cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Analyzing Selected Scriptural Arguments Against the Doctrine of the Perpetual Virginity of Mary
Creators: name: Edmonds, Noah
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 220315 Philosophy of Religion
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: 220499 Religion and Religious Studies not elsewhere classified

description: The heavy and selective importance placed upon the Bible in many Protestant Christian denominations oftentimes can lead to the conclusion that if a certain idea or belief cannot be found fully articulated in the post-Reformation canon of Scripture, then the idea must be done away with entirely (an extrapolation on the Lutheran doctrine of sola scriptura, which states that the Scripture alone is infallible and the sole source of authority for Christians to submit to). Additionally, if a set of isolated verses from the Bible can be presented as a defense for this or that belief, then those verses may be lifted from their original context and applied in whatever way seems fit, as within the framework of sola scriptura, there exists no external body of reliable interpretation other than the personal interpretation of the individual. It is in this manner that the Catholic doctrine of the perpetual virginity of Mary the Mother of God is most often critiqued. The doctrine in question (one of the four Marian dogmas of the Church) states that Mary, the wife of Joseph, remained a virgin for the entirety of her life (i.e., before, during, and after the birth of her son Jesus). This doctrine is a matter of divine revelation through the ministry of the Church, as we know from the Scripture that the Holy Spirit reveals doctrinal truth through Apostolic Tradition independent of the Scripture (though not in contradiction to it), in accordance with Acts 15 (which relates the Holy Spirit revealing its will directly through Church Councils and its encyclicals, and not Scripture) and 2 Thessalonians 2:15 (which has Paul instructing the Christians of Thessalonica to hold to all Church tradition, whether it is Scripturally communicated or not), among others. As such, Scriptural justification for a belief is not strictly required in Catholicism, as Catholics have access to the Magisterium and a deposit of faith that, in the Catholic worldview, is as authoritative as Scripture. In Protestantism, however, natural doubt arises over this Catholic doctrine concerning the lack of its specific articulation in the Scripture, which is compounded by a series of verses that seem to suggest out-of-context that Mary was, in fact, not a perpetual virgin. The purpose and scope of this paper is not to defend the doctrine of the perpetual virginity of Mary or even to assume it as a given or factual reality, but rather to analyze the sets of Scripture which supposedly refute the doctrine, to see if the case is as strong as its proponents would allege.
License: CC BY-ND (Attribution-NoDerivatives)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/legalcode
A Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE).VI. Environmental quenching on HII region scales
Creators: name: Boselli, A.
name: Fossati, M.
name: Longobardi, A.
name: Boissier, S.
name: Boquien, M.
name: Braine, J.
name: Cote, P.
name: Cuillandre, J. C.
name: Epinat, B.
name: Ferrarese, L.
name: Gavazzi, G.
name: Gwyn, S.
name: Hensler, G.
name: Plana, H.
name: Roehlly, Y.
name: Schimd, C.
name: Sun, M.
name: Trinchieri, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE) is a blind narrow-band Halpha+[NII] imaging survey of the Virgo cluster carried out with MegaCam at the Canada-French-Hawaii telescope (CFHT). We use a new set of data extracted from VESTIGE to study the impact of the hostile cluster environment on the star formation process down to the scale of HII regions (~ 50 pc). HII regions are identified and their parameters measured using the HIIphot code on a sample of 114 late-type galaxies spanning a wide range in morphological type (Sa-Sd, Im, BCD), stellar mass (10^6.5 <= M_star <= 10^11 Mo), and star formation activity (10^-3 <= SFR <= 10 Mo yr^-1). Owing to the exquisite average resolution of the VESTIGE data (0.65 arcsec), we detect 11302 HII regions with an Halpha luminosity L(Halpha) >= 10^37 erg s^-1. We show that the typical number of HII regions in gas-stripped objects is significantly lower than in healthy late-types of similar stellar mass. We also show that in these gas-stripped galaxies the number of HII regions significantly drops outside the effective radius, suggesting that the quenching process occurs outside-in, in agreement with other multifrequency observations. These new results consistently confirm that the main mechanism responsible for the decrease of the star formation activity observed in cluster galaxies is ram pressure, allowing us to discard other milder processes such as starvation or strangulation unable to reproduce the observed radially truncated profiles.
description: Accepted for publication on A&A Letter
Possible Spin-triplet Superconductivity in NaxCoO2yH2O - 59Co NMR Study
Creators: name: Kato, M.
name: Michioka, C.
name: Waki, T.
name: Itoh, Y.
name: Yoshimura, K.
name: Ishida, K.
name: Sakurai, H.
name: Takayama-Muromachi, E.
name: Takada, K.
name: Sasaki, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report 59Co NMR studies on the magnetically oriented powder samples of Co-oxide superconductors NaxCoO2yH2O with Tc ~ 4.7 K. From two-dimensional powder pattern in the NMR spectrum, the ab-plane Knight shift in the normal state was estimated by the magnetic field dependence of second-order quadrupole shifts at various temperatures. Below 50 K, the Knight shift shows a Curie-Weiss-like temperature dependence, similarly to the bulk magnetic susceptibility chi. From the analysis of so-called K-chi plot, the spin and the orbital components of K and the positive hyperfine coupling constant were estimated. The onset temperature of superconducting transition in the Knight shift does not change so much in an applied magnetic field up to 7 T, which is consistent with the reported high upper critical field Hc2. The Knight shift at 7 T shows an invariant behavior below Tc. No coherence peak just below Tc was observed in the temperature dependence of the nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rate 1/T1 in both cases of NMR and NQR. We conclude that the invariant behavior of the Knight shift below Tc and unconventional behaviors of 1/T possibly indicate the spin-triplet superconductivity with p- or f-wave symmetry.
description: 17 pages, 10 figures. Extended version
Topological defects of spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensates in a rotating anharmonic trap
Creators: name: Shi, Chunxiao
name: Wen, Linghua
name: Wang, Qingbo
name: Yang, Hui
name: Wang, Huan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the topological defects and spin structures of binary Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) with Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling (D-SOC) in a rotating anharmonic trap. Our results show that for initially mixed BECs without SOC the increasing rotation frequency can lead to the structural phase transition of the system. In the presence of isotropic D-SOC, the system sustains vortex pair,Anderson--Toulouse coreless vortices, circular vortex sheets, and combined vortex structures. In particular, when the rotation frequency is fixed above the radial trapping frequency the strong D-SOC results in a peculiar topological structure which is comprised of multi-layer visible vortex necklaces, hidden vortex necklaces and a hidden giant vortex. In addition, the system exhibits rich spin textures including basic skyrmion, meron cluster, skyrmion string and various skyrmion lattices. The skyrmions will be destroyed in the limit of large D-SOC or rotation frequency. Furthermore, the effects of anisotropic D-SOC and Rashba-Dresselhaus SOC on the topological structures of the system are discussed.
description: 9 pages,8 figures
Schrift
Creators: name: Kogge, Werner
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Schrift
subject: Interdisziplinarität
subject: 000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke::030 Enzyklopädien, Faktenbücher::030 Allgemeinenzyklopädien

description: Verwendung des Begriffs 'Schrift' in verschiedenen Fachdiskursen.
Création d’un environnement ludique, immersif, interactif, virtuel et sonore pour les sourds
Creators: name: Papathanasiou, Argyro
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 80111 Virtual Reality and Related Simulation
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This thesis deals with the making of a ludic and educational environment concerning music and sound, designed for deaf persons. The key questions on which the research is based, are on the one hand trying to find out how sound can be perceived by other senses when the sense of hearing does not exist, and on the other hand if technology can be a contributor to the musical education of the deaf. The study lead us to the construction of a system that is divided into five main scenes. It is a combination of mechanisms approaching the fundamental principles of sound and music in order to understand the sound and musical structures through a virtual environment. These mechanisms are represented as a conceptual virtual space. They are divided into three categories: a) sound b) music and c) musical composition. In each scene, the user can navigate and interact with visual objects either through a hand motion detector or by changing their position within the virtual space. These visual objects are a representation of sound and musical elements, in order to rebuild music in a new form that will allow the user to discover the world of music. The content evolves gradually, starting from the concept of sound and leading to structural elements of music.
title: Evidenzbasierte Politik in postfaktischen Zeiten
title: Eine empirische Potentialanalyse wissenschaftlicher Evaluationen zur Steigerung der Evidenzbasierung in politischen Entscheidungsprozessen öffentlicher Institutionen
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Brecht, Marisa
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Evaluation
subject: Evidenzbasierte Politik
subject: postfaktisch
subject: Rationalisierung
subject: De-Politisierung
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::320 Politikwissenschaft::320 Politikwissenschaft

description: Angesichts des omnipräsenten Drucks öffentlicher Institutionen, Regulationsqualität erhöhen sowie Regulationskosten senken zu müssen, sind Evaluationen als Methode evidenzbasierter Politik auf dem Vormarsch. Evidenz und Politik sollen demnach weniger in einem Spannungsverhältnis, sondern in einem komplementären Arbeitsverhältnis stehen, um Entscheidungsprozesse faktenbasierter und objektiver zu gestalten. Doch der Trend evidenzbasierter Evaluierungen steht der Debatte um eine zunehmende Postfaktizität in postmodernen Demokratien diametral entgegen. Vor dem Hintergrund dieses vermeintlichen Paradoxons wird im Rahmen der vorliegenden Forschungsarbeit untersucht, inwiefern evidenzbasierte Evaluationen in postfaktischen Zeiten das Potential haben, auf die politische Dynamik öffentlicher Entscheidungsprozesse Einfluss zu nehmen. Knapp 20 qualitative Leitfadeninterviews mit Expert*innen der operativen Arbeitsebene liefern die empirische Basis einer Potentialanalyse und einer Systematisierung notwendiger Erfolgsbedingungen. Es wird aufgezeigt, dass Evaluationen eine evidenzbasierte Diskurs- und Entscheidungsgrundlage für politisch-normative Entscheidungen darstellen, wenngleich dies nicht zwangsläufig mit einer Rationalisierung oder De-Politisierung einhergeht. Die empirischen Ergebnisse stützen ein Plädoyer für die stärkere systemübergreifende Präsenz evaluativer Evidenz zugunsten integrer und transparenter Entscheidungsprozesse.
Politik
Creators: name: Brown, Mark
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Politik
subject: Interdisziplinarität
subject: 000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke::030 Enzyklopädien, Faktenbücher::030 Allgemeinenzyklopädien

description: Verwendung des Begriffs 'Politik' in verschiedenen Fachdiskursen.
RIDGE Project Summaries, 2008: Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Innovation and Development Grants in Economics Program
Creators: name: Majchrowicz, T. Alexander
name: Majchrowicz, T. Alexander
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Food assistance
subject: nutrition
subject: food security
subject: food insecurity
subject: obesity
subject: childhood obesity
subject: food assistance
subject: food spending
subject: Food Stamp Program
subject: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
subject: SNAP
subject: food stamps
subject: WIC
subject: Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Program
subject: RIDGE Program

description: This report summarizes research findings from the Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Innovation and Development Grants in Economics Program (RIDGE), formerly known as the Small Grants Program. The Economic Research Service created the program in 1998 to stimulate new and innovative research on food and nutrition assistance issues and to broaden the network of social scientists who collaborate in investigating the food and nutrition challenges that exist across communities, regions, and States. The report includes summaries of the research findings of projects that were awarded 1-year grants in summer and fall 2007. The results of these research projects were presented at the RIDGE conference in October 2008. The projects include analyses of vendor access and fruit and vegetable availability in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children; effects of food insecurity on the development of infants and toddlers; administrative data to evaluate the Child and Adult Care Food Program in family child care homes; the economics of the Thrifty Food Plan; and food stamp use among the elderly. Several of the projects focus on specific populations, such as immigrants, Native Americans, or people living in the rural South.
Radiative neutron beta-decay in effective field theory
Creators: name: Bernard, V.
name: Gardner, S.
name: Meißner, U. -G.
name: Zhang, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider radiative β--decay of the neutron in heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory, with an extension including explicit Δdegrees of freedom. We compute the photon energy spectrum as well as the photon polarization; both observables are dominated by the electron bremsstrahlung contribution. Nucleon-structure effects not encoded in the weak coupling constants g_A and g_V are determined at next-to-leading order in the chiral expansion, and enter at the {\cal O}(0.5%)-level, making a sensitive test of the Dirac structure of the weak currents possible.
description: 11 pages, 4 eps figures, misprints fixed, to appear in Phys Lett B
Analysis of the Effect of Business Strategy and Financial Distress on Tax Avoidance
Creators: name: Sadjiarto, Arja
name: Hartanto, Sylvia
name: Natalia .
name: Stephani Octaviana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Economics

description: In recent years, tax avoidance has been frequently discussed and has attracted the attention of the Indonesian government. Many factors affect tax avoidance, one of it is business strategy. Not only business strategies, but also financial distress can also be one of the factors causing tax avoidance. Related to the problem, in this study we would examine the impact of business strategies and financial distress of Indonesian companies to tax avoidance practices. The samples of this research were 292 companies in the manufacturing, trade and construction sectors which were listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in period 2015-2018 and obtained 1168 research data. This research used multiple linear regression method. Our regression results proved that the prospector business strategy has a positive impact on tax avoidance, while the defender's business strategy has a negative impact on tax avoidance. Meanwhile, related to financial distress, our results showed that financial distress has a positive impact on tax avoidance.
Resonances in non-axisymmetric gravitational potentials
Creators: name: Sicardy, Bruno
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study sectoral resonances of the form $jκ= m(n-Ω)$ around a non-axisymmetric body with spin rate $Ω$, where $κ$ and $n$ are the epicyclic frequency and mean motion of a particle, respectively, where $j>0$ and $m$ ($<0$ or $>0$) are integers, $j$ being the resonance order. This describes $n/Ω\sim m/(m-j)$ resonances inside and outside the corotation radius,as well as prograde and retrograde resonances. Results are: (1) the kinematics of a periodic orbit depends only on $(m',j')$, the irreducible (relatively prime) version of $(m,j)$. In a rotating frame, the periodic orbit has $j'$ braids, $|m'|$ identical sectors and $|m'|(j'-1)$ self-crossing points; (2) thus, Lindblad resonances (with $j=1$) are free of self-crossing points; (3) resonances with same $j'$ and opposite $m'$ have the same kinematics, and are called $twins$; (4) the order of a resonance at a given $n/Ω$ depends on the symmetry of the potential. A potential that is invariant under a $2π/k$-rotation creates only resonances with $m$ multiple of $k$; (5) resonances with same $j$ and opposite $m$ have the same kinematics and same dynamics, and are called $true~twins$; (6) A retrograde resonance ($n/Ω< 0$) is always of higher order than its prograde counterpart ($n/Ω> 0$); (7) the resonance strengths can be calculated in a compact form with the classical operators used in the case of a perturbing satellite. Applications to Chariklo and Haumea are made.
description: 20 pages, 2 figures
Velutina velutina
Creators: name: Bouchard, Blanche
name: Wesselingh, Frank P.
name: Pouwer, Ronald
name: Landau, Bernard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Littorinimorpha
Velutinidae
Velutina
Velutina velutina

description: Velutina aff. velutina (Müller, 1776)
(Fig. 10G 1-G 3)
aff. Bulla velutina Müller, 1776: 242.
aff. Velutina laevigata – Wood 1848: 152, pl. 19, figs 8 a-b. — Harmer 1923: 760, pl. 60, fig. 26.
aff. Velutina velutina – Van Regteren Altena et al. 1965: 26, pl. 10 fig. 99. — Símonarson & Eiríksson in Eiríksson & Símonarson 2021: 269, pl. 7.4, fig. 2. — Van Nieulande et al. 2022: 16, fig. 1.
MATERIAL AND DIMENSIONS. — Maximum height 3.5 mm, width 4.5 mm. — RGM.1364920 (1), leg. WG; RGM.1365002 (4), leg. ACJ; RGM.1365186 (1), leg. AWJ; RGM.1365104 (93), leg. AWJ; RGM.1365206 (2), leg. AWJ.
SPECIES CHARACTERISATION. — Capuliform shell with paucispiral protoconch and rapidly expanding last whorl resulting in large circular aperture, disjunct last whorl.
DISTRIBUTION. — Lower Pleistocene: Atlantic,Selsoif, France (this paper).
REMARKS
The specimens from Selsoif differ from Velutina velutina (Müller, 1776), in being thicker shelled and in having a narrower last whorl that is disjunct. The aperture is large and ovate, with the margin erect on the medial side, reminiscent of that seen in a Capulus species.
Disjunct last whorls occur in numerous gastropod groups as a variable feature, often associated with gerontic individuals. This does not seem to be the case with the Selsoif species, as most of the specimens are juvenile and both the disjunct whorl and the thicker shell are constant characters.
Wood (1848) described Velutina virgata from the Lower Pliocene Coralline Crag of England, said to differ from V. velutina in the form of the less ovate aperture and the less curved outer lip making the spire slightly more elevated. We have not seen this species, but the specimen illustrated by Wood (1848: pl. 29, fig. 1) and Harmer (1923: pl. 60, fig. 27) has quite a different profile and shape of the aperture from the Selsoif specimens. Vetulina plicatilis (Müller, 1776), another Atlantic circumboreal species extending in Europe southwards to northern Spain differs in having a much larger expanded aperture.
We are unsure if these Selsoif specimens represent an unknown Vetulina species. However, due to the unusually small size of the specimens for the genus and worn preservation, we hesitate to erect a new species.
description: Published as part of Bouchard, Blanche, Wesselingh, Frank P., Pouwer, Ronald & Landau, Bernard, 2025, The Gelasian gastropod fauna of Selsoif (Manche, France), pp. 39-91 in Geodiversitas 47 (3) on page 68, DOI: 10.5252/geodiversitas2025v47a3, http://zenodo.org/record/14823602
Isospin constraints from/on B->pipi
Creators: name: Pivk, Muriel
name: Diberder, Francois R. Le
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Standard Model constraints on alpha which can be derived from the B-> pipi decays are revisited in some depth. As experimental inputs, the three branching ratios, the two CP parameters Spipi and Cpipi and/or the value of alpha as determined by the global CKM fit are used. The constraints discussed here are model independent in the sense that they rely only on Isospin symmetry, following the Gronau-London proposal. A new bound on B00 and the function C00(B00) are introduced. The Grossman-Quinn bound is rediscussed. A close form expression is given for alpha as a function of the measurements. Various scenarii for the future of the isospin analysis are explored. To probe the Standard Model the (B00,C00) plane is introduced.
description: 25 pages, 8 figures, Submitted to Eur. Phys. J. C
Deriving Internal Crown Geometric Features of Douglas-fir from LiDAR in Tree Improvement Programs
Creators: name: Du Toit, Francois
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: Francois du Toit, a UBC 3MT Semi-Finalist, presents their research on the varying structural differences between wild trees and those that have been genetically modified. Du Toit introduced the LiDAR, a remote sensing technology, that helps in the measurement of trees and can be used to improve monitoring of plant forests in BC. Francois Du Toit is completing their PhD in Forestry under the supervision of Dr. Nicholas Coops.
The Kepler problem and non commutativity
Creators: name: Romero, Juan M.
name: Vergara, J. David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the Kepler problem using a symplectic structure consistent with the commutation rules of the noncommutative quantum mechanics. We show that a noncommutative parameter of the order of $10^{-58} \text m^2$ gives observable corrections to the movement of the solar system. In this way, modifications in the physics of smaller scales implies modifications at large scales, something similar to the UV/IR mixing.
description: 10 pages
Classical perspectives on the Newton--Wigner position observable
Creators: name: Schwartz, Philip K.
name: Giulini, Domenico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 37J39, 70H33, 83A05

description: This paper deals with the Newton--Wigner position observable for Poincaré-invariant classical systems. We prove an existence and uniqueness theorem for elementary systems that parallels the well-known Newton--Wigner theorem in the quantum context. We also discuss and justify the geometric interpretation of the Newton--Wigner position as `centre of spin', already proposed by Fleming in 1965 again in the quantum context.
description: 28+5+4 pages (main text, references, appendices), to appear in International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics. v2: Added references, corrected typos, restructured references v3: Corrected typos, changed MSC class (better-fitting class in MSC2020)
Intention/Intentionalität
Creators: name: Jaekel, Ulla
name: Kanngießer, Patricia
name: Bernbeck, Reinhard
name: Chrudzimski, Arkadiusz
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Intention
subject: Intentionalität
subject: Interdisziplinarität
subject: 000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke::030 Enzyklopädien, Faktenbücher::030 Allgemeinenzyklopädien

description: Verwendung der Begriffe 'Intention' und 'Intentionalität' in verschiedenen Fachdiskursen.
Viscoelastic Phase Separation in Shear Flow
Creators: name: Imaeda, Tatsuhiro
name: Furukawa, Akira
name: Onuki, Akira
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We numerically investigate viscoelastic phase separation in polymer solutions under shear using a time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau model. The gross variables in our model are the polymer volume fraction and a conformation tensor. The latter represents chain deformations and relaxes slowly on the rheological time giving rise to a large viscoelastic stress. The polymer and the solvent obey two-fluid dynamics in which the viscoelastic stress acts asymmetrically on the polymer and, as a result, the stress and the diffusion are dynamically coupled. Below the coexistence curve, interfaces appear with increasing the quench depth and the solvent regions act as a lubricant. In these cases the composition heterogeneity causes more enhanced viscoelastic heterogeneity and the macroscopic stress is decreased at fixed applied shear rate. We find steady two-phase states composed of the polymer-rich and solvent-rich regions, where the characteristic domain size is inversely proportional to the average shear stress for various shear rates. The deviatoric stress components exhibit large temporal fluctuations. The normal stress difference can take negative values transiently at weak shear.
description: 16pages, 16figures, to be published in Phys.Rev.E
Narration/Erzählung
Creators: name: Wiedemann, Felix
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Narration
subject: Erzählung
subject: Interdisziplinarität
subject: 000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke::030 Enzyklopädien, Faktenbücher::030 Allgemeinenzyklopädien

description: Verwendung der Begriffe 'Narration' und 'Erzählung' in verschiedenen Fachdiskursen.
Manure Use for Fertilizer and for Energy: Report to Congress
Creators: name: MacDonald, James M.
name: Ribaudo, Marc O.
name: Livingston, Michael J.
name: Beckman, Jayson
name: Huang, Wen
name: MacDonald, James M.
name: Ribaudo, Marc O.
name: Livingston, Michael J.
name: Beckman, Jayson
name: Huang, Wen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Livestock Production/Industries
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: The Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 directed the U.S. Department of Agriculture to evaluate the role of animal manure as a source of fertilizer, and its other uses. About 5 percent of all U.S. cropland is currently fertilized with livestock manure, and corn accounts for over half of the acreage to which manure is applied. Expanded environmental regulation through nutrient management plans will likely lead to wider use of manure on cropland, at higher production costs, but with only modest impacts on production costs, commodity demand, or farm structure. There is widespread interest in using manure as a feedstock for energy production. While current use is quite limited, expanded government support, either direct or indirectly, could lead to a substantial increase in manure use as a feedstock. However, current energy processes are unlikely to compete with fertilizer uses of manure, because they leave fertilizer nutrients as residues, in more marketable form, and because manure-to-energy projects will be most profitable in regions where raw manure is in excess supply, with the least value as fertilizer.
Fingerprints of Majorana bound states in quantum-rings
Creators: name: Medina, F. G.
name: Ramos-Andrade, J. P.
name: Rosales, L.
name: Orellana, P. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we investigate a quantum-ring coupled to a topological superconductor, hosting Majorana bound states (MBSs). We study the MBSs effects over the spectrum and persistent current along the quantum-ring. To obtain physical quantities, we employ the Green's function formalism. We found that the presence of MBSs leads to dramatic changes in the quantum-ring spectrum by inducing particle-hole symmetry. On the other hand, we have obtained a substantial reduction of the persistent current in the strong coupling limit between ring and MBSs depending on the ring parity. These behaviors provide a measurable signature of MBSs. Our findings could be used as additional information on MBSs presence in these quantum systems.
Laser cooling of a nanomechanical resonator mode to its quantum ground state
Creators: name: Wilson-Rae, I.
name: Zoller, P.
name: Imamoglu, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that it is possible to cool a nanomechanical resonator mode to its ground state. The proposed technique is based on resonant laser excitation of a phonon sideband of an embedded quantum dot. The strength of the sideband coupling is determined directly by the difference between the electron-phonon couplings of the initial and final states of the quantum dot optical transition. Possible applications of the technique we describe include generation of non-classical states of mechanical motion.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, revtex4
Time-Resolved Detection of Individual Electrons in a Quantum Dot
Creators: name: Schleser, R.
name: Ruh, E.
name: Ihn, T.
name: Ensslin, K.
name: Driscoll, D. C.
name: Gossard, A. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present measurements on a quantum dot and a nearby, capacitively coupled, quantum point contact used as a charge detector. With the dot being weakly coupled to only a single reservoir, the transfer of individual electrons onto and off the dot can be observed in real time in the current signal from the quantum point contact. From these time-dependent traces, the quantum mechanical coupling between dot and reservoir can be extracted quantitatively. A similar analysis allows the determination of the occupation probability of the dot states.
description: 3 pages, 3 figures
Trivia coccinelloides
Creators: name: Bouchard, Blanche
name: Wesselingh, Frank P.
name: Pouwer, Ronald
name: Landau, Bernard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Littorinimorpha
Triviidae
Trivia
Trivia coccinelloides

description: Trivia coccinelloides (J. de C. Sowerby, 1822) (Fig. 10H 1, H 2, I 1, I 2, J 1, J 2)
Cypraea coccinelloides J. Sowerby, 1822: 107, pl. 378, fig. 1.
Trivia coccinelloides – Fehse & Landau 2003: 87, fig. 1/1a-c. — Landau et al. 2011: 17, pl. 6, fig. 8. — Van Dingenen et al. 2016: 123, pl. 4, fig. 5. — Van Nieulande et al. 2022: 20, figs 18-22.
For more, see synonymy list in Fehse & Landau (2003).
MATERIAL AND DIMENSIONS. — Maximum height 12.4 mm, width 9.1 mm. — RGM.1365271 (1), leg. WG; RGM.1365272 (1), leg. WG; RGM.1365003 (42), leg. ACJ; RGM.1365322 (17), leg. AWJ; RGM.1365203 (1), leg. WG; RGM.1365320 (4), leg. WG; RGM.1365274 (8), leg. ACJ; RGM.1365275 (3), leg. AWJ; RGM.1365321 (3), leg. AWJ; RGM.1365057 (20), leg. WG; RGM.1365323 (18), leg. AWJ; RGM.1365105 (239), leg. AWJ.
SPECIES CHARACTERISATION. — Aperture well to the right of the ventral mid-line, the fossula not delimited from the columella and the inner border of the columella; fossula not covered by outer lip when seen in ventral view.
DISTRIBUTION. — Lower Pliocene: NSB, Coralline Crag, England (Wood 1848; Harmer 1920); Atlantic, NW France (Van Dingenen et al. 2016); S Spain (Landau et al. 2011). — Upper Pliocene: NSB, Red Crag, England (Wood 1848; Harmer 1920), Lillo Formation, Belgium (Glibert 1958; Marquet 1998); Atlantic, Portugal (Silva 2001); western Mediterranean, Spain (Fehse & Landau 2003); central Mediterranean, Italy (Sacco 1894). — Upper Pliocene-Pleistocene: NW France (Brébion 1964). — Lower Pleistocene: Atlantic, Selsoif, France (this paper).
REMARKS
The species varies slightly in the development of the dorsal hump, and in the number of dorsal ribs and labial teeth. This same variability is seen in the Selsoif material, where this species is abundant. We consider this to be the only Trivia species present in the Selsoif assemblage. For further discussion see Van Dingenen et al. (2016: 123) and Van Nieulande et al. (2022: 20).
description: Published as part of Bouchard, Blanche, Wesselingh, Frank P., Pouwer, Ronald & Landau, Bernard, 2025, The Gelasian gastropod fauna of Selsoif (Manche, France), pp. 39-91 in Geodiversitas 47 (3) on page 68, DOI: 10.5252/geodiversitas2025v47a3, http://zenodo.org/record/14823602
Restoring geometrical optics near caustics using sequenced metaplectic transforms
Creators: name: Lopez, N. A.
name: Dodin, I. Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Geometrical optics (GO) is often used to model wave propagation in weakly inhomogeneous media and quantum-particle motion in the semiclassical limit. However, GO predicts spurious singularities of the wavefield near reflection points and, more generally, at caustics. We present a new formulation of GO, called metaplectic geometrical optics (MGO), that is free from these singularities and can be applied to any linear wave equation. MGO uses sequenced metaplectic transforms of the wavefield, corresponding to symplectic transformations of the ray phase space, such that caustics disappear in the new variables, and GO is reinstated. The Airy problem and the quantum harmonic oscillator are studied analytically using MGO for illustration. In both cases, the MGO solutions are remarkably close to the exact solutions and remain finite at cutoffs, unlike the usual GO solutions.
description: 19 pages, 9 figures, 3 appendices. This is the version of the article before peer review or editing, as submitted by an author to New Journal of Physics. IOP Publishing Ltd is not responsible for any errors or omissions in this version of the manuscript or any version derived from it. The Version of Record is available online at https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/aba91a
A multi-meteorological comparison for episodes of PM10 concentrations in the Berlin agglomeration area in Germany with the LOTOS-EUROS CTM
Creators: name: Thürkow, Markus
name: Kirchner, Ingo
name: Kranenburg, Richard
name: Timmermans, Renske M.A.
name: Schaap, Martijn
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Particulate matter
subject: LOTOS-EUROS
subject: COSMO-CLM
subject: Planetary boundary layer
subject: Composition of PM
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::550 Geowissenschaften, Geologie::550 Geowissenschaften
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::550 Geowissenschaften, Geologie::551 Geologie, Hydrologie, Meteorologie

description: Particulate matter (PM) remains as one of the most relevant air-quality concerns in urban environments. The Berlin agglomeration area is still affected by exceedances of the daily limit value of the PM concentration, especially during wintertime PM episodes. In this study, we present test-case studies with the LOTOS-EUROS CTM to improve the representation of PM episodes in the Berlin agglomeration area. A variety of simulations were compared for two winter episodes characterized by cold stagnant conditions, using different meteorological input data (from the European Centre for Medium Weather Forecast (ECMWF) and the Consortium for Small-Scale Modelling-Climate Limited-area Modelling (COSMO-CLM)) and horizontal and vertical resolutions of the LOTOS-EUROS CTM. The LOTOS-EUROS CTM indicates too high mixing from the planetary boundary layer (PBL) to higher layers, leading to an underestimation of the PM mass concentration in the Berlin agglomeration. As major impact factor the mixing layer height (MLH) can be identified. Through applying the COSMO-CLM model the meteorological representation of the PBL and MLH can significantly be improved, whereas sensitivity studies only exhibit a small variation of the PBL meteorology and did not further improve the MLH. As the MLHs of both models are underestimated compared to observations and their derivation is questionable, we advise not to use this quantity any longer in CTMs. By contrast, applying a multi-level approach excluding the MLH, provides a considerable increase in the total PM mass concentration amount. The redistribution and increased nitrate and ammonium concentration can be mentioned as the main culprit. However, the best-fit simulations were obtained for the multi-level configuration fed by COSMO-CLM input data, additionally representing a more realistic urban increment.
Sex differences in the Risk for Cardiovascular Disease Associated with Spinal Cord Injury
Creators: name: Jia, Analisa
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: Analisa Jia, a UBC 3MT Semi-Finalist, presents their research analyzing whether there is various risk for cardiovascular disease, based on sex differences, for patients with spinal cord injuries. Jia utilizes data from the Canadian Community Health Survey for her statistical analysis. Analisa Jia is currently completing their MSc in Pharmaceutical Sciences under the supervision of Dr. Jacquelyn Cragg and Dr. Christopher West.
Adsorption of fatty acids on mineral surfaces, the experimental implication of sorption-protection theory for fatty acids diagenesis and the use of flash pyrolysis to comprehend the fatty acid-mineral interactions
Creators: name: Zafar, Rabia
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2017

description: A theoretical concept of adsorption as a substantial step during diagenesis has been experimentally verified for long chain fatty acids on calcite and clay minerals. The primary focus of this research is to establish an empirical method via experimental work to test the major hypothesis developed for the preservation of organic matter via minerals related to the formation of geomacromolecules or kerogen. Addressing diagenesis, this research project is focused on the two major components of the sedimentary system i.e. fatty acids and minerals. The fatty acid is one of the most reactive organic compounds in the sedimentary system and is considered as an important precursor for petroleum hydrocarbons. Considering the importance of fatty acids in petroleum system, its adsorption on different minerals is challenging as well as equally important. Clay and calcite minerals have unique properties of adsorption, and catalysis and hence their affinity toward organic compounds has many implications in the petroleum industry and sedimentary system. A novel experimental method is developed to quantify the adsorption of fatty acids on mineral surfaces. Adsorption work coupled with flash pyrolysis is used to gain insight into fatty acids bonding with the mineral surfaces. Besides that flash pyrolysis work is used to apprehend the adsorption levels by benchmarking the difference in fatty acids adsorption on mineral surfaces. Like adsorption, a novel method is developed on Pyrolysis-GC-MS to recognise the breakdown products of three phases of fatty acids; pure fatty acids, fatty acids adsorbed on minerals and fatty acid salts. This is the first study of its kind when a comprehensive experimental work is executed at laboratory scale to mimic the adsorption of fatty acids during diagenesis. Findings from each experimental result are conclusive and interpreted in a close relation to natural settings. Project conclusions are used to understand the sorption and protection of fatty acids in the context of diagenesis and thus have major implications for the generation of hydrocarbons in marine sediments. Also, flash pyrolysis being a major part of the project is used for first time to address the diagenetic change linked with the industrial problem and then the solution is reported.
Phases of N=1 Supersymmetric Gauge Theories with Flavors
Creators: name: Balasubramanian, Vijay
name: Feng, Bo
name: Huang, Min-xin
name: Naqvi, Asad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the phases of N = 1 supersymmetric U(N) gauge theories with fundamental matter that arise as deformations of N = 2 SQCD by the addition of a superpotential for the adjoint chiral multiplet. As the parameters in the superpotential are varied, the vacua of this theory sweep out various branches, which in some cases have multiple semiclassical limits. In such limits, we recover the vacua of various product gauge group theories, with flavors charged under some group factors. We describe in detail the structure of the vacua in both classical and quantum regimes, and develop general techniques such as an addition and a multiplication map which relate vacua of different gauge theories. We also consider possible indices characterizing different branches and potential relationships with matrix models.
description: 58 pages, references added
Local models of semiabelian varieties and Kummer surfaces
Creators: name: Overkamp, Otto Viktor
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2018

description: We address several questions related to tame base change of Néron models of semiabelian varieties and the existence of Kulikov models of Kummer surfaces. Furthermore, we compare two recent approaches to locating the set of rational points within the set of adelic points of an algebraic variety over a number field.
Initial states and apodisation for quantum field simulations in phase-space
Creators: name: Drummond, Peter D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Bosonic quantum fields can be simulated with `quantum software' in phase-space. The positive-P, Wigner and Q-function phase-space methods are reviewed. Initial quantum states and boundaries for infinite domains are considered in detail. The quantum initial conditions treated include both multi-mode Gaussian states and number states, which are sampled using phase-shifted weighting techniques. This is more efficient than direct probabilistic sampling. Algorithms for treating periodic boundaries within infinite domains are developed via apodisation, or absorbers near the boundary. Similar truncation or anti-aliasing issues arise in the frequency domain with Fourier transform methods. Complex apodisation, in which there are phase-shifts as well as absorption, improves accuracy by reducing unwanted errors, and this is illustrated numerically. The complex power law apodisation techniques described here can be applied to numerical calculations or even directly in optics. Phase-space simulations, used for both quantum optical and Bose-Einstein condensate quantum dynamical calculations, require quantum noise terms to be included. A method is described to analyze number conservation in apodised calculations. Some techniques developed here are potentially applicable to all digital simulations, whether using classical or quantum logic.
description: Submitted to Focus Issue on Quantum Software, Quantum Science and Technology (IOP)
Asymptotic behaviour of the length of local cohomology
Creators: name: Cutkosky, Steven Dale
name: Ha, Huy Tai
name: Srinivasan, Hema
name: Theodorescu, Emanoil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 13D40; 14B15; 13D45

description: Let k be a field of characteristic 0, R = k[x_1, ..., x_d] be a polynomial ring, and m its maximal homogeneous ideal. Let I be a homogeneous ideal in R. In this paper we investigate asymptotic behaviour of the quotient between the length of local cohomology group H^0_m(R/I^n) and n^d. We show that this quantity always has a limit as n goes to infinity. We also give an example for which the limit is irrational; in particular, this proves that the length of H^0_m(R/I^n) is not asymptotically a polynomial in n.
description: To appear in Canadian Journal of Mathematics. 13 pages
Insights into west Antarctica's geology and late pleistocene ice sheet behaviour from isotopic sedimentary provenance studies
Creators: name: Simoes Pereira, Patric
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2018

description: A fundamental question in Antarctic glaciology and climate change research is whether the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) has experienced complete or partial disintegration during the late Pleistocene. Direct geological evidence for its past evolution is scarce, preventing improved predictions on its future behaviour. To this end, I investigated the provenance of late Pleistocene (1.1 Myrs) to modern detrital marine sediments deposited off West Antarctica using strontium and neodymium isotopic compositions of fine-grained (<63μm) sediments and 40Ar/39Ar ages on ice-rafted (>150μm) hornblende and biotite grains. Bedrock characteristics inferred from the sedimentary records can ultimately be tied to the location of eroding ice through time, and hence constrain ice dynamics in a novel way. My key findings are as follows: 1) isotopic and geochemical fingerprints of seafloor surface sediments in the Pacific sector of West Antarctica are varied enough to distinguish different ice drainage sectors on the continent and interpret the results in terms of varying subglacial geology and sediment transports pathways 2) the provenance of glaciogenic detritus delivered by the Pine Island and Thwaites Glaciers, which drain the WAIS into the Amundsen Sea, are significantly distinct from each other and reveal little to no provenance change since the Last Glacial Maximum 3) the sediment eroded by the WAIS in the Amundsen Sea area fluctuated in composition in pace with eccentricity between 1.1 and 0.2 Ma, but lacks evidence for substantial retreat from the modern ice margin 4) the sediment eroded during the peak of the last interglacial (~130 ka) suggests a significant retreat or even ‘ungrounding’ of the WAIS its Amundsen Sea sector. Overall, my new data show the promise of the approach chosen. Future work, from additional locations and using complementary methods, such as multivariate analysis, is needed to derive a more complete history of the WAIS.