cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Gregory-Laflamme instability of BTZ black hole in new massive gravity
Creators: name: Moon, Taeyoon
name: Myung, Yun Soo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We find the Gregory-Laflamme $s$-mode instability of the non-rotating BTZ black hole in new massive gravity. This instability shows that the BTZ black hole could not exist as a stable static solution to the new massive gravity. For non-rotating BTZ black string in four dimensions, however, it is demonstrated that the BTZ black string can be stable against the metric perturbation.
description: 13 pages, 1 figure
Reformative Sympathy in Nineteenth-Century Crime Fiction
Creators: name: McCrystal (St. John’s University, New York), Erica
Publisher: name: Victorian Network
Year: 2014

description: Nineteenth-century British crime novels whose heroes were criminals redefined criminality, alerting readers to the moral failures of the criminal justice system and arguing for institutional reform. My research on this topic begins with William Godwin’s novel Caleb Williams“ (1794) as a social reform project that exposes hypocrisy and inconsistency of governing institutions. I then assess how contemporary social criticism of crime novels contrasts with the authors’ reformative intentions. Critics argued the ‘Newgate novels’, like those of Edward Bulwer-Lytton and William Harrison Ainsworth, glorified criminality and were therefore a danger to readers. However, Bulwer-Lytton’s Paul Clifford“ (1830) and William Harrison Ainsworth’s Jack Sheppard“ (1839) serve, like Caleb Williams“, as social reform efforts to alert readers to the moral failings of the criminal justice and penal institutions. They do so, I argue, through the use of sympathy. By making the criminal the victim of a contradictory society, Godwin, Bulwer-Lytton, and Ainsworth draw upon the sympathies of imagined readers. I apply contemporary and modern notions of sympathy to the texts to demonstrate how the authors use sympathy to humanise the title characters in societies that have subjected them to baseless mechanisation.
description: Victorian Network, Vol. 5 No. 2: Winter 2013
Beta-expansions of $p$-adic numbers
Creators: name: Scheicher, Klaus
name: Sirvent, Victor F.
name: Surer, Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In the present article, we introduce beta-expansions in the ring $\mathbb{Z}_p$ of $p$-adic integers. We characterise the sets of numbers with eventually periodic and finite expansions.
Auftrag und Aufgabe der evangelisch-lutherischen Kirche im einundzwanzigsten Jahrhundert
Creators: name: Wöhle, Andreas Heinrich
Publisher: name: Lutherische Kirche in der Welt
Year: 1970

description: Lutherische Kirche in der Welt, Bd. 55 (2008): Lutherische Kirche in der Welt, Band 55
‘Horred Murders’, ‘Int’resting Partic’lars’ and ‘Confessions!’: Constructing Criminal Identites in the Early Victorian Broadside
Creators: name: Bertrand (Università© Paris Diderot – Paris 7), Cà©Cile
Publisher: name: Victorian Network
Year: 2014

description: This article explores the creation of criminal identities in early nineteenth-century England, and more precisely examines the law’s construction of the subject in the light of the competing constructions of the criminal subject in popular discourse. This article focuses on the ambivalent discourse of the popular broadside ballads and execution sheets, and their early evolution into the police news. Particular attention will be devoted to the popular construction of a criminal subject from ‘direct’ experience, namely through the whole legal process leading from crime to sentence: the investigation and the trial, and, in some cases, the execution. The broadside will be seen to constitute a first step in the creation of a distinctive aesthetic of the criminal subject. But that process was not without its contradictions: the popular narrative often reinforced dominant attitudes towards the law, but at times also reflected alternative discourses, with its portrayal of the heroic criminal rebel. Indeed, the popular discourse is competing with other constructions of the crime, news reporting and the legal discourse itself, through the trial. Those narratives influence the broadside greatly, and we shall see how legal changes together with shifts in the circulation of criminal news later in the century transformed both the criminal subject and popular discourses and practices.
description: Victorian Network, Vol. 5 No. 2: Winter 2013
Curvature dependence of the interfacial heat and mass transfer coefficients
Creators: name: Glavatskiy, K. S.
name: Bedeaux, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nucleation is often accompanied by heat transfer between the surroundings and a nucleus of a new phase. The interface between two phases gives an additional resistance to this transfer. For small nuclei the interfacial curvature is high, which affects not only equilibrium quantities such as surface tension, but also the transport properties. In particular, high curvature affects the interfacial resistance to heat and mass transfer. We develop a framework for determining the curvature dependence of the interfacial heat and mass transfer resistances. We determine the interfacial resistances as a function of a curvature. The analysis is performed for a bubble of a one-component fluid and may be extended to various nuclei of multicomponent systems. The curvature dependence of the interfacial resistances is important in modeling transport processes in multiphase systems.
description: 12 pages 5 figures
Amazons, Science And Common Sense: The Rule of Women in Elizabeth Corbett’s New Amazonia“
Creators: name: Lake (University Of Exeter), Christina
Publisher: name: Victorian Network
Year: 2013

description: Elizabeth Corbett’s New Amazonia: A Foretaste of the Future“ (1889) imagines what the late-Victorian world would look like if it were run by women. Inspired by the Women’s Penny Paper“, a pro-suffrage journal devoted to showcasing women’s writing and interests, Corbett used utopian fiction to explore an alternative to the patriarchal values of Victorian England. The women of New Amazonia live in a future Ireland where their freedom from restrictive clothing and other limitations imposed on women has turned them into seven-foot-tall athletic goddesses. The highest posts in the all-female government are reserved for a cadre of celibate women and reproduction is controlled through Malthusian measures and eugenics. Corbett sees a combination of science and common sense as being the key to the health and prosperity of the New Amazonians. In this study I will explore the appeal of scientific progress to late Victorian feminists, and the role of science in shaping hopes for an improved society. I will argue that rather than being a utopian dream, Corbett’s vision for an alternative Ireland was grounded in her experiences as a wage-earner and suffrage campaigner, and in her involvement in the alternative women’s subculture built up around the Women’s Penny Paper“.
description: Victorian Network, Vol. 5 No. 1: Summer 2013
title: One-Year COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts on U.S. Caribbean Small-Scale Fisheries with a note on the Puerto Rican  earthquake swarm of 2020 and 2021
Creators: name: Agar, J.
Publisher: name: Southeast Fisheries Science Center (U.S.)
Year: 2022

description:  NOAA technical memorandum NMFS-SEFSC-759
William Morris’s Utopian Optics
Creators: name: Holland (University Of Cambridge), Owen
Publisher: name: Victorian Network
Year: 2013

description: This article studies Morris’s development and cultivation of an optical rhetoric in his political lectures and journalism, as well as his utopian fiction, of the 1880s and 1890s. I begin by tracing its discursive base in the social and aesthetic criticism of Thomas Carlyle and John Ruskin, and by contrasting the contradictory ideological inflections of visual rhetoric in the writing of Matthew Arnold and James McNeill Whistler. Through an examination of his political journalism and lectures on art and society, I show how Morris’s inheritance and secularisation of Carlyle’s discourse of spiritual optics sets him apart from other figures associated with the fin de sià¨cle“ socialist movement, at the same time as it produced important ideological contradictions in Morris’s socialist writing. I conclude with an examination of the extension and differentiation of Morris’s optics in his utopian romance News from Nowhere“ (1890).
description: Victorian Network, Vol. 5 No. 1: Summer 2013
Looking at the gluon moment of the nucleon with dynamical twisted mass fermions
Creators: name: Alexandrou, Constantia
name: Drach, Vincent
name: Hadjiyiannakou, Kyriakos
name: Jansen, Karl
name: Kostrzewa, Bartosz
name: Wiese, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: To understand the structure of hadrons it is important to know the PDF of their constituents, the quarks and gluons. In our work we aim to compute the first moment of the gluon PDF $\langle x \rangle_g$ for the nucleon. We follow two possible approaches in order to extract the gluon moment: the Feynman-Hellmann theorem and a direct method with smearing of the gluon operator. We present preliminary results computed on $24^3 \times 48$ lattices for the case where the Feynman-Hellman theorem is used and $32^3 \times 64$ lattices for the direct method, employing $N_f=2+1+1$ maximally twisted mass fermions.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures, talk given at the 31st International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (Lattice 2013), July 29-August 3 2013, Mainz, Germany
Coverage Hole Elimination System in Industrial Environment
Creators: name: Zarour, Mervat
name: Tayade, Shreya
name: Melnyk, Sergiy
name: Schotten, Hans D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: The paper proposes a framework to identify and avoid the coverage hole in an indoor industry environment. We assume an edge cloud co-located controller that followers the Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) movement on a factory floor over a wireless channel. The coverage holes are caused due to blockage, path-loss, and fading effects. An AGV in the coverage hole may lose connectivity to the edge-cloud and become unstable. To avoid connectivity loss, we proposed a framework that identifies the position of coverage hole using a Support- Vector Machine (SVM) classifier model and constructs a binary coverage hole map incorporating the AGV trajectory re-planning to avoid the identified coverage hole. The AGV's re-planned trajectory is optimized and selected to avoid coverage hole the shortest coverage-hole-free trajectory. We further investigated the look-ahead time's impact on the AGV's re-planned trajectory performance. The results reveal that an AGV's re-planned trajectory can be shorter and further optimized if the coverage hole position is known ahead of time
description: IEEE copyright
‘The World Was Very Busy Now, In Sooth, And Had A Lot To Say’: Dickens, China And Chinese Commodities In Dombey And Son“
Creators: name: Lewis-Bill (University Of Exeter), Hannah
Publisher: name: Victorian Network
Year: 2013

description: Dickens’s interest in transnational locales is evident throughout his oeuvre. Whilst his journalism is highly critical of some of these locales, Dickens’s novels offer a more nuanced perspective. This article addresses Dickens’s representation of China and of Chinese commodities, primarily tea but also silk and chinaware. It asks how Dickens uses these commodities, as well as ideas and terms relating to commercial trade, to explore the relationship between China and Britain. Focusing in particular on Dombey and Son“, I show that transnational value is defined for the British readership in commodity terms in the novel, and I reflect more broadly on what this commercial value offers to the social fabric of nineteenth-century Britain and contemporary understandings of Britishness.
description: Victorian Network, Vol. 5 No. 1: Summer 2013
Rotation and differential rotation of active Kepler stars
Creators: name: Reinhold, Timo
name: Reiners, Ansgar
name: Basri, Gibor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present rotation periods for thousands of active stars in the Kepler field derived from Q3 data. In most cases a second period close to the rotation period was detected, which we interpreted as surface differential rotation (DR). Active stars were selected from the whole sample using the range of the variability amplitude. To detect different periods in the light curves we used the Lomb-Scargle periodogram in a pre-whitening approach to achieve parameters for a global sine fit. The most dominant periods from the fit were ascribed to different surface rotation periods, but spot evolution could also play a role. Due to the large number of stars the period errors were estimated in a statistical way. We thus cannot exclude the existence of false positives among our periods. In our sample of 40.661 active stars we found 24.124 rotation periods $P_1$ between 0.5-45 days. The distribution of stars with 0.5 < B-V < 1.0 and ages derived from angular momentum evolution that are younger than 300 Myr is consistent with a constant star-formation rate. A second period $P_2$ within $\pm30$% of the rotation period $P_1$ was found in 18.619 stars (77.2%). Attributing these two periods to DR we found that the relative shear $α=ΔΩ/Ω$ increases with rotation period, and slightly decreases with effective temperature. The absolute shear $ΔΩ$ slightly increases between $T_{eff}=3500-6000$ K. Above 6000 K $ΔΩ$ shows much larger scatter. We found weak dependence of $ΔΩ$ on rotation period. Latitudinal differential rotation measured for the first time in more than 18.000 stars provides a comprehensive picture of stellar surface shear, consistent with major predictions from mean-field theory. To what extent our observations are prone to false positives and selection bias is not fully explored, and needs to be addressed using more Kepler data.
description: 19 pages, 18 figures, accepted by A&A. A table containing all periods, KIC number, etc. can be found here: http://www.astro.physik.uni-goettingen.de/~reinhold/period_table.tex
Ultrafast supercontinuum fiber-laser based pump-probe scanning MOKE microscope for the investigation of electron spin dynamics in semiconductors at cryogenic temperatures with picosecond time and micrometer spatial resolution
Creators: name: Henn, T.
name: Kiessling, T.
name: Ossau, W.
name: Molenkamp, L. W.
name: Biermann, K.
name: Santos, P. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe a two-color pump-probe scanning magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE) microscope which we have developed to investigate electron spin phenomena in semiconductors at cryogenic temperatures with picosecond time and micrometer spatial resolution. The key innovation of our microscope is the usage of an ultrafast `white light' supercontinuum fiber-laser source which provides access to the whole visible and near-infrared spectral range. Our Kerr microscope allows for the independent selection of the excitation and detection energy while avoiding the necessity to synchronize the pulse trains of two separate picosecond laser systems. The ability to independently tune the pump and probe wavelength enables the investigation of the influence of excitation energy on the optically induced electron spin dynamics in semiconductors. We demonstrate picosecond real-space imaging of the diffusive expansion of optically excited electron spin packets in a (110) GaAs quantum well sample to illustrate the capabilities of the instrument.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures
Eine Antwort des Glaubens auf die postkommunistische Herausforderung
Creators: name: Roepke, Claus-Jürgen
Publisher: name: Lutherische Kirche in der Welt
Year: 1970

description: Lutherische Kirche in der Welt, Bd. 55 (2008): Lutherische Kirche in der Welt, Band 55
Correlation between mean transverse momentum and multiplicity of charged particles in $pp$ and $p\bar{p}$ collisions: from ISR to LHC
Creators: name: Bodnya, E. O.
name: Kovalenko, V. N.
name: Puchkov, A. M.
name: Feofilov, G. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present our analysis of the available experimental data on correlation between mean transverse momentum and charged particles multiplicity ($\langle p_T \rangle$-$N_{ch}$) at central rapidity in $pp$ and $p\bar{p}$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ from 17 GeV to 7 TeV. A multi-pomeron exchange model based on Regge-Gribov approach provides quantitative description of $\langle p_T \rangle$-$N_{ch}$ correlation data and their energy dependence. Results are found to be in agreement with string fusion model hypothesis.
description: 10 pages, 10 figures, to appear in proc. Esp-Rus2013
Architecture of an Ontology-Based Domain-Specific Natural Language Question Answering System
Creators: name: M., Athira P.
name: M., Sreeja
name: Raj, P. C. Reghu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Question answering (QA) system aims at retrieving precise information from a large collection of documents against a query. This paper describes the architecture of a Natural Language Question Answering (NLQA) system for a specific domain based on the ontological information, a step towards semantic web question answering. The proposed architecture defines four basic modules suitable for enhancing current QA capabilities with the ability of processing complex questions. The first module was the question processing, which analyses and classifies the question and also reformulates the user query. The second module allows the process of retrieving the relevant documents. The next module processes the retrieved documents, and the last module performs the extraction and generation of a response. Natural language processing techniques are used for processing the question and documents and also for answer extraction. Ontology and domain knowledge are used for reformulating queries and identifying the relations. The aim of the system is to generate short and specific answer to the question that is asked in the natural language in a specific domain. We have achieved 94 % accuracy of natural language question answering in our implementation.
‘Visual Education’ As The Alternative Mode Of Learning At The Crystal Palace, Sydenham
Creators: name: Zaffuto (Independent Scholar), Grazia
Publisher: name: Victorian Network
Year: 2013

description: The Crystal Palace at Sydenham, erected as a permanent cultural institution following the closure of the Great Exhibition of 1851, sought to bring direction to the long-standing inadequacies of pedagogy in existing state and philanthropic schools through the establishment of its own ‘national school’. The simple teaching method chosen by the Crystal Palace was ‘visual education’, which constituted a form of moral awakening through sight rather than words. This disciplined mode of looking associated solely with the sensual was directed towards working-class visitors in need of moral advancement and was completely separate from the rational mind. ‘Visual Education’ at the Crystal Palace was centred around the Fine Arts Courts, which were a series of model architectural buildings specifically designed to transform the complex historical theory of civilizations into a coherent visual illustration of the imperial history of nations. Thus the visual lessons of the Egyptian, Assyrian, Greek, Alhambra, Italian, and Pompeian Courts as well as others, were charged with moral enlightenment and rules of taste. In this article I argue that the conflicting and contradictory interpretations of the Fine Arts Courts in newspapers and periodicals exposed the inadequacies of a mode of learning focusing solely on the visual and that the tension between the moral lessons and the intellectual responses to ‘visual education’ were shaped by the complexities of existing class hierarchies. Thus, by looking at commentaries in the press, I will show that the aim of educated middle and upper class visitors was not to enter the ‘visual education’ of the Fine Arts Courts to acquire moral taste, but to mark their own social and intellectual advancement.
description: Victorian Network, Vol. 5 No. 1: Summer 2013
Non-commutative rational Yang-Baxter maps
Creators: name: Doliwa, Adam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Starting from multidimensional consistency of non-commutative lattice modified Gel'fand-Dikii systems we present the corresponding solutions of the functional (set-theoretic) Yang-Baxter equation, which are non-commutative versions of the maps arising from geometric crystals. Our approach works under additional condition of centrality of certain products of non-commuting variables. Then we apply such a restriction on the level of the Gel'fand-Dikii systems what allows to obtain non-autonomous (but with central non-autonomous factors) versions of the equations. In particular we recover known non-commutative version of Hirota's lattice sine-Gordon equation, and we present an integrable non-commutative and non-autonomous lattice modified Boussinesq equation.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures; Remark on p. 6 corrected (v2)
“I’m Already Guilty": Perceptions of Reform in Cook County Central Bond Court
Creators: name: Weinert, Katrina
Publisher: name: University of Chicago
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cook County jail
subject: criminal justice
subject: Cook County Central Bond Court
subject: General Order 18.8A
subject: societal conception

description: In this thesis, I analyze the implementation of General Order 18.8A, which mandated that pretrial judges take a defendant’s ability to pay into consideration when setting bond amounts in Cook County Central Bond Court. I draw upon in-depth interviews with defendants and ethnographic observation of Central Bond Court to examine the interactions between court officials and defendants and the ways in which racial and socioeconomic inequality is reproduced in the courtroom. I complement this research with quantitative data collected by the Circuit Court of Cook County on pretrial incarceration rates and bond types. Based on these different forms of data and analysis, I answer two questions. First, I ask how court officials implement General Order 18.8A and interact with defendants and members of the public in Cook County Central Bond Court. Second, I ask to what degree General Order 18.8A encompasses defendants’ perceptions of what justice and reform should look like within the pretrial system. In the final sections of this thesis, I provide specific policy recommendations to improve the proceedings and procedures in Cook County Central Bond Court. Furthermore, I argue that policymakers and members of the public must reimagine societal conceptions of guilt, justice, and reform before substantial change can be made to the system of pretrial detention and to the criminal justice system more generally.
Valences of Desire: The Suspended Eroticism of Middlemarch“
Creators: name: Kropp (Temple University), Colleen M.
Publisher: name: Victorian Network
Year: 2013

description: This paper seeks to unpack moments of implicit sexual desire in George Eliot's realist novel, Middlemarch“ (1872), and focuses particularly on the sexually charged scene between Dorothea and Ladislaw in the library at Lowick. While previous readings of this moment have focused on economy or knowledge and their problematised relationships with desire, I argue that a truer understanding of how desire works here emerges from viewing these scenes in the light of Georg W.F. Hegel and Georges Bataille. Hegel, whose work Eliot would have known, lets us see the emergence of a recognised self-consciousness propelled by desire; but Eliot's novel also looks forward to Bataille's understanding of desire, particularly in his theorisations of general and restricted economies. If we are to grasp the realism of Eliot's text, we must come to terms with how desire structures this reality; if we are to grasp how the novel deals with the economies of its historical moment, we would profit from seeing it in the terms of Bataille's general and restricted economies. The dynamic nature of desire in Eliot's text requires this multivalent philosophical lens: one which historically influences her work and one which she greatly anticipates.
description: Victorian Network, Vol. 4 No. 2: Winter 2012
The First "lost" International Conference on Nonlinear Oscillations (I.C.N.O.)
Creators: name: Ginoux, Jean-Marc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: From 28 to 30 January 1933 was held at the Institut Henri Poincaré (Paris) the first International Conference of Nonlinear Oscillations organized at the initiative of the Dutch physicist Balthazar Van der Pol and of the Russian mathematician Nikolaï Dmitrievich Papaleksi. The discovery of this forgotten event, whose virtually no trace remains, was made possible thanks to the report written by Papaleksi at his return in USSR. This document has revealed, one the one hand, the list of participants who included French mathematicians: Alfred Liénard, Élie and Henri Cartan, Henri Abraham, Eugène Bloch, Léon Brillouin, Yves Rocard, ... and, on the other hand the content of presentations and discussions. The analysis of the minutes of this conference presented here for the first time highlights the role and involvement of the French scientific community in the development of the theory of nonlinear oscillations.
description: 8 pages, 1 figure, International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, Vol. 22, No. 04, April 2012
Orbifold instantons, moment maps and Yang-Mills theory with sources
Creators: name: Ivanova, Tatiana A.
name: Lechtenfeld, Olaf
name: Popov, Alexander D.
name: Szabo, Richard J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We revisit the problem of constructing instantons on ADE orbifolds R^4/Γand point out some subtle relations with the complex structure on the orbifold. We consider generalized instanton equations on R^4/Γwhich are BPS equations for the Yang-Mills equations with an external current. The relation between level sets of the moment maps in the hyper-Kaehler quotient construction of the instanton moduli space and sources in the Yang-Mills equations is discussed. We describe two types of spherically-symmetric Γ-equivariant connections on complex V-bundles over R^4/Γwhich are tailored to the way in which the orbifold group acts on the fibres. Some explicit abelian and nonabelian SU(2)-invariant solutions to the nstanton equations on the orbifold are worked out.
description: 16 pages
"Ein neues Lied wir heben an"
Creators: name: Akerboom, Th. H. M.
name: Akerboom, Dick
Publisher: name: Lutherische Kirche in der Welt
Year: 1970

description: Lutherische Kirche in der Welt, Bd. 55 (2008): Lutherische Kirche in der Welt, Band 55
Was heißt es im Jahr 2007, sich auf Jesus Christus im Leben und Sterben zu verlassen?
Creators: name: Weiss, Hans-Martin
Publisher: name: Lutherische Kirche in der Welt
Year: 1970

description: Lutherische Kirche in der Welt, Bd. 55 (2008): Lutherische Kirche in der Welt, Band 55
Pederasty and Sexual Activity in Oscar Wilde’s The Happy Prince and Other Tales“
Creators: name: Bartle (University Of Leeds), Chris
Publisher: name: Victorian Network
Year: 2013

description: This article argues that pederastic sexual activity is evident in The Happy Prince and Other Tales“ (1888), and it suggests that sex was a significant element in Wilde's pederastic imagination. I contend that sexual activity is a pressing topic in Wilde studies due to the prevalence of the queer theory framework in the field. The historical exactitude of queer theory has produced an overdue analysis of Wilde's eros in relation to ‘pederasty' as opposed to ‘homosexuality', but its profound anti-foundationality has led to a refusal to calcify the moments in Wilde's fiction when sexual activity between males may be in the figurative mix, and this repeats the de-realising representational strategies that once consigned male-male sex to a shadowlike existence. I contest the etherealising bent of queer theory vis-à -vis “Wilde on theoretical, textual and historical grounds, and I then unearth a hitherto unidentified interaction between the pederastic and sexual elements in The Happy Prince and Other Tales“. I show that the issue of mutuality in pederastic relations is a significant concern for Wilde, and I argue that he remains pessimistic about the place of sex in pederastic relationships because it subsumes, distorts, or eradicates what he saw as pederasty's invigorative properties.
description: Victorian Network, Vol. 4 No. 2: Winter 2012
Contrast Enhancement And Brightness Preservation Using Multi- Decomposition Histogram Equalization
Creators: name: Nimkar, Sayali
name: Varghese, Sanal
name: Shrivastava, Sucheta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Histogram Equalization (HE) has been an essential addition to the Image Enhancement world. Enhancement techniques like Classical Histogram Equalization (CHE), Adaptive Histogram Equalization (ADHE), Bi-Histogram Equalization (BHE) and Recursive Mean Separate Histogram Equalization (RMSHE) methods enhance contrast, however, brightness is not well preserved with these methods, which gives an unpleasant look to the final image obtained. Thus, we introduce a novel technique Multi-Decomposition Histogram Equalization (MDHE) to eliminate the drawbacks of the earlier methods. In MDHE, we have decomposed the input sixty-four parts, applied CHE in each of the sub-images and then finally interpolated them in correct order. The final image after MDHE results in contrast enhanced and brightness preserved image compared to all other techniques mentioned above. We have calculated the various parameters like PSNR, SNR, RMSE, MSE, etc. for every technique. Our results are well supported by bar graphs, histograms and the parameter calculations at the end.
description: 9 pages,13 figures
A Biologically-Inspired Computational Model of Time Perception
Creators: name: Lourenço, Inês
name: Mattila, Robert
name: Ventura, Rodrigo
name: Wahlberg, Bo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Time perception - how humans and animals perceive the passage of time - forms the basis for important cognitive skills such as decision-making, planning, and communication. In this work, we propose a framework for examining the mechanisms responsible for time perception. We first model neural time perception as a combination of two known timing sources: internal neuronal mechanisms and external (environmental) stimuli, and design a decision-making framework to replicate them. We then implement this framework in a simulated robot. We measure the agent's success on a temporal discrimination task originally conducted by mice to evaluate its capacity to exploit temporal knowledge. We conclude that the agent is able to perceive time similarly to animals when it comes to their intrinsic mechanisms of interpreting time and performing time-aware actions. Next, by analysing the behaviour of agents equipped with the framework, we propose an estimator to infer characteristics of the timing mechanisms intrinsic to the agents. In particular, we show that from their empirical action probability distribution we are able to estimate parameters used for perceiving time. Overall, our work shows promising results when it comes to drawing conclusions regarding some of the characteristics present in biological timing mechanisms.
Colour Dynamism: A Multi-Potential Ontology of Chromatic Manifestation
Creators: name: Zyn, Zenith Aevum
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: chromatic ontology
colour ontology
structural metaphysics
multi-potential properties
constraint-based manifestation
SNAP foundation
perceptual structure
diachronic colour
intrinsic potential
structured emergence

description: This is the sealed internal version (v1.4) of Colour Dynamism: A Multi-Potential Ontology of Chromatic Manifestation, timestamped and hash-verified for traceability and authorship priority.

It defines colour as a structured, materially grounded field of chromatic potentialities, governed by constraint-sensitive manifestation. This document serves as the conceptual foundation for the Structured Network for Activation of Potentials (SNAP) and establishes the ontological schema of multi-potential emergence.

This version is not for public release. A preprint will be released separately.
title: Ein Wort an Frau Cibini und Sturmfeder, Hof-Kammerfrauen; [1848]
title: Man erweist Ihnen zu viel Ehre, indem man sich herbei laßt, Ihre freche Anmaßung, Ihre kecken Aeußerungen, welcher Sie sich gegen die Wiener Frauen-Deputation bedient haben, zur erwähnen. ...
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2018

description: Kopftitel
Victorian Cougar: H. Rider Haggard’s She“, Ageing and Sexual Selection in Marriage
Creators: name: Godfrey (University Of South Carolina Upstate), Esther
Publisher: name: Victorian Network
Year: 2013

description: H. Rider Haggard's late nineteenth-century novelÂ She“Â (1887) details the adventures of two British explorers who venture deep into the heart of Africa, where they encounter an ageless, white African queen. The novel has fascinated Victorian scholars with its depictions of race, gender and power, but I argue that what distinguishes this novel is the way that Darwinian arguments infuse the narrative with male anxieties about older women and female choice in marriage. The ageless, white queen Ayesha promotes a narrative that is ripe for exploration about the nexus of age and power. While my book The“ January-May Marriage in Nineteenth Century British Literature“ (Palgrave Macmillan 2009) argues that age is an aspect of gender by focusing on the figure of the ageing male husband in nineteenth-century literature, I turn here to the less common figure of the older wife. Ayesha, also called ‘she who must be obeyed', challenges typical readings of Victorian power distribution in marriage. Using Darwin's theories of mate selection, Haggard engages this female character to pique Victorian anxieties about female choice in marriage. What is revealed is not a renewed sense of "natural" male selection, but overlapping anxieties about women's power, the ageing female body and degeneration.
description: Victorian Network, Vol. 4 No. 2: Winter 2012
Thermodiffusion in binary liquids: the role of irreversibility
Creators: name: Würger, Alois
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study thermal diffusion in binary mixtures in the framework of non-equilibrium thermodynamics. Our formal result displays the role of partial enthalpies and Onsager's generalized mobilities. The mobility ratio provides a measure for the irreversible character of thermal diffusion. Comparison with experimental data on benzene, cyclohexane, toluene and alkanes shows that irreversibility is essential for thermal diffusion, and in particular for the isotope effect.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures
Thermal Density Functional Theory in Context
Creators: name: Pribram-Jones, Aurora
name: Pittalis, Stefano
name: Gross, E. K. U.
name: Burke, Kieron
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This chapter introduces thermal density functional theory, starting from the ground-state theory and assuming a background in quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics. We review the foundations of density functional theory (DFT) by illustrating some of its key reformulations. The basics of DFT for thermal ensembles are explained in this context, as are tools useful for analysis and development of approximations. We close by discussing some key ideas relating thermal DFT and the ground state. This review emphasizes thermal DFT's strengths as a consistent and general framework.
description: Submitted to Spring Verlag as chapter in "Computational Challenges in Warm Dense Matter", F. Graziani et al. eds
Madness in Marriage: Erotomania and Marital Rape in He Knew He Was Right“ and The Forsyte Saga“
Creators: name: Goodman (Royal Holloway, University Of London), Helen
Publisher: name: Victorian Network
Year: 2013

description: This article challenges the view that the Victorian novel is based on an essentially female courtship plot leading to marriage by reassessing the assumption that it presents marriage as a healthy physical and psychological fulfilment of masculine desire. Drawing attention to the failed and masculine marriage plot, I argue that Anthony Trollope's He Knew He Was Right “(1869) “and John Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga “(1906-21) illustrate dangers of masculine desire and the pathologisation of jealousy. Both writers position themselves within hotly debated areas of nineteenth-century marital law, viewing their male protagonists through the eyes of a judge and jury. The use of psychological language to describe jealous monomania illustrates the influence of new forms of psychiatry upon fiction, and there is evidence of reciprocal contributions to that new discipline. Combining the analysis of Victorian marriage law reforms, treatises on insanity, and studies of marital violence, this article considers Trollope and Galsworthy's novels in a new light. Trollope's writing can be seen as a foundation for Galsworthy's more overt critique of Victorian marriage laws, such as the legality of marital rape, while masculine desperation for absolute control, increased rather than reduced by marriage, is presented as a cause of psychological disorders such as erotic monomania or erotomania.
description: Victorian Network, Vol. 4 No. 2: Winter 2012
‘So Pure and Rational an Attachment’: Isabella Glyn’s Performance of Social and Sexual Risk at Sadler’s Wells
Creators: name: Bloomfield (University Of Nottingham), Jem
Publisher: name: Victorian Network
Year: 2013

description: This paper examines Isabella Glyn's performance as the Duchess of Malfi at Sadler's Wells during the 1850 season, investigating the way in which she was seen as performing social and sexual risk whilst presenting a model of respectable female behaviour. John Webster's Duchess of Malfi“, adapted by R.H. Horne for a Victorian audience, was presented as part of Samuel Phelps's project to improve the morals and conduct of the Sadler's Wells audience via legitimate drama, and the Duchess's second (potentially compromising) marriage provided a focus for anxieties around female sexual agency and the display of desire. The stage upon which Glyn performed was widely discussed as having been reclaimed from coarse and prurient melodramas to be used as a tool to reform the pleasures of the working class, and contemporary commentary shows particular concern with the presence of ‘bold women' in the theatre. Horne himself had collaborated with Dickens on a piece for Household Words “which stressed these women as the aspect of theatre most in need of reform. Thus the production would have been inevitably haunted by the theatrical ghosts of the "fallen" women who had appeared in the despised melodramas which The“ Duchess of Malfi“ was intended to supplant, and who had formed part of the public to whom the theatre had played. Glyn's performance took place at the intersection of competing discourses around female sexual propriety, social respectability and the effects of legitimate drama, a fact which was recognised by contemporary reviewers. The terms of their commentary frame the production as Glyn performing the Duchess's appropriate performance of her own feelings in a compromising situation. The praise awarded to her, which seems to locate her artistry in her ability to perform the potentially problematic material in a haunted setting, demonstrates the way in which her labour as an artistic professional became visible in her negotiation of these discourses.
description: Victorian Network, Vol. 4 No. 2: Winter 2012
‘I Think I Must Be an Improper Woman Without Knowing It’: Fallenness and Unitarianism in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Ruth“
Creators: name: Webster (University Of Leeds), Rachel
Publisher: name: Victorian Network
Year: 2013

description: This article draws on the public dialogue surrounding mid-nineteenth-century prostitution, and is particularly concerned with how fallenness was classified, and how it was thought that it should be ameliorated. Elizabeth Gaskell's novel Ruth“ (1853) engages with the myth of fallenness - how female sexuality was religiously and socially conceived - which contributed towards the dichotomy of two classes of women: the fallen and the virtuous. Gaskell, as a Unitarian, rejected Original Sin, believing that the human mind and soul were not innately sinful but had immense potential for growth. Consequently, Unitarians considered the environment as fundamentally responsible for shaping and determining an individual's character and fate. This religious viewpoint permeates Gaskell's response to the "problem" of the fallen woman, perceiving female sexuality not to be inherently corruptible or dangerous. She challenges the institutionalised, separatist response of penitentiary restoration by locating Ruth's redemptive process within the family home of the Bensons. She offers female solidarity and the role of motherhood as the ideal ameliorative solutions and yet the novel ends with Ruth's sacrificial death. The article takes this problematic conclusion and suggests that Gaskell, frustrated with the reality of the fallen woman's fate, hands Ruth over to the Unitarian hope of redemption in death.
description: Victorian Network, Vol. 4 No. 2: Winter 2012
Technologies of Desire: Typists, Telegraphists and Their Machines in Bram Stoker’s Dracula“ and Henry James’s In the Cage“
Creators: name: James (SUNY Stony Brook, NY, USA), Laura
Publisher: name: Victorian Network
Year: 2012

description: Focusing on Bram Stoker’s Dracula “(1897) and Henry James’s In the Cage“ (1898), this paper examines the eroticising of the female typist and telegraphist during the fin de sià¨cle and the linkages between female sexuality and the female labourer’s textual productions. I aim to trouble the easy connections made by theorists such as Friedrich Kittler between the advent of the typewriter and female emancipation. To conjoin the two unproblematically is to overlook the ways in which such female figures are erotically staged when working. Both Dracula “and In the Cage“ highlight this relationship, as well as the intersections between the female worker and her roles as wife and mother. This paper also suggests a reading of the typist and telegraphist as new types of authors, and concludes by examining the multifarious ways in which the female worker’s body is presented in both texts in relation to their writing machines.
description: Victorian Network, Vol. 4 No. 1: Summer 2012
Specht's problem for associative affine algebras over commutative Noetherian rings
Creators: name: Belov-Kanel, Alexei
name: Rowen, Louis
name: Vishne, Uzi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 16R10

description: In a series of papers \cite{BRV1}, \cite{BRV2}, \cite{BRV3} we introduced full quivers and pseudo-quivers of representations of algebras, and used them as tools in describing PI-varieties of algebras. In this paper we apply them to obtain a complete proof of Belov's solution of Specht's problem for affine algebras over an arbitrary Noetherian ring. The inductive step relies on a theorem that enables one to find a "$\bar q$-characteristic coefficient-absorbing polynomial in each T-ideal $Γ$," i.e., a non-identity of the representable algebra $A$ arising from $Γ$, whose ideal of evaluations in $A$ is closed under multiplication by $\bar q$-powers of the characteristic coefficients of matrices corresponding to the generators of $A$, where $\bar q$ is a suitably large power of the order of the base field. The passage to an arbitrary Noetherian base ring $C$ involves localizing at finitely many elements a kind of $C$, and reducing to the field case by a local-global principle.
description: 44 pages, submitted
“I Carve the Marble of Pure Thoughtâ€: Work and Production in the Poetry of Arthur O’Shaughnessy
Creators: name: Kistler (King’s College London), Jordan
Publisher: name: Victorian Network
Year: 2012

description: In this article I consider the concepts of “workâ€ and “productionâ€ in the life and poetry of Arthur O’Shaughnessy, viewed in terms of the conflicting aesthetic theories of Socialist art-for-society and Aesthetic art-for-art. In order to express his discontent with his “day jobâ€ as a naturalist at the British Museum, O’Shaughnessy embraced the revolution of non-work offered by the Aesthetes, as they affected an aloof aristocracy of art, removed from the bourgeois concerns of the consumerist public. Adopting this self-aggrandising language, O’Shaughnessy undermined the importance of the ordinary world, and with it the significance of his own failures in his work at the museum. However, his most famous poem, which begins ‘we are the music makers’, evinces a commitment to socially engaged literature, a desire rebuked by the Aesthete’s emphasis on “uselessâ€ art. In his support of “art for humanityâ€ O’Shaughnessy aligned himself with the aesthetic theories of men such as William Morris. The tension between these two conflicting aesthetic theories is expressed in moments of surprising violence in O’Shaughnessy’s verse, in which the Aesthetic figure of the solitary artist is persecuted for his difference. It is only in his final volume of poetry that O’Shaughnessy was able to reconcile these theories and resolve this tension by redefining art as ‘work’, with an emphasis on the act of production. In this act of redefinition he finally accepts himself as a worker: not a mere cog in the bureaucratic system, but a producer of beauty. It is in the act of production that O’Shaughnessy found use, and in the redefinition of art as his career, he was able to come to a middle ground between art for humanity and art for art’s sake.
description: Victorian Network, Vol. 4 No. 1: Summer 2012