cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Black and White: History of Racial Identity in Italy
Creators: name: Giuliani, Gaia
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2014

description: Drawing on the book Bianco e nero. Storia dell'identita razziale degli Itallani, this lecture traces the political, cultural and visual history of Italian racial identity from unificaiton to the economic boom, through Fascism and the post-war era. Gaia Giuliani uses analytical categories derived from political philosophy, critical race theory, whiteness studies and postcolonial studies, and examines political theories of race, scientific literature and legislation related to emigration in order to trace the different processes of self-racialisation in the political discourse from the unification period up to 1936. The lecture also looks at contemporary Italian racism, analysing mass culture products (1980s-2007), TV coverage of racist incidents (2010-2012), and the intertwining of masculinity, virility, whtieness and race in Berlusconi's sexual scandals.
description: feminists@law, Vol 4 No 1 (2014)
About the cover image
Creators: name: Editors, The
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2014

description: This issue features a piece of artwork by Hannah Tiernan. Hannah graduated in 2013 from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin and is now studying photography at Griffith College Dublin. She works mainly in sculpture, installation and photography. She has exhibited her work on a number of occasions in Dublin, including a solo show at the Hendrons Collider gallery space. The featured piece is 'Amber Topography'. This image is a detail from a wax study on skin. It was taken from a clay press mould of overlapping feathers. Using light to illuminate the wax, the resulting image is somewhat reminiscent of geographical shipping charts. For more of Hannah's work please visit her Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/HannahTiernanArtist?ref=stream.
description: feminists@law, Vol 4 No 1 (2014)
Magnetic moments of the octet, decuplet, low-lying charm, and low-lying bottom baryons in a nuclear medium
Creators: name: Tsushima, Kazuo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the magnetic moments of the octet, decuplet, low-lying charm, and low-lying bottom baryons with nonzero light quarks in symmetric nuclear matter using the quark-meson coupling (QMC) model, which satisfies the constraint for the allowed maximum change (swelling) of the in-medium nucleon size derived from the $y$-scaling data for $^3$He$(e,e')$ and $^{56}$Fe$(e,e')$. The present QMC model also satisfies the expected allowed maximum enhancement of the nucleon magnetic moments in nuclear matter. Moreover, it has been proven that the calculated in-medium to free proton electromagnetic form factor (EMFF) ratios calculated within the QMC model, reproduce well the proton EMFF super ratio extracted from $^4{\rm He}(\vec{e},e'\vec{p})^3{\rm H}$ at Jefferson Laboratory (JLab). The medium modifications of the magnetic moments are estimated by evaluating the in-medium to free space baryon magnetic moment ratios to compensate the MIT bag deficiency to describe the free space octet baryon magnetic moments, where ratios are often measured directly in experiments even without knowing the absolute values, such as the free and bound proton electromagnetic form factors, as well as the European Muon Collaboration (EMC) effect to extract the structure function $F_2$ ratio of the bound to free nucleons by the corresponding cross section ratio. We also present the results calculated with the different current quark mass values for the strange and bottom quarks to see the possible impact. Furthermore, for a practical use, we give the explicit density dependent parametrizations for the vector potentials of the baryons and light-$(u, d)$ quarks, as well as for the effective masses of the baryons treated in this study, and of the mesons, $ω,ρ,K,K^*,η,η',D,D^*,B$, and $B^*$.
description: 36 pages, 8 figures (34 eps figure files), extended version accepted for PTEP
A cooler planet by design
Creators: name: Friedman, Ken
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Many of us get frustrated with the slow pace of international action on climate change. But powerless as we feel, we can still make a difference by rethinking the way we design our lives. Design is rarely considered when talking about climate change, yet is a significant factor in the economic activities and political decisions that are driving emissions higher.
Research Protocol_ Developing strategies to improve accessibility of hearing health services for people from diverse ethnic communities
Creators: name: Dawes, Piers
name: Nickbakht, Mansoureh
name: Scarinci, Nerina
name: Newall, John
name: Furze, Cailyn
name: Nisar, Mehwish
name: Timmer, Barbra H. B.
name: Ching, Teresa
name: Harris-Roxas, Benjamin
name: Scanlan, Emma
name: Van Buynder, Patricia
name: Waite, Monique
name: Orlando, Marc
name: Kruger, Jan-Louis
name: Ekberg, Katie
name: Dib, Mayada
name: Ginis, Jan
name: Barr, Margo
name: Armitage, Christopher J.
name: Hickson, Louise
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 420102
subject: Audiology
classificationCode: 420109
subject: Rehabilitation
classificationCode: 420602
subject: Health equity

description: Untreated hearing loss negatively impacts communication, quality of life, social engagement, and physical and mental well-being. People from diverse ethnic communities are more at risk of hearing loss, less likely to seek hearing services, and less satisfied with healthcare services, challenging health-related sustainable development goals. A 2021 review of the Australian Government-funded Hearing Services Program identified hearing health inequality among diverse ethnic communities and recommended researchers address shortfalls in service provision. This research protocol describes a project to inform the development of strategies to facilitate access to hearing care. The objectives include (a) identifying barriers and facilitators to accessing and using hearing services for ethnic communities in Australia, (b) identifying key culturally responsive behaviours for hearing care professionals working with diverse ethnic communities (c) identifying barriers for professional spoken language interpreters working with clinicians in hearing clinics, (d) assessing readability and usability of online hearing health information, (e) co-developing strategies for culturally responsive hearing care for hearing care professionals, and (f) implementing and evaluating these strategies.
Introduction: Gendering Labour Law
Creators: name: Fudge, Judy
name: Grabham, Emily
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2014

description: This special section of feminists@law is the outcome of a workshop on 'Gendering Labour Law' held at Kent Law School on 20-21 June 2013. Its aspiration is to help to revitalise labout law by infusing it with a robust feminist engagement with core concepts such as work, care, gender and social reproduction.
description: feminists@law, Vol 4 No 1 (2014)
Time-dependent heterogeneity leads to transient suppression of the COVID-19 epidemic, not herd immunity
Creators: name: Tkachenko, Alexei V.
name: Maslov, Sergei
name: Elbanna, Ahmed
name: Wong, George N.
name: Weiner, Zachary J.
name: Goldenfeld, Nigel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Epidemics generally spread through a succession of waves that reflect factors on multiple timescales. On short timescales, super-spreading events lead to burstiness and overdispersion, while long-term persistent heterogeneity in susceptibility is expected to lead to a reduction in the infection peak and the herd immunity threshold (HIT). Here, we develop a general approach to encompass both timescales, including time variations in individual social activity, and demonstrate how to incorporate them phenomenologically into a wide class of epidemiological models through parameterization. We derive a non-linear dependence of the effective reproduction number Re on the susceptible population fraction S. We show that a state of transient collective immunity (TCI) emerges well below the HIT during early, high-paced stages of the epidemic. However, this is a fragile state that wanes over time due to changing levels of social activity, and so the infection peak is not an indication of herd immunity: subsequent waves can and will emerge due to behavioral changes in the population, driven (e.g.) by seasonal factors. Transient and long-term levels of heterogeneity are estimated by using empirical data from the COVID-19 epidemic as well as from real-life face-to-face contact networks. These results suggest that the hardest-hit areas, such as NYC, have achieved TCI following the first wave of the epidemic, but likely remain below the long-term HIT. Thus, in contrast to some previous claims, these regions can still experience subsequent waves.
Preface
Creators: name: Stewart, Ann
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2014

description: This preface introduces the chapter 'Legal Constructions of Body Work' and the book in which it was first published, C. Wolkowitz et al. eds, Body/Sex/Work: Intimate, Embodied and Sexualised Labour (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).
description: feminists@law, Vol 4 No 1 (2014)
Metabolic pathways for the whole community
Creators: name: Hanson, Niels W
name: Konwar, Kishori M
name: Hawley, Alyse K
name: Altman, Tomer
name: Karp, Peter D
name: Hallam, Steven J
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Background. A convergence of high-throughput sequencing and computational power is transforming biology into information science. Despite these technological advances, converting bits and bytes of sequence information into meaningful insights remains a challenging enterprise. Biological systems operate on multiple hierarchical levels from genomes to biomes. Holistic understanding of biological systems requires agile software tools that permit comparative analyses across multiple information levels (DNA, RNA, protein, and metabolites) to identify emergent properties, diagnose system states, or predict responses to environmental change. Results Here we adopt the MetaPathways annotation and analysis pipeline and Pathway Tools to construct environmental pathway/genome databases (ePGDBs) that describe microbial community metabolism using MetaCyc, a highly curated database of metabolic pathways and components covering all domains of life. We evaluate Pathway Tools’ performance on three datasets with different complexity and coding potential, including simulated metagenomes, a symbiotic system, and the Hawaii Ocean Time-series. We define accuracy and sensitivity relationships between read length, coverage and pathway recovery and evaluate the impact of taxonomic pruning on ePGDB construction and interpretation. Resulting ePGDBs provide interactive metabolic maps, predict emergent metabolic pathways associated with biosynthesis and energy production and differentiate between genomic potential and phenotypic expression across defined environmental gradients. Conclusions This multi-tiered analysis provides the user community with specific operating guidelines, performance metrics and prediction hazards for more reliable ePGDB construction and interpretation. Moreover, it demonstrates the power of Pathway Tools in predicting metabolic interactions in natural and engineered ecosystems.
Dynamic properties of thermodynamic phase transition for five-dimensional neutral Gauss-Bonnet AdS black hole on free energy landscape
Creators: name: Wei, Shao-Wen
name: Liu, Yu-Xiao
name: Wang, Yong-Qiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Understanding the dynamic process of the thermodynamic phase transition can provide the deep insight into the black hole microscopic properties and structures. We in this paper study the dynamic properties of the stable small-large black hole phase transition for the five-dimensional neutral Gauss-Bonnet AdS black hole. Firstly, by using the first law of black holes, we prove that the extremal points of the free energy on the landscape denote the real black hole solutions satisfying the field equations. The local maximal and minimal points correspond to local unstable and stable black hole states, respectively. Especially, on the free energy landscape, the wells of the coexistence small and large black holes have the same depth. Then we investigate the probability evolution governed by the Fokker-Planck equation. Due to the thermal fluctuation, we find that the small (large) black hole state can transit to the large (small) black hole state. Furthermore, the first passage time is calculated. For each temperature, a single peak is presented, which suggests that there is a considerable fraction of the first passage events taking place at short time. And the higher the temperature is, the faster decrease of the probability is. These results will uncover some intriguing dynamic properties of the stable small-large black hole phase transition in modified gravity.
description: 17 pages, 10 figures
Legal Constructions of Body Work
Creators: name: Stewart, Ann
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2014

description: This chapter explores the way in which two examples of body work - the labour involved in caring for the vulnerable elderly and in providing commercial sex - are regulated. It highlights the challenges that body work presents for labour law and exposes the wider conceptual limitations that this area of law faces in a consumer based market economy in which the boundaries between production and social reproduction are being reconstituted.
description: feminists@law, Vol 4 No 1 (2014)
Research Note: Bingo and Feminist Political Economy
Creators: name: Bedford, Kate
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2014

description: I am currently conducting a multi-country comparative research project on bingo regulation in both commercial and charitable contexts. Charitable gaming is remarkably under-studied, even though in many jurisdictions it is the most widespread form of legalized gambling. In the project overall I argue that it not only provides a distinctive lens through which to theorize gambling liberalization and political economy, but it is also key to exploring (and critiquing) the increasing emphasis on voluntarism in reconstituted welfare states. In this paper specifically I explore how volutneers in charitable bingo halls are impacted by bingo revitalization efforts undertaken in Ontario and Alberta (Canada). I focus on how charities and government officials try to manage the tension between regulating and incentivizing the unpaid workers whose labour sustains the game. I explore two efforts undertaken to resolve this tension, via a volunteer credit scheme (in Alberta), and a scheme to professionalize the volunteer role (in Ontario). In both cases, efforts to revitalize charitable bingo have involved increased scrutiny of volunteers, alongside initiatives designed to maximize the value of volunteer labour to charities and provincial governments. These initiatives have failed to protect people who need charitable services from being coerced into working for free. Both initiatives have also reduced volunteer autonomy, and increased the class distance between bingo volunteers and players. I conclude with some lessons that bingo might hold for those interested in voluntarism and the feminist political economy of charitable labour.
description: feminists@law, Vol 4 No 1 (2014)
Local density of states of the interacting resonant level model at zero temperature
Creators: name: Camacho, Gonzalo
name: Schmitteckert, Peter
name: Carr, Sam T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results of the impurity local density of states of the interacting resonant level model at zero temperature. We concentrate on low-energy properties and predominantly use the numerical renormalisation group technique. As interaction is increased, we find that the resonance peak at zero energy disappears, while two new peaks at finite energy emerge. This is in the absence of any field breaking the resonance. We further show that the height of the spectral function does not scale in the same way as the width, and in fact defines a second distinct exponent. We back up our results with analytic strong-coupling calculations as well as an analytic diagrammatic renormalisation group calculation that rather surprisingly gets the second exponent exactly, even for strong interactions.
description: 7 pages;9 figures
Research Note: Rethinking Feminist Engagements with the State and Wage Labour
Creators: name: Alessandrini, Donatella
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2014

description: In this paper I reflect on recent attempts by feminist economists to engage with post-Keynsian policies aimed at the socialisation of investment, in particular the proposal for the government to act at once as the Employer of Last Resort (ELR) and a social provider. Such an engagement seems to depart from feminist autonomists' critique of the wage society, their refusal to place reformist demands on the state and their emphasis on the collectivisation of social reproduction. Drawing on earlier explorations by Italian feminists of the dynamic interaction between labour and value, I suggest that these two approaches might not be as different as they first appear: at stake for both is a challenge to capitalist value through the promotion of arrangements able to instantiate alternative processes of valorisation.
description: feminists@law, Vol 4 No 1 (2014)
Fast simulation of quantum algorithms using circuit optimization
Creators: name: Guerreschi, Gian Giacomo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Classical simulators play a major role in the development and benchmark of quantum algorithms and practically any software framework for quantum computation provides the option of running the algorithms on simulators. However, the development of quantum simulators was substantially separated from the rest of the software frameworks which, instead, focus on usability and compilation. Here, we demonstrate the advantage of co-developing and integrating simulators and compilers by proposing a specialized compiler pass to reduce the simulation time for arbitrary circuits. While the concept is broadly applicable, we present a concrete implementation based on the Intel Quantum Simulator, a high-performance distributed simulator. As part of this work, we extend its implementation with additional functionalities related to the representation of quantum states. The communication overhead is reduced by changing the order in which state amplitudes are stored in the distributed memory, a concept analogous to the distinction between local and global qubits for distributed Schroedinger-type simulators. We then implement a compiler pass to exploit the novel functionalities by introducing special instructions governing data movement as part of the quantum circuit. Those instructions target unique capabilities of simulators and have no analogue in actual quantum devices. To quantify the advantage, we compare the time required to simulate random circuits with and without our optimization. The simulation time is typically halved.
A Neural Network Approach Applied to Multi-Agent Optimal Control
Creators: name: Onken, Derek
name: Nurbekyan, Levon
name: Li, Xingjian
name: Fung, Samy Wu
name: Osher, Stanley
name: Ruthotto, Lars
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We propose a neural network approach for solving high-dimensional optimal control problems. In particular, we focus on multi-agent control problems with obstacle and collision avoidance. These problems immediately become high-dimensional, even for moderate phase-space dimensions per agent. Our approach fuses the Pontryagin Maximum Principle and Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) approaches and parameterizes the value function with a neural network. Our approach yields controls in a feedback form for quick calculation and robustness to moderate disturbances to the system. We train our model using the objective function and optimality conditions of the control problem. Therefore, our training algorithm neither involves a data generation phase nor solutions from another algorithm. Our model uses empirically effective HJB penalizers for efficient training. By training on a distribution of initial states, we ensure the controls' optimality is achieved on a large portion of the state-space. Our approach is grid-free and scales efficiently to dimensions where grids become impractical or infeasible. We demonstrate our approach's effectiveness on a 150-dimensional multi-agent problem with obstacles.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, 2021 European Control Conference
Conditional Generation of Medical Images via Disentangled Adversarial Inference
Creators: name: Havaei, Mohammad
name: Mao, Ximeng
name: Wang, Yiping
name: Lao, Qicheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Synthetic medical image generation has a huge potential for improving healthcare through many applications, from data augmentation for training machine learning systems to preserving patient privacy. Conditional Adversarial Generative Networks (cGANs) use a conditioning factor to generate images and have shown great success in recent years. Intuitively, the information in an image can be divided into two parts: 1) content which is presented through the conditioning vector and 2) style which is the undiscovered information missing from the conditioning vector. Current practices in using cGANs for medical image generation, only use a single variable for image generation (i.e., content) and therefore, do not provide much flexibility nor control over the generated image. In this work we propose a methodology to learn from the image itself, disentangled representations of style and content, and use this information to impose control over the generation process. In this framework, style is learned in a fully unsupervised manner, while content is learned through both supervised learning (using the conditioning vector) and unsupervised learning (with the inference mechanism). We undergo two novel regularization steps to ensure content-style disentanglement. First, we minimize the shared information between content and style by introducing a novel application of the gradient reverse layer (GRL); second, we introduce a self-supervised regularization method to further separate information in the content and style variables. We show that in general, two latent variable models achieve better performance and give more control over the generated image. We also show that our proposed model (DRAI) achieves the best disentanglement score and has the best overall performance.
description: Published in Medical Image Analysis
Blends and Nanocomposite Biomaterials for Articular Cartilage Tissue Engineering
Creators: name: Doulabi, Azadehsadat Hashemi
name: Mequanint, Kibret
name: Mohammadi, Hadi
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: This review provides a comprehensive assessment on polymer blends and nanocomposite systems for articular cartilage tissue engineering applications. Classification of various types of blends including natural/natural, synthetic/synthetic systems, their combination and nanocomposite biomaterials are studied. Additionally, an inclusive study on their characteristics, cell responses ability to mimic tissue and regenerate damaged articular cartilage with respect to have functionality and composition needed for native tissue, are also provided.
A tale of two metrics: simultaneous bounds on competitiveness and regret
Creators: name: Andrew, Lachlan
name: Barman, Siddharth
name: Liggett, Katrina
name: Lin, Minghong
name: Meyerson, Adam
name: Roytman, Alan
name: Wierman, Adam
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We consider algorithms for 'smoothed online convex optimization' (SOCO) problems, which are a hybrid between online convex optimization (OCO) and metrical task system (MTS) problems. Historically, the performance metric for OCO was regret and that for MTS was competitive ratio (CR). There are algorithms with either sublinear regret or constant CR, but no known algorithm achieves both simultaneously. We show that this is a fundamental limitation - no algorithm (deterministic or randomized) can achieve sublinear regret and a constant CR, even when the objective functions are linear and the decision space is one dimensional. However, we present an algorithm that, for the important one dimensional case, provides sublinear regret and a CR that grows arbitrarily slowly.
Possible Resolution of the Hubble Tension with Weyl Invariant Gravity
Creators: name: Shimon, Meir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore cosmological implications of a genuinely Weyl invariant (WI) gravitational interaction. The latter reduces to general relativity in a particular conformal frame for which the gravitational coupling and active gravitational masses are fixed. Specifically, we consider a cosmological model in this framework that is {\it dynamically} identical to the standard model (SM) of cosmology. However, {\it kinematics} of test particles traveling in the new background metric is modified thanks to a new (cosmological) fundamental mass scale, $γ$, of the model. Since the lapse-function of the new metric is radially-dependent any incoming photon experiences (gravitational) red/blueshift in the {\it comoving} frame, unlike in the SM. Distance scales are modified as well due to the scale $γ$. The claimed $4.4σ$ tension level between the locally measured Hubble constant, $H_{0}$, with SH0ES and the corresponding value inferred from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) could then be significantly alleviated by an earlier-than-thought recombination. Assuming vanishing spatial curvature, either one of the Planck 2018 (P18) or dark energy survey (DES) yr1 data sets subject to the SH0ES prior imply that $γ^{-1}$ is $O(100)$ times larger than the Hubble scale, $H_{0}^{-1}$. Considering P18+SH0ES or P18+DES+SH0ES data set combinations, the odds against vanishing $γ$ are over 1000:1 and 2000:1, respectively, and the model is strongly favored over the SM with a deviance information criterion (DIC) gain $\gtrsim 10$ and $\gtrsim 12$, respectively. The tension is reduced in this model to $\sim 1.5$ and $1.3 σ$, respectively. We conclude that the $H_{0}$ tension may simply result from a yet unrecognized fundamental symmetry of the gravitational interaction -- Weyl invariance. (abridged)
description: 17 pages, 2 figures, 4 tables. Matches accepted version
Geometrically deformed charged anisotropic models in $f(Q,T)$ gravity
Creators: name: Pradhan, Sneha
name: Maurya, Sunil Kumar
name: Sahoo, Pradyumn Kumar
name: Mustafa, Ghulam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this study, we developed the geometrically deformed compact objects in the $f(Q, T)$ gravity theory under an electric field through gravitational decoupling via. minimal geometric deformation (MGD) technique for the first time. The decoupled field equations are solved via two different mimic approaches $θ_0^0 = ρ$ and $θ_1^1 = p_r$ through the Karmarkar condition. We conduct physical viability tests on our models and examine how decoupling parameters affect the physical qualities of objects. The obtained models are compared with the observational constraints for neutron stars PSR J1810+174, PSR J1959+2048, and PSR J2215+5135, including GW190814. Particularly, by modifying parameters $α$ and $n$, we accomplish the occurrence of a "\textit{mass gap}" component. The resulting models exhibit stable, well-behaved mass profiles, regular behaviour, and no gravitational collapse, as verified by the Buchdahl--Andréasson's limit. Furthermore, we provide a thorough physical analysis that is based on two parameters: $n$ ($f(Q,T)$--coupling parameter) and $α$ (decoupling parameter). This work extends our current understanding of compact star configurations and sheds light on the behaviour of compact objects in the $f(Q,T)$ gravity.
description: Fortschritte der Physik published version
Introduction
Creators: name: Hunter, Rosemary
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2013

description: The 2012 Law and Society Association Annual Meeting included an author-meets-readers session devoted to Emma Cunliffe's book Murder, Medicine and Motherhood (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2011). The book concerns the trial and (in Cunliffe's view wrongful) conviction of Kathleen Folbigg in NSW, Australia, for the deaths of her four children. Following the session, we invited members of the panel to write up their comments for feminists@law. We are pleased to publish here reflections on the book by Eve Darian-Smith and Mehera San Roque, and a response by Emma Cunliffe. Darian-Smith's review focuses on Cunliffe's exemplary socio-legal methodology, while San Roque's commentary focuses on the issues of expert evidence, the (inadequate) restrictions on the introduction of tendency and coincidence evidence, and the gendered nature of this evidence in the trials of several women accused of killing their children. In her response, Cunliffe discusses the various contingencies that resulted in her PhD being centred on the Folbigg case, and ponders the ethical position of the researcher who comes to believe that she has uncovered a miscarriage of justice.
description: feminists@law, Vol 3 No 2 (2013)
Introduction: Feminist Jurisprudence and the Question of Home
Creators: name: Genovese, Ann
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2013

description: A seminar on 'Feminist Jurisprudence and the Question of Home', convened by Dr Ann Genovese, was held at Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne on 6 September 2013, under the auspices of the Institute for International Law and the Humanities. Questions asked included: How and to what extent can we use ‘home’ as a conceptual framing for the law, and what does the choice to do so suggest for the conduct of jurisprudence? In the seminar, feminist legal scholars interrogated some of the meanings of home, to consider what work it can (or cannot do) for contemporary inquires about state and status, nation and place, inclusion and exclusion. This section of the journal presents a mix of audio recordings, powerpoint slides and written papers from the seminar. The papers, by offering different accounts of ‘home’, remind us of the necessity for feminist thinking as a part of jurisprudential practice. Further details of the seminar can be found at http://www.law.unimelb.edu.au/melbourne-law-school/news-and-events/news-and-events-details/diaryid/7355.
description: feminists@law, Vol 3 No 2 (2013)
Home and State: Reflections on Metaphor and Practice
Creators: name: Davies, Margaret
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2013

description: Home is an evocative and fluid concept which has significance for all people across several scales of life: these scales include the self, our relationships and family, our physical resting place, our cultures, the nation, and even the planet. Home is a pervasive concept, sometimes so pervasive that we don’t even notice when it is being invoked. And it is a space which compresses many normative values, as well as the normalities associated with family, culture and nation. Thinking about the home requires us to cross or transcend several dualisms, such as those between the individual and the collective, the symbolic and material, inner psychological space and the outside world, and public and private. This paper considers the idea of home as a metaphor in conceptualizing the state. The focus is not on ideas of nation and homeland which are often found in general political discourse, but rather the deployment of ‘home’ in governmental, institutional, and policy formations. My aim is not to rehabilitate the idea of the home as a metaphor for the state, nor to undertake a comparative analysis, but rather to observe the presence and absence of ‘home’ in several contexts and illustrate the diversity of its meanings in relation to the state. The first part will outline scholarly and feminist interest in the idea of home. My focus is on Anglo-centric commentary about the home, though this itself has been strongly influenced by French feminism, and more generally by French phenomenology and psychoanalysis. The second part ofthe paper will consider the idea of home in the political and public domain in three national contexts: Sweden, the UK, and Australia. A final revised version of this article is published in the Griffith Law Review, vol 23, no 2 (2014), DOI: 10.1080/10383441.2014.962447.
description: feminists@law, Vol 3 No 2 (2013)
Utopias, Dystopias and the Changing Lawscapes of Social Housing
Creators: name: Carr, Helen
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2013

description: This paper provides an account of the design and development of the Spa Green Estate in North London. It describes the utopian aspirations for housing the working class of the radical 1930s Finsbury Council and the architect it employed, Berthold Lubetkin. It goes on to examine the political and popular discrediting of social housing from the 1970s and the consequent present day complexity of tenures and regulation on the estate. The account is placed in the context of the emergence of the claim that home ownership provides the appropriate solution for the housing of the working poor. It uses concepts of lawscape, utopia and scale to demonstrate how law is implicated in the dismantling of one utopian project and its replacement with another and the difficulties that law has in addressing the inevitable injustices that emerge from this process. Its feminism lies in its acknowledgement of social housing (despite its patriarchal origins) as an important point of access for women to the emancipation of the city and as a critical space for imagining ways to live other than those determined by the market.
description: feminists@law, Vol 3 No 2 (2013)
Women and Homelessness: Winning and Losing in the Welfare State
Creators: name: Hunter, Caroline
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2013

description: It has long been argued that homelessness is a gendered experience. Thus responses to homelessness by the state will impact differently on men and women. Drawing on the literature that examines the meaning of homelessness and responses to it, this paper will examine the implications of a rights-based system in England which strongly differentiates between those with and without children and the implications of this for homeless women, both with and without children. It will contrast this rights-based system with the responses of other welfare systems and their outcomes for women.
description: feminists@law, Vol 3 No 2 (2013)
Block-Term Tensor Decomposition Model Selection and Computation: The Bayesian Way
Creators: name: Giampouras, Paris V.
name: Rontogiannis, Athanasios A.
name: Kofidis, Eleftherios
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The so-called block-term decomposition (BTD) tensor model, especially in its rank-$(L_r,L_r,1)$ version, has been recently receiving increasing attention due to its enhanced ability of representing systems and signals that are composed of \emph{blocks} of rank higher than one, a scenario encountered in numerous and diverse applications. Uniqueness conditions and fitting methods have thus been thoroughly studied. Nevertheless, the challenging problem of estimating the BTD model structure, namely the number of block terms, $R$, and their individual ranks, $L_r$, has only recently started to attract significant attention, mainly through regularization-based approaches which entail the need to tune the regularization parameter(s). In this work, we build on ideas of sparse Bayesian learning (SBL) and put forward a fully automated Bayesian approach. Through a suitably crafted multi-level \emph{hierarchical} probabilistic model, which gives rise to heavy-tailed prior distributions for the BTD factors, structured sparsity is \emph{jointly} imposed. Ranks are then estimated from the numbers of blocks ($R$) and columns ($L_r$) of non-negligible energy. Approximate posterior inference is implemented, within the variational inference framework. The resulting iterative algorithm completely avoids hyperparameter tuning, which is a significant defect of regularization-based methods. Alternative probabilistic models are also explored and the connections with their regularization-based counterparts are brought to light with the aid of the associated maximum a-posteriori (MAP) estimators. We report simulation results with both synthetic and real-word data, which demonstrate the merits of the proposed method in terms of both rank estimation and model fitting as compared to state-of-the-art relevant methods.
A spatial analysis of functional outcomes and quality of life outcomes after pediatric injury
Creators: name: Bell, Nathaniel
name: Kruse, Sami
name: Simons, Richard K.
name: Brussoni, Mariana
Publisher: name: Springer International Publishing
Year: 2021

description: Background: Changes in health-related quality of life (HRQoL) are more regularly being monitored during the first year after injury. Monitoring changes in HRQoL using spatial cluster analysis can potentially identify concentrations of geographic areas with injury survivors with similar outcomes, thereby improving how interventions are delivered or in how outcomes are evaluated. Conclusion: Monitoring patient health outcomes following injury is important for planning and targeting interventions. A common theme in the literature is that future prevention efforts may benefit from identifying those most a risk of developing ongoing problems after injury in effort to target resources to those most in need. Spatial scan statistics are tools that could be applied for identifying concentrations of poor recovery outcomes. By classifying outcomes as a categorical variable, clusters of ‘potentially low’ outcomes can also be mapped, thereby identifying populations whose recovery status may decrease.
Persons, Property, and Community
Creators: name: Davies, Margaret
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2012

description: The terms ‘persons’ and ‘property’, and the connections between them, have been analysed very thoroughly in several disciplines, including law, philosophy, cultural studies, and anthropology. Like many technical terms, the legal concepts of persons and property are embedded in social practice and reflect its gendered discourse and practices. There is often cross-fertilisation of ‘legal’ and ‘everyday’ or social meanings, as well as a certain productive tension between them. This article introduces and reviews the person-property problematic, and considers how the discourse surrounding these terms and their relationship is changing under increased pressures from a more community-focused (and less individualistic) ethos, influenced in part by feminist thinking about relationality. The article is divided into three parts. First, I introduce some of the difficulties with the concepts of persons and property, and consider what they refer to, and how they are used. Second, I explain what I see as the relationship between these two ideas – how they are supposed to be diametrically opposed, and how they are in fact inextricably linked. Up to this point the article essentially draws pertinent points from a mountainous literature on the topic. The third and more substantial part of the paper takes the matter in a new direction. Here I try to capture new ways of thinking about property which in some ways loosen the property-person nexus, without breaking it altogether. In essence, these new approaches introduce values associated with the community, the environment, and our material futures into our thinking.
description: feminists@law, Vol 2 No 2 (2012)
Three-phase equilibria of hydrates from computer simulation. II. Finite-size effects in the carbon dioxide hydrate
Creators: name: Algaba, J.
name: Blazquez, S.
name: Feria, E.
name: Míguez, J. M.
name: Conde, M. M.
name: Blas, F. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, the effects of finite size on the determination of the three-phase coexistence temperature ($T_3$) of carbon dioxide (CO$_2$) hydrate have been studied by molecular dynamic simulations and using the direct coexistence technique. According to this technique, the three phases involved are placed together in the same simulation box. By varying the number of molecules of each phase it is possible to analyze the effect of simulation size and stoichiometry on the $T_3$ determination. In this work, we have determined the $T_3$ value at 8 different pressures and using 6 different simulation boxes with different numbers of molecules and sizes. In 2 of these configurations, the ratio of the number of water and CO$_2$ molecules in the aqueous solution and the liquid CO$_2$ phase is the same as in the hydrate (stoichiometric configuration). In both stoichiometric configurations, the formation of a liquid drop of CO$_2$ in the aqueous phase is observed. This drop, which has a cylindrical geometry, increases the amount of CO$_2$ available in the aqueous solution and can in some cases lead to the crystallization of the hydrate at temperatures above $T_3$, overestimating the $T_3$ value obtained from direct coexistence simulations. The simulation results obtained for the CO$_{2}$ hydrate confirm the sensitivity of $T_{3}$ depending on the size and composition of the system, explaining the discrepancies observed in the original work by Míguez \emph{et al.} Non-stoichiometric configurations with larger unit cells show convergence of $T_{3}$ values, suggesting that finite-size effects for these system sizes, regardless of drop formation, can be safely neglected. The results obtained in this work highlight that the choice of a correct initial configuration is essential to accurately estimate the three-phase coexistence temperature of hydrates by direct coexistence simulations.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures
A Renormalization Group Approach to Connect Discrete- and Continuous-Time Descriptions of Gaussian Processes
Creators: name: Ferretti, Federica
name: Chardès, Victor
name: Mora, Thierry
name: Walczak, Aleksandra M
name: Giardina, Irene
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Discretization of continuous stochastic processes is needed to numerically simulate them or to infer models from experimental time series. However, depending on the nature of the process, the same discretization scheme, if not accurate enough, may perform very differently for the two tasks. Exact discretizations, which work equally well at any scale, are characterized by the property of invariance under coarse-graining. Motivated by this observation, we build an explicit Renormalization Group approach for Gaussian time series generated by auto-regressive models. We show that the RG fixed points correspond to discretizations of linear SDEs, and only come in the form of first order Markov processes or non-Markovian ones. This fact provides an alternative explanation of why standard delay-vector embedding procedures fail in reconstructing partially observed noise-driven systems. We also suggest a possible effective Markovian discretization for the inference of partially observed underdamped equilibrium processes based on the exploitation of the Einstein relation.
description: 13 pages, 3 figures, 1 table
Power and Normality in Paratransit – Individual Autonomy in Welfare State Law
Creators: name: Pettersson, Andreas
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2012

description: This article focuses on power structures that define and conceptualize individuals with disabilities and their claims for transport services in Swedish welfare state law. In the Nordic countries people often expect the government to be both an important ally and a necessary tool for egalitarian emancipation. In many respects the Nordic welfare states are success stories where collective efforts have created a more egalitarian and economically prosperous society. Relative equality and emancipation are never static factors, however; every system creates new challenges and new injustices which add to the old. This article uses the right of people with disabilities to move about in society with the help of special transport services as an empirical example. The right to decide when and where to go where you want to go highlights immediate and important aspects of power relations. In the context of Swedish welfare state law this also creates an opportunity to show how law in the welfare state operates and how law constructs both people and their needs to fit into preconceived patterns of normality and citizenship in the Swedish welfare state. The terms redistribution and recognition are used to illustrate different aspects of social justice. Misrecognition can be understood as a status in society where cultural patterns systematically subordinate people, a situation experienced by many persons with disabilities. At the core of recognition lies parity of participation on equal terms with everybody else. The conclusion of the article is that the law on special transport services is quite capable of reaffirming social justice viewed as redistribution. However, when social justice is viewed as recognition people’s lack of power over daily life decisions makes the law quite oppressive.
description: feminists@law, Vol 2 No 1 (2012)