cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Thin Sequences and Their Role in Model Spaces and Douglas Algebras
Creators: name: Gorkin, Pamela
name: Wick, Brett D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study thin interpolating sequences $\{λ_n\}$ and their relationship to interpolation in the Hardy space $H^2$ and the model spaces $K_Θ= H^2 \ominus ΘH^2$, where $Θ$ is an inner function. Our results, phrased in terms of the functions that do the interpolation as well as Carleson measures, show that under the assumption that $Θ(λ_n) \to 0$ the interpolation properties in $H^2$ are essentially the same as those in $K_Θ$.
description: v1: 16 pages. v2: 18 pages, corrections and modifications based on referee comments. To appear in J. Fourier Anal. Appl
Using Experimental Methods to Investigate Discriminatory Tendencies: A Lesson Report
Creators: name: Chen, Yu-Wen
name: Masch, Lena
name: Finze, Kristin
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2013

description: Using dictator games in experimental analysis, this lesson report demonstrates the process and results of a postgraduate class project in which university students were instructed to scientifically investigate and explore one of German society’s most hotly-contested issues: the level of discriminatory tendencies of non-Muslims towards Muslims. The results of this class project show little or no discriminatory tendencies toward Muslims. Instead, the university students under our investigation tended to act favorably, or at the very least, fairly toward Muslims. We expect that this lesson report can demonstrate how a postgraduate course can be conducted in an innovative way, empowering students to collect primary data and finishing a small scientific project during the span of a semester. Dieser Bericht stellt die Prozesse und Ergebnisse einer experimentellen Studie eines Postgraduierten-Kurses der Universität Greifswald dar. Wir zeigen, wie Studierende das Thema Migration innovativ untersuchen können, indem sie neben theoretischen Lerninhalten an experimentelle Methoden sowie die Primärforschung herangeführt werden. Anhand eines Diktatorspiels wurden die teilnehmenden Studenten angeleitet, ein in der Öffentlichkeit kontrovers debattiertes Thema wissenschaftlich zu untersuchen: Diskriminierende Tendenzen von Nicht-Muslimen gegenüber Muslimen. Die Ergebnisse dieser Studie lassen jedoch nicht auf diskriminierende Tendenzen der Studenten schließen. Stattdessen deuten sie darauf hin, dass sich die Studierenden zumindest fair gegenüber Muslimen verhalten.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 2-2014 Social Sciences in Higher Education
A deep learning-based system for fast and automated detection of volatile organic compounds in raw gas chromatography-mass spectrometry breath data
Creators: name: Skarysz, Angelika
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Through their breath, humans exhale hundreds of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that can reveal a large spectrum of health conditions, including many types of cancer in the early stages. Therefore, it is thought that breath analysis can provide fast, accurate and non-invasive diagnostics. Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) is an analytical method commonly used to measure VOCs in breath samples. The subsequent VOC detection is based on the recognition of their specific ion patterns in GC-MS data, which requires expert-driven data pre-processing that is time-consuming, subjective and may introduce errors. This thesis explores the original idea of applying deep learning pattern recognition abilities, and in particular convolutional neural networks (CNNs), to learn ion patterns in the complex data from GC-MS processing. The proposed approach provides a comprehensive system for fast and automated detection of any set of VOCs directly from raw GC-MS data, thus bypassing expert-led analysis. The developed system showed to outperform the state-of-the-art method by detecting a significantly higher number of VOCs in just a fraction of time while maintaining high specificity. Furthermore, automated quantification of the detected VOCs is introduced. The comprehensive system, combining compound detection and quantification, returns robust results that allow for accurate samples classification, proved on the clinical breath data obtained from participants before and after a radiation dose. The achieved results suggest a practical use of the proposed approach to analyse GC-MS data efficiently. This novel method can drastically reduce cost and time and improve the reliability of breath analysis, significantly supporting a game-changing opportunity for advanced breath-based medical diagnostics.
Justice in and through education? Students’ participation in decision-making
Creators: name: Rönnlund, Maria
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2014

description: Drawing on one year of ethnographic work in three Swedish lower secondary schools, this article problematizes students’ participation in decision-making in everyday school life in the perspective of social justice. In order to extend the traditional liberal understanding of justice and include also relational, procedurial, social and cultural aspects of justice, the analysis focuses on the range, depth and breadth of the participation. The analysis highlights how students’ participation in decision-making was curtailed and restricted in ways that referred to both the range and the depth of the participation. There were also deficiencies as regards the breadth. The analysis indicates inconveniences as regards students’ participation in decision-making in the perspective of social justice. At the same time it raises questions about social justice in educational contexts – to what extent is it possible to reach a social just school and classroom culture? Based on this analysis, it is argued that school actors need to be more explicit about the institutional frameworks and boundaries that regulate and frame students’ participation in decision-making in school. Such an approach might facilitate for students and staff to negotiate within these frameworks to a greater extent than was the case in these three schools. It is also argued that more students need to be involved in decision-making.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 2-2014 Social Sciences in Higher Education
Editorial: Young Europeans in an Era of Crises. Citizenship Education in a New Perspective
Creators: name: Oonk, Henk
name: Kontogiannopoulou-Polydorides, Gitsa
name: Lange, Dirk
name: Papadiamantaki, Yiouli
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2014

description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 3-2014 Young Europeans in an Era of Crises: Citizenship Education in a New Perspective
Young People in Croatia in Times of Crisis and Some Remarks About Citizenship Education
Creators: name: Mrnjaus, Kornelija
name: Zlokovic, Jasminka
name: Vrcelj, Sofija
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2014

description: In this paper, the authors address the youth as a research phenomenon and present the current position of young people in the Croatian society. The authors exhibit interesting results of a recent study of youth in Croatia and present the results of their research conducted among Croatian students aiming to explore the attitudes of young people and to discover how young people in Croatia develop resilience in times of crisis. They continue with remarks on citizenship education in Croatia and provide an overview of the Curriculum of civic education. Authors discuss whether we are dealing with education for democratic citizenship or rather, with the consequences of the non-existence of education for democratic citizenship in times of crisis in Croatia. Autorice u ovom radu obrađuju mlade kao istraživački fenomen i predstavljaju trenutni položaj mladih ljudi u hrvatskom društvu. Autorice donose interesantne rezultate recentnog istraživanja o mladima u Hrvatskoj te prezentiraju rezultate vlastitog kvalitativnog istraživanja provedenog među hrvatskim studentima s ciljem da ispitaju stavove mladih ljudi o krizi i otkriju kako mladi ljudi u Hrvatskoj razvijaju otpornost u vremenu krize. Nastavljaju s opažanjima o građanskom odgoju u Hrvatskoj i pružaju pregled Kurikuluma građanskog odgoja. Autorice otvaraju pitanje da li se govori o građanskom odgoju ili radije o posljedicama ne postojanja građanskog odgoja u vremenu krize u Hrvatskoj. In dieser Arbeit diskutieren die Autorinnen Jugend als Forschungsphänomen und präsentieren die aktuelle Position der jungen Menschen in der kroatischen Gesellschaft. Die Autorinnen bringen interessante Ergebnisse einer aktuellen Studie der Jugend in Kroatien und präsentieren die Ergebnisse ihrer eigenen qualitativen Studie, welche sie unter kroatischen Studenten durchgeführt haben, mit dem Ziel, die Einstellungen der Jugendlichen zu untersuchen und zu entdecken, wie junge Menschen in Kroatien die Belastbarkeit in Krisenzeiten entwickeln. Sie setzen mit Bemerkungen über Lernen für Demokratie und Zivilgesellschaft in Kroatien fort und bieten einen Überblick über Kurrikulum des Lernens für Demokratie und Zivilgesellschaft. Die Autorinnen öffnen die Frage, ob wir über das Lernen für Demokratie und Zivilgesellschaft oder, besser gesagt, über die Folgen der Nicht‐Existenz des Lernens für Demokratie und Zivilgesellschaft in den Zeiten der Krise in Kroatien reden.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 3-2014 Young Europeans in an Era of Crises: Citizenship Education in a New Perspective
Thermoelectric properties of Coulomb-blockaded fractional quantum Hall islands
Creators: name: Georgiev, Lachezar S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that it is possible and rather efficient to compute at non-zero temperature the thermoelectric characteristics of Coulomb blockaded fractional quantum Hall islands, formed by two quantum point contacts inside of a Fabry-Perot interferometer, using the conformal field theory partition functions for the chiral edge excitations. The oscillations of the thermopower with the variation of the gate voltage as well as the corresponding figure-of-merit and power factors, provide finer spectroscopic tools which are sensitive to the neutral multiplicities in the partition functions and could be used to distinguish experimentally between different universality classes. We also propose a procedure for measuring the ratio r=v_n/v_c of the Fermi velocities of the neutral and charged edge modes for filling factor ν=5/2 from the power-factor data in the low-temperature limit.
description: 27 pages, 12 figures
Spin Bias in Randomized Clinical Trials on Robotic Surgery: A Meta-Epidemiological Study
Creators: name: Ouverney, Lucas Ferreira Fagundes
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Surgical Procedures, Operative
subject: Therapeutics
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment
subject: Medical Specialties
subject: Surgery

description: This project constitutes a meta-epidemiological study designed to assess the prevalence of Spin Bias in Randomized Clinical Trials involving robotic surgery. Robotic surgery has been experiencing significant growth, and it is imperative to examine whether the existing body of knowledge is capable of effectively informing clinical decision-making in comparison to other surgical modalities.
Young People and the European Dimension in a Norwegian Context. Migration and National Critical Events as Challenges to Citizenship Education
Creators: name: Skeie, Geir
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2014

description: The article discusses the ‘European dimension’ in a Norwegian context with focus on the relevance for young people in particular. Against a backdrop of literature discussing Norwegian majority self-understanding in relation to Europe, the article discusses some examples that are relevant for addressing the overall theme, namely recent work-migration to Norway and the terrorist attacks of 22. July 2011. As different as they may be, both these cases are raising urgent issues related to socio-cultural diversity, inclusion and resilience and it is suggested that this may be addressed more in citizenship education.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 3-2014 Young Europeans in an Era of Crises: Citizenship Education in a New Perspective
MPEC 2023-U279 : COMET P/2002 T6 = P/2023 RL75 (NEAT-LINEAR)
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: COMET P/2002 T6 = P/2023 RL75 (NEAT-LINEAR)

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Raman Images of a Single Molecule in a Highly Confined Plasmonic Field
Creators: name: Duan, Sai
name: Tian, Guangjun
name: Ji, Yongfei
name: Shao, Jiushu
name: Dong, Zhenchao
name: Luo, Yi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Under the local plasmonic excitation, the Raman images of a single molecule can now reach sub-nanometer resolution. We report here a theoretical description of the interaction between a molecule and a highly confined plasmonic field. It is shown that when the spatial distribution of the plasmonic field is comparable with the size of the molecule, the optical transition matrix of the molecule becomes to be dependent on the position and the spatial distribution of the plasmonic field, resulting in spatially resolved Raman image of a molecule. It is found that the resonant Raman image reflects the electronic transition density of the molecule. In combination with the first principles calculations, the simulated Raman image of a porphyrin derivative adsorbed on the silver surface nicely reproduces its experimental counterpart. The present theory provides the basic framework for describing linear and nonlinear responses of molecules under the highly confined plasmonic field.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, Revised version
Variations of Young Germans’ Informal Conceptions of Financial and Economic Crises Phenomena
Creators: name: Aprea, Carmela
name: Sappa, Viviana
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2014

description: The development of a sound understanding of financial and economic crises phenomena must be considered an important goal within the scope of citizenship, economic and social science education. As with every other educational endeavour, this intention requires solid information about what informal conceptions learners hold about this specific aspect of reality. However, even though this necessity is widely acknowledged, respective theoretical and empirical research is rather scarce. The research to be presented here aims to contribute to filling this gap by exploring variations in young Germans’ common-sense conceptions of financial and economic crises phenomena. The research activities adhere to a comprehensive view of how economic issues should be involved in education. Moreover, a phenomenographic research approach is adopted. This approach was implemented in an interview study with 56 secondary school students in Baden-Württemberg (Germany). Besides this study, the paper also considers evidence from German survey data. In the interview study, four different conceptions (i.e., denial of the crisis, magical thinking, optimism, realism) could be reconstructed, which vary with respect to whether students’ awareness of specific facets of the crisis was given or not. In addition, from this study as well as from the survey data, an excessively optimistic attitude was stated in young Germans. This attitude, however, seems to be more a symptom of insecurity and overstrain than a manifestation of a profound comprehension. These results are discussed with regard to the design of formal curricula and instruction.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 3-2014 Young Europeans in an Era of Crises: Citizenship Education in a New Perspective
[Federated] EGA: Providing global discovery and access for sensitive human data
Creators: name: Jene, Aina
name: Freeberg, Mallory
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2023

description: With increasingly strict regulations for managing sensitive human omics and healthcare-derived data, solutions are required to ensure research and clinical data can be accessed across national borders. Safely sharing sensitive data is vital for data reuse to support biomedical research and personalised medicine programs. The Federated European Genome-phenome Archive (FEGA) provides a data sharing solution of infrastructure and governance frameworks to support discovery of and secure access to human data globally, while respecting national data protection regulations. Prompted by European initiatives such as the 1+ Million Genomes and European Health Data Space, the FEGA was officially launched in 2022 with a network of nodes in the UK, Spain, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Germany. The next phase of FEGA will build upon these early successes to expand data sharing both within and outside of Europe. Ultimately, the FEGA vision is to build a global, interoperable discovery and access network of human data resources, to accelerate disease research and understand and improve human health.
Computational modelling of the cellular interplay in Rheumatoid Arthritis. Deciphering the role of innate and adaptive immunity in cartilage destruction and bone erosion
Creators: name: Zerrouk, Naouel
name: Bettembourg, Charles
name: Niarakis, Anna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Rheumatoid Arthritis - Computational modeling - cell-specific maps - multicellular model - bone erosion - Cartilage damage - inflammation - Immune cells - Synovial fibroblasts - Osteoblasts - Osteoclasts.

description: Immune dysregulation was first implicated in the pathogenesis of Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) by the discovery of anti-immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies known as rheumatoid factors. However, concepts of how immune responses contribute to disease have evolved dramatically over the last 50 years. Many cells and their cytokines play critical roles in the development of RA. The synovial compartment is infiltrated by leukocytes and the synovial fluid is inundated with pro-inflammatory mediators that are produced to induce an inflammatory cascade, which is characterized by interactions of fibroblast-like synoviocytes with the cells of the innate immune system, including monocytes, macrophages, mast cells, dendritic cell as well as cells of the adaptive immune system such as T cells and B cells. The fulminant stage contains hyperplastic synovium, cartilage damage, bone erosion, and systemic consequence. The objective of my project is to construct a computational model able to decipher the interplay between cells of the innate and adaptive immunity in RA, that eventually leads to bone and cartilage breakdown. To do so, we will start by creating separate maps for T cells, B cells, macrophages, fibroblasts, osteoblasts and osteoclasts. We will use different data mining tools, appropriate data bases such as KEGG (Kanehisa et al, 2000), REACTOME (Fabregat et al, 2018) as well as internal data generated within Sanofi. We will exploit the graph editor CellDesigner (Funahashi et al, 2003) and the platform Minerva (Gawron et al, 2016) for automatic annotation and reference of the cell-specific maps. We will benefit greatly from a global, fully annotated RA specific map (Singh et al, 2018, Singh et al, 2020). This map features interactions implicated in RA coming from various cell types, but due to the extensive annotations, the user can opt for cell-specific interactions and extract the corresponding network. We are also going to use public datasets of expression data (microarrays, RNAseq, RNAseq single cell), data concerning metabolic pathways from MetaCyc and Sanofi’s proprietary datasets to enrich and expand existing pathway resources. These maps will be used to generate cell-specific dynamic models using the tool CaSQ (Aghamiri et al, 2020). The next step is the creation of a multicellular model to understand how the different cells interact, contributing to the emergent behavior of the system. We will prioritize signature pathways for each cell type and combine them to build a logical model that will represent the intra- and intercellular relationships.
title: Have banks learned from the crisis?
Creators: name: Radosavljevic, Teodora
Year: 2022

description: Die Finanzkrise von 2007-2008 verursachte aufgrund der Ähnlichkeit der Geschäftsmodelle der größten US-Banken, die auch global systemrelevant waren, erhebliche Verluste. Daher ist die Untersuchung aller Komponenten dieses Zusammenbruchs entscheidend, um aus den Fehlern zu lernen und ein widerstandsfähigeres globales Finanzsystem aufzubauen. Eine dieser Komponenten, auf die sich diese Arbeit konzentriert, ist die aktienbasierte Vergütung der CEOs von Banken und ihre Auswirkungen auf die Kurzfristigkeit der US-Banken. Ich habe eine Reihe von Variablen entwickelt, die die Vergütungsseite sowie Verluste, langfristige und Kontrollvariablen erfassen, um einige Faktoren zu korrigieren, die meine Schätzungen verzerren könnten. Ich habe fünf Schätzmodelle mit festen Effekten durchgeführt und bin zu folgenden Ergebnissen gekommen. Die Banken, die in der Krise mehr verloren haben, waren die prominenteren (bedeutenderen) Banken. Der prozentuale Anteil der Aktien an der Gesamtvergütung stieg nach der Krise bei den Banken, die in der Krise am meisten verloren haben. Bei den Optionen war das Gegenteil der Fall. Schließlich stellte ich fest, dass Banken mit einer höheren CEO-Vergütung in Form von Optionen zwar tendenziell weniger langfristige Vermögenswerte haben, aber kein signifikanter Zusammenhang zwischen Aktien mit Verfügungsbeschränkung und langfristigen Vermögenswerten gefunden wurde.
description: The financial crisis in 2007-2008 caused significant losses due to the similarity in business models of the largest US banks that were also globally systemically important. Therefore, investigating any components of that downfall is crucial for learning from the mistakes and building a more resilient global financial system. One of these components, the main focus of this thesis, is the equity-based bank CEO compensation and its effects on bank short-termism among US banks. I developed a series of variables capturing the compensation side as well as losses, long-term and control variables to help fix some factors that could bias my estimations. I conducted five fixed effects estimation models, and my findings are the following. The banks that lost more in the crisis were the more prominent (more significant) banks. The percentage of shares as a part of total compensation increased post-crisis for the banks that lost the most in the crisis. The opposite was the case with options. Lastly, I found that while banks with higher options CEO compensation tend to have less long-term assets, no significant relationship was found between restricted shares and long-term assets.
title: Das Loch in der Grenze
Creators: name: Maehrenbach, Peter Johannes
Year: 2022

description: Digitale Medien sind ein weltumspannendes und inzwischen nicht mehr wegzudenkendes Kommunikations- und Informationsmittel. Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht das Nutzungsverhalten von Sozialen Medien durch Geflüchtete, um einen Erkenntnisgewinn ihrer Rolle vor, während und nach der Flucht zu erlangen. Hierzu werden zunächst theoretische Grundlagen sowohl zur Funktionsweise Sozialer Medien als auch der Soziologie der Flucht gelegt, um sodann anhand drei dem Verfasser persönlich bekannten Geflüchteten durch gezielte Fragestellungen und proaktive Feldforschung empirische Erkenntnisse zum individuellen Nutzungsverhalten herausarbeiten zu können. Soziale Medien dienen dabei der internationalen Vernetzung von Individuen und Firmen, ermöglichen schrankenlose Kommunikation und den Zugriff auf globale Informationen sowie deren Rezeption. Sie können dabei aber auch zu kriminellen Zwecken missbraucht werden; bezüglich des vorliegenden Themas organisieren sich etwa Menschenschlepper und Schmugglergruppen über Soziale Medien genauso wie sich Migrationswillige über mögliche Zielländer informieren. Die Grenze zwischen legaler und illegaler Nutzung ist also zweckgerichtet kaum mehr zu ziehen. Die in dieser Arbeit befragten Geflüchteten stammen aus Zentralafrika und dem Mittleren Osten und blicken auf durchaus unterschiedliche Biographien und damit auch verschiedene Fluchtmotivationen zurück. Zielgerichtete, aber offen geführte Interviews legten dabei die zentrale Bedeutung Sozialer Medien vor, während und nach der Flucht offen. Alle drei nutzten die Kommunikationskanäle sowohl zur Informationsgewinnung als auch zur Vernetzung mit Landsleuten, Hilfsorganisationen, teilweise kriminellen Gruppen sowie in der Heimat verbliebenen Verwandten. Navigations-Applikationen wurden dabei wider Erwarten weniger genutzt als Facebook-Gruppen, Direktnachrichtendienste und mobile Zeitungen. Soziale Medien ermöglichen dabei weltumspannende Gemeinschaften und schaffen durch Deglobalisierung eine Form der sozialen bzw. individuellen Globalisierung und weltweiten Vernetzung.
description: Digital media are global funds of communication and information.
Casimir Interactions between Magnetic Flux Tubes in a Dense Lattice
Creators: name: Mazur, Dan
name: Heyl, Jeremy S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use the worldline numerics technique to study a cylindrically symmetric model of magnetic flux tubes in a dense lattice and the non-local Casimir forces acting between regions of magnetic flux. Within a superconductor the magnetic field is constrained within magnetic flux tubes and if the background magnetic field is on the order the quantum critical field strength, $B_k = \frac{m^2}{e} = 4.4 \times 10^{13}$ Gauss, the magnetic field is likely to vary rapidly on the scales where \acs{QED} effects are important. In this paper, we construct a cylindrically symmetric toy model of a flux tube lattice in which the non-local influence of \acs{QED} on neighbouring flux tubes is taken into account. We compute the effective action densities using the worldline numerics technique. The numerics predict a greater effective energy density in the region of the flux tube, but a smaller energy density in the regions between the flux tubes compared to a locally-constant-field approximation. We also compute the interaction energy between a flux tube and its neighbours as the lattice spacing is reduced from infinity. Because our flux tubes exhibit compact support, this energy is entirely non-local and predicted to be zero in local approximations such as the derivative expansion. This Casimir-Polder energy can take positive or negative values depending on the distance between the flux tubes, and it may cause the flux tubes in neutron stars to form bunches. In addition to the above results we also discuss two important subtleties of determining the statistical uncertainties within the worldline numerics technique and recommend a form of jackknife analysis.
description: 25 pages, 23 figures, minor revision (corrected references) to reflect version accepted to Phys Rev D (includes some content from arXiv:1407.7486)
Breaking the Cycle: A Family-Focused Approach to Criminal Sentencing in Illinois
Creators: name: Feig, Lauren
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015

description: The collateral damage of parental incarceration to children is a hidden cost of current punitive criminal sentencing policies that overlook the needs of children and impose barriers to maintaining strong parent-child bonds. This paper presents a familyfocused approach to criminal sentencing, which aims to promote better outcomes for offenders and their children by aligning sentencing decisions to the severity of the crime committed, the risks and strengths of the offender, and the offender’s family context. It will address existing gaps in federal and state sentencing guidelines and provide policy and practice recommendations to help advance family-focused sentencing in Illinois.
Coexistence of energy diffusion and local thermalization in nonequilibrium XXZ spin chains with integrability breaking
Creators: name: Mendoza-Arenas, J. J.
name: Clark, S. R.
name: Jaksch, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we analyze the simultaneous emergence of diffusive energy transport and local thermalization in a nonequilibrium one-dimensional quantum system, as a result of integrability breaking. Specifically, we discuss the local properties of the steady state induced by thermal boundary driving in a XXZ spin chain with staggered magnetic field. By means of efficient large-scale matrix product simulations of the equation of motion of the system, we calculate its steady state in the long-time limit.We start by discussing the energy transport supported by the system, finding it to be ballistic in the integrable limit and diffusive when the staggered field is finite. Subsequently, we examine the reduced density operators of neighboring sites and find that for large systems they are well approximated by local thermal states of the underlying Hamiltonian in the nonintegrable regime, even for weak staggered fields. In the integrable limit, on the other hand, this behavior is lost, and the identification of local temperatures is no longer possible. Our results agree with the intuitive connection between energy diffusion and thermalization.
description: 13 pages, 13 figures
MPEC 2023-E32 : 2023 EE
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 EE

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Social Background, Civic Education and Political Participation of Young People – the German Case
Creators: name: Onken, Holger
name: Lange, Dirk
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2014

description: Due to social and political change the process of young citizens’ political socialization was put on a new basis in West European democracies over the last decades. In this article we discuss some aspects of this development and show their consequences. We analyse empirical findings from Germany, focussing on the relevant social factors which influence the individual propensity to participate in politics. The impact of the financial and economic crisis in Europe on political attitudes will also be considered, taking in account sociological aspects. Based on the empirical findings we discuss implications for civic education. In contrast to many discussions in literature about this issue, in which the focus is on the need to put the various influences of political socialization into a broader context, we argue that the parental social background is the crucial upstream factor, prior to e.g. civic education. The conclusion indicates that a group‐specific educational approach, taking into account the social background, is the most promising one for reaching the normative goal of civic education: Politically self‐determined citizens. Aufgrund der sozialen und politischen Veränderungen ist die politische Sozialisation Jugendlicher in den Westeuropäischen Demokratien auf eine neue Grundlage gestellt worden. In diesem Beitrag diskutieren wir Aspekte dieser Entwicklung und zeigen, welche Folgen sich aus diesen ergeben. Wir analysieren empirische Befunde aus Deutschland mit dem Schwerpunkt auf die Frage, welche sozialen Faktoren relevant sind für die individuelle politische Partizipationsbereitschaft. Der Einfluss der Finanz‐ und Wirtschaftskrise in Europa auf politische Einstellungen wird dabei ebenfalls betrachtet. Dies geschieht unter Berücksichtigung der soziologischen Aspekte. Auf Grundlage der Ergebnisse Fragen wir nach den Folgen für die politische Bildung. Im Gegensatz zu dem in der Literatur häufig vertretenen Ansatz, die politische Sozialisation in einem breiten Kontext zu betrachten, verweisen wir auf die hohe Bedeutung des Ausgangspunktes von Sozialisationsprozessen, die soziale Herkunft. Diese ist anderen Faktoren der politischen Sozialisation, wie der politischen Bildung, vorgelagert. Um das normative Ziel der politischen Bildung zu erreichen, den „politisch selbstbestimmten Bürger“ ist ein gruppenspezifischer Ansatz, der die soziale Herkunft berücksichtigt, am vielversprechendsten.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 3-2014 Young Europeans in an Era of Crises: Citizenship Education in a New Perspective
Active Citizenship in University Education: Lessons Learnt in Times of Crisis
Creators: name: Papadiamantaki, Yiouli
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2014

description: Despite the fact that historically the university has been the par excellence locus for the discussion of public issues and the formation of citizens, current European Union education policies promote and foster citizenship in secondary education, while the civic dimension of higher education is less prominent. This paper presents the case study of a small peripheral Greek university, which provides for the teaching of citizenship, through a dedicated taught module. According to the analysis a strategy of exposure to current problems, heightened due to the crisis in Greece, has affected students’ behaviour and their understanding of the concept of “active citizenship” as promoted by European Union policy. Finally implications are drawn for the prospect of promoting active citizenship through university education.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 3-2014 Young Europeans in an Era of Crises: Citizenship Education in a New Perspective
An Innovative Approach in the Study of Ancient Written Artefacts: the ENCODE Project
Creators: name: Gheldof, Tom
name: Fogagnolo, Marta
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Tom Gheldof & Marta Fogagnolo have presented the outputs of the ENCODE project, including the ENCODE database, guidelines and open online course, during the poster session of the conference 'Studying Written Artefacts: Challenges and Perspectives' (organised by the 'Understanding Written Artefacts' group at the Cluster of Excellence, Universität Hamburg), with a poster titled 'An Innovative Approach in the Study of Ancient Written Artefacts: the ENCODE Project'.
description: The ENCODE Project (KA2-2020-1-IT02-KA203-079585) was financed by the European Commission in the framework of the Erasmus+ Strategic partnership for higher education.
Two Copies of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen State of Light Lead to Refutation of EPR Ideas
Creators: name: Rosołek, Krzysztof
name: Stobińska, Magdalena
name: Wieśniak, Marcin
name: Żukowski, Marek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Bell's theorem applies to the normalizable approximations of the original Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) state. The constructions of the proof require measurements difficult to perform, and dichotomic observables. By noticing the fact that the four mode squeezed vacuum state produced in type II down-conversion can be seen both as two copies of approximate EPR states, and also as a kind of polarization supersinglet, we show a straightforward way to test violations of the EPR concepts with direct use of their state. The observables involved are simply photon numbers at outputs of polarizing beam splitters. Suitable chained Bell inequalities are based on the geometric concept of distance. For a few settings they are potentially a new tool for quantum information applications, involving observables of a nondichotomic nature, and thus of higher informational capacity. In the limit of infinitely many settings we get a Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger-type contradiction: EPR reasoning points to a correlation, while quantum prediction is an anticorrelation. Violations of the inequalities are fully resistant to multipair emissions in Bell experiments using parametric down-conversion sources.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures
Citizenship Competencies and the Program of Education in Sexuality and Construction of Citizenship (PESCC): A Review of the Implementation of a Public Policy in Institutions of Primary and Secondary Education in Bucaramanga, Colombia
Creators: name: Beltrán Villamizar, Yolima Ivonne
name: Galvis Aparicio, Mayra Juliana
name: Vargas Beltrán, Gabriel Felipe
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2013

description: Civic education is becoming increasingly important in the Colombian context and is part of the educational priorities of the national government. Therefore, it has launched the Program of Sex Education and Construction of Citizenship (PESCC) that integrates the standards in civic competencies with those of Social and Natural Sciences in the development of educational projects that promote the exercise, respect and promotion of human, sexual and reproductive rights. The aim of this paper is to analyze the use of these competencies in the creation of the pedagogical matrices of the educational institutions involved in the implementation process of the PESCC and the use standards set by the Ministry of National Education (MEN). This implementation was carried out in 24 public institutions in the city of Bucaramanga, Colombia, using the conceptual and methodological tools provided by the MEN. The conclusions suggest that educational innovations in citizenship must be accompanied by an evaluative process of the transformation of the institutions and the different actors of the educational community, in order to know the real impact of these initiatives on school life. Finally, some reflections are included for the implementation of this type of educational policies.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 3-2013 Education and Citizenship in Latin America
title: Anregung verschiedener Dimensionen von Bildungssprache durch außerschulische Lernorte
Creators: name: Klammer, Lena Lucia
Year: 2022

description: Eine Auseinandersetzung mit bildungssprachlichen Inhalten stellt in allen Unterrichtsfächern unseres Schulsystems eine der grundlegenden Voraussetzungen zur gelungenen Teilnahme am Unterricht dar. Dabei spielen jedoch nicht nur linguistische Aspekte eine Rolle, sondern auch die verschiedenen Dimensionen des Sprachregisters Bildungssprache. Diesen Dimensionen widmet sich die vorliegende Arbeit und verfolgt dabei das Ziel, die Anregung der kommunikativen, epistemischen und sozialsymbolischen Funktionen von Bildungssprache durch außerschulische Lernorte zu erfassen. Für dieses Vorhaben wurde mithilfe von Erkenntnissen aus der Fachliteratur selbstständig ein Beobachtungsbogen erstellt, der in Form eines Schätzverfahrens das sprachliche und soziale Verhalten von Schüler*innen erfassen soll. Zur Überprüfung der Umsetzbarkeit des Bogens wurde eine Schulklasse während einer Exkursion zum Karl-Marx-Hof (1190 Wien) begleitet. Es wurden drei Schüler*innen ausgewählt, die mithilfe des Beobachtungsbogens während der Vorbereitung, der Durchführung und der Nachbereitung der Exkursion beobachtet wurden. Die dadurch gewonnenen Daten wurden mithilfe eines Kategoriensystems ausgewertet, um Auskunft über die Umsetzbarkeit der Indikatoren des Beobachtungsbogens zu geben und darüber, welche der Dimensionen am außerschulischen Lernort beobachtet werden konnten. Die Ergebnisse der Auswertung zeigen, dass der Bogen an manchen Stellen noch Überarbeitungsbedarf aufweist, jedoch größtenteils gut eingesetzt werden kann. Außerdem wurde die Erkenntnis erlangt, dass alle drei Dimensionen von Bildungssprache an außerschulischen Lernorten angeregt werden und somit die Forschungsfrage zufriedenstellend beantwortet werden kann. Außerschulische Lernorte bieten dabei ein großes Potential, einen Bezug zur Lebenswelt der Lernenden herzustellen und neue Formen der Auseinandersetzung mit Lerninhalten anzubieten.
Transverse collisional instabilities of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a driven one-dimensional lattice
Creators: name: Choudhury, Sayan
name: Mueller, Erich J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by recent experiments, we analyse the stability of a three-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) loaded in a periodically driven one-dimensional optical lattice. Such periodically driven systems do not have a thermodynamic ground state, but may have a long-lived steady state which is an eigenstate of a "Floquet Hamiltonian". We explore collisional instabilities of the Floquet ground state which transfer energy into the transverse modes. We calculate decay rates, finding that the lifetime scales as the inverse square of the scattering length and inverse of the peak three- dimensional density. These rates can be controlled by adding additional transverse potentials.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures
title: Compliance in der Immobilienwirtschaft
Creators: name: Gstöttner, Marie-Christin
Year: 2022

description: Wie aus den Medien bekannt, sind österreichische Unternehmen im Immobiliensektor Gegenstand von aktuellen politischen und juristischen Untersuchungen. Im Jahr 2021 sind sowohl Strafen verhängt als auch Ermittlungsverfahren gegen namhafte Vertreter der Bau-und Immobilienbranche eingeleitet worden. Dies vor dem Hintergrund unlauterer Verhaltensweisen der Unternehmen (Preisabsprachen bei Ausschreibungen etc.) sowie unzulässiger Beeinflussung (Korruptionsstraftatbestände). Auch wenn in diesen medial kolportierten Fällen nicht immer Strafen verhängt werden, ist in jedem Fall ein Reputationsschaden für die Betroffenen gegeben. Am Beispiel der zuletzt seitens der Bundeswettbewerbsbehörde verhängten Strafen gegen an einem Baukartell beteiligte Bau-und Immobilienunternehmen, hat die Behörde bei der Strafzumessung gegenüber eines der beteiligten Unternehmen als strafmildernd angeführt, dass dieses ein sogenanntes Compliance Management System eingeführt hat. In der vorliegenden Arbeit soll daher vorrangig der Frage nachgegangen werden, was ein Compliance-Management-System ist und welche Auswirkungen die Einführung eines solchen im Unternehmen hat. Abgesehen von einzelnen Bereichen, z.B. der Geldwäscheprävention, ist der Immobiliensektor – im Gegensatz zur Banken, Versicherungs- oder Pharmabranche - grundsätzlich kein Bereich, welcher strengen regulatorischen (Compliance-) Bestimmungen unterliegt. Es soll daher die Frage nach der Notwendigkeit der Einführung eines Compliance-Management-Systems in Immobilienunternehmen herausgearbeitet werden
Local And Global Colorability of Graphs
Creators: name: Alon, Noga
name: Ben-Eliezer, Omri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: It is shown that for any fixed $c \geq 3$ and $r$, the maximum possible chromatic number of a graph on $n$ vertices in which every subgraph of radius at most $r$ is $c$ colorable is $\tildeΘ\left(n ^ {\frac{1}{r+1}} \right)$ (that is, $n^\frac{1}{r+1}$ up to a factor poly-logarithmic in $n$). The proof is based on a careful analysis of the local and global colorability of random graphs and implies, in particular, that a random $n$-vertex graph with the right edge probability has typically a chromatic number as above and yet most balls of radius $r$ in it are $2$-degenerate.
A Context-aware Delayed Agglomeration Framework for Electron Microscopy Segmentation
Creators: name: Parag, Toufiq
name: Chakraborty, Anirban
name: Plaza, Stephen
name: Scheffer, Lou
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Electron Microscopy (EM) image (or volume) segmentation has become significantly important in recent years as an instrument for connectomics. This paper proposes a novel agglomerative framework for EM segmentation. In particular, given an over-segmented image or volume, we propose a novel framework for accurately clustering regions of the same neuron. Unlike existing agglomerative methods, the proposed context-aware algorithm divides superpixels (over-segmented regions) of different biological entities into different subsets and agglomerates them separately. In addition, this paper describes a "delayed" scheme for agglomerative clustering that postpones some of the merge decisions, pertaining to newly formed bodies, in order to generate a more confident boundary prediction. We report significant improvements attained by the proposed approach in segmentation accuracy over existing standard methods on 2D and 3D datasets.
Heterogeneous Teacher Recruitment and Social Studies Didactics: Bringing the Sociology of Education Back In
Creators: name: Szukala, Andrea
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2012

description: This article contributes to a newer debate in teacher education research regarding the professionalization for the work in multicultural urban classrooms. In a social studies didactics’ perspective teacher-learnermismatch seems to be an important factor influencing the ability to construct meaningful social studies learning environments – and thus represents an important challenge for the education of future teachers in our domain. But what are the social origins of diverse teacher professional identities in the social studies domain? This article refers to a biographicalnarrative study on teacher students from very heterogeneous backgrounds exploring their basic beliefs and attitudes towards becoming a social studies teacher.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 2-2012: Different Cultures in Education for Democracy and Citizenship