cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Nonequilibirum noise spectrum and Coulomb-blockade-assisted Rabi interference in a double-dot Aharonov-Bohm interferometer
Creators: name: Jin, Jinshuang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the charge-states coherence underlying the nonequilibirum transport through a spinless double-dot Aharonov-Bohm (AB) interferometer. Both the current noise spectrum and real-time dynamics are evaluated with the well-established dissipaton-equation-of-motion method. The resulted spectrums show the characteristic peaks and dips, arising from coherent Rabi oscillation dynamics, with the environment-assisted indirect inter-dot tunnel coupling mechanism. The observed spectroscopic features are in a quantitative agreement to the real-time dynamics of the reduced density matrix off-diagonal element between two charge states. As the aforementioned mechanism, these characteristics of coherence are very sensitive to the AB phase. While this is generally true for cross-correlation spectrum, the total circuit noise spectrum that is experimentally more accessible shows remarkably rich interplay between various mechanisms. The most important finding of this work is the existence of Coulomb-blockade-assisted Rabi interference, with very distinct signatures arising from the interplay between the AB interferometer and the interdot Coulomb interaction induced Fano resonance.
description: 10 pages,5 figures
Strings in the Einstein's paradigm of matter
Creators: name: Dzhunushaliev, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spherically symmetric solutions with a flux of electric and magnetic fields in Kaluza-Klein gravity are considered. It is shown that under the condition (electric charge $q$) $\approx$ (magnetic charge $Q$) ($q>Q$) these solutions are like a flux tube stretched between two Universes. The longitudinal size of this tube depends on the value of $δ= 1 - Q/q$. The cross section of the tube can be chosen $\approx l_{Pl}$. In this case this flux tube looks like a 1-dimensional object (thread) stretched between two Universes. The propagation of gravitational waves on the thread is considered. The corresponding equations are very close to the classical string equations. This result allows us to say that the thread between two Universes is similar to the string attached to two $D-$branes.
description: changes in the text
Gradient-Based Markov Chain Monte Carlo for Bayesian Inference With Non-differentiable Priors
Creators: name: Goldman, Jacob Vorstrup
name: Sell, Torben
name: Singh, Sumeetpal Sidhu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The use of nondifferentiable priors in Bayesian statistics has become increasingly popular, in particular in Bayesian imaging analysis. Current state-of-the-art methods are approximate in the sense that they replace the posterior with a smooth approximation via Moreau-Yosida envelopes, and apply gradient-based discretized diffusions to sample from the resulting distribution. We characterize the error of the Moreau-Yosida approximation and propose a novel implementation using underdamped Langevin dynamics. In misson-critical cases, however, replacing the posterior with an approximation may not be a viable option. Instead, we show that piecewise-deterministic Markov processes (PDMP) can be used for exact posterior inference from distributions satisfying almost everywhere differentiability. Furthermore, in contrast with diffusion-based methods, the suggested PDMP-based samplers place no assumptions on the prior shape, nor require access to a computationally cheap proximal operator, and consequently have a much broader scope of application. Through detailed numerical examples, including a nondifferentiable circular distribution and a nonconvex genomics model, we elucidate the relative strengths of these sampling methods on problems of moderate to high dimensions, underlining the benefits of PDMP-based methods when accurate sampling is decisive. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.
Arbeitsprinzipien zur Konzeptentwicklung für diskriminierungskritische Workshops zum Empowerment von Flinta*-Personen
Creators: name: Bürger, Laura
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Empowerment
subject: Intersektional
subject: diskriminierungskritisch
subject: Flinta*-Personen
subject: Othering
subject: 305

description: Die Arbeit mit dem Titel Arbeitsprinzipien zur Konzeptentwicklung für diskriminierungskritische Workshops zum Empowerment von Flinta*-Personen hat zum einen das Ziel, zum Empowerment von Flinta*-Personen beizutragen, um die in unserer Gesellschaft bestehende Ungleichheit und Diskriminierung abzubauen. in dem der angesprochene Personenkreis ermächtigt wird, für seine Rechte einzustehen. Zum anderen soll das Fachpersonal bei der Konzeptionierung von intersektionalen Workshops mit geschlechtsbezogenem Schwerpunkt unterstützt werden. Es werden die zu fördernden Kompetenzen zur Erhöhung der Handlungsfähigkeit vorgestellt, die an die Bedürfnisse und Erfahrungen der Teilnehmenden anzupassen sind. Diese Arbeit enthält außerdem, unter Beachtung der Vorüberlegungen und Empfehlungen, ein Beispiels-Konzept. Dieses kann als Vorlage für den Themeneinstieg in intersektionales Empowerment genutzt werden und wendet die Empfehlungen, welche in dieser Arbeit beschrieben werden, an. Insgesamt soll durch die Implementierung von diskriminierungskritischen Workshops ein wichtiger Beitrag zur Stärkung der Selbstermächtigung und zum Empowerment von Flinta*-Personen geleistet werden
Model checks and simultaneous prediction bands for load sharing models in prestressed concrete beams
Creators: name: Leckey, Kevin
name: Heinrich, Jens
name: Müller, Christine H.
name: Maurer, Reinhard
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: accelerated life testing
subject: K-sign depth
subject: load sharing models
subject: deflection force
subject: cable factor
subject: 310
subject: 330
subject: 620

description: This article presents a new method to test on whether a parametric model is capable of describing data properly. It also introduces a simple procedure to generate simultaneous prediction bands based on independent copies of a process. The performance of these prediction bands, e.g. in a leave-one-out cross-validation, will also be used as another indication of whether data is modeled properly. Both methods are applied to data from fatigue experiments on prestressed concrete beam girders. These experiments highlight a couple of different influences on the fatigue of such girders, namely the so-called cable factor and the deflection force. Both effects are incorporated into different load sharing models for component failures which then are compared and used for predicting these failure times.
description: Discussion Paper / SFB823;32/2021
Digitalisierung und Automatisierung im Reporting – Untersuchung der Auswirkungen automatisierter Berichterstattung
Creators: name: Dupont, Lucien
Publisher: name: Hochschulbibliothek, Hochschule Merseburg
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: automation
subject: business process management
subject: controlling
subject: decision making
subject: digitalization
subject: information technology
subject: process improvement
subject: reporting
subject: RPA
subject: DDC::0** Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke::00* Informatik, Wissen, Systeme::000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke

description: Information has become one of the most valuable goods not only to base decisions on but also as a resource for companies. Therefore, the ability to efficiently process information is a key part for securing economic success. Coupled with this process of gathering, evaluating, and presenting information are a variety of standardized tasks done by the internal reporting. Digitalization and automatization can play a central role in optimizing these tasks. Over the past decade, solutions like robotics process automation (RPA) have given companies progressively more opportunities to improve processes by automating them. Thanks to other developments in the information technology sector, even more actions and tasks can now be automated. Automation has become widely accepted by companies as one of the key solutions for a wide range of problems. If most literature studied general concepts when reviewing the use of automation for internal reporting processes, this study objective was to have a practical study of a real time implementation of multiple automation processes. Therefore, to analyse more comprehensively the impact and the opportunities of automating reporting processes, this study was conducted to assess the efficiency of automated processes. Based on the analysis of the planning, the implementation and the results of new automated processes, this study has shown that automated processes do improve productivity and reduce costs as previously shown in the literature dealing with digitalization and automation. But it has also revealed the difficulty of measuring the real improvements compared to manual labour. Lastly, when a company wants to improve the efficiency of its reports, this examination of automated reporting tasks has shown the importance of taking a global approach when dealing with the automatization of the entire information process.
A computer-aided learning package for engineering students: BTEC mathematics at First and National level
Creators: name: Ford, Robert E.
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A computer-aided learning package for engineering students: BTEC mathematics at First and National level
Stenoloba elegans A. E. Prout 1828
Creators: name: Behounek, G.
name: Kononenko, V. S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Stenoloba
Stenoloba elegans

description: Stenoloba elegans A. E. Prout, 1828
(Figs. 9, 10, 37, 54, 61)
 Sarawak Museum Journal, 3: 462, Pl. 15: 2. Type-locality: Borneo, Sarawak, Mt. Poi. Holotype, BMNH, London. Holloway 1982: 88, Pl. 29: 4; Holloway 2009: 74, Pl. 2: 30, Figs 127, 128.
 Material examined. 1 female, Sumatra, 1–2. viii 1981 (E. W. Diehl leg.), genitalia slide: GB5643, female. Coll. G. Behounek, Munich.
 Diagnosis. Adult (Figs. 9, 10). Wingspan male, 19–21 mm, female 22–25 mm. Externally S. elegans could be confused with S. futii, but differs from the former by distinct spot-like orbicular and the shape of antemedial line. In male genitalia (Fig. 54) it differs from S. futii by thinner valva, vestigial uncus and absence of ring of minute cornuti in basal part of vesica. Females (Fig. 55) differ by the shape of antrum and bursa copulatrix.
 Distribution. Indonesia, Sumatra, Borneo. Several generations per year.
description: Published as part of Behounek, G. & Kononenko, V. S., 2010, Fourteen new species of the genus Stenoloba Staudinger, 1892 from South East Asia (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae, Bryophilinae), pp. 1-31 in Zootaxa 2679 (1) on page 7, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2679.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5301975
Fireball streak detection with minimal CPU processing requirements for the Desert Fireball Network data processing pipeline
Creators: name: Towner, Martin C.
name: Cupak, Martin
name: Howie, Robert M.
name: Hartig, Ben
name: Paxman, Jonathan
name: Sansom, Eleanor K.
name: Devillepoix, Hadrien A. R.
name: Jansen-Sturgeon, Trent
name: Bland, Philip A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The detection of fireballs streaks in astronomical imagery can be carried out by a variety of methods. The Desert Fireball Network--DFN--uses a network of cameras to track and triangulate incoming fireballs to recover meteorites with orbits. Fireball detection is done on-camera, but due to the design constraints imposed by remote deployment, the cameras are limited in processing power and time. We describe the processing software used for fireball detection under these constrained circumstances. A cascading approach was implemented, whereby computationally simple filters are used to discard uninteresting portions of the images, allowing for more computationally expensive analysis of the remainder. This allows a full night's worth of data; over 1000 36 megapixel images to be processed each day using a low power single board computer. The algorithms chosen give a single camera successful detection large fireball rate of better than 96 percent, when compared to manual inspection, although significant numbers of false positives are generated. The overall network detection rate for triangulated large fireballs is estimated to be better than 99.8 percent, by ensuring that there are multiple double stations chances to detect one fireball.
description: 20 pages, 5 figures
Institutionelle Schutzkonzepte zur Prävention von sexualisierter Gewalt in Einrichtungen und Diensten der Diakonie Bayern : die Entwicklung einer Arbeitshilfe für pädagogische Fachkräfte mit erwachsener Zielgruppe zur Erstellung institutioneller Schutzkonzepte
Creators: name: Erll, Tabea
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt, Halle (Saale)
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Prävention sexualisierter Gewalt
subject: Schutzkonzepte
subject: institutioneller Schutz
subject: Diakonie Bayern
subject: 361

description: Die vorliegende Masterarbeit befasst sich mit der Entwicklung von institutionellen Schutzkonzepten zur Prävention sexualisierter Gewalt in Einrichtungen mit erwachsenen Zielgruppen in der Diakonie Bayern. Das Ziel der Forschung besteht in der Identifikation der Herausforderungen und Unterstützungsbedarfe von Fachkräften in der Praxis, auf deren Basis eine praxisorientierte Arbeitshilfe entwickelt werden soll. Die Forschungsfragen fokussieren sich auf die zentralen Elemente eines Schutzkonzepts sowie auf die Frage, wie deren Zugänglichkeit und Anwendbarkeit für die Mitarbeitenden der Diakonie Bayern optimiert werden kann. Die Beantwortung der Fragen erfolgte mittels einer Kombination aus Literaturanalyse und Experteninterviews, welche im Rahmen des Moduls "Werkstatt 2 – Forschung, Praxis, Selbsterfahrung" durchgeführt wurden. Die Analyse zielte darauf ab, zentrale Themen und Methoden in den vorhandenen Arbeitshilfen zu identifizieren und mit den Erkenntnissen der Interviews abzugleichen. Die Ergebnisse der Untersuchung legen nahe, dass klare Leitlinien, eine stärkere Einbindung von Leitungspersonen sowie gezielte Schulungsangebote als wesentliche Elemente für die Entwicklung von Schutzkonzepten betrachtet werden können. Des Weiteren wurde die Notwendigkeit einer Reduzierung der Komplexität sowie der Bereitstellung praktischer Materialien betont. Die vorliegende Arbeit leistet einen Beitrag zur Verbesserung der Prävention sexualisierter Gewalt in sozialen Einrichtungen, indem sie eine strukturierte, leicht verständliche und anwendungsorientierte Arbeitshilfe für pädagogische Fachkräfte bereitstellt.
Einsatzmöglichkeiten von Handpuppen in der Sozialen Arbeit - Inneren Anteilen Ausdrucksmöglichkeiten schaffen
Creators: name: Wischmeyer, Pia Marie
Publisher: name: Hochschulbibliothek, Hochschule Merseburg
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Handpuppen
subject: Ego-State-Therapie
subject: Soziale Arbeit
subject: DDC::3** Sozialwissenschaften::30* Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie::304 Das Sozialverhalten beeinflussende Faktoren

description: Die Fragestellung, die im Mittelpunkt dieser Arbeit steht, ist folgende: Welche Aufgaben können Handpuppen in der Arbeit mit Ego-States bei Erwachsenen, Kindern und Jugendlichen übernehmen? Es soll demnach herausgefunden werden, wie Handpuppen eine Form der Verbildlichung von inneren Prozessen darstellen können und ob dies bei Kindern, Jugendlichen und Erwachsenen die gleiche Vorgehensweise ist. Obwohl der Ansatz der Ego-State-Therapie, wie der Name schon deutlich zeigt, aus dem therapeutischen Spektrum stammt, soll in dieser Arbeit ein Bezug zur Sozialen Arbeit hergestellt werden.
Scalar Field Theory on Fuzzy S^4
Creators: name: Medina, Julieta
name: O'Connor, Denjoe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Scalar fields are studied on fuzzy $S^4$ and a solution is found for the elimination of the unwanted degrees of freedom that occur in the model. The resulting theory can be interpreted as a Kaluza-Klein reduction of CP^3 to S^4 in the fuzzy context.
description: 16 pages, LaTeX
Additional file 1: Table E1. of RNA-sequencing analysis of lung primary fibroblast response to eosinophil-degranulation products predicts downstream effects on inflammation, tissue remodeling and lipid metabolism
Creators: name: Stephane Esnault
name: Bernau, Ksenija
name: Torr, Elizabeth
name: Bochkov, Yury
name: Jarjour, Nizar
name: Sandbo, Nathan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Primer sequences used for real-time PCR. (DOCX 15Â kb)
Dynamical equations for high-order structure functions, and a comparison of a mean field theory with experiments in three-dimensional turbulence
Creators: name: Kurien, Susan
name: Sreenivasan, Katepalli R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two recent publications [V. Yakhot, Phys. Rev. E {\bf 63}, 026307, (2001) and R.J. Hill, J. Fluid Mech. {\bf 434}, 379, (2001)] derive, through two different approaches that have the Navier-Stokes equations as the common starting point, a set of steady-state dynamic equations for structure functions of arbitrary order in hydrodynamic turbulence. These equations are not closed. Yakhot proposed a "mean field theory" to close the equations for locally isotropic turbulence, and obtained scaling exponents of structure functions and an expression for the tails of the probability density function of transverse velocity increments. At high Reynolds numbers, we present some relevant experimental data on pressure and dissipation terms that are needed to provide closure, as well as on aspects predicted by the theory. Comparison between the theory and the data shows varying levels of agreement, and reveals gaps inherent to the implementation of the theory.
description: 16 pages, 23 figures
Parity-Violating Møller Scattering at NNLO: Closed Fermion Loops
Creators: name: Du, Yong
name: Freitas, Ayres
name: Patel, Hiren H.
name: Ramsey-Musolf, Michael J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A complete, gauge-invariant computation of two loop virtual corrections involving closed fermion loops to the polarized Møller scattering asymmetry is presented. The set of contributions involving two closed fermion loops and the set involving one closed fermion loop are numerically similar in magnitude to the one-loop bosonic corrections and yield an overall correction of 1.3% relative to the tree-level asymmetry. We estimate sizes of remaining two-loop contributions and discuss implications for the upcoming MOLLER experiment.
description: 6 pages; v2: numerical error and few typos corrected, published version
Stenoloba futii Kononenko & Ronkay 2000
Creators: name: Behounek, G.
name: Kononenko, V. S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Stenoloba
Stenoloba futii

description: Stenoloba futii Kononenko & Ronkay, 2000
(Figs. 11–13, 38, 62, 63)
 Insecta Koreana, 17(3):165, fig. 22, 49, 49a, 67. Type-locality: Malaysia, Pahang state, Cameron Highlands, Tanah Rata. Holotype: male HNHM, Budapest.
 Material examined. 2 males, 1 female, Peninsula Malaya, Myanmar, Tenasserim, Dawna Mts., 800 m, September 1995, October 1995, March–April 1995 (Steinke & Lehmann leg.), genitalia slides GB7213, 7215 males GB5646 female); Sumatra, common on several collecting sites, genitalia slides: GB5321, 7214, 7216, LRK7631 males, GB5646, 7215, LRK7632 females (coll. G. Behounek); 5 males, 1 female, Sumatra: “ Fort de Kock (Sumatra) 920 m, January 1921, 1922, February 1922, December 1922 (F. Jacobson leg.), genitalia slides: male 4-150510 VK, 5-150510 VK; 1 female, Java, Roepke / Museum Leiden verzameling W.K.J. Roepke, genitalia slide 11-150510 VK (RMNH, Leiden).
 Diagnosis. Adult (Figs. 11–13). Wingspan: male, 20–23 mm, female 23–26 mm. This is the most widespread South East Asian Stenoloba species, distributed from Dawna Mts. in south Myanmar, through peninsular Malaysia to Sumatra and Java. Externally it could be confused with S. elegans and S. futioides. It differs from S. elegans by the shape of the reniform and from S. futiodes by the presence of a clear wide shadow in the medial field behind antemedial line. In male genitalia (Fig. 38) it differs from its allies by more developed uncus and the presence of a ring formed by minute cornuti in the base of the vesica. Males have brush organ on the 8 th segment of abdomen (Fig. 51), represented by thin sclerotized ring and very large gland (much larger than in related species), bearing a brush of hairs. In female genitalia (Fig. 62, 63) it differs from S. futioides by larger antrum with broader antevaginal plate.
 Distribution. Malayan Peninsula: Myanmar, Malaysia; Indonesia: Sumatra, Java. The species occurs in mountains at elevations of 800–1000 m. Several generations, probably throughout the year.
description: Published as part of Behounek, G. & Kononenko, V. S., 2010, Fourteen new species of the genus Stenoloba Staudinger, 1892 from South East Asia (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae, Bryophilinae), pp. 1-31 in Zootaxa 2679 (1) on page 7, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2679.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5301975
title: 01_1738
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
A standard stellar library for evolutionary synthesis. III. Metallicity calibration
Creators: name: Westera, P.
name: Lejeune, T.
name: Buser, R.
name: Cuisinier, F.
name: A., G. Bruzual
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend the colour calibration of the widely used BaSeL standard stellar library (Lejeune, Cuisinier, & Buser 1997, 1998) to non-solar metallicities, down to [Fe/H] ~ -2.0 dex. Surprisingly, we find that at the present epoch it is virtually impossible to establish a unique calibration of UBVRIJHKL colours in terms of stellar metallicity [Fe/H] which is consistent simultaneously with both colour-temperature relations and colour-absolute magnitude diagrams (CMDs) based on observed globular cluster photometry data and on published, currently popular standard stellar evolutionary tracks and isochrones. The problem appears to be related to the long-standing incompleteness in our understanding of convection in late-type stellar evolution, but is also due to a serious lack of relevant observational calibration data that would help resolve, or at least further significant progress towards resolving this issue. In view of the most important applications of the BaSeL library, we here propose two different metallicity calibration versions: (1) the "WLBC 99" library, which consistently matches empirical colour-temperature relations and which, therefore, should make an ideal tool for the study of individual stars; and (2), the "PADOVA 2000" library, which provides isochrones from the Padova 2000 grid (Girardi et al., 2000) that successfully reproduce Galactic globular-cluster colour-absolute magnitude diagrams and which thus should prove particularly useful for studies of collective phenomena in stellar populations in clusters and galaxies.
description: 15 pages, LaTeX, documentclass aa, accepted for A and A
Incentives and Social Preferences: Experimental Evidence from a Seemingly Inefficienct Traditional Labor Contract
Creators: name: Goto, Jun
name: Sawada, Yasuyuki
name: Aida, Takeshi
name: Aoyagi, Keitaro
name: Goto, Jun
name: Sawada, Yasuyuki
name: Aida, Takeshi
name: Aoyagi, Keitaro
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Randomized controlled trials
subject: incentives
subject: social preferences
subject: peer effect
subject: labor contract
subject: field experiments

description: This paper investigates the interplay between economic incentives and social norms in formulating rice planting contracts in the Philippines. In our study area, despite the potential for pervasive opportunistic behaviors by workers, a fixed-wage (FW) contract has been dominant for rice planting. To account for the use of this seemingly inefficient contractual arrangement, we adopt a hybrid experimental method of framed field experiments by randomized controlled trials (RCT), in which we randomly assign three distinct labor contracts—FW, individual piece rate (IPR), and group piece rate (GPR)—and artefactual field experiments to elicit social preference parameters. Through analyses of individual workers’ performance data from framed field experiments and data on social preferences elicited by artefactual field experiments, three main empirical findings emerge. First, our basic results show the positive incentive effects in IPR and, equivalently, moral hazard problems in FW, which are consistent with standard theoretical implications. Second, non-monetary incentives seem to play a significant role under FW : while social preferences such as altruism and guilt aversion play an important role in stimulating incentives under FW, introducing monetary incentives crowds out such intrinsic motivations, and other non-monetary factors such as positive peer effects significantly enhance incentives under a FW contract. Finally, as alternative hypotheses, our empirical results are not necessarily consistent with the hypothesis of the interlinked contract of labor and credit transactions in mitigating moral hazard problems, the optimality of FW contract under large effort measurement errors, and the intertemporal incentives arising from performance-based contract renewal probabilities. Hence, considering the interplay of intrinsic motivations and monetary incentives as well as the monetary costs of mitigating moral hazard and free-riding problems through IPR, we may conclude that seemingly perverse traditional contractual arrangements might be socially efficient.
title: A Study of the Variety of Responses to Death in the British Army on the Western Front, 1914-1918
Creators: name: Silk, Natasha
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2021

description: This thesis explores the variety of responses that the infantryman of the British Army experienced on the Western Front, 1914-1918. Through the concept of the Combat Grief Cycle this work offers an opportunity to understand and construct a form of shared experience in relation to violent death in war for those who served on the frontline. There has been a great deal of research into the civilian outpouring of grief and mourning both during and after the war, with little attention paid to those who were immersed in the horrors of death at the front. This thesis addresses this gap in the historiography. It is a common misconception that fighting men became hardened and indifferent to the losses they bore witness to. Although this thesis accepts that men were able to harden their emotions towards death, it considers how this was never general and could not endure the duration of their service. One traumatic loss or witnessing mass death could breach a man's defences and cause repressed grief to consume an individual or community of soldiers. The concepts of bereavement, grief and mourning all feature heavily in this thesis but are only part of the story concerning soldiers' interactions with the dead and dying. This work has deployed and analysed numerous sources in order to determine the many different ways individuals reacted to their losses. Furthermore, it considers how losses bound soldiers together, separate from the civilian sphere, into communities in mourning as men collectively grieved for what had been lost. It also explores the relative nature of the cohort war experiences, positing that the Battle of the Somme was not the only event that shattered illusions of sacrifice for soldiers but instead, represented one in a series of watershed moments. This thesis demonstrates that soldiers at the front created their own emotional code for sharing grief which ran counter to society's expectations of soldiers as stoic masculine figures. As an extension to this, soldiers created a coded language which allowed them to convey how deeply they had been affected by the loss of friends and comrades. Therefore, this work examines how soldiers used writing as a way to mediate their grief, create enduring memorials to the dead and share their experiences of grief with the Home Front. It also explores how burial and frontline commemorations offered an opportunity for soldiers to come to terms with the violence of death in war. However, when these avenues of expression were not available it led to impaired mourning, which if left unmediated could lead to a lifetime of repressed and painful grief. Ultimately, this thesis has determined that bereavements suffered as a result of violent death in war had long term consequences for survivors and was one of the factors which led to disillusionment amongst soldiers and veterans.
Additional file 3: of The SPARK Tool to prioritise questions for systematic reviews in health policy and systems research: development and initial validation
Creators: name: Akl, Elie
name: Fadlallah, Racha
name: Ghandour, Lilian
name: Kdouh, Ola
name: Langlois, Etienne
name: Lavis, John
name: SchĂźnemann, Holger
name: El-Jardali, Fadi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: User manual for the SPARK tool. (PDF 511 kb)
Estimating the Competitive Storage Model with Trending Commodity Prices
Creators: name: Gouel, Christophe
name: LEgrand, Nicolas
name: Gouel, Christophe
name: LEgrand, Nicolas
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Public Economics
subject: Commodity prices
subject: non-linear dynamic models
subject: storage
subject: structural estimation
subject: trend

description: We present a method to estimate jointly the parameters of a standard commodity storage model and the parameters characterizing the trend in commodity prices. This procedure allows the influence of a possible trend to be removed without restricting the model specification, and allows model and trend selection based on statistical criteria. The trend is modeled deterministically using linear or cubic spline functions of time. The results show that storage models with trend are always preferred to models without trend. They yield more plausible estimates of the structural parameters, with storage costs and demand elasticities that are more consistent with the literature. They imply occasional stockouts, whereas without trend the estimated models predict no stockouts over the sample period for most commodities. Moreover, accounting for a trend in the estimation imply price moments closer to those observed in commodity prices. Our results support the empirical relevance of the speculative storage model, and show that storage model estimations should not neglect the possibility of long-run price trends.
Bell correlations between light and vibration at ambient conditions
Creators: name: Velez, Santiago Tarrago
name: Sudhir, Vivishek
name: Sangouard, Nicolas
name: Galland, Christophe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Time-resolved Raman spectroscopy techniques offer various ways to study the dynamics of molecular vibrations in liquids or gases and optical phonons in crystals. While these techniques give access to the coherence time of the vibrational modes, they are not able to reveal the fragile quantum correlations that are spontaneously created between light and vibration during the Raman interaction. Here, we present a scheme leveraging universal properties of spontaneous Raman scattering to demonstrate Bell correlations between light and a collective molecular vibration. We measure the decay of these hybrid photon-phonon Bell correlations with sub-picosecond time resolution and find that they survive over several hundred oscillations at ambient conditions. Our method offers a universal approach to generate entanglement between light and molecular vibrations. Moreover, our results pave the way for the study of quantum correlations in more complex solid-state and molecular systems in their natural state.
Resonances of the Frobenius-Perron Operator for a Hamiltonian Map with a Mixed Phase Space
Creators: name: Weber, Joachim
name: Haake, Fritz
name: Braun, Petr A.
name: Manderfeld, Christopher
name: Seba, Petr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Resonances of the (Frobenius-Perron) evolution operator P for phase-space densities have recently attracted considerable attention, in the context of interrelations between classical and quantum dynamics. We determine these resonances as well as eigenvalues of P for Hamiltonian systems with a mixed phase space, by truncating P to finite size in a Hilbert space of phase-space functions and then diagonalizing. The corresponding eigenfunctions are localized on unstable manifolds of hyperbolic periodic orbits for resonances and on islands of regular motion for eigenvalues. Using information drawn from the eigenfunctions we reproduce the resonances found by diagonalization through a variant of the cycle expansion of periodic-orbit theory and as rates of correlation decay.
description: 18 pages, 7 figures
Evaluation of IPM adoption and financial instruments to reduce pesticide use in Thai agriculture using econometrics and agent-based modeling
Creators: name: Grovermann, Christian
name: Schreinemachers, Pepijn
name: Berger, Thomas
name: Grovermann, Christian
name: Schreinemachers, Pepijn
name: Berger, Thomas
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Agent-based modeling
subject: ex-ante assessment
subject: innovation diffusion
subject: pesticide policy
subject: integrated pest management

description: Agricultural commercialization in Asia has led to an increased dependence on synthetic pesticides, especially for high-value fruit and vegetable crops. The present study uses the multi-agent modeling software MPMAS to ex-ante assess the impact of different pesticide use reduction strategies. The model is parameterized with data from an intensive and diverse production systems in the mountainous north of Thailand, where the adoption of cash crops has been accompanied by very high levels of pesticide use. The objective of this study is to compare different policy interventions in terms of their impact on pesticide use, farm incomes and land use. The adoption of integrated pest management (IPM) is assessed in combination with tax instruments and with adoption incentives, such as bio-pesticide subsidies and price premiums. The results show that a smart policy package can reduce pesticide use by up to 34% over five years without income trade-offs for farm households.
Aid, Trad and Post-War Recovery of the Rwandan Coffee Sector
Creators: name: Guariso, Andrea
name: Verpoorten, Marijke
name: Guariso, Andrea
name: Verpoorten, Marijke
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: International Development
subject: Africa
subject: Rwanda
subject: coffee
subject: conflict
subject: war overhang
subject: catch up.

description: We study post-war recovery in Rwanda, focusing on the coffee sector. First, we find that the role played by the rise in international coffee prices largely outweighed the one played by domestic policies. Second, we reveal the legacy of armed conflict, by analyzing how the recovery of the coffee sector varied sub-nationally. In 1999 – five years after the peak of the violence – we observe a significant investment gap in highly violence-affected regions. By 2009 the gap is however closed. We argue that the catching up was fostered by positive externalities generated by highprofile public investments in the coffee sector.
Self-Adaptive Soft Voice Activity Detection using Deep Neural Networks for Robust Speaker Verification
Creators: name: Jung, Youngmoon
name: Choi, Yeunju
name: Kim, Hoirin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Voice activity detection (VAD), which classifies frames as speech or non-speech, is an important module in many speech applications including speaker verification. In this paper, we propose a novel method, called self-adaptive soft VAD, to incorporate a deep neural network (DNN)-based VAD into a deep speaker embedding system. The proposed method is a combination of the following two approaches. The first approach is soft VAD, which performs a soft selection of frame-level features extracted from a speaker feature extractor. The frame-level features are weighted by their corresponding speech posteriors estimated from the DNN-based VAD, and then aggregated to generate a speaker embedding. The second approach is self-adaptive VAD, which fine-tunes the pre-trained VAD on the speaker verification data to reduce the domain mismatch. Here, we introduce two unsupervised domain adaptation (DA) schemes, namely speech posterior-based DA (SP-DA) and joint learning-based DA (JL-DA). Experiments on a Korean speech database demonstrate that the verification performance is improved significantly in real-world environments by using self-adaptive soft VAD.
description: Accepted at 2019 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU 2019)
Additional file 2: of The SPARK Tool to prioritise questions for systematic reviews in health policy and systems research: development and initial validation
Creators: name: Akl, Elie
name: Fadlallah, Racha
name: Ghandour, Lilian
name: Kdouh, Ola
name: Langlois, Etienne
name: Lavis, John
name: SchĂźnemann, Holger
name: El-Jardali, Fadi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Iterative refinements of the items and their wording through the development and validation process. (PDF 196 kb)
Mikrostrukturierung von soliden Proben und elektrogesponnenen Nanofaservliesen aus Polylactid durch gepulste UV-Laserablation
Creators: name: Bock, Aaron Paul
Publisher: name: Hochschulbibliothek, Hochschule Merseburg
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Lasersysteme
subject: laserbasierte Oberflächenstrukturierung
subject: DDC::500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::530 Physik
subject: DDC::600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::600 Technik::600 Technik, Technologie

description: Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, durch laserbasierte Oberflächenstrukturierung die Morphologie, Oberflächenrauheit und Benetzbarkeit, der soliden Proben und elektrogesponnenen Nano-faservliese aus Poly(L-lactid) (PLLA) im Hinblick auf die Effizienz der Besiedelung und des Wachstums von biologischen Zellen weiter zu verbessern. Dafür kommen verschiedene Lasersysteme zum Einsatz, die mit Pulsdauern von Nano- bzw. Pikosekunden arbeiten und im UV-Bereich mit einer Wellenlänge von 355 nm betrieben werden. Die Lasersysteme werden zuerst in Bezug auf ihre optischen Eigenschaften überprüft, indem durch verschie-dene Möglichkeiten der Strahlprofilanalyse Fokuslagen, Fokusradien und zum Teil Ablati-onsschwellen für einige Materialen bestimmt werden. Anschließend wird durch Variation der Laser- und Prozessparameter versucht die Benetzbarkeit der verschiedenen PLLA-Pro-ben zu modifizieren.
Assessing Local Vulnerability to Climate Change in Agriculture: An Application to the State of Tocantins, Brazil
Creators: name: Guerrero-Escobar, Santiago
name: Juarez-Torres, Miriam
name: Martinez-Cruz, Adan
name: Guerrero-Escobar, Santiago
name: Juarez-Torres, Miriam
name: Martinez-Cruz, Adan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Local Vulnerability in Agriculture
subject: Climate Change
subject: Irrigation Projects

description: This research develops several indicators for assessing local vulnerability to climate change in the agricultural sector of Tocantins, Brazil, where the Inter-American Development Bank is carrying irrigation investments via the Development Program for the Southwest (PRODOESTE). Vulnerability to climate indicators are constructed from exposure and sensitivity indicators and estimated using panel data on yields and farmers’ profits as a function of climatic variables. Our baseline assessment indicates that those municipalities where PRODOESTE operates present medium to high levels of precipitation and temperature vulnerability, relative to the rest of Tocantins. In particular, temperature vulnerability is higher than precipitation vulnerability. We also find that vulnerability will increase in all municipalities due to climate change and it will be higher in the long-run and in more extreme climate change scenarios. Finally, irrigation is evaluated as a potential adaptation strategy and it is found to reduce climate vulnerability in the long-term, indicating that PRODOESTE’s irrigation investments may be successful at reducing vulnerability due to climate change.
Detection of Carbon Monoxide within the Magellanic Bridge
Creators: name: Muller, E.
name: Staveley-Smith, L.
name: Zealey, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Mopra 22m and SEST 15m telescopes have been used to detect and partially map a region of 12CO(1-0) line emission within the Magellanic Bridge, a region lying between the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. The emission appears to be embedded in a cloud of neutral hydrogen, and is in the vicinity of an IRAS source. The CO emission region is found to have a 60um/100um flux density ratio typical for 12CO(1-0) detections within the SMC, although it has a significantly lower 12CO brightness and velocity width. These suggest that the observed region is of a low metallicity, supporting earlier findings that the Magellanic Bridge is not as evolved as the SMC and Magellanic Stream, which are themselves of a lower metallicity than the Galaxy. Our observations, along with empirical models based on SMC observations, indicate that the radius of the detected CO region has an upper limit of ~16 pc. This detection is, to our knowledge, the first detection of CO emission from the Magellanic Bridge and is the only direct evidence of star formation through molecular cloud collapse in this region.
description: 8 pages, 6 Figures. LaTeX. Accepted for publication by MNRAS
MOESM4 of Volcanic ash in bare ice south of SĂ¸r Rondane Mountains, Antarctica: geochemistry, rock magnetism and nondestructive magnetic detection with SQUID gradiometer
Creators: name: Hirokuni Oda
name: Isoji Miyagi
name: Kawai, Jun
name: Suganuma, Yusuke
name: Funaki, Minoru
name: Imae, Naoya
name: Mikouchi, Takashi
name: Matsuzaki, Takuya
name: Yuhji Yamamoto
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 4. Backscattered Electron Images (BEIs; each image area is a square, 500Â Âľm each side) of volcanic ash particles extracted from tephra-bearing ice block samples with analyzed points (red numbers with arrows) for major element concentrations with EPMA.