cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Complex Systems of Secrecy: The Offshore Networks of Oligarchs
Creators: name: Chang, Ho-Chun Herbert
name: Harrington, Brooke
name: Fu, Feng
name: Rockmore, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: General Economics (econ.GN)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Following the invasion of Ukraine, the US, UK, and EU governments--among others--sanctioned oligarchs close to Putin. This approach has come under scrutiny, as evidence has emerged of the oligarchs' successful evasion of these punishments. To address this problem, we analyze the role of an overlooked but highly influential group: the secretive professional intermediaries who create and administer the oligarchs' offshore financial empires. Drawing on the Offshore Leaks Database provided by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), we examine the ties linking offshore expert advisors (lawyers, accountants, and other wealth management professionals) to ultra-high-net-worth individuals from four countries: Russia, China, the United States, and Hong Kong. We find that resulting nation-level "oligarch networks" share a scale-free structure characterized by heterogeneity of heavy-tailed degree distributions of wealth managers; however, network topologies diverge across clients from democratic versus autocratic regimes. While generally robust, scale-free networks are fragile when targeted by attacks on highly-connected nodes. Our "knock-out" experiments pinpoint this vulnerability to the small group of wealth managers themselves, suggesting that sanctioning these professional intermediaries may be more effective and efficient in disrupting dark finance flows than sanctions on their wealthy clients. This vulnerability is especially pronounced amongst Russian oligarchs, who concentrate their offshore business in a handful of boutique wealth management firms. The distinctive patterns we identify suggest a new approach to sanctions, focused on expert intermediaries to disrupt the finances and alliances of their wealthy clients. More generally, our research contributes to the larger body of work on complexity science and the structures of secrecy.
Near-Field Microwave Magnetic Nanoscopy of Superconducting Radio Frequency Cavity Materials
Creators: name: Tai, Tamin
name: Ghamsari, Behnood G.
name: Bieler, Thomas R.
name: Tan, Teng
name: Xi, X. X.
name: Anlage, Steven M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A localized measurement of the RF critical field on superconducting radio frequency (SRF) cavity materials is a key step to identify specific defects that produce quenches of SRF cavities. Two new measurements are performed to demonstrate these capabilities with a novel near-field scanning probe microwave microscope. The first is a third harmonic nonlinear measurement on a high Residual- Resistance-Ratio bulk Nb sample showing strong localized nonlinear response for the first time, with surface RF magnetic field $B_{surface} \sim 10^{2}$ $mT$. The second is a raster scanned harmonic response image on a high quality $MgB_{2}$ thin film demonstrating a quench defect-free surface over large areas.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Three Essays in Behavioural Asset Pricing
Creators: name: PEEL, BROOKE ASHLEY
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Financial economics
Finance

description: Trust that assets are fairly priced is an important feature of well-functioning capital markets. However, there are examples where the prices of assets are difficult to reconcile with fundamental values. It is therefore important to understand the source of such mispricing. This thesis provides novel evidence regarding how stocks with particular characteristics can become temporarily mispriced as a result of biases in the decision-making of investors. This thesis reports evidence consistent with investor under-reaction and preferences for lottery-like stock returns being important in explaining prominent examples of mispricing.
Comparative study of autodyne and heterodyne laser interferometry for imaging
Creators: name: Lacot, Eric
name: Jacquin, Olivier
name: Roussely, Grégoire
name: Hugon, Olivier
name: De Chatellus, Hugues Guillet
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For given laser output power, object under investigation and photodiode noise level, we have theoretically compared the signal to noise ratio (SNR) of a heterodyne scanning imager based on a Michelson interferometer and of an autodyne setup based on the Laser Optical Feedback Imaging (LOFI) technique. In both cases, the image is obtained point by point. In the heterodyne configuration, the beating between the reference beam and the signal beam is realized outside the laser cavity (i.e. directly on the detector), while in the autodyne configuration, the wave beating takes place inside the laser cavity and therefore is indirectly detected. In the autodyne configuration, where the laser relaxation oscillations play a leading role, we have compared 1D scans obtained by numerical simulations with different lasers dynamical parameters. Finally we have determined the best laser for LOFI applications and the experimental conditions for which the LOFI detection setup (autodyne interferometer) is competitive comparing to a heterodyne interferometer.
Daughters mimic sterile neutrinos (almost!) perfectly
Creators: name: Hasenkamp, Jasper
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Since only recently, cosmological observations are sensitive to hot dark matter (HDM) admixtures with sub-eV mass, $m_\text{hdm}^\text{eff}$ < eV, that are not fully-thermalised, $N_\text{eff}$ < 1. We argue that their almost automatic interpretation as a sterile neutrino species is neither from theoretical nor practical parsimony principles preferred over HDM formed by decay products (daughters) of an out-of-equilibrium particle decay. While daughters mimic sterile neutrinos in $N_\text{eff}$ and $m_\text{hdm}^\text{eff}$, there are opportunities to assess this possibility in likelihood analyses. Connecting cosmological parameters and moments of momentum distribution functions, we show that --also in the case of mass-degenerate daughters with indistinguishable main physical effects-- the mimicry breaks down when the next moment, the skewness, is considered. Predicted differences of order one in the root-mean-squares of absolute momenta are too small for current sensitivities.
description: revtex 12 pages + refs., 7 figures, 1 table
Agrypnus abreptus Hayek 1973
Creators: name: Kotru, Akash
name: Chandran, Nithya
name: Dubey, Anil Kumar
name: Prosvirov, Alexander S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Elateridae
Agrypnus
Agrypnus abreptus

description: Agrypnus abreptus (Candèze, 1893)
Lacon abreptus Candèze, 1893: 170.
Adelocera abreptus (Candèze) Fleutiaux, 1926: 96.
Agrypnus abreptus (Candèze) Hayek, 1973: 120.
Type depository. Syntype (BMNH).
Type locality. Karnataka (Belgaum).
Distribution. India: Karnataka, Maharashtra (Chakraborty, Chakrabarti, 2000).
Literature. Candèze (1893: 170): original description; Fleutiaux (1926: 96): combination; Fleutiaux (1933: 4): bionomics; Chatterjee (1933: 8): bionomics; Hayek (1973: 120): combination; Chakraborty and Chakrabarti (2000: 76): catalogue.
description: Published as part of Kotru, Akash, Chandran, Nithya, Dubey, Anil Kumar & Prosvirov, Alexander S., 2025, A catalogue of Indian Agrypninae Candèze, 1857 (Coleoptera: Elateridae), pp. 1-66 in Zootaxa 5614 (1) on page 11, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5614.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15217075
Confinement Phase in Carbon-Nanotubes and the Extended Massive Schwinger Model
Creators: name: Oka, Takashi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Carbon nanotube with electric fluxes confined in one dimension is studied. We show that a Coulomb interaction \propto |x| leads to a confinement phase with many properties similar to QCD in 4D. Low-energy physics is described by the massive Schwinger model with multi-species fermions labeled by the band and valley indices. We propose two means to detect this state. One is through an optical measurement of the exciton spectrum, which has been calculated via the 't Hooft-Berknoff equation with the light-front field theory. We show that the Gell-Mann-Oakes-Renner relation is satisfied by a dark exciton. The second is the nonlinear transport which is related to Coleman's "half-asymptotic" state.
Self-aligned setup for laser optical feedback imaging insensitive to parasitic optical feedback
Creators: name: Jacquin, Olivier
name: Heidmann, Samuel
name: Lacot, Eric
name: Hugon, Olivier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we propose a new optical architecture for the laser optical feedback imaging (LOFI) technique which makes it possible to avoid the adverse effect of the optical parasitic backscattering introduced by all the optical interfaces located between the laser source and the studied object. This proposed setup need no specific or complex alignment, that why we can consider the proposed setup as self aligned. We describe the principle used to avoid the parasitic backscattering contributions which deteriorate dramatically amplitude and phase information contained in the LOFI images. Finally, we give successful demonstration of amplitude and phase images obtained with this self aligned setup in presence of a parasitic reflection.
The ABCDEFG of Instantons and W-algebras
Creators: name: Keller, Christoph A.
name: Mekareeya, Noppadol
name: Song, Jaewon
name: Tachikawa, Yuji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For arbitrary gauge groups, we check at the one-instanton level that the Nekrasov partition function of pure N=2 super Yang-Mills is equal to the norm of a certain coherent state of the corresponding W-algebra. For non-simply-laced gauge groups, we confirm in particular that the coherent state is in the twisted sector of a simply-laced W-algebra.
description: 30 pages, 2 figures, v4: a reference added
Toward an Interactive Directory for Norfolk, Nebraska: 1899-1900
Creators: name: Allen, Robert B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We describe steps toward an interactive directory for the town of Norfolk, Nebraska for the years 1899 and 1900. This directory would extend the traditional city directory by including a wider range of entities being described, much richer information about the entities mentioned and linkages to mentions of the entities in material such as digitized historical newspapers. Such a directory would be useful to readers who browse the historical newspapers by providing structured summaries of the entities mentioned. We describe the occurrence of entities in two years of the Norfolk Weekly News, focusing on several individuals to better understand the types of information which can be gleaned from historical newspapers and other historical materials. We also describe a prototype program which coordinates information about entities from the traditional city directories, the federal census, and from newspapers. We discuss the structured coding for these entities, noting that richer coding would increasingly include descriptions of events and scenarios. We propose that rich content about individuals and communities could eventually be modeled with agents and woven into historical narratives.
Generalized Bhattacharyya and Chernoff upper bounds on Bayes error using quasi-arithmetic means
Creators: name: Nielsen, Frank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Bayesian classification labels observations based on given prior information, namely class-a priori and class-conditional probabilities. Bayes' risk is the minimum expected classification cost that is achieved by the Bayes' test, the optimal decision rule. When no cost incurs for correct classification and unit cost is charged for misclassification, Bayes' test reduces to the maximum a posteriori decision rule, and Bayes risk simplifies to Bayes' error, the probability of error. Since calculating this probability of error is often intractable, several techniques have been devised to bound it with closed-form formula, introducing thereby measures of similarity and divergence between distributions like the Bhattacharyya coefficient and its associated Bhattacharyya distance. The Bhattacharyya upper bound can further be tightened using the Chernoff information that relies on the notion of best error exponent. In this paper, we first express Bayes' risk using the total variation distance on scaled distributions. We then elucidate and extend the Bhattacharyya and the Chernoff upper bound mechanisms using generalized weighted means. We provide as a byproduct novel notions of statistical divergences and affinity coefficients. We illustrate our technique by deriving new upper bounds for the univariate Cauchy and the multivariate $t$-distributions, and show experimentally that those bounds are not too distant to the computationally intractable Bayes' error.
description: 22 pages, include R code. To appear in Pattern Recognition Letters
Finite dimensional Hopf algebras over Kac-Paljutkin algebra $H_8$
Creators: name: Shi, Yuxing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $H_8$ be the neither commutative nor cocommutative semisimple eight dimensional Hopf algebra, which is also called Kac-Paljutkin algebra \cite{MR0208401}. All simple Yetter-Drinfel'd modules over $H_8$ are given. As for simple objects and direct sums of two simple objects in ${}_{H_8}^{H_8}\mathcal{YD}$, we calculated dimensions for the corresponding Nichols algebras, except four semisimple cases which are generally difficult. Under the assumption that the four undetermined Nichols algebras are all infinite dimensional, we determine all the finite dimensional Nichols algebras over $H_8$. It turns out that the already known finite dimensional Nichols algebras are all diagonal type. In fact, they are Cartan types $A_1$, $A_2$, $A_2\times A_2$, $A_1\times \cdots \times A_1$, and $A_1\times \cdots \times A_1\times A_2$. By the way, we calculate Gelfand-Kirillov dimensions for some Nichols algebras. As an application, we obtain five families of new finite dimensional Hopf algebras over $H_8$ according to the lifting method.
description: 36 pages. The article is being updated, comments are welcome
title: Terminologia per ‘guerriero’ nel “Nibelungenlied”: proposte di traduzione
Creators: name: Zironi, Alessandro
Publisher: name: University of Bologna, Department of Modern Languages Literatures and Cultures
Year: 2024

description: This article investigates a plethora of words related to the semantic field of ‘warrior’ occurring in the “Nibelungenlied”. Middle High German offers a rich array of lexemes to express this concept, each with its own unique nuance based on its etymon. Closer investigation shows that choosing one term instead of another does not relate to the etymon per se or variatio linguistica-grounded phenomena but is intricately tied to metrical requirements. This contribution examines those verses where the warrior-related lexicon most often occurs and their translation into Italian. Namely, it reveals how translators often overlooked the metrical placement of the term in the original text, leading to translations that were too predictable and repetitive.
Exact Algorithms for Maximum Independent Set
Creators: name: Xiao, Mingyu
name: Nagamochi, Hiroshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We show that the maximum independent set problem (MIS) on an $n$-vertex graph can be solved in $1.1996^nn^{O(1)}$ time and polynomial space, which even is faster than Robson's $1.2109^{n}n^{O(1)}$-time exponential-space algorithm published in 1986. We also obtain improved algorithms for MIS in graphs with maximum degree 6 and 7, which run in time of $1.1893^nn^{O(1)}$ and $1.1970^nn^{O(1)}$, respectively. Our algorithms are obtained by using fast algorithms for MIS in low-degree graphs in a hierarchical way and making a careful analyses on the structure of bounded-degree graphs.
title: «von weinen und von klagen»: tradurre le parole del dolore nel “Nibelungenlied”
Creators: name: Cappellotto, Anna
Publisher: name: University of Bologna, Department of Modern Languages Literatures and Cultures
Year: 2024

description: A defining aspect of the “Nibelungenlied” lies in its emotional intensity, to which none of the main characters are immune. One of the dominant emotions that permeates the work from beginning to end is undoubtedly sorrow, an inner emotion expressed through both language and body. This brief analysis aims to identify words – such as arebeit, leit, ungebære, and nôt – and expressions that describe sorrow in their verbal and non-verbal dimensions. First, the present investigation evaluates the frequency, context, meaning, and motivation attributed to this vocabulary in Middle High German. Second, it provides an in-depth analysis of some modern German, Italian, and English translations. The idea is that comparing versions in different languages through the example of specific loci critici, also from a textual-critical perspective, can provide insights for a future new translation of the “Nibelungenlied” into Italian.
Time Of Arrival Based Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks : A Linear Approach
Creators: name: Ravindra, S
name: Jagadeesha, S N
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we aim to determine the location information of a node deployed in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN). We estimate the position of an unknown source node using localization based on linear approach on a single simulation platform. The Cramer Rao Lower Bound (CRLB) for position estimate is derived first and the four linear approaches namely Linear Least Squares (LLS), Subspace Approach (SA), Weighted Linear Least Squares (WLLS) and Two-step WLS have been derived and presented. Based on the simulation study the results have been compared. The simulation results show that the Two- step WLS approach is having higher localization accuracy. Keywords: Source Localization, Time of Arrival,Linear Least Squares, Subspace Approach, Weighted Linear Least Squares, Two-step WLS and CRLB.
description: 18 pages, 5 Figures, Signal & Image Processing : An International Journal (SIPIJ)
Emotional Qualities of VR Space
Creators: name: Naz, Asma
name: Kopper, Regis
name: McMahan, Ryan P.
name: Nadin, Mihai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The emotional response a person has to a living space is predominantly affected by light, color and texture as space-making elements. In order to verify whether this phenomenon could be replicated in a simulated environment, we conducted a user study in a six-sided projected immersive display that utilized equivalent design attributes of brightness, color and texture in order to assess to which extent the emotional response in a simulated environment is affected by the same parameters affecting real environments. Since emotional response depends upon the context, we evaluated the emotional responses of two groups of users: inactive (passive) and active (performing a typical daily activity). The results from the perceptual study generated data from which design principles for a virtual living space are articulated. Such a space, as an alternative to expensive built dwellings, could potentially support new, minimalist lifestyles of occupants, defined as the neo-nomads, aligned with their work experience in the digital domain through the generation of emotional experiences of spaces. Data from the experiments confirmed the hypothesis that perceivable emotional aspects of real-world spaces could be successfully generated through simulation of design attributes in the virtual space. The subjective response to the virtual space was consistent with corresponding responses from real-world color and brightness emotional perception. Our data could serve the virtual reality (VR) community in its attempt to conceive of further applications of virtual spaces for well-defined activities.
description: 12 figures
Structure and morphology of X-ray selected AGN hosts at 1
Creators: name: Fan, Lulu
name: Fang, Guanwen
name: Chen, Yang
name: Li, Jinrong
name: Lv, Xuanyi
name: Knudsen, Kirsten Kraiberg
name: Kong, Xu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze morphologies of the host galaxies of 35 X-ray selected active galactic nucleus (AGNs) at $z\sim2$ in the Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS) field using Hubble Space Telescope/WFC3 imaging taken from the Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS). We build a control sample of 350 galaxies in total, by selecting ten non-active galaxies drawn from the same field with the similar stellar mass and redshift for each AGN host. By performing two dimensional fitting with GALFIT on the surface brightness profile, we find that the distribution of S$è$rsic index (n) of AGN hosts does not show a statistical difference from that of the control sample. We measure the nonparametric morphological parameters (the asymmetry index A, the Gini coefficient G, the concentration index C and the M20 index) based on point source subtracted images. All the distributions of these morphological parameters of AGN hosts are consistent with those of the control sample. We finally investigate the fraction of distorted morphologies in both samples by visual classification. Only $\sim$15% of the AGN hosts have highly distorted morphologies, possibly due to a major merger or interaction. We find there is no significant difference in the distortion fractions between the AGN host sample and control sample. We conclude that the morphologies of X-ray selected AGN hosts are similar to those of nonactive galaxies and most AGN activity is not triggered by major merger.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Discovery of Hubble's Law: an Example of Type III Error
Creators: name: Belenkiy, Ari
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently much attention has been paid to the discovery of Hubble's law: the linear relation between the rate of recession of the distant galaxies and distance to them. Though we now mention several names associated with this law instead of one, the motivation of each remains somewhat obscure. As it is turns out, two major contributors arrived at their discoveries from erroneous reasoning, thus making a case for a Type III error. It appears that G. Lemaitre (1927) theoretically derived Hubble's Law due to his choice of the wrong scenario of the Universe's evolution. E. Hubble (1929) tested the linearity law not based on Lemaitre's non-static model, but rather a cumbersome extension of de Sitter's static theory proposed by H. Weyl (1923) and L. Silberstein (1924).
description: 10 pages, 3 figures
title: Tradurre i Nibelunghi: una questione di ritmo
Creators: name: Ferrari, Fulvio
Publisher: name: University of Bologna, Department of Modern Languages Literatures and Cultures
Year: 2024

description: A text like the “Nibelungenlied” confronts the translator with a huge responsibility: any endeavour to restore its narrative tension and musicality inevitably yields a new text, one that is inspired by the model but not identical to it. This article delves into several Italian translations of the “Nibelungenlied”, each of which has made significant efforts to amplify the poem’s rhythmic elements. The goal is to explore the interplay between the original text and the reception context, finally reflecting on possible paths to respect the source text’s musicality.
Dynamic Race Detection With O(1) Samples
Creators: name: Al Thokair, Mosaad
name: Zhang, Minjian
name: Mathur, Umang
name: Viswanathan, Mahesh
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: This document provides instructions on how to evaluate the implementation and reproduce the results from the accompanying POPL`23 article~\cite{rpt2023}
Unpolarised Transverse Momentum Dependent Distribution and Fragmentation Functions from SIDIS Multiplicities
Creators: name: Anselmino, M.
name: Boglione, M.
name: H., J. O. Gonzalez
name: Melis, S.
name: Prokudin, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The unpolarised transverse momentum dependent distribution and fragmentation functions are extracted from HERMES and COMPASS experimental measurements of SIDIS multiplicities for charged hadron production. The data are grouped into independent bins of the kinematical variables, in which the TMD factorisation is expected to hold. A simple factorised functional form of the TMDs is adopted, with a Gaussian dependence on the intrinsic transverse momentum, which turns out to be quite adequate in shape. HERMES data do not need any normalisation correction, while fits of the COMPASS data much improve with a $y$-dependent overall normalisation factor. A comparison of the extracted TMDs with previous EMC and JLab data confirms the adequacy of the simple Gaussian distributions. The possible role of the TMD evolution is briefly considered.
description: 21 pages, 16 figures
title: Tradurre l’insulto: «Wen hâstu hie verkebset?». Il litigio tra le regine nel “Nibelungenlied”
Creators: name: Bertagnolli, Davide
Publisher: name: University of Bologna, Department of Modern Languages Literatures and Cultures
Year: 2024

description: The quarrel between the queens in the “Nibelungenlied” is undoubtedly one of the most iconic scenes in Medieval German literature. Here, Kriemhild addresses Brünhilt as a kebse (‘whore’), a lexeme that has sparked much controversy among philologists and translators over the last eighty years. The present contribution deals with the possible translation of this insult into Italian, also considering to which extent previously employed terms are still suitable for the linguistic sensitivity. While considering Laura Mancinelli’s rendering of this expression (“La canzone dei Nibelunghi”, 1972), the author compares four different translations in German, English, French, and Spanish of the lines where the term occurs (Brackert 1970; Edwards 2010; Colleville-Tonnelat 1944; Criado 2005), triggering a debate over the criteria for conveying foul expressions from the Medieval glossa to the contemporary one. He eventually suggests an alternative version that might satisfy both philological rigour and clarity to ensure the text’s enjoyability from the contemporary public.
Two-Dimensional Water Diffusion at a Graphene-Silica Interface
Creators: name: Lee, DaeEung
name: Ahn, Gwanghyun
name: Ryu, Sunmin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Because of the dominant role of the surface of molecules and their individuality, molecules behave dis-tinctively in a confined space, which has far-reaching implications in many physical, chemical and bio-logical systems. Here, we demonstrate that graphene forms a unique atom-thick interstitial space that enables the study of molecular diffusion in 2-dimensions with underlying silica substrates. Raman spec-troscopy visualized intercalation of water from the edge to the center underneath graphene in real time, which was dictated by the hydrophilicity of the substrates. In addition, graphene undergoes reversible deformation to conform to intercalating water clusters or islands. Atomic force microscopy confirmed that the interfacial water layer is only ca. 3.5 angstroms thick, corresponding to one bilayer unit of normal ice. This study also demonstrates that oxygen species responsible for the ubiquitous hole dop-ing are located below graphene. In addition to serving as a transparent confining wall, graphene and possibly other 2-dimensional materials can be used as an optical indicator sensitive to interfacial mass transport and charge transfer.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures. J. Am. Chem. Soc. Article ASAP (2014)
Effects of moderate abundance changes on the atmospheric structure and colours of Mira variables (Research Note)
Creators: name: Scholz, Michael
name: Ireland, Michael J.
name: Wood, Peter R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Aims. We study the effects of moderate deviations from solar abundances upon the atmospheric structure and colours of typical Mira variables. Methods. We present two model series of dynamical opacity-sampling models of Mira variables which have (1) 1 solar metallicity 3 and (2) "mild" S-type C/O abundance ratio ([C/O]=0.9) with typical Zr enhancement (solar +1.0). These series are compared to a previously studied solar-abundance series which has similar fundamental parameters (mass, luminosity, period, radius) that are close to those of o Cet. Results. Both series show noticeable effects of abundance upon stratifications and infrared colours but cycle-to-cycle differences mask these effects at most pulsation phases, with the exception of a narrow-water-filter colour near minimum phase.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, accepted for A&A
MPEC 2023-P26 : 2023 PA
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 PA

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
From Counterportation to Local Wormholes
Creators: name: Salih, Hatim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose an experimental realisation of the protocol for the counterfactual disembodied transport of an unknown qubit -- or what we call counterportation -- where sender and receiver, remarkably, exchange no particles. We employ cavity quantum electrodynamics, estimating resources for beating the classical fidelity limit -- except, unlike teleportation, no pre-shared entanglement nor classical communication are required. Our approach is multiple orders of magnitude more efficient in terms of physical resources than previously proposed implementations, paving the way for a demonstration using existing imperfect devices. Surprisingly, while such communication is intuitively explained in terms of "interaction-free" measurement and the Zeno effect, we show that neither is necessary, with far-reaching implications in support of an underlying physical reality. We go on to characterise an explanatory framework for counterportation starting from constructor theory: local wormholes. Conversely, a counterportation experiment demonstrating the traversability of space, by means of what is essentially a 2-qubit exchange-free quantum computer, can point to the existence in the lab of such traversable wormholes.
description: 41 pages, 5 figures
Matching measure, Benjamini-Schramm convergence and the monomer-dimer free energy
Creators: name: Abért, Miklós
name: Csikvári, Péter
name: Hubai, Tamás
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C31, 82B20, 35P20, 05C70

description: We define the matching measure of a lattice L as the spectral measure of the tree of self-avoiding walks in L. We connect this invariant to the monomer-dimer partition function of a sequence of finite graphs converging to L. This allows us to express the monomer-dimer free energy of L in terms of the measure. Exploiting an analytic advantage of the matching measure over the Mayer series then leads to new, rigorous bounds on the monomer-dimer free energies of various Euclidean lattices. While our estimates use only the computational data given in previous papers, they improve the known bounds significantly.
description: 18 pages, 3 figures
Triangles with integer sides and given perimeter
Creators: name: Patronis, Tasos
name: Rizos, Ioannis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: General Mathematics (math.GM)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we first study the isoperimetric problem in the case of integer triangles, as well as Alcuin's sequence and how it relates to the number of different integer triangles with a given perimeter. We then present and compare two different approaches to the above problem. The first approach is due to a university professor (a working mathematician), who uses a well-known technique of calculating the number of elements of finite sets, while the second one is due to a high school student with a special interest in mathematics and is purely number-theoretic. Furthermore, some related instructor perspectives are discussed.
description: in Greek language
title: Political power and the moral foundation of modern commercial states from Hume’s perspective
Creators: name: Zhang, Shua
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 2024

description: This project is built upon Istvan Hont’s research on the eighteenth-century political theorists. It argues that the political thought of David Hume presents a compelling response to Hont's concerns about the power and the moral foundation of the modern commercial state. 

In the first half of the thesis, encompassing the first two chapters, Mandeville and Hume's perspectives on the political power of the modern commercial state are examined. While Hont looks to neo-Machiavellian theorists to address the state's power in commerce, Mandeville and Hume delve deeper, considering the broader impact of commerce on the moral condition. They both acknowledge the necessity for modern states to foster commercial prosperity to maintain their national security, bolstering their political power through increased tax revenue and manpower. However, Mandeville and Hume differ in their assessments of morality in a commercial era. While Hume dismisses Mandeville’s focus on hypocrisy within the Beau Monde, he proposes evaluating moral life in the commercial era by scrutinizing the burgeoning middling ranks.

In the second half, comprising the remaining three chapters, I investigate Hume’s political theory as a response to Hont’s concern regarding the indispensability of government authority. I argue that while Hont underscores utility-seeking as central to sociability, he overemphasizes the economic aspect. In contrast, Hume tackles Hont’s concerns by scrutinizing the moral foundation of government authority through an accurate understanding of human nature. I approach Hume’s theory by critically examining the consent principle, contextualized within the backdrop of the debate surrounding the Glorious Revolution.

I employ Hume’s analysis of the Glorious Revolution as a gateway to his political philosophy. This pivotal event, which curtailed the king's prerogative, established the rule of law, and emphasized the principle of popular liberty, serves as a crucial backdrop. While acknowledging its contribution to popular liberty, Hume also underscores the indispensability of political authority in maintaining public order and national security in a commercial era. In contrast to prevalent theories of the original contract and popular consent, as advocated by John Locke and his Whig disciples, Hume rejects these notions and elucidates the role of government in addressing the inherent partiality of human nature. He contends that subjects bear both a natural and moral obligation to political authority. Therefore, a political theory of modern commercial states cannot solely focus on the civilizing process and liberty. Instead, it should elucidate the complex relationship between public authority and liberty, grounded in an accurate understanding of human nature, to offer a comprehensive perspective on the public order of a commercial era.
Averaging dynamics driven by fractional Brownian motion
Creators: name: Hairer, Martin
name: Li, Xue-Mei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60G22, 60H10, 60H05

description: We consider slow / fast systems where the slow system is driven by fractional Brownian motion with Hurst parameter $H>{1\over 2}$. We show that unlike in the case $H={1\over 2}$, convergence to the averaged solution takes place in probability and the limiting process solves the 'naïvely' averaged equation. Our proof strongly relies on the recently obtained stochastic sewing lemma.
title: Lezioni di Traduzione 2 (La traduzione del “Nibelungenlied”. Problemi di un atto interpretativo)
Creators: name: Bertagnolli, Davide
Publisher: name: University of Bologna, Department of Modern Languages Literatures and Cultures
Year: 2024

description: The contributions collected in this volume address the several challenges related to the Italian translation of the “Nibelungenlied” – a masterpiece of Medieval German literature (early 13th century). Smoothly conversing with the long-lasting, multilingual scholarly literature on this poem, the authors of the present publication thoughtfully address how translation challenges have been discussed in the past and suggest innovative solutions to overcome them. The result is not a collection for experts only. Conversely, and in line with the title of this series, essays are also thought for a wider audience. While combining a didactic purpose with engaging critical readings, the volume equips its readers with practical solutions and insights, empowering them to navigate the complexities of translation at a professional level, regardless of the historical period or the language to which the source text refers.
A General Approach to Modeling Covid-19
Creators: name: Isea, Raul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The present work shows that it is possible to analytically solve a general model to explain the transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2. First, the within-host model is described, and later a between-host model, where the coupling between them is the viral load of SARS-CoV-2. The within-host model describes the equations involved in the life cycle of SARS-CoV-2, and also the immune response; while that the between-Host model analyzes the dynamics of virus spread from the original source of contagion associated with bats, subsequently transmitted to a host, and then reaching the reservoir (Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan ), until finally infecting the human population.
description: 19 paqges, 3 figure
Agrypnus acristatus Vats and Kashyap 1992
Creators: name: Kotru, Akash
name: Chandran, Nithya
name: Dubey, Anil Kumar
name: Prosvirov, Alexander S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Elateridae
Agrypnus
Agrypnus acristatus

description: Agrypnus acristatus Vats and Kashyap, 1992
Agrypnus acristatus Vats and Kashyap, 1992: 107.
Type depository. Holotype (NPC-IARI).
Type locality. Uttarakhand (Bhatrojkhan).
Distribution. India: Uttarakhand.
Literature. Vats and Kashyap (1992: 107): original description; Chakraborty and Chakrabarti (2000: 77): catalogue.
description: Published as part of Kotru, Akash, Chandran, Nithya, Dubey, Anil Kumar & Prosvirov, Alexander S., 2025, A catalogue of Indian Agrypninae Candèze, 1857 (Coleoptera: Elateridae), pp. 1-66 in Zootaxa 5614 (1) on pages 11-12, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5614.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15217075
An injectable Collagen Hydrogel as a delivery system for Parkinson's disease
Creators: name: Gubinelli, Francesco
name: Sílvia Cabré Giménez
name: Marroquin, Veronica Alamilla
name: Marie-Claude Gaillard
name: Dowd, Eilis
name: Brouillet, Emmanuel
name: Flament, Julien
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Parkinson's disease
collagen hydrogel scaffold
MRI

description: Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disease, affecting 0.3% of general population, with an increasing rate of 1 to 2% in persons over 65 1. At the moment the only available pharmacological treatment (L-Dopa) focuses on mitigating symptoms; many other experimental approaches are nowadays studied trying to slow down the disease’s progression, but with very low success.

Collagen based biomaterials in the last years gained more and more importance in the field of regenerative medicine, and are widely used, for example, for skin graft 2 and wound healing 3, spinal cord regeneration 4, bones 4 and tendon repair 2. To date, such promising approach has not been applied to neurodegenerative diseases, except for neuronal cells grafting 5.

Brain MatTrain is a pan-European project sponsored by the wide Horizon 2020 grant funding. Aim of the project is to develop an injectable Collagen Hydrogel to treat two of the crucial aspects of PD: striatal neuro-inflammation and loss of dopaminergic neurons (DA) in the substantia nigra. Collagen can be easily functionalized by neuroprotective active molecules or cells.

At the moment a delivery tool for different molecules or cells based on Collagen Hydrogel to treat Parkinson’s Disease seems promising, but at the same time challenging: still many studies must be done considering that application of such biomaterial at the cerebral level is innovative and have been only partially investigated in vivo.

An important aspect of collagen hydrogel therapy is the ability to track it noninvasively and follow it up over time: we present preliminary results of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) at high magnetic field (11.7 T) of our specifically developed Collagen Hydrogel after in vitro polymerization and, in vivo, after intracerebral injection. These results indicate that MRI can be a tool of choice for in vivo follow-up of collagen hydrogel polymerization and transplantation in the brain.
description: This project has been funded by the European Union Horizon 2020 Programme (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2015) under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network and Grant Agreement No. 676408.
Ce travail a été partiellement soutenu par France Life Imaging (programme ANR-11-INBS-0006) / This work was partly funded by France Life Imaging (grant ANR-11-INBS-0006)
Multilayer graphene waveguides
Creators: name: Smirnova, Daria
name: Iorsh, Ivan
name: Shadrivov, Ilya
name: Kivshar, Yuri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study dispersion properties of TM-polarized electromagnetic waves guided by a multilayer graphene metamaterial. We demonstrate that both dispersion and localization of the guided modes can be efficiently controlled by changing the number of layers in the structure. Remarkably, we find that in the long wavelength limit, the dispersion of the fundamental mode of the N-layer graphene structure coincides with the dispersion of a plasmon mode supported by a single graphene layer, but with N times larger conductivity. We also compare our exact dispersion relations with the results provided by the effective media model.
Summary of 2nd International Workshop on Requirements Engineering and Testing (RET)
Creators: name: Bjarnason, Elizabeth
name: Morandini, Mirko
name: Borg, Markus
name: Unterkalmsteiner, Michael
name: Felderer, Michael
name: Staats, Matthew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The RET (Requirements Engineering and Testing) workshop series provides a meeting point for researchers and practitioners from the two separate fields of Requirements Engineering (RE) and Testing. The goal is to improve the connection and alignment of these two areas through an exchange of ideas, challenges, practices, experiences and results. The long term aim is to build a community and a body of knowledge within the intersection of RE and Testing, i.e. RET. The 2nd workshop was held in co-location with ICSE 2015 in Florence, Italy. The workshop continued in the same interactive vein as the 1st one and included a keynote, paper presentations with ample time for discussions, and a group exercise. For true impact and relevance this cross-cutting area requires contribution from both RE and Testing, and from both researchers and practitioners. A range of papers were presented from short experience papers to full research papers that cover connections between the two fields. One of the main outputs of the 2nd workshop was a categorization of the presented workshop papers according to an initial definition of the area of RET which identifies the aspects RE, Testing and coordination effect.
description: Co-located with ICSE 2015. SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes. Volume 40 Issue 5
title: Phytophthora na lawsonovi pacipresi (Chamaecyparis lawsoniana Murr.)
Creators: name: Robin, Cécile
Publisher: name: Julius Kühn-Institut , Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants
Year: 2013

description: JKI Data Sheets Plant Pests and Diagnosis; 2013/38
description: Lawsonovo pacipreso v Evropi gojijo v okrasnih nasadih in parkih ter živih mejah in protivetrnih nasadih. Redko jo najdemo tudi v gozdu (http://www.discoverlife.org).  V Evropski trgovini z okrasnimi rastlinami zavzema lawsonova pacipresa zelo pomembno mesto. Iz podatkov o globalni trgovini z okrasnimi rastlinami je razvidno, da so iz Severne Amerike v Evropo v posameznih letih uvozili skupno 75 (1999), 130 (2002) in 50 (2001 in 2003) ton sadik (Global ornamental trade data, AIPH, International Statistics on Flowers and Plants).