the atoms respectively, where the thermal corrections remarkably render the van der Waals force, which is usually attractive, repulsive, leading to an interesting crossover phenomenon of the interatomic interaction from attractive to repulsive as the temperature increases. We also find that the thermal corrections cause significant changes to the Casimir-Polder force when the temperature is sufficiently high, resulting in an attractive force proportional to $TL^{-3}$ in the $λ\llβ\ll L$ region, and a force which can be either attractive or repulsive and even vanishing in the $ β\llλ\ll L$ region depending on the interatomic separation.
description: 24 pages
Brief an Förster
Creators: name: Siemens, Werner von
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1887

description: von W[erner] Siemens
description: Eigenhändiger Brief mit Unterschrift
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Deutsch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire August 2016 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln Rekatalogisierung nach Original, Verzeichnis von Karl Geigy-Hagenbach und Briefkatalog der UB Basel
Boltzmann-Gibbs Random Fields with Mesh-free Precision Operators Based on Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics
Creators: name: Hristopulos, Dionissios T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: G.3; J.2; I.4.10
subject: 60G15, 62P12, 62P30, 62M40

description: Boltzmann-Gibbs random fields are defined in terms of the exponential expression exp(-H), where H is a suitably defined energy functional of the field states x(s). This paper presents a new Boltzmann-Gibbs model which features local interactions in the energy functional. The interactions are embodied in a spatial coupling function which uses smoothed kernel-function approximations of spatial derivatives inspired from the theory of smoothed particle hydrodynamics. A specific model for the interactions based on a second-degree polynomial of the Laplace operator is studied. An explicit, mesh-free expression of the spatial coupling function (precision function) is derived for the case of the squared exponential (Gaussian) smoothing kernel. This coupling function allows the model to seamlessly extend from discrete data vectors to continuum fields. Connections with Gaussian Markov random fields and the Matérn field with $ν=1$ are established.
description: 29 pages, 4 figures
Introduction: Covert Plants
Creators: name: Brits, Baylee
name: Gibson, Prudence
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2018

description: Covert  Plants:  Vegetal  Consciousness  and  Agency  in  an  Anthro-pocentric  World is an anthology of interdisciplinary essays and creative works, which charts the transformation in the concep-tual and ethical status of plants in an era of changing climates. It presents a range of academic and creative perspectives from evo-lutionary biology to literary theory, from philosophy to poetry, at a time when a call for restorative care and reparative action has been sounded for the environment. The anthology contributes to the emerging field of Critical Plant Studies, at the crossover of plants and philosophy,1 literature,2 and arts,3 with a focus on the non-human components of our world.4 The essays in this anthology  engage  with  new  discoveries  in  plant  science  and evaluate how these changes affect the humanities and the arts. Art, literature, and philosophy have the capacity to mediate dif-ficult issues of climate change and present a new perspective on human–plant interactions, just as new plant science transforms these practices and disciplines.
Measurement of acoustic glitches in solar-type stars from oscillation frequencies observed by Kepler
Creators: name: Mazumdar, A.
name: Monteiro, M. J. P. F. G.
name: Ballot, J.
name: Antia, H. M.
name: Basu, S.
name: Houdek, G.
name: Mathur, S.
name: Cunha, M. S.
name: Aguirre, V. Silva
name: Garcia, R. A.
name: Salabert, D.
name: Verner, G. A.
name: Christensen-Dalsgaard, J.
name: Metcalfe, T. S.
name: Sanderfer, D. T.
name: Seader, S. E.
name: Smith, J. C.
name: Chaplin, W. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For the very best and brightest asteroseismic solar-type targets observed by Kepler, the frequency precision is sufficient to determine the acoustic depths of the surface convective layer and the helium ionization zone. Such sharp features inside the acoustic cavity of the star, which we call acoustic glitches, create small oscillatory deviations from the uniform spacing of frequencies in a sequence of oscillation modes with the same spherical harmonic degree. We use these oscillatory signals to determine the acoustic locations of such features in 19 solar-type stars observed by the Kepler mission. Four independent groups of researchers utilized the oscillation frequencies themselves, the second differences of the frequencies and the ratio of the small and large separation to locate the base of the convection zone and the second helium ionization zone. Despite the significantly different methods of analysis, good agreement was found between the results of these four groups, barring a few cases. These results also agree reasonably well with the locations of these layers in representative models of the stars. These results firmly establish the presence of the oscillatory signals in the asteroseismic data and the viability of several techniques to determine the location of acoustic glitches inside stars.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ
Planck constraints on neutrino isocurvature density perturbations
Creators: name: Di Valentino, Eleonora
name: Melchiorri, Alessandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recent Cosmic Microwave Background data from the Planck satellite experiment, when combined with HST determinations of the Hubble constant, are compatible with a larger, non-standard, number of relativistic degrees of freedom at recombination, parametrized by the neutrino effective number $N_{eff}$. In the curvaton scenario, a larger value for $N_{eff}$ could arise from a non-zero neutrino chemical potential connected to residual neutrino isocurvature density (NID) perturbations after the decay of the curvaton field, parametrized by the amplitude $α^{NID}$. Here we present new constraints on $N_{eff}$ and $α^{NID}$ from an analysis of recent cosmological data. We found that the Planck+WP dataset does not show any indication for a neutrino isocurvature component, severly constraining its amplitude, and that current indications for a non-standard $N_{eff}$ are further relaxed.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Brief an Ballantyne
Creators: name: Livingstone, David
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1857

description: von David Livingstone
description: Eigenhändiger Brief mit Unterschrift
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Englisch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire August 2016 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln Rekatalogisierung nach Original, Verzeichnis von Karl Geigy-Hagenbach und Briefkatalog der UB Basel
Interview with Michael Marder
Creators: name: Gibson, Prudence
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2018

description: PG: There are plant artists around the world who are using the eco-transmissions of roots or leaves to create sound artworks. Other plant artists unground natural species from the earth and bring them into the gallery space or create experiences that dis-rupt or intervene with an ecological state. These bodies of work develop  from  the  history  of  botanical  illustration,  gardening, bonsai care, and other art-aesthetic preoccupations, even land art.  However,  contemporary  plant  art  consistently  highlights eco-ethics, those moral questions of how to relate to plants. New information in plant science informs our understanding of sta-tus and ethics, as you expound in your books. These ideas are being taken up by artists and presented as a means of advocacy as well as a continued creative representation. Can you respond to this new realm of representation, as both a conceptual artistic interpretation but also as a way of ‘speaking for’ plants?
A Digital Calibration Source for 21cm Cosmology Telescopes
Creators: name: Bhopi, Kalyani
name: Tyndall, Will
name: Sanghavi, Pranav
name: Bandura, Kevin
name: Newburgh, Laura
name: Gallicchio, Jason
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Foreground mitigation is critical to all next-generation radio interferometers that target cosmology using the redshifted neutral hydrogen 21 cm emission line. Attempts to remove this foreground emission have led to new analysis techniques as well as new developments in hardware specifically dedicated to instrument beam and gain calibration, including stabilized signal injection into the interferometric array and drone-based platforms for beam mapping. The radio calibration sources currently used in the literature are broad-band incoherent sources that can only be detected as excess power and with no direct sensitivity to phase information. In this paper, we describe a digital radio source which uses Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) derived time stamps to form a deterministic signal that can be broadcast from an aerial platform. A copy of this source can be deployed locally at the instrument correlator such that the received signal from the aerial platform can be correlated with the local copy, and the resulting correlation can be measured in both amplitude and phase for each interferometric element. We define the requirements for such a source, describe an initial implementation and verification of this source using commercial Software Defined Radio boards, and present beam map slices from antenna range measurements using the commercial boards. We found that the commercial board did not meet all requirements, so we also suggest future directions using a more sophisticated chipset.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures, published in Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation
Mixed Up with Trees: The Gadgur and the Dreaming
Creators: name: Muecke, Stephen
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2018

description: fter talking to the Goolarabooloo people for a few years now, and thinking a bit about what they might mean by ‘living coun-try’ in the West Kimberley region of Australia, I want to venture the idea that they understand life as networked and sustained among  humans  and  non-humans.  This  idea,  which  is  hardly surprising among students of ecology today — who are push-ing back against the ancient Judeo-Christian concept of man’s dominion over nature — turns out it may be more than just an idea in Indigenous Australian cosmologies. It may well be struc-tural; built into what we used to call ‘cultural’ practices like cer-emonies, but now search for a new name for, because they are more-than-cultural precisely because they mix up ‘cultural’ and ‘natural’ things. While each animal, tree and water source strives to persist in its own way, engendering its filiations, it is also a nec-essary mutually sustaining part of the heterogeneous network. Humans are not exceptional in this, because, like the others, they are ‘reproductive beings.’1 Living country is a whole network reproducing itself, and when the human communities organise to sing the country, to vitalise it and make it ‘stand up,’ they are performing what anthropologists call ‘increase ceremonies’ for animals or plants. And why not think of initiations of boys also as kinds of ‘increase’?
Lover Nature
Creators: name: Dawson, Paul
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2018

description: Do I dare love you, here, amongst the vines that climb along the limbs of trees that twine about your thighs, alive with twisting desire in my fingers travelling down your skin, legs exposed like stripped saplings in the sununtil your feet are bared, planted in the earthamongst the roots whose path I trace through the loam, to erupt from the grassthe gnarled arch I have yearned to touch
Brief an Unbekannt
Creators: name: Blumhardt, Johann Christoph
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1872

description: von [Johann] Christoph Blumhardt
description: Eigenhändiger Brief mit Unterschrift und Adresse
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Deutsch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire August 2016 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln Rekatalogisierung nach Original, Verzeichnis von Karl Geigy-Hagenbach und Briefkatalog der UB Basel
An Ear to the Ground
Creators: name: Belletty, Andrew
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2018

description: In late 2015, I was given the opportunity to be part of a song jour-ney of sorts, led by a group of song custodians who were active in passing on the tradition to young people from the commu-nity. The location of this particular song site is a secret, the area is not marked on any map and the entrance to the site itself is kept under lock and key. The topographical features of the site are unique in the area — a profusion of white sand surrounded by sharp rocky outcrops that gives the space a cathedral like appear-ance, and remarkably vibrant acoustics. Due to mining activities, trespass, and clandestine land sales in and around the site, it is extremely vulnerable to intrusion, which is why I take great pains to protect the location of the site and the identity of the people. It was here, a thousand kilometers from the nearest city, that I encountered a particularly vibrant tree, a tree that made me want to understand if and how a tree may listen and respond to situ-ated bodies.
Brief an Buchwalder
Creators: name: Agassiz, Louis
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1842

description: Prächtiges Schreiben über sein Werk über die Alpen und die Gletscher
description: von L[ouis Jean] R[odolphe] Agassiz
description: Eigenhändiger Brief mit Unterschrift und Adresse
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Französisch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire August 2016 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln Rekatalogisierung nach Original, Verzeichnis von Karl Geigy-Hagenbach und Briefkatalog der UB Basel
Pareto-depth for Multiple-query Image Retrieval
Creators: name: Hsiao, Ko-Jen
name: Calder, Jeff
name: Hero, Alfred O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Most content-based image retrieval systems consider either one single query, or multiple queries that include the same object or represent the same semantic information. In this paper we consider the content-based image retrieval problem for multiple query images corresponding to different image semantics. We propose a novel multiple-query information retrieval algorithm that combines the Pareto front method (PFM) with efficient manifold ranking (EMR). We show that our proposed algorithm outperforms state of the art multiple-query retrieval algorithms on real-world image databases. We attribute this performance improvement to concavity properties of the Pareto fronts, and prove a theoretical result that characterizes the asymptotic concavity of the fronts.
Gardening / Grasshopper in a Field
Creators: name: Fischer, Luke
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2018

description: I press my blue thumb into silence —shoots quickly spread to the left and right.A melody unfurls its fronds and I understand why the violin’s neck is curled.Chord clusters in the Chopin nocturne blossom into purple umbels then vanish into night. An arpeggio climbs the living room walls while a trill showers wisteria petals as if I’d just been wed.
(2-)Drinfel'd Double and (2-)BF Theory
Creators: name: Chen, Hank
name: Girelli, Florian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81R50

description: The gauge symmetry and shift/translational symmetry of a 3D BF action, which are associated to a pair of dual Lie algebras, can be combined to form the Drinfel'd double. This combined symmetry is the gauge symmetry of the Chern-Simons action which is equivalent to the BF action, up to some boundary term. We show that something similar happens in 4D when considering a 2-BF action (aka BFCG action), whose symmetries are specified in terms of a pair of dual strict Lie 2-algebras (ie. crossed-modules). Combining these symmetries gives rise to a 2-Drinfel'd double which becomes the gauge symmetry structure of a 4D BF theory, up to a boundary term. Concretely, we show how using 2-gauge transformations based on dual crossed-modules, the notion of 2-Drinfel'd double defined in Ref. arXiv:1109.1344 appears. We also discuss how, similarly to the Lie algebra case, the symmetric contribution of the $r$-matrix of the 2-Drinfel'd double can be interpreted as a quadratic 2-Casimir, which allows to recover the notion of duality.
description: 40 pages; 0 figures (v2: adjusted \tilde t = t^*, fixed some minor errors and typos)
Spores from Space: Becoming the Alien
Creators: name: Laird, Tessa
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2018

description: The  masterpiece  of  pseudo-science, The Secret Life of Plants (1973), tells you everything you ever needed to know about plants, but were afraid to ask. Writers Christopher Bird and Peter Tomp-kins might have had former lives as a science journalist and a war correspondent, respectively, but by the time they publish  The  Secret Life (or SLOP, as I shall affectionately refer to it), it is clear they have partaken in some serious communion with the vegetal mind. SLOP is filled with telepathy and telekinesis, electric veg-etables and flashing flowers, hypersensitive mimosas and unde-monstrative radishes. Houseplants can sense their owners’ plea-sures and pains and, with the right gadgetry, can testify against murderers, or open garage doors. Bird and Tompkins’s agenda is clear: to convince humanity it is really plants that are the earth’s superbeings. Plants can grow as tall as pyramids, predict cyclones, and, most spectacularly, engage in intergalactic conversation.
Brief an H.L. Brömer
Creators: name: Gervinus, Georg Gottfried
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1853

description: von [Gottfried Georg] Gervinus
description: Eigenhändiger Brief mit Unterschrift und Adresse
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Deutsch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire August 2016 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln Rekatalogisierung nach Original, Verzeichnis von Karl Geigy-Hagenbach und Briefkatalog der UB Basel
Bounds in Nonequilibrium Quantum Dynamics
Creators: name: Gong, Zongping
name: Hamazaki, Ryusuke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review various bounds concerning out-of-equilibrium dynamics in few-level and many-body quantum systems. We primarily focus on closed quantum systems but will also mention some related results for open quantum systems and classical stochastic systems. We start from the speed limits, the universal bounds on the speeds of (either quantum or classical) dynamical evolutions. We then turn to review the bounds that address how good and how long would a quantum system equilibrate or thermalize. Afterward, we focus on the stringent constraint set by locality in many-body systems, rigorously formalized as the Lieb-Robinson bound. We also review the bounds related to the dynamics of entanglement, a genuine quantum property. Apart from some other miscellaneous topics, several notable error bounds for approximated quantum dynamics are discussed. While far from comprehensive, this topical review covers a considerable amount of recent progress and thus could hopefully serve as a convenient starting point and up-to-date guidance for interested readers.
description: 87 pages, 11 figures. Commissioned review paper submitted to International Journal of Modern Physics B, (close to) final version
Brain Trees: Neuroscientific Metaphor and Botanical Thought
Creators: name: Brits, Baylee
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2018

description: Our understanding of the brain is bound up with our images of plants. One of the dominant metaphors for the way the brain works is the tree. If we reduce a tree to its most basic carica-ture — the sphere on the top of the trunk — we have an echo not only of the brain and the brain stem, but of the neuron and its branching dendrites and extensive axon as well. In addition to this broad structure of stem and efflorescence, this visual meta-phor capitalises on the bloom of synaptic connections, redolent of the thinning and multiplying of twigs from branches. These metaphors of the brain become all the more significant given re-cent developments in the inverse field, as new work in plant sci-ence is changing the way we think about vegetation and thought. Studies of plant behaviour now suggest that plants engage in processes of what we might call thinking and learning, even if this thought does not exactly resemble the sort of conscious ra-tionality that vastly overdetermines our ideas about what the hu-man brain primarily does. While the brain is often envisaged as a tree, this metaphoric exchange has only ever gone one way: it re-mains anathema to associate plants with brains in anything more than an illustrative sense. Although the neurological armoury of images seems to be phytological — and phytology is now deploy-ing the concepts once unique to brain science — any exchange between the two is often rendered trivial, as if images and names existed in the realm of conceptual small change. Here I consider the way that current key popular texts in neurology deploy the metaphor of the plant, in particular the tree, and explore the ways that this metaphor works to both stabilise and ‘extinguish’ its object. I consider the way that the ‘tree’ is simultaneously a material and immaterial metaphor, an embodiment of both neu-ral object and function. This curious mode of metaphor, which I will associate with Paul de Man’s definition of ‘formal allegory,’ actually models the cognitive processes that it seeks to describe.
Brief an Unbekannt
Creators: name: Droysen, Johann Gustav
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1842

description: von Joh[ann] Gust[av] Droysen
description: Eigenhändiger Brief mit Unterschrift
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Deutsch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire August 2016 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln Rekatalogisierung nach Original, Verzeichnis von Karl Geigy-Hagenbach und Briefkatalog der UB Basel
title: Financial Mechanisms for Energy Efficiency - A comparative Study of Austria/India/Ukraine
Creators: name: Oedl, Konstantin
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Energy Efficiency
subject: Austria
subject: India
subject: Ukraine
subject: Financial Mechanisms

description: The objective of the paper is to present and elaborate existing financial mechanisms promoting energy efficiency in three case countries: Austria (representing the EU), India and Ukraine. Based oneach countries legislation and policy plans, existing instruments are presented with a focus on the time period between 2010 and 2020. Furthermore, the funding environment of these countries is discussed and compared to each other. Funding mechanisms are elaborated based on financial resources,financial instrument used, economic sector it applies to and various national and international stakeholders involved.
Brief an [Johann Theodor] Vöm[e]l
Creators: name: Ritschl, Friedrich
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1844

description: Betr. Ankäufe an einer Auktion für die Bibliothek
description: von F[riedrich Wilhelm] Ritschl
description: Eigenhändiger Brief mit Unterschrift und Adresse
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Deutsch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire August 2016 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln Rekatalogisierung nach Original, Verzeichnis von Karl Geigy-Hagenbach und Briefkatalog der UB Basel
Brief an Unbekannt
Creators: name: Lesseps, Ferdinand de
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1852

description: Über den Tod eines Freundes
description: von Ferd[inand] de Lesseps
description: Eigenhändiger Brief mit Unterschrift
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Französisch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire August 2016 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln Rekatalogisierung nach Original, Verzeichnis von Karl Geigy-Hagenbach und Briefkatalog der UB Basel
Dynamical Scaling Implications of Ferrari, Prähofer, and Spohn's Remarkable Spatial Scaling Results for Facet-Edge Fluctuations
Creators: name: Einstein, T. L.
name: Pimpinelli, Alberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spurred by theoretical predictions from Spohn and coworkers [Phys. Rev. E {\bf 69}, 035102(R) (2004)], we rederived and extended their result heuristically as well as investigated the scaling properties of the associated Langevin equation in curved geometry with an asymmetric potential. With experimental colleagues we used STM line scans to corroborate their prediction that the fluctuations of the step bounding a facet exhibit scaling properties distinct from those of isolated steps or steps on vicinal surfaces. The correlation functions was shown to go as $t^{0.15(3)}$ decidedly different from the $t^{0.26(2)}$ behavior for fluctuations of isolated steps. From the exponents, we were able to categorize the universality, confirming the prediction that the non-linear term of the KPZ equation, long known to play a central role in non-equilibrium phenomena, can also arise from the curvature or potential-asymmetry contribution to the step free energy. We also considered, with modest Monte Carlo simulations, a toy model to show that confinement of a step by another nearby step can modify as predicted the scaling exponents of the step's fluctuations. This paper is an expansion of a celebratory talk at the 95$^{\rm th}$ Rutgers Statistical Mechanics Conference, May 2006.
description: 13 pages, 11 figures. This paper is an expansion of a celebratory talk at the 95$^{\rm th}$ Rutgers Statistical Mechanics Conference, May 2006
Metaphoric Plants: Goethe's Metamorphosis of Plants and the Metaphors of Reason
Creators: name: Nassar, Dalia
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2018

description: Philosophers have long appealed to various metaphors or images to describe, elucidate, or explicate reason and its place in the uni-verse. These metaphors usually came from the natural world, and more often than not, they involved trees. Porphyry’s tree might be the most well-known example of a philosopher invoking the metaphor of the plant in order to elucidate the structure of the world and the place of reason within it, but it was by no means the only. In his Principles of Philosophy (1644), René Descartes uses the metaphor of a tree to explicate his understanding of the various sciences and of the place of philosophy (as metaphysics) within his system: ‘The roots are metaphysics, the trunk is phys-ics, and the branches emerging from the trunk are all the other sciences, which may be reduced to three principal ones, namely medicine, mechanics and morals.’1 These metaphors provided (and continue to provide) significant means by which to articu-late fundamental philosophical ideas. Porphyry’s and Descartes’ images express unity, on the one hand, and hierarchy, on the other. While Descartes’ metaphor implies that reason furnishes the foundation of reality, Porphyry’s regards reason (the highest branch of the tree) as the most complex manifestation of what is already present in other parts of the natural world (in other branches of the tree). By contrast, Leibniz’s image of reason as a seed ‘implanted’ in the mind by God — an image invoked to explicate the notion of innate ideas — carries a different implica-tion: human reason is eternal, independent from the ephemeral world of the senses.
Self-Averaging Property of Minimal Investment Risk of Mean-Variance Model
Creators: name: Shinzato, Takashi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Portfolio Management (q-fin.PM)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In portfolio optimization problems, the minimum expected investment risk is not always smaller than the expected minimal investment risk. That is, using a well-known approach from operations research, it is possible to derive a strategy that minimizes the expected investment risk, but this strategy does not always result in the best rate of return on assets. Prior to making investment decisions, it is important to an investor to know the potential minimal investment risk (or the expected minimal investment risk) and to determine the strategy that will maximize the return on assets. We use the self-averaging property to analyze the potential minimal investment risk and the concentrated investment level for the strategy that gives the best rate of return. We compare the results from our method with the results obtained by the operations research approach and with those obtained by a numerical simulation using the optimal portfolio. The results of our method and the numerical simulation are in agreement, but they differ from that of the operations research approach.
description: 37 pages, 1 figure
Brief an Unbekannt
Creators: name: Weber, Wilhelm
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1844

description: Über Universitätsangelegenheiten
description: von Wilhelm Weber
description: Eigenhändiger Brief mit Unterschrift und rotem Lacksiegel
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Deutsch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire August 2016 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln Rekatalogisierung nach Original, Verzeichnis von Karl Geigy-Hagenbach und Briefkatalog der UB Basel
Lorentz transformation in Maxwell equations for slowly moving media
Creators: name: Sheng, Xin-Li
name: Li, Yang
name: Pu, Shi
name: Wang, Qun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use the method of field decomposition, a technique widely used in relativistic magnetohydrodynamics, to study the small velocity approximation (SVA) of the Lorentz transformation in Maxwell equations for slowly moving media. The "deformed" Maxwell equations derived under the SVA in the lab frame can be put into the conventional form of Maxwell equations in the medium's comoving frame. Our results show that the Lorentz transformation in the SVA up to $O(v/c)$ ($v$ is the speed of the medium and $c$ is the speed of light in vacuum) is essential to derive these equations: the time and charge density must also change when transforming to a different frame even in the SVA, not just the position and current density as in the Galilean transformation. This marks the essential difference of the Lorentz transformation from the Galilean one. We show that the integral forms of Faraday and Ampere equations for slowly moving surfaces are consistent with Maxwell equations. We also present Faraday equation the covariant integral form in which the electromotive force can be defined as a Lorentz scalar independent of the observer's frame. No evidences exist to support an extension or modification of Maxwell equations.
description: 16 pages, 1 figure, 3 tables. Section VI is added about integral forms of Faraday and Ampere laws for moving surfaces. Part of Section IV and V are rewitten
Continuous Green Abstraction: Embodied Knowledge, Intuition, and Metaphor
Creators: name: Woodard, Ben
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2018

description: Is there a relation between de-centralizing forms of thought in the various research programs of the cognitive sciences and the democratization of thought across species in philosophy? Or, put otherwise, do the forms of thought articulated in human cognition (reason, imagination, intuition, etc.) map in any ad-equate way onto embodiment across numerous species in terms of how such species cognitively function, as well as how they rely upon physical embodiment to think? And, lastly, do the various theories of 4E Cognition (embodied, enacted, embedded, and extended) clarify or needlessly complicate this?While it critiques of classical cognitive models often go hand in hand with critiques of epistemology, or human-centered ways of knowing, such projects seem to over-rely on a  metaphorical  disjunction, which itself is not anti-epistemological but embed-ded within both the embodied modes of cognition and more dis-embodied transcendental accounts. This is particularly evident in recent works that have attempted to argue for the presence of thinking in so called ‘lower lifeforms,’ while at the same time in-voking, and capitalizing on, highly abstract concepts taken from philosophers such as C.S. Peirce (a thinker who is anything but anti-epistemological).
Figures
Creators: name: Dowdall, Lisa
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2018

description: Call it the Chthulucene: this threshold at the edge of the present in which the monstrous, the chthonic, the tentacular, the horrif-ic, and the weird abound. How to write the Chthulucene? Why not start here in the speculative mode that touches on the hid-den, but cannot quite name it — that recovers terror and strange-ness in the sym-poietic cascade of crisis and becoming.Science  fiction.  Fantasy.  Slipstream.  Cli-fi.  Horror.  New Weird. Such stories estrange the world, rendering it and its agents both  immediate  and  uncanny  in  that  immediacy.  From  John Wyndham’s triffids to Jeff Vandermeer’s Southern Reach1 and El-len van Neerven’s plant people2 — weird stories that reimagine the interactions between plants and humans in the Chthulucene offer new ways of thinking, or, as Vandermeer claims, feeling, in rapidly changing and multi-species worlds.
Carbon-rich planet formation in a solar composition disk
Creators: name: Ali-Dib, Mohamad
name: Mousis, Olivier
name: Petit, Jean-Marc
name: Lunine, Jonathan I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The C--to--O ratio is a crucial determinant of the chemical properties of planets. The recent observation of WASP 12b, a giant planet with a C/O value larger than that estimated for its host star, poses a conundrum for understanding the origin of this elemental ratio in any given planetary system. In this paper, we propose a mechanism for enhancing the value of C/O in the disk through the transport and distribution of volatiles. We construct a model that computes the abundances of major C and O bearing volatiles under the influence of gas drag, sublimation, vapor diffusion, condensation and coagulation in a multi--iceline 1+1D protoplanetary disk. We find a gradual depletion in water and carbon monoxide vapors inside the water's iceline with carbon monoxide depleting slower than water. This effect increases the gaseous C/O and decreases the C/H ratio in this region to values similar to those found in WASP 12b's day side atmosphere. Giant planets whose envelopes were accreted inside the water's iceline should then display C/O values larger than those of their parent stars, making them members of the class of so-called ``carbon-rich planets''.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication ApJ
The Colour Green
Creators: name: Gibson, Prudence
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2018

description: Human representations of nature, as green, are prolific. The his-tory of the colour — as pigments mixed by artists, as iconic sculp-tural motifs of green figures, as environmental politics and as more recent philosophies of plant life — has influenced a battle between conventions of nature’s expression and changing per-ceptions of the vegetal world. This chapter addresses the colour green as an aesthetic, cultural, and political tool.Living cells, capable of performing photosynthesis, first ap-peared  on  earth  more  than  three  and  half  billion  years  ago.2Plant life was later charted in the creationist doctrine as the earth sprouted vegetation on the third day, when plants yielded seeds and trees bore fruit...and God thought it was good.3 Conversely, Derek Jarman writes of the Garden of Eden (and of Adam and Eve’s eviction from it, post apple-eating) and recalls the angry Adam hacking down the Tree of Knowledge to build the first house.4 Such terrible irony: as the utopian garden was lost and with that first tree slaughtered by man’s hand, as Jarman believed, we began our environmental demise. Climate change is biting at our heels, and all mythic and philosophical stories of ‘green’ can now be seen with the eco-eyes of hindsight and reclaimed as a vibrant slice of the colour wheel.
Persons as Plants: Ecopsychology and the Return to the Dream of Nature
Creators: name: Gagliano, Monica
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2018

description: With  the  provocative  title Plants as Persons, Matthew  Hall’s brainchild had stirred up an exciting discourse on the perception and the action of people towards plants, and more generally, Na-ture. In sharing my excitement over this book with a friend, I was asked whether the word persons is ‘proper English’ and whether it is even reasonable to equate plants to people.2 So let this essay be the journey that starts there, at the origin and significance of this word; a journey that weaves its way through the powerful threads of Silverstein’s storytelling3 to nurse the Western rational mind from the bigoted Aristotelian idea of the inferior nature of plants to the timeless and soul-full reality of plants as teachers experienced by indigenous healers and shamans across the globe. And from the world of shamans, so beautifully embroidered with magic and deep truths, let this journey bring us back to the scientific world of the Western mind, but with a new much-needed perception of what humans call ‘Nature.’ And just like in T.S. Eliot’s poem ‘Little Gidding,’ let this be a journey that ulti-mately returns us to the place from where we started, but which we now truly know for the first time.
Supplemental Data_R1.pdf
Creators: name: Prasanna Krishnamurthy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 60602 Animal Physiology - Cell
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Cardiac glycosaminoglycans and structural alterations during chronic stress-induced depression-like behavior in mice
Brief an [abbé]
Creators: name: Ruhmkorff, Heinrich Daniel
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1867

description: von [Heinrich Daniel] Ruhmkorff
description: Eigenhändiger Brief mit Unterschrift
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Französisch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire August 2016 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln Rekatalogisierung nach Original, Verzeichnis von Karl Geigy-Hagenbach und Briefkatalog der UB Basel