cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Απόλυση υπό όρο και ναρκωτικά. Θεωρητικές κατευθύνσεις-Νομολογιακές παραδοχές-Ευρωπαϊκή διάσταση
Creators: name: Τρύφωνα, Ερικαίτη Σπυρίδωνος
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2019
Subjects: Απόλυση υπό όρο
Ναρκωτικά
Νομολογία
Conditional release
Drugs
Case law

description: Στην παρούσα εργασία εξετάζονται καταρχάς, με συνοπτικό τρόπο, οι διατάξεις των άρ. 105 επ. ΠΚ με έμφαση κυρίως στη θεραπευτική υφή των οικείων διατάξεων. Στη συνέχεια παρουσιάζεται διαχρονικά το νομοθετικό πλαίσιο της υπό όρο απόλυσης στους νόμους περί ναρκωτικών, ξεκινώντας από τον Ν 1729/1987 μέχρι και τον σήμερα ισχύοντα Ν 4139/2013, και αναδεικνύονται τα κρίσιμα ζητήματα που ανακύπτουν από την εφαρμογή του θεσμού στην πράξη, ενώ επιχειρείται και μια συνολική αποτίμηση του τρόπου λειτουργίας του στους νόμους περί ναρκωτικών. Κατόπιν γίνεται αναφορά στα ειδικά καθεστώτα αποσυμφόρησης των καταστημάτων κράτησης και στους σχετικούς νόμους που θεσπίστηκαν τα τελευταία έτη, με παράλληλη δικαιοσυγκριτική στάθμιση των προϋποθέσεων εφαρμογής τους σε σχέση με την κοινή απόλυση του ΠΚ και την ειδική απόλυση του Ν 4139/2013. Τέλος, σκιαγραφούνται οι διαφορετικές μορφές του θεσμού της απόλυσης στα ευρωπαϊκά κράτη και διερευνώνται οι ευρωπαϊκές πτυχές της υπό όρο απόλυσης σε εξαρτημένους από ναρκωτικά δράστες
description: This dissertation begins with a brief discussion of the provisions of Articles 105ff of the Greek Penal Code, with a particular emphasis on the therapeutic nature of those provisions. This discussion is followed by a presentation of the timeline of legislation applicable to narcotic drugs in Greece, from Law No 1729/1987 to Law No 4139/2013, currently in force; the analysis focuses on critical matters arising from the application of the relevant institution in practice and an attempt at evaluating the specificities of its operation in the framework of the various laws on narcotic drugs is also offered. Furthermore, the discussion focuses on the special regimes offering solutions to prison overcrowding and on the relevant laws enacted in recent years; the analysis includes a comparative view of the prerequisites for their application in relation to the regular release provided for under the Greek Penal Code and the special release set out in Law No 4139/2013. Lastly, an overview of the numerous types of the institution of release in European countries is offered, along with a discussion of the European aspects of conditional release for narcotic drug users
description: Σε συνεργασία με τη Νομική Σχολή Πανεπιστημίου Λευκωσίας (Κύπρος)
Adiabatic pumping through a quantum dot with coulomb interactions: A perturbation expansion in the tunnel coupling
Creators: name: Splettstoesser, Janine
name: Governale, Michele
name: König, Jürgen
name: Fazio, Rosario
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a diagrammatic real-time approach to adiabatic pumping of electrons through interacting quantum dots. Performing a systematic perturbation expansion in the tunnel-coupling strength, we compute the charge pumped through a single-level quantum dot per pumping cycle. The combination of Coulomb interaction and quantum fluctuations, accounted for in contributions of higher order in the tunnel coupling, modifies the pumping characteristics via an interaction-dependent renormalization of the quantum-dot level. The latter is even responsible for the {\em dominant} contribution to the pumped charge when pumping via time-dependent tunnel-coupling strengths.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures, published in Phys. Rev. B
Multiplexed PSF engineering for 3D multicolor particle tracking
Creators: name: Opatovski, Nadav
name: Ezra, Yael Shalev
name: Weiss, Lucien E.
name: Ferdman, Boris
name: Orange, Reut
name: Shechtman, Yoav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Three-dimensional spatiotemporal tracking of microscopic particles in multiple colors is a challenging optical imaging task. Existing approaches require a trade-off between photon-efficiency, field of view, mechanical complexity, spectral specificity and speed. Here, we introduce multiplexed point-spread function engineering that achieves photon efficient, 3D, multicolor particle tracking over a large field of view. This is accomplished by first chromatically splitting the emission path of a microscope to different channels, engineering the point-spread function of each, and then recombining them onto the same region of the camera. We demonstrate our technique for simultaneously tracking five types of emitters in-vitro, as well as co-localization of DNA loci in live yeast cells.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures
QCD corrections to the R-parity violating processes $p\bar{p}/pp \to eμ+X$ at hadron colliders
Creators: name: Shao-Ming, Wang
name: Liang, Han
name: Wen-Gan, Ma
name: Ren-You, Zhang
name: Yi, Jiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the QCD corrections to the processes $p\bar{p}/pp \to eμ+X$ at the Tevatron and the CERN large hadron collider(LHC). The numerical results show that variation of K factor is in the range between $1.28(1.32)$ and $1.79(1.58)$ at the Tevatron(LHC). We find that the QCD correction part from the one-loop gluon-gluon fusion subprocess is remarkable at the LHC and should be taken into account.
description: 7 pages, 6 Postscript figures, to be appeared in Phy. Rev. D
Characterizing integers among rational numbers with a universal-existential formula
Creators: name: Poonen, Bjorn
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11U05, 11R52

description: We prove that Z in definable in Q by a formula with 2 universal quantifiers followed by 7 existential quantifiers. It follows that there is no algorithm for deciding, given an algebraic family of Q-morphisms, whether there exists one that is surjective on rational points. We also give a formula, again with universal quantifiers followed by existential quantifiers, that in any number field defines the ring of integers.
description: 6 pages
The Application of Bayesian Optimization and Classifier Systems in Nurse Scheduling
Creators: name: Li, Jingpeng
name: Aickelin, Uwe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Two ideas taken from Bayesian optimization and classifier systems are presented for personnel scheduling based on choosing a suitable scheduling rule from a set for each persons assignment. Unlike our previous work of using genetic algorithms whose learning is implicit, the learning in both approaches is explicit, i.e. we are able to identify building blocks directly. To achieve this target, the Bayesian optimization algorithm builds a Bayesian network of the joint probability distribution of the rules used to construct solutions, while the adapted classifier system assigns each rule a strength value that is constantly updated according to its usefulness in the current situation. Computational results from 52 real data instances of nurse scheduling demonstrate the success of both approaches. It is also suggested that the learning mechanism in the proposed approaches might be suitable for other scheduling problems.
Death concern and the resolution of the mid-life crisis
Creators: name: Landers, Dale
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2008

description: 'Mid-life crisis' has become an increasingly popular term to describe the turmoil and changes in behaviour that many men experience during midlife (Collin, 1979). The full nature of this experience, however, remains unclear. An awareness of one’s mortality or concern over death appears to be one of the main characteristics and possibly the underlying and precipitating factor of the mid-life crisis --whether this awareness is conscious or not (Jaques, 1965). If this awareness of mortality is as significant as the literature suggests, then it would be a key area to address when counselling such men. One way of determining this would be to see if the concern about death actually lessens or resolves once the mid-life crisis is over. The focus of this study was to determine whether men who report having gone through a mid-life crisis have less of a concern about death than those men who report that they are currently in the midst of a mid-life crisis. A sample of 95 men between the ages of 35 and 50(M age 42.5) filled out Dickstein's (1972) Death Concern Scale. They also reported whether or not they a) had never, b) were currently, or c) had already experienced a mid-life crisis. Results of this study showed that those men who had already gone through a crisis had significantly lower scores on the Death Concern Scale than those men currently in the middle of a crisis (t = 4.19, p < .001). Those men who had never experienced a mid-life crisis also had significantly lower Death Concern scores than those men currently in crisis (t = 5.35, p < .001).
Guided Variational Autoencoder for Speech Enhancement With a Supervised Classifier
Creators: name: Carbajal, Guillaume
name: Richter, Julius
name: Gerkmann, Timo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recently, variational autoencoders have been successfully used to learn a probabilistic prior over speech signals, which is then used to perform speech enhancement. However, variational autoencoders are trained on clean speech only, which results in a limited ability of extracting the speech signal from noisy speech compared to supervised approaches. In this paper, we propose to guide the variational autoencoder with a supervised classifier separately trained on noisy speech. The estimated label is a high-level categorical variable describing the speech signal (e.g. speech activity) allowing for a more informed latent distribution compared to the standard variational autoencoder. We evaluate our method with different types of labels on real recordings of different noisy environments. Provided that the label better informs the latent distribution and that the classifier achieves good performance, the proposed approach outperforms the standard variational autoencoder and a conventional neural network-based supervised approach.
Superdiffusion in spin chains
Creators: name: Bulchandani, Vir B.
name: Gopalakrishnan, Sarang
name: Ilievski, Enej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This review summarizes recent advances in our understanding of anomalous transport in spin chains, viewed through the lens of integrability. Numerical advances, based on tensor-network methods, have shown that transport in many canonical integrable spin chains -- most famously the Heisenberg model -- is anomalous. Concurrently, the framework of generalized hydrodynamics has been extended to explain some of the mechanisms underlying anomalous transport. We present what is currently understood about these mechanisms, and discuss how they resemble (and differ from) the mechanisms for anomalous transport in other contexts. We also briefly review potential transport anomalies in systems where integrability is an emergent or approximate property. We survey instances of anomalous transport and dynamics that remain to be understood.
description: v2: published version. Review article, 73 pages, 8 figures
Elicitation of "Man and Tree" picture series
Creators: name: Parker, Verdena
name: Escamilla, Ramón
name: Spence, Justin
name: Parker, Otis
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: hup

description: Audio file VP-140309-11: Elicitation of spatial expressions based on the Max Planck Institute's "Man and Tree" picture series. Reference: Levinson, S. C., Brown, P., Danzinger, E., De León, L., Haviland, J. B., Pederson, E., & Senft, G. (1992). Man and Tree & Space Games. In S. C. Levinson (Ed.), Space stimuli kit 1.2 (pp. 7-14). Nijmegen: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.
The Weak Lensing Radial Acceleration Relation: Constraining Modified Gravity and Cold Dark Matter theories with KiDS-1000
Creators: name: Brouwer, Margot M.
name: Oman, Kyle A.
name: Valentijn, Edwin A.
name: Bilicki, Maciej
name: Heymans, Catherine
name: Hoekstra, Henk
name: Napolitano, Nicola R.
name: Roy, Nivya
name: Tortora, Crescenzo
name: Wright, Angus H.
name: Asgari, Marika
name: Busch, Jan Luca van den
name: Dvornik, Andrej
name: Erben, Thomas
name: Giblin, Benjamin
name: Graham, Alister W.
name: Hildebrandt, Hendrik
name: Hopkins, Andrew M.
name: Kannawadi, Arun
name: Kuijken, Konrad
name: Liske, Jochen
name: Shan, HuanYuan
name: Tröster, Tilman
name: Verlinde, Erik
name: Visser, Manus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present measurements of the radial gravitational acceleration around isolated galaxies, comparing the expected gravitational acceleration given the baryonic matter with the observed gravitational acceleration, using weak lensing measurements from the fourth data release of the Kilo-Degree Survey. These measurements extend the radial acceleration relation (RAR) by 2 decades into the low-acceleration regime beyond the outskirts of the observable galaxy. We compare our RAR measurements to the predictions of two modified gravity (MG) theories: MOND and Verlinde's emergent gravity. We find that the measured RAR agrees well with the MG predictions. In addition, we find a difference of at least $6σ$ between the RARs of early- and late-type galaxies (split by Sérsic index and $u-r$ colour) with the same stellar mass. Current MG theories involve a gravity modification that is independent of other galaxy properties, which would be unable to explain this behaviour. The difference might be explained if only the early-type galaxies have significant ($M_{gas} \approx M_*$) circumgalactic gaseous haloes. The observed behaviour is also expected in $Λ$CDM models where the galaxy-to-halo mass relation depends on the galaxy formation history. We find that MICE, a $Λ$CDM simulation with hybrid halo occupation distribution modelling and abundance matching, reproduces the observed RAR but significantly differs from BAHAMAS, a hydrodynamical cosmological galaxy formation simulation. Our results are sensitive to the amount of circumgalactic gas; current observational constraints indicate that the resulting corrections are likely moderate. Measurements of the lensing RAR with future cosmological surveys will be able to further distinguish between MG and $Λ$CDM models if systematic uncertainties in the baryonic mass distribution around galaxies are reduced.
description: 31 pages, 15 figures, published in A&A
On Lerch's transcendent and the Gaussian random walk
Creators: name: Janssen, A. J. E. M.
name: van Leeuwaarden, J. S. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11M06, 30B40, 60G50, 60G51, 65B15 (Primary)

description: Let $X_1,X_2,...$ be independent variables, each having a normal distribution with negative mean $-β<0$ and variance 1. We consider the partial sums $S_n=X_1+...+X_n$, with $S_0=0$, and refer to the process $\{S_n:n\geq0\}$ as the Gaussian random walk. We present explicit expressions for the mean and variance of the maximum $M=\max\{S_n:n\geq0\}.$ These expressions are in terms of Taylor series about $β=0$ with coefficients that involve the Riemann zeta function. Our results extend Kingman's first-order approximation [Proc. Symp. on Congestion Theory (1965) 137--169] of the mean for $β\downarrow0$. We build upon the work of Chang and Peres [Ann. Probab. 25 (1997) 787--802], and use Bateman's formulas on Lerch's transcendent and Euler--Maclaurin summation as key ingredients.
description: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/105051606000000781 in the Annals of Applied Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aap/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
«Do people still sing?». Traduzioni italiane dell'Eneide nel Novecento
Creators: name: Vallortigara, Laura
Publisher: name: ENTHYMEMA
Year: 2019
Subjects: Eneide; Traduzioni; Ricezione del classico; Canone; Aeneid; Translations; Classical Reception; Literary Canon

description: Il contributo intende prendere in rassegna le principali traduzioni italiane dell’Eneide nel Novecento (con l’inclusione di due prove recenti), soffermandosi in particolare su alcune fasi della storia traduttiva del poema. Se le traduzioni realizzate durante il Fascismo concorrono a presentare, in chiave nazionalistica, l’opera di Virgilio come «prima luminosa giornata della letteratura italiana», dopo la guerra, mutati i paradigmi traduttivi e le coordinate culturali, il ritorno all’Eneideavviene nel segno di una ritrovata vicinanza al «doloroso penare» del suo eroe. Si realizza quindi un «recupero romanzesco» del poema di Enea, con un cambiamento di prospettiva che incide in maniera netta sulle caratteristiche stilistiche (soprattutto lessico e sintassi) delle traduzioni allestite in questo periodo. Tra gli anni Ottanta e Novanta, infine, compaiono numerose nuove versioni del testo epico virgiliano, improntate a criteri di leggibilità e chiarificazione del testo di partenza, al quale si subordina quello che Fortini chiamava «il tasso d’ispirazione, d’appropriazione, di “genialità” del traduttore». Si distinguono, nel quadro di sostanziale omogeneità che contraddistingue questa fase, due recenti e antitetiche prove di traduzione (Sermonti e Fo), analizzate in chiusura del contributo. La ricognizione, ancorché lacunosa e non esaustiva, si propone di evidenziare il fondamentale ruolo della traduzione nel percorso della ricezione del testo classico. This article aims to present a detailed review of Italian translations of the Aeneid during the Twentieth and early Twenty-first Century. Translations help to explain how and why Aeneid has been interpreted in particular times and contexts. During Fascism, translations played a large part in bringing Virgil and his poem into Italian literature and culture: according to this view, translators of the Aeneid made the connection with Italian literary tradition clear and explicit. After World War II, Virgil was seen as a source of humanity and as a reflection on human grief: translations of this time reflected this important shift using a language which became less grandly majestic, more reflective and plain. After 1980, translations of Virgil’s work have incredibly increased in number and have become more and more devoted to the ideal of the “invisible” translator, with two remarkable and very recent exceptions (Sermonti and Fo). In conclusion, this article aims to show how the activity of translation has contributed to interpretation and reception of the Aeneidin Italy throughout the century.
description: ENTHYMEMA, No 23 (2019)
To Be and Not to Be: Hamlet’s Identity. Lacan’s Errors and His Disappointing Interpretation of Shakespeare
Creators: name: Bottiroli, Giovanni
Publisher: name: ENTHYMEMA
Year: 2019
Subjects: Hamlet; Lacan; Desire; Identity; Modal Revolution

description: Hamlet’s desire must be examined in relation to the desire to be, that is the desire for identity: this is the claim upheld in this study. Consequently, the article begins by making a distinction between the desire to be and the desire to have: this distinction was expressed in a new way by Freud, but was never adequately developed either by Freud himself or by Lacan. Therefore, the desire to be has remained prisoner of the Oedipus complex, even in Lacan’s reformulation in which it basically proves to be the desire to be the Phallus. Yet the desire to be must be understood starting from the “modal revolution” introduced by Heidegger, and this allows us to appreciate the more innovative thesis in Freud’s essay, “Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego” (1921). Identity is a relationship that may be considered to be a coincidence or a non-coincidence with oneself: in the latter case, we will refer to an “overcoming identity.” As a result, philosophy, the theory of the subject and the theory of literature are called upon to investigate the modes of identity. From the perspective of the modes of being, Hamlet is analyzed here starting from his refusal to subordinate his own identity to the role of avenger. His desire oversteps the borders of neurosis and melancholy, in which it had traditionally been imprisoned (also by Lacan). Hamlet is a hero of non-coincidence: he goes beyond the models that appear to him to be inadequate and attempts to construct a flexible identity. Adopting the mask of madness, he has the opportunity to display his linguistic creativity. This does not deny that Hamlet is a tormented hero: the shadow of his father and the lust of his mother are obstacles to the desire for identity. This interpretation is only delineated in the last pages of the article. It is first necessary to show that the limitations of Lacan’s interpretation derive from a narrow conception of the Symbolic and the desire to be for which Lacan never acknowledges creative possibilities. The Lacanian notion of “lack” is a logical and epistemological obstacle that prevents the development of the logic of flexibility and the nonof “non-coincidence.”
description: ENTHYMEMA, No 23 (2019)
La Regenta di Leopoldo Alas ‘Clarín’ tra graphic novel e web
Creators: name: Siviero, Donatella
Publisher: name: ENTHYMEMA
Year: 2019
Subjects: La Regenta; Classico relativo; Graphic novel; Limited Classic

description: Nonostante sia rimasto nell’ombra a lungo,La Regenta(1884-85) di Leopoldo Alas ‘Clarín’ è oggi considerato uno dei romanzi capolavoro della letteratura spagnola della fine dell’Ottocento. Il processo del suo riconoscimento come classico moderno, sebbene ancora ‘relativo’, si è avviato a partire dagli anni cinquanta del ventesimo secolo e non si è più arrestato. La vitalità de La Regentain epoca contemporanea è attestata anche dalle tante riscritture che ha originato. L’articolo ne traccia una panoramica per poi soffermarsi sull’analisi dell’adattamento a graphic novel(1999-2001) di Isaac del Rivero e sulla presenza nel web di siti dedicati all’autore e all’opera. Although it dwelt for a long time in the shadows, today La Regenta(1884-85) by Leopoldo Alas ‘Clarín’ is considered a masterpiece among late-nineteenth-century Spanish novels. Its recognition as a modern classic, though still “limited,” began in the Fifties of the twentieth century and has not stopped since. La Regenta’s significance for the contemporary period is demonstrated by its many rewritings. This paper provides a review of these before analyzing in greater detail its adaptation as a graphic novel (1999-2001) by Isaac del Rivero, as well as the presence on the internet of websites devoted to the novel and its author.
description: ENTHYMEMA, No 23 (2019)
On the curvature of the quantum state space with pull-back metrics
Creators: name: Andai, Attila
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 53C20; 81Q99

description: The aim of the paper is to extend the notion of $α$-geometry in the classical and in the noncommutative case by introducing a more general class of pull-back metrics and to give concrete formulas for the scalar curvature of these Riemannian manifolds. We introduce a more general class of pull-back metrics of the noncommutative state spaces, we pull back the Euclidean Riemannian metric of the space of self-adjoint matrices with functions which have an analytic extension to a neighborhood of the interval $]0,1[$ and whose derivative are nowhere zero. We compute the scalar curvature in this setting, and as a corollary we have the scalar curvature of the classical probability space when it is endowed with such a general pull-back metric. In the noncommutative setting we consider real and complex state spaces too. We give a simplification of Gibilisco's and Isola's conjecture for the first nontrivial classical probability space and we present the result of a numerical computation which indicate that the conjecture may be true for the space of real and complex qubits.
description: 18 pages
«We Should Never Write Without Feelings». Studi su William T. Vollmann. Introduzione
Creators: name: Malvestio, Marco
name: Carrara, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: ENTHYMEMA
Year: 2019
Subjects: William T. Vollmann

description: Presentazione della sezione “«We Should Never Write Without Feelings». Studi su William T. Vollmann”. Introduction to the monographic section “’We Should Never Write Without Feelings.’ Studies on William T. Vollmann”.
description: ENTHYMEMA, No 23 (2019)
Σχολιασμένη Μετάφραση από την Αγγλική στην Ελληνική Γλώσσα Αποσπάσματος του Επιστημονικού Άρθρου με Τίτλο: «Alzheimer's Disease»
Creators: name: Ράντου, Σοφία Αλέξανδρου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2019
Subjects: Νόσος
Άνοια
Επιδημιολογία
Disease
Dementia
Epidemiology

description: Η παρούσα μεταπτυχιακή εργασία αποτελεί σχολιασμένη μετάφραση από τα αγγλικά προς τα ελληνικά αποσπάσματος του άρθρου με τίτλο «Alzheimer’s Disease». Αρχικά, παρουσιάστηκε η μετάφραση του άρθρου και ακολούθησε το γλωσσάρι των όρων που είχαν εξαχθεί από το άρθρο και η τεκμηρίωσή τους. Στη συνέχεια έγινε αναλυτική περιγραφή των σταδίων που ακολουθήθηκαν κατά την έρευνα, οι δυσκολίες που παρουσιάστηκαν κατά τη μετάφραση και τα βήματα που ακολουθήθηκαν για την επίλυσή τους
description: The present paper is an annotated translation from English to Greek of part of the article entitled “Alzheimer’s Disease”. Firstly, the translation of the article was presented, followed by the glossary of terms and the term validation. Furthermore, there was an extensive reference to the stages of research, the translation issues and the steps that were taken to solve them
Realization of macroscopic ratchet effect based on nonperiodic and uneven potentials
Creators: name: Rollano, V.
name: Gomez, A.
name: Muñoz-Noval, A.
name: Velez, M.
name: de Ory, M. C.
name: Menghini, M.
name: Gonzalez, E. M.
name: Vicent, J L
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ratchet devices allow turning an ac input signal into a dc output signal. A ratchet device is set by moving particles driven by zero averages forces on asymmetric potentials. Hybrid nanostructures combining artificially fabricated spin-ice nanomagnet arrays with superconducting films have been identified as a good choice to develop ratchet nanodevices. In our case, the asymmetric potentials are provided by charged Néel walls located in the vertices of the magnetic honeycomb array, whereas the role of moving particles is played by superconducting vortices. We have experimentally obtained ratchet effect for different spin ice I configurations and for vortex lattice moving parallel or perpendicular to the magnetic easy axes. Remarkably, the ratchet magnitudes are similar in all the experimental runs; i. e. different spin ice I configurations and in both relevant directions of the vortex lattice motion. We have simulated the interplay between vortex motion directions and a single asymmetric potential. It turns out vortices interact with uneven asymmetric potentials, when they move with trajectories crossing charged Néel walls with different orientations. Moreover, the appropriate asymmetric pair potentials which generate the local ratchet effect have been identified. In this rocking ratchet the particles (vortices) on the move are interacting each other (vortex lattice); therefore, the ratchet local effect turns into a global macroscopic effect. In summary, this ratchet device benefits from interacting particles moving in robust and topological protected type I spin ice landscapes.
description: 21 pages, 13 figures
The Isospectral Dirac Operator on the 4-dimensional Orthogonal Quantum Sphere
Creators: name: D'Andrea, Francesco
name: Dabrowski, Ludwik
name: Landi, Giovanni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 58B32; 58B34

description: Equivariance under the action of Uq(so(5)) is used to compute the left regular and (chiral) spinorial representations of the algebra of the orthogonal quantum 4-sphere S^4_q. These representations are the constituents of a spectral triple on this sphere with a Dirac operator which is isospectral to the canonical one on the round undeformed four-sphere and which gives metric dimension four for the noncommutative geometry. Non-triviality of the geometry is proved by pairing the associated Fredholm module with an `instanton' projection. We also introduce a real structure which satisfies all required properties modulo smoothing operators.
description: 40 pages, no figures, Latex. v2: Title changed. Sect. 9 on real structure completely rewritten and results strengthened. Additional minor changes throughout the paper
“My text is no more than a pack of lies.” Fictional Pacts in William T. Vollmann’s Seven Dreams
Creators: name: Pennacchio, Filippo
Publisher: name: ENTHYMEMA
Year: 2019
Subjects: William T. Vollmann; Fictionality; Paratexts; Historical Novel; Metafiction

description: The aim of the article is to ponder, from a narratological perspective, on the fictional pacts in William T. Vollmann’s Seven Dreamsseries, i.e., on the virtual contract through which the author gives the reader, whether explicitly or not, instructions about the way in which his texts should be read, and that the reader, in turn, should follow to coherently process textual contents. By focusing on The Ice-Shirt, the first novel in the series, I will try to demonstrate how such a pact proves to be a problematic one, especially in that, throughout the whole text, fictional and non-fictional elements are constantly blended. Moreover, my aim is to address how on the reader’s part a ‘flexible’ approach, i.e., an approach that recognizes and builds on such a compresence of elements, allows him to navigate a text that reveals to be hybrid in nature.
description: ENTHYMEMA, No 23 (2019)
A method of immersed layers on Cartesian grids, with application to incompressible flows
Creators: name: Eldredge, Jeff D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The immersed boundary method (IBM) of Peskin (J. Comput. Phys., 1977), and derived forms such as the projection method of Taira and Colonius (J. Comput. Phys., 2007), have been useful for simulating flow physics in problems with moving interfaces on stationary grids. However, in their interface treatment, these methods do not distinguish one side from the other, but rather, apply the motion constraint to both sides, and the associated interface force is an inseparable mix of contributions from each side. In this work, we define a discrete Heaviside function, a natural companion to the familiar discrete Dirac delta function (DDF), to define a masked version of each field on the grid which, to within the error of the DDF, takes the intended value of the field on the respective sides of the interface. From this foundation we develop discrete operators and identities that are uniformly applicable to any surface geometry. We use these to develop extended forms of prototypical partial differential equations, including Poisson, convection-diffusion, and incompressible Navier-Stokes, that govern the discrete masked fields. These equations contain the familiar forcing term of the IBM, but also additional terms that regularize the jumps in field quantities onto the grid and enable us to individually specify the constraints on field behavior on each side of the interface. Drawing the connection between these terms and the layer potentials in elliptic problems, we refer to them generically as immersed layers. We demonstrate the application of the method to several representative problems, including two-dimensional incompressible flows inside a rotating cylinder and external to a rotating square.
description: 39 pages, 12 figures
Topological Sigma Models with H-Flux
Creators: name: Hull, C. M.
name: Lindstrom, U.
name: Santos, L. Melo dos
name: von Unge, R.
name: Zabzine, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the topological theory obtained by twisting the N=(2,2) supersymmetric nonlinear sigma model with target a bihermitian space with torsion. For the special case in which the two complex structures commute, we show that the action is a Q-exact term plus a quasi-topological term. The quasi-topological term is locally given by a closed two-form which corresponds to a flat gerbe-connection and generalises the usual topological term of the A-model. Exponentiating it gives a Wilson surface, which can be regarded as a generalization of a Wilson line. This makes the quantum theory globally well-defined.
description: 16 pages, Appendix added, the version to appear in JHEP
Finite amplitude method for the RPA solution
Creators: name: Nakatsukasa, Takashi
name: Inakura, Tsunenori
name: Yabana, Kazuhiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a practical method to solve the random-phase approximation (RPA) in the self-consistent Hartree-Fock (HF) and density-functional theory. The method is based on numerical evaluation of the residual interactions utilizing finite amplitude of single-particle wave functions. The method only requires calculations of the single-particle Hamiltonian constructed with independent bra and ket states. Using the present method, the RPA calculation becomes possible with a little extension of a numerical code of the static HF calculation. We demonstrate usefulness and accuracy of the present method performing test calculations for isoscalar responses in deformed 20Ne.
description: 12 pages, 3 figures
Drift capacity models for modern URM walls for EC8 Part 1
Creators: name: Beyer, Katrin
name: Wilding, Bastian
name: Rezaie, Amir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: This objective of this report was to put forward drift capacity models for the revised Eurocode 8, Part 1 (EC8-Part 1). For this purpose, it reviews the data available on quasi-static cyclic tests on masonry walls in the recently assembled European database for URM walls. Based on this review, it proposes two simple drift capacity models. Both models account for the unit typology. In addition, Model 1 accounts for the failure mode and follows therefore the traditional form for URM drift capacity models. Unlike the current drift capacity model in the current EC8-Part 3 [2], it introduces an axial load ratio limit of 0.3. Walls subjected to higher ALR should be avoided; if this is not possible, it should be assumed that they have only one third of the drift capacity of walls with ALR ≤ 0.3. Note that the idea of an ALR-limit is already included in the German national annex to Eurocode 8 [38] for walls failing in shear. It limits the SD drift capacity of 0.4%, which is specified in the current EC8-Part 3, to walls with an ALR ≤ 0.15. For walls with a larger ALR, the drift capacity is reduced to 0.3%. All files, from the extraction of the data from the data bases to the files for plotting the figures are publicly shared. A file register describing the content of the files is included at the end of each chapter of the report.
description: Changes with regard to V1.1: 1) Further analyses on the size effect are added; 2) A third drift capacity model, which is a function of the failure mode, the axial load ratio and the unit type is added; 3) The input data is not only shared in mat-format but also in xlsx-format.
The Sentence Is Most Important: Styles of Engagement in William T. Vollmann’s Fictions
Creators: name: Coffman, Christopher K.
Publisher: name: ENTHYMEMA
Year: 2019
Subjects: William T. Vollmann; Style; Contemporary American fiction

description: William T. Vollmann frequently asserts that his ideal reader will appreciate the functionality and beauty of his sentences. This article begins by taking such claims seriously, and draws on both literary and rhetorical stylistics to explore some of the many ways that his texts answer to his intention to find “the right sentence for the right job.” In particular, this article argues that Vollmann’s stylistic decisions are most notable when they most directly satisfy his effort to produce texts that foster empathetic knowledge, serve truth, resist abusive power, and encourage charitable action. Extended close analyses of passages from an early and from a mid-career text (The Rainbow Storiesand Europe Central) illustrate Vollmann’s consistency across two decades of his career regarding choices in the areas of figuration (including schemes and tropes of comparison, repetition, balance, naming, and amplification), grammar, deixis, allusion, and other compositional strategies. Particular attention is paid to passages that display the stylistic mechanisms underlying Vollmann’s negotiation of his texts’ moral qualities, including both the moral content of the worlds represented in the texts, and the moral responsibility the texts bear with regard to their audience. The results of my analyses demonstrate that Vollmann typically prioritizes openness, critique, and dialogue not only in terms of incident and character, but also on the scale of the phrase, clause, and sentence. Ultimately, this article shows how Vollmann’s sentences serve his declared intentions and allow readers to recognize compatibilities between Vollmann’s works and the characteristic features of post-postmodernist writing in general.
description: ENTHYMEMA, No 23 (2019)
Ma chi lo conosce William T. Vollmann? Mistero e autocostruzione nelle interviste e nei testi di William T. Vollmann
Creators: name: Lukes, Daniel
Publisher: name: ENTHYMEMA
Year: 2019
Subjects: William T. Vollmann; Biografia; Intervista; Archivio; Futuro; Biography; Interview; Archive; Future

description: La reputazione letteraria di Vollmann si basa su un’immagine dell’autore come devoto alla sincerità, al racconto della verità, e a un’apertura perfino patologica al mondo. Ma così come ci sono artificio e creatività nelle sue opere letterarie, anche le sue interviste lasciano intravedere affascinanti strategie di autocostruzione e occultamento, e un’oscillazione tra il rivelare e il celare, fornendo utili spunti per analizzare le sue opere letterarie sia narrative che saggistiche. Vollmann fa dell’onestà e dell’apertura una virtù, ma si trincera e si costruisce, divertendosi a volte a giocare maliziosamente con la sua identità di autore in uno spazio testuale a metà strada tra realtà e finzione, nascondendo se stesso in bella vista tra le proprie creazioni. Vollmann’s literary reputation rests on an image of him as an author committed to sincerity, truth-telling, and an even pathological openness to the world. But as there is artifice and creativity within his literary works, his interviews also give a glimpse into fascinating strategies of self-construction and concealment, and an interplay between revealing and hiding, which provide useful avenues for parsing his literary works, fiction and non-fiction alike. As Vollmann makes a virtue of honesty and openness, he also self-protects, self-constructs, and at times plays mischievously with an authorial identity in the space between fact and fiction, hiding within the plain sight that he creates.
description: ENTHYMEMA, No 23 (2019)
Υδρόφιλη αρχιτεκτονική τοπίου: μια εργαλειοθήκη. Η συμβολή της αρχιτεκτονικής τοπίου στην προστασία των πόλεων από τις πλημμύρες. Η περίπτωση της πόλης των Τρικάλων
Creators: name: Τσαγκούρη, Αρετή Χρήστου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2019
Subjects: Ποτάμι
Προσαρμοστικότητα
Ανθεκτικότητα
River
Adapt¬ability
Resilience

description: Το κλίμα αλλάζει και επηρεάζει τη συχνότητα εμφάνισης και σφοδρότητας των καιρικών φαινομένων έχοντας ανεπανόρθωτες επιπτώσεις τόσο στο ίδιο το φυσικό περιβάλλον όσο και στο κοινωνικό σύνολο. Απαραίτητο εφόδιο μας για την «αειφόρο» διατήρηση του είδους μας είναι η συμμαχία μας με τη φύση. Το κλίμα αλλάζει και μαζί με αυτό και οι ανάγκες μιας πόλης. Απαραίτητη είναι η άμεση κατανόηση των περιορισμών που θέτει ένα τόσο μεγάλης δύναμης φυσικό στοιχείο όπως είναι το ποτάμι. Το ποτάμι αποτελεί πηγή ζωής αλλά παράλληλα προδιαθέτει και αρνητικές επιβλαβείς παρενέργειες. Οι κυμαινόμενες παροχές του και οι πιθανές πλημμύρες του ,ως συνέπεια των απρόβλεπτων καιρικών φαινομένων και των βροχομετρικών εντάσεων που τα συνοδεύουν, απειλούν καθημερινά παρακείμενες περιοχές και κεντροβαρικές ,σε σχέση με αυτό, πόλεις και χωριά. Ο προγραμματισμός, η προσαρμοστικότητα και η ανθεκτικότητα των σύγχρονων πόλεων θα πρέπει να αποτελέσει επιτακτική ανάγκη κάθε κοινωνίας σήμερα
description: Climate is changing and is affecting the incidence and severity of weather phenomena, with irrevers¬ible effects on both the natural environment and the community as a whole. Our indispensable tool for the “sustainable” conservation of our species is our alliance with nature. The climate is chang-ing and so is the needs of a city. Immediate un¬derstanding of the limitations that such a power¬ful physical element such as a river is required, is essential. The river is a source of life but it also has negative harmful side effects. Its fluctuating bene¬fits and potential flooding, as a result of unpredict¬able weather events and the associated rainfall tensions, threaten daily adjacent areas and towns and villages in this regard. The planning, adapt¬ability and resilience of modern cities should be a must for every society today
The relationship between creativity and stress levels in female musicians
Creators: name: Nicol, Jennifer J.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2008

description: Anectodal and theoretical accounts suggest that creativity is a positive attribute that enhances coping abilities. However, there is little empirical evidence to support this contention. This study was designed as a preliminary investigation of the relationship between characteristics of creativity and perceived stress levels in female musicians. It was anticipated that higher levels of creativity would be associated with lower levels of stress. Ninety-five musicians (49 music therapists, and 46 music hobbyists) volunteered for the study. Participants met with the investigator to complete paper and pencil measures. Creativity was conceptualized as a multi-dimensional construct thereby necessitating the use of multiple measures. Five measures were used to assess creativity. These measures captured the constructs of creative thinking, creative personality, creative behavior, complexity, and musical activity. Stress level was measured with a 14-itemscale that measured perceived stress. Preliminary analyses indicated that only 3 of the predictor variables correlated with stress level. Consequently, creative thinking, creative personality, and creative behavior were used to test the hypothesis in an hierarchical regression analysis. The regression equation reached significance, F(7,85) = 2.86, p <.01, and accounted for 19% of the variance in stress level. Creative behavior was a main effect that demonstrated a positive relationship with stress level. However, this main effect disappeared when interactions were studied. Group differences emerged whereby the interaction effect of group by creative thinking was the only significant predictor of stress level. Plotting the interaction effect revealed that there was a negative relationship between creative thinking and stress level for music hobbyists; that is, lower stress levels were associated with higher levels of creative thinking. This was not true of the music therapists. Music therapists manifested a weak positive relationship between creative thinking and stress level. Creative thinking clearly buffered stress levels for music hobbyists. For music therapists, there was little or no relationship between the variables. The findings implicate creative thinking as a possible personal resource in the stress-coping process for adult female music hobbyists. Recommendations are made for future research that will help to clarify this relationship.
Trading Butterflies: The Representation of Asian Sex Workers in Vollmann and Houellebecq
Creators: name: Malvestio, Marco
Publisher: name: ENTHYMEMA
Year: 2019
Subjects: William T. Vollmann; Michel Houellebecq; Orientalism; Satire; Sex Trade

description: The article compares the representation of Asian sex workers in William T. Vollmann’s Butterfly Stories(1993) and Michel Houellebecq’s Platform(Plateforme, 2001). Both the novels are set in South-East Asia, and both involve an apologetic and romanticised description of the sex trade. By comparing the two novels, I argue that both authors’ treatments of the sex industry develop a critique of Western Orientalism, and at the same time sympathy for and complicity with the colonial power dynamics that regulate the relationships between Asian countries and the West.
description: ENTHYMEMA, No 23 (2019)
Observation of superconducting gap in boron-doped diamond by laser-excited photoemission spectroscopy
Creators: name: Ishizaka, K.
name: Eguchi, R.
name: Tsuda, S.
name: Yokoya, T.
name: Kiss, T.
name: Shimojima, T.
name: Togashi, T.
name: Watanabe, S.
name: Chen, C. -T.
name: Zhang, C. Q.
name: Takano, Y.
name: Nagao, M.
name: Sakaguchi, I.
name: Takenouchi, T.
name: Kawarada, H.
name: Shin, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have investigated the low energy electronic state of a boron-doped diamond thin film by the ultrahigh resolution laser-excited photoemission spectroscopy. We observed a clear shift of the leading edge below 11 K indicative of a superconducting gap opening ($Δ\sim 0.78$ meV at 4.5 K). The gap feature is significantly broad and the well-defined quasiparticle peak is not recognizable even at the lowest temperature of measurement 4.5 K. We discuss our result in terms of possible disorder effect on superconductivity in this system.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures