cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Shonda Rhimes’s TGIT: Representation of Womanhood and Blackness
Creators: name: Rocchi, Marta
name: Farinacci, Elisa
Publisher: name: Series - International Journal of TV Serial Narratives
Year: 2020
Subjects: Shonda Rhimes; TV series; Blackness; Womanhood; Post-Feminism

description: For the first time in television history, Shonda Rhimes, a Black female showrunner obtained an entire prime time programming block on American broadcast television. She has been recognized as one of the most successful and influential TV showrunners and her shows are celebrated for promoting a strong feminist agenda that tends towards equality regardless of gender, race, class, religious belief or sexual orientation. Concentrating on ABC’s prime time night "Thank God It's Thursday", our analysis focuses on Grey's Anatomy (ABC, 2005-), How to Get Away with Murder (ABC, 2014-) and Scandal (ABC, 2012-2018), respectively a medical, a legal and a political drama. The main goal of the paper is to propose a hybrid methodology, that moves at the intersection of several approaches to investigate which aesthetics, identities and relationships of race and womanhood are represented in these three case studies.
description: Series - International Journal of TV Serial Narratives, Vol 6, No 1 (2020)
‘The Second What’: Science, Tragedy and Mental Abyss in Forensic Files
Creators: name: Ridderstrom, Helge
Publisher: name: Series - International Journal of TV Serial Narratives
Year: 2020
Subjects: True crime; mind reading; tragedy; guilt; justice

description: ABSTRACT Millions of readers and viewers are fascinated by stories about crimes that have actually been committed. In later years there has been an excess of access to true crime novels, movies, TV series, podcasts and blogs, spanning a wide range of formats and subgenres. This article explores some episodes in the series Forensic Files (1996-) in order to explain connections between mind reading, the tragic and true crime. The tragic as concept and mindreading challenges are used to enlighten the role given to science in the series. Forensic Files is a homage to science and forensics, but other evident aspects of the retold crimes are disregarded. A crime has fundamental psychological and mental aspects which are far more difficult to grasp than the outer events and hard facts. The article problematizes the role of thoughts, feelings and intentions in extremely serious crimes as presented in Forensic Files. A significant blank in the process of understanding and judging the perpetrator is named ‘the second what’, a factor which demonstrates a connection between true crime cases and our ability to read minds.
description: Series - International Journal of TV Serial Narratives, Vol 6, No 1 (2020)
title: Heimat und kuturelle Identität: Anmerkungen zu einem aktuellen Thema
Creators: name: Moritz, Martina
Publisher: name: Zentrum für Thüringer Landeskultur
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: 390
subject: 943

description: Heimat Thüringen - kulturelle Identität im Wandel: Tagung der Thüringischen Vereinigung für Volkskunde & des Zentrums für Thüringer Landeskultur, 26.-28. März 1993 ; Dokumentation der Tagungsbeiträge, p. 34
Hollywood (Mis)representations of Arabs and the Middle East From a Production Perspective – The Case of FX Channel’s Tyrant
Creators: name: Sayfo, Omar
Publisher: name: Series - International Journal of TV Serial Narratives
Year: 2020
Subjects: Arabs; Muslims; Middle East; Orientalism; stereotypes; clichés

description: For a number of scholars and cultural critics, Hollywood’s tendencies of representing Arabs, Muslims, and the Middle East are regarded as stereotyped, clichéd and, in some cases, downright offensively racist. Meanwhile, the absence of scholarly works investigating the issue from a production perspective is immense. Drawing from theories on cultural production and creative personnel, and combining them with a fieldwork I conducted at the set of Tyrant (2014-2016), FX Channel’s Middle Eastern drama, this article intends to fill this gap, by exploring the complexities of accurately representing the ‘Other’ when working with a mixed cast, addressing a diverse audience, and having to deal with politics.
description: Series - International Journal of TV Serial Narratives, Vol 6, No 1 (2020)
Electrical Tuning of Valley Magnetic Moment via Symmetry Control
Creators: name: Wu, Sanfeng
name: Ross, Jason S
name: Aivazian, Grant
name: Jones, Aaron
name: Fei, Zaiyao
name: Liu, Gui-Bin
name: Zhu, Wenguang
name: Xiao, Di
name: Yao, Wang
name: Cobden, David
name: Xu, Xiaodong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Crystal symmetry governs the nature of electronic Bloch states. For example, in the presence of time reversal symmetry, the orbital magnetic moment and Berry curvature of the Bloch states must vanish unless inversion symmetry is broken. In certain 2D electron systems such as bilayer graphene, the intrinsic inversion symmetry can be broken simply by applying a perpendicular electric field. In principle, this offers the remarkable possibility of switching on/off and continuously tuning the magnetic moment and Berry curvature near the Dirac valleys by reversible electrical control. Here we demonstrate this principle for the first time using bilayer MoS2, which has the same symmetry as bilayer graphene but has a bandgap in the visible that allows direct optical probing of these Berry-phase related properties. We show that the optical circular dichroism, which reflects the orbital magnetic moment in the valleys, can be continuously tuned from -15% to 15% as a function of gate voltage in bilayer MoS2 field-effect transistors. In contrast, the dichroism is gate-independent in monolayer MoS2, which is structurally non-centrosymmetric. Our work demonstrates the ability to continuously vary orbital magnetic moments between positive and negative values via symmetry control. This represents a new approach to manipulating Berry-phase effects for applications in quantum electronics associated with 2D electronic materials.
description: 13 pages main text + 4 pages supplementary materials
Shift–tail equivalence and an unbounded representative of the Cuntz–Pimsner extension
Creators: name: Goffeng, Magnus
name: Mesland, Bram
name: Rennie, Adam
Publisher: name: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cuntz–Pimsner extension
subject: non-commutative geometry
subject: Cuntz–Krieger algebra
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::510 | Mathematik

description: We show how the fine structure in shift–tail equivalence, appearing in the non-commutative geometry of Cuntz–Krieger algebras developed by the first two listed authors, has an analogue in a wide range of other Cuntz–Pimsner algebras. To illustrate this structure, and where it appears, we produce an unbounded representative of the defining extension of the Cuntz–Pimsner algebra constructed from a finitely generated projective bi-Hilbertian module, extending work by the third listed author with Robertson and Sims. As an application, our construction yields new spectral triples for Cuntz and Cuntz–Krieger algebras and for Cuntz–Pimsner algebras associated to vector bundles twisted by an equicontinuous -automorphism.
The Ethics of Serial Narrative Structures
Creators: name: Hatchuel, Sarah
name: Cornillon, Claire
Publisher: name: Series - International Journal of TV Serial Narratives
Year: 2020
Subjects: episodic; serial; ethics; E.R.; Angel; Awake; Lost; Person of interest

description: The power of episodic television shows such as Columbo (NBC, 1968-1978; ABC, 1988-2003) in which each episode tells a full story, has been highlighted by Jean-Pierre Esquenazi (2017: 107-28), who compares them to cubist works, whose universes become denser over time. Yet, surveys evidence that audiences generally prefer watching serial television shows whose narrative arcs develop over numerous episodes (Glevarec 2012; Combes 2015). Series such as E.R. (NBC, 1994-2009), Angel (The WB, 1999-2004), LOST (ABC, 2004-2010), Person of Interest (CBS, 2011-2016) and Awake (NBC, 2012), which are the focus of this essay, negotiate a “balance between episodic and serial demands” (Mittell 2015: 20), as they include episodes that both stand on their own and advance various long-term narrative arcs. These semi-serial shows display a writing which, season after season, feeds on the very tension between their episodic and serial aspects, between short-term and long-term features. This tension raises ethical stakes, particularly an ethics of care, which this essay will attempt to bring to the fore, drawing from the work of Sandra Laugier (2014: 261). Laugier’s work invites us to understand how television shows, through their durations and the various kinds of attachment they elicit, may educate viewers morally and make them attentive to what seems to be unremarkable within ordinary life. Her recent work on TV series (2019) focuses on their representational contents – situations, dialogues, gestures, dilemmas, identity politics and (political or moral) choices made by (groups of) characters – but it does not take into account the way specific narrative structures may encourage spectators to adopt a particular ethical view. The purpose of this essay is precisely to focus on the ethics of care invoked through serial narrative structures. By analyzing several examples, we will show that semi-serial shows thematize their own narrative negotiations within the story world and, even if they construct strong serial arcs, maintain the importance of the episodic form as a metaphor of human beings in their very individualities and specificities.
description: Series - International Journal of TV Serial Narratives, Vol 6, No 1 (2020)
Accurate spectroscopic parameters of WASP planet host stars
Creators: name: Doyle, Amanda P.
name: Smalley, B.
name: Maxted, P. F. L.
name: Anderson, D. R.
name: Cameron, A. Collier
name: Gillon, M.
name: Hellier, C.
name: Pollacco, D.
name: Queloz, D.
name: Triaud, A. H. M. J.
name: West, R. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have made a detailed spectral analysis of eleven Wide Angle Search for Planets (WASP) planet host stars using high signal-to-noise (S/N) HARPS spectra. Our line list was carefully selected from the spectra of the Sun and Procyon, and we made a critical evaluation of the atomic data. The spectral lines were measured using equivalent widths. The procedures were tested on the Sun and Procyon prior to be being used on the WASP stars. The effective temperature, surface gravity, microturbulent velocity and metallicity were determined for all the stars. We show that abundances derived from high S/N spectra are likely to be higher than those obtained from low S/N spectra, as noise can cause the equivalent width to be underestimated. We also show that there is a limit to the accuracy of stellar parameters that can be achieved, despite using high S/N spectra, and the average uncertainty in effective temperature, surface gravity, microturbulent velocity and metallicity is 83 K, 0.11 dex, 0.11 km/s and 0.10 dex respectively.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
The Mesozoic-Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the New Siberian Islands, NE Russia
Creators: name: Brandes, Christian
name: Piepjohn, Karsten
name: Franke, Dieter
name: Sobolev, Nikolay
name: Gaedicke, Christoph
Publisher: name: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: De Long Islands
subject: fold-thrust belt
subject: New Siberian Islands
subject: South Anyui suture zone
subject: Cenozoic
subject: deformation
subject: extensional tectonics
subject: fold and thrust belt
subject: Mesozoic
subject: rifting
subject: suture zone
subject: tectonic evolution
subject: tectonic setting
subject: Russian Federation
subject: Sakha
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::550 | Geowissenschaften

description: On the New Siberian Islands the rocks of the east Russian Arctic shelf are exposed and allow an assessment of the structural evolution of the region. Tectonic fabrics provide evidence of three palaeo-shortening directions (NE–SW, WNW–ESE and NNW–SSE to NNE–SSW) and one set of palaeo-extension directions revealed a NE–SW to NNE–SSW direction. The contractional deformation is most likely the expression of the Cretaceous formation of the South Anyui fold–thrust belt. The NE–SW shortening is the most prominent tectonic phase in the study area. The WNW–ESE and NNW–SSE to NNE–SSW-oriented palaeo-shortening directions are also most likely related to fold belt formation; the latter might also have resulted from a bend in the suture zone. The younger Cenozoic NE–SW to NNE–SSW extensional direction is interpreted as a consequence of rifting in the Laptev Sea.
On the cohomology of almost-complex manifolds
Creators: name: Angella, Daniele
name: Tomassini, Adriano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C55, 53C25, 32G05

description: Following T.-J. Li, W. Zhang [Comparing tamed and compatible symplectic cones and cohomological properties of almost complex manifolds, Comm. Anal. Geom.], we continue to study the link between the cohomology of an almost-complex manifold and its almost-complex structure. In particular, we apply the same argument in [T.-J. Li, W. Zhang, Comparing tamed and compatible symplectic cones and cohomological properties of almost complex manifolds, Comm. Anal. Geom.] and the results obtained by D. Sullivan in [Cycles for the dynamical study of foliated manifolds and complex manifolds, Invent. Math.] to study the cone of semi-Kähler structures on a compact semi-Kähler manifold.
Research on diffusion of Mo substrate atoms into Ti and Cr thin films by secondary ion-ion emission method
Creators: name: Abramenkov, A. D.
name: Fogel, Ya. M.
name: Slyozov, V. V.
name: Tanatarov, L. V.
name: Ledenyov, Oleg P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The experimental research on the nature of diffusion by the Mo substrate atoms into the Ti and Cr deposited thin films is completed by the secondary ion-ion emission method. In [1], the initial stage of the Ti thin film on the Mo substrate deposition process, using the Ti evaporation technique in the vacuum, is researched. It was found that the Mo substrate atoms diffuse into the continuously deposited Ti thin film. The diffusion of Mo substrate atoms by the nodes of crystal grating in the deposited metallic Ti thin film with the continuously increasing thickness is theoretically considered in [2]. In this research, the diffusion coefficients of Mo substrate atoms into the Ti and Cr thin films are measured by the secondary ion-ion emission method in the Mo-Ti and Mo-Cr systems.
description: 3 pages, 2 figures http://impo.imp.uran.ru/fmm/Electron/vol30_6/main.html
Failures of weak approximation in families
Creators: name: Bright, M.J.
name: Browning, T.D.
name: Loughran, D.
Publisher: name: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Brauer-Manin obstruction
subject: fibrations
subject: rational points
subject: sieves
subject: weak approximation
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::510 | Mathematik

description: Given a family of varieties over a number field, we determine conditions under which there is a Brauer-Manin obstruction to weak approximation for 100% of the fibres which are everywhere locally soluble. © The Authors 2016.
The Streaming Wars in the Global Periphery: A Glimpse from Brazil
Creators: name: Meimaridis, Melina
name: Mazur, Daniela
name: Rios, Daniel
Publisher: name: Series - International Journal of TV Serial Narratives
Year: 2020
Subjects: Internet distributed television; Globoplay; Brazilian television; local; Netflix

description: Considering the current proliferation of video streaming platforms as a worldwide phenomenon, this article analyzes how countries in the global periphery are adapting to this effervescent scenario, characterized by the expression “streaming wars.” This research offers a glimpse of Brazil’s audiovisual industry and tries to understand how American streaming companies are penetrating this market, which is currently the sixth-largest in the world, and how the local media conglomerates are reacting. In order to maintain their dominance in the region, free-to-air networks, pay-tv networks, and Brazilian telecommunication companies are using different strategies, either creating their own platforms or partnering with pre-established ones in favor of strengthening themselves. Given Brazil’s particular television organization, based largely on a few broadcast networks, local media conglomerates have fostered a mutualistic relationship with their streaming platforms. The largest national streaming company, Globoplay, has stood out in the local market: not only making TV Globo’s productions available but also producing original content and offering foreign series exclusively. Because traditional television consumption is deeply rooted in the country, several different strategies are required if TV Globo aims to transform viewers into Globoplay subscribers. The Brazilian case study, therefore, reveals nuances and strategies from media industries in the global periphery.
description: Series - International Journal of TV Serial Narratives, Vol 6, No 1 (2020)
Three recipes for improving the image quality with optical long-baseline interferometers: BFMC, LFF, \& DPSC
Creators: name: Millour, Florentin
name: Vannier, Martin
name: Meilland, Anthony
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present here three recipes for getting better images with optical interferometers. Two of them, Low- Frequencies Filling and Brute-Force Monte Carlo were used in our participation to the Interferometry Beauty Contest this year and can be applied to classical imaging using V 2 and closure phases. These two addition to image reconstruction provide a way of having more reliable images. The last recipe is similar in its principle as the self-calibration technique used in radio-interferometry. We call it also self-calibration, but it uses the wavelength-differential phase as a proxy of the object phase to build-up a full-featured complex visibility set of the observed object. This technique needs a first image-reconstruction run with an available software, using closure-phases and squared visibilities only. We used it for two scientific papers with great success. We discuss here the pros and cons of such imaging technique.
description: 9 pages, to be published in SPIE proceedings; Optical and Infrared Interferometry III, Amsterdam : Netherlands (2012)
Casting My Brilliant Friend’s Authentic Stardom
Creators: name: Renga, Dana
Publisher: name: Series - International Journal of TV Serial Narratives
Year: 2020
Subjects: Casting; Television; My Brilliant Friend; Nonprofessional performers; Authenticity

description: Using the The HBO/Rai co-production My Brilliant Friend as a case study, this essay addresses the understudied arena of casting, particularly in relation to the creation of the “authentic stardom” of the child and adolescent nonprofessional performers. Drawing from personal interviews with Laura Muccino and Sara Casani, two of Italian television’s most important casting directors, excerpts of which are included throughout the essay, I consider the gendered practices of casting in relation to Muccino and Casani’s epic search for the four nonprofessional child and adolescent girl performers who made the characters from the novel come to life. I focus on the casting and reception of the child and adolescent female actors in the series. In particular, this essay engages with performances of adolescence as these performances relate to the productions’ desire to represent an authentic experience of youth in postwar Italy that is exported to transnational audiences.
description: Series - International Journal of TV Serial Narratives, Vol 6, No 1 (2020)
Italian Fiction as Seen from a Distance. Anomalies in the Correlation between National and Regional Success
Creators: name: Avezzù, Giorgio
Publisher: name: Series - International Journal of TV Serial Narratives
Year: 2020
Subjects: TV series; Italian fiction; Regional success; Locations; TV Audience

description: The article aims at analyzing the regional consumption of mainstream Italian seriality covering a period of four years (2016-2019). It underlines the great heterogeneity of “fiction” consumption throughout Italy, and demonstrates how the correlation between national and regional success is often subject to the influence of factors that can produce anomalies. The most important factors responsible for anomalies appear to be the regions where the series are set, and the broadcasting channels. The article also tries to compare and quantify such phenomena, in order to understand how the national success of Italian fiction can benefit from the polarization of consumption happening in the various regions of the Country.
description: Series - International Journal of TV Serial Narratives, Vol 6, No 1 (2020)
title: Arbeitsgruppe 1: Naturschutz zwischen Tourismus und Totalreservat
Creators: name: Kober, Christine
Publisher: name: Zentrum für Thüringer Landeskultur
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: 333.7

description: Heimat Thüringen - kulturelle Identität im Wandel: Tagung der Thüringischen Vereinigung für Volkskunde & des Zentrums für Thüringer Landeskultur, 26.-28. März 1993 ; Dokumentation der Tagungsbeiträge, p. 39
System and Culture in Format Adaptation
Creators: name: Gemzøe, Lynge Stegger
Publisher: name: Series - International Journal of TV Serial Narratives
Year: 2020
Subjects: adaptation; series; national culture; media system; format trade; remakes

description: This article explores strengths and weaknesses of common methods and frameworks in studying format adaptation, primarily in television series, but with some findings applicable for television entertainment formats as well. The article problematises how work on transnational remakes of television series as well as studies of format adaptation in general predominately focuses on either using text-based readings of cultural similarities and differences or explanations rooted in the media system such as, for example, a new channel’s profile or norms and traditions in the programming interface of a particular channel or country. The article examines the dominant literature and theories on the subject, illustrating that there is an ongoing debate among researchers as to which framework is more powerful and precise in accounting for format adaptation. It becomes apparent that studies favouring the one approach greatly over the other are often comparing apples and oranges. Finally, the article aims to show how existing research most often compares original and remake in their final forms, overlooking the creation process, the dilemmas of the creatives behind the transformations, and the effect their preconceptions have on the finished results.
description: Series - International Journal of TV Serial Narratives, Vol 6, No 1 (2020)
title: Arbeitsgruppe 2: Die Bedeutung von Festen und Bräuchen in der Ausprägung kutureller Identität
Creators: name: Braune, Gudrun
name: Lamprecht, Birgit
Publisher: name: Zentrum für Thüringer Landeskultur
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: 390
subject: 943

description: Heimat Thüringen - kulturelle Identität im Wandel: Tagung der Thüringischen Vereinigung für Volkskunde & des Zentrums für Thüringer Landeskultur, 26.-28. März 1993 ; Dokumentation der Tagungsbeiträge, p. 41
The dynamics of stagnation: a panel analysis of the onset and continuation of stagnation
Creators: name: Bluhm, Richard
name: De Crombrugghe, Denis
name: Szirmai, Adam
Publisher: name: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: economic stagnation
subject: onset of stagnation
subject: continuation of stagnation
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::300 | Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie::330 | Wirtschaft

description: This paper analyzes periods of economic stagnation in a panel of countries. We test whether stagnation can be predicted by institutional characteristics and political shocks and compare the impacts of such variables with those of traditional macroeconomic variables. We examine the determinants of stagnation episodes using dynamic linear and nonlinear models. In addition, we analyze whether the effects of the included variables on the onset of stagnation differ from their effects on the continuation of stagnation. We find that inflation, negative regime changes, real exchange rate undervaluation, financial openness, and trade openness have significant effects on both the onset and the continuation of stagnation. Only for trade openness is there robust evidence of a differential impact. Open economies have a significantly lower probability of falling into stagnation, but once in stagnation they do not recover faster.
Research on Targeted Poverty Alleviation under the COVID-19 Pandemic
Creators: name: Zhang, Shiyao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 160606 Government and Politics of Asia and the Pacific
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Since the concept of “Targeted Poverty Alleviation” was put forward in 2013, China's poverty governance has gradually shifted to the direction of combining poverty alleviation resources and adopting targeted measures. The new institutional mechanism has made resource allocation more reasonable and efficient. It has not only played a huge role in promoting China's fight to get rid of poverty, but also provided a reference for global poverty reduction. Since the end of 2019, with the outbreak and spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, China's poverty governance is also facing huge challenges. In this severe situation, the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese government have made full use of the advantages of the system to make efficient and reasonable decision-making, effectively avoiding the unsustainable problem of poverty alleviation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Summing up and studying the successful experience of Targeted Poverty Alleviation under the COVID-19 pandemic has important reference significance for China's next poverty governance and global poverty reduction.
Present-Day Star Formation: Protostellar Outflows and Clustered Star Formation
Creators: name: Nakamura, Fumitaka
name: Li, Zhi-Yun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Stars form predominantly in clusters inside dense clumps of turbulent, magnetized molecular clouds. The typical size and mass of the cluster-forming clumps are \sim 1 pc and \sim 10^2 - 10^3 M_\odot, respectively. Here, we discuss some recent progress on theoretical and observational studies of clustered star formation in such parsec-scale clumps with emphasis on the role of protostellar outflow feedback. Recent simulations indicate that protostellar outflow feedback can maintain supersonic turbulence in a cluster-forming clump, and the clump can keep a virial equilibrium long after the initial turbulence has decayed away. In the clumps, star formation proceeds relatively slowly; it continues for at least several global free-fall times of the parent dense clump (t_{ff}\sim a few x 10^5 yr). The most massive star in the clump is formed at the bottom of the clump gravitational potential well at later times through the filamentary mass accretion streams that are broken up by the outflows from low-mass cluster members. Observations of molecular outflows in nearby cluster-forming clumps appear to support the outflow-regulated cluster formation model.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures proceedings of the First Stars IV 2012 Conference held in Kyoto, Japan
Short range dispersal of western flower thrips in field-grown French beans in Kenya
Creators: name: Nyasani, Johnson O.
name: Subramanian, Sevgan
name: Orindi, Benedict
name: Poehling, Hans-Michael
name: Meyhöfer, Rainer
Publisher: name: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: circular statistics
subject: colonization
subject: Frankliniella occidentalis
subject: Phaseolus vulgaris
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::590 | Tiere (Zoologie)

description: The short-range diurnal dispersal pattern of adult western flower thrips Frankliniella occidentalis (Pergande), in relation to spatial distribution of French beans, was determined in the field. A total of 1200 adult female F. occidentalis were released on 60 French bean plants with 20 adult thrips per plant at the central release point of 3.14 m2. Dispersal was determined in terms of the number of thrips recorded on French beans planted on concentric circles at 0.9, 1.8, 3.6, 7.2 and 14.4 m radii from a circular central release point for five days. Results indicated that there was a steady increase in the proportion of dispersing adult F. occidentalis from the first to the fourth day in the first planting season, and from the first to the third day in the second planting season. The peak hour for dispersal was 10.15 h in the first season while it was 13.15 h in the second season. Temperature and wind speed were positively associated with the dispersal activity of adult F. occidentalis. Minimal flight activity was at temperatures below 15 °C and peak flight activity was at 19 °C. The prevailing wind direction did not influence the dispersal pattern of adult F. occidentalis in both seasons. Adult F. occidentalis moved up to 7.2 m on French beans on the first day. In both seasons, the mean direction of thrips dispersal was mostly uniformly distributed (not oriented to a particular compass direction) around the central release point. The results provide an insight into developing integrated management strategies against the pest based on isolation of farm fields, management of alterative hosts around French bean fields and insecticide application. Copyright © icipe 2017
Research on Targeted Poverty Alleviation under the COVID-19 Pandemic Cite
Creators: name: Zhang, Shiyao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 160606 Government and Politics of Asia and the Pacific
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Since the concept of “Targeted Poverty Alleviation” was put forward in 2013, China's poverty governance has gradually shifted to the direction of combining poverty alleviation resources and adopting targeted measures. The new institutional mechanism has made resource allocation more reasonable and efficient. It has not only played a huge role in promoting China's fight to get rid of poverty, but also provided a reference for global poverty reduction. Since the end of 2019, with the outbreak and spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, China's poverty governance is also facing huge challenges. In this severe situation, the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese government have made full use of the advantages of the system to make efficient and reasonable decision-making, effectively avoiding the unsustainable problem of poverty alleviation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Summing up and studying the successful experience of Targeted Poverty Alleviation under the COVID-19 pandemic has important reference significance for China's next poverty governance and global poverty reduction.
Modélisation multi-niveaux dans AA4MM
Creators: name: Camus, Benjamin
name: Siebert, Julien
name: Bourjot, Christine
name: Chevrier, Vincent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this article, we propose to represent a multi-level phenomenon as a set of interacting models. This perspective makes the levels of representation and their relationships explicit. To deal with coherence, causality and coordination issues between models, we rely on AA4MM, a metamodel dedicated to such a representation. We illustrate our proposal and we show the interest of our approach on a flocking phenomenon.
Design and User Satisfaction of Interactive Maps for Visually Impaired People
Creators: name: Brock, Anke
name: Truillet, Philippe
name: Oriola, Bernard
name: Picard, Delphine
name: Jouffrais, Christophe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Multimodal interactive maps are a solution for presenting spatial information to visually impaired people. In this paper, we present an interactive multimodal map prototype that is based on a tactile paper map, a multi-touch screen and audio output. We first describe the different steps for designing an interactive map: drawing and printing the tactile paper map, choice of multi-touch technology, interaction technologies and the software architecture. Then we describe the method used to assess user satisfaction. We provide data showing that an interactive map - although based on a unique, elementary, double tap interaction - has been met with a high level of user satisfaction. Interestingly, satisfaction is independent of a user's age, previous visual experience or Braille experience. This prototype will be used as a platform to design advanced interactions for spatial learning.
A nonperturbative light-front coupled-cluster method
Creators: name: Hiller, J. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The nonperturbative Hamiltonian eigenvalue problem for bound states of a quantum field theory is formulated in terms of Dirac's light-front coordinates and then approximated by the exponential-operator technique of the many-body coupled-cluster method. This approximation eliminates any need for the usual approximation of Fock-space truncation. Instead, the exponentiated operator is truncated, and the terms retained are determined by a set of nonlinear integral equations. These equations are solved simultaneously with an effective eigenvalue problem in the valence sector, where the number of constituents is small. Matrix elements can be calculated, with extensions of techniques from standard coupled-cluster theory, to obtain form factors and other observables.
description: 6 pages, 7 figures; RevTeX 4.1; presented at QCD@Work2012, the International Workshop on QCD Theory and Experiment, June 18-21, 2012, Lecce, Italy
$\mathcal Z$-stability and finite dimensional tracial boundaries
Creators: name: Toms, Andrew
name: White, Stuart
name: Winter, Wilhelm
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46L35

description: We show that a simple separable unital nuclear nonelementary $C^*$-algebra whose tracial state space has a compact extreme boundary with finite covering dimension admits uniformly tracially large order zero maps from matrix algebras into its central sequence algebra. As a consequence, strict comparison implies $\Z$-stability for these algebras.
description: 20 Pages, minor typos fixed
Wieler solenoids, Cuntz–Pimsner algebras and K-theory
Creators: name: Deeley, Robin J.
name: Goffeng, Magnus
name: Mesland, Bram
name: Whittaker, Michael F.
Publisher: name: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Cuntz–Pimsner algebra
subject: K-theory
subject: Kubo–Martin–Schwinger (KMS)
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::510 | Mathematik

description: We study irreducible Smale spaces with totally disconnected stable sets and their associated K-theoretic invariants. Such Smale spaces arise as Wieler solenoids, and we restrict to those arising from open surjections. The paper follows three converging tracks: one dynamical, one operator algebraic and one K-theoretic. Using Wieler’s theorem, we characterize the unstable set of a finite set of periodic points as a locally trivial fibre bundle with discrete fibres over a compact space. This characterization gives us the tools to analyse an explicit groupoid Morita equivalence between the groupoids of Deaconu–Renault and Putnam–Spielberg, extending results of Thomsen. The Deaconu–Renault groupoid and the explicit Morita equivalence lead to a Cuntz–Pimsner model for the stable Ruelle algebra. The K-theoretic invariants of Cuntz–Pimsner algebras are then studied using the Cuntz–Pimsner extension, for which we construct an unbounded representative. To elucidate the power of these constructions, we characterize the Kubo–Martin–Schwinger (KMS) weights on the stable Ruelle algebra of a Wieler solenoid. We conclude with several examples of Wieler solenoids, their associated algebras and spectral triples.
Virgo Cluster and field dwarf ellipticals in 3D: I. On the variety of stellar kinematic and line-strength properties
Creators: name: Ryś, Agnieszka
name: Falcón-Barroso, Jesús
name: van de Ven, Glenn
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first large-scale stellar kinematic and line-strength maps for dwarf elliptical galaxies (9 in the Virgo Cluster and 3 in the field environment) obtained with the SAURON integral-field unit. No two galaxies in our sample are alike: we see that the level of rotation is not tied to flattening (we have, e.g. round rotators and flattened nonrotators); we observe kinematic twists in 1 Virgo and 1 field object; we discover large-scale kinematically-decoupled components in 2 field galaxies; we see varying gradients in line-strength maps, from nearly flat to strongly peaked in the center. The great variety of morphological, kinematic, and stellar population parameters seen in our data points to a formation scenario in which properties are shaped stochastically. A combined effect of ram-pressure stripping and galaxy harassment is the most probable explanation. We show the need for a comprehensive analysis of kinematic, dynamical, and stellar population properties which will enable us to place dwarf ellipticals and processes that govern their evolution in the wider context of galaxy formation.
description: accepted for publication in MNRAS; 34 pages, 11 figures, 2 tables; missing references files added; high resolution version available at https://dl.dropbox.com/u/18763182/A.Rys_SAURON_dwarfs_P1.pdf
Type IIn Supernova SN 2010jl: Optical Observations for Over 500 Days After Explosion
Creators: name: Zhang, Tianmeng
name: Wang, Xiaofeng
name: Wu, Chao
name: Chen, Juncheng
name: Chen, Jia
name: Liu, Qin
name: Huang, Fang
name: Liang, Jide
name: Zhao, Xulin
name: Li, Lin
name: Wang, Min
name: Dennefeld, Michel
name: Zhang, Jujia
name: Zhai, Meng
name: Wu, Hong
name: Fan, Zhou
name: Zou, Hu
name: Zhou, Xu
name: Ma, Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present extensive optical observations of a Type IIn supernova (SN) 2010jl for the first 1.5 years after the discovery. The UBVRI light curves demonstrated an interesting two-stage evolution during the nebular phase, which almost flatten out after about 90 days from the optical maximum. SN 2010jl has one of the highest intrinsic H_alpha luminosity ever recorded for a SN IIn, especially at late phase, suggesting a strong interaction of SN ejecta with the dense circumstellar material (CSM) ejected by the progenitor. This is also indicated by the remarkably strong Balmer lines persisting in the optical spectra. One interesting spectral evolution about SN 2010jl is the appearance of asymmetry of the Balmer lines. These lines can be well decomposed into a narrow component and an intermediate-width component. The intermediate-width component showed a steady increase in both strength and blueshift with time until t ~ 400 days after maximum, but it became less blueshifted at t ~ 500 days when the line profile appeared relatively symmetric again. Owing to that a pure reddening effect will lead to a sudden decline of the light curves and a progressive blueshift of the spectral lines, we therefore propose that the asymmetric profiles of H lines seen in SN 2010jl is unlikely due to the extinction by newly formed dust inside the ejecta, contrary to the explanation by some early studies. Based on a simple CSM-interaction model, we speculate that the progenitor of SN 2010jl may suffer a gigantic mass loss (~ 30-50 M_sun) in a few decades before explosion. Considering a slow moving stellar wind (e.g., ~ 28 km/s) inferred for the preexisting, dense CSM shell and the extremely high mass-loss rate (1-2 M_sun per yr), we suggest that the progenitor of SN 2010jl might have experienced a red supergiant stage and explode finally as a post-red supergiant star with an initial mass above 30-40 M_sun.
description: 34 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in AJ
An equivariant description of certain holomorphic symplectic varieties
Creators: name: Crooks, Peter
Publisher: name: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: equivariant geometry
subject: holomorphic symplectic geometry
subject: Lie theory
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::510 | Mathematik

description: Varieties of the form G×Sreg, where G is a complex semisimple group and Sreg is a regular Slodowy slice in the Lie algebra of G, arise naturally in hyperkähler geometry, theoretical physics and the theory of abstract integrable systems. Crooks and Rayan [‘Abstract integrable systems on hyperkähler manifolds arising from Slodowy slices’, Math. Res. Let., to appear] use a Hamiltonian G-action to endow G×Sreg with a canonical abstract integrable system. To understand examples of abstract integrable systems arising from Hamiltonian G-actions, we consider a holomorphic symplectic variety X carrying an abstract integrable system induced by a Hamiltonian G-action. Under certain hypotheses, we show that there must exist a G-equivariant variety isomorphism X≅G×Sreg.
title: Arbeitsgruppe 3: Denkmale und gebaute Umwelt
Creators: name: Kolbmüller, Burkhardt
Publisher: name: Zentrum für Thüringer Landeskultur
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: 943
subject: 710

description: Heimat Thüringen - kulturelle Identität im Wandel: Tagung der Thüringischen Vereinigung für Volkskunde & des Zentrums für Thüringer Landeskultur, 26.-28. März 1993 ; Dokumentation der Tagungsbeiträge, p. 48
Piezoelectric surface acoustical phonon limited mobility of electrons in graphene on a GaAs substrate
Creators: name: Zhang, S. H.
name: Xu, W.
name: Badalyan, S. M.
name: Peeters, F. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the mobility of Dirac fermions in monolayer graphene on a GaAs substrate, restricted by the combined action of the extrinsic potential of piezoelectric surface acoustical phonons of GaAs (PA) and of the intrinsic deformation potential of acoustical eigen-phonons in graphene (DA). In the high temperature ($T$) regime the momentum relaxation rate exhibits the same linear dependence on $T$ but different dependences on the carrier density $n$, corresponding to the mobility $μ\propto 1/\sqrt{n}$ and $1/n$, respectively for the PA and DA scattering mechanisms. In the low $T$ Bloch-Grüneisen regime, the mobility shows the same square-root density dependence, $μ\propto \sqrt{n}$, but different temperature dependences, $μ\propto T^{-3}$ and $ T^{-4}$, respectively for PA and DA phonon scattering.
description: 3 figures
Emergent thermodynamics in a quenched quantum many-body system
Creators: name: Dorner, Ross
name: Goold, John
name: Cormick, Cecilia
name: Paternostro, Mauro
name: Vedral, Vlatko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the statistics of the work done, the fluctuation relations and the irreversible entropy production in a quantum many-body system subject to the sudden quench of a control parameter. By treating the quench as a thermodynamic transformation we show that the emergence of irreversibility in the nonequilibrium dynamics of closed many-body quantum systems can be accurately characterized. We demonstrate our ideas by considering a transverse quantum Ising model that is taken out of equilibrium by the instantaneous switching of the transverse field.
description: 6 pages, 1 figure
Overview of non-intercepting beam-size monitoring with optical diffraction radiation
Creators: name: Lumpkin, Alex H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The initial demonstrations over the last several years of the use of optical diffraction radiation (ODR) as non-intercepting electron-beam-parameter monitors are reviewed. Developments in both far-field imaging and near-field imaging are addressed for ODR generated by a metal plane with a slit aperture, a single metal plane, and two-plane interferences. Polarization effects and sensitivities to beam size, divergence, and position will be discussed as well as a proposed path towards monitoring 10-micron beam sizes at 25 GeV.
description: 6 pp. 14th Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop 13-19 Jun 2010. Annapolis, Maryland
Improvement of Electron Probe Microanalysis of Boron Concentration in Silicate Glasses
Creators: name: Cheng, Lining
name: Zhang, Chao
name: Li, Xiaoyan
name: Almeev, Renat R.
name: Yang, Xiaosong
name: Holtz, Francois
Publisher: name: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: boron
subject: electron probe microanalysis
subject: high-energy background
subject: silicate glass
subject: tourmaline
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::570 | Biowissenschaften, Biologie

description: The determination of low boron concentrations in silicate glasses by electron probe microanalysis (EPMA) remains a significant challenge. The internal interferences from the diffraction crystal, i.e. the Mo-B4C large d-spacing layered synthetic microstructure crystal, can be thoroughly diminished by using an optimized differential mode of pulse height analysis (PHA). Although potential high-order spectral interferences from Ca, Fe, and Mn on the BKα peak can be significantly reduced by using an optimized differential mode of PHA, a quantitative calibration of the interferences is required to obtain accurate boron concentrations in silicate glasses that contain these elements. Furthermore, the first-order spectral interference from ClL-lines is so strong that they hinder reliable EPMA of boron concentrations in Cl-bearing silicate glasses. Our tests also indicate that, due to the strongly curved background shape on the high-energy side of BKα, an exponential regression is better than linear regression for estimating the on-peak background intensity based on measured off-peak background intensities. We propose that an optimal analytical setting for low boron concentrations in silicate glasses (≥0.2 wt% B2O3) would best involve a proper boron-rich glass standard, a low accelerating voltage, a high beam current, a large beam size, and a differential mode of PHA.